Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1931 — Page 9

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BARNEY OLDFIELD, NEARLY BROKE, TAKES OFFICE JOB

$807,000 LOOT 1$ WORTHLESS TO ROBBERS Two Bandits Stage Daring Holdup in Washington: Profits Zero. BILLS CUT IN HALVES Money Sent From Bank to Be Ground Into Pulp Has No Value. By L luted Prc.ts WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Two bandits today invaded union station, blackjacked a mail clerk, seized three registered pouches consigned to the federal treasury—and got a mass of worthless currency for their pains. The money with which the robbers escaped was destined from die New York federal reserve bank to the treasury's reduction division, to be ground into pulp. But already the bills, having a face value of $307,000, had been cut in halves in New York and perforated. The holdup was the first mail robbery in the capital’s history. Its perpetrators must have dreamed of a life of luxury and case when in the dim light of early morning they first glanced into the pouches they seized. The sacks were crammed with neat bundles. In an instant, however, those dreams must have been shattered, for the packets were only half as long as good United States currency should be. If the bandits cared to look over their loot still closer they discovered that not only were the bills cut in two, but they did not even have the two pieces of any bill. For when the federal reserve ships old money to the treasury, it sends half the bills in one lot and the other half later. Already onehalf of all the bills the bandits took repose in the treasury. Now police are looking around Washington dumps for the other half, on the supposition the bandits soon discarded the pouches in disgust. And postal inspectors are beginning a relentless search for two men who have nothing to show for their outlawry. EINSTEIN ASSERTS UNIVERSE EXPANDING New Questions Submitted for Answer by Scientist. By United Press \ * PASADENA, Cal., Feb. 12. Elaborating upon a previous announcement that he no longer regarded the universe as limited, Dr. Albert Einstein, during the course of a lecture at the Mt. Wilson observatory laboratories declared that recent discoveries might tend to show that the universe is expanding. . The new questions remaining to be answered, he added, are these: If the universe is expanding, will it ever stop? If it continues to expand, will it become so loosely connected that laws of nature will refuse to function?

KENTUCKY ’LEGGERS ADVERTISE PRODUCT Whisky Prices Quoted in Sign on House, Dry Raiders Find. By United Press LOUISVILLE. Ky., Feb. 12.—Prohibition agents in western Kentucky reported today that the eighteenth amendment as far as the mountaineers of Halloway county are concerned, is just a pleasant little joke. On a house they raided they found a big sign which read: “Carter Ridge Distilling Company, manufacturers of pure grain alcohol, red whisky $4 per gallon: white whisky $3 per gallon. Strictly cash." “Officials” of the company fled and agents confiscated 400 gallons of whisky. KIWANIS HEARS M’NUTT U. S. Subject to Rule bj Minority, I. U. Law School Dean Says. “People of the United States today are subjected to the rule of organized minorites which have selfish motives and are without thought towards the nation as a whole. “This control is a departure from our form of government,” Paul V. McNutt, dean of Indiana university law school, told the Kiwanis Club at the Claypool Wednesday. He also attacked Red organizations, who operate under different guises and seek to undermine government. CHURCHWOMAN IS DEAD Funeral Services Saturday for Mrs. Ethel May Craft. Funeral sen-ices for Mrs. Ethel May Craft, wife of Dean H. Craft, 3223 Washington boulevard, will be held in Tabernacle Presbyterian church at 2 Saturday afternoon. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Craft died at home late Wednesday. She was active in church and W. C. T. U. work. Besides the husband, her mother, Mrs. W. D. Brown, and a daughter, Miss Dorthea Craft, survive her. Los Angeles Paper Sold LOS ANGELES. Feb. 12.—The Los Angeles Evening Express, founded in 1871 and the oldest daily newspaper In this city, has been purchased by Paul J. Block, head of an eastern chain of newspapers. Block will assume control next Monday. \

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Famed Knight of Speedway, Sunk in Stock Crash, Seeks to Retrieve His Fallen Fortunes, Working as Clerk for Broker

BY ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor, NEA Service iCoovriclit. 1931. bv NEA Service. Inc.' ■pvETROIT, Feb. 12.—A clerk in *** the office of an investment house here is awaiting the chance to earn again the money that once came to him with considerable case and swiftnessOn a nominal salary now, not enough to pay his weekly living expenses, this clerk once commanded a high and profitable position in automobile racing, and has records to show the hundreds of thousands of dollars he

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Here’s SIO,OOO worth of horseflesh, this champion Arabian steed having been purchased by Philip K. Wrigley, noted for his .Arab stables, for his Catalina Island (Cal.) rancho. The horse’s name is Kaaba. Grieving Man Kills Self By United Press ROYAL CENTER, Ind., Feb. 12. Grief over the death of his wife on Friday was believed to have prompted the suicide of Henry J. Kruse, 59, at his farm home near here. He killed himself with a shotgun.

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13 Hoodoo? No! Golden Wedding Will Be Observed Friday: It’s Lucky Day.

FIFTY years of celebrating the 13th of February as a wedding anniversary makes the day hold no terrors when it falls on Friday. On Friday, Mr. and Mrs. George Meyer. 1401 Wright street, observe their golden anniversary. A reception will be given Friday night at the home for friends of the Meyers. Meyer is 76 and his wife, 65, He came to this city as a youth from a farm near Julietta and engaged in the trucking business until retirement. Mrs. Meyer was born in Germany. They were married in 1881. They have five sons, William, Hairy, Albert, Carl and Lawrence Meyer, and a daughter, Mrs. FYank Simon, all of Indianapolis.

LOBBYISTS REGISTER Sixteen Names Added to Legislative List. List of registered lobbyists in the office of the secretary of state grew to new lengths today with the addition of the following: Indiana Department of the American Lesion—John W. Scott. Garv: Floyd L. Younit. Vincennes: Ralph Gates.' Coliimbuia City; Cherman Minton. New Albany: OUie A. Davis. Indianapolis, and Jay E. White, South Bend. Indiana Builders' Suddlv Association—R. H. Hildebrand. South Bend: H. H. Ellis. Greencastle; Rov Metztter. Lebanon: C. E. Parsons. Indianapolis: Sherman Harlan, Anderson: Edwin Steers and Bert Beasley. Indianapolis. Insurance Federation of Indiana—Fred M. Dickerman. Joseph G. Wood. Indianapolis. Board of Temperance and Social Welfaie. Disciples of Christ —James A. Crain. Indianapolis.

ALTERING HOUSING LAW DRAWS FIRE

Charge that the senate bill to change the Indiana housing law is drafted to benefit contractors with no thought of the harm to the public generally and particularly to the poor tenement dwellers. was made at a public hearing on the bill before judiciary A committee of the senate Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. >" ion Ftliows Bacon of Evansville. who .was active in drafting 'he present law, led spokesmen against the change.

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“knocked down" on the stock market. * Now all that is left of this is his fame—the one thing that can t be taken away from Venia Eli Oldfield, or Barney Oldfield as he is known. For Barney Oldfield, first of the line of automobile racers, first man to drive a car around a track at the “break-neck” speed of a mile a minute, and the man “with gave Henry Ford his start,” is practically broke today, trying hard to recover a small fortune he had lost on the stock exchange. Had Barney sold his paper hold-

AIRPORT FUND BILL FAVORED FOR PASSAGE Mars Hill Would Get $70,000 Measure Emerging From Whittling. The long suffering Mars Hill airport appropriation bill, hacked to pieces and repatched several times in committee, finally is in concrete form and recommended to the house of representatives for passage. Apparently doomed to indefinite postponement or at best ap appropriation described as “paltry,” the airport bill suddenly took anew lease on life Wednesday when Representative Hardin S. Linke (Dem., Bartholomew), ways and means chairman, recommended its passage with a $45,000 appropriation this year and $25,000 over a twoyear period for maintenance. As the measure originally was introduced by Representative Gerritt M. Bates (Dem., Marion) an appropriation of $150,000 was sought. This demand, however, was given short shrift in committee so a second measure at half the figure was introduced. Ways and means members pared and whittled the second bill until it was amended to appropriate SIO,OOO over a two-year period. Then came Linke's report for the $70,000 appropriation passage. The funds are sought for the benefit of the One hundred thirteenth observation squadron, Indiana National Guard, and would be used to build steam heated plane hangars. Officers of the squadron told the ways and means committee no further federal equipment for the squadron can be obtained until army building regulations are complied with.

City’s Loot Total More Than S7OO for Night’s Crime Activities. Police radio squads under Lieutenant Leonard Forsythe surrounded a pharmacy at Nineteenth street and Martindale avenue early today, and captured two Negroes in the basement and a third hiding near the store. Charged with burglarly are George Colquiette, 18, of 840 Camp street, and Perry Jackson, 20, of 1620 Sheldon street, while William Martin, 20, of 1416 Martindale avenue, is held on a vagrancy charge. Behind the store police found a stolen automobile, but all three denied having taken or used it. The pharmacy is owned by Charles McKenzie, 4428 Carrollton avenue. From an auto owned by Charles W- Stewart, Delphi, parked at 402 North Delaware street, Wednesday night, thieves took a fur coat valued at SSOO, and a bag of books worth sl4, Stewart told police. In twenty minutes that occupants of the apartment were absent late Wednesday, sneak thieves entered the home of Miss Elnora Hummel and Miss Mildred Brosliier, Apt. 1. at 516 North Pershing avenue, and took jewelry valued at about $175. Answering a call for a battery, and taking change for'a S2O bill as requested in the call, an attendant of the DeLux Sendee station, 233 West Eighteenth street, was robbed of sl6 on Sixteenth street, between Illinois and Meridian streets, Wednesday nightFourteen dresses were stolen from the home of Miss Myrtle Mount, 533 South Harding street, police were told. SIOO Loss in Meat Fire By Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind., Feb. 12.—A quarter of a ton of meat being cured in a concrete smoke house here was spoiled when a fire became too hot. The meat was owned by Frank Hubner. A loss of SIOO is covered by insurance.

The bill was defended by its author, Senator Chester A. Perkins (Dem., St. Joseph and Merritt Harrison, president of the Indiana Building Congress, on the ground that it merely modernized the old law, which was passed in 1909. The Perkins bill would permit construction of 9 4-foot ceilings, instead of the 9 -foot minimum, legalize kitchenettes and permits windowless bathrooms, where venUtating syfta, ar e provided. .

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ings just before that crash of November, 1929. he would have owned a fortune estimated at more than a quarter million dollars. an u TODAY Barney Oldfield Is broke, so far as ready cash is concerned. But he still has something to show from his earlier successful days. There's a beautiful home at Beverly Hills, Cal, which he values at between $125,000 and $150,000. He has been living there with his wife, whom he married six years ago, and with his 15-vcar-old daughter, Betty, whom the present Mrs. Oldfield had adopted previous to their marriage. He still owns several other pieces of real estate in Beverly Hills and he holds 2.000 shares of one stock, although not outright. But these aren’t bringing in anything right now, and so Barney has had to go to work. Barney doesn’t feel bad about that at all. In fact he likes the idea of buckling down after a rather carefree and liberal existence. And he’s glad he’s starting over again in Detroit, the city that gave him his start back in 1902. an u BARNEY is 53 now, no longer the reckless muscular young man who would do anything any one dared him to do. His speech and actions are quite opposite today. Imagine him, twenty years ago, saying this: “I don’t believe in any driver going fifty to sixty miles an hour on the highway, hogging the road and breaking all traffic laws. “In fact, I wouldn’t have enough nerve to do it myself. Furthermore, it’s setting a bad example for young America. I take no chances on the road.” Barney says if it hadn’t been for him, Henry Ford might never have entered the automobile game. This incident of how he “made” Henry Ford still rankes in Barney Oldfield’s mind, for the old-time racer feels Ford, on his part, could have given him a start. “I was a bicycle racer with the late Tom Cooper in those days,” Oldfield recalls. “We heard of Henry Ford and his efforts to build an automobile that would go. He had built two cars and neither would budge because the fuel wouldn’t move up hill to the engine. a a a “TT'ORD, disgusted, left his cars IT in a barn on the track at Grosse Point, near Detroit, and would have quit right there hadn’t Tom and I come down to take a try at it. “Tom bought one of the cars from Ford for $350. Ford wouldn’t have his name mentioned with it, so Tom called it the ‘Cooper Special.’ ” That was in the fall of 1902. Oldfield and Cooper took the car out, looked it over and decided to make a few changes in the engine. Backed by Carl Fisher, now famous millionaire auto race promoter, the two pioneer racers continued to work on the original Ford racer, further improving it in preparation for a five-mile race at Grosse Point. It needed plenty of muscle to steer and control that car, so Oldfield was picked to drive. That was on Oct. 2, 1902. nan “TT'ord was still doubtful about JF the performance of that car,” Barney recalls, “and even let it be known to others that he couldn’t be held responsible if anything happened to me or the machine. Alexander Winton, I remember, was in that race, too. “WeH, I made the five miles in the record time of 5 minutes 28 seconds, and one of the men who carried me off the track on. their shoulders was Henry Ford!” That's what started Barney Oldfield on his great racing career —and that, says Bamey, is what really started Henry Ford on his way to fame and fortune.

John Gilbert’s Shaving Mug Irks Ina Claire, So They Live Apart

r>y United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Ina Claire, the actress, and her actor husband, John Gilbert, are living apart, she disclosed while stopping here en route to Hollywood, because they can afford to do so, and she “would rather be her husband’s mistress than his housewife.” Admitting that she is temperamental and “not so easy to get along with,” Miss Claire said she didn't think the public should “worry”

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“In the average home,” she said, “the wife must stumble occasionally over her husband's shaving mug, and the husband is continually being disillusioned by seeing cosmetics that are evidence of his wife's need to be beautiful.” Miss Claire, who said she is through with Broadway for good, asserted there is something “fascinating” about living apart for any couple who could afford it. “It has the of living in sin,” she said.

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Although owner of the beautiful Beverly Hills home shown at upper left, Barney Oldfield, pioneer auto racer, is starting over again in a Detroit broker's office. He’s Shown at right, reading the ticker tape. Below he is shown with Mrs. Oldfield. At right is Betty, their 15-year-old daughter.

DEATH DRIVER FACES CHAROE Daughter of Kokomo Resident Dies of Injuries. B-y Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 12.—Miss Helen Sample, 23, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Sample of Kokomo, died of injuries suffered at Xenia, 0., while a passenger in a taxicab driven by Ernest Haynes, who is under arrest on a manslaughter charge. At the time of the accident, Miss Sample was en route to the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors’ orphans home where she was employed. She missed a bus and engaged the Haynes cab for the trip. It is charged Haynes drove the cab directly against a train. The vehicle was dragged a distance of twenty feet and it was with much difficulty that Mis Sample was removed from the wreckage. A portion of a windshield wiper penetrated her skull, both hips and the pelvis were broken, throat cut and an eye burst. Despite the injuries she lived two days during which she recognized and spoke to her parents. At the coroner’s inquest Haynes said “everything went black” as he approached the train. A nurse at a hospital to which he was removed said he had been drinking. He suffered four broken ribs. • UTILITY BILL PASSED House Acts to Enable City to Buy Rail System. Legislation enabling the city of Indianapolis to purchase and operate the Street Railway Company, if such a purchase becomes desirable, was passed by the house of representatives Wednesday and sent on to the senate for final action. Introduced by Representative John F. White (Dem., Marion), the measure increases the bonded indebtedness limit of the Indianapolis utility district from 1 to 2 per cent and amends the enabling act passed in 1929 to permit the city’s purchase of the Citizens’ Gas Company.

They are being “different ” she said, merely because they realize they should be to preserve their happiness. “We are both stars,” she pointed out, “and both inclined to be nervous. Actors and actresses have many things in their work that need adjustment. Throwing two such people into the same home with daily need for many adjustments ig a bad thing for happiness in marriage.” “Marriage should be an individual thing,” she continued. “The certificates are all alike, except in name, but the lives of the married person can’t be arranged like patterns. To preserve a marriage, the two persons must use their heads and figure out The best thing for them, not follow custom.” One thing she makes sure of in her home. Miss Claire said, is always to have all her cosmetics in their proper places.

Text of Pope’s Speech , Broadcast to World

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—The pope’s speech today in Latin, translated through courtesy of the Columbia Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the United Press, follows: “Speaking in the name of the Prince of the Apostles by divine command, a doctrine destined for all nations and all people. Listen, all people, and hear! Availing ourselves of the wonderful work of Senator Marconi, we today use and bless with the help of God this wonderful invention. “Hear ye, heavens, islands, people of the whole world, for you let our first word be ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace toward men of good will.’”

“My words shall be words of peace to all In heaven and on earth, especially to those who are of the household of the faith. I address the pastors and all men in -ind without the fold in the whole world of whom Christ is the pastor and the king. “We speak to all the cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, prelates and priests, who are the special object of our pastoral solicitude. We implore you all to be worthy of your divine vocations, that you make your people the true flock of Christ and that you yourselves become the model of the flock. May our Lord Jesus Christ be present to you in every good work.” a a a A7 E s P eak also to the l ait y. that VV you may be enriched with wisdom and doctrine and the better gifts of God. Truly heavenly is your calling and we pray that your actions may be truly worthy of the service of God. “Now v:e turn to our very beloved sons and daughters of Christ, who are laboring on the mission fields for the propagation of the faith, shepherding the flock far from the Holy See. “Our hearts swell with love for you, and if for some more than others then especially for you bishops and priests and laity laboring as the apostles prescribed. Y’ou are the people of God; a royal priesthood, a holy nation. We pray that you may labor as the first apostles of Christ labored and as they, may you also my friends bring about the glory of Christ. “From our hearts we greet you. Hail, soldiers of Christ. We salute all you priests, whether native or coming from afar, and all the good cateclists who are asisting them ‘in labor and painfulness, in much watchings, in'hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.’ aa a a WHEREFORE, let your piety be known to all, so that whatever is pure is good, is holy and of wholesome report—these things think and these things do, that in everything God may be honored. Our prayer, our thoughts, our free occupation is that those outside people may return to the unity of Christ, so that there may be one fold and one shepherd. “We now turn our thoughts to the civil rulers of the world, to remind them that there is no power save from God. We speak to them, exhorting them to rule their peoples in all charity and justice and ask that their subjects may be as peoples. not obeying men, but God. Those who resist the legitimate

ASKS CODIFICATION OF INSURANCE LAWS

Resolution calling for the appointment of a commission of nine members to investigate and codify all insurance laws of the state and report its recommendations to the 1933 general assembly was among the twenty-four bills and one resolution introduced Wednesday in the Indiana house. The resolution was sponsored by Representative Delph L. McKesson (Marshall!, Democratic floor leader and chairman of the insurance committee of the house. A bill which would give persons serving indeterminate prison sentences the same good time allowances as prisoners on determinate sentences was introduced by Representative Fabius Gwin (Dem., Martin and Dubois). The good time ranges from.one month for one year's sentence to seven years ar\d eleven months on twenty-one-yew sentences, 'W:

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authority do so under their own ruin. “I speak to the rich and to the poor, to the rich that they rightly use their wealth and that they remember they are stewards one day to render an account of their possessions. To the rich, God has committed the poor as the precious charge that the rich remember then the word of God, to seek spiritual rather than temporal goods. a :* a “T SPEAK to the poor in the name of the Lord. Let them regard the poverty of Christ our Lord and Savior, not neglecting spiritual riches, not seeking out toward iniquity. We earnestly beseech both employers and employes to seek and to give only what is just, striving by every possible means to bring out useful accord. “Last in mention, but foremost in thought, we address ourselves to those who are the enemies of God in the human race, offering prayer for them to our Lord and. commending them to the charity of men. ‘Come to me all ye who labor and arc heavy laden, for I will refresh you.’ “To the city and the world and to all dwelling therein from our heart, we impart the apostolic benediction, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.”

Talk Not Cheap Chaplin Thinks Silence Is Is Golden; Refuses Radio Contract.

By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Charlie Chaplin's desire to remain a silent figure to his film followers cost him a $650,000 radio contract. Howard Millman, representing a national advertising agency, offered the pantomime comedian a contract calling for twenty-six radio talks of fifteen minutes’ duration each, at $25,000 each. Charlie to talk from any point he chose. A second offer calling for $130,000 for a series of electrical transcriptions also was refused, it was revealed today Carlyle Robinson, personal representative for Chaplin, said the refusal was based on Chaplin’s intention “to preserve at all costs the illusion of the character he had created on the screen.”

Electric utilities would be required to extend their service to rural residents along their lines upon petition of 5 per cent of the prospective consumers., by provisions of anew house bill. The cost would be borne by'the consumers in sixty monthly payments. Another new measure would prohibit the use of fireworks except in public exhibitions. A duplicate of the senate bill to tax utility poles and electrical contacts put in Its appearance in the house. . Designed to make things harder for the indiscriminate drinker, another new bill would prohibit the retail sale of anti-freeze mixtures containing more than a 10 per cent solution of menthanol. All such mixtures sold for any purpose than for auto radiators marked •’poison,'’ the bill also j^ovides.

SHELVING OF LOAN SHARK BILLS FLAYED Wrath Is Stirred in House by Delay in Committee on Measures. STRONG LOBBY IS BUSY Public Hearing Scheduled and Fireworks Display Is Forecast. Indiana's house of representatives, obviously bewildered at the “pushing around ’ being given three important bills designed to curb so-called “petty loan sharks,” today looked to a public hearing to throw 6ome light on any underlying reasons for transfer of the bills from one committe to another. A strong lobby is known to be seeking defeat of the measures, which, members claim, would wreck Indiana’s small loan business. That this reaches a staggering figure is indicated by preliminary data compiled by the state banking department, showing that petty loans totaled approximately $13,000,000 in Indiana in 1929. Speculation freely indulged in for some time came to a climax on Wednesday afternoon at the close of a humdrum session of the house, when authors of the petty loan bills charged excessive delay by judiciary A committee, and obtained their transfer to judiciary b. Irate Over Delay Irate at cancelation of a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday night, Representative Clyde Karrer (Dem., Marion) pointed out that two of the bills were introduced the first and second days of the session. He was joined in the transfer demand by Representative William E. Wilson (Dem., Hancock and Madisoni, who also contributed to the bewilderment of the house by asserting angrily: “I want to say that all members here are on a par in intelligence.” Representative Fabrns Gwin (Dem., Dubois and Martin), judiciary A chairman, immediately was on his feet to explain the hearing cancelation, saying he was unable to get a committee quorum and has been waiting for the state banking department to supply him with loan business data. “To Much Talk Already” Transfer of the bills to judiciary B was the signal for a descent on Representative Chester K. Watson (Dem., Allen and Whitley). “You’re going to hold public hearings on these bills, aren't you?” he was asked. Before he replied, Representative John D. T. Bold (Dem., Vanderburg), his seat neighbor, interjected: “You’d better, Watson. There’s been too much talk about these bills already.” Watson then said he would hold a public hearing. Karrer’s loan bill slashes the petty loan interest from 3!4 to 1 per cent a month. Wilson’s two measures reduce it to 8 and 10 per cent a year. A third Wilson bill on petty loans has been postponed indefinitely. So They Wonder “Most unusual proceeding—some of us wonder what’s back of it,” is the attitude of many of the representatives, as expressed by Representative Miles J. Furnas <Rep., i Randolph), Republican caucus chairman. Furnas declared Wednesday night he favored an investigation “before the thing goes any further.” ; His comment was regarded by some j observers as an indication that a resolution may be introduced in the house today calling for a probe. Conjecture as to the significance of a semi-private conversation betwen a lobbyist and one member of the house has been revived overnight. “I’m for ‘such and such’ bills,” the member was overheard saying to the lobbyist. “We’ve got a million dollars to defeat them,” was the reply. “Well,” returned the representative, reflectively. “I'm always willing to listen to reason.” TWO SLASHED IN FIGHT Negro Cuts Man Who May Die, Also Injures Son. In a free-for-all battle in a bedroom at 412 Rankin street, the home of Jess Eavans, 28, Negro, William Griffen, 59, Negro, 1538 Cornell avenue, cut not only Eavans, but slashed his son, Clarence Griffen, 26. of 742 Indiana avenue. City hospital physicians say Eavans may die. WAGON DRIVER KILLED Felix Robbins Dies of Injuries in Fail When Wheel Breaks. Thrown five feet to the pavement on his head when a coal wagon wheel collapsed at Harding and Washington streets late Wednesday, Felix Robbins, 69, of 153 North Blake street, driver, was injured fatally. He died in city hospital within two hours after the accident. TWO DIE IN -LA MES Children Perish as Three Other Members of Family Are Injured. By United Press AKRON, 0.. Feb. 12.—Two children were killed and three other members of the Joseph Sourek family injured today when fire destroyed their home near here. The bodies of Betty, 16. and Joseph 6, were found in the ruin*.