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THURSDAY, AUGUST

19, 1937

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HOOSIERS ROW AS DEMOCRAT |

PARLEY OPENS

Split Over Alvin Johnson's | Possible Candidacy for Presidency.

10,000 AT CONVENTION

Executive Group to Draft Resolutions Approving | F. D. R. Program.

Dav’s Prooram . a

1 P. M.—Sightseeing tour. 2 P. M—Riverside Park frolic. 6:30-9:30 P. M.—Night club dinners. 9:30 P. M-1 A. M.—Night club dancing.

TOMORROW

In A. M.—Opening session, Cadle Tabernacle. Speakers. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and | | James Roosevelt. 2:30 P. M.—Reception for || Mrs. Roosevelt, Indianapolis Athletic Club. 3 P. M.—Tea and style show || for women, Indianapolis Athletic Club. 2:30-4:30 p. m.—Stag, Murat Temple. 7:30 P. M.—Second session, Cadle Tabernacle. James A. Farley, speaker. 10 P. M.—Reception for distinguished guests, Murat Temple. 10 P. M.—Informal Murat Temple.

dance,

(Editorial, Page 16; photos and Other Stories, Page 19)

Indiana’s delegation was split into two factions over the leadership and possible candidacy for the presidency of Alvin C. Johnson, Indiana Club president, as the Young Democratic Clubs of America convention opened here today.

As the dispute remained unsettled. |

Governor Townsend discounted its

importance and said that Indiana |

would support Mr. Johnson “unless the national Administration has another program to offer.” He expects

to lear nthe Administration's atti- | tude during a conference here to-|

morrow with Postmaster General James A. Farley. While this factional contest held the spotlight of early convention ac-

tivity, the 10,000 Young Democrats |

awaited the arrival of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and her son James, the keynoter, and other prominent figures. Graves Awaited

Also awaited was the arrival this afternoon of Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama and his wife. She is mentioned as the possible successor to Hugo L. Black as U. S. Senator. A flag-draped city greeted

for the convention which holds the national political spotlight. Automobiles, trains

Extra policemen were stationed in

the downtown district to handle |

traffic and direct visitors.

Hotels were packed. The Clay-

pool lobby was decorated with huge |

pictures of national office candi-

dates and the banners of cities bid- |

ding for the 1939 convention.

The executive committee of the |

committee went into its first session to draft a series resolutions approving social welfare legislation sponsored by the Roosevelt Administration, and the President's international policy. Governor Townsend made his statement after two conferences today. One of them was with Pleas (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS

Says: Aug. 19. — I

never could understand why familv ties ain't as strong in the city as they are in the country. Every

national

dav you pick up a paper and you |

’

read where some city person is suin a member of his

family for somethin’ or other. They use the law to fight their own

flesh and blood. | Down home the | a

members of family will stick

up for each other in spite of the |

law. It's like the time down home when Uncle Hod was out fishin’ with Grandpaw Snelson. They were sittin’ on the bank, just pullin’ the fish in, one after the other, when they looked up and saw the game warden comin’. Uncle Hod jumped up and started to run through the woods with the game warden at his heels. : After they'd been runnin’ about five miles, the game warden caught up with Uncle Hod and says, “Show me your fishin’ license!” Uncle Hod

took his license out and the game | warden looked at it and said, “Well, |

what in the world were you runnin’

for? Uncle Hod says, “Yes, but I was

runnin’ to give grandpaw a chance |

to get away—he ain't got none!”

Gubernatorial Aids Hold Tete-a-Tete

It wasn't politics, but airplanes that was the subject of discussion when the secretary to the Governor of Alabama visited the secretary to the Gover-

nor of Indiana. Dick Heller (left),

send’s secretary, Is talking about air travel with Pitt

MERCURY NEARS |

Thunderstorms and Cooler Weather Forecast for Tonight, Tomorrow.

TEMPERATURE EL ham... 76 11 a.m... 81 12 (Noon) 85 1p...

LOCA a. m.. a. a. a.

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Today's temperatures led yester- |

Tyson Maner, Bibbs Graves.

Governor Town- ica,

sh!

Says Bible 0. K.s Him, but Law K. O.s Him.

Negro who gave his name as William Griffin when he was arrested, admitted it was Harry Bush when he got into Municipal Court today. “I belong to the church and I don't want that name to get around,” he said. He was accused of stealing some

| day's by seven degrees at 9 a. m, |

¥ Times Photo, secretary to Alabama's Governor The latter is campaigning for the

presidency of the Young Democratic Clubs of Amerin convention here. uled to arrive here later today.

Governor Graves is sched-

CHILD TO JUDGE MOTHER'S LOVE

Boy Will Decide Whether To Reject Parent's Plea for Custody.

By United Press ELIZABETH, N. J, Aug. 19. mother who hadn't talked to her son for five years appeared today to be losing a strange battle for his love and custody. She spent an hour with her son in Elizabeth Cour: House yesterday,

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SENATE VOTES APPROVAL FOR TAX LEAK BILL

Quick Action on Measure Strengthens Hope for Saturday Close. |

'CONFEREES IN SESSION, a Upper House Disposal of | Third Deficiency Law

(Another Story, Page Seven) !

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-—The | Senate hurdled one more obstacle lin the drive toward adjournment | today when {it approved in less | than 15 minutes after convening ( the Administration's bill to close | tax loopholes. Vice President Garner gaveled the | important bill through to passage | without objection and without a | record vote,

FIGHTING IN Cl

| Approval of the complex measure, | designed to plug eight, specific types | {of tax avoidance which the Treas- | ury estimated cost the Government | { more than 75 million dollars in| [ annual revenue, came without ex- | | tended debate. | The bill now goes to conference | with the House to adjust minor changes made in the measure by the | Senate Finance Committee, Passage of the bill by the Senate Jeaves the adjournment schedule in Shape virtually to assure quitting of Congress by Saturday night as | lenders have hoped.

Sugar Bill Held Up

Other developments in the ad-

| journment situation: | Conferees on the Sugar Bill failed

and busses | brought visitors from every state. |

of | and |

O LLYWOOD,

You've got a license!” and

but shortly thereafter went into a Islide and were but three degrees lout front at noon. | However, Weather Bureau forecasters said that only the complete

| collapse of the sun could allow yes- | | Then he quoted Scripture to Court House. After that, an advisory |

i terday to finish ahead and today | bid fair to be the hottest of the year.

| Thunderstorms were predicted for |

tonight or tomorrow 2nd cooler

weather is to follow,

President’s Speech Seen as Declaration to Push

New Deal Aims.

(Text of Speech, Page 8; Editorfal, Page 16)

[By United Press i WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt returned to the Capital today to stand-by during Congress’ stretch drive toward adjournment, to keep a first-hand watch on

the Far Eastern situation, and to

await reaction to his North Carolina speech which close associates said

the |

| on” for Administration objectives. In Manteo, Roanoke Island, N. C,, yesterday, he made an outspoken attack on foes whom he charged with | seeking “to serve their own interest above the general welfare.” His criticism of the U. 8S. Cham- { ber of Commerce, the American Liberty League and the National Association of Manufacturers-—-each of which he mentioned by name—failed to draw an immediate reply, but the organizations were expected soon to draft formal an- | swers. | Sources close to Mr. Roosevelt | asserted his North Carolina speech jcould be considered “his an- | nouncement he will fight on” for the Administration's Supreme Court and labor objectives. | “These sources predicted the ad- { dress would be followed by others [ih behalf of the President's socialeconomic program. Mr. Roosevelt has another national speaking engagement Sept. 17 | when he will stand in the shadow

| ot the Washington Monument to

150th anniversary of the Signing | of the Constitution.

Hoover Censures G. 0.P.; F. D. R. Cri ticizes Foe

| new pipe. He claimed he had permission i to take it. Judge Charles Kara- | bell asked him when he took it. | He said it was 4:10 a. m, Sunday.

| show that it was all right to work on Sunday. Judge Karabell quoted the law | to show it was all right to fine him ' $5, which he did.

Republicans Looking to Coalition Bloc With ‘Right’ Democrats.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—For- | mer President Herbert C. Hoover | today criticized conduct of the 1936 Republican campaign and assumed | leadership of a movement develop- | ing in 20 states to rally Jeffersonian Democrats to a G. O. P. coalition [in the 1940 Presidential wars, | Mr. Hoover proposed that the party meet officially next year in | convention to draft a declaration

his program in an article prepared for publication in the current Atlantic Monthly. The project pointed Mr. Hoover and Alfred M. Landon, 1936 Republican Presidential nominee, toward a possible contest for control of the party. Some details of the plan leaked prematurely a fortnight ago |and had a cool reception from Mr. Landon, Chairman John M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee and most party men | who commented here upon it,

| Mr. Hoover said his program was |

| designed to remedy three major Republican weaknesses: 1. Failure properly to defend itself against calumny. 2. Failure to draw upon party counsels. 3. Failure to erystallize an affirmative and consistent body of principles in the face of existing conditions. Citing uproar within the Democratic Party, Mr. Hoover said “there is bound to be more discussions of a new alignment that will bring a better junction of Republicans and

youth in

deliver an address celebrating the | so-called Jeffersonian Democrats.” |

ves the differences between

| He belie | (Turn to Page Five)

trying to get reacquainted. The boy | 5 agree after another conference.

shied away from her. | “1 felt very lonesome,” he said. The mother will have several more | opportunities during the next few [weeks to talk to her son in the

[ master will render a decision—guid[ed by the boy's preference. Involved | Rose Frankel of Brooklyn; her 12 | year-old son Howard: her former | husband Julius and his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Frankel,

Boy Loves Stepmother | Tn 1932, Mrs. Frankel

| permanen | her husband in Brooklyn. Soon | after, the husband took Howard to | Reno and obtained a divorce. He remarried and now lives in Elizabeth. Howard has stepmother as his own parent. Mrs. Rose Frankel charged her husband obtained the divorcee by fraud, and opened proceedings to have the Reno decree set aside and to obtain custody of Howard. In court yesterday when Mrs. Frankel saw Howard she cried: “Please give me back by boy.” Howard hugged his stepmother more tightly. While his father and stepmother waited outside. Howard | went into an anteroom with his | mother. When his mother said “My son, how are you?’ Howard | shied away and circled the room. For the most part he answered | “Yes” or “No” to such questions | as “Do you go to school?” “Do | you like it?” and “Have you any | playmates?” | Mrs. Frankel appeared dazed | when she left the room, She sald | hesitantly: | “Well, T think T broke the ice | a little bit. He will like me.” | - i pn - ‘COL. J. M. JOHNSON

~ DINES WITH ELDER

Col. J. Monroe Johnson, assistant U. 8S. Secretary of Commerce, land- | ed in his private plane at Munici- | pal Airport here today for a lunch[oh stopover to talk with his

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friend, Bowman Elder, and to inspect the port’s blind landing equip- | ment, He was en route from Oklahoma ity to Washington, and was accompanied by Mrs. Johnson and piloted by Benny Griffin, famous | distance flier, He pronounced the | blind} landing equipment here the i finest in the United States and | commended the arive of state offi- | cials against unlicensed planes. He | was to continue to Washington this lafternoon.

in the case were Mrs. |

t maintenance suit from

Senate conferees stood fast for the Senate version of the bill while House members sought to revise it [in an effort to avert a threatened | presidential veto:

Quick Senate action on the Third Deficiency Bill was expected. This

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MORRISSEY PLEDGES FULL GAMING PROBE

a Gambling

Charges Are Laid Against 61 in Two Days.

come to love his

were ing charges in the last two days, |

With 61 persons arrested on gam-

Police Chief Morrissey said today: “If and when we receive a complaint that a gambling establishment is in operation, we will make an investigation. If we feel there is enough evidence to make a court conviction, we will make arrests, “It makes no difference who the proprietor is or where his place is located. Tt is a part of our regular police work. That is the way the procedure always has been and that is the way it will continue to be.” in Municipal Court today after two raids yesterday. The cases of 34 arrested Tuesday |

In the first raid yesterday at 126 W. Maryland St. officers arrested —n Wo Tue Ti BLACK GETS READY | TO TAKE COURT OATH

By United Press | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, — Hugo | | Lafayette Black, 51-year-olds Ala- | bama Democrat, prepared today to | take the constitutional oath required | for Supreme Court Justices despite a petition now pending before the | high tribunal to bar him from the | bench. Issuance by President Roosevelt of the official commission naming Mr. Black an associate justice was understood to be the only formality preventing him from taking the oath immediately. Reports persisted that Governor Graves of Alabama will name his wife to the seat Justice Black will vacate in the Senate, Governor and Mrs, Graves arrived in Washington last night en route to the Young |r convention in Indianap- | olis,

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Disease Spread at Hongkong Brings Warning by U. S. Consuls.

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By Un ited Press

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Threats

of epidemics in refugee centers of the Far Bast added today to the

more than 3000 American nationals from the Shanghai battle area.

were continued until Aug. 26 by Mu-| Reports from Far Eastern points | | nicipal Judge Charles J. Karabell. told of the outbreak of cholera, dys- [ping official, my son Quentin and

several of

entery and smallpox in areas, with the growing danger similar outbreaks of epidemic proportions in Shanghai itself, where

food supplies were aggravated by the

battle raging on all sides of the International Settlement. Reports from Hongkong said hoth cholera and dysentery were taking heavy toll in life there. The cholera epidemic started at Canton, up the river from Hongkong and swept down to the British Island city. State Department dispatches re-

vealed that the American Consul- |

General at Hongkong had advised all American consuls throughout the Far East to dissuade Americans from going to Hongkong except upon the most urgent business. He said an epidemic was threat-

ened there and that the arrival of |

increasingly large numbers of refugees from the Shanghai area, for whom adequate housing and sanitation facilities could not be arranged on short notice, would add to the danger,

JAPANESE BREAK GREAT CHINESE SHANGHAI DRIVE;

| |

TY LULL

~ Troops Turn Tide for Sorely-Pressed Nipponese.

‘WORST IS OVER'

Admiral Claims City Will Be Free of Peril Soon.

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(Copyright, 1937, by United Prem) SHANGHAL, Friday, Ang. 20 <<Chinese regained the of. fensive on one xector of the hitterly-contested northern Shanghai front at 2 a. m. tn. day. After they had been driven hack earlier hy an in. tense Japanese aerial and naval bombardment, they re. organized their lines and drove forward in the Kungping road district, By H. R. EKINS (Capyright, 1937, by United Press) SHANGHAI, Aug. 19. | Powder-burned, kh ak i-clad | Japanese forces drove fore ward along a 20-mile front northwest of Shanghai today land Vice Admiral Kiyoshi | Hasegawa announced that he | expected this homb-devastate

Times-Acme Photos,

Nankai University Burns After Bombardment,

a Cholera Outbreak : Imperils War Refugees

Mrs. T. R. Roosevelt Jr. and

Son Escape Shanghai | Bombs by Minutes.

Jr, Manila

an graphic

now en has

Mrs, Theodore Roosevelt route from BShanghal written for the United Press account of her experiences at the oul | break of the war in Bhanghai, She her son narrowly miszed bombing,

and

(Copyright, 1937, by United Press)

ABOARD 8. 8. PRESIDENT | JEFFERSON EN ROUTE TO MA-

NILA, Aug. 19.-—Friday night, Aug.!

13, William P, Hunt, American ship-

[problems of sanitation, water and | manned by Japanese troops while | | fires were blazing in a high wind. !

Saturday afternoon Quentin and I stood at a window on the eighth | ing the Bund which was thronged by crowds like Coney Island on the Fourth of July, Suddenly an infuriated mob of more than 1000 Chinese, tongue like hounds, chased Japanese along the Bund, Four of the Japanese escaped, but the fifth went down under the fury of the mob. His face was a pulp from being kicked and beaten and stoned before he finally was rescued by police, Meanwhile, it was quiet along the river with two Japanese seaplanes circling lazily overhead. When antiaircraft guns on the Idzumo started firing the manager of the hotel requested us to leave, We left the hotel, but were delayed by congested traffic between the Cathay and the Palace Hotel.

He's Up! No, He’s Down! He’s Out! He’s Nuts! Who’—Dempsey!

nuts.

pion is going from soup to nuts,

of running a restaurant—Jack Dempsey's, where 50th crosses Eighth Ave.—that has him bob-bob-bobbing on his

heels.

of the miseries that have beset

“Good luck, Jack Dempsey.”

“Best wishes, Jack Dempsey.”

him, guys who want to put the 14-karat nuts who want to sell wells to reversible bow ties.

~ And—worst of all—he's going crazy from gents who, inspired by a drink or two at the bar—walk up to him and

start throwing punches.

By HENRY M'LEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent \ EW YORK, Aug. 19.—Jack Dempsey is quietly going He told me so himself. You might almost say the one-time heavyweight cham-

Deep in a corner of his tavern, where the shadows made him indistinguishable to authograph seekers, Jack told me

town’s best-known host two years ago. He's going crazy from shaking hands, smiling, shaking hands, smiling, and shaking hands some more. He's going crazy from writing, over and over again:

“To my old pal Joe Glutz, Jack Dempsey.”

He's going crazy from dodging women who want to kiss

because it is the business

him since he became the

bite on his bankroll, and him everything from ol

“TP HEY'RE the worst—those alcoholic champions,” Jack sighed, “not a day passes but one of them, usually to show off, grabs me by the arm and, with a ‘so you think

you're tough, eh? punches me with a right or a left. I've never hit one of 'em yet, but I'm telling you I never wanted to hit that Willard at Toledo as much as I have wanted to let a few of those babies have a left hook on the kisser. They vank me around, punch me around, and then, when I don't do anything, say: “ ‘T knew you couldn't fight, vou big bum!’ 3 I hit em I might kill ’em. thinking they're world champions.” Only a few days ago, Jack told me, he was standing across the street in front of Madison Square Garden when A big fellow with a beautiful clove breath walked up and punched him in the nose. ’ n

If I don't

» ”

SHOVED him off and started running across the street toward the restaurant, because I didn't want to hit him. He came right behind me, straight on into the kitchen. We played tag in there for a few minuies, knock-

ing over pots and pans and everything else. managed to get into my office and lock the door. the cops got there he was just pulling out a gun a yard long and threatening to shoot the door down. loon. Told the cops he had wanted to kill me ever since

I cost him dough by losing to Pruner.” . a

ACK shakes hand

said, “that when I fi

get and reach over

they go away bruise ‘em with my

s from noon until midnight.

nally get home at night I can’t quit,

and shake their hands.

big hams,

His food is as good as you'll find in New York, but there's no denying that the thousands who patronize his place each day are drawn by the lure of his name, “I shake 80 many hands, and smile so much,” Jack

shake hands with Hannah when she opens the door, and when she takes me in to see the babies I nearly always forHannah says I just got to quit that, because their hands are so little I But I get in such a habit

of shaking hands that I shake everybody’'s—taxi drivers,

doormen, waiters. know.” Not a day passes

but some woman tries to kiss Jack.

I'll be shaking my own next thing I

“I don’t know what they'd want to kiss my homely mug

for,” he said, “but

Finally I What the hell's a fe

When

solution. “What! steak.

Crazy as a

5 Johanna

my Ft dal

fat women, skinny women-—-all sorts of women. if they don’t always pick out a time when Hannah is around. She gets pretty sore at them. They usually say they have made a bet that they can kiss me, and when I refuse they get mad and say I am costing them money.

they do.

llow gonna do?”

No kiss?” Jack asked, and went back to his

# 4 y

Old women, young women, And damn

I said 1 didn’t know, but that if he would shake my hand and give me an autograph I'd try to think up a

JACK DEMPSEY

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floor of the Cathay Hotel, overlook - |

giving | five |

ed city of 3,500,000 people to | be freed of major military danger within 48 hours, The Nipponese naval ehieftain was jubilant, | “We are gaining the upper hand,” he said. | This correspondent personally toured the front and can testify to the accuracy of the Admiral's state | ment 86 far as the immediate situe | ation is concerned The Japanese victory came at a moment when {i was desperately | needed, Naval Leaders Meet

Admiral Harry Yarnell and ather | foreign commanders and diplomats met earlier in the evening and were reported to have discussed a drastia program in event the reckless ate« tacks by both sides in the immedi= ate vicinity of the Anglo-American area of the International Settles ment continued to endanger thous Isands of Americans, Britons, and | other Oeccidentals, The warning of the representatives [of the powers was reinforced by vigorous diplomatic representations ( in Nanking in which, it was under | stood, Britain and France took the | leadership. There was a lull in the fighting las midnight approached. Chairman Sornell Franking of the municipal government of the International Settlement believed that the worst might be over, Japan's unquestioned eommand | of the air, he said, made it almost [ certain that there would not be a | repetition of the frightful aerial | bombings of the settlement and the | French concession in which mors | than 1900 civilians, including three | Americans, were killed. Relations Are Strained Relations between the foreign atthorities and the Japanese had | been strained all day following Admiral Hasegawa's notification to | foreign naval and customs authori ties that all movements of Chinesa | vessels on the Whangpoo River bes [tween Pootung Point and ths | Yangtsepoo area of the International Settlement were forbidden bes tween 7 p.m. and 5 a.m, He warned the foreign authorities that any of their vessels intending [to move during those times and [ within the area mentioned must give {the Japanese due notice “in order [to avoid unpleasant misunderstand- | ings.” The foreigners refused to accept [the regulation immediately, points [ing out that no formal state of wae I exists between Japan and China and that the Japanese action constituted a blockade in international terri tory, which is {llegal. Definitely Repulxed

With the great Chinese assault which started 24 hours ago definitely repulsed, and the broken Japanese lines in the Yangtsepon-Hongkew area restored, the war again spread to Nanking—China's national capi» tal up the Yangtse River from this | eity, | Gen. Chang Tse-chung, Chinesa | supreme commander for the Shangs [hai area, confirmed a Japanese re [port that Japanese bombing planes (Turn to Page Three)

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