Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1930 — Page 1

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DELEGATES TO SEA PARLEY REACH DISCUSSION CRISIS; ADJOURN FOR ONE WEEK French Cabinet Crash, Japanese Insistence for 70 Per Cent Ratio and Italy’s Firm Stand Are Stumbling Blocks. BELIEVE DELAY MAY BE LONGER Experts Consider Attempts at Further Progress Are Futile Without Settlement of Demands Made by Parisian Chiefs. BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 19. —The five-power naval conference, its prove dings brought to a standstill by the inability of the French delegates to function during the Paris cabinet crisis, has adjourned for one week, an official communique said today. Although the announcement merely said that adjournment had been taken until Feb. 23, it was believed the delay might be longer, depending on a solution of the French governmental problem. The communique said the subcommittee of experts would continue work during the adjournment.

The conference today appeared to have reached its most critical stage, where one tactless move might jeopardize it* whole purpose. Three situations, each more or less directly involved in the withdrawal of French representation at the <'onterence until anew government has been formed, contributed an air of discouragement at the headquarters of the different delegations. Brought to Standstill First is the French eab.net crisis itself, which has brought to a standstill turther negotiations seeking to persuade France to reduce her tonnage demands. Second is the continued insistence of Japan upon a 70 per cent ratio compared to England and the United States, a position from which al argument thus far has failed to move her. Third is the intimation that Italy While regrettmg France’s high tonnage requirements, will not recede from her demands for equality with France without concessions on all sides. The American delegates settled down today to a realization that the negotiations will be long and tedious, and if they are out of St. James pr'e.ce by April, they will be lucky. No method of meeting the Japanese demands for a 70 per tent tonnage ratio has been devised yet. Robinson Makes Talk The American people would repudiate any treaty binding United States to employ armed forces for enforcement of obligations assumed by other nations. Senator Joseph T. Robinson told the Association of American Correspondents In a luncheon address today. Furthermore, they believe that no special guarantees are necessary to assure the performance, in good faith, of any agreement reached by the powers regarding limitation of armaments, the American delegate declared. The official communique revealed that all the delegations were in agreement on adjournment, indicating that they considered it futile to attempt further progress without settling the French demands. KILLS WIFE IN DUEL Husband Hurt Critically in Battle With Guns After Quarrel. By Vnited Prcs§ CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Peter and Mary Kosenty fought out their marital troubles with pistols today on a near north side street. Mrs. Kosenty. 27. was killed in the duel, and Kosenty, 37. was taken to the hospital near death with a bullet under his heart. Separated several months because Mrs. Kosenty said he wouldn't work, they met as she went to work. Both reached for pistols on sight and fired almost simultaneously. LINK HOOVER TO UTILITY President Huston Active in Muscle 1 Shoals Move. Charge. Bu Cmit rit Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 19— Evidence indicating that President Hoover. as secretary of commerce, and Claudius Huston, now chairman of the Republican national committee attempted to ’‘bring together” the power and chemical interests which were seeking Muscle Shoals, was submitted to the senate lobby committee today. The committee also learned that power companies were contributing i to the Tennessee River Improve-1 ment Association, formerly headed by Huston, which was advocating operation of Muscle Shoals by the American Cynamid Company. Freight Grounded in Fog Bit United Pre SAN PEDRO. Cal.. Feb. 19.—The City of Lille, a freighter owned by the Ellerman-Bucknell lines, went ashore off the coast of Newport, CfcL, In a fog today.

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BUSTS WRECK CHICAGO PUNTS Damage in Explosions, Fire Totals $250,000. Bv United Pn ss CHICAGO, x eb. i9.—Bomb, chemical and gasoline explosions roared out in scattered parts of the city early today, spreading flames in two structures that did more than $250,000 damage. A half block of ruins marked the spot where the building had stood that housed the Eagle Sheet Metal Manufacturing Company, the Paragon laundry and the Samoline Corporation, manufacturers of cleaning compounds. There the major explosions, at least a dozen in number, accompanied a fire fed by chemicals in the cleaning compound plant. The eighteenth bomb of 1930 shattered the fron of the Cosmo P oducts, Inc., building in “Little Bohemia” on the west side. The blast did heavy damage to the structure and to its contents, manufactured cosmetics and proprietary medicine stocks. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 46 10 a. m 55 7 a. m 46 11 a. m 61 Ba. m 47 12 (noon).. 64 9 a. m 49 1 p. m 67

SIX BIG FEATURES They're Knockouts; Watch for ’Em

SIX big reasons why you should become a Times reader at once! Six? We could name a hundred, two or three hundred, but here are the Big Six. Starting Thursday in the Noon edition. The Times presents “The Lost Zeppelin,” one of the greatest serial stories, of years, to run only in the street editions of this newspaper—the Noon and the Pinks. It is a story with a thrill in every paragraph—an epic of the air, a huge dirigible crashing at the south pole; romance in even' line, the tale of a woman who loved two men, one her husband, the commander of the Zeppelin, the other his chief lieutenant.

Starting Thursday in the Pink edition of The Times is another knockout—Chuck Klein’s own story of how he broke into the big league, the thrill of his first hit, garnered off the great Alex, and his first homer. For those who love to dance, this newspaper is printing a series by one of America's greatest ballroom experts, Arthur Murray. Sixth of

RACE AGAINST DEATH Dog Team Bears Trapper Stricken in Blizzard. Bit United Press THE PAS. Manitoba, Feb. 19 Every resource of the north was called in today to aid Bud Stewart, j youthful “musher,” as he raced with death acrosss the prairie, his seven-dog team bearing Egatook, an Eskimo trapper, who is near death from infection. Egatook, a veteran of the northland, was caught in a raging blizzard in thee Churchill region, Feb. 13. He crawled back to his cabin with both legs and one arm frozen. When meager medical attention at the outpost settlement failed. Stewart loaded the Eskimo on his sled and set out for The Pas. 1,100 miles away. 2,000 HONOR COOLIDGES Ceremony Held at Los Angeles Club for Former “First Couple.’ Bit United Press LOS ANGELES, Peb. 19.—An enthusiastic crowd of more than 2.000 persons participated in a ceremony in honor of former President and Mrs. Coolidge at the Breakfast Club here today.

Hooray! Spring's Here! But Not to Stay

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GROUND UNDER TRAIN WHEELS Yard Conductor Is Victim, Signaling Engineer. Jack Harland, 38, yard conductor for the P. & E. railway, was cut in two by a freight train at Concord avenue at noon today. Signaling the engineer while rounding a curve. Harland leaned from the rear of the freight train and was knocked off the car, police were told, by an overhanging beam from a coal loading platform. He fell beneath the wheels. Harland resides on Creston drive near Rockville road. His body was taken to city morgue.

this series of “Stepping in Style” will be publised Thursday. Then, too, The Times Great Beauty Show T opens in the Travertine room of the Lincoln hotel next Monday, Feb. 24th, when V. E Meadows, internationally famed as a beauty authority, will give his first lecture and demonstration with living models. This show will continue for five days, with lectures and demonstrations, afternoon and evening, at 2 and 8, every woman in the city being welcome to attend, free of charge. Watch The Times Saturday for the complete list of drawings in the sixty-four sections for the state basketball tournament, finals of which will be held here in March. These drawings will be printed in full in this newspaper Saturday and will be broadcast over WFBM, with Blythe Hendricks, king of basket ball announcers, at the mike. Just to top it off, we offer another outstanding serial story starting next Tuesday—“ Murder Backstairs." by Anne Austin, known to all Times readers as a marvel in the mystery story line. You’ll never guess the solution until the last chapter. That’s the Big Six. And there are scores of others too numerous to mention at this time.

VOLSTEAD TERROR DRIVES CHILDREN NEAR STARVATION

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 19.—Three ragged and half-starved little girls today were fed and clothed by Montgomery county officials. They were rescued late Tuesday after they had barricaded themselves in their impoverished home near West Gonshohocken for a week through fear o i police officers.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930

Baseballs are burning across the plate, spooners are spooning, soot’s losing caste on window panes, wash clothes flap in the breeze and kites fly helter-kelter, so it must be spring today. For despite the groundhog, weather prognosticators, et al., today’s temperature in the 60s brought out the above photographed signs of the vernal equinox approach and its accompanying sap in trees and sulphur stock on pantry shelves. “Put ’er over,” cries Robert Rothman, 10, of 2525 West Sixteenth street, in the top left photo, as the Speedway City Cardinals warm up on a vacant lot at Sixteenth and Belle Vieu place. Joe Myers, 11, of 1443 North Belle Vieu place, is the catcher. Top right photo—Love’s idyll at Garfield park.

JOBS OPENED FOR 500 BY CUT WEEK

Between 400 and 500 unemployed men and women of Indianapolis will be given part-time employment, starting immediately, under plans for reduced working hours in industries of the city, it was learned today. G. M. Williams, president of the Marmon Motor Car Company, who announced the plan whereby the Marmon plant would cut its working week from five to four days and re-employ men who had been laid off, is conducting a survey to determine the number of other plants in the city which will follow similar plans. Today he announced that a substantial percentage of the city’s industries would follow the plan and that others are working out similar plans to employ additional people. The Link-Belt Company today

The children are said to have been without food and only a little heat in the dismal shack since their parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Dombrowski, were arrested on charges of violation of the liquor law and held in default of $1,500 bail in the county jail at Norristown.

Lower left photo—Martha Belle and Patricia Anna Cromwell, 7, twins, 4251 Graceland avenue, just roiling along- on skates. Lower center photo—“ Washing of the Windows* is the spring urge at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house of Butler university, 442 West Forty-sixth street. Miss Ruby Pasho (top) and Miss Annabelle Parr are the industrious co-eds. Lower right photo—While the “frat” boys of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, 460 West Fortysixth street, are attending Butler, Mrs. Emma Robinson, housekeeper, hangs out her first spring clothes line. Bottom (inset)—A kite without a tail is no kite, Henry A. Stipher, of 129 West Forty-third street, finds out on the steps of a neighboring home.

announced shortening of its working week to give re-employment to former workers. Estimates based upon cutting of the working week at the Marmon plant, the Link-Belt Company’s plant and other industries which already have signified adherence to the plan, today indicated from 400 to 500 additional workers would be added to pay rolls, at once, according to Chamber of Commerce officials. Letters sent to employers of the city by the Chamber of Commerce employment stabilization committee today urged adoption of the plan as a step for immediate relief of suffering in the city. Immediate start of spring construction and repair work was advocated as another measure which will aid in solving unemployment problems.

Dombrowski had been out of work for months and the little family was receiving only $4.50 per week from the county. The man rigged up a five-gallon still and attempted to add to his income by making liquor, police said. A week ago four officers took both Dombrowski and his wife away, leaving the three children.

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‘Bush Leaguer’ That’s Malone's Impression of Stimson at Sea Parley.

Bit United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Secretary of State Stimson is ‘a bush leaguer batting in the big league” of the London naval conference, Dudley Field Malone, international attorney, said today when he returned on the French liner Paris. Malone was accompanied by his bride, the former Miss Edna Louise Johnson, whom he married in London. He was pessimistic concerning the benefits which America would derive from the naval conference and said the British probably would get most out of the parley because they entered it with a well-conceived plan. “Americans are the laughing stock of Europe,” Malone said. “At dinners in the American embassy at London all people do is smoke and eat. Ambassador Dawes takes out his pipe after the soup course, and everybody drinks ice water. There isn’t a real drink in the house. “MacDonald and Tardieu are the outstanding figures. Stimson has made a poor impression. He has no imagination and no European experience. It is too bad that a man like Dwight Morrow was not made head of the American delegation. Stimson has handled his press very badly.” LOCKED IN LOVE CASE Jury Unable to Agree in $100,000 Suit Against Actress. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—A jury in supreme court today failed to agree on a verdict in the $100,000 alienation of affections suit filed against Marjorie Rambeau, actress, by Mrs. Mabel Manton, former wife of William Kevitt Manton, actor and stage director. The suit was undefended. Miss Rambeau was said to be in California without funds to make the trip here. Mrs. Manton obtained a divorced in 1926, with Miss Rambeau named as co-respondent.

Burgess Joseph McElhatton of West Conshohocken, heard of the children’s plight and. with several other officials, went to the shack late Tuesday and pleaded with the children to come out. They were removed to the county detention home, when they were fed and clothed pe ing final disposition of their ca

TEN LOSE LIVES IN SERIES OF NAPHTHA AND ALCOHOL EXPLOSIONS AT REFINERY 53 Are Injured in Three Terrific Blasts at Standard Oil Plant in New Jersey; Many Are Blinded for Life. SEVERAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION Believe Escaping Gas Fumes Ignited by Forges; Hissing Wall of Flame Bursts Two Big Vats; Probes Started. By United Press ELIZABETH, N. J., Feb. 19.—Ten men are dead and fifty-three injured, many of them near death, lay in three local hospitals today, victims of a series of naphtha gas and alcohol explosions, which turned the Bayway refinery of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, near here, into a veritable inferno. Many of the injured are blinded for life. Others are seared almost beyond recognition. Throughout the night police repeatedly blocked attempts of women and children, to storm the hospital, in their frantic desire to be at the bedside of their injured.

The dead are: WILLIAM DUFFY, Bayonne. WILLIAM CASEY, Elizabeth. DOMINICK BIONI, Elizabeth. HOWARD HOLIDAY, Elizabeth. JOHN LUBAS, Elizabeth. ARTHUR CROFT, Union. CLARENCE CROFT, Bayonne. JOSEPH LUKASICWICZ, Elizabeth. GEORGE ROBINSON, Roselle. JOHN SULLIVAN, Elizabeth.

COUNTY MOVES TO AID JOBLESS Officials Propose Immense Road Programs, Expenditure by Marion county of more than $2,000,000 in construction projects this spring as a relief for the unemployed was assured today by county commissioners in a session devoted to a review of projects already under way and others planned to begin at once. The move embraces the construction of a half million dollars in new roads; completion of six roads with a total of eleven miles; building of $100,000 worth of small roads and bridges, and spending of $60,000 in repairs to county buildings with probably erection of a $400,000 detention home. Commissioners laid emphasis on the layout of money as a means of providing work for the “many people unemployed, but too proud to ask for charity.” Commissioner John E. Shearer declared county officials look upon the situation of the jobless as a problem for charity, and said avenues of work will be opened this spring.

FIND BODY JN RIVER Police Believe Gash Over Eye Indicates Murder. Body of a man about 50, who police believe may have been murdered, was taken from White river, at West street, early today. In pockets of his clothing was found a $275 bond issued by the Jewish Welfare Fund. It bore one name, Isaac, and was the only identification mark police obtained. The entire bond issue was numbered 501, according to officials of the Jewish Federation, which issued the bonds more than a year ago. Traces of a second name on the bond have not been deciphered, undertakers declared. The murder theory sprung from a gash over one eye which two patrolmen declared appeared to have been made before death. Undertakers. to whom the body was released by Coroner C. H. Keever, pending inquest, said decomposition rendered the features unrecognizable, authough marks of the wound still were evident GRILL MURDER SUSPECT Second Search for Body of Ohio Boy Proves Fruitless. Bit United Press WOOSTER, 0., Feb. 19.—Authorities continued their ceaseless grilling of Charles Hanna, 58, today, in an effort to get him to reveal the location of the body of Melvin Horst 4, who mysteriously disappeared from his home in Orrville, Dec 27, 1928. Hanna’s statement that Earl Conoid, 42, former railroader, burled the bod 7 in the rear of Hanna's former Orrville home, after murdering him /has been changed. He now declares ’'that Conoid buried the body at a spot along Sugar creek of here. Excavations at />ts have proved fruitless.

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The first of three explosions occurred late Tuesday as the night shift was taking its [place. All of the daytime | workmen had not yet left the I refinery. The first blast occurred in the alcohol experiment building. The first blast, according to survivors, occurred when a naphtha gas line running into the alcohol experiment laboratory burst, the escaping fumes being ignited by forges used by workmen on the adjoining building. A hissing wall of flame swept through the building and exploded two alcohol vats. Before those that were able to could get out, the other two explosions occurred. The building was turned into a furnace of blazing blue flame, which enveloped the stunned workmen. Horribly scorced men ran screaming from the building. Many, blinded by the burning spray, ran confusedly about the vast 100-acre Standard Oil property. The scene was as grewsome as any painted in Dante’s “Inferno.” Clothes Are Ignited Carpenters and boilermakers ployed on an adjoining building under construction were blowed off scaffolding and their clothes were ignited by the burst of flame which swept out of the experiment building The explosions were heard in Linden and Elizabeth, nearby communities. The entire fire fighting forces of both cities and every available ambulance went to the scene. Private automobiles were commandeered to take the injured to hospitals and to emergency stations set up on the oil company reservation. Ail Help Frantically Every available nurse, interne and physician in Elizabeth was called, while volunteer messengers scurried from place to place seeking blankets and medical supplies. Surgeons worked unceasingly throughout the night over the injured. A graphic recital of the explosion was furnished by James Carperinicchio of Elizabeth, a mason’s helpa*. “All of a sudden,” he said, “I wa* thrown to the ground. I found myself on fire. I leaped up and everybody around me looked like they were dead. Then they began getting up. Most of them were ablaze. “There is a heavy wire fence around the buildings. The men couldn't find the gate to get out and they grew panicky, beating their hands against the fence and ing. Lots of the men looked mutfr lated.” To Use Ph tographs Photographs and blueprints of the refinery will be used by Pro*eoutor Abe J. David in an attempt to discover the cause of the blast, David began his investigation by questioning William J. McOallum, assistant superintendent of the plant, and Hugh H, Slavin Jr., construction foreman. “I am unable as yet to determine the seat of the trouble,” David said. “I also am unable to determine at just what points the fumes escaped. Our investigation is not complete. Today will have blue prints and made of the wrecked plant ana ompare them with picture.l taken before the blast.” Cl. •ties 1. Weeks, deputy commissi mer in the department of labor, and Francis department’s district sugf B were said to have left Trek to join the investigajjfv ||gfcr#

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