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NO. 142

EIRE DAMAGES HOSPITAL,

MARION, Init., March 31 'UP' - Fire of undetermined origin today completely destroyed the mess hall at the United States Veterans hospital here, causing damage estimated

at $300,000.

The fire, which was belived to have started in the kitchen was brought under control before spreading to adjoining buildings on the hospital

COURT REFORM IS UPHELD RY SEN. ROBINSON

RENEWED INTENSITY MAKES CLASH OVER JUDICIARY REORGANIZATION

FACES SENTENCE

OAKLAND, Cal.. March 31 'UP' — Hoiatio <Ray> Randall, 21. who pleaded guilty to first degree murder of his estranged wife, an expectant mother, will be sentenced to life imprisonment or death tomorrow. Randall, according to police, shot and mortally wounded his wife. Elsie Randall, recently at Fort Wayne. Ind.. after they quarreled when she wanted

Where Mine IJlast Killed Nine

ENTER <’1 ILT\ PLEAS grounds. Approximately l.SOO persons DEFENDS PROPOSED CHANGES money to pay the expense of having

are patients at the hospital.

IVitliliolds Plea In .Marion Court. Fourth Man Says Ho Is Not Guilty.

FOURTH SHIPMENT OF CHECKS

Senate Majority Leader Asserts Veteran Virginian Solon Carter

Glass Is "Bitter”

At the office of the Putnam county RtoV Ind.. March 31 (UPi-— soil conservation committee, in the ^ T Marr. -16, handsomely Court House, the fourth shipment of j former Detroit millionaire wa» checks in connection with the soil ( , rinl canty jail today while conservation program have been re-

4 sought additional ac- ce ived and are now being distributed er President Roosevelt seeks to rtkes in an alleged $80,000 stock c„ the persons to whom they are pay- increase the powers of the executive dlinft scheme that clamied vie- a bi e They have been notified of the expense ol congress and the

lina dozen northern Indiana

WASHINGTON. Mar. 31. (UP'— Advocates and opjioncnts of judiciary recognition clashed with renewed intensity today over whet.i-

a baby. The baby was bom six minutes after the mother's death when delivered iiirough a caesarian operation. The baby, now II weeks old, is the center of a custody battle among Randall, his mother, and the mother’s aunt.

Harr was arraigned in Grant counauperior court late yesterday on of violating the Indiana *urities law but withheld plea pendarrival of his lawyer froc Chicago. Meanwhile Ray Norman, 38, Marion ity clerk, and Curtis Strange, 41, al- ■ from Marion, alleged accomplices the fashionably-dressed former Deroit real estate operator, pleaded uilty to violation of the state securlies act in connection with the exensive sales of unregistered securitBoth men purportedly recomMtlel the stock to Marion citizens. An affidavit filed by Ernest W. iwen of the Indiana Securities corn-

arrival of the checks. The amount covered by this shipment of checks

is approximately $23,000.

Kites Thursday For John \\. Kobe

LOCAL CIVIL WAR VETERAN WAS DEPAUW'K OLDEST

GRADUATE

supreme court.

Senate majority leader, Joseph T j Robinson replied to opposition Mows delivered by Senator Cartel Glass. D., Va., Senator William E Borah, R.. Ida., and Associate Jus lice James C. McRcynolds. In a radio speech he denounced ‘‘ignorance or misrepresentation” behind charges that the court bill hides dic-

tatorial motives.

Prof. Edwin Borchard of Yale

Strike 01 Coal Miners Probable

WILL WALK Ol T l N LESS AGREEMENT IS REACHED

BY MIDNIGHT

NEW YORK, March 31. (UP) - A strike of 400.000 bituminous coal miners was threatened today unless negotiators for the United Mine Workers and Coal Operators renew or replace the existing wage and

Law School, opposing the bill be-

fore the senate judiciary committee, hour agreement before midnight. The funeral sevices for John W warned that congress must hr j After weeks of conference a subRobe, 04-year-old Civil war veteran. | "cautious and viligant" because the committee of four miners and four whose death occured Tuesday morn- “executive has grown so powerful." j operators adjourned late yesterday, ing, will be held at 2 o'clock Thurs- "The supreme court is the only! Both sides were ominously silent, day a' the Robe residence on east factor for stability we have in til's i Edward E. McGrady. assistant secre-

liuionallcgoi N'i,iman^icceived ^lo^ ^ nc y erson street, in charge of the ' "'("U v. Borchard said. "Lot tu | tary of Labor, confem d with mem-

REBEL FORCE SURROUNDED BY LOYALISTS

ommission for the sale by Man- of 30 ures of stock in the grand Amerian National Corporation, Inc., to mma J. Biown. Marion widow. A similar affidavit for Strange inicated he obtained a $90 commission connection with sale of stock to rs. Carrie E. Seeker, another widow. Judge Grew Dickey with Held seneticing until the case of Marr has disposed. Strange and Norman

Rev. C. M. McClure, of the Gobin Memorial Methodist church. The pall bearers will be M. J. Murphy, W. P. Sackett, John Detrick. G. E. Black, A. J. Duff and Frank Vaughn. Perry Rush will sing, and the burial service of the Grand Army of the

not in fitful impatience weaken a bulwark that has become a symbol for prelection of the individual ant.

of minorities.”

Republic will be given by men who! mem '- ^ Pro|>osiiig an amendment are cither sons of Civil war ve'erans , * 1< ' constitution to make the am

1 ending process eaaier, and by naming a committee to solect amendments designed to preserve the bal-

bers of the sub-committee individually but did not part icipate in the

meeting.

It was understood that McGrady of-

He suggested I hat congress could 1 feml the governments’ service in achieve ■ts objective by defining due rcaching an agr eement before the cxproccss of law and interstate com-1 piration of thc pre8( . nt one at mkl _

night. Whether federal assistance

Rescuers emerge, top, as spectators watch

Another tragedy was written on the records of mining history when nine men lost tneir lives in a 300-foot shaft near Dubois, Pa. Five were killed in the first blast and four others, seeking the bodies of their comrades, were buried in a second explosion. Hero are rescuers emerging, top, watched by youthful spectators, belom, after bodies

of the nine victims had been recovered.

or arc former soldiers. There will

'ere release,I 'imlei"'$T,500'Iiond eacli' bp 11 { ‘ ri ^ th *‘ American Another alleged associate of Marr. Le K ion - Thc millta, '>’ ,itual wl11 bc arland Twaddle. 42, Goshen, who 8 iven at Foreat Hil1 cemetery, if the

late police said acted as contact man weathe." permits,

or Marr, pleaded not guilty and was

nal over tu Goshen authorities.

Representing himself as an agent pf the Grand National, Inc., an insur‘nce company incorporated in Delaware with an office supposedly in i Chicago, Marr is accused of defrauding scores of other Indiana residents by exchanging his stock for their

securities of proven value.

Police continued to receive telephone calls from northern Indiana

Fishermen Are Having Success

anc between state and federa' lights. Borehardls views (were injected into a controversy wnicn over the week end had become intensely persontl and which Robinson stirred further by his counter-attacks on two other senate veterans Glass

| and Borah. Glass lashed the court

SUCKERS* RANKS DECIMATED P>an Monday in a speech that RobIN PUTNAM COUNTY BY inson said was "destroyed” by itf

MEN AND BOYS bitterness.

! The majority leader turned back Thc many-boned suckers who, arc Hie pages of the congressional rc-

'titiiw, • 17 u ~ how invading thc small branches 1 con * bo 19.,0 to assert that both Bo-

creeks in Putnam county, for, rah and Glass in opposing confirm

ilia of th^ 1 i° n ° ea ‘ B0 ‘ lV spawning purposes, 'are having to I at ion of Chief Justice Hughes ha!

"»“* "“” U - - **"• * ■ UPr ' me COUrl Miss Della Wall, Marion high B P* ars a nd pitchforks which men,

school teacher, claimed she paid Marr SHOO for 26 shares of the Grand American stock, filed an attachment w S2.860 cash and securities taken , from Man- when he was arrested in

Marr WLS eonvirtcl in Sant Ana etl ll<>ok - s on warm, clear clays, but Ho cite<l ' he words of Assucu' nvicted In Santa Ana, expressed it such a pro- Justico c - McPeyrtlds in *h Orange county, Calif., in March 1932 one man cxp ^ ' ' ' a P ( ^ m i n0 ritv void case decision

or - charges of grand theft and viola- to ° f " r f " ost of nolere fion of the California securities act. ^ oplc who ar ° hunsry suckJr i ( „1

^rding to state police They said meat ’ an<l thcy re8ort to the more ^ waa given one year on probation, siting snares and spears. PutCapt. Matt Leach sai.i part of the nam county 8trean,s have to ° ma!, - v exidcnce which led to Marr’s capture of this 8 ° rt of fish ’ il is '‘M obtained through James C. Rid- and thcy arc bpin * re<,uc0<l ln nunl ' ^ e - insurance company cashier. ber by tho wholesale onslaughts on

Riddle said Marr attempted to cash

“ an insurance policy held by Miss ^ arP biti,1 R to a limited cx ‘ . tho constitution is gone”. Myrtle Druckemiller. 59, Marion. In trnt - but tho Rlory thi,t waa once Robinsvi’s speech » -.<

^ Jelay in paying the account, fur- ou, ' s bowlU3 ° of ' our baas water8 ‘ haa .

w eviclenrp ncminaf Mo—. ob about departed. One bass is now * ** .... . . ! ^ against Marr was as- .. .. (hararos c ireeled at tie president f

^ lb e d- Subsequent investigation dis- cauFht wher< '- ondmarily, a dozen *

J 0 Marr had sol«l Miss Drucke- not uncommon. Ho 8a . d that thollo wh: . viPW it c.| (r stock w.iich securities commLs-, "packing” the court, as “indirect j

BELIEVED SLAIN | amendment” of the constitution or

as establishing

INDIANAPOLIS. March 31 <UP> “compelled to rely or imagination

^ Capt. Matt Leach of the state police rather than facts and reasonable

p k i ' u -If iddlebury, Goshen, To- sa i,| to<lay Lawrence L. Paris, 22 [ arguments.”

doitusa. Silver Lake, Clay- missing a week had been slain by But in particular, he criticized

spears and pitchforks which men, "that would reflect their economic

and boys arc wielding enthusiast- views."

caliy, in a sport legalized because! He asserted that President Taft of the obnoxious character of the! b n campaiging for the election of fish at whom the destructive efforts ' Varron G - Harding, was motivator are directed. I f, y h' 8 de-ire to "pack tne court wit* 1 In the creeks, suckers bite bait-1 con8erv abivoB and reactionaries.”

as evi

gal ilite,"i

lure does u judge stand more err. phatioallv condemned by his ov,*

test as a sportsman. ’

McRcynolds, at a recent dinner raid that losers in court cases shorn be “good sportsmen. ’ In the gj'r clause case, where his u j • the on-} dissenting vote, the justice said that

was designer,

counteract a series , f

wouKI be asked to avert a strike will be decided by today’s proceetlings. A stoppage of the soft coal industry will be declared unless an agreement is reached today, despite the contention of both sides that they do

not want a strike.

From sources close to the conferees it was learned that a stoppage of the industry woultl not be surprising. They said both sides would seek to utilize a tie-up as a lever upon Con-

Futnam Fanners Hard Al Work

SPRING WEATHER BRINGS AUTIVITY FOR TRACTORS, PLOW HORSES AND MEN

It is predicted that Putnam county will have more acres planted in corn this year, than for many years in the past. One Madison township farmer said about every acre that

gress to pass the Vinson-Guffey Coal can he plowed, especially in the Stabilization bill, which provides for cr eek bottoms, will be in corn, includ-

stabilization of prices in the soft coal industry and eliminate of cutthroat competition.

New Point In Habeas Corpus FARM PRISONER FROM MITCHELL SAYS 100-DAY SENTENCE WAS OUTLAWED

ing some tracts that have, heretofore, not been considered especially good for corn. The farmers by this planting in corn lose in receipts from those soil conservation program, but they balance their hoped-for receipts from their com against their possible receipts from the soil conservation program, and plant com in

many instances.

This corn-planting will include much land which was planted in wheat last fall, but on which the wheat was winter-killed and the crop prospects too much reduced to

the farmers to make an

LARGE PORTION OF’ ARMY TRAPPED BY GOMEKNMENT TROOPS NOW FACING ANNIHILATION S|Kinish Kel: -Is Must Either Surrender Or Be Shot Down By loyalist Columns MADRID. March 31.—(UP) A large portion of Gen. Francisco Franco’s southern army faced possible annihilation in the Siorrc Morena mountain passes north of Cordoba j today where four Loyalist columns j were seeking to encircle them, army dispatches reported. The Insurgent army, defeated at Alcarecejos despite its 10.000 German and Italian reinforcements, in what the Loyalist high command said had been “another battle of the Marne” fled toward the Chlmorra mountains. Harassed by Loyalist artillery and ! aviation, tho rear guard of tho retreating army was reported trapped ! on the Cordoba highway while its adI lance elements neared the strategic Puerto Catraveno in the mountains, eight miles south of Alcaraqejos. Loyalist army reports said the fleeing Italian and German troops showed increasing signs of disorganization. Loyalist aviation bombed | and machine-gunned them incessant-

ly*

j Two Loyalist columns, which drove |the Insurgents out of Alcaracejos | and Villanueve Del Duque, causing the collapse of Franco's drive to 1 capture the wealthy Almaden mer- ( cury mines, 80 miles south of Madrid,

| were in hot pursuit.

Two other Loyalist columns, starting from Pozoblanco and Villanueva.

| raced for VUIaharta anil Ovejo, rcMI'KPHY is OPTIM1STH spectively, to intersect tlir retreating OVER CONFERENCE | army on the Cordoba highway before ON FRIDAY : it could pass thase points, thus subI jecting it to attacks on all sides.

Uianms Bright For Auto Peace

of habeas corpus is asked by

Williams, who says he was senten-

ced in the city court of

LANSING, Mich., March 31— Ncgotions to Settle the 22-day-old Chrysler automobile strike recessed last night until Friday morning because of the absence of the principal conferees. Governor Frank Murphy, acting as meditator in the motor car industry’s second major strike of the year, restated his belief that “everything wii 1 work out all right,” and added: “The chances are bright for a settlement not long after we recon-

vene.”

He said the confeiences, in which leaders of corporation and strikers have been seeking agreement on the ' ollective bargaining rights of the United Automobile Workers of America, were “continued” because Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the manufacturing concern, was called to New Y’ork on urgent corporation business. John L. Lewis, who already had left Lie peace parley to attend bituminous coal contract negotiations at New York, is expected to return here per-

Release from the Indiana State

Farm under tho operation of a writ encourage Menlo effort to raise a crop of wheat from

it. The open winter, with its alter-

Mitchell, nating freezing and thrawing, and

December 15, 19.’;4. to serve a 180- lack of snow, was hard on tin-\m" i haps Thursday. Muiphy said Chrysler day’s sentence on the penal farm, locally. Much of it. even would be back on Friday or Saturday and to pay a fine of $100 with $10 h a, l ,)een 've' 1 roote,J ' was rl "' s ‘ ; 1 "When the conference resumes,” cost*), following conviction on a of the ground by the thawing m Murphy said, "I will press day and charge of assault and battery. Wil- loft out on Ulc aui ' filca ; ,0 night if necessary for tin- speediest Ii a m.s’ complaint states the 180 killed by the next freeze. I he a ■ p OS8 jbi c settlement so 60.000 Chrysler

mployea may lx* returned to work t- i F « /-i4 o no n j 11 'l n If it I

nended during good

to be

The ab

lays’ sentence on the farm was sus- sencc of the snow hurt, because when

behavior and snow is present it acts as a blanket

the fine and costs were stayed for protecting the young plants from

90 days. the cold.

However, the complaint continues,

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•non representative said was misrep-

bscntcl.

Mair had operated, state police sai ' 1 in Indianapolis, Marion, Elkhart,

LaC range,

p 00 l ,,. • —— niissinj

Outs are being planted now, to Hie

on December 28. 1936. Williams wis extent of the usual acreage, bni rearrestert ryi the old charge and Putnam farmers usually plant oats was committed to the pena.l farm because their soil needs the rotation to “lay out” his sentence of 180 rather than because oats are a paydictatoiship, werej ( | a y 8 am | ^ fjnp an( | cosks of jjq ing cr0 p on an average days, hut, says the complaint, “the Corn will not be planted to a : ■ it mittimus is illegal in part in that extent until about the first of May. it pretends to sentence for 180 days but the soil for it is being prcpari

had been sus- carefully, and the interval before the

pretends

after thc sentence

night by

Leach said absence of any word re- speech delivered Monday garding the young salesman made tp,. 77-year-oid Glass,

him positive “he can’t be alive.” “Vindictiveness and denunoiation

h’AUSANNE"'Switzerland*March Thc I >olice ca P tain Sieved Paris are indicative of weakne.ss in argu- ^ ■gnace Jan Padorew«wt o-roi.i might have been a victim of two ban- nTont - ht , said. "Senator Glass addPolish " i ~ * O aavlt** lalllswl /"41 r» »rf ♦ * a CV-vunrl- I . .. . ... * •

the “bitterness" of the opposition p(> mkH | f or over two years, and said seed actually goes into the

HWist honors friend

suspension could not be legally re- not be too long a period, vokjsl by the city court for the preparing the soil is concerned.

soil will

far as

pianist, who has been ill with bronchitis, motored here Tuesday from his villa at Merges to lay a "roalh on the bier of his old friend. K( «al Szymanowski, Polish composer,

"bo died yesterday.

I)(><. TAX CONFUSION

Assessors ip Putnam county arc avin 8 a little discussion, at times. 111 regard to the proper amount of “'K tax to be paid by owners, because of the recent act of thc LegisH nrp fixing rates at variance with those fixed by the Putnam county C0 mmis8ioners. The rates of the R’ 'Mature, which are $1, $3 and $8 8r c to apply next year, and the rates H the Putnam commissioners, which 12. $3 an d $5 are j n effect In

l h(s county this year.

dits who killed Clayton Potts, Found- j ^1 n „thing to the ry company executive, in a $2,000 simp |y denounced.”

holdup March 23. Paris disappeared

argument. He

LADOGA GIRL STRUCK BY \l TO Thelma Dean, senior in the Lmlngn high school, is recovering at her home

tlie following day.

Ray Duval and Leonard Jackson, former convicts, are sought by police as suspects in the Potts shooting.

IN FLATIONISTS Al T’lVE

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

WASHINGTON. March 31, (UP) - House inflation advocates from 36 states today agreed to seek enactment at this session of congress of

legislation for government ownership ever,

of the 12 federal reserve banks.

reason that the court no longer had jurisdiction, the two-ycars period

having elapsed.

Williams stales the Indiana statutes povide Uiat if a person be im-

prlsoned for failure to pay a fine ^ of r ^ ioga from effects

and costs, he is entitled to release after imprisonment for one day for every dollar of thc fine and costs. "That, therefore, under said mittimus, the total time he can legally

Some quarters had expressed belief a tentative proposal on the extent of bargaining recognition to be accorded the U. A. W. A was agreed upon and awaiting the tpproval of Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organization and generalissimo of th“

automobile strikes.

Strikers exacuated tho Chrysler plants last Friday under terms of a truce reached between Lewis and Chrysler here. Office workers immediately entered the administration building offices from which they had been barred and prepared a $2,000,000 pay roll for work done before the strike began. Dodge workers were the first to be paid yesterday.

Success of thc maneuver would ’rap the unwieldy Nationalist force in the narrow mountain passes around Puerto Catraveno, Loyalist officials said, forcing it to surrender or be annihilated. Loyalist aviation bombed tho Cordoba highway between Puerto Catraveno and Espiel, four miles south of the mountain pass. Government officials said it would be impossible for tho retreating army to puss that point. Unless there was an overnight change in the situation not apparent at the moment, Loyalist officials said, slaughter of the Italian and German troops would begin within a few hours unless they surrendered. Government officials viewed the impending Nationalist disaster, as they called it, as likely to be greater and more effective than the Guadalajara defeat two weeks ago when another Italian force was routed while attempting a drive on Madrid. As the ti te of war seemed to have turned to favor the Loyalist cause, the government commanders were quick to seize their opportunity. Mother Of Loral Man Is Dead

MYKY STRINGER TUESDAY AT DOME NEAR LADOGA

DIED

injuries received Monday morning when she was struck by an automobile at the "Stump Town” corner,

south of here.

Miss Dean, with a sister, had spent

Mrs. Andrew E. Durham went Chicago (o visit friends.

WOMAN TESTIFIES PARIS, March 31 (UP*

Mme.

be imprisoned is HO days” How- thc night Hoachdale visiting rcla . days “good time” because oT his ^ WCre Wall “ nB h0 ( n,C “‘"f . . . , , . Monday to prepare to go to school. good behavior and is now entitled __ , . . , , _ , . . . , . The automobile, occupied by Landon

to release having served the 94 days ,,, . .

, , , . .. Stewart and Otis Stewart of Roachrequired of him to lay out tli3 , , , 1 1 r-. , ... , , , J dale, knocked Miss Dean from the

cash fine and costs, and that he can- , .. , .

road as the machine turned the corn-

Hillis Shoptaugh fell while skating MaKtla De p- ontaK cs introduced the

on east Seminary street and suffered name of fonner Premier Joseph Pau'-! not le K aI >y bc held on 010 100 <la y cr of the Roachdale road. The morn-

Boncourof France today in testimony 8entence - Wilbur S. Donner is thc jng sun (,1^,1,^ the driver of the mathe resumption of preliminary attorn «y for Williame. chine, it was said, and the accident

Indianapolis. hearings on her shooting of Count was held unavoidable. Thc high school

Robert Dills is reported ill at his gi r i suffered a badly bruised hip and

a dislocated left arm.

Mrs. Ollie Vaughn spent the day in at

of Count

E. B. Taylor returned home from a Charles De Chambum, former French

week's stay ai French Lick.

ambassador to Rome.

home in Madison township.

slight head injuries.

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® ® @ 3 0 $ O < 0 Today’s Weather f 0 and C 0 Local Temperature t: 0000000000* Fair, continuer) cool tonight; Thursday increasing cloudiness, becoming unsettled, somewhat warmer east and south portions. Minimum ... .... 32

6 a. m. .

7 a. m. 36 8 a. m 40 9 a .m. . 44 10 a. m — 47 11 a. m 49 12 noon 81 , 1 p. m. • r '2 2 p. m —.... 63

Mrs Mary E. Stringer, 89, died at her home six miles east of Ladoga Tuesday morning. The infirmities of age and effects of a broken hip, which she suffered six weeks ago. caused her death. She was born on January 2, 1848, in Hendricks county, near North Salem, tlie daughter of William and Lucinda Pennington Stewart and on October 1, 1862 she was married to L. D. Stringer, who died on April 22, 1914. She is survived by six children, George Stringer of Roachdale, Braxton S'ringer of Greencastlc, Miss Lily Stringer of Indianapolis, Mrs. Myrtle Brown of Pittsboro. Clea Stringer of St. Louis. Mo., and Carl Stringer, who lived at home. Also surviving are nine grandchildren and 17 great-gandchildren. Four children preceded Mrs. Stringer in death. The funeral will he hold Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock from the Mount Pleasant Brethren church near the Stringer home. INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK

Huge receipts 4,500. 224. Top price, $10.25.

Holdovers