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NEW EVIDENCE FOUND TO HELP MOONEY CAUSE Attorneys and MacDonald Start West to Press Pardon Fight. STORY GIVEN BACKING Key Witness’ Charge That State Gave Him Funds Is Upheld. B’l Unit'd Press ERIE, Pa.. July 17.—Escorted by six lawyers and a galaxy of newspaper correspondents, John Mac- ; Donald, key witness in the fight to release Warren K. Billings and Tom | Mooney from California peniten- i tiary, was on his way west today. The party passed through here shortly before noon and was to arrive in Chicago at 7:30 p. m. Frank Walsh, attorney for Mooney, planned to take an airplane j at Kansas City and fly to Los ! Angeles to confer with Governor j Young before MacDonald arrives. I In the brief cases of the attorneys I as they sped westward on their train were three new affidavits containing additional evidence regarding Mac- j Donald's role in the now-famous j case and tended to strengthen the I witness’ own statement that he lied on the stand. The United Press was informed of the new evidence when the train carrying MacDonald and the attorneys passed through New York Wednesday night on the way from Baltimore, where the witness was found, to the west. One of the affidavits, which his lawyers would not discuss, but which is regarded as of vital importance, was said to corroborate MacDonald's statement that while he was a witness in the trials he lived well on funds supplied by the district attorney. Woman Affirms Story The United Press was informed by apparently high authority that the document contained the statement of a woman, who sometimes went out with MacDonald at the time of the trial sixteen years ago, that whenever he needed money he went* to the district attorney’s office and received it. The woman, now married and living in Washington. D. C., denied, when questioned by the United Press, that she had signed any affidavit. The new evidence. It was understood, was obtained when the woman motored to Baltimore after MacDonald's discovery there, and revealed her maiden name. MacDonald's law yers, Charles Ru7irka and Hilary Gans. were understood to be in possession of this document, while Walsh, counsel for the Mooney-Billings defense league, had the others. I.eave for West MacDonald, after a short conference here, left at 11:10 p. m. •E. S. T.i, accompanied by Ruzicka, Gans. Walsh, and E. H. Nockels, secretary of the Chicago federation of labor. Walsh’s affidavits contain statements by Max Kesselman, 45, Trenton, N. J., grocer, and his nephew, leon Josophson. They relate an incident which occurred in 1921. when Kesselman was proprietor of the Central House in Trenton and MacDonald was a waiter there. One night MacDonald became very ill. according to Kesselman. and asked for a doctor. Kesselman sat up with the sick man all night and MacDonald told him. he said, of his testimony in the Mooney-Billings trial, ending with the statement: “Nothing but lies.” MacDonald repeated his repudiation of the testimony before Josephson. Soon afterward, it is understood, he made his published repudiation in New York. Walsh Is Jubilant Walsh expressed elation after Wednesday night's conference. “If we can get a fair hearing I believe we can free them,'' he said, referring to Mooney and Billings. “W’e have the means to do it now.” MacDonald made no statement. He stood alone by the rail of the ferry as he approached Manhattan and ventured only the remark: "That skyline's a lot different from what it was seven years ago.”

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 58

Bughouse! Youth of Nation Is Going Marathon Mad; Craze Sweeps Country.

THE nation's youth has gone marathon crazy. Boys and girls today sat in trees, atop flagpoles and light standards, teetered-tottered toward doubtful fame, pedaled bicycles in seemingly endless circles, danced far past the exhaustion point and to cap the climax the juvenile population of Huntington, W. Va„ planned an endurance water-wing contest. The craze started a week ago today in Racine, Wis., when the "pioneer” tree-sitter, Jimmie Clemmons, mounted a bough and announced he would sit there indefinitely. He lasted thirty-six hours, but his example has spread the length and breadth of the land, until almost every city has its quota of “air-minded” youth. an . a To Palmer McCloskey, 328 North Temple avenue, Indianapolis' foremost contender for the honor of tree-sitting, non-drop limb-squatting has become just one day after z.nottaer. Since noon Monday he has bunked in the branches of a tree at his home. Skeet Diggs, championed by merchants of his neighborhood, at Tecumseh and Tenth streets, was back In his tree with almost

a day to his credit this morning, after coming down for fifteen minutes Wednesday. ana Bu Vuited Prettn Huntington, w. va., July 17. —A water-wing floating contest on the Ohio river was anticipated eagerly by the juvenile population of Huntington today, after policemen had caused most of the pioneer tree-sitters to make forced landings. Rocking-chair and radio-listening marathons are other events which promoters are considering if the law fails to restrain its hand. a a a Bu United Pre** _ ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 17,—Alvin (Shipwreck) Kelly, pioneer In flagpole sitting ranks, began his twenty-sixth day before large crowds peering upward from the boardwalk here, and said he anticipated no trouble recapturing this championship title from Ralph D’Agostino of Brockton, Mass., who sat thirty-four days three and one-half hours. m m a Bu United Press . ST. LOUTS. July 17.—Four St. Louisans were New York bound today for the purpose of starting a transcontinental journey with their automobile running backward. All

gears, except the reverse, will t> e removed from the car before it leaves for San Francisco. u n p NEWARK. N. J., July 17.—Bicycle endurance contests went ahead relentlessly in Newark. New Brunswick. Jersey City and Hackensack today, with riders from the latter city in the lead. Although Jimmy Dooley, head of the Hackensack team, was hit by an enemy baseball, he managed to keep his mount in progress until relieved. The Jersey City aggregation plans to keep going until September If their machine lasts that long. ♦ SMB NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ July 17. —Fourteen-year-old Nick Getty resumed his tree sitting today—without a hitch —in a tree transplanted to his own backyard. Nick went up at 4:12 p. m. Monday in a tree that starts in the backyard of Vincent Cherry's home. The branches on which , Nick sat extend over the Getty backyard. Cherry is ill. Mrs. Cherry threatened to have Nick evicted because of the noise of the I refueling crew. Thirty friends went to the woods today, chopped down a tree, and Nick transferred to the chopped tree. mum CiAMDEN, N. J.. July 17.—Lured ! by offers of free food and subsidies of money, many youthful aspirants for tree-sitting honors wandered about the city today looking for strategic trees. One boy ! started the parade when he selected a perch in iron', of a meat store. The proprietor offered him 25 cents j a day for the first four days and a $1 a day :h*rafttr. Two other boys, hearing about : this, contracted with a grocer to supply them with 25 cents a day and all the food they can eat for ‘sitting in a tree ’a his back yard. m r m KANSAS uIT'. Mo.. July 17. rsomed his tree sitting today— Fame is fleeting and the crown which Jack Richards wore for a half hour as the “world’s premier tree j sitter.” rested today with 10-year-j old Bill Kearney in the boughs of a Kansas City cottonwood. Bill had been up for 165 hours and exceeded 14-vear-old Jack's record shortly after ihe Richards boy climbed down from his elm tree at 9:15 last night.

DRASTIC MOVE IS STARTED TD SPEED TREATY Watson Acts to Invoke Rule of Cloture for Early Sea Pact Vote. JOHNSON IS DEFIANT Foes of Naval Agreement Prepare for Battle to End. i Bu Un it rtf Press WASHINGTON, July 17.—Majority ! Leader James E. Watson today j charged the London treaty opI position with filibustering and de- | manded on the floor of the senate that they agree to a time for voting or suffer forcible silencing by the cloture rule. Senator Johnson <Rep.. Cal.), dramatically rejected Watson’s offer. “I ask no quarter,” Johnson shouted. “Lay on, Mac Duff, and damned be he who first cries, hold, enough.”' I “Go on with your majority,” John- | son continued. “The only time we ! ever have had cloture in this body | is w hen we were acting on some | foreign adventure or misadventure. “Move on, sir, with your cloture on a treaty that deals with our national ; defense.” Seeks to Compromise “If the senator from California : will agree to limit debate, beginning Tuesday at 11 a. m.,” Watson said, “to ten minutes for each senator on each reservation, we will not at* tempt to apply the cloture.” Watson then began to circulate a cloture petition on the floor of the senate. If the cloture petition with sixteen signatures were offered today, the senate automatically would vote on the question of cloture one hour after meeting Saturday and, if adopted, cloture would be effective from that time. Cloture limits each senator to one hour's debate. After the cloture flurry Chairman Hale of the naval affairs committee, began a speech against the treaty. Two alternative propositions will be submitted to the treaty opponents before the cloture petition is filed, Watson said. The first will propose a unimous consent agreement to vote next Tuesday, while the second would limit debate on all pending reservations to ten minutes to each senator. Hoover Favors Plan Mr. Hoover is understood to. approve Watson's plan. It is known that he has been impatient at the delays which have been encountered during the special session. Senator Johnson later followed the administration’s threat of cloture with a reservation which would disarrange the cruiser provisions of the London treaty and require further negotiation. Johnson’s reservation was to strike out the treaty provision which prevents the United States from completing the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth of her allotted eight-inch cruisers within the life of the treaty. Conway Tearle, Actor, Is 111 Bu United Press LONDON, July 17. Conway Tearle, movie actor, is suffering from a minor illness, it was revealed today, and probably will undergo a slight operation in London.

CELLMATE’S STORY STUNS SCHROEDER

Shocked by recent developments in the case in which he is charged with murder of a man whose body was found in his burning auto on the High School road early May 31, Harold Herbert Schroeder neared collapse at the county jail a few days ago, it was learned today. Sheriff George Winkler Saturday announced he received word from Mobile, Ala., where the murder suspect formerly lived and was captured, which bolstered the police theory that Schroeder murdered the man whose body was found in the flaming car. A few minutes before supper was served at the jail Saturday night, Schroeder was given a copy of The Times which carried the story relating that Winkler had information that Schroeder told R. L. Jones of Maryville, Tenn.. a cellmate in the Mobile jail, that the man whose body was found in his car had been “stabbed with a sharpened screwdriver” and that the man was a safe-blower and "no one ever would know who he was.” Schroeder read the paper, turned white and appeared more nervous than at any time since he was •orougnt here, jailers said. He refused to eat the meal that was served and only in the last twentyfour hour has he regained his appetite, r.uthorities declared.

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OLD "SENSATONE" PALMER was a small-town druggist who amassed a bloated fortune with his patent medicine, but money could not crash the exclusive society barriers of Deerbridge. The upper crust scorned the Palmer invitations to lavish dinners and parties at "The Castle," and the social clumbers were in despair. ,

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930

Helen Wills Says ‘No’ for Tennis Shorts

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Bi• United Pretin CHICAGO, July 17.—Helen Wills Moody will continue to wear white dresses as she annexes tennis titles despite the example of more modernistic women players who have adopted shorts, she said today as she paused here between trains. "I won’t even consider shorts,” she said with a smile. “The best costume for tennis is a short white plaited skirt. It is more attractive and the most comfortable.”

BULLET HALTS DEATHTHREAT Roomer Tried to Kill His Family, Says Father. Frank Black, roomer at 238 South State avenue, was shot and wounded seriously this afternoon by John Vail, 238 South State avenue, when Black is alleged to have attempted to murder Vail, his wife Estelle and their one-day-old baby. According to ail’s statement to police, Black seized a butcher knife and, entering the room occupied by the Vails, declared he would slay them. ail said Black stepped toward his wife and baby, brandishing the knife. Vail said he his revolver ad shot when BlacScontinued to threaten. Police said Black will rover. He was taken to city hospital. Vail, was held for questioning. SHOWERS ON WAY Thunderstorms Due Here on Friday. Showers and thunder storms may visit Indiana Friday, following rise in temperature, the United States weather bureau in Indianapolis predicted this morning. Throughout the south portion of the state fair weather will prevail tonight and Friday. In the northern sections rain is due, while In Indianapolis and vicinity Friday afternoon probably will be unsettled, the forecast stated. Temperatures this morning had returned to normal, the bureau’s thermometer registering 68 degrees at 6 a. m. and 81 degrees three hours later.

Previous tc the announcement by Winkler, Schroeder maintained a regular appetite and had chatted with jail attendants about the food and weather. Since reading the story, though, Schroeder has heen silent, moping in his cell in federal row. Important developments in the case were forecast today by authorities. From reliable sources it was learned that investigators are working on a double theory in the case, one angle of which is that the man found dead in the car was murdered for money, either obtained in betting at the Speedway race or through an alleged robbery probably by the dead man. Schroeder is held on murder and arson charges, with evidence, authorities say, to support the theory that he desired to leave a body in the car so his wife, Mrs. Leah Schroeder might claim money from insurance companies. Although authorities would not say what developments might be expected, there were several hurried conferences today between officials who have been working on the case. When Schroeder left home he had very little money, but probers have learned that he carried a large number of bills shortly before and after the race, they said.

Then came the happy thought of Dan Palmer, the overdressed, plutocratic son of the departed "Sensatone." He'd hire Patricia Cheseberough of Mayflower lineage, poor but intensely proud, to pave the way up the social heights for himself, his mother, and sister, just coming out of an exclusive girls’ finishing school. Patricia, after their interview, i was horrified. But poverty’s grind

OIL SCANDAL HITS 3 STATE DEPARTMENTS Ex-Senator Bruce Cooper Quietly Resigns From Auditor’s Staff. DEAL HALTED BY OGDEN Investigator in Securities Commission Employ Is Involved in Probe. Three state departments today are involved in the second edition of the “Indiana oil scandals,” growing out of the bootleg gasoline business that flourished for months in northern Indiana. Today’s developments were: 1. Public disclosure of the secret resignation of former State Senator Bruce E. Cooper (Rep >, Stewartsville, as gasoline tax field auditor

in the office of State Auditor Archie Bobbitt. 2. Revival of the investigation o f the connection of Clarence Fate, securities commission investigator in the office of Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield, in the gasoline tax settlements made by the state auditor. 3. Report of Attorney - General

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James M. Ogden that R. S. Springate. state oil inspector, of Whiting, had something to do with the plan of tax dodging whereby the companies shipped low grade gasoline and labeled it “distillate.” Settlements Halted Ogden has ordered halted the settlements with the Lake county oil companies involved. He will confer with certain officials of these companies who are alleged to have knowledge of the plot to defraud the state of the 4cent a gallon gasoline tax and those involved in making the settlements after the bootlegging was disclosed. Cooper's resignation, which is said to have been given Bobbitt last .Tuesday, was made public today without comment as to the cause. It is admitted, however, that he was the man in charge of the Lake county collections at the time the alleged cheating went on. Bobbitt is with Judge Solon Enloe of the appellate court on tour of the Thirteenth' and Tenth ' districts, mending G. O. P. political fences, and his office did not disclose where he could be reached today. Fate Gives Details When the tax settlements In which Fate was interested first were made public. Fate told The Indianapolis Times that he acquired nine of the filling stations involved in northern Indiana and they now are operated by his son, Joseph Fate, 'and Malcomb Clark, Crown Point. The deal was made through a compromise settlement in the auditor’s office with Louis H. Joers, Michigan City, president of the Dunes Oil Company. Joers was permitted to continue to operate his stations at South Bend, and the northern Inidana stations went to Fate at cost of the physical properties. “I admit that I stole those stations,” Fate declared in talking about the deal only last Monday. “Os course it isn’t really stealing, but there was a fellow in trouble and he wanted to sell out cheap and I got them for my son. He and are paying their tax and the stations are making money.” Tax Dodge Revealed Joers’ tax dodging by the distillate method —as disclosed by discovery at South Bend by the oil inspection department, which functions under 1. N. Miller of the food and drug division of the state health department. Dr. William F. King is director of the department. Inspector Springate told The Times by telephone today that the discovery was nade by the inspector from La Poite. He defended himself against the allegations that he is involved in the bootleg gasoline business and said he will welcome the attorney-general’s investigation. “I have tried to co-operate with the collectors, although that is another state department,” Springate explained. “I know Fate and these oil company men casually. “In passing tank cars of distillate without inspection, I was only fol- ; lowing a department rule.” Neither Dr. King nor Miller knew ! anything about the matter, they said, and Miller added that any guilty man in his department will be discharged. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 68 10 a. m 82 7a. m 70 11 a. m 85 Ba. m 78 12 (noon).. 86 9 a. m 81 1 p. m 87

was shattering her pride; money must be had. Should she banish tradition, forget her scruples and live in comfort, or cling to her pride and starve? That was the question and in the wake of her decision came romance, tragedy, humor, all graphically portrayed in The Times’ new serial, ‘“Birthright,” by Kathleen Norris, starting next Monday, July 23. . .

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Dessa Byrd BY JOHN T. HAWKINS lines Radio Editor “TF in doubt, pky Victor Herbert’s ‘Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” and the X audience is yours.” Dessa Byrd, whose organ programs are* heard over WFBM each Saturday morning and from midnight until 1 o’clock Sunday morning, says that motto is infallible. She can’t remember many request programs in which this melody failed to appear on the favored list. Closely following the Herbert number is "Springtime in the Rockies.” Every one, young and old, has a soft place in his heart for these two, says Miss Byrd. There is a wide variety in the requests Miss Byrd has to meet each time she sits down to the organ to play for the unresponsive mike.

‘NOT ONE PENNY MOK/NYE TOLD Mrs. McCormick , Takes Stand Third Time. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 17.—Called back to the stand f*r the third time, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, at the senate investigation of her campaign expenditures today, said she had no personal knowledge of any expenditures other than the $319,000 she reported. "I have given the committee a detailed account of every penny I spent,” she said. Senator Gerald P. Nye, conducting the investigation, said he had not decided whether to call J. Hamilton Lewis, Mrs. McCormick’s Democratic opponent. She had asked Lewis be called to answer charges that she spent $1,000,000 in her primary campaign. Robert E. Crowe, former state’s attorney of Cook county, testified he spent $30,000 in his ward in Mrs. McCormick’s behalf, but no personal funds. Crowe said he indorsed Mrs. McCormick because of her stand on the world court and to “help his own political fortunes.” GRACE DEFIES EATON Refuses to Tell Amount of Salary; Upheld by Judge. Bu United Press _ YOUNGSTOWN, 0.. July 17. Eugene G. Grace, pi'esident of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, took the witness stand in the steel war court hearing here today and refused to tell the amount of his salary. Judge David T. Jenkins sustained his refusal. Attorneys for Cyrus S. Eaton interests. suing for an injunction to block merger of Bethlehem with Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, contend that Grace’s salary is exorbitant.

MAIL FLIER’S BODY IS FOUND IN UTAH

BuVnitrdPrct* CEDAR CITY, Utah, July 17.—A funeral cortege wound down through the mountain trails toward Cedar City today with the body of Maury Graham, the pilot who sacrificed his life in a storm trying to fly the air mail through. Seven months after Graham landed his airplane on the side of a mountain, made certain his $300,000 cargo of mail was safe, and then set out through a blizzard in an effort to reach civilization and

It’s the fascinating story of j the age-old battle o‘ money with pride of birth, women into a romance that will interest you from start to finish. Watch for the first installment of “Birthright" in next Monday s Times. Call Riley 5551 for Tne Times circulation department, si you wont miss an installment ol this great story,

From mothers of new-born babes comes the plea to play something and dedicate it to the latest addition to the family circle. Usually a request of this kind is filled with "Mighty Lak a Rose” or some other kindred melody. ana AS they grow up the children change their tastes in music. For the 4-year-olds and this includes some even up to 12, a dainty like “Old Woman In a Shoe” strikes the happiest chord. Girls from 14 to 18 favor romantic numbers. The latest song made by the reigning king of masculine crooners thrills them, says Miss Byrd. "But all women are romantic,” she confided, "they all want a song that tells of love and romance. Even the grandmothers are no exception to this rule.” Hunting up “hot tunes” for young boys is another of Miss Byrd’s problems on the air. “Tiger Rag” and similar rapid melodies satisfy this branch of the younger generation. For the men it’s spirited music, martial airs, and melodies like the ‘‘Maine Stein Song.” a a a DURING her Saturday night broadcasts, a request is taken at least every one and one-half minutes, as fast as the telephone can be used and the numbers written down. No telephone requests are taken for the Saturday- morning program, all requests being sent by mail, with the result that by the time Saturday morning comes ar mnd each week, Miss Byrd has enough requests on file to fill a whole series of programs. To Dessa Byrd there is only one difference in playing for an audience and playing for the unseen thousands listening to a radio program. "I’m very tired, that's all,” is the way she sums up her feelings after a late night broadcast. Laundrymen Meet Bu Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., July 17. The Central Indiana Laundry Association, which was organized here sixteen years ago. held its annual meeting here Wednesday.

safety, his body was found last night by Major Richard McDonald, a relative, who kept up the search through the months in face of repeated setbacks. Graham, the aviator who found the Lost Battalion in the World war, fought his way twenty miles from the wrecked plane before succumbing to the blizzard, but the tragically ironical direction he took was away from instead of toward civilization. Today the body was borne down the mountain trails toward Cedar City, where a mail plane awaits to fly it to Los Angeles and the wife who would not believe her aviatorhusband was dead, i McDonald found Graham where ‘he had crumpled with exhaustion ;in Zion canyon, thirty-two miles ! from here and twenty miles from the airplane he had left with a laconic entry in his log, which read; “January 10—Forced landing. Destination unknown.” Later today, one of Graham’s air mail pilot pals will break the news to Mrs. Graham that her husband died trying to fly the mail through and that the search is ended.

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DEFENDANT TO TAKE STAND IN POISON TRIAL George Kolb Will Deny He Killed Two Wives With Strychnine. DOCTORS AID HIS CASE Verdict May Hinge on Last Meal Eaten by Woman on Day of Death. BY BEN STERN Times Staff Correspondent GREENFIELD, Ind., July 17. From George Kolb, 55, Rushville farmer, whom the state terms a "Hoosier Bluebeard,” a Hancock circuit court jury this afternoon was to hear denials that he murdered two of his three wives. Kolb was expected to relate the story of the deaths of his wives, Mattie Laramore Kolb, and Edna Dagler Kolb, admitting none but amicable relations with both, and denying administering any pills or capsules to the latter, for whose murder he now is on trial. On the stand this morning, Frederick C. Atkinson, Indianapolis chemist, said that tablets similar to cold pills taken by Edna before her death contained acetanilide, which rendered strychnine tests impossible. He took pills on exhibit In the trial, and will remove the acetanilide, test for strychnine, and defense attorneys who will place him on the stand following the tests, say he will have found strychnine in Edna's simple cold pills. round Murder Theory Never denying the testimony of Dr. R N. Karger, toxicologist, that the stomachs of both women contained strychnine, the defense has used the testimony of four physicians to batter down the murder theories advanced by the state. These are 1. Mattie Kolb, in a purported conversation with a physician shortly before death, declared that George gave her an aspirin tablet shortly before the fatal attack. Thu state charges this aspirin really was a strychnine pellet, 2. Edna Kolb, in a purported lastminute conversation, s said to have declared that Kolb gave her a quinine tablet before they left home to attend Sunday school. The prosecution avers that this capsule contained strychnine. The defense has responded with the testimony of a physician that Mattie Kolb told him she had been taking strychnine tables to stimulate her heart, and two other physicians have declared that strychnine has a cumulative effect which probably caused her death. Build Suicide Defense In an effort to build up a theory that Edna committed suicide, the defense called four physicians, who testified in answer to a hypothetical question, that: If the capsule of strychnine had been taken before Kolb and his wife left home that Sunday morning she would have showed symptoms by the time they reached her mother’s home in Rushville. Dr. Henry R. Alberger, well-known Indianapolis pathologist; Dr. Virgil J. Fruth, Connersville; Dr. Oscar Heller, Grenfleld, and Dr. Charles Titus, Wilkinson, testified that strychnine symptoms normally are evident within thirty minutes to an hour after the alkaloid is taken and in only rare instances are the symptoms delayed two or three hours. “It is possible, but very improbable, that the symptoms would be delayed,” the physicians concurred in saying. Hinges on Meal Paul Benson, former Henry county prosecutor, asked what conditions would have delayed the action of strychnine. The physicians si-id that a heavy meal eaten shortly before ingestion of the poison might have caused it to act sluggishly. The defense, through the testimony of William and Raymond Kolb, sons of the defendant, contended that Edna had eaten only some cereal, and drank some water and coffee before leaving home, therefore if the poison had been administed at that time the symptoms would have been evident upon her arrival in Rushville. Benson, in cross-examination of the boys, attempted to show they had testified to the grand Jury that their stepmother had eaten rice, meat, potatoes, bread and coffee before the trip to Rushville. If the state's contention is correct, the action of the strychnine may have been retarded. Otherwise, the defense has built up a strong suicide theory, it is indicated.

Uncanny Aid Bu f 'nitrri Prr* CHICAGO, July 17. —Lester Jacobson, 13, will think twice after this before daring anybody to put him in an ash can. Disliking Lester’s boasts about his wrestling ability, Irving Satler, 14, accepted the ash can challenge, won. and planted Lester so firmly in the receptacle that he couldn’t get him out. Two policemen who found Lester, his head, shoulders and legs outside, the rest of him inside the ash can, first tried extricating him with an acetylene torch. That was too hot for Lester so they hammered, chiseled, rolled and tugged and finally got him out.