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SPEEDWAY TO BE SCENE OF 30-DAY TESTS Thirteen Cars to Run Day and Night for Month in A. A. A. Experiments. PUBLIC TO SEE TRIALS Notables of Motor World Will Be in City for Unusual Event. A spectacular thirty-day track test of oil and consumption and performance of thirteen different makes of automobiles will be started Tuesday on the Indianapolis motor speedway under direction oi American Automobile Association officials, it was announced today. The cars will be operated day and night for approximately one month by fifty trained A. A. A. drivers and mechanics, directed by T. E. Allen, Washington, D. C., the A A A. contest board secretary, and other association officials. The test wil Ibc linanced by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana as part of its program of research to improve motor fuels and lubricants. The gruelling speedway test results will be checked against previous laboratory test results. Tests to Clear Many Points Facts heretofore unknown in regard to gasoline and oil consumption at various speeds, relative merits of different grades of oil, wear on cylinders, bearings and other parts, accumulation of carbon and other phases of motor car operation, are expected to be revealed by the test. The public will be admitted to Speedway stands to watch tests on day’s runs are being made. The thirteen cars entered, all painted white with large red numerals, will be paraded through the downtown streets, starting at 11:30 Monday. All cars in the test are strictly stock model sedans, purchased directly from the floor of regular dealers’ showrooms by A. A. A. officials. They have been painted white to increase the factor of safety in night running Thirteen Cars in Run Cars participating include a Ford model A, Chevrolet six, Pontiac new series big 6. Buick 8-90, Oldsmobile 6, new model Chrysler, Studebakcr President 8, Hudson Great 8, Cadillac V-8, Willys Knight 668, Nash 8-30, Cord and Reo 30. The ears were chosen in an effort to find a group as representative of all types of cars on the road today as possible. AH thirteen cars will be operated simultaneously in 1.000-mile tests using a particular grade of oil and gasoline. After the run, the working parts will be checked for wear and consumption of oil and gasoline studied. After the check, new 1.000mile runs will be made with different grades of oil and gasoline. Officials Arc Selected The cars will be driven at two speeds only, thirty miles an hour with each grade of fuel and lubricant. and then fifty-five miles an hour under the same conditions. Officials of the A. A. A., besides Allen, who will direct the tests, include William G. Wall, Indianapolis, consulting engineer: Charles Merz and Kimbark Howell, Indianapolis, unit supervisors; W. D. Edenburn, Detroit, chief of personnel; William Taylor. Detroit, technical supervisor, and E. Van Hambach, Detroit. Harry J. Saladin, Standard Oil Company technical division chief, and Conger Reynolds, public relations director, will represent the company In the tests.

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By United Press NEW YORK. March 14.—Trading was quiet with prices irregular in a narrow range at the opening on the Stock Exchange today. The majority of stocks held steady or made small gains. United States Steel, however, was among the issues to sell off. It opened at 143 4, off "? from the previous close and small losses were made by Fox Film A. Procter and Gamble, Case, Sears, Roebuck and a few others. Worthington Pump opened at 86, up 1; Erie 31, up 1; Woolworth 624, up 4; Westinghouse Electric 894, up 4; Gillette 324, up 3 4, and International Telephone 354. up 4. Utilities again were firm as a group with gains of fractions to a point in National Power and Light. Electric Power and Light. Standard Gas, Consolidated Cias and United Gas Improvement. Radio Keith Orpheum was up 4. at 21 1 *; Anaconda rallied while Kennecott lost 4, to 27'i; Standard of New Jersey was unchanged in a steady oil group. United States Rubber rose to 184. up 4, in the rubbers. ADMITS SLAYING GUILT Life and Death Sentences Given for Professor's Murder. By United Press BARDSTOWN, Ky.. March 14 Anthony Peterson, Detroit, is under sentence of life imprisonment today for his part in the slaying several weeks ago of Carl B. James, former Ohio professor who was killed by two hitch-hikers to whom he gave a ride. Peterson pleaded guilty late Friday after his mother advised him by telephone from Detroit to do so. Hts companion. Frank Carson, abo of Detroit, was sentenced to be eieorocuica at fiddlyMle, JMae 11

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FLYING STENO CLAIMS NEW ALTITUDE RECORD

Strange Foreboding of Tragedy by Slain Mate of Beauty Queen Bared

By United Press NICE, France, March 14, A 1930 Christmas card of Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, who was shot to death by his wife Wednesday night, was revealed today as a strange and accidental foreboding of

the tragedy for which Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nird-linger of St. Louis is held in jail. The card was a doubled sheet, one side of which showed the Eiffel tower, forming an arch with the New York Stock Exchange, under which was written: "Badly bent and just holding our own.” Underneath was a group picture of the Nixon-Nird-linger family labeled, "Papa Mama Yankee Doodle Miss Columbia.” On another part of the card was a picture of two automobiles colliding. Mrs. Nixon-Nird-linger was one of the winners in the 1524 Atlantic City beauty pageant. The children remained at their home under supervision of their nurse, Irma Stolt. despite pleas of their mother to see them. Freddie, who is 313 years old, came into the room while the United Press correspondent was present. “I’m tired,” he said, "but I don't want to eat until mother and daddy come home. Where are they?’’ The nurse told him that his mother

was returning soon, return here March 2, but she did not mention , his often had talsen-f long solifather. The baby, Charlotte, 18 tary w’alks along the deserted months, continued to play , beach. He said he liked to around the house. The children be alone to admire to the scene.

PERSONAL INCOME TAX RECEIVES POCKET VETO; MUTILATION’ IS BLAMED

Speakers’ Bedtime Story Ruins Bill, Governor Explains. Strife over the personal income tax bill, which was the cause of bitter contention during the last day of the legislature, w’as continued today, premised on Governor Harry G. Leslie’s “pocket veto” of the measure late Friday. Although technically, the Governor’s action in refusing to sign the bill, is a “pocket veto,” he took it out of that classification and threw it back into the boneyard upon which political dogs will be chewing for the next two years, by issuing a statement flaying the “mutilation” ' by ' Walter Myers, Democrat, speaker of the house of representatives. Leslie declined to accept the bill, declaring that it had not been legally passed, because of the “bedtime story” written across the record by Myers. “Regardless of my views in the matter, it is not within my power to make the bil la law’,” the Governor said. Myers made a statement in reply to the Governor, in which he contends that if the personal income tax bill was' not r*ssed legally, neither were the appropriation bill, nor the reapportionment measure. These were signed on March 10, the day after the legal adjournment, Myers pointed out, and this was one of the objections cited by Leslie to the income tax bill. Myers, in signing the income tax bill, made the notation that it was signed March 10, while the legislature's legal date of adjournment was March 9. Myers reiterated much of his previous statement concerning alleged “trickery” by the senate in passing the income tax bill, as an explanation of the notation. Senator Walter H. Chambers, Democratic minority leader, was first to tearm Myers’ writing “mutilation of public records," creating a potential rift in party ranks. ROBBERS GET $169 Thieves Take Cash, Ignore Checks in Burglary. Burglars who broke through a rear entry into the Hauger clothing store. 117 North Illinois street, early today ferreted out two caches of money and took $169, police were told. They found a bundle of checks, but scattered them on the floor. All desks were ransacked. Four suits, an overcoat, and pair of trousers vanished from the Lincoln tailoring shop. 32 Kentucky avri*v Friday night. Burglera entered Uuough the front door.

speak French or German, but very little English. They were surprised by the many visitors at their home. “Are we having a party?” Freddie asked. Several American women, friends of the fam-

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BAN LIFTED ON BOOK IMPORTATIONS TO U. S. Barred Classics Now Are Made Available to Americans. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 14.—Five international literary classics that were “obscene” in 1929 now are safe for Americans to read, it has been learned at the treasury department. The five have been barred from importation for years on the ground that they were not fit for United States citizens to read. Under the more liberal provisions of the 1930 | tariff act, however, they will be adI mitted. They are: “The Arbanian Nights Entertainments,” Boccacio’s “Decameron,’ f “Gargantua and Pantagruel,” by Francois Rabelais, “The Golden Ass” of Lucius Apuleius, and Casanova's Memoirs. HOOVER TAKES STAND IN OIL CONTROVERSY President Believes Industry Can Work Out Own Aid. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 14President Hoover has taker a hand in the bitter controversy over restriction of oil imports for the protection of independent producers in this country. In a statement, issued last night after Secretary of the Interior Wilbur had announced successful conclusion of negotiations to prorate imports, the President expressed the conviction that the oil industry can revive itself by cooperating in the government’s proration plan.

Bushman’s Son Assails Dad’s Marriage Offer

By United Press CHICAGO. March 14. —Francis X. Bushman, former movie star, looked wearily today at a huge stack of letters and telegrams, and a sack of six lemons upon his desk and complained he “couldn't even sleep any more” since offering himself in marriage to any woman who could support him in the manner to which he was accustomed. “They pester me at the stage door, call me by telephone in the middle of the night, and even invade my dressing room and some of them say unkind things.” Bushman, who is 47—and still very handsome —said after explaining that despite, the lemons and the objections of his son, his offer still held. “Dad's spent $7,000,000 already, and I’d thjnk he'd be satisfied.’’ Uie j'ounse* Bushman, named lot

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ily, called qnd offered to adoot the children, but the nurse has refused to permit them to go out of her sight. Charles Loeb, a lawyer representing the Nixon-Nirdlinger family, telephoned to officials this morning and arranged for transportation of the body to P h i 1 a- r delphia. Loeb said he had received on Friday a posthumous letter from NixonNirdlinger, posted a few hours before the shooting, but with no indication that there was discord in the family. Mrs. Nixon-Nird-linger's plea that she shot in selfdefense when her husband was choking lief after charging she had an Italian lover, was not damaged by the preliminary police investigation of the crime. While searching the villa, police found a revolver which' had been owned by NixonNirdlinger. He had it for some time, but it had not been used recently. Residents of houses near the scene of the shooting said that NixonNirdlinger, since his

Akron Woman Says She Flew Higher Than 30,000 Feet, Old Mark. By United Press AKRON, O, March 14.—Miss Frankie Renner, Akron's flying stenographer, is ready to nose into the clouds again today if official examination does not bear out her claims of anew altitude record for women. After a four-hour flight Friday Miss Renner claimed she had ascended to more than 30,000 feet, an unofficial record for women established last week by Miss Ruth Nichols, New York society girl. The altimeter on Miss Renner’s small Wajcco biplane was frozen at the 28,000-foot level, but she said she was sure her barograph w’ould show she had bettered that mark by approximately 2,000 feet, until the barograph is calizrated by the United States bureau of standards at Washington, her exact altitude will not be knowm. The 30-year-old flier, who is secretary of the Robbins Flying Service, was nearly frozen when she brought her ship to a graceful stop at the Robbins flying field late Friday. Feet Are Frozen As she stepped from the cockpit, purpled with cold, her lips were bleeding and her feet were frozen from the effects of battling sub-zero temperatures six miles from ground. Her electrically-heated flying togs kept her body warm, however, and she was expected to recover rapidly. Miss Renner said she experienced no symptoms of losing consciousness as she cruised through the rarified regions. An oxygen tank supplied her with air through a special helmet and she had no difficulty in maintaining control of her plane, she said. Taking off early Friday afternoon under ideal weather conditions the young flier flew toward Sandusky and over Lake Erie until she sighted the Canadian shore and then circled back toward Akron. ips Are Cracked by Cold "After having tested my plane thoroughly,” she said, “I began climbing on my way back. I was warm as toast until I arose above 25,000 feet when I felt my lips crack open and start to bleed. An hour before I landed, I noticed my altimeter stopped. The level was 28,000 feet, “It was after this that I am sure I established anew record. Although my lips were bleeding and my feet became numb, I kept on climbing until I felt certain I had gained sufficient altitude for record. It must have been about 6,000 feet above the mark at which my altimeter stopped and was about sixty minutes before I landed that I atttained my greatest height.” FALLS DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT, FRACTURES HIP C. A. French Taken to Hospital, After a 18-Foot Drop. In St. Vincent’s hospital today lay C. A. French, sales manager of Capitol Motors Company, in a serious condition from injuries sus-. tained when he tumbled eighteen feet to the bottom of an elevator shaft in the company’s service garage Friday night. Unable to help himself and with r.o one who could aid Mm, French lay on the concrete floor of the shaft until firemen from engine house 1 lowered ladders and Ton Boyd, a fireman, carried French up. French told police he thought the elevator was at the first floor level when he opened the door and stepped inside. His hip, heel, leg and wrist were fractured. HALF HOLIDAY BEGUN AT CITY POSTOFFICE New Working Schedule Adopted for 44-Hour Wecl:. Postal employes began their fourhour work schedule on Saturdays today as legislation for a forty-four-hour week became effective. In order to provide practically the same service anew working schedule was adopted at the postoffice, Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, said. Indiana employes of the federal government outside the postal service also will have half day holidays now. Martin P. Grady, federal employes union secretary, local No. 78, stated. They formerly had the half-day holiday schedule effective during the summer months.

his father, was quoted as saying. To date, Bushman said, he has received about seventy answers to his announcement that he wants a rich wife. Most of the answers, he said, went straight to the wastebasket because the women neglected to say how much money they have, and the actor won’t consider anything less than $1,000,000. “Unless, of course,'’ he said, "she is young and pretty, and brunette, and charming and witty, and well traveled, in which case I might consider a financial discount.” Besides the seventy “applications,” Bushman has received a large number of letters criticising him for his offer. Some of the writers suggested he should be sent to jail or whipped. The sender of tlte six lemons did nft igclose a, cjid.

CRIPPLED FOR LIFE; TWINS, 20,; TAKE POISON i ‘Better to Die Quickly for Mothers Sake,’ Brothers Say. RECOVERY HOPES GONE I Sitting in Wheel Chairs, Two Boys Drink Their Toast. By United Press CHICAGO, March 14.—How twin brothers, both crippled for life by disease, sat in their wheel chairs planning for months to commit suicide so they no longer would be cares to their mother, was revealed today as the boys, 20 years old, lay near death in county hospital. The twins, Stephen and Thomas Hall, had been invalids for twelve years, the result of a slowly spreading paralysis know as Friedrich’s ataxia. - Since they were 8 years old and left school because of the disease, they had hoped some day to be cured, Stephen, still conscious, but critically ill, explained to hospital attendants. Finds Metallic Mercury "But during the last months, when the doctors decided we were doomed, we lost hope,” the boy explained, “and we figured it would be better if we died right away, for our mother’s sake. She’s been working herself to death for us.” During recent months the boys’ illness, steady growing worse for years, became so serious neither could leave his wheel chair. Several months ago another j brother William found a bottle of metallic mercury which had escaped destruction with other freight when there was a wreck on the railroad line where he works. He took it home and placed it on-a shelf in a medicine cabinet. Began Losing Hope It was about the same time that the twins began losing the hope they had lived on for years. During the months that followed they watched the bottle as their hopes faded gradually until they learned there was no chance for them to recover. Two younger children of the family of seven were sent from the room Friday on invented errands. Thomas, the stronger of the twins, pulled himself up to the medicine cabinet. He obtained the bottle and its contents were divided in two glasses. Then the brothers faced eaoh other in their wheel chairs, lifted their glasses and drank their toast to death. Willing to V'-.it for Death They were found, unconscious, by their mother a short time later. She had them taken to the hospital, where they were revived. Doctors said they could not veil for ten days whether the poison would prove fatal. Both the boys smiled when told they must wait so long for death if it was to come at all by their own hands. Waiting, they said, was aU they had done for years, so they wouldn’t mind it now. “But it will be better if we die,” said Thomas. “Then they won’t have to Uok at n.nv more.” Their mother. Mrs. Eleanor Hall, and their father Jossph, were divorced a year ago. With the exception of William, all the children are younger than the twins, ranging in age from 10 to 18. FIGHTS OUSTER MOVE N. Y. District Attorney Attacks Probers. By United Press NEW YORK, March 14.—Thomas C. T. Crain, district attorney, opened a counter-attack on his investigators today in a letter to Governor Roosevelt protesting the appointment of Judge Samuel Seabury as commissioner to investigate the charges of incompetence and laxity preferred against him by the city club. Crain’s grounds for protest were said to be that Judge Smauel Seabury is a member of the city club, and that he has criticised Crain’s conducts of office. It was said at Albany that the Governor left Friday for his home at Hyde Park and probably would not see the letter until Monday. The fight to oust Mayor Walker continued to grow. TEMPLE TO CELEBRATE Thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Monitor Temple, Pythian Sisters, will be celebrated Thursday night with an anniversary program. The committee in charge of the meeting includes Mrs. Katherine Hancock, Mrs. Edward P. Weigel, Mrs. Anna Lewis, Mrs. F. S. Logan, and Mrs. Louis N. Miller. Model Planes to Be Tested Boy Scouts will make test flights of model airplanes at the Coliseum in the state fairground between 2 and 4 today with the city recreation department in charge of the contest. Ten Quakes in Guatemala By United Press GUATEMALA CITY, March 14. Ten earth shocks have been registered in the last twenty-four hours, causing considerable alarm. The shocks were fairly, intense,

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Girl, 17, Charges She Was Drugged When Provided for Rich Man’s Party. By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 14. Camille Clark, 17, sister of a former dancer in a Los Angeles burlesque show’, today became the central figure in an investigation which has involved Alexander Pantages, multimillionaire, and two other prominent business men. The girl, according to her story to P’ayney Matthew's, chief investigator for Buron Fitts, district attorney, was taken to San Diego on two occasions by William Jobelmann and Mrs. Olive Clark Day, the couple charged with having furnished young girls as party companions for ■wealthy men. Pantages, John P. Mills and Jesse Shreve, prominent business men, are charged with statutory offenses in San Diego involving Alice Blake, 16, and Helen Livingston, 17. Drugged? Girl Charges Mills, with Mrs. Day and Jobelmann, are facing preliminary hearing on similar counts involving Clarice Tauder, 16, in Los Angeles. All except Jobelmann, who is in the Los Angeles jail, are free on bail. " Miss Clark, w'ho is no relation to Olive Day Clark, was said to have told Matthew’s she was taken to San Diego, drank beer on one occasion and tea on another, and met a man introduced as “Bill Martin.” She declared that after drinking the beer and tea she became faint and dizzy. “After my first visit with ‘Bill Martin,’” authorities quoted the girl as saying, “Mrs. Day gave me a $2 hat. Then she later told me ‘Martin’ wanted to apologize and we went to San Diego again. This time I drank the tea when I refused liquor. After this visit Mrs. Day bought me a S4O coat.” Admits Truth of Story Matthews said that Mrs. Day admitted the truth of the girl’s story, and added that “Martin” paid Mrs. Day $175 on the first trip to San Diego and $l5O on the second visit. Pantages, who was at the Agua Caliente race track at the time he became involved in the love market case, was in Los Angeles today. After a long conference with attorneys, he bitterly denounced Jobelmann, his former press agent. “The diary that Olive Day kept shows plainly that when Jobelmann came to me asking a job he was mixed up in the outrageous affair,” he said. “I have been framed deliberately and am innocent of these charges." Aged Farmer Kills Self BLOOMFIELD, lnd., March 14. —Daniel B. Long, 71, committed suicide by poisoning. He left a note saying repeated crop failures and financial troubles caused his act.

Mother Throws 3 Tots in Sea; Ends Own Life

By United Press MATTIAPOISETT* Mass., March 14.—A suicide plot in which a mother allegedly threw her three children into the sea and then jumped in after them was told police today by Wayne Allinson, 8, of Saylesville, R. I. The boy said he fought with his mother in the water and finally swam to safety. The mother, Mrs. W. Chester Allinson, 35, and the other children, Hope, 8, and Dwight, 7, were drowned, he said. Pulling himself from the water, he wandered, wet and nearly frozen in the cold air, through the streets of the towm. Finally Frank Harrington, New Bedford advertising man, saw him and took him to Jus home nearby.

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STATE POLICE TO BEDOUBLED License Fee Shift Makes Increase Possible. Appointment this spring of about forty new members to the Indiana state police force will result from the enactment of a law' by the 1931 general assembly, Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, announced Friday. Appointments will doube the present size of the force, Mayr said. Signature of Governor Harry G. Leslie Friday to a bill which gives the automobile theft fund all auto license fees collected by the secretary of state, adding a revenue of $106,000 to the fund, will pave the way for the increase in the force, Mayr pointed out. Leslie also signed bills affecting motorists. One of them provides for revocation of drivers’ licenses of persons convicted of reckless driving, speeding and driving without proper lights. The other sets out the licenses may be r r -'oked if drivers who carry no liability insurance ar convicted of violating motor vehicle laws or upon granting judgments in cases resulting from auto accidents. Licenses, so revoked, may not be reinstated until the driver gives proof of his ability to pay damages, zither by bond or insurance, in the \-flowing amounts. For injury or ci'ath of one person $5,000; injury o death of tw’o parsons, SIO,OOO, and p jperty damage, SI,OOO. The measure was sponsored by automobile clubs of the state. THREE VILLAGES RAZED BY FRENCH LANDSLIDE Avert Further Danger by Turning Avalanche Into River. By United Press CHAMBERY, France, March 14 A great landslide which threatened destruction of many villages in the Savoie valley was diverted today into the Cheran canyon, where the menacing river of earth and rocks w r as earned away by the swift running current. The danger was not ended, however, until after three villages had been submerged by the ninety-yard-wide w’all of earth and hundreds of families had fled from their homes. CHURCH PARLEY SLATED Five-Day Presbyterian Conference to Begin Here Monday. A five-day conference of the field and headquarters staff of the board of Christian education of the Presbyterian church in the nation will begin Monday at the Severin.

Harrington told police that the boy could only say: “Mister, take me home . . . mother 'ust tried to drown me.” After being given nourishment and dry clothes, he boy told police how his mother had taken him and his sister and brother on a “picnic” to see the New York boat pass through Cape Cod canal. They drove from Saylesville in an automobile, he said, and parked it near Barstow s landing, a long-unused pier Then they walked down the pier. At the end of the pier Mrs. Allinson pushed the two small children into the water then tried to throw Wayne in, but he struggled with her. She finally picked him up in her arms and jumped ofi the pier.

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$1,000,000 IN GEMS LOOT OF BANDIT GANG Huge Reward Spurs Search of Detectives for Florida Thieves. SALESMAN’S KEYS USED Employe of Famous Firm I3 Kidnaped; Gives Up Safe Combinations. By L nited Press PALM BEACH. Fla., March 14 A reward of $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of the bandits and still larger rewards predict2L2f c th<? re i urn of th <? missing jewels spuned a small army of in- ? ete^ tiVGS whlch descended Bea ch today to investith?ft 0 fmore than $1,000,000 of jewels from Charlton & Cos,, international jewelers. It was the biggest jewel robbery over committed in Florida, and was C. Baker beMeve“ by a New York gang of bandits who nave committed several other robberies along the east coast recently. ThetomUtag victim of the gang. Otto Wagener. middle-aged salesman, remained In seclusion in a hotel. Captured by the robbers, he had given them keys and safe combinations for the firm's Palm Beach store, enabling them to enter the store quietly and get awav with the huge amount of gems. Manager Refuses to Talk With Wagener was Grant A. Peacock local manager for Charlton fL C °L . He .refused to discuss '?, th newspaper men. but told the United Press over th© telephone that 4, Wagener is here but I wont let him talk." ‘There isn't anything to it, and the less said about it in the newspapers, the better,” Peacock said. ‘ Our store was entered and all the valuable jewelry and gems were taken. The loss was fully covered by insurance. That's all there is to it. Sheriff Baker, who took charge of the police investigation of the crime before insurance detectives arrived, visited the stucco bungalow where Wagener was held prisoner over night and said he believed the salesmans story was substantially true. Believe Story Is True There were a few slight discrepancies in the story, he said, but he believed that Wagener, who has served Carleton and Company for seventeen years, had no part in the crime. The story told by Wagener was au follows: He was returning to his hotel with Peacock shortly before midnight Thursday night when he was hailed by his first name by a man sitting in a large sedan outside the entrance. He walked over to the car, and the man, imitating drunkenness, grasped him by the arm. Before he could break away he was pulled into the car and thrown into the rear seat, with handcuffs clamped on his wrists and q blanket thrown over his head to prevent him from identifying any of the four men in the car. Tied to Kitchen Sink The automobile went rapidly southward from the hotel, passed through West Palm Beach and finally stopped at a small stucco bungalow in a subdivision known as “Colonial Estates.” In the house Wagener was tied to the kitchen sink while his captors conversed in low tones. At their demand, he gave them the keys to the jewelry store and the combination to its safe. Then all but one of the bandits left, leaving only a guard over Wagener. The three returned about 6 a. nv, and left again with the guard. Wagener immediately set to work on his bonds, freed himself and notified Peacock, who, in turn telephoned police. Stripped of All Gems A con/jsing angle is given to the case by the assertion of E. H, Odum, night watchman at the store, who said that he had left the store at 7 a. m. and that it was intact at that hour. When Peacock and police arrived at the store about 8:30 a. m., however, the place was in the wildest confusion. It was stripped of every gem of any value. A partial list of the missing jewels, as given out by Sheriff Baker, included one pearl necklace valued at $75,000 and another at $50,000; one $15,000 diamond ring and several other rings totaling $75,000; bracelets worth $100,000: brooches totaling $150,000, and pearls worth $250,000. The total value of the missing gems was well over $1,000,000. The bandits were believed to have escaped by automobile in the direction of Miami. PLOWBOY IS RAISED TO HOUSE OF LORDS King George Confers Baronetcy on Farm Laborer’s Son. By United Press LONDON. March 14. Heni* Snell, who began his career by becoming a plowboy at the age of 8. was a baron today in the house of lords, succeeding the late Carl Russell as parliamentary undersecretary of state for India. Snell, who has been potsman, groom, ferryman, clerk, bartender’s assistant and member of parliament, was raised to the peerage by King'George Friday night, partly to maintain the Labor party's representation in the house of lords. His father was a {arm laborer. y