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Ri alry, yes! but no hard feelings were there between J ndianapolis (left) and Herman G. Boles, Franklin, . candidates for the job as southern vice commander of the

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Indiana Department, American Legion, now in convention at Bloominfin The election is tomorrow and both are campaigning.

TW SEEK POST AS COMMANDER

‘Peace by Co-operation’ Is Urged by McNutt at Memorial Service.

Times Special - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 21.— Indiana | Legionnaires, 4000 strong, will stage the greatest show of their 21st convention here this afternoon —the annual parade. As the veterans prepared to march to the tunes of -seores of yflands, there was behind the scenes a vigorous campaign by two candidates for the | state commandership to succeed Harold A. Shindler, Newburg. Leading candidates for election at the closing session tomorrow are Ray - Townsley, Danville businessman, and George Huish, East Chicago newspaper publisher, Meanwhile, Gary and Ft. Wayne leaders were trying to “sell” their cities as ideal spots for the 1940 convention.

Isolation Held Perilous

Bells of Forty and Eight engines were silent and merry-making eased as the veterans paused yesterday for) the annual memorial service at which Paul V. McNutt, former local, state and national commander, pleaded for “peace by co-operation.” Reiterating his stand against American isolation in the event of war, the Federal Security Agency Administrator declared that absolute isolation [for this country during a European| conflict would mean “an upheaval almost as great as war itself.” “Co-operative peace” is more prac tical than “extreme isolation” ‘in keeping this country out of war, he said. Urges ‘Co-operative Peace’

“Absolute isolation would mean trebling the size of the United States Navy and Army and abandonment of many lucrative markets. . ' “Extreme isolationists would draw 8 line around the new world . . ‘and reorganize it on a basis of, self- . sufficiency, but they fail to consider that the | resources of this hemi‘sphere are an integral part of the economic life of the old world.” citing that Indiana University had broken a precedent by turning over ‘§ts halls and facilities to the Legion, (Continued on Page Three)

TROOPS BEATEN IN | N.Y. MILK DISPUTE

.| UTICA, N. Y., Aug. 31 (U. P). — Clashes in New York's strike-torn dairy section today reswited in the wounding of one farmer, injuries to two State Troopers and high prop-

erty damage. Charles ‘Anderson, 30, was wounded seriously when 500 pickets and guards battled at.the Heyvelton Sheffield [Producers Milk Station near Canton. At Syracuse, 19 strikJrs attacked a milk truck and beat Sergt. Howard Stellicy and Trooper

Jack Doyle.

~NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U. P)— The Dairy Farmers Union offered ' today to supply consumers directly with milk for the duration of the New Yor milkshed strike which has cut the metropolitan area's supply almost in half. The offer was made by ‘Archie ‘Wright, president of the union, just before he went into conference with Mayor F. H. La Guardia and all groups involved in the milk tieup.

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Six Drown in Gale at Sea

R= BEACH, N. H., aud 21 (U. P.).—A tragedy which overtook a Sunday deep-sea fishing party was revealed here today when the bodies of six persons— including - sweethearts who were to have wed next month—were washed ashore within sight of the submarine Squalus salvage,scene. The six apparently had drowned after gale-lashed seas capsized their 22-foot cabin cruiser. The victims were Ralph, Pryor, 55, Dover, owner of the boat; Miss Ethelyne Cutler, 18, Newmarket, Pryor’s cousin; Walter Hargraves, Newmarket, her fiance; Clarence Yeaton; 48, Dover; Joseph Wojnar, New Boston; Frank Blant, New Boston.

JENNINGS OUTLINES NEW DEAL FOR WPA

Emphasizes Changes Under New Act to Aids Here.

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A new deal for Indiana's WPA was outlined today by Administrator John K. Jennings to about 50 regional officers, some of them summoned here from their vacations. As he opened the two-day parley in the Claypool Hotel, Mr. Jennings was emphatic about these points: . 1. That for no reason, either because of pressure from outside or for project expediency, shall anyone furloughed after 18 months of continuance service be ' reinstated out of turn. 2. That employment officers must know the labor pool intimately, and the capabilities of individual workers under their supervision, or they must step aside for some one who does. - 3. That the WPA philosophy has changed with enactment of the 1939 Act and it no longer feels obligated

-/to give continuous employment to

individuals, but relative need will be an important factor. After squaring away on those broad principles that have been changed- by the new law, Mr. Jennings and his divisional and regional officers went into divided sessions on technical aspects of admin. istet ing the law. Jénnings wds especially em- | (Continued on Page Three)

GIRL, FATHER DROWN

AT OHIO RIVER DAM

' CANNELTON, Ind, Aug. 21 (U. P.).—When Virginia Sturgeon, 12, fell .off an Ohio River dam near here ‘yesterday, her father, Clarence Sturgeon, 37, dived in after her. Both drowned in eight feet of water. Their bodies were recovered.

GOSHEN, Ind. Aug. 21 (U, P).—|

of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Miller, wandered from his parents near here yesterday, fell into a small pond and drowned in 18 inches of water.

WEISSMULLER AND SOCIETY GIRL WED

NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U. P). — Johnny Weissmuller, actor and swimming star, splashed through his usual routine in the World's Fair Aquacade last night a few hours after his marriage to Beryl Scott, San Francisco society girl. They were married at 1:25 a. m. yesterday -in nearby Garfield, N. J. Mayor John N. Gabriel performed the ceremony. Sherman Billingsley, night club operator, was best man. A score of persons, most of them performers in the Aquacade, witnessed the ceremony.

FIRE DAMAGES FACTORY LAWRENCEBURG, ‘Ind., Aug. 21

$10,000 today due to a fire which wrecked the Oblen Bishop saw factory. The blaze was caused by the backfire of a gas unit which ignited oil tanks in the hardening depart-

Deaths. 16 me

Atlee Jay Miller, 16 months old son

(U. P.).—Damage was estimated at

Looking Over County Financial Requests

Budget, budget, whao’s got the 1940 budget?

The Marion County

Council had it today in informal

session with twe County officials who were explaining their requests. Left to right in the picture are George Kincaid, John H. Lohss, John N. Hughes, Joseph Tynan, chief deputy recorder and (far side of

table) William N. Harding, George treasurer.

INCREASE ASKED IN CITY BUDGET

Estimates Up $179,323 but, Rate Is Expected to Remain at $1.30.

A 1940 Civil City budget with requests totaling $8,040,691.51, an increase of $179,323.84 over the current budget, will be submitted to City

Council tonight, City Controller James E. Deery announced today. " The budget, despite its increase, will require a tax levy of $1.30, the same as the current levy. At the same time, County Councilmen began informal hearings at the Court House on County departmental budget requests. The . hedrings are merely in preparation. for the formal sessions starting probably next week, but from the questions asked by councilmen of department heads, it was indicated that substantial cuts would be made in the requests.

Expect Revenue Increase

Increases in miscellaneous . revenue, working balances and the Indianapolis assessed valuation account for the tax levy remaining the same despite the increase in the Civil City budget requests. : Mr. Deery estimated that miscellaneous revenue for the balance of 1939 and all of 1940 would total $1,531,196.72, which, he said, was a ‘considerable. increase” over the revenue estimated in preparing the current levy. . Working balances, estimated at $186,061.66 at the end of 1939, represent .at least an 80 per cent increase over balances at the end of last year, which were applied to the current budget.

$50,000 From Utility

The total to be raised by tax levy to finance the Civil City next year was estimated at $6,669,139.30, compared to $6,638,762.34 this year. On the basis of new assessed valuation for the City, 1 cent in the levy next year will raise $51,066.93, an increase of $25.55 cents over the amount raised by the current valuation. Meanwhile, it was revealed that the direct of the Citizens Gas & Coke tia week voted to give the City $50,000 next year in lieu of taxes. A similar amount was paid into the City general fund this year and was included in preparation of the current budget.

State Refunds Less

A 10 per cent drop was estimated in special taxes from the State, and gasoline tax collections, payable next year, were estimated at $635,000, approximately the amount received this year. Savings in interest and principal {Conuinued on Page Three)

firm, all in one indictment charg-

Shushan, Waguespack, Newman,

Sadlier,

McNutt Has Pole Position

council president, and Albert O. Koeslers, chief deputy

In 1940 Race, Stokes Says

Only Roosevelt Believed in M

ore Strategic Spot, but Some

New Dealers Still Are Suspicious.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times 8 Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Of al

1 aspirants for the 1940 Democratic

Presidential nomination—unless Franklin D. Roosevelt be included in this category—the most strategically located at this time seems to be Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator.

7 MORE INDICTED IN LOUISIANA SCANDAL

Oil Gonservation Official

~ Commits- Suicide.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 21 (U, P). —The Federal Grand Jury returned three new indictments against seven men today close on the suicide last night of Dr. J. A. Shaw, who had charge of conserving the State's vast oil resources. Six of ‘the men were indicted on charges of using the mails to defraud and one, former President James ‘Monroe ‘Smith of Louisiana State University, with evading $5253 in income taxes. Indicted were: Abraham L. Shushan, former Huey Long lieutenant and president of the Orleans (New Orleans) Levee Board; H. W. Waguespack, former member of the Levee Board; Henry J. Miller, prominent accountant; Robert Newman, socialite nior member of Newman ‘& Harris & Co. investment banking house, and Norvin Trent Harris, her member of the investment

ing use of the mails to defraud in 5 B 3 485,000 Levee Board refunding eal. Dr. Clarence Lorio, State Senator of Baton Rouge and a former intimate of Huey Long, on Charges of using the mails to defraud in connection with an alleged deal to get the Capital Electric Works a contract with L. S. U. in return for half the profits ($12,600). The Government charged that

Harris and Miller divided $398,220 among themselves after executing the refunding deal. The indictment |; charged the checks had gone through the mail. Dr. Shaw had: been concerned with previous indictments. ‘He was castigated Thursday by a Federal judge in Dallas for his part in al-' lowing hundreds of thousands of galions of Louisiana oil to enter interstate trade illegally, He had not been indicted.

Hebenstreit, Times Award

Winner, Sel

Aviation Scholarship Means

Engineering Course for Tech Graduate.

William Hebenstreit, winner of |: The Indianapolis Times’ Aviation |; Scholarship Competition, today se- :

lected Purdue University, where he will take an engineering course.

* Young Hebenstreit will be 18:

years old in October. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clem J. Hebenstreit, 841 N. Sherman Drive. He was graduated High School in June and ranked 124th in the class of 1275.

The winner was selected from a |i list of nearly 100 contestants by a ||

committee composed of Luther L. Dickerson, Indianapolis Public Librarian; Carl Reynolds of the Allison Engineering Co., and Myron Green of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Scholarship, character and ability to carry through in the field of aviation were taken into consideration oy the judges.

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hear a soul” out E | | Security Administrator Paul McNutt

. Mr. McNutt, ex-Governor of Indiana, ex-High Commissioner to the Philippines, is settling himself down comfortably in his job with the New Deal, darting off occasionally for a speech here and there, while his Presidential campaign manager, the rotund Frank McHale, is busily trying to sell the McNutt stock to he, politicians across the country. : surprise that accompanied ¢ appointment of Mr. McNutt, an active Presidential candidate and

|persona non. grata to Postmaster

General James A. Farley, has turned into an aura of mystery. Still the “experts” in and out of Government divide into groups, some holding that President Roose-~ velt actually has decided to try to build Mr. McNutt up as his successor; some, that the President, recognizing the possible strength of tHe ex-Governor, seeks to commit him to the New Deal, to enlist him on the New Deal side for Whatever may eventuate.

There Are Pitfalls

Some professed to see in the McNutt appeintment a “trick” by the President to eliminate him, though there seems little logic in’ this. Mr. McNutt is politically shrewd from long experience, and is not likely susceptible to such treatment.

Whatever was behind, his appointment, once installed, the handsome gentleman from Indiana is in an advantageous position, for more reasons than one, though there is the possibility of a ‘pitfall or two. The New Deal atmosphere is not altogether friendly to him. He probably has felt the psychic darts

New Dealers who suspect his liberal professions, question his sympathy for labor because of his use of troops in strikes while he was Governor, dislike his tietup with the American Legion and fear a sort of “imperialistic” note in his discussion of foreign affairs.

Youth and Age

Mr. McNutt has a choice post, so far ‘as political potentialities go, with general charge over social security and numerous agencies which have ‘to do ‘with young people—the National Youth Administration and the Civilian Conservation .Corps—and with education and public health. Youth and the aged are political groups today of considerable consequence. has the Légion vote. Paul McNutt is better known in (Continued on Page Three)

SAYS WNUTT LACKS SUPPORT IN WEST

ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 21 (U. P). —L. W. (Chip) Robert, secretary of the Democratic National Committee, today said Western voters are “demanding” that President Roosevelt seek a third term unless there is another candidate sympathetic with his policies. Je said Postmaster General James Farley, Vice President. Garner and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were entioned favorably, but he “didn’t West boost Federal

i | for the job.

William Hebenstireit , , . 18 in October.

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Checks Rights

To Johnson County today went Mrs. Francis Zinkin, Civil Liberties Committee executive, to see if rights of imprisoned immigrant workers were violated. :

STATE TRAFFIC

Dies Instantly in Wreck, Friend Later.

Twelve persons died in Indiana over the week-end from injuries received in auto wrecks, two of them in Indianapolis. Local police reported 31 were injured in 40 accidents and 138 drivers were arrested. - The dead are: DR. DAVID M. EDWARDS, former president of Earlham College and former pastor of the First Friends Church here, killed Saturday night when his car

~ HOMO CRUZ, 35, Roosevelt Hotel, killed in a crash at 16th St. and Sugar Grove Ave. FEDERICO CARBONELL, 31, Naval Armory, who died today in City Hospital of injuries received in the same accident. MRS. GENEVIEVE CHURCH, 48, of Elkhart, was fatally injured today when an automobile driven ‘by her daughter Betty Jean, 21, struck a tree on U. S. route 20 west of Elkhart. Mrs. Church * was thrown from the machine. Betty Jean suffered cuts and bruises. ALBERT HARRINGTON, 62, Michigan City, killed in an accident near Michigan City. LOUIS PALMATEER, 62, East Chicago, killed when struck by a truck as he was fixing a tire along a road near Michigan City. CLARENCE JACKSON, 66, Mitchell farmer, killed late Saturday night by a car as he walked on the Orleans-Livonia Road. ROBERT LEEDS, 12, North Vernon, injured fatally when he was struck by a’ railroad engine near his home. ALBERT LEE FEREE, 10, New Middleton, died of injuries received when he was struck by a car at- New Albany. OPAL COCKRAN, 28, Sesser, Ill, was burned to death in the wreckage of a truck that collided with a freight van near Bedford. Lawrence Livingston, 26, of 1402 S. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, driver of the van, was injured. MOSES LOWE, 60, died after an accident near Greensburg, in which his juglar vein was cut. Two others were hurt by flying glass. RICHARD WINNER, 59, died yesterday of injuries received June 22 when he was struck by an auto. Dr. Edwards and members of his family were bound for Indianapolis to attend a reunion at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Henry Bogue, 6658 Rockville Rd. Critically injured and in a Dan- . (Continued on Page Three)

Canary Cottage Employee

crashed near Danville en route to ,

Naps During ‘Kidnaping’

‘Last night he was asleep in the

ley, a neighbor, taking money, the

EUROPEAN

BERLIN—German pressure on

between war and peace.

ANTI - U. S. DRIVE STUDIED BY TOKYO

Retaliation Likely if U. S. Adopts Embargo.

By UNITED PRESS Tokyo newspapers asserted today that the FPoreign Office was formulating a tentative new policy

toward the United States, involving retaliation against American in- .| terests in China, for application if the United States embargoes |; munitions to Japan. Meanwhile, it was stated officially in London that Great Britain is willing to consider revision of the NinePower Treaty guaranteeing China’s independence, if other interested nations, including the United States, are consulted. - Five hundred Chinese stormed a rice and flour store in Shanghai today in the first food riot since 1937. Sharply rising food prices caused the riot. The Chinese got 100 bags of flour out before police arrived. The Chinese reported at Chungking that the Japanese had destroyed three-fourths of the city of Kiating, with terrific casualties, in the mistaken belief that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had estab-

lished headquarters there.

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Fire Department -officials today continued their investigation inio a fire at the City sewage disposal plant chemical ,laboratories following the death yesterday of one of four firemen who were overcome. . Matthew Dillane, 49, of 210! S.

Illinois ‘St., died at City Hospital from the effects of chlorine gas fumes inhaled while fighting the James of undetermined origin Fri ay. Bernard Boren, 38, of 2323 S. Meridian St. remained at the hospital, where his condition was described as fair. Lieut. Arnold Phillips, 32, of 3018 Meredith Place, and John McHugh, 38, of 648 S. West St., were released from the hospital after treatment. Fireman Dillane, of Engine House 19, was the first man to descend the steps leading to the laboratory. Choked by fumes, he staggered back up. The three other men attempted to enter the laboratory, but they,

too, were driven back. They called for masks,

Inquiry Opens i in Death of Fireman From Gas Fumes

which choked them. They re-en-tered the fire scene. The firemen returned to their sta-

tions and felt no ill effects until the next morning. ; Hospital physicians said Mr. Dillane. had inhaled so much of the gas that treatment was unavailing. Fire Chief Edward Kennedy said investigators are seeking to determine how chlorine gas was generated or released into the room. No one was in the basement when the

fire started. There was no evidence| -

of an explosion, Chief Kennedy said. Mr, Dillane was born in Ireland, but had lived here 29 years. He was a member of the Fire, Department 20 years. He is survived by his wife, Catherine; two sons, Matthew Jr. and John, both of Indianapolis; a daughter, Kathleen, Indianapolis; a brother, Patrick, member of the Police Department, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Reilly, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Ellen Doody, living in Ireland. Puneral services will be held at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday at the Blackwell Funeral Home and at 9 a. at St. Patrick's Church, of which he

was a member. Burial Will be

and police recovered him and the car, abandoned.

77 NEUTRAL STATES MAP PEACE PLEA

Nazis and Soviet Sign Commercial Treaty; | Polish Shifts Troops; Britons Flee Berlin; Parliament May Be Called.

Ey Times Photos.

Three-year-old Billy Joseph Tharp was in the driver's seat today,

rear seat. A bandit held up his

mother, Mrs. Ruth Tharp, 1625 E. Southern Ave. and Bedford Shock-

car and Billy. Billy slept through

SITUATION

BRUSSELS—Belgian King invites neutrals to join in peace plea. MOSCOW—Improvement in German-Russian relations predicted. 'LONDON—Britain reported placing mines along coast. PARIS—Special Cabinet session called for tomorrow.

Poland nears climax next Sunday. .

: An mer Russian Jborder, concentrate in west, VATICAN CITY—Pope reported sending peace envoy to Warsaw, 3

By UNITED PRESS Europe today -presented a dramatic and evenly balanced tug-of- -wap

On the side of peace were the following developments: 1. A special Belgian Cabinet meeting at Brussels decided to propose that the seven neutrals of Northern Europe—the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland—make a joint appeal

to the great powers for peace. 2. Soviet Russia and Nazi Gere many, bitter enemies since Adolf Hitler seized power, signed a trade agreement that the newspaper Pravda, official Cominunist Party organ, said was a step to improvement of political relations. 3. His Holiness Pope Pius x11 sent a special envoy to Warsaw to study the Polish- German dispute.

| Csdky Back at Budapest

on the warlike side were the followins developments: 1.| Polish troops were reported to have been almost completely withdrawn from the Russian frontier for concentration opposite Germany and Slovabn. although authoritative Nazi and Slovakian sources denied there were any troops on the Reich Slovakia outside the narrow " tective zone” at the border. 2.|Great Britain placed obstruce tions at key defensive points on the Brit coasts, as special Cabinet meetings were scheduled to interrupt official vacations in both London and Paris tomorrow. Some British families| were leaving Berlin, as in the Sudeten crisis. The British Cabinet tomorrow may recall Parliament. 3. |German pressure on Poland was increasing, with speeches by Hitler near the Polish frontier next Sunday land to the Nazi Party Nurem= burg Congress on Sept. 2’ expected to climax his “war of ‘nerves” for Danzig, Silesia and the Polish Carridor.

Pope Talks to Envoy

A fourth peace move was reported ucharest without much cone firmation. Rumanian informants claimed that the visits last week of Count Stephen Csaky, Hungarian Foreign Minister, to Germany and Italy, were more in the nature of an attempt to mediate between Po land and the axis powers. on Csaky was back at Budapest today. and no information was giverl out there as to the pt 3 of his trip or its result. Previously it h been believed that he was summoned to Berchtesgaden in an attempt to win Hungary more completely to the axis, and possibly that (Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS DECLINE ON UNEASINESS ABROAD

NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U. P).— Losses ranging to more than § points, the lowest since July 3, were established today in the stock market as trading volume rose. : The New York market followed the earlier trend of the London Stock Exchange, where prices were depressed by fears over the Euro. pean and Japanese situations. Steel issues were hardest : at New York as several favora items were ignored by trade

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