Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1936 — Page 1

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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 197

LANDON-ROOSEVELT BATTLE CENTERED IN INDUSTRIAL RAST

President Leaves Tonight for Vital Campaign in Four States.

PLANS DOZEN SPEECHES

102 Electoral Votes Claimed for His Opponent Is

the Prize.

By United Press i WASHINGTON, Oct. 2l—| President Roosevelt concen- | trated the final phase of his| campaign today in a drive to|

capture the 102 electoral votes |

of New York, Pennsylvania, | New Jersey and Delaware. | Armed with half a dozen “fight- | ing speeches,” he will leave tonight to begin a speaking tour that will take him into the four states claimed by Republicans for Gov. Alfred M. Landon. In his first address to an allNegro audience since the beginning of the campaign, Mr. Roosevelt yesterday told 4000 persons at dedication of a chemistry building at Howard University, that “there should be no forgotten men and no

forgotten races.” Mr. Roosevelt will move into New Jersey first, stopping at Bayonne, | a strong industrial center. There he will board a ferry for Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor to participate in exercises commemorating the raising of the Statue of Liberty.

Pennsylvania Tour

Although White House attaches insist his address will be “nonpolitical,” some close friends believed he will set forth again the objectives of his Administration's foreign policies as a reply to Gov. Landon. After a day. in New York Mr. “Roosevelt will ‘entrain for a whirls wind tour through Pennsylvania.

Cheered by reports from Senator Joseph Guffey that he would carry

Pennsylvania by 250,000 votes, he |®

arranged to canvass the mining areas and Philadelphia. At Wilkes Barre Thursday the President will join in a ceremony honoring the memory of John Mitchell, one of the early miners’ union leaders. From that city he will go to Harrisburg to elaborate on his Omaha farm speech before turning eastward for Philadelphia, Camden, N. J. and Wilmington, Del.

New York Saturday

He will motor ffom Philadelphia to Camden and deliver a brief On his return to his train Mr. Roosevelt will then head for Wilmington where a rear platform address is scheduled. From that city he will return to Washington for the night. The big push for the vote of greater New York will begin Friday and continue until late Saturday night. The President will speak Friday night from the stage of the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. The next evening the final major speech will be delivered in Madison Square Garden.

SUSPECTED SLAYER IS HUNTED AT GARY

By United Press WILTON CENTER, Ill, Oct. 27.— Detectives went to Gary, Ind. today to seek the ex-convict they suspect of killing Mrs. Elsie Litchenwalter, 41, farm wife, with seven

rifle: shots. intentionally spaced in € 8 design resembling a spread eagle.

posse organized originally to huht cattle rustlers follo the suspected slayer’s trail 14 miles from the Litchenwalter farm to Joliet, Ill There, police learned, he boarded a bus with a one-way ticket to Gary, Ind. The man was James Williams, 31, hired man on the Litchenwalter

KILLED IN SLATE FALL By United Press CLINTON, Ind. Oct. 27.—Robert Long, Clinton, was killed in a fall of slate yesterday at the Binkley Mine, near here.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Merey-GoeRd_ 3

| threat of a tieup of Pacific coast

Kansan Assails ¢ Wai Relief in Address at Philadelphia.

ARRIVES IN PITTSBURGH

Attack on ‘Farleyism’ Is Expected to Be His Topic There Tonight.

| |Landon Text, Page 5

By United Press

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27.—

Fair tonight, followed by increasing cloudiness tomorrow with showers that night; slowly rising’ temperature.

Gov. Alfred M. Landon led the Republican offensive against the New Deal into this industrial center today for a major address expected to flay the Administration on charges of having shackled the United States with a vast spoils system. a Backing up his accusation at Philadelphia last night that President Roosevelt must assume responsibility for unconstitutional waste of the people’s money to create a “sinister political machine,” Mr. Landon planned to assail the tactics of Democratic Chairman James A. Farley tonight in his final bid for Pennsylvania's 36 electoral votes. It was understood that what his aids termed “Farleyism” would be the chief point of the Kansan’s attack, coupled with his own pledge to improve and extend civil. service to virtually every branch of the government. In striking into Pittsburgh, Gov. Landon approached the climax of his campaign for the presidency— an appearance at New York’s Madison Square Garden Thursday night for a final summation of the issues of the 19368 contest before ‘he turns back toward Kansas to cast his | vote, The nominee was declared by ‘party leaders as greatly impressed |" by the demonstrations which have gréeted him in the Midwest and on

was within the grasp of the Republican Party.

WEST COAST SHIPPING STRIKE THREATENS

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 —The

shipping grew greater today despite efforts of Federal mediators to bring maritime unien leaders and shipowners together on a compromise. The unions announced last night they would continue offers to negotiate until the strike deadline—midnight Wednesday—but representatives of shipping lines walked out of the conference and said the matter now rests with Federal Maritime Commission.

INCOMPLETE DIGEST POLL FIGURES GIVEN

By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—New incomplete city figures in the Literary Digest’s national presidential poll follow: Landon. Roosevelt. L>mke. Clovis. N M. ... 4 , Corning, N. Y. .. 338 13 Raleigh, N. C..... 202

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y. a Bennington. ... 194 50 1

486 Fi

F.D.R. Claims} Indiana Is Safe for Democrats

President, Roosevelt today

predicted “well in hand’! for the Dene crats and definitely declared, in a telegram to Gov. McNutt, that he could not return to the Hoosier state for a political address. ]

The President's telegram to the Governor said: “I have been forced very reluctantly to forgo my visit to Indiana during the closing days of the campaign. We all feel that the situation is well in hand and are confident of the outcome.” . The Governor, commenting onthe telegram, said: “While: I had hoped it would be possible for the President to come to Indiana I agree with him that we are assured as to the outcome of the election.”

IMERGURY DIPS

T0 26 DEGREES

But Warmer Weather Is to Return, Bureau Here Predicts.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 88 10.8 mm... 36 27 11 a.m... 38 31 12 (Noon). 38 ,* 35 1p.m... 39

The first freeze of the fall early today caught several auto radiators off guard and caused them to: go steaming to work today down Indianapolis streets. It also caught several pedestrians without“ overcoats and mufflers at 6 a. m. today when they waited for street cars in the season’s coldest temperature this fall, namely 26. There is to be a slowly rising temperature tomorrow; increasing cloudiness and showers tomorrow night, the Weather Bureau predicts.

HUNT LOGAL CONVICT

today for two men who were re-

ported involved in #'gun‘batile with | Hamilton County (0.) officers last | night, Thdiang authorities ane nounced one of the men may be George Emmett Daffron, 26, paroled convict of Indianapolis and. Vin-

cénnes. This ' tentative identification was made today after Indiana State Police were informed -by Ohio officers that the men escaped in an automobile bearing Indiana license

plates.

Called to a tavern near Cheviot, O., deputy sheriffs reported that they found two girls beaten and shot by the gunmen. They gave

‘chase and were believed to have

wounded one of the bandits as they neared Cincinnati. Daffron has served three terms in the Indiana Reformatory for forgery, conspiracy to commit a felony and first degree burglary and two years in the Kentucky State Prison for auto theft and highway robbery, state police records here show. The, man answering Daffron’s description was the oné wounded in last night's battle, Ohio officers reported. His companion, according to Ohio police, answered the description of Alfred Brady, suspect

Jin the Sergt. Richard Rivers slay-

ing here, who escaped two weeks ago from Greenfield jail. Indiana State Police doubted this, however.

HURT AS TRAINS COLLIDE By United Press FORT MORGAN, Colo., Oct. 27.— Seven persons were injured in a head-on collision today of a westbound passenger train and an eastbound freight train at Omar, 20 miles west of here, in a fog.

rms Report Rise

in Sales for September

Retail sales of 486 independent stores in Indiana showed a 15 per cent increase in dollar v jume for pver the

showed a gain of 3!2 per cent over August. Without adjustment either

for the number of working days or|

for seasonal infl

Report. Portugal

TUESDAY, OCTOBER

Defenders Fear Air Raid|

Heralds Long-Awaited Attack by Foe.

FRIGHT GRIPS CAPITAL

Loyalists Occupy Last Lines, Barely 10 Miles From City’s Suburbs.

(Copyright 1936, by United Press) MADRID, Oct. 27.—Leftist defenders of Madrid today turned anti-aircraft cannon and machineguns on a fleet of rebel airplanes which flew over the capital and dropped bombs at the southern out-

skirts of the city. ° The first rebel planes appeared

at 8:45 a. m. Three low-winged |

bombers roared over Madrid, giving rise to fears that the long-antici-pated attack on the capital was at hand. Five others‘ flew over at 10 a. m.

The guns of the leftists failed to] inflict damage on the enemy. No |:

loyalist planes appeared.

Loyalist militiamen todk their |

on the last defense lines, hardly 10 miles from the city’s southern: suburbs, as Madrid fearfully awaited a final attack in force by the Fascists.

Russia Bolsters Air Defenses (Editorial, Page 12)

By United Press LONDON, Oct. 27.—Soviet Russia, her international position weakened by recent developments, is preparing her defenses so she can stand without allies, it was reliably learned today. - . With .this ‘objective in mind .she is preparing ‘to maintain an air force equal to the combined forces of her two: most logical adversaries, Germany and Japan.

ognized Rebels

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: “21 —The foreign : receipt of information that Portugal had ‘repi the nis wrtioent Tée as e egw govérnmen of Spain.

BELIEF FUNDS USED ASWH, SYS Ko

By United Press ABOARD KNOX CAMPAIGN TRAIN,” Oct. 27. — Campaigning across Indiana today, Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential nominee, charged the Administration with ‘using relief funds for political purposes. : Col. ‘Knox - had three brief speeches scheduled in Indiana be-

fore returning to Chicago for an overnight stay. He will invade Wisconsin tomorrow. “I can’t think of anything more despicable than using relief funds

for political ends,” Knox said in a |

rear platform speech at Elkhart. “If Jim Farley didn’t have available relief funds, his organization would not be in the running this election; it would bes unanimous for Landon,” Knox said. The Republican campaigner predicted ,that Ohio, which he visited

yesterday, would go: Republican hy |,

more ‘than 100,000 majority. “Indiana is going Republican aid California is on its way too,” Knox; who has campaigned from. coast to coast, said.

-INDIANA FARMER SHOT By United Press ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27—Greorge M. ley, 23-year-old Selma (Ind. was shot and critically

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

British Public Is Unaware of Court Appearance of Woman

- Who May E Become the Queen

Mrs. Wallis ‘Simpson

Testimony Text

" (Copyright. 1036, by United Press): IPSWICH, Oct. 27 ~Following - is

the stenographic: report of the Simpson -vs. Simpson” divorce hearing; to-

day: ° ‘Norman Birkett—My Lord, 1 ap-

Mr. Frampton, assistant £0 1 es

and examined by Birkett). . lis Simpson? o “Mrs. 8.—Yes.

case come: here? . (Court, registrar steps up and Ss to judge.) on H.—I am told Mr: Birkett, that it is because the petitioner lives in: Felixstowe: Mr. ‘Birkett—Yes, My Lord. Mr, = Birkett— (Speaking to the witness)~—~Your names are. Wallis Simpson? ! ; Mrs. S.—Yes. £4 77 Lives In Felixstowe

Mr. B.—Where do you. live? Mrs: S8.—I -am now living at the Beach House, Felixstowe. 2 Mr. B.—Have you a town address? Wi S~Yes, 16 Cumberland Ter-

+5 B—In Regents Park? Mrs. ‘S.—In Regents Park. Justice: H.—The “petition says she lives, in Bryanston Court. Mr. B—~My Lord, she’ Tived at that address at the time ‘the etition was drawn. . fe, Justice: H—Very ‘well: Mr.B. (To the witness) —You married the respondent, Ernest: Aldrich Simpson, on the twenty-first of July in the ‘Registry Offige | in the Distick. « of Chelsea? ° Mrs. S~—Yes. Mr. B.—Did .you afterwards live with him at 12 Upper 'Berkeley-st and Bryanston Court? ’ ~ Mrs. S.—Yes. Mr. B.—Has there besiiany. issue of that marriage? Mrs. S—No. :

Justice Gets Note

Mr. B.~Would you just hand that to My Lord. (The note :is passed to Justice “Hawke. $e hs

was married? ar, B.—The twenty-first of July, Mr. B. (to the witness) —The note you just handed My ; wag 8 note you found on the dressing ta

Mr. B-—That, as My Lord. can see, is in a woman's handwriting? ‘Mrs. 8,—Yes.

Mr. B—I am sorry, My L

yery legible. convenient if 1

Ms, Birketl-Ate you name wal. |

Justice . Hawke—Why does this

Justice H.—When did ane i say she|

Justice HI daresay, it’s in a ou woman's handwriting, but it is not |

Mr. Bit is not. pelt ment be

¥ | waiters and | a porter

3 go away alone and stay away at weekends? Mrs. S.—Y¥és. ‘Mr: B.—On Christmas Day of that year—1934—did you find a. note lying cn the dressing table?’ Mrs. S.—Yes. ‘Mr. B~Is' this the note? Just look ‘at’ that would you? (Hands note .to. witness.) \ Mm. S.~Yes. :

~ Letter Is Introduced

Mr: B. (to" the witness) —Did the finding of that note cause you considerable distress? Mrs. S.—It did. ‘Mr, .B.—Did you complain to your husband. about it at the time? © Mrs. 8. —No, T thought better not

| to as .I hoped conditions would im-

prove. Mr. B—Did the conditions about which. you ‘are speaking improve? Mg. S.—No, I am afraid they did not... . “ (Mr. Birkett at this stage introduced a letter Mrs. Simpson received shortly after Easter, .1936, intended for her husband, but inadvertently put in an envelope addressed ‘to her. It developed that Mrs. Simpson consulted her solicitors about the opening sentence of the letter, after. which, at her instructions, - the solicitors kept her husband ‘under observation. Mr. Birkett explained’ to the court that the importance of the letter was merely historical.) ‘Mr. B.—You told us they had observations kept on your husband. Did they report to you the result of their observations? i sun —Did you su uently recelve interna ton upon which your petition present. case is based? re d you on July 23, 1936, ~ | write your husban i

: Justice HL—Mr. Birkett, 1 suppose you want me to read it? ~~. |lows

"| routine,

+ asked the court for a- decres . | with costs against Mr. Simpson.

; plied tersely:

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PRICE THREE CENTS

MRA. IN 21

British Bobbies Smash

SIMPSON WINS DIVORCE

MINUTES

Cameras as American

Friend of King Edward Speeds Away From Court at Ipswich.

GETS DECREE BEHIND LOCKED DOORS

Baltimore Beauty Recites Rehearsed Ans swers; Meanwhile, Monarch Discusses Coronation at Palace.

| Will Edward Marry Mrs. Simpson? Story, Photo, Page 11 |

IPSWICH, England, Oct.

her second husband.

Windsor Castle and Maidenhead, testifying that they saw

| Mr. Simpson in a hotel room

with a woman on the mors-

ings of July 22 and 23 last. The divorce went through with amazing speed, 21 minutes after Mr. Justice Sir Anthony Hawke ascended the bench. The proceedings were the witnesses wellrehearsed. Mrs. Simpson, the two testified smoothly and glibly. When the evidence was concluded, Norman Birkett, counsel for Mrs. Sim

“Justice Hawke, apparently weary f the ‘pre-arranget- proceedings, re |

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“1 suppose " e0 | Newspapers Bury Story

The name of the co-respondent was not brought out in court. It was contained in the petition, however, which merely specified a “Miss Kennedy,” with no address given. Just as the public was excluded from court, so are the newspapers burying the divorce most inconspicuously, with, of course, no mention whatever of Mrs. Simpson’s friendship with the King or the persistent rumors in high social circles that they might be married. Ta avoid bringing out the name of “Miss Kennedy” in court, the two waiters merely testified that the woman they saw in a hotel room with Simpson was not Mrs. Simpson.

Waiters Give Evidence

The charge presented by counsel for Mrs. Simpson said that: “Ernest

Simpson stayed with a woman at the Hotel De Paris at Bray in Berkshire on the night of July 21, 1936.” Evidence was given by two waiters, who testified that.they took breakfast to the bedroom of Mr. Simpson and the unnamed woman. The decree gave Mrs. Simpson's address as the Beach Hotel, Felixstowe. As she emerged from the court, she hastened away .in her car and it was not known whether she was returning to Felixstowe. She drove fast. A photographer who tried to follow her previously on her way from Felixstowe to court, a trip of 11 miles, had to drive at 65 to 70 miles but could not catch up.

King Meets Council

Shortly before the hearing, King Edward held a meeting of the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace. If the King decided to marry, he would notify the council. However, today’s proceedings were routine, for a discussion of the King’s speech at the opening of Parliament and the coronation cereniony next year, It has been assumed that Mrs. Simpson will occupy a seat in .the visitors’ gallery at the opening of Parliament. Granting of her divorce may be expected to increase the flow of speculation in exclusive circles over

1y (the possibility of a marriage to the

King. The general public is not aware of the gossip and the papers have imposed @ Xigid Censorship on them Ives.

Divorced Twice Before However, if the talk does become know

ist |

(Copyright, 1936, by United Press)

27.— (By Transatlantic Teles:

phone) —Behind bolted doors and with the public excluded, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, American-born friend of Kihg Edward VIII, was granted a divorce today from Ernest A. Simpson,

While the hearing was in progress, the King was dise : cussing his coronation, the Indian Durbar and conferring ore

ders of nobility at Buckingham Palace. Mrs. Simpson won a decree nisi, which can be made absolute in six months. She charged infidelity, two waiters

from the Hotel de Paris at Bray, on the Thames between

pared carefully by some of the ' ablest lawyers of the country, and the proceedings were amazingly swift. A fanfare of trumpets announcing the approach of Mr. Justice Hawke: sounded at 2:16 p. m. The justice took his seat at 2:17 p. m. Mrs, Simpson went to the stand at 2:18

‘and left at 2:28. The two waiters

gave evidence for four minutes and the justice granted the divorce at

5:38 only the judge, court officials, the Pro ne counsel witnesses and the press, were present. The public gals leties’ ‘were closed. 3 "The lean, brown-faced, tall, tacled: Norman Birkett sat ui

Court Is Gloomy The sun disappeared as the judge entered, throwing the dingy court room into semi-gloom. The whole court, including Mrs, Simpson, rose. Mr, Justice Hawke bowed and took his seat. He woré black robes: - Mr, Burkett arose and opened the proceedings. He immediately called Mrs. Simpson to the stand. She wore a trim, dark-blue rough serge costume with short fashione able coat, white blouse with collar peeking over the coat collar and a. dark-blue, round sailor hat perched at a pert angle over her dark hair. She wore no gloves and her tinted nails were noticeable. She seemed nervous and shifted her feet as she answered questions. Sometimes she jerked her head and twisted her shoulders, keeping her hands mo- ; lioness on the ledge in front of er.

Speaks in Soft Voice

She spoke in a soft voice, with a distinct and rather hard American accent. She took the oath clearly, but her subsequent answers were almost inaudible. Mrs. Simpson, obviously: well coached, gave pat answers, somee times almost before Mr. Birketé finished asking the question. She would turn lightly toward Mr. Birkett to listen to the question and then back toward the bench to give the answer. The press caught only occasional glimpses of her profile as she turned her head. She has a rather long and pointed nose and sharp feae tures. She is small. When Mr. Birkett asked her w prompted her to bring action, sh $Dgke” rapidly, as though recitin, Mr. Birkett handed her letters and photographs for identification, aske ing her to hand them to the ju She was too short to reach th bench and gave the letters to an undersheriff sitting on the Judge's right. Justice Hawke seemed dissatisfied with the letters, two of which were

{not read to the court. He rebuked

Mr. Birkett, pointing out that they were not sufficient evidence for ¥ vorce. One of the letters, Mrs. Simpson said, she found on a dressing table. The other was addressed to Ernest but was mistakenly indorsed in envelope addressed to her. she went to her solicitors, she and wrote to her husband, n that as he had been staying at hotel with a lady, she was institute

Te Drousedings. ‘snishod she turned to her seat in the well the court, chatted animatedly Mr. Birkett, patted her hair

Jr.,| tidgeted while Mr.