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SMASH SLOT MACHINE RING, POLICEEDICT City-Wide Cleanup at Once Is Order Given by Major Fletcher. CHILD GAMBLING FLAYED County, State to Join Fight to Rid City of Trick Pool Operators. Battle waged in Indianapolis today between the gambling element and the police. On one side ranged the members of the police department, with unyielding orders from Major Herbert Fletcher, acting chief, to “bring in every slot machine and its operator.” On the other was more than a dozen agents of slot machine promoters who are out “spotting” places In which to install the devices. Never before in Indianapolis has auch an open conflict raged. Operators of the machines are gambling heavily on summer season business in drug stores, restaurants, roadhouses, social clubs and booze joints. Pharmacy owners in the city, however, declare that few drug stores now allow operation of slot machines, probably 10 per cent or less of such stores tolerating this form of gambling. Children Are Gambling Fletcher’s orders followed revelation by The Times that children have been playing machines in stores and other places where children gather during vacation periods. Fletcher said every machine found will be confiscated and an effort made to convict either the owner or operator. “I shall enforce the law absolutely,” he said. “Out will go the machines and in will come the operators. I've been able to endure the eight of a grown man playing one of them before I arrested him and took the machine, but I will not tolerate children working them. “Os all the things in the world that makes me mad, it is to have children learning to gamble by operating these machines. I’ll do all I can to stop the practice.” Many In Booze Joints Police officers will find that practically every booze joint in Indianapolis is equipped with one or more of the machines. After a few drinks it isn't much trouble for the owner of the place to Dersuade his customers to drop a few quarters. Generally, though, it isn’t necessary to fan the gambling desires of most of the customers. The “spotters” now v at work in the city are paid a commission for finding “good” locations for the machines. In the slot machine business it counts just as much to have willing spenders—and many of them enter the store in which the device is located—as it does for a legitimate business house to have a heavily trafficked store location. Devices Can’t Be Beaten Majority of the players of the devices have learned—to their dismay—that the machines are like the horses to the amateur: They can’t be beaten. In addition, players face the same trickery by operators that many subscribers to a pool do—the owner or agent gets a “thief’s cut.” For years, it has been the practice of the operators who are near to watch their customers slip nickels, quarters or dimes in the coin slot, to jiggle the machinery and drop a coin about the time the jackpot is due. They get the mony, not the contributor. With the opening shot fired by Fletcher, it is expected state and county authorities will line up in the fight against the money-grab-bing devices.

SHARP DECLINE SHOWN IN BANK ROBBERIES Four Bandits Killed Daring Sevenmonth Period. Recession of the so-called “crime wave” so far as Indiana bank robbers are concerned, is recorded in a repbrt submitted to the state bankers* convention today by E. L. Osborne, chief of the state criminal bureau. The report covers a seven-month period and shows that bank robberies have dropped from the high total of twelve during the month of December. 1930, to one in March and two in April, 1931. Reason for the decline may be found in further statistics presented by Osborne. Out of twenty-nine bank robberies reported to the department from October, 1930, to May, 1931, thirty-eight robbers were convicted. Total years to serve amounts to 516, and in addition there were two life sentences. Four of the bandits were killed. SOU GHT LIN G Customs Inspector Charged With Shooting Legger Suspect. By United Press WATERTOWN, N. Y., June 10.—A warrant charging manslaughter, first degree, was issued today for the arrest ot Harold G. Markham. United States customs inspector, as a result of the fatal shooting of a suspected bootlegger Tuesday. Tha warrant was Issued by City JUdgs Joseph A. McConnell on information sworn to by Sheriff Frank D. Walrath. It was expected Markham would bs taken into custody later in the day.

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Deputies Accused of Deaths By United Press ARDMORE, Okla., June 10.—Salvador Cortes Rubio, nephew of President Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, testified today that the officers who shot his two companions to death did not identify themselves as officers until after the shooting. Rubio was the first witness in the preliminary hearing of Deputy Sheriffs William Guess and Cecil Crosby, charged with murder in the slaying of Eknilo Cortes Rubio and Manuel Garcia Gomez, prominent Mexican students. The tarter county courtroom was jammed, 1,000 persons fighting for seats. Many business houses were closed, so great was the interest in the case. Matthew Alexander, Ardmore policeman, who answered the emergency call after the shooting, testified the street where the students’ motor car was parked was so dark he had to open the door before he could tell whether the car was occupied.

DRY MISRULE IS LAID TO MELLON Secretary and Lowman Hit by Ex-Administrator. By United Press NEW YORK, June 10.—Major Maurice Campbell, former prohibition administrator in New York, awaited reaction in Washington today to his public announcement that he had filed charges with President Hoover, alleging that Seymour Lowman, assistant secretary of the treasury, formerly in charge of prohibition enforcement, had been "derelict” in duty. His charges also included an allegation that Andrew' W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, “had taken advantage of his official position to conceal facts and thus shield a government official who Is derelict in his office.” The former administrator here said he submitted eight specific charges against Lowman more than a month ago and that the President did directly to him, but turned the charges over to Secretary Mellon. On May 12, Major Campbell said, Mellon wrote him, saying the charges “are summaries of allegations contained in a series of syndicated press articles written by you last year,” and that he had investigated “the allegations and conclusions” in those articles “and found them at that time to be so ill-founded as not to Require an answer on the part of this department.” ALBERT IS BAD SHOT Unloved, Tries Suicide; One Bullet Pierces Shoulder. If Albert Murphy, 19, of. Providence, Ky., had been more proficient with a pistol this would have been a tragic story. After he wrote notes to a sweetheart and a friend, Albert shot twice at himself, at Acton road and State Road 29 Tuesday night. One bullet went into the gloaming, the other Into Albert’s shoulder, but physicians say he is not critically wounded. “Do you know that love keeps you going when everything seems against you?” Murphy asked his sweetheart in a final note to her. Well, Albert w T ill keep going because he chalked up only a fiftyfifty target on himself. warl/iinister wounded Chinese Commnnist Bandits Attack Nationalist Official. By United Press TOKIO, June 10.—General Ho Ying Ching, war minister of the China national government, w r as attacked and seriously wounded at the city of Nancheng Tuesday by Communist bandits, according *to word received today by Japanese government authorities.

HONEST AND EFFICIENT-THAT WAS KINNEY

Forty-Four Years' Record on Police Force Was Without Blemish

years ago, a tall, young Irishman tucked a camera under his arm and walked to police headquarters. He was proud that day. He had cast aside the garb of a patrolman on the metropolitan police force. That day he was one of the first detectives on Indianapolis’ new bureau, created with reorganisation of the police department. That young man—then 26—was destined to rise in fame and command a foremost place during fortyfour years es service. At the height of his career he was to die in a hospital. mourned not only by the city, but the state and men of his profession throughout the nation. He was Jerry Kinney, christened by his parents, Jeremiah E. Kinney. Before he started his walk that first morning in 1891, he had gone from his home on West St. Clair street to a little Catholic church, where he knelt in prayer. For years before he had visited that church each morning, and forever m this life afterward he had, i

UK DOCTOR, POLITICIAN TO GIRL MURDER Starr Faithfull, Beautiful and Rich, Slain by Pair, Officials Charge. FRIEND SUPPLIES CLEW Victim’s Partly Ciad Body Washed Up by Waves; Arrests Are Near. By United Press LONG BEACH, N. Y., June 10.— Two men, one important politically and the other prominent in medical circles, were under suspicion today in connection with the mysterious death of beautiful Starr Faithfull, 25-year-old stepdaughter of a wealthy New York chemical manufacturer. Developments in the investigation of the death of Miss Faithfull, whose partly-clad body was washed on the beach here and found early Monday, by a beachcomber, moved swiftly today, with the announcement by District Attorney Elvin N. Edw r ards of Nassau county that he knew the names of the two men and expected to take them into custody today. Promises Disclosure Immediately after making this announcement, Edwards boarded a train for Boston, where it was believed he sought one of the two men. The district attorney refused to reveal his purpose for going to Boston, other than to say that he would have a definite announcement to make later. Miss Faithfull, Edwards contended, was slain in New' York City, and her body placed in an automobile and taken to Long Beach. There, he charged, the two men placed it in a boat, went some distance out to sea, and then threw it overboard. Friend Is Questioned A close friend of Miss Faithfull revealed “very valuable information” here today concerning her mysterious death, District Attorney Edw'ards said, after he, Inspector Harold R. King and Boston police officials had questioned Francis P. Hamlin of Dedham, a clerk employed by the Cunard steamship line. Edw'ards appeared pleased after his interview with Hamlin, who, authorities said, had lunch with Miss Faithfull on the day jhe disappeared. . “He frankly told all he knew,” Edwards said. The district attorney said the information obtained from Miss Faithfull’s friend had every evidence of being an excellent “lead.” On Is New Yorker One of the men suspected by Edwards was said to be an important politician in New York City. He would not indicate whether the other man resided here or in Massachusetts. The men whose arrests are expected some time today, according to Edw'ards. were seen in the company of Miss Faithfull after she left her Greenwich Village home, three doors from the home of Mayor James J. Walker, Friday morning. It was believed that Miss Faithfull may have met the man whom Edwards is seeking, in Massachusetts during her school days. She attended. Brookline high school and later attended the Rogers Hall school of Lowell, Mass., where she was captain of the swimming team. She recently had returned from her eighth trip to Europe. Frank W. Wyman, well-to-do Bostonian and father of the slain woman, was in New York today to aid police. Wyman is a Harvard graduate and a director of the Maine Lakes Corporation and other concerns. Police learned that on May 29 Miss Faithfull had been put off the Franconia in micLgream. On that ( occasion it was explained she had gone aboard to see friends off. Police said that when she was taken off by a tug, she exclaimed, “Kill me. Throw me overboard.” Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 61 10 a. m 73 7a. m 62 11 a. m 75 Ba. m 65 12 (noon).. 77 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 79

This is the first of a series of stories on the life and police \ career of Jerry Kinney, Indianapolis police chief, who died Tuesday morning, after a long illness.

walked each day to that house of God to pray. B B B THE camera under his arm would not be recognized today. Its pictures, when finished, might turn either blue or have a touch of yellow about them.. But they were pictures, and they still are pictures. In the yellowed files of police headquarters, covers turned sunset yellow with forty years of filing and thumbing, are many of the pictures young Jerry Kinney took with that old-fashioned camera. But as he started on the road to fame that day, so did his camera. It was the predecessor of the Bertillon department of the Indianapolis police department That camera heralded the age when pictures and prints would prove one of the most feared weappons to criminals. But James tL Quigley, police chief i

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Hope for 18 Men in Sub Trap BY H. R. ELKINS United Pre Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, China, June 10.— Hope for the lives of some or all the eighteen men trapped in the sunken British submarine Poseidon off Wehaiwei was held cut in dispatches from there today. The messages were conflicting, however. One said that all the men had been saved. The other said the submarine tender Medway ’had located the suomarine in 120 feet of water, and that eight men w'ere known to be alive in it and could be saved. The desperate rescue efforts continued through Tuesday night. The Poseidon sank after colliding with the Chinese steamer Yuta. The Davis submarine escape device being used is similar to the “lung” equipment installed on all American submarines. Clamping the device on nose and mouth, a member of an imperiled submarine crew can leave the vessel and ascend through the w’ater to the surface.

RESTORE BEER, HOOVERURGED Sale Would Give Billion to U. S. Yearly, Dyer Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 10.—Restoration of the legal manufacture of beer would be a tremendous help toward restoring prosperity, President Hoover was told today by Representative Dyer (Rep., Mo.) Dyer said that the sale of beer would add $1,000,000,000 a year to the income of the United States. This figure, he told the President, was taken from informal estimates of the treasury department, compiled by its late actuary, Joseph S. McCoy. “I told the President,” Dyer told reporters at the White House, "that nothing would do more to relieve the unemployment situation and restore confidence throughout the country than to change the law so that a non-intoxicating beer would be manufactured and sold.” METEOR HITS EARTH Blast Shatters Windows, Frightens Sleepers. By United Press MALINTA, 0., June 10.—A meteor measuring more than ten feet in diameter struck the earth near here today with terrific force, shattering windows in nearby houses and frightening residents from their homes. Sleepers tumbled from their beds in alarm as. the meteor struck with a resounding roar. Buildings in the near vicinity were rocked and window panes were shattered. The detonation was heard for miles, leading frightened inhabitants to believe an explosion had occurred. The meteor buried itself twelve feet Into the ground, a few feet off Route 2, a quarter mile north of here. A few feet over and it would have crashed into the concrete pavement. POOR BOX AND PONY ARE PREY OF THIEVES All Saints Cathedral Looted; Whitham Stable Gives Up Shetland. Contents of a church poor box and a Shetland pony went the way of all stolen goods Tuesday night. Entering the rear door of the All Saints cathedral, thieves looted the poor box, amount of the contents of which was unknown. Miss H. Hooker, 1537 Central avenue, reported to police today. And from the barn in the rear of the residence of C. L. Whitham, 2005 East Riverside drive, horse thieves either rode or trucked away a Shetland pony. The thieves, not intending to buy any equipment, also stole the saddle and bridle.

in those days, was the first man to see the value of Kinney and his camera to the law enforcement agency of the city, “Asa young man, Kinney was a very bright and capable officer," Quigxtj says. “When the detective department was established in 1891, he was one of the first men chosen for that sendee. “He had a small, old-fashioned camera and he took most of those old pictures that still are at headquarters. He continued to do this work until 1899." • MB REALIZING the ultimate value of the pictures, Quigley brought about the establishment of the Bertillon department. He let Kinney stay with it a while, but decided his shrewdness should be diverted to the direction of men. Quigley named Kinney superintendent of detectives.

ITALIAN PEACE IN TEN DAYS IS FORECAST Conciliatory Reply Is Sent by Government to Pope Pius. REGRET IS EXPRESSED ‘Mild Blame’ Is Placed on Church for Political Activities. BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, June 10—Relations between the holy see and the government were believed better today than at any time in the last ten days, and settlement of their controversy within a week was predicted. An agreement in principle was understood to have been reached for settlement of the dispute, which threatened to grow into an open breach between the Roman Catholic church .and the Fascist state over alleged political activities of Catholic laymen’s organization and antichurch demonstrations by Fascist youths. Details remained to be worked out. The Italian reply to the Vatican’s notes, handed the papal authorities Tuesday, was understood to constitute an answer to the points raised by the notes, including a demand that the government "deplore” anti-religious- activities. Regret Is Expressed It was admitted that the reply might be construed to contain “mild blame” of the Vatican for not complying with the spirit of the concordat by permitting the Aziopp Cattolica, laymen’s organization, to engage in political activities. However, it was indicated the blame was made only in a "passing reference,” and was not regarded as seridus. In Vatican quarters, the United Press learned the Italian note admitted that mobs had committed excesses, and expressed regrets, saying the violence occurred before the police could act, but that order was restored as soon as possible and respect for the church enforced. The government agreed to demands for about $25,000 reparations to Catholic clubs damaged In Parma, Venice, Rome and Milan, but pointed out that no churches were molested. New Problem Enters The first two notes sent Italy by the Vatican were said to have been couched in language which was not exactly diplomatic and that the government retaliated by saying it would reply when courteous notes W'ere received. / The Vatican delivered its third note in diplomatic form and a prompt response was given. It was believed, therefore, that the agreement could be completed before the opening of the septicentennial celebration of St. Anthony, June 13. It was learned, however, that a problem wheih the Vatican considers even more important than the cause of the present difficultyclosure of the Catholic young men’s clubs—had been introduced into the situation. This, it was indicated, was the issue of alleged Protestants proselytizing in Italy, which often lias been condemned by Pope Pius XI in connection with the Lateran agreements protecting Catholicism in Italy. Two May Resign Monsignor Francesco BorgonginiDuca and Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi were reported today, without confirmation, to be planning to resign as papal nuncio to Italy and Italian ambassador to the Holy See, respectively, upon conclusion of negotiations between the Vatican and the government. Resignation of Monsignor Pizzardo as assistant-general of Azione Cattolica also was announced. Just previous to the announcement, it had been learned that Tuesday’s government reply to the Vatican notes had insisted upon removal of Pizzardo, on the ground that he was a subject of the Vatican state, but not of Italy.

All through the rest of his life, those characteristics which carried him to the near-top of the ladder after less than thirteen years on the police force, placed Kinney in high esteen throughout the country as a police officer and, above all, a man’s man. Honesty and efficiency stand out as his two most valued traits. He never was bribed and never could have been bribed. He never thought except in a clear, direct manner, and nothing could swerve him from his purpose when he once believed he was right. Men —Crooks and millionaires—conceded his honesty. There never were whispers. There wasn’t anything to whisper about. mam KINNEY was bom in 1865, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Kinney. They lived in a little house at 523 West St. Clair street, that today, its shutters closed, still stands, with its flowered yard and fences as the symbol of the love Kinney had for his family and his home. He lived in that house while he went to th old Fourth Ward school

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JERRY KINNEY'S BODY INSTATE Legion Members Guard of Honor; Rites Friday. Under watch of members of the Police post of the American Legion, the body of Jerry Kinney, Indianapolis police chief who died Tuesday, today lay in state at the home of a brother, James Kinney, 3664 Kenwood avenue. Members of the post will remain with the body until it is taken from the residence after brief services Friday morning to St. Bridget’s Catholic church, St. Clair and West streets, where the Rev. John E. McShane, pastor, will preach the funeral sermon at 9. Buriai. will be in Holy Cross cemetery. The funeral cortege will be escorted to the church by a squadron of motorcycle police. Following the services at the church, the funeral procession will move past police headquarters where members; of the department will stand at attention. Mr. Kinney aided in organization of the Legion’s police post. Criminal, municipal courts and the city hall will De closed Friday morning in honor of Mr. Kinney, officials announced. Acitve pallbearers will be: Detective Chief Fred Simon, Captain Herman Rademacher, Lieutenant Albert G. Perrott, Major Herbert Fletcher, Captain Louis Johnson ana Captain Jesse McMurtry.

DAUGHTER FIGHTS CHURCH BEQUESTS

A last testament by which Frank Lux, Indianapolis real estate dealer, willed more than $55,000 to the church to pay lor masses will be contested in a suit seeking the estate for his adopted daughter. The daughter, Mis Mary Catherine Lux, 18, was given the Lux family home, 535 West Forty-second street, and a $75 a month income by the will. Basil B. Covert, a friend of the girl, filed the suit in probate court Tuesday. It charges undue execution of the will dated Sept. 11, 1923. An impassioned desire to have his worldly goods stand as recompense for his happiness in the after life led Line to bequeath amounts totaling much more than his estate was worth, say attorneys. Even the church, it is said, is in quandary over the generous gifts left it. Gifts totaled more than $100,003, while the estate is Valued at approximately $70,000.

at Blackford and Michigan streets and there received his first training in the three R’s. Then he walked daily to St. John’s Boys’ Ichool at Maryland and Capitol avenue, but a stone’s throw from where this is written. Shortly after his high school days ended, Jerry was employed by the Indianapolis Water Company. Ip the ranks of that company he rose until, as he stepped into his twenties, he held the important job of inspector. Each day he patrolled the banks of the canal, a protector of the city’s water supply. On June 1, 1887, Kinney was appointed to the metropolitan police force, walking a beat in the southwest section of the city. After his appointment to the detective department, Kinney was married. This marriage turned to tragedy when his wife, Grace, died in 1900, after only seven short years of marriage Kinney returned home to live with his mother and brothers, William and James. He lived there because “it’s home to me.” (To Be~GobUiwod.j

Miss Florence Renn

The cravat of President Herbert Hoover has been insured against gravy spots when he attend • the dinner of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association on Monday night at the state fairground. For the honor of honors—the serving of the presidential drumstick—goes to Miss Florence Renn, 4189 Carrollton avenue, and she promises on a stack of Bibles she can juggle a tray. Miss Renn, a senior at Butler university and president of the Women’s League, is “just simply thrilled” with hey job of waitressing. "I’ve had good experience. During my freshman year I ‘did the heavy’ while a pledge to the Alpha Chi Omega sorority," she said. Don’t take Miss Renn’s chicken in the above photo too seriously. “Just a practice bird,” she explained. POSTMASTER SHOOTS, SELF AT RICHMOND Elmer E. Eggemeyer Near Death; Melancholy for Weeks. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., June 10.—Elmer E. Eggemeyer, 52, postmaster here for the last four years, shot himself through the temple this morning at the rear of the Eggemeyer grocery store. Eggemeyer was prominent in civic affairs and w-as widely known as a grocer for the last twenty-five years. He also w r as active in the local Elks lodge and had held high offices. Hosiptal attaches do not expect him to live. No motive was advanced, although he had been melancholy, due to ill health, for several weeks.

One paragraph in the will left a SIO,OOO trust fund to the church to be used for masses for Lux and his wife. Another SIO,OOO was lext Bishop Joseph Chartrand of the Indianapolis diocese under similar terms. Defendants in the suit are Catholic institutions, six brothers, a sister and a sister-in-law. Indianapolis organizations named in the will include the Catholic Orphans’ home, Sisters of the Poor, the Catholic high school for boys and St. Joan of Arc parish. Lux died June 6, 1930. He adopted his daughter, who has lived with him for several years, in 1929. Harvey Grabill is attorney for the plaintiff in the suit. LOUIE MNTQThhT PITS’ Speedway Victor Runs Afoul of New Parking Code. Winner of the Memorial day 500mile race at Indianapolis motor speedway, Louis Schneider lost to a city ordinance Tuesday night when he stacked his auto in a safety zone on Capitol avenue north of Washington street. It shared the fate of other cars and was towed into a garage. Louis paid a $2 fine and costs of towing. “Next time I’ll hitch it to a fire plug,” he said.

WARNS ON JOB CRISIS Government Intervention Threat, Says Labor Federation Head. By United Preen NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ June 10.—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, today warned industry that it must solve the unemployment problem nr expect governmental intervention, in addressing the unemployment and economic conference under the auspices of Rutgers university. Named Association Chief By Timen Special FRANKLIN. Ind., June 10.— Leßoy Bradnick, West Lafayette, has been elected president of the Masonic Home Alumni Association. He succeeds Edwin Hobson of Indianapolis. Mill Worker Loses Life WEST BADEN, Ind., June 10.— Thomas Marietta, 50, was killed while working at a saw mill near here Tuesday. His skull was crushed when he was caught by albeit on a saw. M

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1931 ACTS OF LEGISLATURE STAY ‘TIED UP’ Supreme Court Refuses to Dissolve Injunction of Circuit Tribunal. PUBLICATION IS DISTANT Battle Over House Bill 6 to Continue; Fraud • Is Charged. Indiana supreme court today denied a writ of prohibition, dissolving the injunction of Marion circuit court which prevents publication of the 1931 legislative acts. When the work of the lawmakers now will become statutes remains problematical. In the majority opinion of the court, written by Chief Justice Clarence R. Martin, it is suggested that the acts could be published without including House Bill 6, the cause of the controversy, which resulted in the injunction suit. Martin’s opinion cited the ancient maxim of law, “Deceit and fraud always should be remedied,” as the ; basis for refusing to grant the writ. Filed by Ogden Petition for the writ had been filed with the high court by Attor-ney-General James M. Ogden on behalf of Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. The latter is charged with printing and distribution of the acts and they are then declared in force by proclamation of the Governor. Judges Julius C. Travis and David A. Myers joined in Martin's conclusions, but Myers wrote a separate opinion in which Travis joined. All are Republicans. Judges Walter E. Treanor and Curtis W. Roll, Democratic members of the court, dissented and Treanor wrote a dissenting opinion, 1 in which Roll joined. The injunction suit is pending in | Marion circuit court, before Judge | Harry O. Chamberlin, who issued ! the temporary restraining order ; which the supreme court was asked I to dissolve. Holds Up Publication Attorney General Ogden expressed the opinion that it is likely that the acts can not be published until final disposition of the case is made in the lower court. Should either side appeal, it might mean that years would elapse before final decision is rendered. The lower court suit was brought Jby Indianapolis and Muncie city j attorneys, and attorneys for certain ! Muncie citizens, who charge fraud ; was practiced in the passage of ! House Bill 6. in that the bill as signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie, never had been approved in that form by the senate. Under provisions of the measure, thq public service commission has complete jurisdiction ’ over all bus and truck lines and 'home rule” is abolished. } Held Duty of Court In the dissenting opinion, the judges held that no court has jurisdiction in interfering with publication of the acts. Judges Travis and Myers set out that Marion court had the right to pass on its own powers in accepting jurisdiction in the injunction suit. Martin's stand is stated in his opinion as follows: “We may grant that the courts can not look behind the bill to the legislative proceedings, when the act is lawfully and duly attested; yet when the very fact of the attestation of the bill is alleged to be due to fraud and mistake of fjjct, or to have been recalled, we believe that the courts have the right and the duty to determine such questions.'* HURL BRICKS IN STRIKE Violence Breaks Ont in Pittsburgh; Group Dispersed. By United Frets PITTSBURGH, June 10.—Violence in the western Pennsylvania bituminous strike broke out in Pittsburgh today, when windows of a downtown labor commissary office were shattered by bricks, hurled, according to police, by strike svmpathizer6. A group of 300 which had gathered at the offices had been broken up by police a short time before the missiles were hurled. No arrests were made. No one was reported injured. HOOVER HONORS~~SENIOR Navy Official’s Daughter Wears Bouquet From President. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, June 10.—The proudest member of the graduating class at McGehees school here is Miss Cora Jahncke, who wore flowers from President Herbert Hoover on her graduation dress. She is the youngest daughter of Ernest Lee Jahncke. assistant secretary of the navy.

Out of Eden Eugene Woodson, 10, Negro, 1033 North Pershing avenue! still insists he took the biggest fall since real estate in Eden slumped after snakes Infested the garden. Gene was ensconsed in a cherry tree on his home lof late Tuesday. The bough broke, and Gene toppled into a neighbor’s lot, where a police dog ruled the terrain. Now Gene’s pants, and a portion of Gene are awaiting patches. The neighbor was ordered to tie up the dog for ten days' observation.

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