HOME The Indianapolis Times EDITION Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow. PRICE THREE CENTS Entered as Second-Class Matter VOLUME 47—NUMBER 104 INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1935 at Postoftice. Indianap-Ola. Ind. SWEETHEART Flood Turns City Into Swirling Lake FEAR DISEASE EPIDEMIC OF DEAD GIRL HELD SLAYER IN FLOOD AREA; KNOWN Bedford Man, Pal Will Be DEATH TOLL NOW IS 49 Charged With Murder This Afternoon. Mussolini Is Determined Relief Workers Rush to Aid STICK TO SUICIDE TALE of Homeless: Others Abyssinia May Be Lost. Suspects Given Lie Tests in to Annex at WARN TYPHOID Mystery Death of Any Cost, He Declares AGAINST 15-Year-Old Miss. New Rainfall Adds Peril: B'J 1 1 m* * Sprrinl Proposed Invasion of Ethiopia’s Sovereign Rights Justi- BEDFORD. Ind, July 10 Glen Damage Toll Still Kinder and George Hale, who have Forcefully American Editor: maintained through severe cross- fied, Duce Informs Mounting. days 15- examination for three that Interested in U. S. Opinion. fly l nit(d Press yrar-old Fiances Prince killed her- self on a party Sunday afternoon, Frank W. Tavlor Jr., managing; editor of the St. Louis Star-Times, inter- ITHACA. N. Y., July 10.— will be charged this afternoon with viewed Premier Mussolini last night in Rome. He came away from the in- is headed or Funds, food and relief forces having participated in her murder. terview convinced that Mussolini toward a protectorate complete Coroner R. E. Wynne will file the Italian sovereignty over Abyssinia. Mr. Tavlor’s report of his unique conversation poured into the flood devas- with the Italian dictator is carried today by the United Press by arrangement in a justice of peace court charges with the St. Louis Star-Times. tated areas of New York and and a hearing will probably be set for within the next few days. BY FRANK W. TAYLOR, JR. Pennsylvania today as sur- Miss Loretta Johnson, 15. sweet- (Copyright. 1935, by United Press and St. Louis Star-Times. veys of outlying districts heart of Hale, will be held as a ROME, July 10. —Benito Mussolini's goal is either a protectorate or material witness, Mr. Long said. complete Italian sovereignty over Abyssinia, and he intends to accom- boosted the death toll to ap- his by arms, if necessary. He w’culd, however, prefer to Information plish purpose ' proximately 50 and increased Offers New negotiate. The mast baffling question be- That was the definite impression estimates of damages to well, fore investigators now is whether or I gained during a 30-minute talk | over $15,000,000. with II Duce in th: Venice palace. not Miss Prince received a fractured appeared to Mussolini considers the The greatest danger skull before or after she wa u shot proposed be ended in both states, as well as QUASHES invasion of rights v uch z.byssinia Long COURT fatally, Mr. said. has for in Maryland, where swollen rivers The three suspects doggedly held centuries regarded cs sov- yesterday. ereign circum- did widespread damage to their suicide story when grilled entirely justif?d by state, including stances. Deaths in New York under a "lie detector” at Indiana SET-MARGE two on the Pennsylvania border, University yesterday afternoon, al- A scene of appalling flood disaster is the city of Hornell. N. Y., shown in this striking air view, rut off from the world by torrents from the Cites Acts of IT.lT . S. were 45. Four others were dead in though Miss Johnson offered new Canisteo River surging through its streets, submerging first floors of homes and business blocks, in New York state’s worst deluge in 70 years. Pennsylvania. Still other bodies were When I put to him the question information. Reports today showed 49 known dead in the state. 100 missing, and property damage exceeding 515.000.000. In the upper left is shown the normal Public Offense Not Proved reported found in the most severely She said, according to Mr. Long, course of the river, with the higher land beyond, where many residents fled. This remarkable picture was taken from a tt Newspapers plane whether, should he cross the Abys- stricken New York areas as rescu- that she had seen Miss Prince play- soaring over the flood zone. in Westlake Beach Case, sinian frontier, it would be consid- ers penetrated isolated villages this fully tap Kinder on the shoulder ered a breach of international law morning. with a pair of brass knucks owned Gov. Herbert Lehman, in person- Myers Holds. and an act of he looked me by war. al charge of New York relief, re- Hale. squarely in the eye and replied; Although tests show he of the ported the situation was improving paraffin Baker Renews Obscene Charges violating Indiana "Invasion of sovereign has had held a gun m his right hand and law by serving set- rights in all areas and that weather con- liquor control been in progress for centuries. Where Kinder, the dead gw Is 25- ups, against Beach were comparatively shot it. lodged Westlake is a today which, dur- ditions favorable. sweetheart, has withstood a there nation He announced that $300,000 was pro- >ear-old Terrace by state excise police, were ing its history, has invaded the long grilling, which has included Inferences From Bench not vided by the state relief administra- quashed in Municipal Judge Dewey of others? Take emotional strains and scientific sovereign rights tion to aid in relief work. Myers' court today. the United States. How measurements, and has stuek sub- evidence did you rains night spread Judge Myers held that push your Fresh last the story of suicide he frontier back? the floods which have an stantially to Resumes Personal Attack on Times Editor During Hearing submitted against Ernest Voight, “What inundated the first. about the invasion of sov- some 120 long, greatly told at operator of the resort, did not es- in area mile Facing Statutory Charge. ereign rights your war of the many cities and No Untruths Registered of Prisoner tablish a public offense. secession?” damaged villages, dams Criminal Frank John Lazaro, operator of the further weakened and created The lie detector, applied by a pro- Judge P. Baker today resumed making obscene in- Interested in U. S. Opinion grave danger for thou- ferences from the Criminal Court "Happy Hour” amusement place at a disease fessor of psychology at Indiana bench. During the arraignment of Charles 6013 Rockville-rd. was found guilty He left do doubt in my mind that sands of homeless. * Moseley, charged statutory regis- ' •.> with a University last night, did not w ": of violating the liquor law and was Italy is out to annex by arms professors said offense. Judge Baker informed the prisoner he was “accused of Talcott or Battle to Save Dam ter any untruths, but fined SSO and costs. argument the entire Abyssinian three were and Powellism” then read the formal that the exhausted charges. territory. While flood crests of most rivers the experiment suffered because of Until today. Judge Baker had re- j ROOSEVELT SMILES AT Mussolini was intensely interested rushed southward into Pennsyl- their fatigue. in American public opinion, and vania, disrupting transportation and suspects be allowed to framed for two weeks from making ! WORLEY The will RELEASE OF causing inestimable property dam- more a personal attack upon The Times POOR HEALTH RUMOR especially inquired about our re- rest today preparatory to actioft to age, the water still rose in the Co- grilling under the "lie detector" editor from the bench. the Abyssinian venture. Parries Question by Asking Reporter I told him the United States, it hocton and Canisteo rivers and lakes within the next few days. Two male Karrer Outburst Ignored SOUGHT BY WERNEKE Cayuga and Keuka. friends of Miss Prince will be ques- He Thinks. seemed to me, was unanimous in Baker did not What Lake Cayuga rose steadily through this afternoon in an effort- Judge today repri- upholding the principle that a na- tioned mand Clyde C. Karrer, attorney, By United Press the night and threatened renewed establish a motive for the slaying. Purpose tion's sovereign* rights should be to for loud laughter in the courtroom Boss Admits of WASHINGTON, July 10.—Presi- disaster. of Seneca lake, Miss Prince was shot to death maintained inviolate, the answer left The crest when the judge made the obscene Capital Visit. dent Roosevelt, looking the picture unmoved and unperturbed. one of the deepest inland bodies of Sunday afternoon in a car parked Flood waters that swirled through Hornell, N. Y.. in the deluge that him inferences. Yesterday Judge Baker of health, answered with a smile I found in all water in the w’orld, also was report- beside an abandoned quarry near took heavy life and property toll in the state impeded traffic and carried By Time* Sprrinl Mussolini interested reprimanded spectators for laugh- today a direct question as to his dealing with world ed rising. Laborers worked fran- here in a lonely section. Miss John- many autos far from their narking places. Here autos are shown feel- subjects ing during trial of a case. WASHINGTON. July 10.—The health which brought into the open to the son at first said she was in the car ing their way along a highway north of Hornell. with water pouring over economics, and particularly in th? tically strengthen weakened The prisoner told Judge Baker he "legal mission of Richard rumors which have been circulated Van Natta dam, south of Ithaca, with Miss Prince when Miss Prince the pavement into the torrent that runs below. business’’ efforts of the United States to re- and had been in a National Guard sub-rosa. cover depression. He which held millions of tons of water pulled a gun from her skirt there, L. Werneke. Terre Haute Democratic from was also explana- camp. “Talcott Powell is out One of the first questions shot at eager to my impression of his in check. shot herself, offering no isn’t he?” asked. political boss, on his visit here is learn too. the judge Mr. Roosevelt was one which own my tion. Mr. Powell is on active at Claude country after trip through Village Is Abandoned Hale, according to duty to get former Police Chief pointed out that some reports had it. Kinder and Victory by Ft. Benjamin Harrison as a re- Senate Scored Indianapolis that was in a little bad that first story, had left the car and M. Worley of out of it "he The village of Hammondsport serve first lieutenant, under War it?” Duce in Flower of Health were walking some distance away the Federal Penitentiary, he ad- health, and what about was abandoned and the Cohccton Department orders. turn, from it up the road. Later, how- mitted today. The President, in directed a It was 9 p. m., after he had re- roared through the city of Bath in Appears by ever, Miss Johnson and her com- New Deal in UtilityFight Cancilla Client "Little Dick” said that he is now- question at his interrogator ask- ceived half a dozen ambasadors, a anew flood that police and Red it. of panions changed their story, and it Trial of the case of James Reed, counsel for Worley and presented ing him what did he think about number Senators and several Cross officers feared might cause Mr. to in ro- undersecretaries, that I met him. loss of life. Bath had is this story that authorities have accused of issuing a fraudulent his petition for commutation of sen- Roosevelt appeared be additional yet appeared fresh, gas electricity not been able to break down. Dieterich Drops Battle to Tie Hands of Conferees on check, was called several times by tence and remission of fine to the bust health. He was tanned as the he tireless, virile, neither nor and its Judge Baker today. Department of Justice. result of his recent week-end fishing aflame with energy. When he water system was polluted by flood Girl’s Hands Tested ‘Death Sentence’ Provision. According to the court calendar, Worley was sentenced to five years pxcursion and looked fit and ready heard or advanced any new point, water. might eyes Jr., They now' say that Miss Johnson Peter A. Cancilla, former deputy in Leavenworth and fined SIO,OOO in to tackle whatever problems his flashed. Dr. Thomas H. Parran state By United Press health commissioner, warned resi- and Hale had left the car and were „ prosecutor, is Reed's attorney. Reed 1932, for income tax evasion. He arise. Part of his audience was devoted WASHINGTON. July 10.—The company bill was ¦ of the afflicted area in a radio sitting under a tree 40 to 50 feet utilities holding told Judge Baker his attorney had also must serve additional year to interviewing the interviewer, for dents today when Senator William H. Dieterich, (D„ 111.) an address that "the danger ty- the sent to conference not appeared in court to defend in Marion County jail. he asked me continually about my of from car. agreed to withdraw his motion to instruct Senate to HAPSBURG EXILE ENDS phoid is great.” begged They say that Kinder, who had conferees recede from him. impression of Italy. I congratulated He refu- their position on the controversial "death sentence” feature. gees boil drop” drink- car with Miss Prince, Cancilla's action in making a Diet Unanimously Puts him on the orderly life of the to “every of been in the The action was as an Ad- /Austrian water. The left car also. regarded sworn to the Indiana YEGGS LOOT SAFE HERE country, the cleanliness of the ing state health de- the ministration victory, although there statement O. K. on Restoration Bill. partment will begin innoculation of afternoon Miss Prince motor vehicle alleging streets, the efficient maintenance of Yesterday was no indication that the Senate department, By United Press persons buried in a little country ceme- that he has Steal 5233 Cash From Strongbox of his automobile speedways, the ef- thousands of today against was conferees, under leadership of Sena- never been convicted of VIENNA. July 10.—Sixteen years typhoid. tery Nepdmore. family MERCURY TO HIT 90 Pittsburgh ficiency of his public services. near Her Wheeler (D., Mont.), a felony, is expected to be the sub- Glass Cos. ended to- attended tor Burton K. of exile for the Hapsburgs In farewell, he said: National Guardsmen patrolled and some of their friends accept ject of grand jury inquiry. could force the House to the Cracksmen early today knocked day when the federal diet unani- "Continue your trip through Italy. stricken communities to halt looting. the simple ceremonies. in the a bill authorizing the dead girl's HERE, IS "death sentence” provision Suspends Jail Term the combination off a safe in the mously approved You will find the same efficiency Virtually the entire state aided in Paraffin casts of form in which it was advanced and the restoration of were taken and be sent office of the Pittsburgh Plato Glass their return which you have already found in a mobilization of relief supplies. hands will JFOREGAST originally and Capt. Matt Leach, Indiana State from royal by the Administration 0.,. 59 S. State-st, and stole $233 property confiscated the Farmers on lands to Police Sergt. Arch Ball of the C the first part of your trip through- elevated which passed by the Senate. Police, has supplied Prosecutor in cash, officials reported to police. house. escaped the flood gave Indianapolis department for tests New Heat Wave to Reach out the country.’ truckloads of Herbert M. Spencer with informa- potatoes and vegetables to the Red to determine whether she fired a By United Press tion indicating that when he made Cross for distribution to gun a short time before her death. Peak Tomorrow. WASHINGTON, July families 10.—Thomas the affidavit Cancilla had a Buffalo Neutrality Bill Likely left without food, clothing or shel- Corcoran, youthful Brain Truster, (N. Y.) including Anew heat wave with tempera- police record, a Life; By Times Bpeeial ter. charged utility- Ray Long Ends His PROGRAM before the House felony NAVY TO>USH tures up to 90 degrees will grip In- conviction. WASHINGTON, July 10—The lobbying inquiry today that Rep. Although attorney appeared Ship Water in Tanks afternoon, no whole subject of American neutral- Hopes Parity by 1942, dianapolis by tomorrow Ralph O. Brewster (R., Me.), Judge for Treaty for Reed, Baker sentenced the ity will be by Senate New York City dairy companies J. H. Arnungton, Federal meteorolo- switched his stand on the utilities Here studied the to $5 and costs and Career drinking Swanson Says. prisoner pay Started Foreign Relations Commit'e* with shipped w’ater to many gist. predicted today. The refresh- "death sentence" because "he was suspended a jailsentence of 60 days cities in their tank fly t nit - and Pres* afraid of the political situation.” a view to adopting legislate i at the trucks. ing cool spell began to wane yester- upon promise to make restitu- Congress, Railroad engineers predicted WASHINGTON. July 10.—The It was Rep. charge in his present session of i* was it day and by 9 this morning the mer- Brewster's tion. Publisher Driven to Suicide .jssion would require three weeks to re- Navy Department will push con- the House Mr. Corcoran Famed Magazine Editor and announced today after cury stood 80 degrees. that leaving the courtroom Reed store service to normal. Train move- struction of surface and air war at threatened halt work $36,- After with Secretary Cordell Hull. to on the Despondency. ment was entirely over most craft through the 1936-37 fiscal 000.000 Passamaquoddy power proj- said he had not seen Cancilla for by Illness and halted effort OIL BLAST: some time. Reed he had paid of the south central part of New years in an to reach treaty 6 HURT IN ect in Maine if he voted against the said By no fee. United Press League Session Demanded York and maintained in much of parity bv 1942. Secretary’ of the "death sentence” which precipi- Cancilla 10.—Illness and despondency were blamed Claude A. Swanson revealed FIRE MENACES TOWN BEVERLY HILLS. July By United Pres* Pennsylvania only through exten- Nav.v tated the inquiry before the House today for the suicide of Ray Long, magazine editor, literary critic and today. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 10 sive ’ rerouting. More than M Rules Committee. VACCINE MAY PREVENT publisher. Mr. Long shot himself last night with a rifle. He w-as found, One Victim Near Death After Blaze Mr. Corcoran he found Mr. —The Abyssinian government de- bridges and hundreds of culverts said in pajamas on the floor of the bedroom of his home. Nobody was today in Tank Cars. Brewster "affable” during conversa- PARALYSIS, CLUB TOLD clad cided to demand an immedi- were washed out, along with miles MAX BAER DENIES RIFT in the home at the time but a maid ate summoning of th? League of of roadbed. By United ** tions concerning Passamaquoddy in time. He was best known as edi- Pr¦ shot, to the Nations Council to consider the pro- Marooned passengers of trains July weeks preceding the utilities light. New Era in Fight on Disease Likely, who, hearing the ran chief of the Cosmopolitan Still Loves His Bride. Former Heavy- CAMPBELLSPORT. Wis., 10. torial jected invasion of its territory by stalled in several feet of water near Six men were injured, one critic- "While pursuing the $36,000,000 Dr. Garceau Tells Rotary. room and found him dying. Un- Magazine, a post he held from 1919 weight Champion. Insists. Italian troops. Watkins Glen w-ere being removed ally, and lives of 1000 residents of Passamaquoddy fund." testified Mr. A vaccine developed by Dr. John conscious, he was taken to Beverly to 1931. During that time his sal- fly Corcoran, by bus and automobile. United Pres* this village were periled early today "Mr. Brewster had been Kolmer, Temple University, Phila- Hills Hospital, ary and bonuses amounted to an es- a WASHINGTON. July 10—Max when fire spread from nine burning on my neck. I was little hot after delphia, may bring anew era in the where an opera- timated SIBO,OOO a year. •RIDE VICTIM’ FOUND Scenes of Destruction Baer returned to his wedding city oil tank cars to buildings in he cooled off,” Mr Corcoran said. per- His secret of success, he often the prevention of infantile paralysis, Dr. tion was Hornell and Watkins Glen pre- today claim that he end of town. damage Asserting that he couldn't have died said, was giving the public kind HAMMOND SWAMP to still loved west Property George J. Garceau, Indiana Uni- formed. He the IN sented scenes of almost unbelievable his bride and that any one who was estimated at SIOO,OOO halted Paseamaquoddy, as Mr. versity medical school assistant pro- a half hour of things he himself liked to read. charged. Mr. Corcoran destruction. Dozens of workers at- thought differently was "screwy.” Jack Whalon, 35, workman, was Brewster orthopedic surgery, told the Ernest Hemingway's "Fifty Grand” Boys Find Legless Body of Unidenti- decision project fessor of later. tempting to save homes and business burned so badly he may die. said final on the Rotary Club yesterday at Mr. Long left him cold. He rejected it. fied made and the ground afternoon had Man. buildings in Hornell collapsed at As the oil ignited, a blast com- "had been the Claypool. ill for the Mr. Long was born in Lebanon, spaded” before the utilities been By Time* Special their posts of fatigue and exposure pletely destroyed the Chicago & matter last weeks, Ind., and had only an ordinary ed- WEATHER came up. few HAMMOND, Ind., July 10—The to cold water. Carcases of drowned TODAY’S Western Depot, a frame building. Times Index friends said. He ucation in Indianapolis public schools. or body of a well-dressed, legless man cattle floated through business Auto News 4 had spent the Judging stories writing, streets, Former Bluffton Mayor Dead he words ear,” said, was debris filled buildings drain- G. O. P. SUPPORTS BONUS i Books 12 bed, the handled “by he found by two boys late yester- and Hourly Temperatures By l nitrd Pres* day in not grammar. He in a swamp near here. ed of water, fallen trees blocked Bridge 6 maid reported, by knowledge of day intersections. BLUFFTON. Ind.. July 10.—Ed- was 57. The man. about 35 and apparent- Ba. m 77 10 a. m 83 Immediate Cash Payment Urged at Broun 13 and un- The city steam shovels win C. Vaughn. 82, former Bluffton seemed V* He entered newspaper work on ly the victim of a gangland "ride,” seized and 9 a. m 80 11 a. m 83 Comics 17 usually morose. all other Six-State Parley. mayor and judge of Wells Circuit £ Indianapolis and became was wrapped in a and news- usable machinery to clear 1 6a. m—.63 12 (noon).. 84 17 *-* A the News blanket By United Pres* Court, died at his home here last Crossword Puzzle He had been in * I a reporter at 22. He worked there papers. A rope was wound streets of decaying debris. 7 a. m 70 1 p. m 87 12 around CLEVELAND. July 10.—Repub- night. He is survived by the widow Editorial a dark mood all with Roy W. Howard, Booth Tark- his neck in a way which led police and daughter. Financial 16 afternoon, she City Child Drinks Kerosene Tomorrows sunrise, 4:25 am.; lican leaders of a six-state area re- one Ray Long ington, George Ade, Meredith Nich- to believe he had been strangled to sunset. 7:15 p. m. turned home to start the 1936 elec- Hickman—Theaters 7 said. Police said olson and others who achieved death. Both legs had been cut off Eighteen-month-old Dora Sauer tion campaign today after a re- Veteran Editor Takes Life Junior Aviation 2 he left no writ- prominence from their Hoosier ori- above the knee. this afternoon drank kerosene and 13 County Liquor Board to Meet gional conference in which the CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 10.— Pegler ten explanation of his suicide. gin. Only clew was a belt buckle with was takpn to City Hospital, where editorial 18 ’ The Marion County Liquor Board Democrats were scored from every Richard Walker, veteran Radio The bullet, fired into his mouth, Afterward he worked successsively the initial E.” her condition reported Monday Chattanooga Times, was as fair. *iU meet at 9 in Room 99. angle and a platform was adopted writer of the Sports 8-9 lodged in his neck, severing part of as news editor of the Indianapolis Not far from the spot where the She lives at 1287 Kentucky-av. Courthouse, to consider 63 applica- calling for immediate cash pay- shot himself to death in his office Stamps - 7 the spinal cord. Star and the Kansas City Post; boys found the body the bodies of tions for liquor licenses, Roy Burke, ment of the bonus and adoption of late yesterday. 11l health was State News 3 Mr. Long was for 13 years prob- managing editor of the Cincinnati three Capone gang members were New guaranteed tires 15c wk. Save board chairman, announced today. a Federal anti-lynching law. blamed. Woman's Pages 6-7 ably the highest paid editor of all (Turn to Page Ten) found in 1929. SI.OO up. Hoosier Pete.—Adv. AROUND THE CLOCK WITH CADETS AT FT. HARRISON—TURN NOW TO PAGE ONE OF THE SECOND SECTION