Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1930 — Page 13

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General Adelbert Ames

By United Press NORTH TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 31.—General Adalbert Ames, a Civil war general who has lived to enjoy the ultra-modem pastime of peewee golf, is celebrating his 95th birthday today. He is the only surviving union general of ’6l and oldest living graduate of the United States military academy at West Point. Shoots Halloween Prankster Bu United. Pres* COLLINGSWOOD, N. J., Oct. 31. —William Campbell, 13, is in the hospital with a bullet wound in the right knee and Mrs. Joseph Harris, 40, is under arrest today, charged with having fired the shot to disperse a group of youthful Halloween revelers. Japanese Prince Visits U. S. flu United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 31.—Prince Tokugawa, president of the Japanese house of peers, arrived today on the Mauretania to visit in several American and Canadian cities before sailing for home from Ban Francisco on Nov. 29. Thirty ’Workmen Are Buried Bu United Press VIENNA, Oct. 31.—Thirty workmen were buried today in the collapse of a police barracks at Villach, Carinthia. Casualties are not known. Ready to Produce Beer flu United Press ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31—Every manufacturer of near beer in the country could turn present equipment to brewing real beer inside cf twenty-four hours, R. A. Huber, vice-president of Anheuser-Busch, said today.

Employment Aid Named BV United Preen WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Colonel Arthur Woods, chairman of the President’s emergency committee on unemployment, announced today appointment of Sewel Avery of Chicago, as representative of the committee to advise with industrialists regarding employment problems. Radio 'Doctor’ Convicted Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31.—Dr. J. E. Johnston, Pittsburgh, was free on *I,OOO bond today pending filing motion for new trial following his conviction Thursday of obtaining money by false pretense in connection with treating patients by radio. Broker Believed Suicide Bv United Press PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.—Edwin 1, Simpson, 79, president of E. I. Simpson & Cos., brokers, was found dead from a bullet wound in a garage adjoining his home here today. Police believe he committed suicide. Pola Presses Divorce Suit Bv United Press PARIS, Oct. 31.—Pola Negri, screen star, was authorized by the French courts today to proceed with her suit for divorce from Prince Serge Mdivani. Broken Dam Isolates Village Bu United Press BERLIN, Oct. 31.—A dam in the River Oder was broken in three places today by Silesia floods and ihe village of Scheidelwitz was isolated. Ocean Fliers Visit Berlin Pu United Press BERLIN, Oct. 31.—Captain J. Errol Boyd and Lieutenant Harry P. Connor arrived today at Tempelhof airdrome on their European tour. $35,000 Gem Theft Reported Bu United Press TOLEDO, 0., Oct. 31.—Two gunmen held up Julies S. May, Brooklyn <N. Y.) jewelry salesman, on the Toledo-Columbus highway near Bowling Green today, bound and robbed him of between $25,000 and 550.000 in gems, the victim reported to police upon his return here. Atlanta Editor Is Honored Bv United Press ATLANTA, Ga.. Oct. 31.—A tribute of personal affection for Colonel Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, vas given at a banquet Thursday night by 300 national, state and civic leaders. ALLEGEDTtHIEVES HELD Stealing and Butchering of Livestock Charged to Four Men. Bu United Prea* STURGIS. Mich., Oct. 31. Charged With stealing and butchering livestock belonging to Indiana farmers, three Sturgis men were turned over to authorities of Lagrange county, Indiana. They are Fred Ram age. Leo Creshaw and Lawrence Cook Ingham. A fourth man, Cletus Bushaw, also of Sturgis, is held at Centreville jail on a fugitive warrant. He refused to waive extradition to Indiana.

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GAS COMPANY WILL PROVIDE WORKFOR 800 Central Expansion Program Increased $250,000 With 300 More Jobs. RADIO FACTORY ACTIVE United States Corporation at Marion Employs Most So Far This Year. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Timet Some silver spots in the unemployment and business depression cloud were noted in a survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The Central Indiana Gas Company has added $250,000 to an original outlay of $1,000,000 for expansion in twenty-five cities and towns, and the present force of 500 men now engaged in the work will be Increased to 800. The additional money will be spent in the district comprising Anderson, Elwood and Alexandria. Muncie industries report a slight increase in employment. Plants of three companies, Ball Brothers, Moore Manufacturing and Excel Electric have full forces working on an overtime schedule. Chicago capitalists are planning erection of a ten-story office building, with start of construction set for Jan. 1. Employment in the United States Radio and Television Corporation plant at Marion is at the highest point so far in 1930. Daily production is exceeding 2,000 sets, and 850 persons are working. Furniture Plants Active Several instances of a renewal of activity in furniture manufacturing were noted during the week. In one day twenty-five carloads of furniture were shipped at Shelbyville. Os the cars, eighteen were loaded with products of the Albert Furniture Company, all consigned to Montgomery, Ward & Cos., mail order concern and operator of chain stores. At least twenty-two more cars will be required to fill an order booked by the Albert company. For the first time this year freight shipments from Shelbyville are showing an increase over 1929. The Majestic Furniture Company, Warsaw, this week shipped nine crates of tables to the Gimbel Company, New York, operating one of the largest stores in America. A committee of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce reports unemployment in that city is not at a critical stage. 300 Miners at Work Approach of winter is reflected in activity Indiana’s coal mines. This week 300 men went to work in the King’s Station mine, near Princeton, the resumption of operations ending a period of idleness which has obtained since April. Additional men are being employed by the Big Bend Coal Company, engaged in stripping operations south of Center Point. A third eight-hour shift is being established. After being idle eight months, the Glendora mine, near Sullivan, has resumed operations, giving employment to 100 men. The Clark-Devore mine near Cayuga is operating after being idle a year. The Algiers, Winslow & Western railroad, engaged in coal hauling in Pike cotlnty, has received permission from the interstate commerce commission to extend its tracks a distance of five miles to connect with a coal line operated by the Enos Coal Company. Conditions in various cities of the state are shown in the following summary:

Crawfordsville—Officials of the Mid-States Steel and Wire Company, second largest industry here, announce an improvement in business than is satisfactory, although production still is far below normal. Bloomington—Twenty-seven acres of Clear Creek township land has been sold for $75,000 to the Sandstone Corporation by Ellsworth Deckard. Stlnesville—The Indiana Limestone Company has a force of more than fifty men at work preparing to reopen the old J. W. Hoadley stone quarry here. $6,000 More for Pay Roll Spencer—The Midland Press of this city has purchased the Sanders Publishing Company, Chicago, publisher of the Breeders Gazette, which in the future will be a product of the Midland concern here. The deal will cause a $6,000 a month increase in pay roll and require expenditure of $1,500 monthly for postage. Evansville—After two weeks of idleness, the plant of the GrahamPaige Body Corporation will resume operations Monday. Among other plants busy are those of the Evansville Packing Company. Ogleheart Brothers, Chrysler-Dodge and Servel, Inc. South Bend—St. Joseph county commissioners have awarded contracts for erecting and equipping a new unit of the Healthwin hospital, county tuberculosis sanitarium, at a cost of $102,000. Dawes and Morgan Confer Bu United Press LONDON. Oct. 31.—Ambassador Charles G. Dawes and J. P. Morgan conferred lengthily last night.

ENGINEERS, NOT TRUMPETERS, CONQUERED JERICHO WALLS, EXCAVATIONS SHOW

Bv United Press London, oct. 31.—a British archeological expedition to Palestine believes it has discovered. almost 4,000 years later, the real reason why the walls of Jericho fell when Joshua and the invading Israelites finished their seventh day’s march around them and sounded the trumpets. Months of excavation on the site of the ancient city have conarcheologists that the

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FIRED EDUCATOR EXPLAINSSTAND Dismissal Due to Lack of Tolerance, He Charges. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Comparison of primitive magic with prayer for rain, in Seattle churches, and praise of certain Soviet union achievements cost Dr. Bernard J. Stern his position as assistant professor of sociology at the University of Washington, he claimed today in answer to university statements that he was dismissed as a part of an economy program. “The issue clearly is one involving academic freedom, in which the university administration, controlled by reactionary forces in the state, refuses to permit the expression of radical views, even though those views be based on sound scholarship,” Dr. Stern said. "I was ‘put on probation’ to quote one member of the faculty,” Stem said of action taken “after repeated requests from religious and business groups that he be ousted.” “My outspoken advocacy of a clear cut, scientific approach to the problems of life irreconcilable with the religious approach —plus my statements on the achievements of the Soviet union and the injustice done I. W. W. prisoners at Centralia, provided the real basis of demands that I be ousted,” said Dr. Stern, who, since his dismissal, has been on the editorial staff of the “Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.

SCOUTING GROUPS TO SEE BUTLER GRID TILT Fray With Haskell to Draw Young Representatives on Nov. 22. Indiana's scouting organizations will be guests when Butler meets the Haskell Indians at the Butler bowl, Nov. 22, designated as Scout Day by the university. Invitations to all Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts and Girl Reserves in the state will be sent by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce athletic committee, cooperating with Butler officials. Plans for attendance awards to troops registering largest attendance and for a parade preceding the game were discussed at meeting of the Chamber committee Thursday. WABASH TO BE HOST Alumni Returning to College Today for Home-coming. Bu United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 31.—Alumni will mingle with students of Wabash college Saturday, when hundreds will return for annual home-coming festivities. The Wabash-Butler football game in the afternoon will be the feature of the week-end program. A psp session, including a bonfire and parade, will open the festivities tonight. A barbecue luncheon will be served at noon Saturday in the college gymnasium and class reunions and other meetings will be held after the game. The annual home-coming dance at night will dose the program. STU GY”WORKPROBLEM Groups Majoring in Sociology at De Pauw Take Up Unemployment. Bu United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 31. The Greencastle unemployment problem has been taken as a laboratory project by De Pauw university students who are majoring in sociology. Three groups of students are engaged in the work. One is canvass by the city ’ search of work for men and women to which a second group in charge of a bureau can direct those needing employment. The third group is conducting an educational campaign to bring together the employer and prospective employe.

march of the Jews around the city merely was intended to divert attention from- a more important move. On the seven days the Jews marched, they believe, Joshua’s “sappers” were busy undermining the walls, placing in holes and crevices trunks of trees which were set alight when the signal was given by the shouting and blowing of trumpets on the sev- . enth day. - , . .

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930

Here are the outstanding figures in some of the most interesting of the nation's political races that Dwight W. Morrow, Republican candidate for the senate in New Jersey, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York’s Democratic Governor who seeks another term, often mentioned as presidential possibilities, are shown at the ends. In the center is ex-Governor Gifford S. Pinchot, Republican, of Pennsylvania, who is running for that office again, opposed by John Hemphill, Democrat, below. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Illinois Republican, will be the first woman ever elected to the senate if she is chosen over her Democratic opponent, James Hamilton Lewis. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, a dry Democrat and hero of the Teapot Dome expose, is opposed for re-election by Albert J. Galen, an extremely wet Republican. Robert J. Buckley, Democrat, runs for the senate in Ohio on a dripping wet platform, while Marcus Coolidge, also a Democrat, is doing likewise in Massachusetts. Senator Tom Heflin, ousted from his party for opposition to A1 Smith in 1928, is running as an independent in Alabama. Two veterans, Senator Norris, Republican, and ex-Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, oppose each other in Nebraska.

MERCURY DROP FORECAST HERE Protect Radiators, Warn- * ing Issued to Motorists. Warning to motorists that radiators may freeze tonight unless protected with an anti-freeze solution were posted today by the United States weather bureau as it forecast temperature as low as 25 degrees here. Saturday will be fair and temperatures probably will rise again, providing ideal weather for players and fans who will participate in and view several football games in the state. A faint trace of snow fell here Thursday night, and a light flurry also was recorded in several southern Indiana sections. KILLED UNDER TRAIN Miss Ruth Worley Throws Self Beneath Wheels. Suffering from a recent nervous breakdown, Miss Ruth Worley, 30, of 2805 West Jackson street, hurled herself in front of an inbound Big Four passenger train at Harris avenue late Thursday. A note, found near the body, urged her parents “not to worry, as I could not stand it any longer.” Three witnesses and the train crew told police Miss Worley obviously committed suicide. The body was hurled forty feet, and the locomotive stopped in two blocks. Survivors ore the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Worley, and a brother, Ralph Worley, all of Indianapolis. PETITION TO DISBAR OLIN R. HOLT FILED Action Taken at Kokomo Against Lawyer Convicted by U. S. Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 31.—The Howard County Bar Association today filed petition in circuit court asking disbarment of one of its members, Olin R. Holt, recently convicted in federal court of operating an agency for aiding liquor dealers. Holt has been active in state Democratic politics. An appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals was lost by Holt. Another hearing in the case is set for Nov. 10.

Members of the expedition are certain their discoveries will be accepted as reinforcement of the biblical account of Jericho’s fall. They elkim to have ample evidence that the city was destroyed by fire, as the Bible narrates. st a a ALONG the principal thoroughfare they found reddened bricks, stones cracked by heat, charred timber and ashes.

FISTS DOUBLED AS OFFICIALS CLASH

Muncie Mayor and Head of Council Nearly Come to Blows. bu Times Soecial MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 31.—Strained relations between Mayor George R. Dale and Hubert L. Parkinson’, president of the city council, reached a heated point when the two nearly came to blows in the city hall. Dale knocked a paper from Parkinson’s hands and allegedly called him a vile name. The council president pulled off his coat and the mayor, it is reported, left the room. Parkinson and Councilman Charles Blease had called upon the mayor to serve a notice objecting to payment for anew fire truck purchased, which the council claims had not been authorized by it. Dale refused to accept the notice. Controller Lester Holloway declared he would ignore the notice that had been served upon him not to pay. Council leaders claim the state board of accounts has approved their contention.

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Raymond S. Springer

Forty civic and patriotic organizations are planning an observance to be held at Monument Circle at 11 a. m. Armistice day, Nov. 11. Raymond S. Springer. Connersville, former thirty-seventh judicial circuit court judge and first state American Legion commander, will give the principal address, - FrankA. Montrose, general celebration chairman, announced today. A parade of 5,000 representatives of civic and fraternal organizations is being arranged by Colonel A. J. Dougherty, chief of the Eightyfourth division. Fraternal units in the parade will be led by the Knights of Pythias lodge Springer is a graduate of Earlham college, Butler university and Indiana law school. He served as captain in the World war and is past president of the Indiana Reserve Officers Association. FIND BONES OF INDIANS Skeletons, Stone Implements and Trinkets Unearthed in State. Pu United Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 31. —The skeletons of three bodies, believed those of Indians, were unearthed by workmen employed at a gravel pit south of Hartford City today. Stone implements and trinkets were discovered with the bodies, believed to have been buried some 100 years ago. The bones were said to be well preserved.

The excavations showed that Jericho, like many other fortified towns in the east, had two parallel walls surrounding the citadel. The outed wall was six to eight feet thick. The inner one was twelve feet. The outer wall, almost entirely demolished, appears to have fallen down the slope on which the city ,was built. One small section of the inner Avail however, was

FEAR NEW ATTACKS IN TEXTILE STRIKE Virginia Police Take Steps Against Disorders on Halloween. Bu Uni’ed Press DANVILLE, Va„ Oct. 31.—Authorities kept a close watch today to prevent further disorders in connection with the textile strike, fearing that Halloween might be used as an excuse for acts of violence. James T. Brook, weaver at the Riverside mill, one of those affected by the strike, told police Thursday night he had been fired on from an automobile as he was standing on the porch of his home. He said also his well had been polluted with paint and other fluids and that electric wires to his home were cut. J. E. Hodnett, questioned by police for allegedly firing on six unidentified men, said they had threatened to dynamite his home because his wife was a non-union worker.

HIGHWAY WORK TO BE PUSHED Eight Projects in State to Cost $2,750,000. Preliminary work on several paving projects in the 1931 construction of the state highway department will be started during the winter months if weather permits, it was indicated by department officials today with an announcement that bids will be received Nov. 21 on seventy-seven miles of paving. Six paving projects and two grading projects are included in the list to be placed under contract. Engineers estimated that the total expenditure will be $2,750,000. All but three of the projects will be built with federal aid, according ta Chief Engineer William J. Titus. Among the projects included in the letting is a road to relieve traffic' on United States highway No. 31, between Indianapolis and Franklin, and the remaining sections of the Dunes relief road between Gary and the Michigan state line via Michigan City. Pavement on the Dunes road will be forty feet wide, with bituminous shoulders.

BETTER BUSINESS FOR MARMON ANTICIPATED Dealers Confident After Hearing Sales Program for Year. Prospects for better business were forecast today by fifty Marmon distributors and dealers after receiving the Marmon sales program for 1931 at a luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club Thursday. George C. Tenney, general sales director, announced that October business would rhow an increase of 25 per cent over October last year. Officers of the Marmon company were guests at the luncheon,! after which a drive-away of fifty cars was held in -honor of G. M. Williams, Marmon president. Liquor Handlers Free py Timm flpcrial ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 31. Release of David Reel and Charles Hosier, filling station employes, and Maurice Newhart, automobile salesman, was moved in Madison circuit court bv Oswald Ryan, prosecuting attorney. They were charged vith sale of liquor. It developed they obtained liquor from bootleggers and then turned it over to friends, and they had no interest in the matter except to accommodate the friends. Judge Carl F. Morrow sustained the motion.

found to be fairly well preserved, standing eighty feet in height. Discovery of a charred beam underneath one part of the wall gave rise to the theory that the Jewish engineers, and not the trumpeters, were responsible for the conquest of the city. The site of ancient Jericho today is marked by a series of mounds a little distance from the present Aillage of Jericho.

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BY RODNEY DUTCHER, NEA Service Writer fCoDvrlKht* 1930. by NEA Service, Inc.l SEVEN HUNDRED NINETYTWO candidates for congress, seventy-eight candidates for the United States senate and seventyone candidates for Governor, in addition to a host of minor local officials, face the voters of the nation next Tuesday, in the most important elections intervening between the 1928 and 1932 presidential campaigns. Thirty-two states will elect Governors. Thirty-four of the ninety-six seats in the senate, which are for sixyear tejrms, are at stake. Four hundred thirty-one of the 435 seats in the house of representatives are to be filled, as an entire new congress is elected every two years. (Maine held its election on Sept. 8, choosing its four congressmen, a senator and a Governor, all Republicans, at that time.) G. O. P. Faces Grave Problem Os great importance perhaps is the fact that the Republican administration must face a grave problem caused by widespread business depression under its tenure—probably the first time it has ever had to face such a problem. Prohibition referendums are to be held in three states, questions for the voters to answer appearing on the ballots. Several other states notably Ohio, Montana and Pennsylvania —are holding elections that closely resemble prohibition referendums as the wet and dry issues are so closely drawn. In Ohio, Robert J. Bulkley, Democrat, is running for the senate on a wet platform, against Senator Roscoe McCulloch, dry Republican. Prohibition is the outstanding issue.

Wet Opposes Walsh In Montana, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, dry Democrat, is opposed for re-election by Alfred J. Galen, Republican, who boasts that he is dripping wet. Both men are Catholics. Practically no other issue is involved. In Pennsylvania, ex-Govemor Gifford S. Pinchot, driest of the drys, runs as both the Republican and the Prohibition party candidate against John Hemphill, wet Democrat. The fight against Pinchot, however, is not based on prohibition alone as many prominent Republicans have deserted him because of his opposition to ultra-conserv-ative Republican policies. Governor Races in Spotlight Greatest in national interest, perhaps, are the gubernatorial races in New York and the senatorial race In New Jersey, for these involve two party leaders who have been spoken of repeatedly as possible presidential candidates. In New York, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, is running for re-election. He is opposed by Charles H. Tuttle, Republican, a former district attorney. In New Jersey, Dwight W. Morrow, former ambassador to Mexico, is making his first political race as a Republican candidate for the senate. He is opposed by Alex Simpson (Dem.), famed as the prosecutor in the noted Hall-Mills murder case. TIPTON MAN MISSING Grocer and School Board Member Believed Victim of Abductors. Bv United Press TIPTON, Ind., Oct. 31.—Private detectives were working today in an effort to locate Louis R. Haas, Tipton clothing merchant and secretary of the city school board, who has been missing since Monday. Attempts to locate him in Chicago Thursday failed. Haas drove to Frankfort Monday, purchased a railroad ticket to Chicago and has not been seen since. Relatives said his affairs are in good condition and express an opinion that he was being detained forcibly. Fire Causes $5,000 Damage RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 31.—Damage estimated at $5,000, fully covered by insurance, resulted when a barn on the farm of Morton Jones, south of here, was destroyed by fire. Sparks from a passing locomotive are believed to have caused the blaze.

ON one side looms the Mount of Temptation, where Christ is said to have spent his forty days’ fast in the wilderness. *)n the opposite side of the ruins is Elisha’s fountain, said to be the waters which Elisha sweetened by throwing salt Into them. The excavators hope to continue their work next year completely explaining the fall of Jericho,

PARDON BOARD RELEASES ONE LIFE CONVICT • Montgomery County Slayerl Wins Plea After 26 , Years. MURDER TERM REDUCED Killer of Saloon Keeper at Scottsburg Promised Liberty in 1931. Bu United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. Oct. 31. —The murder for which John James has spent twenty-five years in th Indiana state prison, has been expiated. the pardon board concluded Thursday night. James was granted the only release given a "life’’ term convict. William Spores, another murderer, was granted a commutation, however, which will permit him to be releaseo next year,, after spending a quarter of a century in prison. James was convicted on a charge of murdering Pennell Backner in Montgomery county.. M. E. Foley, board member, cast the only dissent* ing vote on James’ release. Spores was convicted of killing John Fawbush, Scottsburg saloon, keeper. He was originally sentenced to death. Bandits’ Pleas Spumed Banditry was frowned upon by rejection of all pleas for by those in prison for that crime. The board gave clear indication that it intends no favors for bandits who have served less than the ten years’ minimum term. Manslaughter cases, and those in which criminal assaults were committed, likewise found no sympathy. A special investigation was determined upon in the case of Edward L. Duncan, Linton, convicted on a charge of murdering his divorced wife. His daughter, now living in Indianapolis, appeared in his behalf, and a large number of names appeared on a petition from Greene county, citing mitigating circumstances. Judge Robert TANARUS, Miers, before whom the case was tried on a change of venue in. Bloomington, said he believed Duncan would have been acquitted had the daughter testified as to her mother’s character. A pardon was refused Edward W. Kraft, Ft. Wayne sportsman, who went to the prison last summer on a one-to-ten-year sentence for manslaughter, growing out of death of two persons whom he ran down with his automobile while allegedly under the influence of liquor, and driving without lights. He had escaped punishment for two years after sentence, and went to prison after Governor Leslie refused him an. executive pardon. ’ ft

Hope was held out to Alfred Hizer, Fulton county, who has served twenty-two years of a life sentence imposed on a charge of murdering a saloon keeper, when his case waa continued a month. Flat denial was made on the petition of Charles Hanson, 19, convicted on a charge of murdering a taxi driver at Plymouth in 1922. Recommendation from the trial judge is awaiting in the case o l Forest Alexander, De Kalb county, committed in 1922 for robbery. Kia release within a month was predicted, provided the judge approves. Woman Slayer Stays In Another murderer who was told there is no present hope for clemency, was Walter Cunningham, Elkhart county, sentenced in 1919 on a charge of murdering a woman. No action was taken upon the pleas of two Terre Haute Negroes, James Martin and Van Williams, convicted of manslaughter on at charge of killing their minister, the Rev, Obadiah Thompson. A continuance was taken in the case of William Waible, former superintendent of the city render-* ing plant in Evansville, sentenced four months ago to two years for accepting a bribe. A parole was granted Oliver Collins, Delaware county, former* service man, convicted on a charges of embezzlement. Banditry petitions which were re* fused included those of Arthur Wyrick, Shelby county, ten to twentyfive years, 1925, for a bank robbery* at Boggstown; Joseph Horger, Hendricks county, sentenced eight years ago for a S3OO robbery, who haa paid back most of the money while in prison through earnings; Carl Marshall, Vigo county, convicted on an auto banditry charge six years ago; Eugene Bumpus, Lake county* grocery store robbery: Martin Lange, Laporte county filling station robbery; Fay Cor, Cartersburg, robbery; Leon W. Faulkner, Huntington county, grocery robbery. George Kessler, who was convicted in Shelby county of killing Minnie Wilkins, attendant at an Indianapolis filling station eleven years ago, and hiding her body in a cistern, was denied clemency. MAIL -VETERANS RETIRE Old Carriers at Lafayette Served Total of 75 Years. Bv United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 31.-* Lafayette’s oldest mail carrier, George E. Smith, 69, and the next oldest, John T. Evans, 65, West Lafayette, were retired from servio* today after a combined federal employment of 75 years. Both will receive pensions. Smith served forty years and Evans thirty-five years. Train Serves for Suicide pit Times Sprrieil PRATHER, Ind., Oct. 31—An unidentified man, about 60, committed suicide by throwing himself beneath a Baltimore & Ohio freight train here. No money was found in. pockets of two suits in which the man was clad.