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REFUSAL TO TELL OF FALL iIDSUPHELD Judge’s Ruling Blocks U. S. Move to Force Everhart to Testify. TRAIL THROUGH BANKS Dozen Employes on Stand to Verify Transfer of Securities. BY HERBERT LITTLE, (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Blocked in an effort to have a witness tell the jury where former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall’s $230,500 in Liberty Bonds came from, the Government in the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial today rapidly traced the securities into banks in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Justice Siddons upheld the refusal of M. T. Everhart, Fall’s son-in-law, to tell from whom he obtained the bonds he brought to Pueblo, Colo., May 29, 1922, and deposited and spent to credit to the Fall-Sinclair Cattle Company, which then was heavily in debt. That was just a few weeks after Fall leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserve to Harry F. Sinclair, an action the Government charges was influenced by this. Bond Trail Traced Then the Government hammered speedily away at showing the trail of the bonds from the Continental Trading Company to Fall’s account in Pueblo, Colo.; El Paso, Texas, and Canizozo, N. M.. banks. The prosecution holds Sinclair had a hand in the transfer through his alleged connection with Continental. A dozen bank employes, including three women, verified the deposit slips and serial number of the bonds. Then Robert Rae of the Canadian bank, patronized by H. S. Osier, now missing president of the Continental Company, and other employes identified records showing their bank purchased for the Continental firm the same bonds found in Fall’s possession—early in April, 1922. The bonds were bought from brokers. See Prison for Witness Justice Siddons’ ruling on Everhart’s refusal to testimony came after more than an hour and a half of argument by opposing counsel, the government contending Everhart by testifying would incur no punishment if he incriminiated himself, and Everhart’s lawyer going so far as to say his client “must have suspected there was something rotten” in the Liberty Bond transaction. Charles A. Douglas, the Everhart attorney, pictured Fall’s son-in-law as in danger from the penitentiary if forced to testify. Douglas said it was “conceivable” Everhart was a “mere messenger boy,” but that it had been shown Everhart had profited nearly as much as Fall from the bonds, through the Fall-Everhart ranch partnership. A large amount of the bonds was used to retire debts of their cattle company, he pointed out. Excused From Testifying The court said it was “a very difficult question,” but felt he must excuse Everhart from testifying. Government lawyers “themselves might learn for the first time,” he said, of some indictable part played in the transaction by Everhart if he testified. Siddons said it was not necessary for the court to decide whether the witness was a "conspirator.” “This witness must be accorded his full constitutional privilege,” the judge Said. “He’ll get it in this court.” The jury was excluded from the courtroom during the arguments and until after Siddons made his decision.

OHIO CONGRESSMAN WILL SPEAK IN CITY Burton to Give Armistice Day Address at Caleb Mills Hall. Former United States Senator Theodore E. Burton of Cleveland, Ohio, now a member of the House of Representatives, is to deliver an armistice address in Caleb Mills Hall, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6. The address will be the principal feature of an armistice memorial program being arranged by the Indiana Council on'lnternational Relations. Congressman Burton, who recently returned from the Geneva peace conference, will speak on “An Armistice Day Message With an European Background.” Several Indianapolis organizations have been invited to join in plans for the service. Mrs. W. S. Lockhart, executive secretary of the Indiana Council on International Relations, is in charge. WOMAN PATRIOT 3IES President of United Daughters of Confereracy Was 79. 25 if United Press RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 28.—Mrs. Norman V.. Randolph, 79, honorary president of the United Daughters o 5 the Confederacy and long active in the affair of that organization, died early today at her home here. Mrs. Randolph always frowned upon any agitation against Abraham Lincoln when such discussion came at meetings. She said she believed ‘‘ao good would come of it.”

Trades Her Doll for Baby; Goes to Jail as Kidnaper

LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 28.—Hazel Oden, who is only 8 years old, wanted anew doll. To be sure. Hazel had a doll. But it was a very old, dilapidated rag doll. It took all an 8-year-old girl’s powers of make-believe to pretend that the shapeless, tattered, soiled bundle of cloth and sawdust was a baby. Hazel’s father couldn’t buy her anew one, either. His job as helper for an oil trucking firm didn’t pay very well, and there were twelve other children besides Hazel. So there was never a cent' in the family purse for new playthings. But Hazel, an appealing, undernourished mite of a girl, had, as her father would say, a head on her. So one day recently she found the solution to her troubles. She was walking sedately down the street, pushing an ancient dollbuggy, made wobbly by years of service. In it reposed peacefully the nondescript rag doll that was Hazel’s only plaything. Standing in front of a store Hazel found a shiny new buggy. In it lay a real live baby—a chubby little thing, dainty in frilled bonnet and soft pink robe. Hazel looked at the baby. Then she looked at her own make-shift doll. Then, very carefully, she lifted the baby out of its buggy and put it in her own ramshackle carriage, transferring the rag doll to the baby’s former resting place. Down the street went Hazel with her new doll. This was much bet-

PREPARES NEW FARM AID BILL Brookhart to Include All Crops in Measure. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Tailing a cue from President Coolidge’s veto last winter, Senator Broookhart (Rep.), lowa, is planning a substitute for the McNary-Haugen farm price stabilization bill. Brookhart announced today he would introduce his measure as soon as Congress reconvenes. He expects a vote on it. The lowa farm bloc member agrees the President was right when he said $150,000,000 provided in the bill vetoed last session for starting the equalization system is not enough. Cotton alone would require $500,000,000 for adequate financing of its exportable surplus. The total sum needed would be sl,500,000,000, he thinks. Besides corn, wheat, barley, rice and oats, provided for in the last measure, Brookhart intends to mention in his bill every other exportable farm product. “Mr. Coolidge said in his veto message that the McNary-Haugen bill was not broad enough because it did not include everything,” the Senator declared. “Well, we will put everything in it and see what he does to it.” BUSINESS IN SLUMP September Called Poor by U. S. Bank Board. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Business in the United States slowed down during September, with industrial and trade activity smaller than usual at that season, the Federal Reserve Board announced today. The board reported both manufacturing and mineral production decreased between August and September. Decreases were also reported in automobiles, tires, building contract awards, anthracite coal and crude petroleum. Increases were reported in bituminous coal production. The textile, shoe and leather industries were announced as active. Wholesale and retail trade increased. The volume of gain was not so great as the usual seasonal increase, the board said.

CROPS AIDED BY SUN Killing Frost Later This Year, U. S. Says. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The weather man has given farmers a good autumn with killing frosts later than usual, the Agriculture Department announced today. Conditions for winter wheat have been unusually favorable in the principal producing areas and the crop has come up in good stand, the report said. The corn belt has had a week of conutinuous sunshine and low humidity, allowing the frost to dry rapidly without leaving serious damage. Cotton growers also profited by good weather, with picking and ginning progressing rapidly. Frosts have done little damage to cotton so far: Asked $750,000; Gets $1 Bv United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 28. Harvey C. Adams, Danville, 111., was awarded damages of $1 in his $750,000 suit against the Williams Cdal Company of this city by a jury in Federal Court here Thursday night. Adams alleged he had been defrauded into signing leases for coal lands in Pike County, Indiana, by misrepresentations by the defendants.

-STEEL KINGS, LITTLE BOYS AGAIN, GASP AT WONDERS OF SCIENCE

BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent | 1 -3W YORK, Oct. 28.—1 t KTI was toy time for the mUI* Yl lionaires of the iron and steel industr ytoddy. Business cares were shoved aside momentarily as men of middle age, now kids again, watched wonders electrical science has made possible. Charles M. Schwab, James A. Farrell and dozens more joined in the play. Just as years ago they stood with bulging eyes at a talking doll or a gadget that would make a miniature train run on tracks, so did they gape today when they saw a hand, passing over a little

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Silver Voice Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—T. Coleman Du Pont, United States Senator from Delaware, was able to regain the power of speech through installation of an artificial larynx after an operation on his throat, it was reported today. Officials of the hospital here, where Senator Du Pont was taken for treatment of an ulcerous condition, declined to confirm the report, but it appeared well authenticated. The Senator has returned to Wilmington, Del. 'The'device connects with an aperture made in the skin of the throat to connect with a silver windpipe through which the patient breathes.

‘MAYOR’ NEGLEY MODEST ON AGE Declines Important Information for Biography. Claude E. Negley, city council’s “mayor,” is reticent about his age. He modestly refrained from telling reporters obtaining the biographies of the new “mayors” how old he is. Born in Castleton, Ind., he attended the public schools there, but finished his education at Broad Ripple High School here. He is a farmer and engaged in private real estate business. For twenty-five years he has lived at 2212 Ashland Ave. He has four children, Mrs. Bonnie Ochs, Mrs. C. E. Cliff and the Misses Mildred and Mary Negley, all residents of Indianapolis. He is a Mason and Shriner, T. O. O. F. member and affiliated with the Broadway M. E. Church. According to biographies published when he was a candidate for city council, he is 52 now. WEEK-END TO BE~COOL Pleasant for Motor Trips, U. S. Weather Man Promises. It will be somewhat cloudy here over the week end and fifteen degrees cooler than today. On the whole, it will be pleasant for motor, foot and train excursions, according to J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head. It will be somewhat unsettled and cloudy in the north, northwest and northeast portions of the State, but it will be fair to the south of Indianapolis, Armington said. Temperatures today continued about the same as Thursday, ten degrees above normal* Hoosier in Movies Bn Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27. John Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris of this city, and a student at Purdue University, is included in the cast of the Richard Barthelmess picture, “The Drop Kick” which is to be shown here next week. Morris was selected by a motion picture company from Purdue students last spring and worked in the film during the summer vacation.

A Mrs. Mayor? Has Indianapolis ljad a woman mayor? The injunction hearing before Superior Judge Joseph M. Milner Saturday to determine whether Claude E. Negley or Ira M. Holems is mayor also may determine this question. Duvall-Holmes supporters contend that Mrs. Maude Duvall was mayor of Indianapolis from 3:45 to 4 p. m. Thursday. Duvall resigned as mayor at 3:45, according to Holmes. That made City Controller Mrs. Du- ' vail mayor. She named Hlomes city controller and resigned at 4 p. In., which made Holmes mayor—maybe?

crystal, move an automobile and heard the sound of the human voice amplified twenty times. ' Os course they really were playthings—but it was a demonstration of the uses of Knowles glow tubes as developed by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, given by S. M. Kintner, research mnaager, before the members of the American Iron and Steel Institute. • * * B_l t T it was almost as though 'ittle Charley Schwab and Jimmy Farrell and Sammy Mauier and Jimmy Campbell and the rest of the “gang” were play-

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ter than the old one. Sometimes it would crow and gurgle gleefully; aifd Hazel would stop wheeling the buggy to get around in front and chirp back to it. Now and then it would whimper a little; then Hazel would go around and comfort it softly. Both children had a lovely time. And wlren Hazel had strol'ed for about ten minutes she went back to the store front, replaced the baby

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TARDY FATE IS KIND ■l——- —— —~ „Riches to Lost Sister in Poverty

Bju United Press . _ . ... N--^— i EW YORK, Oct. 28—Tragedy which seventy-seven years ago separated Clara Morris, the famous actress, and her sister, Eliza, u has had a happy ending. But through the seventy-seven years intervening it has run a course which carried one sister, Clara, to the heights of fame, and the other, Eliza, to abject poverty. The two courses .met only yesterday. They met in a little, dark room, at the end of a dim corridor, in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen, where the brews of New York’s underworld too often have, their inception.

George Macadam, a biographer of Clara Morris, led these divergent trails of life together. Yesterday afternoon, sitting on a box, which was the best Eliza offer in the way of a chair, he told the story of Surrogate George A. Slater of Westchester County, uniting them, as a sailor might tie a knot. At the conclusion of his story |

HE becomes the only heir to the $15,000 which was all that Clara left upon her death of the thousands she had made. To Eliza Burtis, u_—l that $15,000 is wealth as great as all the treasure of the Indies. As the twilight of her life fades out, it at last will lift her from her poverty and give her luxuries so long denied. Macadam came across the trail of Clara Morris’ lost sister when he began studying papers and a diary of the famous'actress, preparatory to writing a biography. He decided the sister might still be living. An entry in a diary told of Miss Morris being informed that a Buffalo, N. Y., bank in 1891 had an account in the name of Eliza Burt.

Investigation in Buffalo showed that Eliza Burt, after she had become "Eliza P. Burtis,” had collected the account amounting to $69 and the money had been sent to an'address on New York’s west side. He hurried back to Npw York—only to find that''builders had demolished the block of buildings containing the address he sought.

GRAYSON PLANE READY Craft Reported in Fine Shape for Ocean Hop. Bn United Press OLD ORCHARD, Me., Oct. 28. The airplane the Dawn was again in “perfect shape” today for a fourth attempted trans-Atiantic flight, Pilot Wilmer Stultz said, following a successful two-hour test flight in which the new motor without a flaw. Weather reports are being received daily by Mrs. Francis W. Grayson, commander of the Sikorsky plane, and she may order another takeoff before the week Is out. No definite decision has been made.

ing “hooky” to visit a toy store. And they had fun. A heavy closed dear stood in wooden tracks at the end of the Hotel Commodore’s grand ballroom. Oil the side of the platform stood one" of the “glow tubes,” resembling the crystal ball of a seeress. Kinter moved his hand a trifle. The automobile moved forward. Kintner withdrew his hand. Then Schwab tried it. “Watch the skill,” he said, waving his hand and moving the car some twenty yards. He stared in astonishment. “It worked,” he ejaculated. “Say, I could do this all day.”

papers were signed which attested that Eliza P. Burtis, white-haired woman of 78, who lives with a big black dog, amid the turmoil of Hell’s Kitchen, eating her meals from tin cans, because she had no dishes and sleeping on a board, because she had no bed, was the sister of Clara Morris, whose name the world had acclaimed for years.

Then he found the policeman on the beat. The policeman directed him. to another policeman who directed him to a janitress who could tell him of an old lady named Burtis, who had moved into Hells Kitchen from Columbus Ave. And she was Clara Morris’ sister.

HEAR HOLCOMB CLAIMS Bankruptcy Referee Presides at Richmond Casket Company Session. Claims of creditors of the Richmond Casket Company are being heard by Cart Wilde, referee in bankruptcy, at the Federal building. Examination of Richard Holcomb of Richmond, son of Charles Holcomb, partner of Joseph H. Mills, president, until his death sixteen years ago, was said to indicate Holcomb heirs will seek to share in the distribution. Claims were estimated at 4400,000 and assets at $150,000.

* But later he remembered he was president of the institute and said, “I wonder if it couldn’t be fixed to move forward thp price of steel.” * * * r—HE spectators then sgw how P an electric magnetic field UJ could be used in connection with an induction furnace,* “a still for steel. ’ Samples of pure copper and other minerals were handed around to show the degree of heat the furnace attains in melting ore. / With juvenile interest; the millicna res examined the metal. One thought some were tempte<^

in its own buggy, reclaimed her rag doll and went her way, with no one tli6 wiser. ** This stunt was too good not to be repeated. Several times Hazel did the same thing. Occasionally she would find a distracted mother standing by the buggy on her return; but each time everything ended happily. Until the other day, when Hazel took a longer stroll than usual. The mother of the baby girl Hazel had taken, frantic at her discovery of a dirty rag doll where her child should be lying, called the police. And the police, after a-rather prolonged search, came upon Hazel s'tt’ng on a lawn, half a dozen blocks away, talking to the baby, swaying it in her arms and fairly radiating happiness. The police took Hazel, baby and baby carriage down to the police station. There Hazel found herself, for a time, listed as a kidnaper—though she had not the faintest idea what the big word meant. Artd then the baby's mother came and rescued her baby; and pretty soon Hazel’s father came and rescued Hazel, explaining everything to the police. “I was awfully good to the babies,” protested Hazel. "And I never took them far away. I was just lonesome and didn’t have any good doll, so I borrowed the babies. That’s all.” Now she has had to go back to the old rag doll. For the blue-coated policemen have told her she must not borrow any more babies. But it’s awfully hard to pretend, sometimes.

Names! Names! Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Oct. 28.—Her husband’s name may be George Sam, George Mike or Stephenos Sava, but his wife whose name in a divorce case filed here is given as Cleo Sam, doesn’t want him. In addition to not knowing his name, the wife is also ignorant of her husband’s present address.

HOLMES IS OLD CITYJESIDENT Mayor Contender 29 Years as Attorney Here. Ira M. Holmes, who claims to be mayor today by virture of inheritance from Ex-Mayor John L. Duvall has been a practicing attorney here for twenty-nine years. He is 51 years of age. Born in Fortville, he moved here with his parents when 4. He was graduated from the Shortridge High School and the Indiana Law School and began the practice of law in 1898. Asa beginning attorney, he acted as divorce deputy prosecutor for several years and was city court deputy prosecutor for five or six, years. He was a defeated candidate for county prosecutor. He has been Republican election commissioner for several years. He has been married for twentysix years and has two children, a daughter, Mrs. G. M. Hass, Mobile, Ala., and a son, Horace C„ 20, Indiana Law School student. Holmes is a Mason, a K. of P., Modern Woodman and a member of the Firsts. Congregational Church, Columbia Club, I. O. O. F., Elks Hoosier Athletic Club.

FAIL TO DEFEND LEVY City Officials Present at Tax Rate Hearing. Hectic conditions about city hall leaves no one to defend the prop )sed civil city budget for 1928, now under discussion before the State tax board. Under the published budget the city tax rate was set at $1,085. It is predicted that a cut to $1.03 may be made by the State commission. At a preliminary hearing on the rate Corporation Counsel Schuyler Haas: the then city controller, Maude Duvall, and the finance committee of the city council appeared. When the budget was again taken up Thursday not a single representative of the city administration was present. William Book of the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee and Attorney Willis C. Nusbaum of the Indiana Taxpayers Association were there to suggest cuts. FIRE LOSS IS $2,000 Two Blazes Start in Nine Hours; Trains Are Blamed. Two fires within nine hours, believed by fire officials to have been caused by sparks from trains, damaged buildings at the Republic Creosoting Company, 736 Miley Ave., Thursday night and early today. Loss, according to the fire department, was $2,000. The fires followed on at the plant Sunday, which did SIB,OOO damage, according to fire department estimates. \

In Season Bu Times Special SAST CHICAGO, Ind., Oct. 28.—Two young men, their faces hidden with satin Halloween masks robbed Alex Sasse of $75 at a gasoline filling station, where he was attendant.

to put the glistening minerals in their ppekets. Then to show localized energy, six-foot wires on which was an, electric light bulb were drawn back and forth, the bulb reached one point, and that point only, it would light. But the best was to come. A huge amplifying device was put at one end of the room and a phonograph brought out. Records of a band, a noted baritone, a comic dialogue and other diversions were played and the volume of sound enlarged twenty times.

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SEEK PEACE IN I. W. W. STRIKE Open Arbitration Moves in Colorado Coal Disputes. Bu United Press DENVER, Oct. 28.—With Colorado approaching a menacing industrial situation because of fuel shortage as the I. W. W. coal strike gained strength in the State, strong hope for peace, in Northern fields at least, was seen here today. An offer to meet with its employes and grant a reasonable wage was'submitted to the State Industrial Commission by officials of one of the biggest mines affected by the strike. The first important industrial reaction to the strike was announcement in Pueblo that because of an impending fuel shortage the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company today would lay off 1,000 men employed in their steel mills there. It was predicated lhat unless the strike ended soon the entire plant would be closed. This would throw thousands of persons out of work and would affect the'entire business life of southern Colorado. A committee of nine men from the Northern fields, claiming to represent strikers but not the I. W. W;, visited Governor Adams at the Statehouse and submitted a list of grievances. The Governor declined to act as mediator and informed the delegates that unless the strike was settled soon the State would take drastic action.

TEACHERS' PAY MOVEGELAYED Mandamus Action May Be Taken Monday. Mandamus proceedings against Edward A. Ramsay, county and city treasurer, to force pyament of teachers’ checks and school city warrants were delayed by Martin M. Hugg, school board attorney, until Monday. v This delay was occasioned by the temporary restraining order issued today against Ira M. Holmes, one of the claimants for the office of mayor. Hearing on the restraining order has been set for Saturday. "After this is settled, the school warrant situation may be cleared,” Hugg said. “If thigs are not straightened out by Monday I will proceed to file suit. With the preseent complications, it is hard to know just what to do.” Hugg declared he was prepared to file suit this morning but he decided to wait until Monday after a consultation with Clinton H. Givan, county attorney. SAVE 31 IN SHIPWRECK Six of Steamer’s Crew Feared Lost in Storm. Pji United Press PENZANCE, England. Oct. 28. In fog and rain, during an all night fight, life savers brought ashore the master and thirty-one of the crew of the Italian steamer Isabo that went on the rocks last night. The remaining six members of the crew, it was feared, were lost. Shortly after daybreak several of the men who remained aboard jumped into the water. One swam ashore, three others were rescued by a lifeboat. The boat, after landing them, returned to the wrefck and found one man dead in the crow's nest. Five still were missing. KLAN FLAYS FLOGGERS Bu United Press _ . _ MACON, Ga., Oct. 28.—The Georgia State convention of the KuKlux Klan adopted a resolution urging passage of a law to make extralegal floggings a felony. The resolution also called on all Georgia klansmen to lend their aid to convict floggers.

SHE device may replace orchestras in night clubs and may be used for church music,” said Kintner. That impressed Schwab, who commented, “I never heard of worshipping God with a nmcihne. I wonder what would if they got the records mixed and instead of playing a hymn placed "Casey at the Bat’.” Kintner showed how rays of light from one bulb passing over the tube would generate enough energy to light another bulb. By that time the “kids” were pop-eyed. Drearily they turned back to the dull business of making money.

BLOT OUT AIDS IF CAROL ACTS TDSTCROM ‘Annihilation' Penalty for Attack on Succession, Says Premier. WARNS PEASANT PARTY Nation’s Right to Discuss Ex-Heir’s Chances De- . nied in Parliament. Bu United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 28 —(Delayed by Censor).—“We shall annihilate anyone who tries to change the present succession to the throne,” Premier Bratianu said in parliament yesterday during debate on a plot to enthrone Prince Carol. Deputy Mainu, leader of the peasants’ party had asserted the country’s right to discuss the rulership question as regards farmer Crown Prince Carol’s claim that he Is rightful King, not his 6-year-old son, King Michael. “I protest against the arrest of former Undersecretary of State Manoilescu," said Mainu. "Our party acknowledges the present order of things. But it believes that the nation 13 entitled to discuss the succession to the throne. May Ask Plebiscite "At the opportune moment the peasants’ party will ask a national plebiscite on the question.” "Anyone trying to change the succession is an enemy of the state, and will be annihilated.” Bratianu retorted. "Those who attempt by plebiscite or otherwise to alter the status will feel the hard hand of the law.” "The succession to the throne Is unalterable. "The peasants’ party is trying to exploit the throne problem in Its own interests. Pressure on Government "Prince Carol cannot legally ascend the throne. The succession cannot be changed while King Michael is under age. Even though Michael should renounce the throne when he becomes of age, Carol’s succession would be Impossible.” The general impression here Is that no party openly will support Carol’s claims, and that the somewhat ambiguous attitude of Deputy Mainu means that he is trying to bring pressure on the government to cede political advantages to his party. Woman Robs Carol’s Home Bu United Press PARIS, Oct. 28.—A woman, perhaps a spy, broke Into Prince Carol’s villa a week ago—Just before the revelation of his, plot to seize the Rumanian throne— was revealed today. Important papers were missing from the villa. Carol was absent in Normandy after his separation from Mme. Lupescu, for whose sake he renounced his right of succession to the throne now occupied by his 6-year-old son, King Michael. Carol’s valet reported to the police that he met a woman in the street. She invited him to lunch. After that, the valet said, he remembered noth'ng until he awoke in the villa the next day, to find it had been rifled.

APPEALS ON DRY LAW SLOW JUSTICE WHEELS Increase Rapidly in Supreme Court Under Wright Law. Prohibition appeals are clogging the wheels of justice, or at least slowing them up considerably, Supreme Court criminal appeals records reveal. Prior to prohibition criminal appeals averaged less than forty a year. Since the advent of the Wright law they have been increasing rapidly. In 1920 there were fifty-three; 1921, sixty-two; 1922, fifty-nine; 1923, 124; 1924, 190; 1925, 215, and 254 since Jan. 1, 1926. The largest majority of these are for liquor law violations. Since Jan. 1, 1925, the court has disposed of 318 criminal cases. There were 469 filed during the same period. The court’s calendar for the last term shows 252 undisposed of criminal cases pending. SEA YIELDS PLAnFpART Seek to Identify Fragment Found on California Beach. Btl United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28.—Authorities today were endeavoring to identify a fragment of an airplane, washed up on the sands of Rebondo Beach. The fragment is part of an Aileron and bears the number 42449-10. It has been taken to the University of Southern California to determine how long it was in the water. * Some hope was held out that it might be a part of one of the missing trans-oceanic planes, which disappeared on flights during the summer. Senate Aspirant Speaks Hit Timca'&nrcial MT. VERNON, Ind., Oct. 28. Albert Stump, Indianapolis lawyer, made his first speech since announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator from Indiana, here Thursday night at a meeting of First District Democrats.