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MOONEY AIDS SEARCH NATION FOR PERJURER Reward Offered to Spur Hunt for Vagrant Who Lied at Trial. VANISHED YEARS AGO John MacDonald Holds Key *o Fate of Prisoner in California. Bu Serious Ifaward X'uupaoer Alliance SAN FRANCISCO. July 10—A nation-wide search for John MacDonald. in whose hands the fate of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings now rests, was launched nere today, when the San Francisco News a Scripps-Howard newspaper, offered SSOO for information leading to his discovery. MacDonald is the waiter whose testimony helped send Mooney and Billings to jail. Afterward he said his testimony was perjured, but Governor Young of California is not ! satisfied as to which statement was the truth. All other testimony in j th* case has been discredited. Young j says hope of a pardon now depends , on finding MacDonald and getting the truth from him. MacDonald has not been heard of since 1923, when he was in Baltimore. le was iii looking and emaciated at the time of the trial in 1916. He had been an acrobat and had been injured seriously. Faces Perjury Charge If he is living. MacDonald is 55 years old. He is five feet seven inches tall. At the time of the trial he weighed l.jo pounds. His hair was brown then, and thin. It is probably gray now, and still thinner. His eyes are b'ack. He had a thin face, and a siijht body. In San Francisco, before the trials, he eked out a precarious existence with odd jobs requiring no great physical strength. He frequently was cared for by the Salvation Army. The San Francisco News will pay SSOO for information actually leading to the apprehension or sur-| render of MacDonald. It will pay his expenses to San Francisco. And, to aid in the search, it will furnish newspapers in all parts of the country with pictures of MacDonald as he appeared at the time of the trial. MacDonald, if he is alive, may be unwilling to be found, since he faces prosecution for perjury if he convinces officials the story he told at the 3illings and Mooney trials Is untrue. Confessed He Lied In 1921, when he confessed to Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the National Labor board, that his testimony had been false. MacDonald was unwilling to repeat his story in San Francisco unless he was promised immunity. The San Francisco grand jury refused to grant this. Now Governor Young, who has suggested in his statement denying a pardon, that MacDonald be found and examined by the California supreme court, says he has power to grant immunity to MacDonald. The attorney-general of the state has said that MacDonald is liable for prosecution unless he can prove that he lived in California for a total of three years after testifying. If he has done so, the statute of limitations would protect him. MacDonald was one of the first persons to appear at District Attorney Fickert's office after the San Francisco bombing, to offer testimony abotft the bombers. He came, with a story to tell, after large rewards had been posted for the capture of the guilty persons. Identifies Mooney The district attorney was working on the theory that Mooney and Billings were guilty, at the suggestion of Martin Swanson, private detective for several California corporations, who had been watching the labor activities of the two men for years and had attempted to secure their conviction for various other crimes. MacDonald was shown a picture of Mooney, the only one available at the moment, with a large mustache he had worn some years before. MacDonald said he could swear he had seen that man at Stuart and Market streets, where the explosion occurred, and Mooney promptly was arrested, along with Billings and others. Almost entirely on MacDonalds testimony. Billings was convicted. When Mooney was put on trial. MacDonald told a different story of the events at Stuart and Market streets. Bu United Press . „ LOS ANGELES. July 10.—The Los Angeles Record said today it had interviewed persons who had identified Tom Vernon, convicted train wrecker, as John MacDonald, key witness in the Tom Mooney and Warren Billings cases. Vernon now is in Folsom penitentiary under a long-term sentence. The Record said that former friends of Vernon, upon viewing photographs of MacDonald, had said there was a positive likeness between the two men. The record also said that one of Vernon's closest friends claimed Vernon spoke often of the Mooney-Billings cases. Vernon was employr -’ as a waiter, the friends said, which was MacDonalds occupation. Pollution to Be Fought Charles H. Bee hart, an engineer, has been employed by the state conservation department to aid in solving stream pollution problems which at present are causing the death of numerous fish in Indiana streams, it was announced today by Director Richard Lieoer.

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What Next? By Timm Special RACINE. Wis., July 10.—Ten-year-old Jimmie Clemons was the hero of his neighborhood today and in the minds of his voung companions took rank with Flagpole Kelly and the rtunter brothers of endurance fame. Jimmy was recognized as Racine’s champion tree sitter Wednesday night when he descended from a tree in which he had been sitting for thirtysix hours and ten minutes. He came down at 8:40. took a bath and retired immediately, “just like the Hunters.” His total cash awards amounted to $12.76.

SENATE CALLED COWARDLY BY HIRAM JOHNSON Lacks Courage to Demand London Secret Papers, Californian Says. Biff nited Press WASHINGTON. July 10. The senate was charged with lacking courage to demand the secret documents concerning the London naval treaty, in a speech today by Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.) leading treaty opponent. He said he was not interested in the comments of Charles G. Dawes, American ambassador to Great Britain, which are said to include some frank comment on European statesmen and are alleged to constitute one reason why the administration is reluctant to make the correspondence public. Johnson insisted that the state department files contain papers essential to an understanding of the treaty. <# He hinted at unwritten agreements between Prime Minister MacDonald and President Hoover, but said he doubted if,matters of such importance as were discussed before them would be unrecorded. “If there are any records," he said, “the senate is entitled to them. There are included in those papers the written record of the American proposals. The senate Is denied the original written pioposition regarding the navy of the United States.” LESLIE TO ‘SPLURGE 1 Governor’s Suite Will Be in Italian Renaissance. Governor Harry G. Leslie, who returned to his office today after attending the Governor's conference at Salt Lake City, Utah, laid plans to redecorate and refunish his office in Italian Renaissance style. Representatives of the Stow-Davis Company, Interior decorators, and Frank Caylor. rtatehouse custodian, conferred with the Governor this morning regarding plans for redecorating. Complete pictures of the new color scheme and samples of the furnishings were displayed. The Governor was expected to contract for the work later today. It will include new deep blue carpeting throughout, desk, tables, chairs, davenports, lighting fixtures, frames for the former Governors’ pictures, drapes and screens. Estimated cost was not disclosed. LAVA~MENACES VALLEY Molten Mass Threatens Families on Slope of Vesuvius. Bv T'ntted Press NAPLES. July 10.—A number of inhabited centers on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius were feared endangered today as backed-up lava overflowed the craters and moved toward Hell valley. The new tendency in the egular spring activity of the volcano, which began Monday, probably will lead tc a lava flow down *ho southeastern slope of the mountain, where numerous families still dwell. Anew eruptive mouth opened Wednesday as the volcano continued its activity. dry Repeal on ballot Petition Assures Law Referendum in Massachusetts Election. Bu l nited Press BOSTON. July 10.—A place on the state elections ballot was assured today for the initiative referendum for repeal of the Massachusetts prohibition enforcement act, the so-called Baby Volstead act. Papers have been filed with the secretary of state containing 8,882 certified signatures of registered voters. 3.882 more than the 5,000 required by law.

STATE SOLON SAYS OWN PARTY GRAFTS

Allegation that major grafting prevails without publicity at the statehouse has been made by Representative Samuel J. Farrell (Rep.) Hartford City. Farrell was irate at a story appearing in The Indianapolis Times, pointing out that he is a member of the state budget committee and the Arm for which he is a salesman sells fleets of trucks to the state highway department. The budget law sets out that no member of the budget committee should be Interested in sales to the state, “either directly or indirectly.” “Why do**'* .ou write about some of the big graft that goes on around here?” Farrell Asked The Times statehouse reporter, objecting to the use of his name and position in

COPS WARNED TO GET THUGS OR LOSE JOBS Chicago’s ‘lron Man’ Police Boss Puts Pressure on His Force. PROBERS STRIKE SNAG St. Louis Reporter Balks One End of Inquiry Into Crimes. (Second of Earl Johnson's stories on Chlearo’s crime situation is on Face 3) Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 10.—End crime or c*iit was the order which Chicago police captains received today from “Iron Man” John Alcock, acting commissioner. Appointed as a direct result of the furore that followed the murder of Alfred tJake) Lingle, and determined to solve that as well as many other mys*- '—s slayings, “Iron Man” John emphatically told his captains they could bring gangland to trial or go on trial themselves. “Being a policeman means that the man is hired to protect the public agc.inst criminals and all policemen are going to go to work or get off the force,” the commissioner declared. Get One Chance The captains, Alcock stated, will be given one chance to explain why gang killings, such as the murder of Lingle, have not been cleared up and one chance definitely to gain control of criminal elements in their territories. Then, he said, if the explanations and results are not satisfactory, the captains themselves will be called before the trial board and charged with inefficiency. The mere fact that crime was rampant in a man’s district never has been considered grounds for inefficiency charges, but Alcock stated that “a captain must be inefficient if he does not keep crime at a minimum,” and that he was going to work on that theory. Meanwhile, developments in the Lingle investigations, four of which are under way, took a turn in favor of gangland. From Lss Angeles came reports that James B. “Forsythe,” suspected of being Lingle’s slayer, was believed to have been under arrest, but had been released by police officers who could not explain their act. Grand Jury Stalled And in Chicago, State’s Attorney John A. Swanson's new grand jury had “hit a snag” in its investigation of the Lingle slaying, alleged crimepolitics alliances, alleged newspaper racketeering, and the crime situation in general. The “snag” was the refusal of Harry H. Brundidge, reporter for the St. Louis Star, to submit to interrogation by Swanson, and Swanson’s refusal to allow the reporter to go before the grand jury without preliminary questioning. After Lingle was murdered and it developed that his $65 a week job as Tribune reporter really was a sideline to his $60,000-a-year racketeering activities, Brundidge charged that other unnamed Chicago newspaper men were as much racketeers as Lingle. THREE WARDS LOSE Census Drop Is Credited to Business Growth. Revised census figures for three more Indianapolis wards, accompanied by unemployment figures, j were announced today by Delbert O. Wilmeth, Seventh district census supervisor. The revision gives the Sixth ward a population in 1930 of 6,322, as compared with 10.089 in 1920. and set current unemployment in the ward at 562 persons. The Eleventh ward, according to revised tabulations, has a population of 11,088, as compared with 1J:,821 in 1920 and has 697 unemployed. The population loss in both the Sixth and Eleventh wards was attributed to advancement of business into districts formerly residential. The Thirteenth ward has a population of 22,183 as compared with 22,637 in 1920, and has 960 unemployed. Wilmeth announced.

connection with the recent authorization to purchase $90,000 worth of Indiana trucks for the highway fleet. The story stated that Farrell is sales representative for the Indiana Track Company of Marion. “There are a whole lot bigger things than what I'm doing to write about.” he continued, growing more angry. 'Tilings are happening around here every day, which you stumble over or blink at.” “Tell us what they are.” Farrell was challenged and his answer was. “I wouldn't tell you anything." So, although he is both a member of the nouse of representatives and the committee which has been termed “the most important in he state,” Farrell, whose party is in power, charges it with grafting, but refuses to uve details.

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Copyright, 1930, NEA Service-Acme Newspictures. Sleepy? My/goodness, yes! But the noise made by the photographer taking his first pictures must have awakened little Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., for here he is a moment later and just look at that yawn! Charles seems to be having a hard time trying to arouse himself.

CARROLL NUDITY TRIALJELAYED Vanities Producer to Make Plea on Friday. Bo United Press NEW YORK. July 10.—Earl Carroll will have to wait until Friday to learn whether he must stand trial on a charge of exposing too much female epidermis on the stage of the New Amsterdam theater where his “Vanities” are playing to crowded houses. His hearing was postponed until 11 a. m. Friday when called today in Jefferson Market court. Carroll, true to his promise to surrender, appeared in court with Jimmy Savo, chief comedian and seven other members of the cast who were arrested after the matinee Wednesday. Alfred Beekman, Carroll’s counsel, pleaded for more time to study the complaint which charged violation of the statute against presenting a “vile and indecent theatrical performance.” The six show girls—including Faith Bacon, who beguiled the tired business men by dancing in a costume that was nothing more than a sweet smile and a fan in each hand —sat in the back row of the courtroom powdering their noses and giggling. Carroll, waited glumly for his case to be called, refusing to comment upon his second major clash with the law.

‘UNHOLY TWO’ HANDED PRISON SENTENCES Negro Youths Convicted by Collins on Larceny Charge. Two Negro youths were convicted of burglary and grand larceny today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, and prison sentences ended their careers as “The Unholy Two.” Harvey Lee, 20, and Barnie Keys, 21, Negroes, both of 2726 Manlove avenue, pleaded guilty to Collins to stealing SIOO in old coins and S2OO worth of goods from the store of Harry Lormer, 2756 Roosevelt avenue June 5, leaving behind them a card on which was written: “The Unholy Two. We should have been four, but we lost two. We Cobras.” Collins sentenced both to the Indiana reformatory for one to tenyear terms.

DRY AGENTS PROBE SOCIETY RUM RING Assert They Have Evidence Pair Sold to Elite Clientele. Pending action by the federal grand jury, federal prohibition agents today continued their investigation of the alleged liquor peddling activities of Roll Hoss, 45, and Charles Stillman, 40, now under bond for violating the prohibition act. Hess was released on a SIO,OOO bond and Stillman on $5,000 bail following their arraignment before a United States commissioner. They were nabbed, officer said, in a sedan containing a load of liquor Tuesday night which, they said, was consigned to a “prominent citizen.” The dry agents, who arrested the men, said they have evidence Hoss and Stillman have been serving a "society clientele” and handled only high priced liquors. ' v*

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Here's the first picture ever made of the world’s most famous baby, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., now nearly three weeks old. The little son of Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh was sleeping blissfully in his carriage when this picture was taken at thA home of Mrs. Lindbergh's father, Dwight W. Morrow, in Englewood, N. J.

NO RAIN IN SIGHT, HEAT TO CONTINUE

Mercury to Remain About Stationary, Prediction of Forecaster. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 72 ltea. m..,.. 84 7 a. m 76 Ira. m.- 87 Ba. m.;... 80 12 {noon).."Bß' 9 a. m 83 V 1 p. m ,89 With no rain in prospect to break the heat wave of the last few days, weather bureau forecasters today promised the mercury will not ascend to any new heights Friday and the temperature will be about the same as today. Lessening in the humidity percentage brought relief today to Indianapolis and Indiana over Wednesday, when the humidity reached 50 per cent, along with a maximum temperature of 94 at 3 p. m. The partly cloudy weather late today and Friday will relieve the force of the sun’s rays and hold the mercury in the late eighties and early nineties, bureau officials said. One drowning, and one death from heat have been recorded in Marion county since the mercury vaulted into the high 80s and 90s last week-end. Several heat prostrations, none of them serious, also are on record. Temperature at 6 a. m. today was 72 degrees; at 1 p. m. it had risen to 89. SPEEDS TO OPERATION Blind Eskimo Boy Hopes to Regain Lest S’ght. Bv United Press CHICAGO, July 10.—The airplane in which he has traveled from Alaska, today carried William Bennett, 6-year-old blind Eskimo boy, toward the goal of his journey. New York, where an operation which he hopes will cure his affliction, will be performed. William and the Rev. Philip Belon head of the Jesuit missions in Alaska, expect to arrive in New York Friday Suicide Attempt Fails Bv Times fioceial ANDERSON, July 10. Vernon Dodson, 28, is recovering from a re. lf inflicted bullet wound in an at,'mpt to end his life because of ill aealtb and despondency.

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Choked by Fish Bu United Press SAN JUAN, P. R., July 10.— Antonio Ramos was dead today, the victim of a fish he tried to bite. Ramos, a fisherman by trade, caught a fish in the River La Plata Toa Alta, and, following local custom, tried to kill the fish by biting iis head. The fish, however, wiggled down Ramos’ throat, lodged there, and choked him to death jefore 'it could be removed.

2 BOYS SENTENCED Tossed Dice to Decide Who Should Rob Store. Explaining to Criminal Judge James A. Collins that they rolled dice to find out which of their number should break into a grocery, Kenneth Williams, 18, and James A. Johnson, 17, were’ried today on burglary and grand larceny charges, receiving suspended sentences of one year on the state farm. The youths told Collins the roll of the dice fixed the burglary duties on three other youths now in custody of juvenile court authorities. Williams and Johnson said they hid on the opposite side of the street while three companions carted cigarets, chewing tobacco and a small amount of money from the store of J. A. Livingston, 2170 Wheeler street, in May.

HUSTON IS SILENT ABOUT RESIGNATION

Bv United Press WASHINGTON, July 10.—’The meeting of Republican leaders here with Claudius H. Huston, chairman of the national committee, recessed ifor lunch shortly after noon today, after a two-hour session. Huston promised a statement later today. The session was to reconvene at 2. Huston declined to say whether the statement would touch upon his resignation, which is demanded by Republican leaders^

BOBBY JONES OFF IN LEAD OF NATIONAL OPEN; SHOOTS FIRST EIGHTEEN HOLES IN 71 Triple Champion Makes Initial Round One Under Par, Going Out in 34 and Finishing in 37. OTHBR STARS SHAKY UNDER STRAIN Horton Smith Gets Away Good; Cyril Tolley Off Form; Heat Is Serious Handicap at Interlachen.

Bu United Press INTERLACHEN CLUB. Minneapolis, July 10.—The quest of the thirty-fourth national open championship began today with sweltering heat hanging like fog in Interlachen’s valleyed fairways as the first pair. Jack Burke of Houston, Tex., and Charley Hall of Birmingham, teed off. The hot sun partly was obscured by a fleecy cloud-bank, but the humidity made matters uncomfortable for the early starters. Unusually large galleries for so early in the open championship lined the first few fairways before the opening shots were fired at 8:30 a. m. Bobby Jones, who rated an 8-to-5 choice to defend his title and win his third major championship of the year, did not put in an appearance until a few minutes before his starting time. Jones Is Smiling If the Atlantan felt the strain of his stiff battles for the championship abroad he showed no sign of it today. Jones strolled up to the clubhouse, smiling and apparently unconcerned, attired in a light gray suit and wearing the unfamiliar cap he has donned as protection against the blazing Minnesota sun. The latter had burned its way through the light clouds when Bobby arrived and the tightly baked fairways appeared to be aflame with the heat. “I’m feeling fine,” Bobby said The back of his neck still was a fiery red from the sunburn attained earlier in the week. Burke Under Par First sensation of the championship today was provided by Jack Burke of River Oaks, who also was first to start. Burke, unaffected by the heat, proceeded tx> do a little burning up himself on the outside nine, reaching the turn in 34, two strokes under par. His card: par Out 443 534 445—36 Burke—Out 442 444 444—34 Burke’s partner, Charley Hall of Birmingham, had a 42 for the first nine. Horton Smith of Joplin, Mo., one of the outstanding favorites, went out at 9:40, ten minutes ahead of Jones. The champion and his partner, Jock Hutchinson, were held back ten minutes by the officials because of the extraordinary large crowd which gathered early. Even Money Offered There was a bet of $2,000 at even money today that either Horton Smith or Walter Hagen would beat Bobby Jones, the money coming from the “stable” which manages both Smith and Hagen, as well as Ed Dudley. Johnny Golden of the Wee Bum Club, Horton, Conn., another pro conceded an outside chance, reached the turn in par figures. His card: Out 433 544 445—36 Ray Feller, Rochester, N. Y., reached the turn in 41, his partner, George Christ, of the same city, in 38. Clarence Dozer, another from Rochester, N. Y., turned in 39, his partner, Walter Bemish, Geneseo, N. Y., in 40. Just as he was the first to produce some sensational golf, so was Jack Burke or Houston, Tex., the first of the leaders to crack. After going out in 34, two under par, Burke came home in 40 for a firstround score of 74, two over par. Smith Under Par Horton Smith reached the turn two strokes under par. He had three birdies on the outward nine and lost one stroke at the eighth, where he missed a short putt. The intense heat took a severe toll. Cyril Tolley, the usually immaculate and rather superior Englishman, former British amateur champion, perspired his way around the first nine in forty-two strokes. Tolley fussed and fumed his way to an inglorious eight at the 352yard seventh hole. His card was not one of the best. Out 544 644 634—42 Little Henri Ciuci of Stratford, Conn., who had been burning up the course in practice, was another disappointment today.

1 The chairman, in a conference with newspaper men after the morning meeting, said the subject of his resignation was not mentioned, and said that if it is brought up at the afternoon session he would have something to say on the subject. Present at the conference were officers of the national committee and chairmen of the congressional and senatorial campaign committees. -

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FIRST-ROUND SCORES Bu United Press INTERLACHEN COUNTRY CLUB. MINNEAPOLIS, July 10.— First-round scores in the national open championship today were as follows: Jack Burke, Houston, Tex 34-40—7* C. W. Hall. Birmingham. Ala... 42-51—93 Tom Creavyg, New York City.. 46-85—61 John Golden, Horton. Conn... 36-88—<4 Bob Raddall Elyria. 0 40-42—62 James H. Ramsay. Westview, Fa. 43-44—87 Ray Feller. Rochester, N. Y,... 41-41—62 George Christ. Rochester. N. Y. 88-37—75 Clarence Doser, Rochester. N. Y.. 39-40—79 Walter Beamish. Geneseo. N. Y. 40-40—60 Billy Burke. Greenwich. Conn 36-36—76 Budd Clark. Sioux City. la. ... 42-40—82 Emerick Kocsis, Milford. Mich. .. 38-89—77 Itwin Ottman Louisville 38-35—73 Bill Mehlborn, Pensacola, Fla. .. 10-36—76 Tom Raklets. Cuyahoga Falls 36-41—77 BY FRANK GETTY United Press Sports Editor INTERLACHEN COUNTRY CLUB, Minn., July 10.—Showing what he was, as a champion should, Robert Tyre Jones Jr., British and American open title holder and British amateur titlist, as well, took an early lead over the field which seeks his crown at Interlachen, shooting his first round of the present open championship in 71 strokes, one under par. The Atlantan, playing through terriffle heat and bothered by one of the largest and most troublesome galleries of open championship history, bettered par by two strikes for the first nine. Bobby dropped just one stroke to par on his homeward journey and finished with a 71. Par—Out 443 534 445—36 Jones 443 434 444—34 Par—ln 455 344 434—36—73 Jones—ln 555 344 434—37 This was the best of all the early efforts. Horton Smith of Joplin, Mo., Harry Cooper of Glen Ellyn, 111., and George Smith of Lake Forest, 111., were the first to press Bobby with par 72.

Jones and Horton Smith were the chief attractions and were playing the best golf of the morning. Interlachen again was baked in fiery vheat, but several thousand persons scampered along at Jones’ heels as he and his partner, Jock Hutchinson, sweltered through. Jock was kidding the gallery and telling every one within hearing: “Watch Bobby and see how to do it. Then watch me and see how not to.” Bobby was grimly intent upon his work. CHURCH SESSION SLATED 200 Christian Pastors, Laymen to Meet Here in September. Conference of 200 pastors and laymen in Indianapolis in September to formulate a report on progress toward Christian unity was announced Wednesday at a meeting of the commissioners of the Association of Christian Tlnity of the Disciples of Christ at the SpinkArms. The report will be submitted at the world convention of Christian churches in Washington this fall. The group also discussed the recent action of the North Baptist convention at Cleveland, when proposal for a union between the Baptists and Disciples of Christ was declined. GASOLINE WAR FLARES Pacific Coast’s Major Oil Firms Batile Small Independents. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, July 10.—Motorists bought gasoline at new low prices of from 7V& to 19 Va cents a gallon today along the Pacific coast with the major oil companies lined up against the smaller independents in a price war. - The major companies appeared in better shape to withstand the price slashing with their storage facilities and extensive financial backing than the smaller firms, who held to the higher prices despite the danger of financial disaster. LLOYD SUIT NEAR END $1,900,000 Case Brought by Witwer’s Widow to Go to Judge. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, July 10. A $1,000,000 suit, alleging Harold Lloyd plagiarized a tory by the late H. C. Witwer for the screen comedy “The Freshman,” will be submitted to Federal Judge George Cosgrave late today. Both sides in the suit, brought against the film comedian by Witwer’s widow, rested at the close of court Wednesday, and only final arguments remained today before handing It to Judge Cosgrave for decision. Kokomo Woman Dies KOKOMO. Ind., July 10.—Mrs. Mary E. Krebser, 42, wife of Karl C. Krebser, vice-president of the Kingston Products Company, is dead .after long illness.