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BILLINGS TRIAL ADJOURNED BY HIGH JURISTS Attorney Pleads Chance to Argue Case, Challenging ‘Gossip Evidence.’ ACE WITNESS TESTIFIES Mrs. Mooney’s Sister Tells Court ‘Tom Never Left Roof.’ BY MAX STERN Times Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.—The supreme court public rehearing on Warren Billings’ pardon plea, brought about by the discovery of perjurer John MacDonald, adjourned Wednesday night after four weeks of one of the strangest “trials” in tthe history of American jurisprudence. About one week of the four was given over to delving into the actual murder guilt of Billings and Tom Mooney. The rest was taken up by a flood of opinion, hearsay and rumor. At the “trial's” conclusion, Edwin McKenzie, Billings’ counsel, pleaded for an opportunity to argue his case, urging that someone familiar with it should separate the chaff and the wheat. Frank P. Walsh, speaking for Mooney, moved that all hearsay, rumor and gossip, all portions of testimony tending to show Mooney guilty of possession of dynamite, all references to acts of violence or sabotage in connection with his name, be stricken from the records. Promise to Rule on Plea “I challenge this record for one scrap of real evidence to show my client a dynamiter, or saboteur, that he ever was in possession of dynamite or guilty of any act of violence other than a misdemeanor,” Walsh said. “The case naturally has been conducted in a slipshod manner,” McKenzie declared, “but from this hearing record I can, if permitted to argue, demonstrate the absolute innocence of both Billings and Mooney. The only danger I fear is failure to treat this evidence objectively. The evidence of innocence of this crime is so overwhelming no man can tail to be convinced.” The seven judges promised to rule on McKenzie's plea within the week. At Wednesday's session both sides played their trump cards. The “defense” trump was Mrs. Belle Hammerberg. sister of Rena Mooney. The “prosecution” ace was Charlie Fickert, chief prosecutor of the 1916 days.

“Never Left the Roof’ Mrs. Hammerberg told of having seen Tom and Rena Mooney from before 1 o’clock until r fter 4 on the afternoon of the Prepardness day parade. She described the clothes they wore, their actions and conversations. They were, she swore, with her and her cousin, Mrs. Martha Timberlake, and twenty others on the j roof of the Eiler building, more than ' a mile from where Oxman and Mac- j Donald swore to having seen Mooney plant the bomb just before 2:06 p. m. and three-quarters of a mile from where Estelle Smith said she saw them with Billings at 721 Market street, at 1:56 p. m. Her story, corroborated by twenty pther persons and the clerk, was exactly the same as stories told upon the Mooney's arrest by Mrs. Timberlake, Interviewed in Los Angeles, and Tom and Rena Mooney, interviewed by police in separate cells. One dramatic incident recalled by j Mrs. Hammerberg was that had not ! Tom Mooney returned to his corner i on the roof three times after helping people with boxes to see the parade and thereby gotten into the pictures "he would have been hanged." Fickcrt Is Disappointment “It seems like it was an act of providence," she said. “If Fom had been over where I was dt ig the parade he would not be alive today.” It was the alibi pictures and the Oxman expose that caused President Wilson to intervene with Governor Stephens for a commutation of sentence. "I did not believe in Tom's strike activities," she said. "He was a Socialist and was intimate with Debs, but he wasn't a dynamiter. He could not have committed this murder, for I was with him all afternoon, and besides, he was not cabpable of such a terrible crime." Asa sensation Fickert proved a disappointment. The bulky ex-foot-ball star denied the stories his own witnesses Estelle Smith and MacDonald told. He said Miss Smith had never told him of Billings’ sabotage confession to her. He said that MacDonald's story as to being coached by him was "absolutely false.” Then he gave a brand new account of a conversation with Billings in Folsom in which Billings was alleged to have named Mooney as the man who employed and paid him for stealing dynamite, admitted to having dynamited power lines and said he was a burglar by trade. His story may have convinced seme, but defense counsel Walsh and McKenzie refused even to cross-examine him upon it. Reunion to Be Held Sunday Bu 1 1 i SrJ/TMi MUNCH, Ind., Aug. 21.—The twentieth annual reunion of the Cannaday and Walker families will be held at Heekin park here Sunday. C. M. Cannaday, Indianapolis, is president of the reunion organization and Floyd Duncan. Muncie, secretary.

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Snake in Room Caused Aimee s Illness, Says Aid Other Detail*. Pare one. Section two. /?/ Unit'd Prrn* DES MOINES, la., Aug. 21.—A snake tossed into Aimee Semple McPherson's bedroom by a man who had professed to love her, was blamed today by Mrs. Peggy Myrtle King, one of Mrs. McPherson s workers, for the evangelist's present illness. Mrs. King, who is visiting her mother here, said that episode occurred several weeks ago. "Mrs. McPherson and I were together when a man suddenly rushed up and threw his arms about her,” Mrs. King said. “He told sister he was in love with her. He was arrested and sent to the psychopathic ward." Mrs. King said the man swore he would appear later at the evangelist's home. “He escaped from Patton sanitarium and while he was free a snake was found by sister in her bedroom and she was so shocked the nervous breakdown resulted,” Mrs. King said.

WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH; MATE HELD

Bars for Bar Ity United Press DEARBORN, Mich., Aug. 21. —Tranquillity of Henry Ford’s large estate was restored fully today after being the scene of an exciting bear hunt. Armed with spades, pitchforks, clubs and dther implements, fifty Fond employes tracked down the bear when it took a snooze after being the object of search for nine hours Wednesday. The posse of employes was organized when it was discovered that the bruin had escaped from his pen on the automobile magnate’s wooded estate.

ROB BANK AND KIDNAP CASHIER Two Young Bandits Get SSOO at Marshfield, Ind. Bu United Press MARSHFIELD, Ind., Aug. 21 Two young bandits held up the Marshfield State bank today, kidnaped the cashier and escaped with SSOO. The cashier, Samuel C. Adams, alone in the bank at the time of the holdup, was carried nine miles into the country by the two men. There he was released, unharmed, and was returned to Marshfield by a motorist who had followed the bandit car.

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Sleeve Cache Bu Times Special FRANKLIN. Ind.. Aug. 21. The sleeves of a raincoat carried in an automobile in which officers found two youths asleep were filled with several gallons of salted peanuts and chewing gum, believed to have been stolen. The prisoners, Robert Greenlee, 18, and Richard Jones, 17, both of Ithaca, Mich., are wanted by authorities there on automobile theft charges and will be returned to Ithaca for trial.

VINCENNES MAN IS GRANTED PRISON STAY Appeals Court Denies Review; Action by Supreme Justices Pending. A stay of execution from a federal prison sentence in connection with the interstate hot car ring conspiracy, has been granted Louis A. Wi'kerson, Vincennes, by the United St_.es circuit court of appeals, pending action by the supreme court on an appeal petition. The appeals court Wednesday denied Wilkerson a review of its action affirming his conviction here. He faces a sentence of a year and a day at Leavenworth penitentiary. REAL SILK HEADS MEET Boom Year Is Predicted for Mills as Three-Day Session Ends. Prediction of a boom year for the Real Silk Hosiery Mills was made today at the close of a three-day meeting of sixteen sectional and regional managers of branch offices at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The meeting was held by P. O. Ferrel, vice-president and general sales manager. Closing feature of the session was an exhibition of fall and winter hosiery and lingerie. ARNDT BAND TO PLAY Concert Will Be Given Tonight at Fall Creek Playground. The Arndt concert band, directed by Herman Arndt, tinder auspices of the Indianapolis park board, will present a concert at Fall Creek boulevard playground at 8 tonight. The program: ‘The Free Lance,” "Rose Marie,” "Orpheus,” “Victor Herbert Favorites. 1863.” "Ham Trombone” and "Star-Spangled Banner.” Electricity Burns Man Bu Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Aug. 21.—D. C. Cornwell, 39, lineman for the Indiana railroad, suffered serious burns when he came in contact with electricity of high voltage in a transformer between Anderson and Daleville. He is in St. John's hospital here. His home Is in Pendleton

Husband Is Suspected as Killer in Mysterious State Blaze. Bu United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 21.—The body of Mrs. Carrie Huddleston, 64, was found burned to a crisp on the kitchen floor of her home, five and one-half miles west of Newcastle, Wednesday night. Turner Huddleston, 68, her husband, who reported finding the body, was in jaii today, while Coroner Ralph Niblock of Middleton continued his investigation. Turner reported that he had been in Newcastle all day Wednesday and upon returning home at 7 p. m., found the body. The fact that the body was burned to a crisp all over and that there was no evidence of fire in the kitchen, together with the peculiar testimony of the husband and the statement made by his son, Arthur Huddleson, of near Spiceland, Henry county, caused the coroner to order his arrest. The husband gave as his theory that the kerosene stove exploded. Coronor Niblock, however, could find no evidence of an explosion or fire except the crisp body. Arthur Huddleson is said to have told the coroner his father often had threatened to kill his wife. The body was burned so badly a post-mortem practically is impossible. Corn Crop Cut in Half Bu Times Special THORNTOWN, Ind., Aug. 21. Boone county’s corn crop will be about half of the normal yield, according to Murray Barker, local farmer and former state senator.

Highway Department May Issue Certificates of Indebtedness. Financing southern Indiana road work by certificates of indebtedness issued by the state highway department probably will be adopted in the drought relief program, it was indicated today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. The Governor pointed out that ddefinite knowledge of needs in the drought-stricken area will not be available until the questionnaires sent out by the drought relief commission are returned Sept. 1. Meanwhile Elmer Stout, banker member of the Governor’s drought relief commission, will go to Washington Tuesday for a- conference with Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde. Invitation to Stout came in a message from Hyde to Governor Harry G. Leslie late Wednesday. The Governor previously had ‘ mir.ated a conference with Stout, Fied Sims, attorney; Charles F. Werner, deputy attorney-general; Irchie Bobbitt, state auditor, and Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, regarding financing. Details of plans being studied were not disclosed, but Bobbitt announced that .the plan to borrow $1,000,300 had been abandoned definitely. 30 APPLY FOR POSTS Seek Positions in City Building Department at City Hall. Thirty applicants for posts in the city building department were examined today at the city hall by John Deery, local architect. Shift in the personnel is anticipated following announcement of examinations results. Fire Reveals Still Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 21.—Au- | thorities are Investigating finding of a whisky stijl in fire ruins following destruction of a barn of John Botra, in the north part of the city. Explosion of the still is believed to have fired the barn. Botra denied ownership of the still, but could offer no explanation of its presence in the barn.

Women Toy Golf Finalists to Meet Tonight

BITTERLY contested matches marked semi-final play Wednesday night in The Times city-wide toy golf tournament with Miss Mary Jane Meyers, Miss Louise Leonard, Theodore Siener and Morris Mclntyre winning places in the finals of women’s and men’s flights. All matches were over thirty-six holes. Miss Meyers won her way to the finals by defeating Mrs. Myrtle

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930

COUNTY HOLOS 1931 TAX LEVY AT 38 CENTS Pending Slash by Council May Permit Lowering Tentative Rate. $117,500 CUT POSSIBLE Reduction in Salaries of Eight County Judges Held Probable. Marion county tax rate for 1931 was set tentatively at 38 cents today by County Auditor Harry Dunn, pending council action on a possible IVi cents reduction in the general fund. The new rate, as it now stands, is the same as last year and is based on a $3,000,000 decrease in assessed property valuation. If the council slices another $117,500 from the budget, which is considered probable, the rate for 1931 would drop to 36 cents. Under the tentative rate, the general fund is 19 cents, Vz cent less than the current rate; sinking fund, 14 cents, 1 cent higher than 1930; free gravel road fund, 2 cents, a reduction of Vs cent. The tuberculosis fund remained at 2 cents. Increase Is Refused Dunn said he is not prepared to reveal departments of the government affected by the $98,000 cut, although it is probable, commissioners say, that decrease of $2,500 in the salaries of eight county judges is included. Several cuts were thought to be made in the salaries of minor clerks in various offices. Decrease in the free gravel road tax was made as result of increased revenues due the county from state gas tax funds. The 2Vs cents tuberculosis levy remains tentatively at the same figure, despite efforts of the institutions board to increase the revenue for expansion purposes. Councilmen have indicated a policy of rigid economy. Miesc to Study Draft

If recommendations of Dunn and commissioners are followed, the council will be able to drop the general fund levy to 18 cents. The rate this year is 20 cents. Dunn said he will be prepared next week to account for the 1-cent raise in the sinking fund levy. The 1930 figure is 13 cents. Strictest care was paid in a study of budget requests of all departments, and efforts were made to stem extravagancies wherever they were uncovered, Dunn said. Harry Miese, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, said a study will be made of the tentative rate draft before it is submitted to the council for final action, aspirTnlntoxication DEFENDANT RELEASED Counsel for Columbus Man Offers Voluntary Drunkenness Plea. Bji Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 21. Jesse Hobson, 45, took too many aspirin tablets, with the result that he was arrested on an intoxication charge and placed in the county jail. In city court he pleaded not guilty and on trial was acquitted by Mayor H. Karl Volland. Hobson testified that he had been ill of rheumatism and had taken aspirin in large quantities, once using a dozen tablets in an hour. His attorney, Devere J. McGinnis explained that his client’s wobbly condition was caused by aspirin and cited the Pharmacal Guide to demonstrate that too much causes involuntary drunkenness LON G~TRIPTOWE[)D 1N G Bride Traveled 12,000 Miles From Manila to Indiana. Bu Times Special NOBLESVILEE, Ind., Aug. 21. After traveling 12,000 miles, Miss Fannie Hiday, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hiday, became the bride of Clyde H. Dougherty. They were married on the campus of the Indiana Seventh Day Adventist academy in northern Hamilton county. They will reside at Franklin, Va., ! where he is employed. They met while the bride was ! head nurse in the Washington | (D. C.) sanatorium of the Adventists. ; For the past two years she has been j a director of nurses in the public 1 training school at Manila, Philippine j islands. EX-COP SHOOTS WIFE Retired Policeman’s Act Ends “Twenty Years of Bickering.” Bu Vpiled Press NEW YORK. Aug. 21.—After “twenty years of bickering with his | wife,” Frank L. Cchepp, a retired | policeman, shot and killed her I Wedr.*?day, night.

Banta, 3 up, at the Amos and Andy course, Keystone avenue and Allisonville road. Miss Leonard had a much harder time with Miss Virginia Quigg, winning 1 up at the Original Tom Thumb course, Thirtieth street and Kessler boulevard. Miss Meyers and Miss Leonard will meet tonight, also at thirtysix holes, for the women's title at the Mapleton course. Thirtyeighth. and Illinois streets.

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Pittsburgh’s “skyscraper university,” as it will appear when completed, is pictured in the architect's drawing at the left. At the right is an interior view on the ground floor, showing the striking architecture. Inset, Chancellor John G. Bowman.

EIGHT ACCUSED IN AIR BOMBING Warrants Allege Violation of Aviation Code. Bu l'piled Press LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Aug. 21.—Eight men said to have been implicated in the recent air bombing of nonunion coal mines in the Providence (Ky.) area, were charged with conspiracy to violate the national avia- I tion code in warrants issued here today By Federal District Attorney Thomas Sparks. Their immediate arrest was ordered. Those named were Paul Montgomery, Murphysboro, 111.. aviator; Edward Kecklebeck and Raymond Edmond, Zeigler, 111., miners, and Noble Harris, Angus Merrit, Ewing Riley, Harvey Davis and E. L. Grant, all of Webster county. ‘PITCH AND PUTT’ GOLF COURSE PLANS STUDIED Park Board Takes Petition of City Men Under Consideration. Petition of a group of men headed by Sol C. Bodner, to construct a clubhouse and “pitch and putt” golf course at the northeast corner of Meridian street and Kessler boulevard, was taken under consideration by the park board today. The course, of which there are three similar in the United States, would have 30 to 100 yard greens and iron clubs would be used to play. The project is based on the club plan and nonmembers could play only when they have guest cards. Much of the playing would be at night and the park board plans a thorough investigation, it- was declared. SCHNEIDER FLYS EAST Junior Record Holder Seeks New Trans-Continent Speed Mark. lip United P) css LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21— Eddie Schneider, 18-year-old Westfield (N. J.) high school boy, took off at 6:l7*a. m., Pacific standard time, today in an attempt to set anew west-east junior transcontinental speed record. Schneider, who set a junior record of 29 hours and 41 minutes in an east-west flight between New York and Los Angeles, hoped to make the return flight in twentyseven hours or less. LARGEST STILL SEIZED Clark County Sheriff Says 200Gallon Output Sets Record. £ u 'limes Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Aug. 21. —A 200-gallon still, which Sheriff Hal K. Hughes of Clark county says is the largest he has seized since being in office, was found on the Jann farm a mile and a quarter north of Charlestown. In addition to the still, the sheriff reports seizing 100 gallons of whisky and 3,000 gallons of mash. Richard ' Garnett, 19, and George Seibert, 24, both Kentucky residents, were ar--1 rested. G. O. P. to Organize I B.p Times Special | KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 21.—Fred S. Purnell, representative in congress | from the Ninth district, will attend | a Howard county Republican or- , ganization meeting here tonight.

Theodore Siener, elimination round medalist, and Burke Whittaker were forced to play the thir-ty-seventh hole, where Siener's 4 to Whittaker’s 7 gave the former a 1 up victory at the Putt-a-Round course, 3345 Madison avenue. Siener will meet Morris McIntyre at 8, Friday night, at the Plaza course, Pennsylvania and Michigan streets, for the men's title. Mclntyre defeated G. Ab-

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Bp'S PA Service, PITTSBURGH, Aug. 21.—This city’s great skyscraper “cathedral of learning”—the projected forty-story home of the University of Pittsburgh—slowly, but steadily, is emerging from dream to reality. The building’s steel framework, completed last fall, rises 524 feet above the street. Masonry work has reached the eighteenth floor; and while it may be years before the building finally is completed, the job that was begun in 1926 is far enough along now so that Chancellor John G. Bowman, who conceived of the girnt structure, can see the creation of his imagination taking form. More than 9,000 tons of steel have gone into its framework. It will contain 105 classrooms, each accommodating from thirty to ninety students, and fourteen lecture rooms, each one capable of seating from 200 to 500 students. It will have fifty-two laboratories and twelve department libraries. It will be possible for it to accommodate 9,000 students at one time. Twelve floors still are unclassified, leaving plenty of room for expansion. Its foundations go down sixty-five feet below the street level. Architecturally, the building will dominate Pittsburgh—already does dominate with its high skeleton of girders. It rises in a series of setbacks, artistically balanced, which contribute both to its strength and to the beauty of its design. When Chancellor Bowman came to the university ten years ago he found the students inadequately housed in buildings scattered over a hillside campus. He conceived the idea of a great new building that would tower toward the sky—a building of steel, fitting in the country’s greatest steel center.

Anderson Cops Use Axes in Gaming, Booze Raids Bu United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 21.—Armed with axes and crowbars, police today inaugurated a drastic and sensational crusade against alleged liquor and gambling resorts. Furniture and other equipment were seized anad battered and tossed into the streets as hundreds watched the destruction. The raids were conducted under the direction of Mayor J. H. Mellett. , J „ . The establishments of Sam Ross, Raymond Ross and Frank Sweetman were among those visited.

WIDOW MURDERED Ex-Convict Held in Check Case Slaying. Bu United Press STANTON, Mich., Aug. 21. County authorities claimed today that William H. Davis, paroled convict, confesses he forced Mrs. Doris Loree, 63, widow, to make out two checks to him for S3OO and then killed her so she would not stop payment. Davis, formerly employed on Mrs. Loree’s farm, was arrested Wednesday night. “I needed SBO to make a payment on my automobile,” Davis told deputy sheriffs.

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bott, 6 and 4, at the Fairways course, Southern and Madison avenues. Course for the playoff between the man and woman champion will be announced in Friday’s noon edition of The Times. Large crowds have been following their favorites and tonight’s match at the Mapleton course is expected to find a number of spectators at the first tee at 8.

BULLETS FIRED IN ‘MILK WAR’ Snipers Shoot at Truck; Barricade Road. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 21. Violence entered Kansas City's “milk war” today when a gang of masked men and women attempted to halt a milk truck by blocking a road, and snipers fired on another driver. No casualties resulted from the two encounters but it marked the first organized intimidation since the controversy between producers and wholesalers over milk prices began a week ago. W. J. Bratten, independent producer and trucker, reported a gang of thirty masked women and men tried to halt his delivery today by placing a log across the highway west of Kansas City, Kan., and by blocking side roads with their automobiles. He drove over the log ai>* through the crowd without re*sistance, he reported. Carl Christ, driver of a glasslined thermos truck, said snipers put a rifle bullet through the 890gallon tank as he drove near Victory Junction, Kan. Guards returned the fire by shooting over the heads of the snipers. Christ claimed he had been fired upon similarly last Sunday. Lower Tax Rate Asked Bu Times Snceiul WINCHESTER, Ind., Aug. 21.—A reduction of 3 cents in the Randolph county tax rate, making it 22 cents, is recommended by Ira E. Smithson, county auditor.

TRAIN SMASHES AUTO R. Earl Peters, Democratic State Chairman, Escapes Injury. Bit United Press LAPAZ, Ind., Aug. 21.—Leaping from his automobile when it stalled on tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at a crossing here, R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, chairman of the state Democratic committee, narrowly escaped death as a passenger train demolished the auto. Peters was en route to South Bend for a conference with Democratic leaders when the accident occurred. He completed the trip by bus and continued to Gary, where he presided at a meeting of Lake county Democrats. LESLIE VISITS ORPHANS Governor. Accompanied by Lieber, Goes to State Park. Governor Harry G. Leslie and Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department went to McCormick’s Creek Canyon state park today to visit the orphans’ camp launched there by the Governor, under Lieber’s direction, this year for the first time. HOW’S ESTATE SMALL Attorney Sets 528.000 as Maximum Left by ‘Hobo King.’ Bu United Press CINCINNATI, Aug. 21.—A maximum valuation of $28,000 was placed upon the estate of the late James Eads How, “hobo king,” by Jess McDonald, St. Louis attorney, in a communication to Nicholas Klein, until recently executor of the will. *

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MOB KILLINGS END HOPE OF WARDEN 108 Marion Sheriff No Longer Considered for Post at Pendleton, Says Leslie. NEGROES VOICE DEMAND Urge Indiana Should I Stand Against Lynching as in Texas. BY DAN M. KIDNEY Sheriff Jacob Campbell of Marion, Ind., Grant county Republican chairman, no longer is being considered among applicants for the position of superintendent at the state reformatory at Pendleton, Governor Harry G. Leslie told The Times today. Campbell sought to succeed Superintendent A. F. Miles, whom Leslie has been threatening to replace ever since taking the governorship. One of the chief backers of Campbell's cause has been L. O. Chasey, Marion, the Governor's secretary. Tried to Stop Ogden Chasey’s friendship for Campbell is said to have caused him to try to prevent Attorney-General James M. Ogden from prosecuting Campbell in connection with the lynching of two Negro prisoners in Marion Aug. 7. So obvious have been Chasey's efforts to protect Campbell, it is said, that one of the members of a Negro delegation calling on the Governor Wednesday, objected to Chasey's presence at the conference. Although Chasey was on hand to hear every word, he offered no defense for the sheriff. Leslie said today that while Campbell was an applicant for tha Pfendleton superintendency, he no longer is being considered. He intimated that Campbell’s application never had been considered very seriously. Cite Texas Attitude

The Negro delegation, composed of Indianapolis and Marion residents, urged that Indiana at least should take as active a stand against lynching as Texas has. “After a lynching in Sherman, Tex., four persons, who led the mob, were arrested and placed in jail the very next day,” G. N. T. Gray of Indianapolis told the Governor. “It now has been two weeks since the lynchings occurred at Marion and no arrests have been made. “The idea that Negroes would blow up the jail if some of the mob men are lodged there is a myth. Negroes are not given to reprisals. They have no record of attempting mob rule.” Warned in Advance The delegation was headed by Mrs. W. T. Bailey, Marion, president of the Indiana conference of the National Association for Advancement of the Colored Race. She presented a petition citing the fact that Sheriff Jacob Campbell of Grant county had been warned well in advance of the danger of mob violence, refused to remove the prisoners and therefore should be ousted because of failure to perform his duly and live up to his oath of office. Speedy punishment for the mob leaders also was urged in the petition, which asked that the Governor use his prestige and authority. Emphasizes Race Problem Emphasizing the race problem involved, Mrs. Bailey later told the Governor there were two white men in the jail at the time, chaigcd with attacking a young motherless girl, but they were unmolested. The fact of lynching is prima facie evidence of the sheriff having failed to perform his duty, under Indiana law, and the attorneygeneral has' the power to remove and have him tried. Sheriff Not Surprised MARION, Ind., Aug. 21—Sheriff Jacob Campbell today refused to comment on charges that he failed to do his duty to prevent the lynching of two Negroes here Aug. 7, which were made to Governor Harry G. Leslie by a delegation of Marion Negroes. “It does not surprise me,” he said when informed that the Governor had been requested to urge that authorities ask the sheriff to resign.

YOUTH IN AUTO KILLED Three Companions of Wallen Resident Suffer Injuries. Du United Press KENDALLVILLE Ind., Aug. 21. Francis Miller, 18, Wallen, was kiled instantly and three companions sustained injuries Wednesday night, when the automobile in which he was riding was hit by another machine two miles south of here, en route to a fair here. Miller’s machine turned over twice, pinning him beneath the wreckage and hurling his companions free. Herman Blosser, 19, received a broken arm and injured hip. Miss Mabel Miller, 16, and Miss Ellen Blosser, 16, received cuts and bruises. George Tyler, 65, Lisbon, driver of the other car, was not hurt. Causes Death * Bit Times .Special HARTSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 21.—Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Clifford E. Johnson, 66, who died of neuralgia of the heart at her home, two miles southeast of here. She leaves a husband and five children, Earl, Frank, Chester and Mary, at home, and Mrs. Opal Granger, Sandusky. w