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GRIMY IMPRINT LEFT ON CITY BY DUST GALE Ram Sweeps Skies Clean, but Indianapolis Is Coated With Mud. PLANES ARE GROUNDED Wind Shifts, However, and Kansas Topsoil Is Borne North. Like the ghast of the primeval West, another dust storm blown east in a nation-wide haunt, this afternoon had passed over Indianapolis leaving a deposit of mud and a myriad of headaches for weary housewives. It was a perambulating desert, more tnan 9000 feet deep and containing hundreds and thousands of tons of particles that yesterday visited Indianapolis, and that had been, until a few hours before, topsoil in Kansas. Picked up bv the wind the dust pnd grime were swiftly carried ihis way. obscuring the sun. forcing airplanes to fl.v at 10000-feet altitudes, and serving notire on the nation that the West once more is being lai dto waste. Hundreds fall Bureau Hundreds of rails were received yesterday by the Weather Bureau, some of the callers asking what was m the sky, but the most of them, dust storm wise, merely confirming their suspicions. While a part of the storm was over the city, a generous rain fell and where rain lell. mud also fell. The rain washed the air and left the partirles in the city. There is no way to estimate how much Kansas soil now’ belongs to Indiana. The first report of the dust storm came from Municipal Airport at 1:52 p m and at that time there was but a 200-foot ceiling there, and visibility was zero in the air. Planes were grounded. Between 4:27 and 6 visibility a f the airport was reported as being half a mile. Today there was a minimum of dust in the air, mast of if having been blown north by winds suddenly shifting that way. Fog, however, obscured vision. Houseewives Are Distressed Housewives who had completed spring cleaning were distressed to find today that the mud-rain had left their windows in worse condition than the winter had left them. Motorists who left their autos outside during the rains found them covered with mud and badly in need of washing. Fortunately the rain came in time to prevent the sifting of much dust into homes and offices io completely wreck all house-clean-ing that had been done to date. However, some window curtains were saturated with it. and many homes were splattered with the dust • Turn to Page Thirty) HOLY WEEK SERVICES BEGIN MONDAY NOON The Rev. George F. Snyder to Be First Speaker. The Rev. George F Snyder. First United Brethren Church pastor, will speak Monday at English’s Theater in the first of the Holy Week noonday services sponsored by the Indianapolis Church Federation. Mr. Snyder's subject will be “The Determined Christ." dealing with the general theme for the week. “The Living Christ." Music will be furnished by the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church choir under the direction of Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs The Rev. Sidnev Blair Harry will preside. GROSS TAX OFFICE ON EXTRA HOURS SCHEDULE Quarterly Payments to Be Received Tomorrow Afternoon. The grass income tax office in the Statehouse will be open until 3 tomorrow afternoon to accommodate taxpayers who have until Monday to file tax returns for the first quarter of 1935. Clarence A Jackson, gross income tax direct tor. announced today. M r . Jackson said that 32.199 new taxpayers filed 1934 returns in January. This brings the total up to 395.721.

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The Indianapolis Times Cloudv with rain and somewhat colder tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature in afternoon.

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Indianapolis Gets a Good Taste of Kansas Dust

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Pillows of (lust, fresh from thr western plains, surged over Indiana and Indianapolis yesterday to obscure the sun and bring minor grief to housewives and motorists. This picture of the sky was taken about 4 P■ w. when the, dust was reported to be at its thickest.

18 SECURITIES FIRMS PROBED Three City Dealers Under Investigation by Lutz and Aids. Three securities dealers in Indianapolis and 15 others elsewhere in the state are under investigation by the attorney general's office and the State Securities Commission, it was learned this afternoon. Indiana's new securities law, which went into effect April 1. is the instrument which enables the two I state units, working in conjunction, to crack down on shady securities dealers. Under the old law. more than half of the securities business in Indiana has been done without supervision, it is pointed out by Chester R. Montgomery, new securities commissioner. Many dealers claimed exemption from registration, but under the new law, evpn operators dealing in stock exchange listed securities must register and lav their books open to the state. Lifting of the limitation on funds to be spent in enforcement of the law will permit his office to proceed vigorously with investigation and prosecution of all cases. Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. said today. Mr. Lutz has assigned Morris Harrell. deputy attorney general and Charles Cain, investigator, exclusively to securities work and is prepared to augment that force if necessary, until every shady dealer has been run out of the state, he said today. AMERICAN ACQUITTED OF NAZI SPY COUNT Richard Roiderer Sobs as Verdict Is Revealed. P'l f nitrii Prrsf BERLIN. April 12. Richard Roiderer. naturalized American who has been held in a Nazi prison for 10 months on a charge of espionage. was acquitted this afternoon jpy the People s Court. The American defendant burst into convulsive sobs as the verdict was announced. He wrung his hands and his shoulders shook. He had been extremely nervous during the nearmc The state will pay costs of the trial. Slayer of Farmer Hanged By l nited Pr?i * DOVER. Del.. April 12—John C. Morgan. 44. died on the gallows today for the murder of Dominique J. Pierre. 63-vear-old farmer of Felton. Del.

Work-Relief May Open With 300,000 CCC Jobs

By Visited Press WASHINGTON. April 12— President Roosevelt this afternoon was informed that 300.000 more young men can be given outdoor jobs in. the Civilian Conservation Corps within 60 days as one of the work-rel.-f moves. M-. Roosevelt again devoted most of h.s time to personal direction of the $4 880.000.000 employment program in which the CCC will be firs* to swing into action. He first discussed the CCC ex-

Perry Worth More Than $1,890,667, Court Is Told Divorce Suit Battle Gets Under Way With Recitation of City Capitalist’s Holdings. With a recitation by a public accountant of the holdings, income and ; expenses of Norman A. Perry, the suit of his wife for divorce and alimony of $1,000,000 began today before Fred C. Gause, special Superior

‘SLEEPING SICKNESS’ FATAL TO CITY BOY 14-Year-Old Lad 111 Only One Day. Encephalitis in a rare and severe form caused the death of Frederick Hauk Jr., 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hauk. 4853 Sheldonst. at Methodist Hospital last night. The boy had been ill only one day. and attending physicians compare the form of the disease to that which was in epidemic form in St. Louis a year ago. Funeral services will be held at 11 tomorrow at Flanner & Buchanan Funeral Home. 25 W. Fall Creekpkwy, with members of Boy Scout Troop 75, of which he was a member. as pallbearers. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Frederick was a traffic squad officer at School 91. and attended Sunday school at the North Baptist Church. He was to have attended a treasure hunt to be given by his Sunday school class tomorrow. Surviving are the parents; a grandmother, Mrs. Olive Wooldridge: an uncle. Gilbert Wooldridge. all of Indianapolis: a great grandmother, Mrs. Hester Hauk. and a great uncle, Philip Hauk, both of Waynetown. Mr. Hauk. Frederick's father, is manager of the American Aggregates Corp. BANK CASE CHARGES TO BE FILED TOMORROW Affidavits Need Only Signatures of Complaining Witnesses. Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer this afternoon postponed until tomorrow the filing of affidavits, charging embezzlement. against officers of three defunct banks of Indianapolis. The affidavits only await on signatures of complaining witnesses. Mr. Spencer filed two affidavits against Scott Brewer, former president of the closed State Savings and Trust Cos., charging embezzlement and perjury, two weeks ago. Mr Brewer is seriously ill in a hospital in Washington. D. C. Extradition papers have not been obtained for the former bank executive.

pansion program with Director Robert Fechner and Budget Director Daniel Bell. A later appointment was scheduled with Undersecretary R-xford G. Tugwell of the Agriculture Department. It was believed they would go over plans for dust storm control and other rural rehabilitation work. Mr. Fechner said he believed the CCC could be expanded from 300 - 000 to 600.000 within 60 days. The Army will build the necessary 1500 additional camps throughout the country.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935

Court judge. Mr. and Mrs. Perry, each supported by some of the city's most brilliant legal talent, were in court, conservatively dressed, exhibiting reserved interest in the proceedings. The law firm of Matson, Ross, McCord & Clifford represented Mrs. Perry, and Attorneys Homer Eliott and Floyd Mattice were Mr. Perry's counsel. Mrs. Perry in her petition charges that Mr. Perry has been guilty of associating with lewd and immoral Women, and that she and her husband have been separated since Nov. 11, 1934. She filed her petition Dec. 22, last year, after having previously asked for a divorce in Circuit Court in 1933 and then subsequently dropped the action. They were married in 1909. Accountant on Stand Roy J. Pyle of the accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst, testified that as of Dec. 31. 1934. Mr. Perry's assets were $1,890,667.08. exclusive of real estate bequeathed him by his father, the late C. C. Perry’. Mr. Pyle testified that Mr. Perry's liabilities as of that date were $222,381.02 and upon cross-examin-ation by defense attorneys said that for the three years ending last year Mr. Perry's expenses had exceeded his income by an aggregate of $189,656.42. In 1930. Mr. Pyle stated. Mr. Perry's net worth declined $94,292.36 and in 1934 his expenses over income were $28,192.46. For 1931. 1932, 1933 and 1934. Mr. Pyle said. Mr. Perry's personal expenses aggregated $282,119.28. Owns Baseball Team Mr. Perry's income in 1930, Mr. Pyle testified, was $102,529.98. of which $78,469.53 came from a trust fund established for him from his father's estate, and $12,500 was paid him as salary by the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. Between 1926 and 1929. Mr. Pyle said. Mr. Perryreceived $15,000 yearly from the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos., and that he sold stock he had held in the company for a profit of $325,053.45. Mr. Pyle said that Mr. Perry owns 958 of the 1000 shares of the Indianapolis baseball club and that in 1934 dividends from his insurance policies amounted to $63,633.85. David Chandler. 4920 N. Capitolsv. who qualified in court as a bond expert,, testified that Mr. Perry's bend holdings, mostly municipal issues of Indiana cities, were worth $100,968.59. plus accrued interest. Attorneys for each side were to meet with the judge in his chambers at the beginning of the afternoon session. SAFECRACKERS GET $75 IN TAVERN RAID Liquor. Cash Included in Loot of South Side Robbery. Yeggmen struck twice on the south side early today and broke open safes at the Old Rip Tavern. 1640 S. Meridian-st. and Jameson & Reed, house movers. 315 W. Mer-rill-st. Liquor, tobacco and cash valued at 575 were taken from the tavern, according to Ed Beckman, the operator. Several marble machines were broken open and looted, also. Police found a pair of gloves that the burglars had left behind. Nothing was taken from the Jameson A- Reed firm. William J. Reed, 1607 1 Alvord-st, a partner, said.

150.000 JOIN IN PEACE STRIKE Students All Over Nation Hold Demonstrations Protesting War. Bv United Press A student “strike” against war drew many thousands of students from their classes for one hour today, with youthful leaders estimating a participation of 150,000 in demonstrations throughout the nation. A cold, drizzling rain in the New York area and other eastern sections forced many of the demonstrations indoors, but the first, groups to walk out at 11 a. m. reported heavy attendance. Police guards were provided for many of the mass meetings where there were threats of -violence by militant opponents of the pacifist strikers. New York college and school students' participation in the demonstrations were estimated at close to 30.000. Vassar College < girls) attended en masse a 35-minute program at which the president and students spoke. Goose-stepping students masquerading as German soldiers, and others bearing mysteriously acquired machine guns, joined in an hour's horseplay at Harvard University. One of the 2500 demonstrators wore a Fascist blackshirt. There was much hooting and yelling and burlesque speech making, but no violence. Six students were “detained" by Harvard yard police while riding in an automobile that bristled with machine guns. Williams College students meeting was omitted after President Tyler Dennett had said he felt sue* a strike was “stupid." Less than 500 participated at Dartmouth. COUGHLIN TO ENTER POLITICS, SAYS AID Fi,hl In Rn IVatnrt at Polls. New York Group Told. Bv f nitrd Prraa NEW YORK. April 12.—The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Detroit radio priest, was represented in a speech last night by Louis Ward, his associate. as prepared to step directly into the politcial arena by organizing his National Union for Social Justice for action at the polls.

a close-up No digest of ponderous official docu- • ments can give an adequate concep- , f tion of TVA and what it means. Only VIP\A/ of Tv A by a P ersonal on-the-scene study is I ▼ it possible to understand this great project, its purposes end its progress. That's why 7.'alcott Powell. Times editor, went to the scene of this undertaking and 7pc-nt 10 days in first-hand observation, living among the people of the district, observing their quaint customs, and studying 7VA at first hand. In his series of articles starting Monday. Mr Powell tells you in his vivid style all about his interesting experiences among the mountain folk and gives you a close-up picture of what TV A is and w’hat it is trying to do for that section of the country. Very fascinating and informative reading indeed, these articles make .. . Beginning Monday and you'll want to be sure to read them all. |n The TIMES

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14 CHILDREN PERISH AS SPEEDING TRAIN GRINDS SCHOOL BUS INTO BITS

wnHOT WORDS,’ PLEA OF FRENCHMAN Flandin and Laval Demand Allied Powers Punish Treaty Violators. (Copyright, 1935. bv United Press) STRESA, Italy. April 12.—France brought into the allied security conference today a long-secret army ! report on German armament and demanded prompt, severe punishment of future violations of the World War treaties. Backed by Italy. France seeks action, not words, to curb Germani’ and prevent others of the Worlt War vanquished from following her example. Her first memorandum to the League of Nations council already toned dow-n so that Germany was not denounced individually for past violations. France w?ants definite, automatic, immediate penalties for future violations. She took into the conference today her revised draft. With it Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval took also the army’s report on secret German armament. That there was such a report has been known for many months. It has been a magnet for hordes of spies over Europe, and the object of eager interest of military experts. Bit by bit it had been sent to the French army general staff by intelligence agents as Germany's secret armament proceeded—as factory after factory went on to w-ar work, as a military air force matching Great Britain's came into being. The general staff perfected the reports in a 328-page dossier. It was wdth the aid of this dossier as memoranda that Flandin and Laval told Benito Mussolini of Italy and Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon of Great Britain her anxiety and her requirements for her security.

CLOTHE-A-CHILD FUND IS GIVEN $l6O Legion Post Places First Gift of 1935. The distinction of being the first contributor to The Indianapolis Times’ annual Clothe-a-Child campaign for 1935 was attained today by Bruce P. Robison Past 133, American Legion. The pest today presented to The Times 1935 Clothe-a-Child fund a check for $l6O. representing 10 per cent of the net proceeds from the Golden Gloves boxing tournament. The check will assure warm clothing for from 16 to 20 school child- 1 en in needy families next Christmas. FILLING STATION WAGE PARLEY IS HELD HERE Three Major Oil Companies Confer With Workers’ Union. Representatives from three major oil companies and from the filling station workers’ union today continued their meeting at the Severin in an effort to reach an agreement concerning wage demands affecting 800 filling station operators and attendants in Indianapolis. A decision is expected in the discussion by tomorrow morning. E. C. Bradley, president of the National Filling Station Union, said today. Oil companies represented in the conference are Standard Oil Cos. • Indiana). Shell Petroleum Cos. and the Lubrite Oil Corp. Rector Dies in Pulpit NEW YORK. April 12.—Dr. Robert S. Chalmers, rector of Grace and St. Peter's Church. Baltimore, dropped dead today while delivering a Lenten sermon at Trinity Church.

Grief-Stricken \ iliapre of 1500 Mourns Tragic Climax of Holiday Jaunt; Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges. SURVIVORS TELL STORIES OF HORROR Mangled Bodies Are Strewn 200 Yards Along Track After Flier Rips Into Machine Carrying 27 Pupils. BY RONALD G. VAN TINE United Press Staff Correspondent WILLIAMSPORT, Md„ April 12.—Tragedy hung like a pall o er this tiny mountain tanning village this afternoon. No school bell tolled and no shouting hands of children ran up the red brick school house steps. Instead, the little community of 1000 people mourned for the 14 youngsters who died in an accident last night when a fast Baltimore & Ohio train struck their school bus at Rockville. Every person in the Cumberland Valley town knew the

47 MORE AUTO DRIVERS HELD 67 Persons Arc Convicted in Municipal Courts of Violations. As the safe driving campaign conducted by police and the two Municipal Judges entered its 12th day today, police reported the arrest of 47 motorists in the last 24 hours. Forty-three were convicted in Municipal Court yesterday and 24 this morning. Charges of failure to stop at a preferential street still continued to draw a large number of motorists, 22 having been arrested on that count within the last 24 hours. Lloyd Barnett. 28, of 333 Villa-av, was arrested on charges of intoxication and no driver's license early today after his auto is alleged to have smashed into a parked Sanitary Board truck and trailer at Market and New’ Jersey-rts. Police impounded an abandoned car with Ohio license plates last night soon after the car had sideswiped two parked autos at Emerson -av and E. lOth-st. Two men riding in the car fled before police arrived. Wilford Russell. 42, of 2856 N. Station-st. was struck and injured slightly last night by a car driven by Miss Ada Adkins. 22, of 5708 E. 30th-st. in the 4800 block E. 30th-st. Miss Adkins said that about 25 persons w’ere walking in the street at the time. She was not held. Jaseph Bishop, 20. of 734 N. Bpllp Vieu-pl, was cut last night when the car in w’hich he w’as riding collided with a car driven by Easton Percifield, 29. Morgantown, at Commerce and Massachusetts-av. He was sent to City Hospital.

BUTLER GIVEN 0. K, OF NORTH CENTRAL Board of Review Approves Indianapolis School. By L'nHrd Press CHICAGO. April 12.—The Board of Review of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools this afternoon placed Butler University of Indianapolis, on its accredited list, pending the next report of the board. Butler ended a three-year term of probation last week. The probation was invoked because of charges of over-emphasis on athletics. It was not announced when the Board of Review would receive its next report. PAY SCALE APPROVED AT MINERS’ SESSION Terre Haute Conference Adjourns After Agreement on Rate. B<j Timet Special TERRE HAUTE. April 12—The four-day convention of the District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America scale committee, adjourned last night after approving a wage scale in line with the proposal of the international policy committee in the Appalachian fields. Although no official announcement was made concerning the amount of the scale agreed upon, it was understood that it would be $5 AO a day instead if the present $4 57 4. GASOLINE PRICES IN STATE ARE INCREASED Three-Tenths of a Cent Added to Motor Fuel Costs. A price increase of three-tenths of a cent a gallon on all grades of gasoline went into effect today with major oil companies in Indiana Most of the large companies entered into the price increase. The increase. they explained, is due to an increase in prices of tank oiL

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children who were killed and, so closely has the community intermarried, hardly a househoid but counted some loiis of a nephew, a cousin, a son or a daughter. The school which a happy throng of 27 students left yesterday for their excursion was silent today. Outside little knots of boys and girls talked in hushed tones of their comrades. Younger children, unable to understand, joked and laughed at the unexpected holiday. In the funeral parlors of Albert Leaf lay the bodies of the 14 dead. Tomorrow group funerals will be held. At the homes of those who survived the accident, the story was told and retold. The town was stunned. First word of the accident did not come until long after most resident of the quiet village had retired. For hours there was suspense and uncertainty over who had died and who had survived. Parents Rush to Scene Shaken from their slumbers, parents of the children drove quickly to Rockville. Not until a solitary half-filled school bus lumbered into town long after midnight was the full extent of the tragedy learned. The bus brought the 11 children whose injuries were slight enough not to require hospital attention. Waiting figures sprang out of tha ill-lighted street to scan the faces of the passengers of the bus. tty learn finally what the toll had been. Through the night, citizens gathered at the home of Mayor Richard G Hawken receiving reports of the disaster. Mrs. Hauken went from friend to friend, quietly serving coffee to the grief-stricken and answering the query of each pair of lips: "What is the last news?’’ Young Survivor Tells Story From the children who survived, the village was able to piece together the story of the accident. One who escaped serious injury was Albert Leaf Jr., son of the undertaker. Propp’d up in bed, the 17-year-old boy told his story. “When we approached the crossing," he said, “the driver was doing about 40 miles an hour. Ha slowed down and started across the tracks at about 15.’’ “The lads tired. There wasn't much noise. Most of us were trying to sleep." “As soon as the driver saw the train, he stepped on the gas, but it was too late. The train hit with a terrific impact just behind me, I must have been knocked unconscious. When I recovered. I was on the tracks about 20 feet away from the bus." Drags Two From Wreckage “I helped pull out my cousin, Margaret Creps. and Phoebe Kelly. Phoebe was alive when I pulled her out. I felt her pulse. We w r ere hit so quick that no one had time to scream.” Most of those killed came from modest homes. The town gets its support from an oak tanning factory. It was among those families that heaviest losses were suffered. Mary Teach, pretty, 16-year-old brunette, said she was trying to sleep when the crash occurred. “I didn’t see the train until it was nght on top of us," she said. Accident Held Unavoidable Mothers and fathers stood bareheaded in the muddy streets outside Leaf's funeral parlors as hearses brought in the bodies. Joint funeral services were being planned by all of the churches. Most of the residents are members of the Lutheran Church. The Rev. W. C. Huddle, pastor of that church, and the Rev. K G. Newell of the Metlvodist Church, went the rounds today attempting to console those m distress. Both ministers said there was no spirit of blame and that mo6t of the parents took the attitude that the accident had been unavoidable. Manslaughter charges were placed today against Percy Line. 36. driver. He was so dazed by the shock of the accident that police were at first able to get only meager details from him. T feel like I'm knocked out." Una said, his sleepless eyes staring (Turn to Page Thirty)