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FIGHT TO PUT FARM BOUNTY IN TARIFF BILL Borah Opens Sharp Attack on General Increases in Rates. AID MONEY IS VOTED House 0. K. on 151 Million Appropriation Given Without Dissent. ft 9 ’ 1 v rtf '! Prf * WASHINGTON. .Turn 17. Without a dissenting vote, the house 1 today passed a bill appropriating *151.500,000 for the new federal farm j board. Although one hour's time was allotted to discuss the bill, less than fifteen minutes was used. The President's budget message requesting the appropriation arrived at the house a few minutes after the bill was passed: The general tariff battle opened on all fronts in the senate today when the farm bloc put forward the debenture plan as an amendment to the bill and Senator William E. Borah, the leading Republican campaigner of last fall opened a. sharp attack upon the general increases offered in the measure. Wants Debenture In Bill The same language of the debenture provision which was eliminated from the farm releif bill signed Sat- , urday bv the President wa* proposed as a tariff amendment by Senator George W. Norris <Rep.. Neb.). It sought to provide that one-half of the tariff on exportable agricultural products be offered as a bounty out of the treasury. It would give the proposed federal farm board authority to cut. down the debenture if it should lead to over production. A provision was added to author- j izr the secretary of treasury to redeem the bounty certificates at 98 per cent of their face value. The addition was made to meet the objection that the bounty would cause j speculation in certificates. Borah Takes Floor Norris made no statement concerning his amendment, but Borah | Immediately obtained the floor in defense of his pending resolution j proposing to instruct the senate finance committee to limit tariff re- i vision to agricultural rates and j those rates directly related to agri- ; culture. Borah charged that the general increase provided in the house bill j are in violation of the platform pledges made by President Hoover j and the Republican party during the campaign. Meantime, the senate finance j committee was continuing its hear- j ings on the tariff under a schedule J which would enable it to conclude July 10. FIREMEN KEEP OXYGEN BABY ALIVE FIVE DAYS Child Rallies After Losing Strength During Night in Iliness. P y r fitted Prefix CHICAGO. June 17.—A fire de- ! partment inhalator squad today entered upon its fifth day in the fight j to keep 16-months-old Raymond Di j Chiara alive. The child suffering from bronchial pneumonia, appeared to be losing strength for a time Sunday night, but Dr. John Pishotta declared he rallied somewhat early this morning. * More than 125 tanks of oxygen have been used. TWO CONFESS HOLDUP Admit Robbing Milkman of 544: Held on $5,000 Bonds. James Bailey. 956 North Miley I * venue, and William Tracy. 932 Lynn street. Negroes, were held under $5,000 bonds each today on ban- ] ditrv charges, after their arrest Sunday on complaint of Carl McDaniels. 614 West North street, milk-wagon driver, whom they admitted holding up and robbing of $44. They fired several shots at. McDaniels, they confessed. James R Brown. 23. Barton hotel, complained to police early Sunday that he had been beaten by several voting men near University park Saturday night after they searched him and found no money. ‘CHUTE' JUMPERS 'FIGHT' Girl Makes Six Leaps to Beat Record of Rival. Trying to get "a jump ahead." rival" parachute jumpers at Riversioe park and at Derby Racer park, opposite Riverside, tied with each other Sunday, one making five leap? and the other six. By executing six “chute" leaps for Derby Racer Miss Hazel Bruce equaled the mark set by Claude Shafer, the “Patent Leather Kid,” last summer. Performing for Riverside park Sunday. Shafer made five leaps. They will renew their rivalry next Sunday afternoon. Lightning Damages Phones Bv Ttmi * SOfCtal ALEXANDRIA. Ind. June x 7. Repairs are being made to 300 telephones here today, as a result of damage caused when lightning struck the exchange board Sunday.

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Dinna McAfee (above) killed when a machine alleged to have been driven by Robert Lewark (below) jumped a curb and struck her in the 2300 block Station street Sundav night. Lewark >s bound over to the grand jury on manslaughter charges.

Halt the ‘Grab’ The Times offioe Saturday looked like the county treasurers office on the last day to pay taxes. Only, the more than 1.000 citizens who faced Times notaries across the counters were not there to pay either money or tribute to anybody—and there was no waiting in long lines. In fact, they were there to register protest against, the latest form of political tribute —the 25 cents notary fee which politicians set out to pocket under the new' driver license law. The Times still is notarizing driver license application blanks free—hence, the crowd. More than 7.200 drivers had been served by The Times by noon today. Sufficient notaries are on the job to prevent any one from having to wait more than a few minutes during the heaviest rush. Tell your neighbors, not. The office is open until The service is free to all citizens. whether Times readers or 8:30 p. m.

LINDY IN CONNECTICUT Colonel and Bride Believed En Route to New York on Yacht. Bv United Press NEW LONDON. Conn, June 17. Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh were believed skirting the Connecticut shore today on a return trip to New York in their cabin cruiser. Mouette. in which they sailed to Maine. The Mouette left Block Island Sunday after the flier bought gasoline. ice, one fish and a newspaper.

PROFESSOR’S LOVE TRYSTS BARED IN CO-ED MURDER

Sv * nited Frets Columbus. 0.. June 17.—Dr. James H. Snook. Ohio State university! professor who is held as a suspect j in the slaying of Miss Theora Hix. a; co-ed in the college of medicine, in- j sisted today he had no connection j with the crime. The 49-year-old professor, mar- j ried and the father of a 3-year-old j daughter, who confessed he main- i tained an apartment with Miss Hix 1 and helped finance her education, j has been held in the county jail ; here for more than forty hours. Marion T. Myers. Ohio State graduate now employed in the horticulturist department of the university, also is being held. An analysis was to be made today of stains found on a gray suit which Snook took to a cleaning establishment to be cleaned Friday. When Snook was taken to the rifle range Sunday, where the body was found, detectives said Snook

JESTER FATE’S GRIM PRANK SPLITS TEAM,’ BUT THE ‘ACT’ MUST GO ON

KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June 17.—Poverty, the specter which wrecked the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Helms, vaudeville “troupers." continued a problem to Mrs. Helms today. Held on first degree murder charge for the shooting of her husband, Mrs. Helms was not worried about the lack of money for bail.

Effort of Robert Lewark, 20, of 2162 Station street, to drown his sorrows in liquor after a quarrel with his 16-year-old sweetheart led him to ritv prison where he was held today on $2,500 bonds on an involuntary manslaughter charge following the death of a, little girl under his automobile. In signed statements today he and Alfred <Red' Linne, 18. of 2181 Station street, confessed to police that they were drunk when their careening auto leaped a curb, killed 7-year old Dinna McAfee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. McAfee, 2309 Station street, and then crashed into a house at 7 p. m. Sunday.

PLANE FALLS IN SEA; 7 DIE Ship, 13 Aboard, Crashes Into English Channel; Victims Are Drowned, Bu U nited Press FOLKESTONE. England, June 17. ! —The Imperial Airways passenger . plane City of Ottawa, with thirteen ! persons aboard, plunged into the | English channel off Dungeness to- ■ day. Seven of those aboard lost their 1 lives. Five others were brought j ashore to a hospital. When the plane came down the i bulk of it, was entirely submerged.. The passengers were trapped in the inclosed cabin and drowned. Those who were rescued were suffering from shock and bruises. They owed their lives to the quick arrival of small boats which hurried to the scene. The City of Ottawa, was a. twinengined Handley-Page machine placed in commission in March. 1926. It. has singe flown more than 250.000 miles and made about 1.000 channel crossings. Tire Imperial Airways, whose machines have carried more than 100.000 passengers and flown approximately 4.000.000 miles across the channel, claimed that, in the last four years there had been no pre- ! vious accident involving injury to a fare-paying passenger. FIREMEN SAVE CHILD Keep Baby Alive Three Days With Oxygen. ' Bv United Press CHICAGO. June 17.—Science, after almost 100 hours of constant battling, saved the life of Jack de chiara. 16 months old. today after physicians had given up hope of saving him from pneumonia and called a fire department inhalator squad as a last, resort. Working in relays, pairs of firemen administered oxygen for more than three days. At the same time another squad continued their efforts to save John Karpowich. 18 months, from the same disease. They started giving him oxygen Saturday.

ISLAND FEELS QUAKE Temblor in New Zealand Is Worst Since 1901. Bv United Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand, June 17.—The worst earthquake of New' Zealand since 1901 w'as felt on south island Sunday night. Several deaths are feared, although none had been reported here early today. Wireless is the only means of communication with the affected area remaining, since both telegraph and telephone lines are dow'n.

shuddered at sight of the bloodstained grass, although he never flinched at their questions, which he refused to answer directly. Snook, for several years champion pistol shot and a member of the winning American Olympic pistol team to Antwerp in 1920. admitted he had gone to the rifle range to he kept his love tryst with the slain girl, the middle-aged, mild-man-nered veterinarian said nothing, according to detectives. Taken to the apartment, where dle-aged. mild-mannered veterinarian said nothing, according to detectives. Mrs. Margaret Smalley, the apartment landlady, reported to police that Snook had rented the room last February. She said he represented himself as Howard (his middle name) Snook, a salt salesman from .Newark, O. Miss Hix, the landlady said, was introduced to her as Snook’s “wife.”

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I “I don't know if I was driving.' ! Lewark told police this morning before he waived preliminary hearing in municipal court and was bound over to the grand jury. Linne's hearing was continued until Wednesday, while his parole from the state reformatory on a burglary charge is investigated. “Bob, I'm going to get you drunk," Linne is said to have toid his companion when the latter quarreled with his lover Saturday night Lewark's mother said her son left home at 2 p. m. Sunday. Both claimed they drank only home brew, but Jem- Patterson, 78, Negro. 1049 East Elliott street, in-

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Kenneth william penner, star pitcher for the Indian - apolis baseball team, hardly could have done otherwise than hold the Milwaukee Brewers to four hits in that thrilling, fourteen-inning, 2-to-l victory for the Indians Sunday afternoon. It was the first game Mrs. Penner, as such, saw' her hero-hus-band pitch. Mrs. Ken Penner and the pitcher’s mother, Mrs. Flora Penner, 337 Downey avenue, were in the grandstand and. testifying to the fact that baseball blood runs clear through the family, the mother remarked: "We nearly had heart failure." Mr. and Mrs. Penner were married last week in Little Rock, Ark., and arrived here Saturday after YOUTHS HELD IN CRASH Three Arrested for Rush Co- nty Officers in Fatal Accident. Three Indianapolis youths were under arrest today for Rush county authorities on charges of vagrancy and being fugitives from justice, after an auto accident near Rushville Sunday in which Paul Maple, 20. Rushville. was fatally injured. They are Richard Nash, 22. of 1422 Broadway; Haywood Smiley, 23. of 1428 Ashland avenue, and Samuel Gillespie. 20. of 1140 Park avenue, said to have abandoned a machine which struck a chassis on which Maple was riding. A quantity of liquor was found in their car. CHILD BITTEN BY DOG Owner of Animal Ordered to He Him Up for Ten Days, After her German police dog bit Leslie Herndon. 11. of 1126 St. Paul street, in the leg. Miss Anna Weaver. 1115 St. Paul street, today was ordered by police to tie up the dog for obesrvation for ten days. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 70 10 a. m 81 7a. m 72 11 a. m 83 Ba. m 78 12 (noon).. 84 9 a. m 80 1 p. m 86

the court having denied bond in the case, but she grieved because she lacked funds for her husband's burial. Depressed by poverty. Mrs. Heims shot her husband. "Good-bye, old boy, I'm going with you," she erried to the lifeless form. S’

formed police that they were drinking whisky and said Linne was at the wheel of the car when they drove through his potato patch shortly before the accident. On Patterson's information, police this morning arrested Herman Huth, 38. of 1952 North Emerson avenue, cn blind tiger charges. The youths said they were too drunk to identify the person from whom they got their liquor. Neighbors sitting on front porches of their homes watched the auto, swerving from side to side of the street, suddenly veer into the curb, strike the little girl, walking with her brother. Durham. 6. on the sidewalk. and then crash into the home

a harrowing motor trip. The pi toher snatched a few hours sleep and blithely set the Brewers on their ears.

Circus Will Be Here Tuesday Duration of Stay—One day. First time for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's circus in Indianapolis in five years. Show' Grounds —South Keystone, near Prospect street. Performances —At 2 and 8 p. m. Menagerie dors open hour earlier. Tickets —On sale from 9 to 5 at Clark & Cade drug store. Claypool Hotel building. Yellow ticket wagon continuously open for purchase of reserved seats at show grounds. Red and white ticket wagons start selling admission tickets only when doors open. Features—Hugo Xacchini, the human projectile; Goliath, the monster sea elephant: 800 men and women arenic stars; menagerie of 1.000 rare animals: 200 trained horses in the ‘Tourney of -Jewels": 100 horses and zebras performing in a single display: “Yasso." the wonder elephant: side show, wild west show.

VOLCANO IN JAPAN BURIES TOWNS IN LAVA STREAM

Bv United Press HAKODATE. Japan, June 17. Komagatake volcano, twenty-five miles north of this city, broke into violent, eruption today. Earthquakes followed the eruption. The villages of Honbetsu and Tomesawa. were partly destroyed by lava. Some visitors to the hot springs

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of Foster Kimberlin. 2317 Station i street. Kimberlin. sitting with his wife and friends on the porch, freed himself from timbers and debris that fell about them, and extricated the girl from the wreckage beneath the car. She ’’as dead. Her brother was touched by the machine, and scratched slightly on the leg. In the crowd that gathered about her body were her father and mother. who collapsed when they recognized their daughter. The mother today is in a physician's care. Funeral services for the child will be held at 2 p. m. today in Christ church. Denny street, and the body taken to Greensburg. Ky.. for bur.a)

STORM BREAKS SHIP IN HALF Heroic Rescue Work Saves Lives of All but One of Crew. Bv rutted Press ASTORIA. Ore.. June 17. Buffeted by towering waves and broken in two a’cross a sandbar in the mouth of the Columbia river, the S. S. Laurel of the Quaker line took a toll of one dead, seevral injured and seven members of the crew still more helpless today on the half of the vessel that remained on the bar. Twenty-four of the crew were rescued by the coast guard cutter Red Wing which braved heavy seas and a gale Sunday to snatch the men from what appeared certain death. The man drowned was Russell Smith, 19. Dorchester. Mass. The vessel became unmanageable when she was crossing the Columbia river bar Sunday night in a heavy wind which caused a cross sea. Ships Breaks in Two The steeering gear sanpped and the ship immediately lieadied. P'or the next two hours she wallowed helpless in the high waves, her bottom striking ground fifteen times. As the ship wallowed, a deckload of lumber broke loose and went overboard, the heavy timbers lashing against the side of the drifting vessel and threatening to stove them in. SOS signals were sent ou* until the masts went by the board. About 2:30 a. m. the ship straddled a sand bar and snapped in two. Smith went down with the | fore part of the vessel. In response to th eSOS signals, life boats put out. from the Ft. Canby station, but were unable to reach the stricken ship on account of the heavy seas. Later a lifeboat from the Capt Disappointment station and the : eRd Wing succeeded in making contact with the marooned men. Wait for Rescue For the next fifteen hours there 1 remained nothing so rthe crew to j do but wait for rescue. I Twice during ’ the morning the lifeboat from the Ft. Canby station attempted to get near the derelict but could not approach because of the heavy timbers which were being tossed about by the high running waves. the lifeboats approach the wreck again. This time there were two boats, the one from Ft. Canby and the one from Cape Disappointment. Heavy lines were cast from the Laurel to the two boats which had to use their full power to pull away Not until near 6 p.m. Sunday did from the ship to keep the lines up. SPENCER BANK FAILS Institution Will Pay Off Depositors in Full. Exchange bank. Spencer. Ind., failed to open it? doors today and was reported by Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner, as the first Indiana bank failure since May 16. This is the longest period without failure during the last few years. Symons reported. Thomas Barr, assistant commissioner, and William Dexheimer, examiner. are in Spencer and report that the bank expects to pay off depositors in full. "Depleted cash reserves and exhausted credit." were given as the reasons for failure by Symons. The institution was capitalized at $50.000. John H. Smith is president and R. H. Evans, cashier.

resorts at the base of the mountain are missing. The village of Shikabe. near the base of the mountain, was evacuated. The town of Sunshara was reported in flames. Most of the Waterishima peninsula was enveloped in smoke.

She pressed the gun to her heart and pulled the trigger. There had been but one cartridge in the revolver. Miss Helm? was taken to fail, charged with murder. “I don’t care about dying." she declared today, “I'll welcome escape from poverty, but i do wish I had money to give Frank a decent burial.

HOOVER DROPS ALL OFFICIAL BUSINESS TO TAKE ACTION ON DRY KILLING PROTESTS

Death of Rum Runner. 20. by Shot in Back Is Called ‘Accident.’ DEFENDED BY CHIEF Men Who Bring Body to Hospital in Silence Have Good Records. D OGDEN,SB I" RG, N. Y.. June 17.—Arthur Gordon, 20-year-old bootlegger suspect, who was shot to death by customs agents was killed by accident. William C. Tullocii, chief agent in charge of the border customs patrol, said today. Tulloch said Weldon Cheatham, a customs guard, shot Gordon. Cheatham and Francis L. Ceveney. both #of whom, he said, had long records in the customs service, were the two agents who attempted to stop Gordon, driving a car loaded with ale. Tripped Over Stone Tn pursuing Gordon, Tulloch said, Cheatham fell over a stone and his rifle was discharged accidentally. Tulloch said he considered the shooting a "most unfortunate thing." “I have talked with both officers and they told me a straightforward story," he said. "Both men have long and honorable records in the customs service and I believe in them implicitly.” The chief agent, whose headquarters are here, did not indicate what would be done should Clinton county authorities take the men into custody." Tulloch said Gordon was not killed instantly but talked with agents briefly. He told them he was working for a “New York man,” Tulloch said. Quit Meat Market Job As so far patched together, the story runs thus: Gordon who has been aiding iq sunport of his family by working in a meat market gave up that work a week ago and decided to try for the heavier profits of running rum from the Canadian border. He was intercepted in his journey to Plattsburgh last week by the customs officers’ device of blocking the roadway with their cars. When he fled he was pursued into a thicket and fired upon. He apparently died en route to the hospital, and his body ' as left there without comment from the uniformed men who delivered it. O'Connell was told that five shots were fired at Gordon after he had jumped from his car. Murder Charges Filed Bv Unit'd Brens NEWPORT. Ark.. June 17—First degree murder charges were filed today against George Johnson, deputy sheriff, in connection with the liquor killing of Mickey Dillon, 22, El Paso, son of a Texas ranger captain. Dillon died in a hospital here today from two bullet wounds inflicted Sunday night by the deputy when the youth tried to escape after he was arrested on a charge of intoxication and possession of liquor. County Prosecutor Hugh Williamson, who filed the murder charges, said Johnson had arrested the youth and was taking him to jail when Dillon broke away. The deputy fired two shots at a distance of not more than ten feet, both striking the youth in the back, Williamson said. Johnson, who previously had served a five-year prison term for killing a man under similar circumstances. was arrested shortly after the shooting. FT. WORTH PARK BURNS Million-Dolar Casino Octroyed; Gorilla Dies in Flames. Bv United Press FT. WORTH. Tex., June 17.—Fire which followed a blast on the boardwalk swept the Lake Worth Casino park today leaving the million-dol-lar playgrounds in ruins. “Big Boy,” 300-pound gorilla, was burned to death. Workmen described as almost human the weird cries of the giant beast as the flames licked into the cage IN G RID UN HURT IN C R ASH Swedish Princess’ Car Crashes With Another in London. Bv United Press LONDON. June 17.—Princess Ingrid of Sweden and her uncle, the duke of Connaught, were jarred but uninjured today when their automobile was rammed head-on by another car under the narrow archway leading from the ambassadors’ court.

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‘For God's Sake. Help Us,’ Says Plea to President From Minnesota. NEW ORDER ON ARMS Weapons Must Be Drawn Only in Self-Defense. Says Lowman. 'Results of writer's in.esdfation In Virkula sbootinc. Pajr* Thr^.) B\f 1 iiitud I'm* WASHINGTON, June 17.President Hoover moved today to quiet the protests which have arisen during the past ten days over prohibition enforcement, shootings. Finding on his desk at the executive offices this morning a telegram from a group of citizens at International Falls, Minn., asking for "protection" against over-zeal-ous border patrol officers, the chief executive dropped all legislative and administrative business for a time to give personal attention to disposal of the message. The International Falls telegram was a direct appeal to President Hoover for vigorous action to place responsibility for the killing of Henry Virkula. Big Falls (Minn.) confectioner, by Border Patrolman Emmett J. White. “For God's Sake, Help" The telegram ended with the plea: "For God's sake, help us." Treasury' officials declined to confirm reports that the White House had asked for a detailed report on the Virkula slaying, but it was learned that President Hoover conferred with both treasury and justice department officials relative to possible courses of procedure. While the whole matter of prohibition killings was before the President, two of the foremost dry leaders cf the nation were White House callers. They were Senator Wesley Jones (Rep., Wash.), author of the Jones “five-and-ten" law, and Bishop Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Both denied having discussed anything but semi-private business with the chief executive. In other quarters it was learned, however, that, dry organizations have taken a keen interest in the whole situation which has developed over recent shootings. Dry leaders are pressing Hoover to stand firm. New Warning to Officers At the same time Seymour Lowman. assistant secretary' of treasury, j made public today anew warning ; lie sent customs officers on June 13 j against the careless use of firearms j in enforcing prohibition and customs laws. He said a weapon should be drawn only in self-defense or to prevent commission of a felony. The present enforcement trouble has confronted President Hover with precisely the situation he sought to avoid at the outset of his administration. He declared emphatically soon after inauguration that his administration policy on enforcemeit would be to avoid all dramatic or sensational acts and check at every opportunity the acts of overzealous agents. PICK NEW CONGRESSMAN Minnesota District Votes on Successor for Representative Newton. Bv United Press MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. June 17. The fifth Minnesota congressional district voted today for a successor to Representative Walter H. Newton, who resigned recently to become one of the secretaries of President Herbert Hoover. The three candidates in the race are Lieutenant Governor W. I. Nolan. Republican; Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, and Einar Hoidalee, Democrat. TWO TRY SUICIDE; FAIL Girl. 16. Jealous of Young Man, Takes Poison. Miss Mildred Watson, 16, daughter of Mrs. Jesse Watson, 214 Geisendorf, was recovering today in Indiana Christian hospital, where she formerly was employed, from effects of poison she took Sunday. Her mother told police the girl attempted suicide because she was jealous of a young man. Mrs. Lillian Wetzel. 55, apartment 4, at 2432 Park avenue, swallowed poison early this morning at Meridian and New York streets. City hospital attendants say she will recover. FIND AGED WOMAN DEAD Death of Mrs. Margaret E. Painter, Follows Long Illness. Mrs. Margaret E. Painter, 86.1102% Fletcher avenue, was found dead on the floor of her kitchen, early today. Her physician said she had been ill for some time.