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PEACE-TIME PATIENTS GET BULK OF BENEFITS FROM U. S. VETERANS’ HOSPITALS
Committee Hears First Plea for Bonus Payment by Patman of Texas. URGES AID TO NEEDY Former Senator Owen and Smedley Butler Join in Appeal. />’y I nitrrl Press WASHINGTON, April 11.—Payment of the *2,000,000,000 cash bonus was urged before the house ways and means committee today as a certain cure for the nation's depression woes. As the concerted congressional drive for the veterans’ payments opened, Representative Wright Patman <Dem„ Tex.) and former Senator Owen (Okla.t, joined in asking currency expansion. Patman, sponsor of the bill for issuance of new paper money to pay the veterans, coupled his plea for ‘ reflation” with an emotional appeal to aid "the more than 2,000,000 unemployed veterans. Owen, for twelve years chairman of the senate banking and currency committee, declared that the bonus payment at this time "would be a Godsend to the nation.” Proposal to Be Fought Weighty testimony in opposition to the proposal was assured when Acting Chairman Crisp of the committee anounced at the close of the first day’s hearings that Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills, Governor Eugene Meyer of the federal reserve board and other high government officials w'ould be called upon for views. The opening hearings on the controversial bonus question, already assured of a presidential veto, began wdth a meager attendance. However, the big committee room filled rapidly and standing room soon was at a premium. Patman told the committee that more than 2,000,000 veterans are unemployed. In addition, he said, many are on part time work. ‘•At least four-fifths of the veU era ns are in need of this money," ht* said. Smedley Butler Helps "The great question,” Patman continued, "is whether this veterans’ payment can be made a vehicle to carry the country back to prosperity.” Before Patman began h'is testimony, Chairman Crisp placed in the record a telegram from Major-Gen-eral Smedley Butler, indorsing the bonus payment and regretting his inability to appear personally before the committee. The former marine officer, now a candidate for the United States senate from Pennsylvania, declared that "I always have been and shall continue to be in favor of this bonus.” "I have traveled through fortytwo states in the last six months,” Butler’s message said, “and everywhere find the soldiers in great need of assistance. The nation owes them this return for their services.” Believe Bill Will Pass Start of the drive finds house leaders frankly on the defensive and skeptical of their ability to hold their lines. They fear the privates in their army will desert and stampede, as they did on the sales tax. The generals' strategy now is to try to kill the bonus by prolonging the engagement until congress adjourns this summer. A United Press survey shows a majority of the committee opposed to payment of the bonus, either by the cureney expansion scheme or by forcing the already burdened treasury to issue more bonds. If the committee refuses to report the bill, the bonus advocates a plan to obtain house consideration by obtaining 145 signatures to a discharge petition. The house leaders plan to prolong the hearings as much as possible. Then if the house yields to the pressure and fear of the veterans’ votes and passes the measure, the whole process must be repeated in the senate, with more lengthy hearings and debate. Finally, if the senate also passes It, there will be another battle for passage over President Hoover’s veto. The hope of the leaders is that congress by that time will have adjourned and the bonus thus would lose by default. City Post Opposes Bonus Members of the medical and dental professions in Indianapolis who served in the World w’ar are opposed to further bonus payments at this time, according to a resolution adopted by Paul Coble Post No. 26, American Legion, composed of physicians and dentists. Announcement of the post’s action, taken at a dinner meeting held Friday night in the Athenaeum, was made today by Dr. Charles R. Sowder, post commander, and Dr. Cleon Nafe, adjutant. MERCURY DROP COMING Temperature Will Fall to 38 Tonight, Says Weather Man. Light frost in low places probably will accompany below-normal temperatures scheduled to arrive tonight and remain over Tuesday, j. H. Armington, weather man, forecast today. Lowest thermometer reading tonight will be about 38. Hourly Temperatures fi a. m 44 10 a. m‘.... 46 7a. m 44 11 a. m 48 Ba. m 44 12 (noon).. 52 8!■ !H .i P> fxt §2
The Indianapolis Times Generally fair and slightly colder tonight, with possibly light frost; Tuesday fair, continued cold.
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 288
82,850 Admitted in Year for Ills Contracted in Civil Life. MANY ALSO GET CASH Some Given Treatment for Weeks, With Added Compensation. BY TALCOTT POWELL, More than half the facilities of the world s greatest hospital system, originally set up by the government for the war injured, now are being used by veterans whose maladies have not the remotest connection with war. There were 109,649 admissions to the 322 institutions used for medical treatment of ex-soldiers by the veterans’ administration in the last fiscal year. Os these, the government owns 106 outright; the rest are contract hospitals. Only service-connected disabilities are placed in these contract hospitals. Os the 109,649 admissions,
KEEP THIS IN MIND As especially pertinent to this article, we desire to repeat an editorial which appeared in this newspaper on April 8. It said: "In all our consideration of this whole subject of veterans’ relief, let us bear this in mind: "That the amount of money that any government can provide necessarily is limited; and that therefore every dollar paid to a veteran who is not in need is a dollar denied to the veteran who is in need."— Editor's note.
26,799 came in for service-connected treatment. The remaining 82,850 patients were admitted for diseases and injuries contracted in civil life after the armistice. Free to All Veterans This service is free to all veterans, and the bill the taxpayers have to foot now represents 10 per cent of the billion dollars drawn from the federal treasury this year to pay the various bounties to ex-soldiers. Costs of medical services, soldiers’ homes and administration are $112,228,707 for the present fiscal year (June, 1932, to June, 1933). They will mount by five million dollars, at least, during the next fiscal year, even though congress does not liberalize hospital privileges of exsoldiers further. Nor is free medical service all that congress has granted in this connection. The laws are so devised that in many cases it means hard cash in a veteran’s pocket if he can manage to get into a government hospital. For example, if a man feels that he ought to be hospitalized at government expense, he first applies for examination. If called for examination by the veterans’ administration, his traveling expenses are paid and he gets $2.65 additional a day while he is under observation. Frequently these observation periods last for several weeks. May Get Compensation These payments are all made before the doctors decide whether there is anything really the matter. If there is something wrong, he is hospitalized at the taxpayers’ expense. regardless of his ability to pay for private medical attention, and regardless of whether his troubles are connected with his war service. The kindness of a generous government does not end at this point. If the patient can show that his condition was aggragated by his (Turn to Page Two) FACES DEATH TRIAL Wife Slayer Suspect in Court at Frankfort. By United Press FRANKFORT. Ind., April 11.— Richard H. Gladden went on trial in Clinton circuit court here today on a charge of murdering his wife. Mrs. Dolores Gladden, last February. Seven specific counts were contained in the first-degree murder indictment against Gladden. Gladden was arrested the day after his wife's body was found in their automobile on a highway near here. He told police that he and Mrs. Gladden were seated in the automobile and that, when, they fell asleep, his wife was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from the machine’s exhaust. Authorities said they found marks on the victim’s neck, indicating strangulation. Soon after Gladden’s arrest he started a habeas corpus suit, but it was dismissed on his motion after several witnesses were questioned.
THE mysterious “Jafsie"—contact man for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh with the kidnapers of his son—is, in the eyes of a former pupil, a “sincere man who likes publicity—if that publicity deals with his successes.” The “Jafsie” of the personal column of a New York newspaper who corresponded with the kidnapers for the return of the Lindbergh baby is Dr. J. F. Condon. 70. retired principal of public school No. 12. the Bronx, in New York, Mts. Gaylord Wood, 4310 North Pennsylvania street, is ft former
‘JAFSIE’ LIKED TO BE ‘IN MIDST OF THINGS.' SAYS EX-PUPIL
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932
U. S. Urges Ban on Poison Gas, Mobile Cannon
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Aggressive Weapons Must Be Junked for Peace, Arms Parley Told. By United Press GENEVA, April 11.—A resolution for the abolition of tanks, the use of gases and mobile guns about 155 millimeters was introduced in the general commission of the world arms conference today by Hugh S. Gibson, United States delegate. The resolution, presented immediately after the convention of the conference from its Easter recess, provided that the nations undertake not to use such weapons in event of war. "The fear of aggression,” Gibson said, “is based on the existence of peculiarly aggressive weapons of land warfare. A feeling of security will not be restored until we restore to defense the superiority over aggression which it enjoyed in former times. The only way to restore such superiority is to do away with such weapons.” Today’s proposal had its origin in a series of conferences recently held here among Secretary Stimson, Norman H. Davis, disarmament delegate, and others. It goes further than the original American proposal, which suggested only the reduction of offensive arms, such as tanks and heavy guns. APPROVE FARM QUIZ Senate Passes Resolution for Federal Probe. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 11.—The senate today passed a resolution by Senator Norris (Rep., Neb.), authorizing a complete investigation of the activities of the federal farm board.
STUDENTS WHIPPED BY KENTUCKY MOB
Mine Probers Greeted by Beatings by Harlan County Mob. By United Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 11.— Five faculty members and students from Commonwealtn college, Mena, Ark., claimed here today they had been beaten and forced out of Harlan county, Kentucky, by men opposed to their investigation of coa* mining conditions. Lucien Koch, president; Harold Coy, current history teacher, and Sam Sandbergh, Leo Gruilo and Ike Greenberg charged they were beaten with birch switches and released across the Virginia state line. Coy’s back was marked by a long welt. "Entering Pineville, Ky„ early Sunday. Police Chief Osborne forced us to the side of the road and escorted us into town,” one of the students said. "We conferred with Osborne and Mayor Brooks. The Pineville officials insisted that we make peace bonds. President Koch objected. Finally he was forced from the wheel of our car. It was taken over by a citizen of Bell county. We headed for Harlan, after food and clothing we had brought for distribution to strikers was tossed along the road.” About a mile out of Pineville, a member of the student group said, a long line of automobiles from Harlan. bearing white flags, met the Bell county delegation. Newspapermen following the cats were ordered to halt for an hour. Koch said the party then was taken to Black mountain on the Kentucky-Virginia state line where he claimed he was chained by the wrists, his coat was removed, and he was beaten by switches cut from the mountain brush. Coy and Sandbergh also were beaten, it was claimed.
pupil in the school which Condon headed. Mrs. Wood at her home today related that Condon was a man that could be trusted implicitly by Colonel Lindbergh. nan MRS. WOOD attended Condon's school from 1906 to 1914 and last saw her principal in 1926. “If he says that he corresponded with‘the kidnapers through the newspapers, he did. He did like publicity hut it was his successes that he publicize,” Mrs. .Wood explained.
12-YEAR-OLD WHITING GIRL SLAINJN BED Child Strangled to Death With Electric Light Cord After Attack. SEVEN MEN QUESTIONED All but One Are Released; Killer Creeps in While Victim Sleeps. By Times Special WHITING, Ind., April 11.—A killer crept into the room of Alberta Knight, 12-year-old daughter of a Baptist minister’s widow, attacked the child, and strangled her to death with an electric light cord. The murder took place early Sunday morning and today seven men were held for grilling by police. The crime was discovered at 9 o’clock Sunday morning, when a friend of Alberta came to the boarding house where she lived with her mother, to accompany her to Sunday school. Find Body in Bed John Mehok, 27, inspector for the Standard Oil Company, a roomer, went to awaken the child. He found her body on the bed. Running up the stairs, he summoned another roomer and reported the murder to police. Six of the men quizzed coday lived at the lodging house, conducted by Mrs. Cenith Knight, whose husband, the Rev. Oscar Knight of Crossville, died about a year ago. Mrs. Knight had gone to work in a restaurant nearby at 6 o’clock, leaving word with Mehok to call the Child at 9. Mehok was one of the seven held by police. The others were Ira Tucker, 32; John Michalik, 22, clerk, and Jack Gibson. 26, fireman, all lodgers in the house; Douglass Shore, steel worker; Jack Goodman, carnival actor, and George Ross. Six Are Freed Following a thorough quiz this morning, all except Ross were released. He was held for further investigation. A blood-stained towel was found in the room of Goodman and Shore, who are engaged in stunt advertising in this vicinity. Both men proved, however, that they had been in Indiana Harbor at the time of the murder. Goodwin said he had permitted Ross to use their room Saturday night while they were absent, but Ross declared that he had left the house early in the morning. Alberta was a pupil in the sixth grade of a Whiting public school.
Baby Aviator By United Press BUENOS AIRES, April 11.— Rudy Lang, 5, arrived here after a 7,000 mile air trip from Friedrichshafen and said he would like to fly back and get his doe. Rudy was the youngest passenger to cross the South Atlantic aboard the Graf Zeppelin. He made the flight from Pernambuco to Buenos Aires in a passenger plane.
BRffAfNJS ADAMANT Informs De Valera Treaty Must Be Observed. By United Press LONDON, April 11.—Britain, in its reply to President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State on the oath of allegiance and land annuities, reaffirmed "in unmistakable language that it will stand absolutely by the treaty settlement,” J. H. Thomas, dominions secretary, told the house of commons today. HOLDUP SUSPECT - SLAIN Watcher at Flllinr Station Kills Richmond Youth. By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., April 11.—The sixth robbery attempt at the McGunnigill filling station on the outskirts of this city cost the life of Lawrence Delay, 16, today. Fred Winchester, 23, who had been posted at the station nights with a shertgun since the last robbery, opened fire when he spied Delay through a trapdoor in an upper room. The shot struck Delay in the chest. Winchester told police that a companion of Delay’s escaped.
He always wore a lot of medals on his coat when I went to school and we girls never did know whether they were medals for life-saving or some war. He was the originator of compulsory physical education training in the Bronx schools. He was interested particularly in the triumphs of the school football teams and anything connected with athletics." a a a ASKED if Condon is particularly patriotic and if she knew of any reason wfcy wire reports told p| i&p flggs flying in
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MARKET CHIEF DENIESJAIDS’ New York Stock Exchange Head Tells Senators Practice Is Banned. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 11.—Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, testified for two hours today before a senate committee, defending short selling and denying that bear raiding is practiced on the exchange he represented. Whitney was subpenaed last week as the chief witness in the senate’s "Black Saturday” investigation. The investigation grew from reports that a billion-dollar bear raid w'as projected for last Saturday on the New' York exchange. He admitted that Senator Frederic C. Walcott (Rep., Conn.) had told him of a report of a plan to raid United States Steel, but he denied any other knowledge of such a scheme. Wash Sales Denied He also told the committee: That "120,000,000 people” and not the New York Stock Exchange led the market boom which preceded the 1929 collapse. That "wash sales” by which j brokers sell to themselves to boom j the market were not indulged in on the New York market. That the boom reached too great heights, but that he believes "the public now is trying to give this United States of ours away.” That the wartime Liberty bond campaigns taught the people to buy stocks and securities. Market Dives Lower During the hearing a telegram was placed before the committee, believed to have come from a "George B. Baker” and thought to have been the original message telling Senator Walcott that "Black Saturday” schemes were under way. It was withheld by the committee. While Whitney testified before a crow'ded hearing room, smoke-filled and stuffy, word was passed from the press table to the committee that in New York the market was being driven down and down to new low records. Senators scanned the information gravely. Attack Called Unfair Whitney explained to the committee that he could not furnish the detailed information it wanted on short selling before Friday. He said it required 175 clerks and hundreds of wired reports to compile it. Witney’s testimony largely was either noncommittal or a defense of market operations. The general tone of his testimony was summarized when he said: "There were terriffic earnings in 1929 and from 1926 to 1929 all business was on an inflation basis. I do not think it is fair to arraign the stock market alone.” FLAYS COPS’ TARDINESS Judge Cameron Protest* Delay in Filing Affidavits. Policemen were charged with laxity in failure to sign affidavits against persons scheduled for trial in his court today by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. One speeding case was dismissed by the judge during an intermission in his arraignment of police. He said business men have been in court several hours at a time through officers delay in signing affidavits. Between twenty vid twenty-five cases are at a standstill because affidavits have not been signed, the judge said.
front of Condon’s home, Mrs. Wood said: •He w r as heavy on patriotism for one's country. You know, of the Hurray! Hurray! type. He formed the school's first drum and bugle corps. His son was an ensign in the navy during the World war. “The son was handsome and we girls used to vie for dates with him. “I can see now why he used the signature Jafsie' in his newspaper letters to the kidnapers. He always used the initials J. F. C. at school. I can still see his handwriting with it& old style penman-
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LINDY, SWINDLED BY KIDNAP GANG, SEEKS TO RENEW CONTACT
Banks and Citizens Th rough out Nation Scanning Numbers on $5, $lO and S2O Bills in Hope of Money Turning Up.’ FLIER STILL READY TO MAKE ‘DEAL’ Agreement Not to ‘Harm’ Abductors Stands, Says Colonel, Despite Double-Cross; Newspapers Offer $-50,000 Reward. BY BATES RANEY United Press Staff Corresnondent HOPEWELL, N. J,, April 11.—Robbed of his baby, then cheated of his ransom money for its return, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh set to work doggedly today to find new trails leading to the child’s return. There was the most poignant disappointment at the lonely estate on Sourland mountain, where hope for early return of the child vanished last week when it was found the kidnapers had “double-crossed” the colonel, taking his $50,000 ransom money with a promise soon to restore the baby. Up to early afternoon, nothing fresh had developed to renew contact with the.kidnapers. Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey insisted today that the men who took the ransom were the real kidnapers. The New York police told of arresting a man giving the name of Sylvian Ortlies, but Jersey state police said no such man was under arrest. t Throughout the nation today bank tellers and many citizens scanned $5, $lO and S2O bills of the 1928 issue in the hope they might find among them some of those from the big bundle of $50,000 that Lindbergh paid over last week for men he was satisfied were the actual kidnapers. Code in the original ransom note, used again in communicating letters recently satisfied Lindbergh of their genuineness and he gambled with the “word of honor” of a kidnaper that payment would be followed by the baby's return.
A combination of newspapers offered a $50,000 reward for exclusive information leading to return of the baby. Whether the Lindberghs would view this move favorably was uncertain, for hitherto they had discouraged offer of outside rewards, lest these complicate their own contacts. Lindbergh still is ready to deal with the kidnapers and agrees not to harm them. He turned in the numbers of bills merely becaus* they had “double-crossed” him. Moreover, the stete police now admit that their primary work now is directed to return of the child—and there significantly is no mention of punishment or apprehension. Contacts with the kidnapers apparently were established by means of advertisements in New York papers inserted by Dr. J. F. Condon, whose initials were combined to make the signature “Jafsie.” Condon, aged and kindly, a retired public school principal, placed the ads, the last of which carried the significantly tragic observation.
Norfolk Trio Still Are Hopeful
By United Press NORFOLK, Va„ April 11.—John Hughes Curtis, one of three Norfolk negotiators in the hunt for Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., has left his home to confer with Colonel Lindbergh, presumably at the Hopewell estate. The Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock, in a night press conference disclosed Curtis’ mission as well as the fact that he expected “big developments”
Report Developments in Britain
By United Press LONDON, April 11.—Several London Sunday newspapers said that Major Charles Schoeffel of the New Jersey state police had negotiated successful with kidnapers or their agents for the return of the Lindbergh baby, and that the child would be restored to its parents soon. The Sunday Chronicle, the Sunday Referee, and the News of the World featured the story. They said Schoeffel might deposit ransom m a London bank. The Sunday express added a story that a coded message had been telephoned to the librarian of a public library in a provincial town with a request for decoding. The translated message reportedly said:
ship and large flourishes and cur-ly-cues signing those initials.” a a a SHE told of how Condon was liked equally well bv boys and girls who attended his public school. "He wore a mustache clipped close. It looked as if the shears were used on it daily. The last time I saw him. in 1926. he was slightly bent and aging. It seemed a shame, for he was so straight before and so much interested in athletics and swimming. “I hope he helftj. find the baby.' he concluded.
"What is wrong. Have you crossed me. Belter directions please.” The $50,000 reward offer was made by the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Mirror. In a statement Sunday night Lindbergh said his identification of the men to whom he paid the money was accomplished only through "means” furnished by the kidnapers in the ransom note which they left in the baby’s crib the night of March 1. Colonel Lindbergh’s slatment follows: "At the time the baby was kidnaped a ransom note demanding $50,000 was left in the nursery. For obvious reasons it was necessary to withhold all information regarding this ransom note. A means was offered in the ransom note of positive identification of the kidnapers thereafter. "Subsequent notes received were identified by this means and at the time that the ransom was paid over, the kidnapers used this same means to positively identify themselves as the ones who had carried off the baby. "This is the only means by which Colonel Lindbergh can know for a fact that he is dealing with the kidnapers. It has been withheld and will be withheld by Colonel Lindbergh for future identification.”
in the baby hunt within the next few days. Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage, third of the Norfolk trio, still was absent from the city and Dean Dob-son-Peacock would not indicate when he or Curtis might return. Nothing has been heard here from Curtis since he left in a plane piloted by Lieutenant George L. Richard, but Curtis himself announced he was going ?o see Colonel Lindbergh.
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I Jafsie’ University Lecturer Tells How Coded Ads Led to Kidnapers.
By United Press NEW YORK, April 11.—Dr John F. Condon, university lecturer, revealed as the mysterious "Jafsie” into whose coded notices in New York newspapers have been read the story of the hunt and payment of ransom for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby, discreetly was silent today regarding his connection with the search. The 70-year-old Fordham university instructor, however, did clear up several vague reports circulated in connection with his notes, and indicated that he believed his notes led to contact with the purported kidnapers and payment of $50,000 to them. "Anything I say now,” he asserted. "may bring harm to the baby or hinder the negotiations for the return of the child.” Dr. Condon denied that he had entered the case at the request of Colonel Lindbergh. He also refuted the report that his name had been brought into the case because he had assisted in teaching various branches of sports to the prisoners at Sing Sing. "This is a complete fabrication," he said. "I can give you none of the details about my connection with the case, or any specific details regarding what we have done without jeopardizing the negotiations further. ft n a CONDON, under the signature "Jafsie” inserted thirteen advertisements since the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped March 1. The first was March 9. Then on March 23. the following notice appeared: ‘ Thanks. That little package you sent immediately was delivered and accepted as the real article. See my position. Over fifty years in business, and can I pay without seeing goods? Common sense makes me trust you. Please understand my position.” This same notice was repeated for three days. Then on March 27 this one appeared: "Money is ready. Furnish code for us to use in paper.” This short message was printed for four successive days, followed by this terse one: "I accept. Money is ready." This ran on April 3. 4 and 5. during the period in which Colonel Lindbergh made several airplane trips near Marthas Vineyard. It was followed on the 6th—last Wednesday—by this message: “What is wrong? Have you crossed me? Please better directions.” This appeared for several days, and was repeated in a metropolitan paper today. nun CONDON had offered SI,OOO reward for the return of the baby in the course of an interview March 8 with the Bronx Home News, a community newspaper. "A few days later,” according to one version printed by the New York Daily News, he received a letter which read: "Dear Condon. We don’t want your one thousand. We know we can trust you.” A letter to Colonel Lindbergh was inclosed, the paper said. Condon read it to Lindbergh, who was intrigued by German and Scandinavian phrases, and the odd signature which he identified as similar to that in the original letter left in his baby's crib was the kidnaper's. it tt u PRELIMINARY negotiations led to a mysterious message delivered by a taxi driver. Condon entered the cab. then changed cabs as directed, drove to a Yonkers cemetery, walked along the wall until a voice ordered him to cross the street to a bench, which he did, the paper said. A moment later a man vaulted over the fence and sat beside him. The stranger demanded $70,000. according to that version, saying, "We want an eight-hour start and we can wait just as long as Lindbergh can.” Later there was a phone message which demanded more if the money were not forthcoming by April 8. That resulted in the ransom payment—and failure to find the child. That episode came during the flying trips Lindbergh took, to Martha’s Vineyard and points along the New England coast line, the paper said. an a CONDON declined to say anything as to where the money was paid; how the contacts were made; who the men were. To all inquiries which would serve to throw light on this amazing turn in the strange mystery, he replied: "All information should come from police headquarters at Trenton.” Physician Kills Self By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind.. April 11.—Despondency over illness was advanced today as the motive for the suicide of Dr. J. P. Kitch. 49, Pittsburgh (Pal physician whose body w? found in a room at the Y. M. C. A. here. A bullet wound was found m the head.