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U.S. TO GUARD OWN

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IN CHINA;

Full Recognition of Risks Involved.

NOTICE TO FLEET

Withdrawal of Ships. Would Be ‘Discredit,”

Department Says.

BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 24 (U. P.).— Great Britain, apparently after consultation with Washington, delivered a strong protest to Japan today against bombing in China, especially the bombing of Canton. Belief that the protest was made in collaboration with* Washington was caused by the fact that it followed so closely a similar United States protest.

(Another Story and Photo, Page 21; Editorial and Broun, Page 22.)

| WASHINGTON—U. S. Navy pledges full protection to Americans in Chinese war zone. Capital officials disfavor invoking Nine-Power Treaty against Japan.

| NANKING—National Chinese Army Commander blames treaty signatories, including the U. S., for not invoking the treaty against Japan,

SHANGHAI—Chinsse regulars stop Japanese tank drive on northern front.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (U. P.).—The U. S. Navy today pledged protection to American nationals in China no matter what the danger to naval personnel. The pledge stands good for the duration of the SinoJapanese conflict, the Navy

announced. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander of the U. S. Asiatic fleet, advised all vessels under his command that nationals must be protected even if they disregard warnings and opportunities to leave danger zones. The Navy announced that Amer-

ican armed forces cannot be withdrawn. from Chinese areas without bringing “great discredit” on the Navy. He announced determination to keep the war craft at their posts regardless of the fact that such action may expose American vessels and American seamen to great dan-

Full Protection Ordered

The Naval vessels will be stationed in Chinese ports where American citizens are concentrated, and will remain there until it is no longer possible or necessary to protect them, or until they have been evacuated. The Navy Department admitted that the policy may mean that (Turn to Page 14)

GAMING WITNESSES TO TESTIFY MONDAY

Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind, Sept 24. — Witnesses in the Hancock County investigation of alleged gambling are to testify Monday before the Grand Jury, Circuit Court Judge John B. Hinchman said today. Judge Hinchman said he had received “all kinds of information, especially about gambling at the Plantation.” The Plantation is a supper club 15 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The judge said there may be as many as 55 or 60 witnesses called to testify next week.

MAYOR C. A. FRAZEE DIES AT RUSHVILLE

RUSHVILLE, Ind. Sept. 24 (U. P.).—Mayor Charles A. Frazee died in a local hospital today after suifering a paralytic siroke. He was

62. % Mr. Frazee, who had been in in health for several months, was! prominent in Sixth District Republican politics for many years. In addition to serving as Mayor he held offices, including two terms as Rush County Treasurer and three terms as County Republican chairman. He was elected Mayor in 1934 and was serving his third term.

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Italian Dicteton Will Visit Four Days With Hitler.

PARLEY IS URGED

Washington Aid Seen Needed for Geneva Peace Talks.

LONDON, Sept. 24 (U.P.). —The Italian Government has indicated to Great Britain that Premier Benito Mussolini may be willing to stop send-. ing troops to aid the Rebels in the Spanish civil war, an official source said today. It was "hoped that within a week a definite guarantee against further Italian troop aid might be given. In return, France would promise not to reopen her frontier to permit men and war materials to go to the Loyalists.

ROME—Mussolini cheered as he departs for four-day visit in Berlin with Hitler, GENEVA—Fate of Far Eastern conference to deal with Chinese war hinges on acceptance of U. S. to share in parley.

ROME, Sept. 24 (U. P.).— Premier Benito Mussolini, head of Fascist Italy, left by special train at 12:20 p. m. today (5:20 a. m. Indianapolis Time) for Berlin for a fourday visit with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, German Nazi chieftain —a visit intended to show the world the dictators are united against any who oppose

either.

Thousands of Fascist workmen, with bands, stood with officials at the railroad station to cheer Mussolini: soldiers and Fascist militiamen presented arms and played the Fascist anthem He is to arrive at Munich tomorrow, leave there tomorrow night to attend the big German Army maneuvers on the Baltic coast, arrive in Berlin Monday, be a fellowspeaker with Hitler at the Olympic Stadium Tuesday, and leave Wednesday.

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REPUBLICAN EDITORS PONDER 1938 HOPES

Business Session Charged With Partisan Talk.

By PAUL T. SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

BROWN COUNTY STATE PARK, Sebt. 24.—The Indiana Republican Editorial Association met here'today ostensibly for a strictly business session, but actually in an atmosphere

surcharged with political discussion about revamping the G. O. P. for the 1938 campaign. Glenn Frank, former University of Wisconsin president, will speak this afternoon and Rep. Charles Halleck, Indiana’s only Republican Congressman, will talk tonight. Other sessions are supposed to concern only journalistic matters. ‘However, John Taylor of Danville, state Republican chairman, said he had sent letters to each district chairman and vice chairman, comprising the 24 members of the state committee, urging them to attend the editors’ meeting.

Policy May Be Decided

Since both Mr. Taylor and the majority of members of the state committee are currently i deep disfavor with the editors, the association meeting today takes on the complexion of a state Republican policy meeting. The result probably will that either the state committee members will heed the admonition of the editors to clean house thoroughly for the 1938 election or will enter the next campaign without the (Turn to Page Three)

i Ave., by S. C. Low.

“This Is the Safe Way,’ Police Ti ell Boy-Patrolmen

0.E. 3. VISITORS REGISTER HERE

Informal Opening for 22d |

Triennial Parley Set For Tomorrow.

Hundreds registered early in three hotels today for the 22d triennial General Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, assembly. Delegates and visitors thronged downtown hotels. Officials predicted an attendance of 10,000. From all states, possessions and several foreign countries, the crowd came to attend the conclave of an organization which claims a total membership ot a million and a half. Delegates registered on the Hotel Claypool’s mezzanine floor. Out-of state visitors registered in the Hotel Severin and Indiana visitors in the Hotel Lincoln. About 6000 Indiana visitors were expected. Banquets are scheduled in downtown hotels and in the Columbia ab tonight, and an entertainment program for dinner guests is to be held in the Claypool’s Riley Room tonight. The six-day assembly is to get under way with an informal opening at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in Cadle Tabernacle, where all business sessions are to be held next week. Harry E. Emmons, 1212 Bradbury Ave., associate grand patron of the (Turn to Page Three)

FURNITURE STORE DESTROYED BY FIRE

Fire today destroyed the interior of a story-and-a-half frame building housing a second-hand furniture store operated at nl Indiana

The fire was caused by a kerosene explosion. Damage was unestimated. Flames burned through the side of the building and partly destroyed the roof and one side of a two-story apartment building next door. Damage was estimated at $500. Mr. Low also owned the apartment house.

SCHUMANN PREMIER BANNED FOR MENUHIN

Berlin - Asserts Publishing Rights to Concerto.

LOS GATOS, Cal, Sept. 24 (U. P.).—The German Government today deprived Yehudi Menuhin, the young maestro, of the right to present the world premiere of Robert Schumann’s lost violin concerto. The Germans will play it first. Publishing right are controlled in Germany and Menuhin had to acquiesce. - He was grieved and outraged. The now famous concerto has been one of the delights of his life and he had hoped to play it for the first time in public at St. Louis Nov, 12, in public at St. Louis Nov. 12. “It is shocking and interferes with serious contractural obligations in this country,” the violinist exclaimed. It is the only concerto Schumann ever wrote for the violin and was discovered recently hidden in the vaults of a German museum where it had reposed 81 years Schumann

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Citizens Gas to Pay City $50,000 in Lieu of Taxes

The Citizens Gas & Coke Utility is fo pay $50,000 to the City of Indianapolis in lieu of taxes, President Henry L. Dithmer announced today.

The payment is to be made under a 1937 law providing that the municipal .utility “compensate the Civil City and the School City for the taxes which would be paid on the utility property were it privately owned.” The sum was voted by the City Board of Directors for Utilities, operating the gas company, and the ‘company Board of Trustees. Boards expressed hope that

the payment, made at this particular time, would help in reducing City tax rates now under consideration. Company officials pointed out that the payment was made despite a $400,000 cut in gas rates and a heavy program of main extensions and plant improvements. The utility is municipally owned, but it is subject to County and State property taxes, State Gross Income Tax and Federal Income Tax. Mr. Dithmer said the $50,000 payment will bring the total paid by the company for taxes this year to $226,-

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

The first of a series of safety

anapolis schools was held in Washington High School today with policemen giving instruction more than 100 school- -boy patrolmen pictured 7

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Sergt. Ray Peak,

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William H. Evans, addressed the boys.

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In the lower photo, left to right, are Sergt. Albert Magenheimer, grade school safety instructor;

high school traffic instructor, and

vi MOTORISTS FINED |

RELIEF CUT ASKED “To Pay 64,000 $203 FOR VIOLATIONS

Chamber of Commerce Hea

Suggests 22-Cent Slash.

William Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, today asked the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board to cut 22 cents from Center Township direct relief levy. At présent the relief levy is 47 cents and would raise $1,785,788. It represents between $13 and $14 per week for each family on direct relief, officials estimated. At 25 cents it would raise $1,050,318, which Mr. Book said he thought would be adequate even on a “pay-as-you-go” basis. The present rate is 18 cents, but that revenue was bolstered by bond sales not permitted next year. In addition to the present request of 47 cents for direct relief for next year, the proposed budget asks 14 cents to pay off poor relief bonds issued in the past. Mr. Book said that unless the poor relief levies were cut, the operating balances in other units would have to be cut. A total of 5% cents had been cut today from five township budgets by the Board. Yesterday the Board informally voted to cut school appropriation requests from Washington and Perry Townships Total cuts to date are, Washington, 1 cent; Franklin, 3 cents; Perry, 1% cents; Decatur, % cent, and Wayne, }z cent.

Realtors Urge Slash in Budgets

Indianapolis Real Estate Board members today had been urged to request the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board to slash 1938 budgets. Fred L. Palmer, Board president, told members: “We are faced with the highest tax rate in the history of Center Township. Tell the Board where cuts should be made and why property owners should not be burdened with higher taxes.” Mr. Palmer also urged appeals fo | the State Tax Board if the County Board fails to make cuts.

MAYOR TO APPOINT HAZARDS EXPERT

Mayor Boetcher today said he will appoint some one on the city payroll to act as city safety director. His duties, the Mayor said, will be to watch all work projects and protect’ workers from hazards which might cause I juries and loss of

New Dividend | Payment of a 10 per cent divi-| dend, amounting to $64,000, to general creditors of the Farmers Trust Co., ordered today by Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir. The dividend was ordered paid to depositors and other creditors as uf Oct. 15. The 10 per cent payment brings the total dividends allowed since the bank closed to 65 per cent, or $419,250. The last dividend payment was on March 9 when 8 per cent was distributed. Boyd M. Ralston is receiver.

RAIN TO BRING CITY COOLER WEATHER

LOCAL TEMPERATURES .m..., 65 10 a. m... «.m... 68 11 a m... .m... 71 12 (Noon) .m... 73 1p m...

6 79 80 82

Temperatures may go as low as 50 tomorrow in Indianapolis when showers tonight and probably tomorrow morning bring relief from the -heat of the last few days, the

| Weather Bureau said today.

The showers will be followed by

in receivership since 1931, was

fair weather, the Bureau predicted.

By JOHN T. FLYNN Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—A well-

known physician wrote recently of a whole collection of assumptions about medicine which the world per-

cists:in operating on. In the list, I must confess, were a lot of things I believed to be true. But it seems trained medical men have known they were not true for some time. It is so in every field of knowledge. Men continue operating on assumptions. It’s easier to accept the assumption than to hunt for the truth. Perhaps there is no field of human activity where there are more hoary old assumptions doing business than in Wall Street. And one of them is that the stock market is a barometer of business. At the present moment there can be no doubt that business is moving forward. It is not moving forward

as fast as a lot of people hoped it would, but that is. not important.

$128 Suspended; 4 Speeders Assessed $11.50 Each. Twenty-one deténdatits. were as-

sessed $208 in fines and. costs for traffic violations today by Munici-

pal Judge Charles J. Karabell, who;

suspended $8 fines and $120 costs.

Ten preferential street runners paid $87; four speeders paid $46; four violators of automatic traffic signals paid $27, and seven convicted of making an illegal left turn at Pennsylvania and New York Sts. paid $14. Albert Ringo, 1432 N. Riley Ave. was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to 30 days on the State Farm for failing to stop after an accident, and $1 and costs for failing to stop at a preferential street. His truck crashed into one driven by George Reynolds, 1323 E. Tabor St. at St. Clair and West Sts. Aug. 31. Mr. Reynolds said that as he left the accident scene to notify police, Ringo fled. He was captured later by officers. : I. M. Cotton, Fortville, told Judge Karabell he was 75 years old and had never before been arrested when he faced a charge of running a preferential street sign at Emerson Ave. and Pleasant Run Blvd. He said the signs had been changed, and he was unfamiliar with them. Judge Karabell commended him “for tell(Turn to Page 14)

But at the same time that all the indices of business indicate good business, the stock market takes a nose dive which frightens everyone. At this time business is 20 per cent higher than it was at the beginning of 1936. But the stock market is back again almost to where it was at that time.

Some commentators come along and tell us that this is explained by the fact that the markets now are too thin to be a barometer— that they are ® barometer - only when a large number of stocks are active. Of course that is another assumption founded on absolytely no proof whatever.

In 1929 the markets kept going up higher and higher long after all sorts of prémonitory shivers had gone through business. Experts forecast the coming crack and depression, but the stock markst went soaring and those who believed that ancient nonsense about the market being. a

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public school safety director, who

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Landon Throws Down | Gauntlet on High Bench Issue.

VIEW IS BROADER

: | Former Governor | Demands.

‘TOPEKA, Kas., Sept. 24 (U. P.).—Alf M. Landon greeted President Roosevelt's invasion of the West today with a challenge that he carry the judiciary fight to the people—and “take a licking.” “The President is now in the position of being unable to retreat or to go forward without suffering serious losses in his influence with the people and in his control over Congress,” the former Governor of Kansas and 1936 Republican Presidential nominee said. “I hope he will put the question of enlarging the Supreme Court up to the people. That, at least, is the fair and democratic thing to do. And if he does, he’ll take a licking.” Sitting behind a big desk at a window high up over Topeka’s main street, Mr. Landon as titular head of the Republican Party is keeping in touch with national politics. A year since the 1936 political campaign has made slight outward change in Mr. Landon. His face is a little fuller, a little more tanned. His graying hair still tumbles across his forehead, his loosely knotted necktie still refuses to stay in place. In the last year he has broadened his grasp of national affairs, has pressed the rebuilding of the Republican Party and has striven for the subordination of personal interests to the interests of the party. How far that program has succeeded, only the 1938 elections will show, but Mr. Landon believes the effects of the strategy already are being felt. : He (Turn to Page Three)

Goin’ North?

‘| Residents of Spencer Have Hard Time Getting Here by Rail.

Eight hundred and fifty Spencer residents today complained to the Public Service Commission that a round-trip shopping tour to Indianapolis via the Pennsylvania Railroad, covering a distance of 60 miles, takes three days. One daily train to Spencer leaves Indianapolis in the morning. At the other end a train leaves Spencer too late in. the afternoon to reach Indianapolis before the stores close, the petition said. Then, after staying overnight, the Spencer shopper, the petition said, would be unable to complete his business before the Spencer-bound train left the next morning and would thus have to stay over another night. Moreover, the Commission learned, the situation may get worse. The railroad has-advertised that it will discontinue its present service tomorrow.

FARLEY SILENT ON NEW JOB REPORT

_ ALBANY, Sept. 24 (U. P.).—Postmaster ~ General James A. Farley said today he had “no comment” on reports he would resign from the Cabinet to enter private business. “1 do not want to discuss that, I he said when asked concerning reports he planned to become presi-

dent of the Pierce-Arrow Co.

Stock Market Is No Barometer of U. S. Business Conditions, Flynn Says

Certainly no one can say the markets were thin then. Again in 1933 we had a little boom that has been forgotten. Business was going down in the beginning of 1933. It perked up a little but turned down again and did not really begin its rise until some time in 1934. But in 1933 —March—the market took a sudden leap forward. It rushed up in the most extraordinary way. It cracked up _ completely in July—a . four months’ boom. Then, too, no one can say the markets were thin. In fact, there was more trading in July than in any month in stock market hisory save October and November, It simply is not true that the stock market is a barometer of business. In fact, this very market break is the result of a mistake by the market. It got fooled into believing a boom was imminent. Its rise was a forecast of a boom. The boom. has not come and the

DEFENDS

COANT > TERM, PLEDGEN

Tells Cheyenne Crowd He'll Press Ahead With Plans.

DAMS

| O’Mahoney, Plan Foe,

Present But Not On Train.

BULLETIN ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS SPECIAL TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO SEATTLE, Sept. 24 (U.P.).— Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) a leader in the fight against the Supreme Court reorganization plan, accompanied President Roosevelt's special train across Wyoming today.

(Text speech, Page 27; column, Page 21.)

CHEYENNE, Wyo. Sept. 24 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt, invading the home state of Senator O'Mahoney (D, Wyo.) leader in the scuttling of the Chief Executive's Supreme Court reorganization plan, asserted today that he had no intention of “coasting”

through his second term.

Present at the station among the members of the welcoming committee was Senator O’Mahoney, who said he had not been invited by the President, The President, smiling and waving at the crowd that jammed the streets around the railroad station, made his address from the platform of his train. “A friend of mine came to me,” ‘the President said after an informal and neighborly introduction, “and said: ‘Why don’t you take it easy, You have come up a long hill dur=ing the last four years, and how why don’t you have a good time?’ “I said to him that I was going to continue during the next four years as in the past. I don’t want to coast and the nation does not want me to coast with my feet up!”

Crowd Murmurs

There was a murmur in the crowd as though some interpretation was

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of President Mrs.

.| made that the remark was pointed.

The President continued along this line, mentioning his several trips throughout the nation, not in= cluding campaign trips, fcr the pure pose of interpreting popular sentiment. “As you know,” the President cone= tinued, “the depression is pretty much over. We have spent money putting people to work and we have tried our utmost to accomplish use= “ful things. There is hardly a state which has not benefited in a useful way.” He discussed Federal .allocations for schools and airports, interspers=ing humorous incidents in project considerations.

Defends Dam Construction

Mr. Roosevelt defended - construce tion of great dams with Federal money. “You and I” he said, “and most veopla realize that when we do create by electric power the public will find some way to use it. Persons have been telling the people that reclamation is a waste of money; that to build a project like Casper Alcova or Grand Coulee we would put into use unneeded farm land. “You and I know that isn’t so. “You here on this great central highway know of the families who have had to leave their homes and their farms in the drought areas, Some of them are from the eastern part of this state, from the Dakotas and Kansas and Texas. People who couldn't make a go of it at home were forced to leave home to avoid starvation. “Those people have headed fare ther West looking for a chance to earn their livelihood. There are thousands of people in the East farming land that ought not to pe put under the plow.

“It Was Worth While”

“For all those people, I believe it ° is the duty of the Federal and state governments to provide them with land where it is possible for them to ma living. “It was all worth while. It is a better country for having spent in the last five years more than we took in taxes. Don't let anyone dee ceive you. The Federal Governe ment is not going broke. I am frye ing on this short trip to get a point of. view—the point of view of the people of the Western part of the country. “It is the duty of the President to represent all of the people—not just Democrats or Republicans, or rich people, or poor people. Out here in the cattle country and the ‘sugar beet country, of course, I am interested in the cattle men and growers of beets. “Perhaps down in my heart, I am

men -who have 100 head of cattle apiece than in the one man who has 1000 head, and in the 10 men who have a hundred acres of bee than in the one man who has 1

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