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The INDIANAPOLIS EICHT PARTS UNDAY STAR. GENERAL NEWS TELEPHONE Riley 7311. GREATEST MORNING AND SUNDAY CIRCULATION IN INDIANA. RAIN, COLDER. VOL.

31. NO. 202. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1933. Entered as Second-Class Matter at Post Office, Indianapolis, Ind.

Issued Dally and Sunday. TEN CENTS. rn U.S. S0 1 WE DO OUR PART 165 Perish as French Trains Crash Today FLU ER RAMS REAR Star Santa's Pack Pours Oat 2,268 Bags of Toys And Candy to Bring Delight to Every Tot on List No World Flood. An Important Baby.

Pope Pius Advises. The Dangerous Type. OF FAST EXPRESS CONFESSES PART IN $25,000 BANK ROBBERY IN CITY Fugitive Offers No Resistance to Chicago Police Admits Aiding in Massachusetts Avenue Holdup Last Summer Believed to Have Helped in Prison Break Auto Driven by Partner in Tavern Lezfds to Capture Latter Astounded to Learn Business Associate Is Hoodlum. By Arthur Brisbane REMEMBERED AND HER THANKS TO YOU. (Photo by Star Stall rhotojrapher.) DPPED 81 FOG SI NB HUNDRED THOUSAND I acres of land are under water, Washineton.

Idaho and Mon tana, suffering severely from floods, Trucks Roll Up Side Streets and Alleys, Depositing Sacks of Joy at Huts and Hovels Last-Minute Dollars Buy Tickets for Individual Purchasing by 400 Additional Families. Torrential rain storms have lasted six days. William Greenwood sees a 280 Injured Taken From Twisted Wreckage of Coaches Laden With Holiday Crowds. warning of floods that "will engulf the earth four years hence." He has built and lives in a little ark of his own at Olympia, and for the first time has the satisfaction of see ing his ark rise a short distance above the eround. But he has no WIFE HELD FOR QUESTIONING idea how much rain it would take to (A list of contributions received yesterday is on Page 10.) LAGNY, France, Dec.

24 (Sunday). One hundred and sixty-five happy Christmas travelers, many of them students from Paris, homeward bound, were killed last night In a rear-end collision of the Paris-Strasbourg express and the Nancy express in a heavy fog. At 3 o'clock this morning 134 bodies had been recovered, while the injured numbered 280. Speeding 50 Miles an Hour. CHICAGO, Dec.

(TP) Hilton O. Crouch, 29 years old, member of the notorious Indiana gang headed by John Dillinger, was arrested without resistance here today and confessed, Police Captain John Stege said, to participation In a bank robbery at Indianapolis along with Dillinger and Harry Copeland, another member of the band, in which "about 125,000" was taken. The robbery referred to, Stege said, was that of the State Bunk of Massachusetts Avenue last summer. (Other Pictures on Page 10.) BY CLAUDE A. MAHONEY, Director Star Santa Claug Fund.

Back streets and alleys felt new and strange traffic yesterday. Trucks of The Star Santa Claus Fund were spreading their city-wide yuletide cheer among the city's huts and hovels. The trucks numbered thirty-five. raise water as high as Mt. Everest, or even to flood the Mojave desert, 3,000 feet above the Pacific.

Mr. Greenwood should not forget that all rain that falls is drawn by the sun from oceans and lakes, and they can easily hold the water when it falls down again. Modernists, who refuse to take ancient writings literally, tell you that the original flood, so brilliantly managed by Noah, was really local and did not include China, Australia or many other sections. The express, an hour late, crashed at a 50-mile-an-hour speed into the rear or the otner train, wnicn naa come to a halt close to Pomponne, near here, fifteen miles due east of DWUT IB FOR 11 Paris. -r i The four rear cars of the Nancy express were telescoped and crushed to splinters by the onrushing loco motive.

Nearly all the occupants of In Tokio, the Mikado and his Empress are proudly contemplating a healthy cheerful seven and one-eighth-pound Japanese baby, their first son. They had four daughters, no boy. All Japan prayed that this one might be a boy, and a boy came, proving the power of prayer to tens of millions of Buddhists and Bags of toys numbered 2,268, one bag to a family. Christmas cheer can't be numbered, but it can be measured. It was spread this year thicker and farther than ever before.

Every Child Remembered. The fund had everything when delivery was started even to Christmas carols. There should not be a single unhappy boy or girl in Indianapolis today, at least not among those who had notified The Star of their bleak Christmas prospects. Every name on the list was hunted down, and every request was granted, at least in part. Sometimes it was not possible to give everybody all he wanted, but each and every child on the list received something.

these cars were killed outright. (HUE Stege said the confession followed less than an hour after Crouch's apprehension in front of an apartment as the "Dillinger squad" of police detailed with orders to kill or capture the gang closed in. Womun Also Seized. Also seized for questioning was a woman giving the name of Miss Violet Barretta. She was taken as she sat in a taxi in front of a tavern.

Stege said she lived at the same address as the Surf street apartment where Crouch had been living. A tavern keeper, who said Crouch had been his partner, stated that Crouch had married the girl, a waitress in the place. In Crouch's possession, Stege said, was a .45 calibre pistol, a $10 counterfeit bill on the New York Federal reserve bank, and a Christmas card Two members of the Chamber of Deputies, Henri Rollin and Gaston Poittevin, were among the seriously injured. Senator Hachette, at first announced to be among the injured, was found later to be safe in Paris. Band Wagon Men Hopeful Mcriutt and VanNuys Will Doctors Bush From Paris.

All the inhabitants of Lagny has Soon on Agree Candidate. tened to the scene and aided in rescue work. In a field near the ghastly The Christmas carols enlivened the delivery of toys into one large sec I wreckage, local doctors and others tion of the city, through courtesy of the Red Cab Company. Officers of who had hurried from Paris gava first-aid to- the injured, while the the company sent their trailer unit dead were laid in long, silent rows with the sound and amplifying outfit, beside the tracks. and a load of records of Christmas The Nancy had stopped on a curve in answer to a semaphore signal reading: "To my dadee from your babee." One of Most Hunted Men.

Dillinger, paroled from the Indiana prison on a robbery charge, is one of the most hunted men in the nation. He is accused as a bank rdbber and killer and was said by Stege recently to have joined his forces strengthened last September by the escape of ten inmates of the Indiana BY MAURICE EARLY. Democrats who want to keep in step with either Govet- Paul V. McNutt or Senator Frederick VanNuys would like to see Santa Claus deliver a candidate for United States senator labeled with the indorsement of these heads of the party. The present uncertainty is causing some of the lr of band wagons uneasy moments.

The new baby, destined to rule nearly one hundred million human beings as absolutely as he may think wise, will according to Japanese reckoning be the 125th Mikado in the world's oldest ruling dynasty. An interesting question is: "To what extent will this new baby, grown up, interest the United States? How great will be his fighting air fleet, certainly able to cross the Pacific, nonstop, in less than twelve hours?" There may be many important events locked up in the intelligent head of that seven-pound baby. Pope Pius, appearing before cardinals and others gathered to wish him many years of life, reminds the world that "prayers, prayers, prayers" are needed for the welfare of the world, just as "money, money, money" is needed to wage war. "Firstly, pray; secondly, pray, and Its rear light was said to be invisible Did you give to The Star Santa Claus Fund? If you did, Hetty's smile, caught by the camera and reproduced above, is your thanks. That smile, so close to the ecstacy that dis-solves smiles into tears, expressed the thanks that The Star passes on to its generous readers who put the fund over the top.

There are thanks there for the donor of pennies, dimes and dollars. Yes, there are thanks there for the giver of large donations, lor that is easily a hundred-dollar smile. And if the donor of a hundred dollars fails to see a reward in that child's face, he misses the spirit of Christmas. Hetty is the girl whose pathetic fare was portrayed in The htar several days ago. Hetty still was bedraggled and forlorn yesterdny when the delivery men for The Star Simla Claus Fund called.

With popping eyes, she reached for her doll. "Xo, no," her niolher warned. "Your hands are sticky." Hetty raced for the kitchen. In three splashes she was back, this time with clean hands. She fondled her new doll, noted the pink dress, the wavy auburn hair, the cocky little bat.

Then she looked up and the camera caught her expression. It was thanks and reward enough for all. to the engineer of the on-rushing ex press, blinded by fog. Wood fires were lighted by res Whenever a "trial balloon" Is sent State prison with the Chicago "Ter- up, a certain part ot tne organiza music. As the bags were hauled from house to house, Christmas carols blared forth their cheer to the neighborhood.

Money Keeps Pouring In. Even as the bags of toys were being loaded yesterday more money was coming in, and it was spent hourly, dollar by dollar. Since no more toys could be purchased and packed, the last-minute dollars were spent for tickets redeemable In grocery stores. Nearly four hundred additional families were treated in this manner, and they will be able to purchase their own Christmas delicacies. All told, it was a smashing climax to a vigorous campaign for Christmas funds.

It was a climax which cuers along the tracks to provide illumination. Fog Delays Departure. Most of the victims were passengers on the Nancy express, which had also delayed its departure from Paris because of the fog and stopped about two miles from Lagny. The express crashed into it at 8:15 tion contingent makes ready to leap to the proposed candidate. Then Hopes Are Shattered.

Then word is passed, usually in a round about way, that there is no candidate picked. STRATAGEM TRAPS In most informed Democratic cir cles it is now being accepted that the Governor and the senator have not SLUGGER SUSPECT State Trend Is Away From Utilizing of Natural Resources to Industry Agriculture Pays Only 1 Pet. of Total Gross Income Tax, but Outstrips by Far Coal, Limestone, Oil. agreed upon a candidate to pit against R. Earl Peters, former state chairman.

brought the total to a point about Detectives Pose as Boxing p. m. (3:15 p. m. Eastern standard time).

The accident was one of the gravest in the history of French railroading. It was far more serious than the one at Evreux last October, in which thirty-five were killed and fifty injured when the Cherbourg-Paris express, rounding a curve, hurtled off a thirty-foot viaduct in the Rouloir river. If they have, It Is one o' the most 20 per cent higher than last year carefully guarded secrets. fund. Distribution would have been Show Promoters Clerk's Skull Fractured.

A hot tip came from Washington arduous had the men from The Star thirdly, continue to pray" is the order of the Pope who considers that mankind has "talked too much and too uselessly." The Pope criticized severely Germany's plan for sterilization of criminals and the unfit. Germany condemns to death the young Communist from Holland, Marinus van der Lubbe, for setting fire to the Reichstag building. It weuld seem like adding Insult to capital punishment if van der Lubbe's head is cut off by the headsman in a "full dress suit," according to the custom in Germany. Communists do not approve of full dress suits. With van der Lubbe will disappear a type of human being dangerous and rare, the kind indifferent to death, the instinct of self-preservation lacking.

The safety of the majority resides in the fact that almost invariably the individual thinks his own life more important than anything else. Five hundred with no fear of death could be dangerous. circulation department not realized riDie Touhy" gang. Copeland, one of the members of Dillinger's original band, named by Crouch as a participant in the robbery of the bank, ran afoul of the law in Chicago while intoxicated in November. He was rushed to Indianapolis and put back in his cell at Michigan City after his capture.

Stege said Crouch was known as a close friend of Harry Pierpont, trigger man of the gang and one of the convicts who escaped prison. Killed Three in Apartment. Chicago police wound up a week of activity directed against gangsters. Thursday night three men, all with, long criminal records, were shot to death by police in a battle in a North, side apartment as they sought members of the Dillinger gang. Crouch, according to Capt.

Stege, said his share of the Indianapolis robbery was $8,300. Crouch also used the names of Price and Milton Krause, Stege said. He was suspected as one of those who aided in the Michigan City prison break. The car which figured in the capture was sighted by a police squad familiar with the license numbers of the twenty-three machines said to be used by Dillinger mobsmen earlier in the day. They halted it and were told by George Drumm, its driver, who is a tavern owner, that he had that Walter S.

Chambers of Newcastle, state senator and newspaper publisher, was the real choice of Senator VanNuys and that the McNutt contingent was expected to agree. IThis is the second of a series of articles on Indiana business written by Clarence A. Jackson, director of the state gross income tax division. In this series statistics obtained by compilation of the gross income tax returns give an authentic picture of the Hoosier industrial and commercial world for the first time. the sanctity of the cause they were furthering.

Without payment, those men worked nearly half the night A stratagem yesterday led a Negro, alleged to have slugged a drug store employe, into the hands of detectives less than an hour after the Friday night, and were on deck again at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Routing and storing of that number of baes of presents so that they may Chambers Draws Opposition. The mere mention of Chambers Autogyro Blade Slashes Film Actress Under Eye LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 Jacqueline Paige, film actress, was knocked unconscious today and received a deep cut under the right eye when the blade of an autogyro being used in the filming of a picture struck her. brought forth several hostile camps.

be delivered readily is nothing to be done in a moment. The truck drivers were not forced CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. Ample evidence of the remarkable change which lias occurred In Indiana industry and commerce during the last third of a century is revealed in the statistics compiled from returns made to the Indiana gross income tax division. Between 1890 and 1900 Indiana's industrial growth cantered about, the oil fields and the natural gas wells of the state. Hundreds of industries came to Indiana during the boom.

A belt covering more than half the width of the state in north central Indiana became the industrial center of the middle-West almost over night. Factories were moved here from other states. New industries crime. Carlos Stewart, 52 years old, 447 North Alabama street, clerk in a pharmacy operated by Hubert O'Haver at 371 West Twenty-eighth street, was slugged and Taylor (Toledo) Goodwin, 25, 2911 Highland place, is the alleged slugger. Stewart's skull was fractured and he was taken to the City hospital.

Mr. O'Haver who arrived as the Negro left, recognized him as a per Labor leaders sent word that Chambers would not do because of his record in the Indiana Legislature. Wets did not enthuse because Chambers is regarded by them as a dry. Word soon came from the State-house that Chambers is a fine Democrat, but "he is not the man." This much is known for a certainty. Governor McNutt and Sena WEATHER FORECAST Jim Crow says: Think of it, Bryan once ran as What Say? Mayor Is Smiling, Has Two Budgets? Saint Cant Believe His Ears How? Oh, Police and Fire Boys, They Want Too Many Wagons Let Me See, You Say Republicans? came into existence.

It is estimated that during the height of the boom 50 per cent of all the window glass manufactured in the United States was made in Indiana gas belt plants. Industries Remain. tor VanNuys did review the names of persons whose names have been paraded as potential candidates for the nomination. Whether they picked a candidate or deferred consideration is not known. But it is the best bet that they did not make a choice.

son known as "Toledo." Became Boxing Promoters. Detectives Pleas Oliver and Donald Bushong represented themselves as boxing show promoters seeking men for a battle royal. One "Toledo" was recommended to them. They went to "Toledo's" home and began asking him questions. Good purchased the car from "Price," giving the Surf street address.

Astounded on Learning Truth. "The Dillinger squad" proceeded to the apartment and the seizure of Crouch followed. Drumm said he was "astounded' to learn that Crouch was a gang ster. "Why, he was a nice, moral a Democrat on the paramount issue, "Shall the people rulet" Forecast for Indiana for Sunday and Monday: Snow in northwest, rain turning to snow in east But what has happened since the days of the gas boom? How many of the old-time derricks long since have been turned into fuel or now lie crumbling in an unfilled field? Most of the industries are still here, but they no longer depend on the fuel supply given by a generous nature. Had the Indiana gross income tax CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.

BY RUSSELL E. CAMPBELL. The gentleman in red waddled over to the telephone, muttering that If the blasted thing would quit ringing a fellow might get something done. "Good afternoon, S. Claus Company.

S. Claus speaking," he barked. Turning petulantly, he said, "Brownie, quit pulling at my coat tail. Cut it out, Brownie. You're pulling the fur off." Again he faced the telephone.

"What's that? Who did you say it was? The who? The reporter? Oh." The gentleman in red started to never can get used to that new- win confessed. Goodwin loitered about the store until Stewart was alone, then struck him from behind with a blackjack. Then, Goodwin said he took candy for his sweetheart's Christmas gift, and a pint of whisky as well. O'Haver arrived as the Negro was leaving and recognized him as a person known as "Toledo." and south portions with decidedly colder Sunday; severe cold wave by Monday morning; Monday generally fair with colder in east and south portions. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for Sunday and Monday: Kaln turning to snow and decidedly colder Sunday with severe cold wave by Monday morning; Monday fair and cold.

Cold Wave May Bring City "White Christmas" It begins to look like a merrier Christmas The weather man plans to do his bit for an old-fashioned "white Christmas." with the cold that heightens by contrast the warmth and jollity of festivities indoors. Rain turning to snow and decidedly colder weather are forecast for today, followed by a severe cold wave by tomorrow morning. Fair and cold weather is expected to prevail Christmas day. Mean temperature yesterday was 54 degrees, twenty-four above normal. Highest for the day was 64 degrees, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and lowest 43 degrees, at 5 o'clock in the morning.

Girl Lost in Woods Day Found Exhausted NASSAU, Bahamas, Dec. 23. Miss Marjorie Drexel, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J.

Drexel of Philadelphia, missing since yesterday, was found exhausted and suffering from shock and exposure in a wooded area near here today. Miss Drexel had strayed into the woods while walking with her mother. It is getting late to dally around with a candidate if he is actually selected to go. Myers, Stump Out of Race, At least two of the old rivals for a place in the Senate are said to be definitely out of the picture. They are Walter Myers, former speaker of the Indiana House, and Albert Stump, both of Indianapolis.

Stump issued a statement saying he would not run. Myers, it is reliably reported, is to be offered a place of importance in the department of the attorney general at Washington. Stump also is slated for recognition by Senator VanNuys. Stump probably had this in mind when he announced publicly he would not seek the nomination. But he did not say he would support Peters.

The plum from Washington may be the thing that is keeping Stump noncommittal. The camp of the former state chairman has confidently expected Stump to be with them. Public Not Taking to Minton. Sherman Minton, public counselor of the public service commission, has not clicked with all the members of the McNutt organization as a good CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. THE STAR TODAY Consists of 8 Parts Part 1 General News, Amusements and Radio.

Part 2 Sports, Automobiles and Travel News. Part 3 Society. Part 4 Want Ads, Financial and Building Part 5 Editorial, Art and Features. Part 6 Magazine. Part 7 Alco-Gravure.

Part 8 Comics. been in existence during the gas boom, its records would have provided a basis for an exact comparison. Without exact figures on the production of natural gas and oil in Indiana forty years ago, the simple statement is that there are today only five small concerns engaged in the production of natural gas and oil for Bale within the state of Indiana. At least, only five reported and paid gross income tax. Only a few years ago derricks studded every county in the north central part of the state.

Today the total receipts from the production by Indiana concerns of natural gas and oil for sale within the state amounts to only a little over $11,000 a month. What part, then, does the conversion of natural resources play in the Indiana industrial and commercial scheme? Since the passing of the gas boom CONTINUED ON PAGE 14. fangled buzzer." Then he buzzed and Browhie came running and as soon as he heard that the mayor was on the phone his face became long. "Our new budgets," Brownie complained, "are awfully thin this year. But his face brightened and he said, "if the mayor really is smiling, tell him we'll send him twq of our thin budgets and that will be as good as one fat one." And with the glee of an employe who has solved a tricky problem for the boss he raced out.

"Good Heavens, Uncle Sam Helping." So the gentleman in red told the reporter to tell the mayor he was sending along two thin budgets CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. hang up, then changed his mind. He said, "Yes, what can I do for you? What's that? Now listen, don't start any unfounded rumors. What? You saw it yourself? Well say now." He tilted his stocking cap at a capricious angle, leaned against a bale of barber pole candy, and became suddenly chummy. Real Healthy Smile, at That.

"Say now, that's news. If you really saw the mayor smiling. Did he smile as if he meant it or was some one just taking a picture? It was a real, healthy smile? Now that's fine. Wait a minute." He twisted about and called, "Brownie. Oh, Brownie.

BROWNIE!" When Brownie didn't come he turned redder than usup! and grumbled, "I Vanderbilt's Close Friend Killed on Mountain Road GORMANIA, W. Dec. 23 Struck by a speeding automobile which failed to stop, John W. Brodix, 52 years old, was killed on a mountain road near here tonight while returning from California with his close friend, Cornelius Vanderbilt the publisher. Brodix, who acted as Vanderbilt's secretary, was struck as he stopped his own automobile and walked toward Vanderbilt's car, which had halted.

Vanderbilt said he would stay In Oakland to aid authorities investigating the accident. I'nllfd State! Weather Bureau Special Report for The Indianapolis Star. ALMANAC OF THE DAY. Bun rises 7:05 Sun seta 4:25 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. Relative Humidity.

m. 73 pet Noon 30 pet 7 p. m. 61 pet during twenty-four hours ending at 7 p. 00 Total amount since Jan.

1, 1933.... 41.43 Accumulated departure from normal since Jan. 1 (excess) 2.30 Temperatures. 7 a. 45 Wet 41 Maximum 81 58 Wet 44 7 p.

Dry 57 Wet 50 Minimum 43 For the dame Date Last Year. 7 a. 49 I Maximum 55 7 p. m. 65 Minimum 39.