Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 319, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1927 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 319

TWO GRAND JURORS OFF TAX LISTS

LOBBYISTS EXPM Four Utility Groups Spent $20,317 During Recent Legislative Session. PLACE REPORTS ON FILE Insull’s ‘Guardsmen’ Get * the Biggest Pay. Sixty-four registered lobbies spent $42,3-11.73 during the recent Indiana Legislature, according to reports tiled with Secrctry of State Frederick E. Schortenieicr. Success of the utilities lobby which managed to have killed any remedial legislation dealing with the Indiana public service commission and the Spencer-Shively utility law, possibly may be accounted for by the fact that their lobbyist received and spent more money than others. A total of $20,317 was reported paid in salaries and expenses for four utility lobbies. Instill Bill Heavy The Northern Indiana Public Service Company, insull utility, turned in two expense accounts. One submitted by Paul R. Dunten, La Orange, amounted to $4,400 and the other by William Mclnerny, South 'Bend, totalled $6,000. Combined expenses were listed at $2,900 and the remainder was for salary of the legilative agents. The Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern traction line expended $0,517 under the guidance of Charles Kelso, most of which Is listed for salaries. The Union Traction Company is down for S4OO. W. A. (Red) McClellan. said to be representing that company, was much In evidence at the Stnfehouse during the regular ••'-slon and the LTtldge ’TJfeStth imdiluent trial. O!eo Cost, $2,384 Vnolher law-blocking lobby that l.yrfctmed well was that of the oleomargerine manufacturers. The Oleomargerine Institute, Washington, D. C., is down as having expended *2.384. The Nut. Margerine Company has two bills of $52 each, expended for “meals, cigars and entertainmet.” The original bill Introduced in the House was to prevent use of oleomargerine In Indiana Institutions, except penal. As finally passed in the Senate the bill eliminated all features but the placing of placards advertisig use of oleomargerine on restaurant walls. This ts already required by Federal statute. Barbers’ Money Wasted Lobbyists not so fortunate were the barbers, who spent a total of $2,503, only to have their licensing bill “pocket vetoed’’ by the Governor, and the Indiana Hairdressers and Cosmotologists, who spent $852 and whose bill suffered the same fate. Chiropractors spent $4,048 and tailed to block the bill bringing them Jnder the medical licensing board, fcaturopaths spent SBOO for their 4>bby. Labor expenditures included: Indiana Federation, $2,021; Railway Conductors, $4,000: Brotherhood of Trainmen, $1,648: Firemen and Engineers, $1562; United Mine Workers, S6OO, and Carpenters, $630. The Anti-Saloon League lobby ™ didn’t even buy a soft drink, according to account they filed, showing no expenditures. TERRORIZES VICINITY Garrett Green’s Shotgun Escapade Ends as Police Appeal*. Garrett Green, 34, of 2183 College Ave., is in the city prison charged with vagrancy, intoxication and shooting inside the city limits. !'o is alleged to have spread : ror in the vicinity of his home while he paraded in the street with a loaded shotgun, Thursday night. He tired one charge into a store front, took auto keys from Paul •ting, 624 E. Twenty-First St., and irove the car away, police said. Charles Maloney, 660 E. TwentyFirst St., told police ho took a number of shells from Green, and took him home before he went on his spree. Police found Young's auto, and. a short distance away located Green. He whs still toting the shotgun.

$lO Offered for W at er works A $45,000 waterworks for $lO. That is what the town of Long Beach, Ind., petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission for todny and the surprising feature is that the privately owned Dong Beach company waterworks is willing to sell its plant, valued at $45,000, to the city for $lO. Orphie W. Grotto is president of the*company and also of the town board.

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Daylight Saving Slightly Ahead Daylight savings advocates had a slight edge in the straw vote conducted by The Times. An ordinance establishing daylight saving in Indianapolis is pending in city council. Out of 627 ballots received up to today those favoring daylight saving led by fiftylive votes. The vote stood. 341 for daylight saving and 286 against.

MOTHER IS SLAIN FROM AMBUSH Daughter Is Also Shot— Authorities Baffled. Bu United Press CLINTON, Ind., April 15. —Mrs. John Smith, 48, died in a hospital here today from wounds received Thursday when she and her daughter Margaret, 19, were shot from ambush near here. Mrs. Smith never regained consciousness, receiving almost a full charge of buckshot in the head. Her daughter was shot in both arms and through the lip, but will recover. John Smith, husband of Mrs. Smith and stepfather of Margaret, was questioned concerning the shooting, but was released. Authorities said they had no information to warrant holding him and that there was no tangible clew on which to work. The shooting occurred at a lonely spot in the country road just north of Syndicate, near here. The mother and her daughter were en route In a one-horse wagon to Clinton. Their assailant fired from ambush when the mother dismounted to pick up some article that, had dropped from the wagon. The mother fell unconscious. The daughter dismounted to assist her mother and caught a fleeting glimpse of the assailant who fired again, hitting her. She fled to a neighbor's house. SAPIRO WILL TALK MORE - - * - . Libel Case Plaintiff, on Stand 13 Hays, Faces More Questions. Bu United Press DETROIT, April 15.—With court adjourned until Monday morning, attorneys in the Ford-Saplro million dollar libel suit today were preparing for the “clean-up" which will end the cross-examination of Aaflfn Sapiro. Sapiro, who sued Henry Ford for alleged libelous attacks in Ford’s paper, the Dearborn Independent, published here, is expected to remain on the witness stand for the greater part of the coming week. He has already been under cross-examina-tion for thirteen days. TO CONSIDER PRINTING Senator Harlan and Governor to Talk Dearth Case Monday. Senator Denver C. Harlan (Rep.), Richmond, chairman of the committee charged with printing and transcript of testimony In the Judge Dearth impeachment trial, will confer with Governor Jackson Monday. Jackson declared his unwillingness to pay for printing from his contingent fund, and that he did not mean to Include this cost when he agreed to pay the Senate trial expense. Harlan and other committee members are attempting to persuade him to carry out the Senate order. Murder Trial Set Bu United Press RICHMOND. Va„ April 15.—Trial of Dr. George Reayis, prominent Goochland County physician, formerly of Lafayette, Ind., on a charge of murdering Gilbert Lacey was today set for May 2. Reavis, it Is alleged, shot Lacey who was making a disturbance in front of Reavis’ home.

‘SOMETHING WARNED ME,’ SAYS CAVE-IN SURVIVOR “ ‘Fate of Floyd Collins’ Was Ringing in My Ears,” Workman Says, Describing 25-Minute Burial. .

“Something made me straighten up, something saved my life,” declared Abraham Cravens, 49, of 1519 E. Minnesota St., recovering at city hospital from injuries received when he was buried up to his neck at the bottom of a nine-foot sewer trench this morning. „ Other workmen near the trench, at 820 E. Sixty-Third St., heard Craven’s cries for help, and with the aid of city firemen, rescued him after twenty-five minutes of furious digging. “But I couldn't have called out to them.” Cravens said from his bed. “They’d never known that I was gone, until too late, If this strange warning hadn’t come,” said Cravens. —■ “I hadn’t felt right about the digging from the time I began work at 7 this morning. I’ve got a graphophone record at home —a song about Floyd Collins‘who was buried in that mine in Kentucky. I’ve been playing it lately and somehow it was on my mind this morning/ The dirt looked treacherous

5,000-BEAT MOVIE FOR ! CITY, PLAN Fox Film Company to Build Large Downtown Picture House. LINK IN NATIONAL CHAIN Part of New Riley Hotel Building Sought. Announcement that he will build a downtown motion picture theater in Indianapolis, was made today in New York by William Fox, head of the Fox Film Corporation, according to a United Press dispatch. The theater, It was announced, will seat 5,000* persons and will be called the Fox-Roxy. It will be the second of a “Roxy” chain. Fox recently took over the Roxy Theater in New York, the largest movie theater in the world. Plans Ten Houses At the local Fox offices, it w*as said, nothing definitely is known here about the plans. Fox has plans underway for erection of theaters in ten key cities, it was said. Ira M. Holmes, attorney, declared a representative of the company had negotiated with him for a site in the proposed $3,500,000 James Whitcomb Riley Hotel at Kentucky Ave. and Illinois St. The agreement has not been signed, Holmes said. An engineer and architect of the film firm visited Indianapolis sev eral months ago and surveyed the hotel location with the view of locating the movie house near the new Indiana Theater, Washington St. near Capitol Ave. Entrance at Point Specifications of the ne.w hotel call for offices and lobby o nthc second floor, with the first floor a movie house. The entrance wopjjj be on the point. The Fox interests sought a thirtyyear leave of the James Whitcomb RHey Hotel Company, of which Holmes is president. It was rumored that the rental for the first ten years would be $125,000 annually. The tentative arrangement was for a rental “step-up" every ten years. The hotel site has a frontage of 186 feet on Illinois and 274 feet on Kentucky Ave., Holmes said. SEEK ACCIDENT DRIVER Autoist Runs Down Roy in Safety Zone Faces Reckless Driving Charge. Virgil Adams, 15, of 1058 N. Holmes St., is in city hospital with | serious .foot and body bruises received today when struck by an auto driven by John O’Neil, Apt. 111, Seville, Illinois and Seventeeth Sts. Police, who said O'Neil drove away from the scene while they were getting information, were charged with finding and arresting him on a charge of reckless driving and assault and battery. Witnesses said the boy was standing in a safety zone at Vermont and Illinois to await the passing of Don Sowers, 31, of 777 N. Meridian St., who was driving north on Ilinois. O’Neil, going the same direction, is said to have attempted to pass Sower’s car and in doing so struck Adams, knocking him to the pavement. O’Neil’s car careened into Sowers machine. Protest Death Sentence Bu Timex Six-rial TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 15. Resolutions have been prepared for adoption by a committee, appointed by the Central Labor Union, asking President Coolidge to intercede in behalf of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, sentenced to die in Massachusetts July 10.

sandy soil, you know. "I was working along, bent down, when I either heard or felt—l can't tell which—a little sliding behind me. I straightened up and it was just in time. A moment after, the big cave-in on each side was down upon me—clear to my neck. If that ‘something’ hadn't warned me, I would have been borne down in that bending position flat on my face in several inches of water. I'm more than grateful that that premonition —whatever it saved me.” Police Lieut. Fred Drinkut and squad administered first aid and sent Cravens to the hospital. He may have Internal injuries the doctors said, but his condition is not serious. The men who took turns with shovels in rescuing Cravens were Jesse Johns. Negro, 820 X. Oriental St. and John Sims, Negro. 1455 Massachusetts Ave.. contractors; Paul Swafls, plumber, 1152 N. Tecumseh St.; Fire Captain P. J. Reilly and Firemen Arthur Scliaffner, Marion Wildrick and Carl Sims.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1927

HOLE IN CENTRAL AYE. PAVEMENT OVERTURNS AUTOMOBILE IN YARD

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A hole in the pavement is hlatncd for causing this auto to overturn in a yard at Central Ave. and Thirteenth St. today.

SEE SOLUTION OF Ml CRISIS Tentative Agreement Is Reached. | Bu Timex surrinl TEltltE HAL'i’E, Ind.. April 15. Final settlement next week of the coal mining suspension in the strip mines of the State and resumption of work in that branch of tlie industry was seen today as practically certain. A tentative contract agreement was reached Thursday night by the committee of six representing the Indiana Producers' Association, strip mine operators, and District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America. Tlie agreement was referred to the sub-committee of thirteen mineroperator negotiators today for approval and then will be referred, it is believed the middle of next week, to the full conference of mine worker-operator representatives for final approval. Terms of the agreement reached are not available at this time. Strip mine production is reported to represent about 20 per cent of the industry in tho State. $25,000 in Gems Stolen Bu t ailed Press PHILADELPHIA. April 15Gems valued at more than $25,000 were stolen from the automobile of a salesman in the wholesale jewelry district, police reported today. The jewels were the property of Philip Marenstein of New York. Dirigible in Flight Bu United Press LAKEHURST. N. J.. April 15. The dirigible Los Angeles took off today for a training flight. The dirigible headed duo south. Since plans of the flight were not made public, the station here will keep in touch with the ship by radio. Expect Mayor Back Today Mayor Duvall, who left the city Thursday declaring he planned to attend a traffic safety conference in Chicago, was expected to return to Indianapolis today. He had planned to leave Chicago by motor this morning. Resists Bandits; Shot Bu United Press DETROIT. April 15.—Dorris Llewellyn, 35, cashier of a restaurant here. Is believed dying in the receiving hospital from wounds received when he resisted three bandits who tried to take $2,500 from him. Two Die in Fire Bv United Press SAYRE, Pa., April 15.—Two men were burned to death here today when fire swept a large bunk house of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The dead are Carl Johnson and Fred Meher. Fliers Turn Homeward Bu United Press SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Republic, April 15.—The United States Army’s pan-American fight squadron was here today preparing to take off on the next homeward stage of Its flight through Central and South America. Courthouse Opposed Bu United Press KOKOMO, Ind., April 15. —The State tax board will decide whether Kokomo shall have anew courthouse. Opponents of the plan to build anew $650,000 building have filed a remonstrance against a bond issue to finance the project. Hourly Temperatures G a. m 50 10 a. ni 59 7 a. m 5! 11 a .m 64 8 a. m 53 12 (noon) .... 69 9. a. m 53 1 p. 71

John Mclnnis Loses Control of Car as Street Breaks Rear Wheel. A hole in the street is blamed for the accident that sent the automobile driven hy John Mclnnis, 3128 Park Ave., into a yard at the southwest corner of Central Ave. and Thirteenth St., and caused it to turn over early today. Mclnnis was not hurt. Mclnnis said he was driving south in Central Ave., when he turned out to avoid striking ar approaching automobile. His car struck a hole in the pavement, Mclnnis said, breaking the left rear wheel. Mclnnis lost control of the machine and it crashed over the curb, across the sidewalk and turned on its side in the yard. Dual Tragedy Halts Legislative Session Bu United Press SACRAMENTO, Cal.. April 15.—A ,dual inquest was scheduled today into the deaths of Harry Hill, .Dos Angeles corporation lobbyist, and Miss Maybelle Wallace, 33, clerk in an office in the State Capitol building. A session of the State Legislature was disrupted yesteVday when Hill escaped from a hotel, where he was under ca*e of a physician and a nurse, made his way to the young woman's office, shot and killed her, and ended his own life by firing a bullet into his brain. Hill and Miss Wallace were formerly close friends, but became estranged. WIFE SLAYS POLICEMAN Detroit Woman Confesses Fatal Sliooling During Quarrel Over Man. Bu-United Press DETROIT, Mich.. April 15.—Mrs. Carrie Quinn today confessed to slaying her husband, Joseph Quinn, 40, a policeman, according to an announcement by police detectives. Quinn was fatally wounded yesterday afternoon after returning home from work. In a written statement the officer accused his wife of shooting him during a quarrel over a neighbor, John Z. Doriot, 30. Doriot Is held as a witness.

MYSTERIOUS BLAST OF GAS TANK BURNS BOY • Youth Playing About Auto Runs Screaming With Burns From Garage After Puzzling Explosion.

Mysterious explosion of the gasoline tank of a Ford touring car today seriously burned Arthur Wheeler, 5, son of Mrs. Blanche Wheeler, 210 G Barth Ave. The boy is in city TWO CHILDREN SOUGHT Believed Kidnapped in Arkansas Bayou; Note Found. Bu United Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 15. Two children, were, being sought through the Fourche Bayou section today in the belief they are held by kidnapers. The children are Lonnie White, 11. and Floella McDonald, 11. The boy disappeared Monday and the girl Tuesday. Late yesterday posses, composed of Boy Scouts and prominent citizens, came upon a small gasoline coupon book on which was written: “Come to the Fourche; w*e are alive.” The message was written In a childish scrawl and the coupon book was identified as one the boy had carried. Eviction Notices Served Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 15. Preliminary eviction notices affecting about 500 families were issued by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company today as a move In preparation for resumption of operations on the nonunion basis.

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ELECTION PLANS , ABE PERFECTED City Manager Committees Decide Next Step. Members of the campaign and finance commutes of the city manager organization met at noon today and perfected plans for the manager election expected to be held in June. Frank E. Gates, campaign committee chairman, has announced an organization will be built up from the precincts, with each of the city's 225 precincts in direct charge of a campaign manager. City manager attorneys announced that the appeal of their fight against tho “mayor savior" nmendjrrent to the city manager law. would be filed early next week in Supreme Court. City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr. said he would complete examination of the city manager petition by Saturday noon, the expiration of the five-day period stipulated by iaw. Boyce said he would certify his findings to the council Monday night. Dodging Dodges Still Dodging in Hawaii Bu United Press HONOLULU. April 15.—Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dodge continued their merry game of “you dodge me and I’ll dodge you” today. Dodge was on the S. S. Wllhclmina, bound for Kahului on the Island of Maui, while Mrs. Dodge was due to arrive in Honolulu on the S. S. Haleakala from Hilo on the Island of Hawaii. Dodge was scheduled to return Sunday. lie arrived here early In the week after he had caught a liner out of San Francisco after a chase by airplane and speedboat. It was believed he was seeking a reconciliation with his wife, who had been here for sonic time recuperating from an illness. She went to Hilo, however, and his departure again delayed their meeting.

hospital with burns covering his face, neck and hands, but will live, hospital attaches said. Tho accident happened while the boy was playing in the automobile in the garage at the Wheeler home. “Arthur had been in the yard only a minute or two when I heard an explosion that sounded like a revolver shot," his mother said. “I ran out and found him screaming with pain. His face was a mass of burns where the flaming gasoline had struck him. We hurried him to the hospital.” Mrs. Wheeler could not explain the cause of the accident, nor was an explanation offered to police by garage men. The car, parked in the family garage, contained no battery. The motor was not running. The child had no matches, the mother said. The car caught fire, and, according to police report, a fire alarm was sounded. The fire department did not respond, the police rep art said, but the fire was put out hy neighbors. Department officials said the alarm was not answered because of confusion of addresses. Easter Lilies Plentiful Bu United Press NEW YORK. April 15.—Easter lilies were plentiful here this year. Orchids, however, were scarce and high. Some were selling as high as $lO each.

Achey, Who Made Bribing Charge One, Chamberlain Other; County Clerk Puzzled FOUR OFFICIALS CHECK RECORDS Jury Commissioners and Hutsell Do Not Know Why Names Were In Box Four county officials today searched the county assessor’s lists and the lax duplicates in the county treasurer's office and failed to find the names of Claude A. Achey, 641 E. Thirty’l'hird .St., and James F. Chamberlain, 13J6 W. Thirtieth St., Marion County grand jurors. The law provides that grand jurors must he at least householders and their names appear upon the tax duplicate. Achey is the grand juror who made an affidavit that James E. Armitage offered him a job and a $2,600 bribe if he would vote against indictment of Mayor John 1/. Duvall. Armitage is 1 the brother of William 11. Armitage, former political dictator at j city hall, who seeks to regain his lost prestige.

Prosecutor William H. Remy | Thursday presented a motion for discharge of the entire grand jury to Criminal Judge James A. Collins, based on Ache.v’s affidavit. No Real Estate Mrs. Claude A. Achey told The Times that she and her husband own no real estate and, so far as she knows, have paid no taxco upon personal property. The tax duplicate shows that A. Achey and wife. Maggie. 205 N. Belle Ylett PI., own real estate. They are relatives of Claude A. Achey. Mrs. A. Achey said that so far as she knew the Claude A. Acheys own no property. A search of the transfer of title record in the county auditor's office disclosed no transfer of property to either Achey or Chamberlain. The county assessors’ books were searched for the names of Achey and Chamberlain by County Assessor Jack Douglas and his deputy, William Reisner. The tax duplicates were searched by Deputy Treasurer Charles Clark and a woman assistant. Jury commissioners were interested in the discovery by the other officials that the names of the grand jurors do not appear on the tax duplicates. According to regular procedure the commissioners make up lists from the tax duplicate adn recheck to make sure they are right. The names then are put on slips and placed In the jury box. As grand or petit jurors are needed the slips are drawn from the box. How the names of Achey and Chamberlain got into the box was not explained. Lists Recheeked Alex R. Holliday, jury commissioner, said: “The law provides that jurors must be freeholders or householders. Whether a prospective juror is a freeholder or householder should be developed on cross-examination. The names v 7 e place in the box are taken from tax lists that have been rechecked." Told of the discovery that Achey and Chamberlain names were not on the tax duplicate Judge Collins said: I asked these men if they lived with their families and were householders and they replied yes.” Harry C. Hendrickson, attorney, who frequently sits as a special judge In Criminal Court, and who is a former Republican County chairman, is the other jurj4 commissioner. County Clerk George O. Hutsell, who acts with the two jury commissioners in drawing names of persons for jury service, said he could not understand how Achey and Chamberlain's names were drawn. “Would Like to Know’’ “I would like to know, myself,” he said. Records show that the name of Dayton C. Condon, stepfather of Achey, was drawn after Achey's. Hutsell stated that Condon's name also was not on the tax duplicate. On the jury list Achey is listed as living at 641 E. Twenty-Second St. Sheriff Omer Hawkins said that he went to that address to summon Achey for grand jury service and was unable to find him. He then called relatives of Achey, hut they were unable to tell where Achey lived, the sheriff said. That night Achey called him and said he learned from the newspapers he had been drawn for jury service, Hawkins said. Achey’s correct address is 641 E. Thirty-Third St. Judge Collins today said the motion presented by Remy asking discharge of the jury* 1 has not been listed formally as filed. “The records of the court do not show It has been filed; it has only been presented by Mr. Remy,” the judge said. The matter will ho disposed of Monday, he said, however. Jackson Paroles Five Paroles have been granted by Governor Jackson to Joe Harris, sentenced March 5, 1925, in Marion Criminal Court to two to twenty-one years for manslaughter; Charles Adams, Lake County, two to twentyone, manslaughter; Peter Benedick, ten to twenty-one, robbery, Lake County; Pete Brook, two to five, Putnam County, .escaping State Farm; Elmore Thompson, Marlon County, j two to fourteen, burglary, July 21,' 1923.

Forecast Unsettled with probably rain tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature.

MARION COUNTY

TWO CENTS

On Jury , but Not on Tax Lists

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C'laWrie A. Achey (letfi), and James F. Chamberlain.

GOOD FBDAY IS OBSERVED TODAY All Churches of City in Special Services.. Appropriate services commemorating the passion and death of Christ j on the cross were held in Indianapolis churches today, Good Friday. Fifty Protestant congregations participated in six union meetings, while special services were conducted in all Catholic churches. Easter Sunday will be ushered In by customary sunrise carol on Monument Circle, special masses, in Catholic churches and appropriate programs in v Protestant Churches. Finds Notice of Divorce , Kills Self Bu Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind.. April 15. When he found a notice left by Sheriff Forester L. McClain that his wife had filed suit for divorce, Ernest Adsit, Wells County fanner, hanged himself to a rafter In his barn, near Montpelier. FACING LIQUOR CHARGE Son of Late Former Secretary of State Knox Arrested. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. April 15.—Philander C. Knox Jr.. 39, son of the late former Secretary of State, was to appear In court today with his colored butler, Henry Alexander Barnes, 55, on charges of intoxication and possession of two pints of liquor. The two spent a few hours in jail yesterday before furnishing ball. They were arrested in a parked automobile. 75 Hurt as Train Goes Into Washout P.u T'nitfd Press NATCHITOCHES, La., April 15. —Fifteen persons were injured, six seriously, when southbound Texas & Pacific train Orleans, ran Into a washout four miles north of here. Heavy rains undermined the tracks, causing the washout. Bu United Press HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 15— The engine and four passenger coaches of the Memphis Special on the Southern Railway, on route from that city to Chattanooga, Tenn., were derailed four miles vest of Stevenson, Ala., near here today. According to first reports, no one was killed. Several injured were removed to a hospital at Stevenson. Cause of the derailment has not been learned. Raises Crucifixion Issue Bu United Press OMAHA, Neb., April 15.—Christ was crucified on Ash Wednesday and not Good Friday, Mrs. Carl Gray, wife of the president of the Union Pacific Railroad nnd Bible lecturer, believes. She contends Friday evening and Sunday morning cannot bs counted as two of the three dayj said in the Bible to have elapsed between the cruciflxian and resurrection.