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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1937

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MEETINGS AND RACE TO DRAW 100,000 HERE

‘Sellouts Reported by Leading Hotels for Events.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

REPORT F.D. R FAVORS COURT | COMPROMISE

Leaders Behind Plan for r ole oo One New Judgeship Each 1 | id i "Year, Is Rumor.

Van Devanter Ponders Resig

Daughter ‘Spared When Her | Parent Invades Home On Vermont St.

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of the two Westerners when he left | race is set for the following weeks

a 16-year-old daughter live in Buf- |

falo. according to the woman.

wounded |

The family nad lived at the Ver- |

mont St. address about two years,

the White House recently: : 2 i : - hs i :

“Well, when Senator O'Mahoney

comes down here wanting help on a | [8

sugar bill, his conscience won't be

end, with an estimated crowd of "150,000, two-thirds of whom will probe ably come from out of town, Speed

+ way officials said.

High School pupil and the younger | 3 | Rain . i : ; ; »” sister. Virginia = attended No. 9 : i This aroused much resentment at Lilie a .conservative estimate, :

School | the Capitol and the opposition is > : ing f it. It served to bring A recent survey showed that the Horton and Mrs. Scraggs. held on ' making use 0 : 5 cen y We vagrancy a fic fie Av] linto the open the sort of pressure average convention visitor spends ER 00 Bond. vas tals - | |used by the Administration on the : | $55 and stays three and a half days, and $2000 bond. respectively. g | : : : | Mr. Davis said. He expects a total

| Supreme Court issue. | ? of .15,000 visitors and that is cone

‘Robinson Held Good LY | servative, too, he said.

But Mr. Davis would not estimate ‘Bet for High Court. a | or

the Speedway crowd's spending. ) Speedway officials said that last By HERBERT LITTLE : . ZA:nie Photo. year's crowd was between 140,000 Times Special Writer After serving 26 years on the U. S. Supreme | velt. He is shown here reading a copy of his letter |and 160,000. Ticket sales are exe WASHINGTON, May 19.—Joseph | Court, Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, 78, of | to the President while sitting at his desk in Wash- [Do0ied no be Show: fhe ame hs Taylor Robinson, 64 years old, a Indiana, handed his resignation to President Roose- ington. : : Dunit sin Mii ' conservative who nevertheless has :

Explode Theory Boy | Killed Bahy Sister |]

Buy United Press NEW YORK. May 19.—The police theory that 3-year-old Noel Galvin | Killed his 2-months-old sister, Do- |

. 8 : —Times Photo. Twelve-year-old Virginia Scraggs (above) is alive today because her father, Charles Scraggs, 35, decided suddenly to “take her out of this rotten place.” He allowed her to escape to a neighbor's house while he shot and killed his stepson, Marion, 15. and wounded his | lores. was proved false today when wife. Bertha. and a boarder, Brady Horton, in their home, 519 E. | an autopsy disclosed the infant had |

Treaty, the World Court. the 1935 | | court can accept such a plea to a | charge of first-degree. murder. “But I am guilty,” she insisted. = It was only after several minutes of persuasion. that she agreed [to change her plea. |

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‘Governor Names Broad Rip- | ple Principal to Board. | Li

Of Daughter Pleads By United Press RIVERHEAD, N. Y., May 19— Mrs. Helen Tiernan, 25-year-old | mother and widow prayed today | that death would be the penalty for killing. her blue-eyed, T7-year-old daughter, Helen. Between sobs, she

begged for “just one. peep” at her son, Jimmy, 4. who survived her JERSEY CITY, N. J... May 19.— |. Three. new members were ap-

rderous K. f 213 , ; adi jpurdeions atiac | Still unmoved, even by the recital of | pointed today by Governor Town-

Girl Calm as State Asks Death

| | speech condemning the Nazi im- | By United Press |

| morality campaign against ! Catholic Church.

ii S { Vermont St., last night, died of natural causes. | me remem I 'estimate that the average race vise | (been stanch as ‘the New Deal's | 288. £°¢ 935 | 'NAZl PRESS ATTACKS itor spends anyhere between $20 | PICKS NEW TRUSTEES | Senate leader, today appeared to an 6 tax bills, and an appropria- | | and $200. | have the inside track for the Su- | tion for the Florida ship canal. | ' CARDINAL MUNDELEIN The housing problem for the y i preme Court seat from which Jus- = ; ie | Speedway crowd is difficult. too, Mr, FOR TEACHERS FUND tice Van Devanter will retire June 2. | F, D. R. Preparing New | f ls United Mess Davis said. Last year; there were ~The massive Arkansan long has | : : oy fren | not enough beds, even though there : | desired to cap his career on the Legislative Program | : BERLIN, May 19.—Der Angrid, are about 75 hotels here with a toe | high bench. Reports are wide-!p, (ited Press : 'Four ‘Shoot’ Rapids Be-!°®an of the Propaganda Ministry. tal of between 7000 and 8000 rooms, | spread and apparently authentic WASHINGTON, May 19.—Presi- | p | today atacked Cardinal Mundelein | Many race-time visitors make friends | that President Roosevelt has en- | gent Roosevelt today planned a new | tween 2000-Foot Walls. |of Chicago in connection with his nd stay with them when they ree | couraged his ambitions. Some say legislative program embracing con- | | | turn, Mr. Davis said, and that come ‘an explicit promise has been made. | {61 anq development of national re. | —_r - |plicates the problem of estimating | So popular is the .DemOCIatic|., ces establishmeni of minimum | 5y United Press the | demand. | floor leader among his colleagues |. : i em tel 7 May 19.—Some- Right now, downtown hotels are | that bic nomination Might be Cons wages and maximum hours in in- EL PASO, Tex, May .

The described his | Scld out, although there are still

_ Suffolk County authorities placed | a guard outside her cell to prevent any attempt at”suicide, while plans were made for a trial next month. Mrs. Tiernan struck Helen with a hatchet, slit her throat and set fire to her clothing—and tried to Kill

| her mother with a hatchet, 18-year-old Gladys MacKnight maintained

| her indifferent bravado today as they

| state tightened the case it believes

i her own confession that she killed | send tol serve as trustees on the | . State Board of the Teachers Re- ! tirement Fund. : |

Those | appointed were K. V. Am- |

merman, principal of Broad Ripple |

| High School; Chester Montgomery,

Jimmy in the same manner—be- | Will send her and her choir-singing ' gouth Bend. head of the State Se- |

cause they stood inthe way of her love for George Christopulus, swarthy Greek resta and former boxer. -*I want to plead guilty.” she. told Justice of the Peace Donald W.

Shore in the town hall at Patchogue, |

N.Y

Under New York State law, no

{ sweetheart to the electric chair.

| Helen MacKnight while I hacked her to death. In contrast to i her indifference, Wightman ‘was shaken visibly by | confessions they gave to police a ‘few hours after the slaying.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY

Indiana State Dental Association, vention. Claypool Hotel. all day. Indiana Funeral Directors Association, convention, Indiana State Fair all day. National Conference of Jewish Welfare, meetings, Severin Hotel, all day. Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington noon.

con-

National Association of Cost Accountants, |

dinner, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p. m. Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Young Men's YMC. A. 6pm Purdue Alumni Severin Hotel. noon. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, of Trade. noon. Property Managers, Washington. no Rotary Club, noon.

Discussion Club. dinner,

Association, luncheon,

luncheon,

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana Funeral convention, I. U. all day. National Conference of Jewish Social Weifare, meetings, Hotel Severin, all day. Real Estate Board, luncheon, Washington Motel. noon. Advertising Club, Slub, noon

Directors Association,

Building,

luncheon. Columbia

Grounds, |

Social |

Board |

Hotel |

Fair Grounds, |

| Timothy Harrison, 66, at 3661 Cossel oad, coronary thrombosis. Jessie Rubens. 72. at 4810 Washington Ivd.. coronary thrombosis. Patricia Beabout, 3 months, at Riley. meningococcic meningitis. Ear! H. Blair, 43; at Veterans, hemorrhage. Edward J. Scoonever, 64. at 563 Highland { Drive. coronary thrombosis. {© Stella. Meador, 16, at 1235; cinoma Iola McCain, 70. at 123 S. Emerson. carcinoma Mamie Smiley, | monia. : Darnell Mitchell, 52,

cerebral Oliver, car-

29, at City, lobar pneu-

at City. carcinoma.

luncheon.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau

on. ! luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and | | ered | audiences today.

| continued cool tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer.

| Sunrise -ei...4:26 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —May 19, 1936—

Indiana Motor Trafic Association, lunch- |

eon. Hotei Antlers. noon Sigma Nu, Washington Hotel, neon. Acacia, Board of Trade noon. Indianapolis Bank Auditors Conference, Washiagton Hotei. dinner. 6:30 p -Federal Business Men, Washing luncheon. noon. Alliance Francaise, dinner, 6:30 p. m. li Lilly Philadelphia Hotel. luncheon. noon. Indianapolis Oil Club, luncheon. 12:15 p. m. . eal Silk Hosiery Mills, Claypool Hotel, luncheon and dinner.

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records at the County Courthouse. The Times ‘s not responsible for any errors of names or addresses.)

mncheon,

Washington Hotel,

Group, Severin

Severin Hotel.

Melhern Pollock. 22. of 2438 College Ave., to Evelyn V. Hurd. 25, of 2355 College Ave. Lawrence Chastain, 26. of Indianapolis. to Edith Magee. 24. .of Indianapolis. William 'H. Massey. 21, .o Exchang Hotel. to Adaline Stella Ellis, f 231 N. Meriflian St. Herman Selka. 33. of Indianapolis, Louise Lennox. 24. of 38 W. 21st St. Carroll McKay. 23. of 430 Massachusetts Ave.. to Ruby Ricketts, 21. of 430 Massachusetts Ave. Floyd E. Beckley. 20. of Acton, Ind. Mildred A. Koontz. of Acton.

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luncheon,

+ Nl, | ton Hotel, |

BAROMETER

Me ce BLES oom cd | Precipitation 24 hrs. ending Tha. m. Total precipitation since ¢an.|1....Excess simae Jan. 1 s i |

ci 41 16.61 . 1.20 I rr MIDWEST WEAT HER Indiana—Fair, centinued cpal tonight. tomorrow increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer, showers west potion by afiernoon or night. | Illinois—Indreasing cloudiness, showers probable west| portion late tonight and tomorrow and east ‘tomorrow: hot so cool northwest an west central portions tonight, slightly warmer tomorrow. Lower Michigan — Fair and continued cool. Light ftost.interior tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness. poskibly show- { ers’ extreme northwest: rising temperai ture cxcept along Lake Huron.| Ohio—Fair and continued cool tonight: tomorrow increasing cloudiness!and warmer: Friday Pie Kentuckv—Hair. cooler in southeast portion tonight: [tomorrow increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer: showers tomorrow night and possibly in west|portion tomorrow afternoon. |

A.M. Temp.

WEATHER IN| OTHER CITIES AT 7 Station. Weather, Bar. Amarillo, Tex. PtCldy 29.82 Bismarck: N.lD....... 7 29.84 Boston

reading of the

8-MONTHS-OLD BOY

Reappointed | were Mrs. Margaret Afflis, Delphi, and Charles O. Williams, Indianapolis.

FOUND DEAD IN BED

Philip: Will ITI. 8-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Will Jr., Chicago. was found dead in the nursery at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Robert Sinclair, 3736 Spring Hollow Road, early today. Dr. Frank Ramsey, deputy coroner, said death apparently was due to suffccation. The child had crawled under the covers to the foot of the bed, Dr. Ramsey said.

POPE RESUMES AUDIENCES By United Press ; CASTEL GANDOLFO. Italy, | May 19.—Pope Pius XI. suffering a |

i slight recurrence of varicose veins |

and weak heart which caused con- | cern for his lite last winter, recov- | sufficiently to resume |

firmed at once without even being referred to a committee, some Senators believe. He has been majority leader since the Democrats won control of the Senate in 1933. Senator Robinson's conservative reputation here dates from his election to the House as an anti-Popu-list 35 years ago, and has been nour-

i ished by the corporation law prac-

tice in which he engaged for many years. Cough, Arkansas power and railroad magnate, and certain parts of his voting record. On the other ‘hand, he has fought to the limit for some of the New Deal's most extreme - efforts. He sponsored the Robinson-Patman Anti Chain Store Act last year. Edward Keating, author of the first Child Labor Act, which the Supreme Court threw out, recently testified that Senator Robinson was primarily responsible for the measure’s passage by the Senate in 1916. He voted repeatedly against the bonus until 1936, when he supported it and voted to override the veto.

Supported Repeal

He voted dry for years, but supported the repeal amendment and finally voted to legalize beer. He voted against general sales-tax proposals. He voted for the Wagner Labor Act, the Guffey Coal Act, Philippines’ independence, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, invalidation of the gold clause, NRA, the St. Lawrence

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dustry and reorganization of the executive branch of the Government. The resources and wage and hour bills are scheduled to be submitted to Congress this month. The executive reorganization measure was submitted early in the session, but has been lying dormant in a joint Senate-House committee.

Wagner Mentioned his friendship with . Harvey |

For Van Devanter Seat By United Press WASHINGTON, May pending retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter of Indiana from the Supreme Court led to speculation today as to. whether a member of the present Congress could legally succeed him. One of those most proguinently mentioned is James M. Landis, retiring chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Harvard law professor. He is only 38. Senator Robert F. Wagner (D. N. Y.), author of the Wagner Labor Act and other New Deal social and economic legislation has often been mentioned. The fact that Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the New York State Supreme Court comes from the same state might mitigate against his appointment. :

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Donald Richberg, 56, former NRA | built for the canyon trip. were used | head and a prominent lawyer with [by Dr- Webb's party. James W Met- | Lieut. Comm. N. M. Nelson. flew |

convictions similar to the Presi-

Associate |

| where out along the Rio Grande to-

iday was a party of four explorers who negotiated the rapids of the dark and silent. Santa Helena Canyon in boats. The only word that they

had

| emerged alivé from one of the most |

inaccessible reaches of the gonti-

nent was contained in a telegram |

| that Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, consulting historian of the National

Park Service, sent his wife in Aus- |

tin, Tex. »*Came out safe,” i read. Dr. Webb is in] | pedition which id | mote stretch of the Texas-Mexican

the telegram

charge of the ex-

| border for the proposed Big Bend |

| National Park.

| Only one man before them, Dr. |

| Robert T. Hill, Dallas geologist, was [known to have shot Santa Helena {Canyon in a boat. He made the | trip in 1899 and described the gorge | as dark, weird and silent, where the

| Rio Grande races through a 2000- !

| foot defile in a solid sheet without la ripple. Walls of the canvon are only 25 feet apart and nearly half a mile high in places. Dr. Webb's party apparently arrived safely at Terlingua, Tex. a { border mining town where the can{yon ends. Two 16-foot steel boats. especially

calfe, acting head of the U. S. Im-

mapping this re- |

newspaper speech as “a declaration of war.” It said the cardinal “has insulted the entire German nation, including

: German Catholics.” 5

FATHER AT 98 NEAR DEATH | Bul nited Press {| NEW BERN. N. C., May 19.— | George Isaac Hughes, 98-year-old | Confederate veteran who astounded | the medical world by becoming father of two children at his ad-

{ vanced age. lapsed into a coma and |

was near death today. His children are less than 3 years of age.

VETOES WORLD'S FAIR AID Dy United Press WASHINGTON, May 19.—President Roosevelt today vetoed a joint

| congressional resolution | ing Federal participation | 1939 New ork Worlds Fair.

in the

CAR HITS GIRL, 6 Six-year-old Dorothy Bailey was cut and bruised when struck at 16th and Pennsylvania Sts. today fby a car driven by Ray Golder, Pendleton.

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| V. Skaggs and Joe Lane of Me- | Camey, were along. A Coast Guard plane. in charge of

lover the canyon Monday and

dent's has been frequently men- migration Service border patrol .at | watched the explorers negotiate the

tioned.

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Alpine, and two natives, Thomas

upper rapids.

authoriz- |

some rooms in the outlying hotels, | The Claypool reported “full” from | May 23 to June 1. The Lincoln is {sold out for both the race and the | social workers’ convention, and has

keen for three weeks. Others Seid Out

The Washington is nearly sold {out and will be definitely in a few |days. The Columbia Club is booked ‘solid from May 20 through June 1. - The Indianapolis Athletig Club has | been sold out since January. The Antlers has been overflowing | for two months with race reservations, and will turn visitors away . until the first of June. The Severin has been sold out for the race for three weeks and is turning down reservations from May 23. on. All this means a lot of work for Mr. Davis. He has been in the | business since 1925. however. and

| likes it.

He says Indianapolis accommodates between 90,000. and 125,000 | convention visitgrs a year — not counting what he lists as “events crowds,” including such things as the 500-mile race. But the end is not in sight with the first: of June this year, Mr. t Davis added. The Kiwanis Internai tional is to convene here June 20-24, | About 4000 guests are expected. | There also are many smaller events, The Young Democrats of America are to hold their biennial convene {tion here in August. There are bee. "tween 5000 and 10,000 of them.

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Spaulding Bridgeforth. 32, of 2050 Highland Place. to Hortense .Anderson, 31. of 637 Bright St.

BIRTHS Girls

Richard, Catherine Crady. at 1238 Eng-

lish. Clyde, Vera Perkins, at 2324 Brookside. Bovs Frank, Elizabeth Rayle. at 237 N. Persh-

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New Orleans New York . at Okla. City. Okla. Omaha. Neb. ..... Pittsburgh Portland. Ore. | San Antonio. Graves | San Francisco | St. Louis a 90. at 1224 W. | Tampa. Fla. La ! Washington. D. C.

ing sol Mary Thompson. at 2109 W. 11th,

DEATHS 60.

Hoover, at City.

Togace. Miranda Jane Rhoads : 19th. broncho-pneumonia.

The fluttering drape and swing of the |6-gore skirt is like a breath of romance from the old South. A morning flower could be no more-cool . . . or light and graceful in the way the fitted skirt clings to the hips . . . and then flares out like an exquisite sunburst. Let romance bow to you! Wear "Maryland Belle"!

Economize

by Dining Qut!

x Fashioned of crisp polka-dot organdy,. in pastel shades of white, and in dainty sheer floral batistes. Both with fetching grosgrain ribbon tie and belt. Sizes 12 to 20.

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Many price-conscious home mariagers have learned by actual experience that, with food prices as they are now, it is real economy to dine out, especially at the—

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The Unusual CAFETERIA

Second Floor Take Elevator