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I Brightest Boy'Named by Edison Bu T nitfd Pr**9 / WEST ORANGE. N. J., Adg. I.—Arthur O. William* Jr. of East Providence. R- I- was pro- _ claimed “America’s brightest boy” today by virtue of his winning the Edison scholarship for which forty-nine boys competed.

ft V United Press NEW YORK, Aug. I.—The answer to the Thomas Edison examination question which already has become known as “the desert question,” would depend on a lady's looks if Donald Ogden Stewart were called upon to decide it. Following is the question: Yoa are the brad • an exoeditiea which baa tour o ttrlrf in the desert. There it enough food and water left to enable three people to ret to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your companions are: A fcriUUDt scientist. 60 sears old; two halfbreed guides. S8 and 32; the scientist's wtfe. interested matnls in society manners, ace .38: her little son. age 6: the girl you are engaged to merry; your best friend, a young man of your own age. who has shown great promise in the field of science. Which would you choose to lice and whirb to dir? Give your reasons. "Now, there’s just one thing certain,” said the author when asked today tq, answer the question. "It is certain I'd never send my fiancee, who is a member of tt.e party, away with my best boy triend,” he said. “My boy friends are always going away with my r irl friends anyway, and in this case he probably already wotfld have stolen her. "My decision would depend on whether the wife of the scientist, both members of the party, were good-looking. If she is, my decision would be that she could be saved along with myself and the best of the two guides. "In case the scientist's wife happened not to be good-looking, I’d be forced to save the scientist’s wife, anyway, and send her aged husband and their 6-year-old son along with her- I can’t imagine any worse death than being left on a desert with a scientist and his 6-year-old' son. "Anyway. I’d never let my fiancee go away with my friend —especially my best friend.” Save One of Guides ftv United Press Buffalo, n. y., Aug. I.— The answer to the Edison "desert problem” question, as made today by Dr. Karlos E. Cummings, assistant curator of the Buffalo museum, was: "Certainly one of the guides must be saved. Further than that, it ia impossible to answer the question. One needs more information. I would save the two members of the party most capable of carrying on the work of the expedition, assuming that its work was important. From the information supplied one 's unable to judge who would be best qualified to carry on. The first obligation of a scientific expedition is to accomplish the work for which it is sent out.” Question Is Assailed ft; / United Press ROCKPORT. Mass.. Aug. I. Thomas A. Edison’s “desert problem,” one of the questions submitted to Edison scholarship aspirants yesterday, has no place in any kind of an intelligence test,” in the opinion of Professor Robert E. Rogers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Rogers, who became nationally famous last year when he advised college men to be snobs, was asked how he would have answered the question, and replied: "I won’t answer the question, but I’ll tell you what I think about it.” he said. "It is an utterly hypothetical question which under no circumstances can have any reality. No answ'— that anybody could make in an e amination could have any possible ’alidity. Leave Child in Desert ftv United Pee** NEW YORK. Aug. I.—Dr. George H. Sherwood, director of the American museum of natural history. announced his solution today to the problem of the party lost in the desert "Presumably if any one is to reach civilization at all there must be one guide selected for the trip. I would select the younger man as probably possessing the greater stamina. "Under such circumstances there is no doubt in my mind but that the leader should remain in the desert. There is little probability that the-son could stand the hardship. He would be too poor a risk. His mother probably would not wish to be separated from him. “I should not select the scientist of 60 since presumably most of his work would have been achieved. “I should select the young scientist. not because he was my best friend but because of hisfiJffcmise to the scientific world, and I should select the young girl whom I was engaged to marry.” Women, Children First ft* United Peer* * • WEST ORANGE, N. J.. Aug. 1. Thomas A. Edison sat today to try to answer some of the questions that were put to the forty-nine boys who competed for his scholarship. Here are some of them: "I would get what-ver I could for a second-hand Ford coupe. “Never, never would I try to dig a hole thirty miles in the earth. "Regarding the desert question, the first thing to think of is the ship rule of women and children first. A person is likely to think of a number of different thipgs in connection with that one, however." Rmnly Temperatures 6a- ra.... 65 10 a. m— is 7a. m 70 11 a. m.— 80 l i m.... 76 12 (noon).. 62

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COURT RULES BILLINGS NOT TO BE CALLED Widely Conflicting Stories Told by Two Trying to Prove They Lied. WOMAN HOLDS STAGE Asserts Convict Was Out Squirting Acid on Cars When Bomb Flared. BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY United Pres* Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. I.—The California supreme court ruled today that it was not necessary to i call Warren K. Billings from his i Folsom prison cell to aid in clearing | up confusion caused by conflicting evidence offered in the court s review of the San Francisco bombing of July 22, 1916. A personal, appearance of Billipgs was sought by Edwin V. McKenzie, attorney for Billings, to refute or confirm a strange story related by Estelle Smith, the second repudiation witness to appear before the court. Chief Justice William H. Waste announced as the hearing opening today that Billings would not be summoned for the present, but he added that "if at any time later the justices feel Billings’ presence to be necessary, he will be summoned as a witness. After the court rejected McKenzie's request that Billings be summoned, ’’rank P. Walsh, New York attorney for Mooney, addressed the court ard asked the status of his client. Decide Mooney Status Walsh said Governor C. C. Young, who has the power to pardon Mooney without cdurt action, hadtold him he would follow the recommendation of the court in the Billings case in disposing of Mooney’s pardon application. The court told Walsh that he had a right to cross-examine any witness when testimony pertained to Mooney and that such right had been his all through the hearing but that officially the court lacked jurisdiction In the Mooney case. The court apts on pardon applications for twice convicted men, such as BilTngs. Walsh then requested the court to call Mooney from San Quentin prison as a witness but it was ruled that he was not needed and the matter was left in the same status as the McKenzie request. A' clash between McKenzie and Walsh i jcurred when the latter said he wanted Mooney to testify because ’of Miss Smith’s story that Billings practiced sabotage. Woman Is Recalled Picturing sabotage as. a horrible crime, Walsh said that some people might, bel eve that a min guilty of sabotage could be guilty of dynamiting and that such thought might include Mooney as it is generally known that the paiqf were close friends. McKenzie objected to Walsh ar- j guing the case of Billings. The clash died suddenly Walsh in an apology said no harm was intended. Estelle Smith was recalled as the day's first witness. A strange tale which, if true, completely exonerates Billings from all blame in the bombing affair, was related by Miss Smith. Speaking rapidly, she added a variation to her former testimony. It was that Billings had confessed to her in his cell, with Fremont Older present, that he was actually out squirting acid on automobiles on the afternoon of the explosion. The suitcase that she “thought” in 1916 contained dynamite she now "thinks” contained acid. Repudiates Repudiation While it proves anew alibi for Billings, the story doubtless will be denied by him. It was on Wednesday. March 20, 1929, that this witness, once a star in the Fickert firmament, humbled herself in a confession as abject as that of John MacDonald’s. She swore "that she never was certain killings was the man who she said carried a suitcase into the dental office in which she worked on the afternoon of the explosion: that when she told Fickert she was doubtful of her identification and was refusing to testify against him, he (Fickert) threatened to send her to prison.” | She further declared that Martin j Swanson, undercover man for local ■ corporations, also threatened her j with arrest: that Billings trial she was a morphine ad- ; diet and actually took morphine tablets during that trial: thatj Frank Oxman, the “honest cattleman" of the Mooney trial, called upon her also, saying he had been sent to offer her money in five figures il*she would only say she had seen Tom Mooney in the building on that day. She declared that Fickert tried to force her to identify Mooney as a man she had seen in the building. and that he declined to subpena other persons named as (Turn to Page 1, Second Section)

PRIMO PAINTED BENEFAQTOR OF HUMANITY IN FIGHT TO STAY IN U. S.

8 w United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. I.—An eloquent description of primo Camera, the giant heavyweight, as a benefactor of humanity was presented today to the immigration board of review in the hearingmn his request for a six-month extension of his stay icjhe United States. ■fee boxer, who wants to remain

WAGES SLASHED ’ TO LOW, SCALE ON U. S. HIGHWAY 50 Contractor Takes Advantage of Unemployment to Force Pay to 20 to 30 Cents an Hour. ' BY HERBERT L. CECIL After bidding on paving of United States Road 50 at prices justifying payment of 50 cents hourly for labor, according to state highway commission members, the contractor on the road has taken advantage of unemployment to force labor prices down to 25 and 30 cents, and in some cases as low as 20 cents, an hour, an investigation among workmen on the road proved Thursday afternoon. Labor was paid 40 and 45 cents an hour when work on the from Seymour to North Vernon, Ind., started. Unemployment conditions made possible shaving of labor costs and wages were reduced, almost 50 PPr Wages as low as 20 cents an hour are being paid some workmen on Road 50. In the blistering sun workmen have been swinging picks and shovels on grading work, driving trucks, pouring concrete and making excavations for piers, and mixing and pouring concrete for- 25 cents and 30 cents an hour. , ~. ' , To make living wages, a number of workmen declared they have been laboring twelve •and thirteen hours daily, the sum total of their daily wages on a twelve-hour basis .being from $3 to $3.60. 6 ——l mu a Tmnrnvprnpnt.

BRIBE IS HINTED' IN NORRIS TRICK Probe Group Expects to Reveal Corruption. Bu United Press < WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. —The senate campaign investigating committee “expects to be able to show the transfer of money” in connection with the senate candidacy of George W. Norris, Broken, Bow (Neb.) grocer, Chairman Nye announced today on his return to Washington. Norris announced to run against Senate George W. Norris (Rep., Neb.), but his certificate was rejected because it was filed too late. Nye also announced today the committee- has opened investigations in two new states, Massachusetts and Tennessee, following charges of corruption and excessive expenditures in campaigns there. “Lavish use of money, contrary to Massachusetts election laws,” was charged by. C. W. Crooker, general counsel of the Liberal Civic League of Massachusetts, Nye said. Crooker and others who have made charges about the conduct of the Massachusetts primary, have been invited to confer with the committee here next Monday, Nye said. The campaign of William M. Butler, Republican candidate, was among those named in charges, Nye said. Charges from Tennessee were filed by John R. Neal, candidate for Democratic nomination for senator, and others, Nye said. Alleged irregularities in Memphis were the basis of Neal's charges.

DIES ON GALLOWS California Avenges Slaying • • of 7- 'ear-Old Girl. Bu United Pri ss SAN QUENTIN PRISON, C’al., Aug. I.—Thomas Lehew of Ft. Bragg, Mendocino county, was hanged today at San Quentin prison for the murder of 7-year-old Theresa Johnson. , The trap was sprung at 10:02 and Lehew was pronounced dead at 10:15 by Dr. L. L. Stanley, prison physician. MURDER IS LAID TO TEMPORARY INSANITY Man Shoots Wife to Death in ■ Cottage at Lake. * Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Aug. I.—Temporary insanity caused Anton Gettke, 56, of Cedar Lake, to shoot his wife, Ida. 53, to death at their Lakeside cottage today, officers believed. Gettke, hopelessly crippled with locomotor ataxia, admitted the crime when arrested in the cottage, but could give no explanation of it. His cries brought neighbors/ 1 to the cottage after shots had awakened them. Gettke was confined in Lake county jail at Crown Point. FIREMAN IS PROMOTED Frank Kissell Elevated to Captain by Safety Board. Lieutenant Frank Kissel was promoted to a fire captain today by the safety board to fill a vacancy caused by death. Clarence Amos was promoted to lieutenant and John L. Sullivan. 128 South Hancock street appointed as fireman. DROP CAPONE CHARGES / Miami Dismisses Vagrancy Action Against Scarf ace Al. Bn United Press MIAMI, Fla.. Aug. I.—Vagrancy charges long pending here aganist Scarface' Al Capone and several companions were dismissed in criminal court today and prosecuting counsel announced no further information would be filed in the matter.

world's theavywiight championship, was pictured as exhibiting his huge bulk in the cause of clean sportsmanship, helping crippled children and generally bringing happiness to the great masses of mankind. At the conclusion of an hour's hearing, which ;dipped dangerously close at times to a gossip session on tte entire boxing situaation, it Vt#s announced that a

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The McCarthy Improvement Company of Davenport, la., is general contractor for the paving of the road. When the company first began work, wages of 40 to 45 cents were paid workmen. Today the scale of wages for the same jobs is 25 to 30 cents and many men are hired at 20 cents, investigation disclosed. An official of Dunlap & Cos., North Vernon, Ind., sub-contractor for construction of culverts and bridges on the road, Thursday afternoon, said that his company had been paying 35 cents hourly for labor until officials of the McCarthy Company demanded reduction of wages. Wages were cut by the Dunlap company on demand of the general con * tractor, the official said, from 35 cents to 25 and 30 cents hourly. More than 200 men are employed on the road work, the average reduction of 10 cents an hour in wages putting S2O hourly into pockets of the contractor, workmen declared. Protests Are Voiced “I have four children and 25 cents an hour barely keeps us in food,” James Dawson of Hayden, a workman on shoulders of the new road, declared. v At a quarry near Hayden, operated to supply the road with crushed stone, wages of 25 cents hourly prevail also. Protests against the state practice of permitting out-of-state firms to operate in Indiana on road paving work were voiced at North Vernon and Seymour. Labor for the road construction largely is drawn from these two cities, but residents there declared ‘any tramp from the west gets a job on the road at the starvation wages paid.” Construction work on Road 50 now Is under way east of Hayden, Ind., while building up of shoulders and ditch grading work is under way from five miles east of Seymour to Hayden. , This wage cutting practice was roundly condemned here Thursday by Jess Murden (Rep., Peru) member of the state highway commission He asserted that the contracts were let with, the idea of 50 cents an hour as a minimum wage and that when the commission meets next week he will introduce a resolution condemning the wage cut and putting the commission on record as opposing contractors who engage in the practice. Opposed by Brown Director John J. Brown of the department also voiced objection to the wage-cutting program. The McCarthy Construction Com.pany was given the contract for concrete work and general work on the rofl by the Duncan Construction Company of Chicago, state records today showed. The contract was let to the Duncan company Sept. 18, 1929, on a bid of $281,595.75, a figure $46,884.94 below the stjte estimates of $328,480.79. The difference is not unusual, State highway department officials said today, and was not regarded due to intention of contractors to pjy lower wage soles. MORE HEAT COMING Week-End to Be Fdir and Warmer, Forecast. Premise of another week-end with fair weather and rising temperature was made today in thff* forecast of the United States weather bureau here. Moderate temperatures that seldom have reached heat wave proportions this week, may give way to another period of uncomfortable heat. RENEW AIR LICENSES 608 Radio Stations Given 90-Day Permits. / Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. The federal radio commission today renewed the Ifcepses of all 608 broadcasting stations in the United States for ninety days. Only one station, WRK. Hamilton, 0., failed to apply for renewal and the commission announced its license had expired.

• decision would be reached after a review of the evidence, probably Monday, but maybe sooner. During the hearing, Leon See, the Italian’s manager, claimed he had a tentative agreement for Camera to fight Max Schmeling for the world’s heavyweight championship. a * a THE session furilfthed further i interest for fighting fans in

GIANT AIRSHIP ENDS SEA HOP to mm British Dirigible, Tail Fin Broken in Storm, Is Safely Moored. WAITS UNTIL DAYLIGHT U. S., Canadian Officials in Greeting; Passengers Speak on Radio. Bu United Press ST. HUBERT AIRPORT, Quebec, Canada, Aug. I.—The dirigible R-100 came to rest here today at 4:36 a. m. eastern standard time, eighty hours fifiy-one minutes after it left its home port at Cardington, England. ' Cirpling above the St. Hubert airport for almost three hours, after edging its way through storms in the St. Lawrence valley with a broken tail fin, the big experimental airship settled down at the new mooring mast at 4:28 a. m., and right minutes later was made fast, with its journey ended. \ The mooring was completed quickly, once the light of day enabled Squadron Leader R. S. Booth, the dirigible’s commander, to head down toward the $500,000 mast and set the ship’s nose into the revolving top of the huge structure. * Water Ballast Dumped The crew of the R-100 dropped slender cables to the ground, and as the six motors slowed down water ballast was dumped from the forepart of the ship. A small ground crew of soldiers spliced the dirigible’s cables to one large one dangling from the steel mooring arm at the top of the mast. Powerful motors at the base of the mast pulled in the cable, drawing the ship, its motors idling, closer to the mast. _ . When the big envelope was within about twenty feet of the top of the mast two other cables were let down from the bow and the stern, and the ground crews seized them to hold it steady as thfe mechanism iff the tower drew it closer to the universal coupling joint. Speak Over Radio At 4:36 o’clock the dirigible’s tip snapped into the receptacle on the mast, the telescopic mooring arm was drawn in, and the-ship was left with just enough room between it and the mast to swing freely in the wind. High United States and Canadian officials were on hand to extend a greeting to the passengers and crew. Custom officials and medical examiners were the first to go aboard. They made an examination of the ship, as of any incoming ocean liner, before the seven passengers and thirty-seven members of the crew were allowed to land. Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore, director of airship development and representative of the British air ministry, was the first aboard the ship to speak over the radio through the* microphones that were handed up to the waiting passengers while the customs and medical examination was going on. Commander Colmore minimized the damage to the tail fin, but said that it, combined with bad weather Thursday, had delayed the dirigible on the last stage of its flight. Compares Early Flight The damage to the fin was not entirely repaired in the air. it was learned, although sufficient repairs were made to enable the dirigible to continue at reduced speed to St. Hubert. Major G. H. Scott, who commanded the dirigible R-34, which made the first trans-Atlantic round trip flight, compared that feat with the luxurious crossing of the R-100. “We slept well, ate well and had plenty of time to walk about,” Major Scott said, comparing the two. “Owing to the way in which the crew of the R-100 worked, we got here safely, comfortably and not very late.” * Lieutenant Commander Sir C. Denistoun Burney, who designed the R-100 as an experimental aircraft, predicted great benefits to the British empire if its scattered parts could be linked by dirigible lines. The flight just completed was a test of the usefulness of the socalled Atlantic type of dirigible, in service within the British empire. Officers, Crew Rest The passengers, officers and crew descended from the ship down the mooring mast elevator, and were received informally on the ground by high Canadian and United States officials. The officers and crew will be allowed to rest today. The first formal ceremony was scheduled for 3 p. m. Saturday, when an official reception will be held in Montreal. Most of today and tomorrow will 1 be spent in refueling the ship and filling the bags with hydrogen to replace that lost during the voyage.

a boast of Camera translated by his lawyer: Camera's petition was based on assertions of Adrian Bonnelly, a Philadelphia lawyer, that Camera was a much maligned young man. According to Bonnelly, Camera helped the charities in all the cities he visited, was the victim of rival managers and promoters who wanted to get him away from See’s philanthropic management and exploit him and a heavy-

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New School Head Given Reception by Thieves Paul C. Stetson Loses Car First Night in City, but Likes It Here Anyhow

Automobile thieved gave Paul C. Stetson, new Indianapolis school superintendent, a slightly different reception than he had anticipated when Jie arrived here Thursday evening to assume his new duties. Stetson, formerly Dayioxj (O.) superintendent, came here from a short vacation at Black Lake, Mich., with his family, and placed his car in a garage adjoining an apartment building at 3002 Fall Creek boulevard Thursday night. This morning, he awoke to find that his car, one of seven or eight in the garage, had been stolen in the night. ‘(Well, I think Indianapolis is a mighty nice town, anyway,” Stetson commented at the school board offices. “That might have happened in any city.” Stetson spent the morning becoming acquainted with school officials and employes. Stetson said he had no revolutionary plans for the city schools, believing results are obtained by “evolution rather than revolution.” “I am just going to work,” he said. “I feel fortunate in having a man of the type of D. T. Weir to advise with, as assistant supertendent.” Stetson also praised members of the present school board.

WALTER JOHNSON’S WIFE IS TAKEN BY DEATH AT CAPITAL

Married 17 Years Ago," and Watched Husband’s Rise ' to Baseball Top. < Bu United Press ‘ Washington, Aug l.—Misfortune which has followed Walter Johnson, idol of the baseball diamond, struck its most cruel blow in the death here today of the wife who had watched his'rise to the heights as a dazzling pitcher and success as manager of the Washington baseball club. Mrs. Johnson, who was 35, died here today after a brief illness accentuated by heat exhaustion. Her death occurred at Georgetown hospital, where this spring her oldest son, Walter Jr., 15, spent several weeks as the result of a serious injury at the hands of a hit-and-run driver. This boy was the only one of the five children of the “Big Train” who knew today of the mother’s death. He was at the bedside with his father. The others played about their home, knowing only that their mother was ill. The funeral is to be held here Monday, and on that day Johnson’s comrades will pause in their race for the American League pennant out of respect for the woman who sat in the grand stand so often and watched them. " Married Seventeen Years The scheduled game with New York Monday with the Yankees, pennant rivals, was called off today by Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington club, after long distance consultation with New York club officials. A double-header will be played in New York Tuesday. The Senators were not scheduled to play today, it being an off day. Johnson canceled his trip to New York for the game when his wife’s condition took a sudden turn for the worse Thursday night. The romance which ended in the marriage of the former Hazel Roberts and the famous pitcher occurred seventeen years ago. When his famous speed ball was dazzling the eyes of opposing batters, he also dazzled a demure young beauty in the stands, the daughter of Judge Edwin Roberts, now serving his second term as mayor of Reno, Nev., then a member of congress from Nevada. Train of Misfortune Soon after Johnson achieved new fame in the world series of 1924 and 1925, personal misfortunes began to pile upon him. His career as a star pitcher virtually was ended early in 1927 when a line drive struck him on the left ankle in batting practice, fracturing a bone. Released from the Senators after twenty years he signed as manager of the Newark International League club, was taken seriously ill during spring training, and nearly lost his life. Shortly after he became manager of the Washington club last spring, Mrs. Johnson was operated on for appendicitis. Then came the injury to his oldest son, mascot of the Washington team and a promising sandlot player. It was thought for a while the injury would require amputation 6f the boy’s leg.

weight prospect who could win the world title in another six months. a m a BONNELLYTS remarks were supplemented by those of Representative Fred A. Hartley Jr., of New Jersey, who spoke for the Italo-American population of his district and urged Camera be given an extension in order to continue his “cfcan, manly exhibitions.” P

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Oh, This Grind! Governor Harry G. Leslie returned to his vacationing at the Indiana Dunes State park today after spending part of Wednesday, all day Thursday and this morning at his desk at the statehouse. It was reported that he is planning a lake trip to Canada, which would give his vacation an international cast. His winter vacation was spent in Florida yachting, and before going on his summer vacation he attended the Governors’ conference at Salt Lake City and' 1 visited the national parkV in that vicinity. Mrs. Leslie was on the western trip and the family is spending the summer at the Governor’s cottage at the ,dunes.

GERMANS BEGIN HOF Light Plane Used in Ocean Flight to Chicago. Bn United Press KIRKWALL, Scotland, Aug. I. Wolfram Hirth and Oscar Weller, German aviators, began their threestop trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago at 9:40 a. m. (2:40 a. m central standard time) today, when they departed from Swanbister shore for Iceland. ■ From Iceland, they expected to fly to Greenland, refuel, and continue on to Labrador, where the last supply of fuel will ’be taken abroad their plane before the dash to Chicago. They are using a 40-horse power light plane, and were delayed here several days by winds which they feared would prevent them from reaching Iceland with the small amount of fuel they can carry. SET WORLD FLIGHT dVlears to Start Long Globe Hop Early Saturday. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. I.—John Henry Mears and Henry Brown will take off from Roosevelt field at 4 Saturday morning, starting a flight around the world, they announced this afternoon. They hope to set a new record for encircling the globe The first point on the itinerary is Harbor Grace, N. F„ and from there the pair plans to hop for the British Isles. DENY MARION REQUEST Tax Board Rules “Nothing Doing” in Bomb Probe Fee Case. State tax commissioners today refused a request of Marion city authorities to reimburse the city budget $l,lBO for payments made Edwin R. Thomad, special attorney in charge of the bombing investigations in that city. The bombings occurred last winter and spring. Five persons were killed but no case ever was made against the bombers. HOOVER INVITES TALKIES Sound Filmers to Snap Activities at Rapidan Camp. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—Sound moving picture photographers have been invited for the first time Saturday to visit President Hoover’s r -‘dan camp to record the activities of the President and his guests. The President and Mjx Hoover were to leave the White Jk use after lunch today, motoring t<mhe camp for a three-day stay. P

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BAR FARMERS FROM LEGGE GRAINPARLEY Agricultural Press and Newspaper Men Kept Out of Meeting. DRAWS HOT CRITICISM University Men, County Agents Only Persons to Hear U. S. Official. Disgruntled farmers threw hot criticism at Alexander Legge, federal farm board chairman, and other Washington officials today for holding a conference, presumably called to aid the farmers, behind closed doors at the Claypool. Grain dealers, large wheat growers, merchants and many small farm owners came here early this morning from all parts of the state, expecting to hear*a solution to their agricultural problems, but were barred from a meeting of extension directors, university men and county agents who gathered to hear Legge expound his “reduction of wheat •acreage plan” as the soluiton to farm ills. Newspaper men as well as representatives of farm papers and the Indiana farm oureau were told “it’s impossible to let you hear the discussion,” when they applied for admittance to the' meeting. Fear of repetition of unwelcome receptions that have met Legge in various parts of the country, where he and his extension directors have held open meetings, is believed to have led him to bar the doors in Indiana. Here to Get Data G. E. Farrell, Washington, department of agriculture director in the north central states, presided at this morning’s session. Legge, who was to speak this afternoon, did not arrive until late. Representatives of agricultural colleges in the five soft wheat states interested in the session were scheduled to present attitudes' of their respective states on the question of reduction in wheat acreage. However, the federal rarm leaders said they did not expect to arrive at any conclusions today; they were here to gather data. Farmers who had been refused admittance, remained at the hotel hoping to get entrance this afternoon. Most of them indicated they regarded the wheat reduction plan as a “piece of foolishness.” “It will do a lot of harm. There’s just as much sense in telling farmers to quit raising wheat as to tell a carpenter he can work but two days a week,” said John H. Morgan of Marco, grain dealer and farmer. Bar Farm Press Men Others who remained at the keyhole included E. L. Zeis, Oxford, farmer and member of the Benton county farm oureau: John T. Barnett, Hendricks county; John Brown, farm bureau and co-opera-tive marketing leader. George Weymouth, editorial representative The Farmers’ Guide, and John Lacey, representative of The Prairer Farmer were not allowed at the conference although they askfd for admittance. When the conference was concluded Legge refused to give excerpts of his afternoon address. “I don’t know what thfey may fire at me in questions,” he retorted to requests for a copy of his address. Asked why the sessions were closed to wheat growers, he said: “I’m in the hands of those arranging the meeting here.” “I leave for Chicago where I’ll hold a conference with cotton growers,” he said. Open-Minded, Says Skinner Dean John H. Skinner, head of the agricultural department of Purdue university, said following the executive session this morning that the price and surplus of the nation’s staff of life was presented by farm board representatives. “There was no discussion. We were merely told the facts. We’ve all come here open-minded without being committed to an acreage reduction plan,” Dean Skinner said in talking ior his agriculture colleagues. “I can see a reason for not permitting wheat growers to attend the meeting, but I see no reason for keeping thd newspaper men out,” Dean Skinner said in commenting on the secret session. Farmers who attempted to talk to Legge following the meeting were left in the cold as the farm board charman was ushered to the elevator by representatives of the board. minersThurt iFblast 12 Injured, Two Probably Fatally, in Shaft Explosion. Bn United Press TILTONVILLE. 0., Aug. 1. Twelve miners were injured, two probably fatally, in a powder blast in the Red Bird mine of the Warner Colleries Companv here today. Twenty men were in the shaft removing a rock slide when the blast occurred

Baby Divorcee Bn United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 1. - Sarah Co u '~i, 15, was granted a divorce by Jr'*-® Robert E. Gantzel when she informe- 1 the astonished jurist that “after four years, I p.n tired of married life.” Charles Cohen, who married the girl when she was 11 years old, w~- ordered to pay $4 w-'V • to helrj support a 3-wec!-- -Id child. 1

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