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LOWDEN BOOM LOOMS AS WOOD BOOM SIMMERS; Illinois Governor’s Managers in Chicago Look Into Situation in Indiana. STATE AN OPEN FIELD Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois undoubtedly will enter Indiana as a candidate for the republican nomination for president, it was indicated today. Although no imported I.owden boom has thus far appeared in Indiana, it is apparent that the Illinois governor has many friends in this state and that his popularity, at least, equals that of Gen. Wood. Asa matter of fact, there are increasing appearances that the Wood boom was more or less artificial and that it was used by friends of Senator Watson as a lever to pry Gov. Goodrich loose from his ambition to be a candidate for president. Now that this result has been accomplished, an appreciable decline in the enthusiasm which surrounds the general's candidacy is expected. INDIANA NOW AN OPEN FIELD. >, Indiana, as a result of the withdrawal of Gov. Goodrich, has become an open field for presidential candidates, and it is declared certain that Gov. Lowden will take advantage of the opportunity to make a campaign in the Hoosier state. | Managers at Lowden headquarters In I Chicago are preparing to make a canvass of the Indiana situation preparatory to selecting a campaign committee and launching a Lowden movement here. Other presidential candidates who are expected to enter Indiana include Senator Johnson, Senator Harding and Senator Poindexter. DISCORD IN' WOOD MOVEMENT. Discord in the Wood movement has al- j ready become evident in the complaint of Lucius O. Hamilton, former president of the Columbia club, that the original supporters of the movement were not consulted before the announcement that Gen. Wood would permit his name to appear on the primary ballot was made ; and that those who first circulated pe- i titions for his support were not made; members of the campaign committee. The campaign committee is headed by Frederick E. Joss and does not include many of the persons who have been most prominent in the movement. “The Wood supporters naturaliy would have supposed they would have received credit for the work accomplished here,” Mr. Hamilton said. “If Mr. Joss and his crowd are taking over our efforts ai! we can do is to step down and out. There is no use disguisring the fact that we supposed the Wood managers would recognize the real effort we made in behalf of the general here. “It is true that no one of the men first active in furthering the Wood petitions in Indiana was consulted in any way by Mr. Joss preliminary to his announce- • ment that he was the real Wood manager j in the state.” Emsley W. Johnson, another of the j original leaders of the Wood movement, indicated that he did not object to the j committee.

LAFAYETTE MAN HEADSBAKERS State Association Abandons Tri-State Body. Jolla P. Rugers of Lafayette was fleeted president of the Indiana Association of the Baking Industry, which concludes a two-day convention here today. Other officers chosen were Eugene Quigg, Xtichomnd, vice president; C. B. Ehlers, Indianapolis, secretary, and C. n. Webben, Shelbyvllle, treasurer. Elmer L. Cline of Indianapolis, retiring president of the association, in an address before the bakers, declared that Indiana has the most complete set ©f baking laws for the protection of the public ever passed in any state in the union. The bakers themselves are responsible for the inception of these laws, be said. C. B. Morrison, assistant director of the scientific department of the American Association of the Baking Industry, addressed the bakers at their banquet last bight on the efforts being made to Improve bakery products through scientific research. The Indiana association voted to withdraw from the Tristate organization, because Michigan and Ohio have not contributed their full share of strength to the organization. AWAIT RELEASE OF 2 U.S^ AIRMEN Army Officials at Borden Expect Return from Mexico. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 20.—Officers of the southern department headquarters said that no steps have as yet been taken to obtain the release of two American aviators, taken prisoners by Mexicans following a forced landing near the mining town of Herrerra, thirty miles below the border. According to advices received at headquarters, the aviators, Lleuts. Davis and Grimes became confused during a fog and followed the Solado river in Mexico in the belief that they were proceeding up the Rio Grande. They are members of the eighth aero squadron at McAllen, Tex. The last word from the aviators said they expected to obtain their release some time today and headquarters today was awaiting further advices before taking action. FOUR TOTS DIE IN HOME BLAST Cookstove Explodes, Causing Fire in Mining Settlement. PEORIA, 111., Jan. 29.—Explosion of a cook stove set a small frame dwelling house Rflre and resulted in the death of four small children of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Repich at Dunfermline, 111., a small mining settlement near Canton, otday. The mother is in a critical condition from burns received while attempting to rescue her children. Tire victims ranged in age from 18 mouth* to 5 years.

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CORNERSTONE LAID BY ROOSEVELT IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of the late colonel, has laid the cornerstone of the Civic auditorium, which is sort of a town hall for New York. It is to be erected by the League for Political Education.

SPHINX GOSSIP IN COMPARISON TO PRESIDENT All Efforts to Sound Wilson on Third Term Attitude Meet Dismal Failure. BOTH SIDES ON ALERT WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—President Wilson, who is slowly but quite surely recovering from his long Illness, has no intention of declining In advance the nomination for a third term. Men in close touch with the whitehouse state this with the force of a positive conviction. Sundry and subtle efforts to draw the president from his reserve are under way how, and others have been made in the past, but thus far all have met with signal failure. While many, it is said, would willingly give the last few.years off the fag end of their lives to know definitely what is in his mind—democrats as well as republicans—only a decided change in the general political situation, it is believed, would cause him to grant them their wish. The unconditional ratification of the treaty of Versailles, the feeling is, wonld, in the president's opinion, afford such a change. Its ratification with only interpretative reservations might likewise be so regarded. FEAR OF BRYAN VERY REAL ONE. Otherwise, political longheads declare, the president must remain a political enigma. Democrats freely own up to the fear that William Jennings Bryan may try to stampede the party when it gathers at San Francisco next June, splitting the party as Theodore Roosevelt did the republicans in 1912. Should this, or any similar emergency arise, the potential candidacy of President Wilson for another term in the whitehouscwould, in the opinion of political tacticians, likely enough save the day. Theoretically a distinct outsider, Col. Roosevelt, in 1916, by a very similar move, it is pointed out, completely dominated the republican convention in Chicago, securing the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes against the wishes of oil the old guard, as well as the adoption of his personal policies as the party platform. SIMILAR SITUATION ENTIRELY POSSIBLE. A similar situation is regarded as possible when the democrats get together next June in San Francisco. The policy of America living up to her international obligations is sacred to the president, to put It but mildly, as Roosevelt’s “preparedness and Americanism” policy was to Roosevelt, and no one even remotely in touch with him believes he will deliberately throw away what is considered as perhaps the strongest card he will have to play in the event of threatened splits and bolts led by those whose ideas radically differ from his own. To withdraw in advance his name from all consideration in his party councils, the politicians here say, would mean that President Wilson’s most deeply rooted convictions would count for something or nothing at the whim of whatever newcomer or old-timer who could stampede to his support the democratic majority. To stand pat, as he is doing now, leaves the president master of whatever situation that may arise in the future, they assert, for without support of Wilsonian democrats, it is asserted, all the party's chances would be hopelessly and irredeemably lost.

Seer Amazes Edison by Forecast of World’s Momentous Events NEW YOR T J; Jan. 29. —The most mysterious personality in the United States today is that of Bert Reese, confidant of kings, adviser -of scientists and financiers, and medium extraordinary. Edward VII of Great Britain, King Alphonso of Spain, Thomas A. Edison, Dr. William Hanna Thompson, the brain specialist; Charles M. Schwab, the late Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford are a few of those who have witnessed exhibitions of his power.

On March 27, 1915, Reese, writing to ni friend in Brooklyn, predicted that Secretary of State Bryan would suddenly resign, that one of the greatest ocean liners would be torpedoed, that Henry Siegel would not pay bis creditors and would go to jail, that Mrs. Carman would be acquitted of murder, and that Charles Becker and Leo Frank would not escape the death penalty. This letter, written before any of these events had occurred, was put into an ordinary envelope, addressed and mailed, so that It would bear the government postmark as proof of the date on which the prediction was made. Here is the manner In which Reese describes his first interview with Thomas A. Edison; “Edison was a little nervous at first, thinking I might be a crank. I told him some things he never knew—including technical information as to the contraction of some storage batteries be then bad under way, and of which, I, of course,

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Paris Receives German Envoy With Handshake Diplomatic Relations Resumed Between Two Nations Without Ceremony. PARIS, Jan. 29.—Without ccremoniy diplomatic relations between France and Germany were formally resumed this afternoon. Herr Mayer, the German envoy, presented his credentials to Premier Millerand in the private room adjoining the premier’s office and then returned to the German embassy. The presentation was preceded by a handshake. TWO SOCIALISTS MAY BE SEATED Attitude on Sovietism Held Up as Gauge. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 29.—There was s persistent rumor at the opening of investigation of unseated socialist assemblymen here this morning that the five assemblymen on trial do not all represent the same brand of socialism and that the assemblymen are prepared to dismiss three of the five socialists and permit the other two to remain In the assembly. Support of Russian sovietis mappears to be the criterion of good or bad socialism.” Claessens. Waldman and Solomon delivered speeches at a meeting In New York (Tty on the night of Nov, 7, 1919, called to celebrate the second anniversary of sovietism in Russia. Dewitt and Orr, the other two assemblymen, up to now, have not been shown by the evidence to have expressed themselves in favor of sovietism. “The assembly can clear itself of all criticism from the bar association if It shows that, in its investigation, it is not trying these men because they are socialists, but because they are believed to be bad socialists,” said a political expert in Albany today. “If they permit one or two of them to remain and prove that the others gave comfort to the enemy bolshevism the assembly wtl* have won Its point and will also have cleared Itself of the charge of unconstitutlonality and of unseating these ineu simply beenuse they belonged to a certain political party.” SIX TENTATIVE JURORSPICKED Nearly 300 Already Quizzed in I. W. W. Trial. MONTHSANO, Wash., Jan. 29.—Examinations of prospective Jurors for the trial of the eleven alleged I. W. W.’g charged with the Armistice day Centralla murders was resumed again today. f So far six tentative Jurors have been secured, though they are being held for further challenge by the prosecution. Nearly 300 men and women have been up for severe grilling in an effort to obtain twelve unprejudiced veniremen. One woman has been secured as a tentative juror.

knew nothing. I gave him Just the information be wanted—-so that, he went ahead and finished them along the lines I had suggested; and they proved a success. Thenceforward. Edison was a convert to iny powers!” Immediately after this, Edison published, over his own signature, a whole page account, In the New York Times, of the marvelous tests he had applied, and the results he had obtained. He asserted that he was completely convinced 'of Professor Reese’s clairvoyance; he signed the article. NEW BRAND COMES HIGH. RAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—Senloa 11010, found perched at the top of a telephone pole, was sentenced to thirty <!oys In jail. He got the stuff In i drug store, be. said.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920.

BRUTAL KILLING OF AGED GROCER BAFFLES POLICE Day of Investigation Fails to Reveal Motive for South Side Crime. FAVOR ROBBERY THEORY Did a maniac kill John Terry (Uncle Charlie) Aughinbaugh, In his little store at 1102 South Sheffield avenue? Or was the aged grocer slain by a thief bent on obtaining the large sum of money he was reputed to keep In his place of business? These are the questions that today are puzzling the police. For after a day of questioning neighbors and persons who admit having gone to the little store between 5:30 o'clock yesterday morning, when Aughinbaugh was last known to be, and 7:30 o'clock, when his body was found, the police admit they still are at sea. No arrests have been made In the case and none are In prospect, it Is said. But anew clement of mystery was added to the case todgy by the robbery of a grocery store at 1.002 South Sheffield avenue, Just one block from the scene of the murder. BODY LAID OUT WITH CARE. The fact that the body of the aged merchant, who was 72 years old, was found by Kenneth Hunt, 1014 Treiuont avenue, an 11-year-old boy who worked for him, carefully laid out against the rear door of the store adds to the element of mystery. For the hands were carefully folded over the chest and the feet placed close together. It Is pointed out that a robber, bent on getting his loot and getting away as quickly as possible, hardly would have taken the time necessary for such careful disposition of the body. The old man's head was beaten almost to a pulp. There were eight deep cuts from blows any one of which would have knocked him senseless if It did not kill him. His skull was crushed in and part of the old felt hat he wore was beaten Into the brain. This Indicates, In the belief of Detective Frank Howe, one of the squad working on the'case; that some dull Instrument other than a mallet was used by the slayer. Detectives also are attempting to determine whether Aughinbaugh had any life insurance or inheritance. He was a very eccentric man and, it is said, did not have to work. He Is supposed to have had a substantial bank account. BELIEVES BLOW WAS ST RI CK FROM BEHIND. The theory that the blow which felled him may have been struck from in front has been discarded by the police. They declare now that he was struck from behind and that In falling his forehead struck the counter and was cut. The police are still working on the robbery theory, although they admit they are making little headway. They questioned a score or more of hoys who live in the neighborhood yesterday. These boys made “Uncle Charlie's” store their headquarters. Aughinbaugh was alive at 5:30 o’clock yesterday morning, according to Oscar Martin, 858 South Addison street, a newsboy, who delivered a paper to the store. He said he saw the aged man sitting in a chair by the stove. About 7 o’clock a woman from the neighborhood went to the store and entered, but no one was in the place, so she left. As she went out the spring lock on the door snapped. The police broke in the door when blood trickling under the rear door was reported to them.

The aged man was one of the best loved persons In the entire neighborhood and had not one enemy, according to persons who police and newspaper reporters talked to. He had slept iu the store ever since it was robbed several weeks ago. A sister, Mrs. Mary Martin, lives at 4850 North Illinois street. CORONER SAYS MALLET WAS WEAPON USED. . Dr. Paul Robinson, coroner of Marion county, said today that he had not completed the Inquest and had come to no conclusions in the case. “I am sure of one thing,” said Dr. Robinson, “that the large wooden mallet was the instrument used by the murderer. I had a microscopic examination made of spots on the mallet and there were blood corpuscles on it, as well as human hair.” The detectives, several of them, differ with Dr. Robinson. Detective Frank Rowe contends that the mallet was not used to murder Aughinbaugh. WEATHER^ Local Forecast—Fair tonight and Friday; warmer tonight, with lowest temperature 26 to 30 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 20 7 a. m...i 21 8 a. in...; 23 9 a. m....y 25 10 a. m... .1-. 30 11 a. m....} 32 1? (noon) 81 1 p. m 36 Sun sets today, 5:00; rises tomorrow, 6:50; sets, 6:01.

FORTY INJURED IN CAR WRECK AT RICHMOND Fast Interurban Leaves Rails, Turning Over, Pinning Scores Inside. SEVERAL BADLY HURT RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 29.—Forty persons were injured, a number seriously, when an Ohio Electric interurban, inbound, leaped the track at a curve on a hill at the edge of the city and turned over early today. The car, according to passengers, was traveling down grade at high speed when it was derailed, turned completely around and toppled on its side. Passengers were taken from the car through windows and the most seriously injured were taken to Reed Memorial hospital here. INJURED BRUISED AND LACERATED. Some of those injured are: Mrs. George Bevln, New Paris, 0., back Injured, badly bruised about body. Everett Overholeer, Campbelltown, 0., arm broken. Cornelius Mitchell, New Paris, 0„ cut about head, bruised. Mrs. Myrtle Lott, Richmond, cut about head and face. William Maione, Eaton, 0., cut and bruised about head. David Relnhelmer, New Paris, 0., arm and neck bruised and cut. Thurman Mattox, Richmond, left leg injured. James McPherson, Westvtlle, 0., arms badly lacerated. Charles Whitney, New Paris, 0., arm and shoulder hurt. Clyde McDaniels, Campbelltown, 0., bruised. Benjamin McKee, New Paris, 0., bruised. The wrecked interurban car was bound from Dayton to this city. Most of the victims were Ohio residents enroute to Richmond, where they are employed. CLAIMS CAR WAS GOING TOO FAST. Mrs. George Bevins, New Paris, In a statement, asserted that she had a premonition of an accident. “I felt that the car was going too fast," .she said. “An Instant later It left the rails. There was a squirming mass of humanity In the car and the j next thing I knew I was being dragged through a window. The car was in charge of David Baker, ntotorman, and Edward Good, conductor, of West Alexandria, O. The less seriously Injured were taken to physicians' offices for first aid and will return to their homes. Thirteen passeugers escaped unhurt.

SIX HOOSIERS ON HAYS’ LIST Appointments to Draft Party Platform Announced. Six Indiana republicans ore among the committee of 171 appointed by Will H. Hnvs, national chairman, to draft the platform of the party to be presented to the Chicago convention. The Hoosier* who will assist in the formation of the platform are Senators New and Watson, former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico; George B. Lockwood, formerly of Marion and now editor of the National Republican at Washington, and Dr. Sumner A. Furnlss. colored, a member of the Indianapolis city council. Members of the committee from Indiana have known of the appointments for some time, but no formal announce ment has been made. In discussing the appointment of the committee, Mr. Wilson said he believed the purpose of the national chairman is to popularize the national platform by giving every community in the country a part in forming it. G. O. P. TO START PLATFORM WORK SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—Work of the policies and platform committee of the 1920 republican national convention was due to start today following the announcement into yesterday of its membership committee by Chairman Will H. Hays. The committee consists of the twelve members of the national committee heretofore appointed and approximately 100 men and women from all walks of life and shades of republicanism. In announcing the committee Hays made the following statement: “The purpose of the committee is to invite the advice and co-operation of the men and women of all groups; to gather pertinent facts and data; to study intensively the larger problems confronting us, and to offer the result of their effort as suggestions to the resolution committee at the republican national convention next June. “There rests on these men and women the tremendous responsibility of ascertaining the needs of the nation, and definitely stating the fundamentals of the party’s plan for the solution of the problems.”

Among those who have accepted appointment on the committee are Ogden L. Mills, New York, chairman of the executive committee; Gov. Henry Allen, Kansas; Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana; Milo Campbell, Michigan; Senator Arthur Capper, Kansas; Senator Albert C. Cummins, Iowa; Congressman John J. Each, Wyoming; Congressman Julius Kahn, California; Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, Wisconsin; Senator Henry C. Lodge, Massachusetts; Congressman Longworth, Ohio; Senator Fall, New Mexico; Speaker Frederick Gillett, Massachusetts: Gen. George W. Goethals, Washington, D. C.; Congressman James W. Good, Iowa; Charles Evans Hughes, New York; Congressman Frank W. Mondell, Wyoming; Robert R. McCormick, Illinois; Senator Harry S. New, Indiana; Congressman John I. Nolan, California; Gov. Norbeck. South Dakota; Congressman Reavls, Nebraska : Theodore Roosevelt, New York; Ellhu Root, New York; William H. Taft, Connecticut; Congressman J. Will Taylor, Tennessee; Miss Harriet Vittium, Illinois, and Senator James E. Watson, Indiana. Heart Attack Fatal to DePauw Mentor, 82 GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. Riley Weaver, professor emeritus of political science at DePauw university, died of heart disease at his home here last night. Mr. Weaver was 82 years old. He came to DePauw in 1883 as an instructor after a diplomatic career, during which time he served for the United States in Italy, Belgium and Austria.

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HOW CAN KAISER ELUDE THEM NOW? Paris Paper Suggests Sending Court Into Holland. ; PARIS, Jan. 29.—The suggestion that I the league of nations set up a tribunal ' at The Hague to try the former kaiser. ! thus avoiding the necessity of extradit- : Ing him from Holland, is made today by former Premier Clemenceau's newspaper, Homme Libre. Angry comment is being made in the French press upon the German note objecting to the extradition of war criminals from Germany. “We must have the culpable personages, al! of them,” declared Homme Libre. LONDON PAPER DEMANDS IF U.S. IS FRIEND “Fed Up” on Uncle Sam Stuff, It Says, and Scores WarTime “Inaction.” PARIS PRESS IN CROSSFIR LONDON, Jan. 29.—1 t is time for Great i Britain to “earnestly ask if America is j our friend,” and if it is found sheds not, : to make plans accordingly, Horatio Botj tomley, editor of John Bull, declared in an editorial In his publication today. Stirred by the slump in exchange, Bottomley bitterly attacked the conduct of ' the United States during the war. “I say deliberately," he wrote, “the | shame of America's inaction In that fatal j hour would stand forever as a monument I of Infamy before which for centuries to j come every decent American must hang ! his head.” Basing his attack upon the DanielsSlins controversy, Botfomle.v convicted Daniels as author of the “as soon tight Britain as Germany instructions.” Ha refused to believe Sims ’is the biggest liar since Ananias.” “For not to put too fine a point upon it,” Bottomley continued, “I’m 'fed tip’ witji Uncle Sam. The time has come for plain speaking and I'll not be a party to j the ‘must not mention it policy’ adopted j by most writers on Anglo-American sentiments.

EDITOR THINKS FLATTERY WASTED. “I do not see any reason why we should flatter the vanity of this hustling race by lauding to the skies their part in the war and pretending to discover in Washington virtues which are absent from every European capital.” Recalling America's policy at the outbreak of the world war, Bottomley asserted that “In that critical hour America deliberately chose to stand aside from the conflict and martyrdom of u sacred cause.” “She fastened her hold upon the world f market*,’’ continued. “Men with muckrakes cirrled the day. While the United States government proclaimed its neutrality every factory and arsenal bummed with' activity. Coffers swelled to the bursting point with gold from the allies. Then, at last when the direct challenge to American security came in Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, she was left no choice and flew to the aid of the allies.’’ Bottomley jeered the claims of millions of “lips and thousands of news sheets from Texas to Canada and from New York to the Rockies, where men hear and read the lie that ‘America won the war.’ *’ "Secretary Daniels," he said, “plans to embark upon a naval building program destined to stagger creation.” WANTS TO KNOW “IS AMERICA FRIEND.” “I don’t want to talk of our ability to lick America,” Bottomley said, “but I do earnestly ask, is America our friend? Because, if not, we'd bettei know it and make cur plans accordingly." The editor emphasized it was “politicians like Daniels" he attacked, declaring he “would like to know who i in control at Washington. Is it Wilson of high ideals or a knot of fire eating jingoes ?” Bottomley declared It shoould be easy to establish the truth in the Daniels. Sims controversy, and if guilty, Daniels should be “squashed immediately by the president." Other morning papers attacked the United States as responsible for the high cost of living, through profiteering iu the low value of the pound sterling. FALSE REPORTS CHARGED IN PARIS PARIS. Jan. 29.—The semi-official newspaper Le Temps, charges the London Times with developing a campaign of false reports against the French in Syria. The newspaper specifically denies the Times reports of serious conflicts between the French and Syrians at Llban. "France is astonished at this campaign of false news, which is aimed to discredit France’s work in Syria,” said Le Temps. “It contrasts with the discretion observed by the French press regarding events in Egypt.” Le Teijips further accuses British, proteges of assuming an anti-French attitude in Morocco. The Paris “Midi” comments in the same tone.

Indiana G. 0. P. Delegation to Be Uninstructed, but Watson Men Indiana’s delegation to the republican national convention at Chicago will not be instructed for any candidate. Indiana's preferential vote for the various republican candidates will not show a majority vote for any one. But the delegation will be composed of men who are personally favorable to James Eli Watson, and unless the plans of the Watson faction in Indiana are completely upset in the next few months, the delegation will be one that can be swung to the support of Watson at any minute that the word may go down the line that it is time to vote for the senator from Indiana.

The witbdrayal of James P. Goodrieh< as a candidate for the nomination has made it possible for Watson’s friends in Indiana to accomplish just what they started out to accomplish last spring. That is the .sending of a delegation to Chicago that could be used to take advantage of any movement toward Watson that might develop. The Watson party in Indiana has forced the senator into a strategical position in spite of the fact that the senator himself showed the white feathex at a critical moment and attempted to take himself out of the race. The tremendous volunteer effort on behalf of Gen. Wood which developed in immediately after Goodrich a

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NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—G. D. Smith of New York, a lover of ancient books, has recently returned from England with 91,000,000 worth of Shakespeare's works. Among his collection was a rare volumn of “Venus and Adonis,” two by three inches in size. It was printed in 1599. weighs two ounces and cost? Smith $75,000 at an auction. SLAYER ACCUSES DOCTOR HE SHOT Attention to Wife Unbalanced Muncie Man, Lowyers Say. Speciwi to The Times. . BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 29.—George Muncie killed Dr. L. L. Williams, his family physician, during a period of “impulsive Insanity” caused by the doctor's alleged transgressions in bis home. This is the contention attorneys for the defendant made today in the Introduction of evidence in the acse. The defense Is making the “unwritten law” plea as a basis of proving that Muncie had become temporarily unbalanced because of the doctor’s alleged Intimacy with his wife, and that while tn this uvnital condition shot Dr. Williams down in cold blood in front of the latter's office. The state claims it will prove that Muncie was sane and that the slaying of the doctor was premeditated. The first witness called yesterday was Mrs. Chester Muncie, the defendant’s sis-ter-in-law. She told of Muncie coming to her to borrow a revolver. She told him, she said, that his brother had the weapon. Sampson Muncie, the brother, was next on the stand. He related how George had asked for the revolver, telling him that someone had been following him at night. Harry Welnland* druggist, in whose store Dr. Williams had his office, stated that Muncie had gone into the store a few seconds before the shooting and asked for Dr. Williams. When he informed Muncie that Dr. Williams was at a restaurant near by, Muncie went out, meeting the doctor in front of the drug store, he said. He told of Muncie firing five shots into the body of Dr. Williams. Other witnesses recited the details of the shooting of Dr. Williams in the business section of the city on the night of Nov. 3. Says Wilson’s Italian Note Carried Sting DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 29.—President Wilson, in dealing with the Italian cabinet In the Flume controversy, used much more severe language than has been made public, according to Dr. Charles Upson Clark, who has just returned from Rome. Dr. Clark declared that President Wilson informed the Italian government that the United States “will be obliged to take unpleasant steps” against any nation which opposes the general plan of European reconstruction and will support in the economic rebuilding "only countries that adhere to our political program.”

race was a movement of protest against Goodrich, not a spontaneous demonstration of regard for Wood. There is no stronger sentiment in Indiana for Wood than for Gov. Lowdeti ,of Illinois, and there is almost as much sentiment for Johnson of California and Harding of Ohio. . As an illustration of this was an in. cident that happened in one of Indianapolis’ theaters on the same day Good rieh withdrew his presidential aspirations. A picture of Wood with the statement that he was a candidate for the presidency was thrown on the screen. It was Shelved in deep silence, not a single one (Continued on Page Four.)

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BANDIT SLAYER WEIRDLY CALM IN LAST HOURS Hides Real Identity and Tells Sing Sing Warden of Planning Suicide. ENJOYS OUIJA BOARD OSSINNING, N. Y.. .Van. 29.—Although Gordon Fawcett Hamby, iron-nerved bank robber, murderer and prisoner of .mystery, walked in the very shadow of death today, he was cheerful and gave no signs of breaking down. Unless a last-minute reprieve comes from Got. Smith. Hamby will be electrocuted In Sing Sing prison shortly after 11 o'clock tonight for the murder of two bank clerks in Brooklyn in 1918. Watchers in the Sing Sing prison death house said that Hamby had slept amazingly well for a man who is spending his last night on earth. * He is the most remarkable prisoner that Sing Sing has ever had. He insists that Hamby is not his right name, but declared that he would go to his death on “time” without revealing the sqcret of his life. He is only 26 years old. SAYS IIE PLANNED “LEGAL” SUICIDE. Hamby coolly told the prison officials that he had planned to kill himself, but had decided to “commit legal suicide instead.” “You treated me squarely, warden, and was such a good fellow that I decided to let the law take its course,” said Hamby. The warden said he did not believe it possible for Hamby to kill himself, unless he tried hanging with an improvised rope made of his cot covers, and he had been watched so closely day and night that this was practically out of the question. During the past few days In the death house Hamby has been amusing himself with an Ouija board and a phonograph, his favorite piece of music being tho “Marseillaise.” He was an inveterate cigaret smoker, but when his supply of tobacco was exhausted he refused to sign the name “Hamby” to an on his smali supply to buy more. CAPTURED IN WEST AND BROUGHT BACK. Hamby was arrested in Tacoma, Wash., and Wrought to Brooklyn in June, 1919. He made a confession to the Kings county district attorney, saying he had committed robberies “in every country of consequence on the face of the globe, but had never tackled a job unless there were five figures in it.” He was placed on trial In Brooklyn on June 23, waived all defense and was convicted three days later. The only request Hamby made to the court was that the certificate of his death sentence be made to read, “Jay B. Allen,” Instead of Gordon Fawcett Hamby. Medical men who have examined Hamby declare that he Is sane.

ALBANY, N Y., Jan. 29.—A request for a reprieve for Gordan Fawcett Hamby, bank robber and murderer, who is sentenced to die in Sing Sing prison tonight, was made today to Gov. Smith by Nellie Bly, famous New York newspaper woman. Miss Bly held a lengthy conference with the governor, but the latter declined to say whether he would Interfere. 12 NEWBERRY JURORS IN BOX Attorneys in Ballot Fraud Case Hold Conference. GRAND “RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 29 Twelve jurors were tentatively accepted today for the trial of United States Senator Truman H. Newberry and 134 of his associates on election fraud charges in United States district conrt here. Court recessed when the twelfth man was acccepted to allow a conference of attorneys for the defense on the Jury makeup. The defense now may exercise ten challenges and the government six. Nine members of the Jury panel were examined at the morning session. Five were excused. Many members of the jury panel were excused when they stated their minds were fixed regarding the merits of the prosecution and the Innocence or guilt of the accused men. Harris Merrill of Kalamazoo, a publicity agent for the Newberry campaign, changed his plea of not guilty to nolle contendere. Judge Sessions accepted the plea. It was the tenth nolle contendere plea entered. It was reported today that the government will Introduce between 700 and 800 witnesses during the trial, and that former Gov. Chase S. Osborne will be the first government witness called. PREMIER FIGHT SEEN IN BRITAIN Lloyd George and Henderson to Be Opposed by Asquith If He’s Elected. LONDON, Jan. 29.—A three-cornered fight for the British premiership is promised if former Premier Herbert H. Asquith wins the forthcoming parliamentary by election at Paisley. Should Mr. Asquith be returned to the house of commons, the way will be opened for a memorable political straggle between Premier Dloyd George, former Premier Asquith and Arthur Henderson, secretary of the labor party. The resignation of George N. Barns, minister without portfolio in the cabinet, is taken as an indication of the solidification of labor. Asquith.addressing a political meeting at Paisley, Scotland, last night, criticised the coalition government as one of experiments and adventures, and called for a reduction of national expenditure. He recently accepted the Invitation of the Paisley liberals to stand as their candidate for the house of commons. A noisy element attended the meet- ■ lng and Mr. Asquith was forced to endure a severe quarter of an hour of questioning. Asked by one of his hecklers if he would accept office under Premier Lloyd George, Mr. Asquith replied; “I should wait until I was offered one.” Ah, Bad Weather Troubles Spirits, Too LONDON, Jan. 29.—Spirits are handicaped by the weather. That’s the latest bit of Information from that wide class of experimenters who have been making spiritualism a topic of dally discussion in England. “That is why ail the best mediums of the direct voice come from America,” one prominent spirltuulist explains. ‘‘A heavy, foggy day is almost fatal; a clear, frosty day la best.”