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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1936

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THOUSANDS a ~ FAIR FOR TALK ~ BY PRESIDENT

Today at F air

| Visit of President Roosevelt at 10:3 a. m, | All calf clubs judged in Coliseum. Harness racing, afternoon.

| Vaudeville, in front of grand stand,

_ afternoon. Finals state softball morning, afternoon and. night.

Fi begins in various depart- |

ments.

Flock Fwoudh Gates On | Indiana University stage show, day |

Opening Day of Annual State Exposition.

NEW RECORD EXPECTED

Horse Racing, Side Shows and Softball Tourney Hold Attention.

BY ARCH STEINEL Thousands of Hoosiers flocked through the gates at the State Fair today, drawn

in large part by the appear- |

ance of President Roosevelt. |

and night, 1. U. Building. | Purdue University agricultural ex- | hibits, open to public all day.

| State amateur contest in Coliseum, |

| 7:30. p. m. Model farm home open all day. 4-H Pig, Sheep and Poultry Clubs | judging in Coliseum. (Children under 12 admitted free.) |

You Tell One

Big Fish Leaps Out of Water to Grab Bird on the Wing.

By United Press NNEAPOLIS{Minn., Sept. 5.

I The chief executive's br ief | M —On their oath as good and talk was to be the highlight |

of the opening day’s proceed-

early

the crowd in the grandstand |

grew with each minute.

Despite the fact that it was chil-

passing

> ~ firen’s day at the Fair with all chil-

took their posts | in the morning while |

clared today] ings and police assigned to| hished “fish 3}

guard duty

dren under 12 being admitted free, |

the fairground was literally packed with thousands of adults. Speaks Before Conference

The President appear before

was scheduled the

to | grandstand at |

10:30 a. m., deliver a short talk, and | leave immediately for the Indianap- |

olis Athletic, Club and his drought conference. Meanwhile, freckled and overalled farm youths

from 4-H Clubs led |

calves by rope halters before the ap- |

praising eyes of the judges in the “cattle bars.” Woolly lambs were wrestled about in stalls as other 4-H Club youngsters curried their’ prize animals for similar judging. ‘Recessed to permit the President's party to halt before the grandstand was the softball game between Logansport and Whiting. Also scheduled was the game between teams from Marion and Newcastle.

Foresee New Record Fair officials announed early

for opening day 1y be broken before nightfall. Hotdog_and hamburger salesmen. puff candy distributors and drink vendors, sales than in other state fairs. 5 ~Farmers, who did their Saturday {Turn to Page Three)

M'NUTT PROCLAIMS

“first”

LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

Gov. McNutt today issued a Labor |

Day proclamation designating Monday a legal holiday “to be observed as tribute to the workers of state.” - “Only by labor,” the proclamation read, “has this state been convert- | ed from an almost wilderness into =a covered with farms, gardens. orchards and cities and traversed in by Only by

highways. labor can the |

material basis of progressive civili- |

ized life be maintained.”

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

8 | 9 | | Movies 6 { Mrs. Ferguson 10 | Mrs. Roosevelt 9 { Music 5 | Obituaries ....

S3iPegler ........ 9 | 10}

urious World.13 | Batokials . shions |, nancial

ishbein Flynn

‘Grin, Bear It...

- Ind History. 10 | Sports

ane Jordan.. 6) State Deaths..

honest officery of the law, Henry Johnson andi Andy Dahlin deat this is no vararn.” Driving along Lake Calhoun they saw a swallow flying “several feet” above the water. A pickerel-—and a whopper it was, according to Johnson— flopped from the water, snatched thé bird in its maw, and disap--peared beneath the waves again.

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- DETROIT, Sept. 5.—Sophie Ballots, a Dearborn matron, has been ordered by the court not to speak above a whisper between the hours of 10 p. m. and 7 a. m. The unusual injunction was issued temporarily after a neighbor - complained of extensive noise coming from the Ballots home. A damage claim: of $500 was filed by the neighbor.

ALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 5—Orson and Morgan White believe their pet duck Goo-Goo died of a broken heart. Goo-Goo died four days after Bing, his fox terrier companion, was struck hy an automobile and killed. The youths said Goo-Goo had been mourning his death. = » = ; SALINAS, Cal, Sept. 5—Hugh F. Harlin was awarded a divorce when he testified his wife, Caroline, danced barefooted on hroken beer bottles, suffering injuries

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in | the day ‘that the attendance record | would undoubted- |

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reported heavier |

days of

railroads. and

Merry- Gos Rd. 9

which necessitated expensive medical 1 treatment,

INSISTS CURB ON

Paper Says Bishop Told to Moderate Activities.

- By United Press | VATICAN CITY, Sept. 5.—Bishop | Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit has been instructed ‘specifically by the | Vatican ‘to moderate the political | activities of Father ' Charles E.

the | couhglin, the usually well-informed

| Catholic news agency, La Corrispon- | denza, said today. The agency revealed for the first

impenetrable time what it said was the nature of commonwealth | the Vatican's instructions to Bishop

Gallagher. | “The Holy See invited the Bishop of Detroit to come to Rome and { confer with the Pope,” Corrispondenzg said. “The Bishop came and | received from the Vatican, precise | and unmistakable instructions | which can not be misunderstood— i namely, to moderate the ardency of | an orator who should have refrained | from attacks of a political character, | especially personal, and also re- { nounce the forming of political parties and confine himself to precise 4 | illustration of the social doctrine of | the church.”

Corrispondenza said the Vatican |!

was greatly concerned by the failure of Gallagher to produce results and therefore directed Osservatore Ro- { mano, official Vatican organ, to publish its article of last Wednesday. Osservatore expressed disapproval of Father Coughlin's activities. Giulio Castelli, editor of Corrispondenza, said that he under-| stands the apostolic delegate tol Washington has been instructed to watch Father Coughlinis activities’

tournament, |

COUGHLIN ORDERED

its conversations with Bishop |

REBEL UNIONS | ACCOMPLISHED

1,1500,000 Workers Ousted as Order Against Lewis’ C. I. 0. Is Enforced.

SUSPENSION OF ‘English Woman Pilot on Solo

Flight to New York Reported |

Near Coast o

Young Society Matron Across Atlantic in

f Newfoundland

Battles Gales on Way Effort to Be First

of Sex to Make Westward Crossing.

By United Press

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 5

5.—A plane believed to be that

Ww ARNING TIME EXPIRES | of Mrs. Beryl Marka was sighted passing Renews, on the

‘Insurgents’ Fail to Cease | Organizing Under Own Plans; May Fight.

By United Press | WASHINGTON, Sept, 5. — The | ranks of “organized ' labor finally | were split today into two bitterly | | hostile groups. | The solid labor front was shat- | tered by suspension from the American Federation of Labor of 10 international unions with a membership of 1,500,000 workers. The suspension, ordered Aug. 5 by { the A. F. of L. executive council, be-. | came effective at 12:01 a. m. today. {| The council ordered the suspension | after finding the 10 unions affiliated { with the Committee for Industrial | Organization guilty of “insurrec- | tion” in forming a dual unionism. John L. Lewis, C. I. O. leader, an- | nounced it will wage a campaign | to organize workers in mass pro- { duction industries from which it al- | ready has ousted the A. F. of L.

A. F. L. Rejects Demands

| The C. I. O. was formed last No- | vember by Lewis after the A. F.of L. rejected his demands for a separate organization, within the federation for industrial organization in mass - production industries, Rejecting repeated demands that the C. I. O. disband, Lewis and associates finally were called to trial ‘last month for “insurrection,” but none appeared. After five days of evidence, the AF, of L. council ordered the 10 unions suspended unless they renounced the C. I. O. within 30-days. The time limit expired at midnight with the C. 1. O. still intact.

Reinstatement Possible * Although the A. F. of L. denounced activities of the C. I. O. last November, Lewis and associates declined to leave the federation voluntarily. Suspended, they announced the C. I. O. would continue as a rival union. “We consider the door to the A. F. of L. to have been closed to us and locked,” Lewis said. William Green, A. F. of L. president, said however he does not consider the members as expelled. The way ‘is open for reinstatement any time they drop their dual union activities, he said. Green called a press conference | for today, but indicated he plans { no overtures to the “rebel” unions. Cuts Membership Third The suspension, if followed by the almost inevitable revocation of the insurgent unjons’ charters by the A. F. of L. convention at Tampa, Fla., Nov, 6, will reduce the federation's membership by approximately one-third. Lewis said the C. I. O. would meet this montlr to decide whether to appeal the suspension to the Tampa convention. The suspended unions and their estimated - membership are the United Mine Workers, 500,000; Ladies’ Garment Workers, 225,000; United Auto Workers, 80,000; Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 150,000; United Textile Workers, 79,200; Oil and Refinery Workers, 49900; United Rubber Workers, 30,000; Flat Glass Workers, 17,000; Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 14,600; Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, 20,000. Three other unions whose presidents ‘have joined C. I. O. have a combined membership of approximately 95,000. These are the Cap and Millinery Workers, with 17,500; The Typographical Union, with 73,400, and the Newspaper Guild, with 4000 members.

BLUFFTON LAUNCHES POLICE RADIO DRIVE

Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind. Sept. 5—Civic and social organizations of Wells County are raising a fund to finance installation of police radio equipment that would be connected with the state police system. The station would be installed in the community house. City and ‘county officials have sponsored and are backing the fund drive.

DEATH, INJURIES

Si Foundry Co., 410 P

{noon and escaped with a $1515 pay

. office, alleging that the Japanese

| south coast, at 11 a. m. today,

Newfoundland time.

A message received by the radio marine corporation

| from the Staarndam at 6:53 a. m. (Indianapolis time) said

the plane, believed to be the daring young woman’s craft, was sighted at 47.54 north latitude and 48.22 west longitude.

This was the first report took off yesterday, despite w

MAR AIR RACE

Parachute Jumper Killed, Bendix Pilot and Wife Injured in Crash.

By United Press

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5.—Speed pilots, racing against a backdrop of death and injury that marked the bloodiest. opening day in National Air Race history, risked their necks today in the most perilous contest of all—the speed dashes. A toll of one dead and four injured, three critically, marked the opening program which featured Louise Thaden’s victory in the $15,000 Bendix race from New York. " L. C. Faulkner, San Diego seaman making his thirty-ninth parachute jump for a $90 prize, was dashed to his death before 50,000 spectators. His ‘chute fouled 50 feet above the earth, the fall snapping his neck. Benny Howard's Bendix racer (Turn to Page Three)

HUNT PUSHED FOR PAY ROLL BANDITS

Victims Fail to Identify Police Pictures.

Police today sought two gunmen who held up two employes of the

ennsylvania-st, yesterday after-

roll. The. employes, Paul S. McNamara: 125 W. 41st-st, vice president, and Miss Ella O'Connor; 2002 N. Talbotst, bookkeeper, last night failed to identify pictures of local suspects shown them by police. As Mr. McNamara and Miss O'Connor sat in an auto in front of the foundry after obtaining the money at a downtown bank, two men armed with revolvers stepped up to the car and seized the pay roll purse from Miss O'Connor. Miss O'Connor struggled and screamed, and the gunmen fled in a waiting auto driven by an accomplice. Police believe the bandit car was stolen Thursday from a parking space near the foundry.

JAPANESE, SOVIET CLASHES CONTINUE

By United Press TOKYO, Sept. 5—The Japanese, Kwantung Army headquarters at Hsingking, Manchukuo, reported today that Japanese gendarmes investigating a recent border incident were subjected to two fusillades from Soviet territory. Coincidentally, the Soviet ambassador here protested to the foreign

had fired across the border and that a Japanese plane had scouted over Soviet territory.

KILLED BY TRAIN By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 5— Jack Casey, 64, Dumon, was killed instantly last night when he fell beneath the wheels of a Grand Trunk freight train.

on Mrs. Markham since she arnings of stormy conditions over the ocean, to fulfill her ambition to be the first woman to fly solo across the North

Atlantic from east to west.

The master of the Spaarndam, a ship of the Holland-America line, was unable to identify the plane definitely, but it almost certainly was Mrs. Markham’s as there were no indications of any other aircraft being in that vicinity. At the time of the sighting, it was 17 hours and 50 minutes since Mrs. Markham, mother of a sevén-year-old son and a veteran of many flights, had taken off from Abindon Airdrome near London. Her plane carried gasoline enough for an estimated 26 hours flying. It was estimated that when sighted she had covered about 2000 miles of the 3700-mile course which she had laid out from England to Floyd

- Bennett Airport, New York.

Due to storms and headwinds which she’ defied, her speed was considerably less than: that which she had hoped to maintain. Prior to the report from the Spaarndam, grave fears had been felt for the 31-year-old Englishwoman, in view of severe over part of her Nerth Atlantic course.

American Fliers Plan Return Flight Tomorrow

By United Press - LONDON, Sept. 5—Harry Richman said today that if afternoon weather reports were favorable he and Dick Merrill would take off at dawn tomorrow for their return flight from London to New York. The American fliers’ big blue monoplane, Lady Peace, in which they flew from New York to a Welsh cow pasture and thence on to London, was refuelled and condiioned ready for the return. Reports of gales off the American coast delayed it.

SPANISH UPRISERS CONTROL FRONTIER

Take Bridge to France and Move on to San Sebastian.

, (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) HENDAYE, French-Spanish frontier, Sept. 5—Spanish rebels won control of the frontier today in a surprise attack, At noon they overwhelmed a handful of Loyalist defenders at the bridgehead, and captured both

| the automobile and railroad bridges ‘to France.

At once the rebels began bombarding Fort Guadelupe. By capturing it the rebels could bombard San Sebastian. Loyalist authorities at San Sebastian mobilized all males of 21 years or more in.-a home guard to stand off an expected rebel attack,

BARRYMORE YACHT,

SALARY ATTACHED |

By United Press 2 HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.—Secret attachment of John Barrymore's yacht, his bank account and salary was disclosed today by court records indicating judgment against the actor had been satisfied. A furniture company's assignee tied up the yacht Infanta and the star's money to satisfy the judgment for $8000, secured when the actor

assertedly failed to pay for pur-.

chases.

storms |:

T0 HEAR HS DROUGHT PLAN

Chandler, Fitzgerald, Davey, Indiana Executives to Attend With Aids.

7 U. S. SENATORS HERE

\ F. D.

on Midwestern Crop

Relief Trip.

The President's schedule during his six-hour visit to Indianapolis today follows:

A.M. 9:00—Arrives at Union Station.

9:10—Leaves on tour of inspection; PWA Armory project, Riley Park, White Riverblvd, Riley Hospital, Locke - field Gardens, then to Fairground.

10:30—Arrives at State Fair. 10:40—Leaves State Fair.

11:00—Arrives at Indianapolis Athletic Club, opens drought conference with Federal officials and Gov. McNutt, Gov. Fitzgerald (Michigan), Gov. Davey (Ohio), Gov. Chandler (Kentucky), Senators Van Nuys ‘and Minton (Indiana), Vandenberg (Michigan), Barkley and Logan (Kentucky) and Bulkley and Donahey: (Ohin), P.M. 1; 00—Luncheon with 200 officials and guests.

2:30—Leaves Athletic Club for Union Station.

3:00—Presidential train leaves Indianapolis for East.

WOMEN IN F. D. B.S PARTY TO BE FETED

Daughter-in-Law Listed as Mrs. M’Nutt’s Guest.

Following a visit to the Indiana State Fair today, Mrs. James D. Roosevelt, daughter-in-law of the President, and other women in the presidential party are to attend a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, wife of the Governor, who is to entertain, met the visitors at the Special train with the Governor. Other luncheon guests were to be Mrs.. A. B. Chandler, wife of Kentucky’s Governor, who arrived with her husband last night; Miss Marguerite A. LeHand, the President's private secretary; Misses Roberta Barrow and Grace Tully, both members of the President’s staff, and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, national Democratic committeewoman. Gov. and Mrs. McNutt are to return tonight to their summer home at Dunes State Park.

ANTI-COMMUNISM ~ BATTLE PROPOSED

Times Special NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Notre Dame alumni are to offer assistance to Pope Pius for a drive against “the inroads of communism throughout the world,” Arthur J. Hughes, Chicago attorney and alumni association president, declared before he sailed for Europe today for an audience with the Pope. Mr. Hughes said 10,000 alumni would “fight this terrible menace to Christianity” if the Pope approves his proposals for an anti-Com-munistic campaign.

BROTHER, SISTER END 21-YEAR R SEPARATION

Mrs. John Mobley, 513 5131 Hardeganst, Edgewood, saw her brother, Herald Allen Annette, of Stryker, o., for the first time in 21 years this week when he came for a few days’ visit. Mrs, Mobley and her brother became separated when small chiidren and only ‘recently learned of each other's whereabouts, she said.

R. Makes Last Stop

| speeches Mr, Roosevelt

LANDON AGREES ON FARM HELP

Concurs in F. D. R.’s Theories for Solution of Drought Problem on Prairie.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer Very skilfully President Roosevelt has introduced the constitutional issue into the campaign during his drought inspection trip, but in effective and persuasive disguise, it became apparent today as he concluded his ten-day tour in this capital of 7. doubtful Indiana. In virtually every one of his preached the necessity of Federal and state co-operation in meeting the drought and permanent agricultural problems, and everywhere the people to whom he talked agreed with him— for they saw evidénce on every hand. that if the Federal government had not helped them they would have been destitute in thousands of Sows Seed for Change The natural inference is that if the Supreme Court, which outlawed AAA, should now nullify the substitute soil erosion program, then a change in the Constitution would be the next step. President Roosevelt has not- mentioned the Constitution once, but he seems to be sowing the seed just the same. Also—and highly important for the campaign—the President got the acquiescence of his Republican opponent, Gov. Alf M. Landon, to Federal aid in handling the foremost problems of the farm West. The Governor subscribed to this theory orally in the famous Des Moines conference and in the memorandum he submitted for a long-

| term program.

Thus the President has built a prairie fire about his opponent by crystallizing sentiment in the West and, like a boxer, has tied up Gov. Landon, who may find it difficult to make much of an issue of Federal aid to meet other problems, some of which involve the millions: who live in the crowded cities of the East, and for whose vote he is gunning, Accepts Federal Aid. The Governor also subscribed to the need for Federal funds to tide over the emergency in his own state. He has accépted them and will continue to accept them, though he was the one Governor among all interviewed -by Mr. Roosevelt who did not come asking for money. He knows, of course, that he will get what he needs. In retrospect, President Roosevelt is seen fo have won another victory in political strategy in the Des Moines meeting. Its outcome certainly opens the way for him to strike back hard at his Republican opponent if Gov. Landon lays heavy

Accompanied by Wallace, Tugwell, Hopkins, Meyers and Fechner.

STARTS TOUR OF CITY,

Greeted by McNutt, Kern, Senators, Officials From Neighbor States. = -

A sun-burned President, in the “pink of condition,” today came to Indianapolis to confer on drought emergencies with Governors and Senators of four states. ° La His special train entered the Union Station at 9 a. m., was greeted officially by dignitaries and unofficially by a crowd of citizens gathered around the station. He and his party entered cars and began, shortly after his arrival, a tour of the city that was to take them past many Works Progress Ad= ministration projects, to the State Fairground where the President was to speak briefly, and to the In-

dianapolis Athletic Club, where coneTeremges were to be held until 2: ‘30

PE icra at the Union Station - officially meet the President were Gov. McNutt, Mayor Kern, “Val Nolan, United States District Ate torney, Dr. Carleton B. Mi Marion County WPA tor ahs oi Gov, M. Clifford Townsend, Wayne Coy, Indiana WPA administrator Virgil Simmons, State Conservation Department head; Omer 8S. state Democratic chairman: man Elder, Thomas Taggart a Irving Lemaux, prominent,

re to confer ‘with the dent are Gov. Martin L. D Ohio; Gov, Frank Pitzgerald, Mich: igan; Gov. A. B. Chandler, Ker tucky; Senators Frederick VanN and Sherman Minton, Indiana; Donahey and Robert Bulkley, Ohio Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan, and Alvin Barkley and M. M, Logan, Kentucky. : Crowds Gather

An hour before the train was scheduled to arrive, crowds gathering in the sidewalks along tour route. There was not ala crowd at the Union Station, either inside or outside. Is a Members of the official Presi= ential party were: Secretary Agriculture Henry A. Wallace; ary L. Hopkins, WPA administrator; Undersecretary of Agriculture Rex. ford G. Tugwell, Rural Resettlement Administrator; William I. Farm Credit administrator; C. Fechner, CCC ‘administrator;

sioner: Eugene S. Leggett,

sistant AAA administrator. Also on trip are Marvin M. Me~ Intyre, secretary to Henry M. Kannee, assistant to Mc Intyre; Miss Marguerite Le: Hd, President Roosevelt's private

Tully, secretaries; Col. Edwin M, Watson, military aid; Dr. Ross T, McIntyre, captain U. S. : President’s physician; John velt, President's son, Betty Roosevelt, wife of James A on Upon their arrival here, members of the press aboard the special trait reported that the President was

less sun apparently left no 1 him despite the fact that he for hours in open automobiles.”

Correspondent Agree “He's a bear for p

seemed the consensus of weary respondents who have trailed

stress upon ‘state solution of prob-| modern times:

lems affecting a wide area, as do

drought and permanent agricultural | many

problems.

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Local and Federal Projects Inspected - by Chief Executive and Experts

Before his scheduled speech at the Fairground . "eat Pridsnt Roseel vas to inspect the EWA Army a. an» Lockefield