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5 LIQUOR TRAFFIC TARGET OF YORK Antisaloon Leader Is Speaker Before Upstate Methodists. Here's Work for Nazi Bridge Builders 1 Mil Warsaw, June 7. (Special) The liquor business was assailed as "another fifth column" in an address before the North Indiana Methodist Conference today by L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League.

Mr. York spoke at the anniversary observance of the conference's board of temperance. At the same time the board of hospitals and homes held a special program. Citing the fifth-column" menace to democratic governments, Mr. York said: "There is another 'fifth column' which has the au L.

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AYRES CO. v- Mjk; wW Wt v.vv is- wm Sharkskin lJaysuit 2.9$ TUi. WWW '1 iv i DiavMJUt mat wm vour admirer r.nA ofim. Mi 4 4 the foreground. The destruction of this and other bridges had bee anticipated by the Germans, who carried portable bridges which, In many cases, had been to measure." School Gongs Sound Vacation Classroom gongs sounded for the end of the semester at 10 o'clock yesterday morning in public elementary schools and more than 38,000 pupils rushed out to begin the summer vacation.

More than 3,000 eighth-grade pupils who will enter high school In the fall and approximately 4,000 will jump from elementary grades into junior high schools. Although for some the day was the start of more than two months of vacation, school officials expect many pupils at summer classes. Summer enrollment is expected to be greater than usual. Enrollment for summer school classes will be taken at Schools 2, 19, 21, 34, 42, 50, 51, 54, 56, 58, 69, 70, 80, 87 and Crispus Attucks High School. Registration hours will be from 8 o'clock in the morning until noon Monday and Tuesday.

High schools having vacation classes, besides Crispus Attucks, are Shortridge, George Washing ton and Arsenal uecnnicai. Six Given Posts By Church Union Six members were named to serve on the executive committee of the Christian Church Union at their annual dinner meeting last night In the Seventh cnristian Church. New members who will serve three vears are Dr. C. H.

Winders, Jesse E. Martin, the Rev. T. J. Bennett, Walter Manthey, C.

G. Baker and the Rev. John Ray Clark. Earl Farmer was named for one year, to take the place of a member who resigned. Dr.

G. I. Hoover, general secretary of the Indiana Christian Missionary Society, snoke on "Forward With Evangelism." Dr. Hoover stressed the fall and winter evangelistic program. Dr.

S. Grundy Fisher, pastor of the University Park Christian Church, told members of the plans for the National Christian Mission to be held in Indianapolis churches this fall. Victor Kelly, chairman of the board, presided. The Rev. E.

L. Day is executive secretary. More than 150 persons attended. The Rev. Victor R.

Griffin is pas tor of the host church. Two Osteopatht Wed In Ceremony Here Dr. H. Deering Wolfe, Indianapolis osteopath, and Dr. Aribell Baker, daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. J. E. Baker of Brazil, were married in ceremonies performed by the Rev. E.

L. Day, 3048 North Illinois street, in his home last night. The Rev. Mr. Day performed the ceremony of Dr.

and Mrs, Baker more than 30 years ago. Dr. Wolfe has been practicing )n the offices of Dr. Walter S. Grow, Indiananolis osteopath.

Dr. Baker was graduated from the College of Osteopathy at Kirkwell, this June. The Drs. Wolfe will take up residence in Indianapolis. Propaganda Patter jGett 6 Months In Jail Los Angela, June 7.

P) Winton A. 'Smith, 47 years old, was sentenced to six months In jail today for distributing pamphlets not carrying the name of the author, in this case pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic leaflets. i "we musr, ar. mis time, prevent las much as possible any sort of rabble rousing, commented Munic-pal Judge Byron J. Walters in giving Smith the maximum ft' inate alrVfiOWKyi-'ioft Pockets d4wmwt skirt.

izes li iff FUN SHOP-FOURTH FLOOR fit- The French caption on this picture said it shows an explosion which destroyed a bridge in the path of the invading Germans. Notice the wire entanglement In SEVEN AWARDED MEDALS AT PARK 14 Graduated at 20th Commencement Exercises. Seven medals were awarded for scholastic achievements at the 20th annual commencement exercises at Park School yesterday afternoon. Twelve diplomas and two certificates were presented graduating students. Dr.

Louis B. Hopkins, president of Wabash College, made the commencement, address. Prizes and honor grades commendations were presented by E. Francis Bow-ditch, headmaster. Diplomas were presented by Bowman Elder.

Graduates were Alder Lewis Breiner, Charles Hudson Burr, William Line Elder, John Arthur Frantz, Donald Kirch-hoffer, John Sargent Lathrop, John Cowan McLeod. John Edward Meihaus, John H. O. Mertz, Harold Clayton Miller, William McGrath Mooney and Arnold Carl Sanders. Certificates were awarded to Donald Wayne Davidson and Norman Ray Williams.

Class Leaders Receive Medals. The following received medals for Ipnrlinc their rlass rhnln- tically: John Arthur Frantz, seniors; i. victor jveene juniors; Macartan Miner, sophomores; Carl Lieber and Ralph Scheiden-helm, freshmen; Smiley N. Chambers eishth trade, and Albert L. Rabb seventh grade.

Others commended for honor ffmrip Hiirinff the vear were Charles Hudson Burr, John Sar gent Lathrop, John Cowan McLeod, Thomas Wyatt. Binford, John Dickason Gould Stenhen Wayne Terry John LeTellier Wool- ling, William Brown Clark, William Gilbert McWilliams, John Mitchell, David Moxley, David Linne Palmer, Frank Morrison Rabb, Charles Walter Spalding Alexander Lewthwaite Taggart 111, Kicnara West, George Harry Buschmann, Edward Goodrich Dunn, Alvin Mansfield Owsley William Chenowith Griffith Henry William Bennett, John Kuhns Goodwin, Robert Ertel Hollowell Cleon Albert Nafe, Chester Phillip Nelson, John Carl Geupel, Warren Hathaway Simmons and Evans Woollen III. Lower Class Leaders. In the lower schools leaders were Kenneth Hamilton, Wilson Von-Kessler, G. McDonald Garrett Jr.

and Kirbv VonKessler. Followinz the honor citations. John Arthur Frantz was presented the Phi Beta Kappa award, given annually by the Indiana Alpha Association of the society to the outstanding member of the senior class in each of the Indianapolis high schools. It also was announced that Frantz will receive the medal awarded by the Alliance Francaise annually to the senior in each in dianapolis high school who has done outstanding work in French. The H.

C. Adams trophy, awarded each year to the boy who has won a letter in athletics and yet main tained the highest scholastic aver age, was presented to T. Victor Keene Jr. The Lucius B. Swift prize, awarded the junior or senior writing the best unprepared essay on a phase of American history or government, was presented to William McGrath Mooney, Charles Hudson Burr, retiring student council president, then delivered his charge to the school, and was answered by Thomas Wyatt Binford, council presidentelect.

Dr. George Arthur Frantz, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, delivered the invocation and benediction. Demptey Will Speak Richard Dempsey, a senior at Butler University who has been acting as pastor's assistant at the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church, will speak at the service of the church tomorrow morning. The junior choir will sing. The subject will be "Following the Gleam." The Rev.

S. B. Harry is pastor. dacity to state that it stands for temperance, safety and health, when, in fact, it is doing everything possible to create new recruits for the consumption of a poison which is responsible for the alarming increase in venereal, diseases, in the population of our mental institutions, jails and penitentiaries. Appeals to Voter.

"This 'fifth column, the liquor traffic, can be destroyed by ballots in Indiana if Christian people will go to the polls in November and make a target of every candidate who is sympathetic with liquor interests." Dr. Charles W. Brashares of Ann Arbor, lectured before the conference tonight on "If We Could See." Dr. E. T.

Franklin of Fort Wayne presided over the hospitals and homes session, and Dr. W. E. Davis, executive secretary of this branch of the church, was the speaker. Officers were elected at Friday's sessions as follows: Director of Taylor University A.

W. Pugh. Trustees, DePauw University Everett Warner, F. A. Hall and Homer Gettle.

Director of Wesley Foundations Purdue, W. W. Krider; Ball State, C. J. Kerlin and Roy Roude- bush; Indiana University, John Borders and V.

J. Siberal. Visitors Are Chosen. Visitors Boston University school of theology, J. O.

Hoch-stedler; Drew Theological Seminary, Samuel E. Carrath; Garrett, F. A. Ruder; Clark University, W. h.

rreeiand and K. Dougherty; DePauw University, A. H. Backus; Taylor University, C. H.

Smith, Harold Mohler and C. G. Adams. Epworth League Institute Foun dationA. E.

Bauer, C. H. Simons, A. H. Backus and Loren Chastian.

Jurisdictional Board of Educa tion W. W. Krider and W. F. Smith.

District Leaders of Christian Ed ucation R. W. Graham, T. S. Haddock, R.

R. Carson, C. G. Adams, Harold Mohler and W. W.

Krider. District Directors of Adult Work E. Ross Adair, D. E. Leist, S.

E. Carruth, Gail Davis, Waldo Adams and Loren Chastian. District Directors of Youth Work Howard Brown, W. N. Burton, Ralph Carmichael, Thurman Morris, Harold Neel and Travis Purdy.

District Directors of Rural Work A. D. Giles, J. Ross Jackson, T. J.

Cotton, O. C. Bogue, E. J. Hulz, Ralph Davison.

District Directors of Children's Work Mrs. S. M. Bell, Mrs. J.

H. Richardson, Miss Cora Hill, Mrs. Dale Ashton, Mrs. Harold Mohler, Mrs. Fred Wilde.

Board of Education. The board of education nomina tions for an election later in the conference follow: For general board of education, Miss Naomi Antle, Kendailville, and a student from Ball State to be named later; general board of missions, Miss Mildren Brown of Anderson and Harold Worth of Knightstown; jurisdictional board of education, Miss Zenda Snyder of New Haven; jurisdictional board of missions, Miss Mary I. Spahr of Logansport and Cletus Hirschy of Howe; conference board of missions, Miss Kathryn Shafer of Union City, Miss Mary Jo Carithers of Fort Wayne, Jack Byers of Nappanee and John Hunt of Richmond. The Rev. Fred Hill of Greenfield and the Rev.

H. R. Carson of Anderson were elected members of the committee on the conference journal and the Rev. Manfred C. Wright of North Manchester and the -Rev.

Ben Kendall of LaGrange were named on the committee on privilege of the floor. War On Speeders Nets Five More Continuing a drive against speed ers, deputy sheriffs last night shifted their activities to East 38th street, between the city limits and Post road, arresting five persons. A sixth speeder was pursued but outdistanced the deputies' car at 90 miles an hour. Those charged with speeding, and rate at which they were driving, are: Martin Brunk, 37 years old, 1341 North Dearborn street, 75 miles an hour; Herman Logan, 25, 1025 Union street, 65; George Ockenhauser, 21, of Fishers, 60; Harold Paetz, 16, 5141 Pleasant Run parkway, 60, and Mrs. Mildred Duncan, 28, 1473 South Belmont avenue, 55.

Patroling U.S. 40 west, of the city Thursday night, the deputies arrested six persons for speeding. Urges Reading of Newt At Aid to Longer Life Philadelphia. June 7. Regular reading of newspapers was recommended today by Dr.

William Lyon Phelps as an aid toward longer life. "The three cents invested in a newspaper is one of the greatest aids to vitality we have," Yale's famous emeritus professor of English declared at Jefferson Medical College commencement exercises. The paper provides us with Interests that will take us out of ourselves. The more we are interested in things beyond ourselves, the better we can combat despondency and trouble and the longer we live." Our community record of Scouting ii Vi SILVER AYRES SPECIAL PURCHASE1 Paper Weight Rayon Taffeta Slips 1.69 Tissue light crispness, marvelous fit, all-important for wear under your summer sheers. Rayon-satin ribbon straps and bow cn bodice.

White, black, navy, tearose. Sizes 32-40. LINGERIE FOURTH FLOOR. 4 Local Persons Injured In Crash Greenfield, June 7. (Special) Four Indianapolis residents and a Greenfield man were injured tonight when two automobiles collided head-on on the National road four miles east of here.

The Indianapolis motorists, all of whom were taken to Methodist Hospital there for treatment of cuts and bruises, were Mr. and xjtm Willarrf Gabbert. 344 Cole street: Clarence Musick, 3538 West 12th street, and miss uoroiny -rie 014 North Belle Vieu Dlace. Driver of the other automobile was Ernest Dougherty, who lives vast of Greenfield. He was treated for cuts and bruises by a Greenfield physician.

Willard Gabbert and Clarence Musick were released from Methodist Hospital after treatment last Mi Ma Gabbert and Miss Dorothy Lewis remained in the hospital for treatment. Mr. Gabbert Is manager of Plaza Motor Inn. A JS3 mm L. S.

AYRES CO. SYPHILIS WARD WILL BE OPENED Study of Short-Time Cure Will Be Conducted at City Hospital. Opening of a small ward at City Hospital In which continued investigation of results of a new short-time syphilis cure can be conducted was authorized last night; by the Board of Public Health at a meeting in the hospital. Establishment, of a six-bed ward for study of the method of cure was authorized by the board upon recommendation of a special committee appointed to study the project. Such a ward at the hospital was suggested by Dr.

George W. Bowman, venereal disease director of the State Board of Health, The cure method Is heing studied by the United States Public Health Service, which has recommended establishment of clinics and research wards in hospitals In various cities. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board, pointed out that the new ward would shorten duration of Infectious cases In the hospital.

Members of the committee which studied and recommended the proposal included Dr. Morgan, Dr. George W. Kohlstaedt, president of the board; Dr. Charles W.

Myers, superintendent of City Hospital, and Dr. M. Joseph Barry. The new ward will be opened July 1. At, Its meeting the board also advertised for bids for a one-year supply of coal for the hospital and a six-months' supply of canned goods.

Flood Sweeps Nchraska Town Wauneta, June 7. More than 100 homes and the business district of this southwest Nebraska town were under water tonight as it felt, ihe full force of flood waters surging down Frenchman creek. It was the hardff-t hit. town thus far in the Republican river valley area, where the river ran hank full, as Its rain-swollen tributaries poured into it, leaving flooded towns and crumbling dams in their wake. The light and water plant was inundated, cutting off electric power and endangering the city's drinking water source.

The town's hospital was inundated, and an emergency hospital was set up on higher ground. Residents of river communities watched the swirling waters for a possible repetition of the devastating flood of 1935 which took more than 100 lives and caused damages, but experienced observers said they thought the Republican would safely carry the water. Two Die In Michigan Electrical Storms Detroit, June 7. (P) Lightning killed a golfer, a boy swimmer drowned and a circus JUBILEE House Approves New Labor Board Concluded From Page One. said.

"What combination or trade was responsible for the change of heart of Mr. Green is beyond me." Green several months ago said the Smith amendments would have the effect of destroying the act, but Smith produced a letter from him yesterday saying that if four changes were made, the amendment, "taken as a whole" would correct in large measure the "abuses" of the NLRB. All four were accepted by the House today. SECRET VOTE ORDERED. A secret ballot election will be held among employes of the Allison plant of the General Motors Corporation at Speedway Thursday to determine whetner they shall be represented by a collective bargaining agent, Robert H.

Cowdrill, 11th region director of the National Labor Relations Board, announced yesterday. Both the United Aircraft Engine Workers, ancKthe United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) claim a majority membership among the employes. The ballot will contain three voting squares, one for each union and the third for "neither" to be marked by employes not desiring representation by either union. STRIKERS WILL RETURN. New Albany, June 7.

(Special) Fifty-three employes. of the George Moser Leather Com pany, who staged a strike here today in an effort to obtain higher wages, shorter hours and recogni tion of the International Leather Workers' Union, will return to work tomorrow under an agreement to hold a conference Monday between representatives of the union and the company. The group walked out after five workers had been discharged, al legedly for union activities. A spokesman for the strikers said that, besides recognition of the union, they seek a 25 per cent in crease in pay and a five-day, 40-nour week. At present they work 12 hours a week on a six-day basis.

The average wage paid employes is about $18.50 a week. AFL WIN'S IN ELECTION. Columbus, June 7. (Special) The International Association of Machinists (AFL) was designated as the bargaining agent for a majority of the toolmakers, machinists and their apprentices at the Reeves Pulley Company, in a "run off" election conducted today by the National Labor Relations Board. Sixty-five employes voted for the International Association of Machinists while 47 voted for the Transmission Workers and Ma chinists' Union of Columbus.

In a Drevious election held May 3, 61 favored the international, 56 the transmission workers' union and eight voted for no union rep resentative. Endeavor Courtcil To Scat Officers The East Side Council of Chris tian Endeavor will hold installa tion of new officers at 6:30 o'clock Monday night in Brookside United Brethren Church. Officers to be installed are Miss Merriam Howenstine, president; W. E. Groves, vice-president; Miss Marijean Taylor, secretary, and Marion Montgomery, financial see retary.

The service will be in charge of Kenneth Knapp, president of the Capitol district of Christian En deavor. Miss Thelma Kasting will have charge of the program. Dr. Alfred F. M.

Zimmcrmann, German World War Secretary of State, Dies Berlin, June 7. Dr. Alfred F. M. Zimmerman, 82 years old, Germany's World War secretary of state and author of the famed "Zimmermann note" which Influenced the United States entry into the conflict, died yesterday.

Zimmermann died of pneumonia following a long Illness, It was 6t liance to Mexican President Venus-tiano Carranza. At the same time, Von Eckhardt was to suggest to Carranza Mexican action to bring Japan into the plot. The bizarre plot was transmitted to Von Eckhardt through Count von Bernstorff, German ambassador to Washington, who at that time was en route home, having been recalled at the demand of Washington. The document had been In the hands of the Washington government since President Wilson broke off diplomatic relations with Germany on Feb. 3, but was kept secret until Its publication Feb.

28. The United States's declaration of war came on April 6, 1917. War Costs French Labor Vacations and Days Off Paris, June 7. (TP) The French labor ministry tonight suspended requirements that workers be given vacations with pay and a day off every two weeks. Three men at Versailles were sentenced to two to three years in prison for abandoning jobs.

Ambassador to Belgium Visits Berlin Embassy Berlin, June 7. UP) John Cud- ahy, United States ambassador to Belgium, arrived today for consultation with embassy officials con cerning Americans in Belgium. It was understood he would return to Brussels after a brief stay here. France Nabs 2 of Crew Of U. S.

Liner as Spies Paris, June 7. (U.P.) Two members of the crew of the S.S. Washington today were reported taken from the American liner at Bordeaux and interned as a result of charges arising; from investigation of German esplonav. I -I X- If disclosed today. Ha became secretary of state on Nov.

21, 1916, and a bare two months later, on Jan. 1, 1917, he offered Mexico a war alliance with the prospects of territorial gains provided Mexico went to war with the United States. His directions to the German minister In the City of Mexico in connection with this proposal, how ever, fell into American hands. Retired In 191S. During Zimmermann's tenure of office Germany issued a declaration of unlimited submarine warfare and the United States followed by declaring war on Germany.

He retired in the shake-up ordered by the Kaiser on Aug. 5, 1918. and he never again figured in public life. He spent the rest of his days quietly in Berlin and Lichterfelde. Zimmermann was born May 8 1858 in Frankenstein.

He first joined the consular service, then in 1903 transferred to the Foreign Office trade department and later became connected with its legal and nolltical departments. In 1911 he became undersecretary of state. Under the plan exposed in the "Zimmermann note," Mexico was to make war on the United States, provided the latter failed to remain neutral as a result of Germany's campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare launched Feb. 1, 1917. Japan, through Mexican media tion, was to be urged to abandon her allies and join in the attack on the United States.

For her reward, Mexico was to receive general financial support from Germany, reconquer the 'lost provinces" of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona and share in the victorious peace terms Germany contemplated. Details were left to German Min ister von Eckhardt In the City of Mexico, who by instructions signed by Zimmermann on Jan. 19, 1917, was directed to proposs th al crowd became panic-stricken at the collapse of a tent during electrical storms in various parts of Michigan today and tonight. Kenneth Knubhe, 22 years old, Detroit, was killed on a Jackson (Mich.) golf course. An afternoon storm In the same area struck while boys were swimming in a lake.

High winds whipped up waves and Donald Brown, 13, Jackson, drowned. Lightning struck a warehouse, with a fire resulting, and utility lines were blown down. At Port Huron two persons required first aid after the circus panic. The main tent collapsed over an audience of 500, mostlyj children. Canada Begins Building 300 Tankt for Allies Ottawa, June 7.

UP) Construction of 300 tanks for the allies will start In Canada tomorrow, the director of public Information announced tonight. The British government has accepted an offer by the Canadian government to build the tanks "of a type now in use." 1.

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