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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 107

HUGHES

PRIVATE SLUM

CLEARANGE IN

CITY 1S URGED §

Real Estate Head Proposes! ‘Tax Holiday’ to Spur

Building. | CITES LOW VALUATIONS:

Plan Is Alternative Government Program, Whelden Says.

: ‘ } A private slum-clearance pregram | to include a five- !

for Indianapolis,

vear “tax holiday” on

struction in the cleared areas, was | presented to the Indianapolis Real | Estate Board today by its president, i

George T. Whelden, Mr he said, as posals for a Government ance program. He added clearance program, financed by private money, would be aided at 1is time by reduced property valua-

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an alternative to pro-

clea

local

1e proposal follows agitation for tion of a local Housing AuthorFederal funds for housing improvements A tion authorimsng the Mavor to crean Authority has been before City Council since 1. and Adelph J. Fritz, InFederation of Labor secre-| tarv and Democratic councilman, | said he will ask that early action he taken

on T} rea

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ate such pending last

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Calls on Real Estate Men | Walter E. Stanton, Indiana HousAuthority executive secretary! and legal adviser, who recently said | the City has been deprived of $7,-i 000,000 in Federal funds because a | local housing authority has not been | organized, will discuss the situation | at the *“®Wamncil meeting next Moncay night, Mr. Fritz said. Mr. Whelden said real estate men have not given enough thought to slum-clearance, and declared it is me they took an active part in ing the problem There are two kinds of residentia! areas in the Citv where slum-clear-e is needed, he said 1. Half-and-half sections—a combination of good and bad housing. where large-scale clearance would prove costly in compensation to owners of the better homes. 2. Older residential sections surrounding the downtown business where homes have sanitary and modern heating but are of obsolete construcevesore” due to lack of

ing ing

sol

district conveniences plant tion and an

proper maintenance,

Proposed Waiving of Taxes Mr

owing plan Board 1. Selection of areas to be cleared some public hodv, such as the Plan Commission i Legislation to authorize the! County Assessor to waive all taxes on any new improvements erected within such areas within five years after construction. 3. Reassessment of property in such areas to lower valuations and encouragement of modernization

Whelden fo

the folEstate

suggested the Real

City

for

new con- |

Wheldenintroduced the plan, |

local slum | al

1 | | resolu- | | i |

Thomas Thurlow

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LOCAL RAIN BRINGS RELIEF FROM HEAT.

TEMPERATURES

72 73 74 76

0a. m,. .. 11 a.m. 12 (Noon) ip.om...

local thunderstorm in the early hours today gave perspiring Indian-

apolis residents a few hours relief from the heat wave which sent the mercury to 91 at 3:40 p. m. yvesterdav, The mercury fell to 71 at 4 a.m. todav. Generally fair and slightly cooler was forecast for tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. The thunderstorm early todav was marked by high wind, which at times reached a velocity of more than 25 miles an hour. Only .02 inch of rain was recorded.

FT. WAYNE, July 14 (U. P) A wind, rain and electrical storm which swept across northeastern In- | diana yesterday and early today | caused thousands of dollars damage. | a survey showed. Fruit trees were damaged and growing crops were blown down.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

13 ) Movies 15 | 14 | Mrs. Ferguson 14 11 iMusic ....... 23 14 Obituaries « 11 . 22 | Pyle 13 23 Questions 13 14 Radio 23 . 23 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 14 Scherrer 14 Serial Story 22 : Society 18, 3 Sports 18. 19, 13 State Deaths. 14, Wiggam ....

Broun .. “a Circling City, Clapper . Comics Crossword .. Editorials Financial Flynn Forum Grin, BReay In Indpls Jane Jordan. . Johnson .....

| Harry P. M. Connor

FORECAST; Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler,

Edward Lund

THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1938

Y; 3

Entered at Postoffice,

Katharine Hepburn

The Hughes

as BSecond-Class Indianapolis,

FINAL HOME

EXTRA

Matter Ind.

RICE THREE CENTS

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DAYS, 19 HOURS

SLICES WORLD

GIRDLING RECORD BY FOU

Around-the-World Plane »

HEPBURN DUE AT NEW YORK

‘Actress Leaves Summer | Home as Fliers Speed East. |

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. July 14 | (U, P.).—Katharine Hepburn, screen and stage star, whose engagement to Howard Hughes has been reported frequently and de- | | nied, left hurriedly today by autos | | mobile from the summer home of |

her parents at Fenwick Point. it was assumed she was driving |

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1437 MILES

TREX

ARCPIC OCEAN

AANA

W ay ARISE

4; | upon his arrival from Minneapolis Mie as he finished his round-the-world | flight. [Within 10 minutes after the news was flashed that Mr. Hughes’ plane | had landed at Minneapolis, the oS family car headed toward the Bos- | ton Post Road. Miss Hepburn was believed the only passenger. Miss Hepburn’s name has been | linked with that of Mr. Hughes for | | more than a year. Previously, and after her Mexi- | can divorce from Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1034, she had been | rumored engaged to Leland Hay- | ward, her business manager who was a frequent visitor at the Hart- | ford home of her parents. | i ——————————————.

$912,190 SET ASIDE FOR PARK PROJECTS

| | | 1200 Acres to Be Developed | By WPA Here.

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UNITED STATES

| HUGHES PLANE | WIN

TOP AT

EED—260 M.

A $912,190 WPA appropriation to | | be used to develop more than 200 | acres of additional public parks in | | Indianapolis was announced to- | day. Carl Kortepeter, Marion County WPA administrator. said the money will he used to continue the de- | velopment program financed by | | WPA funds which has heen un- | der way for more than two years. Major developments include: John W. Holliday Park in the Crow's | | Nest area, on the far North side, | | 80 acres; two West Side parks along Big and Little Eagle Creek, 115 acres; and addition to Brookside

Park, east of Sherman Drive, about 20 acres. Ground for the Holliday Park

| fainted.

R DAYS

' Races in From Minneapolis at 300 Miles an

Hour; Conquers Tossing Winds Over

Rockies on Way E

ast From Alaska.

LA GUARDIA WELCOMES AIR HEROES

Thirty Thousand at Field Cheer as Aviators

Land;

“Flight Was

Wonderful,”

Millionaire Sportsman Says.

FLOYD BENNETT FIELD, New York, July 14 (U. P.).

(Indianapolis Time) today in the dust of three continents.

| —Howard Hughes, first man ever to circle the world within | the span of four days, landed here at 12:3715 p. m.

a superairplane stained with

Like a thoroughbred that is fastest on the run down the stretch for home, Mr. Hughes and his four companions

roared in from Minneapolis on

LUND'S FIANCEE FAINTS AT FIELD

Girl Couldn’t Stand Fanfare. Of Welcoming Fliers | Back Home.

FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, | New York, July 14 (U, P.).—Thou-

sands jammed Floyd Bennett Field | to welcome Howard Hughes and his | crew home, but one who wanted most to be there fainted before the | triumphal hour arrived and was taken away. The one whose nerves couldn't stand the days and nights waiting and the excitement of final hours was Elinor Hoagland, 19-year-old | Brooklyn girl who is engaged to Ed Lund, engineer on the Hughes flight. She had been staying at the field ever since he flight began Sunday, | sleeping on a cot in a hangar. Last | night she couldn’t sleep at all. As the time for arrival approached, she | grew more and more nervous and | Friends decided it would be best to take her home, where | she will greet her sweetheart later. Wives Are Entertained Wives of three of the fliers were | entertained at luncheon by Grove: Whalen, president of the New York | World's Fair, and then drove here | with him and other officials with a screaming police escort. The wives of the three ha

| fliers — Mrs. Harry P. M, Connor,

Mrs. Richard Stoddart and Mrs. Thomas Thurlow—posed for pictures and tried to be calm. Mrs. Connor, |

| whose husband was the navigator, |

seemed the most nervous of the |

| the stout ship

| was taken home.

| was donated to the city by John W {| Holliday, Indianapolis philan- | thropist. It will be converted into | one of the outstanding botanical | gardens in the country, A. C. Sallee, Park superintendent said. It is located west of N. Meridian St. along banks of White River, Bridle paths, bridges and a large wading pool will be built in addition to the gardens, Mr, Kortepeter said. Between 8000 and 12,000 men will

.0.RSHOWSHOW | 7'ribe Ready for All-Stars; FEENEY SHOWS LOSS Page to Oppose Wyatt IW SHERIFF RECOUNT

T0 SNUB GRACEFULLY

NATIONAL AFFAIRS ROOSEVELT indorsement rated by shading. WPA'S “punitive action” Kentucky is warning. MONOPOLY probers get Brookings findings. SENATE to probe State's election,

THOMAS wins Oklahoma.

Californians Hope For ‘My Friend’ Title

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer

PRESIDENT

unnamed

by 60,000 in

WITH ROOSE-

| VELT'S PARTY, SAN FRANCISCO, { July

14 —There ended here today

the first phase of the Ronsevelt ‘party purge” of 1938, which has

| added to the lexicon of politics a |

new section on how to snub and how to praise. The President reached the Pacific Coast finally to review the fleet and if possible to dodge, aboard a cruiser, a fresh horde of politicians clamoring for a crumb of blessing in California's confused contests. He was welcomed at Crockett. across the bay, by Senator MecAdoo, Governor Merriam and 1800 (Continued on Page Two) >

| (Editorial, Page 11: Photos and | Other Details, Page 18)

i | For the first time since the inception of the American Association All-Star game five years ago,

the Indianapolis Indians will play

host tonight at Perry Stadium to]

| the league's midseason feature,

| Ray Schalk’s Redskins, coleaders [in the championship race with St.

| A

PROBABLE STARTING LINFUPS

L-STARS INDIANS , (Columbus) eof Pofahl, ss (K. C,) 3» Sherlock. . (Minn.) rf . « CO If St. Paul) 2b , (Toledo) 1h Re Miller, a,c. se cker, ( J) oe SD

Wyatt, ball” and mentioned Landis’ successor. George M. Trautman, American

L I A 2h \ { i A

aw, ib McCormick, eof age. »

| Paul, won the right to stage the |Association president, checked in |event as a result of being in undis- | last night and announced that, ac{puted possession of first place on |cording to acceptances of his invi-

| the morning of July 5.

tations, Indianapolis is destined to | Charley

| The All-Star setup will send the |b the biggest spot on the baseball | Indians against the pick of the | Map today.

other seven clubs and will pit Vance | Page of the Tribe, the league's leading pitcher, against Joe Wyatt, the { circuit shutout king, at the start of | hostilities.

Will Harridge, American League president, and his staff, are to accompany Judge Landis from Chicago.

often as Mr. !

of recounting votes

i bringing total net gain for 243 pre-

| |

| Board following the Primary

| that he would pick up the votes | primary here,

Judge W. G. Bramham, head of |

and the International

Baseball notables from the major | the minor leagues, has made reser- ! and minor leagues assembled in In- | vations

dianapolis today to see the attrac-| League, Southern Association and |

tion.

to be Judge Kenesaw

Landis, high commissioner of base- |

ball, and his staff. Judge Landis is scheduled to arrive at 5 p. m,, accompanied hy Mrs Landis and his secretarv, Leslie O'Connor, who, as the right-hand man

in the Commissioner's Chicago of-

‘fice, is known as “secretary of base- -»

Heading the delegation was | other loops were to send representaMountain | tives.

Individual clubs in the National and American Leagues were to have representatives here and every American Association club sent one or more delegates. President Trautman took advantage of the situation to call a league meetin

routine business. 4

\ 5

g and discuss | Commissioners and the only change | Somerset Road.

be employed on the projects.

G. 0. P. TO DISCUSS | POLL SAFEGUARDS

Confident He Will Regain Enough to Win.

| | |

For the first time

cincts 2249, Yesterday Mr, | Feeney's net gains totaled 2260, | y . : While it has which wiped out the 2255 lead given verify ® the Lutz by the Canvassing i,

nomination | that the meeting be held.”

necessary to win the in the remaining 93 precincts yet |

te a new recount total | BODY IS FOUND NEAR WIMBLEDON COURTS

is 16.622, compared with his Can- | vassing Board total of 16313 for the 243 precincts. Mr. Lutz’ re- | WIMBLEDON, England, July 14 with his original 18,629. (U. P.).—The body of a well-dressed Affecting the final totals will| woman of about 30, with the face validity of more than 3000 ballots | early today opposite the all-England challenged by both Mr. Feeney and | Wimbledon tennis courts. votes have been counted by the | body in the “lover's lane” named The woman was

count total now is 16,689 compared | be the Court's decision on the | battered and throat cut, was found Mr. Lutz. Most of these challenged A passing motorist discovered the not identified Sn

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i rived, and direct

| mitted beyond

three. “I'll just stand around and look | at my husband,” she said.

| Mrs. Thurlow said she was afraid | Building at the field.

| her husband would be “pretty much public property tonight,” and “I'll

a 40-mile tail wind, hitting at

| to New York to greet Mr. Hughes | {jmes the highest speed of the entire flight of 14,690 miles.

When the wheels of the big plane bumped on the concrete landing field, Mr. Hughes had cut in half the best previous round-the-world record—186 hours 49!%5 minutes, made by the late Wiley Post in 1933. He had crossed three continents and two oceans since leaving this same field at 5:20 p m. (Indianapolis Time) Sunday. His unofficial round-the-world time was 91 hours and 17' minutes. Triumph of Aviation It was a shining achieveitent—ohe of the great triumphs of aviation—— for the five daring, weary men and that carried them through the frozen blasts of the Arctic and the hot winds of prairie

| America between two sunsets.

The end came under gray skies on a field where 30,000, aroused with admiration as they had never been since Lindbergh came home, waited to see, listen and cheer, Among the thousands peering intn the sky as the plane came down were the wives of three members of the Hughes crew—Mrs. Harry Cone nor, Mrs. Richard Stoddart and Mrs.

| Thomas Thurlow,

The excitement was too much for

| pretty Elinor Hoagland, 19-year-old

fiancee of flight

Ed Lund, Mr. Hughss’ engineer. She fainted and Katharine Hepburn, movie actress and frequently

| reported engaged to Mr, Hughes, left

her Connecticut home early today and headed toward New York.

Sun Under Clouds

Mr. Hughes’ big silver ship ape peared over Floyd Bennett Field at 12:34 p. m. There was a ceiling of about 1000 feet, the sun was under clouds and a spatter of rain was falling. The big ship streaked in fast at about 800 feet and circled from the west. Twice Mr, Hughes curved her around the Administration Lower and lower he came. Then he put her nose toward the southeast and set

| just have to wait until the public | her down on a short runway.

| gets through with him.” the welcomers

Hughes fooled

At the moment the tires touched

| The crowd, recalling how Mr. the ground—the unofficial landing IN| time—the clock stood at

12:37'%

Paris by arriving ahead of schedule, | p. m. (Indianapolis Time).

started streaming early to the field oy the outskirts of Brooklyn. By noon 6000 persons were at the | field. The boulevard that leads to it was clogged with cars seeking park- | ing space, which rapidly was becom- | ing hard to find.

1100 Police on Duty

JAPAN 1S EXPECTED TO CANCEL OLYMPICS

TOKYO, July 14 (U. P.).—Japan, | embroiled in a costly war with | China, virtually abandoned today | the 1940 Olympic Games scheduled | to be held in Tokyo. Koichi Kido, minister of welfare, announced his department wished to cancel the games. The Cabinet will act on his decision tomorrow. Informed persons close to the Government and to the committee | in charge of the 1940 games, predicted the Cabinet would approve it, and that Japan would request some other country to act as host to the world's athletes in 1940. Officials believed, however, that other countries would be reluctant to accept responsibility for the games on such short notice, and saw a possibility that the 1940 Olympics would be canceled entirely,

Mr. Hughes taxied the ship up to the administration building. Thirty thousand throats smothe ered him in cheers.

Siren Screams Greeting

A fire trucks’ siren wailed a greeting as the big ship's taxi speed slackened. Twenty-four motorcycle policemen sputtered out toward the ship to form an escort for the fliers.

| The plane went on through a lane

of the policemen, barely now. Mr. Hughes brought her home the way he took her out—at the controls himself. Ten minutes after the landing the fliers still were in the cabin. Grover Whalen, head of the New York World Fair, walked out to

moving

{ the ship. Field attendants carried

a big bouquet of flowers to the plane. Mayor LaGuardia and Mr, Whalen climbed into the cabin, but the crowd still had not had a glimpse of Mr. Hughes or his companions except through the window of the ship. At 12:47 p. m. Mr. Hughes stepped out of the plane. Photographers clustered around and the air was bright with exploding flash bulbs. The four members of the crew, cramped and stiff from their long confinement in the cabin, followed Mr. Hughes out of the plane. The ship, glittering like a new half dollar when it left here Sunday, had been turned a dull gray by wind r~nd weather, Mr. Hughes and his companions, who had heavy beards when they left Minneapolis, were clean-shaven (Continued on Page Three)