Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1933 — Page 1

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Such a Life Here’s Pegler Back Again With His Views on What’s What. By Westbrook Pegler

TWJEW YORK, Dec. 11.-This Is a new line of work with me and I hope and trust that I will presently find over here in the department where they try to make the people think some equivalents of Primo Camera and Babe Ruth who can be w’ritten about on rainy days. Perhaps they do not have any rainy days in the department where they try to make the people think. I do not believe I have ever seen a notice in the papers sayipg, “No Gold Standard Today; Wet Grounds" or "NR A Postponed; Rain.” But I am sure they must have days when they find themselves in need of rainy-day topics and one of the problems which I must attend to very soon is a list of those subjects which they make do for the fine old standard sport page controversy over the amateurism of the tournament tennis players, the fourteen count in Chicago and the question whether John L. Sullivan could fight better than somebody else could sw'im or tackle or row. m • * They go out nights, sometimes, these writers who try to make the people think, don’t they? And after they have been out all night, sitting in some hotel room in Washington or feeling the public pulse in Kansas City or Chicago to find out whether the people are thinking, and. if so. what, they are likely to feel somewhat world-series themselves, aren't they? I suppose there is no department on the paper in which a man does not sometimes find it necessary, in the interests of jourr "" to get around to places at night and come to in the morning feeling at least slightly world-series. I know' publishers have to go to banquets and sit between the general commanding the local corps area and the manager of the big store. The business managers and advertising managers go to lower case banquets and sit betwe''- the president of the state federation of labor and the chairman of the boxing commission. The book-reviewers go to literary teas, the fight-writers go to Carnera’s training camp or Maxie Baer’s, the political experts go to conventions and baseball experts go to the world series. B B B THE only feeling worse than the w T orld series feeling that I have experienced is the Poughkeepsie regatta feeling but then the regatta takes place in June on a hot river In a hot valley and you have been sleeping on a gravel mattress under n tin roof in a room giving onto the kitchen where they cook ham and eggs. You did not get to bed until 4 a. m., anyway, and as the fumes of the ham and eggs started coming up the areawav at half past sik. the Poughkeepsie regatta feeling is about the worst that the human system can be exposed to and live. Although the Houston Democratic convention feeling was pretty bad. I am not yet very well acquainted among the gold-standard crowd, the NRA crowd, the Governor-do-your-duty group and the whither-are-we-drifting writers, being so new around here. But I have a feeling, just from the look of them, that there will be days over here in the Sacred Heritage of Liberty department when I will pine for good old Primo and the Old (apostrophe' Bambino. They write so easy, Primo and the 6l (apostrophe) Bambino. I could always sit down on a day when I was feeling more or less world-series or even a trifle Poughkeepsie and just play the typewriter, recalling what. Primo said to me one day in Miami or the time the Babe killed two kidnappers with any ball-bat. * n a BUT over where I came from on the sport page, if you wait a couple of years after he didn’t kill any kidnapers with a ball bat and then recall the incident, there is your story and you can go back to bed. It doesn’t make any difference whether he did or didn't. Who jis going to care after tw r o years? But I am a stranger around here. I don't even know Mr. Roosevelt. About the only ope I do know is Shamus Farley, the postmastergeneral. who used to be the prizefight commissioner. I can't go on waiting on every rainy day about the time he was playing first base for Haverstraw T ANARUS, and the third baseman, fielding a bunt, picked up a rock by mistake and nearly tore Shamus’ hand off. I know no third baseman ever picked up any rock and nearly tore Shamus' hand off when he was playing first base for Haverstraw. But this was years ago. I am scared of this place. I wish I were back where I came from already. (Copyright. 1933. by United Features Syndicate. Inc.t Times Index Page BLACK HAWK 15 Bridge • 12 Broun 10 Classified 12, 13 Comics • 15 Crossword Puzzle 7 Curious World 15 Editorial • 10 Financial 14 Hickman—Theaters 3 Hunting 8 Hobby ■ 8 Industrial Pace 8 Lodge Page • 5 Pegler l Radio 18 Sports li State News 7 Woman's Page 6

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 183

FEARING LOSS Os JOB, MAN ENDS HIS LIFE City Truck Driver Shoots Self After Arrest on Drunk Charge. CRASHES GROCERY VAN Wife Finds Victim, Almost Decapitated, in Car Near Home. Fearing the lass of his job and the consequences of having been arrested for drunken driving. Robert Irvin, 47. of 1201 Herbert street, killed himself with a double-bar-reled shotgun as he sat in his car, parked in front of his home early today. Mr. Irvin discharged both barrels of the shotgun into the right side of his face as he sat in the driver's seat with the gun propped against the floorboard of the car. The discharge of the heavy piece almost decapitated him. Tells Wife, Daughter ‘Early today he prepared to go to work, after telling his wife Ina and his daughter Margaret, 20, that he had been arrested for reckless driving and drunkenness at Fletcher avenue and State street late Sunday night. At that time, he collided with a car driven by William J. Schumacher. 22, of 25 North Temple avenue. An unknown girl on Schumacher’s car was reported to have been treated for lacerations. William Horning, 47, 1800 Dexter avenue, who was riding in the truck owned by Louis R. Roth, grocer, 2455 East Washington street, which was driven by Mr. Irvin, was treateed at city hospital for cuts and bruises sustained in the collision. “Hate to Face Boss” "I hate to face the boss, he’s been so good to me,” Mr. Irvin told his vufe as he left for work today. "I wish I had been killed in that accident last night,” he added. A few minutes later, Mrs. Irvin heard him trying to start his car which was parked on the side of their home in Gent avenue. She told police she heard a loud explosion and thought it came from the exhaust. She left the house to try to help her husband start the car and found him dead. Mrs. Irvin was at a loss to explain how’ her husband had removed the shotgun from the house without her seeing it. She said he had worked for the grocery concern for twelve years and had never been in any trouble before.

SLIVER OF GLASS IS TAKEN FROM SHOULDER Splinter Received Two Months Ago Makes Itself Felt. Two months ago, John McShanog, 28. of 1440 North Delaware street, was assaulted by two men in a restaurant near Sixteenth and Illinois streets. In the scuffle, a window pane was shattered, and McShanog fell to the floor on the glass. Since then, he has felt frequent pains in his back. This morning, the pains became worse and McShanog rushed to city hospital, w'here the cause of the pain, a sliver of glass from the window pane, one-fourth inches W’ide and three inches long, was removed from his shoulder. The glass had penetrated beneath an arm and w'orked its w'ay to the shoulder. Thieves Steal Groceries Thieves who looted the Childs grocery at 451 West Fifteenth street early yesterday, stole groceries valued at SSO. police were told.

Killer Suspect Is Saved from Infuriated Mob Solution to Three Mysterious Murders Claimed by Officers: Farm hand Is Accused. By United Press WICHITA. Kan., Dec. 11.—Officers today claimed a sqlution to three mysterious murders after the alleged slayer, a 37-year-old farm hand, had been imprisoned behind the strong walls of the Kansas state reformatory. to save him from an infuriated mob.

A confession implicating the farm hand. Jack Wisdom, in the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Ham Pritchard and Emory Large, was obtained shortly before Oklahoma officers found the body of Mr. Pritchard, a Wichita clothing merchant. near El Reno. Okla. Wisdom, arrested early yesterday after a ’three weeks' search, w’as taken to the reformatory at Nutchinson after a wide ride through Oklahoma and Kansas with an angry mob in pursuit. Quick action by Governor W Hfl Murray in mobilizing the Oklahoma national guard was credited with saving him from violent death at the hands of wouldbe lynchers. Mr. Pritchard's body was found today three miles north and one mile east of El Reno. Okla.. near the place where Wisdom led officers last night in a six-hour fut’’e hunt. Mrs. Pritchard's body had been found yesterday forty miles north of this location by a hunter Mr Lan* ' body was found in a dry well on a Ranch near Meede. Kan.. Nov. 29. six days after the Pritchards disappeared in company with Wisdom. Captain W. O Lyle of the Wichita detective bureau, said that shortly after Wisdom’s commitment at the Hutchinson reformatory, the prison'' made a \erbal confession that he helped kul the Wichita couple because Mr. Pritchard had filed a

The Indianapolis Times Fair and continued cold tonijrht, with lowest temperature about 17; tomorrow, increasing: cloudiness with slowly rising: temperature.

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The Most Rev. John McNicholas, archbishop of the archdiocese of Cincinnati will preach the sermon at the last rites for Bishop Joseph Chartrand at the cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Wednesday morning.

Robin Hood II Gas Station Bandit Is Very Considerate.

TMFTEEN dollars, no more, no -*• less w'as the unusual demand of a bandit who Saturday night called on Raymond Smith, 19, attendant at the Standard Oil filling station at Meridian and Thirteenth streets. Counting out sls and putting the rest of the money back in the cash box, Smith asked the reason for the specific demand. “I heard that the company stands the loss on any robbery under sls, and the attendant has to make good anything over that,” replied the thoughtful bandit, before locking Smith in the lavatory, and departing. KANSAS CITY OPENS NEW GALLERY OF ART Newspaper Founder’s Bequest Makes Museum Possible. By United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. 11.— The new $7,000,000 William Rockhill Nelson gallery of art, last gift of the founders of the Kansas City Star to his city, w'as opened to the public here today. Seven years was spent in construction of the gallery and a worldwide search for art treasures with which to start its permanent collation. The Nelson trustees announced that the depression enabled the gallery to buy for $4,000,000 old masters which were priced at $10,00.000 when sought originally. MAN DIES ABSOLVING WIFE FOR FATAL SHOT Tragedy Follows Night of Terror in Home Because of Liquor. By Times .Special Ft. WAYNE. Dec. 11.—Shot fatally by his wife, after what she described as a night of terror, Albert Van Wormer, 37 motion picture operator, absolved her of blame on his death bed. Mrs. Van Wormer told police her husband, drink-crazed, beat and kicked and several times threatened to kill her and their son Allison, 16, during the night. She said she shot him with a .22-caliber revolver as he sw r ung a hammer at her.

charge of passing a worthless s2l check. The confession, the officer said, blamed one "Buck Smith” for the actual slaying of the Pritchards.

100 Killed as Spaniards Revolt; Uprising Quelled

By United Prcst MADRID. Dec. 11.—With indications that a general strike, threatened by anarchists and syndicalists after yesterday's battle against police. was failing to materialize, the government claimed today to dominate the uprising on all fronts. Estimates put the death toll at around 100. “All public forces, military and civil, are loyal to the government.” Minister of Labor Pi Y Suner told the United Press, "and the government has complete control over the country. Pi Y Suner was optimistic as reports continued to arrive that the radical elements had failed to succeed in forcing all workers to quit their jobs. "The blindness of some of the revolutionary element* is lament-,

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933

LAST RITES FOR FAMED BISHOP ARE ARRANGED Burial of the Great Most Rev. Joseph Chartrand to Be Wednesday. HIGH OFFICIALS COMING Apostolic Delegate to U. S. to Celebrate Mass at Cathedral. All the solemn pageantry of the Roman Catholic church in mourning will be displayed at the funeral of the Most Reverend Joseph Chartrand, "bishop of the holy eucharist,” to be held at the cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Wednesday morning. Coincident with the announcement of final arrangements for the funeral of the noted prelate, who i died of a heart attack in the cathedral rectory Friday night, diocesan ! consultors announced the appointment of the Most Rev. Joseph El- ! mer Ritter, titular bishop of Hipi pus, as administrator of the Indianapolis diocese. Bishop Ritter will serve as administrator until Pope Pius XI appoints a successor to the late Bishop Chartrand. Although it is considered likely that Bishop Ritter will receive the appointment as bishop of the Indianapolis diocese, his posi- | tion as auxiliary bishop does not j necessarily make it compulsory that he be appointed.

Many to Attend More than forty bishops, archbishops and other dignitaries of the church in their purple and red robes, will assemble in the nave of the cathedral preceding the pontifical high requiem mass Wednesday. The Rt. Rev. Amelta Giovanni Cicognanni, apostolic delegate to the United States, will celebrate the mass to be sung from Don Lorenzo Perosi’s famous composition. "Messa da Requiem,” composed in 1898 on the occasion of the final sealing of the tomb of Pope Leo XIII. The funeral sermon will be delivered by Archbishop John McNicholas of the archdiocese of Cincinnatti, of which the Indianapolis diocese is a part. The funeral of Bishop Chartrand will fall on the date of the birth of Bishop Chatard and the anniversary of the death of the Rev. Edgard O'Connor, an assistant pastor of the Cathedral,‘who died five years ago. In addition to the celebrant, the Most Rev. Cicognanni, papal delegate, the following clergymen will assist in the singing of the requiem mass: Assistant priest, the Rt. Rev. Joseph E. Hamill, prothonotary, w'ho is the apostolic chancellor of the diocese. Deacons of Honor Deacons of honor—the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Frederic Ketter, pastor of St. Anthony’:; church, Evansville, and the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Maurice O’Connor. pastor of St. Joan of Arc’s church, Indianapolis, the diocesan consultor. The deacons of honor will attend upon his excellency the apostolic delegate in the celebration of the mass. The Rev. John T. O'Hare, pastor of St. Simon's church. Washington, will act as deacon of the mass and the Rev. Albert H. Busald, pastor of St. Anthony’s church, Indianapolis, will be the subdeacon. Deacons of honor to the most reverend archbishop of the province, the Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P., S. T. M„ the archbishop of Cincinnati, will be the Rev. Basil Heusler. O. S. 8., pastor of St. Joseph's church, Jasper, and the Rev. Michael Gorman, director of the Gibault Home for Boys and dean of the Terre Haute district. * Prayer Vigil to Begin The body of the late Bishop Chartrand which has laid in state in the rectory since his death will be borne to the cathedral at 10 a. m. Tuesday, where it will lie before the altar until the funeral services. While the procession is carrying the body from the rectory the Schola Cantorum of the cathedral will chant the fiftieth Psalm, the “Miserere” in the solemn tempo of the Gregorian chant. A vigil of prayer will begin at 8 p. m. Tuesday and continue all night until the time of the funeral service. At each hour all through the night special detachments of priests will recite public prayers for the repose of the soul of the dead bishop. This vigil was said at the cathedral to be in compliance with the wishes of Bishop Chartrand expressed prior to his death.

able,” he declared. "The government wanted to avoid any injuries to the people, and therefore gave orders to all its armed forces to permit the rebels to surrender and avoid bloodshed, but in many cases the leaders refused, and the battles resulted.” Pi Y Suner said the death toll would reach 100. A threatened railroad strike at Seville, he said, had been blocked, and a majority of the factories were operating in Barcelona and Madrid. Heartening support for the government came from Julian Bestero. president of the powerful general labor union, and one of the Socialist leaders. He declared the Socialists would not join the anarchists’ movement, because they regarded the rebellion “against the interests of the laboring class,”

Three Die in Maine Dance Hall Blaze Marathon Contestants Flee Fire Into Northeast Blizzard. By United Press HAMPDEN. Me.. Dec. 11.—Explosion of a steam heater was blamed today for a fire which enveloped the Paradise dance hall last night, killing three marathon dancers and sending eight others to a hospital. The dead: Emile Pelletier. Boston; Gejties Songia, Dracut, Mass.; John Ryan, New York. Only a Maine “blue law,” prohibiting admissions to dance marathons on the Sabbath, prevented a major catastrophe. The contest had had been suspended over Sunday and most of the oentestants were asleep in their cots when the fire broke out. Had the contest been in progress, scores of spectators might have been trapped. Occurring at the height of a northeast blizzard, the blast and resultant blaze sent the pajamaclad contestants fleeing into snow that was knee-deep. Some collapsed and suffered frozen legs or feet before they could be rescued. So swiftly did the flames spread under the blast of the gale that several occupants were unable to escape. Bodies of the three who perished were found in the ruins.

EARLE FREE IN MURDER CASE Charges Against Husband of Slain Rheta Quashed by Prosecution. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 11.—Earle Wynekoop today was freed on a charge of being an accessory before the fact of the murder of his beautiful wife, Rheta, when the case was nolle prossed at the requests of the state’s attorney’s office. Dismissal of the accessory charge left police with no legal method of holding the young husband who had been in custody since returning to Chicago after his wife’s mysterious murder. A hearing on a habeas corpus writ late today remained as the last legal formality to be disposed of before Wynekqop could ffturn to ordinary life'ancf commencefa self-announced exhaustive investigation into his wife’s death. Wynekoop’s mother, Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, remained meantime in her county jail cell where she is held on an indictment charging her with her daughter-in-law’s murder. Shotgun Ends Argument John Gorman, 46, Negro, 2640 Ethel street, w'as shot in both legs with a shotgun during an argument with William Gates, Negro, 2610 Clifton street. Gorman told police Saturday night. He was taken to city hospital.

One Down, Four to Go — Let’s Boost It to 200

ONE HUNDRED and THREE! One-fifth of the job of bringing warm clothing to children on the Clothe-a-Child list of the Indianapdlis Times has been completed. But the goal this year is 500 youngsters of school age, provided with warm wearing apparel. Last year's record was 435 children. But times are better for the employed and worse for the unemployed. The jobless are going into their fifth year of roughing it with life. Business is better for merchants! Hopes are higher. But in poorer districts of town, along White river, or where streaks of smoke from the stockyards curl east and west, times are harder in the homes of widows, and men still without a job. Clothe-a-Child guarantees that your Christmas gift, that lasts as long as the woof of cloth wears, will be spent by yourself in only those homes where a government check is a stranger. It is a guarantee because you spend the money yourself or we’ll do it for you if you haven’t the time. a a a JUST to show how the one-time jobless feel about the campaign today a group of thirteen from the painters, employed under civil works on the Crispus Attucks high school, called in their appreciation for having work again, with: "We want a boy. We know there's still a lot of need in the city and many who will be without jobs.” Clothe-a-Child does not, except in cases of overgrown families, go into the same homes year in and year out. Some way it does not need to. The morale that donors bring to those homes at Christmas lets those families, some way, out of future campaigns. Remember the twins, offered as reward for the best bid taking the campaign over the ONE HUNDRED mark! Well, they go with a lot of “congrats” to the employes of the Columbia Club with a three-bid. And you know Otto, the exservice man who wrote to Santa to take care of his family; well, he's to be cared for by a Mrs. Santa from out North. But there are families of other former soldiers waiting on the list. The sons and daughters of men who fought on battlefields of gun-

AWAKENED BY CAT, FAMILY ESCAPES HRE House Destroyed by $4,000 Blaze: Yowling of Pet Is Alarm. GIRL, 7, IS RESCUED City Man Rises to Eject Feline, Finds Entire Roof Ablaze. Awakened by the yowling of the family cat, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. McCue, and their daughter .Margaret, 7, of 1115 Olin avenue, were driven from their home early today by flames which destroyed the house. Annoyed by the noise made by the cat, Mickey, which had jumped on the bed, Mr. McCue arose to eject it from the house, and discovered the entire upper half of the house blazing fiercely. Rushing into another room where the child slept, Mrs. McCue fled from the house into the cold. w'hile her husband grabbed an armload of i clothing, all they were able to j selvage of their belongings. The family w'as taken into the : home of Nolan Esarey, 1111 Olin ; avenue. Cat, Hero, Disappears The McCue home almost was totally destroyed, with a loss estimated at more than $4,000, only partly covered by Insurance. Fire- | men were handicapped in fighting ! the second alarm fire by the fact there was no fire hydrant within : two blocks. A defective flue was blamed for the fire. Mickey, the hero of the blaze, was found in front of the home while a kitten, by Margaret a year ago, and has been her pet since then. Mickey disappeared after the fire and had not been seen since. Mr. McCue is employed at a lime plant near Speedway City. Flames of undetermined origin nearly razd a store building at 1939 East Forty-sixth street, occupied by the Elza C. W. Black grocery, early today. Loss Is $5,400 Th loss was estimated at $3,000 to the building, S9OO to the grocery stock and $1,500 to equipment. The loss was partially covered by insurance. The building is owned by Chayles Moore, Fifty-second street ! and Sangster avenue. Residence of Cahas Jackson, 541 1 West Thirtieth street, was damaged S6OO by a fire yesterday. Loss of ; $75 was sustained 'in a fire believed ! incendiary, according to firemen, at I the home and dry goods store of | David Price, 1213-1215 Alvord street, last night. Fire caused by sparks on a roof caused heavy loss to a,double house at 3208-10 Ruckle street, occupied by F. L. Finch and Dr. Harry Sunderland. Saturday night. Fireman David Bramlett, Engine House 22, suffered back injuries when he fell while fighting the blaze.

powder variety as well as life’s daily round. BUM RELIEF agencies of the Community Fund have been in the front-line trenches battling the depression for four long years. They can not hope to shoulder the entire burden. They have not failed. Now Clothe-a-Child seeks to give those agencies a little extra ammunition to fire at poverty, disease, by giving you the opportunity to make Christmas a practical aid through clothing children. The funds of the agencies must be used to fight throughout the coming year. Christmas is just another day of demands for aid to them. Want to play Santa Claus to a girl with hair that the wind sings songs to? Want to take a boy on your knee and toss his ragged cap aside for one that will warm ears? Then call Riley 5551. New donors to the campaign, bringing the total over ONE HUNDRED, follow: Columbia Club employes, twins and one other child. Tuesday Night Ladies' Bowling League, Pritchett alleys, boy. Thirteen Civil Works Painters. Crispua Atturks high school, boy. A Music Teacher, bov. Postoffiee Bowling League. Pritchett alleys, boy. Tenants of Parkview apartments, No. 1 West Twenty-eighth street, girl.

The Times Today Offers: "The Private Life of the Wynekoop Family.” . . . Westbrook Pegler’s column. . . . First announcement of The Times’ bowling school to be held for six days, starting next Saturday. . . . “Off the Backboard,” that famous Times basketball column. Here are four reasons why you find The Times the paper you like to read. In a series of six articles, Dr. Catherine Wynekoop, daughter of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, tells the inside secrets of the family, now known throughout the nation. The author’s mother is being held in Chicago for the alleged slaying of her daughter-in-law, Rheta Gardner Wyaekoop, a former Indianapolis girl. The case attracted nation-wide attention a few days ago. Today this series of stories will grip you. Start it today on Page One, Second Section Westbrook Pegler. that sensational star in the journalistic field, starts his new. daily column in The Times. You’ll like Pegler—you can’t help it. His first contribution is on Page Onu. Women of the city will find more than passing interest in the announcement that Mrs Floretta D. McCutcheon, one of the world's outstanding bowlers, will give FREE instruction under The Times sponsorship at various Indianapolis bowling alleys. Read about it on Page One. Second Section. "Off the Backboard” is back. And Carlos Lane, assistant sports editor of The Times, will give you the real dope on doings in the land of hardwood. Start this daily feature today. It’s on the Sports Page.

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Thirty Die in Eastern Storm Area Snow Accounts for Nine Accidental Deaths in Indiana. Bt United Pre* Snowstorms swirled over the eastern states today, leaving a death list of thirty, while from midwestern states came reports of flurries which made traffic dangerous and resulted in nine deaths. Air and highway traffic was hampered. Two mail pilots were forced to "bail out” east of Pittsburgh last night, abandoning their planes to smash in the Alleghenies. Two men. flying from Ft. Erie. Ont., to Hamilton, Ont.. were missing. New low temperatures were reported in various sections. In northern Connecticut, northern Maine and Vermont, thermometers slid down to a few degrees above zero. New England. New York. Pennsylvania and nothern Ohio were covered by a thick blanket of snow. The eastern death toll included twelve in Philadelphia, four in a grade crossing accident at Bellefonte, Pa., and three persons who died of exposure in New York. The midwest deaths were all in Indiana, caused by traffic accidents due to snow' flurries. Warmer Here Tomorrow A cold w'ave sweeping rapidly south from central Canada yesterday brought the mercury tumbling here last night and today. Thermometer readings showed 20 degrees at 6 a- m. today. At 8 and 9 a. m., the mercury stood at 17. Forecast issued by the weather bureau is for fair and continued cold tonight, with the lowest temperature about 17. Slow rise in temperature, accompanied by cloudiness but probably not by precipitation, was predicted for tomorrow . The drop in temperature was general throughout the state today, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Most Indiana cities reported temperatures as low as 20, while Minnesota and Wisconsin was gripped by zero weather, he said. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 20 10 a. m 18 7 a. m 19 11 a. m 18 8 a. m 17 12 (noon).. 20 9a. m 17 Ip. m 20

SECRETARY ICKES IS HURT INNLL ON ICE Slips, Sustains Severe Bruises, X-Ray Shows. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.—Interior Secretary Harold Ickes was bruised severely today when he slipped on the ice in front of his home. It first was believed Mr. Ickes had received several broken ribs, but un X-ray examination at the naval hospital revealed his injuries v-ere limited to severe bruises on the right side. SEEK TO OBTAIN MORE GOLD PRICE SECRECY Officials of Treasury Fight News Leak; Quotation Stands. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.— Treasury officials investigating leaks of the government’s gold price and striving to assure secrecy today considered reducing the number of persons who are appraised of the quotation before it is announced. Meantime, the price was left unchanged at $34.01 per ounce, the level at which it has been since Dec. 1. and there was little apparent change in the method of fixing and announcing the figure. LINDBERGHS LEAVING MANAOS FOR TRINIDAD Pan-American Airways Hear Flyer Up Amazon. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 11. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh informed the Pan-American Airways today that he would leave Manaos. 900 miles up the Amazon in the heart of the jungle, at 4 a. m. tomorrow', Indianapolis time for Trinidad, en route home. Dollar Strengthens Abroad By United Press LONDON, Dec. 11.—The dollar strengthened in late trading on the London exchange today, and closed at $5.12 to the pound sterling as against an opening price of $5.16 ! 2. Francs closed at 83 3-16, slightly stronger than Saturday.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

MARTINSVILLE MAYOR FACES GRAFT CHARGE Ralph Lowder Accused of Overcharging State $11,939.35. LAND DEALS PROBED Accounts Board Investigates Alleged Excess Profits. Charges that Mayor Ralph K. Lowder of Martinsville made excess profits of $11,939.35 from the state purchase of the Morgan-Monroe counties forest acreage were made today in a report to William Cosgrove, chief examiner of the state board of accounts. One section of the report sets out that in at least four of the projects it was alleged that approval was given from the forestry division of the state conservation department. That division is headed by Ralph Wilcox, state forester, a holdover from the regime of former director Richard Lieber. Mr. Wilcox denied that any ona but Maylor Lowder possibly could be implicated in the allegations and pointed out that he himself bad asked for the accounts board investigation. It w r as carried on by Ross Teckemeyer, field examiner for the state board of accounts. Covers Four Years The report covers the period from Jan. 1, 1928, to Sept. 30, 1932. Purchase of 114 pieces of land are covered and ninety-two tracts involved in the Lowder payments. Mayor Lowder, according to the report filed by Teckmeyer, received the overcharges as the buyer of part of 6,000 acres of the Morgan-Mon-roe forest reserve. Thfi reserve is now 12,000 acres. The mayor, according to Teckmeyer’s report, w r orked W’ith E. L. Avery, former Martinsville banker, w'ho was retained by the state conservation department from 1928 to 1932 to acquire the land quietly, so ow r ners would not "sandbag” the state by holding out for high prices. Purchases in Lowder’s Name Avery, according to the agreement, w r as to buy the land at not more than $lO an acre and was to receive $1.50 an acre commission. Low’der, according to Teckmeyer’s report, overcharged the state $8,797 w'hile he worked with Avery and $3,142.35 under an agreement h made himself with state officials. Some of the purchases were made in Lowder’s name and some in that of "Merrill H. Baker,” according to the Teckmeyer report. Lowder is alleged to have charged the state $11,939.35 more than he paid for the pieces of land he bought. PROJECTS OFFERED TO GIVE 400 WOMEN JOBS City Health Officer Submits Program to Civil Works Group. Five proposed projects for employment of about 400 skilled and unskilled women in health projects today was submitted to the civil works administration by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. The projects include vaccination for smallpox and diphtheria, survey of housing conditions of indigent families with a view to remedying unfavorable conditions, examination of teeth of about 15,000 children in indigent families, infant and prenatal nursing, and a tuberculosis survey.

MAYOR DALE RESTING FOR EYE OPERATION Official to Undergo Treatment at Johns Hopkins. By Time* Special MUNCIE, Dec. 11. —Mayor George R. Dale is resting at a Washington <D. C.) hotel, preparatory to entering Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, for treatment of his left eye, in .which vision has been impaired seriously. CWA APPROVES PLANS New Projects Will Employ 1,835 More in County. New civil works projects in eight townships of Marion county, outside Indianapolis, which will give employment to an average of 1,835 men a day, with a total pay roll of $268,567, have been approved by the CWA board. The projects involve road improvements in Perry, Wayne, Pike, Washington, Lawrence, Decatur. Franklin and Warren townships, and improvements to the Bethel school in Franklin township. EXPLOSION RAZES CAFE State Aid Asked for Investigation of Blast at Plainvilie. By United Prcti PLAINVILLE. Ind . Dec. 11. A dynamite explosion completely wrecked the Ernest Clark case here last night with loss of at least $3,000, Robbery could not have been the motive, Mr. Clark said. A deputy state fire marshal was asked to aid county officers in investigation of the blast. Mine Workers to Meet Here Official call for the biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America in Indianapolis Jan. 23 was issued today at U. M. W. A. headquarters in the Merchants National bank building.