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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
FEAR OF PUNISHMENT
LEADS BOY TO DEATH
Runaway Youth Killed in Jump
From Speeding Train.


By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-Johnny Kirk,
II, was good boy, but occasionally
he ran away from home.
At first his parents just tried
pleading with him. Then they tried
spanking. He was afraid of the
spankings, but he ran away, any,
way.
The last time was Feb. 6. Police
found him in Milwaukee. Yesterday
he was placed on train and started
home. But he was afraid of a spank
ing He looked at the snow outside
the speeding train and thought it
wouldn't hurt to jump.
His head struck signal post and
he was killed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
Relief in Indiana

WHATS the "owdown" relief n Indiana?
w there graft in the administration relief?
there such things Indiana "chseing"
dogglng"?
Is relief work tending to pauperize the recipients
Are relief workers reluctant to take regular jobs?
All these questions answered
thoritative Of articles
Steine.
His starts Page Section in
Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
GAS LEAKS PROBED AS
CITIZENS DEFY DRAFTS
Belleville, ILL.,, Sleeps With Windows
Open After Deaths of Two.
BIZ United Press

BW GNlTeU PFcSS
FELLEVILLE, Ill, Feb. 13.-Ap-
prehensive residents in several dis
trlcts of this city of 10000 popula-
ton braved drafts from widely
opened windows today as Federal
investigators began an inquiry into
an insidious gas leakage which al
ready has taken two lives.
:. score, made seriously i'll by the
fumes, have received hospital treat
ment. and still others have been
nauseated. A preliminary investi-
CATION by Health Officer William
Farley indicated the gas was Seep-
ing into homes undetected from fro
zen street mains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
MOTOR SHARES STRONG
IN AFTERNOON TRADING

q. vi. Goes Up; ChrysIer Reaches
95A; Packard Hits New High.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. Strength
in motor shares featured mid-after-
noon stock market trading today
after profit-taking had pared earlier
gains that had carried the list into
new highs.
General Motors. appearing in
blocks up to 5000 shares. rose to 59ss
for u gain. Chrysler reached 95A
for rs gain and Packard was at a
new 1935-36 high of 9h up 4.
White Motors also was active
around 22ls, new high. on y adj
rance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
APPEAL DATE Is FIXED
State Supreme Court to Hear
Walter Case Feb. 26.

By United Press
HUNTINGTON, Ind, Feb. 10. -
Oral arguments in the appeal of
Rollo N. Waiter, Lagrange banker,
from conviction on embezzlement
charges, are to be heard by the
Supreme Court Feb. Is. Claude
Cline, defense attorney, announced
today.
Walter was convicted on two
charges after failure Of the La
grange County Trust Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
PARK HEADS RENAMED
Board Officers, Department Leaders
Are Reelected.

The Park Board at a reorganiza-
ton meeting today reelected all
officers and reappointed all depart
mental heads. Officers are Jacket
w. Joseph, president and Albert H.
Gisler, vice president. Department
heads are A. c. Sallee, park super
intendent, and H. w. Middlesworth,
recreation director.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
DOCTOR RAISES HOPES
ON VACCINE FOR COLDS
Virus Kept Alive 20 Months Aids
Research, He Says.
By United Press

hcSedrcn, he says.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The ability
to keep alive in a test tube for 20
months the virus identified as the
cause of the common cold, has
brought science closer to the devel-
opment of an anti-cold vaccine, DR..
A. Raymond Dochez. professor in
the Columbia School of Medicine,
said today.
The virus has been known for
some time, but DR.. Dochez's an
nouncement that it can be kept liv-
ing as result of recent experiments
gave the first hope that a vaccine to
cure common colds might be de-
veloped soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
II FRENCH R0YALISTS
NABBED AFTER MELEE
Sarraut Calls Cabinet 20 Ponder
Demands for Dissolution.

bV tHlJtN TTtNN
PARIS, Feb. 13.-Twelve Royalists
were arrested today after skirmish
with police following the beating of
the Socialist leader, Leon Blum.
Premier Sarraut called the cab
inet 20 consider Socialist demands
for dissolution of the Royalist or
ganization, Action Francaise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
MRS. COOLIDGE SAILS

Abroad Until Spring.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Mrs. CAL
vim Coolidge sailed for Europe last
night on the North German Lloyd
liner Bremen. Her name did not ap-
pear on the passenger list.
Officials of the ship admitted Mrs
Coolidge was on board travelling
under the name of Mrs. Adams" 1t
was learned Mrs. Coolidge was going
to the south of France and to Egypt
and would return in April.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
ILLINOIS MAN NAMED
TO POST IN TREASURY
Wayne C. Taylor Appointed to Sue
coed Lawrence Robert.

coed Lawrence Robert.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today nominated
Wayne C. Taylor of Illinois to be
assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
to succeed Lawrence L. Robert, re-
signed The President also named
William Driscoll of Pittsburgh to
be collector of internal revenue for
the Twenty third Pennsylvania Dis
trict.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
SURVEY OF CITY HALL
SALARIES is STARTED

Standardized Pay for All Employees
Sought, Mayor Explains.
A salary survey was started at
City Hall today by Mayor Kern.
Questionnaires asking wages, work.
il g conditions, hours of work and
personal information were given all
city employees.
The surveys purpose, according
to the Mayor is to obtain Standard
lied pay for city employees, especially
in the hospital and street depart
ments.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
CABINET SHIFT.
EXPECTED IN
TEMPEST
Canterbury Still Under
Fire in Abdication
of Monarch
BY DAVID p. SENTNER

LONDON, Dec. 16 QN.S0.
Former King Edward is far from
the storm center. but the tempest
stirred by his going still RACES,
with the archbishop Of Canterbury
and the cabinet again under fire,
and with the possibility that a
cabinet minister who defended
Edward may, like the King, lose
his job.
Reports were heard in White
hall today that Alfred Duff
Cooper, war minister, may be
transferred. While it was stressed
thai the possible move has no con-
nectiou with the Kings abdica-
ton, It is generally known that
Duff Cooper and Home Secretary
Sir John Simon were the only
members of the cabinet who
favored legislation permitting Ed
ward to marry Mrs. Wallis Simp-
son.
The Daily Express said today
that cabinet changes may be eX-
pected during the parliamentary
recess" which begins Friday and
ends January 10.
Reconvenes Earlier
Announcement in the House of
Commons that Parliament would
have to reconvene a week earlier
than expected brought disap-
pointed cries Of "Oh!" from mem
bers, and Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin explained:
"We have lost great deal Of
time"
He referred to the suspension Of
ordinary business during the royal
crisis.
G. A. Griffiths. Laborite, cried:
"That's not our fault"
Baldwin said, amid laughter:
"III take the blame"
The boIdest critic Of the forces
that led to Edwards abdication
was Ben Tillet, prominent Labor
leader, who shocked Labor
Liberal united front" meeting by
saying:
81 only regret that the great
little gentleman who has just
left the country did not say in
his farewell some of the things
he would like to have seen done
by parliament for the people, or
said something Of what he
thought of the people who wished
to do something else than the
things he wanted to see done.
QUEEN RECOVERING
eff he had spoken as he might
have done, he could have told
Of those who had bounded him
out of life and position, how he
had been asked by the bishops,
the politicians, and the others
to do something that he did not
want to do"
In the midst Of this strife,
George vi went ahead with the
task of restoring to the crown
the prestige it enjoyed under his
father.
Today his first horse raced un.
der the royal colors-Marconi,
the favorite in the Windsor
Steeplechase.
Queen Elizabeth Is recovering
from influenza, but her recurrent
illnesses today caused Lloyds to
set the premium for insurance
against postponement of the cor
onation, set for May IL. at 20
per cent.
$12S,OOO For Ex-King
The royal family, with Queen
Mother Mary, will spend the
Christmas season at Sandring-
ham House, it was announced.
The former King, now the
Duke Of windsor, according to
the Daily Express, will get at
least $125,000 from Parliament
IAN income adequate to his rank
and standing"-but he'll have to
pay income tax on it.
Princess Elizabeth, as heir pre-
sumptiVe, probably will get $780,
900 annually when she comes
o. age at Is. She's 10 now.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
miller URGES
DEFENDERS

A public defender system for
the District was advocated by Spe-
cial Assistant Attorney General
Justin Miller at a luncheon meet
ing of the District Bar Association
and the Junior Bar Conference of
the American Bar Association yes
terday in the Hamilton Hotel.
Miller explained the public de-
fender system afforded a means
of supplying capable legal counsel
for those accused Of crime who
are unable to secure legal services.
He said the c''chief Importance of
an officer of this kind is that he is
a part in the case from the very
beginning at the time Of the ar.
rest and an assurance to the in.
dividual he will get proper repre-,
Sentation."
He explained that the cost for
such a service is decreased, due
to the greater number of guilty
pleas and fewer postponements,
which takes up so much time of
the courts. He also declared the
system would be q blow to the
"shyster" and incapable lawyers,
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
K|NGSH|PG0NE,
, EDWARD KING
ATHEART
Shows Graciousness in
Journey Across France
To Vienna
By JAMES E. BROWN


PARIS, Dec. 16 G.N.S0.-Ed-
ward, Duke of Windsor, whose
kingship is a thing Of the past,
is still q king at heart, with all
the affable graciousness Of royalty
That the royal exile at Castle
Enzesfeld is acting no differently
today than when he resigned was
established by the attitude he re-
vealed during his unforgettable
trip from the French coast to
Vienna, when more than a dozen
times he proved that kingly quail.
ties are an innate and unchange-
able part of him.
Dignity, reserved friendliness,
and a certain abstraction charac-
terized his demeanor. The down
cast eyes and irritability which
some had expected were absent.
Meets Reporter
Among the unpublished incl
dents on the trip, typical OF the
Duke of Windsor, was his consent
to receive a British newspaper
man whom he had met on the
Italian front during the World
War.
Although the conservation was
strictly "off the record" the Incl
dent sounded the keynote of good
feeling between Edward and the
press.
The most amazing part of the
odyssey across three countries are
the excitement and bated breath
which greeted the arrival of the
train at every little waySide sta
excitement which was COM
municated to the customs inspec.
tors and frontier guards, with the
result that this correspondent
went all the way from France to
Austria without a passport.
Suggested A Note
Quickest to catch the spirit OF
Edward were the British news
papermen who, when the Ameri-
can correspondents suggeste d
writing a note asking him to re-
ceive a representative, vetoed the
idea. The Fleet Street scribes
said:
although he Is no longer
king in fact, he is still a king in
spirit. We had better write q
note to Hon. Piers Leigh, his
equerry, asking him to COM
municate our request to his
Royal Highness, the Duke Of
Windsor"
The remark of a little old wona-
an on the railway platform at
Basle sums up the grace Of Wind
Sor:
"He is still King"
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
AND j. ).
REACH TRADE
AGREEMENT
Ambassador Phillips
Signs Temporary
Pact in Rome

ROME, Dec. 16 Q.N.S0.-Sup-
planting out of date agreements
and providing for freer CONNER.
cial dealings between Italy and
the United States, an informal
trade understanding was reached
today.
Ambassador William Phillips
and Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian
foreign minister, met at the Chig1
Palace and put their names to a
paper that will serve as an Italo-
American commercial agreement
until a more formal pact is signed
a year hence.
An official statement of their
meeting said:
Negotiations have been in
progress in Rome for some
months for conclusion of a new
trade agreement.
"a draft agreement is now
being examined.
cat the PalazZO Chigi Count
Ciano and Mr.. Phillips signed
an informal understanding
which in the interim will take
the place Of the agreement Of
1871, which no longer meets
present-day requirements. De"
nunciatiOn of that agreement
takes effect one year from
now"
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
PLANE SEARCH
HALTEDBYF0G
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Continued from Page II
to have plunged the liner into q
jutting mountain peak or crashed
it in some inaccessible canyon
crevice.
Hope of finding the occupants
alive waned as no word came from
the ill-fated ship "a hours after
it disappeared.
Besides the pilot, the plane car.
ried Copilot William Bogen Of
Burbank, Cal: SteWardeSs Gladys
Witt, Mr.. and Mrs. James Wolfe, OF
Chicago; H. w. Edwards, radio en-
gineer for the Northwest Air Lines
at Minneapolis, and c. Christie
pher Of Dwight. Ill.
Miss Witt, the stewardess. was
the goal Of an air race to Kansas
City by two suitors several weeks
ago.
She terminated the incident
with the declaration that she
would not marry Erich K. Balzer
and that she and Airlines Pilot
Ames Roe, were still very good
friends"
Had Motor Trouble
Search was concentrated today
in the rugged Alpine sector OF
the Wasatch Mountains, par
ticularly in the shadow Of snow
capped Mount Timranogos, ont
of the highest peaks in the
Rockies. It was in this vicinity
that the drone Of airplane motors
apparently in trouble, was heard
by residents between 3 and 4
a. m. Tuesday.
Veteran fliers. after an all-day
search Tuesday, voiced the
theory that Pilot Samson found
the customary airlane over the
Bingham Mountains fogged ir
and turned east to locate the
Salt Lake radio beam and drop
into Salt Lake City through the
Jordan Narrows Pass. They said
he probably lost his course in
the storm and continued too far
into the cavernous canyon ra
vines that border the valley.
Woman Heard Plane
This theory was strengthened
by the report Of Mrs. w. H. Pear
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
RFC EXTENSION
TO BE ASKED
International News Service


The Administration will oppose
any major revision of the national
banking laws at the next session
Of Congress.
Heads of Federal fiscal and lend
ing agencies. meeting with Secre-
tary of the Treasury MorgenthaI,
indicated today that all legislative
proposals affecting banks would be
Of a minor and clarifying nature.
While no definite recommends
tions were drafted, it was agreed
that the majority Of President
Roosevelt's emergency financial
powers should be continued. Nor
genthau and RFC Chairman Jesse
H. Jones shared the opinion that
the RFC should continue intact
for at least another year.
Both feel that the recovery
movement has not progressed to
the point that permits abandon
ment Of RFC lending authority.
Unless extended by Congress, the
corporation S. power to make loans
terminates January 30.
The conferees also favored con-
tinuance of the $4,000, 200, 900 sta
bilization fund and the Presidents S
right to alter the value Of the dol
lar. Treasury officials already
have indicated that extension Of
the stabilization fund powers
would be asked Immediately after
Congress convenes. These powers
expire January 81.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
First Degree Asked
In Maxwell Case

though attorneys point out that In
the history of the Commonwealth
no woman has been legally exc
cuted.
At the discretion of the jury.
Edith could be convicted of as
little as assault and battery, carry
ing only a fine Of So.
Trial Cost High
There is strong feeling here
that the case will result in a hung
jury and the necessity Of another
trial.
The Maxwell case has done
much to deplete the county treas
ury, although Wise county is one
Of the richest counties in the
State, because Of the coal mining
industry here.
It is costing the county about
$500 a day in jury and witness
fees, and the case started last
Wednesday. Then there is the ex-
pense Of paying an outside judge
Judge H. A. w. Skeen, who has
been on the bench here Is years
was disqualified because he il
"kin" to the Maxwell family, one
immediate member Of his family
he was one Of 18 brothers and sis
ters-having married into the
Maxwell clan.
So they brought up Judge Ezra
Carter from adjoining Scott
county, to hear this case. And the
county has to pay him SIS day
plus his expenses.
The State rested it's case yester.
day after presenting 10 rebuttal
witnesses, who sought to offset
the testimony given by the de
fense.
Prosecution Surprised
The defense had the right tc
call other witnesses in sur-rebut
tai, but decided its case was
complete.
Edith herself and her mother,
Mrs. Anne Maxwell, who was in
dicted with her, were not called
to the stand. They testified at
the first trial.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
MAXWELL FEUD
FEARED BY
SHERIFF
GunPIay Threatened
Among Partisans
In Death Trial

WISE, Va, Dec. l6.-A new
mountain feud may result from
the Edith Maxwell trial, no mat
ter what the verdict.
That was the fear expressed to.
day by w. M. Boiling, high sheriff
of the county.
Sheriff Boiling, who packs q
.45-caliber revolver on his hip, ad-
mitted that already at least two
Of the witnesses in the case have
been threatened-and he frankly
fears a shooting" may be the
aftermath.
One man who testified has been
threatened with physical violence,
he reported to the sheriff, who
said:
"If they do what they have
threatened, then q shooting will
almost certainly follow. This
case has resulted in . bad feel
ing in the county. and anything
may happen"
There never has been q bad
shooting feud in this county, al
though only a few miles away the
Mccoy Hatfield feud and the Allen
feud, which resulted in a shooting
fray in court, ragged for years.
Just outside the court room
where Edith is on trial Is the
place where the gallowS stood in
the old days where those found
guilty Of murder were hanged be
fore the State law was changed
and men were executed ct the
penitentiary at Richmond.
And just a few miles further up
in the mountains, there was q
lynching several years ago.
Already there have been threats
Of gunplay as q result Of this case,
and so the sheriff and his depu.
ties are standing by, grim and
ready for anything that may trans
pire.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16

son Of Pleasant Grove, Utah, who
reported hearing the plane limp
ing along with engine trouble"
at 4 a. m.
She reported:
"It was going north and the
motor was sputtering. At times
1t would 60 off entirely, then it
would start up again."
The aerial search over the area
where the plane was last heard
was being conducted by Fred w,
Kelly and Jimmy James, veteran
pilots of the Western Air Express,
and Pilot John Campbell and
Sergt. Daniel Hope, of the United
States Army air squadron.
Pilot Samson has had seven
years flying experience and ranks
fifth in the company'S seniority
list.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
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/ NSSASSAASSNS
sisting the prosecution and EN-
ployed the special prosecutor.
Declaring that Edith was in.
dicted on the day after her
fathers death, Dotson hinted that
politics" was responsible for the
prosecution.
Dotson derided the States case,
and declared no evidence had been
adduced to show that Trigg Max
well was murdered in his bed.
Edith seemed nervous as the
argument was under way. She
chewed her lip, and several times
there were tears in her eyes.
Crowd Sets Record
The court room was packed
with more than $50 persons stand
ing in the aisles and in the CORR
dors outside. It was the biggest
crowd yet at the trial, brought
here by the attraction Of hearing
six attorneys argue the case.
Mrs. Roosevelt's name was
drawn into the case by Attorney
Dotson. Pointing to the States
testimony that Edith had threat.
ened to kill" her father, Dotson
pointed out that such threats are
often made.
Dotson said Mrs. Roosevelt re
Gently used such an expression,
declaring she could have slain
a certain newspaper reporter.
Charles Henry Smith, chief de.
fense counsel, followed Dotson,
and declared the commonwealth
had not proved that Trigg Max.
well was slain, and that there
was ample testimony to show he
died Of natural causes.
Before the sun sets the fate Of
the young girl who was found
guilty of first-degree murder
and sentenced to Is years In
the penitentiary just 13 months
ago-a sentence later reversed by
the Virginia Supreme Court OF
Appeals-may be decided.
Edith Confident
While awaiting the opening oi
court today, Edith said:
81 am sure that by tonight
this ordeal will be over and
will be free. Then / shall
start life all over again, but
not up here. I want to 60 far
away and forget all this"
Her defense counsel, too, say
she will be cleared. A. r. Dotson
her maternal uncle and one OF
the battery of defense attorneys
said:
II believe we shall have .
verdict Of not guilty half an
hour after the jury gets the
case."
But the prosecution is equally
certain that the verdict will again
be guilty"
Wears Sees Conviction
Oscar Wears, the 74-year.old
special prosecutor, who has prac
ticed in the courts of this county
for 48 years, said;
II believe the verdict will be
guilty What degree Of guilt
they will find I cannot say"
If convicted of first degree
murder Edith faces possibility O
death in the electric chair-al
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
ROTARY Club
T0FETE BOYS

The seventeenth annual Christ.
mas party for the members Of
the Boys Club Of Washington
and the Georgetown Boys Club
will be held under sponsorship
of the Rotary Club at 1880 p. M,
next Wednesday at the Boys
Club, 230 c st. N. w.
A program Of entertainment
has been arranged, and to COM
plete any boys party there will
be plenty of food. The George
town boys will be taken to the
club by buses, and members OF
the Rotary Club will be on hand
to see that the affair goes off in
fine shape, and that all the kids
get their share Of the fun.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16

EDITH MAXWELL, whose is expected to go to the
jury at Wise va today The 2year old school teacher
trial for the second time charge that she murdered her
father Trgg with blow with slipper. The defense has
commended with the help Of expert Witnesses that Maxwell did
not die from that blow Miss Maxwell sentenced to 25
years conviction her first trial International News
Photo.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
MINERS TOLD
OF 4O-HR. WEEK
international News Service

International News Service
The operators negotiating COM
mittee Of the Appalachian Joint
Wage Conference notified the
United Mine Workers Of America
today it will insist on replacing
the present 35-hour week with a
40-hour week without raising the
weekly wage basis.
The present contract expires
March 81. Negotiations for the
new wage contracts will begin in
New York on February q.
The notice to the union was
signed by eight operators. The
action makes it almost certain
there will be prolonged negotia-
tions, with a possibility Of a strike
if new contract is not signed.
While no statement was forth
coming from John L. Lewis, presi.
dent Of the U. M. w., it is under.
stood he will demand q six-hour
day without any reduction in
weekly wage rates.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16
Reorganization Set

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-James
Butler Grocery Company, which
last spring reorganized itself into
servicing agency and sold 370
of it's 485 outlets to their man.
ayers, yesterday filed a voluntary
bankruptcy petition in U. S.
Court, Brooklyn.
The Washington times., 1936-12-16

Men who have "shopped" the town
tell us these Suits and OCoats are
the best buys in the city. They're
all wool, styled right and tailored
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