Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1939 — Page 3

ISSUE BLOCKS WATER ACTION

Company Head Refuses to

Give City Guarantee Of Immunity.

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not give us that guarantee. He said he was simply selling us the stock in the Indianapolis Water Works

Securities Corp. (the holding com- ||

pany), the same as-any other stock sale. So we didn’t get anywhere,

Unwilling to. Take Chance

“They (Mr. Schutt and his repre-| sentatives) are positive the City can’t be held liable along certain Hes that we think may be possible.

instance, there’s: the. state|

gross income and Federal income taxes. There are other taxes that might affect us, including the capital gains tax, and we want to be absolutely assured the City won't have to pay any such tax. “They’ll give us plenty of assurances ‘but no guarantee.” Asked if the officials had discussed the possibility of asking the government to give an advance ruling on such taxes, the Mayor replied: “We talked over everything.” Attending the conference besides the Mayor and Mr. Schutt were Mr. Thompson; C. W. McNear, representative of the Geist estate in past negotiations; Fred Bates Johnson, his attorney; Joseph Daniels, water company attorney; Joseph G. Wood, City Council president and City Attorney Michael Reddington.

Federation Stand Reviewed

Mr, Wetter’s statement today was in support of an earlier statement,

signed by Federation officers, urg-|

ing the purchase. He said the question had arisen whether the Federation was behind the officers’ stand. “Th deration, on April 28, resolved that the City officials should be urged to consummate this purchase if it could be made under certain conditions,” Mr. Wetter said. : “Judson C. Dickerman, expert of the Federal Trade Commission, dis-' closed in a report to the City on June 30 that all these conditions were met by the pending proposal of sale.” The resolution, he said, resolved that “it is the consensus of the Federation of the Civic Clubs that the purchase of the local water system by the City would be a sound municipal enterprise if it can be acquired on such a basis and upon such terms that it will pay for itself from its own earnings without any pledge of the City’s general credit, based upon present water rates and present consumption without making any allowance for increased earnings resulting from improvement in general business conditions or growth and development of the City.”

Points to Dickerman Report

“The foregoing,” the resolution added, “is on the assumption that the amount of taxes now received from the Water Company by the various taxing units within the City limits will be turned into the general fund of the City as a profit from the municipal operation of the City.” ~ Mr. Wetter declared: “Misrepresentation of the position of the Federation and of officers who have attempted to tell the people of Indianapolis that failure to acquire the water works is costing them $2500 a day or nearly a million dollars a year, is too serious to go unchallenged. “These misrepresentations are wholly refuted by the text of the Federation's resolution of April 28 and by the report of Judson C. Dick-' erman, both of which have been ignored by the avowed opponents of municipal ownership in their presentation of misinformation concerning this proposed purchase.”

Hoffman Lists Objections

In his address, Mr. Hoffman summarized his objections to the purchase as follows: 1. No adequate survey of ° the condition of the physical properties. 2. The asking price is “grossly pxcessive.” 3. The present water rates are far in excess of a reasonable return and should be reduced by at least 14.51 per cent immediately. 4, Taxes of “$548,294 will be lost to various taxing agencies.” 5. “Our venture in the gas utility business has not been successful and it has not been operated in the public welfare.” “Finally,” he concluded, “it makes little difference whether this deal is a ‘golden opportunity’ nor whether it will cost us one penny or not, nor—whether or not the deal is good, bad or indifferent, nor whether or not it is slightly odorus, I am unalterably opposed to any deal that deprives our people of their American heritage by the dictatorial policies of our City Hall in preventing our people from voting on those important questions.”

1 The Gallup F Pol— Shows Young Democrats Place Rovsevelt Fi irst, Garner Second, McNutt Third as 1940 Choices

152 Per Cent Over Nation

Want President to Seek Third Term, 62 Per Cent Would Vote for Him.

| By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director. American Institute of Public Opinion

P INCETON, N. J, Aug. 18— e one burning: political is-. sue which the convention of Young Democratic Clubs failed to "put to a vote in its resolutions session last week was the question of ' a third term for President Roose-

velt. Today, as political leaders digest the strongly New Deal resolutions of the | Young Democratic Clubs, nation - wide surveys of the American Institute of Public Opinion reveal that a maJority of younger Democrats throughout the country favor sa third term for Mr. Roosevelt, although by no great margin. Polling a carefully selected cross-section of several . thousand Democrats between the ages of 20 and 29, the Institute asked: “Do you favor. a third term for President Roosevelt:” and “If President Roosevelt runs for a third term in 1940 will you vote for him?” Answers to the first question were:

- Favor Third Term .... 52% Oppose Third Term .... 48%

While such a vote does not indie |

AMERICAN INSTITUTE

| PUBLIC/OPINION

Young ‘Democrats . .

cate the division of opinion with= in the Young Democratic Clubs on the question, it does show how the much wider group of unorganized young Democrats in all . sections of the country regard the third term issue.

The young Democrats are more in favor of a Roosevelt third term than party voters as a whole, the survey shows. Asked the same question in a recent Institute survey, Democratic voters were 48 per cent in favor of a third term and 52 per cent opposed to one.

Equally interesting to po-

YOUNG DEMOCRATS _ | Favoring Third Term...52% | Oppesing ¥ Third Yom. 48%

. ideas of their own.

litical strategists are the . young Democrats’ answers to the question “If Roosevelt runs will you vote for him?” Sixty-two per cent of those with - opinions said “Yes.” Tirty-sigi per cent said 0.” -

. This is the same way more elderly Democrats answered the question in the recent Institute . survey. : 8 2 2

ARRED by their constitution

from considering resolutions for individual candidates, the

Youthful Less Sure Than Elders of Chief Executive’s Aim to ~ Try for Renomination.

Young Demouratic Clubs had nothing to say in their recent convention regarding favorites for 1940 in case President Roosevelt does not run. .° The Institute survey shows, “however, that like other Democrats throughout the country the youngest generation of Democratic voters favor Vice President Garner in the event Roosevelt is not a candidate. In second place young voters named Paul V. McNutt, newly appointed Federal Security Administrator. The votes of young Democrats are compared with those Stan Democrats in the following list: If Roosevelt is not a candidate in 1940, whom would you like to see elected President? : - Young All i Dems.. Dems. Vice President Garner Paul V. McNutt 16 Cordell Hull ... 15 - James A, Farley. 11 Harry L. Hopkins 4 Frank Murphy. 2 Others . 11 The survey shows one other interesting difference between younger Democrats and the party as a whole. While 49 per cent of all Democratic voters expect to see Roosevelt run again next year, only 45 per cent of the younger voters think he will run again.

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MEMPHIS BACKS CITY HATCH LAW

‘Boss’ Crump imp Backs eas Mayor Introduces Bill To Commission.

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T Quit Bund

Describes New Jersey Camp " Conditions, Denies Patriotic Aims.

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mission and said in effect to the Crump three-man majority on the five-man commission, “Well, you

approved it. Now let’s see you pass ity i The bill provides that city employees shall not take part in political activities, shall not make contributions to campaign funds, shall not solicit votes, haul voters to the polls or sell poll taxes.

Protects Employees’ Rights | It also provides that any em-

personal opinion of any candidate, campaign or issue and that he shall not be fired for exercising these rights. Memphis, where most of the poll taxes have been sold by city employees, including firemen and policemen, and where the machine reaches its tentacles into so many activities that to speak aloud against any machine public official is to invite certain retaliation, about the last place where anyone would expect a bill banning political activity to be enacted. Yet there it was, and there was the Mayor urging its passage; Whether or not Memphis will get a ‘Hatch Bill should be known in the next few days. And if it does, what an election there will be Nov. 9, when Memphians go to the polls to decide on a Mayor and four City Commissioners! The situation in Memphis is powerful evidence of the effect of the passage of the Hatch Bill on American political and civic life. For even Memphis citizens, supine for years under machine rule, have been deeply stirred by it. And the politicians, split among themselves, feel that they must respond to the new sentiment with proposals of reform.

HINTS ‘BIGGER GAME’ IN LOUISIANA PROBE

DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 18 (U. P.)— O. John Rogge, assistant U. S. Attorney General, asserted today that the Government has “just scratched the surface” in its investigation of Louisiana political scandals. “Bigger men are yet to be indicted,” he said. “Graft is so widespread in Louisiana that the men involved have lost all regard for money,” he ‘added. “I saw Richard Leche, former Governor, pull a thousand dollars in bills out of his pockets like they were tobacco cou-

pons. ”

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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1938 teense + 89 35

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————————————— MEETINGS TODAY Salesmen’s Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash-

SRY Club, luncheon, Columbia CI or Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. Reserve Officers Association, luncheon, Board cf Toads, . MEETINGS TOMORROW Bankers Life, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

ne ghio Oil Ce., dinner, Severin Hotel, 6:30

» m. otor Froleht, sales meet hy oe Bayerin a ter, i a.m. fancheon,

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at St. Vincent's. Ty eis. at C ty,

jany, Neathy Taderwood, ai ony, Alberta i. at = Mable Ray, at Soldinan. el ely at 1714 8 orge, Gladys Holden, 2 1920 Blaine ee, Betty Rains 219 5 summits. John, Virgie DE at 1528 G Bays John, Ruth Evans. St. Vincent's. James, 4 Ferridge, at City. Harrison, Florence: Grigsby, at 877 W.

games Ernestine Stanley, at 2442 Parker. Fr Edna Purvis, at 1935 Ne George, Mabel Greaige, at 1731 E. South-

ne, Alice Border, at 1735 English. . em Mabel Poindexter, at 2237 Pleas. Jessie, Martha Elliott, at 754 W. New|2

DEATHS Sueodore A. Sperry, 68, at Long, leukeEiizabeth Kershner, 84, at City, fractured

Shields, 35 at 535 N. Keystone, tuber elo sis. alt, 73, at 1133 = Mecardio vascular renal disei Hewitt, 64, at 852 Torbett, %ronchopneumonia.

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.

Edwin Schaad, 21, of 2645 Wr Annabelle Me So 20, "ey 1832 N Jesse Smit 220 N. Temple; Mary Snoeberget, Di 8 89 32 N. Giadst J us! iE 29, of 425 E. ase Yo. rk; Dorothy Meub. 33, of $39 N. Central Court. Frederick > ratten, ttica, New |N:

legate; arding.

N. Missourt; nate "Tipton, Co e.

| songs?”

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or 2 cents if we were caught talking English.” “We had to know the German national anthem and the Horst Wessel song,” she said. ‘Did they teach you American history or ideals, or American asked . Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J). “No,” she said. ‘Where they critical of American history and ideals?” asked Committee Counsel Rhea Whitley. “Yes,” she said. - “They were always critical of this form of gov-

ployee shall be free to express hisiernment.. They said it was led by

one minority.” “What was that minority?” ‘The Jews.”

Boys Used Goose-step

She said the girls of her group were taught to “go to the people and tell them the advantages of Naziisin.” Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn, in his testimony yesterday, said repeated-

S|ly that the Bund is an American

group and interested in American institutions. Mr. ‘Whitley asked Miss Vooros if that statement is

true “Tt is false,” she said. “They

LA FOLLETTE FLAYS EMPLOYER MINORITY

WAUSAU, Wis, Aug. 18 (U. P.).— U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette told the Wisconsin Federation of Labor convention last night that the chief problem of modern industrial society is a “powerful minority of employers” which is seeking “to drive a wedge between organized labor and the rest of the community.” “This minority group of antiunion employers,” he said, “has made use of every device ranging from labor spies, strikebreakers and violence at one extreme to the more subtle but just as effective instrument of expensive. propaganda designed to discredit unionism and turn the general public against the workers.” He appealed for co-operation between farmers, wage earners and business and professional men.

“OFFICIAL WEATHER

eee BY U. 8S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Partly cloudy; probable showers tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, slightly warmer. Sunrise ...... 4:95 | Sunset ...... 6:38 TEMPERATURE —Aug. 18, 1938—

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. .... 20.97 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a

ts SPrecipiation since Jan Excess since J 1

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MIDWEST WEATHER tain a-—Partly cloud; robabl: te red Showers: iin east and 80 ’ uth o rtion tonight and In extreme South por Sy yr morrow morning; slightly warmer in west and central ‘portions tomorro Illinois—Partly cloudy, at in southeast and extreme south portio tonight; tomorrow fair and somew; warmer. Lower Michigan-.Parily cloudy tonight nd prow, robably scattered showers in southeas extreme east-central portions tonight: I little change in temperature. Ohio— Mostly J cloudy, scattered showers tomorrow south portion tonight; not much Ry in temperatur Romtucyy- part) 11 2} Sjoudy. scattered showers tomorrow tion to ight: fot in, ox Thange hy emperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 AM Station Weath.

Amarillo, Tex. ........Clear Bumarck. N. D. C!

Denv Syoue Dodge. city, Kas. Helena. Mont. : Jacksonville, Fla

m Be ates vaasns ..PtCldy npls.-8t. Paul ......C obile, Ala. New Orleans

Because It Is

{Immoral,’ Girl Testifies

said the Nazi form of government was the only form that could save us.” She said the boys of the Bund used the goose-step on their marches. ‘Then she testified of a trip to Germany in the fall of 1937 in a party of 15 boys and 15 girls. She said they were taken to Germany to “receive instructions in Naziism so that we could come back and

spread Nazi propaganda in the

youth movement.” / “We were told not to say anything about it, not even to our parents and to say it was a pleasure trip,” she said. Members were told not to get together on the boat or to wear their uniforms until after the sailing, “for fear that the reporters might get wise,” she said.

TWO PROJECTS HERE ARE CITED 10 U.S.

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firm. Mr. Eickhoff declined any comment on the matter. Mr. Nolan said he would like to see the correspondence between Rep.

Boehne and Mr. Jennings. Government agents contend that the Ritter Ave. project failed to meet WPA regulations because a major portion of the property affected was owned by an individual or realty firm.

Subdivisions Scanned -

Besides the Ritter Ave. extension, projects investigated include improvements at three subdivisions near Southport — Homecroft, Derbyshire and Walnut Hills, One of the street improvements ended in

'|an orchard.

After his tour yesterday, Mr. Nolan said: “In my opinion, some of these improvements were unwarranted under WPA regulations, but it remains to be seen whether the law has been violated.” The Ritter Ave. probe for WPA was conducted by Mr. Ryszeleski, who uncovered the Kokomo WPA irregularities resulting in the conviction of former Mayor Olin R. Holt and several others. Mr. Nolan said Mr. Ryszeleski began the investigation June 26 and completed it July 29, submitting his report Aug. 5. The subdivision projects were investigated between June 12 and 24 by Mr. Ryszeleski, Richard ThompJon, N. R. Rogers and E. F. Ronnerg. Mr. Thompson, chief of the Chicago regional WPA investigating staff, conferred with Mr. Nolan. yes-

Major Quiz Ended

While they have completed their ‘major investigation in Marion County, the WPA agents are believed to be investigating reports that WPA labor had been used to build fences and driveways at private homes, filling in privately owned lots and other unauthorized work. One of the investigators said he had found a record showing that a contractor had given commissioners 400 barrels of cement for use on the s| Ritter ‘Ave. extension in an effort to reopen the project, but that com-

'| terday.

Bo had stored the cement. t

DELAYS PAWNSHOP ORDINANCE ACTION

Police Chief Michael F. Morris-

.| sey today was restrained from en-

forcing a City ordinance regulating:

.| pawnbrokers by ‘a temporary re-

straining order granted by Federal’ Judge William H. Holly at Chicago. The restraining order will be in effect until Sept. 6, ‘When a hearing may be held. The order sought by T. Ernest| Maholm, attorney. The ordinance regulates hours that pawnshops may be open, requires thumbprinting of persons pawning articles and prohibits acceptance of articles from intoxicated persons or known thieves. Mr. Maholm had objected to the

69 MumbpHnting = Section of he ordi55 nance on msl!

INNER NEW DEAL TALKS 3 TERM

Roosevelt Himself Seems to Be Giving Assent to Creating ‘Demand.’

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dent run again in answer to a “widespread demand.” The strategy of the third-term agitation is to create the impression that there is a “demand” by keeping the subject constantly alive. The aim is to throw up a constant smoke screen in the eyes of other Democrats who aspire to the nomination. By keeping the question open as to whether the President will seek another nominatioh, the New Dealers seek to hold off other aspirants, for the latter would be embarrassed in getting actively in the field, especially those who are closely identified with the Administra-

tion, as long as there is a possibility of the President running. °

1940 Control Is Aim

By this means, it is hoped to hold control in the 1940 convention, either for ‘Mr. Roosevelt's renomi-

candidate of his choosing. Bob Jackson is himself a living exponent of the reason why the New Dealers are whooping it up for a third term. A boom was floated for him several months ago as a likely. successor to Mr. Roosevelt. The idea was to nominate him for Governor of New York as the first step. The idea didn’t take with New York leaders, nor with Postmaster General James A. Farley, who wields the whip in New York as state chairman. So the Jackson boom fell flat. A boom was floated for Harry L. Hopkins, now Commerce Secretary, That failed.

Only McNutt and Douglass

The New Dealers ran out of prospective candidates, :and none appears on the horizon, unless it be Associate Justice William O. Douglas df the Supreme Court, still favored by some New Dealers. Mr. Justice Douglas resents the suggestions, it is said. That leaves only the President himself to perpetuate the New Deal —and, incidentally, the New Dealers—unless Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, proves himself satisfactory to the New Dealers. Some do not look upon him favorably as the Roosevelt successor, though he is in a good strategic position now, and he may so improve his position that he will win the nomination anyhow. Mr. Jackson in his Springfield speech seemed to close the door, as far as the Administration is concerned, to a compromise with the “conservative wing” of the party, for he deplored talk of a “middle-of-the-road candidate.”

Conservatives Active Too

A counter-attack by the conservatives and moderates and opponents of a third term is beginning and has some of the earmarks of a planned drive, like that of the New Dealers, which probably will increase in the coming weeks. First came the announcement by House Democratic Leader Sam Ray. burn (Tex.) that he favored Vice President John Nance Garner for the 1940 nomination. Then Sena‘tor James Byrnes (D. S. C.), one of the Democratic leaders and usually placed in the moderate school, Rass gloomily of Democratic prospects in 1940 because of the split in the party. Now comes Senator Frederick: VanNuys (MD. Ind), to claim that there are 15 Senators, including himself, who will not support the President if he is nominated for a third term.

PUBLIC SERVICE CO. ~ BOND ISSUE .0. K.D

The Indiafia Public Service Commission today granted the Public Service Co. of Indiana permission to issue $38,000,000 in refunding bonds and $10,000,000 in debentures. The company’s petition which has

[CIVIL LIBERTIES

Politicians Feel |

| parked on the streets.

nation or for the selection of a|

UNIT MAY PROBE

“JOB EVICTIONS’ |

Indiana Group Will Decide Monday on Action in Johnson County.

cials will decide Monday on the advisibility of acting in behalf of out-

evicted in Johnson County’s campaign against itinerant job seekers. Mrs. Frances Zinkin, State C. L. U. secretary, said she would investigate

Indianapolis next week from her Fountaintown home. Seventeen itinerants still - were held at the County Jail in Franklin, Ind, . today. Sheriff Nelson W.

Pangburn said they will not be released for several days.

Many Stay in Town

While the bulk of laborers and their- families who came here to work in tomato fields or canneries have left, many still loitered- about Franklin streets. Scores of autos bearing out-of-state license plates, most of them from Kentucky, were

Railroad detectives reported that “the situation is still very bad down along the line.” - They said freight riders are being caught at many points between here and points in Kentucky and that arrests for trespassing will continue, Seventeen itinerants were held in the County Jail and will not be released for several days, Sheriff Nelson W. Pangburn said. “We can’t let up.on the drive,” he said.

nessman claimed today that the people of Kentucky are “sore at everything from Indiana” and are retaliating for the action of Johnson County authorities.

Truck Is Tied Up

The businessman said that one of his trucks, loaded with machinery, is tied up in Kentucky in direct retaliation. ! Kentuckians resent in, particularly being called “poor whites and. trash and moochers,” the businessman said. Sheriff Pangburn had termed many of the 800 to 1000 migrant workers as “moochers.” “An Indiana license plate on an auto or truck down there is an invitation be insulted,” the businessman said. “It is nearly impossible for any man to go into a town and not violate any ordinance. Ordinarily courtesies are extended to visitors, but theyre not doing it down there.”

Refer to Michigan

Kentuckians, he said, say that for every one person from their state in Michigan automobile centers, there are 10 from Indiana. “They point out,” he continued, “that if Michigan should practice on Indiana what Indiana is practicing on Kentucky, we might find the shoe pinching the other foot.” He said that a Kentucky attorney said he “thought this was outdoing Hitler just a little bit and that the headlines looked more like news from Europe than from the free United States.”

Gives Other View

“The people I talked to down there say the people from Kentucky up here hunting work ought to be congratulated a little bit,” the Dugger man said. “They point out that it is rather customary down there to sit down and ask the state and county government to feed you and that for long years it has been customary in this country to migrate with the harvest and work of that sort. “Worst of all, they dislike the insult. They have a feeling that the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky are just as high in order of intelligence as the people of Inana.”

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New Jersey to Act Against ‘Invasion’

. TRENTON, N. J, Aug. 18 (U. P.). —Governor A. Harry Moore said today he would undertake some action to curtail the seasonal migration of Southern farm workers to the pothto flelds of New Jersey. His announcement followed numerous complaints from authorities and residents in the potato-raising eareas that the annual influx was creating serious relief, law enforcement; labor and health problems.

FT, WAYNE WOMEN SUPPORT FAMILIES

Ww. INGTON, Aug. 19 (U. P.). —The | Women’s Bureau of the Labor partment reported. today 10.5 per cent of the working women in Ft. Wayne, Ind., were the sole support of their families. A pamphlet entitled “Employed

Bureau of Labor Statistics ‘in Ft Wayne, Bridgeport, Conn, and Richmond, Va. In Bridgeport, the study showed that 10.3 per cent of the working women were the sole support of

bread winners in Richmond.

the two northern cities, six were single, two were married and living with their husbands, and two were separated, widowed or divorced; in Richmond, only five were single, three were married, and two were widowed, separated or di-

vorced.

DROWNS IN FISH "POND LA PORTE, Ind., Aug. 18 (U. P.). —Roger Travis, 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Travis, drowned in 12 inches of water in a small fish pond in the yard of a neighbor near here today. His mother found him after a 15-min-ute search but efforts to revive him with a: pulmotor failed.

TRUCK HURLED INTO crown

BERKELEY, Cal, Aug. 18 (U. P.). —A mail truck was{struck by a ted to a crowd

State Civil Liberties Union of-|

of-state tomato pickers arrested. or|

the situation when she arrived in|

A prominent -Dugger, Ind., busi-|

Women and Family Support” sum-|-marized results of the survey made| by the Women’s Bureau and the .

families and that 13.9 per cent were : Of every 10 employed women in}.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18 (U, P). —Rochelle Hudson, movie actress, and Hal Thompson, ‘scenarist, were honeymooning in| Mexico to--day, according to word reaching friends in Hollywood. Jack Mul-’ cahy, a film press agent, said the actress telephoned him Tuesday night from Ensenada, Mexico, and, said she and Mr. Thompson ‘had just been married.

GOERING HINTS INTERVENTION

Cannot Keep Order in ‘Silesian Area.

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Poles living in Danzig to jail terms for sabotage and instigation of farmers to economic sabotage against the Free City’s Government. Rumania Protests A secondary dispute arose in Europe today when Rumania protested sharply to Hungary against a border clash in| ‘which’ two Rumanian soldiers were reported killed. The incident sharpened the friction between the two countries over Hungary's apparent desire to recover the territory in Transylvania which Rumania acquired after the World War. There were official denials at Berlin and Budapest that Count

‘Stephen Csaky, Hungarian Foreign

Minister, had gone to Berchtesgaden to see Fuehrer Hitler or to Munich to see Foreign inister Joachim von Ribbentrop about that incident or a common policy in case of war. But today Count Csaky took a special plane from Munich to Rome. It was therefore presumed that he had seen the German leaders despite all the flurry of denials and that he was to see Italian feaders today. =. ~British Boycotted'

In the Orient, the anti-British campaign was intensified. ‘The Japanese Domei News Agency reported that a boycott had been declared on British goods at Kaifeng, important commercial center. All goods not sold by Sept. 30 will be confiscated, Domei said. Great Britain hinted that she favors reconvening the 1937 Brussels conference * of Nine-Power Treaty signatories when she informed Japan that the question of Chinese national currency, raised by Japan in the negotiations over the Tientsin blockade, cannot be considered by the two powers alone. She said other signatories of the treaty must be considered. The Brussels conference adjourned without taking any action to condemn Japan as an aggressor in China, It was reported today that Great Britain would make an export credit loan of $14,050,000 to China. Japanese Army spokesmen said at Shanghai that new orders had been issued to Japanese troops that all Americans “who behave properly”

STATE OFFERED

DISASTER FUND OF a

Accept Money Through WPA Giver,

| acceptance of an fler making a $1,500,000 WPA fund available to

Indiana for relief in disasters was expected today. i The proposal, drafted under tke. new Relief Act, calls for state sponsorship, but does not require. the state to match the WPA fund or any part of it which.might be used. ' The offer, the first of its kind proposed in the state, was to be submitted to the Governor by State WPA administrator John K. Jennings. He said the proposal was the result of a conference with ' state officials. ]

Available in Disasters

If the Governor gives his. Sipect . ed sanction the proposal will bs submitted immediately to Federal WPA officials for approval. The money ‘would. be available. to provide temporary relief to disaster victims and for reconstruction of areas devastated by: fire, flood: or. storm. : Under terms of the offer, the state? WPA administrator would have. atithority to determine _ “when an emergency exists, "Mr. Jennings: said. He then would telegraph Federal officials for approval.

WPA Grants Restricted

The WPA cannot make * cash grants in aid such as the Red Cross and other relief agencies, but would. be permitted to set up. temporary ~ shelters, aid in evacuation work and - supply both labor and materials for: reconstruction. Under the Relief Act, the fund could not be replenished when exe hausted except through intervene tion of the President or Federal WPA Administrator. The state at present has no means of providing large-scale ; funds for disaster relief except by ! action of the Legislature.

CAPEHART PLEADS FOR JOB SECURTY

Times Special DEPUE, Ill, Aug. 18 —Prophesy= ing “communism, or some others sort of ‘ism’ in this nation” if mile* lions dependent upon the Governe ment were not placed back in -pri=. vate employment, Homer Capehart,. Washington, Ind, industrialist, | urged a return to “normal life’ be~ 3 fore an audience of Bureau County: Republicans here yesterday. ~~ - Mr. Capehart lashed out against “made work” and said that a. re<> turn of 12 million unemployed per= sons to private industry was the one * path leading to a return of prosperity. “We must find security in the form of jobs in private industry,” the speaker said. “But not at the: expense of liberty, freedom and personal opportunity.” Be

N.Y. FAIR CUTS COSTS BY $4500 A DAY,

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (U. P)— A new retrenchment program- has’ cut operating expenses of the : World’s Fair by $4500 to $5000 a’ day, it was announced today. More than 50 employees, most -of them high-salaried executives, their assistants and secretaries, resigned or were dismissed, and several departments were merged. Fair officials estimated that the economies would save $320,000 be tween now and the closing date, Oct. 30, and that further economies would bring the total to $500,000. Failure of attendance to come up

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