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SLACK OUSTER ] THWARTED IN [ COUNCIL VOTE iTwo-Hour Argument Over ). Procedure Fails to f- Unseat Mayor. jCOFFIN’S HAND IS SEEN Springsteen and Albertson j Prevent Full Success of ft Surprise Attack. ' Mayor L. Ert Slack today calmly Ignored a move to unseat him started by city council Monday Right. "I do not intend to do anything fcbout it,” said Slack. Administration lawyers, however, Iquietly prepared to resist legally the Republican councilmen behind the resolution to unseat Slack whenever the situation reaches the point where they believe Slack’s power is seriously threatened. The move came in the form of a Jresolution to rescind the council resolution of Oct. 27 declearing the mayor’s office vacant, and to declare void the election of Slack as mayor on Nov. 8. The resolution was introduced by Pouncilman Walter R. Dorsett. Republican, whose vote on Nov. 8 broke a deadlock and put Slack in office. Would Correct “Injustice” While the resolution states that the councilmen believe they did an injustice to John L. Duvall, whom they ousted as mayor; his wife, Mrs. Maude Duvall, who was city controller, and Ira M. Holmes, w r ho was a contender for the office of mayor, Dorsett said his chief object was to hasten, if possible, Supreme Court decision upon the two suits over the mayoralty, Political observers, however, saw the resolution as a “come-back” move of George V. Coffin, Republicand county chairman. They based this belief upon the fact that Coffin passed out word Monday morning that the council would take this action Monday night. The plans of the Republican counicilmen struck a snag beo .use Robert E. Springsteen, Democrat, and O. Ray Albertson, one of the six Republicans, voted against suspension of the rules. One negative vote will prevent rule suspension. Rules must be suspended before resolutions or ordinances can be voted upon the same meeting they are introduced. Enough Votes Almost Certain Meanwhile the resolution hangs over Slack’s head. The Republicans can call for a vote on it at the next special or regular meeting. If the five Republicans other than Albertson hang together and vote for the resolution they can pass it. In that case a legal battle to determine whether the council can rescind action of this sort would result, it is said. Just who would be mayor in the event Slack were ousted would be problematical, although the resolution declares Ira . Holmes should have the job on the grounds that while the council was declaring John L. Duvall out of office Duvall had resigned, making Mrs. Duvall mayor, and Mrs. Duvall had named Holmes controller and then resigned, passing the mayoralty on to Holmes. The resolution declares the council (did Holmes. Mrs. Duvall and Duvall *‘a grave wrong” and it w T as desired to right it. Wrangle Two Hours The resolution attempts to justify Itself legally through quotation of statutes to the effect that pending appeal judgment is stayed. This, friends of the resolution contend, &ives the council the right to recind its action at any time before Supreme Court finally rules on the jnai’oralty suits. These suits consist of Holmes’ appeal from the county court injunction preventing him from interfering with Claude E. Negley, at the time Negley was mayor pro tern, before Slack was elected, and the petition of Joseph L. Hogue to be declared mayor on the ground Duvall was not legally elected. Hogue was city controller in the Shank administration. He contends that if Duvall was not legally elected, Samuel Lewis shank was mayor until his death this fall, and that he i Hogue) became mayor when Shank died. The council wrangled for two and a half hours over parliamentary procedure before the motion to suspend rules was put and lost. Councilman Edward B. Raub and Millard W. Ferguson, Democrats, were absent. Corporation Counsel John W. Holtzman said: “Slack’s election (ended the matter so far as the council is concerned. Any such contemplated action would be illegal, I believe.” Purdue Enrollment Gains By United Press LAFAYETTE. Ind., Jan. 17. Seventy-one young men from all parts of Indiana were enrolled today in the annual eight weeks winter course in the Purdue School of Agriculture. This is slight gain over the number registered last year. Several more are expected to enroll during the next few days although class work began today in mil doDartmentAu

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JEWETT ANNOUNCES FOR GOVERNOR RACE

Former Mayor Is Candidate for G. 0. P. Nomination; Enemy of Klan. Charles W. Jewett, attorney and former mayor of Indianapolis, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor. Jewett’s entry in the gubernatorial race, coming at the height of the quest for a "new deal” candidate, at first threatened dissension between the “new deal” and “stand pat” wings of the party. On reflection, however, leaders saw In his announcement possibility of a happy solution of the party’s most perplexing problem. Has Fought Klan Jewett’s open antagonism to the Ku-Klux Klan and his record of opposition to Klan-elected State and city officials, many of whom have bean indicted, give him the aspect of an out-and-out “new deal” candidate, Republican leaders believed. “The political record that has been made in recent years in Indiana is not that of the Democratic or Republican parties,” Jewett declared, “but the record of the bipartisan Stephensonism which captured the machinery of one party and sapped the life out of the other. "Had it not been for the primary system of elections, such results could never have been accomplished. | Proud of Clean-Up “Responsible citizens of both political parties must throw off their apathy and re-assert themselves in the interest of driving from high places in political councils those who have bartered and sold the respectability of our political institutions for a mere pot of political pottage. “The people of Indiana should be proud of the clean-up that has started, even though it has given to us unfavorable publicity. It reflects a public conscience that will not condone even political offenses to the law. “Such a conscience can be relied upon to correct political and governmental evils and restore the good name of the State of Indiana in the public mind.” Here Since 1903 Jewett was born in Franklin, Ind. His father, the Rev. Edward P. Jewett, is a Methodist minister. His earlier life was spent in small Indiana cities and towns to which his father was assigned. He has lived in Indianapolis since 1903. After attending Franklin College in 1904, he entered De Pauw University. He starred in oratory and athletics, being graduated in 1907. That fall he entered Harvard Law School, finishing in 1910. Returning to Indianapolis, he entered practice with his boyhood friend, Carl H. Weyl. Weyl, Jewett and Homer Elliott are law partners now. In 1913, Jewett was a leader in the Republican Union, an organization of young Republicans, which took over the county organization, healed the Bull Moose split, ana defeated the Bell-Parrott Democratic machine in 1914, when Jewett was county chairman. Carry State for Hughes His organization repeated victory in 1916 throughout the county and rolled up a county plurality which carried the State for Charles Evans Hughes. In 1917 Jewett was elected Mayor of Indianapolis over Samuel Lewis Shank, home ruler, and Dick Miller, Democrat. He found the city government in deplorable condition, instituted such improvements as the budget, motorization of the fire department, municipal collection and disposal of garbage and ashes, began and completed a major portion of track elevation, and went out of office with the city in good financial condition. Since leaving the mayor’s office in 1922, Jewett has practiced law. He married Miss Elizabeth Doughety, daughter of the late Hugh Dougherty. M. Bert Thurman’s withdrawal from the race for the Republican nomination for Governor was regarded as hastening Jewett’s entry. Thurman, Collector of Internal Revenue, explained his voluntary withdrawal was made because “I feel that the larger interests of the Republican party are paramount to personal consideration.”

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••-rr inG PETE” and “Queen of the “royal house of Barlow,” ruling monarchs of Muncle’s underworld, stood exiled today by sentence of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Found guilty by a jury Monday of conspiracy to violate the Federal prohibition laws, Barlow w'as sentenced to Leavenworth penitentiary for two years and fined SSOO. “Node,” or Nora, his wife, w’as given one year and a day in Indiana woman's prison. On charges of liquor sales and operating a nuisance, each was given an additional sentence of one year, to run concurrently with the conspiracy sentences. “Bob” Lawrence, rotund and

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RULE AGAINST SEATING SMITH Reed Probers Ask Senate to Declare Post Vacant. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Frank L. Smith is not entitled to a seat in the United States Senate, the Reed primary investigating committee reported to the Senate today. The report recommended that the seat of the Illinois Republican Senator-elect be declared vacant. A resolution, denouncing Smith because of the large sums of money given and spent in his behalf in the 1926 primary campaign and carrying out the disbarment recommendation was presented by Senator James A. Reed (Dem.), Missouri, chairman of the Investigating Committee. The resolution said: “The acceptance and expenditure of the various sums of money in behalf of Smith’s candidacy is contrary to sound public policy, harmful to the dignity and honor of the Senate, dangerous to the perpetuity of free government, and taints with fraud and corruption the Smith credentials.” The resolution was designed to end the sensational election case which started when the committee found Smith spent $458,782 in the primary, of which all save $171,500 was contributed by officials of large public service organizations. At the time the contributions were made Smith was chairman of the State public utilities commission. IRENE CASTLE TRIES TO SAVE 'MAD’ DOGS Contends Rabies Disease Docs Exist; Official Retorts. By United Frees ■ CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Irene Castle McLaughlin, who, since she left the professional dance floor to become a society leader, has devoted her spare time to being kind to dumb animals, today was engaged in a spirited dispute over dogs. The chief question for debate seemed to be whether such an ailment as rabies exists. “Mrs. McLaughlin doubtless is an authority on ballroom steps ana feminine styles,” retorted Dr. A. H. Kegel, health commissioner, “but what she knows about dog diseases is little, if any, more than nothing at all.” Muddy Roads Stop Autos Bn Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. 17.—Several Jackson County rural mail carriers are using horses and buggies to cover their routes, mud on dirt roads being too deep for automobiles.

jovial “court jester” to the royal pair, convicted with them for conspiracy, drew six months at Leavenworth. His smile persisted when the three faced the bench for sentence. For information of the court, District Attorney Albert Ward read Pete’s criminal record. It sounded like the unabridged record of a full term of court. Nora's record was read next. “It seems the onlylvay to keep you two out of trouble is to send you up,” said Judge Baltzell. Pete took his sentence stoically. Nora never batted an eye. And Muncie lost, for a year or two, the picturesque pair, who are credited with “running the lawless element of the town.”

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GANG MOTH’S MURDER LAID TO GIRL PAL lowa Manicurist and Mate Held for Slaying of Betty Chambers. FINGERPRINTS ARE LINK Opium-Smoking Orgy Given as Alibi; ‘Tell Truth,’ Husband Pleads. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Silken fineries amid which Betty Chambers, known as “the Diamond,” was found strangled to death last week had charms also for Marion Kirk, a slim lowa girl, and today Marion was held for Betty's murder. Marion and Betty were good friends, until a w-eek ago, when they parted. Marion said she never saw Betty alive again, but police believe she saw her once more when she wound yards of adhesive tape around Betty’s mouth. The tape, a blow on the head and an electric light cord around Betty's neck combined to kill her. Marion’s fingerprints were found on the tape, police said. They were also found on other objects in the room. Since she left lowa, Marion has been a manicurist, chorus girl, actress, organist and shoplifter, police said. She liked the fineries of life and got them. Marion was arrested with James Kirk, an admitted pickpocket, who she said was her husband. Her alibi in the Chambers murder was that she and Kirk had smoked opium on the day of the murder and had slept until 4 p. m. As they were taken to separate cells, Kirk whispered to Marion: “Tell the truth, kid. and keep out of the electric chair.” Another suspect, A1 Bregar, was arrested in connection with Betty Chambers’ death. Police doubt his guilt. Marion Kirk Sought Here A Chicago newspaper today printed a statement that Marion KirK was in Indianapolis after the murder of Betty Chambers, in the investigation of which the Kirk woman is held. Detective Chief Jerry Kinney said he did not believe the woman had been here. He said Chicago detectives Saturday night requestea that Indianapolis hotels be searched and watched for her. Detectives Claude F. Johnson and Dennis Houlihan watched hotels all night Saturday but obtained no trace of the fugitive. DRY EDUCATION URGED League Official Says Children Must Be Taught Alcohol Evils. By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 17.—Warning that the Volstead act might be voided by the new generations, Dr. Ernest Cherrington, head of the Anti-Saloon League’s new education, publicity and research department told a meeting of 500 churchmen here that children must be taught the evils of alcohol. “There are 15,000,000 voters in the nation who when prohibition was adopted w-ere not old enough to know the facts,” he said. “They know nothing of the old saloons, but they do know the terrific evils of today.” NAVY AID BACKS HOOVER Assistant Secretary Asks Support at at G. O. P. Convention. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Assistant Secretary of Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson has joined the announced supporters of Herbert Hoover for President in 1928. “After consultation with men in my own county organization in New York, I am convinced that Herbert Hoover should receive the nomination at Kansas City,” Robinson said in a formal statement today. GEORGE"NOT CANDIDATE Georgia Senator Declines Democrat Vice President Honor. By United Press WASHINGTON, George of Georgia announced today that he is not and will not be a candidate for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. Last week the Georgia delegation decided to advance George for the presidency. Previously, he had been mentioned as a vice presidential possibility. TRAIN KILLS STUDENT Body of Ohio Youth Is Found by Railroad Tracks. By United Press OBERLIN, Ohio, Jan. 17.—The body of John McGill, 22, Eric. Pa., honor student and member of the junior class at Oberlin College, was found beside the New York Central Railroad tracks here today. McGill was last seen Monday afternoon when he left Oberlin for a hike. He was alone. Coroner Myles Perry returned a verdict of accidental death, ...

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CAPITAL SWEPT BY SEVEN FIRES Pyromaniac Suspect Is Held After Night Blazes. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Seven fires, charged to a pyromaniac, terrorized the national capital from midnight to dawn today. AU the city's fire fighters, assisted by nearly a score of companies from Baltimore and nearby Maryland and Virginia cities, finally subdued the blazes, and an alert ci -en who reported one fire gave information which resulted in the arrest of a World War veteran, a former psychopathic patient, as a suspected firebug. The suspect, John J. Fischer, 29, admitted attending three of the fires, but denied he caused them. He is a married man and drawing disability compensation from the Government. Fischer was arrested when he drove to his home at 7:10 a. m. today. In his car w’as found a fireman's badge from Fallsburg, N. Y. The first fire started in a 5-and--10-cent store on Pennsylvania Ave. about 11 p. m. Explosion of a gas main caused firemen to be overcome. The second came a few minutes later and burned fiercely in a number of produce buildings on Tenth St., near Pennsylvania Ave., a block away. At 2 p. m. a fire was discovered in the northeast section of the city, in a feed and coal company plant. These fires were believed under control, however, when a fourth major alarm was turned in just before 6 a. m. for a blaze in the residential section around Fourteenth and Belmont Sts., northwest. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 36 10 a. m 35 7 a. m.... 35 11 a. m 37 Ba. m.... 34 12 (noon).. 39 9 a. m.... 34

TEARS MARK END OF MURDER TRIAL

Lloyd Kimble, Wife and Children Weep at Death Picture. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times DELPHI, Ind., Jkn. 17.—Tears flowed today as the trial of Lloyd Kimble, charged with first-degree murder of Daniel Sink, entered upon its final stage in Carroll Circuit Court here. Kimble, his wife and six children, who range in age from 6 to 20 years, wept as Gus Hall made the first argument for the defense. Joseph T. Ives, youthful prosecutor, made the first argument of the day. He demanded that the jury send Kimble to death in the electric chair. He spoke half an hour. Hall followed the prosecutor and urged the jury to free Kimble, picturing the grief that death would bring to his family. He used an hour of the time allotted lor defense arguments. Fellow counsel who followed included John and Ralph Hanna, the latter the youngest member of the Carroll County bar. Burleigh Davidson will close for the defense. James P. Wason will make the last argument of all, summing up for the prosecution. Today’s proceedings demonstrated that “youth must be served.” .Young

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ORDERS KLAN SALE Bank Is Made Receiver for County Organization. The Peoples State Bank today was appointed receiver for real estate of Marion County Klan No. 3 and directed by Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott to sell the property. The action was on petition of August Buschmann & Soas, suing the organization for $1,500 damages. During proceedings since the complaint was filed last year, Charles J. Orbison, national vice president of the Klan, was made commissioner to sell the property, located in Fink’s Pleasant Ripple addition. According to the petition it was “impossible to effect a sale through such commissioner.” The complaint alleges the Klan organization leased the Buschmann Bldg., at Eleventh St. and College Ave., but failed to pay the rent and did not return chairs and fans furnished.

Ralph Hanna, serving for the first time in his career as counsel in a murder trial, was able to appear, but Charles Pollard, 82, oldest Carroll County lawyer, engaged in his thirtieth murder case, was kept at home by illness. The case probably will be in the hands of the jury late today, as only Judge E. E. Pruitt’s instructions remain after arguments close. The deliberation on a verdict will begin.

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KIDNAPER KILLER IS UNDER CLOSE GUARD AS ENRAGED MOB CLAMORS FOR DEATH Church Elder Confesses Kidnaping* and Mur- • der of Dorothy Schneider, Kindergarten Pupil, in Flint, Mich. 15,000 DEMAND LIFE OF SLAYER Militia Called Out When Police Are Unable to Quell Riot; Death Weapon Found in Pocket of Prisoner. BY PHILIP N. O’HARA United Press Staff Correspondent FLINT, Mich., Jan. 17.—Adolph Hotelling, church elder, confessed kidnaper-slaver of Dorothy Schneider, 5, kindergarten pupil, today cowered in his cell in lonia Reformatory, as 200 State troops stood guard in this city ove ran empty jail, from which he was spirited earlier in the morning. Threat of mob violence had vanished, however, and preparations were being rushed by the State for the trial of the slayer, llis family this morning engaged as his counsel an Owosso at-, torney and former Democratic candidate for Governor, W. A. Seegmiller. Meanwhile, Governor Fred W. Green conferred with his aids on a change of venue, fearing anew outbreak of mob spirit.

Hotelling was removed to j lonia Reformatory at 1:30 a. m. | today, being held incommuni-j eado there. The precaution was more than justified, in view of the riot a few hours earlier, when a mob of 15.000 stormed the approaches to the Genesee County jail in an effort to wreak vengeance on the perpetrator of a crime comparable in fiendishness to the recent Hickman atrocity in Los Angeles. Howling Mob Gathers No sooner had word spread through Flint, despite utmost efforts at secrecy, that Dorothy’s slayer had been caught, than a howling mob surrounded the jail and threatened to overwhelm the handful of police posted there. Surging to and fro in a frenzy, the mob chorused its intention of crashing the gates and beating Hotelling to death. Sheriff's officers rushed an appeal to the fire department to route the crowd with high pressure water hoses. The fire chief refused, as his men were unprotected, declaring the rioters would cut the hose and leave the city without fire protection. Militia Calldd Out Mayor William McKeighan communciated with Governor Fred W. Green at lonia, who authorized calling out the militia. About seventy-five men of the 119th Field Artillery were drilling in the local armory at the time. They were hustled into marching order, served with ammunition, and held in readiness. Defenders still hoped diplomacy would save the day. They sent out word that two cousins of Hotelling could go through the jail and testify whether the slayer was there. The offer was accepted and the cousins returned declaring that their relative no longer was in the jail. But the crowd w’as too angry to be appeased so easily, and the rock throwing broke out again. Police made another concession. Twelve members of the crowd were invited to go through the jail and satisfy themselves that their quarry had been removed. That offer also was accepted, this time with better results. Hotelling Is Found The prelude to the mob violence was the arrest of Hotelling. He had been found in Owosso under circumstances that pointed to his guilt. Questioned briefly, he confessed. Oscar G. Olander. State police commissioner, lost no time. Barely had the county prosecutor, William R. Roberts, obtained a detailed statement from the man than Sheriff Frank A. Green and his deputies cleared the office of all persons. These persons were hustled to the rear of the jail. A few minutes later a limousine shot from the front entrance. It contained Hotelling, Prosecutor Roberts, Commissioner Olander, Police Chief Scavarja. His arrest came from information volunteered by a fellow officer of the Church of Christ in Owosso. The latter w’as Harold Lottridge, a deacon of the church, who was ordained Sunday night. In the course of the same ceremonies, Hotelling was ordained elder, after being a deacon for many years. It was Hotelling who lit the small candle held in Lottridge’s hand from the larger candle which he held, symbolic of the passing" of the light of Christ from the greater to the smaller vessel. “This morning when I woke up,’ Lottridge said, “I had Hotelling on my mind. I don’t know why. But his image was there in sinister fashion and I could not get ria of it.” Lottridge told his boss on a school construction job at Flushing of his thoughts. During the conversation, he claimed. Deputy Sheriff Mark

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Pailthorpe approached and began to ask him the questions w'hich lea to the murderer’s arrest. Pailthorpe’s version was different. He said he received a telephone call from Mt. Morris—the village where the Schneiders live—at about the. same time that Dorothy’s body was lowered into the grave. The call indicated that Sheldon Robinson, a carpenter, had heard a fellow carpenter say that he knew where he could lay his hands on the slayer, but that he had no intention of doing so till the rewara of $3,000 bed been raised to the level of the California Hickman rewara of SIOO,OOO. Churchman Tells Story Pailthorpe rushed Robinson to Flushing and there they confronted Lottridge. The deputy made it clear immediately that it •would be to Lottridge’s advantage to tell what he knew. Lottridge “came clean.” He said he knew a man over in Owosso who answered the description of the Schneider slayer and who drove the same type of car. Pailthorpe said he was so disgusted with the attitude attributed to Lottridge by Robinson that he left him there without taking hi name. He brought Robinson back to Mount Morris and. returning to the county jail, picked up Deputies Henry Munger and Thomas Kelly. The three speeded to Owosso, where they found Hotelling at home. They asked Hotelling to explain his movements Thursday, the day when Dorothy was kidnaped and slain. Hotelling said he was at home that day. His wife refused to corroborate the statement, saying he had been looking for w'ork. Wife Scoffs at Idea The deputies told Mrs. Hotelling that they had reason to believe that, her husband was the little girl’s assailant. She laughed. “Nonsense,” she said, “If I thought he was, I’d turn him in myself.” Little by little, the deputies built up their case. The last link in the chain of evidence came luckily. The deputies asked to see Hotelling’s automobile and they were led to a black sedan. The color of the automobile used by the murderer was robin egg blue. As Pailthorpe turned the handle of the door, a large ring on his finger scratched the paint on the body. Under the surface was a coat of robin egg blue. The deputies established that the car had been repainted Friday, the day after the murder. They then searched Hotelling and found in an upper outside pocket a jackknife wrapped in a piece of paper. Names on Paper The knife, they found, had two keen blades, both bloodstained. The paper in which it was wrapped bore the names of a number of women, Including the name of Mabel Schneider, 24-year-old mother of Dorothy. Against her name was a sinister cross. The man continued to protest his ignorance of the crime. The deputies placed him in their machine and sped for Flint. Hotelling remained noncommittal. The officers showed him the handkerchiefs found in the car, one of which belonged to Dorothy. He did not flinch. Then came Archie Bacon, principal identity witness. “That’s the man,” said Bacon, the terse farmer. Hotelling flinched. “Whose blood is this?” asked Scavara, exhibiting the two blades of the jacknife. The man faltered. His lips quivered and he covered his face with his hands. He began to weep. “I did it,” he cried, “I don’t know what made me do it.” The officers hustled him to a solitary cell in an upper tier. A few moments later Sheriff Green returned to question him further. He found Hotelling scraping at his throat with a rusty nail. Blood oozed from £3veral red streaks, but the injuries were not serious.