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SHUMAKER TO DEFEND SELF INHIGHCOURT Dry League Chief to Take Stand at Opening of Hearing Monday. STORIES !N CONFLICT Watson Deposition Clashes With Version Given by Defendant. For the first time in the long history of the Shumaker contempt case, Superintendent E. S. Shumaker of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League will take the stand in Supreme Court Monday and witnesses will be heard. Breaking the usual rule of not mounting the bench on the first day of the week, justices of the court will assemble at 10 a. m. First action is likely to be refusal of a motion of defense attorneys to quash on grounds of double jeopardy. Shumaker is under SI,OOO bond and faces a $250 fine and sixty days’ imprisonment at the Indiana State Farm for contempt of this court. The hearing was set upon motion cf Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom that his original sentence be increased. Watson Gives Deposition Gilliom already has procured depositions from Senator James E. Watson and Henry Lane Wilson, telling what they know of Shumaker’s political efforts in the matter. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, State Republican Chairman Clyde Walb, Attorney Paul Davis, Democratic candidate for Supreme Court Judge, and the Rev. G. F. Hubbartt, Auburn, a Methodist pastor and friend of the defendant, are the witnesses., called for the Monday hearing. At the two former hearings in the contempt case, large delegations of W. C. T. U. members were on hand and officials of the organization predict a larger attendance this time. Shumaker’s present plight was brought on by publication of correspondence between the dry chief and Watson regarding a phone call to Washington made by Shumaker from the Indianapolis residence of Robinson. Versions In Conflict Watson and Wilson, in their depositions taken at Washington Thursday, gave versions of the telephone call conflicting with the original statement of Shumaker. The latter indicated that he will “stick to the original” when he mounts the stand Monday. First steps in the contempt move were made early in 1926, when Gilliom filed a copy of the 1925 annual report of the league secretary and cited paragraphs as contempuous of the court. A committee of the Indiana Bar Association was apppointed as “friends of the court” and the majority reported for holding Shumaker in contempt. The case was not decided finally until the 1927 vacation session of the court. Exhausting all avenues for rehearing, Shumaker’s attorney, James Bingham, Sr., since has been preparing to take the case to the United States Supreme Court, holding that the constitutional right of free speech and free press have been violated. ASKS AID FOR OFFICERS Senator Will Seek Retirement Plan For Veterans. By Timex Special WASHINGTON. Nov. 19.—Senator Tyson of Tennessee intends to introduce in the coming Congress his bill providing that emergency army officers disabled in the World War can be retired for disabilities like regular army officers are. The senator has attempted to get this bill passed before without success. One provision gives the retired officers 75 per cent, of the pay to which they were entitled at the time of their discharge from commissioned service. Applications would be made through the Veterans’ Bureau. SEEK BIDS ON CONCRETE City Engineer May Change Street Improvement Plans. City Engineer A. H. Moore is expected to revise street improvement specifications to permit reinstatement of concrete on a “fair basis.” Moore announced he ’.Till confer with several engineers, contractors and departmental aids before making any changes. Concrete contractors declare the present plans discriminate against tneir material in favor of asphalt.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 166

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PACIFIC FLIER READYTO HOP Giles’ Plane on Runway for Honolulu Dash. MILLS FIELD, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19.—The Hess biplane Wanda was waiting at the head of the Mills field runway at dawn today for Captain Frederick Giles to take off for Honolulu on the first leg of his flight to Australia. Giles slept at the flying field last night, while a police guard stood watch over his plane. A. T. Peterson, flight manager for Giles, announced at 5:15 a. m., that Giles planned to get away within the next two hours. The charts for the flight were being rechecked and mechanics again inspected the plane. A light fog had drifted over the flying field during the night, but Peterson believed it would lift after .dawn. Giles delayed his departure Thursday and Friday, because of a heavy fog between the flying field e.nd the shore which made visibility exceedingly poor.

How the Market Opened

Bu United Prrs NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Constructive forces were still in the ascendancy at the opening of the stock market today, though the list as a whole presented a slightly irregular appearance, due to profit taking in some sections. Steel and General Motors were firm, the former holding around 143%, up Vt, its opening, and Motors moving up to 132%, up %. Montgomery Ward advanced to a new record high at 69%, up %, and Sears Roebuck rose % to 81 after opening down % at 80%. Pan-AmeHcan Petroleum B was a strong point in the oil group, rising % to 52% on the favorable decision granted Mexican Petroleum by the Mexican Supreme Court. Other oils were firm. Motor shares were less conspicuous, but coppers turned continued to display a firm tone and department stores shares made progress on the upside. In the copper group, Anaconda ros> % to 50%, while in the store list, Associated Dry Goods was up % at 53%. Railroad issues came into better favor at higher prices. Weekly mercantile reviews declared high temperatures were having adverse effects on general business. However, arrival of colder weather offset this and stocks continued to advance in early dealings. New York Stock Opening —Nov. 19— Allied Chem 153% Amn Can 72% Amn Smelting 172% Anaconda 50% Chicago & N W 91 Chrysler 58% Cont Can 76% Corn Prods 64% Dodge 17 Freeport 98 % Oen Elec 131% Oen Motors 132 Goodrich 79 Goodyear 59 Gt Nor pld 100% Houston 162 Hudson 72% Hupp Hot 28% U S Steel 143% Wlllvs-Overland 17% Westing Elec F4% Kennecott 79% Mack 108% Marland 38V Mont Ward 89% N Y Central 164% Nor Pac 97% Nash 90% Pan Pete B 52% Penna Ry : 64% ?ure OH 26 V, ackard 52 Pullman 81% Sears-Roebuck 80% Sinclair 16% So Calif 56 S O N 3 40% Stew Warner 74% Studebaker 57 Texas Cos 53% Timken 118% Union Pac 102’/, New York Curb Opening —Nov. 19— l Bid. Ask. Humble Oil 67% 68% Continental Oil 18% 18% Imp OH of Canada 60V, 60% Ind Pipe Line 86% sa% Ind Pete 33% 33% Ohio OH 64% 65% Prairie OH and Gas 50 50% Prairlte Pipe Line 136 188% Standard Oil Indiana 80 80% Standard OH Kansas 16% 17% Standard OH Kentucky 128 129 Standard Oil Ohio i 76% 77% Vacuum OH 147 V, 147% Salt Creek Prod 30% ,30% Durant Motors Dela ’0 10% Ford of Canada ..570 575 Reo Motors 4% 25 Stcts Motor 20% 20% Cities Service com 50% 51 Matmon ' 41% 44

U. S. TO PROBE MUNCiE DEATH PLOTCHARGES Prisoner Declares He Was Offered SSOO to Slay Dale and Reporter. DETECTIVES ACCUSED Attempt Alleged to Keep Him Away From City and Hush Story. A story of official corruption in Muncie, told to Federal agents by Eddie Duff*, held under $5,000 bond in the Marion County Jail, probably will be investigated by the Federal grand jury when it meets Dec. 12, George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator, said today. An alleged plot in which Duffy said two Muncie police detectives offered him SSOO to kill George Dale, Muncie Post-Democrat editor, and John Cox, reporter, is one of the matters to be investigated. Duffy was reticent about revealing what he had told Sanford Starke, Federal prohibition agent, in first disclosing the alleged plot. Starke was expected to return here today or Sunday to report to Winkler. “Played With” Detectives “I pretended to play In with the detectives’ plot," Duffy said, “expecting to take the money and beat it out of town without killing any one, but they must have guessed my plans.” The detectives were sent by some one else, he said. Duffy declared two other men, whom he did not name, were scheduled to be "taken for a ride” after Dale and Cox. He said he was arrested at Muncie several weeks ago on a charge of holding up a drug store and robbing a safe at Flint, Mich. “Flint officials found they didn’t have much on me,” he said, “and when Muncie officers came after me and said they had enough on me to send me up for life. Flint officials sent me back to MUhCft'’. '* Asked for Judge Dearth “When I ‘reached Muncie I re-* fused to answer questions unless Prosecutor Joe Davis was present. I asked for Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth, Dale and Davis, and said I was going to expose the whole Muncie police force. “Within a short time I was on my way back to Flint. One evening, about a week ago, after I had been j in the jail office all day for questioning, I was taken back to jail for supper and found eight of the j boys with their coats on, ready to| leave through a break in the bars on the window. “They let me follow them. I got away, but was recaptured at Clayton Dudley’s roadhouse near Muncie several days ago.” Muncie Didn’t Want Him Duffy declared he was arrested by Ft. Wayne police for Muncie some time ago. but “Muncie police didn’t want anything to do with me and told Ft. Wayne officers to let me go.” He declared he did not want freedom on bond. “Anything to get me away from those vultures at Muncie,” he said. ORDER BUS SERVICE Increased Between Indianapolis and Southport. Increased bus service between Indianapolis and Southport, by the Interstate Public Service Company was ordered by the public service commission, Friday. The order written by Commissioner Howell Ellis, denied petition of Maude C. Fowler and others for increased service on the Southport line of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company and requires the Interstate to furnish it. The Interstate intervened in the original petition as protestant and submitted a schedule for this increased service. The commissioners ruled a Terre Haute ordinance prohibiting two bus companies to operate on the same street as void. FLIGHT ENDS IN MISHAP Non-Stop Trip to India Called Off After Crash. Bit United Press WARSAW, Nov. 19.—Capt. R. H. Mclntosh and Bert Hinkler, British pilots whose planned non-stop flight to India was terminated dramatically at a Polish village, were at Lemberg today. Without injury to themselves, Mclntosh and Hinkler landed on a country road near Mazana, fifteen miles from Lemberg. Their airplane struck two farmers, seriously injuring one internally and breaking the other’s leg. The plane was damaged. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 23 8 a. m 2*4 7 a. m 23 9 a. m 25 10 a. m 27

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, NOV. 19,1927

Gallery God Days Happiest for Remus

BY ALLENE SUMNER Nov. 19.—Here is the definition of happiness that If George Remus, who lost his own happiness in the process of I I making a fortune, gave me yesterday, in his jail cell here ; "Happiness is just the love and respect and companionship of man and wife and cnildren in harmonious family life. “I became Remus, the King. I was master in a million-dollar house. I had a marble swimming pool bigger and better than the one in Nero’s golden house. It cost me $30,000 to give a party at that pool. But was I happy?” m * SHE “King’s” pasty kewpish face with its childlike, pale blue eyes was wistful, and he leaned nearer and tapped the short fingers of his little dimpled, pudgy, woman-like hand upon

Jury to Act NextWeekin Oil Case Quiz By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—The grand jury investigating Jury-tam-pering charges growing out of the Fall-Sinclair oil trial, wound up its third week today with action indicated for early next week. Meanwhile, possible court action for contempt arising from the same jury-shadowing activities was foreseen, following United States Attorney Peyton Gordon’s resignation from a committee appointed by Justice F. L. Siddons to investigate and prosecute any persons who have affronted the court’s dignity and authority. Gordon has instructed the grand jury on the lav/s involved in the conspiracy charged by the Government, and the next step is a presentment by the grand Jury, advising the United States attorney whether to write an indictment. If indictments are sought, Gordon, an authority on the subject, will write the long document, covering the many activities disclosed by the Government in its inquiry. Government lawyers today expected to receive SIOO,OOO in casl? from Harry M. Blackmer, key witness in the Teapot Dome trial, posted under the Walsh law to assure payment of a penalty of like amount if he is held guilty of contempt of court for refusal to answer a subpoena. SISTER OF KAISER, 63, MARRIES RUSSIAN, 27 German Church Refuses to Sanction Victoria’s Wedding. By t'”' -d /’*-<•* BONN, Germany, Nov. 19. Princess Victoria of SchaumburgLippe, 63-year-old sister of the former kaiser, was married at the town hall today to her young Russian fiance, Alexander Zoubkoff, about 27. It had been intended to hold the ceremony in church here early this month, but because of the great disparity in the ages of the couple the German church authorities refused to sanction the marriage. What the ex-kaiser thinks of the romance he has not said. In a recent interview with the United Press Princess Victoria intimated that it was none of his business, that she was in love and cared nothing about what the world thought. ‘LADIES’ DAY’ PLANNED Real Estate Board Will Entertain at Luncheon Tuesday. Indianapolis Real Estate board will observe Ladies’ Day Tuesday at a luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of the All Souls Unitarian Church, will speak on “My Trip Abroad.” President L. H. Lewis will preside. Thomas F. Carson, chairman of the social affairs committee, will be In charge of arrangements. Committee in charge of the social meeting following are Mrs. Thomas F. Carson, Mrs. F. C. Cash, Mrs. J. J. Schmid, Mrs. J. J. Argus and Miss Martha Sillery. FOUR DIE IN ’CHAIR’ “Ice Cream” Bandits Claim Innocence to End. By United Press TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 19.—Dramatically protesting their innocence and calling upon the guilty persons to step forward and clear them, the four notorious “ice cream” bandits were executed in the electric chair at Uie State prison Friday night for the murder of George Condit, 70-year-old paymaster of the Reid Ice Cream Company, in Newark last year. It had required nearly six months for the State of New Jersey to apprehend and convict the quartet. / MERCURY HITS LOW Mark of 23 Degrees Bottom for Season. A low temperature mark for the season was reached here today at 6 and 7 a. m., when the mercury sank to 23 degrees. The cold wave wilj continue over the week-end, according to J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau head. Temperatures will be just a few degrees higher, however, Sunday, he said. Lowest temperature tonight will be about 26 degrees, he predicted. It will be mostly cloudy Sunday.

COUNCILMEN IN COURTJ3EC. 5 Four to Face Grand Jury Bribery Charges. Arraignment of the four councilmen indicted by the grand jury on bribery charges Friday afternoon has been set by Criminal Judge James A y Collins for Dec. 5. Walter R. Dorsett, Boynton J. Moore and Dr. Austin H. Todd refused to comment on the charges against them. The councilmen were charged with soliciting and accepting various sums of money in return for failing to impeach John L. Duvall, the mayor. Council President Claude E. Negley, also indicted, denied receiving any money from Duvall, but said Duvall several times asked him for advice and help and he had given it. Detective Chief Claude F. Johnj son gave Todd SIOO for his support j in killing the impeachment move, j the indictment charged. Duvall and John J. Collins, former purj chasing agent, are alleged to have j given the other bribes. Johnson, I Duvall, Collins and Duvall’s former i secretary, Miss ’’earl Nichols, were : named as wit. \ es. Dorsett and ./loore also will be ; arraigned Dec. 5 on the bribery inj dictments returned a week ago against them, and Councilmen Millard W. Ferguson and Otis E. Bartholomew, in connection with city fire apparatus purchases and council rezoning ordinances. SLACK TO ANSWER SUIT Tuesday Final Day for Filing in A demurrer to the stilt brought against Mayor L. Ert Slack in Circuit Court by Joseph L. Hogue, city controller under the late former Mayor Lew Shank, in which Hogue claims the mayor s office, probably will be filed before Tuesday. The firm of Miller. Dailey and Thompson entered appearance for Slack. Friday. Judge Harry O. Chamberlin set Tuesday as the return date for filing additional papers. LIKELY HEADS ALUMNI Election Held at Dinner-Dance at Marott HoteL Fred Likely was elected president of the Indianapolis Alumni of De Pauw University at a “dinner-dance Friday night at the Marott Hotel. Others elected were: Mrs. Charles Taylor, vice president; Mrs. James C. Carter, secretary, and Wallace Weatherholt, treasurer. President Fred C. Tucker was toastmaster. Miss Bernice Church, George Kadel and the Old Gold Orchestra furnished music. Dr. Henry B Longden, Coach W. L. Hughes, Dr. William Blanchard and former Mayor Charles W. Jewett spoke. NIP EXTORTION PLOT $5,000 Sought From Kin of Harry K. Thaw. Bit United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 19.—Police have trapped and are holding a Frederick F. Witts in connection with a plot to extort $5,000 from Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., wealthy widow, and relative of Harry K. Thaw. He was captured Friday night after detectives had driven the Thaw car and another automobile to a spot designated in a threatening letter received by Mrs. Thaw. The letter had ordered that her chauffeur toss $5,000 from the automobile, after following a devious route, when a man should step forward and shout “D-30.” A detectives was at the wheel of the Thaw car instead of the chauffeur, according to the police, when the suspect stepped out of the darkness and shouted the signal. Before; he could escape, the driver leaped out and the decetives in the following car surrounded him.

Ghosts! By Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind., Nov. 19.—N. E. White and I. O. Shelley want to be sure their ghost story will be believed so they are exhibiting here the fragments of a glass paper weight which they say came to pieces for no apparent reason at all while they were seated in their cottage at Lake Shafer telling ghost stories.

my chair arm to make his point—- “ Listen, lady, I was nevere so happy in all my life as when I earned just $5 a week as a druggist’s errand boy in the back room. I for about a dollar a week, paid 50 cents for a room, and saved every nickel I could for ‘nigger heaven’ in Chicago’s old theaters. “I was a gallery god, and life has never been so sweet since. I saw Joe Jefferson and Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. I saw poor Hamlet and wept for mad Ophelia. J 1 shuddered at the dagger wounds in ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ sent me home shivering. “I was just a good kid wtih life ahead looking sweet to the taste. Then I wanted money. God, what has money ever given me as worth while as those quarter gallery seats in old Chi?”

Helen Menken, Famous Actress, Given Divorce

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Husband Beat Her in Hotel Argument, She Charges; Gets $2,300. Bn United Press CHICAGO. Nov. 19.—Charging cruelty, Helen Menaen, aciress, received a divorce feday from Humphrey Bogart, leading man in “Saturday’s Children,” now playing here. In lieu of alimony, Bogart paid back $2,300, which he had borrowed from his wife. Miss Menken alleged Bogart "struck me repeatedly during an argument in a hotel here.” The Bogarts were married May 20, 1926, and separated the following April, “when we decided we could not be happy together," according to Miss Menken.

200 Wives at 14

By United Press FEZ, Morocco, Nov. 19. Sultan Mouley Mahommed, with the gravity of his fourteen years, took up today his first problem of state —what to do with the couple of hundred wives and members of the harem left by his father, Mouley Youssef. “Hamada,” as he is known familiarly in his family, must decide the problem alone, and his decision may never be known. For no man but he is permitted through the door of the sultan’s private apartments.

JUDGE DECIDES DRUNK DOESN’T MEAN DOWN London Bricklayer Says One Must Be on Floor, Loses. Bn United Press LONDON, Nov. 19.—British variation of the Kentucky story that a man is intoxicated only when he can no longer move his little finger was offered in a London police court by a bricklayer. “A man,” announced the defendant bricklayer, “is only drunk when he is on the floor and can’t get up,” to which the judge remarked that that wasn’t his definition of drunkenness “nor was it the law of the country.” “But it always was the law,” retorted the bricklayer. “The law is that before a man is properly drunk he must be properly on the floor and unable—” “Twelve shillings fine,” cut in the judge. Veterans of ’9B-’99 Convene By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 19. “Studebaker’s Tigers”—the 157th regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which served during the Span-ish-American war, is in reunion here today, the veterans and members of their families being the guest of Col. George M. Studebaker, who was their commander. The formal part of the reunion will be held Sunday.

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Helen Menken

FREE ‘TERROR’ LABOR LEADER ‘Lefty’ Lewis Is Acquitted of Chicago Murder. Bu United Press , _ CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—Cook County has lost its first battle to “save Chicago from terrorist labor organizers.” The initial setback came in an acquittal verdict which absolved Harry “Lefty” Lewis of blame for the murder of Max Braverman, Junk dealer. Lewis is alleged to have killed Braverman when the latter objected to belonging to a union of Junk dealers which Lewis organized. State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe took active charge of the case and insisted in his plea to the jury that “unless you return a death verdict it will be impossible to obtain future convictions In these terrorist murder cases.” Meanwhile, police shot and wounded, possibly fatally, John P. McLaughlin, financial secretary of the dental mechanics’ union, as McLaughlin and a companion were waiting to “maim” a non-union worker. The officers said they obtained information in a raid which tipped them to the scheduled maiming of John Komosa, and two other attacks. They awaited McLaughlin and, after he had failed to put up his hands on command, fired. CITY DEBTS STUDIED Slack Seeks Plan to Solve Finance Tangle. Mayor L. Ert Slack is studying a plan to pay the city’s debts. By Jan. 1 Slack will have inherited an indebtedness of 400,000 which the city owes local utilities for city water and light. There is no provision in the 1928 budget to meet the bills. Slack conferred 'with John J. Brown, State tax board chairman, and City Controller Sterling R. Holt, presumably relative to the city’s financial tangle. It was understood Brown suggested to Slack that the utilities obtain a judgment against the city so the debt could be paid by bond Issue. It is the only way the city can issue bonds to meet the debt. It is estimated the city will owe the Indianapolis Light and Power Company $311,000 and the Indianapolis Water Company $205,000 on Jan. 1. Slack to Grid Game Mayor and Mrs. L. Ert Slack drove to Bloomington this afternoon to the Purdue-Indiana football game. They were accompanied by several friends.

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REMUS FIGHTS TO REMAIN AS OWN COUNSEL Doubts Whether Judge Will Keep Threat to Bar His Questions. TAFT TO ASK ACTION Next Outbreak Will Be Signal for Request of Bailiff Guard. BY PAUL W. WHITE X7nit;4 Press Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Nov,- 19.—Overshadowing any question as to the guilt or innocence of George Remus in connection with the shooting to death of his wife, Imogene, today lay the problem as to whether he would continue long as co-counsel for defense. With Judge Chester P. Shook, who will decide the issue in case the dynamic defendant decides to make any more perorations in his own behalf, visiting Columbus to watch a football game, no ruling could come over the week-end. But Judge Shook declared late yesterday that if Remus continued to pay no attention to his dictums Remus would no longer be active in direction of the defense. Remus, interviewed in his cell by the United Press correspondent, was emphatic in his belief that he would not be barred as an attorney in the case. “Walt TUI I Get Going” “Did you think I was effective in denouncing the prosecutor?” He asked. “Wait until I get going. I’ll be in there at the finish and you can bet on that. “This defendant stands on trial with his life at stake. To have a fair trial he must examine such witnesses as he may choose and must make the opening and closing statements to the Jury. Surely no court would deny a man the right to speak the truth.” But Charles P. Taft, 11. county prosecutor, and son of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, thought otherwise. In the closing minutes of Friday’s session Remus thundered, with the jury excluded from the courtroom, that he would “like to wreck you iTaft) physically.” Taft to Ask Expulsion “If Remus is guilty of another such outburst,” the prosecutor said, “I shall move his exclusion as cocounsel and ask that two bailiffs be stationed beside him to maintain order, meanwhile I shall be prepared for any assault.” Taft smiled. He is a former football and basketball player at Yale and has an advantage of pt least six inches over the short but well conditioned Remus. Taft also is twenty years the junior of the defendant. Remus said after court, however, that he would relish the opportunity of hand-to-hand conflict with the prosecutor whom he terms a “persecutor.” Remus daily has been shadow boxing in the jail to keep fit. Strain in Courtroom For a moment yesterday it looked as though he would have more than one antagonist. That was when he singled out Earl E. Basler and said the latter drank “pints and pints” of liquor and had not been caught yet. Basler then told Remus that if the defendant came nearer he would “punch” him. With such threats of physical violence and the taunt by Remus that Taft was, in effect a “pitiful offshoot of his great renowned father,” the first week of the ended In a burst of excitement and outside the courtroom the atmosphere was strained. For here in Cincinnati former convicts and gangsters are ready to testify either for State or defense. Threats o i Violence In the ballroom of a downtown hotel, last night, a man who served a sentence with the former "king of bootleggers” pulled a revolver from his pocket, tapped It significantly, and said “a bullet In there goes for anybody who thinks that Remus is going to be tapped for this racket.” That sounds too melodramatic to be true of course, but it actually happened. There Is not a reporter assigned to the case who hasn’t heard a threat of violent death from at least one of the many prospective witnesses in the case. All of which keeps the temperature on high. There are those who believe that anything may happen if Remus is permitted to cross-examine Franklin L. Dodge Jr., the former Department of Justice operative he considers as the lover of Mrs. Remus and his arch enemy. “Here’s a Good Lead” After the roaring attack upon Taft and Basler, two of the three alienists appointed by the court hurried forward to confer with Judge Shook. Their conversation was not overheard. But, as effecting Remus’ sanity, testimony that did not go into the court records must figure. One reporter swore that before the vocal explosion Remus turned and whispered: “Here’s a good lead for your morning papers. Watch me bum up Taft.”