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JAPANESE WIN
GATEWAY CLASH;
500 CHINESE DIE
Nippon’s Troops Occupy Territory Inside
Great Wall at Shanhaikvvan After Bom
bardment Leaves Smoking Ruins.
CIVILIANS REPORTED WOUNDED
Assaults Made on Town by Sea, Land and
Air; Hostilities Stop Temporarily;
Region to South Under Tension.
BY If. R. ELKINS
United Press Staff Correspondent
PEIPING, Jan. 4.—Japanese troops occupied Chinese
territory inside the great wall at Shanhaikwan today after
their terrific bombardment left the city in smoking ruins
with 500 Chinese soldiers dead, and an undetermined number
of civilians dead or wounded.
The Japanese gained control of the Mukden-Peiping rail
way and entrance into the rich province of Jehol, with losses
reported officially as eight dead, including one commissioned
officer, and thirteen seriously wounded.
Chinese conceded occupation of Shanhaikwan after three
Japanese assaults from sea, land and air, and intensive bom
bardment of the city.
Marshal Chang llsueh-Liang, young war lord, who was
ousted from his gerat Manchurian domain by the Japanese,
considered the occupation of Shanhaikwan a national emer
gency.
lie advised the Japanese commander at Shanhaikwan to
address further communications to the Nanking government,
and not to Marshal Chang.
The Japanese insisted on
regarding the Shanhaikwan
fighting as a local incident
which could be settled by local
negotiations.
Meanwhile, Chang's soldiers were
reported to be reforming at Changli,
under protection of three armored
trains. A Japanese armored train
was on patrol between Shanhaik
wan and Chinwangtao, the port on
the Gulf of Laio south of Shan
haikwan.
The Japanese reported the cap
ture of trench mortars, machine
guns, grenades and stores of am
munition.
Fear Advance to South
Hostilities in the Shankaikwan
area were suspended, at least mo
mentarily, while Peiping, Tientsin
and other cities within striking dis
tance of a possible Japanese ad
vance to the south lived under great
tension.
It was believed, however, that the
Japanese would continue to hold
Shanhaikwan to protect their troops
from attack during an advance into
Jchol.
The Chinese telegraph adminis
tration re-established communica
tion with Shanhaikwan, disrupted
during the fighting.
Japanese attacked Shanhaikwan,
according to advices received here,
with two destroyers, ten field guns,
5,000 infantry and bombing planes.
Chinese Battalion Wiped Out
After a breach was opened in the
great wall by sustained bombard
ment. Japanese infantry attempted
to break through. Their first at
tempts were turned back by Chi
nese machine gunners.
Marshal Chang addressed a letter
to General Nakamura, commanding
the Japanese garrison at Tientsin,
insisting that the Japanese assume
lull responsibility for the hostilities.
The affair could not be regarded
p.s a local ncidont. Chang main
tained. and the Japanese must com
municate hereafter direct with
Nanking.
A Chinese communique issued
here late Tuesday said that an
entire Chinese battalion, consisting
of 500 men. had been killed in
street fighting at Shanhaikwan. The
Chinese conceded occupation of the
city, the communique said, after
three terrific Japanese attacks and
intensive bombing.
Further Resistance I.ikciy
Chinese withdrew to Shiho. where
they reformed their lines for
further resistance.
The communique described Shan
haikwan as a smoking ruin, in which
numerous conflagrations still were
raging. Civilian casualties were said
to be heavy, although no definite
figures were available.
Police of Tientsin and Peiping
took rigid precautions to maintain
order, fearing outbursts of popular
indignation against Japanese. Both
cities were quite at noon today,
however.
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Cloudy with probably light rain tonight, followed by fair Thursday; colder with temperature about 30 by Thursday morning.
VOLUME 44—NUMBER 204
COUNTERFEITING
SUSPECT SEIZES
Bogus Count Held by U. S.
Officials: Racketeers
Are Victimized.
H if T'nihil I'itsk
CHICAGO. Jan. 4.—Revelation of
j a large international counterfeiting
; plot was made today by Captain
: Thomas J. Callahan of the United
| States secret service following ar
! rest at Newark, N. J., of Henry
Dechow, once known here as “Count
Enrique Dechow von Buelow."
Dechow first came into public eye
early in IS3O when lie married Mrs.
Lottie Brenner, wealthy widow of
Nathan T. Brenner, Chicago aider
man. He posed as “Count Von Bue
-16w."
On discovery of the deception,
Mrs. Brener sued him repeatedly for
divorce, finally winning the fourth
suit she filed.
Callaghan attached greatest im
portance to Dechow's arrest.
Callaghan said Dechow had been
; in Chicago as recently as last Sat
urday. and this visit led to his un
doing. He was trailed from here to
Montreal and thence to Newark.
About 25.000 ot the bogus notes
were passed in Chicago, but quick
work by Callaghan's men led to
confiscation of the notes brought
here. The actual counterfeiting was
i clone in Berlin. Callaghan said, and
about $2.C00.000 in fake notes was
brought to this country.
Eight Chicago racketeers, said
Callaghan, were victimized by the
I'ihg. They were sold SIOO,OOO in
notes for $30,000.
Secret service agents f reed them
to hand over most of the notes, and
the gangsters threatened reprisals
on the ring if the loss was not made
good.
'RIGHT-OF-WAY' IS
GIVEN FARM BILL
‘Domestic Allotment' Plan to
Come Up Thursday.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 4—The
house rules committee, heavily
Democratic, today granted legisla
tive right of way to the "domestic
allotment” plan of farm relief, a
project reported to have the full
backing of President-Elect Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
Without even the formality of a
record vote, the committee reported
to the house a resolution which
would insure consideration of the
bill Thursday.
BRIDE. 14. ORDERED
HOME TO HER PARENTS
18-Year-Old Musband Deprived of
Wife: Disobeyed Judge.
George Whyde. 18. of 237 Trow
bridge street, who disobeyed the or
der of Juvenile Judge John F. Geck
ler by marrying a 14-year-old girl,
today was ready for a honeymoon,
but without the bride.
Request of Whyde, a few days ago.
to wed the girl had been refused by
Geckler “until the court thought it
over."
But the couple did not wait Cupid
hurried them away to Franklin, Ind..
where they obtained a license and
were married.
Geckler today ordered the bride to
go home to her parents when he dis
covered Whyde was without a job or
means of supporting his young wile.
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933
Defaulting War Debtors
Lashed by Hiram Johnson
in Bitter Senate Speech
Californian Demands That Nations Which Repudiated
Obligations Be Barred From Money Markets
of America.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep.,
Cal.), in a bitter speech excoriating war debt cancellationists
and defaulters, called on congress today to bar from the
American money market all foreign debtors who repudiated
their obligations to the United States or to American citizens.
Johnson has such a bill before the
senate finance committee. In the
midst of his war debt speech today,
he announced he would demand sen
ate action at this session.
Johnson cited the 1925 report of
the war debt commission, when
debtors, except England, w T ere re
fusing to fund their war and post
armistice obligations to this coun
try.
It states that it w’as “contrary to
the best interests of the United
States” to permit foreign debtors to
float loans in the United States un
til they had funded their debts.
He said the state department so
informed American international
bankers, who sought to distribute
foreign securities in American mar
kets.
“Before this session of congress
CHURCH RADIO
PLEAOPPOSED
Federal Examiner Decides
Commission Should Not
Grant Permit.
flu Time* special
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 4.
Fight of the Rev. Morris H. Coers,
youthful pastor of the Thirty-first
Street Baptist church in Indianap
olis to establish a radio station un
der church sponsorship, appeared
lost today.
R. H. Hyde, examiner of the fed
eral radio commission, which held
a hearing in the case last summer,
reported to the commission today a
permit for the proposed station
should not be approved. Final dis
position will be made within the
next few weeks by the commission,
it is expected.
Failure to submit specific infor
mation as to nature of programs
to be submitted and doubt as to the
financial ability of the church to
support the station, w’ere points
cited by Hyde in disapproving the
application.
Application sought a. permit for a
250-watt station with a frequency
of 600 kilocycles which w’nuld be
operated only in the day time
Hyde praised Mr. Coers. declar
ing him to be "a young pastor of
unusual talents.” He pointed out
that the pastor had been successful
in broadcasting programs from com
mercial stations in Indianapolis.
Presence of cigaret -smoking
women in the broadcasting rooms
of radio stations was assailed by the
pastor when he testified in a hear
ing on the application last summer.
DRAG FALL CREEK
FOR BODY OF MAN
Believed to Have Leaped
Into Swollen Stream.
After several hours’ search, the
police rescue squad still was grap
pling in the swollen w’aters of Fall
creek at Meridian street today in
an attempt to recover the body of
a man who w’as believed to have
jumped from the east parapet of
the bridge.
No witnesses were found who ac
tually had seen the man make the
leap, but several persons observed
suspicious actions of a man loiter
ing near the scene.
John Clay, 25. who lives in the
rear of 2217 North Alabama street,
found a blue coat, carefully folded,
lying on the east sidewalk of the
bridge about 120 feet from the
south bank of the creek. Stopping
Arthur Stoekwell, 38, of 3507 North
Pennsylvania street. Apartment 2,
a passerby. Clay told of his discov
ery and the two called police.
JOSEPH REAPPOINTED
President of Park Board to Hold
Post Until Dec. 31, 1936.
Jackiel W. Joseph, attorney and
president of the city park board,
today was reappointed to the board.
His term will extend until Dec. 31,
1936. Joseph will continue as board
president until the body holds its
election at the Feb. 5 meeting.
Suspect in Road Death
Expected to Be Freed
(Pictures on Pace Two)
R'l Tiwrs Special
GREENFIELD. Ind., Jan. 4.
Freeman Baldwin. 41. Fortviile. dis
abled World war veteran, is expect
ed to be released fhis afternoon
from the Hancock county jail here,
where he has been held since Fri
day as a suspect in the slaying of
his first wife. Mrs. Margaret Bald
win.
Attempt of authorities to establish
identity of a woman whose un
clothed body wrapped in a tent was
found on a highway in Henry coun
ty Oct. 6 as that of Mrs. Baldwin
closes, I shall ask that such a policy
be enacted into law,” Johnson
shouted, his face lined with furious
passion and his fists flailing the air
as though punching a bag.
“They would have us pay the cost
of war while they keep the spoils.’,’
Johnson had recallled how Eu
ropean nations pleaded during the
war for financial assistance.
“They said, ‘Our backs are to the
wall',” he continued, “and I recaff
how they prayed for the United
States to come to their assistance.
“The American people paid the
price. It w’as pleaded and demand
ed that they give until it hurt, and
they gave with patriotism unparal
leled. Our people in some instance
beggared themselves to do their
duty and buy government bonds.”
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SNAP ‘LINK’ OF
COPSJEDERALS
Co-Operation of U. S.
Agents and Police Ordered
Ended, Is Report.
Co-operation between federal dry
officials and police in liquor cases
actually has been weakened, as fore
cast, by recent reversal of the fed
eral court liquor convicion of Chet
Fowler. Indianapolis, alleged avia
tor-bootlegger, it was revealed to
day.
The Fowler case decision by the
United States circuit court of ap
peals, it w’as learned, has resulted
in issuance of orders by District At
torney George R. Jeffrey that no
case in which arrest is made by po
i lice should be “adopted” in federal
I court by dry agents until the case
! has been prosecuted in municipal
i court an dthere disposed of, and
i then only adopted on instructions of
| Jeffrey.
The order, it is reported, also pro
! vides that all liquor cases must be
reported to Jeffrey for his approval
| before defendants are bound to the
federal grand jury.
Jeqrey declined to discuss the re
ported orders.
It has been the practice for fed
i eral agents to adopt and prosecute
j in federal court eases w’here police
are prevented by illegal search from
j prosecuting in state court.
The high court held, in effect,
j that where there was such an under
; standing between the fedral and po
j lice officials, such a practice w’ould
be unconstitutional.
TRUCK DRIVER INJURED
Machine Skids, Crashes Into Steel
Pole; Suffers Serious Hurts.
When the milk delivery truck he
w’as driving skidded on street car
tracks at Twenty-first street and
College avenue early this morning,
Kenneth Crockett. 28, of 1211 North
Keystone avenue, w’as injured seri
ously.
Crockett is believed to have last
control of the truck, which crashed
into a steel trolley pole.
He suffered compound fractures
of both legs and lacerations on face
and body.
POPE'S HOPES HIGH
FOR 1933 PROGRESS
Much Better Year Than
1932, He Predicts.
By United Press
VATICAN CITY. Jan. 4.—Pope
Pius XI has reason to hope “that
1933 will be a much better year than
1932.” the pope said today in an ad
j dress before the Roman nobility.
"We felt supremely inspired to
proclaim 1933 a holy year.” the pon
tiff said. "We expect good tidings
this year, besides material blessings.”
“We feel that men will raise their
eyes and heads more tow’ard heaven,
that this again w’ill bring further
blessings to all the earth, and that
1933 will be more promising, both for
spiritual and material well being,”
the pope said.
apparently has failed, as evidence
has been found that she was alive
on Nov. 3.
Charles Lamb and Earl Houston,
both of Fortviile. who had been in
custody part of the time since Bald
win's arrest, have been released.
The second Mrs. Baldwin, a bride
of a few weeks, discovered the evi
dence which is relied upon to free
her husband.
Mrs. Myrenia Inman, teacher in
the schools of Moral township, Shel
by county, is credited with having
stated her willingness to testify un
der oath that she saw Margaret
Baldwin in the Traction Terminal
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ILLINOIS MINERS WAR
ON SIX -MILE FRONT'
LEGISLATORS
HERE TO OPEN
1933 SESSION
Gavel Will Fall at 10 A. M.
Thursday; Recess Till
Monday Slated.
Although formal opening of the
seventy-eighth session of the Indi
ana general assembly is scheduled
for 10 a. m. Thursday, the actual
start takes place at Republican mi
nority caucuses this afternoon and
Democratic majority caucuses to
night.
Conferences of both parties will
be tame affairs, as the fight in the
Democratic ranks occurred three
weeks ago. when house and senate
leaders were selected, and the slate
of employed officials has been ap
proved by a majority and needs
only ratification tonight.
The nine house Republicans also
met a few? weeks ago and elected
H. H. Evans, of Newcastle, minority
floor leader; and Oran W. Cromer,
of Middletown, caucus chairman.
Plan to Be Active
Either Lon L. Shull, of Sharps
ville, or John C. Sherwood, of
Mitchell, will be selected by the
seven G. O. P. senators as minority
leader; and I. Floyd Garrott, of
Battle Ground, is scheduled to be
caucus chairman.
Both house and senate Repub
licans will devote most of their con
ference today to discussing methods
of making the outnumbered minor
ity groups play a leading role.
The Democratic caucuses tonight
will be devoted to filling legislative
official vacancies.
The senate slate calls for election
of Dick Heller of Decatur, former
house clerk, as secretary; James
Morrissey of Peru as chief door
keeper, and Clyde Snoddy of Bloom
ington as postmaster.
Selections Are Made
The house program provides for
election of John Ryan of Lafayette
as chief clerk, Eddie Beggs of Terre
Haute as assistant clerk, and Matt
Leach of Gary as chief doorkeeper.
Following that, Earl Crawford,
Speaker of the house, will outline
the program of the Thursday open
ing to house members, and Ander
son Ketchum, president pro-tempore
of the senate, will do the same for
his group.
Both houses will meet Thursday
forenoon, but will recess until
Monday, because the Democratic
Governor, Paul V. McNutt, and
Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford
Townsend will not be sworn into
office until then. The senate thus
will be under control of a Republic
an, Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D.
Bush, until Monday.
The house will be called to order
by Frank Mayr Jr., following which j
Crawford will be given the oath of i
office by Walter E. Treanor, chief
justice of the supreme court.
Bush will call the senate to order.
Defer Introduction of Bills
Introduction of bills will be de
ferred until Monday, although the
appropriations bill for the session
will be shot through under suspen
sion of the rules.
The house then officially will can
vass the vote for Governor, and
both groups meet in‘the house to
hear the final message of Governor
Harry G. Leslie.
Both Crawford and Townsend
have said they will announce the
personnel of the rules and patron
age committee Thursday morning.
Senator John Bright Webb of In
dianapolis is said to be scheduled
to head the senate patronage com
mittee. and Chester A. Perkins of
South Bend the senate rules com
mittee.
STETSON LEAVES FOR
EDUCATIONAL PARLEY
Schools Superintendent Will Par
ticipate in Conference.
Paul C. Stetson, city schools
superintendent, and William H.
Book, Chamber of Commerce civic
affairs director, today left for Wash
ington, to participate in a two-days’
citizens conference on educational
problems.
A limited number of educators
and others were invited to the con
ference to work out methods of
making necessary retrenchments in
school expenditures with the least
possible injury to the coming gen
eration.
HOUSEWIFE VIGILANTES
TRAP ALLEGED LEGGER
Husbands Traded Food for Liquor,
City Women Charge.
Vigilante committee composed of
housewives in the vicinity of the
1300 block Zwingley avenue caused
I the arrest oi Julius Albers, 1849
Zwingley avenue, Tuesday, on
charges of operating a blind tiger.
The home of Albers was watched
by police after the women had com
plained that their husbands were
obtaining liquor from him by trad
, ing foodstuffs.
j T*wo pints of whisky were report
! ed found in the house by officers
Disappearance of food from family
larders and the obtaining of liquor
by moneyless husbands aroused the
wives’ suspicion and led to the com
i plaint.
Entered as Second-Class Matter
at Postoffice. Indianapolis
Romance Theory Probed
in Bandmaster Killing
Pretty Widow of ‘Gang
Ride’ Victim Grilled
by Police.
B;i United Prrss
CHICAGO. Jan. 4.—Pretty Mrs.
Frances Schildhauer, an expectant
mother, was near collapse today
after lengthy questioning concern
ing her private life in police ef
forts to solve the month-old slaying
of her handsome bandmaster hus
band.
The woman fainted eight times
during examination by Police Cap
tain John Stege.
The questioning developed con
flicting testimony concerning the
personal affairs of the attractive
young woman and her husband, Ed
win, bandmaster of the Austin high
school band.
Half a dozen other persons were
interviewed and one, Carl Brad
berry, former deputy sheriff and
friend of the Schildhauers, w r as held
in jail.
Police today hunted Paul Walton,
attorney, a friend of the Schild
hauers.
Schildhauer was found slain an
hour after his wife said she saw
him kidnaped by two men as he was
leaving their home. First indications
were that he had met death on a
typical gang ride. Police now’ be
lieve a personal enemy responsible.
In an effort to discover some
motive in the killing they have
made a lengthy investigation of the
life of Schildhauer and his w’ife.
Mrs. Schildhauer w r as questioned
for hours in Stege's office, the first
time she had submitted to a lengthy
examination.
She had met earlier efforts of po
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FLAMES SWEEP
GREAT LINER
Huge French Ship Adrift
Without a Crew; Be
lieved Lost.
Bg United Prrss
CHERBOURG, Jan. 4. The
$18,000,000 liner, Atlantique, one of
tthe most luxurious of French pas
senger ships, was adrift and on fire
withot a crew today, probably a to
tal loss.
Fire started near Cherbourg with
a skeleton crew of about 200 men
but no passengers aboard. The At
lantique had been taken off the
south Atlantic run for her first
overhauling since her maiden voy
age in September, 1931.
The crew took to the lifeboats
when it became evident that they
could not check the fire.
The German freighter Ruhr re
ported rescuing only eighty men,
but officials of the company believed
several steamers and dozens of
other smaller craft near the ship
picked up all the men.
The Dutch steamer Achilles re
ported she was hurrying to Cher
bourg with a part of the crew 7 , some
of them burned and injured.
French navy tugs rushed to the
scene, twenty-five miles west of the
Guernsey island, about halfway be
tween Cherbourg and Brest. The
British steamers Falmouth and
Fordeastle stood by.
The ships were helpless to fight
the blaze, and unwittingly added to
the confusion ashore.
A jumble of wireless messages of
various wave length flooded north
ern ports. <*
$1,638,177 COST OF
DEMOCRATS' DRIVE
$70,330 Balance Left, Re
port to House Shows.
II a Initc<l Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. The
Democratic national committee
spent $1,638,177.58 in last year's elec
tion campaign, according to reports
filed today with the clerk of the
house.
Receipts for the year totaled
$1,708,507.76. leaving a balance on
hand, Dec. 31. of $70,330.18.
200 Jobless Battle Men
Building New Postoffice
Bfi 1 niter] /Vr*s
WHEATON. 111.. Jan. 4.—An army
of 200 unemployed converged on the
$1,000,000 Wheaton postoffice proj
ect today, and battled some seven
ty-five workers with sticks, stones
and shovels, leaving six injured.
The battle, which followed unsuc
cessful attempts of the 200, who
had come in sixty-three automobiles
from other parts of Du Page coun
ty, to persuade the workers to
leave the job. was briskly fought for
several minutes.
Only one of the six hurt suf
fered serious injuries. Will Lesehke
was carried to the Wheaton medical
building with deep scalp wounds
and a probable fractured skull.
Police were conspicuously absent
until after the fracas. Chief L. L.
IUsHR V' w y'
Mrs. Franees Schildhauer and her
slain husband, Edwin.
FIVE PERISH IN
BLAZE,II HURT
Fear Others Still Trapped in
Halls of Flaming
Apartment.
Bn Toiled Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.—Bodies
of five persons, trapped in flames
which enveloped a downtown apart
ment house here early today, were
reported found by police and fire
men.
Eleven others were taken to hos
pitals for treatment for serious
burns or injuries. It was feared
I still others were trapped in hall
ways or apartments not yet reached
by rescue squads.
All available fire apparatus was
t sent to the scene as the blaze
: leaped high in the air, attracting
thousands of persons.
The crowds hampered the work
|of the firemen and police. Traffic
j was blocked.
Tenants of the apartment house
; were forced to flee in night cloth
ing, so quickly did the blaze sweep
j through the three-story structure.
INTRODUCES FARM
MORTGAGE MEASURE
Bill for Refinancing of In
debtedness Is Up.
Bn I nitrd Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.—A bill to
refinance farm mortgage indebted
ness through the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, which would
receive $3,000,000,000 for the pur
pose, was introduced in the house
today by Representative E. E. Cox
i iDem., Ga.).
| A similar measure was introduced
simultaneously in the senate by
Senator Walter F. George <Dem.,
Ga.l.
Hourly Temperatures
6a. m 48 10 a. 'm 48
7 a. m 48 11 a. m 48
Ba. m 47 12 (noon).. 50
9 a. m 47 1 p. m 50
Grange, father of Harold 'Red)
Grange, football player, explained
that he feared the intervention of
his men would cause additional
bloodshed. After the fighting died
down, the police questioned a score
of men but made no arrests.
“If you can't get fair wages, don't
work,” the malcontents shouted at
the workers as they advanced.
There were hot words as most of
the men at work kept to their
places. Then a brick sailed through
the air and the fight became gen
eral.
The Du Page county unemployed
had objected to the wages said to
be paid by Schmidt Bros., Chicago
contractors, who are erecting the
block-square postoffice.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marion County, 3 Cents
Tense Situation Prevails
Near Taylorville After
Bloody Battle.
TROOPS ORDERED BACK
Woman One of Two Dead
as Violence Flares in
Trouble Area.
BY DON E. CHAMBERLAIN
I nitrd Prrss Staff Correspondent
TAYLORVILLE, 111., Jan.
4.—Snipers’ bullets sang
across the six-mile coal war
no mans land’’ between
Jeiseyville and Tovey today,
where a few hours earlier
two deputy sheriffs were
wounded by gunfire.
The whine of bullets today was an
echo of the battle late Tuesday be
tween United Mine Wprkers of
America leaving the pits of Peabody
Mine No. 7 at Kincaid and Progres
sive miners pickets, in which two
w’ere killed and a dozen wounded.
The six miles of state highway
between Jeiseyville and Tovey passes
through Kincaid and Bulpitt, coal
hamlets which have come through
many labor battles. No motor cars
moved along the paved “no man’s
land” at noon.
Troops Ordered Back
Within two hours the first five
companies of national guardsmen
ordered to the trouble zone by Ad
jutant General Carlos H. Black at
>Spi ingfield was due to pass up the
highway. The troops had left here
only a few days ago after months
on duty.
Booming of a eoal miner's house
early today was linked with the re
sumption of guerilla war between
the miners of dual unions. Reports
of oilier bombings were discounted
by Sheriff Charles Wieneke of
Christian county. No additional
arrests had been made after the
twenty last night.
Sheriff Wieneke's report to the
adjutant-general that the situation
w as out of control led to the march
ing order for 300 guardsmen.
Chief Deputy Sheriff J. H. Bet
terton, who has seen service in a
half dozen mine w’ars in twenty
two years, termed the situation “the
worst in my time.”
Atmosphere Is Tens*
A front trench atmosphere at
tended the morning battle, with a
heavy fog hanging over the high
way, and flashes of fire coming
from scattered points of ambush.
Thomas Hickman and Fulton
Smith, miners, who had oeen sw’orn
in as deputies, were riding through
Kincaid in an automobile. A burst
of fire from the second floor of a
business building found marks in
their bodies.
At Taylorville, sullen groups' of
Progressive miners stood in the
courthouse square. Other streets
were deserted. Wives and children
of the miners kept indoors.
The two men shot today W’ere
Thomas Hickman and Fulton Smith.
They w’ere fired upon while driving
to the Peabody Coal Company's
Kincaid mine where yesterday's
fatal shooting occurred.
Snipers Take Toll
Snipers, hidden in an abandoned
house overlooking a highway, fired
the shots. The victims w’ere taken
to a hospital in Taylorville for
treatment.
A bombing occurred today at the
home of August Croso, also em
ployed at the Kincaid mine. No one
was inside the dwelling at the time.
The blast blew the structure apart.
Victims of the sudden outbreak
late Tuesday were Vincent Rodems,
a national guardsman, working as a
guard for Peabody coal mine No. 7,
and Mrs. Emma Comulatto, 31,
miner’s wife whose home adjoins
the mine property.
The flareup came with little
warning. Tw’o hundred pickets,
members of the Progressive Miners
of America, gathered about the en
trance of mine No. 7 at Kincaird. a
few miles from here, as the day shift
was about to come of duty. A force
of 150 special deputies w’as on hand
to protect the miners.
200 Shots Are Fired
As the miners, members of the
United Mine Workers of America,
started to go home, a shot w’as
fired. Investigation failed to show
source of the shot. But its effect
was instant.
From both sides came firing. More
than 200 shots were fired before
6rder was restored.
. As the guns roared, some wit
nesses said they detected the rat
a-tat of a machine gun. Sheriff
Charles Wienecke ordered a nunt
for the weapon.
Men fell rapidly as the bullets
sung through the crowd. One bul
let, apparently a stray, struck Mrs.
Comulatto as she stood at the door
way of her home watching the con
flict. Rodems, one of the first men
to leave the mine, went down w’ith
the first outburst.
Battle Fierce but Brief
■ The battle was fierce but brief.
Almost as soon as the first burst
of firing was over, many stopped
fighting to care for the wounded.'
The hospital here was crowded.
Some victims were taken to
Springfield and a number were
cared for in their homes.
The thirty-two men rounded up
by Sheriff Wienecke were to be
questioned concerning their part in
the fray. Murder charges will be
filed against some, he declared.
Wienecke said the pickets had
come to the mine prepared for a
battle. He said they were armed
with guns, baseball bats, hickory
clubs and knives.