Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 15,1927

JEMY TELLS JURORS DUVALL SOUGHT BRIBE OF ARMITAGE; DEFENSE DENIES CONSPIRACY Prosecutor and Counsel for Mayof* Outline Their Cases in Opening Statements of Sensational Political Corrupt Practices Trial. SECRETIVE TRIP TO ILLINOIS IS DESCRIBED Lawyers Give Opposing Versions of Conversation Between Pair About Appointment of Two Board of Works Members and City Engineer.

Within an hour Wednesday afternoon, Mayor John L. Duvall, on trial for violation of the corrupt practice act before Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley, was portrayed as a "solicitor of bribes” by State’s attorneys and as an "innocent man Heho would not barter or sell any place in his administration” by his pwn attorneys. Prosecutor William H. Remy, m the opening statement to the Jury, related what his evidence would show and Martin M. Hugg, one of fehe defense attorneys, told the story Tus they will present it. Remy read the jury an affidavit Ireturned May 17 against Duvall. Met on Street Remy said the evidence would Show that before the 1925 primary Duvfell had sought the assistance of William H. Armitage, but had been refused. He said that on primary day in 1925, Duvall and Armitage met on Indiana Ave., asserting to Armitage that “he had him beat with the votes on the inside and the organization on the outside.” At this time Duvall suggested he and the political leader “get together,” Remy declared the evidence will show. Accordingly, Remy said, Duvall later went to Armitage's home, where the latter agreed to support Duvall in the race for the mayoralty. "What do you want out of it?” Duvall is supposed to have asked. Everything “Jake” “Two men on the board of works and the city engineer,” Armitage replied. “All right, what will it be -worth to you?” • “It will be worth $10,000.” And Duvall said that would be "all right, too,” Remy declared. “How do you know it will be all right?” Armitage asked Duvall, according to Remy. “Ypu don’t know Who I will name.” But Duvall assumed the appoint- . rtients would be satisfactory as the Agreement was that Prank LingenPFelter should become city engineer sind William H. Freeman on the board of works under Lew Shank, should be reappointed, Remy told the jury. : The prosecutor asserted Duvall ■greed to the appointments and Armitage agreed to pay the money. ; Remy said a total of $14,500 was given, in two payments of $5,000 each and an additional $4,500. Lett City After Election “The evidence will show that immediately after the election Duvall ■nd Armitage were to leave Indianapolis and go some place and Srrange things,” Remy related. “Duval disappeared, and on Nov. 6, 1925, si relative or friend of Duvall went tp Armitgae’s house and handed Him a note from Duvall telling him to be in the Taswell Hotel at Pekin, 3|1., Nov. 7. “Armitage went there. He drove $Ol night in the rain and registered at the Taswell house in Room 10 as .William Towsey, Indianapolis. • “Armitage had breakfast, went into the lobby and in a short time Was approached by William C. Buser, brother-in-law of the mayor, who made a few remarks about the Weather. Armitage told him he was jfrom Indianapolis. Feared Newspaper Man - “Buser explained who he was and told Armitage to get out of the hotel because an Indianapolis newspaper lian was registered there.” ; According to Remy, they drove to MSpringfleld, 111., and registered in a rjiotel there, where Duvall and Armitage talked over their plans. They discussed appointment of Charles J. Orbison, national Klan official, as corporation counsel. Then, according to Remy, this Conversation took place: Cold Feet Alleged “Bill, you gave me $14,500,” Duvall paid. “I’ll have to give it bacjf.” : “Why?” Armitage asked. “Because I’ll not be able to go through with it. I don’t- think I Can do it.” Armitage said he "guessed he’d go On back to Indianapolis,” but before he left, Duvall is supposed to have •aid: - “Well, I guess I’ll keep my promise after all.” A few days after Armitage’s return, Buser is supposed to have gome to his house with the suitcase he left in Pekin and told him he had something for him. He handed him a roll of bills, which Armitage later counted to $12,000 Remy declared. An Alibi Prepared Later, the prosecutor related, Armitage was called before the grand Jury and when lie declined to answer questions, he was directed to by a Criminal Court judge. After leaving the grand Jury room, Armitage met Duvall, the latter confxnentlng that he had learned Armitage was before the probe body. “In that case,” Remy said Duvall stated, "I’ll say that I took the money from you and I didn’t know you wanted anything, and that k when I found out you did, I gave f |t back." “You are pretty bright,” Armitage is said to have answered. “I haven’t told anything yet." < “Bill, I’ll never forget you,” Remy said Duvall remarked. Contrasted with Remy’s statement

which quoted Duvall as saying “Bill, I’ll never forget you,” Martin Hugg, defense counsel, in his openr ing statement quoted Duvall: “Bill Armitagl, I will not barter or sell any position or place in my administration.” Hugg’s first words were: “John L. Duvall stands here an innocent man —you are bound to give him the presumption of innocence under the law.” When Hugg reminded the Jury that Duvall was being tried upon “an affidavit prepared and sworn to by deputies of Remy” and that it was not an indictment, Judge Shirley, interrupted. Weight Is Same Whef! Hugg said he was merely pointing out the “weight" of the affidavit, Shirley said: "No! No! The weight of this affidavit is just the same as an indictment—no more and no less.” “The gist of* this charge,” Hugg continued, “is whether a promise was made to get Armitage support. As you know a candidate is out to get the votes. Armitage was a power among certain classes and a power behind the throne of the administraation at that time. Armitage attempted to defeat Duvall’s nomination. “Before this trial is finished you will have a picture of this man Armitage before you that will appall you. Who Started Deal? “The defense will Introduce evidence to prove,” Hugg said, “that Armitage came to Duvall, instead of Duvall going to Armitage, a~d that Armitage said, ‘You’ll need money,’ to which Duvall replied, * 1 don’t think I’ll need any.’ “ ‘Yes, you will, Armitage said, and gave Duvall $12,000. Duvall kept this money in a separate fund, did not use it intending to return it and the evidence will show that he did return it. “Duvall left Indianapolis after his election to escape the horde of office seekers and for rest. Armitage followed him. Heroic Reply/Alleged ‘“I want to appoint the city engineer and two members of the board of works’,” Hugg said Armitage told Duvall when he found him in Pekin, 111. THbn Duvall, in the presence of Buser, announced: “Bill Armitage, I win not barter or sell any position or place in my administration. I have kept your $12,000 intact and it will be returned to you.” Duvall went further, Hugg said, and told Armitage, “I intend to have the highest type of men in my administration I can find.” Names Mentioned , Hugg mentioned the names of Roy C. Shaneberger, Lemuel H. Trotter and Oren S. Hack, former board of works members to illustrate this. “After Duvall told him this, Armitage said: ‘Well, if that is all there is to it, I’ll leave.’” Hugg said. Hugg closed his half-hour opening statement with a plea to the jurors to “keep your minds open until the end of this trial.” Jury Is Confined At the close of court, Shirley told the jury he “had bad news for them,” that they were to be confined during the trial. Grimaces appeared on the faces imparteled and Dan W. Flickenger, in seat 12, rose to ask the court: “Haven't the rights of the Jurors been considered at all?” ‘ The protest was unavailing, however. Clarence Clegg, icourt bailiff, led the men into an ante-room from which they were later taken to a downtown hotel. Judge Shirley had ruled that the accommodations for keeping jurors overnight at the courthouse were inadequate. 2 NEW ’ CORPORATIONS Alvah Rucker One of Downy Flake Firm. Alvah J. Rucker, former corporation counsel, is listed as one of the three incorporators of the Downy Flake Shoppe, 110 N. Pennsylvania St., papers for which were filed Wednesday with the secretary of State. Capitalization was placed at SIO,OOO. Other incorporators are Charles and Evelyn Berriman, 29 W. Twenty-Eighth St. Another SIO,OOO corporation filing today was the Artroffers Inc. Organizers are O. H. Van Nauker, 4068 Graceland Ave., H. E. Jenkins, 3460 N. Meridian St., and O. C. Stewart, 443 Harvard Place.

Frost Lore By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Sept. 15.—Benjamin Osborne, Dave Pressler and Earl Kaufman, Whitley County residents with claims as weather prophets, declare frost is several weeks distant. Osborne says there will be no frost for six weeks, as that period of time elapses after the first katydid is heard. Pressler and Kaufman declare frost never catches cockleburs and Spanish needles and both are still green.

ARMITAGE EXPOSES DUVALL

Detailed testimony of William I. Armitage against Mayor John L. Duvall iji Criminal Court today follows: Armitage, responding to questions of Special Prosecutor John W. Holtzman, testified he lived at 3855 Washington Blvd., has lived in Indianapolis fifty-three years, and is in the real estate business and has done some building. He said he ran a gambling house and saloon about twenty years agoj but had not been in that business since 1915. He opened the Winston billiard parlor, in the Brevort Hotel, but sold out April 10, 1922. Recently, Armitage said, he has been in the material business, selling curbing and asphalt. First Admission of Business This is the first public admission by Armitage that he has been in the curbing business. It was rumored during the Shank administration, when Armitage was the political boss, that Armitage was selling curbing to contractors who laid city streets, but he denied it then. He admitted then that for a time he wss an agent for the Barber Asphalt Company. * Armitage talked in a subdued tone, looking squarely at she mayor. Attorney M. A. Ryan of the defense three times asked Arlmtage to raise hia voice. Each time Armitage straightened in his chair and talked louder, only the gradually slump down and lower his voice, s Duval] Came to Him

Armitage testified Duvall came to him before the 1925 primary and asked who he was backing for the Republican nomination for mayor and that he said he was behind Ralph A. Lemcke. On primary morning, Armitage said Duvall got out of an automobile at Blake and New York Sts. and came to him, on the sidewalk. “He asked me what I thought about the primary. I said, ‘I think you’ll be nominated, you’ve got the Inside and the outside.’” Holtzman asked what he meant by “inside and outside.” Armitage replied he referred to the boards and the organization. “Before he left, he said we’d get together after it was over. T met him later at the Washington Hotel. I said I might go with him, Duval, for mayor.” “Goes Along” With Duvall At the Washington Hotel conference Armitage said he told Duvall that “Lemcke and I have had a misunderstanding, and I am ready to go along with you for mayor.” At a conference later at Mayor Lew Shank’s home, attended by Duvall and Shank, Armitage said he repeated his offeer “to go along with him for mayor.” Duvall said: “All right” to the offer, the witness said. He met Duvall the next time in the latter part of May or early in June, when h? went to Duvall’s house, after calling him on the phone, Armitage said. At that conference he again told Duvall they should get together, and Duvall aiiked: “What do you want?” Armitage said. i Tells What He Wants “I want two board of works members and the city engineer, for which I will contribute $10,000,” Armitage said he replied. When he (Duvall) said “all right,” Armitage said he told Duvail that he wanted William H. Freeman made board of works president, Ernest L. Kingston a member of the board, and Frank C. LLngenfelter city engineer. Duvall said the men he mentioned were all right, the Witness asserted. Nothing was said about when the SIO,OOO was to be paid, but a week later hp called Duvall by phone ard Duvall said to meet him at 802 or 808, “I forget which,” City Tru.‘t Bldg., Armitage said. Gave Him $5,000 Q. What happened? A. I gave him money—ss,ooo. Holtzman asked him where this transaction took place and Armitage replied it was in a room numbered 802 City. Trust Bldg. He said the room they met in was vacant except for a desk, and in describing the place said it was one of a suite. Q. What kind of money? A. Paper money. He said the door to the room was uhlocked and he went in, closing it behind him, and found Duvall waiting there. Duvall Says “All Right” Q. What did you say to Duvall, If anything, when you handed him the money? A. I said “Here’s the $5,000.” He said “all right.” Q. What did he do? A. Nothing. I gave it to Duvall. He said after this transaction he left the building and returned to his office. Armitage said he did not see Duvall until a week later. “I went out to his home, by appointment. I called him up and said I would be out. I got three between 10 and 11 o’clock. My brother drove me out and parked the car about a half a block away. I walked up to the house and shook hands with Duvall. He sat down on the porch and I gave him $5,000. It’s “All Right” Again “He said ‘all right’ anc’ we talked some about the campaign Then I left. “I saw him several times after that at my home. He used to come around ,ln the evenings. He would drive over in a machine, but never parked it ip front of my house. Q. Where there any more money transactions? ) A. Yes, I gave him $4,500 more at different times. He said the campaign was running a little, short. Q. Was all this your money? A. AH but SSOO. The defense objected to this but was overruled. , Says Freeman Donated Q. Whose was the $500? A. It was William H. Freeman’s. Q. What, if anything, did you say abouf the $500? A. 2 told him Freeman gave it to me to give to fc'm. Q. Who was Freeman? A. Freeman was going on the board of works. The defense objected to the answer, but was ovemiled. The State then asked Armitage if he said anything to Freeman

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about his interview with Duvall and he replied that he had. said after this he learned DUvall and Freeman had a conversation. Duvall Came to House The witness stated that Duvall came to his house about a “half dozen or maybe ten or eleven times.” He said they talked about the campaign. Duvall asked him what he thought of the outcome of the campaign, Armitage said. "I told him he was going to win,” Armitage said. “I told him, too, that I had heard Coffin (George V. Coffin, Republican chairman), was going to name the board of works, but Duvall said the board of works already was picked. “He came to my house most of the time by appointment. Sometimes I called him up. “I called him up one morning and said I saw in the papers that Myers (falter Myers, Democratic candidate for mayor), had said I was going to be in control if you were elected. “I told him he had better say something to the contrary in his speeches. “He said ‘AI! right.’” • Duvall F< Us “To Show" Duvall never told Armitage what ho said about him In .campaign speeches, the witness said. Armitage sale Duvall promised to meet him In the Fifth ward on election day, but that “I waited all day and he didn’t show up.” Questioning then shifted to Duvall’s disappearance from Indian* apolis following the eleciton. Duvall promised to tell him when and where he w.s going, Armitage said, but failed to do so. Q. Who informed you where Duvall had gone ? A. Duvall’s brother-in-law, Washbum. Q. What did you do then? A. I left that night by automobUe for Pekin, HI., and registered at the Taswell Hotel under the name of William Tauser.

Buser on Scene Armitage said he took his grip up to the room assigned to him, changed his clothes, came down and ate breakfast. Later a man then unknown to him, whom he later learned was William C. Buser, the mayor’s brother-in-law, came up to him In dhe lobby and started to talk about the weather. Armitage had driven all night to Pekin in the rain and it still was raining. Q. What did you and Buser then do? A. Drove around Pekin. Drove to meet Duvall. Q. What happened then? A. Duvall, Buser and I drove to Springfield. 111. Q. Did you know where you were going? A. Not when we started. Register In Springfield Q. What did you do in Springfield? r A. We went to the Illinois House. Q. Did you register? A. Buser registered for the three of us. Q —Under what name were you registered. A—William Towsey Os St. Louis Q—'Was that the city you used in registering at Pekin? A—No. I used Eanville, 111. Retired to Room > Armitage said he and Duvall retired alone into a room “to talk about appointments” and Duvall asked him what he thought of O. D. Haskett, Charles J. Orbison and George Snider. “Something was said about appointment of a chief of police—but not definite. The name of McGee was mentioned, I remember.” Arthur B. McGee once was mentioned for the place. Q—Did Duvall say anything about the board of works? A—He said he couldn’t carry out our agreement. 1 Q —What did you say? A—l said, * Didn’t I give you $14,500?” and he said, “yes, but I just can’t do ty” and I said, “Aren't you going to be fair and square?” and he said, “I just can’t.” Q —Did he give you your money? A—No. Expected Promise Kept Q—What did Duvall say then? A— Let’s go back to Pekin. “I said, no, I’m going back to Indianapolis." Before leaving him, I told him that i expected him to carry out our agreement. Q—What did you do then? A— I told Buser to get my baggage that I had left in Pekin. Armitage said he “fooled around Springfield” waiting for a train and got home at 3 a. m. Q—Did you see Duvall or Buser after that? A—Buser called up Sunday night and said: *'l’ll be at your home at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.” He didn’t come until 10. Brought Money Back Q —What happened then? A—He fetched my grip back to me, Buser did, and we went in the sun parlor and sat down. Q—Did he bring anything else? A—Some money. When Buser left the house he “ran his hand into his pocket and handed me a package of money about this big,” Armitage said, indicating with his hands a package which would cause any pocket to bulge. Q—Did you take it? A—Yes. Q—What did you do with the money? A—l put it in my pocket. Q —Did you count it? A—No. Showed Money to Shank Q—Where did you go then? A— To the city hall. Q—Did you show the money to Mr. Bhank? A—Yes. • Q—What did you do with the money then? A—Put it in my pocket. Q—Where did you go then? A— To the controller’s office. Q—Where did you go then? A—l went to my office and counted it. Q —How much was there? A—sl2 000. Asked About $2,500 Q—Did you ever receive the other $2,500? Defense objection was sustained by Shirley. Q—Did you get any more. A—No. Q —Did you ever talk to Duvall about the amount you had given him and the amount you received back? A—Yes, at his home. Q—What was said? A—l told him

he was likely to stub his toe on this money question. Q—Did he say anything to you about any appointments? A—Yes, one man on the board of works. I said one man wouldn’t do me any good. Armitage said that about the time a change was contemplated in the board df works, when Roy C. Shaneberger and Lemuel Trottei were to be ousted, he spoke to him about appointing William Freeman. Freeman Gets Letter “Duvall said he woulr have Freeman get a few letters of recommendation from business people and then appoint him." Q—Did Freeman get the letters? A—Yes. Q—Did you see them? A—Yes. Q —Who were they from? A—l just saw the envelopes, I don’t know. Q —Did the letters go to Duvall? A—Yes, I sent them. Q —Was Freeman appointed? A —No. Questioned on Jury Visit Armitage then was questioned about his visit to the county grand jury. He said he was called in July for the first tim, but later admitted being called before, “when Joe Schaf was on the jury.” This was the first jury called to investigate alleged political corruption. Q—Did you talk to Duvall before going to the grand Jury? A—Yes. Q—When? A—l called him in the morning and told him I was subpoenaed for the afternoon and I wanted to see him. I asked him if he was going to stand pat. Q—What did be say? A-Tie said he couldn't do anything else. Ordered to Tell Story Armitage said when he went before the grand Jury he refused to testify and was brought into Criminal Court #nd ordered to tell his story. Q —Did yoy meet Duvall after going before the grand jury? A—Yes. Q —Where? A—At his house. When I got there Duvall said he had read where I was before the judge and made answer to questions. I didn’t reply to his remark. He went on, saying that there was only one thing for him to do and that was to say that I gave him the money. Q —What did you say? A—l made some remark about him being pretty damned bright or smart, I think I said pretty darned bright. Q—What else did you say? A—l told him I hadn’t said anything yet. Q —What did he say? A—He said "I’ll never forget you.” The State then attempted to show what means and methods Armitage had exercised in gaing support for Duvall in the 1925 election and campaign. The defense attorneys objected to this and were sustained. State Tries New Line The State branched out on another lint? in an effort to get Armitage to testify as to what he hoped to gain from obtaining the appointments of Ernest Kingston and Freeman to the board of works and Frank C.- Lingenfelter to the city engineer’s post. AH these questions were objected to and sustained. “I was in the material business at the time,” Armitage related. "I was selling curbing for sidewalks and gutters.”

CROSS-EXAMINATION

During cross-examination Attorney Ryan of defense drew from Armitage admission that all through the Shank administration he carried a key that would admit him to every city hall office. # Q—You attended board of works meeting and sat in during the letting of contracts? A—l was In there most of the time —during meetings. Q—You transacted considerable business during that time? A—l sold a good deal of curbiL , yes* sir. Q—Did you have any Other business? A—We had thirty or fifty head of mules working for the city on contract. Q —Wasn’t that contract made during the Shark administration, made to extend several years into the Duvall administration? A—Yes. The contract was made during the last ten days of the Shank term at Duvall’s request. He told me tp get it renewed, so I’d have it. He told me that at a meeting at his house one night. $50,000 Given Purdue LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 15. Fifty thousand dollars, payable $lO,000 yearly, has been given Purdue University by the Indiana Gas Association for development of the University’s department of gas engineering.

Isadora Duncan’s Troupe Wore Track Pants Here

Hard-Hearted Cop Thought Guaze Wasn’t Enough Covering on Stage. Indianapolis police and patrons of the arts, learning of the death of Isadora Duncan at Nice, France, today recalled the last appearance of the tempestuous dancer here. It was during the early part of the last year of Lew Shank’s administration as mayor—l92s. Shank had heard that Isadora and her accompanying artists dressed not for protection from winter’s bitter blasts but rather to permit expressive freedom of movement. Edict Is Laid Down Lew resolved that such should not be the case. He assigned John Zener, then a police lieutenant, to censor the performance. John once ran a pulbic dance hall. That should qualify him, Shank reasoned. Zener and some other policemen, who tot least knew the difference between ballets and bullets, went back stage at the Murat just before the performance, took a glimpse and then a stare at Isadora’s costume and decreed that it should not be. And it wasn’t. 1 They Wore Track Pa:.ts While a restive audience audibly Expressed its opinion of Zener

CANADA AFTER ’ LEAGUE SEAT Belgium’s Withdrawal Enlightens Outlook. By United Press GENEVA, Sept. 15.—Canada’s candidacy for League of Nations council membership boomed today when the assembly defeated an effort to declare Belgium eligible to re-election. * The Belgian request for renewed eligibility failed by 29 votes to 19. Foreign Minister Vandervelde immediately addressed the assembly, attributing the vote to a matter of principle rather than to hostility toward Belgium. He assured the assembly of Belgium's continued collaboration with the league. The vote for three new members of the assembly will take place late today. It appears certain that Cuba will succeed San- Salvador. Canada has a good chance to obtain either the seat to be vacated by Belgium or that which Czecho-Slovakia now holds. The seats at stake are nonpermanent. Finland, Greeece and Portugal are eager candidates, with the latter apparently in preferred position. It was stated today that France will propose to the third assembly committee that all security projects now before the committee be abandoned. In their stead the French would draft a comprehensive security pact to be substituted to the 1928 assembly along with the league’s draft of a disarmament convention. MOB WRECKS CARNIVAL Riot Causes Amusement Concern to Close. A mob of 150 young men and boys descended upon a carnival, operated by the Dorner Amusement Company at 807 S. East St., and forced them to close, Wednesday night. , Trouble began when small boys tried to smash a doll stand conducted by Dale Query, 24, 2865 School St., police were told. When chased away, the boys returned a few minutes later with reinforcements and wrecked several stands. Query found unconscious on the groui.d, was taken to a doctor. Police stopped the riot, but Ray B. Jones, manager, said the gang returnee* again and completely wreck-’ the shows.

Newsboy Fled From Home After ‘Business Failure’

Finds Buddy PARIS, Sept. 15.—The second battle of Paris is not being fought entirely on the battlefields of Montmartre. That was testified to by a pilgrimage which ex-Sergt. T. L. H. Redfleld of Boston paid to Riaville, scene of desperate fighting during the war by the 101 at Engineers. Redfleld succeeded in finding the shell hole to which he carried a wounded comrade, Robert Watt, of Pennsylvania, who has been listed as missing since the summer of 1918. Redfleld, after talking to peasants, found Watt’s body, and is bringing it to Paris, to be buried at Suresnes military cemetery, beside the body of William Watt, the dead soldier’s brother.

AWAIT MUSSOLINI CHILD Arrival of Fourth In Duce’s Family - Is Expected. By United Press FORLI, Italy, Sept. 15.—An infant Mussolini, child of the premier, was awaited today in Villa fJarrpena, the Mussolini home here. Donna Rachel Mussolini expects the child at any time and has communicated with the premier in Rome. Mussolini is ready to leave the Chigi palace at a moment’s notice. The Mussolinls have three children, two boys and a girl.

agents of Isadora frantically sought the covering Zener prescribed. Finaly, it is said, they succeeded in inducing the manager of a sporting goods store to supply them, and the graceful Isadora and her maids went through the performance with track pants beneath their floating gauze. FIRE DESTROYS HOME Boy Awakes and Arouses Three Elders In Night Blaze. Flames broke out in the home of Mrs. Dora 3tevenson, 218 S. Arsenal Ave., early this morning, and drove four persons to the street in their night clothes. Robert Locke, 9, grandson of Mrs. Stevenson, awakened 1 a. m. and called his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Locke, who discovered the entire back of the house in flames and aroused Mrs. Stevensoh. Loss was estimated at S6OO. Coffee Bums Woman GREENFIELD, Ind., Sept. 15. Explosion of a bucket In which Mrs. Walter Ham was making coffee inflicted severe burns on her head and hands. Used soda fountains, butcher shop and grocery outfits. See the ads under “Miscellaneous for Sale” in todays want ads.

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Isadora Duncan, world - famed dancer, killed by automobile in Paris Wednesday niglit.

HISTORIANS TO TOURJDIANA State Association Plans Annual Mid-Year Trip. Plans for the annual mid-year meeting and trip, Oct. 15-16, of the Indiana Historical Society have been announced by State Historical Director Christopher B. Coleman, following a meeting of a special committee headed by Lee Burns, Indianapolis. Busses will carry the party from Indianapolis to Vevay, Switzerland County. Stops will be made at places of historical interest- Luncheon on the first day will be served at the Madison Country Club, where a visit will be made to the Lanier home, the memorial museum and the Jefferson County Historical Society building, formerly the Colonial Inn. The night will be spent at Vevay and the official meeting held tfie next day at the public library there. The trip will then be resumed along the Ohio River to Rising Sun, Aurora, Lawrenceburg and Harrison, Ohio, thence back into the Whitewater valley to Brookville, Ind. Return to Indianapolis will be over National Rd., with stops at Connersville to inspect the new marker, erected to the memory of William Connor, founder of t*ie town. At Brookville the Lew Wallace birthplace will be visited, and at Aurora the D. A. R. tablet marking the site of the massacre of Gen. Archibald Lochry and his men.

Ward Hughes, 11, Is Found After 48-Hour Search by Parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Hughes, 3007 Graceland Ave., rejoiced today over the return of their son, Ward Hughes, Jr., 11, who has been missing forty-eight hours. Ward left home following his “business failure.” He carried his paper route Monday, but because three customers stopped their paper he was afraid to report to his district manager. He went to a north side theater and after the performance he slept outside the building next to the wall. Ip the morning he sallied forth in quest of food. Workmen at the approach of the Delaware St. bridge, gave him breakfast from their wellfilled lunch baskets. The workmen liked the lad and allowed him to stay at the bridge and watch them. They fed him again at noon. When the 5 o’clock whistle blew the men departed, and Ward was faced with the prospect of passing a dinnerless night in the open. But one of his playmates came to the rescue with some food filched from the family dinner table. After "dinner” Ward crawled under a house under construction at Delaware St. and the bridge and soon was fast asleep. Wednesday morning the workmen were surprised to see the boy, but they again gave him some breakfast. Mrs. Hughes learned of the boy's hiding place through the playmate, who had given Ward his dinner. ‘Gosh. I’ll never leave home again,” says Ward, “Ita too scarey.”

BOY DIES FOLLOWING ORDEAL OF SUFFERING Grovertown Lad Trapped in Barn by Truck He Started. By United Press LA PORTE, Ind., Sept. 15.—A tragedy in human suffering came to light with the death of John Casey, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Casey of Grovertown, Ind., in a local hospital Tuesday night. The lad died of shock and exhaustion, hospital physicians said. Left alone on the farm, John cranked a Ford truck sitting In the barn. The truck had been left in gear and started, pinning the youth’s right Jeg against the side of the barn. When he could not free himself, John removed his shirt and waved it out an opening in the barn in an effort to attract attention of motorists on a highway nearby. For nearly nine hours the lad suffered. He was freed when his brothers returned from school. WAR VETERAN SUICIDE Despondent over ill health, Armor. Byrum, 30, of 511 N. Illinois St., ended his life Wednesday night by shooting himself throught the head with a revolver. . Byrum, who had been wounded several times in the World War, had not recovered. Funeral services are not; ftogjpleted.

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LONGWORTH IN LIST OF EXTRA SESSION FOES Coolidge Advised Same by Many Leaders; Nye , Charges Plot. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—A battle over the proposal to call an extra session of Congress or a special session of the Senate was fought on the White House doorstep today. After Speaker Longworth of the House had advised President Coolidge against calling of an extra session and Chairman Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee had declared himself as non-committal on the issue, Senator Nye, Independent Republican, North Dakota, charged that “the Republican Old Guard is plotting against an extra session for its own ends.” Longworth told the President no good could be accomplished by a special session. His views, added to those previously expressed by the nominal leaders of Congress, Senator Curtis, Republican, Kansas, and Representative Tilson, Republican, Conneticut, floor-leaders of both Houses, mare the advice received by Mr. Coolidge almost unanimously against the proposal. To all intents and purposes, the House is now organized, Longworth said. The Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees will get together early, he said. It will be possible for Army engineers to submit a concrete bill for flood control before the session opens, Longworth said. "If there is any temporary flood relief to be enacted, it should be framed by the appropriations committee,” he said. "There is no logic in calling an extra session, when no constructive flood legislation can be made ready in time.” Longworth promised tax reduction - would be considered early and estimated the cut might be $300,000,000. CONFIDENT PEOPLE WILL GUARD COURTS Attorney General Gilliom Addresses Richmond Club. By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 15.—“ The people will never permit their supreme Court to come under the domination of an intolerant super government,” declared Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom in an address before the Richmond Kiwanis Club today. Evidently referring to the recent sentencing for contempt of E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, Gilliom predicted that “some day, when the storm is over and preachers will again confine themselves to preaching, and all Judges on the Supreme Court will again confine themselves to judging according to fact and law, it will be realized by everyone that the people of Indiana will owe a lasting debt to those Judges on our Supreme Court who have preserved to them their constitutional rights when to do so was at the risk of political death. One cannot support the constitution without supporting the courts when they enforce constitutionary provisions in the face of organized impatience and intolerance.”

NINTH JUDGE TO BE CHOSEN IN OLD CASE Damage Suit Was on Rush County Docket Eleven Years. By Times Special RUSHVILLE, ind., Sept. 15.—Selection of the ninth judge in the oldest civil case on the Rush Circuit Court docket is to be made soon, be-' cause of the resignation of the eighth, Thomas E. Davison, Greensburg, who had been chosen special judge. The case is entitled A. R. Herkless vs. Julius Keller Construction Company and the city of Rushville, seek'ing Judgment of $3,000 in a dispute over payment for part of the improvement cost of Arthur St. Proceedings were started eleven years ago. While some of the eight judges have acted on minor matters, the case has never come to trial for final adjudication on its merit*. AWAKENED BY BURGLAR Woman Frightens Away Intruder Found Crouched by Bed. Mrs. Hattie Rice, 1334 N. Tremont Ave., awakened during the night to find a burglar crouched by her bed, she reported to police. She screamed and the man fled, she said. The burglar had ransacked the house, but taken nothing. A burglar entered the home of Manford Livengood, 219 W. FiftySecond St., and stole clothing valued at $175. The Western Oil Refining Company filling station at Thirty-Eighth St. and Fall Creek Blvd., wa* entered, the second time in a week, and a pay phone containing 75 cents taken. DINNER FOR EFROYMSON Last Member of “Millionaire’s Club” to Reach 50. Fellow members of tho "Millionaire’s Club” will celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Philip P. Efroymson, department store owner, tonight at the Broadmoor Country Club. With the dinner tonight in honor of Efroymson, junior member, the purpose of the club will be fulfilled. He is the last of fourteen members to reach the half century mark. Since the club’s organization in 1906 the organization has observed the fiftieth birthday of-each member. It is planned to extend the club to observe the sixtieth birthday of members and their wive*.