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FIVE-POWER DELEGATES TO NAVAL PARLEY ARE GIVEN AUDIENCE BY BRITISH KING \Session Held in Throne Room at Buckingham Palace Entirely Informal; High Hopes of Success Voiced. PROGRAM FOR OPENING OUTLINED Tuesday Scheduled as Start of Conference Calculated to Produce Pact for Low Maritime War Strength. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER. United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 20. —The principal delegates to the fivepower naval conference were received by King George at 1 Buckingham Palace today, preparatory to the formal opening of the conference in the royal gallery of the house of lords Tuesday. A crowd of about 500 watched as the Americans, French, Italians and Japanese drove to the palace for their audience. The principal delegates were accompanied by their chief colleagues. The empire and English delegates followed the foreign nations into the audience chamber. The French followed, then the Italians, Japanese and finally the empire and English delegates. The American delegates, headed by Secretary Stimson, arrived a few minutes later.

The delegates apparently tried to avoid the crowd as they emerged. The automobiles suddenly swerved, while still inside the courtyard and made for an unwatched gate at the opposite end from the one where the crowd was gathered. The crowd was forced to sprint a hundred yards, arriving just as the Americans emerged. The audience, held in the throne- • room, was entirely informal. The ! king warmly welcomed the dele- ; gates and wished them success. Immediately afterward he held a privy council meeting. Tonight’s formal dinner to the delegates remains as the only other preliminary function before the first plenary session at 11 a. m. Tuesday. Military Missing The king will motor from Buckingham palace to the king's entrance of the house of lords without military guard or state pomp, along a route cleared by police. Ho will be conducted by the lord great chamberlain and the prime minister to his seat in the center of the horseshoe table in the royal galleiy. All will stand from the time the king enters until he finishes his speech. Then the delegates will take their seats while the speech is read in French, after which the king will arise and leave the gallery. Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald, Secretary of State Henry I Stimson and the other chief delegates then will speak in order. Returns to Country The king will have lunch at Buckingham palace and will return by train in the afternoon to Sandringham. his country residence. Actual preliminaries of the conference were undertaken this morning when the delgates were received by MacDonald at No. 10 Downing street, and unanimously adopted the following proposals for procedure of the conference: MacDonald will be elected chairman at Tuesday's session, which will be adjourned until 10 a. m. Thursday, w hen it will reassemble in St. James palace. Wednesday will be devoted to consultations of the delegates. On Thursday a secretarygeneral will be appointed, and general statements will be made by the head of each delegation on the naval needs of his country. NATIONS ON WAR BRINK Paraguayan Officials Announce Attack by Bolivians. rt i/ United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.—Paraguayan officials informed the state department today that Bolivian troops had attacked Paraguayan troops at Isla Poi in the Gran Chaco region, where a similar incident almost caused war a year ago. Pablo Ynsfran. chairge de'affaires at the Paraguayan legation, delivered to Assistant Secretary of State White a copy of a cablegram from his government stating the attack had occurred and one Paraguayan had been killed. STATE OFFICIAL SPEAKS toad Problems Are Discussed at Purdue University Session. Arthur P. Melton of the state highway commission addressed the fifteenth annual road school at Purdue university today. He talked on problems of the highway commission from the viewpoint of a member. Director John J. Brown of the department will address the school Thursday on “Protecting the State's Investment In Paved Roads." Chief Engineer William J. Titus will speak Wednesday and several other members of the engineering department are on the program.

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46 Planes Take Part in Graham Search. B)i l nit id Press LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 20.—Led by untiring men who were his flying mates, most of the forty-six planes now engaged in the search for Maury Graham, missing air pilot, today will circle over the mountainous country near Caliente, Nev., where the aviator last was seen before he disappeared in a blizzard Jan. 10. After a squadron of planes reported sighting what appeared to be the remains of a campfire, posses today will investigate in the vicinity of Ely, Nev. On another tangent, ground parties will search an area near Fillmore, Utah, in an attempt to confirm word that signal flares had been seen in the meadow T hills.

GIVEN 25-YEAR TERM Mrs. Parks Found Guilty of Children's Deaths. Bn United Press CAMDEN, N. J., Jan. 20.—Gladys May Parks, found guilty late Saturday night on two charges, one of manslaughter and the other second degree murder, for the deaths ol Timothy and Dorothy Rogers, her wards, was sentenced to twenty-five years concurrently by Criminal Court Judge Frank T. Lloyd here today. She was given ten years on the manslaughter and twenty-five years on the second degree murder charge.

CITY IS PROMISED RISE IN MERCURY

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m..... IS 10 a. m 17 7a. m 15 11 a. m 19 Ba. m 16 12 (noon).. 21 9a. m 17 Ip. m 22 Snow flurries that may increase the blanket covering Indianapolis more than an inch by Tuesday, were forecast today by J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist. Temperatures will remain near 15 degrees above zero until Tuesday, when they probably will mount to 25 degrees, or higher, he said. One death due to the coldest wave in Indiana since 1918, was reported near Indianapolis Sunday, as the wave was breaking up. James C.

Stars Are R efused 'Sleuths Aspirations of fourteen embyro “horsethief detectives” to obtain constabulary powers in the formation of anew organization were halted abruptly today, when Marion county commissioners refused the petition. The petition, bearing the names of all candidates, was presented by Carl J. Parham, discharged policeman, and Raymond R. Wrighton. It qualified Parfiam as “president” and Wrighton as “secretary” of an organization bearing the title “International Detective Association of Indianapolis.” None of the petitioners was identified, although it was understood several formerly were horsethief detectives in another organization. Commissioner John Shearer informed Parham, who acted as spokesman, that Marion county already has “a sufficient enlistment of officers bearing the name." Parham’s suggestion that the powers of constable might be allotted to each petitioner “if we become a part of the national organization" was without result, when Shearer stated that “under no condition could w'e grant those powers.” Parham was discharged in March, 1929, by former Police Chief Claude M. Worley, for conduct unbecoming an officer. He is alleged to have been implicated in the attempted “arrest” of two Indianapolis persons last year. Petitioners w'ere qualified in the paper submitted to commissioners as officers “who in the pursuit and arrest of horse thieves and other offenders of the law shall have the powers of constable.”

GAS KILLS MAN, WIFE Pet Dog Fails in Effort to Summon Aid to Dying Couple. fin United Press TOLEDO, Jan. 20.—The bodies of Elton Saylor, 35, and his wife, Zella, 31, were found in their apartment nere today. They had been asphyx.ated by escaping gas. “Cinders,” Saylor’s bulldog, was unconscious. Neighbors reported he had barked for hours to attract neighbors. "Cinders” was neatdeath. MENINGITIS IS PRISON THREAT Marion County Convict Is Victim of Disease. Bit United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Jan. 20 An outbreak of cerebro spinal meningitis in the Indiana state prison was revealed today u r hen Virgil Mitchell, 42, sentenced from Marion county Oct. 29, 1926, died of the disease. Mitchell was serving a five to twenty-one-year term on a robbery conviction. Another prisoner was in the hospital with meningitis. He is Clarence Pease, 38, sentenced from Lake county to one to ten years on a grand larceny conviction March 5, 1929. Every precaution was taken to stamp out the disease. Dr. P. H. Weeks, prison physician, said both men entered the hospital last Friday morning. They were cared for in separate wards. Dr. Weeks ordered all prisoners suffering with colds to spray their noses and throats to ward of meningitis. The state prison is crowded badly and a serious outbreak of any form of contagion or infection would be difficult to cope with. LECTURE SERIES ENDS Dr. Emanuel Gamoran to Talk at Kirshbaum Center. Dr. Emanuel Gamoran of Cincinnati, educational director of the department of synagogue and school extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, will deliver the last of a series of six lectures on present-day problems at Kirshbaum center at 8:15 Tuesday. The lecture will deal with “The Future of Jewish Life” and will consider the part Jewish education will play.

Bray, Anderson, died from heart disease, believed induced by the cold. Flood waters in central Indiana were receding rapidly to normal levels today, and were falling slowly in southern Indiana, according to the weather bureau.

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Rv l nitrd Pri g* LONDON, Jan. 20.—The matter of Senator Joseph T. Robinson's attire at the naval conference is worrying Will Rogers. “The biggest thing to be decided by this conference,” he said in an interview today with the United Press, “is whether the London tailors will be able to fit out Joe Robinson so he’ll even remotely resemble King George, who ’will dress like the conference delegates. “Me and Joe’s wife,” he continued, “have been working overtime

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1930

FLOOD THREAT IS INCREASED BY ICE JAMS Swift Rises Are Caused by Damming of Wabash Near State Line. FAMILIES QUIT HOMES Breaking of Barriers Will Release New Torrents of Water, Fear. Ice jams today dammed the Wabash river north of Vincennes, causing swift rises and brought a new flood menace to Palestine, HI. The jams threw new fear into residents in downstream towns and cities where it was feared the breaking up of the ice might unloosen sudden and disastrous avalanches of water. Fifty families were reported to have abandoned their homes there as water seeped over the levees. The river was still rising this afternoon. Appeal for Planes Residents of Riverton, four miles north of where the Illinois Central railway crosses the Wabash, this morning appealed to Governor Harry G. Leslie for a national guard airplane with bombs to break up a huge barrier of ice. Before action was taken the jam broke up, precipitating a torrent of backed-up water southward toward Vlnc^nes. Another jam is believed to have formed farther south, causing the stream to rise at Palestine. Aid Body Urged Formation of a comittee of southern Indiana business men and civic leaders to outline a program for permanent flod control by the federal government along White and Wabash rivers was proposed in Washington today by Representative Harry E. Rowbottom, Evansville. He sent a letter today to community leaders urging immediate co-operative action looking to per- \ manent measures to “reduce the ter- ! rible suffering of farmers and citi - zens because of these constantly reS curring floods.” Ready to Dynamite Bn United Press VINCENNES. Jan. 20.—Levee guards and landowners in the Decker Chapel district gathered today prepared to dynamite a levee along the Wabash river, nine miles southwest of Vincennes, to relieve their area of a vast flood covering thousands of acres of farmlands in the township this morning. The river was dropping slowly, but the water back of the levees, held by a heavy sheet of ice and frozen dikes, was almost stationery. At Vincennes the river stood at 23 feet early today, having receded slowly eight-tenths of a foot in twenty-four hours. Two motor launches returned Sunday night from a tour of the Decker Chapel district, distributing food, fuel, clothing and medicine to the flood refugees. Boat Fights Way The boat manned by B. H. Anglin, general manager of the Indiana Refining Company, Lawrenceville, 111., and four members of the American Legion, spent eleven hours in the district, fighting their way through heavy blocks of ice. Anglin’s crew visited eleven homes. At one home it was reported thirtyseven refugees were housed and a dozen persons were gathered in the second floor of the Decker Chapel schcolhouse. with only a coal oil heater for warmth. Water was in the lower floor of the building. A report from Princeton said four motorboats laden with supplies and medicine set out from there today in an attempt to reach twenty-five families marooned in their homes in Gibson county.

GUY MAN IS HURT Dan Mclntyre May Die of Auto Injuries. Bn United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 20.—Dan McIntyre of Indianapolis was injured probably fatally, when *his son-ra-law, Sam Nation, drove their auto into a coal truck, stalled on the highway at Brazil Sunday night. Mclntyre was hurled through the windshield, auAsuffered internal injuries, a fracured leg, and severe scalp injuries by the glass. He was taken to the Clay county hospital. Nation was hurt slightly. Supreme Court to Adjourn Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The supreme court announced today it would adjourn Jan. 27 until Feb. 24.

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Nursed like a shipment of bullion, by being carried in an armored truck, and worth 120 times its weight in gold, a $50,000 Stradivarus violin is paying a visit to Indianapolis. It is one of twenty-five violins, worth approximately $500,000, to be displayed at the Wilking Music Company, 120 East Ohio street,

Nursed like a shipment of bul- f __ * lion, by being carried in an ar- £'■ mored truck, and worth 120 times p its weight in gold, a $50,000 WlW^ Stradivarus violin is paying a visit ; vjP to Indianapolis. 2/* It is one of twenty-five violins, • 0 worth approximately $500,000, to j -T'., be displayed at the Wilking Music \ j.li Ea-I ’

Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. In the photo here, the priceless Strad, of the vintage of the year 1731, is shown in the hands of Mrs. W. C. Bussing, 5231 North Delaware street, wife of the manager of radio station WKBF. The violin will be played Thurs-

POPULAR VOTE ON DRY LAW SOUGHT BY WOMAN SOLON

Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. A woman, Mrs. Mary T. Norton (Dem., JL J.) opened anew campaign of the house wet bloc today by introducing a ■resolution calling for a national referendum on prohibition. Under terms of Mrs. Norton’s resolution, the eighteenth amendment would be repealed automatically if the referendum showed a majority of the country’s voters are opposed to prohibition. Mrs. Norton’s move followed advocacy of a referendum by Senate Republican Floor Leader James E. Watson, Indiana, dry, w’ho urged that it be conducted by the states. The resolution came simultaneously PROBE OVERCHARGES Ogden Will Confer With Lake County Official. Attorney-General James M. Ogden, accompanied by Charles Edwards, deputy attorney-general, left this afternoon for Hammond, where Ogden will confer with the Lake county prosecutor in regard to a board of accounts report showing $250,000 in overcharges paid by Lake county commissioners. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the board of accounts, and his field examiners already are in Lake county to take up the matter of recoveries. Both Ogden and Orr will speak tonight at a dinner of the Lake County Taxpayers’ Association at Hammond. State Senator C. Oliver Holmes will preside and the matter of the Lake county overcharges is expected to be discussed publicly. KELLY TOJID SOX City Veteran Named Coach by Ownie Bush. While Manager Ownie Bush of the Chicago White Sox was conferring with his club bosses in the Windy City today he announced the appointment as Sox coach of Barney (Mike) Kelly, Indianapolis, veteran manager of the Spartanburg (S. C.) club of the South Atlantic League. Kelly spent nine years as pilot at Spartanburg and previous to going to the Sally League was a catcher and first baseman with Toledo. He has been connected with league ball for fourteen years. Mike recently was declared a free agent, thus enabling Bush to deal with him. He also had been negotiating with the St. Louis Cardinals. Kelly will go south with the first squad of Sox players. He will help with the young pastimers, coach at first base and perform other duties. His contract calls for one year. FEA^EiETsoFSTARVING Arctic Veterans Think Lost Flier Without Food if Alive. Bj United Press NOME, Alaska, Jan. 20.—Veterans of the far north believed today that ■unless Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson has found refuge in a cabin of a trapper, his food supplies have been exhausted. Virtually the only hope left for the noted aviator

to arrange that. Robinson never has seen the sea before. Reed, being a Republican, has. Republicans travel a lot. “The United States senate is better off now with Robinson and Reed away. “About Dawes’ pipe. Let me tell you this: Either his pipe get* in the royal gallery, or the king don’t. That pipe is going to do most of the thinking for the conference. Seriously, the United States accidentally selected the best delegation it ever had ”

day night at 10 by Thomas Poggiani, instructor in violin, over WKBF. The colleciton of violins to be displayed here is from the private collection of Rudolph Wurlitzer, Cincinnati musical instrument manufacturer.

with consideration by the senate judiciary committee of President Hoover’s prohibition reform program. At the same time, the war department contributed to the administration’s dry campaign, when Secretary of War Hurley announced that violation of the prohibition Jaws have been made a military offense for which army officers or eniisjecl men can be punished both in civil and military courts. Mrs. Norton’s resolution provides lint each state would conduct a referendum within its borders at the first general election after adoption of the resolution by congress. The fate of the eighteenth amendment, however, would depend upon the total popular vote from all states, rather than the number of states for or against it. Mrs. Norton’s resolution further would provide that in case the eighteenth amendment was repealed by the referendum, congress would retain power to prohibit interstate transportation of liquor in violation of state laws and would prevent any state from authorizing operation of saloons. Hurley’s announcement likewise stirred up interest at the Capitol. Army regulations, he revealed were amended last Oct. 16 without publicity, to provide that it is unlawful “for any person to have in his or her possession any intoxicating or spirituous liquor or beverage at any military station, cantonment, camp, fort, post or any premises being used for military purposes, except as prescribed for medicinal use by a medical officer or civilian physician under the provisions of paragraph 6, army regulations.” Two Dry Agents Slain Bv Unitrh Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 20.—A man with a long record of major bootlegging operations was held in county jail here today on a blanket charge of murdering two federal prohibition agents who sought to search his home on a federal warrant Saturday night. In defense, George W. Moore, the alleged bootlegger and rum runner, announced through his attorney, E. M. Baynes, that he will plead a legal technicality—namely, that the warrant did not permit search of his home at night. The government, however, answered Moore’s announcement with the assertion that his two victims —Agents Frank R. Patterson and Robert K. Moncure —were wholly within their legal rights and performing their sworn duty at the time of their deaths.

CAPTURE BANDITS IN FIERCE BATTLE

Bn United Press MACON, Ga., Jan. 20.—After a furious thirty-minute gun battle in which more than 200 rounds of ammunition were fired by fifteen Macon and Jacksonvill police, three bandits, sought in a swamp near here, were captured today. Jacksonville authorities, here to aid in the search in the belief the trio were the escaped Wethersfield (Conn.) convicts, who killed a Jacksonville detective Friday night, an-

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16 KILLED AS HUGE AIR LINER CRASHES; SODDEN SQUALL IS BLAMED FOR CATASTROPHE Storm Sweeps Big Ship, With Capacity Crowd, to Earth; Gasoline Tanks Explode as T. A. T.-Maddux Craft Hits Ground. PILOTS PINNED UNDER GREAT MOTORS V Lindberg Aids San Diego Board in Reaching Decision in Plane Tragedy; 111-Fated Victims Had No Path of Escape. Bn United Press SAN CLEMENTE, Cal., Jan. 20.—A squall from the Pacific which flipped a heavy tri-motored passenger airplane with its cargo of sixteen persons to a fiery death in a seaside field, was blamed today by an air board for the second major air tragedy on the Pacific coast in three weeks. While workmen tore away the twisted wreckage of the Transcontinental Air Transport-Maddux plane from around the massed bodies of the fourteen passengers and two pilots, the San Diego air board, a civic organization, reconstructed the tragedy from stories of the few eyewitnesses and made an examination of the blackened hulk that Sunday was A flying palace. Returning from a gay day at the Agua Caliente (Mexico) race track, where residents of Southern California and tourists seek relaxation in horse races and wide-open saloons, the plane started back to Los Angeles.

Roaring along the coast, Pilot Basil Russell ran into a squall, common at this time of the year. Weighed down by the fourteen merrymakers and the two pilots, the wind pressed the big plane to a low altitude. As reconstructed by the air ooard, it appeared Russell attempted to back in face of the squall and return to the landing field in San

THREE DIE IN FLORIDA CRASH Two Others Injured as Plane Dives Into Lake. Bp United Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,- Jan. 20.—A pilot and two mechanics were killed and two passengers injured, probably fatally, when a cabin monoplane crashed into Lake Worth here late Sunday. The dead are: William Lindley, pilot. Daytona Beach. Umps, mechanic, Daytona Beach. A1 Lipsky, mechanic, Daytona Beach. The injured were: Elvir Stoss well, West Palm Beach. Edward Butler, Miami. The plane apparently was disabled and attempting to land when the crash came, witnesses said, but no exact cause for the accident had been determined. Hundreds of Palm Beach residents saw the plane as it struck the water. Speed boats and launches joined in an effort to pull the men, imprisoned in the cabin, from the water, but were too late. The plane, owned by the Florida Airways Company at Daytona Beach, was en route from West End in the Bahamas to Daytona Beach. COLLEGE BOTANIST DIES Dr. Caroline Black Was Former Indiana University Teacher. Bit United Press CINCINNATI, Jan. 20.—Dr. Caroline Black, 42, professor of botany at Connecticut college, New London, Conn., for twelve years, died at the home of her brother, Robert Black, an attorney, here Sunday, of pnoumona.

nounced after the capture they were not the Jacksonville trio. The bandits gave the names of Adrian and Dana Bias, brothers, and Basil Childress, and said they escaped from the West Virginia state penitentiary. They said they had been serving sentences of forty years for highway robbery. Adrian Bias’ left arm was shot off by a machine gun in the hands of one of the officers; his brother Dana was peppered with bird shot, but not seriously wounded. Childress was shot in both arms and the chest. Adrian Bias was reported dying. Officers who had surrounded the bandits in the swamp Sunday, maintained close vigil during the night and at dawn today closed in upon them. The bandits, found to be well supplied with pistols and rifles, opened fire While not an officer was even scratched the three convicts were shot down and submitted to capture.

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Diego until the weather cleared and flying became safe. At any rate, he tried to turn. Wind pressure on the left wing flipped the heavily-laden p'ane with its cargo of humanity into the ploughed field. No Chance of Escape From marks on the ground and general dispositoin of the wreckage, the board decided that as the plane scraped along the earth, the gasoline tanks became dislodged and sprayed the volatile liquid on the hot motors. The passenger list was: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown, Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Miller, San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Sedric Brown, Los Angeles. William Paden, Los Angeles. Mrs, Doris Cantillon, Los Angeles. Mrs. Ada Glover, Los Angeles. Edward Small, Los Angeles. Frances Jameson. Pasadena, Elizabeth Squibb, Pasadena. Hannan Colliston, Fairhope, Ala, Charles Rabold, Fairhope, Ala, The crew: Pilot Basil Russell, Los Angeles. Co-pilot Fred Walker, Los Angeles. Almost simultaneously with the crash came the inevitable explosion and flames curled Instantly from the wreckage. Leaping higher aa they caught the gasoline, the flames ringed the sixteen merrymakers, eight of whom were women, and they died in the position they struck the ground without a chance of escape. The impact and explosion flunk some of the passengers outside the cabin, but the pilots, who apparently remained at the controls In ft last desperate effort to right th® craft, were pinned under the heavjr motors. All Burned Terribly The air board announced that II had found no evidence that ths plane’s motors were faltering, despite stories of motorists who saw the last-minute struggles of the pilots to right the machine. Chief of Police Forest J. Eaton of San Clemente was among the first to arrive at the scene. He reported early today that fifteen of the bodies had been found at the scene, but all were buried beyond immediate identification. Coroner Schuyler L. Kelleyn of San Diego took charge of the bodies and ordered trucks to pull the engines from the bodies of the pilots. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, technical advisor of the T. A. T. 114 es, who just had finished a glider trip when the crash occurred, immediately began an investigation and aided the San Diego board in its findings. Took Biggest Toll Bt United Press The crash of the trl-motored Maddux-T. A. T. air liner, in which sixteen persons perished near San Clemente, Cal., Sunday, cost more lives than any other airplane accident in history. Other airplane accidents in which there was a heavy loss of life follow: Fourteen persons were killed when a tri-motored sight-seeing plane was forced down at Newark, N. J., March 18, 1929. Ten men were killed less than three weeks ago when two movie planes crashed in mid-air at Venice, Cal. Eight persons perished in the crash of A. T. A. T. passenger plane against a mountain in New Mexico, Sept. 3, 1929. Eight were killed when an Imperial Airways craft fell in the English Channel, June 17, 1929. Seven died in the crash of an army transport near Middletown, Pa., Jan. 11, 1929. Six were killed April 21,1929, When a Maddux plane crashed near Diego, Cal.