Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1939 — Page 1
he Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 51—NUMBER &7
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FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow, cloudy and cooler; probably showers afternoon or night.
Spirit of ‘39 on the Townsend Front
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Smiling with hope and confidence, she's Mrs. Delegate to the Townsend convention,
PURGE OF FOES IN CONGRESS HINTED
Trail Blazers’ League Plans Flying Squadrons to Swing Weak Voting Sectors; | Action Withheld on Club's Suit.
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NAZI DRIVE ON
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DANZIG FEARED
Pincers Tighten on Poland With Troops Moving to Strategic Areas.
By LEE G. MILLER
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. June 2i.—The ‘German pincers are being tightened 'about Peland against the day when
Several thousand Townsendites from states as distant as California, Adolf Hitler, his armories bulging
Florida and New York,
thronged Union Station this afternoon awaiting
the arrival from Chicago of their national leader, Dr. Francis E. Town-
send.
The City was turned into a vast “family reuinon” as the vanguard of troop movements and German road- and Admiral
with the loot of Czzchoslovakia, strikes for Danzig and the corridor.
Continuing reports of German
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1939
U.S. PROTESTS BLOCKADING OF TIENTSIN AREA
Protection Is Sought for Americans and Property; Britain Acts.
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FOREIGN SITUATION TIENTSIN—U. S. enters blockade dispute. WASHINGTON-—State Department waits envoy's report. TOKYO—British ships reject Japanese ore cargoes. LONDON-Britain prepared to protect subjects in China. SINGAPORE — British and French defense chiefs confer. : PARIS — Report troops near
100,000 Navi French border.
TIENTSIN, China. June 21 (U. |P.).—The United States entered the | Tientsin blockade situation today with representations against Ja|panese interference with American |citizens and property. At the same time, Great Britain | made a demand: of ultimative na- | ture for the immediate release of |G. A. Smith. a British importer. | seized by Japanese pickets at the | entrance to the blockaded British | concession Saturday. “Proper steps” {by the British Government were | threatened as the alternative to release. As the Japanese blockade moved
to a climax their forces today com-! pleted occupation of the strategic |Swatow region of South China. | The action gives Nippon's war ma- | chine complete domination of all] land and sea approaches to the] | British crown colony. Complaints Summarized | Japanese columns, completing |their encirclement of Swatow, reached Anpow, two miles north of! Swatow on the Han River, at 2:30 p.m. { The official Chinese dollar broke to a new record low in Hongkong for the present currency today fol- | lowing the decision of all Chinese banks there to close down for a three-day period. John K. Caldwell, eral, made the American sentations to Shigenori Javanese Consul General. He sent Mr. Tashiro a summary | {of complaints by American business‘men of inconvenience and losses: suffered as the result of Japanese | blockade restrictions which had all but paralyzed normal commercial life in this rich area. Then Mr. Caldwell announced his formal support of the complaints. Edgar G. Jamieson, British Consul General, sent a flat and “final” demand for the immediate release {of Mr. Smith. | Becomes Grave Issue He said that uniess Mr. Smith were released at once the Tientsin| blockade dispute would cease to be a local issue and that the British Government would take the “proper steps.” { Significance was attached in| diplomatic quarters to the fact that before the American representations were made, Consul General Caldwell Harry E. Yarnell]
Consul Gen- | repre-'
Tashiro,
middle-aged and elderly advocates of the pension plan poured into the building operations in Slovakia. de- American navy commander-in-chief, | city by plane, train, bus and auto caravans for the four-day national!
convention opening tomorrow. Shortly before his departure from Chicago this morning on a special train bearing delegates from California, Dr. Townsend reiterated his| threat of a new party issued at Townsend headquarters in Chicago yesterday. cd His original statement, in which he said new parties would be formed if the present major parties failed | to support the Plan, was reported | as unauthorized by organization | leaders here. | New Party Hinted { However, the “father of the Plan’ said today that the Townsend Party registered in California, would be the nucleus of a new national party based on the pension pian if present parties prove unsatisfactory. “There is no definite plan at the
mecment.” he said. “but if we don't!
get what we want from the major political parties, all we can do is to form our own national party.” { Meanwhile, it was indicated that 50 or more of the 306 congressmen aiding in the recent defeat of the Plan in the House will be on the] “must” list for purging in the next | election. Plans for the congressional “purge” program to be submitted to the convention got under way with the arrival of L. W. Jeffery, vice president and leader of the Plan's] lobby in Washingten.
Plan Year-Round Drive
With the arrival of Mr. Jeffery, it| was revealed that a year-round national campaign for election of a pro-Townsend Congress will be proposed to the delegates during the four-day convention. | Spearhead of the attack on Con-| gressmen who voted against the Plan after being elected with Town- | send organization support will be] (Continued on Page Three)
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EMPLOYERS’ PLEA HEEDED BY NLRB
May Petition to Conduct
Poll Among Workers.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P). —Charles Fahy, counsel for National Labor Relations Board. said todav that the Board has definitely approved a change in its rules to permit employers to petition it to conduct collective bargaining elections among their workers, The change has been sought by businessmen, who contended that sometimes they could not determine what labor union they should bargain with.
STOCKS IRREGULAR IN DULL TRADING
NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P.) — Stocks were irregularly down here today in sluggish trade. Autos. how-
‘ever. held steady and Chrvsier re-| ‘BIG JOB’ WITH U S ‘covered a slight forenoon loss and | t {
went back to 70. Steels generally were weak.
Hogs reached a peak top of $7 on the Indianapolis market today for the first time since mid-May. There were few bought at that price,
however, and the practical limit was | ;
$6.95 on ia general 10econt. gain. ARLINGTON TO STAY CLOSED AT CROSSING
The Marion County sioners today ruled that there is no public necessity for the reopen-
ing of Arlington Ave. at the Big! His present work with the budget |
| one. After 16 hours of driving, on a $25 bet with duffer Bill Voitz, who scored an ace on the same 136-yard | hole a week ago, Professional Harry
Four Railroad crossing between Hanna and Troy Aves. In making their
decision, ths
commissioners overruled the protests
of a group of residents in the vicinity who sought the reopening of the
avenue as a “matter of convenience” | WPA director can be utilized, it
and supported the contention of the Railroad which had opposed the move. REPORTS SUB LOCATED PARIS. June 21 (U. P).—The
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spite Berlin's denials. seem to suggest that Der Tag may not be long delayed. That is, unless the negotiators in Moscow emerge from the silences of the Kremlin and proclaim a military alliance binding Soviet Russia to join Britain and France as guarantors of Poland. From Slovakia. if war comes, Germany obviously would mpve against
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RARE FORM OF PARALYSIS ENDS | GEHRIG'S CAREER
Dr. Gallup Says:
“There's too much fear of propaganda. “The country is slowly drifting toward prohibition again. “The function of the poll 1s 1o measure public reaction fo unsettled issues and the real strength of
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American Opinion Stable, Dr. Gallup Declares Here
No Reason to Fear Propaganda, Poll Expert Says: Finds
Dry Sentiment Growing.
By JOE
Public opinion in
this countr
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y is “amazingly stable, and there
shouldn't be half the fear of propaganda that there seems to be,” Dr. George Gallup. director of the Institute of Public Opinion, said today.
Dr. Gallup, here to address the
RAIN MAY HALT MERCURY CLIMB
Bureau Predicts Showers And Cooler Weather First Day of Summer.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 2 10 a. m.... W€W 11am... 6 12 (noon). 79 1pm...
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International Circulation Managers’ | Association convention. also said {that President Roosevelt probably | would have a hard time getting a [third term if the election was today, land that the nation is slowly drift(ing toward prohibition again. | He said those views were reached ‘through the objective sampling of cross-sections of the nation’s population through the Institute, reports of which are carried in The In.dianapolis Times. | Dr. Gallup has just returned from | Europe and he said the Institute |eventually will “cover” the opinions of peoples of all the democracies. |No attempt will be made to ‘‘cover” [the totalitarian states, he said, “because it doesn't make any political |difference what the rank and file of [their citizens think anyway, even if they would state their real opinions.” Dr. Gallup said that the Institute {is afraid the public will come to
Thundershowers which may bring think of it as infallible.
relief from the torrid weather were
expected by the Weather Bureau this afternoon. climbing steadily and was in high 80s when the Bureau predicted the showers.
Cooler weather for tomorrow, the years of finding out what people] first day of summer, with showers think in all walks of life about some | for
during the afternoon or night was predicted. Several western and southern Indiana cities today cleared debris left by wind and rainstorms yesterday. by
! “Just as surely as we can predict 95 per cent accuracy in the poll.” he said. “we also can predict 5 per
The mercury Was cent inaccuracy. The secret of a poll the is not necessarily the number of terday and the defense had been
sample votes taken, but the cross|section from which they are taken. | “We have found, in the last few
FINAL
HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
Mayo Clinic Doctors Suffering From Ch Must Underg
tive Job’
sis today ended the fabulous
games without a break. | Ed Barrow, president of
Report ‘Iron-Man’ Is ronic Poliomyelitis; o Treatments.
ADVISED TO CONSERVE ENERGY;
Yankee Star Who Voluntarily Benched Himself Remains in Good Spirits; ‘Execu-
Possible.
NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P.).—A rare form of paraly=
baseball career of Lou Gehrig,
Columbia University boy who jumped into the New York Yankee lineup 16 years ago and stayed there through 2130
the Yankees, announced that
the iron-man first baseman was suffering from chronic polio-
imyelitis (infantile paralysis) ‘mediately to a series of trea the disease. Barrow and Manager
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and that he must submit ime tments in an attempt to cure
Joe McCarthy of the Yankees
Joined in the announcement after a diagnosis of Gehrig at
‘the Mayo Clinic.
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Barrow said the first baseman would be kept with the
team on his regular salary for the remainder of the current
season.
OMIT MURDER TRIAL DEFENS
‘Wilson Case to Go to Jury Without Evidence in Defendant’s Behalf.
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The Sam Wilson murder case was expected to be given (o a Criminal |Court jury this afternoon without {any evidence having been presented lin the defendant's behalf. | The situation is believed to be
{without precedent in the history of
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[the local court. Wilson, a 29-year-old ex-convict. {is on trial for the holdup-murder of
| Edward Maze, West Side filling sta[tion proprietor. The Staie rested its case late yes-
{scheduled to as court opened tooay. Continuance Denied T. Ernest Maholm, chief counsel
Wilson, asked Special Judge
proceed
Resigning will come up for discussion after his cone
tract expires in October. Gehrig returned from the Mayo Clinic yesterday but refused to disclose its findings. | He handed the diagnosis te ‘Barrow and McCarthy at the | Yankee Stadium today.
| The report. signed by Dr. Harold | Hobein. M. D., described the afflic[tion as “an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis affecting the motor path= | ways and cells of the central nerv(ous system.” Gehrig will not be permitted te [take active exercise until he has Submitted to a series of treatments | prescribed in the diagnosis.
Morale Remains High
In good spirits, Gehrig said: | “At least 1 know what is the matter with me now. With the | proper treatment it may be pose |sible to regain my health and ac'tivity. I already have begun to | take injections prescribed by my | several doctors.” | The medical report read: “To whom it may concern: “This is to certify that Mr. Lou Gehrig has been under examination lat the Mayo Clinic from June 13 tb (19, 1939. inclusive. | “After a careful and complete exramination it was found that he is’
11500 issues. that the cross-section of [James K E. Ermston for a contin- suffering from amyotrophic lateral
|ingly high. ... “The propagandists have devel-
\ | SHELBYVILLE BINGO measuring 113 inches during the 24 ,,,,ced changes or trends in public ‘hours ending at 6 a. m. sentiment.
| | | “We have found that sentiment |Viously recorded testimony in ef-|pation as a baseball player inasmuch | APPEARS DOOME ‘Brazil and Spencer, One man Was for prohibition, for example, seems, forts to impeach certain State wit-/as it is advisable that he conserve
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Polish Silesia, the mining and in-]
dustrial center which forms Poland's southwestern corner. | Loss of Silesia would deprive Poland of vital coal, iron and manu- | facturing resources, and would
the open the way for a German ad-|
vance northward aleng the Vistula to Warsaw and eastward into Galicia (the Polish Ukraine) and Rumania. In Galicia, German agents are said to have been fostering unrest among Ukrainian nationalists. To the north, the obvious German strategy would be to pinch off the corridor and reunite East Prussia physically with the Reich, thus barring Poland entirely from the | Baltic. | Poland's frontier between Silesia rand Germany is fortified. But with (Continued on Page Three)
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COY IS TALKED FOR
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Work Praised in Assisting
Many From City Observed] At Game Last Night. |
SHELBYVILLE. Ind. June 21 (U.! P.) —City officials moved today to ‘ban bingo games in Shelbyville. | They have attracted large Indian-! apolis crowds since the game was; banned there. It appeared that the final gaine was held at a lodge here last night when a lodge officer announced that “we don’t expect to have any more! games.” | The lodge has been sponsoring a! bingo game once a week and last night there were about 490 players | present, most of them from Indian- | apolis. Mayor Ed Shook of Shelbyville {called the lodge officials into con-| (ference yesterday with a “request” ‘that the games be halted after he |had received two petitions from citi'zens asking that gambling be curbed. One of the petitions bore 315 signatures. The other was presented by Shelbyville ministers.
Cities hardest hit by storms were
in
jured at Brazil. There was no rain in some up state sections.
Rainfall Above Normal
The rainfall here during the last 48 hours was 2.24 inches. The rainfall so far this month has been 4.96 inches, 1.34 above normal. Tomorrow will be the longest day of the year. The sun will rise at 4:16 a. m. and set at 7:17 p. m. Several buildings were unroofed. many windows were knocked out and several trees were blown down
during the storm at Brazil. Wilbur |
Mason, a railroad crossing watchman,
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4 MEN AND 5 HOURS--
GAT STILL IN SEWER
Tocts Won't Be Coaxed Out
lillness of the regular court reporter. | Mr. Maholm declared it would
[far by the absent reporter. Mr. | Maholm said he wished to use pre-
| nesses. Judge Ermston denied the coninuance and ordered Mr. Maholm | to proceed with the defense. | “The jury is here to receive any | evidence that you have to offer and | if you have none you must sub- | mit your case to the jury,” Judge | Ermston declared. Defense Rests “We have plenty of evidence but
the American intelligence is surpris- | vance of the trial because of the sclerosis. This type of illness ine
[volves the motor pathways and cells (of the central nervous system and in
oped the theory that they can sway | be impossible to proceed “with his lay terms is known as a form of . A : ‘public opinion pretty much at will,| defense because a substitute re- chronic poliomyelitis—infantile paIndianapolis was soaked ji we have found that it takes|porter had stated he was unable ralysis. another driving rain, the fall | Gionificant events to make pro-| to decipher the record made thus| The nature of this trouble makes
|it such that Mr. Gehrig will be une |able to continue his active partici=
{his muscular energy. He could, howe (ever, continue in some executive ca= pacity.”
Form of Atrophy
The Medical Information Bursau (of the New York Academy of Medi= cine explained that amyotronhis |lateral sclerosis is a form of muscu« [lar atrophy or weakening and waste ing of the muscles due to a condi="
| * we can't go ahead without the other tion, in part, of the spinal cord.
Meows for Help.
reporter,” Mr. Maholm raid. At that point Deputy Prosecutor {Edward Brennan asked the defense
| The disease was said to be a com= | paratively rare one, found usually in persons between the ages of 30
From the dark depths of a storm attorneys “to vield to the obedience and 40.
“You have heard the statement of |
sewer at 646 E. 17th St. today came °f the Jaw and proceed.
was injured slightly when the plaintiff mecws of Toots. a 3-|the prosecutor and the court repeats
The Mayo Clinic recommended a local physician to continue Gehrig's | treatments.
wind blew his shanty nearly 100 year-old maltese cat, and a crew of it,” Judge Ermston said. | Gehrig did not comment on the
feet. Homes Damaged A three-story lodge building was unroofed at Spencer. Several homes were reported damaged by flying tree branches. No one was hurt. The rains were too late to benefit
oat crops in Marion County, Albert and the crew went out, but. after jury discharged on the ground that |
L. Steinmeier, county chairman of the Agricultural Conservation Association, said. He predicted the poorast crop in years.
| four Street Department workers
[seemed helpless to rescue her, { Mrs. Emma Williams, who owns | Toots and who has missed her since
Monday. heard her cries in the wee |
(hours teday and traced them to the | sewer. She called the Street Department
| five hours of effort, still this afternoon had not rescued the cat. | No amount of coaxing has brought | Toots to light, either,
With Reorganization. Pro, Seeking Hole-In-One on $25 Bet, Yields to Blisters on 1817th Swing
“imes Special WASHINGTON, June 21.—Wayne {Coy, administrative assistant to | Philippine High Commissioner Paul |V. McNutt, may draw one of the
mental reorganization, according to (reports here today.
bureau in aiding the reorganization setup has won high praise. He has been mentioned in connection with several | where his experience in the Philippines and as Indiana and regional
| was said. | Mr. Coy said he has made no ap- | plication for a position here and | eXpecis to remain in his present [position until Mr. McNutt resigns. Then he may return to Indian-
Mrs. Roosevelt 11 newspaper Ce Soir reported today apolis. -....11 that the French submarine Phenix| Serial Story...19 had been located off Cam Ranh tacted the White House in his be-| 8 Bay. French Indo-China, at a depth half, however, calling attention to The submarine went Jane. Jordan... §\State Deaths. 17 down Jyst week with 71 men aboard. was learned HF. ;
Senator Minton already has con-
both his pypnd availability, it
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Bey
high administrative posts!
EVERLY SHORES COUNTRY CLUB, MICHta. 4 . P) -—A slender big jobs under the new Govern-| young professional, beset with weariness and pain- | ful blisters, pounded his 1817th goif ball at a flickering candle light marking the 10th hole early today and decided that luck, not science, breeds a hole-in-
IGAN CITY, Ind. June 21. (U
finally was forced to quit.
as his 1758th shot, but at 2 a. m.
| he grinned.
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| Now I'll have to pay him $25.”
According to the only available figures, results of the annual New York World-Telegram hole-in-one tournament, he had only one chance in 5913 to
win. Once, late vesterdayv, he had it.
out again and spun
a
| He had hit the pin dozens of times, once as late
blistered left hand was too painful to continue. | “Let the 100 shooters have their holes-in-one.” “It’s just luck after all. could do anything a duffer like Bill Voitz could do.
J The ball dropped quickly into the cup, but with such force it popped ches away. :
play the law of
During the 16 home” doormats his trainer and five caddies who practice balls.
Gonder, 25, |
he admitted his
for floodlights a I thought I | girl friend, Ann aim.
freakiest ever hi
from the rear.
ONDER, who consistently shoots the course in par 72, finally admitted that luck might be the way and toward sundown mechanically began to
averages.
By midnight he was hitting without thinking at the rate of slightly less than three shots a minute.
hours he wore out two “welcome he used for, tees, both hands of rubber, Boots Whitener, and the stuck with him chasing six pails of
He started yesterday at 10 a. m. He began to tire badly about nightfall and called
nd a glimpse of his pretty brunet Pruett. He appeared to be more
worried about his standing date with her than his
The hole-in-one by duffer Voltz was one of the
t. Playing the course for the first
time, the 34-year-old electrical engineer laid his low spoon shot on the edge of the green. neatly up to the pin, hit the metal flagpost and
It rolled
Injured About Head as He
| “With due respect to the prosecut-' |ing attorney, to this court and to| | the members of the bar, under what ‘has heretofore been said, we rest,” | Mr. Maholm said. | After the prosecutor had been {ordered to open final arguments, the | defense attorney asked that the case
|be taken from the court and the
the “defendant has not been given an opportunity for a fair trial.” Judge Ermston overruled the motion and ordered final arguments
PUPIL DIES IN FALL FROM ROOF OF BARN
Plunges Into Wagon.
James R. Harris, 15-year-old Tech High School freshman, 430 St. aul St., was injured fatally late yesterday when he fell off the roof of a barn at 1740 Thompson Road. Three men witnessed his fall. The youth was working for a con-
he slipped. He fell about 60 ieet into a wagon, striking his head. He died later in the surgery room at St. Vincent's Hospital. The youth is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Harris; a sister, Betty, 4, and his grandfather, G. B. Harris. Funeral services will he held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Victory Memorial Methodist Church. The
tractor repairing the barn roof when |
possibility of returning to the Yan=kee lineup at a future date. Bare row likewise refused to say whether the Yankees would consider hiring
(the first baseman in an executive
position after he has been released. Left Lineup Voluntarily
First indications of the affliction came during the late spring season when Gehrig encountered trouble bending over for low grounders and fielding in general. He also went
linto a slump at the plate after the
season opened, but McCarthy took no action to bench him. Gehrig finally walked off the feld himself, breaking a string of cone secutive games no player is expected to approach again. Since he voluntarily went to the bench, on May 2, he has not returned to the lineup,
$816,548 APPROVED . FOR FORT REPAIRS
Times Special WASHINGTON, June 21.—Presidential approval of a WPA allot=
ment of $816,548 for improvements at Ft. Harrison was announced to= day by Rep. William H. Larrabee, { Indianapolis. Senator VanNuys announced Presidential approval of expending $253,272 to assist public health nurses throughout Indiana. ; The project at Ft. Harrison is to include general repairs and inprovements to all buildings. Roatis are to be widened and graded. Landscaping is to be done and trees and shrubbery planted. :
body will be taken to Gallatin,
bounced in a semicircle around the cup, falling in
Tenn, for burial Friday.
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The money granted provide clerical ass
urses is to