Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1936 — Page 3

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34 LOSE LIVES AS SHIP SINKS IN COAST GALE Entire Crew Lost as Storm Hammers Freighter to Bits. (Continued Frorr Page One) lumbia River was opened to navigation. Rescuers were held back by the gale which sent the lowa to her doom. The wind knocked down the breeches buoy ropes fired by Coast Guard boats which approached the scene and the waves prevented boats from coming close enough to board the wreck. The lowa was a victim of a sudden storm which produced a 90-mile-an-hour wind at the mouth of the river yesterday morning. When Capt. Edgar L. Yates, veteran skipper, took out the freighter from Portland Saturday night, the weather was normal. There was rain and some wind but nothing to presage the tragedy that was to follow. “Picked Up” by Wind The wind literally picked up the 416-foot freighter like a feather and tossed it on to the dreaded spit. Frank Caldwell, radio operator, sent out a feeble SOS at 3:49 a .m. It was the last call from the freighter. The coast guard cutter Anandaga answered from Astoria, but the storm drove her back time and again and it was six hours later that she finally approached the scene. Commander R. S. Patch brought the 1000-ton Onandaga within 1500 yards of the lowa, close enough for him to observe through glasses that there was no living man aboard. As Commander Patch attempted to maneuver closer, a towering wave smashed two lifeboats on the cutter and swept away the stacks and bridge of the lowa. Before Patch turned the Onandaga’s back toward the Columbia, only the foremast of the lowa remained above the waves. Two Other Ships Endangered Two other ships were endangered yesterday by the gales which blew eastward across the Pacific, bringing a storm which drenched the Faciflc Coast with rain, piled up a snow blanket in the mountains, and caused a number of deaths from traffic accidents and snow slides. The Canadian freighter Rocheli, proceeding south from British Columbia, lost her rudder when 10 miles off the coast of southern Oregon. Waves kept the Coast Guard cutter Cahokia from going to her rescue from Eureka, Cal. The Rocheli crew fixed a temporary rudder and continued slowly along the coast. It was not believed she was in danger. The S. S. Romulus also lost her rudder 15 miles off Coos Bay, Ore. The freighters Lumberman and Castleman were standing by to assist her if necessary. C. P. A. STATE GROUP BACKS 'NATURAL YEAR’ George Olive Named Committee Head by Indiana Association. George S. Olive today is chairman of the natural business year committee of the Indiana Association of Certified Public Accountants. He was appointed Saturday at a meeting of association directors by J. R. Wharton, South Bend, president. He was appointed after the directors had voted to co-operate with the Natural Business Council in its nation-wide program designed to encourage businesses to adopt a ‘‘natural business year” as their fiscal year. Four men were admitted to membership. They are John S. Joyce and Marion Pike, both of Indianapolis; F. W. Dibble of Gary, and Thomas A. Houlihan of Fort Wayne. COUGHLIN TO PUBLISH NEWSPAPER FOR N.U.S.J. Detroit Priest Sets March 1 as Date for First Issue. By L nited Press DETROIT, Jan. 13—Publication of a weekly tabloid newspaper by his National Union for Social Justice was announced here by the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin in his Sunday radio address. Setting March 1 as publication date, Father Coughlin said the paper would be distributed free through the mails and would be for the purpose of "teaching the people the untaught truth and coining the N. U. S. J. together.” FIRST AID DRIVE BEGUN UNDER WPA CONTROL 25 Instructors Are Added to Educational Staff. The Indiana Works Progress Administration moved today to decrease accident fatalities by preparing to teach first aid and accident prevention to operators of filling stations at dangerous corners. Twenty-five instructors have been added to the WPA educational staff. They are to receive training from American Red Cross teachers. The WPA instructors also are to teach safety methods to industrial groups, school pupils and mothers. Red Cross certificates are to be awarded at successful completion of the courses. WPA WILL TAKE CENSUS 25 Workers to Begin Business Research in Indianapolis Today. Twenty-five white-collar WPA workers are to begin the Federal business census in Indianapolis today, John Lennon, state director, announced. About 80 men will ultimately be employed on the project. 1 Former Mayor Hylan Dead By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 13—All flags on New York City public buildings were lifted only to half-staff today in mourning for the passing of former Mayor John F. Hylan, celebrated through several decades of political history as "Red Mike.” Hylan died yesterday of a heart attack.

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3 Special Trains Carry CCC to Camps in West 696 Youngsters, Spirits High, Entrain at Fort Harrison Railroad Yards for New Adventures. “Go west young man! Go west!” This advice of the nineteenth century became a truism today for 696 young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps as they whiled their time aboard trains en route to Utah, Montana, Nevada and Washington forest reserves.

me young men entrained yesterday from the quartermaster railroad yard at Fort Benjamin Harrison for duty in Western states. The first train, with 236 CCC enrollees, left at 11 a. m. to fill camps near Baliantine, Mont., Thompson, Price, Thistle, Marysvale and Woods Cross, Utah, and Battle Mountain and Ely, Nev. Lieut. J. H. Ryan commanded the train. A shipment of 341 men left at 4 p. m. under Lieut. Col. Clifford Bluemel, executive officer of the Indiana CCC, for Utah camps and Calientes, Las Vegas and Mope, Nev. The third trainload, of 119, left at 8:30 last night and carried enrolled from Fort Hayes, 0., and Fort Thomas, Ky., in addition to Indianapolis. The destination was White Sulphur Springs, Havre, Niehart, Gardiner. White Hall and Superior, Mont., and Spokane, Wash. Capt. E. T. Hayes was train commander. Fort Harrison officers reported only a few relatives of the youths present to bid them “good-by” on their Western trek. Each of the trains was made up of tourist sleepers. baggage car and kitchen. The present period of all CCC enrollees expires March 31, but it is expected that a majority will enroll for another six months MOVIE CRITIC SUICIDE, GOTHAM OFFICIAL SAYS New York Times Writer Died Before Explosion, Report Shows. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—A medical examiner’s report indicated todav that Andre David Sennwald J' movie critic of the New York Tiir.c died by his own hand. An explosion wrecked Sennwald’s penthouse early yesterday. The top three floors of the apartment house were damaged and a broken water main sent water down elevator shafts, disrupting service. The explosion was caused by escaping gas in the kitchen, believed to have been set off by a spark from an electric refrigerator. The medical examiner found that Sennwald died from gas poisoning, showing he was dead before the explosion. COST ACCOUNTANTS TO HEAR LILLY OFFICIALS Claus Best and George Meihaus to Address City Group. Speakers at a meeting of the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants Wednesday night in the Washington will be Claus H. Best and George A. Meihaus, Eli Lilly & Cos department supervisors. Mr. Meihaus. who is planning department head, will discuss "Production Planning” while Mr. Best's topic will be “Economical Lot Size for Manufacture.” Charlton N. Carter is chapter president. WAR VETERAN BURIED Member of Battery Which Fired First U. S. Shell Dies at Boonville. By United I‘ress BOONVILLE. Ind., Jan. 13.—More than 5000 persons, including veterans from several states, attended funeral services for Edward J. j Kirsch, 45, a member of the battery that fired the first United States shell in the World War, here yesterday.

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FORMER FARM INMATE SHOT STEALING PRODUCE Marvin Bennett Is in Serious Condition at Noblesville. By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Jan. 13.—Marvin Bennett, 20, former inmate at the Indiana State Farm, is in a serious condition at the Hamilton County Hospital today with shotgun wounds believed suffered when trapped stealing produce from a farm. Bennett suffered loss of one eye and wounds in the abdomen and face. Authorities today hunted another suspect, also believed wounded when Robert Washington, a former county commissioner, fired on persons taking produce. MODOC MAN FREED IN GIRL’S POISON DEATH Portland Jury Acquits Stepfather of Slain Girl. By United Press PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 13.—Ray Dawson, Modoc, was free today on charges of being an accessory in the poison death of his 14-year-old stepdaughter, Mary Kritch. He*was released on his own recognizance by Judge Hanson F. Mills after a Jay Circuit Court jury acquitted him. It was indicated today that a first-degree murder charge against Dawson in connection with the child’s death would be nolle prossed. Dawson was implicated in the crime by Mrs. Mae Dawson, who confessed participation in the murde” and is serving a life sentence in Indiana State Women’s Prison. W. C. T. U. IS TO~MEET The Rev. T. J, Sintson Announced as Speaker for Friday. The West Washington Street Presbyterian Church W. C. T. U. is to meet Friday at the home of Mrs. Emma Cravens, 51 N. Holmes-av, with the Rev. T. J. Sintson as principal speaker. Mrs. Walter Hogan is to be in charge of the meeting. Mrs. Herbert Benson is to preside.

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BRUNO'S KINDLY PASTOR SURE OF HIS INNOCERCE ' Certain of Brief Reprieve, Hopes for Miracle to Save 'Parishioner.’ BY FORREST DAVIS Times Special Writer TRENTON. N. J., Jan. 13.—The Rev. John Matthiesen, pastor of Trinity, the mother church of Lutheranism in this section of the Delaware Valley, is an erect, twinki ling, gray-haired clergyman. He i serves Bruno Richard lauptmann \ —"a Lutheran man”—as spiritual j comforter in the death house of the ! Egyptian tomb that is New Jersey • State Penitentiary. He believes with all the sincere passion of a simple, pious man of God that Hauptmann did not commit the odious Lindbergh crime. Yesterday was Dr. Matthiesen’s busy day. His service began at 10, lasted until 12:12 noon. In the afternoon, a tedious ordeal, the Trinity congregation held its annual meeting in the stone church on a by street. "Wherever you have five Germans you have six opinions,” said Dr. Matthiesen today, reviewing the event which kept him from the death house yesterday. He sat in the living room of his comfortable parsonage and discussed the prospect for his death house "parishioner." He recalled that Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, seeking the consolation of her own faith and kind, sat under his pulpit yesterday as he preached, a bit lengthily, on the precocity of Our Lord before the elders at Jerusalem. "She is a Christian woman, a churchly woman,” said the pastor. Feels Sure of Reprieve Dr. Matthiesen expressed confidence that Gov. Harold G. Hoffman will grant a stay to Hauptmann—a 90-day stay, in 30-day parcels—and that meantime, miraculously or otherwise, evidence will turn up compelling anew trial. Nine out of 10 persons in this snugly ancient capital of New Jersey share Dr. Matthiesen’s belief. The best guess today, in a city nearly bereft of its senses in the unending clash of opinion on the Hauptmann case, is that Hoffman will not act until Wednesday at the earliest. Hauptmann is slated to die at 8 p. m. Friday. His lawyers may attempt, in a desperate last>-minute gesture, to interest a Federal judge in a habeas corpus writ. A better reason for the delay is that the New Jersey Legislature meets for its 1936 session on Tuesday. Governor Prepares Message The Governor today is up to his elbows in work on the final draft of the annual message and the budget report. He delivers the message on Tuesday. After that he will be relatively free of pressure from the legislative arm. Dr. Matthiesen, educated in his native Germany, has held pastorates in Chicago, Nebraska, Baltimore and Trenton in the last 30 years. He grew up among criminals, beggars, vagrants, misfits. His father was superintendent of a state refuge for the unfortunate. He admits to a special insight into the character of the defeated. “No one who knew and talked with Hauptmann could believe him guilty,” said Dr. Matthiesen. “I have probed into his soul. I have gone to the death house in a depressed state of mind and I have left quickened and spiritually refreshed. Greets Him With Smile “Hauptmann always meets me with a wide smile. He smiles often, sometimes he weeps. Tears stream down his face, which does not change expression. But not for long. He is a religious man; a churchly man. "He thinks of God in the death house as he used to on the hillsides of Germany when he wandered there alone in the summer and stretched flat on the ground.” The pastor accepts without question the conclusions of Samuel Small. New York City engrosser, that it would have been physicallly impossible for Hauptmann to write the ransom notes. Small reasons that Hauptmann was taught the Palmer penmanship system, that the ransom notes were written in the vertical style and that no man is artful enough to disguise his handwriting in another system. Dr. Matthiesen hopes that Small’s conclusions, which preoccupy the Governor’s thoughts on the case, may be sufficiently potent to procure anew trial. "My experiments prove that Hauptmann and the ransom note writer are two distinctly different individuals. I am not going to make a decision as to who wrote these notes, because that is not my sphere, but I can say that the person who wrote the first note (found in the nursery) did not write the other notes. The person who wrote the first note wrote it with the left hand, to disguise his handwriting, and it is more of a drawing, if you will study it, than regular writing. "The first note is unquestionably the note of the kidnaper. The other notes have been made by someone, also more than 50 years old, who tried to copy the first note.” Asks Press, Law Code By Ignited Press CHICAGO, Jan. 13. —The American Bar Association today was asked to set up standards for the press and lawyers to prevent recurrence of the “shocking and flagrant offenses which characterized the Hauptmann trial” and the departure of the Lindberghs for Europe. Former Justice William L. Ransom of New York submitted a report of a special bar association committee on the Hauptmann trial to the executive committee and general council of the association. “No man’s life or liberty is safe in this country unless the courts, lawyers, newspapers and the public unite to restore and preserve the American tradition of impartial trials,” Mr. Ransom told more than 150 outstanding attorneys of the nation. Five Held in PWA Head’s Death By L n’ted Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 13 Five Negroes we>-e held for questioning today in connection with the death of Daniel McKinley, 47, Mishawaka supervisor of PWA work, whose battered body was found in a woodshed behind a restaurant patronized chiefly by Negroes.

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By Jan. 20, Talmadge’s suit must be answered, after which the court will decide on the law’s constitutionality. It would require practically a complete reversal of the court’s attitude if it were to sustain the law. Asa result of the brief but intensive session of the court, only one New Deal case now is on the docket awaiting decision. This is the TVA test case argued Dec. 19. On March 2, the court will hear argument on the validity of the Administration’s slum clearance program. On March 11 it will hear argument on the validity of the Guffey Coal Control Act. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and Chester E. Davis, AAA administrator, nad no comment oh the ruling on the rice millers’ and the Bankhead act cases.

US FORGES YEGGS TO FLEE LOOTLESS Safe Combination Battered, but Contents Saved. Tear gas released when yeggs battered the combination from a cabinet safe at the National Furniture Cos., 325 W. Washington-st, last night drove them from the firstfloor office, and they failed to get the' money kept there. Entrance was gained from a second-floor rear window. The yeggs previously had battered the combination of another safe of the same type, but it contained books only. A safe in the Century Biscuit Cos., 630 W. New York-st, was battered open and the contents strewn on the floor Saturday night. Nothing of value was taken. The combination was battered off a safe at Swift & Cos. offices, 223 Kentucky-av, and holes drilled around the combination of another at the American Specialty Cos., 205 W. Morris-st, but neither was opened. BRUNO INVITES TEST TO PROVE HIS STORY Willing to Face Any One, He Tells Wife. (Continued From Page One) haired man whom none of a dozen newspaper reporters could identify visited with Hoffman in his rooms. When they left, with Hoffman saying “no comment, no comment, no comment” to every question, a hotel detective barred other persons from their elevator. Gov. Hoffman and his companion parted at the hotel’s street door and Hoffman walked across the street. Perhaps three minutes later the gray-haired man reappeared with another man in a derby hat and blue overcoat. The three talked a few minutes in a doorway. Then they hurried away. When Hoffman appeared at the Lambs’ Club soon afterward he was alone. “No comment,” he said. The constitutional lawyers Hauptman employed indicated he would make his principal last fight in the Federal courts, one of them was Neil Burkinshaw, former assistant attorney general who prosecuted Harry F. Sinclair on charges growing from the Teapot Dome oil scandal. The other, Nugent Dodds, also was a former staff member of t£e Department of Justice. ’Bernard F. Finnigan, a Chicago lawyer, brought a slim new hope to Hauptmann today. Finnigan flew from Chicago to New Jersey to tell Gov. Hoffman about a fantastic tale told him by a client, Steve Spitz, 52, serving time in Chicago for passing a bad check. Spitz said that two New York “brokers,” whom he named, offered him $20,000 of the Lindbergh ransom money in 1934 for SIBOO. He gave them the SIOOO, he said, but didn’t get the currency. He suggested Hauptmann might have obtained some of the ransom money the same way. Hoffman said he would “be glad to see Finnigan.” Bruno’s Mother Breaks By United Prets KAMENTZ, Germany, Jan. 13. Bruno Hauptmann’s aged mother broke down last night when informed that her son had bean doomed to die Friday. “Oh! My God!” she exclaimed. “I had hoped again and again, but now I shall find no peace.” Nine Die in Tenement Fire By United Pres * TYLDESLEY. England, Jan. 13. Mrs. Sarah Tyrer, 41, and her eight children—two daughters and six sons ranging in age from 13 months to 13 1 2 years—died today in fire that wrecked a tenement.

GOV. M’NUTT IS SCHEDULED TO MEETVANNUYS Capital Conference to Be First Since Split at Convention. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Gov. McNutt and Senator Frederick VanNuys expect to confer here today for the first time since they split over candidates at the last Democratic state convention, with the exception of the French Lick conference. Attending the WPA advisory council meeting this morning, Gov. McNutt said, he expected to call Mr. VanNuys’ office later today and arrange for the meeting. The senior Senator said he was ready to see the Governor any time, although he did not know what it was he wanted to talk about. On Saturday and Sunday the Governor busied himself with WPA affairs, the advisory council meeting taking considerably more time than he had anticipated. To Return Tonight He expects to leave for Indianapolis tonight. Sunday night he was visited in his rooms at the Mayflower Hotel by Senator Sherman Minton and his secretary, James Penman. Both have been backing the gubernatorial candidacy of Pleas Greenlee, whom the Governor removed from his office when he made a formal announcement of candidacy by opening campaign headquarters. This move was Said to be an agreement reached at French Lick last summer. Today both Senator Minton and Mr. Penman said they are “still for Pleas.” Asked if he would insist on E. Kirk McKinney for the Governor’s post at the conference. Senator VanNuys said he did not know if that was what the Governor w T anted to talk about. Gov. McNutt declared that no new names are to be mentioned as a result of the meeting here. He also said that plans for his own future are still “undetermined.” Club Discusses Cocker Spaniels Plans to encourage use of cocker spaniels as hunting dogs were discussed last night at the monthly meeting of the Cocker Spaniel Club of Indiana at the Lincoln Hotel. Russell Etter presided.

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1 OFFICIAL WEATHER United state* Weather Bureau Sunrise 7:06 Sunset 4.12 TEMPERATURE —Jan. 13. 1933 7 a. m 46 1 p. m 41 —Today—--6 a. m 3* 10 a. m 57 7 a. m 30 11 a. m 2fi * a. m 23 15 (Noon) 27 9 a. m 27 I p. m 23 BAROMETER 7 a. m .... 24.37 1 p. m ... 30.03 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. ra .. .00 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 52 Deficiency since Jan. 1 94 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 30.04 34 Bismarck, N. D Cloudy 29.82 0 Boston Cloudv 29.90 32 Chicago PtCldy 29 82 22 Cincinnati Cloudy 29 80 36 Denver Cloudy 29.70 50 Dodge City. Kas Clear 29.94 32 Helena. Mont Cloudy 29.58 40 Jacksonville. Fla Clear 30.08 50 Kansas City. Mo. ... Clear 30.02 26 Little Rock Ark Clear 30.08 44 Los Angeles PtCldy 30.10 52 Miami. Fla Clear 30.08 66 Minneapolis Cloudv 29.94 0 Mobile. Ala Cloudv 29 98 60 New Orleans Cloudy 29.96 66 New York Cloudv 29.86 42 Okla City. Okla Clear 30 08 32 Omaha. Neb Clear 30 02 10 Pittsburgh Rain 29 60 44 Portland. Ore Rain 29.80 44 San Antonio, Tex. ...Clear 30.12 50 San Francisco Rain 30.12 54 St. Louis Clear 30.00 32 Tampa. Fla Cloudy 30.08 58 Washington. D. C Clear 29.80 40 NEW DINGER LOOMS FOR NAVAL PARLEY Japanese Are Given Fresh Orders From Tokyo. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 13.—Naval limitation negotiations entered a delicate, dangerous phase today that may determine definitely whether there is going to be competition in building, adding millions to tax schedules in the United States, Great Britain and Japan. Japanese delegates had a series of fresh instructions from Tokyo, the result of an emergency cabinet meeting. Delegates of other powers—America, Britain, France and Italy—expressed hope that the instructions would deter the Japanese from withdrawing, as they threaten, unless their demand for equality of strength with America and Britain is conceded. But Japanese delegates told the United Press that they believed their departure was inevitable. It seemed certain that if Japan does withdraw, the other powers will continue with a conference of their own, later inviting Russia and Germany.

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ALE IS SEEKING INFORMATION ON BONUSPAYMENT Head of Veterans’ Office Here Asks Washington for Full Details. John H. Ale, manager of the United States Veterans Administration regional office in Indiana, has asked the Washington headquarters of the administration for information regarding the details and methods of payment of the prospective soldiers’ bonus. Mr. Ale said today he did not know whether the Indiana regional office would supervise any bonus payment authorized by Congress and President Roosevelt. "It may be, with final payment of the bonus, that Washington, D. C.. will handle the matter direct with veterans by mail,” Mr. Ale said. “I have asked information regarding possible payment in order to be ready for any emergency that might arise,” he said. Handled Here in 1931 When veterans were permitted to borrow up to one-half of their adjusted compensation certificates in 1931, the regional office of the bureau in Indiana handled the details of the loans from offices established in the Test Building. Mr. Ale estimated that 64.000 veterans have borrowed up to onehalf of their compensation policies in Indiana, with Marion County’s ex-service men totalling between 5000 and 7000. Under provisions of the bill that passed the House of Representatives, it is believed that veterans who have borrowed up to one-half of the face value of their policy will receive the unpaid interest accruing from the first loan permitted on tht bonus certificate in 1927. This interest would be in addition to one-half of the unborrowed amount of the compensation certificates. For when the second loan was permitted on the certificates the interest on the first loan in 1927 was deducted as an obligation against the certificates and as a consequence veterans have not received one-half of the bonus money through loans up to this year. Death Natural, Coroner Finds Death of John Stakey, 62, of 65S Arch-st, whose body was found yesterday in his bed, was due to natural causes, John Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, said today.