Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1934 — Page 1

BANDIT SLAIN, ALLEGED PAL HELD BY COPS City Gunman Is Shot Down by Gas Attendant at Whiteland. POLICE IN GUN BATTLES Hoodlum Is Arrested After Series of Wild Chases by Officers. One gangster i? d p ad and another is under arrest, today following a series of police chases and gun battles in south Indianapolis and an attempted robbery at Whiteland early today. The dead man, slain by a filling station proprietor at Whiteland, has been identified positively, police said, as Thomas Moore, 27. a known criminal with a police record. Under arrest is Charles Geisking. 3ft. local hoodlum, captured, after a running gun battle, by patrolmen Herschel Musgrove and Walter Bandy, in the 1300 block Naomi street. Piecing the series of events, police belipvp the gang stole an automobile at, Lafayette early last night, and then wrecked the car on the Madison road near the Longacre swimming pool about midnight. Forced to Ride With Trio Shortly after midnight. Harry Meikle, 22. of 1008 Kim street, passed the wrecked car, on his way home from Franklin, and stopped to in- j vestigate. A man standing beside the car asked him if he wished “to earn a dollar.’’ When Mr. Meikle refused, after becoming suspicious, the man drew a pistol and held Mr. Meikle. while two companions, who came from behind some bushes, loaded several rifles, shotguns and revolvers from the wrecked car mto Mr. Meikle's car. Then they forced Mr. Meikle to drive to various points in Indianapolis where the gang vainly tried to break into parked cars. Unsuccessful, the kidnapers directed Mr. Meikle to drive to Sixteenth street and College avenue, where they got out ol the car and walked away. Reporting to police, about 2 a. m., Mr. Meikle rode with police squads under Sergeant Otis Baker, several hours in search of the gang. Hiding near the wrecked car, the officers awaited results. Submachine Gun .lames About 4 a. m-. a Ford V 8 with several men in it drove up. Mr. Miekle recognized one of the men as one of his abductors, he said. Seeing police, the men in the car hurriedly drove away, with police in pursuit. The officers’ submachine gun jammed, after firing a few rounds, and the police car was outdistanced. A few minutes later. Beech Grove officers reported vain pursuit of the same car. Then police were notified of an attempted robbery and a shooting, in which one gangster. Moore, was slain at Whiteland. Police believe the bandit rar was returning from Whiteland when it stopped at the wrecked car. and was chased by police. Officials of Franklin county reported that Moore was shot to death by Robert Blythe, whose filling station at Whiteland had been robbed seven times recently. Last night he hid in the place and when several men appeared, one shooting out the door glass, he opened fire, killing Moore. The others fled toward Indianapolis, after firing at Mr. Blythe. He believes he wounded another of the gang. Gvisking (’aught in Car Back in Indianapolis, police were combing the cit> for the bandit car that escaped from Sergeant Baker's squad. Patrolmen Musgrave and Bandy gave chase when ?. car passed them at seventy miles an hour early this morning, and. after firing several shots into the car. forced it to the curb, arresting Geisking. In the car. which had been stolen from D. R. Cooper. 112 Monument place, police found title to the wrecked car. stolen earlier in the night from Lafayette, a loaded rifle, cartridges, butcher knife and other articles. Geisking claimed he had been hijacked of a load of alcohol at Lafayette and was returning from Lafayette. Police Identify Budv Police believe the gangsters were the ones who exchanged shots with L. W. Roeder. Edgewood. merchcant policeman, about 1:10 a. m.. when he investigated a car parked at a filling station at Homecroft, below Stop 5. Police said Moore was bound to the grand jury last February on vehicle taking charges. At that time, he gave his address as 2007 College avenue. Identification of his body was made by Lieutenant Albert Perrott. Indianapolis finger print expert. He has been arrested a number of times on vehicle taking charges, officers said. Municipal Judge Dewey Myers today continued hearing on vagrancy charges against Geisking until April 18. Moore's mother, Mrs. Bessie Moore. 2007 College avenue, said her son and Geisking. who had been close friends more than a year, left her home together about 5 p. m. yesterday, both in an intoxicated condition. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 47 10 a. m 40 7a. m 45 ll a. m 41 Ba. m 44 12 tnoon).. 41 9 a, m 42 1p.m..... 39

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First Lady Fires Back at Dr. Wirt ‘lf It Is Communism, Make the Most of It,’ Says Mrs. Roosevelt.. By I nited Prexx WASHINGTON. April 11.—If it is communism to give persons an opportunity to earn their own living and buy their own homes, Mrs. Roosevelt said today she is prepared to lpt Dr. Wililam Wirt, make the most of it. Dr. Wirt charged that the government’s subsistence homestead and industrial decentralization protect at Reedsville, W. Va.. ini which Mrs. Roosevelt is interested, is communistic. “Never in this country to my knowledge,” Mrs. Roosevelt said, has it, been considered communism to give people an opportunity to earn their own living and buy their own homes. “What the government is doing is a drop in the bucket. Its value is its suggestion to industry to decentralize and enable many people to have more in their lives than they would otherwise.” Baying that she understood that Dr. Wirt had said that the project would move 200 families out. of Morgantown. where they are now paying r p nt, Mrs. Rooseevlt commented: “I question very much if any of the people who will eventually move into the 125—not 200 houses—have paid any rent for quite a long while. They have been on relief and they come out of mining .camps.”

DILLINGER NOW IN PITTSBURGH Police Making City-Wide Search There for Indiana Terror. John Dillinger. public enemy No. 1. and his paramour. Ann Martin, attractive half-breed French-Indian girl, definitely have deserted Indianapolis for Pittsburgh, where he is now in hiding. The Times learned today. Pittsburgh police today were making a city-wide search for the apartment believed to be occupied by the desperado, Ann Martin, and John Hamilton, another member of the notorious Indiana terror mob. The Pennsylvania police, it; was learned have identified definitely the Ford de luxe sedan bearing the Indiana license plates 86-389. which Ann Martin bought from an Indianapolis dealer Saturday after Dillinger s new Hudson sedan was wrecked on Road 31 south of Kokomo. RETURN OF INSULL TO BEGIN FRIDAY Magnate Will Arrive in Boston in May. By T'nited Prexx ISTANBUL. Turkey. April 11. Turkish and American officials today arranged to return Samuel Instill to the United States aboard the American steamship Exilona. which sails from Smyrna for Boston Friday afternoon. The Exilona of the American export line is due at Boston about the middle of May.

Robbery Suspect Makes Impassioned Jury Plea

’Don’t Turn Me Loose, Give Me a New Trial.’ Kelly Urges. Pleading his own case before a jammed courtroom, Willard Kelly, alleged bandit, made a simple, but impassioned, plea before the jury in a closing argument in his trial in criminal court today on a charge of robbing the ’William H. Roberts A* Son* dairy. Beating his hands against the jury box rail. Kelly cried out in a hoar.se voice. “Don’t turn me loose. All I want is anew trial and a chance to prove my innocence." Kelly, a slight figure dressed in a brown suit, stole courtroom sympathy from the prosecution in a case that seemed hopelessly against him. when he cried: “I am the victim of police psychology. There’s a seed that grows by police suggestion that makes a man believe in his own heart that he is right. That is the case of the state's witnesses. "All of the state's witnesses have established the fact of the robbery. They were consistent in their details of the crime, but all of the witnesses varied in their descriptions of the bandit. In their excited condition after the robbery, they were ready to identify anybody.” Kelly characterized the trial as a case of. two fighters, "one untrained and one well trained.” He opened his plea bv saying: "I’m not a learned orator. I haven’t the skill of the prosecutor. But I'm going to try to go through this case and speak as man to man.” E. D. McElfresh. attorney for the defendant, sat silently back at the counsel table, watching the prisoner. Kelly's son and wife were in the crowded courtroom, nodding encouragement. Unversed in courtroom procedure. Kelly took over the job of attorney

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WHOLE NATION CHUCKLES AT WIRTCOMEDY Gary Man Hurls Boomerang and Capital Joins in Laughter. REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT Six Dinner Party Guests to Get Chance to Give Their Side. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 11.—As a Republican political issue, Dr. William I. Wirt appeared today to have good Democratic possibilities. He hurled—with somewhat of a jovian gesture, to be sure—what is generally known in political jargon as a ' boomerang.” So it was interpreted as Democrats chuckled over his “revelations” about the Roosevelt “brain trust,” and Republicans displayed an understandable reticence about discussing the show. Democrats said Republicans could squeeze all the sustenance they choose out of a dinner party at which no real “brain truster” was present—and at which Dr. Wirt seems to have monopolized the conversation—a book by Dr. Rex Tugwell which is no secret, anc 1 secondhand reports of what someone said to someone else that have been denied. That was the stuff of which the doctor’s study of a revolutionary plot, by the “brain trust” —the substitution of a Stalin ior the Kerensky Roosevelt—was concocted. Blurb Is Appreciated The doctor apparently never got any closer to a real “brain truster” than Dr. Tugwell’s book and some speond-hand conversation about Dr. Tugwell and Dr. Fred Howe, the veteran progressive who is now consumers’ counsel for Triple A. But he is an authority on Tugwell's written works and gave the assistant secretary of agriculture such a blurb that his publishers should be grateful. House Democratic leaders who have been criticised privately for leti ting the Wirt affair assume such proportions, were emboldened today by yesterday’s flop and are prepared to take things firmly in hand. Dr. Wirt will be given no further opportunity to appear. Next Tuesday the six who attended the party given by Miss Alice Barrows, formerly Dr. Wirt’s secretary and now employed by the United States bureau of education, will have a chance to tell their side of the dinner conversation in Virginia. Newspaper Man Is Named Dr. Wirt named Lawrence Todd. Tass news agency representative as referring to the President as “the Kerensky of this revolution.” Others who were present he said, were Miss Hildegarde Kneeland. home eco- ; nomics chief of the agriculture department: Miss Mary Taylor of the farm administration; Robert Bruere | of the textile code advisory commitjtee; David C. Coyle, PWA. and Alice | Barrows of the interior department. All were brain trust “satellites,” he said, but Todd. The six were summoned to appear before the committee Tuesday. "As far as I'm concerned.” said Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle, chairman of the committee. “I was ready to quit the investigation, but the committee thought that in justice the six dinner guests should be given a chance to reply.”

in his own case after a purported offer was made to him to plead guilty and accept a ten-year prison sentence. Shortly before noon, the case went to the jury after it had been instructed by Special Judge L. Ert Slack. Tbe prosecution attempted in the closing argument to batter down Kelly’s plea by referring to a previous conviction. Courtroom attaches attempted to explain the sensational method of a prisoner pleading his own case by pointing out that a similar case was reported in a recent issue ox a detective story magazine. They also intimated that some lawyer other than Mr. McElfresh had instructed Kelly before he went before the jury.

State Opens Probe of Alleged Tax Evasions by Foreign Corporations; Trucking Firm Under Fire

BY GEORGE H. DENNY Times Staff Writer The opening move in a drive to compel companies not incorporated in Indiana to conform to state statutes in obtaining certificates of admission to do business h^re. ; started today by Attorney-General Philip Lutz j r. He announced that a demand has been made on the Aero Mayflower Transit Company i for payment of SIO.OOC as penalty for alleged violation of the statute. "This office will move immediately to stop foreign corporations from doing business in Indiana, unless I they are qualified properly.” said Mr. Lutz. The public service commission and the corporation department of the secretary of state have certified to me that the Aero Mayflower Transit Company has not re-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934

Lebanon Woman Pulls Away From Rescuers, Drowns After Auto Dives Into Canal; Three Friends Are Saved

Attorney’s Wife Swims Into Darkness After Midnight Plunge Here. The body of Mrs. Margaret Stewart. 32, wife of a Lebanon attorney. was recovered from the canal at Blackford and West streets early today by policemen under the command of Sergeant Frank Gallagher, who had been grappling for her body since midnight. Mrs. Stewart was the victim of an automobile accident which plunged a car in which she and three other women were riding into the canal at Eugenp street, as the women were returning from a fraternal meeting here last night. Mrs. Stewart's body was carried downstream for more than three miles by the swift canal current. The body was identified by Carl Bratton, Lebanon undertaker, who said he had known Mrs. Stewart all his life and was positive of his identification. Two other Lebanon women, submerged in the muddy waters and rescued shortly after the accident, were sent home from city hospital today, still suffering from shock as a result of their experiences. Mrs. J. R. Spelbring, 72, remained at city hospital, after being saved from downing by the heroic efforts of another woman. In the car besides Mrs. Spelbring were Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Helen Ruth, and Mrs. Orpha Park. 42. the driver, all well-know r n Lebanon women. They were returning to Lebanon after attending a meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star here last night. Driving on Wrong Street Mrs. Park said after being rescued that she thought they were on Twenty-ninth street instead of Eugene street when the accident occurred. None of the women noticed anything unusual about their route, she said, until the car crossed the railroad tracks of the Big Four. Mrs. Ruth saw a red danger signal ahead. She remarked that repairs probably were being made on the street. Suddenly, the water of the canal was disclosed by the headlights. “My God. we're going into the water,” cried Mrs. Ruth, clutching the sides of the car. “It can't be the water,” said Mrs. Park. “We’re on Twenty-ninth street and we go over a bridge.” Two Men Aid Rescue Before any of the other women could finer a word, the car left the pavement and plunged into the canal. The water was more than five feet deep at this point and the car was submerged to within a few inches of the roof. Mrs. Ruth managed to lower the front window and putting forth all her strength, dragged herself out through the opening, pulling the aged Mrs. Spelbring with her. The loud crash caused by the car plunging into the water attracted the attention of J. B. Candy. 29. of the Sheffield inn. and Jesse Warren, 26, of 1358 Eugene street. Without a moment's hesitation both men dived into the water. First they assisted Mrs. Ruth to the bank, where she collapsed alter her heroic efforts to save Mrs. Spelbring. Mrs. Stewart was rescued next, Mrs. Stewart, according to the rescuers, pulled away from them as she reached the surface and began swimming downstream. Disappears Into Darkness She disappeared in the darkness before Candy and Warren could reach her and they returned to their task of bringing the other two women to the surface. Mrs. Stewart is the wife of Ernest Stewart, attorney, and the mother of two children, Majetta Jean. 8, and Charles, 4. She was an active member of the Business and Professional Women's Club, the Presbyterian church and the Order of the Eastern Star. In addition to her husband and children, she is survived by her mother and two sisters. Miss June Flaningham of Washington and Mrs. J. P. Frank Laughner of Whitestown, and a brother. Grover , Flaningham of Evanston, 111. After the fatal accident, police said the women had decided to go | to Lebanon by way of Twenty-ninth street to avoid a traffic jam caused by an accident at Thirtieth and Clifton streets. $25,000 IS BANK " LOOT Trio Kidnaps 3 Employes After Robbing Colorado Institution. By V nited Prexx STERLING. Colo.. April 11.—Five masked bandits today robbed the Security State bank here of approximately $25,000, kidnaped three bank employes, and fled in a black sedan, toward Nebraska.

ceived permission to do business in this state. We have demanded the 810.000 penalty.” The Aero Mayflower Transit Company. 915 Daly street, was incorporated in Kentucky in 1928 and does a local and long distance moving business in several states, records show. Main offices of the company are in Indianapolis. Officers of the company are Burnside Smith, president; Conrad Gentry, vicepresident, and Emmett Huggins, secretary. All reside in Indianapolis. Mr. Lutz said. F. Hale Brown. Indianapolis attorney representing a group of taxpayers. supplied the attorney-gen-eral's office with information which started the investigation. In connection with the Aero Mayflower case. Mr. Lutz also indicated that a probe was under way to de-

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CLAIMS WORLD MARK FOR AIRPLANES WITH 9-MILE-HIGH CLIMB

By t nited Prexx ROME. April 11.—Pilot Rena to Donati today claimed a world altitude record for airplanes with a flight to 15,000 meters (49,200 feet). The recognized world record of 13.661 meters <44.819 feet) is held by Georges Lemoine of France. Lieutenant, Apollo Soucek, N. S. N„ holds the American record of 13.157 meters (43.166 feet). Donati's figures were approximate. He started his flight at 11:38 a. m. and descended at 1:20 p. m. He was in fainting condition when he landed. The astonishing height estimated by Donati is 9.315 miles. It has been surpassed only by stratosphere balloonists.

215,000 WILL VOTE IN COUNTY PRIMARY Ralston Makes Estimate Based on Registration. Approximately 215,000 persons will vote in the Marion county primary, Glenn B. Ralston, county clerk, said today, basing his estimate on the registration tabulation to date. If Mr. Ralston's estimate is correct, the total registration will surpass by 3.000 the total vote in the last election, several days will be needed to reach an accurate figure on the registration, Mr. Ralston said. Sixty employes are at work checking the registration lists and their services will be necessary until after the primary, in order that five voter lists may be made for each precinct and all registration data included in “master books” for the use of election inspectors. Former Cuban President Dies By ( nited Prexx HAVANA. Cuba. April 11.—Former President Alfredo Zayas, who has been critically ill, died at his home today.

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termine foreign corporations, standings on tax matters. Records of the auto license bureau show that the company purchased Indiana licenses for more than eighty trucks in 1934. The 1933 property tax schedule of the company in the assessor's office shows $9,200 taxable valuation. The 1932 return shows a valuation of $11,240 and the 1931 return shows $15,000 valuation. Records show no return prior to 1931. In 1931. according to John McCloskey, Center township assessor, the A°ro Mayflower Company was assessed $71,840 on some forty company trucks licensed that year in Indiana. Mr. McCloskey said that company officials told a deputy assessor that taxes on the trucks were being paid

BABY GIRL, 2, KIDNAPED BY BOY, 13, DIES Tiny Child, Unconscious and Black With Frostbite, Found by Pupils, By ( ii i ted Frexx CHICAGO. April 11.—A tiny, blond baby girl. Dorette Zietlow. 24. died in St. Elizabeth's hospital today from shock and exposure suffered during two days as the prisoner of an abnormal 13-year-old boy. The girl was kidnaped Sunday afternoon and held on the second floor of an abandoned livery stable. She was unconscious and her body was black with frostbite when she was found last ngiht. While physicians worked frantically to save the child. Shakespeare avenue police fired questions at stubborn and defiant George Rogalski, 13. until he finally broke down and told the story of the kidnaping. Denies Molesting Baby The boy was shown to have been held in the juvenile detention home for five weeks at one time after he molested a girl older than Dorette. He had been released after officials decided he had been “sufficiently impressed of the seriousness of his offense.” The boy said he had not molested the child. He admitted tearing her clothes. Physician reported a number of scratches and bruises on the child’s body, apparently the result of rough handling. According to the boy’s story, which was verified by a brother and sister of the kidnaped child and neighborhood children, the boy lured Dorette away from in front of her grandmother's home by a promise of “nickels and candy.” Dropped Through Window He led her to the boarded-up stable, broke a basement window and pushed the child through to drop several feet to the floor. The boy scrambled down and carried the child to the second floor of the building, where he placed her on a pile of debris. While police led a district-wide hunt, the boy made repeated trips to the stable to see his captive, but made no attempts to feed or care for her. On Monday and Tuesday he attended school as usual. The discovery came yesterday after children playing in front of the stable heard feeble moans. They found the child by crawling through a broken skylight. They held excited conferences, but it was not until the Rogalski boy came to the stable and ordered them away that, they reported their find to police. Father Pravs at Bedside They helped police find the boy and it was their direct accusations which broke down the boy’s defiance. # At the hospital, Dorette recovered consciousness sufficiently to move her hands and head after an injection of stimulants and nourishment. Nurses were unable to give her more than a few drops of water after two days of thirst. The baby’s tongue was parched and swollen. Police were undecided what they would do with the accused boy. “I didn't hurt her any,” the boy was quoted as saying. “I just took off her clothes and looked at her. I don’t know why.” After the child's father learned that his daughter had been found he hurried to the hospital. He knelt at the baby's bedside and prayed.

WOMAN'S FAfHER IS SLAIN BY HER LOVER Rejected Suitor Kills Wabash Man in Gun Duel. j By United Prraa WABASH, Ind.. April 10.—A shotj gun duel fought when Zach Sweazv. 41. attempted to claim A woman he | said was his common law wife, rei suited today in the death of Charles j E. Capes, 65. the woman’s father, ! and serious injuries to Sweazy. The shooting took place in the early morning hours when Sweazy went to the Capes farm home and attempted forcibly to take Miss i live with Sweazy.

in Kentucky, the corporate home of the concern. A letter in the tax office files shows that on May 19, 1931, Mr. McCloskey wrote to the county assessor at Louisville asking if the company had filed a tax return on the trucks. The reply, signed by T. M. Wintersmith. tax commissioner at Louisville, states that the company never had filed a return there in that name. Mr. McCloskey then wrote to the company telling them of the letters and assessing them a total of $76,340 valuation for the year. He states, however, that the company took the matter before the tax board, and the board sent him an order reducing the assessment from $73,340 to sl,\ooo.

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DEMOCRATS HAIL ILLINOIS VOTE AS NEW DEAL VICTORY Party Emerges From Primary Election, Holding Majority Position for First Time in State’s History. G. O. P. WIPED OUT, FOES CLAIM Ever-Mounting Toll of Ballots Shows Tremendous Triumph for Policies Laid Down by Roosevelt Men. By Ciiited Prexx CHICAGO. April 11,—Democrats today claimed sweeping indorsement for President Roosevelt’s recovery program as they emerged from a primary election apparently the majority party for the first time.

SILK STRIKERS NEAR VICTORY Labor Board Expected to Give Favorable Ruling Within 2 Days. By Timex Bpeeinl WASHINGTON, April 11.—A ruling favorable to the American Federation of Hosiery Workers in the controversy arising out of the strike at the Real Silk hosiery plants at Indianapolis is "xpected from the national labor board within the next two days. Two questions have been submitted by the regional labor board in Indianapolis to the national labor board here. They are: 1. Are the conditions agreed to preceding the workers’ election last August still binding? 2. What workers’ organizations have the power to bargain collectively with the management? Disorder Mars Peace Minor disorder marred the previously peaceful character of the strike of city hosiery workers yesterday and today. Meanwhile, union and mill officials awaited results of reported conference of the national labor board at Washington on the strike situation. The national board was reported studying the election last October at the Real Silk plant, in which employes voted in favor of a company union. Now, members of the employes union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, are demanding that their union be recognized. Several alleged acts of violence against mill workers not on strike have been reported to police in the last twenty-four hours. Four men were arrested yesterday afternoon on disorderly conduct charges after they are alleged to have chased two Real Silk workers, who just had left the plant, in a car. Roscoe Westfall. 23. Real Silk employe. reported a brick was thrown through his front window last night as he sat near the window. Charles Lyons. 21, of 544 Middle drive. Woodruff Place, Real Silk worker, reported two men jumped from a car and struck him in the mouth, as he was on his way to work this morning. The men then fled jn a car bearing a strike placard, he said. Charges that the election on the company union and the employes’ national union last fall was conducted unfairly w T ere made today by B. Foster, business agent for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union local, who is acting as organizer of the hosiery workers' local. “At the time of the election, every one in the mills was permitted to vote.” Mr. Foster said. “This included the office force cafeteria help, watchmen, company policy lingerie department employes and others, none of whom was eligible to join the employes' union and therefore should not have been permitted to vote. “In addition, the company hired a number of new employes just prior to the election, and then discharged them after the vote.” FORMER EDISON CHIEF GETS RAILROAD POST Matthew S. Sloan Heads Board of Missouri - Kansas. By T'nited Prexx NEW YORK. April 11—Matthew S. Sloan, former head of the New York Edison Company, today w-as elected chairman of the board of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad following acceptance of the resignation of M. H. Cahill as chairman and president of the company. The position of president will be filled at a later date. RICHMOND MAN LOSES LIFE IN AUTO CRASH Car Hits Bridge and Plunges Into Creek Near Greenfield. By r nited Prexx M. J. _ Quigley Jr.. 41. Richmond drug store owner, died in a hospital here last night of injuries received when his car hit a bridge and plunged into a creek near Greenfield. Passing motorists dragged Mr. Quigley from the submerged car and brought him here.

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The primaries had been viewed as the first major test of the “new deal” policies. Democratic incumbents campaigned on “back the administration” platforms. The Dpmocrat.s apparently pulled twice as many voters info their party contests than voted in the nff-ypar primary in 1930. Their e\er-mounting total approached tha 10.32 landslide of 816.000. The Republicans. meanwhile, made a weak showing with less than half as many votes as they polled in 1932. Incumbent congressmen who sought renominatiom triumphed with but two exceptions. Walter Npsbit. Democratic, congressman-at-large, was defeated by Michael L. Igne. and James Simpson Jr., Republican. lost to Ralph E. Church in the Tenth district. Democrats Elated By t nttrrt Prexx WASHINGTON. April 11.—Democratic leaders claimed today that the Illinois primary showed the Republican party had disappeared in that state and assured Democratic success in the nation-wide, election next November. Democrats were jubilant as they read the Illinois returns. Sppaker Henry T. Rainey, who within a month was complaining of a Wall Street plot to defeat him in the downstate Twentieth district, had this to say: “The vote shows there is no Republican party any longer in Illinois. We will carrv the state this fall.” ' Democrats in joyous concert described the Illinois poll as a refer, endum of approval of Roosevelt recovery policies. FORMER STATE JUDGE. I. U. TRUSTEE. IS DEAO Ira C. Batman. 7£, Ex-Appellate Jurist. Succumbs. By l nited Prrxx BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. April 11.Ira C. Batman. 72. former judge of ihe state appellate court and member of the Indiana university board of trustees since 1908. died at his home here last night after a short illness. Judge Batman graduated from Indiana university in 1885 and served as a Republican representative in the state legislature in 1905. He was elected to the state appellate bench in 1916 and served until 1924. He was one in the leaders in the movement for establishment of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial hospital in Indianapolis. Survivors include the widow and one daughter, Mrs. Maurice Riley, Bloomington. NAVY SQUADRONS REST IN FLIGHT TO PANAMA Planes Stop at Acapulco. Me*, After Completing Second Leg. By t nit rtf Prr*n SAN FRANCISCO. April 11.—The squadrons of navy planes flying from San Diego to Panama by easy stages were expected to rest today at Acapulco. Mex.. the second overnight stop on their 2.800-mile hop. The planes, comprising squadron.* VP-9 and VP-7, reached Acapulco late yesterday, eight and a half hours after leaving La Paz, their first, stop. Naval authorities said th“ seaplanes would remain grounded today and possibly tomorrow before hoppme off for Corinto, Nicaragua, third leg of the flight. Electricity Production Gains By 1 nited Prra NEW YORK. Apni 11.—Production of electricity in the United States for the week ended April 1 totaled 1.616,945.000 kilowatt hours, a gain of 15.5 per cent above the corresponding 1933 period, the Edison Electric institute reported today. Times Index Page Auto News s Bridge 8 Broun 11 Classified 15,16 Comics ll Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Good Old Days 2 Hickman—Theaters 3 Lippmann 11 Pegler 11 Radio 4 Sports 14,15 State News 3 Talburt Cartoon 12 Vital Statistics 13 Wallace Series 4 Woman s Pages $, 9