Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1936 — Page 1

F.D.R. SHOULD HOLD INDIANA, STOKES FINDS

Capital Probably Will Be Arrayed Against Labor, He Declares. FARMERS ON BOTH SIDES Doubtful Factors Complicate Forecasts of Results Next November. Th ehirf national political writer of The Time, Washington Bureau la making a coast-tn-rnast swing viewing the campaign situation.. We present herewith the second of two Indiana stories. His articles from other midwestern states and the Paciflc coast are to follow. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS—The American Liberty League has opened headquarters in this city to batter at the New Deal, and undoubtedly will give comfort to the still disorganized Republican machine in its attempt to wean the state's 14 electoral votes from Roosevelt in November. Entrance of the Davis-Smith-Ras-kob-Lu Pont organization into the Indiana fight helps to define the line of battle which will find big business, industrial and banking interests arrayed against the ordinary wage-earner. Farmers will be found in both camps. Like all generalities, however, this division is not entirely accurate. Party tradition is perhaps stronger in this state than in any other. Democrats and Republicans are born that way. Party in many cases, outweighs personal prejudice. F. D. R. Victory Was Earthquake President Roosevelt’s 185,000 majority in 1932 was a political earthquake and hardly will happen again, for the drift noticeable elsewhere has set, in here. The state assumes the doubtful cast which has always dramatized it in presidential elections. But a canvass indicates that the President still holds the state and should hold it in November. Republicans privately give themselves “a chance.” This chance depends a good deal, their strategists say, upon how much money they can throw into this and other large cities. The Democrats’ strength lay in the cities in the 1934 congressional elections, when the party majority was cut to 60 000. They lost in the rural districts, which appeared to indicate a trend of bolting Republican farmers back toward their traditional camp despite the then flourishing Triple A. Doubtful factors complicate November forecasts for Indiana. Democrat Split Threatens One Is the feud within the Democratic Party over the selection of a nominee to succeed Gov. McNutt, who must step out by law at the end of his four-year term. Democrats say factional differences will die after the state convention in June. Another factor of uncertainty is the identity of the Republican presi(Turn to Page Three)

VICTORY CLAIMED BY ETHIOPIANS IN BATTLE Heavy Losses Reported in ThreeDay Rattle on Northern Front. By United Press ADDIS ABABA. Jan. 25.—Ethiopians under Ras Siyoum have won a three-day battle northwest of Makale on the northerr front, an official bulletin said today. Unofficial dispatches said the Ethiopians captured machine guns, cannon, tanks, rifles and ammunition. By United Press ROME. Jan. 25.—More than 5000 Ethiopians and 743 Italians and native troops have been killed or wounded in a three-day fight in the Tembien area on the northern front, it was announced t- day. Italian casualties included 25 white officers killed and 19 wounded. 389 white soldiers and 310 Eritrean troops killed or wounded, it was said. BRITISH POLICE PROBE FIRST ‘RULE’ MURDER Well Dressed Body of Victim Found in London Suburbs. By United Press LONDON. Jan. 25. —Scotland Yard men sought today to learn the identity of Great Britain’s first •‘ride’’ victim. The bullet scarred body of a man. about 65. well dressed, his face distorted as if in fear, was found last night in a ditch 20 miles northwest of London. Detectives believed that the victim was a London bookmaker murdered in a feud of the tough race gangs that constitute one of England's few crime problems. HOT ASHES START FIRE IN BAKERY BOILER ROOM Second Blaze in Year Also Damages Roof at Model Company. Fire caused by hot ashes, which had been taken from the boiler while a frozen valve was being repaired early today damaged the holier room and roof of the Model Bakery, 1401 Madison-av. The loss was estimated at more than SBOO by Walter Krome, the owner. It was the second fire at the bakery in about a year.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Slightly colder tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about zero.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 275

SORROWING SUBJECTS PAY FINAL TRIBUTE TO BELOVED KING GEORGE

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This picture, transmitted by radio from London to New York City, shows the bier of King George V, in Westminster Hall, a few minutes after the royal casket had been placed in position to be viewed by his sorrowing subjects. It is expected that more than a million persons will file past the coffin while it lies in state.

SUPPORT6ROWS FOP. NEWTAXES Passage of Bonus Certain to Revive Demand, Is View in Capital. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Congressional leaders are confident beyond doubt today that the $2,237,000,000 veterans’ cash-bond bonus bill will be voted into law next week over President Roosevelt's veto and without taxes to bear the cost. But a 1936 tax bill of some kind appears to be on the way. Taxpayers are vitally interested in who is going to pay new levies. Politicians are concerned about who shall assume responsibility for adding to the tax burden a few months before the nation elects a President, one-third of the Senate and 435 members of the Hous.e The House overrode the bonus veto yesterday by a vote of 324 to 61. The Senate probably will vote Monday. Only a political miracle could interpose now between the veterans and their bonus. Proposals that it be paid with printing press money or profits to be created from governmenc purehases of silver or seizure of gold have been revived. They are not taken seriously. Republicans and Democrats In Congress refuse to take the initiative on new taxes. Political strategists believe, however. that Mr. Roosevelt could demand bonus taxes from Congress without reaping all of the popular resentment additional levies would invite. Congress is responsible for the bonus expenditures. The President has repeatedly repudiated the immediate cash bonus payment. STATE AWARDS SEVEN INDIANA HIGHWAY JOBS Bridges, Road Improvement Projects Valued at $542,113. Contracts for seven road improvement projects with a total value at $542,113.65 have been awarded by the State Highway Commission. Financed by Federal aid. public works and state funds, the projects include bridges, grading and surface treating in Lake, Porter, White, Pulaski, Gibson. Warrick, Fulton, Wabash and Noble Counties.

SEYMOUR RRE LOSS PLACED <1 $20,000 Ice-Coated Firemen Win 5-Hour Fight. By United Press SEYMOUR, ind., Jan. 25—Icecoated firemen won a five-hour fight against a blaze which threatened an entire business block yesterday and held the damage to $20,000. The fire threatened to destroy the Seymour telephone exchange, where operators held their posts, protected from flames and smoke by wet towels and shielded from torrents of water by-a tarpaulin. Major damage was confined to two clothing stores. TRUCK GOES OnIpREE AS DRIVER SAVES DOG Mows Filling Station. Wrecks Pump and Utility Pole; None Hcrt. A large truck and trailer went on a spree early today and moved a filling station at Road 67 and 38thst a few feet, knocked down a gas pump and a utility pole and broke through some wiring. Maurice Schwab. 30. of 428 Sand-ers-st, driver, and Gaston Webb, 19, Carauthersville, Mo., a passenger, were not injured. The truck and trailer were not damaged. Schwab explained tc the irate operator of the station that he had swerved the truck to avoid striking a dog which had darted into his

Edward VIII Public interest in the short life of Edward VIII by Milton Bronner, now running in The Times, has been so great this newspaper has also acquired serial rights to Frazier Hunt’s popular recent book, “The Bachelor Prince.” The Times will begin publication of this intimate biography of Great Britain's new ruler next Tuesday.

AL SMITH PREPARES NEW DEAL CRITICISM New Yorker to Speak for Liberty League Tonight. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Alfred E. Smith, a little grayer and a little stouter than the dynamic Democratic presidential nominee of 1928, comes to Washington today to broadside his powerful oratory in an American Liberty League challenge to the New Deal. Smith will address the nation and some 2000 diners at one of Washington’s swank hotels. Liberty League organizers of this mighty anti-New Deal rally are a weary lot. They are making final, futile efforts to put 6000 to 7000 eager listeners into a banquet hall which can not hold more than 2000. Smith will speak into the “rad-dio.” His words will be broadcast from coast to coast in an ev "it which may climax the Liberty League’s non-partisan campaign to stop the New Deal in 1936. The occasion is (Turn to Page Three) DEATH STILLS BASSO OF MILLS^ROTHERS Oldest of Famous Quartet Is Dead at 25. By United Press BELLEFONTAINE. 0.. Jan. 25. One voice in the muffled harmony four internationally known on radio and screen as the Mills Brothers was stilled by death today. John Mills, 25. basso, oldest of four Negro brothers whose low rhythm carried them to the top in the entertainment world in less than four years, died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Eathei Mills Jackson, here. His illness resulted from a lung ailment contracted last spring in London. John and his brothers, Donald, Herbert and Harry, were incomparable in their specialty of imitating musical instruments and Injecting twists of soft harmony, blended with pleasing effect. When John died in the attractive home he had provided for his mother, the other three brothers were appearing in Philadelphia. Their father, John Sr., has been taking the ailing brother’s place and probably will continue.

U. S. Takes Drastic Step to Head Off Stock Boom

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The New Deal placed a steadying hand on the nation's security market today in an effort to head off an unwarranted stock market boom such as led the 1929 crash. The Federal Reserve Board unexpectedly ordered margin requirements on all markets increased from 25 to 45 per cent to 25 to 55 per cent of the market value, effective Feb. 1. Board officials said the raising of margin requirements was taken as a "precaution” against too rapidly booming prices caused by possible government monetary and credit policies. The market has been jittery recently because of a sharp slump in the dollar and fears of monetary and credit inflation. The action was generally unexpected in government and financial circles in view, of the recent state-

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1936

RULERS TO PAY GEORGETRIBUTE European Royalty Arrives in London for Rites of Dead King. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 25.—Kings, queens and princes converged on London today for King George’s funeral. The dead monarch’s own people continued to file by thousands past the catafalque on which his coffin lay in Westminster Hall. King Haakon and Queen Maud of Norway have arrived. King Boris of Bulgaria, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, chief of the regency that rules for boy King Peter, and Crown Prince Paul of Greece were en route today. By Tuesday the Kings of Belgium, Rumania and Denmark will be here, along with crown princes and princesses, former King Alfons<4 of Spain, and royal and noble people of all degrees. President Albert Lebrun will head the French delegation. Crowds exceeding even those of yesterday—when 110.042 were recorded—waited to file past King George’s catafalque, in Westminster Hall, where the body will lie in state until the funeral procession and burial at Windsor Tuesday. The state funeral procession Tuesday to Paddington Station will be one of the most colorful and impressive ceremonies that the world affords. King Edward VIII and other kings and princeses will walk behind the gun carriage which will bear the late King's body, and many thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen of the fighting services will participate. King Edward, Queen Mary and other members of the royal family paid a brief visit last night to the catafalque of King George in Westminster Hall. Motoring from Buckingham Palace, the royal party knelt in prayer before the catafalque. People in the public line passing the catafalque were halted until the royal party left. MILITIA ALERT FOR RACE RIOT THREAT Held Ready After Shooting of Scottsboro Negro. By United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Jan. 25. State and county authorities took extraordinary measures today to prevent race conflict or mob violence resulting from the escape attempt of three of the nine “Scottsboro” Negroes. A National Guard company under personal command of Adjt. Gen. J. C. Coleman waited under arms in an armory five blocks from Hillman Hospital, where Ozie Powell, 21, (Turn to Page Three)

ment of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles that the rise in the security markets was healthy and financed largely by cash. The action was taken without the knowledge of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is charged with supervising the nstion’s security markets. SEC Chairman James M. Landis declined to comment. Neither was the Treasury consulted. Under the new order a broker may lend a customer up to 75 pe? cent of the current market price of a security, and thus require a minimum margin of 25 per cent, or he may require a maximum margin of 55 per cent. Most stocks are expected to fall in the latter class. Unusual attention was attracted to the order by reason of President Roosevelt’s notice yesterday to four board members that they would not be reappointed.

COLD WAVE PERILS MILK SUPPLIES IN NEW YORK

MASS SUICIDE HINT PROBED IN DEATHS OF 11 Father May Have Deliberately Stalled Car; Girl, 5, Is Sole Survivor. By United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 25. The theory that a distraught father deliberately stalled his automobile in the path of a speeding passenger train, killing himself, his wife and nine children, was investigated by authorities today. Coroner Walter E. Kruse would make no comment on the mass suicide theory, but it was known he was investigating such a possibility. Five-year-old Phyllis Mcßride today was the only surviving member of the family. She was injured critically. Newly Born Infant Killed The father, Marion Mcßride, 43. a WPA worker, his wife, Susan, 40, five of their children and an infant bom at the time of the crash late yesterday were killed outright. Two children died en route to a hospital and another died last night without regaining consciousness. The body of the newly born infant was found 150 feet from the mangled form of the mother. The baby was expected to have been born normally within a few days. The Mcßride family, packed closely in a 10-year-old car, was returning from the funeral of William Connor, brother of Mrs. Mcßride, at the time of the crash. The poverty-stricken family had been living in a chicken coop on a farmer's property near Leo and nad suffered in the intense cold of the past few days. Buys Candy for Children Mcßride stopped at a store at Grabill, 200 feet from the tracks, to buy candy for his children. Then he started the old car, stopped once and had just reached the crossing when the motor went dead. George King, station agent, who witnessed the tragedy from his platform a few yards away, said: "Mcßride halted the car 50 feet from the tracks with a clear view of the right-of-way. Why he did so I do not know, but he started his car forward despite the fact that the train already was bearing down on the crossing, and reached the tracks simultaneously with the locomotive.” W. E. Rowley of Fort Wayne, engineer of the Wabash passenger train, said the car came on the tracks just as he blew a warning whistle. Girl Carried 1100 Feet The car was demolished and bits of wreckage and bodies, were strewn along the tracks for several hundred feet. Five-year-old Phyllis, the only survivor, was caught in a fold of the automobile body, thrown onto the cow-catcher of the locomotive and carried 1100 feet. The children killed were: Clara, 14; Marion Jr., 12; Mary, 10; Arthur, 8; Virginia, 6; Robert, 3, and Richard and Ramona, 17-months-old twins. Mrs. William Connor, sister-in-law of Mrs. Mcßride, escaped death when she decided at the last moment not to accompany the family. She had originally planned to go along and aid Mrs. Mcßride with the birth of her tenth child.

STATE REPUBLICANS CONVENE FOR RALLY Indiana ‘Grass Roots’ Meeting to Open at 1 Today. Republicans from all parts of the state made Indianapolis their goal today for the two-day “grass roots” conference sponsored by Hoosier Republicans, Inc. The conference is scheduled to start at the Columbia Club at 1 today. Principal event of today’s meeting will be a banquet at 6:30, at which Benjamin Wallace Douglass author of the much discussed “New Deal Comes to Brown County,’.’ is to speak. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is to speak tomorrow at a mass meeting at English’s Theater to which all Repub(Tnrn to Page Three) BREMER KIDNAPERS TO SPEND LIVES IN PRISON Two Barker Gangsters, Engineer Convicted in St. Paul. By United Press ST. PAUL, Jari. 25.—Founa guilty of conspiracy in the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, two members of the oncepowerful Barker-Karpis gang faced life imprisonment today and a third defendant awaited sentence Feb. 1. Harry Sawyer, reputed St. Paul underworld leader, and W'dliam Weaver, paroled Arkansas convict, were sentenced by Judge Gunnar Nordbye late yesterday. Casius McDonald. Detroit consulting engineer, charged with exchanging part of the ransom money, is awaiting sentence.

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Eyes Have It Times Special WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. Rep. Samuel Pettengill of South Bend contributed a bit of repartee to the debate on the potato control act, which he opposes. Rep. Wadsworth (R„ N. Y.) was speaking, when Mr. Pettengill asked: "Does the gentleman believe that the eyes of the potatoes of the nation are now upon us?” “Yes, and they are full of tears.”

6 DIE AS ARMY PLANESGOLLIDE Ships Crash in Flames, Menacing Entire Base; Two Escape. By United Press HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 25.—The blackened wreckage of two Army bombing planes, lymg Detween two 55,000-gallon gasoline tanks, today marked the funeral pyre of six Army fliers and indicated the narrow margin by which a catastrophe was averted. Had the planes hit the tanks a terrific blast would have occurred. The death toll would have been great. Both planes were flying at high speed and they met with terrific force 500 feet over Ford Island, last night. Their gasoline tanks apparently exploded while both still were in the air, spraying liquid fire over the crew members. The dead: Lieut. W. G. Beard. San Francisco, survived by a wife and baby daughter in Honolulu. Staff Sergeant B. F. Jablonsky, survived by a wife and daughter in Honolulu. Private B. E. Taylor. Private Truman J. Gardner. Private John Hartman. Private Parkhurst, first name unlisted. Ships Reconditioned Bombers The injured: Lieut. Charles Fischer of March field, broken leg. Sergt. Thomas Lanagan, lacerations and bruises. The planes were Keystone bombers, recently reconditioned. They were the two rear ships of a squadron of eight. Plane No. 200 was commanded by Lieut. Fischer; plane 220, by Lieut. Beard. They plunged headlong, a mass of falmes. The flames were so intense that rescuers could not approach the twisted and molten wreckage to remove the charred bodies. The two planes apparen ;ly crashed as they prepared to land at Luke field, Army airport. They were the last planes in a squardon to attempt a landing. Pilots of the planes apparently misjudged distances involved, due to gathering darkness. Falls Into Flames Army authorities planned to question Lieut. Fischer and Private Lanagan, the only survivors. They saved themselves by taking co parachutes. Three men managed to take to parachutes before the crash, but Private Taylor landed on the roof of an oil storage tank and he was pulled off into the flames of his burning ship. An Army basketball game near the scene of the crash was disrupted by the sound of the ships meeting in mid-air. “Crash!” several Army men attending the game shouted in unison. Simultaneously, sirens screamed and floodlights were turned on. Spectators, including officers and their wives in evening dress, hurried outside and saw the planes lying twisted and flaming on the ground. As the horrified spectators looked on, the three men who managed to bail out floated earthward.

HOHLT ASUS $50,000 ON SUNDER CHAR6E Perry Trustee Alleges Attempts to Disgrace Him. Leonard A. Hohlt, Perry Township trustee, today has filed in Circuit Court a $50,000 slander suit against the group of Perry Township residents wdio have filed impeachment charges against him for alleged intoxication while in office. Mr. Hohlt, center of a storm of protest since he took office a little more than a year ago, alleges that the defendants conspired to publicly disgrace and humiliate him. He also alleges in his complaint that several attempts had been made to entrap him, through an operative of a private detective agency, into getting intoxicated, and that false and malicious reports had been circulated about him. State Senator John Bright Webb, George A. Hacker, Kenneth L. Baker, Fred Foster, the Metropolitan Secret Service, Inc., and Frederick P. Carson are named defendants. Former Rotary Chief Dead CHICAGO. Jan. 25.—John Nelson, Canadian journalist who served as president of Rotary International in 1933 and 1934, xlied last night of heart disease in g Chicago hotel.

Temperature Here Will Hover Around Zero, Bureau Says. FIVE DEAD IN STATE Rise in Mercury Comes With Snowfall; One Killed Here. As Indianapolis recovered today from the severe cold wave, weather bureau forecasters predicted a slight drop in temperature tonight and tomorrow. J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, said there was no basis to reports that Indianapolis would be swept with anew and more severe cold wave. The bureau was swamped with querries on the false report. A high pressure area moving in from the northwest will send the mercury down to zero tonight, but temperatures are expected to recover to 10 tomorrow, Mr. Armington said. An inch of snow fell in Indianapolis early this morning, but tomorrow is expected to be clear. Lowest overnight temperature in Indianapolis was 3 at 5 a. m. Fort Wayne felt 2 below zero. At 9 today, the mercury recorded 9, and may rise to 15, Mr. Armington said. Traction Crash Proves Fatal Hilbert G. Cox, Columbus, 0.. was injured fatally late yesterday when his auto skidded on ice at Emersonav and 23d-st into the path of an inbound traction car. He was the eighth person to die thus far this year in Marion County of traffic injuries. The auto was struck broadside and hurled down a five-foot embankment. W. R. Granderson. Newcastle, traction operator, said he blew the whistle as the car approached the crossing. Two Negroes, Thomas Wilford, 16. of 1446 J\Jissouri-st, and Ray Shamwell, 20, of 2708 Sthel-st, were treated at City Hospital last night for frostbite. James Morgan, 109 Cherry Grove, Is recovering today in City Hospital from a broken hip received when he slipped on the ice at 30th-st and Central-av, yesterday. Five Dead in State The 24-hour death toll of Indiana’s cold wave stood at five today as higher temperatures relieved suffering and revived transportation and business activity. The rise in temperatures was accompanied by a snow fall throughout the state last night, but most highways were expected to remain open to cautious travel. Hilbert G. Cox, Columbus, 0., was killed here late yesterday, when his automobile skidded into the path of an Indiana Railroad car. Mrs. Mary Shiels, 64, was burned fatally as she huddled over an open fire at her farm home near Bloomington. Woman Found Frozen Miss Jessie Williamson, 68, was found frozen to death in her Fort Wayne home. Dale Emerson Taylor, 3. son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Taylor, Shelbyville, died from pneumonia, induced by the cold. Mrs. Kate Hart, 81, Brimfleld, Noble County, died at a neighbor’s home yesterday after she had been carried from her burning house by John McMeans, 60, who suffered critical burns. Mrs Hart was seized with hysteria when trapped by the fire and fought off McMeans’ rescue attempts. Trains From East Late The last of school children and motorists marooned in farm houses and school buildings because drifting snows blocked the highways were rescued yesterday. Although traction lines are running on schedule today, trains from the East were one hour late at Union Station, Indianapolis. Ohio River craft was tied up today at Madison where ice formed on the river. State roads were being opened for through traffic. Utilitywires. snapped by the subzero temperatures, were repaired yesterday by workmen. HOUSEWIFE AND LOVER MUST DIE FOR MURDER Plump, Middleaged Woman Sobs Over Double Chin at Verdict By United Press MINEOLA, N. Y., Jan. 25. A jury convicted Mary Frances Creighton, plump, middle-age housewife, and Everett C. Apple* gate, philandering lover of her and her 16-year-old daughter, of murder early today. They must die in the electric chair for ridding themselves of Applegate’s 220-pound wife with rat poison. Mrs. Creighton, who attempted with all the venom of a scorned woman to pin the guilt on Applegate—everr confessed on the stand that she administered poison to her “dear friend, Ada,” at his order —sobbed a bit over her double chin at the verdict, but quickly regained her composure. Applegate, big and handsome, but phlegmatic by nature, took bis condemnation without apparent emotion.

Capital EDITION PRICE THREE CENTS

Only One of 60 Trucks Reaches Buffalo With Dairy Products. NEW STORM REPORTED Health Authorities Make Emergency Plans for Expected Crisis. By United Frees Snow - blocked highways and subzero cold threatened New York City, Buffalo and dozens of smaller communities with a critical shortage of milk today. Health authorities made emergency preparations to insure a supply for hospitals but expected many homes to be unsupplied. Anew cold wave and snowstorm threatening the Middle West today and expected to arrive on the Atlantic seaboard during the weekend, accentuated the anxiety of state and city officials. In Buffalo, only one of 60 normal truckloads of milk reached the city yesterday. Dairy delivery men were instructed to deliver first to families with children. Snow, driven before high winds, was expected to sharpen the new cold wave in the East. In the Nor ,h----west the wind may reach gale force, while snow in some sections may reach blizzard intensity. It wiU follow the recent cold wave, after only a few days respite from sub-zero weather. New Wave on Way The Dakotas and Minnesota expected the new wave tonight. It was | sweeping down from Canada’s Mackenzie River basin. Forecasters pre- ! dieted that this second wave of subzero weather would be only slightly less severe than the three days of biting blasts just past and would swell a death toll already above 100. It was expected to reach Chicago and other Midwest areas early tomorrow. Meanwhile in New York City temperatures of from 10 to 16 degrees above zero were received as a welcome relief. A temporary breathing spell was provided yesterday throughout the Middle West with the mercury moving above zero in Chiacgo for the first time in 54 hours. Farther south and west of Chicago however; rising temperatures still meant that thermometers were registering below zero. Below in Chicago The threat of more snow offered little hope that many highways in western Indiana and eastern Ohio could be cleared for travel. Many Illinois roads were impassable and parts of the Northwest were snowbound. Stranded motorists took refuge in farmhouses. A heavy snowfall last night which blanketed northeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and parts of lowa and Nebraska delayed trains, while busses and transport planes operated on irregular schedules and to some points not at all. Rail service into St. Louis was delayed from minutes to several hours in some cases. Light snow was falling today in the territory just south of Chicago and extending south of Louisville. The temperature dropped to 7 below In Chicago, while La Crosse, Wis., reported 23 below; St. Paul, 20 below; Milwaukee, 11 below, and Devils Lake, N, D., 10 below. STOCKS EASE SLIGHTLY ON NEW REQUIREMENTS Federal Reserve Margin Rule Effective Feb. 1. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Stocks eased fractionally at the opening today in the first repercussions of the Federal Reserve’s new margin requirements which are effective Feb. 1. Bonds were steady, cotton up 2 to 8 points and the dollar lower. ißy Thomson it McKinnon) 10:30 Prev. A. M Close. Grt Northern 33*2 34 Atchison 69 V* 70 s * N. Y. Central 30 30V* Pennsylvania 34* 35 Gen Elec 37 1 * 36V* Westinghouse Elec 107 ! 109 V Douglas Air 64’* 66 United Air 23 36 >4 Anaconda 29 1 * 30‘a int Nickel 47*-* 48*, Du Pont 143 144 ‘j Union Carbide 73 1 * 74 v, Ohio Oil 16Va 16 >4 Phillips Pet 40>* 49 ] 3. O. of N. J 54** 55 Beth Steel SO 1 * Sl4 P.-’P Iron l Steel 18*, 19 U. S Steel 47** 47*, AT&T 1595* 160 Cons Gas 32*, 32 4* IT & T 10** 17 Western Un 753* 751* Armour s’ s’ Gen Poods 35 ]U, Natl Dairy 32 23-** Stand Brands 105* 10** Com Solvents 20** 21*, Celanese 29 294* Real Silk 145* 14*, Am Radiator 25’* 26 1 * Mont Ward 37 37*. Sears-Roebuck 02** 62 s * Times Index Page Amusements 4 Auto News 18 Births, Deaths 13 Church News 8 Comics 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Pegler 9 Radio S Serial Story . 8 Sports 12-13 State Deaths 5 Want Ads 13-14 .Woman’s Pages 6-fc