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Harried Jim Watson wants to know, “How in hell are you going to stand behind a man who has St. Vitus dance?” This quotation is reported as corning from Senator James E. Watson and being his own characterization of his efforts to back up Presi-

dent Hoover’s stands and statements as Republican floor leader in the senate. It is reported by Paul Y. Anders on, Pulitzer prize - winning Washington correspondent, in the current issue of tire Nation. Anderson points out that Hoover’s regime has been marked by an attitude to-

ward congress of “first threatening and then running away." "Even Jim Watson has sufficient pride to feel the humiliation when he concluded a long and impassioned defense of a White House statement, and sits down to find that a supplemental statement has rendered his defense ridiculous,” Anderson comments. He then cites the instance of the President's economy warning to cor. ress which was later changed to an economy warning to the citizens of the United States. Watson defended the first warning on the floor, only to receive congratulations from the Democratic leader. Senator Pat Harrison on his (Watson's) ability to keep a straight face. Upon taking his seat, Watson learned that the statement he had defended had been amended to make his defense meanlingless. Anderson’s article says: "I am told that Jim mopped his massive brow and fervently inquired: “ ‘How in hell are you going to stand behind a man who has St. Vitus dance?’” a a a Merry Ch ristmos —Socko /'u f'n t ted Pr* hh CHICAGO. March 14.—A reverse echo of the Christmas spirit was heard in superior court when \lrs. Margaret Rtangle charged in her divorce suit that Joseph Stangle struck her In the face with the drumstick of their Christmas turkey. a a a Brown Derbies, Red Ties PARIS, March 14.—It's brown derby and red necktie for the well-dressed man this spring. Paris influence and not A1 Smith fashion is responsible for the brown derby, and as for the red neckwear —well, men must be seen as well as heard, sartorially. The derby, of a hue known as Havana brown, should not be worn throughout the day. Gray tophats, in five shades from pearl to soot, must be worn with full dress for about two hours before or after noon. a a a Hail the College Infant NEW YORK, March 14.—After celebrating his fourteenth birthday playing' with the rest of the boys. Milton Sandberg topped it off bv registering as a student in the City College of New York. He is the youngest student, a a a School for Brides NEW YORK. March 14.—A school for brides, at which diplomas and medals will be awarded for proficiency in housework and house management, is to be opened in Grand Central palace next month by the home making center of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. It was announced today. Easter, spring and June brides are urged to enroll. The announcement explains that girls who are on the verge of getting married as well as those recently married, are eligible. a a a No Stockings, No Dimin' MADISON. Wis.. March 14. University of Wisconsin coeds may dash around downtown minus their stockings if they want to, but they can’t go to dinner barelegged. Without benefit of hosiery they shall not pass at meal time through the portals of Barnard hall. Miss Elizabeth Baker, the dormitory hostess, ruled today. The girls have started a petition of protest. a a a Icebergs Peril Steamers Bv f ” ' WASHINGTON. March 14. Icebergs in the North Atlantic have drifted near the steamer lanes, and trans-Atlantic liners have shifted their courses slightly to the south, reports from the international Ice patrol to coast guard headquarters said today. a a a U. S. Cash Drawer Low Jin J r: it* and Pr> WASHINGTON. March 14.—Uncle Sam’s cash drawer is the lowest within the memory of veteran treasury employes today as the flood of possibly one-halt billion dollars in new income payments is due. The treasury balance showed only $665,231X14 on hand as of March 12.

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DEMAND LEWIS STEP OUT AS i MINERS’ HEAD Eight Union Resolutions Lay Unrest to ‘lron Hand’ Management. SALARIES CUT SOUGHT •Selfishness’ in Accepting Former Increases Is Scored Sharply. Direct blows at control of John L. ' Lewis, international president, over ; the United Mine Workers of Amei- \ ica came today in the Tomlinson hall convention of the union when i more than a score of anti-Lewis res- ! olutions were made public by the | resolutions committee. Resolutions that Lewis resign came from eight local unions, the most | lengthy, from local 5840 of Des | Mcines, la., declaring "unrest is j caused by the iron will of John L. | Lewis and his executive staff," and j that the union morale would be raised if taken from under "this iron arm supremacy.” Ten resolutions demand reductions in salaries of Lewis and all international officers. Lewis now receives $12,000 annually, the secretary $7,000 and the vice-president $9,000. The resolutions provide salai ries of from $5,000 to $6,000 annually for the president, from $3,500 to I $4,500 for the vice-president, and from $4,000 to $5,000 for the secretary, with cuts for all other officers. Re-Elections Hit Another blow Is dealt Lewis and j the international regime by six | resolutions providing that an officer can not hold office for more than two to four years, after which he is ineligible for office unless he I returns to the coal mines as a j worker for a period of at least two j years. Still other resolutions would eliminate payment of expense accounts of officers, with statements that “expense account payments have exceeded salaries paid.” Others provide that all power to appoint organizers and field workers be from S Lewis’ hands. Seven resolutions provide that vacancies in elective offices be filled by election of mera--1 bers instead of through appointment , by Lewis. lowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio locals lead in resolutions aimed at Lewis’ regime, but Linton, Ind., also figures in a number of ! similar demands. Local 2485 of Des Moines. la., presented a resolution reading: Higher Than Workers "Believing salaries of our international officers are much too far in excess of the pay of men at the picks, who pay the bills, and believing this great difference in salaries puts such a large chasm between them that the officers cease to have welfare of the laboring man at heart and. "Believing that the international officers demonstrated their selfishness and the fact they cared nothing for the rank and file by accepting an increase in salary, knowing. as they did, that it was impassible for the miners to obtain an increase at that time; Dissension Reason "Believing this to be one of the major reasons for the dissension and disruption within the rank and file : the last three years; thefefore be it “Resolved That this convention set the salaries of international officers at the 1928 basis and that there be no increase in salaries hereafter j without a referendum vote from j the rank and file. Two round-robin resolutions advocating retention of the present salaries of officers were introduced. In an address Philip Murray, international vice-president, charged direct connection between the rump convention at Springfield, 111., and | movement of coal operators to over- ) throw the international union. Fines for insurgent miners of Illinois, who are holding a dual con- | vention at Springfield, are proposed by another resolution. The convention continued discussion of the Illinois affairs today while the resolutions were made public, but not acted upon. Howat Is S'ited Bv United prt sh SPRINGFIELD. 111., March 14. Alexander Howat of Kansas industrial court fame, was slated for election as president by the rump convention of union coal miners here today. John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, was expected to resign that position to become secretary-treasurer of the new mine organization. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 30 10 a. m 36 7 a. m 31 11 a. m 39 ' Ba. m 32 12 (noon).. 39 9 a. m..... 33 1 p. m..... 42

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Fall Loan Is Described by Doheny Oil Man Testifies Note Was Mutilated as Aid to Ex-Cabinet Officer. Hi/ United Press WASHINGTON, March 14.—Edward L. Doheny’s testimony before the senate public lands committee in 1924 was placed in evidence today at the California oil milllionaire’s trial on a charge of giving Albert B Fall, former secretary of interior a SIOO,OOO bribe to obtain valuable government oil leases. The testimony was concerned principally with circumstances surrounding mutilation of the note given to Doheny by Fall after the latter received the SIOO,OOO, which Doheny insists was a loan “to an old buddy.” Doheny told the senate oil investigators on Feb. 1, 1924, that the note was torn so that if he were to die suddenly, executors of his estate would not be able to press Fall for payment, thereby harming the Interior secretary instead of helping him as Doheny said he wished to do.

Women Rule By United Press STEPHENSON, Mich., March 14.—The women folk of Stephenson surveyed a conquered village today, the government of Stephenson being entirely in the hands of women, elected by an embattled women’s party. Not content with winning every other office, the women demanded and attained a recount of the vote by which F. X. Beaudoin retained his office as village president by a margin of two votes. The recount showed Mrs. Grace Sanders leading Beaudoin by three votes. Mrs. Sanders today was village president.

COLLINS' HAT IN BING Criminal Judge Files to Succeed Himself. James A. Collins, judge of Marion criminal court continuously since

1914, today announced. his candidacy for the Republican renomination in the May primaries. A native of New England, Judge Collins has been a resident of Indianapolis since 1895. He served four years as assistant Marion county prosecutor and in 1909, was elected judge of the In-

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dianapolis city court, serving on this bench six years. He is the only jurist ever elected to four terms in criminal court. Judge Collins, an Episcopalian, has been prominent in social and civic affairs of the city and has achieved national prominence in the advancement of probationary methods. Judge Collins and Mrs. Collins reside at 4811 Park avenue. They have a son and daughter. Mayor Pleads Not Guilty Bv United Press MAYS LANDING, N. J., March 14.—Mayor Anthony M. Ruffu Jr. of Atlantic City, pleaded not guilty today to fourteen indictments charging him with deriving a profit from municipal insurance policies.

‘Skedaddle, Sonny, ’ Says Busy Father, and Boy, 2, Runs to Death Under Auto

TICK! Tock! Tick! Tock! Thus goes the monotonous drumming of watches and clocks in a repair shop at 809 North Alabama street today. A man winds the clocks. He fondles watches he’s repairing, fondles .lie works of one particular watch. It was only yesterday that his baby boy had held the watch’s works, played with them. It was only yesterday that he, Thomas Green, watch repairer, and his 2-year-oid son. Tommy Junior, played together where the watches and clocks go—- “ Tick Tock! Tick! Tock!” Today his boy lies in an undertaking parlor, the victim of a traffic accident. For yesterday he was repairing the works of a watch, of this particular watch. The boy's hands reached for the delicate mechanism. Green wagged his finger at the boy. "Skedaddle, sonny, into the other room for dad’s busy.” He "skedaddled.” Green waited for Tommy's voice, his clattering feet.

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!NEW WORLD IS REVEALED DY 30-YEAR HUNT Ninth Planet Barren, Once Sheathed With Ice, Say Scientists. SEMI-DARKNESS REIGNS | 35 Centuries in Fastest Plane Necessary to Span Distance. Bv United Pr> ss CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. March 14. Science, groping out into the infinity i of space, has located a ninth planet so distant from this earth that an airplane traveling at 120 miles an hour speed could reach it only after thirty-five centuries. Arrived there, the crew would find a world of cold and darkness. This tremendous discovery, opening up anew world, after eight : major planets had been established j definitely, was accomplished by | observers at Flagstaff, Ariz. Culmination of the work of the research band there marked anew milestone in the drama of scientific ' achievement. Thirty years ago. Dr. Percival Lowell had calculated in the cold figures of mathematics that another planet the transneptunian or Planet X—lay in the vast reaches beyond Neptune. Family of Scholars Now scientists at Flagstaff, with the aid of the most modern apparatus, have confirmed tiie theory evolved by this scion of a noted family of scholars. As pictured today by enthusiastic scientists at Harvard, the Planet X must be a cola and barren world where “liquid air" prevails and ice abounds. Its year, the scientists figured, would be equivalent to 330 earthly years, and Methuselah would have been a mere infant of 3 had he lived and died on Planet X with its elongated “year.” The planet Is estimated to be 3,720,000,000 miles - away, which is ! rather more than the most powerful i telescope can span to furnish defij nite data on local conditions. No Life Existent It generally is agreed that no life could exist on the remotest known member of the solar group, with its “atmosphere,” if any, of liquid air and temperatures even lower than on Neptune which receives only one-nine hundredth as much light and heat as the earth. I Astronomers estimate 180 years is required for the new plant to revolve about the sun. Not only is the newly discovered planet colder than Neptune, but j darker as well, Harvard astronomers | believe. I They guess the new celestial body I had moonshine instead of sunshine |as the planet is at an estimated distance of four and a half billion miles from the light source. As regards the size of this most isolated outpost of the solar system, j the best there savants of the stars | could say was it was somewhere i between 8.000 cr 30.000 miles in dia- | meter, being bigger than the earth | but smaller than Neptune. TAX FINE FOR Vl DOR Film Director Found Guilty of Evading Income Payment. LOS ANGELES, March 13,—After pleading guilty to a charge of fail- ! ing to pay a proper income tax in j 1925. King Vidor, well known screen director, -was fined S4OO Thursday j in federal court.

But Tommy-boy didn’t come back. He didn't go into the other roc _n. He went into the street. There was a crash outside the repair shop. Green found his Tommy on the street suffering from a skull fracture. A car driven by Laverne Snider, 26, of 1643 College avenue, knocked the boy down and a second auto driven by Fred Cummins, Benton, 111., ran over him. They did not see the boy. Tommy died last night at city ho:-p:tal. FIRE LOSS IS $6,000 Home of John H. Beckner on North Arsenal Damaged. Fire of undetermined origin early today caused $6,000 damage to the home of John H. Beckner. 3017 North Arsenal avenue. Beckner said he was not a* the residence when the blaze sfi_r;ed. Sparks from Beckner’s house fired a vacant house at 3021 North Arsenal ave.iue, causing an estimated damage of SI,OOO.

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BEFORE 15,000 backboard boosters and to the tune of the smack of balls and slap of rubbershoed feet, the annual Indiana basketball tourney for high schools was under way today at Butler fieldhouse. “Get De Jernetl” was the cry of Martinsville rooters in the tourney’s first game. But the “getting”

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Marble Meet Detailed rules for the citywide championship marble tournament to be launched the week of March 24 will be found on page 20 of today’s Times. All schoolboys of the city under 15 are eligible to enter. Clip and save the rules printed today, and watch The Times for future tourney announcements.

CITY PIONEER IS DEAD Services for Mrs. Mary E. Dittrich Will B e Held Monday. Mrs. Mary E. Dittrich, 84, of 913 East Market street, lifelong city resident, died Thursday night at her home. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Monday at the New Jersey street M. E. church and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Survivors are two daughters, Miss Sadie Dittrich, with whom she lived, and Mrs. Emma CMara of Lafayette, and a sister, Mrs. Emma McElwee of Indianapolis.

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of Washington’s Negro center was another story. Martinsville lost. Guarded by several Martinsville players, De Jernet is shown in the above photo leaping for the fieldhouse ceiling in an effort to capture the ball at Martinsville’s goalpost. He succeeded and passed to Englehart, who scored a basket, the first field goal of the tourney for Washington.

Missionary Tells House Dry Quizzers Ex-Drunkards Rise From Gutters. | Bv United Press j WASHINGTON, March 14.—Pro- : hibition has swept the Bowery clean, | eliminated forty-four saloons and j lifted drunkards from the gutter to ! homes, wives and radios, John Callahan, a Bowery missionary today I told the house judiciary committee 1 in its dry hearings. Raymond Robins, Chicago econ- | omist, urged another ten-year trial j for prohibition. Billie McGurks in the famous Metropolitan slum where the girls who paced the streets dropped in for a glass of beer, is gone, Callahan i said. Saloons Become Stores The Tub of Blood and Suicide Hall ..'here there were fights every night ; now are stores and shops, he said, j “There isn’t a saloon on the howj ery today,” said the elderly gentleman who was chaplain for sixteen years in the Tombs prison and now is | operating Hadley Rescue Home, next i door to Onie Gagan’s old saloon. | “Only law and the gospel could | make a change like that, i “I know drunkards who ten years ! ago lived without God or hope, i They are now living happily with I wives and families. They have auto- | mobiles, homes and radio. Woman Suffrage Is Help Callahan’s testimony was indorsed as typical of their localities by John W. Helmbold, Camden j <N. J.) gospel mission, and John R. | 1 Mclntyre, superintendent of the Whosever Gospel mission, Germantown, Pa. Tne wets haven’t a "Chinaman's chance” of overturning the dry law, Colonel Robins, the Chicago economist, predicted. Robins based his belief upon woman suffrage, saying with the woman vote “arithmetic is on my side.” ‘PARLEY NEAR FAILURE’ Sea Powers Lacked Confidence in Each Other, Says Writer. Bv Un’ted Press NEW YORK, March 14.—Evidence from London that the naval conference is running dangerous near the breaking point leads many persons to believe that the powers met without sufficient confidence in each other's intention. Raymond Clapper, chief of the Washington bureau of j the United Press, who recently re- ■ turned from London, told the Life | Underwriters* Association Thursday night

MARTINSVILLE BUMPED OFF IN OPENING TILT; KOKOMO AND DUGGER ALSO BEATEN Three Impressive Victories Are Registered by Powerful Quintets Before Jammed House; 12,000 in Attendance. TRIO OF BATTLES THIS AFTERNOON Central of Ft. Wayne Will Collide With Frankfort, Defending Champion, in Opening Melee of Night Program. Details of Games on Page 1, Section 2 • BY DICK MILLER Sweeping into the second round of competition in the I. H. S. A. A. state finals basketball tournament today with impressive victories over powerful rivals, Washington, Franklin and Delphi settled back into the roles of bystanders this afternoon, as other contending teams in the annual Iloosier cage classic battled for the right to reach tiie quarter-final round of play. Opening the tournament before a huge throng, estimated at more than 12,000 persons, Washington eliminated the highly-touted Martinsville aggregation, 20 to 14.

HUSTON ADMITS UTILITIES LINK Helped to Collect Fund for Power Firm. By United Press • WASHINGTON, March 14.—Claudius Huston, chairman of the Republican national committee, admitted before the senate lobby committee today that he did not lose interest in the plans of the Tennessee River Improvement Association when he resigned last summer as president of the organization to take his present post. Huston also admitted that while he and the improvement association were collecting money in Alabama on the theory they were fighting the power companies, they actually were collecting money from these companies. The senate lobby’s committee investigation concluded in a clash between Acting Chairman Blaine (Rep., Wis.) and Huston over the records of the Tennessee River Improvement Association. Blaine adjourned the sessions with an ultimatum to Huston to get the financial records of the association which Huston formerly headed. Huston asserted he would not attempt tc get the records unless he could file a report to the committee of difficulties he may encounter in the attempt. THREE ALLEGED GAS HAWKS SENTENCED Found Guilty of Attempting to Entice Child in Auto. Three men who were alleged to have attempted to entice a grade school girl into an auto at Roosevelt avenue and Olney street Friday, drew the ire of Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter and thirty-day penal farm sentences today. “You shieks are fine specimens of humanity,” he said. “You should not be allowed on the streets.” The men, Angelo Bozats, C. Franto, 618 North Spring street, and Hugo Lozisa, 418 North Noble street, were arrested by Patrolman Carl Kull two hours after the "gas hawk" offense. HANGED FOR' MURDER Alleged Slayer of Shoe Clerk Dies on Prison Gallows. B'* United Pr .* 'SAN QUENTIN PRISON, March 14.—Alphone Reilly died today on the gallows for the murder of Abraham Sandaiman. shoe clerk, in Los Angeles two years ago. ‘JOB BUYING’ ""CHARGED Postal, Census Berths Purchased in South Carolina, Senate Told. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, March 14. Charges that rural mail carriers and census enumerators in South Carolina have been forced to pay fees to obtain positions, were made before the senate today by Senator Blease (Dem. S. C.). RESUME SENATE FIGHT Mrs. McCormick Returns to Illinois to Wind Up Campaign. WASHINGTON, March 14.-Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick will return to the Illinois political front tonight to wind up the campaign by which she hopes to capture a seat In the senate.

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Franklin’s clever quintet disposed of the hard-fighting little Dugger team in the second fray of the morning, i 34 to 19, and Delphi’s Oracles | scored an easy victory over ! Kokomo, 2S to 17, in the last game of the morning session. This afternoon, Connersville was to clash with Salem at 2 p. m., with La Porte and Kendallville scheduled to battle at 3. Goshen and Muncie were to wind up the afternoon's I conflicts at 4 p. m. Strong Teams to Clash Tonight at 7:30 the powerful Central of Ft. Wayne team will oppose the defending champion, Frankfort, and Greencastle and Anderson will close the first-round engagements with their tussle at 8:30. Washington's brilliant drive to victory over the Artesian City quintet catapulted the Hatchets into the favorite 'of the upper bracket. Frankfort still reigns as the favorite In the lower bracket and these two powerful teams may meet in the final game or the tournament Saturday night. Led by the scintillating Jingles Englehart and the giant Negro center, Dave De Jernet, the Washington team, coached by Burl Friddle, flashed into an early lead, and, despite the brilliant struggle of the Curtis-coached five, swept to a decisive triumph. Two Star Scintillate Washington employed a careful, deliberate type of game, drawing out Martinsville’s guards, as De Jernet, crouched at the foul line in the professional block style, fed the ball with amazing accuracy to his fleet teammates. The first half ended with the Hatchets on top, 9 to 5, and a sensational dash boosted the count to 12 to 5 at the start of the second period before the Artesians connected. Washington maintained control of the leather during the major portion of the second half and successfully staved off every Martinsville attempt to overcome the lead. Dugger, backed by thousands of fans always willing to mass behind the “under-dog,” put up a game struggle in the opening period with Franklin and Fuzzy Vandivier's team left the floor at the half, boasting cnly a 17-15 advantage. Franklin Too Strong Franklin’s strength told the tale in the second half and Dugger went down, fighting at every step. Delphi used a slow, deliberate mode of attack in downing Kokomo, and after holding an 8-6 lead at the half, showed much more strength in the last period to sweep aside the Wildcats’ defense. At 8:30 Saturday morning, Washington and Franklin meet in the first quarter-final battle, and the contest will find two former teammates arrayed against each other on the coaching lines. Fuzzy Vandivier, Franklin coach, and Burl Friddle, Washington mentor, played side by side m the greatest team ever developed in Indiana, Franklin’s "Wonder Five,” state high school champs of 1920, 1921 and 1922. Delphi Plays Saturday At 9:20 Saturday morning. Delphi swings into action against the winners of the Connersville-Salem encounter. Other quarter-final battles will be waged at 10:30 and at 11:30. The semi-finals will be played at 2:30 and 3:30 Saturday afternoon, with the final contest for the state title at 8 Saturday night. With police on close guard, little evidence of ticket scalping was noted and it was understood that all precautions would be taken to avert any illegal methods of ticket handling.

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