Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1930 — Page 1

POISON USED AS MEDICINE, KOLB DEFENSE Wife Took Strychnine as Stimulant, Says Diploma Mill Doctor. OFFER SUICIDE THEORY Character Witnesses Are on Stand to Testify for Defendant. BY BEN STERN Ttmri SUIT CarrM*nd*nt GREENFIELD, Ind. July 15. Testimony ol a “diploma mill" doc- I tor that the second wife of George Kolb. 55. Rushville farmer, used strychnine tablets regularly as a stimulant, was offered today as primary defense for Kolb, on trial in Hancock circuit court, charged with murder of his third wife, Mrs. Edna Dagler Kolb. An indictment in Rush county charges Kolb with the murder also of his second wife, Mrs. Mattie Rhoades Kolb, and the state produced evidence in the present trial to indicate she suffered a fate similar to that alleged for Mrs. Edna Kolb. The defense today also produced a witness whose testimony indicated that the third wife may have confessed a suicide attempt just before she died last fall. Tell of Good Character A dozen other witnesses testified to Kolb's good character. Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn announced he would limit the defense to twentyfive character witnesses. Defense counsel previously stated it would produce more than two hundred. Dr. Walter Marion Rowland, Cornersville., took the stand to say that Kolb and his second wife visited him in February. 1927. for treatments for the wife, suffering from nervous and heart trouble, and high blood pressure. Under three subsequent bath treatments. Mrs. Kolb fainted, and admitted that she had used strychnine tablets as a heart stimulant. Dr. Rowland testified. He said he w arned her against the practice, but he later admitted violation of her promise to abstain. She died in April. Raps at Doctor Paul Benson. Newcastle, chief of the prosecution, elicited from Rowland that the doctor obtained his “degree" from a “diploma mill school of drugless physicians In Indianapolis. “You say that she (Mrs. Mattie Kolb) keeled over on tire sixth, seventh and eighth of your treatments, and t.iat was the result of your good work?” Benson asked. Mrs. Ora Siler, Rushville. told the jury that after Mrs. Edna Kolbs death. Mrs. Rema McGinnis, sister of the deceased, said to her: ■•‘Before she died, Edna told me: I didn't sleep at all last night." T ne'er dreamed Edna would do anything like this.’ Mrs. McGinnis, on the stand, said she did not remember that conversation. Harger on Stand Testimony of the state, which closed Monday. tended to show that the second .vise died from strychnine given her by Kolb in the guise of an aspirin tablet, while the third wife died from strychnine Kolb allegedly gave her as a quinine capsule. Using the expert testimony of Dr. R N. Hargct, professor of biochemistry at the Indiana university school of medicine, anch an outstanding toxicologist, the prosecution showed that no traces of quinine were found in the stomach, kidney, or Urer of the third wife, but testa hod shown more than one-half grain of strychnine. Harper Tells of Analyses Dr. Harger then told how his analyses of the organs of the second wife had revealed .715 grain of strychnine. After discussing the symptoms of both women before their deaths and the results of his examinations. Dr. Harger flatly declared that the two women died from strychnine poisoning. Efforts of defense counsel headed by John H. Kiplinger. to shake the Harger testimony on cross-examina-tion. although well planned, did not succeed. As Harger drove home each point until he reached his conclusion, the face of the 55-year-old farmer defendant grew white. He was leaning forward in his chair nervously when the toxicologist announced his finding. Standing room was at a premium in the courtroom when the expert testified and many had gathered in the hall to listen through the open doors. ROB BANK. WOUND TWO Six Bandits Get $50,000. Shoot Way Out of Town. Bu United Pres* WILLMAR. Minn.. July 15. Shooting their way out of town with machine guns, after a $50,000 holdup of the Bank of Willmar. six bank bandits escaped in the direction of the Twin Cities shortly before noon today. Two women were wounded by bullets fired from submachine guns used by the raiders and one gunman was believed to have been hit by police, who shot it out with the raider*. Hearty Temperatures 6a. m .... 56 10 a. m 68 7a. m 62 11 a. m 68 Ba. at.... 64 12 (noon).. 68 9a. m..... 66 Ip. m--... 71

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True to Death By T nit*ft Prft* CENTERVILLE, la.. July 15. —John Miller, in despair because of financial and domestic difficulties, took his 13-year-old daughter in his arms and told her she was going to lose her father. Estranged from his wife, the middle-aged farmer confided in his daughter his plans for suicide and left in her keeping his desires for funeral arrangements. Miller cautioned his daughter repeatedly to tell no one until the night had passed He sent her to the home of a neighbor and she kept her grim secret until this morning, when she asked the neighbor to return with her to her father's farm. Miller was dead, a victim of strychnine and lye poison. “Papa said he didn't want a showy funeral," the little girl said.

SECRET NAVAL TREATY PAPER GIVEN SENATE Publication of Document Forced Through by Hiram Johnson. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 15.—Sena- j tor Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.) today on the senate floor forced publication of the secret American proposal made by Secretary of State Stimson to the London naval conference on Feb. 5, 1930. Johnson obtained the paper from Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.) at the conclusion of the latter's speech explaining the pact and urging its ratification. Johnson said the proposals were among the papers which had been given the senate foreign relations committee under seal of confidence by Secretary of State Stimson. When Johnson asked for the paper, Reed produced it. “I want to put it in the Record," Johnson said. Placed on Record Reed replied he would put it in the record and sent it to the clerk’s desk. Johnson then outlined the course of negotiations leading to the Feb. 5 proposal. He said tnq United States, in the summer of 1929. had asked for twenty-three cruisers of 10,000 tons, mounting eight-inch guns. "On Feb. 3,” he continued, addressing Reed, “did you and Secretary Sttmson and Mr. Morrow visit Prime Minister MacDonald and ask for twenty-one cruisers." “I don't remember the exact date," Reed replied. “And.” Johnson went on. “did Mr. MacDonald say to you then: ‘That is more impossible now than it was last summer.’” “Something like that," Reed replied. Johnson asked for the Japanese proposal of Aprn 3. but was informed Read did not have the paper. Refused Cruiser Request The American proposal was not read immediately, but Johnson indicated that afver being refused either twenty-three or twenty-one large eight-inch gun cruisers, the American delegation on Feb. 5, had asked for eighteen such vessels and had got them. Reed became restive under Johnson's barrage of questions. “I decline to be cross-examined by the senator from California,” he said. “The rules provide the senator must address the chair." Johnson then sarcastically described senators who had accepted Reed's invitation to read secret documents in his office as men who went hat in hand to sit at the Pennsylvania senator's knee and left his office bowing their thanks. Today's opening quorum call found sixty senators present, eleven more than the forty-nine required to comprise a quorum. A vote is expected next week. Reed said the twenty-six battleships which would have been built as replacements under terms of the Washington treaty by the United States. Japan and Great Britain during the next six years would have cost $1,040,000,000. This ex T penditure. he continued, had been avoided or postponed by the London treaty’s battleship holiday.

GOVERNOR TO RUSH ACTION ON MOONEY

Bv T'nittH Pret* LOS ANGELES. July 15.-C. C. Young today acted to expedite the return to California of John MacDonald. itinerant waiter and key witness in the state's case against Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings. MacDonald, who made positive identification of Mooney and Billings at the San Francisco murder trials and since has signed affidavits in repudiation, will be questioned further regarding his conflicting statements, according to the Governor. In a statement to the state’s attorney at Baltimore, where MacDonald was located after a nationwide search, the Governor said California was willing to defray his expenses to this state, and added: ‘•There is no question of greater public importance to the state of California than a far-going, complete and open investigation as to whether the testimony of MacDonald at the trials of Billings and Mooney was true or false. I accordiuety have wired State's Attor-

HINT MURDER IN WOMAN'S GUN DEATH Body Exhumation Ordered in Mrs. Josephine Dazey Mystery. NEW EVIDENCE BARED Pistol Found Near Corpse Not Fired for Months, Says Expert. Testimony presented to Coroner C. H. Keever today, alleging that the gun found on the floor near the body of Mrs. Josephine Dazey. 39, of 927 North Bradley street, could not have caused her death, resulted in the coroner ordering the exhumation of her body from Washington Park cemetery, on suspicion of murder. Mrs. Dazey died at her home July 4 from the effects of a bullet wound in the right temple. Police, at first, were of the opinion that she had committed suicide. The coroner's order for disinterment of the body followed inquest testimony today of motor policeman Arch Ball, police department ballistics expert. “There’s no evidence that the .38-caliber gun found near Mrs. Dazey’s body had been fired within six months of her death,” Ball declared. Gun Is Tested Ball said that on July 10 he made test shots and a thorough examination of the gun with which Mrs. Dazey is alleged to have slain herself. He testified that an empty cartridge shell found near Mrs. Dazey’s body showed no indentation similar to that of the primer on the gun found near her body. He also testified the shell apparently had been fired months ago. Coroner Keever, following Ball’s testimony, said an autopsy would be performed >n the skull and a search made for the bullet that caused Mrs. Dazev’s death, in an effort to compare it with the four unused shells found in the gun on the day of the tragedy. First Believed Suicide, Mrs. Dazey was believed to have shot herself over- a recent radio suit, in which neighbors sought an Injunction against the loud playing of the Dazey radio. Tire coroner’s inquest verdict is being held up pending examination of the body and the testimony of several additional witnesses. Grant Dazey, the dead woman's husband, found the body and the gun, he told police. He broke the chamber of the gun, he said, and extracted the four unused shells and the empty one before police arrived. Dazey told the coroner he tampered with the gun to ascertain whether his wife had shot herself or had been struck with the gun. INVENTOR BEQUEATHS MILLION TO Y. M. C. A. Dr. Elmer A. Sperry Leaves Trust Fund in Appreciation. Bv United Free* NEW YORK. July 15.—The Young Men’s Christian Association was $1,000,000 richer today, because it once was the means of teaching a young man fresh from the country principles of engineering which he later used in developing a number of inventions utilizing the principle of the gyroscope. The young man was Elmer A. Sperry, who was to become famed as the inventor of the gyro stabilizer for airplanes and ships. The gyro automatic pilpt, the gyro com- | pass, and other devices promoting aeronautical safety. Dr. Sperry, who died a month ago, ; left a $1,000,000 trust fund in perpetuity to the organization as appreciation for his start, the inventor's will disclosed. Railroad Employe Dies NEWCASTLE, lnd„ July 15. Ernest H. Burgan, 30, for many : years an employe of the Pennsylvania railroid here, is dead at his ; home at Kokomo. He was night ticket agent here for several years aftd also worked at the local freight I office.

! ney R. O'Connor of Baltimore as | follows: “‘I have received a wire from MacDonald's attorneys saying he will return to California if transportation is provided. If MacDonald will agree to appear as a witness before California's advisory pardon board in the Mooney case and judges of California's supreme court in the Billings case upon an open hearing in a thoroughgoing and complete investigation of all questions involved In his affidavit of 1921 and in his recent affidavit before you. the state of California will provide necessary transportation. Please so advise MacDonald and his attorneys and inform me.’ ” BALTIMORE, July 15. John MacDonald, the tued, frail witness who helped send Tom Mooney and Warren Billina's to prison, rested in seclusion today, while attorneys and state officials tried to smooth over the difficulties arising from his offer to return to California and refu c his testimony in the Prepa.. '• day bombing trials.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1930

Six Men Chosen to Probe Corruption

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On instructions from Criminal Judge James A. Collins today, these six men, members of the Marion county grand jury, will continue investigation of the primary election frauds and inquire

The Times Will Present Home Town Radio Stars Amos ’n’ Andy, Helen Kane of boop-a-doop fame, Roxy. Floyd Gibbons, and all the other radio stars have been paraded before you, in a storm of publicity. You’ve read all about their startling climbs to fame, how much money they make, what they eat and what they don’t eat, a hundred times over. _ Now it’s the turn of the home *alent in the radio limelight. Over the local stations you hear ente-.tainers every night w’ho give you pleasure galore, so The Times is ready to tell you their stories. First on the list, starting in anew series to appear Thursday in The Times, will be Dessa Byrd, organist, whose programs are a feature over WFBM. The second, on Friday, will concern the life and accomplishments of Laurence F. Connaughton, one of the youngest band leaders in the country, but still one of the radio pioneers of this city. You know him better as “Connie." Saturday’s feature artist will be Jimmy Boyer, concert organist and featured artist at WKBF. That gives you the first three. Next week there’s to be others, until the Who’s'Who in Radio in Indianapolis is completed. Watch for the first feature Thursday, about Dessa Byrd. You’ll like them all, as written by John T. Hawkins, Times radio editor.

OGDEN READY TO PROBE VICE HERE

Attorney-General Flooded With Letters on City Conditions. Deluged with letters telling of bootlegging, gambling and vice in Indianapolis. Attorney-General James M. Ogden, who exposed these conditions in Lafayette, stated today that he stood ready to aid any investigation here, if asked to assist by Prosecut • • Judson Stark. Meanwhile, he is continuing investigations in other cities. Today he sent Robert West, Negro investigator who aided in the Lafayette expose, to Anderson. West left for Anderson this morning, accompanied by two white detectives. One of the Indianapolis letters, received today, gave addresses of numercrns booze and gambling joints here. After West's departure, Ogden conferred with John Wilkey, federal enforcement chief here. After the conference, Ogden- announced that “today is a lull before a storm and there may be startling disclosures soon.” Included in the “disclosures” may be the naming of the alleged federal “tip-off” men, it was learned. Harry Anheier and Arthur Allen are the two who functioned as federal agents at Lafayette during the Ogden probe. THREE CLAIM ESTATE $15,000,000 Holdings of Mrs. Flagler May Go to Trio. Rv United Preen EVANSTON, 111., July 15.—'Three claimants, in moderate circumstances, to the $15,000,000 estate of Mrs. Henry M. Flagler, divorced wife of the Standard Oil and railroad chief, have been found in the middle west. They are Mrs. Ruth Taylor Pontius, Evanston, wife of a medical student; George Taylor. Rockford, a house painter, and William Taylor, Nora Springs, la., a harness maker. Mrs. Flagler died in a New York sanatorium last week, leaving no will. Attorneys for Mrs. Pontius said she and the other two claimants are the only heirs. pastoTTs blackmailer Ohio Minister Will Plead Guilty to Attempted Extortion, Bn United Preen BELLEFONTAINE, 0.. July 15. The Rev. Frank E. Reddick, 42, pastor of the Methodist church at Huntsville, near here, was in jail today, unable to explain the urge that caused him to write blackmail letters threatening two Huntsville brothers with “bodily harm” unless they placed $5,000 at a designated spot. Mr. Redd*ck has confessed writing the letters, according to George Middleton, Logan county prosecutor, and has announced he will plead guilty when arraigned in magistrate court tonight on charges of attempted extortion. 6,000 LIONS IN SESSION U. S., Canada, Mexico. China and Hawaii Clubs Send Delegates. Bv United Preee DENVER, July 15. The fourteenth annual convention of the International Association of Lions Clubs opened today, bringing 6.000 delegates from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii and China. Ray L. Riley, international president of the organization, now boasting 2,202 clubs of 79,414 members, arrived on a special train with 300 Californians Monday night. The first sessions were devoted to he presidential addrws ar.d ofii--j reports. w

into the county council's refusal to appropriate an added $5,000 for the last grand jury's election probe. Pictured in criminal court room,

Smart Souse By I vital Press CHICAGO. July 15.—Praised as Chicago’s most intelligent drunken driver, Matthew O’Connell, 27, was released after he told Traffic Judge Padden that he stopped his automobile voluntarily when he “became too dizzy.” Police charged O’Connell weaved his automobile from one side to the other of a busy street before parking at the curb and failing asleep.

BOOZE JjASES LEAD Liquor Violations Provide 62 Per Cent of Trials. Violations of the national prohibition act provided 62 per cent of the cases concluded in federal district court here during the fiscal year which ended June 30, annual records compiled by Mrs. Florence Winkler, chief clerk in the office of George R. Jeffrey, United States district attorney, revealed today. Os the 441 cases ended, 274 were liquor cases, in 229 of which guilty pleas were entered. Liquor convictions totaled 265. A total of 283 liquor cases w T ere started and seventy-seven still are pending. Convictions in criminal cases increased from 354 in 1928-1929 to 415 in 1929-1930. The summary of criminal cases: Fifty-five civil cases were won by the government and fourteen were lost. THREE CHILDREN DIE AS PARENTS TIGHT FOR LIFE Poisoning Apparently to Blame for Tragic Deaths. By United Preen LAFAYETTE. N. J., July 15. Three children of the family of Wilbur Stanton were dead, Stanton was dying, and three doctors were fighting desperately today to save his wife and a fourth child from death from an illness as yet unnamed, but was apparently is some sort of poisoning. Despite doctors’ efforts, three of the children, Elizabeth, 13; Fanny, 12, and Alice, 4, died early today. Stanton was in a critical condition, but the doctors had hopes of saving Mrs. Stanton and another child, William Cortwright, 2, who has lived with the Stantons since his father’s death a year ago. According to relatives of the family, the Stantons went on an automobile ride Sunday and bought sandwiches and ice '"•’am at a roadside stand. Doc to. efused to say whether these maj ive been the cause of illness. VETERAN ACTOR DIES Rudolph Schildkraut Victim of Sudden Heart Attack. B" United Preen LOS ANGELES, July 15.—Rudolph Schildkraut, veteran motion picture actor, died unexpected l ? at his home here early today aft..., an illness of a few hours. Dr. Cecil Reynolds, called to the actor's home, found him suffering with heart disease. Death came shortly afterward. Schildkraut had been working on a picture at the R. K. O. studio, but left because of illness. He was born in Foscani, Italy, in 1865. but was a citizen of Rumania until he became an American citizen last fall.

Entered as, Sceoml-Clafs Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis. Ind.

the grand jurors are, left to right: Robert E. Mathews, 54 West Thirtieth street, real estate dealer; James F. Patterson, 4310 Carrollton avenue, retired; Henry C. Askren, 5732 Lowell avenue, retired;

BALLOT FRAUD QUIZ ORDERED BY NEW JURY County Council Is Assailed by Judge Collins fer Stand on Money. Charged to carry on a probe into political corruption in the county begun by its predecessor, the new Marion county grand jury today received instructions from Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Outlining work before the new jury. Judge Collins scored the county council, which denied his request for $5,000 appropriation to push the probe. “The grand jury for the preceding term, because of numerous complaints from citizens having knowledge of corrupt acts during the primary, deemed it its duty under the law to make as thorough an investigation as its limited tenure ol office would permit,” he reviewed. Mandate Is Plain “Members of the council, as soon as they were apprised of such request, became indignant, and publicly stated that they would under no circumstances appropriate money for such investigation. Nothing can be found within the scope of the county's reform act by which any construction can be placed upon limiting the powers of a grand jury to make a needed investigation,” he said. It is the duty of the grand jury, he declared, to inquire into violation of criminal law's of the state generally over which the court has jurisdiction. “Under this plain mandate of the statute, the county council has no legal right to refuse to appropriate whatever moneys are necessary for the grand jury to perform its duty.” Farmer Is Foreman Judge Collins appointed John Gullifer, New Augusta, retired farmer, foreman of the jury, and gave routine instructions in form of procedure of investigation of cases of persons imprisoned, under bail, into misconduct of office of public officers, and to management of county institutions and their conditions. Earl Cox, named special prosecutor by the January term jury to probe political corruption, will continue in that post, the judge said. PREDICT FOSTER RETURN Chicago Detectives Certain Lingle Suspect Will Be Extradited. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, July 15.—The extradition of Frankie F. Foster, Chicago gunman, indicted in the murder of Alfred J. Lingle, was foreseen after r. short hearing today before Superior Judge Walton J. Wood. Detectives Dudley and Scherping of Chicago, here to investigate the Lingle case, were so certain Foster will be placed in their custody that they made plans for taking him back to Chicago on a late afternoon train. AND WHAT’S $60,000? “It Doesn’t Make Much Difference,” Says Unlucky Chef. Bv United Press YORK, Neb., July 15.—Melvin Burdick, restaurant chef, was just as contented as ever today, even after he learned that a message informing him that he had won a $60,000 lottery was all a mistake. “What do I care?” said Burdick. “I still have a few dollars and a good job.”

TWO ARE INJURED AS CAR RAMS BUS

Two persons were injured one seriously, today when a motor car crashed into a Brightwood bus of the Peoples Motor Coach Company at New Jersey and St. Clair streets. The injured, Mrs. Ruth Ruskin, 28. of Westmoreland, Cal., and her husband, Samuel Ruskin, 34, were taken to the city hospital. Mrs. Ruskin suffered back injuries and her husband crushed fingers. Ruskin's car struck a Brightwood bus driven by Ben H. Wright, 41, of 1132 Udell streef

John Gullifer, New Augusta, retired; William R. Sides, 121 North Grant avenue, building contractor, and Darw'in D. Joseph, 1309 Lawrence avenue, retired. Collins named Gullifer foreman.

What Big Ears Bu Science Service OTTERVILLE, 111., July 15. —The night is hot. Stephenson Woolsey, farmer, is asleep under an apple tree in his front yard. Comes dawn and Farmer Woolsey wakes to see: One-half dozen hungry wolves sitting on their haunches around his cot. What to do? Woolsey jumps. So do the wolves. But Woolsey jumps the fastest, or so he said tonight, and thereby escapes. Wolves, incidentally, have been numerous in this vicinity for the last five years.

SAUNDERS FOOD CHAIN ‘BROKE' Grocery Firm Insolvency Admitted in Court. By T’vitetl Pro’S MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 15.—Clarence Saunders, chain grocery store owner, and head of the Clarence Saunders Stores, Inc., a Tennessee corporation with 150 stores in the south, withdrew his denial of bankruptcy and admitted insolvency of the Tennessee company in federal court here today. The statement of the dynamic chain store magnate, who once lost control of the Piggly Wiggly chain in a battle with Wall Street, followed a court hearing on a petition for receivership. The petition charges that he would be unable to meet a $500,000 obligation held by Chicago and New York bankers and due Wednesday. Saunders said a slump in the volume of business done by the Clarence Saunders Stores, Inc., hurt the company's credit. “Pressure of a Chicago syndicate toward collecting $200,000 due Wednesday on a $450,000 lean practically has destroyed the company's credit.” he said. Saunders indicated he would not attempt to retain control of the Tennessee corporation. He said he would leave Memphis and go to California and operate the Pacific coast units of his company. MRS. HARRIET NOBLE FUNERAL WEDNESDAY Widow of Fletcher Avenue Loan Firm Head Dead at Home. Last rites for Mrs. • Harriet M. Noble, 82, widow of Cry us B. Noble, former vice-president of the Fletcher Avenue Building and Loan Association, who died Monday at her home, 713 Lexington avenue, will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. at the family residence. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs Noble was born in England and was brought to this country by her parents at the age of 5. The family located in Morrow, 0., then moved to Indianapolis and in 1869 Mrs. Noble *as married. She was a member ol the Seventh Presbyterian church. Two daughters, Mrs. George Champe of Toledo, 0., and Mrs. Ernest C. Ropkey, Indianapolis, and six grandchildren survive. DEM OCRATS IN S ESS 10 N Peters Confers With Committees on Fall Campaign. Plans for the Democratic campaign in the fall election were advanced today when committees conferred with R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, at state headquarters in the Claypool. The finance committee, headed by William R. Krau of Elkhart, Thirteenth district chairman, met with Peters this morning. The subcommittee on organization, including several state candidates and district chairmen and vice- chairmen, discussed organization plans with Peters this afternoon.

The Ruskin car oveff—4. Mrs. Ruskin's first thought VU fir her police dog. Tip, and she —kid despite her serious injuries, "Where’s my Tip?” The dog could not be found following the accident. Six passengers on tile bus at the time of the accident were jarred by the collision. The Ruskins have been living at 932 Highland avenue during their stay in this city.

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SPENDING ORGY CHARGED TO PHONE CHIEF Head of Southern Indiana Concern Piles Up $42 a Day Hotel Bills. FIGHT RATE INCREASE Attorneys Claim Patrons Burdened So Griffith Can Live in Luxury. How President L. C. Griffith oB the Southern Indiana Telephone Company lived in luxury at the Blackstcne hotel. Chicago, with the bill totaling $42.05 a day, and charged this as "operating expense'* of the company, was pictured graphically to public service commissioners Monday afternoon by Attorney Clyde Jones. Jones represents some of the twenty-nine towns in which Gris- • fith’s company has petitioned for rate increases. Turning to Griffith, who was present and appeared debonair throughout the proceedings, Jones shouted; Pleads for Citizens “Here is a man of epicurean habits and fastidious tastes. He goes to the best hotels in Chicago and spends $42.05 a day. He says he is there to borrow money for his company. For that and God knows what other purposes. “Surely the suffering citizens of southern Indiana should not. b made to pay for such luxury. In Jasper and Dubois counties they long have felt the current depression. “Should they, who barely are* making both ends meet, be made to support extravagant tastes of this man, which are away beyond the normal standard? “Griffith is not an operator at all, in any genuine sense of the word. He is a financier, a stock and securities salesman. Every cent that he spends should be checked off below the line and not be included in operating expenses at all.” Others Join in Attaek Jones’ evidence in the case had shown other large Chicago hotel bills, items lor expenditures at the Columbia Club, and as much as $175 a month for Griffith’s car, or at the Circle Motor Inn. Attorneys Asa Smith, Indian-' apolis, and James Fortune. Jeffersonville, joined Jones in attacking the southern Indiana president. “What this telephone company needs is retrenchment and what the president needs is reform,” Fortune declared. The case is expected to be decided shortly and it is regarded unlikely that requested increases will be granted. Commissioner Jere West is in charge. Towns served by the company include Madison, Huntingburg, Birdseye, Schellsville, St. Anthony, Ferdinand. Jasper, Haysville, Ireland* Dublin, Salem, Campbellsville, Martinsville, Fredericksburg, Loogootee, Shoals, Bushnell. Scottsburg, Lexington. Little York, New Washington, North Vernon, Crothersville, Henryville, English, Brownstown, Vallonia and Medora. LINDY JUNIOR TO FLY, Famous Infant to Travel to Main* by Airplane With Parents. Bu In*ted Prc*x NEW YORK. July 15.—Mr. ?nrt | Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, planning) j soon to go on a holiday in Maine, ! plan to take their baby, Charles A. ; Jr., along in an airplane, the New | York Evening World said in a copyrighted article today. No ill effects were anticipated for the baby inasmuch as infants witlt | their parents have flown previously | under the skillful piloting of Lindi bergh, it was said. LIQUOR ON HOUSE BOAT Police at Lafayette Aid in Destroying Liquor Making Outfit. 7 ' LAFAYETTE. Ind., July 15.—La- | fayette police and Tippecanoe coun- ! ty authorities, while investigating a robbery south of the city, found a | still in operation on a house boat I moored in the Wabash river, i The operator of the liquor manufacturing apparatus escaped officers by swimming across the river. Officers dumped twenty barrels of corn mash into the water and destroyed the boat by burning it. MOB RIOTING IN EGYPT British Troops Summoned as Many Fatalities Are Reported. Bu 1 nit rtf pre*x ALEXANDRIA. Egypt.. July 15— i Grave rioting broke out here today. Mobs surged through the streets, | burning motor trucks and commit- ! ting other acts of violence. Europeans took refuge in the ! bourse. i British troops were summoned. Numerous fatalities were re- ' ported, as the rioting continued.

Warmer Doff the blankets! The weather forecast for today and Wednesday is “fair and warmer.” Return to more seasonal temperatures was promised by the United States weather bureau. following two days of northern breezes. The thermometer stood at 56 at 6 a. m. today, but three hours later had climbed ten degrees.