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NAVY BUD “TWO NEW

Mayor and Consul in

Japanese Army Rules May Involve Foreigners In Courts-Martial.

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DEC. 27, 18

W NAVY BUDGET MAY CALL FO | BATTLESHIPS; | AMERICANS STAY AT TSINGTAO

Shantung City Warn of Siege; New

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the port, including about 300 Americans.

‘More than 6) Americans have been evacuated’ or are ready to leave, but the remainder indicated their intention of staying until it Was apparent there was no hope of avoiding hostilities. The U. S. State Department advised the Uni ‘States consulate at Tsingtao to ur - all Americans to leave. | The light cruiser Marblehead and the destroyer Pope were rushed to Tsingtao from Shanghai last week after Chinese blew up more than 400 million dollars worth of Japanese property in the Tsingtao area, including most of the Japaneseowned cotton mills. The American gunboat Sacramento was already at Tsingtao.

Panay Diplomacy Held Victory for America

~ By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor i WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The closing of the Panay incident represents a complete victory for American diplomacy—despite the fact that Tokyo insists the sinking was accidental and that Emperor Hirohito did not apologize. The fact of the matter is, President Roosevelt never .asked the Emperor to apologize and never contemplated doing so. Hence no apology from him was expected. Similarly, the State Department did not really expect Tokyo to admit that its fighting forces had deliberately sunk an American warship, knowing it was an American warship when it did so. Such are the ways of diplomacy that an admission of this nature would have added te the peril of a Japanese-American clash. That is what everybody wished above all to avoid. [ ° Such an admission would have involved the Japanese Government in an overt insult to United States .sovereigiity. Whereupon the United States would either have had to swallow the insult publicly or ‘else hand Japan an ultimatum and mobilize its fleet. The way the incident was handled made it as easy as possible for Japan to make formal apology, and for the United States to accept it. In the sense that what is not planned is accidental, the feeling here is that, so far as the Japanese Government is concerned, the bombing was an accident. That is to say, the Government itself not only did not plan it but was pretty upset when it happened.

Fish Praises ‘Panay Notes, Flays Landon

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.) — Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y.) to"day warned that the Administration is not immune to criticism in its foreign policy and assailed former Governor Alf M. Landon . for his . statements in connection with the destruction of the U. S. S. Panay. Rep. Fish praised the Administration for “able handling” of the situation.

Peace Terms to Be *

Easy, Saito Says

- WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.). —Japan’s-peace terms to China will demonstrate that she has no aggressive designs and will be so moderate that Americans will be surprised, Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito said today.

New Jap Army Rules May Involve U. S. -

SHANGHAI, Dec. 27° (U. P).—

‘House leaders plotted today to de- | stroy “the “Ludlow

| would have no difficulty in defeat-

tions were threatened today when Japanese authorities announced a series of drastic regulations aimed against any person, Chinese or foreign, who commits offenses against Japanese forces in China. A few hours after the regulations were announced, a Japanese army spokesman complained that some-

nades at a Japanese military launch in oochow Creek, bordering the British defense sector of the International settlement,

spokesman said,” and slightly wounded a Japanese soldier. 3 The new regulations apply all territory occupied by the Japahese, in other parts of China as well as in Shanghai. The death penalty is pronvided if “offenses” under the regulations are deemed sufficiently serious.

Courts-Martial Prescribed

Under the regulations, foreigners who go to homes or business in the Japanese-controlled area will sur-

render their extraterritorial rights, so far as offenses against the Japanese armed forces are concerned. It is prescribed that Japanese courts-martial shall try persons who violate the regulations. There were the makings of an international incident last night when First Sergt. E. D. Gorman, of the United States Marines, a Nebraskan, disarmed & Japanese municipal policeman who was -threatening patrons of the Savoy Bar with a revolver. The Japanese was taken to a police station. : , American authorities agreed today to allow the stationing of small units of a Japanese naval landing party at two Japanese cotton mills in the U. S. Marine defense sector west of Soochow Road, from which Japanese sailors withdrew at the outbreak of hostilities. ? Dispatches from Hongkong reported today that a Japanese fleet of 20 vessels, including troop transports, had been sighted at Macao, just below Hongkong, Sunday, with many Japanese war planes over them. This was believed to mean that the Japanese might soon start their threatened drive to cut the railroad between Hongkong and Canton, commercial capital "of South China.

Ludlow Plan Called

Diplomatic Obstacle WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P).—

“war referendum proposal in an attempt to counteract what they consider its detrimental effect on American foreign relations. 5 They planned to mobilize Administration forces to sirike down the proposed constitutional amendment, even before the House has an opportunity to debate it. The proposal can be brought to the house floor Jan. 10. A “The way things stand now,” one leader said, “The House of Representatives is on record that 218 members, a majority, favor a proposal for a national referendum before war is declared, except in case of invasion or attack. That has made a bad impression on the world. “We want to defeat the proposal by a big vote on the motion to. discharge the committee. That will show the world the true feelings of the House.” Leaders were confident that they

ing the proposal. They claimed that personal interviews with petition signers revealed many are indifferent or signed without considering

one had thrown three hand gre-|.

. One of tne bombs exploded, the}

The $25,000 fishing smack Nancy Hawks, first boat to be seized in the drive of the Federal Government, of which the secret naval gnaneuvers are a part,

EKINS TELLS OF DEADLY MINUTE

Three Bombs Killed 1600 in Shanghai, Reporter Relates. By H. R. ERINS ; yr . Uni Press NSRP YERE. Bec. 211 flew from New York to Shanghai last July to join the {United Press staff covering the Chinese-Japanese hostilities which had started outside Peiping the night of July 7. Our editors in New York believed these hostilities would develop into a major war. They did, and I found myself in the midst of the starkest human tragedy that I have experienced in covering wars around one-half the world. I reached Hankow early in August. ; Hankow is known as the “Chicago” of China. It is a sprawling, stbaming city on the banks of the great Yangtse River and for centuries the army which controls it has been the strategic master of Cathay. : t ‘Hankow Pivotal Point I went to Hankow because I believed that it would be the best base Yor travel to those parts of China where the most important battles of the war would be fought. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on one’s point of view) an old case of one of those illnesses which beset .so many people who have lived long in lands where there is no artificial -fertilizers, was brought back by the steaming heat of a midsummer ‘on the ancient Central China plain, and I had to return to Shanghai to my doctor. I got out on the last passenger plane which left the city and reached Shanghai just in time to be at the Palace Hotel when it was bombed by Chinese fliers trying to strike at the Japanese. That was Shanghai's “bloody Saturday.” ; 1600 Die in Minute Three Chinese aerial bombs killed at least 1600 people — including Americans—in the space of one minute. All these people were civilians. Not one soldier was hit. They were the children, the men and the women of a great city who were going “about the activities of everyday life just as Americans go about their everyday activities in the middle of any day in any city of our country. They were the victims mechanized war. Two bombs crashed through the Palace and Cathay Hotels on the crowded Shanghai waterfront.

of modern,

New, grave international complica-

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Knights of Columbus Lunch Club, lunch-,.

Here's County Traffic Record . Deaths

(To Date) 193% vr.e... 152 1936 156 Deaths in City 1937 eed s en 101 1936 ..... . 125 Accidents _ (Dec. 25-26). Accidents .. 12

American BST: “Temple sad “ Trade, - Service

jo Ss exhibit, hotels, all day, Press Club, dinner-meeting, onument Circle, 8 p. m. + Club, luncheon, Board ‘of

Club, luncheon. Hotel Lincoln,

: Club, meeting, 8 p.m

Irvington ; publican ia Upsilo washington Se Board of Trade, BR ONorth side Realtors, luncheon, Canary Coie Four Social Club. dinner, Hotel : weskington, 6:30 p. m. : ‘Salesmen’s Club, luncheon. Hotel Washiiversity Women’s Club, lunchnoon. , on, meeting, Plumb-

an aber e , Isaak to: Bibi” Chpter, luna ions

Central Club, luncheon, Co-

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8 0 | Washi

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possible effects of the measure.

eon, Hotel Washington, noon. Gyro Club, Ringo Spink-Arms Hotel,

noon. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. : Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. : University of Michigan Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. - Agents Association, luncheon,

Purchasing Athenaeum, noc...

BIRTHS

Girls John, Maymie Budd, at Coleman. Frank, Catherine Gandy, at Coleman. Ibur. Esther Hatton, at Coleman. at 3241 W.

Wi Emerson, Gladys Leslie,

ngton Wallace, Parnes, at a Chester,

Moran, ab er, Lula Phillips, at Edward, Lucille Schubert, Anna Smith, at Edward, Ethel Tomlin, a David, Leona Wright at Horace, Beatrice Massey,

DEATHS

Garner Wilson, 27, at St. Vincent's, pul-: tary en at Methodist, cerebral Braid; McCandless, 25, at 1111 Carrolliton, scarlet fever. Norman Armstrong, 3, at 750 Orange, Florence. Se eliand, 45, at Long, pyelotary Elizabeth Hart, 68, at City, diaDee Passmore, 64, ‘at 830 N. Oriental, Cer expe. 80, at 3751 Park, hypo-

8. 1, at Methodist, acute Bolster, - 83, at 35 8. . Chester,

se - ditis. Obert Arthur Robbins, 1, ‘at 1510 E.

Oth, broncho-pneumonia. LO hie Johnaon, 50, at Methodist, bron-

e ia. oR Rian Clark, 44° at St. Vincent's,

neumonia. . Toran M. Branson, 56, at 5531 Central,

lusion. es oline Wood, 70, at 322 8S. Waran,

aro cerebral throm] a James ee Hickson, 36. at City, coro-" I on. *Sophis M. Puehring, 86, at St. Vincent's, fe Sr t Riley, septicaemia Fredr e 2, a 2 . Barksdale, 45, at: Methodist, cardio vascular renal disease. Cord Yaryan, 76, at 1938 Hollowdy, acute myocarditis, a olly Schinlaub, 11 months, at Riley, berculous pneumonia, atin Timothy J. Hayes, 60, at Veteran's, myoca e ‘ Austin Henry Lowe, 73, at City, carcinoma. Sarah Van Huss, 65, at Methodist, acute cholecystitis. tek : h B. Brown, 73, at City, broncho-

pneumonia. - Doris Watts Reynolds, 21,” at 824 Rivera Drive, acute Landrys par . : Thi 85, at 2438 E,

It was as if Times Square in New

Lillie Belle Miller, 69, at 1201 Centennial, chronic myocarditis. Forest Charles Carter, 41, at Methodist, 2eyll jracture, Leo o arry James nar . . - cent's, AL Lg 1, ah 8 VIN -Dora Silverman, 73, at 1341 N. AlaDama) yoronc, m Jeatals. t e a Moon, , ‘at M » pneumococcic meningitis. Shodiss,

GFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Burean....

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Cloudy with some rain tonight; lowest temperature above freezing; tomorrow unsettled and colder; much colder at night.

7:06 | Sunset

Sunrise

TEMPERATURE —Dec. 27, 1936~—

Precipitation 24 hrs. endi . m.. Total precipitation Bg 73am Excess .!.

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Indiana—Unsettled tonight and: tomorror Brovaby some rain, St Show Hoel r n, ; colder tomorrow, much colder at night. HS

Illinois—Unsettled tonight and - 10W, some mie rain or Hon fate Bight’ Such” cider tomorow , Iu c and tomorrow night. Solder tomor

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Kentucky—Probably occasion: - ED Sn Yn ’ € tomorrow afternoon. “He. BORA: POIHIOR

hie—Occasional rain tonight a tomorrow morning, ie 2 5 DE tomorro' afternoon or night; warmer tonight, ' colder tomorrow after-

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station

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against boats operating under dummy American registry, is pictured at San Pedro, Cal, under the guard of a watchful Customs Agent.

Kansas City

Beaten in New Strike Violence

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 27 (U.

P.) —One man was beaten severely,

automobile tires were punctured by buckshot and several shots were fired at caravans of Ford workers today in a renewal of violence in connection with a united automobile workers strike at the Ford plant here,

Cleo Wolkey told police: he was®

attacked by four men who beat him while he was on his way to work in the d plant. Police arrested four men and bcoked them for investigation in connection with the attack. : . Shots were fired from a vacant building at a caravan of Ford workers. No one was hit and the snipers escaped. : Five Ford workers, en route to the plant in another caravan, told po-

‘lice they were. stopped by two men

armed - with . shotguns. The men made them turn their automobile around and told them to“ beat it.” As the car was ‘driven away, one of the men fired at the tires. None of the Ford workers was hit but the tires were punctured. : The violence came as workers reported at the plant after the Christmas holiday shutdown. Production has continued on the assembly line despite the strike.

JUNE O’DEA TO FIGHT LEFTY’S DIVORCE SUIT

LEXINGTON, Mass, Dec. 27 (U. P.).—June O'Dea, beautiful stage and night club singer, prepared today to fight the divorce efforts of her husband, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez, the New York Yankees’ speedball pitcher. . Miss-Q'Dea: revealed that Gomez had left. hergand was seeking a divorce in Megico:s She wasn't, sire of the grounds, but she “guessed it ‘was ““cruelty or mental incompatibility or something like that.”

York or the intersection of State and Madison Sts. in Chicago were attacked at the hours when thou-' sands of workers are leaving offices to go to their homes for the Saturday afternoon holiday. Another bomb crashed at the intersection of Avenue Edward VII and Tibet Road. That bomb alone killed more than 1000 people. It tore & crater in the road into which one could put a small-sized railway car. It mangled hundreds of children, women and men beyond recognition. Indicative of the destructiveness of modern explosives, I saw the bodies of people who had been killed simply by concussion. Every bit of clothing had been blown from the bodies. 3 1 went -into the countryside. Death struck there with the same effectiveness that it struck in the cities. :

Japanese and Chinese planes

came over high in the skies, circled, |

and came down in screaming power dives. The bombs came from them almost as accurately as shells came from field guns. i

Bodies Ripped Apa

Columns of men simply dissolved into fragments of torn flesh. Houses disappeared in clouds of dust which settled over the bodies of the farm families that had been in them. I went into Chapel. I had seen Chapei—one of the principal industrial areas of the Shanghai Chinese city—destroyed before, during the Chinese-Japan-ese hostilities of 1932. > The destruction then was almost as nothing compared ‘to this destruction. It was a grim example of the speed with which the effectiveness of explosives is being devel-

oped. ; I went to Woosung. Woosung is really a part of Shanghai—a sort of port suburb at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtse Rivers north of Shanghai's international ‘settlement. . I saw the same things I had seen in Nanking Road, in ‘Avenue Edward VII, at the fighting front in the country, and in Chapei.

Children Are Victims

I saw children, women and men die in hundreds. Many of them were blown into pieces too widely scattered to make possible a decent burial. Some of those who lived through the continuous series of attacks and counter-attacks were left with only stumps for limbs. Others were blinded. Fr ‘I saw the development of the Chinese “scorched earth” policy. That policy was adopted at the suggestion of leaders of the Chinese their long quarrel with Generalissi-

mo. Chiang Kai-shek and were!

taken into the Central Chinese Government after the war started. It is designed to destroy everything destroyable in the path of the advance so that he cannot live’ off the countryside. Rs i I saw grain crops ‘leveled, farm houses burned, buildings dynamited,

bridges destroyed, and even foot-| paths gashed with great holes so|

that they could not be walked upon.| | 1 saw the dredged ship|

PAIR ESCAPES AFTER HOLDUP

Police Seek Armed Bandits; $65 in Yule Presents Taken From Car.

Two armed bandits who robbed a drug store at 4306 E. New York St. of $30 were hunted by police today. J. W. Niedhamer, 4023 E. 11th St., store proprietor, and John Ross, 131 N. Gladstone Ave, were ordered to lie on the floor in the rear of the store as the two nien fled. - Two passengers in a taxicab driven by James Woeds, 849 College Ave. ordered him to drive to the 500 block of N. Concord St. where they slugged him, then took his

taxi and billifold containing $13, ac- |.

cording to police. Officers found the abandoned taxi later in the 300 block N. Warman Ave. A thief using a pass key entered the home of Walter Bebley, 24, of 150 Douglas St., yesterday and stole ‘elothing” valued at about $55 and répbrtédto . * Mrs. Roy Scott 345 E. Merrill St., told officers yesterday that someone broke into her car, parked near her home, and stole Christmas. presents valued at about $65. A thief broke into a grocery at 662 Coffey St., and escaped with $40 in change Friday night, Ben

| Richardson, 34, of 1303 Hiatt 'St.,|

store employee, told police.

REBELS TRAPPED IN FIRE, LOYALISTS SAY

Fascist Leaders in Buildings,

Is Belief.

BULLETIN

‘BARCELONA, Dec. 27 (U. P.) .—Insurgent warships were reported today to have captured the French steamer Yo‘landa off the coast north of here and compelled it to steam to. the Balearic Islands. °

HENDAYE, Dec. 27 (U. P)— Spanish Loyalists asserted today that two small groups of buildings in which the remnants of a Rebel garrison held out at Teruel were aflame and that all the defenders seemed doomed. There were persistent reports from Loyalist centers that several high Spanish Fascist leaders were trapped in the buildings and that one raason for the desperate defense and refusal of invitations to surrender was thet the leaders knew they faced execution if captured. | . The Rebels were said to be without water, and with Rebel relief columns impeded by heavy snow as well as by strong Loyalist forces outside the city, the Loyalists seemed confident that the defenders could not long hold out. : Yesterday the Loyalists took the infantry barracks which was one of the centers of resistance, Loyalist reports said, and 250 civil guards were made prisoner.

Rebels Renew Madrid Bombing

MADRID, Dec. 27 (U. P)— Madrid was bombarded heavily by Rebel artillery in the early hours of this morning, after a long bombardment yesterday.

DEGENERATION OF "JAPAN PREDICTED

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 (U. P.). —American political scientists predicted today a possible degeneration of Japan into an impoverished island kingdom as a result of absorption of China’s 450,000,000 popula-

Party who reconciled | tion. 52 : : Kenneth Colegrove, Northwestern

[TENLOSELIVES, STATE MISHAPS, |

Police Arrest 37 Here

: [the body of Mrs. Shanks from her

| tempted to pass

|ansville Hospital after being struck {| by a hit-and-run motorist there : | yesterday. ;

| terday when struck by an auto-

‘| the Rev. James Macelree where the

i| 27 (U. P.).—The Pan American Air100 | ways Samoan Clipper, which arrived

| which will be connected with Aus7s, Th

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Eight Are Hurt in

Holiday Accidents. (Continued from Page One)

lice and Knox firemen worked for several hours before they recovered

auto, which rolled under a dam after diving into Yellow River. Authorities said Mrs. Shanks at8a car ‘driven by Frank Neville, Knox, but lost control when her car skidded on the ice at the edge of the road. Mr. Boyd, a WPA worker and father of four children, died in an Ev-

Mrs. Harrison died in Reid Memorial Hospital at Richmond last night a few hours after she was struck by an automobile which police said was driven by Acil Hahn, Hagerstown.

Walking Near Home Mr. Meyers was aurt fatally yes-

mobile driven by Wilson Gongwer, 19, as he was walking about a mile from his Kendallville home. Mr. Macy was returning from his birthday party on Christmas Day when his automobile was wrecked at a dead-end on the California Road near Ft. Wayne. : Three persons riding with him were injured seriously. They were Herman Bach, 19; Ruth Frame, 17, and Eileen Copagen, 19, all of Ft. Wayne. Robert Bache died in an Evansville Hospital Sunday a short time after the car in which he was en route with his parents and sisters to Robinson, Ill, struck a parked car on U. S. Route 40 near the Evansville Municipal Airport. His mother Mrs. Lester Bache, was hurt. Mrs. Walker was hurt fatally Saturday night when struck by ‘an automobile driven by Gale Lawson, 28, as she stepped off a streetcar at Terre Haute. Mrs, Mary Watkins, who was with her, was injured. Mr. Blackwell was hurt fatally at Mitchell Saturday when struck by a car driven by Sherman Jones. The latter was exonerated after a coroner’s inquest. Mrs. Mildred Rhynearson, 29, of 1901 E. Orange St., was injured most seriously in Indianapolis traffic. She is in City Hospital after being thrown from a truck driven by her husband, Roy, 39, when it collided with a car driven by M. W. Pamnell, 30, of 5707 E. 20th St., at Laurel St. and Lexington Ave. early yesterday.

Patrolman Is Injured

Motorcycle Patrolman Carl Sommers, 23, of 2401 Union St., was hurt late yesterday when hurled 35 feet from his motorcycle as it collided with an auto driven by Filbert Dixon, 29, of 2301 Hoyt Ave, at Hoyt and Keystone Aves. + Witnesses told ‘police -the crash

to make a left turn. There were no arrests. City Fireman Guy A. Heckman, 36, of 1155 W 34th St., and his wife, Mary, were hurt last night when: the car in which they were riding figured in a headon crash at Southport Road and State Road 135. Deputy sheriffs arrested Bruce Williams, 19, of R. R. 2, Box 33, Greenwood, driver of the other car, for failure to have a driver’s license and displaying. improper license plates. Clarence Cook, 38, of 2123 N. Illi- | nois St., and his wife, Rose, 38, were taken to Methodist Hospital last night after his car figured in a three-way collision at Meridian and St. Clair Sts.

Three Cars Collide

Police said other cars in the crash were, driven by Leland Cecil, 19, of 226 Morgan St, and Mrs. Mary Stokes, 37, of Sheridan, who was stopped by a traffic signal. They were uninjured. . Police yesterday arrested a 16-year-old Negro as the alleged hit-and-run driver who Friday night struck and injured Mrs. Anna Sharp, 40, of 1446 N. Missouri St., at West and 12th Sts. He was charged with failure to stop after an accident.

Times Special ROCHESTER, Dec. 27.—Injuries received by the bride and groom and five of their friends when their automobile went into a ditch near here yesterday, failed to stop their wedding plans. The seven, all of Kokomo, were en route to Crown Point for the marriage when a blowout caused their car to leave the highway. These hurt were Frank Howard, 21, the groom; Zonda Garbert, 18, the bride, and James Harris, 18; Preston Bowley, 23; Margaret Daisy, 23; Ellen Daisy, 18, and Helen Garbert, 16, the bride’s sister. They hitchhiked ‘to Rochester where they were treated for cuts and bruises. : : County Clerk Kline D. Reed was called and issued a marriage license, police took the party to the home of

ceremony was performed and all returned to Kokomo by bus.

Farm Woman Sets Fire

* ROME CITY, Ind, Dec. 27 (U. P.). —Vera Shull, 48, burned to: death early today at her farm home near here after she saturated: her clothing with gasoline and set it afire. Noble County Coroner Myron C. Hutening returned a verdict of suicide. : For

CLIPPER TO START HOMEWARD FLIGHT AUCKLAND, New Zealand, - Dec.

here Sunday on its second survey flight from San Francisco, was being serviced today for the return flight this week. ce } The flight will mark the inauguration of a regular s between New Zealand and the United States,

To Clothing, Dies = |

RITES SETFOR “AID TO WILSON

War-Time Secretary of War To Be Buried Tomorrow At Cleveland.

(Editorial, Page 10)

CLEVELAND, Dec. 27 (U. B.).— Newton D. Baker, war-time Secretary of War, will be buried tomorrow in Lakeview Cemetery following’ funeral services in Trinity Episcopal Church, : The Wilson Cabinet officer, 66, die¢ at his home Christmas day of cerebral thrombosis. His widow and two of his children, Mrs. John P.

McCiean and Newton D. Baker III, were at his bedside. The third

California. : Active pallbearers will be chosen from among Mr. Baker's 10 ldw partners. There will be no honorary pallbearers. The former. Secretary became ill while vacationing at = Saratoga Springs, N. Y., last July. He returned to Cleveland and recovered, only to suffer a second attack a week ago. :

Directed Fight on TVA

At the time of his death, Mr. Baker was directing from Cleveland the fight of Southern utilities companies challenging the constitutionality of the Tennéssee Valley Authority before a three-judge Federal court in Chattanooga, Tenn.

He was born Dec. 3, 1871, in Martinsburg, W. Va., received his education at Johns Hopkins and Washington and Lee Universities, and [ began practicing here in 1807. He was elected . City Solicitor in 1903 ancd Mayor ‘in 1911, He was re-elect-ed. Mayor in 1913. His grave will be near those of other prominent Cleveland residents, includingg John D. Rockefeller and Myron T. Herrick, former Ambassador to France.

Had Life of Contrasts

parent contrasts. : Constitutionally slight, he became one of the forceful men of his time. Devoted to private life and his family, he spent more than a score of years in public service. A lover of peace, Mr. Baker directed the U. S. war machine in the greatest war in history. Devoted to the principle of public ownership ‘of natural resources, in the 1930s, he became counsel for corporations fighting public ownership as exemplified by the Tennessee Valley Authority. vhf He had no desire for public life. It was his belief that “the office should seek the man.” That happened two years after his graduation — he was appointed Assistant Postmaster-General.

Mr. Baker Well-Known

In Indianapolis

The death of Newton I). Baker, former Secretary of War, was mourned here today by many persons who had become acquainted with him on his visits to Indianapolis. Re His last visit here was last summer when he appeared in Federal Court as counsel ‘for the Chase National Bank in a suit against the Qitizens Gas & Coke Ufility. In 1932, Mr. Baker opened the Indianapolis Community Fund drive with a speech in Cadle Tabernacle.

POLICE CLAIM YOUTH ASKS ELECTRIC CHAIR

' NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 27 (U. BP) — Vincent Franco, 26, begged police to “burn” him today because he killed

than a score of Sunday motorists looked‘ on, too horified to act, police said today. The 22-year-old brunet allegedly had refused to marry the young mechanic,

CONDITION GETS WORSE

PARIS, Dec. 27 (U.P.).—Maurice Ravel, composer, was reported today to have taken a marked turn for the worse after several days’ improvement at the hospital where he underwent an operation.

child, Mrs. Fulton Wright, was in|

Mr. Baker’s life was one of ap-|

Antoinette Imperiale while more be

PAGE {HOOSIER POLICE CONTINUE HUNT

FOR KIDNAP PAIR

| Recover Auto Used in: Flight

"Following Centerville Child’s Release.

‘CENTERVILLE, Dec. 27 (U. P). —State Police and special deputies

| pressed their search today for two men who kidnaped 3-year-old John

Bryan on Christmas Eve, then released him unharmed when hampered by close pursuit of irate citizens. x! The car which the men used: in their flight, was found last night on a lonely road near Newcastle, Ind. 40 miles west of Centerville. The boy, son of John L. Bryan, Centerville State Bank cashier, was kidnaped for $3800 ransom. No money was paid, however,

Visiting With Husband

When the abduction occurred, Mrs. Bryan was visiting her husband. The men entered the home and forced the child’s 17-year-old nurse, Norma Schroy, to telephone Mrs. Bryan and tell her to return home. Then one of the men fled with Miss Schroy and the baby, When Mrs. Bryan returned the ree maining gunman ordered her to call her husband and say: “Bring home $3800 quickly or you'll never see your son again.” Instead of obeying, Mr. Bryan ran to the street and summoned passersby and employees of nearby stores. They hurried to the home, arriving as the remaining desperado sped away in the Bryan auto with Mrs. Bryan and Julian Dunbar, a groeer who had gone to the home in his truck. The group exchanged shots with the fleeing gunman but he escaped. Arrival of the crowd, however, had disrupted the men’s plans. Mrs. Bryan and Mr. Dunbar were released 10 miles northwest of the city. The baby and nurse were pushed out of the other gunman’s car near a farm home after they had been held captive for more than two hours. ~ “The kidnaper said he had ne plans to keep us prisoners for a long time,” Miss Schroy said. “He - was worried becausé the other man didn’t appear. So he said he would have to let us go.” The two were driven home by a farmer, Officers believed the kidnapers met Saturday near Newcastle, abandoned the Bryan car—the one recovered—and drove off in their own . machine. Sheriff Arthur Quigley said he would take Mr. Dunbar and Miss Schroy to Indianapolis to view pice tures in the State Police rogues gallery in an attempt to identify the men.

BOB BURNS Says: oL¥wooD,

often wonder what happens to them Christmas tree salesmen durin’ the other eleven months of the year. Most of ’em are hard, fast workers and some of ‘em are ' the best salesmen Iever saw. They'll sell: you a little, moth-eaten, wilted sprig of a tree, but theyll make \ you think you've . bought the mest gorgeous tree ‘that has been cut that season. My Aunt Peachy Simms was passin’ one of them fellas and he says “Lady, how about a nice tree to bring cheer to your. family?” Aunt Peachy drew herself up and says “I'm not married.” Quick .as a flash, the fella says “Well, how about a nice piece of

mistletoe?” : (Copyright, 1937)

{4 PARGLES GRANTED TO STATE CONVICTS

Six Marion County Men Are Among 35 Denied Leniency.

The State Clemency Commission today granted 14 paroles, commuted 12 sentences. continued seven cases, and denied pleas of 35 Indiana prise oners for leniency. Parole was granted Lillian Simp= son, convicted in Marion Criminal Court and sentenced Feb. 26, 1937, to one to 10 years for unlawful possession and vehicle taking. The prisoner said in her tion she was forced to accompany George Dafiron, now serving a robbery term in State Prison, in a stolen vehicle. { Parole was denied Joseph Goodlet, convicted in Marion Criminal Court and serving 10 to 24 years for rob-

ry. } Wendell Frierson, Jefferson Rate cliff and Frank Curry, convicted in Marion Criminal Court and serving one to 10 years for ‘assault and battery with intent to commit murder, were denied paroles. | Paroles also were denied these prisoners from Marion County: . George ‘Sandefur, serving one to 10 years for unlawful possession and vehicle taking, and John L. Butt,

serving one to three years for wife and child desertion.

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