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Mitt VOL. LVII. NO. 305. MTBf Ai90CTATn Ft ESI WITH 1U8U Will SXAVICS SOUTH INDIANA TUESDAY EVENING, -MARCH 31, 1931.

Tint OJflT ASSOCIATED MESS DDTrT TUD DC MEWSPAPEM IM SOUTH MEXB A AVAV-A- A IIUL1L1 VS.i 1 A lj. Z3 ff i nrir ri7 if Jv Ui o) uake Hits icarag ua; 40 01 I EIGHT DIE If! I WAS AS PLAt'E FALLS iM FLAWES; LOCAL COACH BUSINESS TRIP TO COAST Five Declare UE BEGAT! Dead. Boards Huge Craft at Kansas City Less Than Two Hours Before it Plunges While Fighting j. Fog and Storm. LIKER TAKES OFF IN FAGE OF "INCLEMENT WEATHER Departure Delayed 45 Minutesr However; of Notre Dame Mentor Now on Way to From Florida.

Knute K. Rockne, famous football coach of Notre Dame university, and seven other persons were killed when a Transcontinental and Western air passenger and air mail plane crashed in flames to-day in a pasture several miles southwest of Ba-zarl Kan. j'" i- I Mr. Bockne left South Bend Monday on a business trip to California and boarded the plane at Kansas City, to-day, The plane exploded in-midair and fell to earth in flames, witnesses said, according to the Associated Press. ead.

i I i in An airplane crash near Bazar, RLE VOICES ROCKNE GRIEF Says Passing is Shock and "Irreparable Loss' I to City. Mayor W. R. Hinkle, in' a statement Issued this afternoon, voiced the feeling of official South Bend In the passing of Knute K. Rockne.

Notre Dame, football coach. The mayor said: "The sudden, accidental death 'of the famous coach of Notre, Da me 'is a terrific. shock toius alh "In the passing bf Mr. Rockne from our midst, Notre Dame. South Bend and the entire community suffers an irreparable loss." Mr.

Hinkle said that he had talked with Rockne only a week ago, and that the coach declared be was in peffect health, i "He had just flown here from Tampa, Fla" the mayor said. Rockne was so busy that he had to use airplanes-a great deal xf the Ume. His death is hard to reallzse." BACTERIOLOGIST PROWNSINTUB By Associated Press. if CLEVELAND, 6 March 31 Dr. Burdet C.

Hannum, widely known bacteriologist, drowned in a bathtub at his home herej probably after suffering a stroke of paralysis. I IIIN 1 Knute Kenneth Rockne, Notre Kan. He was en route to California. HOOVER SEES NO TAX INCREASES Says Budget Figures Must be Kept at Same Level. By Assoclsted press.

i WASHINjGTON, March S31. President Hoover said to-day thU unless congress increases the budget figures there would be i.o increase in taxes. Mr. Hoover said he had canvassed the entire financial situation of the government through various govern ment agencies and departments and that he saw.no necessity for a taxation He "There will be no increase in taxes if the next congressi imposes no inf creases upon the budget or other expenditure proposals, which the administration will present; But for Ceatlaae PC Twe. Celeesa Prvc.

Brothers is Not Slayer 4- Br Associated I jCHICAao, March 31. r- Leo Brothers was not the man who slew Jake Lingle, crime reporter, accord' ing to five witnesses who testified at the opening of the defense fin Brothers' trial The first witness was Lawrence J. a railroad switchman, and he was the only person' thus far who said he actually saw the shot which killed Lingle fired last June in the pedestrian, subway under Michigan The man was I smaller' than Brothers, the witness said. or when the man bumped into him! as he ran from the tunnel, his forehead up to my nose. i The second eye witness was Harry J.

Connor, real estate salesman. whoaid he saw a man flee from the murder and who also said he could not Identify Brothers. A third witness, Albert Stein, told mucn tne same story. Mrs. Howard said she was 10 feet from the shooting, saw the man who fell and saw the man who fired the shot "very well," and Mrs.

Helen Madeline i Whitehurst. another witness, said Brothers was not the man. i LESLIE; RETURNS FROM FLORIDA Delays Naming! Boxing Commission; Wants to Study Others. By Associated Press. I INDIANAPOLISJarch Harry G.

Leslie, back i in his office to-day after an outing) In Florida, began consideration of problems that have' been awaiting his atten tion, one of which appointment of a state boxing i He said he was not ready to name the new commission's three secretary and until he studies similar commissions in other states, f- 3 '(-t-A- "The i success of the commission will depend almost entirely upon: the the governor pointed out. rTherefore I want to spend a little time hef ore choosing the men." I On May lithe terms, of Calvin Mcintosh, democrat," and 'Howell ECis, republcan, public service commissioners, expire, together with the terms of Iawrence F. Orr, chief examiner jot the state' board of I ac counts, I and Walter Wills, Linton, member of the state, industrial board. The governor: has not? in dicated whafc action; he will take on any of the appointments. Gov.

Leslie gained 'XI pounds in Florida boosting his weight from 200 to VL He spent much of the time in deep sea fishing. The governor, who has-been suf fering from a sinus Inflammation. said hej believed he was fullyf re-and ffelt Uk a two-year- covered old. SEES AT AGE 22; WAS BORN BUND By AssoclkUd Press. i.

i PHILADELPHIA. Pa March 31. -1-Surgry. has brought sight tci the eyes of Sari Musselman, student! at the Pennsylvania institute for the: Blind. 'Born without pupils, she saw to-day, weeks after a delicate operation.

"It Is almost a he aaid. i I I FIND TWO BODIES IN MINE. By Associated Press. 'If COAt GLEN, N. March The mihe of the Carolina Coal com pany here has claimed the lives, of L.

A. Huneycutt and his son, Elbe. age 47,1 whose deaths, made a total of 57 men to perish In the mine within Isix years. 'The two bodies were found Monday "night Imprisoned under a cave-irt of rock 2,600 feet down the) shaft. -X.

fuZSSAGE SAYS IMAGUAISIN Fire Breaks Out. ifter Most of City is Shak-'' en 1,500 LUfflNES Dl IIATIOII Hoover Orders Red Cross to Take Relief Steps; Army Engineers Endangered. TORNADO IN-FLORID A By Associated Ptmo. IN TER HAVEN, this city sluatly before noon to-day and Injured, lx per- The storm swept a path 300 ieet -wide. The Injured were trapped in a house that was aemousnea near luc uas.

Several houses were un- roofed and the sides were torn from others. Hundreds 01 citrus trees were, blown down. XlW Ul UK UljUtVU WHS Ul a serious condition, Br Associated Press. PANAMA CITY, March 31. Forty persons were reported to.

have been killed in a terrific earthquake which devastated Managua, capital of Nicaragua, to-day. Tropical radio advices said the city was under martial law. The quake, which began at "10:10 a. was of short duration. It was followed by a fire which started in the market the center of the town and traveled westward threat- The Radio operator In Managua reported the cable office there was in ruins and that the Tropical company was' operating from a plant live miles outside the -city.

He estimated 40 are dead and vvs.x vs4f ir wiv asM a The seismograph the canal zone registered the quake, which appeared of unusual intensity centering In Central America. Managua is the capital of Nicaragua and has a population of about 60,000. It is located on Lake Managua, 87 miles from the port of Cortnto and 36 miles from Granada. It la an Important commercial center and-the second largest city in 1 The houses are mostly one iStory, roofed with red tiles and enjoying inner garuens or psiuuo. jixuuuk me principal buildings are the cathedral, the national palace, ancient structures of red sandstone, and the presidential palace, a recent handsome addition.

United States marines have occupied the Campo de Marte, at -the southern edge of the city, almost continuously since 1912 but were re cently ordered withdrawn. The city is located on the Pacific railway. Its Importance dates from 1855 when It was chosen as the cap ital of tne province as the result of continuous rivalry between the older cities of Leon and Granada, It is an Important distributing point for points on or near the east Ontiaac Twa, Cahuu Tkncw Wednesday and' Thursday at 2 P.M. -Final Days of The i Tribune Home' Maker's School the High School Auditorium Over $300 in Prizes for the Last Two Days ADMISSION FREE I 1 PROPOSED NICARAGUA V1JC JS la 1 rw- fJ.D. CAREER OfJ Bono $45 St anierea as stuaent in I f- era 4 era -ir uiu; ngurea in Athletics! sir I POLE VAULT MASK Coached Football Teams Since 1918; Engaged in Many ill Other Lines.

I 1 ill- -f Knute Rockne's association with Notre Dame began in 1910 when a youth fresh from Tuley High school in Chicago borrowed $45 and decided" to! accompany two of his chums an enroll at the university. No one, and especially lockne, then realiz ed the far reaching effects that that decision was to have on Notre Dame athletics land Rockne himself. Thfe lad who boasted of several laurels won oh the high i school track team had! little more than the average layman's knowledge of foot ball. In fact 1 he never seriously considered going out for1 the team but the did have aspirations for and It may be said here that before he was graduated from Notre Dame he became -the first mid- western pole vaulter to scale the bar at the then unheard-of height of 12 feet, four Inches. i i Those who knew Rockne also know' that It was his determina tion, in addition to his I uncanny skill that had i carried him to the heights in the; football world.

So It; -was taken for granted that when; he decided to go out for zootball that he made the team. He played varsity end for three sea sons, 1911, 1913 and 1813, and was captain during his last year. The late fWalter Camp named him on his third all-American team. Played tinder Marks. "During the first two veara that Rockne played; with the Gold and Blue: at Notre Dame JaD Marks, of Dartmouth, was the coach.

In 1913 Marks was followed by Jesse Har per, who had learned all he knew about football from Alonzo A. Stagg, the. famous Chicago coach. It was from Harper that Rockne received his. greatest training as player and later as assistant coach.

That Rockne. who 'reached the pinnacle of the coaching profession. had not forgotten Stagg's training was at the end of the 1930i season when the St. I Joseph valley alumni club of South Bend gave; its anrfual testimonial banquet to tne team. More than 1,200 men crowed into the great banquet room and at the speakers' table was the idol Of South Bend.

Rockne, and be- siaefhlm was- Stagg, whose team had inot won a. Big Ten game all season. Everyone felt sorry for Stagg. But not Rockne. Getting to his feet asi the last speaker on Ihe; program fRock" paid glowing inoutes to tne "grand old man or football" and declared that all he knew about football he had learned from Stagg.

An outsider stepping in might have thought the banquet was being given in Stagg's honor so sincerely did Rockne eulogize him. 1 1 Instructor. Graduating in 1914, Rockne re turned to Notre Dame the following fall an Instructor in chemistry and assistant football coach. He had! always had a leaning -toward chemistry and: was said to be quite proncient in tne science. wnere ne picked that up is not known for his father was a I Norwegian carriage- maker, who.

by stroke of good luck; happened to move his family to It all' came about when the! elder Rockne built a carriage, which he realized was a good one, and brought it to Chicago and won a prize with it at an exhibit. He liked Chicago and sent for his All of the Rocknes, Including CeatteseA en Psc Celesam Twe. leviate suffering by battling in the open with social problems. Mayor Roberts told the church gathering that gambling is "bad i business," but that long as people will gamble it is more desirable that it be done openly and with the sanction of the law. He also defended the segregated district in Reno as a iffeans of He advocated the placing of a barrel of corn Whisky on every corner in the city with a dipper attached, and sign: inviting all to drink as much as they pleased.

The liquor, by the mayor's plan, would come from a municipal still operated at public expense, ana would be" "good corn whisky." The other two candidates for mayor have refused to be drawn into the liquor, "gambling and divorce law discussions. South Bend Rockne boarded the plant at Kansas City at 9 :15 a. m. and about 11 aJnvj the ship, identified by Its department of com merce license number, crashed and burned as it fought a fog and storm en route to Wichita, Kan. in The body of Rockne and the other victims had not been definitely identified at the scene, but it was certain the noted coach was a passenger on the wrecked air liner 'and that all those aboard had been killed.

The passenger list announced at Kansas City was: KNUTE ROCKNE. BT. J. CHRISTENSEN, Chicago. J.

H. HOOPER, Chicago. W. B. MILLER.

Hartford. Conn. T. GOLDTHWAITE, New York. C.

A. LOBRECH, Chicago.1 ROBERT TRY, pilot. pilot. Edward Baker! witnessed the plane's explosion and saw the plane plunge as he was feeding cattle in the pastare a short distance away ea the farm ef his father, Seward Baker. Baker foand five bodies when he reached the plane.

He notified an amdertaking establishment at Cottonwood Falls. Ambulances rnsbed te the scene ever muddy roads which Impeded their progress. Althongh maggy weather made flying hasardous, the lt-passenger Fokker air liner' took off front Kansas City this morning with paanen-gers and a cargo of mall. Departure was delayed three- quarters of hoor, awaiting the mall for the Rockne was expected to re- tarn to Sooth Bend to-day with two of her fonr children after a vacation trip to Florida. Hockne was an enthusiastic traveler by air.

When advised last week by a Soath Bend business man against it on the grounds that it was too dangerous, be replied, Oh, it la the- best way to travel of all. I get more enjoyment oat of It than anything else I do. KILLED BY TRACTOR. By Assoclsied Press. CNNIRSVILLE, InL, March 3L Wise age 26, is dead of injuries I suffered when he was crushed by a tractor on the Frank Eby near Columbus.

The machine upset while: climbing a steep hilL I l.i -i THE TTJSSDAT. MARCH 11. Indians -Cloudy, i probably rain soutta and ram or anoer northeast portion tonight ass Wednesday; not much chance In temperature. i Lower MtcfalffaaInereasinf cloudrness to-night and Wednesday with some possibility of rein or snow southeast portion; not quite so cold west and extreme porta portions SOUTH BEND TEMPERATURE The temperstere ia Sooth Bend for the hours i ending st noon to-dsy recorded by The 'Tribune's seU-recordmf thcrmoineter waa as loUows: karttita. March It.

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35 I 11 a. IS midnight 3 11 moon Maxlnoom 47. I Mlnusum tl. KNUTE KENNETH ROCKNEL Dame football coach, was killed to-day ovie Leaders Awaiting Rockne HOLLYWOOD, Califs Marc 31 Knnie Rockne killed in. a Kansas air crash to-day, was bound for California en a business trip and while here had planned complete arranger ments for the making of feature talking picture and six short talks on football for Universal pictures.

Motion picture leaders were planning to greet him to-nifht, and a conference was to be held between Carl Laemmle, motion picture producer, and Rockne tomorrow to complete arrangements for the pictures. i BLAST IN MINE KILLS EIGHT. By Associated Press. OVD3DO, Spain, March 31-Eight coal 'miners were killed and i four were Injured Monday in El Cordero mine when a small blast caused by the breaking of a machine touched of fires damp. COOLEDGE Rockne Death Stuns City and ivotre uame -News of Knute A.

'Rockne's tragic death came as a staggering blow to South Bend and it was minutes be fore downtown crowds and friends could comprehend the meaning of the terse message carried by the Associated Press that Knute Rockne wasj dead. The day's business was forgotten as business men, factory executives and the thousands of others who either knew Rockne personally or by deed sought to verify the truth of the rumor hoping to be told it was untrue. At Notre Dame it was a saddened group of athletes, some of whom made national reputations under the tuelage of "Rock" as he was known to them, who gathered in his office when first word of the tragedy reached them. Led by Hartley (Hunk) Anderson and Jack Che- vienv they sought frantically to learn the truth, refusing to believe Rockne was dead. It was decided that Anderson and Chevigny accompanied by other executives of the university would depart to-night for Emporia, to accompany the body home.

It was said a special railway car might be chartered for the trip home. When it was ascertained that the rumor was not false Anderson and Chevigny hastened to the office of the Very Rev. Charles L. ODon- neU, S. C.

who announced that he i would celebrate a solemn requiem mass at 6:20 o'clock Wednesday morning in Sacred Heart church. Attempts were made at once' to reach Mrs. Rockne who was reported to have left Coral Gables, FUl, this morning on her way home driving' the Rockne automobile. With her were Jack, age five, and Mary Jean Rockne, age 10. Two other children, William.

15, and Junior, 10, are students in Pembrook acad emy, Kansas. At the university quarterly exami nations were forgotten as students and especially football men heard the news. 'Rev. OTJonnell and Rev. Michael Mulcaire, C.

S. vice president, were stunned as were the members of Rockne's official family. assistants in the athletic office. Paul Castner, great fullback of the 1920, 21 and 23 Notre Dame teams, broke down and cried when informed of Rockne's death by a Tribune reporter. "I can't say; a thing," he sobbed.

Tve lost my best friend." Out on the football field there was a feeling of loneliness and in the; locker rooms, famous for the "between halves" talks of Rockne a strange quiet prevailed where yesterday all was laughter as the 320 candidates for spring football pushed and shoved themselves Into their Ceattaae ea Pace Twa, Celessa Oae. nuggets, which he said he had picked up in an arroyo at the foot of El Tambor mountain, several miles east of the village and near the Du-rango border. The two found other nuggets in the canyon, some "as big as small onions." i Llantada displayed Mexican government assay reports showing two carloads of ore taken from the claim bore $149,000 worth of gold to the A gold rush began almost immediately. Hundreds of Mexican peons, who had been able to do no more than keep body and soul together with their farming, became immensely wealthy over night. Uantada said in all 33,000 claims had been staked It Is useless now, the discoverer said, for mare to go to the scene, as all the valuable claims have been staked.

thinking Things Over i ORTIIA3IPTON, March 31. The return of Montagu Norinan, governor of the Bank of England, to this country, where he has been a frequent, visitor for the past decade, indicates the interdependenceof finance among the nations and the importance of the United States in "the economic For years after the war foreign exchange yras fluctuating and un Clerk in Mexican Grocery Store Made MilUoncare byJ Gold Strike Free Whisky 6ii Every Reno Corner Advocated by Mayor in Campaign certain. effect on -exports was bad. It tooktcareful cooperation of the banking world with! the help of loans made here to stabilize exchange. jwage earners and our whole business structure were benefited, i Xot only, our 'great general financial resources, but at the present time the gold in our banks, now the largest amount on record, makes us power in the world'money markets.

No really great publie or private financing is done' without! our participation. Last year bur By Associated Press. XbaXLES; March 311 On the western slope of the wild Sierra Madre. range in I the Mexican state of Sinaloa, gold has lifted the on another of its powerful dramas. A Rumors of a great strike, 500 miles below the border, have been heard here; and in Mexico City for a week, but bot until the arrival of Manuel Uantada, co-discoverer of the vein, who! was here to-day, 'was clear account A ifew weeks ago Llantada was a clerk in a grocery store in the village of Guadelupe de los Reyes, 80 miles from the Gulf of California coast and half way-between Culia-can and MazaUan.

Now, he says, he is a millionaire several times over; One day a friend, drooped in and showed Llantada a handful of shiny By AseooUted Press. ,1 I RENOvl Nev March candidites for mayor opposing E. E. Roberts, incumbent, what is seeking reelection on a platform advocating free whisky and sup porting: licensed gambling and easy divorce have refused to campaign on those issues, j- The mayor- opened campaign for reelection by replying statement by Clarence True Wilsoni national 'director of the Methodist board of temperancei in which the Methodist minister said Nevada is a combination of Sodom. Gomorrah and perdition.

speaking from the pulpit or tne Methodist church, the Reno, mayor, a formers congressman and one? of the city most active divorce law yers, declared Dr. Wilson's views are all wrong and based on a miscon- ception of the aims of Reno to al cAiArm cooijdok. loans; exceeded $900,000,000. Those of the British exceeded The placing ot these great loans is a grave responsibility 'affecting the prosperity and. possible peace of many people.

1 Even an informal conference between experts like Mr. Norman and our financiers would be mutually helpful iii the discharge of' domestic and sforeign duties. wuj I WJ.