Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 171

ADAMS IS BALKED AT PRISON AGAIN

Walb Drops Last Chance to Prove Charge

TEACHERS' CONVENTION CONCLUDED Final General Session at Cadle Tabernacle This Morning, i The seventy-third annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers' Association came to a close with a tjnal general session at Cadle Tabernacle this morning. Many of the 16,000 teachers remained to spend the afternoon shopping and trains, buss es and ronfls will be crowded with the returning visitors tonight. Governor Jackson and M. V. O'Shea, University of Wisconsin, were the speakers on the closing program. The governor paid high trib ute to the teachers of the State and praised the Indiana standards of education. “New Times and New Problems in Education,” was the subject of Professor O'Shea’s address and he stressed the need for curbing the present tendency of over-developed emotionalism and 1 under-developed intellect. He cited examples of boys and girls in tho teen age, who are more sophisticate than were their grandparents at the time of their death. Keep Them Growing "It is highly desirable to keep the boy and girl growing as tong as PQSsible," he declared. "If they ri pen too early they cannot reach the highest point in any aspect of/thdir nature. “It is disastrous for a boy or girl to go the pace so fast in the early years that they become sophisticated > or-blase in the middle teens. There is a tendency in that direction In American life. Young people indulge so generally in exciting pastimes that they lose their interest in simple and wholesome activities, and especially in mental work. Amorous motion pictures, extreme dancing, the use of automobiles and the like are robbing our young people too early of their simplicity, docility and enthusiasm in intellectual tasks.” Urges Guidance Tie urged guidance be used in remedying this situation, rather than stem measures of repression A note of sadness was injected into the meeting, when a resolution was passed upon the death of Thomas F. Fitzgibbon, Muncle, who was killed returning from the convention to his home, in an automobile Friday night. The Girls’ Glee Club of Manual Training High School,* under direction of Miss Selma Zahl, opened the final' program with music. Miner Speaks Whiting Williams, director of the personnel department of the Hydraulic Steel Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss Mabel Carney, Columbia University, addressed the general session Friday night. “What’s On the Worker's Mind?” was Williams’ topic. Miss Carney is professor of rural edueat oinin Teachers’ -College at Columbia. Dr. Ralph Stockman, Methodist pastor of New York, substituted for Glenn Frank on the general program at Cadle Tabernacle Friday afternoon. I Dangers of too numerus extra- ~ curricula activities were pointed out by Superintendent Paul C. Stetson, Dayton, Ohio, who also appeared on the afternoon program. At the general meeting at Tomlinson Hall Friday afternoon, Edwin A. Dee, University of California, president of the American Vocational Education Association, pleaded for a wider range of vocational subjects in high school. QUEEN FORCED TO CALL DOCTOR Marie Hoarse From Cold in Head. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The strain of Friday’s three speeches combined with the head cold that has clung to her since her arrival Monday proved too much for Queen Mario's throat today and her majesty was forced to call in a physician. When the Roumanian ruler awoke art. 7 a. m. after but four hours sleep, she was so hoarse as to be almost Inaudible. | The Queen was a luncheon guest " *t the Colony C)u#t. and this afternoon reviewed the 106th Infantry In Brooklyn. Millions of radio fans were disappointed Friday night when the Queen failed to broadcast over the WEAF hookup as scheduled, due to a misunderstanding. Rater, however, WJZ broadcast her speech at the dinner of the Iron and Steel Institute.

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Reed Turns Attention to Finding Mrs. Wheatcraft for Questioning. The last official act of Senator James A. Reed before transferring his probe into Indiana politics to his offices in Kansas City, where it will be resumed Monday morning, was to send out a call for Mrs. Vivian Tracey Wheatcraft, woman manager tor Senator James E. Watson and vice chairman of the Republican party. He had just given one more chance to Clyde Walb, Republican hairman, to make good his charges of money in every precinct in a cam'paign of corruption and Walb had again failed. Senator Reed, in closing his hearings here made it plain that his authority was limited and that he could not go into the Stephenson or other charges. Reads Walb Letter He carefully read to Clyde Walb the letter sent by Walb to Senator Borah, stressing his charges of evidence of money and asked him specially whether Walb would furnish him any evidence of money spent for corruption. Senator Reed pointedly told him that Walb had failed to give any evidence to support the charges. He made it plain that he came only because Walb had made these charges, that he had spent large sums of Government money in securing witnesses, had spent his.own time and thAt he then desired evidence if any was to be had. And once more Walb tried to tell him that when he said that there was money in every precinct, he had meant literature sent out by organizations discussing wtrld peace. Somewhere In West The search for Mrs. Wheatcraft bad failed to locate her on Saturday. She was presumed to be somewhere in the West. Asa final resort. Senator Reed telegraphed Congressmen Will Wood, In chargo of the national congressional Republican committee, asking him to assist in having Mrs. Wheatcraft at his office Monday for examination or at least notify him where a subpoena could be served. Mrs. Wheatcraft is announced to be working for this committee. If Mrs. Wheatcraft can be gotten before Reed, the Senate slush investigator intends to aak her about her famous “poison squads.” Interview Obtained An interview obtained by W. A. S. Douglass, correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, and F. J. Prince, repre sentative of a number of Indiana papers. from Mrs. Wheatcraft late in August, represented Mrs. Wheatcraft as saying that much of the success of Senator James E. Watson in the primary last spring was due to her 'p’polson squads” of five women in each county who could be depended upon to “butter the State” with anything she desired, within twelve hours after she sent out tlie orders. Mrs. Wheatcraft denied the interview. hut Douglass and Prince insist that they quoted her correctly. Reed also has subpoenaed Douglass and Prince to appear in Kansas City, Monday. Reed also will question Joseph Myers, In Kansas City, about the assertion of Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, in Chicago Thursday, that Myers could tell something about Intel-national bankers corrupting the Indiana primary. Walb gave the impression that Myers was directing the propaganda in Indiana. Ex-Newspaper Reporter Mvera formerly was a newspaper reporter. For a few months he held position of secretary of the League of Nations Nonpartisan Association here, having desk space in an office of the Christian Church in the Occidental Bldg. More than two months ago he went to Kansas City to edit a small publication of the Christian Church. Just before ho adjourned the hear ing here Friday, Reed called Walb to the stand. Patiently and carefully, the Senator read the letter of Walb to Senator William E. Borah in which Walb made his charge that international bankers were flooding ■ the State with corruption money. The Senator explained to Walb that it was this letter which caused him to investigate the Indiana situation, to spend hundreds of dollars of the peoples’ money transporting wtlnesses from one State to another, and many valuable hours of his own time. Thep Reed gave Walb his final chance to prove his charges. He asked Walb if he had anything to add. Passed Senator Pamphlets Walb squirmed and passed to Reed a few pamphlets. Among them were several which had been obtained from the office of Mrs. W. S. ■ i/ockhart, 513 Illinois Bldg., secretary of the Indiana Coun cil on International Relations. They consisted chiefly of propaganda for (Turn to Page 2) RADIO A NECESSITY Bu United Preen CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—Defining radio as "a complete necessity to the agricultural folk,” Secretary of Com merce Hoover today expressed hope of early passage by Congress of a bill regulating radio transmission.

HE CAME TO FIND FRAUD AND HE FOUND A BETSY ROSS

“I have faith in Indiana, for I have found a Betsy Ross, a woman who dared to stand against a chief of police who questioned her right as an American to listen to words which I would not indorse, but which were not beyond the law. “A State which can furnish one woman, sweet faced, mild voiced, but courageous, the wife of a minister, but so filled with her own sense of right as an American to defy the uniforms placed outside her luncheon table, is still safe. “And until L saw her, I was discouraged “All this is irrelevant to the matters which I came to investigate. [ would not comment on the testimony or any conclusions that may have been reached or even suggested, for I never attempt to decide a case until all the testimony is presented, and there is still more testimony. Tribute to Americanism “But I would be ungrateful to Americanism itself if I did not pay tribute to that little woman who had the courage to stand for Americanism when she defied a brutal police force which attempted to suppress free speech. ' “I do not know what is to happen. I have listened until I have tired. I have limited the evidence, as far as I could to the authority given to me by the Senate. If any extraneous matter has been presented, it has been blurted out against my will. I “I came to investigate grave charges of universal corruption, and only came because the charges were so explicit and so grave that 1 could not ignore them. “I have followed that trail and that trail alone. What has happened before was not within my authority or my commission from the United States Senate. And then came some things outside the realm, in rebuttal against the evidence given to substantiate the charges that had been made. There Came a Woman “There came a woman—soft voiced woman, wife of a minister, who had been accused of distributing propaganda for the World Court. "Let me bo first of all America to protest against any effort by force to limit any argument for that court. For I have felt force when I have fought against it. And I hate and abhor suppression of free discussion of any subject in this country, “And then I heard a most amazing story, unbelievable had it not come from a woman whose face and attitude showed that she was first and’ all a gentlewoman—and that she did not know how to lie. “She told me a story unrivalled in all our history. I had thought that once in Oklahoma when rage and passion ran high, that I had seen Americanism attacked I had felt its brutality and its force. I knew how far intolerance could go. But that, at least, had the excuse of waY.'Bo soon over, with its passions and its hates. But This Is 1926 "But this is 1926 and it happens in a city which has raised its largest monument to Americanism, dedicated to the memory of those who saved the things for which we live and which are the foundation of our existence. “Then I heard the story that a police chief had dared to send his officers to arrest a man for talking. The things he said were those with which I disagree. His remedy for human ills differs from my own. I could never accept b's conclusions. “But the police of your city came to arrest this speaker where two hundred gentlemen and gentlewomen had been gathered to listen. And then my blood boiled and I can speak about it only because it has no relation whatever to corruption of senatorial elections. And then I found my faith again renewed. “For I found that this little woman, offered the chance to escape humiliation and embarrassment by having her guest list revised, her speaker admonished to refrain from free discussion, dared to defy that force and brutality and intolerance which are worst of all menaces. “I had found a Betsy Ross again, a woman who dared to assert her heritage to all the rights that have come from our founders, brave enough to assert them in the- face of class or power or any fate that might befall, except that she reserved for herself the right to be ap American.” These are the words of none other than Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, greatest of Americans, who came to find fraud and found a Betsy Ross.

When Walb ‘Blew Up’

Here is the official record of the Walb expose, taken from the records of the Reed inquiry late Friday afternoon: Senator Reed: Mr. Walb, I recalled you for one purpose. You got out this letter which is marked “Exhibit 287,” and it was the occasion of my coming to Indiana. But for it, I wouldn’t have come. In that letter you stated: “There is evidence everywhere that international bankers on Wall Streot have their money in every precinct of this State in the hands of the fakirs who pretend to have something up their sleeves and are putting on a probe and at every hand we see the activity of this outfit attempting to defeat\>ur Senators and Congressmen on account of their stand in the United States Senate and Congress on tho League of Nations and the payment of foreign debts.” Understanding that you have evidence to produce of this expenditure of money, by International bankers on Wall Street, In every precinct In this State, I recalled you as a witness to ask you If you knew of any international banker who had given any money, and you said' you did not. I asked you if you knew of the distribution of money and you said you did not, but you did know of the distribution of large amounts of literature from an office in Indiana, in Indianapolis, and named the office and the man who ran the office as a man named Myers and, accordingly, among other reasons, or as one of the reasons for coming here, I had in mind proving, if it could be proven, that this man Myers, and his association had put out vast amounts of literature, and that he had some fifty speakers in this campaign. I find, from all the evidence we are able to get, that Myers left here in the month of July and he never had any office employes, as far as the witnesses who occupied the same rooms with him knew. He left here and has become a minister of the gospel, or was while he was here, and is connected with some small religious publication in Kansas City.

TAX BOARD CUTS RATE IjOps 3 Cents Off Lery of Brown Township, Morgan County. Following review of the locallyfixed tax levies in Brown Township, Morgan County, the State board of *ax commissioners ordered a 3-cent *ut in the total towjishlp levy, reducing it from $1.78 on each SIOO of tan hie nrqnartv to XL7R-

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCT. 23~ 1926

KILLED BY OWN BOMB Trade-War Weapon Explodes In , FYotit of Grocery. Bu United Preia CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—A bomb, believed to have been /a trade-war weapon, exploded prematurely today In front of a jrrocery and killed the man, who had Bet It. The bomber was blown lntc several pieces a.ncl Identification has Hot bun mart*

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Mrs. W. S. Lockhart, 322 N. Ritter Ave., seeretaiy of the Indiana council on international relations, whose story of how Mayor Duvall and Police Chief Claude F. Johnson tried 10 keep Iter from (adding a meeting of prominent citizens addressed by Frederick J. Libbey, noted authority upon International affairs called forth the expression from Senator James A. Reed. *‘l have found a Betsy Ross.” Mrs. IjOckhart was called Itefore Reed as a witness in the Indiana political quiz at the Federal Bldg. Friday, because Clyde A. Walb, Republican State Chairman introduced several pamphlets from Mrs. office .(one of them stolen from her desk) in a desperate effort to produce something which might support the Walb charges that international bankers . are spending millions of dollars to defeat Republican candidates. The pamphlets turned out to be discussions of the World Court and the I e-ague of Nations.

‘IGNORE CRITICS OF OFFICIALS, ’ JACKSON

Governor Advises Indiana Teachers Against Giving Ear to Tales About the‘Duly Elected.’

Indiana teachers will no longer lend a friendly car to anything that is not nice regarding their “duly elected public officials,” if they take the advice of Governor Jackson. The Governor addressed the closing session of the State Teachers Association convention at Cadle Tabernacle this morning and the climax of his speech was a political harangue. Before ladling out the advice about not believing naughty tales about public officials and State legislatures the Governor spoke in favor of teacher tenure (a thing the teachers have

FILLING STATION BATTLE IMPENDS City Council Discussipn of Bridge Sites Sought. Tempestuous discussion of the proposal tb .allow .filling stations to be placed at the south end of the Delaware St. bridge over Fall Creek is expected at city council meeting Monday night. A movement has begun to bring the ordinance to discussion at the meeting. The measure was adopted at last meeting with six votes. City Attorney John K. Ruckelshaus contends the ordinance should have received seven votes, or threefourths of the persons present, inasmuch as it had not been approved by the board of zoning appeals. Mayor Duvall assumed three positions in regard to the proposal during its progress. IBs last action was to halt erection of the stations. DIGS UP HUMAN BONES Part of Old Skeleton Discovered by Contractor. Four bones of a human skeleton dug up this morning under a tree at 829 N. Delaware St., are from 50 to 100 years old, according to Dr. Jesse Martin of city hospital. An arm bone, two leg bones and one from the ear were found by Elmer Wilson, contractor, 350 N. Belle Vieu PI., who has a force of men engaged In remodeling an old house at the Delaware St. addreaa.

HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOSE IN ARMENIA

Earthquake Injures Thousands, Says Message to Near East Relief. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 23. A devastating earthquake rocked Armenia last night, the quakes recurring today “kilting hundreds and injuring thousands,” according to a cablegram to the Near East relief today front its offices in Erivan, capital of Russian Armenia. The quakes were most severe, it was said, at Leninakan, where the $1,500,000 Near East relief orphanage is located. The orphanage consists of 300 buildings in which 15,000 orphans are being cared for. It was badly damaged, it was said. Forty-five Americans are executive officers at the orphanage. All these were reported safe, but the fate of other Americans in other parts of Armenia was not reported in the first cables. The text of the cable received by Charles V. V'ickery. general secretary of the Near East Relief, was as follows: "Severest eirthquake Armenle night of 22nd continuing 23rd at Leninakan and surrounding. Hundreds dead and thousands injured and homeless. Near East relief buildlnga Leninakan severely damaged. Orphanage workers, children sleeping outdoors. Entire Near East relief staff doctors, nurses, trucks and amhulances mobilized to aid cities injured. Utilizing all available tents, bakeries and personnel. Necessary have large immediate appropriation to meet this emergency. AH American personnel safe.” FORM RESTAURANT FIRM Incorporation papers for the Peerless Service of Indianapolis, a restaurant concern, were deposited today at the Statehouse by Bayard C. Marsh, Charles L. Pope and George O. Cowan, incorporators.

been urging for the past six years, and which was especially stressed at the conx’ention); condemned partisan politics in determining school policies: stressed proper financial assistance and other things for which the teachers’ organization stands. Then he launched the following: Notiiing Partisan “Far be it from mo to introduce anything here of a partisan nature, but I do say that you teachers ought not to allow anyone to undermine faith In constituted government and duly elected public officials.” He then told them that his administration was composed of clean, honest, conscientious, upright men and urged the teachers not to let anyone tell them different. Passing from the praise of his administration, he launched into a eulogy of the last Legislature, terming it “that splendid body that cooperated so fully” and condemned any effort to besmirch its fair name. “I don’t know of any administration, nor any legislature, that has been more constructive,” the Governor admitted. “It has accomplished the greatest work in fifty years, and so far as I know, in the entire history of the State of Indiana.” When M. V. O’Shea, University of Wisconsin, arose to speak after the Governor ceased, he congratulated the audience upon Its “endurance and devotion” and praised the State executive’s oratorical efforts. TO WELCOME SAVAGE Luncheon for New Legion Commander Here Tuesday. Howard P. Savege, new national commander of the American Legion, will be welcomed to national -headquarters here with a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Tuesday. C. A. Jackson, Indiana department commander, will be chairman. Savage and his wife are to arrive In Indianapolis Tuesday morning. The American Legion Auxiliary will give a luncheon at the I. A. C. Tuesday noon for Mrs. Savage and Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley, new national president of the auxiliary, Mrs. Wright will arrive In this city Monday. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. 4010 a. m 53 7 a. m 40 11 a. m $4 8 a. m 41 13 (n00n)..,. 68 9 a. m 49 1 p. 67

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Editors and Deputy Prosecutor on Mission for Grand Jury Held Up at Michigan City. KIPLINGER BLOCKS THEIR WAY Warden Asks for Instructions but Hesitates to Obey Remy. John H. Kiplinger, Rusliville (Ind.) attorney, who reentered the Stephenson case after the former dragon’s charges of Indiana political corruption were made public, today tried to prevent representatives of the Marion county grand jury from talking with Stephenson in Indiana State Prison at Michigan City.

Thomas H. Adams. Vincennes editor, who first gave out the messages from Stephenson; William O. Feudner, Rushville editor, who is aiding Adams in the fight to purge the Republican party: Court Asher, former lieutenant of Stephenson, and Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer went to the prison empowered by the grand Jury, which is probing official corruption, to see Stephenson and have an unhindered conversation witli him. Governor Jackson and the prison board of trustees have kept Adams and other newspapermen from talking with Stephenson ever since the first message from Stephenson was smuggled out three weeks ago. Kiplinger Ahead Kiplinger, learning that Adams was going to the prison arrived at the prison ahead of the Adams party with Lloyd O. Hill, another attorney who has been in close touch with the matters ever since the search for the missing Stephenson doouments, sought to back up his charges of corruption, was begun. It was asserted that they had a previous engagement to visit the prison Saturday. When Adams, armed with authority from Prosecutor Remy and Ralph Kane to see Stephenson in company with \a regular deputy from Remy, arrived. Kiplinger protested and declared that lie would not permit Stephenson to see any one outside hio presence. There was an argument and Warden Daly telephoned. He was told by the prosecutor’s office to disregard Kiplinger and permit Adams to carry out his visit as proposed and authorized. No Word Received At 1 this afternoon, word from inside the prison indicated that no decision had been reached and it was not known whether Kiplinger had succeeded in preventing this long sought conference between Adams and Stephenson. Kiplinger came into limelight in the Stephenson case when he waited all day at the Columbia Club for L. G. Julian, former partner of Stephenson, whose connection with the missing papers had at that time not been revealed. The next day he appeared at the prison with Julian. They conferred at length with Stephenson. Since that day no trace has been found of Julian. Box Taken Back The 1,300-pound box moved to the courthouse basement Friday from the Shank warehouse, where it had been stored by L. J. Julian, former business partner of Stephenson, was returned in the afternon. For about an hour, members of the grand Jury inspected the box’s contents, said to be files and books of a coal company in which Stephenson and Julian were associated. Ray V. Southworth of West Lafayette, Ind., member of the 1925 State Senate, is expected to appear before the grand jury Monday morning. The jurors adjourned late Friday until Monday. Earl Gentry, former aid of Stephenson's, spent nearly two hours with the grand jury Friday afternoon. Gentry and Earl Klinck, another Stephenson henchman, were discharged on a murder charge in Noulesville, Ind., where Stephenson was convicted. Gentry Sees Remy Prosecutor Remy conferred with Gentry this morning, but said nothing of importance was discussed. Gentry will be recalled before the jury Monday morning, Remy said. Klinck also was at Remy’s office this morning. Remy said Kiplinger, Stephenson’s attorney, will be before the jury sometime next week. When Remy was asked how much longer the investigation would last he replied, “How long Is a pttece of string? The probe will continue until the entire matter is sifted.” Al Thought He Was Already Divorced Bv United Preen PARIS. Oct. 23.—The former Ethel Delmar, musical comedy star, today was granted a divorce from Al Jolson, blackface comedian . They were married in 1922. Bv United Prenn BOSTON. Oct. 23.—" Why. Ai thought he was already divorced!" said John Sneckenberger, Al Jolson’s manager, when Informed today of advices from Paris stating that Mrs. Jolson had Just been granted a divorce. “We heard more than a week ago that the divorce had been granted,” said Sneskenberger. "And I ckn’t understand this latest news. Why, only a few days ago, Jolson told newspaper men that he wished the divorce hadn’t been granted and expressed a desire for a reconciliation.'*

Forecast Increasing cloudiness, becoming unsettled with probably showers tonight and Sunday; somewhat warmer tonight.

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MANY AMERICANS VICTIMS OF GALE INTONES Destruction ..Indescribable, Report—Warships Speed to Rescue. Bv United Press HAVANA. Oct. 23.—Thirty-one-known (lead, including many Americans, probably forty more believed dead and 146 injured, were casualties reported today by Eladio Villa, who arrived from Nueva Gerona, principle city of the Isle of Pines, swept by a hurricane Wednesday. “Tlie destruction is indescribable," he said. “The hurricane must have gone 130 miles an hour. The new prison, the church, the fire station, the radio station, and practically everything except the Hotel Nueva ■Gerona were demolished. Every ship but one In the harbor was sunk.” Meanwhile the unofficial dead list stood at 327, with 285 dead In Havana or nearby. Losses were estimated from $30,000,000 to SIOO,OOO. WARSHIPS ARE EN ROUTE Two Relief Expeditions on Way to Hurricane Zone. Bv United Press , WASHINGTON. Oct. 23.—Two American relief expeditions have been dispatched to hurricane wrecked Isle of Pines. With the Cruiser Milwaukee and the destroyer Goff due at daylight Sunday, the Navy department today picked up for the coast guard word that the Cutter Saukee and the patrol boats 293 and 299 had put out of Key West early today bearing medicine, food and doctors for American injured at the Isles of Pines. Ambassador Enoch H. Crowder at Havana, who ordered the cruiser and destroyer for relief, cabled the State Department today that reports of 200 dead and 3,000 injured in Havana “are probably exaggerated.” DEBS WILL LIE IN STATE HERE Noted Socialist’s Body in City Tonight. Bu United rresn TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 23 The body of Eugene V. Debs, noted Socialist, will be taken to Indl&napo lis this evening to lie in state from 8 p. m. to 9 p. m. at the Flanner and Buchanan funeral parlors. The bodv will be cremated and the ashes returned here Sunday for burial. Public funeral services were held this afternoon on tho veranda of the Debs home. Thousands of Debs’ neighbors viewed the body while it lay in state at Labor Temple here Friday. They were bankers and laborers, grandmothers and schoolgirls, men and women from every station of life. NO LEE VERDICT YET Judge Expected to Call In Jurors and Discharge Them. Bu United Press FRANKLIN. Ind., Oct. 23.—Judge Fremont Miller late this afternoon was expected to call in the Jury, de liberating in the case of Ralph Lee. charged with the murder of Abnqr Peak, ifidianapolis grocer, and discharge them. The Jury had been deliberating for more than forty-five hours, receiving the ease late Thurs day. KILLS THREE CHILDREN Bv United Press BROCKTON, Mass., - Oct. 28.—8 e coming suddenly insane, James B. Stoddard, 38, a widower, killed three of his four daughters with an ax as they slept in their home here early today. The dead: Florence, 18; Edna, 12, and Ml’drod, f. Marie, 14, the fourth daughter, was painfully hurt when struck with the broad side of the ax, but dodged her father, ran from the bouse and