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DEATH VERDICT COMMUTED BY N.Y. GOVERNOR 'Fred Edel, Convicted of Murder, Saved From Electric Chair. NEW TRIAL POSSIBLE Roosevelt in Favor of Continued Probe of Actress’ Killing. ftu T’nitrd Press ALBANY. N. Y.. March A new lease on life, at a time when death In the electric chair on Monday seemed inevitable, was given Frederick Edel today when Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. Edel was convicted of a charge of killing Mrs. Emmeline Harrington, actress, at a New York hotel in December. 1927. He pleaded he knew nothing of the killing. His attorneys shouted of injustice. But his death sentence was set for the week of last Dec. 9. On Dec. 12. Edel was taken to the death row. The customary niceties to the prisoner about to pay the supreme penalty were given Edel. head was shaved. Dressed in Death Costume He was dressed in, his death costume, the left trouper leg split up one side so as to permit the electrode to be attached to his leg. Thin just fif*,y minutes before he was to have been led to the execuion chamber w there came a reprieve from the Governor. The New York Telegram had sound new evidence which tended to cast doobt on Edel’s guilt. Atorneys had used this for an appeal for a re/prieve and finally located 'he Gosirrnor at a dinner here and ‘btainegl the temporary respite from death. Jurors Aid Defense Plea Since then there have been three ot'oer reprieves. But the courts 'yr>uld not permit anew trial and /mally an appeal was made to the Governor. Several members of the jury went to Albany to add their testimony, claiming they would not have voted the first degree verdict had they seen the new evidence. This resulted in the commutation today. IRISH VOTE MUDDLED Anti-Cosgrave Forces Are Likely to Elect Him. K > United Press DUBLIN, March 29.—The combination of political circumstances it\at defeat William T. Cosgrave’s Irish Free State government will result in sending the same government. back into office again, in the opinion of political observers today. Cosgrave was defeated by a coalition of labor, independents and the Fianna Fail, (De Valera party), but in order to prevent raising De Valera’s issue of republicanism again, an issue which is not popular with those outside the Fianna Fail, it Is probable Cosgrave will be returned to office by the same labor and independent votes that were cast against the government Thursday. BUS LINE REROUTED Capitol Avenue Feeder to Test New Schedule. Rerouting of the Capitol avenue feeder bus line for a ninety-day trial was approved by the public service commission Friday. The new route is as follows- - Thir-ty-eighth and Illinois streets to Kenwood avenue and Thirty-eighth street; north on Kenwood avenue to Thirty-ninth street; east to Illinois street, north to Forty-sixth street; west to Kenwood avenue, north to Fifty-second street: west to Capitol avenue, north to Westfield boulevard, and along the boulevard to Illinois street, thence south to Thirty-eighth street. PORKER PRICES SINK 40 CENTS AT YARDS Reaction from the relatively high iog markets of the last three days, caused by light deliveries on accourft >f bad roads and country conditions, set in during this morning’s trade and ptrkers declined 20 to 40 cents at # the Union stockyards. The average loss was around 25 cents. The bulk. 150 to 275 pounds, sold at $10.15 to $10.65. Receipts were 3.500 holdovers 308. Top price was $10.65 The cattle receipts were 100. the market nolding steady. The same even .one was held in calf trade, reeipts running to 300, prices unchanged The sheep market was nominal w ith receipts of 50. Chicago hog receipts were 7.500. including 6.000 direct. Holdovers were 3 000 The market was steady with Friday s a\ erage, choice 190 potmd weights bringing $10.50; 215 pound averages. $10.25. Cattle receipts were 700 : sheep. 7,000.

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VOLUME 41— NUMBER 276

VOLSTEAD VODKA Sheep Dip No Bar to Thirsty

flu United Press WASHINGTON, March 29.—Prohibition bureau chemists have concluded after analyzing many samples of strange concoctions seized by dry agents that the public will drink almost anything. What Prohibition Commission Doran now calls the “sheep dip cocktail” is offered as the latest evidence. Prohibition chemists have found the Jamaica ginger drink, to which is attributed the large number of paralysis cases in the south, contains creosote or crude carbolic acid and from 80 to 90 per cent alcohol —giving it some sheep dip disinfectant.

“We know such things as flavoring extracts, radiator alcohol, perfumes, bay rum, hair tonic and even shellac have been consumed by thirsty humans,” said W. V. Linder, chief prohibition chemist, today. Linder emphasized, however, that such instances are exceptions. The government has about fifty denaturing formulas to make unfit for human consumption alcohol consigned to industrial firms. These are not intended to be. deadly, Linder said, but merely to nauseate. HAWKS TESTS GLIDER IN HOP ACROSS NATION Takes Off Sunday in Tow of Plane on Eight-Leg Trip: Due Here. flu United Pres* LOS ANGELES, March 29.—Captain Frank M. Hawks today prepared to put his glider Eaglet through its final test for a transcontinental flight, by soaring back to San Diego behind an airplane. Tiie towing plane will be piloted by J. D. Jernigan Jr., whose plane will attempt to pull the motorless Eaglet across the country to New York next week. The flier plans to take off from San Diego Sunday on the first leg of his proposed eight-day glider flight to New York. Schedule Outlined /ft/ United Prcxs SAN DIEGO, March 29.—Residents of sixty major cities and towns and scores of villages probably will see Captain Frank M. Hawks on his proposed glider trip from San Diego to New York, according to the schedule announced today. It follows: First day (March 301, Lindbergh field: Yuma flying field; Phoenix, Phoenix airport; Tucson, Mayse field. Second day. Lordsburg, municipal airport; El Paso, El Paso airport. Third Day—Pecos, municipal airport; Midland, Midland airport; Sweetwater, municipal airport. Fourth Day—Wichita Falls, Staley airport: Oklahoma City, municipal aviation park; Tulsa, Garland airport. Fifth Day—Springfield. McClure field; East St. Louis, Parks airport. Sixth Day—Terre Haute, Dresser field; Indianapolis, Stout field; Columbus. Port Columbus. Seventh Day—Cleveland, Cleveland airport; Buffalo, Buffalo airport. Eighth Day—Elmira. Elmira airport; New York. Van Couitlandt park. VETERANS GIVEN JOBS Corps to Paint House Numbers on Street Curbs; to Canvass City. Thirty World war veterans will be given employment by J. W. Langley of Springfield, Mo., who has started painting house numbers on street curbs. Schcitors wearing silver badges bearing “World war veterans’ paint crew" will canvass all houses in the city.

SCANDAL’S GODDESS Poison Pen Notes Disrupt Town

United Press SHARNBROOK. England. March 29.—Mrs. Ada Hulett, 44. is held in bail for trial at the Bedfordshire assizes, named as the “scourge” of Milton Ernest, a small town near here. A stream of "poison pen" letters, the prosecution charges, came from her home, to spread suspicion, fear and malice through the little community. Homes were broken up, husbands and wives, young men and their fiances and even families separated, and friendships were broken, under the influence of the poison stream.

No one, during the five years the letters appeared, was spared %ven Canon Holmes, the vicar, was the object of attack. Mrs. Hulett herself received some. They were vicious, obscene notes, which she displayed to the neighbors to show that she. too. was subject to the attack of the unknown writer.

RAID ON CASTLE REVEALS ROBBER BARON IS BOOTLEGGER

Uniten Press lONDON. March 29.—British police have raided the castle of Pir Pagaro. powerful mosJem eader of the upper Sindh, and and sclosed a situation rivalling any 'ene in The Green Goddness," he Daily Mail's Karachu correspondent said today. Pir Pagaro himself, the police

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They’ll learn about women fliers from her. Comely Frances Harrell, shown here in her aviation togs, has just won her transport pilot’s license, and is the only woman member of an exhibition flying team, now on a tour of the world’s airports. Shell have the opportunity to pilot planes of all types, sizes and speeds.

HONOR VETERAN RAIL EMPLOYE Big Four Group Will Fete Frank Bagley Tonight. Honor will be paid Frank J. Bagley, 70, traveling auditor of the Big Four railroad, tonight, when employes and officials assemble at din- | ner at the Columbia Club, j Bagley. who has been in the road's service fifty-seven years, and has spent forty of them as auditor, will retire Tuesday. He began his railroad career as : a $lO a month messenger boy at j Crestline. O. He later became clerk or. the Big Four system, then agent, and in i 1890 was named traveling auditor. Among the officials who will attend the dinner are: P. J. White, general superintendent; A. P. Burke, treasurer; J. C. Wallace, general auditor; J. H. Pierson, freight ac- ! counts auditor, and F. M. Brine, passenger accounts auditor. ARSON CHARGES TO BE AIRED IN TRIAL Reese Maxwell Case to Be Heard by Criminal Court Jury April 8. Reese A. Maxwell, 45, member of ' a county grand jury in 1929, will go j on trial before a criminal court jury April 8. charged with arson in connection with the attempted burning of his home at 27 West Pleasant Run boulevard one year ago. State fire marshal’s investigators obtained alleged confessions from a man and woman alleged to have been hired by Maxwell to fire his i home.

Then the police arrested Mrs. Hulett, saying that she wrote the letters to herself, in order to throw off suspicion. One of the letters was found as late as Friday, on the school grounds. The schoolmistress destroyed it.

said after the raid, was found to be a robber baron, a revolutionist and—a bootlegger! In his fortress, the invaders discovered a huge cache of illicitly distilled liquor, smuggled drugs and arms, all stolen property. In one of the rooms they came

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1930

PARLEY CHIEFS HAGGLE OVER FRENCH CLAIM Invoke League of Nations Clauses as Basis for Security Pact. FORMULAS COMPARED British Charged With Being Disinclined to Make Any Concession. BY WEBB MILLER United Pres* Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 29—Negotiations between French and British delegates for a pact which would break the naval conference deadlock, reached a difficult stage today with French circles expressing discouragement. The French and British experts met at the foreign office and compared formulas drafted by each group outlining their respective ideas of the possibilities of a pact offering security to France in return for reduction of her naval tonnage claims. The ideas were based on interpretation of Articles 1 land 16 of the league of nations covenant. French sources represented the British as disinclined to agree to a sufficiently strong interpretation of the league articles to provide security which France demands. Thus the deadlock between England and France over interpretation of the two articles—a deadlock which has existed in international negotiations for eight years—appeared to be so far from solution today that it would close that avenue for a five-power naval agreement. The French, however, expressed hope that the negotiations would be pursued along a different course. The experts will discuss other formulas for agreement and, upon the invitation of Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, the French foreign minister, Aristide Briand, and the French expert. Rene Massigli, had luncheon with him at Claridges and continued the discussions. PRISON RIOTERS PUT IN STRIPES Mark of Disgrace Replaces Comfortable Uniforms. till United Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 29.—Gray-haired Leslie Rudolph, veteran warden of the Missouri state prison has met the challenge of mutinous prisoners and today “stripes” were worn by many. More than 100 ring leaders of the rebellion which threw the prison in an uproar from Wednesday noon until Thursday evening, were quartered in solitary dungeons. The “stripes.” replacing the more comfortable prison uniform, were given the men last evening after they had been named by guards as the leaders of the unrest. The “dressing in” was a dramatic close to one of the most serious riots in the history of the penitentiary. It was held under the glare of powerful search lights. A double guard stood in the courtyard and on the walls state militimen leveled machine guns upon the crowd. FIRE BARS SERVICES Catholic Church Damaged SI,OOO by Blaze. Fire in the basement of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church, Union and Palmer streets, prevented services there Friday night, and smoke damaged the church interior more than SI,OOO. Firemen said they believed a short-circuited electric wire in a paint shop in the basement caused the blaze. Church to Cost SIOO,OOO pu Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., March 29. Plans for the new SIOO,OOO building of the St. Peter’s Catholic church here, announced by the pastor, Father John C. Wakefer, reveal French Romanesque architecture, new to church design in this section. The new church, which will be completed in late November, will replace one built eighty-five years ago.

across a man imprisoned in a j woeden box. He revealed that he had been j kidnaped because his mother had j informed the police of wild affairs at the fortress last January. ; upon the occasion of the last raid of the police on Pir Pagaros J stronghold. i

Football Pair Make First Down;’ Toss Bandit for ‘ Gaol ’

TACKLING low and witii the teamwork they used on tne gridiron last fall, Eugene Bales, 21, Indiana Central sophomore and halfback on the school’s football team, and George Inman, 25. of 1397 Russell avenue, center on the same team, captured a bandit Friday night. The two, attendants at a Phoenix filling station at 601 Kentucky avenue, attacked and captured Clinton White, 32, of 245 South Arsenal avenue, when he is alleged to have attempted to rob them. White, using a pair of pliers in his sweater pocket to imitate a revolver, is alleged to have demanded money from the two attendants.

PAJAMA-CLAD CHORINE RUNS ILDWHOTEL Throws Register at Clerk, but ‘Act’ Ends as Cops ‘Use Hook.’ She was a rootin’, tootin’ pajamaclad chorine from Texas and it was her night to howl. So she howled this morning in & downtown hotel long enough, with 1 the vocal spur of “you can’t arrest , me in a slow town like this.” to get : a room "for one” in the city jail, i But before her shouts from the ; “lone prairie” had been silenced Miss June Brooks of Beaumont, Tex., a j "pony” in a burlesque show, now playing here, had hurled everything but the hotel lobby’s smoking stands at the night clerk. It was in the drowsy hours this morning that June made her stage entrance in the hotel’s lobby. Only In Pajamas “Friend mine’s schick up on four. Gotta use the telephone,” she explained thickly to the clerk. He remonstrated, telling her to return to her room. Wasn’t she dressed only in red plaid pajamas and whoever heard of pajamas in a hotel lobby at 5 in the morning, he argued, i The fireworks started. Wasn’t i she from Texas, “where men are | men and women are ladies”? Wham, and the hotel register whistled past his head. Bam, and the bellhop’s bell followed the register’s flight. Efforts of the clerk to get her to “call her shots” proved fruitless, so j he called police. | Patrolmen Harry Thayer and Pat Moriarit.y, on answering the call, found the belle from Beaumont try- | lng to kick a hole in the sky. Been “Thrown" Before “I won't go with you. I won’t be I arrested. I’ve been thrown out of better hotels than this. I’ve got a ! right to make whuppee when I’m i drunk,” protested June as she hoistI ed another pajama-leg c^lingward. : The patrolmen cajoled. She kicked. ! “I’m the fall guy for a pajama party up on the fourth floor and I I won’t go.” But she went. She screamed her way past sleepy milkmen to the city jail. She woke up the jail but later woke up herself to find— A hard cell bunk for a bed, an intoxication charge against her, and the curtain down on “Her Night to Howl.” CO-EDS LOST AT SEA ! Fear Felt for Safety of Party on Yacht. ! Rii United Press j SAN FRANCISCO, March 29. ; The power yacht, Gulnare, with a party of twenty co-eds from the University of California on board, was missing early today and grave fears for the safety of passengers ; were held. A heavy fog which caused two marine casualties on the coast Friday night continued to blanket the bay. FIGHTS SNEAK THIEF Victim Fails to Capture Barefoot Burglar. A barefooted burglar battled for his liberty with Samuel Lipken, 927 South Illinois street, at 3 this morning and managed to escape, t Raising a side window, the burj giar, a Negro, entered the Lipken : home. Lipken, awakening, sprang i from bed and gave battle to the intruder. In the fight a room of the home was badly wrecked. The burglar broke loose from Lipken and fled I through the open window.

ON that occasion, the police scaled the castle walls at midnight, but finding no basis for any other action, released the inmates of Pagaro s harem. In the present raid, Pagaros brother and a former mistress of the harem known as “Emma” accompanied the police as informers

WITHOUT any signals, Bales struck the bandit and knocked him down. Together they held him until police arrived. White is charged with banditry. Daniel D. Goldrick. 25, of 4807 Broadway, attendant at a Shell station at Twenty-first street and Capitol avenue, was robbed of $25 by a bandit Friday night. A youth used twine to bind Vollle Forsythe, 53. of 522 North Emerson avenue, and Roy Pope. 16. of 117 North Wallace street, in the Forsythe drug store at 501 North Emerson avenue, Friday night and took SSO.

Field's Choice?

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English society is hearing reports that Mrs. Dudley Coates (above), beautiful widow of the former officer of the Scots Guards, is to wed Marshall Field 111, heir to the Chicago department store millions, as soon as Mrs. Field is granted a divorce. The decree is expected to be issued at Reno shortly.

CRASH INJURY PROVES FATAL Mooresville Girl, Hurt in Auto Accident, Dies. Injuries she suffered in an automobile crash near Plainfield Sunday night were fatal early today to Miss Christine Smith, 18, Mooresville. She died in Methodist hospital shortly after 3 a. m. Ray Phillips. 21, Mooresville, was killed instantly in the crash, which occurred on a curve on the Plain-field-Mooresville road. Four others, including William Sadler, Martinsville high school basketball star, were injured.

Opening Markets

flir t'nitrd Press NEW YORK, March 29.—Running at a pace more active than any Saturday session this year, the stock market moved forward sharply today. Traders were heartened by the rise to new high ground since December of the industrial, utility and railroad averages. Gains ranged from fractions to more than 2 points, adding millions of dollars to stock valuations. Rails, steels, motor equipments, amusements and special issues were in demand, many at new highs for the year. Among the larger blocks at the opening were Hayes Body 15,000 at 14%. UD %; Radio 7,000 at 51 Vi, up >4; Union Carbide 8,000 at 105, up 1% and anew high for the year; Pennsylvania 2,500 at 85%, up % and anew 1930 top: Missouri-Kan-sas-Texas 5,000 at 63%; up % and anew year's high: American Brown Boveri 5,200 at 17%, up %; Commonwealth and Southern 5,500 at 18, up V* ; American Express 5,000 at 35%, up %; Chicago Great Western 5.100 at 15%, up %; Western Maryland 4,C00 at 34%, up %, and 1.000 at 35, up 1, and anew high for the year, and American Can 5,000 at 152%, up 1% and anew 1930 high. Very few issues sold off from the previous close. Motor shares were holding around the previous close. New York Stocks Opening ißy Thon-son ft McKinnon) —March 29 Allis Chalmers J, 2 Am Can Am Car Fdry *? * Am Smeltin? 1% Am Steel Fdrv 9 Atchison *41,? B & O “S * Beth Steel I??,. Giles & Ohio 2 1£ S ' Chrvs'.er ,3, Coca Cola •••••{?? Con* Gas Cos Cont Car. .S, , • Corn Products ‘Si,,* Famous Plavers “ i *

against the leader. Trapped in the fortress, Pagaro was unable to escape, and collapsed in a fit. On the way to prison, Pagaro instruted his followers not to engage an attorney, as he intended to offer no defense at the trial “India will get home rule the moment I am jailed,” he announced.”

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CITY YOUTH IS SHOT; LIQUOR FEUD BLAMED Local Couple Is Held by Terre Haute Police for Quizzing. Ru Times Special TERRE HAUTE, March 29.—Scott McKinney, 23. and Miss Jean Rogers, 23. of Indianapolis, were held by police here today for questioning in connection with the mysterious shooting of Forest Whitesell, 23. of Indianapolis, at Rockville Friday. According to stories told local police, by McKinney, he and a third man were with Whitesell on their way to get a load of booze, when the third man shot Whitesell with a rifle. Police advanced a theory that the Indianapolis hoodlums were involved in a liquor feud. Miss Rogers was arrested when she came to the Union hospital here to visit Whitesell. Attaches at the hospital said the gunshot wound in Whitesell’s abdomen is critical and he may not survive. No Record Against Pair Forest Whitesell, who is in the Union hospital at Terre Haute, suffering from a bullet wound, is believed to be the youth who recently had a drivers’ license revoked after he was arrested on charges of driving an auto while intoxicated. Whitesell and McKinney, police said, are known as Haughville youths but, heretofore, no record has been obtained against them. Warsaw Fireman Hurt WARSAW, Ind., March 29.—Leolin Moon, Warsaw fireman, suffered a severed artery in his wrist when glass from a shattered window struck him while he was fighting a blaze that destroyed the second floor of the Howard Hemmer bakery today with a loss of $3,000. Another fireman was overcome by smoke. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 30 8 a. m 34 7 a. m 32 9 a. m 37 10 a. m 40

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WOMAN DRY IS JAILED ON BOOZE CHARGE ‘Carrie Nation of Texas* Turns Cell Into ‘Headquarters.* DENOUNCES CITY CHIEFS Paraded Down Pampa’s Main Street Flaunting Bottle of Liquor, Bn t tilted Piers , . PAMPA. Tex.. March 29.—Headquarters of the Pampa W. C. T. U, today were established in a cell in the city jail where Miss Beulah Allred, the "Carrie Nation of Texas,” was denouncing both “demon rum” and District Attorney Clifford Braly. Miss Allred, a spinster, wbos* campaign has carried her into every section of the Panhandle, and who for two years had waged a campaign against liquor in this boom oil town, was indicted by a grand jury for possession of liquor. The charge was presented by District Attorney Braly after she had paraded down Pampa’s main street waving a bottle of liquor and telling merchants and business people of the “wetness of Pampa." “I Won’t Give I'p” “I was jailed wrongfully,” Miss Aired said, “and it is the duty of Police Chief Downs to free me.” She said she had refused the offers of two wealthy farmers who Friday night offered the SSOO bond demanded by the county authorities. ‘For two years I’ve been fighting the liquor menace in Pampa,” she said. "Do those officers and men on that grand jury think I'll give up just because I'm in jail? I’ll here until Pampa goes dry and i I get out I’ll show people how w can buy liquor right here on th@§ main street.” Headquarters in Cell “They may stop me talking,” but' the “ink in my pen has not run dry.” Miss Allred said. She was referring to the mimeograph papers which she had written and had printed weekly and which were'distributed in all parts of the city. These, she said, would be continued as long as she remained in Pampa. “I’ll make my headquarters right in this ceil,” she announced. "This is my line of duty. Every martyr to a cause has to suffer.” Miss Allred’s only companion in ihe jail Friday night was a mongrel cat, which is the "official food taster of the jail.” The cat moved into the cell when Miss Allred va* marched into jail. Branded a> "Hullabaloo” She sent three instructions to her friends. They were for clean quilts for her prison cot. for a <ign painter to paint a W. C. T. U. msignia which would re. and “W. C. T. U. Headquarters," and she as)' Vi for "size 42 wash drrs.--.es.” a \ said she may grow fat without/. tcise, Braly characterized her a . lhalf Car’rie Nat’on idea of r. hf\. Uoo” and critic i.ed her liquor; ,*ce ment plans, declaring the sltjr of "cases” she prepared for i ula failed because witnesses wh r ahe would hire to buy the liquor led to appear st trials. ? “It’s just an effort to give I a black eye,” ihe district aiV said. "She got into he jamfe I'il prosecute her case like any d|V jgj liquor trial.”

In the Stock Market

'Uv Tho:. .'>ll * McKinnon) NEW YORK. March 29,— Pro* spective mergers in various parts of the country's business structure are perhaps coming to supersede in importance all other news of trade and finance. Plans for a three-billion-dollar banking institution, by far the largest in the world, are apparently underway, aJid only the court’s approval Is necessary to bring about the amalgamation of two of the larger standard oil units. There is a much more fr endly attitude on the part of railroad executives, and with the co-operation of the interstate commerce commission, we are naturally led to the assumption that before long definite negotiations looking *o the egrouping of carriers, will begin to crystallize. The recent activity in the railroad shares, while at least in part, no doubt, a reflection of inve ’mem funds seeking the attractive fields srill ava .lable in the group, suggests also that important accumulation by some of the larger railroads is proceeding in the minority holdings of the smaller roads. The portfolio-- o' Allegheny, Cheaa-* peake and Pennroad r urporations afford dear-cut ; übstantiatlon of the belief that roads which possibly w'ould fit in with the system* with which these holding companies are affiliated, are being steadily added to their investments. On the basis of yields alone we feel that the dividend paying railroad shares are entitled to ell much higher and we would i>:t b> surprised if tfte long-awaited major upturn hr this group Is nearing. . J \ Suit Asks Compensation GREENCASTT-E. Ind.. March ft. —Edith Thomas, administratrix of the estate of Harold Lane, in a suit filed in the Putnam circuit court, ask judgment against Charles R* Barnaby, local lumberman, for fifty w'eeks compensation, which she alleges is due the estate.