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SCRIPPS ~ HOWARD VOLUME 51—NUMBER 112

THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1980

Bntered - ‘a8 Seond Class Matter Postoffice, Tadianapolts, Ind.

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arid Wonders if Hitler Will cr Fa on King Carol

Xing Carol

* POLE SHOT BY

|. DANZIG GUARD!

Hitler ‘Peace’ Plan, but Army

Still Is growing.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

A blaze of - ‘today punctu.

: ated with’ new: dan ers the’ deadlock |

- betyeen Poland anid Sgamaty over the Free City. of Dat

- With the Free City: a sore spot surrounded by the ‘massed armies of Europe's big. powers, ‘a Polish cus toms guard was = and perhaps killed by a Danzig: official at a time

when authorities everywhere were oment of careless-

tion bv almost the same time as the shooting, Fuehrer Hitler at Berchtesgaden - was “understood to have arranged for another conference next week with Danzig Nazi leaders on what . is being popularly

"termed “the Hitler Plan” for peace- |

ful solution. of the Danzig problem independently of : the question of the Polish Corridor. There were two versions of the shooting. From Danzig the story was that a Danzig customs official was fired on without warning by a “polish guard, who was standing in Polish _ territery at Posteldu. The Danzig official returned the fire and wounded the Pole, according to this report, and started to go across the frontier to aid his victim. The approach of two Polish officials caused the Danziger to retire.

Versions Disagree

But from Warsaw, ‘reliable reports gave: another version of the iacident. They said that the Polish frontier guard had been shot “and i killed- by a Danzig Storm Trooper at Trzcionki. °° Although there was" a possibility that there were two incidents instead of one, Polish officials said they believed that only o 1e shooting. had Jogccufred and [that at Trezcionki. . They said th re is no Polish customs office at | | Postelau and . that the Danzig Fein appeared garbled. Furthermore, they asserted, the shooting occurred ‘when Danzig ustoms : officer, accompanied by Storm Troopers, crossed the Polish ntier ahd was challenged by a Polish guard named Withold Budziewicz. Immediately upon being challenged; they claimed, the Storm * Troopers shot and killed the Polish guard about 100 feet inside the Po-| lish. border. -

Speaks at Tannenberg

. Fven as the incident—which will be only as important as either side may. desire to make it appear in the international’ tension—was reported, Nazis Baye ‘great publicity to’. a speech by :Gen. Walter von Brauchitsch- at the historic town of Tannenberg -in which he declared that Germany is “not looking for a fight but we are: not afraid to fight.” “We are marching to the ‘future in this territory, where are the tombs of those. who fought here in centuries past.” the general declared {Continued on Page Three)

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wreckers are tearing down a

is to provide the royal residence

of the palace about one-third. But the most intriguing thing

no matter ‘how quickly they get

another he intends to do so.

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the Nazis. It stipulated that—

houses, stores and factories;

demolishers seem in a terrific hurry. they keep going night as well as day. Why the rush, I can’t imagine. For as I watch the workers swarming my strongest reaction is that

enjoy the completed job. Adolf Hitler may pref Rumania, like every other small country in this part of Europe, is on the spot. | Herr Hitler wants to dominate her, and one way or Last spring he lassoed her “with an

"economic treaty that put her partly in his pocket. Whether he will finish the job remains to be seen.

- By, WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

UCHAREST, July 20.—Across a tiny green park from my hotel,

huge block of buildings. On the

other side of the narrow street workers are rushing up another struc-

ture of equally imposing dimensions. The building under construction is a new wing to the white stucco palace of King Carol II. ‘The block that is being demolished

with what the Nazis might call

«lebensraum,” for -the new wing—which will give the completed structure a symmetrical U instead of L shape--will increase the HNze

is that both the builders and the Under the glare of floodlights

-Carol may never another occupant.

through, K

HAT treaty, which ai the time of its negotiation was widely characterized as an ultimatum, all but turned Rumania over to

Germany shall construct Rumanian highways and railroads; Germany shall be granted free zones in Rumanian ports, with the right to install cranes and other port facilities and build ware-

Germany shall. build electric power stations, conduct mining and lumber exploration and exploitation, and instruct Rumanians in agriculture, industry and. hygiene;

And lastly, that Germany shall provide about ‘a hundred million

‘Doing Fine’

BURNED BABY RESTING EASILY

He Explores Kitchen, Tilts ‘The Applesauce and Ends Up in Bandages.

“How's the baby this morning?” That was the question neighbors asked as they gathered in front of 1052 W. 20th St. this morning and Mrs. Helen Upton, mother, said he was doing fine. 4 And so he was—he was asleep.

One-year-old James Upton, swathed in bandages, rested as easily as if

nothing had happened.

Late yesterday James was making

‘his way around the house in his

walking car and set out’'to explore the kitchen. His grandmother, Mrs. Lula Woodard, had just made some applesauce and put it; steaming hot, in a bowl on. the table.” James reached for it and upset it over him. He was treated for burns on the head, shoulders and chest at City Hospital and sent -home to sleep. He was still doing all right at sleeping late this morning. .

CORN AT NEW LOW; WHEAT TAKES DIVE

Attribute: Declines in “Both To: Good Crop Outlook.

NEW YORK, ily 20: (U. P).— Corn prices tumbled around ‘2 cents today. to set a new low since 1933 and wheat dropped to a new low for the year. The decline was attributed in part to good crop: outlook and weakness of Argentine grain, - Trading was heavy and there was a general rush to sell on fear that the Government would be unable to

support the market. Liverpool and Winnipeg also were at new lows.

General liquidation at ‘the ' Chi-

cago market led to heavy stop-loss selling on the way down.

Saturday is the last day for trad-

ing in the July grain after ‘which open contracts must be .settled by delivery of the actual grain, a factor which also influenced ‘the market.

NEW YORK, July July 2 al. Py. —

15 Stocks backed and filled today without developing a definite trend’ as trading fell to subnormal levels. The indecision was attributed to profittaking after the sharp rise earlier

his week, caution over the market

. the. intern. al i tua:

ALL INVITED TO WATER FORUM

Hearing Open to Public to

Begin at 8 o’Clock in Tomlinson Hall.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM Mayor Sullivan today urged

citizens. to attend the public - ‘hear-|

ing to be held at 8 o'clock tonight | E in Tomlinson Hall on the proposed |

purchase of the Indianapolis Water Co. by the City.

A similar meeting ie scheduled. tor :

tomorrow night. . “The question of whether the City should purchase the Indian-

apolis Water Co. is of great impor-{

tance to every citizen and it is our

earnest hope that ‘a large represen-| tation will attend the hearings,” the :

Meyor said. We “Have Open: Mind”

He added that all City officials and members of his citizens advisory committee “have an open mind on this question and not only are willing but eager to hear the views of interested citizens.” James E. Deery, City Controller, will preside. Mayor Sullivan will read a statement outlining the plan, after which the meeting will be turned-into an open forum. Tonight's meeting marks the culmination of 10 months of ‘considera-

tion of the plan which was initiated

at a City Ccuncil + meeting last Sept. 19. The proposal to be explained at the public hearing, in brief is as follows: The City would’ pay the C. H. ‘Geist estate $4,500,000 for the common stock, and then would retire the outstanding indebtedness—

$18,438,400 in bonds and preferred

stock. It would pay for the company by issuing revenue bonds with ‘an interest rate of about 212 per cent bonds which would not be a general tax ‘obligation but could be paid for only from water revenue.

Sum; Would Be Set Aside

To the actual price paid for the company would be added $300,000 for working capital, $2,000,000 for development: of the Oaklandon Reservoir, and other expenses .incidental to the transaction, including $823,000 call premium on the bonds. This would necessitate a total bond issue. of $24,711,662. The taxes the company now pays to the City, schogls, county, townships, State and Federal Governments ($589,000 last year) would be set aside for the City’s benefit. Mr. Dickerman estimates - that the company’s income is sufficient, after .deduction of operating expenses and taxes, to pay Minterest and one-fortieth of the bond principal each year, and leave ‘a profit to the City of $281,886 each year.

dollars in credit marks for Rumanian armaments, fo be manufac-

tured of course in Germany.

This deal ‘was hailed in Germany as the most Smportant victory

thus far scored by the Fuehrer,

Germans had. been impressed by

the annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland: and by the dis«

memberment of Czechoslovakia. ‘somewhat bitter aftertaste.

Nevertheless those coups left a

Not so the Rumanian coup. Here there had: been no resort to force. Sheer fear of Germany’s might had been ‘enough. Henceforth Rumania was. definitely within the orbit. of the Reich. Rumanians ‘would now be ‘put to work exploiting their own magnificent resources

for the benefit of Germany.

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OREOVER, the Nazi opinion, openly expressed, was that the Rumanian deal effectively checked the stop-Hitler movement of the British and French, and that British influence in the Balkans

had been dealt a fatal blow.

That Poland had been outflanked and

dangerously weakened. That any plans Britain might have for another blockade had gone glimmering. That Rumania would previde Germany not only with more supplies than any colonies could yield, but with an open road to the Ukraine as well. But now. this brilliant victory is being threatened. Rumania has joined Britain and France. She is swapping official visits with Tur key, Greece and others in the stop-Hitler line-up. So Herr Hitler is reported exceedingly sore at the handsome,

46-year-old King Carol. .

in his own right, can hardly hand his count lock, stock and barrel and be wholly loyal at

King Carol, who is ‘something of a dictator

over to Herr Hitler e same time to he.

obligations, both specific and implied, td-London, Paris, Warsaw,

Ankara and Athens. King Carol had already got

off .on the wrong foot with the

Fuehrer after Munich. Munich gave hima fairly good idea of which way the wind was blowing, so in the national interest he visited

certain’ western European capitals.

But he made the mistake of

going to London before he went to Berlin,

"Use ol Coliseum for Fair Promised

CLAIM VICTORY FOR HATCH BILL

Foes' of Strong Act On Defensive.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer : WASHINGTON, July 20. — An eleventh- hour surge of House support for the Hidtch Bill, forbidding politics in relief and political activity by Federal employees, appeared today to have driven leading opponents of the measure into a strategic retreat.

weeks of intensive effort hy the high

.command -of : the Democratic party to kill off the ‘legislation or to have it passed in a form ‘imposing only

ernment patronage machine. With the setback, the task of Administration leaders in the House| shifted quickly from one of insisting on amendments: crippling the original bill of Senator Hatch (D. N. M.), to one of resisting Repub-

even further. Rep. John J. Dempsey (D. N. M), leading the House fight to restore the bill: to the form in which .ii (Continued on Page “Mhree)

| Dickinson Takes Second Thrustat Sin Over Radio

CHARLOTTE, Mich., July 20 (U. P.).—Governor Luren Dickinson’s neighbors thought today, having listened with attention to ‘his newest attack on sin, that he was a nice old man but “hadn’t ‘been around much” Station WJIM at Lansing brought the voice of this town’s most prominent citizen into every parlor last night. © ‘The :80-year-old Governor was extending his recent dissertation on the temptations obtdining in “high life” and the methods whereby girls go wrong, for the benefit of his home state. He deplored that worhen and girls were drinking more than they had and wondered if “they learned the

formula advised by a Paid after das | of our pat uo He said d after .

was Mrs. Franklin’ D. Roosevelt. (Mrs. Roosevelt in the fall of 1932 said in a radio speech that when she

branded as “prigs”, if they refused «she con-

‘had’ a difial life. “She|.

‘changed that. “Therefore, tinued, the young woman

ferént ‘prob! in faces the probi

things as whisky and gin and stick-

ing to the proper quantity,’ 2 she said. —Ed.)

—the same audience which he had addressed Saturday in saying that

ernors: Senfeence. ‘in ‘Albany, N. Y., “by “soci

It was’a retreat that came after|

minor restrictions ‘on the vast Gov-|

lican attempts. to extend its scope

was a girl, young women were not

to drink, but that’ prohibition had

blem of - ‘learning very young how ‘she can drink ‘of such

Governor ‘Dickinson époke out directly to mothers and daughters

social functions of the recent Gov-|

al Lit

Albert Gets Ina Pickle Over Nickels

The phonetic. finances of Albert Sanders, Riverside . Park employee, had gained . considerable attention today as his employer was reported . to be unavailable for comment. : Albert: was - given $20 yes- . terday and. told to . get $20 worth of nickels: . In longer than that should have, taken, he came straining back with several buckets and said that he could get only $16 worth of pickles and he guessed “1 will have to go some place else for the rest.” “Things were in quite a turmoil for a while after that. -

TRUCK CRASH FIRE KILLS CITY DRIVER

Ralph Dale Dies, Companion Hurt Near Kentiand.

Times Socelot. 2 LAFAYETTE, Ind. July 2, _An Inidangpolis’ “truck driver: burned fo-death and his: companion critically injured today when their truck turned over: and. caught fire eight. miles north of Kentland. The ‘dead man is Ralph Dale; 24, of 1048 Shelby St. and the injured is Dorman May, 25, of Indianapolis, whose: address was not: obtained.’ Mr. May was brought to the: St. Elizabeth's -Hospital: here. State

| Police said ‘they ‘were unable * to

learn’ the cause: of. ‘the accident. They said they could:not be certain ‘Who was driving. SRW vr Samia»

Ww rton.. Crash in alke Walkerton. Crash...

P.) i A drivers. ‘were: 2 ha Hnstantly ‘early ‘today. when their trucks collided -on. uv. Ys. Highway 6

ey A TO : Brown, 23, P Both drive rs suffered” skull fre | tures and’ other. “broken hones. - - -gaid ‘they believe Mr.

Brown fell whiel o of his truck. hk assistant,

Setforent.

was}

Two Truck Drivers Die 0

about three miles ash of Walkerton, | were Frank -W.| Thom pen, pd” Willard |commis

y at the steering) Three men

- Nor has his treatment of the

Rumanian Nazis: and Jew-baiters,

known as. the Iron Guard, increased ‘his popularity with Herr Hitler. ‘The Guard is said to be: heavily financed and. armed by Germany. Itis openly hostile to King Carol, and its campaign against him and his Jewish mistress, Magda: Lupescu, ‘has at times reached serious:

_ proportions. Last fall, :

- however, the Iron Guard’s leader, Cor-

_neliu Codreanu, and 16 of his ‘henchmen were captured and killed :

. “while e trying. to escape.” » » J

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HAT may sound. rough, but: such things do happen in Europe. It was a case of paying back the Nazis in their own coin, .

"of Berchtesgaden’ is not going to

King Carol and his little country will doubtless be in for some" anxious moments before the present storm blows over,

The boss : be deprived of the fruits of the.

victory ‘he scored -over- the: boss of Bucharest, at least not without

serious effort.

"Unfortunately there is little that King Carol persnlly can do.

I have seen him here. and he looks fit. " down and takes his. job very seriously.

termined to rule his people wisely.

I am told ‘he has settled He seems , sincerely de-

i Buf one of the tragedies of ‘what is 1 now going-on in: Europe. is

that ideals and good intentions. count for: so little.

Whether: the

royal palace is completed in peace, or bombed before it is finished; whether King Carol will have a long and prosperous reign or grow old "in- exile; . whether Rumania or any of these smaller nations . will live or die—these things pes largely: on influences at -

afield.’

what certain. United - States Renioiz do is likely to ‘have more

_ weight in Europe today than what some European rulers do.

Seldom in history has the fate-of Europe rested so completely oi in the hands of one man, namely Herr Hitler.

"And" what he will:

do depends in turn on the United States: more than. on Rumania. Which is ‘something new in American history. :

NEF Huntiry and Rumania on the ‘ot.

Times. Photo,

Carpenters returned ‘to work again toler on the new Coliseutn.

CARPENTERS 6 BACK 9 WORK

“Carpenters resumed" work fodiy on the State Fair Grounds Coliseum

{today after settlement of :a_jutis-

dictional dispute with the’ plasterers’ ‘union: which resulted . in the | carpenters walking oft the. Job. a

| week ago. a

‘Work’ on the * $1,600,000 ‘building

will be speeded in an effort to have it ready -when:the- State. Fair: opens in ‘September. “All we have to do to the’ arena,” Harry: G.'Templeton, Fair manager, said, . “is to clean it + The! Coii-. seum ‘will be availa le “for . everything planned ‘even if the seats aren’t up-and we have: to’ let. everyone in free. ?ol He ‘said’ he: believed ° the ‘puilding will be. near completion, by Sept. 1. It ‘will be used during the fair for ‘| horse: and: cattle . judging. if The setilem was negoti ted last night at< <a + meeting: atte by Marion County Building ‘Traces Coyneil representatives, other union officials, and. a committee of *general contractors ‘headed by Carl N. Geupel and Gustav F.. Hoppe. . ~The dispute arose. over. the! em|ployment of plasterers. to install | ‘| accoustical material at- the Broad Ripple: High School ‘addition. : The carpenters - contended : they ‘should install the material, and called: off | carpenters from the Coliseum, which is being built by: the same contractor as.the high school addition. ‘The ‘settlement, Mr. Hoppe said, was :based on: a co! e" under | which carpenters and: plasterers; will + install Acoustical ~material- on. a “50-50” basis, an - equal - number .of

sald the: contractors

db pos ar de Bi bat the, the Sonven-

fof he. * of .

{ |day temperatures ).— Jour Jegrees ll normal of “The ho. top 4 Les If of July

REACH FINALS

Defending Titieholder Plays]. ~' Sketchily in Defeating

Varin, 4 and 2.

By TOM: OCHILTREE ‘ Playing - near-perfect competitive golf, Miss Elizabeth Dunn," defending , titleholder, and Miss Harriett |

Hillcrest Country Club. . ‘By shooting a blistering 38 on the first. nine, one under woman’s par, Miss ‘Randall, who was playing-on her ‘home: lot, defeated Miss Dorlothy Ellis, former eity. and state titleholder, | 3 and :2;-and: could: ‘have ended - the match. much sooner "if she ‘hadn’t had trouble keeping up| her concentration on the back nine. - Miss Dunn played a: more piecemeal game; but she was steady enough when the chips were down to drop Miss Carolyn: Varin,’ Meridian Hills; 4 and 2. : ‘Tomorrow these ‘Snalists will meet’ for the fourth’ time in state competition. In 1935 at Ft. Wayne, Miss ‘Dunn heat’ Miss Randall, 3}

next year: at the. Indianapolis | , Country - Dunn gained at 1 up: victory: an 18 holes. ; “Tomorrow's title ‘math will ‘bel: an: innovation, ‘since’ ‘for the “first time in the history of the: Indiana Woman's Golf Association” governing body of the - tournament, the title round will be for 36:holes in-; stead of 18. The morning round is to start at 8. o'clock, and ‘they will] resume the duel at 12:30 p. m. .-

followers of the game ‘that believe

this - time. ‘point. out that. down. (Continued on Page 18);

m AND SLIGHTLY | WARMER, FORECAST

Bureais Says: Below- Normal - Weather on Way. Out.

‘LOCAL ; ToeERaToRS

row with a -slight: tempe:

City Considers Addition. of at Least 12 in 1900. And Seeks Extra: Hundred. Acres J For New: ‘Parks. ’

Randall, city champion, today ad-| ~~ vanced to .the finals .of the Wom-|.: en’s State Golf Tournament at ‘the|

and 2; and triumphed, 2 andl, the|’

.Club. They were Ainalists last year at Anderson ‘when: Miss|Of.

‘The increasingly ‘large school of {ETO Miss Randall. will take. the crown |Year:

Re ¥ Adolf Hitler

A ds de

re than 100 acres of park Tr ‘next year, it was

An expansion program n alls foithe! acquisition of at .

5 During the. past . thrde; weeks" ‘Board members have been inspecting ‘several poss sible - playground sites and: land’ which’ ¢ould be conve

into’ ‘medium. sized parks, “The full extent of. ‘the expansion plan will ‘not be ‘known until the Part “Department's 1940. budget 18 . roved. It is ‘known, however, at- the sBoard will ‘ask “at least - $1: 000 for land . purchase. Board today announced At

"l'will ask, the State Board of ac-

counts to audit its books. * “Just.to .see how we stand, »: Al "pert H. Gisler, Board vice resident ‘said-in explanation.

No Audit In 10 Years :

“Tot 1. | kriowledge. there has. been mo audit “for 10 years. We. don’t know what acts that may have been .illegal have been’ committed by pre“vious” boards undér the assumption of’ legality. 4] “think the only way we. “can protect: -ourselves- from mi “takes and: unwittingly committing. illegal acts is by having the Ae~ ‘counts’ Bogard: make a. ‘horough audit” of our books. “ “As we stand now, we ‘don’t Know what our setup is and a lot of things ‘can accumulate in 10 years.” = Although the locations of the. posed playgrounds have not been ( ¢ided, the Board is considering. pura ‘chase of several tracts in the sputh‘western section of the city. W

Pay. Raises Planned

* Sites will be selected on: the. basis requests received this year neighborhood groups ‘and. civic or‘ganizations. _The:Board also will‘ask’ addtional funds for - playground - instiue tors, ‘particularly to-raise the salaries a summer instructors from $5010: $ month. About 30 additional instruetors will be added, 10-of. ‘whom: will serve 12° months a-year.. + WPA: aid will be ested. to su-

| pervise :15 additional -school play-

unds which the Board planned to Yequest of - the School Board next. If the program in-its present form is ‘put inte effect; -the Park fea ment will. have a total of 65 | play ‘spots, 21 ‘more - than in operg- | tion this summer: *or NI eanwhile, the Works Board’ teok

ck “Rooney, field secretary ‘cf he Catholic Youth ‘Organization ‘mete, ‘to ask that the organization be | permitted ‘to. use -gymnasium. fagil- | ities at park: ‘eomuumty houses his iter. | 3 ‘Seek Gym Without. Fee Eo.

He' ‘was’ ‘informed by W. H:: | dlesworth, Recreation Director, hat other: ¢hurch or, zations have ap-

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