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‘NO/ SAY MANY IN CONTEST ON WORKING WIVES Negative Letters in Lead, but Affirmative Side Also Is Strong. The negative side Is far ahead In number of letters received in The Times contest on “Should Wives Work?” but there’s a strong affirmative contingent, too, in the race for the two prizes of $lO each, one for the best “No” letteT and the other for the best “yes." The contest closes Thursday might at midnight, and all letters postmarked before that time will be (riven consideration by the Judges. Four of the letters are reproduced here today. The first, in the affirmative, written by Miss J M , follows. Long has been the discussion of “Should Wives Work?” Yes, of course, if they choose to do so if circumstances made It advisable. It is the right of every human being to work in his or her chosen field, whether married or unmarried, whether the wife goes out to work of necessity or whether she works merely to buy finery. Work ic a gift from a kindly providence to troubled humanity and knows no sex, no condition, no circumstance. I can not see the destruction of the social fabric. In the old days, so happily gone by, women did crucifying work in the field and in the home. There was no objection then. And now that the work pays money, and is performed in shop and factory, they still have followed it. Should Work in Some Cases Mrs Edgar Frazier, 2426 North Illinois street, presents the following viows: It is a wife’s privilege and duty to work where the husband’s salary does not provide sufficient necessities, and the man of today seldom earns enough, at the age when he is desirous of marrying. When there is an invalid husband or the wife has dependent relatives, she should have a job. Unless the husband was richly blessed, no woman wants her husband to take the responsibility of earning, when she has an aged parent or other relative to care for. But where there are just the man and the wife (or children also), If the man’s salary is large enough to allow comfortable living, the wife should be content with her home duties, as most women would be. Very few are working for the fun of it, or for the finery they may buy. A real wife rather would make a real home than have a “career” any old day.

One for the “No” Side Here’s a negative, from Miss Clara E. Faucette, 813 North Bancroft avenue: Wives should not work outside the home, unless absolutely necessary for maintenance of the home. The wife’s place is in the home, managing the domestic affairs. From the time of creation, it has been an unwritten law that the wife spend the greater part of her time in the home, thereby making it sunshiny by her presence, and a cheerful and inviting refuge for her husband and children after the day’s toil. Her children need her careful attention and direct training, to become upright citizens. Generally speaking, the father is busy with his office, and has very little time with the. children. Thus the responsibility falls upon the mother. This training would be totally lacking if the mother's time were taken up in the office. This particular neglect of attention of the last two generations accounts for a greater per cent of the criminals today. The wife, by spending her time and study in the home, could save as much money by properly managing the domestic affairs as she could make in the office. There would not be so many unemployed men; money would be more evenly distributed; her children would receive careful training; her husband would take a deeper interest in the home, and become more attached to it; her countrymen, who have been unemployed, have jobs, and, last, but not least, she would be more satisfied, performing the ever honorable task of home-making. Look After the Children And here’s another, written by Mary E Blue, 4619 Carrollton avenue: Wives should not work outside of the home, unless widowed. If they have children, they should be In the home rearing them, instead of leaving them to a stranger who has no interest in them. The trouble these days is that the wives want to get rid of the children, and shove the responsibility on someone else. If they have no children, they should not work to help make the living, for if they do what is required in the home, they will be contributing their share toward the income, and the husband won’t be so apt to get discouraged and give up, as he is when he has a wife with a pay envelope. No, the wife by working outside either encourages laziness in the husband, or robs him of that quality of feeling able to support a family. They marry them with the salaries they have, so they should accept it and leave Jobs for men and single women who need them. NOTED PERSONS BOOKED Picture Schedule for Next Year .-ranged at De Pauw. By Ttmet Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., April 13. Winston Churchill, famous Englishman who is both a political leader and writer, will head an impressive array of platform lecturers that will be brought to the De Pauw university campus next year, Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president, announces. Churchill will make his first address in Indiana on the De Pauw campus and the second in the United States following his arrival from England. He is scheduled to appear here Nov, 1.

WOMAN WHO HIRED MATE’S KILLER DIES

Poison Too Slow for Her, So She Got Stilletoist to Do Work. By United Press MARYSVILLE, 0., April 13.—Mrs. Eva Katherine Kaber, 50, who hired a stilettoist to kill her husband, Dan Kaber, wealthy Lakewood (O.) publisher, when poisoning was too slow, died Sunday night in the Marysville reformatory for women, where she was serving a life sentence for the crime. Death was caused by acute indigestion, superinduced by tumor, for which she had refused to submit to an operation. She was stricken last Friday, but disdained appeals of her physicians to operate because, it was said, of religious scruples. Ends Awesome Case Mrs. Kaber’s death ended one of the most amazing and awesome murder cases in the history of Ohio, embroiling as it did two members of her immediate family, and three others In the plot designed because she was “not satisfied” with her husband, one of the largest publishers of printing supplies in Cleveland. Over a period of several months she had been administering poisons of arsenic in his food, allegedly by a “poison queen” and her agent. On July 18, 1919, a stilletoist crept into the house which, by prearrangement, had been upset as if by robbers, and stabbed Kaber as he slept. Crime Bared Later Mrs. Ethel Berman, prominent Cleveland and Lakewood society woman, brought about the widow’s arrest two years later after she had acted as her traveling companion and confidante. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Brickel, and her 18-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, Marion MeCardie, were arrested as accessories, but subsequently were released. The stilletoist was arrested In Italy and sentenced to life imprisonment while another man was given life imprisonment in Ohio penitentiary.

2 CHICAGO BANDITS KILLED BY WAITER

German War Veteran Ends Holdup With Deadly Shotgun Fire. By United Press CHICAGO, April 13.—Search for two bandits who escaped the deadly shotgun fire of a German war veteran who killed two others of their band, was pushed by police today while the hero of the attempted robbery disclaimed credit for his deed. Four robbers entered the L’Aiglon restaurant, a Gold Coast resort, and held up Mme. Augustine Andre, 25, the cashier. Frank Abler, 35, headwaiter with three years of service in the German army, ran to the basement and procured his shotgun. He returned to find the bandits threatening the girl, while 250 guests and orchestra members cowered along the walls. Abler fired once and a robber fell dead. Again he fired, mortally wounding another. Two others of the band fled in terror and escaped in a waiting automobile. The dead men were identified as Charles Nelson, 26, and James Hirsch, 34. Abler, a bachelor, who has been in this country for only five years, discounted his actions, which police characterized as “one of the bravest things in the annals of Chicago crime. He was concerned chiefly over the discomfort caused his guests. “It is nothing,” he said, “but I do not like this robbery business.” ‘HUNGER PARADE’ WILL BE HALTED BY POLICE Hammond Radicals Worried About May Day Demonstration. By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., April 13. Hopes of Communist leaders and sympathizers to lead a “hunger parade” here May 1 were blasted when Chief of Police Thomas J. Martinson announced any attempts at a demonstration will be halted. Communists of the state plan to meet in Indianapolis May 2 to present their demands to Governor Harry Leslie, Paul Bucha, 17-year-old secretary and treasurer of the Hammond group, revealed. Numerous demands have been made by Communists on the North township trustee here recently for free rent, food, clothing and medical service. All requests were denied, the trustee says, and on several occasions police were forced to eject the radicals from the trusI tee's office when they became in--1 sistent on their demands.

Neck Broken, Aerialist Tries to Take a Bow

By United Prest NEW YORK, April 13.—The Ringling-Bamum circus went on as usual today, but its famed aerialist, Charles Siegrist, was not among the entertainers. He. was lying on a hospital cot with a broken neck—and the knowledge that he never again will climb to dizzy heights and swing through the air. For forty years—since he was 14—Siegrist has climbed a ladder to the tent top to swing on trapeze and cross-bar, and send his body iHirtling through space while thousands cheered his daring. But that is all over now. Saturday afternoon Madison Square Garden was filled. The clowns and their funmaking gadgets, Clyde Beatty and his forty lions, the bareback riders and the kicking mule had come and gone. Siegrist, his son William and another partner rame running

Mrs. Eva Katherine Kaber

MORRIS VERDICT STAYS SUICIDE New Evidence Heard, but Finding Unchanged Death by suicide today stood as the verdict in the death of J. Edward Morris, president of the defunct Washington Bank and Trust Company, two weeks ago.. Coroner Fred W. Vehiing Saturday heard testimony of Will Hopkins, 640 East Tenth street, working near the Morris home the afternoon Morris was found pillowed, behind his running auto in his closed garage. Death was due to carbon monoxide gas, Vehiing had stated. Hopkins was reported to have seen a strange car in the Morris residence driveway. Members of the family indicated death might have occurred in another manner than suicide due to the number of threatening letters Morris received since the bank closed in October.

Marital Speed WARSAW, Ind., April 11.— Divorced in the morning, wed in the afternoon is the matrimonial pace set by 18-year-old Mrs. Vera Grubb Kelly Hawn. She obtained a divorce from Jack M. Kelly, because he is serving a term in the Indiana state reformatory for forgery. A few hours later she became the bride of Ward Hawn, 28, a mechanic. Kelly forged the name of his father-in-law,, Peter Grubb, to a check in November. He received a two-to-fourteen-year term.

AGED PIONEER BIESIN WEST Pasadena (Cal.) Man, 104, Voted for Fremont. By United Press PASADENA, Cal., April 13. Galusha Cole, who in 104 years of life, watched his country grow, and voted for its Presidents even in the days before Abraham Lincoln, died Sunday night. He had been in the hospital since April 3 after suffering a fractured leg. He refused food and medicine, hastening the end. Galusha Cole was one of the colorful figures of southern California. For many years he served as a leader of local church choirs any recently led the choir at the First Methodist church, Los Angeles, which he attended regularly on Sunday, making the ten-mile train trip unattended. He was born in Pomfort, Conn., on Aug. 15, 1326. It was his boast that he voted for John C. Fremont, first Republican candidate for President, and all succeeding candidates of that party, including Abraham Lincoln. Cole saw the population of his country increase from 22,000,000 to 122,000,000 persons. 4 TRAIN BELLS STOLEN Railway Company Police Report Thefts From City Shops. If your neighbors have anew dinner bell with a “bong” louder than the usual come-and-eat bell, call the police. John Carr, special police officer of the Union Railway Company, reported to police that four locomotive bells were stolen Saturday night and Sunday from the railroad’s shops.

into the sawdust arena, along with tw’O other groups of aerial workers. They mounted the ladders and climbed to the swinging bars far overhead. Siegrist was hurled back and forth by his partners as the “leaper” of the act. He went through his usual program without a hitch. Then came the big finale. Siegrist was perched on the bar read to make his triple somersault to the net, but his foot caught on the bar, causing him to slip and plunge heavily to the edge of the net. He hit with such force that he was bounced on his back to the ground below, while startled thousands watched. Siegrist, always the showman, tried to get to his feet to show that he was inhurt, but he was unable to stand and attendants had to carry him to a hospital.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PULPITS FILLED AS METHODISTS CLOSESESSION Bishop Blake Heads Lists of North Indiana Assignments. By Timet Special MISHAWAKA, Ind., April 13. Ministers of the northern Indiana conference cf Methodist churches were assigned for the ensuing year by Bishop Edgar Blake of Indianapolis at the conclusion of the annual meeting here today, following a session of one week. The assignments follow: FT. WAYNE DISTRICT J T. Bean, superintendent: Angola, T. Davies; Areola, D. K. Finch: Auburn. E. J. Wlckersham; Auburn circuit. W. M. Hollopeter; Blackford, H. M. Jones; Bluffton, C. F. Hubbart; Blufiton circuit, G. F. Osburn; Coesse, J. W. Pearce; Decatur, B. F Franklin; Decatur circuit, E. L. Johnston; Flint, A. A. Turner. Ft. Wayne, First church and Forest Park. J. S. Newcomb ; Simpson, F. F. Thornburg; St. Paul, H. A. Davis; Trinity, E. E. Tripper: Wavnedale, C G. Adams; Centennial and Wallen, J. C. Bean; Fremont, D. S. Hartley; Garrett. B. M. Becholdt: Geneva. W. B. Fallis; Geneva circuit, Kenneth Yost; Hamilton, Donald Jennings; Harlan. A. E. Burk; Hoagland, J. I. Meyers; Hudson, H. V. Cummins; Huntertown, R. A. Fenstermacher; Leo E. L. Pusey; Monroe. E. M. Dunbar; Monroeville, E. M. Foster; Montpelier, J. R. Stelle; Mt. Tabor, H. E. Mattison;' New Haven, A. R. Sanks; Orland, To be supplied; Ossian, G. A. Snider; Pleasant Mills. Frank Burns: Poneto. L. C. Wisner; Ray and Jones. Earl Clayton; Spencerville, Homer Studebaker. KOKOMO DISTRICT L. M. Kemper, superintendent; Anoka, C. L. Rees; Arcadia, A. Z. Scotten; Atlanta L. F. Ulmer; Boxley. R. Davisson: Bunker Hill. S. I. Sechiel; Center and Nevada, J. B. Gates: Cicero. J. V/. Wesley: Converse, J. F. Lutey: Denver, E. A. Moore; Ekin and 3hiloh, L. Wright; Elwood. E. L. Gates; Forest. H. W. Mohler; Frankton, C. L. Schwartz; Galveston and Salem, J. M. Pynchon; Gilead. L. W. Eller; Goldsmith, M. C. Morrow; Greentown, R. A. Graham; Hillsburg, E. J. Ms "or: Hobbs . F. A. Banner; Kempto 1, E. Vanhoughton; Kokomo, Beamer church, J. M. Richardson: Grace. S. Turbeville; Main Street. B. Kendall; Trinity and Parr, C. A. Byrk; Kokomo larger parish. O. A. Trabue; Logansport, Broadway church, L. G. Jaobs; Market street, G. H. Myers; Wheatland, S. L. Yomer; May. E. P. White; Mexico. George H. Lee; Miami. Alva Earr; Peru, B. Kendali; Richland. Paul BoIIiger; Roann, L. M. Kile; Rushville. C. Dunlap; Santa Fe H. W. Park; Sharpsville, C. Montgomery; Sheridan. E. R. Garrison; Somerset. E. J. Glendenning; Twelve-Mile, Ross Jackson; Walton and Lincoln, E. E. Lutes; West Middletown. G. W. Bailor; Windfall. L. A. Land. MUNCIE DISTRICT F. K. Dougherty, superintenednt. Albany, A. W. Pugh; Albany circuit, J. H. Brown; Alexandria, R. W. Stokes; Alexandria circuit. Earl Keesar; Anderson First, W. H. Brandenford; Grace, J. F. Seelig; Indiana Avenue, E. J. Huits; Noble Street, P. B. Smith; Park Place, H. A. Kirk; Beal’s Chapel and Fairview, Earl Richardson Blountsville, M. Lee Wilson; Carmel, O. P. Vany; Daleville, E. R. Landry; Desoto, J. E. Jensen; Eaton, R. S. Wilson: Fishers, C. B. Thomas; Fortville, J. H. Royer; Gaston, J. V/. Fox; Hartford City, First church, H. A. Homer; Grant Street, to be supplied; Ingalls, Lerov Ragon: Jolictvllle. J. W. Cox; Lapel, Earl N. Matthews, Earl Leonard: Middletown. J. W. Gibson; Muncie, Avondale church, A. F. Hogan; High Street, C. King: Madison S.reet, G. S. Conway; Normal City, C. E. Franklin; Whitely. D. A. J. Brown; New Burlington, C. A. Mills; Noblesville circuit, R. E. Boyle; Pendleton, A. E. Lees; Perkinsville, C. Pyle: Rigdon, M. L. Jones: Selma. J. B. Sparling; Roll, W. McNeil; Shideler, Marvin Stuart; Summitviile, C. G. Cook; Wesfleld. F. T. Champion; Yorktown, C. H. Cay lor; Zion, K. Maynard. RICHMOND DISTRICT ,F. A Hall, superintendent; Cambridge city. W. H. Harrison: Centerville. A. K. Love; Charlottesville. E. C. Fisher: Dunkirk. W. H. Wehrly; Economy, e. a. Goodwin; Farmland, W. P. Thorn; Farmland circuit, Herbert Perry; Fountain city. M. Lee Wilson; Greenfield. V. L. Clear; Greenboro, L. M. Bohl; Hagerstown, E. Naftzger, L-ewisvile, L. B. Sharp: Losantvllle. Frederick Vincent,; Lynn. W. E. Loveless; Markleville. W. B. Whealv; Maxwell, G. Girten: McCordsville. H. C. Tasks; Millgrove. C. E. Smith: Modoc. F. A. Armstrong; Newcastle, Centenary church. Gall Davis: First. F. E. Fridlev; Parker. N. E. faylith: Pennviile. W. E. Hamilton; Philadelphia. R. W. Blanchard; Portland. H. R. Carson: Portland circuit. E. S. McKee; Redkey. E. L. Jones; Richmond, Central church. O. F. Martin; Trinity, E. B. Megenity; Ridgeville. C. W. Fisk: Salamoni. L. Meyers: Saratoga, H. L. Liddle; Shirley and Wilkinson, A. B. B.vrkett; Spiceland, D. Liggett: Union Chapel. M. D. James; Webster. E. Abel; Whitewater, E. Tallev; Williamsburg. James Hobb: Willow Branch, W. G. Briggs; Winchester, A. P. Teter; Winchester circuit, G. Burgner. WABASH DISTRICT M. O. Lester, superintendent, Akron, C. S. Miller; Andrews, J. W. Borders; Bippus. O. L. Davis; Churubusco, W. L. Hall; Churubusco circuit, Robert W. Wagner; Clayppol, H. T. Miller; Columbia City. R. W. Plant: Etna, A. R. Noland; Fairmount. C. Hile; Gas City. J. W. Stephenson: Huntington, J. F. Edwards; Jonesboro. G. V/. Thomas; Lefontaine, H. W. Thrasher; Lagro, E. K. Saunders; Larwill, C. B. Sweeney; Lincoinville, W. Dsyo; Marion. First church, W. T. Arnold; Grace. H. Powell; Highland. A. E. Hap- ! gcod; Home Park. W. H. Bombaugh: Ninth street, T. Morris; Markle, C. M. Fawns; Mentone. W. O. Powers: Morris, Chapel, E. W. Hammond: Mount Etna, D. M. Church: North Manchester. H. W. Bose; point Isabel. T. J. Cotton; Roanoke, E. C. Souders; Silver Lake, E. H. Kennedy; Simms, Ora Brock; South Whitely. V. Stoner; Swayzee. O. J. Beardsley; Swwetser, T. Purdy; Uniondale, C. W. Shoemaker; Upland, D. C. Beatty; Van Buren, O. C. Bogue: Wabash, First church, W. E. Pittinger; Middle Street, A. G. Simmons; Wabash street, G. V. Saunders; Warren. C. Tinkham. WARSAW DISTRICT C. B. Cloxall. superintendent; Albion, B. D. Nysewander; Avilla. K. R. Thompson; Bourbon. E. E. Dewitt; Bourbon circuit, F. A. Shipley: Bristol. J. H. Runkle: Butler. E. Antle; Elkhart, Simpson church. J. O. Hochsfedler; St. Paul. A. C. Wlshmeler; irlnity. C. A. McPhetters: Etna Green, N. B. Graham: Goshen. First churca, W. W. Robinson: St. Marks. A. C. Hoover; Circuit. S. B. Stook'v; Howell. R. J. Johnson. In wood. R. F. Hart: Kendallville. M. c. Wright; Kimmel. F. S. Young; LaGrange, F. R. Hill: LanGrange circuit, C. L. Robinson: Leesburg. Julius Pfeiffer: Ligoniar. C. W. Anderson; Middleburv. Thurman Moot; Milord Claude Garrison: Mishawaka. Clyde jO. Yeomans: Mishawaka; East circuit. ! George Dunham: Nappanee. RoDert Burns; New Paris. R. J. Rutenspiller: Northweaster. J. S. Denbo: Osceola, and. o. Vernon; TTrrcton. J. E. Lawshee: South Milford, J. M Stuart: Syracuse. A. J. Armstrong; Tiopccanoe. C. W. Harrod: Topekak. C. C. Wlshmeier; Valentine. R. W. Gates; Waknruaa. E. E. Kauffman: Warsaw. C. P. : Gibbs: Waterloo. C, K. Jennings: WawaKa. R. S. Brown: Wolcottville. F. B. Wilde; I Warsaw circuit. Garrv Brown.

OIL PRICE CONTROL IS URGED BY BORAH Idaho Senator Holds Federal, State I Regulation Needed. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 13. Any plan to curtail oil production and I importation also should include federal and state price regulation to protect the consumer, Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho), said Sunday night. Borah, arguing that the consuming public would be left unprotected from a possible price gouge under any general restrictive plan, said the business of producing and vending oil properly could be regarded “as a public utility and subject to government regulation.” 26 BUTLERITES LAUDED ■ Students Who Received High Grades Congratulated by Dean. Twenty-six Butler students who made an A or A— average for the last semester have been sent congratulatory letters by Dean J. W. ! Putnam. Those who received let- ! ters were: Mrs. Fredk L. Bridenstlne. Bertha BretzI man. Kathrvn Bromley. Dorothy Cohen. | Mary Frances Cray. Josephine Davidson. | John W. Eastes. Herbert L. Egbert, Cloyd IR. Fisher. Thelma Flack. Milton Green. Russell F. Handy. Julia M. Henderson, Maynard F. Lemen. Rudolf j. Pfister. Martha K. Pittenber. Deimar W. Ray. Evelyn Richey. Evelyn Rodibaueh. Oran Stan- \ ley. Margaret M. Stayton. Dorothy E. | Sfoeltine. RosaUnd M. Taylor. Etnma Lou j Thombrouzh. Gilbert Ulmer and Elaine Wilson.

Family Dickers With Kidnapers of Rich Brewer

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Fred J. Blumer

MONROE, WiS„ April 13.—Reports that relatives of Fred J. Blumer, wealthy kidnaped nearbeer manufacturer, were negotiating secretly for his release were widesprerd today as hour after hour passed and he remained aw’ay. Blumer disappeared last Thursday night. A few hours later officials of his company were informed through mysterious telephone calls that he was being held for $150,000 ransom. As the interest of Blumer’s wife and 20-year-old daughter Marion, in the official investigation appeared to slacken, authorities became more and more convinced that efforts were being made to obtain Blumer’s secret release by paying a compromise sum between the $150,000 and the $15,000 which Mrs. Blumer previously had said she could offer.

Dead Graduate CLIFFORD. Ind., April 13. Nine students will be graduated at the Clifford high school Tuesday night April 28. There will be ten diplomas presented, one to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wetzel, whose son Farland Wetzel, member of the class, died recently. Those who will be graduated are Oscar Harms, Joseph Holder, Josephine Hunter, Clara Legan, Georgia Maley, Emma Miller, Wilbur Pancake, Ralph Sims and Orrin Thayer. Baccalaurate services wil be held Sunday afternoon, April 26.

HIJACKER SHOT IN GUNBATTLE Wounded as Car Crashes; Jumps Into Cab. Victim of a liquor battle, Anthony La Rosa, 33, of 825 South Noble street, today is in the city hospital detention ward suffering from a bullet wound, while police are searching the underworld for the gangster who shot him. La Rosa, known to police as a hijacker and rum runner, was shot in the head Sunday night when a car in which he was being “taken for a ride” crashed at Sixteenth and Hall place. Driver of the auto fell to the street, cursing La Rosa and fired a shot at La Rosa who fell. La Rosa fired back and the driver of the car slipped under the wheel and fled. La Rosa, picking up the revolver, jumped into a cab and was found later by police on the south side. He had disposed of the revolver, giving it to an unknown man who also is sought by authorities. The bullet from the assailant’s gun struck La Rosa near the right ear. His condition is not serious. He has refused to tell police who shot him asking, “Leave me alone.” BELGIAN PRINCE COMES TO U. S. SECRETLY Charles, Traveling Incognito, May Arrive Today; Ship Is Unknown. By United Press BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 13. Prince Charles, second son of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth, will arrive in the United States today or Tuesday. The court declined to make known what ship he is traveling on, or at what port he would land. The prince is on a study tour. He is traveling incognito. Prince Charles, count of Flanders, is 27. HOMES ARE LOOTED Week-End Thefts, Robberies in Crime Reports. Clothing valued at $l5O was stolen from the store of Jake Scholl, 509 East Washington street, he reported to police today. Other week-end robberies and holdups reported: Kroger grocery. 1245 North Senate avenue, merchandise. $45: Marvin Brown, poolroom a: 1502 Columbia avenue, merchandise sls; G. C. Tenney. 107 East Forty-eighth street, ring. 5350; Mrs. Louise Carle. 615 South Noble street, house looted $47: Mrs. Ollie Boswell. 1525 Centra! avenue. residence looted. $37; John Courtney of New Augusta, robbed of $9: Hugh Maey. 25, of 1915 Hillside avenue, bus driver. $11: Mrs. Lulu Brown. 1931 Boulevard place, auto entered, golf bags, valued at $92 stolen; Mrs. Robert Munson. 144 East Eighteenth street. S4O: Don R. Curies 3865 North Kevstcne avenue. $47. and Edward Oakes. 2244 Prospect street, operator of a street car. sls. Grand Jury Not Needed By Times Special KOKOMO, April 13.—As no crimes 1 have been reported in Howard county, the grand jury will not be convened during the April term of the circuit court, according to Judge Joe Cripe and probably will not be called until the September term. Ini diana statutes provide that grand I juries must be convened at least once a year. Berne Bank to Reopen By Times Special BERNE, Ind., April 13.—The People’s State bank, closed May 7 last, will be reopened possibly within a week. Stockholders have voluntarily subscribed $62,000 to permit resumption of business.

3 AGED MEN GIVEN SIGHT IN 'MIRACLES' Philanthropic Surgeon, Name Withheld, Helps 1 Aged Blind Trio. By United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Aprifl3.—' Three aged men, their sight restored almost miraculously after three years of blindness, planned today to leave the Pioneers’ Home again to become “useful” and “independent” citizens. To each the return of his sight meant realization of a dream he long had ceased to hope might ever come true. To Abraham H, Porter, 85, who could see again after being blind for twenty years, It meant “not being a nuisance any more.” To Steve A. Tyler, 70, blind for eight years, it meant “going back to the hills” in search of ore. He was a p-ospector for years before he went blind. To the third man, George D. Hoyer, 87, blind for sixteen years, being able to see again meant being able to “go out into the world to look for all the people I’ve lent money to.” * The pien had been blind because of cataracts on their eyes. Operations which were termed miracles because of the patients’ advanced ages, were performed by a philanthropic surgeon who asked that his name be withheld.

TEN CITIES GET POLiCEBUREAUS Forty State Cops Will Be Added to Force. Location of ten of eleven state police substations, and possible location of the eleventh, was announced today by Grover C. Garrett, state police chief. The expansion will add forty new state policemen to the force by May 1, bringing the total to eighty-four, under anew statute allowing extra funds for the department. Substations will be in Michigan City, Rochester, Ft. Wayne, Montmorenci, Muncie, Indianapolis, Putnamville, Columbus, Paoli, Evansville, and either in Angola of La Grange. In each, six patrolmen and a lieutenant will be stationed. Sixtysix motorcycle policemen will patrol 6,111 miles of state highways daily, and will clear traffic for the Kentucky Derby, May 16, and the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race May 31. A campaign will be inaugurated against improper lighting, the chief said. “The aim of the department will be ‘courtesy first,’ ” said Garrett.

‘Philo Vance Reported Wed Secretly Year Ago By United Press BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., April 13. —Under the heading “Big Social Scoop,” Rob Wagner’s Script, Beverly Hills magazine, today claimed to have uncovered the fact that S. 3. Van Dine, mystery story writer, and Eleanor Rulapaugh, Philadelphia portrait painter, were married secretly a year ago. The wedding, according to the magazine, was performed in New Jersey by Judge R. H. Schlosser. Van Dine’s real name is Willard Huntington Wright and he first burst onto the literary horizon with his character, Philo Vance, detective and central figure of such murder mysteries as the “Greene Murder Case,” “Canary Murder Case,” and “The Bishop Murder Case.”

TWO ARE SENTENCED * Heavy Fines, Jail Terms Given Convicted Pair. Heavy fines and sentences were meted out by Judge Paul C. Wetter in municipal court today to two men charged with carrying concealed weapons. James Wilson, 4000 South Meridian street, was convicted of carrying concealed weapons and blind tiger after detectives testified they found fifteen gallons of whisky in his residence and Wilson was armed when they arrested him. He will serve sentences of sixty days concurrently at the state farm and was fined SIOO on each count. Pleading guilty to carrying concealed weapons, Leslie Harding, 547 Douglas street, was sentenced to thirty days on the farm and fined SIOO. U. S. TO SPEND HEAVILY 1931 Public Works to Cost Half Billion More Than in 1928. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 13.—The United States government in 1931 will spend nearly half a billion dollars more on public works than in 1928, Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce, said Sunday night in a radio speech. Present plans call for an expenditure of $750,000,000, whereas in 1923, considered an average year, the total was about $275,000,000. He said this huge increase was proof that the government is doing its share in the effort to stabilize employment.

Cherry Blossoms Draw Vast Throng in Capital

By United Press W'ASHINGTON, April 13. Washington is on its annual nature-loving spree. In the neighborhood of a quarter of a million persons milled the tidal basin Sunday gazing at the Japanese cherry’ blossoms. The trees, massed around the margin of the pool, w’ere at the height of their first vivid glory. Oceans of pink met the eyes of thousands, including those of President and Mj*. Hoover, who arrived unheralded .and walked

Slain ‘Witch’ Ruled Wife, Says Husband

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By United Press WILKESBARRE, Pa., April 13 Mrs. Frances Thonpen, 29, Wellesley graduate, minister's daughter, killed Miss Minnie Dilley, aged spinster she accused in an alleged “love cult,” because of “hallucinations,” her husband declared today as Wellesley alumnae came to Mrs. Thomsen’s aid. Four Wellesley women visited the jail and brought literature, 'delicacies and offers of financial and legal aid, jail attaches said. It further was reported that the district Wellesley alumnae association was planning to assist the woman. Her husband, Carl Thomsen, was named in Mrs. Thomsen’s statement to District Attorney Lewis as “high priest” of the love cult Miss Dilley planned to establish in the Pocono mountains. The “cult” was to provide “opportunity for love” for school teachers and employed women who had no other time “for love affairs.” Thcmsen said a strange friendship existed between the two women, and that he moved his family from Forty Fort to free Mrs. Thomsen from the aged spinster’s hold on her. He said his only relations with Miss Dilley were “those of a neighbor.” “They spent many nights together reading erotic literature,” Thomsen said. “I threw the books into the ash can whenever I found them around the house.” Meantime Mrs. Thomsen, who hitch-hiked across the state from Pittsburgh to visit the Dilley woman, a visit that ended in the slaying the Wellesley graduate has confessed, expressed little remorse. She said nothing mere than “it just had to be done,” jail attendants said. Horsewoman Hurt By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 13. Mrs. Carl Boetticher, active in Evansville society and an expert horsewoman, was seriously injured when thrown from a horse which shied at a street car.

FARMAKIS NOT HELD Erroneously Reported Arrested in Gambling Raid. Through an error in police records, The Times said Saturday that John Farmakis, 40, of 708 North Illinois street, was arrested in a gambling raid at that address. Farmakis lives at the address, but the raid was made at a poolroom near St. Clair street, residents said today. SAVE TRAFPED GIRL Rescued From Quarry; Ankles Bound With Wire. By United Press NEWTON, N. J., April 13.—Miss Edna Wright, 20, of Newton, was rescued today from the waters of an abandoned stone quarry, her ankles bound with wire. She was removed at once to a hospital after first aid treatment revealed she was suffering from exposure and immersion. The water in the quarry from which five young men reported they rescued the girl, after hearing her screams, is said to be 175 feet deep. The girl, too exhausted to tell her story of the rescue, wlli be questioned as soon as her condition permits. Former Governor 111 By Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., April 13. Emmett F. Branch, Martinsville lawyer and former Governor of Indiana, is ill with a stomach disorder in a Cincinnati hospital.

around the basin with Allan Hoover and Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr. Police estimated 175,000 persons viewed the cherry trees from automobiles, with 50,000 more on foot. In addition there were several hundred in airplanes, too high up to be counted, and others in motorboats. Two tourists, more intimately associated with cherry blossoms than any others, will not see them until Wednesday. They arafcjPrince and Princess Takamatli of Japan.

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JACK DEMPSEY ADMITS HE MAY SEEUDIVORCE Ex-Heavyweight Champ, in Reno, Says He ‘Had Spat With Estelle; By United Press RENO, April 13.—Although Jack Dempsey was in Reno today avowedly for a rest, it was admitted circumstances might combine to turn his visit into a “divorce residence” that would end his marriage to Estelle Taylor, the screen star. Dempsey started his rest cure with a workout at the Reno Y. M. C. A., unmindful of the rumors that flew between here and Hollywood, where Miss Taylor was in seclusion ‘ Sure, we had a minor spat, but I believe it can be patched up," Dempsey said. “It’s possible though, that I may ask for a divorce.” “Those things usually are patched up. you know,” he said in a matter-of-fact way. “What I’m really here for is a rest.” Sure It Can Be Fixed The outcome of the “minor spat”* whether it will unite the famous pair again or bring about their divorce depended, according to Dempsey, upon letters he has written Miss Taylor. “I want to fix this up and I’m sure it can be.” he added Dempsey planned to take things easy aside from the workouts ordered by his physician. He said he came across country from West Virginia to take his rest in Nevada, and started it with a long automobile ride across the desert with friends. Workcuts for Two Weeks The daily workouts will continue for at least two weeks before any strenuous training grind is considered. The new Nevada divorce law permitting divorces after a residence of six week, becomes effective May 1. The district attorney of Washoe county, in which Reno is situated, has ruled the law retroactive—that any one residing in Nevada for six weeks prior to May 1 is entitled to ask a divorce. LEGION HEAD OPPOSES VETERANS’ AID BOOST Expansion of Program in 1932 Would Add to Federal Debt, O’Neil Says By United Press WASHINGTON, April 13.—Any increase in the program of veterans’ relief, as proposed recently by commander Ralph O’Neil of the American Legion, was opposed today by Chairman Will Wood of the house appropriations committee, after correspondence with General Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans’ affairs. Denying O’Neil’s assertion that no part of the treasury deficit this year was due to veterans’ relief. Wood charged that the veterans’ bills, particularly the adjusted compensation loans, played an important part in the deficit. He said an expansion of the veterans’ program for next year would put the government still further in debt.

PRESIDENT’S UNCLE, INDIAN AGENT, DIES Major Laban J. Miles, 87, Appointed in 1878 by Cleveland. By United Press PAWHUSKA, Okia., April 13. Major Laban J. Miles, 87-year-old Indian agent and uncle of President Hoover, died suddenly at his home here last Sunday. • It was to Major Miles’ home that the President, when a youth of 14, came to live after his father’s death at West Branch, la. Major Miles was a brother of the President’s mother. Major Miles came to the Osage country in 1878 with an appointment as Indian agent from President Hayes. He served until his removal by President Cleveland. He served as superintendent of the agency from 1889 to 1893. 4 INDIANA SHORT OF RAIN Fall Below Normal for First Three Months of This Year. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 13. Rainfall in Indiana is still considerable below normal, it is revealed in a report of the government weather bureau at Purdue university here. Total precipitation for the first three months of 1931 was 4.87 inches, accord ng to the report. Rainfall during January was 1.01 inches, compared with 6.43 inches in the corresponding month of 1930; the February record this year was 1.33 inches, compared with 2.25 inches in February of last year; in March a slight increase was recorded, with 2.53 Inches against 1.94 in the same month of 1930. The highest temperature of the year was reached April 8, when the mercury rose to 78. WIFE MURDER ALLEGED Authorities Unaware of Wanted Man’s Presence in State. By United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., April 13 —Greencastle police and Sheriff Claude G. Bannick, Putnam county, are investigating reports that Everett F. Lindsay, wanted in Seattle, Wash., on a charge of wife murder, was under surveillance here. They said they had made no search for him and knew nothing of the case. It was reported from Seattle that Lindsay had been traced here. Lindsay is also wanted In connection with the death of a man in Woodland, Wash., in 1921, and abduction of a girl in Napa, Cal., last year. Columbus Woman Dies By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., April 13.—Mrs. Margaret Henderson 'Forgson, 69, j wife of John M. Forgson, is dead. ; She leaves her husband, two sons, Ben Henderson, Greenwood; Cecil this city; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Loiuse Goens, Ohio; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Anna Maecltne, Ft. Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. Lulu Pace. Bedford.