Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1930 — Page 1

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PHOTO ns SAVED FROM PRISONTERM State Man, Unbalanced by Injury to Brain, Made ‘Perfect’ Money. OPERATION PERFORMED Counterfeiter Who Did Not Pass Bills, Is Granted 5-Year Probation. BY CHARLES E. CARLL Humanity and justice today clasped hands to give Harold Brumfield, 40, of Columbus, charged in federal court \with counterfeiting, the chance of nis life. Instead of spending years behind prison walls, Brumfield, a genius in photography, will have the opportunity to spend the next five years wih his family under guidance of a probation officer and reputable citizens of Bartolomew county. Perhaps he will get the opportunity to develop his ability. His trial by jury was halted when Judge Robert C. Baltzell and attorneys agreed he should have the chance. He was given a suspended sentence of a year and a day and the probation proposition in an effort to cure the brain injury that sent his genius into wrong paths. Hurt Five Years Ago Evidence showed that after being hurt in a threshing machine accident five years ago, Brumfield, who had been experimenting in photography began making counterfeit bills. His work, adjudged nearly perfect by secret service agents, did not satisfy him and he frankly admitted it. Brumfield never placed the bills in circulation, but buried them near his house. He worked painstakingly to perfect the bills and built up an elaborate plant for the work. Physicians testified Brumfield did not know right from wrong and was unbalanced mentally. They told of a serious brain operation performed on him while he awaited trial and of the marked improvement that resulted. Showed Love Afterward They said he did not manifest love for his family until after his operation. Then he became devoted to his wife and son and began to show traces of judgment, never before seen. Ira Holmes, defense attorney, promised Baltzell, government attorneys and jurors that he would do all in his power to aid Brumfield in the future. “Under no consideration will I sond this man to the penitentiary,’ Baltzell said. ‘‘Had he passed the bills, the situation would have been different. If he is cured in less than five ye?.rs, then the court will suspend the probation period.” Brumfield’s first gleam of the future is his birthday next month. 1 He will spend it at home and not in the Leavenworth penitentiary. After that, he hopes someone y will give him the chance to do pho- * tographic work and engraving. He will have another operation soon, which, physicians said, may restore full possession of his mental faculties.

BOARD MAY CONDEMN STREET SUBWAY SITE Property Desired by City to Extend Proposed Paving Project. Condemnation proceedings to obtain a right-of-way for a subway under the Pennsylvania and B. & O. railroads at Pleasant Run parkway were expected to be ordered today by the park board on recommendation of Engineer J. E. Perry. The board desires to acquire the property in order to extend southward the proposed pavement from Washington to Colorado streets. AIMS BILL AT GAMERS Patrons May Be Arrested Under Proposed Capital Law. Pv United Press WASHINGTON, May 15.—District residents who watch the flipped card or the spinning roulette wheel were vexed today to learn that one of the newest senators, Robison ißep., Ky.) plans to introduce a bill providing for the arrest not only of gambling hall proprietors, but also of patrons. S4OO Robbery in Store By Times Special CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., May 15. —Robbers Wednesday night, backed a truck up to the rear of Ray Doll’s grocery here and hauled away nearly all the store’s stock. Mere than 100 pounds of coffee, besides potatoes, canned fruit, hams, bacon, flour and sugar were taken.

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BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripos-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May 15.—As more and more foreign governments act to bar American products from their markets and force American factories to locate in their territory, economists fear the gradual paralysis of business in this country. What happened to certain New England communities when their textile industries migrated, they declare, can happen to America as a whole through the migration of our export industry to other lands. The 1930 census, now being compiled, reveals the startling thing that has happened. There was a time when the textile business of New England was like the Bank of England. Its prosperity wiiproverbial. The entire section flourished. Cities

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MOTHER IS KEPT FROM ‘RAIN BABY’

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Mrs. Sally Breedlove and (inset) Bobby Breedlove, the “Rain Baby.”

BY ARCH STEINEL “ a DIRTY dog—that’s all you can call him.” With this verbal lashlng, Mrs. Sally Marie Breedlove, mother of the “rain baby,” turned from docile meekness to anger at her divorced husband, William Breedlove, Bloomington, today for “tipping off” the Marion county sheriff’s office that she had abandoned the roadside child. “He didn’t have any use for me that’s why he done it. I caught him and the woman he’s now married to getting in an auto before we were divorced. Now he’s taking his spite out on me,” she accused in the office of Sheriff George L. Winkler early today. “He paid $5 a week for keeping Vernon Lee, my other boy, at my mother’s and he hates alimdny. He didn’t want to have to pay anything for helping support Bobby, the baby you found,” she explained.

After twenty hours in an Indianapolis cell, Mrs. Breedlove’s deep, brown eyes are swollen from all night crying. She has brown scraggly hair spotted with yellow. A blue georgette dress of bargain window design, gray hose, and black pumps with a shiny buckle of brilliants form her garb. Her hands, chapped and marked by poison ivy from berry hunts, fingered a copy of The Times showing a picture of her Bobby playing with a rattle. 0 0 0 “TT looks like him. I saw a picture A like it Mother’s day. It was thrown out of a passing auto. It started me crying. It was the first I saw in ihe papers about Bobby’s disappearance,” and her eyes sought Bobby’s picture. “Then three days later I told my mother at Bloomington and she has been crying ever since. She urged me to go up to Indianapolis and tell who I am—but I just didn’t. I was too nervous.” “No, I haven’t got any money to hire an attorney. I wouldn’t need a lawyer, I wouldn’t be in the fix I’m in if he—my husband—hadn’t told on me and had given me money to support my baby. “There. I believe I’ve talked enough. I’m hungry. I didn’t eat last night; maybe I can eat now.” She was led to the matron’s room for her breakfast.

COLD SNAP LINGERS Normal Temperature for Week-End Likely. Normal temperatures probably will not return to Indianapolis before the week-end, J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the United States weather bureau here, said today. Forecast this morning indicated cloudy weather with showers Friday. Temperatures today continued between 8 and 10 degrees below normal. MEET AFTER 61 YEARS Two Sisters Separated In Early Childhood by Family Tragedy. Bu United Press . MT. VERNON, 0., May 15.—Mrs. Charles Van Wicklen, 63, and Mrs. Marion Flood, 67, of Los Angeles, two sisters who were separated in childhood, wete reunited today for the first time in sixty-one years. They were separated when their father was killed in an accident, and the family broken up. Delay $125,000 Damage Salt Trial of the $125,000 damage suit of the Bedford Stone and Construction Company against the Washington Hotel Realty Company was deferred Wednesday until June 14. It will be held before Special Superior Judge Benjamin F. Carr.

CITY CLUBMAN WEDS DIVORCEE Bernard Kirshbaum Marries Mrs. Mabelle Richey. Bernard Kirshbaum, 55, of 3733 North Meridian street, retired local business man and clubman, and Mrs. Mabelle L. Richey, 32, of 3015 North Meridian street, were married Tuesday, it became known today. The ceremony was performed by O. P. Bebinger, justice of the peace, in his office at 4216 College avenue. A woman was the only attendant. The couple departed from Indianapolis immediately after the wedding and are spending their honeymoon at French Lick hotel, French Lick. Mrs. Richey obtained a divorce from Dr. C. O. Richey April Kirshbaum and his first wife also were divorced about a month ago. Kirshbaum was manager of the Roberts & Hall brokerage firm until its collapse, last December. ‘PERFECT 36’ NOW IS U. S. ARMY SYMBOL Measurement of Average Soldier’s Chest, Statistics Show. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 15.—The “perfect 36” has disappeared as the symbol of feminine physical perfection, but it has reappeared in the army as the measurement of the average soldier's chest. In making this announcement today the war department explained the new average resulted from an increasing percentage of younger recruits, much smaller than the barrel-chested individuals who formerly filled the ranks. PRETTY MOTHER, 25, IS SUSPECTED ‘FAGIN’ Sentenced to Prison With Husband, “Graduates” of Crime School. B Chicago!* May 15.—Mrs. Nellie Smith, 25, convicted burglar and suspected woman “Fagin,” today hoped her three children—one a baby 4 months old—would save her from the penitentiary. With her husband and five boy “graduates” of the Smith family crime school, the pretty young mother was sentenced to from one year to life imprisonment. Sentence was delayed because of the children. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 51 10 a. m 51 7a. m 51 11 a. m..„.. 54 Ba. m 53 12 (noon).. 54 9 a. m 54 I p. m..... 57

grew fast. Workers were busy and business was good because wages were plentiful. Everybody was prosperous. # * * M 'T'HEN something happened. Other sections beckoned. North Carolina and other parts of the country offered advantages, including cheap labor, accessible power, nearness to raw materials and so on. laid New England's mills began to migrate. According to the 1930 census, New Bedford, Ball River, Lowell, Manchester, Holyoke, North Adams and other-, of the region’s greatest textile centers, actually have dwindled in population in the last ten years. Some of the south's textile communities, profiting by New England’s loss, have doubled and tripled in population. Some 8,000 workers, together with their combined wages, have been ' A i

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Her Child in Downpour Juvenile Court Authorities to File Charge Against Bloomington Girl Who Now Wants Deserted Infant. The law dealt sternly today with the young mother of Indianapolis' “rain baby,” denying her even a glimpse of the sunny, year-old boy she abandoned at the roadside south of the city on the night of April 27. Juvenile court authorities, filing child neglect charges against the mother, Mrs. Sally Marie Breedlove, 21, bobbedhaired divorced wife of William Breedlove of Bloomington, declared “there is no reason for her to see the child.” Displaying no more sympathy for the mother than she showed for the babe when she left it to the darkness and rain at the roadside, juvenile court authorities, led by Mrs. Isabelle Summerville, prepared to demand punishment for the mother. *

They were paving the way for taking away all her rights of motherhood over Robert Eugene, her year-old baby who was found in a driving rain on the Bluff road April 28, and whose parentage was not established until late Wednesday. Pound at an isolated farm nine miles southeast of Bloomington, Mrs. Breedlove admitted readily she is the mother of the baby and that she abandoned it on the roadside more than seven hours before it was found. Couldn’t Support It She declared she was unable to support the child. Tearfully, she begged to be permitted to see it today. But juvenile court authorities overrode her pleas with the calm statement that, by her action, she has violated all rights of motherhood and that the case now is one for court decision. The baby becomes a ward of the Monroe county juvenile court, which must decide its custody, juvenile court officials declared. Criminal charges of child neglect against the mother will be disposed of in Marion county courts where the actual abandonment took place. This afternoon Mrs. Breedlove and Louis Reynolds, 20, of Bloomington, who drove the car in which Mrs. Breedlove brought the baby here to abandon it, were to be taken into municipal court on vagrancy charges. To File New Charge. These charges will be dismissed, juvenile court officials indicated, and the new charge of child neglect against Mrs. Breedlove and charges of contributing to child neglect against Reynolds will be filed. They will be taken into juvenile court, where bonds will be fixed. Maximum penalties under the charge are six months imprisonment and SSOO fine. The child neglect charge is tne only one possible against the mother who abandoned her child, court officials declared. A charge of intent to kill could not be proven, it was believed. “I’ll take Bobby back if they’ll let me and work hard to make both ends meet,” the mother protested today. “I’ll take him back. I’ll tai e him back.*’ Her eyes were swollen from allnight sobbing in a cell at police headquarters. Arrest of Mrs. Breedlove came Wednesday afternoon after Sheriff Winkler received a letter from her divorced husband, William Breedlove, pointing to her as the foundling’s mother. Breedlove never had seen the baby, which was born May 1, 1929. He and his former wife separated in September, 1928, and a divorce was granted Dec. 31, 1928. Mother Located on Farm Times’ photographs of the baby were taken to Bloomington by Sheriff Winkler. Mrs. Minnie Sullivan identified the photographs as those of a baby she cared for nine weeks, beginning Sept. 9, 1929. Mrs. Jacob Brown identified the photographs and Mrs. Ora Trasher confirmed the identification with a statement Mrs. Breedlove and the child had roomed at her home from March until April 16 of this year. Mrs. Breedlove was located at a farm nine miles southeast of Bloomington. Attired in a soiled calico dress and womout shoes, her only clothing, she was puffing a cigaret, seated in an automobile with Earl Webb of Bloomington when Sheriff Winkler’s party approached. Deputy Sheriff H. E. Flynn of Bloomington had been added to the party. ~ ’Know What You Want* “We’re from Marion county,” was the only preface needed to bring admission of motherhood from Sally. “I know what you want,” were her first words. “I’ve been expecting you. But Earl here isn’t to blame. He had nothing to do with

it. Neither did Merle Stansfield, my sister. “When I took the fcffiy to Indianapolis, I drove with Louis Reynolds of Saunder, Ind. “I made up my mind to leave the baby with someone. We were both hungry. He was half naked. We didn’t have enough to eat—it was the only thing to do. “I couldn’t keep him. When we got to Indianapolis my heart failed me. We drove up to a stop light and I told Louis to turn back. I just couldn’t leave Bobby. House Looked Cheerful “Then we passed a house —it was about 9 at night. It looked cheerful. It was all lighted up and I could hear a radio playing. “I told Louis to stop. He tried to get me not to do it, but I got out and ran back with Bobby in my arms. In front of the house, I laid Bobby on the grass in his little blanket. Then I stooped and kissed him. I ran to the car and Louis drove me back to Bloomington.. It was cloudy wnen I left Bobby there, but it was not raining. “I thought sure someone would find him right away. I didn’t try to take liis life. But I had to do it. She declared she had seen but one newspaper story about finding of the child and said she cried when she learned the baby had not been found until the next morning and that it had been raining during the night. Husband Denies Knowledge Bert Ball of Bloomington and Mrs. Merle Stansfield, sister of Mrs. Breedlove, were at the farm home of Walter Rairdon when Mrs. Breedlove and Reynolds left to bring the child to Indianapolis, Mrs. Breedlove declared. She said she told her sister and Ball she was going to leave the child with a sister Ox her former husband in Indianapolis. Reynolds, when arrested, declared to Sheriff WinklePhe believed Mrs. Breedlove intended to leave the child with relatives and that he believed she had run to the • house with it. He denied knowing of her plan to abandon the child. His first words when found working at a stone quarry were to Mrs. Breedlove. “I told you I’d get in Dutch over that kid,” he reproached her. Mother Urged Confession Mrs. Breedlove told officers her sister later learned of the abandonment and that she told her mother a week ago. Her mother urged her to confess, she declared. However, when the sister and mother sivited Sally at the jail today, her mother declared she knew nothing of the baby’s abandonment until Sally was arrested. Sally is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dillon Decker of East Third street, Bloomington, Another child of Mr. and Mrs, Breedlove, Vernon Lee Breedlove, 3, is in custody of Mrs. Decker by order of circuit court at Bloomington. Breedlove pay# $5 weekly for its support, but is $45 in arrears in payments, his divorced wife claims. He remarried in February, 1929. Reynolds told officers he had known Mrs. Breedlove only a week at the time the baby was brought to Indianapolis in his car and was abandoned. It was the first time, he claimed, he had ever taken Mrs. Breedlove anywhere. “I like her,” he declared. I’ve never found anything wrong about her except for this baby case.” LAY CORNER STONE OF CITY HOSPITAL UNITS Mayor Aids in Rites for Research and Out-Patient Buildings. Comer stone laying ceremonies for the out-patient and research unit at city hospital were held today with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, former Mayor L. Ert Slack and councilmen and health board members participating. The building will cost $540,000 and will contain a research department to be equipped by Eli Lily & Cos.

taken from New Bedford along with four big cotton mills. Lowell lost 12,709 inhabitants. Textile centers in the south are booming. They are talking prosperity while hard hit New England is familiar with the terms “curtailment” and “depression.” * * * non \ NGERED because America won’t trade with them, barring their products by means of an ever-mounting tariff wall, Canada, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Argentina and other countries are beginning to retaliate by bafring American-made goods. At the same time they are offering inducements in the way of reduced tariffs, plentiful labor and so on, to American capital to build plants in their terirtory, with the result that, like the textile mills of New England, some of our factories are beginning to migrate; v.i . ! H • . A

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YOUNG LOVERS UNDAUNTED BY BARSJF JAIL Elopers Laugh Off Bench Warrant for Youthful Husband-to-Be. DETERMINED TO MARRY Reporters, Deputies ‘Chip In’ for License; Walk Miles for Ceremony. \ By CARLOS LANE With victories already scored over hunger and many wearilytramped miles, love reared a pert head in Marion county jail today, and prepared to sweep aside other thorns from the orange blossom trail. Richard Day, 17, and Rachel Gaddis, 18, both of Edinburg, poohed poverty and a bench warrant for Richard’s return to Edinburg, snuggled in each other’s arms, and contemplated a long and happy wedded life. Richard’s ideas recently have been attuned perfectly with the poet’s observations on a young man’s fancies in spring. For that matter, Rachel yearned much along the same lines. But Rachel’s father, perhaps having reached an unromantic age, gave love its first battle. Beat Strategic Retreat This barrier they surmounted Tuesday by a strategic retreat to Richard’s parents’ farm home near Morgantown. Then Wednesday, while police sought the pair, they tramped towards Indianapolis, arriving here early today. Here they were to pawn a ring and a watch that Rachel wore, procure a marriage license, and seek a parson to bind them as one. But around the corner of Troy and Madison avenues early this morning Rachel’s uncle, Dave Hedges of Edinburg, drove his auto, and spied the youngsters, strolling along the road. A short chase through a field, and Richard and Rachel were prisoners. Deputy sheriffs took them to county jail to await communication with authorities at Edinburg, who say Richard is under suspended sentence there on a pie tit larceny charge, on which the bench warrant was issued. Just a Bench Warrant "Is that all they’ve got—a bench warrant?” scoffed pretty little Rachel. “Well, we’re going to get married, anyway, and stick together, even in death. I love him. It won’t do them any good to take me home.” Thus she solved that problem. But there was another obstacle—money. Richard had $8 when they started out, but he intrusted it to a sister to place in a bank, and the trust was misplaced, he alleged. The ring and watch are yet unpawned. Manna Falls Literally Suddenly unexpected manna fell figuratively, from heaven, literally from the pockets of deputy sheriffs and newspaper men. An Indianapolis Times photographer asked the couple to pose for a picture. “Nothing doing,” was Richard’s response. “Wait a minute,” his bride-elect rejoined. “We need a marriage license. How about it?” Deputies and importers dug deeply into their jeans, and in a fraction of a minute deposited two dollars and a half with Day. They posed for the picture, and then: “Here,” Rachel demanded. “Give me that money. I’m taking care of that in this family.” COLLIER’S WINS SUIT Jury Denies Texan’s Claim to Libel Damages. Bu United Press BROWNSVILLE, Tex., May 15. A jury in federal court here today returned a verdict favoring Collier’s Weekly in the $500,000 libel suit brought by R. B. Creager, national Republican committeeman for Texas. Creager charged an article in the magazine, written by Owen P. White, libeled him by connecting his name with political graft in Hidalgo county. Mrs. Hoover Is Improving Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 15.—Ending a month’s confinement to the White House, enforced by a strained back, Mrs. Hoover late Wednesday went for an automobile ride through Washington’s parks.

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Richard Day and Rachel Gaddis, Edinburg, held in county jail here today after an elopement, declare theirs is the love that laughs not only at locksmiths, but at everything else as well.

CHARGE DEFICIT TO LINKS BOSS Golf Course Head Accused of Shortage. Suspension of Count Camilla Rosasco, Riverside municipal golf course manager, for alleged shortage in the ticket account, was recommended to the park board this afternoon by Superintendent A. C. Sallee. An audit by Tracy Whitaker and James Smith, state board of accounts examiners, showed that 2,500 tickets, amounting to $1,250, has been unaccounted for by Rosasco, Sallee said. Rosasco said he had reported a book of tickets missing last September and he had “no way of knowing how many were issued to him.” “I will ask a public hearing and fight the case," he said. The audit, which was asked by Sallee when he took over the superintendency, revealed also, he said, that Ray Robertson, former Shank course manager, was short $572 and Harold McClure, former Coffin manager, $620. Robertson was discharged some time ago. McClure, ousted by the new administration, paid up $570. Miss Cora E. Hartman, park auditor, declared no written record had been made of tickets issued to course managers prior to the audit. HINDUS’ RAID FAILS India Police Block Progress of Gandhi’s Rebels. Bu United Press BOMBAY, India, May 15.—Police blocked the raid of Mrs. Sarajoini Naidu and her volunteers near the Dharasana salt depot today in one of the quietest and strangest clashes of the independence campaign inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. Authorities adopted the methods of the Satyagraha, or passive resisters, to halt the raid. They formed a cordon around the volunteers headed by Mrs. Naidu and merely prevented’ them from moving. WILL ROGERS LEFT OUT OF ENUMERATION Beverly Hills Census Figures Are Boosted One by Protest. Bu United Press BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 15. The population of this “fastest growing city in the world” was increased by one today as a result of the enumeration of Will Rogers, nationally known funny man. Rogers’ complaint that he hadn’t been counted caused the Chamber of Commerce to “launch a drive” to see that the former honorary mayor was included in the count. Inclusion of Rogers raised the count from 17,428 to 17,429, but didn’t materially alter the city’s 2,400 per cent gain over 1920. Suspend Yale Students in Riot Bu United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 15. Last Thursday's student riot today resulted in the suspension of thirteen Yale students by L jg Clarence W. Mendell.

Some 2,000 American concerns already have established branch, or independent, plants aboard, giving employment to foreign labor and using foreign materials when, but for the handicap brought upon them by our super-tariff, American labor and materials would be used to make goods for export. * a ana THIS tendency, if further aggravated by a continuation of the tariff war, economists warn, inevitably must end in wiping out our export trade. The things which American labor otherwise would produce for export wil be produced by foreign labor working in American factories located abroad. Deprived of foreign trade, economists point out, the United States would be in the position of a village with a Chinese wall about it, whose inhabitants barred out all outsiders and traded only among themselves. Obviously its business neve* grow,

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LOWER LIMIT PROPOSED ON WORKING AGE Modification of Child Labor Laws Is Advocated by Wisehart. GIVEN BACKING OF CLUB State Chief Would Drop Bars on Statutes of Employment. Roy P. Wisehart, state superintendent of puolic instruction, today advocated modification of the Indiana child labor laws to make it easy for industry to employ boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 18 years. He took this stand in suporting similar proposals advocated by George K. Wells, state supervisor of industrial education in Wisehart’s department. The state superintendent would remove entirely the clause in Section 22 of the present statute, which, after enumerating certain prohibited occupations for minors, says also they may not be employed “in any other occupation dangerous to life or limb.” Wisehart would replace this general phrase by a specific listing of occupations in the “dangerous” class. “Schools Can Not Progress” / “This law now is so broad that manufacturers are afraid to employ minors between 16 and 18 for fear that if injured they wil be considered illegally employed,” the state superintendent explained. "Consequently our part - time schools can not progress as I should like to see them for the pupils can not find jobs. Industry is afraid to employ them.” Another modification of the child labor law advocated by Wisehart is to permit city superintendents to recommend to the state industrial board that certain girls may be employed after 7 p. m. The industrial beard then would give permits in these individual cases. Cites Union City Experience Wisehart cited as an example his experience while superintendent of the Union City schools. He said that one of his high school girls, age 17, was earning her way through schpol by working at a telephone switchboard between 7 and 9 p. m. When her age was discovered by her employer she was discharged, quit school and walked the streets, he said. Support for the Wisehart-Wells ideas was voted recently by the state convention of Business and Professional Women. Miss Glen Anderson, assistant to Wells, is past president of the Indianapolis branch of the organization. Manufacturers also are said to support these changes, but labor may oppose them on the ground that it is no time to increase child labor when adults cannot find employment, it was said. BLOOD TRAIL LEADS TO ARREST AS DRUNK Intoxication Is Charged After Police Follow Tracks Three Blocks. A trail of blood proved to police today Joseph Murray, 45, of 1038 West Twenty-eighth street, had not been slashed in a fight. Murray was found seated in front of a barber shop at 2813 Clifton street today, bleeding severely from an artery in his left arm. He could not remember who cut him, but declared a man slashed him. Sergeant Victor Houston followed the trail of blood for three blocks and found a broken gallon jug which had contained liquor. The blood ended with the broken Jug. Murray was arrested on intoxication charges. STRICKEN FATALLY AS SHE WINS DEATH RACE Hurries by Plane to See 111 Mother, and Succumbs. Bu United Press EVANSTON, HI., May 15.—Mrs, Siebel H. Harris, broker’s wife, hurried by plane to Duluth to be with her mother-in-law, reported to be dying. Twelve hours later Mrs. Harris herself was dead after being suddenly sricken with a heart attack. RESIGNS ON DEATH BED Aged Premier of New Zealand Signs Paper With Shaking Hand. Bu United Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 15.—Writing with shaking hand on what is believed to be his deathbed, Sir Joseph Ward, aged premier of New Zealand, resigned today.