Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1938 — Page 1

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BOY DROWNED ~ ATUNGUARDED SPOT ON RIVER

Negro Went Into Stream Only Quarter Mile From Supervised Beach.

FRIENDS RECOVER BODY

- Third to Meet Same Fate In Marion County This Summer.

Eleveh-year-old Virgil Akers Jr., Negro, drowned in White River today at an unguarded spot onefourth of a mile from a City supervised swimming beach. . It was the third drowning of the season in Marion County. : Virgil, who could~not swim, went to the river at®the Belt Railroad trestle with Oliver Harper, 11, of 945 N. Belmont Ave. and Daniel

Coleman, 13. of 948 Belmont Ave. He was the only one of the three who went into the water. His companions, who jsaw him struggle when he went | beyond his ‘depth, cried for help. |

Two Recover Body

Robert Payne, 20, 900 N. Belmgnt Ave., and Vernon Johnson, 29, of! 434 N. California St., attracted by

the boy's screams. ran to the river’

and dove into the water. They recovered the body in 15 feet of water. squad in charge of Sergt. Otis Baker worked for 30 minutes in an effort to revive the boy. The body was taken to City Morgue. ! As a crowd of 100 persons lined the banks, Virgil's sister, Dorothy, 15, told officers her brother “left home to play.”

" Father WPA Worker

Virgil was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Akers, 943 N. Traub. Ave. The father is a WPA worker. Survivors, besides the parents and sister, are another sister, Mary Elizabeth, 13, and a brother, James, 6. Victims in other Marion County drownings this summer were Billy : Marsiscke, 7, ‘who lost his life in White River at. Ravenswood in June,

and Robert Moulton; 10, of 2150 N. |;

New Jersey St., Apt. 1, who lost his life in Fall Creek at Ruckle St. last week.

BRITISH PICKABACK ARRIVES AT HORTA MONTREAL, July 26 (U. P).— ‘The Bhitish pickaback seaplane Mercury landed at Horta, Azores, at 9:24 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), a

wireless message to the offices of Trans-Canada Airlines said today.

German Seaplane

Speeding to Azores

PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y, July 26 (U. P.).—The German seaplane Nordmeer was ever the At- ~ Iantic today, speeding toward the . Azores Islands, 2397 miles from the harbor here where it was catapulted at 7 p. m. yesterday from the steamer Friesenland.

SIDLEY QUIZ CONTINUES TORONTO, Ont., July 26 (U. P.). —Chief Coroner Smirle Lawson expected to question only two witnesses today before adjourning until Aug. 2 an inquest into the death of Mrs. Maybelle Horlick Sidley, Ra- _ Cine, Wis, malted milk heiress.

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 117

‘Honor Before Peace, Chamberlain Declares; Russians, Japs Clash

| THE FOREIGN SITUATION | TOKYO—Russian border troops reported repulsed. | LONDON—Honor before peace, Chamberlain says. | SHANGHAI—Kiukiang falls to Japanese.

| JERUSALEM—Arabs call

| HENDAYE—Loyalists pierce Rebel lines. | MOSCOW—Former prosecutor called “enemy of people.”

Report 300 Russians:

Repulsed by Japanese | TOKYO, July 26 (U. P.).—Japanese newspaper and news agency dispatches from Manchukuo reported serious clashes between Russian and .Japanese-Manchukuan forces on the Siberian frontier today near the scene of last week’s dangerous dispute. : The newspaper Nichi Nichi, in a special dispatch from Mutankiang, Manchukuo, asserted that 300 Russian soldiers crossed the frontier and were thrown back by Manchukuan troops after a five-hour fight. Previously the Domei News Agency had reported that 20 Russian infantrymen and 30 cavalrymen crossed the frontier and were thrown back by frontier guards. The Domei dispatch said that the Russians crossed the frontier at an unspecified point, and penetrated into Manchukuo for a distance of 110 yards before they were repulsed. Reports Town Seized

. But the Nichi Nichi dispatch gave details of what, if they were correctly reported, was a fight on a bigger scale. The dispatch said that 300 Russians crossed the Ussuri River in four gunboats, seized the town of Yaolintze on the Manchukuan side and burned houses. Manchukuan border guards fired on the Russians and there was severe fighting until the Russians retreated after five hours, ‘it was said. { Neither dispatch mentioned cas< ualties. Jap Envoys Return

The report of a new clash came at a moment when it looked as if the hill incident not only might be liquidated but might lead to a sober effort to prevent such incidents in future. Only a few hours before its dispatch reporting the new “clash, Domei had reported that a group

| of Japanese soldiers, sent to ne-

gotiate with commanders of the Russian troops on the disputed hill, had returned safely to the JapaneseManchukuan lines. The messengers had been absent for nearly a week

-and occasional references fo them

in dispatches from the front had contained a note of anxiety.

Arabs Call Strike in

Bombing Protest

JERUSALEM, July 26 (U. P).— Arabs called ‘a general strike in the Jerusalem area today and many Arabs in other cities left their jobs in protest against yesterday’s bomb explosion in the vegetable market at Haifa. , Authorities reported the situation

throughout ‘the country tense but

under control. The first clash of what, it was feared, might be .another black day occurred here, when a Jew was stabbed and critically wounded. : A tabulation showed that yesterday’s casualty toll was the largest in all the rioting between Jews and Arabs. The death of several more wounded in the Haifa bombing brought the total there to 46 dead— 42 Arabs and four Jews. Fifty-six wolinded—43 Arabs and 13 Jews— remained in hospital. In the entire country deaths totaled 56, 49 Arabs and seven Jews, and the total of wounded was 88, 70 Arabs and 18 Jews. ‘ af

Rebels Admit Loyalist Gain in Sudden Thrust

HENDAYE, July 26 (U. P).— Spanish Loyalists, in a sudden offensive on the Mediterranean front, have crossed the Ebro River, anchor line of the Rebel left wing, at several points along a 50-mile front, it was disclosed today. . A Rebel official communique, admitting that the Loyalists had (Continued on Page Two)

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BETTER TREN IN MIDWES

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE CHICAGO — Federal ~~ Reserve District reports improved trade factors. LAFAYETTE~Ind prospects varied. INDIANAPOLIS—Frank Finney forecasts better used-car market. NEW YORK—Stocks mark tim in quiet trade. ; Sie WASHINGTON — Federal - Reserve reporis investments advance 173 millions.

Indianapolis Sales Show Smallest Drop ;

Times Special : CHICAGO, July 26.—Indianapolis department store sales in June this year were 12.8 per cent below June last year, the smallest drop of any recorded by the Seventh District Federal Reserve in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. George J. Schaller, Federal Re-

serve Bank of Chicago, said in a report today that although the level of Seventh District industry and trade in June removed sharply below that of a year ago, ‘several favorable factors evidenced themselves ‘during the month.

NEW YORK, July 26 (U. P.).—Stocks marked time today in rather quiet (trade. American Telephone resisted the trend, however, and rose more than two points to above 144. Aviations also met independent support. ‘Bendix featured with 13 points gain to a new high of 20%. (Further details, Page 15.)

“Production in several phases was increased; wholesale and retail distributions gained, counter-season-ally in some instances; and inventory positions were further improved in both manufacturing and trade groups,” the report said.

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Czech Conferences

LONDON, July 26 (U. P.).—“Let no one imagine that although we seek peace, we are willingpto sacrifice British honor and British national interests,” Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today in debate on the Czechoslovakia minority problem. Mr. Chamberlain said the Government would not abandon the position it has taken that settle-

ment of the Spanish question is conditional on bringing the proposed British-Italian agreement into operation. 3 The Government, he said, will do its utmost to obtain the withdrawal of foreign volunteers “so that Spain will cease to be a menace to the peace of Europe.” Regarding the Czechoslovak situation, Mr. Chamberlain confirmed previous information that Viscount Runciman, former president of the British Board of Trade, would be sent to Praha to investigate the minorities problem and try to suggest means of settlement. He said the government's dec cision to send Runciman resulted | from a suggestion of the Czecho- | slovak government. Announcing Britain's desire to avert general war over the German minority demands in Czechoslovakia, the Prime Minister declared that no one could disagree that the government's main aim is. the establishment of peace and the removal, as far as possible, of the potential causes of -conflict. : After - his reference to British honor, he said: “The tremendous power accumulated by our rearmament is a guaranty of our ability to defend our: selves if attacked.” Calls Runciman ‘Mediator’ - British-French friendship, he de- |- clared, “is a solid buttress of peace, and is. strengthened by. the conversations of Viscount Halifax (foreign secretary) in Paris, the result of which was that no new committments were entered into but there were, general discussions in complete accord.” .

‘God of War’ Troops Driven Back by Japs s3the: cities —it3 — 0 oii SHANGHAI, July 26 (U. P.).—The |p Other cities include Ft. Wayne and

Chinese Army defending Hankow in ; ; : the Yangtse River Valley began a |Late Planting Cited by

general retxeat today, a Japanese Purdue Experts ‘Army commuhique asserted. : Times Special

The Ja formally occupied e Japanese formally occup LAFAYETTE, July = 26—Wide

Kiukiang, a key position on the ; 11y river 135 miles below Hankow, today | Variation in the condition and prospective yield of Indiana crops was

mid-July were in fair to good condition, that there was a slight improvement in the steel business in June; that production of packing house commodities expanded during. June above a year ago; and that who esale groups in the district had a larger dollar volume of sales during June Shah duting May, arg TE, - Department store trade “was reported as follows:

Pct. Chan Pct. n| June, 193 1st Bat 1058 From

From June, 1937 1st Half 1937 . Net Sales Stocks Net Sales Indianapolis —~114 2 — 9.

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Again Up to 90 for City

TEMPERATURES LT 1am... 76 - 12 (Noon). 8 1pm... 83 2p m....

87 89 . 0. 91

It reached 90 again today as a cooling thundershower forecast for last night failed to materialize. However, the Weather Bureau predicted showers or thunderstorms for .tonight or tomorrow, but added that they would not change the tem-perature-much.

'. MT. VERNON, Ind. July 26 (U. P.)~—It is anyone’s guess as to what the temperature is here today as a heat wave struck the city. : Someone stole the official Government thermometer from the yard of Weather Observer Guy B. Green.

The mercury reached 91 yesterday afternoon and was expected to duplicate that mark today. Excessive heat yesterday caused the prosiration of two persons, George Berry, 48, of 2405 Wheeler St., and Willis ‘Pool, 78, of 325 N. Oakland Ave.

MAYOR TO SEEK * RAILROADS AID

Boetcher Promises to Press For Help in Track Elevation Work.

Mayor Boetcher, in a telegram to The Times from his vacation retreat at Ludington, Mich., today, said “efforts will be made to obtain the finanical co-operation of the railroads” for South Side track elevation. Mr. Boetcher’s statement followed Washington reports that the application for funds for the $3,035,000 project may be turned down by PWA officials because the railroads have given no definite assurance of co-operation. : ~The PWA application was filed by City Engineer Henry B. Steeg at en infornied of the Wiishington reports,- Mr. Steég said "The City- has done everything in its power” to obtain funds for South Side track elevation. J. J. Liddy, Indianapolis Union

8 | Railways superintendent, said there

had been no change in the situation since the eonference between railroad officials and the Mayor more than six ‘weeks ago.

STEPHENSON TO FACE COURT

NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 26 (U. P.).—D. C. Stephenson, former KuKlux Klan leader, probably will appear in Circuit Court here Oct. 24,

Judge Cassius M:. Gentry has indicated in ordering a hearing on his

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petition for a new trial.

rather than retire, to withdraw upriver. : At the same time Japanese warships moved three miles = above Kiukiang and began shelling the retreating Chinese. The United States gunboat, Monocacy, was reported in the immediate vicinity along with the British gunboat, Cockshafer,

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URGES U. S. TO SHUN FOREIGN _ POLITICS

Hamilton Says War Would Bring U. S. Dictator.

NEW YORK, July 26 (U. P).—A youth, tentatively identified as John Ward of Chicago, walked out on a ledge on the 17th floor of the Gotham Hotel today and threatened to leap far down to the street. (At 1:45, Indianapolis time, he had been on the ledge for one hour and 15 minutes.) Police roped off the area to hold back the thousands who crowded around the intersection. The youth paced back and forth along the narrow floor ledge high above the shopping business section at Fifth Ave. and 55th St. The crowd below, firemen and police shouted to him not to jump. s Hotel officials said Ward and his sister, Mrs. Katherine Bull, came to the hotel to visit Mr.’and Mrs. Patrick Valentine, socially prominent in New York and Chicago.

. SALEM, Ill, July 26 (U. P).— Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee warned the United States today to stay out of the international poker game of power politics. Involvement in another major war, Mr. Hamilton told the 55th annual Marion County soldiers’ and sailors’ reunion, inevitably would re-

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Thousands Watch Youth Pacing 17 th-S tory Ledge

have engaged in an argument in the Valentine suite and suddenly rushed to the window. He stepped out and vanished. His sister believed he had jumped and called the hotel manager. Ward, however, took to the ledge and began pacing back and forth. Mrs. - Bull, learning that her brother had not jumped, pleaded with him to return to the room. Fifth Avenue was blocked as far north as 58th Street, while 55th Street, directly in front of the hotel, was closed to traffic.

tween two rooms—1714 and 1713, smoking cigarets and flipping the butts down into the street. . * Several times Ward advanced to the brink of the ledge and ihe crowd gasped. Once he reached for a glass of water that had ‘been placed on a window sill for him. He bent low to pick it up and again the crowd shouted: |

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any the world ever has known. Ward, about 28, was reported to

When Street Department workers dug in 58th St. between. Carrollion and Guilford Aves. to find the

cause of a sewer obstruction, they discovered an underground ‘spring or river with inch pipe and a power pump barely pavement

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‘POISONING TRY ONHAPPY'S LFE; AD SAYS

NATIONAL POLITICS

LOUISVILLE—Three attempts made to poison Chandler, aid says. rl : LAFAYETTE—Roosevelt would lose in 3d term try, Gallup says. ; SAN ANTONIO — Maverick blames defeat on “silent” antiFDR dollars. - WASHINGTON — Survey shows 23 House members not to return. ’ HARRISBURG — Legislature starts action to block jury probe. PRESIDENT sails on from fisherman’s paradise.

Police Doubt Governor

1 Victim of Poison Plot

LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 26 (U. P.) —Insisting that Governor A. B. Chandler’s current illness is the result of an attempt to poison him, Maj. Joseph Burman, head of the State Bureau .of Identification, said today that it whs the third such attempt against the Governor's life. One such attempt was made at a roadside stand near Covington, and a second at Harlan, Maj. Burman said. Maj. Burman has charge of Governor - Chandler's bodyguard. “They tried to get the Governor twice before and they tried twice to get me,” Maj. Burman said. He said he had noiiced “some fellows not for us following us.” ‘He said he hadn’t mentioned it before “for fear of giving other people ideas.”

Brands Claim Hoax

Joseph Stewabt, chief of detectives here, iss scribing the claim that the Governor had been po d as “a bedtime political story anda deliberate hoax for campaign publicity purposes.” “Dr. J. W. Bryan signed an affidavit to the effect that he believed the Governor had been poisoned,” Stewart added. “He cannot get another reputable physician to agree with him and our investigation proves the whole thing is a hoax.”

The Governor was stricken by a stomach ailment early Friday after he had: completed a radio broadcast from his suite in a Louisville hotel. The illness had been diagnosed as indigestion. Last night, Dr. Bryan, resident physician ‘of the hotel, where Governor Chandler maintains his headquarters, reported in a notarized statement that the Governor had been poisoned by water he had drunk during the broadcast. “The Governor is a victim of poisoned water,” he said. “I do not know what kind of poison it was, but a quantity would have caused death. I presume it was administered by an outside party.” Doctor Convinced When informed of the police announcement that the case would be dropped, Dr. Bryan insisted he had facts to substantiate his charge. Governor Chandler had recovered, sufficiently last night to deliver a radio broadcast, speaking from his bed in the State House at. Frankfort. He was taken there in an

‘| ambulance Sunday.

“I don’t know whether it was poisoning or not,” Governor Chandler said. “All I know .is that I woke up at 2:30 a. m.- Friday suffering from chills and cramps. - Anyway, I'm practically well now and so it’s all over. Just say for me I've got Barkley whipped.”

F.D.R. Would Lose Third Term, Gallup Says

Senator William Jenner (R. Shoals), minority floor leader, said he was prepared to introduce a resolution in the . Senate this afternoon to place that body “on record as opposing a third term for President Roosevelt.” Administration leaders term it a “heckling” measure and gave it little chance of passage.

. LAFAYETTE, July 26 (U. P).— Dr. George A. Gallup, director of the Institute of Public Opinion, asserted here yesterday that President Roosevelt would not be successful seeking a third term because

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WALPIN QUITS AS STATE AGENT

Purchasing Post Goes ' to L. L. Needler of Farm Bureau.

State Purchasing Agent Charles McAlpin, “has resigned effective Aug. 1,” the Governor's cffice snnounced today. ; He is to be succeeded by L. L. Needler, legislative representative of the Indiana Farm Bureay. When asked to contin, rept that he was leaving his t, Mr. McAlpin said “I'd rather not discuss that question at this time. I have no plans for the future.” The Governor could not be reached for comment. Mr. Needler said: ; “I will resign my Farm Bureau post. I will make a complete statement on my policy in the purchasing department as soon as I have had time to size up the situation.

First Named in 1933

“You can say, though, that the State of Indiana and the folks that come to the Department will get a square deal as far as I am able to give it to them.” Mr. Needler has been connected with the Farm Bureau for 12 vears, as organization director and sec-retary-treasurer and legislative director. He is married and is the father of four boys. He iives at 6150 Michigan Road. Governor Townsend is also a former organization director ‘of ‘the Farm Bureau, having held the position before his election as Lieutenant Governor in 1932. Mr. McAlpin was named assist-: ant purchasing agent under Paul Fry in 1833 by former Governor McNutt. He became purchasing agent ‘at the beginning of the

| Townsend Administration.

He has held no other state office. Previous to 1933 Mr. McAlpin was purchasing agent for the Marmon Motor Car Co. During this special session of the Legislature Mr. Needler has been an active defender of the Administration’s bill to distribute approximate-

| ly $2,000,000 in state funds to relieve

counties of a portion of their social security costs. ;

PRINCE FRANZ I DEAD AT 85

VIENNA, July 26 (U. P.).—Prince Franz I, 85, ruler of the principality of Liechtenstein, died at Castle Felsburg, in Czechoslovakia, on Sunday after a long illness, it was

disclosed here today.

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Amended Gadget Law

Repealer Moved to Third Reading; Building Modifications Studied.

HOUSE ENDS PROGRAM, RECESSES

Session May Close

Tomorrow Night, Leaders Predict.

The Senate, 3 swiftly toward possible adjourn

to third reading the amended

House bills to repeal the gadget law and to establish a tuberculosis hospital in Southern Indiana. - : It set for special order of business this afternoon the consideration of the Institutions Building Bill and the Welfare Costs Redistribution Bill. Townsend was scheduled by the Senate Finance Committee to draw up further modifications in the two measures before the Senate reconvenes after the noon recess. Administration leaders in the Senate predicted that the Legislature probably will complete the work of the special session “in short order and

A conference with Governor

may get away by tomorrow night.” “Indications are that will be the case,” Governor Townsend said. Fe] The House was. recessed until 10 a. m. tomorrow to give the Senate an opportu-

| nity to complete its work.

The Senate amended the gadget law repeal bill before sending it to

provides: “Said receipt of registration shall be inclosed in a container which shall have a protective, transpars ent face covering of substantial

of the receipt from the container. Such. receipt shall, at all times, be carried on ... vehicle while the same is on any public highway in the State and shall be exhibited on demand of any peace officer.”

.Shun Old Regulation

Under terms of the original Administration proposal, which was killed by the House, title cards would have had to “plainly legible” to a person standing outside the vehicle. Members of both Houses feared this might lead to a return to the gadget provisions of the 1937 act, they said. The House Southern Indiana Tue berculosis Hospital Bill was ade vanced to third reading in the Sene ate after an amendment to use Ine diana limestone in the construction of the project was killed, 24 to 132, on a roll call vote.

Study Modification

The Senate delayed consideration of the Institutions Building Bill and the Welfare Costs Redistribution Bill, both of which already have passed the House, to allow its finance committee to confer further with the Governor on proposed modifications. A different plan for distributing $2,000,000 State funds to. counties to relieve them of a portion of their welfare costs is to be discussed, Senator White said. Under the proposal discussed by Senate Adminis tration leaders last night, the “ability to pay” provisions of the original Administration measure which were taken out by the House were ‘considered for reinclusion in the bill in a modified form. Senator White said he thought these provisions would be considered in the new proposal today. The Welfare Costs Redistribution Bill is to be considered as a special order of business at 2 p. m. and the Institutions Building Bill is to be considered at 3 p. m. ei Senator White predicted that proe (Continued on Page Two)

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