Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1928 — Page 1

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STATE POUNDS AT HICKMAN’S INSANITY PLEA / fxperts Declare Slayer’s Mind Not Unbalanced; Medical Mixup. WANTS TO BE 'STUDIED’ [Youth Advises Scientists to Use Him to Find 'Why’ of Crime. BY DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent COURTROOM. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6.—The trial of William Edward Hickman today became enmeshed in medical terms, as Dr. Paul Bowers, State alienist, resumed the stand. William Edward Hickman is suffering from autographia and not dermatographia, as had been indicated in a test in the courtroom Saturday, Dr. Bowers said. While dermatographia is a symptom of dementia praecox, autographia simply is a nervous condition that may be found in normal persons, Dr. Bowers testified, as the State attempted to break down the effect of the test made on the slayer. Dr. H. E. Schorr, formerly conneced with the Bellevue Hospital in New York, followed Dr. Bowers on the stand. The State qualified Dr. Schorr as an examiner of lunacy in the New York courts. Calls Slayer Sane Dr. Schorr testified Hickman was sane. The expert declares the slayer had not inherited traits of insanity from his forebears but that he might pass mental disorders on to succeeding generations. Dr. Victor Parkin, graduate of the San Francisco Medical College, followed Dr. Schorr to the stand. The defense did not cross examine Dr. Schorr. Dr. Parkin testified that during his examination of Hickman the slayer declared science should study him as a composite of all youth in crime. The alienist declared that Hickman said his life should not be taken until some use had been made of him as a scientific study. He testified Hickman was coherent at all times during examinations in his cell in the County, Jail. Fate to Be Known Soon By the end of this w'eek Hickman may know whether he is to die on the gallows or go to an asylum for the murder of Marion Parker. Using Perry Parker, father of the slain girl, as its last witness In Hickman’s trial, the State was expected to rest its case late tomorrow. Deputy District Attorney Forrest Murray today confirmed a report that Marion’s father w r ould testify. His testimony was expected to be the most damaging evidence against Hickman's insanity defense. SIDETRACK POWER QUIZ Final Action on Walsh Resolution Delayed Further. By Tinted Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Final action on the revised Walsh resolution calling for an investigation of the so-called power combine was delayed still further today. The resolution previously passed on by the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission as referred to the Audit and Control Committee. The reference was made by Senator Walsh of Montana, author of the resolution, at suggestion of Chairman Watson of the Interstate Commerce Committee. FLIER HOPS FOR CUBA JN'avy Pilot to Make Three Stops From Washington to Havana. if. U United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.—Lieut. Arthur Navin, Navy pilot, left the naval air station here at 6:20 a. m. today in a giant two-motored Sikorsky plane on a three-stop flight |to Havana, Cuba. He expected to refuel at Moorhead City, N. C.; Jacksonville and Key West, Fla., reaching Havana About 6:30 p. m. SET GOVERNOR’S RITES A, B. Pothier, Rhode Island Executive, Died Saturday. JSU United Press WOONSOCKET, R. 1., Feb, 6. Funeral services for Rhode Island’s Governor, Adam J. Pothier, 73, who died late Saturday, will be held Wednesday at 10 a. m. at the cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Providence. Larry Semon Bankrupt IB# United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6.—Failure df pictures which he produced have bankrupted Larry Semon, film comedian. He is SBO,OOO in debt, according to a court judgment awarding $293 to a collection agency. Plate lunch, 33c. Noon and evening specialty. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, Basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m.—Adwertisemeat, .

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WATER LACK FORCES 151 TO LEAVE SANATORIUM

Ice Captive Ten Men Afloat in Lake on Huge Floe; Boat Finds No Trace.

By United Press Buffalo, n. y., Feb. 6.—At least ten men today were believed floating on'a field of ice that broke from shore and was swept out on Lake Erie. After bucking th e savage ice floes along the Canadian shore, the tug Edward E., manned by coast guardsmen under command of Capt. Vaul F. Fonier, returned to its base with the report that no trace could be found of the fishermen. Captain Forner left here at daybreak to hunt among the ice packs for the missing men. none of whose identity is known. Grave fears were expressed by the searching party for the safety of the stranded men. Captain Forner said he had cruised among the ice floes for six hours, but could not get close to the main floes, because of imminent danger to all aboard the boat. The men were fishing off Windmill Point, Ont. According to rereports from the Canadian border, the ice chunk separated from the mainland and the men were unable to reach safety. The reports from Canada said there was no question that at least ten men were on the ice. Rescue by boat will be difficult, guardsmen said, because of drifting ice. It was hoped, however, that a strong southwesterly wind would shift the ice to the American shore and that the men could be rescued there. m n EARLY reports from farmers along the Canadian border said that the fishermen apparently were about two or three miles out when a huge field of ice broke and started moving swiftly into the lake. The fishermen did not seem overly excited at their plight, the reports here said. Patrols of coast guardsmen during the night scanned the Canadian and American shores for signs of life from the lost men, but found nothing but ice fields devoid of life. Capt. Paul H. Forner, coast guard commander, said he would appeal to the New York National Guard and to Lieut. Edwin M. Ronne of the Buffalo airport for planes to join in the search. URGES 4 PER CENT BEER Berger's Bill in Congress Also Provides 12 Per Cent Wine. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Representative Victor Berger (Soc.), Wisconsin, introduced a bill today to legalize 4 per cent beer and 12 per cent wine. He declared, “The drinking races, the liberal consumers of wine and beer and ale, always have been the vanguard of human progress. “All the great men in history, from Noah and Julius Caesar and General Grant, were drinking men. “Without wine and beer, threefourths of all poetry and one-half of all art would have been lost to us.” LEGION WILL SEE LINDY Other Famous Aviators to Qivc Exhibitions at San Antonio. By United Press HARLINGEN, Tex., Feb. 6.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh and several other of America’s best known aviators will give flying performances at San Antonio during the National American Legion convention next Oct. 8 to 12, Phil Stapp, director of the national convention, announced here. Stapp said the Mexico City police band has been entered in the $20,000 band contest to be held during the convention.

SEARCH SOUTH OF CITY FOR SLAYER

Automobile squads of police and deputy sheriffs today were searching woods, houses and barns south of the city for Paul Mattrich, 38. of Hanna Ave. and Bluff Rd.. charged with killing Fred Hess, 62, at his home, Troy Ave. and Bluff Rd., at midnight Sunday. Deputy Sheriffs Ragan and Shipp pieced together this story of the shooting from statements of witnesses: Mattricb went to the home of Alex Kahn, 36 E. Pleasant Run Blvd., earlier in the evening and told Mrs. Hess, visiting there, that her husband was on a spree. He said Hess was wrecking furniture, burning clothing and had fired two shots at him with a shotgun w'hen he tried to quiet him. Mrs. Hess said her husband often went on such sprees. Kahn went to the Hess home and disarmed Hess. Later Mattrich went to his own home, got a shotgun and returaed to the Hess house.

SPEED PLANS FORIACKSON TRIAL START Linemen Busy Installing Wires to Flash News Across Nation. 400 MAY HEAR CASE Desks Being Arranged for Many Newspaper Men at Sessions. Final arrangements were being made in Criminal Court today for the trial, starting Wednesday, of Governor Ed Jackson, charged with conspiracy to commit a felony by offering a bribe. From the court room on the second floor of the courthouse, where barely 400 spectators can be crowded, press, telegraph and telephone wires will flash the news of the Governor’s trial to newspapers throughout the nation. Linemen and electricians today installed phones and telegraph facilities for newspapermen and newsgathering associations. Desks will be rearranged in the courtroom Tuesday, to accommodate local and incoming newspapermen. Witness Stand at Right At the right of the bench, occupied during Jackson’s trial by Special Judge Charles M. McCabe of Crawfordsville, is the witness stand. Questioned by attorneys, its occupants will affirm or deny the story, related in the indictment, that Jackson, while secretary of State, carried to forner Governor Warren T. McCray an offer of SIO,OOO and immunity from conviction if he would appeint James E. McDonald as prosecuting attorney, succeeding William P. Evans, McCriy’s son-in-La’.v, who resigned. Court reporters to take down the questions and answers in shorthand will be next to the right. them is the table for correspondents from metropolitan newspapers. Before the bench and to the right, near the jury box, will be the defendants and their attorneys; to the left, the State’s attorneys. Folice Detail on Duty Back of the defendants at another table will be representatives of press associations, while Indianapolis newspapermen sit at a table back of the prosecutors. A police detail will be on hand to insure order and to keep spectators in the rear of the courtroo n back against the wall. An officer will stand at the foot of each aisle. Bailiff Clarence Clegg, whose “Hear Ye! Hear Ye!” will open court at 9:30 a. m. Wednesday, stands at the left of the judge’s bench, as does Clerk William Kaiser. Desiring to use his own law library and office between court sessions, Special Judge McCabe will return to Crawfordsville each evening. For his convenience, court sessions, during the trial, have been set from 9:30 a. m. until noon, and from 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. Will Crowd Corridors The court room and balcony will be emptied at the close of each session. Because of the limited seating capacity, corridors in the proximity of Criminal Court probably will be crowded. Stairs back of the bench lead to the jury room on the floor above. State's attorneys are believed certain to ask for separation for witnesses. Defense is expected to concur in the request, with the probability that witnesses will have to loiter in the corridors. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m.... 31 10 a. m.... 34 7a. m.... 32 11 a. m.... 36 Ba. m.... 32 12 (noon). 38 9 a. m.... 34 1 p. m.... 41

Entering the house. Mattrich pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. As the shell exploded. Mattrich exclaimed: “My God! I didn’t know the gun was loaded. # I was just trying to scare him.” Hess toppled down a stairway to a basement and died before an ambulance arrived. He was struck in the groin and right leg.

GIRL OF MAYFLOWER LINE TO WED NEGRO

Bu United Prrgn Rockville, conn., Feb. 6. A 19-year-old girl, who claims Mayflower ancestry, has announced her intention to marry a Negro dye house employe. The girl. Miss Beatrice Fuller, Saturday filed her intentions with the town clerk to marry Clarence Kellem, whose father was a Negro and whose mother is whit*

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEB. 6,1928

Situation Acute as Wells Fail for Third Time at Sunnyside. Operation of Sunnyside tuberculosis sanatorium at only one-third capacity for at least several weeks appeared certain today, due to acute water shortage. Conference of county commissioners and the boaW of managers of the sanatorium resulted in a decision to seek expert advice from the engineering department of the Indianapolis Water Company. Meanwhile the 300-bed institution is able to serve only ninety patients, due to lack of water. The shortage caused the removal of 151 patients to their homes Sunday. This is the third time patients have been sent away for this cause within a year. Definite action will be held in abeyance pending report of water company engineers. Talk of authorizing expenditure for immediate repairs or the starting of anew well as an emergency measure by the board of commissioners was heard at the meeting. Favor Rush Action Board members and sanatorium officials however, favor calling a meeting of the county council, which alone can make appropriations except in emergencies. This would require ten days. In the meantime, report of the water company engineer will have been received. Mrs. M. F. Ault, member of the board of managers of the sanatorium. was reappointed this morning. Other members attending were Alfred Henry, Dr. David Ross and Irving Lemaux. Dr. Harold S. Hatch, superintendent, also attended. George Montgomery, chairman of the county council, met with commissioners in an informal meeting after the first conference. All who appeared agreed the emergency must be met as speedily as possibly, but delay of several weeks is certain. Situation Is Acute The situation has grown more and more acute since the second well became clogged with sand. A third well is not in operation, leaving the smallest of the three, the first put in operation, the only water-supply. Estimates of cost have not been made. Dr. Hatch set $5,000 as the probable cost of anew, adequate well and a large storage tank to supplement the small one now in operation. Quality of the water being used is such that a filtration plant was installed only recently. FLINT GETC DUFFY Suspended by Judge Baltzell Here. His tefusal to sign a pauper's affidavit and pleas to remain in jail for another 270 days availed Edward Duffy, Muncie, Ind., naught when Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell suspended his S3OO fine and ordered him turned over to Flint, Mich, authorities today. Sheriff F. A. Green of Flint, presented extradition papers and took custody of the prisoner. Duffy, who was fined S3OO on a liquor transportation charge in Federal Court several weeks ago, Is wanted at Flint on charges of breaking and entering a drug store and escaping from the Flint jail several months ago. The jail breaking charge in Michigan carries a five-year maximum sentence. At the time of the Muncie raids and subsequent investigation, Duffy gave Federal dry agents much information, adding he wanted to stay in jail here or go to Federal Prison to “keep away from those vultures at MuncLe.” Among other charges, Duffy declared he had been offered SSOO to assassinate George Dale, Muncie Post-Democrat publisher. BA N ON BOBBED HAIR Order Arouses Storm of Protests Among Naval Officers’ Wives. By United Press BERLIN, Feb. 6.—A command prohibiting bobbed-hair among the wives of naval officers lias just been issued by Vice Admiral Raeder, head of the German naval station In the Baltic Sea. The order has aroused a storm of protest from the officers’ wives and has called forth satirical comments in the German press. Two-Tronscr Suit Parts Bit Times Boerial GARY, Ind., Feb. 6.—Oscar L. Gustafson, city church minister, hopes there will be a mating call soon. While he was at church a burglar stole the coat, vest and one pair of trousers of anew two-trouser suit.

The girl said .she was marrying the Negro for the sake of her own happiness and that her mother, an invalid, had sanctioned the approaching nuptials, although not approving them. “I have loved Mr. Kellem since I met him four months ago and I am confident I am not taking a false step in marrying him,’” she said. '

HAITI IN FETE GARB AS LINDY FLANELANDS 100,000 Persons Welcome Good Will Envoy at Flying Field. SPECIAL STAMPS MADE Order of Merit to Be Given Aviator by President of Republic. By L uited Press PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 6. —Cel. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at the United States Marine flying field here at 1:51 p. m. today—his last intermeediate stopping place on his long, triumphant good will tour toward the Pan-American conference at Havana. He had taken off from Santo Domingo at 11 a. m. on his 160-mile hop. A frenziedly enthusiastic crowd, estimated at 100,000, the most incongruous of his long flight, awaited the American flier. American marines in occupation here mingled with officials and wondering natives from the interior —some of them from districts where the dread secret voodoo magic io not only believed in but practiced. The landing was made at a field named after an American marine-e-Boumefield. Testimony of the admiration In which the boyish aerial ambassador is held was furnished by the announcement that the street along which Lindbergh will be conducted through the heart of the city has been named the Avenue Charles Lindbergh. A special issue of postage stamps bearing Lindbergh’s portrait was to appear following his arrival. Thousands of people had arrived by mid-morning to participate in the national welcome to the American aviator. Not only did the remotest points of Haiti contribute to the crowds that jammed the city, but many people had come from Santo Domingo, at whose capital Lindebrgh had been a guest since Saturday. All streets in the city were decorated in honor of the arrival Lindbergh’s reception was the greatest ever accorded a foreigner. President Bomo will present Lindbergh with the order of merit. Lindbergh is the first white man to be awarded the decoration. FIND 2 IN 'MOTH’ DEATH Chambers and “Eaglebeak” Announce They Will Give Up. CHICAGO. Feb. 6.—Gordon Chambers and Joe (Eaglebeak) Miller. sought for weeks in connection with the "tape murder” of Betty Chambers, declared today they would surrender to Chief Justice William V. Brothers of the Criminal Court. Fear of mistreatment by police had kept them hidden, they indicated. “I am innocent and can prove an alibi,” said Chambers. The murder of Betty followed her return from Cleveland, where she had participated in a $200,000 gem robbery. WOMAN HURT IN CRASH Automobile Driven by Husband In Collision ot Ohio and Oriental. Mrs. Laura E. Moore of 302 N. Randolph St., was painfully injured today when the automoDile driven by her husband, Frank C. Moore, collided with a car driven by Paul R. Shirley, 28, of 1935 E. Fifty-Sec-ond St., at Ohio and Oriental Sts. She was hurled to the street. CALL SEWAGE PARLEY State Health Officials to Attend E. Chicago Meeting. Dr. William F. King. State board of health secretary, announced today that with Louis Finch, sanitary engineer, he would attend the conference of city officials and engineers of tlje Calumet district at E. Chicago Wednesday. Imported methods for disposal of wastes from Calumet cities and industrial plants will be considered. Destitute Miners Aided By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 6. Bicknell ana Littles, two mining towns hard hit by poverty, are being aided by Evansville organizations. A truck load of food was sent to Bicknell to stave off threatened starvation.

The girl's mother, Mrs. Helen Taylor, said she ‘‘signed the application for a marriage license because I thought it in the best interests of Beatrice's happiness. However, I do not approve the marriage.” It was said the marriage would be performed tomorrow by the Rev. George S. Brooks of the Union Congregational Church*

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Miss Marjorie Fleury MLss Marjorie Fleury, 18, Butler University sophomore. 3933 Park Ave., died at St. Vincent's hospital today from injuries incurred in an automobile collision Sunday with a car driven by Mrs. Frank Owens, 3749 Carrollton Ave., at Forty-Ninth St. and Broadway. CRASH STORY ON PAGE THREE,

ENGLISH PRIZES TO PRINCE AND SHEAD

Two Reporters Get SI,OOO and SSOO Rewards for Outstanding Work. Selected for outstanding newspaper reportorial work in 1927, Frank J. Prince, Spink Hotel, and Walter J. Shead, 319 N. Pennsylvania St., respectively were awarded the English prizes of SI,OOO and SSOO today. Prince received the first award “for the splendid, keen meritorious work he has rendered Indiana, which has enabled the proper agencies to clarify the political situation, accomplished by his articles in the daily press exposing political corruption,” said the judges’ announcement. “His work was conscientious,” the announcement continued, “consistent and praiseworthy and actuated by the highest motives, as evidenced by letters fi’om wellknown newspapermen in Chicago, New York, also prominent men in public life, whose letters are in the possession of this committee.” Expose Diploma Mill ' The SSOO award to Shead, the committee announced, was in recognition of his “clever and unusual effo •ts” by which “authorities, both Sta and Federal, were able foreve’ ’o close the headquarters of at. i ’diploma mill’ which had flooded this State and Nation with illegal and unfitted pseudo-physi-cians; which act has had the commendation of the Indiana State Medical Association.” Shead’s work led to the arrest of Dr. Otis J. Briggs, operator of a “College of Drugless Physicians” here, who awaits trial on State and Federal charges. The awards were made by a committee appointed by Mrs. William E. English, widow of Captain English. in compliance with a plan announced a short time ago. Qri the committee were Meredith Nicholson. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks and Frank B. Ross. An advisory committee, composed of Warren C. Fairbanks, Boyd Gurley and Charles Coffin, concurred in the award. Advance Award Dates Similar awards will be made during the next four years by virtue of Mrs. English’s offer. The awards for 1927 were to have been adjudged June 1, but were ad-

COUNCIL PROBE OF POLICE IS HINTED

Introduction of a resolution to “investigate the police department and board of safety” at city council meeting tonight is likely, Councilman Boytnon J. Moore, Republican, declared today. Republican councilmen have been on the war path against the board of safety since police guards were stationed around Mayor L. Ert Slotk’s office a week ago when the council sought to oust Slack. Moore said he had not decided whether he would sponsor the investigation resolution. He said several south side leaders asked him to start an “investigation of the police department” as a result of the war on gamblers. ..,

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vanced to today, because, in the words of the judges, “two men have rendered such conspicuous service as to make further inquiry by the committee unnecessary.” "The advance date of the announcement is expected to “give the 1928 contenders an incentive,” the judges explained. GETGITY Tn VENTORY Slack Cabinet Orders Appraisal of Property. Mayor L. Ert Slack today planned to ask the Indianapolis Real Estate Board to appraise all city property, to aid in arriving at a conclusion as to the city’s assets. No appraisal of city property has been made in recent years, it Is sai l. The move was ordered by the mayor’s cabinet to aid in “seeing what the city is worth.” Slack announced cabinet meetings will be held at 4 p. m. the first Wednesday each month. Joel A. Baker, purchasing agent, was named secretary of the cabinet. Oren S. Hack, works board president, moved that each department head make a survey of their departments’ personnel, to determine “efficiency and comparative fitness of employes.” Baker said department heads reported less than fifty changes in personnel in city offices since Nov. 8 when Slack was elected. He said there are 3,200 employes. Most of Slack's appointees are Democrats.

“I am opposed to police arresting persons for vagrancy because they are found in a poolroom,” Moore said. “Indianapolis is paying police to protect taxpayers and not to protect a few individuals. I'm a South Side representative and guess I'll have to do whatever the South Side business men want,” Moore said. Rumors that some councilmen are leading a move to “impeach the safety board” have been current at 'city hall for several days. Further action to unseat Slack was considered unlikely. Council President Otis E. Bartholomew said he knew of nothing out of the ordinary to come before council.

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SENATE SEEKS TO SPEED UP OIL KING CASE Ready for Stewart Hearing on Habeas Corpus Writ, Set for Tuesday. PHILLIPS IS WITNESS Sinclair Aid Denies He Has Knowledge of Bonds; Subpoena Taber. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Possibility of a delay In the habeas corpus hearing of Robert W. Stewart, oil magnate, set for Tuesday, faded today when George W. Wickersham, chosen to represent the Senate, announced lie will be ready to proceed at that time. Wickersham, president of the American Bar Association and At-torney-General in the Taft cabinet, said he will not seek a delay to study the case, arising from Stewart declining to give all details wanted by the Teapot Dome investigators concerning the $3,000,000 Continental oil deal of 1921. Stewart was arrested and ordered before the bar of the Senate for contempt. Speedy .action on the problem of whether the Senate can send the oil king to jail is sought. H. L. Phillips, president of the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company, called today by the probers, denied knowledge of the secret contracts or of disposal of the profits in the Continental deal. Serve Taber's Subpoena The committee has learned from this fund that Harry Sinclair gave former Secretary Albert Fall $233,000 after Fall leased him the naval oil reserves and that James E. O’Neil, another oil man, became conscious stricken and turned back SBOO,OOO of the fund to his former company, the Prairie Oil and Gas Company. Following Phillip's testimony thr committee went into executive session before adjournment until 10 a. in. Tuesday. After the meeting it was announced that service of a subpoena lias been obtained on George Taber Jr., former president of the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company. Taber’s name was signed to one of the secret 1921 contracts that enabled the oil magnates to divert hidden profits in the name of the Continental Trading Company of Canada. Didn’t See Contracts Phillips said he did not recollect seeing one of the contracts the day it was ratified by his company board. His was the contract Stewart and Sinclair guaranteed for the Continental to buy oil 25 cents a barrel cheaper than they were to buy it from the Continental. Phillips also told how the halfexpired Continental contract, apparently worth $5,000,000, had been repurchased for $400,000 by the Sinclair and Stewart companies. He said he met H. S. Osier, nominal head of the Continental, and now missing, hi New York at the instance of a Mr. Crowley of the Sinclair Consolidated. Osier brought him the contract with the $400,000 figure already arranged. he added, “All I did was to execute the contract—l didn't ask him about the figure,” Phillips said. Senator Walsh of Montana last night wrote Secretary of Treasury Mellon asking whether income taxes could be collected from those who reaped profits of the Continental Company. No taxes ever have been paid, it was said. HIN T s~alTr cTm~ar k~ti m e Hyland Thinks Smith Could MakBetter Race in 1932. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Feb. 6.—Jolin F. Hylan, former mayor of New York, said here that Governor A1 Smith of New York may not enter the coming presidential race despite “Smith for President” agitation. Hylan said he believed Smith could make a stronger race four years hence. “Many Democratic leaders believe Smith would almost certainly be elected in 1932,” Hylan said. “I believe Smith now is under considerable pressure to withdraw from this race.”

Radio Baby Bu Times Soerlnl EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 6.--Naming the baby so that its initials will be the same as the letters of Its parents’ favorite radio station is an innovation here. William George Nunn, few days old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Nunn, both of whom are blind, is the city's first radio station baby. His sight is faultless, the attending physician says. When young William cries, and Father William worries, Mrs. Nunn says: “Ah, stand by, BilL It’s Station WON on again.”