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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 126

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1989

Entered . Second-Class Matter at Postoifice, Indianapolis, Ind,

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Watermelon Time Is Anytime—

This is the time of the year to take a swan dive in a watermelon, any time of the day or night. So says Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, 2852 N. Delaware

St. That is, she

gone. The first

Times Photo. said it just before this picture was

taken. She wouldn't talk then until the melon was

Hoosier melons are just ripe.

FAIR AND WARMER TONIGHT, FOREGAST

Partly Cloudy Tomorrow, Is Bureau’s Prediction.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES a .. 66 1lia. m.. a. ee: 8092712 ‘noon) . a. +5 1p. m.. a. 77 2p.-m..... 81

m 2 m.. m 5 82 10 a. m.....

Fair and slightly warmer weather was predicted for tonight in Indianavolis and vicinily, and partly cloudy skies tomorrow were forecast by the Weather Bureau.

TALLULAH’S UNCLE WALKS OUT ON HER!

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U. P.).— One of the fans of Tallulah Bankhead, glamorous Broadway actress, walked out on her last night. He was her uncle, Senator John Bankhead (D. Ala.). Tallulah made a personal visit to the Capitol a few weeks ago to lobby against House removal of an appropriation in the 1940 relief act to continue Federal Theater projects. Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) made a motion to restore the appropriation. ‘No” voted Tallulah’s uncle.

CHAINS TO BE LINKED TO SQUALUS TODAY

PORTSMOUTH, N. H, Aug. 5 (U. P.).—Salvage workers expected to loop heavy chains to the bow of the sunken submarine Squalus today preparatory to a new attempt to lift the submersible and its 26 dead. Weather permitting, the first of the lifting pontoons, which were damaged in the initial try July 13, will be taken to the scene tomorrow. All deep diving work 40 fathoms beneath the surface was completed yesterday.

INSTRUCTOR KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

"URBANA, Ii. au Aug. 5 (U. P)— Glenbard Fields, Dakota City, Neb., a flying instructor, was killed and Harry R. Ely, Ft. Collins, Colo., a student flier, was injured seriously last night when their small plane crashed at an airport two miles north of here. Witnesses said the plane nosed dived about 500 feet. It was not known whether Mr. Fields or Mr. Ely was at the controls.

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Holland Hails New Princess

OESTDIJK, Netherlands, Aug. 5 (U. P.)—Netherlanders declared a holiday today to celebrate, amid the booming of guns, the

birth of a second daughter - to Crown Princess Juliana—an event which increased the prospect of a three-generation reign by Queens of the House of Nassau. Princess Juliana presented Rer German-born husband, SE Bernhard, with a 8% pound girl today. The first daughter, Princess Beatrix, second in line for succession to the throne of Queen Wilhelmina, was born Jan. 31, 1938. Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Armgard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, . Bernhard’s mother, were at Soest‘dijk palace when the baby was born. A bulletin issued by Dr. Jan De Groot, obstretic surgeon, and Dr. C, L. De Jongh, court physician, announced that mother and baby were both doing exceedingly well. Prince ZBernhard had been pacing the: palace corridors for hours.

BOY, 2, IS RESCUED

FROM WILDERNESS

LIVINGSTONVILLE, N. Y.,, Aug. 5 (U. P.) —Two-year-old David Ellett, object of a 34-hour search in a rain-drenched Catskill wilderness, rested comfortably in his bed today, slightly bruised and scratched, but otherwise uninjured. Naked and wearing only one shoe, the infant was found by CCC workers in a wooded ravine yesterday, two miles from his farm home. The boy strayed from home early Thursday morning and CCC workers were immediately enlisted. Bloodhounds{were unable to pick up the trail because of the rain.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5 (U. P.).— Carole Lombard of Ft. Wayne, Ind., blond movie actress wife of Clark

Gable, was too ill after an emergency appendectomy today to study the nursing technique necessary to her role in a forthcoming picture. She arrived at Good Samaritan hospital Thursday night in the real life role of a patient, doubled up with acute appendicitis pains. The operation was performed immediately while Mr. Gable paced the corridor outside the operating room. Miss Lombard was to have begun a study today under auspices of the Good Samaritan nursing school staff to prepare herself for her portrayal of a nurse in the picture “Vigil at Night.” Mr. Gable appeared this morning,

11 [seated in her flower-banked room at

the hospital, as the personification of the picture title; he was blearyeyed, unshaven, and weary after his 48-hour vigil. Dr. Norman williams, the operat: ing surgeon, said Miss Lombard was showing a rapid recovery but would be too ill for the next 24 hours fo.

study the technique of the young

nurse flitting, not too calmly, around night

STATE TRAFFIC TOLL

INGREASED BY TWO

Two-Year-0ld Child and South Bend Youth Die.

A 2-year-old. girl and a 17-year-old youth were killed in Indiana traffic accidents last night. . Barbara Ann Schuyler, 2, of Anderson was killed instantly when car driven by her father failed tq make a turn in the road near home. Four other passengers in the car were injured. ~ Paul Hoshaw, 17, son of Mrs. John Stone, South Bend, was Killed when the car in which’ he was _|riding overturned at Delphi. Robert Thompson, driver of the car, who told police he swerved to avoid hitting a truck, was injured slightly. In Indianapolis, 10 persons were injured, several seriously, in overnight traffic accidents and 75 motorists were arrested, Otto R. Boettcher, 57, of 111 E. 16th St., was critically injured when witrtesses said he walked into a

trackless trolley in the 400 block of W. Washington St.

551, was in Methodist Hospital with serious injuries received when two cars collided yesterday at 34th and School Sts. Her husband, Bernie Combs, 48, was less seriously injured. The other car was driven by Clarence Schmutte, 21, R. R. 15, Box 835. The condition of Mrs. Helen Richey, Elkhart, injured Wednesday in a car crash at High School Road and Road 36, was described as critical in Methodist Hospital. Her son, Dawson Richey, 18, died of in-

juries yesterday.

Carole Too Ill to Study That Film Nursing Role

Miss Lombard . . . losing an 3 opportunity.

became ill late Monday, and the

complaint became acute Thursday

Mrs. Mary Combs, R. R. 12, Box

‘| deficits plus additional taxes, is in-

the handsome Mr. Gable’s chair. She|as Congress neared adiournment,

9 GROUPS HERE JOIN IN BATTLE FOR TAX CUTS

Activity to Center on Hearings on County and City Budgets.

HEADED BY G. L. DENNY

Success of United Action in Other States Cited by Chairman.

Nine Indianapolis organizations today banded together in forming the United Tax Reduction Committee to advocate reduced public expenditures and taxes in 1940. The participating organizations are the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Indiana Taxpayers Association, Indianapolis Board of Trade, Merchants Association, Apartment Owners Association, Building Managers and Owners Association, the Citizens’. Taxpayers Protest Committee and the Marion County Farm Bureau. George L. Denny, Board of Trade president, is chaisman of the joint committee. Other groups or organizations were invited to doin the movement. The committee will center its activity on the budget hearings of | the County and City Councils and the County Tax Adjustment Board which open in a few weeks. /

Bureau Active in State

The Indiana Farm Bureau, meanwhile, is sending out tax experts throughout the State to train citizens in othet counties in the proper method of scanning budgets and applying “pressure” on local governmental officials to reduce expenditures. Tentative budget figures of Marion County officials call for an increase of more than $185,000 or a 3% cent increase in the tax ‘rate. for 1940. : “This movement is representative of all classes of taxpayers,” Mr. Denny said. “The taxpayers, by and large, have learned that arraying one group against another with promises of special treatment only increases tax burdens and hence, we are not interested in any suggestions for special relief to any group. Want Reductions for All “We want tax reductions for all

By JOE COLLIER

lice today all over the City,

They say they hope to _tree-sit until school starts, when they will be able to ; resume their regular classroom seats. This crew had been®riding ‘around and around with headquarters at the curb in the 1800 block of Barth Ave. At 10 a. m. police asked them to stop - of their own accord to prevent later arrest. They stopped immediately and sat down to rest. This gave one of them an idea. He crawled up the first sycamore {ree on the other side of the alley where he said he could rest faster.

Bicycle marathons were halted by po-

one of the crews, finding time heavy on its hands, took up tree sitting.

There was an immediate conference of the other five erstwhile riders. They formed themselves into a sort of ground crew and began, not 15 minutes

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after the bik

and at least

Morrissey . . . a baffled chief.

are not sittin ground under

mate encourgaement. (Continued on Page Three)

Bike Riders Climb T ree in New Contest as Police End Marathons

e aration had stopped, a

tree-sifting contest. : They will take turns sitting in a fork of the tree 15 feet above the ground and nice and | shady. The tree is reasonably easy

to climb and the boys said they felt they were entitled to the rest. ; “Of course,” the spokesman said,” this is altogether different from a bike marathon. But we wanted to do something and we de- | cided this would be a good way-to spend the time. “We decided it would be better than being in the streets and maybe getting hurt.” He said although there is room’ for more than one . at a time on the limb they will sit singly and take turns just as they had in. the marathon. Those who g in the tree will sit on the it and give their active teamThey intend to sit

ROCK IN TUNNEL SLIPS, KILLING &

‘Safety Crew’ Members on ~ Pennsylvania ‘Dream’ Highway Die.

STAHLSTOWN, Pa, Aug. § (U. P) —Four men were killed today as they worked as members of a safety crew scaling loose rock in the Laurel Hill tunnel of the state’s new $65,000,000 dream highway now under construction. Three men were killed instantly as a tons, the fourth victim was injured so

seriously that he died en route to a Somerset hospital.

taxpayers. It has become very clear that there is only one road to real tax relief and that is through reduction of public expenditures. “Our efforts will be concentrated, therefore, on reduction of expenditures. If that can be accomplished, then tax relief will flow to all groups and kinds of taxpayers. “It is interesting and hopeful to note the success achieved by unified efforts of tax groups in other parts of the country.

’ New York Success Cited

“The most recent success was ‘in New York State where a militant group brought about a reduction of more than 26 million dollars in the State budget.” The committee adopted a resolution which stated: : : “Consideration of 1940 budgets and tax rates for governments within this community is already under way. ‘The School Board has tentatively adopted its new budget and tax levy. The City and County Councils, town and township boards will begin work within a short time. The effortssof the joint committee will be centered on these hodies, and will reach their climax when the County Tax Adjustment Board starts on Sept. 11 to review all budgets and tax rates adopted within the county. Plans will be made to appeal to the State Tax Board.”

Tax Situation Summarized

The tax situation as summarized by the committee follows: “l. The Federal Government has for over seven years spent vastly more than its revenue so that both for debt purposes and operating expenses the country must at some time face the necessity of paying larger Federal taxes than now even though present rates are regarded by many taxpayers, corporate or in‘dividual, as being burdensome. ~ “2. New payroll taxes for social security taxes—two such taxes having been created in recent years for old-age - annuities and unemployment compensation—have become one of the largest’ single tax items of employers. "3 e State government is continuing to spend considerably more than its revenue and an eventual’

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‘DETECTIVES’ SEARCH VICTIM, TAKE $35

Two “detectives” who identified themselves as Detective Perk and Detective Brown last night visited Earl Howard, a custodian at 1932 N. Alabama St. They “charged” him with several “offenses,” searched him and his apartment, took $35 and his driver's license. Before leaving they told him to report to headquarters today. When he did he found there were no detectives with those names or any answering to the description he gave police. He also learned that he wouldn't get that $35 back.

STOCKS uP FRACTIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (U.P.).— Trading was dull as usual for a Saturday today in the stock market, but the list was fractionally higher

Those killed were william John Leach, 33, of Boswell, who died en route to Somerset Hospital; Walter B. Daley, 28, of Langeloth; Olaf Kenneth Schooling, 25, of Somerset, and Leonard Anderson, 35, R. F. D. 6, Somerset.

Accident 800 Feet Back

The rock fall occurred about 800 feet inside the tunnel which will| be a passage bored through the mountains on the super-highway being built between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. As a safety crew of about: 15 men worked in the tunnel this morning putting concrete over the surface to prevent the rock from falling on persons below, one of the boulders became dislodged from the roof.

11 Escape Unhurt

It crashed down onto a frame platform on a truck, and pinioned the four men working on the apparatus. Other members of the crew were not struck. Only the safety crew was working today. Laurel Hill tunnel is the first underground passageway on the “dream highway” in traveling east from Pittsburgh. The tunnel, when completed, will be four-fifths of a mile long, and 900 feet of the tunnel had been bored by the defunct South Penn Railroad, a CarnegieVanderbilt enterprise Which was abandoned years ago. The fall occurred inside the railroad workings.

KENTUCKY VOTES, LEWIS FACES TEST

C. I. 0. Leader Backs Brown In ‘Off-Year’ Primary.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 5 (U. P.).

—Labor Leader John L. Lewis’ strength in State politics was put to ‘another test today as Kentucky {Democrats and Republicans went to the polls to select’ ‘candidates for 'state offices in the first of the “offyear” primaries. Mr. Lewis, president ‘of the Congress of - Industrial Organizations, supported John Young Brown, attorney for his United Mine Wotkers affiliate in Kentucky, for Governor against Lieut. Gov. Keen Johnson, backed by retiring Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler and the powerful state Democratic organization.

Mr: Johnson Is a Richmond Rew paper publisher. He charged in" his campaign that Mr. Brown was “a tool of Lewis and the C. L 0.” He said Mr. Lewis backed Mr. Brown only in an attempt to gain control of the Kentucky Democratic delegation in 1940. Mr. . Brown, of Lexington, is a| former Congressman. He also was ‘backed by U, S. Senator Alben W. Barkley who defeated” Gov.’ Chandler in the 1938 primary. The Republicans were making their first emits bid for the Gov-

didates ge King Swope, Fp Sg Judge ott Sherman Cooper, - Somerset; L. O.. Smith, Mayor high Harlar, and G. Tom

{ant rock, weighing several | ue “out of “the "roof, “whitey

ernorship in in eight years. The can-|24.

Yoo, Hoo!

Eight Stickers, Mister, And Five Cops Are Waiting for You.

HE Municipal Court bailiff today called Thomas Scan“lon, 832 Church St. to ihe bar of justice on traffic charges. Five, patrolm took their places as prosecut witnesses. All five were to testify about eight parking tickets the prosecuting attorney said Mr. Soaaion had - ignored. . Mr. Scanlon wasn’t there. Judge Pro Tem Edwin McClure ordered a subpena issued for Mr. Scanlon and set the | case for Wednesday. ~The five ‘policemen. mate nota-..| tions in their notebooks ahout the date, and filed out of’ the courtroom. They sort of looked as if they were looking for someone.

BRIDE AGAIN GIVEN BLOOD TRANSFUSION

‘Brother-in-Law of Burned Girl Is Donor.

A second blood transfusion was given 16-year-old Mrs. Carlotta Givans today as City Hospital physicians battled to save her life. She was critically burned - yesterday in her home, 547 N. Lynn St. The first transfusion was given last night and Joe Mescall, 910 Daly St., godfather of the husband, Robert, 22, and best man at their wedding, was the donor. The donor for the second transfusion was Sanford Givans, a brother-in-law, 564 N. Lynn St, Mr: Givans said that when he realized his wife's clothing was afire, he whipped blankets from the bed and wrapped them about her to smother the flames. William Bulmer, 4114 E. 10th St., a City fireman, and Arthur Bowman, a friend of the family, are standing by for possible additional iransfusions.

CARPENTER RESCUES TWO FROM CISTERN

Edmund Boldt, 41, of 1517 Orange St., a carpenter, was credited today with saving the lives of two women, both 63, who yesierday fell in 15 feet of water when a cistern collapsed. The accident occurred aft 217 E. Morris St., while Mrs. Lillian Scharfe, 1521 Orange St. and Mrs. Elizabeth Nieman, 217 | E. Morris St., were watching workmen repairing a house there. Mr. Boeldt heard their cries and rushed to their aid. He pulled them both out before they were injured.

‘BOOMPS-A-DAISY’ DANCE IS A DAISY

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Cal, A “(U. P).—“It’s called the bab Ips-a-daisy,” explained Peter Palmero, 43, grasping a male partner to Semon: strate the dance. Mr. Palmero slipped and fell with his partner dropping on top of him. Mr. Palmero went to the hospital with a compound fracture of the left leg.

NO MORE SMOKING--SO HE ENDS HIS LIFE

bert Marck, Broo florist, was told by his doctor. that he no longer could ~ smoke his pipe. Yesterday,

dead in his home, a suicide | hy iluminating gas.

TWO KILLED IN RIOT ‘MEXICO OITY, Aug. 5 5 (U. P.).

Outlook for improvement in operations next ‘week broug § tone into

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (U. P.).—Al-|

later; Mr. Marck was found |

DANZIG YIELDS T0 ULTIMATUM

FOREIGN SITUATION DANZIG—Danzig reraction of demand for free trade with Reich reported. CHUNGXING—Six Americans suffer shock in bombing raid; Chinese, a la Dutch, break dikes on 10 rivers. TOKYO—Army presses for alliance with axis. WASHINGTON—Treaty renewal with Russia seen as new slap at Japan. PARIS — Axis plot to weaken democracies charged.

LONDON, Aug. 5 (U. P.).—The Danzig ‘Senate today yielded to a Polish ulfimatum insisting upon retraction of a demand for the

{withdrawal of Polish customs .in-

spectors. from . the East Prussian frontier, it was learned here tonight. Poland had threatened to retaliate if its demands were not accepted by an unspecified hour tonight. ~The ultimatum was the climax of a dispute in which Danzig claimed that Polish customs officers, by withholding inspections of shipments in Danzig margarine and herring plants, were deliberateiy hampering Danzig exports to Germany. Danzig threatened to.open a free customs frontier into the German Reich and divert its trade from Poland to the Reich. Poland was given control of Danzig customs by

{the Versailles Treaty.

Japanese Seize Two Priests in U. S. School

By UNITED PRESS ' The Japanese, apparently in retaliation for Washington's denunciation of the trade treaty with Tokyo, turned their attention to Americans as well as British in China for abuse today. In Yochow, according to Chinese sources, Japanese troops forced British and American missionaries to evacuate a church and then demolished the building. In Peiping, plainclothes operatives of the Japanese-dominated provisional Government seized two priests of the American Catholic University. to obtain from them the (Continued on Page Three)

Turn Around!

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5 (U.P.).— The American Progressive Chiropractic Association decided today there is personality in the back, and that Loretta Young, the film star, has the 88 ost personable.

ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS DUE BY NIGHT ji o

Additions to Deficiency Bill.

FLOOR ‘NEARLY EMPTY

Everybody’s Ready to Go, But Social Security Is Debated.

WASHINGTON, Aug. § (U. P.).— Congress hit the homestretch of the adjournment drive today houses met at noon in

A few minutes later, conferees on the Third Deficiency Bill completed work on the measure and sent the final draft first to the House for approval.

The House conferees accepted:

‘most of the Senate increases in the bill, including $119,000,000 for the Commodity Credit Corp., which the House had turned down earlier. The Senate figure was approximately $190,000,000. The House Yoted $54,000,000.

Barkley Misses Election

First major task of the Senate was approval of the Social Security Act amendments conference report. Already approved by the House, the amendments freeze payroll taxes at present levels to save employers and employees an estimated $905,000,000 over the next three years. They also liberalize benefits by starting Federal old-age pensions next Jan. 1, instead of Jan. 1, 1942. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (Ky.) was hopeful of adjournment by 4 p. m., but no one

.{could predict the hour with certainty. He was prepared to offer the

sine die adjournment resolution bringing the session to an end as

soon as the Senate approves the

conference reports on the social security and deficiency bills. Senator Barkley cancelled an airplane trip to Kentucky in order to devote his full energy to the legislative situation. He had planned to leave at 5 a. m. this ynorning by

ballot in the Kentucky primary election, flying back in windup.

Many Congressmen Gone Home

There was little of the customary drama and color in the final session of the Congress. Many" members already had left for home. Vice President John Nance Garner had train reservations for Texas this afternoon.

years there was no crowded calen-

whipped through under urgent: last minute White House orders. Instead, both houses found their legislative slates virtually clear of measures, with only almost routine action on the social security and deficiency bills to be accomplished. Presidént Roosevelt marked the session’s end by foregoing his customary Saturday holiday from the executive offices and scheduling a long list of official callers, largely made up of Congressmen calling to

{bid him goodby.

He also was working on the stack of bills, mostly of minor nature, which has been piled up on his desk.

57 in House; 42 in Senate

Speaker William B. Bankhead brought the House to order at noon with 57 of the 435 member in the chamber. ‘The clerk immediately began reading a Presidential veto message disapproving a bill which would have granted another 'four-year period in which banks could terminate interlocking directorates. The Banking Act of 1935 gave a fouryear ‘period of grace, which Mr. Roosevelt said “would seem to be a liberal time.

final Sendte session to order at the same moment and only 42 of the 96

| Senators answered roll call.

Senator William H. King (D. Utah) presented the conference re« port on the. Social Security Act amendments. “Without = objection,” said Mr, (Continued on Page Three) :

NEW SCIENCE FAILS

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Aug. 5 (U. P.).—Harola Holt Jr. two years old, was lost today to medical scinece which took charge of him when it appeared that he had only two more weeks to live, and kept him alive almost five months. The child died last night at the hospital here where Dr. Alexander J. Chilko, using .a new method in deep therapy treatment; had almost

cured him of Wilm's Tumor, a kid-

ney growth occurring in infants and usually fatal. An intestinal obstruction was given as the cause of

death |e

BRITISH MAIL PLANE .ON SEA HOP TO U. S.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug. 5

ing ‘boat Caribou took off at 7 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) for ‘Montreal and New York. : + A specially equipped Handley-

Airport, Ireland, this fore it continued

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Conferees Accept

Both' érope of ' | quitting within a few hours.

plane for Paducah; Ky.. to cast his

In contrast to previous New Deal °

dar of last minute legislation to be

‘Vice President Garner called the

TO SAVE BOY’S LIFE

(U. P.).—Great Britain inaugurated trans-Atlantic’ air mail service to= day when the Imperial Airways fly=

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