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TEN KILLED AS TRAIN PLUNGES FROM TRACKS 37 Others Are Injured When Pennsylvania Locomotive and One Car Dive From Elevated Into Street Below. DEATH TOLL MAY RISE, IS BELIEF Split Rail May Have Caused Disaster, Is Report From Pittsburgh; Passengers Thrown Into Near-Panic. By L nihil /*<* PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27.—A speeding Pennsylvania railroad passenger train plunged from an elevated track on a downgrade here last night killing at least ten of its passengers and injuring more than thirty-seven others. The train, hound from Akron to Pittsbugh, was less than a mile from Penn station here when the locomotive left the rails and plunged into a street below. One car rolled on top the locomotive. The four remaining cars left the rails and stopped at freakish angles. Lights were out and glass shattered, but they remained upright. Ten bodies were removed

within an hour. Firemen searching: the wreckage believed at least seven more persons were trapped. If they were, they were dead or critically injured. There was no sound from the w'reckage. The train was speeding at forty miles an hour when it left the rails. It carried two Pullmans for New York The train was rounding a series of slight curves when something—probably a split rail —caused the wreck. The train was not scheduled to stop there. Train Swaying Dangerously Passengers, who noticed the train was swaying dangerous, were hurled from seats as the train crashed. The diner circled the combination car ahead of it and leaned crazily. Four Negro cooks and waiters were in the kitchen. They were thrown in a heap. Two of them were cut and bruised. Rescuers feared it would take hours to examine the wreckage thor Highly. One of the cars, and the locomotive were smashed. One of the cars careened against an extension of the Clark chewing gum plant, shearing a corner of the building and leaving a huge hole. It rolled on. The last cat settled upright against the ruined wall. Fire Flashes in Car Fire flashed repeatedly in one of the two Pullmans. Passengers were in near panic. A man tried to quiet them. ••We ought to be glad our car is standing up.” he said. The fire appeared only in flashes. It did not spread and finally was extinguished. Authorities had difficulty identifying the dead. The bodies of two white women, one of them fashionably dressed, a Negro woman, and two white men were taken to the morgue, but only the men were identified promptly. One of them was David A. Ducharne. 50. past grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, whose home is in Anconia. Conn. A fierce snowstorm, which had raged over Pittsburgh since Sunday morning, was forgotten as hundreds waded through ankle deep snow to watch rescuers. Casualty List Revised A revised casualty Lst in the wreck issued late this morning: DEAD Frank Dravo. president, Dravo Construction Company, Pittsburgh. David A. Ducharme. 50, Ansonia. Conn. Clarence J. Mayer. Ingram. Pa. Thomas Jeffries. Negro, Youngstown, O. The bodies of two white women and a Negro woman lay unidentified at the morgue. Other bodies still were in the wreckage, their number undetermined, but three or more. MISSING Mrs. W. Miller Wardrop. Sewickley. Pa., wile of the Penns>lvania railroad's assistant general manager. W. M. Shaw. New Castle, engineer of the wrecked train. O. C. Douthitt, Youngstown, 0.. fireman of the wrecked train. Cold Increases Hardships One-above-zero temperature increased the hardships of men and women who were helped from the battered cars. Some of them had no topcoats. The tram was near the downtown section of old Allegheny, the original Pittsburgh settlement, when it was wrecked. It broke power cables, I plunging the vicinity into darkness. Among the passengers not accoun’ad for were Mrs. W. Miller Wardrop. wife of the Pennsylvania railrood'a assistant general manager. gnd Frank Dravo. one of four brothers who operate the Dravo Construction Company, large Pittsburgh concern.

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NEW BRIDGE TO BE STARTED ON AIRPORT ROAD Railroad Overpass Will Be Replaced by CWA Workers, Funds. Replacement ol the dangerous railroad overpass on the High School road, south of the National road, by anew concrete bridge, was assured yesterday following a conference between Bruce Short, county surveyor, and county commis- ! sioners. Approximately 500 CWA workers 1 will be assigned to demolish the old wooden bridge and erect a modern | substitute at an estimated cost of SIOO,OOO, Mr. Short announced. The narrow overpass with its sharp right-angle turn is on the j main road to Municipal airport, ana has been the scene of many accij dents. Plans call for completion of 1 the new structure by May l. Mr. Short pointed out that the project will not cost Marnon county any money, the entire undertaking being financed with CWA funds. William H. Book, director of the Indiana unemployment commission, approved the project after he had obtained an opinion from the attor-ney-general as to its legality. ENTERS TRUSTEE RACE Ira Johnson Seeks G. O. P. Nomination in Warren Township. Ira L. Johnson. R. R. 10. announced yesterday he would seek j Republican nomination for trustee of Warren township in the Mayprimary. Mr. Johnson operates a store and auto accessory shop at Washington street and Franklin road. He has been a resident of Warren township thirteen vears. J Injured in Window Plunge Elmer Cook. 30. Negro. 329 West 1 New York street, fell through a window at his home yesterday while hanging curtains. He suffered a cut leader in his left arm and was taken to city nospitai.

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Estates of Mentally Afflicted Veterans Dwindle to Pittances, Marion Guardian Records Show

VETO THREAT IS HURLED IN VETERAN TILT Roosevelt Will Refuse to Accept Liberalization Plan, He Says. B'l United Preen WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—President Roosevelt stiffened his stand against sweeping liberalization of veterans’ compensation today as raids against the administration economy program spread from the house to the senate. The President’s latest pronouncement. flat word that he would veto any cash bonus proposal, was addressed to Speakei Henry T. Rainey, (Dem., ill.), although the senate was the scene of the latest veterans’ gain. Speaker Rainey announced the President had written him announcing plainly that the bonus proposal would meet with a veto if passed by congress. It was the second communication sent Mr. Rainey by Mr. Roosevelt in an effort to head off the veterans’ drive. At the same time with the issue of World war veterans’ benefits up for debate today, the senate rode roughshod over an administration compromise plan and voted yesterday to restore some $60,000,000 in pensions and compensation to Spanish war veterans and dependents. The vote was announced as 51 to 39. Party lines were broken, eighteen Democrats voting with thirty-two Republicans and one Farmer-Laborite in favor of the Steiner-McCarran proposal to return 90 per cent of the Spanish war benefits that existed a year ago. TWO GWA WORKERS INJURED IN WRECK Truck and Freight Cars Collide at Crossing. A truck collided with a cut of freight cars on the Big Four railroad at Michigan street and the canal yesterday afternoon injuring two civil works employes. Thomas Smith, 63. of 1954 Ludlow avenue, suffered injuries of the neck and was sent to City hospital. Aaron Stevenson. Negro, 1010 East Eleventh street, suffered injuries to the shoulder and was taken home. The truck was being driven by Elmer Lochard, 33 ,of 2724 Wood street. Four other CWA workers in the truck were uninjured. MRS. RALSTON ‘BETTER’ Former Governor’s Wife Recovering From Operation Here. Condition of Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, widow of the former Governor. was reported improving steadily at St. Vincent's hospital today. She underwent an operation for appendicitis Saturday night. Fractures Hip in Fall As she stepped from a street car at Massachusetts and College avenues yesterday. Mrs. Susie Rickey, 52. of 1014 Sterling street, slipped on the icy pavement and fell, suffering a possible hip fracture. She was taken to city hospital.

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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 27, 1934

Grant County Bankers Under Attack in Guardianship Cases, Say Probers; Series of Articles to Be Presented. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer MARION, Ind., Feb. 27.—Estates of imcompetent World war veterans have wasted away in this city, just as the minds of many of those veterans have wasted behind bars in closed wards in the national military home and veterans hospital. Thousands upon thousands of dollars of guardianships of veterans, under the jurisdiction of the Grant circuit court, have sunk to a mere pittance or a sheaf of chilled assets. Alleged unlawful investments, totaling $317,302.63, have been made for the veterans by one closed Marion bank with the result that fifty-six: suits to recover on these alleged unlawful and unsound securities are pending in the Grant

county court. The Indianapolis Times inj vestigated the guardianship affairs of those veterans, now wards of the court with banks for parents, and found estates dwindling over a period of years from large balances to i pin-money. The Times will show in this series on the affairs of patients and : former patients of the Marion hospital for veterans that one estate alone dropped from a $5,000 bank balance to FOURTEEN CENTS and several bonds of doubtful value. It will show that, it was necessary j for one closed bank to lend money j to the guardianship it held in trust, i in order that court reports might be made to balance without the sale of doubtful holdings. It will show that court reports j on the condition of the finances of the veterans’ estates were sworn to | by banks but that the true values of the securities held in the veterans’ | estates were not divulged. Change Charged Investments of thousands of dollars were made without court order. I In some cases, the securities were j purchased two and three years before the circuit court of Grant county knew of the purchase. The series will relate how the Grant Trust and Savings Company, i a closed institution, bought bonds in one company when reports of that company showed that it had not paid taxes for two and one-half years and had sustained a net loss I the year bonds were purchased, of $14,000. It will show, however, that offi- ! cers of the Grant Trust in petitioning Grant circuit court for the right jto invest, declared the investment "safe and sound and without hazard.” Wholesale transfers of mortgages | to veterans’ estates will be shown to have been made on one day by the Grant Trust Company. One month later, the Grant Trust was merged with the First National bank of Marion (now a closed institution.) The mortgages in some cases ; still remain unpaid. It will be shown by court records that loans were made to a beer im- ! porter of Marion at that time, an official in the bank where the trust was held. Aproval of the purchase of securities for the veterans was given by the court in some cases and ! some of those securities are never shown again as having been bought or transferred, in the guardianship records of the Grant circuit court. The series will trace operations of one trust officer, who also was listed as secretary, as being in direct con- ! tact with these estates of veterans through three banks. Laxity Is Hinted It will charge that he had knowledge of investments from as far back as 1922 and 1923 until the present day. Present state of these investments indicates that the circuit court was lax in investigations before giving approval to the purchase of securi- j ties for the estate of the veterans. It will be shown that- up to the time of The Times’ investigation. Circuit Judge O. D. Clawson never had ordered an audit of the books of the Grant Trust. The Grant Trust is in receivership in his court.! Much of the frozen assets and losses to the estates of the incompetent men occurred during the business years of the Grant Trust and up to November. 1930. It will be shown that those anemic investments were taken over in the merger of the Grant Trust and the First National of Marion (now in receivership). It will be shown that records of some estates have come to the attention of the United States district attorney in the guardianship estates, but no action has been taken. While on one hand, the guardianships have been depleted in one. c.osed bank by insecure investments it will be shown that in the Marion National bank tnow in liquidation) the securities, or declared main liability, were adequate and safe, but that the wards were permitted seemingly extravagant expenditures. One veteran was permitted to buy eight watches and five watch chains in ten years’ time by the trust officer of the old Marion National. Clothing bills shovtp in the Grant

(This is the first of a series of seven stories on the alleged mis-management of the estates of insane veterans of the Marion. Ind., national home and hospital. The series will trace the alleged loss of thousands of dollars of veterans’ money through alleged bad investments. Throughout the series the names of veterans will, due to their mental ailments and for protection of their families, be kept incognito and alluded to only under the guardianship case numbers of the Grant circuit court. The Indianapolis Times distinctly wishes It understood that none of the seven stories, appearing in The Times daily, deals with acts of the present First National bank in Marion or the present Marion National Bank of Marion). circuit court records include a sls lounging robe and a $9 shirt. One ward was forced to pay for being locked up in a Pennsylvania jail, out of the funds in his estate in Indiana. It will be shown how one ward was permitted to spend $426.45 in | clothing in a period of approximately eighteen months. Vouchers on record in the county ! clerk’s office are shown to be incon- ! sistent as to signatures and in turn |do not coincide with the checks j issued on those vouchers and held ;in the old Marion National bank J and now in the guardianship recj ords of the Marion National of I Marion (the new bank and new guardian of the trusts). Procedure Is Studied In one case, a veteran scrawled his name on a voucher at one time on one day and then on the same day could not write his name and merely made a mark "X.” Proper bank procedure is to have signatures made with a mark done only above the signature of witnesses. No witness attested to the mark made by the veteran who j could not sign his name at one | time and then could sign it at another on the same day. In some cases, the court records j show unsigned vouchers charged to the estate. Checks in bank accounts of the | wards show no indorsements in some I cases. Securities in Default In turn, it will be shown that in the regional bureau of the United States veterans’ administration in Indianapolis, twelve groups of securities purchased for veterans during the regime of the closed Grant Trust, are listed as defaulted and in some instances on deposit for protection of the bondholders. It will be shown that the succeeding or substitute guardian of the Grant Trust, the First National of Marion (now in receivership), purchased securities without first obtaining a court order for the investment. Early records of the guardianships of the insane veterans show trust officers and other bank officials petitioning to have veterans declared insane and then accepting the guardianship immediately afterward. It will be shown that although one veteran was declared by doctors to be of such ill health that it would be injurious for him to appear in court, that within a short time after the insanity verdict, he was purchasing clothing and spending money in shops of Marion. The Times will show an interlocking of directorships between some of the closed banks and corporations to which purported loans were made out of the veterans’ funds. ‘Hands Off,’ Is Charge The investigation will disclose mortgage loans being made to employes of the Grant Trust out of the guardianships in that bank. According to newspaper reporters of Marion, officers of one of the closed banks asked Marion newspapers to pursue a "hands off’’ policy. It will be shown attorneys in the ’ regional office of the veterans’ bureau in Indianapolis investigated j the guardianships in the Grant Trust as far back as the spring of 1933 in an effort to recover alleged losses to the estates. On the other hand, it will be shown that the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Marion took an active interest with Congressman Glenn Griswold in agitating for a true accounting and restoration of the finances of the trusts. (Next —Bonds and Bathrobes.) Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m— —4 8 a. m..\.. 0 7 a. m.... —4 9 a. m 5

SAVAGE STORM GRIPS EASTERN PART OF U. S. j More Than Score Dead as Direct Result of Arctic Blasts. : By United Prenn NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Upward j of a score of persons were dead today as result of storms which have ravaged the eastern United States during the last thirty-eight hours. Eight lost their lives in New York City alone in accidents directly attributed to the Arctic weather. Ten or more were killed in a train wreck outside Pittsburgh. First I Investigation indicated freezing temperatures had caused a split switch. A cold wave extended as far south I as Georgia, intensifying suffering i and impending efforts to clear high- | ways of snowdrifts that isolated j many small communities. 48,000 Men at Work In New York City 48,000 men and 4,600 trucks fought the snow. A biting wind, which at times attained a velocity of thirty-five miles an hour, piled snow in drifts in outlying sections as fast as plows cleared it away. Suburban transportation sys- ! terns, disrupted by the storm 'at | the height of the evening rush hour yesterday, expected to pro- | vide nearly normal service today, j Special crews worked furiously ; throughout the night clearing tracks. Thousands of commuters, either unable to get home last night : or tired of waiting for trains, spent ; the night in hotels. ! In Connecticut, which bore the brunt of last week’s crippling storm, schools were closed. Bus and trolley service throughout the state was disruptedSmall Villages Hard Hit Several small communities in Connecticut, Eastern Massachusetts, Northern New York, Long Island and New Jersey were cut off by drifts. Many of the snowbound villages were reported to be running short of fuel, food and milk supplies. One of the most serious problems confronting New Yorkers was a I threatening coal shortage. Snow and ice choked streets halted deliveries ice choked streets, halted deliveries peded movement of coal bargs. Some anthacite mines in the Pennyivania coal fields were forced to shut down by the cold and snow. 4 Below Here j The mercury slowly will head upward within the next twenty-four hours and then settle into tempera- ! tures unusually high for this time of the year, J. H. Armington, local [ meteorologist, predicted today. From the northwest come reports of a warm wave that may be ex- , pected to reach here within the next j forty-eight hours. Temperatures I probably will rise today to 20 decrees and then drop back to as low |as 10 tonight. Lowest temperature recorded today was 4 below at 6 and ; 7 this morning. The center of the high pressure spot, which would counteract the cold snap, has moved over Evansville, Mr. Armington reported. The low temperature recorded today was the lowest for Feb. 27 since 1871 when it was 4 degrees below zero. At the airport, where the merI cury is exposed to winds, the mercury slid down to 8 below. MUSICAL FACULTY TO HEAR TALK BY PAGANI Conservatory Staff Will Hold Dinner Tuesday Night. Humbert Pagani, instructor in Italian at the Arthur Jordan Con- ; servatory, will be the principal speaker at the first faculty dinner of the new semester for members of the music school staff tonight. "The Italian Language" will be the subject of Mr. Pagani's talk. The entire conservatory faculty has been invited to the dinner, which is one of a series of similar meetings which will be held throughout the school year. The dinner will be held at an Italian restaurant at 105 North Illinois street. Times Index Page America Must Choose 6 Berg Cartoon iq Bridge 15 Broun 9 Classified 13, 14 Comics . .15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Dickens 6 Editorial 10 Financial n Hickman—Theaters 9 Pegler 9 Radio 13 Sports 12. 13 State News 6 War Horrors 9 Woman's Pages 4, 5 •

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Archduke Otto SPONGER IS IN POLITICAL RAGE Prosecutor Post Is Sought by Son of State Election Chief. Herbert M. Spencer, assistant : city attorney, today announced his ! candidacy for the office of prosecuting attorney on the Democratic ticket. Since his graduation from Indiana university in 1920, Mr. Spencer has worked for the party as onetime president of the Young Democratic Club of Indianapolis, of which he is still a member of the board of directors. In 1920 he was in charge of the organization of young Democrats for the state committee. For many years he served on the state committee canvassing board and in several campaigns handled registration of voters for the paity. Mr. Spencer was appointed city prosecuting attorney by Mayor L. Ert Slack in 1928 and served successfully in that office previous to the campaign of 1930. Mr. Spencer is married an has one daughter, Susan, 16 months old. lives with his family at 850 North Pennsylvania street. PUBLICITY HEAD NAMED Arthur Gresham Selected by County G. O. P. Veterans. Appointment of Arthur Q. Gresham as director of publicity for the Marion County Republican Veterans Club was announced today by John M. Caylor, chairman. The Marion county organization includes the Twelfth and part of the Eleventh congressional districts. Mr. Gresham has been active in veterans’ relief work. He served fourteen months overseas during the World war. . ‘ROBIN HOOD’ IS SLAIN Romantic Mexican Outlaw Killed by Federal Troops. By United Prenn GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Feb. 27. —Gregorio Ponce, Mexican Robin Hood, was killed in a fight with federal troops near Santa Rosalio, dispatches said today. Ponce, one of the last of the notorious bandits who once overran Jalisco state, had been a terror in mountain regions for ’/ears and had made for himself a romantic reputation among peasants who regarded him with awe.

SHIVERING PUP SAVED FROM RIVER AT COST OF $250 TO CITIZENS

By l nited Preen PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 27.—1n the middle of the Delaware river, a little dog, its fur covered with snow, shivered on a cake oi ice. Police were summoned. The fire boat at Biankenburg steamed up the river for four miles but couldn’t reach the dog because of the heavy ice. Policemen volunteered to shove a boat eight miles through the floes. After one officer haa fallen into the icy water, the nondescript pup was saved. The city estimated the cost of the rescue at $250.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, <J Cent*

Censorship Is Imposed on All Messages: War Is Feared Near. OTTO CENTRAL FIGURE Vienna Warned Monarchy Is Cause for Conflict, Say Reports. iCopvrißht. 1934, by United Press) VIENNA, Feb. 27. (By telephone to Berlin) —Heavy troop movements along both sides of the Czechoslovakian frontier coincided today with sudden imposition of a censorI ship of all messages. The censorship, applied in the early hours of this morning, resulted in elimination from dispatches of any references either to the troop movements or to reports that Archduke Otto of Hungary or some other Hapsburg might be made king of Austria. Governments of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia have announced that they would regard any such restoration of the Hapsburgs i as a cause for war. Travelers from Czechoslovakia reported great military activity along | the Czechoslovakia side of the border, and 2,000 heavily armed memj bers of the Schutzbund, the auxiliary mobile police force, were sent to the Austrian side, in addition to troops. ,* —' These men were part of the troops sent during the week-end to the German frontier to guard against a possible incursion of 10,000 armed Austrian Nazis, reported to have massed on the German side ready for a thrust at Vienna. One Possibility Seen It was possible that the Czechoslovakian troop movements were a precaution against any such expe- | dition. The borders of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany meet at the point where the Nazis were reported massed. Nazis, knowing that the Austrian border was heavily guardi ed against them, might thrust across ! a corner of Czechoslvakia almost directly toward Vienna. But it was known also that Czechoslovakia, freed from the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian empire when it was split up after the World war, had threatened to invade Austra if an effort were made to put young Archduke Otto, now studying at Louvain, Belgium, on the throne of either Austria or Hungary. Reports that restoration of the throne might be resorted to in an attempt to settle Austria’s political troubles have become increasingly frequent in recent weeks. Some of the government’s most loyal supporters are known to be monarchists. Hope of Solution While the troop movements naturally occupied surface attention they came at the same time with authoritative reports that there was hope of a solution of the bitter dispute between Austria and Germany over the Nazi situation. Reliable sources told ihe United Press there was hope of peace by the early days of March. Secrei and exploratory negotiations were begun during the weekend. It was reported here that restoration of peace was dependent for one thing on the transfer or dismissal of Theo Habicht, German leader of the Austrian Nazis and contact man for Hitler. It was aaid also that Hitler was considering the advisability of sacrificing Habicht. It was Habicht who, in a wireless speech last week, issued an "ultimatum’’ to the Austrian government, giving it until noon tomorrow to reach a "German ’ solution of the Nazi dispute—in simple words to capitulate to the Nazi demands. IRVINGTON WOMEN TO HEAR MRS. GINGERY. ‘Christianity and Industry in America,’ to Be Subject of Talk. The Woman’s Association of the Irvington Methodist Episcopal church will hear Mrs. Walter Gingery Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Gingery will speak on "Christianity and Industry in America.” The musical program will include numbers by Miss Ruth Hutchins, violinist; Mrs. Paul E. Dorsey, vocalist. and Miss Ruth Otte, pianist. The devotional period will be conducted by Mrs. O. H. Staley. Following the program, a social tea and Business meeting will be held, and dinner will be served at 6:30, with the Rev. N. G. Talbott as the speaker. Mrs. Everett C. Collins is program chairman.