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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
COUNTY TO CUT
RELIEF COSTS
Council to Survey Plans of
Charity Officials.

Recommendations of charity heads
and county officials for reductions
in Marion countys poor relief ex-
penditures were to be reviewed by
county council this afternoon prep
aratory to curtailing the spending
of $75,0 900 to 100000 monthly from
county funds.
The foSmer grup met at luncheon
nthe Chamber of Commerce to
discuss plea to trustees to pare
all expenses in relief of poor per-
sons, and to consider 100000 in I'M
paid bills that have accumulated
since December by the nine town
ship trustees.
Continuation of the present re-
lief scale will increase property tax
in the county 25 cents on each 500,
County Auditor Harry Dunn dis
closed to the council Monday.
Alleged loose methods of admin
istering relief were criticised by
councilmen Monday. Councilman
Roy Sahm urged trustees to inves-
tigate applications for aid and to
purchase food supplies at lowest
possible costs.
Councilman Frank S. Fishback
reprimanded trustees for awarding
grocery contracts to only thirty
two Of 400 grocers in the county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
First ALW,ayS

First OH the air. First in
the air That sums up The
Times basketball service.
The Times today prints the
complete dope sheet on eight
of the state high school cage
teams which will play in the
state tourney here Friday and
Saturday. The first eight APP
peared in Mondays sport
pages.
Dick Miller, riding in Dick
Arnett's Waco-Stinson plane,
covered the sixteen cities rep
resented in the tournament in
two days, giving Times readers
far faster service than ever be-
fore has been accorded basket
fans of city and state.
The Times leads, on the air
and in the air. Competitors
follow-far behind.
So remember-tune in on
WFBM Friday and Saturday
for the annual Times broad
cast of the state cage tourney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
BOOK WAR TO BEGIN
Fight on School Text Bids
Will Be Reopened.

Battle to reject all bids received
on public school textbooks last De-
cember will be reopened Mond. :,
when the state board Of education
sits as school book commission to
consider contracts.
Following a meeting of the edu-
cation board Monday, George G.
Cole, new superintendent of public
instruction, said the board will re-
convene then.
L. M. Hines, president of the
state teachers college in Terre
Haute, who first attacked the bids
as too high, is expected to return
and begin his fight again. None of
the books now in use was cut in
price in the bids, which are for five
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
VISION MANY JOBS
1881 Highway Program
Will Give Work to Many.

When the 1881 state highway de-
partment paving program is in full
swing the surplus labor problem in
many Hoosier villages through
which the highways pass will be
solved largely, state highway off,
Gals believe.
Thomas H. Mcdonald, chief OF
the federal bureau of roads, esti-
mates that three-fourthS Of every
dollar spent in road building goes to
labor.
Indiana will have contracted for
272 miles of paving and % miles
of heavy grading after the next
letting of bids.
Ofncials also point out that the
annual purchase of 1,750,000 barrels
of cement from Indiana mills also
will aid in solving the unemploy-
ment problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

"Varick, however, insisted, and
of course. we gave in at the end.
They were inSeparable."
q n
nR. LEWIS FRIssELL. the
Il father, maintained an air of
cheerful optimism.
THE boy has been through all
this before" he said. HE had a
similar experience while taking
another picture on Greenly island
off Labrador, two years ago. That
was the island. you remember, on
which the German plane, Bremen,
landed"
Varick is the only son, but
there is a daughter Antoinette.
Captain Bob Bartlstt, the man
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

Among the wreckage could bodies lying moiones and
other struggling the wreckage. They
ing and calling for help from all Sides
The aft part of the almost had disappeared except
the Nreckage srewn the
fire started in the engine and also from the
deck abaft the forcase
ward part of the ship from sinking right away.
the get between get
and clothing They couldn't get much
helped the injured get wreckage.
Of the killed and others MANNED
Some others died the way the
Most of the missing killed in their bertS and
with the ship.
think the injured shore, because
shipmateS sticking by them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Twenty-Five Aboard Viking at Time of
Explosion Still Missing; Heroic Stories
Told by Sealing Vessel Survivors.
BY JOHN T. MEANEY
United Press staff Correspondent
Copyright. 1881, by United Press

ST JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 1.-THE survivors
of the wrecked sealer Viking half starved suffering from
exposure and many of them injured cared for by
inadequate facilities of barren Horse island today while
full estimate of the tragedy surrounding them slowly
being pieced together by radio from the island.
The latest word said 18 survivors had struggled
the treacherous ice oes to the island Sunday night
when the seaer blew up and burned
The remaining twenty-five of the 143 persons aboard
missing and it was feared they were dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
THIEF STAGES GUN
BATTLE WITH SELF
Reflection IN Mirror Starts Shoot
ing. Plunges Through Window.

Reflection IN Mirror Starts Shoot
ing, Plunges Through Window.
By United Press
CLEVELAND, March 1.-THE
burglar who staged an impromptu
gun battle with himself in the
Frank F'raiberg music store today
evidently was so thoroughly dis
guised that he did not recognize
himself.
After rifing the cash register of
$50, the robber. confronted his own
image in a full view mirror, as he
turned around.
Apparently mistaking it for an
interloper, he fired three shots at
the reflection, plunged head first
through a plate glass window to the
street and escaped amid fusillade
of shots fired from an approaching
police car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

Of the wounded in their party had
collapsed en- route.
Some of the Seamen in the party
had refused to leave the exhausted
men and were standing by at the risk
of their own lives, although they
would have been able to continue to
safety had they desired.
The man had been exposed to cold
and had been without food since
p. m. Sunday, when an explosion
probably caused by the dynamite
which. sealerS carry to break ice
blockades, but perhaps by defect
in the boiler-destroyed the fifty
year-old Viking. The radio operator
at Horse island heard the rumble
OF the blast and saw great sheet
OF flame leap into the sky.
The aft part of the ship was
wrecked, the survivors revealed
later, and virtually all of the men in
the cabin were killed. The blast
hurled wounded and dying on to the
ice and the others escaped from the
burning ship only to be stranded on
the treacherous ice.
Start Eight-MiIe Trek
They were all in a pitiful condi-
ton from shock and wounds as
they began the eight-mile trek
across the ice to Horse island.
The flames from the ship lighted
their path at first, but later thew
fought on in the darkness, aiding
those who were too exhausted to
go on. Part of the struggle was
witnessed from the shore where
watchers could see men slip and fall
to the ice or into the water.
Men from Horse island. accus-
toned to the rigors of an ice-locked
home, went out on the foes to aid
in the rescue, but the difficulties of
crossing the ice hindered their eff
forts.
Late Monday morning, the first
group of fifteen survivors staggered
to the shore, exhausted and inco-
herent. There was lack of medical
supplies to care for them and there
were no doctors to attend to the
| dying.
Heroic Stories Told
Physicians and nurses will not
reach the island it'll the steamer
Sagona makes its way there through
! the ice.
The survivors were given every
possible attention on the island,
but several of them were uncon-
scious and others were in urgent
need of professional medical care.
Some had been exposed to cold lor
eighteen hours or more after fall
ing into the water in the scramble
to escape from the sinking Viking.
Several were drowned at the side
of the ship.
Several members of the crew Suf-
fered loss of arms or legs in the
explosion.
Most of the deck and topside of
the upper structure was hurled into
the air and scattered over the ice,
where the bodies of some members
of the crew also we're hurled.
The ice held the ship to the sur
face until it had burned almost to
the edge of the water, and then it
sank.
The fire could be seen in villages
! thirty miles aWay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

Tho first Kness knew of the
rioting was when a guard sighted
a convict linping toward the hos
pital. From him the guard learned
the prisoners had been battling in
the bandroom and the remainder
of the score of convicts we're
rounded and herded into their cells.
Guards Can't Hear Fight
The story of the rioting as pieced
together by Kness, who has been
on duty day and night since Satur-
day, was that the musicians began
arguing among themselves about
staging riot as soon as the band
master left the room for special
st. Patrick's day concert.
Part of the score set upon the
convicts who demurred at rioting.
Fists, chairs, music stands and in
Struments flew in the melee.
The convictS, most of them young
men in the prison for minor Of
lenses, Surged and battled back and
forth in the band room. Guards sta
toned nearby, but outside the room,
did not hear the disturbance.
After fifteen minutes or so the
convicts quit of their own accord
and the injured ones started toward
the hospital.
BIameS General Unrest
Knees and Hill said while several
Of the men were cut guards were
unable to find any knives. APP
parently the convicts fought with
Saxophones, trombones, drumsticks,
or whatever weapons they could lay
their hands on, Hill said.
Hill attributed the riot to the
general unrest in the two prisons,
four miles apart, after the more
serious rioting last Saturday.
Only Sunday Kness mearthed a
plot for a wholesale break, conf1s-
eating six saws and code message
which contained plans for the
break.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
MISSING cAMERAMAN ON VIKING WILL RETURN SAYS MOTHER

experts of Hollywood will be try
ing to buy that film"
Bartlett feared FriSsell had
been hurt because "if he was not
injured, he would be the first
across the ice with the news for
the world"
HE is that way" the captain
said.
y
ERISSELL was born at New
Il York, and at the age Of n
attained a reputation as an ex-
plorer and motion picture promo
ter. He spent vacation crossing
Labrador by dog sled before he
entered Yale university, where he
took part in water polo and row.
ing and was a member of the
glee club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

NEW YORK, March H.
IN After night of sleepless
suspense Mrs. Antoinette Frissell
gave brave assurance that her son,
Varick, movie cameraman. is safe
and helping injEred survivors of
the Viking disaster. Frisseil was
with the Viking filming the seal
hunt.
HE has been in danger be-
fore" she said, and he always
came back and he will come home
again this time, too"
IT see no reason for feeling I'M
duly apprehensive about Varick's
fate" she went on. HE is in good
health, he knows the north, and !
really believe he is safe and help
ing. the injured"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
BY HENRY BROWN
Survivor of the Viking disaster.
(Copyripht. 1881. bv United Press)

HORSE ISLAND Newfoundland 17.-CBy Radio to ST.
John)AH hands the sealing ship Viking dying off island
settling for the nighsome lying in their berths
ing and singing hymnswhen the ship rembled
been ranmed by powerful steamer and there
the exploding a hundred torpedoeS.
The along the main berth section midshp forecaste
thrown their
all dazed by terrible crashing the dipped
The lights went out
We daZed for then there
all sides. We struggled to
out the ice and then realized what happened
We all the after of the blown pieces every
thing movable scattered about the ice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

They included the tire:
Americans - Varick Frissel,
New York explorer; Henry ].
Sargent, Boston, explorer,
and A. E. Penrod of New
York and Connecticut, cam
eraman.
The news from the island was
being sent out by Miss Otis Bart
lett, the operator of the feeble Horse
Island transnaitter. The first CO.
herent statement by Captain Abram
Kean Jr. of the Viking, who is on
Horse Island badly injured, was
sent out today.
Kean expressed the belief that
the three Americans were killed in
the explosion. He was in a critical
condition, awaiting arrival of relief
ships with doctors and medicine
and painfully made the following
statement:
gill W dCGOQl1O III Ol1O
cause of the disaster. 1t was due,
in my opinion, to an explosion in
the magazine while the boatsWain
and men were opening a powder
key for the next's days use. That
merely is surmise, of course.
Radio Operator Lost
ST think all the men in the cabin
section we're killed outright by the
explosion. They included Frissell,
Sargent, Penrod, the engineers,
wireless operator, navigator, cooks,
cabin steward and boatswain. The
mate had leg broken and I don't
think he will survive"
Previous unconf1rmed reports had
suggested F'rissell, kinsman OF
Governor Clifford Pinchot of Penn
syIvania, was seen alive on the ice
after the disaster, but grave fears
were felt for his safety in view
of the captains statement.
The Viking carried 1873 sealing
men, the three New Workers and
two stowaways. The explosion tore
the after part of the ship in pieces
on Sunday night, killing and MAIN
ing those within range
Rescue Ships on Way
The survivors fed from the burn
ing ship to the ice, without time
to get adequate provisions or cloth
ing, and since then have been max
ing their painful way across the
foes to the island.
The steamers Foundation Frank
lin and Sagona with food, medicine
and doctors, we're making a slow
passage to the island through heavy
seas and ice. The Foundation
Franklin was expected to reach the
scene late today.
Horse island, sometimes called St
Barbe island, is a small body OF
land about sixteen miles off the
northern coast of Newfoundland
and some 225 miles by air line in a
northerwesterly direction from St
! Johns.
A group of seven survivors who
we're the last to reach Horse islanc
on Monday night said that severa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
PRISON BAND RIOTS AT
REHEARSAL; 6 INJURED


SIAIEV1LLE PRISON, JOLIET Ill, March 17Part the
ve prison band started riot during rehearsal today battling
stands before quoting down their
After the fight prison
hospital five them
one other OF the musicians thrown solitary
Tor questioning to the the disturbance.
Fearful OF another serious like the Saturday
prison the of Joliet
OF his
flashed to his Office however
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
ID ECALLING earlier adventures

ID ECALLING earlier adventures
IN of her son, Mrs. Frissell said:
There was a time two years
ago. when he went up the Labra-
dor coast to make the first shots
for the picture, White Thunder
"One day he got caught in what
they call an ice pan. He was in
real danger of losing his life.
But his big New Foundland dog
Cabot came to his rescue and
saved him.
when he returned home he
brought Cabot along and an
nounced to us that the dog was
going to live in the house.
my goodness I demonstrated.
You can't keep a big animal like
that in here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
ASKS DIVORCE; SAYS
WIFE'S CAGE CRAZY

She Neglected Home Seeing Basket
ball Games, Claims Hubby.
By United Press
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. March IT,
A divorce complaint BETTING this
season in Hoosierdom, is on file here
today.
Robert H. Hines charges that his
wife Mahala attends so many baS-
ketball games that her household
duties are unpardonably neglected.
They have been married since. last
Nav.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Play Golf

Fourth and last contest for
free golf lessons is on. The ten
girls who won in the third
Times contest started their
contest Monday night at the
Snnith-Nelson Golf academy.
They will take their second les
son Wednesday night at s
o'clock. Deadline for the es-
say contest, of $50 words. on
why I Would Like to Take Up
Golf" is Wednesday, March
26, at midnight. Get your es-
say in now and enter the race
for six free golf lessons, start
ing Monday, March 80.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
SCHROEDER IN
BIG HOUSE, AT
END OF TRAIL
Prisoner Is Bitter During
long, Cold Auto Ride to
Michigan City.
I'm NOT TOUGH BIRD
Man Convicted Of Torch
Staying Brands States
Witnesses Liars.

STATE PRISON. MICHIGAN
CITY, Ind, March 17.-Harold
Herbert Schroeder this afternoon
gave up his identity and the
world outside prison cell to be-
come Prisoner 145O4 for from two
to twenty -one years.
Obviously broken by dread of
imprisonment, Schroeder's fare
well 10 Sheriff Charles Buck
Sumner and newspaper men was:
III be seeing you again"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Glant, x-Ray Tube Made

BIZ Unit I'd Press
PASADENA. Cal. March ia
giant X-ray tube, developing 100000
volts, has been developed at the
California Institute of Technology,
for treating cancer patients, a state
ment Issued by the institute an
nounced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
PRISON RECORD is SET
Michigan Institution Lists $500 In
mates for High Mark.

Dy OWIItU FTt68
JACKSON, Mich, March IT,
Michigan state prison today had the
largest population of any in the
United States. The figure rose to
$500, setting a new mark in Amer
lea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

who took Peary so close to the
north pole you could almost touch
it" told today how he became a
movie actor for young Varick
FriSSelI on former expedition of
the sealer Viking, and how the
first picture would have been good
enough if Hollywood had let it
alone.
Z
THEY would not like that pic
4 ture as it was, taken as we
of the fishery took it." Bartlett
said, so the lad had to be going
off in the vessel again and add
something to it. And now there's
been an accident.
And now, if you ask me, all the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
MAYOR WEARS GREEN
Spray of Shamrock, Clay Pipe From
Ireland, Are Gift.

A spray of shamrock adorned the
coat Of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan
today in his observance of st.
Patrick's day.
The insignia Of old Erin was pre-
sented to Sullivan by James E.
Deery, city attorney, along with a
white clay pipe that had been sent
Deery by friend in ireland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
Expectant Mother Is
jailed for Trying to.
Get Food for Babes

BERKELEY, Calf. Mrs. Myrtle
Henry, 1927 Posen ST., a 81 year-old
expectant mother was arrested for
passing bad checks.
She broke down sobbing in court,
telling the judge that she came from
Chicago five months ago. She said
she had two children 4 years and
ii months old and a third child is
expected within a week. Her husband,
cook by trade could get no job any
where. so she turned to check passing.
She had to do it because she could
not suffer to see her children starve
Judge Youngs bound her over to
superior court, setting bail which
she cannot raise. The woman cried
out, What is to become of my babies
and tainted. This did not soften the
claw upholders" and she is being
detained.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
IL WORKERS HELD
TOR DEPORTATION
ON ELLIS ISLAND
|, L. D. Defends Portu-
g'uese Workers

Eleven Portuguese workers arrested
Oct. % in raids in Ossining and Gro
ton, N. Y, are now at Ellis Island
threatened with deportation to fas-
cist Portugal. These workers are a
part of Secretary of Labor Doak's
contribution to the solution of the
unemployment problem-Doak has
set out to break all records in a ter
ror drive against the foreign-born.
The workers were picked up by the
federal agents who invaded private
homes without bothering with the
formality of getting search warrants.
They are Manuel Crux, Manuel Tor
res, Rose Portella, Antonio Abo, Cav
ates and j. Jacinto. Of these. Rose
Portella has been released on $500
bail.
The charge against the workers is
Illegal entry. Hearings for six of
them have already been rushed thru
without giving them a chance to see
a lawyer. When an attorney for the
New York District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense asked to see
Branco, he was refused admission.
Attorneys David Drucker and Max j.
Mearbaum, representing the New
York LID, are handling THE cases,
but only mass pressure of the work
ers, the LID points out, can save
these workers from deportation. Mass
pressure has already gained one vic
tory; in connection with the raids,
efforts were made to smash the Os-
shining Branch Of the lid. Protest
kilograms to the Mayor of Ossining
and Secretary Doak, together with
the determination of the workers to
meet despite threats, forced tn efas-
cist hooligans to retreat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
RED FLAG FLIES FROM CATHE-
DEAL IN BULGARIA.

PLEWANA, Bulgaria. = Workers
hoisted the Soviet flag to the top of a
cathedral here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
PUT HUNGER MARCH ACROSS BY
COLLECTING FUNDS THIS WEEK
1900 at Unemployed Councils Public Hearing
to Expose New York Misery

This is Red Relief Week, Within
the next 7 days enough money must
be collected to finance the National
Hunger March. All Workers organi-
cations are urged to participate in the
drive and eounter-act the raids on
the workers in the factories that are
being made by Al Smith and the Glib
son Unemployment Committee. The
workers must be told not to give a
cent to these grafters but to throw
all their strength behind the fight for
unemployment relief.
The latest step in the preparations
for the Hunger March was a public
hearing staged by the Unemployment
Council Of New York at Manhattan
Lyceum on Thursday night. Over
1900 were present to hear victims OF
the charities, American Legion and
city government expose the terrible
conditions they i've under. Although
city officials had been invited none
of them came, Among the witnesses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
NEW YORK CITY,

Japanese Workers Club, 50.
Pancyprian Brotherhood of Amer
lea, So.
Section 1, Unit 2, Sl.25.
Section 2, SITS.
Section 4, Unit 8, 50.
Section Q, Unit G, 50.
P. Gorin, S. Vikos, David Kasher.
I. Kremen, Rose Tanenbaum, j. yell
lin, N. Stoler, John Mazurchack, s..
Smogida, Aaron Vein, Morris
Schwartz, Sunlight Cafeteria, A. Cur
alnick, william Durant, Charles
Blank, TIL. Liebovitz, r. Buckle, John
olank, Kondiat Chagko, Mike Von-
tush, John Somholz, Sam Hoffman,
Louis Gossman, Sam Warshaw, AL
bert Siegel. E. Sapoznik.
j. Hunkat, Carl Tkatch, w. Lenkin,
H. Bajish, M. Mailman, F. Gruber, e.
Klainman.
M Moreno, F. Mamlet. Sympa-
thizer, Sympathizer, Alexander AL
land, Alexandra Alland, Alexander
Alland, Jr., Max Florendorf, Fanny
Unterman. Nick Giunorelli, Anna
Trynasty, John Lee, Kwong Wing,
Mrs. John Mccormack, Gonzalo Qui-
onepes, Georgiana Quionenes, Charles
Durand. Joseph Anthony Diaz, Ed
die Cruz, Juan Dalman, Cesar Qui-
nones, Emilio Trego, Atauasio Saliva
dor, Lenapi Elvaara, Ida Kari, K.
Miller.
Martha Morson, H. Maison, L. Kin
mar, H. Arland, Agda Widbom, Otto
Arlund, H. r. r. Arlund, p. il Hugo,
Paul Juruelin, I. Mikkole, K. Aro-
men, Hilma Aronen, j. Kuveri, Frank
Voros, Nick Mowizan, Ida Kalman,
Jacob Stub, Lee Sack, Bella Rosen-
field, Clara Litman, E. Yastrib, M.
D. 1. holman, C. v. Brock
way, Hiamona, M. Chernuak.