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FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; not so cool tonight ; warmer tomorrow.

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 94

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1938

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

at Postoffice,

PRICE THREE CENTS

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. NOMINATES RAYMOND WILLIS

STOCKS CLIMB |Nuptial Minded FR ' Sit-1n Striker, ’ Quits Mansion PRIVILEGED IN CAMPAIGN AID

T0 8- MONTHS RECORD LEVEL

Expensive Issues Advance As Much as 15 Points, Main List 1 to 4.

TRADING PACE SWIFT.

Railroads, Utilities, Active in General Upturn.

Steel

(Market Details, Page 17) i

NEW YORK, June 29 (U. The Dow-Jones industrial stock average crossed int high ground for 1938 in the early afternoon trading today, rising 4.18 points to 13436, a new high since Nov. 1, 1937 Higher priced industrial had advances ranging to 15 points. The main list was up 1 to 4 points. Trading was again at a swift pace Transactions to 1 p. m. totaled 1.490000 shares, against 840,000 shares in the corresponding period yesterday. Railroads joined the industrials with the average at 25.46, up 089 point or 3.62 per cent from vesterdavs close. The utility average at 2121 was up 0.61 point or 296 per cent Heavy demand was noted for steel, chemical, mercantile and building shares. Dozens of issues moved to new tops for the year Chrysler reached 39's. up 3':; U S. Steel 56's, up 3: Bethlehem 60 up 4; Johns Manville 922, up 3%: Montgomery Ward 43, up 2!.; Sears Roebuck €7%., up 3%: du Pont 11944, up 5%; Westinghouse Electric 973%. up 3%; U. 8. Gypsum 96. up 10; Dow Chemical 128. up 8, and Eastman Kodak 169%, up 3%. Railroads were fractions to more than a point higher. Utilities joined the upturn. The whole market moved ahead with large blocks appearing in the lower-priced issues.

STORES TO CLOSE AT 5P. M.INJULY, AUGUST

Indianapolis’ downtown retail stores will close at 5 p. m. through July and August, beginning next Tuesday, Murray H. Morris, manager of the Merchants Association. announced today. The stores are to open at the usual time The announcement said that “it is believed that the public will gladlv adjust its shopping habits to conform with this schedule, thus affording the store employees a much appreciated shorter work day during the summer months.” Stores will make individual announcements concerning Saturday closing hours, Mr. Morris said.

FARLEY REPORTED NEXT BASEBALL TSAR

NEW YORK. June 29 (U. PP.) — The Brooklvn Daily Citizen said i9day that Postmaster General Farley will resign in December to become commissioner of organized baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis, tsar of baseball for the last 17 years. will give up his $65,000 post because of | his health, The Citizen said. Commissioner Landis’ formal resignation will not be tendered until the December meeting of the two major leagues, the story says.

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‘GLOWING’ PROSPECTS FOR WHEAT- DIMMED

Heavy rains and high temperatures have dimmed the “glowing” prospects for a “bumper” wheat crop in Indiana, M. D. Guild, Indiana Grain Co-operative, Inc, manager declared today. Mr. Guild reported that the last Government crop forecast gave Indiana = almost 34000000 busheis, whereas the average results of a canvass made recently bv Indianapolis grain men was only 20.000.000.

FORECAST WARMER WEATHER TONIGHT

TEMPERATURES 60 10 a. m. 65 a.m... 70 12 (Noon) 71 1p m

The Weathér Bureau today predicted warmer weather tonight and tomorrow and fair skies.

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IRVINGTON, N. Y,, June 29 (U.

P.).—Hedi Heusser stepped out of her negligee into a becoming blue

dress today, and stalked out of Rollo |

K. Blanchard's big brick house muttering a series of plaintive remarks. all starting with “if.”

“If he's a gentleman.” she said of ; the absent host in whose 24-room |

home she had staged a nine-day matrimonial sit-in strike, “he'll marry me. “If he's a gentleman, he knows what he has to do. “If he's a gentleman, he will make arrangements.” Mrs. Heusser, red-haired and pretty, the divorced wife of a Swiss ski salesman, established herself in one Blanchard’'s best bedrooms last June 20 and said that she wouldn't budge until he followed up the gift of an engagement ring with marriage. The 50-year-old manufacturer left when Hedi moved in, leaving four detectives to guard the house.

REBELS TO STOP RAIDS ON BRITISH

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

LONDON—Duce agrees to ask Rebels to stop bombings.

JERUSALEM—Troops on guard as Jews protest.

PARIS—France to punish spies with death,

ROME—Rebels reported restricting bombings.

SHANGHAI—Japs hammer at outer Hankow defenses.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

PRESIDENT deemed in own rights aiding liberals,

SENATE GROUP studying WPA official's speech.

FISCAL YEAR ENDING with net deficit decline.

JOSEPHINE ROCHE favored for wage law post.

F.D.R. Acts in Own Rights

Aiding Liberals, Is View WASHINGTON, June 28 (U. P). —The Senate Campaign Investigating Committee regards any inter-

vention by President Roosevelt in primary elections in behalf of New Deal candidates as outside its jurisdiction, it was authoritatively indi-

| cated today.

The committee, it was learned, discussed privately the President's fireside chat announcement last Friday that he would intervene for liberal candidates. It decided that since his remarks would be addressed to the voters at large they could not be construed as coercion for any undue influence of voters.

v Senator Sheppard (D. Tex.) chairman of the committee, said a Presidential “general speech to the country at large is an entirely different situation that that of Mr. Aubrey Williams (deputy WPA Administrator) and does not come within the! jurisdiction of the resolution.

WPA Talk Studied

Committee members to have taken the view

were said that the

| President's speeches would be on 1a different basis than the speech | {of Mr.

Williams to the Workers’ |

| Alliance Monday, in which Mr. |

Italy to Exert Her

Influence on Rebels LONDON, June 29 (U. P).— Premier Mussoiini has agreed to use his influence to persuade Spanish

Rebels to stop bombing British ships, |

the Foreign Office was informed today by Lord Perth, British Ambassador to Rome.

Lord Perth's message to Viscount Halifax, Foreign Minister, came after he had conferred at length vesterday with Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, and urged that Italy put pressure on the Rebels, Count Ciano said the Italian Government 1s anxious to do evervthing in its power to halt the bombing of British ships and therefore is pre- | pared to exert wha* influence it | possesses on the Rebels. |

Rebels Curb Bombings On British Ships |

i ROME. June 29 (U. P.).—Rebel Spain has taken steps to restrict the bombing of British vessels “wher- | ever possible” when thev are unloading in Loyalist ports or navigating the seas, it was revealed today bv Virginio Gayvda, editor of Gio: - nale d'Italia, who is usually regarded as a spokesman for Premier Benito Mussolini.

France Orders Death Penalty for Spies

PARIS, June 29 (U. P).—A decree was issued today instituting | the death penalty for espionage in peace time because of the growth of Spy rings in recent years. i

Execution Arouses

Jewish Protest

JERUSALEM, June 29 (U. P.).— Thousands of pious orthodox Jews surged through the narrow streets | of Jerusalem today, violently pro- | testing the execution of Solomon! Ben Joseph, 18-year-old Jew who died at dawn on the gallows in Acre Prison. The city was put under martial law. | Jewish unrest Was general | throughout the country. Joseph was | hanged for firing on an Arab bus. | British authorities, fearing widespread bloodshed and outbursts, called out troop reserves and concentrated the Government's police | force on restraining the Jewish masses. The officers, wearing steel | helmets and carrying heavy cudgels, | gathered in Jewish areas, dispersing restive crowds. Armored cars, equipped with ma- | cine guns, waited behind police stations, ready for action.

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| Williams urged the Alliance to or- |

i ganize and “keep your friends in| | power.”

Senator Sheppard said he would | discuss Mr. Williams’ speech, of | which he obtained a partial tran= |

! script, with Senator O'Mahoney (D. |

i garded as probable the committee |

would take no further action after | characterizing it as “unfortunate.”

“Stick Together” which

Among the statements | aroused such a furor, and which Mr. | Williams said were correctly quoted, was this passage: “We've got to stick together. We've got to keep our friends in power. I thought that speech Friday night | was wonderful. (President Roose- | velt’s speech announcing he would | enter a few primaries on behalf of loyal Administration followers). I don’t need to tell you. You know | vour friends very well. Just judge |

the folks who come and ask for your

support by the crowd they run with.” “I meant just what I said,” Mr. Wiliams declared at his office.

Net Deficit Decline

WASHINGTON, June 29 (U. P.). | — Treasury today to close the books for the] 1938 fiscal year which began with |

Fiscal Year Shows |

statisticians prepared

a few weeks of recovery and] slumped into almost 11 months of | accelerating depression. | The Treasury will report the] smallest net deficit of the New Deal and the greatest Federal revenue since President Roosvelt took office in 1933. But back of those figures are facts which fortell the end of the downward deficit trend and cause | some unofficial estimators to believe | the 1939 fiscal year will turn up| with the largest net deficit of the depression-recovery period. That record now is held by the fiscal year 1936 when the Treasury went | into the red by $4 360,600,000. Mr. Roosevelt, however, feels that Treasury prospects are much more hopeful than do those who believe | a thumping deficit next year will (Continued on Page 14)

FACE BURNED BY STOVE

Mrs. Maxine Ruton, 25, today received burns on the face when a gasoline stove exploded in a trailer parked at 5326 W. Washington St. She was treated by the Fire Department rescue squad.

Nye Increasing Lead Over Langer in N. Dakota Race

their contest for the Republican

the state's 2260 precincts re

gave:

Nye, 55,977. Langer, 39,501.

been reported. it was believed those A Lieut unted represented ap- | Mr,

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in the primary. While Langer forces would not

if he showed expected strength in the rural sections, could overcome

Lieut. Gov. T. H. H. Thore-

nomination. y The vote from 834 precincts gave

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All Sections of State Are Represented by National, State Candidacies.

Candidates for the U. S. Senate

| and State offices who announced

before the Republican State Convention opened at the Fair Grounds today were: FOR U. S. SENATOR James E. Watson of Rushville. Walter F. Bossert of Liberty. Clarence H. Wills of Kokomo. Raymond E. Willis of Angola. Oliver Starr of Gary.

FOR SECRETARY OF STATE #

James M. Tucker of Paoli. L. G. Bradford of South Bend. William H. Sheaffer of Indianapolis. FOR STATE AUDITOR Everett E. Neal of Noblesville, Louis Markun of Indianapolis. Chester Davis of Bedford.

FOR STATE TREASURER

Arthur H. Berndt of Bloomington. James M. Givens of Porter.

FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUB-

LIC INSTRUCTION

Dr. Waldo E. Wood of Frankfort. Norman J. Lasher of Seymour. A. Atwood Bliss of Rosseville. FOR CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT

Paul C. Wetter of Indianapolis. FOR SUPREME COURT JUDGE First District. Arthur Rogers of Washington. Third District. Clinton H. Givan of Indianapolis. Edgar M. Blessing of Danville, Fifth District.

Harry L. Crumpacker of Valpa-

1S0. FOR APPELLATE COURT JUDGE

First Division. (Two to be Nominated.) Edgar Durre of Evansville. Samuel Beecher of Terre Haute. FOR APPELLATE COURT JUDGE. Second Division. (Two to be Nominated.) Fred C. Hines of Noblesville,

ROOSEVELT APPROVES

HYDE PARK, N. Y., June 29 (U.

proved with reluctance the Rivers Control Bill which authorizes millions for large projects

but provides no appropriations for

carrying them out. The Chief Executive said: “I have approved this bill with some reluctance. It authorizes but

“It is unnecessary for me to em-

| phasize the importance of carrying fon a large and continuing program | to eliminate floods, lessen soil ero- | sion,

continue reclamation, encourage reforestation and improve navigation.”

TWO ARE KILLED IN

TRUCK-AUTO CRASH

{ ernment into strange paths similar

(Another Story, Page 18)

WOODBURN, June 28 (U. P.).— A man identified as C. J. Tresslar, Ft. Wayne salesman, and an unidentified woman were killed this afternoon in an aufomobile-truck collision at intersection of U. 8S. Highway 24 and 30, near here.

REVIEW IS REQUESTED IN GAS UTILITY SUIT

A petition asking a review of a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals action reversing decision of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell in Chase National Bank suit against the city in connection with a lease on Indianapolis Gas Co. property. has been filed with the United States Supreme Court. The announcement was made by attorneys for the city’s utilities district. The Chase bank sued the city in an attempt to a lease on

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| olutions committee, { child labor regulation, repeal of the | windshield gadget

i ‘ | service based solely on merit” for does not appropriate the money for |

| a large number of public works on | rivers and harbors.

MANY ASPRE TO | SPOT ON BALLOT

‘CLEANSING’ OF

Raymond E. Willis

Platform Hits New Deal;

Halleck Con

Marriage Law Revision and Merit System Are Approved.

A platform assailing New Deal policies, the McNutt 1933 reorganization bill, the “Two Per Cent Club” and the beer port-of-entry system was adopted by the Republican State convention today. Revision of Indiana's marriage laws, elimination of the State property tax levy for general fund purposes, and reduction of the gross in-

| come tax levy also were urged. P.) —President Roosevelt today ap- |

Guy W. Dausman of Goshen pre-

| sented a minority Resolutions Com-

mittee report which was ignored by the chair. The platform, submitted by a resalso favored law and “civil State employees. The committee had worked over the document throughout the night, holding public hearings and discussing the problems among themselves. The “reaffirmation of our faith in constitutional government is especially necessary at this time, because we find high officials in our state and nation, under the. pretext of economic necessity, attempting to lead us away from constitutional gov-

to those now being followed abroad.” Major planks of the platform: 1. Called for a “return to sane, constitutional Government,” both in the state and nation, because “no one can doubt that the surrender by the legislative department to the executive, is a long step away from our Constitution and in the direction of ‘a dictatorship.” 2. Opposed “any Federal law that seeks to limit farm production or to encourage importation of products to this country.”. i . 3. Advocated repeal of an amendment to the corrupt practices act in the 1937 Legislature legalizing use of “2 per cent” funds for political purposes. Passage of the amentiment was described as “the last word in political audacity.” 4 Demanded repeal of the 1933 State Reorganization Act which “has reduced constitutional officers to the status of puppets under the Governor, thus robbing the people of their authority.” 5. Condemned the “hyproerisy,

platform declared that al

demns Purge

Hutcheson Urges Tariff and Co-operation With Labor.

New Deal “purging” is an Indiana | product, Rep. Charles A. Halleck | charged in his speech opening the | Republican State convention at the | Fair Grounds Coliseum today. As temporary chairman, the only | Hoosier Republican in Congress, as- | sailed the Democratic Administrations in both state and nation. | Attributing the cause of the de- | pression to New Dedl policies, he | also termed President Roosevelt's | Supreme Court reform plan “the | blackest page in the constitutional | history of the United States.” “It was here in Indiana that the | ruthless practice of punishing all | who failed to agree with or obey the will of one man was instituted,” Mr. Halleck said. “It was here ‘in Indiana that you

| witnessed the- establishment of two | methods of operation which have |

been characteristic of both big and | little New Deals since their inception:

“First, tremendous financial re-

| wards for those who co-operated.

“Second, stringent punishment for those who failed to co-operate. “It was here in Indiana that you found the first ‘Reorganiation Bill,’ that concentrated virtually ali authority under state government affairs in the hands of the Governor and which converted all other state officials into mere errand boys. “The Indiana State Housé gang deserves the admiration and respect of every so-called politician of the unserupulous type, not because of what it has accomplished for the good of Indiana but for the consummate skill and unlimited gall (there is no other word for it) that enabled it to establish the Two Per Cent Club. There is nowhere that one can go “in the United States or its dominigns, including the Philippines, without being asked about this most unique of organizations which has imposed a tax upon the income of every public employee, collected the money, spent it for the political aggrandisement of its henchmen, without accounting either to the public or to those from whom the money was collected.” Indiana's beer and liquor law was likewise assailed and a comparison made between New Deal policies in both the state and nation, “They ‘the political cor-

| needed reforms, and for what I be-

| One of the steps is governmental

| other step is the undermining of |

PARTY BY REP.

URGED BARTON

Criticizes New Deal Nominations Begin

‘Inefficiency,’ Praises Ideas.

The New Deal has supplied the |

country with sufficient ideas and |

idealism, but the time has come for | a “cleansed and chastened” Repub- | lican Party to take over the administrative job efficiently, Rep. Bruce Barton (R. N. Y.) told Indiana Republicans today in the state convention prepared keynote address. The New York advertising man and author turned congressman praised President Roosevelt's personal appeal to the common man and urged his own party leaders to study and imitate F. D. R. in some ways. But he expressed the view that the New Deal has bogged down because the Democrats are not good administrators and now a change is necessary. “I am one of those who was thrilled to the fingertips by the inaugural address of March 4, 1933,” the G. O. P. keynoter declared.

Sees New Deal Mired “For that great message, for many

lieve is his sincere interest in the welfare of the common man, I praise the President. “When, having said that, I go on to say that the New Deal has passed out of its period of glory, and is now bogged down in the mire of aimlessness and failure, I speak in no narrow partisan sense, “I am only saying what every man and woman knows, and what the polls of public opinion are saying more loudly every week. It is painfully evident—as history has shown so many times before—that great reformers almost invariably fail as administrators.

“From the administrative Washington is a nightmare.” Rep. Barton cited the AAA, “a| bureaucracy with 88,000 employees | and a billion or two yearly budget attempting to establish parity prices | of 1909-14, when the Agriculture | Department employed but 11,000 | and cost around $11,000,000 a year,” | as an example of “administrative | failure.” Figures were quoted to show the | loss of foreign markets for farm products and the rising tides of | importations. “Is the worker happy?” Mr. Barton asked. “No one knows how many millions were out of work in | 1932. But we know that 37 billions | have been spent and that at least | 11,000,000 are out of work today.” | Young people can find no openings for their talents and the middle class is in danger of disappearing, he contended.

Look Abroad

“When a nation loses its middle class it is on the road to the loss of its independence,” he continued. “Look abroad and you will se¢ the pattern of destruction. “It is a series of definite steps.

angle,

recklessness and extravagance. An-

| the independence of the legislature. | | The third step is the liquidation of | | the middle class. We are taking { that third step.” |

Using the example of Kentucky | and the charges against WPA in| the campaign for renomination of | Senator Barkley, majority floor leader, Mr. Barton asserted that “the moral sense of the nation has been shocked” by relief-in-politics. Urging adequate aid for the needy unemployed and incapacitated, he predicted that the day of amassing great fortunes is at an end and these will be used in the future “for the public good.” The taxing power, however, will be used “not to destroy but to stimulate,” he predicted. Condemning curtailment of production, he offered the following definition: “Prosperity, as every sensible man knows, consists of volume multi plied by velocity.” Failure of the Administration to aid the railroads also was criticized. Picturing the sort of future the Republicans should build upon attaining power, Mr. Barton said:

“We see a country where labor's right to collective bargaining, social security, unemployment insurance, minimum wages and maximum hours have passed entirely out of the field of political controversy. “Where each year there is a closer approach to continuous employment, where all barriers of race or color have been removed. “But a country where honest labor and honest business have equal access to the law, and where the reactionary employer and the labor racketeer are equally condemned. “We see older people ldgving in.

After Platform Is Voted.

Other photos, Pages Three and Four; Platform text, Page 10; Barton text, Page Four: Halleck and Hutcheson texts, Page Nine,

BULLETIN Raymond E. Willis, Angola publisher, this afternoon was nominated for U. S. Senator on the third ballot. His nomination came as Marion County switched its vote and gave him its full 223 votes.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Raymond E. Willis, Angola pube lisher, led on the second ballot this afternoon for the U. S. Senatorial

| nomination by the Indiana Repub-

lican convention. His total of 587 was short, how=ever, of the necessary 881 to nominate. On the first ballot, he had led former Senator James E. Wate son, 444 to 442. The official second ballot of the other candidates were: Oliver Starr, 393's. Clarence Wills, 3893, Mr. Watson, 344. Walter Bossert, 38.

On the second ballot, Marion County gave Mr. Willis 42 votes: Mr. Watson, 73; Mr. Wills 191; Mr, Bossert, 7, and Mr. Starr, 781. On the first ballot, Marion County's vote, with five delegates absent, was: Willis, 40; Watson, 86; Wills, 13; Bossert, 14, and Starr, 65,

Totals for the first ballot were: Mr. Willis, 444, Former Senator Watson, 442, Oliver Starr, 372. Clarence H. Wills, 320. Walter F. Bossert, 177.

The convention at the Fair Grounds Coliseum got down to the business of selecting its Senate and state candidates after hearing Rap. Bruce Barton (R. N. Y.) call for a “cleansed, chastened” Republican Party to take over “the good ideas and ideals” of the New Deal and administer them efficiently. Mr. Barton was introduced by Rep. Charles Halleck. Indiana's only G. O. P. Congressman, who assailed the New Deal and State Admini= strations.

Platform Hits New Deal

A platform calling for repeal of the 1933 Indiana Government reorganization act, modification of the gross income tax, revision of marriage laws and correction of abuses in the beer and liquor setup was adopted early this afternoon. Other planks assailed the New Deal, opposed farm production lime itation, attacked the present recie procal trade policy and urged return of the McKinley tariff. Elimination of the State property tax levy for general fund purposes and repeal of the windshield gadget law also were included. But despite the traditional bunte ing and flags, both young and old, delegates and visitors, seemed to feel that this convention was a meeting at the crossroads so far as the party’s future was concerned. Indicative of this was the fact that 73-year-old former Senator Watson ran so strongly on the first ballot. For in his heydey, the Hoosier Republican's “grand old man” represented many of the things that Rep. Barton roundly condemned in his keynote speech.

Criticizes Own Party

This morning, the New York Herald Tribune advised the Hoosier Republicans of the necessity of nominating a man of equal caliber to the present senior senator or turn to his support. Mr. Barton's keynote was far from the traditional “viewing with alarm.” He told his party colleagues assembled here that Republicans in power had “grown soft” and lost touch with the “common man.” It was their own fault that they were defeated, he said, and advised that a “cleansed and chastened” party take over the good ideas and ideals of the Democratic Administra tion and energize those that are workable through Republican efficiency. Mr. Halleck condemned the “Indiana State House gang” and claimed that the party purging idea originated there and then became a national mode. “This is a Roosevelt depression,” he declared, and termed the President's ‘Supreme Court reform plan’ the blackest page in the constitu~ tional history of the United States.” The Coliseum was slow to fill. One half hour after the convention was to have started, tes still were milling around hands with friends and mot paying any attention to schedule. The Rev. David Venerable of the Corinthian Baptist Church pro nounced invocation and the convene tion was under way. Not more than. 4000 persons were in the Coliseuw

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