Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1926 — Page 1

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nmcs in SITE SALE ■HD Head of Columbia School Cos. Scores Attempts at Nullification. F/IRBANKS-MORSE 0. K. Says Useless Boosting With Present Politics. Characterizing the move of Marion County politicians to nullify purchase of the old workhouse site b.v the Fairbanks-Morse Company as “the most outrageous deal ever perpetrated in Indianapolis,” J. C. Moore, president of Columbia School Supply Company, today declared the city can never expand as long as its destinies are entrusted to the group now in control of affairs. “It's an utter absurdity to invite new industries to our city, with this glaring example before them,” Moore declared. “How) can we invite new industry when Strangulation of our present business is so evident? When underlying motives in this case are brought to light the public will sit up and take notice." History of the deal was related by Moore as follows: “Asa neighbor and friend of officers of the Fairbanks-Morse Company, I was told about four or five years ago that they needed more ground for expansion and they would be pleased to consider purchase of the workhorse ground, which was not being utilized. “Negotiations led to appraisal for (Turn to Page 2) LETTER ON PRISONER Man in Theft Case in Solitai ' Confinement. William M. Smith of P ifton, Ind., held in pail for the alleged theft of jewelry valued at approximately $4,000 from Julius C. Walk and Son, Jewelers, was put in solitary confinement today by Sheriff Omer Hawkins. Smith had secreted a letter upon a prisoner about to be discharged. In the meantime, Criminal Judge James A. Collins has reduced Smith's bond from SIO,OOO to $2,500 upon plea of Robert Lee, Smith's attorney. All of the jew’elry, except a diamond ring, has been recovered by Lee and is now in trust by the Indiana Trust Company pending outcome of Smith’s trial. Lee said he would probably succeed in locating the ring later.

BATTLE TO SAVE CITY FROM RIVER Men Fight to Dam Rapidly Rising Illinois at Beardstown —Other Streams in Midwest Do Big Damage.

B u United Preen BEARDSTOWN, 111., Sept. 18.— Scores of men fought through the night to dam the rapidly rising waters of the Illinois river, which for three days has threatened to overflow the levee here. The workers were damming the thin spots of the dike with sandbags, patrolling the banks, which the turbulent muddy stream has overflowed, and preparing to warn the city's ■ 7,000 residents if the waters, which this morning were just below the levee’s top level, should go higher. The freshets have been filling the Sangamon river which enters the Illinois nine miles above here since Wednesday, and the only hope of saving the entire town from becoming a lake is clear weather with no further wind or rain. HUGE LOSS IN ILLINOIS Thousands of Acres of Fine Land Submerged. Bv United Press JACKSONVILLE, 111., Sept. IS.— Thousands of acres of the finest land in the corn belt is submerged from six to eight feet deep in water and millions of dollars’ loss has been recorded in corn and livestock through the overflow of the Illinois River in west central Illinois. BIG SIOUX OUT OF BANKS Water Three to Six Feet Deep in lowa Town—One Life Taken. Bu United Press HAWARDEN, lowa, Sept. 18.— Scores of lives are endangered and thousands of dollars’ property damage has already been done as a re-

Indianapolis Firqt The “Indianapolis First" movement, sponsored by our new Chamber of Commerce, is worthy of the support of every citizen of this “No Mean City.” The necessity for an awakening of civic spirit in this splendid city cannot be denied. We have prospered and made headway despite the pessimists and lack of boosters. This is the psychological time for everybody to get aboard the wagon and assist in developing i bigger and better Indiar.apoCount me in on the movement. ROBERT H. BRYSON, Postmaster.

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Held in city prison today, Mrs. Helen Rente, 25, R. R. 4, Box 22, is the center of a tangle involving tw r o bigamy charges, three husbands and two wives. She was arrested on a bigamy charge filed by Edward Wood, 46 S. Kansas St. Recently Wood was arrested on a bigamy charge field by his present wife who charged he had been married to Mrs. Rente and had never gotten a divorce. Wood said he believed his marriage to Mrs. Rente illegal because he charged she was married to a J. W. Gossett when she married him, and that' a divorce was not necessary. Mrs. Bente admits three husbands. “I thought my first husband was dead and my second husband told me he had divorced me,” she said. She said she was married to Gossett, an Indianapolis man, in 1920, but left him three days after the ceremony. Later that same year she married Wood and lived with him until March, 1924. In July, 1924, after she and Wood had separated she married Bente here and went to Terre Haute with him, later separating from him. She started a suit for divorce from Wood, but dropped it when Wood told her he had already obtained a divorce, she said. Detectives are seeking for Bente and Gossett to aid in clearing up matrimonial tangle.

suit of the swollen Big Sioux River leaving its banks here. Water stands in the business section of this city at depths ranging from three to six feet. Unless the river recedes within the next few hours scores of people living along the lowlands of tjie river near here will lose entire crops and belongings. One fatality was reported. Nina Brussing, 11, was carried away with a footbridge as it washed out. The unprecedented rise of the river followed a cloudburst, began at 1 p. m. Friday and continued for six hours. RESERMNSON COURT CONSIDERED Committee Starts Drafting Its Proposals. ' Bii T'nited Press GENEVA. Sept. 18.—The committee of fourteen appointed for the purpose of finding a formula for accepting the United States Senate's reservations to that country’s entrance into the AVorld Court, convened today to begin drafting its proposals. It is understood the formula decided upon provides for a protocol embodying the American reservations wherein it will be stipulated that the fifth reservation is interpreted by the court as meaning that the United States asks only for equality, with the members, who are also members of the League of Nations. DRIVER KILLED BY TRAIN Machine Struck Near Kokomo—Victim Kendalvllle Hotel Man. Bu United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 18.—Leon Shaw, 42, of Kendallville, was killed near here today when the auto in ■which he was riding was struck by a freight train on the Nickel Plate Railroad. The body was carried down the track a quarter of a mile, was badly mangled. Shaw, owned the Gatrop Hotel at Kendallville.

G.Ol Gins NOT OP TO CITV BOARDS - / Civil Service Body Head Says He Can’t Act to Stop Collections. ‘DELICATE’ SITUATION Unable to Back Up Employes Who Won’t Pay. No attempt will be made at present by the city civil service boards to halt the system through wmch contributions to political campaign funds are solicited by administration leaders from police and firemen, John F. White, chairman of the civil service commission, recently established by Mayor Duvall, said today. “We have to accept a number of things as they are," White lamented. “But we may be able gradually to work out of them. It's a pretty delicate situation.” Not In Program White said the present program of the commission governs only appointments, promotions and demotions in the two departments. Mayor Duvall Friday admitted he had ordered administration leaders to refrain from levying campaign contributions after reading in The Times that pledge slips for contributions had been passed out to department heads. Later The Times discovered that city firemen had been assessed by Republican party leaders on a sliding scale from $9 to sls. Scrap Applications Scrapping of several thousand applications for appointment to the departments was voted by the commission at a meeting today. New application forms will be prepared at a meeting Thursday at which advice will be asked from Leonard V. Harrison, Chamber of Commerce civic affairs commmitttee sectretary, and other civil service experts. To Curb Indorsers White said the practice of promiscuous indorsement of applications by prominent men will be discouraged through notifying indorsers that they may be called upon to appear before the board Jo testify concerning their knowledge of the applicants. A move to require applicants to provide photographs also is being considered. TRACTION KILLS ONE Man Riding Speeder Dies in Crash With Interstate Freight. Bu United ,Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Sept. 18—Harry Henderson, 30, was killled today when a motor speeder was hit by a freight train cn the Interstate Public Service traction .line, five miles south of Columbus. Both of Henderson’s legs were cut off. A fog prevented the motorman from seeing the speeder in time to prevent the crash. Daniel Eckleman and John Day, riding with Henderson, Jumped. Eckleman was seriously injured.

CARDINALS WIN FIRST Battling St. Louis Team Beats Phillies 7' to 3. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18.—The Rt. Louis Cardinals further clinched the right to first place in the National league here this afternoon, when they took the first game of a double-header from the Phillies, 7 to 3. WAR AGAINST ‘MASHERS’ Shot-Gun Squad Put on Duty by Police in Salt Lake City. Bu United Press SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Sept. •18.—A squad of twelve men, armed with sawed-off shotguns and riding in fast automobiles today was pressed into service in the city’s war against mashers. The officers have orders to “treat 'em rough” and if necessary, shoot to kill, according to Joseph Burbridge, chief of police. Dance halls will be patroled nighty. Poison Kills Girl Who Wanted to Die Death triumphed today over efforts of doctors to save the life of Miss Pauline Pltzer, 19, of 2815 Station St., who has been at city hospital since drinking poison, Thursday night. The girl regained consciousness only a short time. In lucid moments she called out “Lee, Lee.” When found prostrate In the rest room of a downtown theater, by an usher, she said she took poison, because she had been jited in a love affair and wanted to die. The girl had been employed at the home of Morton Stemfels. 4404 Park Ave. She ia survived by her father and a young sister, who live at the Station St. address, and another sister, Mrs. John A. Taylor, 2626 N. Dearborn St. Funeral service will be Monday. TO TALK ON YOUVII Miss Laurel C. Thayer, probation officer at municipal court, will tell of her work and “problems of youth,” before a Sunday school class at Central Ave.. M. E. Church at 9:15 a. m., Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1926

LETTER FROM DIRIGIBLE Hoosier, on RS-1, Sends Note to Family; Ship in Detroit. Bu United Pres\ DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 18—While passing over Miami, Ind., at 11 Friday night, a letter was parachuted from the Army dirigible RS-1 to the family of Cape. William A. Kettner, a member of the crew, it was revealed in the log of the airship here today. The letter landed on the north side of the town, the log said. The RS-1 was maneuvered to the Ford air mast here shortly after 7 this morning, following an unevent ful trip from Belleville, 111., which started Friday night. The dirigible sailed from the Ford Airport at 12:43, heading for Selfridge Field, Mt. Clements, Mich., where it will remain for a short time before starting back for Belleville. THREE DIE IN MINE One Also Injured W'lien Rock Falls in Pensyvania Shaft. Bu United Press SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 18—Three men were killed and one injured in the Exeter mine of the Pennsylvania Coal Company today due to a fall of rock. The dead are: James Loftus, a miner; David Owens, fire boss; John Podro, laborer. All of the victims were married.

SHUMAKER SAYS HE WILL CONTINUE TO TALK COURT ✓ . .. Answers Statements Made by Gilliom in Letters to Bar. Undaunted by recent attacks of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. Dr. Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Salpon League superintendent, has renewed criticism of the Indiana State Supreme Court. “Laws on Search and Seizure — Thirty-Four State Supreme Courts Hold Adversely to Indiana Supreme Court,” is the headline for the leading article in the current number of Indiana edition of "The American IssuC.? Shumaker is editor. Will Continue Raps The article lists the decisions of other State Courts in respect to raids. “Arthur L. Gilliom can not dlccate to me and to churches of the State what we can do and say," Shumaker declared, before departing Friday night for Ft. Wayne to speak at a prohibition meeting. “Churches and individual members have as much right to personal opinions as attorney*. of the State, especially those of the type of Mr. Gilliom." Gilliom Friday sent letters to all county and district associations citing -Shumaker's speech at the State Methodist Conference at Evansville Thursday as an attack on the Supreme Court. Constltutlor al Right “I did not viciously and falsely attack the Indiana Supreme Court.” Shumaker said. ‘I have a right, under principle of free speech, to say what I did. "I only said our Supreme Court, along with others, has become so enmeshed In technicalities of law that oftentimes real issues have been lost sight of, and that the In dlana court is as mue* a victim, or more so, than any other State.”

TO TAKE 3 MORE IN ME CASE Evangelist and Mother Free on Bond. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 18.— Arrest of three persons accused of conspiring with Mrs. Almee Semple McPherson, evangelist, and her mother, Mrs. Minle Kennedy, to defeat Justice were expected today after the surrender of Mrs. McPherson and her mother. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. McPherson were free on bond of 82,500 each. The mother surrendeed on behalf of nerself and her daughter, saying that the Evangelist, because of sudden illness was not able to appear. The warrants sworn out against Mrs. McPherson and Mrs. Kennedy charged them with conspiracy with Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff, Kennedy G. Ormiston, Angelus Temple, radio operator, and “John Doe” Martin to manufacture evidence to support Mrs. McPherson’s kidnapping story this summer. DEFENDS PROHIBITION Senator Fess Asserts Eighteenth Amendment Will Stay. Bu United Press DETROIT, Sept. 18.—The only chance of modifying the Eighteenth Amendment is by making it more rigid, Senator Simeon E. Fess of Ohio declared in an address before the Detroit conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, In session here. “The Eighteenth Amendments in the Constitution to stay,” the Senator declared, "and those who seek Its repeal are plain fools.” WARD TO SPEAK United States Attorney Albert Ward will address the M‘ns’ Bible Class of Roberts Park Church Sunday morning at 9:30. The public is Invited.

COUNCIL TO HEAR TALES OF BLOCKS Pavement That Floats Will Be Up for Discussion Monday Night. REPAIRING IS PROBLEM New Engineer Faces Hard Job at Once. City councilman Monday night are expected to hear a tearful tale of wooden block-? floating aw/in summer rains, when city officials endeavor to obtain funds to repair several miles ol' block-paved streets. Allotment of part of $85,000 from the city’s share of the State gasoline tax for repairing wood streets probably will be considered, Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew of the majority faction said today. Meanwhile, George Woodward, streets superintendent, is batttling with the • repair problem, attempting to stretch a few dollars over many blocks. Will Be Passable Kentucky Rock asphalt is being used on N. Meridian St. holes and the street wil soon be passable, according to Woodward. Ixmg stretches of washed out blocks on E. Michigan St., between Noble St. and State Ave., and on E. Market St. from Pine St. to Arsenal Ave., have remained untouched because there is not enough money for workmen and material necessary. “We don't know when we will start repairs there.” Woodward said Need Repairs Other streets where wooden blocks have caused trouble are g Delaware St. from Sixteenth St. to Pratt St. and Ashland Ave. from-Fourteenth St. to Twenty-First St. Chester C. Oberleas, newly appointed city engineer, will face the problem of permanent repairs when he takes office Monday. He must make wooden streets passable until resurfacing. The board of works already Is engaged In plans to.resurface N. Meridian St., but has encountered opposition from many property owners, who have no desire to pay assessments- f The board Friday was forced to postpone decision on resurfacing and widening Meridian St., from Tenth to Sixteenth Sts., when property owners objected. Pass the Buck ■ Passing the buck is a favorite pastime in, dealing with the situation. The park board, which recently bought several thousand dollars worth of wooden bocks for Meridian St., now' is trying to convert Meridian St., north of Fall Creek into a street. Asa boulevard, its present status, the thoroughfare is under park board Jurisdiction. The proposal is to pass the street back to the board of works to avoid the wooden block problem. Mayor Duvall has indicated he may grant the request.

JACKSON LESSENS PRISONER’S TERM Wabash Man Is Eligible for Parole. On the strength of a statement from the trial judge that a miscarriage of justice had taken place, Governor Jackson today commuted the ten to twenty-year prison sentence of Marshall Irwin of Wabash to two to twenty years. Irwin, tried on a first-degree burglary charge before Judge Frank O. Switzer of the Wabash Circuit Court, was found guilty on Sept. 11, 1923, and committed to the Indiana State Reformatory. He later was transferred to the State Prison. In a letter to Jackson, Switzer declared he "was not in possession of the full particulars when sentence was passed.” He declared Irwin’s offense really was second-degree burglarly, since the store entered was not a human habitation. Howard E. Plummer, the prosecutor, also urged Irwin's release. The pardon board recommended lenity. Irwin is eligible for an immediate parole by the prison trustees as a result of shortening the sentence. FINN MAY BE DEPORTED Former Provost Marshal of Army Held in San Francisco. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.— Veikki Sippola, former provost marshal of Finland’s white army which swept through finish Insurrectionists in 1918, was under arrest here today awaiting probable deportation. Sippola, because of his official activities in 1918 has been sought as a murderer by the Finnish government for six years. PERSISTANT BANDITS WfN Bu United Press DETROIT, Sept. 18.—Routed from one branch bank here today two bandits traveled six blocks and successfully held up another bank, esoaging with an estimated 18.000 loot.

‘KEEP CITY TO THE FRONT IS MESSAGE

‘Civic Evangelist’ to Tell Plan for Greater Indianapolis. "Keep Indianapolis to the front!” This is the^nessage"of Dan Weigle of St. Paul, Minn., “civic evangelist,” who arrived today to direct the "Indianapolis First” movement sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. During the two weeks which he will address group meetings, Weigle wiil tell Indianapolis citizens how to maintain the reputation of Indianapolis by "direct selling methods." Declaring the movement a permanent thing. Weigle stated that “the chief things needed is cooperation of three elements —religion, education and business. They seem to be paddling their own canoes.” Clearing House “The Chamber of Commerce is the clearing house for community interests and all groups should leave their differences on the outside and join in making of a greater city,” he stated. “The little merchant is just as welcome as the big manufacturer. Our aim is to obtain cooperation of all persons for common prosperity,” he said. In an effort to develop "old time civic love," which will lead to constructive efforts,” the "civic evangelist” will tell bankers, manufacturers and retailers, how his system for awakening civic consciousness has worked in other cities. Weigle will address a mass meeting of city churches Sunday night at Cadle Tabernacle and Tuesday will speak before* a luncheon of 1,200 civic club members at Tomlinson Hall. An Industrial survey will be made to determine natural resources and looking to establishment of a department of industrial research at the Chamber. Definite methods of multiplying business will be shown" business men, he stated. BOBBY. VON ELM BATTLE Fighting It Out For Amateur Golf Crown This .Afternoon. Bu Vnitrd Press SHORT HILLS, N. J., Sept. 18.— Bobby Jones, champion of champions, and George Von Elm of California this afternoon started on their final eighteen holes to determine the winner of amateur golf tournament at the Baltusrol Country Club here.' _ / Honors in the morning’s play wont to Von Elm, the Californian being one up at the end of the eighteen holes. A gallery af between 12,000 and 15,000 watched the afternoon performance. Jones lost no time squaring the match by winning the nineteenth hole with a birdie 4. They played all square through the twenty-second hole, but the twenty-third was taken by Von Elm with a birdie 3 and he was one up. AL SEEES "WHITE HOUSE" Bu Vnited Press NEW YORK, Sept. 18 —At a dinner by the Coney Island Board of Trade in honor of Governor Al Smith Friday night the table was graced by a large cake, iced to represent the White House.

RELEASE MAN IN MAIL MSE QUIZ Exonerated of Charge He Plotted Truck Robbery. Beqause there was no evidence to link William Donlan, 616 Oxford St., with an alleged attempt to rob United States mail trucks, he was released from custody of police on Friday afternoon. A vagrancy charge under which he has been held since Sept. 13 was dismissed by Municipal Judge Dan V. White, on recommendation of Postal Inspector William Ela. A Hudson sedan had been reported as following mall trucks and was reported to police. Donlan also driving a Hudson was arrested as a suspect, but proved conclusively he had no connection with the plot.

FIX TAX LEVY FOR STATE ONMONDA Y Leaders Expected to Announce Six-Cent Cut in Rate—s3s,ooo,ooo Increase in Valuation—Shift Funds.

Final plans were laid today by State administration leaders to meet Monday, browse perfunctorily over a maze of figures and announce to the waiting public that a 6-cent reduction will be made in the 1927 State tax levy. If pure mathematics is adhered to. the reduction will be possible, it was disclosed today by a State official entirely familiar with the figures used in computing tax levies. A lesser reduction in the levy, he declared, will mean glutting of the State treasury with the proceeds of an extea cent or so, which will not be needed. Funds Shifted At the beginning of the present administration Governor Jackson annofiSced that he would wipe out the State* debt and reduce the State levy. The debt was eliminated by lifting State ! funds through the vurplus taxes raised by excessive levies dur-j

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FULL HALL-MILLS SECRET MAY BE GIVEN 10 STATE Vestryman Promises He Will ‘Come Clean’ With Story Today. Bn Vnitrd Press SOMERVILLE. N. J.. Sept. 18 The full story of the illicit love affair of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, choir singer, was sought bj the State today from Ralph V. Gorsline, vestryman in Hall's church. Under threat of indictment for perjury because of his story of the Hall-Mills murder told to the grand jury, Gorsline announced, through his attorney, that he would “come clean” today and reveal the secret he has guarded for four years, since thd preacher and Mrs. Mills were found shot to death. Last Link Gorsline's story may he the last link in the chain of evidence the State is building against the pastor's Ividow’, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, and three of her relatives. For the first time since the murder, Mr*. Hall has been able to make legal denial of the charge that she murdered her husband and his sweetheart. Arraigned before two judges in the court of Oyer and Teminer~7iere Friday sha pleaded "not guilty" and was released again under the increased ball of $40,000. Her brothers. Henry and Willie Stevens, and their cousin, Henry De La Bruyere Carpender, ulso pleaded not guilty and were taken back to jail. Not So Serious The only revelation of the hearing was the intimation by Alemander Simpson, special prosecutor, that the charge against Mrs. Hall is not as serious as that against her kinsmen. The questioning of Gorsline will be coupled with the examination of Mrs. Minna £lark, a choir singer in the Episcopal church of St. John the Divine, of which Hall was rector. She and Gorsline are accused of having spied on the rector and Mrs. Mills at their forbidden love meetings and to have been in full possession of their guilty secret. FOOD COSTS LOWER Prices Drop 3 Per Cent Locally During August, Is Report. Although the average reduction in food costs over the country w r as only 1 per cent, the decrease for Indianapolis in August over the preceding month was 3 per cent, according to United States Department of Labor statistics. • However, the prices remained 51 per cent higher than in 1913.

ing preceedinfe years, levy will be reduced, partly through tbi 835,000,000 increase this year in the total State valuation and partly because last year’s levy was padded to take care of the heavy accumulation of debts created during the administration of former governor Warren T. McCray. Value Increased The total State valuation this year, it was announced today by the State taax board, following receipt of reports from all of the ninety-two counties, is $5,307,346,267. It represents an increase og $35,242,537 over last year’s valuation. By applying this year’s valuation to next year's needs, the result will be the 1927 levy. The present State levy is 28 cents. A 2-eent reduction first was promised the taxpayers, and then a 4cent slash, each being announced at time of political gatherings.

Forecast Fair tonight and Sunday; cooler Sunday aftern#fin or night.

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ROW IS STOMBK HUMANE One of Severest Storms irt History of State Strikes Miami. COMES FROM BAHAMAS! Man Can Not Stand Streets in Palm Beach. Bii Vnitrd Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The hurricane Kvhich struck Miami. Fla., this morning was reported by the United States Weather Bureau to be 1 menacing Ift. Myer, Fla., at 1 p. m. A report from Ft. Myer said a flfty-two-mile wind was blowing there. It will be two or three days before the storm center reaches Texas, Louisiana or Mexico unless it 1 changes direction suddenly, officials’ said. The hurricane is one of the most severe in Florida's history. No word had been received from Miami itself since Friday night. Ai weather observer at Jacksonville, inJ communication with Palm Beach bjfl telephone early this morning, wafl told the wind was blowing so hard a man could not stand up its force. Since then no word been received from that city.* M Nassau, Bahamas. where storm probably struck late afternoon, has nut been heard f^M' : ,y today. The storm apparently is mon'! slightly north of west and Is ported to sweep over K. Ida and into the Gulf of Storm warnings have been along the Gulf coast w'est to bile, Ala. EARTH TREMORS FELT f Inhabitants in State of Oaxaca. Mexico, Flee F'rom Homes. Bu Vnited Press MEXICO CITY, Sept. 18.—Earth tremors of great intensity were felt in Pinotepepa, State of Oaxaca, Friday, causing inhabitants to flee from their homes. Tremors lasting 35 seconds were recorded by the government seismograph here. GAS BATH PROMISED Wife Tells Judge That Hubby Had Been Drunk for 19 Years. Bu Vnitrd Press FT. WAYNE, Sept. 18.—A gasoline hath and a lighted match were promised Emil Lapadot in city court here by his wife “if he ever got drunk again.” She told the judge he had been drunk for nineteen years and the jurist suggested that gasoline would hardly be necessary in that case. HAWKINS APPEAL DENIED BY COURT Second One Entered by Mortgage Company Men. Bu Unite<l Press CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—The United States Circuit Court of Appeals today denied a motion for anew trial entered by Mortimer S. Hawkins, William Webb and Frank Jacqua, all convicted in connection with the operations of the Hawkins Mortgage Company of Portland. Ind. Using the mails to defraud was the specific charge used in convicting the men. Hawkins, president of the company, now is serving a fifteen-year sentence in Leavenworth, ard the other two men are serving shorter terms. The appeal denied today was the second one to be entered by the mer, both having been based on “writs of errors” allegations.

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