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HAPPY HOMES, HIGH PAY AT | FORD’S MINE Coal Workers Earn $748 a Day; Contentment •vj* Prevails. SYSTEM SHOWS PROFIT 'Living Conditions Cheap; \ t Houses Rent Low as I $12.50 Per Month. t ' How is Henry Ford able to operate "his coal mine profitably at a wage eaual to $7.50 a day, the scale that other mine owners abrogated when they broke the Jacksonville agreement and thereby brought about the coal strike? The Times and NEA Service sent Bruce Catton to Ford's model mine town to find out. Here is his story. ,j BY BRUCE CATTON ■ 1* NEA Service Writer I TWIN BRANCH. W. Va.. April 5. *~Here in the heart of the West Virginia soft coal field, which the the country often looks on ,as the abiding place of strife, poverty and misery, there is a coal mining town— Where miners are averaging between seven and eight dollars a day for eight hours work. Where their trim, neatly-painted homes make up as pleasant a village as you would care to visit. Where contentment is the prevailing note—among workers, wives and children. Where cleanliness has replaced She traditional squalor of the mining town. Where an armed guard is never ’*een. Town Is Clean The town and the mine which ,|has called it into being, arc owned pnd. operated by Henry Ford. Elsewhere miners may be hungiy and jdle, but here they are happy and at work. Twin Branch, which is the Ford town, is tucked away in the mountains in the center of McDowell County, richest of all of West Virginia's bituminous coal fields. It lies in a hairpin bend of Tug River, surrounded on all sides by high, flreavily-wooded peaks. / Entering the town, the first thing 5/ou notice is its cleanliness. Senator Gooding of Idaho, chairman of the Senate’s coal strike investigating committee, has called the coal town a blotch on American civilzation. But the dirt, refuse heaps, unpainted shacks and slovenly desolation that provoked his remark are not seen here. Wages High Wages in the soft coal field are based, in most instances, on ton production. At Twin Branch an average experienced loader draws 93 cents a 1 ton and loac?.; eight tons in his 1 eight-hour day. His pay, accordingly, ranges around $7.50 a day. The ton rate elsewhere in the coal field ranges from a minimum of 30 cents up to a customary maximum of 45 cents. Inside day labor—the lowest grade—at the Ford camp is paid from 80 cents to $1.25 an hour. Living conditions here are as cheap as the wages are high. The houses rent for $2.50 per room per month. A married man can get a i five-room house, therefore, for $12.50 a month. Not only is this I rate below the coal field average; ! the houses are distinctly above the average. Miners Contented Mine operators in this section are j nclined to sniff derisively at Ford's i nine. “Sure, he pays seven or eight dollars a day." they tell you in Welch. ‘But his mine has only been operating two and three days a week lately." I repeated this remark to a miner In Twin Branch. The miner stopped raking the topsoil over his new latch of lawn to answer: “Yes—but when we only work two days a week we make as much money as most other miners do when they work full time. And when we work four, five or six days a week—there’s nothing can touch It.” Mine Makes Money And Superintendent Homan adds; “We’re starting full-time operadon next week.” The men in Welch also tell you that Ford is not making money; that his mine is being run at a loss so that he can get fuel for his factories in Detroit. An official at Twin Branch only grinned when I passed that along to him. “Os course, you’d have to get your exact figures from Detroit,” he said. ’But I’ll say this. Henry Ford has 3, whole lot of money. And he didn’t get any of it by running any branch of his business at a loss.”

■insanity plea planned las blackmail defense ■Counsel for Frankfort Woman to Cite Auto Accident Injury. United Press ■ FRANKFORT, Ind., April s—AtHtorneys for Mrs. Faye Brimberry. Hon trial here on blackmail charges, ■today announced they would follow ■withdrawal of a not guilty plea with Hi defense of “intermittent traumatic ■insanity.” ■ The 23-year-old housewife is alHeged to have written six “blackmail" ■letters to prominent Frankfort busHness men, demanding money under ■threat of death. ■ The attorneys said today they ■tvouuld base their defense on an ■automobile accident in 1925 in ■which Mi's. Brimberry was said to ■have sustained head injuries. ||3 Doctor Robbed of Sl9O ■Du Times Special [s| EVANSVILLE, Ind., April s.—Dr. M. McCool found four robbers ■instead of a patient when he called ■at an address given him by teleHphone. He was robbed of SIOO.

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Faith in His Country, in Youth, and in Moderation Was Depew's Creed

T'.n United Press XTEW YORK, April s—Chauncey Depew, who died this morning at the age of 94, believed in youth, in moderation, in happiness and in his country —and with this creed for life he expected to live to be 100 years old. “If I get past a hundred. I'll leave the rest to Providence,” he once said. Annually he gave to the public, on April 23, his birthday, his beliefs on life. He would discuss anything. Os modifying the prohibition law he once said: “It doesn't interest me. I don’t drink myself any more. I had to give up champagne because it disagreed with me, I love champagne, too. I think that the prohibition law goes a little too far.” When he was about to celebrate his 92nd birthday, he said. “I think my age is due to the fact that I have been on good terms with humankind. I have made strenuous efforts to be calm, to be tranquil. I have cultivated people all my life because I liked them.” Year after year he watched

SECRECY VEILS U. S. QUIZ OF BOMBINGS IN CHICAGO

Special Detail of Agents and Federal Grand Jury on Job. BY C. C. NICOLET United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April s—Chicago speculated today upon the outcome of the Federal government's investigation into the bombings, assassinations and shootings which have marked the pre-primary campaign in this city and county. The government's investigation was being made through the Federal grand jury and a detail of special intelligent agents. Utmost secrecy veiled every move of the government authorities. It was known that Assistant United States District Attorney George E. O. Johnson appeared before the grand jury, and that George Golding, leader of the special squad of prohibition agents detailed here from Washington, was scheduled to testify. Golding's squad raided a saloon last week and during the raid William Beatty, Municipal Court bailiff and Republican ward leader, was wounded. Myron Cassey, dry agent, who shot Cassey, was named in a warrant charging assault with intent to commit murder, and the subsequent dispute between city and Federal authorises for the right to try Cassey has continued for several days. Hope lo Solve Bombings There was hope of solution of the bombings of the homes of United •State Senator Charles S. Deneen and Judge Johh A. Swanson, in the Govex-nment’s questioning of Lorenzo Juliano, gangster and alcohol runner. Juliano was arrested three days ago by Agent Patrick Roche, who announced the arrest would lead to solution of the bombings. Juliano also was alleged to have information concerning the assassination of “Diamond Joe” Esposito, wealthy Italian political leader and a candidate for ward alderman on the Deneen-Swanson ticket, opposed to the administration faction of Mayor William Hale Thompson and State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe. Crowe Is Assailed The Chicago crime commission, in a notice addressed to “voters of Cook County,” today urged defeat of State’s Attorney Crowe. “The Chicago crime commission,” the notice said, “believing that State’s Attorney Crowe is inefficient and unworthy of his great responsibility to maintain law and order in Cook County, and that his alliances are such as to destroy public confidence in his integrity, recomments to the citizens that he be defeated for renomination.” HONOR PHONE VETERAN Joe Harrison Gfets Emblem for 25 Year Service. The man who installed the first telephone in the general office buiding, Indiana Bell Telephone Company, New York and Meridian Sts., was honored Wednesday with a twenty-five year service emblem. Joe Harrison, 1320 Bradbury St., is the veteran. The presentation was made by J. W. Hannon, general superintendent. Harrison started his telephone career with the old Central Union Telephone Company in April, 1903. He is a line foreman in Plant Maintenance and has seen the number of telephones in Indianapolis grow from about 4,000 to the present figure of 82,000.

BUTLER CO-EDS PAY AND PAY, THEY SAY—BUT FOR CLOTHES, NOT ‘DUTCH DATES’

THE time has not arrived at Butler University for the formation of an “anti-dutch date” club, such as girls of Columbia University in New York have organized, according to leading women on the Butler campus. The Butler girls stand up for their men, asserting that the Butler boys still retain enough respect for their manhood to insist on paying the bills on dates, no matter how meager their allowances. In the East it’s different, according to a plaintive wail by

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Papal Altar Is Washed in Holy Week Ceremony Pi! United Pirns ROME, April s.—Washing of the papal altar in St. Peter's, with Cardinal Merry Del Val, arch-priest of the Basilica officiating, and blessing of the holy oils at St. John Lateran were the chief holy week ceremonies today. The table on which, tradition says. Christ partook of the last supper, was exposed all day in the right transept of St. John Lateran. The ceremony in connection with washing of the altar lasted three hours. It began with the singing of the “Miserere.” A procession of the canons of St. Peter’s and mimei-ous high ecclesiastical dignitaries took place to the papal altar, which was stripped of all ornaments. Five canons, one wearing a cape and the others black stoles, ascended the steps and each poured out the holy wine and oil from a silver vase. Then they descended and were presented .with “aspergilla,” which they passed over the altar surface, scattering holy water. Other canons following and later Cardinal Merryy Del Val performed the same ceremony.

KLAN ISSUE RISES IN ILLINOIS RACE

/?./ f nitrd Press CHICAGO, April s—The Ku-Klux Klan issue replaced bmnbs today in Illinois’ bitter Republican primary campaign, with candidates of both sides charging their opponents with STATE FARM JAMMED Overcrowded as Other Penal Institutions. By Titries Syet ini PUTNAMVILLE, Ind., April 5 Indiana State Farm is suffering from the same overcrowded conditions as marks other State penal J institutions, Superintendent Ralph i Howard said today. The farm today had 1,225 pris- , oners. There are proper housing facilities for a maximum of 1,000. “The situation is not quite so bad as it was a little while back when we had 1,340. the largest population we ever cared for. We manage to get along by doubling up There is nothing that can be done, of course, until the Legislature makes money available for more housing or the crime wave slackens Howard said there was no need for emergency relief such as that given the State Reformatory Wednesday when sixty prisoners were transferred to State Prison at Michigan City. ’ten upstate towns WIN RATE REDUCTIONS New Electric Schedule Filed With Service Commission. Ten northern Indiana towns wilt be given rate reductions as a result of new electric current schedules filed by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company with the Public Service Commission. The cities to be affected are East Gary, Sedley, Garrytown, New Chicago, Crisman. Wheeler, Deep River, Ainsworth, Meriville and Ogden Dunes. The new rates provide a minimum charge of $1; a rate of 12 cents for the first kilowatt hour, 8 cents for the next twenty-five hours and 7 cents for the next twenty-five.

Shirley Ann Stone, a business girl, in an article in the April Smart Set magazine. After telling about the Columbia girls organizing against the “gold digger” male, Miss Stone remarks: “Not only do we have to pay intangibly in pride and self-re-spect, as well as the larger part of our salaries for the siAart dresses and hats that are so necessary, but we must pay today for our own dinners, our own theater tickets and taxi fares. What’s more, I’d hate to count the times I have

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his friends and comrades die, felt deeply grieved at their passing, but contended he would keep on because he watched his diet and remained exceedingly cheerful and felt young. He gave up red meat because it didn't agree with him. He had to give up tea. He gave up champagne. Then in his 92nd year he had to give up coffee. But he said it was worth it. He was an ardent believer in his country, and in the business life of the United States. Some of his beliefs on business and the United States included: “Our natural wealth is greater than that of all Europe and is owned, in a greater or less degree, by an overwhelming percentage of our population. “The greatest and most beneficent change which has occurred in our time is the improvement of the relations between capital and labor.” “Most successful men have owed their success to their absolute confidence in the rtxture of the United States.” And one of his most famous sayings was: "This.is a mighty good world to live in—and I want to stay here as long as I can.”

affiliation with the once hooded ( order. Governor Lcn Small specficially denied charges that he was a former member and a supporter of the Klan. Louis L. Emmerson, Small's opponent for the gubernatorial nomination, also denied any affiliation with the organization. United States Senator Charles Deneen, sponsor of the ticket headed by Emmerson, also denied Klan sympathy imputed to him by Small supporters. , BEECH GROVE SCHOOL TO STAGE EGG HUNT 3,090 Will be Hidden in Park for Saturday Event. Beech Grove will have an egg hunt with real eggs Saturday afternoon. The high school is staging the event. Only children under high school age will be permitted to hunt for more than 3,000 eggs which will be hidden in the Sarah T. Bolton Park, but the whole community is invited to witness the event. L. B. Mann, superintendent of schools, is in charge of the egg hunt. A committee of high school girls consisting of Alma Cripe, Mary Elizabeth Kail, Mecalle McCarrol, Frances Driscoll and Edith Pearson is aiding and will boil and color the eggs. Boy Scouts will do police duty during the hunt. They will meet at 2:30 at the park entrance. Miss Josephine Smith will lead in community singing at the band stand at 3 p. m. and the egg hunt will follow: PUSH STREET PROJECT Widening of Delaware Approved by Works Board. Proposed widening and resurfacing of N. Delaware St., between Ft. Wayne Ave. and Sixteenth St., was approved Wednesday by the board of public works. No protest against the resolution to widen the thoroughfare were registered at the public hearing. The street will be widened to fifty-four feet and resurfaced with asphalt. Four separate contracts will be let to rush the work. Approximate cost will be $113,000

loaned money to men, never to see it again.” tt u THE Butler girl leaders while denying that the boys boldly make them stand the expenses of dates, do declare that the woman “pays and pays” for dates. For instance, if they get invited to a fraternity dance they must invite the boy to a sorority affair and their own and then there’s the matter of dress and accessories. One suit will carry a boy through a season but one dress a season for a co-ed? Heavens 1

HIGH FREIGHTS RETARD STATE AND INDUSTRY Conditions Keep Firms From Establishing Plants in Indiana. LOSE IN COMPETITION Rivals in Other Sections Profit From Special Tariffs. This is the third of a series of articles, show Inc how the freight rate situation affects industries of Indianapolis. BY CHARLES C ARLE The effect of high freight rates Into and out of Indiana is two-fold. The first blow is against the State as a whole. It is the general knowledge of the condition that prevents firms from placing factories within the limits of many parts of Indiana. The second is against the companies that come into the State, but later learn the profit of the business is being eaten away by transportation costs. Production Cost Often Low Company heads arc in agreement on the fact that transportation cost, when excessive is an item that can not be cut down or made up. Companies in Indiana that have to sell goods on the markets outside of the State in comeptition with firms having preferential rates are up against this: Many of the crude products needed as the basis or as part of the finished product come from territory where their competitors are receiving lower freight rates. Each few cents per pound, car or ton increases the production cost of that company before the materials are unloaded in storage bins. As to the manufacturing, it is likely that the direct production cost can be kept down and in many instances might be cheaper than that of their competitor with the freight rate advantage. Seek Equal Rates Then comes the finished product. In it is contained the commodity for which the company was first forced to pay more for than its competitor. Then to ship the com- j pleted product to the market to which the out State competing firm has cheaper access costs more money. But in order to be able to sell the goods and give the competitor i any opposition at all the Indiana firm must keep its price within an equal range of the outsider. That, according to traffic authorities, is done by cutting to the bore every other necessity in the plants, j losing a lot of business and in some instances is the direct cause for capital of a comapny seeping through the fingers of the managers. The purpose of the war against high freight rates, says one traffic manager, is "to see that the rates assessed for transporting raw materials as well as those assessed for transporting our finished product are on a fairly comparable basis with transportation charges assessed on other industries engaged in the manufacture of similar articles with whom we compete.” State, Companies Lose He gives the following example: “If a brick industry at Brazil, Ind.. is paying 25 per cent more for transportation of its raw material than a similar plant at Danville or Galesburg. 111., the Brazil company is handicapped 25 per cent at the market price in competition with the marketers in the other two cities. If it costs 25 per cent more to transport Brazil brick to the markets than it costs the Illinois firms, the Indiana company must add another 25 per cent handicap. Under those conditions the Brazil plant can not survive, even if the plant is as well managed as those of the competitors.” It is through this situation that a plant similarly situated as the one referred to above probably will tear up the. foundry and move to another location where the favorable rates can be enjoyed. In this way both the companies and the State, as a whole, pay for the discriminatory rates. One of Indiana’s largest manufacturers was laboring under a handicap of about SIOO,OOO a year in excessive freight rates in the purchase of fuel oil. 'nvestigation showed that in this instance the firm was paying 14Q cer ts per hundred more than competitors purchasing oil from the same origin point. There is an industry located in Indianapolis that produces creosote Which is used for treating lumber. This firm is in direct competition with similar plants located at St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisvile and other ponts. Investigation showed that this local plant was operating at one-fifth its capacity because freight rates prevented its competition with other firms. In this instance a complaint has been filed before the Interstate Commerce Commission.

“The only girls at Butler who have the real date expenses are the unpopular ones,” said Miss Dorothy Pier, 3305 Ruckle St„ president of Chimes. “They want to attend all the dances and have to invite boys who very • often don’t pay them back. “I think, too, that there are more socially inclined girls at Butler than men, which makes the organized dance expense heavier for the girls.” But Butler boys are a bit too old-fashioned for allowing the girls to even go fifty-fifty; on

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TEACHER SLAIN; GRILL SUSPECT Body. Badly Battered. Is Found Along Road. By l nited Press EAST CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 5. —A young married man, who had been friendly with Miss Margaret I. Stewart, today was held by police for questioning in connection with the young woman's death. He has admitted they were driving together the night before her body was found, badly disfigured, near Beverly, Mass. However, he said he left her at Beverly, after the motor car trip, and had not seen her since. Police said Miss Stewart —instructor in a school for the deaf at Beveriy_had been friendly with the young, man for some time. Questioning has been going on since early yesterday, when the man was arrested, but he has kept to the same story throughout, the police said. They examined the motor car for possible traces of blood, but could find none. The man said the motor car had not been cleaned recently, but police believed this incorrect. Miss Stewart was found dead alongside a main road near Beverly on March 30. Her body was battered. Subsequent reports told of a motor car having been seen in the vicinity shortly before the body was discovered. A search had been made for this car, but no public description of it was given out. Purdue Alumni Honor Rogers Bn Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind.. April s—Will Rogers, noted humorist, is a member of the Purdue Alumni Association. He was presented with honorary membership at a meeting Wednesday night following an address in Memorial gymnasium at Purdue university, part of the fifth all-university convocation.

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ordinary dates. Miss Alice Philips, 4906 W. Sixteenth St., president of the Butler Y. W. C. A. believes. a a u NOT at Butler!” she said. “The boys have a tendency to resent a girl paying half or a part, of the expense, although I'm sure the girls would be willing to do it. “But, anyhow, the girls get the worst end of the date expense because of extra clothes. This is especially true at formals. A •tux’ will last a long time and a boy can rent or borrow one. Girls

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Times-lndiana Ballroom to Send Winning Girl to World Pageant. C’mon, girls! The Indianapolis Times-lndiana Ballroom World Bathing Beauty Contest is now open! Any Indianapolis girl between the ages of 16 and 25 years, who is unmarried and has never had stage, motion picture or similar professional experience, is eligible to enter This is the third world-wide beauty contest, the world finals of which are held annually at Galveston, Texas. Miss Indianapolis will be the first winner selected. She will be picked following a series of preliminary contests which begins at the Indiana Ballroom Tuesday, April 24. Feted and honored, winner of loving cups, completely outfitted with clothes. Miss Indianapolis will then enter the State contest for the title of Miss Indiana. The State contest will be held in the Indiana Theater Monday, May 7. Miss •* Indianapolis, together with the winners from at least twentyfive other Indiana cities, will com* pete for the title of Miss Indiana. Miss Indiana then will enter the world-wide contest at Galveston, where she will go with a chaperon of her own selection. Approximately a dozen winners in the Indiana finals will be offered theatrical appearanc seat the Circle Theater. Prizes aggregating a total of $5,000 will be distributed among the winners of the final contest in -Galveston. All contestants must submit photographs of themselves and fill out the application printed in this edition, mailing it direct to The Times. Entrants may also file their applications at the Indiana Ballroom. Contestants who do not have suitable photographs may have them made by Dexheimer Studios, 912 Odd Fellows Bldg.. Pennsylvania and E. Washington Sts. These photographs will be made without charge for the contestants and are made exclusively for The Timeslndiana Ballroom Bathing Beauty Contest.

think they can’t enjoy themselves unless they have anew dress for each dance.” Miss Virginia Flowers, a Butler campus leader from Peoria, 111., agrees that the girls who have the fewest dates have the heaviest bills. “I know the girls as much as the boys on organized dance dates, and the unpopular ones a bit more,” she said. “But I have never known any girl who invited men on ordinary dates and paid the bill. We just don’t do it here.”

75,000 WILL WORSHIP ON GOOD FRIDAY Record Attendance at City Churches Expected by Pastors. STORES WILL CLOSE Factories Also Will Give Employes Time From Work. More than 75,000 members of Indianapolis Christian churches will assemble in sixteen of the city's houses of worship Good Friday to observe the three hours’ agony of Christ on the Cross, which tradition places from noon until 3 p. m. Many of the stoics in outlying shopping districts will close during this period and downtown merchants have agreed to permit all employes who wish to attend services to be excused from work. Due to the intense educational campaign carried on by the interdenominational committee of both Protestants and Catholics the number observing Good Friday this year is expected to be greater than ever before in the history of the city, according to the Rev. Ernest N. Evans, secretary of the Indianapolis Church Federation. Factories to Close Many factories, including such large establishments as the Eli Lilly Company and the Kingan Packing Company, have announced their intention to halt work and permit their workers to attend the threehour services. Irvington stores will close 100 per cent during the time of services, and so will the stores at Forty-Second St. and College Ave., Dr. Evans announced. Following the custom of centuries, Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, was observed in Catholic churches of the city today. Rites of Holv Week hold special significance at the Cathedral, where many priests from the Indianapolis diocese assemble for the special services. Stores Lock Doors Chain groceries joined with neighborhood stores in pledging Good Friday observance and Pig-gly-Wiggly, A. & p„ Kroeger’s and Standard stores will all close during the three hours. Several of the large ice cream factories also will close. Other merchants who registered for closing included Jud's men's stores. Feeney . Furniture Company, Smucl: Rug and Carpet Company, C. D. Kenny Company, Koch Furniture Company, and others. The Statehouse will close. Governor Ed Jackson announced, as will the Stock Exchange and offices in the Traction Terminal Bldg. Last year 50,000 attended the Good Friday services, and the estimated attendance of 75.000, a 50 per cent increase, is conservative, Dr. Evans declared. Places of Worship Listed Places or worship and hours of services listed as follows: Central: Keith’s Theater, regular noon-day Lenten services, 12:05 to 12:50; Roberts Park M. E. Church, Vermont and Delaware Sts., 12 to 3 p. m.. First English Lutheran. Pennsylvania and Walnut Sts., 12-3; St. Paul's Episcopal. Illinois and New York Sts., 12-3: St. John’s Catholic, George St., and S. Capitol Ave., 123; All Saints Episcopal Cathedral, Sixteenth St. and Central Ave., 12-3. North: Meridian Heights Presbyterian, Forty-Seventh St. and Central Ave., 1-3; St. Paul's Methodist. Rader and Eugene Sts., 1:30-3; Church of the Advent (Episcopal), Thirty-Third and Meridian Sts., 12-3. East: Tuxedo Park Baptist. E. Washington St. and Garfield Ave., 1:30-2:30; E. Tenth St. Methodist, E. Tenth St., and Keystone Ave., 12-3: Holy Cross Catholic, Ohio and Oriental Sts., 12-3; Downey Ave. Christian, Downey and Julian Ave., 2-3. South: Sacred Heart Catholic. Union and Palmer Sts., 12-3: Baptist Center, 162-8 N. Blackford St„ 2-3. A special communion service wjll be held tonight at Edgewood M. E. Church at 7:45 o’clock. The Rev. H. M. Pattison, the pastor, will preach a communion message. YOUTH PLEADS DEFENSE OF MOTHER IN SLAYING Farmer Boy Kills Father With Shotgun Near Charleston. By Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., April 5. —John Korte, 19, a farmer boy, held without bond here on a charge of murdering his father, Nicholas Korte, will be given a preliminary hearing Saturday. The tragedy occurred at the Korte home near Charleston Tuesday night. According to the son, he shot his father while he was attempting to attack his mother with a butcher knife. Members of the family told authorities Korte was a heavy drinker, obtaining his supply of liquor from a still he operated in a shed on his farm. They declared he entertained a crazed fear relatives would reveal his liquor making and cause his arrest. Child Killed by Auto By Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind., April 5. Alberta Carrico, 6, was killed on a road near home east of here when struck by an automobile driven by Herman Bradley, 23, Loogootoe,