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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 121

FRIDAY, JULY 30,

1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter Ind,

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

PRIC

E THREE CENTS

"TRAFFIC VIOLATORS

FINED $7

AVERAGE;

BOYS TO AID DRIVE

146 Arrested Here to Set Overnight Record.

Youths to Be Taken to | Scout Grounds for Training.

$502 PAID BY 53 START ON AUG. 30,

Muncie Pastor, Son, Patrol Leaders Will

POLICE CATCH TWO HUNTEDIN SHOOTING HERE

Suspects Trapped Near Creek After 14-Block Squad Chase.

TWO MEN ARE WOUNDED

One Victim of Brightwood Crime in Critical Condition.

5, Are Injured in |

Crash.

Photo, Page 28) Traffic offenders literally. poured through Municipal Court today at the rate of one | each minute, paying an aver- | age fine of $7.60 each. |

Take Over School Safety.

A camp to train boys to lead school safety patrols, the first one of its kind in the country, is to be held at the Indianapolis Boy Scout Reservation Aug. 30 to Sept. 3. Today the 185 boys chosen were

BULLETIN | Two Negroes, sought for questioning in connection with the shooting of a Brightwood druggist and his father, were captured by police after a 14-block chase at 31st St. and Lesley Ave. this afternoon. Police this afternoon they had trapped two men on the Northeast Side whom they sought in connection with the holdupshooting of a Brightwood druggist and his father last night. Five squads reported to head- | quarters they had cornered the men

A total of 146 erring mo'orists | notified by mail that they would be along a creek bank one mile east

were arrested overnight, a record for | a 24-hour period, according to Reg- | istration Clerk Otto Raasch. “The number will continue to in-| crease,” said Lieut. Ray Peak, Acci- | dent Prevention Bureau head. “This | drive has just started.” { Seventy motorists faced Judge | Charles Karabell this morning, and the remainder were to face trial this afternoon. Fifty-three convicted on “moving” | violations paid $502, an average of | $9.47 each. Seventeen charged with | improper parking paid the remain- | ing $50. Speeders Pay $100

Nine speeders paid $100; 25 preferential street violators, $196; Traf- | fic light violators, 11, $106, and one | reckless driver, $12. Paul Longest, 3007 E. 14th St. a truck driver, was fined $30 and sentenced to 30 days in jail on charges of reckless driving and running a red light. The jail sentence was sus- | pended. Joe Ayd, 434 Massachusetts Ave, | paid $10 for two stickers for im- | proper parking after the prosecutor | charged he had disregarded “more | than a dozen others.” He was grant. | ed time to pay the others at the regular $2 rate. | Two old cases were heard by Judge Dewey Myers in Room 3. Ernest Ragland, 1044 N. Traud Ave, was fined $15 and costs and | sentenced to 30 days in jail on a| drunken driving charge which re-| sulted from an accident at Blake and Michigan Sts. on May 29. Robert Belding, 19, of 832 Parker | Ave., was fined $10 and costs for | passing a streetcar on the wrong side. Belding’s car struck and in-| jured Miss Helen Flynn, 26, of 3719 | E. Michigan St, on July 13. J. Thomas Sparks, 426 N. Wallace | (Turn to Page Three) |

BOB BURNS

Says: ¥ OL LYWOOD, 1 July 30.—They tell me some fella just wrote a book on how to handle people. He says | the best way to get the most work | out of your employees is to flatter | 'em. That may be all right for some people, but I know of at least one case | that was differ- | ent. | My stingy un- | cle had a hired | man on his | farm who did the work of five | men, but my uncle never gave him one word of encouragement. The hired man figgered he wasn't pleasin’ my uncle and he worked for 10 years al top speed, expectin’ every month to be fired. Finally one day he opened his pay envelope and found he had a dollar and a half extra. He asked my uncle what the extra money was for and my uncle says, “Well, that’s a raise—youre a hard worker and I figger you're | worth it.” The man glared at my uncle and says, “Oh, then you've |

been swindlin’ me for 10 years!” | (Copyright. 1937

SOME CHINESE FORCES USE

| various parents’

| given by physicians working under

given physical examinations at the

World War Memorial Building Aug. 26 and 27. William A. Bvans, Public Schools Safety Director, announced that these boys are to receive instruction in safety, first aid, swimming, resuscitation and fire prevention. When the fall term opens, he said, they are to be made commanding officers over 2300 school patrol boys. The National Safety Council has sent word here that it would send a representative to observe the work of the camp, ex- | penses for which are being paid by | organizations. {

Physical Exams Due

Physical examinations are to be

the direction of Dr. Herman G. Mor- | gan, City Health Board secretary, | and the Board is to furnish a resident physican at the camp. Instructions also are to be given | by teachers and representatives of | the fire and police departments. ! Charles W. Youngman, Calvin Fletcher Junior High School manual | arts instructor, is to be comp com-

| mandant.

The camp is to be designated as| the School Boys Traffic Officers’ Training Camp. | “By giving these patrol officers special training in Safety, we be- | lieve they will be better equipped as leaders of the 2300 traffic patrol boys of the city,” Mr. Evans said. Parochial and private as well as | public schools have established the patrol safety system here. Chief | duty of these patrols is to aid small- | er children in crossing busy street! intersections. |

SHERIFF STAFF BUSY

GETTING BAKER JURY

Process Servers Seeking to Notify 200 Veniremen.

(Photo, Page 10)

The entire sheriff's office staff of summons servers went into action today, trying to notify 200 persons drawn in a special venire to appear in Criminal Court Monday for jury service in the trial of Joel A. Baker. Nearly | venire had no addresses listed as | a result of taking them from the

| tax duplicates instead of the as-!

9:30 a. m. Mongay on a charge of |

assault and battery with intent to

fare Director.

LONG SWORDS

|of Emerson Ave. after a 14-block chase, and were closing in on them. | The father, Arthur W. Demree, | 65, of 1519 Sturm Ave., shot in his son's drug store at Roosevelt Ave. and 17th St., was reported in criti- | cal condition in St. Vincent's Hos- | pital, wounded in the abdomen. The son, Donald Demree, 32, of | 1367 N. Tuxedo St. was reported | in serious condition at the hospital. | [Earlier this afternoon, an in- | formant called police headquarters

| and said two suspicious looking Ne-

reported

Sunspots Easy To View It You Use Dark Glasses

By Science Service | WASHINGTON, July 30.—You could drop nearly 90 earths into the | giant sunspots which now smudge the surface of the sun. Smoke a piece of glass or use a bit of overexposed and darkened photographic film if you wish to see a solar event rarely visible to the unaided eye. This is the suggestion of the U. S. Naval Observatory here. Two large sunspots are nearing | the meridian line of the sun's face. | Until a few days ago the spots were joined into a single greater unit that occupied some 20 square degrees of the sun's surface. This area exceeds a billion square miles.

SYPHILIS FIGHT MAPPED HERE

‘State Medical Association, City Health Board to Launch Drive.

By JERRY SHERIDAN

A double-barreled program against venereal diseases is to be launched soon by the State Medical Association and the City Health Board, it was learned today, as a part of the nation-wide campaign to stamp out syphilis. The Indiana Medical Journal, official Association publication, is expected to urge greater co-operation among private physicians. The City

Health Divisions laboratories in the | local campaign. The Journal, in an article Sunday,

Board is prepared to enlist the State |

| groes

| is expected to urge revision of a State Health Board ruling which would make Wasserman tests more

readily available to all physicians. Here is the way police pieced to- | Isolation Ward Planned : : | gether the crime from the vielime' Key point in a proposed prostories: | | gram to be reported early next

The two men were standing in| 4 LE their drugstore when the bandit | VeeK by a City Health Board Com-

entered, crouching low. One hand | Mitte, according to reports, will he used to shield over his face. In| be a plea Jor an isolation ward in the other, he gripped a gun. | City Hospital. It would cost _apThey recognized him as the man | proximately $10,000, it was said. whom the son had routed a week | The City Committee was to meet ago during a holdup “attempt. | today with Dr. Verne K. Harvey, The man said. “Put your hands State Health Board head, to dis(Turn to Page Three) jcuss the campaign. It was suget : | gested that the State Board might | co-operate by applying for Federal | funds to finance the proposed City | Hospital unit. Dr. Frank Gastineau, Dr. Norman | Beatty, Dr. Charles Myers, City Hos- | pital superintendent, and Dr. Herman Morgan, City Health Board (Turn {to Page Three)

Mayor, Safety Board and SEE YOU. TUESDAY Commission Meet. | } ’

were seeking to board a freight train in the Brightwood yards. A squad car was dispatched. Police Reconstruct Crime

PLAN MERIT SYSTEM FOR POLICE, FIREMEN

Mayor Kern today met with the | yc specint

Safety Board and the City Merit, WASHINGTON. July 30. —Wayne Commission to complete plans for | Coy has wired the White House establishment of a Police and Fire | that he will be here on Tuesday, Department merit system under the Marvin McIntyre, Presidential sec-

COY WIRES F. D. R.|

half the names on the |

Special | replaces |

11937 legislation. | The Commission is expected to | draft rules and regulations under the act, but no announcement was made by the Mayor of today's dis- | cussion. | The Merit Commission was ap- | pointed by the Mayor shortly after passage of the amended merit law in March. It is composed »f W. Rowland Allen, L. S. Ayres & Co. | personnel director; Dr. Dudley Pfaff, | physician, and Dr. Murray A. De- | Armond, psychologist and psychiatirst. The act provides also for the set-

| consisting of the police chief and | four captains and the other of the police or fire chief and four subordinate chiefs.

F. D. R. GETS RULING ON COURT APPOINTEE

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 30.—President Roosevelt said today he had received a report from Attorney | General Cummings advising him Whether he can make a recess ap- | pointment to fill the present Supreme Court vacancy, or must name | the new associate justice while Con- | gress is in session. | Mr. Roosevelt said he had not read the report and he intended to

kill Wayne Coy, former State Wel- study it carefully as he did not want

| to buy a pig in a poke.

| retary, said today.

1 Since the President is to spend |

I his guest, it was thought that per- | haps Mr. Coy would also be here ‘and Philippine matters discussed. | Governor Murphy is former high commissioner, the post now held by | ‘ormer Governor McNutt of Indiana. Mr, Coy is Commissioner Mc- | Nutt's assistant.

' the week-end on the Potomac with | | Governor Murphy of Michigan as |

GREEN CALLS FOR PASSAGE. OF WAGE BILL

A. F. of L. Head Spikes Story He Favors Restudy in Committee.

TAX LEAK LAW DRAFTED

Measure Would Plug Holes By Raising Personal | Holding Levies.

(Editorial, Page 16)

By United Press 2 WASHINGTON, July 30.—President William Green of the American Federation of Labor today urged | passage of the Black-Connery Wage and Hour Biil at this session of Congress “in the best form possible.” Mr. Green's statement clarified the position of the Federation after word had been spread in the Senate that he and other leaders wished its recommitment for further changes. At the same time the Congressional Tax Avoidance Committee completed work today on recommen-

dations for a bill to close tax loopholes, and agreed to expedite legis- | lation so it may reach the House floor week after next.

Green Opposes Delay Mr. Green, in a formal statement on the labor bill said flatly he did not favor recommitment,

“The Wages and Hours bill is in the form in which it is now before the Senate does not meet the expectations of labor,” Mr. Green's statement said. “However, we recoghize the need for the enactment of wages and hours legislation. For thal reason rather than recommit the HouseSenate bill for further committee consideration it would seem advisable to pass the best Wages and Hours bill possible in the Senate with the hope that it can be revised and amended in the House in such a way as to make it more nearly satisfactory and acceptable to labor.” The federation president made public his attitude immediately prior to a conference with President Roosevelt. The Chief Executive summoned Mr. Green and Edaward F. McGrady, assistant secretary of labor, to the White Hous" | presumably to discuss the pendirg ! bill. The fate of the Wage-Hours Bill, and perhaps the whole Administration program. hangs on a slim margin. Opponents of the bill claimed they were only five votes short of the number for recommitment. The recommendations of the Tax Avoidance Committee were understood to call for increased surtaxes on personal holding companies, restriction of holding company deductions, increased taxes on non(Turn to Page Three)

TAX WARRANTS BOUGHT | i ————— Tax warrants totaling $300,000, | representing a 1oan made to the | County Welfare Department to pay | expenses for the remainder of 1937, {were sold to a group of downtown { bankers today. Chief Deputy Audi- | tor I. W. Biemer, who negotiated the {sales said the interest rate was 1% | per cent.

By United Press LANSING. Mich. July 30.—Gov-

ernor Murphy today summoned the

Michigan Legislature in special session to complete his legislative pro"gram and to enact a substitute labor measure to supplant the act he killed by gubernatorial veto last | night. | The regular session adjourned to- | day after approving a compromise | civil service measure and approving | Republican-sponsored changes in the unemployment compensation | law. | Governor Murphy was forced to | veto his own labor act an hour be- | fore it would have become law | because he was unable to have it

Murphy Seeks Substitute

| ting up of two trial boards, one |

~ For Labor Bill He Vetoed

) recalled for what he characterized | as “necessary changes.” The bill would have made it un- | lawful for workers to picket any | factory in which they were not employed, or to block a public high- | way or close the entrances or exits of private property. | Governor Murphy, meanwhile, | was summoned to Washington for | a week-end conference with President Roosevelt. The subject of their conversation was not revealed. Five weeks ago Gov. Murphy called the bill he vetoed as one of the most advanced pieces of labor legislation yet passed in this counfry. He explained last night that (Turn to Page Three)

BUT 19TH ROUTE ARMY HAS MODERN EQUIPMENT

Gary Cooper's Home lL.ooted; $18,000 Lost

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 30.— Gary Cooper's home was burglarized of more than $18,000 in jewelry early today. The movie star's palatial home was ransacked shortly before Cooper and his wife returned from visiting friends. In addition to the gems, the burglars took expensive dinner plate and linen that may raise the loss to $25,000, he said. The burglars searched many rooms before Cooper's dog aroused the housekeeper. The loot included valued 2t $18,000. Among the . articles taken were a $5000 diamond and ruby bracelet, a $5000 diamond and ruby ring, a $2000 aquamarine bracelet, a $1000 diamond cluster, a $3000 pair of diamond and ruby =lips, and $800 diamond-set cigaret case, a $300 compact, and other pieces.

MRS. TAGGART, 43, DIES HERE

Pneumonia Causes Death of Former U. S. Senator’s Widow at Home.

(Photo, Page Three)

jewelry

Mrs. Eva Bryant Taggart, widow of former U. S. Senator Thomas Taggart, died early today in her home, 1331 N. Delaware St. She would have been 84 on Aug. 5. She had been ill for some time, and pneumonia was given as the cause of death. Her son, Thomas D. Taggart, Democratic national committeeman for Indiana, four daughters and eight grandchildren were at the bedside at the time of her death. The late Senator Taggart came to this country as an Irish immigrant, became Mayor of Indianapolis, Democratic National Committee chairman and a leader in the Senate. He died March 6, 1929.

Devoted to Family

Mrs.” Taggart was devoted to her family and had not taken an active part in social affairs in recent years. She was an Episcopalian, a member of the Propylaeum, a Daughter of the American Revolution and a member in perpetuity of the Art Association of Indianapolis. Born at Mt. Vernon, O., on Aug. 5, Mrs. Taggart attended school at Mt. Carroll Seminary, Mt. Carroll, Ill. She was descended from Stephan Bryant, who lived in Plymouth Colony, Mass., in 1632, and Edward Gilman, of Ipswich, England, who landed in Boston in 1638. She was married to Mr. Taggart at Mt. Vernon, O., June 17, 1878.

Private Rites Planned

Survivors besides the son are the daughters, Miss Lucy M. Taggart, Mrs. David Laurance Chambers and Mrs. William Richardson Sinclair, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. William J. Young of Louisville; grandchildren, Evelyn Chambers, David Laurance Chambers Jr, Judith Chambers, Thomas Taggart Sinclair, Dora Sinclair, Emily Letitia Sinclair, Thomas Taggart Young and Eva Taggart. A sister, Mrs. 1dwin G. Frazier, lives at Rock Island, Ill. Private funeral services are to be held at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow in the home. Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Honorary pallbearers are to be Reginald Sullivan, Frederic M. Ayres, William M. Rockwood, Barrett Moxley, Sylvester Johnson, Gil=bert Hurty, Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Perry McCart, Thomas D. Stevenson, Dr. J. M. Simpson, of Louisville; William H. Stafford, J. W. Fesler, William J. Taylor and Colin Gilchrist.

$47,900 IN GEMS STOLEN By Unitea Press SEAL HARBOR, Me, July 30.— Private detectives and police today investigated the theft of jewelry valued at $47.900 from the summer hume of Mrs. J. J. O'Brien, former wife of the late Roscoe B. Jackson, Detroit automobile manufacturer.

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NANKING

U. S. to Continue Its Neutrality Policy, ~ Pittman Says.

JAPANESE SHELL

TROOPS

SPEEDING NORTH

[Central Government

Pours Army Units Toward Peiping.

NO INTERVENTION AMERICANS SAFE

Washington Opposes Any Act of War in | Far East Crisis.

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 30.— | The Administration’s determination to stand clear of war developments in the Far Bast was emphasized today by a formal statement issued by Senator Pittman (D. Nev.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urging freedom of action for the President and Secretary of State.

Senator Pittman rebuked those persons who “are impatiently and unreasonably” urging President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull “to state what action will be taken by the President under the neutrality act toward China and Japan.” “In so serious a matter while our Government is making every effort to bring about a cessation of the unfortunate situation and to protect the lives of our citizens in China through diplomatic conversations, the impropriety and the danger to the best interests of our country of public discussions by the President and the Secretary of State are obvious,” he said. The statement was so carefully worded that it was believed to have been inspired by the White House. It emphasized the Administration's desire to follow a policy of strict impartiality toward both Japan and China—impartiality, as distinguished from mere “neutrality” or a “hands-off” attitude. The statement also was interpreted as a

| | |

probably will evade invocation of | the Neutrality law as long as possible.

BRITISH AND FRENCH

strofig hint that President Roosevelt | : to the finish.

WARSHIPS ON GUARD

Spanish Merchantman Is

Attacked, 23 Killed.

By United Press SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, FrancoSpanish Frontier, July 30.—British and French warships gathered off Spain's coasts today following attacks on a Spanish merchantman by four mysterious submarines and capture of a French steamer by a Rebel cruiser. Twenty-three of the merchantman’s crew of 34 were killed; in a battle off Grau du Roi. Twelve French and British warships took up positions outside Spanish territorial waters. The Spanish Loyalist merchant- | man, Andus Emndi, was convoying | two freighters—Valetta and Zamora | —from Barcelona to Marseilles when the attack occurred. The freighters escaped.

By United Press LONDON, July 30.—Friction between Germany and Russia flared into the open today at a sub-com-mittee meeting of the Spanish nonintervention committee. Joachim von Ribbentrop, German ambassador, openly accused the Soviets of starting the Spanish War and also charged that Russia had destroyed the British plan to

restore the wrecked noninterven-

War Verdict Hinging On Possible Clash At Tientsin.

BULLETIN By Uniled Press LONDON, July 30.—The Exchange Telegraph reported from Tientsin today that Japanese troops hombed and shelled Chinese buildings in the city this afternoon and that many were set afire. Artillery completed the destruction of Nankai University, the dispatch said, adding that neighboring villages also were fired upon,

By United Press TOKYO—Newspaper Nichi Nich? reports Chinese massacred 300 Japanese. Planes bombard troop concentrations of Central Government army at Paotingfu, killing SHANGHAI—Chinese Central Army moves north to challenge Japanese. TIENTSIN—Japanese in complete control; mop up remnants of Chinese in city. PEIPING—Scattered fighting in progress outside city; Peiping itself quiet. LONDON—Sir Anthony Eden, Brit= ish minister of foreign affairs, tells House of Commons Britain will maintain close contact with United States to try to avoid war in Far East.

(Photos, bottom of page)

While Japanese war planes were reported bombing Nane king troops, the Chinese Central Army poured northward today to challenge the Japanese war machine to a fight

Thirty-five Chinese soldiers wers reported slain when the Japanese

air raiders bombarded Central Gove ernment units at Paotingfu. Simultaneously, the Tokyo news= paper Nichi Nichi reported 300 Japanese refugees had been killed by Chinese in Tungchow. During such sporadic military forays, the Chinese Central Government Army was nearing Tientsin and Peiping to reinforce the Northern troops. Observers believed the Nanking units were arriving too late, as the Japanese today were virtual masters of Tientsin and Peiping. The issue of peace or war remained to be decided. The Central Government seemed steeled to resist any Japanese attempt to extend domination over Peiping and Tientsin, and make them vassal cities of Japan. There were indications this time the Government might turn talk (Turn to Page Three)

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Books: ....... Bridge ...... Broun ...... Clapper ....

Johnson 18 Merry-Go-R'd 18 Movies 18 Mrs. Ferguson 15 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Music Obituaries . Pyle Questions ... Radio Scherrer .... Serial Story. 26 Short Story. 26 Society .... Sports State Deaths. 17

Crossword ... Curious World Editorials ... Fashions .... Financial .... Fishbein .... Flynn Forum Grin, Bear It In Indpls... Jane Jordan.

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