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SHUMAKER TO FACE QUIZ IN HIGHCOURT Told to Explain Why He Should Not Serve Prison Term. TEST PARDON POWER Judge Clarence Martin Dissents From Order to Dry Crusader. The Indiana supreme court today ordered Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, into court Dec. 1 to show cause why he should not serve the sixty-day sentence the supreme court imposed on him for contempt of court, and from which Governor Ed Jackson pardoned him. The order, written by Chief Justice David A. Meyers, is a result of action by Attorney-General Arthur L. Gilliom attacking the Governor’s power of pardon in the contempt case. Gilliom filed a motion urging the court to carry out the sentence Oct. 19, the day Shumaker went to the Indiana state farm with a calvacade of friends prepared to serve the sixty-day sentence as a “martyr” to the cause of prohibition. A telephone call from the Governor’s office arrived at the farm a half an hour before he did and before nightfull the pardon had been sent there, Shumaker had paid his $250 fine and was home again. Seeks to Speed Case Nov. 10 Gilliom filed his brief supporting his motion and contention Jackson had no right to overrule the supreme court with a pardon Early this week Shumaker’s attorneys filed a motion asking Gilliom’s motion be overruled. Today Ethan A. Miles, league attorney, requested thirty days time from Nov. 10 in which to file a brief supporting the Shumaker motion The court apparently ignored this request in its order today. Wednesday, Gilliom, who goes out of office Jan. 1, in an effort to speed up the case waived the tenday formal notification period on the Shumaker motion. Judge Myers who signed today’s order was bitterly fought by Shumaker in the last campaign. Myers w r as re-elected, however, by a big majority. Justice Martin Dissents Judge Clarence Martin dissented from the order. Judge Willard B. Gemmill, who joined Martin in dissenting to the original Shumaker conviction, did not join him today. * Martin cited three reasons for dissenting: (1) That the supreme court sheriff has a receipt from the state farm superintendent that Shumaker was delivered there and the sixty-day sentence judgement executed. (2) That Gilliom’s motion fails to show the real reason Shumaker didn’t serve his sentence, which was because Governor Jackson pardoned him. (3) That the state farm superintendent also should have been made a party to Gilliom’s action. Sheriff William Resoner was to serve the court order on Shumaker at Martinsville this afternoon. Shumaker is there recuperating from a minor illness, his wife said.

NATIONAL CONVENTION OF W. C. T. U. TO CITY 1929 Meeting to Be Held Next August or September. The 1929 national convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union will be held in Indianapolis next August or September, Henry T. Davis, manager of the Indianapolis Convention Bureau announced today. Davis received a wire from Boston, Mass., wher ethe 1928 convention just ended, that Indianapolis had been chosen for the 1929 meeting in preference to Milwaukee, Wis., and San Antonio, Tex. From 2.500 to 3,000 persons will attend the six-day meeting here in addition to several thousand of the 22,000 Indiana members of the organization who will attend some sessions, Davis said. Invitation to meet here was extended at Boston by Mrs. Elizabeth Stanly, state president. FUGITIVE BACK TO' JAIL “Lifer” Returned to Prison; Arrested Here. Ernest Steed, guard from the West Virginia state penitentiary, to • day returned Samuel Blevins, arrested here on burglary charges Nov. 6, to the penitentiary to serve the remainder of a life sentence for murder. Blevins killed a railroad watchman at Wheeling, W. Va., nine years ago, Steed said. He escaped from the prison Nov. 1. Blevins was arrested in a street car here election night after William Behnke, 2426 Unian street, had surprised him in his house and been held up and robbed. _

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Hoover Hooks 2 Fish; ‘Biggest One Got Away’ P.y United Press ABOARD the U. S. Maryland, Nov. 22.—Stopping a battleship for the first time in history “just to fish” brought Herbert Hoover the angling luck Wednesday cf two fish—and “the biggest one got away”. The President-elect’s catch off of Cape San Lucas, Lower California, totaled a fifteen-pound dolphin and ave-pound Spanish mackerel. After ensnaring the mackerel and fifteen minutes’ work to bring in the dolphin, Mr. Hoover found another “bite." The Presidentelect’s line tangled with that of Mark Sulivan, political writer, and the fish that might have made Izaak Walton history, escaped. ’ Mrs. Hoover watched her husband’s boat from the ship’s deck with a pair of field glasses. She was the first to acclaim his luck to attending navy officers. The Hoovers were served the President-elect’s freshly caught mackerel for luncheon. As the Maryl; id steamed southward cocks were preparing Mr. Dolphin in the ship’s ovens.

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Disaster Due to Leak in Hull, Negro Sailor Suggests. BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—The sinking of the steamship Vestris might have been caused by a leakage on the bottom, a member of that ship’s crew told United States government investigators today. A Negro named Barton, asked by Walter S. Brown, assistant secretary of the department of commerce, what had caused the Vestris to go down, replied: “I don’t know. It might have been a leak on the bottom.” He recounted that a ”°ar ago the Vestris had sprung a corious leak, but that the leak subsequently had been repaired. Another witness said that ten hours after the general SOS was sent from the S. S. Vestris, staff members of the Lamport & Holt offices told him they had been working on the situation for twenty-four hours. The witness was Henry J. Tilford who said he had appeared at the local offices of the company at 8:30 p. m., the Monday the ship sank, seeking to find the fate of a friend who was aboard the steamer. The first witness today was Joseph Boxill, a Negro member of the crew. Boxill said he first noticed a list on the Vestris on the Saturday night the ship left New York. “Water was coming in the star board bilge,” Boxill said. He said that by noon Sunday, the list had increased greatly. The alleyways were partly filled from the water, Boxill said.

EXPLAINS ON SHOALS Coolidge Opposes U. S. in Business, So Vetoed Bill. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. President Coolidge gave the NorrisMorin Muscle Shoals bill a pocket veto because he believed it would put the government into the retail power and fertilizer business, he told a congressional delegation which called on him at the White House today. The President indicated he never would sign the bill no matter what changes are made in it. GALL HEIR IMPOSTOR Woman Admits Faking Boy’s Birth for Riches. By United Press DETROIT, Nov. 22. Five-year-old Dode Alfred Boyer, once the heir apparent to the millions of the chairman of the board of Burroughs Adding Machine Company, officially was decreed an imposter today by the Wayne county circuit court, and his birth records ordered cancelled. The action, a mere perfunctory one, came after the foster mother, Mrs. Myron L. Boyer, admitted that she had “faked” the boy’s birth. STATE LIONS MEET Officers Hold Conference’s Banquet Tonight. State officers of the Lions club met at the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon for a conference. The Indianapolis Lions Club was host. Lynn Craig, Scottsburg, district governor, presided. Ben Ruffin, Richmond, Va., international Lions president, yill be the principal speaker at a banquet at 6:30, at the Chamber of CVommerce. The local club will provide an entertainment p.ogram.

BY SAM LOVE United Press Staff Correspondent BELLMORE, L. 1., Nov. 22. A “radio ghost” that “haunts” an untenanted and ancient farmhouse here, causing vpices and music to come apparently from the walls themselves, literally has set this peaceful village by the ears and caused the owner to announce a conviction that she never will be able to rent the property again. The strange phenomenon has

Shop Early! By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 22. The good people of Lafayette shuddered at the prospect of going into the holiday season without their favorite caterer, one Peter Mitchin. So they sent a plea to Federal Judge Thomas Slick, explaining hew difficult Christmas would be without the expert Peter. Judge Slick said he knew how it was. He then suspended Peter’s sentence for selling liquor.

COLLEGE FEUD CAUSESKILLING Gridiron Star Is Shot by Rival School Student. nl United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 22. Feud between students of Birmingham Southern and Howard colleges here resided in the murder of Montres Freeman, 220-pound Birming-ham-Southern football star, by O. H. Westbrook, a junior honor student at Howard. “God knows I didn’t mean to kill anybody; I just had the gun to bluff them off,” Westbrook told a coroner’s jury, adding that Freeman led an expedition of BirminghamSouthern students t > the drug store where he worked, planning to clip his hair. Six students in each college have been clipped by groups of students from the other school since the feud started a year ago. Westbrook testified that Freeman and Byron Matthews, another Bir-mingham-Southern student, came to the drug store where he worked at 9 p. m. last night. “I told them to let me alone and not to bother me when I was working or there would be trouble,” he said. “Freeman kept on coming and I got the revolver out of a drawer and shot." The shooting ended a series of battles between students of the two schools which began when a Howard student, later expelled, painted “To Hell With Southern” on a building at the “opposition” college. EARLY FARM AID URGED Short Session Should Pass Bill, Says Tilson. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Farm relief legislation largely should be passed by the short session of congress and the extra session, if there is one, should be devoted to general tariff rivision, Representative John Tilson of Connecticut said at the Whitehouse today after conferring with President Coolidge.

AL TO GO HOME Expects to End Vacation Saturday. By United Press BILOXI, Miss., Nov. 22.—Governor Alfred E. Smith may start back north Saturday, it was learned today. It is expected he will stop en route at Atlanta and Warm Springs, Ga., where Franklin D. Roosevelt is. Governor Smith, after disastrous rounds of golf, had better luck fishing Wednesday. He caught seven sea trout while John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, caught a small croaker and a catfish. Golf was on the program today.

‘RADIO GHOST’ HAUNTS FARM HOUSE; ‘MUSIC IN AIR’ BAFFLES EXPERTS

occurred daily and nightly for months, but was kept a secret by Mrs. Lou Greenamyer, owner of the property, who hoped that the manifestations would stop. The Greenamyer house not only reproduces the programs from WEAF’s control station, half a mile distant, but reproduces them more clearly than an ordinary radio set and absolutely without static, Most of the radio voices and music seemed to come from the

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KING GEQRGE ILL SUDDENLY; BRITAMFEARS Nation Agog as Press Tells of Second Attack of Fever. VISITORS ARE BARRED Parliament Is Surprised by Sudden Seizure; Not Serious, Say Doctors. BY WEBB MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 22.—The British public was deeply concerned today over the sudden illness of King George V., but Buckingham palace officials gave assurance that there was no cause for alarm. The king, who is 63, is ill in bed with a cold and some fever. The king’s condition is not causing the slightest anxiety in the royal household, a palace official told the press. "His majesty has contracted a slight, feverish cold, just as any of his subjects is likely to do at this time of year,” the spokesman said. “Acting on the advice of his doctors, he has taken to bed as a precaution until his slight feverishness has passed. I can assure you there is no need whatever for any anxiety over the king’s general health.” Progress Satisfactory It was understood the king was still progressing satisfactorily late this afternoon. The palace spokesman told the United Press there would be no further bulletin until 8 p. m. The interest and concern of the public was manifest when several hundred persons more than usual braved a cold, windy, and rainy day to witness the 11 a. m. ceremony of changing the guard at Buckingham palace. The ceremony was accompanied by the usual selections of music played by a full military band. Second Fever Attack An indication that the king’s condition was not considered serious was given when Queen Mary left the palace to officiate at a function in lieu of the king. King George suffered a similar attack in 1925 when he contracted a feverish cold in February which was followed by influenza and bronchitis. He cruised for several weeks in the Mediterranean to recuperate.. News of the king’s illness probably will lot reach the Duke of Gloucester for several days, because he was reported to have left Wednesday on a trip up the Chambezi river in a native canoe which wul keep him out of touch with civi ization for at least eleven days.

16 HURT IN BLAST Glass Company Is Wrecked by Explosion. By United Press BARBERTON, 0., Nov. 22.—An explosion partially wrecked the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company plant here today. Sixteen men were reported injured. Every available physician was rushed to the scene. Thfe cause of the blast was not learned immediately. Police and fire departments were summoned and ambulances were sent to the scene. First reports said a good many of the injured were expected to die. They were removed to hospitals.

CLOSE HISTORIC DEAL Sell Chicago Bank Building for $20,000,000. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 22.—The largest real estate deal in the history of Chicago was closed yesterday when the United Power and Light Corporation purchased the building and site of the National Bank and Trust Company, on South Lasalle street. The price was reported to be $20,000,000. The building occupies a block and is twenty-one stories high. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 36 10 a. m 30 7a. m 36 11 a. m 38 Ba. m 35 12 (noon)., 39 9 a. m 36 1 p. 38

south wall of the living room. Then for no apparent reason they would come from the cellar. nun IT was admitted at the WEAF control station that experts had been utterly at a loss to solve the mystery or even to explain it after going over the old farmhouse from top to bottom. Mrs. Greenamyer explained she had been unable to rent the house since the last tenants moved out suddenly without mentioning

‘HE SAILED PAPER SHIPS’— Taps—In a Mother’s Heart for Sailor on Maine

Mrs. Turner Is shown with the gold-framed picture of her dead son, Harry J. Keys, who went down with the battleship Maine.

HEAD OF CITY BANKJS DEAD Augustus Jennings Passes at Home. Augustus Jennings, 59, founder and president of the Colonial Savings and Loan Assocation, died this morning in his home, 2335 North Pennsylvania street. He had been ill two weeks with heart disease. Son of the late John M. Jennings, Marion county pioneer, Mr. Jennings was born at Traders Point, and moved to Indianapolis when he was 3 years old. He was educated here, and after working in two Kansas banks, returnee’ to be secretary of the Central Trust Company, later sold to the Farmers Trust Company. In 1913 he and t brother, Connard Jennings, formed the Colonial Savings and Loan Association and the Jennings Brothers Real Estate Company. Survivors are the widow, two brothers and a sister. $530,000 FOR SEAT New High Record Again Set on Exchange. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Expectation of continuation of the tremendous activity on the Stock Exchange was mirrored today in the announcement that arrangements were made for the sale of a membership of $530,000, anew high record and an increase of $5,000 over the last previous sale made Wednesday. Boy’s Body Found on Tracks By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 22.—The badly mangled body of a boy, found on the Clover Leaf railroad tracks near here, has been identified as that of Ralph Leppo, 15, by his father. The severed head was found approximately twenty-five yards from the remainder of the body, Charles Mark, who discovered the body, said.

MAD HORSE BITES 2 Woman, Boy Trampled by Annual. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 22.—Two persons were bitten and trampled in the Lawndale district Wednesday night by a wild horse, apparently the victim of rabies. After a long chase, police shot the horse. Mrs. Cecila Gold, 26, was bitten on the right hand when the horse dashed into her. Two fingers were broken and Mrs. Gold was trampled. William Frazin, 16, attempted to drive the horse away, but it bit him on the shoulder and knocked him down.

anything strange, however, last February. Mrs. Greenamyer, a matter-of-fact young matron, deihed indignantly that she took any stock in village talk that the place was “haunted.’ “But it is enough to give you a start,” she said. “I remember last spring, the first time I heard it. ana “T WAS dusting the furniture, X getting ready to spend part of

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BY ARCH STEINEL WHILE the hurdy-gurdy strum of business entered its dollars on city bank books, Tuesday, a memorial service for Indiana’s only boy to go down with the battleship Maine, was being held in the heart of his mother—Mrs. Tillie Turner, 70, of 708 North New Jersey street. No one attended the memorial service—for no one could—naturally. No one knew that it was the birthday anniversary of Harry J. Keys, seaman, United States navy—Mrs. Turner’s son—except the United States navy recruiting station, and they were waiting for Mrs Turner to come to their headquarters in the Occidental building to pay her yearly reverence to the picture she had given them of “her Harry.” She did not come. “Was she ill?” and the questions mounted. “Where could they find

her—her address—who had it?” Personnel of navy recruiting stations change frequently but- " Someone must know where she is.” u n n HW. ELKE, chief signalman, <* investigated and found Mrs. Turner. He found her alone In her boarding house sitting by the gold-framed likeness of her boy—he’s still her boy although he’d be 52 years of age Tuesday, had he lived—which she has willed the recruiting station upon her death. “I couldn’t come this birthday. My rheumatism—the doctor advises against it—but—l have him here,” and she pointed to the water-colored enlargement of the photo which he sent her the day before he sailed from New Yortc on his way to waiting death. A smile—one of those you see at cradles—pinched age’s wrinkles into a beatitude of peace. Then: “He was such a good boy. Went to Sunday school just a few blocks from here. Never gave me any trouble,” her hand stroked the gilded frame. u u n A MOTHER caressing her sleeping babe—you’ve seen them do it. Peering into their eyes for that which is of them, just as Mrs. Turner looked at “her Harry’s” photograph. “You know—he always wanted to be d sailor. I remember how he used to Sail little paper ships whenever my wash-tub was full of rinse water,” she murmured. Bluing in rise water of a washtub and tb blue of the ocean wave—a wave over “her Harry's” grave—and he sailed a ship that never came back. 1 “The Saturday before the Maine —before it—bl—before it happened—he wrote me he was coming back tor stay with me always. That he wasn’t going back to sea. He did—he came back,” and her eyes looked first to the gilded frame—a frame that holds her heart—then up or out somewhere far outside her homey room. A plac? no one could see. S-sh—let’s go! It’s Mrs. Turner’s memorial day—every day. KNIGHT HURT IN CRASH Aero Official of Britain Injured in Airplane Landing. By United Press BAGDAD, Nov. 22.— I The British air vice marshal. Sir Edward L. Ellington, was injured today in a forced landing near the Euphrates river, en route from England here. The plane, piloted by his aid-de-camp, somersauted when it came down in a fog. The pilot was unhurt, but Sir Edward was bruised and shaken.

the summer here with my two boys. Then I found out that you couldn’t hear the music in the yard, only in the house. “I never thought much about it —that it was some sort of accident. • “But last August our home in Freeport was crowded with guests and a friend, Miss June Bell, New York, and I came over to spend the night. We heard the music again. It seemed to be coming from every time. I said;

STOCK SALES BOOM New Tickers Whir as Fast Pace Is Set. By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 22.—The stock market boomed along at a terrific pace today, prices ascending sharply for a time and then sagging on sales that were made on a profittaking basis. At no time was there a lull in the trading, however, and the newly installed tickers—designed to keep pace with the trading—buzzed along frantically as though to prove their efficacy. Airplane share and Radio Corporation were the leaders. Sales to noon totaled 2,379,900, or at the rate of nearly 6,000,000 shares for a full session and tickers were only twelve minutes late. Wednesday at noon they were forty-eight minutes behind and on Tuesday fifty-nine minutes. CONSIDER BUS LINE Use of Meridian Street Up to Park Board. The park board was to meet at 2 p. m. today to consider request of the Peoples Motor Coach Company that the company be allowed to operate its new Butler university bus line over North Meridian street. The board likely will reach a decision this afternoon, John E. Milnor, president, said. Residents and officials of five schools on the street objected to use of the street by buses, at a hearing on the proposal before the board. Adolph Emhardt, park board member, said he favored further consideration of the proposal before acting, but added the busses might be permitted to operate over Meridian street for thirty days to “try out” the plan. SELECT WALKER JURY Ex-Convict, Arrested With Wright, Goes On Trial. Criminal court jury to try James Walker, charged with being an exconvict in possession of a revolver, was being selected today. Walker was arrested with Homer Wright, alleged St. Louis gangster, who is held in connection with the hold-up of the Broadmoor Country Club, May 30.

“June, you go to the back door and I’ll go to the front and see where it’s loudest.” "But when .we got outdoors we couldn’t hear it. Finally It got loudest in the cellar. “Believe me, we got scared. “When it never stopped we got petrified. “About 1 o’clock in the morning it stopped and we went upstair.s —both of us in a single bed. “That’s the last time I have slept here. ,

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CHECK ‘KITING’ TO SAVE FIRM IS DESCRIBEE Manufacturer, Now Dead, I: Blamed by Defense in Steinbrenner Case. NEEDED WORKING FUNDS Government Charges Two Banks Failed Because of Operations. How Henry G. Steinbrenner, deceased Noblesville tire manufacturer, strove desperately to save his factory, with $700,000 assets, by ‘kiting’ checks until sales orders should start, was described by defense attorneys in opening statements at trial of the Steinbrenner Rubber Company postal fraud case in federal court today. The government charges the check ‘kiting’ resulted in failure of the First National bank, Noblesville, and Huntington County State bank, Huntington, in 1926. The trial is expected to last two days. The government has called about forty witnesses and the defense thirty. Defendants are S. Homer Federman, secretary-treasurer of the company; Newton Cowgill, cashier; Walter W. Bray, assistant cashier of the Noblesville bank, and Edwin B. Ayres, president, and E. Porter Ayres, cashier; Huntington County State bank.

Committed Suicide Steinbrenner committed suicide a year ago at Chicago following his indictment. The government charges the tire company, to provide working capital, began a flow of worthless checks for large amounts through the four banks, making it appear there were large balances in each bank. It Is alleged the company obtained as much as $300,000 from these transactions. Albert Ward, dstrict attorney, said he would prove the company put through these banks $4,000,000 a month in worthless checks, with knowledge of the banking officials under indictment. Defense attorneys promised to prove Steinbrenner, after investing his fortune of about $700,000 in getting the company started, sought to protect his investment and loans by banks until the company began receiving orders, and, without knowledge of the bankers, kited checks. Ayres Suspicious It was alleged that E. B. Ayres, becoming suspicious of circumstances, forced admission of the transactions by Steinbrenner and to reduce the “float,” with two of his directors paid in $135,000 of their private fortunes, and later Ayres gave all his money, saving depositors of his bank from loss, but failing to prevent the bank being closed. The jury was sworn at 10:20 a. m. after nine talesmen had been excused by the defense, five because they admitted former connections wi the Ku-Klux Klan. The jury, as impaneled, was: John Batzner, Tipton, farmer; Ora Smith, Rush county, auto sales business; Calvin Bolin, Brazil, school janitor; J. A. Bunnell, Hagerstown, farmer; William Cutrell, Plainfield, farmer; Charles F. Dell, Columbus, merchant; Hugh Giles, Sullivan, transfer business; Clyde Hoke, Winchester, farmer: Joe Johnson, Morgan county, farmer; Claude Meyers, Jeffersonville, lumber business; Charles Riley, Crawfordsville, druggist. In addition to failure of the Huntington and Noblesville banks, the scheme is alleged to have resulted in loss of $55,000 to the Guardian National bank and $30,000 to the Central Trust Company. HEARS DEATHSENTENCE Dreyfus Rhoades to Go to Elcctrl Chair March 6 for Murder. By United Press PRINCETON. Ind., Nov. 22.--Dreyfus Rhoades, convicted slayer of Simon Carie, Vincennes policeman, was sentenced to die in the electric chair, March 6. 1929, by Judge Claude Smith, In Gibson circuit court here today. Judge Smith overruled a motion of defense attorneys to withhold judgment until they filed motion* for anew trial. Immediately after he was sentenced, Rhoades was taken to the Vanderburgh county jail at Evansvlle for safekeeping. ex-wafT chief ill Jacob Dickinson, In Cabinet of Taft, in Hospital. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 22.—Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary of war in the cabinet of former President William Howard Taft, is under observation in St. Luke’s hospital here for gall bladder trouble. Dr . Arthur R. Eliott, ordered Dickinson taken to the hospital after treating him at the former war secretary’s home for six weeks. Dickinson is 78 years old and in view of his advanced age his physician said he is “making a good fight” against disease. Renew out-of-town friendships by telephone. Basic rate to DETROIT only sl.3s.—Advertisement