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LESLIE TO CHOOSE INDIANA BOY WHO WILL BE TRAINED TO BECOME ‘SECOND EDISON’ Hoosier Youth Will Have Chance to Compete With Lads From 47 Other States to Succeed Wizard. FREE EDUCATION WILL BE GIVEN Electrical Genius Makes Unique Offer in Effort to Find Man Who Will Carry on His Great Work. Governor Harry Leslie wants the name of the Indiana boy \vh> has the greatest, chance to become a second hdisnn. Sometime before duly ] lie will select this boy, who "ill be sent it) the home if Thomas A. Edison and there compete with a boy from each of the other states for a free college edueatiwi in tin- study of electricity. “1 feel that this is the most important appointment I will make during my term of office and 1 want to select the boy who lias the best chance of becoming the successor to Edison,’’ said Governor Leslie today. ‘■ordinary tests will not apply. The hoy must have creative talent. lie must, above all, show that he has that great eapaeity for hard w<>rk. for continued sacrifice, for sustained interest which have characterized the great inventor.

4 ‘l want to find the boy who lias an interest in electricity ami its unsolved mysteries ami that interest must be greater than his interest in any other factor of life. "I do not believe that the selection can be made by comparing grades obtained in examinations or by a competitive examination as to knowledge. If I understand correctly the appeal of Mr. Edi.son. he is looking for a boy who combines most of the qualities which have made Edison the great master and the grpat contributor to human progress. Proud to Make Selection 'T have not received a formal noiiee of the full program, but I do v ant to announce now. so that not only the boys of the state but their teachers, their parents, and our university scientists may give some thought to the subject, that I intend to give more care to this one selection than to any oher choice I am comnellcd to make. 'There is no reason why the boy rough* by Faison should not be found in this state. He may attend one of the small schools or he may he in one of our larger cities. He may be a boy from a humble home or one from a palace. But the boy I name must have qualifications that, will give him at least an equal rhance with boys from every other stAte when the final choice Is made. T will consider it. the greatest triumph of my administration if I am able to find the boy who shows such promise that he is chosen by Edison as his possible successor. For Indiana to furnish a future Edison would be a greater contribution than to furnish a dozen Presidents.” Search State-Wide The Governor will ask suggestions and advice as to the manner in which the boy is to be selected. He will endeavor to make the search state-wide. He will provide machinery by which the claims of every hoy who aspires will be considered and none ignored. The announcement by Charles A. Edison, son of the inventor, states that the Governor of each state will be asked to send a boy to Orange. N. J.. in August. To each of these boys Thomas Edison will submit a questionnaire. From these answers he will select one boy who will be given, with all expenses paid, four vears of training in a technical college. to equip him with knowledge to earn* on the work of the great inventor. The expenses of the boy to Orange for the test also will be paid by Edison. FINE GANGSTER'S WIDOW Accused of Hitting Cop After Arrest for Speeding. Itu t aited Press CHICAGO. April 30.—Mrs. Viola O Bannion Turner, widow of the late Dion O'Banion. gang leader, who was siam here in 1925. was fined $23 and costs for speeding in Municipal court today. Mrs, Turner was said to have struck the arresting officers over •he head with her purse and told them what she thought of the law. WHITE RITES THURSDAY Burial to be Made in Memorial Park Cemetery Funeral services for Mrs., Charles l. White. TOB North Walnut street, who died at her home today, will be held at the Wallace Street Presbyterian church Thursday at 2 p. m. Burial will be at the Memorial Park cemetery. Mrs. White was bom in West Virginia. She has lived here for the last eighteen years. Surviving her are her husband and three sons. Webtser and Thomas of Indlaanpolis and Joseph of Peoria. m.

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President Testifies 'Trust' Has Invested Total of $10,789,700. BY CECIL OWEN United StiTfl Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 30.—Purchase by the International Paper and Power Company of interests totaling $10,789,700 in eleven newspapers in eight cities was disclosed before the federal trade commission today by A. R. Graustein, president of the paper and power company. Graustein said his concern now* is negotiating for the purchase, of an interest in still another newspaper the identity of which he declined to disclose. The International Paper and Power Company is a subsidiary of the International Paper Company, one of the larges* manufacturers of newsprint paper in the world. Sought Paper Market Graustein told the commission that the pursha.se of interests in • he various newspapers was prompted by a desire to find a dependable outlet for print-paper. Graustein said he assisted Frank E. Gannett, New York publisher, to the amount of $1,954,500 in the purchase of the Brooklyn Eagle; $300,000 in the purchase of the Ithaca, (N. Y.) Journal-News and $450,000 for the Knickerbocker Press and Albany Evening News, both at Albany. Further questioning of Graustein revealed that the International Paper and Power made an offer of approximately $20,000,000 for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which was refused. Outside of these newspapers, and the Boston Herald and Traveler, in which the company recently bought a 50 per cent stock interest, Graustein said his company had not agreed to finance purchase of other papers. Propaganda Under Fire Investigation of the sale of the stock interest in Boston Traveler and Herald is being made as part of the commission’s national power propaganda inquiry. The commission decided to inquire into the purchase after Senator George W. Norris (Rep., Neb.t charged it represented an effort by power interests to control the press.

LESLIE REFUSES AID Won’t Indorse Movement to Unseat Coffin. Governor Ham - G. Leslie today refused to openly indorse a movement to unseat George V. Coffin. Republican city chairman, sponsored by George O. Hutsell. Fourth ward chairman: Todd Young, Seventh ward chairman, and Earl Garret-. former city market master. To the plea of the three that he swing the full weight of the state house organization behind their city re-organization movement, Leslie replied: Go ahead and organize, boys, but I am not going to take any active part in any of these city organizations. I am too busy being Governor." Bandits Rob Bank of $9,000 lilt United Pr THOMPSONYILLE. 111.. April 30. —Two bandits held up Cashier Burt M. Casteel of the State Bank today and escaped in a coupe with $9,000.

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STARTS WORK, KILLED Electrocuted Three Minutes After Changing Clothes. Pn rvifed Pi t ss SCHENECTADY. N. Y., April 30. —Three minutes after changing his clothes for work. Von Owen Crossno, 23, of Bells, Tenn., was electrocuted at the General Electric plant where he was employed, when he came in contact with 2,000 volts of electricity.

Traveler Is Lost From Sh ip at Sea Book Company Official Disappears on Ocean, £?„v l vital Press BOSTON, April 30.—Henry A. Sherman, manager of the religious literature department of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York publishers. was reported missing when the steamship New York of the Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc., docked here today. Sherman, who had boarded the ship in New York Monday night, had not been seen this morning and ship's officers expressed the belief that he had been lost, from the steamer.

HARD-CYCLING BOY, 6, THINKS NOTHING OF LONG GRINDS 20 MILES OR SO

Father of 12 on Trial for Slaying Youth By United Press FREEHOLD, N. J„ April 30.—A father who remembered the code of honor he had been taught back in his native Sicily sat surrounded by his twelve children today as the state of New Jersey started its efforts to take his life because he shot the wealthy youth who was reported to have wronged his daughter. Joseph Farruggio, an Italian laborer. is accused of killing 19-vear-old Harold Johnston, son of a prominent business man. The boy was an athlete and was lionized by the other students at Neptune township high school. Among those hero worshippers was Marianne Farruggio. The state will contend that Marianne told her father young Johnston wronger her: that the father went to the Johnston home to find out about the matter: that the youth said "go home you ditry Wop" and that Farruggio then shot the youth three times. The defense will plead emotional insanity and the unwritten law. SUIT INVOLVES ESTATE Relatives of Testator Would Prevent SBO.OOO Gift to I. U. By United Pres# WABASH. Ind.. April 30.—A suit to set aside the will of Mahlon Powell, which gave SBO,OOO to Indiana university has been filed here bySarah M. Powell and other relatives, against Nathan F. Gilbert, executor, and university trustees. It is claimed Powell was of unsound mind at the time the will wte made. He left his entire fortune to the university to establish a chair in philosophy because he "hated sham in churches" and believed I. U. was "the only school in which religion didn't play a part.”

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SISTERS IN RACE TO SEE DYINGFATHER Arrive at Bedside in lowa After Dash From Mediterranean. SUMMONED BY RADIO Steamship, Airplane, Train, Auto Used to Beat Grim Reaper. By United Press NEWTON, Ia„ April 30.—A race with death, which started in the Mediterranean sea and progressed across the Atlantic to Newton by steamship, airplane, train and motor car, ended in victory today when Mrs. Fred Jasper and Miss Stella McCord arrived and found their father, M. A. McCord, still alive although weak. Mrs. Jasper and Miss McCord, notified by radio of their father’s illness, came to Newton by motor car from Des Moines, where they had arrived by train from Chicago. The flew from New York to Lansing, 111., their plane bucking headwinds all the way. Unable to continue the flight on account of weather conditions, they went to Chicago and left by train for Des Moines. McCord was awake when his daughters arrived, but in a weakened condition. His physicians said information that his daughters were racing to his bedside sustained him. They said Monday McCord probably would not live through today. McCord smiled happily as the daughters entered the sickroom after their long race against time. Both knelt by the bedside, but the father was so weak he was unable to exchange more than a few words With them.

8 OF 13 CABINET JOBS HELD BY MUSSOLINI Italian Premier. Son of Blacksmith, Is His Own Majority. B,u United Press ROME. April 30.—Premier Benito Mussolini, born the son of an Italian blacksmith, became a majority- of the Itaian cabinet today when he assumed his eighth portfolio. Mussolini succeeded Giovanni Giuriati as minister of public works. The appointment was made Monday night by King Victor Emanuel after Giuriati was elected president of the all-fascist chamber of deputies. Mussolini heads the following cf thirteen ministries: Foreign affairs, interior, colonies, war, marine, aviation. corporations and public works.

Cops Take Lad Back Home for Second Time in Last Two Days. By United Press TORONTO, Ont., April 30.—Six-year-old George Reid ha-s proved he can be as much a man in Ontaria as he was in California two years ago. He can. that, is, as long as he retains his tricycle. Two years ago, when he lived in Eagle Rock. Cal., he pedaled withi out permission the twenty-one miles I to Los Angeles and was found in \ the center of that bustling city, watching the traffic move by. Monday he disappeared from his j'home in Richmond Hill, twenty odd miles from here. At 9:30 p. m. he ended up in a ; police station here, not at all sure i of his address, and not particularly j caring. Policeman McCurdie had found ! him. sitting on his tricycle, watch- ! ing the automobiles pass. v George had had nothing to eat j since he left Richmond Hill. Yet ! his first words were not about food, j They were: "You can't do anything to me. I i obeyed every- traffic signal on the i way.” I ROAD BIDS RECEIVED Fourteen Paving and Grading Projects Total 52.000.000. Bids totalling more than $2,000,000 • for fourteen paving and grading : projects running close to 100 miles were received by the state highway i department today. Missing Student Found By United Press COUNCIL BLUFFS. la.. April 30. —Richard Gray, 16. who ran away : from the Culver Military- Academy, ; Culver, Ind., because he found the j dormitory army cots too small for ; him, is held in the city jail here. | for his father, L. A. Gray, an ati torney of Gynedd, Pa. Gray said i he knew he was to be expelled for | smoking, so he ‘beat 'em to it.”

REVEALS EVIDENCE OF MELLON LINK IN ALUMINUM MERGER Walsh May Press Battle for Ouster of Secretary Before Senate Committee; Lineup Said to Be Close. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Start Correspondent iCopyright, 1929, by United Press.) WASHINGTON. April 30.—The Mellon ouster case may be reopened for public hearings by the senate judiciary committee in view of the new evidences disclosed by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, the Teapot Dome investigator, it developed today after the committee had held a third executive session. The committee reached no conclusion on the issue of whether Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of treasurer, should continue in office, and will meet again Wednesday.

Walsh laid his evidence before the committee, showing, he said, that Mellon signed a contract in an Aluminum Company of America merger in 1925 while he was secretary*; that Mellon held a dinner where the merger between the aluminum company and the late James B. Duke was consummated and that he secretary accompanied all the interested parties to the Canadian dam site, where a photograph was taken. No Mellon Comment The Montana senator said the committee had not yet reached the question of reopening the hearings to call Mellon or the other parties to the 1925 deal. He is considering whether further evidence in the case is necessary or essential. Mellon declined to comment regarding the evidence because the matter was before the committee. Anything he will have to say will be said to the committee. It was intimated he might ask an opportunity to appear. Meanwhile. Senator Reed Smoot, the administration tariff expert, delivered a broadside on the floor against the debenture plan of farm relief. Walsh told the United Press today his evidence showed Mellon signed one of the contracts in an aluminum company merger in 1925 while he was secretary of treasury: that he held a dinner attended by all interested parties at his apartment here wheer the merger was consumated and that he took a trip to Canada to the power site on the Saguanay river, to be operated by the merged companies. New Facts to Committee Walsh has a photograph made on this trip shoving Mellon with Arthur V. Davis, president of the aluminum company; W. L- Mellon, his brother; the late James B. Duke and a Mr. Allen, associated with Duke. The evidence, said Walsh, was taken in a suit filed in the New Jersey district court against the Duke estate and the Aluminum Company by George D. Haskell, president of the Baush Machine Tool Company. Springfield. Mass. Haskell contended the merger violated the anti-trust law, injuring him as a consumer of aluminum and

!Right This Way’ —’Tis Circus Dav Big Sells-Floto Show Opens Tanbark Season Here. Hot zigeity, the circus is in town! And Indianapolis today satiated its.elf in the first 1929 tanbark exposition at performances given by Sells-Floto shows on the lot at Eighteenth street and Sugar Grove avenue. Early this morning, while the citylav drugged with sleep and dreams of “red lemonade” and the cries of "Right this way to the big tent," Sells-Floto's train rolled in. The show came here from Kokomo. Approximately 200 sleepy-eyed boy-s watched the unloading of the "big top," the animal cages, the side show tents. The afternoon performance began at 2 p. m. wit hthe "big canvas" covering a capicty crowd. The "big top” opens at 7 for the night's show, which begins at 8:15. The Indianapolis Street RailwayCompany will provide one-minute serice on the Riverside line to and from the circus grounds tonight. If you don't want to stand in line at the circus entrance for your tickets you’ll find the .pastboards on sale at Clark & Cade drug store. Illinois and Washington streets, for it’s "Right this way ladies, gentlemen and children"—the circus is in town. Veteran Newspaper Man Buried AKRON. Ohio. April 30.—Simplicity marked the burial rites in Glendale Cemetery' late Monday of Willis W. Thornton, veteran ScrippsHoward newspaper man who died Friday night following a long illness. Predicts Uprising by Mid-West WASHINGTON, April 30.—Unless the farmer gets his share of the nation’s prosperity, the midwest will try following another political bandwagon, especially if it is a water-wagon too. Earl Elijah. Clarence (la.) farmer, told the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce here.

asked $15,000,000 damages. He obtained judgment for $8,000,000, but the judgment was later reversed by the circuit court at Philadelphia. A deposition of Mellon’s was introduced in the case as evidence, Walsh added. The lineup in the committee is said to be close. Mellon's friends say seven committee members now favor the secretary’s cause, six are against him and four are doubtful.

GAS TRANSFER TO FACE COURT FIGHT

Jury Frees Illinois R um Raid Killer Absolves Deputy Sheriff Who Shot Down Mrs. De King. Bu I’nitfd Press GENEVA. 111.. April 30.—'The Kane county grand jury today found no indictment against Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith for killing Mrs. Lilian De King while raiding her home for liquor last month, although a coroner's jury had recommended that he be held for manslaughter. After a two weeks’ investigation the grand jury indicted only one man. Eugene Boyd Fan-child, the undercover Informer whose false affidavit that he had bought liquor at the De King home in Aurora led to the fatal raid, was charged with perjury. Fairchild was arrested and gave bond of $1,500. He will be brought to trial in June. Prosecutor George D. Carbary, whose enforcement orders resulted in the death raid, hailed the absolving of Smith as a great victory.

BODY OF MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED 2 YEARS AGO FOUND NEAR BUTLER

Officers Believe Victim Was Killed by Charge From Shotgun.

The bady decomposed body of a, man, who apparently- met death about two years ago, was found in underbrush between the canal and White river about 300 feet due w-est of Jordan Memorial hall, Butler university, this morning. Dark stains, somewhat like blood, and shreds on the top of the dark hat beside the body indicated that the man had been struck by a charge from a shotgun. Most of the flesh was gone from the bones, so it was difficult to determine just how death occured. The lower jawbone was two yards from the skull. No identification marks were found in the clothing, which consisted of a gaberdine top coat, blue suit with white pin stripe, brown checked vest, white shirt and extremely small shoes. The hat had been purchased from a Levinson store here. Miss Helene Drummond and John Sasse, both of 50 West Forty-sixth street, stumbled onto the body while hunting mushrooms. The place where the body was found is not far from a spot where many picnics are held and comparatively close to the canal towpath, along which hundreds of persons saunter during the year. Coroner C. H. Keever found a pocketbook in a trouser pocket. It contained seven car tokens, a one dollar bill and $1.05 in change. Dr. Keever believed the man had been murdered not less than ten months ago, pointing to peculiar bums on one of the trouser legs which indicated that the man had been shot there as well as in the head. Burgarian Parliament House Burns By United Press SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 30.—Most of the parliament building was destroyed by fire Monday night. The conflagration was believed due to a short circuit.

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YOUTH CONFESSES SLAYING

WIFE IN QUARREL; BURNS BODY WEEK AFTER MURDER

The June Bride The wedding march starts Wednesday in The Times, a sparkling feature that will interest every woman in the city, old or young. Julia Blanshard, famous NEA fashion authority, starts a series on The Times woman's page Wednesday that's the last word in information for the bride-to-be and all her friends. She will tell what’s what in bridal gowns, what kind of going-awav clothes are in the mode, the newest trends in lingerie, how the bridesmaids will be- garbed, and a lot more about all the social activities attendant on the wedding. Even the bridegroom won’t be overlooked. Watch for this big feature, starting Wednesday on The Times woman’s page.

Certain Stockholders to File Case Before U. S, Judge Today, The suit of certain common stockholders to prevent directors and trustees of the Citizens Gas Company from turning the property over to the city under terms of the 1905 franchise v.as expected to be filed in federal court late today. The complaint has been prepared by Attorneys Frederick E. Matson and Earl B. Barnes, it was reported. Newton I. Todd, broker, Lemcke building, holder of approximately 250 shares, is expected to be the plaintiff and both the gas company and city and principal officers thereof the defendants. The suit, it is understood, will allege that the city seeks to take the property without due process of law, in violation of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. Todd, it is understood, will ask that the gas officials be enjoined from paying the $5 a share May 15 voted toward retirement of common stock and that the city be enjoined from taking over the gas properties In any way except through payment of a sum upon appraisal by the public service commission.

Error on Bill By United P'-cm WASHINGTON. April 30. President Herbert Hoover's medicine ball cabinet has claimed its second casualty. William Hard, political writer, stretched too far for a fast one and sprained his ankle. Three weeks ago Hugh Gibson, United States ambassador to Belgium, suffered scratches about the face when he fumbled a swift toss from Justice Harlan F. Stone.

HARMON ENDS TERM Service Board Member to Confer With Leslie. Commissioner Harvey Harmon tDem.l, Princeton, of the public service commission, was sent for by Governor Harry G. Leslie today for a conference regarding his services the appointive term of which expires today. It has been rumored that he will not be reappointed and twenty-five Democrats have sought the position, which pay $6,000. State Senator Carl M. Gray, Petersburg, is the latest to be prominently mentioned as a possible successor. Governor Leslie was expected to reappoint John W. McCardle, ißep.l, Indianapolis, whose term also expires today. It was stated that both McCardle and Harmon may remain on for some time without any appointment being announced. Storm Damages Pinrhot Yacht Bv United Press BALBOA, C. Z.. April 30—The yacht Marie Pinchot, carrying former Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and his party, was undergoing repairs at Cristobal today after a dangerous passage off the eastern end of the canal through an off-shore storm with the main engine disabled.

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Kills Girl on Morning After First Wedding Anniversary. TELLS TRAGEDY STORY, Remark ‘This Looks Like Same Old Dump’ Leads to Row. By Tnitcd Press MT. VERNON, N. Y., April 30.—A 21 year-old radio repair man confessed today that ha murdered his 18-year-old wife, carried her body to au isolated spot near Greensburg and nearly a week later, returned to sprinkle it with kerosene and burn it. Earl F. Peacox, slim, well-groomed husband, whose marriage to Dorothy Heinzelman, attractive blonde of Bronxville, N. Y„ had gone on the rocks within a few months, admitted after a night of questioning, according to Frank H. Coyne, district attorney, that he killed his wife in his apartment the morning after their first wedding anniversary. Today, he vowed he had loved the girl, but had quarreled with her because she remarked on entering his apartment: “Well, this looks like the same old dump." Heinzelman said he climaxed the argument by hitting her over the head with a heavy weight. Sprinkled Body With Oil Then, he said, he wrapped her head in a towel “so that the blood would not get my car dirty’’ and carried her out to the automobile, where he doubled her up because “her legs were too long.’ He drove to the Edwards estate, near Greensburg. and carried the body into a clump of weeds several yards off the highway. On Saturday, nearly a week after he killed her. he bought a quart bottle of kerosene and drove to the Edwards estate. First, he said in his ronfesssion. he removed his wife's shoes which “are now in her hope chest," and then, sprinkled the body with oil. He set fire to it and left, he said. Peacox asserted that the quarrel which ended in his wife’s death had arisen and tragically ended before he had had time to take off his overcoat after they had entered the apartment together. Visits Mother-in -Law When he found her lifeless, he told the police, he removed his overcoat and turned on the radio, which he said he kept going until 3 a. m. then he took the body to the place where he disposed of it. Thereafter he wandered about, he told police, visiting the mother of his dpad wife and returning to dean up the apartment to remove all trace of the tragedy. Mount Vernon police announced Miss Frances ffewman, 19, of 163 West One Hundred Fifty-first! street. New York, had been taken into custody as a material witness. Police said she was friendly with Peacox, who had sought to estab* llsh an ahbi through her.

BARGAIN IN-STAMPS OFFERED BY BOY, S Sells Four Two’s for a N'ickle Has Many Takers. ‘ Four 2-cent stamps for a'nickel,** was the bargain offered pedestraing who walked past the Claypool Mon* day. It took a 6-year-old boy to dig* prove the old axiom that a person offering $lO gold pieces for 25 cents finds no takers, for the boy found plenty of takers for his stamp bar* gains. Postal Inspector W. C. Ela wagnotified that the young salesman was offering large crowds the un-f usual bargain. Ela obtained the boy's name and address and visited the home. The. youth, oroud of his enterprise, < readily admitted finding a roll of stamps on a counter at the Pearson--Piano Company store. Store official*?; were unable to check up on the£| number of stamps in the roll.

CITY CIRCUS BOOSTED Chief. Board Member Visit Fir* Stations Explain Fund. Robert F. Miller, safety boardmember, and Fire Chief Harry E* Voshell have completed visitation! of all city fire stations in the in: terest of the Police and Firemen’*' Circus. Miller explained to the firemen individually the purpose of the emergency fund which is designed to aid police and firemen. Hourly Temperatures .> 6 a. m.... 50 10 a. m.... 66 7 a. m.... 54 ll a. m.... 71 8 a. m.... 60 12 <noon).. 73 9 a. m.... 64 1 p. m 75 j