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You Can Clothe a Child

SHE has curls that the wind plays with. She has eyes that the stars can feel. But she has clothes that cold nips through. Her brother is freckle-faced. He ties his trousers on with rope. His shoes are knotted with broken-off laces. Brother and sister of man are they and also two of the children awaiting clothing in The Times Clothe a School Child 'for Christmas" campaign. * But they won't have to wait long. Somewhere there’s a Grownup Child who knows what ragged garb does to a heart and he or she will enlist in The Times "Clothe-a School Child" move. And there are others besides Curlylocks and Freckles. Take George the crippled one, with patches on his shirt, or the Twins. James and William, and —and— why just hundreds of others to be clothed. a a a UP to 9 a. m. today wardrobes had been pledged fifty children of school age in the city by donors in The Times campaign. Fourteen ushers and doormen of the Indiana theater staff notified the ‘‘Clothe-a-Child" editor that they would band together to give one boy a suit with pockets he can stick his hands in pridefully, as well as other clothing. They are: Don Misner, Jesse Gassaway, Leroy McKenzie, Beryl Ricketts, Robert Wade, Don Wright, H. McMullen, Robert Taylor, R. Richy, O. Stoup, Giltner. Craigle, Woodbury and King La Ferney. The “Clothe-a-School-Child" plan attempts but one thing and that is to give every child in the city a decent chance to go to school in clean, warm, comfortable clothing. an a THE Community Fund and its relief agencies cannot hope to concentrate their entire fund on Christmas alone, for they operate the entire twelve months. So The Times seeks to aid. with the help of Indianapolis citizens in this time of stress. All you need to join the “Clothe-a-School-Child" is to pledge that you'll supplant his or her ragged clothing with a warm, clean outfit. So call The Times Clothe a Child Editor and he’ll give you a boy or a girl to dress up for Christmas, for school after Christmas, and for just as many months of the year as wool and other clothes will last. Those pledging themselves to dress children are: Mrs. Thomas R. Kinsella. 4004 Michigan street. Stereotfoers and Eneravers of The Times. Mrs. Washington Phone Esehancre. • Five Girls of .128 Chamber of Commerce Bide, (a bop and a girl), lust wants to be a friend. Miss Elsie Coulter, 1131 Tark avenue (two eirls). Mrs. Ruth Hinsbaw. 2719 Massachusetts avenue. Eneine House No. 1. Indiana avenue and Michigan street. Mercator Club. Amicttla Club. Anonymous, Mr. and Mrs Circulation and mailing departm-nts, The Tiroes. Editorial department. The Times. Composing room. The Times (two bovs>. Pressmen of The Times. Business office of The Times. Advertising department of The Times. Mrs. Ralph G. Logan. 5709 Broadway 1 crracc. Just two kindly women. Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Llnaburry. 101 South Penny street. Anna M. Caldwell. 807 North Oakland avenue. Miss tloise Evans. 144 North Sheffield avenue. Capitol Electric Company (eleven children). A friend. Employes of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad (a boy and a girl). Officers and emplojcs of the Empire l.ifc and Accident t ompany. 215 East New York street (ten children). Employes of Secretary of State's office. Georcc Phillip Maier’s department, eighth floor. I. 8. Ayres Cos. Service Staff of the Indiana theater. Alpha Alpha Beta chapter of Beta Phi Sigma fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. North Capitol avenue. Mrs. Madge Mullen. 621 East Seventeenth street. Mr. and Mrs. C. 3. reck, 3730 East New Vrk street. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Sirer, 4217 College avenue. Mrs. Anna 1. Schrader and family. 1 440 ttAmdlann' avenue. Just four girls.

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JUDGE ORDERS COP BE FREED i IN RUM TRIAL Baltzell Overrules Motions for Acquittal of Six Other Officers. FINDS TYNER NOT GUILTY Government ‘Stepped Close to Entrapment’ in Booze Case, Is Belief. Directing the jury to return an acquittal verdict freeing patrolman Otis Tyner, Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today at the same time overruled defense motions for directed verdict for the six other policej men on trial, charged with con- | I spiracy to violate the national pro- | I hibition law. Before directing the verdict free- ! ing Tyner, Baltzell declared he be- j lieved the government ‘‘had stepped j close to entrapment” to gather : evidence against the officers when two dry agents opened a decoy speakeasy at 1213 East Twenty- j second street. “I believe the government might [ have stepped into a place actually j in operation to obtain the evidence j in this case," Baltzell declared. “The ! evidence reveals the government! was close to entrapment in this case.” No Evidence Against Tyner “There is no evidence against j Tyner in the conspiracy case. He may have known about it, but I do not believe the evidence upholds the ! j government's charge." Dry Agents Herman P. Kroencke | j and Hugh McGrath, who had re- j j lated how they opened the Twenty- j ; second street speakeasy, testified j j Thursday that Tyner and patrolj man Claude Ridenbaugh had climbed in the agents’ car one night j ; with the threat, “We're going to bump you off if we fincji you’re fed- : j eral agents." Baltzell said his action relative to ' Tyner did not have any bearing on i i whether he believed “the others are ! guilty or not guilty.” Call Character Witnesses Defense attorneys opened their . j battle against the government by ! calling character witnesses in behalf i of the accused policemen. Taking the stand in their own j defense, patrolman Ridenbaugh and i I Martin O’Brien denied the accept- | ance of drinks or money. Riden- j j baugh also, denied any part in the 1 | "death ride” on which dry agents j I had testified they were taken by j ; foidenbaugh and Tyner. Prior to the close of the federal case, dry agents tightened their : j chain of evidence against the of- | deers. A Negro enforcement officer ; and two other Negroes corroborated previous testimony of alleged drinking and money exchange by the policemen. Smith D. Wilson, Chicago, was the Negro dry sleuth who took the stand at the opening of court today to reaffirm the testimony of Kroencke and McGrath, federal j agents, that city police frequently accepted drinks and money in the j decoy speakeasy Kroencke and Me- ! Grath opened at 1213 East Twenty- I second street. Tell of Officers' Drinking Wilson testified he saw Sergeant David J. Curran and patrolmen Ralph Lambert and Martin O'Brien i drink liquor in the speakeasy and that he witnessed patrolmen Thomas Gray and Ridenbaugh accept money there. Wilson also corroborated testimony of Kroencke and McGrath | that they bought whisky and alco- | hoi at 812 North Superior street, i 450 West Sixteenth street and 314 ! North Douglass street. Georgia Lee Miles. Negro, who j said he hsd been employed by Hor- | ace Lyle. Negro undercover man, who, in turn, had been loaned to the agents by Attorney-General I James M. Ogden, testified he saw , patrolmen Ridenbaugh and O'Brien | accept drinks. Alonzo Jones, another Negro, also testified he saw Ridenbaugh drink in the Twenty-second street speak- | easy. Sergeant John O'Neill, police record clerk, was the fourth witness of the morning, detailing assignments of the implicated officers. Death Threat Charged Thursday, Kroencke and McGrath. sent here by Colonel J. F. J. Hebert. Chicago federal prohibi- : tioner administrator, to probe alleged police corruption, asserted paj trolmen Ridenbaugh and Otis Tyner | climbed in their car one night with | the threat, “We re going to bump ; you off if we find you're federal agents." Kroencke and McGrath, unshaken j by cross-examination of Fred Bon- ; i field and Wilbur Royse. defense at- j torneys, spent three hours on the stand Thursday detailing to a federal jury alleged gifts of whisky'and money to policemen in return for protection. Policemen on trial include Sergeant Joseph E. Everson, patrolmen Ridenbaugh, Tyner, Gray, Lambert, David J. Curran and O'Brien. Other defendants are Spinks, who has pleaded guilty, Cecil (Pete) McDaniels, bootlegger, and Price. A. J. Beasley, James Taylor and Howard, bootlegger?, are fugitives. 10,000 KILLED IN FIRES United States’ Blazes Tate Huge Toll, 1929 Report Reveals. By Ur. ited Press CHICAGO. Dec. s.—An American home burns every four minutes and i nearly 10.000 persons lost their lives in fires during the last year, the American Research Foundation disclosed today in a report.

Smilin’ Ed Is Sued by Landlord

“QMILIN’ ” ED M CONNELL, ij jovial radio singer, whose Georgia “yarns” have been heard in all corners of the nation, was sued today in a Marion county court by his Indianapolis landlord. In a suit filed in superior court two, Mrs. Alice B. Deery, Indianapolis, charges McConnell with “careless, negligent,, and wanton care" of a house leased to him recently at 5821 Central avenue. Mrs. Deery asks a judgment of $963 for the alleged damages to the house. McConnell and his jvife leased the Central avenue residence, Oct. 20, for one m6nth, according to the complaint. McConnell, during his occupancy, is alleged in the suit to have: “Broken chairs, a davenport and a table. “Spilled ink on the rugs. “Set fire to the backyard grtiss, resulting in destruction of a fence. “Poured beverages on the floors and walls. “And removed a radio, allegedly property of Mrs. Deery. “The damage amounted to $963, Mrs. Deery alleges." The suit was filed by the law firm of Rinier, Smith & Wickliff.

DROUGHT RELIEF BILLJSRUSHED $60,000,000 Appropriation Is Favored by Committee. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The senate agriculture committee tentatively agreed today to report favorably a bill appropriating $60,000,000 for drought relief and to attempt to get it through the senate Monday. Chairman Charles L. McNary at today’s hearing repudiated President Hoover’s relief program and announced he would vote for the $60,COO.OOO appronriaffyn instead of the $25,000,000 bill sponsored by the administration. Democratic members of the committee intimated they thought $60,000,000 was not sufficient, but it did not appear likely the committee would go much beyond that sum. McNary was the one who originally introduced the $25,000,000 bill in the senate. Ke said he had done so at the request of the agriculture department and not on his own initiative. The fight in the committee for the larger sum was led by Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark,), who essertedthe administration bill would “humiliate and degrade” many farmers by forcing them to accept Red Cross charity. “Conditions in Virginia are worse than after the Civil war,” Senator Swanson <Dem.) of that state, told the committee. MISTLETOE SHORTAGE PERILS YULE KISSES Drought Cuts Supply, but Florists Lend Hope for Pastime. By United Press DALLAS. Tex.. Dec. s—Discovery was made here today that last summer’s severe drought has caused a shortage of phorandendron flavescens. The discovery came too late, however to ask the farm board or congress for aid. Florists say the dearth of this Christmas favorite, which is commonly called mistletoe, will not be acute enough to cause suffering •among kissable young women. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 44 10 a. m 45 7 a. m 43 11 a. m 46 Ba. m 44 12 (noon).. 45 9 a. m 44 1 p. m 45

POISON LIQUOR SHAME OF CENTURY, HOUSE TOLD

B;i United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—Fight of the house wet bloc to prevent use of poison denaturants in industrial alcohol was opened today by Representative William J. sirovich 'Dem.. N. Y.), a physician, who declared the use of these poisons required by the government is “a shame in this twentieth century of civlUzatiau. “We are going to battle for a principle that has aroused the nation—and that is the principle of poison alcohol that is killing thousands of citizens,” Sirovich shouted to the assembled house. A vote was expected later in the

FIRING SQUAD FOR TRAITORS, DEMAND IN SOVIET WAR PLOT TRIAL

BY EUGENE LYONS Lilted Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW. Dec. s.—An impassioned peroration rarely matched even in the annals of revolutionary tribunals brought the trial of eight counter-revolu-tionaries to a tumultuous climax today in the crowded courtroom where two factory workers sat on the judge’s bench. ~ Nicholas Krilenko. the short, aggressive state's prosecutor, released an uncontrollable demonstration in the courtroom and outside where radio-carried his words when he concluded his speech with an emotional outburst, shouting:

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POLICE GUARD WILL PREVENT | PARK MEETING Officials Act to Block Enterprise League’s Pro- > test Session. FEE CAUSE OF ROW West Side Group Opens Fight on Community House Charge. Police will guard the Rhodius | park community house tonight at ! the request of city park officials to | prevent members of the Enterprise | Civic League from holding a meet- ! ing there unless the league obtains ; a permit. Officials of the league announced i Thursday that they intended to | hold a protest session against fees i the park board is charging for use ! of the community structures. They said as the first step, no ! permit would be obtained and they ; would not pay the fee. David B. Kilgore, recreation di- | rector, said the police will be there j “to protect the city’s property.” League members contend the j community house should be free for i use of citizens and civic organiza- ! tions. As this battle waged, the board | was considering a schedule of as- | sessments lor dances in community | houses. At Municipal Gardens the pro- | posed charge is $25 when no admis- | sion is charged to the dance and | SSO when admission is paid . At Brookside, Rhodius, Garfield, | Pleasant Run and Christian parks it is proposed to charge sls without | admission and $25 when tickets are I sold. The city council will be asked to | take steps toward revision of the j present park laws, by women who j have become irate over existence of ! a statute that prevents card playing in parks and community houses. 308 SPRAOUNO, ATHLETE, DEAB • Well-Known Frankfort Cage Star Is Killed. £.y Timps Special . FRANKFORT, Ind.. Dec. s.—Robert Spradling, 25, former star basketball player of Frankfort high school and the University of lowa, was killed Thursday night in an automobile accident near lowa City, la., according to a message received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Spradling, here today. Spradling was a member of Frankfort’s “Fighting Five" which captured the Hoosier state high I school championship in 1925. He j was a unanimous choice for all-state I forward honors in that year. He enrolled at lowa and was men- | tioned on all-Big Ten honor teams. ! He was one of the Hawkeye ath- | letes involved in the slush fund quiz | which resulted in the ousting of lowa from the conference. ' Carroll Spradling, brother of the dead youth, is a former basketball captain at Purdue. BANDITS TO BE LASHED Canadian Judge Adds Whippings to Prison Terms for Robbers. By United Press WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 5. Whippings were added to the penitentiary sentences imposed on six convicted robbers today. Magistrate R. B. Graham sen- ! tenced the men to terms ranging i from three to seven years, ordering ! ten or twenty lashes for each offender.

day on ’ the amendment of Representative J. C. Linthicum (Dem., ; Md.), leader of the wet bloc, which would prohibit the application of any appropriations in the pending \ treasury-postoffice department bill ' for poison deriaturi nts. Sirovich, representative of the | Greenwich Village district in New I York, is a veteran in the fight ! against poison denaturants. Sirovich cited figures showing | that producriafn of industrial alco- | hoi increases from 1,500,000 gallons | in 1907 to gallons today. Between tvSLpy.Jfive and forty ! million gallons Mre, being diverted j to the bootleg tiade, he said.

“I demand t&ey be shot—all of them!” The electric, silence which had held 2,000 in the court and millions reached _by the radio was broken by a great shout as the spectators climbed upon their chairs and ertep; “Death to tie Traitors" The judge's boll was sounded repeatedly, but it failed to res'ore order in the courtroom, where the eight men accused of plotting, especially with France, for an interventionist war against,Russia, had sat almost unmoved until the final outburst of hostility. Under surge of the spectators’ angry shouts they seemed to feel

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JUDGE'S RULING BANS TAX GUT Leathers Overrules Action of State Board. State tax beard’s striking of 1 cent from the city's 1931 general fund levy was overruled today by Superior Judge James M. Leathers. Leathers issued a perpetual injunction restraining the Yax board from putting the reduction into effect. and directed Marion county officials to enforce the rate as originally fixed by the city council. The general fund levy under the ruling will be 64*2 cents. The tax board attempted to lower it to 63 Vs cents. The Injunction suit, filed by the c'ty, named as defendants County Auditor Harry Dunn and Clyde E.' Robinson, county treasurer. The. state''board made the reductions on the contention that the city’s share of the state gas tax was net included in the 1931 budget. Under Leather’s ruling the gas tax revenue will not be budgeted. SUSPECT ARRESTED IN DANVILLE ARSON CASE Tenant Who Refused io Move Held in Burning of House. By Times Special DANVILLE. Ind., Dec. 6.—Henry Clarkson is a prisoner in the Hendricks county jail awaiting hearing on an arson charge. He was arrested today by George E. Coogan, state fire marshal investigator and local authorities, following the burning of a two-story frame house at Mooresville Monday, The burned building was bought recently by Chester Hammer, father of nine children, who desired to use it as a residence because it was near a school. Clarkson had been a tenant ahd refused to move to make way for the new owner. AGED WOMAN WRITES OBITUARY, THEN DIES Prepares Messages for Mailing to Newspapers on Deathbed. By United Press WELLSBURG. W. Va., Dec. 5. West Virginia newspapers today were printing the obituary of Mrs. Viola McDonald Richards. 64, as it was written by the principal herself on her death bed. A short time before she died Thursday, Mrs. Richards composed her death notice and obituary and addressed each of the messages to a number of newspapers with the request that they be mailed immediately upon her death. WORSE AND MORE OF IT Wife Wouldn’t Mend Socks; Slain Hubby Makes Them in Prison. By United Press FT. MADISON, la.. Dec. 5. Clayton Van Doran of Council Bluffs, convicted of murdering his wife because she would not mend his socks, was assigned today to work in the hosiery factory at the penitentiary, making women’s stockings.

for the first time the fury directed at them and shrank as if under a physical blow. a a a THE aged Alexander Fedotov, one of the most tragic of the defendants, was most moved by the demonstration. Leonid Ramzin, brilliant young j scientist, .who was accused by • Krilenko of being the "leader of wreckers,” ceased his nonchalant puffing on a cigaret. The engineer. Xenophon Sitnin, : and other codefendants, Larichev, Kalinokov, Kupriandv and Och- : kin. were visibly affected by the | outburst and the fury of the 1 prosecutor's speech.

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Top Photo—Clarence Edward Whitaker, 26, whose body was found in an alley on the south side early today. Police and the coroner believe he was murdered. Lower Photo—Harold Whitaker, twin brother of the victim, viewing the spot where his brother’s body was found' today. MILLIONAIRE STINGY. DIVORCE SUIT SAYS Failed to Buy Wife Any Clothing . for 18 Years. She Charges. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. s.—Patrick O’Keefe, a millionaire, was charged today with having failed to purchase his wife any clothing in the past eighteen years, in the suit for separation which she filed in supreme court. Mrs. O’Keefe said her husband was wbrth $1,500,000 and had an income of $150,000 a year from realty, but that he forced her to pay doctor bills and personal expenses from an allowance of S3O a week.

9,000,000 JOBLESS IN U. S., SAYS RED LEADER

; By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—William iZ. Foster, Communist leader, today denounced the investigation of Communist activities being made by a special committee of the house, and asserted the inquiry was aimed at “outlawing the Communist party and all its members." Foster was a witness at the committee’s final hearing. He refused to give the investigators the names of other Communist leaders. “Such evidence,” Foster said, “would ba elicited only to be used against them later in the police courts.” Foster, a mild-mannered man of 49, declined to take the oath when

“At this moment when millions of our workers are making untold sacrifices for the right to build the first socialist state, when millions of proletarians in other countries watch our great work—at such a time there can be no question of the need to crush our enemies,” shouted Krilenko. He read long passages from the writing of Nikolai Lenin to justify extreme measures against persons conniving with foreign forces to overthrow the proletarian dictatorship, and he emphasized charges that the French general staff, Raymond Poincare and others were involved in the antiSoviet plot.

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CITY MAN IS FOUND SLAIN IN ALLEY; CLOTHING SHOWS SIGNS OF DEATH STRUGGLE Heart Pierced by Bullet; Body Comes to View of Motorist When ITe Backs Car From Garage; Died Almost Instantly. ROBBERY IS BELIEVED MOTIVE Police Believe Killing Took Place at Another Spot and That Murderer Carried Victim to South Side Site. Robbery was the sole motive relatives of Clarence Edward Whitaker, 26, of 421 North Wallace street, could ascribe for his murder early today, which confronted police with a new slaying mystery. Relatives assumed this hypothesis from statement of his twin brother, Harold, that Clarence was not utterly penniless when he visited the brother’s apartment at 2107 North Pennsylvania street, Wednesday night. When the body was found in an alley behind 1134 Olive street the pockets contained nothing except a scrap of paper, a box of matches and a small Bible. Clothing evidenced a struggle before he died, and from powder burns in the left palm police deduced the victim fought to wrench away a revolver just before it was pressed close to his chest and fired.

At an autopsy this morning Coroner C. H. Keever and Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier said the bullet, apparently a .38 caliber steeljacket pistol.slug, penetrated the left lung and the heart before lodging two inches from the spine. Death ensued within four minutes from the shot, Dr. Bakemeier declared. While withholding a formal verdict, he further said the murder obviously was committed elsewhere and the body carried to the spot where it was found, face upward, arms outflung. Whitaker was killed between 1 and 2 a. m., Dr. Bakemeier said. The murdered man last was seen by his brother at the latter’s home about 10 p. m. when Harold left with his wife as she started to work at a telephone exchange a few blocks away. Harold said he borrowed his brother’s overcoat before they left. He stopped at a restaurant, and, when he returned, found Clarence and his own overcoat gone. Body Wrapped in Coat % The body was wrapped in Harold’s coat when it was found this morning by Earl Ponsler, 1143.01ive street, as he backed his car from his garage to go to work. Mrs. Ponsler held the garage door open. The automobile backed into the alley and Ponsler turned to drive away when his headlights fell on the figure of a man sprawled in the thoroughfare. He called police, and Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier was summoned. In the pockets of the murdered man was only one clew to his identity, a slip of paper bearing Harold’s name and address, and bearing the Wallace street address, where Clarence roomed with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Baron. Clarence and Baron were partner’s in a confectionery, business, manufacturing potato chips. Seeking identity of the murder victim, a Times reporter took Harold to Royster & Askins undertaknig establishment, where police sent the body. Identified by Brotliet “That’s my brother,” Harold whispered when the body was uncovered. He related what he knew of his brother’s activities Wednesday night, and then went with the reporter

he was called to testify, and said, “I affirm.” “Because you don’t believe in a supreme being?" asked Representative Hamilton FiSh (Rep., N. Y.), chairman ot the committee. “Yes,” Foster replied. Foster said. there are between 10,000 and 12,000 dues-paying members of the Communist party in the United States, of which about 10 per cent are Negroes. He said unemployment insurance was the chief approach to a solution of the present problem, and that millions of workers are for it. Foster read a long prepared statement. in which he said there were 9.000,000 unemployed in the United State', today.

JZ RILENKO read from the works of Lenin as a court in any other country might read from the highest law, or cits opinions of the supreme court. Lenin himself drafted the law under which the accused are doomed, Krilenko said. While he demanded the death sentence for all of them, he also made striking differentiations in the crimes of each man, and it was believed that in this shading of the charges against each one rested the hope of eseveral to escape the death sentence.

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to the Baron home. They did not tell Mrs. Baron of the tragedy. “Have you seen Clarence?” Harold asked. “Why, no. I thought he stayed with you all night,” she said. “No. He left.” “Go to the garage and see that everything's all right,” she pleaded. “I’ve been worried. Somebody came here very early this morning and knocked at the door, but I didn’t answer. Someone was prowling around here last night. Oh, why did you let him leave?” Family Had Been Worried “We've all been worried, afraid he might commit suicide,” Harold explained later. Clarence was injured in an auto accident early this fall, and on Oct. 10 was fined $lO and costs in criminal court, on an appeal from a municipal court conviction on a speeding charge growing out of the crash. It had distressed him mentally, and his injury also worried him, the brother said. Relatives were insistent that he had no enemies, and that he did not drink. Lieutenant Walter Claffey and his emergency squad, and a sub-station police team were first on the scene and began investigation. Detectives Roy Peats and Morris Corbin, with Bert Perott, Bertillon expert, also took up the investigation this morning. Fail to Find Gun They went to the undertaking parlors in search of clews on the body. When the body was found, a grayfelt hat was jammed tight over the head. Bloody fingerprints were found, although badly sumged, police say, on the band inside, and there was a blood stain on the rim, indicating the hat had been pulled over the head after the shooting. There were powder burns in the left palm, and on the chest. The bullet had not penetrated his vest, and the shirtcollar was torn open, giving evidence, according to police, of a fight before the shot was fired. Although they searched the vicinity where the body was found, police found no gun. Small Bible in Pocket They believed the shooting occurred elsewhere, and the body was taken to the spot where Ponsler and Ills wife found it. The only objects in his pockets, besides the slip of paper bearing the two addresses, were a small Bible and a box of matches. Clarence Whitaker was born in Paragon, Ind., and lived there until about five years ago. when he came to Indianapolis. Ir\ addition to Harold and Mrs. Baron, he is survived by his father. John Whitaker Jr., in Paragon; a widow, from whom he was divorced three years ago; a daughter, Marion, 3; four brothers, Fred Whitaker, at Beech Grove; Dan and Jennings. at Paragon, and Russell Whitaker of Zanesville, 0., and a sister, Miss Clona Whitaker of Washington, D. C. Funeral and burial will be held Sunday afternoon at Paragon. COLDER WEATHER IS DUE FOLLOWING RAIN Drop of 10 Degrees in Temperature Is Forecast, Rains today and tonight probably will be followed by a 10-degree drop in temperature, with lowest tonight near 35 degrees, the United States weather bureau here forecast today. Rising gradually all week, temperatures this morning were more than 10 degrees above normal, registering 44 at 6 a m. IMMIGRATION IS LESS Aiien Entry Cut Sharply by Hoover Order to L T . S. Consul*. By L'nited Press WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—President Hoover's recent order to American consuls not to issue immigration vises to persons likely to become public charges reduced the number of aliens coming to thi* country in October by 87 per cent of the authorized quota, according to figures made by the state department today. >