Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1935 — Page 1

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CITY DIGGING OUT FROM FOUR-INCH SNOW; 13 KILLED

Three Lose Lives Here in Traffic Accidents; 10 in State. SUFFERING IS INTENSE Street Department Workers Are Busy Lessening Hazards. (Photos on Page 8.) Indianapolis this afternoon is digging out from a fourinch snowfall that took a toll of 13 lives in Indiana traffic accidents, retarded last-min-ute Christmas buying and interrupted traffic operations. Wilh a forecast of cloudy tonight and tomorrow, prospects for the first white Christmas in years for Indianapolis are good. Street commissioner's workers—3oo of them—worked desperately to clear snow from heavily-traveled streets and spread salt on dangerous intersections. Three persons were killed in Marion County. Poor visibility and jcy roadways were to blame for the tragedies. It. was the deepest snow since March 18 of this year when 3.6 inches fell in a 24-hour period. Children on Vacation School children on vacation for the holidays enjoyed the weather “break” and spent the day coasting in guarded streets and in city parks. Two young women were injured severely this morning when their car, maneuvered to avoid hitting children on sleds in the 4700 block, Madison-av, collided head on with another. Miss Marjory Werttenberger, 21, of Laketon, Ind.. was taken unconscious to City Hospital. Miss Fiances Thrckeld, 25, Greenwood. Ind., was taken to City Hospital with a broken collar bone. Lorren Marshall, father of a yearold child, was struck and killed by a car one-half mile east of Tibbsav on old Road 67 at 6 this morning. Joseph VanMetre, 20, Mooresville, driver of the car, said the snow had reduced visibility to such a degree that he did not see Mr. Marshall until it was too late to stop. He said Mr. Marsha’t was walking in the middle of the road. Mr. Marshall is survived by the widow, Dorothy, and their child. Mr. VanMetre was not held. Two Killed by Train Lowell Lincoln, 28. of 2019 W. Ohio-st, and Mrs. Mary Rubin, 20, of 536 Arnolda-av, were killed instantly late last night when Mr. (Twn to Page Six) TWO BROTHERS HELD IN DOUBLE SLAYING Battle Police Who Sought to Quiz Them on Stolen Car. By United Press BOWLING GREEN. Ky.. Dec. 23. —Henry Hardcastle, 45, Tennessee ex-convict, and his brother, Howard, were held by police today, charged with the double murder of Patrolman J. P. Hayes and Robert Rowland in a gun battle at Franklin. The two brothers, garagemen, are alleged to have shot Patrolman Hayes and Mr. Rowland as they sought to question them about a stolen automobile. Howard was wounded and captured. Henry was captured later in the home of his sister-in-law. after one officer accidentally shot another. By i nitrd Pres* LOUISVILLE. kv„ Dec. 23.—Two persons were killed and three were wounded seriously today in a gun battle which followed a holdup here. Myles Davidson, 22, holdup suspect, was killed by police after he had barricaded himself in a house. Luther Barger, 22, Davidson's stepbrother, who engaged in the battle with police, also was killed. DEATH IS INVESTIGATED Knife Wound Fatal to William D. Denny, Bridgeport. Investigation of the death of William D. Denny, Bridgeport, who succumbed to a knife wound in the neck, was made today by Dr. William E. Arbuckle. Mr. Denny died last night in Long Hospital. The wound is said to have been self-inflicted. Seek Building Bids Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker announced today that sealed proposals are to be opened Feb. 4 for the construction of an addition to the Indianapolis Federal Building, for which an appropriation of $1,315,000 has meen made. Times Index Page Amusements 8 Births, Deaths 24 Books 15 Bridge 15 Comic* 27 Editorial 16 Financial 17 Johnson 15 Junior Aviation 10 Pegler 15 Radio 18 Serial Story 13 Sports 22-23 Want Ads 24-25 Woman’s Pages 12, 13

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Cloudy and colder tonight and tomorrow with lowest temperature tonight about 18.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 246

Toll in Nation Exceeds 60; China Clipper Forced Back by Gale. SHIPS SCURRY TO PORT Grade Crossing Accidents Claim Many; Holiday Travel at Peak. Br United Press • Snow and heavy holiday traffic caused more than 60 deaths over the week-end in an unusual number of road accidents in all parts of the nation. Fourteen persons were killed when a bus skidded over the open end of a drawbridge at Hopewell, Va. Five were killed in the collision of a sedan with a truck in Spartanburg, S. C., and four died in Taopi, Minn., in a train-automo-bile accident. Trains figured in three other accidents. The Golden State Limited killed three men in a truck at Tempe, Ariz.; a passenger train killed a man and woman at Omaha, and a train at San Antonio killed one man and critically injured another. Snow Blamed for Mishaps Police said virtually all accidents were caused by snow and sleet storms that disrupted transportation at the beginning of the heaviest Christmas and New Year traffic in years. Three men drowned in a truck that crashed through lake ice near Fond Du Lt.c, Wis. A truck killed two youths at Wichita, Kas. Two Houston truck drivers were held on manslaughter charges. Wet pavement caused the death of two men at Mapleton, 111., and near Wheeling, 111., a skidding car killed one man One died in Chicago and five in New York. Thirteen deaths were reported in Indiana. Storm Lashes Northwest A severe typhoon struck the southern coast of the Island of Luzon tonight, centering on Camarines Sur Province and driving across the island south of Manila. A severe mid-ocean Pacific storm drove Pan-American Airways’ giant China Clipper back to its Alameda base today after the big craft had flown approximately one-third the distance to Honolulu. Storms and cold weather were general in the Northwest. Two CCC camp members were killed and a third critically injured in an auto crash near Salem. Mo. Two fishing vessels were wrecked and scores of other small craft, on their last trip of the season to Alaskan halibut banks, hurried for cover. RADIO CORP. BREAK UNSETTLES TRADING Supreme Court Rules R. C. A. Must Face Trial in Suit. By United Pees* NEW YORK. Dec. 23.—A sharp break in Radio Corp.. stock following Supreme Court decision adverse to the company unsettled the stock market early this afternoon. Radio broke to 11%, offl% in active selling. The United States Supreme Court decided that the corporation would have to stand trial in a suit brought by Raytheon Manufacturing Cos., charging damages of $15,000,000 as a result of anti-trust law violations. Chrysler, which touched 92%, a new top since 1929 and a gain of 2% points, declined to 91% and quieted. BRANDT REAPPOINTED TO WORKS BOARD JOB To Serve in City Post Four Years, Beginning Jan. 1. Mayor Kern today reappointed Louis C. Brandt a member of the Board of Works and Sanitation for a four-year term, beginning Jan. 1. This is the third appointment Mr. Brandt has received from the Mayor. When Mr. Kern assumed office, he retained Mr. Brandt, an appointee of former Mayor Sullivan. When the Works and Sanitation Boards were merged. Mr. Brandt was appointed a second time.

Christmas Gift Mercy had a talk with .Justice today and as a result Marshall Spencer, 29. Clermont, is to spend Christmas with his wife and four children, and continue his w-ork on a WPA project. Spencer pleaded guilty Saturday before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell to a charge of possessing a still. He was given a 90-day jail term and a SIOO fine. Today Judge Baltzell placed him on probation. Tomorrow Spencer is to receive his first WPA pay check. He has been working two weeks, the first employment he has had in two years.

Happy Daze By I nitrd Pee** NEW ALBANY. Ind., Dec. 23. —A barrel of “Christmas cheer” brightened some one’s home today. Henry Chastain, 30, Louisville truck driver, reported to police that while he was sum* moning aid after his machine ran down an embankment, someone carted off a barrel of whisky.

6. M. C. GIVES $278,000 BONUS $30,000 Is Awarded City Employes; $5,000,000 Is U. S. Total. General Motors Corpus Christmas gifts to employes brought $278,000 today to workers in Indiana, including $30,000 in Indianapolis at the Chevrolet Body Cos. In Anderson, where the corporation operates the Delco-Remy Cos. and Guide Lamp Corp., $210,000 was given workers. In +he Chevrolet transmission plant at Muncis employes were awarded $38,000. By United Pres* NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—General Motors Corp. is to give $25 to each of approximately 200,000 employes tomorrow as a Christmas bonus. The cost is to be $5,000,000. President Alfred P. Sloan Jr., announcing the bonus, said it was “an appreciation fund” for the part the corporation’s employes played in Treating the most prosperous year for General Motors since the depression began. Several other national and local firms announced similar bonuses. Approximately 2,700 employes of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., earning less than- $2,000 a year are to get $55 each. In Wall Street, brokerage house employes—who recently have toiled into the night to keep pace with tive markets—were being regarded with the widest distribution of bonuses since the boom days of 1928 and 1929, DEATH ACCIDENTAL, TODD PROBERS SAY Scientific Data Advanced as Jury Meets. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23.—Margaret Lindsay, beautiful brunet film star, was the first witness called before the Los Angeles County grand jury today as it opened an investigation into the mysterious death of Thelma Todd, blond screen beauty. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Dec. 23.—Evidence strengthening the belief that Thelma Todd, blond screen star, met an accidental death in her garage was scheduled to be submitted to the county grand jury today. Scientific tests by city chemists, police homicide officers and district attorney's investigators were reported to have disclosed that: 1. Miss Todd's phaeton could fill the garage where she died with deadly carbon monoxide gas in two minutes. 2. The car holding the body probably had not been driven since late Saturday or early Sunday. 3. The motor of the car could not be heard in the quarters of Charles H. Smith, employ of Miss Todd's case, above the garage with only a vague sound audible when the engine was raced. GUFFEY ACT TO GET EARLY COURT ACTION Date for Hearing May Be Set After Recess. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The Supreme Court today added the Guffey Coal Control Act to Jhe roster of New Deal cases awaiting its early determination, and then took a two-weeks’ holiday recess. The government is expected to ask the court to advance a date for argument of the Guffey act test when the justices return from their recess Jan. 6. Otherwise, it was said, cases probably would not be argued until March. The court is expected to return from its Christmas vacation with a pack laden with decisions on constitutionality of New Deal acts. The validity of the AAA and its amendments, the TVA and the Bankhead Cotton Control Act are among the issues to which the nine justices will devote themselves while the rest of the nation is celebrating the holiday season. The court’s action today will enable it to provide an unprecedented early test of the Guffey law’s constitutionality. The effective enforcement date of the law is less than a month past and machinery is still being set up for its administration. By granting permission to take the cst case directly before the high court, a final constitutional ruling is possible within a few months. HUNT KNIFER OF WOMAN Victim. Found in Hotel Room, Is Recovering at Hospital. Mrs. Louie* March, alias Louise Gilmore, 24. was recovering in City Hospital today from razor cuts on her arms and face, while police sought the man in whose hotel room she was found unconscious last night.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935

BUSINESS FEUD RAISES NICK IN SANTOWN Firms Capitalizing on His Name Stage Ceremonies at Same Time. KRIS HIMSELF ABSENT Postmaster Solves Ticklish Problem, Stays Away From Both. Times Special SANTA CLAUS, Ind., Dec. 23. Barring a slight corporative headache, Santa Claus (the village) is ready for Christmas today, but some of the citizens are not speaking to each other. Yesterday there was a battie of ceremonies, to which all were invited. One was the unveiling of “Candy House,” a red brick fairyland castle, built by Santa Claus of Santa. Claus, Inc. The other was the unveiling of a statue of Santa Claus, sponsored by Santa Claus. Inc. Both were at the same time so those invited had to make up their minds suddenly which to attend. Here’s How Things Stand Some people, such as Postmaster Oscar L, Philipps, who is Santa Claus, were cross enough to not attend either, so that the whole thing is pretty mixed up. It’s this way: Santa Claus of Santa Claus. Inc., headed by Milton Harris, former Vincennes (Ind.) attorney, has built the fairyland castle and has announced that it will build more, for displaying, in a Mother Goose village, toys and gifts for children at Christmas time. Santa Claus, Inc., to which Santa Claus of Santa Claus, Inc., no longer is speaking, owns and operates the Santa Claus statue, and has announced that it, too, plans to build and exploit a Mother Goose village for displaying children’s toys at Christmas time. Otherwise* All’s Peaceful When the two corporations got wind of each other’s intentions, they went into court and the legal fur flew. Santa Claus of Santa Claus, Inc., claimed that the ground where the Santa Claus statue of Santa Claus, Inc. was located was under lease to it. Santa Claus, Inc., replied, in court, with a petition for an order enjoining Santa Claus of Santa Claus, Inc., from using that name. Both corporations want exclusive rights to exploit the name for commercial purposes. This is about the way things stand now in this otherwise peaceful village of Santa Claus, nestled in Spencer County’s back-country hills. There are about 100 citizens. Town Founded hi 1846 Santa Claus was founded as Santa Fe in 1846 but changed its name several years later when it applied for a postoffice and was denied one because there already was one Santa Fe listed in Miami County. Publicity on its name has brought an annual rush of Christmas parcels to be mailed to all parts of the world with the Santa Claus post ma/k. It snowed yesterday and Santa Claus has good prospects for a white Christmas. NRA DEATH ORDER IS SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT Executive Rule Shifts Some Employes to Comerce, Labor Groups. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—President Roosevelt -oday signed an executive order terminating the National Recovery Administration on Jan. 1, and shifting some of its remaining employes to the Departments of Commerce and Labor. MUSIC TEACHER PASSES Miss Frances Beik Dies at Home; Last Rites to Be Thursday. Miss Frances Beik. member of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music faculty, died today at her home, 3835 Winthrop-av. Funeral services are to be held at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary, at 1:30 Thursday.

Just a Few Hours Are Lest —Clothe a Child!

(764 Children Clothed See Donors’ List, Page 3) ' The family’s shopping is done. John-boy is assured that lum-ber-jacket he wanted for Christmas. Mary-girl could find that new dress in th bottom of the clothes-hamper if she only knew that her mother had hidden it there to await Christmas eve. But in every sector of the city, streets and avenues and even alleys, there still are John-boys and Mary-girls who cuddle for clothing warmth in beds when chilled winds whistle. Their Christmas shopping has not been done—and it will not be done unless today and tomorrow the city devotes some thought to clothing needy children. Clothe-a-Child of The Indianapolis '.rimes waits to serve you in that last-minute shopping to mend hearts and bring warm garments to bodies cut by winds.

LINDBERGHS FLEE U. S.; TAKE SON TO ENGLAND

‘Useless,’ Is Darrow View on Flier’s Search for Peace, Quiet. 'SURPRISE’ TO PRESIDENT Hauptmann Attorneys File Plea With Jersey Pardons Board. BULLETIN By United Press TRENTQN, N. J., Dec. 23. Bruno Richard Hauptmann filed a petition for clemency with the Court of Pardons today.. This is the last .court of appeal for the convicted Lindbergh baby kidnaper. Gov. Harold G. Hoffman will be notified of the filing and will set the meeting of the court. He has indicated the meeting would be after Christmas and before New Year’s. The court is composed of the Governor, the chancellor and six judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals. A majority vote is required to grant leniency and the Governor must vote with the majority. A majority can deny clemency even though the Governor votes for it. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer and student of psychology, today saw only a futile gesture in the Lindberghs’ flight to England an attempt to escape fears which are “inescapable.” “Their flight can not in any sense be constructed as indicative of a general breakdown in American law enforcement agencies,” Darrow said. “They represent only one family, a family beset by wholly understandable fears. But they will, I am certain, be disappointed. “The same fears for the safety of their son which beset them now will beset them in England or wherever they are. We can’t all leave the country, nor is there any reason why we should. “We are as safe here as we would be anywhere.” Surprise to Roosevelt By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The capital received with surprise today advices that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his family had gone to Europe to avoid the possibility of a kidnap plot against his son Jon. Not even the President, it was said at the White House, had the slightest hint that the famous flier planned such a journey. Mr. Roosevelt received the news with “distinct surprise,” it was said. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, declined to comment on the reported kidnaping threats against Jon Lindbergh. Bruno Not Yet Told By United Press TRENTON, N. J.. Dec. 23.—Bruno Richard Hauptmann, under sentence to die the week of Jan. 13 for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., has not been told that Col. Lindbergh, his wife and their second son have left United States for England. “I haven’t told him,” State Prison Keeper Mark Kimberling said today. “I’m leaving that to his attorneys.” Not First to Leave By United Press NEW YORK, Dec 23.—C01. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are not the first prominent Americans to leave this country for greater security against kidnapers. E. L. Cord, multimillionaire motor and aviation magnate, and Horace E. Dodge, wealthy Detroiter, both took their children abroad last year, indicating they were perturbed by an increase in threatening letters.

You have until as late as you wish on Christmas Eve to enroll in Clothe-a-Child. Mile-of-Dimes, sidewalk shrine of Clothe-a-Child, neared its fifteenth row today with approximately $2324 in front of L. S. Ayres & Cos. and S. S. Kresge Cos. stores just waiting to pay clothing bills for the indigent ones. Your dimes are spent as they are laid down. The dimes will be banked Christmas Eve. But even then Clothe-a-Child does not close up shop, for it gives to the last-minute goodfellow a way to provide a Christmas gift that can not be given by Community Fund relief agencies. Your gift will last the coming school year. Call Riley 5551 for a boy or girl to clothe or if you wish a checa or cash will let Clothe-a-Child dress your own John-boy or Marygirl.

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Rise of Eden Increases War Clouds Over Europe

Latest Steps May Drive Congress Into Isolation Position. By United Press , WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. Appointment of Capt. Anthony Eden as British foreign secretary probably will accelerate the United States course toward political isolation from Europe and the League of Nations’ collective security program, officials here believed today. They believed Capt. Eden's appointment assures a strengthening of the British government’s proLeague'policy and almost immediate moves to extend the League’s economic and financial sanctions against Italy to include oil, steel and other “essential war materials.” America’s course toward isolation will be accelerated, they believe, by fears that extension of League sanctions may precipitate a general European war, and the determination of an apparent majority in Congress that the United States shall not be drawn into another foreign war. Permanent Neutrality Law The Administration repeatedly has voiced similar determination. There is some difference of opinion between leaders of the legislative and the executive branches of the government concerning the measures by which America’s isolation from foreign wars can best be assured. These differences are expected to be thrashed out in permanent neutrality legislation to be introduced in the coming Congress to replace the present American neutrality law. U.S. JOINS INQUIRY INTO BUS TRAGEDY I. C. C. to Probe Mishap Fatal to 14. By United Press HOPEWELL, Va., Dec. 23.—Federal officials came to the aid of local authorities today in search for the cause of the Appomattox River bus tragedy which cost 14 lives. Five bodies are unidentified. Two officials of the motor carrier division of the Interstate Commerce Commission were ordered to aid investigation into the accident in which a huge bus dived through an open drawbridge into the river Whether a mechanical fault or seme other mishap caused the accident remained uncertain after preliminary investigation of the bus. Officials discounted the possibility that the driver, L. G. Alford, was dead when the bus broke through the bridge guard.

Modern Army By United Press LONDON. Dec. 23.—The government moved to bring the British army up to the top pitch of modern efficiency to--day. with an order for reorganization more extensive than any in the army’s history. Following up programs to strengthen the navy and the air force, the war office announced detailed plans to make the army a swifter striking force.

Italy Enraged, but Other Nations Laud Britain's New Foreign Minister. Bv United Press LONDON—British and French general staff officers confer on war plans; appointment of sanctionist Eden as foreign secretary starts talk of possible war; Britain lays plans to modernize army. ROME—Heavy fighting on northern Ethiopian front announced. LONDON—Slowness of Ita'ian advance not due to military inefficiency but to cautious planning for a long siege, Webb Miller believes. PARlS—Premier Pierre Laval strengthens his position and his defeat at present seems unlikely. CAIRO—The Egyptian government canceled the discharge of military and naval reservists for the next six months. ATHENS, Dec. 23. —The newspaper Hellenicon Mellon published an unconfirmed leport today that Britain, besides asking for the use of strategic Greek harbors in case of an attack by Italy, also has asked Greece to send one full division of troops to Egypt, By United Press LONDON, Dec. 23.—British and French general staff officers of the army and navy have conferned secretly on co-operation in a possible European emergency with results that are regarded as satisfactory, it was learned today. The conversations were part of Great Britain’s reinsurance policy against a ‘ mad dog” act by Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy. The British staff officers went to Paris, and there held their talks. They have returned to London. It was learned that the conversations—and the satisfactory results—were confined to the staffs themselves and did not involve other officials in France. As this revelation w’as made, it was said on reliable authority that the appointment of Capt. Anthony Eden as foreign secretary' means: 1. Great Britain will support the League in its penalties campaign against Italy. 2. No more peace proposals to Italy are contemplated. 3. The government assumes that Italy knows that the death sentence has been passed on the recent French-British proposals. By United Press ROME, Dec. 23.—Italians learned with rage today that Anthony Eden, regarded as Premier Benito Mussolini’s arch enemy, had been named foreign secretary of Great Britain. They told each other that Britain had taken off the mask at last, and wanted war. They expressed the firm opinion also that if Eden—as they expect him to attempt—succeeds in obtaining application of an oil embargo against Italy, it will mean war. Mussolini’s first reply to the appointment, regarded as an open challenge, was expected to be reinforcement of the army in Libya and anew front effort to speed up the military campaign against Ethiopia. Foreign, as well as Italian circles, agreed that the appointment greatly increased the possibility of a spread of the Italian-Ethiopian war to Europe. GENEVA, Dec. 23.—League leaders expressed belief today that the appointment of Anthony Eden as British foreign secretary was a victory for the League, and an indication that Great Britain would stand firm for punishment of Italy.

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Colonel and Anne Will Remain Permanently, If Necessary. FAMILY NOW AT SEA Embark Secretly With Aid of High American, British Officials. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh and hia wife have fled to England with their 3-year-old son, Jon, to protect the baby from kidnapers, the United Pres* learned today from a friend of the Lindbergh family. The Lindberghs left secretly on a boat on which they are the only passengers and will be at sea over Christmas. The ship on which the Lindbergh* embarked is the American Importer, a combination passenger and cargo vessel. They purchased the exclusive passenger occupancy on the vessel. The American Importer was scheduled to sail at midnight Saturday, but was held up almost three hour* for the Lindberghs. The American Importer is due at Cobh, Ireland, Dec. 29. at Liverpool, England. Dec. 30. and Manchester on New Year's Eve. Thus with the New Year the Lindberghs will begin their new life, in a country which they chose because they believe its people are the most law-abiding in the world. The United Press was informed that the colonel was determined to remain in England permanently if necessary for Jon’s protection. He had been disturbed recently by the revival of publicity in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was convicted of kidnaping and murdering his first son, Charle* Augustus Jr, Plans Are Kept Secret Plans for their departure were kept secret from all except members ofk the family and intimate friends. It is believed that in England thH Lindberghs may go to the home odH Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-lawM Aubrey Neil Morgan, who lives ini Cardiff, Wales. Mr. Morgan, whosov late wife was Miss Elizabeth Mor-fl row and who is believed to be visit-* ing in China, has spent considerable time in this country at the estate of * Mrs. Lindbergh’s mother, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, in Englewood, t, N. J. The friend of Lindbergh, while confirming that he is now en route to England with his family, declined to discuss any details of the departure^ Disturbed by Threats But as to the reason for the Lindberghs’ decision to move from their homeland, he explained that they had been worried over the new deluge of threats, which have become more numerous as the day of Hauptmann's execution approaches. They had become concerned not only for their son's immediate safety, but feared that in this country he never would be able to grow up normally. The Lindberghs apparently long had discussed moving from this country, but one recent incident particularly decided them to await no longer, it was indicated. The three-year-old ooy. Jon. w-as being driven home from nursery school by a maid when a large automobile containing several men crowded their car to a stop at the curb. They jumped out of the car with cameras, swiftly took pictures of the child and raced away. The terrified nurse and child went on home unmolested, but Jon was not sent to school any more after that. Aided by High Officials Preparations for the departure for England were made with the greatest secrecy. Col. Lindbergh himself obtained the passports in Washington about a week ago. His friendship with high officials enabled him to do so without any one becoming aware of his mission. Again with utmost secrecy, ar(Turn to Page Three) DELAY JACOBY GANG TRIAL TO THURSDAY Illness of Juror’s Husband Cause* Continuance. Trial of Forrest Jacoby and three other defendants charged with robbery of the William H. Roberts & Sons dairy was continued today in Criminal Court until Thursday owing to the illness of the husband of Mrs. Della Essex, R. R. 17. Box 1515-C, one of the 10 women jurors. Mr. Essex, a disabled World War veteran, became ill Friday night and his condition was worse today, the court was informed. Defendants with Jacoby are John and Al Head and Jerry Dukes. SON IS ADMINISTRATOR Probate Court Names Charles Coffin Jr. Charles F. Coffin Jr.. 2829 Rucklest, today was appointed by Probate Court as administrator of the estate of his father, Charlea F. Coffin, attorney. who died last week. The father left no will. The estate, all personal property, is valued at S9OOO.