Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1929 — Page 9

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LIPS SEALED ON SLAYINGS BY ‘PHANTOM' Fear of Death Keeps Informers Quiet About Willard Carson. JOKES ABOUT SEARCH Killer Mentions Funeral in Letter Posted Where Father Was Murdered. BY CHARLES C. STONE, St*U Editor, Thr Time* KOKOMO. Ind., May 7.—Fear of death is hampering authorities in their attempts to arrest Willard Carson, “phantom killer," suspected of slaying Alonzo Whalen here Thursday night. That, fear is not in the breasts of officers, but in those of persons who might give clews to the whereabouts of the fugitive since Aug. 2. 1926, when he killed his father, Clinton Carson, at Liberty. “No one's life is safe in Kokomo with that man at large,” is the comment of an elderly woman, which expresses the views of others who arc believed to be in a position to aid in his capture. Whalen tipped off police that Carson was living across the street from him Aug. 2. last. Now Whalen is dend. "Carson again" was the comment of officers as they visited the murder scene, Whalen s home. He was shot down ns he sat in a rocking chair, smoking his pipe and fondling a little dog. Authorities have made investigation into Whalen's life. They announced at its conclusion there could have been no one with reason to slay him except Carson. Kill After Money Refusal Carson is alleged to have fatally shot his father when he refused money. At that time he was a fugitive, being wanted for attacking Virgil Shouee. then a Union county deputy sheriff, who sought to arrest him on a minor charge. The killer is audacious and lucky. When the attempt was made to capture him here, police had Whalen telephone io the wanted mans home, to ascertain if he was in the house. Apparently Carson sensed there was to be an effort to capture him. He packed a suitcase, picked up a revolver and walked out a side door. Two policemen had so stationed themselves that they would have endangered each other's lives by shooting. Mrs. Whalen ran from her home across the street and tried to stop the fugitive. Her move served him well. The officers had shifted their positions so they could shoot, but Carson used Mrs. Whalen as a shield until he was out of revolver fire range. Carson was struck by a bullet at the Chapin quarry near here, where he sought hiding after the flight from his home. But the wound did not stop him. Retains Wife’s Affection Carson's wife still loves him. She makes her home here with her baby, Betty Lou. “She would go with him in a minute if she could get away and also take the baby.” her acquaintances declare. •I can't stand this much longer.” Mrs. Carson declared the day after Whalen’s death, as ° hunt for her husband which started two and a half years ago was renewed with Vitensified vigor. In appearance, Carson looks anything but a killer. He is blond haired, handsome, suave and well groomed. He is 29 years old; weight, 160 pounds: height. 5 feet 10 inches; dark blue eyes and rosy cheeks are other points in his appearance. just three days before Whalen w as shot down, Carson in a letter to Samuel Buffer, restaurant proprietor here, humorously referred to attempts at his capture. It bore a Liberty postmark. “Flowers are cheap now. aren't they? By the way, good time for a funeral." Buffer turned the letter over to Sheriff Herbert Elison of Union county. * Although there is a price of $4,000 on Carson's head, he compels his brother-in-law. Spencer Stevens, to supply him with large sums of money from the estate of the elder Carson, of which Stevens is administrator. At intervals. Carson writes Stevens threatening letters, and receives money from the wealth built up by the father whose life he took.

UPDIKE LOSES FIGHT TO UNSEAT LUDLOW Federal Court Dismisses Suit to Impound Ballots. Attempt of Ralph E. Updike. Republican, defeated last November for re-election as representative in congress for the Seventh district, to unseat Louis Ludlow. Democrat, today was definitely ended with dismissal Monday by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell of Updike's petition for impounding of the ballots. The suit was dismissed for want of prosecution. Updike filed the suit to impound the ballots as part of his plan to seek recount in congress. He charged fraud in counting the ballots. Michigan Sociologist Dies By Cailcd Presi ANN ARBOR. Mich.. May 7. Professor Charles Horton Cooley, a member of the University of Michigan faculty for thirty-seven years and recognized as one of the leading sociologists of the country, died here today. He was 65.

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Delegates at National Session Hear Conservation Official. BY EDWIN F. O’NEEL. Time* Staff Correspondent CLIFTY FALLS STATE PARK, MADISON, Ind., May 7.—lntensive development of existing state parks and establishment of larger park areas, was urged here today by Dr. Stanley Coulter, Indiana conservation chairman, at the opening of the ninth annual national conference on state parks. About 156 American conservation leaders are attending the conference. Dr. Coulter pointed out the need for “forests where small game and bird life would find sanctuary, where forestry may be practiced, and where both creature comforts of civilization and wilderness camp life are posfiole.” “All except three of the nine state parks are Highly developed as regards modern hotel service, service areas, marked foot-trails and some are equipped with modern swimming pools. Yet the combined 8,100 acres already are crowded to capacity,” Dr. Coulter said. The commission chariman said that, nearly 1,000,000 persons visited parks and preserves last year. “Expansion of the state road system and increase in automobile i egistration means these parks will become badly congested and further inadequate to provide that outdoor lecreation demanded by a large number each year seeking the intimate touch of nature. Camp Life Popular “There is a growing desire for camp life on the reservations and many actually want to rough it. The future undoubtedly must see created larger reservations reclaimed from waste regions, to in a greater measure remain as near primitive as it is possible to keep them, in order to satisfy this latest recreational demand.” The last legislature authorized expenditure of SIOO,OOO annually to purchase waste and abandoned land for conversion into a public “state." "With development of the vacation habit, there has come to very manv longing for the wild, even for wilderness conditions. To them our parks seem too comfortable, too sophisticated. They long for an opportunity to ‘rough it, to live in tents, to cook theii own meals, to get entirely away fr“m the ordinary routine of life. It is amazing how rapidly this longing for the 'background of the world' has developed. Hence we find another large portion of our people making demands which our parks do not satisfy. Large Are- Available “Indiana has 3,000.000 acres of waste and wasting land. Stripped hillsides denuded almost to bare rock, abandoned farms where the inhospitable soil gives constantly diminishing returns to farmers, cut over and burned over forest land and ‘strip-mining’ areas. No commonwealth, however prosperous, can long afford such a large .area of wasting land. “In creating its public estate, Indiana should deal in large areas only, such as 20,000 to 50,000 acre tracts. These lands should be acquired in waste and inaccessible regions. where they can be purchased cheaply. They should be protected from fire, grazing and looting, and in a remarkably short time nature will remove civilization's scars and they again bloom forth in primitive glory. In such parks is the solution of providing recreation for the masses: likewise simultaneously creating economic gain for the state of inestimable value,” he said. Existing state parks should be even more improved. Dr. Coulter contended, as they are meeting the needs of thousands in a way nothing else less well equipped will do.

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BY HARRY FERGUSON Vnlted Tress Stff Correspondent NEW YORK. May 7.—Science struck a blow today in behalf of the man who might be persuaded to take a drink if he could be convinced he would survive. A pocket tester for bootleg liquor crept in among the displays at the chemical industrial expos!-

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LIFE CONVICT FACES DEATH Slayer of Uncle 111 With Tuberculosis. Bu Times Special FOWLER. Ind.. May 7.—Clarence B. Briggs, who received a life sentence in the Indiana state prison here a few months ago when he entered a plea of guilty to a second degree murder charge in the death of his wealthy uncle, Victor M. Briggs, is suffering from tuberculosis and can live but a few months, prison doctors announce. Worry over the slaying, and subsequent events including jail confinement, trial and at the end, a life term, are believed to have weakened Briggs to such an extent that he became an easy victim for disease. It is believed by many persons who watched the case that Briggs admitted the crime through fear that if the trial went to its conclusion, the jury would have decreed death in the electric chair. Briggs is in the prison hospital to which he was sent several weeks ago. Following his sentence, his wife bought a home at Michigan City so she could be near the prison where Briggs was confined.

MAKES HOLE-IN-ONE Greenfield Man Sinks Long Drive at South Grove. Jack A. Willis, Greenfield, Ind., achieved Monday that which every golfer hopes so hole in one. Willis drove a ball from the thirteenth tee at the South Grove course and surprised spectators watched the little pill roll onto the green and fall into the cup. The distance was 204 yards. Wilils was playing with W. C. Smith of 3110 College avenue. Others who saw the drive were Edward Frazier of 1800 Mansfield avenue and Charles Burros of 1512 West Twenty-Fifth street. CITY EAGLES ELECT JOSEPH BEATTY HEAD Installation Ceremonies June 3; Other Officers Chosen. Joseph F. Beatty will be installed as president of Indianapolis aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, June 3, as a result of the annual election of officers held Monday. Others elected: Robert Amick, vice-president; Wilbur H. Miller, secretary; James J. Ross Jr., chaplain; Jacob L. Smith, treasurer; John J. Pfarr. inside guard; George Harris, outside guard; Fred J. Wischmeyer and William Louden, trustees, and Dr. Robert Dwyer, aerie physician. Counting of the 555 ballots cast was not completed until early today. The canvassing committee was composed of Fred J. Seim, chairman; E. E. Donohue. William P. Lewis, James Hannon and Ray V. Deal. DRYS FIGHT SOCIAL CLUB Bu T'nited Press SPRINGFIELD. 111., May 7.—Padlock proceedings against the Mercantile Club, one of the oldest social clubs in Illinois, have been asked. A raid at the club recently resulted in seizure of several bottles of liquor. Members of the club protested, declaring most of the men are teetotalers.

tion in Grand Palace, and now, unless you are color blind, you can t possibly get a dose of wood alcohol in that stuff you take to cure a cold. A M. Matheson of North gen. N. J„ evolved the Met of the pocket tester. It is an ordinary glass flask in which are mixed various chemical re-agents, the nature of which is Matheson’s secret.

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HOLLYWOOD, Cal. May 7.—Because she didn't get along with her stepmother. Kathryn Crawford eloped with her sister's sweetheart when she was only 15. And because she didn't get along with her husband, she left him and went into the show business when she was 17. Now, four years later, she is a potential screen celebrity if there ever was one. The pretty, brown-eyed Kathryn has been in pictures about nine months and officials at the Universal studio, where she is under contract, already are predicting the sky as her limit.

GIANT PARADE TO CHANGE BUS AND TROLLEY ROUTES

Patrons I Will Find Most Lines Affected From 4 to 6 Wednesday. Drastic changes in street car and bus routes in the downtown district Wednesday from 4 to 6 p. m. were announced today to divert traffic from the course of the Knights of Templar parade. Street cars affected by the change, and their temporary routes for the two-hour period are: Illinois and Northwestern cars will turn west on Ohio to the traction terminal, south through the terminal to Market, west to Capitol, north to Ohio, east to Illinois and north. Riverside cars will turn south on Capitol to Ohio, to the terminal, south through the terminal to Market, to Capitol and north on Capitol. Clear Washington Street East and West Washington cars will not use Washington between Capitol and Delaware and will turn south on Capitol to Maryltnd, east to Delaware and north to Washington on eastbeund trips and the reverse on westbound trips. Stock Yards, South Meridian, and Garfield cars will turn west on Georgia to Capitol, north to Washington, east to Illinois, and south on Illinois. Shelby cars will not go to Washington, but will use the regular south loop of all other Virginia avenue lines. East Michigan cars will turn south on Delaware to Maryland, west to Pennsylvania. south to Georgia, west to Meridian,. north to Maryland, east to Delaware and north to Washington. Brlghtwood cars will turn south from Massachusetts avenue to Delaware, south to Maryland, west to Pennsylvania, south to Georgia, west to Meridian, north to Maryland, east to Delaware, north to Washington, east to Alabama and north to Massachusetts. East Tenth, Brookside, and College cars will turn south on Alabama to Washington, east to Alabama and north to Massachusetts. East Tenth. Brookside, and College eftrs will turn south on Alabama to Washington, east to Delaware, and north to Massachusetts avenue. Central Cars Turn South Central and Alabama cars will turn south on Delaware to Maryland, west to Pennsylvania, south to Georgia, west to Meridian, north to Maryland, east to Delaware and north to Massachusetts. The Pennsylvania line will run, until blocked by the parade, as far as North and Pennsylvania streets. During the parade service on this line will be discontinued. Lines that will not be changed are Indiana, Columbia. West Tenth, West Michigan. West Indianapolis. South East. Minnesota, Prospect, Lexington and English. Bus Lines Affected Bus routes will be affected as follows: Speedway busses will come inbound on New York to Illinois, south to Ohio, west to Capitol, north to New York and west on New York. Madison busses will come north on Meridian to Georgia, west, to Illinois, north to Maryland, east to Meridian, and south on Meridian. Meridian, Riverside and Central busses will come south on Delaware to Ohio, east to Alabama, south to Market, west to Delaware and north on Delaware. East New York and Brightwood busses will, turn west on Market from New Jersey to Delaware, north to Ohio, and east to New Jersey.

BURY VETERAN WORKER Rites Held for F. S. Sickels, Western Union Employe 36 Years. Funeral services for Frederick Stewart Sickels, 76. of 506 East Walnut street, who df'd Saturday at Norway’s sanitorium, were held at 2:30 p. m. today in the First Presbyterian church. The Rev. George Arthur Frantz, pastor, and the Rev. Jean S. Milner, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, officiated. Burial was in Crown Hill. Mr. Sickels was an employe of the Western Union Telegraph Company for thirty-six years. INDIANA U. CLUB ELECTS Doctor Tells Groups That Morons Have Too Many Children. Pointing out that persons of low standard of intelligence have more children than persons of high mentality, Dr. Thurman B. Rice, speaking before the Indiana University Club Monday at the Columbia Club, asserted “that this is a serious situation and only makes for a larger pauper and criminal class,’’ Barrett M. Woodsmall was elected president of the club; Earl Tuttle, vice-president; Jomes W. Ingles, secretary, and Edward Rowlands treasurer.

INTO the flask you pour a few drops of the liquor. The liquor contains wood alcohol, the mixture in the flask immediately turns into a nice deadly shade of pink. If denatured alcohol is present, the contents of the flask signal with a pale yellow. The exposition, which will last until Saturday, also demonstrated how green fruit can be ripened in your own kitchen in a few

Death s Stage Actor Dies as Colleagues Go on With Tragedy Scene for Public.

Itu l tilled Press PHILADELPHINA, May 7. Just off the stage, Georges Romain, 46, died Monday night while the play he was producing went on with faked scenes. “Chinese O’Neill,” a melodrama of the Chinese Civil war, opened here with Romain In the role of producer and actor for the first time in his life. The first act was growing to a climax, the strangulation of Captain Clarkson. Romain, as the inn keeper in league with the Chinese bandit leader, had taken his cue and left the stage. The leading man, William Harrigan, followed him. Harrigan saw Romain stagger and fall. Dr. Calvin M. Smyth was watching the scene from the wings. He examined the actor and pronounced Romain dead. a tt a TIIE first act was continuing on the stage. Harrigan had to go back to witness the stage death. Romain as the inn keeper was supposed to be present. The executioner of "Captain’ Clarkson” entered, turned tc Harrigan and asked, “An accident?” “What do you think?” “Dead?” “Dead.” And the first act was completed with the audience not knowing the actor-producer had died. The lobby throng discussing the play, said it lacked realism, that it was too fantastic. n n n THEN Harrigan appeared before the curtain to still the orchestra interlude. Applause greeted him. He announced that the play could not be finished and that money on tickets would be refunded. Romain appeared with the French opera company in “Co-chin-China” years ago. He played in New Orleans for some time and other parts of this country and Canada in French plays. His first performance in English was in “Citizen Piere" at the Firth Avenue Playhouse in New York in 1904.

WOMEN, KNOCKED DOWN BY AUTO, TAKE BLAME “Society of Apologetic Pedestrians” Gets Three Recruits. Meager membership of the “Society of Apologetic Pedestrians” was bolstered by three recruits from a police report today. They were Mrs. John Connor, 59, of 337 North Addison street; Mrs. Rose Clancy, 50. of 626 East Morris street, and Mrs. Emma Sullivan, 53, of 1013 Chadwick street. Arm-in-arm they stepped from behind a passing car at Holmes avenue and Vermont street Monday night directly into the path of a coupe driven by Robert Wells, 27. of 2619 West Michigan street, and were knocked to the pavement. They scrambled to their feet, rubbed their bruises, dusted coats and readjusted their hats and took the blame. None was hurt seriously. LAUDS MODERN YOUTH Radio Speaker Fears Parents Will Lag Behind Children. “I fear only that the parents may find themselves lost in their attempt to keep up with their children,” David P. Porterfield, deputy field commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, and advertising manager of the Holcomb & Hoke Company, said Monday night in a talk over WFBM on the Banner Booster hour. Porterfield’s subject was “Indianapolis and Her New Generation of Customers.” “I can not get alarmed over what will become of the next generation. As I see them, the boys and girls of today are as serious minded and clean as and smarter than those of a generation ago," he said.

hours. A green orange was sprayed with Ethylene gas and soon was in condition to eat. Other achievements, of chemical science which are being exhibited include: Concrete made out of peanut shells. A machine so delicate that it qan measure the bend in a steel rail when you lay your finger on the rail.

BITTER FIGHTS MARK STATE VOTETODAY Heavy Ballot Forecast; Electors in 97 Cities Go to Polls. MUNCIE BATTLE TORRID East Chicago, Evansville and Gary Turnout to Be Heavy. Voters in ninety-seven Indiana cities went to the polls today in primary elections, with the closing hours in several of them filled with feverish excitement. In others, the windup of the campaigns was uneventful. Outstanding in the primary battles are those at Muncie, Gary, East Chicago, Evansville and Crawfordsville, where bitter factional battles have been waged. The Cromer-Williams-Dearth Republican clique in Muncie is solidly back of Robert D. Barnes, city councilman and lumber dealer, for the mayoralty berth. Opposed to Barnes is Calvin Faris, attorney and parliamentarian in the statehouse of representatives. George Dale, militant editor, and J. Cooper Props are the Demcratie contestants in Muncie. Evansville Fight Heated At Evansville, where the mayoralty race is expected to be closely contested, last minute efforts to prevent ballot corruption were made by Judge Charles P. Bock, who appointed eighteen special bailiffs to serve during the election. Climaxing an extraordinarily quiet campaign at Connersville, circulars appeared attacking William Dentlinger, Democratic mayoralty candidate. A S2OO reward was offered by the Democratic city chairman, J. W. Carpenter, for the arrest of those guilty of printing the bills. With forty-three seeking various nominations at Crawfordsville, interest took a sudden rise Monday night. Political observers there predicted one of the heaviest votes in history. In contrast with conditions at Evansville, Crawfordsville, and several other cities, the vote at Bloomington, Seymour and Columbus was expected to be extremely light. Little interest was shown in the campaigns in the latter three cities. East Chicago reported a light turnout as the polls opened, but a heavy vote was expected. The mayoralty contest between R. P. Hale, incumbent and J. E. Callahan, was the most hotly contested during the campaign. Gary Starts Slowly Gary reported a slight turnout as the balloting began. The mayoralty contest between R. O. Johnson, Repfiblican, who was pardoned by ex-Prcsident Calvin Coolidge following conviction on liquor conspiracy charges, and a large field was heated. A heavy vote is predicted. Activities around the polls at opening time in South Bend, Muncie, Kokomo, Ft. Wayne and Kendallville gave indication that a large vote would be cast. The major part of the campaigning was directed at professional gambling and liquor. Especially was this true at Evansville and Kokomo. A heavy vote was forecast by party leaders at Anderson at the balloting started. Seven candidates seek the mayoralty nomination on the Republican ticket and two on the Democratic. Dr. F. M. Williams, mayor, is a candidate for renomination. A determined fight is being made for the city judge nomination. Continued public ownership of Rushville’s municipal water and light plant, and reduced rates on electricity are main planks in platform of several of the fifteen men runing for mayor. Although no official attempt has been made to purchase the city plant, rumors are current that agents of corporations have tried to approach city officials. Public sentiment has caused both Democrat! and Republian candidates to issue statements favoring continued public ownership. Lien Placed on Klan Building By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May 7. Foreclosure of a lien against the local Ku-Klux Klan building, transferred to the Vigo County Benevolent Association in January, 1928, has been granted in superior court. The lien is for $4,360.73 and S4OO attorney fees in favor of the A. Fromme Lumber Company, which provided material for the building. De Pauw Prexy in Demand Bit Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., May 7. — j Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw university president, is booked for I nineteen addresses during May, i fourteen of them at commencement j exercises.

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Chicago Law School Dean Donor in Wife's Memory. By T,Special GREENCASTLE, Ind.. May 7.—A contest in extempore speaking, preliminary to one for the Margaret Noble Lee prize of SSO. is being held today at De Pauw university. Edward T. Lee. dean of the John Marshall Law school, Chicago, is the donor of the prize, a tribute to the memory of his wife. His daughter, Miss Marjorie Lee, is a De Pauw senior. Mrs. Lee was graduated from De Pauw in 1882,. She taught school in Indianapolis, and for a time was engaged in newspaper work, and later was a clerk in the census bureau at Washington. Mrs. Lee was a cousin of Mrs. Henry B. Longden, wife of De Pauw’s vice-president.

MS LURES AunKtn yAuti Greencastle Man Leaves With Gentry Show. By Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., May 7. The lure of the big top was too much for Ab Hensley, veteran circus follower who has been living here for the past two years. When the Gentry Brothers circus was here today Hensley firmly told acquaintances that he was not even going near the circus lot. The flesh was weak however, and that afternoon he applied for a job. He got it. Hensley helped handle the ponies for the evening performance, and left with the circus that night. Hensley had spent more than forty years in the circus business, and was with the Gentry show when it first went on the road.

SEEK GAS TRUSTEE Council to Name Transfer Board Member. City council will meet Thursday, 8 p. m. to name a trustee in the transfer of the Citizen's Gas Company to the city. In regular session Monday night, councilmen began consideration of names for the place. The council’s recommendation and four others, two by Mayor L. Ert Slack and two by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, must be made by Saturday in accordance with the law passed by the 1929 legislature. Their formal appointment by the mayor will follow. The trustees will handle transfer of the company to the city, elect directors and prepare for the utility’s maintenance and operation by the city.

I. U. GROUP SEEKING BLUE KEY CHARTER Faculty Approval Given Plans for Organization. By Time* Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 7. A group of Indiana university men students have petitioned Blue Key, national honorary organization, for a local chapter. Approval of the charter application has been given by Professor J. J. Robinson of the university law school. Those seeking the charter are John Magnabosco, Harold Dauer, Richard Jones, Robert Talbott, Charles Bennett, Branch McCracken, Leslie Stutesville, Paul Harrell, Byron Wallace. Ralph Weaver. Wilbert Catterton. Max Sappenfield, Franklin Mullin, Bagdasar Deranlan, Tevie Jacobs, Vincent Fowler. Clarence Forkner. William Ramsey, Claude Rich, Theodore Dann and Clarence Deitsch.

Chicago, which will not corrode. At the opening of the exposition Monday President Herbert Hover, in a letter, expressed his regret at not being able to attend. Then Mr. Televox. the mechanical man, blew a blast on a horn, someone made a speech in which chemistry was called “the pilot ol industry,” and 20,000 per.^ns fln/'Vn'* -> -r,, Ha.. e()£>^

'KEEP TRYING' FORMS CODE OF INVENTOR Frankfort Man Seeking Atomic Energy Secret Never Discouraged. READY FOR NEW START Failure After Eleven Years Effort Would Not Mean the End. BY RAY BRIGHTON, Times Staff Correspondent FRANKFORT. Ind., May 7.—“1 never get discouraged. I have tried for eleven years to solve the secret of releasing atomic energy. If the ; machine I will soon assemble does ; not solve it, T shall build another. I think an inventor's success comes ; from concentration.” says Howard j Martin, 25-year-old farmer-in-i ventor. Six years ago residents of Frankfort and surrounding community : heard rumors that a farmer boy was making an automobile run without an engine, making a windmill pump when there was no breeze i and lighting his father's house without the aid of outside electrical I connections. The rumors were verified by 1 neighbors whose reputation and standing in the community was be- | yond question. Curiosity prevailed for some time, then Martin was forgotten. Curiosity Ends; Work Goes On Howard Martin, though, continued to buy coils of wire, books, batteries, tools and other articles at Frankfort stores. In 1928 there were rumors of visits to the inventor from engineers from the east visiting the Martin home at night and secluding themselves in a Frankfort hotel during the day. Curiosity reigned again. Recently I visited the Martin home. The inventor’s father greeted me with a smile, but firm information that Howard could not talk of his discoveries or inventions. Contracts were hinted at, so I had to content myself with delving Into the early boyhood of this youth who with his inventions may revolutionize the world. Born in Illinois Born at Paxton, 111., the lad came to Clinton county with his parents while a small boy. The Martins lived first at Avery, a crosroads four miles east of Frankfort. One day Howard was playing near a trolley line. In his hand he had a compass and he discovered the trolley wire had a magnetic power which* effected the hand of the compass. This was his first discovery relating to the laws of electricity. Later the family moved to a farm five miles south of Frankfort where they still reside. Howard attended Frankfort high school and was graduated in 1923. His classmates recall him as being a bashful youth who took small part in affairs of school outside the classroom. In English and art his teachers classed him as a poor student, but in manual training, science and mathematics, he excelled. The hardest problems were readily solved by him. Masters Intricate Theories After he was graduated from high school, Howard went into seclusion at his father's farm and proceeded to further his experiments. He studied chemistry, trigonometry and other forms of mathematics. He studied all the books obtainable on the subjects that interested him. Finally the local supply became exhausted so the inventor sent to New York and other points in search of reading matter. At the present time he has books from all over the world on science and electricity. He can recite laws governing electrial current that would puzzle prominent sientists. Now Howard is assembling a machine that, if it works, will solve the problem of creating electricity from atoms. He has been away from home only two times for more than six months. He works in the fields during the day time with his father and brother. While he is plowing he thinks of what he hopes to accomplish. Howard’s mother and father encourage him in his experiments and both are as confident as their son that some day and some how he will discover the secret that has puzzled inventors like Edison and Marconi.

LIBEL PLAINTIFF ASKS DAMAGES OF SI,OOO Upland Man Charges Attack Defeated for. State Senator Nomination. Bu Times Special MARION, Ind., May 7.—Malicious libel is charged in a complaint filed in Grant circuit court here by John T. Bridwell, Upland, in which he seeks damages for SI,OOO. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant. Hadley Losure, Van Buren, libeled by “falsely and maliciously charging the plaintiff with breaking up a church at Coldwater, Mich., affirming plaintiff was kicked out of a church at Van Buren, Ind.; falsely accused of stirring up lawsuits and advertising for business and ruined his campaign for the nomination of state senator on the Democratic ticket.” The libelous statement* ar# said to have been contained in a letter written by the defendant to L H.