Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1930 — Page 1

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AMAZING DROP IN EXPORTS IS TARIFF LESSON Tremendous Slump in U. S. Foreign Trade Is Start of Return Blows. BUSINESS IS PERILED Buying of Machinery on Increase; Study Gives Ominous Aspect. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May 13.—As foreign resentment against the Haw-ley-Smoot tariff measure gathers momentum, the department of commerce bares the startling fact that fewer American-made goods were sold abroad during the first quart*.' of 1930, by long odds, than in any similar period in recent years. The average loss in commodities was 20 per cent under 1929, but i.\ one of the most important of ali, namely motor cars, the decline was over 50 per cent. Coinciding as it does with the bitter opposition to America s new super duties now reported in Canada, Great Britain, France and other countries, the news is causing considerable uneasiness. This tremendous slump in America’s foreign trade his struck industrial and agricultural workers equally hard. Cotton exports are the lev. they have been since 1922. Boost Takes Ominous Turn American-made machinery and petroleum products, however, registered an increa. e. and this, at first glance, seemed cause for congratulation. But closer study gave the fact an ominous turn instead of an encouraging one. The rush of machinery was to countries which are planning to make themselves independent of the United States by Americanizing their methods, while our petroleum and its derivatives went dirt cheap, mostly to lands which are hoarding their own supply until we get rid of ours. In other words, economists point out, foreign countries are prepar- j ing to retaliate against our tariff policy by turning our own weapons against us. ! By buying American machinery for farm and factory, and employing American ideas in production they aim to produce for themselves not only everything they now buy from us, but enough to sell in competition with us In foreign markets as well. Takes 584.000,000 Drop And by buying gas and oil while we foolishly overproduce and sell cheaply, they materially speed the day when our reserves will be gone and they can open up theirs and make us pay through the nose for every drop which we must then buy from them. Such Is the real significance seen in the 5 to 10 per cent increase in machinery and petroleum sales this year. * During the first three months of last year, $181,200,000 worth of American motor cars were sold to foreigners. During the first three months of this year only $97,500,000 worth were similarly disposed of. Economists point out that this $84,000.000 drop has a much more serious effect on American prosperity than appears on the surface. Department of commerce figures indicate that foreign countries, seeing their products barred out of the United States, are beginning to hit back even before the new tariff becomes law. And their blows already are beginning to smart. POLICE SEEK HUSBAND Disappears After Wife Alleges She Was Beaten Unconscious. Police today continued search for Arthur Price, accused by his wife, Mrs. Violet Price. 32, of Edgewood of boating her into unconsciousness in thrtr car Monday afternoon in the 900 block on East Georgia street. Mrs. Price declared her husband spent his week's salary for liquor and beat her when she reproached him with leaving their four children foodless.

NANSEN, 68, FAMED ARCTIC EXPLORER, TAKEN BY DEATH

Noted Norwegian Passes at Oslo, Still Planning Polar Flight. Bn l rsitfd Prtaa OSLO. May 13—Fridtjof Nansen, famous Norwegian explorer, died today at the age of 68. Nansen, despite his advanced age. still was engaged actively in Arctic exploration plans and recently had attempted to organize an aerial expedition to the north pole. The plans were delayed when the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, which was to have been used on the flight, was not made available by the Zeppelin company. Nansen, whose greatest polar explorations were made in the last year of the nineteenth century, also was famous as a .statesman and scientist. In 1923 he won the Nobel peace prize for his work In further international amity and in famine relief in Russia. Nansen started his explorations

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Rah! Rah! Rah!—Knees! War on Long Trousers

Bn t nited Press HANOVER, N. H., May 13.—Dartmouth students will attempt Wednesday to shatter the tradition which rules that men shall wear long trousers. At least 50 per cent of the undergraduates, it was estimated today by proponents of the plan for freedom of the knees, will appear on the campus i khaki shorts. The Daily Dartmouth, undergraduate newspaper, indorsed the declaration of knee independence.’ “The knees that are seen in Hanover tomorrow will be seen around the world," the Daily Dartmouth said editorially today. "All the reputation of college men In general for sartorial courage hangs in the balance."

CAGLE MARRIED; TO QUIT ARMY Gridiron Star Wed Secretly Two Years Ago. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, May 13.—Christian K. Cagle, the Armys all-Ameri-can half back, will be forced to resign from We3t Point, due to a secret marriage nearly two years ago, war department officials said today. Cagle, a senior classman, previously had announced his intention to resign so he could enter business and coach football. Cagle was married to Miss Marion Hale of New Roads, La., Aug. 25, 1928, at Gretna. La., but kept his marriage secret, fearing he would be forced to resign if it became public, it was learned at the department. Lieutenant-Commander Whipple, adjutant of the academy, was here today conferring with high army officials over Cagle's recent statement that he would be compelled to resign, due to the small salary paid a second lieutenant. The football star was quoted as saying the combined incomes of his two positions, as coach of the Mississippi A. and M. football team and as bond salesman for a New Orleans brokerage house, would be more than that of a major-general. Whipple said Cagle admitted he was married when confronted with the reports by West Point officials. The furore raised over the case is expected by war department officials to be quieted by his withdrawal from the academy.

Speedy Ford! Car Magnate Ciiai'engsc ! Sa::'ents to Race 100 Yards.

->_a_.lJ a .N, Mich.. May 13. .I Jt Henry Fora's offer to outoxeci any. student of Dearborn's un cr high schools in a 100-yard .cot race today, went unaccepted. The motor magnate issued the hallenge Monday night while at ending an old-fashioned dance prnrored by the high schools. With Mrs. Ford and some old fr nds. Ford watched the dancers. ’ autographed the programs of more than three hundred children and then sat reminiscing with some of his former school mates. “You were a pretty lively boy back in those days, remarked Miss Eleanor Woodward. “Yes, and I still can get along,” replied Ford. “Right now I challenge any one on the floor, the students included, to a foot race.” POLICEMAN IS FIRED Claude Koontz Convicted on Intoxication Charge. Patrolman Claude Koontz’s career as a policeman ended today when the board of safety discharged him following conviction on a charge of intoxication. Fireman Thomas J. McGlynn, who pleaded guilty to drinking two weeks ago. was given a four months’ fine. He has been a fireman fifteen years. The safety board revoked special police powers of Charles Bruner, 1414 East Tenth street, merchant policeman, held by police as a “hit-and-run” driver following an accident at Meridian and Maryland streets last week.

on the Arctic ship Viking in 1882, ! when he went for a seal hunting trip and developed the interest in exploration which might come to any 20-year-old youth on such a journey. Naturally a lover of strenuous sports, he conceived the idea of crossing the unexplored regions of Greenland on skis, which he did in (ho face of contrary advice by experts. While on the Viking voyage he had escaped the jaws of a hungry polar bear only by leaping from one block of ice to another until he could get in position to shoot the animal, but his Greenland trip with five companions tested his courage to the utmost. At the age of 28. when he already had considerable reputation, Nansen became curator of. the museum of comparative anatomy at Oslo and married Eva Sars. daughter of Professor Michael Sars of Christiania university. She was wellknown as a singer. Mrs. Nansen died in 1907. Ax few years after his marriage,

Tears Help Win Divorce for Colleen Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, May 13.—Her story of a husband who always was in an ugly mood and who never apologized won a divorce here today for Colleen Moore, one of the screen’s best known players. Superior Judge Thomas Gould granted her an interlocutory decree after the actress testified briefly of many humiliations she suffered from John E. McCormick, prominent motion picture producer. The actress, bringing the suit under her real name, Katleen Morrison McCormick, was on the verge of tears as she took the stand in the crowded courtroom and recited details of her married life. McCormick, she said, frequently made disparaging remarks about her friends. “He was always in an ugly mood when my friends called,” the actress said. “He would say they bored him or that they did not have any taste. He never apologized.” HOOVER TO VIEW FLEET U. S. Battleships to Cruise Off Virginia Capes for President. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 13.—President Hoover will review the United States battle fleet off the Virginia capes next Tuesday, it was announced at the White House today.

FOUR TRIED FOR SAFE BLOWINGS Youths Charged With 20 Strong Box Jobs. Four youths, alleged members of a r ang said by police to have operated n a score of Indiana cities, blowing twenty safes and entering a dozen stores, will appear Saturday before Criminal Judge James A. Collins to hear judgment pronounced on auto banditry and burglary charges lodged against each in indictments. The youths are Ralph Baines, 22, cf 3426 North Emerson avenue; Everett Perry, 22, of 1363 South Sheffield avenue: Alonzo Head, 18, of 810 Prospect street, and Freddie Donaldson, 19, of 1653 East Raymond street. Pleas of guilty by each defendant to the burglary counts were resisted today by Deputy Prosecutor William R. Ringer, who told Collins that the activities of the quartet in almost every city of major size in this state, set out in statements of each to police, makes conviction on the banditry charge mandatory. Motion of defense attorneys to prevent introductions of the statements as evidence was sustained today by Collins, who continued the trials to Saturday. Arson Case Is Continued Case of Charles Ketrow, 56, of 405 North Blackford street, charged with arson in connection with an alleged attempt to set fire to the Balke & Krauss Laundry Company, 427 West Market street, Sunday night, was continued until May 16 by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Monday. Negro Held for Theft Charged with stealing $33 from the Carr Tire and Battery shop, 43 West Walnut street, Turner Hawell, 28. Negro, 2310 Indianapolis avenue, was arrested today of Detectives George Hubbard and Edgar Deeter.

Achieved Fame as Statesman and Scientist; Aided in Russian Famine. Nansen set out to prove a theory that a comparatively warm water current from Siberia passed near the north pole, as indicated by Siberian coastal driftwood found on the west shore of Greenland. The idea was ridiculed by scientists, but Nansen raised $120,000 and set out in 1893 on an expedition which was to last for three years. He sailed on the stout polar ship Fram, which became known throughout the world for the voyage. Fridtjof Nansen will be remembered in Indianapolis for his illustrated lecture in Caleb Mills hall, Shortridge high school, Feb. 28, 1929, under auspices of the Indiana Council of International Relations.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1930

HOMEBREW MAY BE LEGAL, M’BRIDE SAYS ‘Loopholes in Law Possible/ Anti-Saloon League Chief Admits. AIDED DRINKING DRYS Lobby Probers Hear Denial of ‘Threat’ Against Dwight Morrows. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, May 13.—The prohibition law may permit the manufacture of beer and wines in the home, F. Scott Mcßride, general superintenednt of the Anti-Saloon League, guardedly told the senate lobby committee today. Mcßride said Representative Franklin Fort (Rep., N. J.) “may be right” in his contention that such manufacture of mild liquor is lawful. He qualified this statement, however, with the later assertion the league had taken no position on the matter and that he is not sure whether the home-brewing loophole is open. Mcßride also admitted during his third day on the stand the league supported some dry congressmen who drink. “Not very many of them,” he said. “Most of them exist only in newspaper headlines.” Discusses Impeachment Case The dry leader previously had admitted having discussed with Illinois and Ohio congressmen the impeachment case of Judge George W. English of Illinois. He denied having tried to halt impeachment, however. English, a dry leader, was impeached by the house in 1926 for alleged irregularities. He resigned before he was tried by the senate. “So a member of congress whose trunk is found to be a little leaky, does not concern you?” asked Senator Blaine (Rep.. Wis.), a wet, during the discusssion about drinking congressmen. “Oh, yes. We have not supported them knowingly.” “Have you a list of wet-drinking dry-voting congressmen?” “No. There isn’t any such list.” Claims He Was Misquoted Chairman Caraway asked if McBride made a speech in New Jersey two weeks ago stating that un-' less Dwight W. Morrow “turned so dry he squeaks we will beat him in his primary campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination.” “No threat was intended,” said Mcßride, who claimed he had been misquoted in newspapers. Caraway asked if the league had not brought out Representative Fort, a dry, as a threatened candidate against Morrow. “You neve a purpose in your threat?’ as ted Caraway. “No, I was surprised when I read Mr. Fort might run. I don’t know Mr. Fort.” He May Be Right “Does the Anti-Saloon League believe with Mr. Fort that you can make liquor in your home?” “It was a great surprise. We are divided on the question. He may be right. I think there are certain phases .of the law—well, the law is not 100 per cent good yet and there may be loopholes to permit manufacture in the homes.” “What are the holes in it?” “I don’t know.” The committee then adjorned until next Tuesday, when Mcßride will be recalled. Earlier in today’s session Mcßride became indignant when, Blaine sought to question him further about his "claim of “divine origin for the league.” When he refused to answer Blaine said “every cruel and wicked tyrant of the past always has claimed the support of God.” FLIER ON SPEED HOP Turner Reaches Wichita in Cross-Nation Dash. Bu United Press WICHITA. Kan., May 13—Colonel Roscoe Turner, attempting to break Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s onestop record from coast to coast, landed at the airport here at 10:44. Lindbergh made the 1,249 miles here in 6 hours 56 minutes and 10 seconds. Turner made the flight from Los Angeles here in 7 hours 41 minutes: approximately forty-five minutes behind Lindbergh’s record. CITIES SHOW GAINS Palo Alto, Cal., Boosts Population 131 Per Cent. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. May 13.—Palo Alto. Cal., President Hoover's home town and four other cities filing preliminary census returns with the census bureau today, reported population gains of more than 100 per cent. Palo Alto showed a 131 per cent increase over 1920, with a population of 13,635 on April 1. Amarillo, Tex., showed a 1,62 per cent gain, moving up from 15.494 to 43.107. San Mateo. Cal., reported a population of 13.439. an increase of 124 per cent and Monroe. La., 26,002, a gain of 105 per cent. Ponca City. Okla.. increased 124 per cent to a population of 15^33.

‘OVER THERE,’ HE SLEEPS!

Red Tape Bars Mother From Grave

BY ARCH STEINEL SOMEWHERE in France there’s a cross marking the grave of an Indiana boy who fell in the World war. It is near a road in a farmer’s field. The field is under cultivation. Blackberries grow nearby in the fall of the year. The grave’s marker reads, “Lee G. Winslow, Cos. E, 2nd Engineers, 2nd division, A. E. F„ killed in action Oct. 3, 1918.” Somewhere in the heart of the mother of that boy—Mrs. Addie Winslow, 71, of Fairmount, Ind., —is a cry at the knowledge that the grave she knows is there, can’t be found by the United States government. The cry is accentuated by the edict that because the grave can’t be found, the country in whose cause her son died, has refused her the right to make a pilgrimage with other Indiana Gold Star mothers to her shrine. n a SHE has appealed to the war department and the American Graves Registration bureau in Paris, to find the little white cross by the blackberry bushes. She has sent maps of the grave’s location, copies of letters from her boy’s commanding officer telling of his burial, and officialdom’s last reply was; “The ground where your son is supposed to be buried is under cultivation and further search can not be made until after harvest. In her Fairmount home near her snowball bushes, she fondling the big white blossoms and said: I’d like to lay a few on my baby boy’s grave.” She told how her Lee. only a boy of 20, enlisted in 1918 in the Second Engineers. “I heard from him often. He wanted a pillow cover. I sent him & feather pillow I made with ray own hands. It was the last thing I gave him. In September of 1918, I got his last letter,” and She displayed a yellowed missive scribbled on Y. M. C. A. paper used by the A. E. F. “I think I’ll be able to write often from now on,” the letter ended. tt n tt A SECOND letter told of Lee’s death. It was from Second Lieutenant James V. Slade. “A nasty plane came over and ‘checked’ a valley in our midst. We buried your boy near a hasty bridge on a road between Somme Py and Souvain,” the letter told. “I got other letters and a map describing the spot of my son’s grave marker. They sent back his baseball glove, his shaving strop, his watch. In his lasi, letters he told about the blackberries near where they were entrenched and how he guessed he would stop writing and go out and pick some,” his mother related.

Operates Twice on Own Appendix With Razor Bu Times Snrcial NEW YORK, May 13—Louis Capetta died Monday night, although he thought the operation for appendicitis which he performed on himself with a razor blade had been successful. Capetta’s friends told him the pain in his side was appendicitis. He couldn’t afford a surgeon’s fees, so he operated on himself, removing part of the appendix without the aid of anesthetic. He had traced the position of the organ from a cheap book on medicine. When the pain returned after a few days, Capetta operated again, this time removing more of the offending member. But the pain would not leave him, so he went to a hospital and told the astonished physicians of his amateur self-surgery. He did not know he could have had treatment as a charity patient. Monday night he died of peritonitis.

ACQUIT 4 BISHOPS; CANNON FACES FIRE

Remains Only Prelate to Face Formal Charge of Censure. Bu Vnited Press DALLAS. Tex., May 13.—Bishop James Cannon Jr., nationally known churchman, remained the only prelate of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, facing formal charges of censure today in a conference here marked by internal strife against alleged “scandalous actions of bishops.” Four other bishops censured by critics in the ranks were voted clean bills of character. The charges alleged the prelates were subject to criticism for maladministration or stock market speculation. or, in one case, both. A charge alleging Bishop Cannon’s conduct" unbecoming a bishop" in speculative dealings with a New York “bucket shop” was expected to be placed formally before the committee on episcopacy tonight. The bishops mentioned in censure but later given a clean vote by the 3 CHILDREN SOUGHT Believed Kidnaped; Missing Since Saturday. NEW ORLEANS. May 13.—Search was instituted today for three children of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Barriors, missing since Saturday, and believed kidnaped. The three, Imedla, 10; Homer, 8, and Hubert, 7, were sent on an errand to a neighborhood store, and disappeared.

Jfc *, 1 FRENCH FLIERS J SPAN ATLANTIC Mermoz and two companions completed a tran-Atlantic test flight ' '' Mil! preparatory to establishing an t'\ fill ocean air mail service when they f landed here from St. Louis, Sene- / ■ *'>' ' Mermoz, Navigator D'Abry and

Mrs. Addie Winslow (top) among her backyard snowball bushes. *■" Lower photo: Her son Lee. HEARSE DRIVER IS HELD Charged With Intoxication After Funeral Car Is in Crash. GENOIR, N. C., May 13.—Robert Moritz, undertaker, was held today on a charge of driving a hearse while intoxicated. Moritz’ hearse collided with another automobile.

episcopacy committee included Bishop John A. Moore, Dallas, Tex., and Bishop Edwin Du Bose Mouson, Charlotte, N. C., acquitted of charges of “political activity,” preferred by Rembert Smith of Washington. Ga Moore also was acquitted of a “stock dealing” charge preferred by a Texas delegate. Bishop W’arren Aken Candler, Atlanta, Ga., and Bishop Collins Denny, Richmond, Va., were acquitted of charges of “maladministration.”

KILLER OF GIRL, 9, HUNTED BY ENRAGED lOWA CITIZENS

Armed lowa Posse, Aided by Bloodhounds, Seek Child’s Slayer. Bu United Press DES MOINES, May 13.—Grimly determined in their mission of vengeance, posses of armed citizens, working with police and soldiers, kept up a relentless search today for the attacker and slayer of 9-year-old Evelyn Lee. During the night the city pas the scene of a widespread but unrewarded manhunt, which started late Monday when the body of the little girl was found in a vacant lot. She had been missing from her home since Saturday. When physicians said she had been attacked and then choked to death an aroused citizenry took up the hue and cry for her attacker. Shotguns and rifles were seized by enraged fathers, who grouped them-

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FRENCH FLIERS SPAN ATLANTIC Trio Completes Journey to Brazil in 20 Hours. Bu United Press NATAL, Brazil, May 13—Jean Mermoz and two companions completed a tran-Atlantic test flight preparatory to establishing an ocean air mail service when they landed here from St. Louis, Senegal, early today. Mermoz, Navigator D'Abry and Radio Operator Gimie brought with them 308 pounds of French mail, thereby making their flight the first commercial air crossing of the South Atlantic despite eight previous trans-Atlantic flights along the southern route. The big seaplane of the Compagnie Aero-postale was brought to a landing here approximately twenty hours fifteen minutes after taking off from St. Louis, where it had picked up the mail from the regular Toulouse-to-St. Louis mail plane. Curtains Are Burned Curtains in the Kee-Ray beauty shop, Room 302, Meyer-Kiser bank building, blazed Monday night, but damage was confined to the drapes in the shop. MERCURY WILL DROP % Showers, Cooler Forecast for Wednesday. Showers, probably thunderstorms, and temperature drop of several degrees are due in Indianapolis Wednesday, J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the United States weather bureau here foreca.L today. Today’s high temperature was expected to be in the seventies, while the maximum Wednesday probably will be somewhere between 60 and 70 degrees, Armington said. The northwest portion of the state will feel the temperature decline tonight. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 59 10 a. m 71 7a. m 61 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 68 12 (noon).. 72 9 a. m 70 1 p. m 69 Accused of Forgery Harry Strasser, 47, Denison hotel, was arrested early today on forgery charges, and charged with having signed the name of Kurt F. Pantzer, 4525 North Delaware street, to a $4 check which was cashed in a downtown bank.

selves with police and started searching the city. Military police from Ft. Des Moines immediately joined in the hunt. More than one hundred men with bloodhounds and pistols hunted the banks of Four Mile creek today for the murderer of the child. Threats of vengeance were on the lips of police, soldiers and volunteers as they pounded the undergrowth for clews. All other police work has been stopped. Bloodhounds, taken to the spot where Evelyn's body was found, failed to pick up a scent, although several fresh tracks were found. The dogs today were led up and down the banks in hopes they would sniff out anew trail of the murderer. The only definite clew was that the murderer strangled the child with his left hand and that he apparently drove his automobile down the creek bank over a little used , trail to get rid of the girl’s body.

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SPEED LIMIT RETURN URGED TO SAVE LIVES State Accidents Increase 60 Per Cent Without ‘Brake/ Says Humes. COURTS ARE BURDENED State Chief Will Ask Next Legislature to Take Action. "Restore a definite speed limit on state highways before the majority of Indiana motorists get killed.” This was the plea made today by Chief Robert L. Humes of the state police department in announcing he will ask the next legislature, in 1931, to pass anew speed law setting a fixed limit to the rate at which cars may travel on highways throughout the state. “The speed limit of forty miles an hour was lifted by the last legislature,” Humes explained. “Since that time accidents on rural roads throughout the state have increased 60 per cent. “Restore a definite speed limit. That is the only answer to the problem.” .Repealed Limit in 1929 Prior to 1927, the speed limit on Indiana highways was defined as thirty-five miles an hour. That year the legislature raised it to forty and in 1929 repealed the limit entirely. “This action has put a burden on the courts, which must decide whether the speed at which a motorist was driving when arrested was ‘reckless.’ ” Humes’ asserted. “The courts in turn have put the burden back on the policeman who made the arrest. In many instances it would seem that the officer and not the motorist is on trial. “With a definite limit set there can be no doubt about the guilt or innocence of the driver. It is comparatively easy for a policeman to prove that a car was going beyond the legal limit of speed.” Fifield Reserves Judgment Humes would set the limit at “not more than fifty miles an hour.” He also would limit the length of loads. carried by trucks and trailers. The long loads block passing and also are a cause of numerous accidents, the chief declared. Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state, said he Las not formed a judgment as yet on whether or not a definite speed limit should be restored by statute. He agreed with Humes on the great accident increase since the speed limit was lifted. “We took a poll of the state police regarding this question and found them divided about fifty-fifty in the matter,’’ Fifield said. “I am going to reserve judgment for further study. “Eomething must be dene to save lives.” WOMAN PURSUES DOG TORTURER 3 MONTHS Irene Castle Lands Man in Jail for Cruelty to Crippled Collie. Bu t ivifed Press CHICAGO, May 13.—Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin, Chicago society leader and former professional dancer, has just completed a threemonth pursuit of a man who mistreated a dog. Today she had the satisfaction of seeing him locked up in the Bridewell to work out a $25 fine. Since the last zero wave Mrs. McLaughlin had been helping the state apprehend Henry Prenshaffer, who left a crippled collie alone in a temperature of 14 degrees below zero when he moved from Des Plaines to Chicago. Chairman Re-Elected HAMMOND, Ind., May 13.—W. J. McAleer. Hammond attorney, today was re-elected Republican chairman of the Tenth Indiana district, a post he has held fifteen months. The election was made at the district convention at Rensselaer. Held for Auto Theft Milton Tctton, 19. of 1235 South Pershing avenue, was under arrest today, on vehicle taking charges, accused af theft of an automobile in the city last fall.

Body of Child Flung Into Bushes After Murder at Des Moines. Tobias C. Lee, father of the girl, was the only member of the griefstricken family to give a thought to the manhunt. “Have they got any clews? What are they doing to avenge this crime?” The father queried the police. Told that a half a dozen suspects had been arrested and that every effort was being bent to capture the killer, he turned again to comfort the family of two small brothers and a stepmother. Detectives still were uncertain, after questioning a number of witnesses, whether the crime was the work of more than one man. Evelyn’s playmates told of seeing her with two men in a delivery truck.