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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
MORE HELP FOR
SOLDIERS LOOMS
First TrickIes of New De-
mands Visible in Congress;
Four Bills Pending.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-With
the bonus barrier crumbling, the
first trickles of what threatens to
be a flood of veterans pension leg
islation are visible in Congress.
Four pension bills for veterans or
their dependents are already pend
ing.
So far no bill has been intro
duced in this Congress covering the
program of the American Legions
executive committee for general
pensions for widows and orphans of
World War veterans. Nor has the
broader program of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars for putting all vet
Grams on the same pension basis as
Civil War veterans been introduced
However, one measure before the
House Committee on World War
veterans legislation would put per-
manently disabled World War vet
Grams on the same pension basis as
Spanish War veterans.
Another measure increases the
rate of pensions now being paid
widows to $50 month, with propor-
tionate increases for children, and
adds parents of veterans to the pen
sion rolls.
The two other proposals call for
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
ROYALTY REACHES
LONDON FOR RITES
European Rulers to Pay
Homage to George V.
BU United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Jan. 25.-Kings, queens
and princes converged on London
today for King Georges funeral.
The dead monarch's own people
continued to file by thousands past
the catafalque on which his coffin
lay in Westminster Hall.
: King Haakon and Queen Maud
of Norway have arrived. King
Boris of Bulgaria, Prince Paul of
Yugoslavia, chief of the regency
that rules for boy King Peter, and
Crown Prince Paul of Greece were
en- route today.
BY Tuesday the Kings of Belgium,
Rumania and Denmark will be here.
along with crown princes and
princesses, former King Al
fonso of Spain, and royal
and noble people of all degrees.
President Albert Lebrun will head
the French delegation.
King Edward, Queen Mary and
other members of the royal family
paid brief visit last night to the
catafalque.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
H0HLT ASKS $4,000
ON ISLANDER CHARGE
Perry Trustee Alleges At
tempts to Disgrace Him.

Leonard A. Hohlt, Perry Township
trustee, today haa filed in Circuit
Court a $4,000 SANDER suit against
the group of Perry Township resi-
dents who have filed impeachment
charges against him for alleged in
toxication while in office.
Mr.. Hohlt, center of storm of
protest since he took office a little
more than year ago, alleges that
the defendants conspired to public
ly disgrace and humiliate him. He
also alleges in his complaint that
several attempts had been made to
entrap him, through an operative
of private detective agency, into
getting intoxicated, and that false
and malicious reports had been cir
culated about him.
State Senator John Bright Webb,
George A. Hacker, Kenneth L. Bak-
er, Fred Foster, the Metropolitan
Secret Service, Inc, and Frederick
P. Carson are named defendants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
ZERO WAVE PERILS
N. Y. MILK SUPPLY:
MERCURY UP HERE
Temperature Here Scars to
is; Drop to Zero Pre-
diCted Tonight.
FIVE DEAD IN STATE
Upturn Comes to City With
Snowfall; One Killed
in City Crash.
The cold wave broke def

The cold wave broke def
nitely in Indianapolis this
afternoon, with a morning
sun aiding in pushing the
mercury to 16.
The weather bureau forecast that
the teperature might slide to zero
during the night, but a similar rise
in the thermometer would occur
again tomorrow.
j. H. Arlington, Federal meteor
ologist, said there was no basis to
reports that Indianapolis would be
swept with new and more severe
cold wave. The bureau was SWamped
With queries on the false report.
A high pressure area moving IN
from tie northwest will send the
mercury down to zero tonight, but
temperatures are expected to re-
cover to 10 tomorrow, Mr.. Arming-
ton said. Before noon the mercury
recorded Is.
An inch of snow fell in Indianap-
oils early this morning, but tomor-
row is expected to be clear Lowest
overnight temperature in Indianap-
oils was 3 at 5 a. m. Fort Wayne
fell 2 below zero.
Traction Crash Proves Fatal
Hilbert c. Cox, Columbus, O., was
injured fatally late yesterday when
his auto skidded on ice at Emerson
av and 23d-st into the path of an
inbound traction car. He was the
eighth person to die thus far this
year in Marion County of traffic
injuries.
The auto was struck broadside
and hurled down a five-foot en-
bankment. w. r. Granderson, New
castle, traction operator, said he
blew the whistle as the car ap-
preached the crossing.
Two Negroes, Thomas MILFORD, 16,
of 1446 Missouri-st, and Ray Sham
WELL co. of 2708 Ethel-st, were treat
ed at City Hospital last night for
frostbite.
James Morgan, 100 Cherry Grove.
is recovering today in City Hospital
from broken hip received when he
slipped on the ice at 30th-st and
Central-av, yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
EdWard VIII

Public interest in the short
life of Edward VIII by Milton
sronner. now running in The
Times, has been so great this
newspaper has also acquired
serial rights to Frazier Hunts
popular recent book, THE
Bachelor Prince"
The Times will begin publ.
cation Of this intimate biogra-
ply ct Great Britain's new
ruler next Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
Five Dead in State

The 24-hour death toll of In
diana's cold wave stood at five today
as higher temperatures relieved
suffering and revived transportation
and business activity.
The rise in temperatures was &C
companied by snow fall through
out the state last night, but most
highways were expected to remain
open to cautious travel.
Hilbert G.. Cox, Columbus, o., was
killed here late yesterday, when his
automobile skidded into the path of
an Indiana Railroad car.
Mrs. Mary Shiels, "a, was burned
fatally as she huddled over an open
fire at her farm home near Bloom
ington.
Woman Found Frozen
Miss Jessie Williamson, So, was
found frozen to death in her Fort
Wayne home.
Dale Emerson Taylor, 8, son of
MIR. and Mrs. Stanley Taylor, Shell
byville, died from pneumonia, in
duced by the cold.
Mrs. Kate Hart, 81, Brimfield,
Noble County, died at neighbor's
home yesterday after she had been
carried from her burning house by
John McMeans, go, who suffered
critical burns.
Mrs. Hart was seized with hys-
terra when trapped by the fire and
fought off McMeans' rescue at
tempts.
Trains From East Late
The last of school children and
motorists marooned in farm houses
and school buildings because drift
ire SHOWS blocked the highways
we're rescued yesterday.
Although traction lines are run
ming on schedule today, trains from
the East were one hour late at
Union Station, Indianapolis.
Ohio River craft was tied UP today
at Madison where ice formed on the
river. State roads were being opened
for through traffic.
Utility wires, snapped by the sub
zero temperatures, were repaired
yesterday by worknren.
All roads in the state are passable
today, the state highway commits
sion reported. Worknlen were sent
out to keep roads clear in the Vim
cennes area, where from 5 to
inches of snow fell last night.
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Only One of go Trucks
Reaches Buffalo With
Dairy Products.
NEW STORM REPORTED
Health Authorities Make
Emergency Plans for
Expected Crisis.
By United Press

Snow blocked h G h ways
and subzero cold threatened
New York City, Buffalo and
dozens of smaller communities
with a critical shortage of
milk today. Health authorities
made emergency preparations
to insure a supply for hos
pitfalls but expected many
homes to be unsupplied.
A new cold wave and snowstorm
threatening the Middle West today
and expected to arrive on the At
lantic seaboard during the week.
end, accumulated the anxiety of state
and city officials.
In Buffalo, only one of go normal
truckloads of milk reached the city
yesterday. Dairy delivery men were
instructed to deliver first to families
with children.
Snow, driven before high winds,
was expected to sharpen the new
cold wave in the East. In the North
west the wind may reach gale force,
while snow in some ASectionS may
reach blizzard intensity. It will fol-
low the recent cold wave, after only
a few days respite from sub-zero
weather.
New Wave on Way
The Dakotas and Minnesota ex-
pected the new wave tonight. It was
sweeping down from CanadaS Mac
kenzie River basin. Forecasters pre-
dicted that this second wave of sub
zero weather would be only slightly
less severe than the three days of
biting blasts just past and would
swell a death toll already above 100.
1t was expected to reach Chicago
and other Midwest areas early to-
morrow.
Meanwhile in New York City tenn
peratures of from 10 to 16 degrees
above zero were received as a well
come relief.
A temporary breathing spell was
provided yesterday throughout the
Middle West with the mercury
moving above zero in Chiacgo for
the first time in 81 hours. Farther
south and west of Chicago however,
rising temperatures still meant that
thermometers were registering be-
low zero.
Below in Chicago
The threat of more snow offered
little hope that many highways in
western Indiana and eastern Ohio
could be cleared for travel. Many
Illinois roads were impossible and
parts of the Northwest were snow
bound. Stranded motorists took
refuge in farmhouSes.
A heavy snowfall last night which
blanketed northeastern Missouri,
southern Illinois and parts of Iowa
and Nebraska delayed trains; while
BUSES and transport planes operat-
ed on irregular schedules and to
some points not at all. Rail service
into st. Louis was delayed from
minutes to several hours in some
cases.
Light snow was falling today in
the territory just south of Chicago
and extending south of Louisville.
The temperature dropped to be-
low in Chicago, while La Crosse,
Wis, reported % below; st. Paul, 20
below; Milwaukee, IL below, and
Devils Lake, N. D., 10 below.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
BY THOMAS l.. STOKES
Times Special Writer

INDIAN APOLIS-The
American Liberty League has
opened headquarters in this
city to batter at the New Deal,
and undoubtedly will give
comfort to the still disorgan-
lied Republican machine in it's
attempt to wean the states
IA electoral votes from Roose-
welt in November.
Entrance of the Davis Smith Ras-
kob-Du Pont organization into the
Indiana fight helps to define the
line of battle which will find big
business, industrial and banking in
terests arrayed against the ordinary
Wage-earner. Farmers will be found
in both camps.
Like all generalities, however, this
division is not entirely accurate.
Party tradition is perhaps stronger
in this state than in any other.
Democrats and Republicans are
born that way. Party loyalty, in
many cases, outWeighs personal
prejudice.
F. d. r. Victory Was Earthquake
President Roosevelt's $4,000 ma
jority in 1882 was a political earth
quake and hardly will happen again,
for the drift noticeable elsewhere has
set in here. The state assumes the
doubtful cast which has always
dramatized it in presidential cleo
tons.
But a canvass indicates that the
President still holds the state and
should hold it in November. Re-
publicans privately give themselves
"a chance" This chance depends a
good deal, their strategists say,
upon how much money they can
throw into this and other large
cities.
The Democrats strength lay in
the cities in the 1884 congressional
elections, when the party majority
was cut to 10000. They lost in the
rural districts, which appeared to
indicate a trend of boiling Repub-
lican farmers back toward their ira
ditional camp despite the then flour
ishing Triple A.
Doubtful factors complicate No
venber forecasts for Indiana.
Democrat Split Threatens
One is the feud within the DEM
ocratic Party over the selection of
a nominee to succeed Gov. McNutt,
who must step out by law at the
end Of his four-year term. Demo-
Gratis say factional differences will
die after the state convention in
June.
Another factor of uncertainty is
the identity of the Republican presi-
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Issue Appeal for Aid of
HooSier Republican
Press.
URGE PARTY HARMONY
Former Senator Out to Gain
Governor Nomination,
Is Rumor,

Committee rooms buzzed
with stop Watson" talk to-
day as Indiana G. o. P. lead
ers gathered for the two-day
meeting of Hoosier Repub-
licans, Inc, the younger and
more liberal element in the
state political ranks.
Although all talk was clothed in
an exterior of party harmony, con-
terees were of the opinion that
former United States Senator James
Ell Watson is out to capture control
OF the June convention and have
himself named the Republican NOM
inee for Governor.
The sessions are being held at the
Columbia Club.
Two RumOrs Heard
This move became evident last
week when Eliza o. Rogers, Lebanon
attorney and former state chair
man, announced as a candidate for
the nomination.
The Hoosier Republican leaders
see this candidacy as another move
by watson to cover his movements
as convention time approaches.
Two rumors are afloat concerning
WatSon's intentions today. One is
that he has formed an alliance with
his former political enemy, James
P. Goodrich, and the other is that
Watson, failing to get the governor
ship nomination, will try for his old
seat in the United States Senate in
1888.
Seek Aid of Press
The younger element is deter
mined that neither shall come to
pass, and they are attempting to
gain the support of the Republican
press in Indiana to champion their
cause.
They already have made some
progress in this direction and such
publishers as F. A. Miller of the
South Bend Tribune and Oscar
Foellinger of the Fort Wayne News
Sentinel, who have hitherto been
aligned with the "old guard" which
watson represents, are reported to
nave turned a receptive ear to
their cause.
Today the committees presented a
consolidated report in which thew
outlined course of action designed
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
AL SMITH PREPARES
new DEAL CRITICISM
New Yorker to Speak for
Liberty League Tonight.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Alfred
E. Smith, little grayer and little
Stouter than the dynamic Demo-
cratic presidential nominee of 1928,
comes to Washington today to
broadSide his powerful oratory in
an American Liberty League chal-
lenge to the New Deal.
Smith will address the nation and
some 1000 diners at one of WASH
lngton'S swank hotels. Liberty
League organizers of this mighty
anti-New Deal rally are a weary lot.
They are making final, futile efforts
to put 5000 to 1000 eager listeners
into banquet hall which can not
hold more than 1000.
Smith will speak into the rad -dio."
His words will be broa beast from
coast to coast in an event which
may climax the Liberty Leagues
non-partisan campaign to stop t:le
New Deal in 1886. The occasio.i is
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
6 DIE AS ARMY
PLANES COLLIDE
Ships Crash in Flames,
MenaCing Entire Base;
Two Escape.
By United Press

By United Press
HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 25.-The
blackened wreckage Of two Army
bombing planes, lying between two
000-gallon gasoline tanks, today
marked the funeral pyre of six Army
filters and indicated the narrow
margin by which catastrophe was
averted.
Had the planes hit the tanks a
terrific blast would have occurred.
The death toll would have been
great.
Both planes were flying at high
speed and they met with terrific
force 500 feet over Ford Island.
last night. Their gasoline tanks ap-
parently exploded while both still
were in the air, spraying liquid fire
over the crew members.
The dead:
Lieut.. w. G. Beard, San Fran
cisco, survived by a wife and baby
daughter in Honolulu.
Staff Sergeant B. F. Jablonsky,
survived by a wife and daughter in
Honolulu.
Private B. E. Taylor.
Private Truman j. Gardner.
Private John Hartman.
Private Parkhurst, first name un-
listed.
Ships Reconditioned Bombers
The injured:
Lieut.. Charles Fischer of March
field, broken leg.
Sergt. Thomas flanagan, lacera-
tions and bruises.
The planes were keystone bomb
ers, recently reconditioned. They
were the two rear ships of squad
ron of eight.
The two planes apparently crashed
as they prepared to land at Luke
field, Army airport. They were the
last planes in squadron to at
tempt a landing. Pilots of the
planes apparently misjudged dis
tances involved, due to gathering
darkness.
Falls Into Flames
Army authorities planned to ques-
ton Lieut.. Fischer and Private
flanagan, the only survivors They
saved themselves by taking 70
parachutes.
Three men managed to take to
parachutes before the crash, but
Private Taylor landed on the roof
of an oil storage tank and he was
pulled off into the flames of mis-
burning ship.
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TRUCK GOES ON SPREE
AS DRIVER SAVES DOG
Moves Filling Station, Wrecks Pump
and Utility Pole; None Hurt.

A large truck and trailer went on
a spree early today and moved a
filling station at Road 81 and 38th-
st a few feet, knocked down a gas
pump and a utility pole and broke
through some wiring.
Maurice Schwab, 80. of 428 Sand
ers-st, driver, and CASTOR Webb,
10, Charlottesville, Mo-, a passen-
ger, were not injured. The truck and
trailer were not damaged.
Schwab explained to the rate
operator of the station that e had
swerved the truck TO avoid liking
9 dog which had darted 4 0 his
path.
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DEATH STILLS BASSO
OF MILLS BROTHERS
Oldest of Famous Quartet
Is Dead at rs.
By United Press


BELLEFONTAINE, O., Jan. 25.-
One voice in the muffled harmony
four internationally known on radio
and screen as the Mills Brothers
was stilled by death today.
John Mills, 25, basso, oldest of
four Negro brothers whose low
rhythm carried them to the top in
the entertainment world in less than
four years, died at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Eathel Mills Jackson,
here. His illness resulted from
lung ailment contracted last spring
in London.
John and his brothers, Donald,
Herbert and Harry, were incompar-
able in their speciality of initiating
musical instruments and injecting
twists of soft harmony, blended with
pleasing effect.
When John died in the attractive
horne he had provided for his moth
er, the other three brothers were
appearing in Philadelphia. Their
father, John ST., has been taking
the ailing brothers place and prob
ably will continue.
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MASS SUICIDE
SUGGESTED IN
DEATHS OF II
Father May Have DeIiber-
ateIy Stalled Car; Girl, 5,
Is Last to Die.
8 ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT
Family Had Been Living in
Direst Poverty in
Chicken Coop.
By United Press

By United Press
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 25.-
Phyllis Mcbride, S, last of family
of IL wiped out when a speeding
passenger train crashed into their
ancient automobile, died of her in
juries in a hospital today.
She was the only member of her
family to reach the hospital alive
Her death removed the last hope
OF authorities who sought from hex
some explanation of the strange be-
havior which led her father to
drive his machine on to the tracks
of the approaching train.
A mass suicide theory was in
veStigated.
Newly Born Infant Killed
The father, Marion Mcbride, 40, a
WPA worker, his wife, Susan, 40
five OF their children and an infant
born at the time of the crash late
Yesterday were killed outright. Two
children died en- route to hos
pital and another died last night
without regaining consciousness.
The body of the newly born in
FAINT was found $50 feet from the
mangled form of the mother. The
baby was expected to have been
born normally within few days.
The Mcbride family, packed close
ly in a 10-year-old car, was return
ing from the funeral of William
Conner, brother of Mrs. Mcbride
at the time of the crash. The
poverty stricken family had been
living in chicken coop on farm
er's property near Leo and mad suf-
fered in the intense cold Of the past
few days.
Buys Candy for Children
Mcbride stopped at store at
Grabill, 200 feet from the tracks, to
buy candy for his children. Then
he started the old car, stopped once
and had just reached the crossing
when the motor went dead. j
George King, station agent, who
witnessed the tragedy from his plat
form a few yards away, said:
Mcbride halted the car so feet
from the tracks with clear view
of the right-of-way. Why he did so
I do not know, but he started his
car forward despite the fact that
the train already was bearing down
on the crossing, and reached the
tracks simultaneously with the loco
motive"
w. E. Rowley of Fort Wayne, en-
gineer of the Wabash passenger
train, said the car came on the
tracks just as ne blew a warning
whistle.
Girl Carried HOO Feet
The car was demolished and bits
of wreckage and bodies, were strewn
along the tracks for several hundred
feet.
Five-year-old Phyllis, the only
survivor, was caught in a fold of
the automobile body, thrown onto
the cow-catcher of the locomotive
and carried HOO feet.
The children killed were: Clara,
IA; Marion Jr., IL; Mary, 10; Ar
thur, g.; Virginia, 6; Robert, 8, and
Richard and Ramona, 17-months-
old twins.
Mrs. William Conner, sister-in
law of Mrs. Mcbride, escaped death
when she decided at the last mo-
ment not to accompany the family.
She had originally planned to go
along and aid Mrs. Mcbride with
the birth of her tenth child.
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FIRE LOSS
PLACED AT $4,000
Ice Coated Firemen Win
5-Hour Fight.

by UHtteU PT6S8
SEYMOUR, Ind, Jan. 25.-Ice-
coated firemen won a fiye-hour fight
against blaze which threatened an
entire business block yesterday and
held the damage to $4,000.
The fire threatened to destroy the
Seymour telephone exchange, where
operators held their posts, protected
from flames and smoke by wet
towels and shielded from torrents of
water by a tarpaulin.
Major damage was confined to
two clothing stores.
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Mr.. Chairman!

Frank Allen, %, six-foot But
Ter University debater, wasted
no words early today telling
Fire Captain T. j. Riley, En-
CINE House 16, why he had run
six blocks through the snow.
Allen was awakened shortly
after midnight to find an over
stuffed chair in his ROOM
ing house, 4901 N. Illinois-st,
ablaze. He pulled the chair
out of the house, and because
there was no telephone, ran to
the nearest fire station, 56th
and Illinois-sts.
Firemen doused the blaze and
treated Allen for burns. He is
an assistant to the Butler ply
sician.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
TEDDY'S WIFE SPEAKS
TO G. O. P. WOMEN
Recounts Experiences While Living
in Philippines.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. spoke
to 500 Republican women today at
a luncheon at the Columbia Club on
ner experiences in the Philippine Is
lands while her husband was COVER.
nor-general there.
Smartly clad in gray WOODEN
dreSs and gray caracul surban. she
TOLD her audience of the economic
and agricultural problems of the
natives.
Mr.. Roosevelt is to join her TO-
night here and they will return to
New York City tomorrow following
his address to the Hoosier Repub-
Means, Inc, at English's Theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
U. S. JURY POWDERS
SHIP OFFICERS FATE
Trio Charged With Negligence in
Moro Castle Disaster.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-A Federal
court jury today received the case
OF three men charged with GRIM
inal negligence in the burning of
the Ward Liner MORO Castle, in
wnlcn l34 lives were lost off Asbury
Park, N. j., in September, 1894.
Inc defendants are Capt. William
F. Warns and Chief Engineer Eben
s. Abbott of the MORO Castle and
Henry E. Cabaud, vice president OF
the New York & Cuba Mail Steam
snip Co., which operated the vessel.
They face, if convicted, a maxi
mum penalty of 10 years in prison
and fine of $4,000 each. The
company. which also is defendant.
is liable to a $4,000 fine.