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COUNTY PROSE IN WILD BANK CASE ORDERED Second Quiz to Be Started in Condition at Time of Closing. SOLVENCY IS ISSUE Hope to Settle Conflicting Reports of Examiners by Inquiry. Investigation of the financial condition of the J. F. Wild & Cos. state bank, when its doors were closed by state banking examiners about two years ago, will be reopened by county authorities within the next few days, it was reported today. Homer Elliott, former federal district attorney, is to be appointed special deputy prosecutor to carry on the second probe into the bank’s . failure, it was said. He will begin an immediate personal investigation and later submit the facts he obtains to the county grand jury for consideration. Solvency Is Issue The main point in the quiz will be to determine whether the bank actually was insolvent when it was closed in July, 1927. On the question of possible solvency, ii is known, will hang the results of the criminal investigation. Two firms of accountants were in charge of tabulation of the bank’s books, and according to evidence given in court cases, growing out of the bank's failure, one of the firms declared the bank insolvent while the other disputed this statement. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark declined to comment on possible moves relative to reopening the investigation. An indictment, charging bank embezzlement, returned by a previous grand jury named John F. Wild, J. Craig Fisher, W. H. McNary and Otto P. Kern, officers of the bank, as defendants.' A motion to quash this indictment was sustained several weeks ago by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. The true bill alleged that officers of the bank continued to accept money from depositors when they were aware of the alleged insolvent condition of the institution. Richard L. Lowther, receiver for the bank, has returned 67.5 per cent in 5 per cent dividend lots to depositors. It is reported that several other payments are planned as soon as properties of the bank in Indianapolis and Florida are sold. Realty Company Sold Ruling on a suit by Lowther to sell as assets SIOO,OOO worth of “accommodation notes’’ given the bank by Frank M. Millikan, the late Robert. I. Todd and the late John J. Appel, now is awpited. Superior Judge Linn D. Hay is exected to give his decision in the case soon. Lowther also is trying to collect 8151,000 from shareholders and the assets of the Elevator Realty Company in a suit before Superior Judge William O. Dunlavy. The realty company, a subsidiary of the bank, was “leeching’’ the bank for money to operate and pay stock dividends, it is alleged. BANK RESOURCES RISE Drop in Deposits in Last Half of 1928 Shown in State. Resources increased $4,048,620.50 and deposits decreased $2,086,422.79 in banks under supervisotn of the state during the last six months of 1928, as compared with the first six montsh, according to a statement by Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner. The report shows a decrease of twenty in the number of financial institutions from June 30 to Dec. 31. There now are five savings banks, 114 private banks, 503 state banks and 159 trust companies under state supervision. PERRYAGAIN CLUB HEAD Columbia Officials Re-elected at Directors’ Meeting. Norman A. Perry. Indianapolis Power and Light Company president, was re-elected president of the Columbia Club today at a meeting of directors. All officers were re-elected. Other officers are Fred C. Gardner, vicepresident: E. P. Akin, manager and club secretary: and Frank Butler treasurer. Perry, Gavin L. Payne, and Elmer W. Stout, Fletcher American National Bank president, were recently elected directors. JOHNj FLO AT DANCE ‘Young Coolidge Attends Clerks’ Party With Fiance. By United Prett NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Feb. 8 Attending their first social function since the brilliant Governors ball a month ago, John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull were guests at the informal dance given by Nets Haven railroad clerks at New Haven Lawn Club Thursday night. John is a clerk in the statistical department. *

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Policeman’s Lot Not Happy One

IMME a pint” vJ “Just a minute and I’ll fix you right up.” The customer who hfad knocked on the door of a house at 2020 West Maryland street, waxed conversational. “Gee, you sure must be doin’ a lot of cookin’. I can smell alky a block away.” “Come on in,” said the host. “I’ll show you have we make it.” The customer entered to learn his host was not Barney Rappold, owner of the house, but Sergeant Loren Troutman, who with a squad of police raiders had entered the home and decided to await the return of the family. Tired of waiting at last, the raiders dismantled a large still and started to empty a quantity of mash into a bath tub. The customer, a railroad worker who was attired in overalls and rubber boots, volunteered to handle the mash. “You fellows would get your uniforms dirty,” he explained. He was not held. Rappold, a switchman, was arrested later after a chase of several blocks, and-held on a charge of manufacture and possession of liquor.

TAMPERING WITH BILLSJHARGED Senator Charges Figures in Draft Changed. Charging that deliberate changes had been made in a house bill in the senate engrossing room, Senator Winfield Miller, Indianapolis, unloosed a storm of protest against the “inefficiency” of the present system of engrossment. All senators taking the floor and Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush, agreed that numerous errors are made in engrossment. Senator Joseph M. Cravens, Madison, Democratic floor leader, charged that all errors there are “not accidental” and suggested appointing a watchman from the state board of accounts. The suggestion was received with favor by Bush, but later he brought the matter again to the senators’ attention and debate closed with admonishing the committee on enrolled bills to be more careful, particularly with amendments. Edward H. Abernathy, engrossing clerk, appeared with several amendments written by senators which he said were samples of how impossible it is to read them accurately. Typewriting of amendments was suggested. But Miller insisted that the change in House Bill 51, was on a typewritten amendment and some figures had been put in with pencil, changing the ones rightfully there. The senators voted to recall the bill, which provides for county commissioners to create and maintain county hospitals.

Charity Fatal By United Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. B.—A charity operation which Dr. John H. Finnegan performed four weeks ago caused his death. The surgeon scratched his finger with a lancet before he could sterilize his instruments after the operation. Infection set in, his right arm was amputated and he died yesterday.

ARMY TO HEAR BOOTH Salvation High Council Will Meet Next Wednesday. By United Press LONDON, Feb. B.—The Salvation Army high council announced today that it had met this morning and adjourned until next Wednesday, when it will meet in Sunbury Court and hear General W. Bramwell Booth’s lawyer. The court, in Booth’s injunction proceedings against the council’s removing him as commander-in-chief of the army, ordered the high council to give Booth due hearing.

DOOMED SLAYER ASKS TO WED VICTIM’S DAUGHTER

By United Pr *ss LONDON, Feb. B.—Reginald V. Clarke, the “boy with a hundred sweethearts,” has asked permission to marry Miss Mary Agnes Fontaine, daughter of the woman for whose murder he has been sentenced to death. Clarke, who claims to have been a student at Princeton, was convicted this week of killing Mrs.

SI,OOO IS OFFERED FOR PROOF ADAM NEVER ATE APPLE

ONE thousand dollars for definite. scientific proof that Adam didn’t eat the apple! That amount will be paid to any recognized scientist who disproves any part of the Bible by the Defenders of the Christian Faith. Announcement of the award, which has been posted by Paul Rader, Chicago fundamentalist evangelist, was made at Cache Tab-

THE emergency bell clanged at police headquarters. A wild scramble for coats, gloves and hats, and the ‘fast wagon,” loaded with police, sped away. Slippery, perilous streets slowed the high-powered car. A minor downtown traffic tangle hindered progress. It was a “plenty tough” morning for a run. At Washington street and the Belt Railroad crossing the car was halted by a sizeable traffic jam, caused by a switching freight train For eight minutes they waited. The air was blue. The crossing was cleared at last, and the car sped on to its destination, a grocery at 56 South Holmes avenue, where a holdup had been reported in progress. Arriving at last, the officers dashed into the store. They were greeted by C. E. Sandborn, the proprietor. “It’s all a mistake,” he smiled. “My wife heard a commotion in the store and called you, thinking it was a hold-up. The oil man just hollered a little loud when he came in and we h|d a friendly tussle.”

JUDGE SCORES COSTOF BAIL Release on Drunk Count Is Costly. Methods by which professional bondsmen and attorneys assess persons, charged with intoxication, S4O and SSO to secure their release from jail on SIOO bonds were scored in municipal court today by Judge Clifton R. Cameron. The judge asked H. A. Nelson, 51, owner of c. farm near Crothersville who was arrested on a drunk charge when Motor Policeman Clarence Griffin took him from a taxicab in front of police headquarters Jan. 31, if he was one of the “unfortunate victims” forced to pay an exorbitant fee to a bondsman to get, out of Jail. Nelson said he paid $25. His attorney, Paul Scharffin, protested that the $25 was his attorney’s fee in the case and that Nelson had been charged nothing for the bond. Police records showed that Donald Underwood, professional bondsman, 17 South Alabama street, provided Nelson’s bond. Judge Cameron continued indefinitely the charge against Nelson and said nothing further about the bond situation but later when B. E. Rathermill failed to-appear in court to answer a charge of failure to have a 1929 license plate, he immediately forfeited the '.25 Unuerwood had posted as Ratheimill’s bond. Rathermill failed to appear in court last week to answer the charge and was rearrested Thursday. Released on Underwood’s bond, he again failed to appear in court today. Cameron ordered him rearrested again.

VOTE $20,000 TO STUDY OF SALES TAX METHODS Bill Sent to House After Passage in Senate. Indiana senators have voted $20,000 for creation of a commission to be appointed by the Governor to study sales taxes and report a plan for such a levy to the 1931 legislature. The bill passed the senate Thursday and has been sent to the house. A tax refunding measure, which state tax board members declare would provide for refunds for ten years back and cause repayments of $10,000,000 throughout the state and $8,000,000 in Marion county, was introduced by Senator Sumner Clancy, Indianapolis. He declared that he had not understood the measure and would offer an amendment limiting refunds to five years. The Beeson bill making Armistice day a legal holiday also was passed at the afternoon session.

Alice Fontaine, his landlady, after he had coaxed her life savings from her. He now has Sir William Joynson-Hicks. British home secretary, to allow him to marry the girl before he is hanged. Clarke boasted of his philander - ings and said he hypnotized women into providing him with money. Miss Fontaine declined to comment on the marriage proposal.

emacle this afternoon by Dr. Ger- in line with the organization’s stand aid Wlnrod, founder and directing on the literal translation of the Biflgure of the organization, at a ses- ble and its opposition to modernists, sion of the group’s national con- “It is a question of ‘put up or shut vention. up.’” he declared. We are calling „ m m the bluff of the atheists and the "'TpHE award wil be given the sci- modernists. X entist who can produce one "The nation has been flooded reproved scientific fact to disprove cently with propaganda containing any statement in the Bible,” Dr. general statements attempting to Winrod said. The announcement is disprove the Lib.e. Generalities and

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NORTHCOn IS FOUND GUILTY; FACES NOOSE Death Sentence Will Be Pronounced Monday; Plans Appeal. REACH VERDICT QUICKLY Jury Takes Only Two Ballots; Condemned Man Is Calm. By United Press RIVERSIDE, Cal., Feb. B.—Gordon Stewart Northcott, youthful Wineville chicken rancher, seemed unperturbed by an inevitable death sentence today as he lounged in his county jail cell, convicted of slaying three young boys on his ranch. He maintained the same outward calm that marked his court appearance Thursday night when he heard a jury report that he was guilty of first degree murder, with no recommendation for mercy. The 22-year-old Canadian will return to Superior Judge George R. Freeman’s court Monday morning to hear himself condemned to die on the gallows. With no recommendation by the jury the pronouncement of the death penalty is automatic. Under the California law the sentence can not be carried out before ninety days and in that time, Northcott indicated, he would appeal. In his testimony, Northcott declared that he did not kill the boys for whose death he was convicted —Lewis and Nelson Winslow and an unidentified Mexican. Only two ballots were required to reach the hanging verdict. The first was unanimous for conviction, but the jurors argued for several minutes before deciding definitely not to include a recommendation for mercy. The second ballot was unanimous for the death penalty. The jury deliberated two hours. EXPERTS REACH EUROPE U. S. Reparations Embassy Arrives In France. By United Press CHERBOURG, Feb. B.—Owen D. Young and J. Pierpont Morgan, unofficial United States representatives at the conference of war reparations experts, arrived here aboard the liner Leviathan today. Both declined to make any statements to nawspaper reoprters. They later were welcomed in Paris.

Steals Newspaper; Sent to Jail for 60 Days By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. B.—William F. Brockman will serve sixty days in the house of correction here for stealing a newspaper and 2 cents. Brockman was arrested by a policeman who saw him take the paper and the coins from a news stand. He was fined $25 and costs, but could not pay his fine.

SERVES TERMS Man Is Sent to State Farm for Sixteenth Time. James Lanahan,, 45, who gave his address as 1520 East Vermont street, was sentenced to the Indiana state farm for the sixteenth time since 1924 by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today. Lanahan told the judge he has been to the farm fifteen times in a plea to escape another sentenc. “I won’t squawk. None of your damn business,” the officer who arrested Lanahan as he was lying in a West Washington street poolroom with blood over his face said Lanahan replied when he asked what had happened. Lanahan was fined $25 and sentenced to serve sixty days. Senator Recovering from Flu WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—Senator George P. McLean of Connecticut, who has been ill with the flu at his home for three weeks, is recovering and expects to return to the senate next Monday, it was learned at his office today.

Fine Fish! By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. B.—Three fish caught by Louis Kostowetsky, the Bronx, cost him $1 apiece in traffic court because he ran through a traffic signal in his anxiety to reach home and show his fishing prowess to his wife.

Denby Dies

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Edwin Denby, former secretary of the navy, who died today in Detroit.

SALES TAX PLAN IS GIVENHOUSE Farmers Present Bills to Avoid Property Levy. , The farmers’ plan for avoiding the 8-cent increase in the state tax levy entailed by budget appropriations for the next fiscal biennium, was in the hands of a subcommittee of the state house of representatives today. • Three bills designed to raise $5,500,000 annually from sales taxes on tobacco, amusements and corporate stocks, have been turned over to the subcommittee by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, Lewis N. Taylor, chairman of the bureau’s legislative committee, announced. “The bills we propose would offset the threatened property tax increase,” Taylor said. “The tobacco tax would return, we estimate, about $2,000,000 annually, the amusement tax about the same amount and the fee on corporations another sl,500,000.” The $5,500,000 obtained annually in this way would be the equivalent of an 11-cent increase in the tax rate, for a 1-cent levy raises approximately $500,000. The farm bureau bills are in the hands of a subcommittee of the house ways and means committee. Subcommittee members are Representatives James H. Lowry of Indianapolis, chairman; Claude G. Malott of Bloomington and Charles M. Trowbridge of Rushville.

CONDEMNED TO DIE, BUT NO EXECUTIONER First Death Sentence in 100 Years Puts Virgin Islands in Quandary, By United ~ ress ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, Feb. 8. —The Virgin Islands of the United States, confronted for the first time in more than one hundred years with a capital punishment sentence, faces a problem in finding an executioner. The sheriff, a native of Saint Croix, announced today that he will decline to carry out the sentence which was imposed upon Joseph Braffith, a West Indian Negro, by Chief Justice George Washington Williams of Baltimore, Md., who presides over the islands’ district court. The doomed man was convicted of stabbing to death Peter King, another Negro, in a quarrel over a woman. The execution is slated for March 29. HURT IN TRAIN CRASH Baltimore & Ohio Freights Collide Near Willow Valley. By United Press WILLOW VALLEY, Ind., Feb, B. One trainman was injured and several others slightly shaken up when two Baltimore & Ohio freight trains crashed head-on near here today. W. Wilkerson. Seymour, fireman, sustained a broken arm and cuts and bruises. Officials of the railway were to investigate the wreck late today.

theories get us nowhere. Let’s get down to facts and quit dealing in generalities.” tt n THE challenge is directed especially at the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, which Dr. Winrod charges with directing the anti-Bible propaganda. Dr, Winrod expressed perfect faith

EDWIN DENBY, EX-SECRETARY OF NAVY, DIES End Comes Suddenly to Former Official at His Hotel in Detroit. HEALTH SEEMED GOOD At Office Regularly for Last Two Weeks; Once Was Congressman. By United. Press DETROIT, Feb. B.—Edwin B. Denby, former secretary of the navy, died suddenly from heart failure at his hotel here this morning. No statement would be given out at the hotel until after a conference of his doctors, but at Denby’s law office it was said he had appeared in perfect health when he left Thursday. He has been at the office regularly the last two weeks. Denby also served as representative from Michigan in the Fiftyninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first congresses from 1905 to 1910. Denby, who was 59 years old, was born at Evansville, Ind. He was secretary of the navy from 1921 to 1924. His son, Edwin Jr., 16, is preparing to enter the naval academy, and his daughter, Marian, 14, is attending a private school here. For the last nine years Denby has been associated in a law firm with Joseph J. Kennedy and his younger brother, Leland Kennedy. Although he has a .comfortable home outside the city limtis, Denby and his wife had spent most of the last four years at the hotel where he died. Center of Oil Quiz. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—Edwin Denby, former secretary of navy, who died in Detroit today, was one of the casualties of the famous senate Teapot Dome investigation, and he is the first of the conspicuous figures in that matter to die. Denby resigned after the senate called for his resignation because of his alleged failure to block the disposition of The Teapot Dome and Elk Hills naval oil reserves to Harry F. Sinclair and E. L. Dolieny. It was charged in the senate he was incompetent and signed the documents laid before him by the then Secretary of nlterior Fall without knowing their real signifies nee. Denby never was accused of any illegitimate part in the Teapot Dome affair and w\s regarded by the senate critics cnly as an innocent tool of designing men. The senate adopted a resolution demanding the resignation of Denby and his other cabinet colleague, then AttorneyGeneral Daugherty. President Coolidge refused officially to receive the senate resolution holding that the senate was without power to make such a demand. Denby stayed on a few weeks and then resigned from the cabinet, receiving a letter of commendation from President Coolidge. Denby’s retirement was all the more dramatic because of his spectacular rise. When the United States went into the war Denby enlisted as a private in the marines. He finally became a recruiting sergeant, After the war he was a probation officer in Detroit. One day in the late winter of 1921 he received a telegram from President-Elect Harding to come at onde to St. Augustine, Fla. Harding’s cabinet was complete except for a secretary of navy. Denby caught the next train. Harding asked him to be secretary of the navy. Denby accepted and the Harding cabinet was completed just a few days before inauguration. Denby once served in congress and was interested in automobile manufacture. Two Hurt by Fire Truck By United Press _ . „ _ , BEDFORD, Ind., Feb. B.—Gofdan Lee, mail carrier, and his son, A. J. Lee, police chief, were injured seriously here today when their automobile was struck by a fire truck on a run. The truck skidded on an Icy street, ladders striking the automobile.

BOY AIDS COUNTERFEITER MULCT FIRMS OF S2OO

Using a 14-year-old boy as his “contact man,” an expert counterfeiter in the last three days has mulcted Indianapolis business firms of more than S2OO, it was learned today with the arrest of the boy. The boy was apprehended at the

the reward never will be claimed, much less awarded. “The Bible is an accurate history, and is in harmony with the proved facts of science, but out of harmony with many scientific theories,” he declared. N Paul W. Rood, Turlock, Cal., president of the Byan Bible League, will address the convention tonight on “Bryan, the Modem Elijah.”

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Irish Leader Is Prisoner for Month

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Eamonn de Valera Goes to Jail for Entering Forbidden Land. By United Press BELFAST, Ireland, Feb. 8. —Eamonn De Valera, Irish republican leader was sentenced today to a’ month in jail for violating the order of Northern Ireland government forbiding him to enter its territory. . De Valera was arrested Tuesday while trying to cross the Ulster border to address a Gaelic meeting in Belfast. De Valera’s sentence merely involves prison, without labor. He will have access to the prison library and enjoy other priveleges.

Cop Snips Nap By United Press STEUBENVILLE, 0., Feb. 8. —A bullet from a policeman’s gun, fired to halt a gang of juveniles surprised in the act of robbing a store here Thursday night, lodged in the back of Edward Tomasewski, asleep In his home. Tomasewski was taken to a hospital where It was learned that his wound was not serious.

MERCURY TO DROP Temperature Tonight Will Be 16 Above Zero. The fifteen-degree temperature drop predicted for Indianapolis last night probably will arrive tonight, United States weather bureau officials said today. A drop to a temperature of 16 above zero is predicted tonight with the temperature Saturday ranging 15 to 20 degrees below today’s mark. There was 1.3 inch of snow on the ground here at 7 a. m., according to the weather bureau record. Occasional snow is likely tonight and Saturday. Miles City, Mont., and Sheridan, Wyo„ reported the lowest temperature in the country, 28 degrees below zero. Lumber King to Be Burled By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—William A. Wimsatt, nationally known lumber dealer, will be buried here Saturday. He was president of the Johnson & Wimsatt wholesale lumber firm.

Wings on Baby By United Press CASTELLAMMARE, DI STABIA, Italy, Feb. B.—Mrs. Vincenzo Pensiero gave birth to a boy today who was normal in every respect except that the legs resembled wings. The child will be sent to Naples for scientific examination.

Levinson hat shop, at Illinois and Market streets, where he attempted to pass a S2O bill which had been raised from $5. * Telling police he had met the man last Wednesday and did not know his name or address, they boy said he had passed several of the bills in the last thre days. He made small purchases, he said, most of them for amounts totaling about $3, kept $2 for himself and gave the man sls. The raised bills, police say, are the work of a master counterfeiter.

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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS CHANGEVOTED State Senate Passes Bill Extending Time to Five Years. # JACKSON’S CASE CITED Alteration Not Justified, Plead Opponents of Measure. Although opponents of the measure pleaded against raising the time limit of the statute of limitations from two to five years, “just because an ex-Govemor used the statute to escape conviction,” the bill passed the senate today by a vote of 20 to 10. Reference was to the trial of former Governor Ed Jackson, who pleaded the statute of limitations a year ago to the bribery conspiracy charge against him. Jackson, according to testimony at the trial, when secretary of state, offered Governor Warren T. McCray SIO,OOO and a promise of immunity in Marion county courts if he would appoint James E. McDonald Marion county prosecutor. Jackson pleaded he was immune from prosecution because more chan two years had passed since the alleged bribe attempt. Extended to Five Years The bill passed today by the senate extends to five years the time within which prosecution may be started. Senator Ralph Adams, Shelbyville, declared that he had no particular case in mind when he introduced the measure, but he saw no reason for not extending the five-year limit to all felonies, since it already is five years on some felinies. Senator William F. Hodges, Gary, asserted that prisons are already full and there was no need to extend the time limit because “some official probably had taken advantage of it and there was a popular outcry for cliange.” “The fact that an ex-Governor pleaded the statute of limitations for defense does not warrant changing it,” Senator Carl M. Gray, Petersburg, declared. “Why, that was the first time I ever heard of its being used in that manner in a criminal case, and I know of its use only once in my practice in a civil case.” Holmes Favors Passage Senator C. Oliver Holmes, speaking in favor of passage, said that under the present organization of the board of accounts the force is so limited that it takes years before certain governmental unit books are checked. By that time, if error is disclosed, the statute of limitations applies and “the skalliwags escape punishment, often with thousands of dollars’ shortage,” he asserted. Voting 37 to 5, the senate passed the Gray bill permitting the state to comment on refusal of defendant to take the witness stand in criminal cases. Another of Senator Carl M. Gray’s bills, authorizing sale of coal land held in trust by life tenant with remainder-men in some other person, passed the senate, 37 to 1. The senate, with Its calendar cleared, adjourned at noon, to reconvene Monday at 2 p. m. • Free textbooks, a court of criminal appeals, state use only for prison-made goods and easier divorce rules were among the aims 'sought in bills introduced in the senate today. PAY QUEEN TRIBUTE Madrid Citizens Throng Streets at Funeral of Noblewoman. By United Press MADRID, Feb. B.—Madrid citizens thronged to the grounds of the royal palace today to pay final tribute to Queen Mother Marie Christina as her body was borne to the royal mausoleum at Escorial. The University of Madrid and all city schools were closed for the day, to allow students to see the funeral procession as it moved through Madrid streets. Many floral offerings arrived at the palace. ANTHRAX FATAL TO MAN Rare Disease for Humans Kills Resident of Binghamton, N. Y. By United Press SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. B.—Edward Crowley of BLighamton, N. Y., died today of anthrax, the second such death In six months. The disease is rare among humans.

Guards Death By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. B.—Mrs. Anna Smith, 62, who guarded the body of her dead husband for nearly a week, was taken to the psychopathic hospital for examination today. Mrs. Smith was found sitting beside her husband’s body by police who had been notified that Smith had been missing from work for a week.