Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1928 — Page 1

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RUTH SNYDER HOLDS TO HOPE AS ENDJEARS Grasps at Straws to Save Her From Going to Chair Thursday. GRAY READS HIS BIBLE Governor Smith Will Not Rule Today on Woman’s Clemency Plea. BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE CliUi Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The electrocution of Ruth Snyder grew nearer today and prospects of saving her grew fainter hourly. In her death cell in Sing Sing Prison she grasped pathetically at straws of hope. The preparations for her electrocution, with Henry Judd Gray went forward steadily in the death chamber, fifty yards from her cell, ana there was little idea among prison officials that any last minute move to save her would be successful. Yet she asked for news from Governor Smith, who will make no announcement on their plea for clemency today, the United Press learned. A belief was growing that he would make no announcement, but would let the execution proceed. With equally despairing hope, Mrs. Gray awaited word from her lawyers of some legal miracle that would stay the execution. Edgar F. Hazleton, her chief counsel, said he planned no appeal to the courts, but his associiate, Joseph Lonardo, apparently at odds with his chief, talked of a move for a writ of error in the United States Supreme Court The contrast between Mrs. Snyder and her lover, who joined her in the murder of her husband, remained as remarkable as it had been since the trial. Gray Resigned to Death Gray has taken refuge In religion and was resigned to death—even looked forward to it as a release. The State of Mrs. Snyder’s mind was best indicated by the act.on oi prison officials in taking extraordinary precautions to prevent her from cheating the chair by self destruction. She had been changed to anew cell today from the one she had occupied since her arrival in Sing Sing. Her mattress was ripped apart and every article in the cell was examined for poison or weapons. The new cell was fitted out with different furnishings and even her clothes and toilet articles were changed.

Reads His Bible It had been discovered that she had been in surreptitious communication with her mother, Mrs. Josephine Brown, by using the matron’s room, to which visitors have access, as a repository for notes. Prison officials believed poison or weapons could be smuggled in by the same method. Despite the discovery, however, Mrs. Snyder was not denied the comfort of seeing her mother. Mrs. Brown visited the prison today and wept as she apologized to Warden Lawes for violating his courtesy. No such precautions were needed In the case of Gray, who sits the hours away in his cell with his Bible, and thinks thoughts that he communicates to no one. He arranged to make his will this afternoon in conference with his lawyer, Samuel L. Miller. The meager property of the corset salesman will go to his wife and daughter. Jane. His wife has been to see him once, but his mother, Mrs. Margaret Gray, has been his constant visitor and comforter. “He has awakened from his madness,” she said, “and he is my son again.” At 11 a. m. today, the condemned pair had eighty-four hours to live. The executions will take place shortly after 11 lo’clock on Thursday night. If Warden Lewis E. Lawes succeeds in his plans, it will be a smooth-functioning, precise affair, stripped as far as possible of any details that would make it sensational. Ban Telegraph Wires Lawes, an opponent of capital punishment, has even barred telegraph wires from the prison on the night of the execution, and the details will have to be sent from the Ossining railroad station half a mile away. There will be no access to the prisoners, and the only glimpse anyone except their counsel and their closest relatives are likely to get of them will be when they make the short march from their cells and enter the death chamber. SANITARY BOARD SIFTED Mayor and Officials Decline to Comment on Conference. City Engineer A. H. Moore, Attorney J. J. Daniels and O. C. Ross, city sanitary board president, discussed sanitary board affairs with Mayor L. Ert Slack today. They refused to disclose the result Tt will come oat at the board meeting Tuesday. No personnel pom dtoouMoty gmk mUU

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Sniff? Snifter Breath Purifier Really Didn’t Purify; SI,OOO and 12 Months.

IT WAS just too bad for Jaccft) H. Gordon, 58, Muncie roadhouse proprietor, when he appeared in Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell’s office today for sentencing on the liquor charge, to which he pleaded guilty Saturday. Gordon had done his best, he said, to sweeten up his breath and the judge’s temper by chewing quantities of a perfumed confection supposed to disguise the fragrance of Demon Rum. But is was of no use. United States Attorney Albert Ward opined he just must be smelling liquor when Gordon and his two employes at the roadhouse, George McCoy and Harry C. Thomas, entered the chamber. Judge Baltzell considered the matter —of course, such a worthy dignitary as a Federal judge wouldn’t sniff—and agreed with Ward’s diagnosis of the atmosphere. * * u WELL, Gordon admitted, he had had a few drinks at Muncie Sunday. Just to be friendly, you know. Just a snifter or two. But no, Judge, absolutely nothing this morning, declared Gordon when the judge inquired—not so very friendly like—if he perchance hadn’t sought a little nerve stiffener before dropping in to learn his punishment If there was anything but the odor of Sunday’s liquor on his breath it must be the breath purifiers he had taken this morning, Gordon further explained. Then the blow fell: Twelve months in jail and SI,OOO fine for Gordon! “Perhaps after you’ve been in Jail awhile you’ll respect your liberty more than your friendship for the liquor sellers at Muncie,’’ Judge Baltzell commented. McCoy and Thomas, who didn’t smell of John Barleycorn and breath perfumers, got only four months in jail.

HURT IN STOVE BLAST Brother Saves Man After Clothes Catch on Fire. Clyde Smith, 40, Sixty-Ninth St. and Valley View Dr., Lagoon Park, a summer resort settlement on White River about a mile north of Broad Ripple, is in serious condition at Robert Long Hospital suff< ring with severe burns. He was burned Saturdsy night when he attempted to fight a kitchen stove with kero* ue and the kerosene exploded. Smith’s clothing caught fire and he ran to the yard. His brother, Harry Smith, who lives near him, took his coat off, wrapped it around Smith and rolled him on the ground. Firemen from Engine House 32, at 6330 Bellefontaine St., put out the fire. Damage was estimated at $l5O. SEEKS FRIEND; ROBBED Held Up by Man With Knife; $4 Taken; Arrest Suspect. W. T. Sandes, 617 Russell Ave., told police he was walking with a friend Sunday night and they halted before a house at 830 Meikel St., and the friend went inside. Weary of waiting, Sanders, after some moments, went to the door and inquired for his friend. He was taken out to the garage in the rear by a man who said the could be found there. When the pair got to the garage the man drew a knife and took $4 from Sanders. Michael Broderick, 28, of 324 Bicking St., was arrested on charges of assault and battery and robbery as the knife wielder.

CONVICT PAIR FOR BRIDGE PARTY RAID

How two gunmen interrupted a peaceful bridge party and held up the hostess, her husband, and eleven guests was told In Criminal Court today. William Powers, 27, was sentenced to from five to twenty-one years, and Earl McQuay, 20, to from one to ten years, in the reformatory. Mrs. William H. Martin, Apt. 40, Lexington Court, 802 Fletcher Ave., told how she and the eight women and three men. dinner guests, had spent the evening playing bridge, until the bandits unmasked, entered with revolvers in their hands. To the accompaniment of commands of '‘Stick ’em up,” the men guests stood with their faces to the wall, while the women placed their money on the tables. Mrs. Martin said one bandit Informed her they had heard there was much more money in the crowd and threatened to ‘‘shake her down” if she didn’t produce more, whereupon she put $8 on the table. Her husband came in during the hold-up and joined the party with face to the wall. A woman guest, she said, kicked her pocketbook with S4O in it under a table, but the bandits got it. Harry Moore, another guest, “ordmd $o stand fit mk m In flu

MARINES SAIL FOR FIGHTING Rl NICARAGUA War-Time Scenes Are Re-Enacted as Forces Embark at Three Ports. LE JEUNE MAKING TRIP Reinforcements to Help in Drive to Exterminate Sandino’s Army. Ru United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—From the eastern and western seaboards a force of 1,148 marines were embarking today to reinforce their comrades in Nicaragua in a determined drive to exterminate General Augustino Sandino, rebel leader. War-time scenes were re-enacted at the ports of departure. From Charleston, S. C., 25'J “Devil Dogs’’ were being taken aboard three cruisers, the Trenton, the Raleigh and the Milwaukee, dispatched from the Atlantic fleet to carry the marine reinforcements southward. Another group was leaving from Hampton Roads, Va., and a third body from San Diego, Cal. With the Charleston group went Major General John A. Le Jeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, who Is going to Nicaragua on a twoweek inspection tour of the American forces there. His presence gave added “pep” to the expeditionary force. Anticipate Real Fighting Knowing that six of their comrades have died in recent battles with the entrenched Rebel forces in the mountainous Nuevo Segovia district of northern Nicaragua, the marines leaving today anticipated some real fighting. Not all the men leaving today will see actual fighting, however, as a number of them will be assigned to training the Nicaraguan National Guard. But the main body will converge against Sandino and his well-organ-ized force, believed to number more than 1,000, or free other men already in Nicaragua for active field service. The San Diego and Charleston groups are ordered to Corinto on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, but the Hampton Roads contingent will be landed at Blueflelds on the Atlantic coast. With arrival of the reinforcements there will be a total of 2,454 marines In Nicaragua. In command of the entire Nicaraguan marine force will be Gen. Legbn Feland, who had charge of the marines there during the serious fighting last year, but was withdrawn when the liberal leaders, excepting Sandino, agreed to a truce. Form Two Battalions On arrival In Nicaragua, the new force is to be organized into two battalions under the direct command of Col. R. H. Dunlap, who sailed today from Hampton Roads. Iti addition, the force will comprise one regimental headquarters of sixtyseven men, one regimental service company of 147 men! and a medical and hospital corps. A mounted battery of four threeinch guns is to accompany the reinforcements, for use in the rugged mountain fastnesses of the liberal stronghold. Included in the force leaving the east coast today are forty officers besides Feland, Dunlap and Lieut. Col. C. R. Sanderson. The west coast force, under command of MaJ. H. C. Pierce, includes 467 men and nineteen officers and one chief gunner. In addition to all these, twenty-four naval medical officers and seventy hospital corpsmen are accompanying the expedition.

with lead,” testified he shoved $52 under a coat on a table and lost only $1.50. Paul Felix, 1626 Prospect St, managed to slip $35 in his shoe, he testified. The bandits obtained a total of $lO5. Detectives arrested them later at Anderson, Ind., as the result of descriptions given by the victims.

LANDIS BLASTS STATE COWARDICE AND CORRUPTION

“TNDIANA’S sad experience in the last four years came from the corruption and cowardice of her political leaders, for the corrupt could not have won without the acquiescence of the cowards," declared Frederick Landis, Logansport, Ind., editor and former Congressman, at the State American Legion conference at Legion headquarters Sunday. “Had five brave men held up the torch of human right, in those dark days, Stephenson would have fled to Texas and Indiana been spared. This amazing cowardice lasted even after Stephenson was behind the bars. ''We need two parties two hon-

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Fines Self B,u United Press VINCENNES, Ind., Jan. 9 Mayor Claude E. Gregg of Vincennes was defendant, prosecuting witness and presiding judge rolled into one in the city court here today. Gregg pleaded guilty before “the mayor” to a charge of driving through an arterial highway without stopping. He fined himself $1 and costs. Gregg "testified” that brakes of his car didn’t work and he was unable to stop for the street. In assessing the fine he also warned other city officials to heed traffic laws.

LINDY ARRIVES IN PANAMA CITY Seventh Flight Finished by Good Will Airman. Bu United Press PANAMA CITY, Jan. 9—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh flew here today from Costa Rica, thus completing safely his aerial tour to the capitals of seven Central American states. The aviator brought the Spirit of St. Louis to land at 1:50 p. m. (eastern standard time) and was greeted by thousands who for hours had been waiting-at the flying field. Bu United Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. 9 Starting his seventh flight on the tour of Central America, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh left here for Panama in the Spirit of St. Louis at 8:43 a. m. (9:19 a. m., eastern standard time) today. Thousands cheered the aviator’s departure. Crowds assembled at the aviatoin field long before Lindbergh came to tune up his plane. The flight to Panama was one of the longest the flier has attempted since he left Mexico. The air line distance is 330 miles, but that would necessitate a long passage over the Mosquito Gulf. Lindbergh Intended to fly ovzr land and thus the disance would be increased to at least 400 miles. FIRE DAMAGES STORE Loss to Stock From Smoke of Blaze in Basement. Dense smoke from a smoldering fire in a pile of cardboard boxes, a bale of cotton batten and rubbish In the basement of Goodman’s dry goods store, 2611 W. Michigan St., did considerable damage to the $20,000 stock this morning. Origin of the fire was attributed to spontaneous combustion. The flames did no damage, but the firemen were forced to flood the basement and use chemicals to enter the etsabllshment and extinguish the embers. The business Is owned by Jacob Goodman, 2018 W. Michigan St. Insurance for SIO,OOO was carried. Firemen announced that the material was piled beneath a stairway and the fire prevention bureau will investigate this and other stores in the neighborhood. CITY MAY ASK BIG LOAN $6G0,000 Needed to Meet Pay Roll Pending Tax Collection. City council will hold a special meeting tonight to consider an ordinance authorizing a temporary loan of $600,000. City Controller Sterling R. Holt recommended passage. Funds are needed to meet the city pay roll until tax money is received. KRESGES GET JURY TRIAL Motion Granted Dime Store King’s Wife in Divorce Case. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—A motion for a jury trial in the divorce action of Mrs. Doris Mercer Kresge and Sebastian S. Kresge was granted in Supreme Court today. The motion was made by Mrs. Kresge’s counsel and was not opposed by her husband’s attorney. ACTORTaTdS IN PULPIT Otis Skinner Helps Rector Conduct Services at Episcopal Church. Bit United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—Otis Skinner, veteran actor now playing here, took to the pulpit Sunday and assisted the Rev. Duncan H. Browne in conducting services at the fashionable St. James Episcopal Church. The actor read two Bible chapters.

est parties, and I hope the Legionnaires will go back to their homes and lay the foundation for a return to a republican form of government in Indiana. mm* "'T'HOSE of you who are ReX publicans, take your elephant out and fumigate him. Those of you who are Democrats, take your mule out and run a ramrod down his India rubber vertebrae. “Nominate and elect men who are honest, able and brave. There is no other recipe you can find in the political cook book for successful democracy.”Landis declared that "some time ago, while gazing through the Window at pur local ctrtala of po-

‘WHITEWASH,’ SAY CUOLDGE SUB QUIZ FOES Senate Naval Committee Democrats Fight Probe by Private Group. ROW BREWS ON PLAN Charge Wilbur ‘Lobbies’ for Proposal; Ask Quiz by Congress. B'U United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.—Democrats of the Senate Naval Committee today denounced President Coolidge’s plan for an investigation of the S-4 disaster by a private commission as a “whitewash” of the Navy commission. Senators Walsh of Massachusetts, King of Utah and Swanson of Virginia, Democrats, assailed the resolution and demanded that the investigation be by a congressional committee instead of a commission to be appointed by the President. The committee adjourned after two hours, until Thursday when it will again consider the resolution. Walsh charged Secretary of Navy Wilbur was "up here lobbying for the resolution Just before the committee went into session to consider it” “Is Congress to abrogate its right to investigate and check up on the Government departments—a right that is given it under the Constitution?” Walsh asked. “The Republicans may get the resolution through the committee, but we will never let them get it through the Senate.” King Introduced a substitute resolution which would call for an Investigation of the entire Navy Department and recent disasters. “It’s an outrage,” said King, “‘to try to get Congress to abrogate Its powers so that the Navy Department can whitewash itself by a picked commission. Captain Describes Crash Ru United Press CHARLESTON NAVY YARD, BOSTON, Jan. 9.—Absence of a surface warning craft from the Cape Cod waters where the submarine S-4 was rammed and sunk while being tested merely indicated that the presence of such a craft was not deemed necessary, the naval board of inquiry was told today. Rear Admiral La Bostwicfc, president of the board of inspection and survey at Washington, expressed that opinion when questioned as to the desirability of having a surface vessel on duty during such trials. Identify Ten Bodies Bu United Press BOSTON, Jan. 9.—Ten bodies removed Saturday from the sunken submarine S-4 have been identified at the Chelsea Naval Hospital, as follows: Jolm J. Fennell, Lowell, Mass., machinists’ mate; Clarence F. Bethke, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., engineman; Alfred E. Seaton, Norfolk, Va., quartermaster; Charles B. Calcott, Melrose Park, 111., machinists’ mate; Peder Haaland, Ada, Minn., machinists’ mate; After F. Hodges, New London, Conn., machinists’ mate; Mariano Tedar, Philippine Islands, mess attendant; J. H. Long, Oainsville, Texas, fireman; Charles F. Burrell, Tamaqua, Pa., seaman; Charles A. Ford. Washington, civilian employe naval board of inspection and survey. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 32 10 a. m 32 7 a. m 32 11 a. m 32 8 a. m 31 12 (noon) ... 32 9 a. m 31 Ip. 34

STATE AUTO DEATH TOLL 135 IN YEAR

Automobile accidents killed 135 persons in Indiana in 1927. In a total of 8,337 accidents, 3,900 other persons* were injured. These figures were made public by Secretry of State Frederick E. Schortemeier, following the first official tabulation of automobile accidents In the history of the State. The tabulation was authorized by the last Legislature. Tabulation of the ages of those

litical depravity, I wondered whether Indiana had an exclusive patent on hell and damnation. I wondered whether other States were God-fearing, while we Hoosiers merely were sherifffearing. So I looked at the map." * * * LANDIS said he found Texas with the Fergusons, Oklahoma with its Governor Walton, and Governor Johnston; Kansas with Governor Davis; Nebraska, “whose recent reigning statesmen took some kind of a stroll down the streets of Shame, but whose specific sin escapes my memory; lowa, whose Governor was charged ‘With aalUwg HlffTCy tp (JOCVICiS^

Death Takes Mother of Cadle Tabernacle Builder

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HICKMAN’S PAL PLEADSTODAY Hunt Charged With Murder in Drug Store Holdup. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jar.-. 9. Welby crime partner of William Edw&rd Hickman, confessed slayer of Marion Parker, was to enter a plea today to a charge of murdering Ivy Thoms, druggist. Hickman confessed to the hold-up slaying of Thoms and implicated Hunt. Meanwhile, Jerome Walsh, Hickman’s attorney, was in Kansas City, collecting evidence by which he hopes to prove Hickman insane. Hickman continued to pace his cell. He muttered spasmodically and read a Bible. His trial in the Parker case is scheduled to start in two weeks. HUNT LOST SALESMAN Lee Conway, 22, Last Seen Early Today, Father Report#. W. B. Conaway, 234 N. State Ave., today asked police to search for his son, Lee Conaway, 22, salesman for the Pierson Piano Company. Conaway, recently recovered from an appendicitis operation, was seen last at 1 a. m. today, when he abandoned his automobile In the 200 block of E. lowa St., the father said. Hoover Favors Radio Commission Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Secretary of Commerce Hoover favors prolonging the life of the Federal Radio Commission for one year, he said today. A bill to that effect is before Congress.

killed in 1927 show that seven were four years and under, nineteen between 5 and 14 years, seventy-nine between 15 and 54 and thirty over 55. Automobiles damaged totaled 4,645; pedestrians numbering 1,430 were struck by motor vehicles; 1,951 persons were injured in crashes between machines, and fifty-two were injured in crashes between automobiles and trains.

Illinois with her Len Small, and Alabama with Governor Brandon, indicted for the utterly unromantic crime of shooting craps.” “Adding to this list of branded Democrats and Republican Governors our own precious pair of gubernatorial evergreens, we have a grand total which exceeds any other aggregate of American Governors who ever went to hell in the same length of time. “So I decided that corruption was a national epidemic. And the whole thing is due to .the indifference of the people. We started out a republic, but we have wound up a slumber party, interested in mattresses more than sm,

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Woman’s Prayers Inspired Son to Erect City Place of Worship. Death came today to Mrs. Loretta Cadle, 68, of Salem, Ind., whose prayers according to the testimony of her son, E. Howard Cadle, 5207 N. Meridian St., saved him from a drunkard’s grave and caused him to build Cadle Tabernacle In her honor. Mrs. Cadle suffered a stroke of apoplexy and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Green, where she has been ill for some time. She will be buried Tuesday afternoon from Kay’s United Brethren Chapel, just outside of Salem, where she was a charter member and attended services for the last fifty years. It was in this chapel that prayers for a wayward son were offered and it was here that she went to give thanksgiving when they were answered, her son said. Built in Mother’s Honor He built the tabernacle In her honor in 1921. It is fashioned after the famous Alamo Mission, San Antonio, Texas, and cost $315,000. The money was part of a fortune made in business by Cadle, who was president of the American Shoe Rebuilders’ Company, operating a chain of “service while you wait” shoe repairing establishments. He also built the Cadle Memorial United Brethren chapel at Louisville, Ky., costing $90,000 and dedicated it in honor of his mother’s prayers and his conversion. Gypsy Smith, famous evangelist, dedicated the Cadle Tabernacle here and there were 12,000 present and as many turned away. Cadle became president of the largest permanently organized choir of 1,500 singers, which provided music for numerous interdenominational meetings at the t&bcra&clc Since its dedication in 1921 the building has been the scene of numerous religious and lay gatherings and conventions, being the meeting place for the general sessions of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Bishop Font to Preach The services at Salem will be In charge of Bishop H. H. Fout of the United Brethren Church, and Alvin Carter, Tampa, Fla., evangelist singer and family friend, will be the choir soloist. Before her marriage, Mrs. Cadle was Loretta Brown, native of Washington County, where she manned Thomas J. Cadle, who died six years ago at the age of 70. They had spent their entire married life on a farm. Besides the son and daughter mentioned, surviving are another son, K. E. Cadle, Kansas City, and another daughter, Mrs. Mary King, Logotee, and seven grandchildren. PRESS DOME OIL PROBE Nye Wants to Take Teapot Inquiry to Finish. Bu Times Svecial WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Senator Gerald P. Nye, new chairman of the Senate Public Lands Committee, intends to press to a finish the four-year-old investigation of the Teapot Dome scandal, dropped when Harry Sinclair refused to testify further before the committee, and now revived by the Senate. Nye said today he will begin work as soon as the formality of authorizing expenditures is complied with by the Senate. EXCELLENT MEATS. Prepared by chefs who know how. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, Basement Fletcher Trust HMfc 1 10*0 a. pa. to 7:30 p.m.

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100WQRKERS TRAPPED BY MINEJLAST Explosion Reported to Have. Entombed Men Far Down in Shaft. RUSH RESCUE CREWS Disaster Strikes Illinois Company Soon After Reopening Workings. Bet United Press WEST FRANKFORT. HI.. Jan. 9. —Approximately 100 miners were trapped today by an explosion of undetermined extent In the Peabody Coal Company mine No. 18, two miles northeast of here. At 11 a. m., four hours after the explosion, officials of mine rescue squads reported inability to penetrate the workings to the place where the explosion occurred, and said they did not know the exact number of men in the mine. The explosion occurred at apprqximately the 350-foot level. Officials said they believed about 100 men were in the affected part of the mine. Mine rescue crews from Benton and from other sections of the southern Illinois coal belt were called to the Peabody mine and were working in relays, attempting to penetrate to the trapped men. Two Miners Escape The Peabody mine is in the center of a great coal producing district which recently resumed work after a long shutdown due to controversy over the Jacksonville wage scale. Two miners escaped from the shaft and reported the blast was a dust explosion. They said more than 100 men went to work at the mine this morning. Company officials established a “censorship” at the mine. Calls for mine rescue crews were sent to other cities. The force of the explosion, the miners who reached the surface said, seriously damaged brattice work and blocked passageways. George Watkins, one of the two, reported he stumbled over what he believed were the bodies of fellow miners, either dead or overcome by the blast.

Rescue Crews Rushed Bm United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 9.—State mine rescue squads from Benton, Herrin, Duquoin, and El Dorado, under direction of A. P. Lewis, State director of mines and minerals, were sent to west Frankfort, 111., today to aid in rescuing miners reported entombed by a blast there. FORD"DENIES PRICE WAR ‘How Interesting; I Hadn’t Heard It,’ Says Magnate, Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. B.—Henry Ford arrived in New York today, strongly protesting that so far as he knows there is no price war in automobile industry. “What price war?” he countered when asked to comment on the present competitive situation in the low priced motor field. “I never heard of any price war." He professed not to know that his competitors—Chevrolet, Star and Whippet—had cut prices to meet his competition. U. S. RECORDS BURNED Damage SIO,OOO as Fire Sweeps Government File Room. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Fire swept through the file room on the third floor of the Government printing office Sunday afternoon and destroyed records valued at SIO,OOO. More than 35,000,000 Records were threatened. Engine companies from the entire city responded to three alarms. Origin of the fire remains a, mystery. BANKER GROUP MEETS. Representatives of 14 Mid-Western States Attend Parley. Officials of bankers’ associations from fourteen mid-Westem states were attending their annual conference at the Claypool hotel today. A banquet will be held tonight at the Columbia Club. Technical problems of the banking business were discussed, said C. Oliver Holmes, of Gary, Indiana Bankers’ Association president GALE LASHES ALASKA! Small Fishing Craft Destroyed; Modi Damage to Property. Bn United Press WRANGELL, Alaska, Jan. 9.—. Small fishing craft along the Alaskan coast were destroyed and damage was done to docks and warehouses when a ninety-mile gala lashed the coast Petersburg reported damage, and the steamer Alameda brought qp port! djfrge rt Ktcbflaik