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AIR MONOPOLY PLOT LAID TO RADIOCOMBINE Injunction Against R. C. A. Is Petitioned by Federal Authorities. PATENT ‘COINER’ CITED Giant Merger of Nine Units Is Branded as illegal Conspiracy. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 14.—A widespread conspiracy to obtain monopoly of the radio industry is charged by the government against the Radio Corporation of America and nine other companies in the petition filed in the federal court of Wilmington, Del., which was made public today by the justice department. It alleges violation of the Sherman anti-trust act on thirtyseven counts. Reciting the eleven-year history of the development of the Radio Corporation and affiliated organizations holding 4.000 patents, the petition said the defendants were conspiring to create an illegal radio monopoly through cross-licensing arrangements existing among them. Reviews Each Unit The lengthy petition reviewed the inception of each separate unit of : the $6,000,000,000 radio combination i and alleged that by preventing all patent litigations among themselves, they were able to “assert the exclusive right to use nnd enjoy said patents irrespective of their validity.’* The recently announced merger oi the radio manufacturing interests of the Westnighcuse and General Electric companies with the Radio Corporation wou’d “effect and make more permanent their restraint and monopolization of interstate commerce in radio apparatus by a reorganization of the business of saic three companies, it asserted. Would Clinch Control It declared the proposed merger would perpetuate control of the Radio Corporation by the two parent electric companies. The petition asked the court to enjoin the defendants perpetually from “confining to carry out, directly or indirectly, expressly or impliedly, the said combination and conspiracy, attempt to monopolize, and from entering into or carrying out. any similar combination and conspiracy.” Other defendants named were General Electric, American Telephone and Telegraph, Western Electric, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, RCA Photophone, RCA Radiotron. RCA-Vic-tor Company, General Motors Radio Corporation and General Motors Corporation. DIES TO EVADE DEAD ‘LIFE-FOR-PINT’ LAW Bootlegger Feared Fourth Term, Poison His Way Out. Itu United Press LANSING. Mich., May 14.—Michigan's “life for a pint" law continues to terrify liquor law violators although it was removed from the fist of effective statutes eight months ago. Eric Warren. 43, a thrice convicted prohibition law violator ended his life with poison because he preferred death to facing consequences of a fourth conviction. MAY 24 IS DATE FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Treasurer’s Office to Be Open to Receive Payments. Doors of the Marion county treasurer's office will be opened May 24 to delinquent taxpayers. C. O. Har ris. deputy county treasurer, said today. Spring tax installments, with delinquency fees added, may be paid at that time, Harris said. Receipts of those persons who paid taxes by mail before the deadline May 5 will be forwarded within the next week, according to Harris. arrest car motorman Brooks Baker Charged With Failure to Stop After Crash. Brooks Baker. 26. Beech Grove, street car motorman, today was charged with failure to stop after an accident, in which the car he was operating collided with an automobile at Sanders and Shelby streets Tuesday. Mrs. Estell Wagner. R. R. 17. Box 204--B. passenger in the auto, driven by her husband, was injured slightly. MAN CLUBBED BY GIRL Candlest ck Used to Repel Alleged Invasion of Apartment. A police squad answering a call at 316 East North street, early today found Parrot Van, 35, of Apt. 220, 220 North North Illinois street, suffering from a head wound from a candlestick wielded by Miss Pearl Lewis, Apt. 25. at the North street address. Miss Lewis said Van tried to break into her apartment. British Government Defeated Bu United Press LONDON, May 14 —The labor government, was defeated in the house of lords today for the third time in two days by a vote of 147 to 26.
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THE. rye and whole wheat breads commonly recommended by dieticians and physicians fall short in food values when compared with plain white loaves, Tom Smith, Chicago, secretary of the American Bakers Association, told the Indiana Bakers Association in convention at the Lincoln today. “Not only is white bread the cheapest source of energy for man, so described ir a recent
SHERIFF WINKLER FOR SPEED LIMIT
’oins in F':a for Safety;; F.cLc' ’3 Y: :;ed by Wider C= jb Mead. neslorr 'ion of speed laws on county hi.hv.c; , to curb accidents, was urged tccry by Sheriff George L. Winkler, appro", mg suggestion of Chief Robert L. Humes cf state police, asking that the 1931 legislature pass anew speed limit statute. Opposing his views, Todd Stoops, I secretary and manager of the Hoo- j sier Motor Club, vigorously upheld j elimination of speed limits as a j sensible traffic rule and attacked claims of Humes and Winkler that ! speeding was the cause of accidents. “More persons have been killed and injured in the year since the new law went into effect, because of the indefinite speed limit, than in any previous year,” Winkler stated. “In 1929 there were eighty-seven persons killed and 400 injured on county highways. Accidents were due to speed in 80 per cent of the cases.” he added. “It isn’t the speed that causes the accidents,” Stoops asserted. “It’s the fool reckless driver, and the slow driver, creeping along fifteen or twenty miles an hour. “An auto is man’s machine to cut down space and time. The roads and autos today are built for speed. This law isnt an experiment,” he pointed out. “Michigan has had it in effect for years. Traffic problems are mostly a question of enforcement. The reckless driver, but not the speeder, should be prosecuted. “Id say the slow driver is the greatest menace on the roads today,” Stoops declared. The United Press today obtained auto fatality figures from the state of Michigan where the “no speed iimit law” went into effect in the fall of 1927, showing that no abnormal increase in accidents resulted. PUT ON FEET BY THIEF Marshal Goes Into Dance to Stop Fight; Car Is Stolen. Bu United I‘rcss CLEVELAND. May 14.—When Marshal John Zelis, who is the police department of Linndale village, went into a dance hall to quell a fight, somebody stole his car. The marshal is “back on the beat” wearing out shoe leather. RUDY VALLEE GETS ‘IN’ Awarded Maine Cheer Leader Letter For “Stein Song” Use. Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 14.—Rudy Vallee, radio crooner, has been awarded the cheer leader M of the University of Maine, his first alma mater, for his work in popularizing the twenty-eight-year-old “Stein Song.” The letter was presented at a dinner Tuesday night by the New York Alumni Association.
MERE MUSIC LOVER POSTS SSOO BAIL TO FREE OPERA KING’S WIDOW
BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Pres* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 14.—An obscure Second avenue radio dealer, who, back at the turn of the century, had cherished an undying admiration for Oscar Hammerstein, walked into historic Jefferson Market court and posted bail for the great impresario's widow. Emma Hammerstein, *l7, shabbily dressed in a wrinkled old gray coat, a faded blue hat and shoes run down at the heels, had laid in jail all night, penniless, and apparently friendless. She was arrested Monday on a misconduct charge. The detective who brought her in from the
Miss Mary Jane Aldridge, model, ready to shove off the L. S. Ayres & Cos. entry, a cake j racer, in the pastry classic of the Indiana Bakers A s so c i a t ion in convention at the Lincoln.
issue of a widely known medical journal, but it is easier to digest than wholewheat cereal,” Smith said. “Those who dislike brown bread should not eat it, for the appetite is an important factor in digestive considerations, and intolerance in choice of breads may be harmful,” he declared. The convention, which opened Tuesday, will close Thursday morning with installation of new officers.
Short Answer Bu TTnitrd Press HANOVER, N. H., May 14. Dartmouth students, in a mass protest against the conventions of male attire, said it with shorts today. At least 600 undergraduates appeared on the campus in abpreviated pants which exposed to the chill breeze from four to six inches of their bare legs in the vicinity of the knees. Walter Chrysler Jr., son of the motor magnate, appeared .n whitfe linen shorts despite the fact that the mercury was less than a dozen degrees above freezing.
WOMAN IN COMMAND Steps to Front of Rebel Hindu Ranks. By United Press A woman, who says she is inspired by the ideals that history attributes to Joan of Arc, moved to the most prominent place today in India’s struggle for self-government. Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, new leader of the passive resistance campaign, announced she was ready for “death or victory” in a raid on British salt deposits. She said she would lead the raid herself. Many prominent nationalists were arrested and sentenced to prison at Bombav. FAG“PENALTY IS FACED Girls Caught Smoking on Roof of Methodist School Dormitory. WASHINGTON, May 14.—A score of co-eds at American university were trembling in their shoes today, awaiting the faculty’s decision on their punishment for smoking on a dormitory roof. The Methodist institution frowns on the use of cigarets by women.
STATE BUYS 87 TRUCKS FOR TOTAL OF $105,363
Eighty-seven one and one-half-ton trucks were purchased by the state highway commission today at a cost of $105,363.24. Twenty to thirty-five heavy duty trucks, ranging in capacity from two and one-half to three tons, costing approximately SIOO,OOO or more, remain to be purchased, according to A. H. Hinkle, chief of the maintenance department. One hundred bids were received on the entire fleet. Os the trucks purchased, fourteen were Dodges from the Fisher Armstrong Auto Company, Inc., Princeton. at $1,262; thirteen Fords from Goodwin Brothers, Newcastle, at
Hotel Winthrop said that she had solicited him and that he had liven her S3O. Once toasted on two continents for her stately beauty, and as the wife of the American opera producer, Mrs. Hammerstein drooped as she walked into court. Her checks were streaked and her eyes were red. She had wept all night in a police cell. Then in walked Saul Bims. Bims went to the clerk of the court. “I’m here to help out Oscar Hammerstein’s widow ” he said. “Well, there she is. over there,” said the clerk, pointing to the woman.
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1930
DRY SNOOPING PROTESTED AS STUDENTS RIOT Nearly 500 Chicago U. Men Battle Cops, Firemen in Campus War. CO-EDS SEND UP CHEERS High-Pressure Hose Used to Disperse Mob; Grounds Guarded. Bu Vn it rd Press CHICAGO, May 14.—A riotous demonstration stagec. by nearly five hundred University of Chicago students as a protest against the campus activities of “dry snoopers” caused police to patrol the university’s grounds today as a safeguard against further outbreaks. The students, who gathered on the campus late Tuesday night and started a huge bonfire, engaged police and firemen in a strenuous battle, and were not dispersed until they had been thoroughly drenched by a high-pressure fire hose. Immediate investigation of the mob demonstration was ordered by university deans, and four students were arrested as ringleaders. Resentment arising from reports last week that undercover operatives of the federal prohibition department were to be present at all future rehearsals of a play soon to be given by the Black Friars Dramatic Club was said to have prompted the demonstration. Watchmen who were believed to have told of asserted back-stage drinking at the rehearsals, disapp;ared when the students threatened to toss them into the botany pond. As coeds cheered from the windows of their dormitories, the demonstrators paraded to the campus circle and there tore timbers from tennis stands and nearby billboards. The piled wood was soaked with gasoline and set on fire. „ „ “Bring out the snoopers,” yelled the students, as they did a snake dance around the bonfire, attracting thousands of spectators. Squads of police arrived shortly afterward, firing a volley of reviver shots into the air in an effort to quell the disturbance. The students booed. After a free-for-all in which the officers made liberal but ineffective use of their clubs, fire fighting crews were summoned. The firemen, after losing and regaining their hose in a tug-o-war with the boisterous college boys, scattered the mob with a broadside of cold water. ARGUMENTS ON BANK LIABILITY SCHEDULED Indemnity of Stockholders to Be Issue Before High Court Lawyers from throughout the state are expected to attend an oral argument before the state supreme court Thursday which will test for the first time the Indiana law regarding liability of bank stockholders. “Do state bank stockholders suffer double indemnity when the bank fails?” is the question to be argued. The Wells circuit court, in the Studebaker bank failure of Bluffton, held they do not. Appeal was taken from this decision. DIES IN 14-STORY LEAP Fall From Chicago Club Fatal to Lyceum Bureau Manager. Bu United Press CHICAGO, May 14.—W. V. Harrison, 50, of Columbus, 0., manager of the Redpath Lyceum and Chautauqua Bureau, leaped to his death today from the fourteenth story of the exclusive Union League Club.
$784.98. and sixty Indiana trucks from the Indiana Truck Company, Os the Indiana trucks, seventeen were four-cylinder machines at $1,196 and forty-three six-cylinder machines at $1,329.50. They were sold by Homer K. York, vice-president of the company and member of the Indiana state reformatory board of trustees. Indiana trucks long have been predominate in the state highway fleet. Representative Sam J. Farrell (Rep.), Hartford City, member of the state budget committee, also is a salesman for the concern. York asserts that the trucks are sold on merit and not because of politics.
“I don’t know her,” Bims said. “I shook hands with her husband once. But I loved Oscar Hammerstein’s music. When I learned she had been arrested, I felt that I should help her.” m an ANOTHER man stepped up from the rear of the room—an elderly man with crisp white mustache and an ivory-headed cane. “I knew Oscar Hammerstein.” he said. “I'm a retired lawyer. I haven't been in a courtroom for years. But I'll assume the task of defending her, If she has no , counsel.”
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PAVING OF TWO ROADSGRANTED State Approves East ThirtyEighth, Keystone Projects. Last obstacles to the resurfacing of East Thirty-eighth street from Eastern avenue to Emerson avenue and of Keystone avenue from the Millersville road to Sixty-fifth street, were removed today when the state tax board approved two bond issues for the projects. East Thirty-eighth street, long the “pet peeve” of Indianapolis motorists, will be improved under one issue approved at $38,800. County commissioners have awarded the contract to J. W. Morgan & Son for $36,600. Commissioners originally requested a $39,300 bond issue The state board approved an issue of $51,200 for the Keystone avenue project, which has been awarded the Indiana Asphalt Paving Company on a bid of $57,935. Commissioners had sought approval of a $62,600 bond issue for this work. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 52 10 a. m 55 7a. m 52 11 a. m 56 8 a. m 54 12 (noon).. 56 9 a. m..... 54 1 p. m 57
CONTRACT AWARDED $500,000 Building to Be on Fall Creek. Contract for construction of the new home office building of the American Central Life Insurance Company, to cost approximately $500,000, has been awarded the Hunkin-Conkey Construction Company of Cleveland, it was announced today. The Cleveland company was low bidder in a field of fourteen. The new structure will be located on Fall Creek boulevard with grounds extending to Meridian, Illinois and Twenty-sixth streets. The main building, to be begun at once, facing Fall Creek boulevard will be 307 feet long by fifty-two feet in width, the east end paralleling Meridian street for a distance of sixty-five fee*. It will be three stories high on the boulevard front and four stories high on the Twenty-sixth street side, of fireproof steel and reinforced concrete construction. SURRENDER BY SLAYER Man Who Killed Another at River Camp Fails to Explain Motive. Bu United Press SULLIVAN, Ind., May 14.—A few hours after Oacie Brummett shot William A. White, Riverton, to death at fishing camp of Elmer Bledsoe on the Wabash river today, he surrendered himself to the Sullivan county sheriff here. Brummett told authorities that he shot White with a shotgun, but did not offer a satisfactory explanation and authorities were piecing together details from others in the cump. No one witnessed the shooting. White had served one term in federal prison, and had eluded officers several times who wanted him on liquor charges.
He was M. A. Lesser, who lives on Fifth avenue and was widely known a decade or two ago in New York as an attorney. Mrs. Hammerstein was called before the bar. The charge was read to her. “How do you plead?” “I plead not guilty,” she answered “This is an atrocious proceeding.” She held her head a bit higher. Saul Bims posted SSOO bail for her and the case was set for hearing on May 20. Then Mrs. Hammerstein told reporters that she has enemies, that they are pursuing her. “I have been forced to ride through the streets in a patrol
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Hawley-Smoot Bill Stirs Foreign Nations Into Retaliatory Action. Bit T r nited Press WASHINGTON, May 14.—Senate conferees on the HawleySmoot tariff bill decided today to bring the bill back to the senate Friday for its big test on the export debenture and flexible tariff provisions. Fate of the bill rested on outcome of the bill at this time. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May 14.—Action by foreign governments to shut out American goods because our prohibitive tariff barrier is shutting out theirs, daily is assuming more alarming proportions. Apparently convinced that the Hawley-Smoot bill eventually will pass the congress, and doubtful whether President Hoover will exercise his power of veto, nation after nation now is proceeding with its plans to bar the products of American farm and factories from its territory. Simultaneously with the blow at our trade which Canada, our very best customer, is leveling at us from the north, Argentina, our best customer in South America, is aiming another at us from her direction. A tariff commission just has been named by Argentina's minister of finance to draw up anew schedule of duties and there is every indication that the very first country they pay their respects to will be the United States, against whose supertariff wall Argentinians have long been protesting. The first quarter of this year, according to the department of commerce, our trade with Argentina suffered a startling slump. Whereas during the first three months of 1929 we sold her just under $58,000,000 worth of goods, this year we sold her a bare $36,000,000 worth. leapsTromferryl SKIRTS FORM BUOY Takes Poison, Jumps Into Water; Rescued and Will Live. T'witcri Hrrqa NEW YORK, May 14.—Mrs. Hanna Phelan, 50, bent upon suicide, stood on the deck of a Staten Island ferry boat, drained a smal bottle of poison and then leaped into the water. Her skirts billowed out, in the fashion of a balloon. The air stayed in the skirts when she was in the water, forming a buoy, which kept her afloat. Deckhands rescued her. The poison proved insufficient, and she is thankful today she is alive.
CITY WOMAN BURNED WHEN GAS EXPLODES Blast Set Off When Lighted Match Is Thrust Into Furnace. Gas formed by coal in a furnace exploded when Mrs. Nona McMillan, 36, owner of a rooming house at 1336 North Illinois street, thrust a lighted match in the firepit early today, and a sheet of flame burned her face, neck and hands. Mrs. McMillan ran upstairs where Arais Roark, a roomer there, called police. She was sent to city hospital. 'RAIN BABY’ CLAIMED Latest Note From ‘Mother’ to Be Investigated. Police Chief Jerry Kinney this afternoon ordered investigation of a signed letter from a woman purporting to be the mother of Indianapolis “rain baby,” abandoned at the roadside at Stump and Bluff roads, in the rain, more than two weeks ago. “I am the lawful mother of the baby,” her note to Kinney read. "I didn’t intend to claim him until one or two of the girls got smart. “I’m only a young girl in school, and I couldn’t be bothered with him. His name in Rupert. Find him a good home.’ It was signed “June Deupree,” bearing a noted address. SHOT BY HITCH-HIKER Motorist Rewarded for Ride With Bullet in Head. Bu United Press CHICAGO, May 14.—Irwin H. Baker’s reward for offering a ride to a pedestrian on a country road was a bullet in the head, he told police today when he regained consciousness. He said the man he picked up shot him.
wagon with a drunken prisoner. I have been subjected to every possible indignity. I will fight back with all the strength I have.” u a a SHE makes a sweeping denial of the detective’s accusation. Since Oscar Hammerstein’s death in 1919, she has figured often in litigation, principally over his estate. She was first married to Julian Swift of Chicago Swifts. She met Hammerstein in London in 1911. at the time of the coronation of King George. She divorced Swift and married the noted impresario. She was his third wife.
HOLT AND BUTLER ARE FOUND GUILTY IN BOOZE CONSPIRACY BY FEDERAL COURT JURORS Former Howard County Sheriff and Kokomo Attorney to Be Sentenced by Judge Baltzell Here May 24. SOCIETY TO AID ’LEGGERS CHARGED Violator of Dry Law Was Governor Candidate in 1928 and Was Given Anti-Saloon League’s Stamp of Approval. Ora Butler, former Howard county sheriff, and Olin R. Holt, Kokomo attorney, this afternoon were convicted by a federal court jury of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. The jury returned the guilty verdict after an hour and forty minutes’ deliberation. . Holt and Butler will be sentenced by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Saturday, May 24. Defense attorneys indicated appeal will be taken. Statute provides for two years' penitentiary sentence and fine of $2,000, or both, on conviction.
CAPONE AGAIN UNDER ARREST Miami Police Break Their Promise to Beer Lord. Bu United Press MIAMI, Fla., May 14.—Scarface A1 Capone has lost all faith in this city’s police. He planned to go to court today and get an injunction to keep them from playing any more tricks on him like the one Tuesday night, when Capone was arrested again with three companions. He was taken into custody as he was watching a boxing bout at the American Legion arena. Scarcely thirty-six hours previously Guy C. Reeves, police chief, had told him he would not be arrested without a warrant, and Capone’s attorneys, on the strength of the statement dropped an injunction suit they had pending. While the Chicago beer baron sat in jail the lawyers scurried about town in an effort to locate U. C. Thompson, circuit judge, and obtain a habeas corpus writ which would free their client. They were unsuccessful Tuesday night.
GUILTY OF ASSAULT Robert Doser Is Fined for Striking Photographer. Found guilty of assaulting Joe Cravens, staff photographer for The Indianapolis Star, Robert L. Doser, of 5853 Broadway, was found guilty of assault and battery by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today and fined $lO and costs'. It was testified Doser knocked Cravens down and kicked him when Cravens attempted to take Doser’s photograph. The attack occurred in front of Doser’s home. Doser is the father of four children involved in a habeas corpus in Marion superior court four, brought by Doser’s divorced wife who alleged he kidnaped the children from a Tulsa (Okla.) orphanage. 6-MONTHS-OLD BABY ARRESTED BY POLICE Warrant Found Only Way to Take Child to Courtroom. Bu United Press NEWARK, N. J„ May 14.—A 6-months-old baby was arrested by two policewomen when its presence was required in a domestic relations case here. Mrs. Margaret Borgese sought the child in connection with charges against its father, and it was found that the only way it could be brought into court was through a warrant for its arrest. BOY DIES IN BALL GAME Cry of ‘Batter Up’ Came Too Late for Youth. Bu United Press MORRISTOWN, N. J„ May 14. Ine cry, “batter up,” came too late for Edward Johnson, 16. While awaiting his turn at bat in a baseball game he suddenly slumped to the ground dead. An infection of the thymus gland was the cause. ‘RED CAGLE AT MIKE’ West Point Grid Star Offered Post at WOR. Bu Unitrd Press NEW YORK, May 14.—W. J. Oiosker, director of Radio Station WOR, said today he had offered Chris Cagle, army football star, who quit West Point due to his secret marriage, a position as sports announcer for the station during the summer season. Veteran Telegrapher Is Dead Bu United Press NASHVILLE. Tenn., May 14Alvin Theodore Maddux, tor twelve years a United Press telegraph operator, died here Tuesday after a long illness. He was a member of the general executive board of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of North America.
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Designated as “satisfactory” by the Indiana AntiSaloon League, Holt was a candidate in 1928 for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Holt also was one of D. C. Stephenson’s lawyers. Holt and Butler were convicted on the government’s charges that they organized the Hoosier Protective Association in Howard, Madison and Delaware counties for the purpose of “protecting bootleggers against the law.” They charged $3 weekly for membership in the association, evidence showed. The jury received the case after government attorneys rapped the men for the “vile scheme.” Pictured as Rattlesnake George Jeffrey, district attorney, told jurors if they freed Holt they would "cut off the tail of a vile rattlesnake and the head will squirm its slimy way through the dives of Howard county.” Defense attorneys appealed to the jury with assertions that the government had nothing “but a flimsy case built on Ashy theories.” Bootleggers, all of whom declared they had “quit the racket.” who testified, were Hugh Danner, Mrs. Myrtle Chapman, widow of Aretus Chapman, who sold booze in roadhouses before his death; Mrs. Bertha Vanderahe, Russell Bowen, Rudolph Klingman and Edward Nutter. These persons admitted they had operated barbecue stands on the outskirts of Kokomo. The stands bore such fancy names as “Shady Rest,” “Woodside Inn” and others. All said that while they were selling liquor, Butler came to them and solicited their membership in the “league.” They paid him. they said, some for only a short while. He guaranteed them protection, they said, and, in one instance, threatened trouble for an operator who told Butler “he had given him his last cent.” The place was raided two weeks later. U. S. Court Not Included Butler testified the association was styled after another in Louisville. He said federal court was not included in the contract for legal aid in case of a member's arrest, because “not many attorneys liked to practice here.” Holt said he accepted employment as attorney for the association but said he told Butler he would defend members only at the regular bar association rates. He declared the contract was “legal on the face of it” and he d.d not know it was designed for bootleggers, as the government charges. Tom Miller. Muncie lawyer, said he met Holt in Indianapolis and, although Holt did not seek his aid <n the association, suggested Miller could make more money "if he had Delaware county organized.” Government witnesses declared Butler made “the rounds” for the weekly fees each Monday. When Danner was asked if Butler knew he sold whisky Danner replied: “He ought to. He drank it while he talked to me.” Others said Butler often drank their wares and took as much as a half gallon with him, although Butler entered an emphatic denial. Judge Robert C. Baltzell overruled motions of defense attorneys to dismiss the case after the evidence was presented the jury. FUNERAL PLANS TRAGIC Husband Near Death of Injuries Preparing for Wife’s Funeral. Hu I!nilr<t Prr*n CLEVELAND. May 14.—Fred Edwards, whose wife died Monday, was near death in a hospital today from burns suffered when he tried to clean nis clothes with gasoline so hs could go to her funeral. The gasoline exploded. ‘RELIEF 7 FOR POOR PAPA Move Is Started to Standardize Size of Bundles. Bii I'nitrd Pre** CHICAGO, May 14.—Papa, the great American pack horse, is due to be given relief on shopping expeditions. He still will have to carry the bundles but the National Dry Goods Associat on, meeting here, plans to standardize the sizes and shapes of packages in order that they may be easily handled.
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