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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
CRASH INJURIES TWO.
Truck HurtIes Into Auto;
Driver Critically Hurt.

One man was injured dangerous
ly and another slightly today when
a two ton gravel truck crashed into
a sedan at Troy avenue and
Meridian street, and overturned.
{ The injured are: Richard Sites,
49, of GreencastIe, Ind, internal
and head injuries and Claude Stan
ley, 20, Franklin, Ind. were taken to
city hospital. Sites condition is
serious. Stanley did not remain
at the hospital.
According to witnesses Sites was
driving his gravel truck east on
Troy avenue when he collided with
the sedan driven by Stanley north
on Meridian street. The truck was
overturned and Sites was pinned
beneath. A bolt from the truck
pierced his head. Workmen near
bye lifted the truck from off Sites.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
SPRING USHERED IN
Mercury 9 Above Normal
for First Day.

Spring was ushered in today with
typical weather. The temperature
was 48, degrees above normal, at
z a. m. According to j. H. Arming-
ton, United States weather bureau
head, the spring atmosphere will
continue although it will be colder
Friday, probably with showers to-
night.
Officially winter ended and spring
arrived at 8:25 p. m. Wednesday.
1t has been cold winter, ac-
cording to Arnington. January and
February were way below normal
in temperature. And although the
winter had warm beginning in De-
cember and warm ending in
March, the average was considerably
below normal.
The daily temperatures so far this
month have averaged more than 4
degrees above normal, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21

ness, but it is unable to look upon
Marshal Foch's hearse with any
feeling except bitterness" the
newspaper said.
Other newspapers described him
as an irreconcilable enemy of
Germany, and added that history
must decide his abilities as a
general.
4 DMIRAL ALFRED Won TIR-
IA PITz, who failed to obtain
adoption of his scheme for defeat
ing the allies on sea, while Foch
was winning on land, said he was
shocked by news of the death, but
declined to make a statement.
President Won Hindenburg also
refused all newspaper requests for
comment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
HEAVY DEATH
TOLL IN Mine
BLAST Feared
More Than 800 Men at
Work at Time of
Explosion.
HUNDREDS ESCAPE PERIL
Shock Is Felt Miles Away
From Scene; Damage
to Shafts Heavy.
HUNDREDS ESCAPE PERIL
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
PARNASSUS, Pa, March 21.-
Less than five hours after an ex-
plosion wrecked the Kinloch mine
Of the Valley Camp Coal Company
today, all but eighty-five of the
more than 300 miners in the work.
ings at the time had been rescued.
Early reports said fifty men were
killed.
Miners who escaped from the
workings reported having seen
bodies of miners killed in the blast,
but up until noon no bodies had
been removed and no check could
be made on the dead.
Fighting their way through the
gas filled chambers of the mine ap-
proximately 100 of the entombed
men reached the safety of the outer
air through the entrance to the
Valley Camp Mine l.
The entrance to this mine which
connects with the Kinloch workings
is about three miles from the shaft
where the full force of the explo-
SlOH SGTuCk.
A short time later Edward Jones,
assistant pit boss, led more than
one hundred additional miners from
the mouth of the Valley Camp
Mine l.
The blast, which was felt for
miles, occurred at 1880 a. M, shortly
after more than three hundred men
went to work.
More than four hundred men are
employed in the Kinloch mine.
The mine recently was awarded
the 100 per cent efficiency diploma
of the United States bureau of
mines for its excellent safeguards.
The mine numbers among it's men
fifteen highly trained in mine res
cue work, but it was feared these
may be included among the VIC
Tins Of the terrific explosion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21

tionality, permits his one time
enemy to lowe his sword before
the bier of a marshal who was q
great soldier and a great French
man." he said.
+ y
INFORMED circles believed Ger
1many would take no official cog
NANCE of Foch's death for fear
of raising storm of protest an1ng
the nationalists, former soldiers
and persons bereaved by the war.
The TIokal Anzeiger expressed
the bitterness of that group when
it deplored Foch's behavior during
armistice negotiations as with
out chivalry to a vanquished adj
versary."
Germany always is ready to
recognize her adversary's great
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
SIFT OLD KIDNAPPING

Father, Son, Reunited After Forty
Years, Hope to Solve Mystery.
BIZ United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 21.-
Hoping to clear mysteries surrounS-
Ing his kidnapping forty years ago
IN Emporia, Kan, George Bixler
White, Kent, O., farmer, and his
recently found father, A. A. Will
hite, Kansas City, left today for
Emporia.
The elder Wilhite, recently re-
united with his son, said the son
as an infant was stolen by a man
named Alfrex Bixler. They win
question old Emporia residents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
SHAKEUP OF
STATE Police
FORCE LOOMS
FifieId Says He viii Make
Real Department
of 1t.

A complete "shakeup" of the state
police department, which may
change much of the personnel, is
anticipated by Otto G. Fif1eld, Sec
retary of state, it was learned to-
day.
Before leaving for the east with
Mark H. Rhoads, state securities
commissioner, Fifeld announced
that he was planning to reorganize
the police department for greater
efficiency.
He pointed out that this was in
line with his request for greater
appropriations for the department.
Fi1eld inherited the police per-
sonnel from his predecessor, Fred
erick E. Schortemeier, who, in turn,
inherited it from Governor Ed jack
son.
Charges in Senate
Charges were made in the past
that much of the membership was
drawn from the then hourishing
Ku-Klux Klan.
During the legislature numerous
criticisms were voiced regarding the
state police from the. senate floor
and proposals to put them under a
governing board or abolish the de-
partment entirely were narrowly
defeated.
Lake county delegates came to
the rescue for the sake of Fifield
at that time. He is from Crown
Point.
It is rumored that Fif1eld has
gubernatorial aspirations.
To foster his reorganization plans,
Fif1eld has placed George MacHie,
Crown Point newspaper man, as as
sistant to Chief Robert L. Hume.
Increase in Personnel
When Fif1eId is ready to act, Mac
HE will have some information for
him since he has been in the de-
partment since Fif1eld took Office.
Appropriations for the depart
ment and the certificate of title is
suance Genes from the automobile
theft fund. 1t is now $201 ,849, but
was Increased to $230,000 annually
by the legislature.
The increase will be expended for
police department reorganization.
Fifield has declared that he is "go-
ing to make it a real department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21

Ra United Press
DARIS, March 21.-King AL
l. bert Of the Belgians ar
rived at the home of Marshal
Foch shortly after 5 o'clock
after speeding here from Brus-
sells to pay his respects to the
great soldier in death.
He stood and prayed at the
foot of the bier, sprinkled holy
water upon the body and drew
the widow and brother into the
adjoining room where he ex-
pressed to them Belgium's
grief and sympathy.
AS the king left the home,
Nine. Foch and her daughters
accompanied him to the door,
bowed low and thanked him in
the name of France for his
special trip from Belgium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
HEARING FOR AIMEE
JUDGE SET ON APRIL s

Impeachment Links Hardy With
Mcpherson kidnapping.
BB United Press
SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 21.-
Having definitely linked the kid
naping of Aimee Semple McPher-
son with the trial of Judge Carlos
S. Hardy of Los Angeles, the state
senase stood adjourned today as a
court of impeachment until April
when the taking of testimony
will proceed.
Senate officials estimated the trial
viii require fourteen days, and will
cost the senate $4,000.
Hardy faces custer because he
accepted S2,5o0 from Mrs. McPher-
son for legal services while on the
bench.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21

TN some quarters, Foch was re-
4 garded as the outstanding
counterpart of Won Hindenburg
among the allied generals.
In others-a much smaller
group-it was believed Won Hind
enburg, because Of his presidential
position, might make a chivalrous
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
March 21-
oh, H0Hum,
TBSbr1ng
Gray Dog, but No Gray
Hearts; Spring Showers?
That's Fine.
BY ARCH STEINEL

IND you smell it? What
~ why spring, of course-to-
days the first day of dog-days
violet hunts, necking on park
benches, straw hats for women,
house cleaning, and that spread
ing epidemic which has no cure
all-"spring fever"
AS loud as a "talkie" spring
sung her wares on downtown
streets.
"One dollar a bottle, spring
tonic" acclaimed a drug store
placard at the nothwest corner
of Washington and Illinois streets
and as if in answer a dream
mama" in violet swished by the
window front in the lavender hues
of Easter tide in her ensemble.
Gray day, but no gray hearts.
Spring was in the air.
II
TINE hammers of workmen
Il erecting a new front for a
shoe-repairing store on Illinois
street swung with the swift, peppy
strokes of springs surge.
At University park the pigeons
were getting their first square
meals from peanut-purveyors sit
ting on park benches since tree
leaves did a "Brodie." One old
grandpa sitting on bench snored
beneath newspaper-oblivous of
the drizzle-while pigeons pecked
at last summers peanut shells.
While doves cooed high on the
Soldiers and Sailors monument,
a Sapling youth in blazer sweater
talked with his eyes and mouth
to bloomer- showing maid, be-
meath and by the waterfall.
Workmen on scaffclding nearby
busted themselves fixing the foun-
tain plumbing.
II n y
ID ED HOT weinies jumped up
IN and down on skillets in the
open window of a sandwich shop,
near Market and Pennsylvania
street.
Up went zone dog" down went
the other, as if humming, Spring
is here. Spring is here"
Frouzy and fashionable house
wives stood in front of a depart
ment store window watching a
demonstrator reveal the art of
properly cleansing a rug with a
vacuum sweeper.
~
TAP-TAP-TAP," with Snuff
l. ling leaden feet came the
bravest man in town on the first
spring day.
He carried ,dime-store flour
measuring cup in his hand for the
aims he solicited. He said he was
blind, that his name was Frank
Wallace, Of the Linden hotel, and
even diagnosed his blindness with
the correct English as, "con-
genital"
"You can't make much begging.
The laws against you. You have
to have a permit. I haven't one
maybe I'll get in jail"
"Tap-tap-tap," on he went
east on Washington street in the
direction Of police headquarters.
Incongruity in that "tap-tap-
tap almost as bad as the over
coats on the traffic patrolman.
y n
ON to Washington and Illinois
~ streets where NANCY dog
lolls on the sidewalk trying to
hold up the Occidental building.
Another nondescript breed spies
him-and-the fight is on.
Hesitating raindrops spatter the
street a ndsidewalk, Umbrellas
are hoisted. Pedestrians duck for
sheltering store fronts-sniffing,
feeling-Spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21


DERLIN, March 21.-The death
- of Marshal Ferdinand Foch of
France has placed German off,
cial circles in quandary as to
what attitude to take toward their
erstwhile foe and conqueror.
Germany's predicament, delicate
enough in any case, was compli-
Gated further by the fact that
Field Marshal Paul Won dinden-
burg. leader of the defeated Ger
man armies, now is president.
1t would be he who would send
any official message of coincidence
to the French government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
BLUFFToN BANK OPENS
Resumes Business After Being
Closed Since Feb. Ia.

BIZ United Press
BLUFFTON, Ind, March 21.-The
Union Savings and Trust Company
Bank, after being closed since Feb.
Il TO avert an unwarranted run and
to conserve resources, was reopened
today.
Since the close of the bank a
complete check of its condition was
made to reassure depositors.
The reopening is expected to re-
lieve the banking situation IN this
section, which had became some
whit acute, due to the closing of
several institutions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
FOR KIDNAPPING
Manufacturer Sentenced for Steal
ing Child.
u United Press

LW 2 WILtW Z fD8
OAKLAND, Cal, March 21.-
David A. Barnett, San Leandro
manufacturer and former resident
Of Toledo, o., today was sentenced
to serve from one to twenty years in
San Quentin for child stealing.
Barnett was found guilty Tuesday
of stealing 4-year-old Eloise VIM
felt. Sentence was passed by SUI
perior Judge Fred v. Wood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
ASKS DISMISSAL OF
$4,000 BOND ISSUE
Stroh Residents Protest School Re.
pairs in Milford.

Echoes of Hoosierdom's basket
ball warfare were contained in a
request to the state tax board today
to dismiss the proposed $4,000 bond
issue for school repairs in Milford
township, Lagrage county.
Those asking dismissal live at
Stroh. They claim that the town
ship trustees live at South Milford
and they want the large sum to
build gymnasium for the South
Milford basketball team.
Stroh also has a team!
While the petition is pending and
hearing set for Saturday, Chairman
William A. Hough t'f The tax board
points out that there has been a
township separation by the La
grange county commissioners which
viii probably make the entire mat
teT Vc;d.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
Bomb. Full of Bologna

Rg United Press
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March q.
Officers called to investigate the
placing OF a bomb" under a show
wagon here were chagrined when
they found it contained a mixture
Of castor oil, limburger cheese.
bologna and sausage. A blasting
fuse six inches long had been at
tached to the bomb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
GENERAL ACCEPTS JOB

Bar United Press
RICHMOND, Va, March 21.-
General John A. LIE Jeune former
commander of the United States
marine corps, has accepted an offer
to become superintendent of Vir-
ginia Military Institute at Lexing-
ton, according to an announcement
at the state capital here today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
Retired

BJ United Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March
21.-Calyin Coolidge, in apply
ing for a license at the regis
try Office here to operate his
newly acquired automobile,
filled out a form just as any
plain citizen must.
Over the line marked "occu-
patton" he wrote himself "re-
tired"
The car is that which he
used during his last year in the
White House.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
PACTS WITH RUMANIA
SIGNED BY KELLOGG
BIZ United Press

Sets Record During Office; Puts
Name on 80 Treaties.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 21.--
Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of state,
signed treaties of arbitration ond
Cancellation today with the minister
Of Rumania and after the cere-
mony said be believed ne has estab-
liShed a record during his term
Of Office in signing eighty treaties
with foreign governments.
Minister Cretziano also deposited
at the department Rumania's adj
herence to the anti-war treaty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
HOOVER TO CONTINUE
EGG ROLLING CUSTOM

Traditional Easter Fete Not to Be
Abandoned.
BB United Press
WASHINGTON, March 21.-The
old custom of Easter egg rolling on
the White House lawn will be con-
tinued under President Hoover, it
was learned at the White House to-
day.
The Easter egg rolling, which al
ways has been a festive occasion
for children of the capital, is one
of the high spots in the White
House social calendar every year. 1t
frequently attracts as many as
3 500 participants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
STOLEN AUTO FOUND
Machine Is Stripped by Young Men
and Abandoned.

A Ford sedan Belonging to Court
Payne, 933 North Pennsylvania
street. stolen from Pennsylvania and
st. Joseph streets Wednesday night,
was found partly stripped in an
alley at Northwestern avenue and
Twenty fourth streets today.
Residents near there had phoned
police a group Of young men we're
stripping the machine. but the gang
left before police arrived. The car
was left in the alley after free
for-an fight among its occupants,
police were told.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
GETS GOLD HARM0NICA
Hoover Sent Gift, Asked to Learn
to Play it.
BV United Press

BH United Press
WASHINGTON, March 21.-Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover has received a
gold harmonica and has been asked
to learn to play it.
The instrument was the gift Of
the Children's Harmonica band Of
Lake Worth, Fla, and was presented
by Congresswonan Ruth Bryan
Owen Of Florida.
The band requested Mr.. Hoover
learn to play America" as his first
tune.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
WIDOW THANKS JURY
FOR CONNECTING SLAYER
Negro Who Killed Husband SEN
fenced to Death.

BB United Press
CHICAGO, March 21-The widow
of detective with tears in her eyes,
personally thanked a jury here
which convicted Aaron Woodward,
S5-year-old Negro bandit, of killing
her husband. The Negro was SEN
fenced to the electric chair.
The detective, Jerry O'Connell,
was mortaliy wounded in a gun bat
tie with Woodward, who had been
caught holding up Negro minister.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21


DAFIS March 21arshal always amicaby
tied dsagreements between John
Pershing during the World Pershng said today after
in tribute at Foch's bier.
No matter how differently thought always
ended in complete agreement" said Pershing.
Foch always used to 'Pershing, always
And used to reply Yes, marshal disagree
with YOU"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21

gesture of concilation toward
France by expressing official
sympathy.
General D. Won Seeckt, former
chief of the German general staff,
frankly lauded the dead French
marshal.
Death, which knows no ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21

Against background realistically New York air.
plane photograph of Manhattan island Huck Connor Harold
udson and Stephen Amtage each fought for of the three
things that have always fought for Love and Money
Circumstances tossed these three widely different types
gethe Huck Conner Cleft above desperate racketeer
Harold Judson center) the pampered weakwed Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
Germany Stands St Alof at Death of Great Eneury-Foch

BY FREDERICK KUN

Other details of Foch death on pages
and I6
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-21
CAPTAIN USED
 GOOD JUDGEMENT
 BEACHING VESSEL
ACCUSATIONS MADE AGAINST CAPTAIN HELD GROUND
 LESS BY INSPECTORS

SEATTLE, Dec, 2I, Captain Eric Strandquist, of the steamer used good judgement in bleaching the burning vessel near Cape Flattery, Monday, Steamboat Inspectors Donald S Ames and Thomas Short said ln making known the result of their investiga - tion of the wreck.
 The inspectors exonerated the captain from all blame for the ac- cident. AS master Df the Ship he was responsible for the property under his care and the lives of his officers and crew. The captain followed what he believed the safest course.
 The inspectors said that accusa- tions to the effect that the captain ignored the counsel of His officers and crew and had headed for the rocks after being told he could make Neah Bay, three miles away, were held as groundleS by Ames and Short,
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-21
HISTORIC ALASKA VESSEL. SANTA AIVA.
 HEPLESS AT SEA
ONE OF FIRST VESSELS LEAY- ING SEATTLE DURING GOLD
 RUSH; BEEN LYING IDLE

MIAMI, Dec, 21, R9-A wireless message received here from the United Fruit Line Ship 'Toloa", said that the passenger liner Santa Ana was helpless in a rough sea 130 mise southwest of the Isle of Pines with her rudder gone The Toloa also said she was standing by the historic little steamer which left Seattle on November 14 for the Florida port when she became part of the United Fruit Line fleet.
 She was one of the first vessels to leave Seattle during the Alaska gold rush. She had been lying idle in Lake Union, except for occasion al trips for several years following her discontinuance Oh the Alaska route until purchased for the fruit trade.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-21
SLAYER UNABLE
 REPEAT PRAYERS
 AS G0ES ID CNAIR
CONFESSED LURING BOY WITH CANDY; KILLING HIM WHEN
 HE CRIED FOR MOTHER

TRENTON, N. J., Dec, 21, (P- Nervous and unable to repeat play CTS uttered by his priest, Peter Kidzonowski, slayer of a seven-year old New York boy, died in the elec- tric chair at the state prison.
 Kidzonowski, a pale, peaked little man of 27 years, who lured Joseph Storelli and his playmates, with a bag of candy and killed him when he cried for his mother, while he was drunk, he confessed. He twid- died his fingers as lie walked from the death house, staring around the execution chamber, shuffled to tfe death chair and sat down without a word to hte guards.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-21
HUNDREDS TAKEN
 OFF FERRY BOAT
 FOLLOWING CRASH
FERRY BEGAN TO LIST AFTER PASSENGERS WERE TAKEN
 OFF: PUSHED TO SHORE

WEEKAWKEN, N. J., Dec, 21, (49
 Seven hundred men, women and children were taken off the West Shore ferryboat 1'Westpoint" after it crashed with the Erie car float off Hoboken last night.
 The crash occurred as the ferry cast off from New York The hun dreds of panic stricken passengers leaped from the ferry to the car float. Five railroad tugs answered the distress call and others hasten ed to the scene.
 After the passengers got off the ferry it began to list Tugs pushed her to the mud banks along the shore to prevent her from sinking
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-21
OFFERS 4 BONUS S1.000 TO LOCATE
 ISLANDER SAFE:
SAFE BELIEVED TO CONTAIN COLD BULLION; CAPT.
 HAYES WILL TRY

JUNEAU, Dec., 21, C. H. Wiley, in charge of the enter- prise in diving to the sunken Is- lander, offered $l,0OO bonus for the man locating the big safe of the wrecked steamer which is believed to contain gold bullion.
 The Safe was found and moved a short distance from the wreck last summer, during the diving operations, but there being no hoisting apparatus on hand pow erful enough to lift it to the sur face, it was left.
 Capt Q. A. Hayes expects to make a try for the bonus, ac- cording to Wiley who arrived from the scene yesterday after noon.
 The diving apparatus was test ed out in 500 feet of water off Taku Inlet few days ago this being the length of the electric communication cable and the divers found no bottom. Wiley was unable to remain at the scene because of a serious injury to a hand during last weeks storm.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-21
RFsUNPT OF RELATIONS HETWIX
 BRITAIN. SOVIET
PRINCE OF WALES GREETS NEW AMBASSADOR FROM RUSSIA
 IN ST. JAMES PALACE

IoNDAN. Dec, 2o, lP,-Full re- sumption of diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia Waaa completed as the new Soviet Ambassador N sokolnikov present s3 official credentials to the Prince of Waies. The new British ambaHsaaor to Soviet Russia was to present bis credentials simultane- ously
 An exchange of notes, dealing with tile question of propaganda is to follow immediately; this being one of the conditions for the re- sumption of relations. King George did moi see the new ambassador but the Prince of Wales greeted him in the audience Chamber in St. James palace