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INSULL MOVES INTO INDIANA RADIO FIELD Utilities Magnate to Serve Chain of 15 Small Stations. SECRET ABOUT PROGRAM Former WENR Facilities to Be Keystone of New Venture. B\f United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Samuel Insull, enterprising and ambitious at 76, confident he still possesses the Midas touch that lifted him from a bookkeeper's ben-h in a London office to fabulous wealth, has decided to fight his way back in the, world of business —his battlefield the youthful industry of radio. The white-haired financier, twice tried and acquitted on fraud charges, backed by friends, has associated himself with anew broadcasting chain, whose roots have taken hold in the same area that nurtured the old Midwest Utilities. At present the chain is reported to have signed 15 small stations in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Understood to have a backing of SIOO,OOO, the chain later will expand, it was reported. Broadcasts to Start Soon Offices of the new concern are located on the 42d floor of the $20,000,000 opera building which was Insull's monument to his own wizardry. Insull quietly has been directing organization. First broadcasts will be made in the near future, possibly within two weeks Central studios of the new chain formerly were occupied by station WENR. once owned and operated by insull. Preliminary financing has been handled by George Buffington. Chicago broker. Buffington said no stock had been issued, but refused further comment. Insull was chary of revealing details. He made a non-committal statement that amounted to confirmation. He’ll Handle Business Side “I won’t deny it," he said, "because I would be lying. And I won’t confirm it because Tnatters are still in an embryonic stage.” From friends it was learned Insull will handle the business side. Ota Gygi, musician associated with Ed Wynn in the defunct Amalgamated Broadcasting Cos., will be program director. Monday Insull will unfold to owners of stations already signed the plans of the new company. The chain, it was understood, will not compete immediately with the larger networks. Rather, it will serve as a supplemental community hookup for scores of small stations. The "embryonic” network will be knowm as the Affiliated Broadcasting Cos., it was reported. MUSIC BATTLE THREAT TO NEW YEAR FROLICS Local Orchestras Are Told Not to Play Certain Pieces. A fight between the American Society of Composers. Authors and Publishers and the Music Publishers Holding Corp. has local orchestra directors puzzled concerning their New Year's Eve music. Music Publishers Holding Corp., controlled by Warner Bros., which in turn holds the rights of eight music publishing houses, has been dissatisfied w’ith royalties it has received and withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the society. Local orchestras received letters from the corporation warning them against playing music controlled by the corporation after midnight Tuesday. Since the orchestra leaders are somewhat in the dark concerning which music is controlled by the corporation, they are undecided whether to take a chance or to close down their orchestras just as the New Year's Eve festivities get under way. QUINS 19 MONTHS OLD: STAY ON PRESENT DIET Babies in "Wonderful Condition,” Reports Famed Dr. Dafoe. By United Pr<ss CALLANDER, Ontario, Dec. 28. The Dionne quintuplets, 19 months old today, are to continue on the same diet and routine which they have followed for the last eignt weeks. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said. The babies are in "really wonderful condition,” Dr. Dafoe advised. "They have not shown a sign of illness of any kind for months, and their appetites continue to develop normally, while their physical development is all that any one could ask." Times Index Page. I Amusements 4 Births, Deaths 13 Books 9 Bridge 9 Broun 9 Church News 5 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial ]0 Financial 11 Pegler 9 Radio 8 Serial Story 7 Sports •• 12-13 Want Ads 13-14 .Woman’s Pages 6-7

The Indianapolis Times *■ FORECAST: Cloudy with occasional snow tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight with lowest temperature about 16.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 251

Borah Speaker tty United Pee** WASHINGTON Dec. 28Senator William E. Borah's announced candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination was given impetus today by announcement he would speak at a Republican rally in New York next month. He is to speak at the invitation of a group of Republican liberals on liberalization of the Republican party. Although the date for the speech has not been set, Mr. Borah said he was advised that Jan. 28 is the probable date and "that is satisfactory to me.” It is understood that Mr. Borah is to speak in Kismet Hall, Erooklyn, Although Mr. Borah has made no formal announcement of his candidacy, his acceptance of the New York invitation was regarded by many as a clear indication of his intentions to seek the nomination.

VOTE NEAR ON LAVAL’S FATE Victory by Slender Margin Is Predicted for Government. Pll United Pres:a PARIS, Dec. 28.—Premier Laval fought for his political life today in the Chamber of Deputies, cool and unshaken by a punishing fire of criticism of his foreign policy. After a morning of debate which indicated that the chamber was almost evenly divided, the session was adjourned until this afternoon. Then Laval was to make his defense of his handling of the Ital-ian-Ethiopian problem in a speech on whose appeal the fate of his government rested. An early vote of confidence in his foreign policy ‘was expected. It was indicated that the vote would be close, so close as to doom Laval's government almost certainly within the next few weeks even if he won it. unless the mercurial premier could retrieve his position. Observers predicted a victory by the slightest of margins, but they spoke none too surely. Everything depended on Laval and his ability to convince a few middle-of-the-road deputies. MacDonald Nominated By United Prcaa EDINBURGH. Dec. 28.—The Scottish universities last night nominated Ramsay MacDonald, lord president of the council, for the parliamentary vacancy caused by the death of Archibald Noel Skelton. Mr. Skelton, a conservative, died after the general election of last month, in which he was reelected to the seat. Mr. MacDonald was decisively defeated in the election, and a seat was sought for him so he could remain in the cabinet. Hint Leopold Mediator By United Press LONDON. Dec. 28.—The Daily Mirror reported today that King Leopold of the Belgians was in England not on a private visit, as supposed. but to act as mediator for Italy in the Ethiopian crisis. It was explained that Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy, a sister of Leopold, asked him to seek to influence the policy of the British government in Italy’s interests. WORK TO START SOON ON SHELBY PWA JOBS Resident Engineer Goes on Duty at Shelbyville. Times Special SHELBYVILLE., Ind., Dec. 28.Arrival here of James A. Moriarity recently assigned resident PWA engineer, toe ay indicated that construction of the Shelby County Courthouse and the Union Township Consolidated School is to start soon. Mr. Moriarity, appointed by Washington officials, is to enforce PWA regulations governing selection of labor and wage scales. Ninety per cent of the workers employed, he stated, are to be taken from local relief rolls. Contract to erect the Courthouse is held by the Service Construction Cos., Indianapolis. STERN CASE SUSPECT TO BE TRIED FEB. 10 Sam Shweizer Pleads Not Guilty to 45 Counts of Fraud. am Schweitzer, who yesterday pleaded not guilty to 45 counts of a mail fraud and conspiracy indictment before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. is to be tried Feb. 10. Shweitzer and 14 others were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in connection with the activities of Louis Stern & Cos., defunct investment firm. Investors here lost more than $50,000 in dealings with the firm, according to Val Nolan, United States District Attorney. Six of the 15 named still are fugitives. BANDITS RAID_ MARKET Armed Pair Threaten Five; Drug Store Also Looted. Two armed men held up the Handy Market. 122 E. St. Clair-st, forced five persons to a rear room, and escaped with an amount of money tfiat has not yet been computed, police were told today. Apparently the same men 40 minutes later held up the Harbison dtug store. 2250 E. Mi?higan-st, forced three people back of the prescription counter, and took S6O. ‘ v* ...

CASH ASSURED BUILDING, LOAN SHAREHOLDERS State Promises Dividend on Liquidated Assets in Six Months. PLOCH EXPLAINS DELAY 1664 Holding Stock in 12 Marion County Groups Are Affected. The 1644 shareholders in the 12 Marion County Building and Loan Associations now undergoing liquidation have a reasonable assurance of receiving a dividend on their holdings within the next six months. This was the reassurance today irom the Department of Financial Institutions, which is supervising I liquidation where it is necessary and 1 is insisting on a vigorous financial I housecleaning in those associations | where a failing or insolvent condition is indicated. The 12 Marion County associa- | tions in liquidation and the num- ; ber of shareholders in each are: | Trvington Savings and Loan, 120; Merit Savings and Loan, 61; Garfield Park Building and Loan. 225; j Madison Avenue Savings and Loan, Nos. 16 and 17, 66 and 141, respec- | tively; Occidental Savings and Loan, 48; Lincoln Highway Savings and Loan, 44; Indiana Savings and Loan, 70; Russell Avenue Savings and Loan, No. 4. 70; Downey Street Savings and Loan, Nos. 15 and 16, 230 and 90. and Monument Savings and Loan. 479. Liquidation Started in April A talk with Carl Ploch, special i representative of the Department ;of Financial Institutions for ; Marion County, is illuminating and i may serve to explain the delay that I some shareholders seem to feel has ; held up a dividend. In the first place, liquidation only has been going on since April 13 | of this year and some associations | have been placed in liquidation as late as Dec. 7. In addition to the building and loan liquidation, he has had the task of winding up the affairs of three banks, the Aetna Trust and Savings Cos., the Acton State Bank and the Fort Wayne Avenue State Bank. These three banks represent the interests of 1563 depositors. Since Aug. 1, 1933, the Aetna Trust has liquidated $901,069.57. This sum has been sufficient to pay all preferred and' secured claims and 62*2 per cent of the general claims. Depositors Paid in Full The Acton depositors have been paid in full. Total assets unliquidated in all building and loan associations and banks now is $1,773,533.93, Awaiting additional liquidation in order to make a distribution is $113,403.64 in bank accounts and Home Owners Loan Corp. bonds. This sum is scattered among the 15 trusts. A court order will be necessary fceI fore a distribution is made. In the (Turn to Page Three) STOCKS OPEN FIRM; BONDVALUES RISE Big Board Trade Active but Featureless. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Stocks opened steady to firm in fairly active trading today without particular feature. Bonds rose in light turnover, cotton dipped two to six points and the French franc eased to well below the point where further gold shipments to New York would be profitable. Silver shares rallied further. Cerro de Pasco was at 54, up and American Smelting 60, up %. Anaconda firmed slightly in the copper division. Chrysler opened at S3, up 14, exactly where it closed one week ago. It increased its gain slightly in the early trading. General Motors opened 1100 shares at 5618, uni changed. Packard was up 14 at 6 % j on 1000 shares. (By Thomson & McKinnon! 10:30 A. M. Prev. N. Y Close. I Atchison 56% 56% I Canadian Pac 104-4 10% Grt Northern 32% 32% Northern Pac 24% 24% Am Locomotive 25 25 I Gen Elec 37 1 i 37% Westinßhouse Air Brake 34 34% Westinghouse Elec 95% 95% ! Firestone 24V 24 Goodyear 22'a 22% Chrysler 93'a 92% Gen Motors 56 % 56'a Briggs 52 3 4 52% Elec Auto Lite 36 3 4 36% Timken Roller 64 65% ; Bendix 22% 22% ! Douglas Air 52 51% United Air 27% 2 a % Am Smelting 60 59% Int Nickel 44 s * 45% Columbia Carbon 94 93% Du Pont 139% 139% S O of N J 49 Vi 49 SO of Ind 30% 30% Phillips Pet 38% 38% Am Rolling Mill 30% 30% U S Pipe & Foundry 30% 20% U S Steel 46 46% Rep Iron <& Steel 18% 18% Am Tob A 95% 95% I Reynolds 54% 54% Am T & T 154 154 Mont Ward 38% 38% Sears Roebuck 64% 64% Am Can 134% 135 Western Union 72% 72% Gen Foods 32% 33 suspectedln~robbery Everett Bridgewater, On Parole, Is Arrested Here. Everett Bridgewater, 35. of 245 S. Arlington-av, member of the famous Bridgewater gang of criminals of a few years ago, who was released from prison on parole last August, is held today as a suspect in a Dublin (Ind. 4 holdup. He was arrested at j midnight at his home. ' TW

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1935

KIDNAPING ‘FAKED’ FOR PUBLICITY, MILNE ADMITS TO U. S. AGENTS

Church Unification Urged at Theological Parley as Answer to Materialism

3000 in City for Sessions of Student Volunteer Movement. More 3000 college and university students are in Indianapolis today to attend general sessions and 33 seminars of the twelfth quadrennial convention of the Student Volunteer Movement. General conference is to open at 1:30 this afternoon at Cadle Tabernacle, followed by seminars in several downcowm locations. The convention is to last through Wednesday. Every state in the nation and many Canadian provinces are represented. The meeting of the Volunteer group follows immediately the theological conference ending this morning at Butler University. Students to Be Missionaries The Volunteer Movement is composed of students who have decided to devote their lives to spreading Christianity in foreign mission fields. In addition to students of theology who are attending, many young men and women, studying other subjects, including medicine and engineering, are present. Dr. George Stewart, pastor First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, Conn., is to direct the opening session at the tabernacle. Leaders of the organization are not announcing advance programs. Admission to the general meetings is to be by ticket only, with the doors locked 10 minutes before programs start. BULLETIN By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 28,—Hog prices tumbled 25 cents today in one of the most spectacular breaks in recent years at the Chicago Stock Yards. The bottom dropped out of the market in late trading yesterday, when losses ranged up to 75 cnets per hundred pounds. Veteran livestock men said the break was the sharpest for a single day in many years. NEW SENATOR TO BACK FARMER-LABOR BANNER Pledges New Deal Support When He Thinks It Right. By United Press ST. PAUL, Dec. 28.—Elmer A. Benson, appointed by Gov. Floyd B. Olson to serve out the term of the late Thomas D. Schall, will "go along with the New Deal” when he thinks it is right and against it when he believes it wrong. Elevated to the high political office from the post of state banking commissioner, Mr. Benson announced he would "carry the torch of Farmer-Laborism to the United States Senate.” When the New Deal conflicts with the Farmer-Labor platform, he said, he will oppose the New Deal. A bespectacled, serious-minded man, Mr. Benson replaces one of the most outspoken Administration critics. When his term is ended, he is expected to step down in favor of Gov. Olson, who covets the senatorship for himself in 1936. FIRE PROBE IS STARTED Chief Orders Investigation; 40 Victims Are Recovering. By United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 28.—An investigation into the $150,000 fire which destroyed the H. L. Green Department Store and threatened an entire block in the downtown district was scheduled here today. Fire Chief William Freeh said he hoped to determine how the fire gained such headway before fireman reached the scene. More than 40 firemen, who suffered from exposure and smoke during the 13-hour fight against the blaze, were reported out of danger today. Vogue, Vanity Fair Merge By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Merging of the magazines Vanity Fair and Vogue w’as announced today by Conde Nast, publisher. They will make their combined appearance in March.

Shoo! On Friday, Dec. 13, Lieut. John Doyle of Engine House 13, lost a boot from Truck 13 on a run t oa fire. Yesterda/ Lieut. Doyle read in the paper that police had a boot at headquarters shed by a fleeing prowler suspect. The lieutenant’s foot fas pretty cold when he bustled down to headquarters on the long chance the boot fas his. Think what a swell story this would be if it had been.

Famed Archbishop of York Seeks Freedom Hazard in New Trends. The Christian church should meet the challenges of materialism and social disintegration by unification, the Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert told delegates to the National Conference of Theological Students at Butler University today. Dr. Cavert, general secretary, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, spoke on the prospects of church unity. "We are confronted by a rampant materialism, which tries to explain everything without God. No denomination can meet that challenge alone,” Dr. Cavert said. Disintegration Threatens "We are confror _d wdth an economic order so shot through with the acquisitive spirit that it is ; threatened with social disintegration. We are confronted with an international order that keeps on piling armament against armament and drives us headlong to suicidal war. "We are confronted with the twin | modern rivals of Christianity—com- | munism and nationalism. It is not now Buddhism and Islam that are i the great competitors of Christianity for the allegiance of men but those new’ mass forces of communism and nationalism. No denominations can meet these kind of challenges alone. "To win the victory over such foes as these we can not wait for some final consummation in the form of a complete merger of all denominations into a single church. We must have united action now, even if wre don’t have a formal union we can have a W’hole-hearted policy of cooperation. "It is only in incidental matters that we are separated; In the things that really matter—the things that make a vital difference in a sinful and disordered world—we are one.” Archbishop of York Speaks Governments and employers are ; tending now to curb personal freedom and individual personality, William Temple, Archbishop of York, told the theology students last night. "Schools and education originally were under charge of religious bodies particularly the colleges,” the Archbishop said. "Now_ the state is stepping in to take over education more completely and we are welcoming it. But the state wants to try to build a citizenship whose minds are built upon ideas on which the particular state rests. “They always try to press all thought into one mold, and all this is a threat to the independence of personality. You can not set a price on personalities as you can on a pair of shoes, because personalities are not exchangeable, although this is apparently w’hat the employer proposes to do. Praises Labor Party "In this machine age, people are only wanted to do what machinery has not yet been edveloped to do.” During a forum discussion in the afternoon on a proposed social reform plan of the church, Archbishop Temple said that the Labor (Turn to Page Three) CHURCHMEN LOOK TO POPE AS UNITY HOPE Protestant Episcopals Reply to Critics of Roman Catholic Union. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 28. —The Church Unity Octave Council of Protestant Episcopal high churchmen, which appealed to its ministry Wednesday to reunite with the Roman Catholic Church, asserted today that unity of Christianity can be hoped for reasonably only under leadership of the Pope”. Answering wide criticism of its Catholic policy, the council said it intended to recommend prayer for reunion of all Christian churches, rather than specific union wdth Roman Catholics. COURT MAY RULE ON BRUNO’S PLEA MONDAY Jurists May Decide Whether to Hear Personal Appeal. By United Press TRENTON. N. J., Dec. 28.—'The New Jersey Court of Pardons probably will decide Monday when to consider the plea for life of Bruno | Richard Hauptmann and whether it | is to permit the condemned man the dramatic personal appeal he is said ; to desire. Only the Court of Pardons and the improbable possibility of anew trial stand between Hauptmann and electrocution in the week of Jai>. 13. I.‘ C. C. GETS NEW CHIEF I Charles Delahunt Mahaffie Named Chairman for 1936. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 28 —Charles Delahunt Mahaffie today was named to serve as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission during 1936. succeeding Hugh M. Tate. Mr. Mahaffie, a native of Kansas, has been a member of thv I. C. C. since 1930.

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Here is Caleb Jones Milne IV. in the custody of a G-man, soon after he was found arier a five-day absence. Claiming to have been kidnaped, Milne has Confessed, Federal officials announced today, that the whole affair was a hoax. In this picture Milne feigned weakness.

TEMPERATURES RISING SLOWLY Streets Made Dangerous by More Snow; Mercury 13 at 9 A. M. Apparently clear of zero weather, Indianapolis settled down today to battling icy streets that were made even more dangerous by a coat of snow that fell last night. More snow is scheduled for today and tonight, and the temperature is expected to be warmer than the city has become used to in the last few days. It was 10 at 6 this morning and the mercury was ascending, touching 13 at 9. The last time the temperature was above 32 degrees was at midnight, Dec. 17. One person was killed in traffic overnight and several were injured. The fire department made 25 runs from 7 yesterday to 7 this morning. most of the lasses being small and resulting from either overheated furnaces or carelessness in attempting to thaw frozen water pipes. William Wright, 72, Negro. 1931 Bellefontaine-st, died early today at City Hospital of injuries received in an auto accident to become the 154th Marion County traffic victim. The accident occurred Thursday night at College-av and 19th-st when Mr. Wright was walking across the street. ft. B. Ballinger, 1619 Carrolltonav, is in a serious condition in Methodist Hospital today with head injuries received last night when his car collided with a Peoples Motor Coach at Central-av and 37th-st. One passenger on the bus was treated at City Hospital for shock and released. Mrs. Flora Cooper, 74. of 225 N. Oxford-st, is in City Hospital today with an arm fracture incurred yesterday in a fall at her home. Walter Johnson, 39. of 429 N. Bancroft-av, was injured early today in an auto accident at 16th and Montcalm-sts. He was cut on the head and was taken to the Methodist Hospital. His condition is serious. Johnson was a passenger in a taxicab driven by Francis Davey, 1236 Bradbury-st, which slid into the path of an automobile driven by Bernard Hyman, 28, of 2851 Washington-blvd. More Than 100 Dead By I'nited Pres* A record cold wave that has caused more than 100 deaths and a huge property loss in three days retreated today, although snow began falling on 15 states of the Middle West and South. Fog increased the hazards of icy roads and streets in the Great Lake states and winds of nearly gale force whipped from the North dpwn the Atlantic Coast as far as South Carolina. Florida, most of Alabama and Mississippi and southern Louisiana escaped the grip of freezing temperatures, but the wind increased human hardships. Forecasters predicted snow in Tennessee. Mississippi, Alabama and isolated other sections of the deep South. North and westward, snow was expected in virtually all the region from the Texas Panhandle to 1 Canada. Where snow failed, the forecasters said, rain would fall. Fear Heavy Crop Loss Horticulturists said damage done Florida citrus crops when the temperature dropped to 30 at Tampa and 24 in other sections of the state could not be estimated immediately. A brisk breeze probably kept frost off the trees on highlands and smudge pots burned by thousands in low sections, bu* growers feared, heavy logs. e j

On the House A burglar entered the beer tavern at 2829 W. lOth-st at 4 this morning by breaking a rear door glass and releasing the lock. Joe Phillips, who sleeps in the tavern, awakened, reached for his shotgun, and gave the burglar a shot—on the house. The burglar gave Joe a couple with a revolver. Joe gave him another that blew out the front window. The burglar picked up a table and threw it through the front door. Then he escaped* It was quite a time.

MRS. MAM ON PARK BOARD Becomes Third Woman So Honored; Will Succeed Logan Scholl. Mrs. Louis R. Markun is to as sume her duties as Republican member of the Park Board Jan. 1. Appointed yesterday she replaces Logan C. Scholl who previously had announced he was not seeking reappointment after serving six years. “I feel greatly honored,” Mrs. Markun said. ‘‘Women have a lively interest in park work because it means so much to children. I will be proud to assist in playground development and will work for continued development of our beautiful parks and boulevards.” Mrs. Markun is the third woman to be appointed to the board. Mrs. Sarah Shank served under the second administration of her husband and Mrs. Mary E. Denis was appointed by Mayor Duvall. Mrs. Markun is a native of Indianapolis. She attended public schools and was graduated from Shortridge in 1923. She attended Indiana University. Active in Republican politics, she helped organize the Marion County Council of Republican Women and was its president for three years. She is a past president of the Indianapolis post of the American Legion Auxiliary. She is president of the Temple Sisterhood of the Indianapolis Hebrew Temple, 10th and Delawarests. Her husband is in the theater business and was Republican candidate for mayor in the last primary and served in the Legislature in 1929. They live at 3643 E. Fall Creek-blvd and have one son, Alan Fletcher Markun. LAFAYETTE CAB DRIVER HELD IN MAN’S DEATH Grand Jury to Study Case; Fight Follows Ride. By United Print LAFAYETTE. Ind., Dec. 28. Ernest Mansfield, 22. taxi driver, was held here today pending action of a Tippecanoe County Grand Jury in connection with the death of Joseph Held, 49. a well-driver. Held's death allegedly was caused by blows struck by Mansfield as he attempted to oust the victim from the cab at a police station. Held rode five hours in the cab, visiting several taverns and drinking heavily. Mansfield told police. He paid only $5 of a $6 fare, and Mansfield said he was attempting to take Held into the police station when the brawl occurred. Blast Wrecks Rolling Mill By United Prett MIDDLETOWN, 0., Dec. 28.—A leaking gas line, cracked by freezing weather, was blamed today for a $75,000 explosion which levelled the three-story research building of the American Rolling Mill Cos., early to- j day. The building was unoccupied. ■

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Aspiring Actor and Author Breaks Down After AllNight Grilling. NEEDED CASH, HE SAYS Blames ‘Hellish Financial Affairs’; Denies He Had Accomplices. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Caleb J. Milne IV, youthful j scion of an aristocratic and : wealthy Philadelphia family, ! confessed to Department of Justice agents today that he had faked his own “kidnap- | ing” for the sake of publicity, J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the j Bureau of Investigation of the Dei partment of Justice, himself made I the announcement. To newspaper men assembled at 5 a. m. in the elaborate headquarters of the G-men, in midtown Manhattan, he said that Milne would be arraigned later today before a Federal Court on an unspecified charge. The announcement culminated a ‘kidnaping" that had been susi pected as a hoax by authorities and newspapers from the beginning. Milne disappeared in New York, i Dec. 14, and was found bound and I gagged in a roadside ditch near i Doylestown, Pa., the morning of | Dec. 19. Federal agents held the 23-year- ; old aspiring actor and short story writer in an undisclosed place. They 1 had questioned him all night, after bringing him here from his mother’s home at Woodstock. N. Y. At 4 a. m.. with trembling hand, he put his name to a full confession. Denies Wanting $20,000 Young Milne insisted he had no intention of taking $20,000 ransom for his own release from his wealthy grandfather, Caleb J. Milne Jr., retired textile manufacturer of Philadelphia. The elder Milne received at least one letter demanding that amount in ransom during the time the youth was missing. Young Milne said that all he wanted was l publicity, hoping this would gain him an important stage part, a goal ; for which he had struggled in vain for a number of years. Mr. Hoover said Milne would be arraigned by an assistant district i attorney and that the charge was ! up to the district attorney's office. Milne said he had no accomplices, having put himself into the condition in which he was found—eyes | and lips taped, wrists bound to | knees. He had appeared, then, as if | drugged by narcotics and had mumbled in supposed delirium—“don’t I stick that needle into me again." Marks on his arms had appeared as though made by a hypodermic needle. This, he said, was an example of his histrionic art. Financial Affairs ‘Hellish’ Mr. Hoover said he was convinced that Milne worked alone. Federal agents had questioned Robert Keaser, his brother, John L. Smith, and Max Ritkin, who found Milne in the ditch, and his brother Frederic, who received the first note. Milne and his brother had been living in a furnished room in New York. Caleb received a $lO a month allowance from his grandfather. Frederic is a clerk employed by J, P, Morgan & Cos. "Hellish financial affairs” caused him to carry out the hoax, Milne said. Mr. Hoover refused to divulge the full text of the confession, but read a summary of Milne's account of the plot and events during his absence, while police and Federal agents hunted him over virtually all the East. Worried Over Illness Milne said he conceived the hoax Dec. 4 or 5, while worrying about his inability to obtain work. He mulled the idea over for three or four days, determined definitely on its execution about Dec. 8 and immediately began preparations to put it into effect. He bought a pair of cotton gloves, a tube of mucilage and a rubber printing set at a 5-and-10-cent store. The gloves, he said, were to be used to prevent finger prints—in the manner of criminals about whom he wrote in detective stories he had attempted unsuccessfully to sell. At home, when Frederic was absent, Caleb painstakingly clipped letters and words from newspapers and pasted them on other paper to compose the ransom demands he sent later to Frederic and his grandfather. The toy printing set aided in the composition. Saturday morning, Dec. 14, he put his plan into execution. He asked his landlady, as he left the house, the location of Grade Square. Mailed Letter, Package He told her his grandfather was seriously ill in Philadelphia and that he planned to pick up a "Dr. Greene” on Grade Square and go to the elder Milne's bedside immediately. He took with him a package containing his watch, some of his clothing and an Albany newspaper stained with blood, prepared for mailing to his grandfather at a moment when the mute "proofs” of violence to a favorite grandson might work effectively on his emotions. He actually went to Gracie Square, (Turn to Page Three) ?