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BEAT TISING: SEEK VOTE FRAUD ‘HIGHER-UPS’ | KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 20 (U. P.).—Judge

CUBS VICTORS

Lee Is Pitcher Cubs Take Dodgers, Bb to 1.

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BULLETIN MINNEAPOLIS, June 20, — | The Millers defeated the Indians, 6-1, in the first game.

Times Special | MINNEAPOLIS, June 20. — The Minneapolis Millers were leading | the Indianapolis Indians, 6-1, after | eight innings in the first game of | their double header here this afternoon. It was the third game of the series, Jack Tising, who made an auspicious debut as a Redskin against Kansas City last week, was on the mound for Indianapolis with Bill Lewis behind the plate. Belve Bean, | veteran right hander of Minneapolis. | was on the mound for the Millers with Otto Denning as his receiver. | For four innings Tising and Bean waged a pitcher's duel and neither | side scored but the Millers got two markers in the fifth when Denning | hit for the circuit with one on base. | Tising settled down in the sixth and retired the side without dam- | age. but weakened again in the seventh and Jim Tabor, filler third sacker, cleaned the bases with another homer, Tising was vanked in the eighth and Horace Lisenbee went to the mound for Indianapolis. The Redskins finally broke into the scoring column in this frame and pushed over a solitary marker, Denning, who has been lambasting the ball for the Millers with great consistency this vear, was with El=! mira last year and wound up the season with a 338 batting average. Tabor batted .295 for Little Rock a year ago,

Lee Tames Dodgers as Cubs Win, 5to 1

NEW YORK, June 20 (U, P).The Chicago Cubs combined an 11hit attack with the seven-hit pitching of Big Bill Lee today to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 to 1. Lee was complete master of the Dodgers in every inning except the fourth when Brooklyn pushed over its lone tally. Cavaretta paced the Cubs’ offensive with three hits, one a triple. Rpiper Collins’ homer with one on scored two for the Cubs in the fourth. They clinched the game in the seventh when, after Lee fanned, Hack singled and Cavaretta and Reynolds followed with successive triples, driving Luke Hamlin from the box. Bill Posedel finished the game and except for Hartnett's dou- | ble which drove in the third Chicago run in the seventh, pitched scoreless ball.

HOME RUNS NATIONAL LEAGUE Collins, Cubs, 4th.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Boken, Saints, 1st of 1st game. | McCulloch, Saints. 2d of 1st game. Denning, Millers, 5th of 1st game, Tabor, Millers, 7th of 1st game, |

RELIEF PITCHERS

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Posedel, Dodgers (7th), Lanning, Bees (10th).

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Shaffer, Colonels (7th of [Ist game), | Boone. Colonels (7th of 1st game) Lisenbee, Indians (8th of 1st game).

KIDNAPER M'CALL SEES DEATH MARCH

RAIFORD. Fla. June 20 (U. P). —Franklin Pierce McCall, under | death sentence for kidnaping | Jimmy Cash, sat stolidly on his

prison bed today and weiched a |

fellow inmate of death row march past his cell to the electric chair.

The death chair, which the con- |

fessed kidnaper is fighting to escape. js only 20 feet from the cell in which he is held. He could hea: the sounds attending execution of Orson Williams, a Plant City, Fla, Negro convicted of killing another

Negro,

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Mrs. Ferguson 10 Musie Obituaries ...

Books «ese Clapper «... Comics Crossword .. Curious World Editorials .... Financial .... Mynn Forum Grin, Bear It. in Indpls....

Questions .... Radio Mrs. Roosevelt Scherrer ..... 9 Serial Story.. 13 Society ......4, 5 Jane Jordan.. Sports .....00 6,7 Johnson ...ee State Deaths. Movies Sasha 11 | Wiggam seses 10

| (Ind.) Niggeling and Baker; (Minn.) Henry and Denning.

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Merrill E. Otis today told a Federal Grand Jury that it would be justified in returning indictments against persons who employed attorneys, made bonds or paid fines for defendants in a vote fraud case here. He charged the jurors to extend their investigation of irregularities in the 1936 election to determine whether there were higher-ups who issued orders.

FACES WIFE SLAYING HEARING JONESVILLE, Va., June 20 (U. P.).—R. B. Alexander today faced a Grand Jury hearing on charges of murdering his wife, Myrtle, a cafe owner, in their apartment in St. Charles, Va., last Tuesday. The 22-year-old coal miner has been held without bond pending competition of the investigation.

NAVY OARSMAN STRICKEN POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 20 (U. P.).—Red Bullard, No. 2 man in the Navy varsity shell, was taken to a hospital today, suffering with ptomaine poisoning. Bullard, who was ill before the Navy fleet came to Poughkeepsie, was thought to have recovered until he was stricken early today. Bill Crofts has heen assigned by Coach Buck Walsh to take over Bullard’s seat in the boat.

LEAGUE SCORES

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION AT MINNEAPOLIS— (First Game)

Indianapolis 000 000 010 — Minneapolis 000 020 40x —

(Ind.) Tising and Lewis; (Minn.) Bean and Denning. (Seca Game) XXX X XxX X == XXX XX 3 ==

Indianapolis Minneapolis

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AT MILWAUKEE— E. Toledo XXX XXX — X XXX XXXx — X (Mil.) Heving and Becker.

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(Tol.) Harris and Linton;

AT ST. PAUL— Louisville 929 9340 5090 = St. Paul 1 13 299 30% ==

(Lvl) Carpenter and Ringhofer: (St. P.) Phelps and Pasek, (Second Game) R.

XX XX xX = X XXX XX x uo X

(First Game) R. . E. 2 0 7 0

Louisville St. Paul

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AT KANSAS CITY— R. Columbus 4% XE% X85 Ken f X

Ransas City .. 3 x x XXX XXX = XN X (Col.) Kelleher and Ryba; (Kan. C.) R. Miller and Breese.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

AT BROOKLYN— Chicago

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(Chi.) Lee and Hartnett; (Brk.) Hamlin and Phelps. AT BOSTON— R. H. E. Cincinnati ....1000000000002 —3 7 1 Begston VO000000010000 <110 1

(Cin.) R. Davis and Lombardi; (Bost.) Fette and Mueller. . ¢ (Only Games Scheduled)

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AMERICAN LEAGUE AT ST. LOUIS—

New York .... 01 0 Xx 8 XXX — Xx

St. louis 2 k.% XXX — Xx (N. Y.). Chandler and Dickey; (St. L.) Tietje and Heath.

(Only game scheduled.)

Race Results Today

AT SUFFOLK DOWNS

{ 1—Mae Long, 15.00, 6.20, 4.60; Cantamore, 9.60, 7.00; Maria Dulce, 12.20. 2—Miss Hollywood, 10.00, 4.60, 3.00; My Buddy, 4.60, 3.20; Bloomer Girl, 3. 3—Gala Star, 8.00, 4.40, 3.40; Earl Porter, 4.40, 3.00; Squawker, 3.00. 4—Kentucky Blues. 3.40, 2.40, out; Pordina, 3.20, out; Lady Higless, out. 5—Midshipman, 7.80, 4.40, 2.80; Peaceful, 4.40, 2.80; Toni, 3.00. 6—Unfurl, 9.40, 4.80, 3.00; Traggat, 4.80, 2.80; Medius Dies, 2.80.

AT AQUEDUCT

| I—Little Demon, 1-4! out, out; Guitar, out, out; Screw Ball, 1-2. 2—Outboard, 15-1, 5-1, 5-2; Gert B, 8-5, 7-10; Tall Princess, 3-5. 3—State Witness, 4-1, 7-5, 1-2; Jack Fly, 20-1, 10-1; Alarming, 1-5. 4—Chance Watch, 13-5, even, 2-5: Alice Dodge, 2-1, even; Gallant Neb, even. 5—Scrooge, 9-2, 7-3, 1-2: Indomitable, 1-2, 1-6: Guarisankar, 7-10. 6—Bailiwick, 8-1, 3-1, 8-5; Crystal Prince, 2-5, 1-3; Even Up, 1-2.

AT LINCOLN FIELDS

I—Fay D. 10.80, 5.60, 460; Adoress, 56.00, 20.40: Grecian Time. 3.80. 2—Cruising, 9.20, 5.00, 4.00: Chipeta, 13.40, 7.00; Toney Boy, 7.80. 3—Miss Shirley C.. 12.00, 520, 3.80; My Day. 3.60, 2.80: Blondkin. 5.60. 4—Bomber, 14.20, 6.80, 3.80; Sadie F., 11.80, 6.00; Jawbreaker, 3.00,

AT DETROIT

1—Sweeping Vine. 9.00, 4.20, 3.40; Playreen, 4.40, 3.80; Jane W. 6.00. 2—Frost Bite, 44.60, 18.80, 8.60; Good and Slick, 4.60, 4.00; Imperial Sally, 7.80. 3—All Lady, 8.00, 4.20, 3.00; Depend, 4.40, 3.80; Don Moss, 2.60. | 4—All Time High, 2.60, 2.20, 2.20; Snap Clock, 4.00,32.80; Ballinderry, 5.40.

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From Miami's “Flee-Proot” Cell

( MIAMI, Fla, June 20 (U. P.).— | Two Negroes escaped today from | their “escape-proof” City Jail

{on the 18th floor of the Dade Coun- |

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2 Score on Slide O|TY SEEKS PWA

AIRPORT FUND

The Works Board today voted to apply for a PWA grant to aid financing of a shop and hangar

cell | building at Municipal Airport.

The Board also ordered City En-

'ty's skyscraper County-City build- | gineer Henry B. Steeg to begin work

ing. They gained freedom by making a rope of blankets, slipping through

immediately on the proposed storm sewers running under 34th St. from

barred windows, sliding down the | Carrollton Ave. to Fall Creek. It rope to the 17th floor and fleeing | Announced that work will be started

down the stairs. | The prisoners were Sidney Gator, { 18, and Terrance Barrett, 19, both | held for investigation.

DOROTHY ELLIS IN CITY TOURNEY LEAD

y July 6 on removal of streetcar

tracks from Market St. between

| Pennsylvania and Alabama Sts.

7 | With only 10 of the 84 entries to|

The proposed airport building is to house the new Federal aircraft radio testing laboratory. A change in plans on the project, which was to have been started immediately, was made necessary when the only bid received was more than $10,000 above the estimate.

Declares Estimate Too Low Louis C. Brandt, Board president,

be heard from, Miss Dorothy Ellis, A examined the estimate of $63,000 and

state women’s champion, this aft-| told the Board it was about $18,000 | low |

ernoon seemed destined for medalist honors in the 18-hole qualifying round of | Women's Golf Association Championship. The annual tournament is being staged over the Broadmoor course. | Miss Ellis turned in a pair of. 44's to lead Miss Harriet Randall, defending champion, by one stroke. Miss Randall shot a 41 on the first nine, but faltered coming home and Mrs. Charles Greathouse | Jr, Woodstock. tied Miss Randall | with a 46-43—80. | Other 18-hole scores: Mrs. J. L. Mueller, Broadmoor, 44-46—90; Mrs. Ir P. Davis, Highland, 43-4891; Mrs. Dale Lentz, Hillcrest, 47-45— 92; Carolyn Varin, Meridian Hills,

| 46-46—92; Mary Gorham, Highland, |

| 46-47—93; Mrs. 1. G. Kahn, Pleas‘ant Run, 45-50—95. MARKETS AT A GLANCE (Complete Market Details, Page 13) Stocks gain 1 to 5 points. Bonds higher. Curb stocks higher in expanded trade. Chicago stocks firm. Call money 1 per cent. Cotton futures up about 75 cents a bale. Foreign exchange easy in relation to the dollar. Grains in Chicago: Wheat closed 7% to 14 cents higher; corn up 4 cent to off 1; cent. Rubber futures strong.

5 HURT AS LAUNCH.

LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. June 20 (U. P). — Five persons, including three Columbus, O, summer vaeationists, . were injured today in a collision of a spedeboat and a launch on this Adirondack inountain resort lake. The injured: Mr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Graham, New York City; Mrs. Charlotte A. Siebert, ‘and the Misses Celia and Sara Van De Griff, bus. :

SPEEDBOAT COLLIDE

the Indianapolis | recently to finance

too low. Since a bond issue sold the structure provided only $63,000, the Board was faced with the alternative of borrowing more money or altering its specifications and cheapening the structure. Federal Bureau of Air Commerce officials told the Board that, although they are ready to install their new $800,000 expeirmental station as soon as the building is finished, they did not want the structure cheapened. They agreed to extend 90 days the time limit for completion of the building.

45 Per Cent Grant At least 60 days usually are required for approval of an application for PWA funds. The Board will ask a grant of 45 per cent of the building’s cost.

If the PWA grant plus the $63,000 already borrowed by the City exceed

Rescuers Scan Train Wreckage, Fearing Toll of 60

Twenty-eight bodies have been reported recovered from the wreckage of the Olympian, crack flier of the Milwaukee road, which plunged Sunday through a washed out trestle over Custer Creek in Montana, The toll may reach 60. Here, piled up cars are shown after the wreck.

: TE TAs Telephotos, In this submerged Pullman most of the victims died, It is estimaled 37 passengers perished in this car alone. en this photo was made rescue squads were cutting through Whe cars with torches to remove t

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Recover 28 Bodies, Seek

20 Others

CUSTER CREEK, Mont,

A closer approximation of the

nation's worst railroad disasters will be possible when coaches are brought to the surface of the rapidly subsiding stream.

more bodies ®

, This afternoon 11 | were taken to the morgue at Miles City. This raised to 27 the number | of bodies at the Miles City morgue. | One was at Glendive, and railroad | officials sald that at least 20 others { were in the submerged sleeping car | which workmen attempted to open by cutting through the steel sides with acetylene torches.

Authorities believed that the final { death toll would be at least 48. The official casualty list showed 67 injured. Forty Bodies Found

J. J. Oslie, assistant passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, which operated the fast passenger train, said the bodies of 40 men, women and children victims had been located. He flew here from St. Paul to direct rescue operations. When the flooded stream sub-

sided workers made their way to the submerged coaches and cut into them with acetylene torches. At midmorning the tackle of lifting cranes was secured around the sleeping car. A freak cloudburst had sent a flash flood roaring down the creek, transforming it into a torrent. The flood crashed against the railroad trestle and it collapsed when the Olympian, westbound, started across the bridge. That happened early Sunday., The locomotive and six cars fell into the swirling waters. Rescue workers said several bodies | had been carried downstream. Several days will be required to | compile an accurate casualty list. Forty-five survivors were in hos-

he dead. Cranes were used fo Tilt the coaches,

June 20 wrecking cranes today was made fast around submerged coaches of the Olympian, crack passenger train, which plunged into the flood Custer Oreek, carrying between 48 and 60 persons to death.

the building's cost, the balance will pitals at Miles City. Many of them be used to construct runways at the | ye only slightly injured and will

airport, Board members said. Bureau of Air Commerce officials

had asked that the runways be con- |

structed, but so far no money has been available for the project. The 34th St. sewer is part of the controverted North Side sewer development which is being delaynd while the Works Board decides whether to use an open cut or tunneling method of constructing a large sewer under 38th St, the main part of the development.

Tunneling Plan Studied

It originally had been planned to build the 38th St. sewer by cutting into the street surface, but Mr. Steeg suggested an alternate plan of tunneling. Board members said today they saw no reason why the 34th St. sewer should be held up while the Board decides on the cost and feasibility of Mr. Steeg's proposed tunneling methods. Several complaints were received after recent heavy rains from persons living in the area to be benefited by the 34th St.

project.

| be released today. Among those in | the hospital was Lewis Williams, a (Continued on Page Two)

‘GIVEN LIFE TERM IN HOLDUP SLAYING

Still protesting his | Thomas Morris, 31, who was convicted by a Criminal Court jury last week, today was sentenced to life imprisonment for the holdup slaying of Arthur W. Demvree. The sentence was imposed by Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker. Morris said he “was not given a fair trial” and immediately began joking with court officers as they handcuffed him. He was convicted of the fatal shooting of Mr. Demree in an attempted holdup of a drug store owned by Donald Demree at 17th St. and Roosevelt Ave. a year

ago. The State had asked the death penalty. The Jury, recommended life imprisonment. pa

innocence,

Under Water

(U. P.) ~The tackle of huge

appalling death toll in one of the the shattered

G-MEN QUESTION

KIDNAP SUSPECT

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y,, June 20 (U., P.).—Police Chief Edward T. Pierce said late today that a Fed. | eral Agent, after questioning a man | here on a vagrancy charge, had asserted that the prisoner was “def- |

JUDGE PASSES HAT | FOR THEFT SUSPECT

NEW YORK, June 20 (U, P.).— They passed the hat in Kings County Court today and raised $40.10 for Mrs. Louise Rostlund, 23, who | pleaded guilty to petty larceny. Judge George W. Martin started the contributions with $4. Assistant District Attorney Francis A. Madden added a similar sum, and court clerks, spectators and the defense attorney made up the rest. Mrs. Rostland, who came here from Miami, Fla. last year in search of work, gave birth to a baby two weeks ago, fivem onths after the death of her husband. She was under indictment at the time on a | chaige of stealing $500 worth of furs from a woman who employed her as a domestic and pawning them for $100.

'REDFERN CRASHED. EXPLORER CERTAIN

NEW YORK, June 20 (U. P).— Theodore Waldeck, leader of the expedition which sought Paul Redfern in the jungles of South Africa, returned today from the seven months’ search. Mr. Waldeck said he was satisfied that his expedition has established that Mr. Redfern crashed near the Coroni River in Venezuela. An Indian who witnessed the crash was found, Mr, Waldeck said.

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9 OFFICERS IN NAZI MINISTRY FACE CHARGES

Only One of Suspects in ustody; Others Are Abroad.

NEW YORK, June 20 (U, P.) == The Federal Grand Jury investie gating A German spy ring returned three indictments today against 18 persons, including two German War Ministry officers. The officers named were: Lieut. Comm, Udo von Bonin. Lieut. Comm. Herman Menzel. Both were said by the Govern= ment to be in the Reich Defense Ministry's counterespionage department, The indictments named Germany officially as the country sponsoring the wide espionage network directed at American defense secrets. The 18 persons were accused of conspiring to obtain and transmit to Germany plans and codes dealing with aircraft, vessels, and coastal armaments of the United States. Federal officers said Commanders Von Bonin and Menzel and the 12 other defendants not in custody were all believed to be in Germany where they are immune from trial.

Flee to Germany The others named were: Ernest Mueller of Hamburg, Germany; Capt. Lieut. Erich Pfeiffer of Bremen, Germany; an Herr

Schmidt, first name unknown, bee lieved to be a resident of Germany;

Herr Sanders, first name unknown, °

also believed to be a resident of Germany; Mrs. Jessie Jordan, recently sentenced in Great Britain to four years for espionage; William Lonkowski of Germany; Karl Sclueter of Germany; Herbert Schueta of Germany; Herbert Jaenichen of Germany; Karl Eitel of Germany; Dr. Iznatz Griebl, native of Germany who became a naturalized American citizen and fled to Ber=lin a month ago shortly after the spy investigation opened: Otto Hermann Voss, Farmingdale, L. I, former Seversky Aircraft Co. employee, in custody, and Werner Gudenberg, who, like Dr. Griebl, fled to Berlin. Lamar Hardy, United States Dis« trict Attorney, in a statement after the indictments were returned at the climax of a four-months ine quiry, asserted that Commanders Von Bonin and Menzel actively directed spies engaged in gathering plans and codes dealing with Amer - ican planes, ships and coast armas ments. “The directing heads of this ring reside in Germany and are cone nected with the Government of that country,” he said. “They operated through certain agents residing in this country, and they further had agents as members of the crews of various steamships plying between ports of Germany and the United States.”

All Lumped Together

Each indictment was limited to a single count for which the maxi« mum penalty on conviction would e 20 years’ imprisonmeni, making a possible total of 60 years. One of the indictments lumped all 18 defendants together, charge ing them with conspiring to pro cure and transmit to Germany ine formation concerning aircraft, ves sels and coast defense of the United States. The other two were substantive indictments specifying the acts com= mitted under the alleged conspiracy, One of them charged that Voss transmitted to Germany information concerning the manufacture of U. 8. Army aircraft. Voss, a naturalized citizen of the United States, had worked for six years in the experimental section of the Seversky factory where many U. 8, Army planes were built. The grand jury, which began its investigation last May 16, was cone tinued for another term by Federal Judge Vincent L. Leibell at the ree quest of Mr. Hardy, who said its work was not completed.

‘France Sentences Three

As German Spies

BESANCON, France, June 20 (0, P.) —~Three French sailors were see tenced to long prison terms and banishment by a military court here today on charges of espionage in behalf of Germany. Antoine Koehl, leader of the trio, attempted to obtain the latest tore pedo plans from the French Navy, the Navy code, radio instruments and other information from the Mulhouse Arsenal. He was sentenced to 20 years banishment. His two accomplices were sen tenced to five years in prison and five years ent,

t————————————— HOOSIER KILLED BY TRAIN

AURORA, June 20 (U.P.).—Roy Negley, 35, was killed instantly yes

nger train while oc train while walks

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struck by a Baltimore

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