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GRAND JURORS START PROBE ON PAY ORDER Two Judges Are Witnesses in Quiz on ‘Removed’ Salary File. COUNCILMAN MAY TALK -Officials Give Party Chiefs Explanation of Acts at Caucus. A A network of evidence, purporting to implicate two or more county officials in the "destruction or removal” of a county record which g*ve reporters In eight county courts , a S6OO yearly pay rake, was to be laid before the grand jury today. Judges Harry O. Chamberlin and Joseph M. Milner testified today for more than two hours. They are two of the group of county jurists who charged the salary increase record either “disappeared or was removed'' frem the office of County Auditor Harry Dunn. Remainder of the judges, including James A. Collins, of criminal court, probably will test,if}- Friday. Dunn to Testify Dunn is expected to be interviewed by the jury early In the inquiry and has stated he "welcomed the probe" and "wanted to testify.” Lengthy conference Wednesday at the courthouse between William L. Taylor, district Republican chairman. Dunn, Givan and county commissioners was reported today as having a political tone, bearing directly on the quiz. Taylor’s visit, it is known, drew explanations from each of the county officials of their part in the affair. He conducted personal inspection of the records in the case. Hugg Confers Martin Hugg. district G. O. P. chairman, who succeeded George V. Coffin, also has conferred with the judges, presumably on the investigation. Taylor today asserted his visit was solely in interest of the Indianapolis Bar Association,” of which he Is president. Jurors are acting on instructions of Criminal Judge James A. Collins directing determination of the fate of .he record wh ch five Judges assert disappeared since it was drawn in January, 1929. Council Testimony County council members may be drawn into the quiz to relate their knowledge of the record. Stark indicated today. Information has been obtained that Councilman Paul Dunn, active political ally of county commissioners, may know facts bearing on the probe. Since Monday, officials have delved t tnto old records and produced a shorthand draft of an order which if approved, by two commissioners, would have granted the salary boost. Commissioners who are alleged to have signed the draft are John E. Shearer and Charles O. Sutton. Two Drafts Made At least two similar and tentative drafts were prepared last year, it was learned. One admittedly was drawn by County Attorney Clinton H. Givan and the other by Harry Dunn Neither was signed by the commissioners, it is argued. Collins today appointed Norman Metcalf, official criminal court reporter, to take a transcript of the evidence given Jurors. Fireworks which started the quiz were set off Monday when Givan i obtained a writ of prohibition from the supreme court preventing the judges from enforcing payment of the 53.000 salary to the reporters. Hearing will be held Feb. 6. ROCHE ON ‘WARPATH’ Chicago Police Official Sets Out to Find Would-Be Slayers. Bv Unite 4 Press CHICAGO. Jan. 30 —Just a couple of coroner's inquests will be necessary, when a Patrick Roche, chief investigator for the state's attorney's office, finds the men who failed in what was believed to be a plot to kill Roche by connecting a bomb to his automobile. Roche set out today to find the men, with the assertion he has “information as to who did it, and if I catch them there won’t be the formalities of trial—just a couple of coroner's Inquests/* DISCUSS GAS CONTAINER New Tank Will Be Erected at Citizens Company Branch. Erection of anew gas container of 6.000.000 cubic feet capacity at the Prospect street plant of the Citizens Gas Company was discussed today by Mayor Reginald Sulivan and Clarence L. Kirk, gen-eral-manager of the company. The new holder would cost $350.000 and would provide a surplus storage for gas. At present, the plant has containers holding 7,000,000 cubic feet. Hourly Temperatures sa. m 9 10 a. m 22 7a. m 10 11 a. m..... 24 ga. m U 12 (noon).. 96 •a. m..... 17 1$ at.... 96

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Lead-Filled Gangster Breaks Code; Tells Gunmen’s Names

/•*/ f'niterf Pre*t CHICAGO. Jan. 30—Johnny Genero, gangster of the blood, looked death in the face as he lay on a hospital cot today with five bfillet wounds in his body, and broke the iron-clad code of gangland by naming the men who shot him. Not since Tony Genna of the infamous Genna brothers gasped the name of his assassin, had a gangster “squealed.” In that case the police never got their man. Gangland took its own vengeance on Cavalllera. Genero, the brother of the better known Joseph tPeppi) Genero, was “put on the spot.” As he walked toward his automobile from a West Third street restaurant Wednesday night, two men laid down a barrage of lead and Genero crumpled. His assailants, Genero told police, were Louis De Luca and Angela Lucci. He said he went to the restaurant because James Belcastfo, with whom po-

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Pictured together for the first time in three years, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, retired Assistant Attorney General, is shown in this excellent photo with her 6-year-old adopted daughter, Dorothy, at their home in Washington. Mrs. Willebrandt, who resigned as head of federal prohibition enforcement to resume, a private law practice in the national capital, adopted the girl in 1927.

BLACK BAG CLEW TO GEM BANDITS

What they believed were first clews to two bandits who staged a daring diamond robbery in the Claypool Wednesday were found early today by city detectives. A black traveling bag containing anew revolver and men’s clothing with laundry marks eradicated, was taken by the detectives from a downtown hotel; not the Claypool. It is believed to have belonged to one of the two men who held up Lawrence Bodenheimer, New York diamond firm representative, outside his Claypool hotel room Wednesday afternoon. They bound and gagged him in his room and took gems valued at $85,000. A necktie in the traveling bag was tagged with the name of a Chicago haberdasher. Fingerprints in the

Contest Winners Make Good in Cinema World ir success of six stars picked at random may be taken as an example of what happens to contest winners, then the girl named as Hoosierdom’s "Sunshine Girl” at the Indiana theater’s contest, starting next week, has little to worry about. Here are the names of six stars and the reasons often given for their start on the road to success: l. Clara Bow won a beauty contest in Brooklyn, went to California, and was given a chance to appear in “Down to the Sea In Ships.” 2. Corinne Griffith won another beautiy contest in Santa Monica, Cal., and a motion picture producer grabbed her. 3. Bernice Claire won high honors in music and dancing at Chicago. Attention resulting from her work brought a big part in “The Desert Song.” 4. Helen Morgan won a personality contest in the east and her success since has been little short of phenomenal. 5. Pretty Ginger Rogers, known to so many Indianapolis theater-lovers, got her big chance when she was a “Charleston” contest. 6. Anna Q. Nilsson began climbing to stellar heights by getting first place in a popularity contest. Read details of the contest on Page 9. Entry blanks on same page.

Alma Rubens , Narcotics Conqueror in Triumph BY GEORGE H. BEALE

T TOLLYWOOD. Cal.. Jan. 30— Alma Rubens, exotic -*■ screen beauty, told today for the first time the story of her successful uphill fight against the use of narcotics. Her voice vibrated with emotion and her dramatic gestures punctuated the narrative as she related how she

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hotel room were being examined today by police. “We missed you in Detroit,” one of the bandits said to Bodenheimer during the robbery, leading him to believe the two had been trailing him, he said. To offset this theory, police were told the two evidently were not acquainted with jewelers’ practices, lor they discarded a diamond stick pin, wrapped in diamond paper, as "worthless.” Bodenheimer was in the hall outside his room, with four packages of gems which he intended to mail to firms for examination, when the two men threatened him with guns and forced him back into his room. They used picture wire and adhesive tape to bind him, and, stretching him upon the bed, they gagged him, he told officers.

turned to the use of drugs, how she was caught in the wh'rlDool and, finally, how she beat down the craving. Much of her story concerned the horrors she went through in the state asylum at Patton, from which she was released as cured only two weeks ago. To the end of her days, she said, she will remember the agony of her confinement in a cell with a maniacal woman. "I went through hell,” she said, “but I’m cured now and I'll never touch narcotics again.” Her story was told to the United Press just after she achieved a personal triumph at the Hollywood Writers’ Club Wednesday night in her first public appearance in a year.

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lice charge he had been associated in the filling station racket, told him some men wanted to see him there. “It was treachery,” Genero said. “Belcastro tells me to go down to the restaurant about 9:30 to see some fellows, I wait until 10:30 and no one shows up. Then I start out. Whoof! There is a roar and I am paralyzed. "But I recognized the men with the guns. The names I told you are right, as I lie here to die.” Ironically, hospital physicians termed Genero’s condition “satisfactory under the circumstances.” although they would not say that he had a good chance to recover. Police familiar with the ways of the gangs say death always will be just around the comer for him, even if he does survive this attack. Reprisals were considered a foregone conclusion. The life of Joseph Genero, the brother, was believed in imminent danger.

OUTLINE AGENDA FOR REDUCTION OF SEA POWER MacDonald Opens Plenary Session of Delegates to Naval Parley. BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 30—With Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain presiding, today's plenary session of the London naval conference was rapped to order in St. James palace. Opening the session, MacDonald, who had been the first of the plenipotentiaries to arrive, sketched briefly the complexity of the problems before the conference, but said he, nevertheless, was gratified at the progress already made. The official agenda for the session was announced as consideration of the method of dealing with the general questions before the conference, which were arranged in alphabetical order of the delegations proposing them. On this list were: By Global Tonnage France: First, apportionment of armament by globial tonnage; second, what classification is to be adopted; third, transfer of tonnage from one classification to another, amount, and conditions under which such transfer can be made. Great Britain: The system of limitation of armament by categories. Italy: First, determination of the ratios; second, determination of the levels of the total tonnages of the several countries. Regarding the two points on the agenda opposite Italy’s name. Premier MacDonald announced that Italy regarded these as dealing with principles rather than methods. Delivers Ultimatum Following MacDonald, foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy outlined his country’s reservations regarding the determination of ratios and the determination of the levels of the various tonnages. He delivered, in effect, an ultimatum to the conference that Italy would refrain from committing herself on any special point of the disarmament problem until the two questions upon which Italy had made her reservations had been determined.

VOTE DRY TRANSFER House Body Favorable on Reform Measure. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 30.—The first legislative step in the prohibition reform program of President Hoover's law enforcement commission vas taken today when the house expenditure committee voted a favorable report on the Williamson bill to transfer the prohibition bureau from the treasury to the justice department. The committee made no important changes in the measure, which is assurred early action in the house. Chairman Williamson plans to bring it up next week under a priority niling.

home, while she was commenting on the eight curtain calls and the dozens of bouquets of flowers she received at the end of a skit, in which she played. satt THEN Miss Rubens plunged into the story of her battle. “It was seven years ago,” she said, “that I first took narcotics. I was in considerable pain from a minor ailment and I took a hypodermic to relieve the agony. “The ailment continued and off and on for four years I had to have drugs. “Then suddenly I was caught and for two years I had to have drugs. “At Patton they seemed to have an idea that all motion picture people were high-hats. They expected me to furnish trouble and they made it hard for me. “I was placed in a ward with maniacs and was refused permission to see my mother; my books were taken away from me. “I couldn’t endure that, together with the craving I had for narcotics. I reasoned that nothing could be worse than the position I was in. “I tried to escape, but I was caught and then I found that there was something worse. I stayed in that cell with that woman for more than two weeks. I don’t’ think any woman ever endured anything more terrihla.

GORGE OF ICE BLOCKS WATER IN FLOOD AREA Collapse of Jam Would Inundate Miles of Farmlands. FAMILIES FLEE HOMES Food and Medical Aid Are Brought to Refugees by Planes. Bv United Prt ss MT. VERNON, Ind., Jan. 30.—An eight-mile ice gorge in the lower Wabash river today still was holding firmly, damming a twelve-foot wall of water behind it. Residents on both sides of the stream in Indiana and Illinois held hopes that a gradual thaw will avert a sudden break of the jam, releasing a heavy tide of ice and water to sweep across the lowlands, taking barns and houses in its path. On the Indiana side, all families have moved from the path the water would take should the jam collapse. Only a few families on the Illinois bank were believed to have remained in the danger zone. With all rivers and streams falling steadily, the ice gorge at New Haven. Posey county, presents the only serious threat of further damage and inundation. It was said that it would be impossible to break the jam by dynamiting. National guard planes working out of the emergency air relief base at Evansville dropped forty bags of food to refugees Wednesday and had a reserve supply, three times as large, to be distributed. Mrs. Charles Hoitzclaw, near New Haven, who gave birth to a child while isolated in a barn, was reported to be doing as well as could be expected. George Varner, 72, and his wife Mary reached Griffin Wednesday, after walking from their home, four miles away. The couple abandoned their home after the food supply had been exhausted. Both persons were near exhaustion when they arrived. MERCURY WILL RISE Rain or Snow Will Precede Warmer Weather. Unsettled weather conditions, with rain or snow probable, and a gradual temperature rise were predicted today by J. H. Armington, United State weather bureau meteorologist. The rise in temperature will give minimum thermometer readings of between 15 and 20 degrees tonight, Armington said. BLAST KILLS ONE Second Tank Is Ignited by Flames; Four Missing. By United Press COALINGA, Cal., Jan. 30.—With a spurt of flame that could be seen for miles, a 12,000-gallon gasoline tank at Felix well No. 1, Kettleman Hills district, let loose early today, killing one man. Four others are missing. Charles L. Phillips, operator in charge at the well, was the known victim. Flaming gasoline was thrown over the countryside, setting fires which caused explosion of a second 12,000gallon tank. Frozen Body Found £u United Press DARLINGTON, Ind., Jan. 30. The frozen body of Silas Cosby, 72, was found in his home northeast of here by a neighbor who noticed mail had not been removed from the mail box. Dr. E. M. Gross, coroner, said heart disease apparently was the cause of death. It was believed he had been dead about twelve days. Cosby lived alone.

“Finally, when it appeared that 1 was about to win my fight, a few favors came my way. But until that time, I was treated like an ‘institutional bum.’ ’ An “institutional bum,” Miss Rubens explained, is an addict who travels from one asylum to another, never expecting to be cured of the disease. She went tremulously before a critical audience of her friends and rivals. There were many there who went to scoff at a “comeback” from drugs. a a a BUT Alma Rubens did come back. Her first appearance on the stage drew applause that held up “A Hint to Brides” two minutes. At first her voice was weak and sne was nervous. The crowd recalled the Miss Rubens of a year ago, the girl who was declared a narcotic addict. Then she gained confidence and with it came the Alma Rubens who once was considered among Hollywood’s best actresses. The c'irtain went down in a Niagara of applause. Eight times Miss Rubens took curtain calls and then she ran from the stage overcome by emotion. Her immediate future is uncertain, Miss Rubens said. She is considering film contracts and a vaudeville tour. _______ (Ocatfrichk UMk k* CaitcAi.- ■

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CHILD SHOT IN BANK HOLDUP Wounded as Cashier Opens Fire on Bandit. By United Press DETROIT, Jan. 30.—Georgia Eldridge, 5, was wounded by a cashier’s bullet today in a holdup of the Highland Park branch of the People’s Wayne County bank at noon. Hospital attendants said her wound was not serious. The lone bandit shoved a note under the cashier’s window and ran through the crowded lobby with S7OO the cashier had turned over. As he reached the door the cashier opened fire, one bullet striking the child. The bandit and his confederate, who waited outside in a car, escaped. HOSPITAL BETS GIFT Riley Deeded Farm in Name of Deceased Woman. Fulfilling last wishes of his wife, who died in November, Joseph Buzbee, Hartford City artist and writer, has deeded a forty-acre farm, two and one-half miles southeast of this city, to the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association. Announcement of the gift in the name of Mrs. Cassie Anna Buzbee was made today. The farm will be held and operated by the association for the benefit of#Riley hospital for children, in Indanapolis. A memorial marker wall be erected at the roadside in front of the farmhouse. Two other farms are operated similarly by the memorial association. DENY PANTAGES PLEA Effort to Gain Freedom on Bail Balked by Judge. bu United Press LOS ANGELES. Jan. 30. The second plea of Alexander Pantages, muiti-millionaire showman, to gain freedom from jail on bail was denied today by Superior Judge Charles Fricke, who at the same time denounced attempts cf members of the Pantages family to influence the court. Sblpstead to Take Rest Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Senator Hendrik Shipstead of Minnesota, the senate’s only Farmer-Labor party member, plans to sail for Panama, Feb. 4, for a month’s stay. Shipstead was ordered by his physician to take a long rest

TWO DEATHS LAID TO TAXICAB WAR

Bu United Press _ . . CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Taxicab war turned to gangland style assassination today, claiming the lives of Bamey Kitehell, 35, treasurer of the Checker Cab Company, and Eglen Jackson, 28, driver, who was taking

Episcopal Primate Dies After Illness of Two Weeks. By United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 30. Bishop Charles P. Anderson, primate of the Episcopal church in America, died at his home here today after an illness of two weeks. Death resulted from a heart attack. Death occurred at 8:30 a. m. The bishop was confined to bed after he returned from a trip east. His condition grew worse steadily, but two days ago he showed improvement. Wednesday night he took a turn for the worse. Shortly after midnight, Bishop Anderson became unconscious with occasional periods of delirium. I,ast Official Act The bishop Wednesday signed a letter asking the Episcopal diocese of Chicago to elect a bishop coadjutor at the convention here Feb. 4 and 5. It was his last official act for the church. Bishop Anderson was 66. He was born in Ontario, Canada, and was ordained a minister in his early twenties. He was ordained deacon in 1387 and priest in 1888. A short time later, the bishop came to Chicago as rector of Grace church in Oak Park. In 1900, he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Chicago diocese at a special convention. On the death of Bishop McLaren, in 1905, he became bishop of Chicago. Last November, he was elevated to leadership of the church in America. Worked for Peace The bishop was an ardent worker for world peace and was termed ‘‘apostle of world peace and church unity” by his co-workers. Bishop Anderson’s associates characterized him as “a builder and organizer, a man of excellent business sagacity, but of modest and retiring nature, always disdaining self-advertisement. Bishop Anderson married Janet Glass of Belleville, Ontaria. on Sept. 4, 1889. A son and four daughters were born to them. The son was killed in France with the American army. The daughters are Mrs. George Boyer, Toronto; Mrs. Haven Requa, Lake Forest; Mrs. Lester Frankenthal. Chicago, and Nancy, who lives at home.

NEW CABINET READY Successor to De Rivera Announces Aids. Bv United Press MADRID, Jan. 30. General Damaso Berenguer announced today he had completed the formation of a, new cabinet to succeed the dictatorship of General Primo De Rivera, resigned. The new cabinet was announced officially as follows: Premier and minister of war. General Damaso Berenguer; finance and national economy (ad inmerimi, Manuel Aguelles: public works, Leopoldo Matos; justice, Jose Estrade; public instructions, the duke of Alba; labor, Sangro Y. Bos De Olano; marine, Admiral Salvador Carvia; interior, Enrique Marzo. DISEASE LULL BROKEN Child’s First Case of Meningitis in Several Days. Mildred Pope, 5. Negro, was taken to city hospital today with cerebro spinal meningitis. Her case is the first in the last few days. There had been a lull in spread of the malady, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer.

Mitchell to an undetermined destination in one of the company’s cabs. Pre-dawn motorists found Mitchell, his body pierced by eight bullet holes, in death throes in the rear seat cf the cab, which was slewed into a curb on a north side street. Jackson was slumped over the wheel, dead. The door on his side was open and one foot was on the running board, indicating he tried to escape Only one bullet struck Jackson, but it found a fatal mark behind his ear. police said the assassins apparently had speeded up behind the cab and loosed a. fusillade of bullets. Motorists said a big sedan sped past them at sixty miles an hour just before they came upon the taxicab. Mitchell was hurried to a hospital. In the hope a spark of life could be kept intact. He died soon after reaching the hospital. Motives of the assassins were not clear to police. They tended to favor the theory that politics within the Checker Cab Company, augmented by the recurrent taxicab war, played the major part. New Pastor Chosen Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 30.—The Rev, Clarence E. Baker, Lancaster, Ky., has accepted the pastorate of &&&£s& mm

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DIVER FROZEN TO DEATH IN ICY WATERS Searchers Finally Able to Bring Dane's Body to River Surface. COLD RETARDED HELP Worker Was Trapped When Equipment Caught in Ladder Rungs. Bu United Press MONTREAL, Jan. 30. Peter Trans was frozen to death as he lay in a diving suit, twenty feet down in the Rivier Aux Outardes. unable to free himself for more than sixty hours, it was revealed today. • The body of the diver was brought to the surface at 7:30 a. m. today by divers and fellow workers who had worked through the night in severe cold in an attempt to reach Trans. Frozen to Death Doctors immediately started examining him and a report to the. Ontario Paper Company said he had frozen. An ice film hung over the river when Trans descended Monday and the swift current was cold. Friends hoped his powerful physique and his being accustomed to the cold—he was a Scandinavian who came here in 1928 to make a fortunemight see him through the ordeaL Trans descended Monday morning on a routine job in connection with construction of a coffer dam being built on the river. He had made two previous trips. Tugged Line After he had gone a few minutes, workers on the river bank felt a tug of the lines and then there was no response. The air flow was continued. Still there was no response from the connections to the diver. Finally, a diver went down to learn what was the matter and found Trans had slipped from the ladder. That his equipment had become entangled in the rungs of the ladder and that he had been spiked into a precarious position. Start Jtescue Immediately, rescue attempts ware started. Airplanes, sent from Montreal, had become stranded by a snowstorm Just five miles from Point Outardes. They were unable to leave there until Wednesday and finally got to the little fishing village during the day. Two divers started immediately to rescue their comrade of the underwater. FEAR LABOR OUTBURST Cops Quell Demonstration* After Arrest of Organizer. Bu United Press PONTIAC, Mich., Jan. 30.—Police, who already have quelled two demonstrations by unemployed, today prepared for further outbreaks, following the arrest of Fred Beal, labor organizer, one of those tried for murder of a police chief at Gastonia, N. C. Beal was arrested after he made a speech in which he assailed the American Federation of Labor. John McGrath, 24, was arrested when he allegedly tried to incite the crowd after police had taken Beal away. NEW STAMP OUT SOON Five-Cent Air Mail Postage to Go on Sale Feb. 10. Anew 5-cent air mail stamp is to be placed on sale for the first time Feb 10, at Washington, D. C., postal officials announced today. The new stamp will replace the current air mail stamp issue of 1928. The design in purple, ts an Insignia, a globe with extended wings cn either side, with a background of rays of light. ROCK SLIDE KILLS FOUR Three Others Injured When Crushed by Slide in Tunnel. Bu United Press ASHLAND, Ky., Jan. 3a—Four workmen were killed and three were seriously injured when several tons of rock, looeened by blasting, crashed down upon them in a railroad tunnel here today. Those killed were: Beecher Wellman, Ray Conley, Taylor Miller and an unidentified man. Jack Withdrow, Charles Scott and John Conley were injured. RELIEF FUND $15,000 Church Societies Contribute to Flood Sufferers’ Aid. Contributions of almost S9OO have been received by Indianapolis Red Cross chapter since Wednesday night, to be added to the fund foe the relief of southwestern Indiana flood refugees, William Fortune, chairman, said today. The fund total at noon was $15,301. Large contributions from church societies throughout the cits tJy relief <un^|^rtuq|