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1 17Z7J YORK. June 16 (AJ.) The last car of a ccmmuters train, from Hew RocheEe jumped switch at Woodlawn station, la the Bronx, today, and eldeawiped a work tram. injuring more than a score of passengers. As the train was passing tinder the overhead Woodlawn station the reaxi cir was derailed and crashed Into the work train standing la the station, overturnlnj the caboose and derailing a unk car. rO'' Windows were shattered and passengers' were hurled from their seats.

More thin a dozen men were treated by ambulance eurgeons at the scene and eisht were admitted to hospitals fcr more serious Injuries. The. injured were mostly from Kew Rocaelle and lit. Vernon, H. rxcixErg.

kiixed. Frefjbt Train Rons InU tTAshowt Cassed by Cain. COLUMBIA. Pa June IS (AJ.) An engineer and a fireman were killed and a conductor was Injured today when a seventy one car Pennjyrranla ra'ilrced freight train ran Into ajwash cut at Manns run, about six miles eat of here. The E.B.

Cant well, age fifty. Del, engineer, and A. L. Ilayden. age thlrty lx, Philadelphia, fireman.

J. TL Bard, conductor, Wilmington, suffered a broken leg and other injuries and was taken to Et. Joseph' Hospital, Lancaster. Pa. A fceary rain laat night washed down a great quantity of sand and gravel on to (he roadbed under a bridge and a part of one of the tracks ntA washed away.

The engine and tender and two cars went over an embankment Into a creek. Five other cars were derailed. The accident occurred the low grade freight line of the Columbia Is Port Deposit branch of the Maryland division. IllUh IlIkrr lUbs Woman Motorist, niCHMONT. June 18 hitch hiker to whom Mrs.

L. O. Leonard. Columbus offered a ride, stole jewelry valued at $250 and some money from her pocketbook, she reported to Richmond police. JOHN M'CORMACK, NOTED SINGER, HAS HIGH PRAISE FOR SQNGAME 1 Contest Will Spread Love for Best Irv Music, He Says Newcomers May Obtain Free Circular of Back Pictures No Subscriptions Are Necessary.

i I Br the Iwih C4Ur y' It the Songame were not an tar animate thing, "the compliment it has received would be good cause tor furious blushing Today this wire came from John McCormack; whose voice 'and Interpretatlona have endeared htm to all music lovers; 1 Colonel W. T. Owens, The Indianapolis News, 1 am delighted to hear about the Songame and hasten to congratulate you and The News on this splendid way of spreading the knowledge and appreciation of the celestial art of music. After alL musle is the soul vocal. We Americans are apt times like these to forget the thing tf the soul in our worries about material things.

It is well to bring our m'nia to harmonious thlnga now and Wn and the Scngame will do lust that as well as spreading healthy tor for the best in music. Cod speed jour work. JOHN M'CORMACK. One thousand five hundred dollars fn cash, two beautiful lots In North valued at between 650 Tcne tr.d trine In the No. 27 Ef555 (GO HOME) Z9 mm mm, 1 The title of the picture is: Name i.

Street addrees, box or rural route City rNSTRCCTIOK3. The total prize money to be awarded piayers of the Songame 'Is 11.500. The rirst prize is $750. the second tZ'jQ and the third $150, the fourth 75. te Rftir $50 and the sixth $23.

The supplemental prizes consist cf ten rms cf $10 each and ten prizes of 1 3 each; two season passes to the Money used to draw interest now it actually excites CHARGES TtlODIFlED ON TWO KIRKLAND PALS Assault, Battery Affidavits Replace Murder Counts. STAMFORD. SHIRK FREED I Sped! to The Indianapolis Start) GARY. In1. June ISV Murder charges against 'Paul Barton.

Henry Shirk and Da rid Thompson, jointly indicted with Virgil Kirk land for: the Ciurder of Arlene Drares. were dismissed today by Judge Martin ml th. la Lake criminal court, Crown Point, on motion cf Robert Estill, Lake county A similar motion was to be filed by Estill before Judge Barry Crumpacker, In Porter superior court. asking dismissal et murder charges jegainst Leon, Stanford, the fourth; Klrkland's co defendants, At the same time as be filed the motion for dismissal of the murder charges before Judge Smith. Estill filed affidavits charging Barton and Thomnson with assault and battery with intent to rape, the same chance on which Kbrkland waa found guilty and sentenced to scire from one to ten years.

Stanford and Shirk, who testified against Kirk land In his second trial, are to be released without any charges hanging over them; Estill saying the erldence failed to provide sufficient basis for bringing them to trial. Shirk left the Lak County Jail In company with his mother and father and Robert Moore, his attorney. Judge Smith set the bond, of Thompson and Barton at $10,000 each. Their trials will not be called until he fail terms of Lake criminal court. 1 1.000: two season passes to the Lrric and two season passe to the Apollo are the awards for players of the tuneful and Inspiring Songame.

There are no subscription to get. and the contest is conspicuously free from red tape. The prizes will go to those who succeed In supplying the largest number of correct song titles for the aeries of sixty picture. Tor the convenience of followers of the Songame, the book the Whole World Loves has been made available to those who call at the circulation department, or by maC This book, which is guaranteed to have all the correct Uties for the sixty pictures. Is SO cents a ecpy.

When ordered by mail 4 cents extra must be included to cover postage. Newcomers into the Songame, and those who have missed one or more of the pictures of the aeries, may obtain a free circular with the first twenty pictures, as well as a helpful song list. In which the first twenty are Included. The list may be obtained at the circulation department, or by mall for a 3 cent stamp. la cash prizes song illustrated by tMs Lyric theater and two season to the Apollo theater.

There is no charge to play the Songame. Contestants are not asked to subscribe for The Indianapolis and there are to subscriptions 10 soaat. 1 Pictures and anmra ar not In ha submitted until all the sixty pictures care oeen THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS News Classified Ad cost little produce muchJ Phone Riley 7441, Adtaker. and place your crder nowv That spare room Is valuable. Secure tenant through; a Newa Classified Ad.

CaQ XtHey 7441 today. TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 16. 1931. Dot Rockwell Says: 1 WOMAN WHO SHOOK HAND OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AMONG NUMBER IN INDIANAPOLIS GROUPS TO GRASP THAT OF PRESIDENT HOOVER Last Car of Train; Jumps Track and Sideswipes Another Train.

WINDOWS ARE SHATTERED Injured Mostly 1 From New Rochelle and Total Victims In Wreck of French Excursion Vessel Estimated at 473. 71 SCORES BROUGHT ASHORE ft: Flyer Sight Dead in Debris and Tugs are Sent to Scene in Bay. V. Mt. zflHUilTlillKil AT 0R0X STATION 00 BODIES SEEN WHERE SHIP SANK 1 If 1 i 1" .1 1 1 1 J.

A J' Several of the groups of persons who were fortunate enough to meet President Herbert Hoover personally Tuesday shortly before his departure for Ohio are shown in the foregoing pictures. Ages of those meeting the President ranged from four years, in the case bf an Indianapolis lad. to ninety nine years, the age of one civil war veteran. 1. Mrs.

Mary Margaret Howard, age eighty six. 2715 North Meridian street, who shook the hand of President Abraham Lincoln In 1864, and Wal BLOOMINGTON GREETS ALL INDIANA AIR TOUR Elaborate Reception Arranged With Parachute Leap. MIGHT STOP IN EVANSVILLE By a Staff Cmiw.m mt The laelaa. apB Newt BLOOMINGTON, Ind June 16 Merchants put on an elaborate recep tion for the thirty six planes compris ing; the third annual all Indiana air tour which stopped here for luncheon this noon. The planes left Evans vllle, the first overnight stop of the tour, at 10 a.

m. The. tour was Joined here by a squadron of three ships from the Indiana national guard flown by Major Richard P. Taylor, command tng officer of the 113th observa tion squadrcn of the Indiana guard; Lieutenant Howard Maxwell and Lieutenant Matt Carpenter. Three snip with reserve officers oX the 309th observation aquadron from Schoen field also Joined the tour.

The ships were flown by Captain R. Whitehead. Lieutenant H. Joae and Lieutenant Kenneth Noble. These ships will travel with the tour to Wolcctt and win then turn back to then base at Ft.

Harrison and Join the tour later at Ft Wayne. The national guard squadron, however, will continue throughout the rest of the tour. Faracbate Leap Arraaged. A parachute drop by Lionel Stephenson, Cincinnati, was part of the program here. Terre Haute will be the atop The trip from Madison to Evans vllle was in part over rough country and some planes flew almost a mile high to assure gliding range on a forced landing.

None was faced with such necessity, however. The tour' is dmonstraUng that reliability is one of the airplane attributes. The News correspondent flew ha the Travelalr of the president cf the Indiana Aircraft Trades Association. Walker Other passengers were Charles ZL Cox, Jr. superintendent of the Indiana municipal airport, and Margaret Wilson, secretary of the an tour.

As the country grew eorgb, Winxlow sent his ship higher. At 3.000 feet the ship began gliding through cumulus clouds, first evidenced by wisps which tore the fuselage at 100 miles an hour. As it moved higher the air became peieepUMy cooler and SO degrees on the ground gradually changed to 63 at 4.000 feet. increased in density, until at 400 feet the ship was floating in a vast sea punctured by billowy islands, which, took on fantastic shapes. At this right all 7 k' I 0T 1 rifrhri ii.iii.iki r.jt lace O.

Lee, four years old. were two of the few privileged to meet President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover at the Governor's mansion Tuesday. Mrs; Howard is the mother of Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union, and young Lee is the son of Wallace O.

Lee, who assisted in handling details in connection with the President's visit here. 2. A group of heroes of the war of the rebellion met President Herbert Hoover and Governor Harry G. Leslie shortly after the departure of the President for Ohio. In the plc the corduroy road characteristics had been rolled out the air was smooth.

Te Evansvnie In 1:11. With Charlie Cox at the controls Cvansvllle appeared In the offing in an hour and ten minutes from the time the ship left Madison, and after circling the city. Cox set the Travelalr down on the cement runways of the xnundpal airport. Evansville's Chamber of Commerce had all arrangements made to care roc the tourists. Each ahlp waa met as it landed and the personnel directed to a car.

8tate police aided In directing traffic. The dinner was presided over by Earl F. Harper, an aviation enthusiast, as toastmaster. Talks were made by J. W.

Boehne, congressman; president of the Chamber of Commerce, and various other citizens. Wlnslow made the principal address, The Curtis Jr. ships flown bv H. Weir Cook, general manager for curtiss of Indiana, and the one flown by Edward F. New.

Indianapolis lawyer, took approximately two hours and a half to make the trip from Madison to EvansvUle, but in doing so flew thirty miles farther, stopping at Louisville. No accidents or near accidents have been reported. The ships are started by Rex Risher. captain' of the state police, and on arrival at the destination flagged down by Herbert Fisher, assistant tour director, and Lieutenant Stanton Smith, advance ship pilot. MAN BEATEN TO DEATH Bedy Left Road Three Men Seen Leaving Aata.

NEW YORK. June 16 AP.) A body with battered head was found in a quiet road in Flushing. Long island, today. A card In the dead man's clothes bore the name of Abe Rosenberg, who recently moved from De Are You Insured Against Homesickness? There isnt aay aoch thing af coarse, as istsaraoce against homesickness. TVhen yao're far away and Mt af tonca with what's tng aw esmrfitnrs yaw fed mighty weary and bine Bat there's something that wffl hern a la when yare away on ywar vacation nad that's te have the news ef Indianapolis sent yaw every day daily AH yaw need to da Is telephone Riley 7441 to have The News sent to year vacation address 1 far as long as yeare away.

The Indianapolis News The Great Hoosier 1 1 ture, left to right, are: David L. Osborne, Indianapolis; James H. Clark, Indianapolis; E. J. Saverage, Indianapolis; Joseph B.

Hennlnger. Indianapolis, asclstant adjutant general of the Grand Army of the Republic; President Hoover; Colonel James S. Wright. Rock port, only surviving regimental commander in Indiana; Capt. Tbomaa K.

Halls, a civil war veteran and former head of the United States secret service in Indiana; Governor Leslie, and Francis M. McNatr, Martinsville, department commander of the G. A. Ft. of Indiana.

troit to the Bronx, and a car found abandoned a mile away was registered In Rosenberg's name, but Rosenberg's daughter reported that her father was at home at the time the body was found. resident who reported the abandoned car told police he saw it stop and three men walked away. When they did not return, he investigated and found the rear seat stained with blood in which were strands of gray hair. The clenched fingers of the dead man also held gray hair. Youth's Advice to End Life Believed Taken by Father CHICAGO.

Jane 16 (UJ.) A college yonth'a advtee to his father that "suicide the easiest way eat' waa believed today by authorities to have eaased R. J. Capren, age sixty, gray haired and well dressed, to walk Into Lincoln park and km himself with a revolver. In the shadow of Grant's mona sent, Capran apparently had bowed his head over a letter from the son, John, as he fired a ballet Into his brain. The.

letter read: "Dear Dad: "I am sorry I have not more time to wrte, but my examinations begin tomorrow, and there remains still so maeh to be done on preparation. I reeeired yoar letters of Satardsy and Senday jnet a few momenta ago. Came home from the library te get them. I am sorry we are leaving. 1 am wishing foe yon, dear dad.

hoping for yoo wishing yoa ah I ran wish thinking of yaw all the time. If we get a break it will be a grand thing. "If we do not, find the easy way eat. dear dad. Know that I will be thinking of yoo grand thoughts, dad.

I will bo hoping that I can be as gaaae as my dad was. And I will always remember the while we spent alone together, too. dad. Bat If yoa mast, if the breaks are not with as, do find a simple way, medicine aomething. I am sore yoa know why I am aaytn It." SUICIDE INQUIRY MADE Mysterious Chart May Explain Toang Man's Leap From Skyscraper.

AKRON, 0 June 18 (AJ.) Authorities here today sought to explain the suicide of T. Lamar Rosa, age twenty eight, formerly one of the most popular students at Vanderbllt University and the University of Tennessee, who ended his life with a plunge from a nineteenth story window of the new skyscraper here. Officials at the T. M. C.

where Ross lived, said he had been recovering from a recent drinking spree and was without money, but police doubted that these facts accounted in full for the young man's act. A mysterious chart found among his personal effects was studied is hope i Ql Pour of the civil war veterans, all of whom' are members of the O. A. were present at the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to U.

S. Grant at Appomatox. 3. Seven cf the founder members of the old Columbia Club, founded In 1E88 as a marching organization to further the presidential candidacy of Benjamin Harrison, were introduced Monday to President Herbert C. Hoover at the Governor's mansion.

They are shown, left to right, as follows: Dr. Sollla Runnels, Newton Todd. Albert Baker, Oeorge C. Hitt. Charles.

Martlndale, Dr. W. N. Wish PREHISTORIC SKULL'S BRAIN CAVITY SMALL MELBOURNE. Australia, Jane If (AF.) A prehistoric skoU with a brain cavity half as large as that of modern man has been foond la the drifting sand near the Jer vols moon tains in central Australia and is now in the possession of the Australian Institute el Anatomy.

Sir Colin Mackenzie, director of the institute, said it had features resembling the Peking skull, with thick bones. of a clew. It was inscribed: "July 16, 1931 Four years, 3 years O. EL" Then the names of six months from January to June were blocked out in cquares and in the January. February and March squares was the nota tion The April square had been blackened out.

a question mark was written in the May square, and the June block was untouched. MORRISSEYS PROUD OF THEIR "MIKE' NEW CHIEF OF POLICE A dad and a mother who have seen their son grow from ust a "little tyke" to a "strappin' policeman" were two of the happiest persons in Indianapolis Tuesday. They are Mr. and Mrs. John J.

Morrissey, 1416 East Market street, parents of Michael Morrissey. whose appointment as chief of police was announced Tuesday by the board of safety. "Mike always has been a good boy." remarked the father Tuesday. "He has done a lot for me and nothing to worry me. That's about all any dad can ask.

know be will make V1 i V.N Fbotoa bx Tha Kewi Pbotofraphers. ard and Thomas C. Day. Mr. Martin dale headed the delegation, which met the President in the large living room at the Governor's mansion.

4. The President is shown chatting with James H. Clark, patriotic instructor for the department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, as others stand by. 5. Au rerolr! As the presidential special pulled out of the Union Station early Tuesday, the chief executive stepped to the observation platform and waved to the crowd assembled there.

By the aide of the President stands a secret service man. HATHAWAYUM)ERMINED Doctor Discredits Broken Tooth Defense in GirTs Murder. NEWPORT. R. L.

June 18 (AJ.) A fragment of a broken, tooth waa not in the mouth of the slain Verna Russell at the time Dr. Elmus U. Peasley performed an autopsy, he told a jury today. Dr. Peasley made the statement while being cross examined by George Hurley, chief of counsel for Elliott R.

Hathaway, of Fall River, charged with slaying the Russell girl. The statement was regarded as important inasmuch as the defense has contended a fragment of tooth might have Impeded the girl's breathing to such an extent as to have caused her death. The piece of tooth found a month after the girl's death, when the body was exhumed for further examination, was not Imbedded deep enough in the young nurse's throat to have proved fatal, the state contends. MIes Lilly Eden, an assistant court clerk, posed as Miss Russell while Hurley brought the admission from Dr. Peasley that he could not fit his own hands to Miss Eden's throat In the manner the state contends the Massachusetts legislator's son placed his hands about Miss Russell's neck.

good because he knows that right Is right and wrong is wrong. He was born right in Holy Cross parish where we live and be has grown tip with it." "Oh, my poor boy, said Mrs, Morrissey when she learned of her son's appointment. Tt is rust too much for me to Mrs. Morrissey alternately laughed and cried as the telephone rang and friends and neighbors called at the home to offer 'congratulations. The photograph shows Mr.

and Mrs. Morrissey in the front yard of their home. ST. NAZAIRE, June IS ji. (AJ.) About 100 bodies of passes, i gers who perished when the excursion steamer St.

Phllibert sank 'Sunday 'r were sighted today floating in wreck age near the mouth cf the Loire river. The pilot of a plane notified authorttiee and tugs put oft wltb divers to recover them. Eight army trucks drove to Nantes with seventy bodies taken from the Bay of Biscay The dead were placed In plain wooden bcxea i' and clothes were left on to facllltat identification. Officials of the company operating1 the St. Phllibert determined that 474, including the crew but excluding children under four years old.

were aboard the vessel when she left Nantes Sunday for a plenle at Nolrmoutler island. Forty three passengers de dined to make the Ttturn trip on ac count of stormy and eight were rescued after the boat went dowa near the mouth of the Loire river. Thus the number ot dead un officially was placed at least at 423. It was estimated that fifty children who paid no fares were aboard and wore lost. Nantea alone lost 36 cltixens from the industrial class.

One family of mother, father, four daughters and two sons was drowned. Dozens of families of four, five and six bers perished together. The entire city is In Search for the remaining bodied conducted by tugs, trawlers and; smaller craft, aided by two seaplanes circUns; above. NAUTILUS TOWED IK STOR5L Battleship Has Difficulty Fulling Die'V abied wnklns Submarine. ON BOARD THE U.

a BATTLE SHIP ARKANSAS EN ROUTE TO COPENHAGEN, Denmark. June 1 AP.) The battleship Wyoming today was towing the disabled aretio submarine Nautilus through a heavy rain storm and fog toward Queens town, Ireland, where the undersea craft will put In for repairs. The Nautilus, In which Sir Hubert Wllklns hopes to reach the north pole by cruising under lee. became disabled Sunday. Messages intercepted between the craft and the Wyoming today said 1 the engines were slU disabled and the battleship waa having difficulty in towing the submarine, its steammsj't speed being slowed by heavy weather.

Midshipmen from the naval acad emy at Annapolis on the annual train lng cruise braved a 'driving rainstorm to sight the submarine from the decks of the warships. The most interested! was Midshipman Danehower. son of Commander Danehower, captain, of i the Nautilus, r. Intercepted messages today said the crew was well and sealed inside submarine, due to heavy teas washing decks. The crew uses the periscope' to keen fight of the 'Wyoming.

The battleship keeps searchlights on the submarine at night. Utopia Here but It Lacks Something; Saya Hutching CHICAGO, Jane If (AJT.) Reberl Maynard Hutehtns, president, address lng tho graduating class of the Unhrer i sity of Chicago today, said the mod era world has achieved the Utopia 1 dreamed ef by Francis Bacon In 1127, bat there Is much wrong with It. Aeeulsitloa of useful Information, to the neglect of cultivation of Ideas and leadership, was the principal eharae lerlstle ef Inhabitants ef the new Al; lantla as conceived by Bacon. Dr. Hate bins said, "One ha If the world Is starving te obtain the goods the other half is starring to dispose ef.

and we see no way of bringing them together, i asserted. "I find no mention of tboso things in the collected works ef Bacon To escape from this new Atlantis, education faces the problem of pro during Informed individuals capable of leadership." v. Fried Chicken Cause ef Murder. GREENWOOD, 8. June II (AP.) John Cox.

age forty, farmer, was held here today on a charge of murdering his twenty elght year old wife because she ate too much ef the fried chicken set before guests. The nine year old daughter of the slain woman, Stella May Barton, testified at the Inquest that her atepfather, who she said had been drinking, ae cused his wife of eating the chicken, knocked her down and shot her. WEATHER INDICATIONS I trx rrxD states weathtb JjMtinapoUa. Jane 131. TmpfTitor Judo 18, 1930.

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