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AIRMEN MAY [TRAVEL BACK r IN COLUMBIA T - Offer of SIOO,OOO to Chamj berlin and Levine for Return Flight. TRIBUTE IN GERMANY President Von Hindenburg Receives American Sky Heroes. f Copyright, 1927, United Press > BERLIN, j'ine B.—Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine may fly back to the United States, Chamberlin United Press today. “An American organization has Offered us SIOO,OOO if we fly back to Roosevelt field,” the flier said. “The offer is so attractive that we are again considering the possibility of returning home by airplane.” Chamberlin discussed his future plans in Europe and told of offers he had received. “I believe it is quite likely we shall leave Berlin in five or six days and fly to Vienna,” he continued. “We have accepted an official invitation from the Austrian government to visit them by air at their capital. We also are planning to fly to Rome, Paris, London, and are considering a flight to Moscow, possibly pausing at Poland on the way. Numerous Offers “Among the hundreds of offers we have received, one is to appear in a circus at home. There are many offers to go into the movies, vaudeville, on the stage, on the lecturing platform and others.” The flier said well meaning people had loaded charms and fetishes on him as tokens of good luck. “I am ; not superstitious,” Chamberlin as- ' fcjired the correspondent. “I took j Rem along merely to please the | donors.” Welcomed by Pi evident Chamberlin and Levine began fill - ing the first of a series of engagements today in which the people of Germany sought to express their admiration for their record breaking airplane flight from New York. The fliers were received at the presidential palace by President Von Hindenburg. About ten years ago Chamberlin, then an inexperienced youth, was joining the United States Army balloon corps, hoping to soar above the armies led by Von Hindenburg. All such was forgotten today. Chamberlin and Levine were welcomed as emissaries of peace, whose flight would add to the friendship already existing between Germany and the Unite dStates. Chancellor Wilhelm Marx will receive the pair at 4:30 and it was expected that all cabinet members I in Berlin would attend the reception. In return for New York’s bestowal of honorary citizenship on Dr. Hugo Eckener, pilot of the Los Angeles from Germany to Lakehurst, N. J., the municipality of Berlin will confer citizenship on Chamberlin and Levine. BURGLARS REMOVE GEMS, EGGS, BACON Bams and Bananas Also Taken by Thieves. W A daylight burglar took loot valued at s2ll from the home of Mrs. Hilda Nowlin, 4626 Graceland Ave., during her absence Tuesday. The burglar used a master key to unlock the rear door. Loot consisted of clothing, jewelery, a hand bag, and a dozen eggs, and dozen bananas from the ice box. Burglars with a taste for bacon and ham, broke a glass at the A. Dale Grocery, 1150 W. New York St., and stole five slabs of bacon and four hams totaling S4O in value. The thieves started to take a sack of sugar, but dropped it. URGES~NEW DRY PARTY Prohibition National Chairman Favors Strong Unit. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., June B. Realignment of all the strong prohibitionists in both major parties into anew and powerful third party was advocated in a speech before prohibition party leaders by Dr. D. Leigh Colvin of New York, chairman of the national committee of the prohibition party. “The major political parties are incapable of achieving effective enforcement of the Eighteenth amend-* ment,” declared Dr. Colvin. Senators frequently recommend appointment of wets as prohibition agents, Colvin said. Fire Damage at Store Smoke from a burning rubbish *ile in the rear of the Edward Traugott dry goods store, 217 W. Washington St., Tuesday night, damaged the. store’s stock several hundred dollars. Traugott estimated. Actual fire damage was slight. The cause of the blaze was undetermined. All downtown fire apparatus responded.

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Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, who bolted the school board majority at a special meeting, creating anew lineup in a battle over bids.

750 START ON CITY-WIDE POLL i City Manager Force Expects Completion This Week. Fifty-nine persons questioned at Washington and Illinois Sts. as to how they would vote in the city manager election, showed preference for the change. The straw vote stood: For, 29; against, 11; undecided, 18. More than 750 city manager movement volunteeer workers were busy today conducting a city-wide poll preparatory to the June 21 election on the manager form of government. The poll was begun several days ago to determine public sentiment and to obttain a list of legal ovters. Women played active parts in precinct organizations. Mrs. Lehman Dunning, women’s organizer, and Roy Lewis, men’s director, expect the poll completed this week. Campaign Chairman Frank E. Gates declared the poll will be the only list to check legal voters, since registration is not required. Meetings scheduled for Thursday. East Sixteenth Street Civic League, Sixteenth Street Christian Church, 8 p. m.; John F. White, speaker. St. John's Evangelical Church. Brotherhood meeting, Leonard and Sanders Sts., 8 p. m.; E. O. Snethen, speaker. Calvin Prather Masonic Temple, Forty-Second Bt. and College Ave.; 8 p. m.; community meeting. Board of Trade annual meeting, 6:30 p. m.; Winfield Miller, speaker. Shelby Street M. E. Church, Shelby and Berwyn Sts.; 9:30 p. m.; E. O. Snethen, speaker, Friday meetings: Central Buick Company, 2917 Central Ave., community meeting, 8 p. m.; Homer Borst, speaker. First Ward meeting, 3525 Massachusetts Ave., 8 p. m.; Roy Lewis, speaker. GUARD POLISH ENVOY Precautions in Moscow After Voikoff Slaying.' By United Press MOSCOW, June B.—Cavalry and infantry of the Red army today guarded the Polish legation here to prevent reprisals for the murder by a Russion named Boris Kowerda of Soviet Minister Pierre Voikoff in Warsaw yesterday. Addressing a note to the polish envoy, M. Patek, the Soviet foreign office said that Moscow had warned Poland and the Polish government "cannot avoid responsibility” for the murder. The note continued that the “Soviet government considers this unparalleled wickedness to have been a part of the whole sequence of acts intended to disrupt its diplomatic missions abroad.” WILLIAM DODD BURIED Stepfather of First United States Soldier Killed in World War. Bn United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., June B. Funeral services for William Dodd, 73, stepfather of James Bethel Gresham, who was the first American soldier killed in the World War, were held here today. He survived his wife, Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, America’s first gold star mother, three months. INSIDE First of series on Lincoln C. Andrews' two-year futile effort to make the United States dry. Page 2. Story and picture of Times-Pub-lix Theater contest winner. Page 2. Coolidge going to angler’s paradise. Page 5. Indiana girl slayer taken from good home, forced to beg in streets. Page 7. Lindbergh’s life story. Page 3.

SPLIT PERILS ‘BIG 3’ RULE OF SCHOOLS

Clash Over Bids Cause of Break in Majority at Special Meeting. MRS. SEDWICK ‘BOLTS’ Strife Stirred When Move Is Made to Reject Lowest Offer. Definite indications that the voting majority in control of the Indianapolis school board for several months has ceased to exist were manifested at a special board meeting Tuesday. First evidence of the impending break came when the board considered awarding contracts to bidders for instaling heating, ventilating, and plumbing in the new addition to School No. 75. Bids before the board were those of Freyn Brothers, Strong Brothers, and the Hayes Company. Recommendation was made that Freyn Brothers heating and ventilating be used at a cost of $5,170 and that Strong Brothers plumbing be contracted for at $1,957, a total of $7,127. Hayes Brothers’ bid for the entire work was $7,019.74. Battle Is Started Commissioner Fred Bates John son suddenly took the center of the stage, saying “This looks like a deliberate attempt to favor Freyn Brothers. Why combine their bid with somebody's else and pay more money?”

Freyn Brothers bid only on the heating and ventilating, their bid being slightly under that of Hayes. When combined with the Strong bid for all work, however, it was larger. Johnson did not wait for an answer. “I move,” said he, “that the bid of Hayes Brothers be accepted as the lowest and best.” He was seconded by Charles R. Yoke, his colleague, in minority in all recent meetings. The two voted “yes.” Charles W. Kern and Theodore F. Vonnegut voted “No.” Shock for President Vonnegut, president, who previously has been with the majority, turned to Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, with a smile. “And what is your vote?” he asked. “I didn’t vote, Mr. Vonnegut, I’m not satisfied with things here.” Vonnegut’s smile faded. Johnson pressed his point. He drew the explanation that the reason the Freyn and Strong bid had been recommended for acceptance was that “Freyn and Strong, would use better material,” namely, Mott equipment. “In the bid advertisement,” Johnson countered, “Nothing was said about specifying the kind of material, was there?” “No,” said Kern, “but it is recognized that the Mott is best.” “Who recognizes it?” “Well” Start All Over “That’s just the answer.” “Well,” Johnson said, “I move we throw out this whole mess of bids and get some more, sepcifying just what we want.” Yoke seconded the motion, and it was carried, with Mrs. Sedwick voting yes. "I’m glad,” said Vonnegut to Johnson, “that you’ve been able to protect your friend, Mr. Hayes.” “My friend!” Johnson exclaimed, “why, I don’t even know the man.” Johnson then proceeded to make Vonnegut admit that he was speak* ing entirely from surmise. Throwing out of bids will delay work on the school three to five weeks. GOING TO GREET LINDY Captain Cook and Lieutenant Halstead Will Fly to Washington. Capt. H. W. Cook, regular army officer, assigned tot he Indiana National Guard as flying instructor and Lieut. Earl Halstead of the 113th Observation Squadron, Indiana National Guard, an Indianapolis police sergeant, will fly to Washington, Thursday, to be at the capital Saturday for the official welcome of Col. Charles Lindbergh. They will leave here at 7 a. m. Thursday from Stout Field and expect to be in Washington by noon. DAM BILU.OOMS LIKELY Next Congress Can’t Shun Project, Says Reclamation Chief. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, June 8. Among the certainties of the next Congress is passage of the Boulder dan. bill for Government development of the Colorado River, according to Reclamation Bureau Chief Elwood Mead, jusc returned from a crip through the West. Mead said today that the popular demand for enactment of the Boulder dam measure, to insure Colorado River flood control, is so great that it would be impossible for the next Congress to Ignore it.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1927

Trails End Famous Juvenile Judge Calmly Awaits End of Service.

Bu United Press ENVER, June B.—ln a small, plainly furnished office here a slightly bald man whose eyes still twinkle merrily despite years of trouble, is waiting patiently for the day when he must close his books. For more than a quarter century, Denvers “Little Giant,” better known throughout the world as Juvenile Judge Ben B. Lindsey, has tinged the stern face of justice with mercy. Today, after helplessly watching the unique edifice of Jurisprudence taken from him by the United States Supreme CourC the father of America’s juvenile law, is calm. There is no bitterness in his speech, rather a note of serious apprehension as he again turns his thoughts to the youth of the nation. than a plain, money-grub-bing politician, he counsels friends. “The court is founded on mefey and understanding,” he has said. “Without both it cannot serve its purpose.” Che famous little jurist has lost none of the defiant spirit which enabled him to force a cold, exacting, public to accept his advanced ideas on justice to mischievous and misguided youth. v “I didn’t have a chance to present my case in court,” he says rather regretfully. “It may be the law, but, it is not justice.” Meanwhile, the blow directed at Judge Lindsey has failed to disturb procedure of his court. Into the courtroom bits of humanity, sad-eyed girls, worried fathers and mothers, errant youths are huddled in chairs awaiting the kindly advice and the disposition of their cases by the world’s greatest “kid” judge. LINDY DECLINES GIFT OF MONEY Refuses Trust Fund for Self and Mother. Bu f nit rd Bren* WASHINGTON, June B.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has declined with thanks the offer of a trust fund to be raised by popular subscription for himself and his mother. The offer, honoring his New York-Paris flight, was made by private individuals through the War Department, and cabled to Lindbergh in London. He wirelessed from the U. S. S. Memphis to Secretary of War Davis, declining the offer. The homecoming of Lindbergh next Saturday will be the "greatest .show on earth,” with the sky as its “big top,” and its “rings” extending far out to sea. It will be an outdoor circus for this section, with the restrictions of official etiquette lifted for America’s spontaneous greeting to her boy flying hero. None can estimate accurately the number who will take part. COLONELCY FOR LINDY Governor Baker Wants Flier Greeted in Rowboat. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 8.Governor Baker of Missouri would have former Attorney General Robert W. Otto take a rowboat out to meet Capt. Charles Lindbergh when the air hero arrives off Washington. Otto will give Lindy a colonelcy In the Missouri National Guard.

Fliers Jeer at Death to Keep Air Mail on I'ime The Times today presents the first st ory In a series of unusual interest and timeliness—the epic tale of the American airmail. Through good weather and bad. day and night. In snite of fog. sleet, blizzards and rain, the airmail pilots wing their way without faltering. These pilots, Lindbergh's buddies, are unsung heroes. Their stories are thrillers. Today s story, the first of ten written by Rodney Dutcher for The Times and NEA Service, makes tljpse thrillers public for the first time. BY RODNEY DUTCHER XEA Service Writer f __ l ASHINGTON, June B.—Over the desert and the mountains, W/ through blizzards, sandstorms and tornadoes, by the light of the sun and the stars, goes the air mail. In this service, carrying the mail between St. Louis and Chicago, rode Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. But his route was only a fraction of the Government’s air mail system and Lindbergh was only one of 170 pilots who reel off 15,572 miles a day over the transcontinental route and its numerous offshoots. Heroes, most of this 170, and hardly one has not faced death as the elements clutched his plane or a vital part gave way. Forty-six of them are Uncle Sam's own men, as this is written, and 124 are employes of. private aircraft companies carrying Federal mail under contract.

Lindbergh was a contract flyer, and Jay the end of summer the whole service will be operated by contract. The Government built up the system, proved its feasibility and now turns it over to private enterprise bonded to carry on with no let-up. Most of the Government’s pilots will remain on their routes as contract fliers. Rapid expansion since the first line was started between Washington and New York in May, 1918. has not been without its toll among the pioneers.

STORM OVER PAVMG HITS CITYJJOARD Civic Club Federation Head Charges Indifference to Public Wishes. CONCRETE DEMANDED Favoritism for Asphalt at Higher Cost Assailed by J. F. White.

The board of works Tuesday was compelled to sit and listen to John F. White, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, declare that it has shown indifference to public desires. White rained criticism upon the board for changing street specifications so property owners can not get concrete paving unless they go through a troublesome special petitioning process. He presented a federation resolution. He asked that concrete be restored to an even basis with asphalt, the material which the board of works has favored. Asphalt is much more expensive than concrete. Mind Is Made Up President Virgil Vanoagrifft, of the board, took tlie verbal spanking quietly and replied impassively: “The board has looked into the* paving question and made up its mind.” The friends of cheaper paving received a further slap when City Civil Engineer Frank C. Lingerie feltcr recommended use of asphaltic concrete on five streets, upon all of which lower bids for concrete had been received. Property owners had asked for concrete in each instance. They may be able to induce the board to heed their wishes by filing special petitions within ten days. These streets are: Pershing Ave., Tenth St. to Lafayette Rd.; Keahng Ave. between Prat:, and Tenth Sts.; Warman Ave, between Tenth and Sixteenth Sts.; Central Ave. between Westfield Blvd. and Rtverview Dr..' and Holmes Ave. between Tenth and Sixteenth Sts. Loophole for Concrete Lingenfelter let up a bit in his war on concrete when he recommended that bids be received on this material, along with others, on two streets where property owners had petitioned for concrete. The streets were Tenth St., between Kealing Ave. and Sherman Dr., and Palmer St., between Spruce St. and State Ave. Lingenfelter recommended awarding of the contract for concrete for Cruft St., between Manker and Shelby Sts., saying he favored concrete for side streets. Concrete was the only paving material bid on. He recommended asphaltic concrete for Eleventh St., between Sherman Dr. and Colorado Ave. and between Rural Ave. and Tuxedo St. The asphaltic concrete bids were 5 cents a lineal foot cheaper than the concrete bids, he said. 1,100 MILES TO SHOW Alabama Officers Fly to Broadway in New Plane. Bu United Press MILLER FIELD. N. Y., June B. Lieut. Don C. Beatty and Capt. E. M. Robinson, Alabama National Guard, were fiflyfling back to Birmingham today after an 1,100-mile flight to New York to see a Broadway show.

Thirty-two pilots and eleven other employes have been killed in the service, but twenty of the pilots crashed to death in the old days before 1923, when old De Haviland planes had not yet been replaced by the safer Douglas models. Last year only two pilots were killed and the service established the astonishing record of 1,273,996 miles flown for each fatality. This record was aided, however, by many hair-raising escapes and Turn to Page 12)

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lowa Travelers Bewail Delay, Ask Only for Needles and Salve, for Hose and Blisters. | IKING halfway across the continent with a worn dollar bill as I l_J I their talisman, two lowa girls Wednesday sat Mournfully in city I * *1 prison, bewailing the sudden setback to their cherished plans. ••Let; us out, give us a needle and thread to sew holes in our stockings and a little salve for heel blisters,and let us finish our hike,” was the plea that Lillian Rector, 19, of Davenport, la., and Edna Eggers, 17, of Blue Grass, la. Police are holding them while they check their story that they left Davenport last Wednesday with the permission of their parents on a hike to see the country. Motor Policemen Carter and Graham took them to police headquarters when they found them in an E. Washington St. restaurant Tuesday night. The iron cot they slept on Tuesday night was the hardest bed they have had since they left their homes, the girls said. Many motorists, they said, gave them rides and they visited Elkhart, Ind.; Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland and Columbus on their trip. They were homeward bound when the rude Indianapolis police interfered, they declared. “Most of our meals were paid for by tourists,” said Miss Rector. “You see, we'd always pull out a dollar and a quarter and offer to pay for our food, but most people wouldn't let us. We’ve almost worn that dollar bill out.”

CALL MOORMAN IN STEVE CASE Prison Trustee to Testify Before Charities Board. BULLETIN Bu Times Special MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., June B.—Robert H. Moore, Stephenson attorney, today asked a charities board member for permission to attend any session before which Stephenson Is called. If this is granted, Stephenson will answer the board’s questions, Moore said. Bu Time* Special MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., June 8 Among witnesses called before the State charities board in the investigation of D. C. Stephenson’s charges of mistreatment in Indiana State Prison is John Moorman, Knox, prison trustee, it was learned today. Moorman was expected here as the charities board members gathered for actual opening of the inquiry. Stephenson has charged that Moorman and Warden Walter H. Daly were involved in a plot which had Stephenson’s physical and financial “undoing” as its ultimate end. The board held to its determination to keep its deliberations secret until it makes its report to prison trustees and Governor Jackson before July 1. Stephenson made his charges in a petition for a ninety-day parole filed with Governor Jackson. Now it appears doubtful if he will repeat the charges in person before the board, unless the hearing is public. Steve’s Plea Denied By United Press GOSHEN. Ind., June B.—The first of two new moves by D. C. Stephenson, former Klan dragon, ended in defeat here Monday when he was denied the order compelling officers of the Michigan City State prison to permit him to consult privately with his attorneys. Judge James S. Drake of Elkhart Circuit Court, after hearing arguments, refused to issue a writ of mandamus against Warden Walter H. Daly of the prison, holding that Stephenson was not entitled to interview his attorneys with guards absent, even though Stephenson contended it was essential to the appeal from his life sentence. AIRMEN HERE JULY 5 Ford Reliability Tour Plans Made in Indianapolis. Plans for reception of the annual Ford national reliability airplane tour were made Tuesday, when Lieut. William Erwin, U. S. N., arrived here to make advance plans. Lieutenant Erwin was traveling in a three-engined, eight-passenger Fokker monoplane. He,came to Indianapolis from Cincinnati. The reliability fliers will be in Indianapolis July 5. The tour wili cover approximately 4,000 miles. Woman. 82, a Suicide Mrs. Jane Wilson, 82, died early this morning at city hospital after taking poison at the home of her son, Daniel T. Weir, 2142 Ashland Ave. She was in ill health.

EARL CARROLL ENTERS PRISON Carried Through Side Door on Stretcher. Bu United Press FEDERAL PENITENTIARY, ATLANTA, Ga., June B.—Earl Carroll was carried on a stretcher through a side door of the big prison here today. He was given the number 24.909. The young theatrical producer, chief rival of Ziegfeld as a glorifier

of the American girl, had his eyes closed and seemed utterly unconscious of his surroundings as he was moved through long corridors to the prison hospital. He entered a few minutes before 6 a. m. (8 a. m. eastern daylight time). From that moment began the sentence he has managed for months to evade —a year and a day for denying to

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a Federal grand jury that Joyce Hawley, show girl, bathed publicly in champagne on the stage of Carroll’s New York theater at a party on Feb. 22, 1926. There was a startling contrast between the gray, haggard-looking face on the stretcher and the smiling, confident young man who seemed to take it all as a joke when he was tried before Federal Judge Goddard in New York last year. ‘FIXING DEALS' SIFTED Political Corruption Charges Delved Into Further. Various alleged financial deals with which city administration officials are said to have been linked, were being investigated by county prosecutors today. It is understood the deal involved many alleged gambling games and bootlegging interest, from which money was supposed to have been received for political support. Lines into the local underworld have been obtained by the prosecutors carrying on the political corruption probe, it was indicated. Pleas Oliver, cigar store operator, at 122 W. Ohio St., arid politician, was a witness this morning. Oliver is reputed to have had much influence during Mayor Shank's term and this administration. No witnesses were heard this afternoon. The prosecutors attended the funeral of William F. Elliott, Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott’s father. Presence of William H. Armitage, politician, before the prosecutors Tuesday, led to the belief he was relating more facts about city politics. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 59 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 61 11 a. m 73 8 a. m 67 12 (noon) ... 74 9 a. m 69 1 p. 75

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CONGRESS TO BE CONVENED OCUORIS President Coolidge Decides Special Session Will Be Called. TAX CUTS SCHEDULED Money Bill, Election Contests, Flood and Farm Relief on Program. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June 8-Presi-dent Coolidge will call an extra session of Congress Oct. 1 or 15, Senator Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, announced today after a visit at the White House. The necessity for action upon deficiency appropriation bills, tax reduction, election contests and Mississippi flood rehabilitation legislation and farm relief has caused the decision. Smoot said. The first business will be the deficiency appropriation bill, killed in a filibuster at the closing moments of the last session. This prevented the Government from receiving $40,000,000 of necessary appropriation funds. Election Fights Loom The election contests of SenatorElect Vare. Pennsylvania, and Sena-tor-Elect Smith, Illinois, both Republicans, also will have to be disposed of and are expected to lead to considerable debate. Smoot said his finance committee would meet In joint session with the House Ways and Means Committee in September, to frame anew tax reduction bill for presentation to the House as soon as the special session meets. Smoot said he believed the bill would carry $300,000,000 reduction. Formal Call Waits The call for the session will not b? sent out by President Coolidge for some time yet. Under the law Coolidge can wait until three weeks before the time of convening to issue his call. The regular session would open normally in December. Smoot’3 announcement confirmed a United Press dispatch of several weeks ago stating that Republican leaders and Coolidge had decided on a special session. WOULD AVOID TRIAL WITH MISS MACKAYE Doctor Desires Separate Hearing in Fist Death Case. Bu United Press • _ _ LOS ANGELES, June B.—Dr. Walter Sullivan, Hollywood physician, charged jointly with Dorothy Mackaye on two felony counts growing out of the death of the actress’ husband, Ray Raymond, will ask for a separate trial when the case is called June 16, his attorney said today. Dr. Sullivan and Miss Mackaye are charged with attempting to conceal the facts of Raymond's death, for which Paul Kelly, screen juvenile, recently • was sentenced to serve from one to ten years in San Quentin prison. RUTH SEEKS NEW TRIAL After Brief for Similar Action In Another “Love Case.” Bu United Press MOUNT VERNON. 111., June B. The brief which won Mrs. Elsie Sweetin anew trial for murder may be used in an effort to save Mrs. Ruth Snyder from the electric chair, it was learned here today. Mrs. Sweetin, like Mrs. Snyder, was convicted on a charge of slay-i ing her husband. Each woman was tried with the man alleg’d to have assisted her. Attorneys for Mrs. Snyder have asked for a brief copy. Mrs. Sweetin was convicted with the Rev. Lawrence Hight, Ina, 111., now serving a life sentence. She was granted anew trial on the ground that she should have had a separate first trial.

Anything / You Want? Times want ad pages are a catalogue of anything you want or need. Read the want ad pages for unusual offerings. They are readable as news. Here are a few sample items: PORCH swing, reed rocker, piano bench, secretary, Tong kitchen table, largo chair and rocker. FREEZERS and refrigerator, comtara, bargains. All sizes and makea. DOO, English bull; four white feet, white chest, pug nose, brlndle, license and collar; nice reward for same. BUNGALOW: new. 2-bedroom; bathroom (no fixtures), basement and furnace; near Speedway Rd.; (300 cash. (39 per month. DODGE COUPE. 1925: lots of extras; good mechanical condition; a bargain for quick tale; terms. VICTROLA, "Victor;" good condition; (29; 20 records. ________

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