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FORECAST: Loéal thundershowers this afternoon or tonight; tomorrow generally fair and cooler.

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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 154

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936

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

PRICE THREE oENTS

| ALL EXISTING ~ FAIR RECORDS

ARE TOPPLING

Alost 100,000 to Attend |

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Today, Is Forecast - of Officials.

GRAND CIRCUIT T0 OPEN

Livestock Judging Continues

in Coliseum; ‘Farmers’ Day’ Tomorrow.

| ‘(Falr Photos, Page 9; Horse Races, Page 13.)

BY ARCH STEINEL

The dinner-pail hung on a nail, | Blue jeans were supplant- |

empty.

ed for “Sunday-best” as the -labor- | ing man—of factory, farm or office— | took his family to the Indiana State |

Fair today.

Fair officials, shortly before noon, forecast a crowd of almost 100,000. The all-time Labor Day attendance record was in the so-called “prosperity year” of 1929, when 36.429 persons paid admissions to view the exposition. Last year a “depression” high was 77687 persons paid their the grounds. x * Seeing the fair as the . money-maker in it's history, fair officials pointed to the past two record days—17,562 paid admissions Saturday and - 34.781 assuring ample black

way into

biggest

ink figures.

Both days broke all existing atten- |

dance records. The fair attendance so far is 13,000 paid admissions higher than 1935. The vanguard of early fair visitors

reached when |

yesterday—as |

Fair's Fare

Around and Around the Visitors Go. to Its Varied Offerings.

ROUND and around it gees and where it stops depends upon just how long you walk and how many exhibits you view at the Indiana State Fair. | You can see, hear and do everything at the fair.

Take the west end of the Manufacturers’ Building and youll find a booth ready to cater to those ignored souls who have never received a ballot in a political poll. Just step up and you'll be dermitted to cast a Roosevelt, Lemke or Landon vote under sponsorship of the Earm Journal. »

The 1936 hamburger and hotdog “howlers” are louder and more vigorous in their cries. One white-aproned spieler uses the psychology of opposites to vend ware. Despite good business he shouts, “Come on you stingy people—buy a hamburger. Nice, | hot, ’burgers.” : a = » CHOOL begins at the Fair today. The three periods of educa- | tion—represented by a log cabin, | one- room schoolhouse, and modern | school building—are to have classes. Teachers and pupils are to be | dressed according to the period. | Textbooks used in log-cabin and | gne- room days are to be used. Everything will be there includ- | ing the “dunce” and the tfeacher’s| | pet.

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Anna Louise Abraham, Muncie, 4-H Club girl, champion “room-improver” fair. Her exhibit of a refinished . walnut reading table, cane-bot-tomed chair and lamp, resulted in it being selected for exhibition at the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 8.

17, is the of the

saw junior livestock experts vieing |

for scholarships and trips to the In- | é Livestock Exposition, | during. the Purdue University Judg- |

ternational

ing contest this morning in the arena of the Colisum. to be announced tomorrow. Purses totaling $8500 were to be distributed in the opening of the Grand Circuit races this afternoon. |

The Horseman's Sfake, estimated |

value $5000, was up for decision as |

trot |

RAIN FORECAST FOR | ~ TODAY. “TOMORROW |

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6am... 10 Sam. .., TN 2s. m ...- HY 10a. m. ... 19

8am ... 97 1am... 8 lin State Fair visitors are |

due for wetting either this afternoon |

or tonight, the Weather Bureau forecast today. Tomorrow, however, is to be generally fair and cooler and should make an ideal day for the midway.

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‘BROTHER, SISTER END 21 -YEAR SEPARATION

Mrs. John Mobley. 5131 Hardeganst, Edgewood, saw her brother, Herald Allen Annette, of Stryker, O., for the first time in 21 years last week when he came for a few days’ visit, Mrs. Mobley and her brother became - separated whén small chiidren and only recently each other’ s wher eabouts,

" RICHMAN. MERRILL

LEAVE FOR LONDON

By United Press PARIS. Sept. 7.—The American trans-Atlantic fliers. Richard Merrill +~and Harry Richman, Le Bourget Airport today for Croy- | don Airport, London. From Eng- | land” they plan to fly back to the | United States.

FAMOUS SU 'RGEON DEAD ‘Bul United Press ' LEEDS, England, Sept. 7.—Grieved | and distraught by the death of his wife a week ago, one of England's | most famous surgeons, Lord Moyni‘han. 70. died today. He was one of Britain's greatest cancer specialists.

Winners are |

learned of | she said. |

took off from |

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LMER LEE STROUSE, Scottsburg, is the fairs supreme | “spudder.” When bigger and better potatoes are grown he says I'll | grow them. | Elmer was declared sweepstakes | winner for showing the best peck lof Irish Cobbler “taters.” His { county, Scott, also was awarded first Place as a county exhibit.

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The best bushel of wheat raised and shown at the Indiana State Fair in 1858 is the cause of all the pride of Earl Tims Wallace, 4115 E. 11th-st. Not that Mr. Wallace, member of the Indianapolis police department, still has the wheat but that he does have an engraved silver loving cup which his grandfather won for showing that prize bushel. The cup was on display. Mr. Wallace and a brother recently purchased a farm near Danville and are out to equal their grandfather's mark.

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\IPPECANOE County's 4-H boys and girls have a corner on the | fair's ribbon counters and if they {keep on an S. O. S. may be needed to manufacturers of ribbons for the southful entrants have taken 101 awards’ to exceed any other county in ther state. Thirty-one blue ribbons, {and 16 red ribbons, seconds, are ini cluded in the prizes of the county. S. B. Pershing, county agent, and J. C. Ralston, club leader, are in charge of the boys and girls.

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REPORTS HOME ENTERED

Cletus L. Weaver, 601 Indianola- | av, reported to police yesterday that his home was entered late Satur- | day and three revolvers and “two lodge pins valued at $115 stolen.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Merry-Go-R'd. 9 Movies 8 Mrs. Ferguson 10 { Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Music 15 i Obituaries ‘aes Pyle Questions 10 Radio ........ 15 | | Scherrer 10 | Science Flynn ..4| Serial Story .. | Forum 10} Short Story . Grin, Bear It. 9 Society Ind. History. 10 Sports Jane Jordan .. 6! State Deaths . { Johnson | Wi

{| Comics | Crossword | Curious World .. | Editorials .. { Fashions | Financial | Fishbein

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SCHOOLS OPEN TOMORROW TO 62,000 PUPILS

Elementa ry Grades to Hold nly If-Day Sessions Quring Week.

PARENTS GIVEN ADVICE

Ten Suggestions Are Put | Forward by: Superintendent Stetson.

#5 { More! than 62,000 children are to start their annual trek back to their, | books tomorrow when all public | schools of the city open for the 1936{37 term. | Elementary {pupils and those previously, enrolled in school are to report at 8:15 and 8:30 a. m., re-

| spectively. Those who are to enter

1school here for the first time are to report iat 1:30 p. m. : Elementary pupils are to attend half-day sessions oniy for the remainder of the week. High school pupils are to begin regular classes on Wednesday. Incident to the opening of classes, School Superintendent Paul C. Stet{son offered parents 10 suggestions to | promote health and safety of pupils > | during the school term. iSuggestions Are Given

They read as follows: 1. Arrange the breakfast | lunch! hours so that there | rushing at home or to school, | encourage punctuality and regular | attendance by not permitting trifles | to interfere. | 2. It is as bad to send the child | to sc 1 too early as it is to send | him too late. The pupil should | reach ‘the school building in time to: ta care of his wraps and settle hithself for the day's work without uhduye hurry. On the other hand, he should not go to school so early as to waste time waiting for classes to begin. 3. It is particularly important to the child's safety that he not start to school before the traffic patrol boys hssume their posts. Parents should learn the periods when the traffic boys are on their corners ‘and should see that their children are on the way to school Suring these periods.

. . Food Held Important . 4. Ifsist upon ‘the children having -wholésome food and at least 10 hours sleep; provide a place for home study, with good light, ventilation, and quiet. The radio, when it'is unwisely used, spoils the preparation of many lessons. 5. Find - out how .much tithe should be devoted to home work and see ‘that it is done. The amount increases with the age of the child, so that during the high school period home work is of paramount importance. 6. Parents will find it helpful to meet other patrons of the school by attending meetings of parents and teachers. The social and educational values of Teacher Associations are outstand{ing not only for the parents them- | selves, but also for the better un(Turn to Page Two)

FRENCHMAN FAVORED IN U. S. AIR- RACE

By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal. Sept. T—A strapping young Frenchman and his bullet-fast racing plane were odds-on favorites against an American field today in the $20,000 Thompson - Trophy Race—climatic speed dash in the four-day national air races. Only engine trouble or a crash appeared capable of preventing Michel Detroyat from leading the probable field of eight in the world’s premier 150-mile speed classic. Detroyvat easily won the $10,000 Greve Trophy race yesterday. ;

and is no

| | ROBBED OF $22 | Police today sought two young {men who heldup and robbed Edward | Kemp, 23, of 1951 Cornell-av, of $22 { and a yellow gold cameo ring val- | men who held up and robbed Edward

{Seven columns of letters from readers, Pages 10 and 11,

‘End of An Air-Taxi Ride

and’

the Parent-|

SHE’S HAD ENOUGH

Mrs. Markham as she arrived in New York. By United Press | NEW YORK, Sept. T7—With only a headache to remind her that she was the first woman to fly the Atlantic from East to West Mrs. Beryl Markham, English society matron, set out today to have ‘“‘a thoroughly good time seeing New York.” In the silk shirt and informal slacks in which she left London, the blond flier was brought to

New York from Louisburg, N. S., near where her own plane cracked up. “Never again,” she said in response to a question on whether she planned another flight.

SPAIN'S REBELS

HURLED BACK

Forced to Give Ground Fierce Battle Near Madrid, Claim,

BY LEseR ZIFFREN. United Press” Staff Correspondent MADRID, Sept. 7—~Rebels striking at Madrid and Toledo from the southwest were driven back six kilometers in savage fighting at Talavera La Reina, 69 miles from the capital, the war office annouriced today.

The war ministry announced that.

loyalists ‘at Huesca continued to capture buildings in the town. On the southern front, the message said, the government forces at Almeria scored several victories, taking Tevelez, 25 miles southeast otf Granada and also the nearby villages of Tutellar and Alledejar. The announcement claimed that ‘peasants were rising against the rebels in Galicia. ‘The victory cheered the four-day-old government at the start of the eighth week of one of the worst fratricidal wars in histofy, although earlier reports that the battle had ~ (Burn to Page Two)

JUDGE WILSON TO DO DOUBLE BENCH DUTY

Until a successor to the late Judge William A. Pickens is named by Gov. McNutt, Judge Herbert E. Wilson of Superior Court, Room 5, also will occupy the bench in Superior Court, Room 3; it was learned today. When the fall court term opens tomorrow, Judge Wilson will preside in his own court in the mornings and spend the afternoons in Room 3.

LEE, LIGHT COMPANY OFFICIAL, IS INJURED

Wallace O. Lee, Las perenticl and

public relations director of the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. suffered a fracture of the left leg last night when he fell in the rock garden of his country home, .De-Long-rd. and Eagle Creek. He was taken to Methodist Hospital where his condition was described today as “good.” . _?

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UNITED STATES

HOLIDAY DEATH

TOLL TOPS 100

200 Others Are Are fo Meet Violent Ends, Says Safety Council.

EIGHT KILLED IN STATE

24 Crashes Reported to Police; Muncie Woman Hurt at Flackville.

By United Press L ! CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—The nationwide death . toll over Labor Day week-end passed the 100 mark today and more than 200 additional persons will meet violent deaths in auto accidents before the end of the three-day holiday, according to an estimate by the National Safety Council. Automobile accidents as usual led the list of ‘fatalities with a total of 105. In Michigan 20 persons were Killed in motor mishaps. Illinois was next with 11, six in Chicago. Other states reported casualties ranging from one to nine. New York had nine, Ohio eight, Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin seven each; California and ° Missouri, six, and New Jersey, five.

form of violent deaths. Pennsylvania's toll reached 17 as 10 airplane joyriders: lost their lives when a sightseeing, plane crashed and burned near Pittsburgh. A drink-crazed Negro in Danville, Va., drove his auto over a curb and on to 4 sidewalk killing two persons and seriously injuring ten others.

4 Drownings Recorded

Four drewnings were recorded, one each in New York, Washington State, Louisiana, and Missouri. In Hayward, Cal, a child smothered to death when buried in a sandbox while playing. Bullet wounds proved fatal to Police Sergt. James McEntee, 66, of San Francisco. ! Horace Adam, 39, Negro, died in a Chicago hospital of burns received when a friend dropped a lighted match into a bucket of gasoline which Adam was age to wash | grease yom his A 153 old. Denver high school Heit: , was -iilled - at- : Page Twa)

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Driving Hints

BY NAT'L SAFETY COUNCIL

DESERTED AREAS

NE of the’ greatest mistakes a driver can make is to get the idea that he can safely speed on city streets in the wee small

- hours when streets are apparently

deserted. The same principle holds true

during the day in sparsely traveled |

residential .districts. You approach an intersection and if you know there is little travel on the cross street you are tempted to go through without diminishing your speed. The fact that you ? can do _this repeatedly without mishap increases your confidence. But some day another car will be coming along that cross street and you will be unable to stop in time to avoid a smashup. When danger seems most remote—heware!

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Running preferential street .. Reckless driving Drunken driving Others except parking 5 TRAFFIC ACCENTS Accidents ..... er aes vsen 28 Injured MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

More than one- |’ third of the 48 states reported some

{of government spending and

LANDON HITS IN LABOR DAY ADDRE D.R. PLEADS FOR

President Allocates Sum of $2,500,000 to Aid Employment Unit.

REVIEWS DROUGHT TOUR

Warns Denial of Decent Livelihood Breeds Class Dissension.

BULLETIN By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. —President Roosevelt will leave Washington tomorrow night on a Southern tour to be climaxed by a major campaign address at Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, before a “Green Pastures” rally of Democrats.

(Editorial, Page 10.)

By Uniled Press WASHINGTON, Sept. T.— A nation celebrating labor's annual fete was confronted today by President Roosevelt’s blunt reminder that to refuse the worker a decent livelihood and security fosters class dissension “which in other countries has led to dictatorship.” : " In a fireside chat delivered 12 hours after his return to the White House from a 5000-mile drought inspection tour, the President proposed an alternative ‘economic demoocracy in which all . can profit.” . He said it was not labor but ‘those ° “short-sighted ones” who would refuse ‘workers their just dues at~+ who point this. nation toward a class-conscious Joe. te. lid He called again on prival usgrowth of & class-conscious society ployed and announced allocation of $2,500,000 to enable the FederalState Employment service to search more widely and thoroughly for

private industrial jobs in which unemployed persons may be placed.

Defends Collective Bargaining

The speech rang with a defense a pledge of adequate protection of agriculture, sufferers in the vast drought area and continuation of relief jobs were necessary. “The average man,” Mr. Roose-

velt said, “must have that two-fold

opportunity (protection and living wage), if we are to avoid the growth of a class conscious society in this country.” Then he added: “There are those who fail to read both the signs’ of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. “It is those short-sighted ones, not labor, who threaterr this country and with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and the establishment of fear and hatred as the dominant emotions of human life.”

Problem a Common One

Seated before a microphone in the lower oval room of the executive mansion the President delivered one of the longest addresses he has made in months as he summarized his findings in the drought regions. He declared that “the farmers of America want a sound national agricultural policy,” promised them continued Federal help in solving their problems and swung into a review

| of the labor picture from the na-

tional viewpoint. “All American workers,” he said, “brain workers and manual workers alike, and all the rest of us whose well-being depends on theirs, know (Turn to Page Two)

Trans-Atlantic Plane Cracks Up

| trations to say whether or not they

NATION, STATE AIDING LABOR, MNUTT SAYS

Help of Administration Is

Cause for Celebration, Governor Holds.

By United Press ELKHART, Ind, Sept. 7.—Improvements in working and living conditions effected during the present state and né#itional administrations offer workers a real cause for celebration, Gov. McNutt said today at an Elkhart Labor Day observance. He defied critics of the adminis-

oppose improvements which he claimed had been brought about during the last three and a half years. “We exponents of the program now being carried forward are not concerned with the platform of a desperate opposition which denounces the constructive steps which we have taken in behalf of the unemployed, the aged and the infirm,” Gov. McNutt said.

Holds State Debt Free Reviewing the state's financial condition, the Governor , said, “The state is completely free of debt and has no bonded indebtedness.” “The revival of business and industry,” he continued, ‘‘is reflected in reports of many state departments, such as heavy increases in the sale of auto license plates, in the gains in gas tax collections and gas consumption, in a spurt in the collection of gross income taxes and in many other fees and taxes.”

The Governor cited 20 bills passed by the 1933 state Legislature and 20 additional measures adopted by the 1935 General Assembly as legislation “designed to eliminate injustices and to protect workers.” . Cites State ‘Co-operation

Federal government in administering the national employment act; providing for a $2,000,000 appropriation from the general fund for poor relief; establishment of a workmen's compensating rating. bureau; and determination of a method of compensation for the injured or the killed relief worker. “It is the business of the government to make, these adjustments which _guaranfee every employable man or woman the right to earn an honest living,” "Gov. McNutt] said. “In working out the physical, mental and moral salvation of millions of people, the government has been discharging a sacred duty.”

REPORTS ARE ‘LIES, DECLARES COUGHLIN

Vatican Has Not ‘Cracked Down,” He Says.

By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Reports that the Vatican has “cracked down” on him for his political activity are a “pack of infernal lies,” the Rev, Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit Sunday told a crowd he estimated at 80,000. “Don't let them deceive you with false propaganda, originating ffom Rome or anywhere else,” the priest said. “If they had cracked down I wouldn't be here today. I know what my bishop tells me to do.” Coughlin, in clerical black with a microphone strapped to his chest, addressed the crowd from a brilliant white platform in Riverview Park. He attacked President Roose-

SWEATSHOPS

G. 0. P. Nominee Attacks War, Urges Legion to Fight Intolerance.

SPEAKS AT CONVENTION

Veterans of Three Wars Hear Speech Delivered in Wichita.

LANDON TEXT, PAGE 11

By United Press :

WICHITA, Kas., Sept. T.— Gov. Alfred M. Landon today called upon American veters ans of the World War to stand firm in the nation’s frontline trenches against the threat of intolerance, against sweatshop labor and against “the,

utter futility of war.”

“I believe we can do much by in= telligent legislation to lessen the danger of being drawn into a war with which he have no real concern,” the Republican presidential nominee declared in a speech to veterans of three conflicts and to a throng assembled for the eighteenth American Legion convention in Kansas. 4 “But after all the spirit of Amer= ica must be our main reliance in: staying out of war. We must have the strong will for: peace. We must be ready to sacrifice short-run profits. We must be prepared to stifle the natural affe¢tion that we have for the lands of our | cestors. We must keep our heads.”

Cites ‘Tradition ot Tolerance’

Coming at a time when attention of the nation centered on civil war in Spain and its peace of Europe; t

American Federation of Labor would be quickly healed so that organized workers might ‘continue their part in the struggle for higher living standards.” | “I emphasize our duty in preserv= ing peace,” Gov, Landon told his audience, which incjaded perhaps 10,000 visitors, many of whom participated in a huge Labor Day parade. : Appreciates War's ‘Futility’ ; “Those of us Who were in the service appreciate in a way others can not, the utter futility of war. I need not tell you of its waste, its meaningless cruelty. You know. - “The Legion has worked for years for legislation to take the profit out of war, and in the event of war to put everything the nation possesses in manpower, industry and Te= sources, on an equal: footing.” : The Republican nominee then referred, in general terms, to the need for “intelligent” anti-war legisla~ tion, but did not otherwise mention the measures which have been passed or the effort to enact laws that would prevent war profits or would nationalize various essential

stries in time of conflict. rrr REFUGEES TO SEE POPE By United Press

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Sept. ls It was announced today at the Pope's summer res that His Holiness will grant, audience wo Spanish refugees on . 14, He is expected then to portant

‘an im announcement aff bung the civip : war in Spain.

ESCAPE ARABS BULLETS By United Press X= JERUSALEM, . 7—An Arab attempted y today to assassinate Max Nurock, assistant to the chief secretary of the

velt and the Republican presidential nominee, Alf M. Landon,

Loyalist

tine government. Pive shots were fired at him near New Gate. 2

Greeting