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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 113
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These Golfing Girls: Have Met Before
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' ‘Miss Harriett Randall, Mrs. K. T. Knode of South Bend, Indiana, Wontan’s Golf Association .presi.dent,- and Miss Elizabeth Dunn . together as Miss Dunn and Miss Randall ‘began play for the state erown.
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FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1989 7, .
Opposes Water Co. Purchase
“George: 0 Marott said at. Tomlinson. Hall:
7% ET 2 Times Photo. “The: City, Should” Tot
force this purchase at a price above wetval value.”
Fair tonight, tomorrow ‘and Sunday ; ‘mot much: change in ~temperatire. : a
Entered as ‘Second-Class Matter Cat: Postotfice, Indianapolis, Ind.
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“Hatch Bill. Sponsor and Author Celebrate
Times-Acme 'rélephal;
Rep. John J. Deliipsey (D. N. M.) and Senator Hatch (D. N. M.) celebrate the House passage of the : Hatch “clean Politics? i after a bitter Reh until. a fer ,Faldnight last night.’ ty fy
BRITAIN, NAZIS INSPIRE RISING HOPE OF PEACE
Both Talk of Plans for Easing Crisis Despite Border Incidents.
* By JOE ALEX MORRIS : United ‘Press Foreign News Editor.
Peace plans were heard in Europe today. Conciliatory words -came | from high sources in both London and Berlin, although the second Dan- ~ ¥ig-Polish border incident. of two days ; was: reported and military guards in field gray uniforms barred
; Danzig’s Bischofberg hill where antitank guns and artillery ‘reportedly| were concealed. A ‘Nazi spokesmanu declared today that Germany believed a peaceful return of the Free City to the Reich will’ be ‘achieved “within a few months” with the indirect aid of Great: Britain. : “We ‘reject a warlike solution of the - ‘Danzig problem 100 per cent,” e spokesman said as it was indicated that Josef Buerckel, who has Been a central figure in all Nazi ex- ~ pansionist moves would go to DanZig soon on a “special mission.”"
Exject British Pressure
The Nazis believe that when . the time comes Britain will urge Poland to-get together with Germany on a basis: for peaceful settlement. British officials denied that any pressure will be brought on Warsaw; but- reliable sources in London disclosed that a small group of influential ‘British leaders 3 advanc-ing-a new “positive” pedce plan even more important than: that which Berlin describes as “the Hitler plan” for solving the Danzig issue. . This “positive” plan was described in British sources as having nothing to do «with ‘appeasement programs. of the past and, in fact, was .designed for open discussion only after all danger of a new to-|J falitarian war threat this summer has .been eliminated—if possible— by the rearmament of the British-
b led security front.
Next Week May Give Clue
© Britain and France would go firmly ahéad with their present program of protection through powerful arms in an effort to preserve peace and prevent aggression during the so-called crisis months of August and September. Then, if they are successful, they would ound out Germany on a plan to aid fe Reich “in transforming industry from a war basis to a peace basis by aiding in raising a big loan to (Continued on Page Three)
GIRL KILLED, FIVE * INJURED IN CRASH
NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 21 (U. P.).—Jane Wilson, 17, was killed to‘day ‘and five others were injured in a headon automobile crash on the top of a hill near here. © Miss ‘Wilson was the daughter of Mr. ‘and Mrs. David Wilson. Jean Underwood, 18, and Helen Scully, 17, [passengers in Miss Wilson's ‘car, were injured severely. Harold King, 26, Zionsville, driver of the other machine, a milk truck, , received a possible brcken back. His wife, 18, and’ their son, Dennis, 18 ‘months old, were taken to the Hamilfon County Hospital in serious foniition, |
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Coupe Gets Egg Bath, Flat Tires
Ss. J Gopéland Jr., 19, of 3703 N. Sherman Drive, had a combination of egg and tire trouble today. He left his sport coupe - parked in front of his home all ‘night and someone bom_harded it with eggs and released the air from the tires. His father, DP S. J. Copeland Sr. took the following philosophic view: - “It will teach him to put 16 in the garage.”
HATCH BILL IN
SENATE AGAIN
Author Ready to Accept House Changes; New Dealers Beaten.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P.) — In a long and tempestuous session
that ended early today, the House |
overrode ‘the Administration and passed the Hatch Bill, lifting the re-
lief organization and the . Federal patronage machine out of politics, |-
and sent it back to the Senate for final concurrence. ; Then it goes to President Roosevelt for his signature or veto. His position on the bill is not known. Victory for Senator Hatch (D. N. M.), author of the measure, and Rep. John J. Dempsey (D. N. M.), who led the fight in the House, came after opponents had used every parliamentary trick possible in their efforts first to delay, the nto emasculate, and finally to kill the bill Final passage by a 242 to 133-vote saw the Republicans, led by Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.), voting solidly for the legislation and being jofned by many Democrats piled aboard the bandwagon as approval became a certainty. The House restored to the bill vital sections which had been trimmed out by the House Judiciary Committee and added Several amendments, the most important (Continued on Page Three)
BLUE .SKY FORECAST FOR OUTDOOR FANS
LOCAL "TEMPERATURES 6am... 65 10 a m.... 7am... 68 11 a m.... 8a. m... 72 12 (noon). 9am... 76 1p m...
9 80 81 82
Fair weather tonight, tomorrow .|and continuing through Sunday was
the Weather Bureau’s promise today ta those who trek to the outdoors for week-end outings. The Bureau said there will not be much change in temperatures which centinue subnormal for late July. The average yesterday was 74 degrees, two below the normal average.
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ONDUNN AT END OF 15T 18 HOLES
Hillcrest Star Pulls Her Game Into Order After Shaky Start.
+ By TOM OCHILTREE Harriett Randall, young Hillcrest «|star, rallied today after a shaky start and she was one - beth Dunn, the defending:-champion,
play in the final match of the
Women’s State Golf Tournament at Hillcrest. Miss Dunn: had been three up’ ‘at the#nd of the first nine and at ‘one point was four up. Miss Randall pulled her game into order and overhauled the eight-time champion on the back nine. The second 18 was to be played this afternoonss, The Hillcrest Star played with a pulled muscle inher right leg“and it was apparent: that it was troubling her. She carded a 45 on the first nine to Miss Dunn's 42. On the second nine: she got a 40 while ‘Miss Dunn turned in a 44. The State champion lost every hole from the 13th through. the 16th, ‘mostly because - of poor puiting. } The cards: Hillcrest woman's par: 454 355 454—39
Miss Randall: $
643 544 545—40—85
‘456 356 -463—42 553 655 645—44—86 Both played the 325-yard first hole faultlessly in:par 4s, but they started jittering on the: second. -Miss Dunn's drive went sky-high and was good for only 120 yards. She hit a powerful second shot,
unable to follow up her rifile-shot (Continued en Page 19)
WARFLEIGH SEWER CONTRACT AWARDED
Ohio Firm Gets Job. to Begin
The contract for the construction of the Warfleigh sanitary sewer was let by the Works Board today to the Marra & Son Construction . Co, Bryan, O., on a low bid of $99, 370. Two Indianapolis concerns,’ the Columbia Construction Ce. and the} ‘Sheehan Construction Co., were losing bidders at $103,900 and $104,201 respectively. City Engineer M. G. Johnson said construction probably + will “begin about mid-August, depending largely on the ‘date when WPA labor will
be available.
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FOR ! MAYOR SULLIVAN AM iooking to the future. If the Water plant had ‘been purchased .40 years ago.
-Indianapolis today weuld profit by that act. If the plant is’ bought now, Indianapolis in 40 years will, in all probabiliiy, profit by that act.”
‘JOHN F. WHITE “x am agreeing. to -the pro- .. posed purchase wih the price offered , . . because I believe it ‘is. an act of sound expedi-.
ency under present circum-. stances, Bh igh - to me some . features -the . ‘marketable 8 | setup are: strongly ‘epugnant.’
PAUL C.: WETTER, 1 AM firmly convinced that. L the thing to do is: to buy the water company. If we don't . buy it; a private buyer: will and you'll ‘have a rate raise. There are people at’ the head of
the opposition that never be- . lieved “in. municipal ‘ownership
‘have the company as a Bit, ” ALBAN SMITH
that municipal utilities are operated more efficiently ‘and give better service at Tess. cost than: Jprivate utilities. . . . The consumers will continue paying for water service whether the company is in private or municipal hands.- “The difference “is that’ ‘now the money paid” goes into private hands.” :
Pro and Con Highlights Of Hea ring on Wa ter Co.
and wouldn't want the City to -
“ihe record in Indiana shows |
AGAINST
TAYLOR GRONINGER
T seems that the ‘seller is the AX only immediate ‘beneficiary - of the 2% per cent interest rate. :es+ The City gives no-assurance: of reduced water rates. inthe near future: Then where is it ~ in the present or near future public interest to buy at an admittedly high price. . . . (which) . exceeds the actual dollar expen- . diture - for physical properties: wale by $5,711,663.”
GEORGE J. MAROTT
“I am of the opinion that the City should not force this purchase at a price above its actual value, ‘ow Is it not true that the . OWNers . «+ have: taken excessive profits. the. water rates . * which ‘should have beer put 1 a” sinking : fund -for- replacement and maintenance?” . . . Why not. ., a waterway from - the lakes?” Yl.
OTTO RAY ‘I "AM ‘in’ favor ‘of municipal ; ownership, but I'm not in ‘favor of being robbed ... . The people of Indianapolis will have * plenty -of grief: and attend - plenty: of meetings if the .City
pays the Plies: ropostd for the _company. git
FLOYD HOFFMAN
“If ‘the: water ‘utility is: priced 4 right, and, if it is not to be con-: verted into a political swimming pool, I have mo real objections to the purchase . ... (would _ some private. purchaser . . . be - §tupid enough . . . to pay in excess of. , 31; 300,000 for thls liye,
H or - ve | After Girl, Ta Skips Reward
MEAFORD, Ontario, silly 21 (U. P.)..—Eleven-year-old.. Douglas Free was a hero tofat, but a: pretty giggusied. on He dived = into the Big Head River and hauled a 7-"° year-old girl, who could: not - swim, to safety. “As as I. got ‘her ot” 0 she ran away,” he said. “She : didn’t’ even say: thanks.’ Just’ like a girl”
4 PLANES CRASH; 8 DIE
cials today revealed four Royal Air} Force planes crashes in which eight
'men- were believed killed. A bomber
crashed at Lockington, killing three.
near’ Bridlington with two men Tilmanstone, Kent, with two. aboard |’ one. craft and another on the. ‘sec= ond plane: losing. Sheir lives.
Coeds Mimic Joan and Myrna So Well
They Crash the Noncrashable..
HOLLYWOOD, July 21° (U. P).— All the make-up men with all the rouge in. Hollywood couldnt turn
the film capital's face as red as a.
couple of sorority girls did last
| night.
Beth Ann Stevens and Barbara Coutourier crashed one of those ultrasswank — and _ noncrashable, they say—movie premieres, - The great and the near-great at the Chinese’ Theater fell for ‘their act and they walked in with Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard. They chatted casually with such folks as Rosalind Russell, Adolph Menjou, John Garfield and many another.
. Then’ they watched a show the
average citizen couldn’t have seen
.|Loy highpoints. .
| Sorority House on the ‘University of California campus had read that the preview’ of Alexander Korda’s “Four Feathers” was going to be the fanciest thing of its kind. this year. They recalled that their 20-year-old sister, Miss ‘Stevens, resembled: Myrna Loy. The . 19-year-old Miss Cadutourier looked like Joan Crawford. That was enough for: the ‘Alpha Delts. They each contributed 25 cents toward expenses and ‘the brunette| Miss Coutourier and the red-headed Miss Stevens made a deal - with
pert, to point up their Crawford and
Then they: put. on their ‘slinkiest
Monty Westmore, the ‘makeup ex- J
evening gowns ‘and rented for one}:
for 3 $100 vill : 1s at
hour the Jongest, shinies
When the ‘valle up Yelore. ‘the crowds and the theater, the very police who were hired. to keep: out: the crashers, bowed: them from their car. Mr. Chaplin ‘and ‘Miss Goddaid | da arrived at .about the same: time. They had to wait while the photog-
raphers took picture after pleture
of the beauties leaving the lim
sine.” ‘Then Miss ‘Stevens borne 4 to oh
Miss Goddard and: said: : “Hello darling!” ~~ =
the-night ‘waved. to Fred Astaire &
behind the velvet ropes. * feared to. tap them
LONDON, July ‘21. (U.-P,) .—Offi- | PE
A second plane fell “into the sea aboard. ‘Two planes collided: over
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STOCKS uP 3 POINTS; BUYING CON GONTINUES
Many Issues res Glib; to: New Highs for Four" Months.
NEW: YORK, July of... P)— The ‘buying. move: “that . earlier “this week brought: spectacular . ‘gains in the stock’ market today was Tresumed “gnd :many¢" issues were
{hoosted .more than 3 points to new
four-mionths highs. ‘Trading rose’ sharply with ‘the upswing. Gains of 1 to more than
“| 2” points were ‘commen ‘throughout
the, industrial list and rails met ane of the best buying movements of the year. - Short covering halted: realizing. Loft was an .outstand-{va ng issue, rising 2% points to a new high ‘at’ “18%.” Trading : sentiment was. aided. by expectations for 260 per. cent steel
more-than-normal drop in auto output on changeover is +1940 - niodels and ‘heartening reta. and . - wholesale e statistics. i ‘Steel was up. 3% points, G 8. Steel te ‘3:points and ‘an Youngstown eet gained about 3 points. ‘WestSn ‘Electric and dii‘Pont were up’ 3 points and moré; the latter 3 a new High. Chrysler. was up peints and - General Motors | neafly 2 points despite: continued. strikes at its plants. :
Som. Hit 4s Lowest t rice
ces tumbled to the hs of the Gay nthe closing nig of trading tel recovery: Tom an early dip on : of Trade ‘today. ! cents. a. “bushel on
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“Inside the lobby the actresses-for- pool Sam a std tine
operating ‘rate ‘next’ week, a no-|
oe young . ‘brothers, who- were bi-
FINAL WATER ACTION WAITS : oo Sa,
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM . City officicls marked time today in their plans for baying) sie Indianapolis -Watet Co., following a three-hour public hearing last night at whieh « opponents of the | plan gave it a severe. .verbal’ ‘lacing.’ The attendance. at” ‘the Tomlinson Hall ‘session, approximately.300, was “that Mayer Sullivan canceled plans to hold, an encore session tonight. ‘The Mayor said he did: riot. “know when he would call a _méeting | of his. committees to’ make a final des ‘cision on the purchase. “We won't have. a ‘meeting. until our ' attorneys: can .complete their study of the legal phases involved, and that may take :several 7aays more,” he said.
Hint Ordinance Prepared - However, it was believed that an
ordinance “calling for acquisition of the utility was being. prepared fori. submission to City Cauncil sta spe- | Ey
cial meeting, péssibly next week. *
A Fesolution By the Utility Dis- |
trict trustees.also would have to be passed - -before the City could adver-
tise for bids on the more than $24,-
000,000 revenue:bond issue required to finance-the deal Mayor. Sullivan told the audience last night that heat the size of the crowd, in:view-of the importance of the - proposed purchase. “This is a fine. audience: as. far. as quality is ‘eoncerned,” ‘he daid, “but I am sorry ‘there are not more of us present.’ ‘. - -At- the’ close of ‘the’ meeting,’ City Controller: James (KE, “Deery, who presided, asked the audience if an- | other meeting tonight were desired.
The only. reply was a seaitering; of
“noes.”
‘The : audience = sat . "shirotigh the :
long session with little ‘demonstration of sentiment on the - pn On. a few occasions, speakers opposing the plan Were given mild. ‘ap-
Plause. : “ Opposed: by: Marott
‘Speaking in favor. of puging the
utility were Paul‘C.‘Wetter, Indianapolis Federation of. Community Civic = Clubs" president; White, School Board member; Alban Smith, La Porte, Indiana Municipal League ‘president, and: Mayor Sulli-
NS ovposing it’ were Taylor Groninger, = former City . Corporation
Counsel: George oJ. ‘Marott, business’
(Continued on ‘Page: Nine)
POLA NEGRI WINS SUIT. “PARIS, July 21 (Us: P.) —Pola Negri, film star, won _ a libel suit today . against. the ‘movie weekly, Pour Vous, which * reported that she was - friendly: with -Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and: a rival of Leni Riefenstahl - for ‘his . favor, She was awarded Li and- ‘had asked $26, 500.
Society Girl Flies-A way
5s @isappointe(. |
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Works Board Votes to Open 429. Acres: in
_ Campaign to M
ake Indianapolis
Nation’ S Aviation Center.
The door was opened today for the development of In
dianapolis: as the aviation center of the nation. ~ In what was described as ‘‘the mosh im
taken in this direction,” the
portant stop
Works Board y vot (
lease industrial sites at the Municipal Airport Tor ‘the u e
BUSINESS HURT, F. D.-R. CLAIMS
Nouteaty Inge Vidclioh Halted “Nice Little Boom,” Says - President.
HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 21 (U: P.) —President Roosevelt . said .-today that refusal of the Senate to act. at this session on neutrality has killed off a nice little business. hoom ‘and will have an adverse economic, effect until next January. . . Mr.” Roosevelt, speaking at - a. press ‘conference, again emphasized that full responsibility for refusal to revise the neutrality law must be accepted’ by. the Senate. The ‘Senate, I he said, is gambling against the | possibility of ‘war this ‘year, and the result: of its refusal to act will: ‘have an adverse economic effect. - The President described a: conversation he had with a prominent businessman this - week. The’ busi(Continned, on Page Three)
PLANS ORDERED FOR 1 W, MIGHIGAN BRIDGE
Gouity Agrees to. Pay’ Half On Little: Eagle Span.
The. Works Board and ‘County.
Commissioners today ordered plans!
drawn fora W. Michigan St. bridge over. ‘Little Eagle Creek and. the| ‘Commissioners agreed to pay ‘half the cost of construction. 4 - The decision. was reached after a
5 delegation of West Side residents
visited City Hall and the Court House, demanding . action on the project. The new bridge: will supplant a| single-lane ‘wooden structure which, lies’ half "in the City and half in ‘the County and which the. delegaition said is dangerous
After Car Hi is 2 on Bikes
ina Conn, July at. w. P). — Audrey Gray, a1, Jociety. Bir! ‘and ‘niece of the : Duchess ‘Marlborough, - ‘disappeared Sy ‘with her mother in a private plane “after her father had put up:-$1500 to get her out of jail. She as charged with reckless driving a ‘her car struck and Ton injured
‘Miss ‘Gray. was arrestad yesterday
* lin Southbridge, Mass., 15 miles from |
the scene of the accident here. Her car, - which she - bought when she “into. ¢ 0 inheritance on
‘She’ said she did not’ Bow; she had struck anyone but’ recalled having seen two boys on bicycles on the road. She signed a statement saying her. car struck the boys, but insisted that the accident was unavoidable and that she.did not know of it until she was stopped 'in Southbridge.
A Putnam man who saw: the. acei-|- ‘| dent had telephoned Southbridge o1
police. : Gerald Martineau 10, was in a De Bim little ttle chance to Phy: ve on live. Wilfred Martineau, 14, suffered. Be Moais fai it had fie resales
| industrial ‘director;
of aviation industries. =~ |. ‘The action followed: : the statement of a TWA national official ‘that Indianapolis’ location “and its highly" developed. airport facilities: make it a natural for an aero-
nautical center.”
‘The ‘resolution was présented’ to the Board by Myron C. Green, In- - diandpolis Chamber “of Conimerce ; and ' climaxed several ‘mofiths of negotiations be= tween City and’ Chamber” of ‘Commerce officials.
Nr 429 Acres ‘Available
A total of 429 acres:are available for ‘industrial locations. I. J. Dienhart, airport superintendent, : sdid ‘that « Civil = Aeronautics: - -Atthority representatives had: made a- detailed study» of: the 1015-acre; tract; on which the airpert is located -and had mapped “sites:’ where - ‘airplane .manyfacturing plants would. not, interfere with aviation traffic.~. The leases will run for: 15 years with renewal provisions and will be granted to any: corporation - which ‘demonstrates its. financial : ‘ability and readiness to bégin: ‘operation. The Board, under the resolution reserves the right to pass:opn:plans and types of build to: be erected ‘| by industries “to’ e proper. pro-. visions for safety on the airport:and to make all buildings located: thereon conform to uniform types. of‘ ‘con- : struction.” : Nominal Fee Ploposed Rs "X. nominal’ fee per acre; to: be set : through negotiations with * .interested industries, will ‘be: charged. i + The Board also agreed to give as-
| surance to any aviation industry 9
complete co-operation.’ » Mr. Dienhart said that: the only ‘work that the City would" have’ 30 do to prepare the unusued’acreage: on the. Airport’ property. vould be: 0 cut the weeds. Louis: C. Brandt, Board ‘president, said that one of the purposes in AC~ quiring the large tract of*lahd:for the airport had been to provide industrial space. He aid that the: Airport was ideally loeated for ‘industrial use and testing and’ predicted that. aviation industries .will: come here-because of the facilities offered:
* Location’ Called Ideal = od “Mr. Green said ‘that the did «not:
. ko w of any particular industry that
indicated it would ‘locate.
Be but he assé vt :
the Board's resolution’ would «of the: door” for aviation: industrial development here. William: J. ‘Austin of Kansas. city, Mo., TWA national accounts” ager, visited TWA officials and di. Sen Elmer F. Stray Yesterday. and “Indianapolis-is an ideal Youn ; for building airplanes,” he commented. “It's less. than an. hour by air - from Dayton, O. where the ‘Army's .test pilots are. testing new eyuipment. . It’s ‘bound to develop into an aviation. center.” | '..% He praised the development ‘of ‘the
tion and’ Indianspolie
Mrs. Elizabeth" “Cox, 57, 34th! St. and Shadeland: Drive, was ta n to Methodist Hospita Hguy hand was oan caught in