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DAWES BACKS LQWDEN; NOT A CANDIDATE Vice President Takes Flat • Stand After Calling at White riouse. WANTS RULES CHANGED Won’t Wage Aggressive War in Senate, to Avoid Hint of Ambitions. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec, 1. Vice President Charles G. Dawes, after calling at the White House today, declared he is not a candidate for President, and that he unqualifiedly supports the candidacy of former Governor Ldwden of Illinois. Dawes said that while he would work at this session for simplification of Senate rules, he was not going to make an aggressive fight, because whatever he said would be interpreted mistakenly as an effort on his part to exploit himself in a personal or political way. The Vice President, who called at the White House to pay respects, was extremely reticent on leaving the executive. Agitated by. Quizzing On being questioned by newspaper men, however, he became so agitated that he called them to the anteroom and with the aid of the White House stenographer dictated a statement while pacing the floor excitedly. Dawes said he favored the Norris amendment to the Constitution abolishing the short session of Congress. “Several resolutions were introduced by Senators in the last session of Congress to remedy the evils of the filibuster in the short session,” Dawes' dictated statement said. “The one which seemed to have the most general support was a provision for applying a cloture upon revenue and a —iropriation billes during the short session. “This would take out of the hands of • minorities, and at times individuals, the power to threaten the blocking of governmental business and compel the calling of an' extra session, unless concessions in general legislation were made to the minority or to the individual.” Regarding issues other than the Senate rules, Dawes said anything he might say at this time upon such orrsMons “qpuld not have any weight or bearing upon the issues it: , but would be of interest only rr, affording a basis for a possible interpretation of my political He reiterated, “lest there should be any doubt” about him being a candidate, that he “favored the nomination of Lowden.” This assumes, he said, that President Coolidge is not a candidate. Firm for Lowden CHICAGO, Dec. I*-Vice President Dawes’ disavowal of presidential aspirations today was in line with the attitude he has shown all along, State Senator Clarence P. Buck, Illinois, close friend of Frank O. Lowden, said today. Buck, who has had charge of the campaign to "impress upon Lowden the presidential need for him,” said Dawes, told him tWo weeks ago: “Any one who questions my sincerity in backing Lowden, questions my integrity.” Former Governor Lowden did not make a statement. 1 OIL MAN WINS BEAUTY N Cho.*us Girl to Forsake Broadway for Oklahoma Home. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Forsaking the Broadway footlights, Helen Farez, “Artists and Models” chorus beauty, soon will leave for the Oklahoma oil fields as the bride of Norville Walker, wealthy Tulsa on promotor. They met three years ago in Chicago, when the oil man saw ner in “No, No, Nanette.” The stage beauty, wearing an engagement ring, said she will leave with Walker for Tulsa immediately after the ceremony. GOOD ROADS MEN MEET Directors Lay Plans to Increase Hard Surface Mileage. Directors of the Indiana Gooc. Roads Association held their firs, meeting in Indianapolis Wednesday night in the association headquearters, 607 Illinois Bldg. “The organization hopes to gaii: a greater yearly mileage of pavements with the crystalization of public opinion and action,” 6aid John G. Brown of Monon, president. “The pavement mileage of 200 miles a year should be tripled." Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 2410 a. m 29 7 a. m 2511 a. m...... 30 la. 25 12 (Noon) 32 • a. m 27 1p.m...... 34

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FORD PRICE LIST IS MADE PUBLIC Cost of Model A Will Be Little Higher Than That Charged on Old Models.

Bu United Press DETROIT, Dec. I.—Prices of the new Ford car, averaging about SSO higher than the prices of the Model TANARUS, were announced here today by Edsel Ford. The basic price is $395 for the phaeton, as the Model A touring car is called. The prices of other models follow: Two-door sedan $495 Four-door sedan $570 Coupe $495 Sport coupe $550 Roadster $385 Roadster with pick-up b0dy..5385 Chassis $325 The truck chassis will sell for $560. The truck with cab and body will cost from $595 to $6lO. All prices are f. o. b. Detroit. Delivered prices in Indianapolis have not been dispatched to local dealers. On the old Model T pleasure cars delivered prices have ran from $37.60 to $47.60 higher than f. o. b. prices, and truck prices about $27.90 higher, depending on body styles. “We quit guessing three months ago,” said a dealer, asked for an estimate of the new “delivered charges,” which cover freight, gas, oil and tax.

RENEW STEVE PAROLE FIGHT Solitary Confinement Will Be Cited in Plea. Anew effort to win ft temporary parole for D. C. Stephenson from Indiana State Prison will be started goon, Attorney Lloyd O. Hill announced today. Stephenson is held In solitary confinement for violation of prison rules. This will bo one of the reasons for the new parole plea, to be made to prison trustees, at Michigan City, HilHiridr - Hill said he did not know what j rule Stephenson violated. It is believed he is punished for sending out a statement printed in Indiana newspapers two weeks ago commenting upon a statement of Arthur R. Robinson about a gift of a string of pearl beads to Mrs. Robinson by Stephenson for Christmas, 1924. The attorney said he would make the effort despite the fact that when a prisoner is placed in solitary confinement he goes to the lowest grade of good conduct standing. it was announced that further time for the filing of the brief supporting Stephenson’s appeal from conviction of the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer will be asked of Supreme Court. The time limit fixed for the filing of the .briefs is Dec. 8. John H. Kiplinger, attorney, said he does not believe they can be completed !by that date. The State briefs rej cently were filed by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. BLAST JIAZES HALL Bomb Believed Placed -in Logansport Dance Resort. Bn Unite ft Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., Dec. I.—An explosion believed by authorities to have been caused by a dynamite bomb maliciously placed, wrecked the new Tony Sandi dance hall in broad daylight here today. Jack McCann, 62. an employe of Sandi, was seriously injured. He was brought to the Cass County Hospital here. Five other persons in the building were unhurt. The supposed bomb had been placed in the basement and the hall was completely wrecked by fire that followed. The fire did $2,500 damage. NEW SCHOOL PLANNED No. 84 to Be Built at Fifty-Seventh St. and Central Ave. Plans for construction of Scltbol 84, Fifty-Seventh S;. and Central Ave., estimated t' cost $233,013 on general contract, ./ere adopted by the school board today with the reservation that the board may change the proposed location. Te hboard has been negotiating for purchase of four lots with Washington Blvd. frontage and in event these are acquire tdeh location may be shifted. BEAN HONOR TO HOOSIER Vttica Man Takes Second Place in Contest at Chicago. Bn United Press CHICAGO. Dec. lr—John C. Wilk, St. Louis, Mich., today was named soy bean king of America at the nternational Livestock Show. Edund Stanford, Attica, Ind., won ■rnd place.

Thdi New Ford Car In All Its Poses, Outside, Inside, Coming, and Going —See the Pictures, a Page of ’Em, on Page Ten of This Issue

Stimulus to local as well as national business conditions was seen today in Henry Ford’s announcement of prices on the new Ford models, prefacing first public display of the cars Friday. Competitive automotive firms will be spurred into renewed activity, frankly glad* that the "unknown factor” that has contributed sales resistance for six months has become a “known quantity.” Eighty salesmen for eleven authorized Ford dealers in Indianapolis will carry pent-up enthusiasm into the Ford drive which opens Friday with the joint display of all the new models in the Auto Show building at the State fairgrounds, continuing to Sunday night. Models in Showrooms Monday By Monday dealers expect to have one or more of the models for display in their showrooms. While spiriting up the whole automotive field, assurances from Detroit that the Ford Motor Company will raume mass production as rapidly as possible mean re-employ-ment soon after Jan. 1 for eight hundred men at the assembly plant on E- Washington St. They have been Idle since June, when Ford stopped production of the old Model T cars. Local officials of the plant refuse to amplify Ford’s statement that his thirtythree assembly plants will get back to full capacity production early in January. Any concern dealers may have with regard to deliveries is dissipated here by the enthusiasm with which the public has greeted Ford's announcements and advertisements of this week. Until assembly is started here, they expect to receive the cars in assembled form from Detroit and • Chicago. They have not, however, been informed definitely to this effect. Parts Makers in Doubt Few Indianapolis industries were supplying parts to the Ford company when production ceased last spring, although a number were manufacturing accessories for use on Fords, but not regular equipment. Many of these with-the necessity of changing manufacturing equipment. Fred Barnickol, manager of the Indianapolis Drop Forging Company, said his company had made castings extensively for use on the old model Fords and tractors, and anticipated continuance of this business, although no orders on Model A parts have been placed here. Local financing companies are prepared to meet the rush of Ford buyers who require time on their purchases. Many dealers have taken orders from buyers bold enough to sign up under the Tightunseen” arrangement.

0. K. HEALER PERMITS Stlo Applications Approved by State Medical Examiners. Applications of 800 drugless healers for licenses to practice, including chiropractors, were approved today by the Indiana board of medical examination and registration, Dr. E. M. Shanklin, secretary, announced. Fifv.y papers were returned for correction and twenty-five applications were denied. The board denied the application of Dr- Charles Burris of Indianapolis for reinstatement. Dr. Burris’ license was revoked in January, 1926. for violation of the Harrison narcotic act. REVIVE HAUGEN BILL 1 lowa Congressman Will Introduce Measure. j Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. i.—Representative Haugen, Republican, of lowa, co-author of the McNaryHaugen bill, announced today he will reintroduce tfie measure, with a few minor changes, at the opening of Congress. Because of the increased demand for farm relief, Haugen predicted the measure will get a larger vote in the House than when it passed last year would carry fewe amendments. The equalization fee, attacked by the Administration, remains in the bill. CALLES INVITES ROGERS Mexican President Ask Humorist to Travel With Him. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Dec. I.—Will Rogers, the itinerant humorist, has been invited to accompany President Calles on a trip through northern Mexico. Invitation was telegraphed to Rogers by Calles’ son-in-law, Thomas A. Robinson. Rogers, an route from San Antonio, is expected in Mexico City tonight, two hours before the President’s trip begins.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 1927

PICTURE ‘MAD’ REMUS CRYING FORREVENGE Report of ‘Highball Party’ of His Wife and Dodge, Caused Frenzy. SHRIEKED AND RAVED Reporter Tells Story of Wild Struggle in Room at City Hotel. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent COURTROOM, CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. I.—Another picture of George Remus in a maniacal mood, struggling and pleading with friends to permit him go and “avenge his honor,” today was presented to the jury at his trial on the charge of murdering his wife, Imogerte. John T. Rogers, reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was recalled to the witness stand to tell of an incident he omitted Wednesday in describing the events leading to Rogers’ conclusion that Remus was insane before the killing. Rogers said he and George Conners, described as a "lieutenant” of the former multimillionair bootlegger, were with Remus in an Indianapolis hotel room during the Jack Daniels liquor conspiracy trial in December, 1925. Told of “Highball Party” “John Berger, a Los Angeles* exposition manager, came into the room,” Rogers related, “and said ‘George, your wife and Dodge are now down in his room on the fourth floor having a highball party.*” The “Dodge* referred to was Franklin L. Dodge Jr., former department of justice agent, whose reported intimacies and conspiracies with Mrs. Remus allegedly impaired Memus’ mind. “Remus shot out of his chair and dashed for the door.” Rogers went on. “He was shrieking. Conners and I grabbed him and put Berger out of the room. “For about- 10 minutes Remus raved for not letting him, as he said, ’avenge his honor.’ “He struggled with us, fought wildly and struck out. At length he became subdued but was in a state of collapse.” Additional testimony depicting Mrs. Imogene Remus as a faithless wife, seeking to "get” the husband she had wronged, was Introduced today by Orin M. Webber of Chicago, formerly a farmer of Pawpaw, Mich. Webber, a hesitant witness, said he formed an opinion on Remus’ sanity or insanity because of the latter’s conduct after he had come telling tales. Told Remus of Charges The charges made against Mrs. Remus and repeated by Webber to the defendant were: 1. That Mrs. Remus had bought a Packard roadster and had given it t® Dodge after having the initials changed. 2. That Mrs. Remus had changed initials on her husband’s silverware. 3. That Mrs. Remus had tried to dispose of her husband’s whisky certificates in New York, and, failing to do so, had then taken them to Charlotte and Lansing, Mich., giving them to Dodge. 4. That Mrs. Remus had four guns and wanted to “get Remus.” When he communicated such tidings to Remus the latter “flew off the hanHe, walked around the room and acted kind of wild, mad,” the witness said. Marshall Evidence Stands Judge Shook overruled a motion Wednesday to strike out all testimony of John B. Marshall, former United States attorney, who prosecuted the Daniels case at Indianapolis. Marshal had testified of a reported plot against Remus’ life. Carl E. Basler, assistant prosecutor, then asked that Marshall be recalled for cross-examination. For a considerable period the cross examination touched upon the connection of Mrs. Remus and the Jack Daniels case. She was indicted on a conspiracy charge, but the indictment was made :olle prossed on motion by Marshall when Remus was called as the State’s star witness because a husband cannot testify against his wife. Marshall emphatically stated, however, there was independent evi-. dence against Mrs. Remus including testimony that she drove a car containing liquor from one to another and that a check signe3 by her had paid for a consignment of whisky. CABINET DINES TONIGHT Coolidges to Open Social Season at Nation’s Capital. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. —The capital social season opens officially tonight when President and Mrs. Coolidge entertain the cabinet members and their wives at dinner. The Coolidges next Thursday will entertain the diplomatic corps at a reception.

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WINE CASE GIVEN TO JURY; MAY SET PRECEDENT IN U. S.

Air Show for Children INDIANAPOLIS children Saturday will be treated to the first aerial show ever staged in any city “for children only.” It has been planned for the purpose of giving modern children proof of Santa Claus. The Times asks the cooperation of Indianapolis parents in this plan, to reassure children whose faith in the kindly patron of Christmas often is shaken too early in life. Holly Berry, special correspondent with The Times-Kleinschmidt polar expedition to find Santa’s home, has obtained movies actually taken in northern Alaska. Into these the Santa Claus story has been woven. The picture shows Santa in his palace, in his toy shop, surrounded by his little workers, etc. Police Sergeant C. Earl Halstead, 113th Observation Squadron lieutenant, in his army biplane, will bring the movies to Indianapolis, to be shown in neighborhood theaters. Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, Lieutenant Halstead will whirl out of the north and land at Stout-Cox airport. Mars Hill, after a thrilling exhibition of stunt flying for the children. It will be a sight that those children who see it will remember for a long time, because it will give them PROOF of the story of Santa Claus, the sweetest memory of childhood. Take your children and as many of the neighbors’ children as can pile Into the back yat to Mars Hill Saturday morning!

4 DIE IN AUTO ON DECATUR CROSSING

Bu United Press DECATUR. Ind, Dec. I.—Four persons were killed here early today when their automobile was struck by an Erie Railroad freight train at the Mercer Ave. crossing here. The dead are: Alfred Stettler, 36; Hazel Lemunyon, 26; Mrs. Kenneth Hoblct, 23, and* Hobart Strickler, 33. AH four were employed in the Decatur plant of the General Electric GIVES TAX BOARD CUTS Report Credits State Body as Saving $4,605,886.22. Through appeals taken to the State tax board, Indiana taxpayers were saved $4,605,886.22 this year, statement issued today by the Indiana Taxpayers Association shows. Reductions were obtained in seven-ty-five taxing units out of 136 appeals brought before the board. Forty appeals were on proposed county rates. In ten of these there were no changes, while reductions were ordered in the remaining thirty, Harry Miesse, secretary of the association, said. Cuts range from $572.80 in Perry County to $3,429,623.91 in Marion County. TWO INJURED IN CRASH Woran and Doctor Hurt as Cars Collide; Children Escape. Dr. Samuel McGaughey, 52, of 5219 E. Washington St., suffered two broken ribs, and Mrs. George Marriott, 732 N. Bolton, was cut on the face and arms when auotmobiles driven by Dr. McGaughey and George Marriott, 40, collided today at Brookville Rd. and Arlington Ave. Two small children of the Marriotts and Marriott escaped injury. The McGaughey car was overturned. FORD MAGAZINE TO QUIT Dearborn Independent Reported Receiving No Subscriptions. B, BS§TON^ re *Mass. t Dec. I.—The Boston News Bureau, a financial service, said today that Henry Ford will discontinue publication of his Dearborn Independent. The motor magnate, it was said, has issued orders to stop receiving subscriptions. It was the Dearborn Independent that attacked the agricultural marketing projects of Aaron Sapiro, Chicago attorney, and brought on the suit against Ford for $1,000,000 damages. Sapiro charged the articles were anti-Semitic.

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Company, but their homes were in Willshire, Ohio. They were, en route to work when the accident occurred. Their automobile had just started over the crossing when it was demolished by the train carrying a meat supply. Fojs is believed to have obscured vision cf the driver. Three of the occupants of the automobile were killed almost instantly and Strickler died later in the Decatur Memorial Hospital. Stettler was driving the automobile, an Overland sedan. Miss Lemunyon and Stettler were said to be engaged to be married and the wedding was to have taken place within a few days with Strickler and Mrs. Hoblet among the guests. Mrs. Hoblet had been married only six weeks. She had intended to leave her work Friday. RITE CLASS ELECTS Anderson Man to Head ‘Corner Stone Group.’ * Dr. V. G. McDonald, Anderson, was elected president of the “corner stone” class of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the Valley of Indianapolis today. The :las will finish taking the degrees Friday evening and is one of the features Af the sixty-second semi-annual convocation and reunion of the Rite. Clarence R. Green, Indianapolis, was named first vice president; Judge Joseph Williams, Martinsville, second vice president; Frank E. Barclay, Muncie, third vice president; Walter V. Gearhart, Lafayette, fourth vice president; Edward R. Wurgler, Indianapolis, secretarytreasurer; Russell H. Fitzgibbon, Hanover, historian; Edward O. Snethen, Indianapolis, orator, and Edwin H. Boldrey, Bloomington, chaplain. Degrees from the twenty-first to the thirtieth are scheduled to be conferred today. The last two degrees will be given Friday. Fight Radio Tube Monopoly Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Argument on a preliminary injunction sought by a group of independent radio tube manufacturers to restrain the Radio Corporation of America from creating a tube monopoly will be heard in the United States District Court of Delaware, Dec. 22. Theft Alibi—‘Hmoe Waiting Heir* DES MOINES, lowa, Dec. I. Russell Murray, charged with robbing a* street car conducter,' presented a perfect alibi and tv&s acquitted. He proved that when the robbery occurred he was pacing the i floor o fhis home awaiting the ar- | rival of a baby.

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Sweeping Dry Clean-Up of Grape Juice Firms If Conviction Is Won. Eyes of prohibition agents from California to Maine were centered on Indianapolis today, awaiting the verdict in the “grape juice-wine” conspiracy case, E. C. Yellowly of Chicago, prohibition director for this territory, said. The case went to the jury at 10:30 a. m. Yellowly has been in Indianapolis for several days, watching progress of the trial of Ferracane liquor conspiracy defendants and defendants in the wine case. Testimony in the wine case was completed Wednesday. Arguments were begun today. “Verdict of guilty in the wine case will be the signal to prohibition directors over the entire country to start action against other companies selling grape juice intended to be converted into wine,” Yellowly said. “It will set an important precedent. The United Vineyards Association and the California Vineyards Company, both of Chicago, officers and salesmen of which are defendants in the trial here, are two of the biggest companies in the country dealing in this preparation. Other Indictments Returned Yellowly said since indictments returned by the Federal grand jury here, similar indictments had been obtained at Buffalo, N. Y.„ and in California. J. R. Grable, 25. of Chicago, salesman for the United Vineyards Association, defendant in the local case, took the witness stand late Wednesday to describe his sales methods. “After sending out prospectus cards, I called on those who returned them,” he said. “Most of my prospects had an idea I was a bootlegger and my first job was to convince them I merely was taking orders for grape juice. Wouldn't Guarantee Wine “Then they would ask if the grape juice would turn to wine. I replied that a certain alcoholic content would appear unless they were careful to keep the juice at a low temperature and kept the keg tightly sealed. “I lost one sale rather than guarantee a customer that the grape juice would develop alcoholic content.” H. A. Payne of Indianapolis, subpoenaed by the Government, testi*. * fled he purchased five‘gallons of “Sauterne” flavored juice from a United States Vineyards salesman named “Herndon.” “He told me to remove the bung, fill the keg with water, replace the bung and let nature take its course,” Payne said. “I got rid of it when I was subpoenaed before the grand jury.” Not So Good, He Says R. J. Harmon, 4267 Sunset Ave., said he destroyed his wine after Federal agents called at his house and were given samples. “I drank some of the wine that developed from the grape juice I bought Thanksgiving day, but it didn’t taste as good as I expected,' L. E. Wallenberger, Evansville business man testified. Yellowly complimented George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator for the thoroughness with which he had worked up evidence in both the Ferracane and wine cases. SCHOOL INSPECTOR OUT Several Considered to Succeed Eugene B. Butler. Several educators are being considered for appointment to the position of State high school inspector, vaulted today by Eugene B. Butler, acocrding to Roy P. Wisehart, State superintendent of public instruction. Butler was appointed two years ago by William H. Sherwood, then superintendent. He gave business reasons as the cause of his resignation. Ordinarily, no change in the inspector’s office is made during the school year, but an exception was made for Butler. His successor must be chosen by Jan. 1.

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SHUMAKER UE IS CHARGED IN .GILLjOM BRIEF Dry Boss ‘Falsified Under Oath on Witness Stand,’ Official Declares. ASKS STIFFER PENALTY, Attorney General Details Reason for Demanding Longer Sentence. Charging that the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, “obviously falsified under oath on the witness stand” and that Senator Arthur R. Robinson did not remember the telep' me conversation on Aug. 5,” while Senator James E. Watson and Henry Lane Wilson obviously told the truth,” Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today filed a brief with the Supreme Court, setting forth reasons why Shumaker’s sentence should be increased. The Supreme Court has under advisement the motion to increase the sentence to $250 and sixty days’ imprisonment passed on Shumaker in a former trial for contempt of court. . Trial Held Nov. 21 Upon motion of Gilliom to increase the sentence, in view of additional evidence obtained, purporting to show that Shumaker attempted “corruptly to influence a judgment favorable to himself” by endeavoring to bring pressure to bear upon the Supreme Court, a trial was held Nov. 21. During this hearing, Shumaker charged that the depositions of Watson and Wilson contained “falsehoods.” Gilliom’s brief says that Shumaker used his "political influence to approach two candidates for United States Senator and the chairman of the Republican State committee, Clyde Walb, during the campaign of 1926, for the purpose of influencing a favorable and early decision in his case before election. “It is judicially known that all members of the court are Repr”>licans and that two of the members were candidates on the 19226 ticket. Tried to Influence Decision “Shumaker told the leaders he approached that they should see to it that the court would convene and decide the case in his favor, in turn for which the votes he professed to influence would support the Republican ticket, otherwise, not.

“Votes were more valuable at this time to those Shumaker so approached than money. ’ His offer to produce and his threat to withhold the votes he professed to influence —in order to influence the decision of his case—is every bit as coprupt as if he had offered to give, or threatened to divert money on the same basis,” said Gilliom. • “Senator Watson and Wilson obviously told the truth concerning the telephonic conversation of Aug. 5. when Shumaker is said to have told Watson that the Methodist Church and the AntiSaloon League would hold him personally responsible if the case was not decided in Shumaker’s favor. Charges Perjury

“Senator Robinson did not remember it; and Shumaker obviously falsified under oath when he denied that the conversation was as stated by Watson and Wilson. Shumaker again obviously falsified when he denied the conversation with Walb as Walb narrated it. Shumaker’s falsification is obvious from the manifestly unreasonable version he gave of those conversations. “Shumaker falsified again when he said he at no time has attempted to influence any decision of the Supreme Court, and that by his published report of 1926 he intended no disrespect to the court, any of its judges or its decisions. “He, Shumaker, admits that he approached the Senate's and inquired cautiously whether he might talk about his case. Why approach politicians about a case in Supreme Court?” And Gilliom answers with: “For no other purpose than to bring political influence to bear on the decision of the case. Decision by Christmas “How bring such political influence to bear?” the attorney general asks again? “By means of offering, impliedly if not expressly, votes in consideration for such influence, very obviously. “The evidence shows acts on Shumaker’s part to influence the Judgment of the court in this case in favor of himself. The State now asks that these corrupt acts be permitted to influence that judgment, but to the opposite effect from that inended by him. “The system erected, by Shumaker to dominate the decisions of the highest eburt of our State under pain and penalty of political death to the judges of that court . . . must be destroyed once and for always,” Gilliom concluded. He also sets forth in the brief that the court has the power to modify the judgment and increase the penalty in the case. Decision is expected to be handed down by Christmas, it was learned.