Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1938 — Page 1

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FORECAST—Snow flurries with severe cold wave tonight; lowest temperature zero % 5 below; tomorrow cloudy and continued cold.

VOLUME 49—NUMBER 274

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Two Sleep as Jurist Rereads Instructions; Defendant Reads Book.

DISMISSAL IS POSSIBLE §

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Hinted by Judge Rice if Decision Is Not Reached Sometime Today.

By SAM TYNDALL Times Staff Writer

sumed their study. During the morning, Special Judge Fdegar Rice reread his instructions to the jurors at their request. Two slept soundly while the others listencd attentively. Judge Rice indicated that if =a verdict is not reached by late today, he will dismiss the jurors.

Send Out for Cigars

The jury of 11 farmers and =a salesman retired at 5:15 p. m. yesterday and at 11 p. m. sent word to the bailiff that he should have their autos parked in a garage and | notify their families they probably | would not be home for some time. |of co-operative effort to stimulate They sent out for black coffee fre- recovery, Raymond Clapper, special quently, had a midnight lunch, and sent for 16 cigars, five packages of | cigarets and soft drinks. | for The

frigid wave, but other hazards. that wasn’t all. and In-ersections,

CLAPPER SEES CO-OPERATION

‘Better Feeling of Business And Government Grows, Times Writer Says.

ministration are achieving a better

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Court attaches who sat up with other Scripps-Howard newspapers,

the jury, said they heard no indications of heated arguments. | pool Hotel this afternoon. A handful of spectators stayed in| ye qefended Government expenthe courtroom all night awaiting & | gitures for relief and social ‘welfare verdict. They were still there early | and declared that ‘Government cantoday and left only long ‘enough | not operate as private business befor breakfast. | cause to do so ‘would mean curtailMrs. Jones slept ‘well last night, ment of necessary functions, Recording to Mrs. Nettie Schane,| The Washington commentator Sheriff's wife. | termed business an enterprise for She arose at 5 a. m, had break- | profit, but Government an agency fast, and was reading while she for service. waited to hear her fate. He described President Roosevelt ' Mrs. Jones is accused of the slay- | as “tired, bewildered and less coning which took place last July in the | figent” after last vear which he Schuler's Beech Grove ‘home. The ealled “one of disillusionment” for deferise maintained that Mrs. Jones the President. Nal He ve for the crime. | “His court plan, launched just a e State, in asking for the | year ago, led him into his most death penalty, charged that the humiliating experiences,” the writer

murder was planned and that Mrs. | said Jones is the only one who could | !

have done it. Trial Lasts 10 Days

| told the Rotary Club at the Clay-

Roosevelt “Still Trying” Adding that there followad op-

The bE Which had been in trial | japiclation and executive branch for 10 days, was given to the JUrs | peorganization and finally the refollowing the final argument for the | session Mr \ defense by Miss Bess Robbins and | ina ‘ the closing plea for the state by | Prosecutor Herbert

ident “still is trying.” | “However, it is not quite the same M. Spencet, type of effort that was made in 1933 Marion County. | when Mr. Roosevelt took over the Miss Robbins, in her final plea, | pig depression,” the speaker conrepeated defense claims that Sheriff | tinued. “Then it seemed possible Ray and other officers employed to draw up laws which would Solve “third degree” methods in question- | the problems . . . he had great faith ing the defendant. in legislation. Washington could Prosecutor Spencer, disparaging do the job and business would take such claims of the defense, re-|it and like it or else.” minded the jury that Mrs, Jones'| Mr. Clapper said Mr. Roosevelt testimony included 87 “I don’t| now knows that co-operation is the knows” and 54 “I don’t remembers.” | essential factor necessary to “effecMrs. Jones was nervous while the | tive functioning of the capitalistic prosecution pleaded with the jury system.” to send her to the electric chair.| “Mr. Roosevelt is bringing busiShe chewed gum, twisted her hand- ness leaders, large and small, to the kerchief around her fingers leafed through a textbook on fire- | getting practical advice, making the arms and firearms identification (Turn to Page Three) which she picked from the] Ss

Washington political commentator and | tricked into leaving Hongkong to

| position to wages, hours and farm |

Clapper said the Pres- |

and | White House, gathering their ideas, |

counsel table.

CASH RETURNED ON | LICENSE REFUSAL |

Hugh A. Barnhart, State Excise | Director, said today that hereafier | when an appileant is refused & | license to sell liquors and besr, the | money for the license will be returned with the notification of the refusal Before this, he said, there had | been a delay of several davs between | notification and refunding of the | money. The new method, he said. is

made possible by the establishment | of a $25,000 revolving fund in the Auditor's Office. There is a service charge of $25 for a beer license application and $35 on applications for | licenses to sell twe or more] beverages.

GIRL, 2, 1S SCALDED | CRITICALLY AT HOME

Two-year-old Joan Williams, 1221 Fletcher Ave, was in a critical condition at City Hospital today suffering from first and second de- | gree burns received when she upset | a kettle of boiling water over her body. The child's mother, Mrs. Ruth Williams, told police she was attending her 5-months-old baby, Who was ill, when the accident occurred.

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NOE IS IMPROVING: MAY RESUME FAST

Friends to Ask He Give Up 10-Year Plan.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan. 25 (U.P). —Friends of the Rev. Israel H. Noe said today that they would attempt to persuade him to give up his 10vear plan for immortality on marth and not resume his fasting if and when he recovers his health. The former dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mary was conceded “a fair chance” for recovery by physicians although he went 22 days without food or water. His heart action is improving and the intravenous feedings of saline and glucose are strengthaning his emaciated body. The Rev. Mr. nurse said the priest had said he would renew his fast as soon regains his health.

Indianapolis pedestrians today experienced not only the oncoming The cold hit their ears and noses and They had to be careful afoot on the slippery sidewalks

Chinese Strike, Refuse to Sail Ship to Japan

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25 (U. P.). — Thirty-nine Chinese seamen were on a sit-down strike aboard

['or shot if they sailed with the ship

understanding and there are hopes | to Japan and forbidden by U. 8. |a a

| [with a cargn of ‘steel rails. The Chinese protested that they were

| sail the ship. They thought it was | to carry supplies for the Chinese to Shanghai. One of the Chinese said: | “We will be made prisoners in (Japan and probaly shot. Or if we | are allowed to return to China, we

to our country.”

SOURCE OF CHINESE MUNITIONS STUDIED

‘Problem Is Serious, Hirota | Tells Parliament.

| POKYO—Position of ‘third power | supplying munitions tt» China must be considered seriously by | Japan, Hirota says,

| SHANGHAT—Fierce battle rages near Wuhu, [{CANTON-—Japs bomb airport. | WASHING TON-—Roosevelt asks U. NS. citizens to contribute $1,000,000 to Red Cross for aid of Chinese war victims, TERUEL—Loyalists ready to evacuate.

BARCELONA—Twenty killed in Rebel air raids,

TOKYO, Jan. 25 (U. P).—Japan must consider seriously the question of foreign powers supplying arms to China, Foreigh Minister Koki Hirota said today in Parliament. Mr. Hirota made his statement in [reply to Viscount Takehiko Sonoda, | who in questioning the Foreign Minister, paid tribute to the attitude of the United States in the ChineseJapanese conflict and added: “If ‘Great Rritain insults Orienta} races and fails to respect Japan's | position in the Far ¥ast, Japan [would be unable to guarantee the | continued existence of Britain's | rights and interests in China. Brit-

[ain's suspension of a plan to send a |

fleet to Asia was timely. Britain [should refrain from unnecessarily arousing the Japanese people. Mr. Hirota, in response, said that the supply of arms reaching China | through British Hongkong was only a small part of the total. Mr. Hirota said that a formal declaration of war on China was a | (Turn to Page Three)

DUCES SON LANDS PLANE IN BRAZIL

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 25 | (U. P.)—Three Italian planes, one | piloted by Bruno Mussolini, com- | pleting a South Atlantic flight from

Noe's | Italy, arrived today at Natal, Bra-

zil, the Condor Air Lines reported.

as he | After refueling they will proceed to

Rio de Janeiro.

‘Beautiful Death’ Plot Hinted in Star’s Suicide

OLD BROOKVILLE, N. Y. Jan. 25 (U. P.).—The plot of a new play, in which death jis depicted as more beautiful than life, may have inspired Rosamond Pinchot, beautiful and wealthy actress and socialite, to commit suicide, her friends believed today. The 33-year-old niece of former

| Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania,

whose stage career began 14 years

ago, attended a tryout of Jed Har-

ris’ play, “Our Town,” at Princeton, N. J, Saturday night and heard life spoken of as “a strange interlude before death.” Yesterday, calmly and deliberate ly, she went to the garage of her rented Long Island estate to investigate the mysteries of death. In the play, it had been pictured as an enticing substitute for life.

She made certain that there would be no bungling. She turned her expensive automobile into a gas chamber, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

There were some who said that the statuesque actress had not been happy since she and her husband, William Gaston, separated five years ago. Others sald that she had been disappointed because she had been unable to duplicate her stage triumph of 1923 as the nun in “The Miracle.”

She left two notes, one addressed to her father, Amos R. E. Pinchot, prominent attorney, and the other “To The Authorities.” The one to Mr. Pinchot contained instructions concerning the care of her children, William, 9, and James, 6.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1988

Looks Like a Raw Deal for Pedestrians

in the faces. too.

bulk of the membership.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P). | —John L. Lewis today criticized be- | fore the United Mine Workers convention, attempts to end the business recession by price reductions land wage cuts. Mr. Lewis, chairman of the Com-

| and president of the U. M. W. warned American businessmen that labor “will fight and resist wage reductions to the bitter end.” The report of Mr. Lewis and other officers of the union ‘was placed before the convention, Trevealing the union had funds of $2,534 668 as of Nov. 30, 193% Wh increase of $236,649 in two years despite ‘C. I. ©. expenditures and contributions to the re-election campaign of President Roosevelt. The report formally placed before the convention the recommendation of the Mine Workers Executive Board that the convention consider [charges for expulsion from union | membership of William Green, American Federation of Labor president, “Never Has! Never Will”

Opening the 35th biennial con[vention of the U. M. W,, Mr. Lewis declared that “all we need now to encompass ahd insure a complete and devastating economic, social and political debacle is to reduce prices of commodities and the wage structure of the country.” [| “I know of nothing that will so contribute to the economic confusion,” Mr. Lewis said. I do not know how some people believe la- | boring men can live if they further reduce his buying power by cutting | his daily wages for the two days he |works. They say this plan ‘will [create more buying power, increase | production and result in greater [ consumption, but our answer to | them is: “It never has! Tt never will!” Convention action on the officers’ report for a formal trial of Mr. Green, one-time secretary of the U. M. W. on charges of dual unionism and other violations of the U, M. W. constitution, was expected to be determined largely by the attitude toward the C. I. O. displayed by the A. | F, of L. executive council now in session at Miami.

GUNMEN LOOT STORE ON WASHINGTON ST.

Bind Clerk and Manager, Escape With $96.

Two men entered the Merit Shoe Store, 118 E. Washington St. during business hours today, held up the manager and a clerk, bound them with wire in a back room, and escaped with $96, The victims were Dwight Powell, 34, of 1338 Carrollton Ave. manager, robbed of $26, and Maurice Hulsizer, 28, of 222 Avondale Ave. clerk, robbed of $30. The cash register was robbed of $40. Police were told the gunmen approached the store several times and studied the show windows from the outside before one of then went in. He engaged Mr. Powell and Mr. Hulsizer in conversation until his confederate appeared. Then they produced guns and crowded them into a back room. A customer, Andrew Pilcher, 620 N. Delaware St, who entered the store a few minutes later, freed the manager and clerk,

SUBSIDY PACT SIGNED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.P). — Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Federal Maritime Commission today announced a long-term operating subsidy agreement with American Export Lines of New York which carries provision for construction of 10 new cargo vessels in the next five years. Four of the vessels will be started this year,

It was “watch your hat,” too, because the wind whirled it off in a Jiffy unless it was fastened securely. Then snow at times smacked them And they had to watch traffic lights and automobiles,

Lewis Fights Wage Cuts; A.F.L. Hears Purge Plea

By United Press

The nation's labor leaders met in rival conference today to consider | problems of economic depression and conflict between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization. John L. Lewis, C. 1. O. head, told his United Mine Workers convention at Washington that labor would fight any plan hy business to meet the British freighter Federal today, | the recession by price cuts or wage reductions. His lieutenants denounced . : i hev ‘Ww i | President William Green of the Federation—a possible forerunner to exBusiness and ‘the ‘national Ad- | fearing they ‘would be imprisoned | pulsion of the Federation head from membership inh the mine union. At Miami, a strong group of the Federation executive council launched ! L rive to oust all C. 1. O, sympathizers from Federation thions. | immigration officers to come ashore. | <ajd the first move would be an effort to force the Pennsylvania State | The ship was bound for Osaka | Pederation to expel all members of C. I. O. unions who constitute the

1 aon right-wing faction of

| will be arrested and shot as traitors mittee for Industrial Organization |

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

Storm Center Moving Eastward From

SOUTH AFFECTED \ EE

One Drowns as Water Rises in Illinois Streams.

Times Photos.

By United Press Wintry gales, reaching a velocity of 50 miles per hour and more, buffeted northern United States today with snow and ice. A blizzard swirled out of the Northwest into upper Michigan, Tt was reported to be the worst in the history of Michigan's upper peninsula, The U.S. Weather Bureau at Chicago announced that the storm area

| centered over northern Lake Huron and was moving slowly eastward. Another storm center, Government forecasters said, was moving northward along the Atlantic Coast from Atlantic City, N. J.

Flood Threat Halted

Rapidly dropping temperatures checked the rise of flood waters in Illinois, Wisconsin and Towa, the

They

MIAMI, Fla, Jan, 25 (U. P).—A the | American Federation of Labor Ex[ecutive Council sought today to| Weather Bureau said, but presaged | initiate a drastic purge from the |a er cold wave for the entire | Federation of all Committee for In- | Middle West. | dustrial Organization sympathizers. Snow fell in Noun of ie Seep Headed by John Coefield, presi- | South as temperatures roppe dent of the Plumbers Union, and a | from around 70 degrees to below [bloc of metal trades and building | freezing. | trades leaders, the “die hard” group requested elimination from the Pennsylvania State Federation of all John L. Lewis adherents, This view was opposed by a cautious combination of peacemakers | within the council which was still ‘hopeful of arranging an armistice in Jabor’s civil war and by John Phillips, president of the Pennsylvania Federation, who came before the meeting to make a persenal plea against the purge. Coefield Wants Cleanup As the council met in secret session, Mr. Coefield said. “I see no reason why we shouldn't Clean up the Pennsylvania situation, 1 think the council should expel all C. 1. O. uniohs how under suspension.” Ten Lewis-led uhions—still technically not under formal expulsion —would be affected. “I think we've had enough of fooling around,” Mr. Coefield said. | “I think we should get rid of all of s intense am the them, including Dubinsky's outfit.” “oD in A ES Rr Fouts David Dubinsky is president of i, Rockford, Til. The cold, although the re adie " Garment | jt out down the flow of flood waters, President Willinin Green of WI a youth Tt HAND : k . | families living in makeshift quarters x ng er Yotay Wii Ql tcials until the water receded from their | peace in the labor movement | i. Ashland, Wis, the gale eventually must yield and allow re- whipped the joe-choked ‘waters of union of 7,300,000 divided workers. |pake Superior forcing the Coast Mr. Green based his statement on | Guard Cutter Diligence to abandon recent evidence of a rift within the | {pe search for two fishermen who

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (U. P.) —Spring gave New York a preview today with the temperature soaring to 55 degrees, the highest ever recorded for the day and 25 degrees above normal, Tn Arkansas, swollen waters of the Ouachita, White and Cacne Rivers flooded bottom lands near Camden and Dequeen, forcing 200 families to flee their homes, A raging wind that swept in from the Pacific Coast uprooted wheat fields in Kansas.

Two Children Die in Fire At Charleston, W. Va, two children of Mr, and Mrs. Otto Osborne weer burned to death when fire destroyed their mining camp home near Ward.

{cused Mr. Lewis of responsibility for the failure of truce efforts month, “They were vetoed,” Mr. Green said, “because Mr. Lewis turned them down, We still hope, because of the position taken by Mr. Dubinsky and others, that those who have stood in the way must yield.”

HAMILTON OUTLINES G. 0. P. 1938 STRATEGY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P).— The Roosevelt Administration was challenged by the Republican high | command today to defend itself against the charges that five vears of New Deal policies have raised the workingman's taxes and failed to protect the nation against serious business declines, Republican National Committee ‘Chairman John D. M. Hamilton outlined the G. O. P. Congressional campaign strategy last night in a Philadelphia address in which he said: “The business of the country is

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Child Drowned Edvrard Proctor, 8, Amboy, I11., was drowned when he lost his footing while wading at the edge of an ordinarily dry run and was swept into a flood drain. His body was recovered. A rescue worker was reported missing, Near Kewanee, Tl, Ralph Harkness, 20, was believed to have drowned in Indian Oreek floodwaters, after his delivery truck skidded from the highway into the stream. A gale accompanied by rain lashed the Eastern seaboard, but caused comparatively little damage. Seamship schedules were delayed and airplane schedules were disrupted seriously. Lost for almost seven hours in a terrific gale, an Eastern Air Lines transport, carrying two passengers and a crew of three, landed at Hartford Airport early today, approximately 100 miles off its course.

63 POISONED IN JAIL demoralized and the only reason iid

grass doesn’t grow in the streets of | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 (U. P) — the nation is because it is kept | Police suspected sabotage today in | down by 13,000,000 unemployed | the wholesale poisoning of 63 pristramping the streets looking for | oners in the City Jail by lye or sal jobs in vain.” | soda tossed into a pot of hash. The i a prisoners were stricken after break-

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Fire Sweeps Three Buildings At Marquette; Now Under Control.

MARQUETTE, Mich, Jan. 25 (U. P).—Winter's fiercest storm whipped Michigan's northern peninsula today. Gales of 50 miles an hour choked all highways with mountainous drifts, stranding hundreds of motorists in zero tempera- | tures, At noon snow plow crews hroke through to a school bus in which

a driver and several children had been reported marooned all night.

taken his charges safely to a nearby farm house, Fire, which broke out while the blizzard was at its ‘height, swept through three buildings in town Marquette. The Masonic Temple was destroyed. At 10:30 a m, it was reported under control but still blazing. Firemen ea equipment from other cities was blocked by drifts,

100 Motorists Rescued

Highways crews rescued more than 100 motorists caught in the swirling drifts, Calls for aid continued to

service still was available, Manistee was isolated until 10 a. m. Power service failed late last night, paralyzing all electrical service to hospitals, homes and factories. A one-foot snow fall was piled into drifts seven feet high, blocking all highways beyond hope of opening them with snow plows. Show was reported from 20 to 50 inches deep in the ‘open country where it was blown by the gale, At Holland, three coast guardsmen searched for a fisherman reported to have been swept into Lak? Macatawa with his cottage last night.

Fire at Reformatory

Another fire broke out at midmorning in the dairy barn of the Michigan Reformatory at Sparks carried by the wind swirled down on main prison buildings and frame structures in the prison grounds. The city fire department was called to aid prison fire fighters, At Tronwood, nearly 50 high school children were marooned in a schoolhouse five miles from the city. Farmers nearby fought through

piled 20 feet deep to carry food to the stranded children. At Bessemer, road commission officials said they were trying to | break through to the school with snow plows but =o far had failed. Attempts to keep roads clear were futile and drifts blotted out seconcistory windows in Ironwood.

COUNTY TO REPAIR ONE OF TWO ROADS

But Which Will Be First Is Main Problem,

Marion County Commissioners heard two delegations complaining of impassable roads today and than retired to decide which road they [would fix first, A delegation from Dean Road, represented, they said, a family whose daughter soon was to be married. They said the road was in such a condition that the wedding guests could not get to the party and they demanded immediate attention. A 25th St. delegation said that not even the mailman could get down their road and that a woman resident about to become a mother could not be given medical attention. Commissioner Dow Vorhies told the delegations that the commissioners could not give both of the roads immediate attention, but that they would improve one of them,

SAVINGS FOR WOMAN

A 91-year-old woman today knew her $350 savings were in good hands. Mrs. Catherine Humphreys, 942 i. Georgia St, called police yesterday when she failed to find the money under a bedroom rug, where she believed she had placed it. After searching the house, Officers Harry Kernodle and Clinton Robeson found the bills concealed in a chair in another room. The money was sent to a bank by police for deposit in Mrs, Humphrey's hame,

RESCUERS RESCUED GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, Jan. 25 (U, P.) —Word was received here today of the rescue Saturday of the Waldeck expedition seeking Paul Redfern, long-missing Amerfean aviator, from Devil's Hole Ise land far up the Cuyuni River,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P).— The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Stanley F. Reed to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. Reed, former Solicitor General, succeeds Justice George Sutherland, who retired last week. The

nomination of Mr. Reed, who argued many New Deal cases before the Supreme Court, was not opposed. President Roosevelt's selection of Mr, Reed as his second nominee for the high tribunal generally was ap

Senate Confirms Reed As Associate Justice

proved by both conservatives and liberals, Rumors that there would be further retirements from the Court continued. Also the belief that Mr. Roosevelt serjously would weigh appointment of a woman-—possibly Circuit Judge Morence Allen of Ohio=-in the event of another vacancy, Justice Benjamin N, Cardozo has been critically ill for several weeks and there were reports that he would resign because of ill-health. His condition today was reported

“unchanged.”

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crowd switchboards where telephone |

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drifts which in some places were |

SUBZERO PREDICTED HERE: GALES LASH MIDDLE WES FLOOD THREAT |

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y Drops Eight Degrees in Eight Hours in City.

THREE INJURED

4 Crashes Reported; | State Highways Treacherous.

TEMPERATURES ‘ 19 10 a.m... 18 11 a.m... 17 12 (Noon). 15 19...

Temperatures dipped at tha rate of one degree an hour in Indianapolis today as winter's most severe cold wave threate ened subzero weather for toe night, The mercury dropped in all parts of the state as a frigid wave swept in from the North on high winds, accompanied by intermittent snow | Aurries, The Indianapolis Weather Buréan said the low mark here tonight would be from zero to five below. | Meteorologists said while zero or | subzero weather might prevail only tonight, the cold period will remain for at least 48 hours. The there | mometer dropped 38 degrees yese terday. The lowest temperature so far this winter was 8 above, recorded on Dac. 9. The coldest day last winter was 4 above zero on Jan. 23. The city han not ‘experienced subzero weather since the winter of 1935-38.

Heavy Snow Reported

Heavy snow was reported in the extreme southern portions of the State. ‘Evansville reported four inches with the mercury at 20 and dropping. More snow fell ih Terra Haute as the mercury slumped to 13 before noon amd still was @ropping. Roads became treacherous as rains of last night turned to show and sleet, While high winds, snow flurries (and jce-glazed streets made driving hazardous here, only four traffie accidents were reported overnight. Three persons were hurt. Nine of the 24 alleged traffic law violators arrested overnight were | fined $31 by Judge Pro Tem. Floyd Mannon in Municipal Court today He suspended $135 in fines and costs, Among those fined was Leo Fesler, 314 E. Market St, former County Auditor. He was assessed $4 and costs, with costs suspended, for drive ihg 48 miles an nour. Hit-Run Driver Fined Raymond Hawley, 195, Beech Grove, was found guilty in Criminal Court of failing to stop after an accident that Killed William J. Wilkins, on State Road 20. He was fined $25 and costs. Judge Frank P. Baker found that no other law was violated and he gave Mr, Hawley 90 days to pay the fine,

Snowstorm Blamed in

'Railroadman’s Death LA PORTE, Ind. Jan. 25 (U. P), | —A snowstorm was blamed fo: the | instant death today of Walter A. | Bishop, 50, L.a Porte railroad car ins | spector, when the gasoline speeder lon which he was riding was struck by a New York Central Railroad | passenger train at an intersection of the New York Central-Nickel Plate Railroad (racks.

SANITATION PLANT ORDERED AT LINTON

The State Department of Come merce and Industry today ordered the Linton Civil City to construct a modern sanitation plant by Jan. 1, 1639. The order, sighed by W. H. Frazier, Stream and Water Pollution Division director, also requires the City to “abate pollution of Beas Hunter Ditech,” Mr, Frazier said the ditch and a septic tank at present are the Oftyv's | only means of sewage dis lL “The tank is inadequate and thera is an active health danger there,” he asserted,

FIGHTS TVA PROGRAM TO PURCHASE UTILITY (Editorial, Page 10) WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (U, P.) «= The Tennessee Valley Authority tows day encountered opposition as it set up machinery to enable it to ace quire properties of private utilities with which its “yardstick” power program competes. Senator McKellar (D. Tenn.) proe tested vigorously te President Roosee velt against a proposal by Governor Browning of Tennessee for TVAe Tennessee Valley co-operation in

acquisition of holdings of the Tene nessee Electric Power Co.

TAX BOARD PLEA DENTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P), ~The U. 8. Board of Tax Appeals today denied Government motions seeking to levy an additional ine come tax deficiency assessment against the late Andrew W. Mellon, The Board also denied a rehearing of the financier's tax oase,