Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1936 — Page 3

FEB. 13, 1936

MEN’S BATTLE PUNY ALONGSIDE WEST'S HISTORY Fights Seem Insignificant Compared to Feats of Pioneers. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST, Fob. 13.—Whirling train wheels speed you through a desert of tarnished snow across which wagon wheels moved a nation into anew empire of the West. You walk under the vaulted roof of Kansas City’s great Union Station and see, one after another, the gates that lead away to these vast lands. You feel that you stand at the threshold of great adventure. The people who sit here in twos and threes waiting for their trains seem likewise affected. They speak in undertones beneath the high vault that recalls a great cathedral. Romantic names blaze above the gates—Ranger, Missionary, Apache, Night Hawk, Golden State, Oil Special and Sunnyland—and again the pages of your story book fly open before your eyes and you’re a youngster lyiri prone before a kindly fire. Pioneers in wagon trains; LaSalle the priest paddling his canoe in still anu virgin waters; George Rogers Cark, Gen Custer and Sitting Bull and Major Reno, riding swiftly but too late; the sudden attack from the circling red men, the guns poking through the spokes of the wagons; thousands of eager people surging about a line to rush, at the crack of a pistol, into new lands—the Dakotas, Oklahoma; the craze for gold and oil; and now the ancients craving for a sunny spot in California for reclining days. Quarrels Seem Insignificant The puny quarrels of little men sink into insignificance. After all—here is an empire that our fathers built and left to us. Or sit in the great Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake City, that marvel of craftmanship, and hear the organ roll with a song the pioneers sang as they wandered over the mountains and prairies to this new land in the West: Come, come ye Saints, no toil nor labor fear, But with joy wend your way; Though hard to you this journey may appear, Grace shall be as your day. Disciple of Masses Men make events. A veritable boy, serious-faced, earnest, with a grim magnetism that reaches out to hold you, sits behind a mammoth table in the Governor's office at Madison, Wis. He's a mental and spiritual radiator —and its 28 below zero outside. He is Phil La Follette, younger of the La Follette heirs. He is a disciple of the masses. He looks beyond Roosevelt to still deeper changes in the social and economic order. They say the country is essentially conservative. He doesn’t think so. He's betting his future political career on that—he and his brother Bob in Washington. Keep your eye on these youngsters. McNutt Personally Ambitious Also you might keep your eye on the tall, white-haired broad-chested youngster who sits in the Governor’s mansion at Indianapolis—Paul V. McNutt. As you talk to him you are impressed with that same driving force you feel in the La Follettas. Wilh Gov. McNutt it seems to be compounded of consuming personal ambition. He talks freely about going to the White House some day. And there’s no stopping him, they tell you in Indiana. Huey Long is dead but there are minor apostles of the masses who know some of his tricks. Johnson Makes Votes There is Gov. Ed Johnson of Colorado with his solemn, Abraham Lincoln face, who sits on the fence rail with the farmer and spits tobacco juice in the sugar beet rows. He slaps backs, cuddles babies—and makes votes. He wants to throw Edward P. Costigan out of the Senate. Then there is the menace to another Senate veteran. Gov. Ben Ross of Idaho, a Democrat, says he’ll lick Bill Borah. He’s a bubbling sort of farmerpolitician. naive in some ways, yet shrewd in the way of winning the farmer. He believes in the star of his destiny. And some of Senator Borah’s friends are not so sure. A barber in Boise reported that nine out of 10 farmers who come in to get their hair cut say they're going to vote for “Ben.” Funny Little Stories You hear funny little stories. They tell one in Idaho about wheat farmers in the northern tip of the state who took their wheat checks to Spokane, bought distressed and thin cattle moved by the government from the drought areas, took them back home, fattened them on the land which the government paid them to withdraw from cultivation—and sold them at a handsome profit. It’s like the old prohibition days out in Utah, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. You can buy liquor only in the package at liquor stores. There are no bars, nor any place to buy a drink. So the speakeasy flourishes again. You feel several years younger when you knock on the door, give the password, and are led into a semi-darkness where people speak in low tones. They tell stories about "padlocking” and “raids,” words you'd almost forgotten. 14 APPLY FOR POSTAL JOB AT MORRISTOWN Four Women Are Among Applicants tor Postmaster’s Position. Times Special MORRISTOWN, Ind., Feb. 13. Fourteen persons, four of them women, are seeking the local postmastership, according to the Civil Service Commission, Washington. The women are Misses Dorothy E. Chapman, Mary E. Unger, Mrs. Montie W. Gordon and Mrs. Gladys I. Cox. Other* are Henry Meier, Herbert Haehl, Earl F. Heck, Alvin E. Hauk, Oliver O. Olinger, Clarence Cox, Herschel W. Morrison, Austin H. Hardin, Carl R. Kluger and William W. Willson.

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CITY BATTLES ICEAND RAIN Many Accidents Reported as Heavy Snowfall Blankets Streets. (Continued From Page One) ic? coating that has been on the streets during the cold wave. Automobiles slipped over curbs and smashed into each other on main streets. Side-street drivers had equal difficulty controlling their vehicles. The Weather Bureau said that the drop in the temperature tonight would be sufficient to alleviate flood dangers. If there should be a sudden thaw over a 48-hour period flood fears might be realized, it added. Motor clubs and police issued warnings for safe driving, suggesting speeds not to exceed 20 miles an hour. Alec Ferguson, Negro, 58, of 701 W. St. Clair-st, was hurt seriously today w T hen hurled from a truck at Northwestern-av and Fall Creek. The truck was struck by a skidding trackless trolley. He was taken to City Hospital. Miss Dorothy Hinkle, 28, of 126 W. 12th-st, received a broken arm when she was struck by an auto early today as she crossed Capitol-av between 11th and 12th-sts. She was teken to City Hospital. Doris Tucker, 6-year-old daughter of Claude Tucker, 2406 W. Mc-Carty-st, is in City Hospital recovering from head cuts incurred yesterday when she fell from her sled while playing in the yard at her home. Several Hurt During Storm Cuts also were incurred by Charles Eaglin, 14, of 808 Goodlet-av, while skating, and Frederick Sargent, 10, Negro, 1213 E. 13th-st, who fell, breaking a milk bottle he was carrying. During the height of the snow storm last night, several persons were injured in automobile accidents. Mrs. Marie Francis, 22, of 4968*6 W. 15th-st, is in fair condition at City Hospital today following an accident on Tenth-st near Speedway City. Her face was cut seriously. The car in which Mrs. Francis was riding with her husband collided with another operated by John Thigpen, 30, Negro, 705 N. Senateav. The icy road was blamed. Three women were hurt when two cars crashed head-on at New York and Oxford-sts. The injured are Miss Lydia Michel, 27, of 317 N. Riley-av; Miss Mary Esther Bowman, 28, of 305 N. Drexel-av, and Miss Wilma Putnam, 23, of 4115 E. New York-st. Miss Michel was treated at the Methodist. The other two are in fair condition today at the hospital. Joseph W. Scott, 38, of 3855 Fletcher-av, driver, said that an automobile passing his car on the right side caused him to swing to the center of New York-st. The other car involved in the accident was driven by Ellis W. Bennett, 22, of 409 N. LaSalle-st. Lewis Keith, 80, of 557 *6 W. Washington-st, suffered leg and shoulder injuries when he slipped on the ice and fell in front of 43 S. West-st today. A bakery truck skidded on the ice and slipped partially over the embankment at- the end of the Big Eagle Creek -bridge today. Two other bakery trucks pulled the truck to safety. No one was injured. Planes Carry Food By United Press PIERRE. S. D„ Feb. 13.—Planes equipped with skis carried medical supplies and food to snow-bound ranchers in western South Dakota today. Other planes were waiting for a blizzard to clear to take off for other isolated cities. Fred Height. Belle Fourche pilot, flew a physician to a ranch at Newell where several children were reported ill. Height and other pilots dropped mail to Black Hills towns, which have been snowbound since last week. At Rapid City, a. severe blizzard was sweeping the area. Ray Starling, manager of the Rapid City airport. reported that visibility “isn’t 20 feet." T*e towns of Cooper and Red Owl j

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Sunrise 6:11 I Sunset 5:18 TEMPERATURE —Feb. 13, 1935 7 a. m 38 1 p. m 44 —Today—6a. m 34 ill a. m 36 7 a. m 35 li a. m 37 8 a. m 36 12 (Noon) .... 38 9 a. m 36 1 p. m 39 BAROMETER 7 a. m..... 29.69 1 p. m..... 29.55 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... 0.64 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 2.52 Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.64 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex Cloudy 29.48 44 Bismarck, N. D Snow 29.86 —l6 Boston PtCldy 30.22 16 Chicago Snow 29.70 22 Cincinnati Rain 29.72 34 Denver Clear 29.32 34 Dodge City. Kas Snow 29.68 4 Helena, Mont Snow 30.04 —24 Jacksonville, Fla Cloudy 29.82 58 Kansas City, Mo Snow 29.64 14 Little Rock, Ark. ...Rain 29.54 56 Los Angeles Cloudy 29.88 50 Miami, Fla Cloudy 29.90 70 Minneapolis Snow 29.86 2 Mobile. Ala Rain ... 52 New' Orleans Cloudy 29.64 54 New York Cloudy 30.22 26 Okla. City. Okla Snow 29.66 12 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 29.74 4 Pittsburgh Snow' 29.96 24 Portland. Ore PtCldy 29.74 28 San Antonio. Tew. ...Clear 29.64 56 San Francisco Rain 29.66 54 St. Louis Rain 29.50 36 Tampa. Fla Rain 29.82 60 Washington, D. C Snow 30.14 24 were feared in acute danger. Snowplows have been unable to break through mountainous drifts on roads leading to the towns. Communication lines to them also were down so there was no indication of how critical suffering may be. 150 Dead in Europe By United Press LONDON, Feb. 13.—More than 150 persons were known dead today, and much higher casualty figures were indicated, in snow, rain and wind storms, which affected the British Isles and all Europe. The death toll included Britain, 28; Italy and the Adrirtic Sea, 25; Greece, 75; Bulgaria, 13; France, 9, and Spain, 7. Deaths included people frozen, killed in railway accidents and washed overboard from small ships in storms at sea. 1 KILLED, 12 INJURED AS TRUCK CRASHES WPA Vehicle Plunges Over Icy Embankment Here. (Continued From Page One) overhauled and the brakes repaired before ws started this morning. “We were going only about 10 miles an hour, because the truck was so heavy we were unable to get any traction. We had no trouble until we reached this spot. The truck lurched to the right. I was afraid Lo apply the brakes, knowing we would slide off the road. I saw a patch of snow ahead and knew that if we could reach it, we would get enough traction to pull out. The next thing I knew we were going over.” Neal H. Dow, WPA safety director, is investigating the accident. James Bennett, a wrinkled little man of 64. still shivering from his dip into the chilly waters of the creek, told of the events preceding the accident. “We were riding in the back of the truck, with only a tarpaulin held over our heads to guard us against the rain,” he said. “We all w T ere cold and chilly. “When we reached the 4800 block on Michigan-rd. the truck started to slide. Somebody screamed ‘Jump out, we’re going over.’ I was pinned in and couldn't move. “The truck turned over. I was hurled clear, thrown through a clump of bushes and landed in the creek.” The worker who shouted the warning to his companions was Charles Gant, 50. Negro, of 933 N. Sheffield-av. He was standing in the rear, and saw the truck starting to slide. After screaming his warning, he jumped clear of the wreckage and escaped injury. Mr. Bratton is survived by the widow. Dorothy Bratton, and a halfsister, Mrs. Myrtle Patterson. The Brattons had been married 22 years, according to the victim's mother-in-law. Mrs. Matilda Flike, 1114 Ken-tucky-av, and had lived at their present address for 19 years. Workers not injured seriously were given coffee by Mrs. R. P. Van Camp, whose estate is near the scene. 4

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WOMEN ACCUSE PIERCE JOSEPH Witnesses Charge Police Killer Suspects Fled From Apartment. (Continued From Page One) the alleged murderers in a farmhouse near Rushville. The state tomorrow afternoon is expected to complete its case against the two youths who, before their previous convictions and escape were known as the “hair tonic” bandits. Chatham Tells of Battle Highlight of yesterday’s court session was the testimony of Russell Chatham, Indianapolis detective who was with Mr. Quinnette at the time of the slaying. He told a vivid story of the fatal battle and identified a pistol which he said Pierce used. “We do not consider the Chatham’s testimony damaging,” Walter A. Whetsell, chief defense counsel, said at the conclusion of yesterday’s session. Mr. Chatham told of going to the Hazel Dell apartments, Indianapolis, to question two men on the theft of an automobile from Anderson. “Stick ’em up,” was Pierce’s greeting after they had entered the room, according to M’*. Chatham. “I Fell Beside Qu'nnette” “Then Pierce fired,” he continued, “Joseph tripped me and I fell beside Quinnette. Several shots were fired. Quinnette cried, ‘l’ve been shot 14 times’. “Joseph pleaded not to shoot any more. I had a hold on him, but lost my balance and fell down the first flight of stairs.” On cross-examination, Mr. Chatham denied emphatically that he and Quinnette opened fire on Pierce and Joseph because they were afraid of them or that, asked to show credentials, they pulled guns. “The dirty dogs shot me down and I didn’t have a chance,” other state witnesses, quoted Mr. Quinnette as saying ifter he had staggered down the sta rs and into the street. Mr. Quinnette’s widow and mother wept during Mr. Chatham's testimony, and later when the slain officer’s bloodstained clothing was passed to the jury. PRISON IS FUMIGATED AGAINST ENCEPHALITIS Cell Occupant Found Suffering From Form of Meningitis. City Health Board officers today fumigated Marion County Jail and City Prison as a preventive against spread of encephalitis, form of spinal meningitis. City Hospital physicians reported today that Leon Chitwood, 30, Negro, 1836 Miller-st, in jail Wednesday night, was suffering from the diease. DEERY ALLAYS FEARS OF CITY BEAUTICIANS Tells Union Barber Ordinance Does Not Affect Them. Members of Beauty Culturist Union 274A today had the assurance of James E. Deery, Corporation Counsel, that the new city barbers ordinance does not affect beauty shops. A conference with Mayor Kern and Mr. Deery was discussed at the union meeting last night at 342 E. Washington-st. Union President L. E. Worthall instructed members not to contribute funds to any one soliciting money for legislation for beauticians.

Heart Trouble By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 13—You can be shot or stabbed in the heart and still live, the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed today. Drs. Charles M. Watson and James R. Watson of Pittsburgh reported that a study of 070 cases of bullet and knife wounds in the heart showed 188 recoveries.

SPEAKERS ASK BOLTERS JOIN G. OUTRANKS Republican Orators Map Campaign Strategy in Lincoln Talks. (Continued From Page One) cies, Mr. Hoover said the New Deal was greedy for power inimical to popular liberty. “The greed for money can be curbed by law,” Mr. Hoover said, “but the greed for power seizes the law itself for its own ends. At least the greed for money does not inflict us with fine phrases and slogans as to what is good for us.” Hurls Dictator Charge He asserted Mr. Roosevelt had confused dictatorship with democracy and had abandoned the American tradition. “In less than a year,” he said, “our country must make a decision no less fateful than that which confronted Abraham Lincoln. “Again ‘we are testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.’ “When that test confronted Lincoln, he carried it to the people in national debate. No greater tribute can be paid him than that we shall devote this day of his memory to that high purpose.” Mr. Hoover’s address was a general repudiation of New Deal philosophy. He demanded, specifically, that Mr. Roosevelt tell the people: 1. How he intends to deal with “this budget and money confusion.” 2. What changes are contemplated in the constitution. Party Platform Takes Shape Republicans made their patron’s birthday the occasion for coast-to-coast pre-convention challenge to the Roosevelt Administration. The trend toward party realignment gained more impetus from the political fete day. North, south, east and west in 27 major Lincoln day meetings, Republican leaders stated the issues around which anti-New Deal strategy is shaping. There was notable similarity in their approach to many problems. These similarities of thought and purpose suggested in general terms the party principles likely to be proposed for adoption at Cleveland as the platform the Republican presidential campaign. Speaking at monthly intervals, Mr. Hoover has developed his program in considerable detail. Three more speeches are expected of him before the Republicans convene in Cleveland, June 9. Hoover Titular Leader Unless the nomination falls to Mr. Hoover—who has not said he would seek it—his responsibilities as spokesman for the party will pass to another. When the campaign is beyond the convention stage the contest will become largely a debate between Mr. Roosevelt and the Republican Party choice. Until then the former President is the titular party leader. His addresses and those of other active and unavowed presidential potentialities indicate that major principles likely to obtain favorable consideration at Cleveland, include: 1. Protect and observe constitutional limitations on the branches of government. 2. Protect the home market for agriculture, industry and labor. 3. Abandon the scarcity principle of farm relief. 4. Minimum interference with business to reassure capital and to foster a general movement toward increased employment, increased consuming power and solution of the problems of industry and agriculture. 5. Maintain a sound currency. 6. Balance the budget; curtail spending; eliminate waste. 7. Safeguard the Civil Service. 8. Turn the trend from centralization of government. 9. Foster confidence and understanding between the classes. 10. Oppose congressional delegation of extraordinary powers to the executive. Constitution Is Defended General complaint by word of inference against “dictatorship” ran through the Republican oratory which filled the land last night The Constitution was defended on a dozen fronts. These speeches were made a few hours after another Republican, Senator George W. Norris, a Nebraska bolter, pleaded in the Senate for congressional action to curb Supreme Court powers over legislation. But the Lincoln Day orators uniformly supported the court and Constitution and rapped the New Deal. 1. Mr. Hoover warned against spending and that a confused Roosevelt Administration was generating a currency inflation explosion. 2. Mr. Vandenberg challenged Mr. Roosevelt for a “contemptuous” and “arrogant” attitude toward the Constitution and American tradition. He said the American republic had been succeeded by government of executive decree. He warned against Socialism and invited Alfred E. Smith and other Jeffersonian Democratic bolters to help the G. O. P. defeat the New Deal. Politicians were interested in his proposal that bolting Democrats be given a place “in the council chamber after next November’s victory is won.” Knox Avowed Candidate 3. Col. Knox, who yesterday announced his presidential candidacy, spoke in Boston. He contrasted the American system with the New Deal and called for a government of laws, not of men, to protect the people's j liberties. He said Mr. Roosevelt’s i purpose w r as to undermine the people’s confidence in American business leaders so that they would place their confidence in political leaders. He attributed recent publication of business executives’ salaries to an ' effort to “arouse envy and resentment of the people.” 4. Senator L. J. Dickinson (R, la.), one of the Republican presidential possibilities, echoed the general charge of socialism before a Greenboro YN. C.) Lincoln Day meeting. He said Roosevelt policies have transformed citizens into puppets of government. Mr. Dickinson said a vital 1936 issue was “who is going to fill possible Supreme Court vacancies” which may occur because of the advanced age of several members. 5. Senator Frederick Steiwer (R., Ore.), spoke in Providence. He i&

Fires Kill 13, Injure 34; Victims of One Blaze Trampled During Panic Dance Hall Swept by Flames From Restaurant; Hotel Ruins Are Searched for More Possible Victims in Lakewood Tragedy. By United Press Two frightful fire tragedies combined a casualty list of 13 dead and 34 injured today. A fire that interrupted a dance in a New York Chinese restaurant last night killed five and doctors feared that three among 30 injured

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SENATE BLOC FIGHTS COURT Young Members Take Lead; Minton Is Prominent in Crusade. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—A group of young Senators united' today in a drive to force Senate action on a proposal to curb the powers of the Supreme Court. The newer Democratic Senators joined Senator George W. Norris (R., Neb.) in his demand that Congress enact restrictions upon the power of the court to declare its acts unconstitutional. The fight developed in connection with the pending Bankhead-Jones bill for a farm relief program to replace the invalidated AAA. Passage of the new farm bill is expected tomorrow or Saturday, but the revolt against the court was expected to be carried on throughout the present session. A bill by Senator James P. Pope (D„ Idaho) to require a majority of more than two-thirds before the court could invalidate an act of Congress gained support of the young Democrats. Minton Promises Fight Senator Sherman Minton , (D., Ind.) has promised a fight before the judiciary committee, of which he is a member, to have the Pope bill reported to the Senate. Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach (D., Wash.), also antagonistic to the court’s AAA decision, has proposed a constitutional amendment to provide for popular votes on further constitutional changes. He also favors the plan to restrict the court’s jurisdiction. Yesterday’s debate on the farm bill consisted almost entirely of Mr. Norris’ scathing attack on the court and his suggestion that Congress move to restrict the court’s powers. Challenge to Congress “The members of the court say that regulation of agricultural production is unconstitutional because it is not mentioned in the Constitution,” Senator Norris said. “But nowhere is there mention in that document the right of the court to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. Therefore they themselves, by their own words, violate the Constitution.” Mr. Norris said that the Constitution gave Congress the power to restrict the court’s decisions and that Congress, “if it had the courage,” could enact a law which would render such decisions as that in the AAA, reached by a 6-to-3 division, impossible. CITY MAPS WAR ON PNEUMONIA DEATHS Educational Campaign to Be Conducted. Alarmed at the rising pneumonia fatality rate, Mayor Kern today announced an educational anti-spit-ting campaign to be conducted in the schools and through placards. Mayor Kern said the campaign would appeal to the “civic pride” of the citizens rather than rely on enforcement of a city anti-spitting ordinance. Ventilating systems in all places where large numbers of people congregate are to be checked by city engineers, the Mayor said. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, reported 126 pneumonia fatalities in January and 34 this month. NAB SINGAPORE RIOTERS Police Blame Reports of JapaneseSoviet Border Incidents. By United Press SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, Feb. 13.—Anti-Japanese rioting in Singapore streets was believed by police today to have been caused by ill-feeling created by reports of Japanese-Soviet border incidents. Several rioters were arrested and anti-Japanese banners were seized. regarded as sympathetic with the Borah-for-President movement. Mr. Steiwer called the roll of eminent Eastern Democrats who have deserted the Roosevelt Administration. He said the New Deal was not the Democratic party but comprised recruits from both major political organizations and from Socialists, Communists and independents. Educator a Candidate By United Press WABASH. Ind., Feb. 13.—G. Raymond Schutz, sociology professor at Manchester College, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor at a Republican Lincoln Club rally last night. Harrison Is Speaker By United Press MARSHALL, Ind., Feb. 13. Parke County Republicans inaugurated their 1936 campaign at Turkey Run State Park last night with a Lincoln Day dinner. William Henry Harrison, Indianapolis attorney, and grandson of former President Benjamin Harrison, charged the present Administration had “substituted pranks for planks in its platform.” Mr. Harrison characterized the “forgotten man’' as a “campaign scarecrow*” 1 ■

Eight were known dead in the fire that destroyed a hotel at Lakewood, N. J., but police feared seven bodies still were in the ruins. Several of the four injured may die. A fire that destroyed one wing of a Quebec convent last night might have killed many of 60 girl students had it not been for the heroism of Mother St. Alphonse. She got all out safely, but suffered burns that may kill her. Panic Follows Fire By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Physicians feared today that fatalities among more than 30 persons burned and trampled in a restaurant fire last night would increase the fire’s death toll, already five, to seven or eight. Three men and two women were killed by smoke and injuries in a panic when approximately 300 persons, dining and dancing at one moment, fighting for life the next, attempted to escape from the restaurant down a narrow stair with a right angle turn. The fire was in Lum’s ChineseAmerican restaurant at 59th-st and Lexington-av. Many celebrants were members of the Holy Name Society of the Lady of Peace Church, holding an annual supper party. The dead women were Arline Benjamin, 26, and Mrs. Mary Murphy, 35. The men killed were Harry M. Chu, manager of the restaurant; John J. Cardella and Martin S. Sitner, 29. Nun Saves Students By United Press MONTREAL, Que., Feb. 13.—A nun who saved many lives in a convent fire last night was dying today of burns. She is Mother St. Alphonse, 49, and largely because of her heroism, authorities said, no lives were lost in the fire that destroyed one wing of the Villa Maria Convent. Sixty teen-age girls were asleep in the Sainte Cecilia wing when the alarm sounded. A panic broke out, but was quickly subdued by the calmness of Mother St. Alphonse who had discovered the fire and now herded her charges, still in their night dresses, through the corridors to safety. Mother St. Alphonse returned to make a room-to-room search to make certain none was left and was trapped by the flames and badly burned. Hotel Ruins Searched By United Press LAKEWOOD, N. J., Feb. 13.—Police believed today that 15 persons died in the fire that razed the 200room Victoria Mansion Hotel yesterday. Eight were known dead and seven were missing. Several others, critically burned or injured by leaps from windows, may die. Coroner Raymond A. Taylor conducted an informal inquest while police and firemen dug into icebound wreckage of the hotel. ' MARY BEDFORD-JONES GRANTED CONTINUANCE Second Alienation Suit to Be Heard March 23 in Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Mrs. Mary Bedford-Jones, second wife of the pulp magazine writer, today was granted a continuance to March 23 in the SIOO,OOO alienation of affection suit filed against her by the Indiana author’s first wife. She pleaded for time to bring additional witnesses. The trial is to be the second in which a SIOO,OOO judgment has been sought by the former Mrs. BedfordJones. The jury decided for her in the first trial, but the verdict was thrown out when the court decided it did not suppori the evidence. Junk Yard Trial Delayed The trial of Samuel M. Goldsmith on charges of operating a junk yard without a license in the 2100 block S. Meridian-st today was continued in Municipal Court until Feb. 20.

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NAZIS TIGHTEN GRIP; INTERNAL TENSIONJROWS Attention Is Centered on Catholic Youth Groups, Jews in Germany. (Copyright. 1936. by United Press) BERLIN. Feb 13.—Increasing internal tension was believed today to be responsible for anew nationalistic drive which, it is indicated, only has begun. An effort to incorporate all youth into the Nazi “totalitarian” scheme —at the cost of such youth organizations as that of the Roman Catholic Church—was believed a prime motive of the drive. But there were signs that Jews, too, would receive attention. Germany is outwardly quiet, but internal tension seems increasing. Especially, the wholesale arrests of Catholics in the Rhineland and the Berlin area show a recrudescence of Nazi radicalism which is more surprising because it was believed the Nazis would restrain themselves to the utmost during the Olympic games. A sudden outbreak of Nazi activity seemed to be explained by widespread dissension. Berlin Short of Food Members of the workers’ class and Nazi radicals, particularly, are disgruntled because of repeated and severe shortages in certain foods such as now obtains in Berlin. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, as chief of the secret police—the Gestapo—strengthened his hand greatly yesterday with anew Prussian law under which prefects of provinces and districts must obey secret police orders and the police themselves are to remain an independent administrative branch answerable to Adolf Hitler alone. It is indicated that the new drive against the Roman Catholic Church, in the interest of the Nazi youth movement, is to be linked with Communism. Some of the approximately 100 priests and laymen arrested in the last few days have been charged with political offenses, and the Voelkischer Beobachter, organ of the Nazi party, published yesterday a cartoon depicting a priest arm in arm with a member of the Russian Red army. Decree Hits Jews By United Press LONDON, Feb. 13.—A secret decree providing for expulsion of all Jews from Germany as rapidly as possible has been prepared by Nazi chieftains for Adolf Hitler’s signature, the Daily Herald, organ of tl.j Labor Party, asserted today. The statement was not confirmed elsewhere. The alleged decree, the Daily Herald said, provided for confiscation of property of Jews expelled. CALIFORNIANS HURT AS RAIN FOLLOWS TORNADO Two Injured in Storm That Damages Several Towns. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13.—A third day of rain today followed a miniature tornado which ripped through several southern California towns, seriously injuring two persons and damaging homes and oil derricks. The storm brought floods to Ontario and disrupted train service near Santa Barbara. Damage in the Ontario region were estimated at SSOOO. WARSAW WPA TRUCK DRIVERS GO ON STRIKE Protest Order Requiring Them Aid in Loading Vehicles. By United Press WARSAW, Ind., Feb. 13.—Fifteen WPA truck drivers went on strike today in protest against an order requiring them to assist shovelers in loading their truck at pits of the Western Sand and Gravel Cos., east of here. The men argued that loading of trucks was not provided for in their contracts. They were hauling gravel for road repair in Washington Township.

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