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FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

VOLUME 49—NUMBER 127

MEAT PRICES RISE 10 11-YEAR HIGH; RELIEF HOPE SLIM

Hogs Sell Here for $13.65; Butchers Believe There Will Be No Cut in Rates for At Least Several Months.

INCREASE AFFECTS WHOLE NATION

Porterhouse Steak Price Ranges From 50 to 65 Cents a Pound; Shortage in Stock Blane) for * Tvow

(Financial details, Page 22)

Your corner butcher probably asked about 40 cents a pound for his best pork chops today and proportionate prices for other meats. He also advised housewives not to look for meat bargains in the next few months. A nation-wide meat price rise of 15 to 25 per cent is in progress, dealers said. One retailer said some prices have gone up nearly 50 per cent in the past year. Hare ive es had to pay these Approximate Prices for beef today: Porter house roe Ses

steak, 50 to 65 cents s a pound; loin steak, 40 cents, wi

round steak, 40 cents. Hogs sold at $13.65 a —— pounds at the stockyards here—the | highest figure since Oct. 26, 1926. | Dealers explained cured meats, such as smoked ham, have not gone |

up as much as fresh meats, since 155 Wore | Men and Two |

they were prepared from hogs bought by packers several months’ District Stations Proposed ago at lower prices. The cause of the increase 1s al By Morrissey. shortage of livestock a nd hogs. | me ——— Severe droughts in 1934 and 1936 killed off much livestock. There | Chief Morrissey indicated to city now is a “tremendous” scarcity of | | officials today that he may ask the

good beef stock, according to John | oo sition f 15 - ii Ng engin packing | of 155 members to the Po [lice Department.

hous, The Chief also requested estah-

Mr. Kingan said most packers forecast better pork runs next fall, | lishment of two district police sta-

He said he doubted if there will be [tions and a new garage. enough good hogs before next His program was outlined todav at spring, however. |a conference with Mayor Kern, City Continued Rise Forecast | Controller Walter C. Boetcher Thus he concurred with retail hes Dammeyer, Safety Board pres: dealers who forecast a continued : Yise Of Waar, PACS, | cial needs for 1938 Prices, the highest now in 11 or 12 | Chief Morrissey

reviously had vears, have more than reeovered | p ; ’ [a . from depression lows, packers nnounced his desire for more off

| cers, c . sereea, One renter said many | (CL IMT J Te Dt Bt dealers were asking more now for | tine police work along With Nea choice cuts than they were in 1929. >a

Pork prices rose first. Then con- | a has said sumers’ demand switched to beef the department, and lamb, and their prices rose. | members, is undermanned. He made Some other food prices als0 aP- that statement at a recent police | peared on the upturn, dealers said, |yo]] call when he addressed officers | but seemed to be moving upward regarding the drive on traffic viola- | more slowly than meats. | tors. = | In urging establishment district

that

of one

station on the North Side |

Hog Prices at Chicago Gain 10 Cents More

By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 6-—Hog prices touched $13.75 a hundredweight, up 10c over yesterday's price for a new 11-year high at the Chicago stockvards. Today was the fifth straight day in which prices have risen to a new high in Chicago.

| Chief Morrissey said it would mean | | that officers could be dispatched

| and hcoidents,

BOY KILLS MOTHER, chi TWO SISTERS, SELF EMILIE. AILING QUIN, |

‘DEFINITELY’ BETTER Feared Blindness, Note Left By Youth Reveals.

| Bu United Press CALLANDER, Ontario, Aug. 6.— | Emilie, middleweight star of ‘the | Dionne quintuplets, was “definitely on the mend,” the Dafoe nursery said today. Since Monday Emilie has been suffering from “a mild upper respiratory infection”"—a plain sore | throat. She will have to remain in | the nursery’s isolation ward a few days, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said.

BOB BURNS | Says:

my kinfolks

Bur United Press

Gregor, a 20-year-old auditor who! feared he was going blind and saw | no other way out of “our misery,’ shot and killed his widowed mother | and two of his sisters today. Then | he killed himself.

found in bed, the mother, Anna, 47. | in nightdress, the sisters, Betty, 25, and Mary Ann, 15, in pajamas. All were shot through the head. Mrs. Gregor and Mary Ann also! [had been beaten, police said. | The shootings left only two mem- | | bers of the family alive. Frank, 286, | |’ brother, was at work. A sister, | Alice, 17, was visiting friends. father died last year.

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 6.—One

thing have = always

Capt. Lewis Johnson, police

displays this chart prepared by his point.

at various speeds,

‘Safe Paces Chdrted as Racer Is Killed Crash Here.

(Photos, Pages 8 and 10)

Kenneth Taylor,

and |

The conference was called to | consider Police Department finan- |

which now has 510 |

| driven by Calvin Plummer, and another on the South Side, |

more quickly to the scenes of crimes |

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6.—Bernard |

The bodies of his victims were |

The, !

Ave, a racer whose cnief terest in | life was automobiles, but who always had bad luck with them,

day was listed as Marion County's 195th traffic fatality this year.

| Pollowing the report that two oth-

[ers had died in state accidents, Safety Director Don PF. Stiver ordered [all lieutenants to increase Vvigilance for traffic violators, Mr. Tavior died yesterday 20th birthday, and tomorrow on his younger { birthday. | A boyhood chum of Cummings, he was injured Aug. when pinned underneath a car 32, of 36 | after it had side-

| | brother's

“Wild Bill”

S. LaSalle St,

swiped another car and turned OVET | far DOATAS and COMMISSIONS.

on State Road 52 at 52d St. Drove Concrete Truck

Mr. Taylor drove a truck for the | Ready Mix Concrete Co, was an ey mechanic, and raced on dirt | tracks. [gh accident. His mother, Mrs. Lewis T. Taylor, % he was always unlucky with | autos. His first accident was 13! | years ago when he was riding a | motorcycle with “Wild Bill” Cum- |

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traffic that slowing down traffic actually speeds up its the City

to |

« 1at on his |

is to be buried services at 2 p. m.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1937

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department head, contends safe movement and

Plan Commission to prove

His contention is based on the distance required for a car to stop Going five miles an hour,

they can stop in five

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‘Drive Slowly, if You Want to Get Somewhere Fast’

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but going 20, it takes 27 feet to stop and on up until at 45 miles

figures show that more cars can

pass a given point in one traffic lane when they're traveling 23.5 miles

an hour-—2600 cars in an hour.

AMOS BUTLER'S | Born From Dead Mother, RITES ARRANGED Girl Baby Fights for Life

76; Served on Many Charity Boards.

(Editorial, Page 18) , . Dr. Amos William Butler, ally known nuthor of social welfare laws, who died vesterday in his home 52 Downey Ave, is to be buried Hill following funeral

nation- |

in Crown

Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. He

[was 76.

5 |

[of the First

The fatal wreck was his Dr. Butler

| mings to watch a Shelbyville auto

race. Mr. Taylor, born in Freetown, | | came to Indianapolis when 5 years old. In addition to his parents, | | survivors are two sisters, Pauline | | and Lora ‘Mae Taylor, and a brother, Lewis Tavlor Jr. Burial is to be in Floral Park! following services at the J. C. Wilson Funeral Home at 2 Pp. m. tomorrow.

Two Others Die

80, Craw-

| fare work, Dr. [sible for

| School at Clermont,

He had been in ill health for a [year and seriously ill more than a [one

Butler was active many ven)

fon ger and international welHe | retired after serving in 1930 as a | delegate to the International Prison | Congress at Praha and as a member International Mental Health Conference in Washington. Born at Brookville Oct. 1, 1860, held degrees from Indijana University and Hanover lege. He came to Indianapolis in [1898 and was named secretary and |

tomorrow in the |

Col- |

By United Press

PHILADELPBIA, Aug. 6 struggled desperately

The child, delivered surgically cawsini, 27, succumbed to tubercular without assistance, For eight hours it oxvgen tent fashioned film. Then it was taken out for a time, breathed normally. Then | the tiny lungs faltered and it was | necessary to return the child to the | tent, While on its own, however, the infant took its first meal-—one dram [of sterile sugar water administered | by a nurse through an eyedropper. The baby's temperature, 100.4 at birth, fell to 102.8 after feeding, and | Dr. John Corbit, resident obstetri-

lay in an from X-Ray and,

| cian who performed the post-mor-|

said its becoming

| tem Caesarian operation, | chances of living were steadily greater, The baby's birth climaxed a duel hetween two forces of nature—one (Turn to Page Two)

executive officer of the State Chari- |

ties Board. He had maintained his home here since that time. He headed the State Truancy

Board from 1898 to 1912, and be- | to Sug- | and |

came a committee member [gest reforms to the County Township Reform Commission, Continuing his reform and welButler was responin custodial care of feeble-minded women. | suggested changes -at Hospital for the Criminally at Michigan City,

change

the correctional

department in the Indiana Women's

24 hours | Prison here and many institutions

{housing criminals, the mentally de-

publisher, | ficient and the needy.

Included in the State social wel- | (Turn to Page Three)

fordsville, and Mrs. Alice Brow | who was killed esr Batesville in a ‘OCCASIONAL RAINS

fall from a car when the door came | | open,

(um. to Page Three)

House Bloc Seeks Softer Pay Bill for Small Firms |

said, “Wash- | ington couldn't | tell a lie—you | can Hut won't.” I think one | of the most truthful ones in my family | iS my Aunt] Kezzy Moomaw. There's a woman | who wouldn't tell a falsehood for | anvthing, One day my uncle came | home and he found Aunt Kezzy all upset. He said, “What in the world is the matter with you?" and she says, "We just got an invitation to attend one of those terrible dinners | at Mrs. Hymer Van Smoot.” She | : said, “I'd rather take a beatin’ than g0 to one of their dinners—because I know we'll just be bored to tears and the food is terrible!” My uncle says, “Well, why don't you just call her up that night and

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.— The Senate by a 40 to 37 vote thday adopted an amendment to the 700,000,000-dollar Wagner Housing Bill placing the proposed housing authority under the “general supervision” of the Department of Interior. Under the original bill the proposed authority wou'd have been an independent agency. Sen. Wagner (D. N. Y.)*author of the measure, opposed the change.

(Editorial, Page 18)

By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—An attempt will be made, with powerful tell her youve got a headache?" |SUPPOIt, to amend the Wage-Hour-Aunt Kezzy was horrified! She says, | Bill in the House and exclude firms “Why I couldn't think of tellin’ her | employing less than 20 workers, it that—that would be a deliberate was learned today. lie!” She said, “You just sit down e effort will be made in spite

and write her a letter and tell her | we accept with pleasure!” jo the fact that the Senate refused

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five workers.

to exempt firms employing less than |

If it is successful, little will be | left of the Administration bill. As it was first drawn and sent to Congress, the measure covered approximately 3,000,000 workers, with respect to wages, and 6,000,000 with respect to hours. The Senate cut this considerably by excluding transportation workers, all seasonal laborers, and canners, packers and dairy co-operative workers, with respect to hours. If the new cut is made, the bill probably will not affect more than a million workers’ wages or two million workers’ hours. The new exemption is being proposed as a concession to southerners’ who are geiting more and more alarmed for tear the bill will stop the exodus of northern factories into the South in search of cheap labor. Five of the 10 Democrats on the House Rules Committee are southerners. - If they should vote with the four committee Republicans, they could hold the bill back indefinitely from a vote on the floor. Leaders do not expect this to happen. They expect ot have a rule by the middle of next week, but admit they are waiting until Chairman (Turn to Page Two) wv

Mr. Stiver announced 528 motor- |

FORECAST FOR CITY

TEMPERATURES . 68 10 a. m. “ , 68 11 a. m. . 9 1 12 (noon)... 82 . 88

$C 1pm The Weather Bureau forecast occasional thundershowers and conned Sn humidity for at least

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Ly rR residents, the Bureau said: “It would either be this or hotter and drier weather.”

M'MILLIN CONDITION GOOD A. N. (Bo) McMillin, Indiana University football coach, was reported to be in good condition to- | day at the Robert Long Hospital

here where he is under observation |

for a minor ailment.

TIMES FEATURES ‘ON INSIDE PAGES

Books Bridge Broun Comics Crossword . . Curious World

He also | the Indiana | Insane | the Indiana Girls’ |

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ASKS CONTINUANCE

‘Tony's Coach Line Petitions Court for Injunction.

Tony Poporad, operator of Tony's | Safety Coach Line, today asked for a temporary restraining order to | prohibit the Indiana Public Service | Commission from enforcing an order | requiring him to raise his fare | rates. In a suit filed in Marion County Superior Court 2, Mr. Poporad al- { loged that the commission's order was made “to allow Indianapolis Railways, Inc,

of passengers within the city limits.” Mr. Poporad said charging 5 cents a passenger for transportation in his busses from Mount Jackson district. The commission held a hearing on

July 2 set aside the 5-cent fare, the

| ule was set, however. Court hearing on the suit is to be held later.

Peace Parleys Open | in Shanghai; Japanese Land Force

Bw nite Press | NANKING, Aug. 6.—Reports that informal peace conversations have | | started in Shanghai between minor | Chinese and Japanese sfficials were strengthened tonight by a reliable | report from Tokyo that “a practical and conciliatory compromise can » | be effected to end the ChineseJapanese conflict.” Tokyo reports said Prince Fum30 | imaro Konoye, Japan's premier, oi favored a compromise, but one that | would make clear Japan's dominant

8 | | position in North China.” 290

By H. R. . EXKINS United RAT Stafr lll SHANGHA Aug. 6.—Japan, pleading HE danger to its citizens, landed Marines today at Hankow, | far up the Yangtze River in the heart of Central China, and made

A girl bahy, in Philadelphia General | the gift of life conferred upon it by death

OF 5-GENT BUS FARE

to maintain exces- | sive rates of fare for transportation |

he had been

to the downtown |

his rate schedule June 8, and on]

complaint said. No new fare sched- |

1846 suear Grove Welfare Law Expert Dies at Caesarian Mite Takes First Meal After Lying Eight Hours in Oxygen Tent.

man's hat, to retain

smaller than a Hospital today

one minute after Mrs. Mary

SHIP CANGELS CALL

FOR AID IN BOMBING

British Tanker Proceeding To Algiers, Report Says.

By United Press LONDON, Aug. 6.-<Owners of the tankship British Cor. poral announced today the vessel was bombed for an hour this morning by three monoplanes whose identity was not determined, The vessel suffered only slight damage, the owners said, and there were no casualties among the 40 crew members,

LONDON, Aug. 6-—Th tank steamship Corporal Rn, urgently for aid today aginst bombing attack by airplanes Mediterranean, and then Oe [its appeal, the Admiralty an-| | nounced. Latest messages the Admiralty said, reported it had repaired its wireless, damaged by concussion from hombs apparently, and was proceeding to Algiers, North Africa. The British Corporal was between the African coast and southeastern spain when its first appeal was | sent, The ship was bound for London from Abadan Island in the Persian Gulf where the Anglo-Persian Oil | Co. has refineries.

from the ship, |

Fail to Break Impasse On Neutrality Plan

LONDON, Aug 6.--A subcom- | mittee meeting of the committee on nonintervention in Spain failed today to break an Italian-German and | Russian deadlock over a British | plan for recognition of the combats ants as belligerests and withdrawal | (ot foreign VolunpeerS.

dramatic preparations to evacuate

| eivilians. Three United States river gun[boats stood by to safeguard the 200 | | Americans in the city.

| Japanese news agency reports re- |

lated a tense situation which | caused a decision by the commander of the 11th Japanese Torpedo Boat Flotilla to declare “a state of emergency” and land his Marines—600 miles up the Yangtze River and 600 miles south of the fighting zone in North China. Five hundred Japanese women and children, dispatches said, left in two river ships for Shanghai.

Americans Reported in China War Legion

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6.--Seven thousand American fighting men, a &

10 DELIBERATE BAKER EVIDENCE

‘Spencer’s Final Argument and Judge's Ine

structions to Close Wayne Coy Assault Case This Afternoon,

Boe- | Jenni, was too feeble to breathe |

'HAGEMEIER RAPS JOE L'S TESTIMONY,

Defense Charges «Pro GSeObT ‘Prejudiced’ and Couldn’t Resist Power of Machine in Seeaing Indictment,

(Joel A. Baker's verbatim testimony and rebuttal testimony of Wayne Coy, Pages Six, Seven and Eight.)

A jury of six men and six women this afternoon was to begin deliberation on the case of Joel Baker, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill Wayne Coy, fore | mer State Welfare Director, Only the one-hour closing argument by Prosecutor Hers bert M. Spencer and instructions by Judge James A. Ems | mert, expected to take about 30 minutes, remained before | the case was to go to the jury,

a. Emmert has indicated » will instruet the jury to consider

Sets It tor Wednesiay and only the assault and battery charge, | Peter A. Cancilla, indicted jointly Again Denies He Plans | with Baker. is expected to go on To Resign.

indi next Tuesday. Judge Emmert

Final arguments started

this morning, with Chief Deputy Prosecutor Oscar | Hagemeier leading off for the Sse followed by Clyde Karrer and C. Bachelder of defense counsel,

indicated he would set that date | after a verdict is reached in the Baker case, , . w", 81 a] Ivan C. Morgan, ate Republic [| Mr. Hagemeier said: “If you find today calied a meet= | joel Baker not guilty, vou will find ing of the state committee's 24 Judge Dewey Myers,

that Munieipal members for 1 p. m. Wednesday in Wayne Coy and all State witnesses the Claypool Hotel,

are liars and perjurers 0 : | Mr, Karrer said: “The Prosecus The principal matter to be dis- | tors office is prejudiced in this case, posed of is the election of a treas- | 1t they want to get gang politics, | urer to succeed Burrel Wright, who | lt them start in the State House.” recently resigned. Mr, Morgan said. | Mr. Bachelder, after reviewing “That is ihe only matter that Baker's record in public life, asked: has been brought to my attention, “Would that kind of a man hire a he sald [thug to hit his superior? The mos | Mr Morgan insisted he was not tive 1s impossible to conceive, Thers | considering rOSIRNINR : is no motive but a political one.” “1 never Was a candidate and am | Prosecutor Spencer said Allen t didate now.” he said. “but Ball, 3235 Central Ave, witness who hol a ‘call A | testified for the defense Wednesday I was elected unanimously three l'on questioned early today by State times, Any ine they Wan Yo Witiice Police and Prosecutor's investigas= | & Chae, ey SX oo tors. Mr. Spencer said Ball was | Ly ne questioned concerning his testis ’ ¥ LL

mony any individual to bring up any matter he wants ro.” Meanwhile, Gavin L. Payne, | District Republican chairman, | he had no nominee to succeed Ivan { ©. Morgan, whose resignation he called essential to reorganization of the State central committee, “The party needs a man who is | aligned with neither faction,” Mr. | | Payne said. “But I haven't any idea | who that man should be.” He urged reorganization by fall land said that wafting until next | spring would prove more dangerous | to the party's ehances of success in the coming elections,

: JULIETTA PATIENTS ARE TO BE SHIFTED

an chairman,

Taken to Headquarters

The Prosecutor said the officers met Ball in front of his home about 3 a. m today, and that Ball asked the officers to take him away from in front of his home to question him Mr. Spencer sald he was taken to State Police headquarters. Mr. Spencer said “Ball changed his story several times during the questioning.” The Prosecutor said his office would continue the inves tigation Ball was released about 9:30 a. m, He could not be reached for a statement, Mr. Hagemeter declared that “if [So jurors And Joel Baker not guilty, ‘ou will also find that Judge Dewey jo v of Municipal Court 3 is a | lar and a perjurer.” “A not guilty verdict also would mean that Charles Fisher is a liar and perjurer. Also that Sarah Kirby was a liar and perjurer. And you | will also have to find that Wayne Coy was a liar and perjurer. In fact, you would have to make them

| - c— [ “Baker is on trial because we be { lleve he 18 the worst offender in | this case.” Mr. Hagemeier cons tinued, “Peter Cancilla said ‘We better wait’ when Baker told him to ‘go get that guy.’ Cancilla didn't want to do it-he knew it was a | dirty job.”

12th said

Acting under provision of a new law, Central State Hospital trusteess [and Marion County Commissioners

today had taken first steps in a program to relieve overcrowding in the State institution for the insane. {Negotiations have been completed for the transfer of 400 pateints from the county hospital at Julietta to State institutions. | State hospial facilities at Logans= ‘port and Richmond are to be enlarged, and the transfer is to start [July 1, 1038, hospital trustees announced. The County Infirmary is to be turned over to the State and con- | verted into a farm where certain | insane Lypes may > located

Reviews Testimony

Hagemeier reviewed Baker's testis mony and recited half a dozen of Baker's statements which he des scribed as “lies.” “Baker was looking in of the Speaker's office for Coy, to spot him for Cancilla,” Mr. Hage« meier said. “Baker lied about that, He said he didn’t look in the door, Joel Baker lied again when he said he didn't see Art Rose. Joel Baker testified they were interested in the Police Merit Bill. The only thing that concerned Baker was the Wel« {fare Merit Bill, Baker didn't want anything to do with a law requiring merit for employees, “He was going to get more power if he had to mow down opposition (Turn to Page Three)

the Aoor

in Hankouw

including 1000 fliers, were reported | | today to have applied for enlist- [ ment in a brigade of mercenaries being organized here to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China, | In charge of the organization 1s Russell L. Hearn, a soldier of fors | | tune who was commissioned a leu | | tenant-general by the late Marshal | | Chang Tso-lin, dictator of Peiping. Most of the volunteers were said | to be former service men, with artil- | lery, infantry or aviation experience. | They made application by letter, | telegram and telephone from a score of the larger cities of vie | country. | Federal departments here noncommittal on the project, American Neutrality Law forbids the | recruiting “for hire” of men or of | (Turn to Page Three)

Correction

The verbatim transcript of Peter A. Cancilla’'s testimony on Page 13 in The Times yes. terday, through an error in transcribing, carried an erronenous answer to one question, The question and the correct answer as made by Cancilla, according to the official court reporter, were: “Q~Did you hit him more than once?” “A==Just once.” The correct answer to subse stantially the same question was published in twos other places in yesterday's story and transeript.

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