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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 147

STOP GAMING, JUDGE BAKER TELLS POLICE

Makes Plea in Sentencing Salesman Who Confesses Losing Stolen Jewels.

CLAIMS OFFICIALS LAX

Jurist Says Office lgnored Warning; Pities Defendant. |

Criminal Court Judge, Frank P. Baker today asked | that ‘the strait-jacket taken off the police” and that |

Prosecutor’s

Stalin ‘Broom of Doom’ Sweeps Thousands Into Exile, Hundreds to Death

be |!

reported gambling in Indian- | :

apolis be curtailed. He made | this plea after sentencing a | $3R-a-week jewelry salesman

to 1 to 10 years in the Indiana |

State Prison on a grand lar- §

ceny charge. “Gambling activities here would cease if officials wanted them to,”

he said. “The existence of gambling | is the cause of a great deal of | crime,” he charged. - | Judge Baker gave Harry Sacks, 32, of 2447 N. New Jersey St., the | prison sentence after the defend- | ant pleaded guilty to the theft of | $6000 in jewelry from a downtown Jewelry firm. Chief Morrissey refused to comment on the Judge's charges other than saying, ‘“‘the Police Department does its duty as it sees it.”

Describes Gaming Losses

Sacks testified that he pawned the jewels and lost the proceeds gambling in several establishments here. He told Judge Baker he pawned part of the loot “through gambling house stooges.” “I came to Indianapolis with $800 early this year and intended to buy furniture,” Sacks testified. “A friend | invited me into a gambling game. “Over a period of several months, I lost the $800 and $2500 more, which I received from the pawned jewels,” he said. He told Judge Baker his wife and two children are destitute.

Blames Officials

“This man is to be pitied,” Judge | Baker said. “Public officials owe him an apology. He wouldn't be in this trouble now if they had not permitted gambling to exist. “More than 60 days ago I called | to the attention of the police and | the prosecutor's office the existence | of gambling in Marion County. If the police had closed the gambling places then, this man would not be in this trouble now.” Counsel for Sacks told the Judge that more than 40 arrests had been made in police raids following his clients arrest.

Raids Held Unnecessary

“Police don’t have to make raids to stop gambling,” Judge Baker replied. “All they have to do is send out an order that gambling must stop and it will. Vice doesn’t exist | unless someone wants it to.” Judge Baker asked Sacks: “Did you see any of your friends in these gambling houses?” The defendant replied he had. “They were a lot of young fellows | who couldn't afford to gamble, weren't they?” the judge asked. “Yes,” answered Sacks. “Well, we can expect some em(Turn to Page Three)

HEAT WAVE TO BID GOODBY TO AUGUST

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

72 10 a. m. > vee dS. 1 @. wm. . Siete 79 12 (Noon) ...t «83 Ap. WW. 89

The Weather Bureau today forecast a 90-degree maximum by midafternoon as the August sun beat down out of clear skies. The Bureay forecast the same thing for tomorrow, to wind up August in a blaze of heat. The maximum vesterday was 90.

BOB BURNS Says:

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 30.—I think there's a good lesson in every success story. A lot'ta times when we can’t find a way out of our own difficulties, we can take a lesson from the other fella. I know a bunch of reporters that went out to get the success story of a man because he had been wiped out in the market and then in a few months, he came back stronger than ever. They told him they admired his courage for having come back after losing everything and they thought his story would be an inspiration to their readers. The man put a cigar in his mouth and he got up and paced the floor with his thumbs in his suspenders and says, ‘Well, boys, it wasn’t easy.” He said, “When I lost everything, I didn’t mope around and

Josef Stalin

FORECAST: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; continued warm.

| for

| the same time,’

MONDAY, AUGUST

VANNUYS SLAP BY GOVERNOR

‘Party Can’t Go Two Ways,’ Townsend Claims After Assailing Senator.

BLAMES hi ADVICE’ |

‘Executive Insists He Gave

‘Fred’ Warning to Back Court Reform Plan.

By PAUL T. SMITH (Copyright, 1937. by United Press) Governor Townsend “hated” to assail Senator Frederick VanNuys | “deserting President Roosevelt | on the Supreme Court reform pro- | posal,” but someone had to do it,

| exclusive interview today. “The party can't go two ways at | ’ the Governor said

| after addressing the Indiana Tepes

| French Lick.

Editorial Association There he led and

cratic

‘malingering public officials”

[urged by inference that the party’ S

lat | planned .to redouble his eflorts to- |

scorn be turned upon the senior Indiana Senator. Mr.

the Governor's attack, today

| ward being renominated at the 1938 | convention in spite of the solid op-

| position | machine,

of the State House |

The Senator, however, was not furious enough to declare that he

| would run as an independent a

VanNuys, meanwhile, furious |

30, 1937

Toll in Marion County Reaches 102; Score Hurt in State.

(Editorial, Page 16)

Eight persons, including two Indianapolis residents, | a score were injured as good motoring weather lured motorists to Indiana highways during the week- | end. One fatal accident in Marion | County raised the 1937 toll to 102, two more than at this time a year | ago. Mrs. Nettie Tate, 30, of 909 Maple St., Indianapolis, was killed when | | her automobile failed to make A turn in the road, crashed into al | tree four miles south of Rockville. | Pive others were injured in the

» | crash yesterday. | he informed the United Press in an | |

Aged Couple Dies

({ Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hunnicutt, | aged Newcastle couple, died when { their automobile collided with another two miles north of their home | last night. Three others were in- | jured seriously in the accident. Otto Newkom, 21, of Ft. Wavne, was killed when his car left Road | 24 two miles east of i ae. Bernard T. Terveer, of Deca- | tur, whose car collided - a dairy truck on the Winchester Road near Decatur, died a short time later. Charles Jones, 62, who died in a

[ern Haute hospital, after being in- |

| jured in a crash while riding in an lauto driven by his son-in-law, | George Bose. | Haute,

Lucille Welliver, 11, of La Porte, |

Mere Deviation From Party Line Is Held Sufficient | didate and asserted that his first was hurt fatally when struck by an | Cause for Extermination, Webb Miller Reveals;

High and Low Affected.

This is the first of a series of six articles on Soviet Russia as it

is today—written by a distinguished foreign correspondent.

By WEBB MILLER

fCopyright, 1937

United Press)

MOSCOW, VIA LONDON (Uncensored), Aug. 30.— | During Josef Stalin's historic struggle with Leon Trotsky 10 years ago the workers of Leningrad presented him with a |

| left the banquet the Governor's address, Mr.

steel broom. The broom was a symbol of the necessity of “cleansing” the Communist Party. Today Dictator Stalin is using it with a vengeance. The purge which he began in the Soviet Union ives)

months ago has extended from generals of the Red Army

| to dramatists and writers; from chiefs of industry to direc- | tors of theaters and even the directors of amusemant parks. Information about the true extent of the current “blood | purge” is hard to get, but available compilations indicate | that about 500 persons have been executed by firing squads. Tens of thousands have been arrested, exiled or dismissed |

get discouraged and give up the ghost. No, sir! I gritted my teeth and borrowed $5000 from my broth-

er!” (Copyright, 1937)

from their posts.

The Tin wages against them varied greatly,

DAMAGE SLIGHT AS GALE HITS FLORIDA

50-Mile Wind Ladies Inland | At Ormond Beach.

MIAMI, Fla. Aug. 30 (UP). |sonable and automatically qualifies | the dissenter as an enemy of the

A blustery tropical storm swung in-

land from the Atlantic ocean today, | the holder of thz adverse opinion

lashing the Florida coastline with | winds as high as 50 miles an hour |

| and sending small craft scurrying |

to shelter. The center of the storm passed ! over Ormond Beach, Fla. at midmorning, the Federal Hurricane Warning System reported, and was believed to have moved inland at that point. Several houses were unroofed and trees were blown down at New Smyrna, Fla. One house was unroofed at Daytona Beach, where the wind increased from 40 to 50 miles an hour within an hour. Residents of the area had been advised of the storm's approach in advance, and had battened down in preparation for the blow. No injuries were Spore.

| opposed the Stalinist leader-

ve the Bolshevik

but they had | “one common focus—that the , in thought or deed,

ship of the Soviet regime.

It should be kept in mind that system (and | other dictatorial systems for that | | matter), any opposition to or devia-

| tion from the “party line,” after the |

line once is laid down. constitutes | a deadly crime. To deviate is trea- |

people—or even a deadly enemy if

is in a position of importance and trust. The following incident illustrates | the difficulty that certain elements have had in trying to keep up with the bends and twists of Communist | doctrines as they are being applied in the Soviet Union.

His Cat Failed Him

On a previous visit to Moscow last | February, I dined one night with | members of the Foreign Office und | a few journalists in the palatial office guest house, formerly the home of a Moscow millionaire. Paul Lapinsky, at that time foreign editor of the newspaper Izvestia, the official organ of the central executive committee of the Soviet Union, was being chafed about his

| —"“We're not | cute,”

(Turn to Page 14)

| objective is to fight for renomina- | | tion.

The Governor, in the interview,

said he did not think Senator Van- | | Nuys would run as an independent.

Likes Him Personally Informed that Mr. VanNuys had hall in anger after Townsend said: “I'm sorry to hear that. I always like Fred personally and 1 | still do. But the party can’t go two ways at the same time.

ord and administration of President |

Roosevelt and also support men who have opposed the President. “Last winter in Washington I sat (Turn to Page Three)

We're Cute

But Not Bows Beautiful, Say Twins Selected as ‘Most Attractive.’

(Photos, Bottom of Page)

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Aug. 30 (U.P). beautiful, the Daily

chimed twins.

[Evelyn and Madelyn, chosen most | yesterday's |

[attractive delegates to | National Twins’ Association conven- | tion, The Dailys of Canton, Ill, Irish, are freckled brunets, 5'2 feet tall. They are 24, and weigh 105 pounds (each. They plan to marry, but not [to twins. Convention kings were Howard | Klopfenstein, Grabill, Ind., and Homer Klopfenstein, Portland, Ind.

Queens crowned before 20,000 spec- | tators were Alta and Alva Drank, | 25-year-old blonds from Eldridge, |

Towa. Other prize contestants follow: Margaret and Margarey Ruhl, Ft. Wayne; William and Benjamin Whitmore; Albert Speath, 25, Chicago; Mrs. H. S. Billings; Los Angeles, and Mrs. F. M. Cawby, North Judson, Ind., 81, the oldest couple, Chicago and New York are, respectively, the 1938 and 1939 convention cities.

HUNT B! BEERY RY EXTORTIONER HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30 (UP.)— Federal agents today extortionist who threatened to kidnap the six-year-old daughter (Carole) of the actor Wallace Beery unless $10,000 was

paid.

We can't | run a campaign indorsing the rec- |

but we're |

hunted an |

adopted |

[ automobile as it swerved onto the | sidewalk to avoid collision with an- | other ear. James Stewart, 20, the | driver, was free under pending a coroner's inquest today.

| Ave, was injured fatally Satur- | day night when the automobile on | which he was riding the running board crashed into a cut of freight

| cars on Harding St. and the Penn- |

| sylvania Railroad. The car was driven by Jake Toledo, 25, of 1146 S. lllinois St., who was injured slightly. He was held by police on a vagrancy charge. Toledo told police that Mr. ton, with whom he was unacquainted, asked him for a ride at Washington and Harding Sts. Mr. Rushton was born in Mon- | | rovia and had lived in Indianapolis | for 10 years. He is survived by his | | parents, a sister, Mrs. Edith Evans, land a brother, Glenn Rushton, all | of Indianapolis.

died and nearly |

Both are of Terre |

$1000 bond |

Robert Rushton, 22, of 505 Arbor |

Rush- |

Bnugred Bee Second -Class Matter ostoff Ind.

Indtanapolls,

2 Indianapolis Residents, 6 Others Die in Traffic; | Kern Backs Sticker Law

Administration to Promote Rigid Enforcement, Mavor Declares.

Mayor Kern today said he would | discuss the parking sticker situation with the Safety Board at itg meeting tomorrow, | “This administration sponsored nonfixable stickers and still is in favor of them, We will do everything to promote rigid enforcement,” the Mayor said.

A Times survey last week showed |

| that 6000, or 30 per cent of the | stickers issued by police so far this | year have not been paid, and only 338 warrants have been written for delinquent violators.

AUTO DEATHS IN JULY DECLINE

7 Per Cent Decrease Shown | On Basis of Miles Traveled.

CHICAGO, Aug. 30 (U. P).-— | Traffic fatalities per 100,000,000 ve-

same amount

| July from the Safety

| year, the National announced todav, Although traffic fatalities | throughout the country increased [5 per cent last month over July, | 1936, motor mileage increased 12 per | cent, | New York City had the greatest (| number of traffic deaths for any one city, 452 for the year ending | July 31, 1937. Chicago had the next | greatest, 438, On the gasis of traffic fatalities lpr 100,000 populations, New York | City had the best record among the | larger cities, with a rate of 108. | Chicago's rate was 21.5.

traffie fatality rate per 100,000 popu-

| lation, 114. Other rates were: Bos- |

ton, 13.3; Philadelphia, 14.6; Pitts16.3; Baltimore, 17; Detroit,

22.6,

Louis, | 21.4 Buffalo, 22; | and Los Angeles, 38.

ROOSEVELT 0. K.S | OHIO FLOOD FUNDS |

RK, N. |

| HYDE PARK, N. Y, .Aug. 30

Cleveland,

HOME

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

State Officials Show 7 Concern at Tokyo's Blockade.

| hicle miles decreased 7 per cent in| last | Council |

STRIKE IS FEARED

e 1. O. Union Wants Bonus for Men on Way to China,

By WILLEN PHILIP SIMMS

es Foreign Fditor

W ASHING TON, Aug. 30—

Anxiety is steadily mounting |

[fave over the possible conse- | quences of the Japanese blockade of China’s coast. The reason for the growing | nervousness is the unpredict- | able attitude of Japan, which today manifestly holds the whip hand in the Western Pacific.

Less than three days out of Balti-

ta is China-bound with a cargo of bombing planes, barbed wire and other material useful in war.

Hull at the same time is Japan's notification of .her blockade, which stipulates that the “peaceful commerce” Ibe interferred with,

Milwaukee had the second owest The situation gives rise to innu- |

| merable questions of international law, which Japan may or may not | respect. Since her invasion of Man-

burgh, 14.9: San Francisco, 16.2; St. | churia, in 1931, she has shown little |

regard for such niceties. Some experts contend Japan should give notice

that to

if the

rest of the world of a full-fledged |

blockade of China it tantamount to a formal tion of war.

would be declara~-

Strike Threatened

Funeral services are to be at 10 | {7 p.) President Roosevelt turned | On China- Bound Boat

the W. Burial

|a. m. Wednesday in | Beanblossom Mortuary. | to be in Floral Park.

Five Hurt in Crash

Five other Indianapolis persons were injured in the accident in which Mrs. Tate was killed. They | were: Mrs. Dora Alexander, reported | in critical condition, and Artimae McGuire, her Joseph Jackson, 841 Charles St.; (Turn to Page Three)

COUNCIL SCANS 1938 GITY HEALTH BUDGET |

esmed

Studies

| The City Council, after a three- | day recess, was to resume its study | of 1938 budget requests this afternoon, with the Health Department | and City Hospital figures uled for discussion. Only minor reductions have been

' made since the Council started work }

| two weeks ago. Six more depart- | ments are to be heard before members start discussions of reductions. They are Police and Fire Depart- { ment Pensions, Sanitation Department, Park Administration, Safety | Administration, Track Elevation and Municipal Airport. A total increase of 23 cents in | the tax rate for 1938 has been asked vy City EPHres.

OLDEST AND YOUNGEST TWINS AT MEETING

Mrs. Harriet Cawby (left), of North Judson, and Mrs. Henrietta Billings, who came by plane from Los Angeles, 81-year-old twins, holding Jerry- Lester and Larry-Lynn Wolf, 4-week-old twins of Ft. Wayne, at {he National Twins Convention in Ft. Wayne,

Homer Klopfenstein, Portland (left), and his brother, Howard, of Graysville, 40-year-old twins, were ad- | Jane Jordan judged the “best-matched” of men at the convention. Crowning Alta (left) and Alva

After Three-Day Recess.

sched- |

his attention today to additional |

| left-over bills passed in the closing |

| days of Congress, after a quiet Sun- | |day of relaxation in his ancestral

countryside.

quarters announced yesterday tha | the President had signed 15 meas-

opin. of last spring's cod

DENIES M'NUTT N

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P). —Secretary of War Harry H. Wood-

| ring today issued a denial of reports |

[that he is soon to be sent to the | Philippine Islands as high commis- | sioner to replace Paul V. McNutt of Indiana. The report said Mr. MeNutt was slated to succeed Mr. Woodring as

Secretary of War,

War Department,” Secretary Wood-

ring said.

BEL GIAN REXISTS HELD

BRUSSELS, Aug. 30 (U, P) = Many persons were arrested today |

persed hundreds of Rexist Party members attempting to demonstrate in Joh of the Nutional Bank.

| The temporary White House head- | t| |

LINE FOR NEW JOB

“I have no intention of going to the Philippines, nor of leaving the |

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U, P) = Ralph Emerson, legislative represen= tative of the National Maritime Union, a C. 1. O. union, said today | he had ordersd the crew of freighter Wichita, bearing a cargo of 19 bombing planes to China, to

| stand by for a possible strike call

sister; | ures and vetoed two. Most impor- when the ship reaches San Pedro

Cal. | “It is possible a sit-down strike will be called unless our men are guaranteed a $200 bonus to pay them for the risk involved in taking the ship into the ‘Chinese war zone.’

SHOWERS THREATEN

Promoters Indicate Only Deluge Will Halt Bout.

(Other Stories, Page 10; Radio

Details, Page 21) NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (U, P) = Possibility of a second postponement lof the Joe Louis-Tom Farr weight championship boxing bout, scheduled for tonight at Yahkee Stadium, arose today when a brisk rain |

| began to fall before noon (Indianap- | |olis Time). It was the second rain |

when gendarmes and police dis- | of the day. Fight promoters indicat- |

|ed the bout would go on, however, | | unless heavy rains fall late in the day or in the early evening.

Ia, who were chosen as the best-matched of

. THEY WERE CALLED ‘BEST MATCHED’ SNES ae i

Times-Acme Photos

more the American freighter Wichi= |

In the hands of Secretary of State |

of foreign nations will not |

the |

LOUIS-FARR MATCH

heavy- |

Financial .. | Fishbein

Dank, 25, of Eldridge. |

CHINESE PLANES BOMB U. S. SHIP NEAR SHANGHAI

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{in Crew of President Hoover Hurt: Liner Hit 3 Times.

AM ENDS OFFERED

Nanking Accepts Full lame as Protest | Is Ordered.

(Editorial, Page 16)

By H. R. EKINS

(Copyright 103%, by United Press)

SHANGHAI Aug .30, <= | Four Chinese war planes hombed the American liner | President Hoover off Shang "hai today, making three direct hits which damaged the liner, injured seven of the crew and stunned several passengers, The big ship, flagship of the Dols lar line, carried 263 passengers and a crew of 320 | The Chinese admitted that it was their planes which bomber the liner, They explained that the airmen mistook it for a Japanese troop transport, | The attack occurred at 5:40 p.m, in full daylight, when, according to American officials, the size of the liner and the dollar sighs of the line on the funnels should have been plainly visible from the air, Bomber 50 Miles From Shanghai

[ The President Hoover, one of the biggest liners plying the Pacifio, was hombed about 20 miles off the China coast and 50 miles from | Shanghai, She was en route to | Shanghai from Manila to pick up additional American refugees, The Chinese frankly assumed full responsibility for the bombing and offered full amends, Nelson T, Johnson, United States ambassador, was ordered to make vigorous representations to the Cene tral Nanking Government, Mavor O. K. Yui of Shanghai des | elared in a statement: “According to information which I have received, the unfortunate ac« cident was due to a mistake on the part of a Chinese airplane pilot. He mistook the Hoover for an enemy transport Extends Sympathy

| “Since the accident is so deploras | ble, I wish to extend to the meme bers of the crew who received ine juries as a result of the unfortunate incident my heartfelt sympatay “I understand that my Govern ment is prepared to accept responsie bility for the incident and is ready to make full redress.” Immediately after the bombing, the United States destrovers were started to the aid of the President Hoover and the British cruiser Cum« berland stood by, furnishing a surgeon, who boarded the President Hoover and performed two emers gency operations on the wounded, The destroyers were called off when | the liner was directed to proceed to | Japan, en route to San Francisco, omitting the Shanghai stop [ So gravely was the incident res | garded that Admiral tarry BE. Yars nell, American fleet commander, at once cancelled all Navy shore leaves, This, the most serious incident of | the Chinese war as regards Amerie can lives and property, hardly was enacted before Chinese and Japa nese warships and land guns bes gan exchanging a terrific bombards« ment in Shanghai and on the river, Shells fell perilously near foreign warships in the river and screamed {over the helpless thousands in the International Settlement Japan Masses Ships

Outside the city, Japan massed 48 warships, scores of thousands of troops and a formidable air fleet for the zero hour-=dawn tomorrow ~0f a final crushing drive on | Shanghai, It was only by the merest chance that the President Hoover escaped cisaster, Three bombs hit the Dollar liner as it was nearing Shanghai after a trip to Manila with American women and children refugees, “We have just been bombed by a | Chinese plane,” the ship flashed {the U, 8, Navy headquarters | “I am not sure where we have | been hit, { “I am not sure how many have been injured, | “Here they come naval assistance.” Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, | (Turn to Page Three)

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Navy

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