Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1934 — Page 1

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45 REPORTED DEAD IN AUSTRIAN RIOTS; STRIKE HITS PARIS Troops, Socialists Exchange Machine Gun Fire in Vienna and Linz, With Heavy Casualties; Martial Law Declared. COMMUNISTS RESUME DISORDER Walkout Ties Up Utilities in France; Police j Fire on Red Rioters; Plot to Burn Palace Reported Bared.

By United Prr a* Violence broke out in Austria and France today when labor, restive and suspicious under the European trend toward Fascism, essayed tests of strength in the two great nations. A Socialist general strike of revolutionary character in Austria brought sanguinary fighting at Vienna and at Linz, where hospitals reported between fifteen and twenty-five persons dead. Machine guns were turned on strikers. Martial law was declared at both cities. French workers engaged in a twenty-four-hour strike. The country was generally quiet, but late in the day, Communists began rioting in the east end working districts. In Spain, the government maintained extraordinary precautions because of persistent rumors that Socialists, Anarchists and Syndicalists would revolt at the first opportunity, the signal to be a general strike. By Unitcii Press VIENNA, Austria, Feb. 12.—(8y Telephone via Berlin and London) —Machine guns and light artillery blazed in Austria today when a revolutionary general strike resulted in sanguinary fighting, martial law and a state almost of civil war. There*was no official report on casualties in many hours of fighting at Vienna and Linz. It was estimated on the basis of unofficial reports that there were about 45 dead, including perhaps 25 killed at Linz and about 20 killed in Vienna. This estimate is likely to be changed by official figures.

At Linz, a city of 70,000 and capital of upjier Austria, more than twenty were killed when-troops turned machine guns against Socialist headquarters. Rioters barricaded themselves and bombarded police and troops with hand grenades. Light artillery was used at the Danube shipyards against workers barricaded there. Martial law was effective in Vienna, Linz and all of upper Austria. The Socialists, striking against the government program of creating a Fascist state along Italian lines, boasted that they had plentiful stores of arms and ammunition. The battle of Linz entered its ninth hour with twenty known dead and numerous missink. Fifty Socialists. clad in forbidden Schutzbund uniforms, intrenched themselves on Mount Freinberg, and at 3 p. m. repulsed an attack of troops, killing six of them. The troops with the Schvttzbund forces began setting up machine guns. Meanwhile, soldiers stormed the Danube bridge at Linz, killing two Socialists. Socialists held the bridgehead all day and allowed citizens to leave the city, but not to enter it. Schutzbund reinforcements were marching to Linz from neighboring villages.

By United Pres* FARIS. Fob. 12.—Communist riots broke out in northeast Paris today, first manifestation of disorder in a crippling one day strike of highly unioned workers through France.

Strikers in the strongly Communist northeast part of the capital destroyed two street cars which officials were trying to start. The rioters looted stores during a fight which resulted. Steel helmeted police, dispatched to the trouble center, dispersed the Communists. Three of those hurt in last week's riots died during the week-end. The revised casualty list was twenty-one dead. 2.420 injured. The strike was in token of the expressed determination of union leaders that there would be no move toward Fascism in France, either by the newly formed "salvation" government of Premier Gaston Doumergue or by royalist, war veteran or other elements. Army and navy engineers kept water, gas. electric, telephone and similar essential services functioning. Eighteen thousand soldiers and 15.000 police were on duty. Half a million office workers fought their way downtown, afoot, in private motor cars or in the extremely occasional subway trains. There were no busses or street cars and only a few subway trains were running. Taxicab men have been on strike for days. The city was orderly but there was natural nervousness. During the night infantrymen sur-

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Socialist headquarters in the Hotel Schiff, heart of the battle of Linz, capitulated after police threatened the sixty young occupants with howitzers. Hand grenades damaged many buildings in Linz. Martial law was extended to Graz, where there was sporadic fighting. The government broadcast the martial law proclamation and added: “Martial law means martial law. Any one opposing the forces of the state will be shot.” With machine guns and barbed 1 wire surrounding the heart cf Vienna, fighting continued in the outlying districts, police erected barbed wire in the Ringstrasse and two streets converging on the center of the city, dispersing demon- ! strators beyond the entanglements. Those trying to cross the barrier met machine guns. There was no accurate estimate of casualties here. All railways in Austria were reported paralyzed. The crews ran trains to Vienna but refused to take them out. There was wild disorder in Vienna. The Socialist strike threatened to paralyze industry, communications and power. Electric current was cut off in Vienna and the city was without lights.

rounded the main telephone exchange, which was manned by inexperienced army and navy men. There was much confusion and one who called Buenos Aires or New York was likely to get Prague or Rome. An attack by Communists on the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers was so serious that police opened fire at 2:30 p. m„ shooting in the air after rioters had overturned the municipal garbage trucks. General Strike Failure The general strike was admittedly unsuccessful as far as a complete stoppage throughout France is concerned. There were several clashes between Communists, Socialists and police during the afternoon. The partial destruction of a church in Marseilles by dynamite was the most serious incident in the nation. It was blamed on Communists. Police announced they had uncovered a red plot to sack the chamber of deputies and perhaps bum the Bourbon palace and parliament. A police guard was placed around the buildings, nearby subway stations were closed and traffic was forced to detour. Stink bombs were thrown during the height of trading on the Paris Bourse. They did not interrupt trading. Efforts of Communists to block traffic into and from Paris by erecting barricades in the main highways from the suburbs failed. PoIliee stormed and captured several barricades, chasing an average of five hundred Communists from each place and arresting many. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind. 17 miles an hour; temperature, 30; barometric pressure, 29.63; general conditions, overcast, hazy; ceiling, estimated 4.500 feet; visibility, one and one-half miles.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy tonight, followed by fair tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 32; colder tomorrow.

AUTO ACCIDENT TOLLJW 12 City Man Injured Fatally When Car Strikes Safety Guard. Injuries received in an automobile accident Saturday night proved fatal at city hospital yesterday to Joseph W. Baxter, 65, of 2329 North Illinois street. Mr. Baxter was the .twelfth Marion county traffic fatality victim of the year. He was injured when the car in which he was riding, driven by Orin Schaaf, 29, of 2870 North Denny street, collided with a safety zone guard at Washington street and

MacCracken Pays SIOO for Contempt , Then Is Taken Before Senate Found Guilty of Obtaining Writ of Habeas Corpus by Misrepresentation in District of Columbia Court; Arrested to Face Trial in Capitol Building. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—William P. MacCracken Jr., Hoover administration assistant secretary of commerce, was fined SIOO this afternoon for contempt of court and was forthwith arrested and taken before the bar of the senate on charges of contempt of its air mail investigating committee. Mr. MacCracken’s efforts to keep from being brought

Southeastern avenue. Schaaf, injured less severely, was arrested on charges of driving while under influence of liquor.

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Funeral services for Mr. Baxter will be held at 2 tomorrow in the Harry W. Moore funeral home, 2050 East Michigan street, with the Rev. W. A. Shullenberger officiating. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Mr. Baxter is survived by the widow; a daughter, Mrs. Blanche Smith; six sons, Albert, Glenn, Walter and Van Baxter, Indianapolis, and Donald N. Baxter. North Salem, and Wilfred Baxter, Detroit. Injuries to nine persons resulted from a collision on slippery pavement at Seventieth street and State Road 29 yesterday. Most serously hurt was Mrs. George Q. Biegler, who suffered head injuries. The cars were driven by George Q. Biegler, 5738 Broadway, and Miss Marcella Hofman, 16, Bass Lake. Eleven other persons were injured in week-end accidents.

DILUNGER GUNMEN UNDER HEAVY GUARD Trio to Be Arraigned in Lima, 0., Tomorrow. By United Press LIMA, 0., Feb. 12.—Three John Dillinger gunmen accused of the brutal slaying of Sheriff Jesse L. Sarber are scheduled for arraignment tomorrow before Judge E. E. Everett here. Each of the trio is charged with first degree murder. Sheriff Sarber was shot and killed just four months ago tonight—Oct| 12, 1933—when a band of desperadoes raided the county jail here and freed Dillinger from a cell. Since the prisoners, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley and Russell Clark, were brought to I ima Saturday from the Michigan City (Ind.) penitentiary, they have occupied separate cells in the jail. The prison has been barricaded through erection of a ten-foot board fence around the jail yard. Extra guards have been stationed at strategic points in the immediate vicinity. Brigadier-General Harold M. Bush of Columbus is in command of a detail of Ohio national guardsmen who are scheduled to remain on duty twenty-four hours daily until the trials of the three alleged killers are finished. Accident Damages Sought Oman and Eunice Harvey have filed suits asking $30,000 damages against John Kelly in superior courts 1 and 4, as result of an automobile accident Nov. 26. 1933, at Twenty-fifth street and Martindale avenue.

Washington and Lincoln Just Mortals, Not Demigods, State School Head Says

Neither Lincoln nor Washington were ‘self-made” men, nor were they the ‘mythical demigods portrayed by the eulogists,” according to Floyd I. McMurrray, state superintendent of public- instruction. “These facts do not destract from, but rather add to, the greatness of these national heroes.” Mr. McMurray asserts. “Leaders have always been common men of honesty and character who have been alert to the needs of the times and willing to respond.” The state superintendent’s views were set forth today in a signed contribution to the Indiana Teacher, official publication of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. It is entitled “Washington and Lincoln,” and reads in full as follows: "There is a striking similarity in the lives of Washington and Lincoln, whose anniversaries we pass this month. Both were men of the

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before the senate came to naught when Justice O’Donoghue found him guilty of contempt of District of Columbia court. This followed the judge's decision that Mr. MacCracken had obtained a writ of habeas corpus by misrepresentation. Mr. MacCracken, now an attorney for several air lines, was accused of permitting removal of records wanted in the mail contract inquiry. The senate charged him with contempt last week. Mr. MacCracken defied the senate’s authority and a warrant was issued for him. Mr. MacCracken tried to have himself arrested while the senate was in recess over the week-end. He hoped then to obtain freedom on the writ of habeas corpus and thus prevent the senate from getting jurisdiction over him. But Justice O'Donoghue held that the fact he had presented himself to Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney did not constitute arrest and that therefore the writ was invalid. As soon as the fine for contempt of court had been paid, the frockcoated Mr. Jurney arrested Mr. McCracken in the marriage license bureau at the courthouse and took him to the senate before he could obtain another writ. Mr. McCracken and his counsel, Frank J. Hogan, appeared in ill humor as they took seats in the front of the senate chamber.

PAPAL ANNIVERSARY MARKED BY POMP American Bishops Present at Imposing Rites. By United Press VATICAN CITY, Feb. 12.—The twelfth anniversary of the pope's coronation was observed today with an imposing ceremony at St. Peter’s. Eighteen cardinals were present at a pontifical high mass after Pope Pius had received their homage in the vestment hall of the palace. He assumed his pontifical robes, with the rich mantle of red and gold over it, and was carried in his throne chair to St. Peter’s. Bishops Thomas J. Walsh of Newark, N. J.; Thomas C. O’Reilly of Scranton; Pa., and Charles D. White of Spokane, Wash., were present. SUGAR LEGISLATION IS PRESENTED IN SENATE Costigan Offers Bill Embodying Roosevelt Proposals. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Senator Edward P. Costigan (Dem., Colo.), today introduced in the senate a bill embodying President Roosevelt’s proposals for legislation to improve the status of American sugar producers.

GOLD HOARD APPEAL WITHDRAWN BY U. S. Metal Has Been Returned, Is Explanation of Solicitor. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The supreme court today dismissed on the motion of solicitor-general James C. Biggs the appeal of the government in its gold hoarding case against Frederick B. Campbell, New York lawyer. Mr. Biggs announced that the gold had been returned and that corrective steps to remedy defects in the original anti-hoarding order had beer: corrected. Reports Clothing Theft Bed clothing and an overcoat, valued at SIOO, were stolen yesterday from the .home of Fred Seaman, 123 West Twentieth street, he informed police.

forest and river. Washington, a surveyor and explorer of the Appalachian watershed —he was skilled in woodcraft. Lincoln, a flatboat man of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers—he was a skilled ax man. Both stood above 6 feet in height. (They were giants among their fellows.) “Each was a champion of an oppressed peop'e in his respective generation—only seventy-five years separated their lives. The march of progress had lifted life in the midcontinent valley of Lincoln to a plane comparable with tidewater Virginia in Washington's day. Likewise, both were products of the times and neither was self-made. “Political oppression gave Washington his opportunity, but he did not bring the issue to a crisis. Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris and King George m of England did that. Washington was just the alert

‘PUBLICITY’ STUNT, IS RETORT OF WHITE HOUSE TO LINDBERGH’S WIRE PROTESTING AIRMAIL STEP

They Remember Lincoln

City Women Who Saw Beloved ‘Emancipator’ Meet for First Time and Talk Over ‘Old Days.’ BY HELEN LINDSAY Times Staff Writer "'T' ea for two” was flavored with memories of Abraham Lincoln J. when two Indianapolis women who saw the beloved President, met for the first time today. . x . Miss Bessie Moriarty, 82, of 532 South Missouri street, caded on Mrs. Eliza Myers, 93. of 2302 North Meridian street and they had a fine time talking over the brave days when Lincoln was President ana John Wilkes Booth a mediocre actor.

GIBERSON ‘ON SPREE' IN CITY Suspect in Jones Slaying Visits Old Haunts; Evades Cops. Flaunting his contempt of the law, Ernest (Red) Giberson, suspect in the murder of Sergeant Lester Jones, and who walked nonchalantly out of the county jail at Noblesville Friday, was seen by scores of Indianapolis persons during the weekend, staging a protracted “spree.” Reports of Giberson’s antics—from more than a dozen “gay spots” —indicated that he was “roaring drunk” and apparently little concerned about police or detectives. These reports reached headquarters always too late for the police to catch up with him. The convict first was seen in a south side drug store about 7 Sunday night. Later in the night, Patrolman Cosmos Sansone, acting on reports that Giberson was in a green sedan with two other men, sighted an automobile answering that description on South Meridian street near Hanna avenue. Police later learned that Giberson, realizing that he was getting “too drunk,” hired two boys to take him “home.” He was on his way “home” when patrolman Sansone spotted the fugitive car, police said. State policeman Gene Ryan joined the Indianapolis police today in a city-wide bunt for the alleged slayer. While heavily armed guards kept a constant vigil at the county jail in Noblesville today against threatened attempts to release Willie Mason, co-defendant with Giberson in the slaying of Sergeant Jones, authorities last night released Rclla Rollings, CWA worker, who is alleged to have known of Giberson’s escape an hour before notifying authorities. TWO CITY MEN NAMED ON BUILDING COUNCIL C. R. Ammerman, Charles Frauer Selected by McNutt. Two Indianapolis men were named by Governor Paul V. McNutt to posts on the state administrative building council. The appointees are C. R. Ammerman, representative of the architects’ division, and Charles Frauer, representative of the labor division. Mr. Ammerman fills the vacancy left by the resignation of W. P. Cottingham, Gary, and Mr. Frauer succeeds Robert Fox, Indianapolis. The state council works on the codification of lav/s and passes on plans for public buildings.

Dickens’ Work on Christ Is Sold for sls a Word

Fabulous Price Is Paid for Treasured Story by United Features. By Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Withheld from the public for nearly sixtyfive years, “The Life of Our Lord,” written for his own children by

and capable military leader necessary in the crisis. “Human slavery gave Lincoln his opportunity but he, like Washington, did not bring the issue to a climax. The Abolitionists, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin' and John Brown did that. But Lincoln was the able and courageous leader when the climax came. “These facts do not detract from, but rather add to, the greatness of these national heroes. Leaders always have been common men of honesty and character who have been alert to the needs of the times and willing to respond. ‘•Washington and Lincoln ere our most brilliant examples of the possibilities of American life. Neither of them was the mythical demigod portrayed by the eulogists, who would have imagined less had they known more. When we understand that these first citizens, like ourselves, were mortal, each one stands out as the shadow of a great rock for a weary land.”

MRS. MYERS was a seamstress in the home of Lincoln's sister-in-law, Mrs. Edwards of Springfield, 111. She remembers the “great emancipator” as a friendly, charming visitor in the Springfield house. Miss Moriarty, who came to Indianapolis aione from County Kerry, Ireland, when she was 10 years old, viewed Lincoln’s body when it lay in state in the old Capitol building in Indianapolis, en route to Springfield. “My brother Dan was one of the guards over President Lincoln's body,” she recalled to Mrs. Myers. “I was staying in Miss McFarland's school, and went down to the Capitol building to see the body.” tt tt n MISS MORIARITY has been nursemaid and companion in some of the oldest families in Indianapolis. She has vivid personal memories of well-known Indiana celebrities, among them James Whitcomb Riley, Hoosier poet, and Charles Warren Fairbanks and Thomas R. Marshall, both Vice-Presidents of the United States, who were natives of Indiana. President Lincoln’s body arrived in Indianapolis at 7 in the morning, April 30, 1865, and remained in state in the old Capitol building until midnight. The guard was changed every two hours. A reprint of the New York Herald of April 15, carrying the news of the assassination, is in possession of the 8A class of School 50. n tt tt MEETING for the first time Saturday, though both have been residents of Indianapolis for many years, Mrs. Myers and Miss Moriarity found great delight in exchanging reminiscences of the Civil war President. Mrs. Harry G. Werkhoff, niece of Mrs. Myers, with whom she makes her home, has invited Miss Moriarity to spend a day with Mrs. Myers soon. Mrs. Myers will celebrate her 94th birthday Feb. 24.

Jail ‘Break’ Prisoner Claims Pocket Picked for $35.

EVEN the city jail is no safe haven against pickpockets, according to James Key, 25, of 3510 Shelby street, who is lodged there on charges of vagrancy. He reported yesterday that $35 had been stolen from him. Police searched the other prisoners, but failed to find the missing money. Thieves Rob Safe of S4O Thieves yesterday battered the combination from a safe in the office of the Aluminum Paint and Color Company, 537 East Washington street, and stole S4O, according to a report made to police.

Charles Dickens, lovable English author, has been purchased by the United Features Syndicate of New York. Hailed by critics as one of the greatest masterpieces on the life of Christ, the manuscript had been in the possession of his children, yellowing with age. Dickens, creator of such characters as David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Little Nell and the hearty Pickwick, wrote this life of Christ for his children's eyes alone. With the death of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, last of the Dickens children in a traffic accident, just before the Christmas holidays, the treasured volume was sold for the fabulous price of sls a word. Editors and publishers had fought for the right to buy the manuscript for years. Over trans-Atlantic telephones and cables the furious bidding went on until the price of sls a word took the literary prize. A story of the author's love of painstaking sincerity lies behind the 14,000 written words. Desiring that his children should see Christ as He was hallowed in his own mind, Dickens wrote the manuscript when his children still were young. The purchase of the book comes at a time when a revival in Dickens, instituted by leading critics, is at its peak. These critics believe that Dickens, more than a skillful children’s author, created character of depth in a realistic clear style. Throughout his criticism of the then existing social or*der is a gentle solicitude, unmarred by bitterness. The story will be invaluable reading for literary connoisseurs.

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ADMITS SLAYING WIFE, COPS SAY City Man Blames Jealousy; Suicide Attempt Is Failure. Jealousy and domestic difficulties today were blamed by Claude B. Maudlin, 48, of 450 Arthur street, for the murder of his estranged wife. Mrs. Essie Maudlin, 37, of 501 Birch avenue. Maudlin confessed, police claim, that he met Mrs. Mandlin in the 500 block Birch avenue yesterday and, when reconciliation efforts failed, he shot her to death, then fired two shots at himself in a suicide effort, missing both times. Mrs. Maudlin had filed a divorce suit recently. Two letters, found in Maudlin’s pocket, one addressed to police and the other to relatives, told of domestic difficulties and accused Mrs. Maudlin of going out with other men, police said. Police said Maudlin told them that after shooting Mrs. Mandlin, he fired a*t his own head, one bullet passing through his cap, and that he fell to the ground and did not recall any further event* until arrival of police. He and Mrs. Maudlin had been married three years, and two weeks ago she ordered him to leave, he told Detectives Louis Fossati and Philip Miller, who obtained the purported confession. Besides the husband, Mrs. Maudlin is survived by two sons by a former marriage, Hayden Day, 16, and Eugene Day, 7, and a sister, Mrs. Grace Kennig, Indianapolis. Funeral services will be he’i Wednesday in the Trinity M. E. church, with burial in Boxville, Ky.

FREEDOM OF PRESS IS INVOLVED IN SUIT South American Editor to Face Prosecution. By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Feb. 12.—An important lawsuit, regarded as involving the freedom of the press in Argentina, is scheduled to begin within a few days. Natalio Botana, director of the popular afternoon paper, Critica, will face court to answer a charge of the public prosecutor, Luis Elizalde, that Critica distorted the facts of the internal situation in Germany, endangering cordial relations existing between Argentina and Germany. It was understood that prosecution follows representations made to the foreign office by the former German ambassador here. Romulo Naon, former ambassador to Washington, said the material published by Critica was in no way intended as an offense to Germany, to the government, or to individuals, wherefore there was no possibility of war or of diplomatic friction. “To sustain the contrary seems to me to be absurd,” he said. STREET WIDENING IS APPROVED FINALLY City and Water Company Agree on West Sixteenth Project. Agreement between the Indianapolis Water Company and the works board on the extension of West Sixteenth street was reached today. The water company donated about five and one-half acres to the city for the extension of Sixteenth street from the canal to Emrichsville bridge r.t White river. The city bought one plot of ground east of Fall Creek from the water company for $1,50u This plot was cut off from the rest of the water company's property by the opening of the street and will be used by the city as a fib in. CWA workers completed the road bed for Sixteenth street west to White river last week. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 26 10 a. m 32 7 a. m 27 11 a. m 36 Ba. m 29 12 (noon).. 39 9a. m 30 1 ijj). m..... 41

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Published in Papers Before President Had Seen It, Is Assertion. SCORCHING NOTE ISSUED Message Also ‘in Error/ Says Secretary Early in Statement. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Indications point to “publicity; purposes” behind the telegram of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to President Roosevelt protesting cancellation of air mail contracts, it was said at the White House today. The making public of the Lindbergh telegram in New York City before it had been seen by President Roosevelt brought forth today from Stephen T. Early, White House secretary, a formal statement. Mr. Early cited the method employed in making public the message from the flier and added that it would be referred to PostmasterGeneral James A. Farley and Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper. Statement Is Issued Mr. Early’s statement: “Except when the senders of telegrams or other communications act primarily for publicity purposes, the common practice is to allow the President, when he is addressed by them, the courtesy of receiving and reading their communications before they are read by others than the person addressed. “In this instance the giving out of a telegram which bears the name of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, by his attorney and legal adviser, Colonel Henry Breckinridge, would indicate the message obviously was sent for publicity purposes—at least, it was published before it was received by the President. “The President’s executive order under date of Feb. 9 was issued after the postmaster-general advised the President that ‘all domestic air mail contracts for carrying the mails have been annulled.’ The postmaster-general annulled these contracts. Telegram in Error Colonel Lindbergh's telegram is in error in that it states the President ordered the cancellation of aU air mail contracts. “Colonel Lindbergh’s telegram will be referred to the postmaster-gen-eral and to the secretary of commerce for consideration and action.” A check-up revealed that the Lindbergh telegram was not received at the White House until 10:15 o'clock last night. The message, however, had appeared in newspapers, editions of which came out about that time, indicating that it was made public some time before from the office of Breckinridge. Officials continued with speedy preparations for operation of the air rm.il by the army. Roper to Report Later The inter-departmental aviation committee recently created by President Roosevelt met to go over the arrangements. Chairman Roper will report later to President Roosevelt. Major-General Benjamin Foulois, chief of the air corps, conferred with Edward J. Hamilton, Washington representative of the Air Mail Pilots’ Association, on plans for army employment of pilots who may be dropped by the private lines. The war department said 1,300 flying officers were on active duty, 3,500 more are on the reserve rolls and can be called to active service, and in addition there are 375 pilots in the national guard.

CHICAGO NEWSPAPER CUTS PRICE 1 CENT Herald-Examiner Reduces Cost to 2 Cents a Copy in Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—The sales price of the Chicago Herald and Examiner today was reduced to 2 cents a copy, after having been held at 3 cents for years. The 2-cent price is effective only in Chicago and suburbs. Circulation directors of the newspaper expect a material increase in local sales. The price of the Tribune, Chicago’s other morning newspaper, long has been 2 cents. The Sunday price of the Herald and Examiner is retained at 10 cents. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 10 Bridge 5 Broun 9 Classified 13, 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 7 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial b Hickman—Theaters 9 Hobby 5 Lippmann 6 Lodge News .. 7 Our Gang—A Series 9 Pegler 9 Radio 8 Sports f. 12, 13 State News 8 Unknown Blond 15 War Pictures 11 Woman's Pages 4, 5 V*