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11 COPS FACE V. S. COURT IN BOOZE SCANDAL Protection to Speakeasy Operators Is Charged in Testimony. (Continued from Page 1) Unidentified policeman were in the place, and Aug. 15 agents saw Van Sickle and Voldprauer drinking. Jeffrey claimed. Aug. 16 four police in a squad car, Quinette, Brown, Strieker and an unidentified man, entered the place and drank f.\m a four-ounce bottle. Jeffrey told the jury. Bridwel! and another patrolman entered later, and Van Sickle and Volderauer visited the place twice, the district attorney said: # Demanded Intoxicants Jeffrey said his evidence would how that in 1929 and early this year Brown and John O’Brient went to speakeasies on Indiana avenue and demanded intoxicants from Ne£ro proprietors. The-Negroes, Jeffrey promised would charge that the officers never paid for their liquor, and will say they were afraid to ask for money. The witnesses further will state that they gave money to the police several times. Another witness will say that Hoagland once went into a restaurant, obtained a quantity of alcohol and became so intoxicated he could not leave until 3 a. m., Jeffrey said. Speaking for the defendants, Bonhifeild said that Hague had been a total abstainer twenty years, and that Quinette, a policeman only forty days, had no uniform when the agents were making their in- ", estigations. Conspiracy Is Denied •Hague and Quinette were never In Sally’s,” he said, referring to a place operated by one witness. ‘‘They don’t even know' her. “Hundreds of persons are buying liquor these days,” he declared. “It’s true, of course, the police took cigarets or cigars occasionally, because it is a sort of unwritten law on this police department, as on other departments, to accept them,” Bonifield said. ... Markey said Van Sickle, his client, had dropped into the speakeasy several times, but always with an officer or district man. and without inlent to enter in a conspiracy.

Five Challenges Used Five pre-emptory challenges were exercised by the defense before the jury was selected. Judge Baltzell quizzed prospective jurors, and emphasized questions as to whether they served ih the World or Span-ish-American wars. Many of the police were veterans and members of veterans’ organizations. The indictments contained four Counts: One for the police, charging conspiracy; two charging sales by Schischoff and Vilaschoff, and a fourth alleging a nuisance. In the courtroom w r as Charles R. Myers, president of the board of safety, which suspended the policemen when they were arrested by the government. Suspicion that certain police were permitting open and flagrant dry law violations cn their beats had been current for some time. Anti-Saloon League leaders conferred with the city board of safety, presented a list of. more than twenty alleged liquor venders, and demanded action. Investigations by undercover men is continuing, it is declared, and more policemen may be indicted by the next grand jury.

CITY AIRPORT WELL WILL BE EXAMINED Tests to Be Started on Thursday by Brandt of Works Board. Teats of the well at the municipal airport will be started Thursday afternoon by Louis C. Brandt, works board member, and M. G. Johnson, assistant engineer, to determine the regular flow of the well. Decision to place temporary pumping equipment at the well was |made today after the board learned the flow is irregular. During the tests, city officials also will examine the quality of the water, which several tests already have shown to be polluted. M. Tucker of the Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., radio department. will arrange for radio service here this week at the airport. The transmitting station will be installed in the building for opening of the line Dec. 1. Sunday Hunter Fined WARSAW. Ind., Nov. 12.—Clyde Gripe. Kosciusko county farmer, was fined $1 under a law making it an offense to hunt on Sunday. Gripe was hunting on his own farm.

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MINISTER WILL TAKE NEW POST The Rev. Floyd Van Keuren Leaves Christ Church. The Rev. Floyd Van Keuren, rector of Christ church, has resigned the pest he held for more than five years to accept a directorship of the social service commission of the diocese of New York, Episcopal church, it was announced. The resignation has been accepted by the vestry of Christ church. Having filled the rectorship of the historic church since Oct. 1, 1925, the Rev. Mr. Van Keuren will succeed Bishop Gilbert in the New York position. The resignation becomes effective Dec. 29. During his five years’ service, terminefted by the resignation, the Rev. Mr. Van Keuren accomplished the organization of the Christ church boys! choir; builded anew parish house, founded the Margaret Ridgely Memorial Library of Religious Education, and a modern, church school was set up with new methods in progressive education. Recently anew memorial baptismal font in the church was dedicated.

EX-OOP ADMITS MURDERIN JAIL Alleged Confession Solves Detroit Mystery. Bn United Press DETROIT, Nov. 12.—Peter Wentala, 35, a former policeman, was held on a technical charge of murder today after he admitted lie beat William T. Jones, 50, former Granda (Miss.)' minister to death, In a police headquarters cell block. Jones died of head injuries Monday night about two hours after he was locked up when he told a police clerk that he was the man who killed Jerry Buckley, radio announcer slain by gunmen last July. Less than twenty-four hours after Jones’ death, which caused a furore in police ranks because of insinuations that he was the victim of police brutality, Wentala was arrested in a small downtown hotel. After brief questioning, Wentala made a statement to Duncan McCrea, assistant prosecutor, in which he declared that he was a cell mate with the ex-minister and punched him to the concrete floor of the cell when Jones “took a poke at him.” He said he didn’t realize he had killed Jones. Wentala, an iron worker, was dismissed from the police force several years ago for intoxication. UNITED DRY VOTERS GROUP IS FORECAST New Organization Needed, Editor Says; Scores League Head. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—Charles C. Morrison, editor of the Christian Century, predicted today reorganization of the dry voters in the United States without special recognition of the Anti-Saloon League. “F. Scott Mcßride, league superintendent, has led the children of the eighteenth amendment into a sea that has failed to part and open a dry path,” said Morrison. “The fate of prohibition will be determined in the next two years. It will stand if the people who believe in it can be rallied to one standard. It will fail if the present drift is allowed to continue.”

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On recommendation of schools superintendent, Paul C. Stetson, Milo H. Stuart, principal of Arsenal Technical high school, and William A. Hacker, director of social service, were appointed assistant superintendents of th public schools by school commissioners Tuesday night. DeWitt S. Morgan, vice-principal of Arsenal Technical high school, will succeed Stuart as its principal.

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Sigma Delta Chi Chapters to Ohio Monday. Delegates from four state university chapter? and from the Indianapolis alumni chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary professional journalistic fraternity, will attend the sixteenth annual convention of the organization at Columbus, 0., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Edwin V. O'Neel, 5716 College avenue, national president of Sigma Delta Chi, will preside at the convention. Harlan V. Hadley of Butler university, Vincent R. Fowler of Indiana university, Joseph Taylor of De Pauw university and M. C. Schwartz of Purdue university are delegates from the four undergraduate chapters of the state, and DOn Hoover of the Indianapolis News and Earl Mushlitz of the Indianapolis Star, are delegates from the Indianapolis alumni chapter. Marlon E. Pew, editor of Editor and Publisher; Frank E. Mason of International News Service, and Fred Fuller Shedd of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, president of the American Association of Newspaper Editors, are speakers at the convention, all sessions of which will be held on the campus of Ohio State university’. ,

BANK DECEIVER TROUBLES BROW Difficulties in Suits Rise Again to Puzzle Ogden. Difficulties that beset receivership suits against two Indianapolis banks last week arose again today on a Jesses scale -to plague the receivership action filed Monday by Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner, against the Postal Station State bank, a City Trust Company subsidiary. Although it was announced Tuesday that Symons and AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden were in accord on the filing of the Postal bank suit, Ogden today said he would confer with Symons looking toward dismissal of the action and refiling in the same court, superior court four, where Judge William S. McMasters presides. Calling at the courthouse this morning, Ogden found the! suit entered on the file books, but it could not be found in superior court four, nor in the court’s file-box in the clerk’s office. No summons had been issued. KING"GEORGE IS HEARD U. S. Radio Listeners Tune In on Broadcast From London. Bn United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 12.—The voices of King George and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald were heard in every corner of the world today when they opened the round table conference in London. Radio listeners in the United States who tuned in at 7 a. m. in the eastern time zone and at 4 a. m. on the Pacific coast heard the speeches of the British king and premier with a clarity never before achieved in an international broadcast.

SCHOOL CHIEF ACCUSED Boone Grove Principal Charged with Shooting Holes in Auto. Bv Timex Sncri tl. VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. 12. Eugene O'Bryan, principal of the Boone Grove high school is at liberty under SSOO bond pending trial in Porter circuit court here as an aftermath of a Halloween episode Joseph Meyers, a student of the school, alleges his automobile was damaged by three bullets fired into it by the principal. Meyers and other students had intended to smear pant on O’Bryan's car, but he caught him just as they started the prank, and the shooting followed.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Homer Muncte. 816 River avenue. Ford coupe. 743-925. from Pennsvlvania and Georeia streets. Fred L. Huber. Davton. 0.. Stutz sedan. H-13-76P Ohio, from Davton. O. Chevrolet sedan. M 363. reported bv Sheriff Vandiver. Franklin. Ind., stolen from Franklin. Ind.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police ■'belong to: 1 Bennet Folb. 4114 Bowman avenue. Ford coupe, found at Northwestern avenue and Mvrtis street. Mrs. J. B. Barlow. 241 North Holmes avenue. Chevrolet sedan, found at Vermont and Meridian streets. Garland Sticker, >-1127 East Market street. Ford 'coupe, found on Crawfordsville road, west of city.

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PLAN TO MAKE SHIPS 1 OFFICERS DRUG SLEUTHS U. S. Customs Bureau Is Considering Proposal to Search Berths. BY CECIL OWEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Ships’ officers of leading passenger lines plying between United States and oriental ports would be sworn in as special customs officers so they might legally search passengers’ staterooms and luggage for smuggled narcotics under a plan being considered by the United States custom-! bureau. The plan proposed to the bureau would place the officers in the role of “dollar-a-year” men acting as employes of the customs bureau. It greatly would increase their authority over passengers and permit them to search staterooms and baggage for hidden contraband. In the opinion of customs officials the plan, if adopted, should be limited strictly to narcotics. If in searching for drugs, however, an officer should see liquor or hidden jewelry, he might feel it his duty to report it, as steamship companies are liable for undeclared merchandise smuggled aboard their vessel;. The narcotics bureau said today that smuggling of narcotics through Pacific coast ports alone amounts in value to hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly. The plan is not aimed at passengers so much as it is at members of the crews who have made a practice of secreting in staterooms, unknown to their occupants, sizeable quantities of narcotics. Passengers in whose cabins such contrabrand was found would not be prosecuted unless there w T as evidence to show they were implicated. In the case cf other smuggled articles found by the inspecting ships’ officers, passengers would be given an opportunity to declare the goods prior to fines or‘prosecution.

CIVIC CLUBS TO BACK LOBBYIST Need for Representation at Assembly Seen. % Civic clubs of Indianapolis plan to send a lobbyist to the Indiana general assembly this next session. Necessity for a worker to protect interests of home owners and residents was discussed at a meeting of the Sherman-Emerson Civic League Tuesday night. Tax legislation will be given special attention, it was said. Investigation into the proposed refinancing of the street car system by the Insull interests will be made by a committee comprising Cecil M. McConahay, W. C. Hier and L. K. Harlow, president of the league. CANADA BACKS li. S. Demands Direct Limit for War Materials. Bn United Press GENEVA, Nov. 12.—The United States demand for direct limitation of materials of war was given further support today before the preparatory disarmament commission. The Canadian delegate, Walter A. Riddle, urged adoption of the recommendations of Hugh S. Gibton, American delegate, who opposed limitation by budgetary methods. “It seems inconceivable that the world would accept a disarmament convention which did not directly limit armaments,” he said. Riddell suggested combining both budgetary and direct systems. OFFICIAL PLANS APPEAL Judgment of $3,000 Against State Entomologist in Corn Borer Case. Bp Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind., Nov. 12.Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist, announces that an appeal will be taken in a case decided in Huntington circut court here in which an award of $3,000 damages was made to Owen Feehan, Allen county farmer, against Wallace and his assistant, Paul Ullman. During the campaign against the corn borer in 1927, a force of men under orders of Wallace plowed up a sixty-five-acre field of oats belonging to Feehan, who asks damages for loss of the crop and injury to the soil resulting from deep plowing. Auto Strikes Three nu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 12.—Three children were struck by an automobile driven by Harry McCullum, Delaware county farmer. They are Eleanor, 3; Anna, 5, and Bernice Myers, 6. None w’as injured seriously.

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Bo United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd still is SIIO,OOO in debt from his south polar expedition, and many of his companions on the trip are finding it difficult to earn a living, the famous explorer revealed in an address before the Chicago Geographic Society. British Author Dies Bn Vnitcd Press PEIPING, Nov. 12. Bertram Lenox Simpson, British author who spent most of his life in China, died in Tientsin today from wounds inflicted by Chinese gunmen who invaded his residence there recently. He wrote under the pen name of Putnam Weale. Delay Faced World Court Bli Vnitcd Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—President Hoover probably will refrain from pushing American adherence to the world court upon the senate at the coming short session of congress, it was learned today on high authority. Predicts Prohibition Election Bn Scripps-Horcard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The Republican party will be nationally dry and the Democratic party will be nationally wet in 1932, Senator Arthur Capper, Republican of Kansas, predicts in a statement in Capper’s Weekly. Depression Hurts Gambling Bn United Press PARIS, Nov. 12.—Wall Street’s collapse, bad business in France and Spain and continued unemployment in Britain cost the kitties of French gambling tables fifty-million francs during the past summer, according to the first statistics made available by the French government. Merrymakers Are Injured Bp Vnitcd Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12.—More t'.ian a score of merrymakers at an American Legion frolic were burned severely Tuesday night when a gasoline tank in a hot dog stand exploded at a „ street dance in Watts, a suburb. Jane Turner, 13, probably will die. Bandits Rob General Bn Vnitcd Press MERION, Pa., Nov. 12.—Police today searched for three young bandits who forced Brigadier-Gen-eral Robert M. Brookfield, Pennsylvania national guard, to drive his own automobile to a secluded section here, where they robbed him of $45 and drove away in his automobile. Wales Ride on DOX Bn Vnitcd Press CALSHOT, England, Nov. 12. Tlie huge German seaplane DOX, carrying the prince of Wales and half a dozen other prominent persons, went up at 1 p. m. today for a trial flight of twenty-six minutes in the neighborhood of Southampton. Noted Woman Flier Injured Bn Vnitcd Press PARIS, Nov. 12.—The flight of the noted Franco-Russian woman pilot, Lena Bernstein, to Tokio ended today in a crash near Bagdad, the air ministry announced. She was slightly injured. Mistaken for Deer; Shot Bn Vnitcd Press WEST RUPERT, Nov. 12.—Mistaken for a deer as he lay resting on the ground. Fred Lewis, 19, was killed when fired on by William Johnson, 19. Johnson tried to take his own life when he discovered his mistake, but a companion intervened. “Mr. Glad” Aids Jobless Bn Vnitcd Press NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—A wealthy man who shields his real identity behind the name “Mr. Glad” took unemployment relief into his own hands today by standing on a street corner and handing out nickels and dimes to the jobless. Many Want Profane Parrot Bn Vnitcd Press ST. LOUIS, Nov. 12.—The profane parrot that the St. Louis zoo doesn’t want because of its language, has been sought by more than 500 persons. Offers have ranged from a pair of alligators to SSO cash. The bird will be sold to the highest bidder. Grain Industry Leader Dies Bn United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 12. C. W. Lonsdale, 59, nationally known leader in the gi’ain industry, who died after a heart attack at his home here Tuesday, will be buried Thursday after funeral services at St. Paul’s Episcopal church. Fruit Fly Quarantine to End WASHINGTON. Nov. 12.—Complete lifting of the Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine on Florida products, effective Nov. 15, was announced today by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. Escaped Convicts Recaptured CLEVELAND, Nov. 12.—Three cf six youthful convicts who sawed their way to liberty from the Mansfield reformatory Tuesday were captured by police today in Cleveland Heights.

POLA’S PRINCE USES FISTS TO AVENGE INSULT Husband of Movie Actress 'Satisfied’ After 'Duel’ on Board Ship. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Prince Serge Mdivani, who is in the midst of divorce proceedings with Palo Negri, arrived on the liner France today and admitted that he had waged combat with bare fists in the ship's gymnasium, because he bei’eved a lady had been insulted. F's opponent in the bloodless battle that was held at dawn, was Henry Robles, an actor, who, with two other thespians, makes up a vaudeville team known as “The Rolling Stones.” Passengers said the “duel” took place just before sunrise Tuesday, after a party Monday night, following considerable drinking on shipboard. Interceded in Quarrel Robles had words with another gentleman leaning against the bar. Prince Serge, who had promised to put Robles in the movies, grabbed the hand of the principal Rolling Stone and urged him to desist. “I didn’t want to desist,” said Robles. “I wanted to fight. The prince insisted on holding my hand. I asked him if he would fight me. He said yes.” A few passengers gathered in the gymnasium. Fists flew, but experts at the ringside said both gladiators had difficulty in landing effective punches. Good Friends Again After two jabs and a futile left hook. Prince Serge declared he had received satisfaction. Today the prince said the qnly reason he consented to fight the Rolling Stone was that Robles had used unsuitable language in front of a lady who had lingered in the barroom. “I’m not sure just what happened,” said Robles, “but anyway the prince and I are friends, aren't we prince?” “Yes,” said the prince, “fast friends.”

IGNORE GOODS, BUREAU WARNS Unordered Merchandise Again Floods City. If you’ve received unordered Christmas cards, neckties, pencils or other goods through the mails, you need pay no’ attention to the politely worded request that you remit a dollar or more, the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau reiterated today. The statement came as Indianapolis folk again were bombarded with unordered Christmas merchandise. “You do not have to buy, pay or send the goods back,” the bureau declared. ‘All you are required by law to do is to hold the goods, unused, until a properly accredited representative of the sender calls for them.” If any merchandise is used, the recipient can be held liable for payment, says the bureau. STEFFEN WILL SPEAK Director of Mendelssohn Choir to Appear at Church Dinner. Elmer Andrew Steffen, director of the Mendelssohn choir of Indianapolis and director of music at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral will discuss “The Meaning of Church. Music,” at the Fellowship dinner oi the Northwood Christian church Thursday night at 6:30. Mrs. E. W. Naylor will be chairman of the meeting and Mrs. Carolyn Ayres Turner, musical director for the church, will direct a musical program. Arrangements committee includes Miss Ruth B. Carter, chairman; W. B. Dennison, Ed Manlove, Mrs. J. O. Jaqua, Dr. T. F. Reavis, Wallace O. Lee and Dr. T. W. Grafton. Disbarment Case Advanced Bn Times Special WABASH, Ind., Nov. 12.—A demurrer by Charles A. Sala, North Minchester attorney, filed in Wabash circuit court here where a petition asks that he be disbarred, was overruled by Judge Switzer, who named a committee to prosecute Sala. He is alleged to have failed to turn over some money to a claimant in the course of settling an estate.

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BOSTON EDUCATOR TO VISIT CITY SCHOOLS Professor to Inspect Institutions; Speaks at Shortridge H. S. Indianapolis educational institutions will be visited this week by Professor James L. Try on, Boston.

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PROMISES TAX SURVEY REPORT Group to Present Findings Early in December. Recommendations being drafted by Governor Harry G. Leslie’s tax committee for solution of Indiana’s tax problems will be submitted to state senators and representatives before the 1931 general assembly convenes, probably soon after Dec. 1. This was the statement today of Senator J. Clyde Hoffman, Indianapolis, chairman of the committee, announcing another meeting for Friday in L. S. Ayres’ auditorium. ' Holdover senators and memberselect of the house and senate may be called to Indianapolis in December to receive the committee’s recommendations, or the report may be submitted to them by mail, Hoffman said. The Indianapolis Real Estate Board’s legislative committee has decided to defer action on the tax committee’s program until it is released formally. Senator Joe Rand Beckett, secretary of the committee, recently told the board four objectives of the committee are to abolish personal property tax. the levy against real estate for state government expenses, the county and township levies for road building and on bond payments. County to Make Payment nn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 12.—Marcia H. Barton, Madison county treasurer, has received a notice from Archie N. Bobbitt, state treasurer, asking an advancement of taxes due the state. The county treasurer will pay 60 per cent of the amount not later than Nov. 14. The state revenue fund and the board of agriculture fund are particularly in need of being reimbursed, the state treasurer’s call indicated.

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SPEED MOVE TO CANCEL LEASE ON WOODSTOCK Civic Clubs Committee Is Named to Help Regain Tract for City. Committee to urge breaking of a lease of the park board with the Woodstock Country Club so the club site might be used as a city par':, was named Tuesday night at. a meeting of the North Side Community Civic Clubs, in the Rami Memorial library. The city owns the ground on which the exclusive clubs is located at Maple road and Northwestern avenue. The park board that several years ago bought the area for $l5O 000, leased it to the club, which pays only interest on the bonds, amounting to $6,000 annually. G. G. Schmidt, head of the committee, stated an investigation of the lease will be made by the clubs. The lease was extended to 194 G a few years ago. Legal action to force the issue in court may be taken by the civic organizaitons following the conference with the park board. Other committee members are: Oscar F. Smith. George O. Lehman. L. A. Lawrence, Miss Lucy Campbell. H. H. Jones. F. V. Hawkins. Mrs. B. McDonald. H. O. Cherrv. Emerson Challle. A. Schlesinser. the Rev. Edward H. Kistler. R. B. Wright, Mrs. Pearl Randall and Mrs, Ruth Abel. A committee also was named to study the proposed reorganization or ■ the Indianapolis Sheet Railway Company by the Insull interests. This committee will reort Dec. 9. Members are Lawrence, Jones, Lehman, Roy Higgins and Mrs. McDonald. FRAUD CASE IN COURT Jury Selection Begun for Trial of Indicted Radio Dealer. As selection of a jury to try Clarence Boyd, 34, radio dealer at 139% East Thirty-second street, charged with conspiracy to commit forgery, got under way this morning, Frank Baker, criminal court judge-elect, was on the bench. Mrs. Frances Boyd, wife of the defendant, is serving two to fourteen years in Indiana women’s prison on a similar charge in connection with the same case. DR. FRANKLIN TO TALK National Leader of Episcopal Church Is Visitor in City. Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, vicepresident and treasurer of the national council of the Episcopal church, will address a women's meeting in Christ church at 2:30 Thursday afternoon and a meeting of laymen in Melodian hall on the J. K. Lilly estate. Seventy-first street and College avenue, at 6 Thursday night. Dr. Franklin will be the guest of the Christ church vestry at luncheon in the Columbia Club Thursday noon.