Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1927 — Page 1

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HEARST MEN QUESTIONED IN BRIBERY CASE Former Correspondent at Mexico City Tells How Papers Were Taken. SECRET AGENT HELPS Devious Path of Documents on Way to Publisher’s Posession Bared. Bdi United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Hearst newspapermen were called before the Senate investigating committee today to tell how allegedly forged Mexican State papers were extracted from flies of the Mexican government and smuggled into the United States for publication. George Hinman, former Mexico City correspondent of the Universal Sendee, testified he knew nothing of the genuineness of the published papers, but that he had heard in Mexico City in May that such papers could be procured. He was the first witness today in the committee inquiry into documents which purport to show a plan of President Calles of Mexico to bribe four United States Senators. Hinman saici he had nothing to do with obtaining the published papers. Told by Secret Agent His information that such papers existed came from Miguel Avila, Hearst secret agent, who did obtain them for the Hearst papers, according to his testimony yesterday. "There always is gossip in Mexico of payments to Americans,” Hinman said in answer to a question. Avila was called to testify that he first heard of existence of the papers in May, 1927. Hinman had said Avila told him about them two months previous to then. Avila explained he talked to Hinman about papers showing that expenses had been paid by the Mexican government for a Mexican tour of the American Protestant Mission. Victor Watson, editor of the New York Mirror, a Hearst paper, then was summoned to tell how the papers, having been sumggled into the United States by John Page, Hearst newspaper man, were brought him in New York. Convinced of Genuineness "I was pretty well convinced at first blush that they were genuine,” said Watson. Watson said he went to William Randolph Hearst’s California ranch with Page and Avila for a conference about handling the papers. “I told Page one important thing to do was to get some other evidence to show authenticity of the documents,” said Watson. “I thought the best thing to do was to plant a man in the Mexican offices in New York to keep us advised as to' what was passing through.” Aville was to be the man planted in the Mexican consulate office in New York, the witness said. Avila failed to get the place, but "created a very pleasant situation in the Mexican office,” Watson added. "By planting Avila in New York, weren’t you, in fact, just getting Avila to confirm himself?” Chairman Reed asked. "I wouldn’t think so—if the papers wen; genuine. It’s merely a matter of opinion,” Watson replied. No Check on Signature It was brought out also that no effort was made to get hand-writing experts to check President Calles’ Signatures, or a Spanish scholar to test other points concerning genuineness. “You could get sixteen handwriting experts to swear one way and sixteen men to swear another,” Watson said. “The signatures looked genuine to me, but of course I am not a handwriting expert.” Page was called to submit affidavits, which he said were not "important.” The affidavits refer only to the alleged Japanese-Mexican treaty, he admitted. The committee then went into executive session to scrutinize documents, in consultation with its especially appointed Bpanish expert. Open hearings were adjourned until 10:30 a. m. tomorrow;

CHANGES CITY LEGAL AID Don Roberts, Assistant Attorney, Succeeded by Smiley Chambers. City Corporation Counsel John W. Holtzman today named Smiley Chambers, Democrat, as assistant city attorney to succeed Don T. Roberts, Republican. The appointment is effective Jan. 1. Chambers has been associated with the firm of Pickens, Davidson, Gause Se Pickens in the OTetcher Savings and Trust building. PLAN NEW GOLF LINKS City to Build Course in Dearborn Park If Finances Permit. The city will build a golf course in Dearborn Park at Twenty-Fourth and Dearborn Sts. next year if park board finances permit, R. Walter Jarvis, city park superintendent, announced today.

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‘Snoop ’ Order to Meter Readers Stirs Violent Chorus of Rhode Island Ire

pAWTUCKET, R. I„ Dec. 16. —A dry law storm that threatened to spread across the Nation was raging in high fury in Rhode Island today. David Daly, president of the Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric Company, yesterday announced that he had ordered the 100 meter readers employed by his company to report homebrewing activities discovered in the course of their visits to Rhode Island Homes. The storm, in the form of emphatic protests from householders, attained cyclone proportions today. Overnight, several unforseen angles of the situation developed. For one thing, it was charged that Daly’s order was inspired, not by a sense of duty, as his announcement said, but by a desire to protect his pocketbook. Many gas pipes have been tapped lately by illicit still operators and it was suggested the order might have been designed to discourage such tapping. Heads of other public utility concerns, observing the controversy, hastened to disclaim any intention of following Daly’s lead.

Sad for Al ‘Scarface’ Capone Deeply Humiliated; Held for ‘Toting’ Guns.

B,u United Press JOLIET, 111., Dec. 16.—" Scarface Al” Capone, unwelcome wanderer turned back from the hospitable far West when he sought to rest from his arduous duties as a gangster king, was arrested here today on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Capone was arrested as he stepped from a train bound to Chicago from Los Angeles. With Capone were arrested his brother, Ralph, who left the train with him, and five Chicagoans, who met the two at the station. Capone, police said, carrier two revolvers. The others arrested had one each. Capone faced further grief in Chicago, where he will be much in the position of a little boy, who ran from home, after telling his parents exactly what he thinks of them—and then came home at meal time. The stoutish and well-set-up gangster chief and overlord of vice, who has taken the tax of a king from rum runners, gamblers and the other business men of Chicago’s underworld for many years, will find the usually indifferent police suddenly interested in his comings and goings, to say nothing of his disbursements. u tt CAPONE left Chicago about ten days ago, after successfully overcoming a revolt in the underworld. His gambling houses had been closed by police order; he was being denounced in the press; and he was resentful. “Look what I’ve done for Chicago,” he said before he left. "I’ve provided it with liquor and gambling facilities and everything necessary for a good time. And does it appreciate me? It does not. I’m going to Florida for a long vacation.” So he went to Los Angeles. There was widespread gossip, however, that Capone’s real reason for'deserting Chicago and the suburb of Cicero, his center of operations, was to save about SIOO,OOO in Christmas presents which he usually distributes among his lieuteants and to politicians and police. Los Angeles turned a cold and inhospitable eye on Capone. His feelings hurt again, he announced he was going to Tia Juana to play the races. / So he boarded a train for Chicago. n n m DETECTIVE CHIEF O’CONNOR today issued orders to all his aids to extend the hospitality of the detective bureau to Capone if he appeared in Chicago. It was thought likely, however that the gangster would leave the train outside the city limits and go directly to the safety of Cicero. If Capone returned from California, because he was homesick, it was believed likely his homesickness would he the most expensive on record. The price was estimated at approximately SIOO,000 in Christmas presents. SPEED UP TAG SALES Opening Day Disposes of 1,500 Sets of Auto Plates. Auto license sales were gaining momentum today as the machinery of selling them, slightly rough on the opening day, became smoother. About 1,500 plates were sold Thursday. The first ten numbers went in the order named to: Governor Ed Jackson, Fred C. Gardner, John C. Ruckelshaus, Ralph A. Lemcke, Calvin Rieman of Ft. Wayne, Kin Hubbard, Charles W. Jewett, Blanche D. Lilly, Ed G. Sourbier, and Mrs. Jackson. Bert A. Boyd got Nos. 13 and 1313.

In the illness of United States Attorney John S. Murdock, his assistant, Russell P. Jones, cautiously said he does not believe the Government can force other companies to emulate Daly. “If the companies refused to grant our request to report stills, we probably would not compel them to do so,” he said. He added, however, that if specific instances were shown where a company employe discovered a still and failed to report it, he might be prosecuted.’ The controversy centered today about the principle that the home is sacred, a principle deep-ly-rooted in Rhode Island, one of the two States that did not ratify the Eighteenth Amendment. It has been exemplified repeatedly by Judge Lellan J. Tuck of Pawtucket District Court. Few home-brewers have been convicted in his court, because he has held that the home is protected by the Constitution from invasion. Several * householders interviewed today threatened to bar the meter readers from their homes. Others said they would be admitted, and watched, to prevent prying.

POINT LOST BY BURNSJINCLAIR Cross-Examination Curbed in Contempt Trial. Pn United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. The Government won a victory in the Sinclair-Bums contempt trial today, when Justice F. L. Siddons refused to allow Frank O'Reilly, Burns detective, to testify on cross-examina-tion as to the nature of his conversation with relatives of Edward J. Kidwell, juror in the Fall-Sinclair trial. Siddons ruled that the defense must call O’Reilly as its own witness if It wants to get this part of his story in the record. Government and defense battled over the legal point all day Thursday and # for an hour today. O’Reilly expected to testify that his conversation was innocent of any sinister or illegal action. He probably will be recalled by the defense next week. O’Reilly said under cross-exam-ination that the defendants W. J. Bums, founder of the detective agency, and C. L. Veitsch, Baltimore, Burns manager, “had nothing to do” with the Fall-Sinclair juryshadowing.

HAMMER KILLER TO GET EARLY TRIAL

Bu United Press PAINESVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 16. Velma West, 21-year-old city-bred wife, who killed her small town husband with a hammer because “he refused to take her to a party,” will go on trial late in January or early in February. Indications of the early trial were given today, when Prosecutor Seth Paulin announced he had called a special session of the county grand jury for Jan. 9. Consideration of the case is expected to take at least two days. If an indictment is returned, Mrs. West will face a Jury for the slaying of Edward West, prominent nurseryman. Confidence of Paulin and Sheriff Edward Rasmussen that an indictment charging first degree murder would be returned was not held by others in this vicinity, because of the growing belief that the prosecution has insufficient evidence to substantiate the charge. Paulin has hinted at a “surprise” which “ciinch his case” in’ a postscript which the girl Is said to have added to her confession, but it is unlikely that the signed document

USE CHARITY FUND Duvall to Provide Christmas Cheer for Poor. Former Mayor John L. Duvall plans to use at least some of the mayor’s charity fund he retained when he left office to make Christmas happy for some Indianapolis children and families. City Fireman E. L. Tatlock today gave Miss Winifred Brown of the Christmas clearing house the names of fourteen families he said would be provided Christmas cheer by Duvall. He Understands the mayor plans to provide for some 200 families, Tatlock said. A number of children will be given shoes, coal will be given some families and about 200 baskets are to be bought from the Standard Grocery Company, he said Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 19 10 a. rn 20 7 a. m 20 11 a. m ... 22 8 a. m 19 12 (noon) .... 24 9 a. m. 20 -r ■ >

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The meter readers were not enthusiastic. The first half dozen interviewed said emphatically they would report no home brewing. Meter readers in Indianapolis will continue to be deaf, dumb, and blind to the brewing activities they bump into in the course of their meter-reading rounds. “Our men are not asked nor expected to bring in any information about home brewing any more than they would be asked to bring in any other information from a private home,” said C. L. Kirk, vice president and general manager of the Citizens Gas Company. “The meter reader has eyes, ears and nose only for the gas meter, unless, which has happened once or twice here he looks sidewise to detect that the gas user has made a connection ahead of the meter and so is cheating on his gas. In that case, the reader must report the infraction.” Other local utilities joined in declaring their men are for reading meters only. “Beyond that, it’s not our business,” they chorus.

Red Flag! Home Folks Are Aroused by Bull Fight Arranged to Honor Lindy.

Bu United Press •M/TEXICO CITY # Dec. 16.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh today faced his first knotty problem of diplomacy ' as “ambassador of friendship.” He will have to decide whether to attend the bull fight Sunday in his honor, as the Mexicans expect him to, or to decline, as humane societies in the United States are urging him to do in telegrams. It is customary to arrange a bull fight for distinguished Visitors to Mexico City. And since Lindbergh has been accorded the honors of a visiting sovereign, it was logical to plan a bull fight for Sunday. Lindbergh's views on whether bull fights are humane are not known. But it is known he has received telegrams from various humane societies in the United States urging him not to attend. Six messages arrived Thursday. One from the board of a Denver society asked Ambassador Morrow to use his influence to pi event the flier from attending.

'will be made public until the trial. Second degree murder or manslaughter are other choices open to the grand jury and in the light of Mrs. West’s allegation that her husband struck her the night of the murder, general opinion is that the charge will be reduced. CHECK ON AMBULANCES / Officers Must Keep Time on Drivers in Emergency Calls. On orders of the boqrd of safety, Police Chief Claude M. Worley today instructed officers, who call a city hospital ambulance to the scene of an accident to list the time at which they called ,the ambulance and the time the ambulance arrived on their accident report. This will permit a check on the time it takes city ambulance to answer emergency calls. Pope Appoints Baltimore Bishop ROME, Dec. 16.—The Rev. John McNamara, Roman Catholic rector of St. Gabriel’s Church, Washington, was appointed today auxiliary bishop of Baltimore, with the title of bishop of eumeni, the Vatican announced.

Baby Doomed to Life as Imbecile Allowed to Die

Bji United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—A baby girl which died Thursday was permitted to succumb, the Chicago Herald and Examiner said today, because it was doomed to a life of paralysis and imbecility./ An operation would have saved the life of the 2-day-old child, but the physician and the parents decided it would be more humane not to perform the surgery, the article said. Dr. Martin Schupman, the physician, and Ray Cullen, father, could not be reached today for verification of the article. Mrs. Cullen was too ill to discuss it. Authorities at Grant Hospital, where the . baby lived its brief life, confirmed the death of the infant, but refused to comment further. v The case seemed to parallel the famous Bollinger incldeht here twelve years ago. Dr. Harry J. Haikeldon—with whom Dr. Schupman was associated at the time—refused to perform an operation which would have saved the life of the Bollinger child, but would have doomed it to incurable idiocy. Nothing was done to cause the death of the Cullen baby, it was made clear, but the newspaper article quoted Dr. Schupman as saying: “We decided to allow nature to correct its own mistake. The baby was bom without the brain portion of the head above the eyes, and would never have been able to think, talk or more.”

MIDDLE WEST ICE COATED BY ZEROBLASTS Cold Spell Moves Out of Dakotas to Ohio Valley; East to Suffer. SNOW CLOSES SCHOOLS 0 Fall in Minnesota Heaviest on Record; Lake Ships Are Locked. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—A new cold wave, with temperatures at zero and below, extended over the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes States today. The cold spell, first felt In Minnesota, the Dakotas and Canada on Thursday, was expected to spread south and east today into the Ohio Valley. While temperatures were not expected to reach the low marks they did last week, when nearly fifty persons succumbed to the blizzard, weather forecasters said zero temperatures would be general. Snow Closes Schools Reactions from the cold were expected in parts of the Northwest today, the weather bureau forecasted. The eastern portion of the Chicago forecast district, however, will feel the cold through Saturday and Sunday. Snow paralyzed the Dakotas and Minnesota. Fargo, N. D., and Moorhead, Minn., reported the heaviest snowfall on record. Schools were closed, bus service was suspended and trains were hours behind schedule. A twentytwo mile wind caused drifts which blocked roads. The drop in temperature was welcomed in parts of Indiana and along the Ohio River, where floods had been feared. Colder weather was expected to freeze the ground and remove the danger of flood by preventing surface . waters ftom adding to the overflow. Lake Vessels Ice-Locked Twenty-four vessels of a grain fleet en route to Buffalo were reported helplessly locked in ice between Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and the Neebish Cut today. Severe lake storms forced the Eagle Harbor coast guard crew to abandon search for the Canadian steamer Kamloops and her crew of twenty, missing more than a week. Little hope was held for the ship or its men. Down to 19 Here The cold wave brought a 36-degree temperature drop here from 3 p. m. Thursday, to 6 a!, m. today, but failed by a few degrees to reach the 10 degree low-mark predicted. The lowest temperature was 19 at 6 a. m. today. Temperatures will be slightly warmer today, but will drop to 15 to 20 degrees tonight, J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau head said. Saturday temperatures will be somewhat higher, however, rising to several degrees above freezing. The Wabash and lower forks of White River continued above flood stage today. They have about reached the peak,* Armington said. The Wabash, he said, is more than seven feet above flood stage from Lafayette south, and the White River forks from the flood mark from Green and Martin counties south. Damage likely will be slight, he said. PRANK PROVES DRY RAID Sleuth Poses as College Freshman to Catch Campus Bootleggers. Bu United Press UNIVERSITY, Ala., Dec. 16. What many students of University of Alabama believed was a “college prank” developed today into a wholesale celanup of campus bootleggers. Twenty-seven men and one woman were charged with violations of the liquor Jaw on evidence obtained by prohibition agents who posed for three weeks as freshmen.

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Thanks Be, That’s Over *■ —i. This was the morning after the night before at the income tax office at the Federal Bldg. Midnight was the final hour for making the last payments on 1926 Income tax. Miss Roberta Wales, 2420. Central Ave, is going through part of the mountain of correspondence.

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HOLIDAY SHOPPERS SEE MURDER TRIAL

Crowds Divide Time Between Stores and Court at Delphi. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times DELPHI, Ind., Dec. 16. —Townspeople and farmers near here are doing their Christmas shopping while Lloyd Kimble fights for his life in the Carroll Circuit Courtroom, watching closely efforts of the State to choose twelve men who will find him guilty of the murder of Daniel Sink last August and send him to death in the electric chair. Although the courtroom is jammed, the tedious process of selecting jurors is not so interesting but what spectators can get away to the stores where holiday goods in bright array form a sharp contrast to the grim business going on in the courtroom. Five Children in Court Kimble is the father of six children—two daughters, 6 and 8 years old. and four sons ranging in age from 2 to 20 years. The youngest boy is ill at home, but the other five children and the mother are close to Kimble in court. It may be that when the presents being bought today are distributed, Kimble will know whether his Christmas gift is life or death. This morning the trial entered upon its fourth day without a single man being seated as a juror. The last 112 veniremen are being examined today. Red-Haired Woman Waits Mrs. Jeanetta Taylor, red-haired 24-year-old wife of Jesse Taylor, a farm hand, waits in the jail for the time when she can go on the witness stand and tell a ctory which the prosecution believes wiil mean the death penalty for Kimble. Arrested early in October suspected of stealing a ring and sl7 from SANG SAD SING SONG Here’s ‘Chinese Blues’ Music for Your Piano. The past terse of “sing” is “sang”—one Chimman found that out. Quan Sing, formerly employed at a Chinese tea shop, 118 W. Ohio St., now held In Chicago for playing a “con” game and issuing fraudulent checks will be faced by Indianapolis detectives today who extradition papers for his return to Indianapolis on charge of forgery. He is alleged to have signed the name of his boy friend, Lato Sang, also of 118 W. Ohio St., to checks for $455. Sing took the check to J. P. Mullally, jeweler, and obtained two diamond rings. Police Chief Claude Worley said he had information from Chicago that pawn shop checks for two diamonds were found on Sing when araested there, t _„ v .

Right Number Man has enough trouble remembering his wife’s birthday and the like, so whenever possible memory work should be simplified. Such is the philosophy of R. J. Dearborn, 4100 Otterbein Ave., University Heights real estate dealer. To make things easy for himself he has his telephone, house number and automboile license all the same. Today he secured his license plates for 1928, which he ordered in October. They are 4100—Indiana, 1928. His house, which is on a comer and should have been 4102, was changed three years ago to 4100 by special permission. His phone number is DRexel 4100.

Sinks, whose charred body was found in the ruins of his home the morning of Aug. 24, Mrs. Taylor told authorities she was with Kimble on a drinking party at the home of Sinks and that Kimble killed him and set the house afire, robbery being the motive. I PREDICT DRY HOLIDAY U. S. Agents Called to Chicago to Dam Booze Tide. A u United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The usual predictions of a dry Christmas for Chicago came from prohibition headquarters today. Dry agents from all over tills enforcement district were summoned to Chicago by E. C. Yellowley, prohibition administration, to aid in stopping the inflow of liquor. Rural illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana were left with only a skeleton force of agents. Bootleggers reported no increase in prices was in prospect. U. S. IN SANTA ROLE Extra Holiday Granted Government Workers at Capital Bjj United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—President Coolidge assumed all the beneficence of Santa Claus in the minds of Government employes in the District of Columbia today following announcement of an executive order setting aside Saturday, Dec. 24, as a holiday. Heretofore, Government employes have been allowed half a day before Christmas, but rarely has the period been extended. 2 GO TO DEATH IN CHAIR Youth, 20, Protests His Innocence Until End. Em United Press OSSINING, N. Y„ Dec. 16. Protesting his innocence to the end, Peter Seiler, 20, was executed ift the electric chair at Sing Sing prison early today. ' George Ricci, 31, who shot and killed his employer, who discharged him, also went (9 W* death,

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FOUR NATIONS TO SEE LINDY ON NEW TOUR Decision Reached for Visit to Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Panama. PLAN GREAT OVATION 60,000 Children to Parade Before Air Hero in Mexico City. BY G. F. FINE United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, Dec. 16.—Seven hundred American children today shrilled their unqualified admiration of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on his visit to the American school here, the main event on his program today. The children greeted him as a hero whose like they had not met outside of dreams or fairy tales. Actually, the American aerial ambassador to France and Mexico was working over in his mind, as he grinned happily at the children, his missions to four more countries. From Mexico, it was decided today, Colonel Lindbergh will fly in Spirit of St. Louis to Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras and Panama. Great Friendship Tour The tour is to be perhaps the greatest factor in history in stimulating Pan-American cohesion. Colonel Lindbergh’s program for today and tomorrow was one that divided itself between high statesmen and children. It seemed that those in charge of his program wanted every boy and girl in Mexico to see that tfie “gringoes,” at whom many of them instinctively had 'looked askance, were anxious to be friends with them, and might not be so bad after all. It has been impossible so far to ignore the significance of the part children have played in the royal greeting given the American aviator. Great Celebration Planned Tomorrow Is planned one of the greatest children’s celebrations on record. * Sixty thousand of them, boys and girls, will honor Lindbergh at a giant festival at the national stadium. Calisthenics, national dances, children’s and patriotic songs are on the program. The cheers are taken for granted, as Lindbergh has gone nowhere that they have not been apparent. It had been said that the festival would take place today, but it was decided to fix it for tomorrow, to give time for the public to arrange to attend and newspapers today carried full page invitations to everyone to be there. Within the next day or two “We” were expected to make a flight over the city. Lindoergh will be alone with members of the American embassy for Christmas. His mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, telegraphed yesterday from Detroit that she would be unable to accept American Ambassador Morrow’s invitation to come to Mexico City for Christmas. Yesterday added honors were paid Lindbergh. He visited President Calles, received a special medal from the House of Deputies, and was widely cheered whenever he appeared on the streets.

CO-ED TRIAL NEAR JURY Open Closing Arguments in Bank Robbery Case. Av United Press LA GRANGE, Texas, Dec. 16. The case of Mrs. Rebecca Bradley Rogers, former University of Texas co-ed, on trial for robbing the Buda Farmers National bank, was expected to reach the jury today. The defense closed its case Thursday after introducing three alienist* in rebuttal. Dr. Joe Wooten, alienist, had testified for the State that the former honor student was sane when she robbed the bank of SI,OOO a year ago. All three defense alienists declared her to be insane. Closing arguments started this morning. SEEK PAIR IN SLAYING Two Believed in City Wanted hi Kentucky Hatchet Death. City police are watching for Lawrence Hendron, 24, and Mrs. Emma Taylor, 19, both of Lebanon, Ky. They are wanted there in connection with the murder of James Sprinkles, 62, father-in-law of Hendron, found dead last Sunday, his head beaten with a hatchet. Hendron is alleged to have gone to Jeffersonville, Ir.d., with Mrs. Taylor. The sheriff at the latter place told local police he had word they came here and Hendron is employed at a local packing plant. CHIEF"CLERK REPLACED Law Student Geti $1,850 Job with City Purchasing Agent. Charles Steg, Indiana University Law School student, was appointed chief clerk in the office of Purchasing Agent Joel A. Baker today. Steg succeeds Miss Katherine Collins, daughter of former Purchasing Agent John J. Collin*, Tb# i°i> $1,850 year,