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FORECAST: Partly cloudy with showers probable. tonight; tomorrow fair and cooler.

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JAMES FARLEY CANCELS TALK

T0 DEMOCRATS

Dern’s Death | Change in French Lick Plans, Chairman Wires. |

SUGGESTS VISIT LATER

Harmony Revie as State Editors Assemble for Summer Outing.

BULLETIN

President Roosevelt's proposed visit here Sept. 4 for a drought * conference will be delayed at least one day, it was announced at Gov. McNutt's office today. A telegram from Marvin H. Mcintyre, Mr. Roosevelt's secretary, said: “President Roosevelt plans to attend Secretary of War George

Dern’s funeral at Salt Lake City | Obviously this |

Tuesday, Sept. 1.

interrupts his schedule and his

visit to Indianapolis probably will |

be made on Saturday, Sept. 5. This

is tentative, however, and will be |

confirmed definitely tomorrow.”

BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer FRENCH LICK, Aug. 28.—James A. Farley, national Democratic chairman, today informed Omer S. Jackson, state chairman, and Gov. McNutt that he would be unable to attend the Indiana: Democratic Editorial Association convention tomorrow as scheduled. Mr.. Farley, who was to speak at a luncheon and dinner here tomorrow, said he was cancelling the

- Hoosier engagement out of respect

to George H. Dern, Secretary of War, who died ‘yesterday. “I am very sorry that I must cancel my Indiana engagement,” Mr, Farley wired, “but I will be glad to come any time later in the campaign considered advisable by Mr. Jackson and®Mr, McNutt.” Editors Arriving

With harmony as. the keynote, - the vanguard of Democrats expected here for the two-day outing were arriving today. Democratic leaders from every sector of the state arriving here acclaimed the editors meeting as the place where party splits would be closed for the ensuing campaign. United States:Senators Frederick VanNuys and Sherman Minton, Gov. McNutt, Mr. Jackson, state and congressional nominees, and a large delegation from Marion County, headed by Mayor ‘Kern and Walter C. Boetcher, county. chairman, were among early arrivals. Approximately 1000. are expected to atetnd the conference, Mr. Jackson said today. No speaker will substitute for Mr. Farley, he said. Golf clubs split the air as the annual tourney got underway this __ morning on the lower course of the French Lick Hotel links. 3 While politicians and editors conversed over tees, bunkers, sofas, and in hotel rooms, the feminine contingent strolled in the gardens, rode horseback, or prepared for this afternoon’s bingo party. Awarding of golf prizes tonight, followed by a dance and floor show, prefaces the editorial meeting with tomorrow morning's business = ses- . sions and politisal strategy meetings.

Townsend to Open Campaign

Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend's Keynote address in his race for Governor is to be given tomorrow night as a climax to the banquet and the two-day meeting. ~ , Informal conferences are expected to follow the two-day’s sessions, with some politicians; office-hold-ers, and editors remaining over Sunday. . '. Busy. Democratic executives, unable to attend the earlier meetings, are expected to arrive tomorrow in time- for the banquet. . The Howard County Kitchen utensil_band, organized by Mrs. Carrie Rockwood, county vice-chairman, is to one of the features of tonight's floor show. “The Women's Statehouse Democtatic Club is scheduled to present a : political skit. Editors’ sessions are to be held

ulider the direction of George Pur- |

sell, Bloomington World publisher.

SLOAN SEES BIG YEAR

BUT FEARS TAX COST}

By United Press NEW YORK, Alfred P= Sloan Jr. of General: Motors estimated today that his firm will do the greatest business | in its history this year but predicted “serious” econgmic trouble in 1937 unless ‘we set our house in order.” By this he means curtailing gov-

ernmental expenditures and reform- |.

~~ ing the tax system, he said.

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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 146

DEPUTY SHERIFF NOW

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Bu U nited Preas HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 28. — The Maharajah of Indore, who, at 28, rules 1,500,000 persons and has an income roughly lumped at $70,- : 000,000 a year, today rubbed his ‘palm over a couple of shiny badges and looked as pleased as his Oxford training would permit. The badges affirm that he is a captain of Los Angeles police and ,a deputy sheriff—titles that for ‘the moment he appeared to find more satisfying that the one he bears at home in Indiana where { he is formally addressed as Highness Maharajdhiraia Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Yeshwant Rao. Holker Bahadur.

STATE POLICE HOLD 3 IN RAID

Employes of ‘Tall Timbers’ Booked on Charges of Gambling.

Nine men were arrested by a squad of state police in a raid on “Tall Timbers,” a resort in Han|cock County on Highway 67 north of Indianapolis last night. Among those arrested was R. D. Nutt, 41, McCordsville, whom Dcnald Stivers, State Police superintendent, said was the proprietor of the place. Nutt and eight other men “taken to Greenfield and slated on charges of gambling and illegal possession of liquor, according to Mr. Stivers. Others arrested were: Edwn Hartlage, 25, Jeffersonville; J. V.- Stanton, ' 35, McCordsville; Harry Osborn, 62, Indianapolis: Claude Williams, 47, McCordsville; Daye Fisher, 34, Louisville; M. L. Fowler, 60, Whitman, Mass.; Laurence Whitlach, 56, McCordsville, and James Comlen, 42, of 1131 Park-av, Indianapolis. Police Capt. Matt Leach, head of the raiding squad, said -three dice tablets, a roulette wheel, other gambling devices, and a large quantity of illegally possessed whisky were confiscated during the raid. He said .state police had been watching the place for several weeks and that his men designated the eight men arrested with Nutt as émployer of the place.

STIVER DISCHARGES 4 STATE POLICEMEN

Men Are Dropped at End of Probationary Period.

Four state policemen were dismissed today at the end of their year's probationary period, Supt. Don Stiver announced. “The men didn't measure up, to department requirements during the probationary period, and under our rules they must de replaced” he said. Officers dismissed were Charles Crowder, Mount Vernon; Hardy, Marion; William H. Gettingér, Gary, and Fred Krintz, Lafayeuie. Three patrolmen were promoted. Paul Armstrong, Indianapolis, detective, was made lieutenant in | charge of detectives in this district. | Edward Mullins, Vincennes, ‘ahd | Edward Rose, Bluffton, were promoted from patrolmen to detectives.

‘BLACK LEGIONNAIRE | ORDERED EXTRADITED

By United Press COLUMBUS, 0. Aug. 28.—Gov. Martin IL. Davey today signed extradition papers for the removal to Michigan of Virgil H. (Bert) Effinger, missing reputed ‘national commander of the Black Legion. The booming-voiced electrical contractor, who disappeared Tuesday during an extradition hearing here, is sought on .fugitive-from-justice warrants! in Ohio and is charged in Michigan with criminal syndicalism and possession of bombs.

COUGHLIN TO SPEAK ‘By United Press ROYAL OAK, Mich. Aug. 28.— Father Charles E. Coughlin has recovered sufficiently from the partial breakdown suffered at Citvel recently to inaugurate the National Union for Social Justice political campaign at Milwaukee Sunday, his office said today. He is to address

a state mass meeting of the Wisconsih N. U. 8, J.. Sunday.

OFFICERS NAME LUTZ

Atty. Gen. Philip Lt Jutz Jr. was elected vice president of the National Association of Attorneys General at a convention of the group in Boston

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“NEW HIGH FOR

AUTO DEATHS 1S PREDICTED

18,560 Killed So Far This Year, Safety Council < Reports Today.

| Worst Part of Year Still to

Come, _ Director of Group Says.

Ry United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 28—The National Safety Council reported to-

day that 18,560 persons had died in the last seven months, either beneath the crunching wheels of automobiles or in twisted wreckage left in ‘the wake of a highway collision. It warned the nation to prepare for’ another “all-time record of slafighter on our streéts and highways when 1936 has become his-

3 tory. ”»

July was the third consecutive month and the fourth in 1936 in

in the United States exceeded those in | corresponding periods of 1935, the council said. The July toll was 3180, 3 per cent more than the 3090ftraffic fatalities reported for July. 1935. “The trend is alarming,” W. H. Cameron, managing director of the | “because we have yet to pass through those months which in former years produced the largest number of traffic accident deaths. . “In 1935 the first six months recorded 15,890 traffic fatalities: while in the last six 2110 such deaths were reported.” R. L. Forney, council statistician, said the Aug. 1 total was but 2 per cent below the corresponding 1935 figure, a year in which motor deaths shot to, the all-time high of. 37,000.

Carpenter Killed by Hit, Run Driver

John Hauk, R. R. 1 Shelbyville, formerly of Indianapolis, a carpenter, was killed by a hit and run motorist =at- 2:30 a. m. today on State Road 52, near Julietta. His own car, Clarence E. Watson; Hancock County sheriff said, had gone into a ditch and was pulled out by Raymond Witte, and Henry Sunderman, Cheviot, O. After his car was on the road, Sheriff Watson said he was tuld, Mr. Hauk walked down the road as if hunting for something he had lost. A car struck him and went on without stopping. He was dead when reached by the Ohio witnesses. Sheriff Watson said he was told the body was dragged 160 feet, and old of finding broken glass at the cene, probably from the headlights of .the death car. Mr. Hauk, who was unmarried, had| told his Ohio rescuers that he ‘was| lost and ran his car into the itch while attempting to turn § ound.

Driving Hints

BY NAT'L SAFETY COUNCIL

STARTING

through that annoying and sometimes dangerous experience of having their motors die‘ and leave them stranded in the middle of traffic. A thousand horns honk, the policeman yells, and the driver gets panicky. Don’t get out into the line of traffic until the motor has warmed up enough so that it will idle easily. On a cold morning, if you are afraid the motor may die, run slowly in second gear until it warms up. A good, safe start may save ypu from a sudden and unexpeeted finish!

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Running preferential street Reckless driving ‘Drunken driving Other except parking | TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

RICHMAN AND PILOT READY FOR FLIGHT

By United Press | NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—After a 1400-mile test flight up the New England coast, Richard Merrill, veteran air mail pilot, and Harry Richman, movie and radio singer, planned to take off today on a nonstop flight to London. ‘The final decision will depend upon weather reports, but Merrill announced that “it looks now as if we would go around 5 o'clock this afternoon.” . James H. Kimball of the New

oday, according to word re- ence they

York Weather Bureau said that weather conditions may not be “perfect,” but “with such a plane and with a pilot of Merrill's experishould have little trouble

3 PER CENT RISE NOTED

which automobile accident deaths |

OST drivers have gone |

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

NEW FACADE OF SS. PETER AND PAUL CATHEDRAL NEARS COMPLETION

Heavy, heavy hangs over thy head! Eighteen tons of limestone, a single block in the beautiful new facade on SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral at 14th and Meridian-sts, were hoisted into place (above) as the work neared completion.

BROWN COUNTY 100 YEARS OLD

Residents Are to Observe Centennial With Song, Pageant.

Times Special Lo : NASHVILLE, Ind, Aug. 28.— Brown County is 100 years old as a political subdivision of Indiana. Blessed with more rain than any other mid-state county this summer of drought, its hills are velvet green and carrying their age well. Because Brown County is 100 years old, its citizens tomorrow are to begin a celebration that will put its history into "song and pageant and will not end until Sept. 6. |. The pageants are to be staged near the old log jail, with the new double ‘log cabin community house in the background. More than 200 persons are to participate. Curiously * ‘enough, there were fewer than 200 residents in Brown County when the General Assembly, in 1836, staked it out and named it (Turn to Page Three)

BLAST, FIRE CAUSES BUT SLIGHT DAMAGE

A still explosion and fire at the Republican Creosoting Co., Minne-

sota-st and Maywood-rd, ‘caused only slight damage this morning, company officials said. Two of 16 stills used for distilling oil exploded. according to Capt. George M. Lewis of Fire Station 19, tearing out holes in the brick wall and spraying the room with flaming oil. A company fire department used chemicals to bring the blaze under control. The frame house of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stole, R. R. B., box 242H, was destroyed by fire following a gasoline stove explosion yesterday. City firemen were unable to fight the blaze after pumping dry a nearby ditch. "The loss was estimated at $3000.

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—Times photo by Wheeler.

The stone, weighifig as much as two trackless “trolleys, was swung into place by the giant derrick (left). The three men you see aiding the work had their troubles, but it was all in the day’s work for them, fo they didn’t mind.

TeoDogine Many kK riends

Former COREaetiE: Fined $25 for “Having 19 Watchdogs at Hone.

HIS is a story of a man who had 19 watchdogs; and what good did

1t do him?

He had them all in a locked garage at 915 N. Keystone-av yesterday afternoon when Frank Pfester, City Health Board employe, went to get

them.

Pfester knocked on the door and said open up. The dogs barked, but no one else answered. So he called police and Sergt. Ed Miers arrived.

Sergt. Miers broke the lock on the door and braced himself against what he had every right to suppose would be quite a tussle.

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UT the dogs, probably because they saw the unforms, did not attack, but slunk away from the door into the darkest recesses of the garage they could find. Mr. Pfester went to work and loaded the dogs, 19 of them, onto a pound-bound truck, while neighboys cheered. As No. 19 was being lifted onto the truck, a tarpalilin over in a far corner of the building moved. “Ah, ha!” said Sergt. “there’s No. 20.” He lifted the cloth. There was James Taylor, 57, owner of the watchdogs and none foo happy about what was going on. He protested that Sergt. Miers couldn't break into.the garage, but Sergt. Miers arrested him. nn N Municipal Court today, Judge Charles Karabell recalled that a year ago he suspended a sentence on Taylor for the same offense—keeping annoying dogs. . Howard Bates, aftorney for Taylor, said: “Judge, this man was an electrical contractor a few years ago, and had men working for him. But over a period of months he just got, ‘wild over dogs and he lost his ‘grip on his business.” Mr. Taylor said: “Judge, I can’t pay a fine. I'm on relief. Dogs are man’s best friend.” Judge Karabell said: “Twenty-five dollars and costs” ”

Miers,

MAGNUS JOHNSON IN CRITICAL CONDITION

By United Press LITCHFIELD, Minn, Aug. 28.— The condition of Magnus Johnson, former United States Senator from Minnesota, turned “for the worse” as he fought against a severe case

1 of pneumonia today.

Hospital attendants reported his temperature had increased. The 64-year-old pioneer of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor movement was stricken Saturday.

87 COUNTIES MAILED OLD-AGE PAYMENTS

Checks reimbursing 87 counties in the state for Federal and state shares of old-age assistance pay-

ments made during August were mailed to each of the counfies today by the Public Welfare Department. The checks amounted to $227,286. The amount counties were required to pay was $53,000, officials said.

HURT IN COLLISION

Auston Griffith, R. R. 13, Box 321, was injured seriously today when his_car collided with one driven hy Robert I. Udell, 1241 W. 35th-st, at ‘Keystone-av and 46th-st. He was taken to City Hospital. Mr. Udell and Miss Glades Griffith, escaped

injury.

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PRICE. THREE cane

INTEREST RATES PETTY LOANS REDUCED AGAIN

Small Borrowers in Indiana to Be Saved an’ Additional $619,000 Annually, State Official Estimates. i

SLASH IS THIRD

SINCE JAN. 1, 1933

280 Firms Affected by Latest Order; Total

Savings to Clients Put-at $1, 081,994 Yearly.

Another reduction in petty loan Witatedt rates, effecting an estimated $619,000 annual savings to borrowers in Indi= ana, was announced today by Robert. Batton, State Commis= sion for Financial Institutions chairman. The new rates, effective immediately for more r than 230 small loan firms throughout the state, are: 3 per cent a month for loans of $150 or less and 114 per cent a month

FRENCH FIRE ON SPANISH REBELS

Warning Shot Is Discharged When Shells Fall Near Ship at Gibraltar.

By United Press GIBRALTAR, Aug. 28. —A French cruiser fired a warning shot toward a Spanish rebel battery near here early today after shells intended for a Loyalist ship had landed just off its bow. The insurgent basiery ceased firing. Shots from the lang battery were aimed at a government warship, believed to have been the Cervantes. Gen. Gonzales Quipo De Llano of the rebel forces from the Seville radio station said the ship appeared deliberately to place itself between the Spanish ship and the battery, (Turn to Page Three)

MORE SHOWERS DUE, WEATHER MAN SAYS

Fair ‘and Cooler Tomorrow Is Forecast.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. Te 10 3. m. 81 am a 11 a. m. ... 82 $a. m ... 77 12 noon ... 85 Sa. m ... 78 1pm... 8

Probable showers tonight, with cooler temperatures and fair weather tomorrow were forecast by the United States Weather Bureau today. As the center of the low-pressure area, which drenched . Indianapolis with showers and broke the 19-day heat wave, passes’ eastward, north winds are expected to blow here tomorrow, forecasters said. The bureau said temperatures today would range in the middle eighties and. tomorrow would sink to the low eighties;

DIES IN 86-FLOOR

EMPIRE STATE LEAP

Bi: United Press : NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—A young man smiled at fellow-sightseers on the eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building today, then climbed to a rampart and leaped out in space to his death on the pave-

.| ment almost 1000" feet below.

It was the first time since the world’s tallest building was completed that any one had jumped the entire distance. Others who have leaped have landed on lower ramparts. © The young man was identified by cards in his pockets as Robert F. Erskine, 21, Bronxville, N. Y. His body struck virtually the only clear space on congested 33d-st. -

Boy Hero of 1931 Happy Over Job on Road Gang _

(Copyright, 1836, by United Press) ENVER, Aug. 28. — Bryan Untiedt, five yéars ago a boy hero feted by the President and the nation, now a youth of 18 with “a strong back,” became a. laborer in a highway construction gang in the mountains today. He was delighted with his job. Ten days ago he came to Denver— forgotten by his erstwhile admirers, made utterly forlorn by

family hardships that had forced him to leave high school before graduation. Bryan, six feet two inches tall, a powerful youth, waved cheerily from the front seat of the “dump” truck that was takifig him to his

highway job at Tabernash, Colo.

in the mountain country northwest of Denver. “This is a great day for me,” he said. “I was just ready to give up when 1 got this job. 2 will give chance litde

school were loaded into the school bus by teachers who thought they could get home before the blizzard"

marooned them in the building. But the bus stalled in a snowdrift. The driver went off to summon aid. He was frozen to death before he had gone far.

In the bus, with the snow piling

up on its sides, the wind howling, the frightful cold creeping in through cracks and crevices, 13-year-old Bryan took charge. He

“tore up the wooden floor and started a fire in a milk can. The

smoke was insufferable and it had

to be put out.

Bryan made the other children sing and shout. He forced them to walk up and down and jump about. When any one showed any

HEN rescuers broke through the drifts, they found five children dead, but 16 alive, thanks

night.

Service men took him to Washington, where he was the guest of President Herbert Hoover in the White House, Cities en route vied with one another in the extravagance of their greetings. He re- . turned to Denver to the blare of bands and state and city officials were at the station to greet him.

drawn its favor from Bryan

to Bryan. His fame spread over- . As soon as he had recovered from his privations, Secret |

Since then, fortune has with-

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for lpans of more than $150 up to the $300 limit allowed by law. : Interest rates in effect up to to=

day were: 3% per cent a month en loans up to $100: 215 per cent on

sums between $100 and $200 and 2

per cent on loans between $200 and $300. The reduction is the third in petty loan rates ordered in the slate since the commisson. took office Jan, 1, 1933, Mr. Batton said. : Total annual savings to borrowers in all three reductions, he said, are estimated at $1,081,994. The first reduction was made July 1, 1933, when rates were cut from 32 per cent a month for all loans to an average of 3.24. per cent a

month on all loans. The second cut .

was made Aug. 1, 1934. The commission was. established by an act of the Legislature.

‘RICHEST GIRL’ HITS "BACK AT AT HONOLULU

By United Press : HONOLULU, T. H, Aug. 28— Doris Duke Cromwell, the “richest girl in the world,” and her personable and wealthy husband, James today threatened to cancel plans for huge investments in Hawaii unless the Honolulu Har= bor Board rescinds a ruling denying them permission to build a private

swimming pool on a beach now public. - William D. Cross, representative of Mr. Cromwell, said the husband , =

{of the tobacco heiress instructed

him to place on sale their $100,000 four-acre home site on which a $500,000 home was to have been erected. The board refdsed a permit te build a great tile swimming pool on Kaalawai Beach because it would have been “class discrimination.” -

TRANSFUSION. HELPS HAEMOPHILIA VICTIM

By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 28, — Alfonso de Bourbon, the Count of Cova=donga, son of former King Alfonso XIII of Spain, was resting comfort= ably in Presbyterian Hospital today after receiving a blood transfusion, The count was rushed to the hos= pital Wednesday night: suffering from hemorrhage similar to that which nearly caused his death last winter in Havana. The transfusion was made after he had nearly bled to death from haemaphilia, a hered= itary blood condition common te male members of his family. :

ACTION IS DEFERRED ON LIGHT GHT CONTRACT,

The Works Board today _ poned until”Monday action’ on the municipal light contract. The board is to ask for an extension of the present . temporary contract until property of the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. has been reappraised. Mayor Kern indicated that the new rate probably will be higher, :

bridge to replace

-| structure. over Fall Creek on

ana-av. They agreed it financed by bond issue.

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