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DRAW WATSON INTO SENATE'S LOBBY PROBE Indiana Solon Delegated to ‘Contact’ Tariff Body, Charge. SENATE READ LETTER Southern Alliance Wanted Seasonal Clause Off Florida Coast. Bu I nited Press WASHINGTON, Nov 7.—A letter fiom James A. Arnold, vice-presi-dent of the Southern Tariff Association, asserting Republican Leader Watson had been delegated by his senate colleagues to contact with the association, was uncovered today by the senate lobby Investigating committee. The letter, addressed to one of Arnold's associates early in January, described Arnold's efforts to establish contact with the tariff making senators. It said in part: "Following your suggestion that the Southern Tariff Association get in contact with someone to take the placo of Senator Gooding (Rep., Idaho), now dead, I took occasion to discuss this subject with a group of important senators, including Senators Smoot. Watson and others, and was surprised agreeably to learn that they had designated Senator Watson of Indiana to contact with us, insofar as the Republican party in the senate is concerned. Promised Address “As you know. Senator Watson will be floor leader of the Republian party in the senate and is a member of the senate finance committee. He will associate with him in this work. Senator Moses of New Hampshire and Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. “Senator Watson will address the Southern Tariff Association meeting here tomorrow, so he promised me on the phone a few moments ago.” His conference with Watson. Arnold said, were to get the “seasonal clause” eliminated from the duty on Florida products. “Did Senator Watson work along with you?” Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.), asked Arnold, who was on the stand for the fifth successive day. “The seasonal clause was taken out,” the witness said. In a letter to another associate, Arnald said he was talking to the senator “every day.” He said that probably meant Senator Watson Earlier in the hearing, Arnold had said he talked with Watson only two or three times during the tariff fight. Talked Every Day “You said you talked to him every day?" Blaine asked. “I'd touch him when he went Into the committee to see what progress was being made,” Arnold said. “The committee had been in executive conferences for some time,” Blaine said. "You don’t characterize that as lobbying?" Blaine asked. “No.” “Well, what is it?” “I don’t know.” Another Arnold letter told of a conference with Watson in which Arnold said: “We think this matter has been called to their attention rather vividly, and that the committee will take care of your rates.” “Watson said he would get action in the committee and report amendments on the floor of the senate,” Arnold wrote. W!FE,~ 19. KILLS SELF Toasts Husband With Acid While at Bridge Table. Ru United Pr. ss DETROIT. Nov. 7.—“ Here goes, big boy. Good luck." With this short farewell to her husband, Mrs. Louise Hawkins, pretty 19-year-old child-wife, swallowed acid early today and died an hour later. The husband, Horace. 26, was burned from acid she dashed in his face as he attempted to thwart her attempt. They were playing bridge with another couple when the death toast was made. SPANISH FLIERS KILLED Aristocratic Army Officers Die as Wing of Plane Collapses. Ry United Pnss SEVILLE. Spain. Nov. 7.—Captains Jose Martinez Mejias. 27, and Alfonso Esteban Azuela, 28. of the Spanish air corps, were killed today when the wing of their Breguet plane collapsed while flying over Tablada airdrome. The plane plunged with a terrific crash. Both men belonged to aristocratic Spanish families. WARDEN BACK ON JOB Former Minnesota Prison Head to Serve Connecticut. By United Press WETHERSFIELD. Conn.. Nov. 7. —Charles H. Reed, former superintendent of the Minnesota state prison, has been recalled from retirement on a fruit ranch in the Yakinaw valley, state of Washington. to fill the position made vacant by the death of his old friend. Warden Henry K. W. Scott of Connecticut state prison.

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ROAD CHIEFS MAY STRIVE TO CHECK TRANSPORT WASTE Highway Commissioners Likely to Act After Prodding of Accounts Board; Examiners Report ‘Costs Could Be Reduced.’ BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Prodded by the state board of accounts, state highway commissioners at last may act to correct the loose method of operation prevailing in their accounting department, it was learned today. An expose by The Indianapolis Times last August disclosed that the inefficient manner of conducting the motor transport division of the state highway department was costing the taxpayers thousands of dollars.

Sea War Meant Plenty to You Are you a sailor? If not—and probably you're not—what has the sea to do with your job? A whole lot. Things may happen on the sea that could knock the props from under your job and take you away from your family—maybe for years. And maybe you’d never come back. Read The Times next Monday, Armistice day, for the start of William Philip Simms’ series, and the days that follow, if you want to know the answer. Next. January the five leading naval powers of the world plan to meet at London to agree, if they can, on who shall control the now lawless ocean. That conference will be vital to every reader of this newspaper. So it plans to tell you all about it. Be on the lookout for next Monday’s Times.

JURY COERCION PANTAGES HOPE Three Swear Influence in Verdict of Guilty. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Nov. 7.—Alexander Pantages’ hope of escaping a sentence of from one to fifty years in San Quentin penitentiary was bolstered today by affidavits of three women members of the jury which convicted him of attacking 17-year-old Eunice Pringle. The affidavits declared that the jurors were coerced into agreeing to the verdict. The jurors were Mrs. Christina D. Ulrich, Mrs. William Ingles and Mrs. Lotta C. Steiner, who said they believed inclusion of a recommendation for clemency in the verdict would enable the theatrical man to receive a light sentence, w’hereas the court must disregard recommendation. under the law. The coercion allegators asserted that a fellow-juror told them they would be criticised over the radio by the Rev. Bob Shuler if they did not vote to convict.

HIGH URGED British Publisher’s System Would Affect U. S. Bu United Press LONDON. Nov. 7.—A system of high tariff walls, inclosing the British empire into one economic whole and shutting out the rest of the world, chiefly affecting domination of world markets by the United States, is the scheme envisaged by Lord William Beaverbrook and presented to the people through his organ, the Daily Express. The publisher’s supporters agree that the scheme would be a great menace to United States foreign trade until the United States lowers its present high tariff walls and offers concessions to the British empire. MOONEY HELD INNOCENT Letter Declares Man Who Threw Bomb Died Same Year. By United Press ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—A letter, in which Frank O. Stevens of Dayton. 0., claims the man who threw the preparedness parade bomb in San Francisco in 1922, for w’hich Thomas Mooney was sentenced to life Imprisonment, died in Cleveland in the same year, has been turned over to Attorney-General Mitchell by Senator Schail (Rep., Minn.)

ROTHSTEIN SLAYING TRIAL NEXT WEEK

By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 7little more than a year after Arnold Rothstein, the gambler, was wounded fatally in the room of a local hotel. District Attorney Joab Banton has announced that he is ready to proceed next Tuesday with the trial of George A. McManus on a charge of murdering Rothstein. McManus, a former racetrack bookmaker, and three others, Hyman Biller, a fugitive, and two unidentified men referred to as John

The commissioners and Director i John J. Brown of the department did nothing at that time. But investigation of the motor transport division was launched by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts. The result has been the taking of a complete inventory in the mo- 1 tor transport division, upon recommendation of Ross Teckemeyer and W. P. Cosgrove, board of accounts field examiners. This is the first time such a physical inventory has been taken since 1927. according to the examiners’ report to Orr. Greatly Reduced The field examiners made specific recommendations through which they declared in their report, “the administrative costs could be greatly reduced.” They also have recommended that a chief clerk be put in charge of all highway accounting, and Orr has sent the recommendation to Brown. Brown announced today that the matter is to be acted on by the commission, but refused to state his stand. He has sent Owen Boling, his assistant brought from the state tax board, to examine the accounting system prevailing in the Michigan and Wisconsin departments it was learned. The system in these states is the one recommended for use by the federal bureau of roads. Here is the sort of system in use by the Indiana department as described in the field examiners’ report: “Each of the several divisions keep their own accounts and a great deal of the work is duplicated in an effort to keep the records so that information is available when needed; but changes in personnel have changed these records so many times that to get any statistical information is almost impossible.” Reorganization Asked Recommending that a chief clerk be employed, the board of accounts men ask that the accounting division of the highway department be reorganized, under their supervision, so that: 1. All records and accounts be kept at a central accounting department and that all divisions be relieved of keeping accounts. 2. That all records and accounts be kept uniform. 3. That all purchases be made under a specified rule. 4. That all forms be standard, and that several divisions use the same kind of voucher for payment of claims. 5. That auditing be done in this division and that several divisions be required to certify the bills or estimate only as goods received or services performed. Costs Could Be Reduced “We believe, that if the above recommendations were carried out the administrative costs could be reduced greatly and that with the proper equipment, any information at sired could be given while it was current and of some value,” the report continues. It also points out that Boling and two other department assistants each have a different figure supposed to represent “contract liability,” none of which may be ccrrest because of data being unavailable. “We believe that a liability account showing contracts outstanding as well as a large number of other similar items, should be a part of the records and there would be no doubt as to their correctness,” the recommendations concludes. SOLON’S AID IS SUICIDE Miss Mabel Walker Is Found in Gas-Filled Apartment By United Prrtt WASHINGTON. Nov. 7. Miss Mabel Walker, 30, of Elmira. N. J., who served as secretary to the former Senator Edwards of New Jersey, was pronounced a suicide here today by Coroner Nevitt. Miss Walker’s body was found in her gas-filled apartment Wednesday night. In one of her hands she clutched a towel on which chloroform had been poured. She is said to have had financial worries.

Doe and Richard Roe. were indicted a month after the shooting. Banton. in reviewing his case for trial, charged that the slaying climaxed a quarrel between Rothstein and McManus over alleged cheating in a stud poker game, in which Rothstein said he had lost more than $300,000. McManus had lost $51,000 in that game, Banton said, and had paid the gambler a short time before the killing. The jury, Banton said, will be selected from a “blue ribbon” panel of 150 talesmen.

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G. 0. P. FACES BATTLE OVER ‘NEXTCOFFIN’ New Marion Club May Try to Oust Hawkins as Blow for Ule. TUTEWILER STANDS PAT Bert Morgan Whispered as Probable Successor to ‘Boss.’ A bitter factional fight looms today over the selection of a Seventh district and city Republican chairman to succeed George V. Coffin, who has announced he will resign, as faction leaders tossed the hats of their candidates into the ring. Party leaders generally were prying into the interest of Omer Hawkins, county chairman, and Wayne G. Emmelmann, county committee secretary and defeated candiate for city clerk in Tuesday’s election, in retaining their posts despite Coffin’s resignation, and a movement was set afoot to boost William H. Remy, former prosecutor, for Hawkins’ place. A movement was forming within the New Marion Club, It was learned, to oust Hawkins from the j county chairmanship and elevate Todd Young to the place. For years, j Young as Seventh ward chairman, was one of Coffin’s closest allies, but his break with Coffin about a year ago now has been accepted as genuine in Republican ranks. Ule Club Choice It would be a part of the Marion club plan to make Albert E. Ule, organizer and president of the club, district chairman, succeeding Coffin. The city chairmanship is not a potent factor in the scrap, for it will have little importance for another four years. The Marion Club plans would have support of former ward chairmen who resigned after breaking with Coffin, They 'included, beside Young, Earl Garett, Harry Tutewiler, and County Clerk George O. Hutsell. Both Hawkins and Emmelman are secretive about their future plans. Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewiler, Seventh district vice-chairman, has declared she will not resign along with Coffin. “I never have been in sympathy with him or his methods. I have worked hard for the party, and I see no reason why I should resign,” she declared. Hold Private Meetings It is rumored that precinct committemen, who will elect the district chairman, have held several private indignation meetings. Two such meetings were held Wednesday night in the Third and Fourteenth wards, reports have it. A group of committeemen was scheduled to meet today in the offices of Schuyler Haas, attorney, for a discussion of Coffin's successor. Bert Morgan, former prohibition director and manager of the Lincoln Life Insurance Company, is being discussed as a strong contender for the chairmanship, along with Fred C. Gause, former supreme court judge; Remster A. Bingham, attorney, and Harvey A. Graybill, attorney. Leaders of the Republican party say that they are anxious to settle the question of party leadership in the near future with as little friction as possible, in order to present a united front in the 1930 state election.

SCRIPPSJOT LOST Father Respects Desire of Son for Secrecy. By United Press DETROIT, Nov. 7.—William J. Scripps, 24, who has been missing since the night of Oct. 23, has communicated with his father, William E. Scripps, the elder Scripps said today. “He has requested that I do not disclose at the moment where he is, and I shall respect his wish,” Scripps declared. “I do not feel free to disclose at present the reasons which persuaded him to adopt the course he did. We hope within the not too distant future he again will resume his customary activities in his business affairs.” TRY HUSBAND SLAYER State Not to Ask Death Penalty in Trial of Woman. By United Press OROVILLE, Cal., Nov. 7.—Selection of the twelfth juror in the murder trial of Mrs. Pearl Baldwin was expected today. She is charged with killing her husband, William F. Baldwin, son of the mayor of Oroville, when he objected to her attending a dance last September. The prosecution indicated it would not ask the supreme penalty when one of the prospective jurors, who stated she would not vote for a death penalty, was not challenged. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 35 10 a. m 39 7a. m 35 11 a. m 41 Ba. m 36 12 (noon).. 42 9 a. m.... 37 1 p. m-.... 44

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Upper photo—Workman rolling the statue, “Pro Patria,” near its base. Lower photo—Henry Hering, the sculptor, standing near the statue’s left hand. The base is shown in the background. Inch by inch today, workmen rolled a five-ton bronze youtty —the statue “Pro Patria”—up the south steps of the Indiana World War memorial preparatory to swinging it on to its base. Friday, if nothing untoward happens, the statue will be hoisted to its stance on a granite pedestal midway up the memorial’s steps. Comparison of the size of the statue (it is twenty-two feet in height) may be gained from the fact that the figure’s upraised hand is approximately four times the size of its sculptor’s, Henry Hering. Hering is supervising the erection of the statue. A bank clerk in New York was the model. It cost $40,000, and is the largest bronze casting ever mad in the United States. During Hering’s stay in the cit;he also will supervise the placin of four bronze placques, which tv designed, at the obelisk north of the war shrine.

TEXAS JUDGE IS FREED BY JURY Not Guilty of Murdering Son-in-Law. By United Press WEATHERFORD. Tex., Nov. 7. Judge R. H. Hamilton returned to Amarillo today to resume his practice of law which was interrupted last May 4 when he was charged with murder after shooting his son-in-law, Tom Walton Jr. A jury of eleven plainsmen and a bank cashier had returned a verdict of not guilty after an hour and forty-five minutes of deliberation Wednesday night. The verdict came suddenly while Judge Hamilton was at dinner with his family at the Weatherford hotel. Only the crowd of spectators, many of whom had gone without an evening meal to retain places in the small courtroom, was present when the jurors filed in. J. E. Whitsett, Weatherford banker and foreman of the jury rose and replied to a question by Judge C. E. Carter: ‘“We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.” Theresa, his 18-year-old daughter, and widow of the boy who was slain after secretly marrying her, received the news with a smile. “I am very happy,” she said. “I shall return either to Texas university or go to the University of Minnesota with Robert, my brother.” PIPE _ BLAST HURTS TWO Steam Line Explosion Hurls Men Off Plant Building. Two men suffered severe burns and bruises today when a steam line running across the top of a small building at Kingan and Company, Ltd., blew up, hurling them off the building tj the railroad tracks below. The men are L. B. Russell, 28, of 917 North Drexel avenue, and S. T. Ting, 42, of 841 North Meridian street, who are employed by the company as steam fitters. They vere taken to the Methodist hospital, where physicians said they will recover. WIFE SLAYER CHARGED Husband of Bicknell Poison Victim Held at Vincennes. Bu United Press VINCENNES, Ind., NoV, 7.—Reports of three doctors that Mrs. Ruby Collins, 29, of Bicknell, died as the result of strychnine poisoning, led to arrest of her husband, Enoch Collins, 32, here today. Doctors refused to sign a death certificate when Mrs. Collins died last Friday. An investigation was started at the request of Walter Hill, father of the victim. Collins will be held pending outcome of the investigation, authorities said.

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‘Hot Dogs’ End Krause Fasting

APPROPRIATELY, “hot dogs” constituted the most substantial part of the meal Mrs. Marilyn Suzanne Krause, 3445 North Capitol avenue, prominent keeper of dogs and cats, ate at the city hospital Wednesday night, thereby breaking her six-day hunger strike. Mrs. Krause has been in jail twice in the last few months becaftse neighbors asserted the horde of dogs she kept were a nui.sance and because she resisted efforts to authorities to remove the canines to the dog pound. Hospital attaches informed her Wednesday afternoon they would use forced feeding methods. Mrs. Krause gave in and began to order. Her order: Cream of tomato soup, baxed potatoes, hot rolls, frankfurters and peaches and cream. Her breakfast today consisted of rolled oats, stewed prunes, bacon and muffins.

SCOTS BEAT LABORITES Party Suffers Four Losses in Municipal Ejections, Figures Show. Bu United Press EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 7. The Labor party suffered four losses in the municipal elections in Scotland, complete tabulations showed today. Two of the defeats were sustained in the Glasgow elections where there now are seventy moderates and forty-three Laborites, including two women Laborites. Four other labor candidates in Glasgow were victorious. The other two defeats were in Dundee. FALLS FIFTEEN FLOORS Woman Clerk, Reported 111, Topples to Death in New York. By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 7.—Mrs. Hulda Dicwski, 51, of Newark, for thirtyfour years an employee of Sutro Bros. & Cos., jumped or fell to her death from the fifteenth floor of the Equitable building on Broadway today. Fellow employees said she complained of feeling ill. She was chief clerk in the bonding department.

RUM CAR GUARDS MURDER MARSHAL

By United Press TOLEDO, Nov. 7.—Four gunmen accompanying an allegedly liquorloaded motor truck, shot and killed Deputy Marshal Ralph Zahnle, 34, today when the deputy and a companion attempted to stop the truck. The deputy, father of three children. was killed as he sat in his car. He had not fired a shot. Zahnle had been a truck driver and left that work to become a deputy only three months ago. He had fought in five World war battles without receiving a Scratch. As deputy, he was working under Mayor L. H. Shrover of Harbor View. Zahnle and Ernest H. Genzler.

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PRINCE IS IMPROVED Condition of Plane Victim Still Serious, However. B.y United Press GODSTONE, England, Nov. 7. Prince Eugene Von SchaumbergLippe, co-pilot of the Lufthansa passenger plane which crashed here Wednesday with the loss of six lives, was reported slightly improved today, although his injuries and severe burns left him still in a serious condition. Prince Eugene, distantly related to the wife of the former kaiser, is confined in the nursing home of Dr. D. L. Greig, where he was taken from the scene of the WTeck. BIG FREIGHTER SINKS Crew Rescued as U. S. Steamer Founders Off Sweden. By United Press STOCKHOLM, Nov. 7.—The 5,000ton freighter Conehatta, of the United States Shipping Board, foundered today, off the Norrland coast Northern Sweden near Brotthaellan. The crew was rescued.

another deputy marshal, were cruising along the road when they caught sight of the trucx. It was followed by a sedan carrying four men. The deputies overtook the truck. The fugitive car skidded to a stop and turned to meet the deputies car head on. The fugitives let loose a barrage of bullets from rifles, firing directly through their windshield. One of the bullets struck Zahnle in the left temple and three others in his left shoulder, killing him. The cars collided in the midst of a rain of bullets from the fugitives rifles. The four men got out of their car and fled alter the truck.

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STOCKS GAIN MILLIONS IN QUICK SHIFT Amazing Reverse Following Sinking Opening Brings Stride Forward. TICKERS RUN BEHIND U. S. Steel Is Leader Which Brings New Lease of Life to Mart. Bit United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 7—Tire Stock market staged a recovery today that meant millions of dollars to hard pressed traders throughout the nation. When it seemed there was no end to a sweeping down turn, United States Steel braced and started forward. Other leaders followed and there started a buying rush from all sections of the nation which sent ■prices even above Wednesday’s close. The recovery was of a more sweeping nature than Wednesday’s decline. Prices were up today 1 to 6 points above Wednesday's close. The higher close was the more remarkable in that during the first i hour today values had been clipped millions of dollars when the market kept up its sag, dropping 1 to 15 points. Tickers Far Behind All along the list these early losses either were overcome and a gain, recorded. or at least wiped out. Trading was at a tremendous rate, due to the great selling in the first j hour and the tremendous buying in i the last two hours. Tickers were : running behind more than an hour at the close and sales were at the . rate more than 8.000,000 shares 1 for a Tull five-hour day. Bankers would not comment on the turn for direct quotation, but privately they expressed their pleasure. Wealthy individual traders were relieved immensely. Hundreds of accounts were de- ■ streyed. however, in the early tradi ,ng and bargains in large quantity were picked up later. When the market turned up the 1 whole list made sharp gains. It j then hesitated for a brief interval las gains were being digested. The i next move was another advance that continued to the close. A final ! burst of buying caused most Issues to .close on highs of the day.

Steel Closes at 17414 United States Steel reached 177 | but sagged somewhat to close at ; 174'4, up 5% points net for the day. ; General Motors added $129,000,000 j to its market valuation with a rise of 3 points to 43 %, where it closed. General Electric spurted 18 points, Union Carbide 10 %, Johns-Manville 12, and American Telephone and Telegraph, 11. Utilities were strong. American and Foreign Power closed at 73, up 13; Consolidated Gas 98%, up 7%; Columbia Gas 71, up 6; Public Service, 69, unchanged; United Corporation 30%, up 3; United Gas Improvement 31, up 1. Railroad shares recovered sharply. Union Pacific closed at 224%, up 9%; Baltimore & Ohio, 118%, up 2%; New York Central, 185, up 6%; Missouri-Kansas, 35%, up 3%; Canadian Pacific, 205, up 7, and Erie, 53, up 4%. Among the coppers, Anaconda closed at 85%, up 3%; Kennecott, 67%, up %; Andes, 36%, up 3%; American Smelting, 74%, off 1%, and Cerro De Pasco, 69, off 1. BANDITS WAGE GUN BATTLE WITH POLICE Lebanon Cops Forced to Give Up Chase in Hail of Bullets. Bu Time Hnerial LEBANON, Ind„ Nov. 7.— Two policemen and a garage man staged a running gun battle with five auto thieves who broke into the Headerson garage here early today and made away with anew sedan. The pursuing officers caught up with the bandits three miles of the city, but gave up the chase when their machine was disabled by bullets. The sedan was wrecked six miles south of here. Two of the thieves walked into Lebanon, broke into the garage again, and took a used car, in w’hich they made their escape. A second machine, in which the bandits came to Lebanon, was found later, wrecked near Pittsboro, with three bullet holes through the body. POLICEMEN GO TO TRIAL Chicago Lieutenant and Seven Face Murder Charges. Ru T'vitrfl PreKt CHICAGO, Nov. 7 —Trial of Lieutenant Phillip Carroll, four members of his squad and three others on charges of having murdered Octavius C. Granady, Negro politician, started in criminal court here today. Granady was shot on primary day ir. April, 1928, when he was a candidate for Republican committeeman against Morris Eller, boss of the ward. It was said he engaged in an automobile gun battle with the officers and Louis Clemente, Thomas Somnerio and James Balcastro, political henchman of Eller aad now defendants in the trial.

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