Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1939 — Page 1
FORECAST: Fair and ‘somewhat warmer tonight; tomorrow partly ‘cloudy and warmer. ;
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939.
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|Snite Weds Girl He Couited Before Tinprisomment in ‘Iron Lung’
Fred Snite Jr... . nurse holds microphene as he broadcasts plea for funds to help fight infantile paralysis.
Talent Scout’ Confesses Slaying Miami Girl, 17
BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 10 (U. P.).—A 17-year-old girl staggered info the Boca Ratcn Fire Station today and telephoned a plea for help which led to the capture of her glib-tongued abductor and his confession that he killed her girl friend “because she was nervous” after a
criminal attack.
The girl was Jean Bolton, 17- year-old Miami night club blues singer, and her dead companion was Frances Ruth Dunn, also 17, whose knifepierced body was found in a swamp.
The kidnaper was 34-year-old Charles Jefferson, self-styled movie talent scout, who lured the girls from Miami Monday, with the permission of their parents, on the pretext of taking them to Palm Beach to be photographed. He had promised them work in a new theatrical venture which he said would “revolutionize the industry. Instead of taking them to Palm Beach, Jefferson brought the girls here and criminally attacked them both, ‘acgording fo: detectives. Miss
_ Bolton's parents, however, denied| . 7. .°
she was attacked. Denied Crime at First
Arrested as he attempted to hitch-hike his way to freedom, Jeiferson at first asserted ‘that “if you give me time, I'll prove I didn’t do it.” Later, however, he confessed that he killed Miss Dynn, police said. He said.he had intended to hold the girls for ransom, but apparently sent no ransom notes. Miss Dunn was killed with a butcher knife. A coroner’s jury, called by County Judge Richard P. Robbins, returned a verdict that Jefferson murdered Miss Dunn. State Attorney Phil O'Connell said he would ask a special grand jury session next Saturday to hear charges of kidnaping, rape and murder.
Crowd Quickly Gathers
News of the capture spread quickly, and within three hours more than 200 men had gathered at City Hall. Sheriff William H. Lawrence, fearing violence, .hurried Jefferson away in an automobile, headed for the county jail at West Palm Beach. When ‘Miss Bolton, covered with mosquito bites and “in a pretty bad way,” entered the fire station, she was. recognized by the man on duty, Kline Platt. After she had ‘telephoned an aunt in Miami, asking her to come after her in an ‘automobile, Mr. Platt refused to let her rejoin Jefferson, who waited outside. “The aunt called Miami detectives. Detective Lieutenaht E. W. Melchen of Miami said Jefferson also was known as Herbert Willard Goddard Jr., Tom Cochrane and John Scott Sutherland and that he was wanted in Denver, Colo., on a charge of impersonating a Federal officer. The coroner's jury in its verdict named the accused murderer as Tom Ashwell, but Lieut. Melchen said his true name was Goddard. He was arrested under the name of Jefferson. Jefferson, who said ‘the G-Men are after me,” told officers he kept both girls tied to trees in the swamp after his automobile bogged down Monday. He said he taped Miss (Continued on Page Three)
TEMPERATURE DUE FOR GRADUAL RISE
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6 a. m. 63 10a. m Yam... 668 "11 a. m.... ga. m... 71 12 (noon). 8% 9am... 75 1pm... 84
Gradually rising temperatures with fair weather tonight and partly cloudy skies tomorrow were forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity today by the Weather Buearu
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TIMES FEATURES .ON INSIDE PAGES
Johnson ...., 16 Movies i...... 18 Mrs. Ferguson. 16 Obituaries ... 13 Pegler ....... 16 Pyle .... . 15 Radio 17 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Scherrer ..... 15 Serial Story.. 23 Society 12 Sports .....19, 20 State Deaths. 13
Autos ..,..u.. 8 Books sev . ”e 16 Broun sevnasse 16 Catton ..ecess 15 Comics |. 23 Crossw . 22 _ Curious World 23 Editorials ... 16 Financial ..., 17 ] 16 16
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SEEKS SON SHE - BELIEVED DEAD
Vincennes Woman Collapses When Told Body Is That Of Californian.
{ VINCENNES, Ind, Aug. 10 (U: P).—Mrs. Edna Lawrence awaited the return of her son from among the “dead” today in a strange case of mistaken identity. She had believed that her son,
James William Lawrence, 22, had
been killed Monday ky a freight train at Commerce, Tex. She had purchased a lot in the Vincennes cemetery, ordered his body sent home and had been prepared to bury him today. She learned ‘last night that the body sent to her was not that of her son but of James William Lawrence, 39, a Stockton, Cal., miner. Suffers Severe Shock
She collapsed. Members of her family expressed anxiety for her life
if her son is not located immediately and comes home. Indiana State Police asked California and
Texas authorities to search for him|
and broadcast a state-wide alarm should he already have returned to Indiana. He left home several weeks ago. Mrs. Lawrence received a letter from him Aug. 2. He said he had visited the San Francisco Exposition. A few days later he wrote and. said he had obtained a job as a fruit picker nedr Stockton, Cal: - She answered in an airmail let-| ter. She said she was lonely and asked him to come home. Then she received word James William Lawrence, recently’ of Stockton, had been killed by a train at Commerce, ex
Buys Cemetery Lot
Sadly, she withdrew $100 from a small account he had in a Vincennes hank and purchased the cemetery lot. i The body arrived late yesterday. She was too grief-stricken to go to the mortuary and sent relatives. They found the body of a stranger. Young Lawrence was dark and robust. The body was that of a lighthaired, middle-aged ‘man, freckled and sallow. Mary Eileen Scott, a friend of she had received a postcard from him in which he said-he was working 15 miles from Corning, Cal, and that he might’ remain until September.
'HICAGO, Aug. 10 (U. P.).—Fred B, Snite Jr. 29, “The ‘Boiler Kid” who has lived in an iron lung since he was: stricken with: infantile paralysis in China three years ago, was married today to ‘Miss Teresa Larkin, 25, Dayton, O. “For our honeymoon we are going to Niagara Falls and see it the water still is running,” Fred beamed after the ceremony. Fred said “I do” lying on his back in the 900-pound tank which has been his home since he was brought home from China. : Miss. Larkin, an attractive brunet, stood beaming beside him while their parish priest, the Rev, John W. Morrison of St. Luke's . Catholic Church, intoned the marriage service. : "Although Fred still is a prisoner of the cumbersome device that aids his paralyzed respiratory muscles, he and his: bride. faced the future with ecstatic glee, friends said.. They had been sweet- ' hearts since before the paralyzing illness struck Fred on a world
_ tour ‘at Peiping in 1936.
Teresa had been at his side almost constantly during his
courageous fight to live, to breathe, to walk erect again. She had been there to comfort him in his disappointments and to hold his hand while he struggled for periods increasingly long—but still measured off in painful minutes—when he was able to lie oifiside the lung without mechanical respiration.
HEY obtained their marriage “prising even close friends and
license only this mumihg sur-. relatives.
The elder Snite; wealthy owner of a loan. company, telephoned ‘the County Clerk’s office and asked Martin Hogan, secretary to the clerk, to bring a license to the Snite mansion in suburban River
Forest.
There Mr. Hogan found Mr. ‘Snite Jr. in his “boiler,” Miss Larkin smiling beside him. Fred's face, reflected in the tilted mirror over his head through which he views the world, was jovial. An altar had been erected ‘before two large windows in the
‘huge living room of the Snite mansion.
and white roses.
The bride wére white chiffon - white orchid. She wore a bridal tradition, was knee length, _ “We've been planning it for a
I was banked with red
with a shirred bodice and one cap but her dress, contrary to
long time,” she said. “He gave
me my ring when we were in Florida last winter.”
After the wedding breakfast Fred’s respirator was wheeled to a terrace and the bridal couple kissed for newspaper photographers. : They said they wouldn't start a honeymoon immediately. It’s too hot to honeymoon.” Fred wisecracked. “We'll just go {Continued on Page Three)
CITY'S COURTS CALLED ‘WEAK
Too Many Fines Suspended; Says Sergt. Dickinson; Invited to Sit on Bench.
(Photo, Page 24)
Indianapolis Municipal Courts were attacked today as the ‘chief trouble” in the accident prevention
of Evanston, nationally recognized safety authority. There are only half as many convictions for traffic law violations as there should be, according to a na-tion-wide index set up by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Sergt. Dickinson charged. Judge John McNelis said that he had invited Sergt. Dickinson to sit with him on the bench during the trying: of traffic cases, but that the officer never had accepted.
Boy, 8, Is Killed
“In fairness to the Court,” he said, “I think he should be present to listen to the cases and he will be better informed of the actual situation than by perusing records, weeks and ‘months . after the cases have been disposed of.” Meanwhile, 8-year-old Spears, 962 W. 30th St.,
David became
‘t Marion. County's 58th" traffic victim |
this year when he fell from a truck near Flackville yesterday. The truck was driven by his brother, Marvin, 22. Sergt. Dickinson charged that the courts “are not giving the Police Department sufficient backing in traffic enforcement,” after he had made a check of the entire traffic operation. Traffic fines in Municipal Courts for the first quarter of this year averaged 8347 cents ‘a conviction and 99 cents for the first half of the year, surveys of court records by The Indianapolis Times made earlier this year showed.
Karabell Fines $5 to $6
At that time, Judge Charles Karabell said that fines in his court had averaged $5 and $6 a conviction. “I know. that it has been found in other cities,” he said, “that an average fine of $5 results in good enforcement, so I always try to average that figure. My percentage of convictions averages 59.2 per cent.” Judge Karabell was out cof the City today. Seret. Dickinson was in Indian(Continued on Page Three)
AB JENKINS RACES T0 50- MILE RECORD
Forced to Quit 24-Hour Run By Motor Trouble.
BONNEVILLE SALT . FLATS, Utah, "Aug. 10 (U. P.).—Mechanical difficulties in his 750-horsepower racing automobile today forced Ab Jenkins of Indianapolis to abandon his second projected 24-hour speed run. He had been roaring around a 12% -mile track on the salt flats less than three hours when he came into the pits and announced his Mormon Meteor III was in no shape to finish the run.
kins had set a new record, however, by covering: 50 ‘miles at 1742 miles an hour. Jenkins said he hoped to make
dawn tomorrow.
So It’s Squirrely Season
In More Ways Than One
By JOE COLLIER The hunting season opened on squirrels in the southern half of Indiana today, too late for .the dyed-in-the-wool hunters and too early for the duffers. Also, there were many thousands of squirrels which took advantage of city ordinances which, in this case, supercede the State Law. They stayed within city limits where firearms can’t be fired. The reason ithe season cpens too late for the keenest squirrel hunters, of which there are thousands, is because the squirrels are too old for eating. Hunters will eat only the
young ones. As a result when they
want young Canticel meat, hoy hint out of season. _ ‘This creates a difficult problem’ for game wardens because of the procedure used in squirrel hunting. It consists of the hunter sitting under a likely tree, scarcely moving a whisker, and watching Tor squirrels to shoot at. Game wardens have found that the hunters can watch intently for |co sqiurrels and listen intently for game wardens at one and the same time. - When they hear a game warden they hide. The reason the season is too ear’ for duffers is that there are still too many leaves on the trees for the
squ/rrels to hide behind. ts
LINK IN SAFETY |
system by Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson |!
Before giving up for the day Jen-|
necessary repairs in time to start at|.
Raps Judges
: Times Photo. Sergé¢ Kenneth Dickinson . . .
“Plaalties are not commensurate with the violations.”
‘OUTSIDE HEART
BABY MARTYR
Movie Lone. Ca Catch Weak Thumps in" Interest Of Science.
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MANILA, Aug. 10 (U. P.).—The infant Maria Corazon (Mary Heart) Rafael gave unknowingly today to
the world of science which, though powerless to: aid her, may some day name her a martyr Lo similarly unfortunate phenomenon of birth. ~ With her: every breath adding to the accumulated amazement of the physicians and surgeons who hovered in constant attendance at her hospital crib, a movie camera lens was focused on her heart, which thumped weakly but steadily beneath its glass covering on her chest. Medical Colony Divided
The resultant film was to be donated to medical science, said Dr: Guillermo del Castillo, who delivered Maria, for study in the hope that some technique could be devised to correct such : future 'abnormalties should it fail to aid its doner. The ' problems ‘posed by baby: Maria's continuing life and the possibility of an unprecedented: operation to place her exterior heart in the ‘thoral cavity where it belongs, had divided the medical colony here and, in fact, the profession throughout the world,’ into two minds of opinion. -
Father Spurns Offers
This was her fourth day of life and it brought her the entirely worthless honor of being the only child born with the heart outside the body to, survive four days. ; Cammercial film offers were indignantly spurned by the father. He likewise refused ‘a ‘$10,000 offer of local sports promoters for the privilege of exhibiting her at the New York World's Fair.
ETHER EXPLODES, RUINS LABORATORY
Californian ‘Who Spilled Chemical Burned.
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. PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 10 (U.P).
“|'A terrific explosion of ether fumes
wrecked the third floor of the $200,000 Crellin Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology today. . The explosion occurred when a laboratory worker. spilled ether on the floor. He was mopping it up when the ether caught fire. The fire ignited other chemicals in the laboratory and the explosion followed. The laboratory.worker was ‘burned
but was not believed to be injured|
seriously. * .Piremen had difficulty in fighting the flames because of fumes and it was n ‘to use huge air blowers to clear the air before firemen could approach with fire hoses.
- HOG PRICE DROPS = The top price on hogs at xt. Indian apolis today dropped to the i) level at $6.25 on 210 pounders. Weights 160 poun
aver were 10.cents Jower and ghee ! 15
eights were. steady
ALLISON GETS
$2.275,000 IN
Stettinus of ‘U. S. Steel Is Named to Head War Resources Board.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U. P.) — The War Department today awarded contracts for expansion of the nation’s air forces totaling more than $100,000,000, the largest single order for war equipment in U, S. history. The order covered $85,978,000 worth of airplanes and engines, in-
275000 worth of its high-speed liquid-cooled engines. It was believed about 2000 planes were ordered in all, although only the amount of awards was given. The Department announced that today’s awards represent “the magor portion” of the ‘aircraft purchases the Army intends to make under the expansion program expected to bring the Air Corps strength to 5500 planes in the next two years. . The awards follow by less than 24 hours a joint Army-Navy move
Thessmen and-.scholars in: “molding American industry to the rigid requirements of war. Acting War Secretary Louis Johnson: and Acting Navy Secretary Charles Edison
War Resources Board, similar to the World War Industries Board, to assist in mobilizing economic re-
is threatened.
tracted for today are of the same type which recently flew across the continent at an average speed of 264 miles per hour.” Contracts for this type of plane went. to Consolidated Air Craft Corp., San Diego, for $8.485.000f and Boeing Aircraft (Continued on Page Three)
INCREASE IS SHOWN IN GAS CONSUMPTION
Customers Number 87,602, An All-Time High.
Gas consumption in July showed an increase of 19,446,100 cubic feet over July, 1938, the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility announced today. The total was 290,646,000 cubic feet.
that the number of gas customers had ams new all-time high with 87,602 metered users. A new ‘record for the number of meters has been set in each of the first seven months this year. July’s gain over June was 2817. The 73,970,000 cubic feet of gas used by local industries represented a gain of 30.9 per cent over the July, 1938, consumption. ‘This increase was viewed by the Utility officials both as an indication of increased industrial activity and as a result of the two rate reductions made since the City took over the
"| eas company.
The sale of gas to homes on the house heating rate, 2,790,000 cubic feet, nearly doubled the figure for July a year ago. Commercial gas sales were reported 1,670,000 cubic feet higher than a year ago, with a total of 24,970,000 cubic feet used by local commercial establishments. The total domestic consumption in July was 188,900,000 ‘cubic feet.
Here is the frst of several atticles explaining the new Social Sasial Sesurity changes.
By THOMAS L. L. STOKES : Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Congress provided far-reaching changes and a new | approach to. social security in th eamendments adopted
ent Roosevelt for signature. ~ Among other featuires—snd this is of politica Jience—amend-
provisions of the act were designed to rivet it phage inroads of the Townsend
PLANE ORDERS
cluding more than $21,000,000 worth |
‘ lof . four-motored. bombing planes. Allison Engineering Corp., Indian-|¥ apolis, received a contract for $2,-
announced the appointment: of a |
sources in event national safety |.
The four-motored bombers con-|
At the same time, it was reported
ments liberalizing. old-age insurance.
Lewis Here
Times Photo. John L. Lewis . . . not here to meet Gas Her: :
LEAVES TRAN
to enlist the aid of leading: -busi-|
"FOR HALF HOOF
C. 1. 0. Chief Talks to Friend|
Before Resuming Trip To Mining Town.
John L. Lewis, bectle-browed and massive president of the C. 1. O. spent nearly haif an hour at. Indilanapolis Union Station between trains today. No lahor leaders were present to greet hin. Mr. Lewis had no comment on
.|repercussions- following his recerit
denunciation of Vice President Garner as a “labor-baiting, poker-play-ing, whisky-drinking, evil old man.” In fact, he had nothing to say about anything, and inferred he was. just out for a train ride. It was learned, however, that he had come from Washington, :nd was bound for Pana, Ill, his former home in the coal mining district. Immediately after his arrival here, Mr. Lewis phoned a personal friend, Floyd €. Ecll, of the National Surety Corp., and then easecl into a seat on one of the station's benches. Mr. Bell arrived a few minutes later and remained in quiet conversation with Mr. Lewis until the westbound Big Four train pulled out. Just before leaving, Mr. Lewis informed a photographer that he might “have a picture of me” and obligingly assumed ¢ne of his favorite poses.
DIONNE ‘DRE/M HOUSE’ MAY BE ABANDONED
CALLANDER, Ontario,’ Aug. 10 (U.P.).—The plan to house the family of the Dionne quintuplets in a “dream home’ has been suspended indefinitely. if not “abandoned,” it was announced today. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the babies’ physician, blamed :acreasing friction between the. ¢iins’ guardians and their parents fo: suspension of the “dream home” plans. “The idea of the ‘dream home’ has been dropped and it is not likely to be revived for a long time,” Dr. Dafoe said. - “It may be abandoned.”
Of most terest p hapelD for it is a new departure, is the recognition for the first time of the family unit, rather than the individual, as the social security basis. The systern has been extended into the re of real social insurance for f without regard to ol: -age consi tion, but with the eed also includ
at the last session which now are ed. . | before. Jn
As amended, the act now recog nizes the obligation ‘of the Federal Government to cart: for the widow and dependent children of a worker
during the period 1 lien this family
unit, its breadwinn:: gone, can not provide for itself.
The worker dies, saving a widow| and small children If
| | Japanese Army
36 AMERICANS FEARED HELD BY JAPANESE
Marine Leaves Canceled at
Shanghai to Prevent Any Terrorism.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 10 (U. P.) —The American Embassy at Chungking
“Idisclosed today that it had received
information that Japanese troops were holding all the American residents of Kaifeng under guard. Information came in a “round-
about” manner and was most meager. No number was given, although Embassy records listed about 18 American Catholic sisters and an equal number of Protestants at Kaifeng. Parts of Honan Province, in which Kaifeng is situated, are flooded and efforts to get direct
- linformation were difficult. The Em-
passy sought information through
| [the American Consulate at Hankow.
Here at Shanghai meanwhile Unites . States Marine leaves were
canceled and all Marines were put under “stand by” orders until mid‘Inight Monday as a precaution ‘| against rioting on the second an-
niversary Sunday of the Battle of Shanghai. Chinese claimed the Japanese were retreating on a 100-mile front in Hupeh Province. | At Tokyo, the British Japanese negotiations over the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin were threatened with disruption. leaders, already angry over opposition at home to Japanese adherence to the Ro vl Berlin axis; were strongly crit.
“do nothing” policy of stalling the negotiations until the Eucopean situation is clarified. | This followed a uning to { Japanese Foreign = Office on the United States and France that they considered themselves invelved in the Chinese situation and would not recognize results accomplished without consulting them.
| Sder Bought Once Too Often
LBERT LOSCHE, City purchasing agent, purchased one traffic. sticker twice. He bought one for a fraction of a cent for use by the Police Department. He bought it back again for $2 for improper parking.
FINGER TIP SEVERED STOPPING DOG FIGHT
Owner Walks Home After Rescuing Pet.
Charles H. Marsh, 40, of 6165 Roslyn Ave., saw a “shaggy black dog” and his fox terrier, Pep, in a fight
at Broad Ripple Amusement Park ‘last night. He intervened and one of the dogs bit off the first joint of the third finger of his right hand. Mr. Marsh wrapped his handkerchief around the wound, and carried his dog a block to his home, His wife drove him to City Hospital, where the wound was dressed and: Mr. Marsh drove home. He said he will go to work some time today. Pep, he said, is not badly hurt. He said he doesn’t know which dog bit him and he will take anti-rabies treatment.
FREIGHTER FIRE QUENCHED
BOSTON, Aug. 10 (U. P) ~The Philadelphia freighter - Pipestone County was reported to have resumed its course for Le Harve, ‘France, today, after its crew of 36 put out .a fire that raged in the hold for 12 hours while two Coast Guard cutters and other ships raced toward it position 770 miles northeast of here,
Study of Changes in Social Security ~ Shows Recognition of Family Unit|
monthly thyments will be wade to his widow equal to three-fourths of
would have been under the average wage basis now in the act, with monthly payments for each child under 18 years of age'equal to one- | half of that benefit.
keep her family’ together and to provide schooling. These payments cease when the last of the children
vided for by the children. If the widow remarries, she loses | the ‘benefit. She becomes
of what they called Great id
' | Secretary,
{tured at Wabash and will be
what his monthly old-age payments|
This will enable ‘the widow fo}
reach 18, the presumption: being| that the family then can be pro-|¢
eligible| _three=~{
NAZIS WILL DEFEND ‘DANZIG, CITY TOLD; FIRING IS REPORTED
Forster Returns From. Berchtesgaden With Hitler Message.
FOREIGN SITUATION : DANZIG—Forster expected to. = demand Reich annexation of . Danzig. it : WARSAW Poland’ warns Forster to 80 easy. LONDON—Polish envoy says his Government is worried. *
DUSSELDORF — Nazi Army
“only way out.” BELGRADE—Jugoslavia refuses axis use of railroad for troops, . CE. ¢
SHANGHAI—Anti-American incidents increasing. : TOKYO—Disruption of Japa= nese-British talks threatens,
BULLETIN DANZIG, Aug. 10 (U. P.).— - The “hour of liberation” is at - hand when Danzig will be reunited with Germany, “Albert Forster, Danzig’s Nazi leader, declared in a speech tonight. He said Germany is ready to defend Danzig against attack from Poland. .
By UNITED PRESS
There was firing on the DanzigPolish border today as Europe wait= ed tensely for an important speech tonight by Albert Forster, the Free City’s Nazi leader. :
Herr Forster, fresh from a secret conference with Adolf Hitler, in the Berchtesgaden mountain retreat, was expected to base his speech on an alleged threat by Poland to bomb Danzig if the city made any move to unite with Germany. Danzig authorities reported "two incidents that might be made an
needed. They asserted that Polish frontier guards near. Ochsenkopt shot at two Danziger brothers named Litt win as they were working’in a field, but did not hit then. ‘They also reported that southwest [6 Kelpin-a “reconnaissance detach< ment of ‘two: Polish soldiers crossed 100 yards into Danzig territory but returned to Poland when a Danzig detachment arrived. Count Edward Raczynski, Polish Ambassador to London, called on Viscount Halifax, British Foreign and expressed grave concern at what he called Germany’s increasingly threatening 2h~ titude towards Poland. The two leaders discussed 'a British proposal for a more binding military alliance between the two powers under which mutual military = assistance would be pledged. Lord Halifax was reported to have warned Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, German ambassador, at a conversation yesterday that the period of “bloodless conquests” for Germany is ¥ (Continued on Page Three) -°
FACING NOOSE, GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE PAL
FT. MADISON, Ia. Aug. 10 (U, P.). — Walter (Dusty) Rhodes, 31, under the shadow of death himself, will attempt through a blood trans fusion today to save the: life of a fellow ° convict dying from dread leukemia. - Rhodes is: under sentence to be hanged. for the murder Feb. 9, 1937, of his wife, Mabel, 31. He has been in death row here since April, 1937, and is awaiting a new trial granted on a technicality. He was one of 60 prisoners who volunteered to donate blood for W, J. Fair, who is serving a ye sentence.
IT'S BACK TO PRISON. FOR TRUSTY TRUCKER
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, ‘Aug. 10 (U. P.).—Clarence Schrock, 32, a
Prison, who fled in his gaudy red vehicle after driving out the gates to dump a load of trash, was ca turned here, prison officials said to- - day. Schrock was sentenced in 1931 at Rushville to 10 to 20 years for bank robbery. Last year his sentence was commuted to 9 to 20 years and he would have been eligible for parole in September, 1940. He had been a trusty for three months.
VESUVIUS ERUPTS, BUT NO .ONE WORRIES
NAPLES, Aug. 10 (U. P.). —Mount Vesuvius was in Eruption again today. Lava flowed continually, ace companied by lames which light up the skies at night. Inhabitants seemned to fear no danger and joined tourists in flock~ ing to se ihe spectacle at the closes possible er hi b ange.
UNCERTAINTY ABROAD PULLS STOCKS DOWN
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (U.P).
chief declares war may be
excuse for hostilities if one is 0
trusty truck: driver at the State