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SURVEY SHOWS FIRST DISTRICT IS DEMOCRATIC G. 0. P. Strongholds Swing to Rivals, Lake County Check Indicates. (Continued From Page One) more than doubled and the Hoover administration hasn’t helped the situation, so our vote this year should be double." Franklin D. Roosevelt should, according to all indications, run well up in the 2,000 majority which this correspondent predicts for the Democrats in Lake county. The presidential nominee is as popular as the state ticket here. Roosevelt Is Popular The enthusiasts’ reasoning for extravagant claims of a 5,000 majority would have an excellent basis except that they forget that for months there has been no real Democratic organization in the county, and that the enmity between Frank Martin, former Democratic county chairman, and Schulte was bitter, because of the former’s defeat in his race for the congressional nomination. However, a truce has been patched between the two by Frank McHalc of Logansport, field manager for McNutt, and this has caused a quieting of Republican jubilation, aroused by the split. Martin is the principal cause of all Lake county Democratic factional trouble. He has set himself up as a little czar. In addition to being county chairman, he was township trustee and at the same time attempted to garner the congressional nomination for himself. Caused Party Strife This kicked back with terrific force and caused jealousies and internecine disturbances that threatened to wreck all prospects of victory. The Republicans, on the other hand, claim that there is no factional discord in the face of another possible defeat and all differences have been ironed out. Principal credit for the Democratic organization work accomplished in Lake county should go to Matt Leach, who organized the exservice men for McNutt and Van Nuys and also in charge of formation of the crews of watchers, to be used on election day. This group will be composed of veterans and labor union members and will be stationed in the questionable precincts of East Chicago, Hammond, Whiting, Gary and Hobart. Because of the Democratic victory of two years ago a majority of the county election board is of this party and the watchers will receive full backing in their fight against violations of the corrupt practices act. Banks, Mills Closed Although Lake county has been Republican in every election since it was formed, it went Democratic in 1930 and in the primary this year that party polled 2,900 votes more than the G. O. P. Fourteen of the fifteen banks in Gary have been closed. Hammond has no banks open and the mills have been closed with only about 6,500 men employed as against 37,000 in the tpast. Schulte is using this with telling force in his campaign. Republican speakers are having little success in boosting the Hoover stock among the workmen, although business and industrial leaders are lending a kind ear and are attempting to coerce their employes into doing the same, under threats of wage cuts and closed plants in event of a Democratic victory. Although Watson spent several days here two weeks ago, and had good attendance at his meetings, his popularity has waned. The unemployed detect in him a tangible cause of their distiess, they say, and so his name is mentioned as little as possible. McNutt Stands High Springer is comparatively unknown and McNutt's popularity is great, so that the Republican county candidates refrain as much as possible from mentioning the pair or the state ticket, with the exception of Kyle. McHale is expected fee come back into Lake county this week to start a law school for election board workers and prepare them against any violations. Particular fear is expressed of the votjng of floaters and repeaters in East Chicago, always the worst part of the county in this respect, and especially this year, because of the great interest in the race of

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j Os tent im*** there are mysteries in New I York Ctty tht baffle the tools of science I and the logic of Dr. Charles Norris, j chief medical examiner. One of these cases was the death of a wealthy clothier In Weat Seventy-second street. He was found shot through the chest on a June afternoon, dressed In a silk Japanese robe He was surrounded by manv Dromlalnc clews—smoked clgarets. though he did not smoke them, a German automatic, a smashed bookcase, the cartridge clip hurled to the opposite sill. Ifii none of them led to an absolute solution. The police call it Suicide, but Dr. Norris in today's article tells Earl Sparling that be wonders. BY EARL SPARLING Times Staff Writer 1 Convright. 1932. by the New Ybrk WorldTelegram Corporation* STEVE DONAHUE, the detective, looked in the door of Chief Norris’ crime laboratory on East Twenty-ninth street. “Busy, Doc?” “Come in, old boy," said Doc Norris, who was enjoying a cigar after a grewsome morning in the autopsy room. “What does she say now?” % “She insists she saw him two days ago.” "Well, she's lying. That body was in the water five days. At least five days. The detective went away after a while to do some more work on the case, and Doc Norris started snorting. He snorted most of the time he was changing from his white coat and pants, his cutting uniform, into a subtly tailored blue suit. “Two days." He stopped with one foot half in a trouser leg. ‘‘She’s lying.” He shook his beard irately* “That’s insurance. Double injumped in the river five days ago. There isn’t a particle of doubt the body has been in the water that long. Now she comes along and says she saw him alive two days ago. “There you are, old man—a mystery and a clew. She says two days. We know it is five days. Something wrong, eh? Well, the chief thing wrong is she’s trying to make it look like murder so she can get double indemnity.” u 9 n HE shot his braces into place and began striding the room, a rumbling mountainous old man. Someone was trying to put something over on medicine and the law, and when that happens Doc Norris is worth walking a mile to see. “It’s insurance that gives us most of our mysteries. Someone always is trying to make a suicide look like a murder." He still was muttering about it half an hour later as he sat down for luncheon at Luchow’s. Some specially brewed clam broth and a few jokes in German with the waiters (they tumble over each other trying to serve him there), got him in a better humor. “Insurance really is something of a problem, old man. We always have to take it into consideration. “Take that Bashwitz case. There’s a mystery for you. That’s one I’ve always been worried about. I’ve never been able to make up my mind.” Solomon Bashwitz, a wealthy wholesale clothier, was found dead in his apartment in the Hotel Olcott, late in the afternoon of June 3, 1929. / "The call came in at a most inopportune time," remembered the chief. “I was at dinner. I don’t like to be disturbed at dinner. “I don’t mind getting out of bed at 3 in the morning. I’m used to that. I’ve been called in the middle of the night so much in the last fourteen years that I hardly can sleep any more. Three or four hours a night, that’s all. But I don’t like to be disturbed at dinner. “There were twenty or more detectives and uniformed men in the place when I got there at 7:45. The body still was warm, Oscar Jackson, city controller, and Republican candidate for sheriff. Attempts of the Republican managers to force the use of the paper or Australian, ballots, through filing of a number of independent tickets, so that the machine could not be used, met with failure when four of the tickets were declared invalid because of improper certification and the lack of a sufficient number of petitioners. The Australian ballot would have meant delay of a week in counting the vote and thus might have made chicanery possible. Although four of the independent tickets were declared invalid, seven parties will go on the machine. The minor groups, including the Socialists, are not expected, however, to poll a large vote.

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The fellow was lying on the' floor in a silk Japanese dressing robe. There was a single bullet wound in his chest. On the floor, about four inches from his light hand, lay a German automatic. The cartridge clip was missing. u u u “T NOTICED right away that there were no powder burns. Os course, silk doesn't burn, you know, and that makes it hard to judge distance. But, nevertheless, if he had killed himself I thought there ought to be some sort of powder mark. It made me suspicious. “He had been home alone all afternoon. All the window shades were drawn. That struck me as a bit strange. A man getting ready to kill himself doesn’t usually trouble to pull down the curtains, old man. Then I noticed four or five smoked cigarets in a tray. I asked about them and one of the relatives said Bashwitz never had smoked cigarets. “There was another thing. The glass in a bookcase had been shattered. I asked the detectives if they could find a bullet in the bookcase. They said no." The police were convinced the clothier had killed himself. They reasoned that he sat down on the floor before pulling the trigger, which would put his chest in line with the bookcase glass; the bullet had passed through his body, shattered the glass and rebounded to the middle of the room, where it was found. Chief Norris performed an autopsy next morning and announced he was undecided. It, might be suicide. It might be murder. n n n AND now came a discovery that showed him the wisdom of his doubt. On a window sill catercorner across the court a janitor found the missing cartridge clip of the gun. “Someone had thrown it out of one of the Bashwitz windows and

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it had landed on the opposite sill. “Who?” ‘‘That's it, old man.” frowned Chief Norris. “Who? Why would Bashwitz toss that clip out the window? Sounds unreasonable, doesn’t it? “He tossed the clip away, then shut all the windows, pulled down the shades, sat down in the middle of the floor and killed himself. On the other hand, it’s just as hard to imagine any one- else tossing the clip away, ( “He had something like $450,000 in insurance, as I remember, and something like $200,000 of it was nonpayable in case of suicide.” “If any one were going to throw away the clip, Doc, it looks like they would do away with the gun, too.” “That’s it,” sighed the chief. “It’s one of the best mysteries in all my fourteen years. The police closed the case as a suicide. I’ve kept it open in my records,” undetermined.” n t DR. THOMAS A. GONZALES, deputy chief medical examiner. laughed on the other side of the luncheon table. “It’s no better an insurance mystery than that one down on the east side they wanted me to solve." “What one is that?’’ asked the chief. “Don’t you remember? The man shot his wife and then killed himself. And they wanted me to decide who had died first. “It was a question of who would inherit the estate. There wasn’t much money, but both sides of the family were after it. If the wife died first, the money went to the husband and through him to his side of the family. “If he died first, the wife would have got the money.” Dr. Norris chuckled. “What did you decide in that case, Tom? I’ve forgotten. “I couldn’t decide. It was impossible,” said Dr. Gonzales. “The lawyers were after me for days.” ' ana “PROBABLY wanted you to toss ■L up a coin,” chuckled the

Dr. Charles Norris and his deputy chief, Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, examine the section of a victim’s spinal column. chief. “That’s like asking us who turned on the gas. “Oh, yes, old man, we’ve been asked that. A husband and a wife are found dead frem gas. Which one turned on the gas? If the lawyers can prove that the wife did it, then the he Us can collect the man’s insurance. “We can’t answer silly, stupid questions like that. But we do help decide whether an automobile driver is liable when a pedestrian gets killed in the street. “We make autopsies and chemical analysis in all automobile deaths. Suppose you run a chap down with your automobile. Then suppose we find his brain full of alcohol. That is pretty good proof that he was drunk and that he stumbled in the way of your car.” Next—Dr. Norris will discuss some of New York’s most famous murders.

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