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FIVE-DISTRICT PLAN TABLED | BY TEACHERS

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Proposal to End Central Parley Brings Spirited Delegate Debate.

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NUMBER 193

Ww dow Weeps

OFFICERS TO BE NAMED |

Nye Warns of War Danger; Thorpe and Durant to Talk Tonight.

BULLETIN

| The Indiana State Teachers’ Association this afternoon tabled a proposal to hold annual district meetings in- | stead of the centralized con- | vention in Indianapolis.

‘Defense

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A spirited debate on a pro- | posal to discontinue the an- | nual centralized convention in | Indianapolis in favor of five district meetings occupied the attention of delegates to the 84th annual session of the Indiana State Teachers Associa- | tion this afternoon. Officers | also were to be elected. The district meeting proposal was made in an Executive Board repori at a general meeting this morning in Cadle Tabernacle. Proponents said it would make the meetings available to a greater number anf eventually bring in nearly 100 per cent of the teachers. Opponents said it was sponsored by commercial interests in Gary, South Bend, Ft. Wayne and Evansville, which have been proposed as sectional meeting places, and that it would decentralize, rather than unify, the association. The association passed resolutions condemning war, urging a more liberal] adoption of textbooks. commending the 1937 Legislature's reso- | lution favoring an Indiana Commissioner of Education, and com- 8 mending the National Youth Ad- | ministration and the National Education Association. Three Seen as Candidates A per capita fax to raise $4000 a vear to be used in fighting tenure difficulties through the courts was

THis Acme Photo.

WOMAN IN RED' CASE NEAR JURY

Denies Contention Murder Guilt Rests on Jersey Girl.

BULLETIN NEW BRUNSWICK, N. I. Oct. 22 (U, P.).—The case of Margaret Drennan, charged with the murder of the father of her unborn child, was given at 12:17 p. m. today to a jury instructed to find her homicide justified if the 11 men and one woman should agree that she shot Paul Reeves to avoid being ravished.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. ., Oct. 22 (U. P.).—Margaret Drennan, the “girl in red,” heard herself characterized contradictorially as ‘an innocent little child” and a gicl

“well up in the ways of the world” |

counsel delivered in her murder

today as opposing their summations trial. The case of the 20-year-old secretarial student who shot and Killed Paul Reeves in a nighttime rendezvous at his home was nearing the jury of 11 men and one woman. Prosecutor Charles Morris, summing up for the state, declared that itt. had been “proved beyond possitle doubt that Margaret Drennan

{ murdered Paul Reeves.”

He asked the jury to find her guilty of murder in the first degree. He added quickly that she ioved the handsome mill hand and | submitted willingly

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LOCAL DAIRIES AND UNION SIGN STRIKE ‘TRUCE

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‘Negotiations for Contract for nine deaths here recently.

Are to Be Continued; Pay Rates Fixed.

FOUR WALY BUTS ENDED

If Deadlock Exists By Feb. 1.

| Indianapolis dairies and the milk | drivers union today signed an agreement ending Indianapolis milk strikes, which had resulted in a 12day stoppage of deliveries, and extende dto Feb. 1," 1938, the time for negotiations on details.

| The agreement provided that an | accompanying pay schedule should [be in effect from Nov. 1 until a permaneni( agreement could be negotiated.

tonight and tomorrow; possibly rain tonight;

F RIDAY, ‘OCTOBER

Doc “tors . Bl. ame Elixir tor Nine

Deaths in Tulsa

TULSA, Oka. Oct. 22 (U. P).— An investigating committee of the | Tulsa County Medical Society today | held sulfanilamide elixir responsible it believed

The committee said

the solution of sulfanilamide was a |

contributing factor in the deaths

| The report was based on a study of

the bodies of guinea pigs died after treatment with the elixir. W. H. Hartigan, Federal Food and Drug Department inspector, said he

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SAFETY DRIVE;

58 Other Defendants Are To Appear Before Court Later.

which

1 BOUND To ORD JURY

would Ning up his work in connec- |

State Aids to Enter 0 i lh

Six More Fatalities

‘Blamed on Elixir

tributed today

It also provided that no “strikes |

or lockouts” could be called during { the period of negotiations and con- | tract and that “there shall be no | coercion, | nation practiced by

| All conditions

either party.”

intimidation or discrimi- |

of the agreement |

(to be negotiated between now and |

{ Feb. 1 are to be effective from that date to Feb. 1, 1939, In event of a deadlock at the end of 60 days of negotiations between | distributors and union officials. agreement provided that a member of the and Marion County Area Milk Ad- | ministrator should be asked to cd- | vise negotiators. The truce ended

{

Indiana Division of Labor |

the |

strikes at the |

Weber Milk Co. and Capitol Dairies, |

called Oct. 7; the Furnas Ice Cream Co., where workers walked out Oct. 8, and the Banquet Ice Cream & Milk Co., where the walk[out occurred last Tuesday. It was reported that more than 175 strikers returned to work. State Labor Commissioner Thomas | Hutson said negotiations would be resumed Nov. 1 and continue daily, | except week-ends an dholidays, until an agreement is reached. The temporary agreement was signed bv representatives of the In- | dianapolis Milk Council, distributors organization, and the Milk and Ice

Tem to Pre Three)

inc.

China’s Armies Threaten

| terday

| Fairbanks,

| Atkins, $200; Mutual Milk Co., $150. |

MOUNT OLIVE, Miss, Oct.

22 |

Drunken Driver Sent to Farm and Charged

With Larceny.

(U. P.).—Six more deaths were at- |

to an elixir fanilamide, banned by the Federal Food and Drug Administration after first deaths were reported at Tulsa, OKla. Dr, A. S. Calhoun, Covington County Health Officer, said that six of 12 persons treated with the elixir in this county had ' died since Sept. 29. Two more Simpson County by the elixir, according here.

deaths in adjacent

to reports

$69,601 SOUGHT

IN FUND FINALE

Last-Minute Appeal Made By Workers to Avert $20,000 Shortage.

A last-minute appeal to small and new donors today as 2500 Community Fund workers sought $69,601 before the end of the day to reach their campaign goal of $721,287.» Drive leaders said the campaign would fall short of the goal by $20,000 to $25,000 unless there is generous public response to the final appeal. To obtain every possible pledge, campaign leaders urged contributors who are not contacted to telephone their pledges to Fund headquarters. New large pledges included: Miss Ruth Lilly, $800; States Rubber Products, Inc. Morse & Co., and Mrs. Cornelius O. Alig. $250; Phillips Petroleum Co., $232; Pure Oil Co., $200; Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

reported yes-

United $750;

of sul-|

also were caused |

was made |

$250; Mr. |

Fifty-four of the 112 motorists arrested overnight as police reopened their drive against traffic law violators were convicted in Municipal Court today and fined a total of $411. Others were pear later today. Judge Dewey Myers speeders a total of $148; tors of preferential streets, nine traffic signal violators, In most trouble today in was Harold Jenkins, 31, of Northwestern Ave, He was charged with having no driver's license, for which he was fined $1 and costs: reckless driving, $5 and costs: drunken driving, $10 and costs and sentenced to 60 days in jail; grand larceny, for which he was bound to the Grand Jury under $1000 bond, and carrying a pistol | without a permit, for which he was bound to the Grand Jury under $500 bond. Charles Richardson, | Virginia Ave., charged | run a safety zone, piece of cardboard scale model of { the street where the violation was | alleged to have occured. Judgment Is Withheld

He had three blocks of which he said could represent cars, one of them his. Then, manipulating the blocks he showed his version of what happened and Judge Myers withheld judgment. The number arrested increase over previous week, on one of which were booked. Sergt. Ray Peak, acting head of the Accident Prevention Bureau, explained that the department is now operating normally after strike | duty. “The motorcycle men fon 12-hour - strike duty to patrol. the streets for lators,” he said. erating normally since Wednesday and the number of arrests during the last two days show there will be no let down in the traffic enforéement campaign.”

fined 11 28 viola-

$70

56, of 653 with having appeared with a

wood

was days 17

an this drivers

have been and unable traffic vio-

$146;

court | 3602 |

“We have been op- |

Entered as Second-Class

at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ina

Illness Fatal

4 PAY FINES

Matter

DIES HERE AT 70

Keystone Press Head Was

to ap- |

Former President of School Board.

Julian 8. Wetzel, 3118 Fall Creek Blvd, former School Board dent business and civic died in Methodist pital after brief illness. was 170. Funeral arrangements were to be completed today Mr. Wetzel, native of Castleton, came here about 40 vears ago and married Miss Carrie Crane, historical writer, in 1902. She died Nov, 30, 1936. He was advertising manager of the Parry Manufacturing Co. for 10 vears before becoming associated with the Keystone Press for vears. At his death, he was presi-| dent-treasurer of the company. Mr. Wetzel was a past president of the Kiwanis Club and a former president of the Indianapolis Typothetae, Elected on the Citizens’ ticket to the School Board in 1930, he served

presileader

HosHe

and

night a

last

as vice president and chairman of the buildings and grounds commit- |

tee for three years before succeeding Russell Willson as president in January, 1933. He was secretary of the old Adscript Club, forerunner of the In- | dianapolis Advertising Club, and an editor of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World magazine. | wrote many articles for local papers. He also was a member of the Ancient Landmark Lodge, F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite, the Shrine and the Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. George E. Bruce, an adopted | Magnes, is the only survivor,

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FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

F. D. R. PLEDGES

EXACT BALANCE IN 1939 BUDGET

Aid Program;

Secretary Wallace Reports Progress on Crop Officials Study Means

Of Piven

PARLEY CALL E D ON CORN LOAN PLAN

JULIAN WETZEL Treasury Experts and Farm Heads to Confer

On Grants; Word Is Due to President

By Next Week.

WASHINGTON,

Oct. 22 (U, P.).

President

| today promised an absolute balance of the Federal hudget

for the 1938-39 fiscal year,

aids to consider means

and called in farm and financing the proposed budgets

disturbing corn loan program.

Mr.

Roosevelt's assurance of a positive balance of next

vear's Federal budget was made during a press conference

discussion of this year's proposed corn loans.

velt said he had promised

Mr,

hundreds of times that

ment spending and Government income would achieve exact balance in the next fiscal year.

The President said he

Mayor Appeals to City for Co-operation; Work to

Continue Four Days.

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Mayor an advisory

Boetcher today committee of 27 in taking the here. Census work, authorized by gress, is to be started Nov. to continue four days under direction of Postmaster Seidensticker, homes by filled out turned to

unemployed

the postoffice are by unemployed and the postmaster by Nov. 20,

IN JOB GENSUS

appointed members to aid the Federal Government census

Con16 and | the Adnlph Blanks mailed out to be remid-

would discuss the proposed corn “loan program which threatens to unbalance this year's buds get with farm and officials before leaving Iyde Park tomorrow, He scheduled a conference Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Treasury Jr., and Acting Budget Daniel Bell today. After the conference Wallace reported “progress” been made in the search for to finance corn loans.

“Our conference today was limited he said, “We made progress and hope to re=-

to financing of corn loans,”

port to the President next week.” Farm organizations have for 60 cents a bushel loans tary Wallace suggested figure. He scouted suggestions present

that

to insufficient to care for unemployed until next July 1.

F. D. R. Silent on Taxes

Roosevelt

Treasury

Roose(zovern-

Treasury for

with Wallace, Morgenthau Director

Secretary had funds

asked Secrea 46 cent

tha billion and a half dollar work relief appropriation might be the nation's

ight Three Persons Injured | PE,

Meanwhile, three persons were re- | covering from injuries received in Marion County's overnight acci- | dents. Two persons were | today when the car in which they were riding crashed into the Belt Railroad elevation on E. Washington St. William T. Sparks, 42, of R. R. 5, Box 465, the driver, received chest injuries, and a pas-| senger, Mrs. Julia Onderki, 32, of 53 S. Tuxedo St., received face and head injuries. Both were reported in fair condition in Methodist Hospital. Mr. Sparks told police the accident occurred when he fell asleep. Frank Anderson, 48, of 937 S. Illinois St., was treated in City Hospital for head and shoulder injuries received yesterday when he was | struck by an automobile at Ray and Meridian Sts. The driver, Mrs. Anna Harris, 62, of 1124 N, New Jersey St. was not held,

RAIN DUE TONIGHT AFTER GLOOMY DAY

TEMPERATURES 10 10 a. m.. 39 11 a. m 41 12 (Noon) 41 1p m

Mr. Roosevelt would voice no hint as to whether additional taxes would be needed to achieve his 1938-39 balanced budget. He offered no com=ment on suggestions for revision of the undivided profits surplus and capital gains levies, but said a prcliminary Treasury tax study would be submitted to House and Senaie fiscal committees in November. Mr. Roosevelt was asked concerning his plan to make his secretary=son, James, a ‘clearance agent’ for activities of independent Governnent agencies, The President laughed and the scheme was not really a story, but should be written in paragraphs and put on the page of any newspaper, The President expressed hope that the Department of State would ba able to work out a peaceable settlenient of the Nicaraguan-Honduran “postage ste amp” controversy,

Pledges of $100 were received from | issued

Mr. and Mrs. William D. Springer, | Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Sinclair; Mar-| mon-Harrington Co.; A. W. 8. Harrington and the Antlers Hotel.

QUITS HEALTH WORK FOR POLLUTION JB

'W. H. Frazier to Give Full ‘Time to Stream Clewranen.

In a proclamation Mavor Boetcher said: “I appeal to the people of Indianapolis to give this census their interested co-operation, to the end that accurate information may be obtained upon which may be based future policies looking toward a wise solution of this national problem.” Committee members named hy the Mayor are: Reginald H. Sullivan, chairman; Charles Lutz, Court[ney Hammond, A, Kiefer Maver Howard T. Griffith, Ludwell Dennv, C. Walter McCarty, James A. Stewart, DeWitt, S. Morgan, Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, Bishop Joseph E. Ritter, Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, F. B. Ransom, William H. Book, Vin- | cent A, LaPenta, Ralph B. Gregg, | Beatrice Short, John K. Jennings, |

Three persons were seen as possi- bid ble presidential candidates. They were Miss Rose E. Boggs, Richmond; Miss Sara C. Ewing, Indianapolis, | and Miss Bertha Nelson, Ft. Wayne. Senator Nye (R. N. D.) last night | told the teachers that “America to- | day is on all fours with the America |

of 1916, complacent in the belief we | cannot be drawn into anyone else's war. But we were.” He said: “Failure of the United States to invoke the neutrality law is leading us into war. The neutrality law has not been invoked because the nation is once more afraid of losing profits from someone else's war.” In an interview. he predicted that (Turn to Page Three)

Japanese on Two Fron is

Guerilla Warfare May Cut Russia Reported in Way of Three Invading Columns Neutrality Parley Off in North. Accord.

BULLETIN

BORDEAUX, Oct. F.).—The Loyalist destroyer Ciscar, blockaded by the northern fleet of Gen. Franco, was sunk by her crew today | off Gijon harbor to avoid cap- | ture. |

| levied. |

CONTRACT IS LET FOR ‘FINEST SHIP AFLOAT

U.S. to Pay Five Millions and Owner 10.

injured early |

2% KU.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U.P) .— Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the U. 8S. Maritime Commission announced today the Commission, the United States Line Co, and the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. have signed a contract for construction of *‘the finest and | Thurman Gottschalk. Eugene Fossafest ship afloat” at a cost of | ter, Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank, Toney $15,750,000. E. Flack, John F. White, Mrs. Paul Construction will begin at once, | Wetter, Miss Marie T. Lauck. Mrs, Mr. Kennedy said, and must. be | Louis W. Bruck, and Susan B. Knox

| completed within 852 days. It will be the largest liner ever constructed POLICE, NOT SPOOKS [in an American ship yard. ) The steamer is to be built as a | TO GET PRANKSTERS | companion ship to the S. S. Man- | a hattan and S. S. Washington in the Tt won't be the goblins, it will be | North Atlantic service. the police who get the little and big The vessel is being constructed on | boys whose pre-Halloween pranks a subsidy basis. After completion | cause damage, Chief Morrissey it will be sold to the United States | warned them today. Lines Co. for $10,500,000, the amount | He said that boys under 16 whose Spook season pranks cause damage | will be ordered to appear at the traffic school in Cropsey Auditorium

it is estimated the ship would cost if built in a foreign ship yard. on Saturday morning Bad boys | more than 16 are to be taken to

The construction contract proheadquarters in the patrol wagon

vides for an increase or decrease of the amount payable to the Newport | and their cases disposed of by the { captain on duty,

News Co. because of changes in laRESTS BEFORE ADDRESSING DELEGATES

said new two fifth

W. H. Frazier, Bluffton, resigned today as assistant State Health Division director, announcing he would devote all his time in the future to stream antipollution work. He is to serve under the direction of Lieut. Gov. Henry Schricker, and | | the Department of Commerce and | | Industries; which has jurisdiction over stream antipollution work. Mr, Frazier is to continue as secretary {of the Stream Pollution Hearing Board,

JESSE JAMES FOE DIES

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct, 22 (U. | Po) William H. (Judge) Wallace, |

“token” withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain may be made within {wo weeks. British Government re- | - " ported less opposed to Rebel vicSHANGHAI, Oct. 22 (U. P).—| ‘tory. The Japanese juggernaut appeared | JERUSALEM—Arab shot in Jewish to be mired today in waves of | quarter; new violence reported. Chinese counter-attacks on the | BRUSSELS—Ttaly accepts invitaShanghai front in mid-China, while| tion to Nine-Power Conference threatened with annihilation by | MOSCOW—Two arrested as spies, guerilla outflanking maneuvers in| charged with representing Nazi | secret police.

the north in Shansi province. While the Japanese high com- | pees mand sought ineffectually to stem | LONDON, Oct. 22 (U. P).-—-| the Chinese hordes near the Woo- Soviet Russia was reported today to sung Creek area and the Tazang | have slowed up the deliberations of | sector, north of Shanghai, it again the Spanish nonintervention power: | the man who prosecuted and started made apologies for Japanese air by insisting on proportional with- | the downfall of the Jesse James bombings after two persons were drawal of foreign “volunteers,” in- | gane and therefore had his life Killed and 29 injured in the Inter- stead of an equal withdrawal from | threatened a dozen times, died national Seftlement, | both sides in Spain. peacefully last night at 89. He had All of the casualties were Chinese The French Government sent outlived by a full generation most Indians but a United States Ambassador Andre Charles Corbin of those outlaws who once swore to (Turn to Page Three) (Turn to Page Three) get him.

TEACHERS .

TIMES FEATURES

ON INSIDE PAGES ‘Borah to Oppose

Control Program

MERIDIAN, Ida. Oct. 22 The veteran William BE chairman of the Senate Relations Committee, will oppose the Administration's crop control program in the special session of Congress next month He told a crowd of farmers at Pomona Grange in this farming community of his native state last night that “as soon as this countrv advertises it is going to reduce in any world commodity, it excites other nations to increase their | acreage.”

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Probable rain tonight after a cloudy, dark day was forecast by the | Weather Bureau. The report said {cool weather would continue, with | temperatures remaining in the low | 40s.

| bor or material costs as shown by | Labor Department statistics,

. CADLE TABERNACLE CROWDED AS DELEGATES HEAR SENATOR NYE

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Senhtor Nye relaxes before taking the rostrum to warn that “America’s neutrality situation today is virtually identical with that which led the nation into the World War.”

big smile for the 15.000 Indiana This marks his 20th year as

Charles Williams puts on this teachers attending the convention here, executive secretary of the Association,

A crowd which almost filled Cadle Tabernacle last night heard Senator Gerald P. Nye declare that “America is on the brink of war.” The Fabernacle this morning was the scene of a general meeting at which the teachers were to elect officers and vote on several ovr proposals submitted by the resolutions committee,

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