Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1934 — Page 1

DRYSTHUNDER FOR SWEEPING DRINK REFORM

Local Option Is Demanded by Anti-Saloon League of Indiana. DRASTIC REVISION ASKED York Assails ‘Devastating Results of State's Liquor Traffic.’ The Indiana Anti-Saloon League this afternoon lent its voice to the increasing demand for liquor law reform, coming out for local option as a palliative to what it “the devastating results of the liquor" traffic in Indiana in the last 22 months.” The Anti-Saloon League’s legislative plans were anounced by L. E. York. Indiana superintendent, and embraced a five-point program with elaborate restrictions for licensing. Mr. York's statement made it plain that it offers no compromise with a business which the league terms “inherently criminal and which seeks its prey regardless of sex or a g e " . The league's attitude is one of “making the best of things.” Suggestions for local option are carried to such extremes as prohibition in as small a unit as the precinct. Five Suggestions Ls/1 The league’s five suggestions for legislative reform are: 1. Giving the people of a county, township, ward, or precinct the right to say by ballot whether alcoholic beverages should be sold within the units. 2. A provision that will make the liquor traffic liable for damage to person or property caused by the sale of alcoholic beverages. 3. Prohibit public officials from being directly or indirectly interested financially in the manufacture, sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages. Put Restriction on Hours 4. Restrict places and hours of sale of all alcoholic beverages and penalize any officer who undertakes to suspend such laws after their enactment. 5. We believe that so long as w’e are compelled to have alcoholic beverages, that a license should not be issued to: a. A person who is not a resident of the city, village, or county in which the premises covered by the license are located. b. A person who is not a citizen of the United States. c. A person who has been convicted of a felony under Indiana laws. and. A person who has been convicted of violation of any federal or state law relating to the manufacture. possession or sale of alcoholic liquors. Repeal Is Denounced Announcement of the legislative program was accompanied by a scathing denunciation of the effect ; of repeal on Indiana. "The Indian* Anti-Saloon League j believes.” Mr. York asserted, “that j in view of the devastating results of I the liquor traffic in Indiana in the last 22 months, the citizens of the state expect the Legislature to protect the people from further ruin- j ous and murderous operating of the ; most heartless agency of all times, j “With police records showing an increase of all the way from 50 to j 183 per cent in arrests for intoxi- : cation and drunken driving, and then not one-third of the arrests made for these effenses. and the alarming increase in automobile ac- j cidents which have resulted in the great number of injuries and deaths, it would seem that our lawmaking body seriously would consider some prohibition measures for protecting the youth of our state, if for no other reason.

Stand On Position “The Indiana Anti-Saloon League has not changed its position relative to prohibition and still believes that drastic action by both the state and Nation must be invoked before any permanent relief can be realized. This has proven true with reference to crime conditions and is true in the case of th> liquor traffic. which is one of the greatest ciime-producing agencies the world ever has known. “Notwithstanding its belief in both state and national prohibition, it will wage a relentless warfare for every unit of dry territory possible and for every limitation against the liquor traffic. The League will offer no compromises with a business which is inherently criminal and which seeks its prey regardless of age or sex. “With this record of debauchery or the part of the liquor traffic, the Indiana Anti-Saloon League believes its legislative program should be enacted.” FATHER RESCUES TWO DAUGHTERS FROM FIRE Carries Children From Blazing Home to Safety. Samuel Earnest carried his two daughters. Wanita. 7, and Margaret Lou, 9. from their burning home at 3023 W. Michigan-st last night to safety in the home of a neighbor. The fire started when an oil stove in the h>me of William J. Lambert, next door, exploded and spread fire in the bathroom and the upper corridors, The fire spread to the cornice next door and was burning to the windows of the sleeping room of the Earnest girls. Damage to the Lambert home was about S4OO and to the Earnest nome

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U. S. to Shift Care of 4,000,000 Poor to States on Feb. 1 Federal Relief Administration Clears Way for Board Works Program in 1935 to Aid 15,000,000. By L nited Press t WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The Federal Emergency Relief Administration today cleared the way for a broad workrelief prograrfi in 1935. Administrator Harry L. Hopkins ordered individual states, counties and municipalities to raise and spend their

| own money to care for all “chronic dependents” persons unable to work because of old age, mental disabilities | or physical handicaps. The terse order, effective I Feb. 1, will result in clearing Federal relief rolls of almost 4,000,000 aged, crippled, in- j sane individuals who must receive j doles to live. It will leave around j 15.000.000 firm-bodied, clear-minded j unemployed able to earn wages on i Government-financed projects. The order was interpreted in official circles as being the Administration's first move to base the New Year’s relief program on work, despite recent big business sentiment for the cheaper “handout” system be substituted. Mr. Hopkins’ order came as he announced states, counties and cities already had shouldered an increasingly large relief burden. He said the three groups of political subdivisions had spent $323,890,560 of their own funds for relief during the first 10 months of 1934, an increase of $71,514,677 over the $252,375,883 in the same period the years before. Results of Mr. HOpkins’ new orders probably will be three fold. First, relief costs are expected to mount slightly although relief rolls will be decreased; second, those remaining on relief probably will receive more than the $25 to S3O they j now average eadh month; third. ! state, county and local taxpayers may be called upon to pay new j levies. Work Relief Costs Higher Mr. Hopkins estimated work re- j lief is 15 per cent more expensive ; than direct relief, with the addition- j al money needed for purchasing I materials. Based on the $136,791,268 allot- 1 ted the states to care for all needy | in January, federal work-relief costs I will reach about $157,300,000 a month during the winter Mr. Hopkins pointed out that, if j states should use their relief funds : strictly for “employables.” counties and municipalities would be forced to care for their own “chronic dependents.” The result would be increased real estate taxes in many communities. State participation in caring for j “unemployables” could be financed i through higher income levies, sales taxes and other -assessments. "The move will not place much heavier burdens on large cities because they’ve been, for the most part, caring for their dependents right on through the depression just as they did before 1929.” Mr. Hopkins said. Allottments Are Made Wherever passible, he added, the amounts that states spend in caring for “chronic dependents” will be credited toward their contributions to Federal relief. Mr. Hopkins allotted $136,791,268 to i states to care for about 19 million j persons in January. New' York led •with $19,004,055; Pennsylvania was | second with $9,453,685 and Ohio was third with $5.707.880. California got $7,363,840 and Illinois $6,441,915, the latter for the first 15 days of the month. Mr. Hopkin’s announcement came as figures showed relief costs mounting. month by month. All agencies Federal, state, county and meal—spent $175,789,742 caring for 4.177,735 families in November compared to $15,807,070 for 4,051,493 families in October. Relief costs in November. 1933, were $70,810,514 for 3,365,122 families, compared to $64,088,913 for 3.010,516 families the preceding October. Unemployment Nears Peak The American Federation of Labor estimated unemployment increased by 420.000 this year in November over October. The total last month was set at 11,459,000. Mr. Hopkin’s .order, it was believed, would prevent radical increase in Federal relief rolls this winter, holding the number being cared for below the 19,000,000 mark. Donald Richberg, chairman of the National Emergency Council, estimated last summer that the unemployment peak would be reached this coming February, and indicated 23,000,000 persons would be receiving relief. He did not, however, mention any specific figure. If Mr. Richberg’s indication holds true and Mr. Hopkin’s move reduces the present 19,000,000 relief roll to 15.000.000, the February peak wall not exceed the present burden. THREE FOOTBALL FANS ARE KILLED IN CRASH Alabama Backers, On Way to Coast, Die in Arkansas. By United Press LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Dec. 28. Three University of Alabama foptball fans en route to the Rose Bowl game New Year's were killed instantly near here last night when their automobile crashed into the rear of a truck stalled by heavy rain. Those killed were Phil Anderson. 54. and Claude Oaut, 42, both of Sheffield, Ala., and Alvin McWilliams, 22, Tuscumbia, Ala. Three other members of the automobile party were injured seriously.

Unsettled tonight and Saturday; probably occasional rain; not much change in temperature with lowest tonight somewhat above freezing.

GIRL, 16, HURT IN AUTOGRASH Three Other Young People Injured in Wreck on Meridian-St. A 16-year-old eirl, Almeda Privitt, 2046 N. New Jersey-st, was injured seriously early this morning when two automobiles laden with young people collided at Meridian-st and Fall Creek-blvd. Miss Privitt received a fractured skull. The automatic traffic signal at the corner had been turned off several hours previous to the crash. Miss Privett was a passenger in a car driven by Frank Habig, 17. of 4601 S. Meridian-st. which collided with one driven by Richard B. Faulkner, 19, of 1917 N. New Jer-sey-st Miss Betty Bell. 19. of 2546 Col-lege-av, riding with Mr. Faulkner, suffered head cuts, and Betty Quigley, 16. of 3362 Washington-blvd, and Robert Meihaus, 17, of 5025 Broadway, both passengers in the Habig car, were injured slightly. The injured were taken immediately to nearby St. Vincent's hospital. Several other persons riding in the automobiles were not injured. Two 7-year-old girls running into the path of an automobile while at play yesterday on Morris-st near Ulinois-st suffered lacerations and bruises. The girls, Bernice Mordho, 1037 Church-st. and Stella Goeba, 1010 Church-st, were treated at City Hospital. Ed Mullally. 65. of 407 E: Ohio-st, suffered head injuries and a fractured leg last night when he was struck by a taxicab as he was crossing Noble-st near his home last night. J. Malcolm Polley, 37. of 201 N. New Jersey-st, cab driver, said that Mr. Mullally walked directly in front of the moving vehicle. *. Body injuries were suffered by Charles Bowers, 49. of 130 N. Arse-nal-av, when he was struck by an automobile at West and Washing-ton-sts yesterday. The car was driven by Eddie Lowe, 41. Negro, 2061 Cor-nell-av. FIRST LADY RADICAL, BOOK SEEKS TO PROVE New Edition of “Red Network” Circulated in Capital. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.—A revised and extended version of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s alleged radical activities circulated in the capital this afternoon in anew edition of the “Red Network.” a book by Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling. The latest edition draws upon the Communist Daily Worker for a report that Mrs. Roosevelt and Frances Perkins. Secretary of Labor, made speeches over the Socialist radio station WEVD in behalf of the International Ladies' Garment Workers’ Union. AARON SAPIRO FREED IN JURY FIXING CASE Prominent Attorney Acquitted by Jury; Co-Defendant Guilty. By lnited Press NEW YORK. Dec. 28. —Aaron Sapiro, nationally known criminal lawyer, was acquitted this afternoon by a federal court jury of a charge of attempted jury fixing growing out of the Paris mail fraud case. is co-defendant, Samuel Roth, former banker, was found guilty on one charge of the four-count indictment and faces one year in prison and a SIOOO fine.

35,000 Killed, Million Injured in 900,000 Auto Accidents During 1934; Toll Sets All-Time Record

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Upward of 35,000 persons were killed in automobile accidents this year, the greatest price this country ever has paid in lives for swift transportation on the highways. Fatalities last year totaled 30.000. Two independent agencies agreed closely today in their estimates of the 1934 accident toll, based on preliminary reports. The American Automobile Assn, figured the year’s fatalities at 35.000. The Travelers Insurance Cos., Hartford, Conn., said they would total at least 36.000, with around one million injured in 900,000 accidents. That death toll means that the number of persons killed ojf the highways in this one year virtually is as large as the number of enlisted men of the A. E. F. killed in action during the World War. It means the wiping out of as many persons as constitute a city the size of Tucson, Ajiz.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934

WIFE SLAYER IS GRILLED IN SECOND DEATH

Los Angeles Man Confesses Killing Missourian, Police Say. BODY FOUND CHRISTMAS Realty Operator Brother of Bloomington Woman. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Dec. 28.—John Happel, 57. who admitted he killed his wife because she “nagged” him, was linked with a second murder today by officers who said he confessed shooting Henry W. Meyer, 66-year-old Missouri real estate broker. After dismembering his wife's body and cramming it into a trunk, Happel fled to St. Louis, Mo., went to a farm Mr. Meyer had obtained from Mrs. Happel, and there killed the agent when he refused to leave the premises, according to the statement attributed to him by George Stahlman, Deputy District Attorney. Happel was arrested near St. Louis and surrendered to Los Angeles authorities by Missouri officers, who did not learn until days later of Mr. Meyer’s death. For hours Happel denied even knowing Mr. Meye”. He interrupted the siege of questioning to order a full dinner. After eating heartily he lit a cigar, police allege, leaned back in his chair and said: “I’ll tell you; I killed him.” Claims He Was Threatened Through clouds of cigar smoke, he told his story, according to Mr. Sahlman. “Mr. Meyer was a real estate man who had sold my wife some property and then repossessed it,” he was quoted. “When I got to St. Louis, I went to a department store and bought a gun for $5.39 and some bullets, and went out to the farm. “Mr. Meyer was there. I asked him for the place. I told him to get off. He said, ‘Who are you?’ “I said, ‘l’m her husband,’ and he said, ’She hasn’t got any husband, and I won’t get out.’ He said Mrs. Happel hadn't owned it for 'six months.. “I ordered him off and told him I had something to make him go. He said he had something too. and pointed to a rifle hanging on the wall. Insanity May Be Plea “I shot, him and dragged the body into another room and left it and then went back to Maxwell.” It was in Maxwell that he was arrested. Mr. Meyer’s body was found Christmas Day by two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Kramer. St. Louis, and Mrs. Elise Linhart, Bloomington. Ind. It was believed he would plead insanity to the “trunk murder.” He insisted he beat his wife to death while in a mental daze. He said her constant nagging over a period of years drove him to it. Twice he left her, once to reside in the poor farm, but each time she prevailed upon him to return to her, he said. Mrs. Happel’s body was found Dec. 5, in a trunk in a shed at the rear of their bungalow court home. Happel said he vaguely remembered dismembering the body and disposing of it in the trunk.

BALANCE IN PRICES URGED BY WALLACE Secretary Flays Maladjustment of Industry and Agriculture. By t nited Press CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture said today that maladjustment between agriculture and industry is one of the biggest stumbling blocks on the road to the nation’s economic recovery. “There must be a balance between the farmer’s prices and the production and prices of industry; it is of supreme importance in national affairs now,” Mr. Wallace said. The cabinet member appeared before a joint conference of social and economic leaders, representing 12 national societies. In a speech tonight to the American Statistical Association he is expected to outline the Administration's 1935 course in its crop reduction program.

On the average a person has been killed every 15 minutes of the year and someone injured every 31 seconds. In the last 10 years, more than 290,000 persons have been killed. Experts were wary in assigning causes for the year’s great increase in fatalities. The larger number of old and defective machines being used as a result of the depression years and ifhe higher speeds of new models are contributory causes, they believed. The travelers reported a decrease of 3 per cent in the number of accidents per death, and said this “emphasized a trend in more serious accidents that has been evidenced for a number of years.” The A. A. A. reports for the first 10 months, showed only Connecticut, "Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota and West Virginia showed decreases. An increase of 81 per cent in Mississippi was the largest shown in the A, A. A. report. Other increases \ ¥.

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ILLNESS CONFINES TO THEIR HOMES 3 OF 6 MARION CO. JUDGES

Three of the six Marion County judges are off the bench because of illness. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox has been absent from the Courthouse three weeks; Judge Frank P. Baker has been ill since Christmas, and Judge Joseph R Williams of Superior Court Room 2. left the bench yesterday because cos illness.

3 COURT AIDS TOJLOSE JOBS City Probation Officers to Be Replaced From Certified List. Three of the six Municipal Court probation officers are scheduled for dismissal Jan. 1, it was deported this afternoon from authoritative sources at the Courthouse. The Times’ informant said Mrs. Jessie Landers, Miss Laurel Thayer and Miss Estel Welty all have received letters from the four Municipal Court judges announcing their dismissals. The letters said the recipients would be replaced Jan. 1 by probation officers chosen from the certified lists issued by the State Probation Department. They were reported to have been signed by Judges Wilfred Bradshaw, Court One; Dan White, Court Two; Dewey Meyers, Court Three, and William H. Sheaffer, Court Four. N. Y. BARBER NEWEST RECRUIT.IN RANKS OF KENTUCKY KERNELS By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 28.—Salvatore Guarino lathered the faces of his barber shop clients with customary skill this afternoon, but his thoughts were far away—specifically on a horse, a uniform and a drill manual. The martial spirit invaded Guarino yesterday when he received an engraved, beribboned document informing him he had been commissioned a colonel by Gov. Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky. Barber Guarino confessed he did not know what meritorious service he had performed to deserve the honor, but decided it was either for becoming a father for the first time at more than 50, or his noteworthy care of the faces of many celebrities who are his customers. MARION WOMAN FACES COURT IN DEATH CASE Alleged Slayer of Swayzee Man Goes on Trial. By United Press MARION. Ind., Dec. 28.—A jury in Grand Superior Court today was expected to receive the case of Miss Denovia McCall. 31. charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting of Leo Matthews, 43, Swayzee. The trial opened yesterday and both state and defense rested before the evening adjournment. Matthews died in the hospital here June 27, a few hours after he was shot by Miss McCall while they were riding in his automobile.

for the 10 months: Wyoming, 59 per cent; Washington state, 53 per cent; Rhode Island, 43 per cent; Montana, 64 per cent; Kentucky, 38 per cent, and Idaho, 35 per cent. An increase of 16 per cent was reported for the entire country. The Census Bureau compiled reports from 86 cities for the 52 weeks ended Nov. 24. These gave Camden. N. J., the highest fatality rate, with 73 deaths per 100.000 populations, and Indianapolis the lowest, with only 1.1 death per 100,000. The general increases have spurred city authorities and automobile clubs in many places to conduct safety campaigns and tighten up traffic regulations. ’ ‘ • Nationally, the A. A. A. is laying greatest stress on enactment of state financial responsibility laws under which persons involved in serious accidents would be forbidden to drive until they pay any judgments against them and prove their ability to compensate for any future damcaused by them. States that havjf such Jaw*, were prominent

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ANNE LINDBERGH TO AID STATE AT TRIAL OF HER BABY’S ALLEGED KILLEB

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Snow to Accompany Lower Temperatures; Scores Hurt in East. By United Pr^ss CHICAGO. Dec. 28. Snow and another cold wave from the icecapped Rockies swept down on the Middle West today while gales that lashed both coasts swept out to sea and temperatures rose. Weather Bureau forecasters expected snow to fall today over almost one-fourth of the country, with rain and dropping temperatures carry-ig evidence of the year's final storm to virtually every state east of Colorado and north of Oklahoma and the Ohio River. New England, cleaning up debris and counting casualties of a hurricane that reached 175 miles an hour velocity at the Weather Bureau station atop Mt. Washington, N. H., was threatened like the Midwest with more snow and sharpening cold after a day of respite. Score Are Injured Scores of persons were injured in Boston and Springfield. Mass., New York, and cities to the north when the wind reached 66 miles an hour in Boston, 75 in Springfield and velocities passing 50 miles in almost every New England state. Today the gale had subsided and mild temperatures prevailed after 24 hours of cold. In the Midwest, where winter records for snowfall and temperature minimums have been established almost daily since Dec. 1, termometer columns were substantially lower this morning and still slipping. Sub-zero was the rule in the North Central states, where snow already had begun falling at daylight. Gale Lashes Los Angeles Typical temperatures were 10 below at Devils Lake, N. D.; 6 below at Moorhead. Minn., and at Williston, N. D„ and 4 below at Duluth and Superior. It was 28 at Chicago, 24 at Detroit, 29 at Cleveland and 30 at Pittsburgh. Contrasts of the oncoming, cold wave were shown by the north-to-south readings in Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit. Cleveland and Cincinnati—--10, 24, 29 and 39. It was 20 in Winnipeg, while 4 above in Minneapolis. Even Los Angeles felt the general disturbance in a fog which tied up shipping. A 70-mile-an-hour gale raked the northwestern coast, with heavy rains falling from San Francisco to Portland.

DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMEN TO MEET WITH KERN Fatronage to Be Topic of Parley at Headquarters. Democratic ward chairmen will meet at 4 this afternoon in Democratic headquarters to discuss with Mayor-elect John W. Kern and Walter Boetcher. Democratic county chairman, appointments to positions at City Hall, the sheriff’s office and the Center Township assessor’s office. POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW HUGE GAIN FOR YEAR Revenue for First Eleven Months Tops ’33 by §163,662.45. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker today announced that postal receipts in Indianapolis the first 11 months of 1934 were $163,662.45 greater than for the similar period of last year, or an average of $14,878 a month increase. Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 26 this year 12,200.000 pieces of mail were handled, while for the same period last year but 11,150.000 pieces were handled. ✓

among the few that were able to reduce their accident toll this year. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The human factor was blamed today by the American Railway Association for a. slight rise in railroad accidents shown thus far this year. The association reported the first eight months of the year, for which detailed data is available, the rise in accidents was no greater than might have been expected with the increase in rail traffic over 1933. Association officials regarded the recent series of tragic rail mishaps as a result of coincidence and failure of the human element rather than any underlying factor such as deferred maintenance or equipment failure. Figures for two-thirds of the year showed nine passenger and 57 employe deaths in train accidents. In 1933 the total were nine and 36, marking a considerable increase in trainmen's deaths for this year.

Famed Flier’s Wife Will Be ‘Voluntary and Important’ Witness in Hauptmann Case, Officers Reveal. DEFENSE TO QUIZ AUTHORITIES Swift-Moving Court Drama Will Take Four Weeks, New Jersey Prosecutors Say; Tons of Evidence Ready. By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Dec. 28.—Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh will be “a voluntary and important witness” at the murder trial of Bruno R. Hauptmann, charged with the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a state official told the United Press today. “Mrs. Lindbergh \< : ill be a willing witness and will testify without being subpenaed,” the official said. “The state looks upon her as a very important witness.”

WARM SPELL IN CITY CONTINUES Mercury Stays at 30 Degrees Above Normal for This Time of Year. Four degrees over 40, the temperature today in Indianapolis continued exceptionally high for this time ol the year, when normal readings would be 10 to 12 above zero. A depression over Wyoming and, the North Pacific continued, according to John Armington, Federal meteorologist, to protect a wide area from cold that otherwise Yvould have held the country in a grip equal to near-zero temperatures experienced here Wednesday. Mr. Armington said that in the last few winters, these protecting depressions have become more and more frequent and that there is no scientific explanation for this. It may rain occasionally in the next 24 hours, he predicted, but theer will be no decided change in temperature, with the lowest tonight somewhat above freezing. Unseasonably high temperatures are general over the middle west. Kirby Brown, 14. 535 N. Concordst, fell yesterday on the ice on the Washington-st bridge over White River and received severe lacerations. He was taken to City Hospital.

TODAY’S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 38 10 a. m 42 7 a. m 40 11 a. m 43 Ba. m 41 12 (noon). . 45 9 a. m 41 1 p. m 45 In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Wind, south, nine miles an hoar; temperature, 40: barometric pressure at sea level. 30.02: overcast: ceiling, estimated 1000 feet; visibility. three miles. DEATH TOLL IN TRAIN BLAST.MOUNTS TO 16 Three Additonal Miners Succumb After Locomotive Explosion. By United Press POWELLTON, W. Va., Dec. 28. —Deaths of three men in Coal Valley Hospital at Montgomery from skull fractures suffered in an explosion early Thursday which shattered a miners’ work train near here, today had brought the death list to 16, while 35 miners remained in the crowded hospital for treatment. Four of them were in critical condition. The men, who lived in commuilities around Powellton and Montgomery and worked in the ElkhornPiney Coal Cos. mine at McDunn, were en route to their shaft when the locomotive exploded, its boiler hoisting upward and falling with a crash on the first passenger coach. FARMER SHOOTS SON, HOUSEKEEPER, SELF Trio Recovering From Wounds After Ft. Wayne Fight. By United Press FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Dec. 28. Becoming enraged when his son and housekeeper wanted to send him to bed without his evening meal. Emil Voirol, 60. farmer living six miles south of here, shot the couple and then turned a gun on himself in an attempt to commit suicide last night. Voirel had been drinking and his son. Florent Voirol. 30. and their housekeeper, Mrs. Gladys Martin, 29, were attempting to send him to bed. The three were brought to a hospital here where their conditions were reported as not critical today. $75 Watch Is Stolen Roy Eads, 221 E. Ninth-st, reported to police today that someone last night entered his apartment and stole a watch he valued at $75,

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

The official who made the 'announcement re-fused to al- | low his name to be used. One line of Hauptmanns defense strategy in the forthcoming trial was indicated today when it waa learned that J Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice and Coi. H. Norman Schwarttzkopf of the New Jersey State Police wall be summoned as witnesses. The two law enforcement officials and. possibly, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. will be called by the defense i in detailing the methods followed in ! the kidnap hunt. It was understood the defense would tr yto deI velop the contention that the au--j thorities did not always act wisely. Lindebrgh May Be Called Col. Lindbergh's testimony may I be required, it was reported, bej cause in many instances his wishes wore followed. One of the inicdents | the defense will stress is the rei f usal to permit New- York police lo I post men in the vicinity of a Brooklyn mail box, from which the kidnaper was expected to mail another letter. Defense and prosecution efforts to | assure orderly presentation of evidence gave promise today that the trial would be a swift-moving drama throughout its estimated length of four weeks or more. Voluminous documentary evidence 1 and exhibits have necessitated care- ! ful planning by both sides to prevent the case from being bogged dowm with details. The state alone has three truckloads of evidence. The defense's volume is similar. The state’s case, by w’hich it hopes to prove Hauptmann murdered the infant, was completed this afternoon. except for a few ; points in law-. Attorney General David I. Wilentz and his assistants were expected to hold only one ftrore conference before the trial. They met in Trenton, N. J., yesterday and i announced the prosecution wrnuld present its case without w’aste of time. 200 Witnesses Ready Lloyd Fisher, Frederick A. Pope and Egbert Rosecrans of defense counsel also reported their case w’ell | in hand. They conferred in Somerville. N. J., but prepared to move their headquarters here wdthin a day or two. Estimates tcday were that wit--1 nesses tq be called by both sides might exceed 200. The prosecution ; intends to present about 125. No • such definite figure was revealed by : the defense. Hauptmann's counsel sought permission from Prosecutor Anthony IM. Hauck Jr., to take 15 witnesses to the Hunterdon County Jail to talk with the defendant. The request refused and it was understood today that some of the 15 would be called as alibi witnesses m an attempt to prove that Hauptmann was in New York City the night of March 1, 1932, wiien the Lindbergh baby was taken from its crib in the home of the famous flier at Hopewell, N. J. f The state opened the way for such a surprise move by the defense when officials announced the new alibi law- would not be used in the case. This act, if aplied, compels the defense to disclose its witnesses five days prior to the trial. It was exp’ained at the attorney general’s office that the state knows all details of Hauptmann’s alibi. CAR TAG RUSH AWAITED Bureau Office to Remain Open Tomorrow Afternoon. The State Auto License Department will be open, tomorrow afternoon, contrary to the usual custom of closing on Saturday afternoons. The rush to buy 1935 license tags accounts for the overtime. Times Index Page Bridge 13 Broun TT 17 Comics r. "5 Crossword Puzzle 25 Curious World 25 Editorial 18 Financial 19 Food Pages 20. 21 Hickman —Theaters 10 Pegler 17 Radio 9 Sports 22, 23 State News 26 v Woman’a 12, 13