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Weather Forecast pair: slightly warmer Sunrise, 4:43. Sunset, 6:59. POT LAST EDITION VHT YTY NTTMBER 204 KJlM XJ.A.1.A. WHOLE 51.453 MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1938 18 PAGES BT LOCAL CAHRIER 12o A WTEK THREE CENTS pPostson Siberian SENATE INQUIRY Killed as Auto Crashes Into Train at Crossing Near Ho bart; us stan PRIMARIES order; Tokyo Claims iry as Red Troops Quit ManchukuoAft Clash re imurea in unto rem NEWS Planes Bomb Ja 34 A er oevere bo raer Six States Will Nominate Candidates in Elections This Week NEW DEAL FACES TESTS Kentucky and Tennessee Votes Hold Spotlight as Most Significant WASHINGTON. August 1 fAP.

A senate committee's inquiry into THE INFECTION i SEEMS TO BE SPREADING Five Air Raiders Shot Down by Nipponese Morgan Scion May Return to Hoosier Farm Brakes Fail to Hold Train on Wet Rails Victims Listed As 3 Vomen, Girl, Man 1' y. i I Curtis Rottger Will Be Buried in Crown Hill TOKYO, Aug-ust 1 (A.P.) A Korean army communique reported tonight Soviet warplanes bombed Japanese positions heavily in the disputed area on the Siberian-Manchukuan frontier. It said five of the aircraft were shot down. TOKYO, August 1 (AP.) A Japanese army communique said today that Russian troops are withdrawing northward from Changkufeng, on the Manchukuo-Siberian border, where a clash described as a "terrible fight" took place yesterday. The report of the Russian withdrawal followed a Japanese assertion that Soviet forces had been driven from "the disputed frontier territory.

The communique said only about 800 Russian soldiers remained in the Changkufeng area. It is assumed on the basis of the previous report that they are outside the territory claimed by Japan. Both the war office and the foreign office declare Japan now is ready to assume the defensive and has no intention of advancing ur ther. "We do not want Soviet terri tory," the foreign office spokesman said, "but are prepared to prevent them from encroaching cn Man-chukuo and Korea." War Minister Seishiro Itagaki again reported to Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye'on the situation. Army sentiment is that if war develops out of the series of border clashes, which started July 15, It will be because the Soviet Union forces the Issue.

Army leaders insist that Japan will not. The, announcement of yesterday's clash came with surprising suddenness, because both Moscow and Tokyo had indicated only diplomatic means would be used to "set tie the frontier differences, of many years' standing but of increased intensity since July 11. 4 The war office said that in a "terrible begun Saturday night and continued until dawn Monday, Soviet troops were driven from a hill near Changkufeng and ether points in the region. The area is close to the junction of the boundaries of Man-chukuo, Russian Siberia and Japanese Korea, southwest of Vladivostok. The Russians had occupied Changkufeng hill July 11.

The Russians contend it is part of Russian Siberia. The Japanese insist it Is a portion of Manchukuo, governed with Japanese protection. Britain Protests on Sentries. SHANGHAI, August 1 (AP.) Great Britain protested to Japanese authorities tonight against what was called the "increasingly belligerent attitude" of sentries guarding bridges from the International Settlement into Japanese-controlled sections of Shanghai. The protest, delivered by Consul-General Herbert Phillips, was the outgrowth of the alleged roughhous-ing of Miss Dorothea Lintilhac when she crossed the Garden bridge on the wrong side of the street.

Miss Lintilhac and her mother later were arrested and detained four hours when, attempting to avoid repetition of the incident, they used the Chapoo bridge. They said Continued on Page 3, Fart 1 Four Gunmen Get $50,000 atN. Y. Bank NEW YORK, August 1 (AP.) Four gunmen held up a branch of the Banco di Napoli Trust Company at First avenue and Twelfth street this afternoon. Police said they f.ed with $50,000 in cash.

An armed guard, usually on duty the bank, was at. lunch when the i gunmen entered. They cowed fourteen customers and nine employes. The cash seized was to have been transferred later in the day to the banking firm's main branch on lower Broadway. The branch bank Is In the heart of a pushcart district on the lower cast side cries of "foulF is enlivening the campaign windup for some of this week's six primary elections.

The campaign expenditures com mittee already has denounced tactics in the Democratic senate race in Tennessee. Informed persons say it may disclose other facts about the contest as well as races in other states before the voting begins. The committee's investigations share interest for the moment with the basic question in several of the week's contests whether the Roosevelt administration will gain or lose prestige through the outcome. The contest in which the President has the most at stake Is the Kentucky Democratic senate primary, which will be decided Satur day. Mr.

Roosevelt appealed ftir renomination of his senate leader. Alben W. Barkley, who is opposed by Governor A. B. Chandler.

Senate committee agents are om-pleting their investigation in Kentucky into charges and countercharges of coercion of WPA. workers and misuse of federal and state patronage. Four Oppose Berry. Senator George L. erry is seeking renomination Thursday against four opponents.

So fierce has been the struggle among the four men and their backers that the senate committee, criticising "schemes and questionable devices" reported by Its agents, forecast a contest on the senate floor over seating the winner. The excitement aroused by the Tennessee primary campaign was abated somewhat today by an announcement from Governor Gordon Browning that he would not send troops for election day duty to Memphis, stronghold of the opposing Crump organization. Four state primaries tomorrow are expected to be mild compared to the Tennessee and Kentucky elections. The senate campaign committee has taken cognizance; of only one of the four. It studied press clippings about "politics in relief' in Missouri, but decided not to investigate because direct charges had not been brought before it.

Governor Brings Charge. WPA Administrator, Harry Hopkins said Saturday his investigators had found no evidence that WPA workers were being coerced in support of the Pendergast organization's candidate for the state supreme court. Governor Lloyd C. Stark, support ing a rival candidate, had made that charge. He said last night the alle gations are being studied by the federal bureau of investigation.

is a glance at the principal contests tomorrow's primaries: Missouri Senator Bennett Champ ciark, an anti-administration lead er, is expected by politicians in Washington to wm 1 Democratic renomination because he has powerful state and city organization support. Kansas Senator George McGill, Democratic backer of the President, has nominal opposition for renomination. Among the aspirants for the Republican nomination the Rev. Gerald B. Winrod, openly opposed by National Chairman John Hamilton and other regular party leaders.

Hull Speaks for Pope. Virginia One of two contests for Democratic nomination to the house of representatives, tantamount to election, is the race be tween Representative Howard Smith, opponent of some Roosevelt measures, and William E. Dbdd, who calls himself a "100 per cent. New Dealer." Virginia does not elect a senator this year. West Virginia Three of the six Democratic representatives have opposition, based on local issues.

A senator is not chosen this year. The week-end brought these developments in other contests: Cordell Hull, secretary of state, Continued on Page 3, Part 1 RAILROADS FACE ELEVATION MOVE Mayor Orders Works Board to Obtain Assurance of Help for Project Mayor Walter Cv Boetcher, returning to his office today after a vacation in Michigan, ordered the works-sanitation board to obtain immediate assurance from railroad officials that they will provide their share of the south side track elevation projects costs. The city has requested a PWA grant of 45 per cent, for the elevation proposal, but it was learned that the federal agency may refuse to allot the money if the share of the railroads is not assured. A state law. Mayor Boetcher explained, requires the railroad firms affected by the elevation project to pay 50 per cent, of the costs, the city -16 per' cent.

and the countv ROCKY RIDGE, August 1 (UP.) Wet rails and a crowded schedule were blamed today for1 a train accident in which thirty-four persons were injured, several so seriously they may die. Approximately fifty persons wers treated at the scene for slight cuts, bruises and shock. The Commodore Vanderbilt, de luxe passenger train of the New York Central operating between Chicago and New York, crashed into the Mercury, a streamlined train of the same road, operating between Detroit and Cleveland, from behind last night. The trains were running only five minutes apart. Each operates at high speed.

The Mercury -grazed' an automobile at a crossing here and stopped to investigate, as required by regulations. It was raining and when the Commodore Vanderbilt came roaring along, her brakes wouldn't hold. She skidded into the Mercury's observation car, wrecking it. Injured Listed. The injured include: Mrs.

Marshall Brekke, age orty-six, Scarsdale, N. bruises. Mrs. John Brown, forty-seven, Winnetka, internal injuries, condition serious. Miss Mary Coleman, forty-five, New York city, internal injuries, condition serious.

Mrs. Richard Davis, twenty-nine, Cleveland, cuts. Miss Anita Campi, of the Chicago bureau of the New York Daily News Syndicate, cuts. Morris Direnfeld, thirty-three, Detroit, shock. Thomas Gilmer, thirty-five, colored waiter, cuts and burns.

Mrs. H. B. Hagrgerty, forty-six, Zachary, a sister of Mrs. Brown, internal Injuries, condition serious.

Hoskins. thirty-nine, colored porter, bruised. Howell. thirty-seven, colored waiter, cuts. Miss Patricia McCarty, twenty, a student nurse, Cleveland, broken leg, internal injuries, condition serious.

W. M. Miner, colored waiter, cuts. George Morris, of New York Dally News Syndicate, Internal injuries, condition serious. Clay Moseman, forty, dining car cook, scalds.

L. M. Osborne, forty-six, Evanston, 111., employe of Standard Brands, internal injuries and severe shock, condition critical. Mrs. John Peterman, sixty-one, Cleveland, cuts, James Reeves, thirty-two, colored waiter, cuts.

Edward Tukarz. twentv. dining car cook. cuts. Charles Wilson, fortv-thre.

din ing car cook, bruises. Georee Zbornik. fortv-si rnovA- land, shock. Leda Zbornik. fortv-twn.

his shock. Ironically, the driver of th nn tomobile which the Mercury grazed, the Indirect cause of the drove off in the excitement and his identity was not established. Osborne is the most Rprimiidw hurt. An operation was performed on him in the Toledo hospital, but pnysicians fear he will die. B.

C. Callon, engineer of the Commodore Vanderbilt, said his train was going ten to fifteen miles an hour when it plunged into tha Mercury. He slammed on the brakes the instant he saw the block sig nals had changed against him, but the wheels skidded on the wet rails. The critically injured were all in the observation car of the Mereurv. Those nearest its Dlatform saw th Vanderbilt emerge suddenly out of tne rainy and hazy twilight and either leaped to the ground or forward into the car.

But in each train Dasseneers were flun out of their seats. The chairs and tables in the dining cars skidded about injuring diners ana waiters, uooks were knocked down. The rear truck of the Mercury's observation car and the front truck of the third car frcn the engine were derailed. It had nine cars in all. The Vanderbilt was made up of fourteen Each train was full, HEAT AND FREAK FLOODS TAKE TOLL IN BRITAIN LONDON, August 1 (AP.) Half of Britain sizzled today in a heat wave while a large area was submerged by freak A death toll of thirteen already had been tabulated as record crowds' of vacationists In southern England began the last day of the three-day bank holiday.

Two of the deaths were from prostration in heat of 85 degrees. The Weather Indianapolis and Vicinity Fair tonight and Tuesday; somewhat warmer Tuesday. Indiana Fair tonight and Tuesday; somewhat warmer Tuesday afternoon. Other weather details on Pace 1, Part 2. HOBART, August 1 (UP.) Five persons were killed today when their automobile crashed Into the side of the locomotive of the Pennsylvania railroad's crack streamliner, the Broadway Limited; on a grade crossing.

The victims, as listed by Kobart police: Werner H. Boevers, age forty two, Cleveland. His wife, Clara J. Boevers, age forty. Mrs.

Alice M. Wrede, Cleveland. June Boevers, age eighteen. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Boevers, Mrs. Louise Kutfze, Chicago. A letter found in the wreckage Indicated the party was cn route to Cleveland after a visit to Hines Memorial Veterans Hospital. May wood. 111., where.

Albert W. Wrede husband of Alice, is a patient. Pennsylvania railroad officials said the westbound train was struck near the first drive wheel. Wreck age and bodies were strewn along 1,000 feet of track. The locomotive was disabled and a substitute was sent out to take the train into Chicago almost an hour late.

Passengers were transferred to the Liberty Limited, which followed the Broadway. The tracks cross Route at a sharp angle and the motorists' view of westbound trains is obscured by a building. crossing has red flasher signals, which railroad authorities said were in operation at the time of the accident. Police said the train must have been traveling at least seventy miles an hour The mile stretch east of the crossing is known as one of the fastest straightaways on the Pennsylvania line. The Broadway Limited is regularly scheduled to make 14 miles from Ft.

Wayne to the. Englewood (111.) station in 127 minutes, including the time for slowing down as the Chicago sud urbs are entered. According to police the car, ap parently driven by Boevers, went around two other automobiles wait ing for the train and struck the locomotive as it started across tne highway. Drivers of the other automobiles left after the accident without leav ing Identification. Can Company, Branch Head.

CLEVELAND, August 1 (UP.) Werner H. Boevers, age forty-two, killed with four other persons at Hobart, today, was the Cleveland manager of the American Can Company for the last twelve years. New York "Lw Hits Train. NEW YORK. August I (AP.) An empty elevated train rammed into the rear of a three-car train containing fifty passengers today and injured ten persons, three so badly they required hospital treat ment.

The crash occurred on the Inter borough Rapid Transit line at Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Tenth street, known as Dead Man's curve, because dozens of persons have plunged to the street more than 100 feet below, in suicide leaps there. Heavy Rainfall Features July; eHeat Is Normal July, except for being somewhat rainy at times, was quite a com fortable month. Temperatures for the month av eraged 77 decrees, only 1.2 degrees above ncrmat, and the highest mark, 94 degrees, on July Jl, was considerably under the records of hottest July days of recent years. The highest July mark was set in 1934 106 degrees, and was matched in the same month two years later. Rainfall last month totaled 7.15 inches, 3.81 inches above normal.

And most of it, many will recall, occurred before the month was forty-eight hours old. On July 1 and 5.39 inches fell. Rain was recorded on seven days. Localized rainfall occurred in va rious parts of the city on other days, but not close enough to the weather bureau instruments to be recorded. And about August? "Well, it's a little too soon to forecast very far ahead," explained J.

H. Armington, federal; government meteorologist. "But Tuesday probably will be sr and warmer. Raging Forest Fire Menaces GoastalGity SEATTLE, August 1 (AP.) A huge uncontrolled forest firs, started by a heat-generated 'whirlwind, endangered outlying homss of the Bremerton city watershed today. City officials asked for aid from the United States navy.

Puget sound navy ci'f icial3 promised men and equipment should the fire continue its present speed toward the The fire, burning in 18,000,000 feet of green timber, was within seven miles of Bremerton. 15 4 4 JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN III 4 JUNIUS S. MORGAN, Jr. John Pierpont Morgan HI, recovering from an emergency operation at St. Vincent's Hospital, may return to his farm duties at the Omar C.

Addison farm, two miles north of iCnightstown, following his discharge from the hospital. According to his father, Junius S. Morgan, Glen Cove, Long island, who, accompanied by Mrs, Morgan, arrived in Indianapolis today, the choice is up to my son. However, Morgan explained, John is scheduled to return to his studies at Harvard University within a month or two. The father said his son may wish to recuperate fully at the Aduison farm where he has been employed incognito doing various chores and farm work for some time.

"My wife and I will remain in Indianapolis until our son has recovered," Morgan said. "We will stop with friends here and visit the hospital as much as possible. Of course it is as yet impossible to say just how long we will remain. That depends on how rapid improvement our son makes." Physicians could make no pre diction as to the time the youth will be a patient at St. Vincent's, but said his condition is good.

Nurses said young, Morgan was lust about the finest young man to administer to they had ever met." It was said by close friends of the Morgan family that J. Pierpont Morgan, head of the nation's great Continued on Page 3, Part 1 1 TOLL REACHES GO Fifty-Tvto Bodies Recovered From Island's Worst Rail Disaster KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 1 (AP.) Jamaica's 'worst railroad wreck probably will take a toll of at least sixty lives. Fifty-two jdies have been recovered from the wreckage near Balaclava, seventy miles northwest of here, since Saturday. Seventy of the injured were taken to hospitals. All the 300 passengers were natives.

A lack of co-ordination by the two locomotives pulling the train apparently caused the wreck. The lead niHni rAiinritncr Mirve. slowed. The second engine crashed into the first, which was derailed. The baeeate car.

and four coaches! Of the train niled into the second I i i i. i I i A 1 AN WRECK ftftM IPS STREET. PROJECTS E. Tenth Street, Southeastern Proposals Abandoned on Demand of Residents Members of the works-sanitation board today quickly acceded to the demands of nearly 300 insistent property owners from south and cast side communities. After hearing protests of 150 residents living in East Tenth street, the board altered its proposal to widen and.

resurface the thoroughfare Dorman street and Keystone avenue. Street car tracks will be removed from the center and new pavement laid, but the street will not be widened five feet on each side as originally planned. This will save the beautiful trees that line Tenth street in this locality. Then more than 125 property owners living in Southeastern avenue swarmed into the meeting room to oppose a proposal to widen the thoroughfare from thirty to forty-five feet between State avenue and Rural street. There was no argument.

The board even refused to hear a property owner who favored the project, and abandoned the whole idea. Because of the size of the civic delegations, several of the protesters became mixed up with the wrong group, thus making the crowd appear even larger. S. B. Prater, a leader of the East Tenth street group, criticised Indianapolis Railways, for refusing to -pay the cost of removing the street car tracks.

He cited as reasons for the widespread opposition to the widening proposal, the necessity of removing shade trees, in-Continued on Page 3, Part 1 WIN STOLEN JEWELS LOCATED Loot Taken From, Meridian Street Home Recovered in Chicago Six pieces of jewelry valued at $15,050, taken in burglary at the home of Wjjliam Zumpfe, 5330 North Meridian street, June 9, pending trial. The gems were found in they were sold for $250 by an accomplice of Robert Holder, age thirty-two, colored, former house--man at the fZumpfe-home, who has admitted the burglary. Persons who bought from Holder's-agent sold it for Holder ad' his; accomplice, James Moses Long," are being-held here. Four men- involved in; the sale of the gems are being held in Chicago have been recovered. The gems were recovered by Detectives Fossatti.

and Coleman, and Charles in-, surance firm-investigator; BOARD DRO FATAL SCALDING AT HOSPITAL PROBED Attendant Held on Death Count After Patient Is Killed in Boiling Bath An inquest opened today In the fatal scalding of a fifty-six-year-old colored patient at the Central State Hospital as state, county and city authorities conducted a threefold investigation. Roy Sherman, age thirty-five, hospital attendant, was arrested early today on a charge of involuntary manslaughter based on criminal negligence as a result of the death of Marion Jones, a patient In the Institution since November 28, 1934. Inquiries into the fatal accident, third in state mental institutions in ecent months, are being conducted bv Dr. Norman R. Booher, deputy county coroner; Dr.

Max A. Bahi hospital superintendent; the police homicide squad and the state welfare department, which supervises state institutions. Governor- M. Clifford Townsend was out of the city on a vacation, as was Thurman A. Gottschalk, supervisor of state institutions and could not be reached for comment.

It was understood, however, that Gottschalk is conducting a study of the personnel in state benevolent institutions, and that changes in some of the staffs may result. Overcrowding of the hospitals has been cited by state authorities as the principal cause of troubles between attendants and inmates. Shfrman, investigators learned, was absent without leave from the Continued on Page 3, Part 1 LOVE LETTERS OF HOE VICTIM EYED Police Seek Clews in Slaying of Wealthy Michigan Bachelor-Farmer ALGONAC, August 1 (AP.) The love letters and art works of Augustus W. Roil, forty-five-year-old bachelor and gentleman-farmer found slain yesterday, were scrutinized today by state police in an attempt to solve his killing. Roil, a man of extensive property holdings and formerly an Algonac church vestryman, was injured fatally by blows over the head with a hoe handle.

The hoe was broken into four pieces. The body was found In a chicken house on Roil's five-acre country place, where he lived in a neat three-room, ivy-covered cottage. Trooper Melvin Will, who found a suitcase containing letters from women written in response to Roil's Continued on Page 3, Part 1 Last rites for Curtis H. Rottger, formerly president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and widely known as an industrial and civic leader, will be held at 10 a. Tuesday in Flanner Buchanan mortuary.

Mr. Rottger died Sunday at his home, 3103 North Meridian street, following a heart attack. He was seventy-four years old. Relatives said he had been in good health until late last week, when he suffered- an attack of indigestion. He was thought to be recovering before the heart Rev.

'William A. Shullenber-ger, pastor, of the Central Christian church, will have charge of the funeral services. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. IPallbearers. all Indiana Bell Telephone officials, will be F.

A. Montrose, tvice-president" and general manager; H.J3. Hanna, vice-president and' general commercial manager; M. Watson, secretary and treasurer; W. J.

Mc Williams, general auditor; L. Thomas, assistant to the president; attorney, and. R. Davidson, general counseL Coming to Indianapolis in 1920, Mr. Rottger served as vice-president of the Telephone Company.

The following year he was elected president. He retired from the presidency April 24, 1930, after forty-seven years of active telephone work, and became a member of the board of directors. He is" survived by the widow, Mrs. Jessie A. Rottger, and 'a granddaughter, Miss Rosemary Jane Rottger, both of His son, R.

C. Rottger, formerly vice-president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, died several years ago. Bora in Jacksonville, 111., January 16, 1864, Mr.tottger became interested to telegraphy in his boj hood and learned to send mestges by key. When the Jacksonville telephone exchange was built in 1881and while Continued on Page 3, Part 1 News Features Pages. Comics 2, 3, Part 2 Crossword Puzzle 2, Part 2 David Lawrence 1, Part 2 Editorials 6, Part 1 Financial 8, 9, Part 2 Health Column .2, Part 2 Movies 4, Part 2 Radio Program .5, Part i Serial Story 3, Part 2 Society ..8, Part 1 Sports 4, 5, Part 1 engine and were telescoped..