Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1936 — Page 3
STOCK SHOW
‘Representatives of Clubs . From 21 States Enter Judging Contests,
Bi United Press ‘CHICAGO, Nov. 27. — Boys and girls from 4-H clubs of 21 states will open a record-breaking International Livestock Exposition unofficially today with a contest of
ve in. picking winmng cattle, hogs
sheep. [Exactly 14,653 sleek head of cattle, horses, sheep and hogs were given a last-minute grooming in the stalls of the huge international amphitheater. In another division were 5000 samples of the finest hay and grain from farms in all parts of the world. Both lists were record-breai-ing in size, Although the show will not open formally - until tomorrow - morning, the 4-H contests are expected to draw the first of the record-breax-ing crowds awaited at the thirtyseventh annual exposition. Cleo Yoder, Wellman, Ia., youngster who won the grand championships last year with his Angus calf, Pat's Blue Ribbon, will be back in the lists for the last time. This is his last year of eligibility. ¢The winning team in the contest sponsored by the Chicago Association of Commerce will receive agricultural college scholarships. ‘B. H. Heide, manager of the show,
onan ait att ar TT
sald all entries "would be in place .
for the formal opening at 7 a.m. tomorrow.’ ‘Workmen - spent Thanksgiving Day installing two trainloads of prize winners from the recent Canadian Royal Winter Agricultural Fair at Toronto, Ont, including cattle raised on the ranch of King Edward VIII in Alberta, Canadian competitors, who won the wheat championship and 18 livestock championships, 12 reserve championships and 61 first prizes last year, returned to defend their titles. W. Frelan Wilford, who won the wheat title for Canada last year, is not eligible to compete in this show, but Herman Trelle, Wembley, Alberta; who has won| the wheat title four times, was entered again. Also from abroad were entries of Argentine corn, Belgian horses, and Australian corn. The record-break-ing entry list represented 41 states and five Canadian provinees. Features of the ‘opening day include a| collegiate livestock judging contest between teams from 27 agricultural colleges, and the expositions’ first Horse show.
MADRID ASKS LEAGUE PARLEY
Note: Sent From Valencia
Where Capital Has Been Moved.
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neutrality pact -in the civil war was called and Germany was expected to reject unqualifiedly a plan to supervise European air ports to prevent dispatch of airplanes to the rebels and loyalists.
Would Regulate Planes
A meeting of ‘the full non-inter-vention committee was called for next Wednesday to discuss the pro-
al. The foreign office received today through Sir‘ Henry Chilton, ambassador to: Spain now on the French frontier, ‘an official communication from Gen. Francisco Franco, rebel dictator, defining ‘a neutral Zone @t Barcelona. It confirmed an parlier message which the .admiralty received from Nationalist authorities in the Balearic Islands. The zone lies approximately along an east-to-west line three-fourths of a mile south of Barcelona breakwater and lighthouse.
‘Aw, Gee, Can and Candy B “Burgl I ois
A burglar was reported on the fire escape at the Tower Theater, 20 S. Illinois-st, early ay. Police investigated: They found a box. of burglars’ tools in the lobby, a hand drill beside the tampered candy case lock and the burglar upstairs. He was'11-years old: and in knee pants. “What are you. doing in here, son?” an officer asked him. “Aw, T come to the show last night and must of ‘went to sleep, ’cause when I woke up the place was dark,” hie replied brazenly. “But what about these?” the policeman confronted him with the’ tools. “Aw, gee, Cap. » ering. He was just a little boy again as Officers led him off to the detention home.
His lip was quiv=
OFFICIAL WEATHER
eee Uniited States Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST ~ Increased cloudiness tonight, becoming unsettled tomorrow; slightly warmer; lowest tempera ture tonight about 25. “Sunrise ........ “6:44 | Sunset ......:. «. 4:22 —
TEMPERATURE ==Nov. 2%, 1985 yi vor 49
MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Increasing cloudiness tonight beeoming unsettled tomorrow; light snow tomorrow extreme no not so cold tonight and south and nat por= tions tomorrow
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 & »m.. ‘ Total precipitation since Jan. 1.. . Deficiency since ‘Jan .1
Nlinois—Increasing cloudiness. tonight, becoming unsettled central and north ‘portions tomorrow; not so cold tonight and south portion tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Sriow probable Jonight and tomorrow; not so cold tonight an southeast portion tomorrow;
Ohio—Mostly cloudy, and yarmet tonight and Saturday, with in north portion . beginning info tonight or tomorrow. Kentucky—PFair and warmer tonight: tomorrow mostly cloudy and warm
pe oucy ana warmer. WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A.M.
BASIL ZAHAROFF IS DEAD AT 86
Munitions King Dies in Seclusion in Monte Carlo, Monaco..
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casional sorties in a wheel-chair at Monte Carlo. Among the world’s half-dozen wealthiest, - men, Sir . Basil was credited ‘with having piled up the greatest individual fortune that ever has been. accumulated in Eu- | rope in one generation. In recent years, he had no business: ties; but his great hoard came from banking, casinos, munitions factories, arsenals and battleship building yards. He. financed wars, but made little inoney out of peace. Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor of France, Grand Cross of the British ‘Empire, Knight of the Bath, Sir Basil held in all 298 foreign decbrations heaped upon him by 31 nations. At the height of his career, he sat on more than 300 boards of directors of fabulously wealthy: concerns. \ Parents Were Greek
Descended from Greek parents of the colony of Constantinople, whence they were chased by the massacres of 1821, Sir Basil was named in reality Zacharias Basileics. His start in life came when he sold a submarine’ half a century ago. Since then he has sold in one single sweep
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The track curved into the station, which meant that the motorman would not see the boy until too
late. It was a mailer of “only a few seconds and the steadily increasing thunder of steel wheels on
steel rails pounded an ear-splitting, |
throbbing requiem for Buddy, who seemed as good as dead.
On the platform a man whose
body jerked with ‘the partial paralysis of panic, loped toward the change - maker's booth, as though that functionary could help. A woman screamed and fainted on a bench. ‘A few persons turned away, unable to look, and a few stared down’ at the track, unable. to igok away. -
The train now was so close that. its lights reflected on the cutved
rails where it would appear in a split second. : Its roar drowned out the cries of horror mounting in a score of throats. A man ran to the edge! of the platform and leaped between the rail, in the path of the. that now came lurching and swaying around the curye. -
He jerked: Buddy’s head oft the il.
At that instant the motorman saw them and the train wheels screamed shrilly as the brakes slammed down. The man on the track seized Buddy’s ankles and swung them around, throwing his body between 'the rails. The train was upon him and he leaped.
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A hall second later the train
had stopped and the motorman emerged, white-faced and trembling. He thought he had hit both men. Trainmen crawled under ‘the
train. Tortore lay, still unconscious.
but unharmed, between the rails. The train had passed over him. And in one of the safety alcoves,
set in the walls of the tunnel for:
such ‘emergencies, was his friend and rescuer, ‘Louis Gatta, 19. The accident occurred last night in the 3d-st station of the Municipal line, ‘Tortore explained that he had been celebrating Thanksgiving ana lost his balance and fell off the platform. . The line's private policemen charged him with disorderly conduct and intoxication.
HEAVY SNOW REPORTED Times Special . LA PORTE, Ind. Nov. 27. — The heaviest Thanksgiving snow storm on record here covered northern La Porte County yesterday. The snow did not drift Snough to delay highway traffic. .
10,000 machine guns, 10 cruisers and |
destroyers, 4,000,000 rounds of ammunition and 125 cannon—all for credit, the largest single munitions
ly | and arms order in history.
Sir Basil was born in the Anatolian Mountain village of Mougnla, but the family, after suffering from Turkish persecution, fled to Odi Zaharoff received a fair
d education in Constantinople acting
as 4 tourist guide. He entered the ‘business of his uncle, a Constan-
tinople - merchant, and was taken |
into partnership. The sequel was one of the strangest episodes of nis strange career. There went to England and was arrested
2s on a charge of theft brought by
Walter Runciman, president of | Denver
Board of Trade in the cabinet, introduced in Parliament yesterday "a bill to forbid British ships to carry arms to Spain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden is expected to make an important speech in the House of Commons
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Ww within a few days, clearly indicat-| gma ing the government coldness toward B)
the new Japanese-German ° agreement “against communism”-—inter-preted abroad as against Russia. He is expected to make-it | clear that | ® Great Britain opposes any division of the world into divergent political blocks. Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos is expected to make a similar speech in the French Parliament Dec. 4 as part of an expose of the general foreign situation. French dispatches indicate grave . suspicion in Paris of the real meaning of the Japanese-German agree-
last of them in time to leave for Marseille ‘early this afternoon.
his uncle.. He was tried and acquitted: In a statement which nue
was a breach. Zaharoff
made later in Athens to his friend |
.and patron, M. Etienne Skuludis, afterward Prime Minister of Greece, he described how in. the .last mo= ments before the trial he made a dramatic discovery in the pocket of an old fur coat of a letter proving his -innocence, and demonstrating his uncle’s perfidy. "Became Munitions Agent : Zaharoff later went to Athens. He was cold-shouldéred. Then his chance came. A He was appointed
agent for Nordenfelt, the armas
ments firm, in the Balkans.
| ments Semin, 18, Balk aml marine—the. first submarine sold— | to. Greece. Next he sold two sub- |
It was expected that he would | ram Maxim,
halt at Barcelona to Shark; any
men : There is similar suspicion of Ger-
many and Italy as regards Spain.
Americans Are Expected to Leave Spain Today
VALENCIA, Nov. 27.—The United States cruiser Raleigh got up steam today to take to France and home 60-0dd . American from shattered Madrid, after a Thanksgiving Day spent on the
| our task in
and ‘inncreased effort.
ESTATE BOND FILED AT PAOLI
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President Speaks in Brazil nay. Parley at Buenos Aires.
: (Continued from Page One). : said, “but the time is ajispicions for America.
. “But m “our own continent, : armed clashes which in recent years |
have ‘divided American countries, have been happily brought to an end.” 3 Urging a ceageless’ continuance of
PAOLI, Ind. Nov. 27.—An estate bond valued at $1,200,000, the largest ever filed in Orange County, was executed today by the county clerk
Jor Mrs. Dolly Ballard, widow of
Ballard. The former circus magnate and casino operator was
| slain in a Hot Springs (Ark. hotel
‘recently by a ‘business associate. The
ak Colinty. The rest of|
peace efforts, the President said: || °
“The progress we have made must not be allowed to serve as a pretext jor resting on our latirels; it should, on the contrary, : stimulate us to new It is. not enough that peace prevails from the ‘Arctic to the Antarctic, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; it 'is essential
‘that’ this condition be made perma- |
nent that we provide effectively
against the recurrence of the hor-
rors of war and assure peace to our-
selves and our posterity... .. We can -not- countenance aggression from wheresoever. it may. come. “The people of each ‘and every one of the American republi
1.am. confident, the. people. of the |
Dominion of Canada as well—wish to lead their own lives free from desire for conquest—free at the same time to expand their cultural and
‘intellectual relationships and to take council together to encourage the
peaceful PEORTESS of modern eivillzation. i
BUYS STORE BUILDING
' MORGANTOWN, Ind, Nov. 27.— T. J. Wright, Orleans, purchased a store building here in
Little was known of tuberculosis in the Middle Ages—what caused it and how $0 cure it still remained a secret. Franciscus - Sylvius, 'a Frenchman, found little nodules, like grains of sand, in the lungs of those who died of the “consuming® sickness. These he called tubercles and from that designation developed later the use of the name tuberculosis. Sylvius, however, a aot understand their sipuigeance Ww
which he will set. up a printing of - ge
fice and publish a weekly Rewspaper,
double’ streamline + ~ chromium :
WE WATCHED HOUSE BURN
Fitomen Unable to Save
Structure Near 75th-St.
“We ‘watched our home burn down.” : Mr. and Mrs. George Coles today stood ‘before’ the ruins of their suburban home on R. R. 16, just off 75th-st and made that statement, They were seated in front of an
. | open fireplace listenfhg to Bing
Crosby singing when Mr. Coles smelled - smoke about 10 p. m. yesterday. “I opened room,” he said. smoke and fire.” Mr. and Mrs. Coles braved. smoke and fumes to carry their furniture to the garage in the rear. They didn’t attempt to retrieve their clothing. 'It went with the flames. City firemen were called, but there’s no water in the neighborhood and even firemen had to stand by ‘and watch the structure burn, Mr. Coles said the house was worth $10,000. The loss was covered by insurance.
‘ATTENDS’ WEDDING 800 MILES DISTANT
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BOSTON, Nov. 27—Confined to a'} hospital bed, J. Willard MacGregor of Worcester listened by telephone to the Thanksgiving Day wedding ceremony of a daughter 800 miles away. Miss Jean MacGregor, a University of Michigan graduate, was married to Myron Atlee Shilling, University of Michigan medical student, at sinay, Mich. ggor’ was operited on and; Was unable to
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26-inch’ fine “Hors-
man” dolls, with flannel coat and hat, and crisp organdy frock.
Knows Nothing Al Letters,
LONDON, Nor. 27—A opposition to King Edward — ‘Mrs. Wallis
.| more formal one in the near
There were ing Conservati whose great i try is niles campaign
Suita even menti ship, would leave no doubt that elements upon whom monarch depend for support expect King to adhere ¢losely to stitution and tradition.
Leaders May Balk
It is now no. longer news +& Prime Minister Stanley Bald and other ' government les oppose the friendship openly. there has been a new develop —it is hinted that if the opposes them they will make to him. their power to con legislation which he favors. Mrs. Simpson’s household, the lice station for the precinct in wh she lives and Scotland Yard p fessed no knowledge of reports she has received threatening 1 and b a special guard has assigned "her. Few British people Know of King’s friendship for Mrs. Simp “We have heard nothing of § such threats and we should ¢ tainly know ‘if there had been we think,” a Scotland Yard spo man said. Despite denials, it was le that ‘Mrs. Simpson has rece some threatening letters. All were turned over to the pb but’ no extra .guards were I “over Mrs. Simpson. The guar mains as it has been all alo two uniformed policemen o her residence in Cumberland race, London, and: one of the E private’ bodyguards accompa her when she travels. The King came to town from Belvedere last night and dined Mrs. Simpson, going from her idence to Buckingham Palace ¢ 10:30 p. m. =
ts that the
ISLEY IN CHARGE OF HOOSIER EXHIB
Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Nov. 27 Joe - Isley, Indiana State Growers’ Association presiden to be in charge of Indiana hibits at the International Gri and Hay Show and Livestock position opening tomorrow at Union Stock Yards in Chicago. Mr. Isley is to have an exh at the show. Other Shelby Cou exhibitors are to be Edward 1 Ralph Kolksmeier, - D. ©, Pte and T. Dorsey: Jones: