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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 105

Rescue Couple From Jammed Fair ‘Chute

‘Expects to Let Achievement In New Job Speak for | Him at Convention. |

ROOSEVELT IN ACCORD

‘Absolves’ Ex-Governor in Campaign Pushed by His

‘Indiana Friends.’ |

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 12.—Paul V. McNutt prepared today to conduct the most active “non-political” campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 that ever has been seen in the history of] American politics. Just as soon as the Senate confirms his appointment as Administrator of the new Federal Security Agency he will take the oath of office and launch his new task with Wayne Coy as administrative assistant. His program. he said, “is to do the best possible job and let the deed speak for itself” at the convention next summer if President Roosevelt does not choose to run.

Follows ‘No Politics’ Rule

So anxious is he to follow the “no politics” rule laid down by Presi-| dent Roosevelt in discussing Mr. Mc-

Nutt's new job at the press con-| | ference yesterday that he even will [cancel his speech to the Young | Democrats at Pittsburgh Aug. 11 “if the White House suggests that this be done,” it was announced. | It is considered unlikely that the| cancellation will be necessarv. Instead the McNutt forces here ave hoping that President Roosevelt also will appear on the Young Democrats L program with the former Hoosier Governor or perhaps ‘select his new appointee to represent him.

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Even New York's tallest fireladder (right) sold the Rathbornes short.

HT REVIVED Society Leaders Dangle ONNEUTRALITY Five Hours 100 Feet in Air

-Acme Telephoto.

F. D. R. May Demand Action In Special Message, |

Husband Takes It Good-Naturedly but Wife, Ex-Deb, Gets A Little Indignant About It.

Congressmen His Guests

‘men from Indiana were breakfast 'D

NEW YORK, July 12 (U. P).——A man and v/oman were suspended guests of the former Governor in yg

and hip. said.

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“TI feel pretty good todav. but IT didn’t know last night whether T | was coming out of it alive,” said 14-year-old Peggy Gleichman, of 6338 | College Ave. after the auto in which she was riding turned over three

imes. She applied medicine today

treated at City Hospital last night for injuries to her right arm, leg | It all happened so quickly I don’t remember,’

“Afraid?

ittle Hope Held for 2 Young Couples Unhurt a

City Hospital surgeons fought today for six consecutive hours to | ence between the Mayor's subcomThe five Democratic ‘Congress- save the life of an 18-vear-old Westlake Beach Terrace cashier, critically mittee and ©. W., McNear. reprehen his car skidded 136 feet on two wheels in Belmont Ave. senting the C. H. Geist estate. ts, physicians said they did not believe the victim, |

ured w Despite their effor

ichael Petrovich, 3657 W. 16th St,

Capital Hears. | early today while rescuers struggled to get them down and thousands

12 (UP) ' cheered. ; i : It was hv far the most spectacular and dramatic event at the New plans to send york World's Fair and it was unplanned, its actors were amateurs, anc

the audience paic no admission. CHANGES DUE FRIDAY From 9:30 p. m. (Indianapolis

100 feet ahove the earth in a mechanical parachute for over five hours his Mayflower Hotel suite this morn. ing. Attending were Reps. William! T. Schulte, John W. Boehne Jr. Fugene B. Crowe, William H. Larrabece and Louis Ludlow. Among early callers today were Virgil M. Simmons chief of the Indiana Department of Public Works. and T. A. Dicus, State Highway | Commission chairman. They are to discuss Indiana highway problems with Thomas H. MacDonald, Chief | Huidekoper, sat on a sioping seal of the Bureau of Public Roads, with| held precariously by four cables to whom they had a luncheon Spee

New Set Is Designed to Aid projected steel arm 100 feet above ment.

them The political mystery which agi- | U. S. Employers. Paid 40 | tated the capital for 48 hours cleared |

today to reveal Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. McNutt in substantial accord on political developments relating to the 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination.

WASHINGTON, July = President Roosevelt

n special message to Congress reiter-

gting—and in forceful language—his Law close to Administration today. Roosevelt rebuffed veslav by the Senate Foreign RelaCommittee, i voted to postpone a neutrality pro nex; vear. But he will te to Congress, it was said, | his belief that : the existing arms em 20 before adjournIs vital interests

1 policy

demands for a new Neutrality at

the

day. J. Cornelius Rathborne, known in New York society as “Cokie,” and his beautifml wife, who was the Baltimore debutante, Nancy Nelson

this session, a source

revealed H

was

Time) yesterday until 2:40 a. m. to-

action

osals until

resia

Cents for Ride

They had paid 40 cents each for a ride in “the mechanical parachute” and this view of the fair. But they had expected it to take no longer than five minutes. Rath-| borne took it all good naturedly, but Mrs. Rathborne was indignant. But they were none the worse for,

olition of

WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P.).— A new set of National Labor Relations Board regulations, retaining basic principles of past procedure but designed to afford employers greater protection under the National Labor Relations Act, becomes effective Friday. Regarded by observers as a move for conciliation of labor hoard critics who are demanding revision of the act. the new regulations supplant those which, with the exception of one minor change in 1936, have been in effect since the Board was estab- | lished in 1935. | Both House and Senate labor committees still are conducting hearings on proposed amendments to the labor act. What, if anv, effect the new rules will have on the drive for amendment of the act (Continued on Page Three) |

v NN rig Y NC RULLETINS Mrs. Bertha Hart, 57, and a fireman were injured in a fire which caused $5000 damage to Mrs. Hart's home at 1549 Pleasant Run Blvd. this afternoon. The fireman was John Wilcox, Truck Co. 3. A boy

was injured and another woman had a narrow escape.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P.). The Senate today accepted

to the best wn The have vis to

President : to urged his Congressional adto use every means possible Senate Committee The White House said today that Nr sible means his hty

vet decided

1s reported

Correspondents Chided

Mr. Roosevelt has absolved his Social Security director-to-be of all their experience. responsibility for the aggressively ‘ g ‘active campaign being conducted by For five hours sieepleJACKS puny MeHale of Indiaha, to nomclimbed up and down the 200-foOt joe Wy. MeNutt next June. parachute-jump tower, firemen sxrhether Mr. Roosevelt will be a 1940 to raised and lowered ladders andi.apdidate and whether Mr. McNutt spread life nets, policemen rigged wayld be acceptable to him as a sucup loud speakers which sereamed cessor or running mate are his own at Mrs. Rathborne to strech out!gecrets. her legs, and sweated to keep the ‘He chided press conference quesappreciative crowd back. tioners for “shallow reporting” in Every once in a while, Mrs. Rath- their stories speculating on the sigborne’s “damns” and petulant wise- nificance of the decision to keep | cracks floated on the still night air.! Mr. McNutt in the official family. The parachute jump consists of Mr. McNutt returned to Washingla steel tower from whose apex steel ton last week from his post as High arms extend. To each of these arms Commissioner of the Philippines are attached four cables made fast and said he would resign in a to the ground 200 feet below. By mo.ath or six weeks, means of pulleys, the corners of a The general opinion hereabouts parachute are attached to these had been that Mr. Roosevelt would cables and to the parachute is a be glad to get rid of a capable cam‘seat in which two persons may ride, BD a: was Hine high on a | ; residential boom of his own. Spa th. Revelation that Mr. McNutt was Strapped in Chute !

| to take another and uncommonly | Loaded, the parachute is raised to Important post raised a dust of | the top by its individual motor speculation that Mr. Roosevelt was |where it is released and billows

making a tentative bid for McNutt! of [back to earth, guided by the cables. |

(Continued on Page Three) os ; SE | ba a Sociey Security amendment Mr. Rathborne, his wife and a increasing Federal contribu- ‘party of their Long Island society tions to states for old age |friends had dinner at the fair last

PARLEY STARTED ON benefits. The vote ‘was 43 to [night and then drifted over to the . : ; 35. [amusement area. Mr. Rathborne HOSPITAL INSURANCE | Til RN] i i

ws pri [and Mrs. Rathborne were strapped FILM STARS SEE POPE lin the parachute and, waving to Plans to Aid Low-Income Groups Studied Mere.

VATICAN CITY, July 12 (U. P). their friends, were slowly lifted.

ers

override the " Roosevelt was exploring ail postem r to revive program. but had not ha try. too early tl next

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Admir strategy will concentrate on efforts over two Senators the Administration's 12-11 defeat in committee—Senators George (D. Ga.) and Gillette (D. Towa.) If Senators George and Gillette could be nersuaded to change their minds, motion reconsicer teraay’s action 1 intrcaueed in committee. efforts would be renewed bill to Senate floor.

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the Secretary of State Hull, who assisted the House Foreign Affairs Committee draft the Administration bill would repeal the existing arms embargo, w said to have been designated talk with Mr. George, a close friend,. and Mr Gillette Mr. Hull deplored the committee's act contending that of the stake unless embargo.

| | m that as

Ion in a statement

the “peace and sacurity”

States S

are at

United

Congress lifts tl

a President Gives Warning | St J to

Mr. Roosevelt insi his reg- —Pope Pius today received in audi- ‘One hundrea feet up, one of the ular press conference a few hours €Nce Tyrone Power and Annabella, pulleys slipped off a cable which must in motion picture stars, who are visit- jammed at once between the pully 1H legislation ing Rome (Continited on Page Four) is enacted. He warned that all Kinds of things 1t happen if the legislators went home without revising the law He sald it would not be a good thing if Congress were forced to return in special session to enact such (Continued on Page Three)

sted at

later that Congress

session

Stuy 3 1 neutrality

Three plans for hospital insurance to aid families in the middle and low income groups in obtaining

ise! ‘Husband’ Since Surprise! ‘Hus ince Cy hospital cate &t low cost were to be | 34 Just Another Woman ::=.i.m sone

The committee, composed of 10, [ hospital, medical and State leaders, | PASADENA, Cal, July 12 (U. P.). consolately by, was taken back to | appointed recently by Governor —A woman confronted her husband jail. | Townsend, was to meet at the In-| in a police station today, asking: He-she hat been known to Pasa- dianapolis Athletic Club. | dfs it ‘tre d : " | ‘Governor Townsend asked the a ena residents for 23 years as James | symmittee to draft a plan that will Yes!"—with head bowed. | Phipps, an efficient chauffeur, who be ‘workable under existing laws. A

DELAY EXPECTED ON AIR CENTER HERE

WASHINGTON, July 12 — Al-| though he introduced a bill to ap-| propriate $4.000.000 for purchase of a site and to launch construction of a $10.02000) aeronautical research station in Indianapolis, Rep. Louis Ludlow expects no action on it this session, he said today

8 TOWNS THREATENED

DEADWOOD, §. D., July 12 (U.| PP.) —Residents of three South Da-

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‘she was learning for the first time, | ye she had ‘worked for & humber | ‘she said, that her husband was a | woman. {of them and not one had ever sus“I never suspected he was not a pected for a moment that he-she’ man,” she told the police. “I some- | Was not a man. ‘to operate under the Indiana Insur-!th times wondered why he always| Police were astonished enough ance Department. Under another dressed in another room, but he was that Phipps, who, in a deep boom- plan, sponsors would buy a charter always so kind and considerate, and ing voice had informed them that | formerly used by a mutual ihsursuch a good provider.” 'her real nathe ‘was Minerva, had a ance company and orgahize under “Why did vou leave him, then?” wife, but were more astonished when that procedure. Under present law, “Because he was running around she said it was her second wife. no more charters for mutual insur- | kota communities were prepared to with another woman.” | Her first wife died in 1930 after they ance firins are issued, leave today as fire, raging through| She burst into tears and was hat been married two years. She| The third plan would involve or10.000 acres of Black Hills forest helped from the room and her “hus- [married again ih 1934 and the wife [ganization of an agency land, threatened their homes, band,” who had been standing dis- (didn't, leave ‘her'until six ‘weeks ago. 'not-for«profit ‘corporation ne

program twas declared invalid. One plan suggested involves set-

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housing and fire

operative work yet the medical and social professions

ah advance that

“Nie Baltyku!” translated, mean: “We never will foraipner, said ih ‘perfect French:

RIN por door to the Baltic to Be “Yeu must not Be the only one ih Herr Hitler worked it. His blast Financial .... closed!”

MATERNITY UNIT

ealth Leaders Co-operate In Drafting Indiana |

Institution Code. |

| | 1 | |

Minimum standards governing

operation of maternity hospitals and

aternity homes in Indiana were

adopted today by the State Welfare Board. |

The regulations cover medical and wsing care, sanitation, health, protection, bed | reporting.

pacity and statistical

They will be put into effect by the Children's Division of the Welfare Roard, State Welfare Administra-

I Thurman A. Gottschalk said. Delegated representatives of. the edical, nursing, seecial service and thlic health profassions drafted e standards in a co-operative en-

‘deavor to elevate standards of ma-

rnal care, according to Mr. Gott-| halk. “Tt productive ¢o-|

undertaken by

is the most

the State,” he declared. The Children’s Division is th reive a monthly record of all births hospitals and maternity homes. social history will accompany re-

ports of illegitimate births and in

ses where legitimate children are! ken from hospitals by persons her than their own parents at the me of discharge. Maternity homes will not be peritted to advertise children for

adoption or tb advertise for the care!

unmarried mothers with the view helping them dispense with their bies through adoption. At least 160 institutions will be

governed by the new regulations.

TOCKS UP 2 POINTS

NEW YORK, July 12 (U. P.. ocks made their best recovery for ly today, and trade volume pushed a high for about.a month with ranged to more an 2 points. |

Of Poland Finally United by Nazi Threat

By WILLIAM PHILIP STMMS | Times Foreigh Editor { |

GDYNIA, Poland, July 12.—The |

(first thing that caught my eye at War cry prin

e airport here was a vivid wall] |

She was Mabel Phipps, 50, and looked very trim and natty in livery. bill passed by the 1939 Legislature Doster, its background a map of the dress of every ‘hah, ‘Woman and iy providing for a hespital insurance Polish ‘Corridor with Danzig and child I encountered. Poland's “fete highly cultured, artistic people, they | Gdynia highlighted and business-like bayonet on the end of been ‘celebrated annually for 20 ‘and liberty loving. Temperamental- Broun ting up of a State insurance agency a rifle thrusting up as if to keep vears, was just beginning. Within ly they have found it hard to pull Clapper

with =a

e corridor open to the zea. Said the lettering on the poster: damy odepchnac sie od (The Polish words, freely!

Those words were {aken from

Foteigh Minister Josef Beck's now little square of paper to ‘thy cont words, to destroy Wer indspendence Grin, Bear Tt uhder the historic speech of May 5 ih teply

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Hitlas demand for the fe- |

'| Feel Pretty Good Today, But—'

rs Battle to Save Life of Crash Victim, 18

Boy Crushed as Auto ‘Goes Wild";

(by the police in the month ending last Monday, 1359 have been paid,

PRICE THREE CENTS

MINER 1S SLAIN. SIX ARE SHOT IN BLOODY HARLA

‘Captain of Guards in Critical Condition With Chest Wound After Gun Battles Touched Off by Stanfill Incident.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

| BULLET RAKES MOTHER SAVING SON

Shooting Follows Nonunion Worker's Attempt to Run Car of Coal Through Pickets; 100 Prisoners Riot.

HARLAN, Ky. July 12 (U. P.).—One miner was killed, six persons were wounded by gunfire, and a number of others clubbed by National Guardsmen in two riots between union and nonunion miners and guardsmen in “Bloody Harlan” County today. The guardsmen were attempting to preserve order. The first melee broke out in Stanfill at the Manhan Ellison Co. mine. Guardsmen and pickets exchanged shots and Doc Caldwell, 31, a miner of Wilsonburger, was fatally Te = Wok. | ‘Capt. J. L. Hansberry of WATER TALKS the Guard was shot through the chest. His condition was reported critical. One other

| ARE RENEWED | guardsman was slugged. Four

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tn an injured right arm. She was

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she

pickets were wounded hy rifle fire. It was reported Capt. Hansberry opened fire when a picket attempted |to dislodge the trolley of an elsc- | trical coal car which a nonunion miner was attempting to run into

the mine through a picket line of several hundred members of the United Mine Werkers Union. A picket fired back, it was reported, two bullets striking the captain. After guardsmen got the situmtion under control at Stanfill thev would survive, They said he had Trade Commission utility engineer arrested approximately 100 pickets a braih concussion, a possible frac- who returned here from Washing- land marched them to Harlan, ture of the jaw, other head injuries tpn today at Mayor Sullivan's re-| As the miners, under guard of and severe body bruises and burns. quest, aiso was to be present. | troops, marched into the city, the The youth's parents, Mr, and p (tharching ‘men broke ranks and Mrs. John Petrovich, were sum-| Questions Plahned 'rioted. More than 40 shots Were moned to the hospital and remained Both Mr. McNear and members fired, there. lof the committee have expressed a | Police said Mr. Petrovich's car desire to question Mr. Dickerman struck the east curb of the street concerning certain details of his

at 9th St. either when a tire blew report on the water utility, in rescue her son, Hubert Green, who

5 . [which he advised that the City | out or a wheel locked. The car then : : : Sweived to ‘the | would be justified in paying $3500. was under arrest. Green was fir

west curb of the | . ; . . street and ‘then ‘skidded, ‘coming 000, for ‘the ‘utility's ‘common Sas Sums) in the fight. y he City Inst | gy er a general battle in Which

ti. 13 | held by the estate. to a stop on its side in front of 934 NES : : P fT He t oul not | Lhe guards swung riffe butts, order the estate would Not was “restored. It was reported a

N. Belmont Ave. week that Police Corporal Roy Pope Jr, Of take less than $5000000 for the : A eS] yy? [number OWS the Accident Prevention Bureau, stock. Mayor Sullivan replied that Pe a EUS bik said Petrovich's head was clamped the City was not interested in the | Reports also persisted that several in a vise formed by the car door stock at that price. other persons had been ‘wounded by and the car frame and bearing the A meeting of the Mayog's commit- yp. “eave by both sides : weight of the car. tee of 24 City officials and his] Ma Joe Kelley. WCE Som Also injured in early morning citizens advisory committee with oo oo of the Kentucky toon] traffic was Miss Mildred J. Aton, Mr. Dickerman has been arranged | oo at Port Knox. Kv. announced that he had ordered 150 to 200 addi-

25, of 822 ‘Cedar St. a salesworan. (entatively for tomorrow. (Continued ‘on Page Three) | Claims Report Erred ‘tional troops to Harlan at once to i He said he would

> C | Mr. McNear recently submitted Preserve order. POI ICE ISSUE 933% ‘a letter to Mayor Sullivan c¢ontest- Send “the whole National Guard STICKERS IN MONTH

ing some of Mr. Dickerman's con- into Harlan if hecessary” to preOnly 1359 Pay Fines to

lelusions leading to his valuation of S®LVe peace. City, Morrissey Says.

Mayor's Committee, McNear Confer on Deadlock; Expert Returns.

| The deadlocked negotiations for municipal purchase of the Indian[apolis Water Co. were to be re|newed this afternoon at a confer-

s Car Rolls Over 3 Times.

Judson €. Dickerman, Federal

Woman Shot in Leg

: Mrs. Bill Williams of Rex was IN shot in the leg as she attempted to

reply was placed in the Mayor's An riot occurred on the main street hands today. the town and that the guaiedsTh his letter, Mr. McNear eon- Men had restored order. tended that Mr. Dickerman's esti-| Union Oficial Held mate of the water revenue available! ‘for payihg bonds and interest, and _ All wounded men were taken to for profit to the City was about Harlan Hospital but the extent of [4300.000 ton low. their injuries was not learnad imI RR mediately. Among those arrested was George Titler, seécretary-treas-[urer ‘of District No. 19 of the United ‘Mine Workers Union.

. | Mis. Titler was arrested while re8 . J i) !

4d George’ and take him from the Ye — Jai : Cool Weather While It's Here, Bureau Says.

the Water Co.. and Mr. Dickerman's Reports at #t. Knox said the Har-

Of the 2335 traffic stickers ‘issued

Chief Morrissey said today. In his monthly report to the Safety Board, the Chief said that of the 976 remaining, 390 can be classified as “unpaid.” . Warrants have been requested ENJOY from the Prosecutor's office on 130, stickers of which 26 have been received. There are nd unserved warrants, he stated, although the De-| partment is holding three, one because the offender is out of the city and two because the arresting officer is on vacation. er hundred and twenty-one of the tickets are listed “ih eourt,” four 5 are awaiting ® jury trial, and the Bhjoy the cool weather today, $20.000. State and County authorisame humber have been voided. was the Weather Bureau's tip. The ties posted $2500 for the arrest of The Postoffice has returned 17 he- Bureau said it will be fair and those who caused the explosion. cause they were unable to locate the Somewhat warmer tonight ana to- Se .

ddressees, 163 'd t check with morrow with the mercury climbing § TH ties and nciiresses or Hilo " to about €9. FALL BREAKS ANKLE, SHE CRAWLS FOR AID

the State License Bureau, 102 were Indianapolis found blankets eomissued to out-nf-town residents and fortable again last night. The ther71 were placed oh ears belonging to mometer took a downward plunge TE corporations or governmental units. to 63 at 5 a. m. today.

Decision of the miners to picket the mine came following a huge rally last Sunday at Lenarue, where | William Turnblazer, U. M. W. president for District No. 19, urged miaers to resume their picket lines ane shut off production from the honlunion mines, The mine where the riot occurred was dynamited last week when it [was shut down over Independence Day. Damage was estimated at

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Mrs. Jute Pyles, 44, bf 4735 ¥, 17th St, eérawled 75 feet to a sis-

. : |ter's home to suminon aid after she Baltic Must Never Be Closed, Is Stand |. ur arse » ture of the left ankle this after-

toon. She fell while standing oh a box placed on a chair to facilitate hang[ing curtains at her home. Her Teft (side also ‘was injured. She was turh of Dahzig ahd for a ‘German 1 ‘mention this incident because, token to Oity Hospital. “corridor across the Polish corridor.” to the, it was confirmation of what | Afterward, I was to see this same many observers tell re—that never . = pl ted oh tiny pieces of | have on a people more united | TIMES FEATURES paper, no larger than postage than the Poles are today. | =i stamps, and pinned on the coat or ‘tn history, lack of unity has been ON INSIDE PAGES 12 Johtisoh Sg : 11 | Mrs. Ferguson 12

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