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POLICE LED TO BOY’S BODY BY SLAYERS TALE 7-Year-Oid Kidnap Victim Found in Swamp With Throat Slashed. CONFESSES IN DETROIT Squad of 60 Searches Meadows After Word From Michigan. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The body of Jooseph Storelli, 7, who was murdered and left ip the meadowswampland r-'ar Secaucus, N. J., was found by detectives today. The detectives began searching for the body at dawn after they had received word from Detroit police that Peter Kudzinowski had confessed to kidnaping the boy, slashing his throat, and hurling the body from the Susquehanna bridge. Soon after the boy’s body was found, Judge Leo S. Sullivan of Jersey City issued a murder warrant for Kudzinowski. If he waives extradition a police lieutenant will start for Detroit to bring him to New Jersey. Police Inspector Underwood said the case would be submitted to a grand jury in Jersey City Friday. The body of the boy, who lived in New York, was found near the Susquehanna railroad embankment. It bore evidence of brutal mistreatment. The boy’s throat had been cut from ear to ear—so deeply that the head was nearly severed. Rusty Found A bloodstained, rusty knife was located near the body. It was the small, sharp type of knife used by butchers in trimming meat. After Kudzinowski, alias Roy Lambert, alias Roy Rogers, had been identified, Detroit police notified New York police that the man had confessed to the murder and asked if New York police would claim the prisoner. According to the Detroit police, Kudzinowski also admitted a murder in Scranton, Pa. Joseph Storelli was standing in front of a store near his home watching fish swim in a tank on the evening of the kidnaping. His sister Magdalena was with him, but she left Joseph and went home to supper. Later Joseph’s playmates saw him with the strange man. Joseph failed to come home and his mother started a search of east side cellars. Police, volunteers and firemen joined in the futile hunt. Joseph M. Saccaro, a taxi driver, read of the kidnaping and saw the boy’s picture in a tabloid paper. He fold police it was the same boy he had taken to Grand Central station with a man who acted nervously. Signs of Struggle At dawn today a squad of sixty policemen clad in hunting togs, began a search of the meadows under direction of Captain William Hogue, Os the Jersey City police force. Inspector. John Undemood and Captain John Stork, who knows every inch of the Secaucus meadows. After an hour of search, Captain Hogue came upon the body hidden under a brown overcoat. The body was lying face downward in the tall grass. The clothing, which consisted of a blue sweater, brown overalls, shirt and white underwear, was disarranged and bloodstained. The boy’s arms were stretched over his head. His salt and pepper cap lay five feet away. Hurried examination revealed a large bruise on the back over the right kidney. The body was frozen. The spot where the discovery was made, is some distance from any dwelling. It is lonely and deserted and only the lights from the road in the distance, are visible at night. The grass was higher than a man’s head when the crime was committeed so that a struggle might not have been seen from the road in daylight.

CHARGE MANSLAUGHTER Police Allege Man Drove Auto Which Killed Albert Elff. An involuntary manslaughter charge was on file today against Grover Williams, 44. of 39 North Bolton avenue. Williams was arrested Wednesday. Police said he was the driver of the automobile which struck and fathally injured Alvert Elff, 44, of 44 West Thirteenth street, Saturday. DEL RIO NEAR DEATH Give Up Hope for Divorced Husband of Film Star. By United Press BERLIN, Dec. 6.—Physicians attending Jaime Del Rio, writer and divorced husband of Dolores Del Rio, motion picture star, have abandoned hope for his recovery. Septic poisoning developed after an operation. Your telephone voice is YOU. Basic rqte to DETROIT only $1.35. Advertisement.

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HOPE IS RENEWED FOR BRITISH KING

Monarch’s System Is Fighting Off Lung Infection. BY KEITH JONES . United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 6.—The king, his condition alternately encouraging or alarming as his illness progresses, gave the royal family satisfaction and hope today as his system fought off the infection in his lung. His physicians, in their morning bulletin, said the infective process remained severe but was becoming more localized. After a fair night, his temperature was lower and his general condition was slowly improving. During several recent crises, unspoken fear w r as aroused that the king might die before the Prince of Wales could complete his hurried trip home from Africa. Today, the palace household awaited with confidence the arrival of the prince at his father’s bedside by the middle of next week. The queen and Princess Mary went for a drive this afternoon and the crowds noted that the queen was cheerful and smiling. It was announced that Princess Mary hopes to fill engagements which she has made at Northampton on Saturday. Lord Dawson of Penn, the king’s physician, paid two routine visits to the palace during the day, conferring with his colleague, Sir Stanley Hewett, for an hour and a half in the morning and for a shorter period this afternoon.

KIDNAP GEM DEALER Bandits Take $17,000 in Diamonds; Escape. by United Press FLINT, Mich., Dec. 6.—Two bandits who kidnaped a diamond dealer from a crowded depot and took $17,000 worth of diamonds and $1,700 in cash, were sought today by police. * The dealer, James Frankel, 51, of Cleveland, said when he stepped from a train two men, one with a gun, ordered him to a secluded spot in the railroad yard, Frenkel's patented vest quickly was ripped open by the thugs, to obtain the loot. LIQUOR BANS PARTIES “Excessive Drinking” at College Brings Action. B,y United Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 6.—A1l formal parties at Colorado college for the rest of the school year—except the junior prom —have been cancelled because of “excessive liquor drinking” during the homecoming celebration at the college last month, it was announced today.

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4 Dead;ls Missing in Explosion Numerous Persons Injured When Plant Building Is Demolished. By United, Press NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—An explosion jarred the plant of Kill-All Disinfecting Company here today, killing at least four men. A number of persons were injured and fifteen were unaccounted for. The Kill-All plant, a one-story structure, is in the industrial district of the upper east side. The one-story building of the disinfecting company and an adjoining building, occupied by a junk company, both were demolished. Groans of injured persons, still within the debris, could be heard after ambulances had carried away a number of injured and several of the dead. Another building, occupied by the Acme Furring Company, also was badly damaged and its walls caved in. FLOW OF ‘BLACK GOLD’ CAUSES WICHITA STIR Big Gushers Cause Wild Scramble; Three 10,000-Barrel Wells. By United Press WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 6.—Wichita and surrounding countryside today was experiencing the delirium of “oil fever.” Three oil wells within eight miles of the city were gushing 10,000 barrels of “black gold” a day and busy drills were within a few feet of pay sand on three other locations. Hotel lobbies buzz with talk of big fortunes. “Lease hounds,” royalty buyers and officials of producing companies engaged in a mad scramble to share in the big profits. Couple Killed by Train By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 6.—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rodocker, 60 and 58 respectively, are dead today, the result of their automobile being struck by a Wabash freight train at a grade crossing here.

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BOOKIE KING IS FREED BY GANG IM ALBANY Fear of Capture Causes Kidnapers to Release Gambler. By Unite l Press LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Dec. 6.—Ed Alvey, Louisville bookmaker, known here as the "king of gamblers,” who has been missing since Monday, returned to his home here today and told a story of be in# kidnaped and held for ransom. Alvey said he was forced into an automobile, at the point of a gun, near hi home Monday night. He was blind-folded with adhesive tape, he said. "I didn’t know where they took me,” Alvey said. “They changed automobiles once, and we rode for more than an hour. Then we got out and they took me into a building.” Frightened by Papers The 60-year-old gambler said he was released Wednesday midnight apparently when his abductors became frightened over the newspaper publicity given his disappearance. Alvey telephoned a hotel here shortly after his release. He was in New Albany, Ind„ at that tim. The bookmaker said he did not pay any ransom, although the kidnapers were planning on “shaking him down,” he said. Alvey said he was drawn to the abductors’ automobile by a decoy, who posed as an acquaintance from Cincinnati. “The man asked me if I remembered him,” Alvey said, “and asked me if I wanted to go for a ride. A car was parked near by and I unconsciously walked toward it. Shoved Into Car “The man then drew a revolver and somebody got out of the car, grabbed my elbow and shoved me into the car.” A woman residing nearby saw Alvey abducted, sfte said six men kidnaped him. Alvey said he believed only three men were in the party. The green sedan, believed used in abducting Alvey, was found with blood spattered on the seats, in a garage here late Wednesday and it was feared the bookmaker had been munie-ed. Shortly after Alvey’s disappearance, one of his employes received an anonymous telephone call Informing him Alvey was safe and intimating $50,000 ransom would be demanded for his return.

COLD TO CONTINUE Mercury Slides to 18 Degrees at 6 A. M. It will be fair, but only slightly warmer tonight and Friday, J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau head, predicted today. The mercury dropped to 18 at 6 a. m. today, the lowest point of the night and 5 degrees higher than Wednesday’s low mark of 13. The mercury probably will rise to about freezing, 32, or slightly over today, compared to the Wednesday maximum temperature of 24, and the low mark tonight will be about 25, Armington said. WIFE "DEAD; HIKING MATE DOESN’T KNOW Lies in Morgue; Husband, Broke, on Way to Tell News. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6.—While his wife’s body lay in a morgue awaiting burial in Potter’s field, William T. Love, former Galesburg (111.) real estate speculator, today was hitch-hiking here to tell his wife he was “broke.” The wife did not know her husband’s attempt to regain his fortune had failed. The husband, en route to this city does not know his wife was struck by an automobile last Saturday and had died from the injuries.

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The annual freshman-sophomore pushball contest, official wind-up of the period of virulent enmity between the classes, was csheduled at Butler university Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what happened, as told by Jim Runyan: Oh, the freshman out at Butler U. is high ahorse today And passes every hated soph in cold, disdainful way; A test of strength had been arranged, a pushball game in fact. And when the time to play came 'round—all ball was all they lacked. To a fighting frosh such details as the absence of a ball Is not so much to cry about, it dismays him not at all; A score of freshmen, tried and true, appeared upon the field And gnashed their teeth and glared about, but a foe was not revealed. They braved the cold and wintry blasts and huddled in a mass And stayed upon the battle field for the honor of their class; At last a single soph appeared and stood his lonesome ground. And saved the name of his fair class—his pals were not around. He stood apart, near frozen stiff—he was no Eskimo— Then huddled with the freshman pack to get their bodies’ glow; “What ho! me lads.” one freshman cried, when all were nearly stiff,' "We’v won th day without a doubt, an’ I’m not manin’ ‘if.’ ” The freshmen rose with cracklin’ creaks and croaked a chattring cheer, And as they snake-danced from the field, left the sophomore far arear; Regarding of the freezing winds, the dauntless sophomore stuck And hurled a frosty challenge at an army that would duck. And out at Butler U. today contention's running rife: Who won this bloodless, ball-less fray, this cuddle-up of strife? The freshmen claim they won becaus ('their team came a-la-group, The soph is near Pneumonia, but—he claims a grace de coup.

AUTO RACE DRIVER SUED FOR DIVORCE

Louis Schneider Accused of Cruelty; Co-Respondent Is Named. Charging cruel treatment and naming a co-respondent, Mrs. Helen A. Schneider, wife of Louis F. Schneider, automobile race driver and former Indianapolis motorcycle policeman, filed suit for divorce in superior court today. She asked a restraining order to prevent her husband from interfering with her. SIO,OOO alimony, and the custody of their 3-year-old daughter, Mary Ellen. Sentenced to Farm The divorce suit comes as a climax to a municipal court battle between the couple last week in which Schneider was convicted of assault and battery upon his wife and fined SSO and sentenced to thirty days on the Indiana state farm. Mrs. Schneider, appearing in the court with two black eyes, testified her husband had beaten her unmercifully the night of Nov. 24 at a dance hall west of the city. The Schneiders were married in February. 1922, and separated Nov. 24. the divorce petition reveals. Mrs. Schneider, since the separation. has lived at 2239 North New Jersey street, while Schneider has continued to live at 3605 Balsam avenue. Threats Are Charged The petition charges Mrs. Schneider's husband continually cursed her. beat her, and threatened her. She names a Dolly Dolittle as co-respondent. Hearing on the temporary restraining order will be held at 9 Saturday morning. Schneider finished second in this year’s Speedway race.

FARM RELIEF HELP UP Congress Fails to Adopt Agricultural Plan. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. The house agricultural committee failed today to adopt a program for farm legislation at the short session of congress. Chairman Haugen announced after the executive meeting that a "very grave doubt of an adequate bill this session was expressed.” J. C. Williams Reappointed John C. Williams, (Dem.) Anderson, was reappointed to the board of trustees of the State School for the Dead by Governor Ed Jackson today. Members of the board called at the governor’s office and the reappointment was announced immediately afterwards.

local chapter be asked to do so, Mrs. Yuncker said. Presence of Calvin Coolidge at the dedication of the George Rogers Clark memorial at Vincennes, Feb. 25, was announced by Mrs. Charles Carlisle of South Bend, chairman of the legislative committee, who said that arrange-

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Kills Upon Request, to Loud Tune Youth Slays Man While Phonograph Plays; ‘Asked Me To.’ By United Press LOGAN, 0., Dec. 6.—Ray Featheroff, 19, today told police he shot and killed Jacob Konchler, aged farmer recluse, “because Konchler asked me to.” Konchler was slain early this week. Featheroff, arrested near the Konchler house Wednesday, on a charge of hunting without a license, suddenly broke down this moftiing and told of the murder. The youth told Sheriff W. R. Lloyd he was hunting rabbits when Konchler appeared and invited him into his home. Konchler told Featheroff he was heavily in debt and that he would 1 give Featheroff his farm if he killed him. Konchler, Featheroff said, agreed that the phonograph would be played while the youth fired. “Konchler turned on the phonograph,” Featheroff confessed to Sheriff Lloyd, “and I shot him in the back of the head.” A previous examination of the wound indicated Konchler had been shot through the left eye. CARILLON CLASS TO FINISH WORK TODAY The Rev. Frank Lee Roberts to Speak at Banquet Tonight. The Rev. Frank Lee Roberts, pastor of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, will be the principal speaker tonight at the sixtythird semi-annual convocation banquet of the Carillon class of the Scottish Rite. The last three degrees will be given to both sections of the class today. BUSINESS MAN SLAIN Clerk Shoots Auto Dealer in Street; Hints Triangle. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 6.—W. L. Shippy, a grocery warehouse clerk, shot and killed G. Hall Davis, Atlanta automobile dealer, in a downtown street today. After the shooting Shippey turned to a friend and said, according to reports: “That’s one man who will never break up another home.” He then went to a police station and surrendered.

ments have been made to make the dedicatory ceremonies the most important patriotic function of the year in this state. The beauty and historical significance of the memorial to the conqueror of the northwest territory will cause the Nation to make it a national shrine, she said.

SHUMAKER’S BRIEF FILED IN KHCOHT Contends Governor Jackson Had Full Power to Pardon Dry Crusader. Contempt of the state supreme court, for which Dr. Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, was sen tenced to the Indiana state farm —was a crime against the state and not against the court,” and Governor Ed Jackson was within his constitutional authority in pardoning him, the filed today in Shumaker's behalf argued. The brief, filed by Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the dry leader, was in support of Shumaker’s demurrer to the state’s motion for execution of judgment which would return Shumaker to the state farm to serve a sixty-day sentence imposed by the supreme court. Shumaker paid a fine of $250 and costs when Governor Jackson’s pardon liberated him after four hours imprisonment Oct. 19. Advances Two Propositions Two propositions were advanced in the brief. The state’s motion “is not a legal nor proper pleading” it contended, and the Governor’s pardoning power extends to cases of indirect criminal contempt by the supreme court. The brief found room for sharp words for Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. "For more than thirty months,” it said, “the attorneygeneral of the state of Indiana persistently has been pursuing the respondent in this case. He has criticised him from the stump and platform. He has gone into the press to call him approbrious names and he has been pushing this case with all of his energy and animosity. He has always characterized the action of the respondent and particularly the things outlined in his information herein as atrocious crimes.” Gilliom went “so far,” the brief continued, as to ask the court to increase the penalty, but has since “changed his front” and says “that the actions and conduct of respondent are no offense within the meaning of the constitution.” Conduct “Inoffensive” “If this alleged conduct was not an offense, it was inoffensive. It was harmless and this court should make proper amends to this respondent for the conviction and punishment which it has inflicted.” The brief recalled that two of the five supreme court judges dissented in the finding of guilty. It declared that “a pardon is not necessarily a reflection on the court.” “A court looks only to the facts of the particular case and the law relating thereto, while the Governor has a broader horizon,” said the brief. “He takes into consideration the welfare of the state as a whole, the physicial condition of the parties convicted, thejr relation to the various interests "of the state, and from all of the facts and circumstances decides that it is to the best interest of the commonwealth that a pardon should be issued.”

FRAME U. S. BILL TO BAN MASKS OF KLAN Ten Years in Prison and $5,000 Fine Are Proposed. B.y United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—8U1 making it a federal offense punishable by a fine of $5,000 and ten years’ imprisonment or both for “any two or more persons to go in disguise upon public highways” was ready for introduction today by Representative Victor L. Berger, Socialist, Wisconsin. Commenting on the measure, Berger said: “My bill proposes to re-enact in several important particulars the acts passed in 1870 and 1871 against the Ku-Klux Klan of that time. DEFER VESTRIS PRO§E Senate Postpones Action on Invesvestigation of Ship Disaster. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The senate commerce committee today deferred action on the two resolutions calling for investigation of the Vestris disaster. Members asked for transcripts of testimony at the New York hearing before deciding on a congressional inquiry. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 18 10 a. m 28 7a. m 19 11 a. m 30 8 a. m 20 12 (noon).. 32 Ba. m 23 Ip. m,.... 34

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15 OVERCOME IN SCHOOL BY DEADLY GAS Grade Children Are Made Violently 111 by Fumes From Stove. TREATED IN BUILDING Mother Finds Son Lying on Floor With Dozen Others. Fifteen fourth grade pupils were made sick Tuesday, some of them violently so, by carbon monoxide gas escaping from the coal stove in an annex at School 58, Linwood avenue and Michigan street, it was learned today. Dr. A. A. Hollingsworth, 4200 East Michigan street, treated the students and all but one, Warren Russell, 9, of 58 South Colorado street, had returned to school today. Improper firing of the stove probably caused the trouble, Carl W. Burton, school buildings and grounds superintendent said. Eurton today warned all janitors earing for portable schools and other makeshift annexes to avoid putting too much coal into the heater stoves at one time. Gas Is Deadly The only certain way to avoid recurrence of the trouble would be to install steam heating facilities in all the portables and the school officials do not have the money to do this, Eurton said. The children became sick shortly after returning to school after the noon hour, it was learned. The deadly monoxide gas which causes hundreds of deaths over the country each winter, probably had spread through the room after the stove was fired at noon. Monoxide gas also is the gas given off by automobile exhausts and the majority of its victims are motorists who run their automobiles in inclosed places. Found Children on Floor Many of the sick children vomited and some fainted, but none were seriously affected as tests showed the gas had not injured their hearts, Dr. Hollingsworth said. A few were sent to their homes, but others remained at school. They were treated in the hospital room at the school, the principal’s office and about the halls. Parents of those sick were called. According to Mrs. Roy Russell, mother of the u oy still unable to return to school, because of nausea, there seemed to be about twenty children lying about on the floors, with cold towels and cloths on their heads, when she reached the building. Feared Son Would Die Her son seemed so violently ill she at first believed he was going to die, she said. Mrs. Thelma Dean, teacher of the graae using the annex, an old onestory house moved to the school grounds, also was made slightly ill, it was said. Mrs. Maude Moudy, principal, of the school refused to discuss the matter, saying all information must be obtained from the school offices to which she had made*a report. The accident was a very regretable one which, however, migt have occurred in any home, Charles F. Miller, school superintendent said.

“Lesson,” Says Miller Although not serious in itself, it snows the unfairness of compelling children to attend school in poorly ventilated and heated portables and annexes, forty-five of which now are in use, he said. It is impossible to avoid using such buildings entirely in a rapidly growing city, but recent action of various citizens’ organizations in opposing higher school tax levies have prevented Indianapolis from making as much progress as it should to do away with portables, he said. Rudolph Bowers, janitor at School 58. blamed formation of the monoxide gas on the grade of coal he was compelled to use. Th: coal was good coal for use in boilers, but not m a stove, he said. A heavier coal with less dust from which the gas forms easiest, was sent to the school today. DRUG MAKERS MEET Pharmaceutical Association Holds Meeting Here. The semi-annual business meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association opened this morning in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. All national officers of the group were present at the opening of the three-day session, and representatives of many states attended. An inspection tour of local members’ plants was to be made this afternoon. The firms to be visited included the Pitman-Moore Company. Eli Lilly and Company, SwanMyers Company, and the E. C. Bundy Company. James E. Bartlett, R. M. Cain and C. M. Bundy are members of the local committee in charge of arrangements for the meeting.