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XO. 86. WEDNESDAY MORXIXG, AUGUST 30, 1939. Kntpred as Second-Class Matter at Post Indianapolis, lnd. Issued Daily and Sunday.

THREE CENTS. Lza City Drops Plans to Buy Water Utility? rLl mm mm BE MM Ml I MM CTTa Yo) II Ufll I1Q IIP remen Encounters Delay on Trip to Herman P. Liebcr, Civic Leader, Dies fi! .1 AGENTS FAIL TO GUARANTEE ESTATE TITLE r-r PARIS PAPERS SAY ANSWER MAKES STRONG OBJECTIONS, DEMANDS LAND SETTLEMENT Excited London Leaders Study Fuehrer's Note Until Wee Hours of Morning Chamberlain Tells Commons Nation Not to Concede a "Jot" in Supporting Poland's Independence. -a; HERMAN P. MF.BF.R.

INSISTS BORDER TENSION BE ENDED Oft 1 Tl 'I Paris, Aug. Wednesday). This morning's newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler' reply to Britain's proposals regarding; Poland was "long and full of strong objections," with Hitler Insisting' that Germany' demands on Poland be met before other problems ara discussed ill amicable fashion. Generally the newspapers considered the. situation to be "as grave London, Aug.

(Wednesday). (AP) The British Cabinet was tailed this morning to study a communication from Adolf Hitler which Trime Minister Neville Chamberlain had indicated might turn the "precarious balance" between peace and war. The Fuehrer's answer to a statement of the British position, described by the prime minister as not moving "a jot" from support of Poland, was received here last night amid much activity at No. 10 Downing street. There, at the prime minister's residence, Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax studied the German reply until early this morning.

i WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN TANK Workers Sanitation Plant Make Discovery Three Groups Investigate. Police, deputy prosecutors and the coroner's ollice lasl night opened an investigation into the mysterious death of Mrs. Lena Miller, 39-year-oid housewife, whose body was found yesterday afternoon in a septic tank at the city sanitation plant. Unidentified for several hours, the body lay in the city morgue, until it was pointed out by thei husband, Harry Miller, .30, 207 South Davidson street, early last night. The body, dressed in the same clothing in chich Mrs.

Miller had left; her home hours earlier, was discovered by employes in one of about 40 open septic tanks in Eagle woods on South Harding street. It bore no apparent, evidence of foul play, Dr. Norman K. Booher, deputy coroner, said. Following a post-mortem exami-nMion last night at city morgue, Dr.

Booher withheld a verdict, until of specimens he sub-milted to Dr. Rolla N. Haider, toxicologist at the Indiana University medical center. Dr. Rooher said the lungs did not contain enough water to indicate death by drowning.

Meanwhile, detectives began a close check of Mrs. Miller's movements after she left her home Monday night, and investigated a report, that, two men, in a black or blue coupe, had been seen near the sanitation plant early yesterday morning. Arnold Siefker, 4015 Ruckle street, master mechanic at the planl, said the body could not have passed through the sewer. The tank itself is 125 feet, long, 12 feet wide and 15 feet deep, is protected by a two-bar guardrail and is kept under flood light at night. The grounds are well lighted.

Tells of Seeing Coupe. Houston C. While, 229 Morgan street, night watchman at the plant, told detectives that the coupe, bearing two men and a woman, passed slowly near the tank at .3:35 o'clock yesterday morning. He was unable to I Welfare Worker, Former City Council Member Was 65. Herman P.

Lieber, president and treasurer of the H. Lieber Company and prominent in business and civic affairs of Indianapolis many years, died at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon in St. Vincent's Hospital. He was 65 years old. A lifelong resident of the city, Mr.

Lieber was a member of the prominent family that provided many of the cultural and social leaders of earlier Indianapolis. His home was at 1415 Central avenue. Funeral services will be held in the Flanner Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall creek parkway. Time of the services has not been set. Cremation will follow.

Active in public life as well as in business affairs, Mr. Lieber had served on the city Council and had been active in social welfare work. In 1931 he was named the year's honorary member of the Indianapolis Community Fund for his service to the city. Wins Baxter's Praise. "To recount the factors which have entered into the selection of Mr.

Lieber for this honor would be to recount the part he has taken in every good and forward movement in this community during his entire life," Arthur R. Baxter, then president, of the fund, said in his announcement of the honor. The (iernian liner Bremen, detained In New York last night by nit I'd States customs olliorrs, Is shown here crowded with persons on its recent arrival in America. Many of them hurryliiK from war-fearful Europe, the pas sengers for two days were cut off from the world with Incoming and outgoing radio messages banned. All vessels from Europe were crowded to rapacity and cots were set up in lounges and smoking rooms.

Johnson Piles Up Mississippi Lead Bilbo Backed Candidate Elected Governor on Unofficial Returns. Jackson, Aug. 20. XP- Paul R. Johnson, running with the political blessing of Senator Theodore G.

(The Man) Bilho, loday was elected Governor of Mississippi on the basis of unofficial returns from nearly three itialtprs of the slate's voting precincts. Johnson held a majority of votes over his rival, Martin Sennet (Mike) Conner, with returns tabulated from 1,101 of the slate's l.fifiO voting precincls. It. seems certain he would go into office in today's Democratic runoff primnry by a majority that might, touch 25,000 voles. Motion to End Negotiations Adopted by Mayor's Subcommittee, Citizens' Advisory Group.

The city yesterday abandoned plans to purchase the Indianapolis Water Company. At a meeting in the office ot Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, members of the Citizens' Advisory Committee and the mayor's subcommittee adopted a motion to stop negotiations to buy the utility. The proposal was abandoned because of failure of representatives 14 ricr octnte n-npr of the company, to guarantee title to the city in the event or purchase. Directors of the Indianapolis utilities' district and members of the citv Council will meet later with Mayor Sullivan to hear the report of the two committees officially and to act on it.

This will be a mere formality, however, the mayor explained. Councilmen, the mayor and the utility directors, under a new Indiana law, must approve any utility purchase in Indianapolis. Believe Deal Is Off: The door for further negotiations, however, was left slightly-ajar hv terms of the motion, but both Mayor Sullivan and committee members expressed the opinion that the deal is off. If, at some future date, the Geist estale should make a title guaran tee to the city, it is possible that negotiations might he reopened but it. is known that H.

S. Schutt, president of the water company and executor of the estate, has called oft his negotiations and has decided to continue operation of the company as a private utility. The motion to abandon efforts to purchase the company was offered by Frank B. Ross, a member of the Board of Public Safety and a member of the mayor's subcommittee. It was seconded by Ernest C.

Rop-kev, a member of the city Council and the subcommittee. The resolution is as follows: "Harry S. Schutt, one of the xecutors of the Geist estate, together with C. W. McNear and Fred Bales Johnson, attended the last meeting of Ihe subcommittee and stated, in substance, that the Geist estale would not.

indemnify the city against unknown Federal and state taxes and other claims that might be asserted against the Geist. estate, the Indianapolis Water Company, the Indianapolis Waterworks Security Company and the Indianapolis Waterworks Investment Company. Must Obtain Indemnity. "Mr. Will H.

Thompson, attorney for the utilities district, has advised the city and the utilities district that unless indemnity is obtained there is likely to be substantial cost of acquisition of the property of the Indianapolis Water Company. "In view of the attitude on the part of the representatives of the Geist estate, I now move that the subcommittee and the citizens' advisory committee recommend to the mayor, the common Council and the" utilities district, that Ihe ritv abandon all present efforts to purchase the Indianapolis Water Company." The motion was adopted with but one dissenting vote. Mayor Sullivan said one man, whose name was not disclosed, favored purchase of the utility ithout the guarantee because "it would be a great bargain." Although the bond market situation was not. mentioned in the motion, it, is known that it was considered at yesterday's meeting. The deal was predicated on the Turn To Page 3.

Column 4. Princeton Balked On Water Voting Spo'o io Ihif IndianciDoHs Star. Princeton, Aug. 20. Al U.S.

DENY 2 SCHOOLS' PLEA FOR BUSES Board Members Accept Bids For Construction Work At Irvington. A request for bus transportation for children attending Schools HK and 4.3, many of whom have to walk long distances, was denied Inst night, by the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners following a report by an investigating commit tee. The committee explained that many children In oilier schools have to walk equally long distances to school and unless transportation could be provided for all it was deemed inadvisable to grant Ihe request. The board accepted bids for construction work on Thomas Carr Howe High School as follows: General construction work, Service Construction Company, heating and ventilating, Fred G. Janits, plumbing and sewer work.

Strong Brothers, $1.1,478, and electrical work. Keystone Klectrlc Company, $0,177, I dice lo Cost $1,120, The Continental Steel Corporation, with a low hid of $4,120, was awarded the contract for a chain The board adopted a resolution requesting the PWA to make changes in its latest revised estimated cost for School 20 so as to transfer unexpected balances in construction classification balances to a Tund for the purchase of three lots for the site of the building. The board now owns part of the necessary land. A recommendation by iJeWllt S. Morgan, superintendent of schools, that night, schools be conducted during the coming school year at Arsenal Technical High School, Kmmeri'h Manual Train- cial subjects.

Two Naval Fliers Die In Crash Off California San Diego, Aug. 29. G. M. Trumbower, 24 years i if Oio, naval ifHPrvf iii'i, hiiu ji.

i- Raller. 24. radioman first class jwere killed today when their scouting plane crashed flames a mile offshore from Carlsbad. Weather Forecast. Jim Crow says: That invasion of Germany by po- l.n hftv Jitterbugs, jitterbugs.

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Maximum Wi. 9:30 p. m. 80 I Minimum bj ssJjtuf lin A I INFOC MP LIMLIIU. I Ull ai-imp ornnnn HMYId OLHKOII Bremen, Others Kept in Port Germans Protest Kuhn Flight Attempt Feared.

New York, Aug. 29, (JP) The collector of the port of New York tonight ordered the German liner Bremen, the Normandie of the French line and the British Arjui-tania and Transylvania to remain at their Hudson river piers "pending a search by customs otlicers satisfactory to me." The big German ship already had been subjected to a day-long search and held many hours be yond her scheduled 6 a. m. (Eastern standard time) sailing time a detention which a North German Llovd Line official said had prompted the German embassy in Washington to protest to the State Department. '(In Washington, however, the State Department several hours later said it had not received such a protest.) Collector Harry Durning's order followed by only a few hours the statement of President Roosevelt at a press conference that the Bremen was being held to make certain she could not be equipped at sea for offense purposes.

The same treatment, the President said, would be given the merchant ships of all potential European belligerents. Renew Search Today. Darning said the search of the Bremen will start afresh in the morning and that the other ships will be searched simultaneously. Delay in the sailing of the Normandie, scheduled to leave at 9 a. and the Aquitania, due to leave at 11 a.

was likely. The Transylvania was scheduled to leave at 4 p. m. The collector said he hoped to complete the search before tomorrow night and that 100 customs men were at work on the Bremen alone. The search, he added, was "absolutely made for arms and nothing else." Today's search of (he Bremen he said, disclosed no guns nothing subject to seizure except a camera and an ikon, a Russian religious image, which he stated were not declared on the ship's manifesto.

Durning's orders to the four ships were contained in telegrams mem. in lew in i.iii? nn-uoj' ing of the ship by dozens of cus toms men. t. r- mlrinp Knpr of the North German Lloyd line, who said the German embassy was protesting to the State Department. Earlier, he denounced the enforced delay as "a very unfriendly act" by the United States.

Drechsel said he first had called the matter to the German cm- Turn To Page 4, Column .5. Cruiser to Take mouth, then south on U. S. 31 to' approprianon oy congress. The cruiser will be on Indiana highways several hours.

Its maximum cruising speed is 25 miles an hour and highway officials said if probably would go much slower than that, most of the way. The airDlane. which the cruiser tires are 12 feet tall and are three, and a half feet in diameter. The! machine has a cruising range of 5,000 miles when, loaded. ino man Indiananolis hasiio The Democratic nomination hre.jn) means elect ion.

I Conner's defeat was a blow Will Know Today. Paris, Aug. ,30 (Wednesday Premier Edouard Daladier, showing the strain of days of ceaseless Kronen preparations for possible war, snld early today, "We will know today where we stand." He referred to Hitler's note to Iondon. Co to Safe Ports, British Ships Told New York, Aug. 2(1.

P) The New York Herald-Tribune short wave radio station tonight intercepted British admiralty orders instructing all 'British niercliant vessels lo proceed to British ports and leave Italian, German and other waters. The admiralty Instructed merchantmen bound for Germany, Danish or Dutch ports, whether in Ihe North sea or beyond, to return to United Kingdom ports. The same orders were given British ships in German, Danish or Dutch porls north of latitude 50 degrees nort h. The broadcast, advised ships bound into Ihe Mediterranean from the Atlantic to call at. Gibraltar and await orders and for ships In or bound for the Red sea to proceed to Suez or Aden.

Ships were warned not. to visit Italian ports and those in Italy were told to leave, Ships plying the Black sea were ordered to the Sea of Marmora. A later order instructed vessels on the high seas to open sealed orders. devoted more time, shown saner "Pending search by customs of-judgment, broader sympathies or fleers satisfactory to me clearance given finer diplomacy to the ad-1 will not be granted." this cause through! r- i many years, and in difficult sea-! ynic than Herman Lieber Officials of the German line, who "In the field of art and culture 1 said wpre n'1'5'1 Dur-Herman Lieber has been an out-'nin? was "not fully satisnd standing figure in raising arch' expressed amaze- aspirations of Senator Pal. Harrison, ho backed him, and Governor Hugh White, who also backed Conner and who hoped to have a friendly Governor in nlflce when he is expected next year to attempt to unseat Biiho In the Senate.

Bilho, who advocates a third term for President Roosevelt, announced his support, of Johnson, while Harrison, an occasional opponent of Roosevelt policies, let it be known he was for Conner. Third Washing Stolen, standards of our city. In the arena of politics he played a prom inent part, never'for his own ben- efit but ever for the good of us an. in tne business life of the city his name stands as a landmark for progressive business done upon the highest possible ethical standards. "Mr.

Lieber was a most unusual example of a well-rounded life of usefulness in many directions, and Turn To Page 3, Column 3. Byrd's Giant Snow Woman Tells Police S('ho1 "nd A(-vy oman ens route u(i( Kh St.hoo, wa, approved Three weeks ago, Mrs. John hv the board. Caylor, .365 Burgess avenue, "j.os for the night schools will washed, hung her clothes up ln.h a semester hour for aca-Ihe back yard and went hack into H. snfj vocational subjects and the house.

When she came out a semester hour for commer Then leaving the Foreign Office about. a. m. (7:30 p. Central standard time Tuesday), Halifax announced a Cabinet meeting had been called for later in the morning.

He did not give the hour. There was no immediate comment on Hitler's message. The prime minister yesterday told the House ot Commons the issue of peace or war was still undecided, and that, upon Hitler's answer "depends whether further time will be given to the explora- (Text of Chamberlain Speech on Page 2.) tion of the situation and for the operation of many forces which are working foV peace." Among the officials who called at Chamberlain's residence while Lord Halifax and the prime minister scrutinized the reply was Sir Horace Wilson, one of Chamberlain's "brain trusters," who figured In last Septemher's crisis negotiations with Hitler. Confer Long Time. Chamberlain and his foreign minister were in conference an hour and 40 minutes.

Frontier tension must be diminished, he said, as "the first pre-' requisite" for peaceful negotiation of the quarrel arising out of Germany's demands for Danzig, the Polish Corridor to the Baltic sea and other concessions from Poland. Premier Reveals Little. Chamberlain disclosed but. little of the diplomatic exchanges that have been flying back and forth between London and Berlin be cause of the "extreme delicacy" of the situation in which grave issues "hang precariously in the balance." "On the nature of that, (the Hit- Turn To Pane 2, Column 5. Immediately after seeing Hen derson tonight, Hitler called for the Italian ambassador to Germany, Bernardo Attolico, who remained in the chancellery 15 minutes.

II Dtice Kept Informed. It was presumed that the Fuehrer's axis partner, Benito Mussolini, was being informed of each step of the negotiations. Von Rihhentron. Friedrich Wil- holm Hans undersecretary of state, and other advisers of the Fuehrer were closeted with Hitler from late forenoon into the evening while the reply was being drafted. Under strict agreement between London and Berlin, officials said, "absolute discretion" would be maintained as to the contents of both the British note of last night and the German reply.

This much, however, was di- Turn To Pagt 4, Column 4. however, whether the car was they had been stolen, stopped later. Two weeks ago, Mrs. John Detectives Donald Bushong andCaylor, .365 Burgess avenue, William Lahrman, assigned to the washed, hung her clothes up in case, learned Mrs. Miller left herj'he back yard and went, back into "Straddling the Road" Course Upstate The giant "snow cruiser" which Admiral Richard E.

Byrd will use on his antarctic expedition this fall will be drhen over Hoosier roads next month on its route from Chicago, where it was manufactured, to Boston. Northern Indiana highways over which it will pass will be closed, some parts for the transcontinental The highways will be guarded by trip. state police, while a special detail: The route through Indiana will of state policemen will accompany be oit lnd. 6 from Chicago to the cruiser. IJ.

c. 31. seven miles north Plv. Germans Like Tenor of British Note, Is Report; Door to Pcaec Left Open Berlin, Aug. Pi Adolf Hitler's answer to the British formula to prevent war over Poland was handed to the British ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, in the Reich's chancellery tonight.

The ambassador, who brought the British proposals from London yesterday, remained with Hitler 25 minutes. It was reported in informed quarters that, in addition to handing over the German note which the Fuehrer and Foreign Minister Joachim von PJbbentrop drafted carefully today, Hitler explained Germany's attitude orally at some length. Definite date for the trip has not been announced. State highway Plymouth, and east on U. S.

.30 commissioners yesterday issued an! (the Lincoln highway) to the Ohio order providing for closing of the! state line. It will detour in Fort roads, however, within 24 hours Wayne because of a low underpass after they receive word from Chi-; on U. S. .30. Among towns the ma-cago that the cruiser is ready 10 1 chine will go through are Hobart, start.

Plymouth, Warsaw, Columbia City T. A. Dicus, highway commis- and Fort Wavne. home Monday nieht. Miller, the! husband, told them he went out on the porch to smoke and returned to find his wife had left.

He reported her missing the next, morning, police records showed. The body was found by Robert Turn To Page 4, Column 1. How II to SCARLETT O'HARA By VIVIEN LEIGH America's most envied heroine, the girl vho came from England to take the leading part in "Gone Vith the Wind," tells her story In THIS WEEK The Star's Colorgravure Magazine NEXT SUNDAY i I the house. When she rame out they had been stolen. Yesterday, Mrs.

John Cay' uh-huh, they'd been stolen again. Mrs. Caylor told the police; about it. Angry Bull Joins Chase, So Fugitive Surrenders Charleston, S. Aug.

29. (U Hubert Owens was held on a Federal liquor charge with the honor of his capture going to a bull. Federal alcohol tax unit agents were chasing Owens. He leaped from his car and afoot into a field and slammed right into 8 grazing bull. The outraged animal joined the chase and Owens was glad enough to be rescued -and arrested by the Federal men.

Chief Louisiana Engineer If tjected rom Dinner nail New Orleans La Aug 20. (ft Col. Harry Jacobs, chief Louisi- ana state engineer, tonight was, engineer eject ed from a testimonial dinner for Brig. Gen. Harley B.

Ferguson, president of the Mississippi river commission, when Jacobs, in a speech, belittled Fergusons flood (control work. Jacobs ascended the speakers'; Irilatform and exnressed indignation i that Ferguson had not glen in Iyiuisiana slate engineers due crenn ror ine wom nou iii curbing the Mississippi riv river. i though polling booths were in sion chairman, announced the place, ballots printed and election plans for accommodating the gi-; io Keacn Koston net. js. boards named.

Princeton citizens gantic machine after a conference The machine is scheduled to did not vote today on the adminis-lof the commissioners and J. T. reach Boston by Oct. 15 and will tration's plan for acquiring thejv'oshell of Chicago, shipped aboard the U. S.

Coast water works svstem now operated1 of the Federal Bureau of Public Guard ship Northland. The Byrd bv a private utility. Roads, which is arranging witn -expedition will be financed by an What the German reply was roi British proposals remained a profound official secret, but hints from informed quarters and the more optimistic attitude of everyone in the German chancellery and Foreign Office indicated that the way was open for further negotiations. Note Conellatory, Report. II was reported reliably that the British communication was, from the German noint of view, "con ciliatory and far reaching," and thnt the German view now was that the lieich had everything to gain by continuing the discussions.

Henderson left the chancellery, presumably to make an immediate renort to London. Prime Minister Neville Chambor-jlain of Great Britain earlier in the day had been given Hitler's generally and informally stated views a noie wnicn me putmn ma- nnHnn hw nlanp hefrtre the final draft of the Reich's reply JII.LII ll L', i-i-j highway authorities along the en-. tire route from Chicago to Boston. Wider Than Highway. The cruiser will take up practically the entire highway width, and, on U.

S. 31 part of the route, The latest round in the fight was sounded last night when Judge John W. Spencer Jr. of the Van-derburg Circuit Court in Evans-ville granted a restraining order in a suit brought by 18 plaintiffs against the city administration. A complaint has been filed in Gibson Circuit Court but since Judge A.

Dale Eby was out of the city the case was laid before the Vanderburgh judge. The complaint alleges that proper ordinances have not been enacted by the Council. Judge" Spencer, after issuing the restraining order, said the hearing for an' injunction would be set by Judge Eby Sept. 11. will be too wide for the pavement.

carripS on special eqipment atop The wheels, equipped with rubber the machine, will not be in place tires, are 19 feet 8 inches apart i for the trip to Boston. The ma-ifrom center edge to outer chine is 55 feet. 8 inches long and while V. S. .31 pavement is only 18 its minimum height is 12 feet.

The feet wide. Mr. Dicus said that the body can be raised or lowered sev-tires will "ride the berm" on the eral feet by a hydraulic device. Its seven-mile stretcn on U. S.

31. but that thi4 will not harm the high- way. The machine weighs 55.000 pounds, stripped of equipment and.