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UNION OFFICIAL SHOT DOWN IN CAPITALW Case Outrage Is Latest in i Series Blamed on Gang Conflict. ASSAIL POLICE FORCE Officer Is Questioned in Murder of Bootlegger in Washington. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 20.—Prank Langdon, assistant secretary of the International Union of Operating Engineers, was shot through the head as he was dining in a restaurant near the American Federation of Labor headquarters here today with Arthur M. Huddell of Chicago, president of the union, and another union man. Langdon's assailant fired eight shots at the party of three labor men and then escaped. Only one shot, according to police reports, took effect. The shooting, which police attributed to troubles among labor groups, was the seventh in a startling outbreak of violence which has shaken the national capital this week. It followed a series of gan murders, which have amazed the public of the usually staid capital. Fires in Restaurant Langdon, Huddell and John Passhel, general secretary of the organization, were seated together in the restaurant when an unidentified man came in, and sat near them. As the waitress turned away, after serving his dinner, the man arose from his chair, pulled out a gun and started firing at the three labor officials, according to witnesses. The man then backed toward the door, threw the smoking gun to the floor and drew' out another. Passehl attempted to block his way, but was held back. Langdon was rushed to emergency hospital, where his condition was said to be serious. The assailant fled in an automobile. Gang war in the capital city today reached a stage more acute than ever before in its history. Tuesday midnight, Wallace J. Middleton, policeman, was arrested following & tour of duty at the circus grounds and questioned for an hour hi connection with the mysterious gang murder Monday night of Jack Cunningham, police informer and reputed bootlegger and racketeer. Seek to Connect Killings Earlier in the day Elmer (Bulldog) Sweeney walked into headquarters with his lawyer and confessed killing Talley Day, racketeer and gambler, during a gamblers’ quarrel in a speakeasy Sunday night. He said he shot in selfdefense. Tuesday night Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Rep., la.) charged directly that certain police officers were acting in conclusion with underworld characters, and that Commissioner Herbert Crosby is “a good man who is having the wool pulled over his eyes.” Police were seeking a connection between the slayings of Day and Cunningham, but admittedly were baffled following Sweeney's confession. Their earlier theory had been that Day was shot in a quarrel over division of spoils from the liquor robbery recently at the Salvadorean legation, and that Cunningham was ■put on the spot” for informing. Day had been arrested in connection with the robbery, but was released for lack of evidence. Policeman Is Quizzed Cunningham died Tuesday night just fifty-five minutes before Middleton's arrest. The policeman admitted he was in the vicinity at the time of the shooting from a passing automobile, but attributed this to the fact that he liyed at the Ambassador hotel nearby. No charge was laid against him, but he was locked up for the night. A Washington patrolman’s salary is $1,900 a year. Rooms at the Ambassador hotel, not far from the White House, range in price from $3 a day upward. It was reported that he occoupied a $1,500-a-year suite, but this could not be confirmed. Order Cop Be Held

Police maintained today that Cunningham in his dying moments after having refused to answer questions as to his assailant, 'gave them infomiation which, they said, justified their holding of Middleton. Captain Edward J. Kelly of the police force informed Cunningham of Middleton's arrest just before Cunningham 4ied. “Good,” they said Cunningham replied. “You'd better keep him.” Today Day wilt have a funeral in imitation of the more pretentious ones that have become famous in Chicago. All day Tuesday he lay in state in a funeral parlor in a gold-platq*. casket. Roses, lilies and orchids were piled high, and one particularly elaborate piece was a card with the inscription: "Deepest sympathy from the boys.” Train Kills Woman fly United Prtet VINCENNES, Ind., May 20.—Miss Bennie Smith, 28, former Vincennes School teacher, was killed, and her sister, Mrs. Olivia Carruthers, injured critically, when a train struck their automobile at a crossing hear here. They were returning from a church meeting.

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Free Beauty Queen in Trial for Killing Wealthy Husband

French Jury Quickly Acquits Mrs. Nirdlinger; Denies Charge of Illicit Love. BY MARY KNIGHT United Press Staff Correspondent NICE, France, May 20.—Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger, St. Louis beauty, who shot and killed her jealous husband during a quarrel, was acquitted by a French jury today. The American girl, dressed in mourning for the man she killed, convinced the French jurors that she had shot in self-defense when her mid-

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“There is nothing to the story of Italian lovers. The only Italians who ever entered Charlotte’s life were several professional dancers to whom her husband paid a dollar to dance with his wife.” The jury acquitted Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger, one-time Atlantic City beauty pageant winner, on the grounds of self-defense. Only twenty-five minutes was spent in deliberation, the verdict coming just at 6 p. in. The court crowd applauded wildly when the verdict was announced.

When the jurors returned, Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger smiled confidently at her mother, Mrs. James H. Nash of St. Louis. The latter ran across the room and clung to her daughter. Both broke into tears when the court pronounced the acquittal. As soon as she was acquitted Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger was taken to a cell under the court room and changed her clothes. She hoped to have the formalities of freeing her completed in time to have dinner with her two young children neither of whom has been told of the killing of their father. They think he is away on a trip. Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger said: “I never will go back to the scene of the shooting, where the martyrdom of my marriage was finished. I only want to rest now with the children. “I am so happy,” she said. “I knew they would do the right thing. I only want my children. We will sail as soon as my passport is fixed.” While the trial was !n progress the two children played on the beach in the sunshine. LINKED TO MURDER Youths Held as Suspects in Holdup Slaying. Two youths, held by police after a robbery attempt Sunday night, today were undergoing questioning by detectives as suspects in the slaying of William Layton, 2020 Beilefontaine street. May 1. Shift in the investigation followed claimed identification of Edward Saylors, 19. address unknown, one of the pair, as the gunman who shot Ora May. 36, of 2519 South Pennsylvania street, bakery truck driver, in the hand in an attempted holdup May 1. Darrell Jones, 17, of Danville, was arrested Monday night and Saylors, his alleged companion, was nabbed Tuesday afternoon. Jones was arrested after he had been shot in the leg by a woman whose house he and Saylors are alleged to have attempted to enter after the attempted robbery of a taxi driver. Layton had closed his barber shop and was en route to his home when two youths in an auto robbed him of $lB. Layton was wounded fatally in a scuffle. GIVES WIFE ‘A BREAK’ “Let Him Stay in Reno,” Chicago Judge Says of Alleged Thief. By United Press CHICAGO, May 20.—When Albert Sizer failed to appear in Judge Joseph Sabath’s court on a charge of stealing a diamond ring. Sabath learned that Sizer was in Reno seeking a divorce. The judge ordered Sizer’s arrest in Reno delayed ‘because his wile should be glad to get rid of him,” He ordered, however, that Sizer be arrested and returned here “after he gets the divorce.”

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Bn United Prctf . _ . T'OURS, Prance. May 20.—Brig-adier-General Robert H. Dunlap, here to study the French language, w r as strolling with Mrs. Dunlap behind the Chateau La Fariniere at Cino Mars Tuesday, when a woman's scream for help rang out. They looked up and saw the flfty-foot cl ff a few yards away begin to crumble. Cut in the face of the cliff, after the fashion of this countryside, was a peasant’s cave-like dwelling. The general sprang to the woman’s rescue without hesitation. Her husband followed, a pace behind. Just as they entered the hut. hundreds of tons of rock and earth crashed down from the cliffside. burying them deep. Mrs. Dunlap ran frantically to the village for help. Word was flashed to Paris. The embassy sent its air attache. Major Robert L. Walsh, by airplane to direct the rescue. The French army sent troops, tanks*; electric floodlights and

dle-aged husband tried to strangle her. She repudiated vigorously insinuations that she had a lover, an unnamed swimming instructor, and that she married the wealthy Philadelphia theatrical man, Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger, for his money. Favorelli, the prosecuting attorney, addressed the jury without apparent effort to make a strong presentation. He admitted that the life of the Nixon-Nirdlingers had been unhappy, but said “there is always divorce as a way out. None has the right to take justice into his own hands.” The defense lawyer, Marcel Bonifacic, cried with oratorical gesticulations: “Charlotte’s married life v)as a calvary of i continuous quarrels based on jealousy. On the ‘murder day’ Nixon-Nirdlinger said: ‘Will you sell me the children?’ to which Charlotte replied: ‘No, they are more precious than gold to me.’

DEFEND LAST WILLAS VALID Brooks of Sound Mind, Attorneys Assert. Defending validity of the 1930 will of Bartholomew D. Brooks, Indianapolis business man, against contentions of charitable organizations who w'ould receive $200,000 under an earlier will, defense attorneys today advanced new contradictions in the probate court hearing. They called to the stand, Robert W. Fleisher, president of the Century Paper Company, who, testifying as an expert, declared scissors were used in cutting paper on which the 1930 will was written. Attorneys for charity organizations have insisted a knife was used. In efforts to break down plaintiffs’ evidence that Brooks was of unsound mind, the defense introduced testimony of Dr. Edward Bachfield, Indianapolis dentist, who said he and many other persons panned gold in Brown county. Plaintiffs alleged statements credited to Brooks, before his death, that he had panned gold in Brown county were proof of his mental deficiencies.

ARMY PLANE, TROOPS CAPTURE ’LEGGERS Still Deep In Woods of U. S. Reservation Jte Picked Out. By United' Press ABERDEEN, Md„ May 20.—Army aircraft and infantry units went into grim action Tuesday at Aberdeen proving ground to capture a still deep in the woods on the government reservation. Two men, alleged distillers, were arrested. After a soldier had reported seeing the still, a scout plane soared over the wooded tract, spotted the apparatus, then signalled the location to a company of troops. The troops closed in, seized the still, and arrested Percy Brazil, 21, Tarboro, N. C., and William Isaac, 26, Roanoke county, Va. GOLFER SWATS HUBBY Cleveland Society Woman Charged With Assault for Eye-Blacking. By United Press CLEVELAND. 0., May 20.—Assault and battery charges were lodged against Mrs. Corrine H. Evers, Shaker Heights society woman, today after she allegedly blacked her husband’s eye during an altercation on the Ridgewood golf course. The husband, William H. Jr., a young engineer, also charges that his wife threw eggs at him when they returned home. Mrs. Evers denies the charges.

SES LIFE TRYING TO SAVE WOMAN IN LANDSLIDE

Brigadier-General Robert H. Dunlap of the United States marine corps, a distingushed war hero, gave his life in France in an effort to save a French peasant woman trapped by a landslide. , Dunlap sprang from his wife’s side in response to the woman’s screams when the slide startedl Her husband went with him. All three were burned under tons of earth and rock. Rescue crews dug frantically in the rain all night.- Today they brought the woman out alive, badly injured , and recovered the bodies of the two men.

THE digging went on all through the day and all night. A dismal rain fell on the bleak, mt ddy scene. Mrs. Dunlap stood steadfastly by, refusing to move or seek shelter. At intervals she called her husband’s name, but there was no reply. The entire population of the countryside came to the scene and helped in the digging. Rescuers penetrated a deep crevice in the mass of earth but found no traces. Part of the heavy rock had to be blasted, and* as the tanks and

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ARCTIC YIELDS FROZEN BODY OF EXPLORER Chief of German Party to Central Greenland Is Found Dead. GAVE LIFE FOR AIDS Left Camp in- 65-j3elow Weather Because Food Was Running Low. By United Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 20.—The frozen body of Professor Alfred Wegener, chief of the German expedition to central Greenland, has been found. A dispatch today said Eskimos sewed the body within skins and started transporting it back, but their destination was not mentioned. Professor Wegener’s sledge was found some days ago, with his skiis sticking in the snow some distance closer to the coast, and it was assumed he was dead. He had departed from the expedition’s inland base in 65-degrees-below-zero weather last fall, with only a single Greenlander as companion, because there was /not enough food to last the entire group over the winter. Went Out a Year Ago The Wegener expeditic* went out a year under auspices of the Emergency League of German Science to make scientific observations with a view to improving weather forecasts and reconnoitering for a transatlantic air service. The latter task paralleling that of the British Arctic air route expedition whose inland winter representative, Augustine Courtauld, recently was rescued after being buried in his hut. A forerunner of the Wegener expedition, sent out also by the German Emergency League, had prepared the groufid for its work by locating the most favorable approach for the inland ice. Professor Wegener's party was to operate in three separate groups and remain until next fall. Experienced Arctic Venturer Professor Wegener was an experienced venturer in travel and study in the Greenland wilderness. Preparations lor the winter had been made with care and no anxiety was felt at the time the relief expedition, headed by Dr. Weiken and Holzapfel, went in this spring when weather permitted. They found Drs. Georgi, Loewe and Sorge, who had wintered at the central station, in good health, but reporting that Wegener had left Nov. 1 with one dog sled for the coast, where they had never arrived. The central station was 250 miles inland.

FROST DUE TONIGHT Overcast Skies, Colder, Is Forecast for State. Warning to truck growers and gardeners to protect what crops they can against light frost tonight was broadcast today by the United States weather bureau as the thermometer threatened to drop under cold, overcast skies. Frost will hit in the Indianapolis region nowhere but in low, exposed places, according to J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the bureau. In northern Indiana it may he more general and more intense. Warmer weather will be back again by Friday, the bureau predicted. Tomatoes, beans and com are most susceptible to cold, Armington said. The temperature may recede as low as 40 degrees tonight. Urges Board Power Extension By United Press WASHINGTON, May 20.—Extension of the powers of the federal farm board, including the authority to create its own co-operative banking system, was advocated today by one of its most active critics. Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Rep., la.) in a speech over the NBC network.

trucks, dragged away the debris, continued slight landslides hampered the operations and endangered the workers. Ten tons • rock were removed during the night, but dawn found them still digging. sum HEAVY army tanks rammed at the rocks and army engineers directed the laborers with pick and shovel. During the night there was temporary excitement when a dead horse, harnessed to a wagon, was uncovered, but there w’ere no bodies. At intervals, Walsto climbed

JAKE THE BARBER GIVES UP ON FRAUD CHARGE; DENIES WALES IS VICTIM

Alleged Swindler of Many Millions Fights Return to England. By United Press CHICAGO, May 20.—John (Jake the Barber) Factor surrendered to the United States government today to fight extradition to England on charges of swindling British stock investors out of millions. While waiting a hearing, the 39-year-#ld salesman, once a barber on South Halsted street, related how he used his London “profits” to win an audience with the prince of Wales by “breaking the bank” at the La Torquet casino in France. The dapper barber-financier admitted he left England a year ago with large sums realized from stock enterprises, but declared his operations were legitimate, and merely smiled at mention of $7,000,000 as the amount he took away. “Fast One” on British “I pulled a fast one on the British public,” Factor said. "I made a lot of money in England, and I’ve got some of it left, but it all came legitimately. "I was in London a short time, operating a brokerage business, buying and selling stocks. Other Britishers do the same, but I was smarter than they, and England’s jealous of my luck.” Factor, who said he has a 17-year-old son, but has more the appearance of a prosperous young La Salle street broker, confided that he and the prince of Wales became “quite friendly.” Gambles With Prince of Wales “I went to the La Torquet casino in France and broke the bank by winning $650,000 at chemin de fer,” he explained. “A few days later the casino manager asked me to play with the prince. “Chemin de fer is a game in which there are no bankers or dealers, so it isn’t true that I won from the prince. We sat beside each other, at the same table. I continued winning and the prince lost. “The prince asked me to tell him the secret of my good fortune, went to the bar and drank together and talked. “The prince was charming, but I don’t think he had very good card sense.” Laughs at Gang War Stories Factor laughed genially at stories insinuating that he and Jack (Legs) Diamond, New York gangster, were engaged in a feud because Diamond had lent money for Factor’s stock operations which had not been repaid. “I don’t know Diamond, and I don't know any gangsters,” Factor said. “No one ever has tried to kidnap me, and I haven't tried to make any alliance with Scarface A1 Capone. It's all rot,, as the British say.” Yellow Kid Jealous By United Press 1 CHICAGO, Mdy 20. Joseph (Yellow Kid) Weil announced his “supreme disgust” today at all the publicity “Jake the Barber” Factor has been getting as “alleged king of the confidence men,” and “asserted international swindler de luxe.” “Everybody knows the type of people he worked on, only slowwitted persons,” said Weil. “Now. in all my career I never took advantage of . a person whose brain was not as agile as mine. I want to keep my title. I’ve served time for it. It’s mine.” DIVORCED 14 TIMES, HE'S STILL HOPEFUL EI Paso Plumber Believes Mate Can Be “Won for Keeps.” By United Press EL PASO, Tex., May 20.—Bruce Steele, El Paso plumber, today was confident that despite the fact he has been divorced fourteen times he not only can win another wife quickly, but that he can “win her for keeps,” if he wants to. “Women who love me, keep on loving me,” declared the plumber after Fannie K. Steele had been granted her third divorce from him on grounds that he “went around with other women, including some of his former wives.”

across the rocks, shouting Dunlap's name. Mrs. Corcoran Thom, a cousin of Dunlap’s, who had flown down from Paris with Walsh, stood by Mrs. Dunlap and comforted her. The farmer's daughters stood off at one side-weeping. At mid-morning, cries were heard from under the rock. The workers dug frantically and presently they discovered the farmer's wife, held fast in the debris. She was conscious but in great pain, and directed the work as the rescuers dug carefully around her. A flashlight was passed in

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Oh, for the life of a state auditor, sighed less fortunate statehouse employes as they watched Floyd E. Williamson greet two feminine Ganymedes from Fayette county. However, it wasn’t a cup from the gods that Miss Dorothy Lambert, Fayette county treasurer (left), and Miss Elizabeth Moore, deputy Fayette county auditor (right), bore to the capitol. It was the $47,096.72 tax settlement sheet, which they brought from Connersville to deliver personally to the state auditor, and in the photograph above he is shown taking the roll from them.

INSISTS FALL KILLED ARLENE Doctor Testifies for Virgil in Valparaiso Trial. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., May 20.—An extrabural hemorrhage, similar to concussion of the brain, caused Arlene Draves’ death, not the alleged criminal attack by Virgil Kirkland, Dr. F. E. Dittner, defense medical expert, testified today at Kirkland's trial on murder charges. He was the first of the medical experts through whom Kirkland’s attorneys will fight to prove that Arlene was killed by injuries in a fall they contend was accidental. Mrs. Evan Madera, who was with her husband at the drinking party where Arlene became unconscious and finally died; Alex Thomas, Gary policeman, who talked to Kirkland in a lunchroom during the party, and Thomas’ son iJbwell, also testified. The lengthy, highly technical pathological testimony of doctors drove most of the crowd from the courtroom, and only a handful of persons heard Dr. Dittner’s expert opinion that Arlene was killed by a head injury.

CIVIC LEADER DEAD Mrs. M. I. Hoover Expires at Daughter’s Home. Mrs. Medora I. Hoover, 73. died early today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Negley, 66 North Pershing avenue, after five months’ illness. Funeral services will be held at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary at 2 Friday afternoon. Surviving her are the daughter, two grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. C. E. Ward of Decatur, 111., and two brothers, Drs. Oscar and Othello Hoover, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Hoover long was active in civic and cultural affairs of the city, as a member of the Riley Hospital Cheer Guild, New Century Literary Club, D. A. R., Eastern Star, Marion County Argicultural and Horticultural Society, and the W. C. T. U. ' Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 54 10 a. m 58 7a. m 54 11 a. m 57 8 a. m 57 12 (noon).. 57 9a. m 57 Ip. m 60

and liquids fed her through a tube. u tt u HER daughters knelt at one side and kissed her hand. Injections were given to ease her pain. At 11 a. m. the body of Dunlap, terribly crushed, and an arm severed, was found. Just beside him was the body of the farmer, Denis Briant, 52. His wife, who is 48, looked on as the bodies were recovered. For twenty-four hours she had been doubled on her knees in a space a yard square. At? noon, eighty cubic yards of rock had been removed and she was lifted out and taken to a hospital, where her crushed leg was amputated. a MAJOR WALSH arranged to take General Dunlap's body to Paris, from where it probably will be sent to Washington for burial. General Dunlap was 51 years old and a veteran of several ware. He had been on a mission to study at the French war college and was temporarily in To^s.

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SCAN MOVES TO ANNEXUTILITY District Trustees to Confer With Sullivan. Steps for the city’s assuming property of the Citizens Gas Company were to be discussed this afternoon by trustees of the city utility district, meeting with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. The conference was called following removal of legal barriers to the acquisition Monday, when the United States supreme court refused to review the federal court decision upholding the city's claim to the property under the 1905 charter. In the meantime, attorneys are seeking to set a date for hearing of a suit filed in March, 1930, by Allen G. Williams, as a taxpayer, seeking to enjoin the Citizens company from spending money for plant improvements, and asking appointment of a receiver. The suit has been held in abeyance pending supreme court action in the federal court suit contesting' the city’s right to acquire the company. Purpose of the suit, attorneys explained, was to halt any improvement expenditures by the Citizens company, which might increase the cost of the company to the city. Efforts today were being made to set the for 11 a. m. Monday in superior court two, before Judge Joseph R. Williams.

NOTED U. S. DESIGNER DIES; STUDIED HERE Allen H. Stem Succumbs to Three Weeks’ Illness at St. Paul. Allen H. Stem, who designed the Grand Central terminal in New York City, died last night in Miller hospital, St. Paul, Minn., after an illness of three weeks. Stem was bom in Van Wert, 0., in 1856. He studied art in Indianapolis and did architectural work here until he went to St. Paul in 1884. He designed the Denver and St. Paul auditoriums, the Michigan City (Ind.) library and numerous terminal stations for the New York Central and Northern Pacific railroads. TALK MAIL RATE HIKE Parcel Post Rates May Be Boosted to Make Up Deficit. Moves to increase the parcel post rates in zones 1, 2 and 3, in order to make up a nine-year deficit in the operation of the department, were discussed today by Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, with Jess C. Harriman. director of parcel post, and R. E. Dakin, post office inspector. According to the officials, the government last year lost $15,000,000 in the operation of the national division. The three-zone rate boost will be accompanied with a slight decrease on parcels in zones 4 to 8, they said. The postmaster-general has the power to boost or reduce the rates. RULES ON GAS PUMPS State Fire Marshal Not to Interfere With Tanks Installation. State Fire Marshal Alfred E. Hogston today ruled that his office will not‘interfere with installation of extra tanks and pumps at filling stations, provided the rules of installation laid down by the department are observed. No permission for such installation is* required from the department! Begins Service on Grand Jury Norman B. Hamilton, 5348 Carrollton avenue, began service on the Marion county grand jury today, succeeding Waller A. Ford, who resigned because of injuries received in an automcbile accident. Hamilton will serve until the jury is discharged in July,

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FAMED ARTIST | SUICIDE OVER I SPURNED LOVE ; Ralph Barton, Caricaturist, Shoots Self in Lavish Penthouse Home. RICH, IN GOOD HEALTH Friends Lay Death to His Unrequited Affection for Kresge Heiress. By United Press NEW YORK, May 20.—Ralph Barton, famed artist and caricaturist, shot himself to death today in his lavish penthouse apartment in midtown Manhattan, apparently as a result of unrequited love for a beautiful heiress. His brother, Homer Barton, actor and traveler, said Barton had been deeply in love with Ruth Kresge of Detroit, heiress to the Kresge millions. The girl is engaged to Rufus Clark Caulkins. said to be a member of the diplomatic service at Riga. Barton was wealthy and in good health. He was divorced last month from his fourth wife. Germaine Tailleferre, who charged him with desertion. He returned to this country recently. Suicide, Says Police Report Friends said Barton once was engaged to Miss Kresge. The brilliant artist's body was discovered in his bedroom at about 10 a. m. by a maid. He was clad in pajamas and was lying on the bed with a small revolver at his side. A bullet wound in the right temple caused his death. An official police report said he had killed himself. Barton's third wife, Carlotta Monte Rey, is at present the wife of Eugene O'Neill, the famous playwright. Barton was a native of Kansas City, where his mother. Mrs. Josephine Barton, once noted as an artist in the west, still lives. During the war he attained fame for his series of satirical sketches in Puck. In 1927 the French government made him a member of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his brilliant work. Leaves Pay for Maid In addition to drawing for various popular magazines, including Liberty and the New Yorkers. Barton did illustrations for books, notably Balzac’s “Droll Stories.” and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” The artist left two notes, one to Mary Jefferson, his maid, who had been in his employ for seven years, and one unaddressed. In the unaddressed note, police said, the artist wrote: “I am melancholy, without funds and in need of money. lam tired of living.” In the note to the maid he apologized for not being able to pay her more than $35 of her salary. The $35 was included with the note. Noted as a Wet Barton has the reputation of ing a gay, witty man-about-town type who went in for resplendent and sometimes eccentric dress. Barton spent much of his time abroad, and was one of the most regular “commuters” between New York and Paris. . Four years ago he made public announcement that he was going to France to live permanently. He bought a house in Paris and one in the south of France. “I like a drink,” he said, before leaving, “and I like a smoke. New York no longer is a fit place in which to live. It’s only somewhere to have your office.” “All Americans Are Crazy” Two years later Barton came back. Then he said; “New York is a crazy city and America is a madhouse. That is why I came back. I feel I belong here. “Americans are crazy, and I find I am crazy too. “We’re all too rich. We have too much money. I have too much money. That's why I’m crazy. “An artist ought to be prohibited from earning as much money as I do. Yet if someone suggested cutting my earnings, I’d scream so you could hear me for three blocks.” He was quoted as believing that H. L. Mencken was the American who would have the greatest Influence for good in his time, and that Henry Ford would have the greatest influence for evil. Police said Barton wrote his own obituary before he killed himself.

DOG OWNERS WARNED ON TAX DELINQUENCY Prosecutor May Bring Charges on Failure to Pay Assessor. Many dogs upon which taxes are delinquent are running loose in Marion county, it was announced today at the assessor’s office. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson may bring criminal charges against dog owners who fail to pay the tax, he indicated. Figures disclosed by John C. McCloskey, Center township assessor, show that SI,OOO less taxes have been paid on dogs this year than for the previous year. The figure this year is $10,208 and last year $11,162. Trap Shooting at Night fly Ttmct Special COLUMBUS, Ind., May 20— Nearly 100 marksmen took part in the inauguration here of trapshooting at night An audience of 1,000 witnessed the event.

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