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VOLUME 48—N

UMBER 255

Indianapolis Times

Cloudy and considerably colder, with rain early tonight; tomorrow fair and colder.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1937 |

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PRICE THREE CENTS

RESCINDING OF TRACTION LINE ORDER HINTED

Judge Wilson to Meet Today “With Representatives Of Workers.

COMPROMISE ON WAGES

Majority Said to Be Willing | To Take 1214 Per Cent Pay Boost.

Superior Court Judge Herbert E.| Wilson today took steps to rescind | the order he issued last Thursday to | abandon operation of all Indiana | Railroad lines at midnight Jan. 9, A conference was called by Judge Wilson for 4 p. m. today when representatives of 1256 workers of the railroad were to present petitions. The petitions were said to voice a desire of a majority of the company workers to accept a 12'2 per cent increase in wages offered by Bowman Elder, receiver, promise in a labor dispute.

_ Feared Operating Loss

The order to abandon service on the traction lines, said to be the.

largest system of its kind in the | country, was made by Judge Wilson |

when Mr. Elder reported the company would be forced to operate at a loss if a 20 per cent wage increase | were paid. The 20 per cent increase, asked by the Amalgamated Association of | Street, Electric Railway and Motor | Bus Employes, was upheld Nov. 18} in |a labor arbitration board decision. Mr. Elder said that a full 20 per | cent increase to all employes would cost the company an additional $130,000 annually. He said the company’'s profits last year amounted | to $90,000, and that the 12': per | cent increase would total $36,000.

Is Recalled

SEARCH ICY WATERS FOR BLAST VICTIMS

By United Press \ CHARLEVOIX, Mich, Jan. '2— Coast Guard power boats and a freighter searched the icy waters of Upper Lake Michigan today for trace of possible survivors of the explosion on the mail boat Marold

Testimony

| changed, numerous conflicting re-

as a com-

tradition.

MERIT SYSTEM AT

od tor Taking Invalid Child's Savings

John Wpynett, 21, Hazleton, Ind. farm hand, today was fined $10 and | costs and sentenced to 45 days in jail when he pleaded guilty in Mu- | (n licipal Court to having stolen an in- | valid child's bank containing money {she had expected to use for Christ-

mas purchases. | The child was Mary Ann Taylor, | 11, who a year ago last July 4 was

[burned by fireworks and spent more

{than six months in Methodist Hos- | | pital. Since her return home, her father; carl Taylor, 235 3. Temple Ave, {said in court that he had given her every bright new coin he had. Her ! savings had reached $18.53, he said. | Wynett told Judge Charles Kara‘bell he had used the money to buy | himself and his girl Christmas pres- | ents.

PAININ POPE'S LEG RENEWED

Vatican Anxiety Increases |

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HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL IN NATION NORE THAN 200

Fatalities Continue After Great Celebration on

| New Year’s Eve. ‘TRAFFIC MANY

KILLS Brothers Coast to Death Lake Near Home At Knox.

(Copyright, 1937, by United Press)

In the wake of the wildest New Year’s celebration since the depression beganf§ the Nation - today watched thetholiday’s violent death toll pass the 200 mark. Reports from 30 states and the District of Columbia showed at least 229 deaths in accidents, murders and suicides. Another dozen states reported no fatalities. These and the deaths of others | critically injured were expected to send the. final toll beyond 250 and possibly 300. The death list was about 100 below that of the Christ-

After Pontiff’s Sleep Is Interrupted.

By United Press . VATICAN CITY, Jan. 2—Re-| | newal of pain in Pope Pius's swollen leg caused intensified anxiety | in the Vatican today. t | Vatican officials said the Pope's | | sleep was interrupted by inter- | mittent pains, though they added | | that the pains were not so acute as | _| those of a week ago and that aside | i from them the Pope passed a fairly | good night. | For 48 hours, it was said, the | Pope's condition had been station- | | ary. Blood circulation had improved, | | somewhat, it was said, and the Pope | | | was getting more rest. But fear of | complications was revied again, and | the atmosphere about the Vatican ! was a sorrowful one. The Vatican department of state | said today that it was not intended | to issue official bulletins on the Pope's condition unless -it became apparent that death was imminent. { This is in accordance with papal

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Despite official assurances that | the Pope's condition remained un-

ports wete circulated indicating he was gradually becoming weaker and his condition graver.

| accidents.

{ Massachusetts 8, Michgian 13, Min-

mas holidays. Approximately three-fourths of | the deaths occurred in automobile Added to these were a scattering of suicides, explosions, fires and murders, many of them | connected with wild New Year's | | parties. i In Peoria, Ill, a vengeful New | Year's celebrator, ejected from a tavern for misconduct, returned and | paid his grievance by raking me | crowded bar with a gunfire volley. | Four persons were wounded and the | bartender, Harry Walraven, is ex- | pected to die. 2 Children Drowned

From Knox, Ind., came a tragic | story of death linking Christmas and New Year's. Yesterday, searchers recovered from Eagles Lake the | bodies of William and Fred Shiplock, who coasted to their deaths Christmas afternoon on a sled their parents game them as a present. Death by states: Alabama 4, California 20, Colorado 1. Connecticut 11, District of Columbia 1, Illinois 29. Indiana 3, Towa 3, Kansas 3, Louisiana 4,

nesota 4, Missouri 8, Nebraska 3, New Jersey 12, New York }1, Ohio 7, Oklahoma ~1,| Pennsylvania 19, Rhode Island 12, South Dakota 1, Texas 12, Utah 1, Vermont 1, Virginia 8, Wisconsin 15, Florida 4, ‘Georgia 12 and Kentucky 1.

5 Motorists Fined

INFIRMARY URGED

II, which destroyed the craft Fri-| day night and fired an abandoned | tanker lashed to it. | Flames, visible on Beawer Island, |

15 miles away, advised the Coast |

_ Guard station there: of “the lake |

'$2,602,728.31.

' house and they've not only had

tragedy, but heavy ice frustrated | early’ efforts to approach the flaming vessel. Fate of five members of | the crew aboard the Marold II re- | Inained uncertain.

BEATING CHARGED TO STATE POLICE DENIED

William Jenus Cozart, Claremont, Ind. charged today in Municipal Court that State Police had beaten him last night. The accused officers denied the charge. Cozart, one of six defendants, was charged with receiving stolen goods. Charges against him, Robert | Young, and Carry Cozart were dis- | missed on motion of the state. The cases of Harry Hart, Louise Cozart, and Glenn Cozart, charged with larceny, were continued.

CITY GAS TAX SHARE TO EXCEED $132,000

Indianapolis is to receive $132.821.47 and Marion County $33.620.50 from the state gasoline tax collections for the last quarter of 1936, Laurence Sullivan, state auditor, announced today. The total state disbursement for this period were

BOB BURNS

Says: I happened to

mention that there had only been one divorce in my family as far back as we could remember and every since then I 6 been gittin’ letters from people askin’ me if I have some rule for a happy, peaceful married life. Of course, I don’t put myself up as a judge .on such matters, but I do think that the main trouble with married people is that both sides think they have to answer the other one back. One of ’em flares up with a few little words—then the other one piles some more fuel on top of that little blaze—then the other one comes back with another big load, and first thing you know, there's a big bonfire. I think the best rule for married couples is the one used by my Uncle Uny and my Aunt Boo. When they was first married, they made a rule that if one of ‘em started an argument, the other one would walk out of the

40 years of perfect married happiness, but my Uncle Uny is the healthiest lookin’ man you ever saw from spendin’ so much of his

| mates and construction of an ad-

{ by the grand jury in its final re- | port today."

| workers at the

Jury Suggests Privileges for Willing Workers. |

| | | Establishment of a merit system | for Marion County Infirmary in- | { |

ditional building for the Negro! orphans’ home were recommended |

suggested that willing infirmary enjoy | more privileges than those not willing to work. The report on the infirmary also recommended that the two condenned top floors be torn down. Complimentary reports were madeon conditions at Julietta Hospital for the Insane and the County Jail. The jury criticised conditions at the Negro orphany home.

MARKETS AT A GLANCE

By United Press

Stocks ‘lower; motors weak. Bonds irregular; South American issues firm. Curb stocks generally lower and quiet. Chicago stocks irregularly lower. Foreign exchange steady. Cotton, grain and commodity | markets closed.

The jury

As Celebration Ends MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC DEATH TOLL

1¢ 1936 oe TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Accidents

TRAFFIC ARRESTS Jan. 1 Speeding ..... Running red light . to Improper parking ......... seve. Improper license Reckless driving ............ . Drunken driving

Two cases were continued and five motorists were fined for traffic violations by Municipal Court Judge Charles Karabell today as the New Year's celebration came to an end. Refusing to grant George Marshbanks, 333 S. Capitol Ave. time io pay his fine and costs, on charges of disobeying a traffic signal, Judge Karabell warned drivers that no probation will be allowed in traffic cases. Fines must be paid at once, he said. James Keith, 901 N. New.Jersey St., was fined $5 and costs. with costs suspended, on a charge of reckless driving. No action was taken on the charge of having no driver's license, but Judgé Karabell Issued a warning that 1937 licenses must be obtained immediately.

By United Press

the plight of the others. ing their horses for meat.

ticed, he said.

Bernardino Mountains.

Trapped by Snow in Hills 200 Indians Face Death; Coast Roads Blocked

GALLUP, N. M,, Jan. 2.—Trapped by deep snow and faced with death from starvation and exposure, more than 200 Navajo Indians today awaited rescue by fellow tribesmen and government employes. The men, women and children, hunting pinion nuts when the storms caught them, are scattered through the Zuni Mountains. Two half-starved Navajos reached Zuni yesterday and reported They had fought their way through drifts and clogged trails for three days. A gavernment pilot flew over the Zuni region, but did not sight any Indians.

E. R. Fryer, reservation superintendent, who earlier this week supervised the rescue of 200 Indians from another section, started government food trucks toward the area last night,

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2.—State highway crews worked foday to release hundreds of marooned motorists in the snow-covered San

A week- -long storm blanketed the mountain roads with from one to five feet of snow. Only major highways have been kept open.

REDONIA, Ariz, Jan. 2.—Blizzards paralyzed motor travel in northern Arizona today as rescue crews made a new effort to rescue James Pointer, maintenance man for the United States Bureau of Public Roads, critically ill at El Motte Lake.

They said the Indians were kill-:

Only their horses were no-

Farmers Outsmart Foxes In Boone County Putsch

Times Special LEBANON,

Ind.. Jan. 2—The balance of power in Boone County

once more is with the farmers who yesterday conducted a successful

putsch against the foxes.

All last year, the foxes had things their own way and went about stealing people's chickens and preving on rabbits and others of the

3000 STRIKERS CONTINUE VIGIL

Anderson Group Hears Own

Orchestra, Enjoys Meals In G. M. C. Plant.

Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 2.—Three thousand Guide Lamp Co. employes passed the forty-eighth hour of their “sit down” strike here today to tunes from a 30-piece orchestra inside the building. There was no suggestion of violence as the ‘men settled into a strike routine that ingludes card playing, regular exercise, and four meals a day. Hugh Thompson, United Antomebile Workers of America official, in charge of strikers, said he expects ‘no violence and that conferences on a proposed similar strike of the 9000 employes of the Delco-Remy plant which may be called here next week

are to continue tonight. A restaurant across fr the Guide plant, which manufa es

accessories for General Motors, has been turned over to the strikers, and the strikers’ wives work in 12-hour shifts cooking meals for them. Company officials have issued no statements concerning the strike, other than a general statement of policy released in Detroit by the General Motors management which did not specifically refer to any strike center.

‘COLDER WEATHER

IS DUE TOMORROW

HOURLY TEMPERATURES . Mm... 39 -10 a. 40 . m... 40 11 a. m. 47 .m.,.. 40 - 12 (Noon) 49 Mm... 43 1pm... 51

Considerably colder weather {is due in Indianapolis beginning tonight, and remaining over tomorrow if not longer, the Weather Bureau reported today. The lowest temperature tonight is to be between 25 and 30 degrees, the bureau predicted.

BRITISH SCIENTIST DEAD LONDON, Jan. 2.—The death of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, anthropologist at Broadstairs, Kent, last night, was reported today. He was 65.

animal kingdom. At first the farmers didn’t kro |

what was wrong. There were fowl Goria ly Awaits

and fewer chickens, and almost no rabbits for hunting purposes. Some one took a census and found | that the fox population was way | out of proportion. Yesterday 3000 farmers got together. They, formed a square six miles to the side, encompassing 20,000 acres of land. Then they started beating the landscape and walking toward each other. They converged on the Lannis Taylor farm. Six foxes were in that square and got caught. Their hides brought $25.50, which was put in the Boone County Conservation League’s treasury. It was a “gunless” hunt. The animals were clubbed to death after they were exhausted. another such hunt-is to be het AY the vicinity of Waugh, Boone County, a week from today.

GENERAL EPIDEMIC OF FLU IS UNLIKELY

Accurate Wioration Is

Hard to Obtain.

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Unofiicial reports of influenza outbreaks in New York City, Minneapolis and Chicago have reached the TU. S. Public Health Service here, but figures from the entire nation show that there is no general epidemic. For the week ending Dec. 26, latest for which reports are in, state health officers throughout the country reported a total of only 2088 cases. This figure may be far, below the actual total, since influenza 1s a disease for which it is almost impossible to get accurate reports. New York State outside of New York City, for example, does not collect influenza case reports. In the local outbreaks influenza cases are a little higher than usual for this season, but have not reached the high figures of the epidemics of 1928 and 1932. It was noted the outbreaks did not appear until ‘December and they are not considered forerunners of wide epidemics, as they generally begin in October. Health authorities advise people to go to bed, keep warm and call a physician if they have symptoms of

GOVERNMENT IN

THREATEN NAZI BAT SEIZURES

Tiny Basque. eStats Notifies ( ermany That Force Will Be Used.

AT | ND OF ITS PATIENCE

Radi Announcement States T at No Compromise Will Be Made.

By Uni id Press HEIN DAYE, Franco-Spanish Border, Ji n. 2—The tiny Basque governme it in Northern Spain tonight annou: ced by radio that it would use fo ce if necessary to counter Germe aggression against loyalist shippiz 2. After | planes’ rescued the Spanish steamer Sotin and conducted her safely into S: ona harbor Basque officials

| official q arters confirmed that two

sent a radio message at 4:20 p. m., stating ‘that it was at the end of its . pat ence and = wouldn't compromise with Germany. Inste: d, it ordered its commanders to -ireply with force to any further German aggression.” ‘The {’ton, which was grounded when tl 2 German cruiser Koenigs+ berg fir 14 shots over her bow and | attempt. 4d to seize her in reprisal for the Palos: incident, was refloated : § y high tide,

'Reacticn to Seizures | 0 Unitediii’ ress BERLI J, Jan. 2.—Gerimans imperturba! 'y awaited an expected storm of (foreign reaction today as

German warships had ‘“provisionally” /sei pd two Spanish Loyalist | steamshi] s off the Spanish coast. Both ¢ izures were made in re-/ taliation | pr the seizure of the German ste: mship Palos by Loyalist warships, and for the refusal of Basque | rovincial authorities to surrender |a portion of the Palos’ cargo an | a Spanish passenger taken fro i the ship. The Sy nish steamship Aragon was “prot isionally” seized by the battleship: Admifal Graf Spee, official quart rs said, and the Spanish steamship Soton "was “seized by the cruiser K¢ :nigsberg off the Bay of | Biscay coist./ Both seizures were made yest: rday.

U. S. Sti ts Probe Of Airpli ne Sales WASHIDMN TON, Jan. 2.— The United Sts es Government has begun an inv stigation of reports that airplane sk pments from this country to Me: co are being transshipped to ;pain for use in the civil war there, t was revealed today. Officials | the State Department confirmed tat the Munitions Control Board 'had issued export licenses with ih the last two weeks for shipments ¢ the planes to Mexico but under he provisions of these licenses the | .may not be reshipped for military | use. Heavy penalties are provide: | in cases of violations of this requ ‘ement and it is under this clause n the neutrality laws that the inv stigations have begun. Six of the: blanes reported diverted from their vowed destination for use in the panish civil war were sold by Am rican Airlines to the Compania D | Transportes Aeros Del Pacifico, a N e2xican line. C. R. Smii 1, president of American, told th | United Press today that the |ilanes—Curtis condor transports se {ting 15 passengers and formerly use | by that company in (Turn; to Page Three) Three) :

M’NUTTS QUIT MANSION

Governor A cNutt announced he is moving from the Governor's Mansion oon Fall reek Blvd. to the Indianapolis .At iiletic Club today and will have the nansion ready for occupancy_ by | rovernor-elect Town-

loyalist warships and air- |

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In Tavern Day

Ransom Asked for

By United Press TACOMA, Wash., Jan. thief was sought by police Mattson kidnaping case. He was described as a

Mrs. William W.

WOMAN MAYOR

Will Hold City Hall ‘Fort’ Against Governor’s Slate, She Vows.

By HENRY. M'LEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.,' Jan. 2. —“I don't want to be dramatic,

ine, but I intend to hold this - fort against all invaders until convinced that I should surrender.

The speaker was Mrs. - Edith | Irene Armstrong, the 50-year-old grandmother, whose refusal to obey Governor Dave Sholtz orders that | she quit as Mayor of Daytona Beach nearly resulted in civil war in this wealthy resort city yesterday. Mrs. Armstrong talked to me—the first interview she has granted Sines the Governor's ouster order wa

barricaded City Hall. I made my entrance through the narrow back door, and was admitted by the Chief of Police. ~

Defies Governor's Slate

Standing guard ‘with the were seven of his officers, and a smattering of city employes, ranging from drivers of garbage trucks to mechanics. They were members of the “defending army” which yes{erday poked machine guns, sawedoff shotguns, and pistols from the windows of the City Hall and defied the new city slate, named by the Governor, to enter. Mrs. Armstrong said the Governor’s charges against her of “malfeasance and misfeasance in office, neglect of duty, and incompetency” were patently ridiculous, since she did not take office until Dec. 10 and had not had time to prove whether she was i a good, bad, or indifferent Mayor. “The Governor ‘is not actually | attacking me, but using me as a means of venting his personal hatred on my husband, whom I succeeded,” she said. “I would be a weak character, indeed, to allow the Governor to so ruthlessly dominate

influenza or a cold with fever.

send tonight}

the affairs of this city.”

COAL BOOTLEGGERS RI

SK LIVES

the outlaw industry brought into poverty of the miners.

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Bootleg coal has taken the place of bootleg liquor in the headlines, as Pennsylvania authorities wrack their brains for a way to eliminate

existence by unemployment and

Using makeshift, unsafe equipment, like the “elevator” above, miners eke out a meager Jivelihood working. gsitiously the veins left idle by suspension

WREST BARE LIVING FROM IDLE MINES

Wives Hi 'PE FOR BETTER TIMES

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Tragic is the contrast between the mine in the foreground and the huge idle colliery in the distance. The men whe ‘work the little mine normally would he employed in the big shaft. - Without regular Jobs, they, risk their lives to get a few tons out of organizati

proper marke cash in on their

on, Shey are at a

Sheriffs, m nisters and business bloodshed woul |

men told Gov. George H. Earle

be sure to result from any effort to stop bootleg traffic

“in coal. Putti gz miners’ safety ahead of other considerations, Earle BE a solutio of the perplexing problem that will enable the wives

pl ved men, like Mrs. » families together u

DEFIES OUSTER

or cast myself in the role of a hero- |

served on her and her officials ol the executive chamber, deep in the |

Chief |

UG-ADDICTED [EF HUNTED AS

SUSPECT

Mihi Sought for Questioning, Last Seen

Before Tacoma

Boy’ Ss Abduction, Is Claim. NOTE IN CHILD'S WRITING REQUESTED

Doctor Fears That Crank or Rival Criminal May Be Attempting to Collect $28,000

Boy’s Safe Return.

2:—A known drug addict and car

today for questioning in the

37-year-old Tacoma musician,

who was seen last entertaining in a tavern a week ago, the night before Charles’ Mattson, 10-year-old son of Dr. and Mattson, was stolen from his home. The suspect's appearance was said to tally closely with a description given by three children who were in the Mattson home at the time of the abduction. In seeking him; police were following a report by the terrorized chilc dren who witnessed the abduction that the

<idnaper appeared to be under the’ influence of drugn or | liquor.

Meanwhile, detectives held ane other suspect for investigation. Near Olympia, 30 miles from here, finding of an abandoned campfire {in the woods put officers on the | trail of a man and a boy said to have been seen going into, the | brush.

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No Answers, Poctor Says

Dr. Mattson, maintaining he has

had no answers to the two classified advertisements inserted in the | Seattle Times in attempting to | contact the kidnaper, will demand absolute proof that his son is alive | before paying $28,000 ransom, it was | asserted. { The only discrepancy in the | was his age, police said. | The | bearded gunman who dropped a’ | worn ransom note signed “Tim” on the floor of the Mattson home| was first thought to be middle-aged. | Later, however, Virginia Chatfield, 16, Seattle, a friend who was visite ing the Mattson children, said the kidnaper was not. as old as first reported. 7 : Federal agents indicated Halbert Reynolds, 33, a sailor, picked up by police last night when he tried to pawn a ring, had no connection with the kidnaping. ‘Break’ Believed Near

Although Reynolds answered [the general description of the kidnaper, there apparently was little beyond that to link him with the case. ; Activities at the Mattson home in= | dicated a “break” might be near {and that- the kidnaper had proved or-was about to prove Charles was alive and well and in his custody. Dr. Mattson was understood to have demanded a note. in the child’s own handwriting. : Although exact text of the ransom note has not been released by Federal investigators, it was reported to ~have told the father he would receive a second message in the same off-color purple ink and written on the same toy typewriter as the frst note. Dr. Mattson was said to be dea Handley absolute proof of the kide napey, fearing a crank or a rival gangster might be attempting ito eollect the ransom.

3 BELIEVED KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES

Buy United Press MUNFORD, Ala., Jan. 2.—Three persons were burned to death when a plane, believed to. be a missing Army transport, crashed in an isolated section near here. Medical of=~ ficers and authorities were en route here from the Army post at Fort McClellan, near Anniston. Witnesses said there were three bodies in the burned plane that crashed near Chehaha Park. The plane crashed on a mountainside.

SHORTAGE IS CHARGED TO PIKE COUNTY MAN

Accounts Board today reported a shortage of $5023.40 in the accounts of James V. McGlasson, former Pike County Deputy Treasurer. Mr. McGlasson left office Nov. 10, 1936, and his whereabouts are une known, the examiners said.

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