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SUBWAY CRASH IN-N.Y. KILLS
J, INJURES 30
Motorman and Two Passengers Die as Trains Collide At Station.
TORCHES FREE VICTIMS :
India Wreck Fatal to 110: | .0il Cars Catch Fire in -Missouri.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 . P)—A woman frantically trying to wrest her hahd loose from a subway car door set off a chain of events today that led to a subway wreck with a loss -of : at least three lives and the
injury. of approximately 30 other |
passengers on two trains. The struggles of the woman, -caught when she tried to force her
way ‘through the closing doors, were | noticed by: the conductor just-as the |
train was about to pull out of the 116th St. and Lexington Ave. station - of the Interborough Rapid Transit Line. The conductor pulled
the stop cord to the motorman’s cab. |
.Then a passenger jerked the emer-
gency cord, bringing the train up |
sharply. At .that moment a second local was coasting into the station.
The motorman of the second train |
had no time to apply his brakes effectively and his car telescoped ‘into the last car of the stalled train, causing an explosion and fire. : Emanuel Auérbach of the Bronx
‘and ‘a Negro were ‘killed in the | crash. The motorman of the second
train, Salvatore Cota, was pinned in his’ cab and his leg had to be amputated to free him. He: died “shortly: after reaching the hospital. The most seriously injured of the passengers suffered a broken leg, although two priests administered the last rites to ethers who seemed to
be badly hurt. . Some were cut out ipgrgment received advices from
by acetylene torches.
Three Trainmen Hurt As Oil Cars Blaze
BROOKFIELD, Mo., Aug. 22 (U. P.).—Three members of a Burlington freight crew were in a hospital today, all severely scalded yesterday when their train was derailed near New Cambria. Thirty-six cars were destroyed when fire started among “23 cars of gasoline” SAE
Train Wreck kin India Kills 110
MADRAS, ‘India, Aug. 22. (U. P). —Additional- deaths today: from South India’s worst railroad acci-
dent brought the total number of try to break the. blockade may dé-
dead to around 110.
A passenger train, crowded with :
religious pilgrims, rolled down an embankment near Trichinopoly, on _the Cavery River, 30 miles west of : “Tanjore, early Sunday after a cloudburst had washed away the tracks.
GERMAN PLANE ENDS AZORES-N. Y. FLIGHT
PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y, Aug. 22 (U. P.).—The German catapult plane, Nordmeer, arrived here today after flying from the Azores where it left the mother ship, Schwabenland, yesterday. The airplane, commanded by Joachim Blankenburg, is making a series of test flights between the Azores and the United States prior to the establishment ¢f a German trans-Atlantic passenger plane service.
TEMPERATURES
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PAUL WRIGHT SAWS A CANE TO HIS SIZE
Capt..
Perched on yr Motorcytle, Corrigan Sets Hot Pace For Milwaukee Cops NACE VL er (oreo Deis Cartan aes
an “official car,” borrowed a motorcycle and scorched the road to " Milwaukee County "Airport ‘today to resume his transcontinental
trip.
The slim little Irishrhan set such a terrific pace that deputy
sheriffs assigned to escort him had difficulty keeping him in sight. Mr. Corrigan took off at 9:05 a. m. in his $900 New: York-to-Ireland “crate.”.His next scheduled stop was Springfield, Ill, where he planned to pause about two hours. - Then he was scheduled to continue to St. Louis, where his plane was constructed in 1928.
him an oversupply of oil.
U. S. WARSHIP MAY DEFY JAPS
IN THE FAR EAST
SHANGHAI—Yangtze ‘blockade may bring U. S.-Japanese crisis. :
IN EUROPE LONDON—New tension. period with ‘Italy predicted. HENDAYE — Spanish Loyalist . line holds. . KIEL—Germany displays fleet to Hungarian Regent. PARIS—Two French Cabinet ‘ministers resign. ; PRAHA—Slovaks talk of joining Henlein forces. ROME—Jewish teachers dropped from schools. VATICAN CITY—Pope again criticizes nationalism,
SHANGHAI, ‘Aug. 22 (U. P).— The United - States gunboat Oahu
steamed up the Yangtse River. for
an unannounced destination today
‘as American and other foreign of-
ficials deliberated whether to try to
‘break a Japanese blockade of the
great water highway. : (In Washington, the Navy De-
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, U. S. naval commander in the Far East, that the Oahu is en route to Nanking and would go no farther.) The Japanese blockade has. been maintained against foreign . vessels on the grounds that the China war made the river unsafe, but Japanese vessels have moved freely up and down. The U. S. naval commander in the Far East,” Admiral Harry BE. ‘Yarnell, repently was" refused pet-
mission for the Osdhu to go to the
relief of the U. S. 8. Monoeacy,
which has been isolated in the Kiu-
kiang ‘sector and is ‘short of fuel. The Moriocacy also was refused permission to come downstream. Strong Action Talked Whether the Americans decide to
pend on the Oahu’s trip. It was reported that American naval authorities here had favored strong ‘action .in face of the Jap-
anese refusal and considered the sit-:
uation sufficiently serious to refer-it to the State Department A decision which might involve a serious diplomatic situation has been deferred only because the Monocacy has fuel and provisions sufficient to permit it to remain at Kiukiang for a short time, it was understood. Diplomatic quarters predicted freely that before long there might be the most important showdown of the Chinese war between the Japanese and American Governments.
New Anglo-Italian
Tension Expected
LONDON, Aug. 22 (U. P.)..—Spain resumed its place at the top of the diplomatic danger list today. Hope of removing foreign “volunteers” from the civil war ‘had all but vanished and it appeared that British and French relations with Italy were about to enter a period of serious tension. Analysis by the British and French
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and two. customers ab. the , antee Tire & Rubber: Co. store. 5604.
.nut- St., store manager,
Before departing Mr. Corrigan checked his oil supply. Sunday he was compelled to make an unscheduled landing at Glenview, I1l., "airport, 30 miles north of Chicago, because mechanics had given
oUTLA) HAMILTON ASKS DEATH PENALTY
DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 22 (U, P.).— Outlax Floyd Hamilton said today that he wanted to end his life the same way his notorious - brother Raymond did his—in the electric chair. Police said they would co-operate with Hamilton. “We expect to file seven or more robbery charges against him,” Inspecfor Will Fritz said. “The death sentence ‘seldom is given for robbery in Texas, but under the law it can be. ” Hamilton and his pal, Ted Walters, since their escape from the Montague County Jail in March, have been accused of scores of robberies, kidnapings, shootings. How many - they -committed probably never will be established.
BANDIT FREES ABDUCTED MAN
Escapes With $100, Forces Driver Qut of Car Soon After.
(Earlier Crime Details, Page 9)’
1° -A gunman who held up four per-
sons in an East Side store and abducted a bystander, eluded police this afternoon. A. G. Swank, who was seized by the bandit in his getaway, was released a short time later near Big Eagle Creek an the Nationa! Road. The bandit escaped with $100 after holding up the manager, clerk
E. Washington St. Mr. Swank said he hitch-hiked
and rode - streetcars to .his home at 4915 E. Michigan St. Mr. Swank is 60 and an employee of The In-4 dianapolis News. Affer the holdup, the bandit ignored .a :car he had parked across the street, ran eéast to Audubon Road, - commandeered ~~ the: parked
car in which: Mr. Swank was. sitting -
and- escaped east out Brookville Roa ;
d. Earl Barron, 38, of 5137 E. Walsaid the man entered the . store, . pointed a gun at Vernon Rahm, 18, of 437 Wallace St., and the two customers, and ordered them to the rear of the store. The customers were Courtland Beck, 16, of 326 N. Ritter Ave., and Kenneth Wilson, 20, of 5740 E. New York St. The gunman then ordered Mr. Barron to open the cash register and safe, take the money out of each, and put it in a sack for him, Mr. Barron ‘said. This took such a long time, Mr. Barron said, that the gunman left with -only about one-fourth of the available cash. Mr. Barron said the gunman was gbout 28 years old and of medium build. The parked car which the bandit was unable to start was licensed by Robert Anderson, 1318 Laurel St: Ignition wires had been tampered with and police said the car had been stolen but not yet reported stolen.
“LaFuar= |
Gets Proposals Tomorrow
Seeking 12.1-Cent Boost -
In Property Rates.
CITY LEVIES STUDIED| miss
Township Taxes Necessary
To Meet Estimates: of Trustees Reported.
(Proposed Township Relief Levies, Page Three) .
Marion County’s 1939 budget proposals, which would require an increase of 12.1 cents in the County property tax rate, are to be submitted to County Council tomorrow, it was announced today. ; ‘ The proposed 1939 County levies total 61.1 cents. At the same time, County officials made public the township relief levies which would be required to raise the 1939 budget estimates submitted to the County Auditor by the various township trustees. These estimates covered only the relief needs. Meanwhile, City Councilmen prepared to resume tonight their study of the City’s proposed 1939 budget, calling for a boost of about 11 cents in the City levy. The township trustees have net completed their formal budget proposals, but are required to submit preliminary estimates to. the auditor.
Board Usually Issues Bonds
The proposel township relief levies are townships’ entire relief needs by property tax, although, in practice, the County Tax Adjustment Board usually cuts the levies and provides for raising a part of the relief needs by issuing bonds. Thus, the tentative levies for 1939
are not comparable with the 1933
levies, ‘because more than $1,400,000 of the townships’ relief needs in
1938 are being met through bond:
issues: On the basis of the estimated budgets,
bondfevies” total of 20 cents—from 31 cents this year to 51 cents next year. Unless the City, County and Cen-
ter Township budget proposals are trimmed property tax rate for Indianapolis
substantially, = the 1939 in Center Township will be increased about 25 cents over the 1938 rate of $3.20, it was esti-
© $660,458 Increase Asked
The various County budget praposals ‘call for raising $3,702,676 by property tax in 1939, an increase of $660.458 over the amount raised this ear. Additional sums required by the budget propesals are to be obtained from balances in various funds, and from nonproperty tax revenge. - A part of the increase is due to a proposed $200,000 operating bal-
‘ance.’ Similar proposals in previous
years either have been eliminated entirely or reduced by the Tax Adjustment Board or the State Tax Board. Two New Items Listed
Two new items in the proposed budgets, also partly responsible for the increase, are $59,000 for flood control purposes, and $141,014 for a gravel road repair fund. A sinking fund levy of one cent, raising about $59,000, is required
under a new law, County Commis-
sioners have been informed. Commissioners said the gravel road repair fund proposal may. be (Continued on Page Two)
| NEW YORK. Aug. 2 (U.P)
| The Daily News published today |
© | letter from -an anonymous young days ago that he would kill himself
the x carried in- later pipe an offer quickly made by the Bi-| cycle Club of America to give the man a job if he would identify himself. 2
The letter said in part: “There will be another story for your paper five days from today on the 22d, a suicide, something on the order of this fellow Ward (John Ward, who dived from a ledge of the Hotel Gotham a. few weeks ago after standing there 11 hours making up his mind whether to die) only I won't hesitate for several hours. . .
the moment. Rather, :this is & de-
thought. I don’t crave attention. I am most happily married; I have a pretty, loyal and sweet wife. “The trouble is: I haven't had a job since last April. . . . My wife earns $18 a week and I've chiseled oni last 42 months from her. The reason I die on the 22d is that she leaves on the 21st: for a ° threeweeks' vacation home and I want nothing to mar her trip.”
TWO POLITICAL RALLIES SLATED
based on raising the!
Center Township's _pro-.
‘Republicans Expect 20,000; | Democratic Editors will Confer.
(National Politios Page Five)
Southern Indiana will be the scene of a two-ring political cireus this - week-end, with. both Democrats and Republicans holding state celebrations. Republicans will open their fall campaign with a huge ‘Cornfield Conference” Saturday at the 1600--acre. Capehart Farms, near Washington,: in. a tent. city. sreclad
especially for the occasion. A few miles away,’ at Frerich
torial - Association will ‘have its annual two-day outing Friday and ‘Saturday - With state party leaders attending.
national chairman, will sitend the -Capehart Farm rally and is assisting personally. in ents. =
‘11-State forums in Indianapolis Friday. In one,’ Republican Senatorial, nominees from ' Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West (Continued on Page Five)
FOUR DIE AS INMATES HOLD HUNGER STRIKE
(Earlier Story, Page Five)
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22 (U. P.). —Fowr inmates today were found dead in their cells at Philadelphia County Prison, where a hunger strike has been in progress : The office of Superintendent Wwilliam B. Mills declined to reveal de--tails of the deaths immediately. Prison attaches said the coroner had been calied to investigate. It was
against “monotonous” food.
LEGIONNARES READ, SLEEP AND JUST REST DURING A CONVENTION LULL
‘man out of a job who wrote five |
‘today after his wife left town, and’ “| that he Woulitelcphons The: News ‘five minutes before: he, did dt.
“I am not acting on the spur of cision reached after weeks of
signed -a of the Spanish Loyalist Government.
Lick. the ‘Indiana Democratic Edi-|Y.
John D. M. Homilien G. 0. P.{ In addition, he_has arranged two |
Congressional and Gubernatorial |
1 mony today,
not learned immediately ‘whether | the deaths were connected with the. five-day hunger strike of prisoners |
= MOSCOW DUPE IN TESTIMONY
Rubert Taylor, Other Stars
: - And Congressmen ‘Also “Called Victims.
‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U.P) .— James B. Matthews, former Communist Party worker, told the Dies Committee today that 60 Congressmen and six motion picture stars— including Shirley Temple and Robert - Taylor—served unwittingly to spread Communist propaganda. Mr. Matthews did not place the names of the 60 Congressmen in the record of the House committee investigating un-American activities. He identified them as the Senators
and Representatives who last year greeting to the Parliament
Cinema stars who became “un-
| witting Communist dupes,” he said, {in addition to Shirley Temple and are . Clark. Gable,
Robert Taylor, James Cagney, Miriam Hopkins and Bette Davis. Mr. Gable, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Cagney and Shifrley Temple, he charged, loaned their nanies to communism by sending greetings to the French newspaper Ce Soir, which is owned outright by the Communist Party.
- Lists Alleged. Aims
Mr. Matthews named the cinema stars after he had 1. Objectives of the New Deal and the Communist Party coincide in many respects. 2. Communists are enthusiastically supporting President Roosevelt's
drive to sliminate conservative lead- |. ers.of the.D tively are
Party and ac-
ak 3 A series of “revolutiy nuclei” is established in key. industries
such - as Connecticut submarine
Bridges could tie up " West Hany
Shibping in event of such a con-
he Matthews made it clear that
‘he was not asserting that any of the motion picture stars are .Commu-
nists, but merely aided Communist
objectives. ‘A list of such persons could be expanded almost indefinitely,” he added. Mr. Matthews, in resuming testiinformed Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) he would not
. | be able to present a list of 200 Gov-
ernment officials affiliated with the Communist Party as he had promised. He said he had been unable
‘to complete the list in time for to-
day’s hearing. Heywood Broun, New York, (Indianapolis Times columnist), who Mr.
‘Matthews had testified is associated
in the Communist “united front,” sat at the press table. He grinned as Mr. Matthews asserted that Mr.
Broun once told him that he was
resigning from the Socialist Party
“in order fo have greater freedom
to work with the Communists.” ' Mr, Broun denied he ever had made such a statement to Mr. Matthews or anyone else .and said he left the Socialist Party because he was ‘‘irked” by party discipline.
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the battle to de- a feat Rep, John J. O'Counae. (D.
Expulsion of “Disloyal’ Veterans: Favored:i in
‘Resolution Adopted by State Convention Delegates. *
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PARADE WILL CLIMAX SHOW TODAY,
More Funds for Un-American Probe Asked; La Porte Retains Drum Corps Title ;
Banquet
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loyalty and allegiance to the
It adopted a resolution Medical Association.
Angeles.
Program
TODAY LEGION 2 p. m~Parade. 6:30 p. m~Commander’s Banquet at Claypool. 9 p. Commander's Ball at Claypool. . :
AUXILIARY 5 p. m—Official district caucuses. 6:30 p. m.—Past Presidents’ dinner, Soottish Rite Cathedral. ! _. TOMORROW ; ". LEGION A 9 a. m.—Business session at. Keith's Theater with election of Noon—Adjournment. AUXILIARY 8:30 a. m.—Business session’ in the World War "Memorial Shrine with election of officers. Noon—Adjournment. MEDICAL INSTITUTE FOUNDED NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P.).—E. ‘R.’ Squibb & Sons, pharmaceutical firm, announced today the founding of the Squibb Institute for Medical
Research, dedicated to medical and biological study and housed in a
Brunswick, N. J.
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Tonight.
Three} Auxiliary Story, Page Four);
The Indiana Department of of the American Legion toe day adopted resolutions seeking to outlaw Bund meetings in the State, asking a Legion membership purge of all “whose
United States is questioned”
and asking Congress to declare Fascist; Nazi and: Communist organizations illegal in this country.
indorsing ‘the Indiana Plan
for Preventive Medicine, recently indorsed by the American Delegates were told that such an: ine dorsement would be asked of the national convention in Los
The delegates adopted another résolution ‘asking Congress for more money for the Martin Dies Congressional
Committee now investigating alleged un-American activities, * 4
> Not a dissenting vote was heard from the delegates when these resolutions were presented at the business
| meeting in Keith’s Theater.
Parade Climaxes Show Russell R. Rhodes, state commander, who several weeks ago publicly * stated that bunds, as well as other organizations, are guaranteed the right of assembly under the Constitution, presided. A two-hour parade through
| downtown streets this afternoon was
part of
and tomorrow there be election of officers. The Commander's ban~ quet and ball will be held tonight in the Claypool. Exclusion Favored
The “purge” resolution, presénted by the Americanism . Committee,’ read, in part: “Whereas, the membership of the American Legion ought fo consist only of those veterans of the World War whose loyalty and allegiance to the United States is unquestioned: “Be it, therefore, resolved that the convention go on ‘record as favoring the exclusion from ‘membership in the American Legion of those veterans who are membels of organizations subscribing to coms munism, naziism, fascism and other unpatriotic and subversive doce trines and also veterans whose ‘cone duct is inconsistent with allegiance to and patriotism for the United States.” This action followed an address yesterday by Phil Conley, national vice chairman, who said that.the Legion was the foremost foe : of Fi in the United States ‘today.
Deportation Recommended The resolution also asked exe pulsion of present members defined
above. i Earlier, the Judicial Committee convention
peer 1 A. B. YORKEY TRIES HIS BELT
proposed, and. the (Continued on Page Three)