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JAPANESE AIR FLEET RAINS DEATHON FOE War Lord’s Capital Bombed in Manchuria; Many % Chinese Killed. BARRACKS ARE RUINED Handbills Warn Fleeing Populace That Tokio 'Will Take Action.’ By United Press MUKDEN, Manchuria, Oct. B. Japanese opened hostilities against Chinese in Manchuria when nine Japanese airplanes flew from Newchang and bombarded Chlnc how, Chinese provisional headquarters. Marshal Chan Hseuh-Liang, young war lord and Manchurian ruler, who was in Peiping when the Japanese occupied Mukden, established his headquarters at Chinchow, a railway center southwest of Mukden. Prior to the bombing, the airplanes dropped handbills warning civilians to repudiate Chang’s temporary government and declaring that the Japanese were preparing for positive action. It was reported here that Japanese troops and airplanes had been ordered to Changtu after reports of Chinese attacks on Koreans. A Manchurian communique said the Japanese airplanes systematically bombarded the temporary capital, killing many and wrecking barracks and government buildings. The airplanes returned to their base at Newchang and the Chinese exodus from the city continued. Japan Sends Warning Bit Until'd Press TOKIO, Oct. 8. —Japan issued a strongly worded warning to China today, threatening to hold China responsible for .any harm to Japanese life or property in China. The government issued the text of a protest to Nanking which charged that the Chinese government is using the boycott as an instrument of national policy. Naval authorities later announced that five Japanese warships will go to Shanghai, two to Hankow and one each to Chinkiang, Shasi, Ichang, Chunking, Port Arthur, Lunkow, Chefoo, Tsingtav, Nanking, Wuhu, Kukiang and Changsha. Small vessels will be sent to other points in China. Plot Is Charged Jlil United Press PEIPING, Oct. B.—The Chinese press charged today that an agreement had been concluded between Japan and the revolutionary Chinese government in Canton by which Japan is financing a Cantonese campaign against the Nanking government. Chinese officials sent by Manchuria to persuade Cantonese leaders to compromise their differences have returned, declaring the Japanese military party has agreed to assist the Cantonese campaign. Because of this agreement, they declare the chances of a peaceful settlement are small. The Chinese press reports that a large number of Japanese military and technical advisers already have arrived in Canton, and are taking the same part in the antiChiang movemqpt as Soviet advisers did in the first anti-north campaign started from Canton in 1926. AO CAMPAIGN IS VOTED Rational Restaurant Association to Spend SIOO,OOO Jan. 1. By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. B.—The National Restaurant Association will raise SIOO,OOO before Jan. 1 for use in a national newspaper and magazine advertising campaign, it w r as voted Wednesday night. The money will be raised among members on the basis of 1 per cent of gross sales. This plan is expected to net at least the SIOO,OOO needed before the campaign starts. 5-DAY WEEK ADOPTED pu Pont Salaried Employes Also Get Per Cent Cut. toy United Press WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 3. The Du Pqnt Company salaried employes will go on a five-day week beginning Nov. 1, with a 10 per cent cut in wages, it has been announced. About 8,680 employes, 1 including 1,900 in Wilmington, will be affected. While the readjustment applies to the parent company, directors of subsidiaries have been directed to consider the plan, either by omitting Saturday as a working day or dividing the work. LAUDS JOBS PROGRAM Hoover Aid Praises Highway Group for Efforts. Work of the highway commission In supplying maintenance jobs to unemployed men was praised as outstanding today by Rollin Haynes, traveling representative for President Hoover’s unemployment commission. Haynes conferred with Dr. John W. Hewitt, head of Governor Harry G. Leslie’s commission on unemployment, and then went before the highway commission to learn what had been done in Indiana to relieve suffering among men without

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By United Press /CHICAGO, Oct. B.—Mrs. Ida Truppo's first husband, Joseph McNeills, was what she calls a “golf bug.” She divorced him. Then she married James Truppo, ascertaining first that he didn’t play golf. Truppo, however, took up the game after they were married. “Next,” she told Judge Joseph. Sabbath, “James met and then the trouble started. James (husband No. 2) invited Joseph (husband No. 1) to play

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Mysteries MURDER! In ju~s than ten years, the crumpled bodies of twentyone Indianapolis men and women have been mute evidence of murders that never have been solved. Somewhere in the city, state or nation the murderers of those twenty-one people are free —cheating justice. They were murders that meant Page One for days. Some of them are forgotten, now. The Times will run a series of three stories on these mysterious crimes. Watch for the first one Friday.

MERCURY PLUNGES Further Slide Is Predicted by Weather Bureau. An electrical storm that turned into a cold downpour during the night, today forced the mercury to 57, and the weather bureau predicted it will fall to about 48 by Friday morning. The low temperature was a 12degree drop in the last twenty-four, hours. The thermometer lost 2 degrees between 6 and 9 this morning. During the second heavy storm on Wednesday night, lightning struck the residence of Frank L. Smith, 1134 North Dearborn street. The bolt tore loose a chandelier in the dining room and it fell on Smith’s son, Eugene, 19. , He was unconscious for several minutes and was given medical aid by firemen from Engine House 2. Damage to the house was estimated at S2OO. LINDYS ABOARD SHIP Sail for Port to Transfer to Ocean Vessel. By United Press SHANGHAI, Oct. B.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh sailed for Yokohama aboard the Shanghai Maru today en route to the United States. They will transfer to the President Jefferson sailing from Yokohama for Seattle Saturday. The Lindberghs cut short their vacation flight through the far east due to the death of Mrs. Lindbergh’s father, Senator Dwight W. Morrow. OGDEN’S OFFICE FEELS EFFECT OF DEPRESSION Gives 176 Opinions as Against 207 in Previous Year. Attorney-General James M. Ogden’s office also showed the results of the depression, it was indicated today in Ogden’s report for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. It was shown that in the last year, the office gave only 176 opinions to various departments as compared with 207 in previous year. Abstracts decreased from 138 the previous yoar to 99 last year. Requisitions issued dropped from 230 to 207; highway condemnation case from 450 to 430; and bank receiverships from 65 to 49. The only increase shown in the work of the office was 214 opinions on bills given to the Governor, as compared to 202 in the previous year. MUSIC SEASON TO OPEN Philharmonic - Symphony Society Program Slated Tonight. By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. B.—The Phil-harmonic-symphony society of New York will open its ninetieth season tonight at Carnegie hall under the baton of Erich Kleiber, Viennese conductor of the Berlin state opera. The season will last twenty-nine weeks. Arturo Toscanini will conduct for two periods of eight weeks each and Bruno Walter, German conductor, for seven weeks. The children’s and young people’s concerts again will be in charge of Ernest Schelling. Ends Life When Convicted By United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. B.—When a jury, which’ had been out three days, returned a verdict Wednesday night finding H. S. McCormick guilty of grand theft, McCormick immediately drew a gun and shot himself. He died later. McCormick was accused in connection with failure of a finance company of which ho was an official.

a game. They got along so well James then invited Joseph to come live with us. “That didn’t last long, however. I chased them both out. Still they w’ent right on playing golf. And James didn’t come home. And neither did Joseph. But It didn’t make any difference, because they didn’t either one pay any attention to me anyway. They just talked about golf.” Mrs. Truppo was granted $35 a week temporary alimony pending outcome of her second “golf widow” divorce suit.

Victim Believea Relative of Hoodlum, ‘lnventor’ of Doom Trip. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. B—A woman about 32, believed to be Frieda McErlane, related to Frank McErlane, inventor of the “one-way gang ride” and known as one of the toughest hoodlums in Chicago, was found shot to death today in a parked automobile. The machine, an expensive sedan, was licensed to Frieda McErlane, at an address which is that of McErlane a few blocks from the slaying scene. The woman died in a typical gangster murder setting and in a manner indicating that a savage vengeance was behind the pistol or machine gun that riddled her body with bullets. Her body was found in therear of the sedan. Dogs Also Killed The automobile was punctured with fifteen bullets. Two dogs, killed in the gun fire that killed the woman, lay at her feet. The woman’s body, stretched out in an attitude of attempted escape, was found by neighbors. It had not been identified two hours later. The number of bullets in the automobile indicated that either a submachine gun’s deadly fire had raked it or else more than one pistol had been fired. The bullets apparently were of one caliber—.3B or .45. Companion Is Missing In the absence of details and identification, detectives were thrown back upon conjecture. They believed that the woman’s presence in the rear seat indicated she had not been alone when the big automobile stopped in the quiet residential neighborhood. What became of her companion, if she had any, was a puzzle. Search was started for McErlane on the suspicion that he may have been the second person in the automobile, but he was missing. His home gave evidence, however, of a party. THREAT-HURLING TRIO IS HELD BY POLICE Young Men Charged With Menacing City Man at His Home. Police today held three young men alleged to have threatened John Hepner at his home at 431 North Pine street, Wednesday night. Hepner said two of the youths came into the house with a gun, and inquired for a Miss Baker. When told she was not there, one of the men threatened to “return with enough of our gang to search the house.” Police caught them in their auto a short distance later. Forest Johnson, 19, of 1102 Church street, was charged with drunken driving; Charles Coleman, no address. was charged with resisting an officer and profanity, and Harold Squires, 19, of 522(4 North Delaware street, with profanity. All also are charged with vagrancy. CITY SEEKING FIELDS FOR BOYS’ FOOTBALL Games on Playgrounds, Parks Have Caused Complaints. Youthful pigskin punters of Indianapolis, weary of being chased from makeshift gridirons, were cheered today with news that soon they may have several football fields of their own. A. C. Salee, park superintendent, today requested H. Walden Middlesworth, city recreation director, to seek sites where boys may play football In various parts of the city. Sallee has received complaints that the youths, having no designated place to play, have been using playgrounds, parks and other grounds where they have destroyed the grass and otherwise damaged property. WOMAN HELD AS DRUNK Girl, 20, Found Lying on Sidewalk, Struck on Chin. Found lying on a sidewalk on Oriental street, near Southeastern avenue, early today, unable to talk. Miss Martha Johnson, 20, of 117 South Oriental street, was taken to city hospital, where she is held on a charge of drunkenness. She had been struck on the chin. A letter in her pocket indicated she came here recently from Muncie. Deceived Wife Asks Divorce By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. B.—Mrs. Elsie G. Moore felt sorry for her husband, Glenn, when he told her last Christmas he had no money to buy her a present. Then, she says, she learned he was buying an automobile on payments for a nurse, and she does not feel sorry any more. Instead, she's suing for separate maintenance. %

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HOOVER PLAN UNDER WAY IN NEXU DAYS $500,000,000 Institution for Rediscount Organized With Rapidity. WILL FREE BILLIONS President’s Program Will Release Huge Sum in Frozen Assets. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—President Hoover was advised this morning that the $500,000,000 rediscount institution, principal feature of this new stabilization program, probably will be incorporated within fortyeight hours. George L. Harrison, governor of the New York federal reserve bank, telephoned this information to Mr. Hoover just before the President left the White House to address the Pan-American conference. This was believed to assure the immediate effectiveness of part of Mr. Hoover’s program, despite any possible congressional delay on other phases. Mr. Hoover expects his plans to release approximately $4,000,000,000 of frozen assets. Speed Up Organization Harrison told the President that work on the organization of the new bank was proceeding with great rapidity. Details regarding the institution will be laid immediately before every clearing house and banking group in the country. * Many assurances of support for the plan already have been received, it was announced officially at the White House, after Harrison’s talk with the President. The new institution will not be sectional, it was said, but rather would be entirely national in character. It will have a board of twelve directors, one from each federal reserve district. An outline of events preceding the congressional conference at the White House Tuesday night, when Mr. Hoover exposed his corrmlete program, showed today that he began developing the idea early in September. His general purpose was to obtain unity of action among banking, industrial and congressional groups. Plans Threefold Program Last Friday, Mr. Hoover determined upon the propositions which he placed this week before the congressional leaders. His program was threefold. It required the co-operation of government agencies, such as the federal reserve board, the farm board and the treasury; voluntary action by the banking community, which was to provide the $500,000,000 fund—and generally co-operative action among the banks; and, finally, positive assurance that a legislative program could be enacted. Details of the plan were so interlocked, in the President’s view, that co-operation of all three groups, governmental, banking, and congressional, was essential if the program was to be competent and assured. Another step in the campaign to loosen credits was taken by Mr. Hoover late Wednesday in a conference at the White House with ten leading bankers, insurance executives, and real estate men. A plan was formulated for a real estate finance program designed to remove some of the existing burdens from the man whose home is mortgaged. Mortgage Bank Propose I The conferees discussed a proposed central mortgage rediscount bank, under government supervision. Its purpose would be to finance banks and institutions holding frozen long-term mortgages. Not all the conferees reached accord on this proposal, but Mr. Hoover feels assured a definite program will be presented to him before his conference on home ownership and home building here Dec. 2. It was said authoritatively he is planning to present this program to the new congress for approval. Government officials expressed gratification today at the response of bankers to the plan. It was learned the treasury may recommend to congress a plan whereby Federal Reserve banks may aid defunct institutions by taking out sound assets and advancing cash which could be distributed to depositors. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 59 10 a. m 57 ' 7a. m 58 11 a. m 56 8 a. m 58 12 (noon).. 57 9a. m 57 Ip. m 57

Co-Eds Balk at Curfew, and Start Study Strike ’ By United Press EVANSTON, 111., Oct. B.—The freshman girls of Northwestern university, 129 of them, refused to study their lessons today in protest against rules forcing them to go to bed at 10:30 nightly. And they’re doing no more studying, said the residents of Francis Willard hall, until the rules are rescinded so that they may remain up until midnight. The girls said in a petition to the dean of women, Miss Florence Robnett, that they couldn’t study properly if they had to be in bed at 10:30 p. m., hence they weren’t going to study at all. Miss Robnett did not comment. She already had her hands full with the fight of upper class girls against no-smoking rules in their sorority houses. The co-eds appeared on the streets, puffing cigarets at every opportunity. Mrs. Edson Fowler, sorority house supervisor, who put on the ban to keep the furniture from being burned, said there would be no letdown m the rule.

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Five of the leaders called to President Hoover’s nonpartisan White House conference to stabilize business and to make arrangements for the release of bank deposits now considered “frozen” are shown here. At the left are Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas, top; Senator James E. Watson, Indiana, center; Representative John N. Garner, Texas, lower. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew, W. Mellon and Governor Eugene Meyer (below) of the federal reserve board are shown at the right.

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No Night Owls By United Press AUSTIN Tex., Oct. B.—To prevent a false impression, women of the Texas W. C. T. U. have changed the words of the collegiate song “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You From Night Till Early in the Morn—” to read “From Early Dawn to Night.”

INDICT CLUBWOMAN Theft Is Charged to State Political Leader. By United Press • EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. B.—Mrs. Estelle I. Joyce, prominent in state club and Democratic circles, was arrested at her home here today on an indictment charging embezzlement. The indictment was returned by the Vanderburg county grand jury. Mrs. Joyce long has served in the city court probation department. Each of the two counts in the indictment charged her with embezzling $6 “for her own use and for the use of Charles J. Eichel Jr.” Eichel is city court judge. Mrs. Joyce, who was released on SI,OOO bond, returned Wednesday from a women’s club convention at Shelbyville. The grand jury still was in session today. It was reported that indictments of several prominent officials were pending. DOOLITTLE SEEKS MARK Speed Flier Will Try Ottawa-Mexico City Dawn-to-Dusk Hop. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—James Doolittle, speed flier and holder of the transcontinental record, will attempt a dawn-to-dusk flight from Ottawa to Mexico City next Monday, he announced here. He will use the same plane in which he set the transcontinental mark. Doolittle plans to leave Ottawa at dawn Monday, fly to Washington, to Birmingham, Ala., to Corpus Christi, Tex., and to Mexico City. Fuel will be taken on at each of the stops. Doolittle said he hoped to reach Mexico City before 5 p. m. Exonerate Boy, Killer of Uncle By United Press JEFFERSON, 0., Oct. 8. —Charles Brain, 15, who admitted he killed his uncle, Michael Gura, 43, with a baseball bat, was exonerated of blame today by the Ashtabula county grand jury’. The boy, a junior in Pierpont high school, told authorities he hit his uncle to prevent an attack, on his aunt. Gura died Wednesday.

Cameron Cites Pair for Alleged Solicitation at *sja;jßnbpß9H Striking at professional bondsmen’s solicitation of police prisoners for bail business and retention of attorneys to defend them, Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today cited two bondsmen for indirect contempt of court. The action followed revelation of alleged solicitation of R. W. Web‘ster, son of C. A. Webster, former mayor of North Vernon, within a few feet of the entrance of police headquarters Wednesday. Webster faces a charge of drunkenness. The bondsmen are Ed Thomas and Henry Sleets, Negroes, who gained freedom, pending trial next Wednesday, after their attorneys : promiseed they would not solicit for bonds. Niblack Hurls Charges Preliminary hearing before Cameron today was marked with charges by John L. Niblack, attorney for Thomas, that open soliciting is practiced at police headquarters and the county jail. The bondsmen had been held in jail on failure to provide SI,OOO cash bond as ordered by Cameron. “My client should not be denied the right to walk the streets,” Niblack said. “Unless he is given his liberty I object to the continuance.” “But you have made a complaint previously about soliciting by bondsmen,” Cameron told Niblack. “Attorneys would withdraw from the case if they knew the facts. These men tried to get $l5O from this young man. I should think you would want to help clear up this situation. “Always Ready to Help” “I’m always ready to help, judge,” Niblack answered, “but ir,y client’s constitutional rights are being violated. I’ll get a writ of habeas corpus.” “Don’t talk and threaten—act!” Cameron told him. “The rich attorneys take the Governor on a yacht to solicit business and rich attorneys take bankers to the Columbia Club to solicit their business and I can’t see what’s wrong with a poor man soliciting in headquarters,” Niblack said. Niblack finally guaranteed Thomas would not solicit bond business pending trial. GANDHI, AIDS DISAGREE Fail to Effect Conciliation Despite Threat of All-Night Session. By United Press LONDON, Oct. 8. Mahatma Gandhi failed to effect conciliation among representatives of Indian minorities today, despite his threat of forcing an all-night session of the informal conciliation committee. Gandhi, chairman of the committee, reached St. James’ palace wearing an extra blanket, and informed the committee he would not allow them to leave until they had reached a settlement. A van load of sandwiches and coffee was brought for the delegates and they prepared for an allnight session. But the meeting broke up soon after midnight, without a decision. Bandits Raid Iridge Game By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. B—Thirteen was an unlucky number for Mrs. Henry | M. Jason, who was the thirteenth ; person at a bridge party to which S she invited twelve friends. Three uninvited bandits also attended and robbed the women of a total of $57.50. *2

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WITNESS DECLARES POISON SUSPECT DENIED HER GUILT BEFORE SHE WAS ACCUSED Continual Attack Directed at Horace Jackson, Brother-in-Law of Mrs. Simmons, by Her Attorneys. CALM BEFORE VOLLEY OF QUESTIONS Hancock County Farmer Refuses to Break, Despite Persistent Onslaught , of ‘Enemy/ BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT LEBANON, Ind., Oct. B.—Mrs. Carrie W. Simmons, accused of the poison deaths of her daughters, denied knowledge of capsules found in her sandwiches at the tragic Sim-mons-Pollard picnic here, June 21, before it was learned they contained strychnine, it was charged in testimony today by Miss Isa Pollard. Miss Pollard, a school teacher, was definite and concise in answers to queries propounded by state and defense and painted, for the fourth time this week the scene in Memorial park that preceded the poison deaths of Virginia and Alice Jean Simmons.

Miss Pollard told that, as soon as the capsule was found in the sandwich held by Mrs. W. H. Pollard, her mother, Mrs. Simmons said: “It couldn’t have been put in at our house, for there’s nothing like that around our house.” A murmur spread in the courtroom after her answer to the question, and again when the teacher was turned over to W. H. Parr Sr., defense attorney and member of the school board, for questioning. Stirs Courtroom “Uprising” The state, it is known, considers Miss Pollard’s testimony one of its highlights against the Hancock county farm mother. The disturbance in the courtroom reached such a height that Circuit Judge John W. Hornaday was forced to rap for order. Miss Pollard followed Horace Jackson to the stand after his hectic day of questioning Wednesday, when defense attorneys intimated he might have placed the poison in the sandwiches that resulted in the children’s deaths. The accusation hurled at Jackson made the courtroom the scene of a trial within a trial. Presence of a “mystery” woman who apparently was trying to see Jackson at close range, in a series of maneuvers as court adjourned, turned anew angle to the defense case today. Jackson Watched Closely She had the corridor outside the courtroom prior to close of court at noon and had talked with Charles Tindall, defense counsel* As the courtroom crowd dispersed, she stood at the door watching Jackson’s movements. Jackson was halted by the son of a defense attorney while the woman peered at him. Previously she was overheard telling Tindall that he won’t look me in the eye.” Questioned, Jackson said he never had seen her before, and his wife also denied knowing the woman. Others said they thought she was a relative. Defense attorneys were silent. Simmons in Good Humor Miss Pollard testified Jackson, while at the Pollard home before going to the picnic, had read part of a newspaper she obtained for him and that she had not seen him near Simmons’ car. Miss Pollard said while she “was looking after things” at the picnic ground, that the defendant’s husband was in high humor. “While we were making ice tea, John Simmons called, ‘lce tea, ice tea, 5 cents a drink’,” she testified. She said when she asked Mrs. Simmons for the marshmallow tin, in which the sandwiches had been brought, to use for making the tea, Mrs. Simmons told her: “There’s no use using that one. I have another here.” • The second tin, Miss Pollard said, had contained cake. Cansule in Center The teacher testified the capsule in Mrs. Pollard’s sandwich was “placed as near in the center of the sandwich as if it had been measured, and was imbedded in the meat.” Although she admitted she was “running around in circles” after finding of the capsule, and Mrs. Simmons’ denial that it came from her house, Miss Pollard said she took one of the poison containers to Dr. E. A. Rainey. “He told us it either was quinine or strychnine. We didn’t know that until then,” she said. “Someone said it was a joke. “When 1 went back to the picnic grounds, several women were working on Mrs. Simmons. Jean didn’t look sick. Simmons was sitting by a tree and Jackson was screaming. Sat Calmly in Car “At the hospital I thought Mrs. Simmons did try to aid. But when Virginia died, she sat calmly in the car. John Simmons screamed and Mrs. Charity Simmons (mother of the accused woman’s husband ) cried ‘Oh, my boy, my poor boy.’ “M|s. Carrie Simmons was very calm all the way through.” The state learned item

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Pollard that the sandwiches in the tin were “net mussed up.” This was brought out to shatter the defense theory that the poison was placed in them between the Simmons home and the picnic grounds by an unknown murderer. Throng to Court Room Lebanon, as court opened today and with the memory of a nearriot to gain the court room’s portals on Wednesday afternoon—a jam that broke a court door down and tore a dress off of one woman—flocked to hear the trial and also the “inner trial.” Jackson took all the charges the defense flung at hun Wednesday on the first bounce and, like a handball player, returned with laughs, “It’s a lie.” The witness who definitely can say that no one put the poison capsules in the Simmons auto while it was parked in front of the W. H. Pollard home is Mrs. Fannie Cook, 80, a neighbor of the Pollards. She has been ill at her home. A nurse has been attending her. Due to her illness, state’s attorneys fear they may have to adjourn court this afternoon and take her deposition at her bedside, instead of bringing her to the witness stand to tell her story. May 90 on Stand But if physicians will permit, Mrs. Cook will be brought to the stand to recite how she talked to Jackson the day of the reunion and how, as she sat on the front porch of her home, she could see at all times that no one approached the Simmons car and loaded the picnic food with death. Conduct of Mrs. Simmons at the picnic was stressed by Mrs. Patterson when she took the stand late Wednesday. She said, “Mrs. Simmons was sitting on a bench when I saw her. She seemed sick. She was white.” The defense did not cross-exam-ine Mrs. Patterson. Miriam Hickson, Purdue freshman, who preceded her on the stand, jolted first the defense and then the state with testimony against the two “defendants.” He testified of Mrs. Simmons’ behavior at the hospital after the death of her daughters thus: “She was calm as she paced the hallways. She asked me, ‘Were you one of the unlucky ones?’ and half laughed as she said it.” “Acts Like Strychnine” He testified Jackson, while lying on the ground suffering from the poison, said, “It acts like strychnine.” The state hopes to complete its case Friday afternoon, but qualifies the “hope,” dependent on the time required by the defense for crossexamining its witnesses. Court will be adjourned Friday afternoon until Monday. Rumors that the trial would see an abrupt end have been as frequent as anonymous letters and telephone calls to attorneys on both sides. CANNON SLAPS AT QUIZ Files Brief Charging No Evidence of Wrongdoing Found. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Bishop James Cannon Jr. today filed with the office of Assistant United States District Attorney Wilson a brief declaring that the investigation of his political activities had not unearthed a “single scintilla of evidence” of wrongdoing by him. He filed the brief just as the grand jury went into session to consider a presentment against him involving allegations that he had violated the corrupt practices act by his financing during the IS2B presidential campaign. NAB CHAPMAN’S PAL Gunman Seized for Deportation on Release From Pen. By United Frets ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. B.—Ludwig (' Dutch”) Schmidt, said to be a former Pal of Gerald Chapman, notorious New York gunman, was taken into custody by United States immigration authorities heretoday immediately after his release from the Atlanta federal penitentiary. The district director of immigration ordered Schmidt held at Fulton county jail pending deportation proceedings. >

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