Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 154, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1927 — Page 3

NOV. 5, 1927.

FRIENDS FIGHT WOMAN’S. CHARGES AGAINST HARDING

LATE PRESIDENT GIRL’S FATHER. AUTHORCLAIMS Book Tells Story of ‘Love Affair’ of Long Standing With Executive. MEMORY IS DEFENDED Statement Authorized by Family Sounds Appeal for Justice. Bjj United Press MARION, Ohio, Nov. s.—Loyal friends of Warren G. Harding, convinced they are speaking the sentiments of the bereaved family, have broken their long silence and formally denounced as “infamous” the claim of Nan Britton, former Marion (Ohio) girl that she is the mother of a daughter of the late President. ' In defense of the dead executive’s memory, a carefully prepared statement was made today, with the knowledge of Mr. Harding’s brother, Dr. George T. Harding. Jr., by Grant E. Mouser, Sr., a lifelong personal and political friend and fellow townsman. It expresses the hope that “the American nation will rise to condemn such unwarranted attack upon a defenseless man.” Calls for Public Action Further, it expresses hope that public opinion will force from circulation Miss Britton’s book, in which she tells of her alleged secret love affair with Mr. Harding, from which love, she claims, a daughter was born while Mr. Harding still was a United States Senator. The book, a large volume going into great and intimate detail as regards the alleged relationship between Miss Britton and Mr. Harding, has been published by the “Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc.,” operating in connection with the “Elizabeth Ann League,” which declares it is seeking social and legal recognition of all illegitimate children. Subscription blanks for membership in this “league” are enclosed within the covers of the book. Since its publication, the book has had a widespread sale and for weeks friends of the Hardings, it is disclosed, have been writing the family, expressing resentment and urging action. Friend Issues Statement Conferences were held this week ■among Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., ,and his sisters, Mrs. Ralph Lewis and Mrs. Heber Votaw, Grant E. Mouser, Sr.; his son, assistant attorney general in Ohio, and other old friends of the family. Finally Mouser, at whose home Miss Britton was a guest many times during her girlhood, issued the following statement today, on his own initiative: “The character of Mr. Harding, his deep sense of responsibility, and his instinctive love for children certainly discredit the book even more thoroughly than contradicting details contained between its covers. “I am convinced some ulterior motive prompted the publication of ‘The President’s Daughter,’ which, even if true, is infamous. The whole thing is very much regretted by Mr. Harding’s family and loyal friends who cannot conceive of events alleged, knowing him as they did. See Slander of Harding “Numerous incidents which we are well able to recall depict a gentleman of great sense of responsibility—utterly unlike the character painted in the unfortunate book. “If President Harding had been the father of the child, we know provision would have been made for it. Upon that the President wUd ihave insisted. “We also have had occasion to recall that President Harding was an instinctive lover of children, and as such would not have left any child, whether his or not, without all advantages, if the matter had been brought to his personal attention. That is the kind of man we knew him to be. "It is certainly to be hoped the American Nation will rise to condemn such unwarranted attack upon a defenseless man and force the book’s retirement from circulation.” Tells of Love Affair Briefly, Miss Britton’s book relates how she was infatuated as a girl with Mr. Harding from the time she first knew him as editor of the Marion Star and before he entered politics. This infatuation did not abate as she grew older, and finally when he became United States Senator, according to her story, he procured employment for her as stenographer with the United States Steel Corporation. Thenceforward their frendship and intimacy grew, the story relates, the consummation being a baby girl, named Elizabeth Ann. For purposes of convenience, she say, Miss Britton gave the child at the outset the surname of Christian,, that of Mr. Harding’s secretary both when he was senator and president. The girl is now 8 years old. 11 Defends Her Story Miss Britton, in New York, has maintained that there is no doubt as to the details she has related in the book and adds that she has told her daughter all about her parentage. In an interview with the United Press she said: “All Mr. Harding’s relatives and friends know I have spoken only the truth. My letters and other proofs, some' of which were not in my book, fill a box under lock and key in a safety deposit vault. I know of men who will sign affidavits attesting the facts I have mentioned.” the other tiand t friends of the

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The south division of the woman’s army of the community fund workers has made extensive plans for the Nov. 4-14 campaign. Among neighborhood leaders are (left to right) Mrs. C. W. Roller, Mrs. Ben Harris and Mrs. C. K. Champlin.

Harding family say they have been unable to find anyone with definite knowledge of any love affair between the girl and Mr. Harding. Intimacy Fast When Miss Britton still was in her teens, she says in her book, she came to New York in search of a position. With the aid of Mr. Harding, who wrote a letter to the late Judge Elbert H. Gary, she obtained a secretarial post in the United States Steel Corporation. A fast-ripening intimacy between the girl and the then Senator is described in detail, with the places and approximate dates of their meetings. Throughout the volume, Miss Brittion refers to Mr. Harding glowingly. He appears as her ideal of perfection and many panegyrical passages appear in the work. Their meetings were not confined to New York hotels and apartments, the book relates. Frequently, when he was campaigning or appearing for business reasons in other cities, she would accompany him or join him, she writes. Love Letters Torn Up Love letters of many pages were exchanged, Miss Britton goes on. These were torn up by mutual decision, but she retained many other letters from Mr. Harding, she says, and copies of these are published in the book. She visited the Senator in his official chambers at Washington, she says, and went with him to hotels in various cities, where she -usually registered as “Miss Christian,” using, at Mr. Harding's suggestion, the surname of his secretary, “as a good joke.” Elizabeth Ann, the book records, was bom in Asbury Park, N. J., on Oct. 22, 1919. Miss Britton told friends she was the wife of "Lieutenant Christian,” who was assigned in France, and even addressed letters to the fictitious husband. The baby’s birth certificate was made out in the name of Elizabeth Ann Christian.

DEATH CLEW FOUND Infirmary Inmate May Be Hanging Victim. Attempts to locate a former inmate of the Marion County infirmary who several times has attempted suicide, was believed by police today to offer a probable solution to the mystery surrounding the body of an unidentified man found by hunters Wednesday hanging from a tree along White River near Troy Ave. and Harding St. Coroner C. H. Keever today ordered the case held open while his office and police push investigations. The man being sought formerly lived in Beech Grove. Death had taken place about a month before the body was discovered. All marks of identification had been removed. RETURN DANCER’S MATE Fawn Gray’s Husband Here to Face Stock Selling Scheme. Hamilton Smith, 40, New York, wanted by local authorities for violation of the Indiana securities law, ,was returned to Indianapolis from Baltimore by Detective Sergeant George Hubbard, Friday. Smith, who was arrested in Baltimore, is alleged to have promoted a motion picture company stock selling scheme. The stock proved worthless, police said. Smith is the husband of Fawn Gray, a well known dancer. 300 KILLED BY STORM Hundreds Are Injured in Cyclone at Beliore, India. Bu United Press LONDON, Nos s.—The Daily Mail’s Madras correspondent says 300 persons were killed and hundreds injured by a cyclone at Beliore, India, ninety-eight miles northwest of Madras. Many buildings collapsed in Madras also, according to the report received here. / PIANIST’S RECITAL SET Willard MacGregor to Play At Institute Nov. 13. Willard MacGregor, pianist, will play at the John Herron Art Institute Sunday, Nov. 13, at 3 p. m. MacGregor’s program will include “The Beethoven Appassionata Sonata,” the Bach-Busoni Chaconne,” two ballads by Chopin and a selection of old Italian pieces transcribed by Respighi. MOVIES NEED ATHLETES Producer Says Tennis Courts and Links Will Yield Them. Bn United Press LONDON, Nov. s.—Future queens of the screen will be found on the tennis court and the links, not the cabarets, Herbert Wilcox, movie producer, commented. Friday in anInouncing that he had signed two of England’s bright young tennis stars fox the films.

KLAN LEADERS WATCHJNDIANA National Workers Reported Preparing for 1928. National leaders again are turning their attention to the Indiana realm of the Ku-Klux Klan, apparently with the view of “whipping things into shape” for the 1928 State election. Scott Berridge of Washington, assistant to National Reclamation Director J. A. Comer, has been here some time studying conditions in the Hoosier State. It was understood Berridge was to be in the State for several weeks in an effort to untangle the Klan situation. Klansmen who have striven for individual and factional power have made a mess of the local situation from a national viewpoint, it is said. % Significance also was attached to the fact that “Doc” McDowell of Atlanta, associated with Imperial Klailiff K. W. Ramsey of the department of realms, also was here temporarily in charge of the Indiana realm office. W Lee Smith, whose status as grand dragon in Indiana is in doubt, was reported out of the on a speaking tour in the East and in Illino‘.s for several weeks. Berridge declined to reveal his mission except to say he was in the State to help “builc things up. ’ ‘BOND’ BOOZE SCARCE f City Arrests Reveal Most ‘Good Liquor’ Faked, From the arrest of Sam and Jacob Fogle, Indianapolis men, several months ago by George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator, a nationwide investigation revealing the soura# of immense quantities of “bonded” liquor in the country has developed. Preliminary reports on the investigation recently prompted the declaration by E. C. Yellowley of Chicago, divisional prohibition administrator, that not more than 2 per cent of the “bonded” liquor in the country is genuine. Since then raids on Chicago firms have netted more than fourteen tons of counterfeit labels and strip stamps. Several days ago plates for making the labels and stamps were confiscated in the East.

COOLIDGE ORDERS AID IN HOME STATE FLOODS Army Planes Sent to Help Vermont Relief Work. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—President Coolidge anxiously awaited additional news from the flood area in his home State, Vermont, today and was quick to order aid sent into the area. Anxiety was felt by Attorney General Sargent, whose wife at present is at the Sargent home in Ludlow, Vt., only eleven miles from Montpelier, where the greatest damage is reported. Acting on orders from the President, Army planes from Boston were dispatched to the area by the War Department, and the corps area of the district was instructed to offer aid to Governor John E. Weeks of Vermont. STATE LETS CONTRACTS City Firms Get Work on Six Blind School Units. Contracts for six additional building units at the Indiana State School for the Blind, Seventy-Fifth St. and College Ave., were awarded by trustees Friday. Units include four boys’ buildings, industrial building and an administration building. All will be connected by tunnel. General contract went to Service Construction Company for $287,625; electric wiring to Smith Electric Company, $5,282; heating and ventilating to Freyn Brothers, $9,355, and plumbing to the same firm at $15,177. The State will receive 1 per cent discount for awarding two contracts to one firm. All awards were to Indianapolis concerns. DRY LID IS TIGHTENED Heavier Jail Sentences Shut Qtt Booze, Says Lowman, Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Wider clamping of jail sentences on dry law violators has improved prohibition conditions in many large cities, including St. Louis, Buffalo and Philadelphia, Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman said today. Conditions in western New York are better than at any time since prohibition, he said. During the last five months agents working out of Buffalo have seized more liquor than In any previous period, he

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JURY ‘FIXING’ PRODE URGED IN CONGRESS Inquiry of Burns Sleuths’ Work Will Not Be Confined to Oil Case. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Pres* Btff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Unless the District of Columlla grand jury makes exhaustive investigation of the alleged jury-fixing activities of William J. Burns, head of the Burns International Detective Agency and former chief of the bureau of investigation under Harry M. Daugherty, the next Congress will be asked to do so. And if Congress does the investigating, its inquiry will probably not be confined to the Fall-Sinclair case now before the public. The inquiry may be asked by Senator smith Brookhart of lowa, who already has grilled Burns several times in connection with the Senate oil and Department of Justice investigations. Indictments Are Predicted Senator Brookhart said today he had heard several other senators speak of the need for such an investigation and he is not certain who will introduce the necessary legislation. Jury tampering conspiracy indictments against Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil man, and his lieutenant, A. Mason Day, generally are expected from the grand jury next week. The jury-tampering conspiracy warrant drawn yesterday against the millionaire oil man, Harry F. Sinclair remained unserved today, while United States District Attorney Gordon told the United Press he did not know yet what he would do about it. Gordon ordered service withheld yesterday. He claimed then a ‘mistake” had been made in issuing the warrant at the request of Neil Burkinshaw, young assistant United States District Attorney, adding that Sinclair was available at any time under a pending sentence for contempt of the Senate. Jury Quizzes Witnesses Lawrence G. Hoes, representing the National City Company here, who was a member of the original Jury panel, was called as the first witness today before the grand jury. He was questioned regarding reports of surveillance by Bums detectives of members of the jury panel. Other members of the panel were to be called later. Following Hoes, the grand t Jury quizzed Charles Holt, a member of the Fall-Sinclair jury, which was subsequently dismissed when charges of tampering caused a mistrial. Charles G. Ruddy, chief of the Bums detective detachment which spied upon the jury, also was questioned again today by the grand jury. Question Girl Student Gordon explained today that A. Sheldon Clark of Chicago, vice president of the Sinclair Oil Company, who will go before the grand jury Monday, had been closely watched during his ten-day stay here during the trial. Clark is reported to have received reports from the Burns detectives Josephine Hopkins, pretty George Washington University student, testified briefly before the grand jury. She was mentioned in one of the reports of Bums detectives, but her connection with the case was not indicated. Fall, meanwhile, was suffering a breakdown at his hotel just as he was preparing to return to his New Mexico home to recuperate for the retrial of the case Jan. 16. Condition of the former cabinet member was said by physicians to be serious. One lung was badly congested. MISSION UNION MEETS 500 Womer. Attend Session at First L. B. Church. * Semi-annual meeting of the Missionary Social Union of the United Brethren churches of Indianapolis was held Friday at the First United Brethern Church, Park Ave. and Walnut St., with about 500 women in attedance. The Rev. R. S. Parr, pastor of the First U. B. Church, opened the morning session. Mrs. C. W. Winders, Miss Bernice Copeland, Miss Pearl Forsythe, L. A. Tripp, and the Rev. H. E. Eberhardt gave reports of the women’s department under the direction of Mrs. Charles Mueller. Clyde C. Coulter, New York and Mrs. F. E. Smith, spoke. ADMIT BANDIT CHARGES Two Youths Confess Robbing Four City Filling Stations. Robert Narlowe, 19, of 107 N. State Ave., and Russell Grimes, 25, of 759 E. Georgia St., are under arrest on auto banditry charges. They have confessed to holding up four filling stations and stealing three autos during the past two months. The filling stations and loot were Highland Ave. and Washington St., $22; Hawthorne Lane and Washington St., $37; Shelby St. and Fletcher Ave., s2l, and Newman St, and Massachusetts Ave., $lO. ENVOY GIVES RECEPTION Morrow Is Host to 500 numbers of American Colony. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Nov. s.—Five hundred members of the American colony at Mexico City and surrounding cities attended Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow’s first big reception for Americans since his arrival here. The ambassador was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Arthur Schoen'feld, wife of the charge d’affairs of the embassy.

INDICTMENTS IN COUNCIL CASES CHARGE BRIBES • Rezoning and Purchases for Fire Department Basis of Bills. The list of the six indictments returned against four city councilmen and a real estate dealer by the Marion County grand jury late Friday follows: 1. Against Boynton J. Moore. Otis E. Bartholomew, Walter D. Dorsett and Millard W. Ferguson, councilmen, charges that each on or about Dec. 1, 1926, solicited and accepted bribes of S3OO each for favorable votes upon an ordinance rezoning the southeast corner of College Ave. and Forty-Sixth St., for business. Witnesses are O. Ray Albertson, councilman; A. Edward Mantel, realtor, and Miss Margaret Inman, assistant city clerk. 2. Against Moore, charges that on or about Oct. 15, when the council for the second time was about to start impeachment proceedings against John L. Duvall, then mayor, Moore solicited and received from Duvall appointment of Ray Siebert, his brother-in-law. as city garage superintendent, and of Frank Hougham, his father-in-law. as assistant city building commisisoner. Witnesses are Duvall and Miss Pearl Nichols, 1121 Central Ave., Duvall’s former stenographer. Charge SSOO Bribe 3. Against Moore, charges that at the time the city was buying SIOO,000 worth of fire department equipment Moore solicited and received a bribe of SSOO to vote for a contract Witnesses are George Bailey of the Mack Truck Company; Edward Sourbier, capitalist, 3604 Washington- Blvd.; Councilman Albertson, Duvall and Miss Inman. 4. Against Bartholmew, charges that on or about Oct. 1, he paid to Councilman Albertson $l5O to influence him to vote for an ordinance rezoning the northwest corner of Twenty-Seventh and Meridian Sts. for business. Witnesses are Thomas Moynahan, builder; Albertson and Miss Inman. Allege Appointment Solicited 5. Against Bartholomew, charges that when the second impeachment proceedings against Duvall were pending, he solicited from Duvall appointment of Emanuel Wetter as clerk of the board of works. Witnesses are Duvall and Miss Nichols. 6. Against Martin Frankfort, real estate dealer, 701 Union Title Bldg., charges that Frankfort paid Moore S6OO May l, to vote for the ordinance rezoning the northwest corner of Twenty-Seventh and Meridian Sts., for business. Witnesses are Moynahan, Albertson and Miss Inman.

SET WAR DEAD RITES Earth From French Graves Will Be Spread. Indiana posts of the American Legion will celebrate Nov. 11, Armistice day, in a touching and beautiful manner this year, Col. Paul McNutt, Indiana commander, announced today. Representatives of twenty Indiana posts, whose members attended the Paris convention of the second A. E. F. this fall, brought, back from France some of the earth from the graves of Indiana heroes. This soil will be scattered over the graves of legionnaires in each community on Armistice day, McNutt said. In some cases it will be presented to the parents of the fallen heroes with fitting ceremonies. The post at Rockford will place on the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln earth taken from the graves of several Indiana soldiers who gave their all that the freedom for which her noble son also gave his life, might still live. DRY LAWS ARE SCORED School Superintendent Says Crime Is Caused by Prohibition. “When the country meets the problems of prohibition it will be well on the road to solution of its troubles in handling the younger generation,” Charles F. Miller, school superintendent, declared Friday night before the School 58 Parent-Teacher Association. Miller declared illiteracy, poverty and prohibition are at the base of the crime wave. Other speakers included Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, school commissioner; Mrs. W. G. Hennis and Mrs. Maude Mondy, principal. Miller said he believes in prohibition. GAS STOVE IS STOLEN Winter Preparations Made By Second-Hand Store Looters. Cold weather was given as the propable reason a second-hand store at 3122 E. Twenty-Fifth St., owned by Edward Sinkbinder, 2510 N. Dearborn St., was broken into Friday night. A gas stove valued at $25 was stolen. Sam Kostourous, 119 N. Liberty St., reported to police his restaurant had been robbed of $25, concealed in a can under the counter. The burglar is believed to have entered with a key early In the morning. GRANT PILOT PERMITS City Men Given Licenses to Fly by United States Air Division. Fred J. Maibucher, 3640 Fountain St., and Karl A. Biedemeister, S. Arlington Ave., have been granted pilot licenses by the aeronautics division of the Department of Commerce, according to a Washington dispatch.

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The four city councilmen indicted on bribery charges by the Marion County grand jury late Friday, above, Otis E. Bartholomew (left) and Boynton J. Moore; below, Walter R. Dorsett (left) and Millard W. Ferguson.

FIVE ARE KURT IN AUTO; CRASH One Arrested on Reckless Driving Charge. Accused of driving his automobile at high speed on the left hand side of the street at 1300 W. Washington St., head-on into another automobile, Ralph C. Jordan, 20, of Ben Davis was charged at the city prison late Friday night with speeding, reckless driving and assault and battery. Maurice Hughes. 27, of 215 Ritter Ave., driver of the other altomobile, was hurled twenty feet and injured about the legs. His wife. Mildred, 25, was bruised about the body and legs. Grady Sutton, 22, of 832 E. Maryland St.; Fred Manning, 21, of 834 E. Maryland St., and Duel Sutton, 21. of 230 S. Noble St., riding with Jordan, were cut and bruised. Traffic officer Robert Woolen stationed at Delaware and Washington Sts., was injured on tne foot when he stepped into the path of an automobile, driven by Lieut. Walter R. Peck, Ft. Harrison, late Friday. Fred Mangold, 17, 1917 Charles St., rode his bicycle into the side of a truck driven by Russell Dunn, 23, of 14 Kansas St., at Madison Ave. and Merrill St., late Friday. Mangold was not injured seriously ELKS WILL CELEBRATE 46th Birthday of Charter To Be Observed Friday. Indianapolis Elks Lodge N<fc 13, celebration of the forty-sixth birthday of the lodge charter at the Elks will meet next Friday night in Club, Meridian and St Clair Sts. A stag dinner will be given at 7 p. m. under the direction of Jack Quill. George W. June, sea food steward, founder, charter and life member, will be a guest. Charles F. Balz is secretary, and Edmund Rosenburg is right honorable primo. MAGAZINE AGENT HELD Police Investigate Dayton Man After Rumor Is Spread. Jerry Callahan, 27, of Dayton, Ohio, is in jail on a charge of vagrancy under $2,000 bond while police investigate his solicitations for magazine subscriptions. Several weeks ago the Better Business Bureau warned beauty shop operators to be on the lookout for a solicitor by the name of Callahan, who promised a sign free with three magazine subscriptions. Callahan entered the W. O. Parker barber shop, 2916 Clifton Blvd., Friday and was detained while the police were called. STATE YOUTH HONORED Shortridge High Graduate Wins Amherst Scholarship. Paul Bartlett, son of Prof, and Mrs. George Bartlett of Lafayette and a graduate of Shortridge High School in 1923, has been awarded the Addison-Brown scholarship at Amherst College, according to word received here by Franb B. Wade, Shortridge faculty member. Bartlett maintained the highest scholarship record of his class during his first three years at Amherst. He is a candidate for the Rhoades scholarship of Massachusetts. Restricts Marion Company Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—The Federal Trade Commission today announced dismissal of a complaint against the Marion Tool Works, Marion, Ind., involving use of the word “steel” in description of tools sold by the company which the commission alleges were qot made of steel. The commission reserved the right to reopen the case should the company resume use of the word “steeL”

SOVIET FETES DATEOFREVOLT Moscow Ablaze 'With Red for Celebration. Bu United Press MOSCOW, Nov. 4.—Ablaze with red decorations in sharp contrast to the first snowfall of winter. Moscow has begun a week's festivities in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the revolution that made Russia the Soviet republic. The city was in holiday mood. Stores were filled with men and women buying bunting, flags, and buttons containing the portrait of Nikolai Lenin, who died at the height of his power as co-dictator with Leon Trotzky—now dead politically. Twenty thousand delegates have arrived from all parts of Russia for the festivities. They are augmented by 1,500 foreign intellectuals, among them. Theodore Dreiser, American novelist, whom! the government invited, BURGLARS FOILED BY WATCHMAN'S BULLETS Negro Believed Shot In Attempt to Jimmy Bank Window. Two shots, one of which is believed to have struck a Negro who was prying open a window at the j. F. Wild State Bank, closed by State authorities, were fired by Orbis Foist, 1514 Pruitt St., nightwatchman at the bank, at 2:30 a. m. today. Foist told police he was making his rounds through the counting room when he heard a noise and looked toward the window leading to the alley side of the bank. There he saw the Negro with a large prying bar and a white man who had something in his hand. One of the two bullets shattered the glass where the Negro was working and he yelled, Foist said. Both men ran south in the alley and an auto speeded after them. POLICEWOMEN ARE PAID Back Salary Checks Are Ordered After Court Fight. Police Chief Claude Worley today was paying off the fifteen policewomen with $1,037.96 checks each. Part of this has been held back since Jan. 1, because policewomen’s salaries were not provided for in the 1927 budgets The funds were transferred from the left over salary fund. . The policewomen carried their fight to the courts obtaining a restraining order against the board of safety preventing their dismissal. They then obtained a court order compelling the city controller to pay them their salaries in full. U. S. TO GET WAR DEBTS $95,574,000 Will Be Paid Dec. 15 bj Foreign Nations. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Foreign nations will pay the United States $96,574,000 on their war obligations Dec. 15, bringing total war debt payments for the year to more than $163,586,000, the Treasury announced today. Great Britain will pay $67,575,000; Czechoslovakia, $1,500,000; Belgium, $1,125,000, and Poland, $1,000,000. Smaller payments will be received from Finland, Hungary Latvia, Lithuania and Esthonla. Mrs. Leonard Wood 111 Bu United Press NEW YORK, Nov. s.—Mrs. Louis Wood, wife of the late MaJ. Gen. Leonard 8. Wood, former governor general of the Philippines, is in the Fifth Avenue Hospital today recovering from an operation.

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BRIBE CHARGE NOT TO FORCE FOUR TO QUIT Indicted Councilmen Will Take Part in Election of New Mayor. Authority of city council to elect a permanent mayor to ’ succeed Mayor Pro Tern. Claude E. Negley Tuesday wiil not be affected by the indictment of four councilmen, In the opinion of Corporation Counsel Schuyler A. Haas. After indictment a man “remains innocent until proven guilty,” so the return of indictments by the Marion County grand jury will not rob councilmen of their power, Haas said. Boynton J. Moore, Millard W. Ferguson, Otis E. Bartholomew and Walter R. Dorsett, the Indicted city fathers, declined to comment on the charges. Not Expected To Quit Although they refused to indicate their inteniions It was believed doubtful that any will resign. Resignations, If they are submitted, probably would be held up until after Tuesday when the new mayor Is selected. The indictments came as a surprise to City Hall as it was considered unlikely that the grand Jury would return true bills before Tuesday to avoid further legal entanglements. Some believed the grand Jury acted when it did to discount rumors that prosecutors were "making a deal with the council to pick the mayor.” In event of resignation of councilman the statute provides the common council shall fill such vacancy by election at a special meeting not less than two or more than fifteen days after discovery of the vacancy. The person or persons elected shall serve out the unexpired term. Ouster Unlikely Statutes gives the council power to oust a councilman when he has violated official duty and to declare the seat vacant by reason of the member’s disability to perform duties of his office. It was considered unlikely that the "remaining councilmen” would consider such action. If those indicted and.O. Ray Albertson. State witnesses who was reported to have given his resignation to Prosecutor William H. Remy, were involved, only four council members would remain. They would be Edward B. Raub and Robert E. Springsteen. Democrats: Dr. Austin Todd and Council President Claude E. Negley. Resignation Rumored Several days ago, while Albertson was appearing as a witness before the grand jury, it was understood he had given his resignation to prosecutors. Today Prosecutor Remy said that whether Albertson resigns is a matter for the councilman alone to decide. Although Albertson is named in one of the indictments, he was not indicted. J. K. Lilly, president of Ell Lilly Company, withdrew his name from the list of five recommended to city council by the mass meeting of civic clubs. Thursday. He said his health would not permit him serving. Letters were sent to the civic club representatives asking them to attend the council meeting Tuesday, wearing badges with names of their “candidates.”

HEART TROUBLE CURE POSSIBLE, SAYS EXPERT Lack of Exercise, Faulty Diet Eiamed for Disease. Citing lack of exercise, faulty diet, spinal subluxations and Improper thinking as the chief causes of heart failure. Dr. J. Lambert Disney of Philadelphia, in Physical Culture magazine for November, declare* that, general opinion to the contrary, organic heart diseases can be, and have been, cured. As the crusade against the “white plague” has surely and steadily reduced the rate of mortality from tuberculosis, heart troubles are now more prominent than ever among the rated causes of death. That is the reason they are being attacked along a wide front in the world conflict against disease and Dr. Disney’s discussion provides valuable ammunition for individual as well as organized use. In this authoritative article, the cure of hereditary as well as of acquired heart trouble is discussed from the angle of actual experience and observation and in language that the layman can readily understand and apply. BIND OVER CRASH DRIVER SI,OOO Bond Set in Grotto Death Accident Case. Harry Stewart, 6 8. West St., driver of the truck in the Grotto crash on Emerson Ave. Oct. 14, in which twenty persons were killed, waived preliminary hearing on an involuntary manslaughter charge in Municipal Court late Friday and was held to the grand Jury under SI,OOO bond by Judge Dan V. White. Following the accident Stewart was arrested and released on his own recognizance. PLAN BUTLER SERVICES Dean of Religious School WQI Be Church Speaker. Dr. F. D. Kershner, dean of the Butler University school of religion, will speak at the Butler University day services Sunday morning at Seventh Christian Church. The Rev. W. J. Evans, field secretary of the school of religion, will speak at night. Q. R. Mitchell, field worker, will assist. Pictures will be shown of the new Bitffer gacupus and buddings. < ...