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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
JAPAN'S MOVES
STIR WAR FEAR
Great Powers Confer on
Course in Far East.
By Tuifed press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. IAN I'M
dercurrent of tension pervaded of
fetal washington today as the state
department continued conversations
with Britain. France and Italy re-
garding concerted action to bring
peace in the Far East.
Augmenting the serious tone
about the state department was the
feeling that the last word had not
been said in the exchange over the
beating administered by Japanese
soldiers to an American consul in
Manchuria.
While Secretary Stimson said
Wednesday he considered Japan'S
official regrets as tantamount to
an apology, he indicated the case
was not closed. He still is waiting
for detailed report from Mukden.
A statement of American policy
on the situation is expected late to-
day from the state department.
Secretary Stimson, after ten days
of silence, called a special meeting
of American press correspondents
for 4 p. m. today. He will discuss
the Far Eastern situation. 1t was
indicated he would have a public
statement at that time.
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Mrs. Debie Stanford, For
mer indianapolis Aviatrix,
and Companion Killed.
FIND BODIES IN WRECK
Pair, Lost in Fog, Smash
Into Peak in WiIdS of
Pennsylvania.
BY PAUL Comfy FRENCH
United Press staff Correspondent
(Copyrivht. 1892. bv TJnited PreSsl

MELVILLE, Pa, Jan. T.
Mrs. Ruth Stewart and Mrs.
Debie Stanford, adventurous
society aviators, crashed and
were killed on wooded Sher-
man mountain. We discov-
cred their fate today, when,
after sighting their crumpled
plane from the air, we re-
turned to the scene of the
crash by automobile.
Their white Lockheed monoplane
crashed into the dense timber of
the 1,400 mountain after they left
Pittsburgh Tuesday, en- route to
New York, from where they planned
to start leisurely air tour to South
America. They left st. Louis last
week.
Solution of the mystery of their
disappearance was made by the
United Press correspondent and
j. Paul LukenS, pilot for the Auto
giro company, as we scared on a
rescue mission over the dangerous
mid-Pennsylvania mountain gaps.
When we returned to the noun
tain, we found the trim white plane
broken in two. In the cabin we
found the body of Mrs. Stanford, a
cut over one eye.
One Killed Instantly
Mrs. Stewards mangled body was
found crushed under the engine of
the craft. 1t appeared probable that
Mrs. Stewart had been killed in
stantly, but that Mrs Stanford had
been unconscious and had died some
hours later.
Lukens and I. who first sighted
the wrecked craft while flying over
the mountain, were the first to
reach the bodies, which we're not
removed Immediately to MELVILLE.
Scores OF automobiles came from
MELVILLE to the scene, and an I'M
dertaker was summoned from New
vile.
The plane had crashed in dense
woods on the very mountain top.
The wreckage was only a few hun
dred feet from a narrow mountain
road that led to a fire tower near
the wreckage.
ViSuaIizes Last Moments
Lukens, an expert pilot, viewed
the wreckage and the terrain and
had little difficulty visualizing the
last moments of the two women fiji
ers. He believed they were flying
through heavy fog They negoti-
ated a spin, common trick, to get
out.
Not realizing how low they we're
flying, they crashed into the noun
tain top without a second warning.
In a car we engaged at MELVILLE,
and accompanied by ten members
of the Pennsylvania national guard,
we approached the wreckage from
ths mountain road. 1t was soft,
muddy, and we Slushed along with
mud up to our ankles. We broke
through dense underbrush and
came upon the wreckage.
The crash had been terrific. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
Parents Grief Stricken

By Cntted Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. Jan. T.
William Woerner, aged st. Louis
resident, was at the side of his wife
in their hotel room here this after
noon when the United Press gave
them first definite word Of the
death of their daughter, Mrs. Ruth
Stewart, and that of her flying com.
panion, Mrs. Debie Stanford. To-
ronto, in the plane crash on Sher-
man mountain, near MELVILLE, Pa.
Woerner just had returned FROM
his second flight of the day over
the mountain region where the two
women f1iers had become lost in the
fog while following the Woerners
and Gentry Shelton, World war
veteran, in a flight toward News
York Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Woerner. however, answered
the call and tearfully thanked the
United Press.
My husband has nothing to say.
We can't say anything just now.s
the stricken woman, who had wait
ed in the hotel room since Tuesday
for news of her daughter and Mrs,
Stanford, said.
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WOMEN filters DIE
IN MOUNTAIN CRASH
Death Instant for One and
Matter of Hours for
Other Victim.
CRUSHED UNDER ENGINE
st. Louis Pilot MangIed:
Wings and Cabin Are
SpIintered Mass.

apolis, Columbus and Pittsburgh.
and started Monday toward New
York--across the treacherouS moun-
tain region of central Pennsylvania.
known as the most dangerous fy-
ing area in the country.
Gentry Shelton, their fight man-
ager, was in another plane, accom- i.
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. William
Woerner, Mrs. Stewards parents.
AS the two planes whirled into the
mountain region, heavy fog began
ohscuring the view. Mountain peaks
were obliterated.
Suddenly Shelton lost sight of the
white Lockheed.
He proceeded to Harrisburg to
await their arrival. Hours passed
without word. He enlisted aid Of
civilian pilots. Farmers we're noti-
fed, and they went out on foot and
horseback. Army planes were en-
listed.
Fog Shrouds Passes
Through Wednesday there was
no traca. The heavy fog and mist
still hung over the mountain passes,
where it was believed the two may
have landed. The search finally
was stopped Wednesday by these
weather conditions.
Shortly after daybreak today, we
started again. I was with LukenS
as he piloted his autogiro out to-
ward Sherman mountain, which is
fifteen miles from Carlisle.
We chose this district because N.
w. Rooms, a farmer, reported he had
heard two planes on Tuesday, flying
together, and saw them separate,
one going south toward Harrisburg
and the other continuing south. The
one going south toward Gettysburg
appeared to be having motor trouble,
No Trace of Women
Then We approached tinbered
Sherman mountain, rising about
1,400 feet. AS We cruised about, we
suddenly saw a white speck sand
wiched into heavy woods. We de-
scended as low as We could. Shocked.
we saw the white speck was a Lock
heed plane-the craft in which the
two f1iers had attempted their long
journey.
I could see no life. The plane
was imbedded into the side of the
mountain. The timber had been
torn away by the landing.
Lukens lowered his autogiro care
fully. But we could not land on,
account of dense woods. We circled
a few times trying to learn the fate
of the two women, but it was i'm
possible.
Finally we had to leave the scene
and go back to MELVILLE for aids
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After he was sentenced, he car
ressed his son, and warned:
"Bear this in mind, Sonny Boy,
don't ever do anything wrong"
A minister, his attorneys and
friends asked Criminal Judge Frank
P. Baker to show mercy-out the
law was mandatory that the sem
tence be imposed.
It was because he wanted to
clear his own conscience, and take
his punishment" that Velonis raped
on the door of Detective Chief Fred
Simon's home and surrendered,
Nov. %.
Today, in court, he related his
wanderings and hiding from the
police, following the robbery.
Il couldn't live, I couldn't stand
it; I had to come back to clear my
conscience, and see my family" he
told the judge.
VetOnlS told the court now ne
started working for $12 week, rose
to $4,000 a year job-then made
his fatal mistake.
1t was supposed, following the
crime, that Velonis had escaped to
Greece, but today he mentioned
Dayton, Columbus, Wheeling, w.
Va, New York City, Atlanta and
Buffalo as the cities he and John
Patrick had visited in their chase
from justice.
Patrick was caught and sentenced
to serve twenty years, some months
ago. Velonis, while in New Orleans,
read about this and came home to
surrender.
The two pleaded guilty to slug
ging and shooting Free, Nov. %,
1880, and robbing him of $4,000.
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BLIZZARD RACES OUT OF
WEST, OVER GREAT LAKES

About twoScore persons were
Snowbound in the high SierraS. Re-
lief parties were breaking a trail
through the snow-choked mountain
trails. Several we're reported in
need of medical attention, their feet
and hands frozen in the bitter cold.
Sunshine today sent the mercury
upward after it had dropped to Is
in a cold snap which is scheduled
to remain at least thirty-Six hours.
Temperatures will slide to near
IS again tonight and, with partly
cloudy weather slated for Friday.
the day probably will be colder, j.
H. Arlington, weather bureau
head, predicted.
Drop in temperature placed mer-
curry readings at seasonal marks.
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Stewart, still wearing the modish
white flying costume in which she
so gaily set out from ST. Louis.
Cavalrymen and state troopers
had to chop away parts of the
fuselage and the engine to remove
her body.
Then we made our way into the
cabin. There We found the body of
Mrs. Stanford in a sitting posture.
Her legs apparently had been bro
ken. There was deep cut along
her head.
She was wearing red leather
jacket, khaki breecheS, brown flying
boots, black gloves and a green scarf
was twisted modishly about her
throat. She apparently had not
moved, so suddenly had come the
disaster.
Find Mrs. Stanford's Body
The place where the disaster oc-
Cured is considered by pilots to be
the most dangerous in the nation
for f1iers. 1t is wild and desolate-
known as Dublin's Gap-in the Blue
Ridge mountains.
Fir trees abound on every noun
tain and pass, and underfoot there
is thick underbrush, tangled with
broken limbs and dead trees.
AS we started out from Philadel-
phia this morning, Lukens, a vet
eran in flying over this region, told
me:
eff they got over Sterret's Gap,
I can pick the spot where they
crashed"
He flew direct to Dublin's Gap
and there we found the broken plane
on Sherman mountain.
State troopers wrapped the bodies
in blankets and planned to take
them into Harrisburg this after
noon.
The victims had been in Indian
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engine was half buried in the
ground. We first glinpsed Mrs.
Stewards body projecting from
under the engine.
The wings and cabin were a mass
of tangled, splintered fragments.
The plane glistened white and
clean in bright sunlight. Obviously,
there had been no fire.
Pilots who came to the rescue
pictured swift ending to the am
bilious plans of the women. One
remarked:
They never knew what hap
pened."
Shot Directly Down
The plane apparently shot down
direct out of the fog. Only two
saplings in the dense growth of
pines and spruce had been shat
tered by the plane. The craft
struck on the right wing, nosed
into the mountain, then shot over
on the left wing. The rear part OF
the plane was cracked off.
In the front cockpit was Mrs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07

ator James E. Watson, and dis
patches stated that Red Cross aid
would be sought.
He returned to Indianapolis on
Wednesday.
William Fortune, Indianapolis
Red Cross chieftain, said today he
had heard nothing from national
Red Cross regarding their plans.
The Lewis visit to Washington
has Speeded state relief work
through Hewitt'S committee and the
Governor reported two tons of
clothing was. sent into the coal
region Wednesday. Distribution is
in charge of the Salvation Army.
On Tuesday of this week, Leslie
had Hewitt purchase 5000 worth of
canned goods to distribute.
The Governor also checked on
what has become of the money from
the charity football games, and
found that it still is in the hands
of the Big Ten conference COM
mittee.
1t will amount to between $4,000
and $4,000, he said. A state COM
mittee has been appointed to check
on it's expenditure.
A $1,000 Purdue university fund
given the Governor is nearly ex-
hauSted in relief work, he declared.
That the county chairmen's re-
ports bear out the Lewis conten-
tons is shown by the following from
Sullivan county:
Sullivan county is in far worse
condition this year than last. All
mines are closed. There are no
funds available. Christmas dona-
tons were met, but we can not see
where help is coming from for the
future"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
DISTRESS IS FOUND
ACUTE IN INDIANA

Reports from relief chairmen in
the Indiana mining districts, re-
ceived today by DR.. John H. Hew-
lit, state relief director, substanti-
ated charges of dire want, and ina
bility Of local authorities to cope
with it, as pictured in Washington
by John L. Lewis, United Mine
Workers president.
Lewis appeared before a United
States senate committee to urge ma
tional aid. He said that 10000
women and children are suffering in
Indiana, and that despite reports of
Governor Harry G.. Leslie the local
and state aid is not caring for
them.
Lewis called on Walter Clifford,
national relief chairman, with SEN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
LOVE LIFE IS Barred
Heiress Crimsons as Story
UnfoIdS at Death Trial.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
FLINT, Mich, Jan. THE love
life Of Miss Helen Joy Morgan, who
left the home of her wealthy mother
to live in the humble cottage of her
garage mechanic sweetheart, was
unfolded from the witness stand to-
day in the trial of Miss Morgan,
charged with numbering her sweet
heart, Leslie Casteel. Relatives of
the slain man, who was shot to
death in quiet Glenwood cemetery
last April, where Miss Morgan had
driven him in her automobile, told
the story.
AS witness after witness took the
stand, Miss Morgan, crimson with
embarrassment, looked away. She
repeatedly sought comfort from her
mother, with whom she became rec
onciled after the shooting.
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Sister Is HySteriCaI

FY United Press
GUELPH. Ontario. Jan. Mrs.
John Riley, sister of Mrs. Debie
Stanford, who crashed in an air.
plane with Mrs. Ruth Stewart in a,
mountainous Pennsylvania region,
became hysterica1 when notified
that wreckage of the plane had
been sighted.
II can't believe it, I can't be-
lieve it," she cried, when notified
of the crash by the United Press.
For few minutes she sat az
though paralyzed, unable to speak.
Eyes, it must be true" she said
finally. 1T will be hard getting ac-
customed to the knowledge that
Debie is gone
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
By UnitcdPress

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-Strengthening
gales swept blizzard northeaStward
today as storms, flood and fog left
trail of disasters over the nation.
Weather observers believed east
ern states would escape the brunt
of the storm, which was driving out
over the Great Lakes today in the
direction Of Canada.
Southern Minnesota towns re-
ported more snow than they had re-
ceived all last winter. North and
South Dakota reported snow and
subzero temperatures at several
points.
High drifts blocked roads in south
western states. The blizzard reached
as far south as Amarillo, Tex, where
a foot of snow was reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
LEVEE BREAKS, PERILING
LIVES OF THOUSANDS

vicinity of the break-two miles
north of Swan Lake, Miss.
The break widened to 100 feet.
Boats plying in the newly flood
ed area were reported to have
found persons on floating trees,
barn roofs and hen houses, lifted
from their foundations by the food.
Red Cross officials said more
boats we're needed Immediately.
More than 5000 persons live in
the district endangered by the break
which threatened $4,000 acres with
inundation.
Boats were dispatched from Glen
dora, six miles south Of the crevasse.
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limited Pres

By United Press
MEMPHIS, Jan. Scores of
lives we're imperiled in the northern
Mississippi food area today, when
a break in the Mathews bayou levee
sent flood waters over a wide
stretch of loTlands.
The United Press correspondent
at Glendora, Miss, said motor
launches were taking Negroes off
'housetopS and others we're rescued
from precarious perches in trees.
Water six to ten feet deep was
reported surging in the immediate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
The Weather

You think you know a lot
about the weather. You know
all about the moons effect on
it, you know that the winters
are far different from those
when you were a boy, and that
it always rains after big
battle. But you don't know all
this, because it isn't true.
Read the first article of a
series of twelve on the weather,
its phases, its eccentricities,
and wild ideas concerning it,
on Page 7 of this edition.
Another, showing up the
rainmaker as a fake, will ap-
pear in Fridays Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
MURRAY TO Be HERE
Alfalfa Bill Will Talk at
Rotary Meeting.
En- Tip,ee Sncc;oI

81 Ifnes NpcCldI
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. Gov
ernor William H. (Alfalfa Bid
Murray will speak in indianapolis
Feb. %, before the Indiana district
conference OF Rotary International,
he announced today.
His subject will be The Worlds
Bankruptcy, It's Cause and Cure, +"
Murray stated in a telegram to DR..
John H. Beeson of Charlottesville,
district Rotary governor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
PLANS RUM MONOPOLY
Finland Intends to Get All the
Profits Frorsa nrinkiue

Finland Intends to Get All the
Profits From Drinking.
By United Press
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Jan. T.
The government will introduce a
bill providing for a state monopoly
OF production and importation Of
spirits Jan. 10, politicians under
stood today.
The state will receive all profits
from the liquor trade, and res
taurantS and other licensed places
VIII not be permitted to make a
profit from the sale of liquor or to
stimulate the inclination to pur-
chase spirits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
100000 FIRE RACES

Business District of London, Ontario.
Burns, With Huge Loss.
By United Press
LONDON, Ontario, Jan. IA
fire in the London downtown shop
ping district today caused damage
estimated at nearly 100000.
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WHO SHOT.
ROBBED COLLECTOR
is GIVEN 20 YEARS
BE "a Good Boy Mind Your Mother Is
Farewell of Former Hook Drug
Manager to Small Son.

MIND mother, Teddy boy. right always be
AVA the squared"
This the advice convicted bandit his 11yeaod
in criminal court he hurried off to prison.
The bandit Velons
Indiana refomaoy for participating robbery shooting
j. E. Free, Hook Drug Company collector, a year
Velons this country immigrant
Companys soda fountains. pleaded guilty robbery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
STAYS CHILDREN, SELF

Missouri Farmer Beats Five to
Death, Suicides With Shotgun.
By United Press
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo, Jan. 7.
Oliver Davenport, a farmer faced
with loss of mortgaged farm, beat
five of his children to death with
hammer today, seriously injured
his wife and another child, then
committed suicide with a shotgun.
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FIND OLD DEATH TRAP
Chicago Police Surround House,
Raid Machine Gun Nest.
BVUnifcd Press

81 United Press
CHICAGO. Jan. 7.-Massed police
squads closed in on a deserted
machine gun nest today on the
border of the gold coast, and re-
vealed what they said was death
trap set for Ted Newberry, gang
leader.
More than 100 police surrounded
the spot where the assassin hide
out was reported on the second floor
of a rooming house. The raid was
ordered after a tip by a neighbor
whose apartment looked down on
windows of the death room.
Police found the nest deserted but
said marks Of machine gun tripod
were found on a table set before a
window overlooking the street.
Hundreds of cigaret butts. evidence
Of a long vigil. Uttered the room.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
PROFESSOR is BETTER

Victim of Bleeding Disease Shows
Slight Improvement.
By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. r.
Slight improvement was noted to-
day in the condition of DR.. Thomas
F. Sanford, SIS, English professor of
the University of California, crit
ically i'll Of haemophilia since a
major operation.
Blood transfusions through dona.
tons by score of DR.. Sanford's
former students saved his life. phys
Sicians declared.
Haemoph.'ia, or non-coagulatiof
Of the blood, places a victim in
danger of bleeding TO death in
event of a wound or cut.
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Feared Jinx

by JNtttU FTtss
TORONTO, Ontario. Jan. 7.
The possibility that Mrs.
Debie Stanford feared trouble
on her fight with Mrs. Ruth
Stewart was seen today in a
letter mailed to Kim Beattie,
Toronto Telegram aviation ed
itor, just before she started on
her disastrous trip.
Keep your fingers crossed
for U.S." Mrs. Stanford wrote
Beattie, a close friend.
Wish us luck the letter
concluded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
SHIP PRINCES CLOTHES

Spanish Republic Refuses Property
to King and Queen.
By United Press
PARIS. Jan. THE Spanish
Republican government has shipped
several cases of clothing, household
silver and other private possessions
to the prince of Asturia, but have
not returned any of their personal
property to former King Alfonso
or Queen Victoria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07

Mrs. Debie
Stanford,
former city
4ier (at side)
killed in
air crash.
BeloW,
Mrs. Ruth
Stewart,
Viictin IN
same Wreck.
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Destitution and Suffering
Exposed at Public Hearing

living at 1908 st. Marks Ave. lives
there 8 months, pays $50 rent, got
dispossess for not paying 10 days
rents, went to police station, was
sent back and forth from main to
section office but hasn't been ipves~
tigated yet. Is living on 81 which
he got from a friend.
Mrs Kornitsky, husband pnern~
ployed, went TO police station and got
nothing. Landlord gave her until
Monday to pay the rent. Two CT her
children are in the Gerry Society;
they will stay there for years; she
wants her children and wants money
for those children who have been
taken to the Schernerhorn Society.
Lieutenant Watkins, unemployed
since week before Christmas, lives
rent for Dec. or Jan: was gtver
at 2S8 Duinont Ave. has not pato
until Monday to get out of the house
He went to tie Home Relief Bureau
weeks ago, but was only given fooo
and coal ticket, The Unemployed
Council went to the Home Relief
Bureau and forced them to pay thu
rent so that he is not evicted.