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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-27
ATTORNEYS IN JAC0BY
CASE READ DISPOSITIONS
Testimony of Absent Witness Pre-
scented to Court.

After a motion for a directed YER
dict of not guilty was overruled, de-
Tense attorneys for Forrest ia
CODY. Al Head. John Head and
Jerry Dukes opened today in
Criminal Court with reading sof
dispositions of absent witnesses.
Objections to the dispositions by
the prosecution was overruled.
The men are charged with the rob-
berry of the William H. Roberts g.
Sons Dairy last, August.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-27
RESCUE is NEAR FOR
1850 STRANDED ON ICE
Fishermen Contacted After Being
Marooned 40 Days.

Mar0Oneu 4U Days.
By United Press
MOSCOW, Jan. 27.-All of the
1850 fishermen and 1400 horses ma
rooned on ice foes in the Caspian
Sea are expected to make contact
with the shore soon, it was an
nounced today.
The men are afoat with food,
fuel and forage for 40 days. All are
believed safe. The largest group,
numbering 1000, has established
radio communication with the shore
and announced it has caught
100000 pounds of fish while drift
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-27
ROOSEVELT MAY
KEEP MISSOURI
Boss Pendergast Ready to
Go Down Line for
President.

Here Is the third of series of articles
by the chief political writer of The Times
Washington bureau. He is swinging
around the circle from coast to coast
viewing the campaign situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-27
Find Hit Run Victims Body
By United Press

Oy CHtteU FTet8
HAMMOND, Ind, Jan. 27.--The
body OF Michael j. Boland. S.. ap-
parently the victim of a hit-and-
run driver. was found on an icy
street yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-27
BUILDING PERMITS DROP
Cold Weather Slows Operations,
Commissioner Says.

Cold weather has discouraged
building operations here, William F.
Hurd, building commissioner, said
today.
In the week ending Jan. IS, the
permits dropped to s24,842, loss
of almost so per cent from the COR
responding week in 1885. he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-27
BANGS CASE OPENED
IN HUNTINGTON COURT
Mayor and 10 Co-Defendants Face
Contempt Charge.

OhtNAhPs OAdA
By United Press
HUNTINGTON, Jan. 27.-A
hearing on contempt charges
against Mayor Clare w. H. Bangs
and 10 co-defendants was sched-
uled to open today in Huntington
Circuit Court before Special Judge
Huber M. Devoss.
Amended complaints, filed by the
Northern Indiana Power Co.
charge the militant mayor and his
followers violated a permanent in
junction prohibiting extension of
the city's ''toy" electric plant.
Bangs spent 101 days in Hunting
ton County jail last summer when
he refused to post an appeal bond
after his conviction on charges of
violating a temporary injunction
obtained by the private utility.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16
ERWIN PROBABLY
IS LEADING RACE
State Education Head Not
Expected to Have Any
Primary Trouble

Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
, ~ ma CHx IND WrUrw

Raleigh, April 16.-Though he did
not formally announce as a candidate
to succeed himself until a few days
ago, State Superintendent of Public
instruction Clyde A. Erwin is now re-
garded as being well out in advance
of the other two candidates who are
opposing him, according to comment
heard here and in other sections of
the State. The other two candidates
opposing Erwin for the nomination
for State superintendent in the June
primary are A. B. Alderman, of Snow
Hill, county superintendent of schools
in Greene county, and Gilbert Craig,
of Hills5oro, for several years a school
principal and in active school work.
When State Superintendent Erwin
first became active several months
ago and the belief in many quarters
was that he was going to have a diff
ficult time to win the denomination,
largely because he was advocating so
much for the schools that the rank
and file of the taxpayers were afraid
of his program. He not only advocated
a State-supported nine months term,
twelve grade schools system, much
.,
lighter pupil load per teacher, but was
also advocating the abolition of the
State School Commission and the con-
centration of all school authority in
his department, by urging the uni
fication Of school control"
Opposition Outlets Him.
But since he has had some opposi-
ton, Erwin has had very little to say
in recent weeks about a nine months
school term, except by local supple
ments, a twelfth grade and has not
been talking so much about 'unifica-
ton of school control with the result
that his chances for winning the nom
ination to succeed himself are regard
ed as better than az any time so far.
For while it is generally agreed that
a majority of the superintendent and
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16

OF office, compelling him to wait until
MS thirtieth birthday to Ibe seated.
MANY ATTACKS
stephen Raushenbush is another in
olvldual that it does not pay Hopkins
TO be criticized by, on the ground that
WPA funds have been used to play
politics with in Pennsylvania.
Raushenbush has had plenty of re-
cent publicity as chief investigator
for the senatorial committee which in
vestigated the American munitions
business, as a war-propagandizing in
terest. He stands we'll in the keystone
state, is competent inquisitor. a lib
eral, and his complaints are not to be
taken lightly.
Hopkins row with Ohio's Demo
cratic governor, Martin L. Davey, will
not Toe forgotten either. The merits
of it are neither here nor there. It
was an ugly dispute, not calculated to
keep Buckeye Democracy united.
Republican attacks on the WPA adj
ministrator come from every quarter.
Doubtless that is to be politically ex-
pected. Still, the G. O.. P. appears to
consider Hopkins particularly vulner-
able.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16

"APRIL SHOWERS bring May flowers"
And warmer weather. too: That means
brand-new gasoline is shipped to Gulf sta
tions-e gas especially made for April driO-
ing. For unless gasoline is change1 70 meet
Spring temperatures it can't give the high
est mileage. Get That Good Gcifit's
except in Step with the Calendar so that aN
cfH goes to work-mone Of it goes to sVaste.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16

Because the ballots will be mailed
on five successive Thursdays, "North
Carolina Speaks will be able to de-
tect by the mailing time of the return
ballots, the vagaries of the public
mind; a trend for or against any Of
the four candidates as the date of the
actual election draws nearer. In the
event that one candidate Immediately
assumes lengthy lead over his three
opponents will thousands of voters
climb aboard the band wagon and
thereby increase his lead? or, will pro-
ponents of the three lower candidates
Ibestir themselves and overtake the
leader? You can learn the answer to
these questions by following the straw
vote reports in the Henderson Daily
Dispatch.
Next Thursday there will appear an
other article by this writer, covering
various aspects of the governorship
campaign, battle which has already
caused more comment in North Car
DINA than any governorship campaign
in more than a generation.
SO scientific, so automatically &C
curate will be this poll it cannot be
questioned. AS the heat of the CAM
paign grows hotter and hotter, advo-
Gates for the candidate so luckless as
to be the low man will feel the urge
to question this, or any other straw
vote along the same lines When those
who would question the accuracy of
the poll pause to reflect upon the sys-
tematic thoroughness and the in
tegrity of the 20 newspapers, they will
be sure to see the futility of criticism.
If you are among those to receive
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16
WPA INQUIRY MAY
HURT Mr.. HOPKINS
Liberals Doing Criticizing;
Doesn't Help Campaign
Along, Either
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Washington, April 16.-From the ma
ture OF his job, probably Works Pro-
gress Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins could not have avoided making
many enemies.
He has them anyway
No other New Deal official is under
such heavy fire from so many diff
fcrent directions. This does not seem
TO perturb the White House, but to
some few among the managers of
Democratic reelection campaign po-
Icy it is, confidentially, a cause of
considerable worry.
Hollis COMPARISONS
They are worried all the more be-
cause, with New Dealers doing the in
vestigating, an inquiry into WPA's
activities cannot give clean slate to
Hopkins organization in very con-
vincing fashion.
Senator Rush Holt of West Vir-
ginia expressed himself harshly when
he compared a WPA probe" of WPA-
ties with an investigation of Dillinger
by Baby Face Nelson, Nevertheless, it
was telling way in which to put his
idea across-the kind of comparison
that can ice used mighty effectively in
campaign oratory; anybody can I'M
derstand it. It's witty, too, and sticks
in the memory. u
All the worse for Hopkins, Holt is
a Democrat and presumably liberal.
BY the way, the West Virginian Is
an extraordinarily bright boy, who
has been we'll advertised as having
been elected to the Senate even be-
fore he was eligible to take the oath
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16
Dispatch to Cooperate
In Statewide Newspaper
Straw Vote on Governor

CONTINUED from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16
DEMOCRATS FEAR
LABOR MOVEMENT
More or Less Bowling to
John L. Lewis Organiza-
ton; Look to 1910
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer

TT IS NATURAL to assume that
the position of organized labor would
worry the Republicans especially
with all the anti-labor efforts of large
industrialists being brought out be-
fore a Senate committee making an
investigation of anti-laIbor activities.
But the Roosevelt Democrats also
have become somewhat worried.
Boss" James A. Farley tried to put
over Dan Tobin, head of the teams
ters' union, as chairman of a labor
campaign committee within the ma
tional Democratic organization. John
L. Lewis. now the dominant figure in
American labor, and his increasing
number Of followers, consider Tobin
a reactionary and out of sympathy
with mass labor movements, such as
industrial unionism embracing every
body in each industry.
Now Lewis, of course, is strongly pro-
Roosevelt, as are his followers. But
they refuse to be dominated. To hold
that powerful group, the Democratic
organization will have to heed it.
Lewis wasted no time, therefore, to
make his objection to Tobin known.
He did it in a practical manner. He
backed the formation of Labor's Nom
Partisan league, with George l.. Berry
at its head. The dominating figures,
however, are Lewis and Sidney Hill
man, president of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers with it's member
ship chiefly in New York, where votes
are vital to President Roosevelt)
Berry, truely enough, is President
Roosevelts Co-ordinator for Indus
trial Co-operation-but he belongs TO
the Lewis wing of organized labor and
owes allegiance there.
Democrats are fearful real labor
party is getting under way in the
United States. That may mean trou-
BILE in 1910.
DAMAGING
Industrialists in the Pittsburgh re-
eion are bitter over the testimony of
]. Warren Madden, the PittSourgher
who became chairman Of the National
Labor Relations Board and Heber
Blankenhorn, economist Of the board,
before the Senate subcommittee on la
Dor and education headed by Senator
Robert M. La Toilette.
Both told of alleged terrorist meth
DDS employed in the Pittsburgh dis
trict
Bankenhorn estimated that private
detective agencies had supplied 1885,
600 industrial spies in recent years at
a cost of approximately $60,000,O0O
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16

teachers would rather see the State
School Commission abolished than to
have their salaries increased, most OBJ
servers agree that the public in gen
eral will never consent to permit the
State Superintendent and Department
of Public Instruction to take over the
allotment and expenditure of from
$2O,GOO,OOO to $25,OO0,OOO a year in
school funds, without careful super
vision from some other body, such as
the State School Commission. The be-
lief is that Erwin has at last begun
to realize this and to soft pedal his
former program.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16

year. (The figures seem INCOMPETENT
sjale)
Chairman Madden was militant in
his testimony. He asserted that the
right of worknen to organize into
unions has become an important civil
liberty
He added: ut would seem that if
an American government state or
federal, were to enact a statute for
bidding working men from organizing
unions, that statute. would be declared
unconstitutional as a deprivation of
liberty or property. Yet there exist
large enterprises which attempt to
prevent workmen from doing what
even American governments may not
do"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16

Henderson Daily Dispatch ballot,
won't you please indicate your choice
and mail the card at once? All ballots
used in this poll are absolutely secret.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-16

The post cards are not coded. No one
will know how you vote. No signature
is required The ballots bear return
postage, so no stamp is necessary.
Evening star., 1936-03-31
Ne,C High.PO Bullet Menace
To Safety of C-Men and Police

If a new type of zinc cartridge,
about to be put on the market by an
American manufacturer, falls into the
hands Of gangsters millions of dollars
worth of so-called bullet-proof equip
ment used by G-men and police will
be rendered Obsolete" according to
j. Edgar Hoover, director of the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation.
There is no way to prevent GRIM
inals from purchasing this deadly am
munition under present Federal laws,
Hoover told the House Subcommittee
on Justice Department Appropriations.
The only control the Government can
exercise over firearms is through the
Federal registration law, he said, and
this does not cover ammunition.
Recently we learned" Hoover told
the committee at hearings on the ap-
preparation bill, there is certain
equipment which Is being manufac-
Evening star., 1936-03-31
Copyright 1895. by the Associated Press,


TRENTON, N j., March 81 t0.-The iron Of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann with death in the electric
chair only few hours away snapped today but his Sob
racked story of innocence shed through the death house
unbroken and unchanged
'I innocent" cried the condemned Lndbergh baby
killer final tests being made few feet away
of the chair in which he is to die shortly after o'clock for
the shocking crime of the Sourand Hills
His last hope gone. The Pardons Court which
could have saved him. refused to do Gov Harold G.
Hoffman, who dared political disaster in attempt to
solve the Lndbergh in the face of Femngton rys
verdict that the already solved said he would not
again interfere.
Everything stands was" in the case, Hoffman re-
asserting his announcement there would be no repreve
He said he did not know yet whether he would have
any further statement
The convicted kidnap slayer crying that "he was
innocent" Col Mark o. Krnberling, prison warden said
after visiting his cell
told Kimberling . z,
st have absolutely change to make in my story Ihe
prisoner told the truth from start TO nnls
ANY change in my story would be lie and could not oe
borne out Haupmann cried The warden said was
the death cell about $3.50 O'CLOCK THIS
Spends Writing Mother.
that he could talk coherenty," Kmberling said ;,
he two guards Fred Mayor and Charles D. Douglas Salo
Bruno up of the night writing letter to ms
mother, and talking to the guards -
intermently from 10:30 pm to 53O M
about his family now they
Evening star., 1936-03-31
Smoke Nuisance Is Blamed
On Improper installations
H. X. Kugel Says Use of High Volatile
Coal and "Guilty" Oil Burners
Also Increase Problem.

A visitor might be surprised, but a
resident does not have to be told. that
Washington, a non-industrial metrop-
oils. has a smoke problem so serious
that it is considered important among
reasons for the Capitals present soiled
condition.
Almost before the last stone Is in
place on some new Government build
ing or handsome private residence, a
coat of SCOT has begun to form, and
in o few years ediflces that we're to
be white are found to be gray.
While the electrification of one rail-
road entering Washington has con-
tributed toward a cleaner city the
problem of SCOT and coal dust remains
a paramount cause of urban disflg-
urement.
Few householders, even in realms
where there are no large apartment
houses or Office buildings, have es-
capped the inconvenience Of layers Of
Evening star., 1936-03-31
.STRETz SOBB|NG
RECESSES TRIAL
Woman ReteIIs Struggle in
Gebhardt Staying Under
Cross-QueStioning.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 3l.-Occasion-
ally sobbing. Vera Stretz retold under
cross-examination today how she
fatally shot her lover-e employer, DR..
Fritz Gebhardt, during a post-mid-
night struggle in his luxurious apart
ment.
At one point Judge Cornelius Collins
halted the proceedings until she could
regain her composure.
The 43-year-old Gebhardt, she said
called her to his rooms on the ground
that he was ILL., When she began
hunting for an electric pad. she con-
tinued:
He was holding my elbow. He
caught it and kissed by neck
Demonstrates Struggle.
Miles O'Brien, assistant district at
torney, asked her to demonstrate with
an officer how Gebhardt held her. She
did so. then covered her face with
her hands.
Did you object?" o'Brien asked.
st did object"
oAAS SOSS~e o6oAAs cAAA q ASSCoS >" enS
called.
Previously O'Brien questioned her
about the revolver with which she
killed the industrialist. She gave it
into his keeping in July, 1885. she
testified.
Did you tell Gebhardt you had the
gun to protect yourself against bold,
bad burglars?' asked the attorney.
/ "Yes."
When Gebhardt attacked her. she
declared. she recalled having seen the
gun in a drawer and grabbed it.
Samuel S. Leibowitz, her counsel,
objected to some questions about the
expiration of her permit to possess a
revolver.
IF homicide is justifiable," Judge
Collins said, within the meaning of
the law, it would not make any diff
ference whether she had permit or
not"
Tearfully. the defendant testified
yesterday that DR.. Gebhardt lured
her to his room the night she killed
him, last November IL, on pretext
he was sick and needed her help. She
resided in another apartment In the
same building.
Earlier. she had told him. she said,
- r,rIDy,ry1 O-- A
Evening star., 1936-03-31
Woman Kept Up by Chimes
Protests to District Official

Mrs. Sefken said she called Rev.
Raphael Miller, the pastor, and pro-
tested against the bells. But he
thinks the bells are beautiful" she
added. mot so long ago he preached
a sermon on the subject Of What It
Is to Be Good Neighbor.
Rev. Miller, when question by Lau-
derdale about the chimes, said they
were installed as a memorial with the
idea they would be of service to the
community.
'T have received many telephone
calls telling me how beautiful the bells
are" Rev. Miller told Lauderdale.
Last night the janitor left the chimes
on, I am told, but 1t Is the custom to
turn them of at pm"
Leuderdale told Mrs. Sefken that II
she will circulate petitions and get
enough signers In the neighborhood to
show the bells are disturbing the peace
he viii issue . arrant.
Evening star., 1936-03-31
MRS. HEWITT PLACED
UNDER INDICTMENT
San Francisco Action Taken to
Bring Sterilization Case Mother
From New Jersey.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31.-Mrs.
Maryon Cooper Hewitt was named to-
day in a county grand Jury indictment
charging her with mayhem in connec-
ton with the sterilization of her 81
year-old daughter. Ann Cooper Hewitt.
Mrs. Hewitt, critically i'll in Jersey
City, N. j., already is charged with
mayhem In a police warrant. The
grand Jury action, attorneys said, was
to speed her extradition to face trial
here.
The Jury, which returned the in
dictment late last night, heard testi-
mony of Miss Hewitt, her attorney
Russell P. Tyler; Police Inspector
George Engler, who signed the police
warrants, and Anne Lindsay, nurse
in the hospital where the operation
was performed.
Existing mayhem warrants accuse
Mrs. Hewitt and Drs. Samuel G. Boyd
and Tilton e. Tillman. AL three are
defendants In 100000 damage ac-
ton brought by the young heiress, who
asserted the operation was intended
to insure her mother a continued
benefit from a trust fund Of which
the girl Is now chief beneficiary. !
Evening star., 1936-03-31
COUP GIVES ITALY
CONTROL Of NILES
ETHIOPIAN SOURCE
Motorized Column Captures
Gondar, at Head of
Lake Tana.
SUDDEN BLOW MOST
SIGNIFICANT OF WAR
Water Supply of Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan and Egypt Comes
From There.

BACKGROUND
Lake Tdnd Is believed to De one
of the main objectiUes OF the Itdl-
ian aduance in Ethiopia and is one
of the causes OF British concern.
1t Is considered reasonable en-
gineering undertaking to diuert
Tdna's Ddters in such manner
that they mould fo1D to arid sec
tions of Ethiopia bordering on
Eritred, the italian colony.
Copyright. 1896. by the Associated Press.)
WITH THE NORTHERN ITALIAN
ARMY, GONDAR, Ethiopia, March
3l.-This important strategic city at
the head of Lake Tana fell into the
hands of an Italian truck column led
by Achille Starace, secretary-general
of the Fascist party, today.
The mechanical cavalry roared its
way southwark along the Sudanese
border, cutting of all Northern Ethio-
pia from supplies which previously
had been delivered over caravan trails
from the Sudan.
This italian drive is by far the most
important international move yet
made in the present war because of the
significance to the British Of the Lake
Tana region.
Gondar is only few kilometers from
the head of Lake Tana, the source of
the Blue Nile and, subsequently, the
Nile which gives the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan and Egypt its water supply.
The motor column was modelled after
that Of Gen. Rudolfo Graziani which,
in the south, moved up from Dolo to
Neghelli to break up Ras Desta's army
several weeks ago.
Terrain Aided Movement.
The northern column, like that of
the troopers under GRAHAM, had the
advantage in its operations Of fiat,
desert-like f1oor-the lower western
plain baked by the sun to dusty
enamel surface.
The Starace command has moved
farther than the column which fought
the DanakilS under Gen. Oreste Ma
riotti last Notwithstanding on mules
through the Danakil Desert-but it
travelled about the same distance as
did Graziani's command in his semi
circular sweep-that Is, about 155
miles.
Like Graziani'S drive, 1t has been
made in a huge semicircle. starting
originally at Asmara and circling back
through Eritrea up to the border at
Umaga, which is only a few miles from
Kassala, the regular lake entry port Of
the British Sudan.
Victories Paved Way.
The way for the maneuver was
paved by victories Of the past six weeks
all along the Northern front from
Umba Aradam through Tembien Prov
ince and the Takkaze River area, al
lowing the 4th Army Corps on the ex-
treme right Of the line to penetrate
deep beyond Setit and Semien and
providing perfect left-hank protection
for the Northern Hell on Wheels" col
umn.
The capture of Gondar comedies In
the general picture with considerable
activity on the left extremity Of the
Northern line, where reports have 1t
that Emperor Halle Selassie himself
has taken the field in the general vi
cinity of Quoram in a last desperate
effort to halt the Italians on their ad-
vance that has been all-conquering
(See TANA, Page A-5.)