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‘SMASH RULE of utilities; SENATE TOLD Moorhead Demands Passage of His Holding Company Bill. STILL IS HANGING FIRE Commissioner Singleton Is Flayed by Opponents of Measure. Who is going to rule this country, the people or the utilities?” This was the challenge hurled in the senate today by Senator Robert L. Moorhead (Rep., Marion) in urging final passage of his utility holding company bill. The bill would give the public service commission jurisdiction over utility holding companies in rate investigations £iich as it now has in the case of operating companies. Utility lobbyists and senatorial opponents of the measure declare the public service commission already has complete power in rate investigations and Senator John L. Niblack (Rep., Marion) inquired why there should be any fear of the bill's passage if such is the case. Left Hanging Fire After an hour of debate the matter was left hanging fire as the senate adjourned for lunch. Senators Earl Rowley (Rep., Laporte and Starke) and Harry K. Cuthbertson (Dem., Howard and Miami) led the attack on the bill. Rowley vented his anger on Frank Singleton, public service commissioner, who refused to accede to the senator’s wishes last year in the flaporte Telephone Company rate increase case. Moorhead called the chair's attention to the fact that this was not talking on the bill, but LieutenantGovernor Edgar D. Bush let Rowley ‘alk on in the same vein. Warns of Reprisals Cuthbertson warned of a possible broadside from the Insull utilities i hreatening to refuse to spend $50,000,000 on improvements in Indiana if the bill Is passed. He said the bill will prevent solution of unemployment and pointed out that utility magnates ‘'must be treated kindly.” Senator Cylde Hoffman (Rep., Marion), who supported the bill last session, came out against it because the Indianapolis bankers signed a round robin for its defeat. “These Indianapolis bankers are interested in bonds and securities ■sales,” Senator Winfield • Miller >Rep.. Marion) asserted. "But here is a Jill designed to reduce electric rates for the people by exposing the 1 remendous overhead engendered by holding company operation.” BEER UNDER PRESSURE Raiders at Mishawaka Find New Kind of Five-Gallon Cans. Ty Timet Special SOUTH BEND, lnd., Feb. 13— Federal prohibition officers here are in possession of latest in bootlegging equipment following a raid on the home of Marcel Spcybrock in Mishawaka The raiders found beer provided in five-gallon pressure cans. Once pressure is provided with a bicycle tire pump through a valve, beer pours from the containers in a steady stream from a spigot in the top of the can. Thirty of the cans were destroyed. Speybvoek was released on SI,OOO bond following arraignment. EARTH TREMORS SEVERE New Zealand Hit Again by Quakes; Little Damage. P i United Press MELBOURNE, Feb. 13.—Violent earth shocks occurred in the Hawkes bay region of North Island. New Zealand, today, where several towns were virtually destroyed and about 200 lives were lost in an earthquake a short time ago. Little damage was reported. BRIDGE PARTY ROBBED Burglars Enter Home and Take Money From Purses. While a bridge party was in progress at the home of L. C. Sparks, Apt. 2, at 620 East Thirteenth street, late Thursday night, a burglar took about sll from purses of several women. Traflic Club to Ohio Session Indianapolis Traffic Club members will attend the Ohio Valley Shippers’ Advisory Board meeting in Columbus, 0.. March 17. William C. Ela, former postal inspector, spoke at the luncheon Thursday. Reports Made at C hurch Dinenr Department heads of the Northv.ood Christian church reported upon their activities for 1930 and plans for 1931 at a fellowship dinner held Thursday night attended by 100.

Thirteen Minus By United Press LOS ANGELES. Feb. 13 Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cheap, who have thirteen children, celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary today. Friday tho thirteenth. Only twelve of the children were expected for the celebration. but absence of the other was not duo to superstition. The thirteenth. Sister Alice Marie of St. Joseph's academy. Tucson, Ariz.. sent word she w*s too busy to attend.

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 239

THAT FOR A JINX!

Maybe They Don’t Know the Date

Defying today to do its “derndest,” the Scarf Club of Butler university held a "Jinx” party on the campus. Thelma Flack of 524 Rochester, at the top, is holding the 7 years’ bad luck with Ardith Wh i t m ire, 1022 North Pershing avenue, daring all with the umbrlela, and Helen Gearen, 4150 Guilford avenue, showing bravado with a "ladder” crawl.

Today in the day with a number thirteen, And it'* Friday on top, venting its spleen, (•lasses and catzes, umbrellas and such— Watch them today or walk with a crutch. Get a white donkey. Good luck for you! Park In your bed. That's what you do. OUT if you can’t find a white donkey or a Ben Turpin to look at, then it’s just too bad. If you figured on getting married today, stop the ceremony. Stop it right now. Your troubles of the hereafter will be more than little ones. For besides being Friday the 13th it’s drizzing rain, and a rain wedding is bound to wind up in a deluge of divorce allegations. If you planned to take a trip today, then call it off. Don't even take advantage of that ad that says “Pep-Em-Up, 98 cents." A holocaust* will come if you spill the salt shaker. And w : alking under a ladder is just as good as turning on the gas. 'i’ou haven’t a chance today. Tint is you haven't if you . believe in charms, voodoos, left-hind feet of rabbits. • • • But have a heart. If you get missed by bad luck today, ‘therc’rfc a couple of more this year. This is the “thirteenthing” year for the next eleven years with three Fridays falling on that numeral. Your second chance at a bad end will come in March. While the very, very, last opportunity to*go daisy-pushing for 1931 is ‘ in November. There arc more to come—in the ensuing years.

HIT BACK AT WOOD OVER REDISTRICTING

Dares Jinx By United Press CHICAGA, Feb. 13.—Roberta Simcoultz was 3 years old today, Friday the thirteenth. She invited thirteen playmates to her birthday party. Then, to offset the combination of thirteen’s, she presented each guest with a horseshoe and a rabbit’s foot.

LENIENCY IS DENIED Youth Shot in Auto Theft Attempt Sentenced. A youth's plea for leniency because he sustained probably permanent injuries when shot in an attempt to steal a car, fell on deaf ears today in criminal court. Judge Frank P. Baker sentenced Forrest Felton, 21, to serve five months on the Indiana state farm and pay a $25 fine. Frltman told Baker that his left leg, wounded in the attempted car theft, was •'withering'’ away and it might have to be amputated. The youth was captured while starting the car of George Wood, McCordsville, Sept. 19. Feltman’s accomplice, John Crady, was given a six months’ farm sentence by Baker several weeks ago. GUSHER GOES WILD Oklahoma City Menaced by Oil and Gas. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. Feb. 13.—A w ild gusher, the Mary Unsel well, showered Oklahoma City's residential district today with a stream of crude oil, flowing 600 barrels hourly, and added to this potential menace by emitting thick, low-lying gas clouds. The gas was held static by fog and rain, through which the oil plume pierced with a steady roaring. The well blew out last night, blasting its connections with tremendous press®:.

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ALL-HI HIT RAIN AIDS FARMERS Lower Temperatures Tonight to Halt Downpour. Indiana farmers today took new hope after all-night rains throughout the state gave the first break in the summer and winter drought that has stricken Indiana, especially in the southern section. Early today heads of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation and similar organizations declared the rain is “worth millions” to Indiana farmers. According to the weather bureau rain and snow’ flurries arc falling in various sections of the state today, but will stop tonight when the mercury, already dropping; strikes about 25. The rain, which was spotty during the day Thursday, turned into a steady downpour early Thursday night. Rainfall ranged from .4 of an inch to as high as .75 of an inch throughout the central section. Farmers found wells, nearly dry through lack of rain and snow, increased in contents today. The rain aided wheat and pastures and prospects for early plowing for oats and corn in the southern part of the state.

Bush and State Senators Assail Criticism of Congressmen. Republican state senators and their presiding officer, LieutenantGovernor Edgar D. Bush, today barked sharp reply to Congressman Will R. Wood’s censure of their reported unwillingness to tackle the reapportionment program. Press dispatches Thursday carried Wood’s expression of “astonishment” that “members of the Indiana senate” had decided “to obstruct reapportionment legislation.” “If Wood w’ould show us how. it is possible for a Republican senate and a Democratic house to work out a satisfactory reapportionment plan without wasting this legislature's time until it closes. I'd Welcome his help,” the LieutenantGovernor said. “If the congressman will attend to his business, we ll attend to ours,” -aid Senator John L. Niblack, (Rep., Marion). Senator French Clements (Rep,, Vanderbnrg) and Earl Rowley <Rep., La Porte and Starke) echoed the same sentiment. Senator Roy M. Friedly (Rep., Delaware), Republican senate caucus chairman, said that the antireapportionment ‘caucus” which prompted Wood's criticism was an informal meeting of house Republican leaders "and in no way is binding upon this senate.” Reading from a newspaper headline that he had blocked reapportionment, Lieutenant-Governor Bush asserted: “I feel I have been more or less maligned. There never has been any such disposition on my part or on that of Reoublican senators, so far as I know.” “The house Is interested in the tax question to the exclusion of all others,” he said. Senator Chester A. Perkins 'Dem., St. Joseph) reminded the senate his reapportionraent bill has lain in the reapportionment committee three weeks without action. Senator Glenn R. Slenker 'Rep., Carroll, Clinton and White), concluded: “We've got the tax problem t*> settle. Outside of the politicians, nc one is w ith reapportion - ment.”

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931

WORLD FACES WORST CRISIS IN ITS HISTORY War Scares Paralyze Hope for Immediate Return of Prosperity. EYES TURN TO AMERICA United States Expected to Furnish Leadership in Trade Revival. This is the second of a series on “The Road to Better Times,” by an international authority. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrioos-Howard Foreign Editor Not within living memory has the world, as a whole, faced a situation crammed with such sinister possibilities as now. The earth is like a busy nest of ant-hills, across which a blundering ox has dragged a devastating hoof, leaving the inhabitants milling around in dazed circles. In the business world it is axiomatic that an election year is an off year, due to political uncertainty. Today, however, not one country, but all the countries, are leading a sort of hand-to-mouth existence, marking time in their fear of what might happen. Constructive effort seems paralyzed the world over as people wait for the situation to clear itself up. Europe can't get back to normal for talking of “the next war.” In Asia a billion people are on the march, headed nobody knows exactly where. The Americas are being ing shaken by one revolution after another. The wonder is not that business is bad. but that it is even as good as it is. In the old world thrones are tottering, republics are shaky, dictators are riding for a fall, the tide of popular dissatisfaction is rising, and armaments are on the increase. Nationalistic outbursts are waxing hotter, and more frequent, tariff walls arc mounting, trade is falling off, strikes and lockouts are common. unemployment is growing and the purchasing power of the masses is waning. Soviet Russia, convinced that the rest of Europe is preparing to dismember her, is arming feverishly, militarily and economically. Capitalist Europe, equally certain that Moscow is plotting its overthrow, is sharpening the edges of its bayonets. Germany, increasingly restive under the treaty of Versailles, is threatening to kick over the traces, (Turn to Page Five) SUIT FILED BY WOMAN SENTENCED TO PRISON Wife of Anderson Man Smashed Furniture in Iloroe. r ,y I tines Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Feb. 13.—Mrs. Melvina Hopkins, who is under sentence to the Indiana prison for women for eighteen months, has filed a replevin suit in superior court seeking to recover furniture from her estranged husband, Clyde Hopkins. The plaintiff says the furniture belongs to her and that he is unlawfully retaining possession. A divorce suit filed several months ago by Mrs. Hopkins was heard in superior court recently. When Judge Bartlett H. Campbell refused to grant a decree, Mrs. Hopkins went home and found her husband awaiting her, ready, he says, to effect a reconciliation. She grabbed an ax and smashed several pieces of furniture and window glass before police arrived in response to a call by her husband. Arraigned in city court she was found guilty of maliciously destroying property and given the prison term.

CHARGE RUM 'RING' Federal Jury Indicts 8 in Liquor Cases. . . Eight alleged leaders in an Indianapolis. liquor ring, charged with conspiracy to violate the liquor law, were among-135 persons indicted by the federal grand jury today. C. R. Criswell and Earl Allen, aheged heads of the ring charged with transporting liquor from Florida to Indianapolis, were arrested last August by special prohibition agents here. A truck load of liquor was seized during transit at Memphis, Tenn, and later the headquarters of the gang, at 723 North Illinois street, were raided. Criswell is held under SIO,OOO bond and Allen under $5,000 bond Sixty-five indictments were returned in the Indianapolis division . ft University Head Dies By United Press CINCINNATI. Feb. 13,-The Rev. Father Hubert F. Brockman. S. J. president Xavier university here since 1923 and former principal of Loyola hall, St. Louis, died here las) night from pneumonia. Case Is Leased Chamber of Commerce case has been leased to Fortunat Mann, and will pass to his control next Monday. Mann formerly was with the Statler hotels and for the last three years, has been manager of the Virginia Sweet grille. Charge Two With Thefts Two Negro women were charged with having stolen goods from the Indiana Dry Goods store Thursday. They arc Catherine Stone. 20. 446 “take street, and Toles. 3, 911 West Vermont sweet.

U. S. AGREES TO RECALL MARINES ! FROM NICARAGUA j Plan Given Approval by President Moncada; Only Small Noncombatant Force to Remain After June.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—State Secretary Stimson today announced that President Moncada of Nicaragua had approved the agreement whereby all American marines on combat duty will be withdrawn from Nicaragua. The agreement provides for the withdrawal of all but a small detachment on noncombat duty, by June. The. agreement provides for strengthening the native guard by the addition of 500 men and a vigorous campaign by native forces against the insurrectionists. Using a $1,000,000 fund which the Nicaraguan government has in the Nicaraguan National bank, a good roads program will be carried out in the jungle region, and a school founded to train Nicaraguan officers, under other provisions of the program.

BIRTH CONTROL IS BEFORE CONGRESS

Margaret Sanger Leads in Attack on Old Law at Senate Hearing. Ey Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 —A million and a half mothers and fifteen million children have died because federal law forbids distribution of birth control information, Margaret Sanger told senators today, bringing the problem to congress after more than 100 years of agitation on the matter. She led a group of social scientists, physicians and clerics before a senate judiciary subcommittee, seeking a liberalized law to permit circulation of birth control advice through medical channels. Want Law Changed The bill, introduced by Senator Gillett (Rep., Mass.), would limit federal laws so that they would not apply to contraceptive information published by a government agency or medical society, and sent by any physician to any patient. It would also permit doctors to furnish contraceptive materials to a patient or to furnish her with the address of a clinic where information could be obtained. “This bill might well be the foundation of a mother’ ‘bill of rights,’” Mrs. Sanger said to the committee. Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, pro-fessor-of obstetrics at Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, pointed out the danger he is in, under the present law, if he gives advice on means of avoiding motherhood, even to a woman whose children might suffer from inherited disease. The Rev. Charles F. Potter, founder of the first humanist society of New York, argued that birth control prevents war and encourages earlier marriage. Overpopulation Problem Birth control was pictured as a way out of the unemployment dilemma by Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein, rabbi of the Jewish Institute of Religion of New York. “We should realize the relation of birth control and the unemployment crisis,” he said. “We are developing a surplus working class, but no new industries are on the horizon. Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild, social scientist of New York university, warned that the world now faces a critical problem of overpopulation, “giving rise to the phenomena of unemployment and war.” > This country alone increased its population by 16,000,000 in the last ten yearsNature's Remedies Arc Cruel “We must control population,” he stressed. “This great increase can not be projected into the next century. There arc no new continents to discover. “We arc forced to a choice, nature's remedies arc pestilence, war, disease and famine. Personally I prefer to substitute the more human method to the cruel natural process.” The birth control advocates’ ago by the Rev. Thomas R. Malthus, English theologist and political economist. He viewed with alarm the increase of population, and gave rise to the Malthusian theory, now known to most schoolboys. Malthus’ theory was predicated upon the belief that the more people there are, the less chance a person has to progress in this world. He suggested celibacy and delayed marriage as a remedy. Birth control advocates went him one step farther, suggesting medical control. Enforce Comstock Law This precipitated a century of | sensational clashes. Zea'ots of the j cause defied bans-, were jailed and i went on hunger strikes with mill- ! tant protests, they carried their; cases to the high courts of Britain j and America. But they failed to get i official recognition. * The movement was given a hard j blow in this country in 1873, when j Anthony Comstock. 29-year-old New England purity leader, put! through congress a bill making it a crime to send birth control informa- ; tion through the mails. For fortytwo years he fought to enforce this measure until in 1925 he died of overexertion Mrs. Sanger’s appearance today recalled a career in which she was variously arrested, tried and forced to serve sentences for violating Comstock's law.

Stimson said as a result of this program he believed the United States would be able to withdraw all of its marines after the Nicaraguan presidential elections of 1932. This program was worked out at recent conferences between Stimson and Matthew Hanna, minister to Nicaragua. It was kept confidential by the state department, however, until Moncada had approved it. In January. 1929, Stimson said, marine strength in Nicaragua was 5,000. Since then troops have been withdrawn successively in small detachments until there now are about 1,300. The secretary estimated that after the withdrawal in June, about 500 would remain.

POTTER KILLER SUSPECT HELD ‘Pittsburgh Hymie’ Charged With Murder. By United Press CLEVELAND, Feb. 13.—**Pitts* burgh Hymie” Martin, who boasts “I’m a gentleman, a rum runner—not a murderer,” formally was charged with the murder of William E. Potter, former councilman, today in a warrant issued by Prosecutor Ray T. Miller. Martin was arrested at Pittsburgh Thursday and subsequently identified as the elusive “M. J. Markus,” who rented the Parkwood drive apartment to which the former Republican leader was lured and there assassinated on the night of Feb. 3. In a copyright story today, the Cleveland Press said Martin was identified positively as “Markus” by Miss Queen Esther Morgan, 16. who together with a boy friend, saw the nattily attired renter slip into the suite shortly before Potter was believed killed. Miss Morgan lives in the same apartment building. “Rarin Bill” Potter was killed, police say, either because friends feared he would tell of city graft or because he double-crossed someone in a liquor racket. ADD $B3l TO FUND Donations Bring Red Cross Total to $49,270. Donations today to the Red Cross drought relief fund totaled $831.70. Including these donations, the fund now is $49,270. The drive quota, of the Indianapolis chapter is $72,000.

COMMITTEE AGREES ON BONUS LOANS

Expect to Report House Bill Today and to Pass It Next Week. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—A soldier bonus bill which will cost the government anywhere from $700,000,000 to $1,700,000,000 will be passed by the house some time next week. The measure will provide that a World war veteran may borrow not more than 50 per cent of the face value of his adjusted compensation certificate, and must pay 4!i per cent interest for this loan. This measure agreed upon by the house ways and means committee was formally reported today. Present, but tentative, plans call for it to be adopted under suspension of rules, to insure speed and avoid amendment. If the house plan is carried out the average veteran, who possesses an adjusted compensation certificate worth SI,OOO on which he never has borrowed will be able to borrow SSOO. This loan could be negotiated through a bank, but more likely it will be handled through the Veterans bureau or one of its regional offices. The veteran must pay 4’s per cent interest on this loan. If he does not pay back the SSOO, his certificate will be worth only a small amount in 1945, when it will be mature. In the case of the average veteran who possesses an adjusted compensation certificate worth SI,OOO. on which he has already borrowed the 22 per cent which has been available to him up to now, the case will be a little different. Under this new house bill Sam Brown could borrow the difference between 22 per cent and 50 per cent—which is 28 per cent—or approximately S2BO on the average certificate. On this he must pay 4’* per cent interest. * He is charged sen average o 1 6 per

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ROWBOTTOM IS INDICTED ON CHARGE OF TAKING BRIBES FOR POSTAL APPOINTMENTS

Who’s Scared? The matrimonially-inclined ducked today like a whale submerging. “Not a marriage license issued up to noon today. It's Friday the Thirteenth and lovers believe it,” reported Frank Teague, marriage license clerk of Marion county.

U. S. SENATE IS READY FOR RELIEF VOTE Compromise Likely to Pass Tonight Although Few Are Satisfied. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The senate is prepared to pass tonight the Hoover-Robinson drought relief compromise, even though it does not satisfy more than twenty members and falls far short of the general relief program formulated by Democrats and Progressives only two weeks ago. If the $20,000,000 additional appropriation goes through, as is expected, despite four days of continuous criticism from both sides of the aisle, it will complete the program of alleviating distress and “rehabilitating” farmers in the drought areas. It will bring to $68,000,000 the sum provided by congress and the administration for furnishing drought-stricken farmers in twenty - one states with feed, seed, fertilizer, fuel oil, food, clothing and medicine. No money has been appropriated for assistance of the unemployed in the cities, and none is contemplated. As against this drought relief total, Senator La Follette (Rep., Wis.), has pointed out that there are 24,725.00 crop acres in the four states of Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi alone, and that the amount required to fianancc 1931 production at a rate of only $lO an acre would be more than $240,000,000. Actual statistics, La Follette said, showed the average cost an acre for raising crops is sl6. La Follette assailed the relief program as “a drop in the bucket.” This total $68,000,000 is about $33,000,000 more than the President favored. But it is almost $50,000,000 less than the program formulated by the .Democratic caucus at the insistence of Minority Leader Robinson (Dem., Ark.) under penalty of forcing an extra session. In the face of as severe a hazing as any party leader has suffered from his own colleagues for many years, Robinson defends abandonment of his original demands on the ground that “half a loaf is better than nothing,” and that more could not be obtained from Hoover or the house.

cent interest on his present loan, but this rate will not be affected. If he pays back his old loan, and negotiates the new, he will get more cash at a lower rate of interest. There arc appproximately 1,600,000 loans already made.

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Alfalfa Bill Put Forward as 1932 Candidate for Presidency.

By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 13. Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray's trip to Springfield, 111., to appeal in a speech for “another Lincoln” to guide the nation, was regarded today by ob-

servers as a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932. Surprise was expressed when Governor Murra y consented to leave the state while the legislature was engaged in an important session. Upon his return, Governor Murray refused to discuss the possibility that

he might seek the presidential ncmination. Close friends admitted they planned a bcom, pointing out that Murray is not aligned with any political faction and has kept free of the wet and dry issue. Murray’s friends declare Murray. born on a farm, virtually self-educated, and familiar with poverty, knows the ‘ifrmmon people” as did Lincoln. *

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G. 0. P. Congressman to Be Arraigned Feb. 27 on Nine Counts. FREE UNDER HIGH BOND Trial Probably Will Be Held in Evansville, His Home City. Nine counts of a federal grand jury indictment today charged Representative Harry E. Rowbottom, Evansville, Republican congressman from the First Indiana district,, with taking $1,750 for aid in obtaining two postmasterships and one rural mail carrier appointment. Investigation that led to the indictment began after four southern Indiana postmasters and the rural carrier were suspended several weeks ago when Washington authorities were informed of the alleged bribery. Rowbottom is to be arraigned in federal court Feb. 27, according to George Jeffrey, United States attorney, instrumental in the probe. Trial Probably in Evansville He probably will be tried in Evansville, where federal court is to convene about April 13. None of the five persons named as recipients of Rowbottom's influence were indicted. The first two counts of the indictment alleged that last November Rowbottom agreed to take and receive $750 from Walter G. Ayer for aid in securing a rural mail carrier appointment for Gresham Ayer at Rockport. The third, fourth and fifth counts charged that he took SBOO from S. Grant Johnson, through Otto Weilbrenner, tor a postmastership at Dale. At Liberty Under Bond Sixth, seventh and ninth counts accused the congressman of accepting S2OO from McKinley Ayer for a postmastership at Chrisney. and the eighth count charged that he conspired with William Davisson. Fred J. Fisher, Weilbrenncr and other persons, “names unknown,” to take from the Ayers and Johnson money, property and other things of value in exchange for aid in obtaining postal appointments. All of the alleged violations took place, the indictment show’s, after Row bottom was defeated in his race for re-election to congress, where he lias served two terms. He now is at liberty under SIO,OOO bonds. Philip C. Gould, Evansville attorney, is counsel for the congressman. Rowbottom is married and father of one child. PREDICT MINE BLASTS Legislative Action Sorely Needed, U. S. Experts Declare. By Science Service WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.—At least eight or ten explosions will properly occur during 1931 in “nongassy” mines where open lights are used, D. Harrington and C. W. Owings of the United States bureau of mines prophesy on the basis of accident investigations conducted in 1930. “Until all coal mines are recognized as potentially gassy and our coal mining men take the required action or until legislative action is taken to compel every coal mine to be operated on a closed-light basis, these will continue to be gas explosions in so-called “nongassy” mines as well as in mines known to be gassy or even designated as gasy, yet using open lights," the report stated. SEEK MECHANICAL CURE Paris Doctor Uses Phonograph Records on Patients. By United Press PARIS, Feb. 13.—1 p this mechanical age, many people in Paris are taking the treatment of mechanical doctors. One of these doctors is Dr. Vachet, who has prepared a- L,-ies of phonograph records which hri patients listen to. He is a strong believer in the healing powers of suggestion, and his records arc based somewhat along the lines of Coucism. RECEIVERSHIP LIFTED George Morris Heads Directors of Memphis Commercial Appeal. By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 13.—Control of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Inc., publishers of a morning and evening newspaper rested today with anew board of directors headed by George Morris, veteran Tennessee newspaperman. Receivership of the Memphis concern was removed by Chancellor M. E. Ketchum Thursday. KILL HOUSE MEASURES Important Bill Among List of Indefinite Postponements. Indefinite postponement today was voted by the Indiana house for eight bills, one of them a measur# designed to provide state aid for the needy blind. Other measures killed included a bill providing for election of all judges on nonpartisan ballots to b known as “judges' ballots,” and a bill requiring marriage license applicat ons be filed two weeks in advance of the ceremony. Hourly Temperature* 6a- m 45 10 a. m 39 7a. m 45 11 a. m 38 Ba. m 41 12 n00n.... 3% 9 a m 39 1 p. 3

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