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FALL ILLNESS MAY HOLD UP NEWBIL TRIAL Former Secretary Reported in Critical Condition at Ei Paso. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Reports that former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall was seriously ill in El Paso made probable today postponement of the trial of Fall and Harry F. Sinclair scheduled to start here Jan. IG. Meantime, the hearing of Sinclair, William J. Eurns and four others on contempt of court charges growing out of Burns Detectives’ Sinclair oil trial, was resumed. The shadowing of jurors in the first Falllawyers trying the case before Justice D. L. Siddons planned to continue examination of Juror Edward J. Kidwell in conection with his charges that Assistant United States Attorney James M. O’Leary coerced him into signing false affidavits charging two Burns agents accosted him. Fall’s friends and attorneys here Characterize the o'6-year-old former cabinet man who leased teapot dome to Sinclair in 1922, as a very sick man. One told the United Press that an X-ray taken since the trial showed serious complications. Fall collapsed here early in November a day or two after the first trial was ended prematurely by Justice Siddons because of the jury tampering charges. His friends say he has never recovered from that general breakdown. Fall is said to have been up from his bed only for his return to El Paso more than a month ago.

AUCTIONEERS ELECT Zionsville Man Named to Head State Association. Arthur Spaugh, Zionsville, was elected president of the Auctioneers’ Association of Indiana at the annual meeting at the Severin Monday night. Art Probst, Broad Ripple, was elected vice president, and R. C. Foland, Noblesville, secretary treasurer. R. L. Hawkins, Galveston; C. C. Carr, Glenwood; D. O. Meadows, Advance, and J. D. Powell, Franklin, were named directors. A resolution was adopted extending sympathy to the family of the late Samuel Lewis Shank, former Indianapolis mayor and auctioneer. CLERGY HEARS I. U. HEAD “Psychology and Religious Work” Topic of Dr. Bryan. “It is dangerous to meddle with Individuals mentally or spiritually ill unless to scientific knowledge is added common sense, wisdom and grace,” Dr. William Lowe Bryan, Indiana University president, said Monday night at the Roberts Park M. E. Church. Dr. Bryan spoke on “Psychology and Religious Work” •before the Indianapolis Ministerial Alliance. “With this larger equipment,” Dr. Bryan said, “psychology is very valuable to the religious worker.” TWO HURT IN CRASH Mother, Daughter Injured When ' Auto and Bus Collide. Mrs. Emelie Grimes, 27, and her daughter, Martha, 6, were injured Monday night when an automobile driven by the husband, James Grimes,. 28, Lawrence, Ind., collided with a Pen Davis bus, driven by Tony Poporad, Ben Davis, Ind., at ■ Neal and Washington Sts. Joe Farmer, 20, of 220114 Brookside Ave., was charged with driving through a funeral procession at New York and Pennsylvania Sts., late Monday, after his automobile collided with one driven by Oliver Anderson, 65, of 235 N. Tacoma Ave.

Asthma So Bad He Couldn’t Work Now Works in Smoke and Steam, Without Cough or Wheeze. Railroad men and others whose asthma or bronchitis is aggravated by smoke-filled air, will be glad to read this letter from Frank Paul, 847 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. He writes: “I suffered with asthma and severe bronchial cough for 3 years. 1 gasped and choked until I could hardly breathe, and had to stay away from work for weeks at a time. I was desperate when I started taking Nacor, and it. saved my life. It gave me prompt relief, and now I am feeling fine. I am a machinist in a round house. The smoke and steam do no bother me a bit now. I don’t wheeze or even breathe hard, and am working every day.” This remarkable letter is only one of hundreds written by former sufferers from asthma, bronchitis and chronic coughs, telling how their trouble left and never returned. Their letters and a booklet of vital information about these diseases will be sent free by Nacor Medicine Cos., 413 State Life Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. The more serious your case, the more important this free information may be. Call or write for It today.—Advertisement. I DELICIOUS Home Cooked Food At Claman’s Dairy Lunch 55 Kentucky Ave. SPECIAL I A Good House Faint $1.69 Per Gallon I Circle City Paint & Glass Cos. I | 123 N. Alabama St. Lincoln 6374 $ Saf cunuiia' jpgS H Brownings E| 3 118 E. Wash. St. H "USSBBBSSSBSBSmSEBI!"" T SMEnEwBS&JIUr

Let Ruth Snyder Live, Worthless as She Is, Verdict of Many National Women Leaders

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Capital Punishment Meets Disapproval of All in Questionnaire. BY ALLENE SUMNER NEA Service Writer (Copyright. 1927. NEA Service. Inc.) WOMAN’S inhumanity to woman is supposed to be proverbial and universal. Which is exactly why no smart defense attorney takes a chance with a woman in his jury box when another woman sits in the prisoner’s seat. Which. is also why, of course, verybody expected that the sisterhood of this country would band itself together to insist on the death chair for Ruth Snyder, convicted of the murder of her husband and sentenced to die on Jan. 12. But the sisterhood fools us! Want Equal Mercy A questionnaire submitted to several of the country’s leaaing women by NEA Service, Inc., brings forth the interesting fact that these women unanimously want Ruth Snyder shown the same mercy, no more and no less, that is shown her partner in crime, Henry Judd Gray, the little “rabbit man” who helped her wield the sash-weight and picture wire. “No capital punishment for anybody—not even such atrocious, contemptible murderers as these two,” runs the almost unanimous opinion of these famous women. Read what they say: Amelita Galli-Curci, prima donna: “The question is not what to do with Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, who are entitled to the same consideration. no more and no less, as other offenders, but what to do with the law. Not In Modern Spirit “The Idea of capital punishment is to me abhorrent and not in keeping with the spirit of modem America. Elsie Janis, actress; “I don’t feel I am qualified to sit in judgment, but I do not like capital punishment.” America’s “foremost woman of the year”—Eva Le Gallienne, actress and theatrical producer: “I do not believe in capital punishment for anybody at any time.” Kathleen Norris, writer: “I have followed the Snyder-Gray case carefully In the newspapers and appreciate its atrocious features, but I cannot feel that their execution would be anything more than another murder in a different and particularly cruel form.” Gloria Swanson, actress: “I do not believe in capital punishment. Two wrongs do not make a right.” Won’t Commit Themselves Leaders women’s organizations, such as Miss Belle Sherwin of the National League of Women Voters, Miss Lena Phillips of the National Federation of Business Women's Clubs, and Mrs. John Sherman of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, refused to comment. Even women in public life avoided the question. Congresswoman Florence P. Kahn sidestepped with a plea that she was “unqualified to exDress an opinion.” Prominent women judges and attorneys raised the plea that it was “unethical” to attempt to dictate to Governor A1 Smith what to do. Ruth Hale, president of the Lucy Stone League and president of the League to Abolish Capital Punishment, made it very clear that her belief that Ruth Snyder should escape the death chair was positively coupled with a similar belief that Gray also should escape. Hates Capital Punishment “My interest is motivated by the strongest equal rights belief as well as a hatred of capital punishment,” said she. “If Governor Smith must respect the laws of the State and send these two to the chair, I would certainly, if I were A1 Smith, go drown myself in the Hudson River. "I think that of all criminals Mrs. Snyder is the most contemptible. There is not a thing about the woman worth saving. The fact that she is a woman only makes her lower and more despicable. But I wouldn’t advocate the death chair for a woman.”

BUDDENBAUM’S FUNERAL SET Pioneer Lumberman Will Be Buried yVedncsday. Funeral services for William C. Buddenbaum. 70, of 3 W. SeventyFifth St., will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday at the Tutewilcr funeral parlors, 1902 N. Meridian St. Burial will be in Union Chapel cemetery. Mr. Buddenbaum, a pioneer lumberman and a life long resident of Indianapolis, died of diabetes early Monday following a five year's illness. He began his lumber work with the Indianapolis Manufacturers' and Carpenters’ Union and served as superintendent. Mr. Buddenbaum founded the Home Lumber Company and the Buddenbaum Lumber Company. He was president of both and vice president of the Carmel Lumber Company and the Broad Ripple Lumber Company. He was with the latter organization until his retirement in 1917. He was a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. and A. M. Surviving him are four daughters, Miss Retta and Miss Hilda Buddenbaum, Mrs. Fred Landgraf and Mrs. Ruby Priesmeyer; two sons, Paul G. Buddenbaum, secretarytreasurer of the Broad Ripple Lumber Company, and Carl H. Buddenbaum, president of the Broad Ripple Lumber Company; two brothers, Louis G. Buddenbaum, president of the Buddenbaum Lumber Company, and Harry Buddenbaum of F. J. Meyer & Cos., and two grandchildren, Mayborn Landgraf and Miss Jane Priesmeyer. All are from Indianapolis. COOLIDGE MAY PRACTICE LAW, GUESSERS THINK Offered Membership in New Y'ork Firm, Say Prophets. By Unit'd Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The prophets were busy again today forecasting what President Coolidge will do when he leaves the White House. The latest prediction, lacking White House verification, like all the rest, is that he has been offered membership in a prominent New York law firm. The President, who has spiked previous rumors by letting it be known he will consider no offers until his term expires, hardly is expected to comment concerning this most recent report. His friends, however, suggest Mr. Coolidge might be more content in his old profession, law, than as a financier, college president or author. The President has made clear that service in Congress does not interest him. NEAR EAST NEEDS HELP Relief Btfard Expected to Back Drive for $6,000,000. B ii Times Special NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—An estimate of the total sum of money needed to complete the overseas orphanage work of the Near East Relief will be placed before the organization’s national board of trustees at its annual meeting in the Hotel Pennsylvania Wednesday. Trustees include Vice President Dawes, William H. Taft, Elihu Root, John H. Finley, Bishop Manning and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The board will be asked to authorize a campaign to meet this entire obligation, fixed at $6,000,000. Approval of this budget brings to a climax a philanthropic enterprise upon which $104,000,000 has been spent during the last twelve years, and which has saved more than 1,500,000 lives' Hoosier Song Wins BvTlmes Special BOONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 3.—“ The Passing Storm,” semi-classic song written by Mrs. Blanche Hammond Camp, former local woman now living in New York, is winning considerable recognition.

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All in Family Uu Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Jan. 3. When Mrs. Lillie Davidson and Hugh Robertson looked over the records here while obtaining a marriage license, they noticed that on the same day a license had been granted to her son, Clarence Davidson, and Miss Beulah Kelsey. A few hours later both newly wed couples arrived at the Daridson home in Bicknell, where friends had prepared a wedding supper.

MARIE’S COMPANION DIES OF PNEUMONIA Artistic Circles of Paris Mourn Loss of Loie Fuller. By United Press PARIS, Jan. 3.—Loie Fuller, who was Queen Marie’s companion on the Rumanian ruler’s trip to the United States, will be buried in the Pere la Chaise cemetery Wednesday. She died here Sunday night from bronchitis and pneumonia. She had been ill nearly a month, but until few days ago it was thought she was on the way to recovery. Artistic circles regretted the passing of “the apostles of light” .and recalled the fame she won in Paris, where the leading poets sang her praises and the most famous illustrators made historic posters of her. NEW YORK ACTRESS’ DEATH CAUSE SOUGHT Emily Stevens, 46, Fails to Revive From State of Coma. B,u United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—An autopsy to determine the cause of the death of Miss Emily Stevens, 46, prominent for many years on the American stage, was to be held today. Miss Stevens died late Monday after two physicians had tried since Sunday to revive her from a coma said to be induced by an overdose of a sedative. She had suffered for years with a nervous malady and had been under the care of a neurologist. The actress’ last appearance was in the Theater Guild’s production of “The Second Man ” Last week she had tentatively agreed to talft a part in the all-star revival of Sardou’s “Diplomacy.” She was a cousin of Mrs. Minnie Maddem Fiske. FEUDNER NEW EDITOR Buys Control of Rushville Daily Republican From Hanold. Will O. Feudner today became editor of the Daily Republican of Rushville. succeeding Roy E. Harrold. Harrold’s stock interests in the paper have been purchased by Feudner, who owns a controlling interest; Bert O. Simpson, business manager and secretary; Frank Priest, superintendent, and Louis Hiner, the new managing editor, former city editor. Harrold, who has been connected with the Daily Republican nineteen years, recently purchased the interest of Fred S. Casady in the Rushville Amusement Company and will operate the Princess and Castle Theaters. G. 0. P. GROUP ELECTS Irvington “Bolters” Select Anderson as New President. Members of the unincorporated faction of the Irvington Republican Club today were headed by Claude H. Anderson, new president. Officers were installed Monday night at 5448 1 4 E. Washington St. Butler University’s debating team will appear next Monday night to argue on the abolition of the primary. The incorporated branch of the club bolted some time ago when the executive committee refused to approve an independent ticket for officers.

URGES TAX ON LESION ROUTS Bartholomew Works for Boxing Regulation. City council should regulate weekly boxing exhibitions at the Indiana National Guard Armory during 1928, says Council President Otis E. Bartholomew. The American Legion, which sponsors the weekly exhibitions at the Armory, has not been subjected I to council supervision during 1927,; Bartholomew pointed out. A city ordinance requires that boxing promoters obtain a permit through the council athletic com- j mittee, which sits as a “boxing commission,” and pay the city a tax of 5 per cent of receipts. The Legion has operated without a permit, violating the city ordinance, Bartholomew said. Boynton J. Moore, athletic chairman, plans an early meeting of the committee to organize and act on the Legion matter. Regular meetings will be held first Tuesday of each month. The council has made several attempts to regulate the Armory exhibitions in the past, the Legion always coming out victorious because the council feared to invade the Armory, which is State preporty. Bartholomew said he had talked w-ith City Controller Sterling R. Holt, who felt the city should collect the fee from the Legion promoters the same as from private matches. THREE ARE INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE CRASHES! Youth, Driver of Car, Is Held for Reckless Driving. Charles Robbins,- 34, of 805 N. Illinois St., is in a serious condition at city hospital today suffering a fractured skull and broken left leg received when he was struck by an automobile near his home late Monday. George Anderson, 17, of 122 E. Forty-Seventh St., driver, was arrested.. Automobiles driven by Mrs. Frank Lucid, 424 S. New Jersey St., and Earnest. Watson, 25, of 2021 Ashland Ave., collided at Sixteenth ad Bellefontaine Sts., and Mrs. Anna Shine, 60, mother of Mrs, Lucid was injured. Ogden Legue, 773*4 N. Bancroft | St., told police he attempted to stop for a street car, but his automobile skidded and struck Walter Deddock, 30, of 55 S. Lasalle St., who alighted from rear step. Deddock was cut and bruised about the face. Lay 420,000 Miles of Tracks QUINCY, Mass., Jan. 3.—The first commercial railroad track in the United tSates was laid by the Baltimore & Ohio in 1828. Since then 420,000 miles of track have been laid in the Unitea States, more than one-third the world’s aggregate mileage. It costs SIOO,OOO a year to run a first-class pack of fox hounds.

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WALB TANGLES DELAY WATSON ON TRIP HOME Senator Still Here Trying to Pacify Dissension in G. 0. P. In Indiana ostensibly and primarily to pick a Republican candidate for Governor capable of pacifying the “new deal” and “stand pat” factions of the party, Senator James E. Watson became so engrossed by secondary matters that he will not depart until tonight, and without having accomplished his major objective, according to reports in political circles. The Senator is to leave for Washington at 5:40 p. m. today, fully three days later than he announced upon his arrival Saturday morning. Senator Watson stepped from an hour’s questioning in the Marion County grand jury room Saturday morning to learn that Clyde A. Walb, La Grange, State Republican chairman, had been indicted by the Federal grand jury for violation of the national banking laws. Many Want Walb’s Job The indictment brought to a crux the annoying problem of Walb’s promised resignation from the State chairmanship and beset the senior Senator with a host of district chairmen, who believed they had tacit promises of Watson’s support for succession to the State post. Ewing Emison, Vincennes, second district chairman, had been regarded as most likely successor, but so many other ambitious district chairmen seemed to hold similar hopes that Watson, it is understood, began seeking a strict party man outside of district chairmanship circles. Hq sought such a man, it was said, as Henry Marshall, Lafayette, recognized as a regular machine Republican. Rules Form Bar But in casting about outside the fold, the Senator encountered surprising difficulties. Rules of the central committee require that in event of vacation of the State chairmanship for any cause, the place must be filled from the ranks of district chairmen. Too many of them entertained hopes of the Senator’s support for j Watson to hope for any unanimity | on a choice. Provoking as it was, their consent to an amendment to the rules would be necessary before an outsider could be named. Senator Watson, who said upon arrival Saturday he would leave Saturday noon, deferred his departure until Saturday evening, then to Sunday and Monday and Tuesday with the State's tangled political situation anything but unraveled. Peru Man Discussed Among aspiring district chairmen who strove to impress the Senator with their fitness for Walb’s pest were Jesse L. Murden, Peru, Eleventh District, who was first to join the Senator’s retinue here; Clarence M. Brown, Richmond, Sixth District; Lawrence Cartwright, and Idianapolis, Eighth District, and Schuyler A. Haas, Indianapolis, Seventh District. Walbs has not amplified his statement that he will resign early this year so as to devote all of his time to private business interests. His resignation is not expected until Watson and thirteen Indiana district chairmen have come to some sort of acompromise on his successor, despite his indictment by the Federal grand jury. Woman Fined for Attack Bv Times Special _ „ _ ANDERSON, Ind.. Jan. 3.—Trouble here between union and nonprojecticsi machine operators led to an attack by Mrs. Ethel Ferguson, theater manager, upon Hubert Dockter, union picket, for which she was fined sll. Hoosier Frozen to Death By Times Special ROANOKE, Ind., Jan. 3.—Cornelius Marpz was found frozen to death in a field near here after an allnight search. He disappeared from the home of his son near here Saturday.

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Em United Press PARIS, Jan. 3.—When a lady walks along the boulevards in zero weather, cold winds whistling around her scanty skirt and almost bare legs, there is no need to suppose that she is looking for pneumonia. Dr. Leon Bernard, professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, believes she is even better able to withstand cold than man. “It is a mistake,” Dr. Bernard said, “to regard women’s clothing as essentially light. It is light only in appearance. “The modern woman wears silk, satin, fine w'oolen garments, materials much more closely woven than man’s garments, that isolate the body perfectly. The question of flimsy shoes is important only in wet weather, because the feet are not affected by dry cold as much as people generally believe. “Moreover, women cover the upper part of the body, which contains the organs particularly sensitive to the cold. There is one rule for women and men alike In cold weather. Be careful about abrupt changes of temperature. Be sure to cover up well when going from a warm temperature into the open air.” MANY SEEKING JOBONBENCH Jackson to Name Successor to McCallister. Governor Jackson has a $5,000 municipal judgeship in Marion County to bestow upon some Democratic lawyer and there is no end of competition for the post. Applicants and applications continue to pour into the gubernatorial office. Today some were accompanied by Republican friends. There was Milton B. Hottel (Dem.), former appellate court judge, who was accompanied to the Governor by Arthur Dinsmore (Rep.), one-time assistant city attorney. Attorney George G. Rinier, who served as assistant to Mayor L. Ert Slack when the latter was United States District attorney here, also called. John W. Kern Jr., United States commissioner and son of the late United States Senator Kern, has been mentioned, but it was asserted | by certain Jackson callers that he lacks eight- months of the necessary five years of Indiana law practice prescribed by statute to hold the municipal post. Others mentioned include Benjamin C. Reed, 920 Lemcke Bldg., said to be backed by Robert I. Marsh, Jackson associate: Jacob Steinmetz, with supposed Coffin Republican organization and backing of Attorney Ira M. Holmes; Albert Schmollinger, Edward Brennan, Thomas Crutcher and Griffith Dean. The position pays $5,000. Vacancy w r as caused by the suicide of Judge Fred McCallister, who, it was reported, was not to be reappointed by Jackson. BURY EX-TONG LEADER Pittsburgh’s Chinatown Gives Elaborate Funeral to Former Chief. Bn United Press PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3.—Chinatown today gave George Lee, former president of the Pittsburgh Hip Sing Tong, the biggest and most lavish funeral ever bestowed on a member of tne colony. Seventeen delegates from the tong including George Wong of San Francisco, national president, attended. Wong read the ancient ritual over the body.

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THREATEN U. S. TO PRY ARNOLD FRGMFLORIDA Prepare Extradition Papers for Kokomo Banker; See Klan Hand. Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 3.—ls the Governor of Florida refuses to order extradition of W. R. Arnold of Kokomo, upon eleven indictments growing out of the failure of the American Trust Company Bank, a Federal prosecution against Arnold will be sought, Homer R. Miller, Howard County prosecutor, said today. Arnold, has been in Florida for several months. He hopes to avoid extradition “because the Klan will prevent it,” according to R. A. Leavitt, one of those indicted with Arnold. Leavitt has told Prosecutor Miller of talks he had with Arnold, in which Arnold advised him to stay in Florida. Leavitt returned from Tampa Saturday. Offers to Fight Case Leavitt also has a letter from Arnold reading: “If you think that would be the thing to do we should get together at an early date, arrange for counsel and prepare for the scrap. It might be held along this way until sentiment is better up there, as it looks to me as if the cards were sure stacked against us now.” It is understood here that a paper declaring Arnold would not be given a fair trial in Kokomo has been presented to Governor Martin of Florida. “I recognize no secret society in the performance of my duty,” said Prosecutor Miller. “Extradition papers are being prepared and will reach Governor Martin this week. Barr Returns Home “If Governor Martin does not grant extradition, I will take the case into Federal Court, and we will see if the Government can remove Arnold to Indiana. I believe I have enough evidence to make a case of using the mails in a scheme to defraud against Arnold.” Assistant State Bank Commissioner Thomas D. Barr, indicted week' before last at Kokomo on a charge of official negligence in the failure of the American Trust Company Bank at Kokomo, is back in Indiana, State Bank Commissioner Luther F. Symons announced today. Symons was indicted with Barr. Earr was in Florida with his family at the time the indictment was returned. No statement has been obtained from Barr upon the indictment and none was gotten today, becaus he was not located. “I can not say exactly where Mr. Barr is now,” said Symons. “He has several tasks in the field and is out executing them in the best interests of banking.” 2 TAXI DRIVERS HELD AS KIDNAPERS OF GIRL B,u United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3. Two ! men, both taxicab drivers, were held today in connection with the alleged j kidnaping of Florence Ellison, 14, | who was found dazed last night, J wandering around the streets. The girl disappeared from her home, Saturday. Edward Kearney and Louis Hykes, the cab men, were charged with contributing to juvenile delinquency. They were said to have confessed to keeping the girl at their apartment, but denied she had been mistreated. $15,000 Fire at Clinton CLINTON, Ind., Jan. 3. —Fire damaged a building here housing the Hutchinson and Lewis men’s furnishings store and offices to the extent of $15,000 Monday.