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Cheats Sea Hausner Saved in ‘Nick of Time,’ Master of Rescue Ship Reveals.

iCoovrleht, 1932. bv United Press: "'TT'HANKS very much, captain; I **■ have been waiting for you •ight days,” murmured Stanislaus F. Hausner, trans-Atlantic flier, as he collapsed on the deck of the S. S. Circe Shell, which rescued him 650 miles ofl the coast of Portugal after he had drifted lor ever a week in his disabled plane. The dramatic story of Hausner’s , rescue is told for the first' time in ! the following radio dispatch to the j United Press from Captain James | W. Wilson, master of the Circe Shell. Hausner is expected to recover, Captain Wilson says, although he is still so weak he can not even discuss his experiences. BY CAPT. JAMES W. WILSON Master S. S. Circe Shell i Written for the United Press) Aboard s. s. circe shell, June 14.—The Circe Shell left Antwerp bound for New Orleans on June 7. carrying creosote. Nothing of note occurred down the channel and the Lizard, our last view of home, was left late in the afternoon of the Bth. We steered for the pass between the westernmost Azores. The weather turned unusually cold on the 9th and persisted with westerly winds and light seas. Similar conditions prevailed until the evening watch of the 11th. The wind backed to southwest, the barometer falling, the sky getting overcast, visibility decreasing and the sea becoming confused. It is the usual practice to collaborate with the chief officer in twilight observations, and the chief officer was observing to westward and myself to eastward. No Sign of Life My attention was drawn by the chief officer to an apparent buoy broad on the starboard bow, about four miles off. It might have been a cable of a drafting buoy, but its peculiar top markings induced me to make a closer investigation by telescope, which showed an airplane tail sticking up, one-third submerged. There was no sign of life. The Circe Shell's motors were put to "slow” and we approached to about one mile. Daylight was failing rapidly. Both the Circe Shell’s motors were stopped close on the derelict. We were amazed to see a figure which seemed to be lashed to the machine. The plane heaved in the increasing sea. We blew the siren. The figure moved and waved frantically. It was obviously not lashed. '‘Save My Ship” The lifeboat was ordered away, with eager volunteers under the second officer. He called through the megaphone at a distance of fifty feet. The reply was in English: “I am Stanley Hausner; save my ship." We feared the plane would submerge at any moment, as the sea was increasing. Hausner literally fell into the lifeboat. He was helped aboard in almost complete darkness, to be greeted by practically the whole excited Chinese crew, forty-five minutes after being sighted first. Lurching across the deck, he said to the chief officer: 'Thanks very much, captain; I have been waiting for you eight days.” Then he collapsed. n n THE captain's radio dispatch reveals by what an almost miraculous margin Hausner was saved from death. A few hours later, the Circe Shell would have passed by blindly in the fog and Hausner would have been left to join the other trans-Atlantic fliers who died at sea. Hausner. a naturalized PolishAmerican. left New York on June 3 on an attempt to fly to Warsaw'. Tire weather off the Newfoundland coast was bad and messages from the Circe Shell indicated he was forced down not many hours after the start. He w’as picked up Saturday off the coast of Portugal, hundreds of miles south of his course, eight days after the start. How' his plane managed to survive the rigors of the tossing tire North Atlantic so long is amazing. Tire Circe Shell is headed for New Orleans, where it is expected about June 27. The plane had to be abandoned. Captain Wilson is an Englishman, a seaman of many years experience. He made several rescues of survivors of torpedoed vessels during the war. He is making his first trip as master of the Circe Shell.

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GIRL, BURNED IN GASOLINE BLAZE, DIES Orphan Was Using Fluid to Take Paint From Window. BODY A HUMAN TORCH She Had Placed Soaked Rag on Stove; Blaze Leaps to Can. Miss Bonnie Higgins, 19-year-old orphan who had no memory of a father or mother, died Monday night, twelve hours after suffering burns 4rom gasoline at the home of C. Harold Braum, 4611 East Twelfth street, where she was employed as a domestic. The girl was using gasoline contained in a can while attempting to remove paint from a kitchen window. She placed a gasoline soaked rag on a gas stove and it was ignited by the pilot flame. Flaming drops reached the can which was beneath the stpve and ignited the contents. Richard Braum, 2, suffered burns on the legs and an arm when the girl threw the flaming can from the house. She tossed it above the child but some of the flaming liquid dropped. Gives Warning Cry Mrs. Braum and son just were entering the house from the backyard when the girl, with her clothing in flames, threw the can. Screaming to Miss Higgins to lie on the floor and roll herself in a rug, Mrs. Braum seized her son and ran into the house. Miss Higgins ran out the front door, fell to the ground and rolled to the street. There she arose and began running, her clothes still flaming. Boyd Goldman, 1049 Bosart avenue, a passerby, seized the girl and succeeded in smothering the flames with a rug. Dr. Ernest Warnock, Long hospital interne, who was graduated Monday from the Indiana university school of medicine, and was a guest at 1116 Bosart avenue, gave first aid and took the girl to St. Francis hospital. Body Is Seared tier body was seared from the w'aist down and skin was burned from an arm. She died shortly before 11 Monday night. Until about three hours before her death, she was conscious. She was burned about 11 Monday morning. Miss Anna Barton, 2636 North Meridian street, only known close friend of the dead girl, said Miss Higgins told her that her earliest recollection was of being an inmate of an orphanage near Evansville, when she was 5 or 6 years old. URGE DRY REPEAL AS ‘BREAK’ FOR BROADWAY Death of Prohibition Held Needed Victory for ‘Gay White Way.’ By United Press NEW YORK, June 14. Leading business interests of Broadway have voted for prompt repeal of the eighteenth amendment as the best means of reviving business and bringing back the ‘‘gay white way” of other days. Dr. John A. Harriss, president of the Broadway Association, said: "Our very life on Broadway is dependent upon ending that amendment. The business and amusement center built up here has been one of the chief sections affected by the law.” I. C. C. "SAVING’ WILL COST JOBS OF 700 Appropriations Cut to Be Fought in House and Senate. By Scripps-Hnward Xetcspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. June 14.—Seven hundred skilled employes of the interstate commerce commission will be fired, and the commission's important work of evaluatiing the nation’s railroads will end, if the senate approves the $2,000,000 reduction in I. C. C. funds just recommended by its appropriations committee. This committee recommended that the appropriation for the valuation bureau be reduced almost 80 per cent, a record even in these times of federal economy. The recommendation will be fought on the senate floor, and members of the house are preparing to combat it, also. The reduction is opposed vigorously bj the commission, which rather would have cuts made in several appropriations, than such a drastic reduction on a single bureau. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 69 10 a. m 80 7a. m 70 11 a. m 81 Ba. m 74 12 (noon).. 82 9a. m 77 Ip. m 84

‘MOTHER’ MOONEY STRICKEN BLIND IN FIGHT FOR SON AT CHICAGO

By United Press CHICAGO, June 14.—Blindness struck at ‘ Mother” Mooney today as she started for the Republican national convention to plead the cause of her convict son. “Mother," or Mrs. Mary’ Mooney, the mother of Tom Mooney, who is in San Quentin prison in California serving a life sentence for the 1916 Preparedness day bombing in San Francisco, was sitting in the office of an attorney in the Loop when her sight failed sud-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1932

They’re Off! Republicans Open Parley

The big G. O. P. show of 1932 gets under way! With thousands in attendance, the Republican national convention opened in Chicago today, bent upon renominating President Hoover for another four-year term in the White House. Above are Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Re-

DIES MAKING BONUS SPEECH Congressman Eslick’s Wife Sees Him Fall. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 14.—Representative Ldward E. Eslick (Dem., Tenn.) died today a few moments after collapsing in the midst of a speech in the house in favor of the Patman soldiers’ bonus bill. The congressman’s wife, Mrs. Willa Eslick, was in the public galHry, listening to her husband’s speech. When he collapsed, she rushed downstairs to the floor. Dr. George Calver, house physician, arrived almost immediately, in the speaker’s lobby, where Eslick had been taken, and attempts were made to revive the stricken congressman. But Calver soon announced that his task was hopeless. VOTE CONTEST HEARD Marker-Boetcher Election Fight Is Before Commissioners. County commissioners heard preliminary evidence today on the primary election contest between Ernest K. Marker and Walter C. Boetcher, county council president. Whether Marker will be the Democratic nominee for Second district Commissioner instead of Boetcher will be decided by the board Thursday. Members will decide whether votes of nine precincts thrown out in the recount, which Marker won, should be counted as legal. The ballots were not accepted by the recount board, because they did not bear initials of both parties’ polling clerks. ii Boetcher was declared nominated officially by the canvassing board immediately after the primary election. Charles Ettinger, deputy county clerk, is preparing a tabulation of votes thrown out by the recount board. THIRSTS FOR ICE: HURT Child Following Wagon Is Struck by Automobile. A child’s desire to hop the neighborhood ice wagon and get cold chunk of ice resulted in injuries today for Mildred O’Donnell, 8, of 1209 East Tenth street. She was struck by a motor car driven by Edward Fiersdorfer, 59, of 2924 East Sixteenth street. The child ran in front of Fiersdorfer’s car and was knocked to the pavement. She suffered bruises and ankle injuries. She was given emergency treatment by a neighborhood physician and taken to her home. Fiersdorfer was not arrested.

“My God, I can’t see,” the 84-year-old woman cried, gropingly feeling for the arms of her chair. She drew herself to her feet with an effort. She flung out her arms, her sightless eyes wide and vacant. ‘‘Oh. God, give me back my sight," she pleaded. "Just for, an hour so I can make one last effort for Tom's sake.” The seven other women and two men in the office of David J. Bentall crowded around the grayhaired, tottering woman whose w •

HOOVER SAVED COUNTRY FROM PANIC, PARLEY TOLD

Keynoter Compares Against Depression Against Challenge By United Press CHICAGO, June 14.—The Republican national convention today drew from President Hoover’s program of economic rehabilitation its 1932 keynote. Senator L. J. Dickinson of lowa, delivering the keynote speech, told the assembled Republicans that Mr. Hoover’s constructive efforts alone prevented depression from turning to panic and economic rout. Ke compared Mr. Hoover’s stand against the depression to that of Abraham Lincoln against the challenge, which, in 1861, threatened the existence of the republic. Great stress was laid upon the President’s financial measures, his demand that the budget be balanced by levying higher taxes and by government economy. Republican aid to agriculture, and the efforts of Republican Presidents for world disarmament. No mention was made of prohibition. A demand was voiced, however, that “gangdom, racketeering and thuggery” be stamped out. “Today our nation is in the midst of its most perilous economic crisis,” Dickin, on told the thousands gathered in the convention hall.

Brake Put on Panic

"It faces the proposition of whether the fundamental principles upon which it was founded, and has grown great, shall be preserved. "In this grave hour, the Republican party meets again in national convention to nominate another stalwart American, Herbert Hoover. “It offers this great leader with pride and with confidence. Pride FORD PRAISES HOOVER Says He’s Man Best Fitted for Presidency of U. S. By United Press DETROIT, June 14.—Henry Ford reiterated today his belief that President Hoover is the best fitted man to be chief executive of the country during the next four years held that he will be re-elected. The billionaire added to this prediction, his opinion that the political conventions this month and the issues raised there, will have no effect on the economic recovery. “Our job today,” said Ford, "is to quicken our buying demand, which in turn will give men work and reverse our downward course.”

scream bore the linguistic stamp of Ireland's county Mayo. "We’ll take her to an oculist right away, announced William Browder, executive secretary of the International Labor Defense. M St M T4jjrßS. MOONEY immediately was taken to the office of Dr. Bronislava Reznick. in a nearby Loop office building. The doctor said he believed the blindness was temporary, caused by the excitement of Mrs. Mooney’s sudden trip to Chicago, and that he would be able to restore her sight, at least temporary.

publican national committee, whose gavel called the convention to order, and Senator L. J. Dickinson of lowa, temporary chairman and keynote speaker. Interior and exterior views of the Chicago stadium, scene of the convention, are also shown.

President’s Stand to That of Lincoln * to Nation in 1881. in his achievements in the face of tremendous odds; confidence in the judgment of the people to keep at the helm the captain, who, alone, has demonstrated a capacity to steer our 'teconomio ship to safe harbor.” Dickinson then reviewed the work of the Hoover administration. “His first act prevented a financial panic,” he said. “Invoking the powers of the federal reserve board, he prevented this catastrophe. Thus he cushioned the effects of the debacle in Wall Street which followed the greatest period cf stock speculation the world had ever known.”

Constructive Acts

Then, Dickinson said, the President followed with a long list of constructive acts including: Procurement from capital of a promise to maintain wages “as long as it was possible to do so,” and from labor to refrain from industrial wage disturbances. Fostering of an agreement by great utilities and industrial concerns not to curtail activities, but to accelerate employment. Formulation of an increased government building program, augmented by an administrationlostered parallel program by states and other political subdivisions. Establishment of the national unemployment committee, expansion of the federal employment service and issuance of an executive order which “practically ended immigration.” Negotiation of the moratorium granted debtor nations which, Dickinson said, saved Germany “from financial chaos that would have involved the entire world.” Organization of the National Credit Corporation followed by the formation of the Reconstruction (Turn to Page 13) OUSfJOHN D.’S PICTURE Anti-Saloon League Takes Portrait of “Wet” From Office. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 14. The Anti-Saloon League has hauled down a large portrait of John D. Rockefeller Jr., which for years adorned its Washington headquarters. Rqckefeller, a financial supporter of the league, came out recently for prohibition repeal.

The dramatic onslaught of blindness interrupted a conference in the attorney's office at which members of Communist and labor groups were debating how best to get “Mother” Mooney into the Stadium so she could see Governor James Rolph Jr. of California, who recently denied a pardon to Mooney. There were seven women in the group, two of them Negroes, Browder and a United Press reporter. It was determined to buy five convention tickets at $4.40 each and, if Mrs. Mooney was able to

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CONVENTION BAN IS PUT ON REDS But They Meet Nearby, Hear Soapbox Orators. By United Press CHICAGO, June 14.—Communists and unemployed held a meeting today on a street corner two blocks from the Republican national convention as a substitute for a “demonstration” which police said had been planned. A crowd estimated by police at 5,000 was harangued for more than an hour by soap box orators. When the meeting broke up, groups from the crowd attempted to move toward the convention stadium. Police drew lines, with men at places nearly shoulder to shoulder, half a block from the stadium, and turned back the crowd without difficulty or violence. By 4 p. m. most of those who had been looked upon as possible makers of trouble, seemed to have scattered and all was quiet outside the stadium. “If the Communists get within two blocks of the stadium, it will be because the police have forgotten how to use their clubs,” Lieutenant Thomas Duffy in charge of the convention police guard, said before the gathering. Speakers addressing the crowd dwelt at length upon the “iniquities of capitalist government.” They bitterly denounced President Hoover. ADJOURNMENT IS NEAR McNary Thinks Congress May Fnish Work Saturday. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 14.—Congress may be able to adjourn Saturday, Senator McNary (Rep., Ore.), assistant majority floor leader, said today after a conference with President Hoover. He predicted a speedy senate defeat for the Patman bouns bill followed by a hasty cleaning up of other legislation. OPEN BIDS ON BRIDGES Work to Include Construction of 34 Spans in StateBids on thirty-four bridges in thirteen counties were opened by the state highway commission today. Total low bids was $330,866.61.

see by that time, to go to the Stadium at 1 p. m. u a * THERE “Mother” Mooney planned to buttonhole Governor Rolph and plead with him. Her plea, she said, would be: “My son, Tom, has asked me to come to Chicago to see you and ask you w’hy you keep him in jail after sixteen years when the whole world knows he is innocent.” “Why did President Hoover say he had no power to help Tom when his government forced the release of Lieutenant Massie, a confessed murdertr?”

G. 0. P. ATTENTION TURNED TO PLATFORM DRAFT AFTER DICKINSON SOUNDS KEYNOTE lowan Urges Loyalty to President Who Has Headed Nation During Worst Depression in World’s History. FIGHT ON CURTIS IS GROWING Dawes Continues to Be Chief Alternative Mentioned; Dry Resubmission Plank Drafted by Administration. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 14.—The Republican national convention set about its main business of renominating President Herbert Hoover today after a keynote urging loyalty to the man who has headed the nation during the worst depression of history had been sounded. This appeal, voiced in ringing lowa oratory by Senator L. J. Dickinson of lowa, the convention keynoter and temporary chairman, was the main business of the two-hour opening session today. Outside the convention hall, nearby, Communist orators were denouncing the President, but their gathering failed to reach “demonstration” proportions.

The convention adjourned shortly after 1 p. m. until 11 a. m. (central daylight time) Wednesday, while the platform committee prepared to sit up all night drafting a platform. Uncertainty as to whether VicePresident Curtis would be renominated grew during the day as delegates of one state after another joined in private expressions that the Republican ticket needed a fighting running mate for President Hoover this year. Former Vice-President Charles G. Dawes continued to be the chief alternative mentioned. War Secretary Patrick J. Hurley of Oklahoma is another frequently mentioned. Prohibition Fight Brewing The prohibition question, which promises to be the main point of contest in the convention, had not been mentioned on the convention floor, but administration strategists had a resubmission plank drafted, with details still to be determined. The resolutions committee, in charge of framing a party platform, meets at 5 p. m. in the Congress hotel to take up their work. This probably will continue throughout the night and perhaps into the day Wednesday. The convention met with many empty seats in the spectators’ section, and with slight show of the shouting and cheering of former years. The convention was called to order at 11:26 (Central daylight time) today by National Chairman Simeon D. Fess. Brief Flag day ceremonies were first in the proceedings. Chairman Fess reminded the delegates that this is Flag day, the 155th anniversary of the historic day when Betsy Ross sewed the Stars and Stripes together for the first time. Senator Fess was just warming up to his oration on the grand old flag, when the flood lights shot a full broadside of several thousand candle power in his face. Cheer Rebuke to Photographers He stopped abruptly and cracked his gavel. “I want those lights off,” he declared. “You can’t have those on when I am speaking. I am running things.” The audience cheered lustily at this stern rebuke to the photographers, and the chief sergeant-at-arms, Everett Sanders, dashed about shooing out news photographers. Senator Fess then resumed his eulogy of the flag. His first mention of Abraham Lincoln brought mild applause perhaps slightly less in volume than the first outburst about the flood lights. Senator Fess introduced Silas Strawn, Chicago business man and lawyer, to extend the greetings of Chicago. Strawn then presented Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago, a broad-shouldered, massive figure, who for the time being, rules this turbulent city with a heavy fist. Bishop William A. Freeman of Washington, delivered the invocation, the throng standing in silence. Senator Dickinson was elected temporary chairman by acclamation. Hoover for Resubmission Tense uncertainty with the possibilities of dramatic surprises pervaded the colorful scene. For the first time in their history, Republicans set themselves for a bitter struggle over prohibition. President Hoover had intervened in the situation to hold the convention in line for a mild resubmission plank. Dawes, though a delegate-at-large from Illinois, will not be in his seat. He is sitting in Washington, drawing reflectively on his underslung pipe. Regular members of the Wisconsin delegation contributed to a movement to nominate Charles G. Dawes for Vice-President. A caucus of the delegation was called for later today at which it was understood this question would be considered. The subject of prohibition officially entered the Republican convention <wily once, and then it was not mentioned orally. President Nicholas Murray Butler

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of Columbia university, a member of the New York delegation, introduced a resolution urging the resubmission to the people of the eighteenth amendment and declaring for its repeal. The resolution was held in abeyance and was not read, at Butler’s own suggestion that it be taken up later in the convention. Ford Again Urges Hoover Word was received in the stadium that Henry Ford had reiterated his belief that Herbert Hoover is the best fitted man to be President. He expressed this view in a United Press interview several months ago and it was reiterated in Detroit today. Chicago's former mayor, William Hale Thompson, known as “Big Bill, the Builder,” sauntered around the convention floor a hulking figure in light gray suit and a shirt and necktie of baby blue. During the busy morning, several delegations held state meetings. Most important was that of Pennsylvania, which broke a deadlock over the prohibition question with a vote in favor of resubmission of the eighteenth amendment. Cheer Mention of Hoover The action was challenged, however, and may be reconsidered at another meeting later today, as some had “steam roller” methods had been applied to get the first vote. Cheers interrupted Dickinson early in his speech when he mentioned President Hoover by name. He paused, smiled and looked out over the audience as the cheers began to gain some volume A member of the California delegation hoisted a state flag and began waving it. However, the cheers died down, but the band struck up the “StarSpangled Banner,” and the crowd standing a few seconds longer. Someone grabbed the California standard as if to start a march around the hall, but by that time the cheering had stopped. The crowd was standing still and seemingly in no mood to grow jubilant. It was all over within thirty seconds and Senator Dickinson resumed the reading of his address. Alice and Dolly Present A beautiful young woman standing near the press section seemed a little bewildered by the proceedings and asked if this meant that President Hoover had been renominated. Her face fell slightly when informed that he had not been. Alice Roosevelt Longworth sal; in a box calmly eyeing the quiet scene through her lorgnette. Her social rival in Washington, Mrs. Dolly Gann, was separated by several intervening boxes. Two other noted Washington hostesses worked as reporters in the press stand—Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simm, who owns the Rockford (111.) Star, and Mr. Eleanor Patterson, editor of the Washington (D. C.) Herald. These four women in a composite story could perhaps tell more inside political history than all of the men reporters assembled here could. Half an hour before the convention was to open, delegates began taking their places in the almost endless rows of bright red seats The lights flashed on, Illuminating the bunting. The thundering (Turn to Page 13)

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