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0.5., ENGLAND AT ODDS ON NAVAL POLICY, DECLARES TAIDIEU, ACTING MEDIATOR French Premier Asserts Breach, Result oi MacDonald Visit to Washington, Widened by Views of Experts. EFFORT TO RECONCILE IDEAS MADE Fascist Delegates to Parley Spend Day in Study of Fran co-Italian Situation; Major Problems Smoothed. BY WEBB MILLER Cnitrd Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 22.—The British and American governments failed to reach an accord on naval policy, as a result of Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald’s recent visit to Washington, and today are farther apart than ever, Premier Andre Tardieu of France told the United Press in an interview today. Assuming the role of a mediator between the two delegations, Tardieu said he “must spend the day between MacDonald and Henry L. Stimson in an effort to reconcile American and British theories of several outstanding points.” Tardieu further insisted that the “breach” between the two English-speaking nations actually has widened since the American navy department and the British admiralty experts assumed a prominent part in the negotiations.

The French delegation left i their headquarters shortly; after 11 a. m. to go to No. 10 1 Downing street, where they were to go into conference j with Premier MacDonald. So seriously do the Italian delegates consider the effect of Tuesday’s private negotiations between Tardieu and Foreign Minister Dino j Orandi that they planned to spend ; the entire day in intensive study j and work on the Franco-Italian situation. The Italians announced they would accept no engagements for the day, remaining at their hotel throughout. j Real Progress Reported Real progress, however, resulting j from the three-hour dinner confer- j ence Tuesday night of American, British and French delegates, was j reported today by a spokesman for the American group. The American envoy declined to | give exact details of the discussion.' other than to say that much "heavy underbrush” had been cleared away. Following the dinner, MacDonald and Stimson gave Tardieu a full report of the preconference discussions between America and England, and today the American delegation was holding a full meeting to review the results of the negotiations. At the conclusion of Thursday's j session at St. James palace, it was I announced, a full stenographic copy outlining the position of each na- I tion will be issued for the benefit j of the public. Already Left Stimson went to No. 10 Downing ! street at noon to confer again with j Prime Minister MacDonald. The j French delegates. Tardieu, Aristide Briand and Georges Leygues, had left the government's residence when the American chief delegate arrived. The prime minister also saw the delegates of the British dominions for half an hour during the morning. Tardieu. after studying both the British and French positions again, announced that various minor difficulties had been smoothed out in j regard to procedure and that pro- ; gress should be much faster than had been expected if the delegates continued the pace of the last twen-ty-four hours. He said conversations in which all of the delegates would participate were scheduled for Friday. The delegates, however, will not give definite naval figures in their statements at the plenary session Thursday but will make general surveys. White House Silent Hu r nited I’rcs* WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—The White House declined to comment today on Premier Andre Tardieu's statement in London that Prime Minister MacDonald’s visit here last fall failed to achieve an AngloAmerican accord on naval reduction. Secret ary of State Stimson is being given a free hand in the conduct of America's part in the conference, it was said, and any reply which may be made to the Tardieu statement will come from him. 1 President Hoover has received no official report of Tardieu's opinion, it was stated. PADLOCITmFIS^FILED I>ry League Attorneys Ask Closing Because of Violation. Suit to padlock an alleged speak- J easy occupied by three defendants i was filed in superior court four today by attorneys for the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. Attorneys’ fees of S2OO. are asked in the complaint. \ Defendants are John Bums, John Porter. Worthy R. Jones and the Wabash Realty and Loan Company. Address of the house, allegedly oc- j cupied by the defendants, was not given.

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The ladianapolis Times Fair and cold tonight, with low r est temperature zero to 5 degrees below; Thursday, fair and somewhat warmer.

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fffl INSTANTLY KILLED BY AUTO J. 0. Allison Is Victim of Roadside Accident. Struck while walking to work on the National road near Holt road at 4 this morning by a car driven by William H. Dotson, 43. of 405 Bosart avenue, J. O. Allison. 58. of 511 Vine street, was killed instantly. His son, Thurman Allison, 18, employed as a night worker at the Real Silk hosiery mills, drove by the accident scene a few minutes after his father’s death, but did not stop, due to the cold and the fact that a number of automobiles had gathered, congesting the road. The son drove home, not suspecting that he was passing the body of his father. The father, a street car company employe, was walking on the right side of the road coming to the city for an early morning car run. Dotson, dispatcher for the Pennsylvania railway, was driving home after his night's work at Plainfield. He told Deputy Sheriffs Foster Regan and Dale Brown that a truck passed him with dim lights and that he dimmed his own lights. When he flashed them on bright again he saw Allison directly in front of his car. The machine struck Allison in the back, breaking his neck and fracturing his skull. His body was thrown twenty feet. DISEASE TOLL IS 57 Spinal Meningitis Claims Another Victim. Death of Charles Stanley, 27. of 1522 East Market street at city hospital, today brought the total fatalities from cerebrospinal meningitis to fifty-seven within the pa-st six weeks. No new r cases were reported. An additional squad to take cultures and locate carriers of the germ was ordered on duty by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. Dr. Thurman B. Rice, associate professor of bacteriology at Indiana University school of medicine, reported that cultures of nurses and medical staff members had not revealed any carriers of the germ. Second cultures were taken on all cases where there were unsatisfactory firsts. Long hospital is not admitting any patients until tests are completed, because of the death of a nurse from the malady. Body Found in Barn Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier this afternoon was investigating a report that Robert Kipley, 40. R. R. 9, Box 524, on the Brookville road, was found dead in his barn, shot through the head.

CLASSIC BOOKS OF AGES HELD MENACE BY ‘LIGHT’ FICTION

BY SAM LOVE Cntted Press Siaff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—'“‘Pilgrim's Progress.' never heard cf it.” “ 'Madam Bovary?’ sorry, but my book-of-the-week must have got lost in the mails. Is it not?” “ 'Vanity Fair?’ We just buy it at the newstands since we moved to New York and sometimes I forget.” “ Holy Bible?' Haven’t spent a night in a hotel for ares.” The time when such conversations. even in the test drawing rooms—will be less than startling

What? No Trowel? Bang! Uy United Prefix CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—John Jankowsky lost his trowel the other day, so he laid off bricklaying several days while he searched for it. He found it in his own pantry, serving as his wife’s cake knife. He brought suit for divorce. His wife brought counter suit, charging he beat her when he found the trowel. a a o MILWAUKEE, Jan. 22.—When John Feinburg, furniture dealer, wants a stenographer, he wants her perfect. Miss Ruth Manning applied, but when Feinburg started to measure her with a taje line she objected and went to the district attorney’s office. Feinburg said all his stenographers must be blonde, wear size four shoe and weigh 120 pounds. Miss Manning won’t prosecute. Feinburg is looking for another stenographer. a a tt DETROIT, Jan. 22.—An injury received in an accident causes her nose to turn blue, thus depriving her of any chance of happiness, Miss Norma Renhack charged in a suit for $25,000 filed against Charles Harrington, driver of the car. an a DETROIT, Jan. 22.—Taking their cues from what the welldressed rum runner is wearing, federal border officers today donned spiked shoes to insure greater facility in traveling over the ice on the Detroit river. Rummers have been distancing officers in ice chases. Tuesday one fell through and when they pulled him out discovered the reason for his fleetness. bub ROCK ISLAND, 111., Jan. 22. His wife wouldn't tell him what became of her wedding ring, so George Standard, hotel bellhop, stripped her of her clothes and applied lighted matches to her flesh in an attempt to make her talk. Mrs. Standard charged in police court here today. “He claimed 1 pawned the ring,” she said, “and wouldn’t believe me when I said I lost it.” Standard was fined SIOO. BUB GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 22.—The two husbands of Marie Sowinski, 30, sat side by side in court here and heard the judge sentence her to from six months to five years for bigamy. Rosedale Man Kills Self ROSEDALE, Ind., Jan. 22.—J. O. Jeffries. 57, committed suicide at his home here today by firing a bullet from a rifle through his head. Illness and despondency over the death of his wife two years ago were said to have prompted the act.

DURESS LIKELY AS JOSEPHINE ALGER’S DEFENSE AT TRIAL

BY DICK MILLER. Times Staff Correspondent WABASH, Ind., Jan. 22.—Selection of a jury to try Mrs. Josephine Alger, pretty, auburn-haired wife of Gene Alger, slayer and bank bandit, began in Wabash circuit court here this morning. The defense accepted four and excused six tentative jurors. The prosecution late today had not begun examining prospective jurors. Mrs. Alger is accused in two indictments. One naming her as accessory before the fact of auto autobanditry and the other charging auto banditry. Conviction on either calls for a sentence of ten to twenty-five year:- in prison. A special venire of fifteen, called by Sheriff Zenno Malctt reported for examination and completion of the jury is expected to consume the entire day, with evidence to begin Thursday. None of the jurors are from Lafontaine township, where the robbery of the Lafontaine State bank last October by Alger and his bride of a few months, is the basis of the charges against her. it is expected the defense may file a motion for Mrs. Alger’s release similar to the one filed at Vernon, Ind. Claude Mcßride, defense attorney, pleaded the wife, an expectant mother, be released, because, if she participated in the robbery of the Paris Crossing bank, it was under duress and at the command of her husband. While the motion was pending. Judge John R. Carney of Jennings circuit court accepted Alger's guilty

may be not far distant, one of the leading bookmakers of the United States hazarded today. It was the theme of the farewell speech today of Joseph W. Lippincott, head of the Philadelphia publishing house that bears his name, on the occasion of relinquishing his office as president of the National Association of Booksellers. Pointing to the flood of “exwives” and "ex-husbands” books on an unparalleled market, not to mention the slightly quieter best sellers having to do with war and the left bank at the Seine, the vet-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930

AID FROM AIR ONLY HOPE OF FLGODREGION Planes to Drop Medicine, Food to Victims of Ice Blockade. PECK, GENARO ON WAY Relief Workers in Boats Are Unabie to Reach Devastated Area. Hundreds of families Isolated by ice and water in unheater southern Indiana homes, looked to the skies today for relief from hunger, sickness and intense cold that caused widespread suffering throughout flooded regions. Red Cross relief workers, reporting to Indianapolis headquarters this afternoon, said the only hope for relief of the majority of marooned refugees lay in dropping food, blankets, medicine and fuel from airplanes. Relief workers made their way in boats through water, and dragged supplies across ice to some families, but were unable to penetrate the heart of the devastated regions. Piloting a national guard plane. Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and Frank Genaro, Indianapolis Flamingo endurance pilots, sped southward this afternoon to Vincennes, where the plane will be loaded with relief supplies. They will attempt to land to distribute supplies among refugees grouped on Claypole hill, in Decker township, southwest of Vincennes, but, failing, will “bomb” the hill with parcels of food, clothing, and medicine. They probably will make many trips later today, H. B. Williamson, national Red Sross representative in charge of southern Indiana relief work, said. He will attempt to reach seventy-five isolated families near Griffin, with the plane. Water Wall Threat PALESTINE, 111., Jan. 22.—A peril typical of the far north confronted an expanse of southern Illinois today as the flood-swollen Wabash river amassed tons of fury behind an ice jam three miles south of here. Engineers debated whether to dynamite the bander, behind which a wall of water, ice floes and debris had risen four feet above the level of the river below the jam, whether to attack the ice by bombs dropped from planes, or whether to await a thaw.

plea and consented to dropping the charges against Mrs. Alger because the evidence was circumstantial, according to the prosecutor’s admission. Released to custody of her father and attorney, she v/as brought to Wabash, where, unable to give & $15,000 bond, she has been held in jail. Hoover Invites Leslie Governor Harry G. Leslie today received an invitation from President Herbert Hoover to attend the sensatorial reception at the White House Jan. 30.

MERCURY TUMBLES TO 4-BELOW MARK

Hourly Temperatures Midnight... 5 7a. m..„ —3 1 a. m.... 5 8 a. m.... —3 2 a. m.... 4 9 a. m.... —3 3a. m.... 2 10 a. m.... —1 4a. m..., 0 11 a. m.... 4 5 a. m.... —1 12 (noon), 6 6a. m.... —3 Ip. m.... 7 Ushered in by a blizzard that laid another blanket of 1.6 inches of snow on Indianapolis, anew cold wave forced thermometers down to 4 degrees below zero this morning, according to the United States weather bureau. The mercury may fall one or two degrees more tonight, J. H. Arm-

eran publisher viewed with alarm the numerically vanishing "classics.” Only one additional step need be taken to consign them to popular oblivion, he pointed out. That would be the substitution of “modern” books in the enforced, or “must” reading in colleges. In such an event the Banyans, the Flauberts, the Thackerays, the Montaignes and even the Antaole Frances would be snuffed out. like so many scented, but outnoded, wax candles. One sort of immortality would vanish for the human race.

A KISS FOR HARRY Clara Bow and ‘Toots ’Come Home

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Clara Bow tin United Prefix NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Clara Bow. a little girl from Brooklyn who made good In-the big city of Hollywood, came home today to see Harry Richman and the folks. She brought with her two kisses for Ham*, a life-size doll and a cold in the head. Thirty minutes before the Twentieth Century arrived at Grand Central terminal, Richman pushed his way through the 3,000 movie fans and paced the platform, trying to shake the sleep out of his eyes. He frowned when train officials brought the report that the train was delayed.

Richman still was sleepy when hat projecting above the collar of a with the doll, "Toots,” in her arms. Clara, remembering that she was' supposed to be engaged to Richman, turned her back squarely on the twenty photographers and kissed Harry. He woke up immediately. • Then Miss Bow thought of her ; public. Once more she kissed Richman while pictures were taken. Then she received reporters. “Are you going to marry Richman?” she was asked. "Yes,” came the answer in a husky voice, which Miss Bow explained was caused by a cold. “When?” "Oh, that’s a secret.” "That’s up to Miss Bow, of course,” j Richman interrupted. “Why did you bring the big doll?” | she was asked. “Because Harry wanted it.” Richman eyed Toots skeptically, and made no move to caress the present brought by his fiancee. Persons who have seen Miss Bow on the screen vowed she was considerably thinner, and were mildly surprised to note that she wore no rouge. Richman pushed through the crowd again and steered Miss Bow to a Rolls-Royce to escort her to her hotel. “Did you make this trip especially to marry Richman?” a reporter shouted. “I don’t know.” screamed Miss Bow vaguely, as she shifted Toots lon her lap. “Maybe it is just a i pleasure trip.”

ington, meteorologist, said. Today and Thursday probably will be fair. The lowest temperature, 4 below, was recorded between 7 a. m. and 8 a. m. At 8 the mercury returned to 3 below. Highest reading Tuesday was 23 above. The cold Vave. now centered in the Dakotas, extended southward into Texas, and probably will continue for several days, although slightly higher temperatures were forecast for Indiana Thursday afternoon. Terre Haute and Indianapolis were the coldest cities in the state reporting government readings. Chicago reported 6 below.

“Interest in the great books of the past is showing signs of dying out,” said Lippincott. “The latest tiling is the vogue. The old titles that delighted our parents or grandparents, or both, have to be issued in new form to gain much attention. The phrase, ‘here is something new’ apparently is the ‘open sesame’ to sales. "Were it not for their present use in schools and colleges, what would become -of the classics? Ls it not possible that books such as ‘Pilgrim's Progress’ will be buried in oblivion before another decade?

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Miss Bow, her brown, close-fitting huge fur coat, came from the train

WOMAN HELD IN JUVENILE CASE Police Charge Immorality Resort Operated. Police today struck at an alleged immoral rendezvous for schoolgirls and men with the arrest of Mrs. Florence Daugherty, 36, of 1706 South Meridian street, on juvenile court charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and the arrest of two men on charges of vagrancy. The men, held for further Investigation, are Joseph Pettit, 20, of the alelged rendezvous, 1706 South Meridian street, taxi driver, and Omar Ennis, 40, of 1121 River avenue. A second woman was released after questioning. Story of a 13-year-old school girl brought the police investigation. The action followed disappearance of three school girls Monday afternoon after school and their return Tuesday afternoon after an automobile trip to south of Columbus in a stolen car. One of the three youths who accompanied them, Edward Morris, 17, of 1010 South Belmont avenue, is under arrest on a vagrancy charge and is held under high bgnd. The girls were trailed to the downtown section by their fathers, who later found them. Investigation of the incident focused attention on moral conditions among school children in southwest Inrfianapo'is, and early today police brought the two men and two women to headquarters.

SUICIDE HINTED IN TRAIN-AUTO DEATH

Obart W. Purdy, 27, of 2242 Langley avenue, was killed almost instantly when his automobile was wrecked at Nineteenth street and the Monon railway at 12:15 this aft-

"Perhaps we in America are going to build up a classic literature distinctly our own. It is worth thinking about; but if the older classics can not be kept alive, what hope can we have to prolong the life of any book? Publishing then will be on a very different plane. ‘T am not sure, therefore, that this cry for something new is not becoming a menace. The flood of latest offreings, bountifully advertised, pampered by book clubs and boomed by literary critics, may swamp everything else.”

NINE CHILDREN KILLED AS SCHOOL BUS IS STRUCK BY TRAIN; DRIVER MEETS DEATH Tragedy Occurs at Ohio Railroad Crossing When Fast Flier Hits Car as It Passes Over Tracks; One Girl Badly Hurt. SIGN ONLY WARNING AT FATAL SPOT Investigations Into Catastrophe Started by Several Sources as Word of Calamity Reaches Nearby Towns. By United Prcxs BEREA, 0., Jan. 22.—The New York Central railroad a fast express No. 19 crashed into a bus load of chattering school children here today, on their way to Brook Park school, killing nine pupils and the bus driver. The express literally smashed the bus to splinters. By a miracle, as yet unexplained, Mary Davidson escaped with slight injuries. Windows of the bus were covered with frozen moisture and it is believed that John Taylor of Brook Park village, the driver, failed to hear the approaching flier. The railroad crossing is guarded by nothing but a wood warning sign.

Death Hand Engineer in Fatal Crash Stunned by Tragedy at Crossing.

Hit United Prias TOLEDO, 0., Jan. 22.—John A. Hand, engineer of New York Central’s fast express, No. 19, which crashed into a school bus at Berea today and killed nine pupils and the bus driver, got down out of his cab here today pale and nervous after witnessing the tragedy at the unguarded crossing. Anew crew took the train to Chicago with its mail and express and Hand explained his version of the mishap. He is a veteran engineer and the hand that held the throttle was one which had been trained well. Hand crawled down from the seat box quietly. There was a curous crowd at the station to see the train pull in, but Hand slipped away unobtrusively. ff"o a fellow engineer standing near the engine Hand nodded briefly. He tried to talk, but his throat was husked. “It killed all but one of them, I think,” he said. God, it was terrible ! Terrible! Terrible! ” The other man nodded sympathetically. He laid a compassionate hand on Hand’s overalled back. On the other side of the engine when the crash occurred was Fireman John Deal. He was so affected by the tragedy he could hardly speak of it. Both Hand and Deal said they had not seen the bus approach the crossing and were unaware of the impending tragedy until the crash came. They said the train was traveling forty-five miles an hour. “They must have come toward us from the other side,” Hand said, over and over. TWIN IS CRITICALLY ILL Slight Hope Held for Sole Survivor of Disastrous Blaze. Evelyn Kluesner, 6 months old, last survivor of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kluesner, six members of which have died from burns suffered in a fire at the Kluesner home Jan. 10, remains in a critical condition at city hospital. Physicians have little hope of saving the baby’s life. The child is the second of twins, Everett Kluesner having died Jan. 17, while the father and mother and three other children died shortly after the blaze which followed an explosion when the father threw gasoline into a stove by mistake.

ernoon, when struck by passenger train Na 38, bound for Chicago. Coroner C. H. Keever is investigating the accident with a view to determining whether it may be suicide. Two witnesses told police and the coroner that Purdy turned his car directly into the path of the tram and met it head on. Harry Olster, 67, of 660 East Twen-ty-second street, crossing watchman, told police the car turned into the path of the train when, by turn, ing the oppoiste direction, Purdy could have escaped the collision or minimized it. The car was demolished and thrown across Nineteenth street. Purdy being thrown out of the machine and against a building. John Murphy of 2705 Bellefontaine street, was engineer; John W. Ulrey, 927 Riveria avenue, conductor, and John Jarka, 2604 Cornell avenue, fireman of the train. Purdy leaves his widow and two daughters, 3 and 4 years ol<L

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John Hand, engineer of the passenger train, saw the bus too late, lie jammed on his brakes and they screamed so loudly they attracted mo- | torists for some distance orfl ; the roads. ( It was the second school bus in this district involved in a disastrous accident within the month. A school bus carrying a load of singing, cheering basketball players back to their home in Burbank, Wayne county, wps struck by a passenger train at Shreve, Jan. 4. Nineteen were killed and fifteen injured. No. 19 was carrying mail and express from Buffalo to Chicago. Hand managed to bring his train to a stop several hundred yards beyond the ; scene of the crash. It proceeded to Toledo, where Hand was relieved and anew crew climbed on to the hapless flier. Hand was instructed to return here to explain his version of the accident to authorities. Ambulances Are Rushed Immediately after the crash, when school officials were notified, the job of identifying the victims began. School officials checked the roll call, while parents hurried to undertakers’ parlors to make identifications. Ambulances sped from Berea, picked up the human cargo, and rushed to a hospital. It was found that all but three were dead. Two of these died a little later. Sheldon road crossing, where the crash occurred, is classed as an auxiliary road. Ray T. iCliller, Cuyahoga county prosecutor, opened an investigation | into the accident as soon as news ■ reached his office. He sent a staff | of three investigators to the scene t with instructions to gather photographs and all evidence before the wreckage was cleared away. The school bus had stopped at Berea high school and let off some j students. It started off again to deliver the others to Brook Park schoolhouse. Struck in Center The bus was struck directly in the center by the train. Coroner Pearse and the other investigators gave particular attention to the rendition of the road. They found that it was anew re a an in good, passable condition. Mary Davidson, 12, a pupil of th sixth grade and the sole survivor of the crash, was taken to the hospital with two broken legs. In a trembling, frightened voic# she attempted to tell of the accident, but she was so incoherent hes story was difficult to understand. Hospital officials said the child would recover unless the shock of the accident proved too severe. Windows Frosted Among the tom and twisted bodies of the children were found a partly eaten apple and a comic picture that one of the pupils is thought to have been drawing when the train struck the bus. That the children were unaware : of the approaching danger until the | was indicated by the fact that ; remains of the bus windows showed them covered with frozen moisture. Impact of the engine against the wood and steel of the bus, ripping metal and wood, was punctuated with the screams of the children, according to witnesses. Bodies were hurl ;d high in the alr ( and far from the scene. Flier Hits Bus Bv Unit' and Prcti ALLIANCE, O , Jan. 22.—Returning from the Edinburg school after delivering a bus load of pupils, Edward Clayton of Akron was Injured, probably fatally, when a Pennsylvania flier demolished his bus on the Edinburg crossing, thirteen miles north of here, today. 22 Indictments Returned Twenty-two indictments, charging thirty persons with felonies, were filed before Criminal Judge James A. Collins by the Marion county grand jury in the first report of the spring term. Eight person# ware discharged in the report, *

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