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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 8&9 THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1938

STOCK PRICES Governor to Deliver Key BARBARA ACTS WP2TO4IN HEAVY TRADING

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Credit Expert Says Teachers Are Best Risk

PITTSBURGH, June 23 (U, P).— | If a school teacher enters a store |

Address to Democrats; 7. O. P. Recess Considered

| Senator Minton Chosen |Delegates Will Permanent Chairman Delay at Tuesday Of Meeting. Caucus.

70 OBTAIN HER SON'S CUSTODY

No Warrant Has Been | Issued for Count, Bow St.

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Largest Volume Since Last | October Surprises Observers.

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man or ‘fireman, makes a similar Back Injured.

request, he might get it, but grudgGovernor Townsend is to be tem- | Proposal that the Republican

| porary chairman and deliver the State convention, scheduled for keynote address at the Democratic | Tuesday and Wednesday, be reState convention July 11 and 12] cessed until after the Democratic |

ingly. That's what Edgar L. Amthor told the National Retail Credit Association's convention here, and he should know, because he is credit

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2,000,000 SHARES SOLD

Unswing Seen as Augury of Recovery on Wider Front.

(Market Details, Page 17)

NEW YORK, June 23 (U. P).—

Attorney General Omer Stokes Jackson, State chairman, announced today. { Senator Minton has been selected | as permanent chairman. The convention is to be held at the State | | Fair Ground Coliseum, also the | scene of the Republican State con- | vention next week. i “The Coliseum now is being dec- | orated and the speakers’ platform is | being built,” Mr, Jackson sad. “We |

State convention July 11 and 12 probably will be discussed at a caucus of the Marion County convention delegates Tuesday night. The caucus, to be held in the Columbia Club, was announced today by Carl Vandivier, Marion County G. O. P. chairman, following a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee yesterday. At the meeting, the State Com-

mittee decided it had no power

| ‘ransactions on the Stock Exchange | will use the same decorations as the |

HUSBAND, FATHER MEET

| Cause of Veiled; Fortune May

Be Involved.

| LONDON, June 23 (U. P)— | Countess Court Haugwitz-Revent-|low, the former Barbara Hutton,

| Woolworth heiress, has started legal

Dispute Still Is

manager for a large Newark, N. J, | department store. School teachers, salespeople, exec- | utives, business proprietors and office workers are “good pay,” Mr. Amthor said, but other state and Federal and municipal employees are bad risks.

However, Mr. Amthor pointed out |

| that charge account losses suffered | by a well-run department store are | less than one-half of 1 per cent, and | hastened to add that “almost every-

‘BAER CHALLENGE LIKELY

German Strapped in Bed; | Manager Claims Damaging Blow Was Foul.

| (Berlin Story Page Four; Photos at Bottom of Page)

By HENRY M'LEMORE

United Press Staff Writer

Daily for Purification. LONG HOURS HELD HEALTH MENACE

Middlesworth Sees Danger of Epidemic in AllDay Swimming; Investigation Asked

this the largest day since last Octo- | is expected to begin work immedi- | to be taken on the convention floor. "ee DE yr Pparenily ber 1. following the Republican 1 ;

. ‘ » NEW YORK, June 23 (U. P.).— Into Fee Diversion Charge. | Max Schmeling, strapped up in a hospital bed with a painful back in-

jury inflicted by Joe Louis, today

Prices mounted $2 to $14 a share Today's sales were larger than the total for all of last week. I'he market has risen steadily in each of the four sessions this week At 2 p.m

the Dow-Jones industrial

average was up $383 a share for today. Yesterday it gained $2.65; on Miesday, $2.73, and on Monday, $5.38. The gain so far this to $1485 in the nearly 13 per cent. sensational took Wall reet by was seen as a preliminary a general business recovery of broad proportions. Signs of this recovery already are visible and the barometers of industry such | as steel scrap prices and cotton textile business are rising rapidly. Gains were distributed in all sections of the market today. They | brought the advances for the week to date to as much as $22 a share in some issues. Norfolk & Western, | which rose $14 a share today was up that much from last Saturday's close. Other wide gains included: American Telephone at $142.50, up $4.50 for today and up $13 from last Saturday; Allied Chemical $168, up $19 respectively; Bethlehem up $3 and $9; Chrysler | and $1187!:; du Pont and $15.12';: Eastman | $8 and $1750; General | 835 95 up $137 and | $6.37!2; New York Central $14.75, up £1.25 and $4; Union Pacific $74.50. | $650 and $12; United States $51.25, up $325 and $0.25; Westinghouse Electric $88, up $4.25 | and $13.12';, and Santa Fe $32 un 8287': and 87.25 |

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| convention to outline a platform | | for the coming election. | Mr. Jackson said 2262 delegates are to attend the Democratic convention and that a majority of 1132 votes is needed to nominate. The State committee probably | will not be called into session until } shortly before the convention, Mr. | Jackson said I'ne evening of July 11 is to be | given over to district caucuses, when | delegates are to select members of the rules, resolutions and credentials | committees. |

Contact Senators on | Special Session Views

| Democratic State Senators are being contacted today to see if they

program appropriation bill if al special session of the Legislature is | called.

SERVICES SET FOR | HENRY DOLLMAN

Body Found in White River; Note in Clothing.

The recess was proposed in petitions signed by delegates Starke, Allen, Porter and Tippecanoe Counties, who advocated the delay for purposes of strategy. The State committee also voted on assessments to be paid by candidates presenting their names to the convention and took steps to iron out a Madison County squabble, Besides discussing the proposed recess, the 223 Marion County delegates Tuesday night will elect a delegation chairman and other officials, including an assistant convention secretary and members of resolutions, committees, Also, it was reported, they prob-

ably will take a poll to determine |

the majority choice for the Senate nomination and other posts.

Support VanNuys

are supporting Senator VanNuys (D.) either for indorsement or nomination by the Republican State Convention. Senator VanNuys is being opposed for renomination by the Democratic State House organization and has announced his intention to run as an independent. Arch N. Bobbitt, G. O, P. State chairman, read the law to committee members which stated that

once the State Committee has fixed |

a convention date the question of recess is in the hands of the delegates. A "hands-off"

resolution, intro-

| Indianapolis contractor and builder, | duced by Mrs. Eleanor B. Snodgrass,

Nashville, State vice chairman, was carried unanimously. It read in part: “It is not within the power of the State Committee to change the

STATE WILL PROBE | Reiner H. Benting of St. Marks Lu- | date of the State Convention or to ’ |

STRANGE MALADY |

i | Verne K. Harvey, State health |

is to leave tomorrow for | southeastern Indiana to diagnose | what is believed to be a case of | Rocky Mountain spotted fever — a | serious disease that has occurred | only seven times in this state's | history. Humans contract the disease fron infected ticks normally, Dr. Harvey | said, Ticks found on dogs in this state are not diseased unless the dogs have been in contact with cattle or sheep shipped here from the

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theran Church will be in charge. Coroner E. R. Wilson said he | ing which read, in part: “I just couldn't take it any more.” Mr. Dollman’s body was found in | several feet of water 200 feet south | of the 30th St. bridge by Orvilie | Kendall, 335 S. Barton Ave. Dr. Wilson said the body had apparently | been in the water for 45 minutes.

Fled From Nurse

Dr. Wilson said that members of | the family told him Mr. Deollman had left his home at 4243 Washing- | ton Blvd. at noon yesterday. He had | been ill, Dr, Wilson said Mr. Dollman was the grandfather 12-year-old Gloria Hauser, who! last summer was Killed in a mys- | plunge into a ravine at Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. Dollman and his son, Henry

| G. Dollman, built and operated sev- | eral apartment buildings in Indian- |

apolis. He was a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club and the Highland Golf and | Country Club. He was a 32nd de-| gree Mason and a Shriner He is survived by the wife, Mrs. | Harriet Dollman; daughter, Mrs. T. D. Hazelwood; son; three sisters. | Mrs. James Volk and Mrs. Etta | Jacobi, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Viri gil Burris, Glendale, Cal. | | G. M. KEEPS PLANTS CLOSED | DETROIT, June 23 (U. P.) —Atu- | tomobile plants of the General Mo- | tors Corp. will be closed on an av- | erage of three weeks longer this | | summer than last year during the | (annual inventory and change over | | period, President William Knudsen { announced today.

recess the same. It is wholly within the power of the delegates to do

| found a note in Mr. Dollman’s cloth- | SO.

Committee to Act A subcommittee of five members, to be named hy Mr. Bobbitt, is to investigate the Madison County dispute and report its findings to the State Committee Tuesday afternoon, Blanchard J. Horne, former Madison County G. O. P. chairman, has (Continued on Page Four)

HEAT RECORD SEEN: WORKER OVERCOME

TEMPERATURES

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keeping the mercury below yesterday's record, the Bureau said. Albert Bartley, 63, of 842 8. Senate Ave, was overcome by the heat this morning while working on a WPA project in the 1900 block of S. West St. He was taken to City Hospital. The Weather Bureau predicted fair weather for tonight and tomorrow with not much change in temperature. To set the year's high the thermometer must go above 88 degrees. To set an all-time high it must go above 96, which mark was set in 1930.

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credentials and other |

Advocates of the delay reportedly |

| ported by the London Evening News and Star. The warrant officer of the Bow St. Police Court declared that no war- | rant had been issued “and as far | as I know, there are no grounds | ton which to issue a warrant.” The dispute between the couple | was said to be over custody of their (2-year-old son, Lance, although | Paris reported also that here was | disagreement over the investment of Barbara's fortune,

Budget Committee Wants to Appropriate Money for State Projects.

The State Budget Committee de-

Count in Paris |

The Count is in Paris, where he was reported in a family conference | with Franklin L. Hutton, Barbara's father, about the future of Lance, 2-year-old son of Countess,

tion bill for a

the Count and | provide a lump sum grant.

This practice has been followed The trouble between the Count ” : ; and Countess was yet to he clearly | during the last two sessions of the

explained, but the Daily Mail said | segislature. The proposed bill would

order giving her custody of the child | State Budget Committee could ap“pending subsequent litigation.” | propriate as it saw fit to match anLance was under vigilant guard | ticipated PWA grants. of private detectives at the London State officials hope

presumably against any attempt at | Proposed $8,000,000 building abduction. gram. The rest would be appropri-

Child Romps in Garden

While his mother held agitated conferences with her legal advisers, | he romped in the garden under the | supervision of his nurse. Two plain-clothes guards stood watch- | fully by. Lord Horder, the royal physician, visited the Countess this morning because she has been under a nervous strain. The Danish consulate announced hat in s6 far as Danish law was concerned, Lance's father was responsible for his rearing as he is liable for the payment of school fees and other financial liabilities. However, the statement added, if there was a dispute between the parents, the authorities in a ma{jority of such cases, grant the mother custody of the child.

general fund. Costs Were Fixed

cific appropriations were made for individual construction projects, we could eount on it that the projects would cost just that amount.” State Budget Director Edward Brennan sald. “Contractors knew what had been appropriated for a project and made their bids accordingly.” He explained that under the lump sum type of appropriation hill, the committee can use its discretion and by saving money on some projects actually increase the size of other projects. Prison Contracts Let

Mr. Brennan also announced that trustees of the Woman's Prison here Countess Barbara and her law- | have let contracts totaling $57,717 yer, Sir Patrick Hastings, who for building and equipping a new handled some legal cases for the | administration building. The genDuchess of Windsor after her di- | apa) construction contract, $37,143, vorce from Ernest I. Simpson, | was awarded to the William P. visited the Bow St. Police Court | jungelaus Co | yesterday and held a long, private | Bids are being received by the

conversation with the chief magis- trustees of Muscatatuck Feeble trate, dad B

Persons wishing to take steps against someone who is not a Brit-

| ish subject ¢ ’ ; Str Court. HEL SPINY Vo Wit BOW. Sires; The State Budget Committee has

Scotland Yard, the British na. | ®Stimated the hospital will cost tional police, insisted that it had | About $240000 and the residence not been called into the matter, al- | 2POut $20,000. | though the Daily Mail had reported | , Committee members also | the kidnap threat had been turned | Justed eontineLs previcusly ev for Lover to the authorities. An official | the Boys School at Plainfield and there asserted that “it isa civil mat. | the State Sanitarium at Rockville,

ter” and hinted that in the Yard's ge a E opinion the “civil matter” was also a domestic affair (ORDERS VIGIL ON The Daily Mail said that it had telephoned to the Count in Paris and that he had said the British polite were anxious to question him if and when he returned to Britain.

However, it added, the Count stren- Police Chief Morrissey today ordered ously denied any attempt or threat |

of “kidnap” his son. all squad cars to watch for persons “As far as I am concerned,” the | celebrating the holiday too early. Count said, “it is ridiculous to say | He pointed out that existing legisthere is grounds for disagreement | lation prohibits shooting fireworks between myself and the Countess. I| before July 4. The Chief has adam anxious to see her and the boy | vocated as a safety measure a city and discuss matters together, ordinance preventing anyone but “I wish to insist, in fact, licensed exhibitors from shooting (Continued on Page Four) | fireworks at any time,

DOWN FOR THE LAST

for construction of a hospital and superintendent's residence

In an effort to prevent preFourth of July fireworks accidents,

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FOR BUILDINGS

cided today to recommend to Gover- | { nor Townsend that the appropria- | State building pro- | gram, to be drafted if the special | | session of the Legislature is called, |

the Countess had obtained a court | Set up a lump sum fund which the |

to secure al

home of the Haugwits-Reventlows, | PWA grant for 45 per cent of the | pro- |!

ated from the balance in the State |

“Under the old svstem when spe- |

{ Minded Colony at Butlerville today |

ad- |

EARLY FIREWORKS

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demanded another chance to win the heavyweight championship from the “Brown Bomber.” Although it may be three weeks before Max again is able to walk, | and perhaps months before he dare to exercise violently, the blackhaired German claimed that he was | prevented from making his best showing last night because of a sudden, unexpected blow which virtually paralyzed him. Schmeling was knocked out by Louis after {wo minutes and four | seconds in the first round of a heavyweight championship bout at Yankee Stadium before a crowd of 70,000 Baer Seen as Next Foe

The State Athletic Commission abandoned plans for a meeting today to determine the next challen- | ger. Max Baer, another former | champion, was expected to he Louis’ | next opponent here in September, | Promoter Mike Jacobs said he was trying to sign Baer to a contract “providing Baer will agree to a reasonable contract.” Schmeling was kept in seclusion at the New York Polyclinic Hospital | suffering a fracture of the third— and possibly the fourth—Ilumbar | vertebrae. But his manager, Jacobs, spoke for him. “Because of the blow,” said Joe. “Max was paralyzed in the first | round and was unable to make a | proper showing. Had the fight gone eight or nine rounds before he was | knocked out he would have no | comeback, | “But now Max wants a- return | fight with Louis. He—anhd I-—think | he deserves one.” | Schmeling was strapped up in bed. Jacobs said Max would remain there until July 2. Then he will be transported, by ambulance, | to the steamship Bremen to return and recuperate in Germany,

Second X-Ray Taken

The exaot extent of Max's inJury was not edfinitely known. Fragmentary statements by physicians in charge were at first interpreted to mean that Sechmeling's condition was dangerous. But shortly after noon, Jacobs | said that a second set of X-Rays— the first were made shortly after | Max was taken to the hospital | after the fight—revealed that only | the transverse process of the third { lumbar vertebrae was fractured. | The transverse processes are pro- [ truding segments of the vertebrae, on the right side of the spinal ( column below the kidneys. An official bulletin, Max's exact ailment and condition, | will be issued later. That was on the order of Gen. John J. Phelan, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. He requested it to clear up false reports. Phelan spent an hour with Schmeling, He told Max, and Jacobs, the commission would be glad to receive any report they

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Phelan pointed out that a kid- | reservoirs,

| ney punch, such as Louis might | have landed, is what is known as a “minor foul.” He explained that in the event a boxer deliberately | delivers ste ha blow, the referee | should warn him. If the blow is | delivered again, it becomes a foul {and the fighter striking it loses the [round. And, if he continues strik(Continued on Page 12)

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The Park Board this afternoon eliminated five hours

| days and holidays from 10 a. m. to noon.

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| worth of approved projects to $210, -

a week free time from the municipal swimming pool schedlue, Hereafter, swimming will be free on Saturdays, Sune Formerly it was free on those days from 10 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. On all other days but Mondays, which are free all day ———— tan. were: so: under: the: old

schedule, swimming will be PWA ADDS NEW free from 10 3. I. to noon, INDIANA GRANTS

and from 1:30 p. m. to 4 p. m. NATIONAL AFFAIRS

The pools will be closed from noon to 1:30 p. m. for daily NEW PWA grants expected to spur recovery.

purification, The Board also adopted a resolu POSTOFFICE officials fight Indiana mail truck bill,

tion “requesting” an investigation by the City Council, the Prosecutor 300,000 LOSE jobs in May, Labor Department says.

and the State Board of Accounts into charges by Edward R. Kealing, Republican Councilman, ‘regarding misapplication of funds taken in Day’s PWA Grants Total $61,752,437 WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. P.).| League, only representatives of civic ’ a organizations to appear, that unless He YY Orne iid the pools were closed for one hour released by PWA since President Roosevelt signed the $3,753,000,000 Impurity Feared recovery bill and brought the total

through the pool fees, Mr. Kealing had charged that only 2 cents of the 10-cent fee reached the City Treasury. In so ruling, the Board told six members of the E. 21st St. Civic today pressed its recovery drive an- | and a half daily for purification, other step forward with announce- | {hey would not meet State Health ment of 279 additional approved | Board purity standards, projects carrying a total construc- The equipment, they said, was tion value of $61,752,437. | inadequate to carry a capacity load It was the third list of projects | 5 full day without treatment.

Alvin Stoneburner, spokesman for the Civic League, told the Board | that unless free swimming was pro- | vided the children would swim in

| Pogue's Run, The Board told him that all-day loads would make the pools impure. He countered that Pogue's Run was impure. H. W. Middlesworth, City Recrea« tional Director, said an epidemic might result if the pools were made free at all times. He said, “we have not had an epidemic here, directly traceable to the pools, in the last seven years, during which time we have used the fee system, “If we threw the pools open withe out charging admittance, they would | be overloaded and an epidemic might result, Garfield and FEllenberger Park pools do not have adequate chlorination plants to take care of the present loads, according to State Health Board standards.”

Higher Costs Seen

Mr. Middlesworth declared also that the increased'load which would result from abolition of the fee would double the annual cost of pool operation, He placed that cost at $15,000 now, | More life guards and more water would be required to keep the pools safe if they were operated free, Mr. Middlesworth told the Board. Mrs. Louis B. Markun, Board member, suggested that more free disposal plants and 18 court houses, | time be given at Rhodius Park pool. penal institutions, hospitals, other | Jackiel Joseph Board president, public buildings. | told her that the cnlorination plang Indiana grants included $13,635 | there is “the slowest in the city.” or a city scool addition at Bloom- Calling attention to the health ase ington and $21,234 for a students | pect of the probiem, Eugene Dorn, club at Indiana University. Port- | board member, said that “most pere er County was given $45,076 for a |sons do not understand this probe new high school, Boone County lem. I am for leaving the fee sys $13,950 for a school and Wash-|tem alone. It is the only way we (Continued on Page Four) can handle the health aspects.”

546,332, Of this sum the Government's contribution is $107,406,000 for a total of 869 projects. The PWA was rushing its announcement of approvals as other Government agencies prepared to | start quickly additional phases of the huge lending-spending drive de- | signed to stimulate economic recovery. Today's grants totalled $28,009,581 with loans of $1,682,500,

Three More Lists Due

Three more lists will be announced by tomorrow night to set in motion machinery for construction expected to total close to $600,000,000, The largest of today’s projects was a bridge across the Mississippi from sast St. Louis, Ill, to St. Louis, Mo., to cost $5,500,000, of which the (Government is contributing a $2,475,000 grant, Other large projects included a veterans home at Rocky Hill, Conn, costing $3,250,000, with a $1,462,500 grant; schools at Trenton, N. J., $2,547,111 cost, $1,146202 grant, and

Wis, $1,832,000 cost, $824,400 grant.

115 Schools Provided

The projects include 115 schools other educational buildings, 68 water works, pumping systems, sewerage svstems and

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