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Karabell Clamps Down on Drivers: Cites Need to Protect Children,

FOUR KILLED IN STATE

45 Autoists Seized: Seven

Hurt Here: 23 Are Fined $272.

Motorists against whom evidence is clear can expect heavy fines throughout the summer. Muni cipal Judge Charlies Karabell warned today trafie April tl showed dead than im April last aren soon will he on vaegation Judge Karabell aig RUINE 1H Brotect them arive within

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[gt the week-end traffie nired seven, and brought the ars oct 43 rivers. Four died in In alana name outside Marion County They were Eleanor MeMagter, 18 Marion: Arthur 3. Shafer, 80. Nex castie: Martha Torena Sims 6 {wits City, and Wanda Meehan, 11, Gary April Toll Put at 10 showed 10 Maries (act APril, 1937 motorists morning

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total of R174 in fines wag sus ™ Rarth being drunk. | fainre to stop | and possessing no | He wag fined £77 ang to 20 dave on the | Indiana State Farm f Vernie Clark, 3360 N. Capitol Ave, pleaded guilty to being drunk | ANA drunken driving and wag fined | £48. Hig drivers license was pengea ror a veas welve speeders received 8084, with $32 suspended Bay, 8 Ix injured six-year-old Larry Pigher, 1044 Fim St, wag balidved nines seri ously when struck By an auto in the! 1000 Block Lexington Ave, this aft Arnon. Police said he wag knocked down by a4 car driven by Harry Strong, 81, of 928 Albany St He | wag taken to City Hospital | An elderly couple wag injured slightly today on alighting from a | streetear at Marviand and Pennsyl vania Sts, Both were struck by the rea ena of a second streetcar and were thrown inte the path of a passing truek hey were Gran ville Archey, 7 2717 B. Michigan St, and his NA wife Anna

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State Auto Accidents Take F Four Lives

NEWCASTLE May 2 Arthur QQ Shafer, 80, died Saturday in Hens Hospital of injuries received when hig ear and another collided in Dublin, George K[loan, Danville, m Wabash College student, was

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May 2 Rix-vea) a Sims, K|wits of ries received when she wag struck by a ear ariven hy State Conservation Of ficer Eimer Wiltrout, Elkhart, who was not held by police

GARY, Meehan Dingle S|aturaay gasoline truek

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May 2 Wanda Killed, and Ruth injured seriously Retr ante struck a east of Gary

MARION, Mav PH nor MeMaster, 18 Marion fatally ed late vesterday the automobile driven by Custer, 17, left State Road 21 and turned six miles west of Mae ron i

PICKPOCKETS ROB TAXPAYER OF $80

While he stood in line to pay hig taxes, pickpockets took $80 from him, Virgil Barker, Ti, of R. R 2, | Greenwood, told police today He said he drew $100 from bank account, then went to the Courthouse Waiting in line. he took the money out. then replaced it In different pockets When he reached the window. he | said, he found that $80 was missing. |

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, May 2 (1. PO) <The Supreme Court to. day denied the petition of Hebert LL. Hicks for a review of hic conviction on firet degree murder charges in Frank lin County, Indiana, Cirenit Court, and subsequent death sentence, Hicks is seheduled to be exe

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These members of Bring tomorrow's primary Democrat, and Robert Smith

GUARD STALIN, | HITLER GLOSELY

THE FOREIGN SITUATION LONDON European secret po liee nerease three dictators’ guards WASHINGTON Hitler's Rowe vigit likely to be diplomatie fatiure BERLIN Flags Ay feaves PARIS Cabinet ratifies Anglo French alliance, VINAROZ Spanish Rehele say war will last many months, SHANGHAY- Japanese drive again stalled. BOGOTA «Colombia ve sleet Eduarde Santos president,

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italy ‘Purged’ for Hitler's Visit |

By WEBB MILLER !

fOanvrIght, 19838. BY United Press) | LONDON, May 2 (HU Poe he | secret police of three great totalis | farian nations of Europe took traordinary precautiong today any attempt to

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Germanys Gestapo and Thalys | OVRA joined in efforts to avoid or | to frustrate any attempt to kill Fuehrer Adolf Hitley Preemie) Benito Mussolini during the visit Rome on which Herr Hitler stays tonight rhe guard around Jose! Stalin, of Russia, already the closest aunrded man in the world, already had been mereased, (it wag understood, ag the result of reports that a threat had been made by radio a new teeh nique in the history of terrorism Kill him It hag been reported persistently for several dave that a seeret shot wave radio station, purporting to be ih Russia but possibly operated from an airplane. had broadeast | "Stalin has been sentenced 1o death and the Liberators’ League Will earry out the exeeution®

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formation was that Mr, Stalin's guards had heen unusually vigilant because of frequent broadeasts by the mysterious “Liberators’ League Despite attempts by the big Moscow sfatione to jam the broadeasts, it wag sad, the secret station was heard to announce that the League would make its existence felt soon Listeners along the RBaltie Coast have fried vainly to find whether the station is broadeasting from in side Russia, ag is eclatm»d, or in one of the Baltic states For months past, high operatives | of the German Gestapo have been preparing for the visit on which Herr Hitler leaves tonight. | Arturo Bocchini, head of the Italian |

| secret police, and Heinrich Himmler, |

German | Hert Hitler's

dreaded co-operated, be in Herr

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chief of Gestapo, Himner

| personal entourage when he leaves

tonight, along with the devoted Sepp Dietrich, chief of Herr Hitler's | personal bhodveuard staff, and a if Hitler does Women Are Spies A canvass of sources on the Cone tinent revealed that 10000 apera tives of Sig. Mussolini's OVRA have been on special duty in Rome, Florence and Naples, which Fuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolint are wo vigit this week They included several hundred women who lounge in bars, on traips, in the streets, With eyes and ears open for sus. pieious characters A number of these women will be invited to ull functions at which the dictators appear,

ecnted May 6,

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INE Faseist uniforms, co-operating with agents of the OVRA in looking for political refugees. Records of newspapermen, officials and others who will be near the chieftains have been examined Several German Jewish and anti-Nazi newspapermen have been quistly invited to ave | Rome in recent mon:hs Fascist officials have denied | stoutly the recently published reports that “thousands” of persons have been detained for safe keeping In anticipation of the Hitler visit, Bu» they admiy that for two weeks they have been rounding up intellectuals, Italians, and Austrian Jews and and that non-Maseists will (Turn to Page Two)

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| ELECTION OFFICIALS POLISH UP ON REGULATIONS

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FORECAST: Ungettled with showers tonight

MONDAY, MAY

held an 11th how

conference to review regulations gov | County Clerk Glenn RB Ralston

Hendrieks Kenworthy, | {

board today re (eft to right) Wliean

Defeatism Scored Here; |

(. of C. Asks Clear Policy

Uncertainty of Federal Pans All Classes Must Co-operate I$ Hurting Business, | For Prosperity, Junior | Leaders Declare, | Chamber Told, |

Rosengren Ruffalo commerce na

wewell p Junior Chambel tional president, today denounced | the “spirit of defeatism that fos fered the idea we can't live without Government subsidy He addressed the Junior Chambery ay Club Indianapolis is major cities in the count | vigited in an 1l-week tow nation Young men do not reel that fean't live without Government sub sidy, nor do they countenance «ueh ja helief,” he said I have talked The spokesmen for business ap { with Democrats, Republicans, New peared in informal gpeecheg after | Dealers, Soclalicte, and others and Jolin W. O'Leary, ehairman of the |! know that that i« a cross seetion | Chnalaber's Bxeotttve Committes, [of their opinion told the delegates that excessive | government regulation is retarding

WASHINGTON, May 2 (tv. B) Spokesmen (or American business al the 26th annual meeting of the UU Chamber of Commeree ap peated today for removal of unees girrounding Governmental and asked restoration figged individualism to tte rightful place W. Walter Williams, president of Continental Ine, of Seattle, Wash told the 2500 delegates representing 1.000.000 big and little businessmen that rugged individualism ie a man ffestation of thrift, self<zacrifice

Indiana Ktale | the Columbia one of the he has of the

Against Clase Avfagonism

forces capital,

"We also are that are brying to set labor, My. Willlame urged continuation | industry, agriculture, and govern | of the Chamber's campaign to edu {ment against each other We know cate the public along lines of tg | that only when they all co-operate slogan: "What hurts business hurte [an we have prosperity.”

what helps business helps | Mr Rosengren urged the Indi [Aha organization (oo continue fits

[efforts to co-operate with vouhg | farmers’ organizations, He said the Junior Chamber favors passage of the MeCarran<Lea Bill, now before Congress, whieh he said would put commercial aviation, ‘now operat ing badly the red,” on a sound basis Al the clote of the meeting Dove Zaring retiring president and neheon toastmaster, wag to turn over his office to Jidward J. Green | new president

POSSIBLE SHOWERS PREDICTED TONIGHT

TEMPERATURES 5% 10 a. wm. 1 NB Haw . B8 12 (Noon) mn I pom

against the Hite Uncertainty

ou Walter A. Draper, president of the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. and | F. Peavy HefMlingey Minneapolis | grain man, both eited “the element | of uncertainty” ag the ehief retard ing influence on business Uncertainty as where we're going what ig holding ug back sald Mr. Draper If we Knew the worst we could go ahead and plan and Know where we'd be going.” "The main concern of business men 8 uncertainty over the future of Government poliey,” My, Heffel said What we want to know fe wheth- | Bl We are going to he patted on one | cheek one day and slapped on the |

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My O'Leary charged that expert ence under the NRA had shown that Government supervision “hampers | and retards real business progress” soon after the Chamber had demand. | an immediate reduction of the £13.500,000.000 annual tax load im posed by Federal, State and local governments The Chamber charged that taxes

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The Weather Bureau today predicted rising temperatures with un | settled skies that may bring showers | tonight or tomorrow, Yesterday the | | maximum temperature was 7. ag a cloudless deep blue skv & 0 absorh nearly 25 eents of every hundreds wii ue iva dollar of national income and that with auto rides and walks they are serfously blocking business’ : gy : efforts toward economic recovery, 2 DIE 13 HURT IN TORNADO |

2 KILLED IN BUS CRASH CUNNINGHAM, Kas, May 2 (U LISBON, Portugal, May 2 (U.P), | POA mother and two of her ehils | Twenty-one persons were reports | dren were killed and 13 other pei ed killed and 10 injured today in a | song were injured last night when a | motorbug accident at Vianna de | tornado ripped through this farming | Castello, eommunity,

THE PRIMARY

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Roosevelt Backs 'Wage-Hour Petition

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BALLOT BOXES DUSTED OFF

Times Phota Board emplovees were faking ballot boxes from their storage place at 2001 Northwestern Ave, to the 33a polling places in the eoity and county Bernard Rowey (& earrving the hoxes to a truek

SENATE CURBS Pastors File BIC WARSHIPS New Plea for

SENATE seeks to diveonrage Gaming War

superdreadnanght rae WAGE-HOUR RIL} clare Indiana ig "one of petition supported hy Presis statex In dent Ministerial 3 1a Gov. i CoS DA iste at [earner Townsend and Mayor Boetehs [er to enforce anti-gambling laws ROOSEVELT watehes oharts A five-point resolution was passed ing of West Indies waters [by the association, whose SENATOR NYE asks end [are the Protestant ministers of In eurh on arma shipments dianapolis, at a meeting at Spain, Park M. E. Chureh

It followed two protests Battleships Limited gambling in Marion County and the To 35,000 Tons

State made by the Indianapolis Methodist Ministers Association ABHINGTON, May today

Charging that the most lawless Union,” the Indianapolis

need of Association today appealed

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| Governor Townsend reeently, 2 (UP) =| The five points were \ adapted an lEnforee the gambling laws § the State Vinson Naval | 2A suggestion that the gambling Expansion Bill, barring American mater be referred to the Indiana leadership in a world armament | pastors Conference race by limiting battleship displace [ d==A eall to eitigens to vote ment to 35000 tons | the primary election tomorrow The amendment, by Senalor Van-| 4A protest against the soheddenberg (BR. Mich), outs battleship | uled performance of Cole Bros tonnage authorized by the bill from [ous next Sunaay, Mother's Day 135,000 tong to 105,000 tons, It would | 5A plea to voters "to direct Hmit the three dreadnaughts | their efforts in behalf of those authorized in the bill to 35,000 tons | Whose reputations or rec ords are in [favor of law enforcement.’

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unless the President determines of flofally that other naval powers are Dog Track Protested exceeding the tonnage limitation

by D hrnest N. Evang, The President would not have the | Dy on NrLle Ady that | to agk for a 43000«ton | ire ¥

| Me American Legion in Hancock vessel ag originally proposed in the | sounty has been asked to Sponsor K|enate bill, unless he determined a racing at a track at MeCordsthat another power had “oftlelally | iq “(he association authorized Dr projected, appropriated funds for vans and the Rev. Abram or laid the keel” for a vessel ex geading 35.000 tons Foeg of the President's $1158. 000,000 naval expansion bill elatmed the amendment would prevent the United States from assuming the | leadership in a world armament | race The pase this der a rule «minute speech

is to be operated Dr, Evang had announced to the Governor

I'he dog traek | without betting, track promoters I'he resolution and Mayor read: "We view with deep concern the increase in juvenile erime in City and State No state or munity ean long survive such regard for law, [ tion, sueh unconcern for life property, We may need some fur ther restrictive legislation, but we need more an enforcement of those laws which we now have on our statute hooks “To deliberately violated ig the most effective teach. ing of anarchy we could possibly have in our country No Com-

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naval bill wag expected to afternoon or tomorrow un limiting debate to one by each Senator

WASHINGTON, May 2 (U, PP) President Roosevelt today placed his | support behind a movement to force the new Wage-Hour Bill out of a hostile Ruler Committee and send it ta the House floor by petition Mr. Roosevelt wrote Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N. J), of the Labor Committee and author of the new bill, refterating his faith in legislation and inform ing her of his hope thay the House |(o help remedy the situation will be permitted to vote on the bill | 1 Ag the General Ministerial As- | sociation of Indianapolis represent ing all the Protestant churches, we [ would commend the Methodist Min- | | Ister's Association in their appeal to the Governor to enforce the gamb(Turn to Page Three)

An Editorial

[our Government than our own of. clals are doing In their refusal to enforee the laws of the State. We, | the Protestant ministers of Indian[apolis, would therefore appeal to the | Governor,

at this session he new bill, which would proa minimum wage of 40 cents an hour for a 40-hour week within three years, wag bottled up in the (Turn to Page Two)

HIS hag been a dirty primary campaign with much more heat than light, The antiorganization groups in both Democratic and But all opposition candidates in the ardor of battle have skirted cloger to filth than to fairness. That kind of campaignmg issues, driving voters into unthinking partisanship, It usually defeats itself. For, when blind partisanship dictates primaries, the more powerful and better organized machines are apt to win,

Republican parties have issues, some-——not

obscures

The Indianapolis Times digtrusts political machines Democratic and Republican, We favor effective none partisan city manager government. But the fact remains that both local organizations this year have put forward good mayoralty candidates. Mr, Sullivan and Mr. Wolfl are widely respected citizens: both are honor. able men of recognized ability, »

» » We wigh the oratory of this campaign had turned lest on opposition bugaboos regarding these two leading mayoralty candidates and more on the obvious unfitness of certain judiciawy candidates, The Republican organ ization in some cases put up hand-picked uncontested second-rate candidates; only a minority of the Republican candidates are capable. The Democratic organization has thrown its support to some Democratic judges

whose records are bad, though it has backed others *

whose records are good, such as Judge Wilson and Judge Chambers, At least three incumbent judges have been found unworthy of re-election by those who know them best the members of the Indianapolis Bar Association. They are: Criminal Court Judge Baker, Superior Court Judge Slack and Juvenile Court Judge Geckler, Only mild significance attaches to a Bar Association primary poll when the result is close. But when the candidate already on the bench and a large majority of lawyers vote him down on his record, that condemnation is as clear ethically as it is politically deadly, More than five out of every six lawyers voting rejected Judge Baker. More than six out of every seven turned thumbs down on Judge Slack. More than 11 out of every 12 opposed Judge Geckler. And, to prevent the renomination or re-election of Judge Geckler, a representative nonpartisan group of public-spirited citizens organized as a Juvenile Court Committee has advanced the reform candidacies of Judge Bradshaw, Democrat, and Mr. Remy, Republican. Fortunately, the leading candidates against Judge Baker and Judge Slack are both very able men—former Judge Myers for Criminal Court and former Judge Ryan for Superior Court, Room 8. The voter has no more important job than picking the higfiest type judges for all courts,

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Committees to Convention Dates This A fternoon.

| NEW DEAL ISSUE

State Fight Ww atched | As Reflection National Trend,

Ny United Press Roth Demoeratie and

[tate Commitiess met here today

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allow laws to be |

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the Mavor and to citizens |

the which the two will thels to nominate ecandidates State ofMeea and the | Rtatex Senate

| Kaeh ecommities [ delay announcement of its conven tion date until late tonight, each | hoping the other will reveal its in tentions Ara The interim diseussion of fall election

G. OP The Republicans are awaiting toprimary vote to if there any trend away from the New Deal, Archie Bobbitt, Republican Chairman, has sald satisfied with a gain in Congress and

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| several seats

in the Legislature, The Democrats are maintaining their present eal &trength, substantiating their support, of the Roosevelt \dminise tration, and laying the groundwork | for the possible Presidential candi. dacy of former Governor Paul V | MeNutt in 1840 | On the resulta of the 1036 general election, the last indication of pub- | lie sentiment, the Republicans must | overcome a majority of approximately 200,000 votes, | the margin held by the total votes | for Demoeratic Congressional eandi« dates over the Republican in 1936 In the last election the Democrats carried 66 Indiana counties coms pared to 26 which went Republican, Republicans are highly optimistic, | however, because many of the im« | portant counties which went Dem-« | oeratio did so by narrow margins | For example, Grant County in (he [ Congressional race went Democratic {by 99 votes out of approximately 25,000

hopeful of

Some Counties Close a few voles

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counties their Demoeratic a Legislature and city In the however, in

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many change from with both the Congress, Every major | except Lafayette, Democratic organization

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to Re-

| plexion publican, shift in

state nNAg a ontrol, | Over the state this week-end the intensity of the primary election [was emphasized in several developI ments, These included: 1. At Vincennes police entered a [printing establishment and confis- | cated forms of type for a pamphet attacking Mavor Joseph Kimmel Mr, Kimmel ig head of the Demo[eratie organization at (and 1s a candidate for State SenaTwo men were

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THOMAS ASKS U.S.

City Kidnaping.

(Editorial, Page 10.) NEW YORK, May (U, P) Norman Thomas, Socialist leader who was evicted from New Jersey by police when he tried to make a May Day speech, today asked the Department of Justice to prosecute Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City under the Lindbergh Law. The law provides a death penalty IL is applicable to kidnapings that involve torture, or demands for ransom, or the transportation of a vice tim across a state line, John J. Underwood, Deputy Police Chief of Jersey City, said in his official report that Mr. Thomas on Saturday night was placed on a New York-bound ferry “for his own sake, as the crowd was becoming restless.” The Workers’ Defense League Joined Mr, Thomas in appeals to four Government agencies. Mr. Thomas wrote letters to President Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, and he sent a telegram to Senator La Follette, head of a Senate committee that has been investigating violations of civil rights. He told Mr, Roosevelt that he had been kidnaped “by agents of the Fascist national vice chairman of your party.” He asked Mr. Hoover “If it were possible to prosecute those responsible under the Lindbergh Law.”

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Terms Eviction From Jersey |

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