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DUVALL FAILS ’ TDFIND NOTES FORMERS Fruitless Search of Mayor's Files for Stenographic Records Made. WITH JURY TWO HOURS Hint Dictaphone Gathered Council Talk; Prosecutor With Ex-Chief. John L. Duvall, former mayor, went back to the mayor’s office for a few minutes today in company with Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer to search fruitlessly through the flies for some stenographic note books in which he appeared to be deeply interested. The two went to the mayor’s office directly from the Marion County grand jury room, where Duvall had been closeted for two hours. It was reported that Duvall was 1 Poking for notes taken from a dictaphone record. For several days it has been reported that Duvall took dictaphone records of many conversations with city councilmen and other politicians in which the grand jury might be interested. Forced To Wait After questioning Mayor Pro Tem. Claude E. Negiey and Miss Fannie Pierce about whether anyone had removed any records from the office since Duvall’s, resignation last Thursday Duvall and Sheaffer left, empty handed except one stenographic notebook which Sheaffer carried. Duvall had to wait fifteen minutes before he could get into Negley’s private office. “I know how others used to feel, now,” he smilingly remarked. The two asked Miss Pierce, when they came in if Negiey was in. “He’s busy now,” she said. Duvall and Sheaffer took seatfc. Get Into Private Office The door to the private office was open. Beside Negiey sat Councilman Walter Dorsett, his feet cocked upon the desk. Finally the stenographer told Negley about his visitors. Negiey hastened out, saying: “Hello there John. Come on in.” “My name is Sheaffer,” said the deputy prosecutor. Negiey took them both to the inner office and sat down. The visitors stood before him. They were there but a moment and returned to the middle office, where he mayor’s secretary, when he has one, sits. Files Are Searched Immediately Duvall and Sheaffer ■'cgan opening drawers and going iirough flies. Questions they asked brought rer.lies that Negiey and his aids knew cf nothing having been removed xccpting the personal effects which Duvall, Police Lieutenant Arthur McGee and Sergt. Arthur Reeves cck at various times after Duvall got out of office. The notebook which Miss Pierce -.as using had several leaves tom out She said it was that way when she started working after Miss Pearl "ic’nols, Duvall’s stenographer, left ’st week. Miss Pierce’s desk had been pried pen. Negiey explained that this, as neoessary last week because the luvall coterie had carried away all he keys. LAKE COTTAGE BURNS Tty Other Houses Endangered by Fire at Winona. :n United Press WARSAW, Ind.. Nov. 3.—Destruction of fifty cottages, homes of wealthy summer residents of Wir.cna Lake, was threatened by fire ?arly today. The flames were brought under control after burning °rerview cottage to the ground and damaging two nearby homes. Prerview cottage is owned by John Harvey, Marion, Ind. The loss was ■stimated at $4,000. Origin of the Ire was not determined. MOTORMAN FIGHTS I FIRE ’attles Flames, Stops Car, and Leaps Through Window. When a short circuit in the vestimle of a Prospect St. car caused a burst of flame at Laurel St., Wednesday night, Ernest Raker, conductor-motorman, fought the flames for two blocks while stopping the car. Then he plunged through the vestibule window to the street. He was uninjured. Firemen extinguished the flames. There were no passengers. Gray’s “Elegy” Brings $4,900 Bn United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—A first edition copy of Thomas Gray’s “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” brought $4,900 at an auction of books from the library of Jerome Kern, composer. Charles Sessler bought it. Nearly everyone has a telephone. You, too, can have one installed quickly and have your name listed in the new directory, which goes to press Nov. 10th. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.—Adv.

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Charles Conrad, 55, manager of a Standard grocery at 2816 Clifton St., who is near death at city hospital from bounds inflicted by bandits who held up his store Wednesday evening.

COPS TOLD TO GET CROOKS OR WORK 12 HOURS Worley Hints Longer Shifts May Be Ordered; Grocer Is Near Death. “Get some of these suspicious characters about town and stop the banditry wave, or be prepared to work 12-hour shifts,” Chief Claude M. Worley warned police this afternoon as Charles Conrad. 55, Standard Grocery manager at 2816 Clifton St., lay near death at city hospital. Conrad was shot twice in the abdomen by Negro bandits, who held him up in the grocery Wednesday evening. Five suspects were arrested for questioning today. Worley announced, however, that he did not want a wholesale roundup of Negroes, but had sent additional detectives into the neighborhood of the store to arrest Negroes of questionable character answering the general description of the bandits. May Start 12-Hour Shifts If the bandit wave is not stopped, he will put police on twelve-hour shifts instead of the present eighthour shifts, and station the extra men on duty at night in the neighborhoods in which the bandits would be likely to be active. The bandits who shot Conrad, four in number, according to Conrad, while witnesses saw but two, came to thev store after Conrad had locked it for the day. Answering their pleas for “10 cents worth of sweet potatoes,” Conrad opened the door and locked it behind them. Leap Through Glass Door When he stooped to get the potatoes, one of the men drew a gun. Conrad rose and instead of obeying a command to raise his hands, knocked one of the bandits to the floor. The man with the gun fired twice and Conrad dropped. The men fled without attempting to take any money. Rattling the locked door frantically in their effort to escape and fearing they were trapped, the Negroes leaped through the glass. Blood on the sidewalk indicated one or more of them were cut, perhaps seriously. DEATH STAY IS GIVEN John Hall, Slayer, Gets New Hope Until March 9. Preparations at Indiana State Prison for electrocution one minute after midnight tonight to John Hall, convicted murderer, were halted today, when the Indiana SupremeCourt granted a stay of execution until March 9. Hall was sentenced to death from Elkhart Circuit Court for the fatal shooting of Louis Krieder, South Bend druggist, in an attempted hold-up. Defense Attorney Coogland and Payden of South Bend, sped to Indianapolis by auto early today to petition the stay, on the ground that the Supreme Court has not acted on Hall’s appeal. It was the third stay he has been given. Prison attaches say Hall awaited his execution stoically, refusing the ministrations of the chaplain. FILIPINOS SEE COOLIDGE Official Delegation From Island Call at White House. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—A Filipino delegation, consisting of Senate President Manuel Quezon, Senator Sergio Osmena and Resident Commissioner Pedro Guavara, called at the White House today. They were accompanied by Secretary of War Davis.

Collins Frees City Widow of Pact Pledging Home to Pay Lawyers. When a widow stood in Criminal Court today to defend herself against the charge of possessing a small quantity of liquor, Judge James A. Collins scored the prohibition law and declared that the possession phase of Indiana’s bone dry statute “sooner or later would have to be declared unconstitutional, because it transcends the personal rights of citizens.” The woman, Mrs. Martha Copeland. 54, of 2110 N. Rural St„ the testimony revealed, has for eighteen years supported herself by running a stand at city market. She had but three weeks schooling. On Sept. 5, police officers saw some beer in her home and on Oct. 12 arrested her, after obtaining a search warrant. Fined and Sentenced On Sept. 25, they again found some contraband —one-half of a pint of alcohol in a jelly glass on her kitchen window. So Mrs. Copeland was fined in Municipal Court SIOO and costs on the beer charge dhd S2OO and costs and 45 days for possessing the alcohol. Her attorneys, William K. Mawson and W. B. Waddell, appealed the cases to the Criminal Court, but not, according to the testimony today, until they had obtained her signature to a contract pledging her home to pay for her $3,500 bond anti for attorneys fees. Oct. 14, the attorneys filed a suit in the Probate Court asking that a guardian be appointed for the woman because i she was incapable of taking care of her own affairs. Miss Jessie Levy, attorney, interceded for the woman in this suit and is acting as her attorney in the Probate Court. Orders Contract Cancelled Judge Collins scored Mawson and Waddell, and ordered them to cancel their contract wtih Mrs. Copeland by tomorrow or he would “come down off the bench” and see that it is. “The unfortunate thing about this law is that this character of arrest makes it ridiculous,” Judge Collins said in releasing Mrs. Copeland on her own recognizance until Friday, when he will pass juugment. Collins also ordered Police Sergeant William Gillespie to check up on the case and see if any one had ever complained about the small amount of liquor she is alleged to have kept at her home.

NAME POST RECEIVER 0. J. Smith Is Selected by U. S. Judge. O. J. Smith of the O. J. Smith Realty Company today was named receiver for the Indianapolis Post Publishing Company by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Smith will take over the assets of the company from John W. Castor, j named receiver in a county court. Smith was directed to take possession of the assets, collect all money and uethe firm and to protect the property with insurance. He was named receiver on petition of the Lanston Monotype Company, Mergenthaler Linotype Company and the Metals Rfiening Company, creditors. According to Ralph Bamberger one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, most of the machinery sold the Indianapolis Post was on lease contracts, by terms of which it will revert to the selling companies. He refused to estimate total claims against the company or the amount of its assets. DISCUSS LOCAL POLITICS National Party Turns Attention to Indianapolis Affairs. The National Party will turn its attention to local affairs when it meets in Room 33C American Central Life Bldg., 8 E. Market St., Friday, 7:30 p. ra. John Zafynd, Indiana chairman, announces discussion will center on "Who Should Be Mayor?” and “What Can We Do to Redeem Indianapolis?” DECLARE LIGHT WAR All Officers Asked to Join Drive Next Week. Drastic action all next week to curb improper use of lights on automobiles is asked of all Indiana peace officers by R. T. Humes, chief of Indiana Sate police. Hume has requested that a drive be made against such offenders to the end that night driving be made more safe. Thirty-two State highway police will concentrate their efforts on enforcement of the motor laws regulating head and tail lights during the week while seeking cooperation of county and municipal forces. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 40 10 a. m 48 7 a. m 42 li a . m 50 8 a. m 44 12 (Noon) .... 61 9 a. m 43 1 p. m 5l

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HOLD TIPTON MAN AS‘SKIP’ DEATH DRIVER Officers Say Proprietor of Pool Hall Admits He Ran Down Boy. ‘DRUNK; DIDN’T KNOW IT’ Unable to Sleep, Thought He Was Motorist Sought, Says Statement. Glenn Kirkpatrick, 33, operator of a poolroom at Tipton, was held in City Prison this afternoon under SIO,OOO bond on an involuntary manslaughter charge, as the driver of the auto which killed Campbell, 18, of 852 W. New York St., Western Union messenger, at Blackford and Washington Sts. Sunday night. He was arrested at Tipton this morning by Capt. Lester Jones, Sergt. Frank Owen and State Policeman Charles Bridges. According to the officers he admitted he was the driver of the auto which struck the Campbell boy’s bicycle. He declared at the time he did not know what his machine had struck. Unable to Sleep In a signed statement, Khkpavrick said he was drunk that night and did not know he had left the boy’s fatally crushed body in the street. Since reading of the accident, in the newspapers, he said he has not been able to sleep, and although realizing that he probably was the hit-and-run driver sought had been afraid to give himself up, the officers said. “If I hadn’t been drunk, I would have stopped,” he told police. Police Chief Worley received an anonymous letter charging that Kirkpatrick was the death car driver. Identified by Boy He sent the officer to Tipton with Wilbur Buchanan, 20, of 1819 Kessler Blvd., another Western Union messenger, who said that shortly after the fatal accident Sunday a man stopped him in front of the Claypool and said: “You’d better look out. I just ran over one of you messenger boys a few minutes ago.” “That’s the man or his twin brother,” Buchanan said when he faced Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick did not admit having accosted Buchanan, but said he parked his machine on Pearl St. after the accident and walked around for a while. Police said Kirkpatrick’s auto had a broken headlight, recently replaced with anew light.

200 REPORTED DEAD \ IN BEDOUIN OUTBREAK Civil Strife of Tribe May Spread to Others, Leaders Fear. Bn United Press LONDON, Nov. 3.—The Daily Express’ Jerusalem correspondent reports that dispatches from Damascus state 200 have been killed or wounded in clashes between two sections of the Rualla Triza, most powerful of the Bedouins. It is feared that the feud may spread among other tribes, many of which already are on the warpath. The conflict is reported to have started over the question of loyalty to heads of the well-known Schalani tribe. TELLS ‘MOVING’ STORY Rushville Wife Lived in Twentynine Places—Asks Divorce By Times Special RUSHVILLEE, Ind., Nov. 3.—Mrs. Agnes Mathews called twenty-nine places “home” during the ten years she was married to Harold Mathews, she alleges in a divorce suit filed' here. The last move was made by Mathews, the wife alleges. She does not know his present whereabouts. DISCOUNTS BEING OLD Portland Man, 82, Digs HundredBushel Potato Crop By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Nov. 3.—John W. Williams, 82, once active as a breeder of fine livestock, has turned to potato raising in his old age and has just completed work of digging 100 bushels, this year’s crop. One of the potatoes weighs three and one-half pounds, and thirty-nine have a combined weight of sixty-six pounds.

Tale of Tears Bu Times Special HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Nov. 3.—The baby son of Rev. and Mrs. Roy Thurley cried during a service at the United Brethren church here, where the father is pastor. The mother left the church with the baby and on entering the parsonage nearby, a burglar fled emptyhanded, having been interrupted in his work of ransacking the home.

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STATE SHAME IS DEPLORED BY NICHOLSON Indiana Glaring Example of Popular Rule Failure, Author Says. Bit United Press MILWAUKEE, Nov. 3.—America will destroy America if its citizens "bend their necks to tyranny, become subservient to the power of dollars, and are false to their glorious heritage.” Meredith Nicholson, Indiana author, said in a speech before the Wisconsin Teachers’ Association here today. He reviewed the political situation in Indiana, which he characterized as “a breaking down of government under law.” “Super-government of the KuKlux Klan and intimidation of lawmakers and Government executives by the Anti-Saloon League has brought its Inevitable result,” he said. “The abandonment of local rights and duties by failure of small political units to cling to their privllges has weakened ,he whole political fabric. A “Indiana furnished the best example of the failure of popular government offered by any American commonwealth. The fault lies in the people themselves.” Failure of citizens to vote and “interlocking of business and politics” he blamed for the political ills of the day. “You need not fear that I shall say here what I have not said at home,” he said, “but it is with shame that I must confess that Indiana just now furnishes the best instance of the failure of popular government that has been offered by an American commonwealth.”

FROST KILLS BLOOMS Temperatures to Remain About Same Friday. Heavy frost here last night killed most of the susceptible unprotected flowers, according to J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau head. The frost was general over Indiana and as far south as Tennessee, Armington said. Another frost is predicted over Indiana tonight. Low temperature for the night here was 40 degrees, 2 degrees above the low mark for this fall. Temperatures today were several degrees higher than those of Wednesday, but 10 to 12 degrees lower than those of Monday. EAST TOJJET SNOW Fall Weather Arrives After Long Warm Spell. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Fall weather was on its way to the East at last today, after "a long period of unseasonable warmth. Although the temperature was still fairly high in New York and New England, a considerable drop was forecast. Possible snow was predicted for some sections east of the Allegehenies. A heavy • rain fell in New York today, with a precipitation of .23 inches in the twenty-four hours ending at 8 a. m. During the last twenty-four hours northern and western New York and all Pennsylvania reported considerable drops of temperature. Pittsburgh led the list with a drop of 26 degrees.

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Sinclair Cos. Vice president Refuses Answers on Juror Shadowing. BY HERBERT LITTLE limited Preu Staff Correspondent • WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Failing in two attempts to find what part A Mason Day played in shadowing of Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial jurors by Burns detectives, the Government this afternoon acted to pry the alleged “contact man’s” story from his unwilling lips. Day, debonair vice president of the Sinclair Exploration Company, is accused in one of the four affidavits which’caused a mistrial in the case yesterday of having received reports regularly from fourteen or fifteen Burns sleuths hired to check on the movements and financial status of the jury. The affidavit said the detectives real employer was Harry F. Sinclair. Day refused yesterday to answer questions by a grand /..ry preparing to vote indictment for jury tampering. Ife refused a second time this forenoon. Charge to Be Filed It was announced when the grand jury recessed for lunch that that body would certify to a District of Columbia Supreme Court justice this afternoon, probably Presiding Justice Walter I. McCoy, that Day had refused to answer. It also was divulged that the United States district attorney would Inform the court that the reasons Day advanced for not testifying were insufficient. It then would be up to the judge either to grant Day immunity from testifying or order him to answer the grand jury’s questions. Eugene Blavuet, French chauffeur for Sinclair during the trial, was called this afternoon before the grand jury. The chauffeur told reporters before he entered the Jury room that he was employed with his car by Day. ’’contact man” suspect. Edward J. Kidwell, Jean young leather worker involved in affidavits saying he predicted a hung jury and asserted he expected to come out of the trial with an automobile “as long as a block,” was recalled after spending two hours belore the grand jury yesterday. He has waived immunity and told his story. Jurors Are Angry The eleven other jurors, including two pretty young women, all angry at even the remotest suggestion they needed watching, were to confer on what they had observed of possible “shadowing,” before going, into the i grand jury room. Neil Burkinshaw, assistant United States attorney, engineering the investigation. is preparing a formidable list of subpoenaes for more witnesses, including, it is understood, several widely known people, some from Chicagb and New York. Owen J. Roberts, oil prosecution chief, and United States Attorney Peyton Gordon have authorized Burkinshaw to carry his inquiry as far as possible, and the investigation is expected to last from one to two weeks. Sinclair Stays in Capital It is problematical whether Sinclair, co-defendant with former Secretary Albert B. Fall in the trial, will be called before the grand jury. It is likely he will stay in Washington until this investigation is completed, however. The gray-haired Fall, after issuing a statement deploring the loss of opportunity to refute the charges of criminal conspiracy against him in the defense side of the trial, packed his bags and prepared to return to his New Mexico home.

DEATHS REACH FOUR Frank ton Man Succumbs to TrainAuto Crash Injuries. Bn United Press ELWOOD, Ind., Nov. B.—The death of William Hughes, 55, at Mercy Hospital here Wednesday Increased. to four the victims of a collision between a Pennsylvania freight train and an automobile at a crossing in Frankton Tuesday. The dead, besides Hughes, are Mrs. William Hughes, 48, his wife; Wayne Hughes, 5, their son, and Mrs. Sarah Davis, 67, mother of Mrs. Hughes. All the dead lived in Frankton. PROBE TIP ON ROBBERY Police Leave on Mysterious Trip Investigating Bank Case. Three uniformed Indianapolis policemen and two detectives left in a police emergency car this afternoon with State Policeman Charles Bridges to investigate a tip given Bridges on the bandits who Tuesday held up the Tippecanoe Loan and Trust Company at Lafayette and escaped with SI,OOO after killing Police Captain G. W. Arman. Police Chief Claude M. Worley refused to reveal the car’s destination. but said it was “some distance.”

Blot Out Peace Bn United Press CHICOPEE. Mass., Nov. 3. A domestic quarrel between a deaf-mute couple in which pen and paper were the weapons became so heated here that Patrolman Michael E. McDermott found it necessary to intervene.

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WOMEN PLEAD FOR SLASH OF INCOME TAXES Unfair Neglect of Single Persons Complained of at Hearing. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.—Two may not live cheaper than one, but the one has to pay more to keep up a home than either of the two, four representatives of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs told the House I Ways and Means Committee today. 1 The women askea increased ex- ' emption from income taxes for unmacried persons, pointing out that married persons have been given extraordinary exemptions since the war while the exception of a single person has been cut from $3,000 to $1,500. I “This is unfair neglect of single persons,” they said. “It costs more for a single person to maintain a home than it does for a married person.” This was the first time unmarried men and women have been represented in hearings on tax reduction bills since the war. Nuisance taxes, including those on automobiles, music and admissions, were opposed before the Committee by representatives of industries. Appeal was made that these taxes, inaugurated In war time, be repealed in the new revenue bill upon which the committee is holding hearings. Simultaneously, a statement was issued by the National Automobile Dealers’ Association, opposing Secretary of Treasury Mellon’s proposal for retention of the automobile taxes.

CHARGE MISCONDUCT Former City Market Master Is Filed On. Two new affidavits charging official misconduct against Earl S. Garrett, former city market master, were filed in Criminal Court today by Marion County prosecutors. Special Criminal Judge Jackson Carter has two other affidavits against Garrett under advisement and is expected to rule on a defense motion to quash within a few days. The new affidavits make minor changes in the former ones, Deputy Prosecutor William H. Shaeffer said. They charge Garrett with accepting SSO in a market stand lease deal and with taking $5 on an electrical contract let for work to the mat net house.

PLAN MOVIE EXHIBIT Show to Be Held Week Starting Nov. 28. The Associated Theater Owners of Indiana will cooperate v.ith the Junior Chamber of Comr.unce in the movie exposition to be * .aged at Tomlinson Hall the week oi Nov. 28. it was announced today by Charles R. Metzger, president, in a communication to William Henry Harrison, president of the junior commercial organization. Cooperation of the Indianapolis branch of the Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays was given at a recent meeting and Mrs. David Ross, president, appointed this commlttf o to assist in the exposition activities; Mrs. H. C Bertrand. Mrs. Harry McDonald, Mrs. C. R. Kempf and Mrs. Claude Powers.

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CIVIC GROUPS IN PARLEY ON MAYORCHOICE 150 Delegates Selected by Sixty Organizations Are at Meeting. EACH WILL NAME TWO Man Who Will Govern City on Manager Lines Is to Get Preference. One hundred fifty delegates of more than sixty civic, business and labor organizations met at the Lincoln this afternoon to select several outstanding citizens from whom they believe city council should select the permanent mayor of Indianapolis Nov. 8. The delegates decided to approve five names. • Those nominated from whom the five were to be selected: Sol Schloss, William H. Inxley, James Garfield Thomas. J. K. Lilly, Edward O. Snethen, Charles F. Coffin and Lucius B. Swift. O. D. Haskett, John R. Welch. Franklin Vonncgut, G. M. Williams, Felix McWhirter. Fred Hoke, Dwight S. Ritter, Wallace O. Lee, John F. White, Edward B. Raub, Frank Manley, Henry L. Dithmer, J. W. Esterline, Claude H. Anderson. Frank Cones, Fred Gardner, Thomas C. Howe, Delbert O. Wilmeth, Irving Lemaux. Twenty-six names, in all, were proposed. Charles F. Coffin, chairman of the City Manager League directors, presided. explaining that the league would have only two votes in the nomination of the mayoralty choices —the same as every other organization represented. "The League has no candidates to offer,” said Coffin, opening the meeting. “Its two delegates will make no nominations, but the organization will back to the utmost the candidates selected." Delegates Registered The delegates were registered as they entered the lunchroom and were given slips of paper. Names of men for mayoralty timber were suggested from the floor, each delegate writing down the names. When nominations were closed, the delegates scratched off all except the chose nnumber they regarded the best material. Then n committee counted the unscralchcd names’. The delegates, in general, sought men whom they believed would conduct the government along city manager lines. Suggests Young Men Seated at the'speakers’ table with Coffin were Sol. Schloss. J. W. Esterline, Frank E. Gates. Claude H. Anderson and William H. Insley, manager movement leaders. A. Kiefer Mayer. Chamber of Commerce representative, suggested before the meeting that a young man be selected who would be suitable to serve the city for four years after the city manager form is effective. Coffin replied to Council President Negley's letter refusing a conference with council members before the permanent mayor Is selected. Coffin pointed out that his request was directed to Negiey as council head and not mayor pro tem. “Your suggestion that you would not be willing to arrange a conference with the executive committee of the City Manager league in its representative capacity is quite remarkable," Coffin said. Asks Pertinent Questions “Upon what proper ground can the legislative body of this city, elected by the people, decline a conference with ANY body of citizens, whether they desire a conference as individuals or as repr seen ting other individuals. Negiey said he would have an answer ready Friday or Saturday telling of “some things" he knew had happened in the last nine months, and indicating it would be a “hot** reply. Politicians Get Busy Meanwhile, politicians were bringing pressure upon the council to name a mayor who would “play ball.” Some councilmen were inclined to listen to either the George V. Coffin or the Otis Dodson Republican factions, but others were reported lining up to take the matter entirely into their own hands. The latter movement was reported to be crystallizing into talk of A. M. Glossbrenner, president of the Levey Printing Company, as the man to elect Nov. 8. This was understood to be one of the council's plans to get away from naming someone suggested at today’s civic meeting GERMAN FLIER IS LOST Fear World Tripper Is Forced Down in India. Btt United Press ALLAHABAD, India. Nov. 3. Nothing had been heard today from Otto Koennecke. German round-the-world aviator, since he left Karchai yesterday, announcing Allahabad was his destination. It is feared that he may have made a forced landing.