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VOLUME 49—-NUMBER 223

Taken 249 Miles to ‘Iron Lung’

MOTHERS AND BABES SAVED IN HOSPITAL FIRE

Cleveland Nuns Carry 13 Infants to Safety Through Smoke.

BLOW-TORCH IS BLAMED

Two-Alatm Blaze in Old] Wing Is Brought Under Control.

CLEVELAND, Nov. 26 (U. | P.) .—Thirteen mothers and their new-born babies were rescued heroically today from flames which swept St. Ann's Maternity Hospital. Nuns, nurses, firemen and neighbors saved the mothers and infants, some only a few days old. Nine fire companies brought under control flames in the old wing of the hospice. No one was reported injured. | Showed Heroism |

James Nimmo, first assistant fire chief, said “nuns and nurses picked up the babies, one under each arm, and ran through the smoke. They showed high heroism, going back into the burning building until everyone was safe.” Nimmo said three other mothers were able to walk from the building, assisted by firemen. He estimated damage to the building at! $20.000. | Seventeen infants, all under two | weeks of age. were moved to an- | other section of the hospital group, when firemen at first feared the blaze might spread to the nursery | section, | Margaret O'Neil, telephone operator in the building stayed at her | switchboard at personal risk. |

Blow Torch Blamed |

Nurses who attended the mothers wrapped them in blankets, picked them up by the shoulders and carried them to safety, Firemen said the blaze started from a blow torch which a work- | man was using to burn paint oft the side of the building, preparatory to painting. The first alarm was sounded at 10 a. m. It was reported at first that the blaze started in the top! section of a two-story frame structure behind the main building. Five minutes later, a special “twotwo” alarm rushed all available apparatus to the scene. The hospital is one of the city's | best known maternity hospices. It was opened 64 years ago, as an cfispring of Cleveland's old Charity Hospital.

FEAR MOUNTS FOR 11 ON MISSING PLANE

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont... Nov. 28 (U. P).—Fear mounted today for the safety of 11 persons aboard a Starrat Airways plane, unreporied for 46 hours in the wilderness area between Pickle Lake and Sioux Lookout. Fog-bound pilots waited for break in impenetrable mist which has hung over the course of the lost plane since shortly after its takeoff from Pickle Lake at 4 p. m Wednesday. Hopes were held that the missing ship, piloted by Ken Smith and

carrying Keith Gregson, mechanic, |

and nine passengers had landed safely on some isolated lake. But pilots pointed out that conditions

could not have been worse for the |

ski-equipped plane to attempt a forced landing.

MRS. DE BOWER AND

RAFFRAY TO MARRY

FORECAST: Cloudy, with rain probable tonight and tomorrow; continued mild temperature.

Times-Acme Telephoto.

Accompanied by a physician and a staff of nurses, James Helmer, 23, (in respirator) was placed aboard a special train at Stevens Point,

Wis., and speeded over 249 miles of ambulance in Chicago. There he

placed in a special respirator which had been made ready for him.

specially-cleared track to a waiting was whisked off to a hospital and A

victim of infantile paralysis, it was hoped the “iron lung” would help

him in his fight fo. life.

10 Die in S Holiday Toll

Reports From Rural Areas May Boost Total to Near 200.

By At least 152 persons in 27 states died in traffic accidents, shootings. drownings, murders and freak accidents on Thanksgiving Day. Reports from rural districts and the other 21 states were expected to boost the final holiday toll well above the 200 mark. Ohio, with 14 traffic deaths and six dead from miscellaneous violence, led the states, was second with 12. Traffic accidents porting states totaled 103. Most spectacular violent death of the day was at Deming, M. where W. L. Smith, a trainman, was shot and killed by two bandits. modern editions of Jesse James, who tried to hold up the Southern Pacific Railroad's Apache Limited, bound for Tos Angeles. The bandits were overpowered by passengers, beaten and taken to jail. (Story on page 3.)

Mistaken for Bear

Four persons. including a Catholic priest and two nuns, were killed

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{at Ladysmith, Wis, when their au-| |tomobile was struck by a truck. The | party was en route to the priest's]

ome for a Thanksgiving dinner.

In Michigan a man was mistaken!

for a bear and shot to death by a hunter. A 12-year-old girl was accidentally shot and killed by brother, 16, at Niagara Falls. A man in New York City finished his Thanksgiving dinner, collapsed and died from a heart attack.

BUREAU FORECASTS

Continued Cloudiness and Rain Predicted.

TEMPERATURES

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18 49 49 50

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Continued mild weather. with

cloudiness and probably more rain, |

ta te Acciden ls; in U. S. Is 152

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Nurse Lucile Bosley and the youth's father, Dr. P. A. Helmer, dentist, are shown with him.

Two Drowned, Two Killed in Hunting Mishaps and Five in Traffic.

(Editorial, Page 20: Other Stories, Pages 8 and 19)

Bv United Press Indiana today counted its holiday accident death toll at 10, five of them victims of highway mishaps. Two were drowned, two others killed in hunting accidents, and another died in a mine accident. Robert Elwood, 8, and his brother, | Roger, 9, sons of Mr. and Mrs, Harold K. Elwood of Ft. Wayne, were drowned in the St. Mary's River while playing on thin ice. | Police and firemen recovered the bodies near the middle of the river after searching for more than 20 minutes. It is believed that Robert tumbled through the ice and his brother drowned while attempting to rescue him. Horse Trainer Killed Frank Jones. 67-year-old horse trainer, was killed when struck by an automobile driven by William McKinley, Richmond, at a Connersville street intersection. Mr. Jones, a native of Rush County, was driving a horse hitched to a cart.

| Robert L. Myers, 21. of Paru. was | 1087 undesirable homes vacant, 408

killed and four other persons injured in an auto collision near that city. The injured wge Raymond | Hopper, 45, Peru, driver of the other car, and his small son; Myers’ sister, Ruth, 17. and Miss Flora Bikenberry, 20. of Walton. Eugene G. Talbert, 35. Ft. Wayne, was burned to death when trapped in the wreckage after an automobile | accident near Lima. O. James Closser, 47, Anderson, died | In a hospital from gunshot wounds | believed to have been received on a hunting trip. County Coroner R. | L. Armington said he would investigate the shooting. Harry Waddell, 41, Russiaville, was wounded fatally when his shotgun was discharged accidentally as he was starting on a hunting trip. He was found in his car near Ko- | komo. Rachel Stevens. 36, Oakland City, was crushed to death in the Kings Mine near Princeton when caught { between a mine car and timbers. Dick Balser, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Burr Balser, Delphi, accidentally shot off his right hand | while hunting. John Fox, Elwood, received a broken back and head injuires when his automobile was struck by Pennsylvania freight train near El-

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1937

15,000 HOMES

NEEDED HERE, FHA REPORTS

Low-Cost Housing Shortage To Be Accentuated by New Industries.

455 VACANCIES SHOWN

Building Program Held Key To City’s Recovery From Slump.

By 1. A. NEDELMAN

Indianapolis needs low-cost homes in the $2500 to $5000 price range. That is the shortage, estimated by Federal Housing Authority officials, that will exist with the industrial expansion scheduled to get | under way in greater force next | spring when four new industries move approximately 5000 new families to Indianapolis. That is the potential market for { local builders willing to accept volume profit in the inception of a large-scale home building program, they claim. It is a program that spells re- | vival of lagging industrial production and a return to the rate of re- | covery evidenced up until two ago.

| months Four Factors Cited

| Several factors make the incep[tion of the building program next year a definite possibility. They include: Liberalization by Congress of existing requirements for Federal | Housing Administration insurance

| of mortgages, to attract the hitherto |

| neglected small wage earner. Obsolescence of many homes now | inhabited because of the acute | shortage in the low rental field. | Pailure of the building program | to keep pace with growth of the city since 1921. A predominance of the tenant class in Indianapolis with approxi- | mately 58 per cent of the popula- | tion living in rented homes.

| Show Few Vacancies

{| Figures gathered by the Indian= | apolis Water Co., through surveys

| made by meter readings throughs |

{out the city, indicate how great is the need for new home construction. Water company field observers timate livable homes in the city Two

| es |are 99.9 per cent occupied. ! months ago there were only | modern homes available for occus | pancy in Indianapolis, many of {them in the higher price range. | An estimated 455 additional homes could be made habitable, statis-

tics showed. There were more than

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NEW DEAL FAILED

ON JOB, LEWIS SAYS

‘Labor and Capital Must Take Up Reins, He Asserts.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P). | —The Washington Herald published | today a copyrighted interview with John L. Lewis, chairman of the | Committee for Industrial Organiza- | tion, in which he advocated eco= {operation between labor and capital [and declared that this country’s greatest need was a large scale housing program. | The interview was obtained by Mrs. | and publisher of the Herald and | The Washington Times. She sought Mr. Lewis’ views, she said because it seemed that “a man who has attracted 4.000000 workers to his | leadership . .

| ideas on our current problems very

F.D.R

Money Devaluation Is Backed to Raise

Farm Prices.

‘MANDATE SOUGHT

15000 new |

Agriculture Chiefs] Favorably Report Out Bill.

(Editorial, Page 20) WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 | (U. P.).—The Senate Agri-| culture Committee today recommended that Congress | reduce the value of the dollar | in an effort to increase farm prices, The Committee asked that the commodity value of the dollar be regulated and stabilized at 100/ cents. | It was pointed out, in the formal report on the Administration Farm | Bill, that the commodity value of | the dollar now is $1.19. Reporting favorably on the Farm

Bill designed to increase the net income of farmers and stabilize |

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Eleanor M. Patterson, editor |

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supply, the Committee said: “Unless and until the dollar value | | is regulated and stabilized, it will | | be impossible to regulate production | of farm commodities in any kind of | | a satisfactory manner.” Although the dollar devaluation | idea was incorporated in the Committee report it is not as yet included in the Farm Bill. Senator | Thomas (D. Okla.) said he will wait | until “sufficient sentiment” for the plan develops before he proposes it as an amendment. | Meanwhile the House Agriculture ! | Committee voted 16 to 7 to favor. | | ably report its Farm Bill. | The Senate Committee report was | made public as the Senate resumed | debate on the farm measure. The | House was in week-end recess, but | | was scheduled to take up its Farm | Bill when it meets Monday.

Hard to Meet Expenses The committee reported further

that unless the dollar value was adjusted it would be impossible to ad- | just and regulate taxes, reats,

| | | wages and salaries. |

The Committee asked that the | power to alter the value of the dollar be co-ordinated in one Federal agency with a definite Congression- | al mandate properly to adjust its value and to stabilize it at the point |

adjustment, | “Since last March, the dollar has | increased in value from $1.115 to | $1.18, causing prices to fall, unem- | plovment to increase, depression to come again and now business of all kinds has slowed down and a new | depression is threatened,” the report | said. “The committee is of the opinion and reports that to date we have not cheapened the dollar sufficiently to raise the price level high enough | to show sufficient profits upon | which taxes are paid to balance the , budget.

Produces High Wages “A high price level produces high commodity prices. high wages, high | | farm income, high national income and consequently high tax income | to the Treasury.” The Committee recalled that when the President devalued the gold dollar some 40 per cent in connection | with the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1033 higher prices followed | immediately. “The cheapening of the dollar was a deliberate governmental policy to |

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FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

PRESSES FOR TAX RELIEF:

MOVES TO SLICE U. S. ROAD FUND; IN DOLLAR ASKED IN SENATE

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Vice President John Nance Garner is known as the most serene man in American politics, and he certainly looks just that in the photo

taken on his 69th birthday. While

Congress squabbles and fusses over

legislation, he sits back calmly, puffing out great clouds of cigar

smoke which almost hide his ruddy

face and jutting white brows. He

is in perfect health, bis most serious recent ailment being a toothache, which coincided with one of President Roosevelt's and caused Mr. Garner to say “See, we still feel alike.”

Four Bandits Bind Woman, Carry Oft Sate

EVANSVILLE, Nov, 26 (U, P).— Four bandits held up the Service Electric Company in downtown Evansville today and carried off a safe containing more than $300 in cash, $250 in bonds, and ofl stock valued at $2300. The bandits tied up Pauline Borders, an office worker. Miss Borders called police shortly after the quartet left by dialling for the telephone operator with her hands tied behind her. The robbery occurred an hour before downtown streets were thronged with more than 50,000 spectators witnessing a Christmas parade,

‘Robbers Seize Official ‘In $300 Bank Holdup

GOODWINE, Ill, Nov. 26 (U. P).! —Two youthful bandits robbed the | Goodwine Bank of $300 to $400 to- | day and escaped after seizing a |

| bookkeeper,

George Bauer, the bookkeeper,

| was released several miles away on

the Dixie Highway. He said the robbers fled southward toward Danville, Ill. Cashier Edward Kambly told po- | lice the bandits invaded the bank | shortly after he and Bauer entered | the building. The bandits took the money from a cash drawer and ordered Mr. Kambly to accompany | them on their flight. Mr. Kambly | refused, and one of the robbers, | waving a pistol, threatened to shoot

NATIONAL LABOR GROUP FORMED

Linking of Independent Union Activities Termed Aim.

Formation of the National Independent Labor Union Organization was started here today at the opening of a three-day conference of labor leaders in the Hotel Washington. Presiding officer was Fred S: Gal- | loway, Indianapolis, former Indiana | Legislature member. He said the new organization “has no connection with either the C. I. O. or the A.F.of L.” “It is to be an organization to co-ordinate activities of independent labor organizations throughout the United States,” Mr. Galloway said.

He added: “the group is not spon- |

soring company unions.” The organization was started recently as the outgrowth of an election among workers in Hershey, Pa.. where candy factory employees voted collective bargaining rights in

opposition to the C. I. O, he ex-|

plained. Mr. Galloway said about 15 delegates from 10 states were attending the conference. States represented, he added, were Indiana, Ohio, Minnssota, Louisiana, New

| Work, Florid:, Iowa, West Virginia,

Tennessee and California. He said the organization “has a starting membership of about 100,000 wage earners of the country.”

‘SPURS

Vinson Says Levy

Revision Is Being Speeded Up.

INDUSTRY

Departments Ordered By President to Buy Supplies.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 | (U. P.).—President Roose|velt said today he wanted Congress to revise taxes as soon as legislators are ready for such action and at the same time announced two new moves in his drive to aid business. Commenting on the President's statement, Chairman Fred M. Vinson (D. Ky.) of the House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee said he would not object to consideration of tax revision at the special session if a ‘well-rounded program” can be drafted in time,

He refused to predict how soon a tax bill would be ready. but said: | “We are working as hard and as fast as we can.” He said he believed other members of the subcommittee also favored action as soon as a program can be prepared.

Plans Public Hearings

Chairman Vinson said that pube lic hearings would be held either by his subcommittee or by the full Ways and Means Committee before action is sought on the House floor. Mr. Roosevelt's tax comment did not indicate whether he expected revisions to be enacted at the special session. Congressional leaders have

indicated they will not move to | changes taxes until the January | session, despite strong sentiment for immediate action.

Mr. Roosevelt's business moves came in two fields—one designed to bring immediate orders to commer- | cial firms and the other directed toe {ward his objective of bringing Gove I ernment expenditures into balance | with revenues. | The actions: He sent orders to Government De- | partments to speed spending for { Government supplies. He said the | Government had $245,000,000 budg- | eted for this purpose during the ree | mainder of the fiscal year and asked | department heads to place orders immediately to concentrate this aid to business in the next few months. He revealed he will send to Cone- | gress a message Tuesday calling for | revision of program for Federal aid | to state highways. He said the Gove | ernment is now spending $200,000, | 000 annually on this program and i indicated desire to cut the figure to $80,000,000 or $90,000,000, thus aid=ing in budget-balancing.

Broadens His Program

The call for business aid was echoed in the Senate today by Sen- | ator Copeland (D. N, Y.), who said | the Administration would be re- | warded if it conciliated business

ic in store for Indianapolis tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicted today. The baimy weather which followed [subnormal temperatures of a few] {days ago is general east of the

much worth listening to.” s him. When Mr. Kambly hid behind | goaqquarters will be established

wood, | Mr ; ‘ ib Mrs. Patterson wrote that Mr. Allie James Long. 25, and Boyd | pawis most important observation,

Cargill, 28, both of Detroit. were | 4 : ’ killed instantly an two other fie SMA in her own phraseology,

sons were injured critically when “Now that the Roosevelt Admin.

ENO, Nev, Nov. 26 (U. P).— Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower todav filed suit for divorce from Herbert F. de Bower of New York

so that she will be free to marry the man whose wife last week married Ernest Simpson, of the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. de Bower is scheduled to receive an uncontested divorce from district judge Thomas Moran later

today. She charged extreme cruelty. |

The de Bowers were married Greenwich, Conn, Jan. 23, 1923. She will leave immediately for New York, she said, to marry Jacques A. L. Raffray, New York insure ance broker.

POLICE FIND MAN DEAD Police called to the home of Paul Reece, 56, of 1528 Roosevelt Ave. (oday found him dead in bed, apparently a victim of heart disease.

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Rocky Mountains. the Bureau said, [with the mercury here about nine degrees higher than the average for this time of vear.

HINKLE WILL HEAD STATE DETECTIVES

| Detective Ray Hinkle today was promoted by the State Police Board {to the rank of lieutenant in charge |of the detective division at ieadquarters in the State House. | Mr. Hinkle, whose home is in | Bloomington, was appointed to the |department May 24, 1033. For two | years starting May 15, 1935, he was on leave of absence while serving as head of the State Excise Police. He returned last May and has been as|signed as detective on headquarters |staff. A two-week leave was granted Lieut. Don Kooken to permit him to serve as instructor in a traffic school conducted by the Georgia Stale Highway Patrol. The leave starts Dec. 1.

TAX BOARD APPROVES NEW APPROPRIATION

The State Tax Board today approved an additional appropriation of $312303 for Marion County, to be paid from taxes to be collected next year. The funds were: Auditor's office, $1000: County Commis sioners. 894303: Court House repairs, $400; Superior Court 2. $300;

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the automobile in which they were | riding left U. 8. Highway 31 near | Indianapolis and crashed into a tree,

‘Seven Speeders Pay $115 in Fines

Seven of the 12 alleged speeders | arrested overnight as tinued their war on fast drivers paid $115 in fines and costs in | Municipal Court today. | Eleven other erring motorists | paid $82. Convicted of driving 65 | miles an hour, Harry BE. Classey, | Bridgeport, was fined $35 by Judge | Dewey Myers. | A heavy afternoon docket listing | 80 cases, most of them involving | traffic violations, faced George S. | Dailey, judge pro tem. in the court of Judge Charles Karabell. | Two Detroit persons, injured in | an accident here yesterday in which two men were killed, remained in | critical condition in City Hospita. | They are Miss Rubye Pottenger, 18, and Charles Vaughn, 23. Both have fractured skulls. | Boyd Cargill, 28, and Allie James | Long, 25, were killed when their | speeding car left the highway in the 6100 block Pennsylvania St, Roaa 31, and struck a tree early yesterday. Their deaths boosted the county's 1937 toll to 135, and the city's to 901. | Meanwhile, Chief Morrissey announced that police officers now doing headquarters clerical work would | be transferred soon to the force for | active duty. An equal number will

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Municipal Court 2, $280. The an- | be assighed from the force to the ticipated expenditures were included motorcycle “quad, adding an estiin the i938 budget under the gen- Pegi 12 more to the

traftic patrol, | ing the

istration is not doing so well, it is {up to labor and capital to co-operate in pulling the country out of its | troubles.” | Mr. Lewis said in the copyrighted | dispatch that he was a critic of the | Roosevelt Administration, but that lhe would always be an admirer of | the President's aims and ideals. | One of the most serious defects | Mr. Lewis sees in the Administra | tion, the dispatch said, is that “too | much time is given to balancing po-

OTTO KRUGER, ACTOR, | "HURT IN AUTO CRASH

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| LONDON, Nov, 26 (U. P).—Otto | | Kruger, American motion picture | | actor, was injured today in an auto- | | mobile collision in the Millhill district of North London. : He was taken to a hospital for | treatment of scalp and facial] | wounds. Five stitches were required |

in a Buick sedan bearing Illinois ' : | “by expenditures of private capital

license number 407-133.

Indiana Police Join Search for Pair

Two bandits who held up the Goodwine, Ill, bank and seized a bank official, were hunted in western and central Indiana today. Goodwine is 10 miles northwest of Hoopeston, Ill. Indiana Po-

litical personalities and not enough | to close the scalp wound. The driver | lice and county law officials in that [given to applving the seat-of-the- of the other car received head in-| area were expected to set up a road

| pants to the seat-of-the-chair.”

Japanese Assume Control of Shanghai; Peril to Democracy Seen if Tokyo Wins

SHANGHAI, Nov. 26 (U. P).— Administration of the rich port of Shanghai, through which pours the | wealth of the Far East, was seized today by Japan, supplementing military occupation with civil authority.

Maritime customs in Shanghai, one of the greatest sources of reve enue for the Chinese Government, shortly will pass to the control of the Japanese, it was indicated, A | Japanese appraiser and examiners of customs were assigned to duty on the French and other foreign bunds. The Domei News Agency announced that tomorrow morning the Japanese would take over control of all Chinese Government communication facilities in Shanghai, includ-

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| juries.

blockade.

| SHANGHAIlI-Japan takes full civil a

uthority over Shanghai port. |

WASHINGTON-—Japanese victory in China would be definitely regarded |

and other democracies. HENDAYE-—Steady progress toward

The Domei Agency said it was informed that the Japanese would take over the Ministry of Communications’ broadcasting station XQHC. A Japanese official said that “if the necessity arose,” the Customs Jetty would.be seized. According to authoritative sources, the customs action was taken with the knowledge of foreign customs authorities, who said that the move was made on the grounds thal Chi-

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by the U. S. Government as a direct and distinct menace to America

since exchange of British and Rebel agents.

armistice in Spanish war reported

It was believed that Chinese technical and mechanical employees will remain in all communications bureaus, while the Japanese will take over the responsible positions. It was not disclosed whether radio and telegraphic communications would be interrupted. It was believed they would continue to function under strict supervision. The Mackay Radio and the Radio Corp. of America recently negotiated with the Chingse as to the possi-

17 SEAMEN RESCUED

FROM SINKING SHIP

‘Stand-by Crew Aboard Tug Off Haiti.

MIAMI, Fla. Nov. 26 (U. P.).—A | skeleton crew of 17 men was rescued

| when the British freighter Nolling-

ton Court, foundered off the northwest coast of Haiti, according to a relay of radio messages intercepted today by Tropical Radio. The balance of the crew, numbering 18 men, previously had been rescued by the S. S. Chagres after the Nollington Court ripped a hole in her hull on a submerged obstacle. The messages reported the men aboard the sinking vessel had been rescued by the salvage tug Killereg.

CONFESSES KILLING WIFE 25 YEARS AGO

RALEIGH, N. C., Nov. 26 (U. P.. —A psychiatrist today will examine John Roberts, 64-year-old farmer, who walked into the Sheriff's office yesterday and confessed poisoning his first wife 25 years ago. Sheriff N. F. Turner said Roberts had been drinking heavily and said he consumed a quart of whisky a day for more than a mon

Is Taken

to fight the business recession.” “T have often been critical of the | Administration and I hold no brief | for Wall Street,” Senator Copeland said, “but even a gesture from the Administration might mean almost instant business recovery.”

Housing Bill Planned

40-INCH MAIN BREAKS, FLOODS BOULEVARD

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 (U. P.). = The Elysian Park landslide. slipping at alarming increase of speed, smashed a 40-inch water main today. A cascade of water poured down the hillside into Riverside Drive. Water covered the highway ankle deep as it flowed down Arnold Ave., forcing out a mass of muck and washing down great quantities of earth, sand and rock to the Riverside Drive pavement. The fissure at the mountain top had widened more than a foot.