Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1934 — Page 1

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15 KILLED AS EXPRESS RAMS HOLIDAY TRAIN Faulty Switch Blamed for Accident: 32 Are Injured. TEN REPORTED DYING Speeding Flyer Leaves Main Track: Two Cars Telescoped. By United Press HAMILTON, Ont*, Dec. 26—Officials of the Canadian National Railway today sought to ascertain whether the open switch which sent the crack Maple Leaf Flyer ploughing into the rear of a Christmas day excursion train, killing 15 and injuring 32. was faulty or did not have time to close. They pointed out that the flyer may have approached so fast that the switch, which is electrically operated. may have not had time to close. The excursion train, carrying 397 passengers, pulled onto the siding just before the limited, traveling 55 miles an hour, approached. It also was pointed out that the switch may have been faulty and remained partially open after the excursion train passed. The last two coaches of the excursion train were telescoped. They .were wooden and crumpled like egg Ihell. Most of the dead and injured Lere taken from the wreckage. None M the Maple Leaf passengers was Kurt.

All Rul Three Identified The death toll was definitely fixed at 15 by the two Hamilton hospitals whieh received the victims. All but three women were quickly identified. Many of she injured were not expected to survive. The wreck occurred at Dundas, a village seven miles from here. None of the passengers on the Maple Leaf, or Chicago to Montreal 60-hour train, was killed or injured. The excursion train, filled with persons who had spent Christmas Day with parents, friends and sweethearts, was returning to Toronto when it was signaled to go on the siding to let the Maple Leaf pass. Ten minutes later the Maple Leaf came roaring down the track. Its signal was green, indicating a clear road ahead. , Engineer Describes Wreck *T followed my instructions to proceed straight ahead." Engineer B. Burell of the Maple Leaf, told the United Press. "I saw the special waiting on the siding. "I drove straight through, as my instructions called. Suddenly my train swerved violently and crashed into the rear of the special. -That's all I know. The cause will have to be determined." The officials refused to comment on reiSorts that the switch was faulty and that it was not properly closed after being used to allow the excursion train to run on the siding. The crash of the wreck was heard throughout the town and residents went to the scene immediately and began rescue operations. Resdlie work was slow because of the lack of light. Christmas presents were strewn along the tracks. There were broken toys, wearing apparel and packages of food scattered along the coaches of the excursion train. Ten Expected to Die W. A. Kingsland. vice president and general manager of the central division of the railway, announced after a preliminary investigation that an open switch caused the wreck. At least ten of the injured were in such serious condition that physicians gave up hope for their recovery. A long line of persons formed at the two Hamilton hospitals searching sot relatives and friends. Both hospitals called all available nurses and physicians for duty. All of the passengers in the third coach from the end were badly shaken up The force of the crash tossed the car up on its end and it remained in that position at the top of the 150-foot cluT on which the tracks are situated. The cliff borders Dundas. The identified dead: R F Sise. son of C. F. Sise. president of the Bell Telephone Cos. of Canada. Dr. G. H. McGuffln, Cooksviile, Ontario. O. H. Burlach. Toronto. Mary Parker. Toronto. F. Green. Pullman porter. J. Smith, porter, address unknown. Smith, Toronto. H. S. Jones. London. Harold Tn.ce Sr., Toronto. Harold Tryce Jr.. Toronto.

TRIPLETS ARE BORN TO PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN Lusty Younrrsters .Are Belated Christmas Gifts for Father. By f rated Perm TARENTUM. Pa., Dec 26—Mrs. Chester Prozowsfci. 26. presented her husband with a belated Christmas present today in the form of triplets The children —two girls and a boy —each weighed four pounds, four ounce*. They were born in the family home at Natrona, with Dr. T. L. Haye of Tarentum attending.

The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight; cold wave with lowest temperature tonight about zero; tomorrow fair with rising temperature by afternoon.

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Shrill Cries of Dying Children Are Described by Survivor of Wreck Canadian Tragedy Scene of Horror as Train Coaches Telescope on Edge of 150-Foot Cliff; Darkness Spur to Panic.

Hy I rul'd Pres* HAMILTON, Ont., Dec. 26.—"1t was a horrible sight. I pray I never will have to see anything like it again.” With those w-ords. William Darian. Montreal, described for the United Press today the wreck of the Canadian National trains at Dundas, near here, last night. "I was sitting in the third coach of the excursion train when there was a terrific crash. It threw me into the seat ahead. It knocked mast of the passengers from their seats. "All started rushing for the exit. Outside I heard the terrible cries of women and children, the moaning of injured and dying. Down below. I noticed the lights of the town of Dundas. My first thought was that some of the coaches of the excursion train had left the track and had fallen down the 150-foot cliff.

"It was so dark I couldn't tell what happened. I worked my way along tracks until I saw the light of a locomotive. It was the Maple Leaf engine. “I noticed that the two rear coaches had been telescoped. Inside the coaches, I could hear moans. ‘ A woman came up and grabbed me by the arm. She wanted me to find her husband. ‘ By that time the passengers of the two trains had surrounded the wrecked coaches. “Some men pleaded with the crowd to keep cool. Others began to use axes and crowbars on the wreckage. ‘ Soon they began carrying out the dead and injured. "One man’s head had nearly been severed from his body. ‘ It was horrible. tt n tt THERE were only a few lights and I stumbled against something. I took out a match and saw it was the body of a middle-aged man. ‘ The crowd grew larger. There was more light now, but the screams of the women and children still could be heard. ‘Some one grabbed me and asked, ‘What the hell happened?' “I told him I didn't know and went on to help a little girl who appeared to be wandering around aimlessly. “Soon I saw that the excursion train had been hit by another passenger train. ‘ It was a miracle that all of the cars did not leave the tracks and tumble down the cliff. I guess if that would have happened there wouldn't be many of us left today to tell the story. “The car next to the one in which I was riding had been turned up on its end. I don’t know if anv people in it w'ere injured or killed. nun “AS doctors and nurses reached xY the scene the crowd became more orderly. “I saw some of the passengers go up ahead and climb back into the roaches of the excursion train. Some of them came out a little while later carrying bundles. I suppose they w r ere Christmas presents. “It seemed like it was about eight hours before someone told me to go down the track and get in a coach of the other train. There were some men trying to clear the track. “Another train was approaching slowly. I guess they placed the dead and injured on it and took them back to Hamilton.”

MESSENGERS ROBBED OF SIS,OOOPAY ROLL Bandit Trio Flees With CoU ton Mill Cash. 7? I nitrd Press CHESTER, S. C.. Dec. 26.—Three bandits today stole a pay roll estimated at $15,000 from messengers of the Springs Cotton Mills. The robbery occurred as the money was being transferred from the main office at Lancaster to the Chester plant The bandits escaped in an unlicensed Pontiac.

City Textile ‘Compromise 9 Terms to Remain Secret Strikers to Be Returned to Work as Positions Are Opened, Is Report Heard at Capital. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.—Because the Indianapolis Bleaching Cos. strike was "compromised." with both sides making concessions, the terms of the settlement will not be revealed, it was announced today by the

Textile Labor Relations Board. This settlement was reached last Saturday at Indianapolis and was brought to Washington by Carl E. L. Gill, mediator for the board. Having refused to reveal the terms at Indianapolis. Mr. Gill reported the matter to Frank Douglas of the Textile Board, who today ruled: "For the best interests of both sides, the terms must remain secret." It was learned, however, that they provide for the return to work of all strikers as positions are opened at the bleaching company plafit. Because immediate return was not demanded. this was one of the points upon which the union granted concession. Company concessions were reported to include the displacement by sinkers of certain employes who

TRAIN WRECKS AUTOi7 DEAD Mangled Bodies Believed to Include Three Men, Four Women. By United Press HARVEY, ill., Dec. 26.—The International Limited, fast passenger train of the Grand Trunk and the Canadian National railroads, crashed into an automobile at a grade crossing today, killing the seven occupants. It w'as the second disastrous accident on the road within 12 hours. Last night the Maple Leaf was w'recked near Toronto, killing 15. The limited was svaming through Harvey, south suburb of Chicago, en route from Montreal to Chicago, when the crash occurred. The 12car train w'as running more than an hour behind schedule because of heavy holiday traffic. The license number on the automobile was traced to John Burke and it was believed he was one of the victims. The victims, all badly mangled, were taken to the W. E. Kerr undertaking parlor where it was reported they included 3 men and 4 women. Three of the women were decapitated. One man lost both legs. The car was demolished and dragged hundreds of feet. Burke was 31 years old and was employed by the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission. It was learned that he customarily picked up six relief workers en route to work and it was presumed it was this group that met death. Sergt. A. F. Roll of the Harvey police said after all the bodies had been assembled at the undertaking parlor that they were so badly mangled that it could not immediately be learned whether six or seven had been killed. It was established that the six persons usually taken to work by Mr. Burke were Hope Hines, Wendell Parkoff. Ruth Greenberg, Mary McCann. Marian Riggs, Harvey Friedmann. Authorities believed further identification probably would establish that these six and Burke were the victims. Some of the bodies were in such condition that they were brought to undertaking parlors in baskets.

TRUCK BLAZES, DRIVER GOES TO FIRE STATION Flames Extinguished With Loss of SBOO. By r nitrd Press FALMOUTH. Mass.. Dec. 26.—The mountain w’ent to Mohammed in the case of a truck owmed by the Rockland Transportation company. Recently, the truck caught fire on trie road and the driver continued to the East Falmouth fire station w’here the flames were extinguished at a loss of SBOO. Kettles Thwarted Sinusitis Bn United Prr** AKRON. 0., Dec. 26.—Say what you will about grandmother’s oldfashioned kettle, says Dr. R. H. Markwith. county health commissioner. “but through providing moist air it prevented perhaps much sinus trouble and other ailments in former days."

came to the plant during the strike, or shortly before, and who have remained at work since then. Mr. Gill explained his refusal to make the terms public on the grounds that one of the points involved in the settlement is that no publicity be given the matter without joint agreement by both sides involved. “You see. in such a settlement, neither side is completely satisfied.” he explained. Mr. Douglas stated that no further action will be taken in the matter by the Textile Board. This relieves the board of the difficult task of making a positive definition as to what President Roosevelt meant when he said that all strikers should be returned “without discrimination.”

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934

SUB-ZERO WEATHER DUE TONIGHT; MERCURY TUMBLES 18 DEGREES

PANEL DRAWN IN HAUPTMANN MURDERTRIAL Case to Start Jan. 2 as Scheduled; Betty Gow Reaches U. S. By United Press FLEMINGTON. N. J„ Dec. 26. Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, former German machine gunner, accused of murdering Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., will begin on Jan. 2, regardless of technical jury-tamper-ing, state officials indicated this afternoon. While the state officials were discussing the latest sensational development, Sheriff John H. Curtiss drew from a small jar 48 capsules containing the names of Hunterdon County citizens from which the trial jury of 12 men and women will be selected next Wednesday. Frances Opdyke, a nurse, who owns the house in which Mrs. Anna Scheffler Hauptmann, the prisoner's wife, is making her home, was among those drawn. With only one week remaining before the trial starts, one of the star witnesses arrived yesterday to wait the call of the court. Betty Gow, the nurse who put to bed the infant son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh the night he was kidnaped, returned from Scotland. She was called across the Atlantic as a prosecution witness, but the defense also has declared it considered her its star witness. Poses for Pictures Miss Gow arrived on the liner Aquitania amid exceptional efforts to hide her identity. She was listed on the ship's books as “Bessie Galloway.” She was given shore clearance by immigration officers and left the pier immediately for the Englewood (N. J.i mansion of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother of Mrs. Lindbergh. The former nursemaid declined to talk to reporters, but she posed for cameramen. There was a report that Miss Gow might remain in this country and take up her former job in the Lindbergh household. She had acted as nurse for Jon, second son born to the Lindberghs, until she returned to Scotland several months t go. The drawing was made before Common Pleas Judge Adam O. Robbins, Sheriff John H. Curtiss, C. Lloyd Fell, county clerk, and Charles Holcombe, jury commissioner. Hauptmann Seems Calm • Bruno Hauptmann, the defendant, seemed calm as the time for his ordeal approached. He spent Christmas reading. He ate the same dinner served 14 other prisoners. It consisted of stewed chicken, mashed potatoes, creamed onions, spiced cabbage, bread, butter and coffee. Mrs. Hauptmann, who has moved here from the Bronx to be near her husband, made a radio appeal “to the people of the country to wait until they hear every side of the story before they condemn him.” She reiterated her belief that Hauptmann had nothing to do with the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. She repeated her story rhat Hauptmann had waited for her at a Bronx bakery where she worked the night of the kidnaping and had taken her home.

FAMED MILLIONAIRE SUBWAYJIDER DIES John E. Andrus Ranked With 10 Wealthiest. By United Press YONKERS, N. Y.. Dec. 26.—John E. Andrus, known for years as the "millionaire straphanger,” because he rode to his office on the subway despite his wealth, died today. He was 94. Mr. Andrus had been ill with a cold for several days but relatives had not believed his condition serious. Mr. Andrus was reputed to be one of the ten wealthiest men in America. At one time his fortune was estimated at $300,000,000. Although he himself practiced the most rigid personal economy, Mr. Andrus several years ago spent $500,000 for a mausoleum for his remains w’hen he died. POLICE SEEK RELATIVE Brother of J. N. Wilson Killed in Illinois Auto Crash. Indianapolis police were requested today by authorities at Maywood, 111., to assist in locating John Norman Wilson, believed to be a Works Board employe, to notify him that his brother, Charles Wilson, Milwaukee. Wis.. had been killed in an automobile accident at Maywood. John Norman Wilson is not listed in the City Directory. Times Index * Auto News .. .*. 4 Bridge 7 Comics • 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Hickman, Theaters 13 Radio •• , 16 Sports 12, 13 Woman's Pages .......6, 7

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REPORT IS DUE ON DM PROBE Result of Inquiry to Be Revealed Before Jan. 5, Is Indication. The county grand jury has until Jan. 5 to make good on its promise to write a thorough report of the banking situation in Marion county and particularly in Indianapolis. The grand jury, it was learned, has been studying the banking problem every Saturday morning and probably will make a report to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker next week. The group has promised Judge Baker that it would investigate all the banks which were forced to close their doors. In doing this they have been working over the banking report submitted by Alvah Rucker to Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. Mr. Rucker was appointed by Judge Cox to study the banks and submitted a lengthy report recommending the indictments of several bank directors.

ROOSEVELT OFFERS TRUCETOUTILITIES Gives Companies Chance to Reduce Rates. By I nitrd Pross WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—President Roosevelt today held out an offer of Federal 90-operation to private utility companies if they will reduce power rates to what he considers a fair level. Behind the offer was a strongly implied threat that if they refuse they will have to compete with municipal power plants built with Federal funds. The offer to accept “conditional surrender" of private utilities was conveyed in the President's instructions to the Electee Home and Farm Authority,' a subsidiary of the TV A, to expand its activities over entire country. The authority heretofore has confined its operations to assisting in financing the purchase of electric equipment by farmers and urban householders within reach of pow-er from the Tenne&ee Valley project. Under expanded activities of the authority aid is to be given purchases of electrical equipment in communities served by privately owned utilities if electricity is sold at a low' enough rate. This plan, the President believes, will bring electrical equipment within the reach of thousands of additional homes.

COAST DIVORCE SUIT TAKES QUEER TWIST Nonresident Woman Sued by Mate Is Given Decree. By United Press MERCED, Cal., Dec. 26.—A woman, who is not a citizen of the United States, who was not at court proceedings, and who first was sued by her husband, obtained a divorce and custody of her daughter at a recent court hearing here. The woman, Mrs. Earl L. R. Whitehead, a resident of Bermuda, a British possession, obtained the divorce on her cross-complaint and> deposition. HAWK CONQUERS SNAKE, BUT CAN’T FLY WITH IT Reptile Is Too Heavy for Bird Which Finally Drops It. By United Press FT. DAVIS. Tex., Dec. 26.—A large rattlesnake lost a battle with a hawk near here recently, but the bird was unable to make off with his prize. Espy Miller, rancher, reported that the hawk carried the wriggling snake into the air. but it could not make headway on a straight flight and dropped the reptile. Miller said the snake was thirty inches long and had seven rattles.

LOWER BUDGET FIXED AS GOAL BY ROOSEVELT Every Possible Economy Is Urged; Relief Funds Not to Be Cut. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—President Roosevelt tugged at the Government's purse strings today in an effort to trim the budget toward estimated income for the next year. Hope of a balanced budget in the near future, however, was extremely remote as the President worked over his message to be delivered to Congress Jan. 4, the day after it convenes. Estimates of the various departments were placed on the Presidents’ desk soon after his return from warm Springs, Ga., early this month. Since then Mr. Roosevelt has called in the department heads for frequent conferences. It has become known that he is urging every possible economy and that every retrenchment that can be made without seriously affecting his recovery program will be made. Several departments have been called upon to pare their estimates sharply. As the budget message has begun to take definite form Mr. Roasevelt has conferred more and more frequently with Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury. After one such conference Mr. Morgen- i thau said, “We are making real progress.” Others who have conferred frequently with the President on budget matters include Daniel W. Bell, acting budget director; Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Interior and PWA director; Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, and Thomas H. MacDonald, chief or the Bureau of Public Roads. Administration leaders have pedged a budget for routine govern- 1 mental operations well within the : limits of prospective revenues and a “reasonably conservative” program of extraordinary expenditures to meet the requirements of unemployment relief and social rehabilitation. • The estimates which the President will place before Congress are expected to be considerably below the amount he estimated for the current year in his message last Jan. 5. At that time he estimated expenditures of $16,500,000,000 would be necessary.

JAPAN SETS SATURDAY FOR NOTICE ON TREATY Official Announcement to Be Made to State Department. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 26. —Japan's official notice of abrogation of the Washington Naval Limitations Treaty will be delivered to the State Department Saturday, Ambassador Hirosi Saito announced this afternoon. All other powers bound by the pact will be notified by Japan at the same time that the treaty will terminate Dec. 31, 1936. SURPLUS IS FOUND IN CITY HALL YULE FUND $303.18 Balance Will Buy Shoes for Needy Children. From funds collected by City Hall employes for their Christmas party for children, there remained today $303.18. This will be used to buy shoes and stockings for approximately 300 children selected by the Citv Health Board school nurses.

Holiday Tragedies Take Toll of 200 Lives in U. S. 117 Are Killed in Auto Accidents:'Texas Leads List With 39 Violent Deaths on Christmas. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Press' Holiday traffic, hunting accidents, human violence, airplane crashes and fires took a Christmas Day toll of 253 lives in the United States, a

country-wide survey disclosed today. Texas led all states with a Christmas death total of 39. California reported 32 persons dead; Missouri :j, Oaklahoma 21, Pennsylvania 15 aid New York 14. Several states reported no casualties; others ranged from one to 10. Automobile accidents claimed the greatest number of victims, 117 men, women and children dying of injuries in collisions and other highway accidents. Fifty-five died by drowning and in fires. Few were victims of poison liquor. Hunting accidents and homicides caused 37 deaths. Despondency resulting in suicide on Christmas Day took 26 lives. Christmas tree candles or short circuits in Christmas tree electric wiring caused a number of family tragedies. Three children and their mother died in a tree fire in Joplin. Mo. Three other children and their

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Brilliant Sun and Cloudless Sky Fail to Raise Temperature Above 9 as Frigid Wave Moves Into State. ENTIRE MIDWEST GRIPPED BY COLD Alaskan Winds Sweep as Far South as Texas; Break Promised by Weather Man Here for Tomorrow. Indianapolis today was plunged into the throes of real winter, with the thermometer at 8 above zero at noon and with sub-zero temperatures predicted for tonight. The mercury plunged from 25 degrees at 6 today to 7 degrees at 9 in one of the swiftest drops Indianapolis ever had felt. Yesterday, it had dallied along in the 30s and left citizens all unprepared for severe weather encountered today. Although there was a brilliant sun and a cloudless sky, the mercury made only a half-hearted effort to climb, having gained but two degrees at noon from its 9 o’clock low.

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Hourly Temperatures 6a, m 25 10 a. m 7 7a. m 19 11 a. m 9 8 a. m 9 12 (noon)., 8 9a. m 7 Ip. m 8 Sunrise tomorow', 7:06 a. m., sets, 4:26 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Wind, northwest, 25 miles an hour; temperature, 6: barometric pressure at sea level, 30:37; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 15 miles. RIDS ARE NAMED BY NEW COURT CLERK John G. Gould Retained as Chief Deputy. Paul Stump. Crawfbrdsviile. who will take the oath of office as Clerk of the Indiana Supreme and Appellate Courts at 10 New Year's Day, today announced the appointments in his office after a conference with Pleas Greenlee, patronage secretary to Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Mr. Stump, who w'as nominated in the Democratic convention over the opposition of Fred Pickett, the incumbent and a supporter of R. Earl Peters, former Democratic state chairman and leader of the anti-McNutt forces, reappointed John G. Gould as Chief Deputy Clerk. Mr. Gould, who has a residence here, comes from Shelbyville. George Raab. South Bend, was aDPointed Assistant Deputy Clerk. Mr. Raab is former County Treasurer and deputy clerk of St. Joseph County. He succeeds George Lindeman, Tell City. Mrs. May Freudenstein, Holtan, was named Fee Clerk to succeed Hollis Warner, Richmond. She is vice-chairman of her party’s Ripley County organization. TROLLEY HITS AUTO: TWO HOOSIERS KILLED Richmond Men Die in Crash on Way to Cemetery. By rnitrd Prr** RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 26.—Two men were killed and another was injured seriously here yesterday w'hen a traction car struck the automobile in which they were en route to place a Christmas wreath on a grave in Earjham Cemetery. John B. Chenoweth, 62, driver of the car, was killed instantly. William Essinger. 62, died in the hdspital here and Winfield Urban, 34. son-in-law of Chenoweth, was injured. The accident occurred at the cemetery entrance.

mother perished in a similar tragedy at Sedalia. Mo. FTank Homolaka, 72, was killed by ? motor car on icy Sioux City da.) pavements while celebrating his birthday and Christmas. A holiday drinking party ended in Chicago with fatal shooting of Rex Pyle. 38-year-old jeweler. Police held his wife and Fred Feiner, in whose home he w*as killed. James Kain. 30. Sioux City, la.. was shot and fatally wounded by vigilantes at Lemars, la., as he fled with loot obtained in burglarizing a beer tavern. A companion. Carl Rodgers, 35. was wounded. John Gruwell, a Maplewood, Mo., bartender; George Gallagher, a Kirkwood. Mo., iron worker, and Michael Duke. 70, St. Louis, were killed by hit-and-run drivers, while Mrs. Viola Horn, and Michael Miller, the latter a janitor, both of St Louis, were similiarly killed Monday.

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The Weather Bureau recorded a 25-mile-an-hour wind, but predicted the cold wave will be unaccompanied by any precipitation. The thermometer at the airport station of the Bureau registered 6 degrees at 9 as against the 7 degrees reported by the dowmtown station. Originated in Alaska General over the State and the Middlewest, the cold wave originated several days ago on the Alaskan border and began its journey southeast, John Armington, government meteorologist, explained. It was held up for a time by a low pressure area which moved in from the North Pacific, but was released abruptly this morning and swiftly fell on all Middlewestern States and as far south as northern Texas. low'a and northwestern Illinois were swathed in zero and sub-zero temperatures today and, tonight, northern Indiana may find the mercury as low as 10 below. Another depression from the North Pacific, now working its way across the-continent, will step in, Mr. Armington said, tomorrow and relieve the cold, causing rising temperatures. 46 Below in Prince Albert. The lowest temperature reported to the government odreau today was in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Can., where it was 46 below. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, motorists were distressed by frozen radiators and brake bands, ano „he old family tea kettle was called 4 to play for the stubborn carburetors. In spite of the promised relief tomorrow', city recreation officials believed that by tomorow there might be ice strong enough for skating at Lake Sullivan. Mercury Takes Skid By United Pres& CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—A bitter cold wave hit the northern portion of the United States today, driving temperatures far below zero as it crept from the Northwest across the Great Lakes region and as far south as Texas. Temperatures sank to as low as 26 below' zero at Duluth, Minn., this morning. The cold wave w'as characterized by its intensity and by the suddenness with which it struck. At 2 a. m. it was 28 in Chicago. At 9 a. m. it was 3 above zero and a stiff northwest wind whipped across the city. Trains were delayed as snow' and sleet accompanied the cold wave in some sections. Relief agencies reported the already heavy holiday demands upon their resources increased because of the cold. Sub-zero temperatures were reported from Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois, lowa and Wyoming; in Texas the temperature fell from about 70 on Christmas morning to near freezing today. Oklahoma reported snow and 18 degrees. The cold wave w'as moving southeastward and zero weather was expected later in Detroit and farther east. Typical temperatures: Duluth, 28 below; Minneapolis, 18 below; Bismarck, 20 below; Moorhead, 24 below; Omaha. 2 below; Valentine, 8 below; Council Bluffs, 8 below; Detroit, 30; Memphis, 42; Los Angeles, 50; New Orleans, 68; Miami, 74. Meteorologist C- A- Donnell of Chicago said a severe cold wave would cover virtually all the North Central states tonight, with zero temperatures likely for the rest of the week. He promised a taste of the same to Indiana. Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. AUTO RAMS TROLLEY; DRIVER BADLY HURT Life Insurance Executive Suffer* Lacerations of Face. William M. O'Brien, 33, of 3018 W. 16th-st, assistant district manager for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Cos., suffered lacerations of the face and head today when his automobile collided with the rear end of a West Indianapolis trackless trolley on the Oliver Street Bridge. Mr. O'Brien, who was treated at the office of Dr. Walter F Hickman, 1210 Oliver-av. was prtx -eding west, as was the trackless trolley, operated by John 1535 Wilcox-st