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FORECAST: Unsettled with local thundershowers tonight or tomorrow; cooler tomorrow becoming fair by night.

VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 8&5

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Autos, Swimming Holes and Airplane Account for Heavy Toll.

3 IN ONE FAMILY KILLED

U. S. Probes Crash Fatal to Airshow Owner; Local Woman Victim.

Twelve violent deaths were reported in Indiana accidents, one

{ here, as the heat sent thousands of Hoosiers into the open for the weekend. A woman was killed in traffic here. | Six others were killed by autos in| the state, three in one collision near | Kokomo.

Drownings claimed five lives and an upstate airplane crash another. The victims were: MRS. FRANCES OKEY, 31, of 4001 E. 31st St. killed in an aute crash at 20th and Adams Sts. MR. AND MRS. WALTER MILLS, 45 and 43, respectively, and their son, RAYMOND, 4, killed in a collision near Kokomo. MARY MILLER, 12, of Martinsville, hurt fatally when struck by a truck near there. MISS ELSIE GRUBB, 25. of Bedford, hurt fatally when crushed between two parked cars which were struck by a third car

RN NN 3 Times-Acme Telephoto. Rescuers search the debris of Anoka’s National Guard Armory.

Quins Found JAPAN ERECTS

9 MINNESOTANS

near Tunnelton. EDWARD M. FIFER, 28 of Elkhart, killed when his plane crashed at Elkhart. ROBERT H. COLE of Indianapolis, drowned while swimming in the Driftwood River near Columbus. JULIUS J. REITER, 54, drowned while fishing in Hudlos Lake near South Bend. JOHN PAUL COATS, 11. drowned in the Goodrich Park swimming pool at Winchester. GEORGE WOLFORD of Brazil, drowned in a pit near Brazil. HAROLD SORDELET, 11, of Ft. Wayne, drowned in the St. Joseph River near Dill's Grove.

Two Cars Collide

Nine persons were hurt in 38 traffic accidents in Indianapolis. Seventy-eight motorists were arrested, 18 of them on speeding charges. Mrs. Okey’s death increased the year's traffic death toll here to 24. She was riding in her car driven

DEAD, 200 HURT

Stassen Personally Leads

Too Pudgy, DEADLY WIRES

Put on Diet FOREIGN SITUATION

east on 20th St. by Clarence High, 34, of 2032 N. LaSalle St. At Adams St., the car collided with another driven north on Adams St. by Conrad Reiche, 18, of 2972 N. Denny St. Mrs. Okey's car spun around and then crashed into the curb. She was

CALLANDER, Ontario, June SHANGHAI — Food shortages 19 (U. P.).—The Dionne quin- threaten at Tientsin and | tuplets were put on a diet to- Amoy. | day to scale down their bulg- TOKYO—U. S. envoy says |

ing waistlines. ; America is willing to mediate | The girls were described as dispute. “pudgy” by one of their ol . . nurses, and their physician, LONDON—Chamberlain hopes volunteers, under the personal Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, decided for “local” settlement. direction of Governor Stassen, today that five slim sisters were bet- WASHINGTON—Hull says U. becan clearing debris left bv a ter than five fat ones. S. is involved. ” Soke «KH Dr. Dafoe said the Quins CHUNGKING — U. S. envoy mado which struck this little : . ] } . LS. 3 Mississippi River town late yester-| Would have to quiet eating po- says “something will be done.” day, killing at least nine persons ey d lie . Sareny | HANKOW—U. S. asks informa- | and injuring mere than 200. hE no girls ctarteq | tion on missionary activities. irizzli ain, which h n 5 — ; He re after the lr getting fat, but had to call a | ROME oi ly to ask command hit, added to the problems of work-| halt. when buttons began | of “axis” fleet. ers as they probed through a litter| Popping off. | SHANGHAI June 19 (U. P)— The corps of foreign consuls at Tientsin planned a vigorous protest

Cleanup by Guards in Stricken Town.

ANOKA, Minn, June 19 (U. P).| —National Guardsmen, police and!

“The situation is now under control.” Many Seriously Huri

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thrown from the car and died en; route to City Hospital. Reiche and] Walter Staton, 45, of 1426 S. Richland St., a passenger, were injured. Police charged High with failure to have a driver's license. Reiche was charged with vagrancy.

Plane Dives 1500 Feet

Six others were injured in a crash near Kokomo in which Mr. and Mrs. Mills and their son, Raymond, were killed. They included their two other children, Norma and Carmen, 4. The others were George Lindley, 22, of Kokomo, the other driver; Mary Lindley, 18; Nellie Weaver, (Continued on Page Three)

LOCKJAW FATAL TO BOY CUT ON FOOT

James McKelvey, 5, was dead to-| day, the victim of lockjaw which | developed after an accident while! at play at his home in Westport! last Tuesday. He died yesterday, morning at Methodist Hospital.

and broken communication and power lines. Within a few hours after the , 30 miles of wire charged with 220 came here to assume full charge of CRISIS AFFECTS U, S, volts of electricity to tighten the caring for the A. A blockade of the British and French ar the work o rehabilitation. Ry 3 C 0 The Domei (Japanese) News Expresses oncern VET agency said the wire was erected | | Later Developments (at 10 p. m. (8 a. m. Indianapolis _—_—— Othe S i - Authorities believed all victims of ported Ss De I the storm had been found. They! WASHINGTON. June 18 (U. P). seek the aid of Admiral Harry E | said that a score of the injured Secretary of State Hull indicated Nan were in serious condition. and

estimated that property damage would total at least $500,000

of wrecked buildings. uprooted trees i HU S tonight against Japan's erection of twister struck, Governor Stassen 1 | Concessions there. Farly today he reported: ! Time). Yarnell, American Navy command-

today that he regards the Tientsin er-in-chief in the Far East, in| situation as involving broad interna- mediating ‘between the British and| tional questions in which the United the Japanese.

The boy stepped on a piece of! glass and the cut was healing un- | til Thursday when tetanus devel He was taken to the hos-| pital, but preventive serum was] ineffective. The body was returned to his! home.

‘Theron Hall Sees Peril to

where today creators of wealth and the spenders {of wealth—between politics,” Theron M. Hall of Detroit said today at the 16th annual conchange Clubs.

| vice president of Exchange, spoke be-

the war still is being waged,” he said.

| which Mr. Hall spoke.

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice,

Pro to Sink Hole-in-One Or Try Until Collapse

ICHIGAN CITY, Ind, June 19 (U. P.).—Anybody can make a hole-in-one, Harry Gonder, Beverly Shores Country Club golf pro, told a boasting hole-in-oner yesterday. Tomorrow he will attempt to prove it. It all started on June 4, when William Voltz, an appropriately named electrical engineer who consid= ers himself in top form when® he breaks a hundred, sliced a mid-iron -O shot from No. 10 tee into the cup. Xo a, He wasn't especially modest about it a3 pac ee and finally irked Gonder into his °° statement. At 9 a. m. tomorrow Gonder will be on the 10th tee and will start shooting at the hole 136 yards away. He will keep shooting until he sinks a hole-in-one or drops. Voltz bet him $25 he couldn't do it and was promptly called. A counter will keep track of the shots, using an adding machine despite the pro's confidence that it won't be necessary. Caddies will tee PA and retrieve the balls and Mush { Marsh, Chicago Blackhawks hockey ff star, and Robert Zeddies, member of a U. S. Golf Association's commit- \ tee, will act as judges. “There have been hole-in-one contests in which entrants made aces after a few tee shots,” Gonder said, “but s& far as I am able to determine, no one has ever tried to establish how many shots are necessary to score one.” Gonder has been playing golf for 10 years. He has never shot

Velma Wee |\ANDENBERG'S PLANK CHOSEN

Flees Prison, Profit-Sharing Plan Urged

‘ants ‘Fling’ As Substitute for

New Deal.

MARYSVILLE, O, June 19 (U.P.).—Velma West, 33, serving a life sentence for the hammer murder of her husband near Painesville in 1928, escaped with three other prisoners from Marysville Women's Re formatory early today after Mrs. West had written a letter to the superintendent saying that she wanted “one more fling before I die.” The for apparently escaped during the early morning hours but their flight was not discovered for several hours. The prisoners who escaped with Mrs. West were Virginia Brawdy, 19, Akron; Mary Ellen Richards, 23, Cincinnatti, and Florence Sheline, 23, Gallipolis.

URGES WAR ON I. 5. SPENDING

the NATIONAL AFFAIRS

PROFIT-SHARING Committee criticizes Administration. TAX BILL expected to pass House today. MONETARY powers debated in Senate. MONOPOLY probers study insurance commissions. NEUTRALITY bill gets Roose- * velt backing. M’CARRAN wins vote against Boyle.

WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P.) — Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) . a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940, today urged adoption of profit-sharing as “an essential to the preservation of the capitalistic system” and an aid to labor. He headed a special Senate Cominittee that recommended the plan as a means of reconciling controversy between employers and employees and as a way to social security by the operation of natural economic laws. Senator Vandenberg has not ane nounced his candidacy for the 1940

committee

Democracy in Talk to " Exchange Group.

in Michigan is actively in the field for him and he is judged an avowed candidate. His committee report further projected him into the political forefront by its outright condemna-

“The real war of the world everyis that between the

commerce and

fering of a definite substitute program. Democratic Colleagues Split

vention of the Indiana State Ex-

Mr. Hall, who is national regional

the committee—Senator Herring (D. Iowa) who signed the report, and Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.), who denounced it. “Wages will never settle the labor problem,” the committee reported. “Wage increases are like throwing red meat to animals in the zoo— satisfaction for the moment, but a more ravenous appetite later . blend the wage scale with a profitsharing differential and the same human being who previously concentrated his attention on wages, and constantly fought for higher wages, will discard the combative spirit and move in a co-operative direction . . .” Senator Johnson implied in his criticism of the report that it was a Republican substitute for social security and labor relations programs of the New Deal. “I do not believe that profit-shar-ing is the answer to a demand for social security of the workers or that it contributes on an equitable, voluntary and free basis to a wholesome relationship between employers and employees,” Senator

fore more than 200 members at the Hotel Severin.

“In Russia, Italy and Germany the spenders have triumphed and the people are sinking back into a subsistence level; in the democracies

“It is that war to which I call you today. A war to exterminate and stamp out greed for power and greed for wealth: extravagance and immorality in the high places of government,” he added. “The greatest dangers to democracy seems to me to be apathy, a lack of personal responsibility, and ability to look courageously at the world. . . . “There is only one ism for us in America and that is Americanism. And Americanism is not a system. Americanism is a feeling!” The delegates were welcomed by Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker and Henry S. Bir of Lagrange, state president, responded. Roy K. Coates, Indianapolis club president, presided at the luncheon session at

machine rolls to a stop. . vv +» WHERE'S THE STARTER? . . . That's the question that harries the people of the Main Streets and their representatives in Washington. . . . What will set financial fue! flow-

Where's the Starter?

The mysterious, balky machine that runs the nation's investment machine coughs, sputters, dies. , . business turn slowly and more slowly. . . . The investment . + There begins a frantic fumbling.

Johnson said. Criticize New Deal ‘Fetters’ Both President William Green of the A. F. of L. and President John L. Lewis of the C. I. O. testified against the profit-sharing plan." Mr. Green was out of the city today and Mr. Lewis declined to comment on the report until he had studied it thoroughly. The Committee not only denounced the Government's attitude toward business but called upon Congress to remove “‘fetters” to economic recovery. The study charged that punitive tax measures and harassing control efforts by the Government have driven some of the best business brains into retirement. It proposed that Congress experiment “to a reasonable degree” with (Continued on Page Three)

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VANNUYS BALKS AT THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT |

Senator Declares He Will Not Go Along With McNutt and Minton If President Decides to Run Again.

“CONTRARY TO TRADITION,” HE SAYS

Claims He Will Fight Indorsement by Ine diana Delegation; High Commissioner’s Resignation Denied by Coy.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, June 19.—Senator VanNuys ane nounced today that he will not go along with the McNuttMinton plan to support President Roosevelt for a third term if the President chooses to run. At the same time, Wayne Coy, assistant to Paul V. McNutt, denied a story published here that the Philippines High Commissioner already has submitted his resignation to Mr. Roosevelt. Stephen Early, the White House press secretary, declined either to affirm or deny the report on Mr. McNutt’s resignation but Mr. Coy asserted that “everyone knows that Paul is returning to the United States with the intention of

| lightning during a rain and electrical storm which hit the city at noon

campaign, but his state organization |

tion of the New Deal's attitude and | policies toward business and the of- |

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Hida Sound Susie States is vitally concerned | Admiral Yarnell arrived in Tient- | or . ie hah, He said the United States was not sin today to look over the situation. De y AW g D “mm. concerned in the original incident at | British Take in Food | ne on the - SRrecis cleared Tientsin which brought on the| ” the might 0 “57 Japanese blockade of the British British troops roused the anger of| ht COTARAG struck with sudden and French concessions there. How-, the Wipe yg at hens bi | furv late vesterday near Corcoran, ever, he expressed the concern of oN a Sy ES vegeta = a village southwest of Anoka and the Government with “the nature, ito 1% a > en pes several miles northwest of Minnea- and significance of subsequent Se Bi BE ON y polis. Tt struck an automobile in Velopments and their relationship | The Soh Wt a i A which four Minneapolis pérsons to developments in other parts of! dlectric-charged wires came o few were riding, tossed it 200 yards ipiChins i Be Gea hours Iter | I et with Special terest” | Moving out of the British Con- | = Mi | g v : |session in a warlike convoy, the] a } tes [8 Tiemidin amar | British troops went to the Italian | It dipped again at the village of Secretary Hull made his state | concession Joadea the trucks with | Champlin, killed one man and ment at a préss conference. It Was ocetables "and returned unchal-| wrecked several homes. Then it the first official pronouncement he iy. eq to their own territory. swept into Anoka, killed four per- has made since the Tientsin incident bk sons and cut a swath two to five developed. British Make Protest blocks wide diagonally through the| Secretary Hull's statement ap-| ype relief, however, was tempor-| town. At least 50 square blocks felt peared to indicate that this Govern-|,,, gs R. Barnes, British Mu-| the force of the storm. ment will resist any Japanese al- nicipal Council secretary. had an-| With lessened force. the “twister” tempt to drive a wedge between), ..nceq previously that there was] struck at Cedar, a few miles to the British and American interests in| northeast, before dissolving. | the Far East and thus to deal with | In little more than five minutes the tornado had run its course—but | left behind, in the heavy rain which | followed, a scene of terrible confusion. . Hours later, authorities computed the list of dead as follows: | H. G. GROAT, 95. Anoka. EDWARD MORRISETTE, 60, | Anoka. ! G. SYRING, Anoka. LEE KIDD, 25, Osseo. FRED ZIMMERMAN, Champlin. | MRS. ANNA FREEMAN. 76, Minneapclis. | JAMES BRADLEY. Mrs. Free- | man's son-in-law, Minneapolis. MRS. JAMES BRADLEY, Mrs. Freeman's daughter. ELLEN FREEMAN,

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them separately. rice and flour, and a considerable

{quantity of cold storage meats, re- | mained. Japanese added to the food problem by allowing Chinese to move ‘into the Concession area freely, but {permitting only a scattered few to | leave, thus swelling the population. BOOKS ....... 10 Johnson ..... 10 The Japanese Consulate General Broun ....... 10 Movies 12 at Tientsin refused a formal request Clapper 9 Mrs. Ferguson 10 by the British Consulate General Comics ...... 14!Obituaries ... 11/to relax restrictions on food transCrossword 15 Pegler .. 10 port and give British subjects equal Curious World 14 Pyle ........ . 9g/treatment with other foreigners Editorials .... 10 Questions .... 9 under the blockade. Fashions .... 5 Radio . 15/ Replying to the British request, Financial .... 15 Mrs. Roosevelt 9; the Japanese said that their measFlynn ....... 10 Scherrer g ures were “self defensive.” Forum . 10 Serial Story.. 14| It was reported in the Concession Grin, Bear It. 14 Society 4 area that Japanese arrested seven

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‘3D DEGREE’ METHODS CHARGED BY WILSON

Sam Wilson, 29-year-old ex-con-vict, declared from the witness stand in Criminal Court today that police officers used “third-degree” methods in forcing him to sign an alleged confession to participation in the holdup-slaying of Edward Maze, West Side filling station attendant. Less than hour after the trial opened before a jury of six men and six women, Special Judge James D. Ermston excused the jury when the defense attempted to block efforts of State's attorneys to introduce the alleged confession into evidence. Judge Ermston overruled the de-

In Indpls..... 3 Sports .6, 7, Chinese peddlers Saturday for tryJane Jordan .. 4 State Deaths. 12 (Continued on Page Three)

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BOLTS DAMAGE | 3 HOMES HERE

Driving Rain Forces Down Mercury, Brings Relief After Six Days.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6 10 a. m... Ww Nam... “8 12 (noon) 80 1pm...

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remaining and will resign as

High Commissioner.”

In announcing his opposition to the announced plan of the McNutt forces to withdraw from the 1940 Presidential race if President Roosevelt seeks a third term, Senator VanNuys said: “I am opposed to a third-term nomination or election for President Roosevelt or any other President. I think that such a nomination is contrary to one of the sacred traditions of the American public.”

Wants Indiana “Sound”

The senior Senator from Indiana declared he will do everything in his power to prevent the Indiana delegation being for a third term in 1940. “I want to see Indiana remain sound and loyal,” he added. Senator VanNuys said it is up to the state organization to name him a delegate-at-large, but that if they

Nine-year-old Robert Fuller was shocked but not seriously hurt when | | lightning struck the home of his| | parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond { Fuller, at 1421 Main St., Mars Hill. | The youth was standing in the | corner, of the kitchen, feeding his | | dog, when the bolt struck the roof, {tearing off shingles and plaster.| | The lightning lanced through a| {window about a foot from the] | youth. | The boy was knocked down. He told deputy sheriffs his hearing was affected and his back hurt. The rain brought a brief Tespitel from torrid temperatures which | have prevailed for six days. More thundershowers were predicted for tonight and tomorrow | by the Weather Bureau. Cooler weather was promised for tomorrow. When a bolt struck the home of Guy Jones, 13¢ McKim St., electric lights were burned out and some timbers were ripped loose. There

The lightning tore out part of the roof and the chimney at the home {of Ollie Stuckemeyer, 221 E. Morris St. Firemen were summoned, but no fire was reported. A 15-foot section of the foundation at the home of Mr. and Mrs. | Walter Brown, 707 Buchanan St. was loosened by the rain and caved into the basement. Three children of the family and a nephew were in the house at the time, but none were injured. They were Charlotte, 6, Esther, 5, and Buster Brown, 3, and Bobby Hahn, 2, the nephew. Lights were burned out and slight damage was caused by a bolt which struck the house at 146 N. Blackford St.

COMMITTEE VOTES DOWN F. D. R. CHOICE!

McCarran Gets Revenge for Being ‘Slapped.’

WASHINGTON, June 19 (U.P) — The Senate Judiciary Committee today reported adversely, by a 13 to 5 vote, the nomination of William S. Boyle as United States District Attorney for Nevada. The nomination was rejected after Senator McCarran (D. Nev.) contended that President Roosevelt named Mr. Boyle as a “slap” at the senator for his opposition to the Supreme Court reorganization bill and other New Deal measures. Senator Pittman (D. Nev.) had supported the nomination.

18 ARABS KILLED, 14 WOUNDED BY BOMB

HAIFA, Palestine, June 19 (U. P.).—Arabs took violent - reprisals today for a bombing in the crowded vegetable market in which 18 Arabs were killed, 24 gravely wounded and about 20 others injured slightly. The reprisals included the stabbing of a Jew by an Arab woman in Haifa, and the hurling of three bombs at Jaffa police stations.

do, he will never be a party to a third-term move. He declined to say what he will do in the election campaign if Mr. Roosevelt is renominated, except for his statement that he would not support a third term candidate. Since his re-election for a second term, the Senator has been a bitter opponent of the President and votes against the Administration both on the floor and in committee. :

Minton Withholds Comment

His announcement came today after he had cast an adverse vote in the Judiciary Committee against the President's appointment of a district attorney for Nevada. Senator Minton said he didn’t care to comment on the VanNuys statement other than to say that he is sure the convention will not follow Senator VanNuys’ wishes. Before tendering his resignation, Mr. Coy said, Mr. McNutt will call on President Roosevelt and make his resignation effective on whatever date is satisfactory to the President. This deference to President Roosevelt’s wishes was indicated in the Honolulu dispatches which quoted the former Indiana Gover= nor as indorsing 100 per cent Sen ator Minton’s statement of last week saying that the McNutt Presi dential candidacy is out if F. D. R. wants a third term. Senator Minton hailed the McNutt announcement with vast approval and although he previously had said he had not talked with him before making the statement, added, “I wasn't at all surprised.” Indiana Democratic Congressmen expressed approval of the McNutt stand and pointed out the necessity of forming a united front if they are to win again in 1940.

Rep. Schulte Comments

“I am wholly in accord with the idea of predicating the McNutt Presidential candidacy only on the condition that the President doesn’t want to run again,” Rep. William T. Schulte said. “Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most liberal and humane chief executive that the United States has had in a century and we Democrats will never desert nor repudiate him. If the party wants to renominate him, the Indiana Democrats will back the movement 100 per cent.” Rep. Eugene B. Crowe, who has been sending McNutt-for-President letters to Democratic Congressmen and former members who served with him, said: “I am for Paul V. McNutt for the Presidential nomination in 1940 100 per cent. But if the Democrats decide on a third term for President Roosevelt we will be for that and show that he is as strong a vote getter as he ever was. But I do not believe that the President wants a third term, so I am for Paul.” Rep. William H. Larabee praised the statements of both Mr. Minton and Mr. McNutt snd asserted, “that is exactly the right stand to take.” Morning papers here practically ige (Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS UP FRACTIONS NEW YORK, June 19 (U. P.).— Stocks ran up fractions to more than 2 points in slow forenoon trade ing today. Motor, steel and selected high priced issues led the fer ward ‘movement.