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WIFE FORCES MATE TO FOIL MURDER PLOT One Gunman Is Slain, Two Captured When They Walk Into Trap. ASSASSINS ARE HIRED Woman Held on Charge of Trying to Get Husband Shot Down. Bn United Prrtm DETROIT, Jan. 10.—Fear of a voung wife that her husband was taking his first wrong step saved Ralph Wood, 33-year-old construction company head, from death at the hands of assassins hired by his wife, Mrs. Grace M. Wood, 39, police said today, as they untangled the plot which cost the life of one gunman and resulted in arrests of two others. The young wife is Mrs. Cecil Holt, 25, whose husband was inveigled to .join the murder plot by Mrs. Wood, Paul Buckley, assistant prosecuting attorney, said. Holt feared to exnose the scheme until his w" threatened to tell authorities herself if he did not. So last nigljt when Holt and three other men went to Wood’s office in Wyandotte, a suburb, fourteen deputy sheriffs and detectives were hidden about office premises. Wood, who had been warned, was waiting and ready, too. Reporters and photographers were stationed in nearby houses. Wood lost his right hand In an automobile accident several years ago, but as he walked from his office his left hand held a revolver in his overcoat pocket. Thugs Lay in Wait Holt and William Haggerty, 27, were waiting outside the small office building. William Thompson, 22, and Taylor Pierce, 22, were waiting nearby in a hired automobile. As Wood left the office, Haggerty struck at him with a blackjack, but his blow was stopped by the roar of guns. The detectives and Wood opened fire simultaneously. Wood believed he killed Haggerty, but the dead man’s body bore five bullet wounds. William Dunnigan, a deputy, was wounded, but is expected to live. In the excitement, few of the participants were able to distinguish clearly what happened and even the newspaper photographers were unable t> get pictures. Pier. :e and Thompson escaped after exchanging volleys with the detei ,ives, but were arrested later. They confessed their parts in the plot and implicated Mrs. Wood, but she has refused to talk except to deny any part in the scheme. She and her 70-year-old mother, Mrs. Mary C. Baumgartner, are being held as material witnesses. Separated Year Ago Wood and his wife separated a year ago, after two years of domestic wrangling. Last month Wood filed suit for divorce, charging cruelty. He stated that his wife interfered with his business, even calling on his real estate prospects and disparaging his private and business life. At the time of the separation. Wood settled on his wife $30,000 cash, two houses, and the titles to twelve lots. Holt lived in one of the houses transferred to Mrs. Wood and he had difficulty in keeping up the payments. When he was injured in an automobile accident, Mrs. Wood sent him flowers and visited him frequently. Finally, Holt said, Mrs. Wood bared the alleged murder plan, offering him the deed to his home and an adjoining house if he would aid the conspire tors. Holt said he ostensibly joined the plot because he was afraid to disagree with the men Mrs. Wood introduced as her helpers. Mot Is Revealed As the date for Wood's murder drew near, Holt became panicetricken and toll his wife, who made film go to Herbert Sullivan, Wood's business partner. Sullivan at first could not believe the plot, but after police confirmed some of Holt’s statements, a searching investigation was made of the entire plot. * At first, Holt said the only plan was to kidnap Wood and take him Into the country while Mrs. Wood obtained deeds to other property. Later it was decided to kill Wood. The plan was to kidnap him from his office and drive into the country, where he would be killed and his pockets filled with drugs. Evidence was to be left near the body to indicate that Wood had been killed by a dope ring. Yesterday afternoon and early evening, the conspirators met and rehearsed their parts. Mrs. Wood joined the men for a time and was intoxicated, but was taken'to her home shortly before the four men went to Wood's office. Holt said. According to police information, she kept up the payments on a SIOO,OOO insurance policy on Wood's life which named her as beneficiary. HEADS” CHURCH GROUP S. E. Homan Elected President of Christian Institute. Stafford E. Homan was elected president at the closing session Wednesday of the Central Indiana Christian Institute at the Mars Hill Church of Christ. Other officers elected were Otto Suhr, vice-president, and William T. Lynn, secretary-treasurer. The principal address of the afternoon was given by the Rev. Homer Dale, oastor of the Hillside Christian Church.

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OH, HONEY, C’MON, GET GYPPED

And Night Club Sucker Falls for Siren Song

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—“ Taxi, mister? Taxi? Want to go to a nice place? Lots of fun. Lots of girls”— So barks an occasional chauffeur of a high rate cab. When he gets a victim, he drives casually to one of several doorways in the Fifties, where narrow stairs lead to what might pass, to a visitor from Mars, as a regular New York night club. The head waiter ushers the victime to a table, followed, more or less discreetly, by several thuglike waiters, for a taxi driver’s introduction is none of the best. “Have you a card?” inquires the head waiter, suavely. “You see, we have to be careful.” If the victim can produce a busi-

ALLITERATIVE AL IS HERE FOR CONTEST

Dust Off the Dictionary and Win Yourself a Prize —Now. BY ALLITERATIVE AL Hello, folks. I’ll be in Indianapolis Friday, and I’ll stay for several days. While I’m here, I’ll give The Indianapolis Times readers a contest that they will remember for years. Yes, sir, a real contest, that will give everybody fun and funds—laughs and lucre. Here is the dope—read it carefully right now. Starting Friday, The Times readers will select one news story, just any story in Friday’s edition, and write another story not less than forty and not more than 200 words long. But the words of this story written must be alliterative. That is, every word must begin with the same letter. It’s not hard, because you can have not more than four nonalliterative words to every twenty alliterative words. Os course, you may make all the words alliterative if you can. A1 Will Read ’Em All Then when you have written your alliterative story, send it to Alliterative A1 at The Indianapolis Times. And folks, I’ll read every one of the stories carefully. Not one will' be missed. The one with the most humor, the most clever combinations, and the one sticking to the contest rules will be given the first prize. And then I’ll choose the second best one. Every day for at least ten days there will be anew contest. That gives you fifty chances to win a prize. Five daily prizes will be given. First prize will be $2. Second will be sl. The next three best alliterative stories will win a pair of tickets each to the Apollo theater, where “Riley, the Cop,” is showing, starting Saturday. This picture stars Farrell MacDonald and Louise Fazenda. It’s a Fox picture, a comedydrama of the best kind. At the end of the contest, two copies of Albert Edward Wiggam’s “Exploring Your Mind With the Psychologists,” will be given for the two best stories submitted during the entire contest. This book, published by Bobbs-Merrill, will show you show you get that way. It’s a best seller. Here’s a Sample Here is an example of an alliterative story such as will be submitted in this contest of mine: “Wild wailing wanton winds whip waifs and weary widows without woolen wrappers, wanting warmer weather. But weather wizards wouldn't waver when wheedled. Wherefore worthy weeping widows and woeful waifs would welcome wearables worn by out by wealthy women with which to ward off white withering wolfish winter wretchedness.” That’s the kind of stuff I want in this Peter Piper contest. And now here are the rules: Your story must be at least forty words long and not more than 200 words in length. The nonalliterative words will not be counted against you unless an average of more than four are used in each twenty words. The Peter Piper piece must tell a story, based on the news. Dust off your dictionary and see what you can dc. Mail entries to Alliterative A1 at The Times. KING~ MAKES PROGRESS Spends Fair Night, Physicians’ Bulletin Reports. LONDON, Jan. 9- King George continued to make satisfactory progress in his illness today. It was announced officially at Buckingham palace at 11:30 a. m. that, “The king had a fair night. His condition is unchanged.”

No Woman Is Ugly, Declares King of Hairdressers; Then Proves It

By Times Spec'al NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—“ There is no such thing,” says Antoine, “as an ugly woman!” Now this piece of intelligence may come as a great big surprise to a few millibn men who have been frequenting bathing beaches, sitting across the aisle in subways, and across the table at breakfasts these many years. But Antoine says so, emphatically, authoritatively, unqualifiedly, in an interview in the current issue of Harper’s Bazar. And who is this Antoine? THIS Antoine, indeed! What John Gilbert is to a love scene, what Rodin is to sculpture, what Babe Ruth is to baseball, what Ziegfeld is to the girl-gag-and-glitter shows, so is Antoine to the art of hairdressing! What Antoine means precisely is that there need be no such thing as an ugly woman. She may have a snub nose and big, fawn eyes, or a perfect

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ness card from Des Moines or Dallas, all is well. New Yorkers are tolerated, but not welcomed. Once the headwaiter gives the signal, a “hostess” romps to the table with a “Hello, honey. Let’s have a drink.” The victim gets liquor—bad liquor, cheap liquor, but not poisonous liquor, for these “hostess joints” are scrupulous in that respect. They do not want deaths on the premises or an illness which might lead to stiff complaints. “I'll have a gin highball,” says the hostess. Actually, she is served with a glassful of cracked ice and a teaspoonful or orange juice and ginger ale. She downs it in one

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QUESTION MARK WILLJLY EAST Endurance Champions to Start Trip Friday. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 10.— The army monoplane, Question Mark, and its crew of five, holders of the world’s sustained flight record, take the air again tomorrow on the first of a series of short flights which will carry them to the nation’s capitol. 1 Major Carl Spatz, commander of the crew which flew the Question Mark for more than 150 hours, plans to leave from the Metropolitan airport before noon tomorrow for Rockwell field, San Diego. The Question Mark will be accompanied by refueling plane No. 1, commanded by Lieutenant Odas Moon. The monoplane will remain at Rockwell field only long enough for three new motors to be installed and tested. It then will proceed to Washington, D. C., by way of Tucson, Ariz., Midland, Tex., Shreveport, La., and Montgomery, Ala. The endurance fliers were entertained last night at a banquet tendered by the Richfield Oil Company. Today they will give their monoplane a final inspection, preparatory to tomorrow’s flight. FAIR FRAUD CHARGED Allege Official Gave Prizes to Relatives. Because he is alleged to have distributed $574 in prizes to relatives for horses that were improperly judged at the state fairs in 1927 and 1928, Roy E. Graham, Franklin, member of the state board of agriculture, may be asked to resign. Tentative decision to request his resignation was reached at the board meeting Wednesday, but the matter was put over until the meeting in February. Graham was accused by R. C.. Jenkins, Orleans, another board member, and the accusations were supported in a report by E. J. Barker, secretary-treasurer of the board. Graham asserted that he merely followed the custom of awarding prizes on horses that failed to get into the Coliseum for judging. E. D. Logsdon, Indianapolis, was elected president of the board: John R. Tipton, vice-president and Barker and Forest Neal, general superintendent of the fair, were reelected to their posts.

nose and oversized ears, or a peach-bloom complexion and a receding chin. But Antoine contends that every woman has one good feature. If she emphasizes that Dy the most effective modeling of her hair, she can make herself attractive. Antoine works to prove his contentions. He takes a model, a baby-faced one who looks like a John Held caricature, smooths out the skew curls, brings the hair back in two loose, even waves over the ears, and instead of a snub-nosed jazz child he presents a madonna. He does something similar with the lady of the oversized chin, or the one whose ears are her sole redeeming feature. The idea that women can not express their personalities as adroitly with short hair as with long coils oI tresses is absurd to Antoine. He believes not only that the bob will continue its sway, but that it lends itself to as much variety as the heavily upholstered coiffures of other generations.

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quick gulp, pats the hand of her host, and says: “I need another drink, honey. I want to get stewed tonight. Won’t that be nice?” nun THIS procedure is kept up indefinitely. A hostess is willing to consume—for her percentage from the management—fifty of her stage drinks an hour, and usually tries to. The sooner her host passes out, the sooner she can move on to a fresh field. Drinks are from $1 to $1.50. The cover charge is from $3 to $lO. Then there is the cigaret girl. She passes by every ten minutes or so, and the hostess simply must have cigarets—at $1 a package. By the next time the cigaret girl arrives, the hostess has lost her package cor given it to her sweetie at the bar, or surreptitiously returned it to the management). The orchestra is accommodating. The leader is anxious to play only request numbers—and after he has played one, the hostess whispers that it’s expected to give him $5 or $lO. # # IN due time the hostess suggests a trip out to the bar—“it’s so cozy out there” —and while having another Volstead drink at sl, she whispers confidentially that she just has got over an operation and can’t pay her rent, or her mother is dying, or her father is reduced to his last pair of suspenders, or all the other girls have fur coats, and— Sfco is not discouraged if turned down. There are other ways. For instance, if there is a party and one man pays the joint check, another man’s hostess whispers that the waiter is upset because the man who actually paid didn’t, and that she knows her man wouldn’t want any trouble. . . Or she confides that the hostess, who has been sitting with another member of the party, didn't get any tip, the poor girl, you know, has to work for a living. . tt u IT is possible to escape from one one of these entertainment places at less than SIOO a head. That is, if there is not SIOO a head in the party. In one case a former football player, now a young business man, was so ill-advised recently as to display several SIOO bills in one of these “clubs.” Shortly afterward his waiter was offensive. The ex-football player liked nothing so much as the prospect of a fight. He leaped to the fray. He woke up on the sidewalk, his face smashed in, his watch and money gone. He didn’t complain. He might have lost his job. PREDICTS DULL TIME Democratic Floor Leader Sees Listless Session. The 1929 general assembly, which opened today, will be a “lifeless, listless, uninteresting session,” according to the forecast of Joseph M. Cravens, Madison, veteran Democratic floor leader. “The principal reason for the lack of enthusiasm is the fact thai a great deal of the work of the former legislatures has been delegated to boards and commissions. Election of the United States senator by the assembly and many other things have been dropped,” Cravens said. “Work of a great many of our boards amounts really to legislation,” Cravens said. He declined to predict the outcome of the Indiana city manager law, which Indianapolis is seeking to amend.

EVOLUTION TRIAL FACED BY TEACHER

By United Press JAMESTOWN, Tenn., Jan. 10.— On the eve of anew evolution hearing, Jamestown was divided in opinion today over the teachings of Elmore Gentry, Clark Range high school principal. Professor Gentry, who the Clark Range school board states has rendered “very satisfactory service” during his three years as principal, has been ordered to appear before the county board of education Friday to answer charges of teaching evolution. Several parents and business men are aligned with the county board which charges Gentry placed in the school library two volumes of “The Outline of Knowledge” containing specific indorsement of the evolu-

BOAST LANDS BANK SUSPECT IN JAIL CELL Woman Repeats Remarks and Police Get* Clew, Make Arrest. TWO CITIES CLAIM HIM Benny London Is Accused in Louisville and Clinton Robberies. A boast repeated in idle gossip by a woman led to the capture of Benny London, alleged bandit, for whose custody Clinton (Ind.) and Louisville authorities are fighting, detectives disclosed today. Municial Judge Paul C. Wetter is to decide at a hearirig this afternoon whether London will go to Clinton to face trial on the charge of being one of the bandits in the $60,000 holdup, Dec. 20, of the First National bank there, or to Louisville, where he is charged with holding up a $5,000 poker game. Kentucky authorities have been seeking London’s return there for more than a week and have extradition papers from Governor Jackson and support of Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. Clinton authorities have support of the state bureau of criminal identification and the Indiana Bankers’ Association. fused Habeas Corpus That London was sought for the Clinton robbery was not revealed until Wednesday, when Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott refused him a habeas corpus writ. The boast which led to London’s arrest was made in December to a north side married woman at whose home London had stayed for awhile, according to detectives. “If they don’t catch up with me until the first of the year. I’ll be fixed for life,” was the boast. The woman reported it to a girl friend. Probably motivated by jealousy, she repeated the boast to police. Arrested at Hotel Detectives at once went to the Wesley hotel, to which London had moved, and arrested him as a suspected gunman on a vagrancy charge. His picture was taken and broadcast over the country and he was freed on bond. He was identified at Louisville by his picture as one of the poker game robbers. When he appeared in court to answer the vagrancy charge, he was nabbed for Louisville police by Detectives Thomas, Bamaby and Clifford Beeker. The woman, an attractive blonde, whose gossip led to his arrest, has visited him several times at county jail and declared she has proof that London was living at her home at the time he war, alleged to have been in the two holdups. MESSENGER BOY SLAIN; POLICE ARE BAFFLED Body Found in New York Office Building; Motive Puzzle. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Police today were mystified over discovery of the body of a messenger boy on the fifteenth floor of an office building late Wednesday night. Leo Moore, the victim, had been shot through the heart. No one could be found who had heard the shot; no pistol was found and police Commissioner Grover Whalen said robbery could not have been the motive because the 19-year-old youth carried no money.

tion theory. Affidavits charge Gentry taught from the two books. Associates and friends of the professor are defending him with the assertion that he used the two volumes for reference and in no instance taught directly from their content. Gentry’s supporters also charged the attack on his teachings was motivated by personal enmity borne by two prominent citizens whose sons were expelled from school. BRUNELL HEADS CLUB Power and Light Company Employes Elect “Ipalco” Officers. Harry C. Brunell was elected president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company employe’s club, Ipalco, Wednesday noon at a meeting held at the Morris street plant. Other officers elected were William S. Cronin; Stanley G. Myers, Jesse White, Ed Klingensmith, George Carter, Dan Talbott, Thomas Brady and William Habeney, vice-presidents; E. W. Boyce, secretary; E. M. Chellew, assistant secretary; Otis Fitzwater, treasurer; directors, Roy Katterhenry, John T. Davis, Paul F. Helm, T. W. Ayton, Harry Boggs. E. G. Ralston, E. E. Scott, Roy Thurman, E. H. Bingham, W. C. RichaMson, Wallace O. Lee, Blythe Q. Hen lricks, J. B. Bailey, H. J. Sneden and Don Snoke. GRILL AX SUSPECT COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., Jan. 10. —Omaha police arrived here today to question Paul Munch, a vagrant, in the belief that he was connected with hatchet murders in Omaha last November. It was said Munch had confessed attacking Mrs. B. F. Fisher, 70, on a farm near Dumfries, la., Wedn&s&yb

SHE CAN TALK, TOO

Among the favorite players of the old silent days of the movies who have met and mastered the new hazard of talking pictures is Doris Dawson, whose contract with First National just has been renewed. Doris has demonstrated that she knows how to talk as well as to look pretty.

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HOOSIERS OPPOSE NEW HOUSE LINEUP

Indiana Would Lose Two Representatives Under Reapportionment. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The Fenn reapportionment bill was to come up for action in the house today with the Indiana delegation more than two to one against it. < Under the bill as drawn, proposing reapportionment of the number of representaatives among the states as determined by the census of 1930, the house to remain at its present size of 435, Indiana would lose two members, and her present congressional delegation of thirteen would be cut to eleven. Other states which have gained more proportionately in population since the 1910 census would be benefited. The Indiana delegation held a meeting yesterday, called by Representative Vestal, whip of the house, Vestal had hoped, as representative of the house leadership, to get the Indiana men to vote for the bill. But the conference broke up without agreement, and it was decided each man should vote for himself. The members definitely expected to vote against the bill are Representatives Rowbottom, Evansville; Johnson, Terre Haute; Updike, if present; Elliott, Hall, Hogg, all Republicans, and Representatives Canfield, Gardner and Greenwood, Democrats. Representatives Wood, Ves .al and Hickey are expected to vote for the bill and Representative Purnell is doubtful. If the legislature is Republican, it would be expected to reapportion the eleven new districts in such way as to eliminate one of the present Democratic districts, probably that of Representative Greenwood, the Second, the First and the Third also are Democratic, but geographically so situated as to make it hard to gerrymander them into Republican strongholds. There still would remain in the problem of eliminating a Republican district, however, and inferentially the job of one of the ten Indiana Republicans sitting In the house. This is thought to explain opposition of other Hoosiers.

HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN RE-ELECT OFFICERS Indiana Association Holds Annual Convention. John Kitchen, Columbus, was reelected president at the thirtieth annual convention of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association at the Claypool, Wednesday. Roy Amos, Edinburg, vice-president, and Edward Richardson, treasurer, were re-elected. The board of directors was unchanged. Principal speakers at the convention, which opened with a banquet, were Governcr-Eldct Harry G. Leslie, E. V. Babcock, former mayor of Pittsburgh, and Senator Andrew Durham, Greencastle. Guests were R. C. Stimson, Memphis, president of the National Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association; Frank F. Fish, Chicago, national secretary; J. H. Townsend, Memphis, secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturer’s Industry; George N. Lamb, Chicago, and Ralph Shead, Chicago. NOTE TELLS OF KILLING Police Get Letter Charging Murder in Case of Missing Woman Bu United Press BERLIN, Jan. 10.—A letter was received by police today asserting that Mrs. Ignatz Thoman. the former Bessie Moss of Philadelphia, had been robbed and murdered. Mrs. Thoman disappeared mysteriously two weeks ago after leaving her home here for a shopping trip. The letter was unsigned, but accused a man whose identity police declined to mmL /

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Bath Faults By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—A code of “family ethics” compiled by Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, Chicago club leader, attacks the bathtub as a leading cause of family quarrels. “In a house where there is only one bathroom, the question who shall take the first bath or who let the water overflow causes much quarreling,” Mrs. Langworthy says. “In general, the wage-earner should have the right of way and the others ought to be willing to wait courteously.”

BRIBE CASE DROPPED Remy Motion on Negley Charges Sustained. William H. Remy’s last official act as prosecutor of Marion county, a motion to nolle the bribery case charge against Claude E. Negley, former city councilman, was sustained today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Remy filed the motion Dec. 23, but on account of the illness of the clerk the motion was laid in a desk drawer and frogotten until recently when it came up. The motion read “upon analysis of the evidence in hand I find that it would be highly insufficient to procure a conviction.” The charge grew out of the turbulent conditions in 1927 when the city council was trying to impeach John L. Duvall, then mayor. The charge was that Negley accepted S2OO from Duvall for his supporting vote in the council in case they should try and impeach the mayor.

NEED SHOWN FOR TWO NEW FEDERAL PRISONS Superintendent Urges Action to Relieve Congestion. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Immediate construction of two new federal prisons has been recommended to the special house prison investigating committee by Albert W. Conner, superintendent of federal prisons, to relieve overcrowding. Conner said that one prison capable of housing 2,000 persons should be constructed, either in Ohio or western Pennsylvania, and that a second institution with 1,00 capacity should be built in either Texas or California. At the same time Conner outlined a plan of utilizing existing federal institutions to relieve congestion at the Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeil island prisons. SAILORS ¥OB MOVIE Italians Storm Picture House, Destroy Film “Street Angel.” By United Press LONDON, Jan. 10.—Seventy Italian sailors, armed with knives and pistols, raided a Shanghai moving picture house showing the film “Street Angel,” seized the film and burned it, the Daily Mail’s Shanghai correspondent reported today. Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy had described the picture as a gross misrepresentation of Italian life. SHGW ‘ELECTRIC iEYE’ Traffic Device Simplifying Code Demonstrated in New York. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—An “electric eye,” in which the shadow of an )>to passing over an electrical devK caused reaction of traffic signals, was demonstrated to the New York Electrical Society. With its use, red stop lights would not flash on main thoroughfares at times when no side street traffic was in sight.

HOOVER WILL WAGE BATTLE FORJRY U. S. President-Elect to Make Supreme Effort to Enforce Law. INQUIRY TO BE ORDERED Independent Commission to Go Into All Phases of Problem. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1929. by United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Herbert Hoover, soon after his inauguration, will sponsor a supreme attempt to enforce the prohibition law—a campaign in which new legal weapons as well as education will be used. Hoover lately has given considerable attention to the prohibition problem, devoting much time to a study of possible new measures for tightening enforcement, during the long voyage from Rio De Janeiro to Norfolk on the battleship Utah. Among the suggestions considered, it is learned, is to increase responsibility and accountability of dry administrators for major violations in their territories, such as largescale smuggling and diversions from bonded warehouses. The general suggestion embodies the Idea of criminal prosecutions for dry officers where negligence can be proved. Education Will Help In addition, Hoover is expected to promote an educational campaign for prohibition, such as those he directed during the war for conservation of food and relief programs. He believes it might change the attitude toward prohibition. Hoover is convinced, personally, that the country is preponderantly dry. He believes that prohibition of alcoholic liquors is wise. The economic phases of the problem impress him. To him, the beneficial effects he sees in prohibition of alcoholic liquors, if that ccn be achieved, are part and parcel of that general prosperity and prosperity and economic welfare which will be the aim of his administration. He recognizes there are grave abuses, as he has said. New legal measures and education will be directed at these. Meanwhile, he will seek to run these abuses down, to find out just what they are and how dee; seated, through an impartial invest sation. The senate judiciary committee today will begin consideration of a resolution providing for an independent commission to make an investigation of prohibition. Hoover will co-operate with this commission in its inquiry, and is expected to say so in his inaugural message. This commission might recommend repeal of the eighteenth amendment or modification of the Volstead act. Hoover Cabinet in Doubt What course Hoover would take in that case is unknown. Characteristically, he would give it very careful thought. He will indicate no course of action until the investigation is completed, meanwhile taking steps to tighten enforcement, on the theory that the majority of people of the country, despite many outcries of discontent, want prohibition. The President-elect today continued his conferences with officials, his calling list including Senator Gillett (Rep., Mass.), C. Bascom Slemp, campaign lieutenant; Resident Commissioner Davila of Porto Rico, director lord of the budget bureau; Representatives French, Idaho; Hawley, Oregon, Davenport, New York, and Treadway, Massachusetts, and Senators Vandenberg, Michigan, and Thomas, Idaho.

KILLER OF TWO BABIES LEAVES SUICIDE NOTE Father Vanishes After Writing Note of Hope for Meeting in Heaven. Bu United Press LONG BEACH, Cal., Jan. 10.-A grief-stricken mother waited today to learn whether her husband, who disappeared after smothering their two babies, had eluded searching police and carried out his announced intention of suicide, i Mrs. G. W. Duer returned home from shopping Wednesday evening to find the bodies of her two children, Dorothy, 2, and Charlotte, 9 months, smothered to death with a towel. Besides the babies’ crib, the mother found a note from her husband, saying she would “meet the babies In heaven.” The note added that the writer was leaving to take Ws own life. TWO HOLDUPS NET $45 Early Morning Operations of Bandits Bring Small Returns. Bandits obtained $45 in two early morning hold-ups today. C. F. Howson, night man at the Hoo6ier Rent-A-Car Company, 127 East Wabash street, was bound and gagged by two bandits at 4 a. m. today. He remained tied up until Charles N. Wood, Negro, 617 West Vermont street, found him at 6:40. The bandits took $28.13 which Howson had just tied in a paper sack to hide. A lone bandit greeted John Wayatt, Y. M. C. A., night man at Cal’s lunch wagon, 327 North Illinois street, with a cheery “good morning” at 5 a. m. He made Wayatt lie on the floor while he took $16.50 from the cash register.