Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1939 — Page 1

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SHER 2% CLUB

Democrats - Are. Are Advised Of Attorney General's Ruling.

BAYS REFUSES COMMENT

Law Covers Only Employees Of Federal Government, Decision Says.

The Indiana Democratic Party's “Two Per Cent Club” is not affected by the Hatch Act, whith prohibits public employees from political activity, according to an opinion of Atty. Gen. Frank Murphy. The opinion was received today In a letter to Fred F. Bays, Indiana Democratic State Central Committee chairman, signed by O. John Rogge, assistant attorney general, for Atty. Gen. Murphy. Makes Letter Public Mr. Bays made the letter public and refused to comment on the “Two Per Cent Club.” The letter read: “Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of Aug. 26, 1939, in which you ask certain questions concerning the application of the Hatch Act to employees of the State Highway Department of Indiana. “The provisions of the Hatch Act restricting political activities apply only to officers and employees in the executive ‘branch of the Federal

Government and do not affect State

employees. Cites Provisions

“There is nothing in the Hatch Act prohibiting the receipt of contributions for political purposes from State employees, even though the State is using funds supplied by the Federal Government, as it does in connection with the building ' of highways. The section of the Act relating to contributions for political purposes reads as follows: . “SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit or receive or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving” any ‘assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever from any person known by him to be entitled to or receiving compensation, employment, or other benefit -provided for or made possible by any Act of Congress appropriating funds for work relief or relief purposes.”

SENTENCE COCHRAN T0 DIE FOR | FOR MURDER PALM BEACH, Fla, Oct.

i 7 «( LP ) .—~Thomas McBride Coch-

Ly ran, 20;year-old fake talent scout, § as senfenced to die in the Ly chair for the murder of Ruth. Frances’ Dunn, one of two ; high school girls he lured from home with false promises of fame. The date for the execution will be set by Governor Fred P. Cone. Circuit Judge C. E. Chillingworth pronounced the death sentence after| . denying ‘a motion for new trial based on Cochran’s contention the glaying was not premeditated.

CHANDLER TO RESIGN . MONDAY, BE SENATOR

' FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 7 (U. P.). : =Governor A. B. (Happy) Chandler will resign Monday to take the - Senate seat left vacant by the death . Tuesday of Sentor M. M. Logan, it was ‘announced today. Walter W. Mulbry, Mr. Chandler’s secretary, said the Government “already has written out his resignation and will leave for Washington Monday and be presented to the ‘Senate Tuesday.” Mr. Chandler will be succeeded automatically by Lieut. Gov. Keen Johnson, who will then appoint him Kentucky junior Senator, Mr. Johnson is the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in the Nov. Tel election.

HUNGARY, RUMANIA SEND TROOPS HOME

BUCHAREST, Oct. 7 (U. P).— - Rumania and Hungary agreed today to demobilize their troops along their common frontier.

The troops have been facing each |,

other since last spring and the demobilization agreement was regarded. as ‘an important step toward pacification in the Balkans, Hungary already has started sending reservists home. Rumania soon will follow suit. Only normal fyontier garrisons will be retained.

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KELLER SLAMS

Scores Crosetti as- Yanks Big Guns Blast Junior Jheropson.

Yankees .... 202 Reds . Secon 12 By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

CROSLEY FIELD, CINCINNATI, Oct. 7 (U. P.) ~A sun that was hotter than the New-York Yankees at the plate came . out from: behind cottony clouds this afternoon for the third game of the World Series, The Cincinnati Reds, still trying to win a game, called on Junior

Thompson, a;rookie one year out of the minors, to carry the burden before the home folks.

Bleaches Full Early

Manager - Joe McCarthy of the Yankees went back into his private “hospital ward” and came out with Lefty Gomez, an eccentric left hander, as his pitching choice. Gomez ripped about 20 yards of adhesive tape off his right side where he strained a muscle about three weeks ago. The bleachers in right field: were jammed as soon as the gates opened. The Reds went through batting

suits with big red numerals. The Yankees came out dressed in’ gray road suits. Long sighs rose from the crowd as Jor DiMaggio and Joe Gordon, the right . hand power hitters for the Yankees, rattled the left field fence with long hits. ‘Gordon Makes Circus Catch . The first big cheer rose. when the Reds trotted out for infield practice. The team. responded by going through a fast and classy drill. Frank McCormick, the Reds’ first baseman, leaped to his right and left, making fancy catches. A band near: third base ‘played “The Bowery” and “The Sidewalks of New York” in honor of the: visiting team and Gordon was so grateful that he raced far behind second base and made one of his. circus (Continyed on Page Three)

GERMAN ENVOY TO. U.S. IN 1917 DEAD

Von Bernstorff in Exile Since Rise of Hitler.

GENEVA, Oct. 7 (U. P.) —Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorfl, German Ambassador to Washington when the United States entered the World War, died yesterday at the Clinique Genevoise, it was disclosed

y.* Count von Bernstoret, who was T7, had been in voluritary exile here| Friday. since Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. He had been receiving treat-| ment for heart disease at the clinic since March, During the World War, Count von Bernstorff opposed submarine warfare, advocated a general peace conference and sought to achieve mediation by President Woodrow Wilson. After the war, he sought to show in his writings that ‘if his advice had been accepted America never would have entered the war. After the United States: entered 5 the World War, Count von Bern5|storft served as German Ambassador

of the Ge Reichstag during the Weimar Republic and until 1933

and chairman of the German League pt Nations Union, the was born London,’ e a Ge eras London. He

HOMER IN FIRST

| Jacqueline Neville, 9, ‘was roller

practice wearing their white home| -

No Insurance Against Be Bandit! |.

CHICAGO, Oct. 7 CU. P)—

skating near her home last night with two playmates. As they neared a cornet two bandits drove up, parked behind a car in which Insurance Agent Jack Lomas was waiting while his partner, Frank Maneely, made a collection. The bandits held Lomas. Mr. Meneely returned, saw them and ran. One bandit started firing. Frantic, the little girls started to skate away. A wild bullet killeq Jacqueline. = The: bandits fled. ! : A "month ago Mrs, 'Cecllia’ Neville, a widow, took out an in‘surance policy on Jacqueline’s life. The agents: Mr. Maneely and Mr. Lomas.

N. D-GEORGIA TECH HEADS GRIDS GARD

Occasional Showers Are on Weather Fare Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m. .... 65 10a. m. :... a.m. ....65 liam. ....81 8a.m. .... 67 12 (noon) , 9a.m ....68 1p.m....."78

There was considerable dispersion of Hoosier university and. college football teams today with Indiana University : opening its Big Ten schedule at Iowa City against Iowa and the: Little Giants of Wabash invading the Midway to meet the Chicago Maroons. On: thé*home front, Butler University met the Indiana State Teachers College team at the Bowl here, while the Georgia Tech-No-tre Dame tilt at South Bend was the State game. The Weather Bureau - promised} dry weather for the games this afternoon, but predicted occasional showers for tomorrow. Complete schedule :of this afternoon’s games involving Huosier schools follows:

W.C.T. U. HAS DAY AND BREWERS, T00

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 Oct. 7 (U. P.) Dr. Ida B. Wise Smith was “put out” with the World's Fair management today for having allotted her Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the United Brewers the same honorary day. : She also was annoyed because the, restaurant at which the W. C. T. U. members had planned to eat—a restaurant . chain that in bye-gone days was famed for sobriety—was: found to be serving alcoholic beverages, The ‘day in ‘question was last Thursday. The Brewers celebrated their “day” as’ planned but the Ww. Oo T. Ye Postponed. its “day” to

LONDON, Oct. 7 (U. P). ~The Information MIBisteY released today the story of a Bri Tiers escape from death in a ba

EL st El on oe & E o disabled at 20,000 feet. The hero was a Welsh His description of the battle

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CUSHING, BRAIN SURGEON, DIES

Kin of James Roosevelt Won Pulitzer Prize

For Biography. | NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. Oct; } (U. P.) —Dr. Harvey Cushing, 70, worldrenowned brain specialist, died toda; of & heart attack. . Cushing, outstanding in neurological work, died at New Haven:

several days. Dr. ¢ is the of James Roosevelt, eldest: son of’ President Roosevelt. Mrs, Cushing,

two other daughters and a sh sur | vive.

Funeral Monday

Funeral services xe held here Monday afternoon, with burial the following day in the a plot at Cleveland, O., where Dr Cushing was born, . | In 1925, Dr. Cushing was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for blograghy, for his “Life of Sir William Osler He was senior consultant in ‘neurological surgery with the A. E. P.| in Prarnce, was a former p esident of the American Neurology ation, the American Surgical -ASS0+ ciation and the American College of Surgeons. He was awarded the University of Edinburgh Cameron Prize in 1924 and the Lister Med at London in 1024. He had been honored by Belgian and Fren scientific societies and . the Un versity of Toronto. |

Retired Last Year|

Educated at Yale and Harv Dr. Cushing taugh: surgery at Johi Hopkins = University and Bahan He assumed the Sterling chair of neurology. at Yale in: 1933; when ‘it was established through a $300,000 |

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advisory capacity.

on “nervous and mental ailments, } including some dealing ‘with the asin en of brain tumors. tap i cemttm it

ORIGIN OF CHURCH

Greek Orthodox Edifice- on N. West St. Damaged.

A fire last night, of undetermined St. Trias Greek. Orthod rs - 1 srarenty e a the altar, firemen ily siasted neat age to the. building was welineied hk eet ii

"KUHN TRIAL OCT. 30 NEW YORK, Oct. 7 . P)— Frite Kuhn, leader of American Bund, will go o {30 on charges of steal

'1$14,500 of the organiza

“We were a handful a dates! im go into Teconnaissance. German his

Hosplial ‘where he bad beet for

gift from the estate of John D.| Sterling. ‘He retired last year but} emained with the university in an} *

He wrote many. articles’ and books :

FRE UNDETERMINED) =

| Keeps. in Close Totich With Hull, Has Phone Line Open to Capital.

IREPORTS SUB OFF. MIAMI

‘But Says It Belongs To Foreign Power.

HYDE PARK, N. ¥,,. Oct. 7 (U.| P.) —President Roosevelt indicated|

|today that heis not ready to re-

spond to -intimations from Berlin that Adolf Hitler wouid. be’ willing

“Ito have him mediate the. Issues of:

the European wi Mr. Roosevelt, rough the tem-

porary White House secretariat, * |said that there is nothing to say in}. “{response to intimations from Berlin

indicating willingness of Herr Hitler to accept a peace move from this country.

Reports Another: Sub Si Sighted

Meanwhile, the President revealed that a submarine of some foreign power was sighted yesterday 15 miles off Miami, Fla. He declined to reveal its nationality, but the temporary White House said it definitely was identified as a submersible of a foreign power. : The. White House “announcement indicated that the submarine was off Miami when sighted in a position well within-the-300-mile limit proclaimed as a safety zone by a Joint declaration of the 21 ee ‘republics. ~Secretary William D. Hassett, after conveying to the President inquiries about the possibility he| might propose an armistice, said that Mr. Roosevelt told him there ‘be. no comment, or no _Te-

wite|action.. =.

“The President ‘authorized me to tell you that there is nothing to say on the.matter,” Mr. Hassett said. . He was told that the negative reaction might be ‘interpreted as Presidential rejection of the invitaon. “The: interpretation is up to you,” Mr. Hassett said.

Line Open to Capital

So far as could be learned, Mr. Roosevelt had no official knowledge of the intimations in Berlin that Hare Hitler . would be amenable to

n armistice, Sr. Roosevelt, however, has been following newspapers closely. In addition, he was keeping in closest

dell" Hull and has a telephone wire open around the clock to Washington for Instantaneous action should the necessity arise Herr Hitler's insistence that the partition of is an. accomplished fact and that any peace negotiators must recognize that situation made any peace move from ,| Mr. Roosevelt a complicated probs{lem: This country already ‘is on ‘(Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS DROP WITH "ARMISTICE RUMOR

By UNITED PRESS Wall Street rumors that a Euroarmistice was in the offing ought ‘a $1 to $3 decline in the

“Jstock ‘market today. Prices rose + “I slightly from the lows near the

. Trading was light. through‘lout the session. War babies—steels, aviations, sugars, railroad equipments: and coped the recession, Selling pressure developed in the Chicago grain market and demand {was insufficient to maintain prices.

GIVEN 60-DAY TERM ON TRAFFIC CHARGES

‘William Cook, 1306 Ringgold St., was fined $66 and sentenced to serve 60 days on the State farm for four traffic violations today by Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell, Cook pleaded guilty to charges of drunken driving, reckless driving, drunk and operating an automobile|. with four in the front seat. His

; driver's license was suspended for

was arrested this morn-

arly ng 2 the iow block College Ave.

Declines % Give Nationality

touch with Secretary of State Cor-

Admiral Claude C. Bloch, head of the U. 8. fleet. . . . Refuses to discuss purported Arizona sabo~ tage plot. ;

END LEAVES ON U. S. WARSHIPS

Reportel Plan to to Damage U. S. S. Arizona on West Coast Probed by FBI.

SAN PEDRO, Cal., Oct. 7 (U. PJ). —All leaves of sailors aboard the battleship U. S. S. Arizona were canceled today, reportedly because of the discovery of evidence of a sabotage plot aboard the warship. Naval authorities declined to make any ‘comment whatsoever on a report that an effort had been planned to the big dreadnaught,

which is one of the units of the|

Navy's. main battle force.

The Claude C. .B commander-in-Suet oh Dmited ope y ot, Teused Sommant. on a that a casualty occ ship in eo ue such a pot Orders canceling leaves aboard the Arizona also brought all shoregoing members of her crew back aboard the ship. : After a oh of target practice in the Navy’s drill waters off San Clemente Island, the Arizona had returned to the fleet anchorage in San Pedro yesterday. The dreadnaught is the: flagship of Rear Admiral Russell Wilson, commander of the Battleship division No. 1. Capt. I. C. Kidd is her commander. In San Francisco, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, said an investiga ton b has been going on 3 our or. five ays.”

Naval Convoy Erpoctsd

To Reach Iroquois Today

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U, P. — Four U. 8. Navy destroyers and a Coast Guard cutter were expected to reach the 8S. 8. Iroquois in the North Atlantic today, ready to ac-| company her home in the face of a German intimation that Great ‘Britain intends to sink the Ameri(Continued on Page Three)

RUSSIA ‘INVITES FINNISH MISSION

‘Various Problems’ Raised; Helsingfors Hesitates.

HELSINGFORS, Oct. 7 (U. P.).— Soviet Russia has made inquiry as to whether Finland would be willing to send a representative to Moscow to discuss certain problems, it was revealed officially today. Foreign. ter E. Erkko disclosed that Russia desires a Finnish representative to go to Moscow to “discuss various political and economic problems.” ee Sabir Cabinet, he said, is discussing e Propossa. It was expected that a representative would be sent to Moscow, at least to receive the Russian ‘pro-

posals. Observers noted that while the Foreign Ministers of Esthonia,| Latvia and Lithuania. had been “summoned” to the Kremlin to negotiate “mutual aid” pacts. with the Soviets which resulted in increased Russian domination of the inner Baltic, Finland has been approached with gentler diplomatic

overtures, It was recalled, however, that only Finland ealed

_| yesterday rev a strengthening of her armed forces.

ney OF PLOT ON “CAROL’S LIFE DENIED

BUCHAREST, Rums Rumania, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—~Reports of a plot against

os the life of King Carol were denied

today. It was suggested that rumors of

ted such a plot might have arisen from}

d the continued police drive against | A

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Miracle, Nazis

Hungary and Rumania,

the border since spring.

German minorities in other

in which Herr Hitler said

Latvia Discusses Transfer of Minorities to Prevent Trouble With Reich in Future. |

By JOE ALEX ogni United Press Foreign News Editor

Adolf Hitler's “final peace terms” appeared today to: offer little basis for negotiated peace but rather to ‘widen: the gap between Italy and Germany. While the Allied Governments officially kept their promise to examine Herr Hitler's 10,760-word speech care-: fully, it was received critically and often with derision in. foreign quarters not sympathetic to the Nazi regime. : - Meanwhile the Finnish Foreign Minister revealed that Russia had “suggested”. that Finland send a representative - to Moscow to discuss “various political and economic prob lems.” Whether this was an attempt to force the Scandinavian nation, part of Russia before the World War, into the same pattern of domination from the Kremlin as Esthonia, ; Latvia and Lithuania was not yet clear.

Hungary and Rumania Demobilize

would settle Balkan problems. as its sphere and this seemed certain to make clearer the

divergence of interests shown since Herr Hitler took Stalin : (Continues on Page Three)

Hungary and Rumania End Quarrel, Face: Common: Danger;

Allies Hope for for Mediation. |

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faced with a German-Russia

hint of intervention in the Balkans, decided to suspend their tiquarrel over territory: Rumania won

won from: Himgary in the.

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World War in a “common attempt to maintain the Balkan status quo. They demobilized the troops which have been on’

Latvia and Germany discussed the transfer of TO 000 Germans from Latvia to Germany in according with suggestions outlined yesterday by Fuehrer Hitler that small

countries should be returned

to the Reich to avoid conflicts. Herr Hitler, however, ap~ parently had referred principally to the Balkan countries, where the problems would be greater. The Italian fear grew from some sections 'of the speech :

that Germany and Russia Italy considers the Balkans

Hitler Sought

As Last Hope,

Soviet Aid

Simms dk

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS "Times Foreign. Editor ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—The feel- | ™ ing ‘of mild astonishment first engendered here by Hitler’s Reichstag speech yesterday has given, way today. to something akin not to fear but .to horror. The Fuehrer’s “peace offer” seems to have left the same sort of impression as a room full of people might experience were a madman with a bomb suddenly to appéar and threaten to blow everybody to fragments, including himself, unless they agreed forthwith to do as he said. Herr Hitler, «diplomatic circles here agree, has demanded for himself and his partner, - Josef Stalin, what would be tantamount to a ‘hegemony over all Europe. And .if his terms are not met, he will loose upon the world & war in which all hands will go to their doom -together, . Acceptance of any such terms by France and Great Britain, it is agreed, would relegate them—along with the Scandinavian countries, ‘Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the rest—to purely secondary positions where they would live in per~

In’ ‘Berlin:

: petual fear of what their more.

powerful neighbors would demand: next. hi The line-up with Stalin’ still remains the most part of th present diplomatic situation. 1t was. as ‘recently as Jan! 30, 199%, in an. other Reichstag speech like day’s, that Herr Hitler declared: “We look upon bolshevism as & world peril for which there must be no toleration. . .. We should avoid close contact’ with the carriers of these poisonous bacilli. tis out of the question to "think Na tional Socialist Germany could ever be bound to protect bolshevism or’ that we, on our side, could ever agree 5 to acept the assistance of a Bolshe-' vik state. For I fear that the moment any nation agreed to accept such assistance, it would thereby seal its own doom.” Some believe that Herr Hitler realizes he must soon win or lose or face: trouble inside Germany. Avd, to win he must have the help Stalin, cost what it may. Purthermore, he is thought to believe that if he wins in the west he can then successfully match strength with the

Soviet Union. If he loses, his n ber will be up anyway. - a

Nazis Hope Roosevelt Pops wil Be Mediate

BERLIN, Oct. q w. P.) ~Adolf Hitler. = willing 1, make years pres posals c. form if Presiden Roosevelt ht ‘mediate between | Germany a the Allied nations, influential and responsible - Nazi sources said today. = The “desirability” of mediation by the President, on the terms laid down by Herr Hitler in his Richs.

program, ots sa I wil

2 10 fol- :

would agree tio oe

tected by all powers. : Despite the POEL. derisive. jection of Fuehrer Hitler's “peace’™ speech in London and Paris, su= thoritative quartefs, Nazi infor ails, 1 Jasiion io knew {ho tude of the Government, p