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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1938
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~ COUNTY COUNCIL PRUNES BUDGET
Proposed City Rate Tops 1938 Figures by 12 Cents.
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I A Man Now! 6-Year Old Bov Runs Awav—to Go to School.
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NEAL HOWE JR, today world in
discovered a new a brand new way All long, Master has been waiting impatiently
Neal for st day of school! many thousands this week are enthe adventure, the threads to
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T anv rate—Master Neal be- £ came a man todav. He ran away from home to go to school. His mother had him dolled all up In white shoes, green socks, lue pants and a clean white shirt. She told him to go out on the porch and wait, But Master Neal couldn't wait anv longer. When his mother came out to get him, Master Neal was gone—pad and pencil in hand and his bright new adventure before him “He was safe at school when I got there,” Mrs. Howe said, “waiting for the doors to open. Can you beat thai, running away to school?” Master mother. “It was nothing. mom.” he said, “you see, I got here all right by myself.”
Neal looked at his
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3710 Graceland Ave, is greeted by a
SCHOOL OPENS: A BIG MOMENT IN NEW PUPIL'S LIFE
LITTLE GIRL, YOU'VE
Was
fun! Dogs, ponies, the t's hope vou go to the Fair
HAD A BUSY DAY!
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again some time—but 20 ahead and
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| Holiday Week-End Takes WILLIS PLANS 387 Lives, 26 in Indiana (AMPAIGN TOUR
teacher
F.D. R TACTICS HELP TYDINGS
as she begins
NATIONAL POLITICS ROOSEVELT finds Shore favors Tvdings. PRESIDENT promises to keep Democratic party “liberal.”
Eastern
TYDINGS reports expenditures of $37,024. NEVADA primary odds Senator McCarran, Text and Editorial,
favor
Roosevelt Seven:
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By THOMAS I. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Maryland remains "My Maryland,” the “old free state.” It is not yet Franklin D. Roosevelt's Marviand. That 1s the impression after traveling with the President for two days from here to southern Maryland and then up down that most clannish, independent part of an independent state. ‘hat principality all its own, the famous Eastern Shore, with its rich bottom land, 1s beginning now to be speckled with vellow pumpkins from Chesapeake Bay to the Atlantic My. Roosevelt through town after town, a political evangelist on behalf of Rep. David J. Lewis, Mr. Lewis inconspicuously on the back seat of the White House open car, the five feet of him almost in eclipse between Mr. Roosevelt and Jim Farlex But the Eastern Shore seems to cling to Senator Tvyvdings, whom the President and Mr. Farley would like to retire from ihe Senate, At least that was the impression. An old Negro who has seen lots of politics along the Eastern Shore put it this way: “Some savs Tydings says Lewis, but mo’
Sept. 6
ana
motored
sat
and some says Tydings.”
Uses Magic of Smile
The President was taking a gambler's chance when he invaded “the Shore.” He considered worth the chance, for with a fight in the rest of t state they might pull “Davey” Lewis through in the primary next Monday with Eastern Shore votes, Under the antiquated county-unit system, the Eastern Shore, with about 12 per cent of (Continued on Page Three)
POSSIBLE SHOWERS TONIGHT FORECAST TEMPERATURES " Noon)
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Cloudy skies which may be followed by showers or thunderstorms were predicted for tonight and to- | morrow hy the Weather Bureau. | Rising temperatures were forecast | for tomorrow,
{ each
{ County
full
LABOR DAY DEATHS
NATIONAL INDIANA
auto
traffic fatal
toll nears 1937 to 19 of 26
record,
week-end victims,
INDIANAPOLIS accidents bring death to twa residents,
BULLETIN Indianapolis school were killed and seven other persons injured in a traffic accident early today on State Road 10 near Stilesville. Those killed were Clifton Parris, 13, and his hrother, Ellis Eugene, 12, pupils at 3
Two hays
School 3. They were refurning home in a car driven hy their father, Elmer Parris, 36, of 3003 Station St, after a Labor Day holiday trip.
Ry came violently
Untred Press
Death to at least
23 persons in Indiana over the
Day additional deaths expected today among
Labor week-end, with the persons injured seriously, Seventeen met death in traffic acthem Indianap-
each
cidents, two of in
drowning and suicides while burns and a gun for one death year, 19 were killed
week-end
olis; claimed two wound accounted Last in Labor Day
Indianapolis
accidents. and Marion 14 persons were injured, none seriously, in 20 traffic accidents reported to police and deputy
In
| sheriffs overnight. Seventeen motor- | ists were arrested for alleged traffic
violations. Baby Dies in Crash
Other dead throughout the state were Harry Edidin, 54, of Chicago, died today of a crushed chest and internal injuries received in a headon crash vesterday on U. S. Route 20 near Michigan City in which four other persons were injured, two possibly fataily. The 5-months-old baby of Mr, and Mrs. Ray Parker, Greenfield. killed in a collision near Greencastle vesterday Mrs. Parker received severe head injuries : Walter Ceikus, 24, Chicago, drowned in Lake Michigan near Gary Monday when his kayak capsized Leslie W. Sommers, 26, Valparaiso, committed suicide by inhaling fumes from a pipe attached his auto's exhaust pipe Near Lebanon, the bodv of Fred W. Hoffman, 75-vear-old farmer, (Continued on Page Three)
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By United Press
The nation’s triple holiday week end celebration of Labor Day was marred bv at least 387 violent deaths, a Unived Press survey showed toda: True to form, severest blow on the highways Traffic accidents took 265 lives and | the figure mounted steadily toward the toll of 340 lives taken on high- { wavs last Labor Day week-end There were more than twice as many ‘raffic deaths than from all | other forms of violence combined Drownings totaled only 34 despite the fact that millions thronged (Continued on Page Three)
21-YEAR-OLD YOUTH S KILLED BY POLICE
Ignores Warning to Halt in Fleeing From Tavern.
death struck
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A 21-year-old youth was shot death by police early today as ran from near an open
Sts. The victim was identified as Harold Austin, 346 S. Roena St, employed as a bartender at the tavern
He was slain by a bullet fired by | who |
Patrolman William G. Hague, said he discovered the open window in the tavern, got out of his car to investigate, and saw Austin and two other men run from the | building When the men failed to halt, patrolman said. he fired one shot | Austin fell dead with a bullet in the | back of his head The patrolman said a screen had heen pried from an open window at the tavern Sam Curry, owner of the tavern, said nothing had heen stolen from the place He said Austin had worked at the Tavern six months as an extra hartender, and had worked afternoon. being relieved at 6 p. m. The shooting occurred about 1 a. m., enly a short time after the place was closed. The other two men seen { patrolman escaped, he said
by the
| In
window |
in a tavern at Harrison and Shelby |
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the |
vesterday | | clad in
| leather white shorts with blue stripes
G. 0. P. Senatorial Nominee To Speak in Every County In Indiana.
| oreat earthquake and
{Another Story, Page 11) Party leaders conferred today with Raymond E. Willis. G. O. P. nominee for U. S Senator, to map a campaign tour in which Mr. Wiilis will travel more than 10,000 miles ana deliver seven major speeches. According to tentative plans, the tour will begin with a speech on “Social Security’ at Evansville, Sept. 21 The trip will carry the nominee through every county in the State and will conclude Nov. 5, the day before election In each address, Mr discuss one point of point program he Capehart Farms last After the Evansville will deliver addresses policies on labor, agriculture, dom of the press. retention of the American system, taxation and employment, he said Although the program for the tour is indefinite, Republican leaders said it would be subject to change only place and time A complete schedule to be made next week,
State Republican
Willis the sevenoutlined at month meeting,
outlining his
is
| they said
Between major addresses, Mr. Willis is expected to speak at district and county meetings throughout the State Thursday night at 7 o'clock he will discuss the WPA at the Marion County Republican rally at the Murat Temple. Other speakers on program will be Herman C. Wolff. nominee for mayor, and Charles W. Jewett, candidate for Congress from the 12th District.
BOY'S BODY FOUND FLOATING IN RIVER
The hody of the drowned youth was identified this afternoon as Kenneth Hall, 14, of 533'y S. Harding St. police said. unidentified boy, 14 and 16, was
The hody of an apparently between
| found today by three fishermen in
White River near the Kentucky Ave, bridge The bhodv was harefooted. and was a maroon-colored shirt with short sleeves, dark trousers, a heavy | belt with the initial "1."
Preliminary examination revealed no signs of violence,
Trout Indifferent to Gaze of Thousands But Bear Cubs Frolic and Enjoy Spotlight
(Photo, Top of Page: Another Story, Page Two: Other Page Nine: Racing Story and Photos, Page Six.)
By JOE COLLIER It may come as a distinct shock and quite a surprise to trout fishermen that trout don't react, either favorably or unfavorably, to people even as many as 50,000 a day in view It doesn't that the
difference carrving
make much people are not tackle and have no glint in their eve, State Conservation Department fish biographers say trout, unobserved and not living in fish bowls, probably would display the same indifference
This information comes from the | State |
department's exhibit at the Fair where there are 5000 fish, 255 birds, and 140 animals. There has been no intimation from the trout or the bass or the crappies, Conservation Department officials said. that they have anything but cold and austere disregard for people. On the other hand, the bear cubs
Photos, |
and the squirrels have turned out | to be rare showmen. The bear cubs, | ive of them, roll bowling balls and swing on a trapeze when the crowds are large and attentive. The squirrels climb faster and higher and descend at a more reckless angle from the wire of their cage when people show the most appreciation. The bears cry when the going gets tough. If, for instance, you put a cracker in the cage and one cub
gets it, the others ery in seven keys. |
The lucky bear cries through his teeth and winds up by sounding like a dog barking. They are very | gentle. Only when they are old do | they get viscious unless they are problem-cubs. The coons beg for food, but are not showmen, That's their complete act and they are not worth holding over for a second week. The laziest animals skunks. They have weaponed. Conservation men that may be the reason for complete indifference. They 11 the time.
the desav their sleep
are heen
The owls sleep ost of the day | usually bring the
|
what
with one eve open. They obviously are annoved at all the goings on and they it by opening and shutting their beaks in their sleep—
sleep-biting. One of the owls, owl, sleeps as though he | had an aspirin. One of the great horned owls never sleeps and has what the conservation men say 1s the greatest known case of fowl insomnia. White perch, a in the southern one-third of the State, are the most conscious of is happening, conservation men say. They are almost never still in their aquarium, apparently responding to the crowd. Perhaps the fish are too preoccupied with bumping their noses against the glass front to the aquar=- | ium. Anyway, several a day have to be taken from the aquariums They have sore noses and are placed in the hospital tank which is baek of the scenes The hospital tank attendants give fiirst aid to all ajling fish, and | around, How-
show
or a barn
river fish found
will | | that
he |
free- |
'On Both Sides of Yangtze
[ apolis Union
| ing purposes.
HITL JAP
IN EU
OCKADE, R WARNY; CONFIDENT
ROPE
NUREMBERG—S800,000 hear Hitler defy blockade. PARIS—Secret Navy preparedness admitted. LONDON—Fleet sails to North Sea stations.
PRAHA —Government drafts “final” Sudeten
offer.
MOSCOW—War Commissar inspects troops. HENDAY E—Loyalists admit retreat on Ebro. ROME—Jews leave armed forces. IN THE AMERICAS WASHINGTON—Air defense expansion revealed. SANTIAGO, Chile—5>8 killed in “Nacista” revolt.
IN THE F
AR EAST
TOKYO—Premier pledges U. S. friendship. SHANGHAI—Japs report gains along Yangtze.
By JOHN R. MORRIS (Copyright 1938 by United Presss TOKYO, Sept. 6-—Japan will continue fighting in China until the “anti-Japanese government headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek collapses.” Japan's Prince-Premier, Fumimaro Konoye, made this statement during a long exclusive interview today in his official residence, He also said that: The Japanese Government anticiin its “peaceful relations with Soviet Nobody can forecast soon hostilities in China but Japan is confident that she eventu“despite obvious
pates no change Russia.” how will cease
triumph
’»
allv will difficulties. The Japanese people
have only
the friendliest feeling for the United Ameri- |
will forget the time of the fires which destroyed large areas of Tokyo and Yokohama in September, 1923. Asked how long the war in China is likely to continue, the Premier replied: “It is impossible to predict when the end will come. All I can say is that Japan is determined to carry on the fight until Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Japanese regime collapses. “Our aims have not changed since the ‘incident’ hegan. It is hard to sav at present what our program will be for dealing with the occupied areas after the termination of the struggle but it we will assist the then-existing Chinese regime for promoting the welfare of the Chinese people.”
States and never can assistance at
Japs Claim Advances
(0. up
Py) — both to-
SHANGHAI, troops the Yangtze of
Sept 6 Japanese drove
banks of River
day Chinese Chinese reports said that the Japanese bombed the area west of Huangmei for 10 hours The Chinese claimed, however, that their troops had turned back the Japanese
in the lace
resistance,
The Japanese claimed to be with- |
in two miles of Tehan. They said their airplanes bombed 20.000 retreating Chinese in that area. The Japanese also bombed the area south of Kiukiang, inflicting heavy
| casualities.
"ELEVATION MEETING
RESET FOR MONDAY
The Works Board {oday anwith Indian-
officials
its meeting
Railway
the proposed Belt track elevation project, scheduled for tomorrow, has heen postponed until Monday. Officials said H. E. Newcomet, Union Railway president, was on a vacation and would be unable to meet with the Board tomorrow. Calling of the meeting followed the Board's decision last week to proceed with the $1,000,000 elevation of the Belt tracks near Madison Ave, and Singleton St
at Fair,
nounced on
fish who are patients in the tank rarely go back They are eventually reSome of them
ever, hospital the show, leased into streams. are ‘that long,” too.
ino
Conservation men at the show say |
they have no particular trecuble with the crowds. No one tries to the fish or seems to care about those 5000 getting away. Some of them are ‘that long,” too.
There are three completely anti-|
social beasts in the exhibit. One is the lynx, which is ailing and which, therefore, can't get in there snarl] as it should. Nevertheless, the lynx, out of its habitat, still is a dangerous adversary. Then there is the bobcat, which Benjamin Douglass claims he caught one of in Brown County and which Frank Wallace claims he doesn’t believe it. Not only that. but 532 people climbed stairways at the forestry exhibit 95 feet up. and then climbed down again in three hours vesterday afternoon.
There are no bannisters for slid-
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NUREMBERG, Germany, Sept. 6 (U. P.) —Adolf Hitler, while Europe waited for him to strike the keynote of German policy toward Czechoslovakia, defied the world today to blockade Germany as it did during
the World War He glorified the greater German Reich. He rejoiced in Germany's power, and in her friendship with Italy and Japan. He saw a menace to the world in bolshevism and in Jews. He took occasion to deny reports that he sought a European pact to limit aerial armaments. But he withheld the word for which Germany and the world were waiting—his policy toward Czechoslovakia. The Fuehrer said, however, that a “greater community of Germans’ alone could be considered in the future to be a guarantee for { the nation. Will Make Six Speeches
Eight hundred thousand sembled Nazis listened as Adolf Wagner, Nazi leader for Bavaria, read Herr Hitler's proclamation at the formal opening of their annual party Congress. It was learned that Herr Hitler is to make at least six speeches, short or long. during the Congress—ending with a full dress speech at the concluding meeting next Monday. Aft this meeting, he traditionally discusses foreign affairs. The one point Herr Hitler made that might be interpreted as referring to the Sudeten German mi- ! nority in Czechoslovakia — and to | German minorities mn such other | neighboring nations as Poland and Italy—was a question. He spoke of Germany's defeat and post-war humiliation. Then he asked: “Does it not seem today as .if destiny had to make Germany go | through that path in order to purify | and ripen us all for that greater community of Germans which alone can be considered in future as a guarantee for our nation?”
AS~-
Says Nazis Have No Fear on his domestic policy, | really, that Herr Hitler got into the internationally important part of his proclamation. Asserting that Germany no longer feared a blockade—because of its program of economic self-sufficiency —Herr Hitler said: “The idea of a blockade of Germany already may be abandoned as a totally ineffectual weapon. “The National Socialist State, with characteristic energy, drew a lesson from World War experience. We shall continue to cling to the | principle that we shall rather bear restrictions in this or that fieid than again become dependent on foreign countries. “Our economic governed by the decision that the security of the nation must be placed before everything else. Therefore it is necessary to assure (Continued on Page Three)
INJURY FATAL TO SON
It was
policy will be
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 6 (U. P).— The Count of Covadonga. 31-year-oid son of exiled King Alfonso of Spain, died in a hospital today
| after an carly-morning automobile
accident The Count was injured when an automobile, driven by his companion, Miss Mildred Gaydon, 25. crashed into a telephone pole while they were en route home from a
{ casino shortly after 3 a. m.
Miss Gaydon, who described Count eight
the “as a good friend of about months,” was injured only Injuries of Count Covadonga, which otherwise might have heen superficial, were complicated by haemophilia, hereditary bleeding disease, with which many male members of his family are afflicted. Police, when notified by the hospital of the Count’s death, issued an order for arrest of Miss Gaydon.
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