Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1938 — Page 2
GE. NAZI TROOPS AT FRENCH BORDER;
HINT NAVY MOVE
_ French Revamp Air Force; Sudetens Present New Counter-Proposals.
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Sudden Attack Gains Vital Points, Loyalists Say
+ HENDAYE, Franch-Spanish Frontier, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Spanish Loyal- * ist troops claimed the capture of important positions in a sudden attack in the El Escorial sector northwest of Madrid today. It was asserted that in the Ebro River fighting two Rebel attacks were stopped and that Loyalist airplanes machine-gunned Rebel troop concentrations; The Rebels claimed advances along the Ebro and said they had repulsed repeated Loyalist attacks in the Estremadura country in western Spain. It was indicated that all fronts actually were comparatively quiet because of bad weather. -
Firm Stand on Czech
Concessions Expected
PARIS, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Reorganization of the air force to insure a unified command was decreed by the Government today as it prepared to meet any eventuality in the Czechoslovakian crisis. "Coincidentally it. was disclosed that war games on the Eastern frontier had proved the efficiency of France’s defenses against an invasion through Switzerland—an invasion regarded as likely by many military experts in event of a French-German war—such as the German invasion through Belgium in 1914.
New Chieftain Provided
Today’s decree provides that the air force, instead of being split into two corps, one for bombing airplanes, the other for pursuit planes, shall be reorganized in the future to insure complete unity under one supreme command. An inspectorgeneral will be in charge of each division, bombing and pursuit, . under the new supreme chieftain. It was understood that the Government hoped that the new setup . not only would increase the general efficiency of the air force but would assure the early end of a series of accidents which caused alarm.
. Concessions to Be Demanded
Diplomatically, though tension was lessened for the present, French leaders looked forward to troublous days. But the Government has determined, it was understood, to support Great Britain in seeking drastic concessions by the Czech Government to satisfy the demands of the German minority—and of Germany, Strong pressure, it was said, will be put on Czechoslovakia if necessary to convince its Government of _ the necessity of “generosity.” It was said that the Czech Government would be required to show the greatest willingness to compromise if it was to expect the support of France —its ally—and Great Britain against an attack.
Benes and Sudetens To Confer Again Monday
PRAHA, Sept. 3 (U.P. .—President Eduard Benes and executives a the Sudeten German Mihority Party resume negotiations Monday on counter-proposals which the Sudetens have offered te the Government’s new minority plan, it was announced today. President Benes and the Sudeten leaders talked for four hours yesterday, while Konrad Henlein, supreme party leader, was conferring with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Herr Hitler approved the counter-proposals. It was learned that the counterproposals were made on the basis of original Sudeten German demands, but at the same time incorporated those parts of the Government plan which were in agreement with the Sudeten platform.
Half of Demands Met
The Government's own proposals, it was understood, met: more than half of the original Sudeten demands. On remaining points, it was learned, the Sudetents wrote their counter-proposals as nearly as possible so that they coincided with the Government plan. It was possible, in the light of the latest developments, to explain what has been one of the most confusing of diplomatic situations and at the same time has provided the entire background for the exciting events of the last week. The’ sequence of developments was as follows: 1. Negotiations between the Government and the Sudetens reached a deadlock, : ~ 2. There was a series of “feeler” conferences at which Viscount Runciman, British adviser, conferred separately with the Government and the Sudeten Party while Government delegates conferred with Sudten delegates.
Henlein Expected
3. Prank T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin, chief of the economics section of the British Foreign Office and aid to Lord Runciman, went to London to discuss international political
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and economic questions linked with the minority problem. 4. President Benes offered a new plan, which was more or less an outline of general principles. - 5. Sudeten delegates told President Benes today that this plan was inacctptable, and thus it never was published. 6. The Sudetens yesterday offered counter-proposals. 7. Herr Henlein was expected in Praha today with a knowledge of how far he could depend on Herr Hitler to back up the Sudeten Party in insisting on its original demands.
Expect Hitler to Base
Speech on Praha Action
BERLIN, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Fuehrer Hitler is awaiting the Czech Government’s reception of counter-pro-posals made by the Sudeten German Minority. Party, it was understood today. ; On the Czechoslovak reaction depended the tone of speeches to be made at the Nazi Party annual congress which starts at Nuremberg Monday. Herr Hitler was expected to remain at his mountain villa at Berchtesgaden until he goes to Nuremberg. However, there was a chance that Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister, might speak on Czechoslovakia tomorrow at the closing of the “Congress of Germans Abroad” at Stuttgart. It was noticeable that, Germany having given asurances to Great Britain that she would take no overhasty steps in the Czechoslovak situation, there was an immediate lessening of tension. The newspaper campaign against Czechoslovakia, which had been going toward a new high, was slackened at once.
Canadian Air Program
Impresses Britain
- LONDON, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Announcement at Ottawa of a 250 million dollar British Government airplane construction program for Canada made a deep- impression in Great Britain today. Some political observers connected it at once with President Roosevelt's recent guarantee of the integrity of Canadian soil.
Italian Jews Quit
Fascist Party Posts ROME, Sept. 3 (U.P.).—The elimination of all Jews from Italian cultural life was in progress all over Italy today. At Trieste, all Jews holding positions in semigovernmental bodies of the Fascist Party, syndical unions and recreational organizations started resigning in conformity with the Government’s racial policy. At the University of Perugia, Profs. Dino De Rossi, Cesare Finzi and
notices. Foreign Jews, under orders to. get out of Italy within six months, desperately stormed foreign consulates for visas, but in nearly all instances were informed none could be had. The restrictions against Italian Jews, as contracted to the expelled foreign Jews, will be amplified at a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council on Oct. 1. It was reported the Council may forbid intermarriage of Jews and Italians and restrict the activities of Jews in economic and financial activities.
Both Sides Claim
Gains Along Yangtze SHANGHAI, Sept. 3 (U, P.).—Japanese asserted today that they had broken through Chinese lines south of the Yangtze River in a new offensive on Hankow and that their troops north of the river had reached Honan Province in a drive westward to the Peiping-Hankow Railroad. The Japanese asserted’ that the Japanese army south of the river sent five divisions of Chinese in a disorderly retreat from the vicinity of Lu-shan Mountain, southwest of Kiukiang. Military experts here were inclined, however, to accept earlier Chinese claims of a big victory south of the river, despite any subsequent Japanese advance. ~ The Chinese said that they had inflicted more than 13,000 casualties
on the Japanese in two days south of the Yangtze.
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FIRST STATE FAIR VISITORS ARRIVE AT DAWN
At dawn the stream of cars started through the State Fair gates and gained momentum each hour,
Fair Crowd Tops Forecasts; 4-H Groups Share Spotlight
Animal Judging Begun and Prizes Awarded; Racing Program Starts.
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days before the judging is about 10 feet from the animal they have attended for long months, not less than two hours daily and sometimes more. They have watched the animals grow. They have put lead on the horns.of their steers to train them down. Not as a safety measure, to
put the horn points down under
where they wouldn’t stick you if the steer decided to criticize, but to make them “look more compact and symmetrical.”
$10,000 in Prizes
These animals, which in the aggregate were to win more than $10,000 in prizes today, were to be washed with soap and water before tney went into the judging ring. They were gorged with food, so that they looked sleek, and their hair was curled. The curling was not done with irons, but with curry combs and dip and sometimes a lot of patient work produces quite a coiffure. This is really the hardest of all seasons for the exhibitor, because the hair on cows, for instance, is at its shortest and will not cover or gloss over defects. “The thing about a steer that wins the judges,” Herman Purdy, Noblesville, last year's Grand Champion reserve winner, said, “is its flashiness. Some steers just naturally like to show and they'll hold their heads up just as long as anyone looks.
Flashiness Counts
“Some others don’t seem to care and they put their heads down and don’t get much of a break from the judges. That steer of mine last year won mainly on flashiness,” So it is that a club member can care for an animal for nearly a sear and find out only on judging day that the beast had no showmanship an‘. can’t win. You would call it “pointing” a football team for a big game. In 4-H Club language you “make a steer bloom” for the State Fair judging. That means, young Purdy said, that you mix brown sugar with his feed to make him eat more feed to get more brown sugar, if he has shown a tendency to be choosey or picky about his meals. That means that you fill the animal out the best you can, if he’s a
beef steer, and do everything you
can to put his best foot. forward, Tails Get a Haircut
Also the boys gave the cows’ tails a haircut. This was a sop to the judges who, apparently, like to see cows’ tails trimmed. A haircut doesn’t make a cow any better than it was before. if you're & city person and believe a cow is a cow and there's not much difference between models, you should be there for the judging. For instance, a short, impromptu course in animal husbandry which you can get with no tuition fee will show you that milk cows, for in-
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ized markets. One breed will give a large quantity of milk with a relatively low butterfat content, and another will give a smaller quantity with a relatively large butterfat content. The dairyman or farmer specializes in one or the other, according to the demands of his milk market area. Some breeds strike an average.
Beef Cattle More Genteel
Beef steers average about 80 per cent of gross weight when dressed. Carefully and successfully bred strains produce as much as 63 to 65 per cent of the gross weight dressed. Milk cattle dress to about 50 per cent of their gross weight, but their business is not turning feed into meat but into milk. Incidentally, a bull for a milking breed is likely to be much more flighty and cross than a bull from a beef-producing strain. The beef cattle are pretty easy-going and that’s why they weigh more. Some of the Hoosier 4-H Club youths who are showing livestock in their own class also will enter the open-show class and’ compete with their fathers in the big time, An art exhibition, containing 648 paintings, drawings, prints, ta graphs and examples of sculpture, is displayed in the Women’s Building, First prize in the oil paintings division was .won by Ruth Stebbins Schildknecht with a picture of a New England street scene. The prize was $100. Carolyn Bradley won first prize of $50 in the water color portrait or figure group; Floyd Hopper first
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TODAY : All Calf Clubs judged in Coli-
seum. 4-H Pig, Sheep and Poultry Clubs judged in arena. Grandstand — Afternoon—Harness racing, vaudeville. Grandstand — Evening — WLS Prairie Farmer Radio Station. National Barn Dance Regular Saturday Night Program—6: 30-11 p. m. Entire Cast in a nation-wide broadcast. Indiana University Stage Show day and night, I. U. Building. Purdue University Agriculture Exhibits open to public all day. ; Manufacturers’ Industrial Exhibits in Manufacturers Building and on the Machinery Field, 9 a. m. until 10
Pp. m. Style. Show—Women's Building, 2:30 p. m.
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Lucky Teter “Hell Drivers” in front of Grandstand in afternoon. Stage Show, “Parade of Stars” and Fireworks in front of Grandstand 7:45 p. m. Children’s Day, children under 12 admitted free. : Sunday School, Indiana University Building, 9:30 a. m. - Indiana University Stage Show, day and night, I. U, Building. Purdue University Agricultural Exhibits open all day. Puppie Match in Dog and Cat Show Building. - Coliseum—Night—Horse Show (Indiana Night) and Rand Concert, 7:15 p. m,
of $60 in the oil figure or portrait group: T. C. Westfall won first prize of $25 in the drawings and prints division; Jon Johnson won first of $30 in sculpture; Robert Thornton first of $20 in commercial art; Adolph Wolter, first of $20 for sculpture in relief. Howard Cradick won first of $20
in professional pictorial photogra--
phy, and Roy Hirshburg won the first of $10 for portrait, figure or animal subjects. Harold Hobbs Jr. won firsts in the two similar sections in amateur photography. Winners in the senior student division in art were Alice Hirshburg, Alfred Bowden, Demont Hansen, Floyd Baily and Walker A. Messick. Junior student winners were J. B. Belschwender, in one and Mary Askern in two divisions.
‘SWING SPOONING’ ORDERED STOPPED
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Police are taking steps to stop “swing spooning” at the Bellevue Park here. Park Superintendent Louis Barge - com=plained that once Sault’s youths and fair damsels started wooing on the swings in the park they didn’t seem to know when to stop. - They wooed on to 11 and 11:30 p. m, he said, and he was losing sleep waiting for them to go home. So police have been ordered to clear the park swings of spooners after dark, |
BIRD LENGTHENS MAILMAN’S ROUTE
BECKET, Mass, Sept. 3 (U. P.). —Mail carrier “Zan” Witcher’s R. F. D, route is longer in summer than in winter because a bird has adopted the mailbox of Rudolph Meiers for its nest. Rather than disturb the bird, Witcher walks to the house with Meiers’ letters.
CAPTURE INSECTS WITH BEER, SUGAR
3 Wp Saskatchewan, Sept. ~Two enterprising entomologists, C. C. Shaw and Don
‘Milne, have hit upon a novel idea for picking up beetles, bugs and
butterflies in this northern Saskatchewan summer resort. They t trunks of trees with a mixture) of beer and brown Suga. Later in the evening, by gather a rich harvest ot “drunken” insects.
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12 ARMY PLANES FORCED DCWN
One Crashes Into Carolina Farmhouse, Injuring Two of Eight Occupants.
HIGH POINT, N. C., Sept. 3 (U. P.)—Twelve Army pursuit planes from Langley Field, Va., were forced down near here today by rain and low ceiling. One of the planes smashed into a house; injuring two persons, after its crew had para-
chuted to safety. Another plane nosed over in a rough field and its propellor was broken. The pilot was uninjured. The other ships landed safely. Eight persons were in a house owned by Howard Slade, a farmer living in a remote section 12 miles from Reidsville, when the Plane crashed into it. Fred Lee Gann, 6, and a brother were brought to a Reidsville hospital. Their injuries were not believed serious, The three crew members of the plane landed safely in parachutes several miles from the scene of the crash: They were Commander L. P. Beverley, Aerial Gunner C. F. Downer and C. L. Guyer. They abandoned ship when their ges supply became exhausted.
THREE DROWN IN COLORADO FLOODS
Heavy Rains Strike Score of Mountain Towns.
DENVER, Colo., Sept. 3 (U, P.)— Heavy rains sent “flash” floods roaring down streams in the Rocky Mountains today, taking at least
score of towns and inflicting damage estimated at one million dollars. Several persons were missing. One party of 12 was stranded for several hours near Morrison, a resort town 15 miles southwest of Denver. A six-foot wall of water struck Morrison last night, flooding business establishment and residences to a depth of from three to seven feet. Other resort or mining towns swept by high waters were Estes Park, El Dorado Springs, Louisville, Superior, Ft. Collins, Nunn, Idledal and a dozen small communities in Big Thompson Canyon. Scores of persons were rescued from house tops and autos. Mrs. Walter Boyd, wife of a Louisville, Colo., doctor, was drowned in & swollen creek west of Denver. Her automobile was swept off the highway. A woman identified as Mrs. Cecil Goodrich, Evergreen, died in Bear
her as she attempted to flee from her home. An unidentified youth, about 10 years old, also drowned i: the stream. Traffic was paralyzed in the entlre area west and north of Denver. An estimated 200 miles of roadway was washed out or made impassable. . State Highway Patrolman Patrick O'Rourke, the first officer to reach Morrison after the flood struck, said there wasn't a “single dry house or person in town.” He said bowlders “almost as big as autos” had been washed in. Sheriff Denny Durham said he feared persons living in cabins along Bear Creek Canyon might have drowned. -
YELPING DOG COMES TO AID OF POLICE
SAN JOSE, Cal, Sept. 3 (U.P) — —Sergt. Elliott F. Marris and Patrolman Don De Mers were wondering how to extract a cat from a drain pipe where it had become caught. At that time a dog came along, gave a few excited yelps, and the cat got out by itself.
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Indiana Payrolls Advance;
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Capacity Operations at
Beech Grove Division Are Forecast.
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ment in the store department of the shops were evident also. More than 450 men will be called back to work in the car department Wednesday, B. P. Orr, superintendent, said. This would bring the total number employed in this department up to 600, which is 50 per cent of capacity. Approximately $70,000 a month in salaries would be paid to the men called back in the air department, he said. “We don’t know how long this will last, but we haope it will continue until the end of the year,” he added. “I believe this is an indication of a pickup in passenger traffic, especially in holiday business.” About 1200 men are employed in the car department during capacity operations. Since the shops shut down last May, 150 have been kept. Officials of the store department also said they expected to take back additional men.
Chamber of Commerce officials
interpreted the rehiring as an indi-
cation that the road was repairing and replacing its roiling stock in anticipation of an upswing in fall business. Department stores are replacing their merchandise, and already have placed orders with clothing concerns, they said. Chamber industrial director Myron Green, said he thought the re-
employment signified a “necessary
repair program.”
CORPORATE HEALTH PLAN RULED ILLEGAL
California Court Upholds Municipal Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3 (U,
P.)—A Supreme Court ruling that
a corporation organized to practice socialized medicine was illegal struck a blow today at similar groups operating within the State. The ruling was against the Pacific Health Corp. The Court held that because the corporation forced members to use:its own doctors, it was engaged in the illegal practice of medicine. In a second decision, the Court upheld the constitutionality of a municipal health service established by ‘San Francisco City emnployees by an amendment to the charter in 1937, Each employee Sou tefutes $2.50 a month for memPp.
HOMESICK KITTEN WALKS BACK HOME
CHARDON, O, Sept. O., Sept. 3 (U. P.).— A kitten lonely for its mother walked five miles back home. Miss Belle Goldthorpe, who was working on a farm near Chardon, gave the kitten to her sister, Mrs. Fred Ferris,
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to 138 per cent in payrolls and 3.2 per cent in employment. Nondurable goods plants increased employ-
ment 7.9 per cent and payrolls 3.8 per cent from mid-July to mid-
August. “Nonmanufacturing industries did not react as favroably as manufacturing,” Mr. Carpenter said, He pointed to a .1 per cent decrease in employment from July to August and a slight payroll increase of .7 per cent, indicated in reports from 1511 establishments. Four of the eight major nonmanufacturing groups studied expanded employment while only two groups increased payrolls, Most conspicuous change in the manufacturing group was the seasonal expansion in coal mining, where increases of 14 per cent in payrolls and 3.4 per cent inemployment were registered. ;
Retail Employment Gains Retail trade, public utilities and laundries showed slight employment gains, Among the larger centers through-
out the stae, Bloomington, East Chi- |
cago, Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis,
Muncie, South Bend and Mishawaka and Terre Haute recorded payroll and employment gains. | Biggest gain was made in Bloomington, where 38 establishments reported a 29.4 per cent increase in employment and a 35.3 per cent rise in payrolls from mid-July to mid- “| August. Mr. Carpenter said that all but two of the 14 major groups of manufacturering industries studied had larger payrolls in August than in July. Ten of the major groups increased employment from July to August, he said. Decreases mostly were. small, the largest being the contraction of 3 per cent in employment and 3.5 per cent in pay-
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FIRST CORPS HEAD TO RETIRE WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U, P.).— The War Department announced today that Maj. Gen, Fox Conner, former deputy chief of staff and present commanding general of the First Corps Area at Boston, will retire Sept. 30 for physical disability.
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INDICTMENTS IN PRISON DEATHS
| ‘Roasting’ Suspects Ruled
Guilty of Negligence By Coroner’s Jury.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3 (U. P.). —The District Attorney’s office ane nounced today that indictments would be sought quickly against the warden, deputy’ warden, guard captain, two’ doctors and nine guards of Philadelphia County Prison, where four convicts were roasted to death by steam two weeks ago. “A coroner’s jury found all 14 guilty of criminal negligence yesterday and they were held under bonds ranging from $2500 to $10,000. The county prison board promptly Suspended them all and placed its physician, Dr. Frederick S., Baldi, in charge of the prison. John A, Boyce, assistant district said indictments would be sought “promptly,” and it was understood ' that the September Grand Jury would consider the evie dence within 10 days. “Klondike,” the punishment cell building, was closed last night on orders of State Welfare Secretary Charles I. Engard, The key was given to Daniel B. Conlin, Welfare Department representative. Bonds for Warden William B, Mills and Deputy Frank Craven were set at $10,000 each. Guard Captain James McGuire and two guards, Alfred Brough and Francis Smith, who have already been arraigned qn homicide charges, were held under $5000 bond. Dr. George Enoch, who testified that he reguarly visited the “Klondike” every 24 hours hut was not permitted to go there on Aug. 21 when the four prisoners were suffocating, and Dr. Hans Abrahams who said he knew there were prisoners in the “Klondike” but that he did not visit. them, both were held under $2500 bonds.
CUTS DRINKERS FROM PUBLIC AID
New England Mayor Issues Orders After Tour of Town's Taverns.
WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 3 (U. P.), —Mayor Kane, a teetotaler who preaches what he practices, removed 15 recipients from relief rolls today because he found them drinking beer or highballs in taverns, “I'll take the name of every re=
lief recipient I find drinking right off the rolls,” he warned, after a tour of 10 taverns revealed 15 “hore rible examples,” Early last spring, Mayor Kane conceived the idea of putting tipsy tipplers in a lion’s cage and parading them through ‘the streets until - they were sober, But on April 24 he discovered, through a plebescite, that Woburn’s: voters disapproved, although they wholeheartedly ine dorsed the rest of his Administrae tion.
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