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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
STEEL TERMED
AROUND CORNER
Expert Sees 100 Per Cent
Production Hike.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-Charles
F. Abbott, president of the American
Institute of Steel Construction, told
President Hoover today that the
steel industry had turned the
corner" and would increase its pro-
duction. schedules by 100 per cent
by the end of the year.
Abbott said the steel industry was
operating at IS per cent capacity
now, and should be operating at
80 per cent or better" by Jan. /,
1893.
Under present depression condi-
tons, Abbott said, the industry
could make profit operating at 40
per cent of capacity.
Predictions that wheat would go
to 20 cents and that farmers would
keep President Hoover in the White
House was made today by Stanley
Washburn, Lakewood, N. j.. Repub-
lican candidate for congress, after
a conference with the President in
the executive Office.
Chairman Will r. Wood of the
Republican congressional campaign
committee said he told Mr.. Hoover
today that Republican prospects
were brighter now than at any time
since the campaign started.
Business is picking up in In
diana" Wood said. There has
been more steel business at Gary
recently than in the past eighteen
months"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31

Many thousands took advantage
of excursion offers to journey into
the small strip of territory to be
favored by the full shadow of the
moon.
Even static, much maligned ac-
compartment to most radio proceed
ings, was listed on the program of
radio features of the day. At Con-
way, a bell laboratory group in
stalled a vacuum tube amplif1er to
observe the atmospheric disturb
ances.
Other radio scientists at Fryehurg,
Me, Portsmouth, N. H., and other
cities of New England we're as
semoled to listen to the antics of the
electromagnetic waves. E. F w.
AleXanderSon, of the General Elec-
trio laboratories, was prepared to
make a permanent record of the
sound variations with an automatic
recorder, developed by Charles J
Young, son of Owen D. Young
Astronomers from all parts of the
earth gathered at F'rybutg. Me in
a preparatory school football field
where their intricate cameras and
spectroscopes were massed.
Among the scientists there were
DR.. j. H. Moore of Lick Observatory.
Mt. Hamilton. Cal: DR.. Herbert D.
curtis OF the University of Michi-
gan; DR.. Oliver J. Lee Of Dearborn
observatory associated with North
western university.
On a golf course near Magoe
Quebec. Dutch. British, American
and Canadian scientists waited
lhirty tents we're pitched upon
the falrways. Under the canvas
were a quarter of a million dollars
worth Of telescopes, cameras and
scientific instruments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
M'ADOO HOLDS BIG
SENATEVOTELEAD

81 United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31.-Tal-
liant Tubbs, vigorous young state
senator and repealist, will oppose
the veteran William Gibbs McAdoo
for election to the senatorial post
now held by United States Senator
Samuel Shortridge, election returns
from Tuesdays statewide primary
indicated today.
Tubbs led Republican primary
ticket of five candidates with 144.O44
votes. Senator Shortridge was Sec
ond with 116,483; the Rev. Robert
Fighting Bob Shuler. Los Angeles.
had 1882; Congressman Joe Grail.
Los Angeles, 96,245, and Leo V.
Youngworth, 1852. The vote was
from 6,S23 precincts out of 1851.
McAdoo, on the political come
back trail. had 139,471 votes. giving
him an apparently safe lead in the
Democratic column. Justus F.
Wardell, San Francisco. his closest
rival, was trailing with 76.615 on the
basis of returns from 6,823 precincts.
DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 81. - Mrs.
Miriam A. MAJ Ferguson appeared
today TO have won the Democratic
nomination for Governor Of Texas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
Spend Week End Here
SET CAMPAIGN DATE

Democrats to Fire Open Gun in In
diana on Sept. 26.
Setting Sept. Is as the formal
opening date of the Democratic
campaign in Indiana, members of
the state committee and candidates
met today with Chairman r. Earl
Peters to select the city where the
opening shot is to be fired.
Details of the campaign are to be
worked out together with the man.
ner in which the candidates and
speakers will be routed.
Campaign department heads made
their reports and district chairmen
discussed the sentiment in the art s
over which they preside. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
sun ECLIPSE
EARTH INTO SHADOW
Equality in
Arms Asked
by Gernans
Military Force as Strong as
That of France Is
Demanded.
BIZ United Press

bB CHucu LTeSS
PARIS. Aug. 31.-Germany in
formed the French government to-
day of her desire for military equal
ity with France and other European
nations. including the right to
fortify the French and Polish from
tiers and abrogate the provisions of
the Versailles treaty limiting the
German army strength to 100000
men.
1t was understood that similar
communications were sent to the
British and Italian governments
through their Berlin embassies.
The Germans stressed that they
considered the military provisions
of the Versailles treaty has been
abrogated by the allies failure to
reduce their own armies.
The German demand eliminated
two years of preparation at dis
armament meetings at Geneva
where Count Won Bernstorff first
electrified the League of Nations
preparatory disarmament commits
sion by demanding parity in dis
armament for the reich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
Called misunderstanding

Attitude of a Rushville building
and loan association on functions
of the home loan bank is result of
a misunderstanding, Fermor S. Can
non, head of the Railroadmen's
Building and Savings Association.
said today Cannon also is presi-
dent of the Marion County Building
and Loan Association.
Contrary to the common belief
that the bank will aid the indivi
dual, its functions will affect only
closed institutions depending on re-
covery by realizing on good mort
cages, Cannon explained.
THE home loan bank will lift
these mortgages from closed insti-
tutions and set them going again.
and will be long stride toward
recovery" Cannon declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31

A moment more and total
ity was gone, sweeping on
again across Hudson bay,
down upon the north woods
of Canada, on to the fertile
lands and thence striking the
United States first at Derby,
high on the Vermont-Cana-
dian frontier.
Just before 230 p. m. 0ndian-
apolis time). the racing shadow
sweeps full upon the states of Maine
and New Hampshire.
Mingled Weather Reports
There world scientists have con-
centrated their hopes and plans.
Batteries of cameras and tele-
scopes are ranged about the hills
and valleys. WaSp-like airplanes
will soar 10000 feet above the
clouds.
Packed millions will crowd the
roof tops of industrial cities.
Radio broaccasters will shout the
news to other millions across the
land.
In 102 seconds, the shadow band
will have raced on, out across the
gulf of Maine. to open sea, disap-
pearing in mid-ocean, 5000 miles
from its Arctic starting place
These plans, of course, depend
on visibility. This forenoon there
were mingled reports of clouds and
sunshine in New England, but the
prospects and hopes were for clear
weather this afternoon in time for
the great drama of the heavens.
The eclipse, the only total eclipse
scheduled for this country until
1868. should be visible to a hundred
million persons unless drab, con-
trary clouds, hide the drama of the
skies.
Corona TO Be Watched
If the clouds do their worst, the
work of scientists for a decade or
more will be for nothing. Their
equipment, costing millions of dol
lars, and years Of labor, was scat
tered from football fields of Maine
to golf courses in Quebec to record
natures great phenomenon.
While the scientists looked on
with the coStliest equipment. mil
lions in the gallery crowd prepared
colored goggles, smoked watch
crystals or spectacles. logged film or
camera plates through which to
watch.
Others planned to listen in on
static, on the tricks played by sun
and moon with electricity in the air,
on the story of what was happen
ing between the earth and sun
described by a radio announcer
more accustomed to describing
events between chalked lines on a
football field.
Many scientists were concerned
chiefly with pictures of the suns
growing glory" the corona; and
the fash spectrum. The corona is
the brilliant. dazzling halo that
breaks through the gases or atmo-
sphere around the rim of the sun at
the moment the moon hides the
entire surface of the sun. The flash
spectrum is the rainbow-like display
which flashes just a moment before
the total eclipse.
Motion picture cameras were
everywhere, occupying all points of
vantage, towers, buildings. noun
tains, airplanes, so that an inquisi-
tive world dazzled by a sight it
could not understand might see that
sight again as the cameras saw it..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
HEAT GRIP TO BREAK
Relief From Torrid Wave
Scheduled Tonight.

Break in the four day heat wave
was expected in the next twenty
four hours with showers and cooler
weather predicted for tonight and
Thursday.
Today the mercury jumped eleven
degrees to IS at 9 a. m. and was
expected to soar above 80 by noon.
Tuesday the mercury hit 90 for the
hottest Aug. 80 since 1881, pushing
the temperature to twelve degrees
above normal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
ID Injured in Clash

SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. Aug. 81
Fourteen persons were reported in
jured today after deputies clashed
with farmers establishing picket
lines on all highways leading into
the city in their effort to raise the
price of milk.
Sticks. stones and barrel slaves
we're used in the melee resulting
when the farmers rolled barrels
across the highways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
WOUND IS IN
FARM STRIKE
GUN BATTLE
PiCketS Are Fired On Near
Cherokee, Ia, as They
Guard Highways.
MYSTERY MARKS AFFAIR
Woman Tells of Injured
Men Being Brought to
Home for Aid.

By JHucd Press
CHEROKEE. Ia, Aug. 31.-Farm-
ers striking for higher prices were
fired upon as they picketed the
highways leading to Cherokee Tues
day midnight.
Fifteen we're wounded as the farm
strike f1ared into major violence
after having been started as a
peaceful effort to boost farm prices
to what was termed the cost Of pro-
duction.
The identity of the wounded
farmers and of the men who shot
them remained a mystery. SO COM
pick and delicate was the situation
that authorities refused to talk
about it.
At the scene Of the violence near
this small northwestern Iowa town
today there remained only an absn-
doned automobile, its tires and body
riddled with bullet holes. The car
bore the registration card of Ben
Archer.
In a nearby residence lives Mrs.
Frank Phipps who said that about
fifteen injured men were brought TO
my home at midnight after having
been wounded while picketing."
Violence Is Confirmed
The violence likewise was con-
firmed by DR.. William Wise, who
treated the wounded men and de-
clared one was so badly hurt he may
die DR., Wise would not identify
any of the victims.
Picketing had been in progress
here for more than a week in con-
nection with the farmers holiday
BY Tuesday night, the pickets had
become so numerous and enthus-
iastic that they were stopping al
most every car approaching the city
whether it was a truck or a pas
senger vehicle.
Sheriff Arthur H. Tilton confirmed
that the shooting occurred, but said
no law enforcement officers we're
present.
I have only one deputy Tllton
said, land know he was home in
bed"
From farmers who refused to
identify themselves came the report
that Tuesday afternoon man from
Peterson, in Clay county was halted
by pickets on his way to a funeral.
He was reported to have left the
scene in rage.
Intense Excitement Prevails
Then, after dark, an automobile
approached picket camp at a ga
rage, and when a log w0s thrown
across the road tear gas bomb
was thrown from the car, which
!olted over the log and Speeded
away.
Reports Of the gassing spread rap
lily through the picket camps sur
rounding the town, and when a pas
senger car approached picket
group near the stockyardS, mile
south of Cherokee. some time later
the pickets blockaded the road.
1t was here that the shooting
occurred.
There was intense excitement in
Cherokee today. There were re-
ports that the sheriff had called for
aid from the Governor there we're
reports that he hadn't
At Des Moines, the Governor
secretary said the Governor had
received no report Of the affair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31

patterns, trained it's tele-
scopes and cameras Skyward,
plotting moon mountains and
solar prominences like map
ping some known suburban
town.
The moons shadow struck
the earth at 1:04 p. m. In-
dianapois time).
It's first full contact of to-
tality fell upon the Polar sea,
north beyond Baffinland,
amid the eternal ice.
At that moment, its effect
became visible throughout
the penumbra, the great sha-
dow belt-covering the entire
United States-where a par
tial eclipse was observed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
Halt to Fix Broken Cable
on Auto Battery Brings
Fatal Shooting.

An indianapolis youth lies dead
of a bullet wound today after
strange turn of fate ended an all
day picnic party in tragedy.
The youth is Joseph o. Lee, 20, of
1882 Croft avenue, who died in city
hospital early today an hour after
being shot as a theft suspect in a
filling station west of Speedway
City, on the Charlottesville road.
He was graduated from Washing
ton high school last year.
AS a result Wilbur TomlinSon,
"a, of 1851 West Michigan street,
the attendant, faces a charge of
murder, while detectives seek to
unravel circumstances of the fatal
shooting
While en- route home shortly after
midnight following an all-day out
ing two autos, containing the pic
nickers, halted in the filling station
yard to repair broken battery ca
BILE.
A few minutes later, the cars were
driven away. followed by volley OF
shots from the attendants gun.
Gaiety as Death Rides
Unaware that one of their party
had been shot, the car in which
young Lee was riding continued on,
the gaiety uninterrupted except that
Lee apparently had gone to sleep
Then. Miss Hilda Moppert, 16, Of
1921 West Tenth street, riding in the
rear seat. saw pool of blood on the
floor of the car.
Two versions of the tragedy were
given to police and deputy sheriffs
Tomlinson, whose filling station
has been looted several times in the
last few months, said he was
awakened while sleeping in the
station by sound of arriving autos.
Attempted Theft Charged
Looking through the window, he
said, he saw Lee seize a tire from
a rack, outside the station, and
carry it to the car, which then was
driven away.
The youth was rushed to city hos
pital where he died in presence Of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. F. Lee.
Lees companions, however, de-
clare the shooting resulted from
mistake.
AS the two cars prepared to leave
the station, they told police, Lee
glanced behind and saw the tire
laying where the cars had been
parked.
1T looks like we've left a tire"
they quoted Lee as sayings
He returned to the scene and
carried the tire to the car, they said.
Didn't Know Boy Was Shot
Tomlinson told deputies, however,
that he heard Lee tell his compan-
ions:
Here's a good tire. Do we want
it?"
Tomlinson said he was not aware
of having shot anybody.
Another member of the party
SoAN AAAdt w A411olit 0Pdul 10, Vi
974 Belle View place, driver of the
Car in which Lee was riding.
stopped at the station to repair a
tire. Occupants OF the other car
tod deputies the stop was made
to repair battery cable on their
car.
Other members of the party were
John O'Neal Jr., 10, and Robert
ONeal, Is, both sons of Police Ser
geant Jack O'Neal; Miss Carolyn
Kord. II, of 81 North Belle Vieu
place; Miss Ann Moppert, a sister
Of Hilda. and William Russell, Is, of
l042 North Mount street.
Survivors of the dead youth in adj
dition to the parents are three
sisters, Mary, Is: Lillian, s; Luella.
4, and brother. Richard, 6.
Arrangements for the funeral
have not been made. Burial will
be in Brooklyn, Ind, home of Mrs.
Lee
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31

Her lead on the basis of unofficial
returns, however, was so slight that
all parties agreed the result would
not be known definitely until after
the official canvas Sept. u.
Complete returns from 246 coun-
ties and partial returns from the
other eight gave Mrs. Ferguson a
lead of 1889 over Ross S. Sterling.
who defeated her two years ego.
The tabulation showed ATS. 735 votes
for Mrs. Ferguson and 473,836 for
Sterling. 1t was estimated that less
than 5000 votes were yet to be
counted.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. 31.-Two
veteran senators today we're assured
OF heated run-off primary Sept.
IA as a result of the Democratic
primary election Tuesday. E. D.
Smith, incumbent, and Cole l..
Blease, defeated for reelection two
years ago, we're far ahead in the
four-way race.
Returning from all but 100 of the
states LAS precincts gave Smith,
S9,780; Blease, .74,871: Ashton VIII
liams, 42,S48. and Leon Harris. pro-
hibitiolist, 1851. The remaining
precincts were not expected to alter
the count materially.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
DENIES VALLEE PACT
Attorney Says Crooner Has
Not Agreed to Pay.
BIZ United Press

By Hifed Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 31-The at
tempt to reconcile Rudy Vallee,
radio crooner. and his estranged
wife, the former Fay Webb, will be
continued until Il am convinced
that it is hopeless" Lyman Bushel,
Valee'S attorney. said today.
And am not convinced Of that
yet, he added.
Bushel denied published reports
that the crooner had agreed to make
an outright settlement of $4,000 and
$1,000 monthly alimony with mis-
wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
LOVE COSTS TWO JOBS
Husbands Flowers Get Wife Fired !;
Then He Is Discharged.

BIZ Times Special
DETROIT, Aug 3l.-Too much
love has spelled disaster for Mrs.
Vena NJ. Miller and her husband.
First. Mrs. Miller was fired be-
cause her husband sent flowers
every day to the Office where she
worked, and the firm could not
keep any one whose husband could
afford TO send flowers every day"
Then Miller. an engineer, was
fired because he stopped his passen-
Ger train to go and buy butter for
his wife.
Then his love cooled. Then her
love cooled. And the judge ended
it all Monday with a divorce decree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
SPEED TESTS SLATED
Nine Filters to Compete Today for
Phillips Trophy.
By United Press

CLEVELAND, Aug. 31.-Closed
course races and further assaults
on the worlds land plane speed rec
ords attracted attention to the ma
tional air races today.
The first closed course race Of
Importance on the ten-day program
will be staged today when nine out
standing speed pilots compete in
the $500 Phillips trophy race for
the Woolarac trophy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
NEW BANK BILL
HELD BLOW TO
HOME BUYERS
Building Association Warns
That Foreclosures May
Be Increased.
LOANS TO BE TIGHTER
Company in Jim WatSon'S
RuShviIIe Riddles His
Cheer Argument.
BY BEN STERN~

While Senator James E. Watson
today was discussing methods of
emphasizing the passage of the
home loan bank bill as his prin-
cipal claim to reelection, a build
ing and loan association at Rush
vile, his home town, was pressing
its borrowers for payments. declar-
ing there would be more foreclos-
ures, instead of less"
A bulletin to borrowing members,
issued by Building Association No.
10 of Rushville, declared that loans
will be frightened" and foreclosures
increased" as a result of the home
loan bank bill.
The bulletin presents new view
of the results to be achieved by the
bill, which, records reveal, reposed
in Watson's custody for some time,
finally appearing. according to his
own statement, when he felt that it
would mean 10000 votes in Indi-
ana"
Watson Lauds Bill
The bulletin issued by the Rush
vile association followed Watson's
Lake Winona speech, in which he
declared that this bill does some
thing for the little fellow and puts
the grease where the squeak is"
Watson also is preparing an ad-
dress to be delivered at French Lick
Friday when he is scheduled to de-
scribe alleged purposes of the bill,
in an address to the national con-
ference of the United States Build
ing and Loan League.
Publicity experts of the Repub-
lican state committee are preparing
to make this campaign document.
Sent to borrowers by Theodore l..
Heeb, secretary of the Rushviue
Building Association No. 10, the
bulletin states
Recent experience in the matter
of payments on loans leads us to
believe that, with the passage of the
home loan bank bill, there is an i'm
preston that the federal government
is going to- carry your loan.
Tighten Up Bit
This is far, far from correct. The
fact is that we are going to have to
tighten up quite bit if we use our
mortgages as collateral to secure
the banks benefit.
This bulletin to all borrowing
members is to put the situation
squarely before you, in the event
that we use your mortgage as col
lateral for loan.
There is no cenSure in this, but
we certainly do urge you to do the
best you possibly can in your pay
mentS.
Newspaper reports say that fore
closures will be decreased. AS we
see it, they will be increased. Maybe
we are wrong. We don't think so.
but we hope we are"
Following paragraph relating to
the hours for opening and closing
the association, comes the follow
ing:
Sincerely asking that your pay
mentS be made in an amount that
Will be satisfactory to us, we
are
One of the directors of this as
ISOLATION is Charles A. Frazee of
RuShvllle, for years a close friend
Of Watson and his political intimate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
state Man DIES in Bus Crash

BIZ United Press
RACINE, Wis. Aug. 31.-Vincent
Chiabia, Gary 0nd) building con-
tractor, died in a hospital here to-
day after his automobile collided
with Chicago bus. The accident
occurred Tuesday night when CHA
bia turned out to avoid a parked car
and crashed into the bus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
Mother Natures Greatest Show Likely to
Play to World From Stage Setting
of Cloudless Skies.
FAMED SCIENTISTS VIEW VAGARIES
Every Aspect of Awesome Spectacle to Be
Charted by Savants While Laymen
Employ Smoked Glasses.
BY United Press
Today is eclipse day.


Primitive man. terror-stricken in the eere hush and
mury darkness of eclipse would have there the end of
all his world the awful anger of the god hiding his
before the evil ways of Today modern science reason
ing knowing seeking to fit all things within its mathematical
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31

~ " '' " SUNS p Sweeping southeast with
the speed of 6-inch gun proecte the 100-mile wide
shadow belt fell next upon the barren lands Canada the
Arctic and subArctc tundra the lowy aands that
toward the top of the world
Perhaps Mackenzie river Eskimo Indian beating
his way toward lonely trading station the first stand
amazed before the Sioht
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
Heat Victim Dies From Fall

SOUTH BEND, Aug. Slew j.
Eaves, SIS, who fell from ladder at
an ice company Tuesday when over
came by the heat, died today, the
victim of skull fracture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
DIES IN HOTEL LEAP
La Porte Man Ends Life in Chicago,
Leaving Note to Wife.

By United Press
CHICAGO. Aug. 31.-Ernest c.
Probst. so. La Porte, Ind, lesped
to death today from an upper floor
window of the Y. M. c. A. hotel
on South Wabash avenue.
He left a note for his wife, in
care of W. E. Miller, 1908 Scott
street, La Porte, and another to
the hotel manager. directing for
disposition of his belongings. The
letter TO his wife was not opened,
pending arrival of the coroner.