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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
JAP ANESE TALK
SHANGHAI PEACE
Notify Chinese of Desire for
Negotiations.
BY HERBERT r. EKINS
United Press staff Correspondent
Copyright. 1882, by United Pressl


SHANGHAI, March 9.-The Jap
anese civil and military authorities
at Shanghai are prepared to nego-
tate for peace on the terms of the
league aSsembly's resolution of
March 4, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Jap
anese minister, notified the Chinese
today.
The notification was sent through
Sir Miles Lampson, British minister.
Shigemitsu added that in view of
the situation at the front, he
deemed it a matter of urgent ne
cessity to reach at the earliest pos
Sible date a definite agreement for
complete cessation of hostilities and
then discuss arrangements for the
withdrawal of the Japanese forces.
The Chinese government consid-
cred the way now open for begin
ming negotiations. The government
was understood to be notifying w
w. Yen, its Geneva representative,
of China'S readiness to enter such
negotiations, providing, first: They
are limited to matters pertaining
only to definite cessation of hos
tilities, and withdrawal of the Jap
anese forces, and second, no condi-
lions be attached to such with
drawal.
The assemblys resolution called
for complete cessation of hostilities
in Shanghai and negotiations for
the Japanese withdrawal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
MOTHER OF SEVEN HEROINE
AS FLAMES DESTROY HOME

asleep in upstairs rooms of the two
story dwelling.
Mrs. VileS, sleeping in a room
with her four daughters, was the
first to be awakened by choking
smoke fumes pouring through a
hole in the f1ue in her bedroom.
She told firemen that she noticed
night light left burning in the up
stairs hallway had gone out. She
felt her way to the stairway and
Drawing clouds of smoke, ran down
stairs.
Seeing no fire, she returned up
stairs to find flames licking near
the bed in which her husband and
a son were sleeping. Two other
sons were asleep in another bed in
the room.
Mrs. VileS awakened her hus-
band and Gerald, 10: Eugene. 4, and
Geneva, 5. They hurried down.
stairs. June, Is. dragged Patsy, 2,
downstairs and Charles, 8, followed.
Mrs. Viles carried Patricia, ]. to
the first floor.
Viles, meanwhile. ran downstairs
and returned to the second floor
with buckets of water. These failed
to halt the flames, then a roaring
mass in both bedrooms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
WOOD SLABS LABOR
Voted No on Antl-Injunction
Bill. He Tells House.
(Other details on Page 81

(Other details on Page 81
BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON. March 9.-Rep-
resentative Will R. Wood. veteran
Republican congressman from La
fayette, Ind, arose in the house
chamber today and demanded he
be recorded as voting against the
Norris-La Guardia anti-injuncition
bill.
Wood held in his hand copy of
the congressional record listing him
as among those who voted for the
measure when it passed the house
Tuesday night. His request for a
correction in the record was
granted.
The only other Indiana congress-
man who voted against the bill was
representative Albert H. Vestal, Re-
publican, of Anderson. Representa-
tive Fred Purnell of Attica did not.
vote.
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new HAMPSHIR
is ROOSEvELT'S
AL Smith Defeated, 2 to |,
in Presidential Primary.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CONCORD, N. H, March 9. -
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has
won New Hampshire's eight conven-
ton votes for the presidential nom
nation in the nations first presi-
Dental preference primary.
Incomplete returns with the vote
from 247 towns and wards out of
294 tabulated showed that Roosevelt
had won, to l, over Former Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith, largely be-
cause of his great support in the
country and small towns.
The average vote for Roosevelt
delegates was 1880; for Smith
delegates it was 7,045.
The first test of strength between
the two was believed to give Roose-
velt firmer claim to the Demo-
cratic nomination, and to weaken
the claims of Smiths supporters,
although it had been conceded that
Roosevelt would win most of the
delegation.
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At this point Carl Rouse, 1881
Barrett street, a neighbor, seeing
the roof Of the VileS home aflame,
rushed into the burning house.
Rouse dashed up the stairway and
seized Geneva as the child half
turned to go back for her clothing.
A few minutes later the house was
enveloped in flames.
While fremen, handicapped by
having to lay 1900 feet of hose to
a water plug, fought the blaze, Viles
and the family took shelter in the
Rouse home, nearby.
Only few pieces of kitchen fur
nitrlre were saved.
Viies estimated loss to the house
at $1,000 and loss of personal prop
erty at $1,000. None of the damage
is covered by insurance.
Arrangements weres being made
by Viles' superior officers, including
Lieutenant Ralph Dean and Ser
geants Clifford Richter and Dan
Scanlon, to refurnish a home for
the Viles.
VileS this week purchased a nov
$50 police overcoat, which was de-
stroyed in the fire. in addition 70
Two police uniforms.
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Pictures on Page Three.

Heroism of a mother of seven
children was credited with saving
the lives of an entire family at mid
night Tuesday when fire damaged
the home of a city policeman, driv-
ing nine persons into bitter cold in
their night clothing.
The fire, occurring at the home
of Patrolman Charles Avery Viles,
1880 Barrett avenue, in Happy Hol-
low" wiped out all belongings Of
the family, and left the seven chill
dren suffering from exposure and
smoke.
AS the family Of nine were shell
tered in the home of relatives, off,
Gals of the police department, So
Letting fellow officers of Viles, mad
obtained nearly S100 this morning
and had rented and furnished a
home for the Viles family at 1l18
South Belmont avenue.
Viles was left without clothing in
which to return to work today, and
his wife and children were being
clothed in borrowed garments.
The fire, famed by high winds
accompanying near-zer9 weather,
broke out as the entire family was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
No Break in Sight, Says
Weather Bureau; More
Snow Likely.
DEATH TOLL IS TAKEN
Six Lives Lost in Midwest;
More Than Score Miss
ing on North Atlantic.

"No break in sight" was the an
nouncement of j. H. Arlington,
weather bureau chief, after a tenn
perature of above was recorded al
4 a. M, the coolest since Nov. q,
1890.
There will be snow fiurries to-
night and Thursday, according tc
the forecast, and the cold will con-
tinue with g temperature of about
10 tonight.
Street car traffic was interrupted
early today on Pennsylvania street
when the cold snapped trolley wires
at point between Ohio and Mar
ket streets.
Interurban line schedules are be-
ing maintained throughout the state
without any difficulty, it was stated
this morning by dispatchers of
various electric railroads.
Bus operations also are on a
normal basis. Lack of snow on
tracks and highways has permitted
service without interruption despite
the low temperature.
Airplane service was reported as
operating without difficulty.
Arlington said the cold wave in
the northwest, including the Canad-
ian provinces of Alberta and
Saskatchewan continues, and tenn
peratureS in that section this morn
ing range from 20 to Is below.
The area of high pressure, Arm
ington said, continues and low
temperatures prevail as far south
as Texas. Snow f1urries brought the
mercury down slightly Tuesday
night in the upper Mississippi val
ley, but it is dropping again to-
= daV
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
FOURTEEN DIE
IN EXPLOSION
AT GAS PLANT
Five Others Seriously
Injured by Terrific Blast
in Camden, N. J.
ON TEMPORARY JOBS
All of Victims Were Men
Given Work After Long
Unemployment.
By United Press

| By United Press
CAMDEN, N. j., March "a
number of workmen taken from I'M
employed ranks to fill temporary
jobs we're killed today when fire
caused explosion of powerful gases
at the gas plant of the Public
Service Corporation here.
Eight bodies were recovered be-
fore the flames became so intense
that workmen had to cease the
search.
An announcement said fourteen
had been killed and five others Sc
riously injured.
Officials fear the toll may be
higher, as it was believed between
twenty and twenty-five men were at
work on the tank where the ex-
plosion occurred.
None of the bodies recovered could
be identified. They were charred
and torn by the terrific explosion.
Some May Have Escaped
How many of the other workmen
managed to escape before the blast
occurred could not be learned IN
mediately. Some injured were
taken to nearby hospitals.
The explosion occurred in large
metal tank perched on Orders fiji
teen feet in the air. The tank was
used in the gas plant and periOdi-
cally it was cleaned of the black
substance forming after manufac-
ture of Illuminating gas. Gases in
cluded sulphuric fumes.
For this work, the company oh
tanned workers from the unem-
ployed groups of the city. Most of
the workers on the job today were
obtained in this manner.
Plant in Tenement District
Rudolph Walker, 40, Negro, said
he was working within the plant
when he saw small fire in one
corner.
Come on fellows, let's get out of
here before something happens" he
said he shouted to other workers
in the tank.
Walker scrambled over the top
of the tank and had just reached
the ground when the dull roar of
the explosion came.
go ov,Ao- -I,n04f,11c 4E.o
sky after the explosion which near
ly busted my ears" he said. Il
didn't know what to do, so I ran. >
He was uninjured.
The plant is located in the south
end of Camden, near the Delaware
river. 1t is congested district,
where there are many tenements.
Flames Block Firemen
Residents were aroused by the
blast and the accompanying sheet
of flames, and hurried to the scene.
A police guard kept them back from
danger.
Benjamin Plevinsky, said he
heard the blast, saw the flames AID
called fire department aid. The
first firemen to arrive donned gas
masks and tried to climb the lad
der which scaled the side of the
! tank.
The flames were so bitter, how
ever, they had to abandon this Sys-
tenn and a block and fall apparatus
was erected which permitted fire
men to enter the tank and remove
bodies of the dead and injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Cold Takes Death Toll

By United Press
CHICAGO, March 9.-Bitter cold
held its grip on the midwest today
and a number of deaths were at
tributed to the zero temperatures.
There were four deaths attributed
to the cold in Kansas and one death
in Chicago.
One Indiana death was reported.
Heart disease, aggravated ny in
tense cold, was held responsible for
the death of Amos Andrew Aldefer,
10, who dropped dead Tuesday night
while doing chores at his farm home
near Argos.
A blizzard in eastern Colorado
and western Kansas added to suffer-
ing and caused concern for live
stock on the open range.
Havre, Mont, with reading of
Is below zero, was the coolest point
in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
RumorS Flood Country
By United Press

~ OHtteu Press
NEW YORK, March 9.-Fabri-
Gated rumors about the Lindbergh
kidnapping reached a new height to-
day, false alarms flooding into
newspapers at short intervals.
Among the many stories were:
l. The baby was going to be re-
turned to his grandmother in De-
troit.
2. The baby already has been re-
turned, but the news is being kept
secret on an agreement with the
kidnapers, who have been given
seventy-two hours to leave for
abroad.
3. The baby had come to harm.
4. The mayor of Boston was quot
ed as saying the baby was restored
TO his parents Sunday night, but he
firmly denied this.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
VALERA IS DALI CHOICE

Republican Elected President of
Irish Free State Council.
~ United Press
DUBLIN, March 9.-Eamon De
Valera, Republican leader, reached
The climax of his career today when
the dali eirann elected him presi-
! dent of the executive council Of the
irish Free State,
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All the traffic officer need do is
stand on a metal plate in the
street pavement.
Electric current and the metal
plates in the heels of the police
mans shoes do the rest.
Bridge Before Business
BIZ United Press
DALLAS, Tex March $50
many mothers of school children
spend their afternoons at bridge
clubs that enumeratOrs are making
slow progress with the local schOl-
astic census, Leo Stadther re-
ported.
MMe CONT Witness
Bg United Press
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. March
9-Twenty-five human experts
having failed, Judge Franklin
Swart called in his pet mule to-
day to decide that big hay suit.
The judge was unconvinced by
the opinion of the twenty-five
humans, who solemnly chewed
samples of the hay to determine
If it was red oats No. l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
HIT AND RUN is VALOR

Live to Fis-lt Another Day Saves
Chicago Man From Burglar.
By United Press
CHICAGO. March 9.-George r.
Hess believes in the hit-and-run
theory.
When burglars entered his house.
Hess knocked one of them sprawl
ing, then ran to his bedroom as fast
as he could, locked the door and
telephoneo police, who found the
robbers had fed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
ASK MERCY FOR KOS
Leslie Deluged by CIemency Pleas
in Manslaughter Case.

Governor Harry G. Leslie is be-
ing deluged with pleas for clemen-
cy for Max S. Kos, under SEN
tence of from one to ten years on
a manslaughter charge, and out on
an appeal bond.
Kos conviction resulted from an
automobile accident in which two
indianapolis Street Railway en-
ployeS were killed.
His attorney, Ira NJ. Holmes, says
Kos is unable to perfect his appeal
due to lack of funds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Announce Casualties

1U UUtttW ITtSS
SHANGHAI (Thursday), March
10.-Japanese military authorities
today officially announced their
casualties in fighting in and around
Chapel at 1856 dead and 2,031
wounded. They fixed civilian cas-
ualties at II dead and AZ wounded,
most of them FROM shell fragments
and Snipers' bullets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09

one on my side that's here" said
the handsome SimmS, former rep
rcsontative of New Mexico in the
national capital
Socially, politically and flnan-
cially one Of the outstanding
women OF the country, Mrs. Nc
Cormick met Simms, tall, gray
haired westerner. when she was
congressman-at-large from Illi-
nois. Both are Republicans. They
occupied nearby seats in the house.
But she vas a progressive and
I was a conservative" Simms said.
1--WE may have differed on some
OF our votes, but we never had a
fight. I'm a conseiy ative because
! think that is the best way to
progress. but we never let our po-
ltical views interfere with our
friendship"
A lawyer and rancher, Simms
planned to take his bride to his
new Mexico ranch after the cere-
mony.
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BIZ NEA Scrrice

~ " IA ScfGtce
HOPEWELL, N. j., March g.
i L Until week or so ago there
was a. second inseparable combi-
nation in the Lindbergh home
here, another I'VE"
1t consisted of fair, little, curly
haired Charlie Lindbergh Jr., and
his black, curly-haired Scottie,
Skeet.
Everywhere the baby went, the
dog was sure to go!
Today the child has disappeared
as if the earth has swallowed
him, and the dog remains, with
the world outside saying insinuat-
ingly: He was in the house, yet
he didn't bark when the kidnapers
took the child"
But Skeet was in the dining
room with all of us during dinner"
Indy has given the pet a perfect
alibi. For there is a long living
room and spacious hall between
the dining room and the closed
door upstairs, behind which kid
naperS took the child.
NOW Skeet patterS restlessly
IL from room to room in the
Lindbergh home, as if looking for
his little playmate.
Whenever two or three people
begin to converse, he stops, tilt
ing his little head inquiringly to
one side, as if listening intently
to hear news of his little lost
master.
The only time he evinces the
least interest in life is when
Indy starts outdoors for one of
his restless, swift tramps of briet
relief through the woods behind
the house.
Skeet jumps forward eagerly,
as if to offer his services.
To date, Indy always has taken
the little black fellow with him.
He heels Lindy every step of the
way, never dashing off to hunt
cats, as he used to do.
Skeet practically is the same
age as little Charlie, and has al
ways been with him.
When he was a little puppy,
wabbling on his short black legs,
he would romp up in friendly
manner to anybody approaching
the farmhouse which the Lind
berghs rented outside of Prince
ton.
"CKEET always plays with little
- Charlie" the butler told
them. He gets right into the
play yard with the baby when he's
out in the yard under that big
elm. Charlie loves to pull him and
push him and he never resents it."
So inseparable were the child
and dog that when the baby was
at Englewood, so was Skeet. When
they brought him down here for a
weekend at his fathers and
mothers home here, Skeet came
too.
Last summer, when Anne and
Indy took off for their oriental
trip and the baby was with the
Morrows in Maine, airplanes flew
low oyer the estate trying to get
pictures of the baby.
Betty Cow had just wheeled lit
tie Indy out under the trees and
Skeet was frisking about when she
heard the planes overhead. She
started on run for the house,
pushing the baby carriage rapidly.
But even in such an emergency,
she remembered the other half of
the 1--WE" combination.
CHE stopped long enough to grab
~ up the little black fellow and
throw him into the carriage on
top of Charlie. Eve where Charlie
went, Skeet had to gol
He never was a watch dog. He
was never meant for one. His
whole life has been among
friendly folk. His whole career
was just being the happy lesser
half of I'VE"
Now, detected, he sadly awaits
reunion with his little master.
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performed t h c
ceremony in the
brides m cd e S t
home in fashion
able Broadm1or,
in the pres nee
Of twenty 80 five
close friends
Mrs. James L.
filshire Of Boise,
Idaho, was ma
iron Of honor,
and the groom'S
b o / h r. John
+ ield ST m m
former justice Of
the New Mexico
supreme court
was best man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Ban Cops Cold Feet

By UHitCd Press
SCHENECTADY, N. Y, March o.
--There1l be no more cops with
cold feet, if an invention demon
strated here today is adopted by
traffic policemen.
The new device provides an cleo
trically heated uniform and shoes
for patrolmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09

Ruth Hanna Mccormick
WEEDS Ex-CongreSSman
From New Mexico.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,
March "a romance that started
in congress today eliminated in
the marriage of Ruth Hanna Nc
Cormick end Albert Gallatin
Simms.
The Rev Paul @. Roberts. rec
tor of the Grace Episcopal church,
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Will Tevis Jr. noted poloist,
claimed it was not and refused to
pay farmer F. E. Crowell $4,000 for
it, Crower claimed it was and sued
for the money.
Judge Swart will take his mule
to TeviS' stables and hand her
some hay. If Maude eats, the judge
limited, Tevis must pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Here's a $4,000 Tip

OKLAHOMA CITY, March g.
Five years ago Evelyn Mount,
Oklahoma City university student,
lost the tip of her nose in an auto
bus accident.
The Oklahoma supreme court
has affirmed a Judgment against
the Oklahoma Railways Company
awarding Mrs. Wilton Casparis,
the former Evelyn Mount, $4,000
damages.
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Hooks q Shark. Hooked

BIZ URited Press
NEW YORK, March 9.-Louis
Mutelin, chief pastry cook on the
liner France, fished for shark
through portfolio. He hooked
one.
The shark pulled and MuteTs
body lodged in the portfolio.
Fellow workers stripped Mutel
and creased his body with lard be-
fore they could pull him back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
DIVA SCORES SUCCESS
BIZ United Press

Cologne Appearance.
By United Press
COLOGNE, March 9.-Margaret
Halstead, American soprano, scored
a success Tuesday night at the
Cologne opera in the role of Julietta
in Offenbach's Tales From Hoff-
mann" She responded to numerous
curtain calls.
Miss Halstead is the daughter Ct
Albert Halstead of Cincinnati,
United States consul-general at
London.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
editions Divine Comedy" The the
famous HoePE Dante printed j" MiIsn IN 1878

Wide interest in the "httles' was sustained
throughout the eighteenth and the first half
of the nineteenth centuries. Then, after a more
or less dormant period the charm Of the per-
fection and artistry of small things reasserted
itself and the resulting fys eye type (occhio
di mesca) of Antonio Farina and the micro
scopique" (25 lines to an inch Of Henri Didot
are the greatest triumphs Of small typemaking
When one considers the small amount Of ef-
fort that has been put into the assembling Of
the miniature collection Of the Library Of Con-
gress, the inclination Is to cease to mourn at
the lack Of the well known rarities which ordi-
narily would form the backbone of such a group
and instead TO be rather amazed that so many
odd, interesting and valuable items should have
drifted together, with the only directing infi,I-
ence the circumstances of their being too small
TO be placed in conjunction with the standard
sized volumes on the open shelves. The dea-th
Of sixteenth and seventeenth century master
Evening star., 1932-04-03

pieces may easily be forgotten in the perusal Of
one two splendid early manuscripts and Of
several excellent incunabula. When one arrives
at the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the
collection leaves little 10 be desired, particularly
with regard to English and American editions.
Perhaps the outstanding work Of the whole
900 volumes is little Book Of Hours" printed
by Aldus Manutius in Venice in 1887. Although
in its present binding it measures As inches
over all, the printed page measures q scant az
inches and photographers accord it the distinc-
ton Of being q true miniature. This little treas
ure is printed in Greek type in red and black
and on the verso of the first leaf is a woodcut
Of the annunciatiOn. The book, itself in perfect
condition, is very rare and is an exceptionally
fine example Of the work of the famous Aldine
press.
Running the Horace close second from the
standpoint Of age and rarity is chubby little
volume, "TbeSaurus Spiritualis" published in
Evening star., 1932-04-03

"A nth the eighteenth century the illustrations
wv became an important feature Of the small
books, and some of the tiny plates are quite
remarkable for their bFilliance. Fur the FIRST
time too, there was something akin 10 wide
spread fashion for the "ittles." particularly In
the form of almanacs and Bibles. The tiny
aImanacs were popular not only IN England,
but also in Germany, France and Holland and
the end of the century saw the development
of the curious and pleasing tortoise shen-bound
Bibles edged and clasped with silver. whose
vogue lasted until comparatively recent times.