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SEDUCTIVE beyond compare, beautiful, cruel. passionate, Cleopatra lives again with cameo clearness in the pages of Oskar Von Wertheimer’s Cleopatra; a Royal Voluptuary 'Lippincott’s, $5). He paints the mistress of Julius Caesar and the betrayer of Mark Antony as a woman utterly without heart, who lived up to the worst traditions of the Ptolemies, murdering without compunction, a woman to w’hom no evil was too monstrous if it aided her march to unlimited power. Tlie whole vicious history of the Ptolemies is portrayed graphically, and Von Wertheimer tells in vivid and fascinating style of life in Rome and Alexandria during the turbulent) days of the temptress of the Nile. a tt a IF, as a youngster, you got your passport into the realms of gold by means of Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico," you will enjoy reading “Stout Cortez,” by Henry Morton Robinson. In fact, you probably will enjoy it even if you never heard of Prescott. Tire story of Cortez is one of the brightest adventure stories in history and Mr. Robinson makes the most of it. The book is published by the Century Company and sells at $4. tt tt tt In “The Crime of Punishment" Margaret Wilson deserts fiction to discuss penology. Her book is indignant and argumentative, and, like most such books, very interesting. Plenty of people will condemn it as overemotional, and Mrs. Wilson probably will be excused of being too sentimental. But her arguments wall take a good deal of answering. “The Crime of Punishment” is published by Harcourt., Brace & Cos. and sells at $3. a tt u ,: TN America’s Way Out; a ProA gram for Democracy” (MacMillan, $2.50), Norman Thomas gives his ideas of what this country would be like if he were intrusted with its guidance. Briefly, his program is the acquisition and control by the state of whatever is hecessar.v for the common life. He expounds the “absolute necessity of planned control of the machinery and resources of the world in the common interest.” He discusses the problem with a saneness that is refreshing. He does not paint a Utopia, but expands on a philosophy of ultimate plenty for all,” but not a philosophy of easy transition without toil.” J tt a tt Hugh Walpole, in his latest book, “Above the Dark Tumult” (Doubleday. Doran Sc Cos., $2.50), aims at a tale of pure horror and very nearly achieves his purpose. It is a story with the theme that “murder wall ou and is entertaining, despite its ghastliness. tt tt tt MYSTERY stories do not seem to have the same widespread pull that they enjoyed a few’ months back, but the crop still seems to be plentiful. Dodd, Mead &c Cos. offer “Mimder in a Library.” by Charles J. Dutton, a sinister and nervously exciting ta'e. Madeline Sharps Buchannan hag written another, the “Black Pearl Murders” (A. C. McClurg & Cos., $2), with a fascinating mystery running through. Murder, torture, and the mysterious Cellini jewels are the thrills around which Patrick Wynnton has woven "The Ten Jewels” (Lippincott's, s2'. It involves a mad conspiracy of a witchlike countess, a monk, and the heroine. t* tt tt BOBBS-MERRILL points with pride to “Flamenco.” a gypsy j romance, which is the April selection of the Book League of America. Lady Eleanor Smith, who wrote “The Red Wagon,” is the author. It is a best seller in England and has won lavish praise from English reviewers, this romance of a gypsy girl reared in a family of dissolute Englishmen.

An interesting book for young readers is ’ Caesar.” by Patrick Russ (G. Putnam's Sons, $2). It is the life story of a leopard, with splendid illustrations. ’’Chips, ’ the story of a bad dog that made good, by Albert Pavson Terhune (Harper's, $2), is another book which children will enjoy to the utmost, told as only a lover of deg's like Terhune can tell it. a a a DANGEROUS LIFE’ is l the story of Ben Lindsey, written by the famous judge, with Rube Borough. It tells of his boyhood in the south, his student days at Notre Dame and his career as a fearless, fighting attorney and judge (Liveright, ?3.t a a a A wholesome story of life and love on a ranch is Ruth Comfort Mitchell's “Water” <D. Appleton & Cos., $2). the story of a wealthy football star who goes into the irrigation country and there weds the '‘milkmaid." after a series of adventures. nun Those who read “A Nice Girl Ceines to Town” may be interested in anew book by the author. Maysie Gregg. It's “A Girl Must Marry.” (Dial Press, s2> PAIR HELD FOR JURY Oil Operators Jailed in Texas for Alleged Extortion Attempt. By United Press LAREDO. Tex., April 3.—The Webb county grand jury was instructed today to meet Saturday to act on charges of attempted robbery and kidnaping against C. C. Julian, California and Oklahoma oil operator, and C. C. Boren of Muskogee, Okla. The two were * held in jail here without bond on complaint of L. S. Bolling. Ran Antonio, that they attempted to extort $30,000 from him at the point of a gun.

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INCOME TAXES WILL BE MAIN ISSUE IN 1932 Both Personal and Corporation Levies in Campaign Spotlight. FARM BUREAU SPEAKS Business Against Agriculture Apparent Alignment in Voting Duel. BY BEN STERN Paramount issue in the 1932 state campaign will be a tax on both personal and corporate incomes. This can be said without hesitancy, and the first -hot in the campaign, which will find capital arraigned against agriculture, instead of its old opponent, labor, w’as fired by Lewis Taylor, first vice-president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, in an article in its organ, the Hoosier farmer.” From all indications labor will ally itself w T ith agriculture because the home-owning wmrker is also groaning under the ever increasing burden of taxation paid entirely by real property. That party which best keeps its weather-eye cocked toward the trend of sentiment will incorporate an income tax plank in its platform as a definite bid for the 50,000 to 60,000 members of the farm organization. Political expediency itself calls for that. Opposed by Business However, a determined effort will be made by big business interests of the state to keep such a plank out of either party’s platform. This group may go so far as to urge the nomination for Governor by each party of a man who is pledged against such legislation. Although the Democratic 1930 platform contained an income tax pledge and such bills w’ere introduced by party leaders and passed by the Democratic house, Taylor openly accuses Chairman R. Earl Peters and Speaker Walter Myers of lacking good faith in this movement. On the other hand the majority of the Republican members of the legislature were against income taxation of any type and were led in the opposition by the state committee heads. Governor Assailed Taylor's attack on the Democratic leaders and Governor Harry G. Leslie and his political mentor, Henry Marshall, Lafayette publisher, is one of the most vitriolic in several years and indicates definitely the stand which will be taken by the farm bureau. Although no third party movement will be precipitated under its leadership, there will be a distinct effort made to select a slate. There seems to exist no doubt that industrial leaders of the state will seek to have a candidate for Governor in each party. Some mention has already been made of Ernest M. Morris, South Bend financier and former Thirteenth district G. O. P. chairman. As yet there has been no mention of the Democrat whom big business logically would as its candidate for Governor. John Fredrick, Kokomo manufacturer and seeker of the Democratic nomination for that post in 1928, apparently would be suitable. There is some talk that in event insurgent Democrats, headed by Rudolph Ackerman and Chester Montgomery of South Bend, and Gilbert Bosse of Evansville, can not come to an agreement with Frank Dailey, 1928 nominee, an effort will be made to induce Fredrick to become their champion. Classed as Insurgent The Kokomo manufacturer has been identified with the insurgent group and his close allies headed the move to unseat Peters as state chairman in 1930 and put Lee Bays, of Sullivan, Second district chairman. in his place. Although that attempt proved abortive there‘is much talk that a second will not fail. Peters is cognizant of the insurgency, but can make no effort to quash it until he gets Paul V. McNutt and Walter Myers safely on the road to the nomination for Governor and senator. respectively. There can be no doubt that the chairman’s active sponsorship to put over these two is hurting his chances for retaining a hold on the organization. ADVERTISING HELD WISE Chemist Tells Advertising Club of Value of Circulating Facts. Business concerns having something the public can use profitably are finding it profitable to advertise their goods, the Advertising Club was told Thursday by H. V. Churchill. New Kensington. Pa., chief chemist of the aluminum research laboratories of the Aluminum Company of America. He declared advertising has made possible wide knowledge of use of ' aluminum, which now stands fifth I in the metals used in industry.

FIRST GOOD FRIDAY IS COMPUTED AS FALLING ON APRIL 7, 30 A, D.

By Science Service BERLIN, April 3.—The exact date of the first Good Friday was April 7 in the year 30 A. D„ and the first Easter was on April 9. This is the claim of Professor D. Oswald Gerhardt of Berlin, based on astronomical calculations and historical research, as set forth in the German scientific magazine Forschungen und Fortschritte. First step in Professor Gerhardt’s chain of evidence Is the djjte given for the baptism of

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CITY OBSERVES GOOD FRIDAY All Congregations Take Part in Special Services. Indianapolis joined the nation today in observance of Good Friday. All congregations took part in special programs of prayer, sermons, meditations and music conducted in twenty-five union services. Nearly a thousand stores closed from noon to 3, “the sixth to the ninth hour” of Christ's suffering, to permit employes to attend the worship. Stations WFBM and WKBF broadcasted some of the sermons and music numbers for the benefit of those w r ho preferred to remain at home. For one minute prior to 3 p. m. all busses and street cars stopped. Courthouse and city hall employes were given permission to leave their work for the three-hour period if they so desired. The statehouse closed from noon to 3 p. m. Arrangements for a greater observance in Indianapolis than ever before w r ere begun six weeks ago by the Good Friday committee of the Indianapolis Church Federation, with A. B. Cornelius as chairman. “The interest in the movement has been remarkable,” said Dr. Ernest N. Evans, secretary of the Church Federation “All have co-operated.” SLASH RAIL RATES Round Trip Excursion Fares Get Terrific Cuts. By United Press CHICAGO, April 3. Special round-trip excursion rates to Denver and Colorado Springs from Chicago this summer for S3O, which is sl3 less than the daily summer excursion fare, were announced today by western railroads, members of the western passenger association. The rates, good for fifteen days, will be effective on four dates, July 1 and 15, and Aug. 11 and 15. Similar tickets to the Black Hills of South Dakota will be sold for $25. The rates were made to stimulate vacation traffic to the west and to compete with bus lines.

GOTTSCHALK LIKELY TO GET STATE JOB

Thurman A. Gottschalk, tile manufacturer of Berne, Ind., and Democratic state senator, today was regarded a likely successor to Calvin F. Mclntosh, Democratic member of the Indiana public service commission. Mclntosh's four-year term will

expire May 1, and Governor Harry G. Leslie is not expected to reappoint him. Gottschalk is in position to expect the G o v e r n o r’s favor because of his (Gottschalk's) flight on the floor of the senate to restore the Governor's emergency contingent fund to $200,000 a year, the present figure, after the Democratic house of

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Jejus by his cousin John, in the Gospel according to St. Luke. This states that this event, marking the beginning of Jesus’ public life, occun ed in the “fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar.” Tiberius became emperor on the death of Augustus, in year 14 A. D. This would put his fifteenth year in 19 A. D. or possibly in 28. 000 THERE is, however, one possible source of error. Two years before his accession as emperor, Tiberius was accorded im--4

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By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 3. Adolphe Roome, 14, weighing 235 pounds and stiii growing, was under court order today to obey his father and take the medicine prescribed to halt his unusual development. Judge Lester Roth of superior court signed the order after testimony had shown that science could prevent overdevelopment of the body, and that the boy’s father, Dr. Adolphe E. Roome Sr., was willing to prescribe injections of pituitrim to stop his growth. Mrs. Helen Roome, the boy’s mother, who is divorced from Dr. Roome, did not object to the pituitrin treatment for her son but did not wish to force him to take it if it was against his will. Partial atrophy of the posterior section of the pituitary glands was responsible for Adolphe's condition, Dr. Roome testified. Within three years, it was shown, Adolphe has grown ten inches in height and gained ninety-two pounds in weight. Judge Roth said he could not compel the boy to take treatments but added that conservative medical opinion held no permanent harm could result from pituitrin injections.

HORSES WRECK INTERURBAN CAR Runaway Team Struck Near Hiser’s Station. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 3.—Death or serious injury were escaped on Thursday afternoon by tile crew and five passengers aboard a T. H., I. & E. traction car, bound for Indianapolis, when the car struck a team of runaway horses near Hiser’s Station and left the rails, turning over across the National road. Poles and wires were torn down for several hundred feet, but the car only was slightly damaged. Conductor Herman Hobson, Richmond. in charge of the car, was knocked unconscious, but neither motormap Philip Taylor, Greenfield, nor passengers were hurt. Occupants escaped through a rear door, after the car had bumped along the ties before finally overturning and coming to a stop. Traffic was halted and was being detoured around neighboring roads. Only one of the horses was killed. The other received no injuries. Rudolph Slonicker, driver of the team, jumped from the wagon just before the crash and escaped injury. THURSTON’S DAUGHTER TO PRESS COURT CASE Charges Mate With Striking Her in Detroit Hotel. By United Press DETROIT, April 3.—Jane Thurston, daughter of Howard Thurston, the magician, will press charges of assault and battery against her husband, Harry Harris, she announced in a long distance conversation from Altoona, Pa., where she and her father are playing. The case was adjourned to May 18, when Miss Thurston says she will return here to testify. Harris is charged with striking hia wife during an argument in a local hotel w’hile Thurston was performing here. Thurston ended the argument by firing a tear gas fountain pen in Harris’ face. Fairland Home Looted By Times Special FAIRLAND, Ind., April 3.—-When Mr. and Mrs. William Harrell entered their home here on returning from a sojourn in Florida, they discovered that practical’v everything of value had been r moved, including linens, silverware, dishes, a motor from the basement and a valuable vase. Articles left behind had been damaged.

Gottchaik, a member of the budget committee, did succeed in raising the figure to $150,000 a year. Senator Byron Huff (Rep., Hendricks. Morgan and Owen), president of the Home Building Association at Martinsville, also may be rewarded for his legislative efforts in the Governor’s behalf, it was rumored today. Huff also was a budget committee member. Huff may be named by Leslie to replace Daily E. McCoy, Versailles, as state purchasing agent. Although this appointment is made by the state purchasing board, the Governor ordinarily dictates the appointment. McCoy, a Republican was appointed to the post April ll! 1925. The public service commission and state purchasing agent posts pay a salary of $6,000 a year each. State Representative Virgil Simmons iDtm., Blackford and Grant) has been regarded as a likely selection for Mclntosh's place, but it is generally conceded now Simmons will not be chosen.

perial honors by proclamation of Augustus. Coins were, struck with his image on them, the highest privilege of an emperor, as early as the year 12 A. D Therefore there is a chance that his “reign” may have been counted as beginning two years before the death of Augustus. This would set the possible date of the beginning of Jesus' public ministry as early as 26 A. D. Support for this earlier date is found in the statement in the second chapter of the gospel accord-

CARBON CLAY PLANT ENDS IDLE PERIOD Operations Resumed After Shutdown Which Lasted Four Months. WABASH CONCERN BUSY Order tor Radio Cabinets Provides Employment for 350 Persons. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times A few instances of activity w r ere i noted in a business and industrial | survey of Indiana for the week end- ; ed today. After being idle four months, the ■ plant of the Ayer-McCarl-Reagan Clay Company at Carbon is again in operation. Officials announce the outlook is bright for steady work. Officials of ’ the Muncie Gear Company, which has been working on a schedule two-thirds of normal, announce conditions are improving i and they expect to receive several orders within a few’ days. New Plant Will Expand A one-third increase in floor space is planned by the Hanson Van Winkle Munning Company, which recently opened a plant at Anderson for the manufacture of polishing wheels. Employment will be given 350 persons within a few days by the Wabash Cabinet Company, according to its president, T. F. Vaughn, who said an order for radio cabinets had been received from an eastern firm. The company’s plant has been idle four months. An idle period which started hi August may be ended soon by the Mt. Vernon Straw’board Company and 110 persons put to work. The company has pledged resumption of operations, provided it can sell $15,000 worth of its stock. Truck Corporation Formed In connection with the new riverrail terminal at Evansville a $25,000 trucking corporation has been formed, to operate within a fiftymile radius of Evansville in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. Ulen & Cos., international financing and construction firm, with headquarters at Lebanon, announces completion of a $6,000,000 transformer station and power line at Maverick, Tex., and w’ork of erecting a power house at a cost of $1,500,000 will be started at once. Electric current from the plant will be used in Eagle Pass, Tex., and in Mexico. The Reiss Manufacturing Company, Kokomo, announces that three new machines will be added to its production.

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By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 3.—Mrs. Clara De Palma was granted a divorce from Ralph De Palma, the racing driver, late Thursday on charges of desertion. Mrs. De Palma, who previously had sought separate maintenance, unexpectedly appeared in court and was granted the divorce instead. They were married in 1909 and separated Dec. 1, 1927. A R mTstTc e is orde red Nicaraguan Rebel Chief Proclaims Cessation Because of Tragedy. By United Press MEXICO CITY, April 3.—General Augustino Sandino, leader of the Nicaraguan insurrectionists, has issued a proclamation to his forces ordering cessation of all hostilities due to the earthquake which destroyed Managua. Veteran, 80, Dies By United Press BEDFORD. Ind., April 3.—W. T. Hicks, 80, who enlisted in the Civil war at the age of 13, died here after two and one-half years’ illness. He was one of the founders of the Orleans bank of Orleans and the Citizens Trust Company here. He leaves his widow and two daughters.

ing to St. John, that after his baptism Jesus made a visit to Jerusalem, the temple then being forty-six years from its foundation. Since the date of the beginning of the temple is known from independent sources, this visit seems to have taken place in the spring of 27 A. D. THE public life of Jesus covered a period of more than three years, but less than four. This would set the year of His crucifixion and resurrection as about the

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STATE PARK WORK WILL COST $200,000

New Buildings and Other Improvements on Spring Program. Improvements to cost $200,000, affording work for several hundred men, will be made this spring in state parks, according to a state conservation department statement issued today. The improvement program is as follows: Dunes —Erection of fifty sleeping rooms on beach in connection with anew dining hall, which will seat 2CO persons. Hinterland inn will be enlarged with eight rooms; beach cleared of debris and a concrete paved road completed. Pokagon—Additional dining room facilities. McCormick’s Creek Canyon Thirty-room brick hotel will augment a frame structure. Turkey Run—Twenty guest rooms being completed. Newby gulch bridge to be repaired, new barn erected and office and lobby of inn decorated. Spring Hills—Stone-w’alled garden of Virginia type, street lighting system, completion of mill restoration and extension of camping and parking areas. Musatatuck —Two four-room cottages and larger picnic grounds. Shakamak—Fencing, landscaping, road extension, enlarging camping and parking space, beach and erection of shelter houses and a community cabin. Clifty Falls New observation field, parking and service areas, shelter house, tennis court and augmented water supply. Brown County Completion of scenic road from State Road 46 at Kelly hill to Weed Patch hill. Employment to be given 150 persons in building a water system, shelter houses and service buildings. Mounds —Water and sewer sysstems. boat house, roads and trails. LEPER GOES TO COLONY WABASH, Ind., April 3.—Mrs. Hjino Gutierrez, Mexican, is suffering from leprosy and will be taken to the federal leper colony in New Orleans, the state boaid of health has reported to local .authorities. This is the first case of leprosy reported in Indiana for several years, authorities said.

ROAD JOBS CAUSE SEVERAL DETOURS

Paving has started on State Road 7 between Columbus and North Vernon and during such operation the detour via Seymour over Roads 31 and 50 will be thirty-two miles, according to the state highway commission’s traffic bulletin issued today from the office of John J. Brown, director. Indianapolis to Madison traffic has the further choice of routing via Shelbyville and Greensburg with the entire distance paved excepting eighteen miles between Versailles and Madison. The bulletin call attention to paving operations under way on Road 29 starting at the Marion county line. Road 7 paving project will complete pavement between Madison and Indianapolis, and Road 29 project completes anew paved route between Indianapolis and South Bend via Logansport and Rochester. Detours, length, and surface conditions are described as follows: Road I—Detour from Brookville to Ccnnersville account paving, is twentv-three and a half miles. Road 2—Detour at west edge of Lowell account construction, is one-half mile.

year 30. To make allowances for all possible sources ct error. Professor Gerhardt adopts a “bracket” of five years, 29 to 33 A. D. inclusive. With this he begins his astronomical calculations to determine the exact date. Gospel accounts state that the crucifixion took place on the eve of the Sabbath of Passover, on the fifteenth day of the month Nisan. The problem then became one of determining the year on which Nisan 15 fell on Friday. The Jewish calendar, like all m

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Smart Kids By United. Press NEW YORK, April 3.—Proud parents who boast of the “bright" things their children say have something to learn from Dr. Joseph Miller. Dr. Miller, who has just completed a survey of school children for the Teachers College of Columbia university, finds the “bright” child is only “glib.” and is not of any higher intelligence than less talkative children who are considered dull. Tests given both groups showed, Dr. Miller said, that about half of the so-called bright children were “just good talkers” and that the so-called dull ones often showed exceptional intelligence when their natural shyness or reticence was cast aside.

KNIFE-TOTER FINED Youth Threatenec to S-ab Mother-in-Law, Cops. Alleged to have threatened to stab his mother-in-law and two police officers, Jenneth Ault, 23, of 111 South Noble street, today was fined $5 for carrying concealed weapons by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. Police testified the youth had a paring knife and threatened them. Mrs. Jane De Moss, 1523 North Temple avenue, was bound over to the grand jury on her own recognizance by Wetter after she is alleged to have fired a shotgun at two neighbor women w’ith .vhom she had an altercation last week. Sentences of thirty days on the state farm and $25 fines were assessed by Wetter against Robert Lane, 536 North Illinois street, of charges of issuing fraudulent checks and petit larceny. He is alleged to have issued eight false checks and stolen a radio. Policeman Pensioned By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., April 3.—Charles Steinhauer, policeman for tw’elve years, has been retired on pension. He has been succeeded by Paul Branagin,

Road 6—Detour east of Junction of Road 49, account overhead bridge construction, is two miles. Road 7-—Detour between Columbus and North Vernon via Seymour over Roads 31 and 50. account paving, is thirtv-two miles. Detour at four miles south of Dupont for grading and paving bridge approaches, is 1.5 mils*. Road 15—Detour from Goshen to junction of Road 20. account paving, is eight miles. Road 18—Detour just west of Montpelier. account culvert construction, is six miles. Detour from Montpelier to one mile north of Fiat on Road 3. account bridge construction, is nine and one-half miles. Road 24—Detour from Wolcott east account of paving, is four miles. Roads 24 and 30—Detour at east edge of Ft. Wayne, account paving, is two miles. Roads 24 and 53—Detour Just south of Wolcott, account paving, is two miles. Road 29—Detour from Marion County line ,to three and one-half miles north, account paving, ts five and one-half miles. Detour from five miles south of Kirklin to Junction with Road 28. for paving, is eighteen miles. Road 43—Detour at east edge of Wanatah. account overhead bridge construction, is one mile. Road 46—Detour from two miles west of Ellettsville to Spencer, account paving, is nine miles. Road 50—Detour In Washington, account street paving, is 1.5 miles. Road 66—Detour from Hatfield to Rockport. account grading and paving, is thirteen miles. Narrow bridges and narrow road. Road 67—Detour at two.miles north of Bicsnell. account bridge out. is two miles.

ancient time reckonings in the east, was beckoned on the changes of the moon. A month began on the evening when the first light of the new moon became visible. With the assistance of data prepared by a number of other astronomers. Professor Gerhardt has been able to reconstruct the Jewish calendars of the five years in question, and finds that the fateful fifteenth of Nisan on which the crucifixion took place corresponds with the date, according to modern reckoning, of April 7, 30 A. D.

JUDGE CHOSEN FOR TRIAL OF ROWBOTTOM Baltzell Asks Permission to Disqualify Self, and Chicagoan Is Named. HEARING OPENS APRIL 14 Ex-Congressman Charged With Postmastership ‘Peddling.’ Appointment of Federal Juag Charles E. Woodward of Chicago, as special judge in the trial of Harry E. Rowbottom of Evansville, former First district congressman, charged with “sale” of postmasterships, was announced today by Samuel Alschuler. senior judge of the Seventh United States circuit court at Chicago. The trial will start in Evansville April 14. The appointment was made after Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell requested that he be permitted to disqualify himself, in a letter to Judge Alschuler, March 16 Asks to Be Disqualified “The defendant Rowbottom is a former representative from the First congressional district, of which I was a resident and voter for the last twenty years and up until the last two or three elections,” said Judge Baltzell. “Owing to the fact that Mr. Rowbottom formerly w r as a representative from my home district, I feel thfit I am disqualified and should not try the case,” the latter sets out. Judge Baltzell also pointed out that George Cramer, who is to be tried at the same session on a liquor charge, is a resident of the judge’s home town of Princeton and that his brother, C. O. Baltzell, is to be his (Cramer’s) attorney, in that case the judge also asked to be disqualified. An angle not mentioned in the letter, but well known to those familiar with Republican political activities in the First district is the fact that Rowbottom long has been a bitter enemy of Judge Baltzell. Fought His Appointment In 1924, just after his first nomination for congress, Rowbottom sought to seize control of the First district organization, to bring pressure against appointment of Baltzell to the federal bench to succeed Judge A. B. Anderson, who was appointed to the circuit court Then developed a bitter factional j fight in the First district GOP su PP° r ted by First dlsmet Klansmen, attempted to obtain the election of Herbert Males, later discredited mayor of Evansville, as district chairman, in opposition to the incumbent, Stuart Fisher of rinceton who was supporting Baltzell for the nomination. Row’bottom declared his avowed purpose was to bring about the appointment of James A. Coffins of Indianapolis, then criminal judge Baltzell Is Victor ™ e - to ? was Fisher's and the Inst district organization supported Baltzell for the appointment. It also is known that Rowbottom is prone to blame the federal investigation of his alleged sales of postmasterships upon Senator James E. Watson, who supported the appointment of Baltzell. ,Jl° rem o ve all color of politics from the trial, Judge Baltzell disqualified himself. Rowbottom pleaded not guilty to e nine counts in the indictment when arraigned here Feb. 28. He specifically with taking $1,750 for aid in obtaining two postmasterships and one rural mail carrier appointment.

Charged With Taking Money The first two counts alllege that last November Rowbottom agreed to take $750 from Walter G Ayer for aid in securing a rural mail carrier appointment for Gresham Ayer of Rockport. The third and fourth counts charge he took SBOO from s. Grant Johnson through Otto A. Weilbrenner, Mt. Vernon postmaster, for the postmastership at Dale. The sixth, seventh and ninth counts accuse Rowbottom of accepting S2OO from McKinley Ayer for the postmastership at Chrisney. The eighth count charges that he conspired with William Davisson. Fred J. Fisher, Weilbrenner and other persons, names unknown,” to take from Ayers and Johnson money, property and other things of value in exchange* for aid in obtaining postal appointments. Rowbottom was elected to congress, with Klan support. In 1924, 1926, 1928, and was defeated in 1930 GARAGE !S~ LOOTED Tools, Clothing and Fishing Equipment Taken by Thieves. Smashing a window in the Richard Wishmire service garage, 4500 Rockville road, early today, thieves stole tools, clothing and fishing equipment valued at S7O. Merchandise was stolen from Dean’s barbecue, 4102 Rockville road, by the thieves. Their attempt to gain entrance to the Bungalow Food Shop, 45C-3 Rockville road, failed. YOUTHFUL MOTHER^DIES Nineteen-Year-Old Mother Was Parent of Four Children. By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 3. Mrs. Floyd Thompson, 19, who became a mother a few days ago for the fourth time, died last night at the local hospital. Board of health records show she was the youngest woman in Noblesville history with so large a family. Besides the children the husband survives.