Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1939 — Page 1

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1939

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DIS State Department Re- * jects Nazi Stand on Bonds.

FOREIGN SITUATION

PERPIGNAN—Rebels mass for triumphal en into Bdrcelona. LONDON-—Big E opean powers brace for test of democracy. PARIS—France and Britain appeal to Franco t revenge. ROME—Italy recalls 60,000 -reservists to colors. - WASHINGTON — U. S. suggests Nazis unfair Americans; French deal for U. S. planes is reported. BERLIN— Reichstag called to meet Jan. 30; Hitler to speak. LOS ANGELES — Army probes crash of bomber in which French officer reported riding.

(Hitler's First Six Yer Years, Page Nine; Pegler, Page 10.)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—

‘The United States accused Germany

of - “well-known discrimination” against American citizens today in a formal note suggesting that settlement of Austria’s debt would be facilitated by exténsion of the most favored nation treatment to American creditors. The note, another in a longer series exchanged between the two countries on alleged discriminations against the rights and property of American citizens in Germany, was made public by the State Department. It was delivered to the German Minister of Foreign Affairs in Berlin Jan. 20 by Charge d’Affaires Prentiss B. Gilbert. Simultaneously, it was announced that on Jan. 3, Germany delivered a note to Mr. Gilbert proposing to negotiate the Austrian debt situation with a view to scaling down

— interest rates.

The first note regarding the Austrian debt was delivered to the German Government by the U. S. Ambassador ‘on April 6, a few days after Germany’s absorption of

VOLUME 50—~NUMBER 274

RIMINATION LOYAL TROOPS |

IN LAST STAND AT BARCELONA

Refugees Flee; Capture * Believed Near.

PERPIGNAN, French - Spanish

- | Frontier, Jan, 25 (U. P.).—Geheral-

issimo Franco’s main force of 20 Rebel divisions battled rapidly eastward around Barcelona late today to cut the last line of Loyalist retreat toward the French frontier. The Rebel column of Gen. Juan Yague, which thrust through the suburbs into the southern edge of

Barcelona proper last night, was}

reported in Loyalist messages to have stiff resistance as the defenders rallied under the leadership of Lieut. Col. Jose Serrano Romero, & hero of the defense of Madrid. But the Rebel columns circling the city reported swift progress in a drive around the famous Tribado heights to cut the last two roads leading toward the north and to trap many thousands of Loyalist troops in Barcelona.

Rebels Hold Heights

All the heights around Barcelona, except those commanding the two main roads leading northward, were in Rebel hands, messages from Franco headquarters reported. One Rebel column reported itself advancing by way of Sabadell while another skirted around Tribado, from which secondary roads leac toward the highway from Barcelong, northward toward Granollers anc Puigcerda. Another highway clogged with Loyalist refugees runs along the coast toward Seton, Figueras and France. J

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Rejects German Contention = — The latest note said the United

States “cannot accept” Germany’s|

legal interpretation that no obligation exists for it to assume debts contracted by the former Austrian government, and declined the offer to enter direct governmental negotiations. “Indebtedness toward private citizens is a matter for negotiation between debtor and creditors rather than between the government of the debtor country and the government of the United States,” the note said. The note’ also rejected Germany's contention that any arrangement for payment on the old Austrian bonds must be linked to an increase of German exports to the United States. It doubted Germany’s good faith, both in the matter of its official declaration of having no intention of discrimination against American creditors. and in the sincerity with which it has tried to reach a settlement. The note made the following specifie points: 1. “The Government of the United States has not ceased to protest against the principle implicitly proposed that the responsibility of a debtor government for its debts can be made by the debtor to depend on the balance of trade between the debtor country and the country of "residence or citizenship of the bondholder. 2. “The original loan obligation confracted by the Austrian Government pledged the same treatment to all holders and made no distinction on the basis of nationality. It is believed that the full weight of this pledge is still incumbent upon the German Government. 3. “These securities were being fully serviced prior to the absorption of Austria into greater Germany, which development was accompanied by the taking over of the sources of revenue pledged to the service of these securities. The bondholders cannot but feel injustice in being (Continued on Page Three)

PLANE STOCKS RISE;

HOGS AT 1939 HIGH

(Market Details, Page 17)

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— Under the lead of aviation shares, stocks rebounded today from losses that extended. to more than 2 points in early dealings. Trading med quiet.

Hog prices at Inc Indianapolis rose 10 cents on all weights today to set- a new top price for the year at $8.25 for 160 to 170-pounders, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

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ABOARD U. 8. S. OMAHA, Jan. 25 (U. P.).~—Antiaircraft guns on some of the foreign warships off Llavaneras opened up on Rebel warplanes today when they bombed the landing stage in front of the British. Embassy. The foreign warships, including United States, British and French vessels, are. anchored off Llavaneras. to rescue nationals from the Barcelona area.

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Still| further north, Rebels captured Solsona and sent fast motorized columns down the road to Cardona. Although fragmentary advices from Barcelona reported severe fighting in the suburbs, the Rebel military headquarters said the entry into the city had been delayed until the encircling maneuver was carried out. Frontier dispatches also said Generalissimo Franco wanted Spanish and Italian troops to enter first instead of Gen. Yague’s Moroccan troops because of the psychologioal effect on the population, Fore ign warships 20 miles up the coast from Barcelona took aboard refugees, including Americans, after a brush with Rebel bombing planes which unloaded: explosives

on the Caldetas sector, where for-|

eign embassies are located. Antiaircraft guns, believed to include

those on a French destroyer, opened |

Re at Sy FRENCH SEEK 600 PLANES F FROM U. 3,

Exact Humber I N Not Fixed;

May Cost 36 Million.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P.) .— Lielit. Col. Rene G. P. Weiser, air attache at the French Embassy, disclosed today that a French air mission to the United States is negotiating for the largest order of fighting planes ever placed in this oouns try by a foreign power. Lieut. Col. Weiser said the mission came here to buy “several hundred planes.” He said the deal, if completed, may involve as many as 50) fighting ships. y Lieut. Col. Weiser did not disclose the cost of the projected transaction. The U. 8S. Ariny Air Corps estimates unit costs at about $60,000—a figure which would make the French deal run in the neighborhood of 36 million dollars,

French Officer in U. S. Plane Mystery

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 (U. P.). —Army authorities were reported to be investigating secretly today how a French air force officer hap-

9 pened to be riding as a mechanic

in ‘an experimental bomber whicl:

7|crashed Monday while being tested |for U. 8, Army use.

The pilot, John Cable, veteran test flier for Douglas Aircraft Co., was killed when he jumped at 200 feet, and the Frenchman Lieut;

jurors selected.

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Called by Dewey

HOPE HAMPTON IS’ SUMMONED

Husband Is Wounded, Police Are Notified 36 Hours Later.

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (U, P.).— Hope Hampton, opera and movie ‘star, was ordered to appear today before District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in an effort to clarify the shooting of her millionaire husband, Jules E. Brulatour.

Mr. Dewey planned to investigate conflicting versions of the shooting which took place Sunday night in Mr; Brulatour’s Park Ave. home 36 hours before police were notified. Mr. Brulatour’s physicians insisted he could have accidentally fired a: pistol which he said he was examining. - Mr. Brulatour still was today rei “from the ie ‘catised by a bu let which nipped his right ear, BS etratod the scalp behind. it and lodged in the nape of the neck.

. ‘Cleaning His Gun’

He insisted the shooting was accidental and trivial and that the only thing wrong was that “the doctors put all these bandages on me.” - Mr. Dewey, however, ordered a “vigorous investigation” of the shooting. No longer insisting that he got the wound “falling downstairs,” Mr. Brulatour and Miss Hampton greet-

rooms at Lennox Hill Hospital and explained that he “got it last Sunday night while cleaning his gun.” Mr. Dewey demanded to know why the shooting was not reported promptly to police, who got their first information on it yesterday afternoon; where the gun was (Mr. Brulatour didn't remember); whether he had a license for it (he said “his lawyers looked after those things), and what happened to the bullet: (the surgeon said he) gave it. to Miss Hampton for g souvenir).

| Pound Earns $1050and 55 ‘New Puppies

The annual report of the City Dog Pound for the fiscal and puppy year of 1938 showed receipts of $1050 and accrued interest of 55 pups, Carl J. Schmidt. superintendent, reported today. Three hundred and one dogs were sold, and 704 were reclaimed or otherwise released, the report said. One hundred fifty dogs remained on hand at the close of the year, yapping about constitutional rights.

FLOYD COUNTY JURY STILL ONE MAN SHORT

.NEW ALBANY, Jan. 25 (U.P.) — A new panel of 20 veniremen was ordered drawn today to obtain one more juror in the trial of Frank Hoppenjon, former Floyd County Treasurer, on embezzlement charges. A previous panel of 25 was exhausted late yesterday with 11

Prosecutor Frank E. Lorch said the indictment does not charge Mr. Hoppenjon with misappropriating any. of the alleged $128,000 County Treasury shortage, but only in failing to turn over a $23,000 balance to his successor. Mr. Lorch said failure to do that constituted embezzlement under Indiana law.

FLIGHT CANCELED

NEW YORK, Jan, Jan, 25 (U. P)— Pan-American Airways announced today that the flight of its Bermuda Clipper to Bermuda, scheduled for 10;30 a. m. from Port Washington, had been canceled because of wind and weather conditions. : The clipper operates on an alternating schedule ‘with Imperial Air-| ways whose flying boat Cavalier crashed and sank last Saturday half

'HOUSE PASSES

BILL TOSUPPLY SERUM TO POOR

LEGISLATURE TODAY HOUSE ;

Advanced to third reading House bill which would put the “Two Per Cent Club” back under the Corrupt Practices Act. ] Advanced to engrossment its bill providing for free hos- _ pitalization for indigents over 16 who have had one year’s residence in State. Advanced to engrossment House bill intended to abolish speed traps by probibiting - constables from making traffic violation arrests except on a complaint warrant. Received a bill to empower the State Planning Board to zone areas adjacent to State highways. Passed bill to enable the distribution of serum to the needy, Passed House bill to “liberalize” withdrawal provisions of the Teachers’ Retirement Fund Act. - Ways and Means subcommittee studies proposed changed to gross income tax. Recessed until 10. a. m. toMorrow.

SENATE

Passed and sent to House primary election central ballot counting bill, Recessed until 10 a. m. toMorrow. Holds a public hearing at 7:30 p. m. on the Senate bill to increase the maximum benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Act. Holds a public hearing at 7:30 p. m. on the Senate bill to limit expenditures by township trustees for poor relief.

The House of Representatives passed today. a bill to provide free serum for the needy, described ‘by Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board director, as capable of saving more than 1000 lives annually. At the same time, the Senate received a bill which’ would prohibit the use of daylight saving time by | any city in the State. And a measure was introduced in the House to provide for zoning of areas along State Highways. ¢ The House also d unanimously a bill to amend the Teachers’

Retirement Act to Include teachers|

who entered service before July 1, 1921, and who before Dec. 31, 1936, were members of the Fund ‘under provisions of the old 1915 Act. Among the 15 bills advanced by the House to third reading was the G. O. P. sponsored measure to place the “Two Per Cent” Club, Democratic campaign fund ° collection agency, under the Corrupt Practices Act control again. ‘The Senate also Saye its final approval and sent to the House a Democratic bill to provide a cen=tral counting system for primary elections. Continue Tax Discussion.

The House Ways and Means subcommittee, meanwhile, planned a meeting to give further consideration to proposed gross income tax rate changes which were discussed at a hearing yesterday with more than 50 retail merchants participating. Another important measure introduced in the House today would require licensing of coin or token vending machines, while the lower chamber also passed and sent to the Senate a bill to appropriate $10,000 to finance Indiana’s fight against discriminatory freight rates sought by Southern governors. Two physicians, Reps. ‘Daniel L. Bower (D. Indianapolis) and Renos H. Richards (R. Patricksburg) spoke in favor of the House bill to appropriate $75,000 to puchase pneumonia, diphtheria, smallpox and typhoid serym to be distributed to the needy” by the State Health Board. Objection Is Raised

Some objection was raised to “safeguards” in the measure. ny Republicans said doctors should not be given the right to decide who were “needy persons.” Rep. Harri-

son said township trustees shouid|

decide this matter, and he suggested that the bill be put back on second reading and amended. He was unable to secure a second when he moved to delay action by making this bill a special order of business. On the roll call most of the support for the measure came from the Democratic side, but there was no Sharp, division according to party es When the absentees were called on the motion of those favoring the

‘Million—Bah

Ex-Blacksmith, 89, May Get Fortune—But ‘I Don’t Need It.

ETROIT, Jan. 25 (U. P).— One million dollars probably will be given to an 89-year-old retired blacksmith this week—but as far as he’s concerned the thought of it makes him “only a little happy.” The three-million-dollargestate of the late John F. Hessel of Champaign, Ill, will be divided there this week and John G. Mengel of Detroit, the former black-

| smith, has been notified he will

receive a third of it. He is a second cousin of Mr. Hessel. “I won’t go to Champaign unless it’s necessary,” the whitehaired grandfather said. “I really don’t need the money.” Mr. Mengel lives with a son in Highland Park, a Detroit suburb, and does odd jobs about the home.

INTENSIFY CITY SMOKE STUDY

No Soot Decline in Year, December Report Reveals.

The new Safety Board today launched an intensive study of the City’s smoke and soot problem preparatory to formulating its own long-range smoke abatement pro-

gram, Announcement of the study came as Combustion Engineer J. W. Clinehens reported that preliminary tabulation of the December sootfall survey revealed no appreciable decrease under the figure for December, 1937. Leroy J. Keach, Safety Board president, said the Board’s study would analyze the present smoke situation and possibilities of more rigid enforcement of existing regu-

lations. Possible amendments to the

definite standards for installation of heating equipment also will be scrutinized, he said.

City Fropeam Demanded

ment League secretary, said the league will co-operate with any City Hall group in a war on smoke. “We'll never have real smoke abatement in Indianapolis,” he said, “unless City officials map a thorough program. Such a program, we believe, should include smoke abatement personnel of at least eight engineers and inspectors who would make periodic examinations of heating plants in the City.” Present regulations provide for such inspections of industrial and commercial heating plants. Although the ordinance makes it a misdemeanor for any individual or corporation to produce smoke of greater density than permitted by the ordinance, there have been no prosecutions for violation, league officials pointed out.

{975 FAMILIES HERE FACE WPA ROLL CUT

56, 600 Hoosiers oosiers Would Be Dropped by House Bill.

(National Affairs, Page 3)

Times Special oe WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—There will be 1275 families in Indianapolis without. relief if the $150,000,000 WPA cut made in the House is sustained by the Senate, according to a minority Appropriations Committee report put into the record today by Senator McKellar (D. Tenn.). A reduction of 56,000 in Indiana WPA rolls is estimated by the last week in June, leaving 29,200 employed as compared with 85,800 on Dec. 31, 1938. The report advises restoration of the $875,000,000 ergency relief funds asked by ident Roosevelt, rather than approval of the '$725,000,000 passed by the House. Senate action is scheduled today, with. a majority report recommending passage of the lower figure. Senator VanNuys is for the cut

hill, the first name read by the clerk (Continued on Page Two)

and Senator Minton for the President’s request.

Retailers Ask ‘Justice’

In Tax Rate Revision

As Democratic Yoislators focused their attention on proposed gross income tax revision, the Associated Retailers of Indiana today asked the House Ways and Means Committee to lower the retailers’ rate “as a matter of tax justice.” Consideration of this problem was given at a meeting of Democratic leaders with Governor Townsend in which a proposal was made to increase the retailers’ exemption from $3000 to $6000, but also increase the store license fede rates. Yesterday more than 50 retailers, led by Lewis Shuttleworth, managing director of the retailers’ association, told the House Ways and

Means Committee they were “being | >

taxed. out of business.” =. Clarence Jackson, gross income

his department was preparing a digest to show effects -proposed changes would have on the State’s revenue. A subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, composed of Reps. Elam Y. Guernsey (R. Bedford), George W. Henley (R, Bloomington), and Warren B. McAfee (D. Hobart) was named to study the problem further. Mr. Shuttleworth’s statement. to the subcommittee follows in part:

the imposition of a 1 per cent tax against the gross receipts of retailers places an undue and unneces-

tax director, sald he believed if changes were made - the |

smoke ordinance, setting up more|

Roy O. Johnson, Smoke Abate-

“Indiana’s merchants feel that|p

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FIVE HURT ON ICE: ‘GOLD TO REMAIN

Slow Temperature Rise Tomorrow Predicted By Bureau.

TEMPERATURES 6am... 18 10 a. m.... a.m... 16 11 a. m.... 8a.m.... 15 12 (Noon). 9a m... 16 1p m

18 20 20 22

Continued cold weather, with to» night's low temperature from 15 to 20, was forecast today for Indianapolis by the Weather Bureau. To-

Overnight trafic, coasting and pedestrian accidents ‘attributed to ice injured five in Marion’ County and one home was destroyed by fire starting from an overheated stove. Traffic moved cautiously over icecoated city streets and snowpacked highways. Police repeated warnings to drive slowly and walk cautiously. Lowest temperature in 12 hours was 15 at 8 a. m, Eight-months-old Gary Dennis awakened about 9p. m. in his home, R. R. 3, Box 486X, choking with smoke. - His coughs awakened his mother, Mrs. Cecil Dennis. She found a clothes press ablaze and the fire spreading. Awakening her husband, she wrapped the baby in a blanket, threw a few clothes about herself, and escaped. The husband also caught up some clothes and escaped. The house was destroyed and the loss was estimated by firemen at $1000. Mr. Dennis said he owned the house and estimated loss to contents at $600. They went to the home of relatives. - The house is on Road 67 southwest of Maywood.

November Accident Fatal

A man who was struck Nov. 13 by an automobile at Ritter Ave. and E. Washington St.. and has never fully regained consciousness since then, died of his injuries last night in City Hospital. Hospital authorities estimated his age as 40, and said they believe, from his delirious murmurings, that he was W. C. Parker and that he lived somewhere in Ohio. His was the 121st Marion County traffic death in 1938. Helen Egold, 1365 Thompson Road, the 10-year-old girl who was most seriously injured in overnight traffic accidents, was unconscious in St. Francis Hospital with a possible fractured skull. She was injured when a car driven by her grandfather, George Hoffmark, skidded on ice and struck a utility pole at Hanna Ave. and Shelby St.

Breaks Arm on Sled

Mrs. Ella Harris, 42, of 450 W. 12th St., was in fair condition at City Hospital with injuries received in a traffic accident at 12th and West Sts. George Hopper, 13, of 1409 N. Sheffield Ave., received a broken

farm when he fell from a sled at

11th St. and White River. Henry Schupp, 64, of 470 S. Meridian St., fractured his left elbow when he fell on ice at St. Clair and Meridian Sts. William C. Brown, 42, of 2058 N. Adams St., cut his forehead when he fell on ‘ice at R.R. 17, Box 43. A. C. Sallee, parks supe rintendent, warned that Toner cold weather will be necessary before any ponds, lakes or streams are safe for ice skating.

TRAIN-AUTO CRASH ~ DOWNSTATE FATAL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 ©. P.)— of 285 days without an automobile fatality was broken ioday for Daviess County. Henry Walker, 67, died from shock after the automobile in which he and his son, James, 32, were Tieng. was i TS

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Cries of Sonpinilis-old Gary awakened his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Dennis, when fire destroyed their home on Road 67 last night.

‘WPA Builds Special Road For Stork

BOOMVILLE, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—For several days, WPA workers have been building a single lane road to the home of Mrs. Galin Ellis and yesterday they completed it. Shortly thereafter a doctor used it to reach the Ellis "home and deliver an eight- ~ pound boy. That's why the WPA built the road.

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18,000 Expected to Watch Battle Tonight.

(Details, Page 12; Radio Details, Page 17 17)

NEW YORK, Jan. Jan. 25 (U. P).— Joe Louis was a 10-1 to 6-1 favorite today in a 15-round fight here tonight against John Henry Lewis. "At the official weigh-in at noon Louis scaled 200%; Lewis, 180%. Despite the lopsided betting odds, Promoter Mike Jacobs - estimated 18,000 fans would be in Madison Square Garden, at a price range scaling down from $16.50 ringside. The title-holding Brown Bomber was optimistic: over the outcome, declaring “I aim to end it in the second.” But Lewis, a light heavyweight champion who has moved into richer heavyweight pastures, was unmoved by Joe’s prediction or the way the betting was going. “I11 box him,” he said. “I'm not going in there with the idea of trying to knock him out. I want to win the decision, but if Joe leaves himself open I'll shoot for a knockout with all I've got.”

PROBE OF DIVORCE EVIDENCE ORDERED

A Grand Jury investigation of testimony given in a divorce case was ordered today by Superior Court Judge Henry O. Goett. He said there were indications of perjury and “framed evidence” during the divorce hearing yesterday. Two witnesses testified they knew the plaintiff in the case and had knowledge that the plaintiff resided in Marion County for the twoyear period required under the law. “Close cross-examination, however, indicated the witnesses did not know the plaintiff well enough to testify,” Judge Goett said. “The same witnesses attempted to testify on the actual evidence for divorce, but their testimony appeared to be ‘trumped up.’”

COAST GUARD BOAT UNREPORTED ONE DAY

CHEBOYGAN, Mich, Jan. 25 (U. P.) .—A Coast Guard lifeboat with a crew of five men was missing today, more than 24 hours after it began a search for three men adrift on an ice floe in upper Lake Huron. The three men who drifted into the lake on a huge ice-cake were safe before the Coast Guard boat entered the search but because of lack of communication the news of the rescue had not reached the Coast Guard. Phillip Goetz, Russell Goetz and Willard Dyer, all of Detour, Mich., were rescued Monday after they had been adrift four hours.

RETURN, WINDSORS URGED LONDON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—The Oxford University undergraduate journal, Isis, in an editorial today, appealed to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to return to Great Britain where “courtesy is not "wholly dead among the middle and lower classes.”

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HUNDREDS FEARED DEA AS QUAKE ROCKS CHILE; FIRES ADD TO DAMAG

Baby Wakens Parents in Fire

TOWNS RUINED

Total Casualties May Be Uncertain for Several Days.

(Copyright, 1930, by United Press) SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 25 (U, PJ). ern Chile lay stricken

today by a violent earthquake which caused an appalling loss of life and property destruction. The Government sped airplanes and special trains with food, doctors, nurses, medicine and clothing to the shaken region. Communications were disrupted and it was impossible to estimate the loss of life. One amateur radio operator in Concepcion got through a message saying he believed 2000 persons had perished in Concepcion alone, and 40 per cent of the buildings destroyed. There was no other confirmation of his high estimate and a radio message from Valdivia said the death toll in Concepcion was 60, not 2000. Concepcion is the third. largest city in Chile, with a population of 80,000. It is 360 miles south of Santiago. Some towns were reported almost destwoyed. Fires were burn= ing in some of them, melding ; Concepcion.

Martial Law Peoresd’

Six provinces, Talca, Maule, Nu ble, Concepcion, Biobio and Cautin, with a total population of more than 1,600,000, lay in the earthquake zone, covering roughly an area 400 miles long and 100 wide, on the south-central part of the country,

250 ._ miles.

; south of Santiago, was ee ach under

a state of siege. One-fourth of the city was reported destroyed and the naval base badly damaged. The destroyer Riquelme sailed for | Talcahuano, port of Concepcion, 5 with medical supplies.

15 Killed in One Village

A radio message from the collier steamer. Don Alberto said 15 were killed and 51 woundéd in the Lota Coal Co.’s mining village, large coal shipping port 21 miles. south of Concepcion. The collier gave no figures on Lota itself, which is a city of 25,000. The naval tug Janequeo was anchored in Lota Bay. Government reports were so frage mentary that no attempt was made to estimate casualties, which. were given out as received. A few hours . ‘after the earthquake, which oc= curred at 11:3¢ p. m., reports had been received of 100 dead, but there was little doubt here that the total was far higher. Squadrons of military. bombers were the first relief agencies to start south. The trains came next. One train: carried President Pedro Aquirre Cerdo, 40 doctors, 70 nurses and medical supplies.

Radio Censorship Ordered

Airplanes were taking off at free quent intervals. Appeals were sent to amateur radio operators to co-operate in keeping the Government advised of the extent of the catastrophe. They were warned to be accurate in their reports. To repress alarming reports which might cause unfounded alarm, au- _ thorities here ordered censorship of broadcasting. The earthquake was the most sever ite the one in December, 1928, inthe same region, in ‘which . 600 were ed. Government authorities feared it would be several days before the real extent of the disaster known.: : It was feared that the greatest loss of, life would prove to have been in small communities, far from communication centers.

- Planes Ordered to Zone

The Interior Ministry received a report that the earthquake had destroyed the town of San Carlos. It is a town of 9000 people, about 220 miles south of Santiago. As the extent of the disaster became more apparent edch hour, the Government ordered all available (Continued on Page Three) tte

JURY TO INVESTIGATE KANSAS CITY. CRIME

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 25 (Us P.) —A County Grand Jury to investigate gambling, an industry that allegedly has operated unmo= lested in Kansas City for years, was impaneled today and was instruct~ ed to inquire into “notorious” ce ditions. W. W. Graves Jr., Co prosecutor and target: of D! Stark’s denunciation of crime - ditions, was virtually parted from the jury room by He. outs We

open and notorious,” Judge Southern told the jury. *I known by the police and ep knows it has fecome a ma