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Meeting Set in Chicago For Thursday: Vance McCormick Deserts.
BULLETIN COLORADO SPRINGS, July 20
(U. P.).—George N. Peek, the Mo-
line, I11.. Democrat who was President Roosevelt's first ministrator, is confer with Wendell L. Willkie. Mr. Willkie said he asked Mr, Peek to come here from his California ranch
WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P.).-— Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri! who led the revolt of Joffer-| sonian Democrats against the New Deal in 1936, has sent “w A | out a call for a meeting of anti-third term Democrats in| Chicago Thursday, itl was learned today. Senator Edward R. Burke (D.| Neb). who already has bolted his party and announced his support of Republican Presidential nominee Wendell L. Willkie, has been invited | to this meeting to be held in the Stevens Hotel | Members of Senator Burke's office staff released the telegram which invited the Nebraskan to meet with Mr. Reed and other members of the “Jeffersonian Executive Committee,” Mr. Burke had not decided whether he would! go, it was said
Called 1936 Meeting
Mr. Reed called a similar meeting | in 1936 af “Jeffersonian Democrats” | opposed to the New Deal and Presi-| dent Roosevelt. For this Presiden-| tial campaign several state organ-| izations, notably in California and! South Carolina, of a similar char-| acter have been organized but todav's announcement was the first! news of an attempt to form such a| body on a national scale, | These incidents of anti-third term rebellion coincided with reports that Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace soon would resign to] campaign actively for the Roosevelt- | Wallace ticket | In Des Moiges, Mr. Wallace declined today to say whether he will
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By DR. GEORGE GALLUP
Director, American Institute of
PRINCETON, N. J, July 20.—Wendell Willkie, the Republican nominee, has a slight lead over President Roosevelt in the returns from a new survey of New York home state and Mr. state—which
Roosevelt's adopted completed by th of Public Opinion
State—Mr.
INSTITUTE nomination—but cratic
PUBLIC OPINION
While it is still too early to determine the outcome in New York next November, the Institute's first measurement of sentiment since Mr. Willkie's
nomination at Chicago—shows Mr. Willkie has gotten off to a headstart in the state. Voters throughout the state were asked: dent Roosevelt runs for a third term on the Democratic
Public Opinion
Willkie's has just been e American Institute
stances,
prior to the Demo-
“If Presi-
ticket against Wendell Willkie on the Republican ticket, how would you vote? The answers of those reached in a carefully selected cross-section of New York voters are:
WILLKIE ...
ROOSEVELT ........... MeataLaea
. Approximately one voter in seven (14%) said he was undecided how he would cast his vote in such circum-
FEB L RARER RRR RRR RRA R RRR 51%
of 1936.
Institute surveys, 1938 Lehman-Dewey
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New York State's political leanings will be important throughout the coming campaign because the state accounts for 47 electoral votes, making it the largest political prize in the country, It is important to remember that the present survey of New York voters was conducted before the Democratic Convention reached its decision this week.
1938 Gubernatorial
New tests of Democratic-Republican now under way in each of the 48 states and will be re ported shortly in the Indianapolis Times,
At the present time, however, there can be no question but that the Republican party has gained substanetially in New York State since the Presidential election
the political trend in the state:
1936 Presidential Election
Institute Survey-March Institute Survey Today ........
strength are
together with the results of the gubernatorial race, help to chart
Favoring Republican
Favoring Democrat 40% 49 ” 51
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INDIANA DEFIED
Democrats Haven't Won 3 Elections in Row Since 1851.
By EARL RICHERT If the Indiana Democrats elect their gubernatorial nominee in November, they will have shattered a third term precedent of their own, For not since the four-year, sin-| gle term for governors went into! effect under the Constitution of 1851 have Indiana Democrats succeeded in placing a man in the governor's chair three times in a row. They have had three chances before the present to make it three in
a row for a Democratic nominee, but they have never succeeded.
Ruled in Early Days
However, during the early days of the state, the Democrats had it pretty much their own way, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Deémocrats holding the governor's office for five three-year terms statehood in 1816, until Dec. 7, 1831, when Noah Noble, a Whig, went into office. The Whigs then held office for four terms before the Democrats reg ined the governor's chair with tie election of vames Whitcomb in 1843. The Democrats retained their hold | on the governorship until 1861, but the new four-year single term went | into effect in that period and there were only two Democrats elected | under that provision,
In Office 1873 to 1881 ’
nite about my future plans until I The Democrats got an eight-year
talk with President Roosevelt, next week,” he said. “We plan to discuss the campaign at that time.”
President Cruises
President Roosevelt cruised down
the Potomac River to rest up for]
his efforts to win another four ears in the White House. He planned to return late today and then, perhaps
tonight or tomorrow night. entrain |
for his home in Hyde Park, N. Y. A number of Democratic Party leaders, including a group of prominent anti-New Dealers, appeared in agreement on not supporting Mr. Roosevelt for a third term. But there was considerable difference on the question of whether to “walk” into Republican ranks under Wendell I. Willkie. Vance C. McCormick, who as chairman of the party in 1916 directed Woodrow Wilson's re-election campaign, announced through his newspaper, The Harrisburg Pa.) Patriot, that he would support Mr. Willkie. He said the re-nomination of Mr Roosevelt, “breaks the third term
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'stretch again from 1873 to 1881 when |
Thomas A. Hendricks, James D.| § held | §
Williams and Isaac P, Gray the governorship. Mr, Gray served) [out the uncompleted term of Mr. | Williams who died in 1880,
spiit terms until 1897 when the G. O. P. gained control and held it [for 12 years. Thomas R. Marshall began another eight-year Democratic era in [1909. He was succeeded by Samuel |M. Ralston who four years later turned the governor's chair over to {a Republican, James P. Goodrich, The Republicans held sway for four terms until Paul V. McNutt captured the governorship in 1932 pnd started the Democrats on the |path which for the fourth time | since 1851 gives them the op[portunity to make it three straight for a Democratic nominee,
‘APPEALS RULING OF MAGISTRATE COURT
Norman DeHoff, 914 S. West St.
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Republicans and Democrats then | ®
| tradition, as well as the hearts of}
millions of Democrats who had hoped the dangerous and economic policies of the New Deal would be repudiated and the party re-dedi-cated to its fundamental principles. Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) (Continued on Page Three)
| yesterday filed in Circuit Court an appeal from a ruling of magistrate Edward MeElfresh. DeHoff was convicted recently on charges of
» speeding, reckless driving and reck-
less homicide. Under the magistrate law, created py the 1939 Legislature, the Cireuit
Court has authority to designate
CADLE POSTS BOND [which court shall try appeals.
ON SPEEDING CHARGE 1 After failing to show up twice ARREST 24 DRIVERS IN DOWNTOWN AREA
Magistrate's Court on speeding] charges, E. Howard Cadle, Indian-| Fight Congestion, Cite Left Turn Rule. .
apclis evangelist, planked down] 8250 cash bond in three bills today | to insure his appearance July 25. | State Police arrested Mr, Cadle i July 12 at the City Limits a, Police charges of going 60 miles an hour] in a 40-mile zone, and for running a red light at the intersection of
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Stark fear still straining her face, protective arms hungrily clasping the son she almost lost, this woman becomes a symbol of motherhood—the eternal shield. with her 5-year-old son, Jimmy, just after Los Angeles police arrested a man who had abducted him.
She is Mrs, Elizabeth Callea, pictured reunited
INDIANA AVENUE INQUIRY ASKED
State Convention of Negro! Baptist Church Calls For Action.
Aroused Indianapolis Negro citizens today asked for an investigation of conditions on Indiana Avenue and for revocation of licenses for certain taverns “on the avenue.” | A resolution passed yesterday by (the Indiana General Convention of ‘the Negro Baptist Church said that three taverns where murders have occurred are “incubators of vice.” | It appointed a commmittee to investigate the “tie-up of certain persons and vice lords” and the presentation of the evidence to the Marion County Liquor Board and the State | Alcoholic Beverage Commission. It asked that the law-enforcing {agencies of the city, county and state “see to it that Negro communi(Continued on Page Three)
FORMER ELKS RULER DEAD
| The drive on taxicab drivers and | SEATTLE, July 20 (U, P.).—Wal-
Roads 36 and 40, they said. 1 vps : “ » . Poi a | private motorists “cluttering up” the Magistrate Edward W. McElfresh = oo square continued today.
of the Speedway City Court con-| A total of 17 taxi drivers and
he case when Mr. Cadle! tinued lhe case le seven motorists were arrested down-
did not appear the first time but ; the next time, he swore out a war- town from noon yesterday until midnight.
Churches . Clapper Comics ... Crossword ,. Editorials Finaneial Flynn Forum In Indpls. Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan . Johnson .....
Questions Radio Mrs. Roosevelt
. . is 10S . M . as rant for his arrest r. Cadle was, The cab drivers motorists were arrested for making nance bans left turns when emerg5, Movies .... 14 in the mile square. 7 that the arrests were a ‘last reScherrer 7 situation in the mile square had
informed and appeared at the| ~M } face charges County Jail where he made his fanging from reckless driving to socash bond. liciting fares on the street. The {left-hand turns not at an intersec- | tion. c | Police warned that a city ordiON | ing from an alley, driveway, garage, [building or parking lot on to a street 7. Mrs. Ferguson 8| Capt. Leo Troutman of the traffic Obituaries ... 6 department sald the taxicab drivers g had been warned repeatedly and 7 sort.” 9 Police said they would continue 7| making arrests until the congested { Society 4, 5 been cleared up as much as posSports ... 10, 11 sible and that arrests would be State Deaths. 11/made€ to keep the area that way.
jer F. Meier, 60, former Grand
| Exalted Ruler of the Elks, died at his home here late yesterday after jan illness of several weeks. |
90-Degree Snow Cinders It
From Summer Heat
Insulate
ROCHESTER, N. Y,, (U, P)—Snow was found in Rochester yesterday when the thermometer zipped up to 90 degrees. A steam shovel bit into a cinder pile, exposing a white surface, A
perspiring workman examined it. “Holy smokes.” he yelled, “it's snow.” Officials of the Rochester Gas and Electric Co. recalled they had dumped the cinders last winter when the snow was a foot deep. The hard packed cinders had insulated the snow, preserving it until yesterday.
Heat Wave
SCHENECTADY, N. Y,, July 20 (U. P.).—There's a heat wave in Little America. Radio engineers here talked with the east base of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition at Little America today. With the temperature in the 80s and rising, they asked Little America for a temperature reading. “Oh, we're having a heat wave too,” the expedition reported. “It's 18 above zero.” Two weeks ago in a two-way conversation General Electric officials said the west base of the expedition reported 70 below zero.
July 20
Having Any Burglar Trouble? Police Offer Household Hints
By FRANK WIDNER
Your first line of defense against | screen hook. Once past those, the burglar | practically has you at his mercy— not because he’s so clever, but be-| cause you think you are. Lieut. Harry Schley of the police] burglary detail came up with this household hint today in view of the] large number of recent apartment and home burglaries. “It's mostly the hot weather,” Lieut. Schley said. “People get careless about®closing and locking
a burglar is your door lock or|
doors and hooking screens. That makes it easy for the sneak thief to ransack the place and take what he wants. What he wants is money.” Lieut. Schley wrinkled his nose and flipped through a sheaf of reports of such happenings, “And guess where most people hide their money?—Where they hide other valuables and then sigh with relief the same as if they had put them into a bank deposit box? —In the cedar chest! “And guess where the practiced (Continued on PageéXThree)
KILLED IN FALL FROM SCAFFOLD
Brother, Friend Hurt Trying To Catch Victim On East Side.
Five years ago, Kelso Miller was an electrician. His brother, Taylor, | was a stone pointer. The brothers always had been close to each other. One day Kelso asked his brother: “Why don't you teach me your business?” Taylor agreed, and for five years they have been inseparable, ' Today, Kelso plunged 58 feet to his death from the roof of an East Side building as Taylor frantically tried to break his fall and was in-
{ jured himself.
Kelso, who was 40, was riding a scaffold up a building at 739 E, Market St. A fellow workman, Teter | Colenne, 26, was on the ground, helping to hoist the scaffold. Then as it crept past the fourth] floor, the rope slipped. Kelso Miller | dropped. Taylor Miller and Colenne | tried to catch the hurtling body | but could not break the fall. Mr. | Colenne also was injured. They are in Methodist Hospital. The victim was born in Térre Haute and had been an Indianapolis resident many years. He lived at 816 Stillwell St. His wife, Dorothy; two children, June and Madeline, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Miller of St. Petersburg, Fla., survive him. June is at City Hospital, under observation for appendicities. Her father had intended to bring her home this afternoon.
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AMBULANCE DRIVERS
PARIS,, July 20 (Via Air Courier to Berlin—Delayed) (U. P.).—Francis Vicovari, New York, and Harry Havilland of Limoges, France, members of section two of the American Volunteer Ambulance Service, reached Paris today after almost a month in a German prison camp. Both were captured at St. Florentine June 15 after a retreat from rushing German armies,
THERE'S MORE
SHAME, CRIES GERMANY AFTER - PEACE REFUSAL
Naming of New Commander for Home Front Is England's Reply to ‘Last Appeal’; Rome Reports Spain to Join.
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No Cool Weather Before Tuesday, Pessimistic Forecaster Says.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES a.m, "% 10a.m ... 85 « Bh 8 a.m ... .m, . 81 12 (noon) . Ph 84 Ah Mh os
8 89 89
Those who grumbled about the “phony summer” and “we had to have blankets last night and it's July,” will please take a quick look lat the thermometer and forever | hold their peace, Taking the rumor of summer se | riously this morning nature awoke { the mercury at dawn and it's been { getting up ever since. | Now pessimistic as to cooler | weather before Tuesday, the weatn[erman refused to predict one cool night in the next 48 hours. It Could Be Worse It could he worse. On this day In | 1034, the thermometer registered an even 103 degrees for a record. {record low for the day is 50, reached lin 1029, Outdoor activity is safe from [showers. Dry air over this promised dry skies and continued heat. Ever conservative, the weatherman made a straight prediction of “continued warm.” Today, if the temperature hits 00, |will be the eighth day of 90-degree or above temperature Indianapolis hag had this year, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Only 119 days of this high temperature is lan average for a year, based on 69 years of Weather Bureau records. | While swimming pools rapidly [filled with refugees from the blazing sun, the weather became reminiscent of July, 1936, when the temperature soared to 100 or more for eight days straight, reaching its peak July 14. when the mercury crept up to 106.1, the all-time high. [ Mr. Armington explained that | most hot spells are ended by thunderstorms, but this one “is not well enough along” to forecast the nec. - led rain,
SPONGERS
| Police Claim Solution
To 'Shrinking' of Cloth
| PHILADELPHIA, July 20 (U.
HEAT ON WAY
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Saw Cuban Service His arrival assumed a personal aspect as it was recalled that he did 'military service in Cuba more than | 40 vears ago. He commented on various historic Cuban personalities, | Mr. Hull first came to Cuba in | 1898 as captain of a company of
Tennessee riflemen to help drive the Spanish from this, their last stronghold in the Western hemisphere. A conference ol the foreign ministers of the 21 Republics begins at 4 p. m. tomorrow, when President Laredo Bru of Cuba welcomes the assembled delegates.
P).—The mysterious shrinkage of , men’s garments sold throughout | the country which has plagued cloth and clothing manufacturers for the past six years was believed by authorities to be solved today |'as result of the arrest of three men,
William Jones, 35, said to be pro- | prietor of a Kensington sponging company; James Mitchell, 35, Clementon, N. J., and Charles | Steinberg were arrested last night | and $5000 in cloth was seized, de- | tectives said. The alleged con- | spiracy involved $200.000. Jones and Mitchell were held on $10,000 bail, and Steinberg was held on $570 bail. Manufacturers throughout the country sent bolts of suiting to Jones’ company to be shrunk hy sponging before delivery to clothing firms, police said, but instead of sponging the clot, Jones cut three yards from each bolt--the normal shrinkage—and returned the bolt. Mitchell carried the ends to Steinberg, who disposed of them to small tailors, it was alleged.
YARDS TO IMPROVE
The conference was called by the
By JOE ALEX MORRIS Great Britain and the Axis powers squared off today, for a battle to victory or destruction. on a South England harbor today as a grim reminder, Seventeen Nazi planes, apparently Dorniers, escorted fashion at ships anchored in the harbor. ome heard reports of Fascist plans for a great Medie on the British naval stronghold of Gibraltar, Berlin reported that Nazis were denouncing as ‘‘shamee render on threat of an annihilating blitzkrieg attack for which all is in readiness. an end to the war on his own terms and speeded up defense preparations with the cry: “Let them come!” "2 that they would come and probably soon. news bulletin indicated that authori tative Vatican quarters believe Adolf opportunity to ask what Germany's a peace terms might be. Does Not Doubt Vitality of : ' | were represented as believing that Americas, He Says in British action in at least inquiring prevent clashes leading to the dee struction of one or both nations. | HAVANA, Cuba, July 20 (U. P.).— ons U. 8. Secretary of State Cordell Hull wi 1s noted that the Fuehrer, ale though speaki | Conference would ough speaking as a conqueror, ‘demonstrate “the vigor and vitality |the destruction of the British Eme gether in common interest.” “This might offer an occasion | The Secretary said that he re-|for Britain to ask what Hitler be (friends and in the interests of 8nce of a new clash which would lead to destruction of one of the | “We are meeting to discuss prob- g lems essential to the life of the|Hitler himself affirms prophetically doubt that this consultation will phe, ar, that of the British Emprove to be a demonstration of the : derstood, were examining the text republics working together in com- o iv ; ! of Hitler's speech with especial in i § ida, ard was. iieciet by Otiod g to an end of hostilities, States Embassy officials and the Cu- 336 Killed in Month English Channel Coast again today and the German High Command tacked shipping, harbors, power stations and other objectives, shoot« Among the German raiders were bombers, Stuka dive bombers and reported that bombs had been dropped on southeast and southeast and southwest England and that one German plane had been British bombers, in their latest raids on Germany, bombed the | Essen in the Ruhr and pilots re= United States to seek a solution|ported an explosion in the works nomic and military problems con-|to London. Factories and oil depots fronting the new world peoples as at Bremen, Hannover and Emden Upon the shoulders of silver- dromes, Britons said. Berlin admite haired, soft-spoken Mr, Hull rests ted bombings in northern and west
United Press Foreign News Editor German bombing planes launched a lightning attack by Messerschmitt fighting craft, smashed in blitzkrieg terranean offensive in which Spain would aid an attack ful” the British defiance of Adolf Hitler's demand for sure | London reacted coldly to the Nazi Fuehrer's call for There was no doubting However, a semi-official Vatican | Hitler's speech gives Great Britain Authoritative Vatican quarters abouy German peace terms might Havana Talk. : Vatican Sees Peace Hope |said today that the Inter-American unquestionably | aoain declared that he never wanted (of American republics working to-|Pire.” the News Bulletin said. turned to Cuba as a friend among |!i€Ves might make possible avoid= | American solidarity. : two empires—a destruction that | Americas,” he said. “I have no|Must be, in case of prosecution of vigor and vitality of the American High Vatican quarters, it was unconcer 55 - | Mr. Hull arrived on the S. S. Flor- eern for possible avenues lead (kan Secretary of State. German hombers swarmed over the said that they had successfully ate ing down 21 British planes. fighters. The British Government west Scotland and northeast, south shot down by a British fighter. great Krupp Munitions Works at through united action of the eco-|after a direct bomb hit, according a result of old world wars | were attacked, as were various aire | much responsibility for the success ern Getmany and said five of the
or failure of what is regarded as the most important inter-American conference in history. Latin American countries, some oft them already under pressure from totalitarian economics, are [looking to Mr, Hull for a means to maintain their freedom of action.
United Press
raiders were shot down. Britain announced today that 336 |civilians had been killed and 478
(seriously injured in air raids since.
(June 18. There were 479 persons killed in air raids in the month of June, half of which was covered in (Continued on Page Three) o ” ”
Today's War Moves
By J. W. T. MASON }
War Expert
Chancellor Hitler's Reichstag warning to the British Empire to seek
TRUCK FACILITIES
(Details, Page 9)
Plans for improving truck facili[ties at the Indianapolis Stockyards lat a cost of $100,000 were announced today. ’ Included in the work, which will begin about Aug. 1, will be moving the Belt Railroad sidings, building concrete loading and unloading docks, a T5-car garage and parking lot for 1000 trucks.
REPORT MARTINIQUE PEACE IS DISCUSSED
WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P.) — Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles conferred separately today with the British and French Ambassadors to this country, giving rise to reports that he is seeking a peaceful settlement of the Martinique dispute in th€ Caribbean.
peace or face destruction was accompanied by assurances to the Gere man people that Germany's “food supplies are assured however long the war may last.” This reterence to a lengthy war is the first Hitler has made. Hitherto German predictions have been based on a quick con= clusion of the conflict, the end of this summer being the extreme date, The Fuehrer further stated that “our productive capacity is on the|to a possibly complete prevention of increase and imports. The war now is in its within a short y time will be suf~ 10th month during most of which ficient for our EL [time Germany has been receiving | considerable imports of essential
requirements, materials through neutral countries
even if our im-
pons Shonid : 7 and because the British blockade las foot had ok Sompistely covered all | means o ess. Sevelation that | Now, however, German occupation a DB of Norway, Denmark, Holland and lis as yet ina de~ | Belgium and Italy’s belligerency . have permitted the British Govern»
Qusle Jor: wa ment to cease its liberal treatment
his first admis- Mr. Mason sion that Germany ‘faces cessation countries. During the past two of imports due, of course, to the months effectiveness of the British British blockade. blockade has been much increased, The promise that productive There can be no doubt that Gere capacity soon will be adequate is many is now receiving much less not sustained by Hitler's reference (Continued on Page Three)
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'BRITAIN'S ‘COME ON’ DEFIES HITLER |
REED, REBELOF Willkie 51%—FDR 49% in N. Y. State
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