Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1938 — Page 1

AWAIT JUDGING /OF LIVESTOCK

a ¢ The Program

TODAY Horses—Grooms Contest and Gold Medal Colt Club judged in Coliseum. . Cattle—All open steer classes, judged in Coliseum,

types, Medal Lamb Club judged in Sheep Arena.

Swine—Yorkshire, Fat Barrows, 4-H Club Litter Shows judged

in Swine Arena. - Pouliry—Judging in Pouliry Bldg.

i Northwest Territorial Celebration Pageant, “Freedom on the March,” in front of the grandstand. }

Grandstand Afternvon—Grand Circuit Races, Vaudeville. : Grandstand — Night — Stage: Show, “Parade of Stars” and 7:45 p. m. " Coliseum—Night—Horse Show, Parade of Champions, Band Concert, 7:15 p. m. Style Show — Women’s Bldg, 10:30 a. m.-2:30 p. m. Dog Show—Dog and Cat Bldg.

TOMORROW ; (Governor’s and Legislators’ Day)

Horses—Percherons, Grade Draft and teams, judged in Coliseum, Cattle—Polled Shorthorn, Hol-stein-Friesian and AberdeenAngus judged in Coliseum. Sheep—Hampshires and Southdowns, judged in Sheep Arena. Swine—Poland China and Chester White judged in Swine Arena.

Grandstand (Afternoon) — Grand Circuit Races, Greyhound exhibition against world’s record time and vaudeville and Band Concert. Grandstand (Night) — Famous “Parade of Stars,” stage show and Fireworks, 7:45 p. m. Grandstand (Morning; no admission charge) —Heavy Horse Pulling Contest, 9:30 a. m.

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a turned its attention to hi fundamental of all fair programs— the judging of open-class livestock. Last year’s Labor Day crowd tofaled 113,983 paid attendance. Fair officials predicted that the paid attendance today would reach 115,000. They estimated that there were 60,000 people on the grounds yesterday, of whom 42,786 paid their way in to top last year’s Sunday record by 2555. The open-class livestock as well as all other features of the fair reflected a bountiful growing year with all-time record entries of highclass animals.

Races to Start Today

Also beginning today was the]

Grand Circuit ‘harness races with more top-flight horses entered than ever before. No other fair is running in competition. Just as Mother Nature smiled on the state throughout the summer .and enabled it to produce. prize crops, so she smiled on the fair itself yesterday and today. ; Champions of champions emerged Saturday in the scores of 4-H Club (Continued on Page Two)

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| from all parts of the Reich and out-

the “brotherland” across the Czech ‘| border, 60 miles away.

to-atterd- inet confor. | definitely, but _but “two. ence, with Ee followers, They will reported

FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight; tomorrow mostly. <loudy with showers and Jocal thunderstorms, ‘not much. change in temperature

Planes Ove

7 yondh Fire on German

r Frontier;

Nazis Open Congress

IN EUROPE PERPIGNAN—Five Junkers planes shelled.

PARIS—Maginot Line fully NUREMBERG—Nazi Party

manned. Congress opened.

PRAHA —Henlein says “no retreat” possible.

LONDON—Air Force plane

crashes, 10 killed.

HENDAYE—Rebels claim new Ebro gains. ALEXANDRIA—King Farouk escapes assassin.

IN THE AMERICAS WASHINGTON—Hint Mexican note strains relations.

BULLETIN

LONDON, Sept. 5 (U. P.)-— .An unimpeachable source reporied today that Sir Nevile Henderson, Ambassador to Germany, had advised the Nazi Government that it would be a “mistake” to believe that Great Britain would refuse to fight for Czechoslovakia. : NUREMBERG, Germany, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—The sixth annual Nazi Congress opened here today to hear Fuehrer Hitler pronounce party policies which may mean peace or war for Europe. Hundreds of thousands of Nazis

side its borders, notably a delegation of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia, took over this medieval city. for the eight-day conference. This year’s congress was dedicated to “Gross Deutschland”—the annexation of Austria—but observers expected it to lose its predominantly domestic character, particularly with reference to the Czech crisis. The Czech question engaged the attention not only of all Nazis but of tense diplomatic representatives from almost all nations of the world who came as party guests. Many observers felt that the Fuehrer would make known his stand on the Czech minorities question. For five days he has been in conference on the problem at Berchtesgaden. Significant of the emphasis placed on Czechoslovakia was a roaring greeting which accompanied the arrival of the Sudeten delegation from

occupy the same positions this year as the Austrian Nazis did a year ago, when, like the Sudetens, the Aus-< trians sought the aid of Herr Hitler.

RITES FRIDAY FOR CARDINAL HAYES

Four-Day Public Mourning Period Is Decreed.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (U.P.).—The richest Catholic diocese in the world, saddened by the death of its “Cardinal of Charity,” began the first of four days of public mourning today for His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes. He was found dead in bed at his summer cottage at St. Joseph’s, N. Y., yesterday morning. Four of the seven diocesan consulators who will appoint a temporary administrator to rule in Cardinal Hayes’ stead until His Holiness Pope Pius XI selects a successor, decreed the mourning period. Funeral services will be held Friday in St. Patrick's Cathedral and Cardinal Hayes’ body will lie entombed in a crypt under the altar with the two archbishops and two cardinals who preceded him as adadministrators of the Archdiocese of New York, As flags flew at half staff and leaders of all faiths combined to lament the passing of the kindly prelate who rose from the sidewalks of New York to become a prince of the Church of Rome, ranking members of the hierarchy of the Archdiocese left by motor for St. Joseph's to escort the body back to the city

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A RECORD YEAR . .

PERPIGNAN, . France, Sept. 5 (U. P.)—French antiaircraft batteries at Cap Cerbere shelled five Junkers (German) airplanes which flew over the French border at 5 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). The planes turned back across the border into Spain and bombed Puerto de La Selva.

Maginot Line Fully: Manned

As France Cancels Leaves

PARIS, Sept. 5 (U.P) —All Army and Air Force furloughs throughout France have been canceled, an unimpeachable source revealed today as Germany poured troops into her Sigfried Line, facing ‘the French Maginot Line on the French-Ger-man border. The Navy was not affected by the order but naval authorities were ready to recall men on leave in case of an emergency. The Maginot Line was manned fully, leaves were canceled and special reservists moved up to support the 150,000 defenders of the 200mile chain of fortifications. Premier Daladier announced that the furloughs were canceled and reservists called up as “an unavoidable precaution” because of the German military reinforcement of the French frontier. The Premier issued a communique urging the population to remain calm as an essential element for the maintenance of peace. The cancellation of furloughs throughout the country ostensibly was not due to the acute situation, but was explained as designed to show no favoritism when the Maginot Line furloughs were canceled,

Estimate 75,000 Germans

‘MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 1938

55 ATTACK

1S DUE TONIGHT |

Councilmen Prepare to Take

Final Action on: Municipal Rate,

BIG BOOST IS POSSIBLE

Chambers Expected ‘to Be Packed; County Meet= ing Tomorrow.

Taxpayers’ groups prepared today for a mass attack on local budget proposals which threaten a 37-cent increase in the 1939 property tax rate for Indianapolis in Center Township. The groups are expected to pack City. Council chambers at 7:30 o'clock tonight when the Council meets to take final action on the municipal budget. They also expect to appear before the County Council tomorrow when the Councilmen open a two-day public hearing on the various County budget proposals. These .groups, including the newly formed Citizens’ Taxpayers Protest Committee of Marion County, also are preparing to submit forceful tax reduction demands to the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board when it meets a week from today to begin its review of all local budgets. - The protest committee, which has opened headquarters at 608 Kahn Building, is circulating tax reduction, petitions addressed to the adjustment board and hopes to have at least 50,000 signatures by next Monday. Budget Approval Expected ‘The City Council, at its meeting tonight, is expected to approve without charge the $7,960,164.68 budget tentatively adopted Friday night. The tentative action was taken after the Council, in three weeks of study, had cut $169,000 from the original proposals totaling $8,129, - 211.72. The budget as revised by the

\| Council would require a Civil City

The number of German trops on the Sigfried 1 Line was not. known

were during the night. A% least two divisions were moved up Friday night, and the total was believed to be 75,000 or more. The French have insisted that there is no cause for alarm over Germany’s manning of her border defenses during the Army maneuvers which have brought one million men under arms, but the calling up of the French reservists was considered significant. The reservists were reported to include officers and noncommissioned officers specially trained to handle the complicated underground apparatus and guns of the:Maginot forts. They will participate in exercises along the entire fortified chain. : > Besides military measures, the Government cancelled the leave of all gendarmes in the frontier regions. It also recalled all postal, telegraph and phone employees of the prefectures and ordered prefects to remain at their posts. From the turrets of the great French fortifications, the French “frontaliers” could see the movement of the Germans only a few hundred yards away. U. S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt today public assured France

that the United States is standing

at her side in defense of peace and might be forced into war again in event of a general European conflagration.

‘No Significance,” Berlin Spokesman Says

BERLIN, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—Troop movements on rmany’s: western frontier are similar to maneuvers occurring in all parts of the Reich, a War Ministry spokesman said today. “They have no significance be(Continued on Page Three)

tax rate for 1939 of $1.3284, an increase of nearly 8 cents over ‘the 1938

to have ‘moved. up bie

oposals id have required ea ad | 11-cenf increase. County Councilmen have studisd the various County budget proposals in secret, but have not made public any reductions they propose. However, following a public hear-

ing more than a week ago at which

taxpayers threatened a “sit-down strike” against paying, the Councilmen indicated they would make “substantial cuts in all County departmental budgets.”

Final Action Set Wednesday

They are expected to take final action on the County budget Wednesday " following the public hearing. Comparison of the tax levies re(Continued on Page Two)

School officially ‘began for 77,000 Marion County and Indianapolis school children today. = But of course they didn’t g0. was a holiday. School authorities - listed Labor Day among the seven school vacation periods from now until next June. Tan and hardy from three months’ vacation, about 60,000 Indianapolis

public “and parochial schools for a half-day session tomorrow at 8 a. m. High school pupils entering for the first time will report at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. Returning students will receive preliminary instructions from their teachers and g0 home ‘at

School days begin in ‘earnest on

Wednesday. Authorities, however,

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TGovernor Joins Labor

Leaders i in Seeking End

OfC. LC O.-A. 3 L. Feud|

Workers 5

Uaion: Rivalry Spreads b Politics as Desire for Power Gains,

(Mrs. Roosevelt and Raymond Clapper, Page Seven; Hugh Johnson, and Editorial, Page Eight; Other Stories, Page ] Five). ,

WASHINGTON, Se ‘Sept. 5 (U, P.)— labor observed its third Labor Day since its ranks were divided by the ‘bitter controversy over the craft versus the industrial form of union organization. Although Labor Day speakers called for new peace efforts between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization, the two warring factions of labor appeared as far apart as at any time since they began their struggle for dominance. : The battle between the two groups has spread from the industrial front to the political campaigns of both the Democratic and Republican parties. It has been accentuated by struggles of rival union groups on the picket lines and. before Government departments, especially the National Labor Relations Board. Parades, picnics, mass meetings and other demonstrations were planned today as workers throughout the nation laid down their tools to celebrate labor’s own holiday. A significant Labor Day message by President Roosevelt - featured plans for the celebration. Mr. Roosevelt speaks from Denton, Md., this afternoon over nationwide radio networks in support of the candidacy of Rep. David J. Lewis who seeks the Democratic Senatorial nomination from . the conservative incumbent, Millard E. Tydings. All aor labor groups are opposing Mr. Tydings. A resident William Green of the A. P. of L. asserted the day called for “a rededication to the cause of unionism and for unifying our Tabor movement. Million New Members “Our national life is a unity and labor cannot divide its forces without loss to itself and the cause of human welfare,” Mr. Green declared. ’ C. I. O. Chairman John L. Lewis’ Labor Day message, presumably written before he saw Mr. Green's statement, ' indirectly answered ‘the A, F. of L. leader and accused him and his associates of “professing 8 Jesfre sor es while # en 2

oatvien 1 % such ao ary, success. ” “The Committee for Industrial Organization,” Mr. Lewis said; “was born of the complacency and inertia of those who had so long assumed direction of the labor movement in America, who insisted that: ‘labor unions must be patterned on craft distribution, and who denounced as heretical any effort toward :industrial organization.” ] Secretary Frank Morrison of: the

| A. P. of L. asserted that the rival

group “has failed in its purpose to rule or ruin” within the federation, and at the same time announced that A. P. of L. unions have gained more than 1,130,000 dues pdying (Continued on Page Three)

children will file into the City’s|

said “homework” would be light the first few weeks to. enable the children to take advantage of the last days of summer. Elementary school classes this year will be from 8:30 a. m. to 11:55 a. m. and from 1:10 p. m. to 3 p. m. Children ‘not yet 6 years old but who will be of school age by Nov.

16, may. enter school tommorrow, {

authorities said. Washington - High School pupils will meet in their new gymnasium for convocation tomorrow morning. Additions to the school include 13 new classrooms, The Crispus Attucks High School addition, although not completed, will be occupied. Malcolm Dunn, County school superintendent, said that of the 17,000 expecied. ‘to - enter County

NOW WHICH CAME FIRST? . . . . . . .

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Indianapalis Stage Parade i in Area Downtown.

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~@overnor Townsend’s plea for an alliance of labor, business and agriculture keynoted Indiana’s Labor Day celebration today. While some workers ‘paraded, others bundled families in automobiles for a last fling at summer. ‘A warm sun made today ideal for all types of czlebration. The Weather Bureau here reported that there were storms in the west but that they probably would not reach here until tomorrow. Bureau said it would be cloudy tonight and tomorrow, but no temperature change is expected. In Indianapolis 15 American Federation of Labor Unions paraded through downtown. streets, and officials of the Central Labor Union, which sponsored the affair, pointed proudly to the fact isk thers was an unusually large n r of floats entered this year. Meanwhile, Committee for Industrial Organization unions, which did not take part in the parade, held a picnic in Columbia Park under auspices of the Indianapolis Industrial Union Council, and it was reported the attendance would reach 10,000 before the day was over. Actvities of one large branch of working people—the farmers—cen=-

were being made to handle a record

crowd. Leaves for Evansville

The Governor made his first address at Boonville. The celebration there was under direction of the Southern Indiana Labor Day Association and was sponsored jointly by the A. F. of L., the C. I. O. and the Indiana Farm Buresil. Larry Bradon, Auburn, Indiana Farm Bureau vice president, and U. S. Senator Sherman Minton, New Albany, were to speak at Boonville later today. Following his address, the Governor. left immediately for Bvaps- ; ville where: he is expected to ask in | labor this afterfioon to iron out its d present a united front 34 ie re Aah against re=f action: Labor’s celebration in Gary is to feature - speeches “by Clarence Manion, Indiana director of the Na=tional Emergency Council, a Demo= crat, and Howard M. Meyers, Republican attorney from Indianapolis. State Labor Commissioner Thomas R. Hufson is to ‘explain workings and policies of the State Labor Department at Bedford’s celebration. Delegations from U. A. W. locals at - Muncie, Anderson, Richmond, New Castle and South Bend attended labor celebrations yesterday at Connersville. Raymond S. Springer, Connersville, G. O. P. nominee for Congress from the 10th district, is to speak at the Central

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Schools Officially Open Today, but 77,000 Pupils Stay Away! It’s a Hi

day

schools, 14,000 will be enrolled in grade schools and 3000 in high schools. More than 1000 will enter the primary grades for the first time. The second vacation this year will be Thursday and Friday, Oct. 27 and 28, when the teachers attend the: anntial conference of the State Teachers’ Association. Thanksgiving Day will be from Thursday, Nov. 24, to the following Monday. Christmas holidays begin Wednesday, Dec. 21, and end Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1939. Wednesday, Feb. 22, Washington's birthday, will be a holiday, but Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12, will not. Spring vacation begins Friday, March 31, and ends Monday, April 10. = School also will be closed

Memorial Day, May 30.

’M LOST'—BUT NOT

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Hoosier Highway Fatalities Are « Listedat14

TWO DIE IN CITY

Three Others Injured : 'b1 Drivers Are Arrested.

By United Press .Seventeen persons met death in week-end accidents in Indiana and the toll was expected to grow as Labor Day traffic jammed the highways. Fourteen persons were killed in automobile accidents, one drowned, one burned to death and one was the victim of gunshot wounds. Three Indianapolis residents were killed in an auto-bus collision near Elizabethtown, Ky. Two persons were killed and three injured in Indianapolis traffic. The dead were Thurman Lane, 38, of 518 Centepial 18%, and John Burkert, 70, of 1361 W, Pruitt St. Those who died violent deaths outside Marion County were:

Rebomsky, 25, both of Danville, Ili. killed in a crash near Seymour, Ind., Saturday. Harold Boswell, 23, Brazil, killed yesterday when a car side-swiped his truck. August Weniger, 76, killed when he was struck by a truck near Lafayette Saturday night. Olen L. Wallace, 44, Omaha, Ga., killed yesterday when he was struck by a car on Road 31 near Austin. * Eugene Garrett and Thomas Morgan, both of Ridgeville, killed eight miles northeast of Muncie in a twocar collision. ‘Chester Swathwood, 22, and Charles Roberts, 28, both of Mishawaka, decapitated ‘when id car {Co Mtinued on Page T

RALPH K, SMITH, BANKER. DIES AT 76

Prominent in City Financial Circles 54 Years.

Ralph K. Smith, prominent Indianapolis banker, died today in Methodist Hospital following a year’s illness. -He was 76. Funeral services were being completed today. Widely known in banking circles here for the last 54 years, Mr. Smith was associated with the old Fletcher National Bank and its successor since 1884, He began his career as bookkeep= er, was promoted to cashier, and in 1910 served as cashier and vice president when the bank consolidated

under the name of the Fletcher American National Bank. His wife, Mrs. Annabelle Smith, of 1921 N. Alabama St., survives him. At the time of his death, Mr. Smith was a member of the board

American National Bank,

DR. DAFOE DENIES OPERATION ON QUINS

CALLANDFR, Ontario, Sept. 5 (U. P)—Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the Dionne Quintuplets’ physician, today denied published reports that the children’s tonsils and adenoids would be removed. “I never heard of the operation,” he ‘said. “The report is certainly

untrue as far as I know.”

FOR LONG

Frank Omahen, 25, and James

with the American National Bank |

of directors of the reorganized

. wa Auto Deaths Account 4

For 144 of Total in" i Nation. ‘a

TOLL INCREASING

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119 Persons Drown

‘Seeking Holiday ‘Recreation.

By United Press The number of traffic fatalities, drownings and other violent deaths mounted steadily today as holiday throngs crowded highways, beaches and resorts in observance of Labor Day. : At least 209 persons died violently during the first two days of thé week-end holiday, a nation-wide survey showed. One hundred and forty-four persons were killed in highway accidents, 19 drowned and 46 died from shootings, freak accidents and from other miscellaneous causes. : Illinois reported 19 deaths, 11 of them on highways. New York ree ported 17 and Michigan 19. Indications were that traffic fae 3aiijes would equal those of last Labor Day week-end when 340 were e .

Five in Family Killed

Five members of a Plainfield, N. J, family were. killed last night at Meredith, N. H., when their autoniobile was struck by a train. Three members of an Indianapolis family were killed and two injured serie ously near Elizabethtown, Ky., early yesterday when theif automobile collided with a bus. The bus turned over, but none of the 14 passengers was injured. The total of Indiana deaths was'17, of which trafic neste dents ‘claimed 14, : Five motorists were killed and ‘29 other persons injured late Saturday night when. a bus. ded head-on with an automobile rear Gastonia, N. C. The bus driver was held, : The. age manager owa, when his airplane ‘crashed during's take-off. A passenger was “injured seriously, At Ft. Worth, Tex, a man was stabbed to death in a tavern: by a stranger. Police said the man had refused to permit the stranger to dance with his wife. i At Chicago a 70-year-old man was killed on a street corner when a timber fell off a passing lumber truck and struck him on the head. The list of deaths by states:

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