Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1938 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Thunder showers ‘this’ ‘afternoon or. r tonight, Aollowed by fair tomorrow; nob muh hangs’ in’ temperature.

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 148

. FAR OFFICIALS EXPECT CROWD T0 SET RECORD

Prepare for 400,000 or More: State Police to Patrol Grounds.

NEW ‘STOCK PENS BUILT Chamber of Commerce ~ Names Courtesy Group, _ Plans Welcome Badges.

(Another Story and Photos, Page Ten)

* With exhibit entries already at '@n all. time high, Stats officials to-

tay predicted a record attendance of more than 400,000 for the State ' Fair, opening ‘Saturday. Approximately = 380,000 attended fhe fair last year. Additional livestock pens "and horse stables have been erected to house ‘the ‘overflow. of. entries. ready to gor on exhibit. Approximately $147,377.65 will be given as prizes and premiums during the seven days of the fair; officials said. Indiana State Folice, 60 strong, Will police the grounds during Fair Week. Last year Indianapolis City police had charge. A detail of plainclothesmen from the City force will girculate in the crowd hunting pickpockets. ‘ An additional 150 men with spe- _ eial police powers will direct parking and 26 civilian employees of the Fair will guard the fences. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has named its State Fair Courtesy Committee, with: A. D. Miller, chairman.

Its members include Police Chief:

Morrissey, Fire Chief \ Kennedy, Traffic Capt. Johnson, and Bernard Lynch of the Fire Prevention Bureau. Civilian members are: Arthur Admire, Frank J. Barron, J. A. Brookbank, E. S. Coghill, M. K. Coleman, Henry R. Dithmer gre Benjamin Domont, J. D. Dungan, L. W. Dunham, J. E. Fehsenfeld, T. A. Gilchrist, E. J. Green, R. M. Hardwick, C. J. Hill and Arthur P. Holt. A. F. Hook, C. W. Hunt, A. R.

Kennedy, Dr., Joseph. E. Kernel; H.Philip Kraft, Simon : J.,

th hls Philp Meiks, Paul ‘G. Moffett, Charles $f. Moreland, O. B. Perine, Ralph V. Roberts. : Thomas Ruckelshaus, Frank OC. ! Beverns, T. G. Sinclair, Kenneth V. (Continued on Page Two)

| CRASHES IN SPEED -- TEST FOR AIR RACES

CLEVELAND, Aug. ND, Aug. 31 a. P)—~ ; Russ Chambers, of Los Angeles, a contestant in the coming national air races, crashed today in his racing « ghip while making a trial speed test. Mr. Chambers climbed from his wrecked plane unaided; but was cut about the head and face and was * taken to Kaewood Hospital.

~~ 32 DEAD AS DAM BREAKS |-

ALLAHABAD, India, Aug. 31 (U. P.) —Thirty-two men were drowned today after a heavy rain caused a dam in the Nami River to burst, devastating three villages and property worth $50,000. Hundreds of . pattle were destroyed.

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12 13 Mrs. Ferguson 12 6 | Obituaries ... 18 Pegler ....... 12 Pyle. ........ 11 Questions .... 11 Radio 17 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Serial Story.. 16 Society ...... Sports s State Deaths.. 18

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Crossword ... Curious World 16 Editorials .... 12 Fashions .... 7 Fimancial ..,. 17 «Flynn ........ 12 Forum ....... 12 . Grin, Bear It 16 “fdn:Jdpls. .... 3 Pane Jordan... 11

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BERLIN—Press continues

(Editorial, Page 12)

LONDON, Aug. 31 (U. P).—Sir Nevile Henderson, Ambassador to

Germany, went by airplane to Berlin today with instructions to warn Germany against attacking Czechoslovakia and at the same time to appeal for a co-operative gesture to safeguard European peace. Sir Nevile has arranged to see Fuehrer Hitler Friday -and convey to him a verbal message outlining Great Britain’s policy in the Czechoslovak crisis, .it was reported. It was reported, further, that the Government already had drafted a ‘personal letter, as from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Berr Hitler, for delivery if the situation grew graver. This letter, it was reported, was intended to back up the: secret’ instructions. Coincident with tne. approach to Herr Hitler, it was understood that the. Government was planning secret naval preparation in connection with the Home Fleet's forthcoming “maneuvers” in the North Sea, its battle station. Secret .as these plans might be, it was unlikely that their significance would escape the German naval attache. In addition, the Foreign Office was understood to be considering the advisability of sounding out Poland and other nations in an effort to get an exact definition of their attitude and action in event of a war. . Poland has tried to remain noncommittal. Only in the last 24 hours, however, opposition elements in Poland began to demand that the Government make its position clear—with the idea that it would su] ‘Britain * and,

in London and Paris, but in Rome, that Italy would not support Gerniany in a war over Czechoslovakia. She and Poland really are key nations. : As - the United ° Press reported Monday, information here is that Rumania, Jugoslavia, and Russia have made it plain that they would support - Czechoslovakia actively. This meant, according to reports here from sources believed to. be ‘unimpeachable, that if France and Britain went ‘to - Czechoslovakia’s (Continued on Page Three)

TYPHOON DAMAGES TOKYO, YOKOHAMA

.65-Mile-an-Hour Wind Rips

Up Togas.

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TOKYO, Aug. 31 w. P.)—A ‘typhoon struck’ Yokohama and Tokyo today, causing widespread damage. The wind velocity was

65 miles an hour. The first violent blow was at Yokohama, where the highest velocity was registered. The wind snapped electric wires, made many streets impassable and uprooted trees. Waves ran high over the wharves. Water police were unable to use launches to aid ships nearby. The storm later reached Tokyo, causing the Sumida River: to rise rapidly. The Tokyo ‘Weather Bureau issued a warning that a tidal wave, height unestimated, might’ follow

immediately after the typhoon.

Europe Prefers Peace, Poll of Capitals Shows;

Seek Pledge

. IN EUROPE LONDON—Webb Miller says Europe prefers peace. . —Henderson leaves for Hitler conference. ROME—Italy reported unwilling: to support Nazis. PARIS—Envoys poll other powers on Czech action.

attacks against Czechs.

HENDAYE—Loyalists claim new gains in Southwest. WASHINGTON—Heavy gold influx laid to war fears. —Roper says possibility of war slight. IN THE FAR EAST TOKYO—Japan rejects U. S. protest of plane attack. SHANGHAI—U. S. peace efforts asked by Americans.

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By WEBB MILLER (Copyright. 1938, by United Press) . LONDON, ‘Aug. 31—I phoned Europe's key capitals today and discovered a mounting determination to avoid war by a firmly united democratic front which many diplomats hope the United States will indorse. By. late afternoon the strain and

from the threat of German force against Czechoslovakia had eased perceptibly. As my phone calls went: thraugh to United Press bureau managers in Berlin—in Paris—in A Rome—in Prana, I was given a rapid-fire impression of the changing diplomatic front in Europe. This change in tone was ascribed to the stiffened. attitude of Great Britain.

Restrained by British

It became increasingly epparent that the British action in lining up the democratic front as a warning to the Nazis had served to restrain any warlike plans which may have been in the mind of Fuehrer Hitler. Here in London it was learned that diplomats were eager to see whether it would be possible for President Roosevelt in some manner to indorse the British leadership. United States Ambassador Joseph

tary Viscount Halifax this morning, but there was no confirmation that the proposal had been taken up with "him. Best-informed opinion was ' that, While the British Government especially ‘would welcome such a move, there should be no effort made to get Washington to act; that it should ‘be Teft entirely to’ the 1nitia-

addition, it was ‘reported ir onip Foie: of President Roosevelt. = lw

Paris Tension Eases

The feeling in Paris was much easier, that the danger was past for the moment, at least. The French—who once hesitated to speak out—now have iterated convincingly that they will fight if Germany invades Czechoslovakia. They believe Herr Hitler now is convinced that Britain also will fight. They believe that Herr Hitler will not dare take the risk at presn In Berlin, Frederick Oechsner, United Press bureau manager, said there was a: slightly more optimistic (Continued on Page Three)’

Hines $2000

NEW YORK, Aug.’31 (U. P.).—J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, former “attorney general” for the Dutch Schultz gang, swore today that he gave money to James J. Hines on 15 or 20 occasions in -933 on behalf of the Schultz lottery combination. The sums ran as high as $2000. Davis said that later. George i Weinberg, Schultz's manager of the | lottery racket, told .him that “he | understood Hines was to get only $500 to $1000 a week.” That was the money that District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey Charges, was paid to Hines to influence the courts and . police to protect the racket. Davis said that, accordingly he had to make up the extra $1000 “out of my own pocket” the: time he gave Hines the $2000.

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anxiety of a week of crisis arising’

P. Kennedy visited Foreign Secre- |

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST. 31,1088. Sa

MAYOR BUOYED [ 5.

BY PARLEY ON

TRACK PROJECT |

Seems Hopeful City Will Get | PWA: Aid for Work on . South Side..

CONFERENCE TO RESUME | |

First Talk Ts Interrupted When Ickes Summons Chief Assistant.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Following a half hour conference with PWA officials today, Mayor Boetcher of Indianapolis expressed .pptiibility of obtaining a 45 per cent Federal grant for the $3,085,000 South Side Indianapolis track elevation project. However, he said that no definite decision had been reached and that the conference would be resumed later today. It was abruptly terminated because Interior Secretary Ickes had sent for Howard A. Gray,

head of the Public Works Admin- |

istration under Ickes. The conferences are being held in Mr. Gray's office.

Declining to detail the plan laid

before. Mr. Gray for raising the sponsor's 55 per cent of the financing, Mayor Boetcher indicated that he still is hopeful of obtaining funds from the Indianapolis Belt and Pennsylvania Railroads. So far as PWA is concerned the money can be raised by the City, Marion County and the railroads, either jointly or separately, so long as the 55 per cent is assured, according to Rep. Louis Ludlow, who arranged and is attending the conferences..

RISE IN BUSINESS IS CITED BY BOARD

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (U. PJ). —Much of the first substantial decrease in unemployment compensation payments and applications was’ attributed today by the Social. Security Board to improved business conditions. “At the same time, the Board teday appointed Oscar M. Powell of San

Antonio executive director to sue- | , whose resignation

ceed Frank

as disclosed" yesterday. “The Board reported that in July $36,665,000 was paid to jobless workers in 28 states now participating,

bringing the total distributed since

January, when the program began, to $216,000,000. Re-employment of men who have been receiving beneMts and fewer layoffs were described’ “significant” in bringing about os eight per cent decrease from the June total of $39,848,000. This and the expiration of the period during which a discharged worker may receive compensation, also ‘were considered factors in.the 21 per cent drop in the number of applications in the 25 states which paid benefits prior to July.

‘Dixie’ Davis Says He Paid

at One Time|:

‘The rest of .the money that he gave to Hines, he said, was “numbers money—money I could get back from Weinberg, who charged it to the numbers game.” - . He said the payments were wade “about once every three weeks. . any place we happened to be.” He also testified that the Tammany leader attended a meeting with Schultz, Davis, and other members of the racket gang in October, 1932, shortly after Schultz had forced the Harlem lottery operators into one combination. Yesterday a former Tammany Hall chieftain, John F. Curry, testi-

fied that whenever. Hines asked that ;

a policeman be transferred it was “invariably” done. : Police officers had « testified , they were : demoted

| after raiding policy banks.

Hani; Seeking “Tome Run, Record, Dislikes : “Those: Free. Trips. *

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BULLETIN : ‘NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Hank : Greenberg alloped homer No.

‘46 in the seco inning in the ‘game ih Tabkoes Imig in the iets,

TEW YORK, Aug. 31:(U; P)— The odds are 7-1 that Hank Greenberg wont break Babe Ruth’s-home -run récord, of 60. ‘Hank ‘said so himself today. “Those people who are taking the short end 8 of bs, «bets - that I ’s. crazy,” bieak Rufive: tall, black-haired Bronx boy who plays first base

for the Tigers. “I've got. ‘an’ out “ side chance, that’s all. - Every day

it gets tougher and bgugher * for me to get a homer. “The pressure is on me from all angles. Take the other day in Boston. We are leading the Rad fox, 11-1, in’ the ninth inning an rookie pitcher named Baker. The first pitch he serves me is right at my head and I have to go down into the dirt. If I wasn’t after Ruth's record he would never have fhongny: ‘of Wying to . dust me Of :

Football makes an earlyseason bow tonight when the College All-Stars clash with the professional Washington . Redskins - at Soldiers Field, Chicago. (Details, Page Eight; Radio News, Page 1%)

‘to , connect

Domt hunk, that Greenberg has given up on his chance-of smashing Ruth’s ‘record. Even while admitting that the odds are .tremendously against him, he will tell you about the schedule he has set for himself in quest of the “mighty Bambino’s 11-year

- record, a mark considered unas-

sailable in Baseball's inner circles.

HAVE 45 homers now,” said . Greenberg, “that méans I have to hit 16 more in 33 games. I hope to hit one each in New York, : Chicago and St. Louis in our-road . games. We have 24 games left at Dgtroit and I'd have to hit 12 there to make it an even 60. - Then I'd have to get one in five games at Cleveland to top Ruth’s mark. It’s awful easy to talk about it but it just don’t pan out that way. of my’ bi chance is to ast hot hed did in-late July w eight homers in six games hen five days.” Greenberg said there is an elec- - tric tension every time he goes to bat now. “Everybody in: the ball park is conscious of the fact that I'm up there to hit a homer,” he said. “Even. the home fown fans in ihe visiting cities are rooting -for me -and the pitchers naturally bear down ‘on me. more than ever. It’s all right with me because maybe the harder the pitchers bear down the easier it’ be for me. “My batting average is falling off because I go after a lot of Walls now I wouldn't swing at if I wasn’t: trying for. Ruth’s record. When the count is two balls and no strikes I-nearly always swing at the next pitch if it’s anywhere near the plate. ‘If it’s a ball and I let it’ go by, then the count is 3 ° and 0 and the chances . .are ri get a walk. % x = ND if get a pitcher in a hole he very seldom will give me anything good to hit and rather than take a chance on me-he gives me. a base on balls. I can;t break Ruth’s record getting walks, SO you see I not only have to hit homers but I have to keep from getting bases on balls.” Jimmy; Foxx, who came. closest to Ruth’s record when he hit 58 homers in 1932 with the Athletics, is one of Greenberg's leading supporters. ; “Poxx told me he was pulling for me to take it,” said Greenberg. “He appreciates’ I need it because he knaws how tough it gets. in September. He was way ahead of Ruth’s record at one time, too. You know Ruth hit 17 homers in September and the best month

. I've had so far is 15 in*July.”

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Pension Leads in ~ California. re

PLAN IS UPHELD

Old-Age Payments Are Legal.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 (U. P.) —Senator - McAdoo, President Roosevelt's personally indorsed candidate for renomination, was .trailing Sheridan Downey, advocate of a unique pension plan, in an upset today: in California’s bitterly contested primary. Returns from nearly all of the State showed Mr. Downey, Sacramento attorney and one-time leader in Upton: Sinclair's EPIC movement, . was - more. than 30,000 votes ahead of the. 74-yéar-old Senator McAdoo, who had been favored to win 2 to 1 hecause of the President’s activity in his behalf. The count. from 10930 of the State’s 12,438 precincts showed:

Downey .... ,... 166,098 . 134,458

The other -candidates for the Democratic nomination—John W. Preston, Ray :Riley.and James: Mellen—were far behind. . ° Philip ‘Bancroft, once head of the powerful Associated Farmers of California, held & lead in the Republican Senatorial primary.’ Mr. | Bancroft’s ~ opponents were Mr. ‘| Riley and Louise Watkins. Incomplete returns in the Democratic Gubernatorial contest showed State Senator Culbert Olson in the lead, pressed by Rep. John C. Dock=weiler. Governor Me: , seeking nominate, was wel nts - x th Republican

“The 60 on Tustin Tun proposes to give alifornia residefit’ over 50 $30 évéry Thursday. It would be financed by a 2 per cent sales tax.

California Court Upholds $30-Every-Thursday Plan

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 (U. P.) ~The California Supreme Court today upheld legality of the “$30--every-Thursday” pension plan, assuring it a placé on the November ballot. “The Court pointed out that it had refrained from deciding on the constitutionality of the measure and had confined its opinion to whether the title was legal. The court denied petitions for writs of mandate seeking to bar the measure from ballot on grounds the title was faulty. - The plan, if approved by California voters in the general election in November, would give everyone in the State 50 years old $30 a week.

FRENCH SEAPLANE “LANDS IN NEW YORK

T= PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. Aug.

31.(U, P.).—The French flying boat Lieut. de Vaisseau Paris landed here today at 1:18 p. m. (Incianapolis Time) after a 2397-mile flight from the Aores. - The 37-ton seaplane dipped into the water here 22 hours and 48 minutes after it left Horta, the Azores.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES

6am... 69 10am... 69 ‘Ta. m lla. m... 13 8 a. m... 12 (Noon). 178 9a m.... 1m... 81

66 67 68

as. Secand-Clabe. ‘Matter “at -Postoffice, - indianagolls, Ind.

Advocate of Disputed

GOV. JOHNSTON

Court Rules Disputed

ahead of

LOSES DESPITE NEW DEAL AID

Victory; Opponent Re- ~ fuses Comment.

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COLUMBIA, S.C, Aug. 31 (U.P).

—Senator Ellison . D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, first of the Conservative Democrats denounced by President Roosevelt as foes of the New Deal to face his constituents. at the polls, won renomination today oh the basis of almost complete . returns from yesterday’s primary. Twice denounced inferentially by Mr. Roosevelt as a foe of progress and reform, he defeated his “100 per cent New Deal” opponent, Governor Olin D. Johnston, who ' twice received Mr. Roosevelt's inferential blessing. His margin was expected to. be more than 20,000 votes when all precints are counted. With-only 156 of the total 1508 precincts missing, the tabulation stood: Smith . ceeecneses.152,682 Johnston Si she ereenes:124,396 Governor Johnston, refusing to concede, went to bed at midnight without making a statement. He refused again today to comment on the outcome. By contrast, the 72-year-old Smith, a member of the Senate since. 1909, was lively and overjoyed. A little after midnight he thanked the people by radio for “this overwhelming victory.” ‘Talks to Red ‘Shirts

Then he put on a bright red shirt and addressed the similarly shirted

members of a revival of the oldest |

“shirt” organization in the country.

« “I congratulaté the people of

South Carolina in again reaffirming their allegiance and loyalty to the real principles of democracy, for state rights and local self-govaru-ment,” he told his radio audience. To the Red Shirts, he said: “1 am glad to see that the spirit of the heroes who wore the red shirt is not.dead in South Carclina and that the spirit of individuality still lives.

“We conquered in 76 and we conquered in ‘38. We fought with bullets then, but today, thank God, we fought with ballots.

“No man ddres come into South | Carolina. and try to dictate to sons

of those men who held high the hands of Lee and Hampton.” Thomas R. Smith, organizer of the revived Red Shirts, who is no

kin of the Senator, announced that ‘since Senator Smith had won, the

Red Shirts would be dissolved. Approximately 300,000 South Carolinians nominated candidates for Governor and other State offices and nominated for seats in the House of Representatives. In the race for the gubernatorial nomination, Mayor Burnet Rhett Maybank of Charleston held a lead of some 10,000 votes over the nearest of seven rivals, but Wyndham Manning, a farmer, and Cole L. Blease, former Governor and Senator, were sufficiently close to prevent any possibility of Mr. Maybank getting a majority of all votes cast, thus assuring a run-off primary. The results of other races were not yet clear.

‘ STOCKS VOLUME LIGHT NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U. P.)—A

| majority of issues declined fractionally on -the stock market during

early -afternoon ending today. Volume was small.

‘It Takes aLong' Time,”

Says President After Setback.

SUPPORT DEBATED Observers Wonder: If :

Party Will” Aid Smith Dive; :

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By United Press

President Roosevelt passed off the South Carolina primary defeat

of his New Deal Senatorial ‘candi date with a smile today as. lagging returns ‘from _ California : indicated that Senator McAdoo, indorsed by the President, also was being | ‘beat= en. California and South Carolina returns thudded hard against ' the New Deal, which last week-end lost a faithful member of the ‘House in a Texas runoff election. : The question raised now by yesterday’s two primary - elections is what support Democratic victors éan

expect from Mr. Roosevelt or: the Democratic National Committee.’

Pension Advocate Leads |

Mr. Roosevelt, . who indirectly during the campaign’ charged that Senator Smith, 72, was Hving in. the past: commented briefly : today on South ‘Carolina’ returns, “He wrote and had: distributed this sentence: “It is often true - that it: takes a long, <lonig time ‘to ‘ring + ‘the past, up to thé present” *- od The Presidént followed Hisclstom of forecasting im ‘election returns. He d his forecast in-an envelope Jt Son opéned | , gavé South Carolina to Senator: mith by 40,000 votes. Secretary Stephen Early said the President remarked with a . smile that Senator Smith’s margin would not. be that large. -- Sheridan Downey, apparently wine ner over Mr. McAdoo. for , Senate nomination, indorsed a, $30-a-week pension program which | Mr. - velt last week denounced.’ hater Smith, who was renominated - South Carolina over New Deal do ernor Johnston, fought fundamental Administration legislation and is coming back to the Senate’ to fight some more. New Deal Not Issue’ Mr. McAdoo's, foreshadowed defeat in California jolted “the Ad= ministration although the New Deal was not an issue. The ‘Senator merely’ was Mr. Roosevelt's “choice among New Deal candidates, including’ Mr. Downey, who- espoused Roosevelt policies in addition | to some of his own. High spots of the day, which wite nessed the first test of Mr. Roose~ velt’s campaign to drive conservative Democrats out of Congress, * included: 1—Senator renomination. 2—Senator defeat.

Smith's triumphant

McAdoo's * appar ent

3—Decision of Senator Pope (D. Ida.), faithful Rooseveltian, against an independent candidacy for re-election after his unexpected primary defeat by Rep. D. Worth Clark, an independent: Democrat. 4 Reports that New York State Republicans wanted to draft Governor Lehman, one-time New Dealer, to run-for the Senate this year But South Carolina is front ote and center today in the political picture and the so-called “purge” score is (Continued on Page Three)

| POLICE ROOKIES WAIT FIRST ASSIGNMENTS

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HOPPED TRAIN FOR SHORT. RIDE”

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TRINKET- LADEN EXPEDITION RETURNS .