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DELEGATES TO ARMS PARLEY NEAR ACCORD Final Working Program for Sessions Expected to * Be Ready Soon. START WITH CRUISERS Open Meeting Is Believed Arranged to Allay Public Suspicion. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER t’nltfd Trf Staff Correspondent LONDON. Jan. 29.--Confident that difficulties facing the naval conference will be overcome soon, the delegates •. continued their private conversations today in preparation for an open plenary session Thursday. Hope was expressed that the five delegations would be sufficiently in agreement Thursday to enable the prospective steering committee, which will be named then, to establish a final working program for the conference. It appeared likely (hat. the program would provide for early discussion of the various nations’ cruiser requirements, although the French delegates still upheld their contention that the regulation of tonnage limitations should be discussed first. Moving to C ompromise A well-informed source indicated that conversations in regard to tonnage limitation were moving toward a compromise somewhat in line with the French proposals, that is. a modified form of limitation ot total tonnage of each navy, presumably specifying certain limitations by classes of warships, as preferred by American and British delegates. It was believed that the delegates arranged for Thursday’s plenary session to be open to reporters to allay any public feeling that the conference has encountered serious difficulties The American spokesman indi-; cated, however, that Secretary! Henry L. Stimson probably would | not address the plenary session as had been anticipated Thp principal differences so far have been regarding French and Italian differences as to what subjects should be taken up first, and j It was understood the conference \ desired to settle that question first. Tentatively Arranged Italian sources said the program had been tentatively arranged by the chief delegates, composed of six Items presented by France, Brit- { ain and Italy. The Italian delegates said the subjects would be admitted to discussion in alphabetical order of the nations pre- j sen ting th a, as follows: 1. Question of global tonnage j limitation. • 2. The question of transferring tonnage from one class of ships to , another. a 3. Classification of ships. “ 4. Limitation by categories. 5. Fixing of maximum of tonnage in each category’, or class. 6. The question of ratios of fleets j of the various powers. All delegates attended the pil- j grim's dinner Tuesday night. DRY LAW BILL READY House Likely to Receive Measure in Original Form. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 —The bill providing for transfer of the prohibition bureau from the treasury to the justice department probably will be reported to the house Thursday in substantially the form recommended bv the law enfcrcement commission. Chairman Williamson *of the expenditure committee announced today. HOOVERS GIVEN DINNER Entertained by Attorney-General at Third Cabinet Affair. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—President and Mrs. Hoover were guests of Attorney-General Mitchell at the third of the series of cabinet dinner here Tuesday night. Secretary of Treasury Mellon and Secretary of War Gurley already have entertained the Hoovers and other cabinet members will continue at intervals of about one week.

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BORAH ASSAILS DRY ACT MOVES Idaho Senator Raps Wets and Prohibitionists. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. The latest move by the wets to promote 2.75 per cent beer, and by the drys to exact a total abstinence pledge from public men, drew the fire today of Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho), the unofficial prohibition leader of the senate. “I do not know of a single .question which would be solved by 2.75 per cent beer,” Borah said. “It would not be of benefit to any one. All it would do would be to add a little aroma to your drink. “As far as the oath of allegiance to the Constitution is concerned, I am satisfied with the present one. It has worked all right with me.” Borah’s opposition to the extreme measures proposed in the house by the wet bloc, which wants beer, and by Representative Stone, (Rep., Okla.), who wants to change the oath of office of congressmen, was. representative of comment • among the drys generally on the two latest moves in the prohibition battle. Coupled with the known situation it almost is sufficient to seal the doom of both measures.

Fenced Love Bu Science Service LOS ANGELES. Jan. 29. Francis M. Jones planned to build a high barbed-wire fence on which his wife’s admirers would tear their clothing when they came to see her, Mrs. Carnelia Jones charged in her divorce complaint on file here today. Her husband hoped. Mrs. Jones asserted, to Identify her callers by the rips left in their clothes. She asked $25,000 attorney’s fees and appropriate alimony. She said her husband was worth $750,000.

WIN DEATH RACE Miner Saved From Doom by Doctor, Guides. j Bu T'nited Press HOT SPRINGS, Idaho. Jan. 29 I —A race with death over miles of frozen mountain terrain has resulted in victory. Dr. J. P. Weber, accompanied by a guide and a , musher, made a i forty-two-mile trip through huge drifts and in subzero weather, behind a team of ten Irish - setters, to i a ine cabin on Green mountian. | where Fred Burke, miner, was suf- ' sering from blood poisoning. I Dr. Webber reported Burke out of danger, according to word reaching here. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 4 10 a. m 11 7a. m 4 11 a. m 13 Ba. m 6 12 (noon).. 19 9 a. m 9 lp.m. 20

Rush Aid in Effort to Save Diver Trappedßeneath Icy Waters

Bw r nitni Prett MONTREAL. Jan. 29.—Fortyeight hours after Peter Trans, Danish diver, was imprisoned in his diving suit at the bottom of the St. Lawrence river, at Outarde Falls, there still was no word indicating whether he was dead or aUv*

Entries Are Pouring In for ‘Sunshine Girl’ Prize Every mail is bringing entry blanks from those wishing to participate in The Times-Indiana Theater Sunshine Girl Contest, to start at the Indiana next week. From all appearances, the first, preliminary a week from tonight will display talent frem every section of the state. The contest is being sponsored by the Indiana theater and The Times, to find stage and screen talent among Indiana girls and women between 16 and 26, inclusive. The contest is open to all girls between these ages, except married women and professional entertainers. The entrance list contains names of singers, dancers, pianists, players of several other Instruments, and a number of persons who do novelty acts. All are to be given an equal showing in the first preliminary, Wednesday night, Feb. 5, when five will be selected to compete for the title of "Sunshine Girl” during the following week. Each of the five winners will be expected to appear in every prformance of the Indiana’s stage show. The five winners will be given cash awards totaling S2OO, divided in accordance to the positions won. In every instance the winners will be determined by applause from the audience. All who plan to enter should- send in their blanks at once, to assure themselves of the better position on the program the first night. Complete details of the pl&n will be returned to all entrants immediately after their blank has been received. Entry blank appears today on Page 7.

POLICE OFFICIAL IS NEAR BOMB VICTIM

Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—An attempt to plant a bomb in the automobile of Patrick Roche, chief investigator for State’s Attorney John A. Swanson, today climaxed a night of terror in which bombs rocked a building on fashionable Michigan avenue and two structures in other parts of the city. A Negro attendant frustrated what police declared was an attempt to blow up Roche’s automobile. A bomb was-being connected with the ignition of the investigator’s big limousine in the Oakland Square garage by two men, shortly before dawn, when Clifford Jones, the Negro, surprised them. The men fled, one snatching up the bomb. Jones grappled with the other, but was knocked down. Police said that had the Negro arrived a minute later the bomb probably would have been in place and the hood of the car lowered. A few hours before the bombers entered the garage to plant the bomb. Roche had sprung a trap in a fashionable north side apartment, in which a robber was wounded probably fatally by a policeman who lay in ambush with the chief investigator. Another trap last Sunday night, engineered by Roche, resulted in capture of half a dozen alleged members of a robber gang that had terrorized the Gold Coast for several months. The major bonding of the twelvehour reign of terror occurred on Michigan avenue. A dynamite bomb, so powerful it rocked 'Boul Mich” for several blocks, wrecked the office of the Lewis E. Bower Automobile Loan Company. Thfe building was wrecked. Concussion from the blast sent

Last reports received through the Ontario Paper Company, which has a plant at Outarde Falls, described Trans as still imprisoned, while air pumps continued to force air into his diivng apparatus in the hope he still might be alive. Trans went down Monday

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1930

Here are devotees of King Zero, who would trade a good thaw for a snowstorm any time: Upper Left—William J. McDermott. 9. of 5027 North Capitol avenue Heft), and Riley Lingeman, 8. of 5133 North Capitol avenue. with their snow couple. Righ Center —Malcolm Eberhardt of 5325 Sunset avenue, Times carrier with Yank. Airedale, and Laddie. German police dog, which draw his delivery sled. In Oval—A spill on the Coffin toboggan slide. Lower Right—A fair tobogganist, ready to be “shot” from the starting trough at Coffin slide.

windshields shattering into the laps of motorists driving southward after the theater. Glass of all nearby buildings fell into the street with a crash and traffic was paralyzed. St. Luke’s hospital, two blocks south, felt the jar of the explosion and patients in the twelve-story building were terrified. KILLS LOVER, SELF Girl’s Death Note Says She Feared Sweetheart. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. Jan. 29.—Fear of her sweetheart led Mrs. Della Lee to shoot him to death as he slept and then kill herself, police said today. The two bodies were found in the woman's apartment. A note addressed to Mrs. Lee’s sister explained why she killed Howard Moore. It read: “I know something is going to nappen. If so. Howard Moore is the Yause of it. He has threatened me and said he felt like coming up here and killing me. I hope he does. If he gets me, dress me in white with a yellow rose in my hand.” FILIPINO CLUB BOMBED Occupants of Building Not Injured Seriously in Riot Renewal. Bu United Press STOCKTON, Cal.. Jan. 29.—A Filipino clubhouse, combination dance hall and rooming house, was bombed here today in another outbreak of rioting between whites and Filipinos. Police reported none of the many occupants of the building was hurt seriously.

morning to inspect a coffer dam, which had been placed in the river in connection with water power construction, which was being done. His communication line to the surface became fouled on a spike under water and it was impossible for him to come to the surface. Since that time, rescue efforts

FLOOD THREAT IS RENEWED IN SOUTH INDIANA Wabash Reported Ready to Slip Channel, Inundate Posey County. ICE JAM BREAK FEARED Relief Fliers Bring Word of Much Suffering in Starvation Area. By United Press MT. VERNON. Ind.. Jan. 29. Possibility of anew flood threat as the Wabash river was reported about to leave its channel to rush over countryside around an eightmile ice gorge south of here alarmed Posey county residents today. It also was feared the ice gorge might break, spreading destruction in its path. Rapidly declining, river stages indicated the water was cutting around the gorge to the Ohio river. Water behind the dam of ice was devastating rich Illinois bottom j lands today. Efforts were being made to alleviate new cases of suffering, reports of which were brought back from the flood regions Tuesday by national guard aviators, flying over, marooned homes where they dropped hundreds of pounds of food and clothing to refugees. Dives for Food Circling low over one home, almost inundated, a flier dropped a parcel of food which broke through the ice. He said a man dived into the water, disappeared under the ice, and came up a minute later with the bag in his hand. Another pilot said a man and a boy ran to the bag he dropped, sat down on the ice, and ate ravenously, without taking the food into the house. Four sacks of provisions were hurled Tuesday to twenty persons marooned on Cutoff is’and. in the Wabash, opposite New Harmony. Two men were found n:ar starvation in the Posey county district, one on a houssboat near New Haven. i Expected to Die Near Evansville Mrs. Charles Holt?,claw, flood refugee, was expect- ; ed to die from suffering and hard- : ship after giving birth to a child ! while lying alone in a bam. The I I baby died from exposure within an ; hour after birth. Water mado it J impossible for her to receive medical attention, and she is too weak to be moved to a hospital. George Chamberlain, his wife, and son and daughter-in-law, in Gibson county north of Griffin, were unaccounted for today. When last seen two weeks ago, they returned to their flooded home to move furniture to higher ground. For some time, smoke emanated from their chimney, and then stopped. The home now is isolated by ice and water. Begin Army Survey By United Press Army engineers from Louisville, under war department orders, today began a sumey of flood conditions of the Wabash river valley. The survey was expected to climax fight of the Wabash-Maumee Improvement Association to obtain permanent flood relief in the Wabash valley, and open a waterway through the two Hoosier rivers from the Mississippi to the Great Lakes. Flood crests, present flood effects, damage and river currents will be studied by the engineering staff, with Vincennes as center of the survey and headquarters in Terre Haute. R. S. Taylor, Louisville, was in charge of the staff. In the lower Wabash valley national guard airmen today carried on relief work, dropping food and clothing from the skies to flood j refugees marooned in their homes. HELD UNDER BIG BOND Slayer of Guardsman in Jail Following Arrangement. By United Brest DETROIT, Jan. 29.—Joseph I. Peggoine, national guard sergeant, who shot and killed Stanley Prunsinowsky, a private, who fled when Peggoine tried to arrest him. today was held in default of SIOO,OOO bond, j following arraignment. Treat Bus Passengers Bv United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 29.—Firemen, police and 'gas company em- | ployes, using inhalators, were called j to treat six bus passengers who were j partly overcome by fumes from a ! heater on a ride from Indianapolis | to St. Louis Tuesday night.

have been in progress, but thus far it has been impossible as much as to determine whether Trans is dead or alive. RIMOUSKf Quebec. Jan. 29. Two airplanes, each carrying a diver and special under-water apparatus, left today for the fishing village of Riviere Aux Outar-

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2 ARE KILLED - AS ■ TRACTION, A UTO CRASH Two were killed instantly and another probably fatally injured at 1 o’clock this afternoon at the Emerson avenue crossing of the Newcastle interurban line when a traction car wrecked an automobile. The dead: WILLIAM KOCH, Ft. Wayne. MRS. WILLIAM KOCH, Ft. Wayne. The injured: MRS. ARNO GRUNERT, 27, Ft. Wayne. Scene of the accident was the spot of the tragic Grotto wreck when twenty-six were killed. W. R. Grandison, Newcastle, was motorman, and Frank Shelton, Newcastle, conductor of the traction car.

Grandison told police he saw the automobile approaching the crossing. The driver slowed down and Grandison believed he intended to stop. Speeding up, the car approached the track again. Grandison saw a woman rise in her seat and the car driver jammed on the brakes. The automobile skidded directly into the path of the traction and was thrown 100 feet. Mr. and Mrs. Koch died instantly. Mrs. Gruenert, critically injured, barely was able to gasp her name and names of her companions out to the car crew. She was taken to Methodist hospital. License on the car was issued to Mary Scholz, R. R. 6. of Ft. Wayne, according to statehouse records. Mrs. Grunert was a sister of Mrs. Keck. Grunert is employed at S. F. Bowser, tank and pump works, Ft. Wayne.

Broken Faith Father Finds Lost Son in Prison, on Trial for Riot Slayings.

Os/ I'infra AUBURN. N. Y., Jan. 29. Claude Udwin had left home years ago and his father, Morris Udwin, had no idea of his whereabouts. The senior Udwin, whose | home is in Oklahoma City, merely held a hope that somewhere his son was making good. But last month Morris Udwin read a newspaper account of the rioting at Auburn prison, in which a principal keeper was killed. One of the rioters was Claude Udwin. Today Claude, with five fellow convicts, is on trial charged with participation in the shooting of Henry Sullivan, another prisoner, and Morris Udwin sits daily in the courtroom, still scarcely comprehending. MILD THAW BROKEN TO Degrees Above Probable for City Tonight. A mild January thaw of two days duration was broken today by temperatures that dropped to 4 degrees above zero at 7 a. m. Rise of 5 degrees in two hours was said by J. H. Armington. United States weather bureau meteorologist, to be a forerunner of rising temperatures tonight. Lowest thermometer reading tonight will be about 10 degrees above, be said. Today and Thursday probably will be fair throughout Indiana, with temperature rises generaL RUINS ROMANTIC STORY Britisher Renounced Army Because of Boredom, Not Love. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 29 —Lieutenant Francis Francis, late of the British army, came in today and ruined a swell romantic story. He, it will be recalled, recently | married blond Sunny Jarman, American show girl, and all the publicity was that he, in keeping with the orders of the royal guard, had renounced a promising army career in his love for the American actress. With his bride on his arm today, he walked off the Olympic and said: “I was just fed up with the army.” PEAK SCALED BY PRINCE Wales Soon to Start on His Big Game Hunting Trip. Bv United Press CAPETOWN. Africa, Jan. 29. The prince of Wales climbed Table mountain today. He was enthusiastic abopt the outing. The prince plans shortly to start on his big game hunting expedition.

des, where Peter Trans is trapped twenty feet under water in diving equipment. Trans slipped as his air equipment became entangled in the ladder. He was caught on a spike, divers found, and was unable to move from his precarious posititigk

SPAIN'S CABINET NEARLY READY New Premier Hopes to Have Aids by Thursday. Bv United Press MADRID. Jan. 29.—Damaso Berenguer, premier-designate, announced today that he expects to complete his cabinet by tonight and have it sworn in Thursday. Berenguer, not happy over being saddled with responsibility for the government at a time of crisis like this, but accepting the duty as a faithful servant of the king, worked incessantly at his task today. Th* : nature of the government that will 1 succeed the long dictatorship of j Primo De Rivera. who resigned | Tuesday still was uncertain. Ber- | enguer said, however, that he in- ! tended to have a constitutional govi eminent, reviving the constitution of 1876 and convoking the courtes (parliament) as soon as possible. Aside from student, disorders and demonstrations in Madrid and provincial cities, the country was quiet and watching developments eagerly. The demonstrations were accepted chiefly as expressions of satisfaction ! over the endng of the Rivera dictai torship. BUS PROPOSAL MADE _______ Company Suggests Dropping Feeder Service. Substitution of through bus service for feeder service to Fifty-second street and Capitol avenue was proposed Tuesday night to the ButlerFairview Civic Association, meeting at Fairview Presbyterian church, by George H. Healey of the Indanapolis Street Railway Company. The through business service would operate from the downtown section to Fifty-second and Capitol and the present feeder bus service from Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets to Fifty-second and Capitol would be discontinued under the plan Healey told the association members the feeder bus service showed a loss exceeding $20,000 during 1929. The association deferred action on the matter until Feb. 11, when a special meeting will be held. The street car company will not file petition for the change with the public service commission pending the special meeting. WOMAN FORFEITS BOND Mrs. Emily Fields Convicted Sixth Time an Dry Charges. By United Press DETROIT, Jan. 29.—A woman, who disappeared the day after her sixth conviction on a prohibition charge, today was hunted by police because Judge Harry S. Sweeney, trial judge, believed S3OO bond was sufficient to insure the appearance of “an old woman who had had a hard time in life.” When apprehended, the aged woman, Mrsfl Emily Fields, 65, faces the prospect of seven and one-half to fifteen years’ imprisonment, the mandatory sentence for four state liquor law violation convictions. The S3OO cash bond was provided by Mrs. Fields’ daughter, who professes Ignorance of her mother’s whereabouts. JAIL POOR BOX ROBBER Thief bo Serve Sentence in Vatican City JalL By United Press VATICAN CITY, Jan. 29.—Giuseppe De Paoli was sentenced today to three months’ imprisonment for robbing a poor box. It was the first jail sentence handed out in the new papal state. De Paoli will serve his sentence in the Vatican City jail

The airplanes were sent out of Montreal as soon as Trans’ plight was known, but they were forced down here by the inclement weather. Throughout Tuesday, the airplanes were landbound, owing to the weather, and it was not until today they were able to fiai lu fishing village.

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SEEK DEFENSE IN PAY RAISE ORDER PROBE County Officials Unearth Draft of Record for Wage Boost. JURY QUIZ WILL START .— File on Reporters’ Salary Increases Destroyed, Judge Says. Building a. defense a-gains* a rigid grand jury investigation, county I officials today dug into old records | and produced the shorthand draft of a court reporters’ salary increase order, which, it is alleged by county judges, either was destroyed or removed after it had been approved. The shorthand statement was transcribed and placed in a safe in the office of County Auditor Harry Dunn and probably will be one of the chief exhibits In the grand jury’s quiz into circumstances surrounding the alleged disappearance of the original record. Written June, 1922 The purported statement carries the date June 22. 1928, and is said to have been written by a former stenographer in Dunn’s office. Under this order, if approved, the commissioners would have rescinded the action taken earlier in January, 1928, in which they would not allow increases of S6OO annually to reporters. Dunn said the order never was signed by commissioners although Clinton H. Givan. county attorney, is reported to have said he made a similar order draft but this was destroyed. The officials would not comment on whether Givan’s purported order and the one uncovered today may have been identicaL Prior to discovery of the document, Criminal Judge James A. Collins instructed the grand jury to probe the matter of the order that either has been “destroyed or removed.” Judges to Testify The jury adjourned today and will hear witnesses Thursday. Among the first witnesses probably will be county judges who have charged they saw the pay increase order, signed by commissioners. The previous order which would have been revoked by the June, 1928, statement, was signed by Commissioners George Snider and Charles O. Sutton. Late this morning Commissioners Sutton, Snider and John E. Shearer, Dunn and Givan held a long conference with William L. Taylor, district Republican chairman. Order “Destroyed” “It has been brought to the attention of the court that the order of agreement, approved by commissioners, has been destroyed or removed from the custody of the auditor of Marion county,” Collins said in his instructions. “He is, by law, charged with the care of records and orders of commissioners. Under provisions of the Indiana statutes, it Is made a felony to maliciously, mischievously or fraudulently alter, deface, Injure, mutilate or destroy the whole or any part of such record. “Upon this information, brought to the court’s attention, I now charge you to make a diligent Inquiry if this public record has been destroyed and if you can obtain evidence to warrant an indictment, an indictment should be returned In this court.” Wrty Is Issued Meanwhile, Judges Linn D. Hay, Harry O. Chamberlin, James M. Leathers and Collins were prevented from attempting to enforce payment of the salaries by prohibition writs served on then} Monday and Tuesday by the supreme court. Petition for the writ was filed by Givan, political foe to the judges and chief adviser to commissioners and Dunn. Nine court reporters have declined to accept the appropriated $2,400 a year until the wrangle is ended. Saw Document It is understood judges will testify they saw the signed document In the presence of county officials. They predicated separate orders calling for the yearly increase on this order. Dunn asserted the paper exhibited to the judges was without, official signatures. Dunn Is said to have admitted to Chamberlin, however, that In a “press of political moves” the document was de stroyed. Hearing before the supreme court on the writ of prohibition, wa postponed until Feb. 6. SOLON IS 90 TODAY Three Black Cigars, Hard Work on Program for S ted man. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 —A full day’s work, three meals and three black cigars were on the birthday program of Representative Charles M. Stedman (Dem., N. C.), the only Civil war veteran in congress, who started his 90th year of life today. Stedman was a major in the Confederate army and was wounded three times. He never has bothered with diets, eats what he likes, smokes frequently and never been aerioujj? gfe