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70 CHILDREN LOSE LIVES IN THEATER FIRE Playhouse Swept by Blaze and Scores Go to Death in Stampede. FUMES CHOKE' FIREMEN Ghastly Tragedy Climax of Matinee in Scotch Factory City. Hu United Press PAISLEY, Scotland, Dec. 31.—1 t was estimated that seventy children were killed when fire broke out in a theater here today during a children’s matinee. It was officially announced that sixty-nine bodies had been recovered late this afternoon. One hundred fifty children were taken to hospitals. liie children rushed screaming for the exits when the cry of “Fire” was raised and a terrible panic ensued. Many were trampled or crushed in the jam at the exits. As smoke filled the hall the panic and screaming increased. Fifteen hundred children were in the theater as the fire started in the operator’s booth. The theater was filled with choking smoke and fumes. Firemen were forced to don gas masks before they could penetrate the hall. They found difficulty extricating the children from the piled-up masses at the exits. Passing tram and motor cars were requisitioned to carry the victims to hospitals. Many of them were overcome by smoke or suffering from shock in addition to those who were crushed or injured, Late in the afternoon firemen were still fighting the flames Mothers were frantically searching for their missing children. Paisley Is a manufacturing city of 90,000 population in Renfrewshire, Scotland, seven miles southwest of Glasgow. It is one of the chief world centers for the manufacture of cotton thread, the J. & P. Coates and the Clark companies, employing thousands of hands. The famous Paisley shawls of previous days now are seldom woven. The last great theater fire recorded was on Jan. 9, 1927, when flames broke out in the Laurrier palace at Montreal and within a few minutes seventy-seven children were burned to death. Many other great theater fires have been recorded, among them: Conway’s theater, Brooklyn, Dec 5, 1876, with 295 deaths. Ring theater, Vienna, Dec. 8, 1881 with 850 deaths. Opera Comique, Paris, May 26. 1887, with 200 deaths. Iroquois theater, Chicago, Dec. 30. 1903, with 575 deaths. Rhodes Opera House, Boyer ton. Pa., March 4, 1908, with 169 deaths Flores Theater, Acapulco. Mexico. Feb. 2, 1909, with 300 deaths. Italian Theater, Calumet, Mich, Dec. 24. 1913, with 72 deaths. Theater Drumcollogher, Ireland. Sept. 5, 1926, with 40 deaths.

PRICE CHANGE UNLIKELY Newsprint Will Remain at $55 a Ton in 1930, Is Indication. n Unit-il i’r, * NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Information which was interpreted as indicating that there is no immediate likelihood of an increase in the price of newsprint paper, and that the price probably will remain at $55 a ton during 1930, was announced last night by the paper committee of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association. The announcement was that the committee had learned “from authoritative sources” that the Canadian Paper and Power Company and the Price Bros. Company, large producers of newsprint and members of the Canadian Newsprint Institute, were notifying their customers that the 1929 price of $55 would be continued during the first six months of 1930, without the previous requirement of a three-year contract, carrying a $5 increase for the last thirty months. WALES READY FOR TRIP Prince to Leave Friday on African Hunting Tour; Bids Parents Goodby. Hu United Press LONDON. Dec. 31.—The prince of Wales visited his parents at Sandringham today, to say goodby, preparatory to leaving Friday for a hunting trip in Africa. The prince’s trip is a continuation of that which he was engaged when he was called home, thirteen months ago, by the serious illness of his father. King George. CARDINAL IS IMPROVED Ga&parri Holds Conference After Spending Restful Night. fly United Press VATICAN CITY, Dec. 31.—Cardinal Gasparri’s condition was greatly Improved today, after a restful night. His fever had abated. The cardinal was permitted to confer with Monsignors Pioccardo and Oi|a\ianni. who reported to him on routine matters connected with the fate chancellory.

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More Love That’s New Year Resolve for Texas Guinan, She Tells World.

V]/ United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 31. j- Texas Guinan, entertainer in night clubs and law courts, and the four Marx brothers, stage comedians, wisecracked today as they told the United Press their New Year’s resolutions. Miss Guinan resolved to love newspaper reporters and federal agents more during 1930.

Despite testimony that agents had purchased liquor at the night club she conducted. Miss Guinan smilingly told the jurors she did not knowhow liquor tasted because she had never had any. She was not convicted. Like her customers, the night club queen said she would “say it

with reservations” in 1930. With her slumbers ending at 7 p. m. now r that she is appearing at a Chicago night club, Miss Guinan will attempt to arrive at the theater during the first act. Chico Marx, who never has said a word on the stage during his years of appearance, said, “I resolve to many during 1930 if I can find a girl who will talk as little as I do on the stage.” Groucho Marx resolved that the only tips he would take for the stock market would be asparagus tips. Never to take his wife as a bridge partner was the resolution of Harpo Marx, while Zeppo wanted to buy everything outright, including his w ; ife. Jane Addams, noted for her settlement work at Hull house, will enter the new year without resolutions. She said she had given up the custom, because she had become discouraged with previous attempts. LINDY GREETS KOEHL IN CITY Lone Eagle, Anne Stop Off on Hop to West. Two famous fliers and their wives met at the crossroads of America today, wished each other a happy New Year in German and English, and then separated. Captain Herman Koehl, German aviator, who w-ith Commander Fitzmaurice and the late Baron Huenfeld, flew from Europe to America in the Bremen, accompanied by Mrs. Koehl rushed from a train here at noon to Mars Hill airport to greet Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh en route across the continent. Lindbergh waited for the Koehls and after exchanging greetings with the German flier, autographed a notebook, took off and circled the field several times in compliment to the German and vanished toward St. Louis. Captain and Mrs. Koehl will remain here a week as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kurtz, Seventy-seventh street. Mrs. Koehl is a niece of Mrs. Kurtz. M'NEELY RITES SLATED Funeral Wednesday for Wife of C. of C. Official. Funeral services for Mrs. Eva M. McNeely, wife of Harry B. McNeely, 201 Blue Ridge road, traffic commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce will be held Wednesday morning at 10 at the Flanner and Buchanan mortuary. Mrs. McNeely died Sunday after an illness of five weeks. Dr. E. H. Kistler, pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian church of which she was a member and in which she was active in charity work, will officiate. Mrs. McNeely was born in Delphi, Ind.. and is survived by a son, H. B. McNeely Jr.; two brothers. John C. Neuer of Toledo, and Wililam B. Neuer of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Louisa Gruber of Buffalo. N. Y.

BOY OF 4 STAMPS MOTHER AS KILLER

Bu l niti <1 Pres* NEW CASTLE, Pa.. Dec. 31.—The •1-year-old son of the Wheeling (W. Va.) divorcee sought for questioning in the slaying of Corporal Brady Pauw near New Castle Friday, today named his mother as the ruthless gunwoman who shot down the Pennsylvania state officer. Found by police at Bellaire. 0., at the home of an uncle, the boy, a witness to the slaying, admitted that his mother. Mrs. Irene Schroeder of Benwood, W. Va., was the murderer, according to Police Chief Francis Moran of Bellaire. With the finding of the boy memoer oi the "bandit family.” authorities gained at least twenty-four hours on the trail of the blonde gunwoman and her male companion

COURT ACTION DELAYS STUTZ MERGER DEAL Big Scale Consolidation Is Held Up Temporarily by Suits. GORRELL BARES PLANS President Asserts Concern Has Assets to Take Care of All Obligations. Filing of petitions in involuntary bankruptcy in federal court here Monday by three Indianapolis firms interrupted conferences looking toward merger of the Stutz Motor Car Company of America and another automobile plant, the name of which is withheld. The conference Monday was being held at Chicago, after preliminary conferences in the east, E. S. Gorrell, president of Stutz, announced today. Sitting in at the conference were Charles M. Schwab and two other financial leaders of the country, President Gorrell said today on his return to Indianapolis. The merger plans were in a state of formulation, with final capital of between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 to be placed at disposal of the merger company by the financial leaders, Gorrell announced. Suits Are Obstacles Filing of the suits delayed negotiations, Gorrell said. He returned to Indianapolis today and spent the day in conferences with Charles Roemler, legal counsel for Stutz, on the bankruptcy petition and also on suits on account, asking receiver, filed in superior court room three Saturday. Denying the Stutz company is in dange rof insolvency unless forced to quick liquidation of its assets, Gorrell today declared the legal attacks unwarranted. He declared the Stutz company c*n pay all outstanding obligations within a month and said the merger planned would create a larger company than ever before, with greater output and increased sales possibilities. The bankruptcy petition was filed by the E. C. Atkins company, the Vonnegut Hardware Company and the Hide Leather and Belting Company. Has Millions in Assets “The Stutz company, roughly speaking, had more than $4,000,000 assets,” he said. “It has $2,250,000 in quick assets and can settle all outtsanding obligations within a month. The company now is carrying more than $1,000,000 in credits for its dealers throughout the world. “Our plant here had been closed less than one month, while plants of large automobile companies in Detroit have been shut down since September and October. The Stutz company had the largest October of its history this year. “Charges thmat we have preferred creditors by paying cash to some of them are groundless. We have taken care of our obligations in turn. “When news of this petition reached me at Chicago, Monday, I attempted to continue with the negotiations, but, naturally, the other parties insisted that we settle these mattrs before the merger plans were continued.” President Gorrell declared he is uncertain when negotiations for the merger will be resumed. JUDGE REFUSES POST Jones Will Not Accept Appointment to Commerce Commission. By United Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 31. Judge Robert M. Jones, chancellor of Knox county, announced today that he would not accept the appointment to the interstate commerce commission, tendered him by President Hoover on Dec. 17. Appointment of Jones, a Republican, was objected to by several Democratic senators. Merchant Faces Bankruptcy An involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed against Lowell Headlee, Rushville retail merchant, in federal court today by the International Shoe Company.

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who aided her in the gun battle, the robbery of the Butler (Pa.) store which preceded it, and the seizure of an automobile from a New Castle citizen in which they escaped. The boy, according to Police Chief Moran, was left by his mother, at Benwood. W. Va., across the Ohio river from Bellaire. in her flight from the scene of the crime. The boy. whose name is Donnie, according to Chief Moran, related calmly: “Mother shot a policeman.” The boy did not seem much affected by the event, Chief Moran said. Bellaire police are also holding the boy’s uncle and his grandfather, with whom his mother left him. They will be questioned, in an effort to learn in what direction the woman and her companion fled.

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New Years Resolutions Will Weaken You, Avers Professor

BY SHELDON KEY ■tv EFRAIN from moral houseIV cleanings at the start of the New Year if you want a strong personality,” was the advice today of Dr. John A. Cummins, professor of philosophy at Indiana Central college. “Psychologically, New Year’s resolutions are harmful,” he declared. Dr. Cummins has shared his thoughts on personality-making for thirty years as the “grand old man” to hundreds of college youths. He sat at his study window relating his views on the New Year, He is opposed to “wholesale resolution making,” for, as he thoughtfully puts it, “turning over anew leaf is an easy matter, but it so easy blows back again.” ‘There is high possibility that making resolutions will have disastrous results on your personality. It is a law of psychology that the mind is made weaker by failure to accomplish its purposes. “Be careful tomorrow about saying ‘lt’s wrong for me to lie abed,

Silent Cal P. ii United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Dec. 31.—Calvin Coolidge resolved today to keep his New Year’s resolutions, if any, to himself. “I’m afraid there is nothing to say,” his secretary reported after interviewing the former president on the matter of resolutions.

THREE MISSING YOUTHS FOUND Co-Ed and Two Friends Are Uninjured. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31.—Suffering from fatigue and hunger, three University of California students, at Los Angeles, missing since Saturday in the Sierra Madre mountains, where they became separated from a party of hikers, were found by searchers today. The trio, Celia Caplan, 18, Lawrence Kotkin, 20 and Jack Schwartz, 18, were found in one of the deep canyons that scar the sides of Mt. Wilson, which they were exploring when lost. All were in fair physical condition, and excellent spirits, according to reports reaching here. A deputy sheriff and his companion found the students within four miles of a point in the road at which some of the hikers gathered Saturday, two miles from Mt. Wilson hotel. Nothing had been, heard of the missing students since Saturday morning. The co-ed was clad only in a thin silk dress and a light wrap. The youths were in campus attire, far too scant for long exposure on the snow-covered mountain slopes. They had no food. The father of Miss Caplan offered a SSOO reward for the discovery of his daughter Monday, but when the day passed with no word, he became desperate and announced he would brave the snow banks himself.

MILD TOJTART 1930 Blizzards of Past Missing This New Year’s. i In contrast to weather which attended the birth of 1928 and 1929, weather accompanying the dawn of 1930 will be mild, J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist, predicted today. Blizzards swept the two preceding years into existence. Wednesday probably will be cloudy, becoming unsettled by night, according to Armington. Temperatures will remain the same as Monday and today, ranging from about 35 degrees tonight to 45 or 50 degrees Wednesday. Armington said there w?as little likelihood of rain Wednesday, although there might be some precipitation Wednesday night or Thursday. DENY KIDNAPER’S PLEA Accomplice in Jackie Thompson Case Refused New Trial. By United Press DETROIT. Dec. 31.—The plea of Jimmy Fernando convicted of complicity in the kidnaping of Jackie Thompson, 5, for anew trial, was denied today by Recorder’s Court Judge Charles L. Bartlett. His attorneys indicated they would appeal to the state supreme court. Fernando is in Jackson prison. Jackie Thompson was held prisoner for twenty-four days and sold back to his father for $25,000.

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MENINGITIS TAKES TWO MORE LIVES; WARNING SOUNDED

Only One New Case Found, but Lull May Be but Temporary. Two deaths and one additional case of spinal meningitis were reported to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health commissioner, today. Health authorities were encouraged over the fact that only one additional case was reported and continued to urge the public to use mercurophen and mouth washes as a preventive There have been thirty-eight deaths and sixty cases, including fatalities, in the past three weeks in Marion county. Two More Dead The deaths were: Charles Ochiltree, 54, of 412 East Court street, and Elizabeth Smith, 19, Negro, of 921 Fayette street. Robert Phelps, 32, Negro, of 2233 Eastern avenue, was taken to city hospital with the malady. Dr. Emmett Lamb was appointed a special county physician in the fight against the disease, Dr. Fred A. Mayer, county physician announced. Dr. Morgan warned citizens to continue preventive measures as the lull in the epidemic may be temporary only. “It is to be hoped that the disease has reached its peak, but it will be unusual if Indianapolis has no more

DISPLAY NEW FORDS Models Out Today Embrace Body Improvements. Bu United Press DETROIT, Dec. 31.—New model Ford cars with the new body design were to appear in show T rooms of Ford dealers throughout the United States today. The chassis and engine of the new model remain unchanged from the famous model A, except for slight improvements. The new body design is intended to give the impression of a lower, speedier car than the old model Ford. Narrower radiator, higher and longer hood, streamline mouldings, lowered top, smaller wheel? and longer sweeping fenders, contribute to the new design. The enlarged body provides increased riding space. All metal parts are made of rustless steel, and the wheels or 19-inch steel spoke, with larger tires, designed to grip the roadbed more firmly. CHINA TEMPERS MOVE Abrogation of Foreign Rights Not in Effect Immediately. Bu United Press SHANGHAI, Dec. 31.—The national government made clear today that its abrogation of extraterritorial rights of foreign countries In China will not be put into effect immediately after Jan. 1. “The issuance of a mandate Dec. 28 (calling for abolishment cf extraterritoriality Jan. 1), should be regarded as a step toward removing a cause of constant conflict and at" the same time promoting relations of Chinese and foreigners,” Foreign Minister C. T. Wang said. “China is prepared to consider and discuss, within a reasonable time, any representation that may be made in reference to the plan.” FIRE BORDER DRY AID Customs Collector Asserts Agent Admitted Bribe Taking. By United Press BUFFALO, Dec. 31.—The collector of customs today announced dismissal of Robert E. Hutchinson from the customs border patrol service for allowing liquor-laden cars to enter the United States. Hutchinson, it was stated, admitted he received S9O in one case and S4O in another for allowing automobiles containing liquor to go by.

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may be weaker consequently, less self-respecting, less qualified for undertaking anew venture,” he said. “It is like Rip Van Winkle,” he explained. “Old Rip decided not to drink any more, but when he got thirsty, he always said, ‘Well, I won’t count this one.’ That’s the way with most people.” “Is it foolish to make a resolution?” Dr. Cummins was asked. “Be prudent, limit yourself to one good resolution.” he laconically replied. “One resolution is enough. For the natural tendency is to undertake too much in way of regeneration. Precaution must be exercised. I advise finding one outstanding fault and resolving to correct it. “Furthermore, don’t resolve to be good on New Year’s day!” “Pious resolutions to lead a better life usually are not of great efficiency, because they can not be gripped. It is better to start a program of self-betterment, and instead of resolving to be good, resolve to do good.”

cases,” he said. “Such an outbreak usually continues more than four weeks.” Carriers of the germs, inolated and treated for several days, are being “cleared up” and permitted to pursue their work, Dr. Morgan said. With use of antiseptic treatment, the carriers have been freed from the germ. Aid Given in Treatment Use of intervenus medication, the injection of an antiseptic solution in the blood stream, has aided in treating the active cases at city hospital, Morgan asserted. Autopsies on fatalities at city hospital have shown that the germ is so active in some cases that the entire system has been pentrated and all organs of the body affected. Dr. Morgan declared that the sittratTon does not warrant a general ban on public gatherings as long as, the public is co-operating by usii j the antiseptic treatment. Whether schools will open Jan. 6 will be determined later in the week, he said. An increasing number of physicians of the city are known to believe schools should not be reopened until the epidemic subsides. BREMEN MAN KILLED Three Others Seriously Hurt in Auto Truck Collision. By United Press WARSAW, Ind., Dec. 31.—One man was killed and three persons seriously injured today when the automobile in w'hich they were riding crashed into the rear of a large truck on the Lincoln highway, three miles west of Warsaw. Lloyd Kinney, 25, Bremen, was killed. The injured are: Howard Kinney, 30, Lloyd’s brother; Mrs. Howard Kinney and Kathleen Kinney, 8, daughter of Howard. The truck was owned by the L. N. Trucking Company, Plymouth. MRS. ELLEN RILEY DIES Mother of prominent Officials Succumbs at Age of 90. Mrs. Ellen Riley, 90, a resident at 634 North Pine street for more than sixty years, died at 11:20 this morning at her home. She was the mother of Thomas A. Riley, former member of the Indiana industrial board, and of Hugh Riley, Indianapolis Street Railway Company official. A daughter Margaret Riley, also survives her. FIRE CAPTAIN RETIRED Morris Halley Served More Than Thirty Years in Department. Morris Halley, fire captain at No. 15 engine house, more than thirty years a member of the department, was retired today by the board of safety, on recommendation of physicians.

STATE AID PROBLEM SOLUTION IS NEAR

Backed by an opinion from At-torney-General James M. Ogden, giving his department the right to apportion but 55 per cent, instead of the 7-cent school revenues and use the remainder for state aid, Boy P. Wieshart, superintendent of public instruction, announced today that he believed that present state aid problems are solved. Governor Harry G. Leslie concurred in this opinion and indicated that the present crisis can be worked out without a special legislative session. “The attorney-general’s interpretation of the 1929 amendment to the state aid law will give us $1,800,000 to care for current state aid expanses,” Wisehart explained. “This will be sufficient to take care of all legitimate expenditures if trustees will co-operate in keeping down costs. “There remains hut the problem

SANK ROBBERS, ROUTED BY VILLAGE ARMY, ESCAPE IN CAR, FLEE TOWARD INDIANA Cashier, Held Prisoner All Night by Three Desperadoes, Refuses to Reveal Combination of Safe. TOWNSPEOPLE BRAVE MACHINE GUN Bandits Swarm Into Street After Son of Captive Gives Alarm and Battle of Bullets Follows. By United Press PHILLIPSBURG. 0., Dec. 31.—A gang of bandits which spent the night trying to force Ralph Davenport, cashier of the First National bank here, to divulge the hank vault combination, was routed by a posse of armed citizens in a terrific gun battle here today, and is believed to have fled toward Indiana. The robbers’ plans were frustrated when Davenport’s son Floyd, 14, who had spent the night with a chum, returned home this morning and found the robbers menacing his father and his mother with a machine gun. Taking in the situation at a glance, the boy ran to a nearby filling station and sounded the alarm. In a short time all the male population of the village, heavily armed, was converging on the Davenport home.

BROOKHART AID PLEDGED BORAH lowa Senator Declares He Intends to Hit Mellon. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—Fireworks set off by congressional drys against prohibition enforcement conditions thus far are only sparklers compared with what is coming when congress reconvenes, Senator Brookhart (Rep., la.) said today. Brookhart intends to direct an attack largely at Seci-etary Mellon, he said. It also became known today that Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho), who charged conditions, in enforcement of the liquor permit system amount to a “scandal,” had written a letter to President Hoover on the prohibition situation. Dry critics of prohibition conditions were supported in some respects today by F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the AntiSaloon League. He said political pressure from wet senators has forced appointment of federal judges, district attorneys and other officials unsympathetic to prohibition. Brookhart, second only to Borah as a senatorial dry campaigner, said he was armed with material concerning enforcement conditions which he intends to present when the senate sgain convenes, Jan. 6. BUYS CREMATED BODY Human Ashes Found in Box Sold for Dime at Auction. By United Press ALBIA, la., Dec. 31.—For 10 cents John Manley bought the ashes of a human body. Manley attended a public auction and bid a dime o na locked six-inch square copper box. His was the only bid. He opened the box and found that it contained the ashes of a human being. The box was brought here from England many years ago by Mrs. Marie Bennett. Mrs. Bennett left Albia and sold her belongings at auction. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 38 10 a. m 43 7a. m 38 11 a. m 45 Ba. m 37 12 (noon).. 47 9 a. m 40 1 p. m 50

of the deficit to be solved. This is estimated at around $1,000,000. “Should the chain store tax be approved by the supreme court, by next year, this will give us another SBOO,OOO to care for this deficit. In my opinion this will be sufficient. “Should the chain store tax be disallowed by the court, the only possible avenue of revenue to cover the deficit is by legislative appropriation.” Governor Leslie was reassured by the opinion of the attorney-gen-eral and Wisehart’s explanation. He still feels, however, that much of the present plight would have been avoided had the state aid been transferred back to the board of accounts, he said. A bill to do this was sponsored by him and failed. He says the Democrats are as much to blame as the Republicans for this defeat and therefore must share the burden.

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Abandoning the Davenports, whom they had bound, the robbers swarmed into the street and were met by a volley of shots. The robbers sped to a waiting automobile, set up their machine gun and turned its muzzle on the determined posse. Undeterred by zipping bullets, the possemen poured volley after volley at the bandits, and the desperadoes threw their car into gear and sped away. One of them was seen to slump in his seat as though wounded. Windows in surrounding buildings were shattered by bullets, and many structures were bullet-pierced. Davenport said three of the robbers knocked at the door of his home at 11 o’clock last night. He refused them admittance, he said, but they drew guns and forced their way in. Davenport then was knocked unconscious by a blow from a pistol butt, and when he recovered consciousness both he and his wife were bound to chairs. He said the bandits questioned him all night about the location of the bank vault, the hour the time lock would open it, and how much money it contanied. After the robbers’ escape, authorities of surrounding towns and villages were notified and roads ordered patroled. t Richmond on Watch Bv Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 31.—Citizens of Richmond were alarmed today by reports of a group of bandits, fleeing from Phillipsburg, 0., possibly toward Indiana, in a car in which a machine gun is mounted. It is considered quite likely that the bandit gang took a side road into the National road, which connects Indianapolis with Richmond. Phillipsburg is but a few mile* northwest of Dayton, and is connected with Richmond by good roads.

QUESTION DRY RAIDERS Wounding of Officers in Dark by Own Party Investigated. Dv United Press INDEPENDENCE, Kan., Dec. 31. —Federal officers today questioned members of two prohibition raiding parties in an effort to determine how they fired upon one another at the scene of a raid, wounding two officers. Members of the parties explained they had gone to a deserted mine near Columbus to search for a still and through a misunderstanding in the dark the firing began, each party believing the other to be a bootleg gang. Deputy Sheriff Ora Folk and Constable John Crawford were struck by bullets and Crawford’s condition was critical. CLOSE LARGEST ESTATE More Than Nineteen Millions Left by Illinois Capitalist. Bu United Press CHICAGO Dec. 31—The largest estate in the history of the Illinois’ inheritance law, the $19,788,524 left by James A. Patten, capitalist and wheat king, has just been closed. It paid $2,024,949 in fees to the state and federal governments. Patten, who died in December, 1928, at the age of 75. left the bulk of the income to his widow, Mrs. Amanda Louise Patten. British Cruiser at Marseilles Bu United Press MARSEILLES. Dec. 31.—Bearing Admiral Sir Frederic Field, who is on his way to London to confer with Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald on the naval situation In the Mediterranean, the British cruiser Loiiion ] has aritved here.