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FORECAST: Fair and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer,

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JURY PANELS ALL ILLEGAL JUDGE INFERS

Frank P. Baker Says Ruling May Disrupt Other Criminal Trials.

JOEL BAKER CASE RESET

Emmert Tells Commissioners To Obtain New Venire List by Monday.

Disruption of the entire Marion County Criminal

. . . . | Court trial calender, including | Grand Jury activities, will rve- |

sult from jury box irregularities disclosed in the Joel A. Baker case, Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker clared today.

Trial of Joel Baker, charged with |

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 118

Budge, Parker Victories Return Davis Cup to U.S. After Vain 10-Year Fight

| tm ‘Trophy Clinched as Frankie Trims Charley Hare, | 6-2, 6-4 and 6-2; America Gets Match Margin Of 4 to 1 as Don Beats Austin.

By United Press | WIMBLEDON, England, July 27.—The youngest Davis Cup team ever | sent abroad by the United States won the treasured tennis trophy from Great Britain today when Frankie Parker beat Charley Hare, 6-2, 6-4, 8-2. Parker's triumph, achieved before some 10,000 spectators, gave the United States the needed third point in the challenge round, and reduced ‘the final match between Donald Budge and Bunny Austin simply to an exhibtion. | Budge won the match 8-6, 3-8, 6-4, 6-3, This gave the challenge |

Good Hopes New Appeal Will Bring Building Cash

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assault and battery with intent to |

murder Wayne Coy, former State | Hoping to solve all but one of | Welfare Director, originally sched- |

on a defense plea that “names in | TPH the jury box were selected illegally.” 000 building program, sufficient to

Judge Emmert gave Marion construct needed additions at Broad County Jury Commissioners until | Ripple and Crispus Atucks High

" rth “tp | Schools, can be launched next year, next Monday to “straighten out the Godd ‘Sid.

jury box.” If not done by then, the . : judge said a jury would be sume | This would leave only an $800,

" e " {000 addition at Technical High FROG From bySaAders. School to be constructed in the Affects ‘Other ‘Cuses future, and would bring the School Judge Baker said several jury City's total building program for trials he had scheduled the next | this vear and next to $1,375,000. two weeks “might have to be held up because venires for them had | Washington Unit Built The new Thomas Howe

been drawn out of the same box | High ruled illegal by Judge Emmert.” | School now being built in Irvington “My Grand Jury also was drawn |at a cost of $450,000 and an addition from the same box and the status [one een niko UC i High { indict ts will uestion- ’ RA ee Ne Ten. dh ii | In November, 1936, we Petter “1 am writing a letter to Circuit | Government was askedto furnish Judge Earl R oy asking him vo ra $202,500 for the Irvington building Nev Ob and $175,500 for Washington High

move the jury commissioners at " a Ww School. The rest of the cost was to once,” Judge Baker said. “This Kind be ‘paid from local taxes.

of jury selection might result in| more serious irregularities in both | Although these projects civil and criminal courts of the |

county.” | School Board money.

were | given tentative approval, no funds’ | were granted, Both were built with |

| round to America by a score of four matches to one. Packer's victory, in which he played the finest tennis of his career, eee from. America by the French ot | Germantown, Pa, in 1027, America ! had dispatched six unsuccessful teams to this side, teams comprised | Wilmer Allison, Frank Shields and Sidney Wood. But they all were turned back, [Sa by the French and then by the | Paris in 1933. But this year's "kia" | | team of Budge, Parker, Bitsy Grant land Gene Mako, moved without a | Mexico, to the showdown battle with Britain in the challenge round, Parker's crashing victory wover Hare was a great surprise. Frankie Austin in the opening match on Saturday, while Hare had shown flashes of great power in losing to (Turn to Page 15) Ry United Press BARTOW, Fla. July 27.-—Rich-and G. Tittsworth, former Chief of complicity in the alleged kidnaping, flogging and murder of a SocialistLabor organizer in Tampa. Tittsworth, exonerated when five | convicted on charges of kidnaping in connection with the flogging, was | cleared entirely when the State dis- | missed second-degree murder |

| climaxed America’s 10-year chase for the trophy, Since the cup was lifted of such stalwarts as Bill Tilden, | British, who had taken the cup in (halt, from the opening match with had played miserably in losing to CLEARED IN FLORIDA Police at Tampa, was free today of other former Tampa policemen were | charges Against him.

ACCUSED NAY MEET

Ray Pushes for Solution of Child Slaying. |

In an effort to pierce the mystery which still surrounds the Beech Grove slaying of 12-year-old Helen Schuler, Sheriff Rav today said he would bring the girl's sfepmother, Mrs. Lottie Schuler, face-to-face with the woman charged with the murder, Mrs. Etta Jones, in the County Jail Friday or Saturday. Sheriff Ray reported he still was conducting investigations in Louis-

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Weiss and Ralph Edgerton with ton High School reduced to $135,000 his office. | ernment, to match local funds to — Similarly, he wants the original operated since 1906, is to shut down | on ® Broad Ripple High School adbe moved to the new $50,000 plant | Project. | inally was requested. BOB BURNS | OLLY Woon, | LOCAL TEMPERATURES stand out is the few public-minded 67 12 (Noon) and churches. Uncle Clab was one | tinued today with the forecast for men in the little It is expected to be partly cloudy on Lee Creek | Cl they didn't have | sure was proud | forget the year wrote me not to come because every- | meetin’ in the church to see what L. Lewis, through the Committee surprised to see the creek was swol- | tisan League in a move pointing to Clab’s house. | Administration. roof. 1 said, “I thought you saiq the first objective of the league in day our parson prayed for rain— | PRIEN (Copyright 1937 has been selected as a “proving

RRIston “Whirl ‘Member Now, Mr, Good said, he wants the County Clerk Glenn Ralston acting | and the money used, if and when it It was reported that Mr, Edger- build a $300,000 Crispus Attucks _— PLANT TO CLOSE $157,500 Washington High School Friday, City Engineer Henry B. dition. The School City would have at 1725 S. West St. next week, The The total Federal grant, if made, "FAIR AND SLIGHTLY Says: July 27.—The 61 10% Mm... citizens who take pride in their dif- 1 1pm... M the moSt|gi and slightly warmer tonight, community| og warmer tomorrow. No really back home and | any parks or | of his church. | of the big Sink ‘was Rl dried up ANE. Nhe COPING, TONG. ‘pv United Press they could do. The following week, | for Industrial Organization, aslen out of its banks and the water | NeW political alignments and <ugI got a boat and rowed out to see | _Inhere were hints of a third party there was a drought.” Uncle Clab [11S new form may be expected in that ain't bad for a little church The American Labor Party, New

Jury commissioners are Theodore | original $202,500 request for Irvingas the third member by virtue of | is appropriated by the Federal Gov(Turn to Page Two) 1 High School addition. The old City Asphalt Plant, | request reduced to $90,000 and used Steeg said today. Bquipment will to furnish $110,000 for this latter new plant will open Aug. 9. would be $135,000 less than origWARMER TONIGHT thing that makes a community | 63 11 a m ferent institutions like parks, schools | {nceasonably cool weather conpublic - spirited |). weather Bureau said. where Te Hveq/ hot weather is in sight, the Bureau - schools, but he | I never will drought down there. Uncle Clab | farmers got panicky and held a | WASHINGTON. July 27.—~John I went down to visit him and I was Sumed control of Labor's Nonparrose up to the second story of Uncle |SeSting a break with the Roosevelt him and he was sittin’ on top of his | Move. Authoritative sources said said, “There was apd only last Sun- | NeW York City's mayoralty camlike ours!” | York State affiliate of the league, MARINES AT U. S. LEGATION IN PEIPING .

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Lewis May Test Power in N. Y. Mayoralty Battle

ville and Tell City. Mrs, Jones lived [4n Louisville before the January | flood, and Tell Ctty is the former | | home of Walter Schuler. the girl's | father, and Helen's home until her death. Mrs. Jones also is charged with | assault and battery with intent to | kill Mrs. Schuler, who now is recovering in St. Francis Hospital from wounds she received in the shooting affray in her home. Mrs. Jones is in City Hospital where she was taken after she jumped or fell from a catwalk in the jail several days ago. Hospital attaches sald Mrs. Jones would be released tomorrow or Thursday and taken back to her cell, Mrs. Schuler is not expected to be released from the hospital before Friday. She still is held under a technical vagrancy charge,

ground” and the initial test of Mr. | Lewis’ political strength. It will attempt to carry Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia into office for another

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Safety

TUESDAY, JULY 27

TRAFFIC FINES AVERAGE $7.13; 44 FACE COURT

Three Alleged Speeders Escape With Lectures; 43 Other Drivers Slated.

WRECKS, INJURIES DROP

Peak Orders Officers to ‘Bear Down’ as Drive Shows Results.

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Forty-four of the 87 motorists arrested overnight paid fines and costs totaling $314 in Municipal Court today, an average of $7.13 each, Three alleged with lectures by Judge Charles Karabell, with judgment withheld in one conse and suspended in two others, Meanwhile, Lieut, Ray Peak, Accident Prevention Bureau head, reported the intensive police drive on speeders was showing results, Weekend accidents here were reduced 26 per cent and injuries 40 per cent, he

said, Crash Average Drops

The average number of accidents investigated by police for three previous week-ends this month was 39,

Last Saturday ana Sunday only 25 were investigated, Lieut, Peak said. The injury averages was reduced from 20 to 12, the report showed. “The improved accident record resulted directly from the reduction of motorists’ speeds during the last three days. And it's going to keep on improving,” Lieut. Peak sald. He issued special instructions to all motorcycle patrolmen ordering them to continue “bearing down, because the present drive is to be permanent, not spasmodic.” Costs were suspended in 20 cases, majority for parking violations, Charges of running red lights brought 10 convictions and fine and $109, For running preferential streets, 14 motorists paid a total of $112. In two reckless driving cases, one paid $5 with costs suspended and judgment was withheld in the other case,

Auto Race Costs $36 A midnight automobile race

costs totaling

| through Garfield Park July 10 cost

Alpha Huffman, 10068 E. Market St,

| a fine of $36 on charges of drunken

driving, reckless driving and drunkenness, His driver's license Was suspended for a year by Judge Karabell, Elmer Heinricks of 726 Grove St. Jost an appeal in Criminal Court from a sentence imposed in Municipal Court for driving while drunk. Judge Frank P. Baker upheld the lower court's fine of $10 and costs and revocation of his driver's license for one year, Chief Morrissey today asked the Board to consider using Tomlinson Hall to house the Police Traffic Department, the Accident Prevention Bureau and the Crime Investigation Department. City officials recently announced that the building might be closed because of financial losses. Chief Morrissey said he would appear before the Works Board tomorrow, Robert Erickson, 87, of 3652 N. New Jersey St, was arrested on a drunken driving charge after a collision last night at Fall Creek Blvd. and 38th St. He was treated at City Hospital for minor cuts, George Bainaka, 65, of 1158 Holmes Ave. driver of the other car, received a broken arm and fractured ribs, He was taken to City Hospital, Another alleged drunken driver, Ross Ziegner, 49, Puritan Hotel, was arrested after his car had struck two parked cars in the 3500 and 3400 blocks N. Meridian St. police said. He also was charged with failing to stop after an accident,

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

term without the sponsonship of | either major party. | Tt has been reported in political | | circles that Mayor La Guardia | | might run for re-election as the | candidate of the American Labor | Party alone without either the) Democratic or the Republican nomi- | | nation. Thug a first test of Labor's nonpartisan league's strength might be had before the 1938 congressional | campaigns if Mayor La Guardia (Turn to Page Three)

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Wet and Soggy Prisoner Ends Sit Atop Pole

By United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Oal, July 27--Meyer Goias, 32, Los Angeles burglar, ended a night long sit-down strike atop a prison yard pole at 9:45 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today. Shivering and wet with fog, the convict gingerly crawled down the 85-foot shaft and announced he was “all through protesting.” He had kept his vigil 19 hours and 45 minutes, Golas came down voluntarily, He climbed the pole late yesterday and shouted to prison yard officials that

| he was going to stay there until

“you send me to the island.” He did not specify what island. Golas was sent to the prison hospital for ob-

WRIT IS ASKED

WRIT IS AGAINST UNION

For Employees; 85 Are Hurt in Clashes. |

By United Press CLEVELAND, July 27-The Republic Steel Corp. today named the Steel Workers Organizing Committee as defendants in an injunction suit asking protection for its workers against “intimidation by threats and assaults.’ The suit, naming also 20 officers of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, was filed in Common Please Court after a night of hand-to-hand fighting betweeh strikers and nonstrikers. The corporation asked injunction against “interference” with employees or plant and against assembling of “unduly large ynumbers of pickets.” One man was killed and scores were injured in a series of clashes yesterday between strikers, nonstrikers and police. Two hundred policemen were stationed at the gates of the company's Corrigan-McKinney plant this morning to prevent another battle, Republic officials issued a statement declaring that attempts to pre= vent their employees from going to work represented efforts by the O. I. O. “to retrieve a strike which it has lost and to save its face in the eyes of its members.” Police held five men on disorderly conduct charges as a result of fighting which broke out when the plant changed shifts at 11 o'clock last night. Two clashes earlier in the day had resulted in the death of John Oregny, a striker. He was struck by an automobile operated by a nonstriker who attempted to drive through the picket lines, Hospitals treated 55 men for riot injuries. One man suffered a compound fracture and was‘'in a critjcal condition,

87-Day Hotel Strike Partially Settled

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, — A strike that has closed most of the 19 leading San Francisco hotels for (Turn to Page Three)

DR. OSCAR S. DEITCH S DEAD HERE AT 7

West Side Physician’s Rites Yet to Be Arranged.

Dr. Oscar 8. Deitch, a lifelong resident of Indianapolis, died today in his home, 1738 WW. Washington St. He was 71, He had been a practicing physi cian on the West Side for many years. He was a member of (he Marion Lodge, Masonic order, and B'nai B'rith, and the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. Dr. Deitch is survived by a son, Olifford Deitch of Indianapolis and a sister, Mrs. Naomi Ward of Decatur, Ill, The body was taken to the Charles Leap Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements were to be completed

| today.

FIRE RAZES PLANT By United Press JASPER, Ind. July 27.—8Shavings in an inciherator are believed to have cause@ a fire which destroyed the Midwest Manufacturing Co. a half mile north of here today, Damage was estimated at $30,000. It was partially covered by insurance.

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STATE REMC ASKS REDUCED UTILITY RATES

Private Firms Ordered by P. S. C. to Answer Complaint Aug. 9.

INQUIRY IS FAVORED

REA Hints High Charges Retard Development in Rural Areas.

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The Public Service Commission today ordered three private utili ties to appear before the Commission and show cause why wholesale power rates charged Rural Electrification Membership Corporations in Indiana should not be reduced,

The Commission indicated in iis order that it favored a thorough in-

vestigation into rates being charged the REMC in 15 Indiana counties and those of corporations proposed in 14 others, The Commission set a hearing for Monday, Aug. 9. The companies ordered to appear were the Public Service Co. of Indiana, the Indiana Service Corp. and the Northern Indiana Power Oo,

Grant Held Up

The state-wide REA cited In its petition filed with the Commission that $4,500,000 already has been allotted to 15 corporations and that allocation of a similar sum for 14 other projects is under consideration, The REA said the grant fis being held up pending a rate reduction, “The Commission Is interested in ‘a speedy and orderly development of rural electrification in Indiana,” the order written by Commissioner Samuel Trabue said. “It recognizes the vast social benefits involved , , . resulting in special state and national legislation, is an indication of the special nature of the problem and reasonable of special treatment, “Any effort to support such a movement without imposing an unfair burden on existing users might well be considered reasonable ahd necessary.” The order added: “The additional load by rural users should result in lower unit costs for existing utilities and lower rates to consumers,” The Commission urged that wasteful duplication of facilities for generating power be avoided so that all Federal funds for the electrification program in the State should be made available,

Lower Rate Asked

Existing rates being charged are two and one-fourth cents per kilowatt hour for the first 3000 kwh; one and eighth-tenths cents for the next 7000 kwh; one and twotenths cents for the next 10,000; one cent for the next 80,000 and eight~ tenths of a cent for the next 100,000, The REA in its petition is asking for a rate of one cent per kwh for the first kwh, breaking down to seven-tenths of a cent for over 5000 kwh. The rates being charged the rural corporations are the same the utilities are charging municipalities, it was pointed out.

YOUTH IN HOSPITAL AFTER GUN MISHAP

Frank Morgan, 17, of 715 N. East St., was recovering in City Hospital today from a leg wound received in an accidental shooting in his home, according to police, Three other youths were in the room at the time, police were told. William, the victim's 19-year-old brother, removed the 38-caliber revolver from under a bed mattress to place it in a holster, he told officers, Tt discharged, striking Frank, who was sitting on the bed playing a guitar, he said, William Rogers, 16, of 556 N, Keystone Ave, and Charles Blake, 19, of 568 N, Highland Ave., witnessed the shooting. All were held on vagrancy charges for questioning. :

DEATH HELD SUICIDE

By United Preas LONDON, July 27.—The Countess of Cardigan, who plunged to death from the fourth floor of the Savoy Hotel on Saturday, commit¥ed suicide while of unsound mind, a coroner's jury decided today. Her husband testified that she suffered from depression and had spoken of suicide.

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EDICTS IGNORED, OPEN WARFARE RAGES IN CHINA

Undeclared State of War Held Existing as Fighting Spreads; Japanese Suffer Defeat at Peiping Gates,

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Marines Mobilize to Help Citizens as Nanking Says Her Peace Efforts Are Ended; Nippon Lands More Home Troops.

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PEIPING-=Undeclared state of war between Japan and China held Wl ; > ax isting as fighting spreads over the country with the ignoring of Japanese ultimatums by China, TIENTSIN=Japanese military hospital rapidly filling with wounded from

fighting south of Peiping.

SHANGHATI—Chinese Central News Agency reports Japanese planes dropped poison gas bombs in battle area. NANKING=Foreign office spokesman says China has exhausted its peacs efforts and indicates war is imminent, TOKYO-Finance Minister tells Parliament $27,840,000 Is needed for

operation in China,

Japan and China were in

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an undeclared state of war in

North China tonight, with fighting in progress at scattered

points between Peiping, the towards the sea.

ancient capital, and Tientsin,

Scenes reminiscent of the Boxer Rebellion occurred in Peiping as foreigners swarmed into their legations and em-

bassies for refuge.

U. S. Marines were issued combat ammunition to protect

American citizens.

French citizens were called into their section of the

legation quarter. Sandbags

were stacked along all the

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LOYALISTS WAIT AID AT MADRID

Lines Hold Fast at Key Town as Rebel Troops Attack in Waves.

By United Preas MADRID, July 27-Rebel troops sent wave upon wave of shock troops today against Loyalists fortified in Quijorna, one of the key towns on the west of Madrid front, Bulletins reported the Loyalists were holding fast, awaiting an expected relief column, Bulletins indicated that since the beginning of the Rebel counter-attack, the biggest of the civil war, the Loyalists salient cut southward into the in-

surgent lines had been reduced in area from 100 square miles to 75 square miles. A "small retreat” north of Brunete was admitted in last night's bulletin, It was Indicated that this retreat was a planned one to stronger defensive posiiions. New positions taken by the Loyalists at Villanueva De La Canada at the northern end of the fighting zone were strengthened, the bulletin sald, and the 5th and 18th Army Corps operating in the sector repelled all attacks, Apparently, during a long day of fighting yesterday, the Loyalist lines were not altered substantially,

Russia Reported Ready To Wreck Neutrality

By United Prewe LONDON, July 27.—Russia's reply to Britain's nonintervention proposals will reject the granting of belligerent rights to the Spanish Insurgents under any circumstances, even at the risk of wrecking the entire nonintervention scheme, it was learned reliably today. Russia argued that recognition of the Insurgents as belligerents would be an insult to the legitimate Spanish Government by placing it on equality with rebellious generals, and would be an open act of intervention on behalf of the Insurgents, Great Britain intends to summon a subcommittee meeting of the committee on nonintervention to meet Priday morning in a new effort to attain agreement on a neutrality

plan for the Spanish Civil War.

were in 1900, during the Box« er Rebellion, where foreigners were slaughtered and be-

seiged before the American,

Japanese, Russian, British and French forces relieved the city. The Chinese ignored two Japanese ultimatums to withdraw their forces from the Peiping area and word from Nanking, the central capital, indicated that China is ready to fight it out in the belief that Japan intends to seize North Cina,

Home Army Arriving

Japanese troops of the Home Army were pouring into Tangku, port of Tientsin, on transports from Japan, ready to meet China's de flance, Gen. Sung Che-yuan, commander of the 20th Chinese Army in Peiping, was understood to have decided to withdraw to the capital the troop: at the Nanyuan barracks, five miles south of the eity, The Nanyuan troops would | strengthen the defenses of the 28mile city wall, with its 13 outer gates, \

Foreign officials were deeply per turbed. The Chinese press reported that the powers had notified both Japan and China that the Boxer protocol of 1001 forbids fighting within 20 miles of Peiping.

Cut Off From Coast

Peiping was cut off from Tientsin and the coast by railroad, bus, tele graph and telephone. By wireless, the sole remaining means of com munication, Tientsin reported that the Japanese Army Hospital there was overflowing with Japanese troop casualties in three serious engagements that have occurred since the week-end, The first oY these was at Lange fang, midway along the 60-mile rail= (Turn to Page Three)

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