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TRENCH ENTRY AWAY IN LEAD ! IN AUTO RACE Hispano-Suiza Stock Model "l Starts at Speedy Clip in $50,000 Event. ANDERSON AT WHEEL Drives Foreign Car; Thousands Flock to Speedway. ' France’s entry, the HispanoSuiza roadster, took the lead in the start of the twenty-four-hour endurance race with an IndianapolisRmade stock Stutz Blackhawk car at ■the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fthis afternoon. The Hispiano-Suiza maintained the lead by a few hundred yards through the first ten laps, speed ranging over eighty miles an hour. Racing fans from all parts of the country, but mostly from Indiana and neighboring States, were on hand,, attracted by the duel betwex# IJF. E. Moskovics, Stutz Motor Car pCompany president, and C. T. Weyman, Paris, owner of the HispanioSuiza. They have a side bet of $25,000 up as the prize. French Car Leads Aside from the $25,000 prize, the crowd was interested in the test between American and European engineering skill as represented by the two cars. The race began at Ip. m. It will until 1 p. m. Thursday or until one of the cars is forced out. At the end of the first twenty-five miles the French car averaged 83.45 miles an hour and the Stutz 81.3. The Hispano-Suiza was approximately one mile in advance. ' About 5,000 persons were in the grounds when the race started, but the crowd grew as the afternoon advanced. The grandstands presented a miniature picture of a .Speedway Tace crowd, with the usual summer colors dulled somewhat by the women's heavy wraps. Women for the most part were clad in furs or wrapped in brightly checked steamer rugs. *** Anderson at Wheel Gil Anderson started the race at the wheel of the Stutz while Weyi man piloted the Hispano. ' The cars were stripped of top?, front fenders and spare tires, but otherwise appeared as stock models. Windshields were left on. Word spread through the crowd before the race that the Stutz had turned a lap at 81 miles an hour and the Hispano at 84 miles an hour this morning. The cars were served from special covered pits south of the regular pits. The pits were filled with gas tanks, spare tires, spare parts and swift, expert workmen. The crowd got a momentary thrill when N. C. Megs, an executive of the Chicago Herald-Examiner, landed in a monoplane in the infield. Tom Rooney will relieve Anderson and Robert Bloch will relieve Weyman during the long grind. Rooney is noted on all American tracks and Bloch enjoys European fame. Seth Klein, State representative of the A. A. A., waved the starting flag. Spotlights on the cars and flood lights on the track turns are expected to make the night driving as easy as possible. Use Electric Timing The Speedway electrical timing device is clocking the miles. The cars are expected to run off about 1.750 miles by the tipie the finish flag flips. The Hispano-Suiza won the international stock car races at Boulogne, France, in 1921 and 1922. The Stutz is the same type as the one that won the Stevens trophy at the local track last year for twenty-four-driving in which the car averaged better than seventy miles an hour. The French car has a cylinder displacement of 422 cubic inches and the Stutz 298. No Spectators at Night . Spectators will be allowed to r watch the race until dark, at which r time the stands will be cleared, k Speedway officials said it was necessary to do this to protect the ■grounds against fire. I pickets have been sold by the ■junior League for box seats in ■Grand Stand A. I Hourly bulletins will be broadcast ■through WFBM, Indianapolis Powler and Light Company radio station Isnd two Chicago stations. A 6 p. m. ■fhis evening and Thursday evening Results will be broadcast to EngBland and France over WGY, General Electric Company’s station at B-,chenectady, N. Y. Sick Man KiUs Self BBy Times Special B ALBANY, Ind., April 18.—Funeral Rervices wil be held Thursday for ■ttbert Locke, 76, who committed ranging in a barn at his while despondent over ill H' COFFEE IN TOWN. Sec■p without charge. FLETCH■ISBHfETERIA, basement Fletch- :: ®t Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 1

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Confesses Killing Hall , Mrs. Mills i „ By United Press EL RENO, Okla., April 18.—County authoritieh here announced today that Ehvin F- Allen, former Oklahoma prisoner, had confessed that he was the murderer in the Hall-Mills case. Authorities were skeptical that Allen’s affidavit checked in all details of the murders of Mrs. Eleanor Mills and the Rev. Edward T. Hall, near Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 14, 1922. Allen was quoted as saying he was “tired of his burden” and had decided to “confess” after accepting religion. He has been held here for thirty days on a murder charge. Previously, he was said to have wandered over the United States and Mexico. He also had served a prison term in McAlister (Okla.) penitentiary, officers said. Allen’s affidavit said he murdered the minister and Mrs. Mills “for $5,000 and a car.”

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REILY ADAMS, BANKER, DEAD Former Councilman, Leader in G. 0. P., 11l Only Few Days. Reily C. Adams, 50, president of the Security Trust Company, died in St. Vincent’s Hospital at 7:15 this morning of pneumonia. Mr. Adams was taken to the hospital last Friday from his home, 4340 Central Ave. Besides his activity in financial circles, having been president of the Security Trust Bank for ten years, Mr. Adams has been a leading Republican for many years. He served as treasurer of the Republican State committee for several years, resigning about a year ago. Born in Vincennes Born in 1878 in Vincennes, Mr. Adams was educated there. After leaving high school heentcred the lumber business, but quit to come to Indianapolis and take a clerical position with the Crowder-Mason Shoe Company in 1899. A year later he was made sec-retary-treasurer of the company, and held this position until August, 1917, when he became head of the bank. He retained his interests in the shoe firm which had become the Crowder-Cooper Shoe Company. From 1914 to 1918 Mr. Adams was a member of the Marion County council. He served as treasurer of the Republican city and county committees through several campaigns. Athletic Club Director Mr. Adams was a director of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, member of the Columbia Club, Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce, Highland Golf and Country Club, Hoosifer Motor Club, Murat Temple and the Scottish Rite. He is a member of the Third Christian Church. Mrs. Adams and three children, Sarah Tyce, Martha Gibson and Reily, G., and two sisters, Mrs. Samuel M. Emison of Vincennes, and Mrs. Donald D. Goss, 2127 N. Pennsylvania St., survive. President Frank D. Stalnaker presided at a memorial service in honor of Mr. Adams at the Indianapolis Clearing House, 915 Merchants Bank Bldg., this afternoon.

DENBY TESTIMONY BARRED AT TRIAL

Bu United Press WASHINGTON. April 13.—Justice Jennings Bailey today rejected the testimony of Edwin Denby, former secretary of Navy, in defense of Harry F. Sinclair at Sinclair’s trial on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government. was understood to have been ready to testimy that he was responsible for the lease of Teapot Dome to Sinclair under the navy’s national defense policies. He so testified eighteen months ago at the trial of former Secretary of Interior A. B. Fall and E. L. Doheny, oil man, who were acquitted. But Justice Bailey, after a whispered conversation with attorneys, refused to allow him to answer even whether Navy officials kept him fully advised on negotiations for the lease. Thereupon, Denby was excused by the defense and by the Government. Blow to Defense The development, regarded as a damaging blow to the defense, came after J. K. Robison, Denby’s oil expert in 1922, when the leases were made, testified that the possibility of a “combination” of powers against the United States made large'supplies of fuel oil for the fleet necessary. This oil was to be furnished under the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases. Capt. J. K. Robison testified that he told Secretary of Interior Fall in 1921 the lack of battleship

Ex-Dragon W. L. Smith Says Senator Is Choice of K. K. K. / Senator Arthur R. Robinson Is the Ku-Klux Klan’s choice for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate, Attorney W. Lee Smith, former grand dragon, who is scheduled to address the West Side Indianapolis Klan at Odd Fellows Hall, W. Washington and Addison Sts., Thursday, declared today. Smith has offices at 724 Continental Bank Bldg., and thei;e confers with Klan leaders, past, present and future. Today Robert W. Lyons, Richmond. Ind., former Indianapolis attorney and one time Klan counsel for D. C. Stephenson, was among those who conferred with Smith. Lyons gained fame during the trial of Governor Jackson when he was stricken with appendicitis over the Ohio line and was unable to appear as a witness. No More Parade’s Smith says that he is not an officer of the Klan now, but is spending “four or five nights a week making speeches to Klansmen.” Tuesday night he talked at Kokomo. There are five active Klans in Marion County now, he says, and Robinson is going to get the members votes. “The Klan, as such, isn’t going to make the mistake again of officially indorsing a slate,” Smith declared. “Klansmen kinow who to vote for—men who stand for their Ideals.” There will be “no more parades” according to Smith and the visors are not worn by the fourth degree Knights of the Great Forest. These are klansmen who have taken the fourth step, but they are still K. K. K., Smith asserts. “The public mind is mistaken about this Knights of the Great Forest business,” he explained. “They are just fourth degree kiansmen. They are called Knights of the Ku-Klux Klan the same as always.” Indiana Klan Not Dead Indiana K. K. K. has no grand dragon now and may not have for some time he says. So-called Dragon Joseph Huffington is an imperial representative. The dragon must be appointed by Hiram Wesley Evans, who has been assailed in the Pittsburgh Klan trial. Asked what he thought of Evans, Smith said: “He’s a wizard.” “To prove convincingly that the Klan Is not dead in this State there will be a special Indiana edition of the Fellowship Forum published April 21,” Smith concluded. “We have ordered 92,000 copies.”

fuel oil for emergency use was a "weakness” in American defense plans that “might prove fatal.” This was the climax of the trial so far. Continental Deal Bobs Up The mysterious Continental Trading Company deal, previously ignored in the case, was unexpectedly brought before the jury. During cross-examination of H. P. Wright, Kansas City, banker who testified that Sinclair’s reputation for honesty and fair dealing was “good,” Owen J. Roberts, Government prosecutor, demanded: “Did you discuss the Continental deal with people who approve of Sinclair?” After objection by defense, the Government obtained an answer that he had discussed the Continental matter in a general way.

WATCH FOILS DE LUXE STOWAWAY ENTERING U. S.

By United Press NEW YORK,. April 18.—The. most ingenious attempt ever made by an alien to smuggle himself into the United States has failed because his watch stopped. Vincenzo Basti arrived Friday on the Conte Grande, newest ar. largest of Lloyd Sabaudo liners. He was a stowaway de luxe, traveling in a private cabin which none of the crew realized existed.

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FAIL TO HEED FLOOD FIGHT SCANDAL HINT Predict Coolidge Challenge Can't Block Passage of Measure. LAND DEALS CHARGED Link Thompson, Lorimer in Scheme to Profit by Control Work. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 18.—President Coolidge's biting denunciation of the Jones-Reid Mississippi flood control bill, which carried the implication he suspects some scandal behind some of its provisions, apparently had changed no votes today in the House. Sponsors of the bill said today a canvass they have made showed 303 votes in the House for the measure, enough to pass it over a presidential veto. Republican leaders resumed negotiations today for a compromise which would meet the views of President Coolidge, but little progress was reported. Modifications which the President insisted upon are: That a limit be placed upon expenditures involved in the flood control measure. That contracts for the project be let only through the army engineering department so as to avoid all suggestion of scandal. That local communities guarantee levee spillways. Conference Is Held Major General Edgar Jadwin. army engineer chief, was called into conference with Republican leaders and three Democratic members of the Flood Control Committee, Representatives Whitting of Mississippi, Driver of Arkansas and Wilson of Louisiana. Republican leaders present were Speaker Longwcrth, Chairman Maden of the House Appropriations Committee and Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee. No agreement was reached, but Madden said conferences would continue with other members of the House particularly interested in flood control. Senators Sackett, Kentucky, and Ransdell, Louisiana,' members of the Senate Commerce Committee who called later at the White House, told newspaper men after their conference with the President, they felt "the interest of their constituents would be qjcceedingly safe in the hands of the President” and that they concurred with the President’s opinion on the pending flood control measure.” The President’s criticism of the measure Tuesday, much stronger than his former pronouncements, Was followed by an attempt in the House by Representative Frear (Rep.), Wisconsin, to hook up the activity of Mayor William H. Thompson and former Senator William Lorimer with the alleged design of corporations and large land owners to profit in sale of land necessary for floodways. Urges Probe of Motives Lorimer told the United Press later that his son, who is interested with him in the flood area, intends within a day or two to make a formal offer to Congress giving the Government the right-of-way over all of his land free of charge, waiving all claims upon the Federal treasury. President Coolidge has urged the press to explore the motives behind some provisions in the measure.

CITY SURVEY ORDERED Needs of Various Departments to Be Determined. City department heads today were requested to submit a survey of the departmental needs which will require city council action in a letter by Mayor L. Ert Slack. Slack said the departmental programs would be studied and a report made to the new city council before its nex„ meeting. Slack is endeavoring to untangle the finances of several departments and desires the information from city officials before submitting requests to council. Woman Bank Employe Dies By Times Special DELPHI, Ind., April 18.—Funeral services were held today for Miss Laura Grisseth, for forty years an employe of banks here. She served the A. T. Bowen bank for the last twenty-five years and previously had worked fifteen years for the Citizens bank. She died Monday after a long illness.

Basti was decorating the dining salon of the Conte Grande when the ship was being built at Trieste. For years he had been trying to hit upon a plan to get to America without waiting the six years required by the immigration laws. While he worked at his decorating on the ship he secretly built a small cabin and equipped it with a sliding panel. Then he smuggled

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Left to right—Police Chief Claude M. Worley, Mayor L. Ert Slack and Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell looking over ponies to be seen in the Indianapolis police and firemen’s emergency fund circus next week at State fairground. The ponies are on City Hall steps. Below—Dan Roby, clown Scotch piper, who will be seen at the circus. - -J.

Ocean Fliers Preferred Death by Gun to Freezing in Arctic

Bu United Press ... MONTREAL, April 18.—Making his way slowly toward civilization while his German companions wait in the frozen north, Maj. James Fitzmaurice, Irish flier, was expected today to fly from Clarke City to Murray Bay. Awaiting him there was pretty Fraulein Herta Junkers, daughter of the designer of the Bremen, which made the first east-to-west air trip across the Atlantic. Fraulein Junkers expected to consult with Fitzmaurice as to further relief measures for Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Hermann Koehl, still stranded on Greenly Island, while an impatient America held in abeyance its homage to the brave. Baron von Huenefeld and Captain Koehl worked today on the damaged Bremen. It was considered unlikely they would attempt to fly the Bremen off the island. Instead, they were expected to board the Canadian ice cutter Montcalm, now approaching Greenly Island, despite the ice blockades in the straits of Belle IsJ.e. They probably will place the Bremen aboard the ice cutter. .

WOMAN FREED ON CHARGE OF KILLING

After more than seventeen hours’ deliberation, a jury in Criminal Court this morning admitted to Judge James A. Collins that it could not agree if Mrs. Clara Carson, 25, was guilty of stabbing to death her husband in a brawl in the Moose Lodge Bldg., 135 N. Delaware >st., cn Feb. 17. Asa result Mrs. Carson, a plain white-faced woman, who wept uncontrolledly when she told her story of her husband’s death to the jurors Tuesday, was freed of the manslaughter charge against her. Judge Collins discharged the jurors after each told him there was

FIND RABO TRACE Nine Persons Treated While Dog Is Watched. Nine dog-bitten persons, six of whom are children, were given Pasteur treatment today as the result of finding evidence of rabies in a dog that ran wild on the north side of the city Friday, until finally captured by police. Dr. William F. King. State health board secretary, ordered the dog held to watch developments. The victims are: Young Moore Jr. and Mrs. Young Moore, 3122 Broadway; Junior Homsher, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Firmer H. Homsher, 3055 Park Ave.; Tootsie Hodges, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Hodges, 3140 Broadway; William Cherry, 7, 3128 Broadway; Florence Walton, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Walton, 3103 Broadway; Doris Branford, 5, 3258 MacPherson St.; L. D. Hanscein, 3126 Broadway, and William Libbert, 2335 Kenwood Ave. ELEANOR WINS SUIT Booking Agents* Claim Against Miss Boardman Denied. By United Press NEW YORK, April 18.—Murray Phillips, theartrical booking agent, lost his suit for $4,270 against Eleanor Boardman, screen star, in Supreme Court today. Phillips alleged Miss Boardman owed him the money under a contract which provided that he should receive 5 per cent of Miss Boardman’s stage earnings and 10 per cent of her motion picture income. The jury ruled no contract existed.

a cot, a chair, food, reading matter and wine into his tiny cabin, and when the Conte Grande sailed he was aboard. Basti did not leave the ship when it docked here Friday. Instead he decided to wait until a luncheon was given aboard and then stroll out with the guests.* Tuesday morning he awoke, looked at }iis watch and saw that it was 1:30, the hour when the guests

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little chance they could reach an agreement, and nolled the indictment, on motion of Deputy Prosecutors John Niblack and Paul Rhoadarmer. The jurors stood eleven to one for acquittal, it was understood. The State contended Mrs. Carton deliberately stabbed her husband with a butcher kni/e after a drinking party and quarrel in the restaurant of the Moose LodgeJ where Carson, 35 years old, was night lunchroom man. Mrs. Carson admitted that she and her husband and several others had been drinking. He refused to go home, said he was going to get more liquor and struck her on the chin, she said. The next thing that she remembered she saw her husband had been stabbed in the breast and was attempting to reach the telephone, she said. The defense Intimated that someone else might have sneaked into the hall and stabbed Carson or that he committed suicide. Evidence was introduced to show that he had fits of melancholy when he had been drinking.

HEART DISEASE CAUSE OF MOST DEATHS HERE Statistics Show Shift in Lists of Fatal Diseases. Organic heart disease is given as the first of the six leading causes of Indiana deaths in 1927, according to the State Health Board. Tuberculosis is sixth on the list, while it was first in 1910. The heart disease quota was given as 5.517; cancer, 3,352; apoplexy, 3,245; Bright’s disease, 2,580; pneumonia, 2,571, and tuberculosis, 2,297. Cancer has also made a tremendous increase in the last seventeen years, the figures show. The 1910 list went as follows: Tuberculosis, organic heart disease, pneumonia, infant diarrhoea, apoplexq and cancer.

BAN DRY CARS’ SPEED Prohibition Agents Must Drive Carefully, Doran Says. Prohibition agents must drive carefully, according to a bulletin received by George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator, from J. M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, today. Doran warned that only experienced drivers should handle prohibition cars and that reckless speed, endangering lives of innocent persons, even in pursuit of bootleggers’ cars, will not be tolerated.

would be leaving the luncheon to return to shore. Basti emerged from his cabin for the first time and was seized by members of the crew. His watch had stopped and it was 9 a. m., an hour when the decks are deserted except for seamen who were polishing brass. Basti was taken to Ellis Island and will be sent back to Italy Saturday when the Conte Grande sailft

Plane Sped Through Storm Without Lights Like Blind Bird. BY FELIX M’HUGH United Press Staff Correspondent ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 18.— Indomitable courage, which included a preference to death from revolver bullets rather than death from exposure, spells the reason that a laughing Celt and two calm Germans were able to fly westwardly across the Atlantic in an air feat that no man before had been able to do. Thirty-six hours the Bremen, the Junkers trans-Atlantic plane, rode through the Atlantic skies. Part of the time the flight was a lark through cool morning winds. The greater part, however, was a fight through fog, sleet and vicious winds. Like Blind Bird in Storm In those latter hours the airplane staggered through storm darkened areas as a great blind bird. Then a haven—a tiny lighthouse that appeared at first to be a sealing vessel. A level stretch. There was a decision to land. The plane, its fuel exhausted, settled down, cracked through the ice, and the flight was ended. But they were saved and the story of the heroic flight is now available. It took thirty-six hours for the Bremen to cross the Atlantic, the same time the three men had figured it would take them to reach Mitchell Field, L. 1., from Dublin. The first twenty-four hours was good flying. Winds became a gale whipping directly at the plane's propellor. The machine fought on. Fog encompassed it. Snow and sleet beat down on the wings. Darkness was about them. They turned the switch for the lights on their instrument board. Something had gone wrong and the lights would not work. So through the darkness and in a darkened cabin they steered on, believing they approached the North American continent—but there was no way of telling where they were. Finally a dim light appeared on the instrument board. The three bent to see the dials. Plane Goes Off Course Relief at the glow of the light turned to anxiety. They were 400 miles off their course in the direction of the North Pole. The fuel supply was rapidly diminishing. There was no view of land. When gray dawn lighted the skies Friday it was found the plane again was off its course, floundering in fog, going northeastward and away from safety. The course was changed to due West, for the three felt certain that Newfoundland must be close by. Three sets of eyes scanned the territory below. A small lake appeared. Its smoothness indicated the possibility of a landing place. With the gasoline almost gone, the airplane nosed down to an easy landing, then cracked through the ice, breaking the under-carriage. Stiff with cold, shaking with nervousness, and drooping from exhaustion, the three aviators stepped out of the cabin—to they knew not what. The baron was cold and exhausted, ready to shoot his companions'if worst came to worst. Then the lighthouse was sighted and the baron proceeded there directly. He was given dry footing, but refused to eat until his two companions also 1 were brought from that howling wind and biting cold of Greenly Island. Then Sunday afternoon out of the skies came another airplane to this little Greenly Island which probably never before had received an air messenger. It was the relief plane brought through the driving wind and snow by Duke Schiller and Dr. Louis Cuisiner.

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ANTI-MANAGER MOVE TRACED TO G. BOSS Hand of Coffin Seen in Forming ‘City Manager League, Inc/ DUVALL AID INCLUDED Arthur Dinsmoor Linked in Group; One Incorporator Is Ex-Convict. The crafty hand of George V. Coffin, Republican county chairman, today was seen behind a move to hamper the Indianapolis City Manager League’s effort to secure the election of State legislators who will strengthen the city manager law. Political observers saw Coffin’s hand behind the fact that formation of anew “City Manager League, Inc.,” was traced to the law office oof Arthur Dinsmore, former city prosecutor, now a candidate for Republican nomination for State Representative. Dinsmore was an appointee of John L. Duvall, former Ku-Klux Klan mayor, and as such a close ally of Coffin. Dinsmore went out of office when Mayor L. Ert Slack reorganized the city legal department. Coffin Rallying Forces Coffin, while attempting to create the impression in formal statements that he is trying to get out of politics, will not accept the chairmanship again and is favorable to the city manager movement, is known to be vigorously organizing from Republican county headquarters to retain control. The Indianapolis City Manager League, which is the organization of bona fide city manager movement leaders, has been investigating the records of all candidates for State Representative and State Senator in both Republican and Democratic parties, with the idea of publicly J indorsing those the league is certain j will aid the manager movement. I Dinsmore, because of his Coffin J connections, is understood not to have been favored by the manager investigators. >iew League Incorporated Tuesday the “City Manager I League, Inc.,” was incorporated. | Bona fide manager leaders immedi- | ately suspected that it was the plan J of the professional politicians form an organization with a narnlß similar to the regular league and issue indorsements candidates not included in the ager list, the idea being that the ■ voters would not be able to differ- ■ entiate between the real and pseudo I friends of the manager law. ■ The incorporators of the new ■ “league” are Carl H. Englemier, 602 J N. Tuxedo St.; E. M. Hamilton, 2121 I Barth Ave., and Bertram Watson, I Negro barber, at 408 Illinois Bldg. It was learned that at least one of these incorporators was taken to Dinsmore’s office to sign the incorporation . papers. He was hazy in his understanding of what it was all about. Incorporator on Parole One of the incorporators Is known to be under parole from a life sentence to Indiana State Prison for murder. It was also learned that it was the original plan to list the Rev. C. H. Johnson, Negro, as one of the incorporators but being unable to reach him the organizers got Watson to sign. Englemier could not be reached. Hamilton said that he has no business connection just now but he used to be a cigar salesman. Hff® said he expected to be so busy with* the “league” from now on until the® primary election that he would no business connection for a Dinsmore said that he knew ing of the formation of the despite the statements eT persons® interested that they had been taken® to his office. “If I did know anything I would regard it as confidential information between lawyer and client and would not divulge it,” Dinsmore said.

MOTHER TAKES POISON Deserted by Husband, Tries to End Life; Condition Critical. Despondent because her husband deserted her and their two children age 3 and 7, Mrs. Mary Britton, 33, of 17 S. Oriental St., attempted to take her life with poison at her home late Tuesday night. Her condition is regarded critical at the city hosplttal today. She has been living with her mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Britton, police said. DRY RAIDERS NAB NINE Three Agents Make Morning Sortie at Madison. By Times Special MADISON, Ind., April 18.—Nine persons were arrested here today ir| an early morning raid by threJ Federal prohibition agents. , The prisoners are Mr. and Mr?i Gem Lockridge, Mrs. Robert Cheatl ham. Barnard Schultz, Wlllianl Marble, Roy Dill, Floyd Lee, Harnl Miles and Henry Gibson, Sr. j The raiding officers were OscM Johnson, Charles R. Lieber and Heglejr.