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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1987

V OLUME 49—NUMBER 101

TURN HUNT TO SOUTH PACIFIC ISLES

* [7.STATE STEEL |

32.000 WATCH Karabell Places Safety ALLSTAR Tr, Prackor Ki hed in C #4 DY OES,

Smash Into Tree Brings | » a a.m... 82 12 (noon) Gomez Is Starting Hurler »

Syms tee FRAGOMMES COURSE CHANGED PEACE PARLEY Record of 92 ny r=x=s XEN SEARCH FOR wos RIGHTS OF WAR. ed al ® ‘Townsend Favors cohol .m....% 1p.wm.. ‘He Asks to Be Recognized 81 for 193% | —— For Americans in Game sn. At Washington.

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TAREE 11 a.m

Laws Are Adequate, He S Savs, Citing Duty Of Judges.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Proposal to Use His The summer heat record of 92 de- | | As Belligerent; Makes

10 2... | . tod J. 'H. " , , Another name ‘Was added ‘to Truce as Basis. o Reprisal Threats. : Bs a Marion County's traffic toll today. - Recall Experiences of New Signals Reported

Te Sot. 45 37 "FORD UNION LOSES PLEA IS TENSE Other Pilots Down Picked Up; Putnam

James Hood, 45, 537 N. Leon St, | In Pacific. Is Siepical

grees may be broken Armington, U. S. meteorologist said. | Set on May 31, the record almost | toppled late yesterday when the mercury climbed to 91.3 at 4 p, m, Pressure conditions, Mr, Armington said, are causing a slow drift of air from the South. The air is warmed as it passes over the ground made hot by the sun's rays. | If the air currents were moving faster, it would be cooler, he said, Whether the summer record is |

(Another Story, Page Three)

Keeping the § streets and highways G HRI LOUTS HOMER safe is the responsibility of the E G C courts, Municipal Judge Charles Karabell said today. He made this assertion in commenting on a DeKalb Circuit Court judge's statement charging the | Legislature had weakened the [drunken driving law

HOLY LAND

was killed vesterday when the truck in which he was riding crashed into a tree on Massachusetts Ave. near 33d St. Ezra E. Backer, 48, | 1535 W. Ohio St, his companion, | was reported in a fair condtiion in |

British Hold Troops Ready As Proposal Is Made to Divide Palestine.

NLRB Refuses to Allow It| To Intervene in Detroit Hearing.

Joe Moore Emerges From

Scramble With Ball 5 ON SEA 0 DAYS COLORADO NEAR

Tossed by F. D. R.

000 1 002

Natinnals Americans

WASHINGTON, July 7. The fifth major league AllStar game into the with the

went fourth inning today American Laeguers 9 4 2 oO

President Roosevelt was included capacity crowd of 32,Chief Executive tossed first ball The starting lineup: NATIONAL AMERICAN Rolfe, Gehringer, 2h Vaughan, 3h Di Maggio, rf Medwick, If Gehrig, 1h Demaree, of Averill, of Mize, 1h Cronin, ss

among the nnn The

out the

FP. Waner. rf

Herman, 2h

leading!

| “The laws are more than adequate [and the recently amended State [law on drunken operating is a good | | one,” Judge Karabell said, “but if | | Judges in cities and towns through- | lout the State don't go after drunken drivers and other traffic offenders | with full use of the power of the | courts, we never will be able to stop | unnecessary killing and maiming on | tife streets and highways.” In a recent statement,

and much credit is being claimed bv the State Department of Public Safety concerning the change in the | (Turn to Page Three)

POWER FIRM ISSUE TERMED ‘UNSOUND"

Circuit | Judge W. P. Endicott declared that | “a lot of noise is now being made |

City Hospital. The accident apparently was caused by a tire blowout, accord[ing to Dr. Nozian R. Booher, dep- | (uty coroner. Hood, who had | | been employed No the Sheriff -Gos{lin Roofing Co. for about two | months, is to be buried Friday in | Crown Hill following funeral serv- | jces at 10 a. m. in the Hisey & Titus Funeral Home.

Another Critically Hurt

Bu United Press ALCOA, Tenn, July 7.-An explosion disrupted operations of a transmission power line into the sheet mill plant of the Aluminum Corp. of Amerjoa here today shortly before the company was scheduled to reopen the plant despite a strike.

A proposed conference of gov Survivors are the wife Mrs. Dana | ernors from [Mosier Hood; two sons, James Jr. and William; Jan: two brothers, John and Joseph, | industry, was indorsed and a sister, Mrs. Mary Culbertson, | Governor Townsend. all of Indianapolis. | Meanwhile, he announced tha Joseph Bresock, | eastern Ave.,

the seven stoel-strike | states, at which his own truce plan | | would be discussed as a ‘basis for a daughter, Beverly | settlement, of all disputes in the today by

t |

22, 3937 South- | his efforts to bring about a temwas injured critically | porary truce between Youngstown

last night when the car in which he | gheet & Tube Co. and the strike |

was riding struck the abutment of a railroad viaduct in

ing Steel Workers

Organizing 1400 block | 5ommittee in Bast Chicago would

(of last heat mercury over secutive days, records here,

year,

Proposed Welfare Figure of $4,538,702 Over This Year.

hroken today or | pected to be as hot

, 1t Is not ex- | as the day, which kept eight and broke all-time |

wave began

The forecast is for fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow,

Increase

July 7 the | the con-

(Bilbao's Innocents Abroad, Page 11)

By United Press SALAMANCA, Spain, July 7. Gen. Francisco Franco demanded {in a note to world powers today [that his Rebel regime be granted | rights as belligerents in the eivil war, Accusing Great France of favoring

Britain and

the Loyalists

Times Kpecial Writer

WASHINGTON,

which refused his the

recognition he wants.

regime At the same time he asserted that,

| Rebels “morally” —meaning prin- | |eipally Germany and Italy—do not | | seek territorial concessions in Spain | and do not seek to alter the present | status in the Mediterranean. Franco, the Rebel dictator and commander-in-chief, assumed his diplomatic offensive vigorously, tak-

Noonan.

| the Pacific.

And Shar ks.

Navy fliers twice have heen | rescued after days adrift in| search in a new area of the

| South

| |

By RUTH FINNEY

Another in Rubber Planes to Be Sent Up Boat Fought Sun

In Effort to Find Lost Pair.

(Mrs. Roosevelt, Page 11)

By United Press HONOLULU, T. H battleship three was steaming at today toward

Phosnix Islands

Pacific

for

July Colorado, swift

airtop the begin

Amelia In 1925 the late Comm. John | to shart and Frederick Noo-

Raymond St. Else Schroeder, 18, 2640 Brill St, driver of the car, received minor in-

juries. Police were told that MISS | ornor said when informed that Schroeder lost

apparently control | P kita ederal officials were considering 'of the car when it hit a rough spot the seven-state parley. “The only | Bicycle Rider Injured communications 1 have had from |to pay $950,095, which is $83,528 Would Gain Prestige | the Labor Department have been |more than it paid this year. The Concession of recognition to his scar renson, 15, 3! 1- | ? ) | ON Ttevenstin, 13. 6 pie he 1 | congratulations on our settlement | remaining $3,588,607 is to be borne [regime as belligerents would give the Gon, St. was Teporing ‘Th a. Epitice | here.” by the State and Federal govern- Rebels the right under international condition today in City Hospital Deadlockea | Ments and other credits, such as [law to conduct a formal blockade of after the bicycle he was riding was | “l delinquent tax Se and | the Spanish coasts and naturally ™ ili ar urity iss ¢ bv . | 4 & OW got S| quired by the oard. | would elevate his junta ih internaThe managers of the two teams Million dollar security issue made | gtruck by a ear last night at 22d He said his own negotiations th property acquired b : ] and the presidents of the two by the utility after the 1927 merger |... Sheldon Sts. | Sheet & Tube were “deadlo The total paid by these govern. tional prestige, thus making his leagues, together with Commission- | Was “not sound financing.” | Fred Maxie. 39. of 2624 Boulevard | Dut said he ‘believed a settlement | ments and credits this year was path easier in seeking diplomatic | er Landis, were introduced to the He said such an issue Was ©X- g. 0 guiver of the car, was ar- | would be reached this week, $2,273,085. | recognition for the Rebels as the | President |cossive in the face of a 40 million | cole nT one of recklass driv- |. He ordered Thomas R. Hutson, | Despite the proposed $83,528 in- | real government of Spain, There mad scramble | dollar valuation set on the com- | | ing ‘and '§ My | State ‘Labor Commissioner, to re- | crease in the county's share, the | Franco's note, sent to prineipal | among the players for the first bail | Pany's property that year by the | he ai: of Peter Hoffman. | [turn to Lake County to await de- | Department's new tax levy is ex- | foreign powers, said: tossed out by the President. Joe | Commission. Previously he testified | 68. of 640 E. 52d St. was reported |'velopments. Mr. Hutson, who ne- pected to be less than EE “The sacrifices which Rebel Spain Moore. New York Giants’ outfislder, | that a “fair return” on used and | | fair today at Methodist Hospital. He | gOtiated the Inland Steel Co. agree- fhe Ba the sarbpieB Rid is making in defense of Western finally emerged from the melee with | useful property of the company Was | uaa “two broken ribs and head Ment which returned 12,000 men to | irector Thomas Nea oo aable | Civilization, in liberating its territhe ball between 6': and 7 per cent. (Turn | to Page 10 The levy on each $100 of taxable |y5ey from communism, in defense : injuries in an auto-truck wreck ves- | borer erty in the County can be re- ; After umpires. managers and| In fixing his rate, Mr. Wuensch | - prop of its unity and national rebirth, aches ‘Tonto. CORSETS | sai i | terday at 33d St. and Park Ave. | duced, however, Mr. Neal said, if the | coaches held a long conference nt Said he based his estimate on no | Earl Deal. 27. of 911 Noble St. T R ) | together with the glorious pages home plate over ground rules, the |specific valuation, but on the inter- v oh he U ESTIMATE REMS E | total new County property VAIUAHON |yrittan hy its thousands of heroes | was held on charges of failure to is the same or more than the oi (Turn to Page Four) ESTATE AT $155, 000 valuation, This levy reduction is to be made | ceed toward their rescuers. | Itasea and the Navy minesweepar

American League team ran on the |est that would have to be paid vo top after an accident ahd reckless | possible, county welfare officials be- SOVIET NEWS HEAD But they did get terribly thirsty, they had | Swan. The British freighter Moor-

field and . rage ople to invest mm the : fel wnt "wie enife vegan Wt Tre orto peupe 1 driving today after an accident yesPp. Mm hy terday at R. R. 1 on Hanna Ave. "i init _ Tat Jud e estate of the late JuGge p.yp Hy anticipated revenue inCharles Remster, who died Iast| ....cec expected to result from hea- | IS REPORTED SEIZED | when they came down vier tax collections [en quarts of water, (wo quarts of | by which spent five days aiding inh

Mr. Wuensch set his estimate of : the, ais : : | Deputy sheriffs were making an equity owned by common stock | in vestigation when a car He, by | | week, was estimated at $155,000 in |'an application for letters of admin-| “wrast of the 1938 budget increase is | 71 | nied Press black coffee, five or six sandwiches the search was forced to give up to take care of an anticipated in- MOSCOW, July 7. The Sverd- | of moldy bread and strong meat, a | because of fuel shortage, The naval

h 1d e t [< " y % olaers a 15 millior dollars and said | Mis ) istration filed in Probate Court toe 1 *h proved to be pation, [Ships were expected to reach these

| continue despite apparent failure in [long conferences yesterday. “I will be glad to help,” the Gov-

Rodgers and four others, down near | their goal in an attempted flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, were rescued after mine days on the |'water. | edge of the Phoenix group of small Six vears ago Verne Warren cordl reefs and ‘volcanic deposits, at Marshman had an even. more har- 8:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) to= rowing experience, He was forced | | day, down in a land plane, near the | fom this narrow, line of shoals | Canal Zone. The plane sank after | ith daylight and visibility permit=

11 hours. He drifted six days in a | tin Capt. Priedell the Color \ rubber lifeboat before being rescued. | MiB ol plans to Satna, 1A

Comm. Rodgers and his crew Were | thas planes and start the search

in a large Navy Setialie when their | immadiately. Winslow Bank is 280 gasoline ran out. There was a Wigh | miles southeast of Howland Tsland sea, but they made a perfect land- | where Miss Earhart planned to land ing on the ocean and immediately | jast Friday afternoon on her ate started to sail their now motorless | tempt to fly around the world in her plane to Kauai, one of the Hawaiian | $80,000 “flying laboratory.” Islands 450 miles away. | The planes aboard the Colorado Heard Search Going On are two-seaters, They have a | cruising range of 200 miles from the The men felt no great alarm, they | mother ship and back again. Capt, said later. While unable to send | ¥riedell planned to deploy them radio messages, they could hear | spokewise from the ship. everything the Navy was doing in| their behalf. They knew their own | Ttasea Moves South position, and they were able to pro- Also converging on the Phoenix | Islands were the coast guard cutter

ing advantage of the new situation A proposed budget of $4,538.702, a brought about by a clash between total increase of $1,399,050 over this [Great Britain and France, on one year, had been approved today by | side, and Germany and Ttaly on the the Marion County Welfare Board, |Other on international policy toward Of this amount, the County is | the civil war,

(American), plate: first: Quinn (Amer(National), third.

Players stood with bared | in front of the President's box | FE. J. Wuensch, securities expert while he was being seated. The | testifying for the Indianapolis | band played the National Anthem | Power & Light Co. in its rate case | while isiting Boy Scouts raised (how before the Indiana Public the Stars and Stripes up the center- Service Commission, said today on field flag pole. rross-examination that the 42 |

nan, The Colorado was scheduled to reach Winslow Bank, on the north

Security Figure Excessive, Says Company Expert.

Umpires—MeGowan Pinel National),

ican), second: Barr

heads

Negotiations

was A]

First NATIONAL— Waner Vaughan Medwick

Inning Rolfe threw out P, Herman fouled to Dickey. singled to righi center, forced Vaughan, Cronin to Gehringer. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS. AMERICAN--Herman tossed out Rolfe. Gehringer lined to Bartell. Di Maggio walked. Gehrig fanned. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS.

. > +f © > ’ 1 he Ty utility stock available Ave. Indiana Central Collage stuCommission Chairman Perry Mc- | dent, was sideswiped. The car driver Cart ‘asked Mr. Wiensch if It ‘was! failed to stop, deputies said. day. : y They arrested Deal after a chase | The application was filed by Har- sion rolls. Effective July 1, 1938, in the issue of July 3 ‘renching here and emergency rations of crackers | islands later today. These craft | old M, Remster, a nephew. No will | the pension age limit is to be low- | today, declared that Jacob G. Do- and “canned willie.” | had engaged in a fruitless search {was filed. The application stated | ered from 70 to 65 vears of age. | letzky, managing editor of the offi-| “This was not much for five men. | of the seas north, northwest and efal Tass News Agency, had been | They couldn’t eat the meat in the | west of Howland Island.

(Turn to Page 4) of two blocks. | that five nephews, two nieces, a | At present there are 4600 old-age arrested and had attempted suicide. | sandwiches at first, but after a | Also speeding to the rescue were

Second Inning NATIONAL — Demaree flied to | Averill. Mize flied to West. Gehrig | threw out Hartnett. NO RUNS. NO | HITS. NO ERRORS AMERICAN-—Averill singled to right, Cronin flied to Demaree. Dickey beat out an infield hit. West flied to Demaree, Gomez struck out. NO RUNS, TWO HITS. ERRORS.

Third Inning

More Reports Received

Naval headquarters said that it did not plah to send planes driectly from this base to the Howland Island vicinity, One seaplane ast Saturday sought to make the 1800- | mile flight but was turned back 400 [ miles short of its goal by a sleet { | storm. Additional reports were received [on the mainland today—from radio vv 12 Mrs, NS | amateur operators—purporting to

(Copyright, 1937, by Science Service)

WASHINGTON, July 7—Vagaries of the radio reflecting layers, miles | | above the earth's surface, may be responsible for the confusion over sig- | Books “ee nals which are thought to come from the radio transmitter of Amelia | Bridge Earhart and Capt. Fred Noonan, Broun Radio sxperts at the National Bu. ®——— tdduitiomiad “ | Clapper reau of Standards said it would be | 500 —— they should be re-! Comics ,......18 Music | entirely possible for the two avia- | ceived for perhaps 500 miles by the | Crossword ....18 Obituaries .... 5 gion to avon THO Tr iY | tors to be surrounded by a zone of | direct so-called ground wave, Curious World. 18 | O'Keefe ......11 Now ™M R _ silence that blocks communication | But if Miss Earhart is unable to | Editorials ....12 Pyle .......onll] oo » M essages Reporte [with nearby rescuers and yet per- | use this frequency (and on repeated | Fashions ..... 6 Radio ........19| arles Miguel, Oakland amateur | mits reception of their static-gar- | request she has failed to answer on | Financial .....15 | Scherrer a1 who reported he heard sighals | bled messages by amateurs on the it), then the higher frequency at | Fishbein 6 | Serial Story...18| Saturday and yesterday on Miss California coast, 3105 kilocyeles would have to be | ‘Forum .......12| Short Story...18| Farhart's ‘wave length, said he Radio “skip used. Over land the direct sighal | Grin, Bear It..18 Side Glances..1l | picked up another message at 6:30 answer. lon this frequency reaches only In Indpls. . 3/8ociety ....... 7|a. mm. Pacific Standard Time to. If signals were being sent from | about 50 miles; over water it prob- | Jane Jordan «+ 8 8ports ...,.... 8] day. | the downed airplane in the inter- ably would not be better than 200 | | Jasper veiees 10 State Deaths., 5| This | national S08 transmission band, at | (Turn to Page Three) | Johnson ......12' Wiggam ......19

er PE BEETLES AT WORK . .

| By ROBERT D, POTTER | |

vena 11 Merry-Go-R'd 12 doves, 8B PMOVIeS uuu TE veeesves 12 Mrs, Ferguson. 11 |

distance” is

Federal, state and county govern- | : public for more than a month and| water, The crackers—and a rain- | party will include 10 ships and 4,000 failures in life just because they | apolis pharmacist, today awaited water in their sail, and after trans- | said. “Then. if the search has anything if he day by the Indiana Supreme Court. | SOUTH BEND, Ind. July 1. AMERICAN—Bartell threw out | she was a strong on Big Sugar Creek near Boges- | TIMES FEATURES After he reached Hamilton Noble Sts. robbing him of $1.25, | i izzv turned his back | had never made ' Dt A PI es trying to reach the boat. away. Herman threw out Averill. $10, 000 come to me and I will marry | ot Water | By United Press WORKLURS CLASH IN STATE | dropped in. self with a sickle while trimthe | It was not learned immediately |

"PIN HOPE ON P the estate. 1038, the number is expected to A PEALS | reach approximately 8000 by Decem- | not been made public and his|moldy bread more palatable by | four destroyers, They were due in Sa AN [ber, 1938 whereabouts was unknown, the|toasting it in the sun. Canned | the vieinity of the Phoenix Islands > : Tul It Scheduled to die in the electric | $ . , newspaper said, willfe ‘wouldn't stay on their | this week-end. When they arrive July 7.—1t| by . oN y tod | sometimes saddens me when I ‘think | Chair Jan. 27. two young convicted | Ache-ation ments for old-age pensions here in | how many men have lived and died, 1938 was fixed In the budget at officials denied knowledge of where | Stott Keb Be ves a men | court action . (Tarn to Page 10) i he had gone. esen es Off Goal “We will have made a thorough ‘didn’t happen to meet the Tight| poor No their appeals. . S a | The rain lasted only half an hour search of the northern Phoenix | woman. 1 don’t believe my Cousin 8 arshall Jr, 19, ana Curtis IN NO |ciab ‘would've : Neal, 21, were sentenced to die July ° é ° . ’ Signals Skip Distance, | erring this yg Canteens they licked | brought no results, we will proceed y “ ‘ 5 e sail with their tongues to get land.” NATIONAL—Cronin tossed out | hadn't met the en were convicted in Shelby (Turn to Page Three) ¥ [> yw Bartell. Dean popped to DiMaggio. | right girl. ounty of ‘the dollar-and-a- || __yerne Rutherford, a garage P, Waner flied to West. No runs, | 1t was love at (Quarter ' murder of Mr, Bright, 4102 || owner, returned from his “vacation” today, vowing that he | town : Rolfe. Herman threw out Gehr- irl and she told ) a inger. Di Maggio singled to center. Rim that she oa We al, Marena] Rnd Neal Lake near Angola, the follow- ON INSIDE PAGES Gehrig hit a home run over the couldn't marry g ith waylaying Mr. || yng transpired: His speed boat floated away. ; : Killing him and disposing of the to the plate and hammered his anything of him- , fist into his glove in disgust. The self and that he spent all his time iii ; When he recovered the boat homer was a terrific blow high around pool halls and she says NA PLANES CRASH its motor died, then it turned : Ee VY over, » t 9 S 1 | YOu. : : TWO RUNS. TWO HITS. NO |". Welitite work in a grocery store When being taken to shore ERRORS. and she didn’t see him for three the rescue boat upset, ducking him again. PENSACOLA, Fla, July 7.—Two By United Press He told her he was working hard Planes from the U. 8, Naval Air SOU ITH BEND, July \ ~Forty and savin’ every penny and she savs, | station near here collided in mid | ming the lawn, striking and non-striking enpir €eS | “How close are you to the $10,000," He came home disgusted to find his trees and lawn ruined | how many fliers were in the planes lor if any sSeaped injury. j CABBAGE THEIR FAVORITE "ili

Total amount to be paid by the Doletzky has not been seen in|stomachs because they had so little | the complement of the searching slayers of William Bright, Indian- | but they caught three quarts of group by Priday,” Capt. Friedel amounted to 24, but were granted a stay yester- ; By United Press no hits. no errors. first sight, but | Bowman Ave, whose body was found | Say U. S. Radio Exper is ' will never take another one. t Jan. 4 , $ richt field fence, scoring behind | him because he Brigh a at Washington and ¥ He mired his car in a marsh " “W- rou have made and saved over the right field fence 320 feet hen’ you ha Be Was ‘fescue ‘Hom 20 ‘test | months, so finally one day she | The next day he slashed him- | air today and crashed in flames, of the Bike Web Manufacturing C0. | gang he says, “I got $18” and she | by a broken gas main.

message, inh a feeble voice (Turn to Page Three)

clashed briefly at the plant gates to- | | says, “That's close enough.” day. No one was injured badly. i (Copyright. 1987)

WORM TROUBLES . .

TOBACCO RAISERS NIGHTMARE “.d

Indiana farmers are develops into a

En ne ve ve He vom tig

These Mexican besh beetles have ‘wrecked this leat, , Page 3)