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GIRL KIDNAPED,
Mary, "who escaped the abductors by
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Convent School Student, 18, Seized Near U. S. Capital; ister Escapes.
NO RANSOM DEMANDED
Parents Fear She’s Dead; Stepmother Makes Frantic ~ Plea Over Radio.
OXON HILL, Md, Dec. 1 U.P.) — The father of kidnaped Mary Brown went personally to national offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation today to seek aid of G-Men in the hunt for his abducted 18-year-old daughter. Believing his daughter has been attacked and murdered, William E. Brown, a Government employee in ‘Washington, sought help in tracking down the men who forced her into a truck last night on the outskirts of [the National Capital, seven miles from downtown Washington. In the meantime volunteer firemen, CCC boys and neighbors formed a posse to search the neighborhood {where the dark-eyed con-vent-reared girl was abducted.
$900,000 Rumor
Norma Shearer
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (U. P).— Counsel for Loew’s, Inc., holding company for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures, disclosed today that the firm paid the estate of Norma Shearer’s husband $900,000 to retain the actress’ services and counteract Hollywood rumors that it was trying to “do Miss Shearer in.” Former Justice Joseph M. Proskauer of the appellate division of the Supreme Court made the disclosure as defense attorney for Loew’s in a 30-million-dollar accounting suit against the com-
pany’s officers and directors brought by Bernard Epstein and seven other stockholders.
The hunt on the scene was led by a score of Maryland State Police, hurried here by Governor Nice of Maryland after an appeal from Mr. Brown. The State Police were under command of Capt. Edward McK. Johnson. Lucy Brown, 15-venrsoid sister of
fleeing across fields, provided officers with their first tangible clue.
The officers located tire tracks at the spot where Mary struggled with the two men. At the side of the road, state police found a perfectly
that of one of the kidnapers. A plaster impression of the footprint was made for use if suspects
d. Mr. Brown went to the Department of Justice after returning from an early morning survey of the abduction scene. Accompanied by Lucy and police, he carefully went over the spot where his daughter was forced into the truck. He held little hope, however, that his daughter still is alive. “I did have six children,” he said. “Now I have only five.”
No Ransom Demand
FBI officials refused to say what action they wasitaking. Although no
G-men were here, it was assumed |
that some had been assigned to the case, as is customary. No ransom demand had been received by her father, an employee of the Government Bureau of Printing] and Engraving, and authorities feared that it was not «a kidnaping for ransom. The posse was searching Prince George's County |where, in some secluded place, it expected to find the girl's body. If she were’ alive, they
way home. Mary's stepmother, Mrs. Margaret (Continued on Page Three)
STATE YOUTH KILLS GIRL, 16, ENDS LIFE
WINC STER, Ind, Ind, Dec. 1 (VU. 22-year-old farmer, shot and killed his young schoolgirl sweetheart, then sent a bullet through his own heart, because the girl had a date with another man, authorities said they helieved today. : Roberts fired four shots from a 22-caliber revolver into the body of 16-year-old Harriett Jordan while her ‘mother, Mrs. Stanley Tabosky, was buying some bottles of soda pop for the couple at a nearby grocery. Sheriff Lester Mann, summoned by Mrs. Tabosky’s brother after the tragedy was discovered, said he had learned that Roberts was irked, because his sweetheart had gone out once with another man.
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MAS WAS CHRIST AGAIN, Mae WAR OVER s0eer
OOKING back to Christmas 20 Years Ago — Christmas was Christmas again, the war over . . the Allies, including an American Army, were “The Watch on the Rhine.” . . . “Trees.” . . . In France and in American camps hundreds of thousands, unable to get discharge, spent a fretful Christmas. + »». “Hunger maps” of Europe were
FIVE RECOUNT CASES DROPPED
New Tally to Start in Two Others This Afternoon; Six Are Delayed.
BULLETIN
A 63-page brief setting out contentions of defeated Republican candidates and lisiing reasons why the tempor - ary writs of prohibition against a recount in seven counties be dissolved, . was filed with the Supreme Court today.
Five of 13 County election recount cases were dismissed, commissioners. in two other cases were ordered to start counting votes this afternoon and action in six other
cases were delayed in Circuit Court today. Recounting of votes was ordered to begin immediately in the cases of John Engelke against Henry O. Gosztt, for. judge of Superior Court 4, and the case of Edwin Haerle against David M. Lewis for Prosecutor. The cases dismissed were: Williamy Remy, against Wilfred Bradshaw, for Juvenile Court Judge; Frank Huse, against Charles R. Ettinger, for County Clerk; William Oren, against Glenn B. Ralston, for County Auditor; - Frank Cones, against: Walter Boetcher, for County Treasurer, and Mabel Lowe, against Hannah Noone, for County Recorder.
Dismissed Over Protest
The cases were dismissed over the protest of attorneys representing elected Democratic candidates. Thomas Garvin, attorney for several Democrats, said his clients regre‘ted the dismissals because of implications that they were elected through illegal voting. 1 “I presume, however, that filing these dismissals serve as a vindication for the Democratic candidates,” Mr. Garvin said. Julius Travis, attorney for Republican candidates, announced that they dismissed the cases because they felt the costs of recount(Continued on Page Three)
SCHOOLS TO SHARE IN LIQUOR TAXES
Total County Payment Set At $241,327.77.
Hugh A. Barnhart, State excise administrator, announced today the istribution of $241,327.77 to City and school units.in Marion County. This amount, Mr. Barnhart said, represented the County’s share of a total of $1,444,553.27 that the Excise Department is distributing throughout the State ‘Under the present liquor law in the State, all money from liquor permits goes to local treasuries, Mr. Barnhart said. The present amount being distributed was ‘collected during the six-month period from May to October. The money is distributed twothirds to city and county and onethird to school units. Under this distribution, Barnhart said, cities, towns counties will get $963,017.98 the schools $481,535.29. : Schools in Marion' County: ‘will receive $53,988.52. Beech Grove will receive $712.21; Indianapolis, $183,760.31; Speedway City, $316.67;
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WELLS CALLS FOR CHECK ON WORLD HATRED
Moral Rearmament Needed, He Says, at Inauguration As I. U. President.
URGES FAITH IN SCHOOLS
Bryan Praised for Part in University’s Intellectual, Physical Growth.
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Times Special ; BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 1.—
Herman B Wells, in his inaugural | address as the 11th president.of In-
diana University, today urged a “moral rearmament of all people if the tide of hatred and intolerance is .to be arrested before it engulfs the world.” Speaking to 3400 persons in the gymnasium and to thousands of
radio listeners, President Wells declared that “our public school system is the bulwark of liberty.” Preceding the speech, President Emeritus William Lowe Bryan delivered the charge to President Wells. : ~ “In this moment ‘we cannot forget that we face a troubled world,” Dr. Bryan said. “What it will come to at its worst we do not know. But
place with a valiant heart.” Tremain Gives Oath
The formal oath was administered to President Wells by Chief Justice
George L. Tremain of the Indiana Supreme Court following the processional from the Union Building to the Gymnasium. . Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker presented greetings of the State to the 36-year-old state university president in the country. In reply to Dr. Bryan, President Wells stated: “Dr. Bryan's administration is unique in the annals of our’ university. Under his leadership, the institution has had its greatest growth in physical and intellectual resources.” “It is appropriate that we look to the futyre this morning,” he continued. Faith in education has been a dominant feature .of our scgiety since the beginning of the Republic. A faith so strong that a school system has been built unparalleled elsewhere in the world.
Democratic Trend ‘Arrested’
“Throughout our history there has been a deep-rooted conviction that a democratic f of government could be made operative only by educated men and women. “Today there is a challenge to that form. For the first time in several generations, the trend toward democracy has been arrested. Some peoples . .. . have been seduced by the grandiose promises of unscrupulous leaders. “They have traded their precious guarantees of liberty for the quick and transitory gains of a dictatorship. Totalitarian government, with communism comprising its left boundary and fascism its right, runs amuck in the world. “Even more disturbing has been the recent outbreak in Germany of the mass persecution of a minority group the like of which ths world (Continued on Page Three)
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938
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FBI INVESTIGATES STOCKYARDS STRIKE
No Civil Liberties Breach Found, Official Says.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (U. P.). —Striking stockhandlers affiliated with the C. I. O. complained to U. S. Dist. Atty. William J. Campbell today that police and officials of the Unions Stock Yards & Transit Co. have denied them their right of freedom of speech and assembly. Mr. Campbell said an FBI report failed to reveal any violation of the Civil Liberties Act. He promised further investigation, however. Meanwhile, operations were at a complete standstill as the strike entered its ninth day. Exchange officials said they would accept no more shipments and that railroads had agreed to co-operate in an embargo on all shipments to the yards pending settlement of the
strike.
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Is Ill, Poison Probe Begun
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—An 86-year-old millionaire’s mysterious illness was investigated today because relatives feared that he was being slowly poisoned. The aged man has become weaker and weaker the past month, while physicians stood by baffled, and finally Tuesday night he was removed from his palatial home to a private hospital on orders from District Attorney Fitts. Three nurses caring for the patient on eight-hour shifts, and eating the same food he did, also are ill. :
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CHOOL BUS-TRAIN CRAS
SNOW STORM BLAMED FOR UTAH TRAGED
Freight Plows Into Vehicle Loaded With 10
TRAFFIC TOLL AT HIGH MARK IN NOVEMBER
[Police Report 445 Accidents,
221 Injuries and 11 Deaths for Month.
65 KILLED THIS YEAR
Three Hurt in Overnight Crashes; 29 Drivers Are Arrested.
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A sharp increase in the number of traffic accidents, injuries and fatalities during November, in comparison with November, 1937, was reported today by the Police Accident Prevention Bureau. Traffic accidents reported to police gained 42 per cent, injuries 40 per cent and fatalities 22 per ‘cent, according to the Bureau's comparison of the two months. Despite the increase in fatalities, the traffic toll for the year still is
~1substantially lower than that for the
same period last year. The Accident. Prevention Bureau lists 65 fatalities in the City thus far this year, compared with 93 for the same period last year. This year’s list does not include two pedestrians killed by trains and one by a streetcar. _ Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Bureau head, said pedestrians’ carelessness accounted for a substantial portion of the increase in injuries. Last month 93 pedestrians were injured, compared to 51 a year ago, he said. He attributed the increase in the number of accidents to the fact that last: year only accidents where someone was injured were counted in the total, but that all accidents were counted this year. Meanwhile, the overnight police traffic report included 29 arrests on traf chargés, and five accidents in Which three persons were injured. The November report shows a
| |total of 445 accidents of all types,
an increase of 131 over November last year; 221 injuries, increase of 64, nd 11 fatalities, increase of two. All but two of the fatalities last month were pedestrians struck by autos. The other two were Killed in collisions between autos. Of those injured in November, 107 were hurt in collisions between autos
:. {and 93 were pedestrians.
ROCHESTER, Ind, Dec. 1 (U. P.) —Funeral arrangements were
burg, 46, who died at the Woodlawn Hospital from a fractured skull and internal injuries received Monday when his car was struck by a Nickel Plate Railroad freight train.
LAFAYETTE, Dec. 1 (U. P).— Funeral services were completed today for Mrs. Robert Gregory, 25, of White County, who died in the St. Elizabeth Hospital from a skull fracture suffered in an automobile accident near Otterbein Sunday.
WARMER WEATHER IS DUE TOMORROW
TEMPERATURES 6a. m... 3 10 a. m.... 7a. m... 36 11 a. m.... 8a.m.... 35 12 (Noon). 9a m 38 1p m....
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The Weather Bureau today predicted a rise in temperatures this afternoon and tonight. Unsettled conditions and warmer weather
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NEW STATE AUDITOR SWORN IN . . . .
Frank G. Thompson, Democrat, new State Auditor, admires flowers sent to the Auditor's office by friends for his inauguration. Mr. Thompfoday by F Franeis J
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. MR. TUCKER TAKES OVER . . .. . ..
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“Welcome to my office—T mean your , office,” - greets ‘August Muel-
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ler (left), retiring Secretary of State, as his Republican successor, James Tucker to take his duties. Mr. Tucker was
completed today for Hudson Stans-|"
PRICE THREE CENTS
High School Pupils South of
Salt Lake City. 13 OTHERS.IN HOSPITAL UNCONSCIOUS
BULLETIN SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 1 (U. P.).~The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad division superintendent’s office said that 26 persons had been
killed in the train-bus crash.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—Hysterical
Bodies Strewn on Tracks for Quarter Miles : Bus Twisted to Bits; Driver Among Dead; Fear Greater Toll.
and screaming parents jammed the hallways of Salt Lake = |
General Hospital today, clamoring to see whether their children were among the 19 persons killed when a loaded high school bus was struck by a fast-moving Denver & Rio i Grande Western freight train. near here. Eighteen students and the bus driver were killed and 13 pupils were seriously injured. Several frantic parents fainted, complicating the task of hospital attendants, as they filed past the beds where the injured children lay—all unconscious. Then, if their children | were not there, they were alien to another room, where
10,000 PLANTS - GET WAR ORDERS
THE AMERICAS
WASHINGTON — U. 8S. gives ‘was orders to 10,000 factories; Woodring-Johnson feud breaks into open; Pittman says U. S. must “meet force with force.” GUAYAQUIL — Bloodshed reported on Peru-Ecuador border. LIMA—Roosevelt visit to conference talked by delegates.
EUROPE PARIS — 120,000 Workers "locked out after strike fails. LONDON — Italy adheres to Anglo-French-U. S. naval pact. ROME — Italian deputies démand territory from France. BUDAPEST — Carol acts to crush Fascist-like group. HELSINGFORS — Court upholds Fascist party’s rights. THE JEWISH CRISIS DETROIT—Ford urges U. S. to admit Jewish refugees. BERLIN—200 Jewish children leave for British homes. CANBERRA—Australia to give haven to 15,000 Jews.
TORONTO — 15 Attend antiSemitic “mass” meeting.
‘BULLETIN
CHUNGKING, China, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—Government military officials today ordered the mobilization of 2,600,000, most of them already trained for the defense of Kangsi Province. A million will ‘be armed immediately.
(Editorial, Page 18)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U.P) — Assistant War Secretary Louis John-
:|son revealed today that 10,000 in-
dustrial plants have been given “definite war schedules of production.” However, he warned that 250 of these plants, on which armed forces must rely for 55 critical military items, cannot perform wartime tasks because of a shortage of funds. He said that the War Department would ask Congress for special appropriations for “educational orders” to eliminate an industrial “bottleneck” which might prove disastrous in event of a war. Addressing a conference of Army procurement experts, summoned to Washington to discuss industrial mobilization, Col. Johnson declared that the United States must be prepared to meet the needs of changing strategic situations, presumably meaning - that attack might come . (Continued on Page Five)
FIRE THREATENS
‘TOWN OF MEDORA
MEDORA, Ind. Dec. 1 (U. P)— Fire destroyed three Medora business houses today and for a time threatened to sweep through the entire town, before it was brought under control by Brownstown firemen and 50 CCC workers. Damage was estimated at $10000.
the dead lay.
readily identified, but the dea |were so badly mangled none was immediately récog:
School, was struck squarely in the middle by a freight train. A light snow falling at the time apparently
blinded the bus driver and the ens gineer of the locomotive. “ The accident occurred at 9 a. m. at Lampton, a beet-loading station. -
Bodies Strewn Along Track
was killed instantly. Bodies of the dead were strewn
along the right-of-way for a quarter of a mile. Some of the bodies | were cut to pieces by wheels of the train. The bus was demolished. The only part of the bus left in one piece was a small portion of the rear end. Relief workers despaired
mediately. bered and they were strewn along
ter of a mile. ments and luncheon boxes were
The train was traveling at speed when it struck the bus. The impact bent the frame of the bus into a narrow horseshoe shape. . The engineer applied his brakes and stopped as soon as possible, but the rear car of the long train was at the crossing before the train was halted. Part of the bus was under the trucks of the locomotive.
Half Mile From School
The crash occurred at a crossing a half mile from the Jordan Senior High School, where the pupils were:
going for their morning classes. The driver of the bus, Farrold Sil cox, Riverton, died instantly. . C. N. Jensen, superintendent of the Jordan district, said it “probably will be several hours before we can get the names of all the victims” The bus was late, delayed by the snowfall and slippery pavement. The crossing where the crash oc= curred was a “clear” crossing, but visibility was hampered by the snowfall.
Four Killed in
Wisconsin Wreck
LUCK, Wis, Dec. 1 (U. P)— County and State authorities in= vestigated today a crash between a Soo Line passenger train and a make-shift rural school bus in which a farm mother and three school children were killed and five other students injured seriously, - © |
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