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SENATE REJECTS PARKER BY VOTE OF 41 TO 39 FOR SEAT ON SUPREME COURT BENCH Climax of Long, Bitter Struggle Due Chiefly to Opposition of Organized Labor and Negro Groups. ACTION VIEWED SLAP AT HOOVER # Galleries Are Packed as Lawmakers Spurn President’s Candidate; Watson Is for, Robinson Against. BY PAUL R. MALLON I'nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 7. The senate rejected today President Hoover’s nomination of John J. Parker to be associate justice of the United States supreme court. The vote was 41 to 39. The action climaxed a long and bitter struggle in which the administration brought unprecedented pressure to bear for confirmation of the North Carolina Republican jurist. The defeat, the first rejection of a supreme court nominee in thirty-six years, was due chiefly to the bitter opposition of organized labor and Negro organizations.

The rejection, forecast several weeks ago when the senate judiciary committee reported unfavorably by a 10-6 vote, means Hoover now must submit another name to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Sanford. Twenty-nine Republicans and ten Democrats voted to confirm Parker. Seventeen Republican joined with twenty-three Democrats and one Farmer-Laborite, Shipstead of Minnesota to defeat him. President Hoover was at lunch when the Parker voted reached the executive office, and it was not known officially whether he would make any comment on the rejection The roll call follows: For Parker (39) REPUBLICANS C 29) Alien Keyes Baird McCulloch Bingham Metcalf Bale Oddie Fr<i Patterson C.illett Reed C.oldshorough Shortridge Could Smoot Creene Sullivan Hale Thomas <ldah>4) Hastings Townsend Hatfield Walcott Hebert Waterman Jones Watson Kean DEMOCRATS (10) Blease Ransdell Broussard Simmons, Glass Steck Harrison Stephens Overman Swanson Against (41) REPUBLICANS (17) Borah La Follette Blaine Norris Capper Nye Courens Pine Cutting Robinson (Ind.) Deneen Schall Frarier Steiwer Howell Vandenberg Johnson DEMOCRATS (23) Ashurst Kendrick Barkley MrKellar Black Pittman Bratton Robinson (Ark.) Brock Sheppard Caraway Trammell Connallv Tvdings Copeland Wagner Dill Walsh (Mass.) Harris Walsh (Mont.) Hayden Wheeler FARM-LABOR <t> Shipstead Pstired For REPUBLICANS Grundy Norberk Moses Goff Phipps DEMOCRATS Fletcher King Smith , , Paired Against REPUBLICANS Glenn MsMaster Me Nary Brookhart Robison tRy-' DEMOCRATS Thomas George Thomas (Okla.) Heflin The senate scene during the vote was quiet and intense. Polls showed the issue would be close. Until the last minute three or four senators were in doubt. Galleries Are Packed A hundred or more representatives from the house crowded upon the floor. Nearly every senator was in his chair. Galleries were packed with wives of government officials. The clerk's voice reading the names of senators in alphabetical order reverberated like staccato shots against the walls. There were "oh's" and “ah's” as Senator Deneen, (Rep., 111.) recently defeated for renomination and who was doubtful up until the last moment, deserted the last ditch administration supporters of whom he has formed such a steadfast part in the past. Answers With Firm Shout Someone in the crowd whistled softly as another administration supporter Vandenberg (Rep.. Mich.), also joined the Republican insurrection with a firm shout of “N0..” He decided just Tuesday to vote against Parker. There was a murmur from the crowd, too. when Senator Steck (Dem., la.) deserted Democratic ranks and supported the administration choice. Parker was beaten because of the deflection of Republicans, seventeen of whom refused to follow the President. Aside from the farm bloc group, which never has been very sympathetic with the administration, the rebelling group included, in addition to Deneen and Vandenberg, such senators as Capper (Rep., Kan.); Robinson (Rep., Ind.), and Steiwer (Rep., Ore'. Any two of these votes would have put Parker over. Mr. Hoover is expected to wait a while before selecting another man.

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VOTE CLERK PIHCHED Concealed Weapon Charge Hits Official. Otis Hines, 50, of 251 West Michigan street, who served as election clerk Tuesday at the poll of the Eighth precinct, Sixth ward, was arrested early this morning on charges of carrying concealed weapons and resisting an officer. Lieutenant Michael F. Morrissey and his police squad found Hines running across the street at Vermont street and Indiana avenue, officers say, hatless and coatless. He refused to divulge where he had been or the reason for his flight. When officers attempted to search him Hines offered resistance to Lieutenant Morrissey, police claim. A blackjack was found in his pocket, officers declare. FIND BODY IN CREEK Charles Chambers Suicide; 111 Health Blamed. The body of Charles Chambers, 56, of 2933 Hillside avenue, employe in the Monon railway car repair department. today was found in Fall creek at McPherson street. He had been in ill health for several months. Chambers rose from bed last Thursday night, returning later to tell his wife he had decided to commit suicide but had changed his mind. He left again Friday night and was missing until today. The body was found in shallow water between an island and the east bank of the creek- today by Brown Patterson, 3111 North Arsenal avenue. MAXIM SEEKING TO CONQUER ALL NOISE Inventor of Silencer Sailing for Europe to Study Sound. Bu United Pret is NEW YORK. May 7.—Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim silencer for firearms, sailed today on the Aquitania for Europe to search; for some method of silencing sounds | in factories and machines. “What I am working on now,” he said, “is the application of the silencer idea to all sounds that are emitted from a pipe. We have made much progress already in this direction. I intend to study European noise problems and compare them with our American problems.” b u rolTfeetTWh u rt Plumber, Rescued After Sand Cavein. Just Wants a ‘Highball.’ fit/ United Press NEW YORK. May 7.—An emergency squad dug through twelve feet of sand today to extricate Bernard Manger, a plumber buried in a cave-in, in an excavation at Thirty-fourth street. “I’m O. K." he said. “Just give me a highball to wash the sand out of my mouth.”

Quake Ruins Famed Shrine in India

One of the famous pagodas near Rangoon, India, reported damaged by an earthquake. These ancient temples have stood for centuries.

RANGOON. Burma, May 7. The earthquake that shook lower Burma Monday and killed hundreds of natives, injuring thousands, damaged the famed Shwedagon pagoda, one of the greatest Buddhist shrines, to the extent of more than $1,000,000, it was learned today. The pagoda, located at Pegu,

Tales of Terror Related by Survivors; Many Towns Suffer in 100-Mile-an-Hour Sweep of Gale. /> ii United Press Tex., May 7.—Tornadoes that dipped and dealt death in Texas during the night took a toll of more than three score lives, a revised check of the storm-torn communities by the United Press revealed shortly before noon. Relief workers reported sixty-five bodies recovered. Scores were injured. At Nordheim one of the two places where the storms hit hardest, rescuers reported twenty-five bodies had been recovered and at Frost which virtually was wiped off the map, twenty-three bodies were recovered.

Scenes of terror were described by survivors stories cf whole families being crushed in their demolished homes, of fathers fighting blindly through the night to extricate their children. Wherever the tornadoes dipped they destroyed everything in their path, farm house, barns, city homes, power plants and public buildings. Property damage seemed to be inestimable on the first day after the disaster. Those who came out of the stricken towns doubted that the total cost of the storms in property alone ever would be known.

Destruction Is Over in Twinkling of an Eye

THE real destruction however, was too vast for any but unconnected accounts today. Edgar Bowman of Frost tells the most graphic story. “There were two large clouds which moved toward Frost,” he said. “I was watching from the window. “The clouds seemed to come together and it became black outside. “I saw nothing after that, but I heard a noise live an explosion. “Things flew through the air, houses, limbs, people, I suppose. “It was over quickly and quieter. “I could hear people shouting. “The rain came down in one continuous sheet. It was difficult to

250 Children Locked in School Are Saved

WITH the aid of two teachers we locked the children inside the school house and snuggled them together in the rooms and hallways. “One terrific gust of wind tore off the school house roof and every window in the building was broken. It happened so fast w r e scarcely knew' what it was all about but a check showed not a child had been hurt.” Two hundred and fifty children attending the school escaped injury. Twenty-one persons were saved from almost certain death when they shut themselves into vaults of the tw’o Frost banks. Frost resembled a war-torn village today. Property damage was estimate.* at $2,000,000. Immediately after the storm struck fie broke out in the ruins of the business section. A lightning bolt w'as believed responsible for the conflagration. A heavy downpour quenched the flames, but soon another fire broke out in the residential district, add-

Turn About F.n Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. May 7.—Future wives and husband? among pupils of the McKinley school here will be well acquainted with the duties of one another. Girls of the school for two weeks have been -enrolled in manual training classes while boys are learning to make fancy pastries in domestic science classes.

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near here, was surmounted by a weather vane richly studded with jewels and valued at $1,250,000. The quake sent the vane crashing to the ground from the golden tower and smashed it. Built in 585 B. C. the pagoda w r as octagonal, 370 feet high. Few alterations have been made on it since the sixteenth century,

The damage in the other sections of east central Texas was a continuation of that at Nordheim and Frost. Word came successively from Waco, Kennedy, Bynum, Spur, Ensign, Ennis, San Antonio, Bronson. Slowly the story grew into a disheartening account of an assault on the entire eastern half of the biggest state in the Union. The gale raced 100 miles an hour through Abilene, Tex., and was armed with biting sand. Damage to McMurry college there alone was expected to reach SIO,OOO. Lesser damage to property was reported at Childress, Kirkland and Ranger, Austin, Ft. Worth, Mineral Wells, Ennis and Bowie.

walk, because the town was strewn about at one’s feet.” The actual destruction was accomplished in the twinkling of an eye. The restoration of a torn countryside and broken towns—that part which can be restored—will require weeks. The scene at Frost was described by T. J. Slay, farmer. “I was going to take my little girl, Dorothy, home from school when the storm struck. After seeing it rip through the business district as if it were cardboard I knew that if the children were released from school they would all be killed by flying timbers or dashed to earth by the wind.

ing to the horror of the catastrophe. Pupils in the schools at Bowie, Tex., w-ere removed safely to the basement when a terrific windstorm struck the town. Tile was blowm from the roof of the high school and windows smashed at the ward school.

MOTHER KILLS 7 OF HER 12 CHILDREN, THEN SHOOTS SELF

Bu United Press COLUMBUS, 0., May 7.—The bodies of seven of Mrs. Ethel Yeldem’s twelve children lay side by side in a morgue today, clad in the nightclothes in which their mother had dressed them after she killed them, one by one, with a rifle. Mrs. Yeldem lay on a hospital cot with a wound in her shoulder. The eighth bullet she fired, intended to bring rest to her weary body after years of ceaseless toil, was the only one that missed its mark. Supporting her family was even a more difficult job after her second husband was sent to the Ohio penitentiary. Mrs. Yeldem found. She did her best to provide the necessities and keep the children at school by tending a news stand at night and taking in washing during the day. Monday. Mrs. Yeldem gathered ten of the children together, took them in taxis to the photographer’s, and had a group picture taken. Then she took them shopping and

and despite the decline of Pegu’s importance, Buddhists from all parts of Asia flock to it on their pilgrimages. Fifty-nine persons were killed and 204 injured by the quake in Rangoon, while the death toll at Pegu was still not completely checked, but was known to be several thousands.

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BISHOP UNDER FIRE M. E. Conference Ponders Rebuke for Cannon. Bu United Press DALLAS, Tex., May 7.—Whether political and stock market activities of Bishop James Cannon Jr. would cause filing of charges of “action unbecoming a bishop,” thereby making it an issue in the twenty-first quadrennial conference of the Methodist church, south, confronted delegates here today. Belief that charges would be filed and that settlement of the issue would be demanded before other matters are considered, was expressed by Bishop W. N. Ainsworth of Lincoln, Ga. POPULATION GOES UP Birmingham Shows Boost of 28,851 Persons. Bu United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 7. Population of Birmingham was announced as 257,657 today, an, increase of 78,851 since the 1920 census. Railroad Valuation Is Set The state tax board today set the assessment valuation of the New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois railroad at $766,932. Last year the valuation was $753,900. The railroad operates mainly in St. Joseph county.

bought them some new clothes. When she got home she sat down and wrote two notes. One was addressed to the children. “Don’t think too had of mother for this, please,” it said. “Just always do what is right. Listen to older advice. It always will be for your good whatever is told you. “I am so tired. I can’t go on, and no one to care for the rest is why I take them. I want you to go to church, do as you are taught, and try to live this down.” Ten of the children were at home when she finished. Mildred Geller, 17, daughter by a former marriage, she sent to a grocery, and phoned a neighbor asking her to detain Mildred for a while on the way home. Vernon, 12, was sent to mind his news stand. The others prepared for bed. What followed is not quite clear It appeared she shot the younger children while they were sleep, and then called the others, one by one, to an upstairs bedroom and shot them in the heart with a .22 -caliber

HOLMES CONGRESS LEAD PARED DOWN; STARK IS AHEAD; COLLINS TRAILS BULLETIN Unofficial returns on Republican candidates from 173 of Marion county’s 331 precincts this afternoon gave: For Congress, Hall, 4,283; Hiner, 3,447; Holmes, 4,386; Mowrer, 3,865; Smith, 3,651. For criminal court judge, Collins, 9,340; Pritchard, 10,315. For prosecutor, Henderson, 7,114; Stark, 9,767. Lead of Ira M. Holmes, avowed wet, for the Republican nomination for representative in Congress, was cut down by Arichbald M. Hall, manufacturer and staunch dry, as the unofficial vote from approximately half of Marion county’s 331 precincts clicked through the adding machine this afternoon. Because of the distinct wet and dry issue in the five-sided G. O. P. congressional race it drew the interest of Democrats as well “as Republicans after Judson L. Stark appeared assured of the Republican prosecutorship renomination and Walter Pritchard of the nomination for the criminal court bench. With 158 precincts reporting unofficially, Holmes led the congressional field with 3,960 votes. Hall was close behind with 3,867; Schuyler Mowrer, dry, next with 3,558; Asa J. Smith, dry, next with 3,321, and Ward B. Hiner, wet, trailing with 30,70. Stark’s lead over Laurens L. Henderson at this point was 8,829 to 6,401. Pritchard seemed safely on his way to the criminal court nomination with 9 293 votes to 8,474 for Collins, the incumbent for the last twenty years. ) i

Marion county Democrats this afternoon were interested in only one primary race as returns from approximately one-half of the 331 precincts were received. The focal point was the close contest of Thomas E. Garvin and Smiley N. Chambers for the probate court bench. As reports continued to come in the two candidates were from ten to fifteen votes apart with Chambers more often in the lead. Chambers resigned as corporation counsel in order to enter the primary campaign. Garvin is judge of civil municipal court one. Unofficial returns from approximately half the precincts caused Democratic leaders to regard the following as the probable personnel of their ticket in the fall: For Representative in Congress— Louis Ludlow. For Judge of Superior Court One —Johft W. Kern. For Judge of Superior Court Two —Joseph R. Williams. For Judge of Superior Court Three—William A. Pickens. For Judge of Superior Court Four —Clarence E. Weir. For Judge of Superior Court Five —Russell J. Ryan. For Judge of Juvenile Court— John Geckler. For Judge Criminal Court —Frank For Prosecutor —Herbert E. Wilson. „ , , For County Clerk —Glenn Ralston. For County Treasurer Frank Woolling. , For County Auditor Charles Grossart. For County Sheriff Charles Sumner. For County Recorder—lra P. Haymaker. PETITION LACKS EFFECT Terre Haute Judge Comments on Election Law Statement. Bm Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 7. Calling the grand jury for the May term of Vigo circuit court, which will convene Thursday, Judge John p. Jeffries, commenting on a petition expressing a fear that laws would be violated in the primary election Tuesday said: “I see no reason why I should be bothered with this petition. It will be the grand jury’s duty to investigate any and all law violations that are brought before it and any citizen can appear before the grand jury to present or prefer charges.” School Census Smaller Bill Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., May 7.—Despite a decrease of 351 persons of school gae in Newcastle, school officials are elated as it had been predicted the business depression had reduced the population of the city to a much larger degree. It had been believed the loss would be around 500.

rifle, a towel held over the muzzle to muffle the sound, Elaine, seeing her brothers and sisters lying dead as she entered the room had time to rim to a window'. “Help, help, mother is killing us all,” she screamed. A playmate outside paid no attention. Elaine was dragged away from the window. The other children the mothei had killed were Eldon Geller, 19; Eleanor, 8; Byron, 7; Wayne, 6, and the twins, Alice and Allen, 3. Mrs. Yeldem’s next act was to undress the children, dress them in clean nightclothes, and lay them in bed. Then she attempted to kill herself. Vernon was still at the newsstand. He heard other newsboys shouting “Extra!” but had earlier papers to dispose of and paid no attention. Then one of the newsboys recognized him and called the attention of a newspaper reporter to him, and he was taken home. Dry-eyed and stunned, he watched the bodies of his seven brothers and sisters placed in hearses.

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STARK TO MAKE PROBE OF VOTE THEFT CHARGES Candidate, Three Officials Arrested in Alleged Ballot Stuffing. Returning to Marion county courthouse at noon today after investigation of several polling places in which election boards were rumored to have allowed ballot grabs, Prosecutor Judson L. Stark announced he would defer any filing of affidavits until official tabulation of the primary vote was completed. Then he will check the tally with information he says he now possesses, and determine whether there is sound evidence of dishonesty in the count. “No one is going to steal this election from me,” Stark asserted in conversation with newspaper men. Visited Polling Places Seeking renomination as the Republican entry in the prosecutor's race in fall elections, Stark at noon appeared to have a sturdy lead over his nearest opponent, Laurens Henderson. Three election workers and a precinct committeeman candidate were arrested early today after the latter is said to have marked twenty-five ballots for himself while the board tabulated precinct returns. “Many precinct committeemen candidates seem to think they may walk into a polling place with a watcher’s badge in their pockets and sit in on the tabulation, often with advantage to themselves,” Stark said after his investigation. Sought Cheating Evidence It was known he visited the polling place of the Seventeenth precinct of the First ward, at Tenth street and Keystone avenue, together with other precinct polls in the First and other wards, seeking evidence of cheating. Stark refused to reveal locations of the polling places he visited this morning. Deputy election commissioners returning from inspection of the Seventeenth precinct, First ward, (Turn to Page 8) U. S. ENGINEERS WILL DEVELOP SOVIET REGION Great Cotton Empire to Be Built by Irrigation Project. Bu United Press MOSCOW, May 7.—The Soviet government was going ahead steadily today with plans for development of one of the world's greatest cotton areas in Turkestan. American engineers are now in Moscow conferring with government officials on plans for irrigation of the vast territory, made accessible by the opening of the TurkestanSiberian railway on May 1. The project when carried through would mean the purchase of millions of dollars worth of machinery j from the United States, but it also ; would offer strong competition to cotton belts of that country. Several hundred American engineers also would be employed to carry the irrigation project to completion. Their task would be to harness the plentiful waters of the Syr-Daria river. The irrigation enterprise would j surpass anything in the United , States, the engineers said. If they j get the contract, and it appeared they would, it was hoped 1,000,000 acres of Turkestan would be under cultivation by 1933. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 69 10 a. m 71 7a. m 69 11 a. m 72 j Ba. m 71 12 (noon).. 71 8 a. m 72 1 p. m 75

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Unofficial returns to Republican ! headquarters indicated the remainder of the Republican ticket for the fall election probably will be: For Representative in Congress— Ira M. Holmes. For Judge of Superior Court One —James M. Leathers. For Judge of Superior Court Two —Linn D. Hay. For Judge of Superior Court Three --William O. Dunlavy. For Judge of Superior Court Four —William S. McMaster. For Judge of Superior Court Five —Joseph M. Milner. For Judge of Probate Court—Mahlon E.. Bash. For Judge of Juvenile CourtFrank J; Lahr. For County Clerk—Jesse P. McClure. For County Auditor—William Birchard Butler. For County Treasurer—Frank Cones. For County Recorder—Frank R. Childers. For County Sheriff—George L. Winkler. For County Coroner—Charles H. Keever. For County Surveyor—Paul R. Brown. For County Assessor—James W. Elder. For County Commissioner (First district)—John E. Shearer. For County Commissioner (Second district)—Charles C. Sutton. Unofficial returns from 158 scattered precincts of the 331 precincts ih Marion county gave these results: Representative in Congress— Archibald M. Hall, 3,867; Ward B. Kiner, 3,070; Ira M. Holmes, 3,960; Schuyler C. Mowrer, 3,558; Asa J. Smith, 3,321. Judge Superior Court One —William D. Bain, 2,951; Charles J. Karabell, 4,704; James M. Leathers, 8,188. Judge Superior Court Two—Linn D. Hay, 10,097; Hezzie B. Pike, 1,876. Judge Probate Court—Mahlon E. Bash, 11,018; John F. Engelke, 3,890. Judge Criminal Court—James A. Collins, 8,474; Walter Pritchard, 9,293. Judge Juvenile Court—Edwin C. Boswell, 5,334; Frank J. Lahr, 9,506. Prosecuting Attorney—Laurens L. Henderson, 6,401; Judson L. Stark, 8,829. County Clerk—William Bosson Jr., I, George O. Hutsell, 6,576; Jesse J. P. McClure, 7,327. County Auditor—William Burchard Butler, 7,291; John William Ebaugh. 3,422; Leo K. Fessler, 4,0(52. County Treasurer —Frank Cones, 7,800; Charles McKinley Dawson, 6,629. County Recorder—Frank R. Childers, 5,294; George William Elliott, 1,816; R. Walter Jarvis, 5,398. Sheriff —Orin E. Davis, 1,972; John G. Willis, 3,150; George L. Winkler, 9,535. Coroner —Ralph R. Coble, 4,912; Charles H. Keever, 5,551. Surveyor—Paul R. Brown, 6,775; Henry R. Campbell, 2,750; George G. Schmidt, 3.030. County Assessor—James W. Elder, 7,895; Herman F. Rikhoff, 2,468. Commissioner (First district)— Arthur F. Eickhoff, 4,541; George E. Kincaid, 2,409; John E. Shearer. 6,437. Commissioner (Third district)— Albert M. Anderson, 4.433; Albert Hoffman, 3,426; Charles O. Sutton, 5,554. Because of the vast number of candidates for legislative nominations, no totals were struck in these offices in early compilations. At 7 this morning the canvassing board began the tedious task of reading and tabulating the returns from the 331 precincts. Working night and day, the job probably will not be finished before Friday. Republican organization heads began checking the vote on precinct committeemen in preparation for the district and county convention Saturday. Wayne Emmelman, secretary of the G. O. P. county committee declared that the organization was assured 280 of the 331 precinct committeemen. but Rae Powell, state chairman of the Junior Republican League and James Bradford, league county chairman, said that they would have slightly more than eighty committeemen.