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VOLUME

50—NUMBER 7

SCHRICKER

RACE FOR G.0. P. MAPS

Lieutenant Governor Promises to Back Roosevelt. TALKS AT RALLY Townsend Not Present but State House Aids Attend.

By TOM OCHILTREE Times Staff Writer

BASS LAKE, June 9=Lieut. Gov. Henry ¥. Schricker formally presented himself this afternoon for

the nomination for the U.S. Senate | seat now held by Senator VanNuys |

at & Democratic Party rally here. Declaring he had approached this “geoision with ho small degree of reluctance,” the Lieutenant Governor promised a vigorous campaigh if selected by the Indiana Democratic convention July 11 ‘and

i2 in Indianapolis. He also asserted that if nominated

SENATE; PLANK

Republican Farmers’ Council to Meet This Week. RAP NEW DEAL

County and Township Organization Drive Proposed.

The advisory council of the Republican Farmers of Indiana, an organization ‘of farmers opposed to

New Deal agricultural policies, is to meet here tomorrow or Saturday to outline its platform to be presented O. P. State convention

[at the G. June 28.

the council also ‘will complete plans for the organization's first statewide convention here June 25 at which ‘plans for extending the ‘movement into other Midwestern | states are to be discussed. He said

the organization has about -3000 |

NOTTS. { The farm group Was incorporated | April 12 “to give Republican fairm-

William J. Heim, president, said |

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On Minimum Wages (Editorial, Page 14)

WASHINGTON, June 9 (U. P= Seventeen Southern Senators today | issued a filibuster ultimatum effec- | ‘tive unless a flexible 40-cent wage ‘standard is placed in the Wage- | Hour Bill. \ | The Southern group charged that the compromise provision | ‘agreed upon by Senate and House conferees did not provide sufficient | flexibility in Teaching the 40-cent standard to meet Southern demands. The Southern ultimaium brought immediate committee Teaction. Con- | ferees reopened discussion of the

FORECAST: Occasional thundershowers tonight and tomorrow ; not muc

THURSDAY, JUNE

Bombing of

Three Wore Vessels Sunk hy Rebels

By United Press { A slate-gray destroyer—symbol of | Gireat Britain's sea power=moved into the Spanish war zone today as |

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LONDON, June 9 (U. P= | The Air Ministry announced | today that it had accepted the Tecommendation of the vecent British mission to the United States for the pur-

chase of 400 aircraft from American firms,

“Even as the Vanoc dropped ‘anchor Wat Alicante, Rebel werial pombs blasted the French vessel

Hull Files Protest on

Three More Ships Sunk

THE FOREIGN SITUATION WASHINGTON="Hull protests hombing of U.S, school in Canton. HONGKONG=Americans add protests over Japanese raids. TOKIO=Japan says attacks on Canton to continwe. ALTCANTE="British destroyer cruises Spanish war zone, WENDAYE=Americans periled by Rebel air raids,

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University;

University Bombing Draws U. S. Protest

WASHINGTON, Jute 9 (U.P) = Secretary of State Hull today formally protested to the Japanese Government through American Ambassador Joseph ©. Grew at Tokyo over the bombing of the American financed Lihgnan University at Canton by Japanese war planes,

Japan ‘Satisfied’ To Continue Raids

TOKYO, June 9 (U. P)=Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, official Navy Ministry spokesman, said today the | Japanese Navy was “satisfied” with | the wmirplane bombings of Canton | and the attacks would continue, Noda said the Navy had ordered | an investigation into the bombing | of the French Hospital at Canton | by Japanese airplanes. i No advices had been Teceivad, | Noda said, of the bombing of the American-directed Lingnan Uni- | versity, |

‘Canton Americans Deplore Attacks

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Fntered ‘as Second-Class Matter ‘at Posfoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Construction of Waiting

Zones Urged to Eliminate Traffic Perils.

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HELD KIDNAPER:

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Florida Child's Body

AUTO CAMPAIGN OPENED Does Not Close Case; Youth Takes

State Threatens Suspension Of Drivers Involved In Accidents.

(Editorial, PRS 14; Other Stories, Pages Thiee and 16.) The Safety Board will take definite action soon toward construc

tion of permanent safety islands for

trolley car passengers in downtown streets, Edward P. Fillion, Board member, said today. The Board recently abandoned safety wones which were guarded only by painted marks on the streets “because the markings gave citizens a sense of false security.” “We intended to replace them

Violence; Farm H

MIAMI, Juwe 9 (U. P=]. one of the kidnapers.”

(Photos, Bot

with chain amd concrete abutment

Officers to Hidden Money, Burial Site. BOY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN CHOKED

Hoover Protects Suspect from Threat of Mob

and Denies Actual

Part in Abduction.

Fdgar Woover this afternoon said

We Was “mot at liberty to way whether MeOall is the kidnaper or “will say, however,” We Wecinred, “that We is a kidhaper.”

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MIAMI Fla. June ® (U. P.).—Director J. Rdgar Hooe

islands or Taised platforms but ver of the Federal Bureau of Investigation vevealed today ‘G-Men have not completed solution of the kidwap-slaying

found that no money was available for the work,” Mr. Fillion said.

“Since we Were not entirely suc- of H-year-old Jimmy Cash Jr,

cessful in removing the vellow markings, the hazard still ‘exists and we will have to find the money. We will do the best we can with a bad situation.”

despite arrest of one suspect,

recovery of the youngsters body and $10,000 yanzom money. Franklin Pierce McCall, 21-year-old farm hand who led Men to the body hidden deep in a mangrove swamp early today, was under intensive questioning. The G-Men sought

“vigorous protest” against the ey

and ‘elected he “would co-operate | Fund Transfer Seen

Police Chief Morrissey is preparing estimates on the project for sub- | mission to the board next week. Mayor Boeteher said he will confer with the Board in an effort Yo

| wage provisions of the bill and were |

said by Senator Pepper (D. Fla) to Brisbane at Denia, 60 miles up he | yapmined Japanese policy ruthlessly

const, killing wa British oMcer of | yo @estroy human life’ was made | the international nonintervention tpgay in a statement printed in the patrol and three French seamen. gsuth China Morning Post. Tt was And still further up the coast at gjowed By seven British and AmerCastellon de Ja Plana, more Rebel joan doctors of Canton.

to find whether he was only an accomplice in the crime, as he claimed,

with the President's program in the ers and farmers of other parties remaining vears of his Administia- who Wish to join With them a Po- | peve wade rogress toward meeting tion and represent all=the laborer, tent voice in the ®nactment of | the Re flexibility the farmer and the businessman— legislation and adoption of national | Tre witimatum a aul Shae with equal fairness.” |'and state agricultural policies.” no fat ‘wage standard of more than |

=® My, Hoover refused to com ment on reporte other sues

her Candidate Present Tt has #nrolled ‘members inh 10 of germ the 12 Congressional districts in the

Mr. Schricker reportedly is SuD- gate, Wir. Heim said.

ported by the State House organiza-

A State-wide setup, similar to

tion ‘which is said to Control WBOUL | ye, of the major Political parties,

85 per cent of the convention delegates. wo other Senatorial candidates, Samuel Jackson, It. Wayne attorney, and Alex Gordon, Railroad Brotherhood official, previously air | nounced their candidacies. Mr. Jackson, who attended the meeting, at ohne tive reportedly had State House SUppoOrt for the senatorial nomination but party leaders said this has besn withdrawn. Mr. Schricker’s anhounvement, party leaders said, apparently means

is making fio effort to Teach a truce With Sen ator VanNuys, who has announced that he will campaign for Te-elec-tion as an independent. Dick Heller Present “This decision is not mine alone,” Nr. Schricker said. “1 ‘would prefor to finish my term as Lieutenant Governor. A campaign will mean many personal sacrifices for me and my family. | “I have counseled with hundreds | of my friends and have weighed | the value of their words. Their devotion, their lovalty and their offers of support have touched me deeply.” The yally sponsored by the Young | Democratic organization was at- | tended by approximately 5000 party leaders from all sections of the state. The State House delegation | was headed by Dick Heller, Gover- | nor Townsend's executive secretary. |

Governor Stays Away

The Governor did not attend, it | was said, since he did not wish to appear to be dominating the session. Robert Tilton Fowler, Indiana Young Democrats president, | presided. Homer Stonebroker, State Excise Police head and Democratic nominee for Second District Congressman, also spoke The complete vext of My. Schricker’s speech follows: | “A great many of my friends 1o- | vated in all parts of the state have talked to me about the United States Senatorship from Indiana, I feel that the time has come when 1 should make some pronouncement | and it appeals to me that no place | (Continwed on Page Two)

SENATE CONFIRMS KERN. APPOINTMENT

WASHINGTON, June 9 (U. P.)= The Senate yesterday confirmed the reappointments of four members of the Board of Tax Appeals=—John A. Tyson, Miss, Charles A. Arandell, Ore., John W. Kern, Ind. and Clarence V. Opper.

11 VILLAGES EVACUATED

LEGASPI P. I. June ® (U.P) =— Mount Mayon continued eruptions today. Government officials announced the complete evacuation of 11 villages in the vicinity of the volcano. LINDBERGHS LEAVE KENT SEVENOAKS, KENT, England, June 8 (U. P.)=Col. Charles A. Lindbergh with his family quietly left their Longbarn estate yesterday and were believed to be en route to their new home on an island off the | French coast.

TIMES FEATURES | ON INSIDE PAGES

13 | Mrs. Ferguson “| | Music 21 | Obituaries 8 Pegler 14 | PYIe sven 13} Questions ... 13 | Radio N | Mrs, Roosevelt 13 | Scherrer ... 13! Serial Story. . 20

Circling City. Comics Crossword ... Editorials

Sports ...

us NEY were 20 years ®go.

mer, | through the Republican Party, ab- | though retaining its own independ-

| has been made, We Waid. Bach

| Congressional district has a chair. |

|tnan who automatically becomes a [ember of the advisory council. | Under him are the county and township chairmen.

Oppose Factions

“We Propose to sponsor no vandidates or factions. Our purpose is

to bring the farmers of the State 3

back into the council of She Jposy want to oreate an interest in govSrament Tor them,” Wir. Heim said.

program of the party in power Guickly find themselves excluded from organization activities. This is the present situation. “Te Jaws how governing agriculture were enacted by the party in power and it is obvious that they tan be changed only through the lican Party. The Republican Farmers of Indiana, Inc., therefore, sets out under the Republican banwith the idea of

ence of action, and with an invitation to all farmers who oppose present New Deal faim legislation

[to join with it in bringing about

changes.” The other officers of the organization are John E. Schearer and How=ard Meyer, vice president, and Wil

| liam Stahl, Inland Poultry Journal | editor, secretary-treasurer.

DELAY IN CALLING

LEGISLATURE SEEN

Townsend Hints Session to Be Next Month,

Governor Townsend today said the proposed special session of the Legislature, which is to be asked to appropriate $£400000 to match anticipated PWA grants, “probably would not be called this month.” Original date proposed for the session was June 21, which would have placed it before the Republican and Democratic State conventions. The Governor indicated the opening date will be after the Demo Cg State Convention July 41 and 12. “No final selection of & date has peen fixed, since Wwe were waiting

for Congress to pass the new relief ||

bill,” the Governor said. “This bill now is in conference.” The appropriation is expected to be made from the balance in the State general fund. It is to provide the States share of an $3,000,000 proposed building program which includes erection of a new State office building and a tuberculosis hospital for southern Indiana. Democratic leaders haope to limit the session to consideration only of the appropriation bill and adjourn within a week.

PRESIDENT PLANNING

KENTUCKY TRIP JULY 8

WASHINGTON, June 9» (U. P), President Roosevelt today told Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley that he hoped to be in Covington, Ky., July 8. The White House declined to say whether Mr. Roosevelt will speak in Kentucky where Barkley is fights ing Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler for renomination to the Senate. Tentative Presidential plans call for Mr. Roosevelt to leave ton or Hyde Park, N. Y, June ¥, going first to Marietta, ©. arriv-

Soctety ... 10, 11 inp

hour. !

working |

95 cents an hour be included in the |

The compromise to which the | Southern bloc objected provides a | 25-cent minimum immediately, = 30-cent minimum the second year,

level Would reduce em-

Pepper, Whose renominathe Fiorida Primary PromptVe to Tevive thie wage-hour , the Tevolt. Senator Ellender (D. Ta) said that thie Southerners were ready to talk at Tength on the Wage-Hour Rill when the conference Teport reached the floor, The conferees continued deliberations today. Chairman Thomas (D. Utah) of the Senate group, believed they Would complete their work | tonight and be ready to report to | Congress Friday. | The conference has Teached a | tentative agreement on hours. Tt | would «establish a 44-hour work [Week for the first year; 42 for the | second; 40 for the third and subsequent years. Exemptions from the 44-hour rate [would be granted by the Adminis- | trator to a possible maximum of 48 | hours in order to provide for colJective bargaining agreements already in effect.

‘Hope of Adjourning This Week Abandoned

| WASHINGTON, June 9 (U. P). | Hope that Congress might complete the Administration program and [adjourn this week-end has jshed, Senate Majority | Barkley MD. Ky.) Roosevelt today.

(Continued on Page Three)

Woy.

Scenes and Princ

: . the British steamer | | bill and that the administration of | lu > Ti |thie proposed mew act be allowed | } Rit Tio fh YiSing INANStry St. | POmbed British vessels. |gards to the goal of 40 vents an |

of half a dozen

A French destroyer was sent to nvestigate the bombing of the Brisbane,

Port Is Attacked

These bombardments followed = rebel werial attack on the Britishoperated port of Gandia, 40 miles south of Valencia; and it followed,

issimo Frandiseo Franco that Brit-

"| ish shipping in the war zone would

ave to take its ehances with other

Several plans of action by Britain have been considered in London, including a proposal to station wa international fleet of warships and

Three-Month Vacation Tour | Believed Certain.

(Copyright. 1038. by United Press)

NEW YORK, June 9—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will visit the United States next March, the

| United Press learned definitely to- | | day from an unimpeachable source. |

| The Duke and Duchess plan = | three-month tour of the country, Ii

[will be =a vacation primarily, al

_ | though the Duke hopes to make

| some incidental study of social con- | ditions,

The visit will be unofficial and

00, a declaration by Rebel General- |

“We do not know of any genuine military ‘establishment bombed,” the statement said, referring to the bombardments of Canton by Japanese planes duirng the past two [weeks. ‘There are very few such | existing. | “There are only civilian ¢dasual- | ties ih the hospitals, while at least | one doctor and wany Red Cross [workers have been killed While conducting Tescue work.”

Canton Bombings Peril Americans SHANGHAI June 9 (U. P)= airplane bombs struck today in Shameen, foreign area of Canton, according to reports from that city. Lives of Americans and other nationals on the little island in the Canton River were endangered, Fragments stuck periously close to the Victoria Hotel, a center for foreign residents. Four Japanese planes began the daily bombardment of the city at | 10 a. m. They concentrated in the | Wongsha suburb and other outlyling quarters. | ‘Casualties were unusually light because of the continued evacua= tion of townspeople. Big incendiary bombs had struck, thudding softly, in Canton streets 400 yards from Shameen in a | moonlight bombardment last night, (Continued on Page Three)

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TWO YOUTHS DROWN IN RESCUE ATTEMPT

FOWLER, June 9 (TU. P)=Funeral arrangements were being | made today for Marvin Mounce and Carol Albertson, 13, who drowned | yesterday ih a gravel pit southeast | of Boswell, Tnd., while attempting to | rescue Mounce's 11-year-old sister, | Colleen. The three had been wading

speed action. The Safety Beard is to investigate the possibility of transfering money from the Gamewell Division fund which may Prove sufficient for | the work, Mr. Fillion said. | The Board's abandonment March 8 [of the old painted safety zones was based on a Statement by Chief Morrissey that “unguarded zones are death-traps for pedestrians.” The Boards maintenance crew applied black paint over the yellow markings, but in some cases traffic wear has made the yellow paint again visible,

Paint Removal Urged Although it was suggested that — yellow Pat Ernest Frick, Works Board secretary, said: “We never have been | in any way about safety zones, The Safety Board installed the rounded metal markers in the painted zones and it will have to remove them. “The Safety Board also will have (Continued on Page Two)

HODSIER SLAYS WIFE SELF, SHOOTS CHILD

Despondency Is Blamed for Family Tragedy.

LAWRENCEVILLE, June 9 (U. P.) =Joseph Bulach, 55, farmer liv- | ing wear here, killed his wife while

| she slept today, wounded his daugh- |

| and the British and American Gov. None could swim Their shouts at- | and escaped to the home of a neighHe fixed next Tuesday or Wednes- | eFnment either has been sought or | tracted two hunters who rescued |bor. Two other daughters were not

will be.

rincipals in

| the girl,

Kidnap-Slaying Tragedy

at home,

ALL DEMOCRAT VOTES FACE QUIZ

Widespread Probe of Ballots Looms: Recount 1s Adjourned.

Investigation of alleged irregularities In | hg on We nel ¢ a whieh have been contested by Sheriff Ray, Mayte, and Al y,

candidate for Sheriff, Judge Frank P. Baker of Oriminal Court sald vo-

day. Meanwhile, Sheriff Ray's withesses at the recount of Democratic ballots east in the Mayor's race, said two envelopes of unused ballots had been returned from one precinct and that one of them was not | sealed or signed by election board | officials, They also said that ballots

cast in that precinct had been ini |

tialed by five different persons. Recount of the Mayor's race was adjourned last night until tomorrow or Monday, as James A. Collins, Republican Recount Commissioner, will be away, it was reported. Judge Baker said he will name a special prosecutor when the re counts are completed to conduct the election inquiry. Judge Baker has conferred informally with officials of the County | Auditor's office, and is expected to | request a special meeting of the | County Council to appropriate funds | for the inquiry. If the Council fails | to appropriate, Judge Baker indicated We still may name the special | prosecutor, and instruct him to sue | for judgment against the County after the investigation.

Feeney Lead Gaina

be involved in the inquiry came after commissioners, recounting the Sheriff's ballots, said there Was evidence of fraud in one precinct in voter cast for a candidate for Superior Judge. Elbert R. Gilliam spoke for the Commissioners. of "vote stealing” was denied by precinct officials. ~ y

In the Sheriff's recount,

|| Feeney's lead has increased 526 votes

to 088 over Charley Lutz, certified as the winner, Fifty-seven pre pinets have been recounted. Mr. Lutz has lost 432 voter in the vecount and Mr, Feeney has gained 94. The Canvassing Board total for Mr, Feeney was 3663, the recount gave him 3787. Mr. Lute’ Canvassing Board total wae 3347, the recount gave him 2015. In the Mayor's race, Reginald H. Sullivan's lead over Bheriff Ray has been reduced 181 votes to 3272 in a recount of 80, precincts. He has lost 107 votes and Sheriff Ray has Jost 18. Mr. Sullivan's Canvassing Board total was 7187, the recount showed $070. Sherif Rays Oanvassing Board total war 3714, the recount gave him 3608. Baward O. Bnethen has gained two votes.

BUREAU PREDICTS THUNDER SHOWERS

TEMPERATURER vw B83 30a Wh. 6 11am. 0 12 (Noon) wv Ap. We

The Weather Bureau prificted oocoasional thunder showers for tonight and tomorrow, with not much change In temperature,

BLAST SINKS CRUISER

BALTIMORE,

72 "7 kL

Md, June ® (U, pus explosion fol-

The statement that all races will |

Hig eharge |

pects were being questioned. But he waid positively the Federal Bureau of Investiga= tion does not consider the

case closed, With rsarly 300 persons gathered in front of the building where the BI offices are located, threats of Ble Woh vielehee circulated throughout South Forida. So long as M2Oall Yemaing in the 13th floor | offices of the G-Men, however, he | was ¢ol safe. Mr, Hoover wesembled newspapers | yen In his ofies ab 10380 p. Wm, He | afd 1 wppeared probable the blues [eyed little son of James B. Cash Bi, was OHOked to death by his kidnaper shortly after he was snatohed from his bed. The body, almost a skeleton, was examined By Dr, Thomas Otto, Miami surgeon, at nearby Homes stead. Dr. Otto, Hoover sald, found no fractures, and no marks of blows, This indicated, My. Hoover said, that the ohild must have been echoked or smothered to death. The autopsy indicated the boy Had been dead at least a week, Mr. Hoover sald. MeOall, » maried man without children, frst was arrested By Sheriff D. ©, Coleman of Miami a week ago yesterday. My. Hoover vald he had been subjected to three grirelling periods of questioning Finally, My, Hoover sald he ads mitted he wrote the ransom notes and collected the money. He then led the G=Men #and local law enforcement: officers to the mans grove swamp near the Cash home where the body was found The $10000 yYansom Wag found In an orehard not far from the bod) The body, he sald, was lving face up. No attempt had been made to | eover it | Testimony Saturday

Judge Sidney L. Hendriek, Wm charge of plans for the ihoueat, said testimony in the formal inauiry will not he taken until Saturday It was. learned, however, that a coroner's jury Was impanelied see [oretly shortly after dawn and visite [ed the weene where the body was | found, Men gathered in small groups on [the road at the Princeton crossroads | angrily discussing the ease | The FBI offices here are mobs | proof. Located on the 13th floor [of the Biscayne Building and acs | cessible only by twe elevators, the | offices Were an absolute guarantes that ne mass effort to obtain vens geanee would be made so long as MeCall #2 In the hands of (he G=Men. If he is transferred to the county jail, he would be taken to a cell atep the skysoraper county building in the heart of downtown Miami. The jail also 1s capable of

repelling any mob, Mire. Prankitn P. MeOall Br, his

mother, could not believe her n= formants when she was to!d her son had been arrested. Bhe wes visiting a daughter at Bt. Augustine, “It 15 a great shook to me,” she sald, "The Nrst I knew about 1% was when I heard it over the radio, Franklin has never been Ih any trouble before.” States Attorney G. A. Worley ans nounced he Immediately will cons vere a Grand Jury to consider evis denee against MoCall, | Avcompanies G-Mon | Worley accompanied the band of | Federal agents when they brought | the 12-day mystery of H-yvear-old Jimmy Oash's kidnaping to a climax in the sultry Morida moonlight early

today. | Mr, Hoover asked Mr Worley ta | participate In what promised to be (one of the final chapter In the | tragic case because he sald he exe pected the prosscution would be in My, ley's hands, This announcement hy Mr. Roos | ver lad to the comelusion hat if Mo- | Oall was only an accomplice, ax he has insisted, then the principals must also be natives of Princeton or at least of Morida and must have vonfined their operations within the