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VOLUME 48—-NUMBER 158

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936

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" LAYFREON INDIANAPOLIS 70 SABOTAGE

Nails Found Driven in Cable Aboard Navy Cruiser, fficer Says.

U. S. WITHOUT CLEWS

Fires Aboard Other Vessels + Recalled: Thorough Probe Indicated. °

Birr sited Press NEW YORK, Sept. 11—Nails riven into an electric cable by saboteurs caused one fire on the U, 8. cruiser Indianapolis, Capt. Charles A Dunn of the Brooklyn Navy Yard said today, and other nails were discovered before further fires broke out on the warship while | it was being overhauled here, Capt. Dunn, industrial manager bf the Navy Yard, revealed the fire caused by sabotage broke out Aug. 25 in an auxiliary cable. The fire was confined to the cable and there Was no damage to the ship itself, he paid. An inspection ordered bv "the Navy Yard brought the discovery of Iwo more nails driven into the Same cable where if entered a boiler room. Another nail had been driven into an obsolete cable “that undsr ho conditions was to, be used.” : Navy Has No Clew

There are no clews identity of the person who attempted to disable the ship, capt. indicated that not suspected. “The job was com y workmen,” he told the United Press. “They were never taken off the work on the cruiser.” i The Indianapolis sailed Jrom the | avy vard this. moini run after its overhauling was com- | pleted. It had been in dry dock | since mid-June, Capt. Dunn said. | When the Indianapolis returns to- | night it will dock in Hudson River | instead of returning to the yard and i it has passed its test run satis- | factorily- it : will sail Tuesday for | Bervice on the West coast. | {

Thorough Probe Indica ted |

"The direct evidence of sabotage | being responsible for the electrical | fire aboard the cruiser Indianapolis!

as to the or persons or destroy Dunn said, but he! Navy workmen were |

pleted by Navy

Clews Fail in Hunt for Lost Infant

By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 11 —Franklv without clews, detectives turned wearily back into the vicinity of Clark Park and the baby’s home today in search for. 20-months-old Harry Browe., now missing for nearly six days. Hope that the child would be found alive was expressed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Browe, and Deputy Chief of Detectives William J. Collins, under whose supervision “\the search for the kidnaped baby has been conducted. The detectvie's optimism was based on the latest reports that two men had seen a stranger with the Browe baby as recently as last Wednesday, near the humble home of his parents. The men said they saw the child in the arms of a man, whom they described as about six feet tall, weighing = about 165 pounds and wearing dark clothes. Both were certain that it was the Browe baby and an immediate search for the stranger was ordered. - :

CITY FETED AS

Total Attendance Is 50,000 Greater Than in 1935; Finale Tonight.

With estimated

50,000 more paid admis-

attendance officials at

sions than in 1935—the former all- |

time record fair year—the Indiana

State Fair is to close its gates at 10 o'clock tonight on an exposition heralded as “Indiana’s greatest fair,” by Gov. McNutt as well as

ng on a test the hamburger barkers on the mid- | large welfare budget are probably

Before daybreak today exhibitors with blue ribbons broke their trailer camps and headed for. other fairs while judges this morning completed their decisions on . final awards in the Tamworth swine and Shorthorn milking cattle. The fair’s final morning was a busy one as champion horseshoe pitchers battled at 10 a. m. in front

of the grand stand for the Hodsier championship.

Leading contender for the peg-

may cause a more thorough invests | Fi0BiNg crown was Alton Wood of

gation of similar fires aboard other | American warships, it was indi- | cated at the Navy Department in! Washington, i Navy officials had in mind partic- | ularly the repeated fires aboard the! heavy cruiser Quincy during her construction at the Fore River ship | yard in Massachusetts and the partial disabling of the vessel's pro- | pelling gear during her trial runs before acceptance by the Navy Department. It was “recalled that the fires .Bboard the Quincy were in each | rase caused by electrical short cir-| cuits. Only a few days ago an electrical fire, resulting from a short circut., damaged the cruiser Vin-| cennes, sister ship: of the Quincy. alsc under construction at the Fore | River yard.

IT'LL BE HOT TODAY. BUREAU FORECASTS

HOURLY TEMPERATURES TIER a.m. ... 84 «M.... 13 Ham... 35 cM... 1 12 noon ... 88 Bs ... 81 p.m. ... 89

The weather today i= to be as hot BS yesterday, the Weather Bureau gaid, but it is to get cooler tomorrow. There may be showers tomorrow morning, with the elements unsettled tonight.

* HEAR BLACK LEGION PERJURY COUNTS

By United Presa FLINT, Mich., Sept. 11.—Hearing | Of perjury charges against six men fwho testified before the grand Jury | investigation Black Legion activi- | ties in Genessee County Was | scheduled today before Circuit | Judge Paul V. Gadola. Those who are to face the court today are City Commissioner Walter Bair, former Alderman and! Supervisor Earl Ss. John, Walter Allen, James Brannon. Don and Edgar Cox. :

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ary, winner of the Midwest horseshoe championship in 1934. Thirt{two regional victors participated in the horseshoe contest. Jim and Queen. T-year-old Perch-

| erons, owned by John. Day, Spring- |

port, Ind, won the horse team pulling cont a& new state record.

lightweight

They pulled 3050 pounds of dead |

weight for 27 and one-half feet. (Turn to Page Three) ° rg

U.S. JUDGE UPHOLDS COMMODITIES ACT

By United Press : KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sept. 11.— The Commodities Exchange Act was held constitutional today by Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves in refusing

| a temporary injunction to prohibit its enforcement.

The Kansas City Board of Trade had requested the injunction. Judge Reeves ruled in effect that it was too early to challenge the act It does not go into

constant danger of prosecution for inadvertant violations.

HUDSON APPOINTED

TIPPECANOE JUDGE |

Gov. McNutt today appointed John B. Hudson as judge of Tippicanoe County Circuit Court to fll

| the unexpired term of the late Ar-

thur D. Cunningham. Judge Hudson's term is to end jan. 1. He is the Democratic can-

didate for the office in the Novem- |

ber election.

RICHMAN RE

By United Press

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 11.—Richard | Merrill and Harry Richman, trans- |

today | New |

Atlantic fliers, announced that they would take off for

Swindle | York at dawn tomorrow if weather | cent higher, :

reports continue favorable.

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. SABOTAGE ABOARD THE INDIANAPOLIS

est and set |

TURN SET

{ tive trading.

PREDICTS TAX LEVIES IN 37 WILL DECLINE

Commission Expects Dip in | Assessments for State, Local Incomes.

| OUTLINES FIVE REASONS

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‘Election Costs “Included in 1936 Rates; Valuation Increase Seen.

i - | school and road bonds. “] 5. Collection of delinquent taxes | { which are added to local cash bal- |

| ations. Local budgets are being

Another appeal to the com-

Highest proposed tax rate inerease | reported to the commission thus {far is the Spencer County general | fund, which has been raised from 86 | cents to $2.42, according to requests | submitted to the county auditor. | Low property valuations and a | responsible for the proposed increases, the commission said. The commission predicted that | 1940 will probably be a high tax | year, because of the large amount | of bonded indebtedness assumed by | governmental units when the $1.50 tax law of 1919 was repealed by the | speeic) session of the General Assembly in July, 1920. Bonds amounting to $101,037.745 were ‘approved by the commission from March 1, 1919, to Oct. 1, 1931, This" does not include all other (Turn to Page Three)

RAIL CRASH KILLS 3 HOOSIER YOUTHS

By Uniled Press ; | CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Three Fort | Wayne (Ind) youths were killed | early today when the railroad ca- | bobse on which they were riding | was pushed into a string .of coal | cars. , { They were: W. A. Arney, Oliver J. | Greenfelder and C. B. Benton. The engineer said he believed the

{ three were riding on the front plat- | form of a caboose which’ he was | pushing through the yards of the | Nickel Plate road. Investigators | { said they believed the engineer was { blinded by yard lights and did not | | see the coal cars.

| ——— p—————— | | '2 MORE NAMED FOR | GRAND JURY SERVICE | SNE | Two more members of the Marion | County Grand Jury were selected | today by Criminal Court Judge | { Frank P. Baker out of a special | | venire of 25 persons. Another ve- | [nire of 10 was ordered drawn, from | { which the remaining two are to be | selected. | Members selected today ‘are Mrs. {| Myrtle Irby, 29-Ridgeview-dr.' and | Jodiah W. Hussey, 5210 Central-av. | Previously selected were J. B. Malcom, 724 N. Graham-st, and Mrs. {Ruth A. Hall, 2832 Graceland-av.

MARKETS AT A GLANCE

By United Press

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| trading quiet. Bonds irregular in active trading. Curb stocks irregular in fairly acChicago stocks irregular. Foreign exchange irregular; French franc at gold point. Cotton up 50 cents a bale. Grains firm with wheat almost a

Winnipeg wheat 213 cents higher.

Stocks irregular in narrow range; |

Hail Columbo! Domaneco Will Despite

His Troubles, ‘Law’ to Help Him.

| OMANECO PALAMARA, 50-

year-old fruit stand proprietor, may get a little flighty about the sales, but he's going to have a meeting Oct. 12 in honor of Christopher Columbus. You can put that down in the little red book.

Today he was in Municipal ¢ Court on charges of having gone to great lengths yesterday to induce Harry Olsen, a Dane, to buy a ticket. The sales “interview” ended with Domaneco in jail charged with assault and battery, and Mr. Olsen in a haberdashery replacing a shirt allegedly torn when salesmanship met sales resistance.

Mr. Olsen had told Domaneco he did not want a ticket and Domaneco, perhaps a little ostentatiously, his attorney said, took steps—all in Mr. Olsen’s direction —to change the Olsen mind. Mr. Olsen explained all that to Judge Dewey Meyers, and mentioned also that Domaneco had promised to be there personally and speak. Shin “Don’t you like Christopher?” he said Dom@aneco asked him. “Sure,” he said he replied. “Fine felow. But I don't want to buy a ticket for the meeting.”

» zn » OMANECO was called = by his attorney, and Domaneco stood before the bar, waving his hands. Before he had uttered a word, Attorney Shaw interposed. “No speeches now. Just tell the judge your name.” Domaneco did. Then the judge asked what had happened. Domaneco straight-armed Attorney Shaw out of the way, took the stage, and began a torrential oration that no one could understand due to its being in both English and Italian. : He was saying that Mr. Olsen was ‘no good man. He don’t know Columbo.” The judge stopped him, asked for “bare, almost gaunt, detals, nothing more. Domaneco produced a ticket and laid it before the judge. Then Attorney Shaw explained the situation. The court took the case under advisement.

” E-4 ” PoaNeco left, but half way down the hall turned and darted back into the courtroom. "The ticket,” he said, waving the hands. “Where's the ticket?” Some one handed it to him. He smiled broadly and walked up to Prosecutor Lewis XK. Murchie and said: “You're a fine man. You like Columbo. Take this ticket and come fo the meeting.” That's all there is to it except that after Domaneco left, his Attorney Shaw let it slip that Domaneco had made his promise to be chairman of the meeting. “And I'll be there, too,” Attorney Shaw. said.

‘CURFEW GIRL’ GETS . NEW MURDER TRIAL

(Photo, Page Three) By United Press . STAUNTON, Va., Sept. 11.—Edith Maxwell, 22-year-old Wise County school teather convicted last year of slaying her father with a shoe during a family quarrel, today was granted a new trial by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. Miss Maxwell appealed her sentence of 25 years imprisonment. At | her trial Miss Maxwell testified in her own defense that struck her father, Trigg Maxwell, in self-defense when he seized her and threatened to whip her for staying out late at night. Several hours later Maxwell collapsed and died at the family home in Pound, Va. —

SENTENCE CRICKMORE

| Victor Crickmore today was sen- | tenced to serve two to 21 years in | the Indiana State Prison for volun- | tary’ manslaughter in connection with the death of John Penny, truck driver. ~ E. E. McFerren, special { Criminal Court judge, imposed sen- | tence. Crickmore was found guilty by a jury last Saturday. ;

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F.D.R.T0 OPEN BOULDER DAM FLOOD GATES

President to Press Button in Capital That Starts Mighty Waterfall.

| TALKS AT CONFERENCE

Cites Better Conditions as Result of New Deal at Democratic Rally.

TEXT, PAGE 154

® By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 —President Roosevelt, returning from a Southern “Green Pastures” rally, quickly completed what he de- | scribed as a “very technical” ad~ dress which he will deliver before | che third World Power Conference {late today.

Mr. Roosevelt's address will bring

| the conclave of power experts to a climax. At the same time he will press a gold key which will start

the flow of ‘the mightiest waterfall ever harnessed by man—the tremendous © Boulder Dam power stream, Thousands of persons were assembled about \the massive engineering monument to await the moment when the tiny electric spark will flash from the capital across mountain and plain to put the great power undertaking to work. - At a five-minute press conference, interpersed in a day filled with appointments and the clearing away of routine - business, Mr. Roosevelt declared he had given to thought as yet to the filling of a long list of important govenment posts which have become vacant. President Roosevelt at Charlotte, N. C., yesterday laid before the na-tion-a declaration that “better conditions”. exist on farms, in factories and homes as result of his Administration’s activities. He asserted that “these successful ends” had been acconfplished without invasion of individual liberties and states’ rights. Aipia : “Sees Better Conditions Taking the “Green Pastures” and

“You will agree that from the material aspect, this nation’s consuming power has been rapidly restored. : “I trust that you will likewise agree that better conditions on the farms, in the factories and in the homes of America are leading us to the spiritual figure of the psalm-

ist—green pastures and still waters.”

UTILITY CONTRACT EXTENDED FOR YEAR

The Works Board today signed a contract with the Indianapolis | Power and Light Co. to extend. the | present lighting agreement for one year, beginning Sept. 1. i The contract, brought to the | board by Emmet G. Ralston, vice | president’ and genera: manager of the company, and P. K. Ross, company lighting engineer, provides for same service, rates and charges now in effect, : It further provides that a maximum of 50 new standards be installed by the company and to be paid for by the city in 10 yearly installments, witht interest at 6 per cent. It provides for new standards on West-st between Indiana-av and 16th-st; installation of 100 additional overhead lights, tq be maintained by the light company for one year. | The city has permission to add street signs,

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Geo. Norris Accepts Call to Run Again

By United Press LINCOLN, Neb. Sept. 11.— Senator George W. Norris, in a message from his summer home in Wisconsin, today announced that he will accept nomination by petition for re-election.

(Copyright, 1938, by United Press) By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Crying “the conservatives are united against us,” Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York swung the conference of progressive (Turn to Page Three)

NEW DEAL GIFTS TOP $1,000,000

| By United Press

‘tional Committee's year book which

“still waters” of the Tw iby-third Psalm as his text, ne doaren

j to raise $1500 demanded of her.

G. 0. P. Given $2,050,654,

Spent $1,787,811, Report to House Shows.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The Democratic National Committee today reported campaign receipts of $1,081,768.27 in the three months ending Aug. 31 and disbursements of $1,008,840.65. Compared with this the Repub-~ lican National Committee reported yesterday that it spent Fastin and received $2,050,654. The reports | were filed with the clerk of the House. of Representatives. The Democratic cash balance for the period was $72,927.62. Its report showed. The committee started the quarter with a balance of $299,074.49, Ameircan Liberty League receipts for the three months were $167, 138.50 and expenditures for the same period, $138,929.44, Starting Jan. 1 with a cash balance of $93,198.35 the League still had a balance on Aug. 31 of $73 - 748.32. Of the Democratic receipts. $175,096 came from individual and comsmittee contributions. Of this $154 - 325 was in contributions of $100 or more, Other receipts were from sale of advertising in the Democratic Na-

amounted to $54,925, from the sale of the yearbook itself, $132,788 and miscellaneous’ sources. Largest individual contributor to the Democratic campaign was J, M. Patterson, New York, who gave hin " W. 'Bingham of Louisville, Ky., Ambassador to Great Britain, $10,000, and $5000 each contributed by James D. Mooney, New York; Frank J. Wright, Memphis: Joseph M. Scheneck, New York: F. J. Lewis, ‘Chicago; Walter J. Cummings, Chicago; William J. Froelich, Chicago. Meredith Nicholson, minister to Venezuela, gave $250. —— oa

RULES EXTRA PAY FOR DEPUTY ILLEGAL

. Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr, in an opinion to William P. Cosgrove, State Board of Accounts examiner, ruled today that a deputy county clerk is not entitlted to extra com-

pensation for service he performs for the Board of Election Commissioners. . : Mr. Lutz said the commissioners: have no authority to employ clerks or assistants. ; * He ruled, however, that since the | board constitutes a county board: of election canvassers, a deputy clerk would be entitled to compensation if he performed canvassing duties. ——— PRR

FARMER SAYS HE’S "HELD FOR RANSOM

By United Press LUFKIN, Tex, Sept. 11—A ransom note in the handwriting of WwW. 8S. Funderburk, 53, a farmer missing since Labor Day, today had prostrated his wife, who was unable

Ranger Capt. Hardy Purvis awaited an expected second message giving directions for paying the money before summoning Federal investigators into the case. : Funderburk, in the note, told of being “knocked in the head” by two kidnapers and said he was “nearly dead.” ’ The note, postmarked at Shreveport, La., was written in pencil. Purvis compared the handwriting with other samples of Punderburk's writing and said Punderburk undoubtedly wrote the note.

300,000 CUBIC FEE® A-MINUTE!

Meigs, ‘publisher of

STATE REPUBLICAN EDITORS T0 GREET LANDON ON SWING

Governor on Way: to Maine to Make Four Stops in Indiana.

LUNCHES IN CHICAGO

Confers. With Publishers at Home of Illinois G. 0. P. Committeeman.

By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Gov. Alfred M. Landon interrupted his campaign swing toward Maine today to confer with Republican strategists before making a series of back-plai-form talks in four Indiana cities.

Heading for Portland to wind up |

Maine's state campaign with an address on. government. relations with business, the Republican presidential nominee left his special train at an outlying station and was driven to the estate of Illinois National Committeeman George Harding for luncheon. Mr. Landon was surrounded by enthusiastic supporters from the moment of arrival and once his automobile was halted by persons anxious to shake his hand. At the station a woman pressed sunflowers, picked along the railroad tracks, into his hands. Grasps Many Hands Gov. Landon’s car was driven to Mr, Harding's doorstep and the high iron gates clanged shut behind. The candidate alighted and walked down to the fence, grasping scores of hans thrust through the grillwork. He allowed his fingers to be held by a couple of chubby babies and. started to shake hands with a dog which was pushed up to the gate by ‘a small boy. But he thought better of it and passed on. The press was not admitted to the Harding mansion, where Gov. Landon sat down with political leaders and Chicago publishers after meeting some 50 ward committeemen and 30 township leads Lunching with Gov. on were Harrison E. Spangler, executive vice chairman of the national commit. tee; Lacy Haynes, Kansas, of the Governor's advisory staff: Sterling Morton, chairman of the committee’s industrial division; Ray Benjamin and. A. A. Ballantine, special Assistants to Chairman John Hamilon,

Col. Robert. R, McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune: Paul Mbowrer, ; editor of the . Daily ‘News: Emanuel Levy, publisher of the Herald-Examiner: and Merril C. the American. Republican’ National -Headquarters announced that former Gov. Frank O. Lowden, ‘whose advice on agricultural matters often is sought also was attending the luncheon,

U.S. SHIP BOMBING PROTEST KEPT OPEN

By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. —Secretary of State Cordell Hull has in/ structed the American Embassy in Madrid an dthe consulate at Seville to keep the American protests over the bombing of the U. 8. destroyer Kane an “open matter,” it was reyealed at the State Department toay. : Consul Charles A. Bay has been instructed to inform Gen. Queipo De Llano, lieutenant of rebel Gen. Franco, that the United States is still desirous of learning definitely the identity of the airplane which attacked the destroyer Kane off the coast of Spain on Aug. 30.

Rebels Open Fierce San Sebastian Attack

By United Press ST. JEAN DE LUZ, Sept. 11. — Bombs and artillery shells rained on San Sebastian and Santander late today as the rebels opened fire from air, land and sea on the ap-

- parently doomed cities.

The heavy -bombardment of the government-held cities followed a day-long calm. It was the rebel anSwer to the refusal of the Loyalist

forces in the towns to surrender them. :

Train at Warsaw. BRIEF STOP OUTLINED

Several State Leaders Go to Chicago to Board Special Train.

BY JOHN L. CUTTER

United : Press Staff Correspondent : LAKE WAWASEE, Ind., Sept. 11.—Indiana Republicans gathered at this northern Indiana lake resort today to cheer their presidential candi= date and convert the Indiana

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a two-day campaign rally. The special train Alfred M. Landon to Maine for a campaign speech, will make a brief stop at Warsaw, 15 miles southwest of here, late this afternoon. ® Activities at the Lakeside Hotel are to be recessed while editors and party leaders drive to the station to cheer their presidential candi date in a platform appearance.

Met at Chicago

Several state G. O. p. leaders went to Chicago to board the train and accompany Landon state. B. Kyle, Gary, nominee for Lieu= tenant Governor; Lisle Wallace, Sheridan, Indiana pre-convention manager for Landon; Charles A, Halleck, Rensselaer, Second District Representative in Hogg, Fort Wayne, Fourth Distriet congressional nominee, and: Fred FP, Schutz, Gary, First Disrict nominee, Ivan C, Morgan, chairman, planned to board the train at Gary and others were

scheduled to join the party at Vale G. 0. P,

paraiso, i Raymond 8S. Springer, nominee for Governor, was te speak at Goshén at noon and then motor to

FLYING BOAT SPANS: OCEAN

party.

continue on the Wayne, last stop then motor back for resumption of the outing de (Turn to Page Three) rr —————————

train to Por in Indiana, an

|G. 0. P.’S CAMPAIGN

TRUCK STOPS HERE

The first of a fleet of sound equipped “Landon-Knox” campaign

Republican Editorial Associa« tion’s annual fall outing into

carrying Gov,

2Cross’ The group included Joseph

state party

Plymouth to join. the, :

Most of the Hoosiers planned t :

to Lake Wawases!

Hoosiers Recess Convention. = for Trip to Nominee’s =

Congress; David

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trucks greeted Indianapolis today.

on its first leg of a tour through Midwestern states.

Francis W. Bodwell, Chicago, wha

drove the truck here from Repub-

lican national headquarters® in Chi-

cago, said that Indianapolis was chosen: as the first stop the State Fair. He is to day for Lake Wawasee.

because of leave Suns

The truck is equipped with a loud speaking system, victrola and a mo-

ion picture projector. The phrase, “Foreign Foods Flood American Markets, is inscribed above display window of food on the side of the truck. .

DICK POWELL TO WED JOAN BLONDELL SOON

By United Press : HOLLYWOOD, Sept.

11—The

romance between Dick Powell and

Joan Blondell was nearing its ane

ticipated climax today as the film

couple prepared to go to the county

license bureau and file notice of ine tention to wed. : : Powell, blushing like a country bridegroom, disclosed that the marriage would take place within a week and they would sail for New York on a honeymoon. x

Mayor Kern today recommended appointment of James P. Hand as

NAMED FOR CITY JOB

lives at 3930 ‘Rookwood pointment is to be Safety Board. :