Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1931 — Page 1

‘WATER,’CRY OF SURVIVORS IN QUAKE ZONE I Suffering of Thirst Grips Terror-Stricken People of Managua. MAY NOT REBUILD CITY Plague Peril Growing as Relief Crews Speed Up Their Work. BV LEIGH STEVENSON United Press Staff Correspondent 'CopvrUht. 1931. hv United Press) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 2. ICries for water, coupled with prayers and curses, rose today from the j ruins of Managua as survivors of the demolished capital sought reliet from thirst that followed wreckage of the city’s water mains. The death toll from the catastro- ; phe still was uncertain, estimates 1 mounting to 1,000 ait a more. Destruction of Managua, shaken into ruins by two days of intermittent earthquakes which continued sharply Wednesday night, was revealed today as so complete that the city may be abandoned permanently. Thousands Arc Fleeing President General Jose Maria i Monchada announced that plans are being considered by the cabinet for evacuation of Managua and removal of the national capital to Granada or Leon, rather than face the colossal task of rebuilding the city. • Thousands already have left the j desolate ruins of the capital, which i is a shattered mass of burned and ■ crumbled buildings along the shore of Lake Managua. Natives walked for miles into the hills and brought back pitifully small quantities of water in pitchers and bottles. Authorities warned against drinking the water of Lake Managua, but many persons risked the danger of pestilence and sought relief at the water’s edge. Marine corps officials and volunteers worked desperately to rc- > habilitate the water supply. • j Thousands of survivors were being fed on the golf course, and men were sent immediately from the j bread line to work on restoring the water system. Curfew to Be Enforced Curfew will be enforced at sun down tonight, despite the fact that there was no disorder or looting Wednesday night. No one sleeps indoors or within a j distance of walls likely to be dan- i gerous. Wives and children of marines and other Americans here were given cots at the national guard headquarters. American women and children will be evacuated to the Canal Zone Friday! From there they will be re- | lurned to their homes in the United States. Headquarters of the American ! minister, the marines, and the na- j tional guard were consolidated today to speed work of rescue and f rehabilitation. Many bodies had i been recovered and cremated. City Is Still Burning The fire in the center of the city was still burning. Managua looked like a French town shelled and reshelled by heavy artillery in the World war. T'-V shortage of water and the tremendous difficulties in locating ■ fcnd removing bodies of many of the | Victims increased the danger that j plague might be added to the i horrors of the city flattened by earth shocks and swept by fire. There were many indications of the strain under which the population was working to survive the disaster. Marines were forced to tighten martial law regulations. Several ugly incidents were reported as men were pressed into service in the relief work, particu|larly removal of dead to a common I burying ground. } Grave Diggers Shot, Buried j The workers were watched by j guards, who were instructed to shoot j "mutineers.” Two grave diggers were reported j shot for disobedience, and were buried where they fell with the dead from the quake. The report said that after the incident "the crew workid better.” Laborers—some of them at the j point of bayonets—carried bruised j and broken bodies from the debris of buildings to sheets of metal roofing which were used as stretchers These were loaded into trucks and taken to open trenches near the; city cemetery fur burial. Mrs. Joseph D. Murray Jr., wife of a marine captain and one of the 1 few American casualties, was killed at the market place, which col- \ L lapsed on hundreds of women and ■children and burned. ■ Many Stories of Heroism f It was estimated hundreds were caught in the collapse of the market as the earthquake occurred in the rush hour. Most victims were believed to have been servants and grocers. There were many stories of tragedy and heroism. Senora . Amela ; Fernandez was seen attempting to get into her house which collapsed on her 4-year-old son. She dug frantically at the debris and finally i recovered the body. The child was resuscitated and lived. K clerk of Xhe American legation was sitting on the front porch of a chalet overlooking Asososka Lagoon when the quake came. He fled, but | narrowly escaped being swept along with the structure as it slid down I the hillside in ruins. t

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Little Louise Carson of Wichita and the man she humbled. “Mistah Will” Henderson.

By .Y P.i Serriee WTCHITA, Kan., April 2. Daniel tamed the lions in the cave. But his # job wasn’t half so hard as that of Louise Carlson, 12, who just has succeeded in taming the wildcat of radio, “Mistah Will" Henderson of KWKH. Shreveport, La. Louise has succeeded In doing something that the federal radio commission has not. She has made nice Ol’ Mistah Will quit his swearing. And that gallant gentleman of the south has promised that if Louise or any other girl hears him swear over the dir again he’ll send each a five-pound box of candy. The lass had been listening to Henderson for some time. She sent him a greeting card, penning a note on it that she thought it proper for the radio wildcat to say hell and damn only when referring to chain stores. Henderson replied with a personal note that he had cut out the “cussin’ ” entirely, and then made the candy offer if he was caught slipping up on his promise. MILLIONS MORE FOR VETERANS Compensation Loan Offices Get $2,000,000. Indiana World war veterans have been paid $7,500,000 in adjusted compensation loans, and today the regional office of the United States veterans’ bureau received $2,000,000 more to be used in paying the former soldiers. John H. Ale. regional manager, believes the veterans will have been paid $12,000,000 by the time his office is checking on a current basis— April 15. Approximately 21,000 checks have been mailed out to veterans in the month the loan legislation has been effective. Checks are being sent at an average of 1.200 daily. Nearby regional bureaus are slower in payment than the state’s office, it is said. Approximately 30.000 loan applications have been received by the bureau here. Ale said loans will probably be paid within forty-eight hours after April 15. EMBARRASSED: HE SUES Ran Into Street in Niglit Clothes; Asks SIO,OOO Damages. By United Pn*s WASHINGTON. April 2.—Louis H. Mears, embarrassed when he ran into the street in his night clothing when the house next door caught fire, sued for SIO,OOO damages. He charges there would have been no fire had the neighbor's flue been in proper repair. Doctor Dies of Parkot Fever By United Pri ss MILWAUKEE. Wis.. April 2.Milwaukee's first case of psittacosis —parrot fever—today claimed the life of Dr. John M. Sattler, 60. staff physician at Johnston emergency j hospital.

ROCKNE, DORAIS MADE FORWARD PASS DEVASTATING GRID WEAPON

follow Inc is the second of a series of four stories on the life of Knute Kocknc, BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NOTRE DAME never lost a football game in which Knute Rockne played during the seasons of 1911, 1912 and 1913. Rockne made his collegiate football debut in the first game of the 1911 season against Ohio Northern. The Irish won. 32 to 6. but it was a mildly disastrous beginning for Rockne. Charley Dorais, Detroit coach, who was quarter back of the Notre Dame t:m. threw Rockne a forward pass and almost broke one of Route's fingers. Rockne was

MURDER GUN IS COLE EVIDENCE Weapon Linked to Lover of Accused Wife. i By Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., April 2.—Tan- ; gled threads of an illicit romance ; that oound Raymond Cole to an alleged plot resulting in his death at the hands Os his widow's lover, ; were unraveled today as the state ; advanced its case against Mrs. Cole. Sb; is alleged to have aided ! Frank Jordan, her sweetheart, in a ; conspiracy to kill Cole so their romance might continue. Continuing moves to prove the murder was planned by Mrs. Cole i and Jordan, the prosecution prei sented several witnesses today who testified that Jordan was carrying a loaded revolver the day of the murder. Others told that Jordan and Mrs. Cole were together several times beI fore the slaying of Cole and that they "rode around, in a car.” ’ I saw the revolver in Jordan's hand the afternoon of Oct. 31,” John Mobley, co-worker, of Jordan’s, said. "I took it away from : him and unloaded it.” Edgar McKinsey, Indianapolis, operator of a hardware store, told the jury that later Oct. 31 a youth ; came to his store, bearing a note ! signed by Jordan. "The boy said he was too young | to buy the cartridges and gave me j Jordan's note approving the pur- ] chase,” McKinsey said. Other state witnesses identified | the revolver as one found in a field i near the scene of the murder. The revolver was inspected by the jury. Prosecution's case before the jury i was strengthened after attor- | ncys were successful Wednesday in reedi.ig purported confessiorts of I Jordan and Mrs. Cole to the jury. CANNED FOOD DIET IS : • APPROVED BY SCIENCE Columbia Professor Tells Chemists Kitchenette Fare Is O. K. Justification for the “can-open-ing” wife of the kitchenette apartment was given today by chemical i science. E. F. Kohman of the National Canners’ Association and Professor W. H. Eddy of Columbia university reported at the American Chemical Society meeting here that white j rats and guinea pigs thrived through four generations on a canned food diet. The canned diet fed the pigs and rats ranged from chicken-a-la-king to Brussels sprouts and plum pud- , ding. l Forty-nine different canned foods in seventy-four combinations have ! been fed the anmials. “To date our rats have reached the fourth generation and our guinea pigs the third generation, and both types of animals have thrived well,” they reported.

j so tense and high-strung his ! muscles were rigid, and he dropped the ball. That muffed pass taught Rockne a lesson he never forgot; Loose hands and relaxed fingers are the only effective tools for receiving a forward pass. Rockne’s big-time debut on the gridiron was not made until the fifth game of the 1911 season against Pittsburgh. The game ended ir a tie. but Rc ’ ne almost won the game when he scooped up an onside kick from Dorais and raced for a touchdown the officials c "and not allow. Rockne was not a sensational player, according to Ray Eichenlaub. full back on the 1911, 1912 1913 teams, ,

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FINAL PLEAS ARE MADE IN LINGLE TRIAL Leo Brothers’ Right to Liberty Is Argued by Opposing Counsel. CASE IS NEAR JURY State to Demand Death of Gangster; Four Verdicts Are Possible. BY WILLIAM E. HALLBERG United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April 2.—Opposing counsel argued Leo V. Brothers’ right to freedom today as his trial on charges of murdering Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, neared the jury. One of the largest crowds of the fourteen-day trial began gathering | two hours before court opened and : fought its way into Judge Joseph i Sabath’s courtroom for the climac- ! tic hours of the case. Brothers’ chief hope of acquittal ; rested with Louis Piquett, gray- ! haired chief of defense counsel, who I pleaded that the trial was a ‘‘gigantic frameup.” Piquet began his closing argu- ' inent late Wednesday and continued j as Judge Joseph Sabath called the session today. Piquett was to be followed by C. Wayland Brooks, assistant state’s attorney, who Wednesday begged j the jurors to make Chicago safe from those who come out of the 1 shadows to commit murder. Brooks is making both arguments for the state. After the closing arguments remained, only Judge Sabath’s charge instructing the jury that it could return any one of four possible verdicts as follows: 1. not guilty; 2, guilty, recommending death penalty; 3, guilty, recommending life imprisonment; 4. guilty, recommending a term of years. Under the last verdict the jury may recommend a sentence of any term not less than fourteen years. Piquett declared the prosecution reached out “like a spider in his web, when this victim came along.” Argue Hymie's Fate By United Press ** CLEVELAND, April 2.—The trial of “Pittsburgh Hymie” Martin.’ charged with the murder of William E. Potter, former city councilman, was expected to go to the jury late today after opposing counsel appealed in turn for a death sentence and accquittal. The state’s closing argument was presented by Prosecutor Ray T. Miller who characterized the defendant a "most pernicious" type of gangster | who was hired to kill the politclan ; because he “knew too much” and had threatened to “squawk.” It was the state’s way of advancing a motive—that Potter was killed to prevent his disclosures of city j land frauds for which he had stood ; trial and had been acquitted and | two others sent to prison. 30 DIE IN SHIP CRASH ! Passengers Killed as Liner, Aircraft Carrier Collide. By United Press MALAGA. Spam, April 2.—’Thirty steerage passengers were killed in a collision between the French liner Florida and the British airj craft carrier Glorious, the captain : of the Florida announced today/ One injured passenger died after ; being taken aboard the Glorious. Seven bodies had been recovered from the wrecked steerage quarters :of the Florida. The passengers were | killed when the force of the collision j threw quantities of cargo upon them. PROVES SHE’S ‘GADDER’ Wins Divorce by Showing Speedometer of Car His Wife Drove. By United Press DETROIT. April 2.—A speedometer appeared today as material testimony in the divorce suit of William F. Burns. He obtained a decree by charging his wife “gadded about,” the speedometer registered 17,000 miles in four months. DIES IN ODD ACCIDENT Hair Tangled in Washing Machine Rollers, Woman Strangles. I By United Press OWOSSO. Mich., April 2.—Strangulation, caused when her hair was caught in the rollers of a washing machine, was given today as the cause of the death of Mrs. Emily Johnson. 49.

ROCKNE was a mighty hard end to get around and he was a great forward pass catcher.” says Eichenlaub. “He did what he was supposed to do and he did it well. He was methodical. Those qualities enabled him to build great football teams as a coach, because he was able to teach players to do exactly what they were supposed to do.” Although Notre Dame did not originate the forward pass, it was Dorais and Rockne. as players, who first perfected It into a devastating offensive weapon which revolutionized football during this period. After going through jhe seasons

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The floral draped casket containing the body of Knute Rockne is shown in the upper picture as it passed through Chicago for South Bend. A crowd oi 3,000 paid tribute "to Rockne at Dearborn Station. Knute Rockne may have been a miracle man to countless thousands- of football fans, but he was something even greater—a loving husband and father—to Mrs. Bonnie Rockne and the four Rockne children, show in the lower layout, now widowed and orphaned.

PANTAGES IS VICTOR ' Wins Fight for New Trial in Pringle Case. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, April 2.—The ; state supreme court today granted i Alexander Pantages. multi-million- ! aire Los Angeles theater man, a 1 new trial on the (pliarges that he j attacked 17-ycar-old Eunice Pringle, i dancer. The high court found that errors ; committed in the Los Angeles trial ! court where Pantages was convicted on Oct. 27, 1929, were important enough to warrant a retrial. This victory for Pantages climaxed a fight he started immediately after j a Los Angeles jury announced its guilty verdict and Superior Judge Charles Fricke ordered the millionaire to San Quentin prison for from one to fifty years. BABY BONUS IS URGED Minnesota Senator Proposes SIOO for Each New-born Child. By United Press ST. PAUL, April 2.—A bonus of SIOO for each child bom in Minnesota. “to discourage the debasing practice of birth control," was proposed today by State Senator Ambrose Lemmon. Minneapolis.

of 1911 and 1912 without defeat. Notre Dame obtained a game on the Army schedule in 1913. Rockne and Dorais began preparing for this game in the summer before the 1913 season. It was Notre Dame's chance for gridiron recognition, and Rockne and Dorais planned to make the most of it. n a a ROCKNE and Dorais spent the summer at Cedar Points 0., on Lake Erie, and throughout the long summer afternoons Rockne spent all his spare time running down the beach after passes tossed by Dorais. That long, tedious practice resulted in one of the biggest upsets of the 1913 season, Notre

Billy, right, and Knute Jr., below, already are following in their dad’s footsteps, as evinced by these football pictures taken at the Pembroke school in Kansas City. Jack, center of the bottom group, is only a little more than 5, but his punting style is nearly perfect. Golden-haired Mary Jeanne, left bottom, liked nothing better than to play the Notre Dame "Victory March” on the piano while her dad listened.

WARM WEATHER, RAIN FORECAST FOR CITY Showers, Cloudiness in Store for Rest of Week. Rising temperatures that will carry the mercury into the fifties this afternoon, was forecast by the weather bureau after sunshine and spring weather made a double-quick comeback following the snow, rain and low temperature Wednesday. Although warm weather will continue Friday, light rains are in store for Indianapolis. Cloudiness will increase tonight with the mercury not dropping below 38. The cloudy condition and light rains are forecast for the entire state Friday.

EL PASO NEWSPAPER IS SOLD TO SCRIPPS-HOWARD

By United Press EL PASO, Tex., April 2.-!-The El Paso Evening Post, one of the younger members of the ScrippsHoward group of newspapers, announced today the purchase of the El Paso Herald, its fifty-year-old rival In the afternoon field. Simultaneously, the Lindsay Nunn Publishing Company, former owner, sold the El Paso Times, its morning paper, to Don-ance D. Roderick, who has held the position of resi-

Dame defeating the Army, 35-13. Notre Dame scored its. first touchdown on a ruse by Rockne. After one • scrimmage he got up limping, and on the next three plays Dorais passed to another player. Then on the next play the Army players, forgetting about the limping Rockne. left him uncovered. He raced down the field forty yards and stood behind the to take the longest pass that ever had been completed up to that time. The Army team was dumlounded. It was the beginning of anew era in football. Notre Dame led at the half. 14-13, but routed the Cadets in <Turn to Page Sixteen) w

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BOY GIANT IS LOSER Court Orders Treatments to Halt Growth. By United Press LOS ANGELES. April 2. —Adolphe Roorne, 14-year-old boy who weighs 235 pounds, must submit to pituitary gland treatments in an effort to halt his unusual growth. In deciding the unusual case toI day, Superior Judge Lester Roth l ruled in favor of the youth’s father, i Dr. Adolphe E. Moome Sr., who j sought the treatments "in order i that the boy may enjoy a normal j life.” The boy had fought this ' course in court.

dent publisher of both the Herald and the Times. Transfer of the Herald will be made Friday, when the merged evening papers will appear for the first time as the El Paso Herald-Post. The El Paso Herald, established in 1381, has had a colorful career in this border city. During the more than fifty years of its existence it has merged with and absorbed eleven former rivals. With T. E. Sharp as editor and F. G. Westberg business manager, the Post was established Aug. 21 1922. Merged with the Herald, u will have a total circulation of more than double the present circulation of its morning rival. Wallace Perry, editor since June, 1927. and John W. Frierson, business manager since March, 1929, will continue as editor and business manager of the Herald-Post. Purchase of the Herald Involves none of its physical plant, which goes to the Times. Like the i Scripps-Howard recent purchase of the New York World newspapers, the El Paso deal involves only the name, good will, circulation lists ! and Associated Press membership of the paper purchased. The Herald-Post, however, is I adding anew six-unit Goss press j to its pressroom and is increasing I its battery of linotypes. |

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THOUSANDS AT ROCKNE’S BIER STAND SILENT South Bend Joins Grieving Notre Dame in Tribute at Casket. RITES ARE INDEFINITE Famed Stars of Gridiron Gather for Homage to Great Leader. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Tress Staff Correspondent SOUTH BEND, Ind., \pril 2. Silent homage was paid to the great ' Knute Rockne today as his body lay in state in a bronze casket incased in a gray-silver vault. There were no cheers, no bands, i r.o noise—just ghastly silence everywhere. Rockne's death was beyond comprehension. A scant four months ago these same loyal townspeople and students were standing in the same places, crowding, yelling, milling about in thunderous tribute to Rockne and his players, after Notre Dame had completed its second suc- ; cessful undefeated season by humbling Southern California's mighty Trojans. For twenty years—as a student, assistant coach and finally head coach—Rockne’s life was entwined with Notre Dame and his tragic end in an airplane crash in Kansas ha* staggered the historic school to its very foundation. Stand in Saddened Silence Eight thousand persons standing in sorrowing silence—that was a never to be forgotten picture as Rockne's body arrived Wednesday night over the New York Central from Chicago, whence it had come from Kansas. The Rev. Charles L. O’Donnell, C. S. C., president of Notre Dame, was at the station to meet the j Rockne cortege, as an official reprei sentative of the university. He gazed in silence as the casket, banked : in lilies and roses, was lowered to a conveyance. i Then the casket was escorted to a ' funeral chapel in the heart of South Bend, four miles from the campus where Rockne’s genius fashioned the j greatest football terms in gridiron | history. ■ All funeral arrangements have been held in abeyance until Mrs. ! Bonnie Rockne, widow of the coach, i and her two youngest children. ! Mary Jean and Jackie, arrive late j today from Florida. Monday Is Tentative Date The funeral has been arranged j tentatively for Monday at Sacred : Heart church, which has a seating . capacity of less than 1.003. There is a probability that it may be held Saturday if a special dispensation ! can be obtained from Bishop Noll ! of Ft. Wayne diocese. Another tentative plan suggested : is to hold the funeral in the Notre Dame stadium to accommodate the I thousands who wish to attend This is unlikely, as Mrs. Rockne has discouraged all suggestions of public display in her communications with Father O’Donnell. Burial will be either in the Cedar Grove cemetery, adjoining the I Notre Dame campus, and across j the roadway from the Notre Dame I stadium, or in a Chicago crypt.. Mrs. | Rockne's decision will determine ! which. Oldest Sons on Campus Rockne's two oldest sons. Billy, 14. and Knute, Jr., 11—the one , who wants to be a football coach I like his dad—spent the night on the campus, in the care of Coach H. iH. Francis of Pembroke academy, : Kansas City, where they attended j school. | They accompanied the body Jof their father here with the funeral party. Dr. Michael Nlgro of I Kansas City, to whom Mrs. Rockne i intrusted the responsibility cf ; bringing her husband’s body to South Bend, was with the two boys constantly during the trip here. Knute Jr. put his arm around Dr. j Nigro en route from Chicago to : South Bend Wednesday night and j twisted his face into awkward api pearances. "What are you making those faces for. Junior?” Dr. Nigro asked him. “My Dad Did That Way” 'Cause that’s the way my oad did sometimes,” answered the watery-eyed little chap, who has j inherited many of his father’s characteristics. Many of the football players who I r °se to fame under Rockne’s tute- | lage arrived today to pay their last ' respects to him. Adam Walsh, Yale line coach, and j captain of the great 1924 (Four I Horsemcni team, and his brother I Charles (Chilly) Walsh, end on the 1927 team, were among the early arrivals. Jack Elder, whose ninety-five-yard dash won the Army game in 1929, was another. All of the "Four Horsemen” were expected, as well as hundreds of other players. Shoes Too Big to Be Filled There will be no honorary pallbearers, because the list would have to be endless. The six pallbearers probably will be chosen from among his former players, with representation for the thirteen football team* h coached. Any speculation over Notr# Dame’s next coach is far-fetched. No one here mentions such a thing. Many months may pass before an-' official thought will be given to the task of choosing, not Rockne* : successor, but another coach. ; Rockne never will have a successor. His shoes were too big to be filled. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 30 10 a. m 44 7a. m 31 11 a. m 4-3 Ba. m 37 12 moon).. 47 1 9a. m 41 Ip. m 31