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‘Chip In’ for Oiling Euclid Ave.
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4 Times Photo, Unable to get their street oiled by the City because of inadequate City funds, about 30 residents of N. Euclid Ave. between 30th and 34th Sts. are “chipping in” to have the work done by private contract at $@ a block. Here, Dolton Clark, 3005 N. Euclid Ave. collecis from Mrs, Cleo Robbins, 3062 N. Euclid Ave. Martin L. Walpole, Works Board secretary, explanied that the Street Department fund for oil was cut last fall by the Tex Adjustment Board. and the City can buv only about half enough oil for oiling the 240 miles of unpaved streets once.
ERIENDS HERE | What Kiss? AWAIT NUTT.
Commissioner's Address at Circle to Climax Noisy Home-Coming.
amour Is Anerv Over Name Being Linked With Alderman.
EW YORK. June 29 (U.P) Dorothy Lamour characteri ized as “fantastic and untrue” to- { dav the testimony in Los Angeles that she had kissed Myrl Alderman and ‘announced she
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Paul V. McNutt, Philippines High Commissioner and candidate for] Democratic nomination as President. todav was bound for his In-| diana home. And to celebrate his return after an absence of more than two vears, | thousands of his friends and follow- | ers were preparing a huge welcoming party at noon tomorrow in Monument Circle.
very soon. “I emphatically deny that Mr. the screen star. “I hardly know him.” Miss Lamour said she had read accounts of the testimony of | George IL. Roberts, a witness in | the $130000 alienation of affec-
| wife, Alma, against
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would take action in the matter |
Alderman ever kissed me.” snapped |
tions suit filed by Alderman’s ex- | his present | wife, singer Ruth Etting. Roberts |
WASHINGTON. June 29.— Senator Minton, who has been plahning many weeks to attend the “Welcome Home” ceremonies in Indianapolis for Paul MeNutt, probably will have to pass up the festivities. Senator Barkley, majority leader, today ordered Senator Minton, the Senate whip, to stay on the job until the controversial money and relief bills are passed. Mr. Minton said forlornly he still hoped to catch a train out tonight.
Commissioner MeNutt, his wife and daughter. reached Chicago this morning after a journey from San Francisco. Ther were met bv Frank MeHale. campaign manager for Mr. McNutt, Bowman Eider, a political adviser, and friends. The party was to motor from Chicago, stopping en route for a night's vest before the demonstration tomorrow. Nothing, apparently, has been left undone to make tomorrow's celebration memorabie. I! is to be staged at noon, when thousands of office workers will be at iunch and be attracted tn it. In addition. McNuti-for-Presi-dent Clubs will send delegations from neariv everv county in the State, all labeled with banners and scheduled to. stand in reserved sections. Fred Bays. Democratic (Continwed on Page Three)
STOCKS MOVE LOW ON ‘WAR PATTERN’
NEW YORK. June 29 (U. Pp) — of them expert marksmen. Buelo he said, with deliveries ready by
Fears of further German moves of aggression in Europe brought heavy selling into the stock market today and sent prices down 1 to more than 4 points to the lowest levels since mid-May. Bonds also suffered a break, Commodities moved on war pattern with the war modities—witeat and sugar—strong.
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POSSE SLAYS OLSON “IN NORTHERN WOOD
Killer of Two Driven From Hideout by Hunger.
CABLE. Wis, June 29 (U. P) — August Buelo. alias Ray Olson, 30. killer of two deputies and possible | suspect in the Mattson kidnap- | slaving. was shot and killed bv possemen today when, driven bv hunger, he emerged from the) Northern Wisconsin swamplands| where he had eluded capture for! 13 davs. He was slain in a woodland near Grand View, Bavfield County, ending one of the biggest manhunts ever witnessed in Wisconsin. Three hundred deputies, trappers and expert Wwoodsmen, including Indian guides, had sought him since June 17 when he shot down two deputized Hayward, Wis, tavernkeepers who had sought to arrest! him as a fugitive on a minor theft ‘charge. | | At daybreak ‘today possemen (sighted Buelo through the woods. | “Halt or we'll shoot,” the possemen commanded. | Buelo dove for a clump of) | bushes. A volley of shots rang out [from guns of the possemen, most
: fell dead. |
FORD TO PRODUCE
THURSDAY, JUNE
D. R. SPURS FIGHT TO KEEP NONEY POWER
ers on Handling Monetary And Relief Bills.
| HOUSE BACKING HINTED
‘Morgenthau Warns Against Taking Country ‘Back To 1933. WASHINGTON, June 20 (U, P). | —The Administration put on the
heat today in an effort to salvage | President Roosevelt's dollar de-
29, 1939
12 Gavel Raps—12 Divorce Rulings
| valuation powers and pass a 1940 Irelief bill before midnight tomorrow. Shock troops in the fight té win ‘back the devaluation powers stripped from the Chief Executive by the Senate were the Senate-House con-
'ferees on the monetary bill, backed| in 12 divorce cases.
She granted She is the daughter of Edward B
Sout} JI AHS aoe and substituted for Judge Herbert
President Roosevelt surveyed the
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Her Honor, Judge Rosemary Brennan, 26, pounded the gavel 12 times yesterday on the Superior Court bench to indicate 12 decisions
11, denied one. Judge Brennan
never had held court before, hut said the decisions were easily made.
rennan, deputy county prosecutor, Spencer, who is ill.
situation with House Leader Sam Rayburn and Senate Leader Alben | W. Barkley at a White House con- | ference. After the discussion it was learned that House leaders told Senate colleagues the lower chamber would insist that the President's powers over the dollar be restored. If the Senate {declines to yield, it was indicated the whole monetary bill—continuing the $2.000,000000 stabilization fund rand a T7.57 cent an oudce domestic silver buying program—may be allowed to lapse temporarily at the deadline hour of 12:01 a. m. Saturday.
Judge. Therefore, Cautions
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Court today and told Judge Russell
Morganthau in Warning | Woged her with promises but fulfilled
to win back dollar powers was backed up by a press]
conference statement from Treasury Secretary Morgenthau Jr., that
It was one of a score of stories, of broken homes being told Superior Court judges today as the bench at-
farmers and businessmen ‘had bet. | Cpted to clear the divorce eo ter start worrying seriously about : : ihe dollar” if Congress refuses to There was no defense presented extend the authority. in the 18-year-old blond s case. Her “My. Morgenthau said the Sena‘e mother also testified that a sudden action would “take the country and complete change had occurred back to 1933” "lin the boy whom she had approved | It was revealed authoritatively of as a prospective son-in-law. ha a threat 3 Ane A Mather Cautioned of the dollar ha een employe : ‘as recently as last December when| Judge Ryan heard the evidence British authorities were considering and then, after a long contempla‘allowing the value of the pound to Hon, spoke slowly: <lip in international exchange. The “It seems to me to be so strang® |suggestion that the dollar might be that this boy should change all of 21 reduced in value resulted in|sudden. Mothers ought to look labandonment of the British pro-|closely into the past history |posal, it was said. |their prospective sons-in-law, be- | Meanwhile the Treasury again cause whatever they have done in| | reduced its price for foreign silver | the past. whatever record they ‘by one-half cent to 38 cents an|have, you ean be sure they wiil live, ounce. Tuesday, the Treasury cutjup to after marriage. |its price from 43 cents per ounce to| “I think this case {40 cents. Yesterday, the price was lack of investigation into the past.) cut to 38': cents. ; Marriages like this fuses. a disre- | $ ; ; We Relief Action Rushed spect for our marriage laws and The second vital sector of the
legislative front concerned the $1.- tears from her eves and sobbing a 808,600,000 1940 relief bill approved little at the defense table. last night by the Senate with sween-| “This girl is all wrought up now. ing changes and additions to the There seems to be evidence upon | measure passed by the House. | which I could grant a divorce, but | This was promptly sent to a I'm not so sure I ought to,” the House-Senate conference. It was judge continued. hoped that conferees might speed- Judge to Deliberate
ilv just e differences so that hs A ats) - : “If I grant a divorce the bad taste
he meastire could be sent to Presi-| : dent Roosevelt's desk for signature Vill soon be Btn. Hy Situs: before the deadline on expiration of ton is worrying the courts today." (Continued on Page Three) He paused and the courtroom was
| vows.” By this time the girl was wiping
| quiet. “I'm going to think about this for {a while,” he said. “You may go | now.” The young woman rose and walked to the back of the courtroom | and collapsed in convulsive sobs. | She was revived in an ante-room. | As she left the Court
TRAGTOR AND PLOW
Hopes ‘Back-to-Soil’ Trek Wiil Be Stimulated.
story of a broken home.
SPENCER, FORMER
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DETROIT, June 29 (U. P). : . Henry Ford todav displaved publicly | STATE JUDGE DIES a new tractor and plow unit Spe |
which he has been working two] ’
vears and announced it was veady, Heart Attack Kills One-Time
for mass production in a program he hoped would accelerate a back to| Head of High Court. | ——— { MADISON, Wis. June 20 (U. P).|
the soil movement. Mr. Ford explained the tractor —John W. Spencer Sr, 78. chief justice of the Indiana Supreme
and plow, which he described as revolutionary, to 400 agricultural Court from April. 1912, to January, 1919, died at a hospital last night
and business leaders, newspapermen and foreigh representatives. After, a luncheon at Dearborn Inn he demonstrated the machine at his estate. He sald the tractor would cost $585 delivered in Detroit. The plow unit, featuring an hydraulic lift, will cost $85. Production will start at once,
tack within six days.
hospital June 24 after the first attack at a northern Wisconsin summer resort. Early yesterday he expected to be removed to his home.
Aug. 1. Last night, however, the second and
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ELMIRA. N. YY, June 29 (U. B®), —Lieut. Robert M. Stanley of Psensacola, Fia., today held the American altitude record for gliders— 13.400 feet—because he dared to vide the dangerous currents in the piteidark and freezing heart of a towering cloud. The vouthful pilot used the thunder cloud for motive power at the 10th national soaring contests ves.rerdayv. Towed aloft bv an airplane, Lient. Stanley entered the storm cloud at 1300 feet and, fring blind, was hurtied 12000 feet upwards by drafts so violent that he was forced through the back of his seat. His record nearly doubled that of the vious holder, Richard C. Dupon® of Wilmington, Del; who few!
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Pilot Rides Out Storm To Set Glider Record
fatal attack occurred. The body immediately was sent to his home at Evansville, Ind. Mr. Spencer was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1885 at Mt. Vernon jon his 21st birthday and since then
Bride, 18, Asks Freedom From Name-Calling Mate
All Mothers to Scan Back-
ground of Prospective Sons-in-Law.
A frail and pretty 18-year-old blond took the stand in Superior
Ryan that her 20-year-old husband none of them.
Instead, she told Judge Ryan, he changed almost immediately after | The emphasis placed on the fight their runaway marriage Dec. 27. and thereafter called her vile names, devaluation struck her, refused to support her and caused he
9 COURTS ECHO GAMING DISPUTE
‘Woman Fights Spencer's
Ruling on $3500 Alleged - Ty Lost by Mate.
A local woman's suit to recover
$3500 allegedly lost by her husband
pe- | through gambling brought action in|
two courts here today. Mrs. Ida Helen Freeman had been awarded that amount in Superior Court several weeks ago when
failed to contest her action. This judgment later was set aside by Superior Judge Herbert M. Spencer on the motion of Frank BP. Baker, former Criminal Court judge
Entered as Second-Class at Postotfice,
DANZIG BUILDS FIRM DEFENSE REICH ADMITS
Denies, However, Thousands Are Filtering In to Join City’s ‘Free Corps.’
| BERLIN, June 20 (U. P.).—A high | German source admitted today that Danzig was strengthening its defense forces. The informant denied reports that “thousands” of German Nazis were filtering into Danzig to join a new ‘Free Corps.” A well-informed
neutral informant said by telephone from Danzig that a considerable
[number of young Germans had en[tered the territory recently and | were housed in recently built bar|racks near Danzig City. | Explaining his admission that Danzig was building up its “defense | force,” the German informant said: “Poland has told us it would consider the movement of German | troops into Danzig a cause for war. We have told Poland that the in- | vasion of Danzig would be cause for ‘war. Poland has warned Danzig that any action on its part to annex itself to Germany would be a cause for war. Report Laid to Confusion
"What would you do in Danzig's | place? “I certainly should strengthen my means of defense and build up an independent force.” Nazi forces at Danzig denied not only that any Germans at all had | filtered into Danzig, but that a | Free Corps, was being organized. Reports regarding the Free Corps, was suggested, were the result of confusion with “compulsory military service.” The police force has been Danzig's lonly defense organization. Police | have been used to train youth under the Danzig Nazi regime. Germany, [faly to Confer
Well-informed German quarters here expressed disbelief in rumors [in Paris that Adolf Hitler might be planning some sort of action regarding Danzig this week-end. Nazis
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is one of a Thomas B. Dillon, the defendant, assert that Danzig is sure to return
|to Germany soon, without bloodished. An official communique issued here disciosed that Germany and
|Ttaly had decided on a series of
Indianapolis,
Matter Ind.
POLAND'S MILLIONS AND | PRESIDENT VOW TO DEFY NAZIS, KEEP BALTIC OPEN
"Tiny Fleet Masses for ‘Sea Day’ Observance As Hitler Is Warned Thrust at Corridor
Will Endanger European Peace.
BULLETIN
LONDON, June 29 (U. P.) —Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax warned Germany tonight that Great Britain is “resolved to use at once our whole strength” in fulfillment of pledges to resist any future aggression.
FOREIGN SITUATION
GDYNIA—Polish President warns against Nazi grab. BERLIN-—Strengthening Danzig forces admitted. LONDON-—Britain, France push for pact with Russia, COPENHAGEN=<Danzig calls home C. of C. group. TIENTSIN—Japan threatens 'to bottle up warships. JERUSALEM~Eleven Arabs reported slain.
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GDYNIA, Poland, June 29 (U. P.).—~Millions of Poles Swore a solemn oath at nation-wide gatherings today that (“the united Polish people will never allow themselves to be cut off from the Baltic Sea.” * : Following a speech by President Ignacy Moscicki at ‘the port of Gdynia asserting that the Polish Corridor pathe way to the sea is as vital to the nation as ‘‘the sun and ‘the air,” citizens assembled in market places of towns and cities throughout the country to repeat the oath. | ; Leaders were appointed to ALLISON GEARED ‘read the oath, which was re- | peated by the population. ‘More than 200,000 were ase
FOR ARMY ORDER scrbied in Warsaw alone as
part of the annual “Sea Day” ) ‘celebration which was of speQuantity Production of 12- cial importance this year bLe-
| Cylinder Plane Motors to cause of the dispute with Ger- | ‘many over Danzig and the
| + Start in Fall. | Corridor. Celebrating “Sea Day” with a re OR Engle Ce naval and military demonstration at (tember of 800 plane motors called | ® time when the Polish Corridor has {for by the War Department under | become an outstanding Huropean je $15,080,261 contract, Otio T. danger spot, the President described Feusser plant manager. said today. the province of Pomorze (the core Construction work on the new six- | pidor), and the Polish seacoast as
million-dollar production factory fundamental bases of the nation's
units to the present experimental plant will be completed by that time, he said. After production begins, about three months will be necessary to fill the huge military order. The Allison contract was announced officially at Washington yesterday. The other contracts, to=taling $9,574,127, were announced simultaneously, the three awards constituting the largest war plane orders since the World War. The motors, which are to be de-
{entire' political and economic ine dependence. President Moscicki's speech was | construed as a warning to Adolph {Hitler that any military thrust in | Danzig would create grave danger | to Buropean peace. Gdynia, Poland's only port, lying (at the Baltic end of Pomorze, and | Danzig, lying at its edge, were of “extraordinary worth” to Poland, | the President said.
Foreign Trade at Stake
land attorney for Mr. Dillon. Judge negotiations on air force co-opera-
after suffering a second heart at-|
Mr. Spencer was brought to the
(has been one of the most prominent ‘southern Indiana attorneys and jurists. He served as prosecutor of | ; Posey and Vanderburg Counties and | 6700 feet last vear. The first surge jater was a judge at Evansville. | upward carried Lieut. Stanley to a, His son John W. Spencer Jr. is height where ice formed on the the present age of the Vanderburg | wings of his motorless plane and ea. Mr a Sie threatened to put his instruments, : ; 8 ; oy
out of commission. , WILSON, NOVELIST, DIES { In returning to the landing field, CARMEL, Cal. June 20 (U P.).—! Lieut. Stanley put his eraft through Harry Leon Wilson, famous novels
a new trial. High Court Writ Filed
Today counsel for Mrs. Freeman
preime Court asking that Judge action in the suit. This was denied two hours later by Court. At the same time. Mr. Dillon asked a change of venue and a jury trial in motions filed in Judge Spencer's court. Court attaches said affirmative rulings on the motions were automatic. !
Denies Being Notified the Supreme Court
the Supreme
In motion,
Hospital. She. stated further that last Tuesday Mr. Dillon's motion to
| cet aside the damages awarded her
was granted by Judge Spencer at the hospital while a judge pro tem. was occupying his bench. She claimed that neither she nor her attorney were notified of the filing of the Diiion motion to set aside the judgment.
[Spencer set today as the date for tion, supplementing agreement on
larmy and navy co-operation.
filed a writ with the Indiana w= ATLANTIC CLIPPER [Spencer be prohibited from further | HOPS FROM HORTA
On Way to Lisbon With | First Fare-Payers.
HORTA, Azores, June 20 (U.P). | —Pan-American Airways’ Dixie | Clipper, carrying the first fare=paying airplane passengers to Europe,
House, Mrs. Freeman charged that during landed here at 4:52 a. m. (IndianJudge Ryan was hearing another the litigation, Mr. Spencer became apolis Time) today and took off for (ill and was confined to Methodist Lisbon, Portugal. om the second leg!
(of its flight at 6:36 a. m. The flight from Po*t Washington, N. Y. to Horta took 15 hours and 40 minutes. The Clipper refueled here before resuming its journey. The Clipper took off from Port | Washington at 1:12 p. m. yesterday. The 4650-mile trip from the United States to Marseilles is scheduled to ‘take 48 hours.
Gallant Galento Spills Bomber
16 dives and loops to shake loose jst, was found dead today in his | the ice and to test the stamina home here. Physicians said he ap-! i
of the glider after the battle with parentiv died of heart disease in the storm. his sleep. Shivering with cold, his lips blue, a 3 Lieut. Stanley said: | ESCAPES CRASH DEATH | “The heart of the thunder cloud PLYMOUTH. Ind, June 20 (U.| was =o dark I could ‘only see part P) —Louis Rabe, 58 escaped with! of my wings but things were hap- bruises today when he leaped from
pening so quickly I didn't have his automobile a second before a,
time to ma
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sire my ship was fast Pennsylvania as demolished the i
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Times-Aeme Telephoto.
Gallant Galento. they called him today—Tony of the valiant heart. Although he finished in the same spot with others of Jo€ Louis’ victims last night, he lives as the man whose flailing left hand eut the under pinning out from under the champion -and came within a split second
of changing the course of heavyweight history. Here with : left during the third round.
TORY floors Louis
_ mistaken identity.
livered in December, are 12-cylinder,| «py these harbors pass three= V-type, liquid-cooled power plants, z : z which are rated at 1000-horsepower quarters of Poland's entire foreign at 2600 revolutions per minute. | trade,” he said. The Allison 12-cylinder motor, The President made his speech {considered by some experts as the on the occasion of Poland's “sea (greatest in the world today for high day” to emphasize the importance |speed performance, develops 1200-| with Poland attaches to Pomorze | horsepower for takeoff. |-—and Gdynia—and to the free | They are to be used in Army pur- status of Danzig, where the 'suit planes, including the new P-40 country’s little Navy had been single-seaters of Curtiss design, and | massed here for the celebration. ‘pursuit and interceptor planes de-| It was a tiny fleet measured by, {signed by the Bell Aircraft Co. big power standards—destroyers, A twin-motored Allison-powered gunboats. mine layers, torpedo boats {Bell Aircraft, single-seater recently and auxiliary craft—but it was a (flew across the continent in near symbol and a warning that 35,000,record time, exceeding speeds of 400 000 Poles were determined to keep their outlet to the Baltic.
Calls for Strong Fleet
Nations today, the President said, [were living in a time of armaments ‘race, while the danger of conflict
lat sea also threatened. Therefore, although he stressed
F CITY HOMES ‘his country’s desire for peace with (all, he urged the necessity for Po= {land to build up its fleet. | Strong troop contingents concen trated in the city, “infant of the ports of Europe,” as reports became {more insistent that an armed “Free | Corps” was being organizd in Dane |zig, adjoining Gdynia, led by GerLOCAL TEMPERATURES Iman Army officers and heavily farmed with machine guns and are
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J 04) a ms | Formidable Polish and German 10 1pm ; {armies faced each other across the ke | Polish- German frontiers, and in {many unofficial quarters here belief | was expressed that reconciliation
At least three homes were struck Petwesn the countries was now ime
by lightning, trees were leveled 0 i Feeling Is Plai streets flooded during a heavy elec.) AN trical and rain storm this after] rowing ill fesling Wilh Cermany | was made more plain when the Higa. | Government
v . —~ announced that it THe stern Brought (Smporary re" | would permit the American movie
lief from the intense heat, the mer- «confessions of a Nazi Spy.” to be eury dropping 12 degrees to 74 be- shown at movie theaters through= tween 12 and 1 o'clock. lout the country. Previously it had Lightning knocked off a Shinvaey bees} strictly banned. Germany had
| mlies per hour. | The contract does not call for eonstruction of any of the Allison 24-|
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LIGHTNING STRIKES THRE
Mercury Dips 12 Degrees During Rainstorm.
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at the home of John Hribernick, made protests in many countries 3036 W. 10th St. Other homes against the film. struck were at 362% Guilford Ave.| Polish pride was high over the land 3607 Balsam Ave. phenomenal development of this ' ett port, directly on the sea, and Poles
UNION DRIVER FINED eid tha rn IN LABOR DISPUTE
istence. In 1919, the new Polish republis ———— got it as a region of sand dunes Carl Morris Roe of 314 E. 10th St.|along which were scattered a few 'was fined 81 and costs by Municipal poor fishermen's huts. As late as ‘Judge Karabell today on an assault 1924. 24 ships with a total tonnage and battery charge which grew out of 14.000 entered the growing port. of a labor dispute. A 30-day sentence Two score regular shipping, lines lon the Indiana State Farm was send ships to it regularly now. | suspended. | Crack Polish liners go from GdyPaul Gibbs of 404! W, Washing- nia to New York. Ten thousand ton St. testified that Roe struck him |and more ships a year visit it. The on June 8 breaking his nose, while population has grown to 112,000, some of the drivers of the firm em- Railroads go inland from it to cone ploying Gibbs were on strike. Roe is nect with all parts of Europe. Mile a member of the Teamsters’ Union, lions upon millions of dollars have he said, Roe said it was a case of been spent in develo] it — and : Poland meant to keep ft.
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