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HOLIDAY SALES ' sic Knew LOYAL TROOPS

70 BE HEAVIER BY 20 PER CENT

Shoppers More ‘Quality: Minded,” Merchants Here Declare.

PEOPLE MORE CHEERFUL

Stocks Dwindling Rapidly With Little Chance of Replenishment.

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FORECAST: Cloudy and somewhat colder tonight, followed by fair and colder tomorrow.

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 240

Her "Onions And Got Em

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HERE was something about a cutting scrape vesterday ¢ ome that preyed on Mrs. Bessie Rogers’ mind. So early today she cut a big red onion in quarters and another one in half Ww with Mrs,

hen she got to jail, charged assaulting and tering Bertha Patterson, who with her at 830 W. 9th-st, police matron found the and asked, how come? “Well said Bessie, “I khew I was going to be arrested on this and I hate beans without onion. I figured I'd have the noon meal in jail, and I knew I wouldn't have either an onion or a knife, So I sliced the big one for lunch. “Then I got to thinking that it might be an afternoon court session and I'd have beans again for the night meal, so I sliced another onion.” Mrs. Rogers was 100 per cent right. She got $10 and costs and 30 days. Which makes her a few onions shy, at that.

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OFFICIALS STUDY SCHO

Superintendent Suggests 4 Points of Improvement In State System.

Future trends of education in Indiana were the keynote theme at the opening session of the Indiana Association of Township Trustees, meeting today as part of the Indiana County and Township Officials’ Association convention in the Claypool Hotel. Floyd McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction, opened the session with an address

on the state's educational develop- |

ment He listed four points as possible developments in Indiana's school system in the next few years,

Urges Adult Classes

Establishing of regular adult classes in public schools; teaching of facts in connection with ocon-

OL TRENDS

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936

BESIEGE

HOLDING CHIEF

Chinese Nationals Massed To Attack Captors of ‘Strong Man.’

SKIRMISH IS REPORTED

Chiang’s Relative Asked to Aid New Negotiations For His Release.

By United Press SHANGHAI Thursday, Dec. 17.— Reliable reports at Nanking today «aid that government troops marching to the rescue of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, held captive by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang at Sian-Fu, Shensi province, had reached the suburbs of the provincial capital and dug in for a prolonged siege. The government troops clashed with Marshal Chang's rebel forces on the eastern edge of Sian-Fu, but no severe fighting has occurred yet, Nanking advices said.

ister and brother-in-law of the generalissimo, said he had oveen Yequested by Nanking to proceed to the capital from his residence in Shanghai to aid in the effort to effect Chiang's release. Invited by Captor He said he had received a teleoram also from Marshal Chang ad= vising that he would be welcome to proceed to Sian-Fu to mediate in the crisis caused by the seizure of Chiang there last Saturday. Meanwhile W. L. Donald, Australian veteran in China's tangled politics, was expected to consult | government leaders before renewing negotiations with Marshal | Chang for release of Generalissimo | Chiang. Resumes Negotiations A dispatch from Layang, saying that Donald had left there for Sian-Fyu to resume negotiations for

{release of China's strong man by | the young marshal, was followed al-

most immediately by some agvices here that he intended to fly first

| to. Nanking, the capital, to consult

troversial subjects of current inter- |

est: raising the compulsory age limit for pupils from 16 to 18; lengthen-

of | Ing school terms in rural schools.

| broadeast, demanding war against:

leaders. Government authorities at Nanking today transcript of a speech which

Sessions of other divisions of the | Bak 4 ‘Japan, union with Russia, coalition state association were to get under ‘of the government (Kuomintang)

way this afternoon.

They include county commission- |

ers, auditors, clerks, treasurers, sheriffs, county attorneys, highway supervisors, surveyors, engineers, assessors and recorders. Most of the groups are expected to adopt legislative programs to be presented to the General Assembly next month.

MEREDITH NICHOLSON DUE HERE TOMORROW

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. Meredith Nicholson, famed Hoosier author and now American minister to Venezuela, will leave Washington for Indianapolis tonight. Accompanied bv Mrs. Nicholson, the American minister had been here since Sunday as the beginning of a two-months' leave of absence from his post at Caracas. Most of the leave they expect to spend in InNicholson said. Nicholsons were

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political party with the Communist Party and formation of a national | defense government. | It was this speech that formed | basis for a report disseminated at | Tokyo yesterday by the official DoImei News Agency of Japan that the young marshal had executed Gen- | eralissimo Chiang and several aids. | Central government officials de- | nounced the report, saying “it was malicious propaganda calculated to upset markets and the Chinese

people.” Japan Awaits Definite ‘Reports on Crisis | By United Press TOKYO, Dec. 16. —A foreign office spokesman confessed today that the | government found reports of the | new Chinese crisis so confusing as to forbid formation of definite poli- | cles. | At present, he said, the foreign ‘office was without confirmation of the state of Generalissimo Chiang

n's managing director, estimated guests at the home of Senator and | Kai-shek, held captive at Sian-Fu Mrs. Frederick VanNuys last night. | by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang.

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EVANSVILLE FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE

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spectacular fire of

4d. Dec. 18-A unknown origin Goebel Furniture Nt night despite efof 150 firemen. The loss may £75,000, according to one es-

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drums ( of flame 300 the an Spread of the fire to nearby build1 prevented when several rove & truckload of alcohol he plant through sheets of as firemen kept water hoses on the machine along

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BOB BURNS

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self -preservation is the first { nature.” 1 suppose this is but it's jest a high-soundin’ of sayin’ that people are self-

an hat Av 0

Youll ind that purty near evervbody votes for the party that think will do them the most and we don't hesitate much 10 ask people to make a sacriiice &S long as the sacrifice aint gonna Kick back on us. I knew a girl that was goin’ with a fella down home one time, and one she says “You know Want & man thats got somé& | strength of character and one who will be able to make sacrifices for me She savs “The other day, my | brother give up smokin. Now | what are you gonna give up?” And he says “Well, I'l give up the thing that I think the most of. T'll jest give up Kissin’ you.” Weil, about four nights later, they was sittin’ out on the porch swing and she turned to him and savs, ‘Do vou know somethin® Do vou know that dern brother of mine has started smokin’ agin?” (Copyright, 1936) .

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4 Sta

le La ws Opposed

By Civil Liberties Union

BY TRISTRAM COFFIN The Indiana criminal syndicalism Jaw, which vesterday was assured & test before the State Supreme Court, is one of four state laws opposed dy the American Civil Liberties Union, a survey disclosed today. Other Indiana laws opposed are teachers’ loyalty oath, an act barring for the ballot parties advocating overthrow of government by violence, and intermarriage ban. Attorneys for Paul Butash, Chicago magazine salesman convicted

of syndicalism in Steuben Circuit Court, filed an appeal in the Supreme Court vesterday. The United States Supreme Court

‘now is considering the constitutionality of Oregon's drastic criminal | syndicalism law under which Dirk (De Jonge was Riven a seven-year sentence for participating Communist rally, Any one who assists any meeting of this party, which is outlawed by Oregon law because it allegedly advocates violent governmental change, is guilty of felony.

The Supreme Court in the past |

decade has upheld New York and California anti-syndicalism laws in cases involving actual advocacy of violence. Butash was charged with advocating violence at a meeting arranged (Turn te Page Two)

T. V. Soong, former finance min- |

released a RUpOE Id,

Mercury Dip For Tonight | Is Predicted

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6am 40 10a mM... 33 “wis 1am . 48 .. 40 12 (Noon).. 49 ‘41 1p wn...

The sun, fuzzy through the soot-laden air, kept tempera= tures in Indianapolis at an unseasonal level today, but the Weather Bureau predicted that tonight and tomorrow will be |] colder. Tomorrow whereas the remainder of to- {| day is likely to be cloudy, the bureau state. A breeze kept the city's smoke pall moving today and avoided a repetition of Black Tuesday.

is to be fair,

QUERY SUMS UP

| | |

HICKS CHARGES

1 10-Minute Question Asked | Pathologist as State's

| Case Nears End.

Times Special BROOKVILLE, Ind, Dec. 16.— | The state managed in a 10-minute | hypothetical question to a patholo- | gist today, to give the jury a thumb=- | nail review of its case against | Heber L. Hicks, charged with mur- | dering Capt. Harry Miller, Dr. Henry R. Alburger, Indian- | apolis, was asked whether the fight | at the Miller New Trenton home, | the shooting that the state says occurred in Indiana, and the subride in the “death car”

| sequent

| would have been sufficient to pro- |

| duce death. The answer was that they would | have produced either ifamediate or [ultimate death. The state may rest its case today, if so, Hicks wil Ibe the first defense witness, his attorneys said. They said he probably would be on the stand for a day, and that other witnesses would require one more day. Court attaches, therefore, Saturday noon, the end of the second week of the trial.

ORDER CLOSING OF COURTHOUSE DEC. 26

All Marion County employes are to have three days vacation over

in aj

Christmas as the result of action taken by County Commissioners today. The commissioners voted to close Courthouse offices all day Saturday, Dec. 26. in addition to Christmas Day. It also was decided to pay employes for the month of December on Monday, instead of at the

ACTION DUE TODAY

‘Pan-American Court Also

Before Parley.

By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 16.—Dele-

| conted at the Inter-American Peace Conference met in plenary session today. Maintenance and consolidation of a peace convention, with its corrollary—the non-intervention pro-tocol-—-was to be the most important agenda item. It was anticipated the conference would approve the peace convention unanimously. Another project to be considered was & proposal for establisnment of a Pan-American Court of Justice. A reviseq draft of the non-inter-vention protocol was signed yesterday. It includes a new “escape” | clause for those nations committed | to the League of Nations. This was {put in for Argentina. | CONDITION IS SATISFACTORY By Uwmited Press | VATICAN CITY, Dec. | Pius had a restful sleep last night {and his condition today continues satisfactory, Vatican officials said.

The Holiday Mystery || The Times’ new daily serial starts today on Page 28,

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looked | for the case to go to the jury around |

{gates from the 21 nations repre-|

16.—Pope |

EDWARD AND WALLIS ARGUE OVER WEDDING

Mrs. Simpson Wants Stylish Affair in Keeping With Royal Rank.

"TALK NIGHTLY BY PHONE

Reports She Will Not Visit Duke in Austria Are Confirmed.

| | | | By United Press | ENZESFELD, Austria, Dec. 18.— Some sources at Enzesfeld Castle reported today that Edward, Duke | of Windsor, and Mrs, Wallis Simpson had disagreed on marriage plans. Discussing in their nightly teie{phone talks their plans to marry after Mrs. Simpson obtains her final aivorce decree, it was reported, she favors a stylish wedding in Keeping | with her future rank as a royal | Duchess while the Duke wants. a | strictly simple and even secret one. | Though it was said officially to- | day that Mrs. Simpson will not come to Austria, reports were that this was at Mrs. Simpson's own | insistence, | Edward was said to be becoming | so restive at his exile without her, ‘that he was inclined to defy convention and urge her to come to | Austria. | Fach time the Duke urges her to come to Austria, the report is, Mrs. | Simpson opposes the idea firmly and | Edward ends with: ( “All right-—-whatever pleases you | goes.”

Plan Adriatic Trip , A plan has been discussed, it is | understood, for Edward to go to | the Adriatic next month to cruise (until Mrs. Simpson's divorce decree |is made final. Then they would meet, probably at sea to avoid pub- | licity. Despite assurances, however, some

a brief meeting in Austria. The Duke is becoming adept at skittles, a form of nine pins, and continuass to play golf. He spends some time each day running about the castle grounds with his Cairn (Turn te Page Three)

15 BREWERS CLAIM TAX DUPLICATIONS

Ask Exemption From State Gross Income Levy.

Two local brewing companies and 13 others in the state today asked Superior Court Judge Herbert Wilson for a declaratory judgment on and alleged overlapping of the state gross income tax and a Federal tax on beer. They were the Indianapolis Brewing Co. Inc, and the Lieber | Brewing Corp. The tax division and state officials were named defendants in the action asking exemption from the state levy. The plaintiffs charged that they paid $5 a barrel on beer to the Federal government. In making out their 1934 state gross income tax re- | turns, they deducted this, they { claimed, but the state department ' refused to allow the deductions. The brewers claimed that in collecting the $5 tax and passing it on to the consumers, they were acting as agents of the Federal government, and that collection of the gross inUhm tax levy ‘would be double taxation. Judge Wilson ordered attorneys to submit written briefs after the hearing and will announce his decision later.

BARRETT LAW BOARD STUDIES CODIFICATION

The State Barrett Law Commis- | sion today studied proposals for | codifying existing laws enacted in | 1895 and amended in subsequent | Assembly sessions

| chief examiner and commission | head, said a proposal to issue Bare rett coupon bonds on individual lots instead of on groups of lots was

sources see still the possibility of |

W. P. Cosgrove, Accounts Board |

lis Times

HOME

FINAL

Second Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind,

Entered as at Postoffice,

PRIC

E THREE CENTS

‘White House ~ Funeral Held

For Gennerich

I nited Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—President Roosevelt bowed his head in final tribute today before the bier of August Adolph Gennerich — friend, protector and devoted servant, While the Rev. G. BE. Lenski in- | toned the words of a simple Lutheran ceremony, the chief executive. Cabinet members and government officials paid their last respects to “Gus,” who fulfilied his

HOPE ABANDONED

sole purpose in life when he died |

in the service of his “Boss.”

Gennerich succumbed to a heart |

| attack while accompanying the President to the Buenos Aires peace conference,

Funeral services for Gus were as |

unostentatious as had been his devotion to the President. There was no eulogy; no elaborate ceremony. While the President stood with bowed head. his coves frankly brimming with tears. the Rev. Mr, Lenski read from the bible and spoke briefly of his philosophy of faith and death.

MINTON URGED

“AS SENATE WHIP

Move Is Reported by McNutt

After Visit to White

Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.~That Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana will become Senate whip and | Gov. MeNutt will take a Cabinet | post, instead of the junior Senator becoming a Federal judge, was the report here today after the Gover{nor had conferred with President | Roosevelt. | When Mr. McNutt emerged from [{he White House after a 15-minute | parley, | “nothing to say.” | Asked if thev had discussed ap-

{ on

{ | | |

Federal charges that he Kid-

| naped a New Jersey state trooper. Friday.

He was held in $100,000 bail.

he told reporters he had |

Cireuit Court of Appeals |

later |

in New York, was arraigned today | institutions.

FOR 7 ON BOARD MISSING PLANE

Searching Parties E Shoes and Skis Set

quipped With Snow Out Toward Two-

OVERDUE MORE THAN THIRTY HOURS

Liner Carries Crew

of Three and Four

Passengers; Fog and Rain Hinders Use of Airships in Hunt.

(Photos Bottom of Page)

By United Press

SALT LAKE CITY,

Dec.

16. — Searching parties

equipped with skis and snow shoes set out today in search of the Western Air Express transport plane which presume ably crashed into one of the peaks of the two-mile-high

Wasatch Mountains.

Virtually all hope that any of the 'seven persons aboard would be found alive was abandoned,

Intermittent rain and snow squalls which have prevailed

BODY FACTORY |

T0 OPEN FRIDAY

‘Chevrolet to Manufacture

Commercial Units in New Plant.

A new manufacturing piant for | {he fabrication of commercial bodies | is to be opened formally by the Chevrolet division of General Mo- | tors Corp. here Friday. Several hundred employes have been added to the force, making & total of approximately 1600. Al- | though this is capacity for the | present, others may be added later, according to R. G. Kremer, direclor of personnel. : The new plant, replacing a half dozen units formerly operated here, was begun a year ags. More than 500 skilled workmen aided in the construction, and production continued without the loss of a single day. Section by section, departments were switched from their former quarters to the new building as the units were completed. The netw plant, one of the largest commercial body factories in the world, is capable of producing 2000 bodies daily at capacity, and will | {Turn to Page Three)

PAY BONUS DIVIDEND

The Advance Paint Co. Indianapolis, today announced that a bonus of 10 per cent has been paid to its 135 employes and that a dividend of $7.50 has been declared on each share of outstanding common stock listed as or Dec. 1, 1936,

OPEN QUARTERLY BIDS

| about

since the plane disappeared in the fog more than 31 hours ago kept rescue planes grounded today.

At midmorning ground searching parties were organized in points be= tween here and Milford, where the big 10-passenger Boeing transport last reported its position at 4:27 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) yesterday. Scores of CCC workers were enlisted and equipped with skis so that they could travel in the snow-capped peaks and canyons. They started a mile by mile inspection of the fore bidding terrain. In the valleys rain fell all night long and continued today. Snow was falling in the mountains at elevae tions beyond 5000 feet and the gove ernment weather bureau said that it would be at least 24 hours hefore airplanes could be of any value in the hunt, May Have Struck Mountain The plane, en route here from Los Angeles with a crew of three and four passengers, was flying toward the 12,800 foot Mount Time panogas, king of the Wasatch range, 40 miles south of here, when it last reported its position, Assuming that it crashed or landed in that vicinity George Keyser, Western Air Express traffic manager, led a party of skiers from here to search the desolate wastelands between Brighe ton and Alta, Almost 30 hours have passed since the last word from the craft spute tered over its radio as it passed over Milford, Utah, south of here. Ag that time Pilot S. J. Samson ade vised his airport offices that he was running into bad weather. At the airport here a small group of aviators, and members of the company’s ground personnel huddled a radio hoping that some stray signal would give a clue to the whereabouts of the plane. The plane, a fast transport opers ated by the Western Air Express and flving between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, was due here at 4:10 a. m. (5:10 a. m. Indianapolis

County commissioners today opened quarterly bids for all county | Annual bids for all | county supplies are to be opened | Awards are to be made |

| Monday, Dec. 28. i

(Donors’ List Page 3)

| near a downtown department store. | Children, taken from The Indian{apolis Times office, tugged at her sleeve. Trolley bells clanged and auto horns hooted and above the ‘din a boyish voice yelled at the | shopper. | “Lady-yvoo-ooh.” The Clothe-A-Child shopper | turned and saw a neatly dressed boy standing near ihe group of needy children surrounding her,

! “Yes, son,” she replied.

Former Beneficiaries of Clothe-A-Child Aid Others

“I'm glad, son,” answered the shopper The incident took but a second, but in it is the theme of Clothe-A- | Child's message of hope to unfor-

tunate Indianapolis children. Day in and day out men and |

| women come to Clothe-A-Child or |

call and say: “Better times are here. | We're better off now. People helped | us several years ago. Now we want to help.” And their remarks are followed by | taking a child to clothe or contrib- | uting toward the dressing of a girl |

| searchers checked | stations out of

time) yesterday. It carried four passengers and a crew of three, ine cluding Miss Gladys Witt, the stewardess, who was heroine of a recent romantic incident that ate tracted wide attention, A pilot and 8 San Francisco business man had been rivals for her hand. Reports Hearing Motors A powerhouse operator at Alpine reported having heard a plane's motors at 4 a. m. that faded away toward the more than 11,000-foot peaks of Wasatch and Mt. Timpano= gas. Throughout the night company all telephone Alpine and other towns, C.: N.

James and Fred Kelly,

| another pilot, passed over the same

route Samson was flving on their regular schedules less than two hours before. The weather was clear then and conditions perfect. The only possible explanation they could offer was that the veteran Samson, who has more than 7,000 hours of flying to his credit, got off his course in a sudden shift of wind. Lights May Been Confusing Residents at American Fork, &

“Well, I just wanted to tell you that vou don't have to shop for me this year because my dad's got a good job and he's laying his dimés on the Mile-of-Dimes to help out others.”

| under consideration. | | A suggestion had been made that | Barrett law commissions be created | (in cities to handle bonds instead | | of city controllers and treasurers, | { he added.

| or boy. |

They know that all children on | the rolls are investigated for need | by Community Fund relief agencies |and the social service department lof the public schools.

HAVEN iN MARYLAND SUGGESTED FOR EDWARD . . . . «

in beautiful Wortaington Valley, Maryland, has been suggested as a haven in the United

King Edward VIII. Tt has been suggested very reminiscent

he might purchase

400-acre

SKIS USED TO PRESS SEARCH FOR MISSING PLANE

{ small town south of here, reported a plane circled there around 4 a. m. Samson, forced off his course, may have mistaken the lights of Amers | ican for some other city on his rege {ular route and sped on into the side {of the mountain. All emergency landing fields along {the route have been checked, the | company reported. Army trucks | roared out over mountain trails un | der orders from authorities at March Field to aid the search.

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