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WEDNESDAY,

_ BATTLE BREWS AS DEMOCRATS

AUG. 18, 1937

SIE aR a

DEMOCRATS SUMENE

CONVENE HERE

Row Qver Leadership is Due Tonight as Prelude to National Parley.

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paigner for presidency. He has had

active cam- |

campaign headquarters in Wasning- |

ton which he closed departure for

today Indianapolis.

on his

Pre-election caucuses were in full |

sway today, and Mr. ers claimed all but eight Other candidates denied the claims Missourian Ranks Second Ranking second as worker for the high post is Paul A Williams of Columbia, Mo., and convention officials say that there will be a delegation of 800 here to cam- | paign for him. Robert Campbell, Wichita, Kas., making his bid for the presidency

Maner’s back- | states. |§

the hardest |

is | 8

principally on the basis of the credit | accorded him for his work in help- | ing swing Kansas away ffom Alfred |:

M. Landon and to President Roosevelt in the last election. Alvin John-

son, Indiana Club president, also is |

ranked as a contender. There are other

They son, Cleveland, member of Newton

D. Baker's law firm; Thomas Logan, |

Covington, Ky., and Judge Charles Bliss of Taylorville, Ill.

It is reported that Illinois is di-!

vided on Judge Bliss’ candidacy. The

southern section is reported to be | pushing him for the office, but the |

northern section is said to be preparing to concentrate efforts on gettmg the next convention for Chicago. Lobby gossip is that the real steering committee,” which will have the influential say-so in who will be the next president, is composed of Mr. Wickhem and Lon Bollick. The latter is said to have been | Mr. Parley’s personal agent at the | Milwaukee conclave last year. Another dispute was indicated today as John D. Nefl, secretary of the Virginia delegation, charged states were “padding” their

votes

bv making contributions to the na- | bona |

tional treasury not backed by fide membership. Fach state three votes, plus an additional vote for each 1000 paid up members at the rate of 10 each for dues. He said their votes would be

challenged in the credentials com- |

mittee meeting. Pennsylvania Doubtful

A question mark of the convention |

is what the Pennsylvania delegation will do. It has the largest number of votes, 39. One of its leaders, Jackson Scarl, is a candidate for ireasurer, wants the next convention for Pittsburgh. Just how the 39 votes will |

be swung to win one of the two | Young Democratic committeemen | be |

points is a matter of speculation.

and committeewomen are to guests of Thomas D. Taggart, Indiana Democratic national committeemen, at a dinner tomorrow night | in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Four meetings are on tomorrow moming’s program, all starting at

some |

has a minimum of |

and the delegation also |

possible candi- | dates, but they are regarded only as | favorite sons in the early balloting. | include Lockwood Thomp- |

Mrs. Tex Roberts,

Diamond, Mo. Missouri club president, and Joseph Carr, national secretary, stroll about headquarters.

TALL MEMBER

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wife of the Ingram B. Pickett, here from Missouri, stands seven feet even, He is sergeant-at-arms,

10 a. m. Clarence Manion, State NEC director, is to address a college leaders conference in the Hotel Lin- { coln. The National Committee and | state presidents and vice presidents are to hold meetings in the Claypool Hotel and the first voters are to meet in the Hotel Severin. Sightseeing and funfests are on the program tomorrow afternoon and night. | After the strain of Saturday's | session, the convention is to close with a dance Saturday night. | The highlights of Friday's ses- | sions are to be broadcast on nation- | wide hookups.

GRAND JURY 70 QUIZ FARMER ON SLAYING

| Bu United Press

ford Jr. 45-vear-old farmer iiving near here, was held today for the | September Grand Jury after offi- | | cers claimed he had confessed the fatal shooting of Jesse Houcnens, 45,

farmer who was found dead in a | field near his home Monday. | Officers said Lankford told them he while plowing a field, dered him to ‘stay | Lankford's wife, | In the argument that Fok, Lankford said he shot Houchen

NOTRE DAME'S ART HEAD IS DROWNED

By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. Aug. 18.— | Prof. Emil Jacques, head of the | | Department of fine arts at the Uni- | versity of Notre Dame, drowned in Central Lake, Petoskev, Mich., cording to word received here todav.

national |

and had or- | away’ from |

IN INDIA

MEETINGS TODAY Lions Club,

noon Kiwanis Club,

luncheon, Hotel Washington,

Alumni Association, luncheon,

noon

noon Purdue Hotel Severin,

Twelfth District, American Legion, lunch- |

eon, Board of Trade, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Trade, noon, Real Estate Board, Property Mznagement Division, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

of and Cadle

Democratic Clubs Claypool Hotel all day. Iuncheon, Hotel Washington,

Yaung convention, Tabernacle, Sigma Nu, noon. Advertising Clubs of iuncheon, Columbia Club, Sigma Chi, luncheon, noon. Oil Club, luncheon, Hote! Saverin, noon. Construction league of ¥ndianapolis, Ivnchkeon, Architects and Builders ing, noon.

Indianapolis, noon, Board of Trade.

Indanypoliy Lonteren ce Bank Auditors, |

dinner, Hotel Washington 6:30 ©. Ameran “Business Chad, Iw Tumba noch. ACRCIA. Re icon, indiana Motor Mincheen, } A Ainge

m. cheon, Ceo-

Trade Association

Board of rae rs, neoan rs nexive, meeting, Estate Voara,

golf ville Country Ch

MARRIAGE LYCENSES (Theee iicts are rrom official records st the Ccuniy Court Hoave. The Times ie names or addresses.)

Robert B. Tucker, 2%, Cranipsish, Margaret Virginia Puniney, 28

apons Edunin Janes, 21, of 336 BE, McCar Elise Bradshaw, 18, of 1630 Barth Ave. Richard Grif Jr. 21, of 133% Col Ave.; Aeima C. Sicels 16, of 922

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of 135% Helon & asst of PL) Bdwara Jo a1, Of $25 c arisine Rarer, of 5048

N. E. 30th St. River Ave. E. Michigan

BY Fansyvi Ite; Florgdianapolis. . 3 Ps 3955 College 23, of 310 W. Maple

‘erre Haute;

2M, of 818 Braahuy np. 28 Indi anavolis

2 Foose Ernest A. Brown. Ethel Alford, 28

“Richard Charies Gaitemoller . of Cornel fas Ave., Marie Jane Crawior Ad, 310 N., Tinais St. tiem A. Kuaisell, 1401 E. 10th St.: Dorotha X.ce Willi 20. of 5697 N. Milburn St.:

Pennsyivania St Lena Kautman, 35. of 222 Richland St.

Jentury St. N. Pennsyit ania | 2846

of 110

21, of ams,

St. Alonre Sigmund. 32, 1830 Wiliiam MHenaricks, 21, 3 Doro! hy Rose Skaggs

Horace Berry, 21, Acton: Mary Frances Bunch, 18, of 5¢ N. 5th St., Becch Grove George B. Abshire, 23, of 1459 Lee St. Ethyl ahr, 1%, of 934 RES St. sty ve R. Gillian, 42. of 142¢ E, Vermont Emme M. Bailey, 28, of 1424 E. VerBont St Jess “Adams, 32. of 219 Geisendor{f St.: Queen Hawk. 31, of 219 SeisehaocHt St. navd W. Daniels. $8. of 768 Massagruse ts Ave.: of 3%2 E. 10th

BIRTHS

Girls

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luncheon, Columbia Club,

noon. luncheon, Board of | Clay

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NAPOLIS

| Elmer, Arthur,

Susie Streeval Rosy Neilson, Bovs Louise Wilker,

al 237 Noble at 2105 Barth,

James, stone, Clyde,

at 2839 N. at 3651 N. Riverside,

Norton, Elise Wood, at 15 N. Oriental. Howard, Frances Van Arsdall, at 213

Mildred Anteobus,

Juanita Heidenreich,

at 1021

at 222 Blake, at 569 Jones,

| | Evelyn Roberts, | Paul, Catherine Howell, Albert, Helen Turner, at 2342 Cornell. Roosevelt, Opal 1 Stone, at ¥° Jones,

| DEATHS Anna Holmes, cerebral thrombosis Emna Marie Robinson, 76, 1505 | Spann, cardio-renal disease, {| Marv E. Amick, 72, at 1319 Brookside { cerebral hemorrhage. 7,

Henry Joseph fracture. { Ray W. Davis, 49, at Long, amebi¢ dysentery, Mary Daly, 63. at St. pneumonia. Jessie Robelia Landis, 36, at Ciuy, eral peritonitis, _ William F. Schiel. 82 at 1242 W, | ington, cardiac insufficiency. Louisa A. Brown, 63, at | carcimoma. William H. Martin, 45, at brai hemorrhage, { Helen H. Strathmann, 69, at 3245 N. Tilinais, carcinoma.

avs, at City, skull Vincent's, broncho- | genWash 3920 Lomond,

Central,

i. 1da ‘Conger

2, Methaydist 18 days,

at Veterans’,

at acute diabetic toxemia. Waiter Wilhur Gregory, | Citv, pyloric stenosis. Paul D. Gillum, 41, abscess { Lorena M. Talbot, | Toms Clara &. Orr roOnary

83, at Coleman, carei- | 93, at 420 Fall Creek, cothrombosis. { George Frederick Asperger, 87, at 4031 | Guilford, cevebral hemor: ‘hage. Margaret W, Ramsey, 60. at 243% Broad- |

| wav, cerebral hemorrhage. Jalia Dunn Butler. 92, at 124 8S. Downey,

chronic myocarditis.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly! cloudy tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow night.

TEMPERATURE “ve 18, 19%6— . "8

BAROMETER . 29.91 1» m..

| Precipitation 24 hrs. “ending P otal precipitation since Jan, Xcess since Jan. 1

-- 20.92 a, mW... 8

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana —Concsiderable cloudiness tonight | and tomorrow, west; somewhat warmer inois —Partiv cloudy and tomorrow: local showers or storms north tomorrow; slightly tomorrow central and north. | Lower Michigan—Generally cool central and west | tomorraw becoming unsettisd | showers exireme north; warmer. Ohio —Partly cloudy with showers morrow and in south portion tonight: much change in temperature. Kentucky—Partly cloudy, probably local | Showers tonight and tomorrow; not much in temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT %

Weather, Bi wile PrCldy

romorrow.

io cloudy tonight

not so | tonight: Dossibly

fair, portions

tonot |

A.M s "em 68 70 78 72 74 2

Station. Amarillo, Tex.

3 | Bismarck, N.

| Cmoniati Cleveland, Denver “aurea Dodge City, Kas. Helena, Mont, Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas Ci

64 70 66 70 76 2 Miami, Minasapolis Mobile, Ala. ...\v\.00 | New Orleans New York Okla. City

76 66 2

‘wa

big |

PATOKA, Aug. 18. —William Lank- |

had quarreled with Houchens

| Kev.

93. at 2928 N. Delaware, |

cere- | Pease, 69, at 610 Arch, cere- |

{ liver | 1

‘| 1

Showers tomorrow north- |

thunder- | warmer |

"WOMEN WARNED OF

LEWIS TO TELL Death--And All FUTURE PLANS

‘Radio Address Sept. 3 May Clarify His Attitude Toward F. D. R.

|'of his forebears had lived and died, went up in flames; when he and his family went philosophically across | the fields with a few salvaged be- | longings bundled in bags on their | shoulders, they muttered only: By United Press “Aj ya"—"Tt's bad.” WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—John L..| TI arrived at Chenju 10 minutes | Lewis decided today to broadcast a | after the last bomb in a terrific statement of public policy over pT ne, They Wort cave national network Sept. 3, causin |

tL i JAPANESE PLANES ATTACK AT SHANGHAI

Land Forces Clash in Fierce Battle; Riots in City.

{dent Roosevelt. | For the past five weeks there have | been constant reports that Mr. Lew- | lis and the President have reached the point of an open break. Neither | has issued any public statement on | the matter and neither has taken | numerous opportunities to deny | |this rumor despite frequent ques- | [tioning by hewspaper reporters. | It was believed fairly cer tain—on | the basis of reliable information— | ___ — 4 'that Mr. Lewis will specifically men- | precious air force inland to con‘tion the Administration in his| serve it for the long drawn struggle speech. { which he envisages. | It also was assumed in informed | This correspondent, on a tour of | | labor circles that Mr. Lewis would { the Chinese lines north of the In- | specifically deal with the future of | ternational Settlement, definitely | Labor's Nonpartisan League, polili- | established that no Japanese army cal arm of his C. I. O. | regiments were in action on iy It will be Mr. Lewis’ first ad- | sector, aress since the strike against four; The Japanese reported, however, | little steel” operators was called | that they had landed army units—- | | by the C. I. O.'s Steel Workers’ Or- | reportedly two full divisions—at the anizing Committee May 26. mouth of the Yangtze.

NEWSPAPER NAMES Air Raids at Dawn

i Nipponese air raids started at | GUILD IN COMPLAIN | dawn when squadrons flew around the French concession and rained | bombs on the big Chinese Lunghua {arsenal and airdrome. The first

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| Buy United Press SEATTLE, Aug. | Star today had on file with the Ne tional Labor Relations {charges that the American Newepte per Guild is engaged in “illegal | Aviation Corp. airdrome at Lunghua

| practices without regard for law and | Was struck. The U. S. Pan- Amer- | | order.” [ican Airways owns a half interest

| S. H. Hahn, general counsel for |" i

The Eurasia air field, a joint Ger- | | the Scripps League of Newspapers, | | ~ it ‘was the First time on em. man-Japanese concern operating air

Jy | ployer had filed charges lines to Northwest China, also was

ARAINSY | popbed. Tt es and radi | | employees since the National Labor | Soi were ay SS. yutip ¥

| their bombs at 6 a. m., a second at | 8 and a third at 8:30. The Chinese Central News Agency | Rdmitted that the China National |

opposite the International Bund, and again were subjected to

ANTIFIRE DRIVE

rice laden

Bu United Press MUNCIE, nd. Aug. 18. Indiana | firemen laid final plans for a statewide fire prevention campaign to- | day at a business session of the 21st | convention of the Indiana Firemen's | | import 1500 tons of cheap rice from | | Association. | Saigon, French Indo-China, to preIn carrying forward the fire pre- | vent additional riots. It reportedly | vention campaign the group will offered 1,000,000 yuan (about | enlist support of civic leaders $290,000) for the Shipments. | throughout Indiana, Ger har d| Schutlie, Hammond, association | | Prenton sae Former Hoosiers Now | M. F. Patterson of Kokomo intro- | China Safe duced a resolution aimed at preven-

| tion of sale and use of fivecrackers | through State legislation. BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 18-—Dr. . and "Mrs. J. Herman Wylie and |

PLANE SOUGHT BY [omar Joss Blogminton, mo. i POLICE IS MISSING

Times Special

coast, according to a message re{ceived here by Dr. Wylie's mother, continued | MIS. S. O. Wylie, Dr. Wylie had | been stationed at the Presbyterian | mission at Peiping.

50 Americans Decline To Leave China

By United Press ‘TSINANFU, China, Fifty Americans, most

home at Peitaiho on the China

State Police today | search for an airplane they seek to | | impound. | Everett Ryker, 33, Linden, was ar‘rested by State Policemen Ralph Metcalf and Herman Chouinard for flving a plane without conforming to Federal regulations. | The plane was grounded near

| Plainfield and Ryker was taken to

Aug. of

AE RATE Ta

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES TAKE A REST UPON ARRIVAL

18. ~The Seattle flight of Japanese planes unloaded |

were dropped a

Chinese troops during the night | | reoccupied their positions in Poot- |

The council was attempting to |

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Tired wpon arrival were Ralph Lawrence (left), former District of Columbia national committeeman, and Island national A

John C,

They

Because

Live In WwW rong Part of W orld] AIDS NEW DRIVE

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| out the maimed ana wounded, and | more soldiers were coming in to sit and wait destruction in the pungent, | sickening stench of death. There were at least 40 Japanese [Plaines in the skies, and the bomb- | | ing never really ceased.

| A Picture of War

It was terrible to see, beautiful | | countryside being despoiled, lovable | people maimed or killed, thousands of children like my own little | daughter sent out homeless, alone, | hungry and thirsty—to be bombed again. But the worst thing I saw, singly, | was when a Japanese airplane | dropped its bombs and then came sweeping down. We saw a group of girls crouch in terror at the road | | side, covering their eves with their arms. There was a powerful burst | {of machine gun fire and the bullets ripped through their young bodies. All these poor people we saw had committed just one grave crime—

they lived in the wrong place in a

| ghastly world. If any one thinks war is pretty he may have my share of it.

FEAR COED SLAYING SUSPECT ENDED LIFE,

By United Press HOUCKVILLE, Ky. Aug. 18.-— | Kinfolk and other neighbors trav[eled on mule, horseback and afoot

the tortuous mountain trails to this | the funeral |

today for 19, Berea College “lov-

little village {of Opal Sturgell, student slain on the campus {er's lane.”

| 20-year-old college poet and former

| sweetheart of the girl, as the slayer.

| Wells’ father and brother told Police Chief Earl T. Hayes at Berea | [last night they believed he committed suicide in some | tain ravine nearby.

UNION ORGANIZERS TO ORGANIZE SELVES

Ry United Press

DETROIT, Aug.

moun-

18. —Union or-

| ganizers will organize into an or- | pant Levitt, former assistant to At- champagne purposely or in a car-

| ganizer's union. The move is being led by Herbert Brown, head of the Unifed Auto- | mobile Workers Union Local No. 431, | who said today that Homer Martin, | international U. A. W. president, has | | “hire and fire” power over all or- ( at present.

missionaries, have declined to take

the advice of American Consul John | ments voiced on the floor of the (ried to hush the matier.”

M. Allison to leave their posts and | | seek safety on the coast, | Most of the missionaries are of | the Franciscan order. Those most | dangerously situated are three American women at the American Mission Hospital at Tehchow, 60 miles north of here in an area that may be a big battle zone. They | want to remain and care for| wounded.

| Nn Britain May Ask for

American Aid | Ry United Press | LONDON, Aug. 18.—Great Britain | may propose that she, the United | States and France assume responsibility for safeguarding Chinese Land Japanese interests at Shanghai lin order to spare the oity, it was reported today. It was said that the Government already had issued orders for diplo-

matic representatives to sound out reaction to the idea at Washington, Paris, Tokyo and Nanking. The Cabinet, at an informal meeting yesterday was understood to have considered the joint threepower assumption of responsibility as a means of saving the city from

| Japanese war,

; | the Hendricks County Jail. Officers returned to the field later | to bring the plane to the Indianap- | olis Municipal Airport. ") The ‘plane was was gone.

BEAUTY SHOP FRAUD

| | The Better Business Bureau today warmed Indianapolis women | against buying bargain coupons for an announced new downtown

beauty shop which the Bureau dis- : als he on special TE rome tt on vv: SRT [138 ment of an additional 10 cents at, BX Quaiity

GROUP SALE

Greater Reductions

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Men's, Children’s

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| Authorities sought George Wells, |

had |

ruin as the result of the Chinese- | |

Wall, Rhode

Mo.

10. X. FOR BLACK

re Move in we in Senate to Limit High Court to Nine Justices.

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| introduce Jegislation intended to | | correct “faults” in the 1937 Supreme Court Retirement Act which he contended failed to create the va-| cancy to which Justice Black was! | named. It was learned that Sena- | ter Tom Connally (D. Tex.) also | | plans to introduce a constitutional | | amendment proposal which, among | other things, will clear up the legal |

| question whether retirement of al

| Justice creates a vacancy by defi- | Wilkins, famed Arctic explorer,

| hop. off from New York, justices, f

nitely fixing the Court at nine “ac- | tive” Charges by Senator Bridges N. H), that the “steam roller” [tion in confirming Mr. Black sent | him to the bench under a “cloud | of suspicion” in regard to his past interest in the Ku-Klux Klan. Speculation on the posibility that | a future litigant before the Court | will challenge the constitutionality of Mr. Black's membership, thus

R. |

| forcing the tribunal to rule on the |

| question whether the Retirement Act created a vacancy due to retirement “of Associate Justice Willis | Van DeVanter of Indiana, or increased the emoluments of the office | to which Mr. Black was named by | a Congress in which he served.

RIVALS FOR PRESIDENCY

Friendly rivals tor the presidency are Robert Campbell (left), Wichita, Kas, and Paul Williams, Columbia,

ac- | for the missing fliers.

The roll call: Against (16), Democrats Gerry, Glass, Republicans (10) | Dave Hale, Johnson wer, Townsend, Whit# For (63).

Republicans

Burke, Copeland, |

Byrd, King (6). Austin, Borah, Bridges, You Lodge, Stei- |

(3) Capper. Frazier, Nye.

Farmer-Lahor (2) ipstead, Lundeen. | Democrats (57) - Adams, Andrews, urst, Bankhead. Barkley, Berry, Bilbo, Bone H.) | Bulkley, Bulow, Byrnes, Caraway, Chaves | | Clark, Connally. Dieterich, Donahey, rison, Hatch, Herring, Hitchcock, Holt, | Hughes. Johnson (Colo). Lee, Lewis. Lo- | | Minton, Moore, Murray. Neely, Overton. | { Pittman, Pope. Radcliffe, | | Smathers, Thomas (Okla.), Thomas (Utah), | TW, VanNuys, _Wagner, Black Eligibility | | By United Press

Progressive (1) --La FPollette, { AshBrown (Mich.), Brown Ellen= | der, George, Gillette, Green, Guffey, Har- | gan, Lonergan, McAdoo, McGill. McKellar, | s, Schwartz, Schwellenbach, Sheppard, Petition Contests [| WASHINGTON, Aug.

18. — Al- |

Senate in opposition to confirmation of Justice Black. Chief of these reasons, as out- | | lined in the petition, was that the | | Retirement Aet of March 1, 1937, | increased the emoluments of the | positions on the Court and that | | Justice Black, having been a mem- | ber of Congress at the time the act | was passed, therefore was ineligible | on constitutional grounds to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

| Woman May Be Black’ $s Successor

| By United Press | MONTGOMERY, Ala. Aug. 18 Governor Graves is considering nam- | | ing his wife or his legal adviser 3 the Senate seat to be vacated by | | Senator Hugo Black, new justice of |

(the Supreme Court, it was weve today. It was reported that Governor | Graves was considering Mrs. Graves or Lawrence Lee, hoping to avoid aligning his Administration behind anyone who would seek election to | the Senate in the Democratic pri- | mary next May. u

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BOY. 5,18 100TH TRAFFIC VICTIM

Rowe Swickard Dies | Of Injuries: 28 Motorists

| Fined $220.

Marion County's auto death tol mounted to 100 today as 5-vear-old Kenneth Lee Swickard, 714 Pomeroy St., died in City Hospital of ine juries received when he was struck by a truck near his home, July 39, The toll today equalled last year's record-breaking 100 at this time. Lowell Johnson, 20, of 1545 Care roliton Ave, driver of the truck which struck Kenneth, told police the bov ran from behind a parked {ear in front of 717 E. 11th St. He suffered a fractured skull. Twenty eight of 49 motorists are | rested overnight were convicted in Municipal Court today and fined a total of $220. Costs of $120 were suspended. Twenty-seven offenders were bes fore Judge Dewey Myers and one before Judge Charles M., Karabell, Eleven persons charged with ige noring preferential streets wera fined $85. Ten red light runners were fined $85. Three speeders were fined $22. | Earl Bridwell, 21, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was injured when his motorcycle skidded from beneath | him at Sherman Drive and Massa« | chusetts Ave, He was taken to | City Hospital. | The condition of Veryl Davis, 33, {of 2249 Brookside Ave, was reports led fair today in Methodist Hose pital. He was hurt when the truck in which he was riding collided | with a taxi at Park Ave. and Vere | mont St. Knocked

[Sovi et Hopes Fade in Hunt For Aviators

to the pavement hy a |car as she was crossing Columbia Ave. near 18th St. Nobelle Crow, A, of 1821 Columbia Ave, received body [injuries. She was taken to City Hospital. | Melvin Buescher, 9, of R. R. 4, Box | 609, was injured today when an auto struck him as he rode his bicyvele on State Road 37 at Eppler Ave

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

Bul nited Press MOSCOW, Aug. 18.-—Soviet officials admitted today that the prospects of finding the six Russian aviators lost in the Arctic was di- | minishing rapidly but they continued rescue plans. The Government commission in | charge of the trans-Polar fiights to | the United States reported that it | was unable to establish communioation with Sigismund Levanevsky and | his five companions. Indistinet signals on Levanevsky's wave length | | still were heard, the Commission | | said. At Washington, Soviet embassy of - | ficials announced that Sir Hubert | will | accom- | { panied by a Canadian pilot, Herbert | Hollick-Kenyon, to join the search |

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Accidents Injured TRAFFIC Speeding Reckless driving Drunken driving Running red light Running preferential Improper parking Others

‘SLEEPING BEAUTY’ STRICKEN BY FEVER

By United Press

CHICAGO, Aug 18. Chicago's

F.D.RS SON HURLED | WINE MAYOR SAYS “sleeping beauty,” Patricia Maguire, ' | asleep five and one-half years, was

| in a hospital today after fever added

. . t he seriousness of her condition, Champagne Thrown in His “mre Gladys Hansen, sister of the Face, Official Says.

| girl, said the present illness appars-

ARRESTS

street

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| ently is not another phase of ene | cephalitis legarthia but some dise

By United Press | ease of Minctional disturbance.

CANNES, France, Aug. 18.- The | Mavor of Cannes, Pierre Nouveau, | said today John A. Rdéosevelt, son |

CHET FOWLER HELD ON FEDERAL CHARGE

Alleged Ex-Rum Runner Is Seized as Impersonator.

| glass of champagne in his face dwur‘Battle of Flowers" | festival, The Mayor curred Sunday

said the incident oc- | in the presence of

tinguished visitors who occupied a stand at the fashionable Carlton | Hotel. He said that the 20-year-old stu- | . dent touring Europe with a class- Chet Fowler, 41, alleged airplane mate, threw the champagne when rum runner during prohibition days, ‘he presented Roosevelt With a DOu- | wag arrested by Federal authorities Re Sowa in behalf of Ye) on & Federal Warrant One of young Roosevelt's friends | charging him with impersonating threw the bouquet into a gutter, he a; officer in Milwaukee. He was placed under arrest hy

added. know | Uy, 8. Deputy Marshal James Camp=

here today

Mayor Nouveau did not | whether young Roosevelt threw the pel] at the County Jail where Fows | ler was visiting his wile, Betty, whe (nival spirit. [is held there in connection with the Not wishing to create a scandal, | jssuance of alleged bad checks, the Mayor said he left the hotel | Fowler denied he had ever been | without commenting, or complain- | jn Milwaukee, ing. | Fowler was convicted once befora Many foreigners who participated | repeal in connection with operation |in the ceremony were angered over lof a “Blind tiger,” but a 1-to-2-vear the incident. | sentence was suspended “It was an extremely unfortunate | There is now pending in the U, &, incident,” the Mayor said today. “I | Supreme Court, the Government's | appeal of a U, 8 Circuit Court of It was revealed today that young | Apeals reversal of his Federal Court Roosevelt had had more trouble in| conviction in 19368 for possessing Cannes yesterday. Witnesses said he | paper similar to that used in U, 8, attacked a photographer who tried | eurrency. to take his picture. Bystanders in- | {tervened and saved the photogra- |

pher. : PAGEANT POSTPONED The pageant scheduled for field Park Friday night has

QUINS OVER ILLNESS

By United Press

CALLANDER, Ontario, Aug. 18 «=~ Gar- | The Dionne quintuplets have fully heen | recovered from the sore throats and postponed until Tuesday at 7:30 slight colds which they developed p. m,, according to H. W. Middles- | more than a week ago, It was worth, City recreation director. learned at the Dafoe Nursery today,

T hey Say | IR Economy

to Dine at the

R usset . C afeteria

An increasing number of young married couples are having evening dinner with us FREQUENTLY!

Some are scientifically “budgeting” their expenditures—and find it more economical to dine at the RUSSET than to pure chase the food and prepare is at home!

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The Unusual CAFETERIA

Second Floor

9 E. Washington Street eievaser