Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1924 — Page 1

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WON POT MILLION IN G.OMIND’ Al Jennings Tells of Deal to Nominate Harding as Plotters Drank Four Roses in Oil Man’s Chicago Hotel Room, SAYS DAUGHERTY, HAYS, PENROSE GIVEN MONEY ' Declares Attorney General and Hoosier Republican Campaign Manager Were Present When Oklahoman Was Promised Post, S' UMMARV: Al Jennings says Jake Hamon spent $1,000,000 to elect Harding. Boies Penrose got $250,000; Daugherty. $25,006, Hays $26,000. Hamon was promised secretaryship of Interior, Jennings says. Hamon planned to run Jennings for Governor of Oklahoma} as Democrat in order to disrupt party in Oklahoma to give State to Harding. Tells of deal in Chicago convention to barter presidency at which Daugherty and Sinclair were present. Coolldge requested to deliver Department of Justice files on Mexican gun running to probe committee, after Daugherty refused. "Name of President of United States” among five men who made $53,000,000 in oil deal. Committee refuses to allow Roxie Stinson to name men. Wheeler and Senator Ohamherlin almost come to hlows in argument over Stinson testimony. Daughtrty cancels to Florida and promises "Interesting statement.'’ (Indictment of Sinclair on contempt charges are expected within a few hour*. 1— Question of Impeachment of C. C. Chase, Ffeir*Bon-in law. laid over indefinitely. By PAUL R. MALLON Vnited Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 27.—Al Jennings, ex-bandit and politician, charged before the Senate oil committee today that the late Jake Hamon put up $1,000,000 to elect President Harding in exchange for the Secretaryship of the Interior. Jennings also charged that $250,000 h'9| paid to the late Boies Penrose, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. In the "deal.” Involved with Hamon, Jennings said he believed, were certain big oil men from Oklahoma, including Harry F. Sinclair. Jennings said he got his information from Hamon himself. He and Hamon were intimate friends. Hamon told him long before the convention Harding was to be nominated, and that he (Hamon) “would be the biggest man in the United States.” The deal was finally concluded in a hotel room in Chicago the night before Harding was nominated Jennings said. He mentioned the name of Attorney General Daugherty as one of those present. Daugherty was preconvention campaign manager for Harding. Telling of events just prior to the Harding nomination. Jennings said: Drank Four Roses

"In Hamon's room at the hotel, I lodged with him and we talked all night. He said he wanted me to come back and run for Governor. He said he would get behind me and I would be elected. We took a few drinks of Pour Roses. I asked him what was behind his mind. He said ‘l’m going to be the biggest man in the United States.’ He said something about SIOO,OOO for a campaign for me. He mentioned Harry Sinclair and some other oil men.” "What else did he say?" “He said he had already been East and talked with Boies Penrose, and that he could name the next President of the United States. "He said Harding would be the nominee of the convention. ‘Money talks and I'm going to put up the money,’ he said.'’ Hays Got 525.000 Jennings charged that Will Hays and Attorney General Daugherty each got $25,000 in the "deal.” "Hamou told me Harding would be nominated the next day and it would cost him a rmliion dollars. He said Penrose was to get $250,000. "It had been agreed that day. Hamon told me, by Will Hays, Harry Daugherty and somebody else that Hamon was to be Secretary of the Interior.” “Has the information Hamon gave (Continued on Page 11) BOY WOUNDS FATHER ”1 Shot Him to Get Even for Beating He Gave Me,” Youth Says. By United Preen MILFORD, Neb„ March 27. —Glen West, 13-year-old son of Guy West, who was shot and seriously wounded at his home Tuesday night, today confessed to the shooting, according to police. "I shot him to get even for that beating he gave me Tuesday," the boy told police. Glen ran away from home Tuesday Mter an argument with hla father.

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Poison Victim > ' <;^' v I ■f ..- , - • . .. -Si * t ' j 4. # * MRS. MARY BARNETT RS. MARY BARNETT. 27. of 1422 E. Market St., is in -1 the city hospital today in a critical condition as the result of taking slow poison tablets Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to end her life. Hospital attaches say there is little hope for her recovery. Mrs. Barnett had been in ill health for several months and had recently undergone an operation, according to Maurice Barnett, her husband. They have two children at the Knightstown (Ind.) orphans home. Mrs. Ada Lowery, 1516 Barth Ave., is gradually sinking at the city hospital from > effects of similar poison taken Sunday.

LA FOLLETTE ILL WITH PNEUMONIA 1 Physicians Declare Condition Is Satisfactory, By I nited Press WASHINGTON, March 27.—Senator La Follette, progressive leader, has developed pneumonia, it was announced here today. A statement by La Folette's physicians follows: ‘‘Senator La Follette has developed pneumonia. His present condition is satisfactory. FIVE WORKMEN HURT Three Seriously Injured as Wall of Building Collapses. By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. March 27.—Five men were injured, three seriously, today as the front wall of the Shadeland school building, now under construction, collapsed and buried the r®en under a mass of brick and concrete. Harry Laml>ert. 40. is in the hospital unconscious from head injuries. J. L. Richards. 45. received Internal injuries and Benjamin Jobbe, colored, a broken leg. AND SO THAT’S THAT! No Evening Duds for Dance .Matrons; Oh! No. He bore the undeniable stamp of a college boy as he strode to the desk of Policewoma.il Anna Bruner and asked for a permit for a “hop" at a downtown hotel. “Who Is to be your matron?” asked •Mrs. Brunner. “I didn't think w© wuld need one. She would look out of place in the midst of all the formal clothes. But she might wear evening clothes, eh?” “No.” replied Mrs. Bruner. “The matron will be fully dressed.”

NEW COMMUNITY HOUSE Waldron’s $17,0000 Building (o Be Dedicated Friday Night. By Timee Special SjgtILBYVILLE, Ind., March 27 Wamoi's new $17,000 community building will be dedicated Friday night with the Rev. Silas G. Huntington of Indianapolis, former pastor of the Waldron Baptist Church, delivering the address. The building is constructed of brick and stone and was paid for by an issue of stock. Charge Impure Milk Sale By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind.. March 27.—0tt0 Law, representing the State board of health, is in the city conducting inspections of milk sold here. Two affidavits against dairymen charging them with the sale of impure milk have been filed, and several others are expected. ,~ Indictment Is Sought By United Press WASHINGTON, March 27.—Indictment of Mai Daugherty, brother of the Attorney General for contempt because of failure to produce records before the Daugherty investigating committee was sought in' a motion today by Senator Wheeler, chief prosecutor.

Test of Feeling in West

By I nited Press |T. LOUIS, March 27.—’’If I win out In South Dakota u__J it will be a marvelous demonstration of how the people of the West feel toward Mr. Coolidge, for if ever an attempt was made to buy an election H was done in

MAN CUTS THROAT AFTER WOUNDING THREE RELATIVES Henry Hargraves, 49, in Serious Condition —Wife, Daughter and Son-in-Law Injured, FAMILY QUARREL BLAMED Guy Carney, Shot, Carries Wife and Mother Into - House After Affray, Henry Hargraves. 49, of 1215 S. Illinois St., wounded three persons, ail relatives, and then attempted to take his own life at 1435 S. Talbott St., this afternoon, according to police. The others injured: Mrs. Nellie Carney, 29, his daughter, 1435 S. Talbott St., stabbed under left arm. Mrs. Mary Hargraves. 49, of 1216 S. Illinois St.., Hargraves’ wif6, shot in left side and stabbed. Guy Carney, 30, son-in-law of Hargraves. 1435 S. Talbott St., shot In lef thigh. Carney told police his father-in-law quarreled with Mrs. Hargraves on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Hargraves went to the Carney home. Today Hargraves appeared with a butcher knife and a pistol, Carney said. He attacked Mrs. Carney in the back yard. Mrs. Hargraves In the house and Carney in front, Carney said. Carney said he carried his wife and mother-in-law Into the house and then went out to find Hargraves. Hargraves was lying in a yard next door, h's thioat cut. and a bullet wound in his neck. PRIZES IN ART OFFERED High School Students to Compete for Awards Totaling S2OO. Art prises totaling S2OO will he offered by the Indiana board of agriculture to students of Indiana high schools for art exhibits, William M Jones, secretary-treasurer, announced today. The contest, which will be condicted with cooperation of the State department of public instruction, is to be under the direct supervision of Thomas Grant of Lowell, chairman of the board's art department.

FROST CONTINUES TOUR Poet Addresses Members of Contemporary Chib. Robert Frost, one of America s four or fve foremost poets, left Indianapolis today to complete other engagements in the Middle West following his talk and reading at the Contemporary Club Wednesday nigh:. In his talk on American poetry he said America offers’ more recompense to her poets and artists than any other country. He spoke highly of Riley as “a master of dialect.” Frost's own criterion of the success of verse is its "flowing quality," he said. ORPHANS~TO BE GUESTS Woman’s Auxiliary' to KotnH Druggists to Sponsor Party at Benefit. Orplrans of Indianapolis will lie the guests of the woman’s organization of the National Association of Retail Druggists chapter No. 20, at the matinee performance of "Alice in 'Wonderland” at the Murat April 3. Mrs. James K. Sproule, president; Mrs. W. C. Freund, chairman of the charity committee; Mrs. Edward Ferger, Mrs. Edward Stucky and Mrs. Charles Jackson are sponsors. MILITARY CLUB TO ELECT General Dwight Aultman Nominated for Presidency. Maj. Gen. Robert if. Tyndall, chairman of the nominating committee of the Army and Navy' Club of Indiana, today announced these nominees: President, Gen. Dwight E Aultman: first vice president. Col. Robert 1,. Moorhead; second vice president. (*l. E. Arthur Ball; secretary, Capt. Morris G. Fuller; treasurer, Capt. Myron M. Hughel. New members named for the board of governors; Adjt. Harry B. Smith; Brig. Gen. Leigh R. Gignilliat; Brig Gen. William G. Everson' Brig. Gen. Will J. MoKeet Col.'D, Ray De Prez; Col. Gavin L. Payne; Capt. Stephen C. Noland; Maj. Howard M. Gay and Lieut. Col. F. W. Glover.

that, State,” Hiram Johnson deOtjtfed today as he stopped for an hour between trains. Worn out from the South Dakota campaign. Senator Johnson was rushing into Illinois for a campaign in preparation to r the State primary April 8.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1924

Age Certificate Should Be Part of Girls ’ Costumes When They Attend Public Dances Says Policewoman

Practice of Modem Strangle-hold Is Flirtation With “Old Nick, Himself,” She Believes.

■ , iS the modern sheik and sheha | ZV I glide over the crowded floors 1 1 ■ of Indianapolis' public dance their cheeks firmly plastered together, their arms around each other in a strangle-hold, they are blissfully unconscious that they are grappling with the very Old Nick himself. Nevertheless, that's what they’re doing, declares Mrs. Anna Bruner, police matron, after a tour of inspection. She’s going to tell all about i|, at a conference of dance matrons and policewomen, with Police Chief Rikhoff, Saturday. “Why, at times you couldn’t get a match between the dancers,” Mrs. Bruner asserted, as she told of the most modern of modern dances, a semi-Apache style, in which the man firmly grips the back of his partner's neck, while she clings to his, and they glide away in seeming semi-consciousness. After the Dance Frequently they don't glide very' far. Because of the numerous other couples doing the same thing at the same time, on the same floor, a couple may remain in a space of about three feet lr. diameter, for several dances, according to the police woman. The dance itself may be bad enough. But after the dance, when the sheiks line up outside to try to make 'Hates”—that's when the real trouble starts. Mrs. Bruner stud. She tola of “joy-rides” and “mule parties ” with girls from 16 to 18 years as chief participants. If she .bad her w&y, she intimated, an age certificate would he part of the costume of young girls attending public danceß. The slick-haired sheiks are not the chief offenders in the matter of strangleholds. Mrs. Brunner contended. "Manner Is Invitation” ” I’ho way the girls display their terpsichorean ability while dancing together is an open invitation to male partners,” she said Besides the regular police matrons who supervise public dance halls, a list of thirty to forty approved dance matrons Is kept at police headqua'rters. As much as the public dance hall, the club or iinJl where the high school or college fraternity dance is b“H. Is the scene of “objectionable struggles” between so-called daticeiUMrs. Catherine Davis. 1018 N. Alabama St., said In telling of experiences ns a dance matron. “It seems as though the couples think that because they have a little higher education along scholastic lines, they also have m<ye along the lines of modern dancing,” she said. Mrs Bruner told of dances at two places just outside Indianapolis police Jurisdiction, where the "best” families and. perhaps, the "worst,” r represented, while liquor flow* freely and jazz reigns supreme “Yes, they alj do it.” one dance matron said. "The modern style of dancing, together with death and eating, surely has become one of the great levelers of humanity."

CLEVELAND FACES STRIKE Street Tar Men Demand 50 Per Cent Wage Increase. By United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 27. Strike of street car men in Greater Cleveland loomed today following demand for about a. 50 per cent wage increase made upon the Cleveland Railway Company by- employes. The car men ask 85 cents for the first six months, 87 cents for the next six months, and 90 cents for the top scale. The present scale is 54, 58 and 60 cents, which terminates March 31. PROBE MEETING IS HELD Council Committee Confers With Attorney s Upon Investigation. Attorneys employed by the city council committee, investigating alleged irregularities in city government to outline steps in the probe at a committee meeting late today in the office of Walter W. Wise, council president. Frank A. Symmes, Arthur Robinson and Joseph Roach have been emplayed rs legal counsel to assist in the investigation. Roach, it Is said, assisted Councilman Otto Ray in drafting the original charges. LEG AND HIP BROKEN Brooklyn Man in City Hospital After Being Struck by Truck. John McCaw, 70, Brooklyn, Inch, -is at the city hospital today suffering a broken left leg and right hip, and cuts about the face and head. He was struck by a truck in the 4000 block W. Washington St., driven by Alva Stiles, 19, of Ben Davis, Ind., police sa.y. Stiles was arrested. According to witnesses, McCaw stopped an auto and asked to ride to the oity. As he ran around the machine to the left side he was struck. Stiles, aooording to the police, said he was blinded by the spot light on the auto and did not see McCaw. Scouts to Dine Scouts A fellowship dinner will be given by Boy Scout troop 4 for members of troop No. 46 Friday night at the First Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth and Delaware Sts. A reception of parents will follow. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m.. 3410 a. m • ■ 49 7 a. m 35 11 a. 62 8 a. m....... • 40 12 (noon) 9 a. m. 44 1 p. m B 6

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JOHNSON HOLDS SILL LEAD IN DAKOTA PRIMARY Coolidge Headquarters Indicate Recount and Contest May Be Asked, By t nited I‘rrss SIOUX FALLS. S. IX, March 27. Senator Hiram Johnson today held a lead of 298 over President Coolidge in tHe South Dakota primaries in the count of 1.489 out of 1,826 precincts. The count: Johnson, 36,586; Coolldge, 36,287 The presidential preference contest is so close Coolidge headquarters at I here unofficially Indicated a contest and recount of the vote may be asked. Only scattered figures are available on the Democratic primary, county muditon*- having received but few reports from the outlying precincts. "What returns are available however, indicate a strong deiegnt'on for MeAdoo will gee - to the New York convention in June POINCARE AGREES ID FOII CABINET

Informs President He Will Resume Premiership, By I nitrd Pies* PARIS. March 27. —Raymond Poin care today definitely accepted an invitation from President Mlllerand to form anew cabinet, it was announced in an official communique. Poincare conferred with men who will be ministers in his reconstructed government and visited Milllerand today and informed the president he would resume the office of premier. U. S. FLIERS ARE DELAYED Changing of Machine# Into Seaplane# Postpone# Take-off. By United Press SEATTLE, March 27 —Start of the second lap of the American roundthe world airplane flight has been delay and. The planes originally intended to hop off from Sand Point field for Vancouver, B. C., and thence Into the Arctic. Owing to de-Jays in changing the machines into seaplanes it probably will be Wednesday before the flight can be resumed. VACCINATION PROGRESSES Smallpox Cases for Month Total 190, Report Shows. While physicians were vaccinating school children today, additional cases of smallpox bringing the total for the month to 190 were reported to the city health board. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, said the vaccination work was proceeding satisfactory. Some parents have withdrawn their children from school this week and with spring vacation scheduled next week, hope to evade the order, Dr. Morgan said. The health board order bars children W'ho not been Immunized from school after next week. The Boys Were Hungry Thieves who entered the grocery of J. 11. Soltau, 2133 E. Michigan St., Wednesday night, were a hungry lot. Police were told that they carried off a veaj loaf, a chicken, helped* themselves to cakes, canned goods and cigarettes, all valued at $7.

Not Even ‘Authors’! IHE jury trying Governbr Warren T. McCray in Criminal Court is unique among juries, according to Bailiff Clarfnce E. Clegg. sleeping quarters at the Courthouse, Clegg got out several decks of cards, expecting the Jury to occupy its time as other juries do. But the decks remained untouched, while the men chatted, read the /papers and then went to bed. “Why, not one of ghem plays cards,” the astonished bailiff said toflay.

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IDE SKY’ LAW IS WEAKENED BY LAWYER'S RULING | Lesh Says Commission Can Not Fix Sale Price of Capital Stock, The State securities act, designed | for protection against “blue sky” | stock frauds, received a severe blow j today in an opinion by Attorney General U. S. Lesh. Lesh, chairman of the State securities commission, is an opinion submitted to Maurice Mendenhall, administrator, ruled that the commission possessed no power bjy law to fix the selling price of capital stock. The ruling knocks out one of the strongest features of the act's enforcement, it was pointed out. Mendenhall refused to comment upon the effect of Leah's decision. With the new ruling It will be possible for promoters to gain control of a company by fixing the price of common stock at a small amount, although the preferred stockholders pay for their shares at p;ua The administrative department of the commission lias attempted to en- ’ force a rule that the common capital j stock may be issued at a discount of I not more than In per cent and that I if the stock is issued at a discount in | excess of 15 per cent, stock of a part ! value equal to the aggregate of this j difference should be filed in escrow. FLIERS OFF FOR ROME British Globe Aviators on Second Lap of World Might. * By l nited Press LYONS, France, March 27. —The British bound-the-world fliers took off for Rome at 11:05 a. m. today. The big amphibian plane arrived Wednesday from Le Havre, after leaving Calshop airdrome, near Southampton. England. Tuesday. IMPORTERS CRITICISED I Customs Collector Declares Shippers Abusing Privileges. Importers sending their products into Indiana are constantly abusing the privilege of cleaning, sorting and re-labeling imported foods and drugs that contain foreign matter, or that are misbranded, to make them comply with the law, according to John A. Royse, collector of customs. Authorities are considering establishing accredited re-cleaning warehouses. I CLUB CONTRACT AWARDED •lungclaus Company to Construct sl,000.000 Byiidinp, Contract for the construction of the new Columbia Club building will be signed with the Wlllfam P. Jungejaus Construction Company this ■week, according to Arthur E. Bradshaw, president of the club. While the new home is under construction the club will occupy rooms at the Claypool. It will have exclusive use of the Florentine room for dining services, with other rooms on the mezzanine floor. The new budding is to cost $1,000.000. Wrecking of the present building on Monument PI. will start within the next two weeks. Church Club to Meet The March meeting of the “Men of Broadway ’’ an organization composed of the men of Broadway M. E. Church and community, will be held at the church Friday night. A dinner will be served at 6:80 followed by a program. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indie**!. University, will speak.

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DEFENSE BITTERLY FIGHTS INTRODUCTION OF CHECKS IN M’CRAY TRIAL RECORD Entire Morning Is Occupied With Frequent Arguments Over Documents Involved in $155,000 Indiana Agriculture Board Deal. I. NEWT BROWN MAY NOT BE PUT ON STAND UNTIL FRIDAY Face of Notes in State Money Transaction Admitted in Evidence, but Indorsements Still Are Out—Progress Is Slow. Identification of the records of the Indiana Board of Agriculture and of checks turned over by I. Newt Brown, former sec-retary-treasurer of the board, to Governor Warren T. McCav occupied the entire morning session today in the trial of" the Governor, charged with embezzlement and grand larceny, in Criminal Court.

Attorneys for the defense resisted introduction of the records and checks into evidence with a constant series of objections. Their efforts met with considerable success. Check Faces Admitted When court adjourned at noon, the State had been able to introduce only ; the face of the checks and had been unable to get the indorsements of Governor McCray, on the backs of the checks, into evidence. * Further attempts to do this will be made. I. Newt Brown, who is expected to he one of the star witnesses for the State, was scheduled to take the stand today. However, the long battle over identification of the records and checks made it uncertain whether he would be reached before Friday. Brown is expected to give details of the transactions in which McCray came into possession of $165,000 of the funds of the board of agriculture. The State contends that McCray embezzled the money* The defense declares It was given to him in the form of a loan. Smith Identifies Checks Ralph K. Smith, vice president and cashier of the Fletcher American National Bank, was on the stand when j court opened. He continued his I testimony started Wednesday afteri noon, which consisted largely of identification of board of agriculture checks cleared through the Fletcher American Bank by Governor McCray. He also identified deposit slips showing tho money was sent to the Discount and Deposit State Bank of Kentland of which Governor McCray formerly was president The State contends the money was to have been deposited in the Kentland bank to the credit of the agriculture board, but that McCray ordered It deposited to his personal account, j Miss Minnie Fisher, bookkeeper for jt he board of agriculture, followed | Smith on the stand. She identified J record books of the board, including the minute hook, journa’ ledger and auxiliary book, in which the records of checks issued by the board were kept. Case Progresses Slowly She also identified checks given by the board to Governor McCray, made out to the State Discount and Deposit Bank of Kentland. These records were impounded last year by yder of Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court, during the grand jury investigation. The case progressed ajowly. Constant objections by defense attorneys hampered Special Prosecutor Nichols' j efforts to get the records in evidence. Defense attorneys and Governor McCray inspected the books carefully. Miss Fisher explained she method of handling the books and recording the checks. She spoke in a low tone. On several occasions Judge Chamberlin found it necessary to instruct the witness to speak so the Jury could hear her.

Healing First Witness Joseph B. Kealing, Republican national committeteman for Indiana, was tho first Witness called by the State Wednesday afternoon, following the completion of opening statements by the State and defense. His testimony, Interspersed with numerous objections by defense counsel. Kealing told of conversations occurring at a meeting of Republican leaders in which the Governor’s affairs were discussed last summer. The meeting was at the Severin. Kealing, questioned by Nichols, gave his adderss, 1424 N. Alabama St., and his occupation as an attorney. "Are you acquainted with Warren T. McCray?” Nichols asked. “Yes, sir,” Kealing replied. “Were you in a conference last summer w-here you had a conversation with McCray, or were you present at a conversation between him any any one else?” “I was. I don’t remember the exact date. I think it was in July.” "Where was it?” ** “At the Severin. In room 801, 1 think.” “State that conversation.” "Violated Every Law” "Prior to any conversation about the fair board money there quite a little talk by parties who were present with the Governor. None of

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the conversation, I think, was about he fair board money, but all of it was about the Governor’s affairs. “There were present at the meeting Senator James E. Watson, Clyde A. WaJb, Republican State chairman; former Governor James P. Goodrich. Ewing Emison. a member of the State committee from the Second district, and myself. After this talk conversation about the fair board money opened this wav: “Goodrich said. ‘Governor, I don't think you appreciate the seriousness of your situation. You have violated every law on the statute books.’ McCray said. ‘Do you refer to the fair board money?’ Goodrich said. ‘Yes, among other things.’ McCray said, ‘I had a right to borrow that money. Besides, it has been paid back,’ “I dont pretend to give the exact words, but I think that is the substance of the conversation.” “Was that all the conversation?” Nichols asked. "Someone remarked.” Kealing answered, “that ‘the fact It was paid back won’t excuse it,’ or something like that. I think Goodrich said, ‘No, Couch (former custodian of the Statehouse. serving a term at Michigan City for embezzlement of public funds paid back his money and he is in the penitentiary’." Reference Stricken Out Michael A. Ryan, counsel for the defense, moved to strike out the reference to Couch. Nichols asked leave to ask another question before the court ruled. “Now, Mr. Kealing, what did the defendant say in response to that. If anything?” he asked. "That was the last thing said. I don’t think anybody said anything more.” The court at this point ordered the reference to Couch stricken from the record. "Do you recall any further conversation about the fair board," Nichols asked. "I don’t,” the witness said. "That was close to the end of the conversation that was held in that room that afternoon.” "For the purpose of refreshing your memory, I will ask you if there was anything said with reference to a disgrace to the State of Indiana?” "Goodrich said: ‘No, you haven’t any right to borrow that money.’ I think that wai as far as it went.”

“Left Nothing Undone” “Did Goodrich say: ‘You have done everything you could do and left undone nothing you could leave undone to disgrace the State of Indiana’?’’ “Since you have refreshed my recollection. that statement about having disgraced the State was made during the afternoon conversation, but I don’t know whether it was about the hoard of agriculture money or not.” The defense objected to this statement and it was stricken from the record. C. M. Brockway, assistant auditor of the Indiana National Bank, was put on the stand to identify an exhibit the nature of which was not revealed. He was exoused almost immediately after he took the stand and told he would be called later. Indictments Attacked In his opening statement for the defense James W. Noel attacked the indictment against McCray as faulty. He declared the embezzlement charges did not follow the form of the statute and that one of the counts of larceny was improperly drawn. He contended that all the money was borrowed by the Governor, that he gave security for it and that it was paid back. Clarence W. Nichols, in his opening statement for the State, went into detail concerning the transactions of the Governor with the agriculture board, declaring the money was turned over to the. Governor to he deposited in the Discount and Deposit State Bank of Kentiand and that the Governor had diverted it to hi3 own use. Runaway Homeward Round Gladys Pierce, 17, of Muskegon, Mich., is homeward bound today. Police found her at 227 E. Tenth St., where she was staying with a family who recently came here from Muskegon. She ran away from bom* tfhree weeks ago.