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REVEAL POPE

IS SUFFERING SEVERE PAINS

Semi-Official Circles Say Pontiff Resigns Self to Invalidism.

VATICAN IS DEPRESSED

Neuritis and Rupture of Veins Cause Worry to His Household.

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Bul rd Pres VATICAN CITY, Dec. 29 - The Pope, wi now admittedly graveiv ill, is suffering excruciating pain, gemi-official sources revealed today. While there was no intimation that hi Prof. Aminta Milani, feels that the Pontiff is in danger of imminent death, Vatican circles are depressed and worried. A trustworthy source said the Pope has resigned himself to invalidism for months, if not for the remainder of his life Msgr. Enrico news service | announcement today: The Pontiff suffers very greatly, hot only from varicose veins in his feft leg. but also from 2 painful attack of neuritis Especially at nights he often sleepless and agitated.” The Pope's insomnia and constant pain are among the chief sources of worry to Vatican officials. A trustworthy Vatican source said several varicose veins in his legs had burst but that the pressure of pain was not relieved Wounds from the ruptured veins were said to have spread into a deep, purplish red. The latest semi-official informafon tonight was that the Pope's left leg had become worse during the afternoon and early evening.

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Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, who re-

3 - 2 | turned to Rome in 1933 after a dec- |

ade of service here as apostolic

delegate to the United States, is be- |

ing mentioned as a possible sue cessor of. the. aged. and. alling. Rope Pius XI 5 ghould he be chosen for the papal throne, he would be the first Pope in history with such a direct and intimate knowledge of Catholic affairs in the United States. During his 10 vears here he visited nearly all of the 1068 American dioceses. It was during his tenure as delegate that the province of San Antonio and the. dioceses of Raleigh,

Amarillo and Reno were established. |

He also made a survey of seminaries in each of the 15 Ecclesiastical

provinces and united the 40 com- |

Sisters. of Mercy into one national union, During his regime here the eucharistic congress Chicago. He kept out of the secular con-

munities ot

was held

troversies of the Ku-Klux Klan era |

and of the 1923 presidential campaign. When his place here was taken by Archbishop Cicognani, Msgr. Fuma-soni-Biondi returned to Rome to receive the cardinalate and was put in charge of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.

200 MILLIONS FREED

FOR ROAD BUILDING

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WASHINGTON, Dec, tary of Agriculture Henry Jace today Federal grants in aid to states for road improvements and elimination of grade crossings, The apportionments will become available for the fiscal year--begin-ning July 1, 1937. They consist of $125.000,000 for a Federal-aid high-

way svstem, £25.000.000 for farm-to- |

market roads and $50,000,000 for elimination of grade crossings The states will be required match the funds It was announced that Indiana's allotment would be $5.086.0286.

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SEC COUNSEL RESIGNS WASHINGTON. Dec dent Roosevelt today accepted resignation of John J. Bums general counsel of the Securities

and Exchange Commission, effective |

shortly after Jan. 1.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

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PRICE THREE CENTS

Job Service Sees Record

Mark for '36

Persons placed in private industry through the State Employment Service will exceed by nearly 10,000 the number placed during 1935, officials predicted today. A total of 46,187 persons were placed in private industry last year. Martin F. Carpenter, service director, said that before Jan. 1, 1937, private placements will reach approximately 53,870, or an increase of 21 per cent. Placements of non-relief persons on public works jumped 125 per cent over last year. A total of 20,130 were placed on public work in 1935, and 45,300 this year. Officials explained that many gkilled workers on relief were not available for public jobs where contracts called for highly skilled men. Non-reiief skilled labor had to be substituted, they said. Applications at the employment service decreased, Mr. Carpenter said. More than 149,000 persons sought jobs last year, and approximately 120,000 this year,

STATE BUDGETS

ASK 28 MILLION

Requests Total $11,200,000 More Than 1935-37 Period.

Budget requests for .19 state institutions and four state colleges for the 1937-39 biennium total $28,959,055 as compared to the 1935-37 requests of $17,717,093, Edward P. | Brennan, state budget clerk, an- | nounced today. An extensive building program, | restoration of 15 per cent salary cuts and a 15 to 20 per cent jump | in food and clothing prices are responsible for the increase, Mr. | Brennan said. The state budget committee, com-

posed of State Senators Thurman | A. Gottschalk and I. Fioyd Gar-

"Yott and Reps. Hobart Creighton

land Ernest C. Ropkey, is expected | to cut the requests before submit- | ting a bill to the General Assem- | bly, | Referring to the condition of the | institutions, Gov. McNutt said, “The | necessity for strict economy (dur- | ing the depression) brought about | a situation which should not be | continued.” Many of the institutions are over- | crowded and many buildings should | be replaced because they are fire hazards, the Governor said. Appropriations granted by the General Assembly to institutions | for 1935-36 totalled $9,243,554, and requests are $15,528,361 for 1937-38 | and $13,430,694 for 1938-39. | Building program appropriations (Turn to Page Five)

SLIGHTLY WARMER,

WEATHER FORECAST

| : ‘Occasional Rains Are to Continue Here.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES «Mo 90 20am... 99 IR Ham. . M 12 (Noon) 4% 9 am... A pm.. 98

Mild temperatures, accompanied by occasional rains, are to continue in Indianapolis tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said today. It is to be slightly warmer tonight, the Bureau said.

DISCUSS WELFARE FUNDS

Wayne Coy, state welfare director, today was in conference with the | State Budget Committee relative to the budget for his department and the proposed transfer of the welfare institutions to his depariment from the executive department. Mr. Cov conferred earlier today | with Gov. McNutt.

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DISCLOSE NEW KNOWLEDGE OF POISON GERM

‘Bacteriologists Here Told About Treatment to Stop Spread.

SEEN AS BOIL CHECK

‘Doctors Tell of Experiments On Humans With | Antitoxin.

By Science Service

New knowledge that may help in | the fight on the germ of boils, car- | buncles, food poisoning and other | serious infections was reported at | the meeting here today of the { Society of American Bacteriologists. The germ is the staphylococcus, | a small, spherical micro-organism | that is found everywhere, Symp- | toms of staphylococcus infection | are due to specific poisons which | the germ sets free in the body, Dr. C. E. Dolman, of the Connaught Laboratories at Vancouver, B. C, | pointed out. For treating generalized infections with staphylococcus, Dr. Dolman advised prompt use of antitoxin in order to neutralize the | rapidly formed and rapidly spread | poisons before they can do fatal | damage. The problem of vaccinat- | ing against local infections with | this germ, such as boils, is compli- | cated by the fact that there is danger of reinfection with more germs, Consequences Serious

Staphylococei can cause the serious bone disease known as osteomyelitis. A patient suffering from osteomyelitis of the spine recovered completely following treatment with a combination of human immune serum and staphylococcus toxin, Dr. Earl L. Burky, Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, reported. He found that the poison from this germ, which is fatal to rabbits, produces in humans, when injected under the skin, an increase in the disease-fighting antibodies of the body. A new way of distinguishing be- | tween strains of staphylococei that | cause disease and those that do not, was found by Dr. L. A. Julianelle, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. ‘The method depends on extracting the carbohydrates or sugars in the germs’ bodies. The need for a method of distinguishing between strains of staphylococei was brought out in the report of Drs. G. M. Dack and William E. Cary, University of Chicago. Causes Food Poisoning Dr. Dack has shown that the staphylococcus can cause food poisoning, but the problem of showing that his germ is the cause of a particular outbreak of food poisoning is complicated, he explained, by the lack of a simple method of determining which strains are of the food poisoning type. Arthritis due to staphylococcus infection of a joint is really a disease of the entire body, not just a local infection, and may end fatally in a short time, Drs. Robert L. Preston and Marjorie B. Patterson, New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, | Columbia University, emphasized. | The society is to hold its annal | cinner tonight, when Dr. Thomas M. | Rivers, Rockefeller Institute presi|dent, is to announce and present | the $5000 award for outstanding research in bacteriology.

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FIGHTING BLAZE AT CRESCENT OIL CO.

Tragic Trio

Three Children Hurt At Play; One Is Expected to Die.

BY JOE COLLIER RAGEDY hung today over three Indianapolis children, In one case it had already occurred; in another probable, and in the third, possible. All were

victims of playtime accidents. Almost certain, pnysicians said, was the death of 13-year-old

| Marjorie Thornburgh. They gave

Mr. and Mrs, Glenn Thornburgh, 34 N. Traub-av, her parents, no hope for her recovery from tetanus and a fractured skull. She is in City Hospital. On Dec. 20, she and ner brother and inseparable pal, Glenn Jr. a year younger, were playing in a snow-covered field near their home. They were building a snow man, they told their parents, with some other children in the neighborhood. They also had built a snow rort or two. Three larger boys joined the play and a snow battle began. Meanwhile the sun had melted the outer layer of some snowballs they had stored in one of the “arsenals.” The cold wind coated them with ice. Here the stories of the girl and the alleged snowball thrower differ. She sald she was struck by one of the ice-jacketed balls, and that it‘laid open her scalp.

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HE accused boy says she was back of a snow fort, that the iceball struck the stop of a rampart, dislodged a brick imbedded there and that the brick struck the girl. Whatever happened, Glenn Jr. ran immediately to his sister, put his hand over the wound and helped her home, A physician was called and the wound was dressed. She remained at home through Christmas. She and her brother and father played all day with a chemistry outfit. But near evening she seemed much worse. She was taken to the hospital next day. There tetanus was discovered and she began what her mother today said she was convinced was a losing fight for her life. She was expecting to graduate from School 30 to Washington High School next month,

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RAGEDY was certain for Arthur Berg, who is 7. His right eye is gone. It was removed Saturday, Dec. 19, at Methodist Hospital. Arthur, known up and down the corridors of the hospital as Artie Bob, was struck in the eye Dec. 1 with an improvised arrow, shot from an improvised bow in the rear oi his home by his best friend. It was idental. When physicians decided to take out the eye, they told Artie Bob he would be home by Christmas. He told them he wanted a red wagon from Santa. After the operation, some premonitional terror gripped him and he refused absolutely to open the other eye so that he, his parents and physicians could test whether the operation bad affected its sight.

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O amount of gentle persuasion would alter his determination until Christmas Day. But he could not resist looking to see what Santa had brought him. He opened his eyes gingerly, and saw the red wagon. Since then he has been happy and has been allowed to ride the wagon up and down the corridor. His left eye, physicians said, was not affected at all by the operation. He is to be home by New Year's Day. Athis home, 412 N. Tibbs-av, his parents. Mr. an Mrs. Arthur Berg Sr., still have a pile of presents for him to celebrate his arrival home,

EADING a nursery -rhyme book today in her Riley Hospital bed, and apparently unaware that she is in a critical condition, was Betty Vogel. also 9. She was struck by a rifie bullet accidentally fired Saturday. It punctured her abdomen. Saturday night the bullet was extracted. Her physician said she was cheerful and was “doing nicely” but is still listed as critical. The gun was fired by Edward Morrissey, 14, of T64': E. McCarty-st, according to officers.

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BLAST AND FIRE

Damage Is Set at $150,000 By James S. Marlowe,

Firm President. EIN

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10 Companies Battle Flames, For More Than Seven Hours.

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Sagging walls and piles of debris were all that remained today of the Crescent Oil Co. plant, 514 W. Wyoming-st. A two-alarm fire followed an explosion which wrecked the plant last night, causing damage estimated by James S. Marlowe, president, at $150,000. Ten companies battled the flames from 5:45 p. m. until after mid- | night, playing 14 streams of water on the structure. The boom of ex~ | ploding oil and alcohol drums in | the basement added to the dangers, spraying the flaming fluids toward the fire-fighters.

Two Firemen Injured

Two firemen were injured. Jerry Donahue, 1855 Singleton-st, was reported in “fairly good” condition at City Hospital today. A member of the Indianapolis Salvage Corps, he was overcome by smoke. John Ward, 1014 LeGrande-av, from Pumper Company 10, was treated at the scene for a mashed right hand. Three explosions in rapid succes- | sion preceded the fire, according to | residents of the neighborhood. The | first, a terrific blast believed to have occurred in the boiler room, shook houses for several blocks, and was heard by a man nearly a mile away. According to witnesses, flames leaped nearly 100 feet following the first blast. The north wall of the plant was blown away.

Windows Knocked Out

Windows in nearby buildings and homes were knocked out. Bricks showered onto buildings and into nearby lawns. The W. J. Holliday & Co. steel plant, across the street, was not damaged but the huge building was filled with smoke, The , fed by oil, fats and alcohol, ‘spread rapidly. Firemen bat. tled to prevent it from spreading to (Turn to Page Three)

PENNY WIDOW SUES UNION FOR $10,000

Accuses Organization Truck Driver's Death.

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Mrs. Ruth May Penny, widow of John Penny, a Kroger truck driver who allegedly was stoned to death March 7, 1935, today iiled a $10,000 damage suit in Circuit Court against 44 officers and members of the Chauffeurs’, Teamsters’ & Helpers Union, No. 135. As administratrix of her husband's estate, Mrs. Penny in her complaint charged the union with Mr. Penny's death during a labor disturbance. Mr. Penny was found in the rockbattered cab of his truck in Hendricks County. First degree murder charges were placed against four alleged union members, and three voluntary manslaughter convictions were returned in Criminal Court following a series of trials last summer. Those sentenced to 2 to 21 vears were Gerald Haygood, Victor Crickmore and William Peats. Peats and Crickmore now have appeals pending. Emmett Joseph Williams, the fourth man brought to trial, was acquitted. These four men and other union members were named defendants in Mrs. Penny's suit.

GRAND JURY INDICTS 20

Indictments against 20 men were returned by the Marion County grand jury today. A final report is to be made by the jurors before the end of the week when their term ends.

WHICH DESTROYED THE PLANT’S INTERIOR .. .

OIL PLANT HERE | DESTROYED BY

U.S. Foreign Trade Makes 6-Y ear High

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. American foreign trade hit a peak of nearly three and a half billion dollars in the first nine months of 1936, a total not exceeded since 1930, the United States Chamber of Commerce reported today. The chamber said American purchases and sales abroad this year achieved the most widespread geographical distribution in more than a decade. It attributed the gains, made by more than four-fifths of America’s 50 leading imports, largely to the factor of higher prices. The chamber pointed to the fact that two-thirds of the increases were made in crude materials and semi-manufac-tured products, brought to this country for processing.

F.D.R. MAY SEEK SPAIN ARMS BAN

Administration Officials Re-

ported Stirred by Sale Of Planes.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—President Roosevelt may ask Congress next week to rush through a bill granting him special authority to proclaim an embargo on sale or shipment of arms and munitions to any faction in Spain, it was in-

| dicated today.

Administration officials were aroused to the necessity for immediate legislation by the action of Robert Cuse, Jersey City, N. J., exporter, in obtaining licenses from the State Department to ship $2,777,000 worth of airplanes, motors and spare parts, to Bilbao, Spain. Granting of such licenses was in direct violation of the government's declared neutrality policy, but the State Department had no legal authority to refuse the export permits, Precedent Is Feared

Officials indicated they were concerned less with the seriousness of this relatively large shipment of airplanes and engines to Spain than they were by the breaking of government disapproval of all sales and shipments of war materials to the belligerent factions in Spain. With the Cuse license as a precedent, it was indicated, other requests for export licenses for shipment of war supplies may be forthcoming. The next may be for a license to export rifles, pistols, machine guns and ammunition. Chairman of the House and Senate Foreign Affairs Committees at the same time advocated drastic punishment for Americans joining foreign wars. In Jersey City Mr. Cuse denied that the airplanes and engines will be used for war purposes.

Seized Nazi Ship Reported Released

By United Press BERLIN, Dec. 29.—The German steamer Palos, seized by Spanish loyalists off Bilbao, has been released on demand of the German Cruiser Koenigsberg, it was announced today. It was the second announcement. A previous announcement was made and then withdrawn for some unexplained reason. The second announcement said a Spanish citizen aboard the steamer had not been released and that part of the cargo still was held, so that the incident was not yet settled.

ON CREDIT INFLATION

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Purchase of $14,835,000 in gold, first bought under the new “sterilization” program designed to meet the threat of credit inflation, was revealed by the United States Treasury today. The purchase appeared in the Treasury statement, issued today and dated Dec. 24, under the title “inactive gold fund.” The gold was chtained with funds from the government’s deposits in Federal! Reserve Banks, listed as “special depositories account of sales of government securities.”

CAR CLEW FAILS | SEARCH FOR BOY'S KIDNAPER

Return of Auto St

olen Shortly Before

Abduction Has No Connection With Crime, Police Say.

DOUBT CAST ON STORY OF AGED MAN

Witness Had Told of Seeing Youngster

Asleep in Vehicle

» Narcotic Thefts

From Doctors Probed.

By United Press TACOMA, Wash. Dec. Mattson, 10-year-old son of a and his kidnaper came to a sta found that the only promising

29.—The search for Charles prominent Tacoma physician, ndstill today when authorities clew since the abduction Sun-

day night apparently had no connection with the crime. Police here and at Portland checking the story of a man who said that he saw a boy sleeping in the rear seat of a car fitting the description of one reported stolen here five hours before the abduction, said that these two developments

apparently had no connection Mrs. Samuel Emanuelson automobile stolen here.

DENIES ASSAULT, BUT |

IS HELD FOR COURT

Ora Henry, 40, of 1426 Montcalm- | st, today was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Arraigned before Municipal Judge Charles Karabell, Henry denied he cut Kermit Harris, 30, of 819 San-ders-st, following a collision of their automobiles.

INQUIRY IS BEGUN ON AIRLINER CRASH

Bodies of 12 Victims Taken From Canyon.

By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.—Investi~ gations into the cause of the United Air Lines accident, in which 12 persons were killed, were scheduled to start today with the Department of Commerce in charge. Company executives planned a separate inquiry. Wreckage of the twin-motored Boeing, strewn along the floor of Rice Canyon, near Saugus, will be examined in an effort to learn why Pilot Ed Blom, familiar with the | San Francisco-Los Angeies route he (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS

Says, don't see how a

woman can keep up with all the styles and have time to do anything else. She not only has to have the right kind of clothes with the colors that blend with her eyes, her hair and her skin, but almost every occasion calls for a ditferent kind of perfume. No matter how purty her dress is, she simply couldn't think of attendin’ an afternoon party with a mornin’ smell. They start out in the morning with some light blend and work up to a heavy | odor along toward evening. I suppose it's to kinda git you used to | it. I got a letter from Papa the other day and he says they put in one of them perfume factories down there where they can git the raw material cheaper and he says they've actually started makin’ some of them modern blends and the odor of 'em is wafted all over the mountain side. He said all the skunks have left that part of the country. He said “That seems to be the nature of them animals—they can dish it cut, but they can't take it.” (Copyright. 1938)

AFTER EXPLOSION

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| ever,

| the Mattson

| the kidnaper

with the kidnaping. of Tacoma had reported the

Inquiry developed that the car was taken

by some friends, wrecked and taken to a garage for repairs where the woman f

ound it. Police at Portland were inclined to discredit the story told them by Dan Harrison, 87. The elderly man reported last night that he was threatened with a pistol in the hands of the driver of a car that was stalled on a street in that city,

Narcotic Thefts Reported

Harrison gave a description of the automobile that tallied to such minute detail with that reported stolen from the Tacoma woman that police at first considered the story a conclusive clew, The aged man's landlady told officers, howe that Harrison was given to telling - tall stories, had a vivid imagination and contrary to his story that he knew nothing of the kidnaping, had full knowledge of that crime. So police started looking for Harrison. With these clews virtually abane doned officers turned to investiga= tion of numerous thefts of nar cotics from doctors in this regiom. Charles’ elder brother and sister, who witnessed the abduction from the Mattson's new $50,000 home in an exclusive residential district here, said that the kidnaper appeared either intoxicated or under the ine fluence of narcotics.

One kit containing narcotics was stolen from Dr. Mattson last week, Dr. Kenneth H. Sturdevant and Dr, E. D. Mosier, both of Puyallup, re= ported thefts of kits containing

| narcotics.

Police Are Withdrawn

Meanwhile, all avenues for nego tiations for return of the boy wera opened at the Mattson home. Po lice were withdrawn and the fame ily anxiously awaited notice from the kidnaper through the want ad columns of a Seattle newspaper giving instructions about payment

{of a $28,000 ransom.

City police had withdrawn from home. State police ceased their activity. The work of the Department of Justice's G-men appeared suspended. Apparently authorities were giving the criminal a clear path to contact the family, Dr. Mattson anxiously scanned every newspaper published in the Tacoma-Seattle area, but there was no want ad. It was believed that had specified this means to conduct the ransom negotiations as did the kidnap= ers of 9-year-old George Weyer= haeuser, a playmate of Charles, whose parents paid $200,000 to release him last year. Reports that police were seeking a “demented patient” of Dr. Mattson were denied. “It was understood for a while that a warrant would be issued for the arrest, on suspicion, of a former patient of Dr. Mattson, but this was abandoned when it wag (Turn to Page Three)

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