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GEO. EASTMAN, KODAK KING, IS SUICIDEVICTIM ‘My Work Is Done,’ Writes Beloved Millionaire, as He Ends Life. GAVE RICHES TO WORLD Second Only to Carnegie, Rockefeller for His Philanthrophy. BY ROSCOE SNIPES l nited Prrss Staff Correspondent ROCHESTER, N. Y„ March 15. Old friends of George Eastman who built a fortune on kodak films and gave most of it away, talked today of the hobbies, fancies and qualities of their 77-year-old comrade who

wrote “my work is done, why wait?” then carefully extinguished his cigaret and killed himself. Their comment, iheir praise, their stories of the boy who started his life work on a $5 a week job. worked a.s a bank clerk, and perfected a photographic film because the olds a s h ioned plates were a nuisance, came today from

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every part of the world. They came as Rochester, the city Eastman made beautiful, lay blanketed by a heavy snowfall. They bore witness to Eastman gifts of of millions for hospitals, science, playgrounds, music, the drama and the arts. All night and early today they plied up, as the body of the philanthropist lay in the Eastman home, a beautiful home half hidden from view by heavy growth of trees and shrubs buried under the heavy snow. 11l for Years Mr. Eastman had been ill fbr years; seven years ago he passed guidance of the huge Eastman Kodak Company, employing 20,000 persons, to other hands. Shortly after noon Monday, Mr. Eastman asked his secretary and attendants to “please leave the room. I wish to write a note.” A moment later, they heard the shot, re-entered and found Eastman dead, a revolver nearby. They found the note signed by the familiar initials “G. E.” Dr. Audley Stewart, Eastman's personal phyisician, announced: “Mr. Eastman died suddenly at 12:50 p. m. today. While it generally’was known that he had been ill for several years, his condition recently has been such as to give us encouragement. “However, he apparently was in such a mental condition that he feared the worst, because he shot himself after sending all attendants out of his bedroom, saying, ‘I have p note to write.’ In a moment a Phot was heard, and when those on she outside reached his bedside, he Was gone.” Dr. David A. Atwater, Monroe rounty coroner, issued a formal certificate of death by suicide, while temporarily deranged. That Is the story of Mr. Eastman's death. Rank Clerk at 20 Little stories of Mr. Eastman's Ide, gleaned from the records, and from the messages from all parts of the world, wore revived today. When Mr. Eastman was 20, he was and bank clerk at S2O weekly. A friend puggested he take a camera on a vacation trip to Santo Domingo. Eastman paid the friend $5 to show him the tricks that operated the cumbersome box camera and its wet plate processes. Mr. Eastman was intrigued, gave lip the Santo Domingo trip, and took one to Mackinac instead. He took a camera along. And the wet plate process was so cumbersome, he decided to do something about it. After months of experimenting, in his own spare time, on his own meager salary with three and four hours sleep nightly except Saturday and Sunday, he perfected the dry (Turn to rage 2) ASSASSINS MUST DIE Two to Face Firing Squad for Attempt on Teru President's Life. 2>‘;/ United I‘retn LIMA, Peru, March 15. —Sentence of death was passed by a courtmartial today on Jose Melgar and Juan Seoane, implicated in the attempt to assassinate President Luis Sanches Cecro recently.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 265

LIVES IN OVEN, CHEATS DEATH

BY MERRII.I. E. COMPTON United Preis Staff Correspondent MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 15.—L. Jack Doty, known as the “oven man” because he lives in an electrical contrivance under a temperature of 103 degrees, "cheated” science for the 318th day today. Doctors said Doty could not survive the severe burns he received in an automobile crash last May, because thei' covered one-third of his body. No one ever had, according to scientific opinions. But Doty so far has fooled them all. He even plays bridge. The 27-year-old man, married and the father of a 2-year-old boy has sandy hair, and sharp blue eyes. He takes his plight philosophically. The oven covers the bed on which

Painful? Deputies Just Dripped Tears

It Hurt Them Fearfully to Close Case of Man Who Urged Their Pay Cut. The Virginia Sweet Grille, 35 East Maryland street, was an empty storeroom today, as deputy sheriffs hauled the last of the restaurant’s fixtures to the sidewalk, and twenty pretty waitresses went hunting for jobs. The time was 2 Monday afternoon. Lunch period almost was over. Fourteen customers still were present, completing their meals. All was quiet in the Grille, and in the back of the store sat Frank S. Fishback, operator of the restaurant and resigned president of the Marion county council. Fishback was thinking about his store and not atiout the fight he had led in the council some six months ago to cut down the sheriff's force and slash deputies’ pay.

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In strode a dozen deputy sheriffs. Chief Deputy Joe Tragcsser advanced to Fishback and read a “writ of seizure,” filed in circuit court by "Marea F. Hare et al,” owners of the building. The deputies gazed sadly at Fishback. One could tell it hurt them. Fishback murmured something about “a favor.” “This writ’s been filed for five days,” said Joe, “and ample bond has been posted. You’ve done nothing about it, and all the orders we have are to shift the stuff out on the sidewalk. Let’s go, boys.”

$41,500 IS LOSS IN THREE CITY BLAZES

GIVEN COUNCIL POST Cumberland Man Named to Succeed Fishback. John S. Newhouse, Cumberland hardware dealer, today was appointed to succeed Frank S. Fishback, who resigned last week as a member of the Marion county council. Selection of Newhouse, a Democrat and former candidate for Warren township trustee, was made at a special meeting of the council, ats which names of two other candidates were considered. The nominees were E. F. Subbrock of near Five Points, and Albert C. Fritz of 4101 East Michigan street, a druggist. Walter Boettcher, newly appointed council president, succeeding Fishback in the post, announced the council hereafter will follow a “pay as you go” policy in county government financing. HOLLYWOOD EXTORTION PLOT IS FRUSTRATED Film Writer. Intended Victim, Tips Police to Payoff Demands. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal.. March 15. An extortion plot directed against prominent persons in Hollywood and Beverly Hills was revealed today by Edgar Allan Wolff, former New York playwright, now a motion picture writer and one of the intended victims. Police declined to reveal the names of others threatened, but it was reported that persons prominent in the motion picture industry were to have been victimized. Demands against Wolff were made in a letter signed “Protective Service Association.” which threatened his safety unless he paid SI,OOO. ROCir SLIDE KILLS F : OUR Quarry Owner, Three Workers Are Victims of Ohio Accident. By United Press DAYTON, 0., March 15.—A rock slide Monday in a stone quarry at Centerville, ten miles south of here, today had cost the lives of four men. The dead were: Elmer T. Walker, 44, Centerville, owner of the quarry; John Ratliff, 33; James Wilcher, 23, ana Elwood Brackett, 24, employes 9.1 3VAl^efc

Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with showers Wednesday afternoon or night; rising temperatures; lowest tonight about 27.

Doty rests in his home. It is made of steel and tin. Four huge electric light bulbs inside supply the heat. The top and side are padded with blankets. Physicians said the contrivance keeps Doty warm while the body’s surface is built up for skin grafting. His back and legs are most severely burned. The danger, a noted skin specialist explained, is that the burned areas might start bleeding. Within three months—if Doty continues to “cheat” science—his doctors expect to begin grafting on new skin. The “oven man” was burned when an automobile in which he and two friends were en route on a fishing trip, overturned. The other two were burned to death.

The deputies gazed at the furniture. Two of them weren’t looking at the furniture. They were looking at the waitresses. “Who’s going to take the girls out?” asked Deputy Jack. “This furniture is your worry,” said Chief Deputy Joe. Deputies seized chairs and tables. Out the door they went—out to the sidewalk. Waitresses hurriedly collected silverware and glasses and then grouped to watch the furniture pile on the sidewalk outside. “How about a job?” said a pretty waitress. “Sure, I’ll give you a job,” said Deputy Jack. “Get this furniture,” said Chief Deputy Joe. Fishback had called a storage comnany hurriedly. All the trucks the company could muster were rolling up outside, truckmen gathering up the furniture as swiftly as deputies planted it on the sidewalk. Back in the kitchen stood a half

dozen cooks, arms akimbo, looking at steaming pans. “Dinner’s on,” said one, “but it looks like there won’t be any dinner.” “Not here there won’t,” said Deputy Bill. “Is John still a deputy sheriff?” asked a passer-by. “I thought he got fired when they cut the budget last September. And here he is, working. Strange.” “Re isn’t working,” answered a deputy, planting two more chairs on the sidew’alk. “He’s just looking—looking and thinking.”

Seven Persons Periled as Lodge Hall, House Burn; Light Plant Damaged. Three fires today forced fifty persons from apartments, damaged the Evergreen Masonic lodge at 2517 West Washington street and caused a loss of $25,000 at the Harding street plant of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Seven people narrowly escaped death when flames threatened to entrap them in the lodge building and apartment at the West Washington street address. Damage totaled approximately $15,000. Another fire, which forced forty persons from an apartment at 1226 North Illinois street this morning, caused damage estimated at $1,500. Those asleep in the combined rooming house and store adjoining the lodge building, on West Washington street, were led to safety through smoke-filled corridors of the structure after an alarm was sounded by a youth. The youth, Carlin Camden, 17. bf 350 North Belle Vieu place, a news(Turn to Page 2)

Times Fliers Jeer at Blizzard on Long, Tour Sixteen cities, from one end of the state to the other, visited; 1,300 miles covered in seventeen hours’ flying and ground time; trip taken in bitter weather, with a near-blizzard faced on the greater part of the trip Monday. , That is the “log” for The Times’ second annual air tour of cities w’hich will have entrans in the state basketball championship play at Butler fieldhouse Friday and Saturday. Dick Arnett, flying his open job Waco, and D’ck Miller, Times sports writer, were resting today after their strenuous journey. They visited the eight cities in the southern half of the state Sunday, making all scheduled stops, despite the biting cold. Starting an hour and a half late Monday, they visited the eight cities in the northern half, made up lost time, and returned to the hangar here on the dot Monday evening. Crowds greeted The Times plane at every stop. More than 300 were at the landing point in Lebanon. Only two of the eight landings Monday were made at airports. At the six other towns the plane dipped down to alight in corn fields and pastures. From Columbia City to Michigan City, the plane bucked a nearblizzard, and the intrepid tourists found a foot of snow awaiting them at Michigan City. The leat of Arnett and Milier is unequalled in state basketball history, and Times readers get complete statistics on all sixteen teams in the championship flight in record time as a result. The second set of facts on the teams appears today on the sports page.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932

UGHT RATE IS SLASHED-BUT NOTJN CITY Rural Communities to Get Cut, While Indianapolis Pleads in Vain. CUTHBERTSON IS CURT Overrules Motion, Tells Officials Arguments Are Barred. Since Indianapolis officials and citizens demanded a reduction in Indianapolis Power and Light Company rates, Harry K. Cuthbertson, public service commissioner, has ordered a slash in rates—not in the city, but in rural communities. This unique turn of events was revealed today when the mayor’s committee met with Cutbertson and officials of the utility. A public hearing on Indianapolis rates has been scheduled for April 6, replacing one to have been held Thursday. At this season the rural rates pleas will be coupled with those from Indianapolis. Orders Slash Now Although the formal hearing on the rural petition is scheduled then, Cuthbertson, in today’s session, ordered light company officials to prepare the reduced and standardized schedules for rural and suburban lines. Clifford Harrod, now manager of the utility, who was head of the Chamber of Commerce when the Indianapolis utility merger was effected, said the rural schedules already are being worked out. Prior to his announcement of the rural cut, Cuthbertson was emphatic in his assertion that no reduction could be. made in Indianapolis unless. testimony to support it could be produced by the city. Knight Motion Overruled Cuthbertson called today’s conference to publicly overrule what he considered a dilatory motion filed by Edward H. Knight, Indianapolis corporation counsel, which the commisisoner contended would require a complete audit and appraisal before any hearing could be held. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan asserted the city sought no delay and did not want the motion so interpreted. But Cuthbertson read from the Knight motion in support of his interpretation and also brushed with Knight, there to defend his stand. The commissioner then explained that the Thursday hearing had been scheduled to determine whether figures he had used in dismissing a former rate reduction petition were ocrrect, or those showing 1931 a more profitable year than 1930, used by the company in s'oek promotion pamphlets. Other Matters Up This is to be thrashed out at the April 6 hearing, Cuthbertson concluded. He also will go into coal costs, increased overhead expense following the electric merger, buying power from Insull, and excess of producing units, as sought in the survey asked by the city, he declared. Figures which commission accountants have obtained will substantiate Cuthbertson’s former dismissal order, it was learned, so it appeared improbable that anything but another dismissal would result from the scheduled hearing. Walter C. Rothermel, head of the South Side Civic Club delegation which promoted the light and water reduction petitions with the city, tried to tell Cuthbertson that, after the conference method of settling the matter had failed, he uderstood an audit and appraisal would be made. Argument Is Barred But Cuthbertson cut him off and said he “wasn’t going to argue.” Date of April 6 was set since '.he power and light company had been given to April 1 to file its annual report to the commission, due March 1. Cuthbertson also asserted the commission can do nothing about the figures the company uses to 5611 stock. So. unless the city makes a strong case, armed with commission figures, there is to be no emergency rate reduction and possibly no audit and appraisal for reduced rates in the future.

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By United Press CROSSVILLE. Tenn., March 15—Business was good Monday for the parents of the “Lindbergh double’ 'baby held here Sunday while authorities investigated them. They drove to a tourist camp, erected a tent, and exhibited, behind a sign announcing a 15-cent admission charge, the little boy whose appearance here caused a nation-wide commotion. Late Monday they received a telegram from a circus asking them to “quote their best terms for exclusive privilege of exhibiting the boy with our circus.”

Frank Berg, Once Held in Abduction Plot, Located by Police. BY BATES RANEY United Press Staff Correspondent HOPEWELL, N. J., March 15. Police hoped for one slender, but definite clew to the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby today from questioning of Frank Berg—the only hope they held after examining thousands of clews. Berg has been found, Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf announced late Monday night, and was to be questioned by the New Jersey police some time today on certain phases of the Lindbergh abduction. Held for Questioning Schwartzkopf in his announcement said Berg had been “located.” He avoided the word “arrest.” He did not say where Berg, sought for some days, had been found. The bulletin read: “It was reported in a previous bulletin that the police were looking for Frank Berg, who was (questioned) in the attempted kidnaping of Max A. Phillips of Eatontown, N. J. “Frank Berg has been located by police and arrangements are being made to question him Tuesday.” Telsl* of Kidnap Attempt The police communique this forenoon said Phillips voluntarily had related his experiences in an attempted kidnaping in 1926 “which was frustrated by advance information.” Berg’s name cropped up in the investigation of this statement, and the police said that “the information surrendered by Max Phillips will be given the necessary attention for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the kidnapers responsible for the attentat on him can be connected witn this case.” Phillips, a wealthy man of Eatontown, N. J., did not discuss the Lindbergh case, it was said. It was recalled that the state police have been reported seeking a one-time companion of an inmate of Welfare island prison, questioned late last week in Tombs prison, and later at Hopewell. Probe Alleged Plot This prisoner, it was reported, had been involved in a kidnaping plot with four other men late last fall. The plot had been abandoned, so the prisoner was reported to have explained. The Welfare Island prisoner and one other had been involved soon after abandonment of the plot in some other law violation which re- ; suited in prison terms. Where the ! second man was held was not known. The three men remaining free, one investigator’s theory held, might have gone ahead with the plans for the execution of the kidnaping plot unknown to the two men in prison. Police were reported seeking information concerning any members of the gang shortly after mysterious visits to Tombs prison by Morris Rosner, reputed to be an undercover man for Colonel Charles Lindbergh. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 17 10 a. m 28 7 a. m 18 11 a. m 31 Ba. m 22 12 (noon).. 32 9 a. m,.... 25 1 p. 35

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Excited throngs stampeded to Crossville during the quiet Sabbath afternoon when word spread that the curly-headed “Lindbergh” baby had been located. A filling station proprietor notified police when he observed the baby in the company of two visiting couples at a home across the street. They later gave their names as “Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of Pennsylvania.” They were released after questioning and after Colonel Lindbergh, from a telephoto of the child and marks of identity, definitely decided it was not his.

World Bankers Are Assailed in Senate

Charity Raid By-United Press NEW YORK, March 15More than 100 unemployed men and women living near the Petite Riche restaurant, who usually have baked beans for supper, dined on choice steaks and roast chicken on Monday night. Federal agents raided the restaurant and gave unemployed the food they seized, and $50,000 worth of fixtures was impounded.

COLD WAVE AT END Warmer Weather and Rains Ahead, Says Forecast. Warmer weather today, with showers Wednesday afternoon or night, will herald the appearance of spring, J. H. Armington, weather forecaster, said today. Cold areas in the northwest have lost their grip, and the accompanying rise in temperatures will bring rains, Armington said. Highest temperature today will be about 35, several degrees higher than the mercury peak Monday. Armington said the cold wave definitely has passed to the east and warmer areas are over the Rockies. FIGHTS TO BEAT NOOSE Bluebeard, Twice Denied Appeals, Claims New Evidence. By Times Special MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., March 15.—Harry F. Powers, awaiting execution Friday by hanging on conviction of murder in connection with the death of a woman believed to have patronized his so-called matrimonial agency, today said his attorney had “new evidence” and reiterated his contention of innocence. Edward J. Law, counsel for Powers, twice has been denied appeal motions by the state supreme court. RECORD SEVERE QUAKE Tremor of Great Intensity Caught by St. Louis Observatory. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 15.—An earthquake of severe intensity, centering 2,300 miles away, was recorded on the St. Louis university seismograph from 4:49 to 4:55 p. m. Monday, examination of the instrument showed today. Father J. B. McElwane said the direction either was south, southwest or north, northwest of St. Louis. ‘JUDGE’ IN- BANKRUPTCY Humorous Weekly Files Voluntary Action, but Will Continue. By United Press NEW YORK, March 15.—“ Judge,” humorous weekly, climaxed a career of more than forty years with a voluntary petition in bankruptcy to- ; day, but announced it planned to i continue pubucatitfa.

Post-War Loans Abroad Called ‘Racket’ in Speech by Hiram Johnson. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 15.—Senator Hiram W. Johnson (Rep., Cal.) turned the fire of his oratory today against the international bankers. He denounced their post-war loans of hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign countries and enterprises, as infamous exploiting of the American investing public. Johnson arose in the senate to make his long awaited speech culminating the investigation of foreign financing which he led during the early part of the present session of congress. He told the senate that $1,600,000,000 worth of European government bonds floated in the United States had depreciated by $742,000,000. He said on the $2,500,000,000 of all European bonds outstanding depreciation aggregated $800,000,000. But Johnson’s bitterest complaints, his most emphatic challenge to the operations of bond selling bankers was reserved for dealers in Latin American issues. He charged bribery, greed and money-madness against the men who passed on these bonds to American investors. Johnson charged that the great New York banks compelled their country correspondents to buy foreign issues. “And if ever there was a racket,” he exclaimed, "imposed on the American people, that racket was the one imposed by bankers on American investors.” WAGE PARLEY CALLED Strip Mine Operators Want Workers to Accept Pay Cut. By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 15. Representatives of strip coal mine operators and the United Mine Workers of America will meet here next Tuesday to open negotiations for anew contract covering wages and working conditions. Employers are expected to urge lower wages and the workers to insist that the present scale be continued. Wage conferences of deep mine operators and their employes ended recently in disagreement, union members refusing to accept a wage reduction.

Easter Hats Bonnets of sailor fluence have gobs of style, otl. s high dive into the mode, ana shallow crowns abound. , That is the word of fashion, when the subject of Easter hats comes up, as it does almost every minute, with the holiday only a few days distant. You can find out all about the best styles for Easter if you read The Times woman’s page. First of a series of stories on fashions for the Easter parade will appear Wednesday.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

BANK ROBBERS TIE UP 30, GET $106,000 CASH Five Hooded Gunmen Raid Clinton (la.) Institution, Imprison Workers. DISREGARD SECURITIES Coolly Sort Out Currency; One Wounds Self in Freeing Janitor. By United Press CLINTON, la., March 15.—Four men, suspected of robbing the City National bank of Clinton of approximately 5106,000, were captured today three hours after the raid. More than 5100.000 of the loot was recovered. By United Press CLINTON, la., March 15.—Bank robbers raided the City National bank today, imprisoned more than thirty officials and employes and fled with approximately $106,000 in cash. The robbers wore hoods and worked with assurance. There were five in the gang that ambushed Clyde Willits, the janitor, when he arrived at the bank to fire the furnace. The janitor was bound and placed in the expensively furnished directors’ room of the bank, which was one of the largest in eastern lowa and had deposits of more than $5,000,000. Bound One by One Then the robbers waited quietly while officers and employes gathered for the day’s work. One by one they were met by the robbers, bound and placed at the point of pistols, in the improvised prison room. When the time lock on the bank vault clicked, releasing the bank funds, the bandits sorted out only the cash. Most of their loot was in currency, much of it in bills of big denominations. They paid no attention to the securities in the vault. “Apparently, they knew just what they wanted, and they got it,” said O. P. Petty, vice-president, who was one of the officers first to arrive. “We always like to get down early in the morning and get the bail rolling,” said Petty in explaining why nearly all the bank’s officers and employes were on hand before the time lock released the funds at 8:30 a. m. One Cuts Himself Although the bandits were careful to injure none of the bankers or clerks, one of the robbers cut himself with a knife as he severed the bonds on Willits to permit the janitor to unlock the bank door. He wounded himself in the leg and left a pool of blood on the marble floor of the bank. The raiders fled in a small sedan and the alarm was spread a fewr minutes after they started. County vigilantes and the state department of investigators took up the chase. FALSE TEETH BASIS OF HUBBY’S DIVORCE SUIT Wife Bought Two Sets and Paid Too Much, Says Detroit Man. DETROIT, March 15. John Ackens today named his wife’s false teeth as one reason why he, and not she, should be granted a divorce. “It’s not the teeth,” Ackens said in answer to his wife’s cross bill, “it’s what they cost. Why, she bought two sets at $135 and $150!” The husband charged extravagance. CANNED GOODS EXEMPT House Ways, Means Group Votes Sales Tax Exclusion. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 15.—The house ways and means committee today voted to exempt most canned foods from the proposed manufactures sales tax. Canned fruit, vegetables, fish and meat were exempted. It was estimated these exemptions would cut $11,000,000 from the $595,000,000 which the sales tax was designed to raise. ATTEMPTS GAS SUICIDE Woman Is Revived by Firemen, , Cops, and Is Recovering. Revived by police and firemen after attempting to end her life by inhaling gas from a stove today, Mrs. Fannie Abbott, 54, of 371 Prospect street, was reported recovering. The woman was found by a son, Hubert, who had left the home for a few minutes. When he returned, he found his mother crumpled on the floor with a coat over her head. ‘JIM’ REED IS BETTER Missouri Senator, Under Knife, Is Improved at Mayo Clinic. By United Press ROCHESTER, Minn., March 15. The condition of James A. Reed, former senator from Missouri, was described today as considerably improved by physicians attending hinft at Mayo Brothers’ clinic. Reed underwent an operation for gall bladder trouble Friday. MRS. GHANDI IS JAILED The Mahatma's Wife, Rearrested Is Given Six-Month Term. By United Press BOMBAY, India, March 15 Mrse. M. K. Ghandi, wife of the jailed leader of Indian independence, was rearrested today sentenced to jail lor six months.