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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

In 1899 British so'('ers were shot
down by British guns that British
armament firms had sold to the
Beers" it says. When in 1914 the
kaisers armies marched westward
into Belgium and eastward toward
Russia. German soldiers were killed
by German guns manned by the
armies of King Albert and Gar
Nicholas II"
In some ways the most amazing
part of the recital has to do with
the de Wendel-von Wendell family,
aristocrats of Europe's armorers,
who have altered the prefix to the
family name as political control over
coal and iron fields they own in the
Lorraine has shifted between Berlin
and Paris.
Describing the fa~>ny and indus
trial history of Francois de Wendell,
Fortune says:
when their vast Lorraine estates
lay upon sell politically German
they attached to their name the
prefix Won and turned their eyes
toward Berlin; when the political
frontier shifted under their rich de-
posts of coal and iron they altered
the prefix to de and looked to
Paris
In 1914 the ranking member of
the family was Humbert Won
Wendell. a member of the German
reichstag. - He still lives at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
Snow Blankets More Than
Half of Country; East
Hard Hit.
AIR TRAFFIC Is HALTED
Mercury Due to Start on
Climb Here Tomorrow,
Is Forecast.

Storms sweeping the United
States from the Rocky mountains
eastward blanketed more than half
of the country today, leaving a toll
of at least thirty-four dead due di-
rectly or indirectly to the weather.
Street and highway traffic was
made hazardous and Atlantic coast
shipping was endangered. Mail and
passenger planes were grounded.
Low temperatures prevailed, par
ticularly in the central west and
the mountain states, extending
south to Amarillo, Tex.
Among the deaths attributed to
the storms were:
A dozen or more killed in a tor
nado in the Mississippi area.
Eight dead in the crash of an air
liner near Salt Lake City.
Three dead in southern Illinois
accidents.
Nine dead in the Theta Chi fra
ternity house at Dartmouth college,
Hanover. N. H, of Carbon monoxide
from a faulty furnace.
The storm caused cancellation OF
all army mail schedules to and
from Newark, N. j., airport and al
commercial schedules also were
cancelled. Planes were grounded in
other parts OF the storm area. New
York City battled to prevent an
other transportation tieup.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
GAS KILLS NINE
COLLEGE BOYS
Dartmouth Students Suffo-
Gated by Fumes Coming
From Faulty Furnace.
By United Press

By United Press
HANOVER, N. H., Feb. 26-Nine
Dartmouth college students who had
gone to bed in their fraternity house
early yesterday after an evening of
gayety, were dead today, suffocated
by carbon monoxide gas from a
faulty furnace as they slept.
The tragedy was discovered by a
janitor, when he visited the Theta
Chi house late yesterday
The victims we're:
William F. Fullerton, 20, CIeve-
land Heights, o.
Edward F. MoIdenke, 81, New
York City.
William NJ. Smith Jr., 81, Man
hasset, l.. /.
Edward NJ. Wentworth Jr., Fl,
Chicago.
America S. Demasi, 20, Little
Neck, L. /.
Harold ID. Watson, 81, Wilton, Me,
William III. Schooley, 20, Middle
town, N. Y.
John j. Griffin, 10, WallingfOrd,
Conn.
Alfred MOldenke, 20, brother of
Edward.
A white Siberian sledge dog, the
fraternity pet, also was found dead
beside the bed of his asphyxisted
master, young Wentworth.
An examination of the basement
convinced authorities the furnace
had exploded, bursting a pipe which
connected it with the chimney
Poisonous gas poured from the bro
ken pipe and filled the house.
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IW Get Your job, R0drs Governor to
Rep0rted at Hectic Y off ". Affair

Referring to the American Legion
as "our sister organization" the
speaker accused the legion of fail
ing to cooperate with the v. F. w.
in supporting soldiers bonus legis-
lation, and referred to the v. F. w.
as the only veterans organization
which had never sold out its fol-
lowers"
With the Governor but two seats
away Mr.. Van Zandt admonished
his hearers never to trust politi-
clans, Democrats or Republicans, as
they all will sell you out"
In attacking the national econ
omy act, he lauded Senator Arthur
R. Robinson as the only Indiana
legislator in Washington with whom
he could shake hands.
He said he hoped Rear Admiral
Richard Byrd, active in interests Of
the act, sits on an iceberg down
there at the south pole and freezes
his pants"
At 1870 p. m, when the audience
had begun to become impatient,
Governor McNutt's turn came, and
he spoke seven minutes, making ref
erences to Justice. " preservation of
the American system" the rise of
Fascism' and allied topics.
The one-round Scherer- Myles
battle followed a verbal bout after
the banquet.
Mr.. Van Zandt, in speaking with
Times reporter at the banquet
reiterated his statement that the
Governor used all the time allotted
to both at the Elkhart convention.
When the reporter attempted to
interview the Governor on the sub
ject, the Governor said:
That was a hell of a story you
wrote the other day. I'll get you for
that"
What do you mean-get?" in
quired the reporter.
I'll get your job Mr.. McNutt ex-
planned
May quote you on that?" the
reporter inquired.
Yes" roared the Governor, &C
cusing the reporter of misquoting
him, which the reporter vehemently
denied.
The dispute, which attracted at
tention of number of spectators,
who joined in discussing the con-
vention incident, each giving a diff
ferent version, ended with the Gov
ernor warning the reporter-"Never
enter my Office again."
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COMMUNICATIONS
BOARD is URGED
Roosevelt Asks Creation of
New Commission.
By United Press

By United Press
= WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today asked congress
to create a new federal communica-
lions commission to regulate wire,
cable and radio communications
systems.
In a special message to congress,
the President asked establishment
of the new commission in order to
centralize federal authority over
communications.
He proposed that the new COM
mission take over the duties of the
federal radio commission and those
functions of the interstate COM
merce commission which deal with
telegraph and telephone regulation.
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GOVERNOR IS
NRA CH|SELER,
SAY PRINTERS
McNutt Defends MuItigraph
Setup to Delegation at
StatehouSe.
WHITE HEADS VISITORS
State Senator Is Member oil
Group Protesting to
Chief Executive.

Governor Paul V. McNutt is
leading the code chiselers while
continuing to make speeches
throughout the state in support OF
MIRA" it was charged today at the
statehouse when the Governor was
called upon by a delegation from
the allied printing trades urging
abandonment of the new multi
graphing department.
Certain members of the commit
tee said that the allegation came
from both employing printers and
printers unions throughout the
state.
Governor McNutt defended the
multigraph setup, however, saying
that through it he expected eventu-
ally to save around 100000 annu-
ally in printing bills.
Complaints Are Listed
He also indicated that he is seri-
ously considering expansion OF
printing and binding at the prison
and reformatory, so that all the
state work can be done either there
or at the statehouse., No decision
had been reached in this matter as
yet, he said.
Principal complaint of the union
men appearing today is that under
the multigraph setup, printing is
being done by persons drawing $50
to 500 monthly, without regard to
hours. Thus, they said, work is
being taken from journeymen print
ers, who draw union wage, work
MIRA hours, and many of whom are
now unemployed.
Another objection was to setting
up the plant under the adjutant-
general.
TT is a case of the militia operat-
ing a printshop in defiance of both
union and NRA code rules" they
commended
Curtis White on Board
Members OF the protest COM
mittee were State Senator E. Cur
tbs White, union printer and mem
Der of the state board of agrlcul-
ture; Claude M Baker, San Fran
cisco, first vice president of the In
ternational Typographical union,
with headquarters here; Phil Rech,
business agent of the Allied Print
ing Trades council; John w. White,
business agent for the mailers union.
The bindery union also was sending
a delegate they said, but was i'll and
could not attend.
Governor McNutt explained that
he was procuring ruling from
William Green, president OF the
American Federation of Labor. as to
whether those employed in multi
graphing were eligible to the print
ers' or office workers union. The
latter pay scale is less.
The multigraph setup is part of
theh system whereby StenographerS
are employed on a piece-work basis
under what has been termed sweat
shop conditions in the statehouse
basement.
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ROBINSON STIRS
HEATED DEBATE
Indiana Senator Rebuked
by Democrats in Air
Mail Dispute.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The
al rmail controversy broke in full
force in the senate today, with &C
cuSation that army pilots were "sent
to their deaths" after cancellation
of private mail contracts.
Senator Arthur r. Robinson
CRep., Ind began the debate and
drew a heated response from Sen
ator Kenneth Mcclellan Dem.
Tenn.
Senator Mcclellan declared all
aviation deaths were deplorable but
those in the army flights could not
be criticized any more than the
deaths of eight persons in pas
senger plane which crashed near
Salt Lake City.
Yes, there was difference, .
Senator Robinson shouted. Those
in the passenger plane were flying
of their own volition while the army
boys were sent to their deaths with
out any choice"
Senator Bennett Champ Clark
Dem, Mo- accused Senator Robin
son of making IAN irresponsible
statement" in alleging that Presi
dent Roosevelt or some one else in
the administration had prevented
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker from
making a broadcast at conclusion
of his recent coast-to-coast flight.
Senator Robinson had read the
statement from the Newark Eve
ming News, but later said, in re-
Spouse to Senator Clark:
We'll, then, I make the charge
on my own responsibility"
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Tornado Kills Twelve

BIZ 4 HfffN EffSS
MERIDIAN, Miss, Feb. 26.-Re-
lief workers plowed through fallen
trees and the wreckage of homes tc
succor injured and homeless II
widely scattered storm swept COM
munities of three southern states to-
day.
A devastating tornado roared out
of eastern Mississippi, across central
Alabama and into the western edge
of Georgia late yesterday. killing al
least twelve persons, injuring nearly
one hundred and destroying prop
erty.
Heavy rains were general through
out the mid-south. hampering relief
workers. Damaged communication
lines let out only meager reports.
The heaviest damage was re-
ported at communities near Meri-
dian, from where the tornado ap-
parently hoped to Calera, Ala, and
then to Ashland, Ala. and dipped
down again at Carrollton, Ga.
Known dead were:
CenternllI, MlSS.-No) OdIl OdlVelC
43; his wife. Annie, IS; and theil
four children, Annie. 10; Nettie, g.
George, 5. and Helen, 3.
Kewanee. Miss.-Curtis Bishop
AZ. and an unidentified Negro.
Calera, Ala.-Mrs. Mamie Kalz-
ziah.
Ashland. Ala Rev. Mr. Wheeler
Carrollton. Ga-Mr. and Mrs. w
T. Phillips, about so.
Hospital here counted thirty-two
critically injured from the Center
hill and Kewanee communities.
Property damage at Bowdon was
estimated at S150,000, with about a
dozen homes twisted from their
foundations.
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Two accountants, known to
be experts on university
management, went to work
quietly on the campus last
S ep t e m b er, The Times
learned, and will have a re-
port ready soon, it is said.
The recent announcement by
E. C. Hayes that he had resigned
as head football coach, has no con-
nection with the state board PROBE
it is said. as the probe has not yet
reached the athletic department.,
chief target of the general criticism.
Blundering Is Attacked
The removal of Mr.. Hayes came
instead from the activities of an
alumni group which has been
labeled the fact finding COM
mittee."
Another recommendation by this
group, adopted by the trustees, that
the athletic director be in full
charge of that department, was not
carried out, it is charged, and was
largely responsible for the "blunder-
ing" in the attempt to sign a new
football coach.
Check of the athletic department
budget reveals that physical educa-
ton, department maintained by
state taxpayers money, has been
carrying a great part of the financial
burden of major athletics, which
have been improbable the last few
years.
Friction Is Investigated
Further criticism has been lev
eled at the management of the new
Indiana Union, a recreation center
erected through a bond issue sub
scribed to by students and alumni.
Friction between heads of various
enterprises housed in the building
brings charges from Ward Biddle,
state senator and manager of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
Athletic Department Management Under
Fire of Alumni Critics; Experts at Work
Since Last September, Is Report
Legal Questions Also Brought Up in Investi-
cation Of Activities at Bloomington,
Is Word Received by Times.
BY DICK MILLER
Times STAFF Writer

Complete reorganization of administration policies and
management at Indiana university, with particular stress
upon the athletic department. where wholesale changes
likely to be made, will take place soon, The Times learned
today.
So forceful have alumni critics been and nsstent are
they that the antiouaed system of financial be
investigated and corrected that Governor Paul " McNutt
ordered William Cosgrove state accounts board head
assign examiners to the task The Governor former
law school dean and is an alumnus of the school.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
JOHN M'CRAW
DIES IN COMA
Famed Manager of Giants
Is Mourned by All in
Sports World.
By United Press

By Chtted Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 26-The sports
world today mourned the death of
John j. McGraw, greatest and most
colorful of all baseball managers
and the man who did most to es-
tablish the game as the national
pastime.
Messages of coincidence from all
sections poured into the big red
brick home in Pelham Manor where
his widow, Mrs. Blanche Sindall
McGraw, was near collapse.
The peppery little vice-president
of the New York Giants, whose dy-
manic personality, astute field gen.
eralship and sweeping conquests
during nearly thirty years as man
ager of the Giants, won him the
sobriquet Little Napoleon" died at
11:50 a. m. yesterday. He was al
most 81.
Intestinal hemorrhage was the i'm
mediate cause of death. This re-
suited from uremia from which he
had been suffering several weeks.
The caSket will remain in the
Pelham Manor home today and to-
morrow. On Wednesday funeral
services will be held in st. Partick's
cathedral, New York.
Burial to Be in Baltimore.
After the funeral services the
man who directed the Giants to
ten National League remnants and
three world championships, an all
time record, will be taken to Balti-
more, where as youth he joined
the belligerent old Baltimore Orioles
in 1891. The casket will be placed
in a vault in Bonnie Brae ceme-
terry, outside the cathedral, for
burial later
Mrs. McGraw was at the beside
in New Rochelle hospital when
death came. She was holding his
hand
Mr.. McGraw's relapse and death
were unexpected. Until late Satur-
day he was believed definitely on
the way to recovery. Soon after
p. m. Saturday he suffered the
suffered the hemorrhage and drifted
into coma from which he never
revived.
Friends and admirers, not only in
the United States, but in foreign
countries, were stunned by his
death. The flood of messages and
cablegrams that poured into the
McGraw home partly attested the
worlds appreciation of his contri-
buttons to the game.
Reached Peak From 1917-1925
No other manager ever APP
preached the Little Napoleon" in
color-in crowd appeal. His career
reached its peak during the years
1917-1925, during which time his
Giants won five national pennants;
finished second four times, and
fought their way to the world cham
pionship twice.
Mr.. McGraw was a fighter clear
through from the day he joined the
old Baltimore Orioles until he re-
tired as manager of the Giants.
During his forty odd years of base
ball, he fought players, fans, man
ayers, umpires, league heads, and in
later years, officials of his own club.
He could be as kindly as mother
in lifting player out of depression
when the player had done his best,
but Numbered. In 1908, Fred Merkle
lost the pennant for the Giants in
their play-of with the Cubs by fail
ing to touch second base. Mr.. Nc
Graw condoned the fatal oversight
and actually raised his salary to en-
courage him. Merkle repaid his boss
by playing stellar baseball for years.
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men returned the fire, wounded one
Nazi, then captured both.
Concentration of Fascist forces
on the German frontier along the
Inn river continued. But at the
same time there seemed a greatly
increased prospect of truce in the
German dispute.
Activity centered at the frontier
town of Braunau, where Adolf
Hitler, chief of the Nazis, was born.
A group of conf1dantes of Prince
Starhemberg, leader of the Fascist
Heimwehr, motored to Braunau pre-
pared to negotiate with representa-
tives of Hitler or of the Austrian
Nazis refuging in Germany-and
also, if necessary. to give any
emergency orders in event of a
Nazi movement across the border.
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diana department adjutant, and
Fred K. Myles, past commander and
supporter of the Governor, who en-
tered into a battle of fisticuffs, with
Mr.. Sherer claiming the decision.
Mr.. Van Zandt, who spoke first
at the banquet, made good his prom
Use not to permit repetition OF a
previous occasion, when he and the
Governor both we're scheduled to
speak over the radio. Mr.. Van
Zandt claims at that timE, the
Governor continued speaking after
his allotted time, and Mr.. Van Zandt
was forced to leave to catch train,
without getting to speak.
Fort forty-two minutes Mr.. Van
zandt last night filled the air with
a variety of charges which were
identical only in that all were dis
tasteful to the Governor
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Aviation authorities, meanwhile,
examined the snoW-covered wreck
age in an effort to determine the
cause of the disaster.
Searching parties came upon the
wreckage late last night after
United AirlineS pilots Don Brough-
ton and Ed Greer had flashed word
they had sighted the battered silver
fuselage of the giant bi-motored
passenger carrier near the head of
Parleys Canyon. The two pilots
the hostess, and the five passengers
apparently were killed instantly.
Wrist watches on the arms of the
pilots of the plane had stopped at
3:05 p. M, indicating that the plane
had crashed shortly after taking
off Friday afternoon.
Pilots Broughton and Greer were
flying close to the ground following
the beacon lights that mark the
eastward route when they sighted
the plane, nose down, nearly buried
in the deep snow on the side of the
canyon.
Radios Lines Offices
Broughton radioed the airline
headquarters at Salt Lake. A motor
caravan to go to the scene of the
crash was organized. Eight ambu-
lances were sent in the hope that
some of the eight persons aboard
would be alive.
The dead:
Lloyd Anderson, Cheyenne, WyO.
pilot.
]. DanieIson, Cheyenne, Wyo, CO.
pilot.
Mary Carter, Salt Lake City
stewardess.
Ell. Walker, Rock Springs, WyO.
automobile dealer.
J. ]. Sterling, mayor of Benton
Harbor, Mich.
A. b. Bergland, Boone, Ia.
Marcellus Zinmaster, Des MOineS
la.
Bert Mclaughlin, Perry, Ia.
The following statement was made
today by l.. B. Jameson, public re-
lations official of the United Air
lines in Salt Lake:
Leon D. Cuddeback, assistant to
Harold D. Thomas (Slim) Lewis
chief pilot of the United Airlines
was the first company official to
visit the scene of the crash and re-
port.
All Killed Instantly
HE reported that the ground
party arrived at about $50 Sunday
night. The plane, he said, was
wedged between two trees with the
nose buried in the ground so that
it was in an almost vertical posi-
ton.
Due to the darkness it was i'm
possible to determine whether the
plane had collided with some OBJ
ject prior to striking the ground.
The plane had not caught fire
The plane struck evenly along the
leading edge of the wing. The
passengers were thrown forward
into the nose of the plane and
were very apparently killed in
stantly.
The first body was removed at
9:10 p. m. Some difficulty was ex-
perienced in extricating the bodies
of the five passengers and steward
ess. The bodies of the pilot and
co-pilot were even more difficult to
remove. The body of Co-pilot
Danielson was not removed until
later"
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interest in lie Journal des Debats,
head of the group that purchased
the semi official newspaper of the
French government, LIE Temps,
controls the Journee Industrielle,
and is a power in the management
of lie Matin, L'Echo de Paris, and
the Agence Havas.
The war in no way interrupted
the cordiality Of the armament
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
SIX BURN TO DEATH
IN BLAZE AT HOTEL
Utica Establishment Swept
by Flames.
BIZ I uifcd Press

By United Press
UTICA, N. Y, Feb. 26.-Six per-
sons were burned to death today in
a fire of unknown origin at the
Mirone hotel.
Only two of the six bodies were
Immediately identified. They were
those of Salvatore Troja, 40-year-
old marble worker, and Dominick
Bevilacqua, As, a CWA worker. both
of Utica.
Philips Heidi, 80. one of the
twenty persons in the hotel when
the fire broke out, was overcome by
smoke and is in a serious condi-
ton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
MCNutt BaCker and Foe
Enter Into Battle With
Fists; Van Zandt Takes
Legionnaires to Task.
BY GRENVILLE MOTT,
Times staff Writer

Renewal of the feud between
Governor Paul v. McNutt, and
James E. Van Zandt, Veterans of
Foreign Wars national commander,
was scheduled to be the main bout,
verbal of course, on the program of
the v. F. w. national officers ban
quet Saturday night in the Clay
pool.
However, the show was "stolen"
by j. w. (Doc) Sherer, v. F. w. In
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By United Press
VIENNA, Feb. 26.-Two Austrian
NaziS, alleged to have confessed
they planned to assassinate several
anti-Nazi chiefs, we're held today
after their capture in fight with
auxiliary police in the Tyrolean
mountains.
The Nazis' capture came as indi-
cations increased here that there
might be early peaceful settlement
of the Austrian German Nazi dis
pute.
The two Nazis, armed, were cap
tured on the Mooser mountain near
Koessen. They tried to enter Aus
tria and fired on auxiliary police
men, members of the schultzcorps,
who challenged them. The patrol
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Hayange but he is no longer a
member of the reichstag. A younger
brother. Guy, is a French senator
and of his other brother, the
Francois of the Comite, more later"
Francois de Wendels connections
would fill this page" says the ar
ticle. He is regent of the Banque
de France. member of the chamber
of deputies, owner of Ipajority
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
TRUCK CODE EFFECTIVE
State Registration of $4,000 Vehicles
Starts March s..

Active registration of trucks in
Indiana will not begin before March
5, although the code of fair COM
petition for the trucking industry
became effective yesterday, it was
announced today by D. F. Mitzner,
Indiana Trucking Association secre-
tary. Registration Offices will be
opened in indianapolis at that time.
1t is expected that nearly 10000
trucks in Indiana will come under
provisions of the code and be regis
tered.