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FIND LOST BOY

WANDERING ON COUNTRY ROAD

Six Miles From Home .in Chandler; Slept All Night In Ditch.

HUNT ENDS

Ivan, 6, Thinks His Dog ~ Trixie Should Have Stayed With Him.

Times Special CHANDLER, Ind. Nov. 17.—Six-year-old Ivan Brooks Jr. object of a 20-hour search when he disappeared after school yesterday, was fast asleep in his bed at home, this afternoon.

Tired and cold, he was. found wandering down a country road six miles from home and headed in the wrong direction. He said he had walked'as long as he could: last night and then had slept in a ditch. While 300 persons searched a large area of mine fields and uncultivated land where Ivan went with his little white dog yesterday afternoon to trap rabbits, he was spotted ‘by Mrs. Fred Esche and Mrs. Baxter Mitchem, farm wives, as he trudged along the highway. They asked him in and fed him. He was hungry and his eyes were as red as his hair from crying. ° Wanted His Mama

“I ‘want to go home. I want my mama,” he said. After he had eaten, Wesley Ellis, Newburg, took him to his home where because of the crowd he was unable to see his mother for several moments, ° His father, a WPA worker who joined the all-night search, did not know for awhile that his son was found. Ivan said he and his dog, Trixie, had gone to set some rabbit traps and that he got lost. Then he noticed Trixie was missing. “I thought my dog should have stayed with me,” he. said. The dog, at the moment, was inside the Brobks home, huddled in a corner whimpering, where it had been since it returned to the home alone at 7 o'clock last night.

“Neighbors Aid Search When the dog appeared without Ivan, Mr. Brooks spread an alarm through the town and neighbors rallied to begin a search of the waste area, zin which are three abandoned mine shafts, one only half a mile from the Brooks home. Ivan said that after dark he walked as long as he could and then found a ditch in a field for a bed. “I cried a little and went to sleep,” he said. Deputy sheriffs, state police, WPA workers and the junior and senior classes of the Chandler High School had begun a second search of the - territory at daybreak. and were widening the scope of the hunt when the boy was brought home.

20 TO BE NAMED 70 ACCOUNTS BOARD

Plans for adding 20 new field examiners to the State Board of Accounts staff were announced today by William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner. The increase, which would bring the board’s staff to 100, is planned in order .to speed up the Board’s work, Mr. Cosgrove said. The department has been criticized recently for failure to keep up to date on examinations. Before the additional examiners

can be added, permission of Gov-|

ernor Townsend must be obtained. Mr Cosgrove said application blanks’ may be obtained at Room 304, State House. All applications must be on file by Nov. 30. Under the law, there must be an equal division of the staff between Republicans and Democrats. The' chief examiner said that auditing of the new governmental departments handling social security and the increase in the number of school units asking State aid has ‘increased the work of the department.

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 215

U. S. Recalls Trade Agent From Berlin, J oins Britain in Seeking Jewish Haven; Nazis Bury ‘Martyr,’ Attack Roosevelt

English Colonies Consults ‘ed, Agreement Expected - In Two Weeks.

LONDON, Nov. 17 (U. P.) —Great Britain, working in close agreement with U. S. Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, consulted Empire administrators today on final details of a plan to aid migration of German Jews. The Government, authorized by the Cabinet to try to find a rescue plan for 700,000 Jews in Nazi Germany, scanned colonial maps for suitable places of settlement. Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today the problem is being treated as a matter of urgency. British Guiana appeared to be one of the most favorable considered possibilities, providing sufficient funds are raised in the United States and elsewhere to finance the migration. About $150,000,000 will be required. Government sources said that enough progress had been made in the Anglo-American conversations —agreement was ‘near on details of the broad plan—to encourage them to believe that a concrete program could be completed within two weeks for submission to the fivepower ‘directorate of the intergovernmental refugee committee, France May Aid

In its essence, the plan calls for Great Britain to provide land in her colonies, while Jewish and other private organizations of the United

settlement. France and other colonial powers, as- well as South American nations, might also be asked to contribute land. If the negotiations succeed Lord Winterton would summon the fivepower directorate, including representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Brazil within two weeks. According to British sources, Ambassador Kennedy told Lord Ilalifax, British Foreign Minister, that | the U. S. Government would not be | able to contribute money to the plan, but that a huge fund could be raised privately in the United States, if Britain found land for the Jews. As-a result Britain began scouring the Empire for likely places: and picked British Guiana as one passibility. This hot corner of northeastern South Anierica has great natural resources, but is swampy and its climate is not generally considered too healthy.

Guinea, Guiana Studied

The British Guiana administration was asked to submit a report lon settlement possibilities to the Colonial Office after the Cabinet had approved of the Government's efforts to devise a plan to aid the refugee Jews. The Cabinet did not approve any plan, since none has been worked out definitely. The Governor of Tanganyika, East Africa, also was consulted,

AIR TRAVEL SLOWED BY FOG BLANKET

Cloudy Weather Expected Through Tomorrow.

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A dense fog, reducing visibility to less than 1000 feet, blanketed Indianapolis and environs early today and did: not lift until midmorning. One plane was | grounded last night here because of low ceilings at Louisville and Atlanta, and another passed over the city today without landing because of bad visibility. | The Weather Bureau predicted skies will remain cloudy tonight and tomorrow with rain and cooler tem-

peratures tomorrow.

States raise money to finance their |:

IN EUROPE — LONDON — U. S. and Britain near accord on refuge for Jews. DUESSELDORF — Nazis honor “martyr” to Jewry. PARIS—Hugh Wilson delayed by fog. HENDAYE—Franco wins moral victory on Ebro.

IN THE AMERICAS— WASHINGTON—U. S. and Britain to sign trade agreement today. . NEW YORK — Protests against Jewish persecution increase. INDIANAPOLIS — Churchmen rap Nazis; Legion backs Roosevelt. - (Page Three.) BOGOTA—Colombia’s President asks anti-Fascist front.

IN ‘FAR EAST. (Page Three.) HONGKONG — Chinese retake Canton’s outer defenses. TOKYO—Japan drafts reply to U. S. protest.

(Editorial, Gen. Jennson and Pegler, Page 18)

HULL TO SIEN 2 TRADE TREATIES

Britain Comes Into Trade Reciprocity; Canada Revises Pact.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.).— Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada arrived today to participate in ceremonies attending the signing of politically important trade agreements between the United States and its two biggest customers—the United Kingdom and Canada. The Prime Minister was welcomed at the station by Secretary of State [Hull, for whom signature of the | politically and economically significant treaties at 3 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) will represent a personal triumph. Mr. King’s signature on the agreement with Canada today merely ‘will revise a previous treaty: with the United States. But the signature of Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, -on . the

dominant ‘trading nations of the world in an effort to beat down trade barriers, clear global trade channels and bolster international commercial theories of the democracies against restrictive totalitarianism. Secretary Hull, who single-handed sold the New ‘Deal on a ‘reciprocal trade policy, will sign for the United States. Germany Left Out With signature of the AngloAmerican pact, the United States will have 19 such agreements with nations accounting for 60 pér cent of our normal trade. Germany, which practices. the system of exclusive trade favors, gets no benefit from any of the pacts. Signing ceremonies for the Canadian and United Kingdom treaties are scheduled for 3 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). in the White House East Room with President Roosevelt present. i Scope of agreement may ‘be disappointing in some respects both in Great Britain and in the United States and protests are almost inevitable. One of the major obstacles which confronted United States negotiators in almost a year of discussion was a nationalistic tendency in England, symptomatic of British Government anxiety to become as fully self-sufficient as possible, in view of the possibility of war,

INDIANAPOLIS MAN IS KILLED IN CRASH

(Another Story and Photo, Page 11)

TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 17 (U. P.. Harry Snyder, 43, of Indianapolis, died last night from injuries received in an automobile crash near Casey, Ill.

FARM BUREAU AID RECEIVES WATCH FOR SERVICES . . . ... .

“EN. Everett Hunt has completed 12 years. service on {hd Farm Bureau Board of Directors. He left his today

to “go back to the farm” - Bureau, presented

and Mrs. Russell ushmat, Sixth District Social Education Director in ; Farm service, ;

‘the German Embassy

Anglo-American | treaty, formally will’ align the two|

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938

8000 Hebrew Tenants May Lose Berlin Homes By Decree.

BERLIN, Nov. 17 (U. P) —The United States recalled its commercial attache to Berlin today -simultaneously with a press outburst against President Roosevelt and further measures against the Jews. As Hugh R. Wilson, United States Ambassador, reached Paris on his way to Washington, the recall of Douglass Miller, the commercial attache, was announced. He was ordered to return with his family

|and effects as soon as possible and

in any event not later than Jan. 1. Robert M. Stephenson, assistant attache, will be acting attache for an indefinite period. Mr. Miller has been in Germany since 1924 and was recognized as one of the leading authorities in the Reich on economic, financial and

‘| trade measures.

Jewish Tenants to Suffer

The latest measure against Jews was announced by Der Angriff, organ of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister. Der Angriff, Propaganda Ministry organ, announced that the Govern=ment was preparing a decree canceling for Jewish tenants the law requiring notice to oust tenants. It was estimated that 8000 Jews would be vacated in Berlin alone under the law. The press campaign coincided with the hero's funeral given in Duesseldorf to Ernst vom Rath, attache of in Paris, whose assassination by a young Polish Jew was the signal for last week's violent anti-Semitic outbreak. Fuehrer Hitler attended but did not speak. Other high Nazis made

funeral orations representing the|

feeling of national mourning. “Blows Strengthen Naziism”

“The entire nation again is deeply embittered standing in mourning at the bier of this young German who lost his life only because he was German and hence National Socialist,” Ernst Bohle, district party leader, said. Se “He is the eighth victim among Germans abroad to be murdered by Jews: and- Bolshevists. Gustloff vom Rath and the Germans murdered in Red Spain accuse that Jew Bolshevist system which uses murder as. a political ‘weapon. “The Jew who killed Rath said he wanted to hit Germany. We may admit he succeeded. Jews forget that every blow makes National Socialism stronger. “Rath’s memory will remind all Germans abroad that every German abroad, whatever his vocation,

is inthe first place a Nationalist So-1

This national union is the my Fuehrer,

cialist. greatest value you, gave us.”

Hitler's Words Echoed

Thousands lined the streets between the railway station where Herr Hitler had arrived from Berlin and the hall as he rode slowly

between lines of storm troopers.|-

Entering the hall, Herr Hitler stood silently for a moment before the catafalque. He saluted, then took a seat. Herr Bohle was followed by Joachim ‘von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister, who said: “A hostile world believes that by blind hatred it will be able to hold up the evolution of a new idea. Lies, slander, blood and terrorism are in(Continued on Page Three) -

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AGREEMENT ON ' ELEVATION JOB IS" INTIMATED

Project Described as ‘Tentative.’

CITY OFFICIALS RETURN

Mayor Silent on Parley Held With Chicago Railway Officials.

A tentative agreement for proceeding with elevation of Indianapolis Union: (Belt) Railway tracks on the South Side-has been reached, according to an authoritative source. Unless an unforeseen hitch develops, formal announcement of the agreement will be made in a few days, it was said. Mayor Boetcher and City Engineer Henry B. Steeg, who returned today from Chicago where they conferred with officials of the Indianapolis Union Railway. and

to discuss results of the conference. Mayor Boetcher said he did not expect to be prepared to make a statement on the railroad’s attitude on the elevation program for several days. Before he left for Chicago, he said the City is prepared to “take every possible step” to insure action on the project.

Must Start Dec. 7

The Pennsylvania Railroad is affected by the project since its trains operate over a portion of the Belt tracks in the City and it would have to elevate its line at the point where they join the Belt line. The City has been awarded a PWA grant of $421,000, representing 45 per cent of the cost of the track elevation work, but in order to receive the grant, work on the project must be started by Dec. 7. An increase ih the Federal allotment may be involved in the tentative agreement, it was reported. Under the program, the Belt tracks would be elevated from Meridian. St. to Pleasant Run Blvd., eliminating the grade crossings at Madison Ave., East St. and Singleton ‘St.

Hes of a petition hefore City Coun-

et $318,000, to. finance the City’s share of ‘the project cost. The affected railroads would pay the remainder of the cost.

DEMAND FOR A. M. A. RECORDS IS REDUCED

Writ Asked aaron With Medical Co-ops.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.). —U. 8. District Judge James Proctor today quashed two of three sections of a subpena demanding that the American Medical ' Association produce = all correspondence and records of its relations with medical co-operatives and low income health groups since 1916. The subpena asked for records dealing with Group Health Association, Washington; the Ross-Loos Medical Group, Los Angeles; Trinity Hospital, Little Rock; Milwaukee Medical Center, Milwaukee; The Community Hospital, Elk City, Okla.; The Illinois Hygiene League; The Public Health Institute, The United Medical Service and the Civic! Medical Center, all of Chicago. The third section called for letters, telegrams and correspondence of the A. M. A. during the last few years, dealing with®prepared medical care and group medicine practice.

RELIEF SHIP ARRIVES BARCELONA, Nov. 17 (U. P.).— The United States food ship Erica Reed, carrying a $300,000 cargo of foodstuffs, medical supplies, clothing and two ambulances, arrived

safely today.

RELAXES BEFORE ADDRESS '. . . . . .

Edward O’Neal, resident, of the American Farm Bureau Federation, takes his pipe and elases ‘at the Farm Bureau convention : at Ton today, ‘making a speech, .

Accord on South Side Track |

the Pennsylvania Railroad, declined'|.

The City has published a legal noil for issuance of bonds, not to éx-|.

Drug Co. for 25 years. He h

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis. Ind.

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SoM oth ers, Not Children, Get Vacation

KENOSHA, Wis, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—A delegation of mothers protested to the School Board that. nine days was too long for children to - be home just before Christmas and asked that the vaca- -, tion be shortened. . “The mental and physical strain would. be. too much,” they said. The Board met last night and voted to keep schools ope: until Dec. 21 and added the difference to the Easter vacation.

DALHOVER DUE TODIE TONIGHT

Supreme Court Rejects Last Plea; Roosevelt Now Is Only Hope.-

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.). —The Supreme Court today refused to intervene in the case of James

Dalhover, Middle West desperado under sentence to die inh the e:ectric chair at Michigan City, Ind. tonight. The court denied the petition for a rehearing and rejected an appeal for an order staying execution. Dalhover’s only hope to escape the electric chair tonight rests now with President Roosevelt, to whom his mother has appealed for executive clemency. His mother, Mrs. Bertha Dalhover Craig, of Madison, Ind. asked Mr. Roosevelt to commute her son's death sentence, and as an alternative to permit him to serve as a “human guinea pig” for medical experiments. . Previous Appeal Denied . However, Dalhover. probably will be electrocuted as any other criminal some time after midnight tonight. He was sentenced to die for the murder of State Policeman Paul Minneman.

A few weeks ago the U. S. Su+

preme Court. denied his appeal and since .then the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago twice has refused petitions for a stay. Yesterday the Department of Justice refused to recommend executive clemency, which ended an effort to gain a respite or commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment from President Roosevelt. Dalhover was “triggerman” of the Al Brady gang of free-shooting bank robbers. Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr., were killed by G-Men in. Bangor, Me., when Dalhover was captured. The gang also was accused of killing Sergt. Richard Rivers, Indianapolis police officer,

WILLIAM HARBISON

OF HAAG DRUG DIES

54 Years Old, Had Been Iii

For Six Months.

William: C." Harbison, secretarytreasurer of the Haag Drug Co. died today at the Methodist Hospital following a six- -months’ illness. He was 54. Mr. Harbison who with K. T. Brock organized the new Haag Drug Co. in 1929, previously was associated with the KieferzStewart been connected with the sales and sundry department of that company. Born in Shelbyville, Ky., Mr. Harbison came to Indianapolis when a small boy. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Church of the Advent and the Columbia Club He is survived by his wife, .Marguerite; a son, William B.; a daughter, Miss Mary Katherine; a brother, Benjamin Harbison, and a nephew, Benjamin Wakefield, all of Indianapolis. Funeral arrangements have not

been completed.

URGES

EXPECTS STATE PAY-HOUR LAW

Histson, Save Tow Townsend Will Recommend Bill to Legislature.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Governor Townsend will recommend enactment of a State law to make the provisions of the Federal Wage-

Hour Law apply to intrastate commerce in Indiana, Thomas R. Hutson, Indiana Commissioner of Labor, declared here today. The recommendation will be given to the Indiana Legislature at its opening session in January, he said. . This action is part of the pledge of the Indiana State Labor Department for 100 per cent co-operation with the Federal Government in both implementing and supplementing the Wage-Hour Law, Mr. Hutson explained. Both ' the Labor Commissioner

tin, attended the three-day session of the Fifth National Conference on. Labor Legislation sponsored by the Federal Labor Department.

Ready for Enforcement

Mr. Hutson announced that he was prepared to take immediate steps in aiding enforcement of the law by appointing a member of. his staff to make it a full time job. ' Another step to be taken at once, Mr. Hutson said, will be the establishment in Indiana of a Permanent Council of Apprenticeship Training to_be composed of three employers and three labor representatives. Charles F. Howe, Hammond, who has been a conciliator on Mr. Hutson's staff, is being trained by Federal officials as apprentice supervisor for the State and will take the field in this capacity being financed for from .three to six months by Federal funds, he explained.

Pledges Co-operation

The Indiana Commissioner also pledged 100 per cent co-operation in enforcing child-labor provisions of the Wage-Hour Law in Indiana. “There are only a tew of our industries that are affectéd by the law's provisioh for a 25 cents an hour minimum wage and a 40-hour maximum work week,” Mr. Hutson asserted. “But since the Federal Govern: ment is urging these. provisions be adopted by state statute in order to cover intrastate as well as interstate commerce the Indiana admin-

istration will co-operate.”

CLAY COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES ARRIVE .

Many of the 2000 delegates to the donverition didn’t arrive until todays This group of

and his assistant, William J. Cur-

GOVERNOR TELLS STATE FARMERS

Legislature to Consider Redistribution of Gasoline and Gross Income Levies, * Townsend Says at Parley. |

OUP ACTION TO GET LAWS

O'Neal Asks Ploraed Reduction of Cotton Surpluses: ‘Benefits of Paper-Money Standard Are Outlined.

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The 1939 Legislature will consider Serious the rediss

to continue their ght to have the burden of Welfare costs

taken from property taxes. : _ “There never would have been any spread of the tax burden if it had not been for your organization,” Gover nor Townsend said. “Disore ganize your farm bureau, stay away from the Legisla= ture—and see what happens

to the Tax Limitation Law.” Other speakers at the morning session were Edward A. O’Nea American Farm Bureau Federation president, and Prof. W. C. Cleve= land of Indiana University. . V. C. Freeman, acting dean of the Purdue School of Agriculture; ; Mrs. Charles W. Sewell and Dr, Leo Christensen, president of the Kansas Chemical Foundation, were to speak this afternoon.

Urges Group Action

Governor. ‘Townsend said that farmers must organize to defend their interests and to compete with

manufacturers, trade and banking associations, chambers of commerce - and labor unions. “Group action is here,” he aids “To stay in thé economic picture, you've got to act together. “The best legislation has been where ps have ironed out their differen around a. conference

‘table, Hey then presented a come

promise measure to the Legislature, “We saw that sort of compromise in the tax bill imposing a tax on church, educational and fraternal property. For 2 years, taxpayers had contended that this proper he. taxed. That bill was worked out in a conference of all groups intere

ested. : Thinks Solution Possible

“I think we can solve this farm problem if we work together in our organizations, but we’ll never solve it if we don’t maintain our organi zation. “Your farm bureau, of which I have been a member 20 years, has helped in the solution of this agri cultural problem.” ; Mr. O'Neal told the convention | that “the principles underlying the

present farm legislation are thors, J

oughly sound.” : “The present agricultural 1aWs : will form the basis of a permanent program for agriculture. Those who are charging that some commodity prices are low, don't understand that surpluses produced in 1937 were the main factors in the price decline that started more than a year ago. ; “We harvested 81 millions acres of wheat this year without any production control. When we stop to consider that the largest acre age of wheat harvested during the war years was.less than 61,000,000 acres, we can begin to appreciate that now, without any war demand : and with foreign markets seriously curtailed by reason of extreme nae (Continued on Page Three)

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farmers came to Indianapolis by traction: Tomorro w’s sessions are to be devated. to Farm ness which will the e to Farm Bure a