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NEW TROLLEY PLAN OFFERED STOCKHOLDERS Street Car Capitalization Slash to Cut Fixed Charges Proposed. CONTROL TO BE LOCAL Five Trustees to Direct Refinancing, Reduce Insull Holdings. Slashing of the capitalization of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company from $18,000,000 to $lO,134,000 to reduce fixed charges; reduction of the Insull holdings from 40 to 30 per cent and a five-year rehabilitation program are proposed m anew street car plan submitted today to stockholders. Local control of the line through a board of five trustees composed of Indianapolis men and the obtaining of new capital for rehabilitation purposes through an assessment also are outlined in the proposal. First step in • setting up anew company must be the foreclosure of the mortgages which is hoped to be accomplished by Jan. 1, 1932.

No Fare Increase Refinancing and fiscal schedules upon which the new capital structure is erected, is based on no increase in fares, declare chairmen of the stockholders.’ committees, who are advancing the new plan. South Meridian street car line users will be the first to benefit under the rehabilitation program, Gavin L Payne, one of the chairmen declared Plans call for the installation of electric trolley busses on that line, he said. The plan calls for the election by each of the four stockholders’ committees of one member to a board of trustees. The Fletcher American Company, reorganization manager, would nalne the fifth trustee. These trustees, to serve five years, would vote the common stock and will elect the board of directors. The directors in turn will name the officers. Chase Is Approached Advances have been made to Charles W. Chase, manager of the Insull-owned Gary Street Railways, to assume the managership of the Indianapolis line. Chase, one of the best known street car lihe managers in the middle west, would be required to give up all his connection with Insull if he takes over the management of the Indianapolis company. Proposed financial setup of the street car company, now in receivership, is proposed as follows; Holders of Citizens 5 per cent bonds would be given 70 per cent of their present holdings in new general mortgage bonds and onehalf share of the new common stock for each SIOO of par they now hold. Owners of the street car 4 per cent bonds would receive the new bonds to the extent of 45 per cent of their present holdings and would receive in addition three-fifth of one share of common stock for each SIOO par they now possess. Trade in at Half Broad Ripple bonds would be traded in for the new bonds to 50 per cent of their present holdings plus one-half share of common for each SIOO or par. Preferred stockholders would receive for each share, upon payment of a 20 per cent assessment, a $lO share of the new general mortgage issue, one-fifth of a share convertible preferred and four-fifths of a share of common stock. Terminal building and property bonds would be traded, one for one, and the company would be given a first, mortgage on the terminal and other street car company buildings. The interest rate on the bus company mortgage bonds would be cut from the present 8 per cent to 5 per oent and the holders would be asked to subscribe to the new securities. Sponsors of the plan declare that the new capital expected to be raised will include $1,250,000 on the. assessment, and $1,500,000 on car trust certificates. Later on, the company expects to issue first mortgage open end bonds to raise $2,000,000 to be used in the five-year rehabilitation program. Mayor Can’t See Them The chairmen of the committees. Irving Lemaux, Payne, Ross Wallace and Roy Shaneberger, and the attorney, Julian Ralston, were to call on Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today and explain the plan, but the mayor was unable to receive them. This is the second plan to be submitted. The first, which was turned down by the city several months ago, was proposed by the Insull interests and called for a service at cost franchise and the expenditure of $9,000,000 upon rehabilitation of the lines. The city refused the proposal on the grounds that it did not care to grant the Insull interests an indeterminate and indefinite franchise. TOW-IN CONTRACT UP Special Council Session Receives New Traffic Ordinance. Ordinance to ratify the contract with the Indianapolis Motor Inns, Inc., for two-in of autos improperly parked under the new traffic regulations, was introduced at a special city council meeting today. The council will vote on it June 1. date for the new traffic laws to take effect

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TENNESSEE STATE CRISIS IS LAID TO CALDWELL AND LEA Legislature Probers Charge Financier, Publisher Responsible; Assail Gov. Horton. By United Press NASHVILLE, Term., May 25.—The political influence of Rogers Caldwell, financier, and Colonel Lea, newspaper publisher, were held partly responsible for the present condition of state affairs by a legislative committee told that substituted its final report after investigating charges of maladministration by Governor Henry Horton. High officials were discharged “because they -would not conduct thenoffices in a way satisfactory'’ to Caldwell and Lea, and the two men participated in an agreement whereby “more than the legal deposit of public money’’ was made in the Bank of Tennessee, the final report charged. The report was signed by nine of the fourteen members of the committee, including speakers of both houses of the general assembly. It is expected to be the basis of a move to impeach Governor Horton, storm center of charges of maladministration in connection with tieup of millions of state funds in Caldw T eli-controlled banks which closed last fall.

The report said Governor Hon on must be held responsible for the administration of state affairs, and charged that the Bank of Tennessee, a Caldwell controlled institution, “was operated by designing manipulators for the sole use, benefit and advantage of Caldwell & Cos.” Other Charges Made Among other charges the committee made, were: That Colonel Lea, associate of Caldwell, and friend of the Governor, was present with Caldwell at a state funding board meeting when a $21,000,000 bond issue was sold to Caldwell & Cos. That a second bond issue of $29,500,000 was attributed to the needs of “those political friends of the present Governor for more funds to place in their financial institutions to prevent their collapse.” That Governor Horton appointed D D. Robertson “whom he had never met” superintendent of banks on recommendation of Colonel Lea. Robertson was charged with delinquency in examination of the Caldwell financial concerns. Submit Minority Report The minority report attacked the conclusions reached, charged the majority report “is unjustified,” and too severe in its criticisms of some of the officials named” and that too much weight was given to some of the testimony before the committee. It also recommended termination of the u-ork of committee auditors, whose report, also made public today, suggested drastic reforms were necessary in the budgeting and accounting systems of the state government.

Perpetrator of' Hoax Sentenced in Larceny Case By Times Special GOSHEN, Ind , May 25.—Entering a plea of guilty to larceny, Charles Trimmer, 26, 'was sentenced by Judge L L. Burris to from one to five years in the state reformatory. The charge was based on a theft committed in June last year, in which loot was five gallons of oil and eight gallons of gasoline, taken from the Elkhart county highway department, at a time when Trimmer was in its employ, Arrest of Trimmer followed an escapade in which he said he had been kidnaped by a gang which also threatened to abduct a grandson of A. E. Kunderd, florist. He finally admitted the whole story was false and he had tcld it Tilth the hope of financial gain and of being classed as a hero. WORKS BOARD FACES FIGHT AT COLUMBUS Council Faction Will Test Legality of New Body. By Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind , May 25.—Suit to test legality of the new city board of works, organized here Tuesday, following passing of an ordinance by the city council the night before, has been filed in circuit court by counsel for E. E. Cowles, A. T. Griffith and Cecil Anderson, members of the council who opposed creating the board. The city of Columbus. Mayor H. Karl Volland, City Clerk Fred Owens. City Treasurer Ed Green and Councilmen Alfred Schaeffer, Carl Suverkrup. Herman Arnholt and Newell Romine are defendants. The suit is the result of a strenuous fight waged by members of the council for several weeks. Hero’s Mother on Trip By Times Special NOBLESVILLLE, Ind . May 25 Mrs Calvin Harrison, Gold Star Mother, is on her way to England to see a bronze tablet'on which the name of her son, Harvey Harrison, is carved. He was drowned during the World war when the gunboat West over was sunk by a submarine.

DUEL FOUGHT OVER ‘BROKEN HOME’; SURGEON IS SLAIN

By United Press NEW YORK. May 25 —Dr Joseph TANARUS, Loughlin. prominent surgeon and the father of four children, was slain In an old-fashioned pistol duel in a lonely field because he believed the man he challenged had broken up his home, police said today as they pressed a wide search for his alleged slayer. The man suspected of the murder is Howard Bridgetts, 30, of Brooklyn, a commission merchant, and a second cousin of the slain surgeon Prifeetts left the JLoiighlm £oxng

RARE OPERATION SAVESJOMAN Own Blood Filtered and Reinjected in Veins. By United Press GALLIPOLIS, O, May 25.—One of the rarest operations of modern surgery was performed successfully at Holzer hospital here when the life of Mrs. L. A. Wright, wife of an Ohio river steamboat captain, was saved by auto-transfusion. Mrs. Wright was brought to the hospital in what was described by Dr. Charles E. Holzer as a dying condition, caused by serious abdominal hemorrhages. Two quarts of her blood were collected, filtered and reinjected into her veins. She regained consciousness and her blood count which showed only 20 per cent normal before the transfusion, became normal. Mrs. Wright w r as reported as doing well today. According to medical records this operation has been performed but thirty-eight times in the United States.

SKYING ON SHEET Bicknel! Miner Dead and Foe Wounded. By United Press BICKNELL, Ind., May 25.—A gun duel on a street here today claimed the life of Lee Cameron, 50, Bicknell coal miner, who died in a hospital of a wound alleged to have been inflicted by James Osborne. Osborne, suffering from tw r o bullet w-ounds, will recover, nhysicians say. The battle was said to have followed a fix weeks’ grudge between the men URGE RETAIL MEAT CUT Secretary Hyde Asked to Bring Pressure on Hotels, Restaurants* By United Press OMAHA, Neb., May 25.—Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, was called upon by the Omaha Livestock Exchange today to “bring pressure on the retail, hotel and restaurant men of the country to reduce their prices on meat products "in line with the decline of the cost of the live animal.” Sanitarium Robbed of AlkyTheft of more than twenty-five gallons of grain alcohol from the Fletcher Sanitarium, 1140 East Market street, since April 21, was reported to nolice today by Dr C. L. Williams

$2,500 BONDS MISSING IN STATE INSURANCE OFFICE

Shortage of $2,500 in Liberty bonds, which were deposited as collateral with John C, Kidd, state insurance commissioner, was disclosed today in a report filed by field examiners of the state board of accounts. Special report covering the shortage was given Lawrence F Orr, chief examiner, who announced he will place it with Attorney-General James M. Ogden for action on collection or prosecution, Kidd asserted that the shortage remains as stated, but that he expects to collect from a surety company. The report sets out that when examiners checked liberty bonds on file with the insurance commissioner, two SI,OPO bonds put up by the American Income Insurance Company were missing from the vaults leased by the commissioner in an Indianapolis bank. Coupons valued at $42.50 remained uncollected from the missing bonds, the report sets out. Another SSOO liberty bond was

with the doctor late Sattirday after a quarrel with Mrs. Loughlin, and had not returned to his home today The doctor's body was found, face upward, in a, recent filled-in section of Marine park, two bullets under the right armpit and a wound behind the right ear. He had fallen near one of two stakes which apparently had been set by the duelists to mark the distance they must walk before facing one another and firing. The wounds under the right arm indicate the had his arm i

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1931

NINETEEN CARS QUALIFIED FOR SPEEDCLASSIC Dozen More Are Expected to Make the Grade in Tests Today. FLAMES MENACE PAIR ! Sparks and Mechanic Jump From. Blazing Mount l After Crash. With nineteen cars already qualified to start in the 500-mile race at the Indianapolis speedway next Saturday, an even dozen more were expected to go through their fourlap qualification tests this noon.Thrills of speed and crashes gave 35,000 persons Saturday and another 25,000 Sunday something to talk about at home. On Saturday Louis Meyer, 1928 winner here and the heavy pre-trials favorite for the “pole” position, crashed into the south turn at 130 miles an hour, but escaped uninjured. Floyd (Sparky) Sparks and his mechanic, Dick Crombie, were forced to leap for their lives Sunday, when their machine crashed on the north turn and burst into flames. The car was burned badly and is out of the race. Russell Snowberger of Philadelphia will sit at the “pole” position next Saturday as a result of his qualifying his “home made” Russell Eight Saturday at a speed of 112.796 miles an hour. Those already qualified: FIRST ROW Driver—Car Speed Russell Snowbereer (Russell Eight) 112.796 Bill Cummings (Empire State Spl.) 112.563 Paul Bost (Empire State Spl.) 112.125 SECOND ROW Deacon Litz (Maley Special) 111.531 Ernie Triplett (Bu’keye-Duesenberg) 111.039 Babe Stapp (Rigling, Henning Spl.) 110.125 THIRD ROW W. H. Gardner, (Nutmeg State Spl.) 109.820 Fred Frame (Hartz-Duesenberg)... 109.273 Stubblefield (Jones-Miller 5p1.).... 108.797 FOURTH ROW Ralph Hepburn (Harry Miller Spl.) 107.933 Fhl! Pardee (Duesenberg) 107.772 Luther Johnson (Richards 5p1.).... 107.652 FIFTH ROW L. Schneider (Bowes Seal-Fast Spl.) 107.210 Cliff Bergere (Elco-Royale) 106.781 Chet Miller (Marr Special) 106.185 SIXTH ROW Joe Russo (Unnamed car) 104.822 Dave Evans (Cummins Diesel) 96.871 Billy Arnold (Hartz-Miller Spl.).. 116.080 SEVENTH ROW Tony Gulotta (Hunt Special) 111.725 Arnold and Gulotta were the only two qualifiers Sunday, A. A. A. officials calling off further trials for the day after Sparks’ car had struck the wall and burned. YALE PROFESSOR IS INELIGIBLE AS CITIZEN Oath to Bear Arms Only in ‘Just War’ Bars Noted Theologian, By United Press WASHINGTON, May 25.—Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Dwight professor of theology at Yale university, was held today by the supreme court to be ineligible to States citizenship because he would swear to bear arms for the country only in what he considered a “just war.” WAR CHIEF PLANS TOUR Secretary Hurley to Inspect Army Posts, Air Fields in June, By United Press WASHINGTON, May 25.—Secretary of War Patrick Hurley said today he planned an inspection trio to army posts and air field's throughout the west during the early part of June

found missing in the deposit with the commissioner of the Security Life Insurance Company, according to the report. It. is explained that Charles Unger, securities clerk of the department, assumed responsibility for the missing bonds and is charged as owing the department a, total of $2,542.50. Unger told Ure M. Frazer and E. P. Brennan, who made the report. that he had stuck the bonds in his pocket while clipping coupons and “inadvertently carried them home where they were lost.” Unger resides on a farm outside Indianapolis Kidd replaced him. as securities clerk by appointing Herman P. Gray, assistant secretary of state in the Schortemeier administration. He said Unger’s position was protected by a $25,000 surety bond. Friends of Unger explained that he is a World war veteran and suffers at times from memory lapses. Kidd admitted he knew nothing of the shortage until the field examiners made the checkup,

raised as though about to fire and was shot down as he turned his right side toward the challenged man Bloodstams leading away from the scene led police to believe Loughlin wounded his assailant before falling over, dead. Mrs. Loughlin revealed the dueling theory when she told police she and her husband recently were estranged, and the surgeon believed Bridgetts had caused the breach Loughlin accused him, she told police, of revealing to ioughr

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Top—Billy Arnold, in MillerHartz Front-Drive Special, in which ho won the 500-mile speedway grind last year, is shown here hurtling down the front stretch in an effort to capture the pole position. His 113-mile-an-hour speed qualification was declared void Saturday, because he failed to pass the brake test. He qualified Sunday at 116 miles an hour. Left Center—Two young ladies and their boy friend - were “crashed out” just as soon as they “crashed in.” They are shown

‘TWO-GUN’ BANDIT IS TRIED FOR MURDER

‘Aw, ! Know I’m Gonna Burn, Get It Over,’ Says Crowley, By United Press MINEOLA, N. Y., May 25.—Francis (Two-Gun) Crowley, whose capture was the most spectacular police display in New York in years, went to trial today on a charge of murdering Frederick Hirsh, patrolman, in a Long Island lovers’ lane-. . The trial was a triumph of speedy justice. Hirsh was killed early in the morning of May 7, as he accosted Crowley and Helen Walsh in a parked motorcar near North Merrick. Late on May 8 several hundred police surrounded a building on the upper west side of New York City, fired many rounds of shots into an apartment building, tossed in tear bombs and then entered to arrest Crowley, Miss Walsh and Rudolph Duringer, the latter wanted for a charge of killing Virginia Brannen, a “10-cenfc dancer.” The following day Crowley was indicted,, moved to Long Island and since has fretted at the delay in his trial because he claimed he knew he was to die “Aw, I know I’m going to burn and I want to get it over with right away,” Crowley said, “I’m poison to those guys who’ll be on the jury. “They’ll give me the business for killing that cop if it’s the last thing they ever do, I haven’t a Chinaman’s chance—not a prayer—of getting a break from them, so why should I kid myself.” Crowley, only 20, curly-haired and weighing 110 pounds, was led into the courtroom today shackled to a deputy sheriff. He smiled as he glanced around the crowded court room—a crowd made up largely of girls and women KING DOFFS BANDAGE Siamese Monarch Uses Eye First Time Since Operation By United Press WHITE PLAINS? May 25.—The king of Siam today was seen walking about his estate for the first time without a bandage over his left eye since an operation two weeks ago.

lin the surgeon’s clandestine affairs with other women, Leon D, Sachter, a lawyer whom Mrs. Loughlin had asked to file separation papers against the surgeon, and a mutual friend of the Loughlins, called at the house Saturday night to attempt a reconciliation, she said. During an argument between Mr. and Mrs. Loughlin, Bridgetts walked in, she said. Loughlin immediately turned upon him and accused him of being act informer, Bridgetts denied

crawling back to the infield from the tr? ck where the traditional Speedway rule bans women. Right Center—Louis Scheider, former Indianapolis motorcycle cop, and Clyde Terry (left) his riding mechanic are shown after qualifying their car, a Millermotored Bowes Seal-Fast special. Bottom—Dave Evans, the driver of the oil-burning Diesel car, and ite ownep-and builder, Clessie L. Cummins, of Columbus, Ind. The car qualified at 96 miles an hour.

COLORADO ABOLISHES SPEED LIMIT LAW ' Road Trap, Pokes” Made Illegal as Governor Signs New Code, By United Press DENVER , May 25. — Colorado's thirty-five-mile-an-hour speed limit was abolished today, “speed traps” outlawed and road “pokes” made liable to arrest when Governor W. H. Adams signed anew motor vehicle code carrying an emergency clause which put its provisions into effeect immediately. The new code provides motorists must drive at a careful and prudent speed, neither greater or'less than consideration o? safety dictate GANGSTER TO PRISON 14-Year Term for Killer of / Motorcycle Cop, By United Press CHICAGO, May 25.—“ Three-Fi-ngered Jack” White, gangster and “public enemy,” was sentenced today to fourteen years in Joliet prison for the murder in 1925 of Edward Fflaume, motorcycle officer, at a roadhouse in River Forest, 111. FALLS DEAD IN SALUTE Civil War Veteran, 83, Claimed by Death at Memorial Service, By United Press NEW YORK, May 25.—John Whalen, 81-year-old plainsman and Civil war %’eteran, put on his uniform and attended the allied veterans’ memorial service, telling comrades he already has selected the horse he would rid? in the Memorial day parade. The audience rose for the singing of "America,” and Whalen came to attention, Suddenly he slumped to the floor, dead from heart disease. Hourly Temperatures 6a, m .... 63 10 a. m.... 70 7 a. m .... 64 11 a. m.. r .. 72 Ba. m,,... 67 12 (noon).. 74 9 a. m..,.. 68 1 p. m 75

Mrs. Loughlin told police, and an argument followed. The surgeon then challenged Bridgett's to "come out in the back yard and fight.” This Bridgetts refused to do, and left the house. Sachter left later when his attempts to reconcile the couple failed. Bridgetts returned about an hour later, according to Mrs. Loughlin, and he and the surgeon left “to keep a business appointment.” As police reconstruct the shooting, Loughlin and the person who accompanied him, walked about 750 feet from the tpcu where they ha 4

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TITLE FIGHT IS UNDERjLS. BAN Temporary Injunction Hits Carnera-Sharkey Bout. By United Press NEW YORK, May 25.—A temporary injunction which would prohibit the holding of the scheduled Primo Carnera-Jack Sharkey prize fight June 10 at Brooklyn, was issued today by Federal Judge John C. Knox on application of the Madison Square Garden Corporation of Illinois. The Garden corporation asserted it had a previous contract binding Camera to a fight with the winner of the Max Schmeling-William Stribling fight to be held at Cleveland, July 3. PIGEON HITS FAST PACE City Bird Averages 51 Miles an Hour in Race From Tennessee. Lookout Mountain Queen, owned by Charles Schwert, 350 West Thirtieth street, was first in the Indianapolis Racing Pigeon Club race from Lookout mountain, Tennessee, Sunday, covering the 335 miles at an average of 51 miles an hour. Jo Herschel, owned by S. J. Gatto, 3514 East Michigan street, was first in the Monumental Racing Pigeon Club race Sunday from Rolla, Mo., averaging 45 miles an hour for the 325 miles, DELAYED TRIAL SLATED Secrist Manslaughter Case, Three Years Old, to Start Tuesday. Trial of William H. Secrist, 22, of 1627 Howard street, charged with involuntary manslaughter, which has been delayed three years, will start in criminal court Tuesday. Secrist was indicted in the death of Victor Lockwood, 1418 West Morris street, during a “beer joint” fight, south of Indianapolis, Oct. 15, 1928. RESUME CONVICT TRIAL Ohio Penitentiary Prisoner Accused in Death of 322 Others. By United Press • COLUMBUS, 0., May 25.—Halted temporarily by arguments of opposing counsel over admissibility of evidence the trial of Clinton Grate, Dayton convict, on charges of murder growing out of the Ohio penitentiary fire last year in which 322 prisoners died, was resumed today. COOKIE SALE IS ENDED 324,009 Are Sold by Girl Scouts of City; Troop 8 Girl Winner. Three hundred twenty-four thousand Girl Scout cookies were sold in Indianapolis in the annual cookie day sale. Proceeds go to the Girl Scout summer camp. Camp Dellwood, opening June 29. Peggy Sweeney of Troop 8 . sold 240 dozen cookies, winning highest honors School Head Re-Employed By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 25.—Frank E Allen, superintendent of the Muncie schools will remain here for the next three years. Allen is said to have been given an increase in salary after he considered an offer to take the South Bend superintendency.

parked the automobile and marked off twenty paces by means of two stakes. Then they paced the distance, police believe, turned and fired at one another by the dim street lights nearby, The nearest house is several hundred feet away, and no one heard the shots. Mrs. Loughlin said that her difficulty with her husband arose because he neglected her and their four children She denied Bridget!** had ever informed her of any disloyalty eg her husbftoti s^art*

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DEATH ASKED FOR KIRKLAND IN GIN TRIAL Demand Is Made by State in Closing Arguments: Virgil Calm. CASE IS NEAR JURY Prosecution's Evidence Is ‘Wishy-Washy,’ Very Weak, Says Defense. Bv United Press VALPARAISO. Ind., May 25—A direct demand for the death penalty was made by the state today when closing arguments were began in the second trial of Virgil Kirkland, 20-year-old football star, on charges of murdering Arlene Draves at a Gary liquor revel last November. Kirkland's attorneys replied by attacking the state's evidence as “wishy washy,” declaring the youth was innocent of the charge, and charging that evidence which might have shown a jealous wife inflicted Arlene's injuries had been withheld. The defendant sat through the lengthy arguments with an air of unconcern, listening intently, but without expression. With six hours for summing up allotted each side and another hour required for Judge Grant Crumpacker’s charge, the case may not go to the jury until Wednesday. Hint Murder by Woman Floyd Vance, assistant prosecuting attorney, began the state’s closing arguments by declaring the evidence left no doubt that Kirkland was guilty of murder by criminal attack, for which Indiana law makes electrocution mandatory. Kirkland was convicted of murder by a blow in his first trial. But his sentence to life imprisonment was set aside, and the state dismissed that count of his indictment for the retrial. “The girl is dead,” Vance said. “The question is, who killed her? “The proof is that she was killed in the perpetration of criminal attack. If the death penalty ever was warranted, it is in this case.” John Crumpacker, defense attorney, son of Judge Crumpacker, repeated the insinuation the defense has made throughout the second trial that Arlene was beaten by the wife of one of the guests at the party. Evidence Hidden, la Charge “I don’t believe this case is even a murder case,” he said. “The testimony of the state has been wishy washy—very weak. The state has been afraid of its own case. “Something happened that night in the automobile, which no one has told about, to break up the party. How do we know that Mrs. Elser or Mrs. Shirk did not catch their husbands out in the car and beat the girl?” Henry (Tony) Shirk, one of four youths jointly indicted with Kirkland, testified for the state, admitting that he attempted to attack Arlene, but charging Kirkland with inciting the act. Earl Elser, and his wife, who attended the party, w ? ere other state witnesses.

SKIES TO CLEAR OFF WITHIN 24 HOURS Weather Outlook Still Is Uncertain for Race, Says Observer. Clearing of the overcast condition that has brought showers off and on for the last twenty-four hours, was predicted before Tuesday by the the weather bureau today. Showers may be expected before tonight and precipitation was reported in southern Indiana early this morning. Weather for the 500-mile race Saturday still is doubtful, according to J H. Armington, weather bureau expert. However, Armington committed himself on the outlook to say that rain probably would not be on the speed fans’ menu. CUT OFF AIR IN RADIO TALK FOR 'OBSCENITY’ Pennsylvania District Attorney Uses Strong Words in Flaying Rods. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, May 25.—Vincent A. Carroll, assistant district attorney, was cut off the air Sunday night while broadcasting a speech on Communism over station WIP-WFAN, when the announce! considered he had us°d obscene language. He was speaking at a banquet. Carroll said “When I speak to workers of intelligence I take the opportunity to decry Communism and every . . . organization to which it gives birth,” after which the microphone was disconnected and he continued his speech without the radio audience. COLLEGIAN ENDS LIFE Commits Suicide in Empty Classroom During Chapel Service* By United Press MEMPHIS, May 25.—William M. Mitchell, 19, Southwestern college senior, shot himself to death today in an empty classroom adjoining the chapel where the student body was bowed in morning prayer. Shot Fatal to Woman By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 2o.—Mrs. Edward Brenner, 31. died in a hospital here of wounds suffered when a shotgun over which she stumbled at her home near Buck Creek was {uncharged

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