Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1927 — Page 1

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LIGHT CUT TO REACH ALL USERS Every Type Consumer Will Benefit by Slash on March 1. SCHEDULE READY SOON Wampler Reminds Company of Merger Pledge. Every consumer of electricity in Lidianapolis will benefit by the re£jced rates to be put into effect Mormon Perry, president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, declared today. Perry said that although he had not received the letter of Public Service Commissioner Frank Wampler demanding that the company immediately file the rate schedule whereby a total saving of $315,000 is to be passed along to domestic consumers and a 5 per cent additional discount granted power users, the power company has had experts working on the schedules for some time. They will be ready to file with the commission in a few days, he said. Wampler said that the commission is working on a reduction schedule so when the power company's rates are filed the work of reaching an agreement upon the rates will be reduced so that the new schedule may go into effect with the least possible delay. Harley L. Clarke, Chicago, promoter of the merger of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchant Heat and Light Company, promised the Chamber of Com rnerce merger committee at the time the Chamber withdrew opposition to the merger that the $315,000 saving and the 5 per cent additional discount would be granted not later than March 1. Perry said the new schedules will lie filed in time for the rates to go into effect March 1. Consumers will notice the saving in the bills which they receive for current used in March. IIENTION HOME SITEJELECTEO Apartment to Be New Site, According to Rumor. County commissioners are considering the Holloway Apts., in rear of the southeast corner of Michigan and Alabama Sts., for the new location of the Marion County Detention Home after March 1, it was reported today. Lease on the Eleventh St. and Capitol Ave. building expires then. Commissioners are noncommital, although President Cassius L. Hogle recently declared tljat the location was selected and the home could be moved “any time.” The new site will be leased for a short time, at a rental higher than that paid for the present location, it was said. The three-story apartment is fireproof. County Auditor Harry Dunn said he had not been informed of any selection for the home. The present home has been characterized as “unsafe” by two recent grand juries. The last jury report stated that the home is a “menace and a hazard.” Charles O. Sutton, Ajmer commission's president, guarnew quarters would be selected. CHAPLIN TO MOVE EAST I Film Will Be Finished Before Divorce Hearing Six Months Hence. Bu United Press MEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Advised by counsel that Lita Grey Chaplin’s divorce suit will not come to trial for at least six months, Charles Chaplin today decided to bring his movie company from Hollywood to Mew York to complete “The Circus,” now three-fourths done. “It will take two to three months lo finish the picture, and the case won’t come up before six months at least,” Nathan Burkan, his attorney, told the United Press today. “That will give Mr. Chaplin plenty of time to finish a picture he has already invested more than half a million dollars In.” COLUMBUS MAN DIES George F. Allen, 67, of Columbus, Ind., died at the Methodist hospital early today following an operation.

So That’s That City plan commission records show that the scheme of Councilman Walter R. Dorsett, announced several days ago, to introduce an ordinance requiring Ithe moving of the $3,000,000 'Marott Hotel, Fall Creek and Meridian St., was based upon false premise. Dorsett said the hotel is located on fifteen feet of city property on the Fall Creek side. City records show that the hotel stands five feet within the hotel’s own ground.

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Times Washinnton Bureau, 13li A’cm? York Avenue WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senator Watson of Indiana, late yesterday tangled in Senate debate with Senator Reed of Missouri, who because of his now generally recognized presidential ambitions, has become as dangerous in debate as a mother bear nursing a cub. Watson attacked Reed's tax reduction proposal debated by the Senate for two days.” I myself stood on the dividing line between those who believed in large tax reductions and those who believed in using the surplus In reducing the war debt,”

MINERS CONSIDER SALARY INCREASES

Seventy resolutions asking pay increases for international officers were expected to precipitate a clash between administration forces an(l opponents at the United Mine Workers convention at Tomlinson Hall today. The resolutions, calling for constitutional amendments, were to be reported on by the constitutional committee. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor and goaSliTh - MERGER PROTEST MEETING PLANS Rucker Not Arrested for Truck Advertising—Session Tonight. A warrant charging violation of the city advertising ord' lance, drawn up late Thursday by Deputy City Prosecutor Arthur Dlnsmore, had not been served today on former City Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker. Dinsmore drew up the affidavit after two Negroes, who had been driving a truck bearing signs announcing a public •vice commission protest meeting Friday night at Tomlinson Hall, declared Rucker and his associates hired them to drive the truck. The Negroes asked Dinsmore whether they should continue after Traffic Captain Lester E. Jones ordered traffiemen to stop the truck downtown. Rucker appeared at police headquarters and defied Dinsmore to serve the warrant charging failure to have advertising license. Signs on the truck stated Rucker would make sensational statements regarding the commission’s action in granting the recent electric light merger. Ward B. lliner, ex-bus king of Indiana, who has been leading a fight on the commission, joined with Rucker in calling the protest mass meeting. Rucker announced the truck would continue to run through city streets advertising the gathering! and that the meeting will be held at 8 p. m. Hiner said that after his attorney, J. W. Joseph, threatened to take the matter into cour} immediate!, Dinsmore this morning withdrew his order against the truck. Corporation Counsel Schuyler A. Haas stated that a license was not needed to operate the truck. Hiner said. Police protection has been asked for the meeting tonight, according to Hiner. Man Beaten , Left in Burning Barn It II Uni led Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Jan. 28. Sheriffs of two counties and a large posse of farmers today searched for an unidentified man who attacked Bert Whitcomb, 40, a farmer living near Orland. Slipping up behind Whitcomb 'while he was at work in the barn on his farm, the assailant beat him into unconsciousness. The assailant, thinking Whitcomb was dead, set fire to the barn. The intense heat roused Whitcomb and he crawled to safety. Whitcomb is in a serious condition and unable to give a coherent story of tiie attack. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 33 10 a. m 38 7 a- m 39 11 a. m 38 S a. m 38 12 (noon) 39 9 a. m 37

HEROIC FIREMAN FOUND STANDING ERECT, DEAD * One of Three Killed During New York Blaze-Hose Followed to Man in Attitude of Duty.

Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Rescuers who chopped their way through frozen debris today found the body of Joseph Heslin, upright and with the hose nozzle still in his hands, In the ruins of a building where he and two other firemen lost their lives fighting a stubborn blaze. The frozen hose was the path alorrg\ which the rescuers dug their way to where Heslin died at liis post of duty. He, Edward Fox and John Gratt were buried with seven other firemen when two floors of the sevenstory loft building collapsed, sending them, with the debris, from the

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said Watson when asked by Reed if he favored tax reduction. “That is not surprising. The Senator stands on the dividing line so often and so gracefully,” Reed answered. “But I generally get off on the right side,” said Watson. "The fortunate side, at any rate,” returned Reed. “The Senator says there is no way for Congress to do the proper things." Watson defined his position as “seeing no way to reduce taxes this session, although I am in favor of it." In further reply to Reed, he said, “I am not in favor of the present plan.”

former miners' official, Is to address the convention at 3:30 p. m. Administration policies received their first serious challenge Thursday afternoon when a motion for a roll call vote upon an administration measure lost by three votes. The test came when the constitu tion committee recommended the changing of the constitution so that the international executive board could levy assessments upon the membership “whenever necessary.” The board has been forced in the past to receive permission from the membership to levy assessments for longer than two months. Roar for Roll Call After three hours of unexpected debate the recommendation was approved, 943 to 548, by a count of hands. A roar for “roll call - ’ went up from the floor. Secretary Kennedy announced that 447 votes. 30 per cent of the total votes cast, would be necessary to obtain a roll call vote. This failed by three votes. The storm broke in the absence of Lewis from the chair, Vice President Philip Murray presiding. The strength of the opposition to the administration was unexpected. While the issue was relatively unimportant, the power of the opposing faction was ekTubted. HOOSIER WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH Clothing Is Fired by Cook Stove. Bn United Prtss TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 2S.— Mrs. Emily McCoskey, 72, a widow, living on a farm near Youngstown, was burned to death when flames bursting from a cook stove fired her clothing. The screams of the woman attracted her. housekeeper, who unsuccessfully tried to fight the flames with a blanket. Mrs. McCoskey died before help could be summoned. Death Ends Lengthy Romance of Hoosier Bn Times Slice in l BELOIT. Wis„ .Tan. 28.—One of the most unusual of Civil War romances—a romance whic hreaehed a climax last fall and which had its beginning sixty-three years before — has ended with the death of Thomas Mann. 84. During the war, Mann, then a youth, enlisted from Indiana. He had a bride whom he was forced to leave behind. Long delays In mail transportation, coupled with Ills frequent change of address, the need for families to move in. order tq find the necessities of life, entered into the lives of the youthful couple. When Mann returned to his old home he was unable to find his wife. Mann remarried. Two years ago his second wife died. Then the 63-year-old romance again began to take form. Nancy Mann, the first bride, finally appealed to the War Department for some definite news of her husband. After some delay she was informed he was living in Sparta, Wis. Nancy went to that city, the couple was reunited and thye lived together for a year. COUNTY COUNCIL MEET A called meeting of *the Marion County council will be held in the next thirty days to consider the bill now pending before the Legislature to appropriate about $52,000 for the equipment-of anew wing to the Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanitarium. The new structure was recently completed. but money was lacking foi equipment.

fourth to the second story. Five of the others were taken to a hospital with serious injuries, but were expected to survive. The fire started last night. Firemen dug for the missing man under searchlights all night and he was not found until after daylight. Priests came to the scene with the ambulances and administered the last rites of the church to the men still buried in the debris. Michael Anzelone was found head down in the debris, hl3 feet held between shattered beams. A priest gave him absolution, but he was taken out alive. |

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Hill COST LEAPS OVERMARK Low Bid Total Far Exceeds Board’s Promise of Only a Million. SHIPP GETS BUSINESS His Ventilators Only Type Contractors Specify. Despite the school board's promise ten months ago that it would build the new Shortridge High School for $1,000,000 or less, bids now being tabulated reveal that the school will cost at least $1,225,000. Ure M. Frazer, board business manager, announced this figure today. Bids were opened by the board last Friday and contracts probably will be awarded Tuesday. Minintum basic bids were: General construction, H. R. Blagg Company of Dayton, Ohio, $849,900; heating, ventilating, and plumbing, Freyn Brothers, $253,372; andielectrical wiring, Hatfield Electric Company, $45,560; a total of $1,148,832. With the addition of bells, a switchboard, tern peraturAregu lators, boilers, drinking fountains and numerous other items not included In the Basic bids, the bas.'c figures will be ..raised to $1,225,000. Jacob H. Hilkene, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said. $42,000 for Plans Original plans of the old board, which lost three of its members Jan. I. 1926, provided for a school with a maximum capacity of 2,500 pupils to cost not more than $1,200,000. J. Edwin Kopf and Frank F. Woolling. architects, were paid $42,000 for the plans, which were approved by (lie State tax board, according to Charles R. Yoke. board member. These plans were discarded w>rn the new majority faction taking office asserted the building could be built at a saving of $200,000. New plans costing approximately ; $61,000, w£re drawn by J. Edwin Kopf and John A. Deerv, architects, and first est.'mates on construction showed an approximate cost of $1,050,000. an excess of on the promised figure. The old plans were discarded after the board majority faction lost its fight, started as soon as it assumed office, to change the site of the new building. This fight waged until April 1, anil delaved for four months the starting of the building. The drawing of the new plans has caused a ten months delay.

Sits Change Blocked The move to change the site from that purchased at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts., in 1920, for $82,000, was successfully blocked by Yoke and Fred Bates Johnson, the minority hold-over faction from the old board, and with the Indianapolis Pub.lc School Welfare Association and other civic organizations. “Johnson and myself agreed with the rest of the board in adopting tl new plans at the $1,050,000 figure,' loke declared today, “because w r e felt that longer delay in beginning actual construction would eventually cost more than could be saved by further fight.” Original plans also left open offers for ventilating systems, the best and cheapest, to be adopted at the discretion <jf the board, Yoke said. Present plans calling for a direct-indirect system has resulted in bids rendered by contractors dealing only in C. C. Shipp's ventilators, Frazer said. Shipp was active in unofficial board activities at the time the old plans were discarded and was often in conference with Theodore F. Vonnegtit, incoming board president, and Charles W. Kern, new board member. Mrs. Lillian Sedwlck, in addition to Vonnegut and Kern, comprised the new majority faction. Speed Necessary “The majority members also said their new plans provided Shortridge would be built in fifteen- months after construction started,” Yoke added. “The old plans provided a margin of two years for the building process.” Ten months having lapsed since the new plans were formulated, observers are skeptical as to the possibility of having the building ready for tenancy by Jan. 1. 1829, when the old Shortridge building, Michigan and Pennsylvania Sts., must be vacated. The State Life Insurance Company purchase contract provides the building be vacated by that date. “We minority members realize every angle of the situation, "Yoke said. “It Is of major Importance, however, that the building be started and completed—almost at any cost. “The public should be in possession of the facts, however, although the building should go on as planned." The proposition of anew Shortridge has been brewing since 1912, delay after delay having postponed definite action. INSURANCE HEADS MEET Twenty district superintendents of the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, with home office representatives, celebrated the close of a “record breaking year” at the annual convention Thursday at the Clay pool Hotel. Speakers were: H. Thomas Head, director of agencies; W. C. Whitney, division superintendent; Charles Biscay, department manager, and J. J. Doyle, publicity manager.

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BANK MESSENGER, TWO OTHERS ARE INDICTED IN LOCAL $5,500 ROBBERY

Favors Cellar for Browning Case Bn United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Jan. 28. —The Browryng case should be “tried in a cellar instead of a court,” said Mayor Will Rogers of Beverley Hills. Cal., speaking before a gathering of National Canners here. “The public is getting fed up on its daily diet of ‘Peaches,’ mush and applesauce," Rogers continued. “If mothers would protect their children as carefully before they get into trouble as afterward, they'd never get into trouble.

MOO’S SPEECH BELIEVED HERALD OF DRY CAMPAIGN Address to Ohio Lawyers Bristles With Attacks on Wets. Bn United Press TOLEDO, Jan. 28. —“Open and undisguised" nullification of the Constitution of the United States was laid to the door of New York and Montana through their action in repealing Stale prohibition enforcement acts by William Gibbs McAdoo In an address before the Ohio State Bar Association here today. McAdoo, or.e of the leading possibilities for the Democratic presidential nomination, uplie’d the position of the ultra-dry wir 'f his party, a stand directly op e the views of Governor Alfred E. mltb of New York, mentioned as his leading opponent in the 1928 convention. The speaker charged that there was an “active and unabashed campaign in favor of nullification" in existence. The speaker charged that there was an "active and unabashed campaign in favor of nullification" in existence. “The long, hard road which lies before us and the long, hard battle for which we must gird ourselves is to break down the power of the corrupt political machines and rings which form the connecting link between crime and politics; and which, not content with holding so many of our Larger cities in their grip, are now insolently reaching out to control the politics of some of our great States and even of the national Government itself,” McAdoo declared. MEMBERSHIP CONTEST "Flappers” and Sheiks” of Khvanis to Start Drive Feb. 1. The Khvanis Club has announced their “flappers” and "sheiks” are awaiting the opening of the 1927 attendance contest. Members with last names from “A” to “Lil” will “flap” their way through the contest, arrayed in subtle pink, chosen as their characterise color. “Lim” to “Z” members of the sheikiest of sheik types, bedecked in a shade of Ingratiating green, will compete against the flappers. Otto N. Mueller heads the affair, which begins Feb. 1. Believe Money Giants Battle for Railroad Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 28.— Yoitffi stood aside on Wall Street today and watched age be served. The young brokers, excepting those directly involved, made way for none other than John D. Rockefeller and L. F. Loree, whom Wall Street believed were engaged In a determined battle for control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. Rockefeller is moving on toward 90 years of age. Loree, who a year ago, despite his years, launched the “Loree merger” of eastern railroads, is 70. $

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Paul Tolan, ‘Victim,’ Held on Larceny Charge—Two Arrested in South. The Marion County grand jury today indicted Paul Tolan, 19, of 830 Bates St., Livestock Exchange Bank messenger; Carl G. Jennings, 24, 130 S. Bancroft Ave. and John Doe, the unknown bandit, in connection with the $5,500 robbery of Tolan last Friday on a Union Stock Yards street car. A man believed to be Jennings, who is named in the indictment as Earl Jennings, and a companion are held as fugitives at Opelika, Ala. Jennings and the unknown bandit were indicted on charges of robbery and auto banditry. The other twp also were indicted with Tolan on a grand larceny charge. Talked With Jennings The youthful bank messenger was held by detectives following the robbery. Tolan admitted talking with Jennings shortly before the hold-up and said the alleged bandit asked Yum to ride to the stock yards in his auto. Belief that Jennings admitted his identity was held by Detective Inspector Claude Worley after Sheriff C. P. Powell wired about the SIOO reward offered for the arrest and conviction of the bandits. Drove Bandit Car Tolan told Detectives Golnisch and Feeney that Jennings drove the bandit car. Although a tatoo mark bears the name of “Carl Jackson.” police say Bertillon description of the man's head answers that of Jennings. The men were held when the visited two girl friends at Opelika. Bertillon measurements were mailed to local police Thursday night. Robert Roe, 19, of 305 S. State Ave. and William Epheards, 18. of 303 S. State Ave., charged with burglarizing the James Reddington drug store 211 S. State Ave. on Jan. 14. admitted Jennings was with them, according to Detectives Brickley and Blumfield. Roe also admitted Jennings asked him to “join them on the job.” detectives stated. Ed Critchfteld. 3215 E. Twentieth St., street car conductor and a taxi driver both told police Jennings held them up. Impeaches Federal Judge Before House Bu I nttrd Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Frank Cooper. United States judge for the northern district of New York, was impeached on the floor of the House today on charges of “high crimes and misdemeanors” by Representative La Guardia, New York. The charges resulted from reported rum running by Government agents in his district.

WAR? China today is a powder magazine—and the men in it aren't any too careful about lighting matches. It is very possible that a costly, bloody war involving half a dozen nations will be the outcome of the present chaotic conditions there. Yet most of us hardly understand what It’s all abcut. We don’t know the background; all the talk about “concessions,” ‘‘extraterritoriality” and so on, puzzles us. Saturday The Times begins a series of three articles explaining the Chinese situation in detail. They are written by Rodney Dutcher, Washington correspondent for NEA Service and The Times. They analyze the clash of'native and foreign interests In China so you can understand It. These stories tell how the foreign concessions were wrung from China by force and intrigue; how ignorant, suojerstitlous coolies are menacing hundreds of American missionaries; how the very nature of China’s situation makes an immediate, peaceable settlement of the crisis improbable. You can't afford to miss these three articles. The first appears Saturday in The Times.

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Move Furnishings Into House; Who? Mrs. Mary Evans, 1751 W. Morris St., supplied the police with a mystery to solve today. Mrs. Evans said she owns a vacant house at 849 Birch St. A few days ago someone moved new furniture into the house. The next day two furniture companies came and moved part of the furniture out. But some still remains. She said the house has never been rented and she has no idea to whom the furniture now there belongs.

SILL WOULD GIVE H. T. DETECTIVES CONSFABLEPOWER Introduce Measure to Permit Ten Persons to Form for Detecting Crimes... All horse thief detectives in Indiana will become constables and the powers of Horse Thief Detective Associations will be strengthened under a bill introduced today in the Indiana House by Representative Frank D. Nolan, Crawfordsville. The bill gives any ten persons the right to organize themselves Into companies for the purpose of detecting crime and apprehending all law violators. The members would have the power to call to their aid other peace officers. Would Be Bonded The measure was introduced, Nolan said, for the purpose of removing fault found with the present law by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. Under its terms each company will have a presiding officer who would have the power to administer oaths to members and with the consent of the county commissioners, they would become constables. Bond would be required of the horse thief detectives after they become constables and they would be considered as peace officers just as though they had been elected as constables. t Arrest Without Warrants They would have power to operate in any part of the State. The proposed law also would give them the power to arrest and in custody without warrant for such time as might be required to get a warrant. The bill went to the committee on public morals by request of its author.

LOCAL STUDENT BARRED BY I. D. Two Ousted for Alleged Risque Articles. Bu Times f-iiecial BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 28. Nathan Davis, a Junior, of 860 Broadway, Indianapolis, ar.d John Henry Johnson of Bloomington, a sophomore, today were denied admission for the second semester at Indiana University for use of alleged risque language in an article in the Vagabond, a student publication, not under faculty supervision. Johnson Is editor and Davis was the author of the article which discussed he “Sophistication” of the modern college student. A faculty committee which investi gated thp article decided it was couched in language injurious to university Ideals. The article declared that the col lege student is juvenile and ludicrous in his attempt to be sophisticated, that “sophistication of the genuine sort Is reserved for an aristocracy.”

Forecast Cloudy tonight and Saturday; with probably rain tonight; moderate temperature; lowest tonight somewhat above freezing.

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POINT IS SCORED FOR ALGER PLEA Butler Student Tells of Tennis Date With Gene on Fatal Day. ATTACKS STATE THEORY Youth May Take Stand in Own Behalf Today. By Eldora Field Times Staff Correspondent DANVILLE, Ind., Jan. 28.—After two setbacks, defense attorneys for Gene Alger, Indianapolis college youth, on trial here for the murder of John J. Buchanan, Indianapolis Negro traffieman, scored this morning when Arthur Cope, 332 N. Euclid Blvd., a sophomore at Butler University, testified that he and Gene had an engagement to play tennis at 1 p. m., the day of the shooting. The State has maintained that Gene had planned to steal an auto that day and drive to Detroit; that he was apprehended in hi3 attempt to ake a car. Alger escaped the officer to whom he was turned over, fled to the Beyer House, 225 N, Capitol Ave., where he shot and killed Buchanan, who was looking for him. The defense maintains that Alger had no intentions of leaving the city or stealing an auto; that lie was falsely arrested and, harrassed by police, shot and killed in self-defense. “What arrangements had you made with Gene to play tennis that day?” defense attorneys asked Cope. “If Gene succeeded in getting a job, he was to call me so I could do something else ” Cope answered. “Did he call you?” “No.” On cross-examination, however, Cope said Gene was a member of the R. O. T. C. at Butler and he had heard him say he enjoyed gun markmanship. The defense suffered a severe blow at the opening of court. Special Judge Edgar Blessing ruled a statement of John J. Fox, a roomer at the Beyer home, could not be admitted as evidence. Judge Edgar Blessing ruled at the opening of the trial In Circuit Court this morning that the defense could not admit as evidence the statement of Henry J. Fox, a roomer at the Beyer House, 225 N. Capital Ave., where the fatal shooting occurred. The statement purported to quote Edmund Boyer, the proprietor, as saying that Buchanan fired at Alger first through a door of a closet in which he was hiding. Beyer, a State witness earlier in the trial said Alger shot firtit. Denies Statement Fox. a defense fitness, was put on the stand Thursday to tell of his interview with Beyer after the shooting. When Otis Gulley, chief defense attorney read the statement*, covering this Interview, Fox suddenly shouted: “I did not say that.” Defense attorneys moved to impeach Fox. and that the statement bo admitted anyhow. Marion County Prosecutor William H. Remy objected and Judge Blessing announced he would rule this morning. Judge Blessing did not rule on the move to impeach Fox. Character witnesses were on the stand most of the morning. Gene, himself, may take the stand in his own behalf late today. Pathos marked the testimony of Elbert Arnett, 2135 S. Emerson Ave. His son, Russell, who recently died, also is said to have had a tennis engagement with Alger, along with Cope. Arnett's testimony, however, was ruled out as hearsay, V hen asked If his son was not deid, Arnett broke down the cheeks of many of the spectators. John D. McKay, 310 N. Euclid Blvd., a character witness, testified this morning that Alger was a member of the Order of De Molay. Mrs. Garl Alger, mother of Gene, testified Thursday. She told of visit(Tum to Page 13) PART OF BODY FOUND Bu Uniter? Press PLATTESYILLE, Wis.. Jan. 28. —A coroner's inquest will be held today following the finding of a woman's torso in the woods near here. The torso Is believed to be that of Mrs Hattie Hales Coffey, whose husband, William N. Coffey, has admitted he killed his wife with a ball bat, hacked the body to pieces and buried each section of the bodv separately.

Collection Taken for Parents Bu Times Svceial DANVILLE, Ind., Jan. 28. Pronounced sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Garl Alger of Indianapolis. parents of Gene Alger on trial for murder here, took concrete form today. Students of Central Normal School took up a collection to furnish funds for the daily trips Mr. and Mrs. Alger are making between here and Indiandpolis. Whenever Mrs. Alger leaves the courtroom, Danville women flock to her and offer sympathy. Judge Edgar Blessing several times has had to warn spectators , for cheering testimony favorable to Alger.