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NEGRO RIDDLED AND SET AFIRE BY TEXAS MOB Speedy Vengeance Exacted in White Man’s Murder After Cabin Siege. CALL FOR RENT FATAL Double Guard About Jail io Protect Slayer of Wife, Parents. B United Prr** HONEY GROVE, Tex., May 17. Pierced with bullets and charred by fire, the body of a Negro who killed a man lay in a cemetery outside this northeastern Texas town today, the victim of a mob whose violence marked the second vengeance of its kind within a week. Order had ben restored among the 900 people of Honey Grove after a night of fury that threatened momentarily to approach the spirit that raged at Sherman. Tex., in an adjoining county, just a week previously. Within a few hours after Sam Johnson, a Negro, shot and killed E. F. Fortenberry, 50, white landowner, a mob of 400 men had beseiged the Negro in his refuge and filled him with bullets. They chained his body to an automobile and dragged it through the Negro section of town, strung it from the limb of a tree, saturated it with gasoline and set it ablaze. Disperse After Burning Its task ended, the mob dispersed without further trouble. Creeping stealthily from their shanties where they had cowF.ed, while the mob fury raged, a few Negroes cut down the swaying figure and.hurried it to a Negro cemetery. Drama moved speedily and ruthlessly from the time Fortenberry and his friend. Tom Hannard, called Friday afternoon at Johnson’s cabin to inquire about his- rent. They found Johnson packing his belongings, apparently about to leave the farm. "You’re not leaving?” Fortenberry Inquired. The Negro, according to Hannard, replied by firing three times at Fortenberry, killing him instantly. The Negro barricaded himself in his cabin on the edge of town. Sheriff Hughes of Fannin county, in which Honey Grove is located, led the attack. Townspeople and farmers swarmed to his aid with shotguns, revolvers and rifles.

Runners Brought Bullets Deploying about the cabin, they opened a barrage on Johnson, who fired back with two revolvers. When the attackers’ ammunition became scarce, the sheriff organized a detail of runners, who worked in relays to bring fresh ammunition from town. After nearly two hours of shooting into the cabin, the firing lightened from within. Oscar Davis, a farmer, volunteered to enter the refuge. Marksmen kept guns trained on the cabin. Their vigilance was needless. Leaning against the door was the Negro's body, perforated with bullets. Davis tossed it from a window. The mob dashed for it. The leaders tied it to an automobile, a chain wrapped around one leg, a Vngth of barbed wire around the ether. Through the town to the Negro section they dragged it, hung it to a tree, soaked it with gasoline and touched it with a match. By 10 p. m. all was quiet in .loney Grove. White Kiljer Menaced B BROWN WOOD, Tex., May 17. Threats of mob violence against Joe Shields, slayer of his wife and her parents, were quieted today as a double guard paced around the jail where he was held here. Shields was spirited away from thme Brown county jail Friday night when authorities learned a mob was forming at Brooksmith, fifteen miles aw f ay, to come for him. He was returned here later. Shields shot and killed his estranged wife, Brooksmith officers said, because she refused to let him see the children when he visited her home there. ■pie woman’s father, J. B. Shields, came out of a house across the street and Shields shot him twice. He sent a third bullet into the side of his mother-in-law who was attracted by the shots. A posse hastily formed at Brooksmith captured Shields after a running gun battle. He had fled in an automobile. POPPY DAY ON MAY 24 Seventh District Auxiliary of Legion Is Sponsor. Annual Poppy day will be observed in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 24. by the Seventh District American Legion auxiliary, which is planning to sell poppies in memory of the World war dead. Legion workers under leadership of Charles Cain will assist auxiliary members who will be stationed in all parts of the city selling the flowers. MENINGITIS TOLL RISES Deaths From Disease Since Dee. * Mount to 125 Today. Total deaths from cerebrospinal meningitis since Dec. 9 mounted to 125 today with the death of Orville Hutsell. 1230 South Harding street, at city hospital.

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The Indianapolis Times Unsettled weather tonight and Sunday, with probably showers. Slightly cooler tonight.

VOLUME 42—NUMBER 6

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Ru t njttd Press _ _ ~ NEW YORK. May 17. Trad-ng continued dull on the Stock Exchange today with prices firm in a narrow range. A few leaders, including Westinghouse Electric, Standard Oil of New Jersey, American Telephone and Telegraph eased off fractionally. Coca Cola gained a point to 187% and fractional advances were made by Celotev. A. M. Byers, Gold Dust. Standard Brands. American Smelting, General Electric, Radio Corporation, Kennecott, American Cap and Atlantic Refining. United States Steel opened down % to 172%, its weakness disturbing the list. Movements, however, continued narrow in the early trading and business was dull. Oils showed a tendency to decline on a reduction in the Santa Fe Springs oil prices. Standard of California, which made the reduction, eased V* to 70. Standard of New York and of Jersey also were down. Utilities held firm as did several of the rails. J. I. Case firmed up 2% points to 324'i. United Aircraft held steady at 77 in the aviation issues. Chicago Stocks Opening (By James T. Hamill & Cos.) —May 17— J. D. Adams 30 Auburn Motors 160, Bendix Aviation 42% Borer Warner 374, A. M. Castle 59% Cent Pub Sec (A) 30% Chicago Corp Com 13% Cities Service 36% Constru Mat com 19% Constr Mat com 41% Cord Corp 10% Ocn Theater 41% Grigsby Grunow 20% Houd Hershey (A) 25% Insuil com 65 Insull Utilities 6s of 1940 106 Marshall Field 44 Midland United 34% Middlewest Utility 33% Nor Am Lt and Power 7754 Noblitt Spavks 53 Utility and Indus com 18 s i Winton Engine 62%

TROOPS ARREST SALT RAIDERS British Crush First Move of India’s 'Joan.’ Bu United Press BOMBAY, May 17.—Passive resistance volunteers were rounded up in wholesale lots today as the British government followed up the advantage it gained when it crushed Mrs. Harojini Naidu’s first move as Mahatma Gandhi’s successor. The volunteers, however, were not depressed by failure of their poetess leader. To effect a raid on the thrice-threatened Dharasana salt works. Another group of fifty, some of them among the party which had remained with Mrs. Naidu throughout a twenty-eight-hour “seige” near the Dharasana works, left their camp at Untadi again this morning intending to effect the raid. They were halted by the alert native police at almost the exact spot where Mrs. Naidu’s party was halted Thursday, and once more volunteers and police sat opposite each other in “passive resistance. ’ Mrs. Naidu, who has been likened to Joan of Arc by her countrymen, rested today at the volunteers’ camp where the police had taken her when they forcibly removed the raiders after a stalemate lasting twenty-eight hours, each side waiting for the other to act. Mrs. Naidu admitted her mission had failed. “Having led the first group, there is nothing more for me to do,” she said. She expected to return to Bombay in a day or two.

BOY DIES OF HURTS Injuries in Truck Mishap Kill Sanford Pittman. A race between a tricycle and a truck resulted in the death today of Sanford Pittman Jr., 5,' of 627 Eugene street, at the Methodist hospital. The child was racing on the sidewalk with a truck driven by Trevor Stiles. 724 Congress avenue, on May 9, when the tricycle ran off the curb and the boy’s body was thrown beneath the truck wheels. Stiles was not held. ‘FOLLIES 1 DRAW MANY Butler Production Given at Caleb Mills Hall. Three snappy choruses and an array of musical and dramatic talent will be seen in the second performance of the 1930 Fairview Follies of Butler university tonight in Caleb Mills hall of Shortridge high school. A large crowd attended the first showing of the twenty-one scene production Friday night. First rendition of "The Spirit of Butler,” new march composed by J. B. Vanc ker, veteran band leader, was a ire. FREIGHTER IS ON ROCKS Stranded Ship W’tih 25 Aboard May Be Refloated. Bu United Press FALMOUTH, Mass., May 17.—The United States shipping board freighter Kearny, with about twen-ty-five men aboard, ran hard aground on the rocks near Notaka lighthouse in Vineyard sound in a light fog early today. It was believe dthe stranded ship might be fioated. at the noon high tide.

STATES UNITE IN WAR UPON BOOTLEG GAS’ Bobbitt and Illinois Tax Chief Confer to Stop Smuggling. CHECK UP ON SUSPECTS Thousands of Gallons Are Being Run in Free of Levy, Is Charge. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY First steps toward stopping interstate trucking of “bootleg” gasoline were taken today by Archie Bobbitt, state auditor, following a conference Friday afternoon with J. C. Colton of the gasoline tax bureau of Illinois, in Bobbitt’s office. Defining the term “bootleg” gasoline, Bobbitt pointed out that this covers any that is being sold without payment of the 4-cent a gallon tax in this state. The tax is 3 cents a gallon in Illinois. State Loss Huge Both Bobbitt and Colton admitted that hundreds of thousands of gallons are being peddled tax-free in both states, and the loss to the state governments in tens of thousands of dollars. Interchange of data regarding suspected firms is the first move to be made, Bobbitt explained. It then is planned to arrange for a conference of the gasoline tax collectors of all the neighboring states to work out a plan for making checkups and information of wholesale gasoline sales easily available, Bobbitt and Colton agreed. Colton returned to Springfield, HI., Friday night, and is to send records regarding the Reliable Oil Company, Chicago, to Bobbitt today. Fines Are Assessed This concern figured in the admitted tax-dodging cf the Dunes Oil Company stations at South Bend, for which a SIO,OOO back tax payment and fine has been assessed by Leland K. Fishback, state gasoline tax collector in Bobbitt’s office. Colton disclosed that the Reliable compajiy has a license in Illinois. According to Bobbitt, they shipped twenty-six cars of low grade gasoline to South Bend in tank cars labeled “distillate,” in an effort to escape inspection and taxation. Colton had no record of Illinois registration of the Midway Refining Company, Harvey, 111., which, Bobbitt says, has been bootlegging gasoline in Indiana. Bobbitt expects to attempt collection of back taxes from this concern "within the next few days,” he said. Colton promised that the Illinois department will look into their activities at Harvey at once. DENY DAWES TO QUIT He Will Take Regular Vacation in Fall. By United Press LONDON, May 17.—The American embassy issued a statement here today denying intimations published in the United States that Ambassador Charles G. Dawes would resign soon. “The ambassador will not apply for his regular leave of absence until next September, when he will go to Chicago for a month in connection with his duties as chairman of the finance committee of the Chicago century of progress exposition,” the statement said. "At the end of his leave, he will return to his duties in London.”

‘CHIC’ SALES IS ON HIS WAY TO TOWN!

Ever see this handsome face before? Yeah? Os course! It’s none other than CHIC SALE himself. All the droll remarks and roguish wit those eyes foretell will be with us every day, starting Monday, for Chic is going to write some m-i-g-h-t-y funny comments on What’s Goto’ On. The fun and laughter you’ve enjoyed in Chic on the stage and the movies you’ll now get in Chic’s sparkling comment, exclusively in The Times. And remember this also. Chic goes on the air wery Sunday night at 6:45 over the Columbia hookup. Tune in c*j WFBM tomorrow and laugfcc,wlth and at Chic. * v

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930

Fast Derby Track Is Predicted Despite Forecast of Showers

VALENTINO IS STORMGENTER Park Statue si Resented: Estate Suit Filed. Bu United Press HOLLWOOD, May 17.—While relatives of Rudolph Valentino fought in court over his estate, another battle was brewing here today over the statue erected recently in De Longpre park in memory of the famous screen star. The bronze figure, symbolizing “Aspiration,” by Roger Moble Bumham, is a man with bobbed hair, standing on a ball, his hands close to his sides and his chin in the air. Since its unveiling by Dolores Del Rio before a gathering of the dead star’s fans, the art commission has received numerous protests. Herman E. Bennett, whose fan status is undetermined, protested that the statue of a “formalized male figure” might better have been a figure of De Longpre, pioneer artist for whom the park was named. Relatives of Valentino have demanded an accounting from S. George Ullman, manager of the sheik’s million dollar estate.

By United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 17.—Fifteen colts and a filly, Alcibiades, have been named for the - fifty-sixth running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs today. Official form sheet follows: Tht Kentucky Derby; 3-year-olds; 150,000 added; one mile and a qrarter.) Prob. P.P. Horse Wt. Owner Jockey, odds. 1— Longus 126 R. C. Stable R. O’Brien 100-1 2 Uncle Luther 126 Luther Stivers C. McCrossen 20-1 3 Ned O 126 G. W. Foreman J. D. Mooney 15-1 4 Afcibiades 121 H. P.' Headley L. Jones 30-1 5 High Foot 126 Valley Lake Stable C. Meyer 12-1 6 Crack Brjgade 126 T. M. Cassidy G. Ellis 8-1 7 Gallant Fox 126 Belair Stud E. Sande 6-5 8— Gallant Knight 126 Audley Farm H. Schutte 20-1 B—(b)Kilkerry 126 Three D Stable P. Walls 25-1 10—Gone-Away 126 William Ziegler Jr. Mack Garner -0-1 11 Dick O’Hara 126 P. H. Joyce M. Barrett 100-1 12 Busy 126 J. B. Respess L. Pichon 60-1 13— Tannery 126 E. F. Pritchard W. Garner 4-1 14— (a) Breezing Thru . 126 E. R. Bradley J. Smith 10-1 15— (b)Broadway Limited 126 Three D Stable T. May 25-1 16— (a)Buckeye Poet ’ 125 E. R. Bradley E. Legere 10-1 <a)E. R. Bradley entry. (b)Three D Stable entry. Net value to winner it sixteen start, $51,200; second, $6,000; third. $3,000; fourth, SI,OOO Deduct $590 from net value to winner for each horse scratched. Probable post time, 5:15 central standard time. Weather, clear: track, fast; cloudy and probable rain forecast.

G. O. P. CHIEFS STRIVE TO FORCE VOTES SWITCH TO * RELAX TARIFF DEADLOCK

Fate of Bill Rests on Ability of Leaders to Sway Senators. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 17. The tariff bill rested today or the ability and desire of Republican leaders to force i change of four senatorial votes. The change must be wrought by the time the senate votes Monday on the pending Smoot resolution to relax the adamant stand of the senate for the debenture plan of farm relief and the flexible clause repealer. Otherwise, it appears the tariff may die in the conference committee with the house and senate unable to agree about these two salient features of the measure now near the end of a sixteen-months’ parliamentary journey. Hope to Shove Bill Over The Democrats contend no Republican tears will be shed if the Smoot resolution is defeated and the tariff is left deadlocked. The Republicans, however, contend they are striving to relax the present strained situation in hope of shoving the bill through before a summer recess is taken within a few weeks. The independent Republicans, who hold the balance of power and, like the Democrats, are strong advocates of both disputed provisions, are saying nothing. The debenture was adopted as an amendment to the tariff bill last Oct. 19 by a vote of 42 to 34. If four supporters of the debenture can be won over before Monday by the Republicans, a tie vote would ensue. . Would Be G. O. P. Victory This would be a Republican victory because Vice-President Curtis then could cast the deciding vote, eliminating that section of the bill which the administration has found so objectionable. In the October vote, extreme pressure was exerted without success by the administration to defeat the

difficult to win away any of the forty-two majority votes. The same situation surrounds the flexible repealer. It was adopted last Oct. 2 by a vote of 47 to 42. A switch of three votes here would change the result, but they also will be difficult to get. PORKER PRICES UP 25 CENTS AT CITY YARDS Cattle and Veal Trade Steady; Sheep Mart Nominal. Hog prices took a small jump in trade at the Union stockyards this morning, figures for the bulk, 160 to 28C pounds, ranging around $10.40. Top price paid was $10.50. Receipts were estimated at 2,000, hodovers were 241. Cattle receipts were 100, the market holding steady. Vealers were unchanged at $11.50 down. Calves receipts were 200. The sheep market was a nominal affair with receipts of 50. Chicago hog receipts were 8,000, including 6,000 direct. Holdovers were 3,000. Today’s market was slow and steady with Friday’s average. Choice 210-pound weights sold for $10.50; practically nothing done on heavy weights. Cattle receipts were 500; sheep, 5,000. FLOODS HIT OKLAHOMA More Rain Predicted as Rescue Workers Aid Stricken Families. Bu United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, May 17. With more rain predicted, rescue workers struggled over almost impassable highways today to aid families stricken by flood waters which have swept over many sections of the state. CONVENTION IS TALKED Democrat State Committee Seeks to Iron Out Friction. Plans for the Democratic state convention here June 10 were discussed today by members of the Democratic state committee, who also attempted to iron out rough spots occasioned by the bitter fight

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STATE DRY AID TO BESOUGHT U. S. Courts Crowded With Prohibition Cases. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 17. The states will be called on by AttorneyGeneral Mitchell to assume a larger share in trying and imprisoning prohibition law violators, it was learned today. Crowded federal penitentiaries, held responsible for many late riots, and the congested dockets of federal courts have forced this move. Mitchell, it was learned, will seek to have the states try prohibition offenders under their own laws where that is possible. In states that have no dry legistion their nuisance laws may be invoked. Congestion in the federal jails, which now are housing nearly three times the number of inmates they were intended to accommodate, make it extremely difficult for the federal government to care for many additional prohibition prisoners. Dockets of federal courts are crowded with 20,000 dry cases. This condition causes lengthy delays in obtaining trial of federal dry offenders and is a primary incentive of the effort to place more responsibility on state courts. The senate late Friday passed a bill providing for two new federal penitentiaries—one west of the Mississippi and another in the northeast.

GOVERNOR TRAILS IN OREGON’S PRIMARY Portland Attorney in Commanding Position to Attain Nomination. Bu United Press PORTLAND, Ore., May 17.—Returns in Oregon’s quietest primary election today indicated that George W. Joseph, Portland attorney, was in a commanding position to attain the Republican nomination for Governor. Incomplete returns from all precincts of Multonomah county and scattered returns from thirty-five counties gave Joseph a vote of 25,448, compared with 20,666 for Governor A. A. "Norblad. George R. Wilbur held a slight lead over Edward F. Bailey for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Both are World war veterans. SEEK MISSING JURIST W’est Coast Bar Figure Vanishes While Taking Walk. OAKLAND, Cal., May 17.—Superior Judge Eward W. Engs, who failed to return to his home Friday after leaving for a walk in tjie hills near the city, still was missing today. Hundreds of police and private citizens searched throughout the foothill district for the Juilst, who was'said by his wife to have been ill the night previous disappearance.

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Gallant Fox and Sande Odds on Favorites for Turf Classic. SHOWERS ARE FORECAST Earl’s Visit Adds Glamour to Colorful Crowds at Churchill Downs. Bu United Press LOUISVILLE, May 17.—Derby day dawned with overcast skies today, and the weather man forecasted showers before the running of the classic. A slow track would be certain to cause a shift in the odds which made Gallant Fox a prohibitive favorite. But unless there is a steady downpour it was expected the track would be fairly fast. BY FRANK GETTY United Press Snorts Editor LOUISVILLE, Ky.. May 17.—A bay picture horse, with the speed of the wind and the heart of a lion, and the greatest jockey of modem times whispering in his ear. Gallant Fox and Earl Sande—are due to perform this afternoon in the presence of the Earl of Derby, guest of honor of some 50,000 tumultuous turf fans in the fifty-sixth running of the Kentucky Derby. There will be a dozen or more of the country’s greatest 3-year-olds giving battle to “The Fox” and Sande around the mile and a quarter of road brown ribbon which encircles the glorious green of Churchill Downs, but the odds are—and probably will be at post time—that the handsome son of Gallahad 111-Marquerite will join the small and immortal list of odds on Derby winners. Kentucky Backs Own Ho ses The glamor of the country’s greatest sporting spectacle holds this oldfashioned Kentucky town and its thousands of visitors enthralled today. There's an old-fashioned charm about this most famous of American turf fixtures unequaled anywhere, ands that goes for Epsom Downs, where the great races for 3-year-olds to which the earl of Derby’s family gave the name first were run. Many a great horse has come out of the east to stand the test at Churchill Downs and many have failed to make the grade, to the accompaniment of joyous rebel yells as some home-bred showed the way. This year Kentucky offers Tannery, E. F. Prichard’s home-bred, and the Bradley pair, Breezing Thru and Buckeye Poet, and many a $2 bill fed into the mutuels here this afternoon will carry a fervent prayer for the success of a blue grass horse. Clockers Make Predictions The rail birds, the dockers, the tipsters and the stable bands, out shortly after daybreak to watch the Derby entrants breezed in the fresh of the morning were talking, too, of High Foot, the chocolate brown son of Prince Pal, who is carrying the cash of Chicago. They muttered in enforced admiration when T. M. Cassidy’s Crack Brigade and G. W. Foreman’s Ned O. galloped past the stands, snorting in their eagernesJ to be allowed to run. These unknown but knowing experts had a kind word for Ziegler’s Gone Away and Stivers’ Uncle Luther, In all Kentucky Derby history, there have been just nine odds-on favorites, including the immortal Old Rosebud which set the present record of 2:03 2-5, which have won the blue ribbon classic and it looked today as though Gallant Fox would be the tenth. The Derby crowd is the smallest in some years. Chicago didn’t send its customary contingent, and there is not the exasperating congestion which has made a mad house of this old Kentucky town in the past. Field Smaller Than Usual The field, too, Is smaller than usual, due to the fact that Gallant Fox spread-eagled his fields in the east this spring. Sixteen were named to go overnight, three of them doubtful starters. The favorite drew the favorable post position, seventh from the rail, which will make it easier for Sande to get Gallant Fox under way, and with such a small field there should be no reason why the race is not truly run. [ The possibility of showers this | afternoon did not greatly alarm the backers of Gallant Fox, although if the track proved sloppy, there was bound to be a rush of money | for Tannery, as the Belair horse | has yet to prove his mettle in the i soft going. Earl of Derby Attends ! Kentucky Derby crowds are as picturesque as Kentucky Derby horses and this year’s proved no exception. The presence of the earl of Derby, due at noon from Lexington where he has been confined by a mild attack of the flu, added a fillip to the affair heretofore unknown to the visitors at Churchill Downs. A little white pagoda was erected for the special use of his lordship on the clubhouse lav*n. It wa-. carpeted, glass inclosed, isolated. Lord Derby was to come to Churchill Downs in a private train, accompanied by Joseph Widener, whose guest he has been at Lexington. Burglar Gets Wardrobe Paul R. Stevenson, 4356 Guilford avenue, today informed police a burglar stole three suits and twenty neckties, valued at $l5O Friday, night.