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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 150

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1937

|" 1 DEAD, 9 REPORTED "HURT WHEN BRITISH {SHIP IS TORPEDOED

Submarines After Second Raid Near Spain.

ENGLISH ROUSED

Order More Warships To Mediterranean

To Stop Piracy.

Ry United Press LONDON—British Cabinet members detide to send more war- | ships to Mediterranean after sec- |

ond submarine attack sinks Brit- |

ish ship, killing one and wound- | ing nine. PARIS—French reported to have urged England to take joint action with her to halt “piracy” in Mediterranean. VALENCIA—Loyalist reports say | British ship torpedoed off East Spanish coast sank, HENDAVYE—Loyalists claim fall of | Gen. France stronghold, Belchite, in eastern Spain is imminent.

LONDON, Sept. 2 (U. PJ). The key members of the | Cabinet decided today to send | naval reinforcements to the Mediterranean to protect British shipping, after the] British tanker Woodford was torpedoed and sunk by an unidentified submarine. The ministers decided to reinforce the destroyer strength in the western basin of the Mediterranean as a result of the sinking, the sub-| marine attack Tuesday night on| the British destroyer Havock, and other recent attacks on British shipping. The decision

was reached after | grave consultation, during which the Spanish Ambassador called at the foreign office. A full | cabinet meeting will be called next week, The Woodford was struck by two torpedoes 50 miles north of where | the Havock was attacked. The ship | sank immediately, carrying the! second engineer with it. Valencia reported nine other members of the crew were wounded. Members of the crew were landed from life hoats on coast above Valencia. s announced officially that Government has accepted a French invitation to attend a meeting of the Mediterra- | nean powers to consider attacks on Shipping in the Mediterranean. There was the threat of the gravest international situation since the Ethiopian war. People here and in France suspect that the attackers are Italian submarines aiding the Spanish Rebels.

Loyalists Close In On F--1co Stronghold

I E. FRANCO-SPANISH FR( Sept. 2 WU. PJ). Crack ops of the Loyalist ternational Brigade closed in on! the strategic town of Belchite today |

after a violent and costly battle. |

BOB BURNS

Says: Sept. 2.—Sci-

t= gradually pushing old- | fashioned methods further back into the discard. Even back home, the | peonle are leaning more and more on science and modern methods. Ever since I can remember, Grandmaw Norheck has been treating us for almost every ailment with her aldfashioned remedies. Somehow or other, they al-| ways seemed to work, but not long ago they | got one of those city doctors down | there and he started preachin’ | against those old-fashioned remedies, Grandmaw Norbeck was the | last one to give in but finally they converted her and she promised that the next time anyone of us got sick she'd let us send for a doctor. Not long after that, my Cousin Wafford got sick and she put him | to bed and she called a doctor. | Grandmaw Norbeck met him at the door and the doctor says, “Well, | have you done anything for the boy?” Grandmaw says, "™No, 1 didn’t.” She said, “I did soak his | feet in hot mustard water. I gave him a dose of quinine and some mullein tea. I put a porous plaster | on his back and one on his chest. | I rubbed him with alcohol and put | an ice bag back of his neck and! then TI gave him some herbs that I had mixed up, but figeered I'd | better not do anvthing until you | come out and told us what's ailin’ | him.”

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stay away from battle zones. |

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| aries, on Saturday,

French concession because they said,

| | Indianapolis real estate agent, in | his custody.

| Britain wishes to strike a bargain | | with

| the Far East while Britain per-

[dor to London, has just made here | verbally to Secretary of State Hull |are said to be looking for.

| Roosevelt.

American Craft to Get Navy Convoy at Shanghai.

TOKYO ANGERED|

Chinese Resistance Bogs Down Drive Of Japanese.

WASHING TON—Britain reported w Mercy Driver Says Safety Roosevelt (hroueh Amerionn am.| Campaign Is Reducing Number of ‘Runs.

bassador for United States to as-

Back again. ... There's

sume role of “watchdog” of Orient, TOKYO - Foreign Minister Koki Hirota asks foreign powers to refrain from helping China by sending munitions or otherwise,

By WILIAAM CRABB

Leonard Cox-—dealer in broken bodies for 20 years—has seen “sud- |

(Shanghai bing | s, 8) | gil 'BanuIng PINGS, Tae 3) den death” in Indianapolis.

By H. R. EKINS (Copyright, 193%, by United Press)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 2. — United States merchant ships

nized and prolonged suffering that (so often follows automobile acci- |

He is City Hospital's chief ambulance driver. Indianapolis traflic is getting better, he says, but he | has seen it at its worst during the, | last two decades. day after the Japanese had | During that time he has helped Favs So . |internes take thousands of acciwarned foreign warships, | dent victims from crash scenes to merchant ships, foreign de-|iocal hospitals and morgues. And fense forces and civilians to from his experiences he has drawn | two conclusions: | First, that most reckless drivers Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, United | gre drinking drivers. States fleet commander, announced Second, that the police drive to that henceforth vessels flying the |raquce traffic speed has reduced American flag would be escorted bY | (he number of accidents 25 per cent. at least one naval vessel. | “Often a motorist is unconscious 150 Refuse to Evacuate and police or witnesses find no eviApproximately 150 Americans con- dence of liquor, but we can tell,” centrated at Mokanshan, costal re- | wir. Oox said. ’ sort. southwest of Shanghai—most | “When the injured man is loaded of them missionaries—disregarded | inte the ambulance. it’s not long beconsular advices to evacuate and in- | fare the alcohol on his breath—if there is any—is noticeable.” ; It is his opinion that automobile hoping engines are being made with more | (Turn to Page Three)

protect them in Shanghai

Gauss that they would remain at least through September, conditions would improve. “It may be worse then" Mr. | sii Gauss replied. “Nobody knows what may be the result of the Japanese POSTHUMOUS TWINS offensive.” Thirty British, Danes and Ger- | REPORTED IMPROVED mans decided to remain with the en Americans. The Asiatic Petroleum | Co. arranged to evacuate 55 Britons and 15 Americans, all nonmission-

KINGSVILLE, Tex, Sept. | (U. P.).—George Conde, a tenant | farmer, came to the Kleberg County

| hospi r see hi ins Japanese army warned all for- hospital today to see his twins who

eigners tn avoid the borders of the

International Settlement and the |Sarean operation. Mr, ‘Conde yester-

| day buried his wife who died of a heart attack before the {wins were {born. Mrs. L. S. Adams, hospital | superintendent, said the twins were "in excellent condition.

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SUSPECT IN SLAYING IS RETURNING HERE

Cue— Detective Sergeant Donald Bush- | ong today was returning from San

Francisco with Charles Streeton, ac- | cused slayer of Bert F. Callahan, | CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (U. P.).—

| Drought reduced America’s corn | crop more’ than 100,000,000 bushels during August, five private crop forecasters agreed today. The five experts predicted a 1937 crop of 2,625,000,000 bushels in their {monthly report, a drop of 156,000,000 {bushels from that of Aug. 1.

DROUGHT CUT CORN IN AUGUST, REPORT

Sergt. Bushong obtained the prisoner yesterday when Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure dismissed a previous order directing Streeton’s | return to Oklahoma on an automobile theft indictment.

England Favors U. S. for ‘Watchdog’ in Far Fast

| will mean that the open door is to | be closed, locked and barred against | the United States, Great Britain and the rest of the world. | This move is merely a part of a colossal world drive by the dictator By wlan PHILIP SIMMS | (. tes to impose their will upon the es Worsitn Ener | democratic countries. As the BritWASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Great |;q see it, there is little difference | between what Japan is deing in Asia and what Germany and Italy are prepared to do in Europe if they have a chance.

forms a like service in Europe. | Great Britain would not dare Such is understood to be the send its fleet to the Orient and substance of the report which Rob- | leave the home front unprotected. ert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassa- | That would give Herr Hitler and II Duce the very opportunity they

The fourth of Webh Miller's uncensored series on Russia as it is today is on Page 4.

the United States whereby | this country will take the lead in |

and at Hyde Park to President| Similarly, the British observe the | United States would not dare withJust why the Ambassador made draw its fleet from the Pacific, his sudden dash across the Atlantic | thus leaving the Philippines, Guam, remains concealed in diplomatic Hawaii, Panama and the Pacific verbiage. Naturally, also, what he | Coast wide cpen to attack. told his superiors has not been di- | The ideal soluiion, therefore, vulged. Nevertheless, the British | would be for Britain to play chief

| Government's views on the Chinese | watchdog for both countries and

situation may be stated as follows: |the other democracies in Europe

Jogen is now out to make China | while the United States did Site J

a Juganese dependency. Success same thing im the Far East.

HOSPITAL

But worse, he says, is the ago- |

dents. ;

| were delivered by posthumous Cae- |

less of this now, he says.

Stop Sudden Death, Plea; Girl, 7, Killed in Traffic

Leaving Playmate’s Yard, Roberta Searcy Steps Into Car's Path.

TRAFFIC AT A GLANCE CI'l'Y-<Neven-year-old girl dies as result of injuries received when struck by auto; three other children hurt. Twenty erring motorists pay $165 in fines in Municipal Court, City Clerk to issue warrants for 5000 who failed to pay for traffic stickers, STATE—Two-year-old Rochester girl, 9-year-old Lafayette boy die as result of traffic injuries, Seven-year-old Roberta Searcy, 2250 Union St, is dead today, Marion County's 103d traffic victim of the year. She was struck by an auto yesterday afternoon. She left a playmate’s back yard, worried because a garden hose had wet her dress.

parently without looking to right and left, as she had been taught to do. In Rochester, Ind., another family | was in mourning today because | their 2-year-old daughter stepped into the street and died under an auto wheel, She was Bonnie Jean Williams, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Chester Williams, who darted into traffic intending to follow her mother who (Turn to Page 13)

NEW ‘LUNG’ FLOWN

TO DENVER CHILDREN

They Share One Device Before Another Arrives.

DENVER, Colo., Sept. 2 (U. P.) — A “wooden lung” arrived today by | airplane and was rushed to a hos{pital where two children with | paralyzed lungs were taking turns [in the only wooden respirator in this | part of the country. | All night the staff at Steele | Memorial Hospital stood vigil over {the two girls, neither of whom could | live for long outside a respirator. If (both children began sinking at the [same time, doctors would have to [choose between their lives. | A United Airlines plane brought the small wooden respirator from | Toronto. A fire department truck raced the machine from the airport to the hospital. In the hospital room were Shirley Krause, 21; years old, and Maybelle Outcalt, 15, both laboring for breath. They suffered from infantile paralysis. Shirley had priority rights on the respirator, but Maybelle had depended more on it. Maybelle could live outside the device only 20 minutes at a time, after an hour inside. Dr. Theodore L. Williams, deputy health commissioner, watched over the girls. He said: “Several days ago we allowed (Turn to Page Three)

FOUR DIE, ONE HURT IN BUS-AUTO CRASH

BEL AIR, Md. Sept. 2 (U. P).— One woman and three men were killed and another man seriously injured today when an auto and Washington-bound bus collided head-on on the highway near here. The dead were tentatively identified as: Elmer D. Hays, 45, of Chevy Chase, Md.; Mrs. Isabel R. Hays, his wife; Elmer D. Hays Jr. 18, their son, and James Leech, 18, also of Chevy Chase. The injured man gave his name

on the bus, police reported.

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32 CENTS SET

AS TENTATIVE COUNTY LEVY

Approved Rate Is Increase Of 8 Cents Over

That of 1937. TOTAL PUT AT $3,100,000

Reduction of $130,129 From General Fund Largest Cut Favored.

TAXES AT A GLANCE

COUNTY-Council slashes 5.6 cents off proposed levy, fixes rate tentatively at 8 cents above last year,

CITY-—Budget requests reduced $91,897, or 1.7 cents from proposed levy; police request, salary increases to be reviewed today. STATE-—~Draw budgets for 1% months, C. R. Benjamin of State Tax Board warns local units.

The Marion County Council today tentatively fixed the 1938 county tax rate at 52 cents, an increase of 8

cents over the 1937 levy, according to D. H. Badger, Council president, Departmental budgets, as submitted to the Council, totaled about $3,400,000, requiring a 57.6-cent rate, Mr. Badger said. “We made reductions in budgets of every county department to bring the rate to 52 cents,” he said. The 5.6-cent reduction will bring the total county budget to about $3,100,000, he said.

General Fund Cut,

The biggest reduction was made in the County General Fund, As submitted, it totaled $1,575,268, Reductions pared it to $1,445138, or a cut of $130,129, Mr. Badger said. The $3,100.00 budget for 1038 would be about $500,000 higher than the 19387 total, Council members said. Mz, Badger said the Council was not prepared to issue an itemized statement on departmental reductions today. Itemized rates included in the 52-cent levy also were not available. “The main reason for the budget increase is the $56,000 to cover the 1937 deficit and $129,000 election expenses next year,” Mr, Badger

She stepped into the street, ap- explained.

Council members said they were not prepared to discuss the proposed $200,000 working balance in the 1938 county budget.

Budget Called ‘Fair’

Departmental heads recently explained a working balance was

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FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

KERN NAMED TO U. S. TAX BOARD

John W, Kern

Can’t Beat Machine or Win as Independent.

WASHINGTON, Sept. ator VanNuys “canhot win renomi-

Governor Townsend and the Demo-

cratic State House organization,” Brown County Sept. 24, editors will be invited to attend the next State | said Mr.

Pleas Greenlee said here today.

Mr. Greenlee, who played a lead[ing role in building the House organization,” cites his own defeat in seeking the 1936 gubernatorial nomination to prove his

point.

Governor McNutt, he placed hundreds of “McNutt Democrats” in positions placed directly under the Governor's power by the Reorganization Act of 1933. This so-called “McNutt machine” was inherited by Governor Town- | send, who owed his nomination to | its effectiveness in the state con-

(necessary because the State Tax | vention. At the same time, it was | Board ruled that in the future no | used to defeat Mr. Greenlee,

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special appropriations would be approved emergencies. William H. Book, Chamber of

Commerce executive vice president, |

appearing before the Council, described the budget as a “fair one.” “It is in no way an epidemic budget because it does not call for increases of anything like the City budget,” Mr. Book said. He told the Council he thought

| the $200,000 working balance should | be eliminated and other cuts should

be made “because of the high City budget.” Mr. Book also protested the $16 - 500 item for new voting machines (Turn to Page Three)

CONTINUED WARM WEATHER FORECAST

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

4 76 9 83

10 a. m... 11 a. m... 12 (Noon) 1pm...

« M.,. a, m..

It was all bad news from the Weather Bureau today. In the first place, the humidity registered 86 today, whereas it was 83 yesterday, which means more “sticky” weather, There was a forecast for thundershowers tomorrow afternoon, but the bureau hastened to add that the temperatures would continue high. Rainfall during August 346 inches, an excess of .15 inch over normal, according to tne monthly meteorological summary issued today. The accumulated rainfall excess since Jan. 1 was 2.15 inches. The highest temperature was 94 on Aug. 17 and the lowest was 60 on Aug. 13.

totaled

MARTHA RAYE SEEKS WEDDED HARMONY

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 (U. P).— Martha Raye and Hamilton (Buddy) Westmore, the movie make-up man with whom she eloped three months &g0, were attempting today to revive their romance which suffered an early blight. A spokesman for Paramount Studio announced that the coupie had been separated and that they would soon make a statement saying they were attempting a reconciliation. The attempt, he said, is “a mutual one.”

ARAB CONSTABLE SHOT JERUSALEM, Sept. 2 (U. P.).—

at St. Joseph's Hospital, Baltimore, | An Arab constable was shot and as Thurn Perkins, 24, Striker, O. | killed today at the high commisMr. Perkins was the only passenger | sioner’s camp at Alith, The asidentified

unless they were genuine |

“Hasn't Got a Chance,” Claim “Fred VanNuys hasn't got a

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Predicts VanNuys Defeat; Editors Invited to Parley

‘Greenlee Declares Senator G. 0. P. Chairman’s Bid to

Association Regarded as Peace Move.

John Taylor, of Danville, Repub-

RESIGNS POST AS MAYOR AND BOETCHER ASSUMES DUTIES AS CITY'S CHIEF

Controller to Give Up

His Post as County Chairman.

‘TEBAY MOVES UP

Appointment Is For 12 Years; Salary Is $10,000.

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BULLETIN Walter Boetcher, City Controller, who became Mayor this afternoon, announced that he would resign immediately as Marion County Democratic Committee chairman,

'lican State chairman, announced to- | Bradshaw,

| Editorial Association meeting in

Committee meeting eariy in Oc-

“State | ober.

Meanwhile, Ralph Gates, Fourth District chairman, reported from Columbia City that the majority

| faction of the party will favor Mr.

chence to beat the organization in |

Indiana,” Mr. Greenlee, declared. 3

Look what

Commission here, know all about that. they did to me, “That reorganization bill put everything under the Governor and with that much patronage, he can control the convention through the jobholders alone. “There is no chance for Senator VanNuys to get the Democratic nomination. If he runs independently he can’t be elected, although he might take away enough rank and file votes to elect a Republican, So any way you figure it, Fred can’t win.” A faint hope that the organization might switch by convention | time and indorse Mr, VanNuys is | entertained by his supporters here. | They base it on the grounds that | since he has announced that he (Turn to Page Three)

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now a | member of the Bituminous Coal |

As patronage secretary io former | Taylor's retention as State chairman

at the October meeting. Held Peace Move

The invitation was seen as a peace move in some political quarters. Some editors were reported to have split with the former State chairman, Ivan Morgan, when he was

| said to have failed to have invited | me

them to the committee meeting, called at the time Harry Fenton, Indianapolis, resigned as State seccretary, Mr. Taylor was elected chairman here recently when only 12 members of the State Committee voted. The other 11, headed by Ewing Emison, Vincennes, claimed they should have been given seven days notice following the resignation of Mr, Morgan before a new chairman was named. In accepting the post, Mr. Taylor said he would serve only until the next State Committee was called and his election either could be confirmed or a successor named,

TIE PIN IS REMOVED

FROM LUNG OF BOY

- | served as City Controller in this ade Seven-year-old Leroy Bannister, |

| Board of Public Works in the ade

Crawfordsville, is in Riley Hospital

recovering from injuries received in |

an accident that was as odd as it might have been serious, Yester-

day he was walking across a street |

in Crawfordsville, holding in his mouth a tie pin he had won at the County Fair there, The pin was one and one-fourth inches long, sharp on one end. An auto near him blew its horn and

CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (U. P.) —Chi- | frightened him. He inhaled sharp-

cago motion picture theaters today

| cases of infantile paralysis were reported throughout the city.

barred children under 16 years of | lung. {age from theaters as additional | Charles Bannister, brought him to

lv and the pin went into the right His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Riley and today physicians removed the pin.

individual probe of alleged ‘“big-

Grand Jury to act. Judge Baker said that his two court bailiffs, Raymond Mote and Roy Lowe, have been engaged all this week in gathering evidence and serving subpenas. Activities of the bailiffs, he said, were based on letters he has received and information he had. Tuesday,” he said, “I personally duty. my bailiffs have found and the testimony of those 1 am subpenaing. “I also shall have at least one

immediately interested into the vice situation. 1 am not going to wait for the police or any agency to get

Judge Baker Starts Own Probe Into Alleged Gaming

Criminal Court Judge Frank P.)into the gambling. I'm going to do Baker today said he had started an it myself,

“I am not interested in petty

time gambling in Indianapolis” and | gambling in clubs and the like. I | that he personally will appeal to the am going to get the big games of |

the higher ups.”

Terre Haute Gaming Cleanup Ordered

| TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 2 (U. P). 1 general order to City Police to

prostitute festify, but I am not the present administration, in going James Yates, were denied by the

“cleanup all gambling” was issued

“When the Grand Jury convenes | today by Mayor Samuel Beecher.

The city executive instructed

shall appeal to the jurors to do their officers to remove all slot machines, They will hear the evidence chance games and clean up the

| “vice district.” Rumors of replacing Police Chief | Frank Fedderson, 13th chief under with

Mayor today. Mr. Yates was the second chief to serve under Mayor

: | : nation against the oppesition ‘of day that following the Republican | The appointment of Mr, Kern was

| disclosed in a brief United Press | dispatch from Hyde Park, N. Ya { shortly after noon. The dispatch Kern's commission had | been signed by Mr. Roosevelt. | The Tax Board appointment is (for 12 years and the salary is | $10,000 & year, Mr, Kern said. The | Mayor's post pays $6000 a year. The | mayoralty term expires Jan, 1, 1938, Herschell Tebay, chief deputy controller, will become acting cone troller until a permanent one is | named, Mr, Boetcher announced,

Statement Is Issued

The Mayor issued the following | statement; | “President Roosevelt has offered & position as member of the | Meter] Board of Tax Appeals, “After having given the matter (all the grave consideration which {it merits, I have decided to accept | the position. I have made this ce- | cision because the position offered me is one for which I feel qualified by training and temperament, and to refuse it would entail much sacrifices, financial, professional, and involving happiness and health, that I do not feel justified in make ing; because of the fact that during the almost three years I have served as Mayor, most of the objectives of my administration either have been achieved, or are in the process of being accomplished: because I know that my successor, Walter CC. Boetcher, is not only a man of characier, integrity and ability, but also is thoroughly familiar with the business of City government, having

ministration and as president of the

ministration of Mayor Reginald H, Sullivan, and will have the loyal and devoted co-operation of the fine | men and women who are now worke ing for the city.”

“Indianapolis My Home”

“I shall always consider Indian« apolis my home,” the statement continued, “and will alwavs ba proud of Indianapolis, and the opportunity I have had to serve it, I hope to carry with me the good will and regard of its citizens and ask that they give their support and encouragement to the new mayor of Indianapolis, Walter C. Boetcher.” After being notified of the ape pointment by The Times, Mr. Kern telephoned Hyde Park, President Roosevelt's vacation office, for verie fication. James Roosevelt, son of the | President, answered the telephong and informed Mr, Kern that his commission had been signed by the (Turn to Page Three)

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