Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 1

WEATHER. ‘_ (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, slightly colder tonight, minimum temperature about 14 degrees; tomorrow fair, not quite so cold. Moderate winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 25, at noon to- day; lowest, 19, at 8:30 p.m. yesterday. Only |2 Shopping Days Until Christmas Full report on page A-9. » Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 No. 33,096. PRESIDENT SPURS CONFERENCE HERE T0 WAR ON CRIME Delegates Heed Roosevelt's Plea to Draft Twofold Plan in Fight. CO-ORDINATION URGED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT Public Support Also Necessary to Curb Banditry, Chief Executive and Aides Emphasize. Spurred by an earnest appeal by President Roosevelt for a more con- certed offensive on crime, more than 500 delegates to the Attorney Gen- eral's Conference on Crime today ap- plied themselves to a twofold task suggested by the President—co-ordi- nation of law enforcement work and enlistment of public support. The conference, opened last night with addresses by the President, Attorney General Cummings and former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, plunged today into vigorous discussion of the grim business of ridding the Nation of its criminal “public enemies.” Referring with a show of emo- tion to the deaths of four Federal officers at the hands of criminal gangs, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Justice Department’s Division of Investigation, today told the confer- ence that the Nation should make some provision for “a decent main- tenance” of the widows and children of “these brave men.” Recalls Agents Slain. Hoover mentioned the slaying by “Baby Face” Nelson of Inspector Bamuel P. Cowley and Special Agents Herman E. Hcllis and W. Carter Baum, and the killing by “Pretty Boy” Floyd and others of Special Agent Raymond J. Caffrey, in connection with his appeal for support and pro- tection of families of officers who sacrificed their lives on duty. Hoover, somewhat bitterly, pointed out that three of these four Federal men were slain by a convict who had received leniency from the courts —Nelson. “Easy paroles,” Hoover declared, “especially of hardened offenders, form a detriment not to crime, but to those who, all too often, give their lives in an effort to prevent crime. Interstate Pacts Urged. Following the admonition of Presi- dent Roosevelt that police agencies co-operate more closely in the drive on criminals, Gordon Dean, special attorney in the Department of Justice, advocated interstate compacts for crime control in an address this morning in Memorial Continental Hall, where remaining sessions of the conference will be held. Last night's brilliant opening was held in Consti- tution Hall. Others who spoke this morning were Judge Charles W. Hoffman of the Domestic Relations Court, Cin- cinnati, who discussed modern youth and his part in crime; Attorney Gen- eral John J. Bennett, jr., of New York, who -exposed ‘“commercial racketeer- ing,” and Dr. Sheldon Glueck of Har- vard Law School, who told of rela- tions that should exist between police and prosecutors if criminals are to be adequately punished. Dean cited four principal fields in which interstate law enforcement con- tacts could be utilized profitably. They are, he said, first, the arrest of persons who had fled from one State to an- other by pursuing officers of the first State; second, the return of witnesses who have crossed State lines, but who are essential to the prosecution of a criminal case in the State from which they have fled: third, the establish- ment by two or more States of joint agencies such as crime detection bu- reaus, crime laboratories, or combined police units, and, fourth, the super- vision of persons in one State who have been paroled or granted pro- bation in another State. Judge Hoffman urged that pre- ventive measures in the war on crime be instituted by proper training and education of the younger generation. Schools, he said, should have a per- manent part in preventing delinquency through diagnosis and treatment of (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) COMMISSIONERS 0. K. $1,500,000 HOSPITAL Contract for Glenn Dale Institu- tion Calls for Building Com- plete by July 1, 1936. The Commissioners today approved the contract sent to them by Secretary of Interior Ickes for use of $1,500,000 for construction of the adult Tuber- culosis Hospital at Glenn Dale, Md.. on the same site as that of the Children’s ‘Tuberculosis Sanatorium. The contract as drafted at the Pub- lic Works Administration requires that the building be completed by July 1, 1936, and that the sanatorium be ready for occupancy not later than October 1, 1936. The document, signed by the city heads, was to be returned to Secretary Ickes this afternoon. Engineer Com- missioner Sultan has said he believes construction on preliminary features of the plan may be started next March and that erection of the hospital build- ing proper should be under way next July. ‘The time limit placed on completion of the building will forced a crowding of the planning and construction, Col. Sultan said, but he believes the work can be done on time. TRAPPED MAN DIES Irish Well-Digger Gives Up Fight for Life. GREYSTONES, Irish Free State, December 11 (#)—Civic guards said today Joseph O’Leary, well-digger who has been imprisoned in a shaft since Saturday, is dead. Efforts were con- tinued to recover his body. ‘The entombed man last night geve up his brave fight for life, saying “goodbye.” Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Wiley Post Plans Coast-to-Coast Flight in 6 Hours Will Use Stratosphere; Col. Turner to Circle Globe at Equator. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 11.—Two of America's fastest fiyers, Col. Ros- coe Turner and Wiley Post, let it he known today that they have designs on one another’s exploits. Post, who flew around the world in seven days, is contemplating a strato- sphere flight from Los Angeles to New York is six hours, thereby breaking Turner's transcontinental record of 10 hours 3 minutes. Not to be outdone, Turner has laid plans for two trips around the world next year, one around the equatorial belt and the other over the North and South Poles. Col. Turner, however, does not in- tend to set any speed records. ‘“The flights would be solely in the interest | of science,” he said. “What I want |is to collect accurate and valuable | weather data, and to study flying con- ditions and flying fields.” VISITORS CONDEMN NUNBERS RACKET Crime Conference Delegates Unanimous in Lauding Drive on Game. (Note: Acceding to a recent re- quest by United States Attorney Garnett, The Star, the Post, the Times, the Herald and the city's four broadcasting stations are re- fusing to aid the numbers racket by dissemination of the race total numbers with which the game here is conducted. Publication or broad- casting of such totals is of no in- terest outside the numbers racket.) Police officials, State and Federal attorneys and others connected with law enforcement, in Washington to attend the crime conference here, are unanimous in condemnation of the numbers racket and allied forms of petty gambling. Some of them expressed themselves on the racket and on the campaign against it in progress here, as follows: Thomas S. Rice, LL. B., editor of Panel, a publication issued by the Association of Grand Jurors of New York County, former Washington newspaper man and practicing attor- ney, said: “In the old days of the policy game the promoters were making so much money that they didn't bother to be crooked. But now that every nickel and dime “heel” who can chisel in has got his finger in the ple, a ‘winner’| A\ can’t even expect to collect. The racketeers have made it a big business but they haven't made it honest. Compares It With Lotteries. “To my mind, gambling is purely an economic problem and it is one of the oldest and best economic laws that you can’t get something for noth- ing. You'll pay for it later if you don’t sooner. “I've watched the lotteries work in South America and in European coun- tries and the odds are tough enough to make anybody think twice before trying them. But at least you have honesty in their operation and you know what you're getting and what the odds are against you. You're throwing your money down a rat hole in this game. “I'd break up every damn one of them I could find, even if I had to put everybody connected with them in jail.” Police Chief Peter J. Siccardi of Bergen County, N. J., president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police: Familiar With Problem. “We know just what kind of a headache the numbers crowd is giving the police here. We try to spot the (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) e e PASSENGERS IN PORT Taken From Disabled Liner and Landed at Port-of-Spain. PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Decem- ber 11 (#)—The passengers of the Norwegian liner Vestvangen, which went aground yesterday off Matelot Point on the north coast of Trinidad, were brought to Port-of-Spain today. The 2,420-ton craft ran ashore in heavy weather, but her full comple- ment of passengers were taken off by a sister-ship—the Austvangen— which raced to the stricken vessel's aid in answer to distress messages. The crew of the wrecked vessel heavily on the shore. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif.,, December 11.— A story of horror, perhaps removing the final mystery from the strange death of three men on barren Mar- chena Island, off the coast of Ecuador, is in the hands of the United States Government today. . The story is told in letters foun near two bodies on the island Novem- ber 17, by the American tuna clipper Santa Amaro. They were seized by United States customs guards, pre- sumably acting on behalf of the government of Ecuador, to which Mar- chena and the other Galapagos Islands belong. Capt. William Borthen of the Santa Amaro said he had been ordered not to discuss the letters. “But let me tell you,” he ex- claimed, “things happened on Charles Island that are too horrible for us to imagine.” And Manuel Rodriguez, weather- beaten fishing captain of the tuna clipper, added: “Man, I've awake nights lain The WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934—FORTY-TWO PAGES. #%% stood by their ship as she pounded | PLEATO TURN PARK INTO GITY AIRPORT MEETS OPPOSITION Ickes Leads Officials in Criti- cizing East Potomac Proposal. MITCHELL TAKES PLAN DIRECT TO ROOSEVELT Planning Chiefs Declare Open Hostility to Using Hains Point Land for Terminal. (Pictures on Page B-1). Complete lack of sympathy with the proposal to convert East Potomac Park into an air terminal for Washington, as proposed to President Roosevelt late yesterday, was voiced today by Secre- tary Ickes. At the same time, Federal park and planning officials came out in open opposition to the plan on the ground that it would destroy for recreational purposes one of the most widely used of Washington’s parks. ‘The proposal to use East Potomac Park as a site for a model commercial air terminal was made by Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Y. Mitchell and was laid before the Presi- dent without recommendation by Clark Howell, chairman of the Federal Avia. tion Commission, at Mitchell's request. Howell said the President expressed himself as “interested” and considered the plan “worth investigation.” Ickes to Investigate. “I guess I'll have to investigate this matter,” Secretary Ickes said. “I ques- tion the advisability of taking any park development for use as an airport when so much other land is available. You know I am very keen on parks. We had a similar proposition in Chicago for which there was absolutely no need.” Ickes, as custodian of Federal parks in Washington and throughout the country, recently banned a project to build a flying field in one of the Na- tional Parks of the West. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National' Capital Parks, ex- pressed opposition to the proposal, de- claring that “our park areas are too limited now to give up East Potomac Park for use as an airport. For the Southwest, where some of the poorest families in Washington live, East Po- tomac Park serves as a recreational area. Southwest has no parks of its own.” Transportation facilities to Hains Point are not good and cannot be made really efficient, Finnan said. He also pointed out that the park, be- cause of its low elevation, is difficult to drain and was inundated last ugust. “For this reason,” he said, “it is not suitable for an airport.” He said that plans are now being made to reclaim Gravelly Point and that it will serve better as an airport for Washington than East Fotomac Park. Use of Potomac Park, he said, would rob the District of a golf course very largely used, especially by Gov- ernment employes. Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, also advocated develop- ment of the Gravelly Point area, which, he said, has been thoroughly studied and found entirely suitable. Park officials werg inclined to be- lieve that an act of Congress would be required to releae Potomac Park for use as an airport. Similar to Doe Plan. The Mitchell plan is said to be identical with that submitted in No- vember, 1933, by Capt. Thomas B. Doe, then president of Eastern Air Trans- port. The Doe plan, vigorously op- posed by park and civic officials, was quickly abandoned. The Doe-Mitchell plans call for use (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) —_— ULM SEARCH TO END Navy Orders Planes to Abandon Hunt—Destroyers Return Today. HONOLULU, December 11 (#)—A week’s discouraging search for the missing plane. Star of Australia, and its three-man 'w, approached an end today with the waters of the Pacific Ocean holding the secret of the fate of Flight Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm, George Littlejohn and J. L. skilling. A week ago today they left Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu, but were forced down somewhere in the ocean. Navy airplanes have been ordered to abandon the search. Three destroyers were combing waters north of here, and on their return today officials at the Pearl Harbor Base will decide whether to i continue the huni. “Indescribable Horrors” F ound,| In Galapagos Island Tragedy dreaming of the horrors told in those letters and what must have gone on down there.” Charles, one of the Galapagos group, is the island from which Rudolph Lorenz and Trygve Nuggrud were re- ported to have been banished without food or water by Baroness Eloise Bosquet . von Wagner Wehrborn, the “mad empress of the Galapagos,” who now is missing. The bodies found on barren Mar- chena Island were identified as those of Lorenz and Nuggrud by Capt. G. Allen Hancock, Los Angeles patron of science, who wirelessed the story of the banishment after his recent arrival in the islands. The body of a colored boy, who left Charles Island with the pair has not been found. Capt. Hancock also hinted of & horrible tragedy on Charles Island. Members of the crew of the Santa Amaro indicated most of the letters recovered from the Marchena Beach were written by Mrs. Arthur Wittmer, another of the handful of inhabitants of Charles Island. The letters, apparently, had been (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.). 3 Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DER RULINGBYLEAGL LW WARFEARS Hungary Accepts Request to Punish Officials If In- volved in Plot. By the Associated Press. Another grave European rift ap- peared today to have been solved through Hungary's and Yugoslavia's acceptance of a League of Nations’ resolution on the assassination of King Alexander at Marseille. The agreement diplomatically called upon Hungary to punish any officials who may have been guilty of connec- tion with the death of the Yugoslav ruler. Statesmen in Geneva called it a major triumph for the League. London—Some newspapers said the settlement averted a war, but fears were expressed that it might prove to be only temporary. The League was praised highly. Budapest — Semi - official sources hailed the agreement as a “happy solution.” Newspapers said it did not deflect upon Hungarian honor and ended the tremendous tension of the past three days. Rome—Deep gratification was the reaction here to the Geneva develop- ments. Italy had supported Hungary's cause before the League, as against Yugoslavia and her fellow members of the Little Entente, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. BOTH APPEAR SATISFIED. GENEVA, December 11 (#).—A threatening Yugoslav-Hungarian quar- rel was ended today. Both Hungary and Yugoslavia at a session of the League’s Council last night approved a resolution “deploring” the assassina- tion of King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille. Not a dissenting vote was cast. Hungary was asked in a tactful way to take “punitive action against any authorities whose culpabilities have been established” and to ‘“‘communi- cate to the council the measures which it takes to this effect.” Both Yugoslavia, which had charged Budapest with complicity in the as- sessination by harboring terrorists, and Hungary appeared satisfied. Diplomats here said the agreement proved that nations may make con- cessions to the League which they would find difficult to make directly to the governments with which they were at odds. I DROP TO 14 HERE PREDICTED TONIGHT Record Cold to Be Followed by Fair and Warmer To- MOTITOW. The coldest weather of the season— & minimum of 14 degrees—is pre- dicted for Washington tonight. There is no more snow in the im- mediate offing, however, and tomor- row will be fair and slightly warmer, ! the Weather Bureau said. Following up the first snowfall in the District, which measured nearly 21, inches, the mercury dipped to a new low today and entered the teens for the first time this season. It was 19 at 8:30 am. By 11 am, it had gone to 25. If the temperature goes to 14 over- night, it will be the coldest for this early in December since 1917. It was 12 on December 11 of that year. The Capital didn't get its first 14 read- ing until December 27 last year. Although about an inch of the snow remained on the ground most of the highways were passable and the Dis- trict did not send its spow-scrapers into action. Bad hills and glazed thoroughfares were sanded. Sledding was good in some sec- tions, hills being roped off by police to make them safe for coasting. If the snow remains on the ground, the following hills will be barricaded to motorists tonight: Fifth precinct—North Carolina ave- nue southeast between First and Third streets. Seventh precinct—Garfield street between New Mexico avenue and Forty-fourth street. Eighth precinct—Tilden street from Connecticut avenue to Plerce Mill road. Ninth precinct—Tenth street north- east from Maryland avenue to H street and Queen street from Hol- brook terrace to the end of the street. Tenth precinct—Eighth between Shepherd and Taylor streets; Co- lumbia road east of Georgia avenue and Irving street from Mount Pleas- ant street to the Zoo, WELCOME- THRICE WELCOME ! WE'VE WAITED A LONG TIME FOR THIS! Dollar Bill Pinned To Post Card Goes Safely to President By the Associated Press. Attention, Diogenes! A lot of honest men figured in this one! Believe it or not, a one-dollar bill pinned on a post card has been received at the White House. “If you receive the dollar that has been pinned to the card, then confidence in God has been re- stored and love of money is vanishing.” The post card was mailed in Chicago a few days ago. The White House referred it to the Treasury, where the dollar has been deposited in the “conscience fund,” which includes anonymous cash gifts to the Government. HAUPTMANN GOES TOCOURT FORPLEA Jury Panel Sees Man Who Will Be Tried Next Month. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, December 11. —Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the stolid Bronx carpenter, stood hand- cuffed in Hunterdon County Court today for 15 minutes as he listened to preliminary arguments in his at- torneys’ demand on the State for a bill of particulars on the indictment that he murdered Charles A. Lind- bergh, jr. The argument on the bill of par- ticulars was short-lived. for Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who presided, postponed hearing in the matter until Thursday, when the | | supplies from Army reserves?” Sen- | defense requestzg that he fix a date when Edward Reilly, chief defense counsel, could be present. Justice Trenchard assured the de- fense that Hauptmann would be in court when the motion was argued. “There will be no action affecting the defendant except in his presence,” he ruled. All Jurors to Return. After the hearing date wag set, but o Star SALE OF U.S.ARMS 10 JAPAN PLANNED Munition Makers Secured Loan Approval, Says Du Pont Manager. By the Associated Press. Evidence of co-operation between the United States Government and American munitions makers was of- fered to the Senate Munitions Com- mittee today together with testimony that both military branches encour- aged sales to potential enemies. Maj. K. K. V. Casey, du Pont sales manager, said both the War and Navy Departments encouraged sales to potential enemies because they provided business for American com- panies and because they developed in- formation of foreign military prepara- tions. Casey testified in a voice made hoarse by a cold and his long ap- pearances on previous days. He was flanked on the witness stand by Irenee and Lammot du Pont, officers of the big powder company. Say Reserve Supplied Arms. Previously Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, conducting the inquiry, produced evidence that shortly after the war the Army agreed to provide ammunition out of reserves for sale by the du Ponts to Japan and that the Bethlehem Steel Co. sent naval officers in Brazl information of guns pany. Clark said that was evidence naval officers were made ‘“peddlers” for Bethlehem Steel’s war materials. ments were made with the Govern- | ment to get reserve Army materials | the company found it could get tne | materials elsewhere. “But you had made the arrange- ment with the department to get the ator Clark asked. | “Yes” Casey replied, “the Army | was willing to help us to tide us over.” Planned to Take 160,000 Rounds. Casey explained the company ar- ranger to get 160,000 rounds of am- munition from Army reserves to fill the Japanese contract. A letter from du Pont files showed an Army officer held the arrangement before Hauptmann was led back to™ with the du Pont company was “not jail, the justice, here for the opening of the December court term, told the special panel of 150 prospective jurors who sat in the tiny court room that they were all to return January 2, the date the former German army machine gunner is to go on trial. No one will be excused from jury duty, the gray-haired jurist said. The defense served its demand for a bill of particulars on the State some time ago, but has not received any reply to the series of 12 ques- tions propounded. Today’s legal move was to force the State to make answer. - Hauptmann listened intently but impassively to the proceedings. The slight smile that was on his sallow face as he entered the court room gisappenrcd as he was led before the ar. Seen by Jurors. ‘The occasion was the first time the entire jury panel had looked upon the man whom 12 of them will try. Fisher announced that the defense will serve a formal petition for a bill of particulars on the State some time later in the day to supersede its present request. Lanigan then inquired if the de- fense had any other petitions to be argued and Pisher replied that it wanted access to certain exhibits @ State evidence in the case as well as permission to visit both the Lindbergh | estate at Hopewell, the scene of the kidnaping, and the Hauptmann home in the Bronx, N. Y. He added he understood all this could be arranged with Attorney General David T. Wilentz, chief of the prosecution, so he would make no motions for the permission. Justice Asks Move. It was at the suggestion of Supreme Court Justice Trenchard, who will preside at Hauptmann's trial next (Contined on Page 2, Column 8.) Guide for Readers .B-2 ver.C-1-2-3 regular procedure,” but Casey told the committee it was not contrary to Army regulations. “As a matter of fact,” Casey said, “when the War Department realized Japan could go right to England and get the stuff out of stock, they were very glad to help American manu- facturers Before turning to the correspond- ence, Clark announced he was going to study “relations between the pri- vate munitions companies and the United States Government, particu- larly the War and Navy Depart- ments " Clark said the evidence also would show a former high officer in the Army volunteered to act as an agent for du Pont in negotiating the sale of powder to Poland in 1922 and that the War Department loaned du Pont an Army gun which was taken to Holland for demonstration. Liner Rams Ferry Boat. SAN FRANCISCO, Becember 11 () —The coastal liner Ruth Alexan- der, bound in from Seattle, rammed the ferry boat Calistoga in the bay here today, but no one apparently was injured. |and armament made by that com- | Casey testified that after arrange- | Yesterday’s Circulation, 124,663 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved. (®) Means Associated Pr FROM RIVER Were Guests By the Associated Press. number of guests, as police announced for. dead and many of the missing guests we through much of the building. Screaming men and women, their | List of Victims By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich., December 11— A list of the dead and injured, revised at noon, in the fire which swept the Kerns Hotel here this morning: Known Dead. Representative T. Henry Howlett, | Gregory. | Representative Vern Voorhees, Al- | bion. Representative Charles D. Parker, | Otisville. | | Representative Donald E. Sias, Mid- land. Representative John W. Goodwine, Marlette. David Monroe, assistant manager of the hotel. 1. Wishneff, Los Angeles. R. S. McFarland, Dayton, Ohio, | | salesman. | Pive unidentified persons, including one woman, about 65 years old. Missing and Feared Dead. State Senator John Leidlein, Sagi- naw. Representative Maurice E. Post, Kent County. Dr. F. C. Thiedes, Grand Rapids. Clarence Smith, Coldwater. A. Bosmer, Grand Rapids. Fred Van Dyne, Owosso. Thomas Shedall, Caro. Lloyd Keck, Lansing. C. H. Thompson, Grand Rapids William Jacobi, Rutherford, N. J. | Frank Sochia, Lansing. | Harris Silverberg, Detroit. | M- s. Nolan, Battle Creek. List of Injured. | | Representative Charles T. Kimball, | Jonesville. Representative D. Knox Hanna, Caro. E. S. Allen, Mancelona. A. D. Carr, Bloomington, Ind. A. B. Hanson, Oscoda. C. B. Herrendeen, Grand Rapids. R. C. Bliss, Saginaw. Jay Peck, Detroit. D. W. Pierson, Cadillac. . Ted Kleidinest, Blissfield. | Alice Casterlin, 71, resident of the | hotel. | Kirk Patrick, Saginaw. Nancy Parker, Lansing. Harry Levine, Detroit. R. Thomas Lowther, Ferndale. James McMillen, 12, Petoskey. — |CURRENCY FEATURE OUT OF BONUS BILL]| Expansion Question to Be Left to Treasury, Press Is In- formed by Patman. By the Associated Press. Elimination of compulsory currency expansion as a provision of the Pat- man bill for immediate cash payment | of the bonus was disclosed today. | Representative ~ Patman, Texas | Democrat, told reporters his measure would leave the question of currency expansion to the Treasury. Expressing confidenec that his pro- posal for bonus payment, at an esti- mated cost of $2,500,000,000, would have little difficulty in the House, Pat- man said there should be no talk of a compromise until the bill has passed both House and Senate and gone to conference for settlement of differ- ences between them. Meantime, administration officials collected data as to the cost of paying the bonus only to war veterans, who are on relief rolls or “in actual need.” By the Assoclated Press. ANADARKO, Okla, December 11. —The fluttering blue flame in a graveyard has struck terror into the heart of Chief Silver Moon of the Caddos, and fearful of death, he has sought the aid of authorities at the Indian agency here. After the death of A-Dah-Noe, his grandmother, Silver Moon, in accord- ance with a custom of his tribe, kingled a six-day ceremonial fire upon her grave. Two nights ago, while replenishing the fire, he was attracteé by another, smaller, flame nearby. On the grave of his mother, ad- joining that of A-Dah-Noe, burned another fire, where no fire should have blazed. Imbedded in the soil was a jar containjng lighted kerosene. Beneath the surface of the liquid lay a photo- graph—of himself. Trembling, he i plunged his hand in the vessel and Indian Chief, Oil Fortune Heir, Reads Death in Strange Fire withdrew the picture. Pins pierced the image's forehead, arms and legs. Silver Moon fled. Home again, he puzzled. Then he remembered the estate of A-Dah-Noe, willed to him, but not yet in his possession. A- Dah-Noe was wealthy. On her land drillers had sunk the second deepest oil well in the Nation. Could there be a connection? Authorities investigated, found on the mother’s grave the pierced photo- graph, the kerosene jar. Silver Moon is not an uncivilized Indian. Once he worked: in the library of the American Museum of Natural History, assisting in the translation of the Caddo tongue for a Caddo-English dictionary. He has posed for sculptors, and once was employed by a moving picture com- pany. But Silver Moon looks to the future with foreboding. He remembers the | to the street or into the Grand River, wi <« TWO CENTS. 40 ARE BELIEVED DEAD 'AS FIRE RAZES HOTEL; LEGISLATORS VICTIMS 27 Are Reported Injured in Lansing—Many Lose Lives by Leaping From Death Trap. DROWNED BODIES RECOVERED NEAR BUILDING Scenes of Horror Related—More Than Score of Michigan Lawmakers in Hostlery. LANSING, Mich., December 11.—Smouldering ruins of the Kerns Hotel and the icy waters of the Grand River today hid the fate of an undetermined that only half of the approximately 200 persons lodged there when fire broke ‘out this morning had been accounted Chief of Police Alfred Seymour said that the appalling number of unac- counted for indicated a “heavy loss of life,” although there were only 12 known re expected to be found safe, The hotel was well filled, due to the special legislative session, when the fire broke out, about 5:30 a.m. and within a few minutes the flames were raging escape cut off, jumped from windows, hich flows at the rear of the building. Five Are Drowned. Five of the known dead drowned when they chose the icy waters of the river to the flames that had trapped them. Six others were killed or fatally injured when they jumped to the streets before firemen could reach them with ladders or spread nets at the base of the walls. A few threaded their way through pitch-dark corridors and down flame- licked stairways. They had no time to dress and sev- eral suffered frozen or frost-bitten feet for the temperature was near zero and snow and ice covered the streets. Police and firemen warned that it might be days before the full extent of the tragedy becomes known, for the hotel register was destroyed and any one caught in the holocaust undoubt- edly was burned beyond recognition. Police broadcast an appeal to all sur- vivors to communicate with them. Of the missing, gravest fears were felt for Senator John Leidlein of Saginaw, who did not respond to warnings pounded on his door, and R. S. McParland, Dayton (Ohio) salesman for the National Biscuit Co. Bedlam of Shrieks. For 20 minutes after the fire was discovered, a bedlam of shrieks re- sounded from the Same-swept build- ing. Then the screams either were silenced or were drowned out by the | roar of collapsing walls and floors Any one who had not escaped by that time was doomed, firemen said Many of the trapped persons were unable to reach the fire escapes. At the rear of the building, where the river flows, there were no fire escape: A few identifications of the dead were made as the morning passed The bodies of Representatives Charles D. Parker. Otisville, and John W. Goodwine, Marlette, were found to b> among them. Representative Donald E. Sias died at noon of a skull frac- ture suffered when he jumped from a third-floor window to the street Representative James W. Helme of Adrian, more than 70 years old, was found among the survivors. He had plunged into the river and succeeded in swimming ashore. Tells of Horrors. Probate Judge William C. Severance of Antrim County, Mich, who was awakened by smoke in advance of the alarm, called the fire “the most hor- rible thing I have ever been through.” He told of seeing persons jumping from windows and the roof to the Grand River. “Some of them hit obstructions on their way down,” he said. “Others must have drowned in those icy waters. Most of the jumpers were from the third-story windows and roof. After I got to the street I saw others jump to the pavement, break- ing legs and arms and evidently in- juring themselves internally.” Representative William Green of | Hillman, who fled in pajamas and bare feet, told a graphic story of the fire “There were women with their hair on fire and their clothes on fire,” he said. “They ran through the smoke screaming. That terrible screaming was the worst. Women on fire, scream- ing up and down the hall.” Woman Unidentified. The known dead included only one woman, unidentified. As he spoke a doctor was treating his frozen h"'u but he said he “thanked Providence” to be alive. For inore than two hours the hotel, built in 1908, burned before the flames were broutht under cogtrol, leaving a shell. The building four stories high and of brick. 8. L. Colburn of Cassopolis, who escaped from the flaming hotel by leaping into the Grand River and swimming ashore, said a bell boy whose name he did not know was the hero of the disaster. “I didn’t know who he was,” Col- burn said, “but he was responsible for the escape of about 50 per cent of those who were saved. He had plenty of time to get out, but, instead, ran {from room to room, knocking on doors and shouting to guests. I last saw him running up a blazing stairway and he was in the building when the first wall caved in.” Colburn said he pushed a business acquaintance, S. J. Clemens, into the river, then leaped after him and swam ashore, pulling Clemens after him. G. U. President Visits Pope. VATICAN CITY, December 11 (#). —Pope Pius granted an audience to- day to Rev. Father Coleman Nevils, president of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Father Nevils was presented by Fa- ther Vincenta MacCormick, rector of pin-pricked picture, obscured by = dancing blue flame. Gregorian University in Rome.