Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1936 — Page 1
ik
| |
| |
|
Wa
VOLUME 48—NUMBER 187
SCOFF AT HINT MRS. SIMPSON MAY WED KING
‘Ridiculous,’ Say ‘Friends as London Gossips About Divorce Suit.
MOVES HER APARTMENT
Action to Be Uncontested, Is Belief} Little Published in British Press.
~
Other Stories, Pages 3, 17; Photo, Boitom of Page.
(Copyright. 1936, by United Press)
LONDON, Oct. 15—Mrs. Ernest Simpson, friend of King Edward VIII, has filed suit for divorce but not, her friends insisted emphatically today, with any idea that she might some day marry the King. Papers in the suit of .“W. Simp-< son” against “E. Simpson” were being prepared today in the Assize Court, at Ipswich, and in about two weeks the court probably will dissolve the marriage of Ernest Simpson, Harvard graduate, and the | former Miss Wallis Warfield of Baltimore. British newspapers ignored the news of the suit out of deference to the King and in compliance with the law against printing details of divorce cases. But in fashionable Mayfair, and as the news circulated down through servants to tradesmen -and the public, the question was asked at once: What change will the divorce bring in the companionship of the King and the vivacious. Mrs. Simpson, already once divorced?
Royal Marriage Out of Question
The answer came from sources close to Mrs. Simpson: None. It was declared that any suggestion the King might marry Mrs. Simpson is ridiculous and it was emphasized that a marriage is absolutely out of the question. Both Mr. Simpson and his wife were in London today, Mrs. Simpson having taken up separate residence in Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, and her husband at the Guard's Club, If was understood they spent the day with respective friends. The Ring * was at Btickinghsm’ Palace. Shortly he will go to he royal nat ndringham to tertain .close friends; inclu ing probably Mrs. Simpson. Because Mr. Simpson is not defending the suit, it was possible to" transfer it from London, where the papers would have been under the eyes of alert court reporters, to quiet little Ipswich. There at the assizes which began late this month, Mr. Justice Hawke, formerly attorney general to the then Prince of Wales, will hear it. It was expected that Mrs. Simpson would testify briefly and then that probably two witnesses could be called to testify that Mr. Simpson misconducted himself with the corespondent cited in the suit. There is only one ground for divorce in England. A very brief summing up would follow and then the divorce. Mrs. Simpson, as the plaintiff, may move at the end of six months for a decree absolute., That granted, she would be free to marry, as would Mr. Simpson. °*
Husband : Scarcely Mentioned
Mr. Simpson, husband of the King's. companoin, scarcely figured in the gossip today aside from interest in the undisclosed name of the woman Mrs. Simpson named as co-respondent. He did not appear at his office yesterday, the day the suit was filed in Ipswich, or today. He is living alone. at the Guards Club in Brooks-st, while his es_tranged wife occupies her new appartment in Cumberland Terrace. Close friends volunteered that the - divorce was intended to be amicable and that Mr. Simpson would enter no defense, Infidelity is the only ground on which a divorce could be granted under British law. Apparently Mrs. Simpson hoped to keep the action secret by entering it in the Ipswich assizes with no further identification than the initials of the litigants. Ipswich is approximately 70 miles northeast of London in Suffolk. It was possible for Mrs. Simpson. a resident of London, to file the suit for hearing at quiet little Ipswich, because her suave husband, manager of the shipping house of Simpson,
(Turn to Page Three)
Bitter Accusations Hurled by
FORECAST: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow ; moderate temperatures.
Parties as [Landon and F.D. R. Battle for Pivotal Midwest
FHA Put Half Billion Into New Buildings, President Says at Grand Rapids; Chicago Speech Proves Him
‘Kerensky,” G. 0. P. Charges.
By United Press
The political front:
With only 18 more days before election the political campaign reached
new heights today.
President Roosevelt and Gov. Landon both were
“stumping” in the doubtful Midwest as their respective parties issucd bitter charges and counter-charges. The President, on the home-stretch of his wide ¢ampaign trip that took him as far West as Cheyenne, Wyo., concentrated on Michigan today. At Grand Rapids he chose the Federal Housing Adminisiration as the subject for an address to a crowd estimated at 200,000. The FHA has drawn $500,000,000 in private capital into construction
work, he said.
Gov. Landon left Grand Rapids just before the President arrived, also homeward bound, after voicing a warning that unless the New Deal
is driven out “the farmers and
workers eventually will play Santa
Claus in the present Administration's program.”
In New York Senator Joseph F. Guffey
(D., Pa.) charged that the
~ du Pont family and associates had contributed $383,000 to the Re-
publican campaign up to Sept.
30. He predicted expenditures by
the same interests in behalf of the Republican cause will total three-quarters of a million dollars by election day. The Republican National Committee in Chicago, meanwhile, charged that the President's speech there last night “proved that he is the
Kerensky of the American revolutionary movement.”
“It seems
a pity,” the committee said, “with such a beautiful voice, such convincing manners, and so pleasant a personality, Mr. Roosevelt can not see that he is just a babe in the woods for radicals who know
precisely what they want.”
Text Chicago Speech, Pages 10 and 11.
Grand Rapids Speech, Page 15; Editorial, Page 18.°
By United Press DETROIT, Oct. 15.—Bishop Michael Gallagher of Detroit will board President Rocsevelt’s train when it arrives at suburban Highland Park at 5:40 p. m. today.
By United Press
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 15.
—President Roosevelt, beginning a one-day whirlwind tour of pivotal Michigan here today, told thousands who jammed Grand Rapids streets to welcome him that $500,000,000 in private capital has been drawn into construction work as a result of Federal Housing Administration activities. Elated over the tumultuous reception given him at Chicago last night, Mr. Roosevelt entered Michigan this morning. His barnstorming tour of the state followed ¢losely the two-day campaign of his Re lican opponent, Gov. Alfred. M, Landon} whose special train left Grand, Rapids 25 minutes before the arrival of the presidential. train.
Mr. Roosevelt will proceed to the |
-state Capitol : (Turn to
U. S, THREATENED
By United Press 3 WASHINGTON, = Oct. 15.—The Workers’ Alliance, a depression-born union of work-relief needy, may stage a nation-wide strike. on Federal employment projects if protest demonstrattions in J500 cities and towns next week fail to bring “a 20 per cent increase in the government’s starvation pay scale,” President David Lasser said today. Starting next Monday, Lasser will ask local organization chapters, to hold mass parades, meetings and folded-arm protests to emphasize the organization's demands. The demonstrations are to be climaxed here-a week from Saturday
when Lasser.and a union comniittee |. call on President Roosevelt at the |
White House to present demands that its 800,000 workers be given “our social and economic rights” by the Works Progress Administration.
Workers Alliance Plans Protests
Merrill Jackson, Indiana secretary of the Workers Alliance, said here today that protests were planned at South Bend, Clinton, Terre Haute and Brazil. He said a delegation representing trade unions, the Farmer-Labor part and the Alliance planned to place a protest before Gov. McNutt and Wayne Coy, Indiana WPA director, Oct. 24.
ROOSEVELT WINS IN POLL OF MARYLAND
By United Press BALTIMORE, Md. Oct. 18. Final results tabulated by the Baltimore Sun and associated papers in a straw vote of the state of Maryland gave: For Landon, 97,873; for Roosevelt, 176,937; for Lemke, 2692. Ballots were mailed to all voters registered in the 1932 election.
Ly United Press ABOARD LANDON CAMPAIGN TRAIN, Oct. 15—Gov. Alfred M. Landon campaigned homeward through Michigan, Indiana and Illinois today with a warning that unless the New Deal is driven out of power “the farmers and workers eventually will play Santa Claus in the present Administration’s program.” Leaving Grand Rapids, Mich., the Republican presidential nominee headed into Indiana for the first time. Gov. Landon’s speech, delivered at Kendallville, was as follows: “Education enters into the solution of the problems that still confront the farmers of Indiana and every other state. Agricultural colleges and extension services through the years have done a great service, much remains to. be done. particular need is the develLand popularization of new the enlargement of the old staple crops. In this ¥ government can do.a
in co-gpera-
” ma ta Fe ‘emphasized.
day: this" fact" must
politics have no part in those a cies which directly touch the, of all rural people. *
Education must be free. agg | on
“The Ney Deal program of reck--
less extravagance has hurt the farmer more than any one else. Its wasteful practices are in direct con trast with the good farm methods of Indiana agriculture,
“They can not pass their taxes on to some one else as the other:
income producing groups can. “I am opposed to waste, extrava(Turn to Page Three)
FATHER COUGHLIN CALLED COMMUNIST
‘By United Press BOSTON, Oct. 15.—President John F. Gatelee of the Massachusetts branch: of the American Federation of Labor today called upon the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin to remove his priestly robes “if you continue to be a true representative of Joe Stalin of Russia.” In a 600-word open letter to the Detroit ‘priest, who left here late Tuesday, Gatelee said that Coughlin, through recent utterapces, had “proven quite conclusively that you
are a more fervent Communist than
even Earl Browder himself.” “Might I suggest that in view of
the fact that you wear the vestiment
of a highly respected church which is loved by millions of wage earners in’ America, ‘that if you continue to be a true representative of Joe Stalin of Russia you ought at least remove from your person’ the insignia of that great church.”
JACK PERKINS FREED By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 35Jack Perkins, former Chicago bookie clerk, was free today from murder charges made in connection with the fatal shooting of Patrolman
“| Howard Wagner during the $29,000
holdup of Merchants National Bank in 1934.
i
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936
IEKINS TO JUMP
FROM FRIDAY INTO THURSDAY
| World Girdler Is fo Cross
International Dateline, on Next Hop.
NOW AT WAKE ISLAND
Flying Reporter Ready for Dash to Midway, Then Honolulu.
BY H. R. EKINS Times Around-the-World Reporter WAKE ISLAND, Oct. 15.—I'm going to turn in pronto and get a few hours’ sleep again our - start at dawn tomorrow ior Midway Island, the final way stop before we reach Honolulu. Tomorrow’s hop will be somewhat smaller than the giant trans-Pacific strides we already have taken—a mere matter of 1182 miles—but it will be a long one for all .that because we will cross the international dateline. I've been trying to get straight on my arithmeti¢ ever since leaving New York. "For 15 days I have been tossing hours away like a wastrel, and it seems that I will get them back when we roar.across that imaginary line which zigzags along between Wake and Midway Islands. It took Pan-American Airways airport manager Stewart Saunders and Capt. E. A. La Porte of the Hawaii Clipper to get me straightened qQut as we sat, about after finishing a grand dinner, the piece de resistance of which was fish caught by the ‘junketeering newspaper men who passed the other day in the China Clipper.
Leave Friday, Land Thursday
Capt. La Porte, by the way, is a Hoosier. He's from Evansville. He says his folks live out on Fletcherav in Indianapolis. I now understand that when. we leave Wake Island at dawn Friday and fly nearly 1200 miles we will come down at Midway Island into Thursday evening. That's ‘the way it is, and don’t blame me. - We arrived at Wake at 7:28 p. m., Wake Island time, after a. flight of 12 hours - and 17 minutes from Guam. The last : wg | hours of our flight wake in darkne 1 ‘@lipper's crew
1 <i 60 miles away. “The fact that we arrived after dark prevented me from seeing Wake Island from the air, but. on the ground, I found it actually luxurious, a monumental tribute to the efficiency of Pan-American’s -skyway pioneering. I'am sure that the line’s president, Juan Trippe, will be intensely :proud when he sees it. Mr. Trippe, with my editor, Roy. W. Howard, and a group of aviation .officials and publishers is now on his way to Honolulu in the Philippine Clippel and will continue through to Manila on a tour of the route,
TWO ARE. SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER
Two Negroes today received 2 to 21-year terms in the State Rea formatory fer manslaughter. Fred Douglas, 25, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a Criminal Court jury in the fatal shooting of Nathanial Dunbar. last May 2. Henry Middleton, 19, charged with the murder of Leon Martin last June 24, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Both had’ been indicted for first degree murder. CRASH KILLS DRIVER By United Press = PORTLAND, . Ind. Oct. 1s... Emanuel Pratt, 22, Muncie, was killed instantly last night at an intersection near Redkey when his automobile collided with a car driven by George Pyle, -Redkey, who
hOVS his ‘we had flown | day we Re Wake Island bea-
was ‘uninjured.
Bottled Up.
Three Hoosier Daitymer on Vacation Mistaken for Brady Trio.
UT near Linden, N. J, a man. took his mind off his personal worries and the coming election long ‘enough today to notice: a car containing Alfred Brady, ‘Clarence Lee “Schaffer: Jr. -and James Dolhdver. * * That's what. he told police, and: he said that also the very. car they were in looked suspicious because it. had three empty milk bottles showing through the rear Window and what would they be or? “Obviously,” this man told the policeman, “thé men have been carrying ‘their lunch and drinking milk, see?” The policeman reported to his superiors. Teletype messages went. over the wire to watch for the car, and tae last three numbers. of. its Indiana. license were appended to the message. »
HE car” the message said, “is headed toward Newark and is believed to contain the escaped Indiana bad men, accused. of: slaying, a policeman. Police at Newark, Elizabeth, Harrison, Kearny and Jersey City are asked to keep a close watch. The men are dangerous.” Jersey justice is swift and Sure: While Champaign (Ill) police were searchin for a car contain-" ing Brady, Schaffer and Dolhover, and whilé Clermont (Ind.) police were seeking for a car containing Brady, Schaffer and Dolhover, Jersey police found it. The milk bottles? Telltale they. were, just as tne guy who first saw them reported. The car contained three Indiana dairymen who were on their way to attend a dairy convention in the .East. That's the latest authentic 1 news of the escaped Indiana gunmen. A new game is about to start.
FUGITIVE HUNTED BY 40 POLIGE OFFICERS
Phot, Bottom of Page)
More ‘than. 40. stat state, Indianapolis and Marion County police officers, today combed 35 acres of corn field
speedy vehicles and toe much bank
| hazard to traffic safety.
and meadow one-half mile west. of Mooresville hunting Guy - Shai 17-year-old Negro en pa pens
© After the Shooting peice said Sharber boarded a bus dt the Traction Terminal. .William Covington, 804 W. 10th-st, alleged companion of the fugitive, was, arrested. Early this morning, Morgan County Sheriff Homer St. John said he was told the fugitive was near Mooresville and upon arriving there was told by a farmer that.a man resembling Sharber had Qisappeared into a corn field. Sheriff St. John summoned help and a systematic search of the fieid was started. It was fruitless. Meanwhile, State Policeman Harry McMillan and a neighboring farmer said they saw a man resembling Sharber in a raince dive into another and larger, corn field nearby. The search was directed ' th and at a field immediately across the Greencastle road. The wounded Mr. Walker said he. recognized Sharher” as a fugitive, | and. when he, approached, Sharber shot him.
TYPHOON DEATH TOLL IS PUT AT.400 TO 600
By United Press
MANILA, Oct. 15.—Deaths. from |
thé recent typhoon which swept through the Philippine Islands were conservatively estimated ~ today. at between 400 and 600. The exact number: killed probably will. never be’ known as many * bodies were washed away in raging rivers. :
TIMES FEATURES
ON INSIDE PAGES
Books nsnnnains TT Bridge ........22 Broun ........18 Clapper ......17 Comics .......28 Crossword ....28 Curious World 29 Editorials .....18
Financial .....24 Fishbein ......17 Flynn . serere. 24 Forum ...... ..18 Grin, Bear It. .28 Ind. History ..17 In Indpls ..... - Jane Jordan .
Fashions cee 2
Radio .........29 Scherrer ......17 Science ..
Merry-Go-Rid 2 Movies Mrs, Ferguson 3 Mrs. Roosevelt. 17 Music .........29 Obituaries .... 8 Pegler ........18 2 :Pyle....... MT
dine’ it was ‘pointed: out, ‘except rouge t
: ing the Federation as a result of its
{BIG TIN PLATE MILL
+ plans for the erection of a giant tin
. | pany.
By United Press
Johnson ..... 18 Questions
y <
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
IROAD DESIGN BIG FACTOR IN
‘Speed, Expert Says. CITY TRAFFIC ‘STUDIED
Pedestrians Major Source of Congestion, Report to Engineers Reveals.
rn
By Science Service PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 15— Modern highway engineers are yet unable to build "an absolutely ‘safe and foolproof road but much can be done to build safety into highways, declared: Walter V. Buck before the American Society of Civil Engineers meeting here this morning. Mr. Buck is senior highway engineer of the United States Bureau oif Public Roads, Columbus. O. Improved motor vehicle design, said Mr. Buck, has increased the confidence of the user in higher speeds and on. the highways, as in other forms of transport, the speeds of travel are steadily increasing.
You can not stop this speed trend by ignoring it in road design, Mr. Buck intimated, nor can acceptance. of the fact be considered an encouragement of speeding. Rather the plan should be to use the fact of increased speed in future highway designs. Curves should be banked to take
is less objectionable to a slow driver than is a curve with too little bank dangerous to a fast driver. While a fast car on a low banked curve may not run off the curve, the driver may have to go into the oncoming lanes to negotiate the bend, with all its accompanying
How the city of Pittsburgh is attempting to solve its problems of traffic congestion was disclosed by Lewis W. McIntyre, executive vice president of the Pittsburgh Motor Ciub, before the A.-S. C. E.'s section on city planning. Pedestrians crossing against a red light constitute a major source of congestion, Mr. McIntyre ‘declared. By y Swdy it was found that 56 per J - pedestrians failed to
en. made to t this difficulty,
| educational n means.
yen
By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—President: William Green of the American Federation of Labor said today that Federation's long-delayed analysis. of the labor records of 1936 presidential candidates ' probably Will ‘be: reléased tomorrow. At the same time it was revealed that the report—strongly favorable to, President Roosevelt—has become intricately involved in the crisis fac-
schism with the rebel C. I. O. union led by ‘John L. Lewis. * Lengthy delay in publication of the report which ordinarily is issued in August of the presidential os | Jour is -a direct outgrowth of the ederation-C. I. O. conflict, it was learned.
PROMISED TO SOUTH
By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct. 15— The South's greatest post-depres-sion industrial expansion program, a $29,000,000 enterprise, was promised today to the Birmingham area. Ranking officials of the U. S. Steel Corp., here to inspect their subsidiary property, the Tennessee Iron, Coal and Railroad Co. announced
plate mill at a cost of “many millions.” The $29,000,000 figure was set by officials of the subsidiary com-
LUTHERANS CHOOSE OFFICERS
- COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 15—Rev. F. H. Knubel of New York, president, and other officers were re-elected today at the tenth biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America here today.
Lstitute e 1 guaranteeing the peace of the wers; it awakened the French | Pl
' France’s insistence,
RUSSIA
Belgium Deserts France, Adopts a Policy of - Strict Isolation.
HELD ‘AID TO GERMANY
New Diplomatic Realignment Which May Bring War Nearer Is Seen.
(Copyright, 1936, by United Press) PARIS, Oct. 15.—France suffered a serious diplomatic defeat today and Germany a victory when Belgium, key to| western Europe as it was in 1914, joined the isolationist nations and concentrated its foreign policy on preserving its neutrality in any war.
Complicating a foreign situation already causing anxiety in Europe's capitals, it brought nearer the certainty of a diplomatic realignment which at best could only defer a war and might bring one measurably nearer. Young King Leopold's announcement of a foreign policy ‘“exclusively and wholly Belgian” implied denunciation of the traditional Bel-gian-French military alliance, caused abandonment of any hope here for a successful Locarno Treaty conference and faced the government with the apparent urgent necessity for pouring new millions of dollars into the Maginot Line of fortifications facing Germany. Frontier Held Weakened The announcement, made before a council of ministers in Brussels, reached the government, as a ‘body blow, not through diplomatic channels, softened by warnings, but as a surprise through news agencies. It seemed tq end France's hope of broad regional alliances among groups of® neighbor nations for self protection against any‘ aggressor; it seemed to strengthen greatly Germany's -idea of direct treaties. between nations, oné nation with anLother nation. It seemed to end hape for ‘a-sub-Locarno.’
frontier and it was a most serious blow to French prestige, already challenged in the Balkans by Italy. But niore seriously, it came when Russia, France's new ally east of Germany, was complicating the situation by demanding an end of .the agreement for noninterventiof in the Spanish civil war unless alleged aid to the Spanish insurgents by Italy, Germany and Portugal were stopped. This treaty was negotiated at because the government. believed the Fascist powers were arming the insurgents and feared that an international clash might result. : France's relations with Russia have not been bettered by the fail= ure of French delegates at London to support Russia in its charges against the Fascist powers. Now its treaty with Belgium seems doomed.
Rebels Within 25 Miles of Madrid
Ry United Press BURGOS, Oct. 15.—The Spanish rebels have thrust within 25 miles of Madrid in the last 24 hours with the capture of “ Aldea Del Fresno, insurgent ‘headquarters announced today. - hy This is the closest the Nationalists (rebels) yet have approached Madrid. They claimed that the Loyalists abandoned more than 159 dead, two ‘machine guns and considerable ammunition. The rebel ' advance reached, with the capture of Aldea Del Fresno, a point midway between San Martin de Valdeiglesias and Navalcarnero on a small railway from San Martin along which the insurgents advanced. They are due west of the capital there. /
TEETH KILLER SENTENCED By United Press IRVINE, Ky., Oct. 15—Thad Gilbert, who told authorities he killed his housekeeper, Mrs. Margaret Ashcraft, when she hid his false teeth, was convicted of murder in Estill Circuit Court and sentenced fo. 21 years in the penitentiary toy.
est= |
Observers See Danger ‘in Delaying Action on Soviet Blockade Plea.
MOSCOW ACTION HINTED
Chairman Waits Word From Portugal Before He Will !® Call Meeting.
By United Press ’ LONDON, Oct. 15. —The res fusal of Lord Plymouth, chairs man of the Spanish Non-Intess vention Committee, to call a meeting to consider Soviet Russia’s proposal for a naval blockade of Portugal threate
ened today to start an open
race between Fascist and Leftiest powers to aid their favorites in the Spanish civil
war.
Russian diplomats expressed. anger over Lord Plymouth’s refusal. Mos= cow already has warned that it will withdraw from the agreement umn less Fascist powers cease their als leged aid to the rebels. Germany, in turn, has served notice that it will reserve “freedom of action” if Mos= cow withdraws. Russia, in a note to the committee, asked that the British and French navies blockade Portugal to see that arms were not sent into Spain. Moscow asked that the nonas intervention pact signatories be con= vened immediately to discuss the proposal. Lord Plymouth turned
down the suggestion. He wants to
wait until Portugal has replied io Russia’s charge that she is aiding the Spanish rebels, before homing ‘another meeting. The proposal was submitted b Soviet Ambassador: Ivan -M. Maisky and Samuel Kagan, | charge d'afs faires, in London. It “was reported that unless Pok= tugal speeds its answer,
cffice Ss : If, as reported, France sporovid of Lord Plymouth'’s decision, the res sult may be a marked cooling off in relations between France and’ Rus= sia, defensive military allies.
TWO MEN KILLED BY BEAR IN CAGE
By United Press. ; ELLSWORTH, Me. Oct. 15.—A supposedly tame bear attacked and . killed two men in its cage at a gas0= line filling station here today. :: Those slashed to death by the claws of the animal, a brown bear, were George Langley, 55, proprietor of the filling stationy and a man
identified only as Langley’s helper. Foi
The men were attacked when Langley entered the beast’s cage to feed
vit.
FAIR WEATHER: DUE
AGAIN TOMORROW
HOURLY TEMPERATURES _ 6am.... 59 10am. 7a.m.... 59 Ham. 8a.m.... 63 -12 {Nos 9a.m.... 70. Ip.m..
——
Indianapolis dazzled mn the sm
says that, all things considered, Oca tober is apt to be-like this.
6 DEAD IN Boweay
By United Press 23 BOMBAY, India, Oct. “15.— ligious riots between Moslems Hindus broke - out - in ‘the: By
Sisfiict. of: Bombay y today, s dly to other sections of the
Six dead and 100 injured w of
listed in the casualties. -
POSSE SEARCHES FOR SUSPECT . . . . .
FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE... . . . . x
How HE Looks ON TOUR .
for the third straight. day today, now has , :
8