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BLAZING GUNS FAIL TO HALT FLEEING MAN Farrell Tate, Barefooted, Eludes Police Cordon About Home. SOUGHT FOR AMBUSCADE Runs Over Two Housetops; Herman Burgess Shot in Dark Alley. Fleeing barefooted from half a dozen police officers, Farrell Tate of 4450 Caroline avenue, eluded capture this morning despite more than fifty shots fired at him by the officers. In his flight, Tate, sought by police for questioning in the shooting of Herman Burgess of R. R. 6, Box 90-J, Monday night, climbed over two housetops, police said. He shattered a window to escape from his own room, where he had been in bed, fled through a trap door to the roof of his home and leaped to the roof of an adjoining house, with police officers below firing at him. At the time he was clad only in his underclothing. Returns to Home Returning home later, he succeeded in seizing a pair of overalls before an officer stationed there discovered him. Again he escaped in a fusillade of bullets, one officer firing five shots at him. His trail was lost in fields and woods north of Broad Ripple. That Tate was wounded by one bullet, fired by Police Sergeant Harry Smith, is the belief of officers, since the fleeing man staggered and cried out as the officer fired. A car stolen from the fat'ner-m-law of Burgess, allegedly by Tate, was found near Tate's home, police raid. It bore license plates owned by Wilbur McCormick of 1815 East Forty-fourth street, which McCormick had reported stolen. The attack on Burgess is a mystery. He was placing his automobile in his father-in-law's garage in the rear of 4513 Baltimore avenue when a shot was fired Monday ntght, striking him in the left hand. He was taken to city hospital. ■When the shot was fired he ran, not heeding a shout he says came from the darkness. Bandit Falls C. H. Hadley, druggist, of 1651 English avenue, told police he % fired a shotgun charge into the back of a bandit Monday night as the bandit and a companion fled from the drug store after robbing Hadley of *6O. The bandit- fell to his knees but his companion pulled him into an automobile and drove away, Hadley said. Charles R. Seitz, 16. of 1810 Southeastern avenue. Shell filling station attendant at Southeastern and Keystone avenues, reported he was robbed of sll at the filling station by a lone bandit who locked Seitz and Joseph Barker, 17, of 2904 Meredith avenue, and Emmett Baker, 15. of 2414 Southeastern avenue, visiting Seitz, in a lavatory. • William Long Jr., of 655 West Thirty-second street, and Miss Mildred Jones, Robert W. Long hospital nurse, reported they were kidnaped by five armed men who drove the car In which the couple was sitting outside the hospital to Tibbs avenue south of Washington street. There, they said. Long's pockets were searched and the five drove off In the car after forcing the couple out. COURIM TRIAL DELAYED I ormer Football Star to Face Jury in Manslaughter Case. Trial of Charles L. Courim. former Manual Training high school football star, for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a man alleged to have een struck by Courim's auto a year go, was passed today by Criminal udge James A. Collins until a later ate. Courim is scheduled to go on ial before a jury for fatally inuring Leonard Andrews in the 1100 lock Central avenue. The demdant is charged with being inaxjcated at the time. He is at iberty under $1,500 bond. GERMAN BOOKS LISTED brary Collection Includes Some of Most Noted in Language. A list of Indianapolis public ibrary’s German collection, soon to Te published, will contain some of the most important books in that language, library officials said today. Also included will be new books of German fiction, translations of foreign novels into German, humorous books, plays, and studies of contemporary literature, all in German. Boost Industry Fund Forward Indianapolis campaign workers today reported $13,900 in new subscriptions, bringing total subscribed to date in $170,000 campaign to $66,200. Hour’y Temperatures 6a. m 39 10 a. m 47 7a. m 39 11 a. m 50 Ba. m 41 12 tnoon).. 53 9 a. m 43 1 p. m..... 55

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REDUCED WORK WEEK ADVOCATED AS KEY TO LABOR CRISIS IN CITY

Chuck Klein Will Write for Times Home Run Hitter to Tell How He Broke Into Big League. The greatest home run hitter in National League history —the Babe Ruth of the senior major loop—that’s Chuck Klein.

And Chuck’s an Indianapolis boy, who learned the game on the sandlots of this Hooster capital, served a brief minor league apprenticeship, and then went up to the big time, to make good w..h a crash from the start. That's all baseball history, known to every fan in the city, from 7 to 70.

Every one knows what Chuck has done with the Philadelphia Nationals. But no one but Chuck knows how he felt, what he thought, when he was hammering his way to a niche in the baseball hall of fame. He’ll tell you all about that, starting Thursday in the Pink editions of The Times. Hell start with the day that he left Ft. Wayne, where he went an untried rookie, off the lots and made good for Punch Knoll, skipper of the Central outfitmade so good that he was sold to the Phillies. He’ll tell you how he felt when he smacked one of Alexander's fast ones for a double, his first, safety in big league company. He'll tell you about his first homer. He'll tell you about the day when he whanged the horsehide over the barrier t wice in one day, with Pat Malone on the peak. Its great reading for any baseball fan. Its far greater reading for Indianapolis fans, man; 1 of whom have known Chuck from boyhood.

You're reading old stuff when vou read of the career of Babe Ruth. Read of the exploits of this new Sultan of Swat, a home boy, and you'll get a fresh thrill out of baseball, the cleanest and most popular of all American by a mile. Start this series Thursday in the Pink editions of The Times. You’ll enjoy every word of it. In the Pink only.

SALLEE IS CHOICE FOR PARK POSITION

Appointment of A. C. Sallee, former Democratic state chairman, as superintendent of parks and recreation at a salary of $5,000 a year, is expected to be made Thursday by the board of park--commissioners. R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent. is expected to tender his resignation, according to reports at city ha.lL Jarvis, a Republican, was promoted to the superintendency from the position of recreation director. He has been in the department ten years. Sallee, close personal friend of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, is understood to have been offered the post last week, but Sallee preferred to continue in private business. He

LESLIE WILL HALT STATE AID CHECKS

Governor Harry G. Leslie today declared that township trustees who have not returned questionnaires regarding the status of the school finances will not be sent state aid school checks. “The state has no means of determining the exact financial tondiTRAPPED BY FLAMES Family Escapes by Way of Roof Over Porch. Trapped in the upstairs rooms of their home, 2049 North Dearborn street, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Wicker and their daughter. Miss Elizabeth Wicker. 19. climbed over a porch roof to escape through the windows of the other half of the double house. Mrs. Wicker awoke to find the home filled with smoke while flames curled about the bottom of the stairway. Scantily clad, the family escaped through a rear wmdow and turned in the fire alarm from the other half of the house. Damage was estimated by fire department officials at S3OO. FILE BANK NOTES SUITS Trust Company Seeks Damages of $30,000 in Federal Action. Echoes of Florida boom days were heard in federal court here today when suit for $30,000 damages on promissory notes was filed against Harvey M. Hunter and J. Harry Miles cf Indianapolis by the Fidelity Bank and Trust Company of Miami. Fla. The suit alleges the notes, signed Sept. 17, 1925. are overdue and asks judgment with attorney fees and interest to date.

“There is a crisis, temporary we believe, that must be met. There are ! men out of work who must have work. They are our own kind of people. They are idle through no fault of their own. Their ciilldren are suffering It is not a situation that can be cured by charity It must be met by practical means.” This was the challenge of G. M. Williams, Marmon president, to a gathering of employers Monday, when he outlined a plan he had put into operation at the Marmon plant in the morning and which other employers are asked to follow. By reducing the number of working days from five to tour a week, production is kept up and work provided for more men. That there might be no inequality in the co-operative effort to give work to the jooless man, those who work on salaries rather than the hourly wage are donating one day's pay each week to the welfare society I of the Marmon plant to care for needy cases. The example in this sacrifice begms with Williams, who sacrifices the i same proportion of his own salary as that given voluntarily by the others.

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has decided to accept the city berth, it is reported. He formerly was secretrv to the late Thomas D. Taggart, Indiana Democratic boss for years, and is a widely-known Democratic politician The salary of superintendent will be j cut from $5,500 to $5,000. I Adolph G. Emhardt, attorney and | new Democratic park board presi- ; dent, conferred with Mayor Sulllii van Monday night relative to fur- ! ther changes in park personnel. It I is understood that Emhardt and the | mayor will have other conferences | this week to decide upon the managers of the city's golf courses, cusj todians and recreation and park deI partment employes for the year.

tion of many of those schools if trustees do not give us the information." Leslie said. “It is our desire to pay teachers first, and we can not determine how much back pay is owed to teachers unless the questionnaires are filled out properly. It is simply a matter of copying figures off record books, yet twenty-three township trustees do not seem able to do so.” Leslie declared he will ask At-torney-General James M. Ogden tor an opinion regarding the power of the Governor and the state school superintendent in withholding state aid checks when requests for information have not been complied with. Checks for 104 school aid claims totaling $301,193.61, have been mailed. HUGHES THANKS HOOVER New Chief Justice Calls at White House to Pay Respects. Bu VniO i1 Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 18.—Charles Evans Hughes, recently confirmed as chief justice, called at the White Hcuse today to pay his respects to President Hoover and to thank him for the appointment.

WANT TO EE BEAUTIFUL? YOU’LL SOON HAVE CHANCE

THE fine art of makeup is never to show that there is makeup. Different methods of makeup should be used for different occasions. Cosmetics should be used to protect the face and approximate Nature in her mere kindly moods. Cosmetics, properly used, add to beauty, accentuate in the face all the charm one is intended to have.

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"You have three choices in this situation,” said A, Kiefer Mayer, vice-president of the Kiefer-Stewart Drug Company. “You can provide jobs as Williams and the others are doing, or you can dig down into your pockets for charity funds and establish a dole system. The other way is to hire more policemen, increase your state militia or buy a gun to stand guard over your property when men get too hungry and too desperate.” “The decent and the best way is to co-operate to solve a situation that needs sympathetic study and quick action." Children Are Hungry The unemployment situation, not confined to Indianapolis and prob- ! ably less acute here than In other cities, was outlined by W. A. Hacker of the public schools. “There are many children who | come to the schools so hungry that j i they can not understand,” he said, j j “When a family of six feeds upon j I the $4 a week given by the town- ; ship trustee, they must know hun- j j ger. In the eighteen years I have been here, conditions now are at j the worst and something must be { done quickly.” David Liggett of the Community ; Fund told of the increased per- ; centage of aid calls. Mayor Sullivan promised co-oper- | ation in hastening city improvements and reported an increase in the employment of labor. Leslie Rees Light Governor Leslie thought the trouble would be over when spring comes and many go back to the farm. Four other factories had made arrangements to follow the Marmon i example and co-operation was ; promised by others. | The movement will take on perj manent form and an organization i will be set up that will stabilize con* j ! dittons of employment in this city ! j in the future.

14 —Gets Life Bu Times Special ANNAPOLTS, Md„ Feb. 18. Leroy Taylor. 14-year-old Negro boy, was sentenced today to life imprisonment for the murder of his 70-year-old grandmother. The boy was convicted of killing Mrs. Ellen Tyler with his fists while robbing her of sl. In passing sentence. Judge Moss said he would have given the death penalty except for the Maryland law, which classifies children up to 15 years as infants.

MOVE TO AID CHICAGO Traylor Indicates Funds May Be Raised to Keep City Running. Bu Inited Press CHICAGO. Feb. 18. Another gleam of hope that Chicago will be lifted out of her mire of debt came today after a secret meeting of officials and bankers in the offices of Melvin A. Traylor, president of the ; First National bank and an international banking figure. Traylor indicated funds will be raised to tide the city through its financial troubles, hinting that the $70,000,000 needed to keep the city running until July 1 might be collected by Liberty loan methods FINDS PEARL IN CLAMS City Woman Discovers Ten-Carat Gem During Dinner at Tampa. Bn United Pres* TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 18. Mrs. Frank B. Flanner of Cold Spring road, Indianapolis, a winter visitor here found a $2,000 ten-carat pearl while eating clams in a hotel dining room here Monday night. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Hawn of Indianapolis at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Flanner ordered clams. Mrs. Flanner found the pearl, an excellent specimen with a high gloss.

These are some cf the maxims of V. E. Meadows, internationally famous beauty authority, who will lecture and give demonstrations with living models at The Times great beauty show, opening Monday. Feb. 24. in the Travertine room of the Lincoln hotel. Meadows will lecture twice daily, at 2 and 8 o'clock, and every woman in Indianapolis is invited

‘HOG WALLOW’ IS BRAND PUT ON CITY JAIL Councilman Houck Hotly Denounces Conditions After Inspection. FLOORS DIRTY, SMELLY . Garvin Predicts Increase in Municipal Courts in Few Years. “Worse than a hog-pen!” was the j description Councilman James A. Houck, vice-president and treasurer of the State Savings and Trust Company, voiced of conditions in Indianapolis’ city prison today after inspecting the institution with Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin. “I’ve raised lots of hogs in ray time, but if my hogs had to be penned in such a place as they keep prisoners in here I wouldn't want to eat them,” Houck declared after the inspection. Houck said he would bring the “whole city council” to police headquarters to convince councilman of I the need for improved prison facilities. Cites Court’s Need Judge- Garvin predicted four, inl stead of two, municipal criminal courts would be required within a few years. He recommended razing | the rear portion of the present police headquarters structure and erecting an addition of not less than five stories in its stead. This should include, he said, a garage irt the basement and first floor; a morgue, displacing the one at city hospital; new courtrooms, and, of most importance, new cells for men and women prisoners. “It’s no wonder they've had men- ! ingitis here,” Houck declared after being shown dirty and smelly floors, I wet with the overflow of lavatories, j Shown the cellroom where a j prisoner, believed insane, hanged himself Monday, Houck declared: “If they put me in such a place I’d hang m.vself, too. You wouldn't need to be crazy to do it there.” Called Deplorable It was the same padded cell from which a prisoner was removed suffering from meningitis last week. Conditions on the men’s side of the prison were found to be deplorable, Houck asserted. “No wonder the professional bondsman and shyster lawyer have had such an easy time of it,” Houck ! said. “If I were to get in such a I hole, I’d give everything I’ve got to i get out.”

PLANES BOYCOTT MARS HILL FIELD

With Embry-Riddle air mail planes passing up Indianapolis as a stop because of condition of the Mars Hill field, members of the state armory board were scheduled to meet within the next few days to consider means of remedying the situation. The mail line planes have not stopped here since Sunday, when a wheel on one of the mail planes was broken in taxiing across the

YOUNG WOMAN SLAIN Robbery Blamed by Police in Brutal Murder. Bv United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—The body of Mrs. Agnes Lavander, pretty 29-year-old wife of the purchasing agent for a large confectionery firm, was found today in a vacant lot in the fashionable Forest Glen community. Mrs. Lavander. who set out from her home Monday night to meet her husband at the Union station, apparently had been set upon as she pas’sed a dark lumber yard. She was beaten and shot to death as she struggled with her assailant. Her purse was not found in the first search, which led police to believe robbery, not attack, was the motive. Argument Date Set Oral argument in the Dreyfus Rhodes murder appeal was set by the supreme court today for March 12. Rhoades, twice found guilty of murder of a Vincennes policeman, and sentenced to death, has been granted a stay of executive until July 11.

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SEA PARLEY ACTION

BLOCKED BY CRASH OF TARDIEU CABINET

LONDON. Feb. 18. —Fall of the French cabinet has thrown the fivepower naval conference into confusion and, for the present, has ended : discussion of France’s naval demands, one of the two most important i problems before the conference. ] Technically, with no official representation from France at. the confc: :::, the delegates are forced to wait for a solution of the crisis in Paris before they resume negotiations on the all-important question of ! France’s naval tonnage Meanwhile, the other powers will go ahead with their discussions of Japanese demands, which were considered at length Monday by heads j of the American and Japanese delegations.

All Over It' Girl, Harry Richman Hit Shoal in Sea of Romance.

Clara Bow NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-The “it" girl and the “it” boy have come to the parting of the ways, according to Broadway gossip. Evidence that the Clara BowHarry Richman romance had struck a rock was seen by witnesses of Clara’s departure for Hollywood Monday night. She was outwardly cool toward Richman, it was said, while Richman showed a marked lack of enthusiasm. To the amazement of photographers. both declined to pose for pictures. BOOST DUTY ON ZINC Senate Votes for Flat Tariff of One and Half Cents a, Pound. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The tariff duty on zinc was raised by the senate today from a scale ranging from half a cent to IVz cents a pound to a flat duty of VA cents.

soft, rutted field. Mail pilots have been instructed not to stop here unless signaled to do so by an attendant because of bad weather conditions at Chicago or Cincinnati. Planes of the Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, which has a lease giving it commercial rights on the field, national guard, T. A. r. and transients, have been using the field, but with difficulty. • The trouble, field attendants said, was occasioned by thawing of the surface soil which has been rutted by wheels of the big transport planes using the airport. These ruts have frozen again and make it difficult for lighter aircraft to taxi across the field in taking off and landing, without damage to the plane and possible injury to passengers. Manford G. Henley, Indiana ad-jutant-general, said the armory board will give careful consideration to the field with possibility of hard surface runways being constructed. SAVES BABY IN FIRE Mother Braves Flames to Rescue Infant. Mrs. Earl Ayres of 2107 Ringgold street rushed into the blazing upstairs room of her home at noon today to carry her 8-month-old son to safety. The fire, starting at the home of Thomas Welch, 2111 Ringgold street, did $5,000 damage to the Welch home, that of Harry Patterson, 2109 Ringgold street, and to the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Ayres and of Arthur Sturgeon, 2105 Ringgold street. The houses damaged were two doubles. A defective flue is blamed.

In addition to telling women how to care for their complexions, Meadows will tell them how to bring out the beauty that exists in their faces and demonstrate his methods, helping them with their individual problems and giving personal analyses free of charge. Ten minutes, morning and night, will be time enough to give any woman a good complexion, declares Meadows.

/ The elimination, temporary or ! not. of Andre Tardieu from the j French government is regarded in most quarters as a decided setback to French prestige at the confer- ■ ence. Leaders of the French delegation expressed their surprise that the ! government should have been reversed on a relatively unimportant | question, and held out the hope that i reconstruction of the cabinet would be completed within a few days. 31 ay Be Disastrous It Is admitted that if Tardieu finds much opposition, and the crisis Ls prolonged, the situation will have a disastrous effect on the conference, even to the possible extent of causing a temporary break in the negotiations. Some of the French delegates, ! however, are exceedingly optimistic, ! believing Tardieu will construct quickly anew cabinet and proceed j to an early resumption of negotiaj tions here. It was stated semi-officially that ! the present delegates to the confer- | ence have no authority and will not I function until anew cabinet is 1 formed. The position of the Japanese delegates itself is rather uncertain as , the government may find itself defeated at the elections next week. Insistence by the Japanese on their high figures for naval tonnage, coupled with France’s previous resistance to curtailment, is viewed seriously by the American delegation, one of whom said he expected the situation to "get worse before it gets better.” It is known that neither the Japanese, nor the French figures, Italy to Make Stand are acceptable in their present form. Premier MacDonald requested Stimson and Dino Grandi, Italian | foreign minister, to meet him at the j House of Commons at 3 p. m. today, ! probably to examine the proposed I Italian report oa the requirements j for Italy’s navy. j The Italian delegation will announce Itself prepared to abolish J submarines if all other powers do | likewise, and if all capita? ships are ' scrapped, it was disclosed today in , a reliable summary of the official i memorandum which will state | Italy’s position at the naval coni Terence. | The memorandum, it was under- ; stood, will specify that Italy favors : a battleship building holiday, pre- | sumably until 1936.

ONE KILLED IN CRASH Three Others Injured When Auto Rams Freight Truck. Bu United Press YPSILANTI. Mich.. Feb. 18.—One person was killed and three others, two of whom are University of Michigan students, were injured seriously near here early today when their automobile crashed into a freight truck. Miss Adele Lally. Ann Arbor, former theater organist, was hurt fatally. Miss Lucy Domborajian, Ray Hunsberger. freshman, and Clarence L. McKinnje, senior, were the injured. BIEDERWOLF IN RACE Supreme Court Clerk Will Seek Renomination. Charles L. Biederwolf of Ft. Wayne, clerk of the state supreme and appellate courts, today announced his candidacy for the Republican renomination for clerk in the state convention. Biederwolf was elected clerk in the 1926 election. He has served as Allen county purchasing agent, and as secretary to Congressman Clarence C. Gilhams and Newton W. Gilbert. Biederwolf is prominent in sports circles and is an ardent member of the Izaak Walton League. He was born at Monticello and attended Ohio and Indiana state universities. He is a graduate of Indiana law school. 100 PERILED IN BLAST Two Are Injured in Boiler Explosion at Hotel. By United press PONTIAC, Mich., Feb. 18—The lives of more than one hundred guests at the Roosvelt hotel were endangeiec' here early today when an 800-gallon boiler exploded, wrecking the rear of the first three floors. Two guests were injured slightly. Jack Coogan, 37. a Milwaukee salesman, was treated for bruises and William Sonnebcm, 20, of Webster, N. D., cuts on the arms and legs. Taft's Condition Unchanged Bu l nited Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 18.—'The condition of former Chief Justice Taft was said to be unchanged in a bulletin issued at noon today by his two physicians, Drs. Thomas A. Ciaytor and Francis R, Hagner.

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‘SMASH TARIFF JAM,’ DEMAND OF PRESIDENT Country's Business Leaders Alarmed, Hoover Tells Senate, House Aids. COALITION ROUSES FEAR Slash in Commodity Rates Is Viewed as Menace; Action Pledged. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 18.—President Hoover gathered a naif dozen senate and house leaders around him at the White House breakfast table today and put squarely up to them the necessity of breaking the legislative jam. caused'by delay in passing the tariff bill. The President, it was learned. Informed the congressional leaders that failure of the senate to act on the tariff measure was causing apprehension among the country’s business leaders. It was made plain that these business leaders were disturbed, not only because of the long delay in action on the tariff, but that they w£re apprehensive also lest the senate Democratic-lndependent-Republican coalition lower some existing commodity rates. Watson There Those attending the breakfast were Republican Floor Leader Watson of the senate. Assistant Floor Leader McNary, Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee, Speaker Longworth of the hi;"SB, Floor I eader Tilson of the house, and Walter Newton, one of the President’s secretaries. These leaders, it was understood, assured Mr. Hoover they would do all in their power to obtain prompt action on the tariff bill and the two administration ap, r priation bills pending in the house. Stability Menaced The President was represented as feeling that the business stability which the administration, in cooperation with the country's business leaders, sought to bolster following the stock market crash, might be menaced by failure of the senate to make the tariff revisions requested in the presidential message last year. The conference lasted more than an hour and a half. It was pointed out by one of those present that, although the leader* at the conference were sincerely desirous of carrying out the administration’s legislative program, they faced an obstacle in the opposition of some Democrat, and independent Republicans whose views did not coincide with t'. irs. The silence of administration Republicans during the senate fight over the confirmation of Chief Justice Hughes was defended by Senator Watson during a. general senate debate which followed the White House breakfast conference. Defends Leadership Watson also defended the Republican leadership in the tariff battle, the length of which has caused the legislative jam that occasioned today’s conference. Watson said the Republicans remained silent concerning Hughes’ qualifications because they wanted to vote rathef than talk. He commended Hughe* very' highly. Meanwhile, it was learned after the breakfast meeting that unless congress passes the administration’* appropriation bill the federal government will be forced to dismis* from 20.000 to 30.000 workers by the middle of March. FEAR BOY KIDNAPED Child of 4 Has Been Missing Since Early Morning. Missing sin.ee 9 this morning, Robert Mast, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs, Ellsworth Mast, of 2165 Sugar Grove avenue, was believed to have beea kidnaped. A playmate told police the child had been picked up and carried off in an automobile by a man. Parents knew of no reason for the kidnaping. Police and regular radio broadcasting stations were being used in efforts to trace the lad this afternoon. DECLARE SLAYER INSANE ‘Evil Eye’ Killer Should Go to State Hospital, Petition Says. Bu United Press KALAMAZOO. Mich., Feb. 18.— Mrs. Pearl Burgess, "evil eye" slayer of Mrs. Etta Fairchild, is insane and should be committed to a state hospital, a petition of Prosecutor Paul Tedrow on file in circuit court, declared today. , Mrs Burgess was convicted last fall of murdering Mrs. Fairchild, elderly minister's widow, because she believed the aged woman exercised* an evil spell over member* of the Burgess family. Hospital Fire Quelled Fire on the roof of power plant at city hospital this afternoon wa* # extinguished with slight damage. The power plant is situated in the center of the block of hospital buildings. * *

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