Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1926 — Page 1

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ALL VOTERS WILL HAVE TO REGISTER Board Member Says State Must Take Complete Poll ' Before Election. FAULT OF 1925 LAW Legislature Failed to Amend Title. I A complete registration of voters which the last Skate Legislature tried to dispense with, will have to be held before the fall election, because of a flaw in the law passed by the legislators, W. W. Spencer, State election commissioner and outstanding authority on election laws, said today. The 1925 Legislature tacked a supplemental sec Lon onto the existing election law, providing that poll lists ot those who voted in the 1924 election should serve as the registration list for the coming election, but failed to amend the title of the law to contain reference to this part of the law’s subject matter, a(s required by the State constitution. Says Governor Will Not “Governor Jackson will not call a special session of the Legislature to fix the title,"' Spencer said, “because he is afraid it would do some things that he doesn’t want it to do, so about tha only way to make the election legal is to have a complete registration under the election law as it stood before the last Legislature tampered with it.” When the validity of the supplemental sections was questioned several days ago, it was suggested that a test case be instituted in the State Supreme Court, but Spent.r-r said this plan is not feasible, because the court is in vacation and will not reconvene in time to try the case before election. The registration will entail “enormous expenses," Spencer said. Loss On Certification The money the counties have spent already in certifying the poll books of the 1924 election .also Is a complete loss, he said. This certification has been completed in moot counties. Spencer said the board of election commissioners, Maurice E. Tennant, Attorney-General* Arthur L. Gilliom and himself, will confer with the State chairmen of the political parties next week to work out plans for the registration. The chairmen, R. Earle Peters of the Democrats and Clyde Walb of the Republicans, both are especially anxious to be sure the election is legal, and will not'agree to ignore the questioned validity of the law> Spencer said.

AIMEE TO FACE PERM CHARGE Say New Evidence Proves Bungalow Story. I Bm United Preen LOS ANGELES, July 30.—Aimee Sejnple McPherson has been ordered again to appear before the grand jury next Tuesday when Prosecutor Asa Keyes has announced he will evidence asking her indictr ment for perjury. The evidence Includes testimony of residents of Carmel and Monterey, who declare that they have identified Mrs. McPherson and Kenneth Ormiston, radio operator, as companion occupants of a bungalow during part of the period of Mrs. McPherson s alleged kidnaping Shot, Falls in River, Rescued, Then Dies Bu United Preen VINCENNES, Ind., July 30.—Edward Frederick, 25, of Vincennes, died early today from gunshot wounds inflicted by Harry Frank in a fight Thursday night on a houseboat on the Wabash River. It was said that Frederick went to the boat to demand liquor and a quarrel with Frank ensued. Frederick fell into the river when shot and was rescued by Frank IFarmer, owner of the houseboat, and Leo Wilson, one of the men tried recently at Terrre Haute in the Vincennes liquor case.

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Swimming Holes Banned

The "Ole Swimmln’ Hole” is no more. Chief of Police Claude F. Johnson this afternoon ordered patrolmen to begin rigid enforcement of a forgotten ordinance prohibiting swimming within the city except at public beaches and pools. “ff is hard to rule against young America,’’ said the chief, “but an emergency has arisen that must be dealt with. There have been fourteen deaths in the vicinity of Indianapolis this season by drowning.

SECRET HEARING FREES MRS. HALL

Governor Names Special Deputy to Take Charge of Investigation. , BULLETIN Bu United Pres * SOMMEKYILLK. N. J., July 30.—Mrs. Frances Stephens Hall was freed o nbail at a secret hearing this afternoon. Bn-United Prate SOMERVILLE. N. ,T., July 30. Announcement of a secret heaving at which Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall will ask her release on bail and a declaration by Gov. A. Harry Moore that a special deputy attorney general would be named to take full charge of the reopened Hall-Mills murder investigation was yiade here this afternoon. Prosecutor Francis L. Bergen announced that newspapermen would be barred. “You want me to give you all the evidence we have, don’t you?" he remarked to newspapermen when they asked permission to attend the hearing. “W.ell. nothing doing.” The only other arrest so far was that of William Phillips, night Dutchman, at the New Jersey College for women, near the Hall home in New Brunswick, who is held as a material witness. At the investigation four years ago he swore he saw' Mrs. Ilall, in a polo coat, entering her home late on the night of the murder. Mrs. Jane Gibson, the “Pig Woman," who claimed she had witnessed the murder, hart testified that she saw Mrs. Hall under the crabappie tree on the Phillips farm when Hall and the singer were slain. She wore a light coat, Mrs. Gibson said. Mrs. Gibson is home, tinder guard.

TO ARREST KENTUCKY MOTORISTS Schortemeler Issues Order Following Action of Neighbor State. Secretary’ of State Frederick E. Sehortemeier today ordered State police to arrest all Kentucky motor' ists coming into this State, for failure to have Indiana license plates. Shßrtemeier said the order merely will '(jarry on provisions of a State statute which provides that a sixtyday period of grace extended to any out-of-ptate tourists in Indiana whenever their State reciprocates with alike courtesy. Henderson County (Ky.) officials early this week started, under a provision of anew State law, to arrest Indiana motarists for/ failure to display Kentucky license plates and officials of the Evansville Motor Club brought the matter to the attention of Sehortemeier late Thursday. Schortemeler said the order concerning arrests of Kentucky motorists would hold good until an understanding is reached with Kentucky authorities.

CITY TO STOP BUYING Only Emergency Supplies Will Be Bought After Aug. 1. Purchasing of supplies for the bankrupt city of Indianapolis will halt Saturday, John Collins, city purchasing agent, announced today. Collins has sent memoranda to all departments that only supplies of an emergency nature will’be bought by his department after Aug. 1. BRITISH TENSION EASED U. S. Pleased Rubber Will Not Be Further Restricted. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 30.—Considerable potential danger to BritishAmerlcan friendship was removed today by announcement tnat the rubber exports of the British Indies temporarily would not be further restricted, according to unofficial views expressed by authorities here. SARGENT GOES FISHING Bu United Ptess WASHII'MITON, July 30.—Attorney General Sargent left Washingt9n today for one month's vacation in thh Vermont woods. 'T plan to do a little fishing in the old creeks Where I Used to pull them up. when. I was*a youth,” he said. ’ BUCHANAN RENOMINATED Bu United Press DALLAS. Texas, July 30. —Congressman James R. Buchanan has won the Democratic nomination of the Tenth District, complel* primary returns revealed today. Nomination practically Is equivalent to election.

"It Is much easier for a policeman to inform a mother her boy is in the Detention Home than to tell her he has been drowned. There are plenty of public places where ample protection is provided.’’ * Judgment was withheld by Municipal Judge Pro Tern. Earl Cox on the first person arrested under the order. He w r as Porter Riggins, 23. Negro, who lives at the rear of 617 N. West St., arrested by Sergt. Cliff Richter at Fourteenth St. and the canal.

Town Tense Over Murder Bu United Press SOMERVILLE. N. J., July 30. —Somerville and New Brunswick have resumed the air of excitement that prevailed for months when the murder of the Rev. Edw'ard Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, choir singer, was first discovered. Groups discuss it on street corrffer.t. Storekeepers draw crowds by pasting in their windows the latest from pages of New York afternoon newspapers—the bigger the headlines the better. No rumor is too wild to be credited. And newspaper men—there are so many here that emergency cots have been placed in tile ballroom of the hotel and many have to sleep in New Brunswick.

MRS. WHEATCRAFT DENIES PLANNING TO RESIGN POST Republican Vice Chairman Says She Knows Nothing of Reported Deal. Mrs. Vivian T. Wheatcraft, Republican State vice chairman, today emphatically denied that she had knowledge of a reported deal through which she would be named head of the women's division of the party for the coming campaign and then would sesign. ‘I can assure you I have no intention of resigning; 1 was elected by the same people that elected Clyde A. Walb State chairman and the people, who elected me. in turn, were elected by the Republicans of Indiana,” was Mrs. Wheatcraft's determined statement. Friends of Walb and others for several weeks have waged a campaign to oust Mrs. Wheatcraft as head of the Women's division. The original movement against Mrs. Wheatcraft was started by a score of editors of Republican newspapers. Walb partisans Joined when it was believed that Mrs. Wheatcraft was a bit tdo lukewarm on the subject of Walb's gubernatorial ambitions. The State central committee, the elective body to which Mrs. Wheatcraft referred in her statement will meet in Indianapolis Tuesday. The rumor that peace was to be established through the election Tuesday of Mrs. Wheatcraft, on an agreement of an immediate resignation, spread through political circles today.

Wife Forgives Man Who Set Her Afire Bu Unt'rd Press STEPNEY,, Conn., July 30.—Before a huge crowd Claude Sanford, 42, was arraigned today before a justice of the peace on charges of assault with intent to murder, growing out of an Attack on his wife. SanTqfd was alleged to have poured gasoline over his wife and set fire to her while In a drunken rage. Mrs. Sanford, who Is just recovering, ran up to her husband and kissed him. She refused to appear against him. HAVE FROLIC* AT SCHOOL Warren Township Parent-Teacher Associations Cooperate. Parent-Teacher Associations from the five Warren Township schools are cooperating in the second annual mid-summer frolic which will he held at Warren Central High School, Tenth St. and Ft. Harrison Road, tonight and Saturday night. Music will be provided and drawings for prizes held. RESPONSIBILITY SHOWN Connecticut, by anew law, demands proof of financial responsibility to drive an automobile, before one can get a license there. It’s an* other way of enforcing caution ip dri\fing. BANKERS GO TO LOW DEN Bu United Press OREGON, 111., July *3o.—Bankera of the farm lands, 700 strong, who loan the corn belt far'mer funds to harvest his crops, Journeyed here today to hear agriculture’s foremost economic interpreter, Frank O. Lowden, explain how the fanner may better hisH>osllion.

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COUNCHMEN DELAY CITV STREET AID I M. . Work Held Up by Squabbles Over Spending of Gas Tax Money. SIOB,OOO TURNED OVER Many Miles of Thoroughfares Need Repair. Repair 6f several hundred miles of city streets, which were worn full of holes during the past winter is being delayed by squabbles of city councllmen concerning expenditure of the SIOB,OOO the city rec* iyed as its share of 1925 Suite gasoline taxes. While officials mourn tie city's dilapidated financial condition and propose a temporary loan of $700,000, this gasoline tax money has re> mained unexpended since March 2, when the tax money was given to the city by the State treasurer. City councilmen, under the law, have the authority to expend the mopey on street repairs. At various council meetings since March 2 coun cilmen have suggested certain streets for repair or resurfacing, but the matter always has ended in disagreement.

Request by Woodward George Woodward, streets superintendent, a few weeks ago asked that the. money be turned iover to his department for repairs to streets which, because of his curtailed budget, he was unable to execute. Majority faction councilmen, returning from a vacation Saturday, will face the problem. It is believed it will be discussed at council meeting Monday’ night. A report by Woodward revealed that more tiian 500 miles of improved and unimproved thoroughfares need immediate repairs. Woodward's department is handicapped hv the fact that former Mayor Shank took into consideration tho fact that the city would receive the gasoiine tax money In prewiring the btidgei under which the Duvall udnTlnlstratiun Is operating this year. Shank, allowing for this payment, cut the budget. Stipulated By Lip* The law stipulates that the money shall he spent in maintaining city thoroughfares, with preference to those connecting with roads under jurisdiction of the State highway commission. Meridian and West Sts. have been proposed by a number of councilmen, while others are advocating expenditure of the money on smaller thoroughfares in the they represent. The allotment of this money to certain parts of the city will mean increased "patronage" for the councilmen and it is believed the delay results from failure of the city legislators to agree upon award of this "patronage.” DENIES HALTING CONTRACT Concrete Paving Allowed, Board of Works Tells Delegation. t Lemuel Trotter, board of works member, today denied he halted awarding of the contract for four stretches of paving in northwest Indianapolis until today because of prejudice against concrete paving. The board members told a delegation of property owners the concrete paving they favored had been allowed for Agnes St., from North to Walnut Sts., and from Michigan td< North Sts.; North St., from Blake to Maxwell St.; and Walnut, | from Bright to Wilson St. The property owners had feared the hoard would not take finql action on the contract today, the last legal day in which to proceed with concrete paving. Had the board failed to do so, the entiro project would have been reopened. Oren S. Hack, board member, said he believed he and Trotter had signed the award for concrete about a week ago.

IOHNSON ORDERS GAMBLING DRIVE Police Ordered to Stop Sale of Pool Tickets. A war on gambling devices, particularly pools, was ordered by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson today. Bulletins calling attention to sectiona .of. pity statutes prohibiting gaming, keeping rooms for selling pools, and the manufacturing of pool tickets were posted by the chief. He ordered the officers to get searpft' warrants for places where they believe pool tickets are being .sold. and. If .possible to arrest operators on charges of pool selling and gambling! • • Johnson's action followed unofficial repbftft that /he Merchants’ Association has received complaints on the selling of pool tickets here. POLICE LOOK FOR BOY. 8 Owen Robert Carew, 8, disappeared from his home at 414 N, Alabama St, late Thursday. Police were aaked by hi* parent* to search for him.

Look Out for'Women Motorists

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Flirting with the traffic cop is the worst fault of women motorists, according to downtown trafficnien, who believe men are better drivers than women. Above Miss Sally Mac.k, 5061 E. Washington St., and Trafficman Otis Tyner, Capitol Ave. and Washington St., illustrating how women motorists should not act when 'called down by an officer.

I DEAD TOLL OF HURRICANE IN PORTO RICO 100 to 150 Men Missing at Sea in Addition —News Still Meager. B u United IHess SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, July 30. —More than 100 persons were killed and fully 400 were injured during the storm which swept over this island this week. Secretary of Agriculture Clsardon said today at the conclusion of a tour of the island. The Island today still was almost without communications owing to the destructive force of the storm, but a few towns could be reached by railroad, telegraph and telephone. In (Juan Tea 150 houses were destroyed and two persons were killed and many injured. The residents have asked Governor Horace M. Towner and the Bed Cross for assistance. The loss in this area was estimated at about four million dollars. Ohardon said thousands of persons were homeless today, and estimated the coffee crop loss to the entire , Island at about ten million pounds, or one-third of the total. j FEAR FOR SPONGE FLEET Every Boat in Nassau Harbor Wrecked, Is Latest Word. By United Prate MIAMI. Fia., July 30.—United States Coast Guard gutters, aided by the few ships that survived the hurricane in Nassau harbor, today searched among the little islands of the Bahamas for the seyenty-five boats of the sponge fleet which have been missing since the storm broke nearly a week ago,! according to radio reports here. One hundred and fifty men were on hoard the missing boats ’when they sailed out of the Nassau for the sponge beds Friday. Not one has been heard from. It is -.hoped, however, that some of the boats, at least, may have been able to reach small, outlying islands in the group before the storm wrecked them..

In addition, a houseboat'belonging to Dr. Miner, curator of the Marine department of the American Museum of Natural History, with himself and members of his staff aboard is missing. Every Boat Sunk Every boat in Nassau harbor either sank, or was blown to sea or went ashore in the hurricane, the Munson Liner Munamar crew greported w : hen It docked here today. At l.east four larger with twenty to fifty persons on board, have not been beard from since the storm broke Sunday, but It is believed probable they are safe. The known death toil in *he storm stood today at 66, with at least six more missing, in %dcHtion to the sailors of the Nassau Sponge fleet. Eight were killed at Nassau; four in Fltorida and Georgia; and searchers have , recovered fifty-four bodies washed ashore at Santo IJomingo •after three schooners sank off Samoa Island. Damage now is estimated at more than $10,000,000. j Reports from the still crippled wireless station at Nassau said that city and the whole island of New Providence were almost laid waste by the storm. Small houses were wrecked and resort hotels damaged. The famous drives * of the island were strewn with debris. Coast lines of all the islands were piled with wreckage from ships .and battered cases of liquor from >-ui. lifrunners which went down. REUNION ON SATURDAY Members of Unversaw Family to Have Affair at Park. The fourth annual reunion of the Unversaw family will be held all day Saturday at Garfield Park. Last year about 125 persons, representing more than fortyi familie*, attended the reunion. *

Police Declare Fair Sex Drivers Try to Vamp Way Out of Difficulties. Who are the better drivers, men or women? Why, the men. Who says so. Why, the men. What men? * Why, the traffiemen. Out of seven policemen at the city's busy corners who were interviewed, only one gave the women credit for being as competent as the men. The other six hinted they thought he was "influenced.’’ They Vamp ’Em v And the worst fault of women drivers, the traffic officers said, is their tendency to resist discipline with “vamp" tactics. Trafficman John Willis at Illinois and Washington Sts., the city’s busiest corner, sixth busiest in the world, not only said the women are the worst drivers, but said that they are the worst pedestrians. "Nine out of every ten persons knocked down at this corner are women.” said Willis. "If they are excited they are not safe in traffic at all. Christmas week', seven women went away from this corner in ambulances. I was a * judge in a women’s driving contest once. ©ut of 300 women who competed. I recall only one I believe was as competent to handle a car as a man.” The women's sole supporter was O. M. (Mike) Propst, Maryland Ct., Kentucky and Capitol Aves. One Defender He said, "I believe in giving Justice. Women are best. A woman won't take the chances a man will. A woman won’t cut in front of a (Turn to Page 21)

ADAIR FIRM IS HELDRELIABLE Report of Commissioner Refutes Charges. Charges against the Adair Realty and Trust Company, Atlanta, Ga., by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce that the Georgia firm used misrepresentation in exploiting Florida securities were practically refuted in a report by David H. Jennings, securities commissioner today. * Jennings made a trip to Florida and Georgia to investigate after the State securities commission suspended the company's permit to sell securities in Indiana on June 14. Jennings In his report states that the two issues offered for sale by the Adair company in Indiana have been good ones and that the company is thoroughly reliable. Jennings said that the report that the company had resources in excess of $1.0,000,000 and a net worth of $2;500,000 was borne out by an audit. The company is financially sound and has a long and satisfactory record for square dealing, Jennings said, and aVthouglFhe did not recommend that the suspended license of the company be restored, it Is believed that this will be don* at a hearing j before the commission on Aug. 9. MOVE ON ,TO ST. PAUL Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 30.—Winding up its first hearing in Chicago Thursday, the’ Interstate Commerce Commission journeyed to St. Paul, Minn., today to continue its inquiry inta competition between ranroads and motor busses and trucks. The commission, before it is through, will hold thirteen such hearing* In the Midtdle West. t, _

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POLICE TO LOOK INTO TRAIN-BUS CROSSING GRACH Driver Critically Injured— Bell, Signal Light Not in Operation. Clyde Newell. 25, of 2046 Roosevelt Ave., drwer of an Indianapolis Street Railway motor bus, was critically injured early today when the bus he was driving was struck by' inbound Monon passenger train 35 at the Nineteenth St. crossing. He was taken to city Ijsspital with a-severe cut at the baseof the skull and one on the forehead. Traffic Inspector Lestef Jones ordered Frank Owens of the accident prevention bureau-to make a thorough survey of the Monon and Nickel Plate Railroad cross-ng after Newell said that he did not hear the whistle or bell on the engine and that the crossing signal light and hell were not In operation. Tower Man on at 6 - W, A. Beaman, 5941 College Ave., Nickel yardmaster, told Sergt. Warren McClure, in charge of the police emergency squad, that the bell and signal were not in operation because a tower frian does not go on duty until 6 a. m.,-under Section 652 of the municipal code. The accident took place at s:tfo a. m. Recently Jones learned that crossing watchmen had been removed and automatic lights installed at this place. As these were regarded as inefficient in daytime, the railroads, which use the same trdbks at this point, promised bells would be used in the daytime, with watchmen in some cases. Jones said he thought the bells and lights were automatically operated, and did not, know the crossing would be unguarded from midnight to 6 a. m. May Ask Amendment .Tones said if 6wens finds the conditions justify it, he will ask city council to amend the section, to give protection twenty-four hours a day. Newell stated he had stopped behind another bus. to allow a freight train to pass, and after the freight passed, both started. The other bus crossed safely, but the one driven by Newell was struck and carried fifty feet. PRAYERS TO BE GtVEN BY CATHOLICS Services Asking Relief in * Mexico Will Be Held Here Sunday. The prayers of Indianapplis sCatholics will be offered Sunday, with the prayers of the Catholics of the entire world, "for relief of the unhappy conditions of the church in Mexico,” the Rt. Rev. Monsignor F. H. Gavisk of St. John’s Catholic Church, said today. From early morning Sunday until 9 p. m. services wul be held by Monsignor Gavisk and members of his clergy at St. John's. Although Bishop Joseph Ch'artrand has issued no official statement as yet. oil of the churches of the diocese are planning services similar to these at St. John's Sunday. CHIPPS’ WIDOW SPEAKS Bv United Press FT WORTH, Tex., July 30.—Declaring “the act of the grand jury in returning an indictment against Dr. Norris is the first act of vindication toward my dead husband,” Mrs. D. E. Chipps, wife of the wealthy lumberman slain July 17 in the ehureh study of Di. J. Frank Norris, today made her first statement in connection with the case. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 70 10 a.“m 83 7 a. 73 11 a. m...... 85 8 a. m 78 12 (noon) .... 87 9 a. m. 81 1 p. m 89

Forecast Unsettled and somewhat coQler tonight, and Saturday with a probability of showers or thunderstorms.

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SEWEM* OF CAR MEN POSTPONED Eleven Facing Imprisonment to Be Before Judge Again Saturday. DEFENSE ASKS DELAY Time Allowed for Preparation of Appeal.

Sentencing of John M. Parker and Robert Armstrong, street car strike organizers, and nine strikers on contempt of court charges was postponed this morning by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzeii until 9 a. m. Saturday. The postponement was granted on plea of Frank P. Baker, attorney for Parker and Armstrong, that he be allowed more time to prepare his appeal to the United, States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago against the decision against Parker and Armstrong. The eleven men are charged with violating a temporary* injunction issued July 5 by Judge Baltzeii prohibiting interference with operation of cars of the street railway company and prohibiting Parker and Armstrong and any who knew of the injunction from Influencing others to interfere with the cars Influence Charged Parker and Armstrong were denied a jury trial by the Judge. Government witnesses testified they influenced car men to strike at a meeting July 5, at which the strike was voted. Judge Baltzeii had set this morning i jr sentencing. Others to he sentenced were: Edgar Day, 2241 Kenwood Ave.: Everett Ellis, 2909 Rader St.; Russell Bane. 1808 N. Illinois St.; John Flakes, 1420 S. Richland St.; Oscar Southern, living near Bainbridge; Joe Wlgginton, 1336 N. Illinois St.; Mervin McNew and Everett Tally, 131 McClean PI., and Jefferson Fade,* 2204 N. Illinois St.

Baker first asked that sentencing be postponed until Monday, but the judge set the date for Saturday, when United States District Attorney Albert Ward protested. I All eleven defendants were brought in handcuffed, in pdirs of two. The extra man was with a deputy United States marshal. When the date was postponed, all were remanded to jail without bond. To Ask Release . Baker said he will ask the court to releasq the men on bonds after the sentencing Saturday. He stated that the statutes provide for this. Only cases of Parker and Armstrong, and possibly Day, will be appealed, (Baker said. With court action temporarily held up, the Federal investigated*) of the dynamiting of an E. Michiglni St. car„last Sunday in which six persons were Injured, assumed addwi impetus. Under the direction Police Lieutenant George L.- Wink(Tum to Page 21) SEEK BOOTLEGGER ’ IN MELLETT CASE Nation-Wide Hunt Is Asked by Canton. Bu United' Press CANTON, Ohio, July 30.—Police throughout the, tTnited States were asked today to assist in the search for P. E. McDermott, a'Canton bootlegger, wanted in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett, editor of the Canton Dally News. McDermott is the previously unnamed man who is said to have disappeared from Canton the night Mellett was assassinated after a party where he boasted with a flourish of his gun that he was about "to make a few hundred dollars.” Meanwhile, citizen actioij to hasten capture of the murderer of Mellett, discover th<*ir2 employers and rid the city of vice and corruption was delayed today 1 by disagreement within the executive committee of civic organizations.

HUSBAND STILL MISSING Police Seek Man Who '‘Bummed” Way Here With Bride. Mi’s. Gladys Porter, 17, bride of three weeks, was still in the Deten- < Home today, while police sought her' husband, Charles, and awaited word from her parepts. Mrs. Porter applied to the police for aid Thursday, after she waited many hours at the Union Station for the return of her husband who had left here to seek employment. They' had ‘‘bummed" their way here from Cayuga, Ind., -the bride's home, 1q a freight train. OIL ECONOMY URGED Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 30.—Recommendations for Njonserving supplies, economizing in consumption and preventing waste of oil will be made to President Coolidge In a few days by his oil conservation board, composed of Secretaries Hoover Wtlbtu\ Work ancj Dwight jDavl*, on the basis of hearing* (conducted early this yegr.