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BOOK CHARGES ORR IS TOOL OF CJJHIPP Near Fist Fight Is Result of Statement Hurled at State Examiner. CONNECTION IS DENIED 1 Statehouse Visit Climaxed by Heated Argument Over Report. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY William H. Book, civic affairs secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, came to the statehouse this morning and told Lawrence F. Orr, chief examinpr of the state board of accounts. that Orr's department is being run at the dictation of C. C. Shipp, heating specialty manufacturer. The result was a loud argument and near fist fight. Book made the statehouse visit upon publication of a report of the ■tc.:o board of accounts which, he ■' ” out for criticism when he was business director of He aserted that the criticism was lev'c i al him for something that generally is practiced in the schools and that the whole point was to embarrass him because of his fighv to open the schools to competition in the matter of heating specialties. Shipp has had the buildings exclusively for years on his directindirect heating system, despite efforts of the state tax board. Chamber of Commerce and Indiana Taxpayers’ Association to establish competition. Book said. Tcokmryer Takes Blame Or r vehemently denied any Shipp connection with the report, and Ross Tcckmov r, field examiner who prepared tne report, declared that if Book thought he had been mistreated to blame him (Teckmeyer) personally. The charge against Book was that under his regime more than $12,000 had been paid consulting architects for Shortridge hitfh school, without appropriation. Book asserts this has been followed in all the school building program. Orr Denies Charge Denying the Eook charge that the report was designed to keep him from being considered as business' manager for the new school board, Orr declared that if he wanted to “play politics” he could have put out the report before-the election. Book assured them that he didn’t want the position, but did object to being “victimized for the sake of C. C. Shipp.” "The fact is, that the procedure complained of has been followed by other school business directors at other times and has not been criticised until now,” Book said in a statement following the altercation with Orr. "Financial affairs of the school city for this particular period were examined by examiners of the state board of accounts- a long while ago," and this tcriticism was not made in that report. But, technically, there was an appropriation in the 1125192 G budget of $1,200,000 fev c nstruetion of the new Shortridge nigh school. Applies to All Payments "True, this budget was not adopted until about Sept. 15 and the payments were made In August, but that applies to all payments made from July 1 to the time when the budget was adopted. “That was the fault of a system which was in effect for a good many years prior to m and since, and which I h*ve urged ever since my experience in the office ought to be changed. It was not changed until a year ago. but even then it was done in a manner that does not clear away all the objections.” Asa result of the. board of accents report showing overdraughts, anew system of checking expenditures is to be put in operation in the Indianapolis school city. Onstated. The school board spent $37,041.44 for Shortridge high school without appropriation, the accounts board report states. To cover deficiency in the building fund.- the board has transferred $34,915 from the general school funds, Orr said. Such overdrafts never should be approved by the city controller, nor paid by the county treasurer under the law. he pointed out. Since the disclosure of irregularities. Sterling R. Holt, city controller, has assigned Thomas L Eikenberry to the school board offices to check all expenditures before receiving his O. K. Under the school city law. the city controller is auditor and the Marion county treasurer handles the school funds. RUSH WORK ON ROAD Highway No. 37 to Be Opened for Purdue-Indiana Game. Assurance that state road No. 37. Indianapolis to Bloomington, will be open before the Purdue-Indiana football same was given today by John J. Brown, director of the highway commission. Work of laying new concrete at either end c r the Martinsville cutoff, north of-Martinsville, was finished Thursday and Brown said the toed probably would be ready for Fuse by next Friday.

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And Also That Song—‘Sucker Come Bach to Me’

BY PAUL YV.‘ WHITE United Pres* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—And now it develops that the break in the stock market occurred for reasonws hithertto unsuspected—to give Eddie Cantor a chance to acquire some new gags, to enable a book publisher to set anew record for speed and to permit a perspiring poet to go four days and nights without sleeping m a bed. Running a neck-and-neck race through print shops and binderies there emerged today “The Lost Shirt," by Joseph Anthony, and “Caught

Short.” by Eddie Cantor. The first is sponsored by Brentano’s and the second by Simon & Schuster. Neither Cantor nor Anthony was writing out of sheer joyousness. Both, during the exciting days of a fortnight ago, received bad news

Mark Fund Drive Start

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“On your mark! Get set! GO!” Always in for a race, three orphan boys at the Indianapolis Orphans’ asylum, one of the member agencies of the Community Fund, cheered J. t. Holcomb, general campaign leader, at the start of the 1929 fund drive today. Two thousand volunteer workers have joined hands in the drive for $786,853 with which to aid the thirty-five approved agencies.

BIG FREIGHTER HITS CRUISER Both Vessels Escape Serious Damage in Collision. Bn United Press BOSTON, Nov. 15.—The United States cruiser Marblehead, with 435 officers and men aboard, arrived at the Boston avy yard under her own power this afternoon, several hours after she had been in collision with the 39,000 ton freighter, Evansville, forty miles north northeast of Nantucket lightship. Naval authorities reported that 10,0000-ton cruiser, commissioned in 1924, apeared to have escaped serious damage. No members of her crew were injured. The collHion occurred in a heavy fog. The Evansville, bound for Norfolk. Va., understood at the navy yard here to be proceeding to her destination under her own power. The freighter also escaped serious damage, naval officials believed. CHILD DIES IN BLAZE Kerosene Explosion Results in Tragedy at Kansas City. Bu l iul>'d Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 15. Burns receive after kerosene poured over fire in a kitchen stove exploded. today caused the death of a 2-year-old boy and severely burned his mother, a brother and sister. The dead boy was Robert Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stevens, greenhouse employe, living at Pleasant Hill, nearby. The Injured were: Mrs. Stevens, 38; Hubert, 9, and Virginia. 7. • HOUSE ACTION LIKELY G. O. P. Leader Tells Hoover Swift Moves Can Be Made, Bn r . >/ Pn ** WASHINGTON. Nov. 15.—House Republican Leader Tilson of Connecticut told President Hoover today the house could complete action on the $160,000,000 proposed tax cut resolution before the Christmas holidays.

BARGAIN HUNTERS DE LUXE ACQUIRE ENTIRE VILLAGE FOR SUM OF SB,OOO

Hu I'nitrd Pres* ELIZA, m.. NOv. 15.—Five bargain hunters from hereabouts who paid $8,502.50 for this village at an auction sale tried to explain to their wives today what in the world they wanted with ti. They bid for thd whole village. N the general store, the drug store, barber shop, poolroom, several houses and acres of

STILL FEAR FOR WAR SECRETARY Good’s Condition to Stay Critical 24 Hours. U ir J nitrd Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 15.—Secretary of War James W. Good remained in a critical condition at the Walter Reed hospital here today. Although no official bulletin was issued after midnight, attending physicians indicated he was resting satisfactorily. His condition is expected to remain dangerous for at least another twentyfour hours, they said. Some encouragement was derived at a consultation of physicians Thursday night, from the fact that the secretary's temperature had not risen greatly during the preceding twelve hours. This suggested that the local infection caused by perforation of the appendix had not spread to the general system. At the same time a pronounced restlessness was attributed to a returning vitality. TWO "killed on ship Gas Fumes in Hull of U. S. War Vessel Blamed for Deaths. £>a T l iti'ij Press NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 15. monoxide gas in the boltom of the battleship New York was blamed by officials here today for the death of Lieutenant Robert Hollenbeck of Chicago and Boatswain's Mate Thomas George Weber bf New York. The two men were killed and seven others were overcome by the fumes Thursday night during an inspection. PAGE to BE ADVISOR Son of Former U. S. Ambassador to Aid Naval Parley Group. ' Bii Vniter! Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 15.—Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late Walter Hines Page, ambassador to London during the Wilson administration. will be a member of the advisory delegation to the naval con- ! ierence in London in January, the l White House announced today.

about as good land as there is in northwestern Illinois. A couple of buildings, two houses and a vacant lot did not sell. Almost everybody in Eliza, an even fifty-two counting the new Jones baby, went to the sale Thursday, but folks from other places had a hard time getting through on account of mud. The sale had tq*be postponed Iron 8

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from the broker. But this news had contrary effects. It drove the comedian to prose; it drove Anthony, the editor of the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, to poesy. Cantor tells, for instance, the story of the merchant who sought to borrow from a life insurance company SIO,OOO on his policy. The company refused on the ground that the loan value was only $750. “Listen,” screamed the merchant, "either you lend me SIO,OOO today or tomorrow morning you’ll pay my wife $50,000.” Then there was the man who went to the nickel automat and, being without the necessary 5 cents, dropped in 100 shares of International Nickle and out came a custard pie. Another fellow dropped in 100 shares of radio and out came the manager! On the evening of Oct. 30 Anthony was sitting at his typewriter and so aimlessly he begafi to tap out doggerel. He found the occupation so engrossing (or such a relief from market worries) that he stayed up all night working on his verses. Anthony apparently rejected his own manuscript and went to another publisher. Brentano’s speeded up the book production to such an extent that the first bound volume appeared just 324 hours after the' first word was written. For four days and nights Anthony did not retire—taking only occasional catnaps when sleep overcame him. He wrote a part of the book in a composing room, the printers taking his hand-written copy as scon as he finished it.

DRIVE STARTS TO REPLENISH FUKDCGFFERS Advance Solicitation Under Way, With Official Opening Tonight. Two thousand volunteer workers were ready today to open the tenth annual Community Fund campaign. Although the drive officially begins with a meeting tonight at the Claypool, advance solicitation was under way during the day. Leaders are stressing the importance of completing the campaign within ten days, Nov. 15 to 25. The goal has been set at $786,853, and thirty-five social service organizations will share in the 1930 fund. Sherman C. Kingsley, executive secretary of the Philadelphia Welfare Federation, will be the principal speaker at the dinner meeting tonight of more than 400 campaign workers. Kingsle is prominent in social work activities throughout the United Stages. Other speakers at the meeting will be J. I. Holcomb, general campaign chairman, who will preside; Hugh McK, Landon, president of the fund; Walter C. Marmon, chairman of the special gifts division; Fred Hoke, co-chairman in the individual gifts division, and David Liggett, executive secretary of the fund. “With hard work and a w r arm response from the public the campaign will be made a success and we will reach our goal within ten days,” Holcomb said today. “Two thousand men and women are giving up their time and putting forth their efforts in this most worthy enterprise, and it is my opinion and hope that citizens of Indianapolis will invest in the fund when they are called upon to do so.” The first report meeting will be held Monday noon at the Claypooi and report meetings will be held each noon during the week with the exception of Saturday, Nov. 23. FIND MAN MURDERED Third Victim Slain in Gang War Over Slot Machines. On Untied Press NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—For the third time in three months a man prominent in the slot-machine business of New York has been found murdered in an automobile in Upper Manhattan. The latest victim is Mortimer Schubert, whose body lay in a brown coupe under the elevated tracks most of Thursday before it was discovered by a street cleaner. Police Commissioner Grover Whalen said the killing was the result of a gang quarrel over some detail of the slot machine business.

BURY HATCHET, PLEA Legion Urges Renewal of Army-Navy Games. Resumption of the annual ArmyNavy football classics, the proceeds to be used in behalf of disabled World war veterans, was urged by the national executive committee of the American Legion in session here today. The resolution, adopted unanimously. urged that “these two great institutions unselfishly forget their own differences for the benefit of their disabled comrades,” and instructed the national commander of the legion to confer with’ the heads of the two academies in an attempt to arrange for a game at Soldiers’ Field, Chicago, in 1930.

a. m. until late afternoon and the chicken dinner that was to be served to everybody at noon got cold. John Bishop, who had owned the village for twenty years, said today that the men who bought Eliza got a bargain. He was satisfied with his end of the deal, too. "The sale was a big success financially." he said, "but the

GRILL GAIL ALGER FOR CONFESSION IN ARMORY ROBBERY

Police Claim Oral Admission of Complicity but Seek Signed Statement; Held With Mate Under High Bond. State police today were attempting to persuade Gail Alger, 17, of 409 North Walcott street, to sign a statement he is said to have made late Thursday in which he admitted complicity in the United States naval reserve armory robbery last May. He is held in jail under SIO,OOO bond on a charge of stealing government property. In his statement, Alger implicated Lowell Edwards, 450 North Walcott street, who also was arrested. Both Alger and Edwards told state police they would not sign the statements until they “talked with their fathers.”

Traffic Gem One of City’s ‘Finest’ Bids for All-American ‘Numb’ Team.

HIS is the hand that guides the streams of travel safely past America’s cross-roads; his the face that greets travelers from the nation’s corners, smiles with easy recognition of friends from 'Frisco and Back Bay, Galveston and the Soo. “Great things,” he mused, whistling a traffic change, “this being a cop on this downtown corner. You get to know the world, and its people—hey there!” A sedan halted. “You can’t make a left turn here. Don’t you know the law?” “Sorry, I’m a stranger,’’ thC motorist apologized. “From Philadelphia.” With the slow dignity of authority the policeman scanned the driver, and then the auto. “Philadelphia, eh?” he queried. “Well, what the devil you doin’ with them Pennsylvania license plates on your car?”

BANDITS GET GEM ■ FORTUNE AT PARTY

Seven Masked Men Relieve Society Notables of $400,000. Bii I'nitrd Press BUFFALO, N. Y„ NOv, 15 Search for seven bandits who staged a spectacular holdup of eighteen socially prominent people Thursday night in the home of John L. Carson Jr., a broker of Snyder, N. Y„ near here, escaping with approximately $400,000 in gems and money, was centered today in Buffalo. The robbery occurred at the height of a party, given in honor of Cortland Van Clief and his fiancee, Eleanor Cameron of Cameron, Tex. The seven bandits, all masked in white handkerchiefs and each carrying two guns, entered by a French window ana ordered all the gueSts to back to the wall and raise their hands. Several of the guests believed the holdup to be a prank played by friends and joked with the bandits. One woman, police said, was kicked and thrown under a table when she attempted to tear the mask from one of the men Another man, it was said, was struck across the face and threatened with his life when he remarked that one of the bandit's revolvers was “quite a nice looking thing.” The persons suffering losses, according to police, were; Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Allan Van Clief Mr. and

crowd was not so good. If the hard roads had stayed hard. I’ll bet we’d have had seven or eight thousand people here. “I’ve got up before sunrise and worked until dark every day for twenty years, building Eliza up Into a prosperous community and I guess I’ll take a rest now.” Bishop said he would come over occasionally to see how the town of which he had been sole owner

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Some idea of “The Lost Shirt” may be gained from the following quatrains: “Ah, Morgan, as I watch the ticker spurt on "I am not angry, only sad and hurt. “I am no weakling, and I’ll keep my shirt on “If the man who has it will return my shirt. “Then be your doctor, business man or stoker, “Be manful as you go, and play the game—“With malice toward none except your broker, “And charity for all except the same.”

“I’m bashful about putting my name on any paper,” Alger said. The youths were arrested after a government revolver was found in the auto in which Gail Alger and his wife and Gene and Josephine Alger were riding when they were arrested in Clark county Monday. Gene and Josephine Alger are charged with robbing the Paris Crossing State bank Aug. 15 and are held in Jennings county awaiting trial. Gene Alger is the slayer of an Indianapolis policeman and a state reformatory parole violator. Alger and Edwards are said to have told police they hid the alleged loot in a brick pile near the armory the night of the alleged robbery, but were unr 1 to obtain all of it when they rned the following night be se detectives were watching the hiding place. Hearing will be held before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron Friday. Alger and Edwards are under $2,500 bond on a vehicle taking charge in criminal court. They are alleged to have stolen an auto owned by Lester M. Rhoades, 2020 Brookside avenue, June 2. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 40 10 a. m... 41 7 a. m 40 11 a. m 41 8 a. m 40 12 .(noon).. 42 9a. m 41 1 p.

Mrs. Hamilton Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Metz, the latter business manager of the Buffalo Times and son-in-law of Norman E. Mack, national Democratic committeeman; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Keating, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Williams; Mrs. Pauline Brewstedt, Clarence Sidway Jr., Miss Eleanor Cameron and Cortland Van Clife. Frank Baird, millionaire builder of the peace bridge running from Buffalo to Ft. Erie, Ont„ and uncle of Miss Cameron, today offered $5,000 reward for the capture of each bandit alive and SIO,OOO for each of their bodies. The first few hours of the bandit hunt failed to reveal any clues as to the direction taken in their flight. State police, county and city authorities in all upstate cities were notified and were co-operating in the search. RIVERS ON RAMPAGE Alabama Faces Repetition of Elba Flood Tragedy. By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 15. Alabama rivers threatened today to duplicate the havoc wrought by the disastrous Elba flood of last spring, ao constant rains swelled them to overflowing. The Alabama,. Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers have left their banks at many points and threaten to go higher. Persons living in the lowlands have been warned.

gets along under the new owners. He plans to live with his daughter at Aledo. Rain poured down Thursday forenoon, turning the roads into quagmires. Several farmers had to turn back despite the posters all’ over this section saying that “fine hard roads connect Eliza with all towns in this section.” Bishop put up the sale bills to advertise his auction.

HUGG SEEN AS COFFIN CHOICE FOR CHAIRMAN G. 0. P. ‘Boss’ Believed After Less Open Control of Political Reins. BY BEN STERN Manipulation of puppets from behind the scenes instead of as acknowledged “boss” is believed to be the plan of George V. Coffin for the Republican county convention to be called next week. The “set up,” as Coffin precinct committeemen term it, calls for election of Martin Hugg, Indianapolis attorney and counsel for the school board, as county chairman and William L. Taylor, former attorneygeneral as district chairman. Hugg is scheduled to succeed former Sheriff Omer Hawkins as county chairman. Hawkins in Denial Hawkins today protested he would not resign in the face of reports that he has promised to efface himself at the county convention. Coffin ward chairmen today admitted that they had conferred with the leader, who is ill at his home. “We will call the convention when Coffin is able to attend,” Hawkins said. Under organization rules, the county chairman would call the meeting, but as the convention also must elect a district chairman to succeed Coffin, the latter should issue the call to the county chairman. Members of the various antiCoffin factions are concentrating on Albert Uhl, president of the new Marion Club, as the logical contender of the county chairmanship. Non-Action Pledged Uhl has protested that the Marion Club will take no part as an organization in the convention. However, not only 'members of the club, but other Republicans, feel that as Uhl never has been identified prominently with either Coffin or his opponents, he would be a logical choice. George Denfty is another mentioned for the county chairmanship, but he, it is said, will be content to support Uhl if the latter’s name is presented. It was learned definitely and authoritatively today that Hugg has been approached by organization representatives as to his candidacy and has declared himself willing to “serve.” Hugg never has been city, county or district chairman, but has held precinct and ward posts and is at present the attorney for the school board. INTOXICATION ALLEGED Harry Bradford Faces Charge of Driving While Drunk. Two men were held today on charges of drunkenness and drunken driving following their arrest on West Morris street. They are Harry Bradford, 28 East Morris street and Robert Stevens, i.234 Blaine avenue. Bradford is charged with drunken driving and Stevens with drunkenness. PRINTING BIDS ASKED State Will Receive Figures for TwoYear Contracts. Bids for the state printing for the next two years will be received by the state printing board next Wednesday, it was announced today by Secretary Otto Lee of the board Present contracts for state printing are held by the Burfcrd Printing Company and Levey Brothers here and the Haywood Publishing Company of Lafayette.

It was 1 o’clock In the afternoon before the first automobile chugged into town and parked in the public square. Other cars arrived later, all caked with mud. Then the auctioneer got his hammer and the sale started. All the children got double shares of chicken and since the sale finally was a success, perhaps it was a good thing it rained.

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STATE CLOSES CASE AGAINST MRSJILNER Judge to Give Ruling Today on Motion for Acquittal. * DEFENDANT IS VERY ILL’ State’s Case Is Strengthened by Testimony of Coroner Keever. Ruling on a motion to direct the criminal court jury to acquit Mrs. Jeanette Kilner, 54, in the seconddegree murder case in which she is charged with shooting her husband, Edwin, 64, May 1, was to be given this afternoon by Special Judge Ralph K. Kane. Rested at 10:20 The motion, which requested that the jury be instructed by the trial court to find the woman not guilty, was filed shortly after the state rested its case at 10:20 a. m. It held that evidence submitted by the state was conflicting, inharmonious and was insufficient to sustain the second-degree murder charge against the defendant. Deputy Prosecutor Paul Rhoadarmer debated with Special Judge Kanfe nearly two hours on the question whether the state’s chain of circumstancial evidence was sufficient to back the charge on which Mrs. Kilner is being tried. Kane took the position that the testimony of state’s witnesses, showing that Mrs. Kilner was alone in the house with her husband at the time of the shooting, was an inference based on an inference. “It must be shown by direct influence that Mrs. Kilner was the person who carried the revolver to the bed where the shooting took place,” Kane Said, "and I can not assume that.” Judge Kane overruled a motion of Paul Rhoadarmer, chief deputy prosecutor, seeking to strike out defense motion. Arguments of state and defense counsel followed. Overcome with grief and seriously ill, Mrs. Kilner today had to be assisted into criminal court.

Defense Is Jarred Maholm told Kane that Mrs. Kilner is on the verge of pneumonia and a cot may have to be brought into the courtroom for her convenience today. She was attended by a nurse and physician at the opening of court. When- she entered the courtroom, Mrs. Kilner experienced an emotional attack when greeted by friends and had to be quieted before the court opened. State’s attorneys forged the strongest link in their chain of evidence pointing toward Mrs. Kilner's guilt in the testimony last ThursI day of Coroner Charles H. Keever. He insisted the husband -had been dead about fifteen hours before the conscious form of Mrs. Kilner wa* discovered beside him. The coro - ner testified that her head wound was bleeding freely when he Investigated, while the husband had die 4 many hours before. A second round of damaging evidence came in the testimony of Mrs. Mabel Winklepleck, 1703 Somerset i avenue, a state’s witness. She and tailed a conversation with Mrs. ! Kilner prior to the fatal shooting, in which the elderly widow declared that a “tragedy was impending in . the Kilner home.” The witness said Mrs. Kilner | called her to her residence and ' there behind a locked door “said | she would kill every damned member of the family." State’s case, conducted by Paul : Rhoadarmer and Harry Gause, 1 deputy prosecutors, is expected to I consume the whole session today. Police Officers Testify Witnesses for the state Thursday were Sergeant John Sheehan, Patrolman Arch Ball, fire arms expert; and Detectives Patrick Roache and Louis Fosettl, each of whom Investigated the shooting. Sergeant Sheehan narrated how Mrs. Kilner, lying in a conscious condition shortly after the discovery, resisted his effort to remove the bed covers from her in a search for a revolver. Each time I tried.” Sheehan said, “she screamed loudly and clutched the covers so that I could not remove them.” Later, however, a revolver containing three fired shells was found near the foot of the bed beneath the covers. DELEGATES SELECTED Four Named by Boy Scout Counsel for Chicago Meeting. Wallace O. Lee, J. Frank Holmes, Clarence Sweeney and W. D. Hamar are the delegates named to represent the Indianapolis Boy Scout council at Die regional training conference. to be held at Edgewater Beach hotel, Chicago, Dec. 3. The delegates were elected at aa executive board meeting Thursday in the Board at Trade building,

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