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6.0. P. GRANTS TRUCE TO FOE IN TARIFF WAR Opposition Unable to Get Agreement on Program Before Monday. TAX BATTLE STARTED Democrats Want to Know Whether Protection Is Justified. BY PAUL R. MALLON L'nittd Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept. s.—An armed truce until Monday in the senate tariff battle was granted by Republican leaders today to the farm bloc-Democratic coalition, because the opposition has been unable to work out a definite program for its fight. During a half hour session today, the Republicans sat silent and twiddled their thumbs, in accordance with their announced policy of saying nothing about the $600,000.000 tariff measure until they are compelled to speak. The Democrats and Independents skirmished among themselves and then adjournment was taken until Monday, when the long delayed floor contest is expected to start. Wants Tax Information Anew move to obtain information from the treasury department as to profits and lasses of the corporations seeking tariff raises was inaugurated by Senator Simmons. Democratic tariff leader. He introduced a resolution proposing to direct the finance committee to get from Secretary Mellon all information concerning the profits and losses of “taxpayers affected by tariff legislation." His idea is to ascertain from corporation income tax returns since 1922 whether further tariff protection provided by the Republican bill is waranted in various industries. Republican Floor Leader Watson objected to immediate consideration of the resolution, saying many senators understood no votes were to be taken on any tariff question until Monday. The resolution went to the table. Senator Borah of Idaho, in whose office the Republican bloc members are holding daily meetings, favors a motion to recommit the bill to the senate finance committe, with instructions to pare down the increases to agricultural and related products. Democrats In Doubt Democrats, who are holding their own daily meetings in the offices ol various party members, have indicated they might go along on a motion to recommit, but indicated they would like to have the motion come from the Republican side of the chamber. They also have indicated a willingness now to drop the Thomas project. The Republicans are watching these preliminary troubles of the bloc with glee. Even if the bloc has the majority it claims, it would not dare to risk wrecking the whole bill, according to the administration group. They think too many Democrats are interested in getting individual tariff protection for their southern States to vote either for the Thomas resolution or for a motion to recommit even if they voted last June for the Borah resolution, designed to carry out the same idea. Borah Scents Victory Borah claims to have won two votes since his resolution was defeated. 28 to 39, but if some Democrats absented themselves from the chamber or changed their votes, Borah's theoretical majority would be wiped out. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, minority floor leader, is returning today for a series of conferences among his own party leaders and some satisfactory plan for an opposition program then may develop. Robinson may call a conference Friday of all senate Democrats to decide the issue. The bill is not formally before the senate yet. The unfinished business is the Jones resolution, carrying out President Hoover's recommendation for a joint congressional committee to study transfer of the prohibition enforcement bureau from the treasury to the justice department. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 80 7a. m 70 11 a. m 80 Ba. m 75 12 (noon).. 80 9 a. m 77 1 p. m 80

Checked Out By Vnitrd Press SULLIVAN. Ind., Sept. 5. Taylor Jewell, 84. eccentric Sullivan county farmer, always has distrusted banks and has boasted that he had no money in the First State bank of Shelburn when it closed. But he has been robbed of $640. savings of a life time. A young man appeared at Jewell's home, telling him the place was afire. A son. Webb, rushed out and was bound. Then the caller tied the older man to some furniture and ransacked the house until he gathered up money hidden in various places.

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 100

JUDGE ELLIOTT MAY QUIT BENCH; MANY SEEKING POSITION

Judge Byron K. Elliott

GANGSTER GUNS END TWO LIVES Youthful Racketeers Found With Bodies Riddled. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 5.—A hail of shotgun slugs and machine gun bullets brought to a sudden close today the gangster careers of two young men barely out of their 'teens. The bodies of Cy Crawley and Edward Westcott were found on a sidewalk in front of th Jacob A. Riis park on the west side, at dawn today. Both men apparently had been slain where they were found. Shotgun slugs had been fired into their faces and automatic bullets into their backs. The double murder also wiped out the racketeering quintet organized by Westcott a year ago. Two other members of the organization, William Clifford and George Reilly, were “taken for a ride” several months ago and their bodies “planted” at the door of one of Scarface A1 Capone’s Cicero resorts. Police said the murders undoubtedly were committed by avengers in gang warfare. Farmer Kills Self CORUNNA, Ind., Sept. s.—Despondent over financial difficulties John Potts, 65, farmer and assessor of Fairfield township, DeKalb county, committed suicide by hanging himself. The body was found by Clarence Skelly, a grandson, sus pended by a rope from a tree.

CITY MANAGER LEAGUE STARTS BALLOT DRIVE

The sixty-day campaign to elect the seven city commissioner candidates who received the indorsement of the Indianapolis pity Manager league was started today, when a series of speaking engagements was scheduled. Fifteen organizations already have fixed dates this month to hear representatives of the league discuss the campaign issues. The speakers’ CONFER ON HIGHWAY Murden Meets Michigan Road Commission. By United Press SOUTH BEND. Sept. 5.—A conference between Jess Murden of the Indiana highway commission and members of the Michigan highway commission was scheduled here tonight after a conference between the two full committees was postponed. The meeting tonight was on final plans for construction of a superhighway between South Bend and Niles, Mich., along the route cf United States highway No. 31. The meeting with both commissions in attendance was postponed because of illness of William Titus, chief examiner of the Indiana commission. Murden agreed to come here after the Michigan commission made the trip upaware it had been called off. Another two-day meeting of the two commissions will be called soon. HEAT WORRIES EDISON Inventor’s Recovery From Pneumonia Is Retarded. Bu United Press WEST ORANGE, N. J.. Sept. 5. The extreme heat of the last few days has retarded the recovery of Thomas A. Edison here. Frank Shell, vice-president of the Edison Industries, reported today. The aged inventor has been confined to bed with pneumonia almost two weeks. Shell today said Edison rested quietly in the'last twenty-four hours, but that the weather seems to have slightly retarded improvement.

Rumor Is Superior Court Magistrate Will Join Life Convention. Rumors that Judge Byron K. Elliott will resign the bench in Marion superior court four filled the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie with aspirants and friends of aspirants today. Although Judge Elliott was noncommittal, his friends say he has been asked to consider a position of general counsel and manager of the American Life Convention, with heaquarters in St. Louis. The convention officials will meet in Toronto Sept. 18. It is understood he will accept the post if formally proffered. A score or more of Indianapolis attorneys today visited or telephoned Governor Leslie nominating themselves for the judgeship or recommending others. “I have not been notified officially of Judge Elliott’s resignation," the Governor said, “and will take no action until the bench is vacated.” To Consult Attorneys The Governor said he would consult with the Indianapolis Bar Association as a body before taking action, if Elliott resigns. Asa Smith, attorney and intimate friend of the Governor, was urged for the place by Robert L. Moorhead. Winfield Miller end Joe Rand Beckett, attorneys and state senators, in a conference with the Governor. Claude H. Anderson, campaign manager for the City Manager League, has asked for the bench, the Governor said. Others whose names entered the speculation included Irving Feuvre, Harvey Grabill and V. H. Manifold, county grand jury deputy. Pay Is SIO,OOO The superior court judgeship pays SIO,OOO a year. The position which it is understood Elliott will be offered pays approximately SIB,OOO a year, it was said. It recently was vacated by Claris Adams of Indianapolis. opponent of Senator James E. Watson in the 1926 primary. Elliott is the youngest judge In the county. He was elected in 1926, defeating Clinton H. Givan, now county attorney, running for reelection. Life-Long Resident Judge Elliott has been a life-long resident of Indianapolis and lives at the Marott hotel with his mother. He is unmarried. He was graduated from Shortridge high school. Indiana university and Harvard law school. After practicing law in the office of Emsley W. Johnson, he was appointed as chief deputy prosecutor. He resigned this post late in 1925, when he started his campaign for the judgeship. Elliott is the son of the late William F. Elliott, who was one of Indiana's foremost attorneys.

bureau was opened in the Illinois building and Claude H. Anderson, campaign chairman, announced the appointment of Lawrence G. Holmes, 32, of 3046 North Delaware street, as bureau director. Holmes plans to schedule more than 200 addresses before the Nov. 5 election. Between seventy-five and one hundred persons interested in th manager movement have voluntered to carry the city manager message to clubs and civic organizations. The seven candidates indorsed Wednesday by the board of directors. representing organizations in al. sections of the city, will meet with the league leaders Friday night to discuss campaign issues and outline platform principles. J. W. Esterline presented the executive committee recommendations to directors and the ticket’s adoption was moved by Winfield Miller. The directors authorized Fred Hoke, chairman, to name a committee to draft new league constitution and bylaws, with the view to making it a permanent organization sponsoring good government. “There is but one principle involved in this campaign and that is the good government for Indianapolis. The philosophy of the city manager form is involved,” said W. H. Insley, one of the candidates. Mrs. George C. Finfrock. the only woman candidate, expressed confidence that Indianapolis can do as good a job as Cincinnati in "setting up a successful manager government.” TWO SENT TO PRISON Four Men Are Sentenced on Charges of Larceny. Four men were given fines and sentences today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins following trials on larceny charges. Arlie Heiam was fined SI and costs and sentenced to sixty days I in the Indiana state farm on a petit larceny charge. Ora Day reI ceived a one-year state farm sentence and a fine of $1 and costs on a grand larceny charge and William Haney and Richard Steele, received one to ten years in the Indiana state prison on a grand larceny count. -

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 5,1929

DROUGHT GRIPS NATION; CROPS AREIN PERIL Worst Dry Period in Many Years Reported Over Vast Area. CORN YIELD BLASTED Cotton, Spring Wheat and Pastures Also Suffer From Rain Lack. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—The worst general drought for many years prevails over most of the United States. A hot sun blazing from cloudless skies has burned up much of a promising corn crop, lessened cotton and spring wheat prospects, and has hit pastures, truck crops, and the gardens and lawns of the cities. Farmers are finding it impossible to get their plows into the sunbaked ground for fall plowing. Every year witnesses a shortage of rain somewhere in the United States, but not for many years has drought been so extensive, according to J. B. Kincer, head of the division of agricultural meteorology, weather bureau. All States Need Rain “Every state east of the Rockies needs rain, in many cases over the whole state,” Kincer said. “The Rocky mountain section is practically the only one which got normal August rainfall. “Through a large section of the southwest, including much of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas, rain in August averaged less than 10 per cent of normal, and over much of Texas no measurable rainfall fell during the month. “Combined with lack of rain, the two-thirds of the country west of the Mississippi river has had unusual heat, running to as high as seven degrees above normal in Montana for the month. “East of the Mississippi and north of the Potomac, August temperatures were slightly below normal, but that section, too, needs rain badly, north of central Virginia. In some places in the lake region the drought is reported the worst in thirty-five years.” Com Hard Hit Kincer said that most of the corn needs rain badly. Condition of the crop is good in spots, he said, but in Kansas nearly three-fourths the com has passed the stage where rain would help it, and in Oklahoma late corn is fired badly. Much of the cotton belt reports that cotton actually has deteriorated, in the last week or two, instead of making progress, with conditions especially bad in Texas and Oklahoma. Oklahoma appears worst hit of all states by the drought, with Texas also suffering. Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware farmers are hard hit, and Missouri reports the drouth the worst since 1918, with corn a failure, pastures and meadows brown, and the ground cracking open. Michigan also reports terrible conditions, especially on the lower peninsula. Minnesota and Wisconsin, North and South Dakota and Nebraska all report extreme drought conditions. Rain Brings Relief By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—Cooler weather and general rains overspread the nation east of the Rockies today, bringing respite from abnormally high temperatures and a drought which may seriously affect crops in some regions, according to weather bureau reports. Heavy rainfall was registered from portions of Wisconsin, Missouri and Texas. The weather has become cooler over most of the middle west, and the lower temperatures will bring relief to the perspiring Atlantic coast tonight or Friday.

‘I HAD TO POP HIM’

Pajamas Are Stolen With Wife

By United Press . CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Stealing your employers wife may be permissible in business, but when the love-pirating employe takes his boss’ wife and pajamas too, that is a violation of business ethics which merits nothing less than an old-fashioned ankle to jaw uppercut, according to L. E. Wheeler-Reid, Hollywood publisher. Wheeler-Reid’s code of business ethics were disclosed by himself in explaining to a police court his attack on Delbert S. Sponey, his erst-

while auditor. The publisher’s story was that he hired the auditor in Chicago and sent him west to Pasadena to examine accounts there. But while Wheeler-Reid remained here, he said Sponey persuaded Mrs. Wheeler-Reid, known in the films as Lillian Coolidge, to forsake Hollywood and come to Chicago. Wheeler-Reid returned home, found his wife missing, and came back to Chicago. -When I found them in a hotel here.” the publisher testified, “I simply had to pop him. It was not enough that he took my wife. He also took my Pasadena pajamas and bathrobe. And when I knocked

Searching Parties Unable to Locate Wreckage of T. A. T. Airplane, Vanished in West

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Above is shown an interior view of one of the giant T. A. T. planes similar to the one which is reported to have crashed in the mountains of New Mexico, killing the five passengers and three members of the crew aboard. Below are shown the two pilots reported lost with the ship.

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U, S. ADMITS ENGLISH GIRL Valerie French Enters Nation Without Passport. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. s.—Miss Valerie French, granddaughter of the late Field Marshal French, who arrived here Wednesday from England without a passport, today was granted special permission to remain in this country. She pleaded her own case at Ellis Island before a special immigration board, headed by Assistant Commissioner Byron H. Uhl. Miss French is reported engaged to Henry Bradley Martin Jr., who is in a Denver hospital, recovering from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. The passport was mailed to her at Southampton, England, by the American consul-general in London, immigration authorities ascertained, and missed her boat by only a few hours. It was sent on the Mauretania, which is due here Friday. As soon as the passport arrives, Miss French will go through the regular formalities. Meantime she was released in the technical custody of Mrs. Frederick Guest of Roslyn, L. 1., whose daughter, Miss Diana Guest, was Miss French’s traveling companion. Golf Ball Causes Injury By Times St)ecial ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. s.—Leland Eamhizer, 30, was injured when he was struck by a golf ball at the Grandview municipal course.

on the door of his suite, he had the colossal nerve to greet me affably at 3 a. m. wearing my own nightclothes. That was too much, your honor, I just had to pop him.” The publisher also charged his wife “so forgot the ties that have bound us in marriage for seventeen years as to finance the auditor. “That was another reason why I had to pop him,” Wheeler-Reid said. Wheeler-Reid agreed to drop charges against his wife, but he refused to make the concession to Sponey. Accounting for the accountant was set for Sept. 10.

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No Verification Available of Finding Ship With Eight Victims. By United Press GALLUP, N. M„ Sept. s.—Four hundred Indians waded through deep mud today, attempting to pierce the rough country around Black Wash, south of here, where a T. A. T. transport plane was reported wrecked end hs eight passengers killed. Conflicting reports of the fate of the passenger plane spurred the searchers on toward the spot where a mail carrier, an Indian and a sheep herder had reported the trimotored plane disappeared. Wednesday night T. A. T. officials announced the plane had crashed and the eight killed. Today the announcement was denied by officials in Los Angeles and St. Louis, with the New York officials “awaiting later word.” The Los Angeles and St. Louis officials said they had no confirmation of the crash. Heavy Rain Falling As the Indians, augmented by every available person in the territory and a fleet of airplanes, plodded through the mud, ambulances awaited the results of their search at Zuni, forty miles south of here and near the scene. Reports from T. A. T. officials at Santa Fe said a motor ambulance had penetrated the lava beds but found no trace of the plane. Horace Moses of Gallup, temporarily in charge at the sheriff's office, said a telephone message from Sheriff Roberts reported a heavy rain was falling in the district today and Black Rock Wash was running full of water. A terrific rainstorm struck the country at dusk Wednesday. “The storm of Tuesday, during which we believe lightning struck the airplane, was the worst in this section for years,” said Moses. “Lightning filled the air and the roar of thunder was almost continuous.” Missing Since Tuesday “Sheriff Bob Roberts of Gallup led the searching party. He organized the party late Wednesday when D. M. Kelsey, superintendent of the Zuni Pueblo, reported that a Zuni sheepherder told Kelsey he saw an airplane flying near the treetops late Tuesday. The sheepherder said the airplane disappeared from view behind some trees. A Navajo Indian reported he saw a plane on the ground. “The plane had no engines,” the Indian told Kelsey. Kelsey said he took this to mean that the engines were not running. The airplane, carrying five passengers and a crew of three, left Albuquerque, for California at 10 a. m. Tuesday and last was seen at Grants Pass, N. M., on the airline to Los Angeles. Word received here from Winslow, Ariz., said a party of T. A. T. men from Winslow was proceeding to the Zuni neighborhood to verify the report issued from the company offices in Los Angeles Wednesday night that the plane had been found. Report Plane Sighted By United Press ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Sept. 5. Unconfirmed reports reached Zuni, N. M., today that a Transcontinental Air Transport airplane had sighted the missing wrecked air liner City of San Francisco near Zuni. The report went unverified at coi mai.y’s headquarters here. Ji ion Chauffeurs on Strike By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. s.—Members of two local unions of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs, including about 7,500 men, went on strike today for an eight-hour day after employers had granted a demand for time and half pay for overtime work. _

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CLUBMAN SUED FOB 5350.000 Girl Charges Breach of Promise, Assault. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Jane McAllister, 25-year-old night club entertainer, renewed Ann Livingston’s successful campaign against alleged philandering Chicago millionaires today with two suits demanding a total of $350,000 from Harry E. Stebbings, wealthy clubman. While Miss Livingston, pretty Tulsa (Okla.) stenographer, sued Franklin Hardinge, millionaire oil burner manufacturer, for $250,000 and got $25,000 and a vaudeville contract, Miss McAllister has filed not only a $250,000 breach of promise suit, but asks SIOO,OOO in a suit charging assault. Stebbings is the son of the late Charles Stebbings, Parkridge millionaire, and president of the West Woodworking Company. He is married and the father of three children. His wife’s divorce suit is pending. Miss McAllister said the millionaire promised to marry her May 15, 1928, but that later he told her he would not marry her. When she remonstrated, she charges, he beat her and pulled her hair. The SIOO,000 damage suit covers the beating and the hay>pulling. WANTS JURY TRIAL Chuck Wiggins to Ask for Change of Judge. When Charles (Chuck) Wiggins, the “Hoosier playboy,” is tried on nine charges in criminal court in connection with a battle royal he had with police and firemen, Judge James A. Collins will not be on the bench, it was intimated today. Attorneys for Wiggins averred Judge Collins would be requested to vacate the bench and permit another jurist to hear the trial. Trial by jury probably will be requested, it was said. Filing of the request for a change of judge is expected within the next few days. Wiggins is at liberty under $3,800 cash bond. BOY INJURED IBY UJTO Joseph Van Buskirk Suffers Brain Concussion. Joseph Van Buskirk. 5, of 537 Chase street, today suffered concussion of the brain when he was hit by an auto driven by George Haley, 234 Douglass street, at Harding and Henry street. The boy was taken to city hospital. Witnesses said the boy ran into the path of Haley’s auto.

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TAX RATE FOR COUNTY IS SET AT 40.5 CENTS Councilmen indulge in Wild Spree of Budget Cutting at Third Session. GENERAL FUND SLASHED Institutions Are Hit Hard; Taxpayers’ Group Still Talks of Fight. Marion county’s tax rate for 1930 will be 40.5 cents, it was agreed today by county councilmen, after they had sliced $871,669 from the new budget requests. This is 12.5 cents under the proposed 1930 levy of 53 cents and 9 cents over the 1929 tax rate. The biggest reduction fell on the county general fund, when the council lopped 6 cents off the 27-cent requests. The new fund rates that comprise the levy are: General fund, 21 cents; sinking fund, 13 cents; tuberculosis fund, 2.5 cents, and free gravel road fund, 5 cents. Although county officials declared that the revamped budget will necessitate paring office forces, equipment purchases and will stop ail institution and courthouse expansion, Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, declared the new rate will be carried by remonstrance to the state tax board for further scrutiny and possible reduction. Cuts are Mads The council also eliminated a 6 cent general fund item for creation of a 1930 working balance, which, it is said, will prevent officials from abandoning the procedure of issuing bonds for additional appropriations during the year and to pay deficits. Reductions totaling $6,000 were made in the criminal court budget requests. These included elimination of the job of criminal Investigator held by John G. Willis, former state deputy fire marshal, at $2,400 a year. Institutional requests for food, clothing and maintenance were reduced by the following amounts: Poor farm, $6,000; Julietta insane hospital, $6,500; Negro orphans’ home, $5,500; detention home, $500; Children’s Guardians’ home, $4,400. Ah item for remodeling at Julietta was eliminated. Orphans’ Fund Slashed County commissioners who drafted the original bugdet suffered aggregate reductions of $32,800, which included a $25,000 cut in the orphans’ support fundThe final meeting today was the third consecutive one held by the council on the budget. Each of the sessions was marked by terrific appropriation slashes by councilmen. County Auditor Harry Dunn said that the administration under the rate set today can be carried on without serious impairment, but that “all taxes will have to be collected and all will be spent.” JAIL-BREAK PLOT GETS AIRING TODAY Muncie Man, Alleged Smuggler of Saws, to Plead Alibi. Robert L. Chamness, 21, Muncie, arrested Wednesday at Muncie on a charge of smuggling saws into the Marion county jail, was to be given a hearing before Howard S. Young, United States commissioner, at 2 p. m. today. Chamness denied he attempted to aid a federal prisoner to escape from jail. The prisoner, Harry L. Williams, was caught sawing jail bars by deputy sheriffs. Chamners told Young he had an alibi, as he was not out of Muncie for some time b:iore the attempted break. He was released from jail here a week ago under $3,500 bond on a liquor charge. WEST POINT EXAMS TO BE HELD HERE NOV. 13 National Guard Service Will Be Requirement. National guard examinations for West Point Military Academy will be held at the statehouse Nov. 13-15, it was announced by Adjutant-Gen-eral William G. Everson. The examinations are open to all youths with at least one year service in the Indiana National Guard and between the ages of 18 and 22. Two scholarships are to be filled and if there are other outstanding contestants vacancies may be available through congressmen, Everson said.

All in Family Bu Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., Sept. 5. —Father and son are opposing counsel in a suit filed in Posey circuit court here by Mrs. Fdith Pierce against Opal Pierce seeking modification of .a divorce decree so that more will be paid for support of a minor child. Counsel for Mrs. Pierce is James Kilroy, Poseyville, the father, and the eon, James 8. Kilroy, Mt. Vernon, for the defendant. *

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