Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1936 Edition 02 — Page 1

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FEENEY DEFIES OUSTER ORDER OF MILK BOARD

Administrator for Marion County Refuses to Resign Post. DEMANDS OPEN HEARING Local Committee Is Also Fired; Charles Dailey Given Duties. BY JOE COLLIER A1 G. Feeney today awaited notice that the State Milk Control Board has dismissed him as milk administrator for the Indianapolis shed upon request of the local milk committee. Mr. Feeney refused late yesterday to resign when asked to do so by Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, a member of the board, and demanded that formal charges be placed against him and that they be prosecuted at a public hearing. Mr. Townsend would give no other reason for the state board’s action in dismissing Mr. Feeney than that there had been a lack of co-oper-ation between Mr. Feeney and the state board. Mr. Townsend today said that he does not believe that Mr. Feeney is entitled to a public hearing. He pointed out that Mr. Feeney is an employe of the milk board and is subject to summary dismissal. He explained that the state board followed the wishes of the local milk committee of whose 10 members eight asked Mr. Feeney’s dismissal. Following wishes of the local committee, he said, is an Invariable practice of the hoard. Charles Daily Put in Charge At the same time that the state board voted, on request of the local committee, to dismiss Mr. Feeney, it also voted to ask the resignation of the local committee, Mr. Townsend announcing that until anew local committee can be elected and anew administrator selected, Charles Dailey, attorney for the state board, will act as administrator. Mr. Townsend said the resignation of the committee was asked because "the market is in such a (Turn to Page Five)

LINER BACK AT PIER AFTER SINKING SHIP No One Is Injured as Boat Rams Freighter Off Florida Coast. By United Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 18.— The Clyde-Mailory liner Cherokee which last night rammed and sank the British freighter Welcombe during a dense fog here today was returned to its pier with all passengers aboard. None was injured. Examination of the coastwise vessel showed it had suffueu no serious damage besides a crushed bow. .No decision, meanwhile, had been made on a method of salvaging the Welcombe. It still remained resting on the river !>ed as a rising tide sent water r-.owiy creeping up its superstructure.

OHIO MUSICIAN DIES OF HUNGER: FOOD NEAR BY Bernard Varnhom Dies in Hospital at Cincinnati. By CnitrH Press CINCINNATI. 0.. Jan. 18.—Once a well-known musician and composer here. Bernard Varnhorn, 80, died in a hospital today from hunger. There was food in nis house but Mr. Varnhom and his aged sister and brother were too feeble to get it. Physicians said Varnhorn, whose fingers once drew inspiring music from the organs in two Cincinnati churches, died of heart lisease, induced by lack of food. JOCKEY BADLY INJURED Sonny Workman Thrown in First Race at Hialeah. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 18.—Jockey Raymond (Sonny) Workman, one of the leading riders on the American turf, was badly injured in a fall during the running of the first race at Hialeah Park today. Times Index Amusements 4 Auto News 8 Births, Deaths 13 Bridge 6 Broun 9 Church News 2 Comice 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Merry-Go-Round 9 Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Pegler : 9 Radio 5 Serial Story 6 Sports 12-13 State Deaths 8 Want Ads 13-14 Woman’s Pages 6-7

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 269

Evidence Old Ladies Settle Nothing in Argument Over Reprieve of Bruno.

ON a crowded street car this morning, two friendly old ladies wrangled over the Hauptmann case. “You know% I was sort of glad Gov. Hoffman granted that reprieve," one shouted to her neighbor, who was slightly deaf. "It was shameful, and you ought not talk that way,” her friend replied. "You ought to read the evidence. - ’ "Oh, I read all about the trial, but I don't think it’s right to go kill that Hauptmann.” “You didn’t read the evidence,’ the deaf old lady said sharply. "Just the same, I don’t believe in executions,” the other replied huffily. They changed the subject and began talking about the soldiers' bonus and how they would ever pay that "awful big amount.” HOFFMAN FOES DECLARE TRUCE Wilentz Attack Is Expected Monday; Aid of G-Men May Be Sought. By United Press TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 18.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman pressed his campaign for new evidence in the Lindbergh kidnaping in secret today and prepared to meet another onslaught by critics when the state Legislature resumes Monday. A truce on political statements regarding the reprieve of Bruno Richard Hauptmann appeared to be in effect until Monday, when Attorney General David T. Wilentz is expected to make a direct attack on the Governor. Mr. Wilentz so far has confined his comment to belief that the reprieve was illegal and that Gov. Hoffman has no hint of new evidence. The Governor’s mail continued to mount and contained the usual number of crank letters, including some that are threatening. Mr. Hoffman, however, has taken no notice of them and no police precautions. At the Governor’s office it was said that definite decision had not yet been made as to whether Gov. Hoffman would ask Federal agents to resu r their investigation. It was ur /stood that the Governor might yt Federal intervention if he discr A direct information which would require their services. Gov. Hoffman did not visit his office today.

ANTI-HOHLT GROUP CONVENES TONIGHT Perry Township Taxpayers Meet at Southport. The Perry Township Taxpayers League, Inc., which is conducting a fight against Leonard A. Hohlt, Perry Township trustee, is to meet at 7:30 tonight in Odd Fellows Hall, Southport. Members of this organization were locked out of the Southport High School recently when they attempted to meet and discuss plans in their fight against Mr. Hohlt. The Perry Township Civic Leagv , Inc., has no connection with the taxpayers’ organization. A. C. Baumgart, president, stated today. The civic league is to meet Monday night at University Heights School, he said, to discuss purely civic problems of the community. AUTONOMY PROCLAIMED BY MONGOL:**' CHIEF Kin of Genghis Khan Breaks Away From Chinese Rule. B<j United Press V PEIPING, Jan. 18.—Prince Teh, last powerful descendant of Genghis Khan, who poured his Mongolian hordes across Europe, has proclaimed autonomous government over the eastern part of Inner Mongolia. it was reported today. Teh was said to have arranged for the government with Manchukuoan and Japanese officials. His territory would further strengthen Manchukuo's position and correspondingly weaken China, in the north.

It was said that Teh would take ias his capital Changpei, recently occupied by Manchukuoans.

FORECAST—Fair tonight and tomorrow; cold wave tonight with lowest temperature 10 to 15 degrees.

SENATE CALLS UP BONUS FOR FINALACTION Thomas Amendment Only Barrier to Speedy Adoption. HIT AS 'INFLATIONARY’ Oklahoman Denies It; Says Bond Plan Will Cost Four Billions. BiJ United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The bonus issue was brushed into the Senate background today by a new outburst of angry controversy over conduct of the Senate Munitions inquiry and the veracity of wartime President Wilson. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—A test on inflation was the only hurdle remaining today in the path of prompt Senate enactment of the “baby bond” bonus bill. Passage of the measure before nightfall was anticipated as the Senate, in its first Saturday meeting of the session, clamped a limit on debate. The inflation fight centered around an amendment proposed by Senator Elmer Thomas (D., Okla.). It was expected to be rejected as soon as a vote could be reached. Denies Inflation Angle Senator Thomas said during debate that his amendment should not be considered as inflationary, but rather as an orderly expansion of currency within the range afforded by surplus gold and silver. He proposes issuance of about $2,000,000,000 in new money with which to pay the bonus, rather than use of bonds as in the Senate substitute for the bill passed by the House last week. The bond plan, Mr. Thomas contended, would in the end cost about $4,000,000,000, because of the interest that would be paid over a nine-year period. A Senate survey on the eve of the vote showed there would be only a scattering of ballots against the bill when it is brought to final passage. 52 Democrats in Favor The situation was as follows: For the bill (69). DEMOCRATS (52) Adams, Bachman, Bailey; Bankhead, Barkley, Bilbo, Black, Bone, Bulow, Byrnes, Caraway, Chavez, Clark, Copeland, Costigan, Dieterich, Donahey, Duffy, George, Guffey, Harrison, Hatch, Holt, Lewis, Logan, Maloney, McAdoo, McCarran, McGill, McKellar, Minton, Moore, Murphy, Murray, Neely, Overton, Pittman, Pope, Reynolds, Robinson, Russell, Schwellenbach, Sheppard, Smith, Thomas of Okla., Thomas of Utah, Trammel, Truman, VanNuys, Wagner, Walsh, Wheeler. REPUBLICANS (14) Barbour, Borah, Capper, Carey, Davis, Dickinson, Frazier, Gibson, McNary, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Steiwer, White.

FARMER-LABOR (2) Benson, Shipstead. PROGRESSIVE (D— LaFollette. 13 to Oppose Bill Against the bill (13). DEMOCRATS (7)—Burke, Byrd, Connally, Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, King. REPUBLICANS (6) Couzens, Hale, Hastings, Keyes, Townsend, Vandenberg. Undecided (9). DEMOCRATS (7) — Ashurst, Brown, Bulkley, Hayden, Lonergan, O'Mahoney, Radcliffe. REPUBLICANS (2)—Austin, Johnson. Out of Town—Metcalf, Tydings. F. D.~R. LEAVES WHITE HOUSE FOR TWO DATES President to Speak in Newark Today, New York Tomorrow. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—President Roosevelt’s special train, bound for Newark, N. J., left Union Station today at 10 a. m. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Two engagements—one in New Jersey and the other in New York City—will take President Roosevelt away from his White House desk for the week-end. Mr. Roosevelt was to leave Washington this morning for Newark, where he will confer with National Emergency Council officials. Later, he will proceed to New York where he rill dedicate the new Theodore Roosevelt memorial tomorrow. At both placesJthe chief executive will speak. ELECTRIC RATES CUT Jasper Municipal Plant Reduces Charges to Consumers. By United Press JASPER. Ind.. Jan. 20.—A reduction in rates, effecting greatest saving for residential consumers, was announced today by the municipal electric light plant. Six cents will be charged for the first 25 kilowatts and two and onehalf cents for all over that amount under the rates.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1936

The Battle Tech was to oppose Manual and Washington faced Shortridge in semi-final games of the city public high school basketball tourney at the Tech gym this afternoon. The winners are to meet tonight at 8:30 for the championship. Shortridge gained the bracket opposite Washington’s defending champions by edging out Broad Ripple in a thrilling game on the East Side court last night, 28 to 23. The Blue Devils staged a swift rally in the final quarter after trailing as the period began, 14 to 18. The tourney program was to begin this afternoon at 1 o'clock with a reserve game between Manual and Shortridge B teams. The TechManual contest was scheduled for 2, with Shortridge and Washington following at 3. A titular reserve game between Washington seconds and the winner of the afternoon B game is to precede the feature fray tonight at 7:30.

COLD WAVE IS FORECAST HERE Drop to as Low as 10 Above Is Predicted by Bureau. A sharp cold wave that may take temperatures down as low as 10 above zero tonight is predicted for the week-end by the Weather Bureau. The temperature dropped five degrees between 7 and 8 this morning, and continued falling may create a new ice hazard in the city’s streets. Some quirk of winds and clouds saved Indianapolis last night from a heavy snow that blanketed the rest of the Middle West and was to have put four or more inches of snow here. Instead, all the precipitation was a drizzle early last night which froze upon hitting snow and streets and formed a crust over the snow and a hazardous sheet of ice over the streets. In all but .12 inch fell. The storm has passed, however, and fair weather is predicted for tonight and tomorrow. Meanwhile, the streets have been put into good condition and barring a freeze today there will be none but the ordinary traffic dangers. Patrolman Albert Beck, 42, of 617 Fletcher-av, was treated at City Hospital today for a sprained arm and wrist following a fall on the ice last night as he alighted from an automobile. Snowstorm Hits Nation By United Press A swirling snowstorm swept over the Midwest and whirled toward the Atlantic seaboard today, grounding airplanes and blocking many highways. North Central states were blanketed with snow. Northwestern lowa reported the heaviest snowfall in a decade. Wisconsin country roads were impasse ble. Kansas and Missouri felt the effects of the storm yesterday as it moved rapidly toward the East, Pushed by strong winds, the storm struck Chicago last night and was expected to leave six inches of snow on the ground. All available WPA and PWA workers were notified to report for snow removal duty. High waves lashed ice-packed Lake Michigan harbors. At Kenosha, Wis., the fishing tug Cheerio, with a crew of four aboard, rode out the gale outside the harbor when ice chunks prevented a landing. Eight inches of snow fell at Newark, 0., the heaviest fall in that section in many years. A bitter cold wave was expected to follow the storm across the country. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd in Chicago predicted zero temperatures by tomorrow morning. Storm Hits Pittsburgh By United Press PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18.—A freak winter cloudburst, accompanied by a brilliant electrical display and crashing thunder, struck Pittsburgh at 3:30 a. m. today. The torrential downpour turned streets already clogged with snow and ice into seas of slush. Sleeping residents, aroused by the unusual thunder, called police and newspaper office by scores, asking: "Where was the explosion?” Colder weather for the night had been predicted, but the heavy snow expected turned to rain in the temperature which was well above freezing. An incoming airplane pilot reported a temperature of 50 degrees at 3000 feet. It was the clash of the upper warm air with the colder air at the earth's surface which caused the freak storm, weather bureau attaches said.

Four Feared Drowned

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KENOSHA, Wis., Jan. 18.—Four fishermen were believed drowned today when coast guardsmen discovered wreckage of the missing tug Cheerio on the blizzard-swept shore of Lake Michigan. The fragments were found a quarter mile south of Kenosha Harfior. Coast guard boats were unable to approach the scene because of danger from ice cakes grinding against the shore. The Cheerio carried R. W. Jacobson. owner; Peter Sebena, Herbert Tipler. and A. H. “Finn'’ Hennaman.

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Rudyard Kipling May Be Buried in Westminster

(Kipling’s Life Story, Page One, Second Section) By United Press LONDON, Jan. 18—Messages of condolence on the death of Rudyard Kipling poured into London today from all over the empire he loved, and of whose real nature he first made many Britons conscious. The body of the poet-novelist-his-torian was taken this morning from the bed in Middlesex Hospital where he died to the hospital chapel. It was said authoritatively that it would be cremated in deference to his own wish. Mrs. Kipling, it was said, decided to observe his desire after consulting Dr. A. E. Webb--8 WOMEN NAMED ON JACOBY TRIAL JURY Group Is to Be Sworn In for Case Monday. A jury which includes eight housewives is to be sworn in Monday to try Forrest Jacoby, A1 Head, John Head and Jerry Dukes on charges of robbing the William H. Roberts & Sons dairy last August. The jury completed in Criminal Court late yesterday includes Mrs. Clare Taylor, 320 E. 31st-st; Mrs. Mary Pavey, 1230 Findley-av; Harry E. Clark, R. R. 17, Box 149, a Citizens Gas Utility employe; Mrs. Lorene Talbott, 6404 College-av; Mrs. Rosaline Penrose, 909 W. 28th-st; Mrs. Hazel Hilkene, R. R. 10, Box 178; Mrs. Ida M. Teeters, 609 N. Wallace-st; Mrs. Henrietta Jackson, R. R. 11, Box 36 M; Thomas Pearson, 1209 Woodlawn-av, Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. employe; James E. Tackett, 822 N. Dearborn-st, machinist; Howard R. Keller of Cumberland, painter, and Mrs. Edna E. Keister, R. R. 10, Box 209. 4 DEAD, 12 HURT~IN ALABAMA TORNADO Cloudburst After Windstorm Hampers Rescuers. By United Press FORT PAYNE, Ala., Jan. 18. Four persons were killed in a cyclone which struck Fyffe, Ala., a small community near here, today. The dead: Claude Port wood, 35, farmer; Mrs. Claude Portwood, 30; Robert Rowell, 45, farmer, and Rowell’s daughter, 8. A cloudburst followed the tornado, making travel to the scene difficult. A dozen persons were injured, seven severely, by the windstorm which wrecked four homes and a garage. A score of other homes were damaged. At Rains, a village 10 miles southeast of Fyffe, several homes were damaged, but no one was reported injured seriously. Every ambulance here was sent to Fyffe to return the injured for treatment at temporary hospitals. The wind swept a three-mile path from north to south in the neighborhood of the small farming community.

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Johnson, Kipling’s chief surgeon, this morning. Kipling’s body lay before the altar of the hospital chapel, between the choir stalls. Friends believed that his ashes might be honored with burial in Westminster Abbey in belated official recognition of his position as voice of an empire, whose cadences marched around the world to the rhythm of the feet of his immortal British Tommy. Kipling died at 12:10 a. m. today. His widow, the former Caroline Starr Ealeister of Vermont, held his hand. Beside her was their Daughter, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge. The body lay all night on the death bed, with a bouquet of flowers on a nearby table. Mrs. Kipling and Mrs. Bambridge, weeping and exhausted after an almost unbroken 24 hours of prayer at his bedside, slept fitfully in nearby rooms. Death Came Suddenly Though Kipling was conceded to have almost no chance of recovery, his death came suddenly and was not expected. His condition had been stationary for several hours. Continuous administrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide had been given him, and he slept restfully at intervals. “He put up a hard fight,” said Dr. Webb-Johnson, who operated on him Monday for a perforated gastric ulcer. “He was conscious almost until the moment of death. His spirit was excellent throughout. Suddenly his heart—in fact his whole body—seemed to collapse.” He died in 10 minutes. Dr. WebbJohnson had barely time to call Mrs. Kipling and Mrs. Bambridge, who had left the room for a few minutes. Kipling did not speak, but he seemed to recognize them. Son’s Death Great Shock

Kipling was 70. He had lived in seclusion at his little estate near Burwash for many years. He was shocked beyond real recovery by the death of his only son, who died in the World War fighting at the front with the Irish Guards. Kipling’s last work of importance was his “The Irish Guards in the World War,” a memorial to his son, which he edited in two volumes in 1923. His distinctions were many. They included the Nobel prize for literature in 1907. But he was denied the greatest honor that may be paid a British poet—to be made poet laureate. It was always said that he was passed over because of his reference to “The Widder of Windsor” —the late Queen Victoria —in one of his poems. abandon crash probe Airline Officials to Continue Own Investigation. By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 18.—Official investigators of the crash of an American Airlines luxury liner that killed 17 persons abandoned their inquiry today without having gained an inkling of the catastrophe’s cause. The investigation was not officially closed, and American Airlines officials will continue their own inquiry, but agreement was unanimous that probably .no one ever will know why the transcontinental ship, leaving Memphis in apparently perfect condition Tuesday night, plunged into the ground half an hour later.

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EMPIRE FEARS FOR LIFE OF ITS AGED MONARCH Heart Growing- Weaker, Say& Bulletin of Physicians Attending Ruler at Castle in Sandringham. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 18.—It was reported tonight that Sir Maurice Cassidy, prominent heart specialist who was called to Sandringham to attend the king, had started # back to London. By United Press SANDRINGHAM, England, Jan. 18.—King George’s heart grew weaker today, causing grave anxiety for the life of the British monarch who lay ill in a specially ventilated room of his country residence, Sandringham House. At the gates of the country estate, where hundreds of his subjects gathered watchfully, the following bulletin from the king’s doctors, timed 3:30 p. m., was posted:

ETHIOPIANS CONTRADICT ITALIAN VICTORY CLAIM Selassie’s Aids Ridicule Report of 150-Mile Advance. By United Press ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 18.—Italian claims of a 150-mile advance in southern Ethiopia with great casualties for the enemy were ridiculed today by high Ethiopian officials. The reports of heavy fighting and a great Italian victory at Dolo are “fantastic and the grossest exaggerations” men close to Emperor Haile Selassie said. Pilots recently at Dolo said the very nature of the terrain—thick cedar forests broken up by thousands of deep-pitted ravines—make it impossible for any army, motorized or otherwise, to advance any thing like 150 miles in a few days, even without opposition. INDUSTRIAL LEADER DIES IN PITTSBURGH Henry B. Rust, Koppe.j Company Board Chairman, Succumbs. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18.—Henry B. Rust, 64, board chairman the Koppers Cos., died at his East'End home last night. He had been ill some time. A native of Leesburg, Va., Rust was privately educated and came to Pittsburgh at the age of 18. As assistant city engineer he laid out and built Schenley Park. Rust joined the Koppers Cos. shortly before Mellon interests acquired it and steered the firm to national prominence. He was also a director of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Cos. GREENLEE TO OPEN HIS FIGHT AT SHELBYVILLE Candidate Scheduled to Speak at State Rally Feb. 14. Pleas E. Greenlee, “retired” patronage secretary of Gov. McNutt, .s going “back home” to open his speaking campaign for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Mr. Greenlee is scheduled to speak at a state rally at Shelbyville Feb. 14 at which Senator Sherman Minton Is announced as the principal speaker. The meeting is X) be held in the high school gymnasium. A Shelby County nonpartisan Greenlee-for-Governor ZJlub was organized this week as a oreliminary to the Feb. 14 rally.

NOTED BANKER IS DEAD Pneumonia Claims Thomas West Jr., New England Financier. Bu United Press PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Jan. 18.— Thomas West Jr., 61, Providence banker and civic leader, died of pneumonia at his home last night after a fortnight’s illness. For more than 16 years he had been president of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Cos., one of New England's biggest banks. HURT BY HIT-RUN TRUCK Aged Man Cut, Bruised When Struck; Taken to City HospitaL James E. Maynard, 77, 1218 Altonav, is suffering from cuts and bruises today in the City Hospital. He sustained them last night when he was knocked down by a hit-and-run truck at 16th-st and Boulevard-pl. Police are searching for the truck driver. MARKETS AT A GLANCE B; United Press Stocks decline in lighter trading. Bonds irregularly lower. Curb irregularly lower. Chicago stocks irregular. Call money % of 1 per cent. Foreign Exchange—Dollar firmer. Cotton steady. Grains—Wheat unchanged to % lower; others steady. Rubber 12 to 13 points lower.

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“His Majesty the king has had some hours of restful sleep. The cardiac weakness and embarrassment of circulation have slightly increased and give cause for anxiety.” The bulletin was issued after th® three regular royal physicians had called in Sir Maurice Cassidy, one of the most eminent heart specialists in all Europe. He arrived at Sandringham at noon. The king’s illness began with bronchial catarrh, an ailment to which he has been subject since his grave illness of 1928. But it was the heart weakness- and attendant “embarrassment of circulation" that gave most concern. It was reported that oxygen was being administered at intervals. At least one of the doctors remained in the king's room all th® time, the other alternately taking short rests in nearby rooms. Frequently one of them would leave the sick room to inform Queen Mary and others of the family of the king’s condition. Most of Family Present Most of the monarch’s family, including the Prince of Wales, who would become ruler of the British empire at the moment of his father * death, were gathered at Sandringham, close to the first-floor room in which the king lay. But in mid-afternoon the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, young daughters of the Duke of York, suddenly were sent back to London after being told only that their grandfather was "very ill.” The decision to send them away, coupled with the arrival from London of the king’s private secretary. Lord Wigram, was regarded as significant of the great anxiety felt for the king’s life. Princess Royal Arrives

The king’s only daughter, the Princess Royal, arrived at Sandringham in the afternoon, joining Queen Mary and the others already at the country estate on the east coast of England. In London, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin cancelled his usual week-end trip to the country and remained in town, receiving frequent reports on the king’s condition. Anxious subjects, peers and diplomats, who paused at the gates of Sandringham House to read the latest bulletin or visited Buckingham Palace in London to inspect the copy of it posted there, drew some immediate consort from the fact that Sir John Simon, the home secretary, was still at his country home in Surrey and had made no move to go to Sandringham, By custom, the home secretary must be present when a king dies. Queen and Sons Pay Visit

After the medical consultation which led to issuance of the 3:30 bulletin, Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York visited at the king’s bedside. The Princesses Elizabeth, 9, and Margaret Rose, 5* left Sandringham shortly before 3 p. m. Dressed in red and seated sedately in a limousine, they were driven directly to the Wolferton Railroad station, accompanied by two nurses. There they alighted and stood quietly on the platform with their pet dog, Yorkie, until their train arrived. Then they entered a reserved compartment, gazing out th® window until the train took them away to London. The gravity of the afternoon bulletin depressed the villagers who tramped over, snow-covered roads to the gates of Sandringham Hall, but many of them did not seem to realize the import of the references to “cardiac weakness.” Life Goes On as Usual Many seemed to think the king had nothing more than a slight cold and in general the village of Sandringham continued in it® sleepy, rustic way of life. Several villagers to whom this correspondent talked were surprised to learn that their “squire,” as they sometimes refer to the king, had a heart weakness. Tlvy shook their heads when told the significance of the bulletin and said “that’s bad.” (Turn to Page Three)