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mmz mtmltt Tli Newspaper low Depend I'non tf PRICE 3 CENTS-- DES MOINES, IOWA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY IS, 1036. FOURTEEN TAGES Thu Moinei nrt Hv Mori Than Quarter Million Circulation. RAI9 III Ml JV he weather Partly cloudy today, somewhat cooler Sunday. The day's record, including weather reports and other statistics, on Page 14. Ik pel 0KTG9 EAST OFFICER IN ON Glass Points nminrr Out Mistake DR.

TOWNSEND Scattered Showers OF REBOD Dr0P Of President SWEET DREAMS EVERYONE. TOMORROW MAY.BE A BUSY DAY. I '-y GOOP NIGHT xtSejfrV KIDNAPER SAYS1 Rest of State Bakes, But Death Rate Drops; More Rain Forecast. Gomer Smith's Case Tabled Until After Convention. Snei.lon thunderstorms carried by strong northerly Ircplmtn on Page ri.FVFl.ANI, OHIO (SATl'R- Insists Former Chief of St.

Paul Got Ransom Split. ST. PAUL, MINN. MP) A confessed kidnaper electrified, a federal courtroom here Friday by declaring that: Thomas Brown, member of the St. raul police squad which shot down Homer Van Meter, ASHLAND, VA.

(.4 Senator Carter Glass, 78, Va.) said "we now have a system of government of privilege and discrimination" in an extemporaneous speech Friday at the Patrick Henry bicentennial celebration here. He told several thousand persons gathered on the Randolph-Macon college campus that this was such a government as Henry denounced in the House of Burgesses when he said: "It is not proper to take money of taxpayers of Virginia and appropriate it to pay off mortgages that had been made by thriftless and unwise individuals." "Government's Nose." DAY- The Townsend board of 'directors adjourned early today jwith a statement that no censure shared In the $100,000 ransom I winds, Friday rvrninp; brought scattered rains and lower temperatures to north and cast Iowa communities. The heaviest rainfall, a half inch, was reported at Buf-, falo Center. KinniHsluirK, Ksthrnillt. Quarter-inch rains fell at Emmetsburp.

Forest City, Esthervillo and Bancroft. West Hend reported .15 of an inch rainfall. Charles City rainfall totaled .13 of an inch. A light rain brpan at 7 p. m.

at Mason City, accompanied by a high wind and electrical storm. i At Northwood, rainfall of "0 of an inch brought a tern-! perat ure drop of 31 degrees. Fort I lodge felt .12 of an inch rain; C.rundy Center had a good shower; and Marshalltown, a high wind and a trace of rain. A heavy rain fell at Cedar would he visited on Gomer Smith, a vice president of the pension organization, for his speech criticizing lis suggested alliance with a third party movement. The break between Ir.

V. V. paid for the release of kidnaped William Hamm, wealthy St. Paul brewer. Van Meter was a lieutenant of John Dillinger, public enemy No.

1 until his death. 'That is just what we are do- founder of the month old age pension movement, and Smith, of Oklahoma, came to jan end for the duration of the con- vent ion with the hoard's announcement that Byron Bolton, who made the lnK ln lm" country iwiay. uiass statement, was testifying for the 8aid- "whether it be due to the government in the trial of John mismanagement of bank man-Peifer as a conspirator in theirs, insurance company man-Hamm abduction. Peifer is a agers, or the mismanages of night club proprietor. Bolton al-, businesses or railroads.

The gov- Rapids. Uritt received .25 of an inch. Webster City, Mars. Light rains also fell at Webster City, Humboldt, Le Mara, acllnn lll be taken by Dr. Townsend or (he niitiomil board to censure any of the speakers that have appenred." business today.

"The president of the I'nited States has been bitterly criticised, but my comment on his ae Pressed for a statement on thr'osago, Iowa City, Marengo, Dubuque, New Hampton and legedly was a machine gunner for the Barker-Karpis mob. Admission. In his testimony, Bolton admitted that he was an occupant of the automobile that carried Hamm to Eensenville, 111., where the brewer was held captive in the home of Edmund Bartholmey. board's action after he had walked; L'jra Tho Wnhstor Citv rain hroueht little relief from out of the board meeting Friday eveninc in nrotest acninst Smith's the heat. A high wind preceded the shower.

A light presence, Dr. Townsend issued this -sprinkle was reported at Burt. Waterloo and Spirit Lake. statement: "In view of Ihe stress of other A quarter of an inch rain, the i tions would be to the effect that he made the mistake of taking 1 all the power that congress was willing to give him. I "It is the congress that should i be blamed for abjectly surrender-I ing its own constitutional func-; tions and delegating them the president of the United States and to various minor executive offi business of Ihe convention, no amount that fell In seversl of the Communities, Is considered of agricultural Importance and if followed by cooler weather is of definite benefit to crops.

Rubbing It In further ait ion will he taken re-: garding Mr. Gomer Smith te-maining on Ihe board of directors until after the convention," Townsend's walkout followed his demand for the ouster of i Batholmey, a former postmaster, pleaded guilty in the case. Bolton testified that Brown, former rhief of police and a member of the kidnap deta.il In the Hamm and F.dward G. Bremer (St. Paul banker) abductions, received $25,000 for Informing the gang of police activities during the brewer's captivity in June, 1 933.

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SS II n. Bll III I 1 Sporadic. Although widely separated localities received rains, the shower were reported as extremely sporadic. Numerous areas, between the cials." "Tyranny." The veteran senator said Henry was opposed to tyranny of all kinds, adding "and I submit that Smith as vice president. Smith's fiery speech crystallised' opposition to Townsend's leader-! 1IIII communities receiving rain, ex- i nMin 1 p.

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III. ft t. m. ttm ion I II mi nn i on llll lilt llll till "In the split-up. of the ransom there is no more damaging species money," Bolton testified, "$20,000 of tyranny than that of taxing was taken out 'for Brown and! the many for the benefit of the $10,000 for Peifer." few.

After Bolton testified Chief Clin-! "Some people have the notion ton Hackert ordered Brown, now that as soon as a dollar gets into iperienreft no preripnauon. A hough Bancroft received a 'quarter-Inch of rain, there was no rain seven miles north nf there. The sprinkle at Hurt failed to extend west of the town. III I i. i I ship in joining in the presidential campaign of Representative William Imke along with the Kev.

Charles E. Coughlin anil the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, "share-our-weallh" advocate.

When the Imard convened, Smith walked in and declared he would not resign. Townsend shortly walked out stiffly. Shortly before midnight, a committee of the directors marched to Townsend's room and asked him ii p. II niMiilihl HI H7 l-rl. Siil.

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The NEWS At a Glance Loud-Voiced I Robots Guard Little Shirley THE TALK, IN THE NEWS in charge of the auto theft depart- the hands of the government it be-; ment, suspended "withoi, pieju- comes some sort of sacred species, dice" pending outcome of the trial. money to be doled out by some Brown's only comment was, "I federal minion, piecemeal. have nothing to say." "I contend, and I have always It was in August, 1934, while contended, that it would do vastly i Brown was a member of the kid- more g1 left in your lliist. Storm. The rain at Mason City, of half-hoiir duration, was preceded by a heavy dust storm.

The first rainfall In more than a month, the shower brought Masnn City a 20-drgiee drop. A dust-storm and an elertriral dispiay also accompanied the rain at Humboldt. Lightning displays In western Woman Cries 3 Days for Tariff. Kdouard Daladier, French minis- invTCA pat. Asserting Democrats had not ter of defense, pleading for peace Shirley Temple's father acci-written a single line to repeal a a.

chamber of deputies passes leg-! dentally demonstrated Friday that nap detail, that he and other detectives cornered and slew Van Meter. Limitations. Federal officials Friday night explained that under the Lindbergh kidnap act, no one else can Food, Water, me- single line of the bmoot-Hawley jRBtjon nalionallzl the 01 implicated tariff, he said: i ichanical "bodyguards for famoi.s i land northern skieg Friday night "We will let industries continue IUUNlry- movie children have a background. to re! urn to the meeting. He consented, Suit Filed.

Meanwhile, Just two blocks in the county courthouse, ar-i tion was started to oust Pr. i Townsend and his directors and throw the organization Into receivership. The suit was filed by the Rev. Alfred J. Wright, a deposed Town-jsend manager from Ohio, and jthree active California delegates.

I Demand Accounting. Socialist WASHINGTON, I), v. Joseph V. Stllson, wartime editor of a Lithuanian Socialist newspaper, Friday was pardoned by President Roosevelt from the. I-CHiaburg, penitentiary.

Stllson was sentenced to two years last January under wartime laws for encouraging "Insubordination, disloyalty and refusal of duty." Senator's Kstate BARTOW, FLA. An inventory of the estate nf the late I'nited Mate Senator Park Tramairll Friday shoned personal rllerln valued at Irs than "War must nnt be a source of scandalous profit. want peace, but a peace of free men and not one which Is suitable for slaves." of fact. Bells clanged, lights blaed and a siren whined when the little star's father, (ieorge Temple, set off the apparatus in be prosecuted in the Hamm case, their species of robbery and let since the three-year period under 'other groups institute their spe-the statute of limitations expired jcies of robberies, last June 18, "unless definite evi-j "When it comes to wage earners, dence is uncovered showing the clerks, and stenographers, pro-kidnap conspiracy had extended fessional men, and a large class jsiicgcsted rain might come to Dea nMpn vrrhr wfr CLINTON, JA A trnpedy clear st. midnight and the tem-of the heat wave whs din- pcrature still high, closed here Friday when po-j Prediction.

lice broke into the Oscar Phil- The general Iowa weather pre-. dirlion indicated additional local lips nome. thundershowers today and cooler On a couch lay Phillips' weather Sunday. The official the Temple home. He was pull- of others, 58 million of them, the married Gladys George, thrice beyond that date.

Hamm was released June 1933. 18, exaction fee is from both pockets actress, speaking of marriage in at the same time." i Hollywood interview: Thev also asked nn accoiinlinp He had been dead weather bureau forecast was; of all organization funds in excess body. I IOWA: of one million dollars and 1m- three days. ANCHOR YACHT Partly cloudy In Ing the master switch to silence the alarms for the day when the system was set off, I Shirley's domicile is considered kidnap-proof. The houses of other million-dol- lar babies are similarly protected with automatic gadgets.

Should intruder disturb them, they are designed to light the house and grounds, lock the outer gates, and: set up an ear-splitting jangle of ftaa and an insurance paly for CEDAR RAPIDS GETS AIR LINE "Most aulhors have to write one or two unsuccessful books before they turn out a good one and so It seems to be, sometimes, with marriage It takes one or two unsuccessful ones to prepare a person for the real thing." pounding of books and records, In the petition It was alleged was lent to F.dward L. Mar gelt, Townsend club organizer, for his own benefit; that $25,000 Uitd tt uai ip rififf 1. r'unmr Qrnith it. From her bed In auolher room his mother, Mrs. Amanda llrimn, 8.V cried feebly for her son to ciiiiie to her.

An Invalid, she could not leave her room. Roosevelt, Sons End Cruise Across Fundy Bay. DOG TORTURE CAPK SABLR, NOVA SCOTIA west and smith, local thundershowers in northeast, not so warm in northwest today; Sunday scattered millers. niu ers, somew hat eooler. LOCAL: Tartly cloudy today, somewhat cooier Sunday.

'-fl'1- Skipper Franklin D. Roose- 2,500 Witness John Banniean. of Glasgow, bells and whistles fit to waken the TALK IS TOLD fiance his unsuccessful senatorial During Ihe three days Mrs. campaign in the Oklahoma Demo- Brown had been without tool and Riccio Held on Complaint He Primary, and that other water. She was removed to a hr.ur.il al hnr, U'hfrr hrr romllflon velt and his three sons anchored cnnr.

An. Planes Arrive their yacht Sewanna off Cape drew McMahon, is held in London 'n'iRhtorhood for miles around. i Ring Crosbys babiea have an Sable Friday night after 30 hours after an apparent threat against TRy oypr continuous sailing for 125 miles lhe of Kw iin tf lt is broken either by Tied Anirnal Behind Car. litr' nuion wcie ll hohi cri I'U I'l (' Dr. Townsend and certain of his critical, (Picture on Pr 11 (The ReRtster'l Iowa New Stervloe.) ten ao nirma ta Tiraniu James Riccio.

40. of 1047, close friends in the organization. "To think pters on Porch. Neighbors called poln of my own a shadow or by the actual body Twont y.third was arrested and Dr. Townsend earlier had ap when There were no other reports of would come to this." of a prowler, bedlam breaks lose across the widest part of the Bay five hundred local airminded resi- of Fundy.

dents Friday night helped the-city, Th came a rrrm.ml courwj lodged in the city jail Friday pointed Nathan Roberts, southern night on the romnlaint of Carl Townsend regional director, ,0 mcy ihiico hi any n.i'j n' precipiiaiion in mwa rrnay aner-Ihe home. nonn and evening as the H-day Mrs. Amy Vnungren of 2124 Harding road pour nil on troubled waters. Mr. Youngrcn told police that! Roherts took the stand and de and United Airlines to dnaugurate from seal Harbor, Me.

the first transcontinental air serv- nf tho nro.wiont Newspapers dating hack to srarnK heat wave continued. Britain's No. Johnson Mollison, 1 airwoman, de-in Sheffield, F.ng- 1 mors Detroit Monday lay on the poirh. Friday Barbara Be he Lvon, little daughter of Ben Lynn and Bche, Daniels, has similar protection In her Hollywood, home. What's more, the alls surrounding the house are electrically charged.

Ice throuch Cedar Rapids. Riccio attached a rope to a vcar- clarcd Father Coughlin Another Record. ami windows were clone. 1, appar- Throneine the field an hour be- Li. "th.

land, before a women's engineering society: old brindle bulldog, dragged the radio priest who Thursday tried to dog for several blocks behind his lead til" delegates Into Ixmke's car and then left it to die in Mr. party with an arm-swinging fore the first ship was due, the tjun Marlene Dietrich, Harold Lloyd Young rrn's back lot. Police shot speech -had niade a "demagogic jappeal." He added: ently to keep the heat out. Des Moines' high of 104 degrees Friday was another alltime high No ln.iie.t. i for the date, the previous being 101 Ixx-tors blHined Phillips' d-ath degrees on July 17 ln 1930.

the heal. His moilmr stiil was, Rate Drops, unaware of his death when taken1 th- hospital. I WBS th t'mperatur) Phillips was a laborer. Coroner Thursday night and Friday morn- "Women never have been lip to any good. My candid opinion of the species, obtained from history, Is that they have created little and destroyed much." and Ann Harding depend on dog i-Miwog siooa curious ami excueu Tne only mishap was thp as the Omaha plane appeared aa a jnj? a iinr whotl hp speck in the west.

WPllt overboard while hoisting a It was only a matter of a few l)p()troVPr Hopkins, minutes before the Chicago air- tn, pi.psi,!pntia, fM.ort ship appeared and followed the Mr. Youngrcn said that he will! Thi, convention mut lie unii- man guards for their children. ine cnarges or cruelty 10 animals; partisan. We deplore party eashbound ship down onto the. 76TH SUICIDE O.

RigRert of Clinton county against mccio in municipal court today. "It was the cruelest thing I ever saw," he said. HEAT CUTTING MILK SUPPLY TO EXTREMES field Weather. Continued on Pag said no Inquest will be held. animosity.

We do nut subscribe In branding as a liar, duulile-rrosser or betraer a Roosevelt, a laandon or a liemke." Those were the words that Coughlin used In describing Roose nlana Injilf 1 The Chicago-bound off almost immediately but the A Year A ro 1-Pound Twins Anolner man eaPs rrom westbound ship remained for Rnv I Pasadena, Bridge. Now It's 16-Pound Boy. Shortage If Wave WHAT'S UP? PLANE FALLS, BURNS; 2 DIE brief program at which city and City Inspector Fears. PASADENA, CAL. velt.

Thomas Accepts. The Drought At a Glance B. Barney. cty milk SPain Censors Contact With United Airlines officials spoke. I GRACE VILLE, MINN.

Mrs. Henceforth, during the expert-' Jacob Srhmitz, 37-year-old farm mental IBmin nhnai n'iU knliaipnl in aniar. In I en iv, leaped to the Coio- W'illiam Rafferty, a clerk, his death Friday from World; Fear Revolt. and dairy inspector, Friday said The convention then heard that1 President Roosevelt end Gov. Aif Mining Engineer and Woman -M.

Landnn had declined their invi-; Villcr! in Indiana i I st. bndge-the seventy-sixth pass through here each day but- A year ago February, she was the normal supply of milk for (By Th PrM to address the delegates, (By The Annncla'M Tnu Chicago, III. Corn belt gets an- Rumors of a revolt. In Sunday, one each way. Both will congratulated by Mrs.

Franklin D. land about 7 p. m. Roosevelt on the arrival of twins Spain Dea Moines will run short within a few days if extreme hot weather continues. FAIR OAKS.

IND. (SATUR- circulated earlv this mornine lhnt Thomas, Social years ago. i Another man who climbed the cailinr u-a f-nocrht hv fl rtaswriiv The field is three miles south weighing a total of 1 pound. Fri- A Pilot Identified omer oay European cities as the Spanish rrpinential candidate, would PAY) (UPt of the city. At present, according to Mr i government clapped a censorship from his license no general reuei siziurrj, jiuur William Ica- h.v annrnarh 4,400 corn prices nign- day njght her sixteenth child, a 18- Uce arrivp1 pound baby boy, was reported get-j Tattooed on nafferty's right Barney, the regular iniirv umincL ihp rear or ThA oav was rtnvol on on rommumcaiion wun-Lne oursioe ,1 Unnl A an to promoting good will among" si in more man year.

PROFITS world. is being supplied, but there is a Death be- slight shortage in the supply for arm were the words From the plat- unidentified woman were Killed. I'lerre, S. Resettlement Ad. Gibraltar heard reports there delegates fore dishonor.

cottage cheese and ire cream. form they were commanded to early today when their private minlatrator Tugwell orders his had been an outbreak at Cartagena, 4J Firms Report 36 Pct.i6 Miles an Hour an agency to supply livestock feed to join hands with the person on nlan. and burned In Gain Over Year Ago. southeastern Spanish seaport, A telephone conversation Costs Driver $25 Today in farmers in need. Same organiza- their left and right and say: "God fi(t nrar nr(, WEAK PLANKS tween Barcelona.

Spain, and Paris, -vou' Wlow-Townsendite." orl Uamnn jy Hon alloU $350,000 for human tub. NEW YORK, N. T. UP) A ris- Harold Joint, 4610 S. W.

Tenth They did. sistence. said he was 41 years old and a ing tide of corporate earnings Fri- pleaded guilty to driving 46 Des Moines Concert, Des Moines playground The Seetheart." consulting engineer for the Toroi Washington, P. Cattle buy Governor of Nebraska Escapes ct 0(f Mm lt had; been completed, anl the Associated As Platform Falls. Madrj(1J Then there was led forward "the Mining Corp.

of Anaconda. His ing am ready to swing into day gave Wall Street further, miles an hour on Sixth ave. and tangible evidence of business im- paid a $25 fine in municipal court, provement. Friday. A gain of 36.8 per cent in second; Watson Miller, 132 E.

Twenty-' band, 7:30 p. Chamherlain fnmrt'i nir.n u-nB nut i tnfl Im. art Ion Monday; resettlement ad GERING. NEB. iffi Gov.

R. L. hpsm, ended a talk with London. kjr.rii.'j. -rti-miT, iv.

lj. Hweci.ncarT oj inc convenuon ministration plans acquisition of 4 Cochran (Democrat) of Nebraska England, by saying, "Tiffs is all I Mrs. Townsend, an elderly, white mediately. playgrounds, Nineteenth st. Ingersoll ave.

Witnesses said the motor in the million acres of drought belt land quarter profits over the same second was found guiltv of escaped uninjured Friday when am snowed to ten you. haired little woman who was al- period last vear was shown in a drivine 40 miles hour and fined Community singinr and free mov- nanks in a reviewinir nlat-, Disorders einr-e the leftist cov- hidden hehmd rlu.ter nf plane apparently failed The oc- for adjustment program, AAA ing pictures, p. frm from he was to see ernment's victory in the February, yellow roses. She stood there be- ci.pants had time to throw one buys 2 million bushels of Pacific playgrounds. Twenty-first lh(, Qreznn trail dava parade eave elections are estimated unofficially aide the dorlor.

while Paul Hutchi- flare fiom the falling shin before northwest wheat for distribution in north of Forest ave. ay under him. jto have taken between 2(H) and 300 son, of Portland, sang, "Sil-jit struck the ground. The crashiand regions. compilation of the first 45 state- $15 by Judge Charles S.

Cooter. rnents of reporting companies. 'Double parking, of which Thomas Conspicuous for gains were such Malatesta. Sixteenth was companies ss Gen--found guilty, cost him $9. Added eral Electric, United Fruit Johns-'to the $2 fmt wers court costs MsavUis and Ujs United Corp.

ot $7. lives, with possibly 1,000 wounded, ver Threads Among The Gold" Finals of the Iowa State tennis; tournament, at Des Moines ten-i nn club, starting at 1 p. m. I Said the governor: "This platform must have some Republican planks In It" completely demolished the plane Centralis, III. Mercury resumes and the two bodies were found climb ln southern Illinois after about 50 feet apart.

bring respite. Hundreds of Fascists have been) At the end of the song, Town-arrested this week. tsend kissed his wife..