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KERN WILL ATTEND ‘WAR PARLEY’ ON GAS MANEUVERS Indianapolis’ Chief Executive to Join W ith Midwest Mayors in Mapping Plans to Demand U. S. Senate Probe. M’NUTT BACKS LEGISLATIVE QUIZ State Senate Passes Weiss Resolution Without Dissenting Vote; Calls for Joint Investigation by Lawmakers. Mayor John W. Kern will join mayors of 10 other large Middle-western cities at Columbus, 0., Monday to form an alliance and make articulate to the United States Senate a demand for an investigation into pipe-line costs and an alleged natural gas monopoly in the Midwest. The investigation will be the basis of a fight for lower natural gas rates. Mayor Daniel W. Iloan, Milwaukee, United States Conference of Mayors president, invited the mayors of St. Louis, Toledo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Wheeling, South Bend, St. Paul, Louisville, Detroit and Dayton. Companies operating pipelines whom the alliance will seek to have investigated include the Columbia Gas and

Electric Corp., North American Cos., Cities Service Cos. and the Standard Oil Cos. of New Jersey. These are the principal operators of Western pipelines. The mayors’ alliance has asked support of the Public Ownership League of America, the National Consumers League and the American Municipal Association for support in the fight for lower gas rates. Detroit Starts Quia The cons was instigated by the City of Detroit after its officials asserted they had obtained evidence of illegal operations, plans to smash Indianapolis’ acquisition of the Citizens Gas Cos., and hints that the SIOO,OOO “jackpot” reported to have been raised here is "mere chicken feed.’ Acompanymg Mayor Kern to the conference will be Floyd Mattice, city attorney, and Henry L. Dithmer Sr., and Fred Jungclaus, directors of the Indianapolis Utilities District. . . Meanwhile, it was announced today that that Indiana legislative investigation into gas interests activities in Indiana and the niiadie west ordered late yesterday by the Indiana Senate, has the unqualified support of Gov. Paul V. McNutt, who indicated he might appoint a special Deputy Attorney General to assist the investigating committee. Weiss Resolution Passed House concurrence in the Senate resolution, introduced by Senator Jacob Weiss D., Indianapolis) and passed without a dissenting vote, is expected at the session Monday. The House had adjourned yesteiday before Senator Weiss’ resolution was Pr £ C >"w!' nays ago Senator Weiss, president pro tern of the Senate, charged on the floor that a representative of the Users Gas Cos. approached him and said SIOO,OOO had been raised to “retain” attorneys to use their political influence to end opposition to the granting of a franchise to the Users Gas Cos. J Marion County Commissioners. The statement was made duruig debate on the bill, later passed, requiring Public Service Commission permission before county commissioners could grant such a hanehise. The City of Indianapolis opposed the franchise as being opposed to the city’s interests in acquiring the Citizens Gas Cos. Bill May Be Signed Today The bill passed by both houses to block action by Marion county commissioners in granting a franchise to the Users company is in the hands of Gov. McNutt and may be signed today. During debate in the Senate yesterday on Senator Weiss’ resolution, objections were presented by Senator Thurman A. Gottschalk (D., Berne), that such a committee would have power to subpena witnesses. Senator Weiss explained that it will not be necessary to subpena witnesses. but that there would be numerous voluntary witnesses. SOVIETMOURNS DEATH OF NATIONAL LEADER Control Commission Chief to Receive State Funeral. By United Press MOSCOW. Jan. 26—Bolshevik leaders today mourned the second of their veteran comrades to die within eight weeks—Valerian Kuibishev. vice premier and president of the Commission of Soviet Control. Arrangements were made to give him in death the highest honors that Soviet Russia can render. He will have an official funeral and his ashes will be interred in the Kremlin Wall in the Red Square. NEW YORK p6uCE~DENY ATTACK ON HAUPTMANN Testimony Is Denounced as Fabrioation by Inspector. By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 26—John J. Sullivan, assistant chief inspector, denounced hs a "fabrication” today Bruno Ricnard Hauptmann’s story that he was mistreated by New York police.

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YEGGS ESCAPE TRAPJN BANK State, City and County Law Officers at Scene; One Believed Wounded. A detail of safe cracksmen—some say two, some say three—were au liberty today after a futile attempt to enter the Speedway State Bank last night and open the vault. What the cracksmen didn’t know when they set out on their enterprise was that they were operating in the center of a veritable hive of detectives, uniformed police, State Police and deputy sheriffs. The best the school of police officers was able to do was wound one of the men and scare all of them from the roof of the bank where they already had begun their operations by boring two holes, preparatory to opening a larger hole through which they could descend into the bank rooms. Two detectives and two state policemen were hidden in the Grande Hardware store, next door, in the same building as the bank. Officers Open Fire Four more detectives were waiting for a call from their listening comrades. At 9 the call came. Men, they were told, were clambering onto the roof, or making irrelevant and immaterial noises up there, and the waiting detectives rushed to the bank. The men in the hardware store opened fire. They believe they shot one of the men. The men escaped in a car. This morning a car was found at Raymond -st and Eagle Creek with the ! left door glass shot out and blood on the seat. Blood was found near the scene of the attempted robbery. About the time the men escaped one of the detectives sent in a call for reinforcements and out poured three squads of uniformed police and several others not specially attached, and in a moment Chief Mike Morrissey showed up, with a guest. They searched the territory thoroughly and on the roof they found a hat. an overcoat, a tool bag •lied with drills, saws, crowbars an vmous auger and other burglar t ?y also found a tin can filled wit i liquid which they gingerly supp dto be nitroglycerin. They hand! it with the greatest respect until sc •? one—no one is clear who he was found it was water. MERCURY TO TAKE DROP HERE TONIGHT Temperature to Fall to 18, Is Forecast. Indianapolis will be visited by colder temperatures again tonight, probably a drop to 18. accompanied by some snow or rain, induced by an unsettled condition that exists over the Middle West, J. H. Armington, Federal metcrologist explained today. This morning the same unsettled condition caused a light snow to fall, covering the street with a sheen of ice after traffic had ground into it. Mr. Armington promised there would be no severe cold wave such as Indianapolis and the rest of the country experienced earlier this week. Times Index Bridge 4 Broun . 7 Business News 2 Church Services 2 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Hickman—Theaters 9 Pegler 7 Piano Lesson 4 Radio 11 Sports 10, 11 Woman s Pages 4, 5

LINER’S CHIEF REFUSED AID, PROBERS TOLD Talisman Offer Turned Down by Mohawk Captain, Is Assertion. 33 BODIES RECOVERED 13 Others Still Missing Are Believed Dead; Freighter’s Master Witness. B\j United Pren* NEW YORK, Jan. 26—Although tfee Ward liner Mohawk was sinking so rapidly 46 lives were lost, the master flatly refused an offer of assistance from the freighter Talisman with which it had collided, it was testified today before the Steamboat Inspection Inquiry Board. “We think it very queer that nobody from the Mohawk managed to get aboard the Talisman,” said Capt. Karl Nielsen, inspector of hulls. “Why didn’t you lower any boats?” “They didn’t want any assistance,” answered Capt. Edmund Wang of the Talisman. “Did you get that over the radio?” “Yes.” Testifying as the first witness into what Joseph Weaver of the United States Bureau of Navigation said would be a "thorough and unsparing inquiry,” Capt. Wang placed the blame for the crash off Manasquan, N. J., in calm, clear weather Thursday night on the Mohawk’s automatic steering apparatus. Steering Gear Blamed “I couldn't think of anything else but that something had happened to the Mohawk’s steering gear,” he said. “At that time I said ‘l’ll bet his steering gear is gone’ and I say it now.” Under questioning he admitted that if a similar mishap had occurred on the Talisman, “I would have stopped the ship, I think.” “This is going be a comprehensive investigation,” Mr. Weaver told witnesses assembled in the inquiry room. “We are going to find out what caused this tragedy and who ii> responsible.” Mr. Weaver indicated that high officials of the Ward line, whose ships have figured in two major disasters in four months, would be among those summoned. “I am going to call the last man who worked on the Mohawk’s steering gear and go into that phase of it thoroughly,” he said. “I understand this boat had been laid up for some time and that she was making her first trip,” he said. “During this investigation we will continue the study of the whole phase of our shipping. Out of this may come some new ideas to help us in drafting the legislation that President Roosevelt desires for safer navigation of American shipping.” 33 Bodies Recovered Aboard the Mohawk when her holiday cruise to Havana was interrupted by disaster, were 163 persons, 53 passengers and a crew of 110. Rescue vessels, the Clyde Mallory liner Algonquin and the United Fruit ship Limon, rescued 118. One of the rescued, Earl R. Barr, died of exposure aboard the Algonquin. Os the 32 other bodies recovered, 10 were identified as passengers and 19 as crew. Four bodies of three men and one woman remained to be identified. The Coast Guard cutter Icarus came up the harbor last night with a grim cargo. Searching all day aloqg the New Jersey coast, she had picked up 32 bodies. These were taken to Bellevue morgue where four still were unidentified (Turn to Page Three)

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Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 28 10 a. m 26 7 a. m 28 11 a. m 25 Ba. m 27 12 (noon)., 26 9a. m 28 Ip. m 26 Sunrise tomorrow, 6:58; sunset, 4:58. Sunrise Mo iday, 6:57; sunset, 4:59, ———. In the Air Weather conditions at noon; Northeast wind, 16 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.15 at sea level; temperature, 27; ceiling, estimated 2500 feet; visibility, three miles; overcast, lower broken clouds, broken clouds at 700 feet; light | frost. SILVER IMPORTS CLIMB ■■ Gain in Government Buying \broad Indicated. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—A sharp increase in United States government silver purchases in the world market was indicated today in Departmen tof Commerce statistics. In the 7-day period ended Jan. 18 the department estimated silver imports at $5,097,710, compared with imports of $1,725,732 in the preceding week and $889,222 in the final week of 1934. TEACHER, 77, IS KILLED Richmond Musician Steps Into Path of Auto. Dies. > By United Press RICHMOND. Ind., Jan. 26.—Miss Laura C. Gaston, 77, Richmond musician and charter member of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. was injured fatally last night when she stepped in front of an automobile driven by Dr. W. H. Thompson. She taught her first class in music 60 years ago.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935

‘ASSASSINATION’ PLOT AGAINST HUEY CHARGED; TROOPS CALLED

Utterly contented In an overwhelming love and trust, Yvonne Dionne snuggles up to the doctor whose wisdom and patience have brought the famous quintuplets safe../ through to life and health. What a contrast is here—the innocent face of the eight-months-old baby and the graying hair and wise eyes of Dr. A. R. Dafoe. Yet some unfathomable understanding seems to pass between them.

State Promises to Tear Hauptman’s Alibis to Shreds in Bitter Grilling

11. S, ARMS CONTROL URGED BY JOHNSON Wartime Views Aired Before House Committee. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Governmental control of all industry in wartime coupled with Federal manufacture of arms during peace was advocated this afternoon by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, fiery former NRA chief. Gen. Johnson appeared before the House military affairs committee to urge enactment of the McSwain take-the-profit-out -of - war resolution which would authorize the President to control purchases, fix prices, and license all business during a national emergency. The retired army officer, discarded conscription of industry in war time as impractical; titled competitive manufacture of arms as one of the motives for war; praised the manner in which the government handled industry during the last conflict and urged manufacture of lethal weapons by the Army and Navy. He told the committee a tax provision should be added to the McSwain resolution if excessive profits are to be eliminated in the next war. ROOSEVELT TO DIRECT SPENDING OF 4 BILLION Report of New Agency to Disburse Sum Is Denied. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—President Roosevelt will personally administer the $4,000,000,000 he has asked from Congress for relief purposes, it was learned authoritatively this afternoon. Reports that Mr. Roosevelt had planned setting up new administrative machinery to expend the huge sum were declared erroneous. ADMIRAL COONTZ DEAD Former Fleet Commander Passes at 71 in Navy Hospital. By United press BREMERTON. Wash., Jan. 26. Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., retired, former commander in chief of the American fleet, died early today at Puget-Sound Navy Yard Hospital after an extended illness. He was 71,

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Bruno, Already Confused, Facing Most Biting, Searching Cross-Examination in Crime History. BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent 'Copyright. 1935, by United Press) FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 26.—The state will tear to pieces every alibi offered by Bruno Richard Hauptmann to prove he had no connection with the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., members of prosecution

counsel said today. The breakdown of the Bronx carpenter’s sauve story of amazing profits in the stock market, his fantastic recital of deals with the mysterious Isidor Fisch, his wistful tale of domestic contentment while the Lindbergh plot was unfolding, already has begun. He will undergo, next Monday, the most biting, the most searching, the most blasting cross-examination ever levelled against an accused man in the history of American criminal trials. Hauptmann doesn’t like such examinations. When he is on the offensive, when he is explaining his position under the coaching of friendly examiners, he is plausible, believable, almost convincing. When he is at bay and fighting, his entire appearance and his entire mentality appear to change. He was shocked, stunned, completely at a loss for answers, when Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz threw into his hands the little red book in which a single word, “Boad,” leaped up to confound him; At Loss for Words The defense had not expected that. It had passed away the ransom notes easily and smoothly by declaring they were not from the crude fist of the German carpenter. But when Mr. Wilentz put into the same hands a book in which the word “boat” was spelled incorrectly —and in the same mis-spelling that occurred in the final ransom note—he was at a loss both for words and explanation. When words failed him, Hauptmann has recource to raging denial. Words are going to fail him more than once during the next week. Mr. Wilentz has more than 80 contradictions between the Hauptmann story as told upon his arrest in the Bronx, and his subsequent explanations of his possession of nearly $15,000 in Lindbergh ransom bills, dug up from secret hiding places in his Bronx garage. Hauptmann Has Alibis He will take these contradictions, cne by one, and ask the one-time machine-gunner why he lied. Hauptmann will say that he lied because he was frightened. He will also say he lied because he was afraid, not

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of being nailed to the Lindbergh crime, but of being sent to jail for the comparatively minor crime of hoarding gold certificates. Bruno Calm on Stand When Hauptmann finished his direct examination, there was considerable praise for his steady nerve under fire. There were persons who watched his hands, in the crowded courtroom. They saw that those hands, which the state claims fashioned the kidnap ladder, never once quivered. They compared Hauptmann’s hands to those of an honest lumberman, one J. J. Doran of South Carolina, which shook with a pitiful palsy when he was testifying against Hauptmann. All Mr. Doran had to testify about was the matter of a simple bill of sale and the shipment of some lumber. What Hauptmann has to testify to is the evidence that will save him from the electric chair or send him to it. Yet Mr. Doran’s hands trembled and .Jauptmann’s hands were those of a supremely confident auditor, going over another man’s books. The defense has taken Hauptmann over every one of the more than 200 exhibits produced by the state of New Jersey, and asked him in each case whether he was ever associated with it. Reilly Uses All Tricks As though he had been drilled in a class room, the German has answered with a loud “No,” to each question. And he is steady enough to turn to the jury at the most effective point, and shout his denial point-blank into their upturned faces. Mr. Wilentz has more than the “little red book” with the word “boad” in it, with which to confront the witness. He has saved some of his most pertinent evidence, awaiting the time until Hauptmann has completed his explanation of the strange circumstances by which he fell into possession of a part of the Lindbergh ransom money. His chief counsel, Edward J. Reilly, popularly known as the “Bull of Brooklyn,” has done everything possible to save Hauptmann from the pounding he is going to get .(Tara to Page Three J, &

Martial Law Declared in East Baton Rouge as Long Convenes Judicial Tribunal to Investigate Uprising. KINGFISH BARES ALLEGED REVOLT, Square Dealers Oust ‘Dictator’s’ Henchmen From Offices by Force; Arms Found . on Foes, Is Claim. 8 1/ United Press BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 26.—1n the triple role ot dictator, generalissimo and prosecuting attorney, Senator Huey P. Long moved with spectacular swiftness today to crush a threatened armed revolt against his iron-fisted rule of Louisiana. First he called out National Guard troops to subdue the Square Dealers Association, which forcibly ejected his members of the East Baton Rouge police jury last night. Secondly, he caused a general martial law declaration in East Baton Rouge parish.

MADMAN SLAYS 3;|NOS LIFE Mother Joins Unemployed Teacher in Attack on Relief Staff. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 26.— Three murders, a suicide and wounding of two persons were scored today against the economic depression which made a madman of a once promising youth and a killer of his cultured mother. The killer and suicide was Henry Arden, 27-year-old paralytic graduate of the Univeristy of Chicago, who shot to death a relief investigator in his home, then raided relief headquarters with his mother in a madman’s revenge for fancied neglect. His victims: Mrs. R. W. Arden, 52, his mother; Miss Alice Irwin, 23, relief commission visitor; Miss Caroline Wallace, 45, relief supervisor and former World War nurse. Two other relief commission employes were wounded in the shambles at the relief station where the demoniac killer and his mother fired wildly, side by side, into a mass of more than 100 helpless office workers. With Miss Wallace writhing almost at his feet, the paralytic placed his smoking gun at his mother’s head, exchanged a long look with her, then fired. She was killed instantly. In the same spot he used his last bullet to kill himself. Police had to move his body to reach Miss Wallace, who died later in a hospital of an abdominal wound. The orgy of bloodshed started late yesterday afternoon in the Ardens’ home, a two-room flat, where Miss Irwin, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, who had gone to the flat to investigate the Ardens’ application for reinstatement, was slain. Discovery of two paper cartons from a mail order house in which two revolvers had been shipped indicated the murder was planned long in advance. After killing Miss Irwin the Ardens went immediately to the relief station and began firing at the employes working there. DEATH TOLL AT 24 IN SOUTHERN FLOOD Damage Exceeds 5 Millions; Suffering Increases. By United Press MARKS, Miss., Jan. 26.—Icy ffod waters of the Coldwater River, spreading death and destruction in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, had claimed a toll of 24 lives today. Damage crossed the $5,000,000 mark. Sickness ana suffering were widespread. While the flood peril dminished in the upper reaches of the river, it increased in lowlands south of here, driving thousands from their homes, endangering lives, and adding new problems for relief officials already taxed. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGES ARE PARENTS OF SON Namesake of Famed Author-Senator Born in Methodist Hospital. A son, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge 111, was bom at Methodist Hospital early today to Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge Jr., 4164 Washington-blvd. The boy is a grandson of the famous author and former United States senator from Indiana. His father is editor and publisher of the magazine Pulse of the Nation, the first issue of which will be published Feb. 1. Both the six pound 15ounce boy and Mrs. Beveridge were reported as doing well this afternoon. Assigned to Ft. Harrison Capt. Richard A. Jones, organized reserves, Memphis, Term., has been assigned to Ft, Benjamin Harrison according to word received here today from Washington. • -

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Third, he convened a judicial tribunal in the state supreme court room to get to the bottom of an asserted “assassination” plot against his life. With his troops in apparently complete control of the capital, the fiery Kingfish opened his court inquiry shortly after 11 a. m. Judge J. D. Womack, appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. O. K. Allen, Long’s ally, presided. The proceedings were broadcast throughout the state —a characteristic Long gesture. The Kingfish associated himself with Atty. Gen. G. L. Porterie, who announced Huey would help him “persecute these cases.” When the hearing opened, not a single prisoner was in sight. Civil and military authorities were moving about the city, armed with warrants and looking for “conspirators.** Assassinations Planned “Your honor,” Long began, “We intend to prove that a conspiracy, participated in by four sheriffs, one district attorney and probably a district judge, was hatched at midnight gatherings in this city, to murder local and state officials, “Wednesday night a meeting of these men lasted until 2 a. m. Emissaries were sent out to find the whereabouts of certain state officials and ascertain if their murders could be accomplished. “We heard of their meeting and watched them. “We learned that the conspirators had obtained tear bombs to use against state officials and we got the serial numbers of the bombs. Guns, Bombs Found “It was pointed out that I would be leaving Baton Rouge for New Orleans night before last. These persons arranged to have my automobile blocked on the road near ‘Dead Man’s Curve.’ These men were to roll up in cars, throw their xrnibs, and murder me and who:ve,” was in the car with me.” Long said the “tip-off” on his departure for New Orleans was to be given by a deputy sheriff. “We watched the man who was to give the tip. He telephoned the deputy sheriff at the home of District Attorney John Odom. We followed this man and arrested him as he was about to enter the home of a member of the commisison council here. “We found shotguns and revolvers in his car. The guns belonged to the Sheriff’s office.” Troop Take Command Meantime, while Long was detailing his case to the tribunal, Gen. Louis Guerre, commander of the troops, ordered to active duty here, issued his first military order, designating Baton Rouge as “Military District No. 1.” Troops continued to pour into the city. Their number was momentarily a matter of conjecture only. Citizens gathered to watch them with interest, some with derisive taunts. The troops paid no attention to their tormentors. Gene Guerre later came Into court and was the first witness called. He brought guns and gas bombs as evidence, and said he had seized them “from an official of the Standard Oil Cos.” The martial law order applies to the entire East Baton Rouge Parish Ycounty). The parish has beoa governed by 13 elected police jurors, whose duties are the same as county commissioners of other states. Nine of the jurors opposed Long and four were loyal to him. Oil Company Attacked Under authority of anew “dictatorship” law. Long picked 13 new police jurors this week, raising tha total to 26. He would control the new 13 jurors and four of the old ones, giving his state machine a majority. The old jurors refused to recognize Huey’a appointees and both juries laid claim to the courthouse. Gov. Allen’s martial law proclamation stated that “conditions of violence, insurrection, disorder and defiance of the constituted state authorities exists in the city of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge parish.” It charged the Standard Oil Cos. officials with “knowledge of the trouble,” and stated that “the chief leaders and officers of the secret agents plotting against the state government are employes of the said Standard Oil Cos. of Louisiana.”