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DOPE RING LINKED WITH CO-ED KILLING Professor Lover Alleged to Have Distributed Narcotics. CHECK BANK ACCOUNT Girl Deposited $1,300 in Year While Parents Sent Her Only S6OO. BY HARRY W. SHARPE. ! nit*d Pr*sa Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS. 0.. June 13.—The tragic murder of Theora Hix. co-ed ’.n the college of medicine at Ohio State university, was linked with a possible narcotic ring today. The words “happy dust" —underworld vernacular for cocaine—entered the imbroglio as detectives sought, to shake the alibi of Dr. James H. Snook, the slain co-ed’s lover. Detective Chief W. G. Shellenbarger said he had indisputable evidence that. Dr. Snook, professor of veterinary medicine at the university. gave a woman drugs. May Have “Known Too Much" The woman named Dr. Snook when she was taken to University hospital in a drugged condition, the detective chief declared. John M. Chester, county prosecutor. seized upon the narcotic development as a “possible and logical” motive for the murder, on the theory that Miss HLx, who occupied a north side love nest with the bespectacled professor, may have “known too much and threatened to tell.” Standing over the mutilated body, of his former sweetheart at mid- ! night Monday night. Marian Meyers | denied knowledge of Snook's alleged j drug traffic. Meyers, university extension horti- | culturist. still is held for investigation Police believe he is holding back information essential to the solution of the murder. Fear Is Charged ' You are afraid of Snook." Prosecutor Jack Chester told Meyers. “You think he will ‘get you,’ so you are keeping silent “ Meyers insisted that he knew nothing but what he already had told Chester said the slam girl's bank account c*m not be accounted for. Records show that she deposited I SI,BOO in approximately a year. Her ; parents sent her only S6OO, and | Snook’s acknowledged gifts to her j do not make up the balance. Reports from chemists who are | analyzing stains found on the auto- i mobile and clothing of Snook were j awaited by police today to deter- | mine whether murder charges would be filed against him. Snook was dismissed from the faculty late Monday by President j George W. Rightmire because of ; “his admissions of moral delin- j quency which have had sufficient \eriflcation." The professor admitted he shared I a room with Miss Hix. CHARGE MODERN GIRL INVITES DISRESPECT Students' Meeting Tells Why Women Aren't Thought of as of Old. B'i I nited Pres* CHICAGO. June 18.—Why young : men don't respect young women the ! way their grandfathers did. was; discussed by 350 students attending i the national men students leader- ! ship convention at Loyola univer- j sity today. The students agreed that dis- j respect for women was a real social ; problem. After discussing the rea- j sons for it. the delegates issued the | following consensus: "That the girl who wears back- j less gowns, skirts that barely touch ; the knees, no hose and smoke and j drink is Inviting the disrespect of man and that more often than not | she gets it.” Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 73 10 a. m 85 .7 a. m 77 11 a. m 87 Ba. m 80 12 (noon).. 87 9a. m 83 Ip. m 88

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O BUDDIE! THEY’RE BITIN’

The Pull of Catfish Surges in Youth’s Blood

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East may be east, west may be west, but only a boy knows where fishin’ is best. Here is a group of summer students in the class of angling trying for their F. F. degree (fine fisherman) on Fall creek near the Central avenue bridge. William Forsyth fright), 11, of School 45 in the winter and Ike Walton's college in the summer, “waitin’ for a bite.’'

PARENTS SHIFT POISON BLAME Accuse Each Other in Death of Two Children. 3n ’ nited Press CHICAGO. June 18. A second child of the Markowski family died today, the victim, apparently, of a mysterious slow-acting poison, while his mother and stepfather accused each other in jail of administering the death dealing potion to the five brothers and sisters. Agnes Kwiatkowskl, 8. was the latest victim of what county hospital physicians believed to be poison. Her brother Chester, 7, died Monday night, Three other children. 6 and 3 years and 17 months old, are seriously ill in the county hospital The parents were arrested late Monday when the five children were found in a damp basement flat when neighbors called police. After being questioned all night. Markowski. a paint sprayer, broke under questioning and hysterically accused his wife. “She did it.” he said, pointing a wavering finger at his wife, “I did not,” she countered, “He brought home a can of arsenic and that's where the children got it.” Markowski admitted having the poison, but said he used it to take paint off his hands

Close at 5 Hie 5 o’clock closing hour for the many stores giving their employes more daylight recreation time during the summer will be effective July 5, the Merchants Association announced today. The early closing will be in effect through Aug. 30. The 5 o’clock hour is effective each week -day except Saturday when many stores will close at noon.

$250,000 TO BUTLER Anonymous Gift Made to Endowment Fund. An anonymous gift of $250,000 has been made within the last two weeks to Butler university's endowment fund. President Robert J. Aley announced at commencement exercises at the university Monday. Dr. Aley was unwilling to detail provisions of the gift'beyond saying that expenditure of the income from the amount would be left to the judgment of the trustees. A public statement of the gift will be prepared soon. Dr. Aley said, when the donor’s name may be divulged.

WAR GOODS ON SALE Highway Department Asks Bids on U. S. Supplies. Sealed bids for what remains of the surplus war material received from the United States government by the state highway department will be received July 15. it was announced today by Director John J. Brown. * The material is at the warehouse at Eleventh street and White River boulevard. It consists of army equipment. It may be inspected there. Brown announced. Included among the items are steam heated kettles, airplane trailers, rails, tools of all kinds, old truck equipment, motors, 25,000 to 40,000 laitem globes, a motor-driven floor finisher and tire vulcanizing outfit.

"r—s OT those minners. Cmon VJ Ted—here's at place I was showin' yer just 'fore school wuz out. Aw gwan take yer stockings off—yer Maw -won't care. Ain’t no use fishin’ wid yer stocking's on. Snakes, naw! Ain’t no snakes here. Say, ain't I fished her ’fore —don't I know!” v On Fall creek as it winds its way in and out through the city and on White river’s steep bushy banks, you can hear these words if you’re a prying one. They are words generations old. Don't let them tell you that Indianapolis youths have gone to the “bow-wows,’ that they have left the old fishin’ hole to dragon flies. For school is out and the pull of catfish on the line surges in youth's blood. Today and every day in the soft dank shade of wallow trees, of scrubby White river brush, there are small, shouting groups on river and creek bank.

SIGNS CENSUS BILL Reapportionment Gets 0, K. of Hoover. Bv I’nited Press WASHINGTON. June 18—President Herbert Hoover today signed the census and reapportiorynent bill. The law provides that the next decennial census should be taken starting April 1. 1930, and calls for enumeration of unemployed mines, agriculture and general population. Under the provisions of the act, the house of representatives will be reapportioned according to the shift in population during the last twenty years. DECIDE DRY APPEALS Two Liquor Cases Affirmed, One Reversed. Two liquor convictions were affirmed and one reversed by the state supreme and appellate courts today. The supreme court affirmed judgment of the Madison circuit court in the case of Forrest Gwinn, who was fined $250 and sentence of from one to five years at Indiana state prison. The appellate court, affrmed judgment of £u. Joseph circuit court where Arthur Renz and Albert Kagel were fined SSOO each and sentenced to six months on the Indiana state farm for selling beer in a South Bend saloon. The appellate court reversed judgment of the Allen circuit court in the case of Fanny Wolf, who was fined SIOO. and given a sixty-day sentence.

APPEAL RIGHT GRANTED Municipal Utilities Can Go to Court, Ogden Says. Municipally owned utilities have a right tq appeal to the courts when the public service commission denies their petition for extending service into the country, Attorney-General James M. Ogden ruled today in reply to a question from John W. McCardle, commission chairman.

CITY MAN WON SB,OOO IN KENTUCKY DERBY LOTTERY (MAYBE)

WHILE Arthur Court, building custodian, is dodging salesmen who seek to aid him in spending his share of the $84,750, won in a Canadian race horse lottery, another Indianapolis man is SB,OOO richer because of the purchase of a $1 ticket in the 1929 "Kentucky Derby Sweepstakes,” was reported here today. Somewhere in the city is a man who held ticket No. 82,201 drawn on tilt horse Panchio, which finished third to Clyde Van Dusen at Churchill Downs on’May 18.

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NEW ERUPTIONS SPREADTERROR Japanese Volcano Death Toll May Reach 100, Bu United Press HAKODATE, Japan, June 18.— The Komagatake volcano burst into anew and more violent reuption at 10 a. m. today, causing thousands of persons to flee in terror. The railways evacuated 2,700 refugees from the danger zone Thousands of others left the district by foot and by every possible means of conveyance Official estimates today were that more than a score of people were killed since the first eruption of the volcano early Monday morning, and that the list of dead might reach a hundred. The electric plant at. Isogawa was buried under ten feet of ashes today, according to reports reaching here.

Golf Awards Success will be rewarded tonight when prize winners of the fourth annual Indianapolis Times Interscholastic golf tournament, held last week at Pleasant Run municipal course, receive their awards on the stage at the Indiana theater. The presentation will be made during the Charles Davis-Alex Morrison golf skit called “Fore.” Harry Schopp. course manager at South Grove, will be master of ceremonies, Mayor L. Erfc Slack will speak, and the leading school boy golfers of 1929 wlil be honored. The show opens with a picture at 8:15 and the stage show follows. Names of the winners andJist of prizes appear on sports page of this edition.

LANDSLIDE JILLS 30 Colombian Town Destroyed. Many Injured. By United Press POPAYAN, Colombia, June 13. A landslide occurred today at the village of Sevilla, state of Cauca. The meager reports reeaching here said thirty persons had been killed and many injured. Thousands of tons of earth swept down, destroying the town and blocking the Quilcace river. Inhabitants of Sevilla deserted their homes. Diamonds Seized at Port Bu United Press NEW YORK. June 18.—Mrs. Reila Factor, formerly of Chicago, who arrived here on the lie de France two weeks ago, still is without her $150,000 worth of diamonds set in platinum. The jewels, “temporarily seized,” are being held at the appraiser’s stores.

The American lottery was revealed by L. Carl Berry, tax consultant, 1111 Odd Fellows buliding, who purchased a $1 ticket in the pool. a a a THE pool was brought into the limelight when Berry queried Louisville newspapers regarding winning numbers in the lottery. He received a reply from Bruce Dudley, sports editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, that they had no knowledge of a lottery organization in Louisville known as

MERCURY MAY HIT SEASON HIGH TODAY - Cooler Weather Forecast for Tonight by City Meteorologist, DEATH TOLL IN EAST Local Authorities Warn Public to Prevent Fatalities Here. Sweltering under the second day of the season's first real “hot wave” Indianapolis was expected to feel a new high mark for the se£.son today, before cooler weather comes late tonight or Wednesday. „ Eastern cities continued to swelter under a scorching heat wave, causing a high death toll today. With seven deaths already attributed directly or indirectly to the heat during the past twenty-four hours, New England remained today in the grip of another spring hot wave, reports from Boston said. Three persons died and thirteen others were prostrated in the terrific heat in the past forty-eight hours at New York. Many Deaths in East ! The metropolitan area entered its fifth day of withering warmth today with no prospects of immediate relief. Two persons died at Detroit in the second hot wave of the season when the thermometer climbed to 87 today. Away to an early start, 73 degrees at 6 a. m , the temperature rose rapidly in Indianapolis this morning, reaching 88 degrees at 1, two degrees higher than at the corresponding hour on Monday. Attaining 88 degrees at 3:30 Monday afternoon,'the temperature was one degree short of this year’s record—B9 degrees on Memorial day. Vincennes reported the highest temperature in the state, 94 degrees, while the heat w T as not so oppressive in northern Indiana. Maximum temperatures there approximated 85 and 86 degres. Cooler Weather Tonight Cooler weather may be expected here tonight. J. H. Armington, weather bureau head, said. “The fore part of the night will afford little relief, but by morning the low pressure area that has been drawing warm winds from the Gulf of Mexico should have passed over central Indiana,” he said. The present distribution of high and low pressure areas, he said, always is attended by a hot wave. The high pressure area extends from the south Atlantic states into the Atlantic while the low area prevails over the middle west from Canada to Texas. “Partly cloudy: probably local thunderstorms tonight or Wednesday: cooler Wednesday” was today’s forecast for Indianapolis. Bathing beaches and pools which were opened Saturday and Monday were expected to" draw their first big crowds this afternoon. Police were apprehensive that the first hot wave of the year would be accompanied by prostrations and drewnings. They renewed their warning against permitting children to swim in unsupervised places.

POLICE START DRIVE ON NOISY MOTORISTS Autoists Warned Not to Blow Homs in Hospital Zone. Police Chief Claude M. Worley today placed motorcycle policemen at Sixteenth street and Capitol avenue to warn motorists to stop excessive blowing of horns and screeching of brakes because of the annoyance to Methodist hospital patients. The police will warn first and if motorists persist in the violation of quiet zone regulations arrests will be made, Worley said. The Hoosier Motor Club is placing quiet zone signs in the district. The drive against noise followed complaint by Arthur R. Baxter, chairman of a hospital fund raising committee. OIL PRODUCTION RISES Dai'y Crude Output Last Week Totals 2,743,186 Barrels. Bu United Press TULSA. Okla., June 18.—Crude Oil production in the United States for the week ending June 15, daily average, increased 25,644 barrels over that of the week before, with a 23,350 barrels increase for light oil, the Oil and Gas Journal reported today.

the "Kentucky Derby Club Association,” with a “Colonel Campbell” as secretary and treasurer. Shortly after ha was handed by a friend who bought him a ticket in the lottery a list of the winning numbers. “I bought my ticket from this friend, who in turn got it from someone else,” Berry said. The capital prize for the holder of the ticket on Clyde Van Dusen was $30,000. The prizes range down to S2OO

TAKE3IG OF HUMAN LIFE BY U. S. DRY AGENTS ‘DEPLORED’ BY HOOVER

Canadian Woman in Speed Boat Menaced by Machine Gun, BLAME COAST GUARD ‘Spotters’ Across Border May Be Arrested as Trespassers, Bn lifted Press WINDSOR, Ont, June 18. — Police Chief J. D. Proctor of Sandwich, Ont., reported to the Ottawa government today that a Canadian woman in a speed boat near there had been menaced by machine gun bullets fired by an American coast guard boat in Canadian waters early Monday. According to the police blotter, Carl Raymond, Monroe, Mich., and J. O'Connor, Newport, Mich., were crossing the river at 3:30 a. m. Monday with Mrs. Ellen Johnson of Sandwich as a passenger. Mrs. Johnson had been visiting relatives in Michigan. United States Coast Guard boat 236 ordered the speed boat to stop despite the fact it was in Canadian waters, according to Raymond, and when the order was disregarded the speed boat was sprinkled with machine gun bullets. Strikes Near Woman One bullet struck near Mrs. Johnson, another clipped Raymond's ear, while others shattered the windshield of the speed boat. There was only one burst of machine gun fire, Raymond said, the officers apparently discovering that the speed boat was clearly on the Canadian side of the international boundary. Chief Proctor recently carried through a similar investigation of a bullet which crashed through a Sandwich dwelling window and narrowly missed a sleeping child. This bullet was traced to a gun of a United States coast guardsman, and assurances were given from Washington that dry agents would be more careful. United State dry agents “spotting” liquor cargoes at Lasalle, Ontario, near Windsor, will be arrested if property owners charge them with trespassing, Constable Henry Langlois of Lasalle said today. He explained, however, he would not interfef with the agents if they carried on their investigations properly and unymed. Questioned Suspect Langlois recently questioned a man who described himself as a United States dry agent when Lasalle residents complained the man with a field glass had been acting suspiciously on private property. “The man did no harm, but he had no business on private property or docks,” Langlois declared. The concentration of dry forces here along the Detroit-Canadian border was described as “a grandstand exhibition by the United States government by Frank W. Wilson, local Ontario legislator. “This is a remarkable situation, when a country with a 15,000-mile border line should concentrate every movable man to this short area,” Wilson declared.

CRASH DRIVER FREED Motorist Who Hit School Bus Blames Illness. John Dillman, 21, of Lawrence, j Ind., who drove his coupe into the j rear of a Warren township high school bus. in the 6600 block of Massachusetts avenue May 24, slightly injuring five children, was dismissed In municipal court today wthout fine or sentence. Seriously injured. Dillman was confined to a hospital three weeks. He was given leniency by Judge Paul C. Wetter when it was shown he was ill when the accident occurred. A charge of assault and battery was dismissed. A charge of reckless driving was withheld, but will be revived if Dillman’s driving gets him into any more trouble.

for each horse entered for the derby, with additional starters receiving S4OO. All tickets ending with the last two numbers of a ticket drawn on a winning horse receive $lO, and on the place horse. $5. a a a BERRY estimated that the lottery paid off approximately $100,000.' “Figuring a SIOO,OOO for expenses and a SIOO,OOO profit the

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Act to Sell Rum Pushed in Wisconsin Biil Would Grant State Right to Engage in Liquor Business. Bu frited Press MADISON. Wis.. June 18.—A constitutional amendment which would permit the state of Wisconsin to engage in the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors “to be consumed away from the premises where sold,'* was introduced in the state senate today by Senator Bernhardt Gettelman oi Milwaukee. Gettelman’s action came about as a result of the opinion of Gilbert Hardgrove, Milwaukee attorney, that, while the eighteenth amendment prohibits individuals from selling liquor, it does not expressly deny the manufacture or sale by states. At present, the Wisconsin constitution prohibits the state from engaging in any line of business excepting those exempted specifically by constitutional provision. Gettelman’s amendment would write in permission for the state to engage in the liquor business’. The resolution would have to be adopted by two successive legislatures when it would be submitted to the voters.

COMPLAIN OF DRUNK ENVOYS Senate Asks for Names of Diplomatic. Violators. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June 18.—A resolution requesting the chief of police here to furnish the senate with the names of all foreign diplomats who “ha v e been arrested or warned for operating automobiles under the influence of liquor or for other traffic vocations were introduced in the senate today by Senator TANARUS, H. Caraway (Dem., Ark.). The resolution sets forth that a representative of the Turkish embassy was arrested Monday in Virginia, “while attempting to operate an automobile while too drunk to drive.” It was adopted without debate. It stated the driver had claimed diplomatic immunity and according to newspaper accounts the Turkish government will demand an apology for his arrest. “There have been innumerable complaints of minor officials connected with the various legations here in Washington driving while intoicated and otherwise disregarding traffic regulations to the great annoyance and danger to American citizens, the resolution concluded. 15 KILLED IN QUAKE New Zealand Temblor’s Death Toll Rises. Bu United Press WELLINGTON, N. Z„ June 18.— The death toll of Monday’s earthquake had mounted to fifteen today. CLOUDBURST STRIKES Heavy Damage in Nebraska; One Killed. Bu United Press ALBION, Neb., June 13.—A cloudburst struck in Boone county today, inflicting heavy damage. At least one person was killed and it is feared others lost their lives. Donald Green, 23, was drowned while attempting to rescue several persons from their flooded homes. More than six inches of rain fell | in less than three hours, damaging j crops, roads and bridges and causing j heavy livestock loss. Water rose to the second floors of j houses in lower sections of Albion. |

lottery probably brought in $300,000,” he said. The lottery ticket held by Berry, non-winning, was printed by the “General Printers, Louisville, Ky.” It was signed by the mysterious “Colonel Campbell.” Today was the last day for the lucky Indianapolis man to present his ticket and collect his winnings, if he has not already done so, according to the list announcing the winners. All payments were to be made to winners within thirty days after the running of the race.

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President Calls on Cities on Border to Aid Enforcement Work. GUARDS TO KEEP ARMS Appeals to Take Weapons From Prohibition Men Are Rejected. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER I'nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 18.— Taking of human life was deplored strongly by President Herbert Hoover today in commenting on recent prohibition enforcement shootings. “I deeply deplore the killing of any person,” the President said. The White House simultaneously announced the treasury department was making a constant effort to prevent the misuse of firearms by border patrol officers. The determination as to what constituted misuse, the President said, would be determined by “the orderly processes of the treasury department and the courts.” At the same time the President called upon residents of border cities to co-operate with the government in an effort to prevent violation of American laws by international criminals. Agents to Keep Arms “I hope communities along the : border will do their best to end the j systematic violation of laws of the United States by international criminals,” the President said. Suggestions that prohibition and customs agents be disarmed to prevent killings out of enforcement activities were emphatically rejected by Seymour, assistant secretary of treasury. He issued orders Monday forbidding enforcement and customs | agents to use shotguns and rifles j and restricting them to service j pistols but today he said this was as far as he could go in that direction. “For us to send customs patrolmen or prohibition agents out unarmed to combat desperate smugglers and bootleggers would mean almost certain death for the government men,” Lowman said. Stands Behind Officers He still is standing .behind federal officers accused in three recent enforcement killings and expressed confidence in the courts which will handle the cases. Lowman revealed that about 150 telegrams concerning the killing at International Falls, Minn., have reached him, averaging about two to one in condemning the shooting. President Hoover’s law enforcement commission resumed its meet- ’ ings today, but indicated it was coni sidering general law enforcement problems. No one would comment on the. possibility of the commission sending investigators to the scenes of recent killings for first-hand information on law enforcement conditions in those trouble centers. Mora! support for the administration in its effort to cope with illicit liquor traffic came from Philadelphia today when the Presbyterian general assembly appointed a “National loyalty commission” which wil come here Wednesday to offer its support to President Hoover in his law enforcement efforts. Ministers Aid Drive June 30 vill be law enforcement Sunday and ministers will rally their congregations to the support of the government. A Newport (Ark.) prosecutor announced he will seek the death penalty for the deputy sheriff who shot Mickey Dillon, a young alleged bootlegger who was trying to escape. President Hoover has before him a second telegram from International Falls, Minn., this one from the city council, protesting officially against the shooting of Henry Virkula, confectioner, and against the attitude of customs agents In that vicinity. The President received a similar plea from the citizens of that locality last week. His failure to answer it prompted the telegram from the city council. Reports that President Hoover inspired his order limiting armament carried by customs men to the serv-, ice pistol were denied by Lowman, who said the President had not communicated with him on the recent deaths in connection with prohibition enforcement, either directly on indirectly.

COLONY WILL GET DAM Butlerville Institution Given SB,OOO From Governor’s Fund. With approval of the state budget committee, Charles McGonagle, superintendent of the State School for Feeble Minded Youth at Ft. Wayne and the Butlerville farm colony, Butlerville, was given $6,000 from the Governor’s emergency fund today to commence construction of a dam on the Muscat*tuck river at Butlerville.