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Bulkley Gets Support Of President in Marietta Talk.

(Text of Roosevelt Speech, Page 11)

MARIETTA, O, July 8 (U, P). — Under a blazing Ohio sun, President Roosevelt {today called upon the American people to elect “forwardlooking representatives to run their | Government. A crowd estimated at 100,000) hailed the Chief Executive in historic Muskingum Park here as he fired the first shot in his nation- | wide offensive on those battle fronts where the philosophy of the New Deal is being challenged in primary contests. Flanked by opposing Democratic | candidates for the Senate—former Governor George White and Senator Bulkley, an old Harvard classmate — Mr. Roosevelt specifically paid tribute to Senator Bulkley for his work in projecting Administration reforms. referring to him affectionately as “Bob.”

Hails Self-Help

The President, offering a vigorous verbal defense of his policies, hailed his Administration's “protective statutes” as mutual insurance com- | panies that in effect were but a return to the healthy practices of mutual self-help of the early settlers of the Northwest. His speech, historical in character, was in connection with the 150th anniversary celebration of the settling of the Northwest Territory, ! which began on the site that now is Marietta. Before his speaking stand on the gpot where, almost 150 years ago, Gen. Arthur W. St, Clair took the oath as first Northwest Territory | Governor, stood a small group of | costumed persons wearing the buck- | gkins and homespun clothes of | pioneer davs. Farther back, seeking | shelter under the great trees, were thousands of citizens, “Let us not be afraid to help each other,” the President told them. “Let us never forget that Government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rules of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country. “TI am sure they (the American people) know we will always have a frontier—of social problems—and | that we must alwavs move in and bring law and order to it. In that confidence I am pushing on. I am sure you will push on with me.” Toward the end of the address a man in the front flank collapsed from the heat as the temperature soared to approximately 90 degrees. The President, mopping his brow {Continued on Page Three)

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President Strives to Win Nation for His Program.

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer

ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN, July 8.—~The very atmosphere on | this special train is tense with high adventure. There is

a consciousness

the possibility of political explosions |

at most any moment. The wheels seem to click “1940,

1940” as the train moves west. | For President Roosevelt is out on

{a novel mission for a President in

office. the

His objective is to remold Democratic Party into

| race,”

MYSTERY CALL

Dozen People Interviewed Refuse to Give Grand Jury Any Names.

Investigators for the grand jury today reported to Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer's office that they were having difficulty finding witnesses in the probe of a “mysterious

telephone call” on election night. “We have interviewed many persons in an effort to trace down a telephone call reported to have heen made from the office of a ‘high

of official’ in which election workers

supposedly were told to count out Al Feeney in the Democratic sheriff Deputy Prosecutor Oscar Hagemeier said today. “But we have found no one who will talk.” The grand jury was told by Criminal Court Judge Frank P, Baker last Tuesday to trace down a

strictly New Deal party sympathetic | Purported telephone call.

with his special and economic philosophy, equipped to carry on |

Wrapped up in one and the same person as he invades Ohio and Ken- | tucky today, and as he rides west, the President Roosevelt the politician calls upon the prestige and popularity he has built up as Roosevelt the President to assist Roosevelt the politician.

Gives Aid to Backers On this trip to the Pacific Coast,

he is out to help re-elect—by his | | personal

influence—four Senators who have stood by the New Deal: Barkley of Kentucky, Senate leader; Bulkley of Ohie, Thomas of

Oklahoma, McAdoo of California. In Ohio he favors Senator Bulkley over George Governor and one-time Democratic

In Kentucky he is scheduled to

White, former |

bless Senator Barkley. who is being pressed hard by Governor Chandler,

On his return to the States at |

Penscola, Fla, after a fishing and vacation cruise which will take him the Panama Canal, the President will embark upon the

Baker Demanded Probe The judge at that time said his tele-

phone canversation that ‘we can't stand for Feeney—it must be Char-

and | ley Lutz at any cost.”

Meanwhile, Judge Baker filed with the Indiana Supreme Court a petition to quash its temporary writ prohibiting him frrom conducting

| his own investigation of the primary

ballots. In the petition he charged that Prosecutor Spencer's office was “incapable of conducting an unbiased investigation” Mentioning the fact the State Tax Board had not yet approved his request for a $15,000 probe appropriation, Judge Baker alleged: “The power to conduct the investigation exists regardless of the ability of this Court to compensate anyone for services out of the public moneys.”

Refuse to Give Name

Mr. Hagemeier said at

have heard about the reported tele phone call, but that everyone inter-

| viewed thus far has refused to give any names.

other phase of his crusade—an at- |

tempt to “purge” the party of Democrats who have fought him. First attention will be directed to Senators George of Georgia and Smith of South Carolina, who look coldly on the New Deal.

broader than a personal battle for loyal Senators and a personal vendetta against insurgent ones. He is appealing to those of all political faiths. Millions of Re-

| publicans, for instance, flocked to | his

standard in ‘32 and ‘36. wants to hold them. Consequently, on this trip, the President will assume the role of evangel also. He will call up all the oratorical magic for which he is (Continued on Page Three)

| Republican

“We will continue to investigate the matter until all sources of information have been Mr. Hagemeier said. Jurors today began inspection of ballots in the 13th Ward. They completed their check

! N | of Second Ward ballots yesterday But his political program is much |

Mr. Hagemeier said no attempt will be made to inspect all ballots. Only the ballots cast in wards

| where information of irregularity | has been given will be inspected,

he said. Meanwhile, recount commissioners reported they found “strong evidence that at least 27 ballots in one

least a | dozen persons have said that they |

exhausted,” |

Meanwhile, only a few yards away, workmen were starting construction of a bridge to eliminate the danger spot. Many persons have been killed here, where U.

Republican Avoid Notice of ‘Purge.

Republican candidates on the City and County ticket today were main.

by County Chairman Carl Vandivier in a party organization “purge.” Meeting last night in G. O. P. County headquarters to consider

journed the session without discussion of the ousted ward leaders’

Mr. Vandivier.

office of James W. Ingles, attorney and CG. O. P. faction leader, some of the ex-chairmen discussed their contemplated retaliation against Mr. Vandivier but failed to decide on their future action. Learning that the candidates had named a committee to work with the County Central Committee in campaign plans, the ousted chairmen named a three-man committee to seek a conference with the cane didates’ group. Named on the candidates’ com- | mittee were Edwin Haerle, nominee | for prosecutor; Joseph E. Hartman (and Wilbur A. Royse, Superior Court nominees. Rs temporary chairman of the candidates’ meeting. | Representatives of the ex-chair-men said they would meet soon to continue consideration

| in the party organization.

CLAIM PRICE-FIXING IN MILK INDUSTRY

‘Federal Probe Results Go Before Grand Jury.

| ernment lawyers went before a Federal Grand Jury today with the story of an alleged monopoly and price maintenance conspiracy in the | vast milk industry, particularly in | the Chicago area.

Mr. Haerle served |

United Democrats Seek Platform to Please All: G.O.P. ‘Revolt’ Snubbed

Candidates | Letters by Townsend and

taining a hands-off attitude in the | peace pact, turned today to prepara- | rumpus kicked up by a group of | tion of a State convention platform ward chairmen deposed this week | which will be satisfactory te the

campaign plans, the candidates ad- | form advisory group heard U. 8.

complaint or their threats to unseat | 8 100 per cent New Deal’ national

Meeting at the same time in the | tioned Mr. Minton for more than

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r= | the again |

of | turned over to the regular conventheir fight to retain their standing | tion

CITY

Times Photos.

S. Highway 40 jogs sharply under a trestle.

GAMING LAXITY

| BY PUBLIC AIDS VanNuvs Drafted in Parley.

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| Group Head Says |

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'Ministeria Officials Are ‘Avoiding The Issue.

Democratic leaders, jubilant over

signing of the Townsend-VanNuys | |

| to prosecute illegal lotteries because | BTOUDPS | the public wants to gamble,” the | Rev. C. A. McPheeters, Indianapolis | Ministerial Association president, | charged today. | He denied the claim of T. M. Over- | ley, Better Business Bureau man- | ager, that “more than 50 per cent {of the people enjoy gambling” and | said: “It is the duty of public of- | ficials to enforce the antigambling | laws.” At the same time Paul Pfister, as-

senior Senator and other

as well. In a closed session today, a plat-

Senator Minton and Daniel Tobin, labor leader, who reportedly urged affairs plank. The committee quesan hour. Possibility of a revision or elimination of Indiana's port-of-entry beer system was seen following the appearance before the committee of Hugh Barnhart, Alcoholic Beverages Commission director, and |cution if they use the mails in their Richard Shirley, a commissioner. | schemes or transport lottery tickets It was reported they touched on |or literature in interstate commerce. proposed elimination of the system, Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer Which has been the target of many | and Police Chief Morrissey agreed attacks. | with Mr. Overley that “public VanNuys To See Committee { 9 | tion of lottery operators.” Mr. VanNuys, his Democratic re- | Praises Business Bureau nomination at Tuesday's convention | py. Overley, who charged yester- | virtually assured. was scheduled to day that gambling schemes were | appear this afternoon before the taking $20,000 weekly here, claimed | committee. | that “prosecuting officials are in- | In a press conference vesterday clined to ignore these violations, | following the unity arrangement, | largely because in most instances Senator said he had asked to they are conducted by organizations see the platform draft before it is | that are well known in the community.” The Rev. Mr. McPheeters said! "It may be true that some people | enjoy gambling. But that does not | prevent public officials forcing the laws. They are only

platform committee to be named at district caucuses Monday

night. “I've asked to see the platform because I couldn't run on a plat-

. | 38th St,

| inadequacies of t system by citizens’ protests.

| end’s torrential rains.

| issue” by saying they are “unable |S

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they are subject to Federal prose-|ed two years ago.

opinion is an obstacle to prosecu- |

AIR COOLING IN

PROBED;

SEWER DELAYED

Need for Enclosure Of Pogues Run Noted.

WPA GRANT MADE |

Survey of Situation Over Indianapolis To Be Made.

The Works Board failed to act] again today on the controversial | storm sewer but was | plunged deeper into discussion on the City’s sewer |

Two property owners appeared before the Board to demand that |

Pogues Run be converted into an | inclosed sewer fro mits source to |

| New York St. where it now enters a |

tunnel. The creek, called “an open | sewer” by one official and “a stinking creek” by one of the citizens, | overflowed its banks and flooded | nearby property during last week- |

The East Side area it affects was | revealed by the rains as one of sev- |

| eral districts where sewers are in- | adequate.

Another area—possibly the worst --was the North Side, which is to | be relieved by the 38th St. sewer. |

Public officials are “avoiding the | But a technical dispute over con- |

truction methods has delayed that project nearly two months. City Engineer Henry B. Steeg again | failed to present to the Board comparative figures on the tunnel and | open ditch methods of cunstruction which would enable the Board to advertise for bids on the job,

Maps to Be Made

At the same time, it was announced in Washington today that WPA had approved a $52,000 grant to make maps of the city shcwing locations of sewer and manholes. |

sistant United States District Attor- Local officials said the fund was | ney, warned lottery operators that | for continuation of a

project start=| ¥ | Mrs. Violet Pierson, 935 Dorman St.,, told the Board that the over- | flow of Pogues Run has ruined the foundation of her house, She said: “My property formerly was valued at $3000 and now I couldn't get $500 for it. I can’t rent my house be-

| cause of that stinking creek. Trash

| is dumped into it constantly.

The least you could do would be to clean out the creek bed and post it against dumping.” Robert K. Eby, Board member, said, “It'll be cleaned out next week if T have to go out and clean it myself.”

Cleaning Called Waste

But Edward Workman, 1022 E. Michigan St. said: “It won't do any good to clean the creek bed out.

from en- | Several thousand dollars were spent |

in dredging the bed and it was |

Ground Water Level Falls in ‘Danger Spot’ Here.

WASTE STUDIED

Shrinkage Is Feared; Well Temperature Rises.

By JOHN GUENTHER Air conditioning and the water supply which makes it possible were under investigation by several agencies in Indianapolis today, with

| the possibility that local methods

may he thoroughly overhauled as a result of the surveys. Approximately 200 air-condition= ing systems are in operation here mostly in downtown office build-

| ings, restaurants and theaters. With

a few exceptions, they use well water to carry off the heat.

A check of the situation re-

| vealed:

1. The Indianapolis Water Co. is making a survey to determine the cause for « 10-degree increase in temperature of well water. 2. City authorities are concerned over the load that waste water from air-conditioning systems puts on city sewers, 3. The geology division of the State Conservation Department is investigating a reported state-wide shrinkage in well water supplies, with Indianapolis as one of two “danger spots” in the state. 4. The State Health Board is ine

| terested in the situation from the

health angle. 5. Officials who refused to be identified indicated that regulation of the use and disposal of waste water in air-conditioning systems here may be necessary,

Fear Water Shortage

Investigations are centering on three things: 1. The possibility that the wellwater supply here may be facing a shortage. 2. The “waste” of the water, after it is used. 3. Its effect on the city sewer system, especially during heavy rainstorms when sewers are overloaded. There were 186 air-conditioning systems installed here up to Jan. 1, according to City sewage author= ities. There are about 200 now. These system at their peak dumpan estimated 526,145 gallons of water per hour into the City's sew= ers, officialsssaid. This is more than one-sixth of the three million gallons of water that flow through the sewer mains from all sources every hour, records show. Most air-conditioning systems

U. 8S. District Attorney Michael L. |

CHICAGO, July 8 (U. P.).—Gov- |

Igoe said that he and Leo F. Tier-|

ney, special assistant

General Homer S. Cummings, out- | lined briefly to the jury what they |

expect to show in the case, which is ‘expected to be one of the largest | trust inquiries by the Government | in recent years.

| by the Department of Justic | year-long investigation will | July 18 at a secret Jury. Mr. Igoe volumninous da

ta probably would

| precinct recounted today had been | require the remainder of the sum- | marked by some person other than | mer.

the voters.” The commissioners set aside the

Private Relief Load

(Continued on Page Three)

Up,

Community Fund Says

Industrial, economie, political and

| sentimental forces are operating to

| put people on private relief in spite

As Indianapolis plunged into its third day of midsummer heat, police |

reported that Mrs. Roxanna Thomp- | kins Curry, 60, of 2725 Oxford St. collapsed of heat prostration today at 7 N. Pennsylvania St, and was taken unconscious to City Hosnital. | The Weather Bureau forecast that, although the weather would remain “rather warm,” there would be local thundershowers this afternoon or this evening as heat regulators. Otherwise, the bureau said, the weather today, tonight and tomor- | row would be fair and there would | be no letup in the first really in- | tense heat of the season. Yesterday the thermometer went | to 91 for the year's record high and | today temperatures were running | a little behind yesterday's, |

| of efforts of private relief agencies

to make the nation’s needy selfdependent, Thomas Sheerin, Indi-

said today. Mr. Sheerin, statement to Fund donors, said that

| the transient aid load on private

agencies has nearly tripled in Indianapolis in two vears, and that the private hgency load is increas-

| ing in other fields as well.

This condition, he said, is contray to the philosophical aims of privat tate needy far.ilies, make them self-dependent, and get them off relief. He declared that “at many points

the current program of aid from | the fo

public funds is not such as the

(

lanapolis Community Fund president, |

in his semiannual |

| |

Community Fund directorate and staff would have chosen.” Mr. Sheerin refused to elaborate or particularize. Heads of public aid fund agencies issued brief statements on the Sheerin report. Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Welfare director, said: “Our big job is to get people off relief. resources at all

supporting.”

Stanton T. Bryan, assistant State |

WPA administrator. said:

“The ultimate aim of the WPA |

also is to get people off relief. We

e relief, which is to rehabili- | merely trv to take care of them

while they are on relief. tainly don't go out clients.” Mr. Sheerin’s statement showed llowing comparative figures (Continued on Page Three)

We cerand solicit

If we can find any private | in welfare cases, | the individual is expected to be self- |

| The investigation was said to have |

been broadened to embrace phase of the industry and in the Chicago Board of Health which was accused by the Department of Justice yesterday of aiding in control of milk production and prices

that could be inspected and certified by health authorities. In its statement from Washington, the Department said “it appears that as a result of price maintenance the producer receives an extremely low price for milk in spite of high prices paid by the consumer.”

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national affairs, particularly | Supreme Court and the Reorgan- | ization Bills,” he said. | Assurance that the platform would

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contain no such objectionable fea- | gambling to publi

form inconsistent with my stand on | the |

seeking to avoid the issue by attempting to put responsibility for gambling back on the people.” He praised the work of the Better Business Bureau in bringing the c¢ attention and

| cleaned several times previously, but | here use well water, which normally the money was wasted. comes out of the ground at 55 de=“The creek should be converted | grees, (Continued on Page Three)

rather than surface water | from the city mains, which is about | 80 degrees at the tap.

to Attorney | men, National Committeeman Frank | tions to “consider carefully” lottery

| Governor Townsend were present,

tures was expressed several days ago | Pointed out that ministerial groups | by party leaders. recently protested to Governor y : Townsend against all gambling. He United Front Achieved added that the Indianapolis MinisThe platform advisory committee, | terial Association probably will conheaded by OC. Anderson Ketchum, | Sider lotteries at its next meet.ng, 10th District Chairman and State | 20th from their moral and ecoTax Board secretary, began hearing nomic standpoint. platform proposals of State House Wetter Urges Thought officials and heads of State institu-| Faul C. Wetter, Indianapolis Fedtions this morning. eration of Civic Clubs president, |

were the 11 Democratic Congress-

McHale and National Committee |and gift enterprises they sponsor. | woman Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston.| “Many of the schemes are proSaturday and Sunday will be turned | moted by individuals who use the over to proposals of various civic | institutions only as a guise through organizations. which to cheat the public,” he said. A plank praising the State Ad- Included in Mr. Overley’s attack bingo and

| games, theater bank nights,

businesses | other institutions.

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"POLICE BULLETS KILL |

CLEVELAND MADMAN

CLEVELAND, July 8 (U, P).— Police shot and killed an escaped

| madman today after he had stabbed

and critically wounded a patrolman with a meat knife. The maniac was Matthew Bubich,

(48. Officers blinded him with tear

into the stomach of Patrolman Robert Wehagen. Bubich died in a hospital a few minutes after arrival. Police Surgeon Dr. George P. O'Malley oper-

{ated upon the critically wounded

patrolman. The insame man, a state ward in private sanitarium, had escaped at 3 a. m. by removing a screen from a

and | second-floor window and climbing

down the fire escape in his pajamas.

As a result of Democratic reform | measures, the proposal says, ‘‘prop- | erty tax as a source of Government

revenue has dropped from 86 per

EVEIY | cent in former years to 48 per cent | cludes | i, 1936

. +." and the “relation of | taxes to income paid by the Indiana | farmer has dropped from 20.4 of his income to 4.3 per cent in 1936.” The united front In the Senate race was accomplished after a day MISSOULA, Mont., July 8 (U. P.). —A giant Northern Pacific freight The formal “hatchet-burying” |train locomotive exploded in Hell | ceremony took place at a luncheon | Gate canyon, 27 miles east of here of Democratic leaders in the In- |early today, killing five men and indianapolis Athletic Club, during juring 15 others. It was Montana's which a statement was drafted. The | third train disaster in three weeks. conferees said they agreed that| The blast flattened trees for 300 “complete harmony now prevails,” | yards on either side of the track, that it is ‘definitely understood that | hurled heavy steel plates of the enSenator VanNuys will become a |gine over the train and onto a highcandidate,” and that “in their (the Way 100 vards distant and demol- | conferees) opinion he will be nomi- | ished 10 cars. The wreckage of the | nated.” | engine, one of the largest freight |

Principals Don’t Meet VanNuys

[types built, was blown into the | | Clark Fork River. The explosion was heard iles. The dead: Ernest Weston, engineer. Elva Dunlap, fireman.

Neither Senator nor for

| | m nor did they meet during the day, | but they, and fromer Governor Mc- |

| cago,

| learned | headquarters.

| by advisers and supporters.

Representing the Senator were former Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Democratic mayoralty nominee, and E. Kirk McKinney, former HOLC director for Indiana. There were frequent phone calls by the conferees, presumably to the nearby Spink-Arms Hotel where Mr. (Continued on Page Two) . 4 x »

Ernest Bedilion, brakeman. A 15-year-old transient whose personal effects indicated that his home was in Norfolk, Neb. An unidentified transient. Railroad officials reported that more than 100 transients were riding on the train. Pifty men were said to have been riding in one box

Five Are Killed, 15 Hurt In Locomotive Explosion

The two other recent Montana

| train wrecks occurred on the Chi-

sons were killed in one at Custer Creek, and a CCC enrollee was killed in a second near Roundup. Cause of the derailment was not immediately at division

An emergency crew was dispatched to the scene of the wreck

las soon as it had been reported. | Six of the injured were brought to

the Northern Pacific Hospital here for treatment. They were: Charles Zaremba, Plainfield, N. J. Sam Watson Four men whose last names were Medhus, Cosette, Zambid and Julian. NEW CASTLE, Pa. July 8 (U.P). | —FPuneral arrangements were being made for four ‘teen-age girls who were killed instantly late yesterday by a passenger train as they took MH short-cut over the railroad tracks

Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pa-| | cific Railroad. More than 45 per-

Ground Water Falls

Most downtown wells are getting their water from gravel beds at a depth of 100 to 125 feet. It is the reported 10-cdegree jump in the | temperature of this water that is responsible for the Water company survey. One explanation for the increase is that water is being taken from | the ground faster than it comes in, the demand progressively upply, and a definite shortage the eventual outcome, State geologists. report that the | ground water level is dropping | throughout the state, making it necessary to sink deeper wells everywhere to continue to get water. They have put down 90 test

| wells in different parts of the state | to check on the situation. { Indianapolis and Anderson are showing the greatest shrinkage, they | said. | In the event of a shortage of well | water here, investigators said, there are two methods to continue airconditioning systems in operation: 1. Revamp the systems to operate | with water of higher temperature. { 2. Recirculate waste well water, | which would serve the double pur- | pose of conserving the well supply | and relieving the load on city sewlers, Recirculation is required by |ordinance in several large cities now, a water company official said. The situation is under consideration by the Indianapolis Air Condi- | tioning Council, according to Wil- | liam Freije, president. |

JAMES ROOSEVELT TO REPLY TO ARTICLE

ROCHESTER, Minn, July 8 (U, | P.).—~James Roosevelt, the President's secretary-son, said today in | a formal reply to a recent Saturday Evening Post article that Col« lier’s magazine has agreed to pub- | lish all the data on his insurance business, Young Roosevelt said that “with a view to correcting improper conclusions drawn from statements so adroitly dressed up to resemble a factual account,” he had offered Collier's “the facts and access to all my personal and business files and records concerning my operations in the insurance business.”