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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 275

* FDR TO MEET SMALL * BUSINESSMEN FEB. 2; ~ STOCKS OFF

Methods to Push ‘Sharpest

Recovery to Be Discussed

SEEK STABLE PAY ‘70 ISSUES’

Roosevelt Hints at F.D. R. Pay Remarks |

‘Priming’ if Other Steps Fail.

BILLION

Decline Since November, "37, Registered.

Old Levi Oft To Boneyard Across Ocean

NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (U.P). —The liner Leviathan, once queen of the seas, nosed out into the North Atlantic today, a decaying, ghost ship sailing to her doom. In 10 days the one-time “pig train” of oceanic passenger service will drop anchor off the coast of Scotland, and later, when tides permit, proceed to the ‘boneyard” to be dismantied into scrap iron. Yesterday the vessel was pulled from the Hoboken slip

SINK |

Seen As Basis For Selling.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (U.

(U. P.).—Secretary of Com-|P.).—More than a billion |

merce Roper announced today | dollars in paper values evapothe Administration's recovery rated from the stock market

covery and will select representa- | tives to meet with President Roose- | Many traders apparently sold on the

velt. basis of President Roosevelt's re-

Mr. Roosevelt's statement opposing | prices. | wage reductions and suggesting go heavy was the selling demand | mass-production industry price cuts. | and so reticent were buyers to take | The President accompanied his | stocks except at concessions that | statement with an intimation that | openings were delayed for long penew pump-priming expenditures | riods in many instances. will be necessary if business cuts Be wages this winter and spring. He | 70 Stocks at Year's Low declared that the Administration! The Dow-Jones combined average will be forced to adopt policies to | of T0 stocks sank to a new low for increase national purchasing power fy roar hiv us, OE noon. | iT . At that time, the railroad average cali | was down 1.11 at 28.83. a new low ‘Little Fellow’ Considered | since 1935. and utility. 19.77, off 0.69, | Mr. Roper said invitations to the 2nd a new low for the year. The business session will be sent to 500 | industrial average sank 5.64 to 122.69 | persons who have written President | Roosevelt suggesting a meeting with | Administration officials to formulate | a recovery program which would | take into consideration the fellow” in business and industry. " Mr. Roper indicated hope that the | Sombie. Motors with a $2 a share | conference would include persons | { representing small town banking, y,sis of all listed shares of $87,000, | textiles, consumer goods and foods, | nop. Du Pont with a loss of $450 a | distribution, transportation, fuel, |chare. shrank in value by $49 662. - | heavy goods, consumer and consum- | gop; U, S. Steel with a $3.37; loss, er goods, lumber, retailing, whole- shrank $29,372,625, and Standard of | saling, specialties, and industrial re-

its low for the year. | Transactions to noon amounted to |

“little |

where she had lain idle for three and a half years. After settlement of a strike of British members of her skeleton crew. the sailing had been scheduled for last night, but was delayed to allow additional fueling. She left the harbor early today. One man, who had boarded a tug when the ship was pulled from her slip yesterday, remained throughout the night to wave a last farewell. He was gray-haired Capt. Harold A. Cunningham, who was her master during her reign as queen of the Atlantic.

JONES DEFENSE HAILS VICTORY

It was expected they will consider | marks late yesterday on wages and Accused Held in Jail While

Plans for Retrial Are Rushed.

By SAM TYNDALL Times Staff Writer DANVILLE, Jan. 26 —Mrs. Etta Jones today regarded as a victory the failure of a jury here yesterday to reach a verdict in her trial on

| charges of slaying 13-year-old Helen

Schuler at Beech Grove last July. She is being kept in jail here without bond pending arrangements

land was only about 2 points above | for a retrial. Prosecutor Herbert M. |

Spencer said he would take immediate steps for another trial and

1,070,000 shares or just about the | Qjreuit Court Judge H. L. Hanna of amount of all transactions done in | Hendricks County said he would ar- | |the Monday and Tuesday sessions range a date in the next judicial

calendar. The jury of 11 farmers and one

terday that it was hopelessly deadlocked after 23 hours of deliberation. Fach told Special Judge Edgar A. Rice that there was no hope for agreement.” “Of Course I'm Relieved”

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938

Apartment Damaged As Families Flee To Safety.

i. ‘DRIVER BURNED | | SS ——— | Cold Wave Blamed;

Total Loss Put At $4500.

Fire today drove 11 per- | sons in night clothes from "a North Side apartment building while another blaze caused $3500 damage to P. J. Bulg- | er's bakery and warehouse | at 650 E. Maple Road. Extra heat needed for buildings | as result of the near-zero weather | was blamed for the blazes. Firemen said an overheated fur- | nace caused the fire and heavy clouds of smoke which routed the |

occupants of the six-family apart- |

ment house at 14th St. and Car- |

rollton Ave. at 6:30 a. m.

| They said a gas jet, which evi- |

dently had been left burning to keep the building from becominz too cold. caused the fire in the bakery and warehouse.

Driver Is Burned

Allan Handle, 708 N. Alabama St.. was burned on the leg and hand when his automobile caught fire as he was driving west on Maryland St. at Meridian St. He was taken to City Hospital. When flames shot up from the floor board, he stopped the car suddenly and leaped out. Traffic Offi

smother the flames in his clothing. Downtown fire apparatus quickly extinguished the automobile fire. The apartment occupants took

loss, showed a depreciation on the | ca jasman reported at 3:20 p. m. yes- refuge at the home of neighbors

| while three fire companies fought the flames. Damage to the build- | ing was estimated at $1000. Loss to | furnishings was not estimated. The fire tied up traffic for more

cer Williams Cravens helped him |

man

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at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

as Second-Class Matter Ind

PRICE THREE CENTS

Times Photo,

Firemen battled nearly an hour with flames in the P. J. Bulger warchouse,

CHINESE ORDER

| Icy Blasts Roll Over U.S.;

NEW OFFENSIVE Jam Menaces Niagara Span

| | Engineers May Blast Gorge; Drifts Bury Upper Michigan;

‘League of Nations Counci Meets; Hull Sends New Note to Soviet.

| SHANGHAI—Chinese order guer- | rilla campaign in northwest China. GENEVA-—League of Nations Coun-

cil meets.

| | WASHING TON—Hull

makes new

than an hour within a three-block | demand that Soviet permit U. S.

search. Mr. Roosevelt contended in a press conference statement that price cutting would restore profits. But he insisted that if losses were | to he suffered in meeting recessior. | problems, the loss should be borne by management and stockholders of | industry. He said to assess losses against | bondholders would mean financial] bankruptcy and to assess losses) against workers would be “moral bankruptcy . . . bankruptcy of sound business judgment.” Steel Industry Involved This warning was directed particularly at steel and to other mass production industries 1n general. That brought

| |

incomes.

Unions have driven up hourly

rates of pay but with many thou- |

up the question of high hourly wages vs. low annual

jiitw Jersey, with a $2.25 a share

loss, shrank $59,006,250. Losses of $6 a share or more were

made by Allied Chemical, J. I. Case,

and several inactive issues.

‘ACE PHOTOGRAPHER

DIES AT WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (U. P,).— J. A. Nesensohn, 38, manager of the

Washington Bureau of Acme News | | Pictures for the last six years, died |

| today. He was operated on Saturday for a stomach disorder. It was his second major operation within the last six months. Mr. Nesensohn, prior to

becoming chief of the Washington |

Acme in New and battery with intent to kill Mrs. |

Bureau, worked for York, Cleveland and Chicago. He

sands of men being laid off or | was recently elected president of the | placed on part-time schedules, the | White House Press Photographers’ | contrast between high hourly pay! Association. and a reduced weekly pay check is |

coming home to union leaders as | well as industrialists and aS LOSE JOBS WITH

ment leaders.

Miners’ Locals Favor 3d Term for F. D. R.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (U. P).—| Philip Murray, chief lieutenant of | Member and Two Women |

John L. Lewis, today charged before | Reporters Dismisse d

the United Mine Workers Union convention that blame for failure of peace conferences with the]

American Federation of Labor lay | A State Industrial Board member |

| | | Mrs. Jones showed ‘no ‘emotion | when the jury reported. | “I ean’t understand why they did | not find me not guilty.” (later. “But of course I'm relicvea [by this first result which I consider | a victory. I feel certain ‘I will be {acquitted if I'm tried again.” | Virgil Sears, one of the defense | attorneys, said he ‘would ‘ask the | court to release Mrs. Jones on hond | pending the next trial. Mrs. Jones told friends ‘thdt her | daughter, Betty Jean. was out of Indiana and that she would not al- | low her to return to the state until after the “case against her had been settled.” Prosecutor Spencer said if Mrs. Jones is acquitted by the next jury, he was prepared to serve a capias on her charging her with assault

Lottie Schuler, the dead girls’ stepmother, who was wounded on the! day of the murder. Trial Costs $30,000 The prosecutor estimated the cost | of the trial to Marion and Hen- | dricks County at more than $30,000. It lasted 15 days. | The State, Mr. Spencer said, may | seek a change of venue in the case |

| : to another county. The defense was | rasidents.

granted a change of venue from Marion County in the first trial. Mr. Spencer expressed disappointment in the jury disagreement. “We will try Mrs. Jones on the first-degree murder charge again and hope to send her to the electric

| area and held up College Ave. streetars. The blaze apparently had been | discovered at 6:30 a. m, Battalion { Chief Fred Simms said. | It was discovered by Fred Karns, [who with his wife, live in the first | floor apartment, directly above the furnace in the rear of the build- | ing. Mr. Karns, injured in a recent basketball game, said he awoke at 6 a. m., then dozed off again. He said he was awakened a half hour | later by the odor of smoke. Smoke Near Register | He hobbled to the door between the living room and bedroom and

as he opened it. he said he saw | | smoke around the register and a |

cloud of smoke rolled into the bedroom.

diplomat to interview Mrs. Rubens {| in prison.

for sesquicentennial.

pect today on the basis of reports |

that the Japanese had landed at Lienyunkang. | Lienyunkang is a seaport and | eastern terminus of the Lung Hai Railroad, along which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is prepared for a desperate stand. Meanwhile the Chinese high command has ordered a general offen- | sive against Japanese by guerrilla

9 ‘ ... | fighters in the p est, - Mr. Karns awakened . his wife HN OE a ery St, Onl

squarely with the federation. Mr. Murray, vice president of the mine union and member of the C. I. O. peace negotiating committee, said negotiations to end intralabor warfare failed because federation

representatives lacked authority to |

negotiate a truce. Mr. Murray spoke as union delegates considered proposals

2 third term and approved a ‘demand that Congress start a $5,000, 000,000 housing program to be

and two women reporters assigned | to the Board were dismissed today, | it was announced.

| They are Sam P. Vogt of Corydon,

Benjamin,

that | President Roosevelt be drafted for | Board in 1933. Charles E. Fox of |

financed by Social Security reserves. |

Push F. D. R. for 3d Term

The “Draft Roosevelt” movement |

was placed before John L. Lewis’ personal union in eight resolutions filed by locals from three states. The resolutions, declaring that a third

if legislation favorable to “the laboring class” is to be completed, were referred to the Resotutions Committee. The convention unanimously demanded the multibillion-dollar housing program after Mr. Murray (Turn to Page Three)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Books ... Broun Clapper

| Josephine Murphy Culbertson filed | soldiers.

| son, contract bridge authority. term for Mr. Roosevelt is necessary

| Board member, and Miss Goldie Vincennes, and Mrs. Bertha Meyers of Indianapolis, reporters. Their dismissals are effec- | tive Feb. 1.

Mr. Vogt was appointed to the

| Terre Haute, Labor Division concililator, has been mentioned as his successor,

CULBERTSON DIVORCE DUE

RENO, Nev. Jan, 26 (U, P.).—Mrs. day in the midst of a group of to do With Mrs. Tda Yoder and

| suit for divorce charging mental | cruelty today against Ely Culbert-

will receive an uncontested decree at a private trial later today.

| chair,” he said. Mrs. Jones, who was arrested July 14 a few hours after the shooting, has been in the Marion County and Hendricks County jails for more than six months.

14 FEARED KILLED ~ WHEN BOMBS BURST

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PARIS, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—A case

| of hand grenades, seized at a secret |

| headquarters of the terrorist “hood- | ed men” organization. exploded to-

Police estimated that 14 | men were killed.

{ The soldiers were removing the |

hen one detail droppsd a case, | believed to contain 32 bombs.

Cox Flays Legislature as Girl, 17, Receives Divorce

Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox assailed the State Legislature for Indiana's |

girl ran away to be married, Judge

Although testimony showed the |

then tried to phone the Fire De-| 14 was intimated that the offenpartment. He said he could Not | give already had started in Sulyuan get a connection. He tried to get | province, north of the Great Wall, out a window, but said he found ang Chinese reported that guerrilthe windows barred as a precaution jas in Shensi Province, immediately against burglars. | south of the wall, were co-operating. He and his wife donned coats |

rer their paj d left th h | " The rear door. As he lett, mr. League Council aken other Meets Privately

shouted to aw About the same time, F. E. Don- | GENEVA, Jan. 26 .(U. P.).—The l aldson, who lives in a downstairs 100th meeting of the League of Nafront apartment, smelled smoke as | tions Council. began today he was getting dressed for work. Italy absent and Great Britain and | He awakened his wife, then tried | France trying to keep smaller nato call the Fire Department, but !tions in active co-operation. said he could not get a connection.| The council opened its meeting They left as smoke rolled into their | (Turn to Page Three)

apartment. Mr. Donaidson called | rem in | firemen from a neighbor's home. ‘BANQUET TO HONOR

| He returned to warn other occuA. V. BROWN TONIGHT

| pants.

Karns

Beatrice Short said she was | (Turn to Page Three)

Mrs.

Column, Page 19)

Arthur V. Brown, Methodist Hospital Board of Trustees president for 17 years, is to be honored at a ban-

2 COUNTIES REJECT | MOTHER AND FIVE.

COLUMBIA TITY, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—Officials pondered today what Claypool Hotel, More than 1000 physicians, board members, hospital officials and guests dre expected. Principal speaker is to be Dr. J.

H. J. Upham, Columbus, O., Amer-

| her five children, who are unwanted | in two counties.

| order to move the family to La- | ical advisory hoard president, is to | grange County, former home of |be toastmaster. Other speakers are Mrs. Yoder and her children. There | to be Dr. Edmund D. Clark, the Rev. Trustee Irvy Charles of Johnson |W. C. Hartinger and Mr. Brown.

with |

quet at 6:30 o'clock tonight at the |

Power Production Cut; Bridge Buckles.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Jan. 26 (U. P.) —Engineers of the International Railway &b. announced today | they were considering dynamiting 1 huge ice jam below Niagara Falls in an effort to save historic Falls View Bridge.

| The bridge links the United States |

{and Canada and spans the lower

the cataracts. Caught in a mountan of ice which blocked the lower river from the foot (of the falls to Whirlpool Rapids, the | bridge was closed to traffic when 1t [began buckling in the center unde: [the tremendous pressure of the jam lon its abutments. Authorities said the bridge ap- | peared to be moving slowly downstream with the jam which still was growing. One on the

power company

| Canadian side was forced to clos: |

when it was enveloped in ice. On | the American side, the production of | the Niagara Falls Power Co. was cut one-third by the jam which blocked a tunnel. | Two of the steel girders support- | ing the bridge snapped at 1:30 p.m.

PROBE 1S ORDERED ON UNPAID STOKES

‘Safety Board to Check

20,000 Tags Tomorrow.

The Safety Board Is to hold a special meeting tomorrow afternoon to open an investigation into the

reported failure of 20.000 motorists |

| to pay $2 traffic sticker fines, The inquiry was ordered during a meeting at which the Board ordered | the auto tow-in ordinance enforced. Police Chief Morrissey | Chief Kennedy, who parked in an alley hindered fireme

the order. The Board also is to consider | establishment of a new accounting system to insure more efficient | sticker collections, it was said. Those who are expected to attend the meeting include City Prosecutor John Cooper, Chief Morrissey, City Attorney Adolph Schreiber City Clerk Daniel J. O'Neill. Decision to investigate the situ- | ation followed the statement of {Chief Morrissey that “it was news |to me” when Mr, O'Neill reported the number of unpaid stickers at 'a recent City Council meeting.

Township refused to accept them. They were returned here to live in a house car until authorities decide what to do. | TWO DIE IN AIR CRASH BELLEVILLE, Ill, Jan. 26 (U.P). —A Naval officer and a cadet were killed at Scott Field, nine miles east

Aurora May Repeat Show; Europe Awed by Spectacle

Freeze Extends to

Gulf of Mexico.

(Photo, Page Three)

| By United Press

Tey blasts from Alaska rolled across the United States to the At-

lantic seaboard and the Gulf of!

Mexico today, sheathing the northern half of the nation with snow and ice. Snow whipped into a blizzard by | a 50-mile-per-hour gale buried up-

. she std | burning for some time before it was | SYDNEY—Four U. S. cruisers arrive | Niagara River about 1000 feet from | per Michigan beneath drifts 20 and

| 30 feet deep. The entire northern | half of the nation east of the Rocky

| Mountains was covered by snow and ice.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla, Jan. 26 (U. P.,).—~The entire population of Brooksville, numbering 1405, turned out en masse today to see the town’s first “snowstorm” in years. The light fall continued about an hour, | The United States Weather Bureau at Chicago reported there was | no relief in sight from the near zero temperatures that prevailed | over the area. New England Escapes Only New England, where tem- | peratures remained above normal, escaped the full force of the northern blasts. Freezing temperatures extended southward to New Orleans and the Gulf. The weather forecast was encouraging only in that it predicted | clear weather for several days in the Middlewest with the exception of Michigan. J. R. Lloyd, Government forecaster at Chicago, said one | of the worst blizzards in upper | Michigan's history would continue throughout most of the day and

| | | |

| probably spend its force tonight. He |

forecast more show for Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

The Falls View Bridge at Niagara

NEW LOW FORECAST FOR TONIGHT; FIRES ROUT 11, DESTROY BAKERY

Mercury May Reach 5 Above Tonight, Says Bureau,

5» PERSONS HURT

Two Fall on Streets; Some Schools in

State Close.

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 1937

17 16 15 14 13 13 12 12 12 14 17 21 22 25 25

idnight

BW TB OR SS

EPS EE EE ERE EEE

| The Weather Bureau 1- ay | forecast a new season's low (of 5 above zero here tonight, | but promised relief by tomorrow noon.

The lowest during the last 24 | hours was 6 above at midnight. The | mercury began a slow climb then. The Bureau said calmer winds and intermittent sunshine might send the mercury to 15 before it. starts downward again tonight, Fair weather, without snow, was pree dicted, The cold wave was blamed for twa eaths in the state, and injury tn five persons here. Several schools in the state were closed and driving | conditions on highways and city streets were hazardous. Car Inspector Killed Motorists kept off the streets during the night, police said, and there | were only two accidénts, in which | three persons were hurt, Walter A. Bishop, ratiroad car ine spector, was killed in a snowstorm at La Porte when the gasoline speed - er on which he was riding was struck by a New York Central Railroad frain. A. J. Mincey, 71, was | frozen to death in the snow near Princeton after he was hurled fram | his truck when it struck an abut- | ment, Paul Alley, 18, of 5852 N. New | Jersey St. and Marion A. Lowman, [37, of 3412 Salem St. were bruised when their car skidded at Kessler Blvd. near 44th St. struck a manI hole and overturned. Miss Hilda Arnett, 25. of 311 RB. Washington 8t., was hurt when the car in which she was riding skidded

| |

| into an Indianapolis Railways bus

(at Delaware and Market Sts Carriers Near Schedule Mrs. Mary Horn, 54, of 2602 Brookside Ave., hurt her back when | she fell while attempting to board la streetcar at Washington and | Pennsylvania Sts, ] | Mrs. Mildred Davidson, 31, of 518 | N. California St., injured her wrist, | when she fell at Indiana Ave, and | Michigan St. | Railroad, traction and bus oMcials here said that carriers were (Turn to Page Three)

‘WILLIAM $. M'NUTT, FILM WRITER, DEAD

HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 26 (U. P.) William Slavens McNutt, playwright, war correspondent and scenarist of such movie hits as “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” died last night of bronchial pneumonia. He was 52.

and |

marriage laws today as he granted a divorce to a high school sophomore who was married when she “Under Indiana laws,” he said, than it is a marriage license. All you have to do is have the $2.” The divorce was granted to Mrs. Mary M. Calvin Burk, now 17, from Paul D. Burk, 24, on the grounds that he did not live with her. “Some day,” he said, “the State | Legislature will have sense enough | to make it harder to get married. | Then couples will have some time

Jane Jordan. 11 | State Death Johnson ..... 12 | Wiggam .....

to think it over. These are the eal

Sash or. Wiese young

was 16. |

“it is harder to get an auto license |

Cox also criticized her parents. “This is the same old story of | incompatibility,” he said. “Of course this girl couldnt get along. She doesn’t know enough to get along in married life. She is only | slightly over the spanking age. The

| parents obviously were too easy on

her.” He asked the girl what she intended to do. She said she would get a job until she married again. She said she thought she ought to be 25 before she does so. “Before you take that step again,” the judge cau your

of Belleville, today when their plane caught in a dirigible mooring mast

BOSTON, Jan. 26 (U. P)—, Meteorologists believed today that | people of Great Britain and the con-

Falls, began to crumble. Boys Have Holiday Thirty-three boys marooned in a { high school near Ironwood, Mich.,

| (Another Story, Page Nine: Radio a(t a recent downtown fire, requested feet high against the schoolhouse.

Three hundred miners were ma-

rooned in shafts along the Gogebic |

| iron range in Michigan. Railroad and | automobile traffic was disrupted in | Michigan and Wisconsin. The weather bureau reported that | the 40 inches of snow on the ground at Marquette, Mich.,, was the deeplest in the country. St. Louis bandits took advantage (of the cold wave which makes wear- | ing pants necessary before venturing into the streets. They have robbed | six victims by this method, police { reported. Cutters Hunt Barge Ooast Guard planes and boats searched the gale-lashed gulf for an oil barge adrift with 10 men aboard. Mishaps caused by floods in the Middle West and near zero temperatures and drifts throughout the | Great Lakes region caused at least | six deaths in three states. | The blizzard, centered across the | upper Michigan peninsula, spent its

LONDON. Jan. 2 (U. P.) —The | fury westward into Wisconsin and

Towa. The biting winds, sometimes of 50 miles an

tioned, “you better talk

and crashed.

CREW OF 31 FEARED LOST TOKYO, Jan. 26 (U. P.).—The freighter Shoko Maru foundered offshore in a snowstorm near Otaru today. The crew of 31 was believed to have been lost.

last night's spectacular borealis display might be repeated | tonight or within a month. i

Observatory said that the socalled | northern lights occur in great in- | tensity, so far as is known, during ' periods of high sun-spot activity, | which come in 11-year cycles. |

Chief Meteorologist G. Harold Noves of the Boston Weather Bu- | reau believed that generation never | has seen a display as intense as last night's. intensity is possible.

NOE MUCH IMPROVED MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan, 26 (U. P). —Cohdition of the Rev. Israel H. Noe, who was taken to a hospital Sunday when he collapsed afier 22 days of fasting, was reported much

AUTOR | pihant saw

strange sights in the

skies last night, and considerable | highways in Michigan and isolated | Harvard officials at the Blue Hill | ¢Xcitement was tinged with some

superstitious awe It was the aurora borealis, familiar to residents of northern countries but in this case visible as far south as the Mediterranean. The brilliant red glow in the sky, unprecedented in recent years, was greatest at London between 6 and 7 p. m. Service on telegraph lines was disrupted and short wave radio

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| reaching a velocity { hour, piled 30-foot drifts across

| hundreds of families. | Additional suffering was caused by freezing flood waters in Wisconsin, Illinois and Towa. In the Texas land Oklahoma Panhandles ond | western Kansas, raging dust storms | uprooted winter wheat fields. | Through the South, frost and hign winds threatened damage to orchards and crops. Gale-like winds also endangered ay

He died at his San Fernando Vale ley home after extended illness, | Mr. McNutt was born in Urbana, Il, and went from college into a

| During the World War he became a | war correspondent, Many of the scenarios for Hollve wood movie hits came from Mr. Mc- | Nutt's typewriter, Among his latest, | were “Ruggles of Red Gap” and col[laboration on Bing Crosby's ‘Rhythm [on the Range.”

‘CARRIE SHUMAKER | DIES AT HOME HERE

Mrs. Carrie Shumaker, wife of [the late Fred I. Shumaker, former |ircaiaela of the Columbus, Ind, Creosoting Co., died today at her [ home, 3917 N. Capitol Ave, after a | year's illness. She was 61. | ‘Mrs. Bhumaker was born in Indis anapolis and had lived here all her life, She is the mother of William | E. Shumaker and Fred I.Shumaker, | who are officials of local invest ment brokers’ firms carrying their | names. A third son, Gus, is presi. | dent of the Globe Creosoting Co, with offices in Circle Tower. : Two daughters and another son | also survive. Puneral arrangements | were to be completed tomorrow,

‘SCHOOLS MAY CLOSE IN JEFFERSONVILLE

JEFFERSONVILLE, Jan. 26 (U, | P.).—~Schools may be closed if the scarlet fever epidemic continues to spread, according to Samuel Adair, City Health Officer. There are 20 cases at present, all having devels oped within the past two ‘weeks, | The situation, Mr. Adair said, does not warrant general alarm.