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SNOW! . . . with Its Snappy winds . . Its Nipping cold ... Its whistling Ode to scantily clad city boys and girls . . # its Whiteness as a chilly sheet wrapping, but not warming, children of the unemployed , . S-N-O-W SNOW! For Sunday and today, like the marine warning of sharks tai ig a ship or the desert buzzards traveling overhead, snow gave its warning to Indianapolis that hun-dreds-of children would shiver going to school unless the spirit of HIM, goes into homes of the jobless. Last week mild temperatures prevailed and the men and women of tomorrow went to school without chttering teeth, chapped hands, frosted feet. It takes but a drop of temperature to turn them into sufferers, and it takes but a drop of human kindness to make them warm and comfortable. And you can give that drop of human kindess by entering the Clothe -a - School- Child” campaign of The Times. a PICTURE this scene today on West McCarty street: He ran to keep warm. He breathed body warmth on his raw hands. A cotton-wool coat, frinsed with poverty, flapped in the breeze. His knickers were tatters. Hjs stockings whitesplotched with skin showing through. His shoes scuffed out at toe and heel. Weather tears coursed his cheek. His nose was ungovernable. He had no kerchief. He sniffled. Then picture this in a warmer street of the city, where affluence warms even the pavements: He takes his time on the way to school. A trim mackinaw stems the chilly breezes. His hands are gloved in sheepskin. His high-top boots and wool stockings ciunch warmth and well-being Both boys are brothers of man. They have the same white skm, the same hind of heart, and the ame kind of hopes except that one has realization of his dream while the West. McCarty lad just dreams. * a * YOU doubt the truth of the two oils of life painted for \ou? You want to believe. _Y°u want to help? . Then pick up a pen. ateiephone. or step on the auto starter and join the ‘‘Clothe a Cnild 1 Joined the campaign Saturday. . „ „ ' “Hi help if you’ve got someone that needs it. Give me a name, Several hours later he called bn the telephone, ‘‘You win! The •oungster you gave me is m a devil of fix. Hes got nothing much but a body. No underwear, nothing. Give me another name. The child's name is given you. Each one has been checked as carefully as possible by the Christinas Clearing House. You investigate the worthiness of the child. You know who will wear the shoes, the pants, the sweater, the skirt, that you give. „ Pledges to the “Clothe-a-Child campaign previously reported .ere 203. , New donofs of Saturday and <oday are: . , _ ImpUnes of the International T>P£raphical Union's 'headquarters. - - \erth Meridian street. Mr end Mrs. J. A. Hensley. 5.b Fa!! reek boule’ ard. <A hoy and a qirlt. t.-ain Excbanite Good Fellows (six h'.tdrcnV Ur. and Mrs. C. B. Harley. 1516 Ashlaid a-.enue. Friendly Bridie Club of Jewish Uad.es cared for three and took aaother child). \ West Thirty-third Street Couple. Mrs. IVashinston Boulevard. I rarks, 1508 North Pennsylvania treet. Apt. 55. Employes Os Indianapolis Engraving Company (cared for three and took •rother cirl>. Office girls of Indianapolis Abattoir • o.npany (cared for one and took nothe- girl). Pie Four Freight Claims Club (took are of two beys and asked for a girl) South Meridian Civic Club. Miss Elsie Coulter. 1131 Park avenue cared for two and took another child). Employes of the Indiana Wheel and Rim Company (a boy and a girl).

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN SPAIN AS REVOLT SPREADS

By United Prest LONDON, Dec. 15.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris today said a republic had been proclaimed in Spain. (Corn right. 1930. bv United Press! MADRID. Dec. 15.—The minister of interior announced tonight that martial law had been proclaimed throughout, Spain to combat a wellorganized revolutionary movement, affecting most of the nation. The revolt of Spanish aviation forces at the Cuatro Vientos airdrome, near the capital, in an effort to lead a nation-wide revolution, was ended today by a bombardment with artillery. The aviators had scattered revolutionary pamphlets over Madrid, threatened to bombard the government buildings, sent out wireless messages proclaiming a republic, and urged all other aviators to join the movement before they surrendered under shell fire. Two loyal batteries of .75 millimeter cannon were drawn up to within 4 JOO feet of the aviation field and opened bombardments. The rebel* raised the white flag almost Immediately. Government forces then charged in and captured most of the rebels. Apparently there were no dead.

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HENLEY TELLS COURT HE IS j NOT MARRIED Testifies He Was Not in Toledo on Date of Alleged Wedding, ORDERED TO PAY FEES | Judge Rules He Must Shar: in Expense of Taking Depositions, Adjutant-General Manford G. Henley must pay at least a part of the expenses incurred by Mrs. Ethel Williams Henley in her fight to prove she is married to him and then to obtain a separation. This was the ruling today of Judge Harry O. Chamberlin at the conclusion of the second court airing of the case. He awarded Mrs..

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Henley SIOO to pay her expenses and those of her counsel in the taking of depositions at Toledo, O. Henley’s testimony was an elaboration of his former denials that he was the bridegroom in the case. “Did you sign an application for | a marriage license in Toledo, Sept. 12, 1929? he was asked by Edward G. Little, counsel for Mrs. Henley. Denies He Was in Toledo “I did not.” Henley replied. “Were you in Toledo that day?” “I was not.” “Are you married to Mrs. Hen- ; lev?” “I am- not.” “Were you .ever in her apartments at 2414 College avenue?” | “Oh, yes; many times.” “Were vou ever there alone with her?” “Yes.” “What were you doing there?” • “Studying Christian Science.” “Was she a practitioner?” • “I was.’’ . Submits Cgpies of License Asked where he first “heard” of this marriage application, Henley | replied: “I read it in The Indianapolis Times.” Henley said the names of his mother and father and other facts set out in the marriage application were correct, but denied he was the j applicant*. | Mrs. Henley, testifying, averred I she had known Henley for a number of years, that he had asked her to marry him, and that they were married. Through her counsel she submitted certified copies of the marj riage license application and also offered numerous letters, bills and other documentary data as proof j that she lias been known as the adjutant-general's wife. Taken Under Advisement The documents were taken under advisement by the court. Likewise the issue as to whether they are actually married will be deferred pending the taking of numerous depositions and a hearing on a plea of abatement filed by Henley’s oounsel. The court also took under advisement the question of a temporary allowance for her support, but inj dicated that if he later did award such an allowance, it would date from today. Thursday. Hanley and his attorneys will meet with Edward G. | Little, counsel for Mrs. Henley, that his deposition under oath may be taken.

Workmen at the flying field said Commander Ramon Franco, the famous Spanish flier, who recently escaped from prison, was in one of two fleeing planes, which were pursued by a squadron of loyal planes. A special edition of the newspaper. La Nacion. said Franco was one of the fleeing leaders of the revolt r’ot.

BY* HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1930. by United Press) VTEW YORK, Dec. 15.—A comparatively unknown 50-year-old man, living in one of those obscure, straggling cities of India, was nominated today as the world’s richest person. Statistics indicate th.it his wealth surpasses that of the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Fords and all other financial dynasties now eating in the United States. He is the Nizam of Hyderabad, and unlike American capitalists, he can liquidate his wealth by simply walking to strong box and selling a jewel or a brick of gold. So. extensive is the Nizam's

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Police Doubtful of Theft Theory in Killing of Manager, Motives other than robbery today were sought by Police Chief Jerry Kinney and his subordinates in the killing of Lewis L. Davidson, 41, less than a half block from a Standard grocery he managed at 142 East Twenty-third street. The Standard Grocery Company this morning posted an offer of a SI,OOO reward for apprehension of or information leading to capture of the murderer. While his wife stood in front of the store, unaware that her husband was the victim of a shot she heard, Davidson was shot down Saturday night by a gunman in an alley, probably thirty feet away. He staggered to the porch of C. E. Weis, 2302 North Delaware street, where he died reaching for the doorbell. Thinking the shot was only an auto’s backfire, ar.d ignorant of her husband’s death, Mrs. Davidson entered a friends auto and was driven to 419 Harvard place, her home. Accounts Robbery Motive While robbery was the most obvious motive for the shooting, Police Chief Kinney scouted that theory since there was no apparent attempt made to rob Davidson before he was murdered. In his pocket he carried sll3, the store’s receipts during the afternoon and evening. Closing the store about 9:25 p. m. Saturday, Davidson bid his wife good-night and. started to board a bus for downtown. She started west toward a street car line to go home, but Mr. and Mrs. George Purvis, parents of a clerk in the grocery, who had driven there for him offered to take her in their car. Because of poor light on Twentythird street, Davidson always had walked in the middle of the street to Delaware street. He passed an alley in the middle of the block, ancl there police believe he heard his name called. Bullet Carons Off House As he turned around a bullet from a high power, large caliber gun struck him in the right chest, pierced a lung and passed near the heart. Its force unchecked, the bullet struck a house and then spun back into the street. “Was that a shot?” Mrs. Davidson asked her friends. She saw her husband running, but did not know he was wounded mortally. She believed he was dashing to catch a bus at Delaware street, only a few feet farther. ' She went on home, and did not learn of the murder for some time, until police arrived at her home. r Came Here From Canada The murderer escaped in an auto parked in the alley, police said. Davidson was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and began in the grocery business there many years ago. He served through the war as a medical corps stretcher-bearer and with the East Lancaster Hussars. He came to Indianapolis from Canada. The widow is the only survivor in the United States. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in Royster & Askins undertaking establishment, and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Hourly .Temperatures 6a. m 27 10 a. m 25 7a. m 26 11 a. m 24 Ba. m 25 12 (noon).. 24 9 a. m 24

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A state of siege was declared in the Madrid region today. More than 200 republicans and labor leaders were arrested. Captainsgeneral throughout Spain were given troop concentrations and wartime powers to halt violence which accompanied a general strike in the industrial cities of the nation.

WORLD’S RICHEST MAN GUARDS WEALTH IN OBSCURE TOWN OF INDIA

wealth that he reliably is reported to keep $.500,000,000 worth of gold bricks and coins in his palace strong box. He does not invest his surplus wealth in securities; but, instead, voluntarily deprives himself of the vast interest, simply because his riches might become too cumbersome. a a a IT is a tortuous trip on a railroad that winds into the hills to the walled town of Hyderabad, 350 miles northwest of Madras, where Nizam has his palace. Virtually unknown to the outside world, he is a mighty personage in India, and the British empire, from whose battleships he rates 21-gun salute.

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Lewis Davidson This diagram was drawn by Lee Williams, Times staff artist, to show how Lewis Davidson, grocer, was murdered Saturday night. Davidson left the grocery at 124 East Twenty-third street, and walked east toward Delaware, as indicated by the heavy black line; Mrs. Davidson was standing in front of the store, ready to get into a friend’s auto. As Davidson reached the spot marked with the cross, the gunman fired from his- position in the alley, and then escaped in the auto parked in the alley. The bullet’s course is shown by, the dotted line. Mortally wounded, Davidson staggered to the home of C. E. Weis, where he died on the porch. SUICIDE VERDICT IN ALLEYDEATH Coroner Decides Whitaker Took Own Life, A suicide verdict was being prepared toda oy Coroner Charles H. Keever in the death of Clarence Whitaker, 26, whose body was found Dec. 5 in a south side alley. Keever’s announcement to this effect was made after he interrogated Fred Whitaker, Beech Grove, and Mrs. Barbara Hartenstein, 1148 Olive street. Mrs. Hartenstein again narrated how she had found a revolver from which the fatal bullet is believed to have been fired. She made the discovery Friday in her back yard. The gun lay thirty-five feet from where Whitaker’s body was found a week before. Fred Whitaker again identified the revolver as the one he loaned another brother, Harold, 2107 North Pennsylvania street, with a hunting coat. It was in Harold’s room that Clarence last was seen alive, on „ the night before his body was found in the alley. While preparing the suicide verdict, the coroner admitted detectives were running down another “angle” of the case in which, he said, he has little faith. HUNT MURDER SUSPECTS Police Seek Brothers in Killing of Scottsburg Man Jflinday. By United Prett SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Dec. 15Police of Kentucky and Indiana today were searching for two brothers, Les Spurlock and George Spurlock, suspects in the murder of William Gibson at the brothers’ home near Scottsburg Sunday. Mrs. Gibson, witness of the slaying, chargee' Les Spurlock with the shooting. The sheriff’s office at Salem notified Kentucky police to watch for the alleged slayer and brother.

Jewelers and goldsmiths who have appraised his properties say the Nizam is worth $1,000,000,000, exclusive of the jewels of the kingdom, which are worth an untold fortune, but which never have been appraised. Elaborate arrangements are made for the guarding of the treasure. A wall surrounds the city of 404,000 persons, and it is said that no one ventures on the streets of Hyderabad without being armed. n a a IN the survey made by the United Press to determine who is the world’s rechest man. it was found that the chief difficulty was that no oye know ex-

LOVE AFFAIR IS AIRED IN PRYORTRIAL Witnesses in Poison Case Tell of Trysts With Wife’s Cousin. DEATH HINTS RELATED Barber Describes Mixing of Drink Given Victim ‘for Stomach.’ The illicit love that Ernest Pryor* allegedly nourished before death stalked into his Martinsville home, claiming his youthful wife, was aired today on the criminal court witness stand as the murder trial moved into its second week. Jurors heard neighbors and 'riends of the Pryor family tell of he secret trysts they said Pryor | rad with Miss Elsie Ham, Mrs. : Pryor’s cousin. Miss Ham, witnesses testified, lived at the Pryor home. She was assistant dietician at the Home Lawn sanatorium in Martinsville, where Pryor worked occasionally. It was for Miss Ham, prosecutors charge, that Pryor allegedly gave his wife three arsenic poison draughts, killing her. Describes Loving in Ice Box Details of the 32-year-old alleged paramour’s pursuit of Miss Ham were told by Mrs. Eva Eggers, employe at the sanatorium, and friend of the Pryors. She told of Pryor’s fight to hold the affections of Miss Ham, and of his objecting to “one Forest Powell’s” seeking the attentions of the woman. “He told me that Miss Ham was too good a girl to go with Forest Powell,” Mrs. Eggers testified. “I always suspected Mr. Pryor,” the witness testified. “I saw him and Miss Ham in an embrace in the large sanatorium ice box once. I never said anything. “Pryor told me several times before his wife died that she didn’t have a chance to live. He said something was going to happen in August.” Poison Found in Body It was on Aug. 19 that the childwife died. Expert witnesses for the state last week told of finding more than three grains of arsenic in the dead woman’s vital organs. Vestal Tummick, next door neighbors of the Pryors, told of conversations he had with Pryor about Miss Ham. “Pryor told me he was crazy about Miss Ham,” Tummick testified. “He told me once he was ‘going to get shut of his wife.’ That was the night before Mrs. Pryor died. He ! told me he had spent' the night : with the Ham girl.” Ray Trent. Martinsville barber, and key witness for the state, provided one of the clinching arguments of the case this morning. Took Drink to Wife Trent went to the Pryor home on the night of Mrs. Pryor’s death, ! and said he found Pryor in the I kitchen “stirring something in a • glass.” “Pryor was stirring the drink on the stove. It was a milk color and : was slow in dissolving. Pryor told i me his wife was sick in her stom- i ach and that he was mixing her some soda water. “Pryor took the drink to his wife in the front room. She drank it almost immediately started vomiting violently. Pryor followed her out of the house. He said nothing,” Trent testified. Later, after the alleged crime was uncovered and Pryor was held a nrisoner in the Morgan county jail, Trent testified he visited Pryor there. “He asked me if I had been j questioned,” Trent testified. “I ] told him I had. Predicted Wife’s Death “He told me ‘I shouldn’t have done that,’ and offered to cancel a small debt I owed him if I wouldn’t say anything more.” Mrs. Beulah Trent, with whom the Pryors were friendly, testified that Miss Ham accompanied Pryor and his wife to her home on a visit shortly before the crime. "Pryor said in his wife’s presence i that night that she couldn’t be ex- 1 pected to live long. One lung was j entirely gone and the other half i gone,” Mrs .Trent testified. • Dr. W. J. Sandy and Dr. A. M.; Sweet, both of Martinsville, who ex- I amined Pryor while he was a pris- ! oner, were to appear for the state ! in the afternoon session.

actly how much any one man was worth. Apparently John D. Rockefeller Jr. is the second richest man in the world. His father is not listed in this survey because most of the Rockefeller holdings have been placed in the hands *of John D. Jr. Figures for the year when income tax returns were last made public show that Rockefeller Jr. paid an income tax of $7,435,169. His estimated income was SI2,SOOfKX) for that year, and from that, experts figure his fortune amounted to $250,000,000. Close students of finance pointed out, however, that his income tax might not reflect the full extent of his wealth, and

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GIRL VICTIM OF BRUTAL ATTACK Deputies Spur Bandit Hunt After Third Assault. Police search for a lovers’ lane bandit spurred today after a third girl was made his victim in a vacant house near Brendenwood. Several weeks ago two others were attacked near Indian lake. Suffering from shock, the girl is in a serious condition, physicians reported. The bandit approached the auto of Howard Hendrix, 24, of 3014 Macpnerson avenue, parked near Emerson avenue and Forty-sixth street. He was armed. Hendrix half-drew a revolver from a holster strapped to the steering wheel post. “You got a rod?” asked the bandit. Hendrix handed it over. He was forced to drive through Millersville, and east on the Brendenwood road, he told police, to a vacant house where the gunman ordered the couple from the car. He locked Hendrix in a room then returned to the basement where, refusing entreaties of the girl to take money and jewelry to let her go, assaulted her and fled, she narrated, leaving her wandering hysterical in an orchard behind the house. Hendrix battered his way out of his prison and raced in the auto to Millersville, where he notified deputy sheriffs. Returning to the house he found his companion in the orchard. ST A R TO HUNT BIG GA M E Douglass Fairbanks to Leave Jan. 1 on Eastern Trip. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15.—Douglas Fairbanks, film star, will leave here Jan. 2 for Siam, French Indo-China and India to hunt big game, he announced today. Accompanying him will be John Monk Saunders, writer, and Victor Fleming, director. They will be gone several months. SNOW FLURRIES LIKELY No Change in Temperature Forecast for City Tonight, Tuesday. Light snow flurries were predicted for Indianapolis tonight and Tuesday in forecast of the United States weather bureau today. Temperatures probably will remain unchanged, with the lowest tonight about 25 degrees.

DIVERS HUNT FOR MISSING IN EXCURSION BOAT BLAST

By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 15.—Divers descended into the Atlantic ocean today in a search for bodies of missing passengers of the Eureka, glassbottomed excursion boat, which caught fire and exploded Sunday. Small craft cruising off shore assisted in the search. Four persons were known to have perished, while at least five others, perhaps eleven, had not been - accounted for. Police estimated the ship a ’ed 127 persons when it*went dofojx Police Sergeant Fred G. nof New York, one of the pas Se-

were inclined to revise the figure upward. Stuart Chase, well-known writer on economics, said in an article recently that he estimated Rockefeller’s fortune at $600,000,000. a a a THE Fords, of course, rank next. Henry Ford paid an income tax of $2,467,946 and Edsel paid $1,984,254. Using the same basis as was employed by experts in computing the Rockefeller fortune, that would make Henry Ford worth $104,000,000 and Edsel worth $100,000,000. taxable income. In this case also, their wealth probably is not shown by the income tax return, and reliable es-

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“Buy an apple and help the unemployed. Among the first to obey this injunction today were (left) Mrs. Paul Miessenhelder, 4465 North Delaware street, and (right) Mrs. Frank D. Payne, 1448 Fruitdale avenue, city hall employes. Roy Pete, 2805 East Eleventh street, a former member of Battery A, Sixteenth battalion, in the World war, is the vender, grinning appreciation. Free Peddlers’ Licenses Are Given Men to Aid Unemployed Crisis. The crunching of apples added a new note to the downtown traffic din today as war veterans, recruited from the unemployed, found sidewalk customers for their juicy wares. In going suddenly “apple minded,”. Indianapolis was following the precedent of New York, Chicago and other large cities where the plea, “Buy an apple and help the unemployed” has given hundred of war veterans a livelihood. Sponsoring the movement here, the City Employes’ and Citizens’ Relief committee is recruiting the apple vendors through the office of the United States department of labor employment bureau. Ottp Ray, city license inspector and commander of the Indianapolis Police post of the American Legion, has issued free soldiers’ peddlers’ licenses to the apple sellers. Selling for 5 cents each, the apples will enable each man to earn from $3 to $4 a day, it is estimated. The salesmen are single men without other source of support and unable to obtain help from charitable agencies because they have no dependents. FEAR THEATER AGENT IS LOST IN DESERT Search Started for Man After Pack Burro Returns Alone. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15— Pears for the life of Ralph Farnum. New York theatrical agent, were expressed today after police were asked to search for him. Farnum left here a month ago for Death valley in quest of health, and outfitted himself with a pack train at Death Valley junction. One of his burros appeared at Furnace Creek ranch Sunday, emaciated and worn. There was no sign of Farnum and desert men feared that he had been a victim of the desert.

gers, announced today he would file charges against owners of the Eureka. Norman declared fire equipment on the craft was insufficient and that the crew handled the situation inefficiently. Edward Hale of Indianapolis was one of the passengers who were rescued. The Eureka, which was built on pontoons and had a glass hull through which the passengers could view the sea bottom, was approaching Miami on the return trip. An orchestra on deck was playing popular airs. Suddenly smoke billowed out of

timates place the combined fortunes of Henry and Edsel Ford at something more than $1,000,000,000. ana ANOTHER instance of where income taxes are misleading is in the case of J. P. Morgan. His tax was only $98,643 —less than that paid by his attorney, John W. Davis—but so varied are the Morgan interests that no one was willing to attempt an approximation of his personal wealth. It is believed, however, that he ranks some distance below the Fords. Those four— Rockefeller, the Fords and Morgan—are conceded to be the financial giants of America.

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HOOVER HOLD ON HOUSE AT STAKETODAY Control by President Is Issue in Fight to Hold Down Drought Aid. •GAG RULE’ PLANNED Longworth Hopes to Block Ballot on $60,000,000 Senate Bill. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec 15.—President Hoover’s control in the house of representatives, which has upheld the administration program against the senate on numerous occasions, was at stake today in what promises to be a sharp fight to hold down drought relief appropriations. Speaker Nicholas Longworth was prepared, unless last minute developments changed his decision, to put his power to a test. The plhn is to suspend rules and push through a $30,000,000 loan appropriation for drought-stricken farmers with no opportunity for amendment and only brief debate. There would be no vote on the $60,000,000 bill the senate passed. Test Is Significant President Hoover approved a, $25,000,000 appropriation, but he will be satisfied if the house hold.! it to $30,000,000 Democrats who are supporting the senate bill were summoned to bo out in full force to check Longworth’s move. Two-thirds vote is necessary to suspend rules and proceed, as the speaker proposes, under what Democrats call a “gag rule.” The administration test in the house today is particularly significant because of the contest between the senate and the White House. The President, apparently, must depend upon the house to back him up. There is little sign of a let-up in the battle between the President and the ’ senate, a bitter battle of words and phrases. May Appeal to Nation The senate had before it today for a vote the resolution of .he youthful Senator Robert M., La Follette (Rep., Wis.) itself brought forward as answer to Mr. Hoover's recent criticism of the tendency to raise appropriations which the senate took as directed against it. The resolution declares that *ho relief of unemployed should take p-ecedence over the interests of large income taxpayers, after stating that the President, “in a public statement, has indicated that consideration for the interests of income taxpayers necessitates restriction on governmental relief measures necessary to aid the jobless and their dependents. President Hoover, it has been indicated, will issue another statement, an appeal to the country over the heads of the senate, if thus resolution is passed. Farmer Expects Wide Support His party, leaders in the senate have shown little disposition to ralJy behind him. In the meantime, he is anxiously watching the test in the house. If Longworth is unable to get enough votes to suspend the rules and choke off amendments, he will pursue another course. That may be necessary, as Democrats have 167 votes in the house, more than the necessary third to check his plan. It would take 14(5 to beat the Speaker at this strategy. John N. Garner, Democratic floor leader, the party boss, expects to have wide suppe t from his colleagues, and if able to beat Longworth today, will be in a position to force the house to vote on the S6O- - bill passed by the senate.

the engine room. The Eureka waa driven by a gasoline motor, and the oil-soaked exterior of the engine had cy.ught fire. A- the fire spread to the woodwork and to the flimsy superstructure of the boat, there was &> rush for life-preservers. There we e no lifeboats on the ship. Survivors said, however, that in spite of the sudden danger confronting the passengers, there was no panic. The tourists put on life preservers and calmly as the flames advanced, walked to the side of the ship and jumped overboard. The rrchestr?. continued to play, and one passenger picked up an extra saxophone and Joined in with them. At last, with the ship blazing from bow to stern, the last man on board Jumped into the water. Fifteen minutes after the fire first broke out, there was a terrific explosion. The superstructure of the boat was thrown high in the air, and flaming debris showered down on the helpless men, women and children floundering in the water. Rescue ships hurried to the scene. A small racing boat owned by G. E, Barrett of New York was one of the first to reach there, and picked up twenty-seven survivors. Fishing boats and pleasure craft In the vicinity moved among thesurvivors, dragging them out of tlj| water one after another.