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Poor Papa! Estelle Taylor Puts Up Bail for Stepfather on Booze Charge.

Norristown, Pa., Dec. 9. Estelle Taylor, film star and wife of Jack Dempsey, pasted bail of sl,000 for her stepfather, Harry J. Boylan of Wilmington, Del, when he was charged with illegally possessing and transporting a quart of liquor Monday. Boylan was arrested after an automobile crash.

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ana 1,000 Miles Hour Predicted Hu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Rocketpropelled airplanes of a minimum speed of 1,000 miles an hour, capable of crossing the Atlantic at a height of thirty miles in three hours, will be in service twenty years from now, Dr. Fritz von Opel predicts. The son of Germany’s leading motor car manufacturer said engineers had only to perfect the safety of the rocket planes by finding the right kind of rocket. it n n Rapid-Fire Divorces Bu United Perns RENO, Nev. Dec. 9.—A divorce every five or ten minutes was the pace set in Reno courts Monday. Mildred Zukor Locw, daughter of Adolph Zukor, moving picture producer, charging cruelty, won a decree from Arthur M. Loew, son of the late theater magnate, Marcus Loew. BUB Poor—but Honest Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Louis Cattalli, 18-ycar-old grocery messenger, borrowed a dime to get home after finding ?. diamondstudded watch worth $2,000 and giving it to the police. It B B Ban Holiday Divorces By Unit' and Press DENVER. Colo., Dec. 9.—Because Christmas is “the day of the child and the home,” no divorce cases will be tried or divorce decrees issued in Denver during the week of Dec, 24 to Jan. 2, it has been announced by judges of the district and county courts. B ' U B They’ll Probably Learn By United Press New York, Dec. 9—Not more than 23 per cent of freshmen at Barnard college, a women’s institution, admit they smoke, college authorities revealed following the annual physical examinations, B B B Each Got His Man Bu United Press Chicago, Dec. 9.— a Chicago policeman and one from Oak Park, a suburb, both went hunting for the same man at the same time, met in the hallway of his home, mistook each other for the man they sought and a gun battle ensued. Before the hunted man's wife, who asked his arrest on a bad check charge could interfere, Policeman Joseph Rudnick, Chicago, had shot Sergeant Frank Lawrence, Oak Park, in both legs, and Lawrence had shot Rudnick in the right arm. B B B London Has Record Fog By United Press LONDON, Dec. 9. London emerged from the thickest fog in years shortly after noon today, when the impenetrable clouds lifted over most of the city. B B B Wouldn’t Be Cheated By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 9.—lsador Sherenson was so nervous when he made change for Mrs.. Elizabeth McGraw Monday night* under the muzzle of a holdup man’s pistol ; that he gave her an extra half dol- j lar. The robber, however. wasn’t ! bothered by stage fright. He pointed out the error. Then he took tire half dollar in addition to $125 that was in the cash register and escaped. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 41 j 7a. m 32 11 a. m 45 j Ra. m 33 12 (noon).. 48 9 a. m 37 1 p. m.,... 52

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FIGHT SUICIDE HINT IN DEATH OF WHITAKER Coroner Still of Opinion Man Found in Alley Was Murdered. REPORTER IS ON STAND Refutes Brother's Insinuation That He Secreted Missing Gun. Whether Clarence Whitaker, 26, whose body was found in a south side alley early Friday, was murdered or committed suicide, was debated in Coroner C. H. Keever’s offices today. The coroner summoned Heze Clark, Times police reporter, one of the first persons on the scene, and recalled the dead man's twin brother Harold, 2107 North Pennsylvania street, for questioning. The brother reversed his previous opinion that Clarence was murdered, and his body deposited in the alley, and stated he thought he committed suicide. Clarence had been subject to melancholy and mental unrest since an auto acci- j dent last fall, and relatives feared he might take his life. - Reporter Blocks Theory However, testimony of Clark, j much of which was supported by Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier, who performed the autopsy on the body, blocked attempts to convince the coroner that Whitaker killed himself. Argument against suicide chiefly was that while Dr. Bakemeier and Deputy Coroner L, A. Lewis agreed the bullet of a large caliber revolver piercing Whitaker's heart w'ould have rendered him unconscious instantly and caused death in at most four minutes, the gun could not be found in the vicinity of the body. A revolver is missing from another brother in Beech Grove. It was taken, wdth two cartridges, in a hunting coat, and was said to have been in Harold’s apartment. It has disappeared. Denies He Saw Weapon “Where do you think the gun may be?” Coroner Keevcr asked Whitaker. “Probably some newspaper man picked it up and hid it to make a good murder story,” Whitaker insinuated. looking at Clark. The latter denied he ever had seen a w-eapon near the spot where the body was discovered, and pointed out that three policemen w r ere on hand before he arrived with an emergency squad of four other police under a lieutenant. Possibility of his secreting the gun, he added, would have been slight. Clark was the only newspaper man on the scene when police first went to the alley, and ! an unsuccessful search for a i weapon was made then. Trips Described by Clark Trying to break down the theory that Whitaker struggled with some one before he died, the coroner asked Whitaker if he recognized clothing worn by the dead man. The brother said Clarence wore nis shirt, tie and overcoat. Tile shirt, he said, was torn at the collar. The shirt on Clarence was torn on the right side, but not at the collar. Finding Harold at his apartment, Clark took him in his auto to a sister’s home, and then to the home of the brother in Beech Grove. He described these trips to the coroner. Dr. Bakemeier attacked the suicide theory when he described his efforts to take the dead man’s hat from his head. “Confident” Man Was Slain “I had to use both hands,” he declared. "It was jammed down well over his forehead. On the inner band there was a bloody thumbprint. and there was a drop of blood on the rim. I r,m confident Whitaker was murdered.” Detectives Roy Peats and Morris Corbin conducting the police investigation, will continue their search, and Coroner Keever asked Bert Perott, Bertillon expert at police headquarters, to try again to obtain a legible fingerprint from the hat band. When the hat was jammed over the hair the print was smudged badly. Miss Clona Whitaker, sister of the dead man. arrived here today from Washington, and attended the inquest this morning. She asked an early verdict, but the coroner told her he would return none until nis investigations were complete. She holds a SI,OOO life insurance policy on her brother.

APPROVE SALARY BONUS Bank of New York Directors Vote 10 Per Cent “Cut” to Employes. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 9.—Directors of the Bank of New York and Trust Company today voted a salary bonus of 10 pier cent to all employes Last week the Harriman National Bank and Trust Company directors voted a similar piayment to employes. FOG DEATHS MYSTERY Post-Mortems Fail to Disclose Evidence in Belgian Tragedies. By United Press BRUSSELS. Belgium, Dec. 9 - Post-morteins performed on victims by the mysterious fog in the Meuse valley failed to disclose sufficient evidence to piemiit determinaof the cause of the death*.

Father of 9 Gets Job; Killed on Way Home By United Press GARY, Ind., Dec. 9.—Nine Gary children and their mother, happy Monday with thoughts of a cheerful Christmas because the father and hifsband had found employment, today are heartbroken and destitute. John Poplarai, head of ttye family, was killed Monday night as he was returning from his first day’s work in nine weeks at the Standard oil refineries at Whiting. He was riding a bicycle from the plant to his home when he was struck from behind by a hit-and-run driver’s automobile. Poplarai suffered a broken neck and crushed skull. His bicycle was found twenty feet from his body, a mass of twisted metal.

BODY OF GANG VICTIM FOUND Dying Man Dumped on Road From Car Near Brazil. By United Press BRAZIL. Ind., Dec. 9.—A man, well-dressed and apparently about 35 years old, was found dying on State Road 59, just south of the Brazil city limits. Monday night. One bullet hole pierced the right temple of the man. believed a victim of gangster bullets, and a small caliber revolver was found nearby. The body was found lying near the edge of the road by Thomas Talbot, en route to his home at Prairie City. Residents of the vicinity believed the body had been dumped from an automobile seen speeding south on the road shortly before Talbot made the discovery. Notes and papers found in the pockets of the dead man indicated he was from Danvilc, 111., Sheriff Thomas Tiffee said. Two bullets had been fired from the revolver, Tiffee said, and he expressed a belief the man had been a liquor runner or gangster. He said some of the notes in the man’s possession were written on stationery of an Indianapolis hotel,

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Names of donors on Page 3. • THERE’S a vale in this city running in jagged lines and circles, where the houses tumble almost upon one another. The window-panes are stuffed with rags. Night sees the dull glow of smoky lamps peer through the panes. Day sees noses flattened against those panes, pressing, ever pressing, against them to find out how cold it is outside. The vale is the city’s unemployed. The noses are their children, school children, huddling near stoves and then pressing against the panes to see if it’s too cold for them to go to school today. And the “noses” are also boys and girls waiting on the “Clothe

SHORTAGEJS BARED Teller's , Accounts Reveal $?3,400 Missing. By United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Dec. 9.—A shortage of $73,400 in the accounts J of Louis G. Otto, teller at the | Citizens National bank, Evansville, was revealed today in a statement made by President W. W. Gray. Otto had been teller of the bank for eighteen years, it was said, and examination of his accounts while he was on a vacation recently disclosed the shortage. President Gray said the shortage was covered by a bond. PARLIAMENT STUDIES • BURIED ALIVE FEAR Frenchman Tells Deputies 1,000 Yearly Go to Graves Before Death. By l nited Press PARIS. Dec. 9. The French chamber of deputies is giving serious consideration to a project for making scientific determination of dzath obligatory before burial. They have been worried by reports of 1,000 persons buried alive every year in England, and a German expert who contends one person out of every 500 buried really is alive.** Some deputies favor a “coup de grace.” such as the injection of a few drops of deadly poison which will not hurt a dead person, but would bring death to one who was really only “apparently dead.” M. Arsene Fie, who introduced the project in the chamber, argues thousands of Frenchmen grow gray prematurely from worrying over the possibility of being buried alive. ! FIRE LOSS IS REDUCED Monthly Report of Fire Chief Shows Slash of $21,855. Fire loss in the city during November this year was reduced $21.855 from that of November. 1929. monthly report of Fire Chief Harry Voshell to the safety board, revealed today. Last month there were 338 blazes and thirty-eight false alarms. Loss was $51,145. Former Mayor Dies By tnited Press LEBANON. Ind.. Dec. 9.—John B. i Shelby, 60, died suddenly of apoplexy in the business district here today. He was mayor of Lebanon from 1912 to 1916 and had served 'as Boone county prosecutor. He ! was a member of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce and of the Governor’s staff during the administration O^.Thomas R. Marshall.

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HOPE LOW FOR ARMS SLASH Disappointment Voiced by Gibson at Geneva. By United Press GENEVA, Dec. 9.—The work of the preparatory disarmament conference which now is concluding its sessions holds no hope of bringing about an immediate arms reduction, Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, the Ami „an delegate, said in an address before the conference today. Gibson said, however, that “at least we can foresee a stabilization of armaments, the setting up of a machinery to receive and disseminate information on armaments to educate public opinion and to prepare systematically for the work of future conferences as successive milestones in the continuing process of disarmament.” “If these things can be achieved by the coming conference,” Gibson continued, “and from present indications I think we are justified in assuming that they can be achieved, we shall have a situation obviously better than we hav'e at present.”

a School Child for Christmas” list of The Times. B B B THEY wait at those windowpanes not only for a change of the weather, but for a change in a city’s heart. They don’t understand why their daddy isn’t working. They need clothing and all they hear is, “Sonny! you can’t have stockings, underwear. Daddy’s out of a job.” Go with us for one jaunt into the vale: “Shack,” names the house, with its scrawny weather-boarding. A man, a woman, and a 10-year-old boy toast their toes on a “monkey-stove.” The man coughs. The woman sniffles. The boy shivers. “H-aint had no job. Me and the wife can get along, for the Family Welfare’s helping us, but the young’un h aint got no coat to go to school in. You can see he's all out. Them pants was lent him by a cousin, but he’s bad off as we are and wants them back,” explains the man. B B B r T"'HAT'S just a little side-trip into the vale. Humor is there and it's twin, tragedy. But, topping all, the need for food as supplied by Community Fund relief agencies and the township trustees, is the * need for warm clothing for children, so' they can go to school and learn to be citizens and avert times like these for posterity’s sake. If you want to join the legion oi donors in the “Clothe A School Child” campaign who’re going down into the vale of unemployment. just write or phone The Times. We’ll give you the name of a boy or a girl to be clothed. You outfit them. “He” or “she” will be your own boy or girl as long as worsted pants fir dresses last and the memory of your gift is a part of the brain. SOLUTION OF MISSING TEACHER CASE NEAR Sheriff Hopes to Clear Up Mystery Today: Suspect Is Quizzed. By United Press FT. MORGAN. Colo., Dec. 9. Speedy solution to the strange disappearance of Enid Marriott, 32, Wiggins (Colo.) grade school teacher, was expected today by Sheriff Rufus Johnston of Morgan county. The sheriff said he hoped to solve the mystery after questioning Melvin G. McClanahan, 48, ranchman, who was arrested on a charge of abducting Miss Marriott in Wiggins, at Scotts Bluff, Neb., Saturday night. OIL CHARGES SHELVED House Committee Decides Not to Probe Kelly Accusations. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The house public lands committee today decid'd not to investigate the charges of Ralph S. Kelly, former interior department employe, of alleged wholesale frauds in the disposal of oil shale land in Colorado by the interior department. Ancient Beer Jar Found By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Discovery of yeast sediments in a beer jar found in the tomb of Meryet-Amun. Egyptian queen, who ruled in 1440 B. C„ was disclosed today in the report of the Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

HOOVER FLAYS OPPONENTS ON RELIEF PLANS Certain Congressmen Play Politics at Expense of Misery, He Says. PROGRAM IS DEFENDED Raids on Treasury Not to Restore Prosperity, Press Told. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—President Hoover today vigorously denounced proposals made in congress to increase the amount of appropriations he had proposed for unemployment relief. The executive charged that certain senators and representatives are playing politics at the cxpeusc of human misery. “Prosperity can not be restored by raids on the public treasury,” he declared, reading a statement to the press. “The American people will not be misled by such tactics.” The President said his proposed acceleration of the government building program represents the maximum which the government can undertake without an increase in taxation. Debate Blame for War The increased taxes would deprive farmers and industry of the opportunity of giving employment, he maintained. Yet, congress, he said, has been importuned by many of its members to launch upon projects which would increase the expenses of the government $4,500,000,000 a year “mostly under the guise of giving relief in one form or another.” Debate over responsibility for bringing on the World war. in which Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee said France and Great Britain must share biame for the conflict, caused a flurry of excitement in the senate in the midst of discussion of drought relief measures. Borah Raps England, France Borah made his statement replying to Senator Reed (Rep., Va.), who had iltfele sympathy for pleas of German poverty. “France and Great Britain, and all the other European countries which were engaged in that military system which has existed there from the Moroccan affair down to 1914, must shart responsibility for the war,” vms Borah’s answer to Reed’s claim that Germany had brought her troubles upon herself. Senator Copeland (Dem., N. Y.) precipitated the discussion by offering for the record a magazine discussion of war debt referring to newspapei agitation for cancelation of American claims against Germany. Senator Dill (Dem., Wash.) joined the discussion briefly to agree with Borah and Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.) that neither American claims against Germany nor the allied powers should be canceled. Against Canceling Debts He raised the question of the World court. “I want to say,” Dill said, “that I agree with what has been said against canceling the debts. “But I wonder what would be the position of the United States if we entered the World court and these debts or reparations come into the court for consideration without our having power to stop them. That is a matter worthy of consideration when the World court comes up.” The administration's $110,000,000 unemployment relief bill was approved formally by the house appropriations committee, and a favorable report was ordered when the house met at noon.

HURT BABLYJN FALL Railroad Man Topples From City Tower. Charles Wourland, 36, R. R. 11. B g Four railroad employe, was near death at the Methodist hospital this afternoon from injuries suffered when he fell from a railroad tower at Twenty-first street and Sherman drive. He was taken to the hospital by autoists. COUNTY GRAND JURY INDICTS 27 PERSONS Defendants Named in True Bills to be Arraigned in January. Twenty-seven persons were named in twenty-one indictments returned in criminal court today by the Marion county grand jury. Ten youths suspected of crimes were freed in the report. Defendants named in the true bills will be arraigned on the first Monday in January before Democratic Judge-Elect Frank Baker. Os those indicted, ten were accused of burglary, two of larceny, four of vehicle taking, four of robbery and seven others on minor charges. Harvey O'Hara, 1333 South Richland avenue, was indicted for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the auto death. July 20, at Michigan and North streets, of Edward Bentley. Paris Comedienne Dead By United Press PARIS, Dec. 9.—The internation-ally-famous comedienne. Mile. Madeline Roch, 45, member of the Comedic Francise, died today.

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QUIZ MABEL ON WINE MAKING Willebrandt 'Explains’ to Dry Council. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 9.—A personal defense of her position with respect to the grape concentrate controversy was made -before the national temperance council today by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. former assistant attorney-general in charge of prohibition prosecution. Mrs. Willebrandt, who has recently been criticised by some dry:; for her connection with Fruit Industries, Inc., which markets the product, was before the council tor nearly two hours explaining her position. The session was closed to the press, but it was understood that Mrs. Willebrandt submitted to lengthy questioning and had reaffirmed her faith in the dry law. Mrs. Willebrandt and Oliver W. Stewart of Chicago were the chief figures appearing at the session. Stewart, a noted dry leader and president of the Flying Squad Foundation of the drys, told the council that a prohibition organization to function properly “in the present emergency’’ must be “political, not religious or ecclesiastical.” “The church-controlled state is as much to avoided as a state-con-trolled church,” Dr. Stewart said.

QUIZ PRYOR JURORS FOR DEATH PENALTY ATTITUDE Defense Tentatively Accepts Panel and State Begins Individual Questioning for Execution Stand.

Examination of prospective jurors moved swiftly today in criminal court as prosecutors and the defense sought to impanel a jury to try Ernest Pryor, 32, Martinsville, on a charge of first degree murder for allegedly poisoning his young wife almost four months ago. Shortly before 11 a. m. the defense tentatively approved a panel seYEGGS OBTAIN SSOO Take Jewelry After Safes Resist Efforts. Scorning police vigilance, increased after a week-end outbreak of crime, yeggs Monday night or early today robbed the Fred H. Lang jewelry store, 2112 East Tenth street, of SSOO worth of jewelry and watches. The yeggmeri battered combinations off two safes, but failed to reach their contents. Then they gathered their loot from showcases. Smashing glass of the front door, burglars entered the Little Smart shop, 2804 Central avenue, Monday night and carried away gowns and other merchandise valued at $1,600, police were told. CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER IS ROCKED BY BLAST American Furniture Mart Suffers Heavy Loss in Bomb Outrage. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—The American furniture mart, one of the largest buildings in the world, was rocked shortly before midnight by a time bomb, which caused damage estimated at between $15,000 and $20,000. It was. the second sensational bomb outrage in the city w-ithin two days. Tony May, who was called “the millionaire newsboy,” w r as fatally hurt, and his son Eugene, 16, seriously injured Sunday when a bomb, concealed in a packing, which May thought contained a birthday present. exploded in his hands. , I The furniture mart blast completely wrecked an area about twenty feet square. DOAK GOES IN OFFICE Sworn in as Labor Secretary After Confirmation by Senate. By Unit'd Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—William N. Doak was sworn in today as secretary of labor succeeding James J. Da,vis, newly elected senator from Pennsylvania. Doaks appointment | was confirmed Monday by the i senate.

Indicted at Crown Point, Ind., with four companions, on charges of murdcring Arlene Draves, Gary high school girl, at a gin party, Virgil Kirkland, shown here, has broken down, is unable to eat or sleep and blames liquor for the tragedy. He repeatedly has begged Arlene’s father for forgiveness, and says he and the girl were to have been married. Death penalty will be asked for the five.

Who Said Junk? Mistake Sends City Market Icc Compressor to Scrap Heap.

IF the ice compressor at the city market house ceases to function, and the lettuce you buy looks like an antique fern, it’s because Herman Aaron, junk dealer, laid the mighty wallop of a sledge hammer to the emergency machine. The safety board and city building commissioner's office w r ere in a turmoil today when reports came from the market house that Aaron had proceeded to junk the compressor and the motor attached to It. Aavon told the safety board that someone told him it was part of the junk “in the rear of the market house” on which he had bid. “How did I know? Somebody told me it was junk and I junked it.” Aaron pleaded. The board will investigate 'to determine who is the city employe who doesn’t know an ice compressor and a fifteen-horse power motor from junk. Fail Again to Agree By United Picks WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Senate and bouse conferees on the conflicting Muscle Shoals power bills enacted by the tw r o houses last session, failed again today to reach a compromise agreement.

lected after a day and a half of questioning and the state began probing each tentative juror for his attitude on the death penalty, on v.'hich the state will insist. Prosecutors indicated several of the panel will be peremptorily excused. Judge James A. Collins was on the bench today as a second venire of talesmen reported for possible service on the jury. Before the defense passed the jury as three persons W’ere excused from service for business reasons. One juror who had been accepted w r as excused after he appeared in the courtroorp thirty minutes late. The state scored its first victory Monday when Collins ruled that the defense must prove its claim that Pryor was insane at the time he administered arsenic to his wife. The question arose during examination of jurors when Pryor’s attorney insisted that it is " the state’s burden to disprove the insanity claim. “Evidence of the defendant’s insanity must be produced by the defense,” Collins ruled. Pryor allegedly poured arsenic into a drink he gave his wife, Mrs. Clara Thelma Pryor, Aug. 19, in a plot to collect $3,000 insurance. The defendant’s scheme, according to the state, was to kill his wife and then marry her cousin, Miss Elsie Ham of Brazil. Ind. SEEKS HOP RECORD Ruth Nichols on Nonstop Flight Across U. S. By l nited Press BURBANK, Cal.. Dec. 9.—Ruth Nichols, Rye (N. Y.) flier, left the United Airport here today in an attempted nonstop speed flight to New York. ACTRESS REPORTED ILL Negro Husband of Former Follies Beauty Denies Divorce. Bjt United Prms HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9.—Helen Lee Worthing, former Fol’ies beauty and screen player, is in the neurological institute in New York undergoing treatment for persistent insomnia, her husband. Dr. Eugene C. Nelson, Negro, said today. Dr. Nelson denied either a separation or a divorce was contemplated. He said she went east by mutual agreement. Mother Kills Son, Age 11 By United Press ALBANY. N. Y.. Dec. 9.—Mrs. j William Donahue shot and killed iher 14-year-old son Thomas on a farm near here today.

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5 INDICTED BY GRAND JURY IN LIQUOR DEATH Death Penalty for Gary Youths to Be Asked on Murder Charges. TRIAL DATE NOT FIXED Report to Judge Asks Two Bootleggers Be Held as Witnesses. By United Press CROWN POINT. Ind., Dec. 9 The Lake county grand jury returned indictments today charging first degree murder against the five men who were with Miss Arlene Draves, 18, when she died after a drinking party at Gary a week ago. Under conviction on the murder charge, death sentences may be Drononuced for the five defendants. Virgil Kirkland, Leon Stanford, Paul Barton, Henry Shirk and David Thompson. Prosecutor Oliver Starr announced that such penalties would be sought. Criminal Judge M. L. Smith accepted the grand jury report, but did not announce a date for hearing pleas of the five men. It was believed their trials would start soon after Jan. 1. Four Counts Arc Charged Four counts were charged in the indictments against each of the men. They were: 1. Murder; striking and beating with fists. 2. Murder; hitting with an unknown blunt instrument. 3. Murder; in perpetration of criminal att -,ck. 4. Murder, in attempting perpetration of criminal attack. Miss Draves, who was graduated from high school last June, died after a party, in the home of Thompson.,a city fireman. Prosecutor Starr said the demand for the death sentence would be based on a confession purportedly signed by Kirkland, a rejected suitor of the girl. In the confession, the prosecutor claimed. Kirkland admitted attacking the girl, and implicated his companions. Nineteen Witnesses Testify The grand jury recommended that Clarence and Guy Johnson, alleged bootleggers, charged with selling the liquor consumed at.- the party, be held as material witnesses under $2,000 bonds. Defense attorneys indicated they would base their plea for leniency on evidence that prohibition was responsible for the girl’s death. He said the five were intoxicated and nad no control over their acts. Nineteen witnesses testified before | the six business men on the jury, defending Arlene’s character and I reputation. Among the witnesses | was Miss Draves’ chum, Bessie Treece, 18. ! “Ariene always was a good girl,” she said “She didn’t want to attend the liquor party and when I she left home with Kirkland on the ] night of her death she thought she | was going to the Elks’ ball.” Controversy in Gary The death of the 18-year-old high school graduate, which occurred the night of Nov. 30 in Gary, remained today the principal topic of conversation in both Gary and Crown Point homes and led to many differences of opinions concerning the events that led to it. Ministers, police, teachers and parents throughout the two towns have been drawn into the controversies which followed the girl’s death. Several ministers have charged that parties such as Arlene attended have been common. Teachers, including William A. Wirt, superintendent of Gary schools, have stated publicly that drinking is not common among students. Wirt pointed out that only Barton, of the five men held, had I finished high school. The others, i he said, were dropped. Among the witnesses Monday were two who testified that they saw the youths late the night that Miss Draves dfed and that they did not appear drunk. NEW TESTAMENT TO BE READ IN ENTIRETY Services at Lynhurst Baptist Church to Begin at 3 A. M. The entire new testament will be ; read at the Lynhurst Baptist j church, Lynhurst drive and West ! Washington street, at services Thursday beginning at 3 a. m. Reading has been divided into sections and will continue until 7:39 p. m„ according to .the Rev. C. H. Scheik, pastor. At 7:45 the Rev. R. M. Dodwill, pastor of the Col- ; lege Avenue Baptist church, will ; give an illustrated lecture on a trip I to the Holy Land. ECONOMIST IS NAMED CZAR FOR CLEANERS i Racket-Torn Chicago Industry to Be Ruled With Iron Hand. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 9.—Dr. Benjamin M. Squires, University of Chicago economist and labor arbltra--1 tor, today became the “high commissioner” of the bomb-torn $20,• 000,000 Chicago cleaning and dyeing industry, with powers as sweep|ing as those of Judge Landis and ! Will Hays. Dr. Squires will be known officially as sales manager of the Master Cleaners and Dyers’ Association, which constitutes 90 per cent of the ‘ industry in the Chicago area.