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LINK PICKUP DRIVER IN GIRL DEATHPUZZLE Alice Leonard, 15, Missing j Two Months, Thought Murdered. [YELLOW CAR SOUGHT |.ast Seen Going for Ride; j Mysterious Phone Call p Received by Family. *.</ United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio. April 3.—A hiotorist, of extremely polite dcJneanor, who took pretty little Alice Leonard, 15, for a ride on Jan. 28, .was sought for questioning today in connection with the girl's death. Alice was never seen after she jsntered the yellow roadster the motorist was driving. Monday her body was found hidden in some tall grass near a deserted play-lot. Part Df her clothing was missing and 'there was a cut on her ankle. ii Phone Call Received 4 Authorities were unable to determine whether she had been murdered. School girl friends said that Alice left the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Leonard, in Mayfield on Jan. 28, to attend a school fcasketball game. Just before the game was to start she met a man driving a “yellow roadster” they Said. The couple chatted a few moments and then the girl got into the motor car. When she did not attend the basketball game and also failed to return home her parents became Worried. The advised police. Descriptions were broadcast throughput the district. Five days after Alice’s disappear- ' lance the family received a telephone call from Akron, Ohio, saying Alice would be home the following day and not to worry. Some of their fears subsided but on the following day the girl did not appear. Believe Girl Murdered Week after week the family made an effort to locate Alice but these were to no avail. She had not been seen any place in this district. Monday some boys playing on the vacant lot found the girl’s body. Detectives said they believed the gtal had been murdered although dn early examination failed to reveal any wounds that might have caused death. Some believed a hit-and-run driver might have struck her, then dragged her body into the tall grass. An autopsy will be performed immediately in an attempt to learn the manner of death. RADIO TAXIS NOW ARE * POPULAR IN CAPITAL Innovation Soothes Nerves in Traffic Jams. Bn Sciatic Service WASHINGTON, April 3. The radio taxi has made its appeal ance in the District of Columbia. A receiver is installed beside the chauffeur just under the taximeter and the roof acts as an aerial antenna. Residents of Washington riding downtown to dinner may listen all the way to jazz music from a famous New York orchestra, although the space available for dancing is even more restricted than in the most popular restaurants. Whenever the automobile is caught m a traffic jam the temper of the belated patrons may be reduced below the boiling point by the soothing strains of church organs or grand opera. No extra charge is made for turn--1 ing on the music, or for turning it off wh£n not desired. But the taxis equipped with radio arc especially ih demand. LcOMET IS DISCOVERED m BY FRENCH SCIENTIST ■Second of Year Located on St. Patrick’s Day. ■Bn Science Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 3. ■The year's second comet arrived in ■time to be discovered on St. PatBrick’s Day, though the discovery was ■made in France, and not Ireland, ■according to a belated report zeachftng the Harvard College Observa■tory here. The first comet of the ■rear was picked up by a German as- ,! ronomer in February on WashingBton’s birthday. ■ The new comet, which was of the ■eleventh magnitude at the time of 'M Jscovery, was found by M. GiacoH)ini, of the Paris Observatory, and ■was in the constellation of Orion, Snow visible in the western sky in the ■early evening. It was then moving ■rapidly to the south. H Giacobini is known for his come■f ary discoveries, as he found another Bone in 1907. VIUPINOS WILL DEBATE Bp’earn of Four Will Appear at I. U. April 21. Special <%aa;OOMINGTON, Ind., April 3. S s9 ersi ty of the Philippines’ dewill appear at Indiana UniApril 21, in the course of an Tpryjjncan tour which includes visits '‘ojgie Universities of Southern CalMinnesota. Michigan, Wisand Harvard. question is “Resolved, That Philippines should be granted Septembers ofthe team are Jacinto fWv?.° r 'i a ' Teodoro Evangellista, DcoPuyat and Pedro Camus.

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G.O. P. TO NAME PARLEY LEADER Committee Meets Today to Choose Chairman. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 3. Selection of a temporary chairman for the Republican national convention here in June probably will be made today by the committee on | arrangements. The committee met Monday and there was a session Monday night, but no agreement could be reached. It was reported that the choice of William M. Butler, national chairman, would be the first discussed today. A number of Senators were included among the possibilities. Among them were Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, Senator Frederick Gilette of Massachusetts, Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Senator Charles S. Deneeen of Illinois, and former Senator Irvine Lenroot of Wisconsin. Several details for the convention were settled Monday. Lee Nixon was named sergeant-at-arms for the convention. The national committee decided on headqaurters offices in the Security Bldg., in the downtown district, and also decided on the problem of housing Negro delegates. They will reside in the Negro Y. M. C. A. and Street Hotel. Also, it was said the committee would enter new hotel contracts which called for abolition of the 25 per cent deposit. This would mean a number of deposits would be returned. DOUBLE FUNERAL RITES Burial Wednesday for Suicide Sisters at Logansport. By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., April 3. Double funeral services will be held at the Indian Creek Church near Grascreek Wednesday for Esta Hoover, 22, and Seena Hoover, 18, sisters drowned in a suicide pact in Eel river here last week. The downfall of the younger girl was the motive for the tragedy, her condition having been revealed by an autopsy. John Eskew, 25, who was to have married the older girl Sunday, and his brother, Edgar, 21, taken into custody at the time the bodies were recovered, have been released. gill Tom opens office Campaign Headquarters In Charge of Ralph Kane. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliofci, candidate for Republican nomination for United States Senator, has opened headquarters in Rooms 825 and 861, the Clay pool. State Manager Ralph Kane is in charge with Fred Cummings as assistant. Gilliom speaks tonight before the Irvington Republican Club..

BY \V. F. SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1928, United Press) CHICAGO, April 3.—Six hundred thousand women voters with millions of friends will make sure of how candidates stand on law observance before he gets these votes in the approaching elections, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the National W. C. T. U., said today. She said her organization had under way an educational campaign to impress political leaders with the sincerity and seriousness of the women’s demands for dry.

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she started out. What conductor would refuse such a charming miss? Helen’s mother, Mrs. George Holmes, didn’t have such an enjoyable time while this excursion was going on. but Helert is back nome today and is perfectly willing to explain the full details of her trip. Sunday Helen was 5. She was playing with Esther Mary Smith, 6, of 1114 Olney St.. Monday, when she decided to celebrate a bit by journeying to visit her aunt, Mrs. Delby Monroe, 1121 N. New Jersey St. About 11 a. m. Esther bundled her little guest into her < Esther’s) little red coat and hat that she wears to the first grade of School 54. Helen sallied forth to the corner and stopped an E. Tenth St. car, bound for the business district. She told the conductor she was going on a visit and rode free. Unconcernedly, though watched by her anxious and smiling mother, she picked up her own coat today and showed how she had worn her girl friend’s coat. She wore it tight around her body—just like an up-to-date flapper. She left the street car at North and East Sts., the conductor told the parents. She evidently walked two blocks, for she rode north to the 2000 block in New Jersey St., on a car she had hailed at Alabama and North Sts. A woman attempted to help her find “Aunt Monroe’s,” and when she failed, called police. Except for the fright from having a police escort, Miss Holmes, a bit mussed from traveling, walked serenely into her mother’s arms a little later. “Hadda good time,” she said. UNIVERSITY POLL GIVES HOOVER BIG PLURALITY Watson Candidacy Ignored; A1 Smith Leads Democrats. Butler University students In giving Herbert Hoover a plurality for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw vote last week did as practically every American college included in a national poll announced today by the magazine “The Independent.” Totals from thirty-nine universities gave Hoover 22,086; Dawes, 3,223; Lowden, 2,194; Curtis, 275 and the now deceased Willis 443. James E. Watson, Indiana’s “favorite son” was not included in the poll, only those seriously considered as presidential possibilities being voted on. N A1 Smith led the Democratic poll, the result being; Smith, 13,534; Reed, 2,208; Ritchie, 1,370; Walsh, 1,058, and Donahey, 488. Richmond Man Kills Self Ti n Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 3. Worrying over money matters and idleness caused the suicide by poison of Clarence L. Mote, 60, in the basement of his home here. Kills Self After Poker Quarrel Bn l nited Press NEW YORK, April 2. John Taber drew a straight in a 10-cent poker game. His wife got a full house. Ten minutes later Taber leaped out of the window and was killed, after they quarreled over the hand.

600,000 W.C.T.U. WOMEN TO MAKE CERTAIN THEY VOTE FOR DRYS

planks and candidates who are “the undoubted friends of prohibition.” Prohibition, she said, would be a real issue in the next election. “The W. C. T. U. is nonpartisan. The Democratic women within its ranks are working for prohibition in their party while the Republican women are doing the same thing with their own affiliations,” said Mrs. Boole. Mrs. Boole said that the W. C. T. U. had held eleven sectional campaign conferences this year at which every State was represented, and that as a result she believed organization had suc-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1928

MELLON ASKS NEW SLASH IN TAXMEASURE Cut of $201,115,000 Urged in Senate: Says House Bill High. INDORSES AUTO REVENUE Tells Committee Flood Relief Must Be Deducted From Reductions. /V/ I iiitril Prcxn WASHINGTON. April 3.—Secretary of Treasury Mellon recommended to the Senate Finance Committee teday a total maximum tax reduction of $201,115,000, or $23,885,003 below his previous estimate. II the Jonos-Rcid Hood bill passes and is signed, appropriations for flood relief next year must be deducted from the tax cut ( making the total lax reduction about slßl,115,000. he told the committee. Mellon renewed his pica for retention intact of the automobile tax and for repeal of the estate tax, which the Horse overrode last December in passing its 5283.C00.003 tax reduction bill now before the Senate committee. Surplus for 1928 Cut He said the 1928 estimated treasury surplus had been cut, $33,000,QOO by unanticipated expenditures, principally the $50.000 000 alien property bi.V and that the 1929 estimated surplus had shrunk $40,000.000 to about $212,000,000 because of increased appropriations for the War and Navy Departments, United States Veterans’ Bureau, postal deficiency and an enlarged building program. In addition, total revenue receipts for 1928 fell $6,000,000 below estimates, being actually $4,069,000,000, he said. “It is noteworthy,” he stated, “that in view of ail the criticism the March collections completely confirm the accuracy of the treasury’s estimate of current income tax collections for both 1928 and 1929.” Mellon included in his recommendations to the committee a tax revision and reduction program as follows; Reduction Recommendations Reduction of general corporation income tax rate from 13 to 12 per cent. This will mean a revenue loss estimated at $123,000,000. Revision of rates on individual incomes of from $14,000 to $75,000. Revenue loss about $50,000,000. Repeal of Federal estate tax. Estimated revenue loss, $7,000,000. Exemption from tax of income derived from American bankers’ acceptances held by foreign central banks of issue. Revenue loss negligible. Increase from $2,000 to $3,000 in exemption for corpo -a lions having incomes less than $25,000. Revenue loss. '12,000.000. Increase from 75 cents to $1 in exemption for admissions tax. Revenue loss, $8,000,000. Says House Plan 111-Balanced If flood control forces a lopping off of $20,000,000 from this tax reduction program, Mellon advocated retaining the present exemption on small corporations and the piesent taxes on admissions, cereal beverages, bankers’ acceptance and wines. Mellon said the Senate could not pass the House measure cutting! auto taxes without producing an ill-balanced tax system. He said the auto tax was an indirect levy that yielded substantial revenue without imposing particular hardship. He also disapproved of the House proposal for a graduated tax on corporations. A corporation's income does not measure its ability to pay taxes unless the factor of invested capital is considered, he said. Adoption of a graduated corporation tax would inevitably lead back to the excess profits tax, he averted . In estimating the income for next year, Mellon said. “There is nothing to indicate that business conditions will differ materially during the balance of the calendar year from those which have prevailed during the past twenty-four months.” The secretary said the treasury was “seriously considering” settlement out of court of all back tax cases” whenever the odds on a question of law are all against the Government.” He said that under the present method of compelling litigation the back-tax collection machinery was threatened with complete breakdown, since 60 per cent of all backtax cases were appealed, “with the Government winning only 41 per cent of appealed cases. Stork Blanks Death Bn Times Special DUNKIRK, Ind., April 3.—The stork is monarch here. During March there were three births and not one death.

ceeded in its objective to focus attention upon law observancy. n n tt “ r T'HE next step,” she continued, “is a pre-convention educational campaign and a flood of pamphlets is leaving the presses. Our publishing house is sending out a daily grist of educational matter and the effectiveness is shown by the fact that already several W. C. T. U. women have been appointed or elected dele • gates to nominating conventions. “The W. C. T. U. does not undertake a political campaign. It educates. It helps get out the dry

Nine Best Spellers Are Chosen to Represent County in State Contest

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Nine winners were selected Friday from Marion County grade schools in the Indiana Spelling Bee under the direction of the Indianapolis Times. The students were from eight zones in Indianapolis and one zone outside the city in Marion County. Winners are; Charles Feibleman. 12. 0f.3262 Ruckle St., 8A grade of School '6O in zone one. Robert McTurnan, 12, of 624 E. Twelfth St.. 8B grade of school No. 10 in zone two. Max Glaze, 12, of 323 Minkner St.,

DISPUTE LIGHT RATE •Active Room’ Request From Huntington Up. With a request for approval of an optional “active room” rate schedule for Huntington before it, the public service commission is divided on a question which has agitated utility circles for months, observers said today. A group of Huntington citizens have forwarded to Chairman Frank T. Singleton a request that the optional room rate schedule be approved for Huntington. A temporary optional active room rate schedule has been in effect in Huntington for sometime. Many Huntington citizens bitterly opposed it when it was first proposed and several hearings have been held. Request to put such a schedule into effect at Martinsville also is pending before the commission. Under the active room rate schedule the householders minimum light bill is determined by the number of rooms wired for electricity in his house.

vote and it has a special department for the first voters who will number ten million since the last presidential election. It distributes pamphlets quoting candidates or giving their record on prohibition matters.” Mrs. Boole, continuing the thought of educating voters, said her organization was endeavoring to get more of the voting public to the polls to exercise their suffrage rights. “The W. C. T. U. worked long and arduously for prohibition as the best methods of dealing with the liquor traffic,” she said.’ “It

7B grade of school No. 16 in zone 1 three. Helen Kass. 12. of 519'‘i Court St., 8A grade of school No. 5 in zone foui’. Rosa Fence, 12, of 1412 Prospect St,., 8A grade of school No. 8 in zone five. Minnie Andrews, 13, of 1149 Madeira St.. 8B grade of school No. 79 in zone six. William Thompson, 12, of 1136 N. Temple St., 7A grade of schdol No. 33 in zone seven.

REVEAL SHUMAKER TRIED TO AID KLAN

Attempt of Secretary E. S. Shumaker of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League to link Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom with the Ku-Klux Klan and D. C. Stephenson in the primaries of 1924 proved a boomerang today, when Gilliom produced a letter from Mayor L. A. Handley of Richmond, in which a Shumaker letter to Handley is quoted, showing that Shumaker in 1924, sought to keep the Democrats from attacking the Klan. Shumaker sought to besmirch Gilliom in a letter to the Rev. William Brandon of South Bend, which was read before a recent meeting of the South Bend Ministerial Association. In it Shumaker said that he was “informed” Gilliom’s nomination came through Stephenson. Interviewed here the dry doctor declared: “I don’t really know that Stephenson supported Gilliom, but I have heard that such was the case and I believe it.” Here is w'here Shumatcer stood

is concerned because so few people accept the responsibilities for citizenship and that even in national elections only 55 per cent of the eligible voters cast ballots. “In order to get out the whole vote there must bo an issue in which the people are interested. Prohibition is such an issue. It is national in its scope and touches the lives of everyone.” tt tt n JN addition to the educational campaign being conducted by pamphlets, Mrs. Boole said her organization had several noted speakers and experts on civic and

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Francis Nipp. 13, of 27 S. Arlington Ave., 8A grade of school No. 57 in zone eight. Donald Roberson, 11, of rural route No. 1 box 740, 7A grade of school No. 8, Wayne Township. The nine winners will represent the public schools of Marion County in the State Bee May 4 at Caleb Mills Hall. The winner of the State contest will be sent to Washington. D. C., May 22, by the Indianapolis Times to compete in the national spelling bee.

on the Klan in 1924, according to the 'Handley letter; “I fear very much that the coming Democratic State convention will adopt a plank condemning the KuKlux Klan and I wish Brother Handley, that you would use your influence to prevent this, because if such a plank is adopted the campaign would develop into a religious war, and if it should you know you and I are Protestants.” “Brother Handley” is dry, but not in sympathy with the Klan, Gilliom declared, and so when asked he made the contents of the Shumaker letter public. The attorney general today produced one of the so-called “Stephenson slates,” used in the 1924 convention, and pointed out that Attorney Wilbur Ryman of Muncie had been indorsed and not himself. He called attention to the fact that newspapers of that date used headlines showing that he won, despite the fact he had neither the indorsement of Dragon Stephenson or the Bossart branch of the Ku-Klux Klan.

political matters who would be heard before election time. “There is a great demand for these women speakers,” she said. “Various clubs have asked them to appear before their meetings and many of them will do so between now and election time. “The W. C. T. U. is organized in every State and will take an active part in the educational work in every State campaign. If serious attempts are made to tear down State prohibition or enforcement laws, the W. C. T. U. will take the lead in combatting such efforts.”

HARDING TOLD OF SECRET OIL DEAL SCHEME Three Members of Cabinet Also Warned, Teapot Committee Hears. LENROOT IS ON STAND Denies He Advised Former Interior Secretary to Conceal SIOO,OOO. L\y l nited Press • WASHINGTON, April 3.—The late President Harding and three ol his Cabinet officers, including Secretary Hoover, had warning in April, 1922, that there was secrecy with Secretary of Interior Fall’s lease of the Teapot Dome naval reserve to Harry Sinclair, according to testimony before the Senate Teapot, Dome Committee today. Birch Helms, former Texas oil man, testified he protested to Harding, Hoover, former Attorney General Daugherty and the late Secretary of War Weeks personally and by telegram against the secrecy surrounding the lease. He said lie told the officials that his Texas and Pacific Coal and Oil Company had wanted to bid on Teapot Dome, but that Fall misled him. Hoover is the only one who took any action lor him, Helms said. Hoover wrote Fall about the matter and received a reply from Fall’s assistant, E. C. Finney, that Helms was mistaken about the matter. "I might say I think Hoover did all lie could about the matter,” Helms declared. Lenroot Is Witness Weeks was the only one of the others who replied to his telegram. Helms said, and Weeks pleaded he did not wish to enter the controversy. Helm's testimony preceded that of Former Senator Irvin L. Len- ; root i Rep.) Wisconsin, who denied that lie had counselled Fall to decide the Teapot Dome investigating committee as to the source of $! 00.000 Fall received from E. L. Dohcny, oil man. •Defense attorneys for Sinclair proposed today to seek a five-day delay in this trial on a charge of conspiracy ’to defraud the Government. Meantime, the attorneys awaited copies of a deposition by Forn.ef Secretary of Interior Fall, co-de-fendant with Sinclair, in which Fall is reported to have said a Senator, a former Senator and a former Cabinet officer now in Europe advised him to tell a false story of the source of the SIOO,OOO loan from E. L. Doheny, lessee of the Elk Hills Naval Reserve. Former Senator Lenroot and Senator Smoot, believed to have been the men to whom Fall referred in statements today, denied having given Fall such advice. On the contrary, they said they had advised him to tell the exact truth. Want to See Fall Lenroot, in the hearing today, told how he and Senator Smoot went to see Fall, and said Fall misinformed them. He told them, Lenroot said, that he received SIOO,OOO from Edward B. McLean. Washington publisher, instead of Doheny, lessee of the Elk Hills naval reserve. Lenroot revealed that former Postmaster General Hays came to see him at home here some time later to ascertain what Lenroot, as chairman of the Teapot Committee, was attempting to learn from Fall. Hays agreed with him, Lenroot said, that it was Fall’s duty to appear before the committee and tell where he got the money. Helms gave virtually the same evidence as his testimony today at the recent Fall trial here. Lenroot denied statements based on press reports of Fall’s deposition read to the committee. “Some time in November, 1923, a Mr. Magee (Carl Magee, former Albuquerque, N. M„ editor), testified before the committee that Fall had bought the Hands ranch in New Mexico,” Lenroot testified. “We also had testimony that Fall was supposed to be financially embarrassed. Tells of Cash Purchase “I suggested to Senator Smoot that he wire Fall, and Fall replied he would send his son-in-law, Mr. Chase, to explain the matter to the commit te. “I told Senator Smoot I thought we ought to have Fall himself, and Smoot so wired Fall. “The next I knew about it Fall wired me (I had by thal> time become chairman of the committee) from Atlantic City, saying he was ill and could not appear. “The next thing was when Smoot came to see me and said Fall was ill at Wavdman Park Hotel here. I went with him to see Fall who was in a dressing gown and apparently sick. “He asked me what were the suspiicous cirmustances In his ranch purchase. I told him one point of the evidence was that he had paid SIO,OOO in cash for a part of the ranch property whereas in ordinary circumstances the payment would have been made by check. “He said he not only had SIO,OOO in cash then, but he had SIOO,OOO in cash. He said he made the cash payment because the nearest bank to his Three Rivers’ home was twenty miles away. “He then said the man from whom he received the many was Edward B. McLean. Hays Won’t Comment Bit United Press PARIS, April 3.—Will Hays, in Paris in connection with the French laws governing thQ showing of American-made motion pictures, refuses to discuss the Teapot Dome oil case *>w,'