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SENATORS’ WRATH THWARTS ATTEMPT OF CLAYCOMBE TO BLOCK ARMORY COST QUIZ Forced to Report Bill Out of Committee When Week of Dilatory Tactics Is Aired on ' Floor by Irate Members. GOVERNOR LESLIE TAKES HAND Flagrant Effort to Kill Measure by Delay Despite Approval of Colleagues Brings Action by Chief Threatened with the humiliation of a rebuke by his fellow members, State Representative Lloyd D. Claycombe of Indianapolis today was forced to abandon hit; single-handed attempt to squelch the investigation of construction of twenty-three Indiana National Guard armories under the “closed corporationcost plus” plan as practiced by the Ostrom Realty Company and its parent, the Peoples State Bank. For one week Claycombe has held in judiciary B committee the senate bill authorizing a searching probe into the armory construction and appropriating SIO,OOO to defray expense thereof. Several state senators interested in seeing a real investigation say Claycombe, who is chairman of the' committee, has to bring the bill down until, in the senate today they broke into open, irate denunciation of his dilatory tactics. Finally Claycombe reported the bill out and was advanced to second reading.

The open attempt to kill the i hill by delaying the report, which the committee members had signed, grew to such a scandal that Governor Harry G. Leslie took a hand. It was one of the few times this session that he has turned his hand to influence the legislators. Committee members announced before the session this morning that they had agreed on a report recommending that the senate bill pass with an • amendment .eleminating the SI<UKX> appropriation. Governor Leslie had\&ssured • them he would pay expenses of the probe out of his contingent fund. However, when the call for committee report was made Claycombe had stepped out of- the room. His committeenifn looked around for him in 'amazement. Report Incident to Lindley The incident was reported to Senator Aloiizo H. Lindley, who was chairman of the senate committee which drew the probe bill after a preliminary inquiry. When house bills on second reading were called In the senate Lindley arose, outlined the betrayal by Claycombe over the house and declared he thought the senate ought to refuse to act upon any house bill until Claycombe had been forced to report the probe bill out. , “Even now it will be impossible to get the bill through the house unless rules are suspended,” said Lindley. "I can’t understand it. There have been $1,700,000 worth of armories foisted on the people and the people want to know whether the business was done legally or illegally, and no chairman of a house committee should be allowed to thwart their will.” Senator Carl M. Gray, another senate armory probe committee member, moved that all action on house bills be delayed until Claycombe was forced to bring the armory bill out, remarking: “I don’t know what interest Claycombe can have in this bill. It is rather peculiar incident that he should hold it up despite his promises.” Foliows Claycombe Senators generally objected to holding up all house bills and Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush satisfied Gray and Lindley by appointing Gray. Senator French Clements and Senator Glenn R. Slenker to confer with the speaker of the house and ask him to force Claycombe to bring the bill out, Meanwhile, things had been going on behind the scenes over in the house. Representative Ernest M. Hawkins noticed Claycombe going toward Governor Leslie's office and followed him there. Finally Presents Report The Governor promptly informed Hawkins Claycombe was misinformed, that Marshal had nothing to do with the armory, other than that he had donated the ground upon which it was built. The Governor further disclosed that Marshall as a matter of public spirit had engaged an architect to design the armory, but the armory board ignored this man and put its own designer on the job. Hawkins said that the Governor, in no uncertain terms, told Claycombe he wanted the bill passed. Clayclombe left. Then Hawkins went in and said he told the Governor that Claycombe Thursday night had told the committee that Henry Marshall, one of Leslie’s closest friends at Lafayette, was interested in the Lafayette armory and they ought not do anything about the investigation. Hawkins went back to the house with a request from Leslie that he force Claycombe-out of his hole at •HjF costa Hawkins then presented

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a motion that, file house require Claycombe to report. Speaker Knapp announced that Claycombe had just been to him and asked leave to make a report before noon. Hawkins, giving Claycombe until noon to make good, withdrew his motion, threatening to refile it if Claycombe delayed after noon. With only a few minutes of grace left Claycombe presented the report. It recommended not only the amendment striking out the SIO,OOO appropriation, but also that the words mandating the state board of accounts to make the investigation. Still Fighting Delay Instantly other members of the committee were on their feet declaring that they had agreed on the SIO,OOO cut, but not on the other admendment. Claycombe lamely replied that’s what the Governor wanted.” It s not what the Governor wants, but what the ..committee agreed upon that you should report,” retorted Representative Philip Lowenthal. Claycombe, still fighting for any caance to delay the measure, offered to have another committee meeting. His committeemen blocked him and finally the second amendment was struck out of the report. The house then promptly adopted the report.

QUAKE SHAKES OHIO Hundreds Hurled From Beds by Tremor. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., March B.—A slight earthquake, but of sufficient intensity to arouse hundreds of persons, rumbled through western Ohio shortly after 4 a. m. today. The temblor centered at Bellefontaine and Sidney, 0., where several houses were loosened from their foundations, windows were broken and sleepers were tossedfrom their beds. The tremors apparently receded near the Indiana state line. Slight damage was reported and residents in a majority of the towns shaken believed a distant explosion had caused the tremblors. Cities shaken included Cincinnati, Hamilton, Oxford, Sidney, Piqua, Bellefontaine, Dayton, Wapakoneta, Lima and intermediate villages.

ADMEN HEAR VISUALIST Stresses Memory of Names and Facts as Key to Success. Memory of names and facts are requisite to the success of the modern business man, Grover Baker, Washington, head of the American. Institute of Visualization, told members of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis at a meeting Thursday in the Columbia Club. Baker demonstrated his ability to memorize names and faces by introducing various members of the club and explaining their business connections. DOG STIRS LEGISLATURE Influences Connecticut Solons to Vote Against Traps. By United Press HARTFORD. Conn., March B. A small, brown fox hound, with soulful eyes and a pitiful limp, may have influenced the legislative fish and game committee to report favorably £, bill prohibiting indiscriminate setting of strel traps. The dog was brought into committee hearing by its master, Oliver J. Thrall of Windsor, who explained it had been crippled in a steel trap.

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Carlotta Monterey, who. Penrhyn Stanlaws, the artist, says has the most perfect profile in America, and is one of the thirteen most beautiful women in the world.

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Laid to Rest at Crown Hill; High State Officials Hold Memorial. With the simple grandeur of the Episcopalian funeral and burial rituals—symbolic of his life— Thomas Taggart, former United States senator, was laid to rest this afternoon in Crown Hill cemetery, a few papes from the mound which is surmounted by the grave of his old friend, James Whitcomb Riley. While the funeral service was held at 2 p. m., at the residence where Mr. Taggart died Wednesday, 1331 North Delaware street, high officials gathered in the state house of representatives for the only public eulogy of the departed former mayor, senator and chieftain of the Democratic party. Only the ex-senate.r’s family and about 150 friends with whom he was intimate within the last half century attended the private services at the residence. Foley Delivers Eulogy Few persons had viewed Mr. Taggart’s body until this morning when it was moved, in the heavy bronze casket, downstairs to the spacious living room where the funeral was held. Bishop Joseph M. Francis read the Episcopal service, which included the hymn “Crossing the Bar,” scriptures, a psalm, a lesson and several prayers. Michael E. Foley, park board member and long a close friend of Mr. Taggart, delivered rhe principal eulogy at the joint house and senate services this afternoon. , Democratic members of the Indiana legislature visited the Taggqrt residence at noon today to pay tribute to the former United States senator. The legislators were received by Charles A. Greathouse, national Democratic committeeman, Carleton B. McCulloch and H O’Brien, close friends of Mr. Taggart. Legislators to Funeral The delegation of state senators, headed by the veteran Joseph M. Crayens of Madison went to the Taggart home in a special bus, preceded by a squad of state policemen on motorcycles. The representatives went in a fleet of taxicabs. They silently paid their respects and departed. About 12:30 p. m. Mrs. Taggart and other members of the family, who had mingled with the gathering funeral party, withdrew to the beautiful room where the body lay in state for their last moments alone with their dead. The room where the body lay and two other smaller rooms on the first floor were filled with the more than 200 floral offerings. Significant among these were a Masonic emblem at the foot of the casket, the blanket of spring flowers over the family which was from the family and a piec. in the form i of a large. Democratic rooster, sent by Orange county Democrats. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 19 10 a. m 29 7a. m 20 11 a. m 33 Ba. m 24 12 (noon).. 35 9a. m 24 Ip. m 36

WAIF OF STREETS STEALS RED HOT STOVE TO STOP SHIVERS

By United Press CHICAGO, March B.—Charged with having stolen a red hot stove, Raymond Monroz. 16-year-old street urchin today is basking in the warmth of a gloomy police station ceil.

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Waits Divorce to Marry ‘Most Perfect Profile in America.’ II n United Presb XTEW YORK,Marchß.—Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist, will marry Carlotta Monterey, actress, as soon as his second wife, Mrs. Agnes O’Neil, from whom he has been separated for more than a year, obtains a divorce, he disclosed in a letter to a close friend here. is in Europe where he returned recently after a trip through the Orient., marked by considerable secrecy and much mystery. Mrs. O’Neill’s intention to get a divorce was confirmed last June by Harry Weinberger, counsel for the dramatist and by O’Brien, Maleviasky and Driscoll, her attorneys. “Carlotta and I are going to be married as soon as my wife divorces me.” O’Neill writes in his letter. “I’m just beginning to realize how much the journey did give me.” “Miss Monterey is a native of California, born of a Danish father and French mother. She made her first New York appearance wuth Lou Tellegen in “Taking Chances” and later was leading woman in O'Neill’s “The Hairy Ape.”

Siamese Twin to Be Married Applies for License to Wed Mexican: Sister Goes Along. By United Press NEWARK, N. J„ March B.—Margaret Stratton Gibbs, 18, one of the so-called Siamese twins, and Carlos Josefe, 21, who said his father is general manager of the Ford Motor Company of Mexico, applied for a marriage license today at the Newark city clerk’s office. Because of the presence of a theater manager and publicity men, some persons were inclined to be skeptical over the announcement that they intended to be married within a few days. Also present at the license bureau were Mary, the other twin, and the girls’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gibbs, of Holyoke, Mass.

CALL MORE JURORS Fail to Fill Murder Panel; 50 More Summoned. Expectations that a jury would be obtained today in criminal court to try Rupert McDonald, 22, Chicago for the murder of Wilkinson Haag, Indianapolis druggist, were blasted l!his morning when twelve prospective jurors rapidly passed in and cut of seat three in the jury box. The other seats are occupied by eleven men who have been passed twice by both state and defense and it was expected a twelfth juror would be chosen today. CITY HAS RIGHT-OF-WAY Gets Deeds to Property for Kessler Boulevard Extension. Edward B. Raub Jr., park board attorney, today announced the city had deeds td property needed in the extension of Kessler boulevard from Keystone avenue to Millersville road. Legal obstacles to the extension of the boulevard were removed with the presentation of deeds for the right-of-way. The city now has a 100-foot right-of-way for 2.4 miles. Mayor L. Ert Slack has urged the .exntension for some time. Two City Men Fined Bu Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., March B. Andrew Gardner, 24, and Maxwell Ramsey, Indianapolis, were fined SIOO each here on liquor possession charges following their arrest after attempting to short change a filling station attendant. They gave 523 North Alabama street" as their Indianapolis address.

It all happened because Raymond awoke early this morning in his bare attic room and was cold. Outside in the back yard was a child's express wagon, .belonging to A small npi^hbor.

ROBINSON AND WATSON LOSE STATEPOWER Exclusive Right to ‘Plums’ Taken From Senators i by Htfbver. FOELLINGER IN SADDLE N Ft. Wayne Man Will Have Great Influence on Patronage. - By Times if pec in l WASHINGTON, March B.—Senators Watson and Robinson will be expected to consult with Oscar Foellinger of Ft. Wayne and, other Hoover leaders when presidential patronage is dispensed in Indiana, and no longer will enjoy exclusive right to federal jobs. This was the official information given out at the White House today, during a general discussion of patronage matters. It did not come direct from President Hoover, but from sources near him. No big patronage is pending in Indiana, the job cf marshal of the northern Indira district being the most important. one open. Watson and Robinson had agreed on Emmett O. Hall of Auburn for the place, but President Coolidge failed to send in his name. One of the last Coolidge appointments to be confirmed was that of George B. Jeffrey to be district attorney in the southern district, a choice agreed upon by Watson and Robinson. It is not known that White House dictum will make any difference .in the case of Hall, who is a brother of Representtive Albert Hall of Marion, but Indiana Hoover supporters now can hope for federal jobs. Aside from routine appointments, the job of taking the federal census looms for 1930, with some 2,000 appointments to be made in Indiana alone, some of them semi-perma-nent and carrying good pay. Watson and Robinson have had things pretty much their own way for the last several months, although under-cover differences have had to be composed on several appointments. Watson wanted John Ruckelshaus of Indianapolis to be district attorney, succeesing Albert Ward. Robinson didn’t and Jeffrey was a compromise. A triangular patronage arrangement, with a representative of the Hoover forces on the triumvirate, already has been tried out in several states.

INTOLERABLE CONDITION’ CREATED BY PROHIBITION SAYS COMMERCE HEAD

Lamont Quits as Director of Anti-Dry League Because 0: Job. WASHINGTON, March B.—Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont believes prohibition created an intolerable situation and that this situation still exists, he said today in, discussing his action in becoming a director of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment some time ago. Lamont explains, upon leaving the White House, after the first cabinet meeting today, that he l.as submitted his resignation as a director in the association through the friend who had requested, him to join it. “I think that at that time," Lamont said, referring to his joining the association, “that I felt that the situation was intolerable and that something effective might be done to improve it.” Asked if he still held that view, he said he viewed the crime situation as particularly bad but was "playing the game” with this administration.” manTying as result OF BATTLE AT HOME Two Men and Women Held in Probe of Fight. While James McCullough, 30, 1942 West Michigan street, lies dying in city hospital, detectives are probing the fight in which he was injured, probably fatally, last Wednesday ni|ht. His alleged assailant, Leonard Powers, 27, of 520 East Washington street, is held under bond that was increased to $5,000 by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron this morning when McCullough's condition Was learned. Powers’ wife, Mrs. Sadie Powers, and Herman Gatewood, 34. of 1943 Wilcox street, also are held. The latter was arrested today.

He knew his playmate wouldn’t mind if he borrowed the wagon. So Raymond went in search of fire. Tramping the streets, he noticed a light in a basement win

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MEXICAN REBELS CAPTURE JUAREZ; 50 TO 250 DEAD; 3 WOUNDED IN EL PASO

Such a Fall! By United Press CHICAGO, March B.—Colonel Robert, W. Stewart, ousted from the $125.000-a-year chairmanship of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana directorate. will .continue to draw money from the billion-dollar oil company. Colonel tSewart, by reason of his twenty-two years of service, is entitled to an annual pension of approximately $75,000, which it was understood, would be paid.

DARROW PAYS DEATH]! OERT Defends Convicted Killer Because of Old Mishap.. Bv United Press MONTPELIER, Vt„ March 8. Paying another installment on an old-time debt, Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer, argued twen-ty-seven minutes before the Vermont supreme bench here today in an effort, to save a convicted murderer from the electric chair. . The case was that of John Winters, 30-year-old machinist, who faces the extreme penalty for the murder of Miss Cecilia R. Gullivan on a sleeping porch of her Windsor home in 1927. Wher). - Darrow’s son was a student at Dartmouth college several years ago, a horse which he was riding ran down and killed a relative of Winters. At the time, young Darrow promised to aid the Winters family if his assistance ever were needed. Recalling this debt incurred by his son, Lawyer Darrow came here a year ago and argued before the supreme bench on Winter’s appeal from the murder conviction. And when, recently, it became necessary for the state’s highest court, to rehear a portion of the case, Darrow again agreed to appear here. Today’s reargument was on a defense exception in the course of which Darrow argued that Winters had been denied a fundamental defense which constituted a reversible error.

Kiss-O-Graph Machine Bares What Goes on in Chorus Girl’s Heart ‘When/

By United Press YORK, March B.—Elsie Lauretson, brunette show girl easily won a blindfold test to deterndhe the most satisfactory response to kissing, a test which some considered “very scientific” and others “very enjoyable.” /he test w'as conducted primarto show off anew hypersensitive stethoscope developed by the Graybar laboratories. Two blondes and two bruriettes from the cast of a Broadway show were affixed to th- machine and then after their heart beats were booming rythmically, were kissed for ten seconds each in rapid succession by five blindfolded young men—all volunteers. Miss Lauretson’s heart jumped twelve beats as son as a soda clerk kissed her and by the time a salesman, a dancing instructor, a husky building foreman and a civil engineer, had implanted their kisses on her lips, she had attained sixty-six extra beats, and a clean cut victory . over the "research workers.” SOLONS PASS BANK ACT Increases Penalty for Employes, Who Defanlt Institutions. The Hewitt bill, which would increase the penalty for defaulting bank employes to a prison sentence of from five to twenty-one years, passed the state senate today without a dissenting vote. The present maximum sentence is two to fourteen years.

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Two Children and Man Are Victims on American Side of River of Stray Bullets From Battle. BLOODY STRUGGLE FOUGHT IN STREET Federal Officers Are Taken Into Custody but Leaders of Uprising’s Forces Declare ISlone Will Be Executed. By United Hress EL PASO, Texas, March B.—Rebel troops gained control of Juarez, Mexico, revolutionary key center, today when federal troops raised the white flag of surrender. Loss of lives in the fighting was estimated at from fifty to 250. General Marcelino Murrieta, one of the rebel commanders, said that all private interests would be protected. “We are not here to plunder,” he said. “We had hopes to take the city peacefully, but the federals thought they had more strength and we had to take Juarez by force.”

Before tlie battle ended a veritable rain of machine gun bullets whizzed over the muddy Rio Grande, international 'border, and landed in El Paso. Three persons, two small children and an unidentified man were wounded critically. Several plate glass windows in the center of. the city were smashed. Although United States troops were stationed along the river front and guns were trained in Juarez from vantage points on this side of the boundary, Brigadier-General George Moseley, commandant at Ft. Bliss, took no action in the conflict. Arrest Federal Officers He announced, however, that he had received telegraphic instructs: >.s from Washington giving him full authority to take any steps he considered necessary. Rebels forces arrested federal officers .as rapidly as they could be rounded up, but announced that none would be executed. Blood on the streets bore witness to the fierce struggle. Wounded soldiers who had crawled into houses during the battle were rushed to hospitals three minutes after the fighting stopped. The dead were carried away rapidly. Riderless horses, many of them wounded, also were taken in. Many Lose Lives The main battle was over at 9 a. m. but there was scattering fire for more than an hour more as the rebels sought out and dislodged machine gun and sniper nests. Unofficial estimate of the number killed on both sides ranged from 50 to 250 and more, although no accurate check could be made because of the rapidity with which the bodies were removed from the streets A rebel leader’s momentary delay of a firing order probably saved the lives of two American newspapermen, who were mistaken for federal spies as they penetrated the revolution zone near Juarez, General Augustine De Ip Vega, rebel leader, revealed today. The newspaper men were Robert Conine and Gerald Dailey, El Paso Post and United Press representatives, who had gone by auto to within eight miles of Juarez near the scene of a reported conflict. Confronted by a line of men, rising from the sage brush, the reporters turned their car and retreated. Later in an interview with General De La Vega, Conine and Dailey learned they had been mistaken for federal spies. Rebels Move in West By United Press NOGALES, Ariz., March B.—Mexican rebels started their first major offensive in the Sonora sector today when 3,500 troops, some of it cr.valry, entrained in Nogales, Sonora, just across the border from here, and headed south. General Francisco Borquez, rebel chieftain, refused to reveal the destination of the force. The rebels, many of them Yaqui Indians, left in two trains of twenty cars each. Horses were taken in box cars, the men riding on top. General Borquez is believed planning to strike at San Luis, Sonora, on the western edge of the state. The town was taken a few days ago by federals with the announced purpose of using it as a base for air and land attacks on Ortiz, headquarters of the rebels, and nogales. If the troops which left this morning are to storm San Luis and then invade Lower California to strike at Mexicali and Tia Juana, it would mean a four day trip. It was reported that Barquez had!

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demanded that Governor Rodriguez of Lower California withdraw his troops from San Luis and the governor had replied: “If you are going to attack, hurry up, or I’ll do it first.” Reports from Yuma, Ariz., said loyal Mexican troops are being distributed at strategic points between San Luis and the Gulf of Calilornia to repel the expected attack of the rebels. * Yuma merchants, in sympathy with the federals, have dispatched 2,500 canvas water bags, tents and tons of supplies to the federate at San Luis. Censorship Lifted By United Press MEXICO CITY, March B.*-The Mexican federal government launched the renewed strength of its army against widely ’ separated rebel centers on the northern front today, admittedly facing a strengthened insurgent combination in the state of Coahuila. With the rebel state of Vera Cruz completely in the hands of federal troops and General Jesus M. Aguirre in flight to Tehauntepec, state of Oaxaca, the authorities expressed confidence that one more battle In the southern area would end operations there. Censorship was lifted here Thursday night. /Train and airplane service to the border has been reestablished. Cable and telegraph communication virtually was normal today. Mexico City was calm and there was no food crisis. Announcement of the execution of Palomera Lopez, former Mexico City chief of mounted police and famous as the “terror” of all criminal elements, aroused probably the greatest excitement In the capital since the rebellion started. Lopez, who was arrested In the state of Michoacan on charges of attempting to seize that area for the rebels, was shot by a firing squad at 4 a. m. Thursday in the yard of the National Palace here, after a hasty court-martial. FIRES DAMAGE FIVE HOMES; LOSS IS $7,000 Sparks From Chimneys Destroy Roofs Today. Sparks from Chimneys destroyed the roofs of five Indianapolis homes today and did a total damage of approximately $7,000. The largest amount of damage was done to the home of Charles S. Mcßride, 340 South Ritter avenue, where flames destroyed the roof and part of the second floor. The loss was estimated at $4,000. The roof of the home of George L. Hohn, 118 South Bradley avenue, was destroyed at a loss of about $750. Smaller fires Occurred at the homes of A. M. Rich, 2416 West Sixteenth street, and E. H. Ackman, 1223 Lafayette street. Fire believed to have been caused by a defective flue destroyed the roof of the home of Mrs. Ellen Cosier, 1621 Ingram street. Damage was estimated at $2,000. JILTS SWEETHEART FOR MAKING HOOCH; SUED Cout Rules Woman Has No Cause for Damage. By United Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 8. —A circuit court jury here decided that Joseph Andruska was not liable to damages because he broke his promise to marry when his fiancee refused to cease making liquor. The jury found no cause for action in the $25,000 break of promise suit instituted against Andruska by Rose Akema. Andruska said he jilted Miss Akema when she would not stop making liuqor. Several weeks after their estrangement the woman was arrested for violation of the liquor law and recently was released from the county jail where she served a mnety-day