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RAILWAY RATE BOOST HIT BY CONGRESSMEN Western Senators See No Benefit to Nation in Freight Hike. FARMERS ARE OPPOSED Reaction in Money Circles of New York Said to Be Favorable. (Eastern railwavs ask rate increases. P:ge 19) Indianapolis Views. Page one. Section two. By Scripps-H award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 22.—Danger signals were set here today against the railroads’ plea for higher freight rates. Criticising the decision of eastern rail executives to apply for new rates “to protect their credit,” western senators and other spokesmen for agriculture declared that such step would mean “disaster” for the farmer. Opinion among industrial leaders was divided. The reaction in New York financial quarters was favorable to the project. Senators Charles L. McNary, William E. Borah and Robert B. Howell were among those who questioned the wisdom of the proposal. Representative Robert Crosser interpreted the plan as “a clever scheme by the railroads to justify w 7 age cuts.” Attacked by Farmers Representative William C. Ramseyer and Fred Brenckman of the National Grange also attacked the proposed increases. Unofficial sentiment at farm board headquarters likewise was antagonistic. Dispatches from a number of cities showed a wide divergence of opinion among industrialists who commented on Thursday’s ScrippsHoward interview with a rail executive, in which the decision to appeal to the interstate commerce commission was forecast. Some of those who commented found in the proposal a chance to give prosperity a helping hand; others felt that increased rates only would shift the burden from transportation to ihdustry and to the consumer. It was reported here on good authority today that the movement toward increased rates had its origin in warnings from savings banks and insurance companies that state regulatory laws would force them to dispose of their railroad holdings, if returns from these securities fell below the statutory figures. Bogey Faces Rail Chiefs The possibility of such investors dumping rail securities on the market in large quantities, forcing their prices farther down, is said to be the bogey that haunts the railroad presidents. The National Association of Mutual Savings Banks is holding a convention in Washington now, and this problem was reported to be on the agenda at a business meeting today, it was understood that a resolution indorsing the rate increase proposal was being prepared. Railroa, earnings would have to be increased this year to keep securities in the preferred investment class, it was pointed out. Unusually quick action by the I. C. C. would be needed to make this possible. but the commission has been known to move rapidly when reasons for urgency were presented to it. McNary Is Opposed Senator McNary (Rep., Ore.), chairman of the senate agriculture committee, declared today that “an increase in the rates on agricultural products would be disastrous—for both railroads and farmers.” “I favor a reclassification of rates,” McNary said, “whereby bulky agricultural products would be given low rates, and luxuries would bear heavy rates. Agricultural rates are too high now.” “Any such idea as a freight rate increase is “not popular with us westerners.” said Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho). “I should want any such proposition to be studied carefuly by the senate interstate commerce committee, with Senator Couzens at its head.” Chairman Couzens declined to comment on the railroads’ proposal. Agitation for higher rates is inopportune, inadvisable, and not at all likely to effect its purpose, in the belief of Senator Howell (Rep., Neb.), a member of the senate committee on interstate commerce. He likened the railroads to “an anxious merchant trying to collect a bill while there is crepe on the door.” lowan Against Boost Representative Ramseyer (Rep., la.), a candidate for the speakership, said “the idea of increasing freight rates as a relief measure sounds a bit strange. I certainly would oppose any such increase. Members of the farm board declined to comment, but the impression seemed to prevail at the board’s headquarters that a general increase in freight rates on farm products would be disastrous to agriculture. “If the railways are out to destroy more of their own business, they cculd thing of no better way,” said Fred Brenckman, Washington representative of the GOO,OOO farmers in the National Grange. “Instead ,of increasing rates they should lower them.” Ben Cain Sr., general counsel of the American Short Line Railroad Association, which includes about 450 short lines, said that while he had not given the proposal a thorough study, he “personally doubted the wisdom of asking a general rate Increase at this time.”

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“Lady Bountiful” to Austria’s unemployed is lovely Frau Erna Von Hart (above), wealthy industrialist, who made over one of her most profitable factories to create 1,000 more jobs. The factory is run on a co-op-erative basis to assure each worker a definite income.

CUBAN REVOLT FLAREJIALTED Reports From All Points Say Quiet Restored. By United Press HAVANA, Cuba, May 22.—Suppression of Cuba's revolutionary flareup appeared complete today, with reports from all points indicating quiet had been restored. Underlying this surface calm, however was a tension attributed by government authorities to opposition efforts to keep the nation in a condition of alarm, and it was indicated that revocation of constitutional guarantees might be expected to follow any new wave of disorder. Latest reports confirmed that several were wounded in the armed uprisings in Oriente and Santiago provinces, southeastern Cuba, but that there were no fatalities, KATE TO JAIL AGAIN By United Press • LONDON, May 22.—Mrs. Kate Meyrick, notorious London night club operator, was sentenced to jail again today. Mrs. Meyrick was given six months at hard labor for selling intoxicating liquor, and one month at hard labor for permitting gambling on her premises at 43 Gerrard street.

SANTA MERE PIKER

What’s $70,000 to Hotel Man?

By United Press WALPOLE, N. H., May 22.—Santa Claus doesn’t go into absolute retirement after the Christmas season, for he came to town in the person of Charles N. Vilas of Alstead, retired former proprietor of the old Fifth avenue hotel in New York. Vilas called to see the cashier of Walpole Savings bank, handed him SIOO,OOO in government bonds, and explained that he wanted “to pay for the new bridge over the Connecticut river” between Walpole and Bellows Falls, Vt. “But the bridge cost $68,000,” the astonished cashier, Dwight W. Harris, protested. So Vilas left $70,000 and departed. Vilas has a habit of surprising his native Alstead and neighboring communities with gifts. a a a ass She Gets Her Little Yellow Dog By United Press NEW YORK, May 22.—Two days ago Gladys Rice, radio singer, sang a song over the air called “Has Anybody Got a Little Yellow Dog Without a Pedigree?” Today truckmen from a pet store delivered a little yellow dog without a pedigree to Miss Rice’s home. The dog had been ordered by an unknown person, the singer was informed. a a a a a a His Temper Least of His Losses By United Press WHEELING', W. Va., May 22.—1f Ramon Charolleau, Chicago musician, fills his scheduled engagement at the Palace theater in New York next week, he’ll have to replenish his entire wardrobe and take a train to Manhattan. This virtually was assured today when a hitch-hiker whom Charolleau picked up in Columbus, drove off with his car while he was nibbling a sandwich in a roadside inn, twenty miles from here. Fuming, Charolleau plodded the twenty miles into Wheeling, where he reported to police the loss of the following articles: His car, eighteen suits, eighteen pairs of shoes, four top coats, two musical instruments and his temper. a a a a a a Radio Listener? Well , You're Childish! By Times Special HAMILTON, 0., Ma> 22.—The average mentality of the radio listener is no higher than that of a 12-year-old child, 400 advertising men in convention here were told by Bill Hay of Chicago, announcer for Amos ’n’ Andy. a a a a a a Guest Voted World's Worst Poet By Times Special PRINCETON, N. J., May 22.—Peter Arno is the favorite artist of Princeton seniors, the annual ballot on preferences reveals. Titian ran second. P. C. Wodehouse led among the writers of fiction, with Thomas Hardy and Ernest Hemingway next in order. Among the poets, Browning nosed out Kipling and Tennyson. The class voted Edgar Guest the world's worst poet. Vassar led Smith, 117 to 116, in the seniors* affections among women’s colleges. a a a a a a Voice or Life; Chooses to Live By Times Special MEMPHIS, May 22.—“ I’m sorry, but it’s either my voice or my life; so go ahead, doctor.” Those were the last words of J. M- Underwood, 59, spoken just before he underwent a five-hour operation, during which surgeon removed his vocal cords because of a malignant growth. He must breathe hereafter through a tube protruding from his neck.

LINKS 5 TO FATAL OHIO PRISON PLOT Cincinnati Convict Tells How Columbus Fire Conspiracy Grew. MURDER TRIAL BEGUN Accused Man Faces Court for Blaze That Caused Deaths of 322. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0.. May 22.—Five convicts were implicated in the plot to start the fire that killed 322 prisoners in Ohio penitentiary last year, Jimmy Maloney, Cincinnati convict, testified today in the trial of Clinton Grate, Dayton, one of two prisoners indicted on charges of firstdegree murder, as an outgrowth of the holocaust. Responding to questions by County Prosecutor Don Hoskins, Maloney said the alleged conspirators w r ere Grate, Hugh Gibbons, Cleveland, jointly indicted with Grate; Dutch Krausman, Cleveland, robbery; James Raymond, Akron, who hanged himself after the disaster, and Sam Briggs, Akron. Maloney admitted stealing two candles which he says Grate and Gibbons used in starting the fire in anew cell block adjoining two old cell houses where the convicts perished. He said he did not know for what purpose the candles were to be used. He testified that each of the five men told him they were responsible for the fire —that they intended to cause a riot, kill “the pig” (Warden P. E. Thomas), and escape. He testified Grate and Gibbons started the blaze by partially sinking the candles in a pan of oil and lighting them. Neither Krausman, Raymond or Briggs admitted helping start the fire, he said, and none disclosed his actual pare in the alleged plot. Maloney sa:d Grate and Gibbons were terrified because of the result of their handiwork and that after the riots which followed the catastrophe had been quelled, both men threatened him/ Grate had been planning to escape for a long time, David Moneypenny, Youngstown convict, testified. WORK ON -21 PROJECTS Veteran Bureau Spending §7,092,152, White House Announces. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 22.—The veterans’ bureau is spending $7,092,152 on twenty-one building projects, it was announced today at the White House. In addition the hospitalization board has approved thirty-two projects on which work may be begun shortly at a cost of $17,757,000.

Partly cloudy and continued cool tonight; Saturday, fair with slowly rising temperature.

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Penny Fortune He Found a Copper . . . Story Grew and Grew Until It Was "Million/

By United Press MANITOWOC, Wis., May 22. Anton Eberle, Liberty town clerk, called up a Manitowoc newspaper today and in desperation asked them to print a story that he is not a millionaire. Eberle found a sixty-year-old penny the other day on his farm and remarked: “If I can find the right persons, I can get SI,OOO for this.” At a dance that night he was congratulated on finding SI,OOO. Two days later he recived many telephone calls from persons asking “how it felt to find a cache of $25,000.” The figures grew with the retelling until today he was deluged with calls congratulating him on becoming a millionaire. Then he called the newspaper.

COURT JAMMED BY CURIOUS TO HEARjtIRALAND Gary Youth First Witness of Afternoon in Trial for Murder. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., May 22. Crowds of curious adults jammed the Porter county circuit courtroom today to hear the testimony of Virgil Kirkland at his second trial on charges of murdering Arlene Draves. The young Gary athlete was called as the first witness of the afternoon session to repeat Lis protestations that he loved Arlene and did not strike the blow attributed as one of the causes of the 18-year-old girl’s death at a wine and alcohol party. He faced new questioning concerning the testimony of two of his companions, Paul Barton and Henry Shirk, at the drinking party. Barton and Shirk, who did not testify at the first trial, when Kirkland was sentenced to life imprisonment, accused him of leading criminal attacks on the girl. A prospective new witness for the defense was disclosed when Kirkland’s attorneys submitted to Judge Grant Crumpacker a letter from R. A. Manning of Davenport, la., offering to testify. Manning wrote the defense attorneys that he could relate an incident he witnessed in Gary which might account for Arlene’s injuries as accidental^ The lowan wrote that he saw Arlene, appearing to be intoxicated, stumble out of an automobile and fall to the street. He said he saw a young man leap out and assist her back into the machine. The youth, he declared, did not resemble photographs of Kirkland. Kirkland Doctor Probed By United Press GARY, Ind., ilay 22.—P. J. Zisch, Milwaukee, president of the National Association of Coroners, came to Gary today on his way to Valparaiso to investigate-the activities of Dr. Orlando Scott, Chicago physician and one of the consulting members of the defense staff in the Virgil Kirkland trial. Zisch said the request for an investigation was made by Dr. A. A. Watts, Lake county coroner, to Dr. A. W. Herzog, editor-in-chief of the Medico-Legal Journal. The request was referred to Zisch, who*is one of the journal’s editors. Dr. Scott was the author of an article, “The People of Indiana Versus Virgil Kirkland,” which appeared in the current issue of the journal. The article declared that medical facts were being ignored in Kirkland’s trial and that the young defendant was being railroaded to the electric chair. CANNON ATTACKS NYE COMMITTEE’S PROBE Slaps at Tinkham Insistence for Quiz of Expenditures. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 22.—Bishop James Cannon Jr. today attacked the Nye committee’s investigation cf his political expenditures in 1928. “My correspondence,” he said in a letter to Chairman Nye, ‘'indicates that many persons think that the purpose ... is an effort to use your committee as an instrument to please Congressman Tinkham’s wet Roman Catholic Boston constituency . . . and to gratify the anger and wounded vanity of certain Virginia Democrats.” EX-SECRETARY IS A/ED Former Employe of First Lady Is Married at Ann Arbor. By United Press ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 22. Miss Ruth Fesler of Hollywood, Cal., who formerly was Mrs. Herbert Hoover’s secretary, today was married to Robert Lockwood Lipman Jr. of San Francisco. The marriage took place at the home of Mrs. James A. Nyswander, twin sister of the bride. Legion Post to Meet Second organization meeting to form an American Legion post in New Augusta will be held in the Community house there at 8 Friday night, with Dr. Frank E. Long, Seventh district commander, presiding.

YOUNG LAWYER HELD IN DUAL COASTSLAYING Ex-Deputy District Attorney With ‘Spotless Record’ Is Suspected, ‘BOSS/ EDITOR KILLED Wan, Unshaven, He Walks Into Hall of Justice, Gives Self Up, BY RONALD W. WAGONER, United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, May 22.—David Harris Clark, young former deputy district attorney with a “spotless record,” gave himself up, and was detained today by authorities for questioning in connection with the double slaying of Charles Crawford, political boss, and Herbert Spencer, magazine editor. Clark, wan and unshaven, walked into the hall of justice shortly before Thursday midnight and surrendered to Elayney Matthews, chief investigator of the district attorney’s office, to whom he previously had telephoned. They conferred for several hours before Buron Fitts, district attorney, announced murder charges would be filed as a result of identifications, which he said had been made by witnesses who saw the slayer. Clark, who is a candidate for municipal judge, was outwardly calm when newspaper men called on him and promised he would produce later sensations when he gets ready to talk. According to Fitts, Crawford, while dying in Georgia street receiving hospital, about two hours after he was wounded, gasped out a name to the Rev. Gustav Briegleb, who asked who shot him. Named in Dying Whisper “Dave, Dave,” was the mumbled whisper of the politician to Briegleb, Fitts declared. It also was learned that Clark last Tuesday purchased a .33-cal-iber revolver, the type used in the double slaying. Captain Joe Taylor of the police homicide squad said the gun was paid for with “a bum check.” The purchase, Taylor said, was made the day after Clark returned from Agua Caliente, Mexico, with “his serves frazzled.” Three persons who saw the killer flee from Crawford’s office were shown a picture of Clark. The witnesses were Lucille Fisher, Crawford’s secretary; Billie Rohrbeck, a secretary in a nearby office, and Ray Radke, a real estate man. Frank James, detective lieutenant, said all identified the protograph as that of the slayer. Sudden shiftng of suspicion from some unidentified underworld character to one of the city’s most prominent young attorneys created a sensation in the case, which already had rocked the city hall an£ threatened “to blow the lid off racketeering in Los Angeles.” Convicted Daisy De Voe Clark’s last big case under Fitts was his successful prosecution of Daisy De Voe, secretary to Clara Bow. Miss De Vos was convicted of grand theft of $825 from the actress. Under Asa Keyes, former district attorney, now in San Quentin on a bribery conviction, Clark led the state forces which sent Albert Marco, who was called a Los Angeles “vice lord,” to prison for a long terra after Marco, seemingly immune to the law, shot a man in the leg during a row in a Venice ocean front case. Additional credit went to Clark, because of his work in criminal angles of the $100,000,000 Julian Petroleum Corporation collapse.

STATE GAME CUSTODIAN, BRANDED GRAFTER, FIRED

Alleged to have accepted commissions from persons whose lands he purchased for the state to be included in the Jasper-Pulaski county game preserve, Ray D. Thompson of Rensselaer today was discharged as custodian of the preserve, Richard Lieber, director of the state conservation department, announced. Figures and records held by Thompson, who acted as agent for the state, have been turned over to the accounts board and possible prosecution will await recommendations of Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner. According to Lieber, Thompson, real estate man and attorney, was

SPEED QUALIFICATION TRIALS BEGIN SATURDAY

(Other details on sports case) Thousands of Indianapolis speed fans will flock to the Speedway Saturday for the annual qualification trials to determine the starting lineup for the 500-mile race. Qualifications will continue Sunday and nest week. Those who qualify Saturday get the first positions. Sunday qualifiers will be placed after the Saturday drivers, despite speed made. A hot fight for the coveted No. 1 position on the front row looms. Those considered in the running are Louis Moyer, 1923 winner; William (Shorty) Cantlon, second in the 1930 race; Billy Arnold, 1930 winner; Leon Duray, holder of the track and qualification records, and

BADLY HURT, WIFE CRIES HOURS FOR ! AID AS MATE DIES

Injured in Crash, Woman Watches Death Creep Up on Husband. By United Press LINTON, Ind., May 22. —Lying on a cot in Freeman county hospital here, Mrs. Emmetc Lucas told today how she sat, helpless for hours on the roadside at the Beehunter crossing on state Road 67 Thursday night and watched her husband die as she called for help. En route to their home at Sanborn after visiting in Linton, the automobile in which Mr. and Mrs. Lucas were riding .with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Killion, struck the side of a moving Chicago, Milwaukee <£s St. Paul freight train. The automobile was demolished Its occupants were found in a ditch three hours later by residents of a nearby house, attracted by Mrs. Lucas’ calls. “Mr. and Mrs. Killion were unconscious,” Mrs. Lucas related, “and my husband was pinned beneath part of the automobile. I was thrown clear of the wreckage, but both ankles were so severely wrenched I could not walk. “I crawled out of the ditch and sat at the side of the road, calling for help. All the time my husband was lying there in that ditch, groaning. “I don’t know how long he lived, but I knew he was dead when the groans stopped. I could do nothing but keep on screaming for help. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 47 10 a. m..... 47 7a. m 46 11 a. m 48 8 a. m 47 12 (noon).. 48 9 a. m 46 1 p. m 49

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AWARD CONTRACT FOR RIVER POWER PLANT Flat Rock Project Conditionally Given City Builders. Conditional contract of construction of the taintor gatehouse and power house of the Flat Rock hy-dro-electric power plant on Fiat Rock river, nine miles south of ShelbyvUle, has been awarded by C. C. Shipp to the J. G. Karstedt Construction Company of Indianapolis for $76,984.32. This contract does not include the mechanical equipment, machinery or the control system, for which separate bids are now being received. “Conditional” award was made becai.se as yet permission has not been made to submerge about 3,500 feet of highway, nor have negotiations been completed for purchase of a small part of the acreage to be flooded. $115,000 ELWOOD HOME IS RUINED BY FLAMES Large Colonial Residence Is Wrecked; Cause Is Undetermined. ELWOOD, Ind., May 22.—Flames today destroyed the large, colonial residence erected near Elwood at a cost of $115,000 five years ago by the late Wilfred Sellers, cabinet manufacturer. Authorities w r ere unable to trace the origin of the blaze. Servants quarters, valued at SB,OOO, and contents of the residence, valued at $35,000, also were burned. The property was owned by W. R. Delp, Hollywood, Cal.

named agent to purchase 5,000 acres for the preserve w’hich is operated under the fish and game division of the conservation department. After acreage was opened, Thompson was named custodian and continued to represent the department in land deals. Walter Shirts, head of the fish and game division, said he had obtained affidavits from persons who declared Thompson had taken commissions from them, representing that he would get the state to buy their land. In fact, authorities said, the land definitely was to have been purchased by the department.

Bill Cummings, star Indianapolis pilot. Meyer, who Thursday afternoon turned a lap than 117 miles an hour, is regarded as the No. 1 favorite. Frank Brisko Thursday cracked into the wall and wrecked his car on the north turn. He wjs not injured. Each car must make at least ninety miles an hour for four laps to qualify. Each dirver gets three chances to qualify. Forty cars will start the race. One car has been exempted from the general rule, the Cummins Diesel, an oil-burner. All it needs to qualify is to turn four laps at eighty miles an hour. It will be driven by Dave Evans.

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MID-WEST IN ORIPOF GOLD Frost General; Snow Falls in Kansas Town. By. United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 22.Unseasonable cold weather prevailed today over a large area of the middle west and southwest. The low temperature for May 22 in Kansas City was broken early today when the mercury dipped to 43 degrees. A minimum temperature of 33 degrees was reported at Tex., and at Oklahoma City the low mark was 43 degrees. Both temperatures were the lowest ever recorded this late in the season. Frost was general last night in Western Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and the Dakotas. Scott City, Kan., reported a sixinch snowfall. Skies Will Clear Clear skies with rising temperature were predicted on the weather menu for Indianapolis over the week-end by the weather bureau. Break in the rain and cloudy condition should be effected by Saturday morning, J. H. Arming ton, bureau chief, said. The mercury then will begin its fight upward to normal temperatures for this season. In the last twenty-four hours temperature has been 14 degrees below normal. WORKS BOARD MOVES TO PROTECT TREES Order Street Widening Projects Altered After Protests. Protest of property owners against j threatened destruction of trees by the widening of Pennsylvania and Talbot streets for one block north j of Thirtieth street resulted today in action by the works board to save the trees. The board ordered the two 1 streets widened from thirty feet to : only thirty-six feet, instead of to forty feet, as intended originally j when the contracts were awarded. Contract for paving Montcalm I street from Indiana avenue to Eighteenth street with concrete w’as awarded to the R. M. Bowen Company on a bid of $12,964. CONVICTED ’LEGGER’S ‘ASSETS’ A MORTGAGE Judge Finds Farmer’s ‘’Bonds” Are Debt on Farm. By United Press % , MADISON, Wis., May 2.—Felix Kluck came before Federal Judge George T. Page today to be sentenced on a charge of possessing liquor. “What property have you?" Judge Page, who comes from Chicago and has been fining prohibition law violators as much as $2,500. “I got a little land,” Kluck replied. “Any bonds?” asked the judge. “What do you mean, bonds’”! queried the fanner. ‘Securities, mortgages, stocks—thinks like that?” “Sure I’ve got some of them— j a mortgage on my farm,” replied Kluck. Eis fine was $350.

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MOONEY CASE BOMBING LAID TO WAR SPIES Convicted Burglar’s Story Is Being Investigated in Los AngeleSc TWO MEN ‘CLEARED’ Billings, Fellow Convict Had Nothing to Do With Blast, Prisoner Says. j By United Press LOS ANGELES, May 22.—The story of Carl Von Moltke, convicted i burglar, that German spies were rc- ; sponsible for the bombing of the : Preparedness day parade in San ! Francisco in 1916. for which Thomas ; J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings i are serving life sentences, was inI vestigated today. When Von Moltke appeared before Superior Judge Walton J. Wood ; late Thursday for sentence on a ■ burglary charge, the Judge continI ued the case until June 12, remarki :ng that there were “several things i the court wished to look into.” He ordered Von Moltke to apply for probation instead of pressing a ! contemplated appeal, so that county investigators could investigate his ; story. Documents Are Cited Von Moltke, w-ho claims to be a j grand nephew of Field Marshal Von : Moltke of Franco-Prussian war fame, reiterated his previous statements that German secret service j agents planted the bomb in San ! Francisco which killed ten persons. He said documents bearing out , his statements are in a vault in a New York bank. He said he was a former German spy. i “Tom Mooney and Warren BilI lings had nothing to do with the 1 bombing,” Von Moltke said. “It was the work of a German spy, Frederick Hinsch, alias Grantnor. I have the documents to prove what I am saying in a steel box in Brooklyn.” Von Moltke said these and other documents which, “if published, would cause no end of scandal” came into his possession while Tie was working as a German intelligence department agent in New York during the World u r ar. Tells of Spies’ Farleys He said he worked in a suite of rooms at 60 Wall street decoding messages relating to bombing plots after his arrival in New York in 1916. He described several conferences which, he said, were attended bv Agents Von Igel, Koenig, Karl Eisinger, Lowenstein, Frederick Hinsch, alias Grantnor, and himself. Eisinger and Hinsch were assigned to sabotage work, he said, j and obtained a large quantity of j explosives. He said they left for | San Francisco about May 15, after j shipping the explosives in a spei daily designed trunk which they ! checked as baggage. “Scored on the 22nd” "About two months later,” Von Moltke continued,; “Koenig brought me a report signed F. Grantnor, saying that certain railroad bridges had been destroyed. It also mentioned a bombing plan that was to be carried out in San Francisco in July. “This document can be produced from the filing cabinet in Brooklyn. “The New York office received another wire on July 25, signed by Grantnor which read: ‘Scored 100 per cent on the 22nd.” Von Igel laughed when he saw the communication. ‘We will score many more yet, for this is only the beginning,’ he said.” CITES POLICE METHODS Scientific Means of Getting Crooks Explained to Students. Methods of gangster riddance by scientific police means and by heavy sentences ni criminal courts were explained to Indiana Central college students and faculty today at convocation by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson. “Our greatest problem is to get satisfactory evidence for juries,” the prosecutor said, explaining the difficulty of jetting capable jurors to serve. MISSING BOY IS HUNTED Nephew of Salvador President Is Lost in San Francisco. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, May 22. Manuel Montalvo, 12-year-old nephew of President Arturo Arraujo of Salvador, was hunted by police today when it was reported that he had been missing since Wednesday night. ROOSEVELT SAILS HOME Roy W. Howard Also Among Passengers Leaving Paris for U. S. By United Press PARIS, May 22. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, were among the passengers who sailed for New York on board the liner Bremin today. FORM UNION FOR ‘BAIL’ Detroit Speakeasy Cooks, Bartenders Offered New “Insurance.” By United Press DETROIT, May 22.—Bartenders, cooks and waiters in Detroit speakeasies reportedly are being urged to join a union, the benefits of which will include bond when arrested and an effort to secure a fixed wage scale. i

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