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3a Three women today told of indig- ~ nities and terrorizing under the iron rule of a swashbuckling sailor who seized command of the yacht Aafje and sailed for the South Seas

where he apparently planned to found a “Paradise Isle” with himself as their master. ~~ The sailor was Jack Morgan, who Federal agents revealed, had a long criminal record. ; He chartered the yacht, killed the skipper, and sailed for the tropics with the three women, two men, and a boy as prisoners. One of the men hit him on the head with a marlin spike and threw him overboard. But not before all had experienced days of terror. The women were Mrs. Lillian Morgan, a 17-year-old New Orleans girl; Miss Elsie Berdan, a nurse, - and Mrs.. Gertrude Turner, fiancee of Dwight ‘L. Faulding, the slain skipper. Morgan’s own wife told of being struck, and forced at gun point to help guard his prisoners. -

Murder Complaints Filed

Federal agents still held Mrs. Mor“gan and the two men who tossed him overboard, George Spernack "and Robert Horne. Murder complaints were issued against the two men, but only as a formality. Federal prosecutors said they were convinced the men acted justifiably in self-defense. They come into. court Monday for arraignment. Horne and Spernack acted as deckhands on the yacht which left San Pedro Dec. 20 on what was to have ‘been a two-day sail around a nearby island.. On Christmas eve, . four days later, Horne saw his opportunity. Morgan ordered him to put out the log. The madman stood at the wheel with a gun in his hand, his back turned. - - “I was so completely worn out and sick of abuse that I grabbed a marlin spike,” he said. “It was heavy, "of solid oak. I rushed at Morgan and hit him on the head with all my . strength, I realized it was either | Morgan or me, and I was relieved to see him crumple.” They tossed him to the sharks off the Mexican coast without knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Cold-Blooded Murderer

“As I took hold of Morgan, George (Spernack) seemed to realize without my saying anything, that I intended to heave him overboard, and he helped me. We knew we would have to do a thorcugh job to prevent terrible retaliation. He had proved a cold-blooded murderer. _ “We learned he had subjected Elsie Berdan to indecent treatment. i had seen him kick his wife in the ace.” : Authorities learned additional information from which to patch together a picture of Morgan’s fantastic plans. He apparently intended to sail toward the Gallapagos Islands and set up a “Paradise Kingdom,” just as the Baroness Elisa Bosquet von Wagner Wenbornn, Viennese noblewoman, had done with her “paradise of lovers” on barren Charles Island there several years ago. A former San Quentin cellmate described Morgan as obsessed with: _ the idea of sailing for the tropical seas. Morgan had served two prison terms for criminal assault.

ROBBED WHILE SLEEPING Charles Christ, 431 N. Illinois St., told police today that a thief ‘took $300 from his trousers while he slept last night in his apartment. He said he always left the door umlocked.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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Indianapolis Forecast: Fair tonight and Sunday; colder tonight, with lowest temperature 20 fo 25 degrees; continued cold Sunday. , Sunrise ...... 7:07 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —Jan 1, 1937 —

sxsess 4:31

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Deaths in City 1938 .......... 0 3937 .......... 0 Accidents (Dec. 31) : Accidents .,. 11 Injured ...... 9 Dead ......... 0

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F.D.R.MAYREPLY ON TRUST ISSUE

Do Ickes, Jackson Reflect White House Views? Critics Demand.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (U. P.)— Critics of last week’s New Deal antimonopoly speeches — Democrats and Republicans—invited President Roosevelt today to show in his message to Congress Monday how completely they reflected his own views. Meanwhile the President at his press conference said the talks were aimed only at certain “malefactors of great wealth,” and not at all wealthy individuals. The series of attacks began last Sunday night with a speech by Assistant Atforney General Robert Jackson, who asserted there were indications that capital was on strike against the Administration. Wednesday he renewed the attack in a second speech, and Thursday night Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes described the current situation as a battle between “America’s 60-families” anc the nation’s other 120 million citizens. “I tremble,” Senator Copeland (D. N. Y.) said, when he spoke of Mr. Ickes’ speech, “lest the President in his message on Monday may follow up these attacks with concrete suggestions which will further muddle the economic situation. To my mind this will be calamity.”

Speeches Criticised

A second Tammany Demoerat from New York, Chairman John O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, shot a question mark at Mr. Roosevelt when he said: “No one can make me believe that Mr. Jackson is reflecting the views of the President.” Rep. O'Connor, ignoring Secretary Ickes, said his temperature went up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit when he read Mr. Jacksoa’s second speech. House Minority Leader Bertrand H. Snell (R. N. Y.) was indignant at what he called a “desecration of the Christmas season.” Mr. Ickes, he said, had pronounced the New Deal benediction on 1937—“let us hate!” “His speech,” Rep. Snell said, “is a black flag in the history of the United States. Its violent and demoralizing demagoguery will one day symbolize the entire Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Ickes would bring recovery by a class war: against 60 families. I suggest a more effective approach to the problem would be to dismiss four or five official crack-pots in Washington.” 2

TOWNSEND MAY AID 12-YEAR-OLD MOTHER

Granting of Exception for Wedding May Be Asked.

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gest that the Governor intercede and grant an exception so that the children may be married. «I understand,” ¢he Governor said in a statement released here, “that some of the townspeople have prepared an appeal fo me for an executive order to allow a wedding for the children. “The matter has my sympathetic attention and I will do everything I can to bring peace out of chaos. I am not sure, however, of my authority to circumvent state law and will consult ihe Attorney General if appealed to.” Circuit Judge J. Raymond Powell, who has taken under advisement a statutory charge against Tommy, gave his support to a movement to permit the children to marry.

‘Law Should Aid,’ Says Judge ‘They love each other,” he said, “and I believe the law should aid rather than hinder that love, no matter how illegal the situation is.” Tommy, who has not seen the baby or Betty since the baby’s birth Tuesday, still insisted he wanted to marry the girl. He was kept confined by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chapman. Ben Lacer, Betty's father, charged that the Chapman family *“deliber-

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visiting Betty and the baby. «I don’t believe that’s the right attitude,” he said. “It's just one of those things that happened and we’ll have to make the best of it.” He indignantly tossed aside an offer of Ross Sutherland, 26, Frankfort, Ind., to marry the chil mother. ’ If the Indiana. attorney general rules that the case is out of the jurisdiction of Gov. Townsend it is

New Year’s Day has a very personal significance for Miss Velma Imogene Rusk, daughter of She has inent role in the history of Coleman Hospital.

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OLLYWOOD, Jan. 1.—T've

already made one new year’s resolution that I'm gonna stick to from I ain't gonna give any more Christmas presents without checkin! up and findin” out if it’s what the people want. I knew Grandpa Snazzy’s eyes were going bad on him and 1 thought -a pair of spectacles ’d be the finest gift I could give him. The other day I says: “Well, a Snazzy, I'll bet them new les brought you & lot of ent.” Grandpa says, “Yes, they it they also brought me a jisappointment.” He says “A fella I been talkin’ to and I considered a friend for the past 11 years turned out to be a scarecrow.” (Copyright, 1937)

TWO KILLED BY AUTO T GLENNS VALLEY

Thre Others Outside County re Holiday Victims.

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went | out of control and plunged into the car driven by Mr. Davis, hurtl it.into a ditch.. Gg “Mr White's car overturned. Injured «in the: crash were Mr. White, who wes cut on the forehead! Mrs. Marie White, 23, his wife, | bruised and suffering a possible [fracture of the pelvis; Robert Robinson, 24, of 1621 Nelson St., face | lacerations, and Mrs. Maye Robinson, 20, cut on the face. The four injured, who were riding in the car that overturned, were taken to City Hospital. All except Mrs.| White were released after treatment. Mi. Woodruff, a former Arsenal Technical High School student and member of the Indiana National Guard, is survived by his parents, Mr. [and Mrs. Guy Woodruff, and two [sisters, Clara May .and Janice Ann| Woodruff. The parents said he had planned to leave for Wyoming within a few days to attend a CCC camp. Born in Ohio County, Kentucky, Mr. Morrison had lived here two and a half years. He was émployed as a machinist at the Universal Gear D. irvivors are his mother, Mrs. y Morrison, Indianapolis; a her, Arthur G. Morrison, Louis- ; four sisters, Mrs. Arthur E.

rouse and Miss Clara Morrison, of Indianapolis, and two chil-

t were Williamson, charged with king on the highway, and Mey- , charged with drunkenness and interfering with an officer. Among the first cases before Judge John L. McNelis as he sat for the first time on the Municipal Court bench today were those of two men arrested as a result of the Glenns Valley accident. ith Meyers standing before him, Judge McNelis said: ‘At the first of the year, with a change of judge, it has been customary to give leniency to the first defendant. However, it seems they have come at me with a doul®eheader.” Pending ood behavior, fines of $11 and sentences of 60 days in jail each were suspended. Judge McNelis continued the cases of White, charged with manslaugher, and Williamson, charged with parking on a highway, until Jan. 7. Hit Crossing Street Jesse Huey, 61, of 546 Massachusetts Ave., received a possible racture of the right leg and injuries to his hip when he was struck by & car operated by George R. Willman, 33, of 501 W. 32d St, ate yesterday. Mr. Huey was sent to the City Hospital. 3 Witnesses told police that Mr. uey was attempting to cross Delaware §t., at Court St., when he ras hit. Mr. Willman was not eld. A hit-run driver struck Charles . Robinson, 40, of 6101 Central Ave, yesterday as he started enter his parked car at College Ave, and 49th St. Mr. Robinson was cut on the head and several of his teeth were knocked out. He was sent fo City Hospital. Mrs. Lora Paulis, 61, of 816 Brad-

shaw Ave. was struck by an auto] Russell of 1410

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She was the first baby born on New Year’s Day at the hospital just after it opened 10 years ago. It’s no wonder she has marked a circle around the . date on the calendar.

LIDDY ATTACKED IN SMOKE FIGHT

Disqualified as Officer of Abatement League, Johnson Says.

In answer to charges made against the Smoke Abatement League at the last City Council meeting, Roy O. Johnson, League attorney, today said “J. J. Liddy has disqualified himgelf for further service as an officer of the Smoke

Abatement League.” Mr. Liddy said: “This bears out my statements to the Council. Mr. Johnson's the league and nobody else. I don’t know where he acquires the authority to say what should or shouldn't be done.” Council is to consider the proposed amendments to the smoke ordinance Monday night. Mr, Liddy, Indianapolis Union Railways superintendent, and first vice president of ' the League, charged at the Dec. 20 meeting that the League was financed by “potential violators who are responsible for, the ordinance presented here tonight.”

Claims Liddy Is Disqualified

Mr. Johnson said: “The opposition never once touched upon the issues’ before the Council, namely the proposed amendments which had been presented and explained by officers of the League.

“There was no foundation or excuse for any opposition on the part of the railroad interests, and had there been foundation for any opposition by them, it is impossible to find justification for the manner in which it was raised. Mr. Liddy has disqualified himself for further service as an officer of the Smoke Abatement League.” Mr. Johnson also said the League was willing to withdraw its support of the measures in the proposed amendment which would regulate the smoke of locomotives. “The Ringlemann chart is the principal improvement and the one for which we most earnestly plead,” he said, referring to the section of the amendment aimed to legalize instruments for smoke detection.

“There must be some enforcement of the ordinance. This chart is recommended by the United States Bureau of Mines and is recognized by the National Association for Smoke Prevention as & practical scale of measurement, and is being used by a large number of our neighboring cities.

Plan Educational Drive

“Let us repeat that it is our plan to promote a crusade of education and training supported by a program of reasonable enforcement of the ordinance. Either without the other will fail, but linked together they will succeed. “The citizens of Indianapolis are earnestly pleading that the smoke menace be put under better control and whatever opposition there is to this comes from persons or groups uninformed or from those whose opposition is prompted by selfish interests.”

$165,000 ASKED IN CONSPIRACY SUIT

Ora C. King and other trustees in bankruptcy of the Ehrhart Leaf Tobacco Co., Versailles, O., today had filed suit in Federal Court against the Indiana Warehouse Co., Winchester, Ind., for $165,000 damages. Plaintiffs claimed that there was a conspiracy by the defendants to violate the Indiana Warehouse Receipts Act.

Marion County grand jurors were private citizens today, their work having been completed yesterday. The jurors are shown as they inspected the county jail, which they termed “insanitary” in some

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Constance Bennett to Kile

$250,000 Radio Slander Suit

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1 (U. P.)—Attorney Barry Brennan announced today he would file on behalf of Constance Bennett, blond movie star; a $250,000 damage suit charging slander and defamation of character against a Hollywood radio commentator. The lawyer said Miss Bennett instructed him to file the suit in Los

Angeles Superior Court on Monday. He said Miss Bennett, once the highest paid star in' films, was incensed at the radio commentator’s alleged statements, and was threatening to carry the case to the Federal Radio Commission, as well as to court. The radio speaker’s identity was not revealed.

Disney Brothers Give

Parents New Home

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1 (U. P).— Mickey Mouse's “grandparents” received a home in Hollywood as a New Year’s present today. Walt Disney, “father” of the famous animated cartoon movies, with his three brothers, made the presentation to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Disney of Portland, Ore. The parents will be given a home of their own choosing. The other brothers are Roy, business manager of Walt’s enterprises; Raymond and Herbert.

Ft. Wayne Honors

Carole Lombard

FT. WAYNE, Jan. 1 (U.P.)—To the movie world she is the glamorous Carole Lombard, but to all the neighbors and the neighbors’ kids with whom she romped and played like any other little girl, she’s just pretty, blond-headed Jane Alice Peters. By which ever name you know her, she’ll be signally honored by Ft. Wayne today when a bronze plaque will be erected at her birthplace, 704 Rockhill St. A. G. Catlin, West Coast representative of United Studios, who arrived in Ft. Wayne early this week to supervise the: plans, said it was the first time in history of the motion picture industry that such an honor has been bestowed upon an actor or actress. - Miss Lombard was born in Ft. Wayne, Oct. 6, 1908, and when she was 7 years old, her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Knight Peters, took her to Hollywood.

4955 MARRIAGES IN COUNTY SET RECORD

Marion County recorded the greatest number of marriage licenses ‘in its history last year with a total of 4955 issued, Glenn B. Ralston, County Clerk, disclosed today. This amount was 307 greater than 1936, which was the previous nigh year in marriage licenses. At the same time, Cletus Seibert, file clerk in divorce matters, reported an increase of 179 divorce suits filed in 1937 over 1936. There were 2979 cases filed during, 1937.

HOSPITAL NEW YEAR FOLLOWS ACCIDENT

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John Parks, 58, of 2150 Kildare Ave. welcomed the New Year at City Hospital with a broken leg. ‘While dumping ashes into a horse-drawn ash wagon late yesterday, his clothes caught on the vehicle and he was jerked under the wheels, he told police. :

BUILDING DISPLAY PLANNED The Frantz Manufacturing Co. and Texaco Roefing Products Co. are to display Indianapolis-made building products at the Ohio Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association convention in Columbus, Ind., Feb.

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1936 SCIENTIFIC PICTURE BRIGHT

Signs Point to Accelerated Pace During Year, Writes Dietz.

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high blood pressure experimentally in animals by restricting the blood supply to the kidneys. Not only Dr. Goldblatt, but experimenters at more than 40 laboratories in various parts of the world are carrying on experiments based on this initial discovery. No one can predict what may be found in 1938 but it seems reasonable to look

1to this work for some important an-

nouncement during the year. - A second important field in which great discoveries may come is that of the virus diseases. These include influenza, infantile paralysis, sleeping sickness and yellow fever, some of the most potentially dangerous diseases known to mankind. Speaking this week before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in session here," Dr. W. M. Stanley, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and a native of Ridgeville, Ind., disclosed important advances which had been made in this field. A year ago, Dr. Stanley proved that the virus which caused: the mosiac disease of the tobacco plant was a giant protein molecule. During the past year, he and his associates have isolated the viruses of a number of other plant diseases and of one animal disease. Each one has proved to be a protein molecule. Psychiatry Advance Forecast This does not solve the problems of influenza or the other virus diseases attacking human beings, but it is obvious that it brings the medican profession a step nearer. How big a step will be taken in 1938 remains fo be seen. Great advances may also be expected in the field of psychiatry. Dr. Halowell Davis of Harvard pointed out here this week that brain wave studies have shown that the brain does not fall asleep as a unit but in parts. Certain types of insanity yield brain waves like those of a partly sleeping brain. . Here may be a clew fo the nature of certain types of insanity. Perhaps 1938 will begin to Jed clews to new treatments as well. In fields other than medicine, the situation is also bright. The last few years have seen remarkable advances in metallurgy and engineering. There have been new stainless steels, new aluminum alloys, improvements in Diesel engines, new electrical apparatus, and the like. There is no reason to suppose that the ultimate has been reached in any of these fields. > As 1938 begins, it would appear that science will continue to furnish the elements needed for a better and happier world. The big problem that scientists cannot an-

swer is what the world will do with |

these contributions. The advances of science will avail little if civilization decides to commit suicide with a new World War. .

RETIRED RAIL AID DIES WINTER PARK, Fla, Jan. 1, (U. P)—Edward Payson Bracken, retired Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad official, died at his home here yesterday. He was 68.

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i respects. They are (left to right): Rolland D. Adkins, Wilbur Robertson, Mrs. Lela I. Beadle, Mrs. Nora Belle Kern, Hobart Barker and Rome H. Reed, jury foreman.

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SHERIFF CLAIMS JAIL KEPT CLEAN

Thinks Lack of Epidemics Is Proof of Sanitation; Seeks Showers.

In answer to the Grand Jury's report that the men’s section of the Marion County Jail was insanitary, Sheriff Ray today said some of the “bathing equipment was obsolete, but was kept clean.” “Proof that senitary conditions at the jail are excellent is found in the fact that during the three years I have served as Sheriff there has not been one epidemic of any kind,” the Sheriff declared. “Only one death has occurred at the jail and that was from alcoholism. The County Commissioners and the Sheriff's office have worked hard together to hold down the budget.” Declaring he had discussed with Commissioners the installation of shower baths and new cat walks in the jail, Sheriff Ray added: “I concluded that the purchase of imperatively needed equipment such as new automobiles for highway patrol and firearms was more important to the welfare of residents of Marion County than the buying of other things at this time.” In its repori to Criminal Court yesterday the Grand Jury said that in each cell block there is only one bathtub for the use of approximately 40 men. The Grand Jury recommended that each cell block be equipped with six shower baths. Sheriff Ray estimated it would cost approximately $4000 to replace tubs with showers. He said, however, that installation of showers and construction of catwalks in the women’s section would greatly increase the rating given the. jail by Federal authorities, and he pointed out that this rating had been doubled since he assumed office.

$400 LOOT TAKEN IN OVERNIGHT CRIMES

Clothing Valued at $150 Is Stolen From Truck.

Police today were seeking thieves who took personal property valued at $375 and $25 in cash last night. C. O. Walker, proprietor of a dry cleaning establishment at 3353 Central Ave., reported to police that thieves broke the rear door handle on his delivery truck, stealing clothing valued at $150. a Cigarets and whisky valued at $100 were stolen early today from a drug store, 1368 N. Olney St., Jesse E. Miller, proprietor, told police. A 200-pound steam and water pump was stolen yesterday from the City Ice & Coal Co’s. repair shop, 720 E. Washington St., company officials reported to police. It was worth $125, they said. A “very nervous” thief, according

sto Stanley Rhodes, 23, clerk in the

Grande Hardware store, 1522 Main St., Speedway City, forced him yesterday to open the store safe at the point of a gun. : Mrs. Agnes Harlan, 424 S. Chris-

tian St., told police that a purse!

snatcher stole her pccketbook containing $3.

‘WELLS COUNTY AID DIES BLUFFTON, Jan. 1 (U. P.) —Guy A. Pond, 45, died late yesterday, the third anniversary of his taking office of Wells County assessor. He died at the wheel of his auto in Hartford City from a heart attack.

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ing to carry through Administrae tion legislation at the next session. Senator Adams (D. Colo.) said: “I think the price will be very helpful to the industry. Of course, we would like to have seen the price of 771.57 per ounce retained. “I'm not able at this time to figure what the difference between the new and. old price will mean to the industry. Some of the mines work on close margins.”

World Quotation Is 42.92

The new price compared with a world quotation of 42.92 cents and the New York price of 44.75 cents. Thus, even at the lower domestio price, United States silver producers . will de receiving a so-called bounty of nearly 20 cents over what it would cost the Government to purchase the metal on the open market. The London “antidumping” silver agreement of June, 1933, also exe pirec last midnight with no effort by this Government or any other signatories to extend it. Evidence that the Administration intended to pursue a program of bilateral agreements in connection was seen in understandings reached during the past week with Canada and Mexico. M:». Roosevelt’s proclamation was issued under authority granted in’ an amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act to fix the domestic silver price as a ‘step toward ecoe nomic recovery. : His first price-fixing proclamae tion, issued Dec. 21, 1933, set the figure at 64.46 cents an ounce, the price to which he returned in his latest proclamation. Then, on April 10, 1935, as the world price began soaring, the President boosted the domestic price to 71.11. Fifteen days later, he raised it to the 77.57 cents, the figure which prevailed until last mic night.

Claim Many to Lose Jobs

The shift in the silver policy will not affect the value of silver coins in the public’s hands. The silver | dollar will still buy as much as it did before. Its only immediate effect, the silverites claim, is that it will force thousands of miners into

idlzness. fhe United States has pursued a two-fold silver policy since March 6, 1933, when Mr. Roosevelt em= bargoed gold and silver and exe ports. It calls for: - 1. Purchase of silver in the open market until silver stocks have reached the point where their value is one-third of that of the gold stocks or until the price of silver hes reached $1.29 an ounce. The Secretary of the Treasury is dis rected to issue silver certificates against the metal to a face amount of not less than the cost of all silver purchases. 2. Rehabilitate the domestic ine dustry by absorbing the complete output at prices in excess of world markets quotations. This was criticized by financiers as a direct subsidy. Under this program the ‘Treasury on Nov. 30, 1936, held 1,445,004,865 ounces of silver bullion, which, at the $1.29 monetary value, was worth $1,864,056,265.

Deplore Inflow of Gold

With the $503,390,000 of silver dole lars included, the nation’s silver stock on that date totaled $2,367,« 956,265. The cost of the metal to the Treasury is not known, but sile ver certificates in excess of $800, 000,000, have been issued against it. Government experts despair of ever carrying out the congressional silver mandate unless the inflow of gold to America ceases. Despite the heavy purchases of the white metal, it would have required an additional 1,701,000,000 ounces to reach .the 75-25 gold-silver ratio on Sept. 30, 19317.

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