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KOLB DEFENSE BOMBARDED BY POISONEXPERT Strychnine Found in Organs of Wives, Doctor Tells Court. STATE THRUSTS FOUGHT Bushville Farmer Painted as Killer Because of Insurance. 4 VVSi BY BEN STERN Times SUIT Corresoondent GREENFIELD. Ind., July 14 fclrs. Edna Dagler Kolb died of strychnine poisoning and there was no trace in her organs of quinine her husband said he gave her a few hours before her death last fall, the state today sough to prove. In Hancock circuit court this Jnoming the prosecution delivered its deadliest thrust at George Kolb, 65. Rushville farmer, charged with the murder of his third wife, and tinder indictment for the murder of his second wife. The state placed on the witness stand Dr. R. N. Harger, professor of biochemistry and toxicologist at Indiana university school of medicine, who said he examined rtomuch. liver and kidneys of both women. No Poison in Tablets In the stomach of Mrs. Edna Kolb, Dr. Harger testified he found fourtenths of a grain of strychnine. There was no poiron in cold tablets, or aspirin which she took the morning before she died, and there was no pinine in tnc organs he examined, the toxicologist told the flury. Before her death Mrs. Kolb gasped to a physician that George had given her a quinine capsule for her cold. Kolb admitted that, and is expected to confess it on the witness stand when he testifies in his own behalf. In the stomach of Mrs. Maggie Kolb, the second wife, Dr. Harger declared there were forty-one onethousandths of a grain of the poison: another three-hundreths in the liver, and an additional fivethousandths in the kidneys. There was no strychnine in embalming fluid used in either body, he said. Defense Fights Hard Throughout his testimony, defense attorneys raised objections that since the organs passed through several hands before reaching Dr. Harger, the organs of other persons may have been substituted. Confuting these objections, the mate placed on the stand Dr. J. H. Warvel of Indianapolis, who told the Jury he received the stomachs, livers and kidneys from the Rush county sherifT and turned them over to Dr. Harger. Other testimony today was directed by the state to show that Kolb had in his possession last fall a quantity of strychnine and eqiupment with which to fill capsules. The state has charged that Kolb murdered his wives for their estates, chiefly insurance. Witnesses for the prosecution are expected to be called until Tuesday, when the defense will begin presentation of testimony.

BANKING MORE STABLE Largest Period in Two Years Without Failure Completed. Longest period without a bank failure in the last two years was completed today, it was announced by Thomas D. Barr, assistant state bankir. ' commissioner. "It is more than five weeks since any bai k el'sed its doors and we hope th..t it will be many times five.” Barr declared. He pointed out that many of the weak institutions now have been weeded out and that banking generally is improved. ROUT INSURGENT KURDS All But Few of Rebels Dispersed, Official Note Says. B v United Prrtt ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 14. The Turkish government has suppressed the Kurdistan bandit inroads and has concluded military operations along the Turko-Persian frontier, an official communique said. The communique said that all but to few isolated groups ©f insurgents had been dispersed. 9 HINDUS DIE IN CLASH 'lore Than 100 Injured as Moslems Wage Fierce Battle. Bv United Pre CALCUTTA. July 14. Nine Hindus were killed and more than 100 Hmus and Moslems were injured when members of the two religions clashed at Kishoreganj, 200 miles northeast of here, dispatches received here said today. Many Hindu houses were looted end burned during the rioting, the dispatches said. ORDER FLIER ARRESTED Swiss Charge Aria tor Threw AntiFascist Literature at Milan. Bn United Per** BERNE, Switzerland. July 14. The Swiss government has ordered the arrest of Giovanni Bassanesi, Italian aviator, on charges of having thrown anti-Fascist literature over Milan. Bassanesi, who crashed on Swiss territory, is in a hospital at Annermatt with a broken leg and **** injuries,

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War's Not Over Bu United Pre* LOS ANGELES. July 14. Worthy A. Butterfield, 101-year-old war veteran, displayed head wounds today that were not incurred on a battlefield. From his bed at the Sawtelle soldiers’ home, Butterfield told police that the lacerations were caused by his wife, Hannah. 79. The wife said they argued over a business matter and claimed he tried to choke her. So she said she threw him over a table and chair.

CITY RELIEVED BY ‘COLD WAVE' Mercury Tumbles From 100 Degrees to 56. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 56 10 a. m..... 60 7a. m 56 11 a. m 63 Ba. m 57 12 (noon).. 64 9a. m 58 Ip. m 65 Temperatures that Saturday afternoon soared to anew record for the last quarter century, 100 degrees, today lay humbled by a “cold wave,” within 4 degrees of the low record for July 14. At 6 a. m. thermometers at the United States weather bureau here registered only 56 degrees. July 14, 1926, a temperature of 52 degrees wan noted, the lowest ever recorded for the day of the month, and a July low temperature of 48 degrees

was registered in 1885. Rains that transformed the heat wave to a cold snap benefited growing crops in the state greatly, officials of the Indiana Farm Federation declared this morning. Although the precipitation came in local thundershowers, almost all portions of the state received some badly needed rain. Corn, tomatoes, and other canning crops, and grasses sown in the spring were chief beneficiaries of the rains. Temperatures are expected to return to normal of between 70 and 85 degrees by Tuesday afternoon, J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the weather ureau, predicted this morning. Sunday the mercury rose to 87 degrees at noon, and then began a slump that ended only when it had receded 20 degrees by sunset. The mercury climbed slowly today.

Last of Series The last article in the series by James A. Reed, former United States senator from Missouri, entitle “The Crime Against Temperance,” will appear in Tuesday's Times.

SEEKS POST AS WET Senate Candidate Pledges Effort for Repeal. Bu Time* Special WHEELING, W. Va., July 14. Benjamin L. Rosenbloom, the first Republican candidate for United States senator to announce his platform, emphatically declared himself In favor of modification of the prohibition laws in a statement to the press today. “I pledge myself to re-establish the fights of the people guaranteed by the Magna Charta, the bill of rights and the Constitution of the United States, many of which have been and are being taken away from us by virtue of the laws enacted to further promote the rule of Volsteadism," Rosenbloom said. “I pledge you, if nominated and elected, to exert every possible effort to modify the Volstead act, legalize the sale of light wines and beers and to permit the sale and manufacture of pure distilled liquors for medicinal purposes under strict government control.’* CLOSE DUNES HIGHWAY Strive to Complete Shoulders on Road Without Traffic. New Dunes highway. U. S. 12. will be closed at the Miller overhead during the day for the next three weeks to permit completion of shoulders without traffic, t was announced today by the stare liighway department. The old route will be us?d for a 2*4 mile detour.

Screen Star Is Barred From Casino; ‘Children Not Admitted, 9 Says Guard

Bu United Press PARIS. July 14.—Two American stage and screen stars ran into difficulties at Ie Touquet casino during the week-end, one because of her youthful appearance and the other from pure bad luck. A twelve-hour sensational betting orgy at the Le Touquet tables which ended at 4 a. m. Sunday left Jenny Dolly a heavy loser at baccarat. The amount of her losses was not disclosed, but it was recalled that she recently won 6.000,000 francs (about $180,000) in one sitting at the tables, and friends here commented that she scarcely was “in the red” after the losses. Lila Damita, who came to France after ending her appearance In the musical .omedy, "Sons o' Guns,” in New York, found that she appears too young to convince the Le Touquet inspectors that she is all of 22 years old, as her passport says.

M’DONALD 1$ RELEASED FOR TRIPTOCOAST Law Firm of High Standing Takes Charge of Fight to Free Mooney. HEARING TIME IS SET Witness, Near Breakdown, Is to Go Into Seclusion Before Journey. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.—John MacDonald, waiter-witness in the Mooney-Billings Preparedness day bombing trials, will tell his story of repudiation after the August primary, it was announced here today in behalf of Governor C. C. Young. MacDonald’s story that he gave false evidence when Billings and Mooney were convicted of the 1916 bombing outrage in which ten persons were killed, will be at an open hearing before Governor Young and his advisory pardon board, the Governor said.

BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Fress Staff Correspondent BALTIMORE, July 14. John MacDonald, key witness in the Moo-ney-Billings case, was released here today so that he may return to California to repudiate testimony which sent the two California labor leaders to jail in connection with the 1916 San Francisco bombing. He had been held since Friday night by the police. MacDonald, now broken in health, was released to the joint custody of his two lawyers, Charles Ruzicka and Hillary Gans, and Frank P. Walsh, who Is representing the Mooney defense committee, by Judge Walter S. Dawkin, in Baltimore circuit court. MacDonald probably will not go west for a 3ek or more, pending preparation oi his case here by his attorneys. MacDonald was pronounced fit for the long journey by Dr. John J. Morrissey, coroner for the northern Baltimore district, who examined him. Morrissey recommended a rest, however, and MacDonald will go Into seclusion until time to leave here. Wants to Undo Wrong MacDonald awaits anxiously for that hour when, as he expressed it, he can “undo the wrong” that he did, and be instrumental in freeing the two men who have been in jail for fourteen years largely on testimony that he now swears is false. He hopes then that the load on his mind will be lifted, and that he again can sleep peacefully at night. Meanwhile, his two attorneys, members of an old established law firm which hitherto has devoted itself largely to corporation cases, will put a whole staff to work to prepare their case. They expect this to take a week. They realize they must not wait too long, as MacDonald is a sick man, and they will take no chances that illness or death will prevent him from telling his story in person.

Attorneys Take Precautions The two attorneys, both World war veterans, buttressed their case at the outset by having MacDo\ald execute his new affidavit lepudiating his testimony in the presence of the state’s attorney in Baltimore Herbert R. O'Conor, and high police officials. Thus they sought to prevent any question such as was raised in the first affidavit executed in Trenton, N. J., in 1921. Frank P Walsh of New York, nationally known attorney, who will a company MacDonald and his lawyers to the Pacific coast, sent a telegram today to Mooney telling the prisoner of the MacDonald affidavit, a copy of which was sent to Mary E Galagher, secretary of the Mooney Defense League, San Francisco. Magistrate Ewald Resigns Bu United Press NEW YORK. July 14.—Magistrate George F. Ewald today sent in his resignation to Mayor Walker. Ewald had been indicted by the federal grand • jury, on charges of mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with the operations of the Cotter Butte Mining Company, Inc.

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Safe at Last Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 14.—This may ruin a whole score of gloomy jokes, but facts are facts, jokes or no jokes, so, as announced officially tonight: Undertakers are the safest drivers of automobiles. Such excellent drivers are they, added the Chicago safety council, that not one figured in an automobile accident here last month. Laundry drivers ran a close second.

SIX DROWN, ONE SAVEELAT SEA Youth Clings All Night to Overturned Yawl. Bu United Pres* BOSTON, July 14.—A young man, Boden Garceau, 27, was rescued and the body of a Betty Munsell, 19, of Watertown, Mass., was recovered from the sea today by the mack-erel-catcher St. Rita, which docked at Boston fish pier later. The two were members of a party of seven which had left Scituate Yacht Club late Sunday aboard a fifteen-foot yawl, piloted by Charles Hall, according to the St. Rita’s crew, all others on the craft apparently had drowned. “The weather was fine when Charlie nosed his boat out from Scituate yesterday,” Garceau said. “After we had sailed out about five miles, Charlie headed toward shore. The going was smooth for a couple of miles, then a squall hit us, and we capsized. “Despite the shock, we all managed to climb up on the overturned yawl. It was terribly cold during the night. I can’t say just when my friends dropped off. But I know they disappeared at intervals. The only two I remember seeing drop off together were Dave Garache and his girl. They were the last to go, I think. “When the St. Rita appeared to the south this morning, they noticed my waving undershirt, and took me from the wreckage in a dory.”

No Spik Italian Bu United Pres* CHICAGO, July 14.—Pete Pickolas doesn’t think it’s his fault if the horse he sold to Pete Fodales can’t understand Italian. Neither does he think it’s fair to put him in jail because the horse objecting to some kalian remarks by Fodales, kicked Fodales In the stomach. “Marie minded when I talked Greek to her,” declared Pickolas when arrested on charges of swindling Fodales by selling him a bad horse. The complaint was made by Mrs. Fodales, who said her husband was in bed complaining of pains where Marie kicked him. “It’s true Marie wasn’t much on looks,” declared Pickolas, “But she’d work when you fed her right and I didn’t think she’d ever get me in jail, because she was a good horse when I had her. Why, even my eight kids fed her popcorn and waffles and she never kicked nobody in the stomach. ‘T’U bet that Italian fed her spaghetti. No wonder she got mad!”

PRESS HALTS GANG QUIZ, TRIBUNE SAYS

Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 14.—1n a lead editorial today, the Chicago Tribune accuses other Chicago publishers of obstructing the crime investigation resulting from the murder of Alfred J. Lingle, Tribune reporter. • Pointing out that the publishers met after the Lingle murder and pledged their co-operation in an investigation, the Tribune says that this co-operation has disappeared. The hostility due, according to the editorial, to the publication of a series of articles by Harry T. Brundidge of the St. Louis Star, charging that reporters on other Chicago papers are in league with the underworld the same as Lingle is said to have been. The Tribune’s editorial brings into the open the divergence of opinion among the Chicago papers which has marked developments in

Miss Damita approached the entrance to the baccarat room brightly Sunday and was about to enter when an inspector stopped her. “Children axe not admitted,” he said kindly, but emphatically. Miss Damita did not have her passport with her, and the inspector only laughed when she tried to explain she was not a child. Failing to argue herself into the room, she waited until the inspector was not looking, and slipped past him without being observed. As she was congratulating herself on her success, and was about to join other patrons at the tables, two inspectors spied her. Once more they explained that only adults could enter the casino, and led her to the exit, while Miss Damita tried to explain who she was. The director of the casino filially recognized her, apologized profusely, and escorted her back Into the room past the astonished inspectors.

HOOVER ACTS TO SPUR SEA PACTPASSAGE President Consults Party Heads in Attempt at Vote Next Week. FEAR LACK OF QUORUM Senators Urged to Hasten Back to Capital, Block • Treaty Foes. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 14.—President Hoover took a hand today in the senate fight for the London naval treaty. But while Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark., one of the American delegates to London, was addressing the senate in support of the pact and uring ratification, Hoover was informed by Majority Leader Watson, and Chairman Borah, of the senate foreign relations committee, that there was no hope of a vote before next week. Hoover had hoped for ratification last week and his anxiety at the senate’s slow pace was communicated to his spokesmen at the Capitol. The present program is to permit the treaty opposition to talk itself out and to bring the pact to a vote the end of next week. Plan Bipartisan Move To this end it has been suggested that Borah, Watson, and Senator McNary (Repub., Ore.) join with Senators Robinson (Ark.) and Swanson (Va.) on the Democratic side to outline a bipartisan program to which the senate would be held by cloture if necessary. Opposition tactics designed to force the debate into a fourth week probably would be met by an effort to invoke the cloture rule. The United Press was informed reliably. Borah told Hoover the real problem confronting the treaty was maintenance of a quorum. Telegrams have been sent to all senators withir. reach, requesting their immediate presence to bolster the administration in its fight against a bipartisan anti-treaty minority led by two Republicans, Johnson (Cal.) and Moses (N H.). Amendment Is Considered Until the treaty’s friends are reinforced, Republican leaders contend they are helpless against the threat of the anti-treaty group to bolt the session and leave the treaty unattended by sufficient senators to permit the senate to transact business. Three more senators than the required quorum of forty-nine were present at today’s opening roll call. The administration group is considering amendment instead of rejection of the Norris resolution, which stipulates the treaty shall not be subject to secret papers nor its provisions subject to prior interpretations. “If the senate refuses its advice and consent,” Robinson said in his speech, “the treaty will fail and an era of insecurity, dread and fear will follow, making probable the imitation of naval programs in excess of anything ever conceived since the beginning of history.”

the Lingle case for the last two weeks. “Within two days thereafter, Lingle was revealed as dishonest man,” says the paper, after telling of the appointment of Charles T. Rathbun, Its pwn attorney, as head of the special board in charge of the investigation. Shortly afterward, it says, Frank Foster was arrested in Los Angeles and indited there for the murder because he once owned the gun with which Lingle was slain. “With these two events the cooperation to which the publishers had pledged themselves to insure the deepest possible penetration of gangland disappeared,” says the editorial.

SEEKS TREE RECORD Boy, 14, Out to Make New Try at ‘Sitting’ Title. Tree-sitters beware! For at noon today Palmer McCloskey, 14 of 328 .North Temple avenue, announced he’d break the world’s limb-lounging record as he swung back into the black oak in his backyard for another try at the title. Palmer dropped out of the boughs Saturday after a thirty-seven hour stand just to keep his “grocery store job." But today Palmer said, his job could "go hang" for “I’m out to beat tha'o Kansas City boy and he’ll have to do some sitting to out-sit me.” The Kansas City youth with eighty-odd hours to his credit still was branch-bunking at noon today. Palmer is being “refueled” in his endurance squat by his mother, ; Mrs. Ethel McCloskey. King Vlsityu, S. Warship Bv United Brett OSLO, Norway, July 14.—King Haakon of Norway and his suite paid a visit to the U. S. S. Arkansas, flagship of three American battleships carrying Annapolis midshipi men on a training cruise, _____

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CALF ALIVE AFTER VOYAGE IN SEWER

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Wobbly, but Ready to Eat, Following Long Trip Through Drain. The goose that laid the golden egg is a piker compared to the West Indianapolis sewer. The goose laid naught but a story egg, but the sewer brought a calf at least one and one-half miles and presented it to Ramon Eller of R. R. 7, an employe at the city reduction plant’s pumping station. Saturday night employes at the pumping station were knocked for a row of “doubts” when they found a 4-months-old black bull calf at the outlet of the West Indianapolis sewer on the sanitation plant’s grounds. The calf, after his long trip through the manhole, couldn’t walk. He fell into the hands of Eller who nursed life into him and took him home to be babied with bottles of milk. Today the calf walked in wobbly fashion. The calf’s first and last chance to enter the sewer is one and onehalf miles from the plant—the stockyards. Eller and plant employes notified the stockyards of the finding of the calf, but could not verify that it came from the yards. “I’m keeping him until someone lays proper claim to him. What’ll I call him—well—how’s ‘Reincarnation’ for a fancy name?” And thus the calf was christened. SEEK MISSING GIRL, 12 Police Look Without Success for Youngster; Scoff at Kidnaping. Police searched without success today for Helen Jackson, 12, who disappeared this morning from the home of a Mrs. Argabright, R. R. 12, Box 39 W, three-quarters of a mile east of the Pendleton pike on East Thirty-eighth street. Mrs. Argabright told police the girl, who did housework for her, gave no hint of intending to leave. Police were skeptical of the kidnaping theory advanced by Mrs. Argabright. The girl was described as five feet tall, weighing 114 pounds, having a boyish bob, and wearing a white dress, blue sweater, short anklet stockings and black shoes. PREDICT WHEAT ACTION White House Move to Aid Fanner Urged by Senator. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 14.—Early White House action in an effort to alleviate the troubled wheat situation was forecast today as a result of heavy pressure from within the Republican party to get the administration to spend $100,000,000 or more to “peg” the price of wheat at a point that will make the present harvest profitable to the farmer. Senator Capper (Rep., Kan.) was expected to lay before President Hover a request that the federal farm board, through its grain stabilization corporation, purchase 100,000,000 bushels of wheat at once and hold it from the markets in an effort to bolster the price.

Try Flagpole Sitting; It’ll Ease Wifie’s Mind Bu United Pres* ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ July 14.—Flagpole sitting as an occupation has one advantage for the man who likes to stay out late at nights—his wife always knows where he is. Alvin “Flagpole” Kelly brought forward this strange philosophy to United Press today as he settled down for a bigger and better sitting with new records in sight. At 3:13 p. m. atop a very spindly flagpole on the steel pier here, Kelly will round out twenty-three consecutive days of sitting. That equals his record. From there he plans to sit himself right on into posterity, with a record that will shame any other aerial recumbents. Kelly Is 36 years old. At 3:13 p. m. will have sat 5,322 hours atop assorted flagpoles over the country. He was bom on the 13th of the month, started his career on the 13th of the month, and has played knob for thirteen major flagpoles. Kelly began his record-breaking day with a fear that many a matron justly can understand—he’s afraid of his waistline. “I eat but two meals a day now,” Kelly advised by courier. “Some days I eat only one. One day out of every ten I fast.” But his refuelers say his appetite for coffee increases hourly. He now takes on thirty-six cups a day. That aids him in keeping awake. “When does he sleep,” one aid said, “he reclines with a finger of each hand in his mouth. Then if he should start to fall, he would automatically awaken himself.”

HOOVER PERILED IN AUTO MISHAP Car Out of Control Hits White House Machine. Bu United Pres* WASHINGTON, July 14.—President Hoover’s tranquil week-end at his Rapidan (Va.) fishing lodge was nearly marred Sunday night by what narrowly missed being a serious automobile accident. As it was, a White House car driven by Lawrence Richey, one of the President’s secretaries, was struck head-on by an automobile driven by a Brooklyn (N. Y.) woman. iSfo'oKe’ the collision, which took place near Fails Church, Va., capital suburb, while the presidential party was motoring back from Rapidan, Richey said no charges would be filed against the woman, Mrs. Carolyn Lone Beach, who was accompained by her husband, her mother and her young child. The Beach car swerved as if out of control when the presidential party approached, cutting from one side of the road to the other in the congested traffic. The car careened past the first of the White House automobiles, that bearing tne President, then barely missed the secret service car, directly behind. It then plunged Into the Richey car, the third in line. It was said to be the first accident involving a presidential car since President Harding’s western tour in 1923.

IMPANELS NEW JURY Collins Accepts Final Two for Probe Duty. Anew grand jury was impaneled this morning when Criminal Judge James A. Colins accepted as the fifth and sixth members, James F. Patterson, retired business man of 4310 Carollton avenue, and William R. Sides, contractor, of 121 North Grant avenue. The jurors were not instructed today, but retired to the jury room to be acquainted with procedure. When Judge Collins instructs them Tuesday morning, he is expected to order continuation of the probe into primary elections frauds, left unfinished by the last grand jury. The new jury also is expected to consider the High School road torch murder mystery to which Harold Herbert Schroeder, Mobile (Ala.) business man, is held as the central figure. The jurors previously accepted by Collins are: Henry C. Askren, 5732 Lowell avenue; John Gulifer, New Augusta; Darwin D. Joseph, 1309 Lawrence street, and Robb E. Mathews, 54 West Thirtieth street.

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‘LAFAYETTE 1$ NEST OF VICE; SAYJITIZENS Machine Gun Kept in Home of County Official, Ogden Informed. POLICE PAYOFF ALLEGED Investigator Told SI,OOO a Month Is Protection Rate at Resort. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Charges that a former Tippecanoe county official has a machine gun range in the basement of his home at Lafayette and that protected vice, gambling, and bootlegging are rampant there were made to AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden in a letter from a Lafayette business man, received at the statehouse today. Without the machine gun, these charges are similar to those made by Ogden in his state bar address at Bloomington. He has refused to name the city, but Roy West, Negro investigator for the attorneygeneral, upon whose report the allegations were based, today confirmed The Times’ announcement of Friday that the city was Lafayette. Ogden was deluged with letters and congratulatory telegrams upon his expose. Many contained information regarding vice conditions in other cities, including Indianapolis. Letter Text Given Without names, which are included in the original, here is the text of the Lafayette business man’s letter: “The law-abiding citizens over here know that the shoe fits and are glad someone has the courage to put the facts before the public. “We have a dirty mess here and it is no use to deny it. “In my opinion, a cleanup in the persons holding some positions would straighten matters out very quickly. A better place to start could not be found than that of our circuit court, where the ex-sheriff pulls down SIOO a month performing duties that we pay our sheriff to look after. “The office of this ex-sheriff is the hangout for a number of persons; among them are two state officers—a state policeman and gam# warden. “Regarding another ex-public official named, I wish to say that, from very reliable sources, I have been informed that in the basement of this man’s home a machine gun is kept and a target is set up, along with other guns and a workbench where are small pieces of pipe, with caps screwed on jends. Didn’t Kno Law “I gave this information to our present prosecutor, but he did not know if the law forbids possession of a machine gun. “I car. furnish the names of two persons who saw these things in this man’s home.” Another Lafayette letter received by Ogden today asserted that conditions there were worse than pictured in the Bloomington speech, but the writer was afraid to say too much about them because “one might get hurt or worse, for the bootleggers have a union here.” The writer continues: “I do not know who is president of the union, but I wouldn’t wonder that he is (naming an expublic official). About all the police do here is go around with a piece of chalk and keep tab on cars that park overtime. “I am living in half of a double house and it is nothing but a bootlegging and gambling joint and they have a lunchroom for a bluff. “It would not be so bad if there were only a few of these places, but they are as thick as business places and they get molested only when federal men do it, and they get tipped off when they are coming.” City Resort Named An Indianapolis letter gave the name and address of a north side apartment here which “has been running an open saloon for three years.” It also charged that “young girls are harbored there.” Admitting to The Times that the Ogden speech was based on his Lafayette report, West today declared: “Lafayette is worse than the report states. We can prove all points cited. But at the same time conditions there are no different from those in Indianapolis. Indianapolis is worse than Terre Haute.” “I was down there with a white investigator for the attorney general’s office,” West told The Inidanapolis Times. “We found gambling, houses of prostitution, and bootlegging a-plenty, but couldn’t get any co-operation in making arrests. “Why, we went Into a great big brick house there that was especially fitted for these purposes. They even had peepholes in the floor. “Then we went to find the sheriff and was told he was out playing poker, or maybe it was rhum. Followed by Police “Instead of helping us, the police got into a car and began following us about when they learned we were in the city. “In that big brick house they told us they were ‘paying off’ about SI,OOO a month. “I saw a Negro carry a jug of liquor, a glass jug, right by the cops and they merely waved to him.” West was waiting to see Ogden and to accept any new assignment the attorney-general might have. Asked if he would like to return to Lafayette, West said: Tm ready to go any place that Ogden want* to send me. He la sq am L” |