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COPY RIGHT 1937 BY THE CHICAGO TRI3UNE.J THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1937. 38 PAGES THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE PRICE TWO CENTS akdsSISs KLSEWHEKK THREE CENTS 1 1 I I i NEWSPAPER Uj nL I'll nwtit ininitifffc vnqimiBimnqHpiH WPWPfl 1M? a nil VsJ! faj Klan Issue as SLACK CHARGES INDIANA TELLS NEWS SUMMARY IT WILL DOG HIS THE FOOTSTEPS EVERY TIME HE GOES NEAR SUPREME COURT BUILDING RD HEALTH BOA PUT PRE TO STOP CITIES 1 LAKE PC court ffi-- Peers Twitter of The Tribune And Historical Scrap Book. Thursday, -September IS, 1937. LOCAL.

High school opening set for today as health board lifts ban; elementary schools remain closed. Page 1. Four women teachers near death after crash as they hurry back for high school opening. Page 1. State will speed prosecution of loop assassin who killed ex-judge and stabbed three others.

Page 3. Court ready to divide miser's mysterious $160,000 estate among 18.Page 3. Leaders complete plans for big Constitution day celebration tomorrow at Stadium. Page 5. Chicago sanitary experts gratified by Indiana order to stop lake pollution.

Page 8. Girl, 3, walks into side of moving automobile and is killed. Page 16. A driver yields right of way at a busy corner and learns that politeness pays when he wins $5 prize. Page 16.

Harry Hopkins stops in Chicago; sjys reemployment from WPA rolls depends on industry's capacity 19. WASHINGTON. Black fiasco puts Koosevelt's "court reforms in a paradoxical spot.Page 1. Roosevelt back in good graces of C. I.

Lewis at White House.Page 5. Uncle Sam plans military and naval display in Pacific to awe Japan. Page 7. DOMESTIC. Indiana warns cities on Lake Michigan to stop water pollution.

Page New York's bitter mayoralty campaign closes; expect million to vote in primary today. Page Senator Van Nuys, klan fighter of old, raps Black's tieup with hooded band. Page 2. Representative Black, Anderson, plans health marriage bill, curb on Crown Point mill. Page 5.

Danville, 111., preacher hunted in two states for rape of sisters, 12 and 14. Page 10. Big fire at Weehawken, N. dam ages some schools. Page 15.

Surrogate rules society, belle" a pretender, but she left a fortune of $877,000. Page 18. FOREIGN. Two peers admit they accepted offer to be chorus boys in N. Y.

Page 1. Justice Black in London repeats nothing to say to all inquirers about klan charges. Page 2. London discovers duchess of Kent did snub Edward's bride on two occasions. Page 5.

Japanese forces hurled at powerful Chinese line, but report only a minor gain. Page 6. Japan ready to ignore any attempt by league to intervene in war on China. Page 6. Hitler's half brother, Alois, sets up Berlin cafe.

Page 9. Britain orders planes to Mediterranean to back up navy's anti-piracy patrol. Page 9. SPORTS. Cubs beat Bees, 5 to White Sox whip Red Sox, 5 to 3.

Page 25. Those Gophers are loose again and title hungry. Page 25. Henner Henkel beats Don Budge at Onwentsia. Page 25.

Giants beat Pirates, 7 to 2. Page 25. Yankees divide double-header with Indians. Page 26. Old Westbury whips Templeton, 19 to enters polo finals.

Page 27. Signs of fall impart new life to black bass. Page 28. EDITORIALS. Our Pretorian Guard; The German Colonies; Retrospect; The Legion in Convention; Streamlined Thief Catching.

Page 14. FEATURES. Deaths and obituaries. Page 18. Experimental farms diary.

Page 18. News of society. Page 21. Movie review. Page 21.

News of Hollywood. Page 21. Crossword puzzle. Page 23. Radio news and programs.

Page 23. FINANCE, COMMERCE. New type of oil tanker that passes under unopened Chicago river bridges expected to cut costs. Page 29. Board of Trade boosts margins to prevent squeeze in corn.

Page 29. Erratic price changes rule trade in stocks; leaders lower. Page 29. American Telephone's July net operating income falls. Page 29.

Free industry from regulatory red tape, Knudsen urges. Page 29. Best steers advance to 519.10, highest price in 17 years. Page 31. Deere Co.

to pay $1 cash and shares of common stock. Page 31. Net operating incomes of 91 railroads rise 1Z in August. Page 31. Changes proposed in subsidies for crop controL Page 31.

Corn rallies on fears of corner September delivery. Page 32. Want Ad index. Page 32. Average aat Omld i-frnilaTi AUGUST.

1937 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE DAILY 800,000 N. Y. Holds Its PrimaryToday BY WILLIAM FULTON. Chiivit'o Tribune l'ress Service. New York, Sept.

15. I Special. With the Ku Klux Klan charges against Justice Hugo 1 Black, President Roosevelt's appointee to the Su preme court, being driven home to the people, the most bitter primary cam paign for mayor in many years ended tonight. Probably a million voter will go to the polls tomorrow. The.

recent spotlighting of Black's affiliations with the klan aided the candidacy of United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, conservative Democrat, who fought against the President's court packing attempts and then opposed the senate con firmation of Black. Ends Uphill Fight. The senator wound up an uphil' battle bucking the far flung machine ot Roosevelt and Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley, who ar supporting Jeremian Manoney, former judge.

Copeland also is pitted against Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia for the Republican nomination. The senator ended the campaign fighting, as he began it. At his side at the final rally in a Broadway hotel was Alfred E. Smith, former gover nor, and himself the object of the klan's most vicious attacks during its heyday when he was a candidate for President.

Mahoney's finale was played on the same old theme of "100 per cent for Roosevelt." Mayor La Guardia continued his strategy of sitting back and letting the other two contenders fight it out between them. Debate Black Disclosures. Whether the klan issue had sunk in deeply enough to turn the tide against the powerful federal machine with its swarms of pay rollers is a question that will be answered to- morrow. In the opinion of seasoned observers, the Black disclosures came too near the end of the campaign for absorption by the voters. On the other hand, the Copeland camp re fused to concede an inch, asserting the senator would win both primaries.

Mahoney and La Guardia lieutenants professed similar confidence in the outcome. In sounding the closing note of the Copeland campaign Al Smith avoided a direct reference to the klan but at- tacked the Roosevelt administration for wandering far from the principles of the Democratic party as they were laid down by Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, and Wilson. Applause Greets Al. "Even the Republican party in its long history was unable to produce anything so diametrically opposed to the Democratic principles of these great Democratic leaders," asserted Smith. Applause greeted the sally, Smith declared that he and Senator CoDeland did not hate President Roosevelt as Mahoney had charged, but they opposed some of his meas- Ures.

of course the senator disagreed with the President," Smith asserted. That does not mean that he hated nim. ine senator aisagreea upon ims proposal to add to the Supreme court. So did every other thinking and in in did a sufficient number of senators Continued on page column 6.) THE WEATHER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1937. sunrise, sunset.

6:58, Moon sets a. in. tomorrow. Saturn and Venus are morningr stars. Jupiter and Mars are evening stars.

CHICAGO AND VI- TRIBUNE CINITY: Fair to- BAROMKTER. day and tomorrow; slightly cooler today with gentle north erly winds: i sins temperature tomorrow. ILLINOIS: Fair to day and tomorrow; somewhat coolsr today; rising teni; peratnre tomorrow afternoon. TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO For 4 hoars ended at 2 a. m.

Sept. 16: MAXIMUM, 1 P. M. 9 A. M.

.50 3 a. m. 4 a. 5 a. m.

6 a. m. ...65 ...63 ...60 ...58 ...57 Noon .....66 1 p. 67 3 p. 67 3 p.

66 4 p. .65 5 V. .63 6 p. .62 7 p. .61 8, p.

m. .61 Unofficial 9 p. 10 p. 11 p. Midnight ..53 1 a.

2 a. 7 a. m. 8 a. 9 a.

10 a. 11 a- For Z4 hours ended 7:30 p. m. Sept. 15: Mean temperature, bi; normal, 66; excess tor September, 25 decrees; excess since Jan.

1, 196 degrees. Precipitation, none; deficiency for September, .43 of an inch; total since Jan. 1, 20.58 inches; deficiency since Jan. 1, 3.73 inches. Highest wind velocity, 20 miles an hour from the northwest at 3:05 p.

m. Barometer, 7:30 a. 29.77; 7:30 p. 29.96. Relative humidity, 7.30 67; 1 p.

'-ou v- m- ou" Sept. 16, 1936: I Maximum temperature, 71; minimum, 59 meia 65; lCloudy; precipitation, .82 of an inch. I lOfficial weather table on pa5e 18. BAN LIFTED FOR PUPILS Elementary Classes Remain Closed. LESSON BROADCASTS.

The schedule for today's school lesson for Chicago elementary school pupils, with stations, times, and subjects listed according to grades, appears in this edition with the other radio programs on page 23. All Chicago's high schools and other schools attended by children of high school age will reopen this morning. This is the result of a decision by tho board of health late yesterday that the outbreak of infantile paralysis has subsided sufficiently to permit older pupils to start their studies. None of the city's elementary schools will open because most of Chicago's cases of infantile paralysis have occurred in children of elementary school age. It was to prevent a spread of the disease that the schools, scheduled to open on Sept.

7, have been kept closed. 130,000 in Public High Schools. In all, 165,000 students are returning to classes. Between 130,000 and 135,000 are pupils in the city's thirty-seven public high schools. The other divisions of the public schools which are opening, and the expected attendance, are, 3,800 in Wright, Herzl, and Wilson junior colleges; 750 in the Chicago Normal college, and 6,000 in the Washburne Trade and Continuation schools.

Eighteen thousand pupils are returning in the forty-six parochial high schools of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, the Rev. Father Daniel F. Cunningham, superintendent, announced. The parochial grade schools will not reopen. Radio Lessons Continue.

Until the trend of the disease becomes sharply downward, declared Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the board of health, it is considered unsafe to open any of the elementary schools. For the present the 320,000 grade school children of the city system will continue to learn their three Rs at home by radio broadcasts from the board of education. Dr.

Bundesen advised James B. Mc-Cahey, president of the school board, at 6:30 p. m. yesterday, that it would be safe to open the high schools and other institutions attended by older students. Immediately the board of education offices became a beehive of activity.

Dr. William H. Johnson, superintendent, summoned George F. Cas-sell, his assistant in charge of high schools. They immediately started the work of informing the 4,200 teachers.

Announcement Is Relayed. District superintendents were informed by telephone. In turn they relayed the word to principals who passed the news on down the line to department heads and teachers. To assist the work a corps of clerks was kept on duty at telephones in the board offices until late at night. Supt.

Johnson declared he expected the reopening today would be effected without a hitch. All 9,000 teachers in the city system, elementary as well as high school, reported yesterday at their schools to make the usual fall inventory and do routine book work necessary before classes begin. This action was taken Continued on page 4, column 3. cement block equipment' 24-foot tavern bar-steel factory sash electric dish washer job for ex-CCC ambulance driver steel vault these were subjects of want ads in yesterday's Tribune want ad section. Read the many interesting and profitable want ads in today's Tribune for offers of articles and services you want.

163,000 Drop Skin Hink Goat 3IT SPOT Held Severe Blow at Court Plans. Reveals "Passport 99 Anniston, Sept. 15. (JP) Alabama's former governor, Thomas E. Kilby, made public tonight a copy of what purported to be a sketch of the grand passport of Associate Justice Hugo L.

Black of the Supreme court in the Ku Klux Klan. The passport accompanied the purported life membership presented Black after his election to the senate in 1926. Kilby said sketch copies were distributed several years ago, and he dug one from his old files. He" said he was not familiar with the origin of the sketch and copies. As given out by the former governor, who was Black's opponent for the senate in 1926 and 1932, the copy read: "Grand Klan of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan realm of Alabama to all exalted cyclops, greetings.

The bearer, Kl. Sen. Hugo L. Black, is a citizen of the Invisible Empire and to him is given this grand passport that he may travel unmolested throughout our benefi- cent domain and grant and re- -ceive the fervent fellowship of klansmen. By this authority you will pass him throughout the por tals of your klavern to meet with i klansmen in konklave assembled.

Signed and sealed this the 2 day of Sept 1926. Grand Kno. 8 Realm of Alabama Jas Esdale. Grand Cyclops." Chicago Tribune Press Service. (Picture on back page.) Washington, D.

Sept. 15. Spe cial. As the administration today adopted a policy of strict silence in the raging controversy over the Ku Klux Klan affiliations of Justice Hugo L. Black, sources close to President Roosevelt said he was awaiting the reaction of the public to determine whether to request Black's resigna tion from the Supreme court.

Meanwhile, chief speculation in Washington centered upon the para-doxical situation in which the Presi dent will find himself Friday night, if, in his Constitution day address, he makes his expected demand for further "reform" of the judiciary. Senatorial Foes Enjoy It. Senators who fought against Mr. Roosevelt's scheme to pack the Supreme court said they were looking forward to his speech with eagerness and no little pleasure. It is taken for granted that he plans to make one of his "fighting addresses," for two of his brain trust advisers noted for their contributions on the judiciary question Thomas G.

Corcoran and Judge Samuel Rosenman have been helping him with the speech. It will be ironical indeed, say the court packing foes, if the President serves notice of a renewed fight for more enlightened interpretation of the constitution in the midst of the lurid political drama occasioned by the revelations that Justice Black, Mr. Roosevelt's first appointee to the Supreme court, accepted a lifetime membership in the bigoted Ku Klux Klan. Borah to Anticipate Him. Senator William E.

Borah Idaho will anticipate the President's address with a speech in Constitution hall tomorrow night on the importance to American liberties of an independent and impartial judiciary. Senator Borah is responsible, per haps, more than any other man, for the failure of the Ku Klux Klan issue when it was raised against Justice Black in the senate. He told the senate that Black had privately dis claimed membership in the klan; that he accepted this denial, and that there wasn't the slightest, evidence to the contrary. But he said he would never vote to confirm any member of a secret society founded to spread racial antipathies and religious intolerance in this country. Senator Borah has kept his silence since the controversy over Black's klan background was renewed by newspaper disclosures this week, but his intimates say he is now convinced that the evidence against Black is conclusive.

Cummings Cloistered. The rule of silence imposed by the administration today was observed by Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, who canceled his scheduled HON LLUTION Water Supply Peril Brings Order. Chicago Hails Step Indiana's order to halt pollution of Lake Michigan is described by Chi-cago sanitary engineers as big advance 1 in campaign to make city's water supply safer. Details on Page 8.

Indianapolis, Sept. 15. Special. The Chicagoland industrial cities of Gary, Hammond, Whiting, 1 and East Chicago formally were warned by the Indiana department of commerce and industries tonight to stop polluting Lake Michigan with their wastes. Jan.

1, 1939, has been set as the deadline when those cities must have abated their contribution to the pollution of the streams in their vicinity and of the lake. While the cities naturally are given the right of appeal before the state board of health, state authorities clajm sufficient evidence to block any final dodging of the issue. i Watch Kiver Pollution. For more than thirty years engineers have been making surveys of the Calumet district's serious contamination of water supplies. Chicago's south side has been endangered by that pollution for years.

It is estimated that more than half a million persons live in the lake end area affected by the Indiana pollution. The population of the four cities warned to halt the contamination was 230,650 in 1930 and is well over that now, while several hundred thousand south side Chicagoans are affected. It has been repeatedly pointed out that the obvious and only remedy for the present health menacing conditions in this region is complete abatement of the existing pollution from sewage and industrial wastes reaching the lake directly or through the Calumet river and the Indiana Harbor ship canal. Ordered to Act Before. The four Indiana cities cited to night were ordered on Dec.

10, 1927, to construct sewage treatment works. Although nearly ten years have passed, little, if any, action has been made toward compliance with those i orders, the state bureau of sanitary engineering commented. The state's complaints against Gary and Hammond charge contamination of the Little Calumet river, the Grand Calumet river, the Indiana Harbor ship canal, and Lake Michigan. Whiting is charged with polluting Lake Michigan, while East Chicago is accused of contaminating the lake, the ship canal, and the Grand Calumet river. A pollution survey of the Calumet district was started by the bureau of sanitary engineering of the Indiana state board of health during the summer of 1931, and was carried on intermittently until April, 1937.

Last spring a more extensive sur vey was begun, not only because of th existing health hazard, the board admits, but also because of the in i creasing insistence on the part of Chicago that some action be taken to remedy the pollution situation. Affects Drinking Water. The effects of this contamination on Chicago's drinking water is set forth in. the United States public health service's report of an investigation of the Calumet district's pollution of Lake Michigan. i This inquiry, conducted in 1924-'25 was said by the Indiana bureau of sanitary engineering to b- probably the outstanding work of its kind in the last three decades.

In commenting today on the still dangerous pollution going on in the southern end of the lake, the Indiana bureau quoted federal public service report as follows: "The pollution of Michigan by sanitary sewage and industrial wastes discharged from the Calumet district in Illinois and Indiana, especially from Indiana, is such as to render th sources of water supply now used by Hammond, Whiting, and East Chicago unfit for that purpose, even with elaborate and efficiently operated purification plants. "The source of water supply of Gary, though lying outside the zone of grossest pollution, is also serious ly contaminated, but not beyond the Continued on puge column 2. Four Women Teachers Near Death in Crash Five women teachers at Lucy Flower Technical High school, hurrying back to Chicago for the reopening of their school today, were injured, four of them possibly fatally, last night, when the automobile in which they were riding crashed head-on into another car in highway 14 three miles southeast of Crystal Lake. Two men riding in the other car were hurt, the driver critically. The teachers had been spending a holiday at Lauderdale lake, eight miles north of Elkhorn.

and were riding south. They had just made a right turn at a point where highways 14 and 12 meet in a Y. Both cars were thrown into a ditch after the crash. Four Severely Injured. The most severely injured among the teachers were Miss Betty Hanson, 50 years old, 2526 Kimball avenue; Miss Gertrude Hill, 40, of 2245 North Kedzie avenue; Miss Alice Young, 59, of 529 North Austin boulevard, and Miss Maude Post, 40, of 3146 Lake Park avenue.

The fifth teacher, Miss Maud Kirk, 61 years old, 9544 Long-wood drive, was not seriously hurt. The two injured men are Fred T. Smith, 45 years old, a salesman, of 3723 Division street, who was driving the other car, and O. E. Olson, 30, of McHenry.

Cause of Crash Uncertain. Both Smith and Miss Hanson, who was driving the teachers' car, were unconscious late last night and the cause of the accident could not be determined. The victims were taken to the Sherman and St. Joseph hospitals in Elgin. News of other trafic accidents is on page 16.1 Manville's Wife No.

4 Hops Plane for Reno Newark, Ni Sept. 15. (JP) Mar-celle Edwards, wife No. 4 of Tommy Manville, asbestos heir, hopped off at 11:15 p. m.

tonight in a plane bound for Reno and a divorce. Carl Helm, Marcelle's attorney, said there was no ill feeling on any one's part. She is very happy." Meantime Tommy was in his home in New Rochelle, N. Y. Bloomington Cherry Tree Thinks It's Spring, Tra La Bloomington, Sept.

15. Special. A cherry tree has lost track of the seasons and has burst into bloom for the second time this year on the Frank Kirk farm near PICTURES FROM CHINA Action photographs taken by press camera men working in the thick of the fighting in China will be found on the back page. The pictures were made about two weeks ago on the two important fronts of the war Shanghai and Peiplng, which art 600 miles apart. They were flown to the United States on the Clipper plane and transmitted from San Francisco to Chicago by Associated Press wire-photo.

$23,000 FEDERAL BONDS STOLEN BY OFFICE BURGLARS Nineteen negotiable United States treasury bonds worth $23,000 were stolen from the office of the Empire Box corporation on the eleventh floor of the Palmolive building, 919 North Michigan avenue, last evening. Two burglars spent more than an hour leisurely ransacking the office. They calmly exchanged greetings with a janitress, who thought they were employes. The bonds were the property of Moses Klein, a retired official of the concern, who lives at the Edgewater Beach hotel. His son, S.

J. Klein, is president of the company, and another son Paul, is an official. The elder Klein was reported to be seriously ill. He supplied, through Paul, the serial numbers of the stolen securities. They included eighteen $1,000 bonds and one $5,000 bond.

S. J. Lyons, sales manager of the company, told Lieut. James Devereaux of the Chicago avenue police the burglars had missed another package of bonds worth $50,000. While police were investigating this burglary another janitress reported seeing a man run out of the office of the H.

J. Andrews Paper company on the sixteenth floor. A transom window had been broken and the place ransacked, but nothing was stolen. Doc Stork Doesn't Read Accident Case Verdict Three years ago when Mrs. Elizabeth Norton, 4717 Addison street, won a $5,000 verdict from Sherman Tucker, 1518 Thorndale avenue, then a Northwestern university oludent, for injuries incurred in an automobile accident, physicians testified she would never be able to bear a child.

In an appeal filed yesterday John A. Bloom-ingston, attorney for Tucker, asked the Illinois Supreme court to take judicial cognizance of a baby born to Mrs. Norton last March 9. Nazi Economic Dictator in Italy on Secret Visit GENOA, Italy, Sept. 15.

UP) Dt, Hjalmar Schacht, German minister of economics, arrived in Italy un announced today. The purpose of his visit was not disclosed. at Offer to Be Chorus Boys Chleago Tribune Press Service. LONDON, Sept. 15.

Ted Peckham, escort impresario who has made a living providin male companions for lonely women at a price stirred up a fu- rore among Brit- ain's titled citi- zenry today by his efforts make the British peerage a paying proposition. A rding to Peckham, eight British peers rushed to answer iL f')eJJ nis newspaper ad- vertisment oiter- Kinnoull. inz them six mnntht' rnntraptt at a minimum of $150 a week and free passage to the Tt -4- uu-ieu otaies as ujl a chorus for a New York stage show. It's An Insult, Two Cry- Peckham's enthusiasm over his new venture was reflected in his proud admission that those who ap plied for the six jobs he had to give "seem pretty good to me." His joy was not echoed, however, by at least two of the applicants, once their names became known. They were criti cal, indeed, of what they indicated was an insult to the peerage.

1 Lord Kinnoull and Lord Berners, two of Mayfair's younger peers, con ceded they had answered the adver- tisment but only as a lark, they claimed. I did it as a joke because I thought it was so impertinent of the American showman to put such an advertisment in our Lord Berners said. Strip Tease Act? Sure! He declared he even had offered to do a strip tease act in the show- but indicated that, too, was just a way of voicing his indignation, Berners is known as a musician and composer. Lord Kinnoull, who in 1928 married Mary Isobel Meyrick, daughter of London's late n'ght club queen, Kate Meyrick, professed even greater in dignation. It is damned impertinent that American showmen should come over here and think they can buy peers like they buy their cigarets," he said.

Peckham last February undertook to establish a gigolo bureau in Chi- mrrn Tint failed TVio reaenn frvr tVio lau.ule Wda Sven as me i-eiucumte yi. unicago women to patronize sucn a service. i 0.