Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1931 — Page 1

HOOVER DEBT PLAN PERILED BY CONGRESS President and Mellon Fight Strong Opposition in Both Houses. FAILS TO GET PLEDGES Mills Rebuffed in Effort to Win Support for Moratorium. BY RAY TUCKER Time* Stiff Corrfsoondrnt WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The administration, including President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and Under Secretary Mills, labored feverishly today to save its proposal for world debt reduction from congressional wreckage, and to convince congress that it was more interested in domestic recovery than in tabilizing Europe. While President, Hoover assured congress that he was concerned chiefly in "domestic” improvement, Mellon issued a public statement in which he insisted that it was folly to expect European nations, under present conditions, to pay their obligations to the United States in accord with present, debt funding arrangements. The secretary of the treasury, in t he sharpest pronouncement yet delivered concerning foreign debts, called upon congress to support the President's demand for re-creation of the world war debt commission, which is vigorously opposed on Capitol hill without regard to parties, on the ground that it, may mean downward revision or cancellation. Rebuffed on Pledge Meanwhile, Under Secretary Mills was rebuffed all along the line as he •-ought to get, Democratic leaders of the house to sign a round robin assurance, to Europe that the Hoover moratorium would receive congressional approval. Speaker Garner, Chairman Collier of the ways and means committee and Representative Charles R. Crisp Dem., Ga.). former member of the debt, funding commission, refused to sign on the dotted line. ft was then that Mills requested , a meeting for today of senate lead- ; p rs, at which he hopes to persuade i them to line up behind Hoover and ! Mellon. The conference requested by Mills will have before it two strangely contrasting documents. One, issued by the President, assures congress that he is interested mainly in recovery at home, and that the United States, if it adopts his program for easing credits, can bet back on solid ground without regard to what happens in Europe. The other, issued by Mellon a few hours after the Hoover pronouncement, gave facts and figures for the necessity of approving the moratorium. and even further adjustment of world debts. President's Stand Defended Whereas Hoover had stressed the point that his program aimed toward revival of business and industry at home. Mellon launched into a defense of the President's demand for further leniency to debtor nations in Europe. After referring to England's departure from the gold standard, and depreciated currencies in other countries, Mellon said: "The administration is opposed to cancellation. No recommendation carries such implication. It is, however, the duty of those in authority to deal with realities, and there is no escaping the fact that some of our debtors can not meet m full the payments due us until there has been a substantial measure of economic recovery. Position of others so is changed as to call for consideration of their present situation in the light of existing circumstances.” Hoover Answers Critics In discussing the presidential request. for re-creation of the World war debt commission with congressonal spokesmen, Mills took the same tack. He pointed out that Hoover asked this step only to have ready machinery to examine proposals for reducing German reparations which may be made by the Young committee operating under the Bank of International Settlements. Mellon’s pronouncement raused some surprise, in view of the apparent effort by Hoover to answer criticism that he was more interested in European recovery than in solving domestic problems of unemployment and depression.

HAPPINESS REIGNS TODAY IN THE LITTLE HOME DOWN BY THE RAILROAD TRACKS

(Editor’t N'otr—Namy* ary withheld below to nresrrve the aancitv of the ‘home down be the railroad track' 1 and the Chriatmas made bv A Man.) WINDS, the bitter kind, blow hard down by the little shack they call home near the railroad tracks. The shack's leaky when rains sweep and each new leak means another board nailed up. But it's a home and one that's sot more Santa Claus and Christmas in it right now than lots of native stone mansions on the north side. And it's got that Christmas in if because on kind soul from one of those, north side places of lights and luxury went into the little shack and left a bit of himself there, in the heart of a boy. * h n BUT let's back up a minute to Friday afternoon. A Clothe-a-Child man wanted a boy "about 6 or 7 ” he said. He was given the little shack down by the railroad tracks.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 185

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This is how Mme. Magda Lupcscu would look wearing the royal crown if King Carol grants his sweetheart’s wish and makes her the common queen of Rumania, as he is reported to be intending to do.

300 IN BLIZZARD FIGHT FOR LIFE Struggle Desperately to Keep Children Warm. Bn I nitrd Press GALLUP, N. M.. Dec. 12.—Corrals, fences and frame buildings were demolished today at the tiny Presbyterian mission at Ganado. Ariz.. to provide fuel for 300 snowbound mission workers and Indian school children. The mission, fifty-eight miles north of here in the Navajo reservation, has been snowbound since Wednesday, Dr. C. G. Salsburv, head of file mission school and hospital. revealed Friday night. The only communication with the mission is by a shaky single telephone line. Every one at the mission, including school children, was sent to scout for wood to heat the hospital and the dormitories where babies and young children are lodged. Twenty-three miles from the mission, in Steamboat canyon, was the coal mine from which the fuel supply ordinarily is produced. Trucks, loaded with coal, were trapped in drifts at the mine. Roads to the mission were blocked by the blizzard, which swept over this section of Arizona and New Mexico, Nov. 22, trapping more than 1,000 Indian pinon nut pickers on the wind-swept mesas. Three days ago the roads were opened and trucks started to replenish the depleted mission coal supply. It was estimated today that three days more would bp required to open the roads after this second blizzard, NOOSE FOR POWERS Love Butcher Sentenced to Hang on March 18. 6.7 United Press CLARKSBURG, W. Va„ Dec. 12. —Harry F. Powers, convicted for the “Bluebeard ' killing of Mrs. Dorothy Lemke of Northboro, Mass., was sentenced to hang on Friday. March 18. 1932. by Judge John C. Southern today. Sentence was pronounced this morning after the court denied the motion to set aside the verdict. HOGS CLOSE WEEK AT HIGHER PRICE LEVELS Cattle Market Dull to Lower: Sheep Unchanged. Hogs closed the week at the Union Stockyards with an uprush in prices that added 15 to 25 cents to values in all classes. The bulk. 130 to 300 pounds, sold for $4.25 to $4.50. early top holding at $4.50. Receipts were estimated at 2.000: holdoverswere 89. Cattle market was nominal, receipts numbering 50. Vealers were 50 cents off at $7.50 down. Calf receipts were. 100. Sheep showed little change, selling mostly at $5.75 to $6. Top price was $6.25. Receipts were 200.

Call Riley 5551 — 0 r write — and ask for the Clotke-A-Child editor of The Indianapolis Times. He mil give you the name of a needy school childbetween the ages of 6 and 12 years. Each child has been checked for need by the Christmas Clearing House and the social service department

There he found Jimmie. Jimmie with no clothing but his underwear. He found Jimmie, who'd worn nothing but pajamas since he was 2 years old. For in the last five years. Jimmie's got his schooling on the flat of his back, strapped to boards, in a city hospital. Jimmie never had played m a schoolyard with other boys. He knew only the board he was ■trapped to end the distant skyline of factory smoke from his hospital window. V-

JURORS WORK OVERTIME ON VEHLING CASE Special Session Called to Continue Probe Into Coroner’s Acts. GET MASS OF EVIDENCE Double Verdict in Death Case, Illegal Autopsy Charges Sifted. BY DICK MILLER Due to the volume of evidence presented. Marion county grand jurors today met in special session to continue their probe of the alleged illegal activities of Coroner Fred W. Vehling. Attaches of the grand jury were to work over the week-end compiling testimony and evidence presented jurors in the last two weeks. Members of the quiz group will seek to complete their investigation and return their findings to criminal court before the end of the month. During the week, the jurors have considered several important cases, facts of which are said to point to Vehling’s alleged violation of state law’s in the operation of his office. Autopsy Branded Illegal Among the cases were: Autopsy of the body of Mrs. Margaret Makenson, 78, of 338 East Morns, branded as “illegal, ridiculous and outlandish” by Henry O. Goett, city clerk, who w r as a voluntary witness before the grand jury. Two verdicts in the heat prostration case of Jesse O. Gant, poultry company employe, returned by Vehling within thirteen days contained glaring discrepancies. One said prostration was the death cause and the other carried this verdict with acute alcoholism added. The widow is fighting for compen- ; sation insurance before the state | industrial board. The company is i not liable to pay if Vehling can prove acute alcoholism caused death. The secret autopsy performed by Dr. Clarence Harris, Negro deputy coroner, on the body of Frank Glover, 14-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Glover. Mr. and Mrs. Glover waited three hours for release of the body and later learned of the post-mortem. Probe Auto Death Case Alleged nonarrest order in favor of Samuel Lugar, R. R. 3, Box 915, owner of a car involved in a fatal accident Oct. 31, by Vehling, who is alleged to have said, ‘ His father is a friend of mine.” Vehling and Miss Minne Sartor, clerk in his office, also are charged with operation of a “racket” in failure to file verdicts with the county clerk in the thirty-day limit set by law. Vehling is said to refer persons seeking verdicts and transcripts of evidence to Miss Sartor, who charges SI each for verdicts and 50 cents a page for transcripts of evidence. The grand jury today delved further into the auto death case of Walter Juttemeyer of St. Louis, which an autopsy was said to have been performed by Vehling and relatives forced to pay SIOO for the post-mortem.

HOPE FOR BUS FARE CUT WANES AFTER PARLEY

Small hope of lower bus fares was held today by civic leaders, after presenting their demands for fare revision to officials of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company Friday. Demands that bus fares be equalized to the same level as street car fares, to prevent discrimination against distriots of the city served by busses, were laid before the street railway officials. Deficits for the last ten months in operating both the street railway and the Peoples Motor Coach Company formed the main reason for the officials not considering reducing fares at this time, they said. Samuel Harrig. president of the East New York Street Civic League, who headed the civic representatives. asked that bus fares be put on the same basis as street car fares. "There is no disposition on part of the receiver of the Indianapolis Street Railway company to change

BUT this Christmas the doctors gave him a present. They told him he could go home and back to the little shack ,dowTi by the railroad track. They are making a jacket for him that he can wear on his first day to school. But the jacket was to keep life and limb together and it would not ward off the cold. So someone wrote the Indianapolis Times and placed Jimmie's > name in the Clothe-a-Child campaign. The name was given to one w’ho only wants to be known as "A : Man." i And Friday "A Man," a regular

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12,1931

Chinese Anger Flames Against League s Verdict in Favor of Japan; War Again Threatened

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Mme. Maurice Chevalier, wife of the screen star, had this happy smile for America when, as pictured here, she returned to New York after a visit to her native France.

REPORT SHOWS BUSINESS GAIN Baldwin Locomotive Works Has Large Increase. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 12.—The Baldwin Locomotive works and affiliated companies oooked 126.000 in new business during November, more than twice the amount of new business booked in October. The last monthly figure brought the total business booked in the first eleven months of 1931 to $21,555,000, as compared with $532,997,000 for the same period last year. 32 DROWN IN STORM Crew of German Steam Trawler Goes Down With Craft. 6/ t a i ted Per** LONDON. Dec. 12.—The thirtytwo members of the crew of the German steam trawler Venus were drowned when the trawler' was wrecked in bad weather north of Floro. the Lloyds agent at Bergen reported today. A lifeboat containing seven persons was reported missing. The trawler was reported a total wreck.

fares at this time. The railway showed a deficit of SIOO,OOO for the last ten months, while the Peoples Motor Coach Company had a deficit of $9,000,” D. E. Watson, former president of the street railway and now manager for the receiver, said. The discussion shifted to how fares are equalized in other cities, especially Louisville, where a uniform fare of three tokens for 25 cents is charged. Watson told the group that “we might consider putting fares on the Louisville basis, which would mean raising street car fares and lowering bus fares.” "Otherwise, if we were forced to lower the bus fares without a corresponding increase in street car ! fares, we could not operate.” "When the defunct street railway ! system is reorganized, as proposed, we will make further demands for fare equalization." Harrig told the officials.

of the Indianapolis public schools. Community Fund relief agencies are providing the names of worthy children to be clothed. The Times gives you the name of a child. You clothe the youngster — that’s your Christmas, that’s the child’s Christmas, and- that’s our Christmas.

guy. if you know what we mean, found Jimmie in his shack without clothing. i * He borrowed a sweater from j one neighbor, pants from another, shoes from another, and bundling j Jimmie up took him to a store to shop for him. He bought him the first clothing he's ever worn except baby dresses. It's clothing like other boys and Jimmie wants to be like other boys. ana AND in Januarv they'llo enroll Jimmie for. the first time in the city's public schools. He'll wear his clothing. He'll

Yellow Tide of Wrath Is Rising; Thousands Clamor for Conflict; Tokio Waits Oniy Slightest Excuse. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripos-Hofrard Foreisn Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Despite i thetruce engineered by the League of Nations and the United States between China and Japan, the danger of real war between these two countries is greater today than it ever was. Disappointed and perhaps embittered over the afilure of the i western powers to restore Mani churia, 430,000.000 Chinese now may | overthrow their government and i take matters into their own hands. For three months—ever since the Japanese took Mukden—feeling in China has been running high. Foreign Minister Wang was attacked and nearly killed by a mob demanding action against the invaders. Wellington Koo. his successor, virtually has been in hiding to escape a similar fate. Anger Is Rising The one thing, apparently, which thus far has served somewhat to hold down the yellow’ tide of anger against Japan was the hope that perhaps the council of the league finally would save the bacon for China. That the plan of settlement arranged by the league will satisfy the popular clamor is refuted by the Chinese masses themselves. Messages received here report that students by the tens of thousands are descending upon Nanking, demanding war against Japan. Vast multitudes, it is said, stand astride the railroad tracks, refus- j ing to budge until the trains agree ! to take them to the capital. There they stormily insist upon resigna- j tion of the foreign minister and the 1 immediate departure of General Chiatig Kai-Shek, the president, for the “front.” President Faces Showdown Similar demonstrations a fortnight ago elicited the promise from the president that he would lead ; Gtie Chinese army in Manchuria, but the league council's session in Paris provided an excuse to hold ‘J tv? .promise tn abeyance Maw i are demanding that he make good'. If the Nanking government is overthrown arid is succeeded by one , more responsive to such demonstrai tions, war will almost certainly re- ! suit. The tension in Japan is such that if China so much as lifts her little finger, militarily speaking, against her, Japan will strike back with all the speed and force of greased lightning. She needs only half an excuse to set her troops marching ! again, and once they start they : will not stop at Chinchow nor the 1 Great Wall, but likely will go on to the capital itself. Demand Boycott Action The Nichi-Nichi. an important Tokio daily, reports that organizations of business men all over Japan are demanding action to put down the deadly and growing Chinese boycott. All express thsir "preparedness to suffer whatever sacrifice necessary for attainment of the aim in view.” Simultaneously with the threat of an explosion in China, therefore, signs of a more warlike character are reported from Japan. The lib- | eral, peaceful penetration government of Premier Wakatsuke has fallen and it now is regarded as al- j mo6t certain that a cabinet more inclined to take a “strong hand” policy will be formed. Thus, while an impatient and somewhat disillusioned China threatens to boil over and start something against the Japanese, feeling in favor of having it out with the Chinese apparently is strong in Japan. GAME FINES COLLECTED 57.396.75 Is Total, Conservation Report Reveals. Fines and costs totaling $7,396.75 resulted from arrests and convictions for game law violations thus j far this year, according to a report of the game warden service today to state conservation department officials. There were 372 arrests by game wardens. 339 convictions, 1 case dismissed and 26 pending. Fines go to local school funds.

play with other boys. The board to w’hich he was strapped will be forgotten. And somewhere deep down in him he’ll carry a guerdon of faith in A Man. And that's why today there's so much Christmas and Santa Claus in the little shack down by the railroad tracks. It's why a man goes about his affairs in the marts of business with a smile on his face and a cry in his eye. It's just one of the "whys ’ of the Clothe-A-Child campaign. WON'T you let r* put Christmas and Santa Claus in a

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It was the deer that made the home run, but Babe Ruth had scored a hit that was good for one bag just before this picture was taken in the woods near Camp Bryan, N. C. The Bambino is roughing It to keep in trim for the 132 baseball season.

CHOOSES LOVE OVER ROYALTY Prince Nicholas Gives Up His Rights, Keeps Bride. By Ignited Press BUCHAREST. Dec. 12.—Prince Nicholas of Rumania relinquished his rights as a member of the royal family today rather than renounce : his bride. Mile. Lucia Deletj, qcom- : moner. The prince sent a letter to his brother, King Carol, relinquishing his royal rights and his military titles. The king did not reply to the letter immediately. Carl threatened Nicholas with exile and with suspension of his income unless he abondoned his bride. The marriage was annulled by the superior court on the grounds that the official who performed the ceremony was not qualified to do so. It was denied officially that the court forced Nicholas to give up bis royal rights. The prince will become an ordinary citizen under anew name. It was believed he would be permitted to remain in the country. It was understood that King Carol and the government had reached an understanding to accept the renunciation. FOG BLANKETS CITY Motorists Are Hampered by Dense Frosty Mist. After a drop of temperature from spring levels Friday afternoon, Indianapolis today was blanketed in frost and fog. The fog, which settled in streaks throughout the city, hampered traffic of early morning workers. Reports from some thoroughfares reported visibility almost negligible while in other sections of the city, the fog was not so dense. Motorists on Wasihngton street, from the old ball park to Warman avenue, drove slowly when clear vision was blocked after a few yards. J. H. Armington, bureau, chief, said the fog was caused by the slide in the mercury from 66 late Friday to 39 this morning. Rain with lowest, temperature near 35 was forecast for the next twenty-four hours. Hourly Temperature* e a. m 40 9 a. m 41 7 a. m 39 10 a. m 44 5 a, m 39

j little shack somewhere, maybe i down by a railroad track, for you too? New pledges to the Clothe-a-Child campaign follow: I Mr. and Mrs. ”W” and Daazhtrr (two ! rirls). Stanley S. Feezle. Girls of Transit department, Indiana National bank (bov and *irl>. Universal Club (took another boy and a eirl). i Good Fellows of Chemical Firm 'boy and tirl). Mrs. North Delaware Street. Fidelif Club. Sirma Tau sororitr. Indianapolis Round Table (another j child). Mrs. Eddie Meyer. 3848 North Capitol avenue, member of Pritchett’s Girls’ Bowlinr team. Kanpa Kappa Sirnsa sororitv. Girls of Second Floor. Indiana Trnsf building. Rho Gamma Chi class. Riverside Methodist church. Office employes of Wadlev Company (bov and rirl). Man In A Hprr. C. W. Cpmmiskv. Pi Beta Phi sororUv. Butler university. (Donors’ Listen Page 14)

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CONVICTS DIE IN SUICIDE PACT TO AVERT CAPTURE Tragic End to Break for Liberty From Leavenworth Prison Revealed; Three Others Are Back in Solitary. ONE JAIL BREAKER STILL IS FREE Machine Guns Line Walls to Prevent Further Outbreak; Warden Shot When He Tries to Protect Girl. BY WILLIAM DICKINSON JR United Press Staff Correspondent FEDERAL PENITENTIARY, LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. Dec. 12.—A rigid search to determine how six desperate convicts obtained the weapons used in their murder- ! ous and futile break for freedom was begun today, as extra I guards with machine guns and riot guns patroled the stone walls of this prison. Three convicts, comrades who entered prison together, died in an apparent triple suicide pact as possemen closed on them. They were George Curtis, Grover Durrill and Will j Green, all serving twenty-five-years terms from Oklahoma City for mail robbery. Their three companions, Tom Underwood, Duluth mail bandit; Charles Berta, San Francisco mail robber, and Stanley Browning, Fargo (N. D.) bank robber, were in solitary confinement.

A seventh convict. Earl Thayer, Oklahoma City, still was at liberty. Thayer, who was not a member of the group, escaped during confusion after the break. | Thomas B. White, grim, tight- ! lipped. 50-yoar-old warden, faced possible amputation of his left arm. His shoulder was mangled by shotgun slugs, fired by Green when the prison head risked his life to save i an 18-year-old girl after he had been kidnaped from his office by i the criminals. i Two prison guards. Captain ; lames Galvin and Irwin W. Mooney, were wounded slightly. Machine Guns Mounted ! Machine gun muzzles glowered down from the top of the four high : walls. Guards were armed heavily I with riot guns. Work went on as usual in the workshops and sac- : Lories. Piece by piece, a composite pic- | ture of the break was brought to- | gellier by E. H. Eckholdt, secretary |to the w’arden —a picture of six des- ! perate men determined to risk all I in an attempt to gain freedom. For six hours these criminals terrorized the countryside. They kidnaped three persons, forced their way into the home of an aged farmer. Emerson C. Salisbury, 73. used his house as a fort and stole two automobiles. ' The break, so well-pianneri that the convicts knew every step, occurred at 9 o'clock Friday night in Warden White's own office," Eckholdt said. -White, three prison clerks and myself found ourselves face to face with the criminals’ revolvers and shotguns. We were forced to accompany them right through the prison main getes to the highway, almost 500 yards away from the wall." Forced Into Car The warden was forced to go with the six desperadoes as they commandeered a passing motorcar and headed for the country. The penitentiary burst into action. Alarms were sounded. The 3,000-odd prisoners set up a clamor. Two companies of infantrymen went from the nearby army camp to aid the search for the escaped convicts. The men made their w r ay over muddy roads to the farm home of Joseph Gates, about three miles southwest of Leavenworth, where their automobile stalled in a ditch. They entered the house and kidnaped Gates’ 18-year-old married daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Gates Phillips, and his young son. Outside the house, they decided to divide. Three men went on foot into a cornfield, where they later were captured. The three ringleaders of the plot. Curtis. Durrill and Green stayed with White and Mrs. Phillips. They forced four Leavenworth youths from a small coupe and started away.

Warden Is Shot Mrs. Phillips, however, ran down the road, screaming hysterically. White, feariny the girl would be shot, grappled with Green. Green wounded him in the shoulder. The criminals abandoned the warden at this point. The three criminals, with pursuing possemen close at hand, went six miles farther to Salisbury’s home. They forced their way in and started firing on arriving troopers and guards. Salisbury escaped to safety by climbing through a window. For almost an hour, the beleaguered convicts exchanged shots with possemen who surrounded the house. Then four guards rushed the door. In an upstairs room, the three men were found dead. "Green, seeing the game was tip, shot and killed Curtis and Durrill and then took his own life.” said Coroner Theodore Sexton of Leavenworth county, after an inquest. "Curtis and Durill had been .shot through the right ear. "A wound, showing powder burns, was in Green’s head about an inch above his ear. We found a gun grasped in Green’s right hand. "We found a small fracture of the

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Warden Hero Girl Saved by Bravery of Prison Chief in Break by Convicts.

By United Press Leavenworth. Kan., Dec. 12. —The bravery of Warden T. B. White “saved my life from the three convicts who kidnaped me,” Elizabeth Phillips, 13, married daughter of Joseph Gates, farmer, said today in an exclusive interview with United Press. The. three convicts, who held Warden White captive, entered the Gates home seeking to escape pursuing possemen. They captured the girl and her brothers to use as shields. Mrs. Phillips said the men told her they were revenue men and that they wanted her to go to a neighbor s house with them. "I thought the warden was one of the ‘revenue officers,’ ” she said. ft U St WHEN we started to leave, an army airplane (from Ft Leavenworth) flew low over the house. The men were frightened and it was then that I was sure they were not federal officers. The men ’ooji an automobile from four Leavenworth boys and decided to take Warden White, myself, and my brother along as shields. "‘I know you're going to kill me.' ” Mrs. Phillips quoted the warden as telling the convicts. “ ‘But don't kill these two—they aren't in it at all.’ II jumped out of the car and started to run. Warden White grappled with the men. I heard a shot and turned—Warden White fell. "The men must have thought they had killed him, because they left. "I am sure they intended to kill all of us, and only Warden White's bravery saved us.”

skull above Green’s eye. It probably was caused by a bullet wound, received when he engaged a prison guard in a gun battle along the road.” i The bodies will be held here pending funeral arrangements. Warden White, confined to the* ! Cushing hospital, was kept isolated j today by federal operatives. Physicians said he was making "as good progress as could be expected.” Posses, aided by bloodhounds, continued to search for Thayer. The investigation was being conducted in secret, KANE TELLS DRAMATIC STORY OF DROWNING Professor Denies He Held Wife Under Water Till She Died. B'j United Prcm HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 12.—Elisha Kent Kane’s dramatic story of the drowning of his wife will be uppermost in the minds of jurors trying him for first degree murder in her death, when they retire with the case late today. The defense’s purpose in placing Kane on the stand, of course, was to countercat and annul the state’s charges that he deliberately held his wife under water until she died at the wish of his alleged lover, Mrs Elizabeth Harris Dahl, Mt. Holly (N. J.) divorcee. The handsome, six-foot expert swimmer used sweeping gesture*, his voice at iimes shrilled in shout*, and once he wept, during his description of the drowning. He protested his love for his wife. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.; East wind. 1 mile an hour; temperature, 39: barometric pressure, 3G.05 at sea leven; ceiling, high scattered clouds, smoky, light fog, unlimited; visibility, 2 miles; field! soft.