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QUINNETTE, FEARED DYING, IDENTIFIES PIERCE AS GUNMAN

‘That’s the Man,’ Detective Says After Dramatic Hospital Visit. CONDITION IS CRITICAL Wounded Officer Suffers Relapse: Wife, Mother at Bedside. As Detective Orville Qninnette took a turn for the worse and was described at City Hospital as in a “very critical’’ condition, police confronted him this afternoon with Paul Pierce, 26, who shot him. Deleclive Quinnette identified Pierce as the gunman who inflicted the wounds physicians fear may prove fatal in a battle last Saturday in an apartment house on the near North Side. That's the man," he said. The identification was made in the presence of Lieut. Roy Pope of the police homocide squad, hospital officials and other police officers. Wife, Mother Present Also in the room were Mrs. Quinnetfe and the wounded man's mother. Pierce already has confessed to shooting Detective Quinnette. Physicians attending Quinnette said he suffered a relapse last night and added that, there is a possibility he had some peritonitis infection. Meanwhile Russell Walker, 22yea r-010 Anderson factory worker, was held today in Marion County Jail as state police continued to investigate activities of Paul Pierce and Donald Joseph, Indianapolis hoodlums and escaped convicts, who .shot Quinnette. Arrested last night in Anderson, Walker is accused by state police of shielding the two alleged bandits from authorities who eventually trapped them in a farm hideout near Milroy. Pierre and Joseph are held under bonds of $55,000 each here. GUARD FLIERS GROUNDED ON ERRAND OF MERCY Continue Trip to Fort Knox With Serum for Epidemic by Train. By / nitrd Press SEYMOUR, Ind.. Dec. 12. Grounded here by snow and fog while flying a consignment of meningitis serum to Fort Knox, Ky.. two Indianapolis National Guard officers were forced to resume their trip today by automobile. Maj. Oliver H. Stout and Sergt. Evan Inman, were rushing the serum to combat an epidemic of spinal meningitis in the Army post. By I nihil Pnss HOBART. Okla., Dee. 13. Quarantine for an entire county was ordered today and National Guardsmen will be asked by health authorities to enforce the order. Dr. J. L. Adams, Kiowa County health officer, ordered county-wide quarantine after an outbreak of spinal meningitis. GIRL IS GIVEN CUSTODY OF -GIFT OF GOD' BABY St. Louis Court Approves Findings of Special Referee. By I nihil /hi** ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Dec. 13.—The St. Louis Court of Appeals today accepted the recommendation of a special commissioner that a controversial child in the "gift of God" baby case be awarded to Anna Warp, an unwed Newton <Pa.) domestic. The child, a boy born last August, was claimed jointly by Miss Ware and Mrs. Nolle Tipton Muench. wife of a St. Louis physician. THOMAS MAHAFFEY ILL Finance Corporation President Is Confined to Home. Thomas Mahaffev Sr.. Consolidated Finance Corp. president, is seriously ill with a heart ailment at his home. 5324 Washington-blvd. His condition be-ramc worse today He has been ill since Sunday. Despondent Youth Ends Life A;/ I nitrd Press KOKOMO. Ind.. Dec. 13 —A love affair and despondency over inability to find work were attributed as the motives for the suicide of Bernard Irick. 19. who drank poison here yesterday. <•25.000 Made Homeless by Flood ATHENS, Dec. 13.—Twenty-five thousand Greeks, homeless and hungry, wandered through Macdonia today, refugees from a disasttous flood. Twelve hundred houses were reported to have collapsed. Times Index Amusements 28 Births, Deaths 40 Bridge 25 Broun 25 Comics 45 Editorial 26 Financial 44 Junior Aviation 35 Pegler 23 Radio . . . . 33 Sports 37-38-39-40 Stamps 35 Want Ads 40-41-42-43 Womans Pages 22-23,

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Cloudy and unsettled with occasional rain tonight and tomorrow: slightly warmer tonight; lowest temperature above freezing.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 238

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F. D. R. FOR LARGE NAVAL RESERVE Seeks Increase in Strength From 22,000 Men to 150.000. By f nitrd, Prraa TOKYO. Dec. 13.—Japan reserves all rights to determine the future strength of her navy, a foreign office office spokesman said today, no matter what agreements the European powers may make. Py f nitrd Press WASHINGTON. Doc. 13.—The President feels that the naval reserve eventually should be built up to 150.000 men ip all classes, he revealed today in an explanation of a conference yesterday with naval experts. The President considers the present, reserve of from 22.000 to 25,000 wholly inadequate and believes that plans that have been on paper since 1920 can be developed. The proposed expansion of the reserve would include men who have served from 16 to 20 years in the active service and also men who have served four, eight and 12-year enlistments. Also there would be taken in men from the merchant service as well fs specialists for the various staff orps. Japan Restates Demands ISy 1 nihil Press LONDON, Dec. 13.—The naval conference was thrown into confusion today when Admiral Osami Nagano was understood to have revised Japan's proposal that fleet equality be limited to the navies of the United States, Great Britain and Japan. The head of the Japanese delegation was reported to have said today that Japan would not object to a "common upper level” for the fleets of other naval powers as well. Animated discussion ensued during which the British dominions, apparently in an attempt to discredit the Japanese suggestion, asked whether they also would be entitled to fleets as strong as those of the three leading sea powers. The debate ended inconclusively, leaving some delegates with the impression that Nagano's intention had been to extend the parity principle only to France and Italy. It was learned that during yesterday's conversations among Nagano. Matsuzo Nagai. Davis. Admiral William H. Standle.v and Undersecretary of State William Phillips, the United States delegates, gave the Japanese strong assurances the American Navy does not constitute a menace to Japan. The American's expressed eagerness to disabuse Japanese opinion of any contrary impression. Nagano is understood to have replied that he personally was an admirer of the United States, but that the Japanese people were unable to understand why the United Stares requires “such a large navy."

Numbered By I nitrd Pn ss DETROIT. Dec. 13.—Exactly 11’ . years ago a young couple who laughed at superstition were married in Cell 13 of the old British convict ship, Success, on exhibition at Detroit's Belle Isle. The date was Friday. June 13. 1924. and 13 witnesses attended the marriage ceremony of Louise and Thomas Boyce. The smiling bride carried a bouquet of flowers in one arm, a black cat in the other. The Rev. Eli J. Forsythe of the Fort Street Congregational Church began intoning the brief ceremony at the hands of the clock pointed to 13 minutes past the hour. The bride and groom received 13 pieces of gold as gifts. Each person at the wedding broke a small mirror. Mr. Boyce and his bride soon parted. The Fort Street Congregational Church went out of existence. Funeral services will be held today. Friday. Dec. 13. for Mrs. Boyce, who died after a brief illness.

PARIS, LONDON KICK BACK ON PEACE TERMS French Cabinet May Fall: Herriot Threatens to Resign Post. HAILE WIRES PROTEST Terms of Franco-British Proposal Revealed in Rome. Rv United Tress PARlS—Herriot, radical Socialist leader, reported threatening to resign in protest against proposals, may eause fall of government. The left wing opened a strong attack on the peace plan in the Chamber of Deputies today. GENEVA—HaiIe Selassie wires League, indicating clearly he will reject Franco-British proposals. LONDON —Opposition to proposals spreads in Parliament, embarrassing government. ROME—Terms of Franco-Rrit-ish peace proposals announced officially. GENEVA. Dec. 13.—Emperor Haile Selassie’s demand that the League of Nations assembly be called into session to condemn the Fra neoBritish peace plan was rejected today, for the time being at least, by the assembly president, Edouard Brnes of Czechoslovakia. The emperor's appeal to the League carried a dear intimation that he never would accept the plan, involving proposed ceding of some of his territory to Italy. Replying to the Ethiopian ruler. Mr. Bcnes said that inasmuch as the League Council, composed of representatives of major powers, would examine the proposals next Wednesday there was no need at this time to summon the assembly. Benes’ decision, however, did not eliminate the possibility that the assembly in which all League members are represented, may be called later, to enable the smaller nations to bring their criticism of the Franco-British plan into the open. Penalties Committee Meets The penalties committee of 18, moving cautiously, met meanwhile to examine an experts’ report on how the sanctions applied against Italy so far are working out. If the assembly met—with all members represented—small powers not on the council could voice their anger over the peace proposals. More important, their votes are as big as those of the big powers and it is believed the plan certainly would be rejected. In view of the emperor’s attitude, it is considered almost certain here that Premier Benito Mussolini will agree to discuss tne plan. This would further weaken the penalties structure. French newspapers have reported that, Premier Pierre Laval might seek the repeal of penalties now applied against Italy if Mussolini accepted the plan and the emperor rejected it.

Peace Plan Revealed // I nitrd Prraa ROME. Dec. 13.—The terms of the Anglo-French peace proposals were officially announced today, revealing the extent of Ethiopian territory offered to Italy. The plans provide for cession of Eastern Tigre province, in the north, to Italy. The holy city of Askum would be retained by Ethiopia and Ethiopia would be given a corridor to the sea through Italian Eritrea to the port of Assab. The Ogaden-Somaliland frontier in the south would be "rectified.” the plan provides for Italian "expansion” in southwestern Ethiopia. Herriot May Resign By I nitrd Press PARIS. Dec. 13.—The left wing opened a strong attack on the An-glo-French peace plan in the Chamber of Deputies today. The possibility of a government crisis over the question arose and reports were circulated that Edouard Herriot, minister without portfolio and a pillar of the cabinet, had threatened to resign as a protest against the plan. The Communist deputy. Peri, accused Premier Pierre Laval of "giving Italy a free hand in advance for its enterprises in Ethiopia.” "The Franco-Italian accord violated the principles of European peace." he said.

U. S. RECORDS LOST IN FIRE AT CAPITAL 48 Are Overcome Fighting Fierce Blaze. ! Bd United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—A sev- • en-hour fire swept filing rooms of the recently-completed $10,000,000 postoffice department today, destroying government records and damaging luxurious offices of Postmaster General James A. Farley and other New Deal executives. Officials estimated damage at $300,000 and possibly more. Thousands of gallons of water were pumped into the "garret” storage rooms on the sixth and seventh floors before the blaze was brought under control at dawn. Water overflowed into the adjoining Interstate Commerce Commission and swept down corridors of the block-long postoffice structure like miniature creeks. Eighteen firemen overcome by the dense smoke were in the emergency hospital. More than 30 others were i revived on the scene.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1933

’TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS!

POISON TRIAL IS NEARING CLOSE Fort Wayne Case May Reach Jury Tomorrow Night —Confession Accepted. By United Press FORT WAYNE. Ind., Dec. 13. Defense and prosecution this afternoon speeded up the trial of Mrs. Laura. Doermer for the poison murder of her 13-year-old step-daugh-ter. in an attempt to send the case to the jury by tomorrow night. The planned to rest today. A statement alleged to have been signed by Mrs. Doermer. in which she confessed poisoning her two stepdaughters, causing the death of one, today was included in the evidence. Special Judge Lloyd S. Hartzler admitted the statement late yesterday over strenuous objections of defense counsel, who said Mrs. Doermer never had read the alleged confession before she signed it. According to the confession, Mi's. Doermer admitted putting arsenic into cottage cheese eaten by Imogene, 15, and Bernadene Doermer, 13. ‘‘l put the arsenic into the cottage cheese because I wanted to get even with Bernadene,” Mrs. Doermer is alleged to have said in the confession. The confession purportedly was signed at county jail April. 24. Detective Sergeant Walter Kavanaugh testified Mrs. Doermer tdld him she didn’t wish to kill the children but sought only to make them sick “because they exasperated her.”

TRUSTEES OPPOSED BY CITY REALTORS Stand Taken by Governor Is Supported. With the Indianapolis Real Estate Board on record today backing Gov McNutt’s program to consolidate agencies of government, the Indiana Township Trustees meeting in their final business session 'at the Claypool took steps in resolutions to fight any attempt to eliminate their positions. Three resolutions adopted by the trustees can be regarded as their (Turn to Page Three) CUBA NAMES PRESIDENT 71-Year-Old Diplomat Is Chosen to Succeed Mendieta. By Unitrd Press HAVANA, Dec. 13.—Jose R. Barnet y Vinagres. 71-year-old diplomat, succeeded Carlos Mendieta today as provisional president of Cuba. The electoral college gave him 17 of its 18 votes. The eighteenth vote Barnet himself cast for Domingo Morales Del Castillo.

She’s All 13’s By I nit*'d Pri ss CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Shirley Jansen, who has 13 letters in her name, was 13 years old today. She had a cake with 13 candles, a party with 13 guests, who played 13 games of Bunco and said Friday the 13th was her "double lucky” day. Both her mother. Wanda V. Z. Jansen. and her father, Martin H. Jansen, have 13 letters in their names.

Standard Oil Pays State $330,760 Delinquent Tax

BY JAMES DOSS The Standard Oil Cos. of Indiana today handed the State of Indiana a check for $330,760.22, representing payment of gasoline taxes delinquent since 1929, plus a 10 per cent penalty. The tax assessed was $300,691.10. The 10 per cent penalty was $30,069.12. Collection of the tax was made by Laurence Sullivan, state auditor, to whom payment was made; Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr., and J. Edward Barce, deputy attorney general, asEarly Ruling Expected on 11-Cent Milk Expected to issue a ruling within the next two or three days, the State Milk Control Board today was studying evidence taken yesterday in five hours of testimony for and against milk price increases to producers, which would mean 11-cents-a-quart retail milk in the Indianapolis area. Producers have petitioned the board to approve an increase from $1.85 to $2.20 a hundredweight for Class 1 milk. Distributors contend they can not afford to pay the increase without increasing the retail price 1 cent to 11 cents a quart and that such an increase will result in the farmer losing money. Winfield Hunt, Indianapolis Distributors Council manager, declared at a meeting at the Statehouse attended by 150 distributors and producers, that a price increase will be reflected back on both the producer and consumer. The farmer, he said, would be injured by decreased consumption because there would be a resultant increase among consumers of the use of lower classification milk. He asserted the distributors can not afford to absorb the increase because there is no way of controlling the bitter competion for business. GEM HOLDUP IS HOAX Master Mind Arranged Theft to Keep Job as Sleuth, Say Police. By t nitrd Press CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Chicago’s "great jewel robbery” today was revealed as a hoax. Police said Meyer Bogue. an exconvict who once was an alibi witness for John Dillinger, confessed that he “hired” three men to perform the robbery so that he could catch them and thus keep his job as informer for the Wholesale Jewelers’ Association.

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signed to the state gasoline tax division. Mr. Sullivan discovered the delinquency through an audit of Standard accounts and immediately consulted with Mr. Lutz and Mr. Barce. The audit was made against Standard Oil inventories in Indiana as of April 1, 1929. At that time the company's inventory included the follownig gasoline gallonage holdings; Indianapolis district, 3,092.869; South Bend district, 3.302,897; Evansville district, 1,152,431, and Chicago district, 69,079. Conferences between Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Lutz. Mr. Barce and Standard Oil officials ensued, the latter explaining that non-payment of the tax was due to a letter written them by Archie N. Bobbitt, Auditor of State in 1929, advising them their inventories as of the April 1 date was not taxable. The April 1 date was when method of the gasoline tax collection was changed by statute. Prior to 1929, gasoline dealers, such as Standard Oil, collected the tax and then paid it to the state. After the statute change went into effect, dealers could elect to advance the tax before collection, for which they were allowed a 3 per cent gallonage discount. Standard elected to do so, Mr. Barce said. Mr. Lutz, Mr. Barce and Mr. Sullivan explained in conferences with Standard Oil officials that they could not agree with the theory of Mr. Bobbitt’s advice on taxability of old inventories and that the theory was not supported by law. Hence the payment today after approximately six weeks of negotiation. MAYOR KERN OPPOSES CHARITY SKATE EVENT Marathon Would Violate State Law, Executive Says. Mayor Kern said today that while he does not personally favor the action of the City Council in backing a marathon skating contest, he will not interfere. He does not favor the event because it would violate a state law. but believes the cause worthy, the Mayor said. Money from the proposed event is to buy food for the City Hall soup kitchen. The Mayor said he will tell members of Council whom he may meet individually that he does not approve their action.

If You Want Triplets, Here’s Your Big Chance

Canada has its ‘'quins,” but Clothe-a-Child. of The Indianapolis Times, today had triplets and the question arose, "What to do about them?” The question, "Who wants triplets?” has been given a negative answer. Can you view r two boys and a girl, 7 years old. discarding their ragged clothing and striding three-of-a-kind down the street to school wearing warm woollens? If you can, then you know the pride and happiness the mother of those children will get in seeing them safe from sickness in the winter months ahead, and the pride in dressing them. Nor do the lists of Clothe-a - Child stop with triplets. Twins, cute ones. too. are waiting for someone to bring them Christmas happiness.

WHEAT ZOOMS; INDUSTRY HITS 5-YEAR RECORD

Durable Goods Industry Increases Its Output by One*Fourth. AUTO PLANTS IN FRONT But Three-Fourths of Other Manufacturing Units Also Improve. By I niteil pn ss WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The American Association of Railroads announced today carloadings for the week ended Dec. 7 totaled 637,133 ears, 66,706 over last week and 85,648 over the same week in 1934. 111/ I nih il Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The Department of Commerce reported today that 1933 was drawing to a close with the highest industrial production for any period since the second quarter of 1930 excepting a short spasm of unbalanced output in the summer of 1933. Business profits during the last three months of 1935 probably will be higher than for any fourth quarter since 1930, the department said. A rise in employment and factory pay rolls was indicated in the department's monthly survey of business and it was stated that the factory employment index had advanced four points since June, allowing for seasonal gains. The survey said that "while industrial production as a whole has been relatively stable this year, the balance has improved as the depressed durable goods industries have gradually assumed more importance. In the first 10 months of the year the output of durable goods increased about one-fourth in comparison with the like period of 1934." Auto Plants Take Lead Although the most important factor in the October employment gain was the increase in automobile workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported improvement in employment in three-fourths of the manufacturing industries’ Expansion in industrial pay rolls was accompanied by what is reported as a greater-than-seasonal increase in farm income. Freight-car loadings advanced in an extra-seasonal rise during the fall months which eased the financial position of the railroads, although only to the extent of reducing the large deficit of the first eight months. Iron and steel production for November was the highest for the month since 1929. Stock Values Have Soared The value of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange appreciated $12,000,000,000 to $43,000,000,000 during a seven-month period and stock prices reached anew high for the year during the third week of November. It was stated that, prospects for profits for large corporations during the final quarter were considerably enhanced. Three new peak figure were recorded in the regular weekly statement of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System regarding the condition of its banks. BRUNO TO FACE COURT MONDAY TO HEAR DOOM Papers Denying Supreme Court Hearing Are Received. It II United Press TRENTON. N. J„ Dec. 13 —Clerks of the Court of Appeals bundled up the papers involving "New Jersey vs. Hauptmann" today for what may be the last act of the greatest crime' drama of the times. The papers will be sent to Flemington. N. J. There, probably Monday. Bruno Richard Hauptmann will be re-sentenced to die in the electric chair. Justice Thomas W Trenchard. who passed the original death sentence, will fix a date for execution, not less than four weeks and no more than eight weeks distant. as required by law.

Nine more shopping days remain to go into the homes of needy school children. Community Fund relief agencies can not hope to stretch their money for the year of 1935 and make Christmas a happy one for the city's indigent. They must bear the burden of want, now that the Federal government has withdrawn its funds as an aid to direct relief. Call Riley 5551 for a boy or girl between the ages of 5 and 12 years. You can go into the home and see the child and then shop for him. But if you're busy, Clothe-a-Child will do the job for you. Just bring cash or mail a check to Clothe-a-Child. The cast ranges between $5 and sl2 lor each child.

FINAL HOME PRICE THREE CENTS

Grain Prices Jump Limit in U. S.-Canadian Markets. $1.015/ 8 AT CHICAGO Argentine Law Establishing Minimum Cost Is Given Credit. /.?/ I nit rtf Press CHICAGO, Dec. 13. Wheat prices jumped the limit on American and Canadian markets today. The boom was caused by price-fix-inp: legislation in the Argentine. Chicago and Minneapolis traders bid wheat up 5 cents a bushel within five minutes after the grain pits opened. That is the limit of fluctuation permitted by trading rules in a single session. In Winnipeg the limit is 3 cents and wheat was up the full amount at the opening gong. Minimum Price Set Reports from the Argentine that the government had issued a decree fixing 90 cents a bushel as the minimum price for this season's wheat crop were responsible for the sensational advances in North America. The reports said the Argentine National Grain Board had been authorized to buy all wheat offered at the established minimum. Under the influence of this bulish development December wheat in Chicago opened at sl.Ol -tj* a bushel, up the full 5 cents from yesterday’s close. May was up 3 n to 5 cents and July was up 3 1 * to 4 cents. The other grains rallied generally more than a cent higher in sympathy with wheat. Stocks Advance Slightly Hy I nileil Press NEW YORK. Dec. 13 Extremely dull trading prevailed on the stock market today but prices generally showed fractional advances. The sharp rise in wheat prices on world markets, resulting from the new Argentine price level, brought a little optimism to trading, but no activity. Some farm equipment shares rose with grains, International Harvester showing 11..l 1 .. advance at 6IS. Silver shares for the most part were firm, despite further reduction in the price of bar silver in both London and New York. Some selling came into high priced shares, reportedly year-end tax adjustments. American Can at 131 was 4 points lower, while while du Pont was pared fractionally. Rails had small gains. SLAYER HANGS TODAY: HOPES ‘I3TH’ IS LUCKY He'll Walk I'p 13 Gallows Steps for 13-Month-Old Crime. By United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Cal.. Dec. 13.—Arthur D. West, who is to be executed today, refused to consider Friday, the thirteenth, unlucky. “I still think the Governor will stop this hanging.” he told guards when they awakened him this morning. At 10 this morning West was to walk up 13 steps of the gallows to die for the slaying 13 months ago of Roy V. Lockwood, a fellow prisoner stationed at the Presidio, San Francisco.

REFUSES LIGGETT QUIZ Cummings Denies Olsen Plea for Federal Intervention. It* I nitrd /'re** WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.—Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings today denied the appeal of Gov. Floyd Olsen of Minnesota for Federal intervention in the investigation of | the slaying of Walter Liggett. Mr. Cummings said that "the burden of enforcing state and local criminal law's rests upon the 'states and communities in which infractions of such laws occur.” BANDIT ROBS CITY MAN Salesman Kidnaped. Relieved of S3OO by Highway Thug. Bft I uitra It< * LINTON. Ind.. Dec. 1.3.—E. R. Kinsdale of Indianapolis, cigaret machine operator, was kidnaped and robbed of S3OO in cash and a large quantity of cigarets by a bandit on United States Road 54 last night. Mr. Kinsdale was held up when he returned to his car after servicing a vending machine at Switz City. 6000 TO GET PAY HIKE Five Cents an Hour Boost to Be Given Glass Workers. By I nitrd I'r.M PITTSBURGH. Dec. 13— A 5-cents-an-hour wage increase will be granted Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Cos. workers under anew agreement reached in Toledo today. Gen W. McCabe, president of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, said here. The agreement, effective Dec. 16. for one year, will affect approximately 6090 workers in four plants —at Toledo. Ottawa, 111., Charleston. W. Va., and Shreveport, La.