Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1931 — Page 1

PROBE OF 1928 ELECTION BY SENATEASKED Carter Glass Introduces Resolution for Inquiry on President Vote. SHIP PROJECT IS UP Vote on Modernization of Battleships Set for Today. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.—Senator Carter Glasß (Deni., Va.), today introduced a resolution In the senate to Investigate expenses of the 1928 presidential campaign, especially with respect to violations of the corrupt practices act, or diversion of campaign funds to other uses. When asked against whom his resolution was directed, Glass replied : "If you know any one who has done any of those things, you can use your imagination. The purpose of my resolution is to protect the integrity of campaign funds." Asked if he would care to say whether Bishop James Cannon Jr., who was active in the campaign against Alfred E. Smith for President, would come within the scope of the resolution, he declined to answer.

Immediately after introduction of Glass’ resolution, with its highly controversial aspects, Senator Charles McNary <Rcp., Ore.), anhe would move Saturday for tlwfe night sessions a week until urgent business should be cleared <JP. * Continue Nye Committee No routine appropriation bills have yet been passed by the senate, and only six w’eeks of the session remain. Prior to the resolution by Glass, the senate voted an extra $50,000 expense fund for the Nye campaign investigating committee, so that it might continue its inquiry into the Pennsylvania campaign. The senate also voted to extend the life of the committee another year. The senat # then took up the interior department appropriation bill. Senator Hayden (Deni., Arte.) mßde a long speech restating his j state’s objection to the Boulder ; dam project. The senate has agreed to vote at I 4 p. m. on the $30,000,000 battleship modernization project,, which, has caused considerable controversy. Clamor for Hanger Vote Democrats were clamoring today for a vote on minority leader Robinson’s amendment to the interior department bill, appropriating $25,000,000 to be used, by the Red Cross in buying and distributing food. In the face of this, and Robinson a threat to keep the food issue before congress even .if an extra session results, and in view of Glsss’ resolution, night sessions appeared inevitable. Ralph S. Kelley, deposed chief of the Denver public land office headquarters. today brought before the house public lands committee his charges that interior department policy favors large corporations in controversial claims for Colorado oil shale lands. Quietly tracing the history of oil ghale police, the mild-mannered former official put his story before the committee without direct reference to Secretary Interior Wilbur, arid without any direct charges. lie told the committee no legislation waa necessary, disagreeing with Wilbur, who suggested several possible measures when he appeared Thursday. Kelley Before Committee ”1 think these claims can be adjudicated under existing law just as they have for fifty-eight years, under the 1872 mining act," Kelley said. "The government,’’ he said, "is not able to prove that these claims were not staked. It's wild country there. My engineers were unable to find an indication df stakes, but we can’t prove that.’’ Oil most cf these claims. Kelley said, no work has been done as required by law, "The burden cf proof rests on the government," he said. "It’s hard to prove.” Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee. was accused by Senator Cutting (Rep.. N. M.) of seeking to make “political spies’* out of internal revenue bureau employes, whom Lucas formerly headed as bureau chief. King Is Reappointed Cutting’s attack, made on the senate floor, immediately brought support of Senators Johnson <Cal.) and Couzens (Mich.), both Republicans. . The house committee on banking and currency appointed a subcommittee to Investigate the power of the main committee to force Charles Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York City and George W. Davidson, president of the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, New York City, to furnish records promised at a recent investigation into group, chain and branch banking. The federal power commission announced the reappointment of William V. King to his former position as chief accountant. Charles R. Russell, dismissed solicitor, was not reappointed. Motorboat Display Opens By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 16. With everything on hand save an ocean in which to float the exhibits. New Yorks annual motorboat show has its formal opening tonight. Some $2,500,000 north of boats will be on display in the Grand Central Palace.

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Live and Learn Disregard for a traffic signal at Twenty-second and Meridian streets today gave Bernard Segel, 2626 North Capitol avenue, a somewhat more intimate study of criminology than he h%d planned. He told Judge Clifton R. Cameron he was en route to the state women’s prison to attcpd a criminology class, and, a little late, hurried through the signal. His fine was $5 and costs. Segel is a Butler university student.

SIAMESE TWINS SEEK FREEDOM Daisy, Violet Hilton Held in Bondage, Court Told. By United. Press SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 16.Daisy and Violet Hilton Skinner, Texas Siamese twins, went into district court today to testify they had been held in bondage since childhood and asked a receivership for themselves. Myer Rothbaum ' and his wife Emily were accused of holding the twins in undue restraint since they were 8 years old. Counsel for the twins, known in exhibition tours as Daisy and Violet Hilton, asked that a receiver for all money, securities and real property now' held in their names, be appointed. The suit recites that the twins were born in London, Feb. 5, 1908. In dire circumstances, their mother, Kate Skinner, “sold them in bondage" to a nurse, Mark Hilton, the petition said. When they were 8 years old. Mrs. Hilton died and willed the title of the twins to her daughter Emily, now Mrs. Rothbaum, according to the charges. The Rothbaums allowed them only the necessities of life while they w’ere earning as much as $3,500 weekly in vaudeville and circuses, the twins charged. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 29 10 a. m 34 7a. m 29 11 a. m 34 8 a. m 30 12 (noon).. 35 9 a. m 31 1 p. m 35

Style Peril i Indiana avenue fashions to the contrary, Indianapolis young women can’t tote guns, Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron decided today, lining Miss Casalena Sweeney, 21, Negro, 719 North Capitol avenue, SIOO and costs for carrying a concealed weapon. Strolling along the avenue Thursday night patrolman Henry Dugan says he saw Miss Sw’eeney exhibit a pistol to a taxt driver. In court this morning she said she found the gun.

DIVORCEE IS SLAIN 41-Year-Old Woman Killed by Strangler. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Mrs. Eppie Moss, a 41-yeari-old divorcee, was strangled to death late Thursday by a man wlio escaped as her friends battered down the door of a private garage in the belief she had been overcome by fumes from her automobile. She was a department manager for a wholesale jewelry concern. Mrs. Moss had not been attacked and her purse, with $lO in it, was found near her body. Alarmed because Mrs. Moss did not return whejji expected, Mrs. Belleta D. Morse, her roommate, w'ent to the garage to look for her. Through a window Mrs. Morse saw' Mrs. Moss upon the floor. She called Gus Seastrom and together they were breaking down the door when the slayer, a young man, broke out a side window' and escaped. 400 7re~assuredjobs Sale of Firm Assures Part-T^me Workers Full Employment. By Inited Press CONNELLSVILLE. Pa.. Jan. 16— Four hundred men, employed on a part-time basis, today were assured full-time employment as the result of the sale of Kier Fire Brick Company to the General Refractories Company of Philadelphia. Missouri Dry Repeal Sought By United Press JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.. Jan. 16. —A bill to repeal Missouri “bone dry” legislation was introduced in the house of representatives today over the signatures of twelve wet members of the lower house. Eleven of the sponsors were from St. Louis.

INJURED BY THUDS Holdup Victim Is Delirious After Blow on Head. Delirious, Louis Schrer, 52, of 955 High street, was to be examined for a skull fracture today, after an attack by thugs on Bicking street, near East street, Thursday night. He said one of two men who held him up, slugged him when he remonstrated against surrendering lodge funds to them. They took $55 and left him unconscious in an

SHIP CALLS FOR AID AS CREW FIGHTSAT SEA Atlantic Vessel Forced Back to Port With One Sailor Dead. SEND FOR COASTGUARDS ; Slaying Ends Battle and Steamer Puts In to Philadelphia. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 16.—A fatal fight in the forecastle of the coastwise vessel Nantucket today—a fight which gained such proportions that a call was made for coast guard relief—forced the vessel back into port. f One seaman, a Negro, was killed and five others w'ere delivered to police in manacles. One of the five was charged with murder. The Nantucket put out today for Boston. Everything seemed shipshape. Once at sea, how'ever. a group of the crew'—including Julius Walker and Robert Parson—started wrangling over a coat hanger. Their argument increased. It finally became a general melee. When the Nantucket reached Christiana jetties near Wilmington, the master relayed a request for coast guard assistance to put down the fight. Preparations were made to send aid. A few minutes later the Lewes (Del.) coast guard station received the following message: "Never mind coast guard. Man dead. Returning to port. Have police meet ship." When the Nantucket put in, it w'as found that Walker—whose home was in Baltimore—had been killed. Parson, heavily manacled, w’as charged with stabbing Walker and four other Negroes were held as material witnesses. The crew was replaced and the Nantucket continued on its voyage. '

ARMOUR CHIEF DIES IN FALL Seven-Story Plunge From Window Accidental, By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Philip D. Armour 111 and Philip L. Reed were the men most prominently mentioned today to succeed F. Edson White, 57, as president of Armour & Cos. White was killed Thursday night in a fall from his seventh floor apartment at 70 East Scott street. Relatives, company officials and police agreed that the fall was accidental. Reed, w'ho has been treasurer of Armour & Cos., one of the largest packing concerns in the world, was the last person to see White alive. He agreed 'With others that the financier probably had fallen through a French window w'hile leaning out to get air or had toppled through it W'hei* he fainted. Evidence that White was ill and subjected to fainting spells was seen less than twenty four hours earlier w'hen he fell from the speaker's platform and bumped his head severely while arising Wednesday night to address the annual meeting of the Armour plant executive club. • White was a native of Peoria. 111., and had been with Armour & Company for thirty-five years. He began as a car checker at $lB a week, after working for packing companies in Peoria and San Francisco. He became president in 1923. EXPLORER GETS NIEDAL Lincoln Ellsworth Receives Congressional Award from President. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Lincoln Ellsworth, distinguished American explorer who flew across the North Pole in the Amundsen-Noble expedition of 1926, came to the White House today to receive from President Hoover a congressional medal of honor.. DEFENDS FAR M~ BOARD Speculators Could Have Wheat 20 t Cents Lower, Says Legge. By United Press URBANA. 111., Jan. 16.—Prevailing wheat prices would be at least 20 cenes a bushel lower if grain speculators still had complete control of the market. Alexander Legge. chairman of the federal farm board, said today in an address at the University of Illinois college of agriculture.

CAPONE PLANS SECRET Report That Racketeer Will Leave Florida Made Public. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 16—The Miami affairs of A1 Capone, who owns a palatial estate on Falm island here, were under semi-public dscussion again today with a report he planned to sell out and move away. Vincent C. Giblin, his Miami attorney, declined to affirm or deny today a report published by the Miami Herald that Capone had sold the estate to an unnamed purchaser for SIOO,OOO.

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Bandit Binds Woman and Robs House Victim, Alone in Home, Is Knocked Down, Tied; Thug Gets $22. Forcing his way into her home this morning, a Negro bound Mrs. Theo Gilles, 236 South Addison street, robbed her of $6 and escaped after searching the house and taking sl6 from a roomer’s clothes. Six police squads under Lieutenant Forsythe searched railroad yards in the vicinity without success. The Negro w'as about 40, short, stocky and w'ore a long black overcoat and dark cap. His knock at the front door interrupted Mrs. Gilles’ preparations for lunch. She was alone in the house. He thrust the door open when she unlocked it, bound her hands, knocked her to the floor and bound her set with a strip of cloth. He took $6 from her pocket and searched pockets’ of clothing belonging to Lawrence Kain, the roomer. Unable to free herself. Mrs. Gilles attracted attention of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bundy, 234 South Addison street, who occupy the remainder of a double house, by kicking on the wall. '

RIOTS FLARE IN INDIA 200 Injured as Strikers Clash With Troops. ■ / By United Press BOMBAY, India, Jan. 16.—Violent disorders marked the failure today of an attempt to establish a citywide hartal, or passive strike, ordered by the civil disobedience leaders as a protest against the recent execution o? four Sholapur independence volunteers. The hartal was only partly successful, but it was estimated unofficially that about 200 persons were injured in clashes with troops and police stationed throughout the city to maintain order. Failure of the hartal was due to refusal of Moslems to join.

Basket Tourney In the final morning game today in the Marion comity high school basketball tourney at the Armory. West Newton defeated Castleton, 30 to 15. Results, with summaries of the other three morning games will be found on the sports page.

BOOST RELIEF FUND Donors Increase Red Cross Total to $1,384. - Voluntary contributions following appeal of the Red Cross for relief in the drought-stricken areas of the nation brought $427 from Indianapolis residents today, boosting the two-day campaign total to $1,384. Os today's amount S2OO was contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Brown and SIOO was donated by E. J. Jacoby. FIRE LOSS $5,000 One House Destroyed, Others Badly Damaged. Fires late Thursday destroyed one house and damaged two others with aggregate loss of $5,250. The one-story residence of Clyde Markley, 925 Dudley street, was burned to the ground by flames, the origin of which is unknowm. Loss was estimated at $4,000. Faulty wiring was the cause of a f.re that damaged the second floor and roof of the Imuse of John Correll, 1114 Arsenal avenue. Loss w r as estimated at SI,OOO. The blaze communicated to the residence of Kirk N. Thomas. 1118 North Arsenal avenue, damaging the structure $250. EX-REBEL CHIEF HELD General Escobar to Fight Extradition to Texas From Montreal. By United Press MONTREAL, Jan. 16.—General Jose Gonzales. Escobar, leader of an unsuccessful Mexican revolution in 1929, was held in police headquarters without bail today, pending extradition to El Paso. Tex., where he is wanted on charges of obtaining $15,000 under false pretenses. The general said he would fight extradition, because "if I am taken to El Paso, it will be just the same as if I were taken to be shot in Mexico.’’

STORM HITS SAMOA Many Buildings Wrecked by Hurricane. By United Press TUTUILA. Samoa. Jan. 16. Many government buildings w_ere damaged today by a hurricane sweeping over Tutuila. The postoffice and several naval buildings were unroofed. A number of private residences were w'recked partially. The hurricane, which started j twenty-four hours ago, in some places today reached a velocity of 100 miles an hour v .

WRECK PERILS HUNDREDS IN HUDSON TUBE First Car of Train Leaps Into Open Switch; 19 Persons Injured. SCENE ONE OF TERROR Screaming Women, Horror in Darkness of Subway Told by Passenger.

By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The first car of a train in the Hudson tubes leaped through an open switch today at the Manhattan terminal, crashed into a dividing wall and injured all of the nineteen passengers. Five hundred persons in the terminal at Thirty-third street and Sixth avenue were endangered by choking smoke which spread through the underground tunnels after the crash and the car sent electric sparks into the air. Switchman Vanishes Police said the switchman who presumably was responsible for the open switch, disappeared immediately after the accident. They declined to reveal his name. The train was approaching the Manhattan terminal on the regular run from New Jersey points. The Hudson tubes are a subway system, running to Newark, Jersey City and other Few Jersey points after dipping beneath the Hudson river. Thousands of New Jersey residents were delayed hours in getting to their work by the tieup in the line. Eye witnesses said the front car of the train shot through the open switch and pounded its way into the dividing wall. The air was blue with electricity and dense smoke gushed out into the tunnel. Women Screaming in Cars One hundred policemen answered an emergency alarm and climbed down a narrow stairway to the tracks. Women were screaming and the persons jn the first car were smashing at w'indows in an attempt to get out. The doors of the first car could not be opened. Police edged along a narrow ledge and lifted women from out of the first car. The' second car of the seven-car train also left the tracks, but did not turn over or hit the dividing *all.

In almost every respect the wreck resembled the one that occurred in Times square two years ago when twenty-seven persons were killed. Car Cut In Half The - first car in today's wreck virtually was cut in half. It w r as five minutes, witnesses said, before the pow'er was cut off and in the meantime hundreds of commuters in the tunnels became panicstricken. The danger of electrocution and the menace of the heavy smoke terrified passengers. Arthur Tarsitano, who was in the first car and suffered cuts on the face and arms, described the panic. “I was standing by the door waiting to get out,” he said, “when there w r as a terrific crash. I w'as knocked into the aisle. People fell on me. “A woman kicked me in the face. "Everybody w'as kicking and yellj ing. “The lights went out. "A woman yelled ’Oh, my God, j save me.’ “A man was cursing. Scene of Terror “A lot of men broke windows and jumped out. They pushed the women aw'ay. They didn’t give t.hc women a tumble. "Somehow—l don’t know how—l got up. "People were piled up in the aisle. You couldn’t see them, but you tripped over them, and you heard them screaming and begging someone to save them. “I helped a lot of w'omen dowa. "The car was raised so high that the women lost their nerve and didn’t want to jump. So I got out and ran around and found a ladder. "I put it against the car and helped a lot of women dow'n. I was the last one out of the car. I feel like a wreck.” HUNTING SEASON ENDS Shotguns and Rifles Are Stored Away Until Next Fall. Shotguns and rifles of Hooeier nimrods w'ere greased, cleaned and stored away today until next fall, as the hunting season closed Thursday. according to Walter Shirts, superintendent of the fish and game division of the state conservation department. , Season on rabbits closed Saturday, and that on migrj,torv birds Thursday. Trapping of i._-bear-ing animals also is taboo after Thursday.

EVICTED, GIVEN MONEY Mother of Girl Cripple Forced Out of Home for Lack of Rent. By United Press OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 16—Eviction from her home because she was S3O behind in her rent, was a blessing in disguise today to Mrs. Clara Oriau, 40, a widow, mother of a 5-year-old cripple girl* More than $lB was turned over to the distressed woman by a crowd of men and women who attacked the evicting agents and movers and by members! of a police riot squad. Mrs. Oriau found refuge with a charity organization.

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Tears and recriminations marked the scene in a Los Angeles courtroom when Clara Bo v. movie star, took the witness stand to testify in the trial of her former secretary, Daisy De Voe, w r ho is charged with embezzling from Miss Bow. This shows Miss Bow, her face bandaged because of a recently removed cyst, on the witness stand as she identified the expensive coats bought by her secretary; inset is Miss De Voe.

Daisy Victor So Far in Court Room Clashes of Personalities Between Girls. By Lnited Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16.—Loser so far 1m every clash of personalities with her ox-secretary in the court room. Clara Bow. red-headed film star, today was curious to see how' tljo blonde Daisy De Voe would act on the witness stand in her own defense, “with every one gazing at her.” Clara wasn't in court Thursday. Rex Bell, screen cowboy, and Clara's asserted “boy friend.” said that the “It”, girl’s interests in the trial had languished until-Daisy is called ta the stand. .

FILM ACTOR JAILED Duncan Renaldo Is Held by Immigration Officials. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Jan. 16.—Duncan Renaldo, motion picture actor, feund himself in jail today on a charge of illegally entering this country. The premiere of his latest picture, ‘’Trader Horn,” is just three days away. Renaldo, who admitted that his true name was Basil Coyanos, and that he w r as a Rumanian, was arrested by immigration officials who charged he entered this country at Baltimore in 1921 as’ a seairian. and stayed here instead of departing with his ship. He was expected to be released on bond today. Officers said Renaldo swore lie was an American citizen when he went to Africa a year ago to film "Trader Horn.” He previously had appeared in "The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” v BRIDGE PLANS REVISED Park Board Decides Against Use of Wooden Spans in Future. Departure from the precedent of installing wooden footbridges over small bodies of water on park board property was suggested Thursday when plans for a bridge • over Pleasant run at Le Grande avenue were studied. Jackiel Joseph, president, suggested that the engineering department obtain two used "I” beams, anchor them and pour concrete between them for a floor and thus effect a more durable and lasting structure. Other board members concurred. 23,000 WITHOUT FOOD Number of Texans Requiring Aid Esvimated by Red Cross. By United Press ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Jan. 16.—Mi<£ western headquarters of the American Red Cross estimated today that 23,000 persons in droughtaffected areas of Texas either noware dependent on the organization for food, or will be shortly.

QUAKE TOLL MOUNTS Mexican Reports Set Death Figure Above 100. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16—The \ earthquake-wrecked city of Oaxaca, j lying in the mountains 200 miles south and east of the capital, continued today to a mounting toll of deaxl and injured from the tremors which shook most of Mexico Wednesday night. Unconfirmed advices' report that more than one hundred persons were dead, v

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Iriterview'ed in her home, Miss Bow’s voice grew shrill as she told how she had “hated to tes.ify against . Daisy.” whom she accuses of using the secretarial position to "rob her right and left.” "I didn’t wantta sit up there and tell a lotta stuff on Daisy. I felt like a heel. Honest, I did,” Clara mourned. Daisy Wins Skirmishes “But what’s a girl gonna do? Let a little blonde do her out of a lotta dough; and get away with it? She took a deep breath on her cigaret. “Not me, mister, not me.” Clara has fared badly to date in her personal skirmishes in court with Daisy. She wept when she testified to her former frfendsnip with Miss De Voe. . - . • Another time she retreated under the gaze es Miss De Voe’s blue eyes arid screamed: ‘“All right go ahead and sneer at me, Daisy!” . - Third Degree Denied A comely woman investigator from the district attorney’s office, who took Daisy into cutspdy when the former secretary w'as first accused of misappropriating bank funds belonging to Miss Bow, had a few' things to say Thursday on the subject of the "third degree.” Miss Marjorie Fairchild, the policewoman in question, was called in to refute the defense contention that the secretary's confession was obtained by “third degree” methods. Miss Fairchild told with perfect composure how she and James Cline, another investigator, arreptea Miss De Voe in conducting a roundup of jewelry, letters, telegrams and checks the secretary allegedly took with her when she left the Bow home. Tells of Girl's Arrest All of which testimony, it developed, was to show just how nice officers of the law' treated suspects. “Miss De Voe asked me if I would let her telephone her mother and tell her she w’as sending a man out to her house to get a watch -nd that she was not to ask the man any questions,” Miss Fairchild said. "I let her do this and she told me she was glad Mr. Cline and I had been assigned to this case because we had treated her so well ” Miss De Voe, she said, was reluctant to go home because she didn't want her mother to "know she was in trouble,” the police woman said. Said Clara Had Too Much "I asked her why she had done! these things she w’as accused of.”! said Miss Fairchild, "and she told me that she just couldn't see herj family and herself doing without; such things when Miss Bow had so much money and she was so reckless with it ' "She said that when she first went into Miss Bow’s employ she had not taken anything, but that; when she had seen how reckless Miss Bow was she realized how easy it would be.” Miss Dc Voe. chic as usual in black and white, maintained her usual calm while the police woman .was testifying. r

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JOBLESS MAY BE AIDED BY GASTAMDS State’s $3,000,000 Likeiy to Be Made Available by Legislature. SENATE GROUP ACTIVE Unemployment Committee Plans to Introduce Bill for Quick Distribution. More than $3,000,000 in the cities, counties and towms state gasoline tax funds may be made available to local communities for road work to relieve unemployment through proposed joint action of both houses of the Indiana legislature. Through the unemployment committee of the senate it is planned to introduce a concurrent resolution permitting the distribution of these funds now. rather than on March 1, as heretofore. Although this action was planned for today, it could not be taken as the resolutions were not prepared before the house adjourned. The matter will be taken up the first thing, under suspension of rules, when the session reconvenes at 2 p. m. Monday, it was announced upon adjournment by LieutenantGovernor Edgar D. Bush. William Cosgrove, assistant stats auditor, stated today that there is more than $3,000,000 in the cities, counties and towns fund and that the state highway department owes the fund another $600,000. Sullivan Was Unsuccessful The department has paid back $1,000,000 to this fund, which was borrowed last summer. E. Kirk McKinney, president of the Indianapolis works board, today said the city can use immediately its share ot the fund. Several street improvement projects havo been delayed for 1931 due to lack of funds Receipt of the money probably would bring about resumption of the entire program. McKinney said and aid in relieving the unemployment situation. The city receives approximately $200,000 from the fund. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan tried several months ago to get some of this money for use on Indianapolis streets, but was unsuccessful. The city still can use its share, but Auditor Harry Dunn of Marion county said that there is sufficient money in their gravel road fund to finance all th3 county road work that can be provided at this season. Las* year the county's share in the gas tax was $55,000.

Launched by Lindlcy Movement to distribute the funds grew out of the launching by Sena- 7 tor Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep., Fountain, Vermilion and Warren), of an unemployment committee to see what could be done for the distressed unemployed at Clinton. Director John J. Brown of the state highway department, visited the district and reported relief in the matter of road work there ia needed sorely. Under the distribution plan, Vermilion county would have approximately $30,840 available for the road work. Will Ask Ogden OpinionCosgrove stated that Auditor Floyd E. Williamson will ask an opinion of Attorney-General James M. Ogden as to whether or not the mon-y can be distributed before March 1, by resolution of the legislature. The state will lose 2 per cent interest on the funds and banks holding them are likely to protest'at large withdrawals at this time, it was said. Another plan is to have the budget committee make more money avialable for maintenance work by the state highway department. This would be done by borrowing from the construction funds, where money is needed to match federal aid, which has been permitted to pile up at Washington while the department here went broke and borrowed money. Brown and state highway officials conferred with the budget committee regarding this fund’s transfer today, but no agreement was reached. WOUNDED MAN FOUND IN WOMAN’S APARTMENT Slashed Wrists, Blood, Indicate Suicide Attempt, Say Police. Mystery of a wrecked apartment in which police found a man. blood streaming from gashes on the wrists, ( became more tangled as the victim persisted in changing stories to police at city hospital. He changed his name from Lester Scherer. 21, Martinsville, to Lester Smith, no address. He said the apartment, at 228 East Thirteenth street, was torn up when he arrived. In his pocket police found a safety razor blade, blood-stained, and his lips were caked with blood, indicating he may have swallowed poison and slashed his wrists in a double suicide attempt. Police are seeking Miss Marie* Bailey, tenant of the apartment, and have charged Smith with burglary. DEMAND TARIFF ON OIL Extra fusion Threat Is Hurled at Congress by Senator-Elect. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—A resolution demanding that congress immediately pass a tariff on oil, under threat of an extra session, waa presented to the Governor’s oil conference today by Senator- Elect Goro of'Oklahoma, and* Representative - Elect McOugin 'Rep , Kan.). '