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JW FEDERATION LIKELY WILL BACK mm race Executive Committee of State Body in Sessioq at Headquarters. Support of Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for lover nor, will be the likely recomnendation of the executive comnittee of the Indiana State Federation of Labor to the State contention of the *>rgaoization, which neets at South Bend, Aug. 27, it sras indicated -today. The executive committee convened :hi3 afternoon at State headquarters n the Peoples State Bank Bldg. Deand plans for the convention were to be discussed. Woman on Committee The executive 28Srimittee is comosed oft Vic following; X. Taylor, president; Adolph J. Fritz, lecretary, treasurer; James Lechler. Ft. Wayne, vice president; Ray Ibbott, Hammond, second vice presiient; Mrs. O. P. Smith, Logansport, third vie epresider.t; Edward P. 3arry, Indianapolis, fourth vice and William Schmidt. West Terre Haute, fifth vice president. According to statements, the exBOutive committee may recommend lupport of a presidential candidate luring the fall campaign. Lechler. idee president of the federation, is ilso secretary - of the Conference of Progressive Political Action, which s backing Senator La Foilette for the presidency. Thomas N. Taylor, president of the labor federation, however, was i member of the resolutions committee at the Democratic State convention. La Foilette Manager Here A. E. Gordon, Terre Haute. State campaign manager for La Foilette. was in the city today making preiminary arrangements for the campaign. The first day for filling La Follette’s name as an independent. candidate for President would be; Aug. 1, it was said at the Statehouse.! The petition signed by 500 voters! and including a. list of presidential; electors would be filed in the Gov j ernor’s office. P. H. Crane, secretary of the In diana Farm Federation stated that j while no recommendation would be made to members as to the gubernatorial candidates, both Dr. McCulloch and Ed Jackson, Republican candidate would be interrogated as to their stand on certain questions, and their answers broadcast to the farmers. Crane said the legislative committee of the federation would meet early in August to take some action. Stand on the cooperatl\-e marketing Idw is one of the questions to be put to the candidates. -< •

MANDATEASKED FORNEW TRIAL Alleged Slayer, Sentenced to Die, Seeks Rehearing. Attorneys for Edward Barber, Terre Haute, sentenced to be electrocuted on Aug. 25 for the murder of Steven Kendall, Terre Haute detective, at a filling station there Jan. 23, today petitioned the State Supreme Court to mandate* Judge Thomas W. Hutchinson, Clay county Circuit Court, to grant Barber a change of venue or anew trial. The attorneys declare Hutchinson '•denied a fair trial” and that his actions constituted a' “complete and absolute denial of Justice.” Felix Blankenbaker and He try TV. Moore ore Barber's attorneys. They went to Greensburg today, the home of Chief Justice David A. Meyers, to arrange for an early consideration. Th e court is now In vacation. Bather confessed to the crime, pleaded guilty, then withdrew his plea, and the case went to trial on a change of venue from Vigo County to Judge Hutchinson’s court In Brazil. He was found guilty and was sentenced to die.

SOTHORON DOES BETTER St. Louis Card Pitcher Resurrected After Failing in American League. By XEA Service 6T. LOUIS. July 22. —Pitcher Allan Sothoron, Nwho failed in the American League. Is finding the going rather smooth in _the National. Sothoron was resurrected by Manager Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals after being dropped from the American League ranks to the American Association. Sothoron. always the possessor of much natural ability, failed in the American largely because of his Inability to field. VETERANS WILL PICNIC Basket Dinner Will Be Served to Post 624 July 27. Hoosier Post No. 624, Veterans <sf Foreign Wars, js'ill hold a picnic Juiy 27. Veterans of any war are Invited to meet at the post hall, 430 NT Pennsylvania St., at 9 a. m. A basket dinner will be served. Various forms of entertainment are planned. The post expresses thanks to citizens who turned out for the sham battle at Fair Grounds, July 4., when ammunition ordered failed to arrive. * Husband Lists Debts A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in Federal Court today by Timothy J. Connell, Cambridge City, Ind., manager of an ice crtam plant. His wife, alleged owner of the plant, filed a similar petition recently. jConnell’s debts were milted at $13?[i72.89 and big assets, $4*28(1

Hi Say Old Top! Get Ready for Wales Styles J———_—.——

THE SPORTY PRINCE OF WALES WHO WILL SET AMERICA’S STYLES.

Indianapolis is getting ready for Wales styles. American designers are working at fever heat in anticipation of the arrival of the Prince of Wales this fall.

FILIPINOS RESENT ATTACKS ON USE OFCOCOANUTOIL Retaliating Boycott Talked Against Certain Dairy States. By Timet Special NEW YORK. July 22.—Leon Ma. Gonzales, the Philippine Government., commercial agent, said today the Philippine cocoanut oil Industry is aroused by the campaign in parts of the United States to discriminate against this product. There is talk in the Philippines, he said, of retaliatory boycotts against distinctive products of States which legislate against cocoanut oil. "These attacks upon tl?e most important item in the Philippine export trads,” continued Mr. Gonzales, “are provoked by the dairy interests and. are most insistent in the dairying States; The buptter manufacturers seem to be alarmed by the recent increase in the consumption of vegetable fats, which are growing in favor as a spread for bread and as a shortening agent. # ‘‘The fact is cocoanut oil is one of the purest substances that enters into the manufacture of foods. Its wholesomeness as well as its food value have been certified by competent authorities and net long Governor Leonard Wodd, “who XX a.’ physician as well as a statesman, notified the Bureau of Insular Affairs in Washington attacks upon the wholesomeness of this product in the Unite'd States were unwarranted and its purity was beyond question. y ' “Statistics in this office, show dur ing 19923 exports to the Philippine Islands from the States of Oregon and Washington were valued at $6,780,655, consisting principally of canned salmon, butter, apples, wheat flour and dairy products. I feel If the dairymen of Oregon and Washington succeed in having these anti-vfgetable-oil laws put into effect, Philippine business men will resent such action and the friendly business relations now .existing will be-, disturbed.

Fame Abroad ed- :r -' 3 . '1 /rib -.. . j - 'H q_ I m B ■mbhbhbbbmbbm f Mary Lewis, former Follies girl, is scoring a hit at His Majesty's Theater, London, In “Tales of Hoffman.” She and a group from the British National Opera Company sang for Premier Ramsay MacDonald and other prominent Britishers at Nq. 10 Downing St. the other night. The concert was broadcast.

MURDER SUSPECTS HELD Mob Threatens Negroes Charged With Killing of Girl. By United Press CAIRO, 111., July 22.—Two negroes suspected of the murder of Daisy Wilson, 18, who was shot to death just before midnight Monday when she attempted to stop the robbery of her. father's store at Villa Ridge, were captured at Mounds, 111., by a posse today. Sheriff T. N. Wilson of Pulaski County, wool* the prisoners from a mob and fled with tjiem In an automobile. He was followed for hours through the hills by autos filled with angrAf farmers and townspeople bent ,on a lynching.

Style mentors declare that everything will be Wales—Wales derbies, frock coats, haircuts, bow ties, caps, sweaters and shirts. > The influence of the prince’s rakish garb will be felt In every-

Steamer Rammed Off Newport R. I. j' '

News of the ramming of the liner Boston off Newport, R. 1., With 600 passengers aboard, six of whom are dead, was received with great interest by H. C. Pennicke, 1635 Central Ave., manager of service and planning for the American Central Life Insurance Company. Pennicke, who supplied the above picture of the Boston, took a trip from Boston to New York July 6 upon the Boston's sister

EGYPTIANS FEAR BRITONS WILL DRY UP NILE RIYER - , Dispute Serious as Natives Demand English Relinquish Sudan Control. By Times Soecinl WASHINGTON, July 21. --Fearing the British may soma day, dry up the Nile upon which her very life depends, Eygpt now Insists England must yield control of the Sudan. ’ Tbe Anglo-Eygptian dispute is the more interesting because of the trouble Britain is having with her colonies and dominions throughout the world and which may yet bring important changes within the Empire. The Sudan is under the joint rule of England and Eygpt. About the size of the United States east of the Miss ssippi and some three times as big ! 6 Eygpt, both the hite Nile and the Blue Nile as well as the upper half of the Nile proper formed by the junction of these two, lie within her borders v It is here, in the Sudan, the English plan two of the greatest irrigation rlams iri the world. One. at Makwar, to c'ontrol the waters of the Blue Nile and the other at Gebel Aulia. across the White Nile, twen-ty-four miles south of Khartum, where the Nile itself begins.

Country at Mercy But for the Nile, Egypt, now surprisingly productive, would be just another corner of the Great African Desert. Thus, Egyptian leaders are now saying, the power that controls the waters of the upper Nile, particularly above the confluence of the White and <he Blue Nile, holds her completely at its mercy. "All such a power would have to do,” they declare, “should Egypt prove recalcitrant, would be to detain the Nile waters for a season in the reservoirs and irrigation canals of Sudan.” This would be quite possible when the two new dams are completed. The water is low in summer, anyway, and the very purpose of the dams is to imj!§und flood waters so as to release them gradually, share and share alike, to the Egyptians <nd Sudanese, through the dry months. The Sudan could use it alt, if she chose, leaving the bed of the Nile proper,- lower down, dry as the Sahara. See Politics in Dams The Egyptians suspect the British. They see politics in the damn

Historic Last-Man’s Club Is No More

By United Preen Minn., July 22.—The Last Man’s Club is no more. Three survivors of the historlo organization have decided it would be a drab affair were one lonely survivor to quaff contents of the aid bottle of Burgundy, which has graced the annual banquet table for thirty-nine years. So they have made it a rendezvous for the last two men. If but two remain next year, they will reverently uncork the rare old wine and drink to the

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thing from cuff-links to pajamas, style setters predict. Small derbies with roll brim will be worn by young men, and the same style, but more conservative, by middle aged men.

ship, the New York. The New York Is an exact replica of the Boston, he said. The boats are the finest in Atlantic coast service. The Boston was put in service Junq 1 and the New York Juiy 4. Pennicke rode the New York on her second voyage. Both of the vessels seem to have been ill fated, Pennicke said, for the New York rammed a ferry boat In New York harbor while he was on the New York. /•

His Baseball Face CHARLES W. BRYAN, DEMOCRATIC VICE-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, IS ONE OF THOSE BASEBALL FANS WHO CALMLY STUDIES A GAME FROM UNDER A TILTED HAT. IIE WAS CAUGHT IN AN INTERESTING STUDY AT WASHINGTON, WHERE HE WENT AFTER THE HISTORIC BATTLE.

as well as economics, and feel they must control the Sudan “to /rotect themselves from political duress by an unfriendly influence there.” Egypt, therefore, wants to annex the Sudan, or at least to control it. No matter what England agrees to do, Egyptians charge, the independ~ ence of Egypt will remain only a myth unless she herself controls the life-giving waters of the Nile. Britain Insists she must control the Sudan to protect the Suez Canal and Red Sea route to India. Premier Mac Donald has" - asked The Egyptian premier, Zaghlul Pasha, to London and a conference between Britons and Egyptians will take place shortly to discuss their differences. But it not likely that Britain will yield much, while it is equally that Zaghlul will make few, if any, concseslons. Road Bids Rejected The S4ate highway commission has refused to accept six bids for grading one and one-third miles of Indianapolis Ave., the gateway to Chicago from Indiana and Michigan, in Latye County. All bids were above the engineer’s estimate of $10,793. The lowest bid was $15,364.

memory of thirty-one comrades who were here for the first banquet. Maybe they will —and maybe they won’t—for the State Historical Society is seeking to inherit the bottle intact in its old cherrywood case, just as it w;w presented to the club by Louis Hospe.Strangely the contents of the bottle have dwindled through the years. The wine is *hree inches below the neck of the bottle, but the seals are intact and scientists have been ashed whether there could be that much evaporation In

QUESTION RAISED IN EDUCATION OF COLORED!* County Attorney to Decide if ‘Wards' Can Be Sent Out of State. May inmates of the Orphans' Home for Colored Children be sent out of the State for education before they become twenty-one years of age? This question, presented to the board of county commissioners today by representatives of the Educational Aid Society for Dependent Colored Children, will be to Russell J. Ryan, cdunty attorney, for a legal opinion. The society in the past has sent a number of children from the home each year to Tuskegee Institute and other southern "colored educational institutions. 1 Frances Berry Costin, principal of public school No. 68, the school attended by children at the home, and president of the society, told the commissioners she had been heard that minor children could not be sent out of the State, as they -yere State wards. Representatives of the society explained that in the future all educational expenses will be borne by the psoclety. Commissioners expressed themselves as favoring the plank of the if the county attorney passed favorably upon its legality. Judge Frank SI. Lehr of Juvenile court said his court*,would raise no objections to the plan if it were held legal. /

WATCH IS STOLEN Carpenter Loeee Valuables While at Work; Pocketbook Gone. Amos Armstrong. Fairmont, Ind.. a carpenter, lost money on the job today. He hung up hi# coat while working e.t 5429 N. Delaware St., and someone stole a watch, chain and charm valued at $75. he told police. Mrs. Esther Beem, 2041 Adams St., employed at the Home Electric Company, 3718 E. Twenty Fifth St., said her pocketbook containing $lO in cash and a SID check was stolen.

TO ELIMINATE DANGER Overhead Crossing Will Be Placed *on Crawfordsville Road, Steps toward eliminating the dangerous interurban and railroad grade crossing south of the Crawfordsville Rd. at the Indianapolis Country Club were taken by the hoard of county commissioners, Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company and Big Four Railroad today. They joined In signing a petition to be presented to the public service commission for authority to put in an overhead crossing at this point. Recently the county council appropriated SB,OOO for the county's share of the expense. Boys Ordered Into Court Four boys, said to have been loitering about anew house under construction, were ordered to appear in juvenile court today. S. E. Creighton, 60 Downey Ave., contractor, called the police to Julian Ave. and Audubon Rd. The boys said they were playing and did not Intend to damage anything.

a tightly corked bottle. Peter O. Hall of Atwater, Mipn., and Charles Lockwood of Chamberlain, S. D., two of the four survivors, the former 86 and the latter 82, are spry old men. Both are active. John Sr Goff, Minnesota Soldiers Home, is fefeble, having suffered a broken hip last winter. - Emil Graff, living in Florida, wrote a farewell letter to his comrades, saying he would never be able to attend another meeting. They are the only four living members of B Company, First Minnesota Infantry,

She ls a Blacksmith!

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It takes muscle to be a blacksmith. But Mrs. George Byus of Oklahoma City, now a full partner in her husband's business, has She got it, she says, washing and keeping house for a husband and family of nine. All nine of the children were orphans sho and hr husband adopted. Now, at-

MOTHER AND FIVE CHILDREN ESCAPE DEATH IN PLUNGE Only Slight Wounds Suffered by Two as Car Fioils Toward River. A mother and her five children plunged down a thirty-foot embankment in an automobile which turned over three times and landed upside down In Indianapoiis today and the only injuries were a scratch and a wrenched neck suffered by two of the children. Mrs. Rose De Hoff, 914 S. West St .-/'was driving her children to the Riley playground, Oliver Ave. and White River. She attempted to turn around in Oliver Ave. and the car did a nose dive down the embankment toward the river when brakes failed to work. Tbe mother was the first one out of the car. She was the happiest woman in Indianapolis as she hepled puli out the children and found them unhurt. F.llzabeth, 13, had a slightly wrenched neck, and Robert, 3, a slight search on the face. Other children were Harold, 11: Norman, 8, and Lawrence, three months.

DRUGGIST HELD IN PAREGORIC RAIDS Clerk Charged With Illegal Sale —Six Arrested, William Strafford, 17, of 509 Division St., Indianapolis, was arrested today charged with illegal sale* of paregoric. His arrest brings the total arrests of Indianapolis druggists to six within the past ten days. Strafford was a clerk in a drug store at 1243 Oliver Ave., belonging to Oliver P. Withers. Withers is alrea'dy under arrest as well as two of his clerks, Earl C ?> Abbott and Henry B. Cassell. fHrafford’s mother, Mrs. V. B. Sfraffdrd, gave his bond of SSOO and Strafford waived examination before Commissioner John W. Kern. Other druggists recently arrested are Herman A. Gladish, owner of a drug store at 828 Ft. Wayne Ave., and his clerk, - Edward D. Hines, Other arrests . will follow, according to L. J. Ulmer, narcotic agent.

SCOUT IS APPOINTED Wins Week’s Outing at Culver for Camp Record. Herbert Sweet of Troop 22 has been appointed to attend the woodcraft camp at Culver, Ind., the week of July 23 to 30, F. O. Belzer, Scout executive, said today. . Sweet won the week's outing at the camp by virtue of his record at the Scout reservation. Belker will attend the camp, where he will conduct several cjassqs in Scout activities. Sunday School Rally E. T. Albertson, executive secretary Indiana Council of Religious Education, and Miss Nellie C. Young, State children’s division superintendent, will be among the principal speakers Friday at a Sunday school rally and convention at Salem, Ind. Clarence Bowers i3 obunty chairman, and Miss Cora Terrell, chairman. s Entertainment for Aged An entertainment of music anti speaking is planned at the HartwigKalley Home for Aged Men and Women, 2621 S. Delaware St., qn Wednesday at 7p. m. The public is invited Dixie Serenadera will fur- , nish music.

50, since the boys and girls are all married, she has taken up her work at the forge. She does every kind of work her husband does except the actual shoeing of horses. "When it comes to nailing them on—well, I let George do it,” she says. "I’ve never got over being afraid I might get kicked.”

PATROLMAN ON TRIAL Board of Safety Takes Kinney Case Under- Advisement Charges of assault and battery and unbecoming conduct against' Patrolman Patrick Kinney were taken under advisement by the board of safety today following trial. The charges were filed by B. LMcVicker, Lorraine hotel a dispute is alleged to have taken place. Patrolman John Madden and (John Mcsby were promoted to trafbemen. Fire alarm boxes were ordered installed at Southern Ave. and Meridian Sts., Southern Ave., east of Meridian St., and Adler and Madison Aves. i BULLET VICTIM IMPROVES Woman Hold in .Jail in Default of Bond. Harry Wordell, 60, of 20 E. Twen-ty-Second St., is in a fair condition at city hospital today from gunshot wounds received Monday, he is alleged to have been shot by Miss Catherine Todd, 40, of R. R. B-I, Box 1344. Police say Wordell told them he had lived at the home of Miss Todd for eighteen years. Miss Todd said he left five weeks ago, and Monday, when she was driving her car. taking William Brougjj, Brevort Hotel, to her home for dinner, Wordell stopped them. When he came toward her she said she fired. Brough, held on a charge of assault and battery, was released on $5,000 bond, trot Miss Todd is in jail in default of bond.

CHURCH SURVEY READY Copies of Report to Be Mailed to All Denominations. Copies of the report of a committee on the recommendations of the Indiana survey directed by W. S. Athearn of Boston University, who made a verbal report several months ago to the Indiana council of religious education, are being mailed to State and county church leaders of all denominations. Recommendations cover church buildings and equipment, child accounting, church and Sunday school administration and ieligious leadership training. Edward R. Bartlett of Greencastle, Ind., Is chairman of the survey committee.

GIRLS WILL CROSS BATS Baseball Game With Boys to Feature Annual Outing. A feature of Tthe annual outing of the Marlon County Young People’s Council to be held Saturday afternoon at Garfield Park, will be a baseball game between the young women’s and young men’s teams. Miss Dorothy Guntz of St. John's Reformed Church and Victor Landis of Butler Memorial Reformed Church will be in charge. More than 200 young persons from local I churches will attend. Miss Cora Burton will have charge j of the evening program. DAWSON TAKES CHARGE George C, Bryant Resigns as Agricultural Statistician. O. L. Dawson, formerly assistant agricultural statistician of Springfield, 111., has assumed, temporarily, duties of agricultural statistician for Indiana and has taken change of the office In the Federal builaing formerly held by George C. Bryant. Dawson will fill the position until Aug. 15, he said, when Minor Justin, bt Salt Lake City, Utah, will assume the position permanently. Bryant resigned. It was said at the office. Two Boys Sentenced By Times Special BROOKVILLE, Ind July 22.—Rupert Biddinger, 18, was taken to the State reformatory today to start serving a term of two to fourteen years for an attack on a 15-year old girl. Biddinger was convicted with his younger brother lsaJph, 16, The younger boy’s sentence was suspended.

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CHIEF RIKHOFF * RESENTS SNAKE-DP IN POLICEBUREAD Will Protest Changes Mayor! Made- in Accident Prevention Office* Protest against the shake-up lii the police accident prevention bureau will be carried to Mayor Shank by Chief Herman Rikhoff, it was indicated today on Rikhoff's return from Montreal. The mayor is now out of the city. "There is such a thing as ‘snap judgment,’ ’’ said Rikhoff, in commenting on the change which removed Miss Rachel Bray, Frank Owens and Ed vard Glenn from the bureau. "But I don’t want to cause any ill feeling in the department now. “All these officers were efficient, and were well acquainted with the work,” continued the chief. "They are positions which are difficult to learn, and with more servio* the members of the bureau become more valuable.” While Rikhoff was out of the city last week, the board of safety on suggestion of Mayor Shank appointed Mrs. Mary Moore, Motorcycle Police Harry Smith, and Patrolman Jack O’Neel to the places with the rank of sergeants. The mayor’s move followed passage of an ordinance over his veto in city council which raised the accident prevention bureau members to sergeants. Mayor Shank explained that if the promotions had come through other channels, he might have made them, but he objected to the council's attitude. Councilmen explained that they desired to reward members of the accident bureau for efficient, work. Patrolmen are largely responsible for the recent clean-up campaign, Rikhoff said in commenting on the drive ordered by Walter White and Mayor Shank the day after he left, "If patrolmen were alive to the situation they would know suspicious characters around poolrooms and *iake proper arrests,” said the chief.

BODIES Os TWO CHILDREN FOUND Five Others,. Who Drifted to Sea in Canoe, Mfcsing, By Vnited Press BRIDGEPORT. Conn., July 22. Bodies of two of the seven children missing since last Friday when they put off from Fairfield Beach in a canoe were found today. A .group of boys, under guidance of Cipt. Thomas Blye of the Bridgeport fire department, came on the floating bodies, shortly before noon off the Fairfield Beach bathing pavilion. They were identified as Whiter Berquist, 12, and Ernest Peterson, 8. Search is being continued for the bodies of four girls and another boy who -were in the canoe in which the children drifted out in Long Island Sound.

WALD SILENT ON MORGANTANGLE Takes Neutral Stand In Fight on Dry Chief, Republican State Chairman Qyda A. Walb, La Grange, here today to take up organization work of the State committee, washed his hands of the entire Bert Morgan ouster affair. “I’m not going to touch it,” Walb said when asked if he would taka’ any stand for or against Morgan, the old Watson-New feud will make to see the Twelfth District, my own, recognized. Frank A. Rowley, picked to succeed Morgan as Federal prohibition director for Indiana, is from the Twelfth District. Charles Watson, brother of United States Senator James E. Watson, whq has turned "thumbs down” on Morgan, was in conference With Walb this morning. Around Republican State headquarters there is a feeling that the affair just preceding the campaign wilT not do the party any good in Indiana and that opening of “If there's a ghance I’m glad just another difficulty to be surmounted. EDITOR ON TRAIL AGAIN New Mexican Faces Court Fifth Time on Contempt Charges. By United Press EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M„ July 22. —Carl C. Magee, editor of the Albuquerque State Tribune, was here today for his fifth trial on contempt of court charges growing out of an editorial assailing the "machine ridden” courts of New Mexico., Magee arrived accompanied by Governor “Cowboy Jim” Hinkle. A large crowd of citizens, with the" city band, met the Governor and Magee and cheered them lustily as they motored to a hotel. Trial was to be held In court of Judge D. J, Leahy. Playwright Is Sought |A telegrarfi from Morgan A. Collins, superintendent of Chicago police to Police Chief Herman S. Rikhoff today asked police to locate James Carter, noted playwright, and notify him that his aunt, Josie Mueller, died suddenly. Police were unable to locate Carter.