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CHINESE ASK FOR DELAY ON SOVIET EDICT Extension of Three* Day Ultimatum Sought in Dispute, TROOPS CROSS BORDER Russian Army of 2.000 Avoids Battle With Manchurian Force, £• T nitri. Pr‘t* LONDON, July 16 —The Exchange Telegraph Agency reported tMay that China has requested th* 5 Russian government for an extension of the throe-day period of the ultimatum on the Harbin incident in view of the prolonged delay in transmission of the soviet - * note. The Exchange Telegraph's Riga, rorrespondent, also reported that a soviet meeting in Moscow last night approved Minister Leo Karakhan’s srtjon In dispatehinc an ultimatum to China, but unanimously favored an amicable settlement, and recommended the greatest caution to prevent war.

Forty-eight, hours after the Soviet union's three-day ultimatum was handed to China's charge d'affairs at Moscow the general-situation today stood as follows: Reports from Harbin stated that 2.000 Russian soldiers crossed into Manchuria but avoided contact with Chinese force?. The Russian populace burned with patriotic fervor and demanded that the government take strong measures in protecting the rights of the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of marchers pledged allegiance to the government. In the capitals of China there was an atmosphere of calm and placidity. The Chinese people were not excited, not even when it was reported that Dr. C. T. Wang, nationalist foreign minister, may not return to Nanking to form a reply to Russia until next Friday. Other report.? from Manchuria stated that, the Mukden government continued to assume control of the Chinese eastern railway, over which the whole dispute had started. European capitals refused to believe that there would be war. Japan assumed an attitude of watchful waiting. The Japanese press criticised the tactics of China in seizing the road. It was reported from Berlin that Russia already had chosen a representative for the conference in the event, Chinn accepts Russia's proposal to discuss all the elements inployed in the control of the line.

Troops Cross Border pti Press HARBIN. Manchuria. July 16. Unconfirmed reports reaching Imre mday stated that 2.000 soviet troops crossed the Manchurian border near Rlagovieschtchensk. but retreated at tbe approach of a Chinese battalion. Russia Is Tense P v rii>■*' •? Press MOSCOW. July 16.—Feelings were growing increasingly tense here tedav. which, according to the newspaper Izvestia. is the "third and last day of the term set in the soviet note'’ for China to render a satisfactory answer regarding the seizure of the eastern railway at Harbin. Manchuria. Other newspapers likewise assume that the zero hour of the soviet ultimatum is midnight tonight. Nevertheless, confusion persists regarding the expiration hour of the ultimatum which the foreign office has not yet clarified. The keenest interest centers today about the report that the white gua.rdist leaders, with the help of Ihp Nanking government, are scheming a raid on soviet territory to establish a white guardist buffer state. If the report of his intentions are true, it is believed this would oblige the soviet officials to take up arms regardless of their frank anxiety to avoid bloodshed. On the basis of foreign press comment. foreign political circles here foresee a possible effort to summon an international conference of all claimants for the purpose of reapportioning control of the Chinese Fastern railway. France and Japan are credited with inspiring such an effort, which *he soviets regard as unacceptable and consider that, the question is one only between China and the Soviet union.

Occupation Threatened Fj' Vnitrd r*-t js BERLIN. July 16.—German Express Agency reports from Moscow stated today that if China failed to accede to the soviet demands within the prescribed time the red army would occupy several points along the Chinese eastern railway in Manchuria ‘ as security" in the dispute there, but would refrain from any widespread military campaign. Japanese Take Stand p 7r. i* fi Prt *-■ TOKIO. July 16.—China s seizure of the Eastern railway in Manchuria was condemned In the Tokio press today as unjust, impractical and as a threat to the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria railway.

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‘For My Country, ’Mrs. Gann Refuses ‘Drink*at Dinner

Courage Gem Bv United Press CHICAGO. July 16.—Miss Lois Parchman. owner of a north side frock "ken. remained stoical througbo a 'ties of tortures inflicted by bandits rather than reveal the hiding place of her jewels. After she had be r n burned by ritraref stubs and her arms wrenched by the bandits, she pressed a burglar alarm and the two robbers fled with 20 dresses.

MATCH PLAT OPENS City Women Lead in State Golf Tourney. ~ Three women were onr up on their opponents and two others were two up at the sixth tee in the first round of the championship flight of the Indiana women’s golf tournament at Meridian Hills early today. Mrs. Ben Stevenson, Indianapolis, ex-champion, missed a chance to hqlf Mrs. Robert Tinsley, Crawfordsville. three down when she took a seven on the fifth. Miss Elizabeth Abbott. Indianapolis, was two up on Mrs. William H. Barrere Jr., Indianapolis. Miss Elizabeth Dunn. Riverside, city titlist and cx-state title holder, had Mrs. Scott. Snyder. Ft. Wayne, ex-champ, down one; Mrs. Marjorie Fischer Kahn. Broadmoor, was one up on Mrs. Arthur Krick. Indianapolis. and Mrs. Alfred E. Bulsor., Ft. Wayne, state champion, was one hole to the good over Mrs. A. A. McClamrocb Indianapolis. ELEVEN DIE IN CRASH Girls of Prominent Honduran Families Are Victims. Bn United Hi * TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras. July 16.—Eleven high school girls, members of socially prominent families, were killed in an automobile accident as they were returning from a picnic at San Buenaventura. Twenty-two other school girls were badly injured in the. wreck and were rushed to hospitals.

NEW GERMAN SHIP AFTER SPEED MARK ON TRIP

Bn T'nited Press BREMERHAVEN. Germany. July 16.—The Breman. Germany's proud hope in the trans-Atlantic shipping competition, left her decks today on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic for New York. With the magnificent new liner of the old Nord-Deutscher-Lloyd concern went the prayers and the cheers of a nation, which had seen its fleets whittled away by the war treaty, but now slowly rising again to a "place in the sun." Completed in great secrecy after the partial destruction of her sister ship, the Europa. by fire, the Bremen

GOVERNOR GETS JOB FOR ‘CHECK KITER’ TO TEST OPERATION’S RESULT

BY ARCH STEIXEL A JOB and fifteen days to make cood on it kept prison doors from clanging today on Howard Buck, erstwhile ' kiter" of checks, who was operated on at the request of Governor Harry G. Leslie in an effort to save him from a life of crime. The job. that ot a draftsman for the state highway department, was given Buck by John F. Brown, director of the state highway commission. at the request of Governor Leslie. Buck, who was injured in a

Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, sister of the Vice-President who “for my country and my brother ,f turned down a drink at Sir Howard's dinner.

NEW ORLEANS RIDES TO WORK Warn of Martial Law If Strikers Riot, Bn United Pres: NEW ORLEANS, July 16.—New Orleans rode to work on street cars today for the first time in more than two weeks. Cars were started Monday under protection of United States deputy marshals acting to enforce a federal injunction granted a. week ago by Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah. Although many of the 2.000 striking street railway men lined the streets with thousands of curious, there were no demonstrations such as marked early efforts at renewal of service with strike breakers. Union pickets acting upon orders of their union and under permission of the federal injunction, stood guard over all entrances and exits ,o company property. They had strict orders from their officials to participate in no disorders. A repetition of rioting and piilage such as took two lives, resulted in more than 100 injured and considerable damage to company property might result, in martial law being declared, spokesmen for Governor Huey P. Long have warned.

BONOS AUTHORIZED Children’s Home Addition Among Projects. Authorization of four bond issues, one for $160,000 to erect an addition to the Board of Children's Guardians’ home in Irvington, was made today by the county council. Three of the bond issues were for improvement of the following Marion county roads: Thirty-eighth street, from Eastefn avenue to Keystone avenue: Keystone avenue from ne Allisonville road to Sixtyfifth street, and the Holt road from Morris street to the National road. The addition to the children's home will provide an isolation ward, bpiler room, and dormitory space. The issue also will equip the home.

is expected to threaten the transAtlantic speed record held by the Cunard liner. Mauretania. The new German ship is 920 feet in length. 100 feet in beam, with 46.000 tons displacement. Her four mighty turbine sets total about 120.-000-horse power. On a recent test run she reached a speed of twentyeight knots an hour, but was believed to have neld two or three knots in reserve. The Mauretania now holds the record for the Atlantic crossing, five days one hour and forty-five minutes.

football same with Governor Leslie's alma mater. Purdue, a skull injury which was believed by surgeons to have caused his criminal tendencies, was released from the Robert A. Long hospital Monday. Housed tn an Indianapolis hotel. • ed t da] thal ernor Leslie, before making a trip cast, had extended his temporary rr.role from, the state reformatory at Pendleton until Aug. 1. and had provided a position, the work he is best fitted to do. to give him more chance in society.

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By United Press T EXINGTON. Ky„ .luly 16.—Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, sister of and official hostess for VicePresident Charles Curtis, declined liquors at a recent dinner given in Washington by Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador; “out of consideration of my own country and my brother.” it was revealed today in an pxchanee of correspondence between Mrs. Gann and the Kentucky Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Gann revealed her attitude in a letter addressed to Mrs. Ludie D. Pickett, president of the W. C. T. U., in response to a letter signed by Mrs. Pickett and other members of the organization felicitating Mrs. Gann in connection with the establishment of her social status in official Washington and asking her for a frank statement of whether she did—"for the honor and dignity of her country —

Police Say Bankrupt Merchant’s Life Was Sought for Money, Bn United Prese MUR.PHYSBORO. 111.. July 16. A prominent St. Louis attorney was accused today of plotting to kill a bankrupt merchant for $12,500 in insurance money.

Involved in the case is a police tipster and the merchant, who aided police in setting a trap that resulted in a warrant for the arrest of the lawyer, now believed in Florida. The warrant for R. Shad Bennett, the attorney, charges he hired the tipster to murder Olen King, the merchant, so Bennett could collect King's life insurance, of which he was beneficiary. First knowledge of the case came to authorities when the tipster—said to have been mistaken by Bennett for a gangster “killer"—went to police with his story and was advised secretly to “appear to go through with it." King, accordingly, disappeared last Thursday. His automobile was left on an abandoned road near here and the sheriff's office gave out the report, it was feared King had been murdered. Authorities said they instructed the tipster to go to Bennett and report the job was done. The warrant charges a total of $260 was paid to the tipster by the attorney, with a promise of $1,240 more when King’s life insurance was paid. Bennett held a $20,000 mortgage on King's defunct meat market at West. Frankfort, and was said to have demanded the life insurance benefit as security. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 66 10 a. m 78 7a. m 69 11 a. ill 79 Ba. m 72 12 fnoonl.. 80 9 a. m 77 1 p. m 82

Costly ‘Cure B (/ United Prats CHICAGO. July 16.—Dr. W. G. Gerhard remained at his office after hours Monday night to treat a man for a chest affliction. When the patient appeared late the physician was ordered to throw up his hands. The “patient” took $135.

•NOSY' DRYS LOSE CASE Judge Rules Odor of Mash Is No Cause for Raid. Bit I'niteri Prrux DETROIT. July 16—The odor of fermenting mash emanating from a building is not sufficient provocation for dry agents to enter the structure. Federal Judge Charles C. Simons ruled in freeing two men arrested when James Reid, federal prohibition agent, found a still in the basement of an east side building after being guided there through olfactory disturbances in the vicinity. DIES IN NIAGARA LEAP Man Is Thirteenth Suicide Victim at Falls Since Jan. 1. />• l nit‘,l pros* NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y.. July 16. —An unidentified man. dressed in dark clothing and wearing a straw hat. committed suicide here today by leaping into the Niagara river. He was believed by authorities to have been the thirteenth suicide at the falls since Jan. 1.

yttE'RE going to do all we W can for you. Howard." said Brown and William A. Titus, chief engineer of the highway department, as they explained Buck's duties. His head bandaged, eyes eaccr to thank those who were kind to him. Buck showed his pride in his crar as a draftsman as he turned to Titus and said: "You can find my initials on drawings from the Vincennes Bridge Company. I can do the work. 1 Try me.” • _

decline to taste liquor at Sir Esme Howard's dinner.” Mrs. Gann's reply, in effect, was: “I did.” The text of the reply was as follows: “Today's mail brought me the letter signed by you and other officers of the Kentucky Women's Christian Temperance Union in which you ask for ‘a, frank statement’ as to whether or not I declined liquors at the dinner recently given by British Ambassador and Lady Isabella Howard. “I did decline. “Os course you know Sir Esme Howard lias the right under the laws of his country to serve whatever he wishes. However, out of consideration of my own country and my brother, I feel the proper thing for me to do at all times is to decline.” “Is the honor and dignity of your country as dear to you as your own status in the social life of Washington?" the letter to Mrs. Gann from the club women asked.

HORROR OF CRASH IS' SPARED POLISH PLANE SURVIVOR

BY PEGGY WARD United Pres? Speelal Correspondent HORTA. Azores. July 16.—Major Casimir Kubala, was unconscious in the cockpit of the Polish biplane Marshal Pilsudski before it crashed on Graciosa Island of the Azores group, it was revealed here today when Kubala and his dead comrade. Major Louis Idzikowski, pilot of the plane, arrived aboard the Polish cadet training ship Iskra. Tire cause of the explosion which killed Idzikowski also was revealed. The Poles, who were attempting to fly from Paris to New York, dumped their gasoline before landing after motor trouble had developed and the fumes, which had overcome Kubala. exploded as the motor was throttled down and backfired as the plane skimmed the ground. The fact that Kubala was unconscious perhaps saved his life as he was thrown clear of the plane when it overran a sharp incline just at the moment

of the explosion. The body of Idzikowskl lay on the deck of the Iskra as the training ship came into Horta Harbor this morning. It was covered with the Polish flag and an honor guard of Polish sailors stood at attention beside it. Major Kubala, who I saw for a, few minutes, is in such a weak condition that he is unable to talk. Both of his eyes are swollen almost shut. There are deep cuts on his face and neck. The wounded Polish birdman had told officers of the Iskra with

DETAILS of the tragedy were made known here today by one of the residents of Graciosa island. The airplane apeared over the village of Santa Cruz, not far from the scene of the disaster, about 7 p. m. Saturday. The plane circled the village three times. On the third circling the plane flew very low, as if trying to get some sort of a signal from the people as to a landing field. Some of the folk never had seen a plane before, as the locality, because of its rough, rock surface, usually is avoided by aviators. The whole district is unsafe for landing. In many fields there are sloping, stone fences. There are but few smooth spots.

The plane suddenly descended in a field a few miles from Santa Cruz. The people who saw it land rushed to the spot. On arriving there they found the plane upside down. The plane landed in a corn field. It crashed against a low stone wali. Major Idzikowskl was found strapped to his seat. The island people immediately began to loosen the straps, but were unable to extricate Idzikowski, who was pinned under, apparently by his

1,000 MAY BE DEAD Turkish Flood Engulfs New Villages. Bn United Press LONDON. July 16.—Constant!- j nople reports to the London Daily j Express stated today that the death toll from the floods in the Trebizond district may reach 1.000. Ten more villages have been engulfed and conditions are reported to be so bad that rescuers found great difficulty reaching the victims. Fifty square miles of crops were destroyed. SALTIS' SUDS ARE SOAP Polack Joe Push" Jail Mop Seining Beer Sentence. Bn United Press GENEVA. 111.. July IS.—Polack Joe Baltis. beer baron, is back in the “suds" business, but this time on the handle end of a mop. Both Joe and his attorneys admit he is “taking the fall" in consenting to serve thirty days for removing a carload of beer from Sayre. Pa., to Chicago in 1925. If Joe had not pleaded guilty a lot of his friends might have been sentenced in federal court, the beer baron and his attorneys said. Swim? Four Miles for Life at *0 Bn United Press BRIGANTINE. N. J.. July 16.—1 t took three hours of grim battling for Captain G. P. Crowley. 70. to swim four miles to shore when his thirty-nve-foot sloop began to sink.

Buck was sent to the state reformatory from Vincennes on a charge of kiting checks while under the influence of liquor, a liquor he drank to ease the headaches caused by the football injury to his skull. Today Buck visited his grandmother. Mrs. Ike McNeal. in Vincennes. "You knew it's funny how you feel after being let out of prison into the world. It's like a bird might feel when released from Its cage. _ . _

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whom I talked that he had no recollection whatever of the events immediately preceding the landing nor of the explosion which killed his comrade. The last recollection of the flight which he has, they assert, is the dumping of the gasoline to lighten the plane for their uncertain landing on Graciosa island. They expected that the landing might be rough and that a lightened plane would tend to diminish the chances of a crack up.

legs. Rescuers believe his legs were broken. While the rescuers still were working on the plane, which was on fire, there came a terrific explosion. Some of the rescuers were thrown to the ground by the blast. They continued frantically for a few minutes trying to get Idxikowski out of the ruins of the plane, but it was in vain. Several of the rescuers were slightly burned.

Doggy Togs! Bi) United Press NEW YORK. July 16. Shoes at $3 a pair, coats with rhinestone monograms, bejeweled collars and a galaxy of colors in robes were shown in the fall fashion show for dogs.

ROB BANK OF $20,000 “Spiffily” Dressed Man Directs Cleveland Holdup. By United Press CLEVELAND. July 16.—A spiffily dressed man. wearing a leghorn hat and dark blue suit, puffed nonchalantly at a cigar and directed four gunmen in robbing the Farmers Bank of Cleveland here today of $20,000. The robbers escaped in a Ford.

DOCTOR SPEEDS TO TREAT DYING PATIENT, FINED $25

Bn United, Press CHICAGO, July 16—Dr. I. Val Freedman speeded north in Halsted street to the bedside of a dying patient when he was stopped by Franklyn Martyn, a motorcycle policeman. “You're going too fast." the policeman told the physician. “I am hurrying to a very sick patient,” the doctor replied. Then ensued an argument which delayed him twenty-five minutes in reaching his patient. Dr. Freedman said.

1 WANTED to go to a picture show, hadn't been to one in over a year, and yet, do you know, all I did was walk around the Circle several times and watch the people from my hotel room. The things you want to do in prison you forger when you're out in the sheer Joy of being alive and being with free folk." said Buck, prior to his visit to Vincennes. “My headaches are gone. No one can know how different I feel. They say I owe about $l4O in ‘kited’ checks at Vincennes. The money I earn in the highway

MODIFY VOLSTEAD ACT TO CURE CRIME. WICKERSHAM’S PLEA TO U. S. GOVERNORS Pearl of Hoover Law Enforcement. Group Would Take Control of Saloons, Speakeasies From Federal Government. PAINTED 'BLOW TO BOOTLEGGERS* Franklin D. Roosevelt Reads Letter From President’s Aid at Conclave Attended by States’ Executives. By Unit'd Fre's , ,• EASTERN POINT, Conn., July T6.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York today made public a letter from George W. Wickersham of President Hoover’s law enforcement, commission, in which the Governors’ conference was urged to recommend modification ot the \olstead act. Wickersham declared bringing prevention of importation, manufacture and shipment of intoxicants in interstate commerce under federal control and leaving to state authorities control of sale, saloons and speakeasies would make the Volstead act more easily enforceable and at the same time virtually strike a death blow to bootlegging.

Governors’ Views

SOME opinions of the Wiekersham proposals as expressed to the United Press, were: Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York—"lt is purely a speculative matter.” Governor John H. Trumbull. Connecticut—“We are intent on enforcing our own laws in our own way in our own state.” Governor Henry S. Caulfield, Missouri— “Interesting and constructive. emanating from New York, which has done away with its own enforcement, laws.” Governor William F. Conley, West Virginia—“We enforce the law in West Virginia and as far as we are concerned we don’t need modification. Governor John Hammill. lowa — “The portion regarding law enforcement typically is Wiekersham. It is forward stepping. The mention of modification denotes weakness. We should educate and build for the thing that is right.”

TAKES CASH, TIPS HAT Gentlemanly Purse-Snatcher Even Returns Pocketbook. A “gentleman purse-snatcher,” one of two men in an automobile, earley today drove alongside Miss Cecil Hinmar,. 20, of 1101 Haugh street., at Illinois and Maryland streets, grabbed her pocket-book, and took sls from it. Then, as Miss Hjnman stood by, he tilted his hat and handed the purse back to her. Watching the finish of a swimming race at Green City boathouse Monday, N. B. Hamilton, 5348 Carrolton avenue, lost a pocketbook containing $22.50 to a pickpocket, he told police. CIGARET TAX IS UPHELD Michigan Tobacco Fee Not to Be Included in Referendum. By United Press LANSING. Mich.. July 16.—Wilber Brucker. attorney-general, today ruled that the cigaret tax act of the 1929 legislature is not an appropriation measure and therefore not subject to referendum at the 1930 general election. The measure provides for a levy of 2 cents on each package of twenty cigarets.

The next day the patient died and Dr. Freedman wrote Martyn a letter extending him an invitation to the funeral. Monday Dr. Freedman was fined $25 and costs for speeding. .Algae Blamed for Mater Odor Bn United Press CHICAGO. July 16.—1 tis algae, not fish, that gives city water on the north side that peculiar odor, the water department assured users. The minute vegetation was characterized as harmless.

department during those fifteen days is going to be paid back to those who lost through my acts." he planned. “I’ve never had a chance to thailk the Governor for all he’s done. But I will thank him. and. if in no other way. by proving to him and the doctors and Mr. Miles, superintendent of the reformatory. that I'm a whole man again, a decent man." Wednesday at a drafting table in the state highway department Buck will begin proving he's a “decent man” again.

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'Wiekersham s letter, as read by Roosevelt, follows: “Os course, one of the most serious subjects we must deal with is enforcement of the eighteenth amendment. The amendment confers on the states concurrent jurisdiction with the national government for enforcement of this measure. “Thus far the federal government alone has borne the brunt of this enforcement. “It seems to me the governors’ conference might well consider approaching the federal government on some feasible proposal to share this burden. Proposes Division of Duties “If the national government were to attend to prevention, importation, manufacture and shipment in interstate commerce of intoxicants, the states undertaking internal police regulation to prevent sale, saloons, speakeasies, etc., the national and state laws might be modified so as to become reasonably enforceable and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime removed. “Even’’ state Governor has sworn to support the Constitution of the United States. Tire eighteenth amendment is a part of this Constitution, just as any other part. Surely it is pertinent to the governor’s conference to suggest and consider how best to carry out thi/t solemn undertaking. Roosevelt interrupted reading of the letter to comment. “Here,” he said, “is something that affects not only New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but all of your southern and all of your western states.” Urges Crime Bureau Establishment, of a permanent committee of Governors to act as a “clearing house” for crime and crime law statistics, was advocated by Roosevelt. The public is aroused by recent flagrant, murders, Roosevelt told the conference. “They flourish,” he said, “with less hindrance than in the darkest days of Sicily. “Unless the states do something immediately and take drastic action to enforce the law they will find the heavy hand of Washington laid upon their shoulders and the citizens of the states will be able to utter no protest because the state has failed to enforce its- laws, duf either to stupidity or inefficiency.’* “Today hardened criminals often find themselves displaced in the courts by mere boys and girls.” Need Scotland Yard Roosevelt recommended not only establishment of a governors’ “clearing house” for compiling crime data, but foundation by the various state3 of bureaus similar to the British Scotland yard. “The big crooks get away, because civilization has speeded our progress to such an extent that jumping from one jurisdiction to another is an easy matter, and we have no American Scotland yard.” he said. Governor Gardiner of Maine declared contract labor would have to be abolished in the fUe New England States by 1934. Speaking on “Employment of Criminals," Gardiner said. “The real problem is to keep at a minimum the competition of prison labor with free men and women. “Labor which produces goods for state and institutional use should be stimulated above all else.” FIRES SHOTS IN COURT Sanity Hearing Follows Affair Driving Judge to Cover. By United Pr< ss CHICAGO. July 16.—Shooting up a courtroom because she lost a civil suit brought Mrs. Ida Dembo Burt before another judge today for a sanity hearing. Attorneys, spectators and Judge John F. Haas scurried for cover Monday when Mrs. Burt opened fir# after an unfavorable decision b j Judge Haas.