Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1931 — Page 1

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ARREST NEAR IN PROBE OF POISON DEATHS Finding of Strychnine in Well Adds to Mystery at Greenfield. CHECK FAMILY HEIRS Authorities Sift Insurance and Financial Standing of Simmons. BY ARCH STEINEL Time* Staff Correspondent GREENFIELD, Ind., June 23. Arrest of the killer who poisoned the picnic food of the family of John W. Simmons, resulting in the death of his two daughters Sunday. is expected within the next forty-eight hours, it was learned today. The Investigation was halted temporarily and authorities said they would not question members of the family until after the funeral of the girls, Virginia and Alice Jean Simmons. Wednesday morning. The girls ate food which was poisoned with strychnine at a family reunion at Lebanon Sunday. They died shortly afterward in a Lebanon hospital. Check on Heirs Relatives who might have become heirs of the sizeable estate of Mr. and Mrs. Simmons in event of obliteration of the immediate family were being tabulated by Hancock county authorities today, in their quest for clews to the strychnine murders. The three other poison victims were recovering today. The new turn of the investigation hinged upon developments today, including the statement of Sam Gappen, drug store clerk, that his recent sale of sixty grains of strychnine was not to John Simmons. Gappen said he knew the purchaser, and to the best of his recollection the man was John Richey, a farmer, who said he wanted It to kill crows. Sheriff Frank Stottlemyer of Hancock county, leading the investigation, said authorities were convinced that the poison found in sandwiches after the two deaths, was not placed there either in the Simmons home or at the place where the auto was parked en route to Lebanon. Sheriff Stottlemyer discounted, the idea that any member of the immediate family was responsible for the deaths. He said that he had learned, however, that the Simmons family is considered wealthy, ■which led to consideration of other near relatives.

Store Check Fruitless A thorough inquiry into drug store sales in the immediate vicinity had divulged no information of other recent strychnine sales in any quantity, leading to the belief that the poison was obtained from a distant locality. Lebanon officials aiding in the inquiry returned home today as a lull developed, pending funerals Wednesday for Virginia and Alice Jean Simmons, the '•poison death victims. They were to return Wednesday. Authorities abandoned temporarily the theory that recent increases in insurance policies of Dale and George Simmons, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Simmons, could .ave had any bearing on the case, because of the reputed wealth of the parents. They were informed that the SB,OOO mortgage on the Sir ions farm was small, when considered in relation to their property holdings. Another weak point, in this theory, as they viewed it, was the fact that Simmons was one of the three persons who became seriously ill from the poisoned sandwiches. Theories that a "poison maniac" may have been abroad vyere given credence, as Thomas Martin, a tarmer living near the Hancock county line in Shelby county, became ill from water which he drank from his farm well. Poison in Well An analysis of the water showed it contained strychnine sufficient to kill three persons. The Martin farm is approximately seventeen miles from the Simmons homestead. Officials point out possibility of the murderer of the two girls placing the strychnine in the Martin well as a "blind" to cast suspicion on a maniac slayer. The strychnine was found in the well prior to the picnic tragedy. While plans are laid for the funerals of the Simmons children on Wednesday, near Willow Branch, the sheriffs of Hancock and Boone counties are piercing the private life of the Simmons family for possible clews to the slayings that neared wholesale proportions. Simmons admitted to Sheriff Stottlemyer that he had increased the life insurance policies on his two sons. Dale and George, from $1,500 to $2,500. The parents were beneficiaries under the policies. To Get Protection '1 did it to get more protection." he explained. Ignorance in the use of the poison leads authorities to a possible theory that a young person might have loaded the sandwiches with death. For it is pointed out that it would have been much easier to have used the poison without capsules and less chance of immediate discovery. Capsules that rolled out of sandwiches at the picnic resulted in the immediate discovery that they had been poisoned. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons are in technical custody, pending 'he funeral.

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Left to Right—Mary Louise Aaronson, 9. and Nell, 8, her sister. Inset— Walter Ballard of the Transcontinental and Western Airways’ plane which brought the two girls through Indianapolis.

BRAND HOOSIER AS CAPONE AID La Porte Society Is Amazed by Federal Charge. By United Press ■ LA PORTE,’ Ind.. ... La Porte county's exclusive social set at the Long Beach summer colony, near Michigan City, were amazed today to learn that one of their members was.rated as third in command in Scarface A1 Capone’s Chicago liquor gang. The revelation came when federal income tax investigators charged that George A. Howlett, known here as a Chicago business man, is the same George A. Howlett listed in Chicago as one of the sixty-eight “public enemies.” Agents made known Howlett’s story when they began checking on property owned by the Chicago man in an attempt to prove that he owes the government $52,846.44 in unpaid income taxes. Howlett denied the assertion that he is behind in his payments, it was said, and pointed out that the home he is living in here and other property thought to belong to him here is held in his mother and father’s name. Chicago records show Howlett as second only to Scarface A1 and Johnny Patton, in the Capone gang, and he is said to have charge of all the gang's beer and liquor output. BROKER ADRIFT 3 DAYS Baltimore Man Rescued From Motor Boat in Chesapeake Bay. By United Press BALTIMORE, June 23. Weakened by privations during the three days he was “lost” on Chesapeake bay, Henry Can-oil, Baltimore broker who disappeared Friday, was recovering at his home here today. Carroll was found yesterday In the motor boat in which he* left Baltimore Friday. The boat was sighted in the mouth of the Chester river, near Queenstown. Md„ by S. Charles Walls, a police magistrate. Carroll was taken ashore, first to Pioneer Point Farms, the John J. Raskob estate, and then to the Walls home at Centerville. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 70 10 a. m 68 7a. m 72 11 a. m 71 8 a. m 67 12 (noon).. 75 9a. m 67 Ip. m 75

AMERICA HAS DISGRACED CUBA—BUT, AH, THAT WRIGGLY RUMBA DANCE!

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent pHICAGO. June 23.—The rumba as. ah. danced in America is such an insult to Cuba that Senor Gaston Fernandez, Cuban consul, is v hinking seriously about taking steps. And Consul Fernandez doesn't mean rumba steps, either. "If American dancers want to do this disgraceful wriggling," said the consul tonight, "far be

Mary and Nell Like Air Route, and They're ‘Not a Bit Afraid.’ \ The old one-horse shay, or jerky locomotive, used to take the “younguns” of the past to “Aunty’s house,” but today it's the queens of the air that do the job. For Monday, Mary Louise Aafonspn, 9, and her sister Nell, 8, traveling alone, passed through Indianapolis en route to Roanoke, Va., to visit their “Aunty Louise”—Mrs. B. M. Williams. They arrived at the Municipal airport in a Transcontinental & Western Airways plane. “We rode trains and planes from San Francisco. It’s lots of fun,” the two girls exclaimed. “But we slept most of the way from Kansas City to here,” interrupted Mary Louise. “And we haven’t been sick once,” interjected Nell. “Yes, its lots of fun for you can read and read and read,” asserted the literary-inclined Mary Louise. “Mama met us in Kansas City. She sells face cream,” vouched Mary Louise, “and she’s coming to Aunty’s later on. We’re going to make our home there for our papa's dead.” Walter Ballard, pilot cf the T. and W. A. plane, with the aid of passengers are caring for the air orphans on their trip eastward. Terre Haute Boy Drowns By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 23. Raymond Bingham, 14. is the second drowning victim of the" summer here.

M’NAMARA, OF BLAST FAME, IS HELD HERE IN RUM RAID

Echos of the Los Angeles Times dynamiting in which twenty-one persons lost their lives and the vandalism and sabotage here six years ago, were heard at the federal building today when John J. McNamara, key figure in both instances, was bound over to the federal grand jury under $5,000 bond for liquor law violations. Not being able to produce the bond. McNamara was confined in the Marion county jail on a mittimus issued by Fae Patrick, United States commissioner. McNamara was arrested today by federal dry agents as the result of a raid on his farm, R. R. 1, Fonville, where a 100-gallon corn whisky still. 500 gallons of mash and 325 gallons of made liquor were

it for me to stop them, but I really do wish they wouldn't call it the Cuban rumba." All this rumba hip wriggling isn't doing Americans any good, Consul Fernandez continued. “It's much too provocative a dance." said he. "Why, in Cuba in 1912 the rumba was prohibited for five years because it brought on so many fights among the lower classes. Now just look at the way they dance it in America."

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CHIEF OF POOR FARM CHARGED WITH CRUELTY Inmate Declares He Was Clubbed and Driven Out by Carter. PROBED BY GRAND JURY Deplorable Conditions Are Alleged in Statements of Witnesses. BY SHELDON KEY Mistreatment of inmates and winking at lamentable conditions at the Marion county poor farm were among charges hurled at John Carter, farm superintendent, today by witnesses before the county grand jury. The grand jury started an investigation of poor farm conditions today, on receipt of a charge that Carter had struck and discharged George C. Handlon, 50, an inmate suffering from a severe case of tuberculosis, last Friday. Handlon, a witness before the grand jury, told The Times today that he had been turned into the street penniless after Carter had hit him in the back with a hoe. Beating Is Charged “I had picked and eaten three or lour cherries when Carter caught me and hit me with a hoe, declaring- he ‘would beat my brains out.” Handlon declared. Other inmates. J. A. Estle and Dan Wilcurt, witnesses to the assault on Handlon, confirmed this story to The Times. They also went before the grand jury. Carter admitted that “he had told Handlon to leave, because the inmate was dangerous and had attacked the superintendent and night watchman with a knife." Wandering through the streets Friday night in search of lodging, Handlon said he found the Wheeler Rescue Mission. A friend afterward sent him to the Palace hotel. New Jersey and Washington streets, where he remained today. Bad Conditions Charged Handlon's story was broken frequently by a cough from which he stated he had been suffering for seven years. Four doctors’ certificates, vouched that Handlon's statement regarding his physical, condition is correct. Estle said he saw Carter approach with a 'hce and single-tree, demanding that several other inmates “scatter and keep out of the way.” Evidence of crowded and unsat:sfactory living conditions at the farm, exposed by The Times several months ago, was in hands of the witnesses. Inmates charged that “several of their number had died during the winter months for lack of nourishment.” Expose Is Ignored Appeals by The Times for vacation of crowded men’s quarters at the farm, branded a “fire trap” by the state fire marshal, were ignored by county commissioners and county councilmen. The investigation .last summer revealed 370 aged inmates were confined there, many of them sleeping in hallways on strawbeds. Charges that plenty of food supplies were sent to the farm, but “never reach us,” were made byseveral inmates. One witness who hobbled his way into the jury room on crutches told a reporter “I have been at the farm only a short time, but the food is cooked in such careless manner that we hardly can eat it.”

confiscated. He was the only person found on the place. Charles Britt, deputy prohibition administrator for the southern district of Indiana, declared that the McNamara, arrested in connection with the still is the same man who, with his brother, James McNamara, still in prison, were convicted in connection with the Los Angeles Times dynamiting. At that time John J. McNamara was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment in San Quentin peni- ; tentiary and was released after serving nine years and five months. He returned to his home here to become secretary-business agent of ! the Indianapolis local of the struc- ' tural and ornamental iron workers \ of Indianapolis and, it is charged.

Your correspondent looked and blushed. Senor Fernandez had hired a room in the Sherman hotel, had trundled in a piano and had brought Senorita Edwina Marchand and Senor Nico Quiriqui to demonstrate to the United Press the menace of the rumba. a a e OENORITA MARCHAND wore among a very few other things a large yellow silk handkerchief. Senor Quiriqui had on pants, a white silk shirt and a red ribbon. The piano player made the instrument go boom-boom-boom-i>a-cha-cha. The rumba started with much moving of hips on the part of the senor and the senorita, considerable finger snapping and assorted back-bone bending. “And this,” said the darkskinnod senorita, lurching to the north, "is called snake hips.' ”

Good World Sun Shines Once Again for Jobless Father, Who Couldn’t Rob.

By Times Special CLEVELAND, June 23. —Cleveland’s force of hard-boiled coppers stalked out on thejr beats today —job hunting. There was the law to uphold, but, too, there was a boy sitting on a cot at police headquarters, his head buried in his arms. Some of those hard-boiled cops have sons almost as old as the boy they are trying to help—some of them have daughters almost as old as the girl-wife of the boy—and still others have baby daughters no larger than the little 2-year-old daughter of the boy and the girl, i Sometimes they tell you it’s a hard-hearted world. But there’s a little glow in the eyes of each of those cops. It’s really a swell world. a an WILBUR GYGLE is just 21. He, his girl wife and their 2-year-old baby girl live at Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland. Each morning Wilbur would kiss his wife and baby good-by and, gritting his teeth, would start his march to Cleveland on sore, blistered. aching feet—always in search of a job. Jobs aren't plentiful these days, but Wilbur kept on trying. Bravely, he clenched his teeth a bit tighter when his blistered feet pained more and more. What’s a little pain when there’s a wife and a baby at home? e a a FOOD became scarcer. Wilbur was going hungry, sacrificing all he could of the little they had to his wife and baby. Hope was w-an-ing. Monday night he walked into a shoe store. He pushed his hand into his coat pocket, grasped a pencil in it and pointed it at the clerk, Sam Burman. Pale and desperate, Wilbur ordered Burman into a back room. Wilbur followed him. Then he sat down and started sobbing. Burman stood stunned and amazed. “Wait a minute, mister.," said Wilbur, “I can’t go through with this.” Burman came over and put his arm around Wilbur. Together they sat and Wilbur sobbed his tale of pain, of hunger, of his wife, and of his baby. Xt tt tt BURMAN patted the youth on the back. “Go on home,” he said. “Forget you’ve ever been in here." Burman told a passing policeman the story. They found Wilbur sitting on the curb, his head in his hands. He was taken to police headquarters, where Cleveland’s hard-boiled bluecoats tried to make him forget his troubles. He had two pennies on him, a bunch of keys and three cigarets. “I can’t go home,” he said brokenly. “I’ve disgraced my wife and my baby. Do w-hat you want w-ith me.” So Cleveland’s hard-boiled coppers are job hunting today—for a boy like some of them have at home. 11 ARE KILLED IN BLAST Royal Naval Cordite Factory Is Shattered by Terrific Explosion. By United Press POOLE, England. June 23.—The Royal Nava] Cordite factory at | Holton Heath, six miles from Poole, was shattered by a terrific explosion today.' Eleven men w-ere killed and nineteen injured. The explosion, which occurred in the nitroglycerin department, was heard for twenty miles. Its force knocked a man from a chair two miles from the factory.

engineered the black-jacking and sabotage Vj'hich featured a building war here. ’ The grand Jury here Oct. 9, 1924, indicted him on four counts charging blackmail and alleging that McNamara by threats and intimidations attempted to obtain “certain pecuniary advantages" in the employment of union iron workers on different jobs. McNamara was tried, found guilty and sentenced to from one to five years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary by Special Judge Fred Gause. According to William P. Remy, who then was prosecutor, McNamara took an appeal to the supreme court and did not serve his sentence.

‘Goodness,’’ said the consul. "Tsk, tsk. tsk,” agreed your correspondent. "This," continued Senorita Marchand, holding tightly to her handkerchief, and bouncing toward the south, "this is what we call the ‘shooting star.’ ’’ "Mercy,” said th* consul. Your correspondent was speechless. So were two Sherman hotel waiters who chose that moment, of all moments, to arrive with ice water. "So you see," said Consul Fernandez, drying his brow, “that it is an unfair and hideous distortion of the rumba as danced by better class Cubans.” a a it IF the rumba had not received such general notoriety, I would have remained silent. But since it

CONGRESS IS CANVASSED BY HOOVER FOR STAND ON DEBT HOLIDAY PLAN

Entire Membership Asked to Give Opinions on Moratorium. WILL ADD CONFIDENCE Europe Expected to Have More Faith in Program, as Result. The ABC of the debt plan Is explained on Pase 1. Section 2. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 23.—President Hoover is canvassing the entire membership of the new congress to ascertain the sentiment toward his war debt and reparation proposal. The White House confirmed reports today that such canvas was being made. The checkup is being made by both telephone and telegraph. When it is completed, Mr. Hoover will have an unofficial vote of congress on his proposal. The results of such canvass, it is expected by the administration, would increase the confidence of European nations in the proposal which Mr. Hoover was obliged to make contingent upon approval by congress. He is opposed to a special session of congress, fearing that other propositions would be introduced, causing a disturbing effect on the country. The special canvass would serve in lieu of a special session. Can Wait Until December Under Mr. Hoover's proposal for a one-year hpliday in all reparation and war debt payments, it is possible to vcait until congress convenes Dec. 7 before legislative action necessary to operation of the plan is taken. Next debt payments to the United States are due Dec. 15. Only an act of congress could authorize suspension of these payments. Congress, if it acts speedily, could enact such a measure in the ilrst week of its session. There Ls possibility that a fight over the speakership in the house and opposition of some individual senators might delay final action a few days, but this probably would not be regarded as serious, even should it occur. President Hoover’s action, so far as cculd be recalled here offhand, is unique in national affairs. It corresponds closely to the action of a corporation executive, who, when obliged to work fast, takes an informal poll of his directors or stockholders and then obtain official ratification of his plan at the next annual meeting. Radio to Explain Plan The cabinet, with several members absent, met today in its first session since Mr. Hcover proclaimed his reparations plan. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson excused himself to prepare a radio address regarding the proposal, which it was suddenly decided to make over both radio networks tonight at 9 o’clock Indianapolis time.

No Loss to Taxpayer BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 23.—The American taxpayer . stands to lose nothing in the long run under the Hoover moratorium plan, according to officials here, who hold that the temporary loss to the treasury wculd be offset by the general good effects in reviving business. "If it turns the tide, this will be a darned good investment for the United States treasury," was the way Acting Secretary Ogden L. Mills put it, adding that the upswing of the stock market gave every indication that it would turn the tide. Acting Chairman Carl Williams of the federal farm board likewise characterized the Hoover proposal as "bullish news of the best kind" for American agriculture. Monday’s advances in wheat and cotton were said by Williams to be an indication of what might be expected if the debt negotiations prove successful. The treasury would lose $246,000.000 by stopping of foreign debt payments in the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. Os this total, only 5184.000.000 representing interest, could be applied to operating expenses, the rest, $62,000,000 of prin-

has, since these wrigglings are being displayed in theaters, night clubs and even in ballrooms, I have decided to give you American citizens an opportunity to witness the dance which is expressive of the Spirit of the Republic of Cuba.” So Consul Fernandez has invited 150 society people, he said, to assemble cn June 30 for a peek at the danzon, Cuban dance, which doesn’t insult any one.” And if the rumba is danced at

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What’s a Moratorium? \ MORATORIUM is merely a period during which debtors have a legal right to delay meeting payments otherwise due. President Hoover’s proposed international moratorium on governmental debts, therefore, does not mean the lass of a single dollar, either to the allies or to the United States. At the end of the year things would pick up right where they left off. It would be just like a year had dropped out of the calendar, so far as the debtors were concerned. For the creditors it would be slightly different. During 1932 the United States should collect $246,566,806 from foreign governments on war debts. v Os this, $62,344,618 is for principal and automatically would go to retire our public debt. The rest, about $184,000,000 in interest, if not paid, means that much less coming into the treasury and will have to be met either out of the nation’s ordinary receipts or by borrowing. At 3 per cent—the rate now paid by Uncle Sam—slß4,ooo,ooo for one year would cost $5,520.000. N

FRENCH APPROVAL DEEMED SURE FOR HOOVER PROPOSAL

B\ RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, June 23.—Acceptance by France of President Hoover’s war debts proposals, with reservations, was considered assured today. The cabinet met to frame the governments’ reply to the Hoover plan, possibly submitting a counter-pro-posal, while accepting, in the main, the American scheme to effect a year’s moratorium. A reply by Friday was expected. The major res-' ation which the French can be expected to insist upon may be a demand that Germany continue to pay at least a portion of the “unconditional reparations payments” under the Young plan. Tlie payments could be made to the Bank of International Settlements at. Basle, where they would be held as an intangible asset, constituting a guarantee fund. Premier Pierre Laval was bothered particularly by parliament’s open hostility and the threat to overthrow the cabinet if it seeks to reply to the Hoover project without consulting parliament. cipal, being applied to the public debt under the law. This temporary addition to the deficit would be offset in time, it was held, by increased revenues which would follow recvovery of business. The treasury deficit at the end oi this fiscal year, June 30. is expected to be around $850,000,000. Secretary of Treasury Mellon has forecast a deficit for the next fiscal year, but has not estimated the amount. It is bound to be large. The administration is opposed to any tax increase at the next session cf congress, planning instead to submit a program of general revision after the national elections in 1932. The loss of $184,000,000 in revenue will not change the situation. The treasury has applied foreign debt interest payments to operating expenses during the last year for the first time. Tire law permits this, but requires that principal payments be applied to the public debt. A total of $184,474,622 in interest has thus been used for operating expenses during the current fiscal year. The public debt, reduced nearly ten billions during Mellon’s regime, is beginning to edge slightly upward again. It was $26,596,000,000 at the close of the war. Now it stands at about $16,185,000,00, after going temporarily to a slightly lower figure. THEATER IS ROBBED Thieves Get S2OO at Zaring, but Miss SSOO. Safe crackers early today looted a safe in the Zaring theater, stealing approximately S2OO. They battered off the combination of another that contained SSOO, but failed to reach the strongbox. A. C. Zaring, owner of the theater at Twenty-eighth street and Central avenue, said the stolen money was general funds of the theater, while the other safe contained Monday's receipts of the theater and the Zaring Sweet Shop in the same building. Burglars gained entrance by prying open a window and fled through a rear door.

all at the consul’s exhibition, it will be danced without the “shooting star.” without the “snake hips” and with plenty of clothes on the backs of the rumbans. There’ll be no bongo drum going boom-boom-boom and no scraping maraca going ha-cha-cha. That the consul promised. ft will be a display of graceful Cuban dance steps,” he said. “And I hope it helps to counteract this rumba craze which is an insult to Cuba and which is bad, very bad, for the people who, er, dance it.”

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BY HERBERT MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 23.—A universal | revival of confidence in commercial quarters was apparent today as one result of President Hoover's j war debts holiday plan. In London, the government and leaders of British political parties announced their hearty approval of the Hoover plan. Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald announced in the house of commons that the Labor government cordially welcomed the declaration of Mr. Hoover and" was prepared to work out details to make the proposal effective without delay. He said: “The government cordially welcomes the practical declarations made by President Hoover. For their party, they desire to state they subscribe whole-heartedly to the principle of the President's proposal and are prepared to co-operate In elaboration of details with a view to giving them a practical effect without delay.’’ Stanley Baldwin, Conservativa party leader, said: ‘“On behalf of the opposition, I desire to associate myself with the words of the prime minister.” David Lloyd George, Liberal party leader, made a similar announcement. on behalf of the Liberals. No Immediate Relief BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, June 23.—Little hope was held out today by Chancellor Heinrich Breuning that the war debts and reparations holiday proposed by President Hoover‘would mean Immediate relief to German taxpayers or unemployed. The chancellor, while asserting that Germany was grateful for Hoover s action in taking leadership looking toward a reparations respitp, said the effect could not be expected to reduce taxation at once. The German taxpayer now turns over about 15 per cent of his income to the government, it was estimated. and even with a reparations holiday, the national budget will require a similar amount of revenues for some time to come, to stabilize the country’s economic situation, he intimated. Bruening, referring to Germany's intention to seek a lasting downward revision of the Young plan pat ments, said that he hoped “now that a close link between international political payments and the world economic depression had been established, the world has been convinced that thus problem should be pursued to its final solution.’’ Tr.e chancellor, in an interview with American correspondents, discussed the French attitude briefly. “I hope that FVance will appreciate the great opportunity which Mr. Hoover’s action presents, especially with p. view to cementing peace between Germany and France,'• he said. Approved.by Italy BY STEWART BROWN United Press Staff Corresoondent ROME. June 23.—Italy Is favorable to the war debts holiday proposed by President Hoover, with the reservations that Germany abandon the customs union with Austria, an official spokesman said. Spokesman told the United Press that the government holds German's economic position now is relieved, hence there no longer is any reason for the proposed AustroGerman customs union. President Hoover’s war debts moratorium for a year was praised by Amaldo Mussolini, brother of the premier, in an apparently inspired editorial in the newspaper Popolo D’ltalia. KILLER TO DIE IN CHAIR Mexican to Be Executed at Michigan City at Midnight. By Unit'd Prett MICHIGAN CITY, June 23. —. Electrocution of Ignacio Sarragoza, 26, has been set for 12:01 a. m. Wednesday in the Indiana state prison here, it was announced today by Warden Daly. Sarragoza, a Mexican, was convicted on a charge of slaying Charles Glafcke, a Michigan City policeman. Several pleas for clemency for the man, filed by the Mexican government, were denied by Governor Harry q. Leslie, t