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from other aspects of the problem and deal with it separately,” the note asserted. While assenting that the: issue concerning volunteers: should be given prior consideration, the note added: be clearly ‘understood that any order followed for the sake~pf convenience will not either in theory or practice imply acceptance of a partial or arbitrary solution of the problem of indirect intervention.”
World Naval Powers In Building Race « « By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—At the zero hour of an apparent world naval race and amid clamorous sounds of war and threats of war, Acting Secretary of State R. Walton Moore today sounded America's call for peace. Moore, undeterred by a critical international situation and pressing problems of United States neutral- - ity, voiced to the nation his “deliberate opinion” that 1937 would bring to the world “no extensive war.” . The world’s chief naval powers at
* the same time were straining to em-
bark upon a construction race which will increase greatly the floating fighting forces of the world and take many millions of taxpayers’ money to finance. The race: started immediately upon expiration of the Washington and London naval treaties at midnight last night. Several powers had jumped the gun last month with announcement of shipbuilding plans. Japan denounced the two treaties --a year ago because she failed to obtain consent of Britain and the United States to a treaty navy equal to their forces. It is anticipated that the naval construction race will be signaled by laying keels of a half-dozen 35,- * 000-ton‘ battleships by Britain, United States. France, Italy and Germany already are building or planning such ships. Great Britain is expected to lead in 1937 construction with plans for constructing 90 'new warships. Britain’s navy of 307 ships now totals 1,222,164 tons. The United States ranks second with the same number of ships, and a total tonnage of 1,100,450 tons.
American 1937 construction calls for
two battleships, 12 destroyers and six submarines, in addition to more than 70 ships now in construction. Japan ranks third with 200 warships totaling 756,878 tons, : She plans two dreadnaughts. She now has 31 ships under construction. "The French navy totals 173 warships measuring 546,178 tons. Her program calls for five new superdreadnaughts and 10 heavy cruisers, Italy ranks below France with 203 Italy
ships, in addition to two such ships now under construction. About 30 other ships are contemplated. Germany now has a navy of 59 Under the naval treaty with England signed in 1935, Germany is entitled to a navy approximately one-third , the size of the British navy. Ger- * man plans call for two battleships, tw oaircraft carriers, three cruisers, four destroyers, a dozen submarines and a number of smaller auxiliary craft.
BLAST MURDER LAID ‘TO GANG VENGEANCE
3 Sought in Plot Bared by
Injured Girl. By United Press
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Jan. 1.— Three alleged racketeers were sought throughout the. Northwest today in connection with a weird gangland plot to send two .persons to death in a shattering blast of five tons of high explosives. In the -ruins of a WPA powder house, Your miles from here, police searched for the remains of a man believed ‘to be Harold (Ed) Baker. He was believed blown to bits by the blast which rocked Sioux Falls and was felt in towns 50 miles away
“at the height of the New Year's
celebrations. The other intended victim, Heien Seidler of Sioux City, Ia., -miracuJously escaped. Shot four times and her head battered by hammer blows, she dragged herself a half mile to a road, where she was picked’ up by a farmer and brought to a hospital ‘liere. From her Sioux Falls authorities tcday pieced together a tale of mobster venigeance. Police Chief Harry Morstad said the men sought are members of a gang which robbed a Sioux City, Ia., jewelry store of $35,000 last week. “It was because they were afraid Baker would squeal and because I knew too much that we were taken for- a ride,” Miss Seidler said according to ‘police. : »
Virginia Chatfield
Charles Mattson
MOTOR STRIKES AFFECT 45,000
General Motors Focal Point Of Drive for Union Recognition.
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Mich., Sunday, at which U. A. W. A. organizers. from 10 General Motors units were to take stock of their positio nand plan a further attack.
Await Meeting Results
Both sides wondered whether this meeting, called by U., A. W. A. President Homer Martin, would precipitate the most bitter struggle in the industry's history or would discover a formula for peace where
conflict was indicated in each new development. In the background moved the ever more powerful forces of John L. Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization, relentlessly pushing related campaigns in steel, glass and other mass production industries vitally affecting automobile assembly lines. Martin, young ex-preacher whose appearance belies the hard-fisted part he plays, was the spearhead-efT the C. I. O. offensive which directed its big guns against General Motors and |brought a determined counterfire [from William S. Knudsen, the company’s executive vice president. Knudsen, in a calm but decisive letter to Martin last night, saddled the U. A. W. A. with responsibility for strikes which have thrown 27,000 General Motors employes out of work in Flint.sMich., Kansas City, Mo., Atlanta, Ga., Cleveland, O.,and Anderson, Ind.
Answers “Tie-up” Threat
In| the face of Martin's implied threat to “tie up” the entire General Motors. organization, Knudsen °repeated his determination that col-
lective bargaining could be conducted only through managers of individual plants. And then only after the plants had been evacuated by sit-down strikers. Martin previously had directed an impatient letter to Knudsen asking for a general conference on union grievances and charging General Motors with discrimination against: union workers and use cf “spies” hired from private detective agencies. He characterized attempts tof bargain with plant managers ay “absolutely: unsuccessful” and - insisted that a general; national agreement was the only satisfactory method of settling differences. Knudsen reiterated his contention that General Motors accepts the principle of collective bargaining, and charged that the union with refusing to bargain and with calling strikes without attempting to confer with the manugement.
GUIDE LAMP FACTORY STRIKERS ARE lier
Times Special ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 1—New Year’s Day in the Guide Lamp factory was observed quietly by approximately 3000 workers who started a sit-down strike yesterday. There wasn’t even & noisy celebration at midnight. The strikers sat or slept. near their machines. Since this was a holiday, and the emrloyes were not esclieduled to work anyway, litle change was expected
today.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS Tobay New Year's Day.
MEETINGS TOMORROW >
Alliance Francaise, luncheon, | Hotel Washington, noon. | eons Association, | Hotel Washington, 8 p. m.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
AThese lists are from official records at the County Courthouse. The Times is . mod responsible for any errors if names or addresses.)
meeting,
E. Craig. 25 of 1409 N. Belle
Horne 1, and Doris Pauline Coplen, 22, In3 ‘dignapolis. . Pel .
Goethe Link. 57, 4207 N. Pen
Lynn, 2843 M. Edwards, 186, of
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; of BE : Yan ia-st, and Helen Kegerreis, 24, In ndisn-
Tomlinson. 31. of 227 N. izabeth S. Miller, 26, of
2 mbjle-av. Michae; C Mohr, 24, of Fort Benjamin Harrison. and Utella Pendleton, 19, of 743
New Jersey-st Homer usin. 47, of 39 N. Kealingav, and Irene Kanable, 34, of 5501 Uniyeishy. 2 Newton Hopki 35. of 213 N. gar opkins, 0 Gray-st. and Beryl Vanice Anthony, 35. of LH YN Newt 31. of ames ewton. of 2132 Wood - ols and Agnes ‘F. Gresham, 32. ayn olis. Horace Lawson, 18. of 237 8S. and Ruby Shotts, 18, of 828 S. No eay, Donald Hamilton. 23, of 1203 Haugh-st. and Evelyn La Verne Stokes, 19, of 425 Ce vine re 25. of 62 rvin Tess, 0 3 N. New Jersevst, and Chrystal Davis. 27, of 718 E. 22nd-
William Moore. a ‘of 139 N. Delaware. B of N.
st. and Marga land, Pepnsyly ania st are ad. 28. 902
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In escaping from thes Mattson home in Tacom 3
the kidnaper of
Charles Mattson, 10, followed the route shown in this diagram. After bfeaking a window to get intéo the home, and cowing the children who were there alone, the kidnaper seized Charles and made his way out-
side.
His path then led through the rear of the grounds and down a
wooded slope to a car parked beside a gravel road. Police hoped that a valuable cléw which might bring the return of the boy, could be given
by Virginia Chatfield, 14, kidnaper entered.
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who was in the Mattson Home when the
' THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Press Gets Icy Reception At Mrs. McLean's Party
Resichiors Wshetod Out Before Festivities Start So Details Are Scarce on Gala Event.
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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN _ United Press Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—We’'d like today to tell about the $50,000 New Year's eve party to which Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean invited us for an early look, but when we got there we were met— not by our hostess—but by the police department, which said: -
“Scram!” It probably was an elegant party for the 500 other guests who got in. We understand they had two orchestras, a lot of cham-
‘pagne, a specially built ballroom,
and goodness knows whi else. We even understand that Mrs. MeLean wore her $2,000,000 Hope diamond—cursed by a century of bad luck—but when we left Friendship, her 300-acre estate, we hadn't seen it. She was behind .the decor demanding shrilly that Police Lieutenant Maggill Grove remove the representatives of the press, whom she had asked in for a “preview” of the preparations for the biggest party in the capital since the boom. lays of 1929. The lieutehant saw . McLean all right, but he wasn't sure about her celebrated 441; carat blue-white jewel, which she wears on a chain of smaller diamonds. “*Sorry, fellers,”' Lieut. Grove said, “but she had on so many diamonds I don’t know whether I saw that big one or not. She looked all glittery-like—and awful nervous. She wants you fellers to go way.”
While the lieutenant thus was -
proving he was no newspaper reporter, the photographers, who
also had been invited by Mrs. Mc-
Lean, turned night into day with a barrage of flashlight pictures. A window shade fluttered on the second floor, a woman screamed, and the Dboiled-shirted butler popped out the front door, motioning for Lieut. Grove again. 5 ” n 2 7 HE lieutenant went inside. We could hear a woman falking angrily, I “Mrs. McLean,” Lieut. Grove announced, upon emerging a minute later. “She says scram!” The red-headed woman, whose father made a fortune in Colo=
international party giver;
rado gold mines and who herself became one of the nation's most colorful social leaders, seemed especially proud of her arrangements a couple of days ago, when she invited reporters to come out for a look, but something must have gone wrong. No hard feelings, Mrs. McLean, as far as we're concerned, and we surely hope, that Hope diamond didn’t cause*the cake to fall, or
the champagne to explode, or the.
plaster to fall in that new ballroom.
They included Elsa Maxwell, the Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery story writer; Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, wife of the newspaper publisher; Joseph Hergesheimer, the novelist; A. Atwater Kent, the Philadelphia radio maker, and Walter Damrosch, the musician, and his wife. They apparently had no trouble getting in. Later on, after the ice cream, Mrs. McLean asked 200 more folks, not quite prominent, to drop in for the dancing in the newlyerected ballroom.
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RS. McLEAN rented half a floor of the Shoreham Hotel for the convenience of these guests and provided them transportation to her estate, five miles away. The party was the first New Year's eve, ball she had given in more than 10 years. In those days her social events were the talk of Wishington. President Harding was a frequent guest. So was visiting royalty. Then came bad luck. One of Mrs. McLean’s sons was killed by an automobile in front of Friendship. She lost a large part of her fortune an devei was forced to pawn the Hope diamond in an effort to retain ownership of the
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10 ARE INJURED IN 14 HOLIDAY
MISHAPS HERE
Three Motorists to Face Charges of Driving Cars While Drunk.
MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Accidents Injured
TRAFFIC ARRESTS
Drunken Driving Improper Parking Running Preferential street ... Left Turn Violation No Driver’s License Running Red Light ........... Others
Fourteen traffic accidents, injuring 10 persons, none Seronay, greet-
ed the New Year here. Three motorists today” faced charges of drunken’ driving and 14 other persons were arrested, charged with drunkenness. William Bramlett, 25, of R. R. 5, Box 508, was, arrested on charges of drunken driving, vagrancy, failure to have a driver's license, and profanity. The automobile he was driving is alleged to have struck Mrs. Florence Cummings, 57, of Brownsburg, Ind. at Illinois and Court-sts. Mrs. Lillie Reichardt, 57, of 1300 W. 25th-st, also was arrested on charges of drunken driving. The automobile she was driving collided with a car driven by John Taylor, 52, of 3725 Shelby-st, at 25th and Rader-sts. - She also was to, face charges ‘of reckless ' driving and failure fo stop after an accident.
'* George F. Kinman, 41, of R. R.
11, Box, 225B, was arrested in the 100 block on Leland-st on a drunken driving charge.
Struck by Trolley Car
Mrs. Carl Cramer, 63, of 5730 College-av, was cut and bruised when she was struck by a College-av
| street car operated by James Pate,
29, of 3117 N. Sherman-dr. Walter Lawson, of 4920 Hoveyst, and Joe Bering, 34, of 656 East
Drive; Woodruff-pl, were taken to |
City Hospital late last night after
their automobiles collided with a. street car in the 800 block on.
College-av. An automobile in which Woodie Nunn, 37, of Bloomington, and Charles Whited, 36, of 516 W. Ab-bott-st, were ridihg, ran over the sidewalk, bounced off the corner of a building and struck a guy wire at Morris-st and Kenfucky-av early today. Witnesses said two other men jumped from the car and ran. Nunn and Whited were treated at City Hospital and arrested on vagrancy charges.
Hurt in Motorcycle Spill”
Joseph Pinn, 20, of 901 N. Illinoisst, was cut and bruised when the motorcycle he was riding overturned on Monument Circle. He was treated at City Hospital and arrested for failure to have a driver’s license. James Caines, 24, of 1983 Hillsideav, was injured slightly when he ran into the side of an automobile ariven by George Sulgrove, 33, of 728 E. 22d-st, in the 1900 block on Hillside-av. William Litten, 920 Bellefontainest, reported to police that. his car was struck by a green sedan bearing a red light on the front. Mr. Litten said when he attempted to obtain the license number.of the other car the driver ordered him to “get away from there before I lock you up.”
Washington Post, long a property of her family. She los tthe Post, but soon redeemed the diamond. Last night's party, she said when she first invited newsmen to view it, was a revival of her New Year's eve balls. It was held specifically as’ “a coming of age party” for her son Jack.
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Shirley Jeanne Busch, who arrived just two hours and 20 ‘minutes behind Baby 1936, is one year old today,°but she doesn’t understand
all the cheering.
portant as feeding ‘time and rattles.
1937 seems like 1936 to her, and not nearly as im-
This daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph E. Busch, 3450 Graceland-av, was the first Indianapolis baby
born last year.
The event occurred at Coleman Hospital.
TRACTION CLOSE PUT TO WORKERS
Wilson May Rescind Order If 90 Per Cent Accept Pay Compromise.
A court order stopping operation of Indiana Railroad lines at midnight Jan. 9 may be rescinded if 90 per cent of the 1256 employes sign a petition asking acceptance of a compromise wage ‘agreement, Judge Herbert E. Wilson indicated today. The order was signed by Judge Wilson yesterday, after a compromise wage increase of 1212 per cent had been rejected by the Amalga-
{ mated Association of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Bus Employes’ Union. The Amalgamated, which has 446 members, had been granted
ib ut
a 20 per cent increase by an arbitration board. Amalgamated representatives have indicated they will stand pat on the board's decision. The railroadfhas been operated in receivershipgpy Bowman Elder.
ATTACK AND THEFT FOLLOW ACCIDENT
Robert Nicholis, 20, of 404 E. New York St. had a little automobile accident. He didn’t mind so much the slight damage to his: car, he told police,- But he’s looking for
the other guy, who poked him in
the mouth, knocked out a tooth and stole $6, he said. According to Mr. Micholis, he backed into a car at 6343 Central
Ave. last night. He got out and vas talking to the driver of the cther car, who asked to see his criver’s license. When Mr. Nicholis rroduced his billfold, the other rman hit him, took the money and ran, he said.
STORE OPEN SATURDAY NIGHT TILL
BEGINNING TOMORROW MORNING GENTLEMEN:
ILK” SOCK
“REAL
Important Note : These sales \ come very rarely. We don’t know when the opportunity will present. itself again. This sale calls for footwork.
(irregulars)
pairs for a
(for a brief time)
LISLES heather miced,
Some are clocked.
SILK and WOOLS bed.
colored and clocked. |
A very generous range of colors
in each type. Sizes 10.to 13.
ISTAGE IS SET
FOR BREAKIN KIDNAP CASE
Speedy Return of Tacoma. Boy Expected as Case Goes Into Fifth Day.
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arrangements were ' complete for |
payment or for release of the boy. Persoris who have been in cone: stant touch with the Mattson home believe the ransom has been paid and that it is only a matter of hours until Charles is returned to his parents. The first ad which was addressed to “Mable,” instead of “Mabel,” read: ‘Mable—please give us your address—Ann.” The ransom note text as revealed by a person close to the family advised the family to in-. sert the first advertisement ad=dressed to “Mabel” and signed “Tim.” The change in the spelling
1of the name in the second adver=
tisement was significant, sources close to the family said. There has never been an explanation of the signature “Ann” which was given in the advertisement. ine: stead of “Tim” as- the kidnaper suggested. The name “Tim” also was signed to the ransom note: which the man tossed on the floor
'of the Mattson home when he stole
Charles away ‘under the eyes of the boy’s brother and sister and a’ plays; : mates : “Missing Five Days
Today the boy had been missing for five days. The family has: endured an agonizing silence. The father, a well-to-do but not wealthy physician, was at first most c¢oncerned about the lad’s safety but yesterday and today he seemed to feel even cheerful compared to his. earlier attitude. Last night Dr. Mattson, Mrs, Mattson and their two other chile dren held a strange, watch party, Before a fireplace, quiet, comfort- - able, they awaited news of the: missing member of the little family circle. Five telepnoe-— lines to the home in an exclusive )-sidential section were open. Outside there were Federal agents, local peace authorities and friends whe raise the ransom demanded oy the kidnaper. The G-men ars police were not so confident. Several privately exe pressed the belief the boy met with foul play. Their assumption was that the kidnaper had not been heard from, and that because he was not responding to the appeals of the Mattsons he no longer had the child to offer in return for the money. There also were denidls that the. family, or representatives, had contacted the kidnaper. Mrs. Mattson, who has not left her home since = her son was taken, refused come ment on the report that the rane: som had been paid. It was pointed out that payment of the ransom would not neces=
sarily indicate the boy would be ree turned at once. 3
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hose . . . far famed for wear.
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The sale is right inside the doors. We'd rather not sell more than 2 dozen pairs. to a customer. |
NOTE—300 pairs of Strauss hose, parfsa of course . . . have been added to round out the sale. (4 pairs $1.00)
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