Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1936 — Page 3

Tarrfi!

NEW SUBZERO ' WAVE SWEEPS DOWN ON CITY Mercury May Slide to 5 Below, Warning of Weather Man. (Onfinu*fl From Page One) pifal with injuries received when he was knocked down bv a truck last night at 13th and AJabama-sts. Mrs. Mary Heiny. R R. 4, Box 678. is in serious condition in St. Francis Hospital with hip injuries received in a fall on the ice yesterday. Mrs. Anna Greshan, 58. of 413 Cav-m-st,, also a victim of the ice. was recovering in the same hospital. Truck Driver Is Injured Firemen yesterday chopped from a water tower over the Eh Lilly A; Cos pharmaceutical plant, Alabama and McCarty-sts, icicles weighing as much as 200 pounds each. One had crashed through the roof of the refrigerating building and it. was feared others would fall. The water tank had overflowed in subzero weather. Fred Smith, 51, Brazil, Ind., is recovering in Methodist Hospital from injuries received when a truck he was driving skidded on ice into the abutment of the Belt railroad at E. Washington-st yesterday. Northeastern Indiana was sheathed in ire an inch thick today. Telephone and telegraph communication was threaten’d and hopes of replenishing dwindling fuel supplies in many small communities were shattered. Reports from outlying districts indicated that return of low' temperatures predicted for tonight would cripj le communications and ca jse an even more serious condit.on than existed during the recent Jege of subzero blizzards. All Busses Stalled The Fort Wayne bus terminal reported that all cross-country Greyhound busses operating through there w'ere stalled all night and probably would not resume operations until late today. Lines operating between there and Dayton, 0., also had suspended service. Interurban cars of the Indiana Service Corp. were operating behind schedule, impeded by ice caked over the rails by a combination rain-sleet-snow storm. In Fort Wayne and in Argos • Marshall County) frozen mains threatened water supplies. Mains swelled by the cold burst in Argos, flooding the town's principal street and cutting off most ol the residential supply. A series of traffic fatalities were recorded In other sections of Indiana. Ice-covered highways were responsible for most of the accidents.

Boy Killed by Fire Truek William Heflin, 13, Muncie, was crushed to death when he was thrown under a fire truck. The youth had hitched his sled to an automobile, which swerved sharply to avoid striking the truck. Hollo Mangus, 35, died in a Plymouth hospital from a skull fracture suffered when his automobile collided with another northwest of Plymouth. Robert Cormican, 37, was killed instantly when struck by a truck as he walked along State Road 163 near Clinton. C. L. Harrington, Charleston, 111., driver of the truck, was absolved. Mrs. Katherine Stephanian, 60, Chicago, received fatal injuries when struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Hammond. Midwest Is Paralyzed By United Pres* The Middle West fought to dig itself out of paralyzing snowdrifts today before a threatened subzero cold wave swoops down from Canaria. Railroad officials sought to rescue passengers of eight trains marooned by snow' in lowa, hoping there wa enough fuel on hand to keep them warm until they could be dug out. Passengers snowbound on an eastbound Chicago, Great Western train one-half mile cast of Tennant. la.. for nine hours were reported on their way to Chicago. Section hands and recruited helpers freed the train this morning after working in 20 below zero temperatures throughout the night.. Highways Ice-Coaled Highways In five states were coated with ice and clogged with snow. Zero temperatures descended on Wyoming and Colorado and threatened to roll into the Middle West before nightfall. lowa felt the brunt of the storm. Several railroads suspended service entirely during the night. Two passenger trains have been marooned near Madrid since midnight. Three other passenger trains were stalled near Cedar Rapids. la.. and Tennant. Two interurban trains were snowbound between Des Moines and Perry and another between Des Moines and Colfax. Highway Workers Busy Highway workers hurried to clear the highways as a predicted cold wave reached the northwestern fringes of Wisconsin. Railroad and bus schedules were shattered. The Dakotas, Minnesota, and parts of Kansas and Nebraska were affected bv the snow. In lowa, where an acute coal shortage has threatened hundreds of shivering families for a week, snow and zero temperatures meant further suffering. Side roads to many of the 500 soft coal mines in the state were rapidly drifting with snow. Rural schools in northern lowa were closed early yesterday to permit children to reach their homes before drifts halted traffic. Concern was felt for farm families isolated with scanty fuel supplies. In the area around Boston five coast guard cutters and two patrol boats fought to open lanes through which to move ice-locked fuel boats. An acute fuel shortage threatened if they failed. A coast guard cutter was fighting ice in Chesapeake Bay. attempting to carry provisions to residents icebound oa Tangier Island. Three thousand residents of Nantuckett Island, off the New England coast, received supplies by airplanes, which reported on returning that the islanders were prepared fully for a month's siege.

Vigilantes Backed Up City’s First Laws; Leader’s ‘Radical’ Speech Routs ‘Riffraff’

BY JOE COLLIER INDIANAPOLIS was incorporated as a city Feb. 5. 1836 The Board of Trustees was elected in April and the old government turned over to it the unexpended balance in the city treasury—sl24. That is about half of what will be expended for food when beween 250 and 300 Indiana polis citizens gather at the Indianapolis Athletic Club tomorrow noon to celebrate the centennial, under the auspices of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, at 75 cents a plate. At, its first meeting, the 1836 board did not spend a cent. Instead. it enacted ordinances pro-

-i-

hibiting riots, drunkenness, horse racing and swearing on the streets. There was a lot of that in those days. Asa matter of record, Indianapolis was pretty much under the arrogant domination of a gang of ruffians then who had been attracted to the city through the building of the National Road and who stayed to prey upon its citizens. These ruffians were led. according to a historian of the times, by a strong man and they were of “bad character.” Know'n as “The Chain Gang.” they frequently assaulted citizens and committed petty outrages. it tt tt IT got so bad that the citizens met in the Courthouse and formed a vigilante committee, electing Harrod Newland, president. The first thing he did officially was to make such a rousing speech against the roustabouts that it was termed “radical” by his fellow vigilantes. Nevertheless, the riff-raff heard it, and got frightened. For sev- - oral months nothing much happened and it was felt by the citizens that a mere speech had driven the bad men from their midst. In August, the Rev. James Havens announced he would hold a camp meeting in Military Park and people came from far and wide. Brother Armstrong, a historian of the era .says, came down the road with a red silk handkerchief over his head singing some “stirring Methodist hymns.” After the camp meeting had gotten • >, i under way, the ruffia’iS, headed by their leader, appeared at the park and started some rough stuff. The situation

OXNAM DEFENDS U. S. DEMOCRACY Church Must Resist Forces Which Threaten It Clergy Told. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw' University president, today told the Indiana Pastors’ Convention here that the “cnurch must resist the forces which threaten democracy.” Speaking before an audience of more than 300 in the First Baptist Church, Dr. Oxnam said: "We can not cultivate democracy through the use of mobs and machine guns, and dictatorships and communism seek the end of democracy upon which the free-thinking and future of the church depends.” Denominational group luncheons were scheduled for noon today. Baptists and Presbyterians were to meet, at the Y. W. C. A.; Congregational Christian members at the First Congregational Church; Friends at the Y. M. C. A., and Methodist-Protest-ants at Victory Memorial M. E. Church. The afternoon session featured commission meetings. Race problems, industrial and International relations and problems of city and rural religious education were to be discussed. ROOSEVELT SENDS PEN ' TO AIRPORT CUSTODIAN Implement Used to Sign Bridge Bill Given Fred Boyce. Fred Boyce. 1419 Reisner-st, night custodian of the Municipal Airport, today is the owner of a pen used by President Roosevelt in signing a congressional bill. Mr. Boyce wrote asking for a pen and M H. Mclntyre, assistant secretary to the President, sent the one w 7 ith which the Perry County bridge bill was signed. A copy of the title of the bill was inclosed.

VJHO IS COMING TO TOWN ? NURSE/^1 ISN'T IT 3? 5 THRILLING J ( Yf&t hmmi

was pretty tense, because the vigilante committee was not there. Mr. Havens, however, was up to the crisis and with evangelistic fervor, ‘‘subjugated’’ the leader. Later, Samuel Merrill, who for years was the leading capitalist of the city by virtue of having arrived there with S4OOO in cash, “whipped the leader within an inch of his life.” The gang promptly disintegrated. At this camp meeting, 130 “experienced religion.” a tt a SHORTLY thereafter the city was rocked with an explosion of such severity that citizens were awakened from slumbers, donned overalls and hats and ran out into the muddy streets. It was found that Frederick Smith, general store operator, deliberately had sat on a keg of powder in his store, and lighted it with a match. He was hurt. There were other than one-man booms in the year, too. The Legislature, pressed, by the inactivity of business, awarded SIOO,OOO for building roads, and passed an Internal Improvement Bill. This law undertook with state funds several “great works” and extended aid to private firms also

undertaking general improvements. Most of these were supposed to lead to Indianapolis, and property values immediately rose in the city. The citizens got together the evening of Jan. 16 and had a great series of bonfires, which promptly set some df the houses afire and wound up with a minor, (replacement) building boom. Everyone, the historians say, had money. There was to be the Central Canal and several railroads. one of which. The Madison, almost was completed. Irishmen were employed on the canal, and once a gang of Cork descent a gang of “fardowners” in a bitter battle with spades at the edge of Indianapolis. The battle raged all day and caused the more timid citizens to take refuge. u a tt ABOUT this time, too, Capt. John, an Algonquin Indian, was supposed to be “bad medicine” and lived in a hollow sycamore stump. He made forays into the woods occasionally, and brought back venison which he sold for 12V2 cents a loin. Every one agreed he was dangerous, but

Mother Has Tenth Baby; Takes ‘Stork Race’ Lead Mrs. Matthew Kenny Closely Pushed for $500,000 Prize by Two Others With Nine Eligible Children. By United Press TORONTO, Ontario. Feb. 4.—Mrs. Matthew Kenny today claimed undisputed leadership in Toronto's fantastic “maternity marathon.” She gave birth to a son last night, her tenth child since 1926.

Mrs. Kenny is the mother of 12 children, all except two born since Charles Vance Millar, sportsman and lawyer, died in 1926, leaving the residue of his estate, valued at over $500,000, to "the Toronto mother giving birth to the greatest number j of children within 10 years after my death.” Her new son weighed six and onehalf pounds at birth. Mrs. Kenny refused her physician's advice to go to a hospital and remained in her small, frame home. Both mother and child are ‘‘doing well.” Deadline for the strange contest is Oct. 31. 1936. Mrs. Kenny now 7 is the leader. Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 42. Italian court interpreter, and Mrs. John Nagle. 30, youngest of the competing mothers, are tied in second place, each with nine children since probate of the will. SAUNDERS’ WIDOW WINS SUIT AGAINST ESTATE Wabash Court Transfers Title to B. * L, Certificates. Bit f nit* and pres j? WABASH. Ind., Feb. 4.—A1l claim of the estate of Gaylord V. Saunders, slain Wabash Methodist S minister, to stock in the First Rural Loan and Savings Association. Muncie. was set aside today in Circuit Court. The court acted on a petition of Victor R. Jose Jr., Indianapolis, adI ministrator, which sought authority j to transfer ownership of the stock to Saunders' w 7 ife, Neoma. The stock had been owned by j Saunders and his wife. The peti- | tion set out that Mrs. Saunders and 1 William Haines, foster father of the slain minister, needed the proceeds of the certificates. Mrs. Saunders, tried and acquitted on an indictment for firstdegree murder in connection with the death of her husband, lives with her two sons and Mr. Haines at Albany. HIGHWAY BIDS RECEIVED —* Department Gets 109 Figures With None in Marion County. The State Highway Department today received 109 bids on 23 road and bridge projects. The aggregate low bid w 7 as $721,101 as compared to the engineer's estimate of $810,340. No Marion County projects were listed. $lO5 THEFT REPORTED Cash Talfen From Hiding Place After Skylight Is Broken. Burglars early today entered a grocery at 2338 Station-st and stole j $lO5 from a hiding place in the i store. Robert Loy, manager, reported to police. They gained entrance , by breaking a skylight.

111 IMDIAMI'ULIi imU

nobody ever did anything about it, not even he. In three years the state money ran out; all projects were summarily abandoned. The canal, on which $1,600,000 had been expended and which was nearly completed, was given up. The segment from her*- to Broad Ripple was completed, however, and opened with a boat excursion.

K 4Ti # [

It was leased to private companies which took water power from it. But the companies were always complaining about the moss in its bottom, and the citizens raised the devil when it was drained for cleaning. The Legislature, tired of the headache, sold it. The Madison railroad was completed as far as Vernon and graded as far as Columbus when it was stopped. What was completed was operated by the state until 1843, when the state was bilked out of its equity and a private company took it over. Until it was ruined by competition, it was the largest money-maker in the country. It finally gave up in 1847. tt tt tt WITH the collapse of all these projects. Indianapolis sagged. Only the passing of a bankruptcy law a short time later kept the leading merchants in business. All capital avoided the city. However, when there still was a boom, John Wyant decided to take some of the profits and throw a New Year's dance. This he did, inviting the best people. There were two rooms to his log house. He was in one having a wee nippie when the fiddler fiddled and the dance began. A social slicker from Louisville, a grand gentleman with perfect manners, thought it would be nice, in his southern way, to dance the first dance with Mrs. Wyant. He asked her and together they whirled onto the floor. Mr. Wyant returned in a lightening glance of disapproval took in the situation, and strode over to the fiddler. He stopped the music. Then he announced to the company: “As far as I and my wife are concerned we are able to do our own dancing; it would be better

N. Y. SPEEDS DRIVE AGAINST VICE RING Alleged Big Shot Indicted to Expedite Extradition. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 4.—Special prosecutors rushed alleged leaders of a $12.000,000-a-year chain-store vice ring to arraignment, indictment and trial today. An extraordinary grand jury indicted one man to hasten his extradition from Philadelphia, Justice Philip J. McCook held five others under $75,000 bond each, and bond totaling almost $1,000,000 was set for 77 girls and "madames” held as material witnesses. The grand jury indicted Peter Balitzer, arrested in Philadelphia at the same time that 125 detectives were raiding resorts all over I New York. Assistants of Thomas [E. Dewey, special prosecutor of racketeers, w'ere confident they had hit "big business” vice a stunning blow. Mr. Dewey, only 33. became United States attorney w 7 hen 28. sent Waxey Gordon, beer racketeer, to prison on income tax charges and broke up a racketeering industrial union. Bp United Pres* LONDON, Feb. 4,—Scotland Yard today embarked on the biggest vice drive in its history. It consulted the foreign office and the aliens' department of the home office as a preliminary to deportation of undesirable foreigners, and sent detectives to all ports. M'NUTT AND GREENLEE TALK AT SAME DINNER Governor and Dismissed Aid Are on Princeton Program. Bp United Prefix PRINCETON. Ind.. Feb. 4.— Gov. Paul V. McNutt and Pleas E. Greenlee. ousted state patronage secretary. occupied the same speaking platform at a Jackson Day dinner here last night. The Governor was the principal speaker, urging re-election of President Roosevelt and the state administration. Mr. Greenlee, whose announcement as a candidate for Governor resulted in his dismissal by the Governor, made only a few remarks. 11 Injured in Bus Crash Bp United Prefix DARBY. Pa.. Feb. 4.—Eleven persons w 7 ere injured today when a bus skidded on a hill and plunged down a 30-foot embankment. The injured passengers were taken by train to Philadelphia hospitals.

for every man to follow our example and dance with his wife; those of you who are so unfortunate as to have none can dance with the gals.” Everything went on smoothly after that, tney say. a a ABOUT this time, also, the first traveling acting company came here from Louisville. The company was a Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and they played two plays, “The Jealous Lovers” and “Lord, What a Snow Storm in May and Jur.e,” whatever that could have been Mrs. Smith also “danced a hornpipe among eggs blindfolded.” What aroused the citizens most was that Mr. and Mrs. Smith were 58 and 62 years old, respectively, and even enough the admission was only 25 cents a person, they were given a unanimous cold shoulder when they returned the next year. The Statehouse had only recently been completed and the Legislature met for the more or less express purpose of ordering 20 fire buckets and ladders “that reached to the roof.” That made the city fire-preven-tion conscious, and the trustees were called upon to levy a fire and public well tax. This it did, and bought the “Old Marion,” a “box-hand brake” fire engine, in Philadelphia for SIBOO. It was at first housed in a one-story log cabin, but later was removed to a two-story log structure on the Circle, which also served as a meeting place for the trustees. The whole works burned down in 1851. With the purchase of the engine, the Marion Fire and Hose Protection Cos. was organized. It found competition in the Marion Fire Cos., which later bought “The Good Intent,” another engine. Later on both succumbed when the city put in its own fire department. U tt tt MOST of this happened 14 years before Jeremiah Johnson decided to marry Miss Jane Reagan and found he had to walk to Connersville to get a license—which he did. When he returned they staged the wedding and then a two-day celebration. The first day of the celebration was at the bride's home and the second at the groom's. Much corn whisky flowed. Mr. Johnson, the records say, never quite got over the celebration. He was noted for being the best whisky drinker in the area and developed quite a following for his whisky-inspired smart cracks. His best appears to be about the telegraph line put down Washing-ton-st in 1848—at least it’s the only one recorded. At that momentous time he flipped this: “There! They’re driving lightening down the road, with a single line, at that!” He lived to a ripe old age.

16 NOTABLES NAMED FOR PRISON INQUIRY Sanford Bates and Lawes Head Horner’s List. Bp United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 4.—Sixteen nationally know 7 n civic, church and prison authorities today were asked by Gov. Henry Horner to serve on a commission to investigate the Illinois prison system. Since Richard Loeb, wealthy young slayer of Bobby Franks, was slashed to death by a fellow'-convict at Stateville Prison last week, numerous charges of laxity and favoritism have been made. Gov. Horner declared. He said a "thorough and impartial investigation” appeared necessary. Heading the list of those asked to serve were Sanford Bates, director of Federal prisons, and Lewis Law'es, warden of Sing Sing Prison, New York. AUTO TAG RECEIPTS MOUNT 10 PER CENT Increase Said to Represent About 70,000 Sets of Licenses. Receipts so far this year from 1936 Indiana automobile licenses increased approximately 10 per cent over the figure for the same 1935 period, it was announced at the Statehouse today. The year’s sale to date aggregates $5,422,583.99, compared with $4,900,738.97 last year. The increase, it was said, represents some 70,000 sets of plates, and is in direct ratio with an increase, of 48.200 in the number of drivers' licenses issued. Total receipts of the plate sale from its opening Dec. 9, 1935, to Jan. 31 were $6,159,710.57. For the same period last year they were $5,240,882.12.

Nuptial Note Mrs. Ella Coy, 67, Tipton, formerly of 1654 Kelly-st, today has a fourth husband in Henry H. Grable, 74, of Glezen, Ind., Mr. Grable his sixth wife and Leander Wheat, of the Kelly-st address, anew housekeeper. The November - December wedding occurred yesterday afternoon in the Wheat home when the Rev. Charles Richards, brother of the bride, united the couple. A motor trip to Tipton was the honeymoon. The former Mrs. Coy had been housekeeper for Mr. Wheat and his father, James Wheat. Today her sisters, Mrs. Alice Graham, formerly of Tipton, took her place at the Wheat's kitchen range. "—And w 7 e’re hoping she won’t follow in her sis:er's footsteps,” chorus the Wheats. "Not a chance,” averred Mrs. Graham. Death separated Mr. Grable, a farmer, from two wives while the divorce courts severed the matrimonial bonds on three other occasions. Two of Mrs. Grable’s former husbands died and one was divorced.

BATTLE FACES HOFFMAN OVER SCHWARZKOPF Legislative Bloc Opens Fight to Save Job of °olice Chief. By United Press TRENTON. N. J„ Feb. 4.—The long expected political repercussions from Gov. Harold G. Hoffman's reprieve of Bruno Richard Hauptmann reverberated in the capital today. A legislative bloc opened its fight to save the job of Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commandant of the state police, who, because of his leadership of the hunt for the Lindbergh kidnapers, is one of the most publicized of police executives. A bill introduced in the assembly last night would hold Col. Schwarzkopf in his job when his term expires in the spring, until Gov. Hoffman has nominated a successor and the successor has been confirmed in the Senate. It was reported that another bill soon would be introduced transferring the appointing power from Gov. Hoffman to the Legislature. There have been persistent reports that Gov. Hoffman planned to slide Cot. Schwarzkopf out of the public service when his term expires. While no legislator wished to be quoted, there were some who believed that Gov. Hoffman's reprieve of Hauptmann and his reopening of the Lindbergh case might be aimed at discrediting the soft spoken West Point disciplinarian. Colonelcy Is Political Plum Gov. Hoffman is a Republican. Col. Schwarzkopf was appointed by his Democratic predecessor. While the state police are depolicalized. the superintendency is an important political plum. Gov. Hoffman already has ordered Col. Schwarzkopf to reopen the Lindbergh investigation and find the “accomplices” of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He emphasized that he had no new evidence, but wished a shifting of the evidence which Col. Schwarzkopf’s men had gathered and, presumably, rejected. Gov. Hoffma i inferred that much of the evidence was contradictory and he asked many unanswered questions. Several Senators, who would not permit the use of their names, said they had notified Gov. Hoffman that they would sponsor a bill to deprive him of the appointive power if he did not renominate Col. Schwarzkopf. “Suspect” Not Yet Named Meanwhile, Gov. Hoffman's intention of naming a “suspect,” announced by his friends, had not borne fruit. His friends insisted he this week would name the suspect, the “man with The handkerchief” whom Col. Lindbergh saw the night at St. Raymond Cemetery when Dr. John F. Condon paid the $50,000. Gov. Hoffman's reprieve expires in 11 days. Justice Thomas W. Trench - ard then will resentence Hauptmann to die in “not less than four weeks or more than eight weeks.” It was believed that unless Gov. Hoffman granted another reprieve, Hauptmann would die in approximately six weeks. MEETING IS POSTPONED March 2 Is New Date for Perry Township Civic League, Meeting of the Perry Township Civic League, Inc., originally scheduled for last night, has been postponed until March 2, Alfred C. Baumgart, president, announced today. It is to be held in the University Heights school.

SCIENCE DEVELOPS SYNTHETIC RADIUM Amount Obtained Is Small; Identity Is Certain, (Continued From Page One) ficial laboratory methods is radium E, one of the intermediary products in the slow decay of ordinary radium to lead. The amount of radium E so far obtained is almost infinitesimal, but careful checks leave no doubt as to its identity. Bismuth Is Source Synthetic radium E was obtained by Dr. Livingood through the bombardment of the common, inert substance, bismuth, with deuterons at an energy of approximately five and a half million electron volts. This prov'uct behaves exactly as does natural radium E. Tests have shown that it decays with a halflife of five days by emitting electrons and is converted into polonium, which continues the decay by emitting alpha particles at a halflife rate of about 140 days. The end product of this process is lead, although tests so far have been limited to determining the type and rate of radiation. This new step in the transmutation of matter was taken in the laboratory of Prof. E. O. Lawrence, using the 35-ton cyclotron or atomic disintegrator designed by him which already has been successful in transmuting more than a third of all elements known to man. Process Expensive The conversion of bismuth, heaviest nonradio-active element, into radium E, is considered final proof that the apparatus will induce changes in every kind of matter. The deuteron bullets used in bombarding substances to be transmuted are the nuclei of doubleweight hydrogen atoms obtained from heavy water costing approximately S6OO a pint. These bullets are shot from the cyclotron at velocities of twelve thousand or more miles per second at the rate of one hundred thousand billion per second. Substances placed in the path of this barrage are disintegrated or fundamentally changed in nature. Recently platinum was converted into gold. Seventeen different research centers throughout the world have reported that they are building or planning to build replicas of the atom disintegrator at the University of California. Three of the centers are in Russia, two in England, one in Japan, one in Denmark, and ten in the United States, namely the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, Rochester. Washington. Illinois. Cornell. Princeton. Purdue, Columbia and the Franklin Institute.

OFFICIAL WEATHER __t’nHe4 Slates Weather Bureau _

Sunrise 6:51 Snn.et S:W % TEMPERATURE ■Jy Ffb. 4. 1935 \\ m........ 2* Ip. m 31 —Tod*.* — m 22 16 *. m 13 V \ m 2o 11 a.m I* * k m is 12 <Nonf .... 12 9 a. m IS 1 p. m 14 BAROMETER 7 a. m ... 29.54 1 p m .... 29.R5 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m 0.35 i Total precipitation since Jan. 1 1.67 I Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.62 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 30.14 R Bismarck. N. D Clear 30 00 —l6 Boston Rain 29.58 30 Chicago Snow 29.3 R 14 Cincinnati Cloudy 29 42 32 Denver Clear 30 06 0 Dodge City. Kas Clear 30.24 —4 Helena. Mont Snow 30.16 —4 Jacksonville. Fla Cloudv 29.84 62 Kansas City. Mo. ... Clear 30 14 —4 Little Rock. Ark. ... Clear 30.08 1 Los Angeles Clear 29.98 46 Miami, Fla Cloudy 29.96 72 Minneapolis Clear 29 88 —lB Mobile. Ala Rain 29 82 50 New Orleans Cloudy 29.84 54 New York Rain 29 66 30 Okla City, Ok!a Clear 30.24 4 Omaha. Neb Clear 30.12 —l4 Pittsburgh Rain 29 34 38 Portland. Ore. Cloudv 29.96 38 San Antonio. Tex. . PtCidv 30 04 28 San Francisco Clear 30.08 44 St. Louis Clear 29 88 4 Tampa. Fla Clear 29 88 64 Washington. D. C. .. Cloudy 29.62 30 edwardmaTes LIBERTYJ’LEDGE King Assures Safeguarding of People’s Welfare in Message. Bn United Brest: LONDON, Feb. 4.—King Edward VIII assured Parliament in a message today that his chief aim would be to maintain the liberties and welfare of his people. The message was read at the first regular session of the House of Commons in King Edward's reign. It said; “I have received with true satisfaction the loyal and affectionate address of Commons concerning the grievous loss I have sustained and concerning my succession to the throne. “I thank you for the expression of your loyal attachment to my person and you may be assured that the first object of my life will be to maintain the liberties of my people and to promote the welfare of all classes. I pray that by the blessing of Almighty God I may justify your trust throughout my reign.” The King’s use of the personal “I” instead of the formal royal “we,” following the example of his father, was noticed with satisfaction by members of the House. It was disclosed that when the King received a deputation of the House last week to express sympathy over the death of his father he added after his formal reply to them: “May I say that the formality of this occasion is somewhat lessened by the presence of so many familiar faces? You all served my father in the different governments which, existed during his great reign and the sight of old friends bringing me this address givas me encouragement and confidence for the future.” THREE TO FACE TRIAL FOR MURDER OF KING Alleged Terrorists’ Case to Open in France Tomorrow. Bn United Press AIX EN PROVENCE. France. Feb. 4.—After one false start, three alleged Croatian terrorists charged with the murder of King Alexander of Jugoslavia and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou go on trial tomorrow before a heavily guarded Assizes court. The prisoners, who will be chief actors in the drama of terror and international intrigue are: Zvonimir Pospichil, 32, arrested two days after the assassination, at Thonon, near the Franco-Swiss frontier; Ivan Raitch, 33, a farmer, also arrested at Thonon; Mio Kralj, 28, arrested in the Fontainebleau Forest a week after the crime. On trial by default are three others who have been in foreign jails and whose extradition to France has been refused.

THE BRIDE A YEAR LATER B( MY BABY'S NEVER^j l NEGLECTED ON / / WASHDAY-1 SAVE j l HOURS OF WORK/ \_WITH RINSO 1 J LIVELY SUDS THAT LAUGH AT HARD WATER PUT aside your old-fashioned wash- this safe, gentle way last much longer. day habits; for one Monday wash Rinso is recommended by the maker* your clothes this "ao-scrub” way. Get of 33 famous washers. Great for dishes a package of Rinso and follow the and all cleaning. Grease goes in • easy directions on the back. You’ll jiffy—comfind that Rinso gives rich, lasting suds plttely. Easy tvtn in hardttt ualer. Active suds that on hands. J“ J /4 L yTj SOAK out dirt —get clothes real snowy Get the BIG / and bright without hard scrubbing or box. It seco- AjßjflH kxso-yyaTE* 1 boiling. Os course, clothes washed nomical. sQAf j AMERICAS BIGGEST-SELUNG PACKAGE SOAP

PAGE 3

CITY CRIPPLED BY WALKOUT: TROOPS ASKED General Strike of 3000 Paralyzes Pekin. 111., Industrial Town. (Continued From Page One) out today in the first of three threatened strikes in New York City. Elevator operators and building service employes momentarily were expected to strike and 105.000 garment workers have declared for a walkout unless new contracts are reached this week. The building service strike would force thousands to climb stairs to their offices in the tallest skyscrapers. The millinery workers, members of the millinery workers' union, left their work-tables shortly after 10 a m- Their act affected 400 millinery shops. The point in dispute is the union’s demand that it be permitted to inspect employers’ books to enforce the agreement that is to govern labor relations in the industry. Authorities did not look for disorders in the millinery strike but they did fear the outcome of the proposed strike of elevator operators and building service employes. Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine ordered 900 patrolmen, assigned to special duty in the potential strike area yesterday and withdrawn when the strike was delayed, to the same posts today. Building owners organized an employment bureau to provide strike breakers. Union officials said they would have “reception committees” for men who attempt to operate elevators or do janitor duty in buildings involved. The hour of the milliners’ strike, ordered last week, was certain, union leaders said. The hatters seek power to inspect books of employers to ascertain whether they adhere to labor contracts. London Without Meat Bii United Brest LONDON, Feb. 4.—Butchers dispatched fast motor trucks and passenger cars throughout the country today to search villages and farms for meat, while 8,500.000 people in the London area faced a meat faming because of a strike by 8200 men in Smithfield Market. Supplies of fresh meat in London butcher shops already were exhausted, and most Londoners, who had meat at all, had it from cans. Ships from the Argentine, Australia and New Zealand lay with, their holds filled with beef and mutton at the docks. Men on strike are the “pitchers,” who handle the meat as it arrives at Smithfield Market, which serves a 100-mile area around London, and the “inside men” who work in the market proper. The inside men want a minimum wage of S2O a week, a 40-hour week, higher pay for overtime and a week’s holiday with pay a year. The pitchers are striking in sympathy. Tie Up Shipyards B’j United Press PARIS, Feb. 4.—Five hundred shipyard workers assigned to the great liner Normandie at Havre, and 100 working on the steamship City of Oran at Marseilles struck today. Their strike was in sympathy with workers at St. Nazaire, where the launching' of the cruiser Georges Leygues was threatened with delay. Five thousand men in all are out. The cruiser is to be launched on Feb. 24. Chile Fears Revolt Bn United Press SANTIAGO. Chile, Feb. 4.—Military forces were put on a war basis today as striking state railway workers tore up rails, derailed trains and cut telegraph and telephone wires. Col. Manuel Campos, named emergency head of the National Railways demanded in an ultimatum that the men return to work today or face courts-martial. Government leaders charged the strike was of Communist origin and suspected it might be the opening move in a revolt.