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m-mr NGIE ORNING TAR The Weather Rain Saturday changing to snow, much colder; cloudy Sunday, possibly showers, somewhat warmer. IN NEWS, CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISING tT4 JHl FIRST VOL. 57 NO. 337. MUNCIE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1934.

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By Arthur Brisbane "a An (a jJ JIM Li mif' FUGITIVE PREVENTED LAST MONTH Otto H. Kahn. with his friend Sir William was photographed at the Hialeah race track, smiling cheerfully. Last Thursday, he went to his office as usual, rose from his desk a little after one o'clock, and fell to the floor. News of his death was withheld, as is usual in the case of financiers of importance, until after the stock exchange closed.

A clot of blood, traveling to the FROM LEAPING INTO ASKS GOVERNOR TO ACT IN JAIL 'BREAK' CASES G. 0. P. Chairman Demands ISTANBUL'S HARBOR Dillinger Writes i Vi9a ft 5't Hi pic. i.

I-. Revelation that John Dillinger, fugitive Indiana desperado now being sought by police in all parts of the nation, had sent a brief note to his former home near Mooresville, saying he was has been made to police by John Wilson Dillinger, father of the escaped convict, pictured above with his daughters, Prances Dillinger, 11, left, and Doris Dillinger, 16, right. McNutt Quit Bluffing and Give Jury Facts. Elkhart, March 30 (JP) Don B. Irwin, Republican state chairman, in a speech here tonight called on Gov.

Paul V. McNutt to "quit bluffing" with regard to the escape from the Crown Point jail of John Dillinger, outlaw, and of ten criminals from the state prison at Michigan City. 'The governor seems bent on pin ning his troubles on Republicans rather than uncovering the facts." Irwin declared. "I believe the people of this state care little for the polit ical significance of the Michigan City and Crown Point disgraces. What they want is the truth and they have got little of it from the governor so lar." Questions for Irwin, who in recent months has assailed the Democrtaic state admin istration frequently from the speaking piatrorm, recalled that Governor McNutt had announced that he would accept the challenge to make the Dillinger case a campaign issue.

"Very well then." Irwin said, "let the governor get off to a good start by answering the following questions in his next public address: "Why did not the state board of charities (now called the department of public welfare) which in former years as a non-interested group had conducted all official Inquiries into institutional troubles or at the least, the attorney-general's office conduct the prison break investigation instead or your own board of prison trustees. a group which had its own reputation at stake? Why did you discard your plan to have a citizens commit tee conduct the inquiry? "After the trustees' report was de livered to you why did you sit on it Please Tarn -t Pate Five. Mini cut MOVE SHUNTED Issue Left Clouded at Soft Coal Code Parley. Washington, March 30 A move to place the nation's vast soft coal industry on a seven-hour working day was side-tracked temporarily today at the bituminous coal code conference, leaving the issue clouded by uncertainty. Threats of strikes among the miners were revived in view of the possibility that April 1, expiration date of the code provisions fixing wages and hours, would find the question still unsettled.

Seven-Hour Day Pushed. A proposal to extend the shorter day throughout the industry was made to the conference by the joint wage scale committee Which early to day ratified the seven-hour day and a new wage scale for the Appalachian region. The committee also recommended a scale of wages to be paid outside the Appalachian fields. Although the proposal had the support of the entire membership of the United Mine Workers of America, and of operators who produce approximately 80 per cent of the country's soft coal, the conference adjourned until tomorrow without taking any action. John L.

Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers, appealed to the recovery administration to act at once in the matter "to protect the industry from confusion" and to prevent loss of operation of a single mine after April 1. Promises Policy Announcement. K. M. Simpson, divisional administrator in charge of the coal code, said the administration would liave an announcement tomorrow concerning Please Turn to Page Five.

Offers Self for Test Pearl O'Loughlin. Pearl O'Loughlin, above, who Is serving a life term for murder at the Canon City (Colo.) penitentiary, has volunteered to become a subject for a test of the new tuberculosis preventative serum which has been developed at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, after fifteen years research. Convict volunteers for the test have been promised executive clemency by Gov. Edward C. Johnson.

O'Loughlin was convicted of the slaying of her 9-year-old stepdaughter, Leona. EVAMP LOCAL GWA PROGRAM New Set-Up Will Become Effective on "April 9. How many men will be given employment in Muncie and Delaware County through the works division of the Emergency Relief Administration, which will supplement the CWA program, will be determined at 9 o'clock this morning at a meeting in Indianapolis, at which E. Arthur Ball and C. R.

Hilty, of this city, will attend. Mr. Ball has besn re-appointed chairman, and Mr. Hilty as the works director. Mr.

Huty has served as county disbursing officer in the CWA program. Wage Scale to Be Determined. All work on vthe local CWA pro jects ceased yesterday, and there will be no work of any sort on the pro jects during next week, which time will be given over to organizing the new set-up, which wiU swing into actual operation Monday morning, April 9. Administrative offices in the CWA program here will not close un til next Thursday. Wage rates for the new program have not yet been determined, but a Flease Tarn to Page Ten.

RAIN IS PREDICTED FOR EASTER IN ALL ATLANTIC STATES Washington, March 30 (JP) Mod ish Easter raiment probably will be hidden beneath waterproof apparel Sunday in all the Atlantic states, from Virginia north. The best the weather bureau could do tonight was to predict that some seaboard areas would have only possible" or "occasional" rains. The first April showers also may fall Sunday along Florida's east coast and in the lower Ohio valley. The bureau saw a little sunshine in store for Kentucky and Tennessee. with a forecast of a generally fair Sunday.

But elsewhere in the East and Southeast indication pointed to considerable cloudiness, if not rain. Heavy coats may not be needed over some seasonal finery, as the bureau looks for a gradual increase in temperature in the North Atlantic states and lower lake region in the next two days. "Dan and Dave" Editor The Star: Pasadena, March 30. Here is something I think will bear repeating: Two kid brothers, one 14, the other 12, hiking in the mountains out here. The youngest kid was bit by a rattlesnake.

The 14-year-old one cut the wound all up with a knife, and they took turns sucking the poisoned blood out. The younger one finally fainted. The other carried him np the mountain two miles on his back. And he has saved him. We are not fo bad off.

These kids are Daniel Boones and Davey Crocketts in any age. Tours, WILL ROGERS. I i 1 SPEEDY ACTION IN SIFTING WIRT CHARGES SEEN Congressional Leaders Fear Case Might Endanger Recovery Program. Washington March 30 (JP) A quick end to the Investigation of Dr. William A.

Wirt's charges of "brain trust" Communists was forecast today by Democratic congressional leaders, who said It might create unjustified uncertainty about the recovery program. These leaders, among them Speaker Rainey, made clear, however, that they felt certain there was nothing basically wrong. Thry denied the country was en route to communism. Rainey Brands Charges Silly. A long investigation, now they said, might create unjustified suspicion and dissatisfaction which In itself would keep the administration's admitted experiments from working.

Not until the program has had a chance, Rainey told reporters, should there be any unsettling influences. Mindful of the political implications of the question and of predictions that it might develop into a campaign issue, leaders were chocking the investigating committee's membership carefuly. If it is a five-man committee, three will be Democrats and two Republicans. Along with other leaders, Rainey was treating humorously the charges by Dr. William A.

Wirt, the Gary that some aominis- tration advisers lean too strongly toward communism. "Dr. Wirt's charges get sillier every day," Rainey said. Wirt TclegTam Names Wallace. fThe leaders were at a taUrsfam from Dr.

Wirt which was maae public by Representative Foulkes Mich). In that telegram. Secretary Wal lace was quoted as having said 'there can hardly ba even a satis factory tentative answer until we de cide which way we want to go. He suggested wide debate on that problem. House leaders promptly interpreted that as meaning simply that Secretary Wallace wanted the country to become more awake to its problems, and felt that argument would be helpful.

Foulkes declined to interpret the quotation attributed to the agricul ture secretary, but said that "Dr. Wirt came in like a Hon and is go ing out like a lamb," because he refused to accept a challenge to pub lic debate on "the points at issue." Meanwhile, the Republicans con tinued to insist that the investigation which will start next week under the Please Torn to Pace Ten. ARMY MAIL AIRMAN DIES INJOWA CRASH Lieut. Wood Falls to Death In Rainstorm. Dewitt, March 30 (JP) Lieut.

Thurman A. Wood, of San Antonio, was killed near here tonight when the single-seated pursuit plane he was flying crashed in a rainstorm while he flew west from Chicago with the mail. Wood was flying to Omaha with twenty-three pouches of man. Body Badly Mutilated. The plane crashed in the field of William Mommsen, farmer living five and one-half miles northeast of Dewitt.

It was discovered by Leonard McGuire, a farmer living nearby. There were no witnesses to the crash. Wood left Chicago at 7:15 p. m. for Des Moines.

Ha was the twelfth army flier to die since the service was given the task or flying the mail. The pilot was crushed between the motor and the pouches of mail. His body was badly mutilated. The nose of the plane was buried four feet in the ground. riying wun poor visimmy into a driving rain and with a low ceiling.

McGuire said that evidently the pilot had lost his way and fallen into the darkness. The motor was torn loose Clinton County coroner, L. O. Rig-gert, took charge of the body. It was to be taken to Dewitt.

It marked the first fatality since the army resumed the mall routes, after a suspension of service ordered after ten deaths had resulted. Mail pouches scattered over the ground were collected by a crowd of farmers. They were turned over to postal authorities at Clinton. Mommsen said that the scene of the crash was about four miles north of the regular plane route from Des Moines to Chicago, and that it was possible the pilot had lost his way in the rain and snowstorm which has prevailed in northeastern Iowa for twenty-four hours. The pilot had flown across the Mississippi River only a short time before the accident.

Home I'm O.K.' St if Just Couldn't Take It. Baltimore, March 30 (JP) The wax circus of John T. McCaslin went up in flames today and McCaslin was sad main because his pals in effigy Rudy Vallee, Al Capone, Jesse James, Ruth Snyder and others "just couldn't take it." Carefully stored away they were, in a downtown warehouse tack of McCaslin's home-but the fire came and they all melted away into a wax hereafter. For five years, McCaslin had been a pal to them all and he was rather attached to the boys and girls. "Jim Cummings was tip (here, and the Younger brothers," he related slowly.

"And Gerald Chapman and Harry Tracy and Belle Starr even Judd Gray. "As fine a set as ever I saw-cost me $3,600, they did from St. Louis," he grieved softly. "And every one of them real gentlemen and ladies. "Me all I could do was stand around down on the street and wait for the fire trucks.

"Then they turned on the water. Those the heat didn't ruin, the water did. They just couldn't take it, I guess." Byrd Prepares For Long Vigil On Ice Barrier Little America, Antarctica, March 30 (JP) (Via Mackay Radio) Admiral Richard E. Byrd made ready today to start his lonely winter vigil at the advance base on the Ross ice-barrier where he expects to live seven months or more by himself. He sent a radio message back to the main camp here that the crew of men who have been helping him set up his temporary abode there are ready to return immediately to Little America.

Special Shack Built. Admiral Byrd will settle down in his sunken shack for his solitary ob serrations during the long winter months, as soon as the others leave. The idea of an advance observa tion post was conceived by Admiral Byrd in 1930. The responsibility for designing the base has been in the hands of Victor G. Czegka, warrant onicer or tne u.

s. Marine corps, a veteran of the first Byrd expedition to Antarctica. Czegka fixed the maximum weight of the shack at 1,500 pounds. It is a portable affair, and was transported last week from the main, camp to the advance base. The shack itself was built by Ivor Tinajor, master carpenter of Melrose Highlands.

under supervision of Czegka. It is thirteen feet long, nine feet wide and seven feet high. A single kerosene stove will provide heat for the shack. Admiral Byrd has plenty of equipment and food supplies on nana. The Temperature Last 24 Honrs Courtesy Indiana General Service Co.

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52 8 a. 4 p. 71 Midnight. ..51 A Tear Ago Yesterday, Maximum, 58; 44, Missing Soviet Air Party Is Reported Safe Three in Rescue Plane, Seeking Floe Victims, Forced Down. Nome, Alaska, March 30 (JP) The missing Russian rescue plane piloted by F.

A. Levanevsky was forced down in a snow storm forty miles from Cape Van Karen, Siberia, official advices received here today said. Wireless stations had vainly tried to contact the plane since yesterday afternoon. The plane, carrying Prof. George Yushakoff and Clyde Armistead, a mechanic, left here at noon yesterday for the Bering Sea ice floes, 350 miles northwest, to rescue eight Russians marooned there.

Land Safe in Storm. A safe landing was made, despite the bad weather, and Pilot Levanev-sky and his two companions. Prof. Yushakoff, leader of the party, and Please Tarn te Face Five. TWO WE BIG FIRMS HIKE PAY U.

S. Steel and G. E. Plants' Wages Up-1 0 Per Cent By The Associated Press. Wage increases of 10 per cent for 140,000 employes of the United States Steel Corporation, and for between 30,000 and 40,000 employes of the General Electric Company, announced yesterday, brought to at least 400,000 the number of workers who have been promised such pay boosts within the last four days.

Industrial leaders estimate the in creases adding to the buying power of the employes involved will ap proximate roughly $4,000,000 a month. They will be effective April 1. Benefits 400,000 Workers. About 90 per cent of the 400,000 workers to benefit are employes of the steel industry, which unless a few of the smallest companies have been missed, is 100 per cent represented in the increase. One company, the Alan Wood Steel Company, of Con-1 shohocken.

Pa, went beyond the 10 per cent, and declared a boost of nearly 17 per cent. Besides workmen on a wage basis, the 140,000 employes of United States Steel, who will receive the increase includes all of its lower-bracket salaried employes. Some of the other steel companies also are expected to include a part of their salaried em ployes, but most of them have not yet worked out the details. General Electric's Increase affects all employes on hourly rates of pay and aU on salaries of $2,600 a year or less. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, second largest In the Industry, announced the wage boost for Its 60,000 employes Wednesday.

The Republic Steel Corporation, third largest, took similar action for 22,000 employes a day earlier. First of the companies to reveal the increase was the Comgan-MCKJnney Steel Company, of Cleveland, which Flease Turn te Paire Five. BOWMAN AND AIDE SHOT, CAPTURED IN KENTUCKY BATTLE Somerset, March 30 (JFh-Neal Bowman, southern Ohio bandit and bank robber, who escaped from the Lima (O.) state hospital for the criminal Insane Christmas day, was shot and captured near here today. A companion, Stanley Mercer, 29, of Wayne County, was shot in the left cheek. Both men are held under heavy guard, although Bowman insists Mercer has not accompanied him on robberies, and Mercer said he met Bowman only Tuesday.

The men were wounded in a gun battle with Police Chief J. B. Jasper, of Somerset, and Capt. Georgs Blaydes, of the Pulaski County police. During his absence from jail.

Bowman had kidnaped at least one sheriff. Recently he was reported In volved in what Warden P. E. Thomas said was a plot to blast the walls of Ohio penitentiary, where a brother. Howard, is serving a life term for bank robbery.

Neal also was serving a life sentence. Placed Under Heavy Police Guard; Turkish Government Believes It Can Legally Turn Him Over to American Authorities. Istanbul, Turkey, March 30 (JP) The announcement that the Turkish government believes it can legally turn Samuel Insull over to American authorities brought to a climax tonight the 74-year-old fugitive's long battle against extradition to the United States. Insull, himself, weary and sick from court fights in Greece and a subse quent dash toward the Black Sea, was reported to have attempted suicide by trying to jump into the Bosporus. He was restrained, however, and placed under a heavy police guard.

Final Scenes Set for Saturday. The government, acting on an American request for the arrest of the former Chicago utilities operator, decided his case comes under a provision of the penal code making possible his arrest for American authorities. The final scenes in the Insull drama were scheduled for tomorrow: First, his removal from the dirty Greek tramp steamer, Maotis, which brought him here two days ago, after his flight from Greece, to a hotel under a heavy guard of officers." Second, verification by the Instanbul penal court that accusations against him are neither political nor military, and that the Turkish government therefore has a legal right to turn him over to American authorities. Ship Given Freedom of Harbor. Third, the Turkish government's exercise of that right.

The Maiotis was given the freedom of Istanbul harbor this change from a transit status, making it easier for the Turkish government to exercise jurisdiction and Insull was held a virtual prisoner, while his extradition to the United States was considered. Orders from Ankara, the capital for his actual arrest or for the release of his vessel, the Maiotis, were expected hourly. American Ambassador Robert Skinner, on instructions from Washington, asked Turkey to seize Insull Made Mistake in "Stopping Off." A desire for fresh vegetables anc other provisions may have led InsuL into the trap. Fearing scurvy, the Flease Tarn te Pace FWe. EASTMAN DESPAIRS IN RAinVRANGLE Roosevelt May Have Dispute Back on His Hands Soon.

Washington, March 30 President Roosevelt is likely to have the railroad wage controversy back on his hands when he returns from his Easter vacation. Joseph B. L'astman, federal coordinator of sportatlon announced today that while the differences between the carriers and the union workers were not irreconcilable, he was unable to settle the dispute "as long as there is possibility of appeal to higher authority." No Prospect of Strike. rr0 Qr1Hl that while he would not atandon big roie as mediator and would listen to any suggestions either side might make, "it is probable that a settlement of the controversy will have to await the return of the President to appoint a commission to examine the labor controversy and advise the country of the merits of the case. "The fact should be he said, "that thera is no present prospect of a stride and that if further effort at settlement fails, the controversy must proceed in accordance with the orderly procedure provided by the railway labor act.

Eastman In a formal statement reviewed the entire proceedings, recalling that the unions In 1932 had assented to a reduction of ten per cent in the basic wage and that through agreements this had been continued, but was due to end June 30. "In my negotiations," said Eastman, "I nave not undertaken to form an opinion upon the merits of the basic wage rates. What I have tried to do is to bring about a temporary settlement. "In this endeavor I have submitted various proposals which seemed to me to be consistent with the President's wishes but none of these proposals has been acceptable to both tides." heart, instantly settled every business transaction, lawsuit, engagement, commitment and plan on this earth for the veil-known financier. Mr.

Kahn had been a wise financial adviser up to 1909. For instance, while the New York stock exchange was closed at the war's beginning, he said to this writer: "Buy all you can as many thousand shares as possible of General Motors Stock. I know all about it. You will make money." The stock sold then under $60 a share. With additional stock given away, its value rose until it became equivelent to $5,000 a share.

Even one thousand shares of stock, which could have bought on margin for about $10,000, would have yielded a profit of approximately five millions. Later, when the war was well under way, and weapons in demand Mr. Kahn said! "You would not take my ad vice about General Motors. Now, listen when I tell you to buy Winchester Arms. It is going up right away." Mr.

Kahn was right. Winchester Arms, selling that day at $1,500 a share, went up within a week, $2,000, to $3,500 a share. The writer, by. the -way, never bought or owned a share of General Motors or Winchester Arms. It was a hard blow for Mr.

Kahn to find his sound judgment suddenly replaced by absolute uncertainty. After the depression had gone on for a while, with a long way still to go, he said; to this writer: "Next year we shall be cursing each other for not having bought everything in sight now." He, perhaps, did buy, and if he did it was to lose heavily. You lose confidence in yourself, and even lose health, when you realize that your judgment has suddenly become worthless. Mr. Kahn's advice was always sincere, unlike that of some other Wall Street gentlemen of whom it is said, truly, that their financial advice is about as valuable as a sprig of poison ivy.

Mr. Alfred Butes, head of the London Times Book Club, sends a Times clipping, suggesting a moving picture based on the many adventures of Ulysses in the Odyssey. There is no Homeric copy right, and Hollywood might also try It. Directors would encounter no lack of the Interesting "sex interest." It would begin gently with the lovely Nausicaa, playing ball with her maidens on the beach, when Ulysses comes crawling up out of the sea. The nymph, Calypso, so sad, and Circe, turning her gen tlemen friends into swine, would offer "big parts." One British film expert sug gests that bristles be shown growing out of the skin of Circe's victims to help make the "film fans 'flesh Marie Dressier could be Pene lope, and make that part gay.

A modern touch might be added by inviting Mr. Gar Wood, in his fastest motorboat, to show in close-ups Ulysses' entire trip, going places and seeing things, from the pillars of Hercules to the end, a journey so long and wearisome, originally, covered now in a few hours, as the dis tance covered by Moses in his forty years of wandering could be covered today in one morn Flease Torn to Face Five. IR MAIL BIDS INVITED BY U. S. Temporary Contracts to Be Let for 21 Routes.

Washington, March 30 (JP) Moving back toward private transportation of the air mail, the Postoflice Department today invited bids for temporary air mail contracts over twenty-one routes covering 18,000 miles. Reiterating that companies whose contracts were annulled could not bid, and that such companies as were represented at the 1930 conference must expel those who represented them at the gathering. Postmaster General Farley's advertisement reestablished the 45-cent maximum rate of pay per airplane mile which operated prior to the cancellation. The maximum range is from 41 to 45 cents. Some Requirements Liberalized.

In calculating the rate of pay. the department used definite weight spaces per airplane mile as the base, one cubic foot being computed as the equivalent of nine pounds of air mail. Variable rates of compensation which formerly allowed a contractor to be paid at a higher rate for a given route, if he had certain additional equipment, were not re-established. Requirements for passenger equipment are more liberal than formerly. Under the old plan, exact seating arrangement and other requirements were often Included, but now the phrase "passenger equipment" is the most stringent used.

The minimum speed provision now is 110 miles an hour, as contrasted with the 100-mile an hour provision formerly laid down. Aviation Men Reticent. Aviation men withheld comment on the specifications, but post office officials said the demand for air mail business appeared "enormous." Washington aviation company agents paced the department building impatiently this morning waiting for the speci fications, which were issued at noon. The bids are returnable April 19, and are to be opened at noon on April 20. The twenty-one routes Tor which bids were asked include the fifteen announced earlier in the week and two additional Some of the Please Turn ta Pafe Five.

tecting the harbor as the Nourmahal, trailed by the U. S. S. Ellis, slipped into port for a four-hour stay. The men on the destroyer manned the rail and dipped the presidential nag in response to the salute from the Danae.

A typical Roosevelt gesture occurred here. It seemed that on his visit a year ago, Mr. Roosevelt, in a kidding mood, declared J. Frederick Kernochan of New York, one of his guests, commissioner of mud, in connection with the mud fiats of this region where the spongers live. So today, unknown to Kernochan, a dilapidated and leaky ship drew by the presidential yacht, manned by "Pete the Sponger." With the highest formality, "Pete the Sponger" came on board with a Please Turn to Pace Ten.

President Roosevelt Seeks Fishing Grounds Of Bahamas Nassau, N. Bahamas, March 30 (JP) President Roosevelt sailed out of this harbor early this afternoon with an expert fisherman to help him find the fishing grounds of the Bahamas. With all the ceremonies attendant on a visit by the President of the United States to a foreign territory, Mr. Roosevelt anchored here for a few hours today, but he did not leave the yacht, NourmahaL British Ship Salutes President, Tonight, he was cruising off Rocky Point, in Great Abaco, trolling for his favorite fish, the bonefish, gam est of the finny tribe. In this quaint harbor, the presidential yacht was given a 21 -gun salute from the British cruiser, Danae.

The Danae remained outside the reef pro-.