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WORLD PEACE FATE RESTS IN NAVAL PARLEY Hoover Voices Importance of London Conference to Delegation. ENGLISH AID PLEDGED Co-Operation of Britain to Be Great Factor, in President’s View. Bt RAYMOND CLAPPER Initfd Frs Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—Grave i oalnation that the progress of world peace hangs on the success of the coming naval conference is uppermost in the minds of the American delegates who will be on the high seas, bound for London, within twenty-four hours. For months they have been concerned with details —tonnage tables, the relative fighting power of a 10.000-ton cruiser as against a 7.500-tonner, destroyer versus submarine, how big a battleship should lx*, and such matters. But now, as farewells are being said ahd the powers come face to face with the conference, its significance as a fork in the road of history comes sharply into view. Peace Hinges on Parley In his parting word. President Hoover told the delegates that on their shoulders rested in great measure the progress of world peace. He regards this conference as one of the greatest in this political generation. He faces It conscious not only that hts personal prestige as a world statesman Is at stake, but realizing if it fails, the bitterness which resulted from the collapse of the Geneva conference two years ago will be intensified. Mr. Hoover and most of his delegates saw with their own eyes on the battlefields in Belgium the price that was paid for the Anglo-Ger-man naval race up to 1914. Mr. Hoover can not think of failure at London. -vising above the differences which already have appeared among participants in the coming conference is the dominating fact of co-opera-tion and sympathy between Great Britain and the United States. This has provoked some suspicion in France, but on the other hand It has wiped out the conflict between the two chief naval powers of the world which caused the breakup at Geneva. England Helps Cause This government has found the MacDonald labor government of Great Britain extremely friendly and willing to co-operate. This attitude has been responsible for the hopeful outlook in Washington. Delegates and the staff of about seventy-five persons will board the George Washington at Hoboken about 2 p. m. Thursday and by night they will be w r ell out to sea. The George Washington is due to reach Plymouth Jan. 17, and the delegation expects to be in London that night. LIMITS POLICE SPEED Chief Orders Forty-Mile Rate for Cars Except in Pursuit. Unless in pursuit of law offenders or suspects, police emergency cars will travel not faster than forty miles an hour through downtown and residential section streets in the future, according to Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney, today. Safety of pedestrians as well as occupants of other vehicles on streets, particularly In the winter and on wet days, demands the reform. the chief said. He has issued instructoins to drivers to stay within the maximum limit. OPEN UTIUTY~DEFENSE Association Committee Will Place Evidence Before U. S. Body. WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—The joint committee of National Utilities Association today will begin a defense of its propaganda activities before the federal trade commission. The commission has been investigating various phases of public utilities publicity at the request of the senate, intermittently, for nearly two years. PADLOCK SUIT IS FILED Anti-Saloon League Seeks Order in Superior Court Four. Suit by attorneys for the Indiana Anti-Saloon League to padlock a residence at 825 East St. Clair street, occupied by Emma Dalton, was filed today in superior court 4. The occupant, with Samuel and Pearl Dorfman. owners, were named defendants. The action seeks to abate sale and manufacture of liquor at the place. COOLIDGE AT MEETING Attend' Mid-Winter Session of New York Life Firm. Bu Unit'd Prrss ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.. Jan. 8 Former President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge arrived here today for the annual winter meeting of the Nets York Life Insurance Company, of which th former President is a director.

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Royal Couple Married at Historic Altar in Rome

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BANK BOBBERS HUNTED HERE Police Spread Net In City for Fairland Bandits. Operations of a midwest gang, specializing in banditry and the liquor traffic, were under investigation today in the nuni all over Indianapolis for three bandits who Tuesday morning looted the Fairland National bank of Fairland, twenty miles southeast of Indianapolis, of SI,BOO. The three escaped after a gun fight with the bank cashier and a Fairland business man and another sixty-mile an hour running gun battle with the bank bookkeeper. At least one bandit is known to have been wounded. Richard McNeese and Ben Orville, wanted at Bowling Green, Ky., on charges of bank banditry and murder, are sought as two of the men. Clews in hands of police convince them the two gained a recruit for the Fairland holdup in the person of a Mansfield lO.i gangster, member of a gang which has been responsible for many holdups in Ohio and which also engages extensively in the liquor traffic. A hat left in the stolen automobile which the bandit trio used in the Fairland bank holdup Tuesday and then abandoned here, was sold by a Mansfield (O.) dealer. Other clews identify one of the bandits as a man known at Mansfield as a gang member. TAKES POST AT BUTLER Miss Ansorge to Sene in Economics Department Until Feb. 2. Miss Verna Ansorge, therapeutic dietitian at Methodist hospital, has been added temporarily to the Butler university home economics department, President Robert J, Aley said today. She will serve until the end of the present semester. Feb. 2.

RADIO THEFTS LAID TO RING OPERATION

Widespread Burglaries Are Work of Gang, Theory of U. S. Agents. Investigation of a radio theft ring, operating widely in the mid-west, 'is being made by federal agents. Recent thefts of radios in Indianapolis alone total many thousands of dollars in value. That an organized theft ring is operating, with ’ probable markets for the stolen radios in Chicago, is the belief of police here. Tuesday night, three radios were taken from the C. E. Burke Company store, at 650 East Forty-ninth street, and a fourth apparatus was removed from the store into the alley. Frightened away, or with too large a lead, the set was left in the alley and was ruined by the rain. Total value of the radios, together with flashlights, irons and other wares taken from the store, was $1,200. Monday night a $750 radio apparatus was stolen from the Indianapolis Music Shop at Forty-seventh street and College avenue. Other thefts during the last several weeks bring the total number of radios stolen here to twentytwo. That the stolen apparatus is stored here until a quantity has been collected and then is transported tc Chicago, after probably alteration of rerial numbers, is the belief of radio dealers of the city. Nearby cities and towns have reported an outbreak of similar thefts.

Centuries old pomp and splendor marked the wedding of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium today. Pictured above in famed Quirinal palace is the historic altar, scene of many royal weddings since its dedication in 1916, before which the prince and princess knelt. At left and right are the most recent portraits of the heir to the Italian throne and his bride, whose marriage was the most important of Europe’s royal weddings in many years.

Dr. Snook’s - New Trial : Plea Denied It ii United Pres* COLUMBUB, 0., Jan. B.—The state supreme court today denied a rehearing to Dr. James Howard Snook, former Ohio State university : professor, under sentence to die Jan. 31 for the murder of Theora Hix, his co-ed sweetheart. The rehearing was asked after the court refused to review Snook’s appeal. The former professor’s only j recourse now is the United States | supreme court, or executive clemi ency. Governor Cooper has said he (would deny the latter. BERT ACOSTA ARRESTED Famous Trans-Atlantic Flier Is Held for Abandonment. ! Ttu United Press ! ROCKVILLE CENTER, L. TANARUS„ Jan. I B.—Bert Acosta was arrested today I on a charge of abandonment. The famous trans-Atlantic flier i was arrested when he dropped into | his own home here and sat down to play with his children. There he was arrested by Detective William Happ, after his wife had notified the police he was in the neighborhood and reminded them that a bench warrant had been issued for his arrest. CORNS CLEW IN MURDER j Negro Podiatrist Identifies Victim in Racketeer Death. I Bu United Press CHICAGO HEIGHTS, 111., Jan. 8. —Corns on the toes of a man, whose body was found burned beyond recognition in an automobile alongside the highway near Steger Sunday, led today to identification of the body as that of James Strangis, 35. A Negro woman, proprietor of a com cure shop, made the identification. The man was slain by alcohol ; racketeers, police believe.

Two weeks ago, in an automobile wreck near Gary, twenty stolen radios were abandoned when the stolen truck was left by its driver. Insurance company detectives for firms with which radio dealers carry insurance, have been investigating operations of the theft ring and have enlisted aid of federal authorities. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 33 10 a. m 33 7a. m 33 11 a. m 33 Ba. m 33 12 (noon).. 33 9 a. m 33 1 p. m 34

FARM BLOC SCORES TENTATIVE VICTORY IN BATTLE FOR FINANCE GROUP SEATS

Bv r nited Pro* WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—The farm bloc won a tentative victory today in its fight for representation on the powerful senate finance committee. The easterners agreed temporarily , to a compromise which would put two members of the bloc. Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and John Thomas of Idaho, upon the committee which handles all fiscal legislation such as tariff and taxation. , The agreement was tentative be- i cause members of the committee on committees wanted to cor rr ,;'n leaders of the several group., as c whether the compromise would be acceptable all around. t j

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FARM BOARD IN OFFICER FIGHT Dove of Peace Absent as Contest Is Opened. Although a pair of pigeons cooed persistently in the house of representatives as all district representatives on the state board of agriculture were being re-elected this morning, it didn’t mean that the dove of peace would coo at the afternoon session. The annual “farmers’ fight” for president and vice-president of the board is on. Vice-President John R. Nash of Tipton, who ordinarily would succeed to the presidency, is opposed by U. C. Breese, Kendallville, candidate of certain of Nash’s enemies. W. W. Wilson, Muncie, and C. Y. Foster, Carmel, are candidates for vicepresident. All district representatives were re-elected at the morning meeting. Governor Harry G. Leslie and retiring President E. D. Logsdon spoke JULIUS ROSENWALD MARRIED IN EAST Millionaire Weds Motlier-in-Law of Son; Simple Nuptials. By United Press ABINGDON, Pa., Jan. B.—Julius Rosen wald, multimillionaire Chicago philanthropist, head of Sears Roebuck, was married to Mrs. Adele Goodkind at the home of his son Lessing today. The ceremony was performed by Judge Horace Stern of the Philadelphia court of common pleas, who Is an Intimate friend of the Rosenwald family. Mrs. Goodkind is a native of St. Paul, Minn. An unusual situation developed In the Rosenwald household as the result of the marriage. Through it Mrs. Goodkind. who is the mother : of Mrs. J. Lessing Rosenwald, becomes her son-in-law’s stepmother. Both Rosenwald and his bride were. dressed in street clothes and no elaborate preparations were made for the nuptials. Only a few immediate friends were present. SENATE RULE BROKEN Woman Allowed on Floor During Tariff Discussion. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—The unwritten rule that no woman should be allowed on the floor of the senate was abrogated today by VicePresident Curtis. The Vice-President decided that the rules permitted the presence of Ruth Peterson, a silk expert on the tariff commission, and she was admitted to furnish material to senators during consideration of the rayon schedule of the tariff bill.

While Thomas has been associated with the bloc only intermittently, La Follette is one of the outstand-. ing independents of the senate. If he and one or two other Republicans on the committee should vote with the Democrats the administration would lose control. Giving in. the easterners abandoned their candidates, Senators Goff (Rep.. W. Va.) and Metcalf i (Rep., R. I.), both of whom had been promoted against the two bloc 1 candidates, La Follette and McMasters (Rep., S. D.). Chairman Smoot stated Tuesday that he would resign if La Follette went on the committee, but he apperenMy changed his mind, in view of the intense party row which was [in prospect.

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IT’S MERELY SOCIAL

‘Robbie’ Host to Jackson, Coffin

BY BEN STERN TNDIANA political circles today were speculating on the identity of the guests at a dinner and “social” gathering given Saturday night by Senator and Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson at their home. Two of the guests who said they were present, but refused to divulge the identity of others, are. former Governor Ed Jackson and George V. Coffin, former district chairman. “There were four or five couples present. It was just a little social gathering of friends,” declared Jackson, who was accompanied by Mrs. Jackson. “Os course I can’t give the names of the other guests,” declared Indiana’s former Governor. Coffin said he was present with MAYOR WILL DEVOTE MONTH TO OFFICE Sullivan Says H e Will Not Make Public Appearances. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will devote his first month in office to familiarizing himself with the routine of the office and will make no public appearances, he said today. “I want to become familiar with my work before giving my time to public appearances,” Sullivan said. The new city executive has held conferences with department heads and boards to discuss organization and pending matters. Scores of job seekers have been parading to the mayor’s office and corridors of city hall is constantly buzzing with Democrats who are looking for jobs. AGED MAN ATTACKED Civil War Veteran Believes Pension Money Robbery Attempted. Bu United Press NORTH VERNON, Ind., Jan. B. Charles Hiatt, 85, Civil war veteran, was attacked and beated by three strangers, believed to have come to rob him of his pension money, and left alone for three days, too badly hurt to summon help. Hiatt told Sheriff Wilbur Bannister that three young men came to his home Saturday night and asked the way to a neighboring farm. When Hiatt stepped into the yard to direct them, he was beaten on the head and left helpless. Hiatt believes the men intended to rob him of his pension money, received Saturday, but were frightened away when a door slammed, leading them too believe someone was in the house.

Meanwhile, White House officials said on behalf of President Hoover that he was taking no part whateyer in the dispute over committee assignments, in denying reports that Mr. Hoover was seeking to influence action of the committee on committees. The easterners were governed by several reasons in their stand. The congressional elections are coming on in November, and it is generally expected the Republican majority in the senate will be diminished, since a large number of Republicans are up for re-election. Next year the easterners will need the westerners’ support more than ever to maintain party control, and they .want to maintain peace within the ranks, if possible.

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Mrs. Coffin, but also objected to giving the names of the other guests. The “little social gathering” of friends has assumed tremendous importance in the complexion of the Republican party, as henchmen of Robinson industriously have been spreading a report for the last few weeks that their leader has broken with Coffin. The party has disproved that, it is pointed out. A possible result of che “little party” is the remonstrance of some Republican editors to the holding of the jubilee in honor of Senator James E. Watson on the eve of the Republican editors state meeting Feb. 6. This objection, accompanied by the request that Claudius Huston, Republican national committee chairman, make the principal laudatory address, instead of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, is said to have resulted from the “little social gathering.” That Robinson would attempt to shake loose from the two men who raised him to the senate was regarded skeptically, despite the propaganda that such was the case. The party Saturday night is regarded as clinching the Coffin-Jack-son yoke upon Robinson's neck.

GEORGE MANNFELD CALLED BY DEATH

(Picture on Page Two) George N. Mannfeid, 64, superintendent of the fish and game division, Indiana department of conservation, died at his home, 1235 Central avenue, this morning of double pneumonia. Mannfeid was Indiana’s first and only game superintendent. He entered the state's employ in that capacity Aug. 21, 1919, when the old fish and game department became a division of the conservation department. Under his supervision revenues of the division have increased from $89,000 in 1918 to $334,000 in 1929. He was instrumental in applying surpluses to the purchase of forest lands for the protection of fish and game. Under this policy 16,000 acres of such lands have been bought as game refuges., Fish hatcheries were established and extended under his direction. As chief of the state's force of game wardens, Mannfeld’s enforcement policies had the support of sportsmen throughout the state. His eminence in fish and game work placed him in demand throughout the United States as a speaker on conservation affairs. He was instrumental in the or-

Furthermore, no important legislation is in the offing and the complexion of the finance committee may again be changed before any such legislation comes up. The committee did not make an official announcement of the agreement, which was learned by the United Press from other responsible sources. All that Chairman McNary would say was that he expected a final accord ready for announcement before night, and that the committee would meet again later in the day to effect It. While the row was being settled. the senate plodded along ■with the tariff bill, considering the rayon schedu’e. while the house debated the routine war department appropriation bill.

ROYAL HOUSES OF BELGIUM AND ITALY ARE UNITED BY WEDDING OF RARE SPLENDOR Marriage of Marie Jose and Crown Prince Humbert Takes Place in Rome as Thousands Celebrate. FORMAL BENEDICTION GIVEN BY POPE Principal Nations of World Represented at Ceremony; Blonde Princess Wins Hearts of Her Future Subjects. BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Jan. B.—The royal houses of Italy and Belgium were united today when Princess Marie Jose of Belgium and Crown Prince Humbert of Italy were married in the Pauline chapel of the royal Quirinal palace. It was a genuine love match in a glittering setting of royalty such as has not been seen in Europe since before the war, when thrones and dynasties began to topple. Outside the palace in Quirinal square, 40,000 subjects paid delighted homage to the popular heir to the Italian throne and the blonde little princess who in three days had won the>r affection. The w r edding was held at 10 a. m., shortly before the hour the royal cortege passed through the formal rooms of the palace to the chapel.

GOLD WAVE TO ARRIVEAT LAST Delayed 24 Hours, Says Weather Man. Although delayed twenty-four hours by unsettled conditions, a cold wave expected here Tuesday night probably will arrive tonight, J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist, said today. However, it will not be as intense as forecast previously, the temperature dropping not below 15 degrees tonight. The wave will be accompanied by cold rains, changing to sleet, and then to snow, but only light flurries will fall here Thursday, Armington said. The cold wave moderated somewhat today in Illinois, but temperatures of 40 degrees below zero were recorded in the Dakotas this morning. Winds here probably will be brisk, from northwest, Armington declared.

ganization of the Marion County Fish and Game Association and assisted kindred organizations throughout the state. Associates declare he was so devoted to his work that twelve and eighteen-hour days were no exception in the performance of his duties. Last Friday Mr. Mannfeid, al- ! though ill, went to his office in the i statehouse. Friday night he became j seriously ill, and was confined to bed until his death at 10:45 a. m. today. Mr. Mannfeid was born In Indii anapolis, where he spent his life. In 1894 he married Miss Bertha Bopp, who survives him. Also surviving him are a daughter, Mrs. Caspar Rhetts, Marion, Ind.; a brother, Albert J. Mannfeid, and a sister, Mrs. Emil Steinhiiber, both of this city, and three grandchildren. Prior to his affiliation with the state fish and game department, he was a member of the George Mannfeid & Sons Tailoring Company, in which he dissolved partnership in j 1919. i Funeral arrangements have not i been completed. State officials were I shocked and saddened by Mr. Mannfeld’s death, and expressions of tribute were received from many persons. Governor Hairy G. Leslie said “the state has lost one of its greatest and best loved sportsmen. His loss will be felt deeply.” The fish and game department was closed today and all divisions of the conservation department will be closed during the hours of the funeral. ACTS IN MONEY CRISIS Chicago Mayor Is Likely to Veto Slashes in Personnel. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. B.—DecLsive action in Chicago’s financial muddle, including veto of many provisions of the "economy budget” by Mayor William Hale Thompson, was expected today. The mayor was scheduled to submit the budget to the city council at its meeting this afternoon, with his recommendations.

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Marie Jose was in the lead on the arm of her father, King Albert of the Belgians. Queen Helen of Italy was on the arm of Prince Humbert. King Victor Emmanuel accompanied Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. Behind them came King Boris of Bulgaria, the prince of Monaco, the grand duchess of Luxemburg, the duke of Brabant (crown prince of Belgium), the count of Flanders, former King Manuel and Queen Amelia of Portugal, the duke of York, representing the king of England; the Infante Fernando, representing the king of Spain; Marshal Petain of France, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, the Archduke and Archduchess Francis Ferdinand of Hungary, the Japanese ambassador, representing the mikado and the princes and princesses of the house of Savoy. II Duce Resplendent Premier Benito Mussolini, resplendent in gilt-braided coat and sword, and wearing the cold chain of a knight of the Holy Annunciation, came immediately behind the royalties. Next were the other knights of the Annunciation, all courtesy cousins of the king; members of the cabinet, speakers of the house and senate, numerous other state officials, the prefects of the ninety-two provinces, a delegation of knights of Malta and Burgomaster Max of Brussels. A happy augury occurred just at the moment the ceremony began. The sun, hidden all morning, chose that time to break through the clouds. It was hailed by all Rome as an omen of good.~

Use Famed Vestments As the royal cortege entered the chapel, Cardinal Maffi, the celebrant, stood at the altar facing them. He was attended by Monsignors Tizzi and Caladra, attired in gold-encrusted vestments belonging to the Medici family and preserved in the Pitti palace at Florence, whence they were brought to Rome for the ceremony. The Cardinal descended from the altar and approached the bridal couple, who knelt. The cardinal made the sign of the cross and began the wedding ceremony. His first question was directed to Humbert: "Your royal highness, Prince Humbert of Piedmont, do you wish to take her royal highness, Princess Marie Jose?of Belgium, here present, as your legitimate wife?’’ Turns to Father Prince Humbei t turned to his royal father to ask an unspoken question. The king nodded assent. Facing the cardinal the prince replied in Italian, "Yes.” Turning to Marie Jose, the cardinal said: "Your royal highness, Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, do you wish to take his royal highness, the prince of Piedmont, here present, as your legitimate husband?” Receiving a nodded assent from her father, King Albert, the princess replied, also in Italian, "Yes.” The cardinal then joined them in matrimony, saying in Latin: "Ego conjungo vos in matrimonium in nomine Patris. et Felii, et Spiritus Sancti”. (I join you in matrimony in the name of the Father. and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.) The visit to the Vatican City was made as simply and unostentatiously as possible. The bridal couple was driven directly to St. Damascus courtyard were they were received oy Monsignor Caccia Dominionl and pscorted to a small throne rcom. In which the pope received them. After the audience, during whicb the couple received the formal beneJictior. of the pop*' on their union. Prince Humbert introduced his suite to the pontiff.

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