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Remember way back when George Ade gave the stage as well as the book publishers, "Father and the Boys?” It is now made into a talking movie under the title of “Young As You Fcel.’ > Will Rogers is the man who feels as young as he acts. The Indianapolis Times in the Pink is now publishing the movie version of this Ade hit. 0 0 0 BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IS it not funny how a few lines of verse will catch your eye? I have before me "Kaleidoscope,” a national magazine of poetry. In it is a poem of Vera Flandorf, formerly of Indiana, but now of Chicago. At the age of 12 she had a poem in a text book. Even Indiana Poetry magazine has published her poems. In "Kaleidoscope” of the latest issue, she has a poem by the name of "A Song for a Meadow Walk.” In the first line she invites the great out of doors. No pavement. No heat. No waiting for cars or busses. Just that release. 000 COWARD-M’CANN is offering a prize of SSO to any bookseller who will give them a title for the novel by Wilfred Saint-Mande which they wall publish Nov. 11, Armistice day. The book will appear in England as “War, Wine and Women.” It has been tentatively announced in the publishers* catalog here as "Men at War,” but both titles have been used before. To avoid confusion they are seeking a new one. Os the fifty-nine suggestions submitted so far the publishers state they are not going to use "Broads, Bullets and Burgundy.” 000 "Sue Sew-and-Sew,” a sewing book for little girls, by Asta, Delhi and Flavia Gag (sisters of Wanda Gag, creator of “Millions of Cats.”) $1.50. 000 WHEN Pavement Lady” was suppressed in Canada and when some Boston booksellers became timid about displaying it, the publisher, The Macaulay Company, asked Marguerite Brener, the author, to prepare a frank statement of the purpose of her book. Her reply, an eloquent defense of her book against charges of immorality, says: "The urge to write ‘Pavement. Lady,’ was instilled within me by an earnest desire to warn youth of the folly of sin; to show by the example of the heroine’s life, the pitiful fallacy of the primrose path.” 000 AN authoritative work on the menace of illlicit drugs is “Dangerous Drugs,” by Arthur Woods (Yale University Press. s2l. Woods formerly was police commissioner in New York. His book should help arouse public opinion. 000 If you like brass-knuckle fighting. gun play and plenty of cloutings try "Galanty Gold,” by Victor MacClure (William Morrow & Son. $2.) It’s a flying tale of Spanish treasure. 000 Willard Weiner has produced in "Rafferty” (Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. $2) a work of assured power and notable characterization. It is a skillful analysis of the bottom-dog stratum in American life. 0 0 0 Some stimulating criticism of America’s economic structure comes from the pen of Stuart Chase in "The Nemesis of American Business” (The MacMillan Cos. $2). Chase talks figures and factories in a vivid manner. * , 000 George Bernard shaw, dragon of two continents, Shaw of the fierce whiskers and diabolical eyebrows, is unmasked as "a true knight without fear and* without reproach” by Sir William Rothenstein in “Men and Memories.” "A figure apart,” Rothenstein calls him, "brilliant, genial, wholesome, a great wit, a gallant friend." 0 0 0 The best of the new books on Russia is "Making Bolsheviks,” by 6amuel N. Harper (University of Chicago Press. s2l. Professor Harper whites suceintly and fairly. 000 "Her Body Speaks,” by Aaron Mare Stein (Covicl-Friede; $2.50). It's about what you’d expect from a book with this title; the study of the four-sided catastrophe that grows out of a woman’s attempt to ignore the demands of the hormones. If the title attracts you, hop to it. "Backfire," by Daniel Chase (Bobbs-Merrill: ($2). A young invalid, convalescing in a New England village, falls in with a gang of rum runners and is saved by the love of a good woman. Naive, but It moves fairly rapidly. .

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OIL FIELDS TO STAY CLOSED, SAYSMURRAY ‘Alfalfa Bill’ Asserts Price of Crude Must Rise to Dollar Mark. TROOPS GUARD WELLS Companies Keep Running on Reserves, Take No Legal Action. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 7. Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and the oil companies played a game of watchful waiting today in the Governor’s war to boost oil prices by shutting down all wells in the state under martial law. National guardsmen kept steadily at their job of closing the wells, in accordance with the Governor’s orders to stop production in all flush fields until the price of crude reaches $1 a barrel. Only about 10 per cent of the wells remained to be closed. The oil companies indicated they intended to take no action to reopen the wells until their reserve supplies ran out, at least. Several smaller refiners were closed, but the major companies kept going with reserves. Alfalfa Bill repeated his ultimatum that “the price of oil must reach $1 a barrel,” and made no further move. The price still was 50 cents, just what it was when he put the fields under martial law. Murray Is Confident The only activity was in east Texas, where producers started a movement to close their wells voluntarily. Murray was kept out of the limelight somewhat because of the death of his father Wednesday night, but expressed complete confidence that shutting down the wells would result in a hike in price. His voice rose in anger when he mentioned reported efforts of oil companies to put him under obligation by financing his political campaigns. “I wouldn’t want to be President and have my hands tied,” he shouted, in telling how oil interests had offered to finance a race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Governor Is Pleased The Governor expressed satisfaction at the outcome of the toll bridge “war,” in which he called out his troops to keep the free bridge open over the Red river at Durant. The federal judge who had granted an injunction against opening of the free bridge until claims of the toll bridge company against the state of Texas had been settled, Thursday dissolved his order. The action came after the Texas legislature gave permission for the state to be sued by the toll bridge concern. Plan Voluntary Closing By United Press TYLER, Tex., Aug. 7.—0il producers in east Texas, the field whose opening sent the price of crude oil tumbling from $2.50 to 22 cents a barrel, today conducted a campaign for voluntary closing of their wells until the price goes up again. A mass meeting was called for Aug. 14 at Tyler, when a general shutdown agreemeent will be sought. The movement was started Thursday night when thirty-seven of sixty producers, in a meeting here, voted voluntarily to close their wells. They also adopted a resolution denouncing east Texas operators who have offered oil to Oklahoma refiners, “thus nullifying the efforts of the Governor of that state.” Texas Is Blamed By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Complete responsibility for the chaotic conditions in the oil industry is laid on Texas by Acting Secretary of Interior J. M. Dixon. Failure of Texas authorities to control the big new pool in that state “has dragged the whole industry down, ruining thousands of independent producers, driving them bankrupt into the hands of the great companies, creating great unemployment and hardships,” Dixon asserted, in an official statement. He said "there would be no situation in Oklahoma If Texas would cooperate with other states” to limit production. , Bishop Recovers From Operation By United Press WORCESTER. Mass., Aug. 7. The Rt. Rev. Henry H. Hobson of Cincinnati, bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of southern Ohio, was recovering at Memorial hosiptal today from an appendicitis operation.

MRS. HOOVER WILL DEDICATE DIRIGIBLE

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—President Hoover is planning to set out for Camp Rapidan late today when Mrs. Hoover leaves for Akron, 0., to launch the new navy dirigible Akron. The first lady will be accompanied by the presidential naval aid, Captain Russell Train, and Mrs. Train; F. K. Butler, Hersey and probably Admiral and Mrs. Moffett. She will release a covey of pigeons, officially launching the largest airship in the world Saturday. The official guests for the weekend include only close friends and several newspaper men, who prob-

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U. S. BRANDED BOOTLEGGER BY REED

Butler Fraternity Heads

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Top—Right, Lewis Rufli; oval, Jack Ranney; left, Ralph McElroy. Middle Row, Left to Right—Clarence Frazier, William Haslet and Thomas Butz. Bottom Row’, Left to Right—Malcolm Snoddy, Ward Ehrhart and Frank Jones.

Fraternity heads at Butler university have been selected by elections recently held on the Fairview campus. Those who will assume their duties as presidents of Butler’s nine fraternities in September are Ralph McElroy, Phi Delta Theta; Frank Jones, Sigma Chi; Malcolm Snoddy, Delta Tau Delta; Lewis Rufli, Tau Kappa Tau; Thomas Butz, Lambda Chi Alpha; Jack Ranney, Delta

OILING COMPLETED ON SEVERAL ROADS

COUNTIES’ REUNION SET Southern Indiana Residents to Hold Outing Aug. 16. Reunion of the Southeastern Indiana Association, comprising Jackson, Jennings, Scott, Washington, Jefferson, and Clark counties, will be held at 2 Sunday, Aug. 16, in Brookside park. J. Claud Thompson is president of the association.

DEATH CLAIMS R. B. GRIFFITH City Man Masonic Member More Than 60 Years. Richard B. Griffith, 86, 2009 Ruckle street, died Thursday in the Methodist hospital. He had been ill four weeks. Mr. Griffith was born in Cincinnati. He spent his early life in Connersville. He was superintendent of the old Hoosier flour mills, now Acme-Evans Company, and later was superintendent of Atlas flour mills in Vincennes. He retired about ten years ago. For more than sixty years he was a Mason, and was a memebr of Mystic Tie lodge, F. and A. M., for forty-five years. He was for thirty years a member of Roberts Park Methodist church. Funeral services will be held at Flaimer & Buchnan mortuary at 3:30 Saturday. Burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery. Surviving him are the widow, Lilly Lane Griffith, and two sons, Richard M. L., Griffith of Indianapolis, and Kenneth E. Griffith of Chicago. 4,000 IDLE GIVEN JOBS Opening of Carnegie Steel Furnace to Recall Workers Monday, By United Press PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7.—The blast furnace of the Edgar Thomson plant of the Carnegie Steel Company, Braddock, Pa., was to be fired this afternoon preliminary to reopening of the plant next Monday and recall of almost 4,000 men, idle since last July 24.

ably will participate in celebration of Mr. Hoover’s fifty-seventh birthday anniversary at camp Monday. The list includes Henry M. Robinson, Los Angeles; Edward T. and Mrs. Clark; Senator Hebert (Rep., R. I. and Mrs. Hebert; Mark Sullivan, newspaper man; Charles S. Groves, Washington correspondent of the Boston Globe, and Mrs. Groves; Paul Wooten, Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Picuyane, and Mrs. Wooten. Mrs. Hoover has baked a cake for the birthday party. She is arranging to go to camp Sunday on her return to Washington, if the President remains there. If he comes back to Washington the party will be held here.

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Alpha Pi; Ward Ehrhart, Sigma Nu; 'W illiam Haslet, Chi Rho ,Zeta, and Clarence Frazier, Kappa Delta Rho. Those listed above will comprise the fraternity presidents’ council, founded last spring to supplant the inter-fraternity council. This new organization, which will govern all inter-mural affairs, is an innovation among Greek letter fraternities.

Highway Commission Reports Seven Now in Good Condition. The state highway commission’s weekly traffic bulletin issued today from the office of Director John J. Brown shows a large amount of maintenance work concluded last week. Two new roads recently taken into the state system are being oiled to make them dustless and provide all-winter service. They are state Road 5 from Huntington to South Whitley and Road 13 from its junction with Road 30 to North Manchester. The following roads recently oiled are in perfect condition : Road 3 between Greensburg and Rushville; Road 9, from Lagrange south 9 miles; Road 50, between Mitchell and Shoals; Road 52, from Metamora west; Road 60, from Mitchell east 3 miles; Road 67, from Worthington to Spencer, and Road 150, from Shoals to beginning of pavement. Paving of Road 24 between Wolcott and Monticello is proceeding rapidly and traffic started using somq of it, although the berms are unfinished. The detour around this project is shortened about four miles. Likewise paving of a small gap on Road 67 near Mounds'State park is finished and the detour removed, the bulletin says. At the commissioners order maintenance started this week on Road 35 between Bargersville and Nashville via Morgantown, Bean Blossom and Helmsburg. Avoid between Morgantown and Bean Blossom in wet weather.

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BY BEN STERN CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—lt’s a very peculiar thing about mid-west-ern states that politics always is a stable topic of conversation. No matter how distant is- the election, someone is sure to be discussing possibilities. Just as Indiana a year ahead of time is talking about probable candidates for state office, so is Illinois venturing guesses as to who will be the parties’ nominees for Governor in the April, 1932. primary. Illinois has retained that form of popular selection of nominees, while Hoosierdom has stepped backward to the convention. Unlike Indiana, where it is possible that it may be necessary for the G. O. P. to draft candidates, Illinois Republicanism has a plethora. The list is, of course, headed by Governor L. L. Emmerson, who, if he sees his chances dim for the capturing of the Republican nomination for Vice-President as the choice of the drys, will step out as a candidate for re-election as Governor. An interesting fight looms if Oscar E. Carlstrom, attorney-general, enters the lists against Emmerson, as the former withdrew from the governorship race in to seek again

illegal; is BRAND PUT ON CLEANING JOB State Auditor Ready to Repudiate Stand on $64,000 Contract. ASKS OPINION BY OGDEN Expenditure Out of Leslie Fund Is Attacked in Letter. Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, announced today that he is now ready to repudiate the $64,000 statshouse cleaning contract bearing his name as he believes that it is “absolutely illegal.” To reinforce this opinion he sent a letter to Attorney-General James M. Ogden asking for an official opinion on the following points: 1. Can a contract entered into and signed by the members of the state building and grounds committee for cleaning the state Capitol building, amounting to approximately $64,000, be binding upon the state if there is no specific appropriation available for payment of the same at the time the contract is made? Refuses Workers Pay 2. Such contracts being made is it legal and binding upon those who have their signatures affixed to the same? 3. Can the Governor pay from his emergency contingent fund for the work mentioned above under the conditions set out in the above question No. 1? 4. Would the auditor of state be be liable on his official bond if he drew warrants in payment of vouchers drawn on the Governor’s emergency contingent fund for the purpose above? The Williamson request asks Ogden for an. immediate ruling on these matters. Williamson said today that since he Tlas refused to make any payments under the contract the work has progressed without the workers getting their full wages, if they are being paid at all. Leslie Ready to Pay The Cincinnati Building Cleaning Company has not been able to meet the wage payments without the state funds, it 4 was said. Governor Harry G. Leslie, it was learned, is ready to pay everything from his emergency fund if he can get the checks through the auditor’s office. His position was outlined at a noonday conference Thursday to which his Democratic confidant, Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, but not Williamson, was invited. After the Governor and Mayr spent some time together, they called William Cosgrove, chief deputy from Williamson’s office and also Earl Stroup, deputy attorney general. Advised of Illegality Williamson and Ogden both remained unconsulted in the matter. The state auditor declared that he was advised by his private attorney, Albert Stump, that the contract is illegal and that he sent citations gathered by Stump with his request for an opinion from the attorney general. He refused, however,' to agree with Fred Barrett, attorney who brought an injunction suit on the contract, that the money might not legally be paid by the Governor and the whole matter laid at his (the Governor’s) door. Barrett talked to Williamson regarding his position early today. GIRL ROUTS BANDIT PAIR Appearance With Revolver Causes Two Negroes to Flee. By Times Special GARY, Ind., Aug. 6—Sixteen-year-old Mary Hatala routed two Negro bandits who attempted to rob her father in a grocery he operates below’ the family living quarters. Another daughter, Margaret, 21, and the father, were covered by revolvers of the men, Hatala shouted to Mary, who was upstairs, to bring a gun. When she appeared with the weapon, the Negroes fled.

his former post as attorney-general, and threw his strength to Emmerson. 000 Reports then were current that Emmerson was seeking but one term. Now it is taken for granted that he again will seek the post. Despite this, statehouse attaches are busy launching booms for Emmerson for Vice-President. And from all indications (Jim Watson take note) Emmerson feels that he is the very man to be the running mate for Herbert Hoover. Remnants of the old and discredited Small machine are seeking to again place him in the running; while the Deenen group is talking of James A. Kearns, Chicago city treasurer, and of Walter M. Provine of Taylorville. However the best bet of the Deneen followers would be George E. Q. Johnson, United States district attorney at Chicago 000 William H. Malone of Chicago, ex-chairman of the state tax commission, is also a candidate for Governor in the Republican primaries. Emmerson, of course, sits in the kingpin position. Let Carlstrom, Malone, Small, and a Deneen entry file and the Governor is sure to have so divided a field that he will win in the primaries.

Scorching Denunciation Hurled at Federal Prohibition Rule, in Magazine Article by Missouri Firebrand. F CHOES of the Indianapolis police scandal case, in which a number policemen were indicted in federal court on evidence of dry agents who operated a “speakeasy trap,” were heard today in charges of former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri that the federal government itself is a "bootlegger.” Reed, in the September issue of the International-Cosmopolitan magazine, cites several cases in which he "indicts” the government with setting up speakeasies to trap violators, with subsidizing grape growers and grape concentrate manufacturers, and with instructing federal dry agents to co-operate with state officials in making raids on warrants illegal under federal law.

The article is entitled “Your Gov- 1 ernment Itself Is a Bootlegger.” “I indict the federal government,” Reed says, "for setting up and operating speakeasies with Negro spies, under the direction of drunken prohibition agents, to bribe and entrap policemen, sheriffs, and state officers, for the purpose of ‘jamming’ them to prison. Indianapolis Case Cited Citing the Indianapolis case, which resulted in acquittal of most of the accused policemen, and reversal on appeal of the conviction of five others, Reed states: "By September, 1930, we find a Negro speakeasy, also operated by criminals, in full swing at Indianapolis, and again set up by prohibition agents to trap policemen. "On the floor of the House, Jan, 6, 1931, Representative Charles Linthicum, of Maryland, described this government speakeasy: "Prohibition operators, it cooperation with the district attorney of Indianapolis (George R. Jeffrey) deliberately set about to build up a sensational police scandal by the establishment of a speakeasy in that city .... two prohibition agents, sent to Indianapolis from Chicago, opened a liquor-dispensing establishment at 1213 East Twentysecond street. Negro Informer in Charge "Government funds were used to finance this illegal venture . . . Harold Lyle, a Negro informer, was in charge . . . and the two federal agents supplied the liquor through Taylor, a notorious bootlegger who vanished before the trial. Another informer, one Henderson, was at the time a fugitive from justice.” “The establishment of this speakeasy was admitted by Prohibition Director Woodcock in a letter to Congressman Linthicum. The methods employed were so outrageous that they were sharply denounced by Judge Robert C. Baltzell, noted for his severity in dealing out punishment in liquor cases. "Notwithstanding the crooked methods employed, several * policemen were convicted upon the evidence and sentenced to the penitentiary.” Bitter in Denunciation The five policemen convicted, who were freed by the United States circuit court of appeals with the statement: "The methods used shocked the court’s sense of justice,” since have petitioned the Indianapolis safety board for reinstatement on the police force. Reed cites a similar case in Norfolk, Va., in which dry agents “violated every law or decency and morals, as well as the statutory law,” in setting up a Negro speakeasy in a remodeled stable, which resulted in wholesale dismissal of police officers of the city.” “Yet, it is plain from the letters that the federal government,” he writes, "hands slimy with bribery, its soiled linen permeated with the’ aroma of its own speakeasies and stills, and breath reeking of its own poisonous hooch, was in no condition to reel into a court of law, companioned by its Negro spies and criminal informers, and there hiccough out a public accusation.” FARM, STOCK EXHIBIT HELD BY WARREN HIGH Township Bureau Picnic Is Staged in School House. Exhibit of farm products and judging of livestock was held today at the Warren township farm bureau picnic in the Warren township high school grove. Judging was followed at noon by a basket dinner, after which food demonstrations, games and a band concert were to be held. Members of the 4-H Club participated in the program, sponsored by the high school vocational department, the Parent-Teacher Association and the county extension office. • CLUBHOUSE IS LEASED Dine-Dance Resort to Be Opened at Coffin Course. Lease of the Coffin golf course clubhouse to Miss O. M. Young for operation of a dinner and dance establishment has been announced by the park board. Miss Young expects to open the clubhouse Aug. 15 under the name, “Co-Go Inn,” the name being based on the name. of the course. The cubhouse is to be redecorated and private dining rooms for groups arranged.

TIMES CARRIERS TO BE LYRIC’S GUESTS

SEVERAL hundred Times boy and girl carriers will be the guests of the Lyric theater management Saturday morning at 11, when they will see the first regular performance of “Dirigible,” Columbia’s new dramatic titan of the air service, which opens at the Lyric on that day. The carriers are to assemble at the Times office 10 a. m. and march to the Lyric in a body. A motorcycle escort is to accompanay them on their parade through city streets. Captain Lewis Johnson of the Indianapolis police traffic department will have charge of this detail. The picture “Dirigible” comes to the Lyric direct from its sensational Broadway run. The Indianapolis engagement will mark its first presentation In the middle west at popular pric^.

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Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, who poured vials of his wrath on United States prohibition enforcement, in magazine article today.

ROYAL ROMANCE RUMORBLASTED Earl’s Daughter Will Not Wed Prince of Wales. BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 7.—Royal matchmakers who would see the prince of Wales wed, were stumped again today, it appeared. The Daily Mail said the engagement of Lady May Cambridge, whose name often has been linked with that of the heir to the British throne, to Captain Henry Abel Smith, is to be announced formally soon. Lady May’s engagement to marry Captain Smith could be "neither confirmed nor denied.” Coincidentally, it was announced that Lady May and her parents plan to leave for Holland tonight. Lady May, a niece of Queen Mary’s, is the daughter of the Earl of Athlone. Captain Smith was aid-de-camp to the earl when he was Governor-General of South Africa. The prince of Wales and Lady May long had been coupled in rumors of romance in British society. On various occasions, their close friendship had seemed to lend credence to the otherwise unfounded report. EDISON IS HOPEFUL Predicts He Will Live at Least Ten More Years. By United Press WEST ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 7. Thomas A. Edisofc predicted today that if he lived until February, when he will be 85 years old, he would live at least for another ten years. He collapsed last Saturday. The aged inventor is in the best of spirits and his condition now is better than at any time since he returned from Florida two months ago, according to his personal physician, Dr. Hubert S. Howe. LOVE TRAP IS CHARGED Attorney, 73, Sues for Divorce, Alleging Bride Told False Story. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—ln a divorce petition filed in circuit court, Parke E. Simmons, 73-year-old wealthy retired attorney, charged today that Mrs. Mary De Diemar Wright Simmons, 54, of New Haven, Conn., trapped him into marriage with a story of expectant. motherhood, which he said later was proved false. They were married Jan. 12, but, the complaint said, did not live together.

The story concerns the love-life of two buddies who seek fame and fortune in the air. Jack Holt, portrays the commander of the giant navy dirigible, “Los Angeles,” while Ralph Graves, his huddy, seeks to outdo him in a plane. Fay Wray has the role of the wife of Graves, who wants love rather than fame, and almost wrecks her marital happiness when Graves goes on an expedition to the south pole in a plane. Holt, however, rescues some of the men who made the attempt with his dirigible and saves the day for the pretty wife. It is said that the complete facilities of the United States navy department at Lakehurt, N. J., were utilized in filming this production. *

UTILITIES HEAD BUYS INTEREST IN NEWSPAPER Kansas City Post Stock Is Sold to Henry Doherty in Gas Rate War. PRICE IS NOT DISCLOSED Cities Service Chief to Be ‘Contributing Editor;’ Attacks Star. NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Purchase of one-half interest In the Kansas City (Mo.) Journal-Post was announced by Henry L. Doherty today. A statement he gave out said this was "to meet the Kansas City Star on an equal footing in the campaign against him and the interests of Cities Service.” The statement added that announcement of the Doherty purchase would be made in the afternoon editions of the Journal-Post today'. Entrance of Henry P. Efoherty, head of the billion-ciollar Cities Service Corporation, into the Kansas and Missouri newspaper field heightens the battle between his companies and the Kansas City Star, which has been opposing the utility bitterly; Filed Libel Saits Doherty, after winning court actions ifo which the state of Kansas sought to bar his securities from the Kansas market, recently filed libel suits against the Kansas City Star, demanding $12,000,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. These suits are yet to be tried. The Star, one of the most influential newspapers in the middle west, has sought to force the Cities Service subsidiary operating in Kansas to lower rates for natural gas, on the plea that opening of new fields made costs of production lower. Doherty’s announcement today emphasized that he has not purchased control of the Journal-Post. Under his contract, he may vote 10 per cent of the 50 per cent of stock he has purchased, which leaves the actual control of the newspaper in the hands of W. Laurence Dickey and Marion B. Sharp, who have managed the property since the death of the late Walter S. Dickey. “Contributing Editor” Doherty will be a “special contributing editor,” with the right to have published whatever matter he thinks proper under his signature, and with the right to buy advertising space at any time he sees fit, for the publication of any further statements he may see fit to print in addition to his “editorials.” Under this arrangement, Doherty “will take full responsibility both for his editorials and paid statements,” with the stipulation that his articles shall not be edited oi\ censored. It also is stipulated that neither of the other managers shall be bound by any statement made by Doherty in the Journal-Post, and that they reserve the right to use editorial columns next to Doherty’s, if they see fit, to express contrary opinions. Doherty’s announcement today was couched in the usual vigorous language with which he phrases his attacks. Charges Sale Illegal Charging that the sale of the Kansas City Star to its present ownership was "illegal,” Doherty cited its present activities as “lawless and reckless,” and declared that “although he does not desire to injure their property, he feels it a public duty and a necessity in his own defense to expose their methods.” In a letter to the trustees of the Kansas City Star, Doherty offered to withdraw from the fight "and make any reasonable concession” if the trustees will endeavor to remove the men now holding control of the paper. He further offers to place 40 per cent of his stock in the paper in escrow “with a group of men enjoying general public confidence, if this is desired by the public.” Amount Not Disclosed Financial consideration involved in the contract was not disclosed here. “The motive of Henry L. Doherty in acquiring an interest in the Journal-Post will be understood by everyone, and there is no need to discuss that,” George B. Longan, president of the Kansas City Star Company, said. “We still are interested in the price of natural gas in Kansas,” Longan added, “the one thing which Doherty has not yet discussed.” BODMIN BEACH MAY BE THAT OF MISSING JUDGE Examine Marks on Mutilated Form Cast Up by Sea on Long Island, By United Pees* WANTAGH, L. 1., Aug. 7.—Nassau county authorities are investigating possibility a mutilated body washed up on Jones Beach here last night may be that of the missing Judge Joseph Force Crater of New York. Judge Crater has been missing a year and two days, with no apparent reason for his disappearance so far advanced. One mark on the body on Jones Beach may lead to identification, Harold King, county detective said. Judge Crater, it was said, had a tattoo mark on one arm, ar.d a finger on another was marked as result of an accident. The body found Included only the torso and one leg; the head, arms and one leg were missing. Marks on the body indicated it may have been held under water by weights. On one leg was a garter and a fragment of a sock. Goshen Taxes Lower GOSHEN, Ind., Aug. 7.—The city tax rate here next year has been tentatively set at 89 cents, which is 16 cents less than the 1931 rate. Final action will b taken Aug. 31,