Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1939 — Page 1

CB SERIPRY C HOWARD :

RESCUED COAL

. MINERS AWAIT

CALL TO JOBS

19 Saved in Clinton Shaft Fire After 17-Hour Entombment.

+ FATHER OF 3 IS KILLED

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} Wanders Away From Group And Is Suffocated; 170 Periled.

(Photo, Page Three)

i i i CLINTON, Ind., Jan. 2 (U. P.).— Nineteen miners who were rescued yesterday from the depths of the Crown Hill Coal Mine No. 6 after they had been entombed by raging flames for 17 hours, waited for the firg to burn out today to permit them to resume work.

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One man died in the smoke and |

. gas-filled working before

rescue |

squads could reach him. Crazed by |

deadly “black damp” he wandered | away from his coworkers and suffocated. Approximately 170 miners were | below ground when the fire started from a short-circuited electric wire. 411 but 20, working at a 168-foot level, escaped by walking through various -entries to the main shaft. e ‘ entombed men threw up a makeshift barricade to protect themselves from the flames. ered a telephone wire and by touching the ends together signaled for

“He ¥.assistance.

After rescue squads had labored tirelessly amid a dozen | perils to reach) the men from the side which was gut off by flames, they ran out of water. They they began advancing through an old passageway in the rlear which had been sealed for three! years. Swinging sledge hammers ‘and advancing beind a wall of pure air forced into the corridor under pressure, seven | rescuers knogieed down five partitioning bulk- - heads in waist-deep water and finally reached the trapped men.

All Go to Homes

Alf of the miners were able fof go thier homes after hospital , treatiment for gas poisoning. The £2 , Jess¢ ‘Hayes; 85; father of children, would have been saved had he stayed with the others. Rescuers found him after they had guided the others to the surface. The thousands who had kept a prayerful vigil. at the head of the maim shaft shouted and cheered as the 'begrimed miners were brought to ‘safety. Frank Stewart, foreman who led the 20-man crew into the diggings, told of their fight to retain their sanity -when mine gas, seeped through the chambers. 2 “We learned of the fire at 12:30 p. m..” he said, “and began blocking ourselves off in four adjoining rooms. We would have lived only a few hours longer if the rescuers hadn't reached us.” He said some of the men fainted when the rescue workers finally appeared. Mine’ officials said the passageway in which the fire was burning had been sealed and that the flames would burn out, probably by midweek. All of the rescued men said they would return to work as soon as the mine is reopened.

QUEEN, PRINCESS ELIZABETH ARE ILL

SANDRINGHAM, England, Jan. 2 (U. P.).—Queen Elizabeth and 12-year-old Princess Elizabeth are confined to bed with influenza, con-. tracted when an epidemic broke out among members of the staff of + Sandringham estate, it was disclosed today. | The Queen has been in bed rince Saturday when she was unable to ttend a motion picture program rrarzed in the ballroom of Sandringham House where the Royal Family gathered for Christmas. Princess Elizabeth, heir resumptive fo the throne, became ill yesterday and her meals were sent to her room. "Thus far, 8-year-old Princess argaret Rose has escaped the epemic, which has spread to eight embers of the Sandringham staff, cluding a maid of one of the ueen’s ladies in waiting.

HRISTMAS MAIL y ESTABLISHES RECORD

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U. P.).— e Postoffice Department reported foday the volume of Christmas mail this year exceeded that of any previous year in the Department's hispry.

| TODAY'S TIMES OFFERS—

1938's best news pictures ....Page 4 The new map of Europe ....Page 6 The old year's chronology .....Page 8 The sports year in pictures ...Page 18 Indianapolis’ 1938 story «....Page 16

Clubs and society pass in review +-Page H

They sev-|:

ond-stiidded medal last night for

Morrissey Drafts brastic. Changes in Program; 1938 Toll 120.

By SAM TYNDALL

Officials prepared today to open their new year of public service by

lev:ling both barrels at the City's No 1 menace—trafiic accidents. The new City administration plans to fire the opening gun in the 1939) traffic program within a week. £4 long and comprehensive list of recommendations for drastic changes in he City’s antiaccident program willl be submitted by Chief Morrissey at the first meeting of the new Saisty Board, it was learned. 'T 1e recommendations will “follow clos:ly” those made by the Citizens Safsty Committee recently.

Co-Operation Pledged

Meanwhile Traffic Court judges, othir City officials and citizens’ gro. ps pledged themselves to do their part this year to deliver a sme shing blow against death on the stre.ts and highways. That the job of saving lives on the highways was done better last yeal' than during the last two years was’ shewn by Police Department figuies. Tle record: 1937

1936 5 153

1938 Cou; ty. Deaths 120 City Deaths .......... 125 106 1 Pedc strians (in city). 63 57 nd Cl ief Morrissey declined to reveal his ‘ecommendations. until they are subr itted to the Safety Board. The Safety Committee’s 22-point repo: t, however, included recommendaticns for a full-time traffic engii eer, revision of the taxi cruising ¢rdinance, new ordinances regulatin’ bicycle traffic, installation of park ng meters. compulsory auto inspe tion, revision of the “sticker” ordir ance, establishment of a safety speak ars’ bureau, amendment of the tow-i) ordinance and establishment of sp cial accident squads. Th: 22-point program was in the form of recommendations by a subcomniittee to the parent safety body, which is to study the program (¢’ontinued on Page Thee)

Award of

CHICAGO, Jan. 2 (U. P).—Gilbert Hoettcher, 27, Milwaukee, renounc.d truth in his resolutions for the N2w Year today and said he would maintain his position as the world’s ’ champion liar with as mué ignity as possible. The Burlington Liars’ Club, which has ‘taembers in 32 countries, awarded him the title and a diam-

submit ing the best lie of 6500 entries ir: its annual liars contest. The club originated around a potbellied stove in the Burlington. § Wis. i

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‘John Colyer

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MONDAY! JANUARY 2; 2, 1939

KILLED IN MARION COUNTY

BY AUTOMOBILES IN 1938

Lloyd Woodruff Thomas Morrison Ambrose Board William H. Hawkins

Walter B.

Hatfie Malcolmson Lavina Allen Inez Heath Jorsey Gains Irene R. Todd William H. Todd Eva Gant Earl C. Young George Treeter Fred W. Stewart Manson LaMar Neidlinger Otis Johnson Joseph L. Chapman Daisv Drake Betty Joan Stokes Darrell F. Roberts Charles P. Miller Joseph S. Bairhizer Robert Little Charles Kettleborough John Stritt William T. Warren Richard Edward Allen Roland R. Stark Scott R. Hardin Charles A. Stevens John Shaw George Elkins Freeman Baldwin Charles Smith Carl Richey Delbert Kimberlin Deshi L. Mahoney Lawrence M. Fisher Charles P. Norton

George E.

Carl John

Edith Bell

Seth Beem

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS TAKE 1481.5, LIVES

As Figures Mount. .

By United Press The number of violent deaths on highways, in homes and ia the air increased steadily toward the 300 mark today as the three-day New Year holiday neared its end. Automobile, railroad and airplane accidents, fires, bullets and gas had taken at least 242 lives early today. As usual, automobile accidents headed the list, accounting for 148 deaths. Indications were the figure would be doubled before midnight. Illinois reported 41 violent deaths, 24 of them the result of accidents. New York had 36 fatalities, California, 19. Indiana had eight deaths in traffic, one in a mine disaster.’

| “Alabama had two of the most

tragic automobile accidents. Seven members of a family drowned at Greenville when an automobile crashed through the railing of a bridge and fell into a creek.

.4 in School Bus Die

Four high school youths burned to death near Roanoke when a school bus caught fire after it collided with an automobile, At Runford, Me... five persons burned to death in a fire which broke out in the Falls View Hotel during the height of New Year's Eve festivities. A woman burned to death at Ft. Madison, Iowa. Dr. Henry Steil, 67, shot and killed himself at the stroke of midnight New Year's Eve in a New York .hotel. At Sheffield, Iowa, an amateur aviation enthusiast, was killed when the airplane he was piloting crashed into the side of a grain elevator during a takeoff. In another accident, a conductor was run over and killed by his own

Police Station 10. Sears club mov

train at Iowa City, Iowa.

Dogfish Bark Fuel Wins

Liars’ Club

cast his whopper over a national radio hookup. He said he thought of his prize-winner while working in his filling station. “I was on a fishitig bost out of New Orleans,” he said. “We came in early-one day, and found we had had such luck we decidefl to go out again. We got’ our seconcl load of fish and as we started back, we ran out of coal. Thinking quickly, as usual, I told the crew to get some dogfish in a spare tank. “When we had a fankful, I had one man tickle the dogfish ‘until they barked. Then

A. Lawrence Edens Paul Huffman Alva Emmelman Robert Blanford Roy J. Overman Etta Overman

Gerald Dilk

Andrew Hood Acia Robinson Maude Smith Robert Renfrol Haley Ayres Ralph M. Wise Hannah Moore William Carson Ezra N. Dransfield Mary Jane Dransfield Harry Preston

Minnie Blessing Raymond Baker Homer Frisbie Donald S. Magrhder John Howard Caldwell Samuel Beem

' , Theodore Green George Wittemier Gerome Thomas Bey! Howell Thomas Owens John Burkert Thurman L. Lane Myron B. Bonwell Herbert Lawrence Johnston Victor Langley Flora Carson Gale Roscoe Buchanan

Eight Reported Dead in State |,

Walter Hied Margareth Lautner Martha Ingalls: Laura Busch Albert B. Wright Mannie Overton Paul R. Stevenson Carl Martin John Crady

Harding

Stout

Young Patricia Ann Smith William Pettit Billie Claire Thomas Mary Logue Thomas Hartley 3 Benjamin F. Austin Sam Alexander John Marren John Paul Love Clarence Smith Russell P. Robey William Schneider Richard De Mott Louisa Glitzenstein William E. Roeder Ida Graves Mitchell Leland F. Rudrow Charles J. Doyle Jr. Alcie B. Griffith Sarah Canary Harold Wyatt Isaac Raines Oliver Sprinkle John Pierson Andrew H. Brown Amelia VanJelgerhuis James Jones

Richardson

Alonzo Novick Edward H. Green

ro ation’s ten ‘Deaths Nearing 3200

14 More Hurt in County ~ With'New Year Less Than’ 48 Hours Old.

The 1939 County traffic toll today was two dead and 14 injured. First to die thjs year was Harold Nowlin, 24, Anderson. He was killed yesterday when the car in which he and three others were riding

skidded and overturned at State Road 367 and, Arlington Ave. The second holiday traffic fatality was Walter Mayes, 50, 46 Lockfield Gardens. He died at City Hospital last night after being struck by the car of Paul Bonn, 22, of 1950 W. Michigan St., according to police. Treated at City Hospital for minor lacerations were Isaac H. Burton, 36, driver of the car in which Mr. Nowlin died, and Paul France, 33. The third man in the machine was identified by the others as Robert McNabney, police said. All are of Anderson. Mr. Nowlin was hurled from the car and his neck broken. All four were en route to Indianapolis for a New Year's celebration, Mr. Burton and Mr. France said.

Walks Out of Alley

Witnesses told police that Mr. Mayes was struck when he walked out of an alley near 941 Indiana Ave.

car in which she and three others were riding was sideswiped. It swerved into a parked car at 1218 N. Capitol Ave., according to police. Slightly injured were Mrs. Mena Arnett, 24, of 713 Locke St., and ler two children, Samuel, 5 months old and Shirley, 2. James Frenzel, 60, of Carmel, investment broker of the Merchants National Bank, was in St. Vincent's Hospital suffering lacerations after an automobile accident Saturday night at 49th and Meridian Sts. Police said Mr. Frenzel's car was in collision with one operated by Henry Sanborn, 66, of 4704 Michigan Road.

Suffers Broken Leg

Mrs. Mary Anderson, 56, 1434 English Ave., was in Methodist Hospital with a broken right leg, suffered when she was struck by an automobile at State and English Aves. . Henry Holsey, 47, was arrested on a charge of not having a drivers license following an accident at 55th St. and College Ave. Police said

the truck which Mr. Holsey was|Mia

driving was in collision with one operated by Thomas Engle, 25, of 720 Rochester St. Both were treated at Methodist Hospital. Harry Wolfe, 22, of 25 N. Webster St., suffered a fractured thigh when his car overturned on State Road 67 near Friendswood. He was taken to City Hospital.

When the automobile he was driv- | East

ing swerved out of control and struck a bridge abutment near Old} Augusta, Edward P. Gramling, Frankfort, suffered sprained head abrasio :

Frank Robert Spearing

Mrs. Katherine Bennett

Mrs. Mildred Rucker, 32, 501 N. California St., was hurt when the|:

Trojans Given Edge Over Duke in No. 1 Game; 93,000 to Watch.

(Details, Page 17)

By United Press Ten college football teams with impresisve records and four all-star squads share the spotlight today in the annual round of New Year's post-season games. In the traditional Rose Bowl game at Pasadena, Cal., the powerful Trojans of Southern California were top-heavy favorites to turn back the undefeated and unscored on Duke Blue Devils. A crowd of 93,000, the largest in teh history of the Tournament of Rose series, was expected to watch the game. Texas Christian University and Carnegie Tech were to clash in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans before a sellout crowd of 50,000. Heavy odds were on the side of the Texas team. The largest crowd ever to see a Florida sporting event—30,500—was to watch the unbeaten and untied football teams of Tennessee and Oklahama, tangle in the Orange Bowl at Miami, Fia. Tennessee ruled favorite. Texas Tech and St. Mary's were to meet in Dallas’ Cotton Bowl, and Utah was to square off against New Mexico in El Paso’s Sun Bowl. At San Francisco a capacity crowd of 60,000 was to watch the 14th annual East-West Shriners’ Hospital game, while in Cranton Bowl at Montgomery, Ala. all-star teams representing the North and the South were to meet. Meanwhile at Macomb, Mo., passengers of two St. Louis & San Francisco (Frisco) trains were shaken when the Sunnyland, carrying homeward-bound Georgia Tech fotoball players, collided with the Florida special on a siding. Tech lost to University of California 12-0 on Dec. 26, and had been sightseeing in the West.

500 PILOTS FLY SOUTH USING ROAD MAPS

COLLEGE PARK, "PARK, Md. Jan. 2 (U. P.) ~The largest—and weirdest —collection of light airplanes in the annals of aviation took off from here today heading southward in the second annual “Light Plane cavalcade” from New York to

mi. Most: of the pilots. guided themselves by road maps. The first contingent of the aerial parade, which will include more than 500 tiny planes of every kind, shape ‘and color when it reaches Florida, arrived at College Park shortly before sunset yesterday after Sights from airports throughout the

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SCHRICKER AT FAIR PARLEY |

Entered as Second-Class at Postof

Caucuses in Congress Try to Patch Up Party Rifts.

CONTESTS SCARCE

|Martin Favored for

Leadership of G.OP

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WASHINGTON, Jan, 2 (U. P.).— The 76th Congress organized today for its initial session tomorrow with Democrats seeking to harmonize

. | party lines in an effort to counter-

balance Republican gains in both houses. Democrats of the Lower House will meet at 2 p. m. to re-elect Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama and Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas and to fill several vacancies on the powerful Rules Committee. Senate Democrats Saturday reelected Senator Barkley of Kentucky as Majority Leader, Senator Lewis of Illinois as party whip and Senator Minton of Indiana, as assistant whip. Administration leaders were hopeful that intraparty quarrels could be patched up to enable the majority group to present as near a “united front” as possible to Republicans, who gained eight seats in the Senate and 81 in the House in the 1938 elections.

Martin Hits “Rubber-Stamp”

The resurgent Republicans of the House will caucus at 7:30 p. m. probably to elect Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, as miRep. Martin has only

nority leader. y Rep. James Wads-

one.

| worth, ‘New. York, ‘who is expected

to withdraw. A minority progres

{for he session also will be

by I Inst Be.) in which he warned that the days of the “rubber-stamp, court

' | packings, crackdown and purge” are

over. Rep. Martin pledged the Administration that the G. O. P. would support legislation to aid all Americans, but added: “The rubber-stamp days are over. Gone are the days of court-packing, |P crackdown and purge. The American people once more are masters of their own Government and therefore free. This Congress will keep them free.”

Jobs Called Real Goal

Rep. Martin said that too niuch of the nation’s energy during the past six years has been dissipated in defending itself against “unconeienal and un-American encroackments of Government” upon the people. He said the primary objective of the nation’s statesmen should be to “provide real jobs at real Amerjcan wages for more than ten million unemployed.” Rep. Martin’s demand that domestic problems should take precedence over foreign policies was: delivered in the face of reports that President Roosevelt would denounce dictator governments sharply when he personally delivers his message on the state of the nation before a joint Congressional session on Wednesday. The session’s first—and perhaps most explosive—batsh of political (Continued on Page Three)

KING GEORGE HONORS WAR CRISIS ADVISERS

LONDON, Jan. 2 (U. P.).—Britons who helped their country through the September war crisis were re-

honors list of King George VI. The list; actually drawn ‘up by the Government, made Sir Nevile Henderson, Ambassador to Berlin, a knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George and gave companionates in the Order of the Bath to William Strang, who accompanied ‘Prime Minister Chamberlain on his historic “peace flight” visits to Fuehrer Hitler, and: Frank T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin, who aided Viscount Runciman as a neutral adviser in Czechoslovakia. The Order of the British Empire went to many of those who helped develop Britain's air raid

fice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Martin in a radio “address

warded today in the New Year's

Matter

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

MURPHY nominated as Attorney General,

SUPREME COURT vacancy may be filled today.

CONGRESSIONAL caucuses to be completed tomorrow.

REP. LUDLOW urges $45-a-month pensions for all over

LUDLOW BACKS $45 PENSIONS

Proposes Payment to All Over 60; U. S. Would Provide $30, States $15.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-—Forty-five dollar monthly pensions for all persons over 60, except Federal income taxpayers, would be provided under a bill Rep. Louis Ludlow prepared today for introduction when Congress convenes tomorrow. The money would be provided through $30 Federal payments contingent upon $15 payments by the states. Such pensions also would be paid

persons between 50 and 60 who are totally incapacitated for work. All pensioners would refrain from gainful employment but need not otherwise submit to a means test, Mr. Ludlow explained. Citing such low average pension payments now being made at $4.57 monthly in Mississippi; - Alabama, $10.80; Arkansas, $9.14; Delaware, $10.82; Georgia, $9.62; Kentucky, $9.38; Louisiana $9.91; North Carolina $9 .37, and South Carolina $10. 5, Mr. Ludlow said: - 2 Fhe Indiana law is more liberal han ms y, of the state. statutes: but hs pensioners is only $17 a month and many receive only $8 and some as little as $4. Urges RFC-Business Parley “The plan I propose may not be the ultimate ideal but it certainly would be a great improvement over the existing system.” Coupled with the Ludlow pension plan is a resolution requiring the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to call a conference of businessmen and industrialists to work out a plan for making RFC loans to in-

|dustries where persons could be

taken from WPA rolls and given private employment. Mr. Ludlow’s pension plan is but one of a series of bills he expects to introduce. He announced his own Antilynching Bill over the week-end, which would put the G-Men on the job in lynching cases, just as they now participate in kidnapings.

{ SLAIN, 6 SHOT IN DANCE HALL FEUD

Saxophone - Playing Constable and Son Arrested.

BUTLER, Pa. Jan. 2 (U. P)—A small-town dance hall feud on New Year's Eve brought death to one man, gun wounds to six others and resulted in the arrest of a saxo-phone-playing constable and his son on charges of murder. . Constable Thomas Callen, 45, father of 11 children, and his son Clarence, 20, were charged with murder in the shotgun slaying of Francis McKay, 26, of Tarentum, Pa., leader of a gang of youths who

visited the Callen farms in Clinton Township early Sunday morning.

inn, at Belvedere, Pa. where Callen’s brother had rented the hall for a public dance. It continued at ithe farms where Callen told police he saw McKay wrestling with his wife, who apparently was trying to put him out of the house. Callen dragged McKay out of. the house, then he and Clarence got some fire-' arms and opened fire on the McKay group, killing cKay and

precautions.

wounding six others, ce. said.

Baby Girl Is

heralding the birth of a New Year, Indianapolis’ first 1939. baby, a girl, was born at Methodist Hospital just

and babies here.

While bells: and whistles were

27 seconds after midnight yesterday. |¢ She is the daughter of Mr. and| Mrs. Harry Oliver, 714 Berwick St. |wi of 22 New Year's: Day

Miss 1939;

22 Born New Year’ S Day

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Westerner Expected To Get Supreme : Court Post.

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JACKSON HOPES ia

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Be New Controller: General.

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(Another Story, Page Nine)

WASHINGTON Jan. 2 (U.P) Former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan will join the Cabinét as Attorney General at noon today to complete a pre-Congress shakeup supplanted two life-time Democratic politicians with young and ardent New Dealers. The 100 per cent New Deal Cab=

inet circle is almost complete. Mr, Roosevelt may name a ew Supreme Court Justice before nightfall. He is reported to be ready to nominate" lame duck abe & Fred H. Brown

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(D. N. H) to| be Controller General of the United States. Governor Murphy fell in the November election barrage that hit Senator Brown and more than ‘a score of other Democratic Senafors and Governors. His nomination was announced by the White House yesterday. He will be sworn there at noon today. |

Two Conservatives Left

Addition of Governor Murphy to the Cabinet provides politics with an outstandingly eligible bachelor, He is red-haired, soft spoken, rather - handsome and 45 years old. More important is the fact that when Governor ‘Murphy takes his seat in the Cabinet room, the 100 per cent New Deal circle around the big table will be nearly complete. Only. Postmaster. General Parle 5d ‘Secretary of State Hull stand i ect and a Cane crats would: ot be represented at all. Vice

the Cabinet and his loudly and efter in defense of conservative bloc. No other cabinet changes are exe pected immediately although Mr. Farley’s departure ‘depends almost entirely upon development of an outside business connection which would permit him to make some money while continuing as Dembcratic National Committee chair= man. Senator Hull, whose handling of foreign affairs is judged to be among the triumphs of the Roosevelt Administration—there are some challenges to that statement—is ex» pected to remain for the duration. He and Mr. Farley are among the . list of potential 1940 Democratic Presidential nominees, provided the pasty conservatives could make the icke

Old Line Wheeihorses Out

Governor Murphy enters the Cabinet just more than a week after Mr. Roosevelt rewarded WPA Administrato: Commerce Secretaryship. Mr. Hop= kins not only was rewarded. He was yanked out of the line of fire in the impending Congressional battle cover relief spending and charges that

SPARKS ATOP ROOF

BLAMED FOR FIRE

Sparks on a shingle roof were blamed today by firemen for the blaze which turday did damage estimated at $2500 to the frame dwelling of William J. Miller, 1801 Thompson Road. Francis J. Roell, 33, of 2016 Central Ave., is recovers ing today fro : received when a pan of furnace oil ignited as he as carrying it in the basement of home. He was given first aid by firemen and sent to Clip Hospital, -

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