Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1926 — Page 1

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EVIDENCE IN HAAG CASE WEAKENED Woman Witness Says She Is ‘Not Positive’ She Has Seen Slayers. AT CORONER'S INQUEST Had Identified McCormick as Bandit-Murderer. Grounds on which police have been holding Elmer McCormick, 26, of Lawrence, Ind„ in connection with I the fatal shooting Monday of Wilkin* Haag, official of the Haag Drug Company, were weakened today by testimony at the coroner’s inquest of Miss Jessie Murphy, 1117 E. Market St., Haag's companion at the time of the murder. Miss Murphy said that she “was not positive” she had seen either of the two bandits who killed Haag, since the affair took place. Thursday, when the hold-up and subsequent shooting of Haag were re-en acted at the scene, the Green Mill dance hall. Miss Murphy identified McCormick as the slayer. H£ is held under SIO,OOO bond. Friday she became doubtful and said she could have been mistaken. Asa result Police Chief Claude F. Johnson said he would instruct Detective Captain Jer-y Kinney to check McCormick’s alibi, and if the investigation substantiated McCormick's story, to order his release. The Inquest, conducted by Coroner Paul F. Robinson, revealed practically nothing which had not been brought out before and left police with scant clews to the identity of the bandit-murderers. Miss Murphy, under oath, told of the happenings from noon Monday until the conclusion of the shooting Incident. “Not Positive” She was asked, “To your best knowledge, have you seen either of these hold-up men since that day?” k She replied, “I am not positive.” P Others appearing before the coroner were Jesse Robinson, Negro, 61.’) Agnes St., and Elisha Chapman, Negro, 54(1 Leon St., who were on an Ice wagon which drove up to the scene. Testimony of Lieutenant Forsythe, in charge of the police emergency, was the same as that of the police report on the affair. Martin Critchfield, 3215 E. Fifteenth St., employed at the Green Mill, is to appear before the coroner Monday. McCormick, in jail, has stoutly denied his guilt from the start and (Turn to Page 2)

EXCEPTIONS TO REPORT ON POOL McCray Trustee Charges Findings Incomplete. R. Earl Peters, trustee in bankruptcy for former Governor Warren T. McCray’s estate, today filed exceptions to the report of Solon J. Carter, special master in chancery, in Federal Court. Carter held the $350,000 James P. Goodrich pool should remain intact. Peters’ report stated Carter's findings were not complete, but upheld Carter in the contention that the friends of McCray who contributed to the jidol had no intention to defraud. Pool lenders were prevented from learning whether McCray was solvent by McCray’s "crimes and false statements,” Peters charged. Peterß seeks the funds for creditors. ‘RESURRECTION’ PLANNED Followers Believe .Missing Evangelist Will Reappear. Bu Unit'll Pr'-sx LOS ANGELES, May 22.—Preparations for the "resurrection" on Sunday of Aimee Semple McPherson, missing evangelist, were made today by many of her followers. Hundreds of the revivalist's disciples declare she will arise from the sea tomorrow at the spot where she is believed to have disappeared last Tuesday while swimming in the surf. TO GREAT-GRANDMOTHER Supreme Court Derides on Custody of Girl—Long Fight Ends. By a ruling of the Indiana Supreme Court, custody of 9-year-old Dorothy Messmer has been given to Mrs. Nancy Egland of Jeffersonville, her great-grandmother, instead lof to her mother, Mrs. Carrie Messhier. of Louisville, Ky„ who has Waged a long legal fight for the girl. The Supreme Court affirmed decision of the Clark Circuit Court that the child's interests will be best served if she is kept by her grandmother. Throughout the fight the girl has spurned her mother's affection. CAR STRIKES BOY Edward Crouse, 6, of 254 W. Morris St., today was injured.about the head when struck by an automobile in front of his home. The boy ran across the street for a piece of ice.

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Tracy Shaking Reed What People Discuss A Red-Hot Issue

By M. E. Tracy Here is a Reed shaken in the wind, and ne's from Pennsylvania, not Missouri. Up to last Tuesday he was hap pily dry and willing to swear that the liquor question had been settled for all time. Like Secretary Mellon he thought Wire was making an unnecessary rumpus over a dead issue. Now he’s ready to sing a different tune and to go further than humming it, too. • Prohibition has reached the point in our national conduct, he thinks, “comparable only to the slavery in the fifties.” He thinks the Government will grow more and more inefficient if this question isn't taken out of politics, that there is such "intensity of conviction” on both sides . Correct, Brother Reed, but too late for the fullest benefit. A1 Smith has beaten you to it. Democratic New York came first and Republican Pennsylvania can only make a good Imitation. •I- -I- -|- What people want to think about they will, Eighteenth Amendment or no Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead act or no Volstead act. Go into any hotel lobby, stand on the street corner, or visit any home, and you will hear prohibition men tloned ten times, where the World Court or the tariff or the Income tax or any other issue that Reed, Mellon and their crowd thought so much alive by comparison before last Tuesday, is mentioned once. Law doesn ; make issues or support them, but simply grows out of them. They are never settled until public opinion does the trick. The law just gets evex-ybody into trouble when it tries to go faster than public opinion or lags behind. Owing to a confused state of mind six or eight years ago the professional performers were able to stampede the country and put over a constitutional amendment and an enforcement ict which public opinion was not prepared to accept, and which it never has accepted. •I- •!• -IYou can say that prohibition is no longer an issue because it has been written into the constitution, but that is nonsense. Whatever vast numbers of people disagree with remains an issue and the more you x try to cram it down their throats, the bigger issue it becomes. Prohibition is almost as much an issue with the drys right now as with the wets. The difference is that they want to call out the Army and Navy, while the wets want another vote. •I- -I- -IWhile the Coolldge administration is not prepared to call out the Army and Navy to help the drys it issued an order yesterday whereby the dry czar can appoint sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, policemen, etc., gs his agent, provided no State law interferes. He now has about 14,000 men and women under his command, and if he made use of this order to the fullest extent, lie could easily double the number. This is going pretty far—the first instance, ( believe of a scheme for the wholesale enlistment of State and local poare officers as law enforcing agents of the Federal Government. -I- -I- -|. An issue? Bet your life it’s an issue. It's an issue that is making liars and hypocrites of the best of us. that is bringing the whole structure of the law into disrepute, that Is doing more to destroy personal liberty and local self-government than anything that has happened since the Constitution was adopted, that is causing this country to become the laughing stock of the world. Tt is not an issue because of the booze hounds, brewers and distillersf, because a certain percentage of the people wants to get drunk while another certain percentage wants to get rich on their weakness. Tt’s an issue because great masses of people have come to realize that there is quite as much danger in the intemperate use of law as there is in the intemperate use of liquors. Mothers, just as conscientious and idealistic as yours and mine, are astounded at the effect of this sudden repression on the life of the young folks. Fathers, who have no use for strong drink and who would rather give their right hand than see the old saloon come back, are staggered at the way bootlegging, illicit drink ing and all the bad influences that go with them have entered youthful festivities. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania Is not original in his change of viewpoint, but is simply seeing the situation as millions have seen it for a long time. BACK TO DEATH CELL Scott Ordered to Custody of Sheriff— May Hang in June. Bu United Press CHICAGO. May the fourth time the gallows are being prepared to receive Russell Scott as their victim. After studying the documents showing Scott to have regained his sanity. Attorney GcneraLOscar Carlstrom ordered Scott removed from the asylum at Chester and turned over to the custody of the sheriff of Cook County. The date for execution may be set for some time in June. Scott was convicted for the killing of Joseph Maurer, a young drug clerk.

CARL MOTE INDICTED IN BOOZE CASE Manufacture, Possession of Liquor Charged in True Bill. UNDER NEW WRIGHT LAW Information Said Furnished by Discharged Employe. Carl H. Mote, former secretary of the public service commission anl now the best known attorney practicing before that body, was indicted by the Marlon County grand jury Friday on charges under the Wright liquor law. The formal Indictment charged him with maintaining a nuisance at his home at 3860 N. Delaware St., and with possession, manufacture and sale of liquor. Mote appeared before Criminal Judge James A. Collins and was released on his own recognizance. No capias was issued for his arrest. Search in April Mote is the first man of prominence to be Indicted under that section of the Wright law which makes the possession of liquor prima facie evidence of manufacture and sale. The indictment followed a search of the Mote home early in April on information given to the police by a discharged employe. The search warrant was obtained almost immediately after the workmen had quarreled with Mote. Dismissed on Motion At that time the charge was dismissed by Ear-I Cox, sitting as a special municipal court judge, on motion of Ralph Spann, an assistant to Attorney General Gilliom. The prominence- of Mote in Republican political circles caused many rumors as to the motives of those who were In any way connected with the arrest and the subsequent dismissal of the charge without a trial. Until the middle of April Mote was the partner of the son of former Governor James P. Goodrich, and for years has been known as a one of the powerful men of his- party. When the income taxes for last year were made public under the law, the tax paid by Mote approximated $20,000. indicating an income larger than that paid by any other practicing attorney in Indiana. Nuisance Charged The indictment takes on special significance because it is the first in the State where the Wright law has been used to search a private residence, especially of a very pror.ii nent citizen, and apply 4ts provisions in the same manner as is done with places suspected of selling liquor. The return made on the search warrant by the police on the charge which was dismissed peremptorily showed the finding of a few bottles of liquor. The grand Jury indictment now charges that such possession makes the home a public nuisance. Police Sergeant Cox. Policemen P. Westboy and Sanders and J. J. Snow, 3021 Euclid Ave., were listed on the indictment as State's witnesses. CALIFORNIA IS . AFFECTED ALONE Dry Agent Order to Be Tried Out in West. Bn In iled Press WASHINGTON. May 22.—Application of the executive order allowing the Treasury Department to appoint State, county and municipal officers as prohibition agents will be confined at present to California, Assistant Secretary- of the Treasury Andrews announced today. Applying the order to the whole country has not been considered as yet and whether it will be extended eastw-ard will be determined by the California test, the dry czar said.

LAD FATALLY HURT IN ‘HIDE AND SEEK’ Boy, 10, Running to 'Home Base,’ Struck by AutoDies at Methodist Hospital.

James Stewart, 10, of 1132 N. Alabama St., died today at the Methodist Hospital from injuries received when struck in front of 245 E. Eleventh St. by an automobile driven byGeorge Fisher, Negro, 2729 Martin dale Ave., chauffeur for W. J. Taylor, 1109 N. Alabama St. Police said Donald Fry, 1100 N. Alabama St.; Howard Kirby, 215 E. Pratt St.; David Lilly. 1119 N. Alabama St., and the Stewart lad, all aged 10, were playing “hide and

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926

Justice Denied Powder Puff Bu United Press * CHICAGO. May 22.—Society women, led by Miss Jane Addams, internationally famous founder of Hull House, asked Judge Denis Sullivan to commute the sentences of forty women to jail for picketing during a garment workers’ strike two years ago. Many of the women arc mothers. “No,” said the judge. "These women were Amazons—female ruffians—who were engaged in an open conspiracy to defy the court. It would be robbing justice of her sword and substituting a powder puff to commute their sentences.”

WOMAN SHOT SIX TIMES Body Found Near Illinois Town—No Identity Clew. Bn United Press GRANITE CITY. 111., May 22. The body of a woman, shot six times, was found near here today. A St. Louis telephone number found on a slip of paper near the body failed to throw any light on the woman's identity. MAIL THEFTS ON LINER Prisoner Being Brought to America for Trial. Bu United Press NEW YORK. May 22.—A stowaway and a member of the crew of the United States liner George Washington have been arrested at Bremen in connection with the rifling of mail bags and other thefts on board the ship. They will be le turned to America for trial. The stowaway is said to be a notorious mail robber. BUSINESS IS FAVORABLE Pennsylvania Railroad Includes Indiana in Report. Bu United Press CHICAGO, May 22.—Business conditions are favorable in the mid western States, according to a report issued by the Pennsylvania Kailroa'd covering the territory it serves by its western region. The region Includes Indiana, Illinois. Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. RATE BOOST SOUGHT Richmond Home Telephone Company Petitions Commission. The. Richmond Home Telephone ► C'Vtuwoy LaUa: peutifilied the public service commission to increase its present rate-making valuation) of $950,000 to $1,300,000 and to grant corresponding rate increases. Richmond Individual business phones now- cost $4.75 a month and residence phones $2.40. A petition was filed by the city of Iluntingburg to contract with a holding company which has hem formed to finance the construction of a 210-acre lake and to supply water to the city. AMERICA WASTES MONEY Over Ten Billion Dollars Ixtst Each • Year, Conference Told. Bn United Press FRENCH LICK SPRINGS. Ind.. May 22. Revelation of the tremendous preventable waste of men and materials in American industry today startled the national conference of the American Drop Forging Institute. ~ The annual waste of American industry exceeds the $10,000,000,000 mark, reported W. Chattaln Weatherill of the Federal Department of Commerce. Each year 15,000 men are blinded at work, said Gustav Kuechenmeister, manager .of the Dominion Forge and Stamping Company, Walkerville, Ontario. COOLIDGE IS ASSURED Indiana Senators Tell Him Outlook Is Bright in State. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON. May 22.—President Coolidge was assured by the two Indiana Senators that Indiana Republican affairs are sailing along smoothly toward a victory in November, at a White House call this morning. "I assured the President that con ditions are very propitious,'’ Watson told newspaper men, and he said, “That's good." The two Senators are expected to carry a message from Coolidge to the State Republican convention next Wednesday. Robinson, however, told the President that if a vote on farm relief appears imminent in the Senate, he may not go to the State convention. Watson plans are not known.

seek" at Eleventh and Alabama Sts. Lilly was “It” and when he ran to catch Fry. Ste\riirt, who was hiding on a truck parked on Eleventh St., tried to reach “home base” and jumped off the truck in the path of the car. The right front wheel passed over the boy s body. The car was stopped in less than seven feet. Coroner Paul F. Robinson ordered Fisher held on an involuntary manslaughter charge. He later was released on his own recognizance.

WOOLLEN’S PLEA: LESS GOVERNING Democratic Nominee for Short Term Makes His Opening Pledge. FOR SENSIBLE TARIFF Sees Danger in Centralization of Power. Bu Times Special MARTINSVILLE/ Ind., May 22. —Evans Woollen of Indianapolis, Democratic nominee for short-term United States Senator from Indiana, stood before the voters today pledged to make these tests of each piece of legislation before him, should he be elected: 1. Hoes it propose to do something for the people which they can do for themselves? 2. Does It propose something which the States could just as well handle? 3. Doe* it propose so benefit some citizens at the expense of others? This pledge was made by Woollen in his first address of the campaign before the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association here Friday night. Woollen expressed gratitude to the Iloosier press for its generosity and to Democrats for the honor done him. Desk Is Closed “Be assured that my gratitude is earnest and great," he said. “In return I will give until election all my time apd all my strength. I do not await the formal opening of the campaign. Already my desk Is closed and I am on the way, determined to abate nothing of endeavor to reach the goal in victory.” “I sh;yi base my hope of victory on plain statement of what the people may expect from me In the Senate. They may expect that every vote will be cast only after I have asked myself and answered three questions. “The first question is this: Is it proposed by this legislation to do something beyond assuring to the people ixeaee, order aild security: is it proposed to do something for the people which they can do for themselves? “If so, I shall be in opposition, for I am convinced that our country needs the unremitting application to all legislative proposals of the Democratic principle of minimum government. “The princip'e may be thus stated: That government is best which con-, sistently with the orderly process of society, governs least. That principle is basic is a democracy for a democracy is more concerned that the people shall be strong and free than that the government shall multiply its activities in caring for the people. The people can he strong and free only as they, without trespass on others, go unhindered their own ways, self-reliantly seeking their own welfare and paying the penalties for their own mistakes. Paternalistic government, be it never so efficient, is a weakening government. It weakens the fibre of the people. This is doctrine that we have from Jefferson. If wo do not accept it, if we look to government to do for us what we can do for ourselves, we arc not Democrats. Farm Taxes Doubled "Disregard of this principle of minimum government has brought us to the point where every ten producers support an eleventh in dependency or public office. The names on the public pay-roll of this country number two and a quarter millions. Government cost us in 1924 ten and a quarter billion ’’dollars, three and a half times the cost in the year before the war. The tax bill of the farmer whose ills are much on our minds has been more than doubled In eight years. “Government costs. The cost is paid from a public treasury that has in it nothing which docs not go into it from our own pockets. We complain of taxes. The way to reduce is to reduce government. “We complain of taxes and go on enlarging government. The enlargement is in two forms. First, Legislatures, national and State, arc enlarging government by .multitudinous laws which lessen directly the liberty of the people. New statutes, enacted by the SixtyEighth Congress and by State Legislatures in two years numbered 79.000. Second, Legislatures, even more dangerously, are enlarging government and lessening indirectly the liberty of the people by the delegation of authority to bureaus and (Turn to Page 7) FROST DUE TONIGHT May Do Considerable Damage in Exposed Places. Frost is likely to visit Indianapolis and northern Indiana tonight, the United States weather bureau announced today. Considerable damage may be done in exposed places. Meteorologist J. H. Armlngton said. Indiana has had little frost damage this year because of the lateness of the season. The prediction is for fair and warmer weather Sunday. HOIRLY TEMPERATERE 6 a. 53 10 a. m 53 7 a. m 54 11 a. m 51 8 a. m 54 12 (noon) .... 49 9 a. m 55 1 R. m...... 49

SHE TOOK A BATH

Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 22.—Efforts of United States District Attorney Emory Buckner to knight Earl Carroll with the Order of the Bath, will be resumed Monday inor-lng. Friday's testimony definitely established pretty Joyce Hawley’s position in regard to the much discussed “tub of wine." Three newspaper, men gave graphic description of the events which brought Carroll before the Federal grand jury to explain, and upon which explanation he was indicted for perjury. “Carroll stood by the tub; Miss

SHOT IN BATTLE WITH HI-JACKERS

Youthful Bootlegger in Critical Condition Brothers Arrested —Confess Part in Robbery—Alcohol Stolen.

Shot In a gun battle with hijackers, who stole fifty gallons of alcohol from him, Edward Kelsey, 22, of 649 E. Pratt St., Is in a critical condition at city hospital today. The hi-jacking and shooting took

COLLINS RULES SEARCH LEGAL Man Admitted Having Liquor on Person. When a man admits to an officer he has whisky on his .icrson, the officer has a right to arrest and search him, ruled Criminal Judge James A. Collins today when he found Fred Ryan, Belmont Hotel, guilty of possession of liquor. Eph Inman, Ryan’s attorney, declared his client was illegally arrested and his person unlawfully searched. Judge Collins lined Ryan SIOO and sentenced him to six days in jail. Ryan appealed from Municipal Court, where he was fined S2OO and given 180 days on Indiana State Farm. A Federal prohibition agent testified Ryan admitted having whisky before he was searched. Ryan was permitted to ho at liberty under his old bond until May 29 when Inman said he will file motion for anew trial. Eleven one-half pints of liquor were found on Ryan. A. T.~& T. VALUATION UP Taxation Figure of Firm Increased by State Board. Ignoring pleas of American Telephone and Telegraph Company officials for a reduction in the concern's taxation valuation, the State tax hoard today increased the assessment from $8,258,279, the 1925 figure, to $8,438,462. Last year the company was assessed $142 for each mile of its 58,157-mile system in Indiana. This year it was taxed S9B a mile for its 86,106.76 miles in operation. The increase was largely cable mileage. WHITTEMORE FACES ROPE Bandit Convicted by Jury—Spits in Face of prosecutor. Bu United Press BALTIMORE, Md.. May 22. Richard Reese Whittemore, who was acquitted on a murder charge at Buffalo only to be convicted here of the murder ( of a prison guard in escaping from the Maryland penitent'ary, faced the rope today. The jury in convicting him, left his fate up to the judge. Whittemore, unnerved, spat in the face of his prosecutor—• only two years older than himself. Incidentally Friday was Whittemore's twenty-sixth birthday. WEATHER FOR WEEK Bu United Press WASHINGTON. May 22.—Weather outlook for period May 24 to 29 inclusive: Ohio and Tenncs see—Fair Monday, showers Tuesday or Wednesday and again about Saturday. Rising temperature Monday, cooler weather on Thursday, warmer about Friday. MOTHER IS HELD Mrs. Caroline Steger, 3021 W. Tenth St., mother of six children, is held today on a blind tiger charge after police say they found sixtyseven bottles of home brew beer in the basement of a dry beer saloon at the Tenth St. address.

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Joyce Hawley

Hawley, the chorus girl, stood in the wings of the theater in which the ‘wow of a stunt’ was performed for guests. She came out, wrapped in a robe. Some flimsy lingerie slipped out from underneath. Then she went into the tub —into the cold, cold beverage.” What thp beverage was is yet undetermined. Carroll claims It was sparkling ginger ale; one witness said wine: another guessed champagne Until Monday the bath and the enamel tub will rest.

place in a sliack at 486S Barnett Ave., Rlverview Park, early today. Eugene Jegen, 22, of 3736 E. Washington St., and his brother, John, 21, are held on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill, Eugene in a statement to police admitted shooting Kelsey, but Harold Schultz, 21, in the shack at the time of the shooting, said John Jegen fired the shot. Eugene was held on SIO,OOO bond and John on $20,000 bond. Eugene Jegen was arrested by Patrolman Spillman and Merchant Policeman Blickenstaff about 4 a. m. He ran when they saw him at Clifton and Thirtieth Sts., the officers said. They officers gave chase in Blickenstaff's auto and captured him when he ran into an alley near Kenwood Ave. and Thirtieth ,?t. They found a 38-calibre revolver, with four unexploded and one exploded shells In his pocket, the officers said. He said he had been in a gun battle In Rlverview Park. In his signed statement later to 1 detectives, he said he and his brother knew Kelsey was bringing a load of liquor into the city and decided to (Turn to Page 2) CHANGES RECOMMENDED School Board to Receive List of Grade High Teachers. Several Important changes will be made In the tentative list of grade and high school teachers compiled recently by Superintendent of Schools E. U. Graff, Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, chairman of the instruction committee, said today. Changes will be recommended at the board meeting Tuesday night. Mrs. Sedwick refused to divulge what changes the instruction committee a.nd the hoard members had in mind. She said the changes will be made after careful perusal of the list of recommendations. MISS 800TH CRITICAL Nature of Illness Is Still Unknown, Announcement. Bn t inted Press NEW YORK, May 22—The condition of Evangeline Booth, national commander of the Salvation Army, remained critical today. Officials of the Salvation Army said that the nature of the commander’s affliction was still unknown, but that it was not appendicitis, as at first supposed. HUGHES WILL NOT RUN Will Decline Nomination for Governor of New York, Bu United Press NEW YORK. May 22.—Charles Evans Hughes, unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1916 and Secretary of State during the Harding Administration, will not be a candidate for'Governor of New York and will decline the nomination if tendered him. In a statement issued today, Hughes expressed a desire to be of service henceforth only as a private citizen. TROOPS GUARD SLAYER Bu United Press HAZARD, Ivy.. May 22.—National guardsmen were stationed about the county jail today to prevent an attempt. to seize Ariie Walker, 17-year-old Negro, who has confessed he killed Constable T. H. Wilder, in a gun duel here. VINCENNES IS CHOICE Bu United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 22. Vincennes was selected as the site for the annual State convention in 1927 by the United Commercial Travelra here today,

Forecast Fair, cooler tonight; probably frost; Sunday fair; rising temperature; unsettled at niglvt.

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OFFICIALS I* LOUDR RING. 0. S. CHARGE Three County Officeholders of Vincennes Are Indicted. BRIBERY IS ALLEGED True Bills Returned Against Twenty-Five in Case. Charged with taking bribes from bootleggers and attempting to “fix" liquor case juries, three Knox County (Indiana) officials were Indicted by the Federal grand jury here today on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws. A prominent attorney and twentyone other Vincennes residents, bootleggers and resort owners, alleged to have paid money to the officials and others in the bribery ring, were Indicted. In addition thirty-eight Vincennes residents were indicted for other liquor law violators. Largest in Years The bribery conspiracy is said to be one of the largest in Indiana in the last few years. It compares in size with the Gary liquor conspiracy case several years ago that involved city and county and a host of bootleggers. The twenty-five victims and members of the booze graft ring were indicted in one true bill. According to United States District Attorney Albert Ward the trial of persons in the conspiracy case and on separate dry law charges will bring out. stories of corrupt practices not only among the bootleg and criminal element of the city, but also among more respectable persons and boys and girls of high school age. According to evidence and information submitted to the Federal authorities, high sohool children, along with elder persons, including city and county officials, are alleged to have attended dances at roadhouses and public places and become intoxieated. Complaints From Judge First comp’alnts of the activities of the bribery ring came to Judge John Rabb Kmison of the Knox County Superior Court, who formerly was connected with the United States district attorney’s (Turn lo Page 3)

COOLIDGE SOLON LOSES IN OREGON Anti-Saloon League Man Wins Nomination. Bu United Press PORTLAND, Ore.. May 22.—Rejected by the wets, spumed by the drys, and turned down by his own conservative branch of the Repub lican party, apparently was the fate of Senator Robert N. Stanfield, Administration supporter, who failed to win the Republican nomination in the primary election Friday. Col. Frederick Steiwer, Pendleton attorney and Anti-Saloon League candidate, had a lead of 5,514 votes over Stanfield, according to unofficial returns from 667 of 1,847 precincts in the State. Steiwer took the lead early in the count In the “key counties” and continued to draw away from the seven other Republican candidates as reports from the rural districts came in. TWO PARKS ORDERED Bu United press WASHINGTON. May 22 —President. Coolidge today signed the bill establishing the Shenandoah and Smoky Mountain National Parks, the former in Virginia and the latter in Tennessee and North Carolina. These will be the first national parks east of the Mississippi River.

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