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MERIT SYSTEM INFILLING PARK JOBS IS PUSHED

Alleged Carelessness by 19-Year-0ld Instructor Brings Appeal. |

A bona fide merit system for the appointment of City Park and playground personnel was advocated today by the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Recreation following the disclosure that a playground acci‘dent Aug. 18 resulted from the carelessness of an-instructor. In a statement issued by Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin, chairman, the committee said a bona fide merit ‘system should require playground instructors to be at least 21 years old and that the Park Board's method of appointing last summer’s personnel could be improved. A police investigation showed that a 13-year-old boy was severely burned at Oak Hill playground through the carelessness of a 19-year-old instructor. It was also learned that the instructor's appointment was made after a City “employee interceded for him.

Present System Defended

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan said he saw no need for changing the system of appointments, which, he stated, had worked well "in general” He said the accident was “regrettable.” Meanwhile, the accident victim, George Stewart, was utilizing his convalescence today to study, so that he will not be so far behind the rest of his classmates when he returns to school. He will remain under treatment several weeks. Disclaiming: all knowledge=of -the police investigation, Jackiel W. Joseph, Park Board president, declined to comment on the possibility of improving the Board's system of making appointments. | The police investigation which followed the accident showed the boy was burned by flaming shellac which had been ignited as a prank by the playground instructor.

Inefficiency Charged

The 21-year age-minimum was also urged last year in a report of 1938 summer playground activities which was submitted to the Park Board by A. C. Sallee, City Parks superintendent. Mr. Sallee’s report charged then that there had been inefficiency and in some instances immorality among summer, personnel. The Mayor's Advisory Committee's statement said that a youth of 19 was too young to supervise a municipal playground. - The committee advocated a merit system which would require applicants for City recreation jobs to be between 21 and 45 years old and a high . school graduate with playground experience, or a college student with academic background on recreation. ; For all full time positions in the Park Department, the Committee said, there should be regular civil service examinations. [In this, it added, the City would get the cooperation of the Council of Social Agencies and Indiana University.

Improvement Held Possible

“For part-time summer work,” the Committee said, “we can improve the method that was used this year which was to make the appointments first, train and examine appointees afterward and supplement those who fell by the wayside or failed to appear for duty with whatever material was then available. “We are convinced there was a definite effort made to improve personnel this summer, but much more can yet be done, particularly as the public becomes aware that psn: of real qualifications will be given preference for jobs.” The Committee emphasized that in-service training and service ratings at regular intervals were imt features of aly bona fide merit system.

DECLARES BRITAIN’S WAR IS SINCERE ONE

NEW YORK, K, Sept. 3 {30 (U. P.)— Lord Beaverbrook, British newspaper publisher, said emphatically ‘today when he arrived on the liner Manhattan that Great Britain was sincere in its efforts to prosecute a successful war against Hitlerism. Lord Beaverbrook said the British people are “solemnly behind the Chamberlain Government, ”

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FOOTBALL FANS BURROW IN FUR

National Interest Centers on ‘Purdue-Irish and Indiana: Nebraska Tilts.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a.m.....47 10a. m..... 46 7am. ....46 1lla.m. .... 47 Sa.m.....45 12 (noon) .. 4 9am. .... 45 :

The mercury lost several degrees today on a reverse spinner as football fans kurrowed in fur coats and blankets and Indiana prepared for its first frost of the season. The state’s “Big Three” football teams trotted out on the field for their first games in temperatures that were 15 degrees below normal.

"However, it wasn’t the coldest :Sept.{

30 on record by a long shot. The U. S. Weather Bureau reports that on several occasions September has left Indiana with a 30-degree fare-

well. : The football teams of 10 Hoosier colleges and universities entered the: battle pits this afternoon with the engagements between Purdue and Notre Dame at South Bend and Indiana and Nebraska at Bloomington commanding national attention. ‘ In the Indiana College Conference chief interest centered on the initial appearance this season of the

teams, all of whom are rated as contenders for the championship now held by Butler's Bulldogs. General rain was reported throughout the state last night. A fall of 17 inches was reported in downtown Indianapolis, while the Municipal Airport weather station measured .74 inches. . It will be fair and somewha¥® wamer tomorrow, the Man predicts.

TAFT WARNS OF WAR MENACE TO AMERICA

Says U. S. Would Suffer More Than Nazis.

VIENNA, Ill, Sept. 30 (U. P.).— Senator Robert A. Taft (R. Ohio) warned today that participation in the European war by the United States “would be more likely to destroy American democracy than to destroy German dictatorship.” Senator Taft, a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, was the principal speaker at a fourstate Republican rally attended hy hundreds of party leaders from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, *

HELLO MUKDEN! HELLO TOKYO, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—Direct telephone service between Tokyo and Mukden, Manchukuo, was inaugurated today. The cities are 1000 miles apart. The service operates by cable laid at a cost of 40,000,000 yen.

brain concussion. Doctors said he may die. who is a member of the basketball team, received fractures and were

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Celarek, Butler Gridman, Wages Battle for Life;

Injures Neat

Two Athletes and Ossian Youth Hurt North of Bluffton When Two Cars Plunge Into Ditch

Collision.

BLUFFTON, Ind., Sept. 30 (U. P.).—Frank Celarek, 23, and Lyle Neat, 23, both Butler University athletes, and

Harold Biberstine, 18, of near Ossian, were injured today in an automobile collision eight miles north of here.

his left eye and suffered a severe Both Biberstine and Neat,

badly bruised. ! The "car in which the Butler athletes were riding was in collision with one driven by Biberstine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Biberstine of Ossian. Both cars landed in a ditch. A passing truck driver discovered the victims and called to Ossian for an ambulance, The young men were taken to the Wells County Hospital. Celarek has been unconscious since the accident. Neat’s condition is not regarded as serious. He may leave the hospital today. Both Butler athletes were en route to their homes ip<Ft. Wayne. Celarek, right halfback on the Butler varsity football squad, took an active part in the Ohio University game in Indianapolis last night. The students formerly attended Central High School in Ft. Wayne and are members of Sigma Nu Fraternity at Butler. - Celarek is a sophomore at Butler and Neat a d Neat a junior,

OPPOSES GROUP

C. of C. Committee Report Urges Private Firms Be Utilized.

The Public Health Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today issued a report opposing ‘non-profit community hospital service. “The sathe purpose caf be accomplishew,” the report said, “by private insurance companies on an indemnity basis.” The committe: adopted a resolution which said: “Hospital insurance should ‘be sold through institutions, under supervision of the State Insurance Department, having adequate guarantee funds and with such diversification of risks as will insure financial stability even (Continued on Page Two)

F.D.R. Urges Tab on ‘Greed’

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt said today that the National Monopuly , Investigating Committee “might well keep a constant eye” on price increases to protect the country “ugly and inhuman

In a letter to Committee Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), the President said that the Committee might watch prices of basic materials and “study the facts to determine whether there is profiteering or whether such increases are legitimate.”

DUGGER YOUTH NEAR DEATH AFTER CRASH

SULLIVAN, Ind., Sept. 30 (U_P.). —Glen McCammon, 17, Dugger, was

day from a fractured skull received last night when the automobile in which he and three other youths were driving crashed into a ditch

near here.

John T.~Hunt, 36-year-old former cashier. of the Greentown State Bank, Greentown, Ind, embezzled money from the bank in an unsuccessful attempt to save the life of his baby daughter, he told Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today. He pleaded guilty to embezzling $39,603.69 from the bank and was

Federal Reformatory. In a tearful voice, Mr. Hunt told 3) ihe judge that his $85-a-month salary as assistant cashier was inadequate to take care of his wife and two children. 3 He said he chartered a plane to fly his baby daughter to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., for treat-

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sentenced to serve three years in a|.

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in a vain attempt to save her life, he said. When he discovered that the amounts taken from the bank were growing so large that he could not pay them back, he entered the radio business, trying to sell radios at night after the bank had closed. He lost money on this also, he said. He then tried to perfect an invention to eliminate radio static, but was arrested before he had time to finish his invention, he said. The embezzlement was detected on June 22, when examiners of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. examined the books when he was on vacation, and discovered ‘the shortage, according to B. Howard Caugh-

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ANKARA WON'T BATTLE RUSSIA, PLANPROVIDES,

British Expect New Fleet of U-Boats, but Hint Sinking of 20.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Turkey threw her weight to the side of the Allies today and sent a military mission to London to work out details lof a mutual aid pact already agreed upon. Turkey made it plain, however,

that her friendship with Russia must continue, and military action against the Soviet Union is excluded from the pact: Britain prepared for a finish fight with Gérmany. Public opinion, reflected in all the London papers, was that the German-Russian declaration for immediate peace “or else” is a bluff and that Britain will reject it. The British Admiralty prepared to combat a new German submarine fleet in the North Sea and Atlantic. Submarine activity has centered mostly in the Western Baltic in recent days, leading to the belief that the first U-boat fleet sent out returned closer to its bases, in preparation for the dispatch of a second fleet to war on Allied and neutral shipping. The British Admiralty believes its convoy system and aniisubmarine measures will be effective in combatting the new submarine menace.

Claim 30 v- Boats Sunk

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first German fleet, as many as 20 had been sunk. Russia carefully refrained from committing itself on joint military action with Germany against the Allies.’ The talk in Moscow was strorigly of immediate peace, with the implication that if the war continues, the British and French “ruling class” will be to blame. The official newspaper Pravda said Russia and Germany will invite, if necessary, the air of so-far neutral powers, possibly the United States, to restore peace.

Pope Weeps for Poland

The peace move was seconded by the ‘Pope, who with Premier Benito Mussolini is anxious to end the conflict. A The Pope, receiving a Polish delegation headed by Cardi‘nal Hlond, Primate of Poland, paid sorrowful tribute to the defenders of Poland and the military and civilian victims of its invasion. The Pontiff expressed the strong hope that religious life can be continued in the dismembered republic, traditionally a stronghold of Ro-man-Catholicism. The Western Front remained inactive, although Paris reported German forces massing increasingly behind the Westwall fortifications. The French Supreme War Council met to consider the effect of the (Continued on Page Three)

MERIDIAN-MICHIGAN HOTEL SITE CHOSEN

William Stokely Jr. and Frederick Cline to Build.

Plans for erection of a hotel on the site of the old University Club at the southwest corner of Meridian and Michigan Sts. were near completion today, according to Frederick B. Cline, the property’s owner. Mr. Cline said that arrangements for the sale of half interest in the property to William B. Stokely Jr. was “practically closed.” Mr. Stokely is president of Stokely Bros. & Co. and of Van Camps, Inc. No details concerning the hotel which he and Mr. Stokely plan to build are available at present, Mr. Cline said. Razing of the University Club structure was begun in June and completed recently. The property ir which it stood has a frontage 941, feet on Meridian St. and 2021; feet on Michigan St.

WIFE OF LUBITSCH DOCKS AT NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U, P).—A very nervous Mrs. Ernst Lubitsch, wife of the movie producer, arrived aboard the Holland-American liner Nieu Amsterdam last night, anxious to reach Hollywood to rejoin her 10-months-old daughter—a survivor of the ill-fated Athenia. Mrs. Lubitsch told reporters of her two nerve-wracking days after the Athenia went down, before she received assurance that her daugh-

She sald She ad tated, to. book: passage for herself on the Athenia, but failing, decided to send the baby id so she would be out

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JOHNSON WANTS CASH FOR ARMS

Protests 90-Day Credit Clause for Debtors in Meutraity Bill.

¥ WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U. P.) —Hiram W. Johnson . (R. Cal),

leader of the fight against repeal of the arms embargo, said today he was prepared to “take any means within ‘my power” to protect from abrogation or modification the act which bars loans to war debtor nations. That act was sponsored by Senator Johnson and carries his name. It prohibits loans, “except a renewal or adjustment of existing indebtedness,” to any Government in default in its obligations to the United States. Mr. Johnson was aroused by Chairman Key Pittman (D. Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who announced that ,|the Administration’s plan to grant ‘90-day credits to foreign nations under its proposed neutrality program probably would act as a modification of the Johnson Act. “This is the camel’s nose under the tent,” Mr. Johnson replied. After studying the final draft of the neutrality bill, formally approved by 16 of the 23 members of Mr. Pittman’s committee, Mr. Johnson summoned reporters to a corner of his office. He pointed toa framed copy of the Johnson Act, signed by President Roosevelt on ® April 13, 1934, and said: “We were all very proud of that when he signed it.’ _. Of the President's neutrality program, he said: “It seems to me at first blush (Continued on Page Three)

Pope Weeps

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, tears streaming from his eyes, addressed ‘an audience of sobbing Poles today on the tragedy that had overtaken their country It was the saddest audience of the new Pope's reign. “The Pope expressed the hope that Germany and Russia would permit Catholics to worship in what had been . Poland, and that through justice and charity peace might be restored to the world. Frail looking, as ‘he sat on his golden throne in the Consistorial ‘Hall of his summer residence, mi

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Moscicki Quits As Polish Head

BUCHAREST, Sept. 30 (U. P.).— Ignacy Moscicki resigned today as President of Poland, leaving his power in the hands of Wladyslav Raczkiewicz, former leader of Pomerania. Senator August Zaleski, it was learned, probably will be named Foreign Minister to succeed Josef Beck. : President Moscicki’s decision, it was learned, will be communicated this evening to King Carol of Rumania, whose country has been host for the past two weeks to most. of Poland’s refugee Government as well as to civilian and military refugees. The resignation makes pussible the formation of a new Government in France and England. #

BETHLEHEM UP $5 ON ‘NO PEACE’ MARKET

Buying Spreads, Erasing Yesterday’s Losses.

By UNITED PRESS

Action of the.democratic powers in ignoring peace overtures brought a rise in “war babies” in the New York stock market today. : Steel shares were outstanding with gains ranging to $5 in Bethlehem. Buying spread to other war issues and the market made up yesterday’s losses. Wheat at Chicago onal more

than a cent a bushel. U. 8. Govern-

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TACULAR MOVE “AS REICHSTAG IS CALLED

|High- Ranking Generals Admirals and Polit-

ical Officials Advise Fuehrer on Eve

Of Conference With Ciano.

BERLIN, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler today summoned his axis partner, Italy, to emergency consultation in Berlin, convened his Reichstag to hear an important Government declaration next week and for 50 minutes conferred with his Cabinet, Army General Staff and lead-

ing admirals. Belief that Herr Hitler

vlatined events of grave and

perhaps spectacular importance was supported by announcement simultaneously in Rome and Berlin that Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Premier Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, would Jarrive in Berlin tomorrow by invitation

STALIN VICTOR IN WAR SO FAR

U. S. S. R. Gains Much, Promises Nothing in New Treaty, Diplomats Say.

MOSCOW, Sept. 30 (U. P).-—-Foreign diplomatic - quarters expressed belief today that Russia had gained a victory ih its new agreement with Germany. It was said that the only real commitment made by Russia was an offer to supply raw materials in exchange for industrial products,

and that in return ‘Russia had}

gained a free hand in the Baltic which Germany had regarded as a private hunting ground. Admitting that . Germany had obtained the larger share of Poland, informants said that Russia, by agreeing to a vision along ethnic lines, had put within its borders a predominantly White Russian and Ukrainian population, with only a few Poles, while Germany had been left to decide what to do with more than 10,000,000 Poles who want freedom.

Give Esthonians Dinner

Russia was quick to follow up its first move in the Baltic—the “agreement” with Esthonia by which it obtained the right to build naval and air bases on two EsShonian islands and at an Esthonian port. The Supreme Soviet ratified the treaty last night. Josef Stalin and other leaders attended a dinner in honor of the Esthonian delegates. An official communique said: “Premier Molotov and Esthonian Foreign Minister Selter exchanged speeches of greeting. The dinner passed in an animated, friendly atmosphere.”

Expect to Keep Ukraine

- Russia was felt to be in a position of some strength regarding its share of Poland. The feeling seemed to be growing that even the Allies might be unlikely to demand the :| reincorporation in a future Poland of the . White Russian and Ukrainian territory, which had been taken from Russia after the World War. There was considerable speculation regarding the joint RussianGerman declaration that the war ought to stop and that if it did not Russia and Germany would consider “the necessary measures.” German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, in a statement before his return to Berlin yesterday, said that if Britain and France|° elected to fight, “Germany and Russia would know how to deal with war mongers.” But there was no indication that Russia had pledged itself to take action.’

at Audience for Poles, Tells of Futile Efforts for Peace

referred to the futility of his efforts to stop the war. Twice he stopped and removed his glasses so that he could wipe the tears from his eyes. Several times the sobbing of the Poles was so loud that thé Pope was interrupted. At the end, the 40 to 50 Poles, still weeping, filed out, kneeling as they did so to kiss the “fisherman’s” ring on the Pope’s forefinger, symbo} of St. Peter, first head of the be | Church.

,The Pope told the delegation, led

by His Eminence Augusta Cardinal

Hlond, Primate of Poland, and the

who now. have no parents, the cries of wounded men and the death rattle of dying people who were

not even combatants . . .

“We do not ask you to dry your

tears. Christ, who wept at the death

of Lazarus, will reward some day those tears which you shed for your dead, and for Poland, which does

not wish to die. “Your sorrow, so tempered by hope, will not be mixed with rancor, even less with hatred. “We will not cease to repeat that it will be possible finally, through the means of ‘justice and charity— and only through these means—to restore peace to the troubled world,

|a peace for which millions of sin-

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of the Reich Government. A German Foreign Office spokesman said that Count Ciano’s visit would fall within .the framework of the Rome-Berlin axis—a military alliance providing for consultation between Italy and Germany before new military adventures by either power. Observers believed that Count Ciano would see both Herr Hitler and German Poreign Minister

to discuss peace proposals, perhaps. to discuss war on a greater scale than ever before if Britain and France refuse peace on the basis of Poland’s partition.

Talks Believed Vital

Italy thus far has remained neutral in the European war—on the basis of Herr Hitler's statement to Sig. Mussolini that Germany did not require Italian military aid. That, however was four weeks ago. Considerable significance was at ‘tached to Herr Hitler's conferences. He called all members of the Cabinet to the Chancellery at 4 p. m. Later some members of the General Staff were called into consultation. Fifteen minutes later he called more high-ranking generals and admirals. Today's activity and the call for the Reichstag session followed long conferences last night between Herr Hitler and his Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who had just returned from Moscow where he negotiated a new Russo-German treaty and with Soviet Foreign Commissar V.. M. Molotov issued a declaration calling for peace on the basis of the partition of Poland.

Plans Declaration

In his consultations today, it was believed, Herr Hitler was preparing a declaration to the Reichstag in the event that France and Britain reject : Russo-German peace overtures. It was understod here that should France and Britain persist in ree: jecting peace on the basis of Poe land’s partition Herr Hitler would" leave for the Western Front to take personal command of his armies after making a declaration to the Reichstag. It was said authoritatively that the joint German-Russian ‘declara< tion at Moscow that it was time tg call off the war, constituted a final peace offer, and that Adolf Hitler would not, unless the situation’ changed, send any formal direct bid to the Allied powers. If the Allied governments wanted : any points cleared up, it was said, : they could obtain the information from their Ambassadors at Mos~

641 the Soviet capital, Pravda, the official Communist Party organ, added that if necessary Russia and Germany will invite other, friend ly. governments to aid them in ate taining peace. “The nations do not wish war,” Pravda said. “The entire Soviet people like one man stands for the policy of peace.” Thus the question was left open (Continued on Page Three)

GRAND JURORS INDICT LECHE, FOUR OTHERS;

RUSTON, La., Sept. 30 (U. P.).~= Former Governor Richafd Leche and four New Orleans ¢ tects and contractors were in ed today by the Lincom Parish Grand ury connection with Sonsgue: tion of Lechg Hall at Polytechnic te here. They were indicted on two each. Others named

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