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THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE VOL. L--NO. 68 I A KOKOMO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9,1937 TWENTY PAGES PRICE-THREE CENTS JAP TANKS BREAK CHINESE NANKING LINE LICENSE PLATE SALE FOR 1938 BEGINSFRIDAY Howard License Bureau All Set and Ready To Serve Applicants. SALE LASTjfTWElSTY DAYS Arrests Will Follow If 1937 License Plates Are Used Alter January 1. At the Howard County Automobile License Bureau, 120 West Taylor street.

Kenneth Shocklcy has his abaft organized and supplies conveniently placed, in readiness to begin the eale of 1938 license plates and chauffeur nt the opening of business at 8 o'clock Friday morning. All motorists must have their 1938 license plates by January 1 or cease operating their at that time. No extension of time for using 1837 plates Is to be allowed tor any reason. Such being the situation, It Is reasonable to expect that the lo- M.1 bureau will be a lively from the opening of busl- beii on morning of Friday, Dee. 10, until the closing of butl- on the evening of Friday, Etc.

31. Prudtnt If financially ftfele to obtain their plates early in toe licencing period, will be getting fixed up for next Scar's driving within the next few ays. who do not do their shopping of thit kind early will run rfek of having to stand in line In bad weather outside the bureau, in the rush period that always jnarks the approach of expiration (of the time limit. Howard County For the accommodation of Howard county motor vehicle and drivers, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has to Jocal bureau supplies at Passenger car plates, 32,200 the numbers of which will range from 627,901 to 640,100, inclusive. Truck plates, 2,000 sots, the numbers of which will range from 112,.

001 to 114,000, inclusive. Trailer plates, 900, the numbers of which will range from 42,376 to DIG NINE BODIES FROM FIRE RUINS IN DIXIE BLAZE Knoxvllle, Dec. dug the bodies of-nine vie- tlms--seven of them children-from the ruins of a flame-razed tenement house early today. A long search of the ruins failed to reveal any other in the old. two-story structure described by Fire Chief C.

M. Johnson as a "fire trap." The dead: Mrs. McKlnlcy Connaster, 35, and three of her children, Virginia. Vallee, 4, and Luther, 12, Mrs. Cora Tate, 56, her son, Eugene Tate, 17, and her three grandsons, R.

L. Melton, 12, Junior Melton, 6, and Earl Melton, 9. Fire swept the building shortly after midnight and trapped the victims as they Twenty-two other occupants, of them children, ran or jumped to lately. Gordon Tate, 22, of Mrs. Tate, said from -a hospital bod that he escaped by jumping from a second- (Continucd on Page Two) A Inclusive.

Weight tax plntcs. 2,025, the numbers of which will range from 120.62G to 122,650, Inclusive. Tractor plates, 70, the numbers of which will range from 6,231 to 6,300, inclusive. Semi-trailer plates, 115. the numbers of which will range from 6,566 to inclusive.

House-car platen. 30, the numbers of which will range from to 2,610 inclusive. In all. 18,540 sets of license plato-i are ready for distribution here, and It is probable that most of thorn will be taken out within the next twenty days. Large Outlay In license plates, driver licenses and other accensories the state requires, Howard outlay for 1938, it Is estimated, will be somewhere between $150,000 and $175,000.

Howard county Is one of the highly motorized communl- Btio? in the state. Any applicant for a driver's license, who has held such a license before, must present uuch license along with his application, or take an examination. The 1938 license plates will have maroon numerals on a cream colored background. All Over The sale of plates begins in all counties in Indiana Friday, Approximately 1,000,000 seta of plates will be available, at the Statehouse and the 170 branch auto license bureaus throughout the Announcement been made from the Kate bureau's that any driver of any cars bearing 1937 plates after January 1, 193S, will be arrested. The situation is one In which a car owner muat get new plates between now and Jan.

1 or keep off the GOOD READY FOR REALJNCERT Musicians Promise Unusually Interesting Program for Annual Event Sunday The program for the annual Good Fellown concert, to be presented Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Grace church, been arranged in detail and promises to be one of merit. This annual event, by the Kokomo Morning MiuilcaK offers an opportunity fori people of the community not only to en- loy a worth vrhlle mmlcal program jut to donate, through a free-will offering, to the Good 'fund which Is to provide cheer for unfortunate children of the city. of church and other Mnging have been devoting much time and effort in the preparation of the program. The Koko'mo Community Chorus, numbering about ISO will present a Chrlstmstlde cantata, "The Story of 'Christmas," under the direction of Robert J. Hamp.

Violin Choir to Appear A violin choir, by the Kokomo Morning to be the largent of violinists ever heard in Kokomo at one time, will play two under the direction of John S. Caylor. Mr. Caylor and Lai la Laymon who is utlsting, request that all members of the violin choir meet at Grace Methodist church Saturday evening at 7 o'clock for the final rehearsal and alio to report at the church Sunday promptly at 2 o'clock. The Kokomo high school orchestra, numbering 33 students, will be heard in two numbers under the direction of John S.

-Caylor. The Morning Musicale Chorus of 20 will ing a number under the direction of Mrs, Leon Hite and the Melsteriingere, Kokomo male chorus, will sing an (Continued on Page Fifteen) PALMER DEAN SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK Trustee of Union Township Dies at His Home Late Wednesday Night. HAD Served Also As Township As sessor; Commissioners To Name Successor. Palmer Dean, trustee of Union died suddenly Wednesday night at 11:30 o'clock of heart attack. Death occurred at home, one mile southeast of Jerome.

For the years he had been troubled with an Inward goitre. He had visited a doctor at Greentown Wednesday after. noon and returned to his homo. After eating supper, he again became ill and went back to Greentown to another physician, Seeing condition, the obtained to drive Mr. Dean back home, and the doctor followed In his own car.

The group arrived at the reildenoe at about 8 o'clock, and Mr. Dean away three and one-half later. With him at the time of were widow, Ida Dean, a foster daughter, Thelma, and the A alster, Grace Anderson, and a brother, M. Dean, Tipton county, are other Funeral Saturday Funeral will be held at Jerome Christian church Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The Rev.

Roy Swartz of Selma, will officiate. Interment will be made In the Simpion cemetery at Liberty. The body at the home and will remain there until the time for the funeral. may call there at any time. Practically all life, Mr.

Dean reildtd within the confines of Union township. He had been an adherent of the Republican (Continued on Page Two) ME TO STAY FEPAYS Government Demands Death Penalty For Dalhover 'GANGSTER WILL SEA MOTHER, 35, WITH 17TH CHILD ONOF.JD Mrs. Elroy Maxim, of Wareham, la shown here exhibiting her newly born child with justifiable pride, Maxim but 38, and the lateit arrival her 17th, IB of whom are living. This one tipped the at 12 at birth. Weather Bureau Says Wintry Blasts May End by Week- End in State.

The Auoclatod shivering from near TO KILL FIVE American Dancer Among Vic tims of German Emigre in Paris Suburb. Versailles, France, Dec. body of pretty 22-year-old Jean De Koven. Brooklyn dancer missing since last July, was found today burled under the porch of a St Cloud village to which police were directed by a 29-year-old German emigre- The emigre, police said, confess ed slaying her and four men because he needed money. The body of Miss De Koven found under water in two feet of hard clay.

Diggers first found a white leather pocket book, half open and from which protruded a fountain pen and pencil and some letters, all described as having belonged to the victim. The police said the confessed slayer Eugene Weidmann, who had come to France March to escape German military He led investigators to the suburban villa outiide Paris, laying two of men also were buried there. Weidmann listed the a broker named Raymond Lesobre Driver License The 193S drivers' licensed and new holders for certificates of title will go on sale at the same time. Drivers' licenses coat 50 cents and the title holders 25 cents. Under a new 1937 law the title holder, containing the certificate, must be placed in the lower right hand corner of the windshield of each automobile.

Frank Finney, state commusion- fr of motor vehicles, out a 50-cent service charge will be made if automobile licenses are bought outside the county or residence of the car owner and a 25- cent service charge will be made if the motorist buys drivers' license outside his county of residence. Admitted for Treatment OrvitJc Helms. 717 South Bell street, admitted for medical treatment to the Good Samaritan hospital Thursday morning. U.S. Bombing Planes Complete Flight To Panama Naval Base Colon.

C. Dec. teen of the navy's big new bombing planes, carrying 98 officers and men, arrived at the Coco Solo air base today, completing a mass nonstop flight from San Diego, in about 21H hours. The 3,080 mile flight down the cotwt of Mexico and across Central American Jungles was made without incident. The squadron, commanded by Lieut.

Commander Bradford E. Grow, arrived at 11:15 a. m. (CST). The flight had a two-fold purpose: to deliver the planes to their new station it Coco Solo; and to test the long-distancn combat ability of the naval air force.

BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS Let every woman of the Department club help combat the dread diseaic, tuber- Chnitmaiiiealii cu The way we can belt do to buy juit a as we. can bly afford, and them. Let no forget that this may mean health for some unfortunate perion. Let Howard county continue to lead In great work. MRS.

L. M. KNEPPLE. Preiident Departmint Club. zero can expect no re- (ollnd dgad ten ago in the lief from the current cold wave fore the week-end, the weather bureau at Indianapolis laid today.

ranged from above at Fort Wayne to twelve at Evansvlllc. Terre Haute temperature show- St. Cloud villa; a young man named Roger Leblond; a taxi driver named Couffy, and Arthur Frommer, once a friend of the killer. Weidmann was at the St. Cloud villa yesterday after gun fight with police, two of whom ed the mercury at ten above.

The were wounded. He admitted the temperature eight degrees above the zero mark at o'clock this morning in Indianapolis. The weather bureau said the wave "normally should be over by the end of the week," but pointed out the extreme cold weather gripping the states Immediately west of Indiana was moving eastward. luy and The Amoclated Winter settled with deeper cold through the south, east and west today, with snow and sub-freezing temperatures in many, cities from Amarlllo. to the Atlantic, and a renewal of the biting winds which have haraised upper New York state.

New York weather was cold.and the forecast was for even more frigid weather. The temper- (Continued on Page Two) ARREST FOLLOWS HOLD-UP ATTEMPT AT GAMING HALL Out of Saturday "Wild affair at the Polo Club, JlOtf North Main itreet, an alleged gambling in which two young men attempted a after they they had loit money ibootlng "craps," the conviction registered late Wednesday. Merldith Balllnger, 21, of 914 Haven entered a plea of guilty to a police charge of operating a gambling houie and paid fine of 128 and The two Muncle are now awaiting; trial on yet to bi preferred and to date no have been made against Jewell or one other man to have been in the slaylngs, police after long questioning. St. Cloud police early this afternoon dug up the dancer's body.

Some of her Jewelry and money were found In the according to police. Weidmann, breaking down after hours of questioning, waa quoted telling police he kidnaped De Koven July 23 and took her to the villa, strangling her to death there next day. Police said they learned Arthur Frommer once shared a prison cell in Germany with the killer. Police said the motive in all five confesaed killings robbery. The strange disappearance of Miss DC Koven last July 23 created a major mystery which baffled French for months.

She was last seen alive walking out of the Studio hotel in the Rue Vleux Colombler where she lived with her aunt, Ida Sackheim. Police, tracing the of learned had $500 in The hunt (Continued on Page Two) A A GENERALLY FAIB TONIGHT AND FRIDAY; CONTINUED COLD. CONTINUED COLO Kokomo Maximum Wednesday, 25; minimum Wednesday night, noon Thursday, 11. Readings on Dec. 1M: low, JT.

Hl(h, JI ES A Mrs. Pearl McCIure Ormsby Succumbs at Her Home in South Main Street. Pearl McCIure Ormsby.wife of Omer Ormsby, died at o'clock Thursday morning at her home, 605 South Main street. She was 55 years of age. For the past two months, Mrs.

Ormsby suffered ill health. However, it was thought her condition was improving until the first of this week. While she had been seriously ill since then, her death came rather suddenly and vas a shock to family and friends. Funeral let-vices will be held at the Ellers mortuary Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev.

Allen Rice, pastor of the Main Street M. church, will have charge. Burial will be In Crown Point cemetery. The body will be taken from the State's Attorneys Urge Jury To Show No Mercy To Brady Gang Killer. DEFENDANT LITTLE MOVED Death Weapons Displayed To Court During Arguments of Attorneys.

Hammond, Dec. 9-(AP)--The United States government demanded today that a federal court jury send James Dalhover, diminutive survivor of the braggart Brady gang, to join in death two of his companions in crime who were killed by federal agents at Bangor, October 12. Dalhover, the only one of three Brady gangsters to survive the Bangor battle, in which Gang Leader Al Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer, were slain, sat stolidly as two government attorneys urged the jury to take his life for the killing of State Policeman Paul V. Minneman. "There wag murder In.

the hearts of these three declared Luther M. Swygert, assistant district attorney, referring to the Brady trio's ambush of Minneman as he pursued them for the robbery of the Goodland, state bank last May 25. "It makes no difference -whether Dalhover fired a nhot," said Alex Campbell, another district attorney. He's equally guilty with the man who did, the law. But the government contends he did fire the shot.

We ask. gentlemen of the jury, the death penalty." Admits Murder Charge Dalhover pleaded guilty November 15 to a federal murder charge YOUTH GETS EYE AS PRESENT FROM HOSPITAL FRIEND New Dec. gratitude of an old man brought a present today to young Frank Chabina--an eye to supplant his own ruined by lime dust. "Isn't that the swellest thing that ever happened to anybody?" asked the Albany, youth who will be 20 years old tomorrow, following the operation In Charity hospital. John Amos, the 67-year-old donor, seemed happy about It, too.

They had met in the hospital ward and acquaintance ripened Into friendship. There they learned each other's atory. Chabina's left eye was sightless. A milky scar tissue gradually had shut out the light. Amos' eye, infected ainec removal of a cataract, was useless to him, but the cornea was unimpaired.

Out of two impaired eyes the thought they could restore the sight in Chabina's eye. They (Continued on Page Two) DEEDS TO (Continued on Page Two) Friday morning. Friends may call there from 10 o'clock Friday until Saturday noon, at which time the body will be removed to the mortuary for final Mrs. Ormsby born in Howard county in the Jewell community. Her mother died while she young, and she made her home during her early life with a grandmother at 'She attended the Cassville elementary school and then came to Kokomo for her high training.

She graduated from the latter with the class of 1901 and entered the profession of school teach- Teaching for three at the Glendale school In the Judson community, transferred to the Fifth ward in Kokomo. She Laught there until the time of her marriage to Mr. Ormsby in 1907. To union were born two children. The daughter, Mary Jane, survives with the husband at home.

The son, John William, preceded his mother In death several years ago. Only one other near relative survives. She is a sister, Jackson, 623 South Union street. Mrs. Ormsby was a member of the Main Street M.

E. church. She greatly devoted to her I FR TIPTJN BEGUN Suit by Allen Carter Against Carl Crail Heard by Jury Here. A jury of women and men began hearing evidence Thursday in the Howard circuit court in a suit for filed by Allen R. Carter, of Sharpsville, against Carl Crail, Tipton mail carrier, the action having been venued here following an automobile crMh on Aug.

5, 1936. The collision occurred at an intersection of two gravel in Tipton county. At the time the suit filed Carter was a minor and complaint was brought by Rachel Huffer, next friend. Asserting that he had the right of way and that the accident was the result of negligence by the defendant. Carter is seeking $1,500 for injuries and $300 for damage to his car.

He says that he was driving north and Crail waa going east as the two machines reached the crossing. Crail has filed a cross-complaint, in which he asks for a judgment of $80,000 on the ground that he was Injured permanently in the accident He asserts that he was almost across the intersection when his car was struck by the Carter machine, which, It is al- OPERTIES TO IE MADE SOON EARLY PA ES ANCJENT CITY Chinese Artillery Keeps Japanese From Frontal Attack Upon Capital. YANGTZE PORT CAPTURED Wang Kehmin.Veteran Statesman, May Head New Autonomous Government Comptroller's Approval Received Regarding All Sales of Business Properties. Thirty have elapsed the real estate of the Clt- National and Howard National banks, which remained in the hands of Receiver Louis G. Trlxler, were knocked off to high bidders, from an auction block.

The conducted in thej Haworth gymnasium on November 9. It now December S. I Provided the were approved by the comptroller of the currency, Washington, D. and an order issued by the judge of the Howard circuit court, the receiver was to have deeds ready to delivjc to the in thirty from the date on which the auction was had. (By The Associated Japanese tanks were report ed today to have broken through the dogged Chlnew In the bitterly con- battle of Nanking.

A Domel (Japanese) agency dispatch fluid the lumbered through the noulh- of the Chinese capital, prompting a Japanese prediction the ancient city would fall by tomorrow. Strongly fortified Chinese artillery on Purple Mountain overlooking Nanking kept the Jnpaneoc from a frontal attack on the eastern wall. A necond Domcl report the Japanese entered Wuhu, Yangtze river port 80 upstream from the capital. Wuhu had been, subjected to 24-hour attack. At Pelplng, reliable told of the arrival of Want; Kehmln, veteran financier and around whom It aald new autonomous government for Nortlt China would be formed.

Wang reported to have demanded an end of warfare In North China withdrawal of Japanese before would head the now government. Shanghai, Dec. Japanese command issued an ultimatum today demanding the surrender of abandoned capital, Nanking, by noon Friday (10 p. m. Thursday, and threatening that otherwise the city "will become the of the of.

It is said that papers in The ultimatum was issued by of the sales, In which the receiver i en iwanc Mataui. commander of ily finding her graateit pleasure I leged, was traveling at a high rate am A Art their welfare. MOTHER AND FIVE CHILDREN PERISH WHEN HOME BURNS Oregon, 111., Dec. charred bodies of Mrs. Glenn Large, 27, and her five small children, burned to death in a fire that destroyed their farm home near lere, were taken from the ruins today.

Whipped by an icy wind, the flames had spread through the two- itory structure last night before seven of the family iwoke. Large. 31, suffered burns about face and in a vain attempt rescue family, escape down a cut off by The children were Donna May, yean old; Jack, John, and I of speed. hearing the are Margaret Griffin, Lucile Householder, (Continued on Page Two) Only One Contribution Made To Fund Thursday Only one contribution was made" to the 1937 Good Fund Thursday. The donor the Howard county registered nurses, who gave $3.00.

This brought the-total to $113.50. Again the Good Fellows urge 'everyone to aid in the worthy cause, whose aim is to provide needy child in the city with something on morn- Ing. It thought many are waiting to donate their through the offering to be taken at the annual Good concert at Grace church Sunday. recommended approval to the comptroller, have eJrcady been returned and are about ready for submission to the court. Included among these.

It are the papers relating to all the properties that were Included in the Will Notify Several purchasers have been making Inquiry at the receiver's office to when their will be ready for delivery. The receiver 1 office asked the Tribune to state that each purchaser will be notified by mail or telephone soon as the deed in which he or she is interested ready. It thought that several of the approved by the comptroller will be submitted to Judge Herron the Japanese forces In the Shang- hai-Nanking area, to the Chinese commander, Gen. Tang Seng-Chi. A Japanese warplane dropped, a further communication to "Abandonment of resistance will spare the city, Its historic and ipots of beauty." it promised.

Enter Japanese tanks were reported to have entered the southeast gate of Nanking today, and the Japanese army spokesman predicted capture of the city within 24 The spokesman declared still were resisting and added that there would be a major battle If the resistance continued. He declined to state whether Japanese expected the defenders to fight to the or surrender in order to within the next week, and ex- escape a heavy toll of life and prop- pectation that he will promptly orders to the receiver to execute and deliver t'ae It it thought at the office that out of the sales made at the auction, all but eight or ten will receive the approval of the comptroller. Birthday. Indianapolis, Dec. Townscnd issued a proclamation today calling on the citizens of Indiana to observe the 121st birthday Saturday.

Indiana was admitted to the union Dec. 11, 1818. The governor asked that appropriate birthday ceremonies be held. Two Submit to Ralph Austin Young, 909 West Jefferson street, and Lloyd Rust, 812 East Jefferson street, submitted to operations at the Saint Joseph hospital Thursday morning. John Quinn, Flora, was dismissed from the hospital Thursday.

CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS A dread lupentition in Bohemia is that if a housewife should so unlucky to burn a on Christmai Day, it ii tl(0 ihe will die within the erty. Dome! (Japanese) news agency said in airplanes the tanks entering the southeast city gate. Domel said Japaneie had entered Wuhu, river port 60 upstream from Nan- king. Chineie artillery firing from strongly fortified Purple mountain which overlooks Nanking kept Japanese from a frontal attack on the eastern wall of the city where latest reports were that 14 remained. Firing In Shanghai.

Shanghai itself heard the boom of anti-aircraft guns after of quiet The Japanese flagship Idru- mo fired 25 shells Into overcast sklcti. Japanese and foreign reports were that two Chinese had flown over the ship. Japanese said their srmy and navy airforces made heavy attacks on Nanking and surrounding territory throughout the day to back up Japanese armies encircling the city. Army filers were said to have raided Nanchang, where Gen- neralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek was reported in residence- Wuhu had been the object of Japanese attacks for 24 hours. Many fires were reported raging there.

Main Japanese forces were said to be about five miles south and east, but. small detachments skirmished with Chinese within the shadow of Nanking's batclcraents. Chinese said spirited battles along the defense ring around the capital had cost Japanese 2,400 casualties and loss of the tillage of Shang- choutu. Join Kinking Line. Two Chinese fought their way.

out of surrounding Japanese at Ku- yung and joined the Nanking defenders. Japanese told of the capture of the Chinese government's infantry jchool in the outside the city and declared that once Japanese guns were drawn up on Purple mountain, Nanking's and Hlypad-sprinkled would prove A Japanese vanguard occupied the Sun memorial tomb at the foot of the mountain but Chinese artillery on the blast- ed at them continuously. Independent foreign told (Continued cm.