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SLACK DELAYS APPROVAL OF TIMECHANGE Mayor Will Study Effect of Daylight Saving to Decide Course. IS OPEN TO ARGUMENT Ordinance Passed by City Council May Be Hit by Veto. Asa matter of personal opinion and upon general principle, Mayor L. Ert Slack is opposed to the daylight saving ordinance adopted by city council Monday night, but he is not ready to say that this will affect his decision as to approving or vetoing the measure. Slack let it be known that this is his attitude, in his semi-weekly conference with newspaper men today. He said he probably will not express definite approval or disapproval until Next Tuesday. Slack indicated he was in no hurry to rush the measure through and made it plain that he not only has not made up his mind, but is open to arguments from citizens. He said he would be glad to grant hearings to any interested citizens. The council passed the measure Monday night after considering protests of thousands of citizens through representatives, Indianapolis Times ballots and separate petitions and an almost equal number of favorable expressions. Moves to Reconsider The measure wall not reach the mayor for signature immediately, since Councilman Herman P. Lieber, one of the two to vote against the ordinance, changed his vote to “yes’ and moved to reconsider at the next meeting. Councilman John F. White was the only member left on record as j voting no. The next council meeting is next Monday night. If council fails to reconsider or change its action, the ordinance would go to Slack next Tuesday or Wednesday. Then he has ten i days in which to consider it. If he vetoes it, council still has opportunity to pass it over the veto. Slack could pocket veto the measure by holding it longer than ten days without acting on it. Councilmen who voted to create daylight saving time are: Earl! Buchanan, Edward Harris, Albert j Meurer, Meredith Nicholson, Robert E. Springsteen, vyho introduced the measure: Council President Edward B. Raub, Sr., and Lieber, who changed his vote. Paul Rathert did not attend the : meeting. Citizens Get Hearing The council committee devoted forty minutes to a public hearing to listen to the view's of about 200 citizens, fairly equally divided in sentiment. After the hearing, the committee went into caucus for a half hour and returned a majority report in favor of the measure. Nicholson, Buchanan, Harris and Meurer signed the majority report. Lieber submitted a minority report. More than 12,000 votes received in The Times poll were studied by the committee. The poll conducted for one week resulted in 6,592 votes against and 6,300 for the fast time. Fifty-two letters against the ordinance and twenty-four for were turned over to the council. “I believe it is fundamentally wrong for the council to attempt to control the habits of people. I don’t believe we should interfere with the rights of some to give privileges to others,” said Lieber in explaining his vote. White opposed the measure because it “disturbs the natural course of human conduct.’ Hearing Given Public Chairman Buchanan gave those for and against the ordinance twenty minutes each at the public hearing, preceding the council session. Russell Wilson, former councilman and Gyro Club representative, w’as the first speaker for the measure. Wilson said the Gyro Club sponsored the measure as a “public service.” Chester L. Robinson, brother of County Treasurer Clyde Robinson, and Ralph Smith, Fletcher American National Bank cashier, spoke in behalf of the Marion County Bankers Association, which presented a petition bearing 978 names for the measure. The petition represented more than fifty banks. Speaker Is Hissed The session became turbulent when K. M. Mosiman, Gyro Club secretary, declared the ordinance is a “workingman’s measure.” His statement drew hisses from the crowd and cries to “sit down.” John Keating, Citizens Gas Company inspector, was the first speaker who opposed the issue. “Why honor the Kaiser by perpetuating a condition forced upon the people during the war? Such a time schedule would work a severe hardship on the working class,” Keating said.

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Cal at Circus By United Press WASHINGTON, May I. President and Mrs. Coolidge accepted an invitation to attend today’s matinee performance of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus here. Mrs. Coolidge, ardent circus fan, said she would watch the whole performance. The President, however, said he merely would view the animals and fishes.

LINDY PLANNING ATLANTIC DASH Ocean Flight in Four Hops Is Program. By United Press WASHINGTON, May I.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has completed his plans for a flight across the Atlantic and an aerial tour of Europe and probably Asia this summer, it became known here today. The trans-oceanic flight will be made in four hops and will follow a far northern route. The hop-off from the North American continent probably will be made from St. Johns, Newfoundland, early in June. The flight will be made in a Ford tri-motored, all-metal airplane. Formal announcement of the flight may await the return to this country of Henry Ford, who now is in Europe. According to these plans, Lindbergh will stop in Greenland, Iceland and at Croydon, England, before starting on his tour of Europe. The airman spent several months gathering information concerning flying conditions and landing fields in Greenland and Iceland. The other half of ‘ We“—Lindbergh’s famous “Spirit ol St. Louis—rested at Bolling Field today, its short but busy career ended in a blaze of triumph. Lindbergh on landing said he expected to confer with Smithsonian institution officials today or Tomorrow, with a view to placing the airplane in a Smithsonian building, so that posterity may see it. SENATE GETS TAX BILL $203,000,000 Reduction Draft Is Reported. By United Press WASHINGTON, May I.—The House tax reduction bill, with amendments providing for a $203,000,000 cut, was reported to the Senate by Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee today. He gave notice that the measure would be called up Thursday. STAY WOMAN’S HANGING Appeal of Arizona Conviction Taken to Supreme Court. By United Press TUCSON. Ariz., May I.—The execution of Mrs. Eva Dugan, convicted of murdering A. J. Mathis, aged rancher, was automatically stayed when her attorney, Stanley Samuelson, carried an appeal to the Supreme Court. Mrs. Dugan, the first woman to be sentenced to death in Arizona, had been scheduled to be hanged on June 1. HOLD MEMORIAL RITES County Bar Groups Pay Tribute to Cassius C. Shirley. Memorial services for Cassius C. Shirley, Indianapolis attorney, who died April 28, were held at a joint meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Howard County Bar Association in the Federal Bldg, today.

Spelling Bee Event—lndiana Spelling Bee, under direction of ■ The Indianapolis Times. Time—At 8:15 p. m. Friday. Place—Caleb Mills Hall in Shortridge High School. No admittance fee and the public is invited. Contestants More than thirty county spelling bee champions from the entire State will compete for the State championship and a fiveday trip to Washington, D. C., with all expenses paid, to enter the national spelling bee. Prizes—Cash prizes of $2,500 at stake in the national event. Officials Leading faculty members of four colleges and universities in Indiana.

ANIMALS CARRY ‘MAGNETIC COMPASS’ IN EYE AS PATHFINDER, RESEARCH HINTS

Bu Science Service TTT ASHINGTON, May I.—A ' hitherto undiscovered animal sense, the power that allows the homing pigeon to locate its loft, the migrating bird its far distant summer home, the animal its burrow, is on the verge of being revealed to science. At sessions of the Congress of American Physician sand Sur-

Midnight Is Deadline for Filing for 500-Mile Speedway Event. Thirty-one of the fastest auto speed creations in the motor racing world today had been entered in the sixteenth international 500-mile motor sweepstakes, to be held at the Indianapolis Motor , Speedway, May 30. The entry list closes tonight at midnight and officials of the track expect from five to eight more entries. Under rules of the American Automobile Association thirty-three cars are permitted to start in the race, eleven rows of three abreast. Forty-one cars were entered last year and thirty-three fastest machines, determined in qualifying trials, faced the starting line. Several City Entries Among the thirty-one cars with entry fee paid are eight Indianapo-lis-designed machines. There are two Marmon Specials, two Stutz Specials entered by. the Frank Lockhart estate, two Duesenbergs, a Marion Chevrolet Special and a Chromolite Special, entered by the Metals Protection Company, a local concern. Among the entrants is -a Rumanian nobleman, Prince Ghica, who has placed a Cozette Special, a French car. In the 500-mile grind. The other foreign entry is a Bugatti, a French car, to be driven by Shorty Cantlon, American pilot. Many of the drivers already are in the city and have quartered their cars at the Speedway garages. They are Pete De Paolo, Cliff Bergerc, Leon Duray, George Souders, Fred Comer, Dave Evans, Babe Stapp, Phil Shafer, Earl De Vore, Louis F. Schneider, Lou Moore, Norman Batten, Jimmy Hill, Pete Kreis, Johnny Seymour and Tony Gulotta. Cliff Durant, millionaire sportsman, who races for pleasure, pulled into the city today. The Race Entries Following are, in the order named, the entrants, the cars, and the drivers: Frank Lockhart estate, Stutz, unnamed. Frank Lockhart estate, Stutz,! Anthony Gulotta. Thomas Milton, Detroit Special, Cliff Durant. Peter De Paolo. Flying Cloud Special, Peter De Paolo. Cliff Bergere, unnamed, Cliff Bergere. Leon Duray, Miller Special. Leon Duray. Elgin Piston Pin Cos., Elgin Piston Pin Special, H Kohlert. William S. Waite, unnamed, George Souders. William S. White, unnamed, unnamed. Boyle Valve Cos., Boyle Valve Special, Cliff Woodbury. Boyle Valve Cos., Boyle Valve Special, Fred Comer. Boyle Valve Cos., Boyle Valve Special, Dave Evans. Boyle Valve Cos., Boyle Valve Special, Billy Arnold. Phil Shafer, unnamed, Phil Shafer. Phil Shafer, unnamed, Babe Stapp. Metals Protection Corp., Chromilite Special, Earl De Vore. Louis F. Schneider, Miller Special, Louis F. Schneider. Charles Haase, Miller Special, Lou Moore. Deacon Litz, Miller Special, Deacon Litz. Harry Miller, Miller Special, unnamed. A. S. Kireby, Duesenberg Special, unnamed. Henry Maley, Duesenberg Special, unnamed. William Horn, Miller Special, Buddie Marr. William Horn, Bugatti Special, Shorty Cantlon. M. R. Dodds, Sievers Junior Eight, Herman Schurch. Thomas Mulligan and Stanley Reed, Aranen Special, Sam B Ross. Norman Batten, Miller Special, Norman Batten. Prince Ghica, Cozette Special, Prince Ghica. Marion Chevrolet Cos., Marion Chevrolet Special, Jimmy Hill. Earl P. Cooper, Marmon Special, Peter Kreis. Earl P. Cooper, Marmon Special, Johnny Seymour. COOLIDGE OPENS BORE Presses Button Today Marking Completion of Tunnel. By United Press WASHINGTON, May I.—President Coolidge will press a button at 4 o’clock today opening the Cascade tunnel of the Great Northern Rail way Company. The tunnel, more than seven miles long, is the longest rail tunnel in the western hemisphere and the fifth longest rail tunnel in the world. A letter from the President to, Ralph Budd, president of the road, will be read at the ceremony.

geons here. Dr. Frederick Tilney, professor of neurology at Columbia University, mentioned experiment now in progress upon this new sense, which may prove to be the magnetic sense. The retina of the eye may prove to be the organ of the body in which the sense resides. Men long have marveled at the abilities of animals to find their way home through strange sur-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MAY 1,1928

‘SLUSH’ FUND PLDT DENIED BYJjNCLAIR Continental Deal Not Made for Political Purposes, Probers Told. • EXPLAINS HAYS BONDS Merely Paid From Vault With Many Other Securities, Magnate Claims. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 1. —Harry F. Sinclair’s own story, withheld during his trial on a Government conspiracy charge because he did not testify, today was told to the Senate Teapot Dome Committee. Sinclair said he knew nothing of the mysterious Continental Trading Company; admitted that he got $757,000 out of that company’s strange deal and disclosed that after his acquittal here ten days ago, he turned his whole share back to the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company with 3 per cent interest amounting to $142,000. The oil magnate also offered an explanation of why he ga\*e Continental Trading Company Liberty bonds to former Secretary of the Interior Fall and Will Hays, former Republican national chairman. The Continental bonds were deposited with a lot of other bonds and that was why they were given to Fall and Hays, he said. Hays had testified he used the bonds to pay off part of the 1920 Republican deficit. Got Bonds as Commission Sinclair claimed entire innocence of the organization of the Continental Trading Company. He described his part in the deal from which came the bonds as merely an effort to buy oil. Thus Sinclair revealed he acted just as did the other three oil men involved in the seven-year-old deal. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, testified last week he got $759,500 of the profits and recently turned them back to his company, and the other two. H. M. Blackmer and James E. O’Neil, also returned their one-fourth shares. “The bonds were given to me as a commission for my company by Blackmer,” Sinclair said. “I don’t know whether they are the bonds I gave to Hays and M. T. Everhart (for Fall). “I didn't know them and I don’t know now that the bonds I gave them are the bonds I received from Blackmer.” Straight Business Deal Sinclair’s whole testimony was designed to sho\v that the Continental Trading Company had not been formed by him to secret a political fund but that it was a straight business deal. He admitted he had not clipped coupons from the Continental bonds. He said Blackmer had asked him not to. “Blackmer told me he would prefer that the contract be not mentioned and that these bonds be held,” he said. “That's a queer kind of a conversation,” Walsh commented. “Well, he said he would prefer that I say nothing about his commission,” Sinclair said. “I did not ask him for a reason. But I might say I did not carry out his suggestion.” “So far as you now see this matter. could have been published to the whole world?” “Yes.” “But you did not tell your board of directors about it?” “No, not until recently.” FORD OPENING DELAYED City Asembly Plant Not Ready, as First Planned. Opening of the Ford assembly plant on E. Washington St., scheduled for next Monday, has been delayed another week, Manager George Steinmetz said today. Steinmetz said it was originally planned open May 7, but the equipment is not in shape. It is expected that the local plant will employ about 250 the opening week, gradually adding to the force so as to take on about 900 within a month after starting production. KNAPP TRIAL DELAYED Case of Former New York Woman Official Set for Wednesday. By United Press ALBANY, May I.—The trial of , Mrp. Florence E. S. Knapp was adjourned until Wednesday shortly j after it was called for trial today.

roundings. Aviators need compasses and intricate instruments to navigate as efficiently as the birds of the air. Such phenomena as these give impetus to Dr. Tilneys researches. * n ONE clew in the search that is now under way is the fact that animals are greatly disturbed by any change of direction of their surroundings.

MAY DAY JOY GIVEN

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Mrs. Russell Fortune of the American Red Cross motor corps giving Margaret Gribben, 1738 Olive St., 5-year-old invalid, her May day plant.

WITNESS AIRS KLANI DEMANDS Charges Kluxers Sought State Fund Contrc 1 . How the Ku-Klux Klan attempted to control all State purchases, including the millions spent by the State highway department, was told by Highway Director John D. Williams in a deposition taken today at the attorney general’s office. Tiie deposition is one of a series to be used by Attorney General Arthur L. Gillicm in attempting to oust the Klan from Indiana. William related a conversation in the office of State Auditor L. S. Bowman in 1926, in which Walter Bossert, then Klan dragon, declared the Klan had spent SBO,OOO in the 1924 elections and should control all purchases made by the State. Williams testified lie was not a Klansman, never had been and would not accede to such demands. Attorney Fred Gause, former Supreme Court judge, took the deposition. It was announced that others will be taken, including one from D. C. Stephenson. PUBLIC SERVICE HEAD TO BE ELECTED SOON Commission Will Name Chairman This Week. The public service commission will hold the annual election of chairman some time this week, Chairman Frank T. Singleton announced today. It had been reported that the commission would wait until after July 1 when Singleton’s term expires, to see whether <sr not Governor Jackson reappointed him. The election ordinarily is held May 1, but absence of Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh today caused delay. Reappointment of Singleton has been regarded as doubtful due to a report in political circles that Jackson would like to name his secretary, Pliny Wolfard, for Singleton’s post, thereby giving Wolfard a job after Jackson goes out of office. JUDGE ORDERS MINES NEAR BICKNELL OPENED Wages in Coal Section to Be Similar to 1917 Scale. Reopening of three Knox Consolidated Coal Company mines in Knox County near Bicknell was ordered by Superior Judge Linn D. Hay Monday in an order to Edwin D. Logsdon, receiver. The wages to be paid are similar to the scale of November, 1917. None will be less than $5 a day for those working inside the mines, except trappers. Loaders and machine operators will be allowed to earn from $7 to sl2 a day. Outside workers’ v/ages range from $4.35 daily for top men to $l6O monthly for first engineers.

Mice that are taught to run intricate mazes, a feat that is not dependent upon ordinary senses of sight and smell for instance, are completely baffled when the mazes are moved and geographically oriented in a different direction They have to learn the mazes all over again. If this magnetic sense is confirmed by Dr. Tilney’s experiments, it will be the ninth sense.

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MAY DAY means flowers to hundreds of “shut-in” Indianapolis children. All the “shutin” children in hospital in the city, and many in homes, w r ere taken plants donated by the Public Health Nursing Association, Girl Souts and the American Red Cross motor corps today. Six Indianapolis child welfare Institutions have planned special activities this week in observance of National Child Health Week, according to Mary A. Meyers, executive secretary of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association and chairman of the local week observances. A special May Day program was l;eld at the Riley Hospital today. All the children able to leave their beds took part in a program of health songs and health stories. At city hospital a May day program was given under direction of Miss Glen Hoover of the Social Service Department, assisted by Mrs. Rainie Miller of St. Margaret’s Guild. Pupils of Mile. Theo Hewes danced. Mrs. Leota Trook, superintendent of the Board of Children's Guardians Home, has arranged a May day program at that institution next Friday. All of the 167 boys and girls at the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home will be taken on Health week hikes during the week, according to Miss Ida Roberts. Twenty of the children will attend the Camp Fire Girls’ picnic next Saturday. The Colored Orphans’ Home will celebrate with a health pageant a little later in May, Mrs. Du Valle of that institution announced. A special Health week program also is being planned at the St. Elizabeth Home, under direction of Miss Anne Carey, superintendent.

ELEVATED SYSTEM BACKED BY MAYOR

Revision of the citys transportation system with the view of paving the way for a double track rapid transit loop around the business district, was favored today by Mayor L. Ert Slack. “It is time we are thinking about an elevated rapid transit system for Indianapolis,’ Slack said. “There are too many bus and street car lines on the north side. Two short blocks west of Central Ave. car line is the Alabama St. car line. Another block west is the Delaware St. bus routes, with the Pennsylvania line another block west. “There should be a careful study of the routing from an unselfish standpoint. Traffic is tied up at Thirtieth and Delaware Sts., where from one to four busses are parked. The street there is not adapted for busses. “The Pennsylvania St. extension from Sixteenth St. to Twenty-Sec-ond St. is practically useless for anything except street cars. “Alas, there is no need >of dumping every one on Washington St.” Slack expressed the belief that transportation company officials should plan for the rapid transit

Five senses, sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell, which are the result of contact of the nervous system to environment, are familiar to everyone. Then there are what Dr. Tilney called the skeletal sense and the visceral sense, both of which reside in the body itself. As the eighth, Dr. Tilney lists what he calls the hurt or pain sense, which is protective instead of guiding like the others.

SHUMAKER SURRENDERS AT SOUTH BEND, POSTS BOND; WARRANT IS EVADED HERE

Kokomo Candidate’s Ire Is Roused: Threatens to File Suit. DENIES ‘WET,’ CHARGE Anti-Saloon Leader Also Is Assailed in Letter From Sheriff. Another prosecution of the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, because of his listing of primary election candidates in the American Issue, was threatened today. O. C. Phillips, Kokomo, candidate for Republican nomination for State Representative from Howard County, who was listed as wet by Shumaker, was reported in a United Press dispatch to be considering the filing of an affidavit charging Shumaker with violation of the currupt practices law. on the same grounds as those used by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. Phillips contends Shumaker falsely listed him. Shumaker was rapped from still another direction today. Blasted in Letter “If you still can sleep with a clear conscience, I am afraid even Satan will bar you,” declared Baxter Plew, under-sheriff of Sullivan County and secretary of the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association, in an open letter to Shumaker. Plew took Shumaker to task for his listing of Luther Keene, candidate for renomination for Sullivan County sheriff, as “wet” in the recent issue of the American Issue, and for denouncing Plew from the pulpit of the Shelbum (Ind.) Methodist Church. Plew said Shumaker said that Keene’s record as sheriff was “bad” compared with that of his predecessor, Newman Guy. “I can net help but reply to your absolutely false statements,” wrote Plew. Record Is Cited “My sympathy is and always has been for the dry cause. I always have voted dry and signed all remonstrances. Having lived and worked with Luther Keene for the last sixteen months as his deputy, I know him to be dry and never shirking a duty. The enclosed public record, which you should have investigated before comparing candidates, will show you beyond doubt that your statements were false and unfounded. “I do not understand how you can expect to bring anyone into the faith or hold them when you voice and sanction such falsehoods. In some sections I know you are hurting the cause which you claim to espouse. “Please look over the enclosed statement, taken from the public records.” The record cited shows Keene made 217 liquor arrests in 1927, as compared with 198 by Guy, Shumaker's favorite, in 1926. It also sets out that Guy left 143 warrants unserved at the end of 1926, as compared with four unserved by Keene in 1927.

line by acquiring property along proposed routes. One of the first elevated routes should follow the Monon Railroad to the fairground and Broad Ripple, then swing west to Fairview and Riverside, with feeder lines at convenient intervals, Slack suggested. MINISTERS BACK HOOVER Straw Vote Favors Secretary; Senator Watson Ignored. Seventeen of twenty Indianapolis ministers who attended a meeting of Indianapolis Ministerial Association at the Y. M. C. A. Monday voted for Herbert C. Hoover when a presidential “straw vote” was taken. None voted for Watson. One was noncommittal and two refrained from voting because they were Democrats. They said if A1 Smith is the Democratic nominee they will support Hoover in the election. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m..,, 51 10 a. m.... 57 7 a. m.... 52 11 a. m.... 58 Ba. m 54 12 (noon).. 59 9 a. m.... 56 1 p. m.... 64

Man uses only about 20 per cent of his brain power, Dr. Tilney declared in predicting that human evolution will proceed still further and make man, at present an unfinished product, a more marvelous being that most of us now imagine. The realization that there is such a process of evolution will cause the human race consciously to speed its improvements.

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Dry Chief Goes Quietly to Northern City for His Arrest. PLEA SET FOR FRIDAY, Wants Trial in Hurry and Gilliom Asserts He Is Ready. The Rev. Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, today avoided the ignominy of arrest here and a trip as a common prisoner to South Bend, Ind., by quietly slipping to that city with his lawyer, James Bingham, Sr., surrendering, and providing .SI,OOO bond. Shumaker submitted to arrest upon a warrant Issued upon Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom's affidavit charging violation of the corrupt practice act. Gilliom, candidate for Republican nomination for United States Senator, alleges Shumaker falsely listed him as "wet of record’ in the current issue of “The American Issue.” Circuit Judge Byron Pattee was out of South Bend, so Shumaker could not be immediately arraigned, according to a United Press dispatch. Enters Plea Friday The dry leader will enter his plea Friday, it tentatively was agreed. Attorneys are expected to agree upon a trial at that time. Shumaker’s attorneys expressed a wish for an early trial, according to the United Press dispatch. Gilliom, from his office here, immediately declared that he was so eager for an early trial that he would cancel campaign speaking engagements, if necessary, to press the case. Shumaker and Bingham appeared in South Bend without advance notice about 9:30 this morning, goI ing directly to the sheriiff’s office. ! After he hod heard the reading of | the warrant his attorneys held a conference of several minutes with the prosecutor. Pastors Sign Bond His bond was signed by the Rev. Albert E. Monger, the Rev. M. W. Sunderman, the Rev. Earl Ellsworth, Marvin Campbell, D. D. Bowsher and W. B. Schaefer, ail of South Bend. The last three were manufacturers. Then Shumaker started back to Indianapolis. Meanwhile, a warrant for Shumakeer’s arrest had been placed in the hands of Sheriff Omer Hawkins here by Deputy Attorney General Bernard Keltner. Search for Shumaker in Indianapolis was unavailing, his relatives and office attaches and those of Bingham making a mystery out of the whereabouts of both. It was not until the United Press dispatch arrived that it definitely was known Shumaker had resorted to the ruse. If he had been arrested here, he would have had to go to South Bend to provide bond, technically as a prisoner, if not in fact. Thinks He Wins Friends A statement attributed to Shumaker before he dropped out of sight read: “Evidently I must be a barricade, a handicap, and an obstacle to Arthur Gilliom. He singles me out as he did before, when fifty-three trustees became parties to the act, yet none was arrested. Well—God's will be done.” (Shumaker was referring to the Anti-Saloon Leagu trustees who, he says, were parties to his annual report of 1925, upon Which the Supreme Court contempt action was based.) “Gilliom hasn’t shaken confidence among the church and dry forces and since his last action against me I have made more friends among such people than ever before. I believe before this case is through I will have made still more.” Hoosier’s Niece Slain By Tin Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.. May I.—Miss Pearl Eggleston, 17, slain by bandits when they held up the cashier of a Berwyn (111.) theater, where she was an usher, is a niece of Mrs. William Davidson of this city. i-das Eggleston was a guest of her aunt here several weeks last summer.

Be Yourself, Indiana The Times today begins publication of a series of three articles called “Indiana, Be Yourself," written by Will Irwin, known throughout the world as “the greatest living reporter,” author of twentytwo books and famed as a World War correspondent and magazine story writer and editor. These articles deal with the political situation in Indiana TODAY as only Will Irwin can deal with it. Start this series now.