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DAHL IS AMONG
20 AMERICANS
‘FREED IN SPAIN
Former Butler ‘Student Who Fought for Loyalists Heads for France.
WAIT FIRST U. S. SHIP
All Get New Clothes and Cigarets From Aids Of Embassy.
HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 15 (U. P.) —Aviator Harold Dahl and 19 other Americans, held prisoners by the Spanish Nationals since their capture during the civil war, arrived at San Sebastian, ‘near the border during the night and were expected to cross into France today. Most of the Americans were mem-
‘bers. of the Republican Interna-
tiondl Brigade. Lieut. Dahl of Champaign, Ill, and a former Butier University student, was a Republican aviator shot down and captured in July, 1937.. He was sentenced to death but reprieved. His case had attracted considerable attention because of the appeals of
“his blond wife, a cabaret singer, to - Nationalist and American author- , ities in his behalf.
An American Embassy attache met the Americans at San Sebastian and gave them new clothing After checking their papers he arranged for automobiles to bring them to France.
Weddell Won Freedom It was believed that most if not
all the Americans would be taken
directly ‘to a port and sent home on the first American steamship. Alexander W. Weddell, new American Ambassador to Spain, has interested himself in all Americans held prisoner by the Nationalists, and has made persistent efforts to effect their release. Lieut. Dahl had complained that the former U. S. Ambasador, Claude Bowers, a Ft. Wayne, Ind. native, had shown no interest in his welfare until after his return to]! America. Mr. Bowers was quoted | as saying that Lieut. Dahl was leading ‘the -*life' of Reilly” in Salamanca, where he was imprisoned, and that he could go into town from his ptison and drink beer at the cafes.
Ill Last Winter
In an interview with the United Press yesterday, Lieut. Dahl admitted he was an honor prisoner and had free run in the prison hospital and gardens but said ‘he was not permitted outside. Lieut. Dahl had lost 10 pounds during his . imprisonment and showed sighs of nervous strain. “If I don’t get out o fhere soon, I shall collapse,” he said yesterday. He was. confined to his bed by illness for six months last winter, but he said he was treated well and had better food than most residents of Salamanca. Upon his return to America, Lieut. Dahl may find another prison awaiting him. California authorities have sought - his custody on charges of check forgery several years ago.
NEW SQUALUS LIFT "SET FOR TOMORROW
OFF PORTSMOUTH, N. H,, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Navy salvagers today completed preparations for the second lift of the sunken submarine Squalus at 3 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) tomorrow. By 5 a. m., aided by the incoming tide, they expect to begin towing the $5,000,000 submersible and its
- cargo of 26 dead men toward a * point four to six miles nearer shore.
The timetable for the next step in the U. S. Navy's greatest salvage project was announced just before the Seawolf, virtually a sister ship of the Squalus, went down the ways at a private launching ceremony at
‘Portsmouth Navy Yard.
DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC ORDINANCE READY
A nordinance designed to change the flow of traffic in several down-
‘town intersections is to be .intro- ~ duced at the next City Council
meeting, Leroy J. Keach, Safety
. Board president, said today.
If the ordinance is passed, left-|s hand tulns will be forbidden to southwest traffic on Massachusetts Ave. at Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. Left-hand turns also will be forbidden to southeast traffic on Indiana Ave. into Ohio St. Chief Morrissey asked that the ordinance be passed before the State Fair Yraffic begins
next month.
ee HOG PRICES WEAKEN Hog prices pushed into new fiveyear lows at Indianapolis today as the market weakened still further.
| Quotations were /steady to 25 cents
lower, with most of the reduction in light weights. Top price was $5.85.
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Giddyap!! . .—By Talburt
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1939
NEW YORK MILK SUPPLY PERILED
Farmers’ Strike to Gain Boost ~ 0f 10 Cents.
UTICA, N. Y., Aug. 15 (U..P).— The Dairy Farmers’ Union today enforced a strike against milk shipments to New York City, the nation’s largest city. The union demanded higher prices for milk and blamed the “milk trust” for keeping the prices down. The strike was supported by the C. 1. O. The general organization committee announced that milk would be supplied to New York City hospitals and. to the city’s children.
Claims 15,000 Members
The union claims a membership of 15,000 producers in the vast milkshed comprised of upper New York and parts of Vermont and Pennsylvania which supplies’ the metropolitan area’s population of 7,000,000.
Union Enforces
All members were instructed to withhold milk from dealers until the price rises to $2.35 per hundred= weight for fluid milk. - The current price is $2.25. Archie Wright of Ogdensburg, N Y., union president, said picket lines would be established not only on roads and plants in the milk producing areas, but at plants in New York City as well,
State to Back Dealers
Laurance Clough, of ‘the State Milk Control Division, announced that the State would aid dealers who have complied with the Fed-eral-State marketing order, which governs the price paid to producers. He said, “We don’t believe the strike will be very serious because we don’t believe.enough farmers will join it.” In reply to that, Mr. Wright messaged acting Governor Charles Poletti, “is the Department of Agriculture a strike-breaking agency?” “This strike is a lawful and necessary action in the struggle of farmers for the right to live free from the oppression and tyranny of the mils trust,” Mr. Wright's message aid.
HOME-MADE RADIO STATIONS CHECKED
Evidence that three home-made radio stations are operating in Indiana without licenses may be presented to the Federal Grand Jury when it convenes here Sept. 6, U. 'S. District Attorney Val Nolan said today. Information regarding the alleged violation of the Federal communication laws was uncovered by FCC investigators, Mr. Noland said. He denied reports that the probe had any connection with a ‘spy hunt” in the State. The maximum penalty for opertaing a station
prisonment and $10,000 fine or both.
o/HIGH WEEDS BLAMED
FOR TRAFFIC DEATH
. GREENCASTLE, Ind, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Officials today blamed high weeds for the death of R. G. York, 48, of Roachdale, who died yesterday of injuries received in an automobile accident.
and two
without a license is two years im-|°
Mr. York is survived by his wife children.
Artist or Thief? Louvre Asking
ARIS, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Police, holding artist Serge Bogousslavsky after he returned the
| Watteau painting “L’Indifferent,” |
seemed uncertain what to do with him today. But art experts, though outraged that he had taken the masterpiece from the Louvre and kept it for two months, were inclined to lionize him as a most skilful retoucher of art works. A charge of theft was made against Bogousslavsky last night, several hours after he had gone to the law courts with his attorney and handed over the painting, wrapped in soiled paper. He explained that he had taken it from the Louvre as a protest because authorities had perpetrated what he considered an act of vandalism in repairing it. He had retouched it himself to restore it to its original condition.
GET $70,000 FROM BANK MESSENGER
Five Stage Daring Holdup at Long Beach, N. Y.
LONG BEACH, N. Y., Aug. 15 U. P.).—A messenger carrying funds to a postoffice was held up .by five men today and robbed of 8pPIoximately $70,000. The messenger, .James Drosden, from the National City Bank of Long Beach, was accompanied by a bank floorman and a policeman, who was stripped of his revolver when the bandits threatened him with a machine gun. An eye-witness, Patrick Breen, postoffice janitor, said three of the bandits, armed with revolvers, stepped from a dark sedan around the corner when the messenger, patrolman and floorman approached the postoffice. Two other men sat in the car, one at the wheel and the other in the rear, training a machine gun on the hold-up scene. ‘The bandits’ car, believed stolen from New York City, was reported
seen speeding east a few moments later.
G-MEN FIND NO GLUE IN WRECK
Close Inquiry and Release “Suspect but Railroad” Claims Sabotage.
RENO, Nev., Aug. 15 (U. P.).—The desert reaches of Nevada were searched today for a man or men who . might ° have deliberately wrecked the Southern Pacific’s streamlined train, City of San Francisco, and killed 23 persons late Saturday night. Transients by the score were
hamlet throughout the state. every case those so far questioned had proved to authorities they were innocent of the crime of sabotage charged by railroad officials.
The bodies of three additional victims—bringing the death toll in the $2,400,000 train to 23—were taken to Elko early: today. They ' were identified as Mrs. Henry Pepper Vaux, Rosemont, Pa.; her daughter, Susan, and Henry Speck, 35, white cook on the dining car. The wife
‘of the undertaker who brought in
the bodies said she was informed that two more bodies had been found in the debris, but this was not confirmed. Meanwhile a man with defaced ears widely sought throughout the state was questioned and released in nearby Sparks, railroad division point. He grinned at police and said “I knew youd get me,” but G-Men who questioned him said he had proved he was at Pyramid Lake, 300 miles from the scene at the hour the fast train plunged through a (Continued on Page Three)
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(The inside story of how Treasury agents broke Thomas J. Pendergast’s powerful Kansas City political organization and sent him to prison is told today for the first time. The following dispatch is based on confidential reports of Treasury intelligence agents who for four years followed a circuitous trail into one of the biggest tax scandals in recent years.)
‘By SANDOR S. KLEIN (Copyright, 1939, by United Press) ASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Late - on the evening of April 1, 1936, big-jowled Tom Pendergast stood in a shade-drawn room of" his home and presided over a ritual of dividing $330,000 in cash. He dipped again and again into a Gladstone bag and out of it he built up three piles of greenbacks. If he had applied simple mathematical formula to his division, it
would have: been sométhing like
“one for you, and one for you, and six. for me. nooo : ... Big Tom wasn't’ dealing in buttons. The Joey Was she final in-
picked up and questioned at every In
JACKSON NAMED AS TEMPORARY |
\NID TO MNUTT|
State Unemployment Chief Will Serve During Coy’s lliness.
TAKES JOB TOMORROW
Security Board Changes in ‘Interest of Economy’ Are Expected.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt announced today that he has appeinted Clarence A. Jackson, chief of the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Division, as his act-
- ling administrative assistant during
the absence of Wayne Coy.
Mr. Coy is in the Marine Hospital at Baltimore, where he underwent an operation for kidney stone yesterday. It will be at least six weeks before he returns to his post as Mr. McNutt’s assistant, the doctors said. He was reported “as well as.can be expected” today. Mr. Jackson will take up his-new duties here tomorrow. Mr. McNutt said that he has arranged with Governor M. Clifford ‘Townsend to give Mr. Jackson leave from his State duties both as Unemployment Compensation and Gross Income Tax director to take the Federal
job. Persuaded to Return
He located Mr. Jackson in Michigan last. night where he was about to begin a vacation and persuaded him to return, Mr. McNutt said. Mr. Jackson already had planned to resign his Indiana positions for a new post with the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, but this
lalso is to be held in abeyance, Mr.
McNutt explained. Announcement of his advent here was greeted with gloom by the Social Security Board for Mr. Jackson hes been one of the outstanding critics of the administration of Chairman Aruthr J. Altmeyer of the board. During his stay here many board administrative changes “in the interest of economy and effi‘teiency” may be effected, it was said. Publication here of pictures and|
J critical stories concerning Mr. Jack-
son’s pamphlet praising Mr. McNutt, Federal funds for which the Federal Security Administrator rescinded, was attributed to board insiders making an efors to keep Mr. Jackson out.
"High in Praise for Jackson
Mr. McNutt had originally intended to bring Mr. Jackson here for a permanent post but the offer of the better paying state Chamber of Commerce job changed that plan. Having originally appointed Mr. Jackson to the state tax post when he was Governor of Indiana, Mr. McNutt is high in his praise for his administrative ability. “I need some one to fill Mr. Coy’s place and I could not think of anyone better qualified,” Mr. McNutt declared.
Jackson Will Start East This Afternoon
Clarence Jackson, Indiana Unemployment Compensation a n d Gross Income Tax division director, was to leave for Washington this afternoon for his temporary post as assistant to Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt. He said he had just arrived in Michigan “for my first vacation in two years” when Mr. McNutt telephoned him an “SOS” for temporary help. Mr. Jackson returned to Indianapolis immediately to turn over his duties to Gilbert Hewitt, his assistant, who will act as director of the two divisions until Mr. Jackson's return.
McNutt or. F. D. R.,
McHale Forecasts MILWAUKEE, Aug. 15 (U. P.).— Frank McHale, Indianapolis, manager of Paul V. McNutt’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in 1940, said today it will be either “Roosevelt or MeNutt in 1940.” Mr. McHale conferred with several delegations of Wisconsin Democratic Party leaders in his downtown hotel suite. He said the campaign to obtain the Democratic Presidential nomination for the former Indiana Governor at present
looked “very favorable.”
settling a long-standing rate dispute between 137 insurance companies and the State of Missouri. Out of the $330,000, Pendergast kept $250,000 for himself and split $80,000 between two others. .
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UT the “boss” had made a fatal error. He neglected to cut in a fourth party, the United States Government. It took Treasury agents nearly four years to trip up Boss Pendergast, so well was he shielded by his henchmen and his friends. That is the picture revealed by the confidential files of the Treasury Intelligence unit. . The backdrop for the scandal that wrecked Pendergast’s Kansas City : political machine really was lowered six years before: the Federal -operatives stepped into the picture. The story Regan in De- | seluker, 13 1920. .
Entered as Second-Class Matter ‘at Postotffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Abolish Winter Next? Bridges Asks Roosevelt
‘Poor President,’ Says Dickinson, ‘He Can’t Get Credit For Doing Anything Right, Anymore.’
By UNITED PRESS OMMENT on \ President Roosevelt's change of the date for Thanks-
giving follows:
Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H.)—“President Roosevelt's changing of the day for the observing of Thanksgiving comes as a complete surprise because there had been no intimation of it in Mrs. Roosevelt's column. Presumably it was his own idea and incidentally he is one up on Uncle Ted now. Not even the imaginative mind of his illustrious cousin (Theodore - Roosevelt) could have conceived this. I wish Mr.
Roosevelt would abolish winter.
Millions of people can't enjoy their
vacations for thinking that in a few months they will again be paying
tribute to the fuel barons.”
Governor Leverett Saltonstall sy Massachusetts—“I shall hesitate
a long time before I make any ch ward a week seems to me to be more upsetting than advantageous.”
Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine—“This is the most foolish of all the foolish things ever proposed by the President. . . . Maine will ‘stay as it is and I guess the rest of New England will refuse to be regimented on its holidays. » 2 8 =» OVERNOR GEORGE D. AIKEN of Vermont—“If the President thinks the two holidays are too near together, it's a wonder he didn’t change Christmas. We aren't very quick to change here in Vermont unless it means real progress. I don’t see what can be gained by shifting Thanksgiving Day.”
Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island—“There appears to be some common sense in the plan.”
Governor Julius P. Heil of Wis-
consin—“It’'s too late to change it for this year.”
e. . . . To move Thanksviling for-
Bridges + ++ “No hint from First i Lady.”
Governor George A. Wilson of Iowa—“I'm in favor of having
Thanksgiving Day in years old.”
in Iowa Nov. 30 in keeping with a tradition 5
+» Former Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey—No more horse and buggy Thanksgiving Days. These are modern New Deal
days. samaquoddy and the half-cracked Hyde Park.”
Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan—
I'm for a WPA project to move Plymouth Rock to Pas-
Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to
“I can be just as
thankful on the 23d as on the 30th. Of course, some who know
football better than I might have good objections.
But it seems to
me that the President is deserving of a little sympathy. He has been criticized ‘so much at every turn it begins to appear the man can do
no right.”
BOBBITT FLAYS MNUTT RECORD Claims He Was Put in New
Post to Line Up the Relief Vote.
ROCHESTER, Ind. Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Arch N. Bobbitt, State Republican Chairman, today attacked the appointment of former Governor
Paul V. McNutt as Federal Security Administrator as “further evidence of the organized plan of the New Deal to perpetuate itself in office.” Mr. Bobbitt spoke at a meeting of Pirst, Second and Third District members of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at Lake Manitou near here, one of a series of gatherings .of tors and party workers to rally G. O. P. spirit for the 1940 campaign. Mr. Bobbitt charged that the New Deal planned to perpetuate itself by “taking advantage of the want and suffering of all those people who, through no fault of their own, are compelled to accept employment on WPA or some other Federal relief agency.”
“As the leader and head’ of the :
most vicious partisan political machine Indiana has ever seen,” he continued, “McNutt is ideally qualified to carry out this part of the New Deal probram. , . .” Mr. Bobbitt read a letter which he said was written by Mr. McNutt when he was Governor replying to a Mrs. Mary K. Jones, who had protested dismissal as an employee ‘of the State School for the Deaf. | The letter said: “The reason for your dismissal was not because ‘of your work, but because of the fact that you were a Republican. We have some 47,000 loyal Democrats
that are looking for work and if we|
were to leave Republicans in their jobs we certainly could not expect their help in the campaign to come. As a result, you were replaced by a Democrat.” At Indianapolis last night, it was decided that “fourteen-forty” will be the slogan of Hoosier Republicans at the state-wide G. O. P. rally
at the State Fair Grounds Sept. 23.
The Inside Story of How T-Men Trapped Pendergast
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Parking Fines Prove Cheaper!
ASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U. P.)—Now comes Miss Con‘stance Kiehel with a solution to the parking problem. Miss Kiehel, an economic analyst for the Social Security Board, has: figured out that it’s: cheaper to pay fines for parking in prohibited areas on downtown streets than to pay parking lot charges. She told the judge she parked deliberately in restricted areas when she couldn’t find a free spot, and didn’t mind paying the fines at all. She cited figures to show that her system costs her less than $1 a week. Police records showed Miss Kiehel’s parking system has cost her $66—fines on 22 tickets—within the past few years.
M'NELIS BARS MOVE T0 NOLLE. CHARGE
Warns Witnesses to Appear In: Traffic Case.
Judge John McNelis today refused to nolle a case in Municipal - Court when a deputy prosecutor, remark-
ing that it had been continued “eight:
or nine times,” recommended the action. None of the witnesses was in court. The case concerned Alva Winninger, 49, of 407 E. 33d St., arrested in connection with an accident that occurred on College Ave. March 12 in which Edward McGrail, American Legion national publicity director, and his son, Miles, 9, were injured. Winniriger was charged with being drunk. for Bo McNelis said: “This is one of the most vicious cases in the history of the Court. The State will not nolle it. Witnesses will be subpenaed and if they do not appear in Court they will be held in contempt. “I. wish Mr. Dickinson (Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson, International Association of Chiefs of Police traffic expert who recently criticized the Courts for leniency in traffic cases) were here to tell how to get witnesses into Court when they evidently don’t want to come. “This is the kind of case , the traffic experts should look in Judge McNelis set the case for
| Aug. 19.
WATER CONFERENCE CALLED FOR TODAY
An informal conference on legal phases of the proposed Indianapolis Water Co. purchase by the City was scheduled for this afternoon at City Hall. Mayor Sullivan called the conference to receive a repoft from Will H. Thompson, Utilities District on legal technicalities involved and an opinion as to. the possible effect of a “taxpayer” suit filed in Superior Court recently to enjoin the City from buying: the company at the present price. Besides Mayor Sullivan and Mr. Thompson, the meeting was to be
attended by City Controller James
E. Deery and Fred Bates Jo
U.S. MAY MARK THANKSGIVING TWICE IN 1939
Republican Governors Balk At Roosevelt's Change To Nov. 23.
TOWNSEND MAY CONCUR
Merchants, Including Those In Indianapolis, Like Earlier Date.
By UNITED PRESS Indications mounted today that the United States might celebrate two, Thanksgiving Days this year. Merchants generally were pretty happy about President Roosevelt's statement that he would advance he holiday from the last Thursday November to the next to last. ey said it would lengthen the Christmas shopping season. In Indianapolis, merchants and businessmen generally favored the ea, Murray H. Morris, Indianapolis Merchants Bureau manager, said the change in date would benefit the. public by giving four instead of ° three weeks for Christmas shopping, and would benefit the stores by enabling them better to serve the public. on
Townsend Unavailable
Governor Townsend was out. of the city but members of his staff said he probably would go along with the President .in proclaiming Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day. But New England traditionalists, Republican Governors, turkey farmers here and there and college Jootpal managers expressed proes It was the Governors who threatened the nation with a double holiday. Governor Arthur H. James of Pennsylvania and. Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, both Republicans, said their states would conform to the President’s plan. Governor Willlam H. Vanderbilt
| of Rhode Island said that although
he wanted to study the law before definitely deciding he thought there was “some common sense in the plan. ”» In 1894, Governor Sylvester Penoyer of Oregon, at odds with ‘President Grover. Cleveland, proclaimed’ a different Thanksgiving day for his state from the one President Cleveland had set.
Plymouth Is Concerned
Plymouth, Mass., the “birthplace of Thanksgiving” planned to place the question before the City Selectmen because “we in Plymouth consider the day sacred — merchants or no merchants.” Gleason L. Archer, counsellorgeneral of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, said, “If we aré going to change the date of Thanksgiving at all, let us return to the Pilgrim manner of determining it and set the date when the crops are all harvested.” : The Governors of Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont joined in assailing the plan and Governor * Julius P. Heil of Wisconsin old definitely that Thanksgiving will fall on Nov. 30 in his state.
Dickinson May Balk
Governor George A. Wilson of Iowa, also a Republican, said he understood it was the right of Governors and not of the President to set the date and that if he was right, the status quo would be maintained in Iowa. The chief legal adviser to Governor Luren B. Dickinson of Michigan said Michigan law permits the Governor to proclaim the day and that he did not believe Mr. Dickinson would concur with President” Roosevelt. Governor Heil said if the people . really wanted a change he would be in favor of it next year, but that it was too late this year. Mr, Roosevelt, in making his announcement at Campobello, New Brunswick, yesterday, said that starting in 1940 Thanksgiving would be the second Thursday in November. Mr. Roosevelt said there was no Federal law fixing the date and that there was nothing sacred about the last Thursday in November.
. Turkey Raisers Disturbed
In Rhode Island and Texas the President’s action disturbed turkey raisers who feared the change would interfere with the. fattening and preparation of birds for market. The large southern California turkey industry, however, is unworried by the new date. The ranchers simply will start feeding up their birds a week earlier, according to officials of the livestock and poultry division of the Los An« geles Agricultural Department. ‘College football managers, who already- have scheduled their annual “Turkey Day” games, were angry. “Perhaps,” said Graduate Manager Bill Ackerman of the University of California at Los An(Continued on Page Three)
TWO HOOSIER PUPILS ~ KILLED IN CRASH
LA PORTE, Ind. Aug. 15 (©. B). — The La Porte ‘County highway traffic toll rose to 15 for the year today with the deaths of Charles Oster, 16, and Ewell Hunt, 17, Rolling Prairie ‘High: School pupils. They ‘were fatally injured when . automobile young Hunt was crashed into a large oil truck by Charles Hull of Elkhart. Paul Lewallen Jr., 18, of Rolling Prairie, and Dolores Borshel, 15, and