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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
3D|E, Il ARE
HURT AS fire
SWEEPS HOTEL
7 Are Injured Seriously in
Desperate Leaps From
Windows.

By United Press
LAKEWOOD, N. j., Feb. 1.-Two
women and a man were burned to
death today in a spectacular fire
that destroyed the Victoria Mansion
Hotel.
Seven others were injured seri-
ouly and rushed to the hospital
Twenty received first-aid treatment
Those in the hospital suffered
chiefly from burns and hurts re-
ceived when they jumped from WIN
Gows.
Many of the guests of the hotel
suffered from exposure when forced
to flee in their night clothing as
the three-story structure burned.
Many From New York
Those taken to the hospital in
Guided:
Mrs. Parl Shalin, So, New York
City, who was burned seriously and
sustained additional injuries when
she jumped from her second floor
window.
Mrs. Rebecca Schwartz, Sc, Bronx,
N. Y, injuries and burns.
Louise Marco, 5, address not
known, whose feet were burned
severely before she leaped from a
window.
Firemen said that most of the
hotels guests were visitors from
New York, free from work for the
day because of the holiday.
Police Sergeant Praised
Only the heroism of Police Sergt.
John P. Souen was believed to nave
averted a major disaster. Two hun
dred guests were asleep in the hotel
when the fire was discovered at 6:35
a. m. The southeast wing was a
mass of flames from the third to
the fifth floors when the first alarm
was sounded.
Sergt. Souen, aided by civilians,
raced through the corridors, kicking
in doors and herding guests in night
dress into the cold dawn.
Police believe all the guests were
accounted for, but could not be sure
Cause of the fire was undeter-
mined.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
NEEDLES LINK MEN
TO QU|NNETTE DEATH
Anderson Man, Apartment
Janitor Identify Package.
BY JERRY SHERIDAN
Times STAFF Writer

GREENFIELD, Ind, Feb. II. -
Two packages of housewives
needles today linked Paul Pierce,
Is, and Donald Joseph, %, In
dianapolis gunner, with the muir
der of Detective Orville Quinnette.
Mr.. Quinnette was wounded ia
tally in struggle with the two
men in the Hazel Dell Apartment,
l2th-st and Park-av, Indianapolis.
Paul Rounds. Anderson, said the
needles were in his auto stolen from
Anc -rson, and Ben Davee, former
apartment custodian, identified the
needles as those he found in the
convicts' rooms.
Detective Chief Fred Simon, Indi-
annapolis, told of sending Quinnette
and Russell Chatham to the apart
ment to investigate the theft of the
Rounds auto.
Circuit Judge Arthur Van Duyn
permitted testimony of the needles,
despite defense objections.
Deputy Prosecutor James A. Wat
son said he would attempt to trace
the murder to Pierce and Joseph
through a chain of circumstances
beginning with the needles.
The jury, completed yesterday, is
composed of 10 farmers, a merchant
i'll Hancock County and Mrs. Tres
sic Passwater, middle-aged wife,
who is Hancock's County's first
woman juror. Other jurors are:
Jesse L. Johns, Coral Cass, Charles
E. Bash, Orville Plummer, Garrett
Duncan, Oren o. Brooks, Ernest
Addison. James D. Arnold, Orville
Nigh and Ernest Cranfill, farmers,
and Forest Steele, merchant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
INVESTOR CHARGES
FALSE LAND SALE
Stern Co. Transaction Is
Revealed by Witness.

Charges that the Louis Stern &
Co. sold land in Mars Hill which it
did not own were made in Federal
Court today by Miss Michaelene
Roman. Chicago bookkeeper.
Eleven officers and statesmen of
the firm are being tried on mail
fraud charges.
Miss Roman said Stern statesmen
persuaded her to switch from
whisky warehouse receipts to Mars
Hill land, on which the firm had
an option.
A. c. Erber, 1885 Washington
blvd, told the jury that he had re-
ceived nothing but alibis" from his
investments.
The company's offices in the I'LL
nois Building were raided last May
by securities investigators.
Mrs. Irene Hagerman, 4037 Col
lege-av, widow. yesterday testified
that Sam Schweitzer, alleged
financial wizard" of the firm. per-
suaded her TO borrow money IN
order to invest in a Wall Street
deal"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
Senator George w. Nor
ris in a voice trembling with
emotion called upon Con-
gress today to restrict the
powers of the Supreme
Court.
The white-haired Nebraska Re-
publican entered debate on the
Administration new farm bill
with a dramatic warning that the
nation faced destruction unless its
agricultural problems were solved
and that the Supreme Courts in
valuation of AAA could not stand
il the country is "tO live and
prosper"
The Senate listened tenseIy as
the veteran orator called upon the
chamber to "have the courage" to
restrict the courts power to in
validate laws enacted by Con-
gress.
His 0utstretched arms trembled
as he spoke and his voice cracked
with emotion.
Norris declared that Congress
could, eff it had the courage"
provide that only by unanimous
decisions could the court over
throw acts of Congress.
He attacked a procedure by
which a court serving for life and
not responsible to any one, could
invalidate laws.
'It seems to ME, Mr.. President,
that it is inexcusable," he said.
TT seems to me that this CO.
ordinate branch Of our govern
ment has gone beyond any power
that was ever contemplated in the
Constitution"
Norris said that the courts de-
cision returning $500, 100000 in
taxes to professors was "the
greatest gift since God made SAL
walton free" and remarked that
"the people can change Congress
but only God can change the
Supreme Court"
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BY a single stroke the court had
blotted out the principal plank in
its platform, had destroyed it's
chief reason for existence. The
party was seeking to capture the
Federal government and proclaim
freedom throughout the terri
tories.
The court had said in effect:
Under the Constitution this action
can not be taken by Federal au-
thorities.
Why not amend the Constitu-
ton and give Congress the power
which Republicans proposed to ex-
ercise? That sounded we'll in
theory, but it was impossible in
practice.
MO amendment can be made
~ without approval of three
fourths of the states. Given the
number of slave states in 1857, an
amendment against slavery in the
territories was out of the ques-
ton.
For Republicans who respected
the Supreme Court and the Con-
stitution that was a challenge. 1t
was a hot one"
Abraham Lincoln dared to pick
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
Is OVERCOME BY
ESCAPING GAS
ON NORTH SIDE
Members of Three Families
Stumble Into Street,
Violently Ill.
BROKEN MAIN BLAMED
Five Month Old Twins Are
Among Victims; 2 Saved
by Neiqhbor.

Thirteen persons, two of
them infants under six
months old, were recovering
this afternoon from illness
caused by gas escaping from
a broken Citizens Gas and
Coke Utility main in front of
443 w. 31st-st.
Members of three of the families
in the 400 block, w. 3lst-st
stumbled around in gas-induced
stupors early TODAY for nearly an
hour before help came.
Two crews of workmen dug
through the frozen ground and re-
paired the leak.
Rescues Two Neighbors
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Verl
R. Baker, AS w. 31St-st, Wilma and
Wanda, 513 month-old twins, were
restless during the early morning
and Mr.. Baker was up with them.
He became i'll, but did not realize
that gas was the cause. At 5 he
heard Mrs. Benjamin Harrel, next
door, call for help and he made his
way, in stupor out the back door
of his home and into the back door
of his neighbours home.
He went upstairs and found Mr..
Harrel unconscious. He called a
physician His momentary dip into
fresh air made him suspect that the
houses were filled with gas and he
called the gas company.
Six Others Stricken
OrVille Smith, night service man.
found gas in the homes and set in
motion the trouble shooting ma
chinery. He turned off the gas to
both homes.
All members in the two house,
holds, six of them, were i'll.
Meanwhile, at the home of Joseph
Schwert, ass W. 31st-st, Mr.. and Mrs.
Schwert and their children, Val 20,
Elnora %, and Rosemary II, and
grandchild, Janice Joe Patterson, IA
months, became ill.,
Mrs. Howard Patterson, 927 w.
31st-st, mother of the child. had
arisen early and was making her
way to her parents home to help
her mother prepare for a club meet
ing this afternoon.
Stagger Into Yard
AS she approached the house, she
saw Val and Elnora stagger through
the back door and collapse uncon-
scious on the porch. She summoned
aid and in a few moments all men,
bers of the family were in fresh air
and reviving, though nauseated.
Miss Elnora Schwert is to be mar
ried Saturday to Robert M. Brody.
"a, of 918 w. 31st-st., a letter car
rier.
The home of W. A. Pittman. 439
w. 31st-St, also was filled with gas.
but members of the household dis
covered it soon enough to escape
illness. None of the other homes in
the neighborhood seemed to be
affected.
Company officials said the acci-
dent was caused by the main con-
tracing and breaking in the cold
weather. They have directed that
holes be dug to release the gas un-
derground so that it will not follow
pipes into the homes of the neigh
borhood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12

make the trip from Washington, but
had disregarded the advice Only
after he boarded the train yesterday
did Mr.. Wallace admit he had a
fever, Mr. Wallace's secretary said
Mr.. Wallace boarded a cab with
farm leaders for his hotel where
he is expected to rest until time
for his address, which is to be broad
cast over the Columbia network.
There were only two pieces of
luggage in evidence when Mr.. Wal
lace and his secretary arrived. One
was a bullying brief case, and one
an old-fashioned and somewhat
battered suitcase. The suitcase con-
tanned copies of his speech, various
papers and some new books, the
cover on one of which read Social
Justice"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
SHIRT co. OFFICIALS
HOME IS DYNAMITED
Windows Shattered at New
Albany Strike Scene.

By United Press
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Feb. 12.-
Authorities today investigated bomb
ing of the home of E. c. Truck, SUI
perintendent of the M. Fine & Sons
shirt factory, scene of four month
strike.
The blast last night blew out sew
eral windows in the Truck home and
shattered panes in nearby resi-
dences None of the occupants was
hurt. The dynamite was thrown at
the home from a speeding automo-
bile, members Of the Truck family
told authorities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
IS Dead in Europe
BY United Press

AT least SIS persons were known
to have been killed and many
injured by storms which harrassed
most OF Europe today from the
British Isles TO the Aegean.
The storm in England had taken
toll of 81. Sixteen were dead in
Italy and Is in northern Greece.
Thirteen were killed and eight in
jured in a Bulgarian train wreck
caused by a blizzard.
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COLD WAVE TO
RETURN AGAIN.
CITY WARNED
Temperatures Are on Rise
Today; Drop Forecast
for Tomorrow.
SNOW ALSO PREDICTED
Mercury to Reach Zero by
Friday Morning, Is
Forecast.

A new cold wave is to move on
indianapolis tomorrow to take the
place of comparatively comfortable
temperatures today, the Weather
Bureau predicts. There may be
snow by tomorrow night.
Temperatures are on the rise to-
day and are expected to remain in
the 20s overnight.
The new cold wave is coming
from the Northwest and mercury
readings under 40 below are being
recorded in Canada.
Local weather forecasters said
that the mercury probably would
drop to at least zero here by Friday
morning.
Child Killed by Auto
Nine-year-old Mae Ellen Bowl
ing is dead today, the victim of an
auto that struck her as she ran
across Franklin-rd mile west of
New Bethel, her home.
The child got out of an auto and
ran across the highway to greet her
mother. A warning from her father
Benjamin Bowling, in the car with
her, came too late and she was
struck by an auto driven by Ralph
Negel. r. R. 6, Box 739 She died in
the admitting room at City Hos
pital. She is survived by her parents
and 2-year-old brother.
Ward Ratcliff, %, of 3758 w.
Westinghouse, died in City Hos
pital of injuries received in traffic
crash Monday at Holt-rd and w.
Westinghouse.
Funeral Is Friday
He Is survived by the widow, Mrs
Norman Ratcliff; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Theron Ratcliff; two
brothers, Wilbur and Winfred, all
Of Indianapolis, and three sisters,
Mrs. Nina Bell Held, Fort Wayne;
Miss Nora Dell Ratcliff and Miss
Margaret Ratcliff of Indianapolis.
Services are to be at Friday in
the home OF parents, 1922 Kenwood-
av. Burial is to be in Crown Hill.
The two deaths raised the coun-
tvs 1886 traffic total to IL.
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Mr.. WichSer has asked the De-
partment of Justice to employ Phil
Hanna, who has taken part in So
hangings, and who, Mr.. Wichser
says. is the nations only qualified
hangman.
Wire dispatches from Carbonate,
ILL.,, say that Mr.. Hanna has bor-
rowed a gallows from Sheriff Ross
Ozburn of Jackson County, Illinois,
for the Indianapolis hanging. Mr..
Wichser says that so far as he
knows there is nothing official
about his appointment.
Mr.. Wichser says the Department
of Justice has instructed the
marshal here to advertise for bids
on the Scaffold's erection and to
let the contract to the lowest bid
der. The department also has
authorized him, he said, to employ
a professional hangman if his fee
was not more than S25.
Mr.. WichSer says that services of
an experienced hangman are need
ed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
Midwest Digs in Again
Copyright, 1885. by united Press)

Copyright, 1895, by United Press
Billiards howled across the Da-
kotas, Minnesota and Iowa today as
the stricken Middle West prepared
for another stand against starvation
and cold.
Drifts piled rapidly across freshly
cleared highways and railroad rights
Of way in Iowa. Fear was felt that
fuel shortages may become worse.
The storm may force many of
Iowa's 500 mines, reopened yester-
day, to close.
Dakota roads had not yet been
cleared of the last heavy snowfall.
Hundreds of communities and
ranches were reported badly in
need of supplies. Immediate aid
seemed impossible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
SENATE IS ASKED TO
EXTEND NEUTRALITY
Committee Favors Present
Act Be Kept Until 1897.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-The
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee voted unanimously today to ask
the Senate to extend until May l.,
1887, the existing neutrality act de-
signed to keep the United States out
of war.
The action would postpone the
Administrations proposed perma-
nent neutrality act
The committee also unanimously
agreed to amend the existing law
by adding a provision banning loans
or credits to belligerent nations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12

the State Fair
ground under
auspices of the
Indiana Farm
Bureau.
A secret a ry
who accompa-
MED him. OBJ
viously worried,
said he would
try to get Mr..
w a ii a C e t o
consult a ply
sician in the
i n t e i m, but
had little hope
of success. Mr..
w a IL a C e, he
said, had been
advised not IN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12

into fame on a constitutional is
sue.
In 1856 the Republican party
Launched a national campaign on
the proposition that slavery should
be prohibited by Congress in the
territories of the United States.
To this proposition Lincoln gave
his approval.
But the very next year the SUI
preme Court of the United States,
in the bred Scott case, declared
that Congress had no power to
prohibit slavery in the territories.
This was a staggering blow to the
Republican party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
Washington Fears Flood

BIZ Science Scrrice
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Wash-
ingtonlans for once are not talking
politics. They have stopped wor-
rying about the Townsendites, the
Liberty League and the deficit. In
stead they are seriously concerned
about the possibility of a flood.
For the first time in many years
the Potomac is frozen. The ice is
thick, clear to the rivers mouth.
There is 20-foot ice jam at Great
Falls, just above the city. 1t is the
most complete setup for a flood
since the war-t time winter of 1917-18,
when there was a five-foot depth
of water over what is now Consti-
tution-av, and rowboats navigated
the retail district around Ninth-st
and Pennsylvania av.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
SENSATION Is HINTED
IN CUTTING TRAGEDY
Senate Group to Hear Startling
Testimony on Mishap, Is Claim.
By United Press

~ CHtIen PfeSS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Start-
ling testimony concerning the death
of Senator Bronson Cutting in an
airplane crash last year is expected
to be presented to the Senate Com
MERGE subcommittee investigating
air safety in the next few days, it
was learned today.
The testimony was said to be such
that it was likely the committee
would go into executive session to
hear it. The committee has adj
journed open meetings until Thurs
day. An executive meeting may be
called today to hear details of the
crash which occurred near Kinks
vile, Mo-
Investigation has been made by
committee experts headed by Col.
Harold L. Hartney, former Army
ace, it was learned. Several facts
not revealed by previous INQUIRIES
have been discovered, it was re-
ported
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
SENATE ACTS SLOWLY
ON FARM RELIEF BILL
Way Expected to Be Cleared for
Passage Friday.

WASHINGTON, Feb. The
Senate slowly pushed ahead with
the Administration farm bill today.
expecting to wind up preliminaries
in time to have the measure ready
for passage Friday.
Absence of several Republicans
Senators for Lincoln's birthday
speaking engagements slowed pro-
ceedings and only the less contrd-
versial amendments we're being act
ed upon.
A half-dozen amendments, or mo-
lions, most of them slated for rejec-
ton, are to be disposed Of before
the Senate can act upon the bill
itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
KNOX AND B0RAH FILE
Publisher and Senator Seek Favor
of Illinois Voters.
By United Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb ~
Petitions of Frank Knox. Chicago
newspaper publisher. and United
States Senator w. E. Borah. Idaho,
for presidential preferential express
sion at the Illinois april Ia Re-
publican primary, were filed with
Secretary of State Edward j. Hughes
today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
FOOD CHEMIST IS NAMED
ID. F. Fisher Joins u. S. Administra-
ton as Investigator.

D. Franklin Fisher. food chemist,
1926 College-av, today received no.
tice of his appointment as investiga-
tor in Philadelphia, Pa. for the
United States Food Administration.
He is to leave this week. His wife
and two children are to join him
later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
F. D. R. PUTS WREATH
ON TOMB OF LINCOLN
President Leads Nation in Marking
Emancipator's Birthday.

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt led the nation today
in observance of Abraham Lincoln S
birthday.
Escorted by military and naval
aids he placed a wreath at the tomb
of the Emancipation in Lincoln Me-
mortal.
House and Senate delayed debate
to hear tributes to the rau-splitting
Illinois youth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
SEED REPORT ADOPTED
Compromise on Crop Loan Bill Is
Approved by House.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.--The
House adopted today a compr mise
conference report on the $50, 00c 600
crop production seed loan bill for
1886. 1t now goes to the Senate for
action. The original House bill car
ried s40,000,00o and the Senate meas
IRE $4,000. 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
Wallace ILL.,,
Insists on
Filling Date
Secretary Has Fever From
Cold, but Intends to
Speak Here.

Ill with a cold that had given him
a fever all night Henry A. Wallace,
Secretary of Agriculture. detrained
this morning at Union Station and
was met by farm organization lead
ers
He is to speak at 2 this afternoon
in the Manufacturers Building at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
Silver Slipper Club Looted

Burglars early today forced their
way into the Silver Slipper Club,
2451 N. Meridian-st, and stole 5000
in cash and liquor valued at $500,
Leo H. Silver, manager, reported to
police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12

At time when the United States
Constitution is being widely discussed
and may even become a campaign issue,
Lincoln's birthday comes with peculiar
force. For Lincoln himself faced a con-
stitutional problem not unlike those Of
today. What it was and how 1t was
solved is told here by Charles A. Beard,
dean of American historians. and polit-
ical scientists. He is the author of "The
Rise of American Civilization" and
Economic Interpretation of the Con-
stitution."
A S the fifth decade of the nine
L N tenth century drew to
close, Abraham Lincoln Sprang
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
Professional Sought to
Erect Barrett GULLOUs
U. S. Marshas Deputy Continues Attempt to Get Justice
Departments Approval.

Chief Julius of United
today attempts Department
Washington
will Barrett Kentucky
Marion County jaiyard before
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-12
NAVAL CADETS STRICKEN
Doctors, Serum Rushed to Aid Yes
sci With Meningitis Epidemic.

Doctors, Serum Rushed to Aid Yes
sci With Meningitis Epidemic.
By United Press
BALBOA, Canal Zone, Feb. 12.-
The United States Destroyer TAFT
nall, carrying serum and doctors and
nurses from the Gorgas Hospital,
sped today toward the merchant
marine training ship California
States, stricken with an outbreak
of spinal meningitis 1000 miles out
in the Pacific.
One of the 81 youths aboard the
training ship already has died and
another was reported dying.
By United Press
VALLEY JUNCTION, Ia, Feb.
12.-Schools, theaters and Sunday
schools in. Valley Junction were or
dered closed today as result of an
outbreak of four cases of menin-
gifts. two of which have resulted
fatally, the past two weeks.