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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 182

DEMOCRATS FLAY (SNARES THUGS G.0.P. SUPPORT BY

LD AG

Term Acceptance of Willis Moves

Indorsements as ‘Insincere.’

WEST TO | | F. D. R. Contact Man | To Address North

Side Rally.

Marion County Democratic leaders today assailed what they termed an “open alliance” between Republican Congressional candidates and the Townsend Recovery Plan. The attack was based on action of the Townsendites at their Statewide rally yesterday in which they

SPEAK TALKS IN CLINTON|

Trade Pacts Assailed|

of voters set for midnight tonight, | Jjce who are questioning five perIndiana Republicans today centered sons believed responsible for the

attention on the Sixth District with | crime. Raymond E. Willis, Senatorial can- | didate, opening the campaign today | operate a coal yard at 1541 Blaine at Clinton.

AND RECOVERS STOLEN BONDS

‘Woman Vietim Termed ‘Smart Operator’; 5 Held In Theft of $36,500.

GROUP

Into

Sixth District | ROBBED 10 MONTHS AGO

Today. Works Almost Single-Hand-ed After Mysterious | Phone Call.

| In Statement by |

Bobbitt.

A 37-year-old Indianapolis woman, who for nearly 10 months has outwitted the underworld almost singlehandedly to recover $36,500 worth

of bonds stolen in a holdup from {her last December, today was ac-

With the deadline for registration... oo “smart operator” by po-

A $500 bond still is missing. She is Mrs. Ann Cross, R. R. 2, | Box 593. She and her husband

| Ave, which, on Dec. 22, was inHe is to be joined in speaking|vaded by two men who took the

threw support of their movement behind 10 Republican Congressional

; sti is | bonds and $1000 cash. lengagements in the district this| Fal ing James M. Tucker, 30-year-| when Mrs. Cross screamed for old candidate for Secretary of help they beat her on the head

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1938

It’s a Car With Pickup That Counts

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (U, P.).—Jack Maier was de-~ pressed as he wended his way homeward from work. He would have been riding, he reflected, if his car hadn't been stolen last week. Hopefully Mr. Maier thumbed for a ride home. Surprisingly he got it. Amazingly it was his own car that picked him up. Cleverly he directed the driver to the police station where officers helped him recover his car,

RUSSIANS CALL LINDBERGH LIAR

IN EUROPE—

MOSCOW—Russia claims air force equals Nazis’ and Japan’s. VIENNA—Religious upturn follows Nazi raids on priests. VATICAN—Strong protest promised. LONDON—British rearming. BERLIN—Sudeten ‘purge’ begun after fiery Hitler talk.

to speed

nominees, and Raymond E. Willis, git." 21d Noble Johnson, Sixth|With their guns and seriously in- | District

Republican Senatorial nominee. Meanwhile, Democratic officials | prepared for a North Side rally | Wednesday at which the principal

dent Roosevelt's Congressional contact man. This will be the first of three meetings throughout the State]

at which high-ranking Government chairman, fired the opening blast ¢*| Early this year, police said, a {the week when he charged yes- that terday, the Townsendites agreed to|treaties have “forced” major farm |to her on payment of $1000. an priges to the lowest level since 1933. demanded proof that he knew where

officials are schedulad to speak. Meeting at Tomlinson Hall

support recommendations for | Indiana Congressional slate drawn up by the national organization on)

the basis of suggestions from dis-|these prices are the lowest in the]

. | trict clubs.

seat Indiana's only woman Con-| two days before to clip the cou|gressional representative, Mrs. Vir- pons to get money for Christmas tginia E, Jenckes, Democrat, Terre speaker will be Charles West, Presi- | Haute.

Congressional nominee. | Jured her. She said she had taken Mr. Johnson is attempting to un-|the bonds from a downtown bank

i shopping and had failed, for one reason and another, to return them ; : A | to the bank. She said the holdup Bobbitt Hits Trade Pacts {men had no way of knowing the Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State | bonds were there.

today | man called her on the phone and reciprocal trade told her he could return the bonds She

New Deal

SOFIA— Bulgarian Army chief-of-staff assassinated. KOMARON—Czechs and Hungarians discuss new border. PRAHA—Czechs see gains in dismemberment. BELGRADE — Fascist Party gets Jugoslov Cabinet post. PERPIGNAN—James Lardner reported shot by Rebels.

IN THE FAR EAST—

SHANGHAI—Jasp take rail town; Chinese claim victory.

Mr. Bobbitt said: they were, and arranged to meet “In. terms of the old gold dollar, njm at a local tavern. There, she told police, he and a|

MOSCOW, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—Russia’s foremost aviators charged to-

(history of the country. Why? Be- woman showed her the serial num- day that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, |

The following G. O. P. Congres- cause the New Deal in its attempt pers of the bonds and she gave as the “stupid liar and lackey of

sional candidates received indorse-|to raise prices by the restriction of {pens $1000 in cash. {production has thrown our home '; 4 to leave the honds on the Air Force and had given Great

Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Second jmarkets open to foreign products District incumbent; George W. Gil- | through lie, Fourth District; Forrest A. Har- treaties.

ment:

ness, Fifth District; Noble Johnson, | Sixth District; Gerald Landis, Seventh District; Charles F. Werner, | Eighth District; Ninth District; Raymond S. Spring-

11th District, and Charles W. Jew-| ett, 12th District. Sponsor's Son Speaks

Mr. Nelson, Mr. Jewett, Harness, Mr. Landis and Mr. Werner appeared at the meeting, which closed last night with an address by Robert C. Townsend, of Chicago,! son of the plan’s sponsor. i Referring to the Townsend group's | action, a statement issued at Democratic County headquarters today! asserted that an article in the Town- | send weekly magazine carried an in- | dorsement of Mr. Jewett and Mr Nelson. The Democratic statement ad “That could have been done without the consent of thesé Republican |

mated that if all the farm products imported by the United States were

Clifford Long, grown at home, 000,000 acres of

er, 10th District; William O. Nelson, | them.

hundreds of millions of dollars to |arranged to meet him downtown

restrict acreage in the United States |and on the {and then import the products from second and third floor of an office

Mr. 25 million acres of foreign lands? MIDNIGHT DEADLINE bond was and showed her a coupon | from it to prove it.

qea: Court House Office Jammed;

They prom- |

trade | Scale at the coal yard and that] (night $29,000 worth of them. She told police she heard noth-| ing more about the bonds until] it would take 25.- €arly this fall when a second man land to produce called and said he knew where the.| [remaining bonds were and would She

the reciprocal

“For instance, it has been esti-

“What is the sense of spending return them to her for $500.

stairs between the | building she gave him $500 in cash “The first step in any constructive and he gave her a $1000 bond, ex(Continued on Page Eight) |plaining that was all he had been = {able to get. But he said he knew where a $5000

Then Goes to Police

Then she went to poiice and they were in the background when she again met the man on a downtown street corner. Detective Avery Viles | Was in charge of the case and when | | the man did not turn over the bond |

FOR REGISTRATION

Open Tonight.

Fascists,” had belittled the Soviet

Britain an argument in favor of] left a package containing Surrendering the Sudetenland to

Fuehrer Hitler. A letter signed by 11 noted fliers, including Vasilly Molokov, chief of civil aviation, and published in the

newspaper Pravda, also quoted re-

ports that: ;

“Information in the hands of the |

highest authorities in London, Paris and Praha is that the Soviet air fleet is at least equal to the air force of Germany and Japan combined, not to say anything about the qualitative superiority of Soviet aviation. Lindbergh has made himself the laughing stock of the entire world.” (In London, authoritative sources reported privately that the British Government was without reliable information regarding the size or efficiency of the Soviet air fleet.)

The attack on Col. Lindbergh was | in London that,

based on reports the American flier, after his recent visit to Russia, had told “reaction-

candidates, but when they go before | BR vagrancy. there is! no other inference which may be the Republican now espousing the

the Townsend convention,

drawn, than that leadership is Townsend cause.

{he was arrested and charged with ary English Conservatives” at the home of the American-born Lady

Astor that Germany alone had such (Continued on Page Three) |

The man was released on $1000 bond because police hoped he would

A large crowd stood in line at the Registration Office in the Court-!|

at Postoffice,

‘SHOWDOWN’ WITHE.D.R.

THE LABOR SITUATION

HOUSTON—A. F. of L. demands Wagnor Labor law changes. VERDI, NEV.—“Invasion™ by C. I. 0. fails to materialize.

DETROIT—U. A. W. Union members return to work.

HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 10 (U. P.). -—The American Federation of Labor | today demanded nine sweeping changes in the Wagner Act and ordered a showdown with President] Roosevelt in the U. S. Senate over his reappointment of Donald Wake- | field Smith to the National Labor | Relations Board. : The action came after President William Green vigorously assailed the labor board's administration of | the act, insisted upon changes in its personnel and demanded a | “square deal” under the New Deal's major labor agency. | Previously the convention had | gone on record unanimously de-| manding an immediate pardon for | Tom Mooney, serving a life term in a California prison in connec- | tion with the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing in 1919. (Mooney today was denied a Su- |

preme Court review.) The delegates will give their <= SUBMIT BIDS ON

ply later in the day to Mr. Roosevelt’s appeal and the demand from Daniel J. Tobin, head of the team‘Four Firms Seek $97,000 Job; Unit to Be Used for Radio Experiments.

Thomas J. Mooney

sters, that labor “make and keep the peace.” It will come on the report of the Resolutions Committee on that part of the report of the executive council dealing with the Committee for Industrial Organization, The committee's report on the NLRB and its administration of the Wagner Act was shot through with bristling condemnation. It accused the agency of being “biased” toward the C. I. O. and of seeking to de-| strov A. F. of L. unions. “Its primary consideration has been directed toward unwarranted assumption of great powers, reaching out and grasping for more and more jurisdiction, until the rights and privileges of free trade unions | have been invaded, usurped and about 10 days. denied,” the report stated. PWA is expected to pay 45 per The manner and method of ad- cent of the cost, the City 55 per (Continued on Page Three) cent. The laboratory. to be built

{under supervision of the U. S. Bu-

20 ARE KILLED IN |reau of Air Commerce, is to be used GERMAN AIR CRASH for experimental purposes.

| Of four bids for general construc- |

SOEST, Germany, Oct. 10 (U. PJ).

As the Works Board today studiea | bids for construction of the proposed $97,000 research laboratory at Municipal Airport, I. J. Dienhart, Airport superintendent, predicted that work on the project would start in

tion work, the Service Construction —Twenty persons were killed today Co., was low with $79,559. The Sanin the crash here of an aitliner| born electric Co. was lowest of six bound from Brussels to Berlin. | bidders for electrical work with All except three of the 16 passen-| $3100. Freyn Brothers was lowest of gers boarded the plane at Duessel-| eight bidders for plumbing, heating dorf, an intermediate stop. All were|and ventilating work with $10,745. believed to have been German. They | When completed the laboratory is included a man and wife and their expected to be the center of aerothree children. | nautical radio experimentation of

The cause of the disaster was not | the country. known. Inhabitants of the district said the plane seemed to break up: in midair and fall in ragments GRAND JURY PROBE through a cloud ceiling 1000 feet high. Some fragments were 1000 feet from where the plane fell.

ORDERED IN KOKOMO

resume negotiations and shortly after his release he called her again and said that for $3000 cash he

house today to get their names on the poll books before the registration deadline at midnight. |

Irregularities and Misuse of

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis

Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

‘Supreme Tribunal Accepts Habeas Cor Hints at Pl

Company Lease

Mooney, whose conviction as San bomber attracted international a

“political-economic action” in hi

AELVOTES MOONEY LOSES APPEAL TO HIGH COURT, TRIES AGAIN; 8 INDIANA CASES RULED ON

Refuses Review but pus Action; Prisoner ea to Labor.

STATE BEER DISPUTE IS TO BE HEARD J. & Lilly Jr. Loses Gift Tax Plea; Gas

Unsettled; Milk

Test Thrown Out.

BULLETIN SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—Thomas J.

Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day ttention, conceded today that his

last legal course for freedom from prison apparently was closed and said he may ask American union labor to combine in a joint

s behalf,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—The Supreme Court today refused to review the conviction and imprisonment of

“It becomes a matter of concern when Republican candidates for Congress, who have so bitterly criticized the spending-lending program | which has been inaugurated to bring

which would cause even . greater

spending.

doubt the insincerity of the Republican leadership and the Republican promises being made in this campaign, Termed ‘Reactionary’

“Can anyone who knows Charley Jewett, Bill Nelson or Willis and knows their record as true representatives of reactionary Republican principles . . . believe they are sincere when they promise that they will go along in support of the Townsend Pension Plan? “Republican leadership fought the entire Social Security program. They fought old-age pensions, and it remained for a Democratic Administration to provide for assistance for the aged. . .. ‘They have fought against every- | thing for which members of the Townsend Party strive. “So, do not be misled by the cam- | paign promises of this Republican | leadership.” i Wednesday's North Side rally willl be held in a tent capable of seating 6000 to be erected at 34th St. and Central Ave. according to Val B. McLeay, Fourth Ward chairman and | secretary to the County Democratic |

of more than 200 an hour.

correctly by midnight will business and industry out of the eligible to vote in the Nov. doldrums. lend an ear to a plan tion.

floor “This incident proves beyond any open until date any unregistered voters.

26.000 new voters who were not on/ [the books for the Primary election | j were registered. Thousands of other | (voters who moved precincts since the last election filed | their residence transfers.

lots will be received by the County | Clerk's These are provided for voters who will be out of the city on election day. the day before the election.

could return a $5000 bond to her. She agreed to meet him and go to registered Hammond with him and they took not be a bus which contained also twn 8 elec- State Police in plain clothes and i (Continued on Page Three)

Voters were registering at the rate

Any voter who is not

The registration office on the first

of Cu, Soe Sm se BUREAU FORECASTS | FAIR AND WARMER

TEMPERATURES | | ..« B56 10a Ww... | 59 11 a. m.... 64 12 (Noon). 70 1pm...

In the last month, more than |

out of their old |

30 8% | Application for absent voters’ bal- mn Fair and somewhat warmer weather tonight and tomorrow was) forecast by the Weather Bureau to-|

day, Temperatures over the week-|

office, starting tomorrow.

They will be received until

normal,

than ever.

‘Wake Up,” Joe Williams Advises National League

(Editorial, Page 10) By JOE WILLIAMS

Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 10.——Putting one little word after another: Maybe they should match the Yankees with Joe Louis. . v.85 year ago at this time I wrote a piece suigecting the World Series was bordering on a fiasco. . . I wondered how much longer the

baseball people could get $6.60, $5.50], and $3.30 to see a series of exhibi-|,

tion. games. It seems to me

end averaged seven degrees above now this point is more pertinent], Once again the |

STATE AIR TOUR STARTS . . . . . . . THEME IS SAFETY AND NOT STUNTS

Committee.

A torchlight parade will precede |

the meeting and Mr. McLeay

will |

{

Public Funds Charged.

KOKOMO. Oct. 10 (U. P.).—Circuit Judge Joseph Herron today ordered an investigation into alleged misuse of public funds and irreg[ularities by public officials in Howfard County and Kokomo, starting Nov. 14.

American Leaguers have won four in a row. . There was very little competition

in the series. The Cubs did . the best they could. They| Judge Herron said immediate

fought pretty hard. . . But it|start of the inquiry is impossible was a prep school team playing the because there is only $50 in the varsity, . . . Chicago was excited Grand Jury fund. He will ask an abouf the series. , . And this LL 1 3200 Jem, the

| t . i [County Commissioners, but it can|easy 0 understand; ‘the Cubs eamie | nok be obtained until after the No{out of nowhere to win. .

. .

: ; that time having been | It would be just like the ’'36|handled by affidavit rather than in-| (Continued on Page Three) |dictment.

virtually the last avenue thro might win his freedom in t

Institution of this new

that the famous case will a eration by the high court.

Thomas J. Mooney in an action which appeared to close

ugh which the famous convict he courts.

His attorney, John F. Finnerty, however, immediately obtained permission to renew a three-year-old application for an original writ of habeas corpus.

legal measure made it certain gain receive technical consid-

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (TU. P.).—The Agriculture Departmen{ today estimated 1938 corn production at 2,459,316,000 bushels, compared with a September estimate of 2,454,526,000 bushels. The Crop Board report indicated Agriculture officials, seeking to ease the price shock of another bumper crop, will face the problem of a corn carryover of approximately 305 million bushels in planning 1939 plantings.

WORKER KILLED AT MONUMENT

Arm Is Severed in Elevator Shaft; Steeplejack Escapes Fall.

Cecil Powell, 3118 W. 10th St, a WPA foreman, died at City Hespital today an hour after his left arm was severed in an elevator accident in the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument, An elevator weight, dropping a the elevator moved upward, severed his arm at the shoulder as he stood on a stepladder to push an extension ladder across the elevator shaft, police reported. The accident occurred 160 feet above the ground floor, at the top of the 26th flight of stairs. Mr. Powell is survived by his wife, Millie; a daughter, Mrs. Violet Clevenger, and a son, Garden, all of Indianapolis; and his mother, Mrs. Lydia Powell, Sulphur, Ind. He was born in Westport, Ina., and had lived in Indianapolis 17 years.

be temporary chairman, introduc- | ing Fred Hoke, who will be per-| manent chairman. Others who are to speak are H.| Nathan Swaim, City Controller; Rep. Louis Ludlow; Mrs. Isaac] Born. Reginald H. Sullivan, Demo- | (Continued on Page Eight)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

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. 9: Movies ..... 10 Mrs. Ferguson Obituaries .. Pegler Pyle .......... Questions .... Radio 5 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 9

Books .. Broun ... Comics Crossword 11 Curious World 14 Editorials .... Fashions Financial .... Flvnn Scherrer 9 Forum ‘Serial Story.. 14] Grin, Bear It. 14|Society ....... 4 In Indpls. .... 3 Sports 6 7 Jane Jordan.., 9|State Deaths..

7 Johnson ... . 10|Wiggam -

Airmen in the tenth annual Indiana Air Tour hopped off today | from Hoosier Airport as O. W. “Bill” Jones signalled the first ship | piloted by Walker Winslow to leave the ground. The first stop was ta y at Vincennes, {

Before the takeoff, Flight Commander Weir Cook gave last minute instructions. being judged for conservative, judicious operation of the planes. They will fly 1000 miles, make 25 takeAwards will be made at a ban nauties Authority. Wasaineton, will speak,

offs, visit 11 cities.

Times Photos. The pilots are

quet Thursday at which Oswald Ryan, Civic Aero-

EL Wn ie

Belt Saves Steeplejack From Fall

A safety belt today saved Walter Shumate, - WPA steeplejack, from plunging about 75 feet from the top of the Court House steeple. A ladder on which he was standing while repairing the roof on the steeple collapsed under him. Mr. Shumate was found by fellow workers dangling from the steeple in his safety belt. He was not injured.

UTILITY ISSUES UP; HOGS DROP 15 CENTS

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—A flurry of strength in utility shares

featured an irregular stock market today with North American reaching 23, up 1. Consolidated Edison touched 297s, up 7s.

Local hog prices fell 15 cents on all weights today to establish low of $8.35 for 230 to 240-pounders for the month, and was within 25 cents of the low for the year, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics announced.

POLICE DENY KNOWING OF GREYHOUND RACES

| | |

Both State Police and Hendricks County officials today said they had | no knowledge of dog racing on a track near Plainfield yesterday! which had been described in pub- | lished reports. The reports were that without police in attendance and without evidence of gambling a meet was run yesterday before about 1500 spectators at a track owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. C. O. David, wh train arevhounds for racing. :

The Court's refusal to ree | . . “ view the Mooney conviction was announced in the Court order list which unprecedent« edly noted that Associate Juse tices Hugo L. Black and Stane ley Reed dissented from the decision, Immediately after the Court's ore der list was made public, Mr. Fine nerty received permission to renew an application for a writ of habeas corpus to free Mooney. He was granted 20 days in which to file briefs. The motion for an original writ was denied by the Supreme Court three years ago without prejudice because then the case had not been taken through State courts. The petition denied by the Court today was for a review of the State court’s dismissal of the petition for habeas corpus advised by the high tribunal three years ago. The notation of the dissent of | Justices Black and Reed attracted | unusual attention because of a public statement made by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in 1937. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee which was then conside ering President Roosevelt's court plan, the Chief Justice, in discuss~ ing the work of the Court declared | that petitions for writs of certiorari were ordinarily granted if two juse tices thought the case should be reviewed. He said the petitions were almost invariably granted if three justices desired to hear the case. | The Mooney action topped court action on a long list of petitions | filed with it over the summer recess.

Other Rulings

| The Court also: | Agreed to hear the challenge of |the Ford Motor Co., to. the right of the National Labor Relations Board to withdraw a case from the Cire [cuit Courts after briefs had been

| filed. Agrecd to hear argument on the disposa. of funds impounded during litigation of the Kansas City Stockyards case in which the Court last spring ruled that Agriculture Secree tary Wallace's rate-fixing procedure {was defective. The Government |seeks to prevent return of the ime [pounded funds to stockyards opere |ators. | Declined to hear a new challenge of the New Deals gold dollar dee valuation tiled by John M. Perry, [New York attorney, who filed one of the original challenges of the Gov= ernment acticn which the Court de= (nied in January, 1935. Denied {he request of the Meme phis Furniture Manufacturing Co., for a review of an NLRB order [sought by the firm on grounds it (was engaged in local, intrastate [business and not subject tc Board jurisdiction. Two Cases From Indianapolis

Agreed to hear argument in the appeal of the Indianapolis Brewing Co., Indianapolis, from a decision of a special three-judge Eastern Michigan Federal District Court upholding constitutionality of the Michigan law regulating importae

2 tion of beer from other States.

Denied the petition of the City of Indianapolis for a review of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision refusing to dismiss a suit brought against the city by the Chase National Bank of New York (Continued on Page Eight)

Should Relief Clients Be Denied Vote?

Does the American public want to deny suffrage to those on relief rolls? How does Roosevelt stand today with the farmers? See Page Nine.