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HOUSE WRECKS BILL DIVERTING HIGHWAY FEES Senate Measure Taking Auto Funds From Road Board Meets Its End. VOTE IS OVERWHELMING Observers Predict Hopes of Drastic Tax Relief Are Fading. Diversion of auto license fees from the state highway department to the state general fund for reduc,tion of the state property levy was blocked today when the Indiana house killed a senate bill carrying that proposal, by the overwhelming majority of 83 to 12. The defeat increased improbability of house passage of the senate bill, regarded as a companion measure, which would increase auto license fees approximately 50 per cent, vith the heaviest increase on trucks, busses and heavy passenger cars. This measure awaits second reading in the house after having passed the senate. Democrats lead the slaughter of Bho fee diversion bill, although Republicans joined in interpreting it •,s a blow at the highway commission, of little value in tax reduction, fcnd opposed generally except by Senate Republicans seeking to derail the corporate income tax. Tax Change Not Probable Five Democratic representatives Joined seven Republicans in support oi the minority report of the judiciary B committee favoring passage. The bill’s death stripped the joint lax committee’s list of approved bills Os another of its major items and strengthened the general impression about the legislature that no drastic changes in the state’s method of raising revenue will be enacted this year. In the senate, Lieutcnanl-Gov-fcrnor Edgar D. Bush, strong advocate of the corporate income tax measure, was prevented from handing it down for third reading and final senate action by lengthy con- . Bideration of the prosecutors’ salary billimprobability of the corporate lax bill’s passage increased when the senate this week restored the I per cent rate contained in the bill Bs it passed the house, after once reducing it to I per tjent.

Claim $10,000,000 Income The three Republican members of tiouse judiciary B committee were the only signers of the minority report favoring passage of the diversion measure which had passed the lenate, 34 to 11. Representatives Howard S. Grimm (Rep., Dekalb) and Roy C. Street (Rep., Tippecanoe and Warren), Urged passage, declaring the bill, With its companion, would raise almost $10,000,000 a year in 1932 and 1933 to supplant two-thirds of the present 29-ceni state levy. Both declared the diversion would neither cripple state highway building nor (cause federal aid to be lost. Bui their warning that legislators ••would be sorry’’ if they went home Without passing the bill, brought a (different answer from Representatives Charles T. Foster (Rep., Hamilton). Earl Crawford <Dem„ Union end Wayne), J. Frank Smith (Rep., (Tippecanoe), Virgil Simmons (Dem., Iftdams and Wells), John M. Cantley (Dem., Cass), Herbert H. Evans .(Rep., Henry), and Delph L. McKesson (Dem., Marshall), majority floor leader. Might be Unconstitutional Variously they described it as unfa lr to the motorist, defeating the (Object of the license tax, probably Unconstitutional, and. by Cantley, as ‘ taking up a ‘fuss’ between Republican senators and the highway commission after we’ve said we’d let them wash their own linen over there.” "In the long run,” said McKesson, •State liighwiy building has done tnore to reduce county taxes than could be done u we put the whole *20.000.000 highway department revenues into the state's general Jund.’’ The personal income tax measure awaits appointment of conference committees to iron out, if possible, differences between the two houses. Bills cutting bonded debt limits on county unit and township roads were killed by the senate in special action on measures recommended by the joint tax committee. The county unit limit would have been cut from 1 to ’ j per cent and the township (three mile road law) free gravel road limit from 2 to 1 per cent. Approve Merger Bill All mandatory levy mimmums Urere Repealed by a vote of 42 to 0. Bills permitting mergers of counties and townships by referendum vote were approved. Also a measure requiring women as well as men to pay poll tax and lifting the 50-vear limit was voted 39 to 6. Back to the senate today went the Eeckett-Huff bill for concurrence in house amendments which struck out the clause making local taxing levies hold their 1931 and 1932 budgets to 75 per cent of the 1930 budget and inserted instead tire qualification that 1931 and 1932 budgets must not exceed that of 1930. The bill passed the house, 4-36, after long debate. Mrs. Horace Dodge HI By United Phi* CINCINNATI, March s.—Mrs. Horace Dodge, wife of the heir to the Dodge millions, is a patient in Jewish hospital here of Dr. Samuel Jglauer, nationally known plastic Cirgeon. who declined to discuss ie case.

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 256

An Editorial Sign It, Governor

r J'HE people of the state well understand. Governor Leslie, that you are faced with the most important decision of your four years as Governor. They are watching to see whether you will place Indiana in the list of those states dedicating themselves to the new doctrines of humanity and kindliness to the aged. If you sign the Old Age Pension bill, countless generations will remember you as a brave man who dared to defy entrenched power, entrenched ignorance, entrenched wealth, entrenched heartlessness, and give hope to those whose mounting years only increase their despair and hopelessness. If you veto it, you probably will be forgotten. The world remembers those who do good and great things. It forgets those who futilely, and for a time, block progress. Make this bill a law and you lift a great issue from the realm of partisan politics. Veto it and you invite new difficulties for your own party. The people understand the pressure of the great and powerful upon you to obtain a veto. They will honor your courage all the more if-you can resist these pleas. Humanity pleads today. Will you stand with progress or leave Indiana in the backward jungles of hcartlessncss? PADDLING CASE LOST BY THAW

Harry K. Must Pay Young Woman $16,000. By United Press NEW YORK, March s—As the result of an alleged paddling with a hair brush which he gave Miss Marcia Estardus in his apartment

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which was reached by the first jury was reduced to $25,000 by Justice Aaron J. Levy and later set aside by the appellate division, which ordered anew trial. Miss Estardus alleged that Thaw beat her, tore her dress and hit her on the arms and legs during a New Year’s day party. BELL LEADS WORLD Telephone System's Assets Over Five Billion. By United Press NEW YORK, March s.—The Bell Telephone system assets crossed the five billion dollar mark in 1930 to $5,000,195,802, against $4,228,430,088 in 1929, giving it easily the top position over all corporations in the world. This gain was revealed today in the annual report of the American Telephone & Telegraph company whose assets of $3,162,926,191 are included in the Bell system total. FIVE MEN CAPTURED BY POLICE IN RAID Liquor, Still Found in House on West Merrill Street. Five men were held in jail today on $3,000 bond each following a raid by police at 351 West Merrill street where a battered still and quantity of liquor were found. Alleged to have been ‘operating the still, Lawrence Robert, 36, and Dan Peterson, 24, of the Merrill street address, are charged with operating a still and blind tiger, while the others, James Abbott, 23, Edwin Wearth. 24, same address, end William Peterson, 26, Beech Grove, are charged with vagrancy. COUNCILMEN ATTEND SPRINGSTEEN FUNERAL Former Postmaster Buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. The body of Robert E. Springsteen. 73, former postmaster and city councilman who died Monday, was interred in Crown Hill cemetery Wednesday after brief and simple services at Ragsdale & Price undertaking establishment. Services conducted by the Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian church, were attended by councilmen and a large number of relatives and friends.

FALL CAUSED DRAVES DEATH, SAYS DOCTOR Autopsy Bares No Evidence of Criminal Attack, Court Told. HITS BURCHAM FINDINGS Chicago Expert Testifies for Kirkland Defense at Valparaiso. B;i Ttmet Special VALPARAISO, Ind., March 5. Strongest defense to date of Virgil Kirkland in his trial for murder of Arlene Draves was built up today when Dr. Joseph Springer, Chicago criminologist, testified that in the autopsy of the girl’s body Wednesday he found no evidence of criminal assault. Dr. Springer qualified as a medical expert witness by statement that in his thirty-six years of practice he has conducted more than 150 post mortems on women victims of criminal attacks. His statement, in answer to questions by defense attorneys that he had participated in 25.000 post mortems, was halted by the state with an objection. Dr. Springer was put on the stand after Judge Grant Crumpacker overruled contention of the state that only physicians licensed in Indiana should testify. Deputy Prosecutor John Underwood had asked the court to place that limitation, but the request was refused, said Judge Crumpacker.

Tells of Autopsy “What did you find in the autopsy?” asked Richard Oldham, defense attorney. Dr. Springer described examination of the head, discovery of a round swelling on the outside about the size of an dollar, and evidence inside the skull of hemorrhage. He disagreed with testimony of Dr. James Burcham, coroner’s physician and star witness for the state. Attorney Oldham asked a lengthy hypothetical question, which in substance was: * “In your opinion, doctor, was Arlene Draves assaulted criminally.” Objection of the state was overruled, and Dr, Springer replied, “No.” Another long question asked the cause of her death. “A cerebral hemorrhage,” Dr. Springer replied. “Was a fall the sole and direct cause of death?” “I believe so,” said the physician. He added that the brain injury was accompanied by shock. On cross-examination he described each of the numerous bruises on the body, and said he counted fifteen, although the state alleged there were more than twenty. ‘Some of them might have been caused during the other post morten,” the physician said. Findings Not Exact Some of the sting of Dr. Springer’s testimony was removed when Prosecutor Underwood asked: “Could shock of attacks and exposure to near freezing temperatures have contributed to Arlene’s death?” “Yes,” Dr. Springer said. “Could the fact of a criminal attack have been determined in the autopsy with medical exactitude?” “No.” Question of whether the girl was attacked may resolve on conflicting opinions of physicians, and it may become the work of the jury to determine qualifications of opposing medical experts. Early Wednesday morning laborers under direction of Coroner W. K. Henderson, at Reynolds, gathered at the snow-blanketed little cemetery near the town, and when the party arrived from Valparaiso they began to open the grave. The grey casket was lifted from its resting place at the side of Arlene's mother’s grave, and borne through a crowd of more than 400 townspeople to a small, one-story frame building that serves as town hall. Attorneys Clash There the crowd pressed inside, despite efforts to keep the room empty. One man stepped forward and dropped a spray of roses on the coffin. With Carolyn Draves, the girl’s sister, at one end, and Carol, a brother, at the other, the lid was raised. The body was in an excellent state of preservation. The cheeks were rouged, and the lips were frozen in a smile. Sheriff Ray Fisher cleared the room of all except the physicians and coroner. In a little restaurant nearby Underwood, Attorney Robert Moore of Gary, who is defense counsel for the other four boys charged in the crime; Coroner Watts of Lake county, and Dr. Burcham organized a bridge 'ime. Newspaper men, unheeding a ban on their presence at the autopsy, congregated by a wood stove in the restaurant to await the announcement that autopsy was completed. Reporters Near Accident Several o f . them narrowly escaped disaster Tuesday night when they stole a march on their confederates, and went to Reynolds and visited the grave. Seeing the shadowy forms among the tombstones, a group of local vigilantes crept upon them, armed with rifles. “Don’t try to get away," one of the vigilantes shouted. “I got a gun here.and I kin pick off a man a quarter of a mile away.” Explanations staved off an “accident.”

Jan. 1, 1927, Harry K. Hi aw must pay the young woman $16,000, the supreme court has decided. The de c i sion ended the second trial of Miss Estardus’ suit for SIOO,OOO. A verdict of $75,000 in favor of the com plainant

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1931

‘BOSS’ COFFIN PLOT TO KEEP HIM BEHIND BARS IS CHARGED BY DUVALL

M Know Too Much/ Claims Former Mayor From His Jail Cell. Charges that George V. (Boss) Coffin is conspiring to keep him in jail were made today by John L. Duvall, former mayor, serving a thirty-day term in Marion county jail as result of his conviction in September, 1927, under the corrupt practices act. Duvall, whose thirty-day term expired today, was not released, pending payment of a SI,OOO fine and costs, which he fears will keep him in jail nearly three years, at the rate of $1 a day, unless his friends come to his rescue. The ex-mayor declared the G. O. P. boss was inducing Duvall’s friends to withhold aid in obtaining money to pay the fine in order to keep Duvall in jail preventing him from making sensational disclosures. “Bulling Clyde Robinson” “Coffin is ‘bulling’ Clyde Robinson (Marion county treasurer) that if he doesn’t help me he, Coffin, will nominate Robinson for mayor,” Duvall charged. “He won’t nominate Robinson. Clyde could help me if he would, and he should. I put him on the ticket for treasurer against Coffin’s wishes. “Coffin is telling Claude Johnson (police chief under Duvall) that if Johnson doesn’t help me he will be nominated for sheriff. He won’t be nominated—George Winkler will be. “I always did say I was through with politics, but Coffin figures I’m not, and that if I’m fenced up in jail I am safe. He has a right to think that. If I’m out and start talking I can blow them all out of the water I know enougn about them all.” Robinson Denied Charges Robinson, when asked about Duvall’s charges, denied them, saying he did not want to be mayor, and adding he had told “the boys” he would give a little, all he could afford, to help pay Duvall’s fine. Coffin could not be reached for a statement. Duvall appeared discouraged over the prospects of being forced to serve out his fine in jail. He wxnt to jail Feb. 5 after the Indiana supreme court Jan. 31 sustained the appellate court’s affirmation of Duvall’s criminal court conviction in September, 1927. He was convicted of promising William H. Armitage, Republican politician, that Armitage could name two works board members in return for a contribution to a campaign fund.

BLOCK PAY HIKE OF PROSECUTOR Proposed SIO,OOO Salary Reduced to $7,500. Marion county prosecutor’s salary was cut from the proposed SIO,OOO to $7,500 when the prosecutor’s salary bill was amended on second reading in the senate today. Allotment for Marion county deputy hire also was reduced from the proposed $38,000 in the house bill to $33,600. The cuts were made by the Marion county Republican senatorial delegation. The prosecutor’s office now is under Democratic control and the salary is $7,500. Senators spent the morning “playing horse’’ with the salary bill. They were not finished when they adjourned for lunch. Decreases totaling $10,300 in prosecutors’ salaries and increases of SB,BOO had been voted by amendment. Deputy hire allotments had been decreased $lO,500 and increased $4,900.

YIAD MARRIAGE-1 m LAURA LOU BROOKMAN Author of'HEART HUNGRY,"etc.

BEGIN' HERE TODAY GYPSY McBRIDE. 19, typist in a New York office, is delayed at work on the morninc when she is to meet the boat .bringing ALAN CROSBY home from a year and a half studying in Paris. Gypsy is so eager to meet Alan she does not take time to check the figures she has typed before handing in her work. CLARA HOWARD, also an employe. knows that Gypsy has slighted her work. Gypsy has known Crosby since the days when both of them lived at the same cheap rooming house and is greatly interested in his success. Crosby’s study abroad was made possible by a scholarship. The couple are not engaged, but there has been an ‘understanding” between them and Gvpsv is sure he will be as fond of her as when he departed. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER TWO TO other girls it might not seem much of a love letter. They would be young women of course without the memory of Alan Crosby, tall and handsome, his black hair tossed carelessly back from his forehead as he glanced up from his drawing board and smiled that good-natured, teasing smile. They would be young women who knew nothing of fine days in the open country, swinging along the road with the best of companions— Alan of gay and impromptu parties; of Sunday morning breakfasts cooked over tinned heat; of sketching expeditions; of long, long talks threshing out all of tne world’s problems. It was no wonder that to Gypsy the six months that she had known Crosby seemed the happiest of her life. There was nothing at all unusual about the friendship. Gypsy saw

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Down in Sarasota, Fla., Johnny Corriden’s Indianapolis baseball club is getting ready for its 1931 A. A. campaign. Here are the first pictures from the Hoosier camp sent north by Eddie Ash, Times sports editor. Three new members of the Tribe are shown above. At the top (left) is Bill Andrus, second-sacker, obtained from Selma of the Southern League. Corriden is shown at the

SNOW SWEEPS ROCKIES Wind Drives Spring Blizzard Across Six Western States. By United Press DENVER, Colo,, March s.—Driving wind spread snow across a half dozen states of the Rocky mountain region today in the year’s severest storm. The snow, whipped into a spring blizzard, came down from Montana, roared across the plains of Wyoming and reached Colorado early last night. The weather bureau forecast its extension into New Mexico today. MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Despondency From Unemployment Given as Reason. Despondency from unemployment was declared responsible for the attempted suicide of Sherman Shives, 24, of 2237 Bellefontaine street, who drank poison early today. Found by his father, Henry Shives, the youth was treated by Dr. H. S. Thurston of 2236 Ashland avenue, and taken to city hospital. He may recover, physicians said.

him for the first time on the stairway of the Twelfth street rooming house which was her home She barely glanced at him. Another day Mrs. Callahan, who roomed across the hall, confided to Gypsy that the new lodger was an artist. Mrs. Callahan had got it straight from Mrs. O'Hare, the landlady. The fourth time Gypsy passed the young man in the hallway he stopped her and asked if she would pose for a sketch. She agreed. From the very first the young couple liked each other. Gypsy learned that Crosby attended night art classes and worked days in a dry cleaning shop. He found her a splendid subject for sketches and made dozen of drawings of the girl. Evenings when Crosby was not at classes they spent together. Week-ends they read or walked or went to inexpensive movies. Mrs. O'Hare with unheard-of generosity allowed them to use her gas stove to cook occasional late suppers. When Crosby won the scholarship which took him to Paris, Gypsy was first to hear the news, loudest in her congratulations. It didn’t relieve the pangs of parting when the final separation came, but Gypsy was so sure Crosby was a genius that she waved goodby gallantly and so long as he was watching she managed to smile. Fondest of all of Gypsy's memories was the evening before Crosby’s departure. It was late August and because they wanted to

top (left), taking in the fast ones from a rookie hurler. Below are two hurlers whom Corriden hopes will bolster the mound staff. George Smith, obtained from Boston in the Warstler deal, is the big right-hander shown on the left. Camp followers are predicting big things for Les Barnhart, former New Orleans mound ace, who comes here through Cleveland in the Hildebrand deal.

‘LOVE MART’ OF RICH IS BARED Beautiful ‘Party’ Girls Are Provided for Big Fees. By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 5.—A “love mart” where wealthy men were introduced to beautiful young women, and “for a consideration” took them to Mexican and California resorts for week-end parties is under investigation, according to a story appearing in the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News. Three persons, a man and two women, are held. A former head of a theatrical enterprise, compiled the names, addresses and photographs of nearly a dozen young women, and “salesmen” contacted “customers” in theaters, clubs and speak-easies, it is said. “Terms” ranged from S2OO up, depending upon the length of the jdumey.'

be alone they sought out the most crowded place they could find—a boat for Coney island. There had been moonlight; the wheezing, tin-pan tunes of ferry boat musicians; and the cool, fresh night wind. They stood in a shadow, leaning against the boat’s rail, and Alan’s arm was pressed about her close. “Gypey,” he had whispered, “I don’t want to leave you. Marry me tonight and let’s forget about Paris!” A hundred times Gypsy Mcßride had lived through the spell of that moment. Often she wondered how she had had the courage to answer: “But I can t, dear. You know I cant! A year and a half isn’t so long. It’s going to be wonderful for you, Alan. And for me, too, because you know I’ll be waiting for you. You must write—write to me often, Alan.” nun HE DIDN’T want to write. He didn’t want to go away at all. Repeatedly he begged Gypsy to change her mind. As repeatedly she refused. It had been a delightful, fantastic boat ride. There had been kisses which each of them, happily deluded, thought to be unobserved. Yes, it was all sweet in retrospect. And after Alan had gone away there had been letters, just as he had promised. At first a coniTurn to Page^Ten)

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INQUEST ORDERED TO SIFT AMAZING FIND BY DOCTOR IN BROWN COUNTY DEATHS Bodies Taken From Burned Home Are Both* of Men, Test Shows; One Had Been Thought That of Mother. THEORIES DOUBTED IN NASHVILLE Physicians and Coroner Skeptical of Discovery; Son Believed to Be Killer May Be Victim. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Correspondent NASHVILLE, Ind., March 5.—A new coroner’s inquest was to start here this afternoon in an effort to solve the mystery created by the medical report that two charred bodies found in ruins of the Lee Brown farmhouse near here Dec. 15, were both men, instead of bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown. Report of Dr. Thurman B. Rice of Indiana university school of medicine, who examined the bodies at Indianapolis, that one of the bodies was the remains of an elderly man, probably the father, and other that of a younger man, possibly his son, Paul, for whom nation-wide search has been made as the suspected slayer of his parents, has reopened probe of the case.

Residents of the town and officials doubt the authenticity of Dr. Rice’s findings, clinging to the theory that Mr. and Mrs. Brown were slain by Paul-, either after a quarrel or to obtain a small fortune in gold buried on the fruit farm they operated. Ashes of the Brown home, in which the charred bodies were round, were to be sifted, starting late today, under direction of Virgil Quinn of the arson division, state fire marshall’s office. Charles Bolte, of the state bureau of criminal identification, also was investigating. Where Is Mother? Theory that both bodies removed from the flaming home were those of men opens the question of what became of Mrs. Brown, mother of Paul, or her body. Roland Brown, a brother of Paul, without waiting for officers, early this morning went to the farm house and was found by officers, who arrived later, poking into a well where officials believed a third body might be hidden. Roland Brown refused to comment on his personal theories of the mystery. Dr. Rice today stated that he was positive he was not mistaken in his contention that both bodies were those of men. “We first became suspicious when the pelvic bones of both bodies appeared to be those of males,” he said. “All external organs were burned. There was no evidence of a wound in the smaller body thought to be that of Mrs. B rown.

Trosecutor in Agreement “We took some of the tissues from both bodies and examined them for several days under microscopes and found pieces of prostate glands, found only in men, in both bodies.” Howard P. Robinson, of Franklin, prosecuting attorney of Johnson and Brown counties, who requested the exhumation, said the reason was to be able definitely to identify the bodies and show method of death in case Paul Brown ever was brought to trial. Robinson agrees with Dr. Rice that both bodies are those of men, and holds both died of gunshot wounds. He holds the theory that Brown shot his parents, fired the house, and then committed suicide, and that the body of Mrs. Brown either will be found on the premises or was destroyed in the fire. Chester Bunge, farmhand who was shot in the arm and abdomen by Paul Brown, he declares, and who claimed the son also killed Mr. and Mrs. Brown and fired the house, was to be grilled by state officials. Bunge is held here to be of good character. Bullets of Some Kind A bullet found by Dr. Rice in the body believed to be that of Lee Brown corresponds with two bullets removed from Bunge’s body, according to Arch Ball, Indianapolis police department ballistics expert. All three were .25-caliber Remington bullets, Ball reported. No bullet was found in the second body, Dr. Rice said, but in the body was a cartridge, evidently having been in a pocket and exploded by the heat of the fire. Dr. M. G. Murphy, Morgantown, and Dr. W. Van Dament, Nashville, who with Coroner Joshua Bond examined the bodies shortly after they were removed from the ashes of the home, were among the disbelievers. One of the physicians, in the cursory examination at the murder scene, removed organs cf a woman from one of the bodies at that time, it was claimed. Second Inquest Ordered Coroner Bond, Nashville hotel and restaurant proprietor and undertaker, scoffed at the new theory. Sheriff Fremont Weddle, when informed of the new theory, declared he had not been officially notified. “I carry a bench warrant for Paul Brown,” he said, “and if the body at Indianapolis is that of Paul Brown, I will have to serve the warrant on a dead man.” Weddle also is of the opinion the body is that of Mrs. Brown. He said he and thirty-five on forty

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other men combed the countryside jvithin a radius of four miles immediately after the fire, searching for burial place of a third body. Bunge’s reputation in the community is excellent. Bond said, and he has made no effort to question the farmhand since the new sensational developments in the case. However, it was expected Bond would join representatives of the criminal identification bureau and state fire marshal’s office today in interrogating Bunge. The only living person, except Bunge, reported to have seen Paul Brown in the vicinity of his parents’ home the day of the crime is Mrs. Ambrose Whitman, a neighbor, who said she saw him get out of an automobile a half mile from the home and walk toward the house, carry* ing two suitcases. Not Positive of Identity The automobile was driven away. She was not positive the man she saw was Paul Brown, it is said. The original theory that Paul Brown killed his father and mother to obtain a small fortune in gold and certificates hidden on the farm today is more confused. After the fire $7,500 was found in a bank, and $13,500 in gold was found in a fruit jar buried under a rock in the yard. Os the three sisters and two brothers of Paul, only a sister. Miss Mary J. Brown, Laramie, Wyo., knew the location of the buried gold. Besides the sister in Wyoming, sisters of Paul include Miss Olive Brown, residing in Woodruff Place; Mrs. Ardell Ruggles, 123 South Emerson avenues, IndianapoLis, and Miss Maudell Brown, Watertown N. Y. Bunge, in his statement after the fire, said that he was called by Lee Brown to cut wood Dec. 15. At noon he was called to the house for lunch. As he and the father were in the kitchen, he said, Paul Brown appeared and asked why Bunge wa3 there.

Shot by Paul, He Claims Bunge related that as he explained his presence, Paul Brown fired, the bullet striking Bunge in the arm and passing through his abdomen, Bunge dashed to a small entryway leading from the room and claims he heard four shots, then silence. He testified he looked out and saw Lee Brown on the floor and heard Mrs. Brown telephoning Mrs. Frank Cruse, a neighbor, saying: “There’s murder being done.” Then, he said, Mrs. Brown went to him and told him to flee. Running through the house, he reached a road in front of the house, when Paul Brown appeared and chased him into a thicket, he told officials. He stumbled and Paul ran up, snapping the gun twice, but it did not fire. He fled again as Paul reloaded and escaped, he testified. On the read he met Cruse, responding to Mrs. Brown’s phone call. He warned Cruse, a friend since the days Bunge and Cruse lived together in an orphans’ home, that he would be killed if he went to the Brown home. OLD AGE PENSION IS STUDIED BY OGDEN Leslie Asks Opinion on Measure from Attorney General. Legal aspects of the Nejdl-Cham-bers old age pension bill were being studied today by Attorney-General James M. Ogden. The bill was sent to Governor Harry G. Leslie Wednesday noon and he turned it over'to Ogden. The bill is a Democratic platform pledge. Friends are asking him to forget partisanship and the pleas of those opposed to the measure and sign the bill, considered one of the most forward looking pieces of legislation presented to this session of the general assembly. Chewing Tobacco la Necessity By United Press MALDEN, Mo., March s.—Chewing tobacco comes under the head of relief necessities, the local Red Crocs chapter holds. Five hundred pounds of cut plug, provided by a nationally known tobacco company, was being distributed from headquarters here today.

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