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SENATOR PUTS DESPOT BRAND ON PRESIDENT Hoover Bitterly Assailed by Black for Holding Back Pact Secrets. ‘INSULT TO CONGRESS’ Talk About Possibility of t Leak Declared to Be Camouflage. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 9.—President Hoover’s refusal to give the senate secret papers relating to the London naval treaty was likened today by Senator Black (Dem., Ala.) to the policies of Alexander Hamilton and all men who believed in the theory of one-man despotic governments. Black said talk of the possibility of a leak if the papers were delivered to the senate was camouflage and an insult to congress. Basing his argument on the Constitution. Black said the secretary of state was responsible to congress and not to the President in the custody of department files and that Secretary Stimson should not be permitted to withhold papers from the senate. Mrs. Stimson heard the speech from a seat in the front row of the diplomatic gallery. Black gained the floor after a roll call, carefully checked by Senator Johnson (Rep.. Cal.), had shown a bare majority of forty-nine senators present on the third day of the special treaty sesSecretary of State Stimson s visit to the senate Tuesday was designed as a compliment to the ranking Democratic member of the foreign relations committee. Senator Swanson of Virginia, who was speaking, and not to exercise pressure for ratification of the London treaty, Stimson explained at a press conference today. _ . "This fact in itself is a sufficient answer to the suggestion that there may be danger of the administration seeking to turn to partisan advantage the early ratificatibn of that treaty,” the secretary said. FIVE YOUTHS GO TO PRISON FOR CRIMES Judge Collins Sends Young Bandits to Michigan Ctiy. Five youths were sentenced to state prison terms from criminal court following conviction by Criminal Judge James J. Collins today. Thomas Johnston, 19, Negro, was sentenced to from one t° ten years for assault and battery with intent to rob Eugene Dorn, 2932 street, whom he shot in the attempts M Donaid Nye. 21. and Owen Hawkins were given one to ten years and two to fourteen years respectively when convicted on ’-obbery and conspiracy to commit a felon} Ch Tom S Bastick, 30. was sentenced to from one to ten years on a second degree burglary conviction, and Stoughton Brooks, 23, from one to ten years, for vehicle taking. POOL •PETTING’ BANNED Kilgore Orders Guards to Eject Drinkers and “Lovers.” "Petting” and liquor drinking at municipal pools or beaches will result in arrest of violators, Recreation Director David Kilgore ruled today. All life guards and matrons were instructed to call a police officer to • oust” alcoholics and petters who persist in ignoring rules. "It isn’t necessary to touch a person to teach swimming with our modern method.” Kilgore said, commenting on the methods some swains employ in ’’teachng’ girls to swim. OCEAN HOP IS FAILURE Brazil to Africa Flier Is Reported Forced Down Beside Ship. S *RIO < DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July 9. —The Aeropostale Company announced today that Jean Mermoz, flying across the South Atlantic from Brazil to Africa, had descended short of his goal near the Aeropostale steamer Phocee, one of the ships which were stationed along the route to aid the plane in case of distress. The position of the Phocee was not given in the first messages, but it was believed to be well towards the African coast. DOGS IN QUARANTINE 120-Day Order Issued in Co-opera-tion With Health Board. Beginning Thursday a 120-day quarantine will become effective on all dogs in Marion county, it was announced today by Dr. Frank Brown, state veterinarian. The order was issued in co-opera-tion with the state and city health departments to prevent rabies, he said. All dogs must remain on the premises of the owners unless taken out on leash. Kilte Self by Shooting Bn United Brett • MITCHELL. Ind.. July 9.—James White, 52. committed suicide by shooting. Illness Is beliedev to have caused the act. A nieces found the body In a woods near his home, north of Mitchell

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The Indianapolis Times Somewhat unsettled and continued warm tonight and Thursday.

VOLUME 42—NUMBER 51

City Held in Grip of Blistering Heat

Promise of cooler weather following rain early today vanished almost Immediately as a scorching sun swept away what appeared to be storm clouds, and Indianapolis began another sweltering day. Temperatures that began at 78 degrees at 6 a. m., at 1 p. m. had soared to 91 degrees, to break the mark of 90 degrees Tuesday afternoon. Throughout the state continued warm weather will prevail today and tonight, the United States weather bureau here predicted this morning. Relief from the heat wave may be expected in the extreme northern part of Indiana Thursday. Heat today was blamed by police for a madman’s attack on a sleeping woman with an ax Tuesday night. Joe Mastropietro, 70, roomer at the home of Mrs. Francesco Danzio,

IT’S NOT SO HOT But Judge Says, ‘Hot Enough’

\TEW YORK, July 9.—James Sweeney, 27, an acrobat, back-flipped IN himself and four companions out of jail today. Sweeney, with Joseph Cook, 27, another acrobat; Henry Jones, 30, a bond salesman, and William Brennan, 30, a waiter, had been arrested for loitering in front of the Globe theater. They were taken before Magistrate Brodsky. "Judge,” said Jones, "it’s too hot to go to jail, and, anyway, Im a gentleman.” This double plea failed to stir the judge’s heartstrings, so Sweeney stepped forward. ’ , „ "Judge,” he said, “Cook and I are good acrobats. Watch. He hopped upon a table and sprang into the air. His aim was poor, however, and instead of landing on the table, as he had intended, he piled up in a heap on the floor. Then he struggled to his feet. “Not so hot, that one,” he gasped, "but cast your eye on this one, Udg *^H ol d on,” ventured Magistrate Brodsky, “the charges against all four are dismissed on condition that you spare us the rest of your performance.”

tt M U Twins De-Siamesed Atlantic city, July 9.—The greatest feat ever perpetrated among that awe-inspiring collection of "human freaks” at the Atlantic City boardwalk show was the deft way in which Daisy and Violet Milton, heretofore known as “Siamese twins,” became two persons and smote their manager on “the nose, the face, and cheeks.” The story came out in recorder’s court today, when the Milton sisters answered a complaint of disorderly conduct. They appeared, thoroughly “de-Siamesed,” and said their manager had refused them back salary, totaling $2,120. Tuesday night, they said, they made their final demand for the money. When they met with refusal, Daisy unbuttoned herself from Violet and smote the manager. Recorder Altman dismissed the charges and ordered payment of the money, “to avoid further complications.”

Four Can Eat for $1.65 Daily July 9.—A family of four now can be fed for $1.65 a day, if the housewife will take advantage of summer economies and lower meat and vegetable prices, the American Research Foundation estimated today. “Watch the newspapers for the best prices, and buy fresh fruits and vegetables in season,” housewives are advised. To show what can be done for $1.65 a day in the way of serving three square meals, the foundation recommends this model menu: Breakfast—Stewed figs, scrambled eggs, toast and margarine, coffee and cream. Luncheon—Fruit salad, toast and margarine, cup cakes, tea, milk. Dinner —Meat loaf, cabbage, creamed potatoes, tomatoes, com meal muffins, margarine, caramel Bavarian, tea, milk.

No Snuggling MUENSTER, Wesphalia, Germany, July 9.—The summer moon of Westphalia will throw its gleams over the romantic nooks of Muenster in vain, as far as the city fathers are concerned. Hearings of the ruling of the burgomaster of Dutch St. Martendijk that persons of different sexes must sit a yard apart in the city parks, they have drawn up their own remedy for moonlight lovemaking. All benches in Muenster’s public parks, they said, must be equipped with chicken wire partitioning the benches into “coops”, each affording room for just one person, and a rather slender person at that. If that remedy does not help, the city fathers ordered that whenever more han one person is found sitting in a coop, both must be haled into court.

Anderson Woman Kills Self ANDERSON, Ind., July 9.—No motive has been advanced for the suicide of Mrs. Harry Staley, 32, who swallowed poison acid today. Police are looking for her husband.

THREATENS BAN ON POOL CONCESSIONS

Checking privileges will be taken away from present concessionaires at city pools and beaches unless satisfactory co-operation with city officials is shown, Charles Sallee, superintendent of parks and recreation. declared today. The statement was made after Sallee conferred with W. Harrison Marsh and James Ange , concession holders, -elative to reports they were not abiding by the park board order insuring free checking facilities for children under 14. It was reported to the park office that Marsh, -no runs checking service at Garfield and Ellenberger, had continued to charge children checking fees on Sundays aid that employes of Marsh had jeered at adults who went into the pool with theix own bathing suits.

129 South Davidson street, crept with the ax to a porch on which Mrs. Danzio slept and struck her on the head. Police found him hiding in weeds under a railroad elevation. He was talking incoherently, and his face streamed with perspiration. Mrs. Danzio is suffering from a brain concussion, but her condition Is not serious. Although three heat prostrations, none of them serious, were reported in the city since Sunday, the first death from heat occurred in Flackville Tuesday, when Louis Staton, 58, farmer, died of acute heart dilation superinduced by hot weather. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Mattie Staton, and his mother, Mrs. Sarah Staton. Funeral services will be held in the home at 2:30 p. m. Thursday, and burial will be in Bethel cemetery.

n * n Fish Eat Sirloin Trenton, n. j., July 9.—The life that a fish leads in the good state of New Jersey is not so bad after all, despite the occasional unpleasantness of being snared on a barbed hook. Budget Commissioner John Reddan, appearing as a witness before the Abell committee of investigation today, testified that he had come across a bill for $72,000, for fish food, tendered by the state fish and game commission. “I thought it was worth looking into.” said Commissioner Reddan. “I learned that trout and bass produced In the state hatcheries so fishermen may have plenty of luck are fed a steady diet of sirloin steaks and buttermilk.” Investigation revealed that this diet is best for fish, cheaper foods having a tendency to kill off the young.

BUTTE STRIKERS RIOT Wage Reduction Results in Attack on Unorganized Workers. Bu United Press BUTTE, Mont., July 9.—One hundred deputies patrolled the streets of Butte today to prevent further rioting between union and nonunion men. The strike which resulted in a clash in which four persons were injured began Monday with a wage reduction for union teamsters and machinists. When nonorganization men accepted the positions, the unionists attacked them. The first sympathetic strike, by a contingent of the clerks’ union, occurred late Tuesday. Others were expected to follow today. HIKE DEFENSE BUDGET French Make Direct Answer to Increase of Italy. Bv United Press PARIS, July 9.—The finance commission of the chamber of deputies approved today an additional credit of 1,126,000,000 francs (about $45,000,000) for national defense. The r, ction was considered in many sources as a direct answer to the recent increase of about $26,000,000 in the Italian national defense budgets.

Checkers were reported to have referred to the patrons at the pool as "cheap skates.” Reports were heard that Angelo, at McClure beach, had charged several children for the checking service. Lifeguards at Ellenberger, Willard and Warfleigh bear ; risked additional guards ove week-ends. Recreational Director David S. Kilgore assigned playground supervisors to assist temporarily. Pools, hereafter, will open at 12 on Sundays instead of at 10 a. m. Greater co-ope/ation of police was asked of Police Chief Jerry Kinney in an effort to curb rowdyism at the pools and playgrounds after closing hours. Sallee said special police had been assigned to watch for gangs which had been destroying property. J

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THREE GROUPS JOIN IN SMASH AT GANGLAND Chicago Police, Churches and New Grand Jury Push Inquiries. COP CAPTAINS GRILLED Law Link With Underworld Will Be Investigated by Commissioner. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 9.—Three distinct “sweeping” investigations, all intended to "rid Chicago of crime,” and all resulting from the subway murder of Alfred (Jake) Lingle, Tribune reporter, moved steadily onward today toward the common goal. The investigations were in the hands of the police, the churches, and anew grand jury, which State’s Attorney John A. Swanson has announced will investigate thoroughly not only the Lingle murder, but alleged racketeering by newspaper men and alleged alliances between crime and politics, as well. A fourth investigating body, the special “board of strategy,’’ headed by Charles Rathbun, Tribune attorney, confined its activities to tracking down Lingle’s slayer. Police Captains Quizzed Every police captain in the city was drawn into active participation in the already furious attack upon the underworld, when acting commissioner John H. Alcock Tuesday night issued a demand that by July 20 every one of them give to him a written report detailing his knowledge of any collusion between policemen and gangsters. “The general impression of the public is that an alliance exists between members of the police department and racketeers and gangsters and it is my intention to get the facts on the subject,” Alcock stated in his blanket order. Overshadowing other developments in the Lingle and associated cases was a controversy between the St. Louis Star ahd Swanson over the promised appearance of Harry T. Brundidge, Star reporter, before Swanson’s new grand jury. Brundidge to Appear Brundidge, who wrote stories charging that other newspaper men than Lingle were engaged in racketeering, is expected to come here voluntarily Thursday to appear before the grand jury and explain his accusations. Swanson, however, wants to talk to the reporter before Brundidge goes before the grand jury. The St. Louis Star believes no such preliminary interrogation is necessary. Since Brundidge was out of the jurisdiction of a Cook county subpena, it appeared likely his wishes will be acceded to and Swanson announced that if necessary the preliminary questioning will be eliminated. Swanson previously had announced that if he decided Brundidge’s charges lacked foundation, he would not ask the reporter to testify. The third investigation body, the Chicago Church Federation, had before it a warning that some racketeering might be found within its own organizations and in professional uplift and reform movements. Churches Are Warned This warning was made by Aiderman Arthur F. Albert at the first investigation which resulted from the Lingle slaying. Albert told the church committee that Muyoi Thompson was ‘ being sold down the stream” and that Samuel Ertelson, corporation counsel,, was the city’s “invisible mayor.” He named the Better Government Association, which Is headed by the Rev. E. J. Davis, former state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, as the only reform organization he knew of against which racketeering charges could be made. TEN HURT IN COLLISION Bus Smashes Into Parked Truck Near Youngstown. Bu United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., July 9.—Ten persons were injured early today when a Colonial Stage Lines bus crashed into a parked truck at Hollywood Inn, south of here. Nine passengers on the bus and one man on the truck were taken to the south side unit of the Youngstown hospital. The bus was bound for Cleveland from Pittsburgh. Frank Distleri, Norwood, 0., driver of the bus. was uninjured. FULLER HEADS MARINES Selected as Successor to General Neville, on Latter’s Death. Bu Tnii e.iPrrs* WASHINGTON, July 9.—Briga-dier-General Ben H. Fuller was acting commandant of the marine corps today, designated to the post Tuesday following the death of Major-General Wendell C. C. Neville. Neville, a veteran of forty years’ service, died of heart disease at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John P. W. Vest, in Edgewater Beach, near Annapolis. His passing leaves Brigadier-General ' Smedley Butler ranking officer of the marin* corps. Americans Arrive in Russia Bu Unit~d Prett MOSCOW. July 9.—Twenty-five American economists arrived here today to begin a two months’ study of industrial and, agricultural conditions in Soviet Russia, particularly regarding the operation of the “flve-year-economic progranfc”

NATION-WIDE SEARCH BEGUN FOR WITNESS TO AID TOM MOONEY

Waiter Who Declared He Perjured Self to Convict Labor Leaders Is Sought by Defense League. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.—An extensive search was started today to locate John McDonald, waiter, a witness at the trial of Tom Mooney in 1916 for the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing. McDonald may be the means of freeing Mooney. The search followed Governor C. C. Young’s refuse 1 to grant Mooney a pardon and Mooney’s subsequent announcement that he would start a new fight for freedom from San Quentin prison. It was believed that McDonald was somewhere in the east, last having been heard of at the Central house at Trenton, N. J., in February, 1921. A letter was sent at the request of Mooney to his defense lawyer during the trial, Frank P. Walsh, in New York City by the secretary of the Tom Mooney Molders’ Defense League. It was believed the league had received fresh evidence —or was trying to stir up the old contention — that McDonald had perjured himself during the trial. Identified as Guilty Man McDonald identified Mooney and Warren K. Billings, now in Folsom prison, serving life for complicity in the bomb outrage, as prepetrators of the disaster. He later repudiated his former statements and accused police officials of coercing hi r . to perjure hiir self. Governor Young devoted a large portion of his statement concerning his refusal to pardon Mooney to the question of “repudiating witnesses.” Mary E. Gallagher, secretary of the Mooney Molders’ Defense League, stated today that a campaign would be started to advertise in eastern papers for the whereabouts of McDonald. She also said that other original witnesses were being sought, in the attempt to prove the league’s contention that Mooney and Billings were not given a fair trial. Tom Mooney, his face lined with the misery brought by fourteen years of convict life, today walked mechanically through his duties in “the city of gray walls”—San Quentin prison. Bitterness was written in his face and dejection In every line of his body, clad in the loose-fitting garb of a prison ‘trusty.” Charges Double-Cross "I was double-crossed,” cried Mooney, making no attempt to conceal his emotion. “It was not fair to link Billings’ case and mine. I was given assurance eight months ago that my lequest for a pardon would be met favorably—and this is the result. “Young was present three days before the bombing when a detective from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company offered Billings SSOO to frame me,” Mooney charged “he was a state senator at that time. He knows now and always will know that I am an innocent man.” He declared that the advisory board is merely a tool of the governor and followed his instructions in the matter of a pardon. Hopes for Justice “We may not be able to get justice from this administration, but we will from the next,” Momey shouted. “The supreme court ruling on Billings’ request for a pardon was one of the crudest, most unscholarly and injudicial reports ever handed down in a high court,” Mooney cried, his /oice ringing with the zeal that marked his conduct during the trial fourteen years ago. “The rank and file of laboring people support me and they are traitors to their cause if they help riect Governor Young to office again.” BOAT KILLS SWIMMER Outboard Craft Fractures Skull of Youthful Victim Bu United Press SOUTH YARMOUTH, Mass., July 9.—An outboard motorboat driven by a 10-year-old boy struck and instantly killed Joseph F. Robinson, 19, of this community, while he was swimming in Bass river here Tuesday. Harbor Master William H. Hunt recovered the body in seven feet of water. Robinson’s skull was fractured. Thinking he had struck submerged wreckage, Allan Priddy of Brookline, operator of the speed craft, did not slow down his craft, but drove to a wharf after hitting Robinson. Allan’s brother Stanton, 9, and Albin Schoepf, 10, were the only other occupants of the motorboat. NIAGARA BAN SOUGHT Canada Asked to Halt Attempts to “Shoot” Falls. Bv United Press NIAGARA FALLS. Ontario. July 9.—City Manager H. E. Goddard recommended to the governments of Ontario and Canada today that their law enforcement authorities be instructed to prevent any future attempts to shoot Niagara Falls. He acted under instructions from the city council, which adopted unanimously a resolution against such projects after the fatal trip of George Stathakis, Buffalo chef. Stathakis will be buried at Niagara Falls, N. Y., this afternoon.

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VOTE LAW CHANGE ASKED BY WOMEN

Pecking Pest B-r-r-p. B-r-r-p. Hour after hour that rat-tat-tat of a woodpecker must get tiresome, especially when the bird is attempting to construct a house about 3 a. m., in hot weather. Apparently the bird does not realize that Rome wasn't built in a day, or even two, and that he needn’t rush about his own domicile. Mrs. Lavera Shaw, 116 East Twenty-fifth street, today asked Sergeant Leo Landers to “do something about it.” She told him the bird started digging the excavation at 3 this morning and still was at work at 8 a. m. She said she lost sleep and wanted police assigned to the case.

COURT POSITIONS TO BE FILLED BY LESLIE Juvenile and Probate Positions to Be Viewed as Vacancies. Juvenile and probate positions, provided for in all cities of over 100,000 by a statute passed in 1903, will be viewed as vacancies and filled by the governor until elections are held, Attorney General James M. Ogden ruled today. Each position pays $4,000 per annum, and terms are for four years, to be filled by the county electorate at the time of state elections. Cities expected to be eligible for these additional courts on the basis of official 1930 census figures are Ft. Wayne, South Bend and Gary, making six gubernatorial appointments necessary. RULES ON ‘POCAHONTAS’ Baltzell Issues Permanent Injunction Against Coal Dealers. Permanent injunction against use of the name Pocahontas in connection with any coal other than that measuring up to certain specifications, was issued today by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell against seventeen Indianapolis coal dealers. The decx*ee was based on suit Drought by the American Coal Company and other coal mining companies who alleged the name Pocahontiv, was being used in advertising and selling allegedly inferior coal from other than certain mines in West Virginia and Virginia. Claims to damages were waived by the plaintiffs.

INJUNCTION HALTS TOY GOLF COURSE

Ruling that Paul O. Brown, builder is without authority to operate a miniature golf course at Thirtieth and Pennsylvania streets, Superior Judge Linn D. Hay today issued a temporary injunction against Brown, replacing a temporary restrai ling order issued last week. The city zoning board Tuesday denied Brown a permit to operate, charging it would he in violation of a city zoning ordinance.

Demand Governor Appoint Group to Recommend Needed Provisions. Aroused by recent disclosures of wholesale election frauds in Indiana, the executive board of the Indiana League of Women Voters today asked Governor Harry G. Leslie to appoint a nonpartisan commission of public spirited citizens to recommend to the legislature revision of the state’s election laws. “The startling disclosures of wholesale election frauds lend disastrous emphasis to the prediction made during the 1929 legislature of what would happen in Indiana without a registration law,” declared Mrs. S. Nell Campbell, vicepresident, presiding at the executive board meeting in state headquarters here. All Bars Are Down “With no legal list of voters, all bars are down, and it is not surprising to learn from the Marion county grand jury report that repeaters, floaters, dead persons and minors—yes, even crabtrees, were voted in the recent election,” Mrs. Campbell asserted. “The grand jury regretfully states that it can not continue the investigation because it is hampered by the lack of funds, which emphasizes the fact that the investigation and prosecution of election frauds is a more expensive and much less efficient way of protecting our elections than setting up a permanent registration system.” Mrs. Ralph E. Carter of Indianapolis, secretary of the league, declared: Citizens Interested “The executive board of the league respectfully has asked Governor Leslie to appoint a commission representing in a nonpartisan way the decent citizens of the state interested in honest elections to investigate thoroughly the whole code of election laws of the state and on the basis of their investigations to make definite recommendations to the 1931 legislature for such changes as are necessary to secure honest elections in the state of Inidana.” Mrs. Walter S. Greenough of Indianapolis, chairman of the efficiency in government committee of the league, also pointed out the need for change in portions of the election code. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m.,... 78 10 a. m 84 7a. m 81 11 a. m 87 Ba. m 82 12 (noon).. 89 9 a. m 82 1 p. m 91

Brown and thirteen workmen employed to construct the course are under arrest, charged with vio lation of a city ordinance, were to be tried this afternoon before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. Hearing evidence in a suit in which Brown charged a city hall political clique with conspiracy, Hay last week issued a temporary restraining order, warning Brown to cease operation of the coarse on penalty of a contempt of pourt sentence.

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KOLB PAINTED AS MONEY-MAD POISOyiLLER State Hammers Hard at Defense Contention of Suicide. KIN RIDDLE HIS STORY, Victims Given Strychnine, Told It Was Aspirin, Prosecution Says. Bu Times Boer ini GREENFIELD, Ind., July 9.—Re* vealing in detail the financial status of George Kolb, 55, Rushville farmer, prior to deaths of two of his wives, the state today sought to Impress on a Hancock circuit court Jury that Kolb murdered the wives for their estates. Little by little the prosecution is constructing a p cture of lust and greed alleged to have incited Kolb to poison the two women, for murder of one of whom, the third wife, the state is seeking Kolb’s life in the electric chair. Three bankers occupied the witness stand today. Two of them recited figures from their records which the state declared disclosed that, preceding deaths of Mrs. Maggie Rhoades Laramore Kolb, the second wife, and Mrs. Edna Dagler Kolb, wife number three, Kolb’s accounts were small. The $4,800 estate of the former, and a $1,600 estate of the latter swelled the accounts after their deaths. Poisoning, Says Doctor On the stand this morning also was Dr. c. L. Smullen of Raleigh, who attended the second wife when she died. He said at that time he signed her death certificate, giving heart disease as the cause. Later he attended Kolb, when the latter attempted suicide last winter, he said. After observing Kolb's symptoms, he changed his mind concerning the cause of the second wife’s demise. She died of strychnine poisoning, he said he believed. The state continued its examination of members of the family of the second wile, Maggie Rhoades Laramore Kolb, in an effort to show that the desire for insurance which it is alleged motivated the death of the third wife, Edna Dagler Kolb, also caused the poisoning of her predecessor. Defense Fights Hard This examination is being made over the constant objections of defense attorneys, who are watching carefully the record so an appeal may be taken If Kolb is declared guilty by the jury of ten farmers and two school teachers. Headed by John H. Kiplinger, defense attorneys today contended again that as Kolb was being tried for the murder of his third wife, circumstances surrounding the death of his second wife are not admissible. But Judge Arthur C. Van* Duyn of the Hancock circuit court has overruled these objections, permitting exceptions to be taken. The state has contended that the strychnine which caused Mrs. Kolb’s death was given to her in a capsule by Kolb, who declared that it was quinine. Defendant Is Nervous White-faced and trembling, the gray-haired man charged with being the “Hoosier Bluebeard,” stared fixedly before him as the testimony was given. Strychnine disguised as an aspirin tablet caused the death of the second Mrs Kolb, the state attempted to show, through testimony of James Rhoades farmer, brother of the woman. Rhoades was called to his sister’s nome the morning of April 28, 1928, when she died. He described her convulsions similar to those which occurred shortly before the death of third wife, and which Dr. R. O. Kennedy, Rushville, the attending nhysiclan declared are peculiar to cases of strychnine poisoning. “Dr. Smullen who was called, asked Maggie what she had taken,” RhoadrT said. Called ’nsurance Agent “Maggie B~swered that she had taken an aspirin tablet, and then George, the defendant, said: ‘“I had an aspirin tablet in my vest pocket and gave it to her. It was as good as if in the box,’” the witness testified. Mrs. Hershel Rhoades, a sister-in-law of the second wife, declared that Kolb called the insurance agent at Knightstown immediately after his wife died end that the agent drove - p to the house shortly thereafter. Testimony also disclosed that Kolb had admitted having strychnine on his farm during the late spring and summer of 1929, but declared that he had it no longer. ‘MR. ELDER’ TO WED Lyle Womack Chooses Bride With “No Flair for Publicity.” Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. July 9.—Lyle Womack, dog trainer on the Antarctic expedition of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and former husband of Ruth Elder, noted aviatrix, prepared today to marry a “domesticated woman who has no flair for publicity.” Womack’s prospective bride, Mis* Ella Bisset, Minneapolis stenographer, has no ambitions to become an aviatrix, he said. Womack divorced Miss Elder because he was referred to, after her flight part way across the Atlantic, as “Mr. Ruth Elder." Miss Elder now is the wife of Walter Cam]# Jr., while Womack trains lions.