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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 149

AH, WOE, THE SWIMMING POOL IS CLOSED

Summer is dying—dead, in fact, for Loran Norris, shown here morosely regarding the Gar-

field Park swimming pool, closed yesterday by the City. voungsters will resume their school Studies. Sete

diame polis

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The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow with probably thundershowers tomorrow afternoon; continued warm,

Next week, Loran and 63,000 other

WEDNESDAY,

Meanwhile, 2000 teachers met at Tech to outline the year's work. superintendent, is shown in the center, with Music Director Ralph Wright (right) and George

Buck, SHO Faye PAmbRpA, at the Wennical institute.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1937

WHY, EVEN THE TEACHERS ARE READY

53. 000 AWAIT Britain's s Fleet Hunting BUS SPEFDERS Here's One

CHOOL BELLS NEXT TUESDAY

Traffic Burd Promised Demanded: Paralysis Peril Held Slight.

INDIANAPOLIS—Sixty-three thousand pupils to start school year next Tuesday. No threat of infantile paralysis. CHICAGO—Health Board schools to remain closed

orders indefi-

nitely to avoid spread of infantile

paralysis.

MILWAUKEE — Kindergarten and first grade pupils to be kept home 12 days, delaying opening until Sept. 20.

Sixtv-three thousand Indichildren are to return to schonl at R

8:30 a. 'm. next Tuesday under police protection.

DeWitt S. Morgan, school superintendent., said last nigh!{ school would open as scheduled in spite of a Safety Board proposal that the opening be delayed a week as a safety measure while City Police were on duty at the State Fair. “Bverything is in readiness for the opening of school Tuesday, and we can’t change our plans now,” Mr. Morgan said. Promises Patrol Chief Morrissey said todav: “We will patrol the schools if it is the desire of the citizens, but it, is an outrage that policemen should have to work 14 hours a day when others are clamoring for eight hours.” Mr. Morgan said: “Our duty is to care for the children after they get to school. We feel confident the Police

anapolis

them ony their way.” State Health at the enough

caring for Dr. Verne K. Harvey, Director, said today that present time there is not infantile paralysis in Indiana to warrant a delay in opening the schools. Opening of Chicago schools has been delayed indefinitely because of an epidemic. “There is nothing to indicate the situation here is that serious,” said. “With only five new cases reported over the whole State last week, I would say the situation here seems very hopeful. No new cases were reported in Marion County.” Commenting on infantile paralysis conditions here, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board said: “There have been no cases ported to the Health Department since those of Aug. 6. 9 and 10, when three cases and one death occurred. In view of the situation I can see no basic reason for deferring the open(Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS | Says: HES

don’t want’ta keep harpin’ on it all the time, but dog-gone it, I do know that families in small towns are closer than those in the city. In the city, it seems the men are more interested in their business than they are in their own children. I know a friend

| his supreme power over the entire

Depart- | ment will work out some method of |

| ships to convoy

he | Sels ever since the fighting became |

{acute on Aug. 12.

secretary, |

re- |

i | Japanese Army has consolidated its |

Attacking Submarine; Russia May Aid China

LONDON—The Admiralty ordered a fleet of British warships to hunt for the unidentified submarine that attacked a British destroyer | off the coast of Spain near Valencia last might. PARIS—The French foreign office confirmed reports thai a note had been sent to Britain protesting Italian aid to Spanish Rebels, | SHANGHAI—Belief was growing among foreign diplomats that Russian intervention in the Chinese-Japanese conflict on the side of China was a distinet possibility,

TSINGTAO—Japan sets Saturday as deadline for completion of evacu- |

ation; all warships but one destroyer to geo. KOBE—Liner President Hoover, hombed off Shanghai, tine; delaved because of recent outbreak of cholera at where she touched.

Hongkong

Belief Is Based on Growing Torpedo F Fired on Warship Japanese Threat to Off Spain Misses; Accuse Her Interests. Italians.

LONDON, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Briiish warships hunted in the Mediterranean today for a “pirate”

By H. R. EKINS

(Copyright, 1937, by United Press) } |

SHANGHAI, Sept. 1.—The possi- | bility of Russian Soviet direct inter- | vention in the Chinese-Japanese | war is increasing daily, a survey of | diplomatic opinion indicated t0-! night. Diplomats based their predic- | tions on several developments: Persistent reports that 20 or more | Soviet military fliers have heen “lent” to China by Russia and now | are in combat with the Chinese ai: | force. Extension of the Japanese drive northwest of Peiping into Suiyuan stroyers and two cruisers, province. This directly menacecs | Available for the search. Hasty | Russian-controlled areas in Outer | orders were flashed by the AdMongolia and Sinkiang and Russia | miralty to the Mediterranean Naval has announced that she will fight | command for them to join in it. at once if Outer Mongolia, partieu-, 1he Admiralty reevaled that larly, is endangered, as it now is. Reports that Soviet Dictator Josef | Stalin rapidly is completing his] “blood purge” of the Russian Communist Party and reconsolidating

off ol

night about

destroyer Havock last Cape Antonio, Spain, miles south of Valencia. The Hardy and Hyperion, | ish destroyers, forming a circle around the area

seas boat was suspected of being Italian. Ten British warships, eight de-

were

the

the submarine in the latest incident, but whether the submarine was hit was not known. The Admiralty said

| charges, | instructions to the | Mediterranean.

| Soviet military and political ma-

chine. the

fleet in

Relations Grow Worse

Japan's relations with Britain and the United States, because of the shooting of the British ambassador to China by Japanese military | fliers, and the repeated actions of | the Japanese Navy which have enldangered United States warshids | Spanish Insurgents, the Foreign Ofhere, also were growing worse. | fice admitted today. There was a Both the British and the Amer- | Plain suggestion of joint action to licans have been forced to use war- | bring about general European neu- | their refugee ves- trality.

‘France Complains of Italy’ s Aid to Rebels

PARIS, Sept. 1 (U. P.)—France has complained formally to Great

Admiralty said.

pointed out, al-| The attack ocurred about 60 miles

sendsouth of Valencia, mystery | Rebel Navy is credited with having

Russia, it was {ready has ample excuses for ing troops into China where her consulate general in Tientsin was | wrecked andl its archives confiscated |

by alleged Japanese military agents. | [alist and foreign merchantment.

News of a direct attack on a Britlish man of war was announced here | coincidently with reports that | | France, angered at Italian inter-

Expects Soviet Action

“If the war lasts six months, and China continues to offer her present

vigorous resistance, the betting is] ce, : : | vention on the Rebel side in

better than even that Moscow will | VED } be in” one diplomatic expert said, CiVil war, was threatening to open pointing out that Soviet rule in | her frontier for munitions and vol- |

| Eastern Siberia will be based on Unteers for the Loyalists.

| Japanese toleration alone once the | HENDAVE FRANCO-SPANISH | .. 1 90, J.—4 joshi in North China. ND . a Britain, too, was seen ‘as a factor on the Aragon front ‘to drive ‘delin the situation and it was believed | | fending Loyalist forces “to the sea,” that Moscow would receive at least | | Insurgent dispatches said today.

indirect British support if Stalin Rebel bulletins asserted that |

should decide to take a hand in the | crack foreign pilots in fast fighting | they

Chinese-Japanese affray. | planes and bombers already had | There is no confirmation of *e-| hroken the Government's ports that the Russo-Chinese non- | scale offensive 175 miles northeast aggression pact announced this| of Madrid and that Gen. Franco is | week in Nanking and Moscow is | | ready to open a counter offensive to reinforced by secret annexes which | cut the Loyalist “life line” between | (Tum to Page Three) Valencia and Barcelotia,

Stalin Keeps Secluded;

of mine who's a |

big business man |

and hardly ever

sees his children. | ‘em | away to military |

He sends

school in the winter out to Bieation camp in the summ Foss lets his children. come down to his place of business because he don’t want ‘em bothering him. Back home I've got an uncle who's a barber and his boy not saly hangs around the barber shop ali the time, but he takes an interest in his father's work. I'll never forget the time the boy saw a stranger comin’ into the shop and he says,

tice shavin’ him” and my uncle says, “All right, son, you go ahead and | practice on him, but be ecareful— don't cut yourself.” (Copyright, 1837)

jme and me rec- | and he |

“Papa, | here comes a stranger—Ilet me prac- |

Here is the third of six dispatches by Webb Miller, European news manager of the United Press, on Russia, as it is today.

censored), Sept. 1.—Josef Stalin al- | tion. especially since the murder of | {high for comfort.”

ways has been the most inaccessible his long-time friend Sergei Kirov, | of the world's rulers but since the | which proved that even Soviet chief- | present political and crisis in the Soviet Union, he is | from political assassins. seen in public even less.

caught glimpses of Stalin | times whizzing through the streets | in his sedan: find no one who had seen him in | The government staged a show remi public in the last few weeks. | iniscent of New York es comThy man of steel” spends most’ (Turn to Page Five

reaches quaran- |

[or

i Municipal | warned taday.

| operation from | ways Co. and Peoples Motor Coach | Co. officials after

| motorist alleged to sub- | marine which attacked the British

| Coach Co.

| certainly do not

| Havock made a counter-attack on traffic violation cases

| said he would seek support of Chief the Havock | attacked the submarine with depth | in accordance with recent |

FACE LOSS OF

DRIVING RIGHTS

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Judge Karabell Threatens To Revoke Driving Rights; No Campaign.

(Editorial, Page 14)

Motor bus and trackless trolley | drivers who exceed the speed limit | violate other traffic ordinances are in danger of losing their licenses, | Judge Charles Karabell The Judge sought coRail-

yesterday Indianapolis

a bus driver refused to sign affadavits against a have coellidea with his bus. The case was continued. James P. Tretton, Peoples Molor | vice president and gen- | eral manager, said he was investi- | gating the incident. “We are very much in favor of the | he said. “We eer- | will not do anything to defeat it. If any of our drivers speed, we want them arrested. We won't | tolerate law violations on their part. | “Regarding the signing of affa- | davits, it is to our advantage to have drunken drivers prosecuted and we forbid our drivers to sign warrants against them,” he said. Karabell to Hear Cases Judge Karabell was to take over today. The | cases alternate between the (wo | Municipal Courfs each month. He |

tainly

Morrissey in efforts to inforce traffic laws applied to motor coaches. Chief Morrissey said no special

[drive would be made against the

| pany

| street car company vehicles, but vio-

lations would bring arrests. Com- | officials pledged their aid some time ago, when warned thau |

| numerous complaints had been re- |

| Britain against Italy's aid to the |

The submarine fired a torpedo at | | the Havock but did not hit it the |

in an area where | submarines—the Spanish | | only one—have been attacking T.oy-

{man Atkins, 27, Indianapolis brok(er, are to be held at 2 p. m.

| Atkins. the |

| terday. huge Rebel Army has been massed |

ceived on speeding busses, the Chief | said.

W. C. ATKINS RITES SET FOR TOMORROW

| Judge J. M. Williams, former Ss gan Circuit Court judge sentenced to 10-to-21 vears in prison.

‘Body of Crash Victim | Returned to City.

Funeral services for William Cole- |

His wife and his mother-in-law, | Mrs. W. A. Miskimen, also were in- | jured seriously in the erash. They |

‘were reported in good condition to- |

large | mother returned last night from

{

| | |

Fear of Assassins Blamed

| of his time in his office and apart- |

industrial | tains of the inner ring were not safe |

in Coleman Hospital, where | were brought from Kankakee.

day Atkins’ father and step- |

Mr.

Kankakee where they were at the crash victim's bedside when he died.

BUREAU SAYS ‘STICKY’ WEATHER WILL STAY

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

am... 7 Ta mm... 78 12 (Noon) 80

83 83

87 |

The Weather Bureau forecast cloudy weather for the rest of to- | [day and tomorrow, with thunder- | showers probable for tomorrow. If it's any .consolation, the hu- |

| midity was 75 per cent today. Which |

“it S too “sticky” | least |

said. The weather will continue | through WOmorrow., 100.

| means, the Bureau

MEDICAL EDITOR DIES CHICAGO, Sept. 1 (U. P).—Dr,

| | | | |

manager emeritus of the Journal of the American Medical | Association, died in St. Luke's Hos- | pital today. He failed to rally witer | an abdominal operation last week.

[don’t want to play second fiddle a dummy.”

FIRST PAL OF

| man (with luring John Dillinger into his | first criminal venture was killed by

cery keeper | prison for it.

| worker's check, went brate, lon a railroad track, and was ground to death by a south- | {bound Pennsylvania freight train.

worked at | WPA.

then. holdup. grocer,

a change of venue to Franklin, | was sentenced to

| blamed | conception,

Girl Charlie Can't Panic

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1 (U. P.)— Judy Canova, the film comedienne,

broke her engagement to Edgar Ber- | gen

today because. she said, he | “does not want to play second fiddle 0 a dummy.” The other side of the “triangle” was “Charlie McCarthy,” the famous

| wooden dummy that Bergen uses in |

his radio and screen acts. Miss Canova told friends that she

| heard entirely too much of “Charlie”

since her to the ventriloquist. “We had a quarrel Sunday and now it's all over,” she said. “I've heard nothing but Charlie this and Charlie that. The dummy has bhecome an obsession with Eddie “Now he can have his Charlie. I |

engagement

to |

DILLINGER DEAD

Man Wecusel of Introducing Mobster to Crime Is Train Victim.

DeWitt Morgan, new

Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

Entered as at Postoffice,

LOOK,

Wallace Bailey, seven thoroughbreds.

HOME

cee

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

IT'S STATE FAIR TIME,

Times Photos.

And at the State Fair Grounds, preparations for the big Fair opening Saturday continue. manager of the Frances M. Dodge stables of Rochester, Mich, They were 6 if first at the new Horse Building.

arrived with

COCLNEN TD, HAZELWOOD FREED IN DEATH

PROMISE CUTS

~ IN38 BUDGET

President Raub Also Hints

item budget request for cil efforts to reduce {cent increase in the tax levy

| eluding would fight for | reduction in the proposed $1.37 levy. President Edward Raub also has indicated he would oppose sevaral requested [ place

He Opposes Proposed | 23-Cent Tax Raise. |

OF STEPCHILD, 12

| Evidence Against Former Butler University Student Called Inconclusive;

After in

tentative study every the $8,261,738 Civil City 1938, City Countoday were to begin | the proposed 23- |

members

the nine members, inDemocrat

at least

of one

Four said they an 8-cent

refused to the decrease

increases, but

an estimate on

he would seek,

jority rottside creases, the asked. total 12 cents.

{ Carr,

Some Councilmen indicated a ma- | of the slashes would he made the requested salary inwhich include $592,000 of | $1,122,313 boost being increase requests

total Salary

Raises Stand begun,” Dr. Silas said, referring to

Pay “We have only Councilman,

[rae reductions made in prelimin- |

Timez Special

MOORESVILLE, whom police

Sept. 1. have

The charged

a train last night. Thirteen years ago Edward Sin- | gleton and Dillinger robbed a groand were sentenced to | Last night, Singleton got his WPA out to celeHe started home, sat down went to sleep

He had near here and for

lived He the

Singleton was 45. much of his life odd jobs,

Singleton met Dillinger when the

future bank bandit gang leader was just a farm lad.

had a criminal record Together, they planned a In it, they slugged the | B. F. Morgan. Dillinger pleaded guilty

Singleton

before MorHe was

took and

Singleton pleaded not guilty,

2-to-14 vears Mooresville residents and police Singleton for the ecrime's since he was older than Dillinger. And they blamed Dillinger's bitterness against society on his

| owri heavier sentence.

Singleton got his pay check vesterday, and, with a companion, started to celebrate. Late last night, | | the companion wanted to go home. | Singleton. wearied by the celebra-

| tion, sat down on the railroad tracks.

Mooresville residents said Single- | ton's death perhaps was the last in- { cident in the Dillinger saga, which |

now may pass into the province of |

legend,

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.—Dignity of the Metropolitan Opera, serenity of royal courts and the plaudits of the White House became fleeting memories for Lily Pons today when Hollywood got its clutches on her again. Poor Lily! The movies took off her beautiful clothes and replaced them with a little cluster of white feathers and a brief skirt of the same. They painted the rest of her a tasty brown.

They dunked her for hours in an imitation river of real water. They stuffed her in an animal cage and spent the rest of the day hoisting her up and down on a block-and-tackle. They forced her during these proceedings to sing high C, like a bird. They made her bite the hand of Edward Everett Horton, the esteemed comedian, while Jack Oakie, the esteemed ditto, suggest-

ary

hearings. A majority of the members indi-

cated that mandatory pay raises for ! Police and Fireman and a 5 cents

an hour stand.

ment heads vesterday. Myers,

raise for These total $530,000, | In the final hearing of depart- | Dr. Charles

City Hospital

ent, explained a requested $95,325 in-

| crease which totals was cut $4275, tentatively.

SIX INJURED WHEN

iously, Central Ave.

ton, able skull fracture, and loss of her| left eye as the car in which she was riding was nearly husband, i ceived severe head injuries, cuts and | abrasions. 3-year-old daughter by Sue Hulen, and bruised. Ridgeville, Hulens, received head injuries.

Norman Beeson, 22, of Mt. escaped serious injury.

Doesn 't Hollywood

—Two earthquakes shook parts of Riverside County ond, time) the streets in alarm. was barely

| superintend-

the hospital's budget, $699,426. The request |

Other departments heard included (Turn to Page Three)

TRUCK AND CAR HIT

Six persons were injured, one serin an auto-tfruck collision on this afternoon. Mrs. Leon Hulen, 21, of Worthing- | received a broken leg, a prob-

Her | re-

demolished. 24, who was driving,

Phyllis Ann MeClaren, of Mrs. Hulen a previous marriage, and Janet 15 months old, were cut Doyle Simmers of who rode with the

Though the truck was overturned, Comfort,

QUAKES HIT CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE, Cal., Sept. 1 (U.P). |

today. The sec5:38 a. m. (Indianapolis | residents rushing into No damage reported. The first temblor rattled windows.

at sent,

ed that a taxidermist be called in to stuff her. “She'd look mighty, mighty fine, stuffed,” Mr. Oakie said. These goings-on lefl the petite Miss Pons without a single shred of the dignity which has made her an international operatic favorite. “Never did I know that Hollywood could be like this,” she sighed when at last the day was done. “I still don’t believe “it.” It may be a dream to Lily, but it isn't to R-K-O, When finally these day shootings are over, Lily rubs the paint from her legs, her back, and her stomach. She puts on clothes again and she

Hazelwood, 12-year-old stepdaughter, ( when District Solicitor C. of student,

1937 Michigan gives the Commission power to ban malt products from any state where importers pay than wholesalers dealing in domestic beers, drive Indiana brewers out of the Michigan market.”

costs £2500. | ever, cent of the beer consumed.

approximately | beer in Michigan annually, although the tax on imported beer is 25 cents higher than the domestic tax. Little | Michigan beer is shipped into the | | state, he added.

has hired Michigan counsel, hearing before the commission and | may test constitutionality of the act, Mr. Feightner =.

Know Where to Stop: Now They’re Dunking Lily, the Diva!

Action Ha HENDERSONVILLE. N.

murder and rape against

The action came as a co

an inquest into the death of the girl, whose body was at the bottom of a Aug. 17.

STATE BREWERS

T0 RESIST BAN

To Prevent Distribution Of Hoosier Beer.

im i————

Harold Feightner. Indiana Brew-

his organization would

statement followed the Michigan Liquor

His Control

laws “discriminated” against

Mr. Feightner charged that the

liquor law,

a higher

“apparantly was aimed to

In Indiana, a wholesaler's license $1000, an importer's license Mr. Feightner claimed, howthat Indiana imports 33 per

He said that Indiana brewers sell 150,000 barrels of

The Indiana Brewers’ Association had a

says she intends to take a vacation * in Connecticut as soon as the pic- |

ture is finished. “Then I will go back in December to New York and the opera,” she concludes, in a voice, Which makes it seem doubtful whether Hollywood ever will get to do such things again to oid Pons, diva,

«OE ws

120-foot cliff

reports |

which |

license fee |

Its Inquest.

C., Sept. 1 (U. P.).=Theo D,

28, today was freed of blame in the death of his loria

Hauser of Indianapolis,

Ridings nolle prossed charges University

the former Butler

roner's jury prepared to hegin found miles fi here

even On

Solicitor Ridings instructed Coroner Bruce Cox to dismiss the ‘rendering

coroner's without, verdict that Mr. Hazelwood, had been held

[bond for two weeks in county

Jury

a and or-

dered

who without,

laborers will | Plan Fight if Michigan Tries | jail here, he released.

In a statement to the coroner's | jury. Mr. Ridings said: “We have some suspicious (dence, some circumstantial evidence, | but. we have no concrete evidence, We could not convict on the evie dence we have “As a representative of the state of North Carolina, I would not ask for a conviction on the evidence [that has been presented against Mr, Hazelwood. | “Mr. Ridings said had gated the thoroughly the past hours, talking

investi during with girl's

he case

Talks With Mr. Barrett “T have also discussed the case with Mr, Barrett (Fred Barrett. Inedianapolis attorney representing the family of Gloria's mother) and he 1s in full accord with mv conclusions,” the solicitor said. “I want the public to know every officer connected with this case has done his full duty in the best, way he could. 1 would nn more wish an innocent man to be cons victed than a guilty man gO free.”

that

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‘Never Did Believe Tex Was Guilty,” Dollman Says

Then D. Hazelwnod's exoneration from blame in the death of his 12« vear-old stepdaughter, Gloria Hauser, today came as ‘a relief” to Henry L. Dollman, 4243 Washing= [ton Blvd., the girl's grandfather “We never did believe Tex wan guilty of any crime,” Mr. Dollman said, | ——————————— - 1 "1

2 DIE IN JERU SALEM RIOT JERUSALEM, Sept. 1 (U. P) Two Arabs were shot to death at Karkur today, bringing the toll in [72 hours of sporadic rioting between Arabs and Jews to 10

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