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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 75

NEW SCHOOLS > Swimming Safety Drive Launched

BUDGET CUTS

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TAX 3 CENTS

Estimate of $7,292,746 by

Board Lower Than Previous Schedule.

NEW BUILDINGS PLANNED

Vote on Temporary Loan

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Time Warrants Postponed |

. Until Tomorrow. | The School Board today adopted | a tentative budget of $7,202,746 for | the 1938-39 school year, reducing | the tax levy three cents to 97 cents. | Reduction was affecied because | estimated expenditures for the 18 | months from July 1, 1838, to Dec. | 31, 1939, for which the Board is re- | quired to budget, are $128,500 less than for the last 18 months, A. B. | Good, schools business director, said. | He pointed out that the reduc- | tion was made despite the fact that! the total budget figure for the fiscal year proper, July 1, 1938, te June | 30, 1939, exceeds the 1937-1938 budget by $332,071. Most of this increase resulted from capital cutlay items, | construction of a classroom building | at Tech High School and an audi- | torium at Broad Ripple High School. | The budget includes $465.000 to construct the buildings. The Board is awaiting PWA approval of a grant | providing 45 per cent of the cost.

Capital Outlay Up

This brought a net gain of $219,- | 048 in the capital outlay items, the largest increase of any -of the budget classifications. i Of this increase. $190,000 is accounted for by the increased building appropriations. The balance is absorbed by appropriations for furniture and equipment for the new high school additions under construction. The Board postponed until tomorrow action on a resolution to sell temporary loan time warrants totaling $300,000 to meet present cash deficits. Voting was not held today because the required number of Board members were not present.

Billy Marsischke Resolution Adopted °°

” u n Another resolution, providing « WARNING : SIGN emergency appropriations for July | i 1 to Dec. 31, totaling $3,171,115, was | : j adopted. The appropriation is to i i

be submitted to the State Tex) Board immediately. Maintenance items, providing for

operation of Howe High School and | Campaign Starts at Beaches

John Hope Junior High School in- | creased, Mr. Good said. Operating | After Ravenswood Boy Drowns.

costs of the new addition at Wash- | ington and Crispus Attucks High | Schools also were up.

Another extra appropriation was the adjustment In teacher salaries |

to bring teachers’ pay in compliance with the State Minimum Salary Law. This increase was $80,335.

Maintenance tems, providing for |

repair of elementary and high schoo! buildings, showed a gain of $22.590. Library Fund Up

Appropriations for the City libraries and other auxiliary agencies were increased $14,528. About $10,000 was included ior general repairs to libraries. Mr. Good said a $14.087 reduction in the appropriations for debt service was made possible by reductions in the interest on the

to the sinking fund. Administration appropriations

were increased $5777. Items included |

the transfer of a teaching vice principal to the superintendent’s office and a personnel increase in the social service department. Schoo! officials said “the increased load of the social service department in the administration of school relief cases necessitated additional help.”

HUSBAND OF SLAIN WOMAN HITS SUSPECT

CHICAGO, June 7 (U. P).—The |

enraged husband of Mrs. Florence

Johnson victim of a brutal brick | 18-year-oid |

bludgeoning, struck Robert Nixon, who allegedly confessed slaying her, with his fists today at a coroners inquest. Nixon attempted to retaliate despite shackles binding him to a policeman. band, was a witness at the inquest.

schools | bonded debt and reduced payments |

Elmer Johnson, the hus-!

While funera: arrangements were being completed for 7-yvear-old Billy Marsischke of Ravenswood, Marion | County's first drowning victim of the season, Red Cross and Police Accident Prevention officials today started the “most vigorous swimming safety campaign in county { history.” William Merrill, 1122 W. 35th St. Indianapolis Red Cross Life Saving director, and a staff of assistants placed the first of about 100 “swimming hole” warnings on unsafe and unsupervised locations

along White River and the various | creeks and streams in the County. !

Safety School Planned

Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Accident Prevention Bureau head, has instructed officers to order into the traffic safety school, held each Saturday at Cropsey Auditorium, all children found playing ai unguarded bathing sites. must accompany the chiid. Police Chief Morrissey said that on school dismissal day he will | order all cruiser cars and motor- { cycle policemen to check swimfming places and order swimmers i from places not authorized. He

said that officers would be told to

use discretion in making arrests in|

the case of adults. School officials have urged parents | to co-operate.

Life Guards ‘On Call’

at supervised estimated about

| for summer duty ' swimming places, 12. The drowning victim, the only i child of Herman and Audrev Marsischke, was drowned when he

A parent

Mr. Merrill said Red Cross life | guards have been placed “on call” |

leaped into White River at Ravens-

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight; continued cool tomorrow.

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William Merrill, Indianapolis Red Cross Life | sons to swim only at authorized swimming pools and | Saving director, posts near the Emrichsville Bridge | beaches in Marion County. The Police Department over White River the first of 100 signs warning per- / is working with Red Cross officials in the campaign.

“TUESDAY, JUNE

7, 1938

VANDENBERG FLAYS STATE 6.0.P. POLICY

‘Declares Convention Date Was ‘Colossal Blunder’ By Leaders.

'DODGES VANNUYS ISSUE

‘Sentiment for Republicans "To Aid Senator Gets

New Support.

VALPARAISO, June 7 (U. P.).— Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) mentioned as a potential 1940 Re- | publican Presidential nominee, today | said Indiana G. O. P. leaders com- | mitted a “colossal blunder” by de- | ciding to hold the party’s state con- | vention before that of the Demo- | crats. Senator Vandenberg's statement Times Photo. | was contained in a letter to Lynn

raiso Vidette-Messenger, in answer | to the latter's request that the . Mich-

Britain to Act on Raids; Bombs Wreck Canton

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

LONDON—Britain to take strong

CANTON—Japs renew raids, wrecking homes; casualties 8000. SHANGHAI—Chiang reported facing threatened split with Hankow. HENDAYE—Revolt against Franco in Southern Spain reported.

PARIS—French send antiaircraft

BULLETIN HONGKONG, June 7 (U. P.) .—British bluejackets landed at Shameen, the international section of Canton, tonight, according to reports received here.

Three New Raids Bring Canton Casualties to 8000

| ‘CANTON, June 7 (U. P)—(By | Telephone to Hongkong).—The | Japanese threat to intensify their | air bombardments of Canton was

| fulfilled today with three new raids | which raised the toll for 11 days to ‘approximately 8000 killed and | wounded. The Japanese planes this morn-

ing, this afternoon and again to- |

night dropped bombs on crowded residential districts and commercial centers, as well as military objectives. Many sections of the city were reduced to ruins. Ten bombers were first sighted over the Bocca Tigris forts. They | swept in over the city and bombed the power plant. action agam. Other bombs demolished the British capitalized water works, under construction. The new raids were coincident with an announcement by a Japanese spokesman in Shanghai that the Japanese would continue to bomb Canton “with even greater | vigor.”

Residential Areas Bombed

| In the morning raid, bombs fell in the residential districts of Tungshan and Saichwan. Heretofore, the Japanese have claimed that bombs | were dropped only on military objectives. Estimates of 2500 killed were considered conservative. There was no way of telling how many were in- | jured, but the figure of 5000 was mentioned frequently. The new raids came as represen- | tatives of world powers inspected the bomb-torn city to obtain evigence for new diplomatic protests to Japan against bombings of civilian populations. Foreign military observers and | consular authorities held the unanimous opinion that attacks on the | civilian areas were entirely unwar- | ranted.

Consulates Endangered

igan Senator take an open stand in

| Nuys other than to say he “could

jecting himself into the Indiana campaign. But he added that he had no confidence in “the immediate value of my intimate advice in Indiana because it was so impotent when I was begging Indiana Republicans not to make the colossal blunder of holding their state convention first.” The Michigan Senator, indicated that he might take action

action against ship attacks.

guns to border against raiders.

movement | Nuys “a little later this year.” “For the present,” he added.

‘Britons Aroused by Attack on Ships

LONDON, June 7 (U.P.).—The British Government, authoritative sources reported today, has decided to take strong action against the {bombing of British ships in Spain. The reply of Gen. Francisco Fran-

20. Rebel chief, to the British pro- | | test against the bombings arrived |

“1 fluence within my own party.”

Republicans Expected To Reject VanNuys

By United Press Despite some sentiment in the

satisfactory. - lion here is that the G. ‘©. P. $hould Foreign Office chiefs considered | ang will throw its full strength be-

| Whipple, publisher of the Valpa- | | telegrams

Entered at Postoffice,

“Goodby Reds,’ Shouts Hague

Leading March

Indianapolis.

| JERSEY CITY, N. J, June 7 (U. | P.). — Mayor Frank Hague looked { up early today as the last of his | four-hour “anti-Communist parade” | passed by and the din of 200,000 | voices, 60 bands and spectacular | fireworks subsided, and shouted: “Well, goodby Communism.” The demonstration was Mayor Hague's answer to critics of his ad- | ministration who, in recent weeks, have tried in vain to speak here without permits and charged Mr. Hague was developing a “Fascist regime” and destroying civil rights. Although - anti-Hague elements termed the noisy parade, led by Mr. Hague a “trumped-up” affair, Mr. Hague said it was “spontaneous.” “It's Americanism,” Mr. Hague, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said. “It's the only answer to radicalism. The radicals think because the people |

| are poor they are also radicals. I allowed the people to answer.”

The marchers represented nearly every civic, military and patriotic organization in the city and several | groups of American Federation of | Labor unions. Adjoining communi- | ties sent representations. One Hobo- | ken marcher declared many in his | group were WPA workers who had been “ordered” to participate. The Workers Defense League sent to President Roosevelt, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins

{and Attorney General Cummings |

favor of Senator VanNuys (D. Ind.). | Senator Vandenberg declined to | commit himself on Senator Van- | get a real emotional thrill” from in- |

| transportation.

however, |

in regard to supporting a coalition | favoring Senator Van- |

| must maintain my Republican in- |

J Republican Party to nominate Sen- | ‘today, and was understood to be un- | ator VanNuys (D. Ind), best opin-

‘Southerners Propose

!the action to be taken and asked hing a solidly Republican ticket in

for full reports from the British | he November election. agents in Spain. One measure dis- | y cussed was the creation of neutral yate opinion, the proposal for the (zones in which British warships | Repubnicans to adopt Senator Van(would be stationed, with instruc- | Nuys as a G. O. P. Senatorial can- | tions to fire if the zones are bombed. | gijdate in sympathy to his anti-

| Sir Robert Hodgson, British agent | yninea i . ; ’ | voio in two responsible quarters. in Rebel Spain, was suggested as an | The Ft. Wayne Dear] a

It was understood the recall of | New Deal stand recently has been |

In addition to considerable pri- |

prostesting the alleged coercion of | WPA workers. Several groups of | men who wore overseas caps inscribed “Jersey City veterans,” it | was charged, were in reality from Hoboken and had been given free

COMPROMISES AID WAGE BILL

NATIONAL AFFAIRS WAGE-HOUR BILL compromise likely; filibuster fears dwindle. NAVY EXPANSION measure advanced by House Committee report. FARM PARITY plan and other | issues block hope for adjournment Saturday. ROOSEVELT orders PWA to prepare allotments for 600-million-dollar projects.

Pay Bill Compromise

WASHINGTON, June 7 (U. P.).—

| Conferees on the disputed Wage-

Hour Bill today reached an ap-|

parent compromise on Southern de- VY

mands for wage flexibility. The compromise, drafted by a Southern bloc, won the approval of | Senate conferees and of Chairman |

as Second-Class Matter Ind

| ministration will | heartily.”

| demonstration that the people | not want politics in relief.”

HOME

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

[OWA NEW DEAL

CHOICE

VanNuys Also Happy Over Gillette's Victory.

SUPPORT GAINED

Hamilton Sees Hope For Triumph in Fall Election.

WASHINGTON, June 7 (U, P.) — Republicans today jubilantly cited Iowa primary returns as a rebuff to “White House interference” in

| state politics and as an omen of

G. O. P. victory in November's Congressional elections. Eight other Democratic Senators whe opposed the President's Court reorganization plan and who are up for re-election this fall, also were pleased at Senator Gillette's victory.

One of them, Senator VanNuys |

(D. Ind.), said: “I am very happy over Senator Gillette's victory, because it demonstrates that the people are not. going to be coerced, intimidated o cajoled by higher-ups into voting against time-honored ideals of the republic.”

Minton Pledges Support

Senator Minton (D. Ind.) said, “I hope he (Senator Gillette) wins this fall. support

Sehator Burke (DP. Neb.), who has opposed President Roosevelt on judiciary reorganization and other measures, said “results in the Iowa primary produced a very necessary do , soaring

Republicans professed

| confidence of a November election

victory because G. O. P. primary

-} aggregates in Iowa were almost two

to one greater than Democratic totals. Although Republicans piled up a similar margin in 1936 primaries, G. O. P. leaders here believe their chances now are much greater than in the landslide New Deal ear. “Even though Senator Gillette is

la New Dealer,” said Republican Na-

tional Commitiee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, “his overwhelming victory can only be interpreted as a

1 am sure that the Ad- | him—

It was put out of |

‘extreme move if the bombings con- | tinue. act by the rising tide of public indignation over the sinking of British ships and killing of sailors.

‘Spanish Rebels Bomb ‘More British Ships

MADRID, June 7 (U, P.).—An { unidentified British ship was re- | ported to have been severely dam- { aged by aerial bombs at Alicante today. The British ship Thorpehaven was hit in Valencia harbor.

The British ship Thurston also. harbor

{| was bombed in Valencia | earlier today when Spanish Rebel planes raided the city.

| have been damaged or sunk re-

| cently by Rebel bombs.

‘Franco Faces Revolt In South, Report

| HENDAYE, June 7 (U. P.).—A counter - revolutionary movement | against Gen. Francisco Franco in Rebel Southern Spain was reported | today, but confirmation was lacking. | A Bayonne report said 14 persons had been killed in a clash at Seville | between Franco's troops and other Rebel factions. Gen. Queipo de Llano, Rebel commander in the south, returned to Seville from Burgos after telling Gen. Franco he was no longer in accord with the Burgos policy, it was reported.

‘France Calls Invasion ‘Military Problem’

PARIS, June 7 (U. P.).—PFrance now regards the invasio2 of air-|

| The Government felt impelled to |

pla Seven | | British ships have been reported to

strongly Republican daily, editorially suggested recently that either | the Republican Party nominate Senator VanNuys or refrain from | nominating any Senatorial candi- | date, thus allowing individual Re- | publicans to support VanNuys as |an independent without qualms of | having deserted their party. | The Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger, | spokesman for the usually Republican Porter County, straw vote on whether the G. O. P.

| should nominate Senator VanNuys | land who the individual would vote |

[for if the Republicans nominated | someone else and Senator Van Nuys | ran independently.

CASH RANSOM BILL FOUND, IS REPORT

'G-Men Decline to Comment | On Claim.

| |

| * PRINCETON, Fla., June 7 (U.P). |

| —A five dollar bill, one of the notes included in the $10,000 vainly paid

lag ransom for kidnaped K Jimmy |

| Cash, was cashed at a filling station

{near Jacksonville, Fla, the Miami |

| Daily News said today in a copy- | right story. | Federal Bureau of Investigation | agents, awaiting appearance of the ransom bills to give them their first major lead toward solution of. the | kidnaping, refused either to con- | firm or deny the report the bill had | been cashed. The News said the bill was offered

is taking a |

FAIR, COOLER FORECAST

TEMPERATURES 64 10 a. m... 64 11 a. m. .. 64 12 (Noon) 64 1pm...

66 71 69

a. a. a. a. 71

m. m. m... Fair weather tonight and tomorrow, with lowering temperatures, were forecast today by the Weather Bureau for Indianapolis.

Kentucky and 1940

The current political campaign in Kentucky, some remarkable aspects of which are being reported by Thomas L. Stokes in current dispatches to The Timd%, is important not only in itself but as a possible preview of the presidential campaign in 1940. For many political experts believe that the issue of poli-tics-in-relief will be a dominant one in the national electioneering two years hence. Hence Mr. Stokes’ observations in the political laboratory of the Bluegrass State,

wood Beach and was towed under huge death toll in crowded civilian

by the current. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m." Thursday at the home. Burial will be at Union | Chapel. { He and four other children were | playing, police were told, when he | shouted: {i “I ‘can stay | than you.” | He dove under the water and | failed to come to the surface. i body was recovered 20 feet down- | stream about half an hour later. | Billy was a pupil of the John | Strange School at 63d and Olney | Sts. where classes ended May 28.

BOY FAINTS, FALLS ON BABY, KILLS HER

BUFFALO, N. Y., June 7 (U. P)). | —A tangle of circumstances was

under water longer

| areas nearby | The diplomatic corps was partic-

ularly aroused by the fact that the

| raiding planes frequently power- | dived over foreign consulates in the

| Shameen district.

U.S. Waits Report On Canton Raids

blamed today for the death of 13- | ngin joi i | month-old Beverly Ann Kulezyk. | Dome, oa J | First, Chester Kozakiewicz, 12, sibly to recommend steps to prevent | fell from a viaduct near his home |g repetition. : (and broke his arm Companions, Just what steps could be taken | carried him to the nearby Kulezyk | officials were at § loss to know. The | house. Chester's brother; Edward, | United States already has publicly | went for a physician. Watching the | voiced its horror of such attacks. | doctor set the bone, Edward fainted | The British end French Govern{and Tell on the baby who had ments have protested formally to

| planes from Spain as a military, | in payment for gasoline by two men, | not diplomatic problem, and the believed to be Tennessee policemen | solution has been left with the returning home from a vacation at (Continued on Page Three) | Miami.

Barkley’s Alliance With WPA Directors Traced

(Editorial, Page 10)

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky, June %7.-—A telltale chain of circumstances indicates that last March word went down the line in WPA's Kentucky | organization that its support was {expected for Senator Barkley, President Roosevelt's Senate leader, in the Aug. 6 primary. This was about the time that Governor Chandler, who is seeking the Barkley seat, began to warm up for his campaign, and started shaking hands and slapping backs all over Kentucky. At various points in the state, key officials under George H. an,

eastern Kentucky, called in his in Paintsville and told them what they were expected to do. According to an employee who attended the meeting, Mr. Rice explained he was a Republican, but had changed his registration Democrat in order to vote for Sen-

them to do the same. Further, according to the story, Mr. Rice asked a 2 per cent contribution from salaries for the Barkley campaign. Some money was coll@cted, according to the story, but was returned two days later, with word that the collection

ator Barkley, and that he expected

are of uncommon significance. || crawled behind him. The infant's

I neck was broken.

both the Japanese and the Spanish { on Page Three) ¥

State WPA director and long-time

friend of Senator Barkley, appar-

would be made later. Mr. Rice's

ently began to pass ps ors.

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Mary T. Norton of the House Conference group. It was understood Mrs. Norton would be supported by

a majority of her house conferees in |

acceptance of the compromise,

If the compromise is formally ac- |

cepted by the Senate and House conferees it was believed that | danger of a filibuster by Southern Senators against the Wage-Hour Bill | will have been averted. Formal consideration of the com-

promise was delayed until tomorrow. |

Conferees Meet Tomorrow

The conferees will meet tomorrow | If the session brings | | agreement upon the major contro- |

at 11 a. m.

versy, speedy solution of remaining issues was expected.

The compromise wage provision |

| calls for: 1. An establishment of a flat 25-cents-per-hour minimum. 2. An increase of 5 cents per hour during the second year of the act. 3. Establishment of advisory boards in each industry to make récommendations ior wage standards above the 30-cent with an administrator to pass upon the recommendations. 4. No time limit under which industries much reach the goal of 40-

cents-per-hour established in the | bill, permitting them to accomplish | that standard as soon as “econom- |

ically feasible.” The Senate bloc conferees 4 to 3 to support the program. The Southern bloc was

to their program, pointing out that

| while the time of attaining a 40cent minimum was

operation a year.

New Navy Measure

Passes Committee WASHINGTON, June 7 (U. P.).—

| The House Appropriations Commit- |

tee, after last minute revisions, today favorably reported a $274,233,229 final deficiency bill, carrying funds to start building the greatest war | fleet in American history. | The bill, which will go to the House for immediate action and | which may be sent to the Senate

| authorized by the $1,157,000,000

office force at district headquarters naval expansion measure previously | and her daughter, Mollie Lou, 13,

approved by Congress.

The committee, however, made

last minute revisions which elimi- |

| nated $24,654,215 recommended by the Administration to begin con- | struction of a dirigible and four | warships. As reported, funds are provided |in the measure to lay the keels of | 19 warships and approximately $19,000.000 to expand and provide new

.to increase the Navy's fighting strength by 20 per cent, The bill carries funds to begin construction of two battleships,

minimum, |

hopeful | that House conferees would swing |

left indefinite, | the 30-cent minimum was set flatly, | without geographical or other dif- | | ferentials, after the act had been in

| slap by Democrats of Towa at White | House interference in purely local | contests. “Had the President's left-hand adviser, Thomas Corcoran; his son, James, and his Relief Administrator,

Harry Hopkins, remained out of the | Towa fight Mr. Wearin might have |

| made a better showing. His crushing defeat is a well-merited rebuke | to the Roosevelt Administration for | its shameless attempt to play politics with relief.”

Farley Congratulates Gillette

publican over Democratic votes, Mr. Hamilton said: “I ask those who say this is with- | out significance, because the same thing happened in 1936, to remember that Senator Herring (D.) was elected over Senator Dickinson (R.) by a margin of only 35,000 votes out | of more than one million cast in that year of great Democratic victory while the' Democratic Governor Kraschel was elected only by a margin of 2400 votes.” Senate Majority Leader Barkley | (D. Ky) said: “Now that the pri- | mary fight is over I sincerely trust | that all elements of the party will forget their differences and get together for a victory in November. Chairman Farley of the Demo- | cratic National Committee dis- | Gillette after a White House con- | ference with President Roosevelt,

INVALID, GIRL SAVED IN APARTMENT FIRE

Referring to the margin of Re- |

voted | Patched congratulations to Senator |

BEATEN;

6.0.P. JUBILANT

Court Bill Foe Wins | By Vote of Almost Two to One.

"LOSERS CONCEDE

| Dickinson Renamed in Heavy Republican Balloting.

DES MOINES, Iowa, June 7 (U, | P).—Iowa Democrats renominated | Senator Gillette for U. S. Senator today, climaxing a primary cams paign that was centered around his opposition to President Roosevelt's Supreme Court bill. He piled up a lead of nearly two | to one over Rep. Otha D. Wearin, 35-year-old farmer who had the indorsement of James Roosevelt, the President's son, and WPA Admin« istrator Harry L. Hopkins. Unofficial returns from 1983 precincts out of 2447 in the state gave: Gillette, 68,661. | Wearin, 36,467. | Repubicans who cast almost twice | as many votes in the primary as the Democrats, nominated former Senator Lester J. Dickinson as their Senate candidate. A severe critic of “all things New Deal,” he defeated liberal Rep. Lloyd | Thurston easily. Returns from 1789 precincts out of 2447 gave:

Dickinson, 123,743. Thurston, 89,732. | In the same number of precincts, Republicans cast 162,602 votes for

| their two Senatorial candidates | while the five Democratic candidates | obtained a total vote of 99,504. | The other three Democratic candi | dates and the votes they received | were Mrs. Ellsworth Richardson, a | leader in Farm Buréay Federation activities, 8386, W. G. Beyerhoff, F't. | Dodge atto 3214, and J. J. | Meyers, who was an unsuccessful | candidate for the Democratic nomi= nation for Congress four years ago, 15,259. Farm Vote Factor

Two years ago in the primary the | vote was similar, with the Repub=- | licans casting 260,204 ballots in their | Senatorial race as compared with | 141,372 by the Democrats. But in | the general election a Democratic Senator was elected. One of the reasons believed to cause the apparent inconsistency is that the farmers, who control the Iowa vote, stay away from the pri- | mary because it is in the midst of their busy season. Both the Democratic and Republican winners got off to a flying

Losing Candidates Concede

| Early today J. Don. Kerlin, Rep. Wearin's campaign manager, sent a telegram to Senator Gillette. “Yours is a splendid vit¢tory,” Mr. Kerlin wired. “Be assured of fullest and wholehearted support this fall.” Rep. Thurston conceded defeat a | short time later on the basis of ine complete returns. On the basis of these returns, it was estimated that the combined Democratic and Republican votes would not far exceed 400,000. In 1936, President Roosevelt polled 621,756 votes against 487977 for Alf M. Landon, the Republican nominee. There was no positive assurance | that Mr. Roosevelt wanted Gillette | defeated. Rep. Wearin claimed to be the “Roosevelt-New Deal” candidate, but Senator Gillette did not concede him that position, Hence | the Democratic voters could not be | certain that a vote for Rep. Wearif | was a vote of endorsement to Mr. | Roosevelt. James Roosevelt, the President's son, and WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins hal given oral tribute to Rep. Wearin.

‘lowa Back in G. 0. P.

$1000 Damage as East Side Column,” Says Bobbitt

Building Burns. Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Central Committee chairman,

today made the following comment An 8l-year-old woman who is an on the Iowa election. | invalid and a 13-year-old girl were, “Jowa is back in the Republican | rescued from a blaze which caused column. Results of yesterday's | $1000 damage to the three-story, 50- | primary election there are proving | family Butler Apartment Building | that definitely. In fact, the pri|at 5230 E. Washington St. last mary is a double slap at the New | night. | Deal and deals a blow at the pere | Mrs. Lena Taylor, 81, was alone sonal prestige of President Roose

[in her second floor apartment when | velt, Harry Hopkins and the Presi

On March 14 Garland H. Rice, di- | by Thursday, provides approximate- | the fire started. As smoke filled the | dent's son Jimmie.” rector of the employment division ly $41,000,000 for naval purposes to | corridor, rescuers placed her in a | for WPA’s first district, embracing | finance beginning of naval building | chair and carried her to safety.

[| Mrs. Elmer Quandt, who was i, |

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were asleep in their third [floor apartment and were awakened by | knocks at the door. When she | | opened the door, smoke rolled in. The girl shouted from the window

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and firemen raised a ladder and brought her to the ground. Her mother remained in the building. | The fire is believed by firemen to | have started from defective wiring in the wall of the first floor apartment, of John A. Darien, It ate up

» third floor FThe blaze was confi iE

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