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FIRST HOOVER BUDGET CALLS FOR HUGE CUT Congress is Petitioned for Nearly Four Billions to Run U. S. URGES TAX REDUCTIONS President is Optimistic, Pointing to National Solvency. BY CECIL OWEN T'nilfd Prrss Stiff Corrrspondcnt WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—President Hoover transmitted to congress today his first budget recommending total appropriations for the fiscal year 1931 of $3,830,445,231, a reduction of $145,696,000 as compared with expenditures of the current fiscal year. Estimating governmental surpluses of $225,000,000 this year and $122,000,000 in 1931, President Hoover proposed tax reduction on 1929 incomes as already outlined by Secretary Mellon. This program will provide a cut of one per cent in the normal tax aggregating $160,000,000. Warning congress that only a temporary tax decrease is justified by the state of government finances now, Mr. Hoover said a year hence it will be possible to determine whether the continuation or even extension of the reduction is justified. Every effort will be made, he added, to so conduct the government finances as to continue the benefits of reduced taxation for succeeding calendar years. Prosperity Part Cause ‘Experience has shown,” the president said, ‘‘that each reduction in taxes has resulted in revenue in excess of the mathematically computed return under the reduced rates. Undoubtedly, an increase in the prosperity of business, brought forth by tax reduction partly is responsible for this experience. Such reduction gives the taxpayer correspondingly more for his own use and thus increases the capital available for general business.” Although the total 1931 budget Is nearly $150,000,000 under the last budget of the Coolidge administration, President Hoover proposed increases in the appropriations for several Important branches. Principal increases recommended to congress by the president included enlarged funds by $10,000,000 for flood control and rivers and harbors, additional funds for the justice department of $4,079,000, and for the state department of $2,443,000. An increase of about $3,100,000 in the appropriation for Indians, and of $2,000,000 for better forest fire protection was requested. Money For Prison Provision was made in the building program for construction projects at several federal penitentiaries as follows: Leavenworth, $22,000; Atlanta, $79,000; McNeil Island, $139,000, and $450,000 for continuing construction of the Chillicothe, 0., industrial reformatory. Total building estimates of $59,240,000 were contained in the budget. Estimates for war and navy department appropriations provide an aggregate of $719,089,000 for national defense. President Hoover said, after excluding all items of a non-military character. Substantial amounts were carried in the budget for carrying forward the aviation programs of both services, the housing program of the army, modernization of battleships, and construction of new naval vessels authorized by the 15-cruiser bill passed by the last session of congress. $33,000,000 For Planes Under the air service programs for the army and navy, the President asked a total of $33,000,000 for procurement of airplanes. In addition. he asked for the same purpose for the coast guard, department of commerce and the national advisory committe for aeronautics a total of $460,000. An additional $10,325,830 was asked also for lighting and equipment airways, inspection and licensing planes and pilots, and furnishing of weather reports to aviators. Concluding his summary of the 1931 budget. President Hoover sounded a note of optimism. He advised congress: “Our finances are in sound condition. The public debt which at its peak in August. 1919, amounted to $26,596,000,000, stood at $16,931,000.000 on June 30, 1929. We are committed wisely to a policy which insures the further progressive reduction of the debt We will reach in 1931 for the first time, the period when the annual reduction required by law in the principal of the debt will be greater than the annual interest charges on the debt. "We also are committed to the annual amortization of our other long term committments —such as the adjusted service certificate of the world war veterans and our liability under the retirement law's affecting civilian personnel.” Former Sheriff Buried OREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 4. Funeral services were held today for Theodore Boes, former Putnam county sheriff, who died Sunday after long Illness,

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Hard to Find Perry Was Good Man When It Came to Stoking Furnace.

B a Unit'd Press. Evanston, hi., Dec. 4.— The woes of shivering guests in the Pembridge hotel were nothing compared to the woes of Perry Wilson, who was taking a rest in jail from stoking the hotel furnace. At 2 a. m. the hotel manager telephoned to the jail. , “I’ve got to have Perry. He’s the only man who can manage the fires,” he said. Sergeant Kinder arranged it thus: At 4 a. m. Wilson left his cell and went to the hotel, accompanied by a guard. He shoveled in a lot of coal. At 9 a. m. the procedure was repeated. And again at 11 and at 3 p. m. At 4 p. m. Wilson’s case on a liquor charge came up. He looked hopeful. “Dismissed,” said the court, and the janitor’s face fell. He got back to the hotel just in time to fire the furnace again.

GUN SHOTS ARE CLEWTO FLIER Lost Pilot May Have Tried to Signal Plight, Bn United Press CLARION, Pa., Dec. 4.—Department of commerce men stationed here, were asked today to investigate a report from Kennerdale flying field that twelve revolver shots were heard and a blaze seen Monday night six miles north of the emergency field by Frank Jacobs, caretaker. It was believed possible that the shots were fired and a signal fire built by Thomas P. Nelson, missing air mail flier of the BeliefonteCleveland route whose palne was forced down early Monday in a snow storm which swept over '‘Hell’s stretch” a wild section of the Alleghany mountains. A searching party was to be sent to the section rtorth of Kennerdale department of commerce men said. They said they were notified of the report by W. L. Smith division superintendent of the N. A. T. at Cleveland. Smith said that he had changed his own search to the Erie lake shore region.

PROBE GANG RILLING Mystery Shrouds Shooting of Chicago Racketeer. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—The midnight murder of Paddy King, jack of all the trade of gangland, in an abandoned gambling hall over a loop night club, took on added fiction thriller elements today as police sought its solution somewhere in the tangled feuds of the racketeera The body, riddled by five bullets, was found in the one-time gamblers’ hangout above the Club Royale Tuesday. The dead man was wearing clothes that originally belonged to Frank Gustenberg, his brother-in-law, one of the seven gunmen shot down in the St. Valentine’s day massacre. Near his outstretched hand as he lay ron the floor was his own revolver, two chambers empty, indicating he died shooting. SCOLDED: KILLS SELF Upbraided for Drinking; Apologizes and Fires Bullet Into Heart. Bu United Press DES MOINES. la., Dec. 4.—Miss Faye Hanway, a nurse, scolded her brother-in-law, Harry Deakin, 41, for whom she had been keeping house, because he drank too much. Deakin apologized for causing her any trouble, stepped to the other side of the room and shot himself through the heart. LABOR LEADER DIES James Noonan, Vice-President of A. F. of L.. Succumbs. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.—James P. Noonan of St. Louis, president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and a vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, died today of bums received in his apartment here.

RUSSIA BLUNTLY REJECTS OUTSIDE PEACE MOVES

By Vnited Press Soviet Russia, in a sharply worded note, has repudiated invocation of the Kellog pact in the dispute with China over the Chinese Eastern railway and in notes to the United States, Great Britain and France has informed those powers that Russia considers their overtures an unfriendly act. Simultaneously, it was announced in Moscow that Russia and the Manchurian government has signed

GUN TAKEN BY ROTHSTEINTO POKERGAME Gambler Associate Tells of One Similar to Fatal Weapon. M’MANUS UNIDENTIFIED Maid Testifies Defendant Not ‘Big Man’ She Saw in Hotel Room. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Just before Arnold Rothstein left Lindy’s restaurant on Broadway to keep the engagement at which the state alleges he was shot, he gave to James Meehan, gambler and associate, a long-barreled revolver, Meehan admitted today. Rothstein took with him a smaller weapon, similar to the one with which the state alleges George A. McManus shot Rothstein. Meehan, youngest of the big time gamblers, a sleek, black eye-browed, poker-faced fellow, revealed those details as a witness in today’s session of McManus’ trial. Meehan was the last known person to see Rothstein before the shooting. They had met at Lindy’s restaurant at 9 p. m, remained three-quarters of an hour, going to a nearby hotel and then at 10:25 returned to Lindy’s and then Rothstein left. He denied Rothstein had told him where he was going.

Call Hotel Maid Hardly had the interest Meehan aroused subsided when Bridget Farry, chambermaid at .the Park Central hotel, was called. Short, plump and dark, she was attired in a Shamrock green silk dress, light stockings, silver slippers and black coat. A string of green beads fit tightly around her throat. Her head was crowned with a mass of fuzzy jet-black hair, quite out ol control, but tied in the back with a green bow. She told of having found no one in Room 349 at the hotel, where the shooting allegedly took place, when she went there at 8 p. m. A little later she returned and found a man there. She made up the bed. “He was alone,” said Bridget. "I didn’t talk to him. I just went on about my business.” One Tall, Other Short She had been in the room three or four times that day. On one occasion she had seen two men in the room, she said. She talked rapidly, but started her testimony in a subdued voice. She described one of the men as short and the other as tall. McManus was asked to stand up. “Was that the man?” asked the prosecutor. “No,” said Bridget, "I don’t think so.”

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Indiana Lad Is ‘Nearly Healthy’

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Harold Deatline, 18, of Morgan county, Indiana, is within .8 of 1 per cent of being 100 per cent perfect physically. He was judged the healthiest boy in the United States in judging here of 4-H club members. He is tall, a blonde, blushes easily and is ad-

OPEN NEW BRIDGE Tenth Street Span Will Be Available to Public. Relief from congested traffic in West Indianapolis north of Washington street will be afforded within a few days when the new West Tenth street bridge, over Big Eagle creek, will be opened to traffic, county commissioners announced today. The new structure, work on which began last spring, and cost approximately SBO,OOO, replaces an old covered bridge which spanned the stream at the same site for almost half a century. Similar relief will be felt in Irvington, commissioners said, with the opening of the Tenth street highway from Arlington avenue to the Pcxit road. Farmer Disappears WAYNETOWN, Ind., Dec. 4.—J. W. Rule, farmer living north of here, has been missing since Thursday. Members of the family say they are unable to ascribe a reason for his disappearance.

a protocol for settlement of the dispute. The reaction in Washington to Russia’s blunt assertion that outside interference in far eastern affairs was not welcome, indicated a possible effect on future relations of the United States and the Soviet government. It was understood today that the Chinese Nationalist government was preparing a reply to the United States note. *

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He’s Precise Saved Duplicates of Letters He Wrote to Bride; Read in Court.

Bn United Press DETROIT, Dec. 4.—Mrs. Dee Furey Mott is glad that her married life with the vice-president of the General Motors Corporation is over, she said today, although admitting she considered Charles S. Mott “the most distinguished and eligible man in Detroit.” "Imagine the trend of a man’s mind who would save duplicates of the letters he wrote his bride and then read them in court,” she said. Mott, whose yearly income runs into the millions, was granted a divorce decree at Flint Tuesday. He gave her General Motors stock valued at $1,360,000, outright, and listed other items which brought the cost of his year of married life to almost $2,000,000. This did not include $1,000,000 which he settled on his wife’s child.

MERCURY RISE WILLGONTINUE Temperature May Soar to 30 Above Tonight. • Hourly Tmperatures 6a. m 11 10 a. m 17 7a. m 11 11 a. m 20 Ba. m..... 11 12 (noon).. 23 9 a. m 12 1 p. m 24 Continued rise in temperature that may go above the freezing point, was predicted for Thursday by J. H. Armington, meteorologist, today. Thermometers at the United States weather bureau at 7 this morning recorded 11 degrees, which was 12 degrees above the reading at 7 a. m. Tuesday. Tonight the mercury may soar to 30 degrees, said Armington. The break in a cold wave that held the state since Thanksgiving day was general Tuesday except In the northeast portion, near Ft. Wayne, where thermometers still were near zero. Fair weather Thursday will bring higher temperatures In all except the northermost parts of the state, Armington said.

TRANSFER ♦ORDERED Parker to Be Brought Here Without Delay. De Witt Parker, 32, will be brought immediately from Toledo to Indianapolis to face federal charges of conspiracy to commit a felony, W. C. Ela, postal inspector, said today on his return from the Ohio city. He obtained a federal order to transfer Parker from Ohio to Indiana.

dieted to milk. Florence Smock, 17, Lake county, Alabama, small, brunette, unrouged and short skirted, with long hair, was judged the healthiest girl with 98.7 per cent awarded. Contestants from twenty-six states were judged in connection with the International Livestpck exposition. Miss Smock attributes her health to orange juice and Florida sunshine. Harold does not care much for girls, does not dance, likes to go to bed early at night, does not smoke, and does not go in for sports. “I’m to busy on dad’s farm,” he said. He is a high school graduate and plans to “be as good a farmer as dad.” He intends to attend Purdue university. “Plenty of sleep, plenty of milk and plenty of work,” was his recipe.

BALL PLAYERS ARE HURT Pierce, Russell and Bauman in Accident Near NashvOle. Bn Time* Rvcclal CHATTANOOGA. Dec. 4.—While motoring to Chattanooga to attend the minor baseball league convention. James Pierce, Reb Russell and Pat Bauman, all of Indianapolis, had a narrow escape from death neah Nashville when their auto was struck by another machine and demolished. The Indianapolis men were cut and bruised. The three occupants of the other car disappeared after the wreck and are being sought by the sheriff at Nashville. De Priest Attends Session By United Press i WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Representative De Priest (Rep., 111.) the Negro representative from Chicago, attended today’s session of the house and sat in the front row on the Republican side.

VARE BRANDS ousra CASE CRUEMINIUST Afflicted G. 0. P. Leader Faces Accusers With Plea for Seat. FLAYED BY SEN. NORRIS Precedent Set in Allowing Philadelphian to Offer Seriate Defense. BY PAUL R. MALLON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—While the House was preparing to overcome some opposition to the tax reduction resolution, the senate today witnessed an unprecedentedly dramatic scene when Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pensylvania appeared there in person, a semi-in-valid, to demand his seat. His paralyzed arm stuck in his trousers pocket. He leaned heavily against a desk to keep himslf from falling to the floor as he read a 2,000-word speech in which he struck boldly at his accusers, in a high-pitched and almost feeble voice which easily could be heard in the stillness of the chamber, Vare contended he had been elected constitutionally three years ago and that the rights of the people who chose him had been violated by the senate. His physician watched him closely as he read with obvious difficulty from sheets of paper, pausing at the conclusion of one so he could use his only available hand to lay down one sheet and pick up another.

Spent Much Money A crowded senate chamber watched closely also, as Vare admitted he spent much money in his primary campaign, but contended many senators around him had spent more than 54 cents a vote in their elections. The charges against him are “unfair and unjust” he said. Never before had a nonmember been granted the privilege of making a speech in the way Vare was permitted to speak. It is contrary to the rules but the way was provided for it when the senate adopted a resolution giving him the right to defend himself before the body which shortly is to vote upon a resolution aimed to exclude him. He was treated with aloofness by some of the Republicans, but several Democrats shook hands with him when he entered the chamber. The leader of the fight against him, Senator Norris (Rep., Neb.) closed a strong attack against him just before Vare took the floor. Vote in Order With sarcasm, Norris referred to the "Vare machine which has throttled the people of Pennsylvania and dominated the voters of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia so they vote in alphabetical order.” Norris said the senate owed a duty to the country to prevent Vare from taking his seat. He referred to Vare’s illness as insufficient to keep him away from the Kansas City convention last year “where he brought the great Mellon into line for Hoover.” "His machine aligned itself with the millions of Mellon, and Grundy and with the Pennsylvania railroad,” Norris said. “Are we to permit a member to come here tainted with that kind of fraud? You might as well say to the man of ordinary circumstances ‘you can’t come here to the senate.’ Bow to Machine? “Are we going to bend our knee and bow our head to his powerful machine?” Vare took this attack without display of emotion. His daughter, Mrs. William Kipp, was sitting in the senators’ personal gallery, while the daughter of his defeated Democratic opponent, William B. Wilson, with his father, sat in the opposite gallery for guests of senators. The Philadelphian was plainly dressed in a dark brown suit, brown tie, with stiff turnover collar, and a light tan handkerchief stuck from his breast pocket. He watched his wrist watch impatiently as he waited for Norris to conclude; his face was a deep red, which showed also on his head, sparsely covered with white hair.

HUNGARY SEEKS LOAN Government Centers on Rehabilitation of Farm Industry. By r nlted Press BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 4. The government, in the latest phase of national development, has concentrated on rehabilitation of the farming industry in Hungary, principally by seeking long term loans to help peasant fanners. The farm development scheme includes special attention to foreign markets and it has learned today that the government has succeeded in rediscounting the Swedish match loan payment, due in 1931. Authorities now are negotiating elsewhere for a loan for about $22,000,000, Stealing Wave Fought By Times Sorcial GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 4. In an effort to check a wave of stealing here, the Chamber of Commerce has posted a reward of SIOO for arrest of any person robbing any of its members. t

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Stop and talk, or stop and go. It’s all the same to Mrs. Cynthia Casmire of 315 Harvard place, telephone operator at city hall. doaxed away from her switchboard, she is pictured with two of the new traffic signs favored by the safety board. Their purchase has been recommended to the purchasing department. The stop signs are red and yellow with a red “bullseye” reflector.

FLAMES DRIVE 15 FROM APARTMENT

Woman Carried to Safety by Firemen; Tenant Gives Alarm. Fourteen persons groped their way to safety through dense clouds of smoke, and one woman was rescued by city firemen in- a blaze early this morning in the Freeman apartments, 315 East St. Clair street. Mrs. May Adams, 45, was carried down a ladder by firemen from her upper apartment, after she had remained at the telephone in a smoke-filled room to give the alarm to fire companies. Her husband, Claude Adams, who remained with her, climbed down the ladder. A son, Donald, 15, had been sent to safety by the couple before fire companies arrived. Mrs. Sunshine Cohen, occupying apartment No. 1, discovered the fire, which started in the basement from the furnace, causing damage estimated at SI,OOO. She gave the alarm to other occupants of the building by knocking on their doors. Other occupants were; Mrs. Cohen’s son Elmer, 6; Mrs. Annie Van Hook, Miss Ruth Van Hook, Elmer Conn, Mrs. Berna Carlson, Miss Violet Tressel, Tljomas Carlson, 6; Helen Carlson, 4; Mrs. Melissa Clark, Mrs. Audrey Wrighthouse and her son Donald, 3. Damage to the building, owned by the Spann company, was S6OO, and to clothing and furnishings of occupants, about S4OO. Fire which swept two double houses on West Thirty-third street Tuesday afternoon caused damage estimated at $20,000. Two fire alarms were sounded. The houses were occupied by Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Wiley at 35 and 37 West Thirtythird street, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Herr, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Humphreys and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Buell at 31 and 33 West Thirty-third street. Three small children were led from a burning house by a neighbor Tuesday afternoon when the home of Mrs. Nell Moye, at 1409 Southeastern avenue, caught fire when clothing, drying on a rack before a stove, was ignited. Marcella, 7; Arthur, 5, and Bobbie, 3, her children, were found groping for a door by Mrs. Teressa Serge, 1411 Southeastern avenue, who ran into the blazing room. The fire damage was light. DRESS STRIKE CHEERED General Walkout of New York Garment Workers Indorsed By United Press CLEVELAND, Dec. 4.—A general strike of 45,000 workers in the dress industry in New York was unanimously indorsed here today at the twentieth biennial 'convention of the International Ladies Garnjent Workers’ Union. The delegates cheered loudly for an unusual length of time when the issue was carried.

NEGRO BURGLAR, SHOT BY COP, MAY DIE OF WOUNDS

A Negro burglar, trapped in a fish and poultry market operated by James Gates at 1417 East Twentyfifth street, was shot and perhaps wounded, fatally, late Tuesday night by Andrew J. Heller, motorcycle policeman, and is in serious condition at city hospital today. The bullet, fired as the Negro leaped through a plate glass window in an attempt to escape, struck the Negro in the back and penetrated bis abdomen, _

A Great Serial The second installment of Vida Hurst’s great new serial of life back of the scenes in Hollywood, “The Woman Charmer,” is printed in The Times today, on Page 22. If you failed to read the big opening installment, get a Tuesday copy of The Times from the circulation department, or send in your name and address for a free copy of the tabloid, containing the first five chapters. Cali Riley 5551, circulation department for this service.

KIDNAPER FACES 99-YEAR TERM Detroit Man Found Guilty in Thompson Case. By United Press DETROIT, Dec. 4.—James Fernando, father of three children, at 3:30 this morning was found guilty of charges of seizing and making off with 5-year-old Jackie Thompson, wealthy real estate dealer’s son, and holding the boy prisoner from Aug. 30 to Sept. 24. Imprisonment up to ninety-nine years is provided for conviction of either count. Judge Charles L. Bartlett, who gave the case to the jury shortly after 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, was to sentence Fernando this afternoon. Eight men and four women comprised the jury. Mrs. Fernando, one of the few spectators who remained in court until the' verdict was returned, sobbed quietly as she heard her husband adjudged guilty. Fernando, dressed in a light gray suit, received the verdict W'ith calmness. He has been stoical throughout the trial except for a few occasions when he cried on the stand. Youthful appearing and inclined to portliness, his appearance belies his police record, which shows a score of arrests on minor charges and one sentence to a year’s term for possession of a stolen automobile. AIRPORT BIDS TOO HIGH Runways Unlikely to Be Built for Some Time, Says Moore. Bids on construction of runw'ays for the municipal airport were “too high” and probably will not be acted upon by the board of works, City Engineer A. H. Moore indicated today. The low bid of $86,000 was submitted by Fred H. Rosebrock. Two other bids were submitted and referred to the engineer for tabulation. Joseph E. McNamara Construction Company bid $89,900 and Mead Construction Company $109,780. All bids were on asphalt surface and drainage.

The wounded man, who gave the name of John Smith, 35, and who said he lives with his brother, Joseph Smith, oh Hovey street near Twenty-fifth street, is charged with entering to commit a felony, and with burglary. Ferdinand D. Helt of 2449 Hovey street, passing the fish market, heard the breaking of a rear glass. He notified police and Motorcycle Outers Heller and Frank J. Seifert ms A the run. _ ,

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ICE PLANTS IN HUGE MERGER MADETARGET Insult Project Opposition Attack Property Status of Company. STOCK MOVE ADMITTED Central Indiana Power Had No Sanction to Acquire Subsidiary Issues. Ice plants, owned by the Central j Indiana Power Company, were used | to throw ice water on the $70,000,000 ' Insull utilities merger as the second day of the hearing on the merger petition got under way before the public service commission today. Sharp questioning of L. B. Andrus, vice-president of the Central Company, which is involved in the proposed merger, brought the admission that ice and electricity are not similar products. He failed to acknowledge, however, whether he considered an ice plant a utility under the law. The questions were propounded by Commissioners Calvin Mclntosh and Frank Singleton. The Insull counsel opposed their being answered. Given Latitude Commissioner Howell Ellis, who is presiding, ruled that the commissioners have the widest latitude in asking questions. He thus overruled the utilities’ attorneys’ contention that these were legal matters to be argued later by the lawj yers. Under the opinion of Attomey- ! General James M, Ogden, given Mclntosh, unlike utilities may not be merged legally. Former Commissioner Harvey Harmon, who is appearing as an attorney in opposition to the merger, obtained the admission from Andrus that no commission authori ity was obtained by the Central company to obtain the common stock of its twelve subsidiaries. This was one of ths points set out in the brief filed Tuesday supporting a motion to dismiss the petition. It was brought into the case at this time by a query of Chairman John W. McCardle of the commission reguarding evidence in its support. Contends Firm Operator Harmon contends that the Central company is an operator and should have obtained commission approval to buy the stock. P. J. Lucey, Chicago Insull attorney, asserted that the Central was a holding company at the time of the stock purchase and no commission permission was required. The matter has not been decided directly by the Indiana courts, Harmon contends. Effort was made by Mclntosh to obtain admission from Andrus that the Central interurban lines do not parallel the T. H., I. & E., which also is included in the merger plan. The attorney-general ruled they must parallel or intersect. Andrus said they do intersect at Frankfort.

Presents Exhibits Lucey contended that all thes.* matters were legal and argumentative and the hearing of witnesses was resumed by L. B. Schlez, controller of the Central and subsidiary companies, succeeding Andrus on the stand and presenting numerous exhibits on the Central appraisals and financial statements. These listed the Central plant, property and franchise as worth $22,153,779.51 under an appraisal made by Spooner and Merrill, Chicago accountants, to which additions and betterments of $1,732,314.98 have been added since the ; ppraisal was made. Total current a sets were listed at $2,058,268.52. revenue statement shows $1,244,91 16 in 1924, with annual inci ases to $2,732,' :2.17 in 1928.

BROWN MURDER JURY SOON TO BE CHOSEN Two Days Spent in Examination of Prospective Jurors, A jury was expected to be impaneled in criminal court today to try Charles Brown, 40, 829 South New Jersey street, for the murder of his wile Aug. 17 at the family home. Two days have been spent In the questioning of prospective jurors, and a second venire of fifty persons reported today. Judge Thomas E. Garvin, civil municipal court judge, is on the bench. Brown is alleged to have shot hii wife, Mrs. Alma Brown, 45, five times. He was captured by police two days later, trying to flee the city. OPEN CLEARING HOUSE Move to Pi event Duplication of Christinas Charitable Work. The Christmas clearing house is in operation today at 19 North Meridian street, engaging in service to prevent duplication of Christmas charity work. All social agencies of the city are co-operating and individuals and clubs contemplating charitable work during the holidays are invited to confer with the office. Herbert S. King is in charge of the work. Miss Winifred Erown is in charge of the office, assisted by Miss Helen Williamson. - Jk

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