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VICE PRESIDENT RUMOR DENIED BY TOWNSEND
Nips Report.Farley. Offered Him Nomination In 1940.
IT ‘PIPE DREAM’
Democratic Chairman Out to Ston McNutt, Indiana Congressmen Hint.
TERMS
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times. Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, May 20.— |
Governor Townsend, here to tel the Woman's National Democratic Club why Indiana favors the New Deal, today discounted reports that Jim Farley has proffered him the 1940 Vice Presidential nomination.
Gossip among members Hoosier Congressional delegation has been that Mr. Farley, national Democratic chairman, has taken this tactic to thwart former Governor McNutt’s Presidential aspirations. With Mr. McNutt now High Commissioner to the Philippines, Mr. Farley has been taking an unusual interest in Indiana, it is pointed out. Asked about this rumor, Governor Townsend said today: “There isn't any such. story. You fellows down here are just having a pipe dream.”
a Farley Reported in New York
He said, however, that he might call on Mr. Farley during the day, hut Mr. Farley's office reported that the latter is in New York. Governor Townsend is not going to the White House, since he had a talk with the President en route back from his fishing trip, he said. Nor does he intend to call upon the | Senators or Congressmen. Only scheduled departmgntal stop was at the Labor Department, where he was to confer with Secretary Perkins and other efficials regarding enlargement of the State Labor Dgpartment for better functioning along the-lines of the Wagner Labor Act, the Governor explained.
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Wife in Party
Arriving here this morning for his speech tonight, Governor Townsend was accompanied by Mrs. Townsend and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gordon. The women were entertained at luncheon at the Congressional Club at noon by Mrs. William H. Larrabee, wife of the 11th District Congressman. Tomorrow morning the Governor is to go on a fishing trip down Chesapeake Bay as the guest of Rep. Arthur Greenwood, 7th District Congressman and dean of the Hoosier delegation. Mr. Greenwood denied that the! trip had any political Significance.
RAHKE INDICTED FOR ‘ABETTING LOTTERY’
Emil Rahke, alleged lottery king, was indicted today by the Marion County Grand Jury on a charge of “aiding and abetting a lottery scheme and gift enterprise.” The indictment charged that Rahke aided baseball lottery operators by manufacturing and distributing to pool hall operators a gambling device known as the “Lightning Baseball Ticket machine.” Rahke was arrested April 14 at 1121 N. Pennsylvania St.. alleged by the police to be a lottery headquarters. He was charged with possession of a slot machine. ° The raid followed an earlier one by police on the Silent Salesman Co., in the 200 block on E. New York St. The case was continued in Municipal Court today until May 23. 25.
FOUR FIREMEN INJURED By United Press PITTSBURGH, May 20.—A $50,000 fire swept a square-block area in the south side industrial district * today, injured four firemen and
drove scores of persons from their! homes.
BOB BURNS Says: itr ooD
lot'ta people have asked me why I always use the names of my kinfolks when I talk about ‘em. I learned that from an uncle of mine
who use'ta be a reporter on the!
Press - Argus back home— that’s my Uncle O. O. Hink.' He use'ta- wonder why people didn’t take more interest in the things he wrote. Finally, Hugh Park, the editor, says, “The trouble with you is, you don’t use enough names. People are not interested in the the things that happen. unless you tell the names of the ones it happens to.” He said, “No matter what you write about, use names—names— plenty of names.”
“I'll never forget the next article!
he wrote, It read: “George Meadors went to the county fair yesterday and bought three fine .cows. Their names were Marie, Annabelle and Daisy.” (Copyrighz, 1930 7 go
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Mystery Girl Gives Police Third Name
By United Press BOSTON, May 20.—An attractive young woman who gave several different names after being found in a Back Bay hotel, today told police that her real name was Mary V. Davenport, 18, of West Troy, N. Y.
She previously had given two other names, one of them Ruth Baumgardner, missing Ohio Wesleyan coed. | She said that she had been confined to the Hudson River State Hospital at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Officials of the hospital said that a Mary V. Davenport; 18, had been a patient at the institution and was discharged in March. Police warned her that unless she gave her right name || they could jail her and hold || | |
her as a stubborn child until she identified herself. It was 4 then that she gave the name of Mary Davenport.
By United Press WATERVLIET, N. Y., May 20.—Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Davenport said today they were certain that the Boston “mystery girl” was their daughter, Mary Virginia Davenport, who has been missing since April.
DUKE'S WEDDING TO BE BLESSED
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Civil Ceremony, Spokesman Says.
By United Press { MONTS, France, May 20.—The | Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis | Warfield will have the blessing of | the Church of England on their | marriage, Herman L. Rogers, spokes- | man for the Duke. revealed today. Despite the bitter opposition of | | the Archbishop of Canterbury, pri- | mate of all England. to the former King’s marriage ta the twice-di-vorced American, Mr. Rogers told the press that there would be a religious as well as a civil ceremony.
Tours Pastor Approached
Mrs. Warfield and 'the Duke approached the pastor of the French Protestant Church at Tours, it was learned. The United Press was informed at the pastor's home: “We can’t say yes or nc if a request was made to marry the Duke and Mrs. Warfield.” The pastor could perform the Anglican Church wedding ceremony, which would involve the sanction of the church. He is not’subject to the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, as would be the case if an English pastor carried out ‘the marriage.
The religious ceremony presum- | ably be performed at the Chateau de | | Cande on June 3. | | ~The early part of the honeymoon. | {before the royal couple goes to the castle which the Duke has leased at Wasserleonburg, lower Austria. will Le spent on a yacht in the Mediterranean, it was learned today. Questioned about the Mediterranean cruise, Mr. Rogers was evasive and said it was a “possibility” and would enable the honeymooners to enjoy real seclusion. The wedding ceremony will take place in the music room, which, Mr. Rogers explained, is a small salon just off the library where Edward, Mrs. Warfield and other guests take tea daily. It is small, but if it cannot accommodate all the wedding guests the overflow will stand in the library.
at the Chateau de Cande.
and others that are to come.
home-made offerings | from the countryside.
Religious Rites Will Follow"
| near Sevenoaks, 20 miles from the
FLEW TO PARIS IN 1927
(Editorial,
to Paris, spent his 10th anniversary
lin Kent.
| bergh himself, to whem it brought
| the home, and a hig, toothy German | police dog which he imported from [the United States.
[their son Jon live. in a rambling
| winter with his wife to India—and | | goes quietly to London where he is | | unnoticed. |
| sald he was
“tion in the case has been assumed | by Judge Markey and “this court Wedding presents began to arrive | will not interfere in the matter.”
A room was set aside for them, |and the State Department, asking So | $250, 000 damages from them and far there was none from any mem- charging them with mismanaging ber of the royal family. But gifts | the bank's assets, and asking that ranged frem expensive silver to the a receiver be appointed, is on file of peasants in Superior Judge L. Ert Slack’
OCEAN FLIGHT DATE IGNORED BY LINDBERGH
Sits Alone Pondering Fame And Tragedy as World
Honors Him.
| Spends Day Quietly in. Rural English Home
With Wife, Son.
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By United Press LONDON, May 20.—Charles | Lindbergh, who 10 years ago today started from New York on a flight |
| a virtual recluse at his country home
There were local celebrations in New York and Paris but Col. Lind-
| world fame and riches—and black | tragedy—ignored it. An unobtrusive police guard round
were sufficient evidences of Lindbergh's attitude, that he wants to be left alone. He has shown traditionally reticent Britons how to be reticent, and the chief attention which he excites here is due to his strenuout efforts to avoid attention. Col. Lindbergh, his wife and
old home, Long Barn, at Weald,
Col. Lindbergh motors about flies at times—Ilast
city. the country,
Col. Lindbergh likes it | when he is not noticed at all. On | his arrival here 10 years ago, alivr | | his Paris flight, he was asked | whether he was not getting A of all the honors done him. not. he was A the time of his life. But it did not | take a great deal of the adulation | with which he was hailed on his | return. to the United States to tire: him, and now his dog Thor is his | notice to unauthorized visitors that they are not wanted. On such days as today he even has his i phone disconnected. | Tradesmen of the village have secret instructions on a means of getting through the Lindbergh yard past Thor to the house. Thor is trained to knock down persons he distrusts and stand over them, without biting, until reinforcements arrive.
COX SENDS BANK CASE TO MARKEY
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Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox, en his own motion, today transferred | to the jurisdiction of Superior | Court Judge Joseph Markey a suit brought against the State Department of Financial Institutions by officials of the closed Cumberland State Bank. His action followed a courtroom statement last week by Judge Markey that filing the Circuit Court suit, which asks return of the bank’s assets and books to the officials, was “cruel and cowardly.” Liquidation of the bank is pending in Judge Markey's court and Judge Cox said today that jurisdic-
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Another suit against Carl Ploch
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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1937
Noted Father Dies of Old Age
George Isaac Hughes of New Bern. N. C,, irth of their second child in June, 1936. Franklin Roosevelt,
just after Hughes, 17 months cld. the elderly father's arms. ”
is in the
is shown with his wife,
foreground, and Mary Gertrude in
Southern Army Veteran, Now 98, Amazed Doctors
By Uniled Press
NEW BERN. N. C.. May 20. —Georee Isaac Hughes, the Confederate states during the Civil War.
who fought for lived 98 vears without smok-
ing, and was the father of two children during the past three years, died
| today—of old age. For 70 years Mr.
Hughes lived in rural Craven County, better | only as one of the dwindling number of soldiers who fought under the
LOWE ABANDONS LEASE REQUEST
Orchestra Leader Gives Up | Municipal Gardens Proposal.
Louie Lowe, in a letter to the Park Board today, abandoned his proposal to lease the Municipal Gardens for use as a supper club this summer, Granting of the lease had been protested by West Side business and civic leaders. Approximately 100 protesters called on the Park Board this morning to voice their disapproval of the dispensing of intoxi- | cating liquors on municipal property. In his letter. the orchestra leader
would follow the civil one, to Transfers ne to Jurist said that “What we intended as an
(innocent. business proposal” had been “construed to be an obnoxious | attempt, on our part, to reduce the | general morality,” which. Mr. Lowe
| said, was not his purpose. : “He said he and his associates were
the “victims, rather than the advocates of the principle that it is neeessary to serve intoxicating liquors in order to make a success of any such venture.”
Ask Pledge From Board
After hearing the letter, the protesting group, headed by Toney Flack, West Side newspaper pub-
lisher, said he would like a promise |
from the Board that the Gardens would not be leased to anyone for “commercial purposes.” Clyde E. Baker, Park Board attorney, ruied that it was legal to lease the grounds, and Jackiel Joseph, Board president, said the property still was open for leasing. “The people out there don’t understand the situation,” Mr. Joseph said. “There are enough clubhouses and meeting places {o take care of all the group gatherings on the West Side Without using the Gardens.”
known locally
¢ Stars and Bars. In 1934 he attained national prominence. His 23-year-lod bride gave birth to a son. At that time he was 95. Scientific | authorities, amazed at the birth, in- | vestigated. The American Medical | Association fermally established paSernity a the poverty-stricken pene boy was named Franklin | Fant ly The father re- | ceived a note of congratulation from the White House. Last year, Mr. Hughes announced the birth of his 17th child—a girl. She disappointed the grizzled old
| veteran. Confinement made it im-
possible for his young wife to vote at the State Democratic primary. Physicians and laboratory scientists throughout the country were dumbfounded by the two births. Only the father, gnarled taciturn, was unexcited. “There is nothing particularly remarkable about my becoming a father again,” he said. “It’s a simple formula—hard work, regular hours, no smoking.” He puttered about his dilapidated two-story house, curtainless and bare. He figured he'd live a while vet. His grandmother died at 110. His mother died at 103. He died today.
RORABACK FUNERAL WILL BE SATURDAY
Utilities Magnate Controlled Connecticut Party.
By United Press HARTFORD, Conn. May 20.— The quarter-century domination of the Republican Party in Connecticutt by one man has ended with the suicide of J. Henry Roraback, 67, utilities magnate and one of the |last of the nationally influential “Old Guard’ Republican leaders.
fection, Mr. Roraback put a gun to his head at his Harwinton shooting lodge yesterday and killed himself, according to Medical Examiner Dr. H. B. Hanchett. Funeral services will be held at his home here Saturday.
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LITICS
HINDERS
PROBATION SYSTEM, HEAD OF NATIONAL GROUP SAYA
HOLDS PRIVATE CARE OF CHILD
” Clinles L. Chute Declares Governor's Ap-
pointees Untrained;
Townsend in Capital;
Heller Has ‘No Comment.’
8 CUTB BY. S CLAIMS CHILD COURTS HAMPERED
Jewish Home oe] Ein So-
ciety Head Notes Narrowing Field.
Jacob Kepecs, Chicago, Jewish Home Finding Society director, today told the Jewish Conference of
Social ‘Workers that Government social work has lessened the scope of private child social work. He was speaking to morning study groups in the Hotel Severin. The conference began last night with an address by Harry L. Glucksman, New York, Conference president. It is to continue through the week and then merge with the National Conference of Social Work. “When the social security program as a whole, and the child welfare provisions in' particular, are fully realized, the effect is very likely to be a further decline in the number of children requiring foster care,” Mr. Kepecs said. “The gradual introduction of housekeeper service to motherless families, which is expanding throughout the country, contributes further to the trend indicated.” Mr. Kepecs said there are now approximately 250,000 children in the nation who are being cared for in foster homes under the supervision of professional child care agencies. “The Jewish group in particular,” Mr. Glucksman said, “has much at stake in the fate of democracy. Its very right to maintain its existence with distinctive group characteristics is dependent upon democracy as an ideal as well as a political form. Mr. Glucksman called upon the (Turn to Page Three)
TRUCKMAN IS KILLED ON EVE OF WEDDING
Greensburg Youth Dies at Rail Crossing.
Times Special SHELBYVILLE, May 20.—A 21-vear-old truck driver who was to have been married to his high school sweetheart tomorrow was killed instantly here today when a Big Four passenger train demolished his truck. Franklin Tompkins, Greensburg, was to marry Miss Dollie Kendrick, who is to be graduated from Greensburg High School tonight. They went to high school together. But this morning, he apparently drove his bread wagon directly in front of the train at a street intersection here. His body was badly mangled and carried about 100 feet by the train. The truck's wreckage was carried about 100 yards down the right-of-way. Switch trackage was torn up by the impact. Mr. Tompkins was the son of Morton T. Tompkins, a driver for the same company.
STRAWBERRIES DAMAGED By United Press NEW ALBANY, Ind, May 20.— Floyd County strawberry growers estimated their loss at more than $35,000 today after yesterday's heavy hailstorm. Peach and plum orchards also were damaged heavily by the storm.
Kindergarten.
CHILD HEALTH DAY MARKED HERE
Exercise is emphasized in the health program of the Indianapolis Free At Child Health Day exercise in Brookside Community House, little girls like Jane Aspinall, jumping the rope, will get prizes.
«Are Gilbert Templeton, Barbara Boker and Mjss Payne,
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Watching
VACCINE GUARDS THEIR HEALTH
and smallpox.
Sarten, Je fage | 2
Setback i in Solution oti ot Deling
Delinquency Is Hinted
On Eve of Association Conference
By JOE
and has been its director sin
SEEKS LARGER “FLOOD AID FUND
House Chan Calis for Planned Economy in Ohio Valley.
By United Press WASHINGTON. May 20.—Chairman Will M. Whittington (D. Miss.) of the House Flood Control Committee announced today that -President Roosevelt had indicated willingness to accept a 25-million-dollar emergency flood control authorization for the Ohio Valley at this session of Congress. Mr. Whittington made the statement after a White House conference. Simultaneously, a group of House members from states stricken by recent Ohio River floods demanded “action without further delay.” Mr. Wittington said the program meant that about 11 million dollars would be given right-of-way this session and the balance considered next year. Mr. Whittington told Mr. Roosevelt that enlargement of the (30 million dollars worth of flood -control authorizations “would be planned economy.” “My personal view,” Mr. Whittington told the President. “is that! it would be planned economy to prevent recurrence of the 1937 flood because. ultimately, those losses must be absorbed by , the whole country.” Mr. Whittington said any emergency priority for new flood control projects must be outside the 30 million dollar budget item because that amount already has been allotted for authorizations to specifié projects.
Interior Bill Meets Filibuster
WASHINGTON, May 20.—Republicans began filibustering in the House today as Administration leaders sought to pass the 116 million dollar Interior Department Supply Bill and start debate on the Administration’s billion and a half dollar work-relief program. Rep. Taber| (R. N. Y)), ranking Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee, served notice that six. separate roll calls would be sought on the controversial interior bill. A roll call consumes 45 minutes, and such strategy, if successful, would delay passage of the measure until late in the day and probably put- off until Monday action on the relief measure. Involved in the relief and interior fights were proposals to cut relief expenditures one third, and reduce the interior approdpriation one-tenth.
Roosevelt to Talk With Business Heads
(Copyright. 1937. by United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 20.—President Roosevelt plans to confer with business leaders before submitting an industrial legislative program to Congress, a source close to the White House said today, . . Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has suggested to the President that the problem of /dindustrial stability be approached in a’ mammer similar to that followed in agriculture. If this procedure is followed, the President would invite industrial leaders here to discuss their problems and to devise a program to restore stability of production, employment and prices. President Roosevelt, indicating a favorable attitude toward the plan, said price stability might be obtained through a plan similar to the objectives and spirit of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
HOOSIER IS NOMINATED
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All those in the prize classes in the kindergarten have been vaccinated against diphtheria Here Thomas Todd is showing his bandaged arm to Thomas Kelly and Betty Jo Holtzhauer (left) and Miriam Ingram and Donald Mussawir, all pupils at the’ Fairview Kinder-
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Times Special : WASHINGTON, May 20.—President Roosevelt today sent to thé Senate the nomination of Warden McK. Wilson, formerly of Indianapolis and now in the diplomatic service at The Hague, for promotion to the post of Consul General. He is now first secretary of the
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the State Probation Commission.
Legation and in the. sigeet service.
Opening Here Tomorrow.
COLLIER
Charles L. Chute, National Probation Association executive director, New York, today charged in a preconference interview that “political interference” bation system and Juvenile Court personnel, “ars going. to set back the state’s solution of juvenile delinquency. Mr. Chute, who organized the association 25 years ago,
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ce, wrote the law establishing He is here for the sessions © of the association beginning tomorrow and continuing through next week as a part of the National Conference of Social Work.
Blames Governor
Mr. Chute said‘ that Governor Townsend, when he dismissed three members of the Probation Come mission in April, appointed in their places three persons “who are entirely untrained in . probation work.” The Governor removed Dr. Francis BE. McCabe as director, Miss Emma Poschner, American Legion national child welfare director, and Judge Dan Pyle, South Bend. “All of these persons were experienced in parole work, and had set up standards of examination for persons seeking parole jobs,” Mr. Chute said. “Only through high standards can the work progress and we are now afraid political influence will become an important factor in these ape pointments. “Juvenile Court work, too, hasn’t made steady progress in this State because of political interference. We believe that persons cannot become expert in this work, and make it a life occupation, when they are subject to political dismissal. It must be taken out of politics.” Governor Townsend was in Wash« ington today. Dick Heller, his exec= utive secretary, Said he had no comment to make on the charge. Mr. Chute described bad housing as a contributing cause to juvenile | delinquency. He named five reasons { for youthful waywardness: ; 1. Farental maladjustment, be= cause it deprives the youth of core rect example. 2. Bad neighborhoods, bad environment outside the home, and those things found most frequently in congested and slum districts. 3. Bad associations which occur most frequently in slum areas. 4, Bad moral conditions and unfit amusements. 5. Causes arising within the ine dividual such as feeble mindedness.
“Children Better Off”
Mr. Chute said that approxie mately 250,000 children come befors juvenile courts annually charged with some delinquency. To attend to the supervision of these, he said, there are now some 4500 trained social workers attached to the courts of the nation. To each of these, he said, is assigned about 50 cases. The child today, he: said, is much better off, generally speaking, than 25 years ago. He attributed the improvement to intelligent handling of the problems of the delinquent chile dren, which: he said quite frequently did not originate with them and probably never could be solved by the children themselves without aid,
MORE RAIN TO ADD TO FARMING DELAY
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 52 10 a. m... Tam... 5355 ‘11a. m.. 8 a.m 58 12 (noon). 9a m..,. 60 1pm
62 62 61 64
More clouds and more rain were predicted for Marion County farme ers tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. Rain already has delayed truck farming to a point where few growers will have produce ready for the first, or premium, mars ket, according to County Agricule tural Agent Horace Abbott.
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Books ....... 17 Bridge ...... 20 Broun ....... 18 Clapper Sl Comics 28 Crossword ... 28 Curious World 29 Editorials ... 18 Fashions .... 20 Financial .... 19 Fishbein «17 Forum 18 ‘Grin, Bear It 28 In Indpls.... 3 Jane Jordan. 20 Johnson .....-18
Merry-Go-R'd 18 Movies 22 Mrs. Ferguson 17 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Music Obituaries ..
Scherrer Serial Story. .
Short Story.. 28
State Deaths 6 Wiggam teres 29