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TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937

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PROSPECTS OF EARLY LIBERTY JAR FILIPINOS

They’re Not So Sure Now It’s Best to Rush Separation From U. S.

ISLAND STOCKS DROP

Peril of Foreign Aggression Seen in Withdrawal Of Protection.

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NEW YORK. July 20.—Admitting by indirection that immediate independence may not be the best solution of the American-Philippine problem, but holding it to be better than the pending transition program, Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon today virtually invited a counter-pro-posal from Congress looking

to a continuation of the Amer-

ican flag in the islands. The statement was made incidental to President Quezon's departure today for San Francisco, from where he sails for Manila July 24. The statement appears particularly significant in view of Manila's reaction to President Quezon’s re-

cent appeal to the American congress to reduce to two or three vears the period at the end of which the Philippines will be cut adrift, instead of delaying until 1945 as contemplated by the TydingsMcDuffie Independence Act.

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President Quezon's startling suggestion created a sensation in the Philippines. It produced a panicky | drop in Philippine stocks and bonds, | and forced businessmen and poli- | ticians alike to make a hasty re- | appraisal of the probable costs and | consequences of independence, ' which heretofore had been vieved as a remote and somewhat theoretical contingency. Business interests and associations in the islands are reported organizing in protest and are meanwhile planning educational ocampaeigns to acquaint the masses with the practicalities and the real significance of complete and permanent separation from the United States. Philippine politicians long committed to independence are now guardedly discussing the possibilities of foreign aggression in the absence of any possibility of guarantees of collective security. “The Philippines have been as- | sisted economically and schooled politically by the United States for nearly 40 years,” said President Quezon today. “No people in history, coming under a foreign flag, (um to ge 10 Three)

ELEANOR HOLM ASKS HUSBAND FOR DIVORCE

Buy United Press CLEVELAND, July 20.—Eleanor Holm Jarrett, star of producer Billy Rose's Aquacade Revue in the Great Lakes Exposition and deposed Olympic swimming star, said today she had asked her crooning, band-lead-ing husband, Arthur Jarrett, for a divorce. She acknowledged reports that she had telephoned her husband at 5:30 a. m. yesterday in Dallas. “Art, I want a divorce,” she related she had said simply. Jarrett could not be reached today in Dallas. She said her contemplated divorce was a “matter of two careers.”

BOB BURNS

Says. July 20.—1If

you want a job done well, give it to a man that takes pride in his work. You may have'ta wait a little longer for it, but when you get it, it'll be done right. We've got an old tailor down home that has the reputation of being the best pants maker in seven counties, bu t you can't rush him. A traveling man heard of his reputation one time, and while he was in town he ordered a pair of pants from this old tailor. The salesman left town and came back in two weeks and called up the tailor and the tailor says, “Your pants ain't done yet but I'm workin’ on em.” A month later the salesman came back to town and his pants wasn’t ready yet. Finally on his fourth trip he dropped around to the tailor’'s shop and found the old tailor had just finished the last stitch? The salesman was pretty mad. He turned to the tailor and he says, “It took six days to make the world and it took you 80 days to make these ants!” The old tailor said, “Yes, put just take a look at the world and then take a look at them pantst™

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Court Bill Compromise Talked as Senate Moves To Se Select New Le [Leader

Judiciary Measure Is Put on "same $ Return Is Seen as

Sidetrack, Possibly Until Friday.

“Lehman on the Court,” an editorial on Page 16, tells why the cleavage over the President’s proposal runs far deeper than the 1936 campaign alignment. » Press comment on Governor Lehman's plea that Senator Wagner vote against the bill, Page 18. Raymond Clapper and Gen. Johnson also write on the plan, Page 16. Form your own opinion, then let Senator Minton, Senator VanNuys and your Representative in Congress know where YOU stand.

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—Administration forces, working under an eleventh hour Senate truce, sought today to devise a new Court compromise which would be acceptable to most judiciary bill opponents. All factions to the party-splitting controversy agreed to the truce which will delay any further Senate action on the Court measure at least until Thursday and probably until Friday. Opponents of the Court bill revised their strategy in view of the new Administration compromise drive. Senator Wheeler (D. Mont) opposition leader, announced that instead ¢f moving to recommit the measure to committee when it is taken up against the opposition. Compromise Is Talked

Senator Wheeler's announcement coincided with word from a high Administration source expressing confidence that a compromise acceptable to all but two or three opposition leaders would be achieved. As a result of the fast-breaking developments in the battle over en-

| largement of the Supreme Court, it

appeared that an early showdown on the compromise advanced by Senate Majority Leader Robinson before his death would not develop. Court bill opponents had planned to force such a showdown when the Senate met at noon today. Instead, a truce was agreed to under which the Senate met at noon and adjourned three minutes later until Thursday. Thursday may be devoted to discussion of overriding President Roosevelt's veto of a measure continuing low Federal Land Bank interest rates, delaying renewed court debate until Friday.

Caucvs at 10 Tomorrow

Meantime, the bitter Democratic leadership contest will be settled at a 10 a. m. caucus tomorrow of the 75 Senate Democrats who must choose between Senator Barkley (D., Ky.), regarded as the Administration candidate, and Senator Harrison (D. Miss.), whose strongest support comes from the ranks of court bill foes. The decision of court bill opponents not to press immediately a motion to shelve court reorganization by sending the bill back to committee was believed motivated by the Administration's new compromise move. The opponents said they were certain of enough votes to recommit the present compromise. However, the division of Senate strength on a new—and likely milder judiciary bill -—was not yet certain.

Contest Seems Close

The Barkley-Harrison leadership contest appeared to be the closest sort of race with both candidates rounding into the back-stretch neck-and-neck and a photograph finish likely. Polls of Senate sentiment indicated one or two votes might decide the issue. In the camp of the Court bill's opponents confidence was running high and there was little talk of any form of compromise. Spokesmen for this group—Ilet by Senators Wheeler (D. Mont.) and Burke (D. Neb.), declared they were now assured of a small but sufficient margin of votes to send the Court measure back to the committee pigeon-hole. They hailed as a major aid in their fight the pronouncement of Governor Lehman of New York, long a close personal and political friend of President Roosevelt, asking Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.) to oppose the Court bill. Indicative of the explosive possibilities of the Court fight was the word circulated in Administration quarters that Mr. Roosevelt Sy ed Governor Lehman's action as “stab in the back.”

Four Columns of Letters From Readers, Pages

Four and 16.

Periodic Right Swing By Roosevelt.

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 20.— Vice President John Nance Garner

| emerged today, with his return to the

| Capital,

as a key figure in Presi-

| dent Roosevelt's struggle with the | dilemma on which his whole pro- | gram is impaled because of the Su-

preme Court fight. The Vice President left here a few weeks ago for Texas displeased over certain New Deal trends, particu= larly the labor and spending pol=icies, and with the intention, according to his friends, of remaining away for the rest of the session. The death of Majority Leader Joe Robinson, the Administration’s strong right arm in the Senate, created an emergency where it became necessary to draw the Vice President back into the picture for the sake of the party because of his . talents as a conciliator and strategist. But Mr. Garner has come back (Turn to Page Yhirer)

MENACING NOTE SENT MINTON

Threat Mailed to Indiana

Senator Wrapped Around Shotgun Shell.

Times Special WASHINGTON, July 20.—Senator Minton today received by mail from Indianapolis a shotgun shell around which was a note threatening his life.

He turned the note and cardboard carrier in which it was mailed, together with the shell, over to postal authorities for investigation. The note was printed in pencil on white scrap paper about two feet long. In large letters, it read in part: “Senator Sherman Minton. Dont mistake. I am educated. If you support Roosevelt's Court Bill we will get you—you dirty rubber stamp.” It closed with an obscene line which is a direct violation of posta: laws. ‘ The mailing date was apolis, 10 p. m., July 16.” James Penman, Mr. Minton's secretary, turned it over to him today when he returned from Senator Robinson's funeral at Little Rock. One of the leading advocates of the President's Court plan, Senator Minton, a World War captain, showed more fight than fear when he read the note.

MINERS CONVENE ON GREEN OUSTER VOTE

Executive Board Is Reported Divided on Proposal.

“Indian-

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—The international executive board of the United Mine Workers’ Union met here today to discuss expelling Wil-

KOKOMO JUDGE SEEKS T0 TRY FORGERY ‘TWIN’

Sentencer of Innocent Brazil Woman Asks for New Suspects’ Case.

POLICE NAB PAIR HERE

38 Counties Issue Warrants; Prison Victim May Face ‘Double.

BULLETIN

Mr, and Mrs. Fred Dorsett, held for alleged check forging activities in 38 counties, are to be turned over to Sheriff Omer St. John of Morgan County, Capt. Matt Leach of the State Police, said this afternoon,

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The judge who sentenced an iftnocent Brazil woman to prison for

a series of forgeries today asked opportunity to preside at disposition of the same charges against her accused “double” and the latter's husband. Judge Joseph Cripe, Kokomo, sent that plea to State Police here as they held Mrs. Vivian Dorsett, 29, and her husband, Fred, 33, who were arrested here last night, charged with a long series of forgeries throughout the State. It was Judge COripe who in 1034 sentenced Mrs. Louise Botts, 29, of Brazil, to from 2 to 14 years imprisonment for seven forgeries to which State Police say the Dorsetts have confessed. Mrs. Botts was pardoned after serving 13 months when a woman answering her description and a man continued passing of fraudulent checks.

Meeting of Pair Delayed

This morning's bank robbery near Brazil delayed Capt. Matt Leach's plans to have Mrs. Botts come to State Police headquarters here to face her “double.” He said he would seek to arrange their meeting for late today. Capt. Leach was undecided in which county to prosecute the pair. He Sued warrants for their arrest have n issued in 38 counties, elke were arrested in their ar farm home on R. R. 11, where State Police claim they confiscated a printing press used to print checks bearing names of Indianapolis and Cincinnati commission houses. ‘Identified’ by Clerk Mrs, Botts, when arrested in 1034, was identified by a Kokomo store clerk as the woman who had padsed a fraudulent check. She pleaded her innocence and attempted to prove she never had been in Kokomo. But the court, after she had been “postively identified” by seven forgery victims, sentenced her to the Indiana Women’s Prison for a 2-to-14-year term. Two weeks ago, authorities charged, the couple gave a check to an observing Lebanon grocery clerk. He furnished a complete description of the pair. While the Dorsetts were in Wisconsin for 10 days, officials kept watch at their home outside the city limits in the Irvington vicinity. When they returned last night they were taken into custody. Capt. Leach said that their seven children, four of whom allegedly were used as “fronts” in checkcashing forays, are with relatives in

liam Green, president of the Amer- Ohio.

ican Federation of Labor, from the union, Opinion among the 18 board members was divided as the ‘conference began. It was the belief of several officials that ousting Mr. Green would tend to make the mild-man-nered Federation leader a “martyr.” Many of the more militant board members felt that Mr. Green had violated provisions of the wunion’s constitution outlawing “dual union” movements and that he should be expelled from his membership of four decades. The board began consideration of the issue in executive session at 10:15 a. m. It was expected the meeting would continue most of the day.

Wedding ‘Ring’

By United Press WABASH, Ind. July 20.— Harvey Hancock, 38, was in the County Jail today instead of on a honeymoon. Officers said he interrupted his own marriage by poking the Rev. Mark Ashley in the eye when the clergyman asked, as a routine question, if he had ever been married before,

Marconi Dead

WORLD MOURNS RADIO INVENTOR

Changed Ristory’s Course;

Mussolini Prays at His Bier.

By United Press

ROME, July 20.—Guglielmo Marconi, whose genius gave wireless communication to the world, died today of heart disease. Radio, which he developed and helped perfect, carried to the far corners of the earth, and to ships at sea, the news of the death of one of the great men of this age. He was in a sense a revolutionist, because he changed the course of events and perhaps of history. Because of him continents and na(Turn to Page Two)

HOLDS WELFARE BID IS ILLEGAL

Biemer Refuses to Submit

County Budget Request To Council.

Marton County Welfare Departs ment's request for $79,090.95 additional appropriations for 1937 will not be submitted to the County Council by the auditor's office, Fabian W. Biemer, chief deputy auditor, announced today. ° Mr. Biemer charged that the request, in its present form, “does not follow the law.” “One item in the list of appropriations asks $3333.30 to pay the county director's salary,” he said. “I can’t understand this since the welfare budget made up last year provided $4000 for the director's salary. Now the department asks an additional appropriation for it. “Another item in the list asks $7875 to pay traveling expenses of investigators,” he said. “The law specifically states that Welfare Board members and the county director may be reimbursed for travel (Turn to Page Three)

80 TO BE ABOUT TOP wg TEMPERATURES or MAM

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The “rising temperatures tomorrow” in the weather forecast does not mean that a new heat wave is on its way, the Weather Bureau promised today. The Bureau said that under fair skies the mercury would not climb to much over 80.

LIONS CONVENTION OPENS By United Press CHICAGO, July 20.—Ten thousand Lions Club members from eight countries opened their 21st annual convention today, expecting to consider during the next four days such matters as labor strife, communism, neutrality of North and South American countries in the Spanish civil war and control

of syphilis.

1917 Draft Chief’s Faith in War’s Goals Firm 20 Years After First Selections

By WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

CLEVELAND, July 20.—The softspoken Secretary of War who 20 years ago was directing the draft-

: ing of America's greatest army to-

day retains an unshaken faith in the cause for which that army went to the World War. “What Woodrow Wilson believed, what that army believed and what it fought for—international co-oper-ation in a field of economic liberalism, democracy, peace, freedom from autocracy—all these are just as bright goals today as they were then,” says Newton D. Baker. The wartime secretary is not one

| who customarily looks back. He is

Today, Newton b. Baker, a Cleveland lawyer, works for peace in

every practicable way.

busy with his law practice, and his work for peace and in social causes. But he was persuaded to cast an eye back to July 20, 1917, when his slender fingers plunged into a glass bowl and drew forth a capsule. In it Ya a folded paper with a number, Soon, in every community, men who had registered for the draft (Turn to Page Three)

3 BNOTS RB CENTERPOINT'S BANK OF $2000

Gunmen in Overalls Force President to Open Money Vaults.

TWO CUSTOMERS BOUND

Fugitives Believed Heading Here as Police Cordon Is Drawn.

Times Special BRAZIL, July 20.—State, Federal and Clay County law enforcement

| officers today were mobilized in a

[ok Tor three overail-clad bandits bed the First National Bank

vi 0 SM Te 10 miles south of hoe, of VR.

med and masked men who Mo ® the bank when it was opened for business by President William Graeser, left him bound and gagged. They also bound a man and woman customer, taking $40 from the man, The pair then strolled to an automobile waiting outside with a third bandit at the wheel and speeded westward before pedestrians knew | what had happened. No one ob|tained the license number of the car, believed stolen in Indianapolis last night.

Brady Suspected

Authorities have not determined definitely whether the trio was the Al Brady gang, sought for four murders and a series of holdups. From descriptions furnished to him by the victims, Raymond Foltz, State Police detective, expressed the tentative belief that it was the notorious outlaw gang. A Clay County deputy sheriff expressed the same opinion, but State Police Capt. Matt Leach at Indianapolis was reluctant to accept that theory. When Mr. Graeser opened the bank shortly before 9 a. m. he was faced by the two men who ordered him at the point of guns to open the two vaults, He opened one, but time locks prevented opening of the other, The pair scooped up all available cash, then bound and gagged Mr, Graeser. As two customers entered the institution, they were bound also. They were A. B. Moon, telephone company employee, and Miss Jo Edith Elkins, Ashboro. Mr. Graeser said the men evidently had broken into the bank through a rear door during the night, He had his back to them during the robbery and was unable to obtain clear descriptions, but the (Turn to Page Three)

66 TRAFFIC CHARGES T0 BE HEARD TODAY

Fines and Costs This Morning Total $117.

Municipal Courts faced a busy afternoon with traffic offenders scheduled to answer 66 charges. Seventeen convictions were handed down by Judges Charles Karabell and Dewey Myers this morning, with fines and costs totaling $177. Two speeders were fined $1 and costs and two others $5 with costs | suspended by Judge Karabell. Frank Morgan, 2136 Alfree St., was assessed | $20 and costs and sentenced 30 days by Judge Myers on a drunken driving charge, $1 and costs for intoxication and $1 and costs for improper lights. Mark Mitchell, 330 Highland Ave. was fined $10 and costs and given a 30-day term by Judge Myers for drunken driving. In two other cases, Judge Myers assessed $5 and costs on a speeding charge and $5 and costs for failure to give a police car rightof -way. Edward Kattany, Indianapolis Times circulation employee, was fined $1 and costs on a speeding charge today. Robert Tindall, also | a Times circulation employee, was to face a speeding charge this afternoon, Plan Safety Demonstration Meanwhile, Butler University officials were completing plans for the traffic safety demonstration by F. R. Noffsinger, American Automobile Association lecturer, who is to address summer school students on the campus tomorrow, Mr. Noffsinger is to bring a dualcontrol car to demonstrate proper road technique. A special exhibit is to illustrate various types of traffic problems. The public is invited to attend the lecture. Twenty-three of the 83 drivers arrested overnight were charged with speeding, 24 with running red lights and 16 with running preferential streets. Three pedestrians were injured slightly in traffic accidents. Nine-year-old William Best, 5345 N. Delaware St. suffered a fractured right shoulder and possible head injuries today when the bicycle he was riding was struck by an automobile at Pennsylvania and 54th Sts

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Loyalist Lines Hold As Rebels Launch Counter-Drive.

BATTLE RAGES ON

500,000 Men Involved! In Struggle Along 30-Mile Front.

By United Press MADRID, July 20.—Artillery fire and airplane bombs

of Madrid today told anxious residents that the Rebels had opened a new counter attack in their desperate attempt to erase gains made in the Loyalist offensive.

Through the night a red glare in the sky northwest of the city told that the battle continued there, in the Brunete-Quiljorna-Villaneuve de La Canada salient. It started Sate urday.

Ths morning Rebels attacked in full fury on the south front, along the Toledo road. Their objective was to drive out Loyalists shock bate talions who cut their communications there early in the offensive, Covernment airplanes went out along the roads to the south, bombing Rebel troops hastening to the front afoot and in trucks.

Battle Biggest of War

Northwest of the city, Rebel planes using incendiary bombs set fire to ripe rice and wheat which had not been harvested because of the long battle, That the battle was the biggest of the war there remained no doubt. It was estimated here that 500,000 men were concentrated on a 30-thile front northwest, west and south of the capital. Admitting that it had lost some ground in the Brunete-Quijorna area Sunday and yesterday, the Loyalist high command asserted in a communique today that it had all been regained by a series of brilliant counter-attacks. A United Press correspondent, visiting the front, confirmed that it was quiet and that insurgent counter-attacks had proved futile so far. He reported that Rebel artillery was almost inactive, but that Loyalist artillery was pounding the Rebel lines heavily. Loyalist leaders were jubilant. They believed they had smashed the counter-attacks on all fronts,

Nonintervention Session Deadlocked Again

By United Press

nine key nations deadlocked on Spanish nonintervention today and adjourned indefinitely after Italy had refused to discuss the withdrawal of volunteers from Spain. The delegates met to decide on a British prcposal for new neuirality control, failing acceptance of which the entire nonintervention plan would collapse. Joachim von Ribbentrop, German ambassador, failed to attend the afternoon meeting of the delegates. It was explained that he “had other business to SS to autend to” 9

TRIO FINED $100 IN

BIRTH CONTROL CASE

Prominent Salem Persons Convicted by Judge.

By United Press SALEM, Mass. July 20.—District Judge George B. Sears today fined three women. one a physician, $100 each on charges of violating a state law prohibiting sale, exhibition, use or loan of birth control devices and information, The defendants were Mrs. Carolyn T. Gardner, socially-prominent wife of Dr. Stuart N. Gardner, Salem physician; Dr. Lucille LordHeinstein, Tufts Medical School graduate, and Mrs. Flora Rand of Brookline, a registered nurse, They were arrested in a raid on the North Shore Mothers’ Health office, June 3, after allegedly selling contraceptives to a woman police spotter, Mrs. Dorothy W. Bradford of Hamilton, chairman of the clinic's executive committee and wife of Attorney Standish Bradford of Boston, testified that physicians and clergymen were among the 62 members of the North Shore branch of the Birth Control League.

PARIS BONDS ADVANCE By United Press PARIS, July 20-—The French Government today decreed creation of a huge fund to support Government bonds, inspiring a general advance in those funds on the Paris

that rocked the country south |

LONDON, July 20.-—Delegates of |

' ing the Chinese today,”

JAPANESE ARMY OPENS ATTACK; MADRID STANDS

North China Battle

Starts Near Walls Of Peiping.

CHIANG IN CHARGE

Self - Defense Moves Necessary, Says Tokyo Cabinet.

By United Press

TIENTSIN—Japanese troops open punitive attack on Chinese as ule Ria expires; Chinese reply te re NANKING-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek arrives to take charge of crisis; Japanese residents ore dered to be ready to evacuate on short notice, PEIPING-Japariese artillery bome bards Wanpinghsien, southwest of Peiping. TOKYO-Cabinet decides Japan must take adequate measures of self-defense,

By United Press TIENTSIN, July 20. = Twenty screaming Chinese Nationalist students, stripped naked to emphasize their determination to die for their homeland, charged Japanese positions southwest of Pei ping today and started gene eral fighting which may herald the “showdown” between the Japanese and Chinese armies in North China, the Japanese Domei News Agency reported,

The students were armed with machine guns. While their fate was not reported, it was assumed they were annihilated by the superior force of veteran Japanese soldiers which they attacked, Their action, the Japanese agency said, was a signal for the Japanese army io open a formal punitive ate tack on the strategic railway area southwest of Peiping, Chinese batteries on the right bank of the Yungting River west of Lukouchiao opened fire on the Jap anese positions near Fengtai at 7 p. m, ending a short lull in the fighting. The Japanese replied, dee stroying two watch towers. The Chinese barracks at Lukue ochiao were in flames. The artillery engagement near Fengtai lasted an hour. In addie tion to the watch towers, the Jape anese fire destroyed the city gates at Lukouchiao. The Chinese guns finally were silenced.

Skirmish at Wanpinghsien

Skirmishing occurred at 8 p. at Wanpinghsien; at Ly north of the Peiping race course, and at the Papaoshan golf course. The Central (Chinese) News Agency said many houses at Wan pinghsien had been damaged and the historic Marco Polo Bridge, which dates back centuries, had | been partially destroyed. Japanese military authorities ine dicated they would not open a general offensive during the course of negotiations with Mayor Chang Tza« chung of Shanghai. The Mayor has indicated a tene | dency to temporize with the Jape |anese. It was announced that he had been stricken suddenly with illness. His office described it as an internal hemorrhage. Maj. Gen. Torashiro Kawabe, brigade commander stationed at Peiping, admonished the Japanese army to strike “another and deadlier blow unless the Chinese reflect their actions.” “I have done my share in chastise he added.

Self-Defense Necessary, Tokyo Cabinet Decides

By United Press TOKYO, July 20.-—The Japanese Cabinet, in emergency session, dee cided today that adequate self«

i defense measures were necessary in

the North Chinese crisis. The Cabinet was reported to feel that Chinese officials had broken faith in promises to keep a truce. The Cabinet's decision was come municated to Emperor Hirohito by Foreign Minister Koki Hiroto,

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