Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1932 — Page 1

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Editor Time* — 1 NOTICE in The Times thßt the state board of tax commissioners has classified the Indianapolis Athletic Club as an educational institution and has reduced the tax assessment 75 per cent, er more than $5,000. 'This classification has been made retroactive, which means it also will be relieved from payment of delinquent taxes. Here are hearty congratulations to the Indianapolis Athletic Club—we didn’t think they had the guts to try it. You surely put it over on thie poor public, and, believe me, you did well in hiring a Republican American Legion lawyer and a Democratic American Legion official and politician to pull the trick. With the next Governor an American Legion member, state tax board members could do nothing else if they expected to hold their jobs. Now, your poor B. E. F. p why don’t you howl? They tax you and sell your home and throw you out if you don't pay, but they relieve a swell social club from their taxes under the guise of its being a little red schoolhouse. TAXPAYER, a * * Editor Time* — IF Governor Roosevelt needed anything more from the hands of the Republicans to assure his overwhelming election next month, then such actions as that of Henry Ford will do the trick. Any strategy employed by the Republican machine from now on fs merely a poiite gesture and an outward appearance of going through the motions of making a campaign. Hoover is licked and nothing remains but ascertaining the size of the vote defeating him. The minds of the voters are set, and nothing can change them. Your paper has done well in its effort, to have the voters THINK, and discard the old policy of adhering io party simply as a matter of form. “When you touch a man’s pocketbook. you hit him a telling blow r ." Every one's pocketbook has been hit a telling blow'. MAINE REPUBLICAN. u a tt Editor T’mr.s — HENRY FORD tries to frighten his workers into voting for Hoover. At, the same time Charles Sabin of the Guaranty Trust, backed by a number of othpr capitalists, boosts Roosevelt In a signed advertisement. These are the old tricks of the owning class. One spetion urges election of a Republican, another a Democrat. Thus they hope to split the workers and keep them from uniting in support of a working class party with a genuine working class program. Whether a Republican or Democrat is elected makes no difference to the money bags. In either case the capitalist can continue his control. Against this united front of the capitalist class, only one party fights the battle of the worker—the Communist party. And behind the Communist party the workers must rally in this election. WILLIAM NELSON. 848 South Meridian street.

Editor Timm — WHO said ibis was a free country? “Every man has an equal right.’’ Boloney. Such men as Henry Ford have put. a stop to that. Now we must vote the way he sees fit.. Elect the man he wants. Or what? Probably lose our jobs. When a man like him represents a political party, that ought to be enough to discourage any one. If he is such a good citizen, you might ask why he works his plant over in Canada day and night while here his fellow-men starve to death. Sure! Vote for Hoover and you need not worry about anything. You’ll starve to death, slowly, but aurely, while men like Ford will lap in the money and settle down in another country. .A DISGUSTED VOTER. a m m Editor Timm—--1 NOTICED an article in The Times by the Paul Coble Legion post, opposing the cashing of the soldier bonus and the hospitalization of nonservice connected cases at government expense. If these men who are members of the post were out of employment, fuel, food, clothing, and shelter, they probably •would look on it from a different angle. If they would use as much effort in doing something for a buddy instead of taking what little he has away from him, they could be a great help. If these ex-service men were working, they wouldn't care about the bonus, if they could remember back before the war. factory and most all office work was done by men. If they would start a movement toward dismissing married women who have husbands working and replace them with married men, even at the same wages. few men would be out of employment and the bonus would be forgotten. I am a legion member and am working, but I am not kicking because my buddies who are out of work and money are wanting money that will be due them in about ten years. ARTHUR J. CALLAHAN, 1303 North Haugh street. * m m Editor Timm — I HAVE been reading the political speeches of the two major parties and the editorials in The Times and the Star, and the more I read the less I know. Friday night Mr. Garner proved, or tried to prove, that everything President Hoover said in Des Moines was not true, and the next night, Saturday. President Hoover did the same to Mr. Garner’s speech. Who are the people to believe, and 1/ they do not make a life study of the laws and candidates, where are they to get the facts? ROBERT B. FRAZIER.

The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight with possibly light frost in exposed places; Saturday fair and somewhat warmer.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 140

STATE VICTORY IS PREDICTED BY ROOSEVELT Greeting by 200.000 Here Brings Out Forecast of Clean Sweep. SPEAKS AT SPRINGFIELD Farm Relief Program Is Amplified After Visit to Lincoln Tomb. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent SRINGFTELD. 111., Oct. 21.—Fundamental cures which he proposes for the relief of the farmer w'ere outlined in a speech by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Demooatic candidate for President, before an audience here of more than 6,000 Democrats, residents of this and other central Illinois agricultural communiteis. Roosevelt said that the “great steps w'hich we must take’’ are: First—Federal aid for the farmer for a. higher return for a certain number of his crops. Second —Decreased taxation. Third—Federal aid to prevent foreclosures on farm mortgages. Roosevelt, who will speak tonight at St. Louis, arrived at the Armory just before noon after his visit to the Lincoln tomb. At his request the visit was made as inconspicuous as possible. He declined to have photographs taken inside the tomb. Cheered by Greeting Here Before" entering, however, he was welcomed bv Governor Emmreson, to w'hom Roosevelt declared he had always drawm inspiration from the “immortal Lincoln.’’ The New York executive was confident he #nuld carry Illinois by a large majority. “My chief worry," he told listeners in a brief stop at Mattoon. 111., “is which state is going to give me the biggest majority—lllinois or New York. I think I'll put it up to you folks to beat New York.’’ The Governor’s party was en- / thusiastic over the candidate's reception at Indianapolis where a throng estimated at between 75,000 j and 100,000 gathered at Monument j circle to hear Roosevelt strike back j at a Republican drive to convince j the country a Democratic victory ! would be bad for business. In his appearances, Roosevelt re- j iterated he did not concede a single ; state and that the Democrats had a real possibility of sweeping the nation's forty-eight states. Reports Beer Fledge Frequently his audiences called for a word on ‘ beer’’ and Roosevelt assured them a Democratic congress would pass a beer tax. Some criticism from Republican quarters attended Roosevelt's visit here. He was charged with attempting to make political capital of a visit to Lincoln’s tomb. This met a sharp rebuke from the Democratic leadership which asserted the only motive was that of a. patriotic American who had an opportunity to see the shrine for the first, time. The reception given Roosevelt at Indianapolis was described as the greatest political gathering since the visit of Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 Bull Moose campaign. The Democratic organization was convinced Indiana had been placed in the Roosevelt column and that the Republican senatorial candidate, James E. Watson, will be defeated for re-election.

SIX HOURS TO LIVE A weird thriller, one of The Times popular six-day serials, “Six Hours to Live,” starts in the Pinks today. Don't miss it.

INVENT BASKET GAME Parlor Net Pastime Is Drawn Up by “Phog” Allen of Kansas. Bp l nitrd Prr*k • LAWRENCE. Kan.. Oct. 21.—Dr. F. C. Allen, University of Kansas athletic director, with Charles Embree, Kansas graduate, and W. Fisher, an lowa graduate, have invented a parlor basketball game to be known as the “Phog" Allen intercollegiate basketball game. It's played with dice.

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MOTHER SETS SELF ON FIRE TOMD LIFE Religious Mania Drives Woman to ‘Torch Suicide’ at Lawrence Home. Obsessed by a religious mania which led her to believe she was “doomed to eternal fire and brimstone." Mrs. Edna Lines, 39, Lawrence, mother of two sons, committed suicide, Thursday, by making her body a flaming torch. The afternoon quiet of Lawrence was shattered Thursday by the screams of Mrs. Lines and her youngest son, Albert, 6. as the boy vainly hammered on the locked door of his home. Neighbors, hearing the frenzied woman, rushed to the boy’s aid only to find all doors and windows locked. Glass in the front door was smashed and Dr. C. P. Wilson, veterinary surgeon, living next door, who saw Mrs. Lines’ body enwrapped in flames, ran back to his home and obtained linseed oil and some blankets. When he attempted to smother the flames by wrapping Mrs. Lines in the blanket, she threw them oft repeatedly and finally chased him from the house, he said. Her clothing, the floor and rugs were saturated with kerosene, Wilson said. Other neighbors also attempted a rescue, but Mrs. Lines, her body by this time denuded of clothing by the flames, refused their aid also. s> Deputy Sheriff August Gatto was called and summoned an ambulance which brought Mrs. Lines to Robert Long hospital. She died seven hours after her arrival. Neighbors said the husband. Otto Lines, railroad section hand, had told them Mrs. Lines was a believer in a religious sect which preaches eternal damnation by fire and the belief had preyed upon her mind until she was subject to occasional periods of mental derangement. She had been in ill health for several years. The Lines family moved to Lawrence about six months ago from Carmel, Ind. Surviving in addition to the husband and Albert is an older son, Wilbur, 11.

TAX BOARD OFFERS TO RECONSIDER I. A. C. CASE Exemption Action Can Be Rescinded, Real Estate Men Are Told. State tax commissioners will rescind their exemption \of ’’S per cent of the Indianapolis Athletic Club property from taxation if evidence for such reversal is produced, Chairman James E. Showalter of the state tax board said today. Showalter’s offer to reconsider the case came in an answer to the Indianapolis Real Estate Board's protest of the exemption. On Oct. 13. the board lifted 75 per cent of the club's assessed valuation, under the exemptions provided for buildings used for educational purposes. It was shown at a hearing that the club was used chiefly for physical education, tax board members said. GARBO TO TURN HERMIT Actress May Seek Solitude In Mountain Shack, Say Friends. B>l l nitrd Prri PARIS. Oct. 21.—Greta Garbo intends to seek solitude in a mountain shack on the Island of Majorca, largest of the Balearic group in the Mediterrainean friends said here today. They reported she had rented a shack without electricity, telephone, gas or water, and surrounded by cactus. The shack was said to be near Valledmosa, where the composer. Chopin, and the author, George Sand, once lived. LATE TAX APPEALS'OUT N’ot to Be Considered, Chairman of State Board Announces. Tax levy appeals which failed to arrive at the state tax board before Oct. 15 will not be considered, it was announced today by James E. Showalter. chairman of the board. A long list of late arrivals was made public. None were from -Marion county v Show*lter said.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 1932

FRANKLIN MAN ELECTED HEAD OF TEACHERS Robert Hougham Is New President of Indiana Association. FIGHT EARLY CLOSING Battle- Against Reduction of Budgets Progresses at Convention. Robert Hougham of Franklin. Johnson county schools superintendent, was elected president, and E. W. Horton, Muncie schools superintendent, vice-president of the Indiana Teachers’ Association at the annual business session at Cadle tabernacle today. Miss Blanche Feuque, Terre Haute, and Russell Earl, Frankfort, were named delegates at large. No mention was made on the convention floor of the invitation to hold the 1933 convention at the World's fair in Chicago. New president of the teachers has been Johnson county schools superintendent for seven years and formerly was principal of Franklin high school. He is a Franklin college graduate and Indiana law school graduate, and did gradute work at the University of Chicago. Hougham has served two terms in the Indiana legislature, for three years was chairman of the teachers’ association executive committee and last year was lieutenant-governor of Indiana Kiwanis. Fight Reduced budgets Convention battle against passible early closing of some schools because of reduced budgets progressed with adoption of a resolution authorizing the executive committee to co-operate with education agencies in drafting a program for submission to the legislature to replenish depleted school funds. The convention heard the report of Donald DuShane, Columbus schools superintendent and chairman of the legislative committee, in which he reported that twenty bills injurious to schools were killed during the last session of the legislature and that the committee expects at the next session, continued attacks on the teachers.’ license law, minimum wage, retirement at>4 tenure acts. DuShane reecived for the legislative committee a funds increase from 7 to 10 cents of each $2 membership fee. The convention went on record as favoring enforcement of the Eighteenth amendment. Amendment of the state Constitution to permit taxes on intangibles was advocated by Miss Clara Rathfon, state president, dn her inaugural address at the first general session of the convention Thursday night. Principal address of the evening was given by Dr. Daniel A. Poling of New York, noted writer and lecturer arri prohibition advocate. “Age owes youth a good example as well as discipline,” he said. “The present brings three great causes to youth in a high challenge: the liquor problem, the effort to bring peace and the fight to stamp out crime. We owe youth our confidence. In return they will answer the now unanswerable questions.’’ Two Sessions Are Held Two general sessions were to be held this afternoon, one at Cadle tabernacle, with addresses by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior, and Senator Arthur R. Robinson, and the other at the Murat theater, where Thomas Alexander, Columbia university, and Francis Kirkham, New York, were to speak. Dr, Charles A. Beard, New Milford, Conn., and Allen D. Albert, Chicago world fair executive secretary, will speak at the closing general session tonight at the tabernacle. HUNT TRUANTS bTrADIO Dallas Police Co-operate With Police in Nabbing Straying Pupils. B> / T nitrd Pres s DALLAS, Tex.. Oct. 21.—Police radio officers are co-operating with .school authorities in keeping truants from straying from theirclasses. When a. child is known to be truant, the description is broadcast. with instructions for officers to return the Child to classrooms j if found.

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BY FREDERICK WOLTMAN Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Economy means something more than a political promise right now with the Socialist party. Lacking campaign funds and with “40 cents for breakfast and tips,” a. recurrent item on his expense account. Norman Thrnnas is running an economical presidential campaign, inquiry at his headquarters revealed today. No retinue of ballyhoo experts, secretaries or political advisers make up the campaign entourage. Thomas’ whole party on his national tour, which is drawing hu£> crowds everywhere and which is said to presage 2.000.000 votes, is himself and Mrs. Thomas. Wife Handles Correspondence Mrs. Thomas handles the candidate's correspondence, taking it in longhand and. copying it, Kith two fingers on her portable typewriter. His speeches he usually writes out after midnight in an upper berth of a Pullman, sometimes mailing them to his part-time secretary in New York for mimeographing. if they are important. To save party money, most of his speech-making tours, except his present one, are covered in the Thomas second-hand automobile, the candidate at the wheel. He dictates letters to his wife in the short jumps between towns. His ten-day New England trip, for instance, cost the party $55.45. Lodging (mostly at ■ tourists’ cabins), and meals totaled $16.20; gas and oil, $22.65; repairs and grease. $4.85; ferry charges and tolls, $3.25; a public stenographer. $4, and incidentals, $1.50. Funds Are Low The candidate apologetically handed In his account for that trip, said Mary Fox. secretary of the Thomas-for-President committee, with the footnote attached, “Please pay me promptly, because my funds are very low.” Actually Thomas’ trips usually pay for themselves, because ten to twenty-five cents sometimes is charged as admission. This is the chief financial support of both local and national parties. The nineteen-day midwestern tour of the presidential candidate cost $229.41, including an item of “meals, tips, taxi, $1.15.” The plan to send a publicity man along on the trips was abandoned, Mrs. Thomas explained, “because those people eat well, while we can save a lot by sitting down and studying the menu.” Chicken Dinner at Farm In his expense account for a stopover at Greenville, Mich., Mr. Thomas wrote: “Chicken dinner with farmer, who at least has food.” One unexpected expense on a Pennsylvania trip Was sl4 for car repairs, incurred when an oil truck hit his automobile when he stepped out to look at a signpost. In March Thomas voluntarily stopped a S9O a week salary as director of the League for Industrial Democracy, his only income. for the duration of the campaign, and rejected the party's offer to pay him SSO a week. League Gets Receipts All the income he gets from speaking tours—other than political speeches—he turns back to the league. In 1931 this netted the league, a national student organization, about $5,500, Miss Fox said. While Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are on speaking tours, their five children address envelopes, in the party’s headquarters, run Mrs. Thomas’ restaurant at 71 Irving Place and tend her kennel of cocker spaniels, which are raised to send them through college. A large expense In the presidential campaign are twelve national organizers, paid $lO to S2O a week. Every possible economy is being effected, including abandoning the ice water fountain in the national office. Hourly Temperatures * a m 41 10 a. m 48 7 a. m 43 11 a. m 50 Ba. m..... 44 12’(noon)*. 53 9 a. m,.... 45

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INSULL JR. ON WAY TO LONDON Leaves Paris, but Refuses to Tell Why. Bp U nited Press PARIS, Oct. 21.—Samuel Insull Jr. departed for London today after issuing a typed statement saying his trip was private and that his plans to return to the United States in November w'ere unchanged. Insull traveled in an ordinary train, spurning the luxurious Golden Arrow and saving $lO. His mother remained at the Hotel Lincoln here, where she has been since Samuel Insull Sr. left France for Athens. He is fighting extradition to Chicago on embezzlement charges in connection with the collapse of the Insull Utilities Interests. Samuel Jr. said he w'ould spend two weeks in London. TRUCK LINE IS SUED Infringement on Territory Is Allegged by Company. Charging that the / Holsapple Truck Line, 243 West Merrill street, is Infringing on its franchise to operate between Indianapolis and Evansville, the Indianapolis & Southern Motor Express, Inc., today filed suit in circuit court for an injunction and $25,000 damages. Bernard and Oral Eagle, plaintiffs, allege the company has been operating four years without a, certificate of operation from the public service commission.

Bright Spots

By United Pres* Dun's Review reports bank clearings increased $1,662,025,000 last week to a total of $5,017,747,000. Eastern Utilities Associates Electric output last week increased 11.5 per cent over like 1931 week to 5,631,747 kilowatt hours. Philip Morris & Cos. reports first half net profit of $259,417 against $250,287 in like period of last year. Standard Oil Company of Indiana advances tank car prices of oil in Chicago district. Curtiss-Wright Company reports current export sales are highest in history of company. Federal Mining and Smelting Company ,to reopen two Idaho mines on Nov. 1, 1932. LENINGRAD EXPANDING Former Russian Capital Now Claims 2,798,000, Largest in History. LENINGRAD. Oct. 21.—The former Russian capital is expanding its population by about 10.000 a month. Now Leningrad claims 2,798,000, which is far in excess of its pre-revolutionary population.

Antique ‘Racket’ Run by Queen, Writer Reveals

Mary of England Buys at Discount, Sells at Premium, He Says. Bft Tailed Pre** CARMEL. Cal., Oct. 21.—The antique business in England has been reduced to a genteel “racket” by Queen Mary, Robert Welles Ritchie asserts in a copyrighted article in the current issue of the Carmel Pine Cone. “King George's wife buys at a discount and sells at a premium,” Ritchie said. “With perfect queenly decorum, whenever her majesty spots a valuable piece of Chippendale she lets it be known she would like to add to her collection in Buckingham palace. r,

Bad Roosevelt /'if l nitrd Prcns CHICAGO. Oct. 21.—‘Hoover vs. Roosevelt,” called out the clerk today in Folice Judge P. O'Connell's court. “What's this? A political meeting?" said the startled judge “No." rpplied the clerk. “This is Ike Hoover, special agent for the B. & 0..” pointing to a man w r ho. came forward. ‘And this," Hoover said, pointing to a Negro, “is Metts Roosevelt, who lives on Roosevelt road. I caught him stealing ice in the vards.’’ “Well, we musn't desecrate the name of Roosevelt,” replied the judge, a Democrat. “Ten dollars and costs." And turning to. the Negro, Judge O’Connell said: “I suppose you are going to vote for Roosevelt?” “No, suh,” replied Roosevelt, “I'se goin’ to vote for Hoover —and I don't mean Ike Hoover, neither.’’

POOR AID BONDS SOLD $147,000 Issue Goes to Campbell & Cos. Investment House. Sale of $147,000 poor relief bonds to Campbell & Cos., Indianapolis investment house, was announced today by Charles A. Grossart, county auditor. The Campbell bid of 5 per cent interest, with a $106.85 premium, was lowest of two local bids filed. The Fletcher American Company bid 6 per cent, without premium. The bonds were sold to pay township poor relief claims from June 6 to Aug. 15. Center township's bill for the period totaled $116,562 of the issue. Wayne township ranked next with bills totaling $lB,606, and Perry township third with $5,109. SIGNBOARD BAN ASKED State Attempts to Collect 510,000 From Advertising Firm. Injunction to prevent erection of signboards for advertising purposes by a foreign corporation was sought today in a suit filed in circuit court by Attorney General James M. Ogden. Ogden also demands SIO,OOO penalty from the W. F. Williams vertising Service, Inc., alleging it never secured a certificate of admission to do business in this state. The complaint states the corporation was organized under laws of Illinois, but has been operating in Indiana several months. 350 "GO BACK TO JOBS King’s Station Coal Shift Near Princeton Signs Contract. By 1 vitrd Prrm PRINCETON. Ind.. Oct. 21.—Approximately 350 union miners went back to work in the King's Station coal shaft near here today following signing of an agreement between the local union and operators of the mine.

“The dealer quotes her majesty a substantial discount. When Quee;} Mary tires of her selections a hint from her sends dealers running with offers to buy at a considerable premium. “Thus the good queen keeps he* hobby self-sustaining.” Queen Mary lurther exerts her influence on her youngest son. Prince George, by getting him to spend most of his spare time doing embroidery. Ritchie asserted in his article, adding: Queen Mary taught George all he knows about petit point, though not all he knows about some other things. Since the prince of Wales gave up fox hunting, mother has tried to interest him in the more difficult forms of embroidery, but so far without much success. y

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TROOPS QUELL UPRISING OF 210 CONVICTS Soldiers in Steel Helmets Rule Canadian Prison After All-Night War. NONE HURT, IS CLAIM Machine Guns Are Mounted on Walls to Subdue Fighting Convicts. By l nitrd Pre*s KINGSTON. Ontario. Oct. 21 - Kingston penitentiary guards and munitions convicts waited quietly today, but ready for action after the second major riot this week within the prison walls. The big dominion prison beside Lake Ontario was quiet. Officials announced the troops and guards had the situation well in hand. No one had been hurt, they said, during the all-night bedlam, in which the mutineers were reported to have captured the prison power plant. Steel-helmeted troops armed with machine guns considered a gas bomb attack to force surrender of 210 revolting prisoners barricaded within the penitentiary, where forty guards had been reported held as hostages. Gunfire and a call for shock troops to help the guards late Thursday gave residents their first news that a second outbreak was under way in the big penitentiary. The rioting started about 4 o'clock. Early.today the troops and guards were reported in full command of the situation. Their position, however, was precarious, and Hughe Guthrie, minister of justice of Ottawa, admitted the situation was "serious.” Another minor riot was staged this morning, a report from Montreal said. It was understood there that at least half a dozen prisoners have been since the trouble began. It was from Ottawa that residents first received reports that forty guards were held as hostage. The reports were not confirmed, and the best information available here was that the guards were not held. A strict censorship made quick, accurate verification of many rumors and reports most difficult. One report that the rioting convicts had captured the penitentiary power plant apparently was true. The prison was in darkness all night long, a night broken by intermittent firing.

Troops Are Reinforced The troops were reinforced shortly after midnight by several truck loads from the Royal Canadian Horse artillery stationed near here. The troops were equipped with rifles and machine guns. Machine guns were mounted on the prison walls. They also were reported equipped early today with gas bombs for use in an attempt to force the convict* into the open. The revolting convicts were within the general dormitory section. They were prisoners not held in regular cells blocks for the reason there was not enough cells. The first riot of the week had been put down Monday, with slight injury to two men. so far as is known. Thursday, an inquiry into that riot began. The second outbreak. it was said, came during that inquiry. Four prisoners had testified during the morning. The men outside wailed and jeered during the hearing. Then prisoners who had been summoned for testimony went on a “strike” and refused to talk. Fire Started by Convici* So far as known, the testimony up to that point had been that the prisoners rioted Monday to obtain cigaret papers, more recreation, radios and daily newspapers. Suddenly, the 110 “corridor prisoners” went on a. rampage. The forty guards assigned to watch over them, if the hostage report is true, were “shanghaied." Prisoners started a fire. It was put out quickly. They started a mad rush to liberate convicts in the cell blocks. Another 100 men were freed, as a result, after several hours of cursing. jeering and milling about the dormitory section. The shooting started, apparently nothing more than shots fired into the air to frighten the prisoners. One convict was shot through the shoulder. A truce was called so he might be given medical attention. Then the turmoil was resumed. The 210 angered, frenzied men tried to liberate the other 698 men in cell blocks. They ran into a wall of guards fully armed. Instructed to kill any prisoner who crossed a dead line. No man crossed that line. Situation “Well in Hand" About 7:30 Thursday night a doctor was permitted to pass through the line of troops patrolling the area outside the prison. It was presumed he was called to treat the man reported shot, although the penitentiary has its own hospital force. Brigadier-General Ormond, federal prison inspector, called here to conduct the inquiry, remained at the prison during the night. Prison authorities were in constant touch with Ottawa.

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