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VOLUME 50-~NUMBER 91

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SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1938

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ENEMIES AT POLLS;

SPEECH 1

President States Aim) To Widen Reforms

Of New Deal.

LAUDS ( ‘ONG RESS

Declaration on Civil Rights Is Termed | Slap at Hague.

(Text, Page 2; Kditotial, Page R)

Senators

Critical; McKellar lndor seg Talk.

MEDDL ING’ SEEN

Sheppard, ‘Hatch Are Among Those Giving Approval.

WASHINGTON, June 25 (U.P) —

| Conservative Democrats today coun-

WASHINGTON Preside New horizons today, pers

conse

June 25 (U, P) headed the “reform” | for imary election war upon

nt Roosevelt

Deal toward wider and stood ready mal ny Democrats after a fire

tvative

» appeal for nomination of liberal

didates by ali parties this vear I'he President snapped a challenge among ho would have him >» New Deal program ection chat, broadcast dealt with the record depression and 1S role in the primary | election campaign that the people

defeatists \

Ie and ] business demand Complete | ng after YS money 1 paving n taxes

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Rebukes Capital, Labor

nn names, but firing 1tiflable individuals | Mr. Roosevelt reibor and capital for mise repudiated interfer freedom of speech-—that tly was aimed at Jersey Frank Hague—and ference to a $363, business executive who feared the effect of a national minimum wage of $11 per week Mr. Roosevelt told the nation the New Deal had won the fundamental issue at stake in the judiciary reganization battle—"the attitude of the Supreme Court toward conquestions is entirely He called for a “united Government, capital and wage cuts which iuce purchasing

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Jersey, he Democratic Ni said he would not, Ask voters to elect in November as opposed alicans, nor would he, in v, take part in Demo-

Y00sevelt as Presiden Demo Repu that ¢ cratic primaries hs head of the Democratic Party howe charged with the responsipe sentinded on Page Three)

to apaci

| Democratic

tered President Roosevelt's declara-

| tion of war against anti-New Dealers

with warnings that voters would re-

sent “goose-stepping” behind a leader, In a fireside chat last night Mr Roosevelt pointed the New Deal toward new “reform” horizons and

serted hig right to oppose Demo-

cratic candidates who flouted liberal |

principles or who misused his name Senator King (D. Utah) and Senator Burke (D. Neb), first to comment among the Democratic congressional groun which has challenged some of Mr. Roosevelt's basic policies, both warned against outside interference in state affairs,

MeKellar Defends F, D. R,

Senator McKellar (D, Tenn.) was more disposed to defend the speech Senator Shipstead (F.-L. Minn) welcomed Mr. Roosevelt's defense of “liberal” candidates of all parties Mr. King said the President's office and “the great amounts of

{| money he has to spend” give him an

advantage over others “which he

should not exercise.”

“People who have fought for the Party a great many vears,” he said, “do not like interference by outsiders in their state affairs. I do not believe the President should meddle in the primary elections of the Democratic Party or any other party, “I do not know that 1 fully agree

with his understanding of what a |

liberal is. Some people think a liberal is one who votes for (Continued on Page Three)

‘TWO PER GENT CLUB

QUIZ REPORT DENIED

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

WPA POLITICAL activity for thorough probe.

CIVIL SERVICE extension may include 130,000,

F. D. R. INDORSES Barkley; friendly to Chandler, S. STEEL wage cuts,

WPA Political Activity Due for Thorough Probe

By THOMAS LL. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June Charges of political activity by Government agents and agencies, including WPA, seem to be in for a thorough that eventually may bring some reforms. both legislative and administrative Indications today are that the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, headed by Senator Morris Sheppard (D. Tex.) is planning a really broad-gauge inquiry into such charges, with the aid of trained investigators. Senator Sheppard todav denied a published report in Indianapolis that he had said “the committee will C amtinued on L Page Three)

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Stocks Again ‘Move Ahea Tickers

(Market Details, Page 13)

NEW YORK, June 25 (U, P).

with such vigor that tickers fell several minutes behind. It was the seventh successive rise Transactions were the heaviest since April 16,

Barly irregularity wag featured by |

a decline in steel shaves, which were |

sold when traders got the impres- | sion from President Roosevelt's speech last night that the U. 8 | Steel Corp. had‘ given assurance no | wage changes would be made in | effecting a price cut Today the corporation flatly denied any such assurance. The mar- | ket turned about and advanced | swiftly under lead of steel shares, which substituted gains for early losses

RISE TOO FAST, FLYNN BELIEVES

Spending Bil Is Cause of Sudden Market Activity, He Declares.

(Mr, Flynn's Daily Column, Page R) By JOHN T. FLYNN Times Special Writer NEW YORK, June 25-—-The stock market boils up. The soothsayers tell us better days are ahead. The President joins in heralding proved conditions, What is behind this? a turn upward?

ket broken through the ceiling of

the last four months and, following | become |

the dullest weeks in years, suddenly active? And-—most important of all—do we face a definite upward turn? The explanation of the sudden activity seems obvious. The passage of the huge spending bill makes many believe that we are now about to see a duplication of the rising Roosevelt markets of 1935 and 1936 Coming on top of a period of liquidation and sagging prices, investors look upon the coming flood of Gov- | ernment money as a time for stock buying.

{ernment will leave no stone turned to get prices up and busi- | ness moving in view of the ap- | proaching election. So that if the | market does not rise sufficiently, | the Administration will speed up | spending until it does rise. Also pessimism has a way of wearing itself out. Practical persons get tired being blue. And the jong six months of pessimism has about run its course. The slightsign of favorable news is alwavs enough to start people off on a ilttle risking of money. The third factor the slowly spreading conviction that sooner or later inflation is inevitable. There is & kind of resignation to this idea in the minds of people who in principle oppose it. | Are we at a definite turn? Ara we to see another long slow market rise? The answer must be | made conditional.

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Business Outlook Doubtful

First of all, there seems nothing | in sight now in business itself to Justify an expectation that business is about to stage a comeback. As for the Government, the outlook needs clarifying. The amount of money to be expended is very great. But only a third of it is for WPA relief which can be quickly put out, That does not promise any ver large increase over current relief expenditures. However, if the other two large items—the sums for lending and the sums for WPA work— can be gotten to work quickly and in large sums it will make a very decided difference. In the meantime, the market seems to hop ahead a little too fast. This may go on for a little while but it is certain to run into some resistance pretty soon.

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Are we at |

Why has the mare | © | papers have recommended editorially |

There is a feeling that the Gov- | un-

VANNUYS COLD T0G. 0. P. ON ARLEY'S EVE

| Minton Declares He Is Keeping ‘Hands Off.

‘REPUBLICANS ARE ACTIVE

‘Sheaffer Announces Secretary of State; Convene Tuesday.

for

Senator VanNuys, on the eve of

which several delegates have proposed that he be chosen as the G. 0. P. Senate nominee, today re | iterated his statement to The Times of 10 days ago that he could not accept the G. O. P. nomination,

Mr. VanNuys' statement came as Republican candidates for nominations in the convention Tuesday and | Wednesday redoubled their activity. One new candidacy, that of Wil liam H. Sheaffer, Indianapolis attorney, for the Secretary of State | nomination, was announced today, | and several others were expected to bid for State offices over the week- | end. Five senatorial candidates pushed their campaigns at headquarters here. | Senator VanNuys said | ably would carry out his | seeking re-election as an independent Democrat this fall, but commented he would “be pleased to accept

| intimidation or coercion.” Four Indiana Republican newsthat the choose Senator | senatorial nominee. | publican newspaper | posed the proposal. | The Senator was to leave today for Walloon Lake, Mich, on a three | weeks' vacation, timed to keep him out of the State during both the Republican conventions.

Republican delegates VanNuyvs as their Another Revigorously op-

He announced that his campaign |

headquarters would be opened Mon- | day in Room 919, Illinois Bldg., with Miss Wilma Aber in charge.

Minton in Indianapolis

Meanwhile, Seénator Minton, in | Indianapolis for a brief visit yester- | day afternoon while en route from Washington to his home at New Albany, remarked he would main- | tain a “hands-off” attitude toward {the choice of a senatorial nominee to succeed Mr. VanNuys at the Democratic convention July 12. Asked if he would support Senator VanNuys for re-election, he remarked: “That depends upon what ticket he runs on.” The junior Senator declined to comment on reports that an element in the Democratic party is demanding that peace be made with VanNuyvs and that he be renominated by the Democrats. He also declined to comment on Lieut. Gov. Henry Schricker as a possible nominee. Republican convention plans call

he prob-! plan of!

the Democratic nomination if | | chosen by a free convention without !

and Democratic State |

Barbara and Son to Hide, Rumors Say

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LONDON, June 25 (U. P).-— | Countess Barbara Hutton Haug- | witz-Reventlow has been advised to

Stocks wavered for a short time to- | Still a Democrat, He Says; go into hiding to safeguard her

| day and then resumed their advance |

King, Burke |

| 2 «year-old son Lance, it

ported today. The report came safler a con- | ference between the Countess and two Scotland Yard chiefs who vise ited her at her home yesterday. | Also, coincident with the report, | the close guard at the | Regent Park | estate in the heart of London-- | was noticeably relaxed. It was asserted that the Countess had been urged to take her son away from London and to tell no one where she was going,

was re- |

Countiess’s | residence—a country |

and remain in hiding until the |

problem of her future and that |

| Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, J been deter mined.

DISCUSS PLANS * FOR ELEVATION

Ludlow and PWA Confer on Grant for South Side Project Here.

Fimes Special WASHINGTON, with a telegram Boetcher, Rep. ferred with PWA officials and ported today ‘the atmosphere” favorable” for a PWA grant { South Side track elevation in Indianapolis. A PWA grant | will make possible an

( 160 beds at the Veterans Adminis- | tration Hospital at Indianapolis | Rep. Ludlow had requested the Mayor to outline briefly the proposed project and his telegram in reply read: “Track elevation will include three miles of railroad and eliminate seven dangerous crossings. city will need 45 per cent grant of $3,000,000." | ‘The additional 160 beds at | Veterans’ Hospital will more than

Armed Mayor

June 25.-~ from

re-

The |

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| votes

Louis Ludlow con- |

is |

for |

$19,000 VOTED BAKER TOHOLD BALLOT PROBE

Council Approves Grant for Grand Jury Fund by Stol Margin.

U.S. HOUSING AID STILL POSSIBLE, REALTORS INSINT

Board Heads Deny Seven Millions Are ‘Lost,’

AWAIT STATE & SATon)

Spencer Declines Comment, Reiterates Readiness to Head Inquiry.

A $15,000 appropriation, requested | the Republican State convention at |of her handsome Danish husband, | by Criminal Court Judge Frank P.|

to conduct a Grand Jury | investigation of primary election ballots, was voted today by the Marion County Council. The ordinance was passed by a vote of five to one, Cortez Blue,

| Baker,

Saying Slum Clearance Agency Could Be Established Here.

the lone dissenter, protested the spending of “that much of the | taxpayers’ money when we have a | Prosecutor to do that work.” “Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer has the machinery and man-power to conduct the investigation without an additional appropriation and I think he should do it,” Mr. Blue said. Five other councilmen declined to comment. other than to say their | “speak for themselves.” Albert Deluse, ber,

State Board to Act

The appropriation measure now | must go to the State Tax Board for | approval under the emergency

{ clause of the tax law.

The State Board has 10 days in |

| which to act on the appropriation.

already approved | additional |

Judge Baker said he would pro- | ceed immediately on preparations for his investigation. “I will begin contacting able law-

| yers to find a special prosecutor in

| whom

the |

| double present facilities, Rep. Lud- |

| low said. Only | were planned, but the 60 others | | were made possible by.a $400,000 PWA grant. Another PWA allotment for Indiana announced today was $20,000

| where alleged | disclosed by the recount commis- | sioners.

100 more originally |

| for field work in the State by the |

Coast Geodetic survey of the De- | partment of Commerce.

| The Indianapolis projects

were |

| included in the PWA program call- |

| ing for allotments 268.200 for 22 hospitels and 000 for 34 Geodetic surveys.

MCORMICK MISSING: PARTNER FOUND DEAD

$490,

Continue Search in Sandia

for district caucuses Tuesday night, |

| followed by the convention sessions Wednesday at the State Fair (Continued on Page Three)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Books Broun ...... Circling City. Clapper Churches ..... Comics . Crossword .. Curious Word 14 Editorials Financial® Flynn a Grin, Bear It. 14 In Ind'pls .... 3 | State Deaths | Jane Jordan. 7! Yigg

Johnson Movies Mrs. Ferguson 8 Musi ......\. 13 Obituaries 9 Pyle . . Radio . 13 Mrs. Roosevelt : Scherrer Serial Story

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HARRISON SHRINE OPENED TODAY £88 COE er

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The Benjamin Harrison home,

today by the Arthur Jordan Foundation, houses many of the objects prized by Indiana's Harrison lived there both before and after his 1889.93 term in the White

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1230 N. Delaware SL,

restored and opened to the public at 10 a. m,

. President,

an he

PORTRAIT ABOVE FIREPLACE

The Library fireplace. On

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Mountain Range.

| ALBUQUERQUE, N. M,, June 25 (U. P.).—Searchers led by Governor Tingley went into the Sandia Mountains at dawn today to search for the bodv of Medill McCormick, | 21. scion of one of America’s most prominent families. They already had found the body companion, Richard Whitmer, and all evidence indicated that both

had been killed in a fall from a pelice expected Putnamville State | Penal Accompanying the searchers was | move Robert Walker, 27, Indianapo-

| mountain cliff

Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick | Simms, widow of the late Senator and newspaper publisher, Medill Mec- | Cormick, wife of Albert G. wealthy Albuquerque lawyer land owner, Daughter of Mark Hanna, | former member of Congress.

and

the hearth is an earthen container

in which water was kept. It served to humidify the room and also

Tha

#0 provide a supRly of warm wajes, ao a—

totaling $13,- |

the public will have confidence. I have a man in mind but haven't yet contacted him,” he said. ! The Judge also said he will appoint a staff of investigators to as- | sist the special prosecutor.

Spencer Is Silent Yesterday the Judge, while requesting Council, said Prosecutor Spencer is | not qualified to conduct the investi-

gation because one of his deputies was an election clerk in a precinct irregularities were

Prosecutor Spencer declined to comment on the Council's action. He repeated earlier statements that | his office “is ready to conduct the investigation.” Meanwhile, recount commisstoners adjourned the check of ballots

| until Monday.

Al Feeney in the recount of the vote for the Democratic Sheriff nomination, reached 1774 for the 165 precincts recounted thus far. This leaves 481 votes to be gained by Mr. Feeeny to tie the | lead of 2255 given Charley Lutz, certified as the winner. In the recount of six more pre- | cincts yesterday afternoon, Mr. |

Total gains for

| Feeney scored a net gain of 10 votes

of his hiking | 20. |

for a new recount total of 10942 compared with his original total of | 10,567. Mr. Lutz lost 18 votes for a new recount total of 11,157 compared with the canvassing board figure of | 12,556 dor the 165 precincts,

WARNING SHOTS HALT | ATTEMPTED ESCAPE

LA PORTE, June 25 (U, P).—

Farm officials today to re- | lis, back to the farm from which | he escaped last Saturday.

Walker was captured yesterday as |

FROM CHILDHOOD TO O

The Harrison bedroom.

Cc og

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seventh Council mem- | was not present. |

the money before the |

| ered from

| for.”

LABOR COUNCILMAN

(Editorial,

URGES ACTION

‘Republicans Ask More Study of Resolution, But Church Federation Backs It; Lockefield in Dispute.

Page 8)

The failure of the City Council to establish a local hous ing board has not jeopardized, necessarily, the City’s

chances

| of obtaining seven million dollars in Federal funds, Indiane 'apolis Real Estate Board executives said today.

Walter E. retary, charged yesterday matter is preventing ! the City’

1 DEAD, 20 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK

Stanton, State Housing Board executive that the Council's stand on the

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s obtaining the Federal grant. “The door is not shut,” the teal Estate Board leader | said. “If Indianapolis wants 'to establish a housing author-

ity, it still can do so.” A resolution which would set up | an Indianapolis Housing Authority has been pending nefore the Coun-

40 Still ‘Unaccounted for’ in | cil for several months.

Earlier Wreck of Crack Milwaukee Olympian.

INGOMAR, Mont, June 25 (U, P.).—Robert Eckert of Avery, Ida. was killed, and 18 persons were injured today when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's fast Olympian

passenger |

train struck a special train carry- |

ing Civilian Conservation Corps en- |

rollees. The engine on the special train

was derailed and rolled down a long |

embankment. Ambulances were sent from Forsyth, where the injured persons were taken, Forty passengers aboard the Olympian which fell through a | trestle over Custer Creek last Sun-| day, still are “unaccounted for,” J.

R. Regan, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. |tacted favored

Paul & Pacific division passenger and freight agent, announced.

Adolph J. Fritz, Democratic Coun=cilman and Secretary of the Ine diana Federation of Labor, said he would demand that the Council either pass the resolution or strike it from the records at its next meet- | ing July 11. Seek More Data

Declaring that whatever recom=mendations the Real Estate Board might make to Council would carry considerable weight, George Whelden, Board president. said the | organization would not act until it | was informed by qualified authori« | ties on the extent to which the proposed clearance would affect ren Ps While Chamber officials remained noncommittal because they “have not studied the | problem,” the Council appeared to be split on the issue. Some Democratic members conimmediate action, while the Republican councilmen

of Commerce

| either disagreed with the method

Forty-six bodies had been recov- | proposed or wanted more time to | study it.

the waters of Custer

Creek and from the wreckage of the |

Olympian. Mr, gest the fate of those “unaccounted Previously only seven sons had been listed officially missing.

STORM KILLS ONE; WHITE RIVER RISES

Lightning Hits Farmer Near DeSoto.

TEMPERATURES

70 10 a. m... 2 am... . 72 12 (Noon). a 74 1 pm

MUNCIE. June 25 (U. P.).—Light-

76 79 80 83

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[ ning struck and killed one man near | here while the cloudburst which acthe storm washed out |

companied

Regan did not sug- |

per- |

The proposed resolution authorizes Mayor Boetcher to set up a five-man commission. Slum clearlance work could proceed with its passage, according to Walter E.

| Stanton, State Housing Board exec

| the

utive secretary. Seeks More Employment

Mr. Fritz said he favored the adoption of the proposal because “I'm for anything that will increase Soyo He said he would in- . Stanton to attend the next | oe ME meeting and explain how the proposed authority works and what it means.

John A. Schumacher, Republican Councilman, said he did not believe the resolution should be passed “on basis of information we have now.” He added he would suggest that Council appoint a bipartisan

| committee to investigate the propo- | sition.

Silas Carr, Democrat, praised the

| Lockefield Gardens project.

{ he said,

streets, flooded basements, and sent |

the White River far out of its banks to a near-flood stage. The man killed was Harvey P. Wyne, 58, a farmer living near DeSoto, who was killed by a bolt of

lightning while walking to his house, |

LD AGE

“If living standards were raised,” “some of the load would be taken off private charities.” On the other hand, William A. Oren, Republican, declared the proposed buildings are too expensive. He indicated that the construction of low-cost housing in older Indianapolis, where, he said, it would do (Continued on Page Three)

“Times Photos.

Mr. Harrison died in the bed shown in the foreground. He spent his babye hood in the cradle seen in the background. Many historical treasures are on view for those who visit the

~The Hugrison librasy ls iutach shoping what Mr.-

to-read,

(Story, Page-3.),