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NEW AUTOPSY CHARGE HITS VEHLING AID Parents Forced to Wait for Hours as Post-Mortem Is Performed Secretly. OBJECTION IS IGNORED Doctor Says Poisoning Was ‘Suspected/ but Records Fail to Back Him. BY DICK MILLER While a mother and a father waited three hours at city hospital for the body of their baby son, a secret autopsy was being performed by a deputy coroner, it was revealed today. This incident, which, it is alleged, occurred in August, was added to the long line of charges against Coroner Fred W. Vehling which are being probed by the grand jury. Vehling is charged with illegal activities since he took office less than a year ago. The autopsy oi Frank Glover, 14-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Glover, 428 South Alabama street, was performed without permission of the child’s parents by Dr. Clarence Harris, a Negro deputy coroner, it is charged. The parents and George H. Hermann, south side undertaker, said they were not aware the pcst-m.r-tem was performed in the institution until they were given the child’s body later.

Wait Three Hours The baby was admitted to the hospital Aug. 16 and died two days later of a stomach ailment and bronchial pneumonia. The parents and Hermann arrived at the hospital shortly after 8 at night and said it was after 11 when the body finally was released. Hermann said when they arrived at the institution Dr. L. A. Stamper, hospital physician, requested the privilege of performing an autopsy, which was refused by Mr. and Mrs. Glover. Stamper then informed the parents and Hermann they would have to "wait a while.” After forty-five minutes in the institution, Hermann appealed to hospital authorities, pleading for release of the baby’s body so the parents would not be subject to the strain and worry. He said he offered to take the parents home, but they also refused to leave the hospital and kept the three-hour vigil. Poisoning Was Suspected Hospital records do not show who performed the autopsy and Stamper, questioned by Dr. Charles Myers, hospital superintendent, Wednesday said he believed the post-mortem was proper, because “it was suspected” the child had been poisoned. No mention of poison is carried on records in the case and Stamper could name no one else who had advanced the poison theory. He said his suspicions were aroused by the parents’ opposition to the postmortem. Report of the autopsy was taken from the hospital by Harris, Stamper said. Harris, according to the hospital physician, was the only deputy coroner in the city when the baby died. No claim for the $25 fee in the Glover case can be found in county records. Additional witnesses were heard by the grand jury today in the alleged "friendship” case in which Vehling is charged with not arresting the operator of an automobile involved in an accident on the Rockville road recently, which resulted in the death of a young woman. * o Refused to Make Arrest The car, improperly parked, was owned by Samuel Lugar. R. R. 3, Box 915, but authorities never learned whether Lugar or another individual was at the wheel of the car. Before deputy sheriffs or Vehling arrived at the s-cene the two men in the car left, according to authorities. Several hours later, when Lugar appeared at the sheriff's office to claim his car, officers said they were restrained from arresting him on a manslaughter chaige because Vehling had issued orders that he be released. Rudolph Behler. Beech Grove, brother-in-law of the young woman killed, charged that when Vehling was asked why Lugar was not held, the coroner replied: "He wasn’t arrested because his father is a friend of mine.”

TAX INCREASE WOULD MAKE 25 JOBS HERE Larger Staff Would be Necessary, Internal Revenue Head Says Adoption by congress of the President’s suggestion for increased taxation would necessitate enlargement of the force in the internal revenue offices here about twenty-five persons, or approximately 30 per cent. That was the estimate today of E. E. Neal, internal revenue collector for the Indiana district, based on the similarity of the President’s suggested taxation laws to tax laws in effect in 1924-26. At that time there were about fifty more persons employed in he internal revenue department offices than at the present. However, Neal does not believe that such a large force would be necessary again. Now there are seventy-seven employes under him.

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Still a Hero By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 10.— Scene: Gillette state hospital for crippled children. Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, appears in the doorway and is greeted with shouts of recognition from scores of beds. ‘Hey, Jack, do you have to eat spinach?” piped one little fellow. “Sure, you betcha, and look at that muscle,” and Dempsey flexed it.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GIVEN JANEADDAMS Nicholas Murray Butler to Share Award With Hull House Leader. By United I’m* NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The famous daughter of a Quaker miller, and an infant prodigy who became the storm center of political, educational and pacifist movements in America, shared the world’s highest honor today for their contribution to world peace. Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago, received word that the Nobel peace prize for 1931 had been divided between herself and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university, while she lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. She will devote her share of the award, amounting t 6 about $23,000, to the activities of the Women’s International League for Peace, of which she has ben president for years. The 71-year-old social worker was admitted to Johns Hopkins hospital Wednesday, probably to undergo an operation. Pleased With Award Miss Addams was pleased, she said, with the award, and said her work with the peace league probably was responsible for the high distinction given her by the Nobel committee of the Norwegian parliament. President Butler, in New York, regarded the award as a “most distinguished honor, as great as It is unexpected.” “My gratification,” he said, "can be explained best, perhaps, by my high regard for other* who have received the honor in the past, including many of my friends, as Eliu Root, Theodore Roosevelt. Frank B. Kellogg, Aristide Briand, Austen Chamberlain and others.” The financial proceeds of the award are derived from a trust fund of $9,000,000 left by the inventor of dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel. Prizes equivalent to that awarded for peace efforts are given annually to leaders in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and literature. Famed World Over Jane Addams’ life work in the slums has brought sociologists, statesmen, philosophers, and philanthropists from all over the world to her Hull House workshop. Nicholas Murray Butler’s peace efforts and educational and political theories have brought the world’s politicians, rulers, educators, and reformers to his Morningside Heights residence, or have admitted him to their most important conferences. FREE THIRD SUSPECT Police Without Clews in Bertram Car Death. With release of a third suspect, police were without clews today in the investigation of the death of Mrs. Nettie Bertram, 60, sorority house maid. Unless new clews are forthcoming, identity of the hit-and-run killer who struck the woman, then tossed her body into a thicket seven days ago, may remain unknown. Detective Chief Fred Simon said today detectives have no information on which to work. Mrs. Bertram disappeared as she walked in an alley near her home, 2101 North New Jersey street, eight days ago. Her body, presumably disposed of by the hit-run murderer, was found near Thirty-fifth street and Wallace avenue the following day. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 40 10 a. m 43 7a. m 40 11 a. m 44 Ba. m 41 12 (noon).. 45 9 a. m 42 1 p. m 46

HUNDRED MARK PASSED IN TIMES CLOTHE-A-CHILD FOR CHRISTMAS DRIVE

ONE HUNDRED! Clothing for one hundred boys and girls, from families seared by poverty and unemployment’s iron, had been pledged today by donors to the Clothe-a-Child for Christmas plan of The Indianapolis Times. One hundred boys and girls are assured shoes that don’t sop up snow and rain, caps with wooly warmth, gloves that keep hands from freezing, coats that bar out gooseflesh. And on and on goes the campaign, for the one hundredth pledge no sooner was on the Clothe-a-Child rolls than other calls for information regarding the Clothe-a-Child plan kept the telephone tinkling. t And not until late Christmas Eve will the movement to clothe every indigent school child close its )sx>ks lor 1931.

PEACE PLAN IS ACCEPTED BY JAPAN, CHINA League of Nations’ Formula to End Fighting Adopted Unanimously. ONE RESERVATION MADE Nippon Agrees to Withdraw Troops; Retains Right to Crush ‘Bandits/ By United Press PARIS, Dec. 10.—The League of Nations formula for halting the conflict in Manchuria was adopted unanimously by the council in its final plenary session today, both China and Japan voting for the resolution. A few moments after the adoption, however, a semi-official telegram was handed to the secretariat, reporting that the Japanese were advancing on Chinchow. The resolution provides that the Japanese withdraw their troops within the treaty zone, as speedily as possible, that both sides agree to refrain from starting further fighting, and that a neutral commission of five be appointed to investigate the situation. Ends Weeks of Work The league, after weary weeks of effort to find a formula that both sides would accept, in the face of their conflicting demands, finally achieved a compromise which, it is hoped, will halt further conflict and enable peaceful negotiations to be started for settlement of the dispute. Japan’s demands that the Chinese withdraw south of the great wall into China proper, that Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang be definitely discarded as ruler of Manchuria, that p, “neutral” zone be created and that Japanese forces be permitted to go outside the treaty zone if necessary, to suppress “bandits,” were not touched on in the resolution. ‘To Protect Lines’ Japan presented a verbal reservation on the “bandit” problem. In accepting the draft resolution, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Japanese delegate, said: “Regarding Paragraph 2 of the draft resolution (regarding further fighting) I am happy to accept it on behalf of Japan, on the understanding that the paragraph is not intended to preclude Japanese forces from taking such action as may be rendered necessary to provide directly for protection of Japanese lives and property in various parts of Manchuria.”

BANK QUIZ APPROVED Senate Passes Resolution for Foreign Bond Probe. Detailed Story Page I, Section 2 By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The senate today passed by unanimous consent and without debate the Johnson resolution authorizing an investigation of international bankin gin the United States. The senate finace committee ia authorized to make the investigation into thesale in this country of foreign securities aggregating between $15,000,000,000. and $17,000,000, .000. It is expected that such bankers as Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Cos., Otto Kahn and others famous in the world of finance will be summoned to testify as to their manner ol doing business and their profits. TEACHER TENURE LAW OPPOSED BY TRUSTEES Reaffirm Stand for Repeal; New Officers Installed. Stand for repeal of the teacher tenure act was reaffirmed at the closing session of the Indiana State Association of Township Trustees convention today at the Claypool, The association also passed resolutions asking that school hacks and accessories be exempted from taxation, and calling on Indiana trustees to co-operate with existing poor relief organizations for efficient administration. Officers installed at the closing session were Thomas S. McConnell, Fowler, president; Harry P. Sims of Schneider, Lake county, vice-presi-dent, and Edward Hoffman, Terre Haute, secretary-treasurer, all reelected.

Call Riley 5551—0 r write —and ask for the Clothe-A-Child editor of The Indianapolis Times. He will give you the name of a needy school child between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Each child has been checked for need by the Christmas Clearing House and the social service department

Need of 1931 is greater than in 1930. You know how much greater that need is! You know that there are homes in the city where patches and holes in clothing of children are subjects of prayer! Each of the ONE HUNDRED children pledged to be clothed to date has been checked for worthiness and need by the Christmas clearing house, relief agencies of the Community Fund, and the social service department of the Indianapolis QL'blic schools.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931

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Helps Feed 10,000 Daily, Without Pay

BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM /BOOKING for 10,000 persons daily, without a single complaint about the food, is all right, but Roy Johnson, chef extraordinary, rather would go back to his former occupation as a carpenter. He would like to throw away his pots and pans and reach for a hammer. Johnson is an unusual cook. Instead of receiving a large salary, in view of the thousands for whom he daily prepares meals, he receives no salary at all. Instead of measuring with a teacup, as do housewives, his cooking requires use of bushel containers for measures. His task is simplified, somewhat, by the fact his guests are not too particular. He receives no orders for special salads or delicacies out of season. The menu, in fact, decidedly is limited, consisting usually of soup, coffee, milk and bread, with now and then a few raw turnips, or other such delicacy left over in making soup. Johnson is head cook at the kitchen of the City Employes Relief fund, on Maryland street, near Alabama street. u u “T GOT a job here last March, A after I had been out of work almost a year, and had spent all my savings,” Johnson explained. “I started out as a general helper. Then the cook received nearly SSOO bonus from the government, and quit to have a good time. I got his job. The former cook was back in three days with 35 cents in his pocket: but I kept the job. “I had cooked in several restaurants, but my last regular work was in Chicago, where I plied my old trade as a carpenter. I’d like to be back on that job. I’d rather use a hammer and saw than a paring knife and soup ladle. “In a way, I like this job; it makes me feel that I am doing something for a lot of poor devils, hungry and out of work, like I was before I came here. They never kick about the food. “There are twenty of us working from 5 a. m. to 10 p. m.in the kitchen. We don’t get any pay, but we do get all we want to eat, cots to sleep on, enough clothing to hold us together, tobacco now and then, and once in a while we qet passes to a movie.” u u n THE kitchen was started last winter, city employes giving 1 per cent of their salaries monthly to finance it. Recently, county employes voted to join in the financial suport. Approximately two-thirds of the foodstuffs used in the kitchen are donated, according to W. Harrison Marsh, who helped organize the kitchen, and has served as manager without pay, “One ice cream company has given us 20,000 gallons of fresh milk since we started,” he said. “A bread company has contributed fifteen tons of bread in a year. “We pay only one and onehalf cent ? a pound for the bread we ned, beyond what is donated. “Commission merchants bring us perishables to be used in soup at the end of the day. Sometimes a commission merchant will send us a truck load of food.” u u n EVEN use of the building, gas, lights and water are donated. The money contributed by city and county employes is used to buy such foodstuffs as are not donated. Back in Johnson's kitchen large wash tubs filled with potatoes, onions, celery and other articles may be seen. “That will go into tomorrow’s soup,” Johnson explains. "On alternate days we serve bean soup and vegetable soup for dinner. Every evening we serve tomato soup. It is made of puree of tomato, water and milk. “Today we served about 560 gallons of soup for the noon meal. In making vegetable soup we use about six bushels of potatoes, six bushels of carrots, three bushels of chopped celery, two bushels’ of onions, two barrels of cabbage and eight bushels of turnips. # * # ‘‘ r T''HE bean soup, requiring A from 200 to 300 pounds of beans, is flavored with the best of jowl bacon, and the vegetable soup with ox tails. It’s doggone good soup. “We use approximately 2,000 gallons of milk a day and 500 pounds of coffee a week.” Majority of the food is dispensed to heads of families who take it home in buckets. Every one who applies is given food, at least until their worthiness and need has been investigated, Marsh said.

BUT, lay, folks, give the boy and the girl between the ages of 10 and 12 a chance. Every one seems to want children between 6 and 10 years. Remember, when you, too, were in your first long pants or long dress and you felt “nobody loved you?” Remember? And you know, too, that at that age you can get chilled to the bone ’just as the younger ones can. But if you just must have younger children, and lasses

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Roy Johnson, chef at the city employes’ relief kitchen, inspecting one of the big kettles in which soup served the city's needy is prepared.

DEATH FOR POWERS IS STATE DEMAND

Romeo Killer Suspect Is Nervous as Prosecutor Assails Him. BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Dec. 10. —Harry F. Powers, on trial for the killing of Mrs. Dorothy Lemke, Northboro (Mass.) widow, stopped chewing his gum and listened intently today when the prosecution started, its final argument. Powders, flushing under the scathing words of Prosecutor Will E. Norris, sat motionless. His hands rested on his knees. "This crime,” Morris told the jury, “was the most sordid and melancholy murder this community ever has known. This is no ordinary criminal. He was actuated by greed.” "This man either is guilty of murder in the first degree or he should go free,” Morris shouted. Powers nodded his head solemnly in agreement. Morris referred to the two characters as the men who might have committed the crime—“ Rogers” and “Johnson”—-as “utterly mythical.” Assistant Prosecutor W. G. Stather took up the story of Powers’ journey to Northboro, where he “lured Dorothy Lemke away on a promise of marriage.” “He then started with her the trip that will end eventually in his going through the doors of the Moundsville penitentiary and to the gallows,” Stather said. Powers here began a nervous tapping of his right foot on the floor, ROAD MEN HEAR BANKER Harry Hogan of Ft. Wayne Addresses Highway Builders. Co-ordination of industry to prevent peaks and valleys of prosperity must result from application of knowledge gained during present "valley,” members of the Indiana Highway Constructors, Inc., in convention at the Claypool today, were told by Harry Hogan,-Ft. Wayne banker. The convention which opened Wednesday, was to be closed today with election of directors and officers, and a banquet in the Riley room of the Claypool. 40 HURT IN COLLAPSE Rush of Crowd* to See Fist Fight Causes Balcony to Fall. By United Press HARAHAN, La., Dec. 10.—Guests at a wedding celebration, who rushed to a dance hall balcony to witness a fist fight, overloaded the balcony and it collapsed early today, injuring forty persons. Seventeen of the more seriously hurt were taken to New Orleans hospitals in ambulances. Several women, with babies in the arms were in the group.

of the Indianapolis public schools. Community Fund relief agencies are providing the names of worthy children to be clothed. The Times gives you the name of a child. You clothe the youngster — that’s your Christmas, that’s the child’s Christmas, and that’s our Christmas.

between 6 and 10, we’ve got them —and lots of them. All you need do is call the Clothe-a-Child editor of The Times and ask for a name. You go into the child’s home. You actually see that child and his or her needs. You shop for and with that child. You take him into your heart. You warm your own heart and his, too, by giving him bodily warmth in the “norther” weather to come. It’s your Christmas tree.

STATE SENATOR NAMED IN 9 NEW INDICTMENTS Rollo N. Walter Now Under 17 True Bills in Bank Crash. By United Press LAGRANGE, Ind., Dec. 10.— Eleven new indictments were returned by the Lagrange county grand jury today against State Senator Rollo N. Walter, B. S. Walter, and Monroe Walter, Nine of the bills were against Rollo Walter, one named B. S. Walter and Monroe Walter, and the other named B. S. Walter. Rollo Walter already was under eight indictments charging' embezzlement, as the result of the failure of the Lagrange County Trust Company, of which he was the treasurer. B. S. Walter, former vicepresident of th# bank, was under two other indictments resulting from the bank failure. Todya’s indictment was the first against Monroe Walter, head of the Lagrangd County Auto Company. MIPS KILLER'S PLEA Young Slayer’s Counsel tQ File Death Appeal. By United Press ROCKFORD, 111., Dec. 10.—B. J. Knight, attorney for 17-year-old Russell McWilliams, w'ho faces death in the electric chair for killing a street car motorman in a holdup, today was preparing an appeal of the youth’s case to the Illinois supreme court. Granted a thirty-day stay of execution last Monday by Governor L. L. Emmerson, young McWilliams, lanky blue-eyed youth who claims he was intoxicated when he shot William Sayles last August, is in the peintentiary at Joliet. His mother, who moved from Rockford to Joliet last week to be near her son when it appeared he would be executed early Friday, remained at the prison, pending the supreme court decision. McWilliams pleaded guilty to the slaying. SNOW BLANKETS UTAH Heavy Downfall Ranges from Nine Inches to Five Feet. By United Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 10. —Utah lay under a mantle of white as the season’s most severe snow storm continued today without any immediate signs of abating. Airplane travel was halted. Snow depths ranged from nine inches in downtown Sale Lake, to four and five feet in upland regions. Primary highways were kept open with difficulty. The Salt Lake weather bureau said the storm area covered all Utah, a large portion of Arizona, western Colorado and western and northern New Mexico.

LODGES, business offices, groups of employes, fraternities, sororities, can join the Clothe-a-Child movement. Organize a Clothe-a-Child committee. Name a treasurer to collect funds for your boy or your girl. Name a visiting committee to go into the home and a shopping committee to clothe your child. Any one, anywhere, with the memory of his or her own childhood can join.-*-

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HOOVER SOUNDS PLEA FOR WAR DEBT REVISION Temporary Relief, in Addition to One-Year Moratorium, Must Be Granted, President*Tells Congress. ASKS FOR REVIVAL OF COMMISSION Cancellation Is Not Mentioned, but Message Is Seen as Pointing Toward Reduction of Obligations. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—President Hoover today asked congress to open the way for revision of the war debts owing the United States. He urged the house and the senate to face the “obvious fact” that, in view of world conditions, temporary relief must be granted in addition to the recent one-year moratorium. These debts have an estimated value of nine billion dollars. Congress was asked to revive the W orld war foreign debt commission, with authority to go into the problems and report. Congress would have the final approval.

This request was presented in a special message on foreign affairs. The message did not refer to debt cancellation, but generally was regarded as scaling down the huge World war debt which hitherto has been paid by allied nations largely out of proceeds of reparations collected from Germany. Asks Moratorium Approval Mr. Hoover also asked prompt ratification of the one-year moratorium, which went into effect last July. He urged that no discouragements be permitted to prevent reasonable arms limitation at the coming Geneva disarmament conference, emphasizing that the burden of armament is greater than before the World war. The senate was reminded that the world court proposal still is pending before it, and that for twelve years every President has urged American membership as a “further assurance against war.” Congressional approval of the moratorium generally is taken for granted. Must Make Adjustments On the more controversial question of further scaling war debts, Mr. Hoover said. “As we approach the new year, it is clear that a number of the governments indebted to us will be* unable to meet further payments to us in full, pending recovery in their economic life. It is useless to blind ourselves to an obvious fact. Therefore, it will be necessary in some cases to make still further temporary adjustments. “The congress has shared with the executive in the past the consideration of questions arising from these debts. I am sure that it will commend itself to the congress that the legislative branch of the government should continue to share this responsibility. Would Revive Commission "So we should be in position to deal with the situation, I recommend the re-creation of the World war foreign debt commission, with authority to examine such problems as may arise in connection with these debts during the present economic emergency and to report to the congress its conclusions and recommendations.” Though not stated in the message, it was said authoritatively, following the recent visit of Premier Laval of France, that he and President Hoover agreed that if the allied powers granted Germany reparations .relief, President Hoover would recommend to congress reduction of the war debts. The amount of reduction therefore probably would not be determined until after reparations negotiations, now beginning in Europe, are completed. Britain Main Beneficiary As the administration has based its debt policy on capacity to pay, it is probable that instead of a horizontal reduction for all debtors, Great Britain would obtain a greater proportionate reduction than some other nations. Her financial position has de- j dined, while Famce’s has improved since the original debt settlements were made. It is “highly desirable,” Mr. Hoo-

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ver said, that congress approve the action by Dec. 15, when the next debt payments suspended by the moratorium, normally would be due. His message also briefly surveyed the entire foreign horizon. The message aroused immediate resistance from Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee. Less direct opposition came from James E. Watson, Republican leader, Borah Is Opposed Borah said he would not countenance an extension until Europe sets her own house in order. Watson said he favored considering the one-year moratorium alone. "I was in favor of the one-year moratorium,” Borah said, "solely for the reason that it would give Europe opportunity to adjust matters and get on a more sound economic basis. "I am opposed to further extension. "Europe, in my judgment, has net made any serious attempt to adjust those things which it is necessary to adjust to start her economic recovery. "The next moves and the substantial and drastic moves are with Europe, not with the United States. Garner Not In Hurry "We will see what will be done ab the Geneva disarmament conference next month.” Before the message was received, Speaker Garner of the house said that the moratorium could not be considered there before Dec. 15, the date when the next payments are due. Garner said that Republican Floor Leader Snell, (N. Y.) agreed with him. Garner saw no serious effect in failure to ratify the proposal before Dec. 15. "If a man’s note comes due tomorrow there is no reason why you should sue him if he doesn’t pay,” Garner said. Majority Leader Watson said: Watson Gives Views "I think the one-year moratorium should be disposed of apart from such matters renewing the war debts funding commission. President Hoover seems to have the idea that it is necessary to put all these matters together. “I do not foresee any serious opposition to the one-year program. The opposition may arise to any program devised after this moratorium expires next July. The opposition to the w'orlti court is maintained with even greater vigor than before.” Representative Rankin (Dem., Miss.), in an attack on the moratorium, told the house it represents an attempt by international bankers "to cancel all foreign debts and saddle them on the American people.” Approve Banking Probe The senate unanimously adopted a resolution by Senator Johnson (Rep.. Cal.), calling for immediate and full investigation of international banking activities in this country. The house passed its first measure of the new session, a resolution permitting alien participants in the 1932 Olympic games to enter the country without restrictions. The senate was to resume balloting ’■ an effort to elect a president pro tern. Insurgent opposition to Senator Moses (N. H.), Republican insumbent, has made seven ballots ineffective.

TWO NEGROES, HELD FOR SLAYING, ARE LYNCHED. W. Virginia Mob Drags Pair from Jail; Shoots and Hangs Them. By United Pres a LEWISBURG, W. Va., Dec. 10.— Tom Jackson and George Banks, Negroes charged with the murders of Constable Joseph Myles and Jack Brown, were taken from the Greenbrier county jail here today, shot to death and their bodies hanged from trees near the city limits. Myles and Brown were killed tWo we?ks ago while attempting to quiet a disturbance at a Negro danc^b

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