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WITT BOASTED OF SHOOTING, WITNESS SAYS Prisoner Voiced Wish That Jackson Would Die, Avers Ex-Landlord. DEFENSE IS JARRED Victim's Son Expected to Give Testimony This Afternoon. By Times special LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 15—Presenting a surprise witness, state’s attorneys today offered strong support to the charge that Charles Vernon Witt, former convict, was one of the bandits involved in the robbery murder of L. A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store chief. Milo Stockberger of Indianapolis, World war veteran, testified that Witt had stayed at his home several days before the shooting. He told the jury that Witt, accompanied by Louis E. Hamilton, alleged “trigger man,” rushed into his home a few hours after Jackson was shot and changed clothes. “I was reading an early edition of an Indianapolis paper which told about the shooting,” Stockinger declared. “Witt looked over my shoulder and said, ‘We pulled that job. Hamilton Was Bleeding “Hamilton was sitting out in the car and was bleeding at the head like he had been shot. “When I didn’t say anything to Witt, he looked at the paper again and said, ‘I hope the guy dies.’” Stockberger said Witt, several days before the shoooting, had .lammed a revolver against his side and demanded, “What would you do if this happened to you?” Stockberger told the jury he replied: “I’d do anything I was told.” During his testimony, Stockberger told the court that Mrs. Witt formerly was his wife and he “believed I am divorced from her, but I’m not sure.” Just Stole the Woman “Did Witt ever take or steal anything of yours?” state’s attorneys asked. “Nothing but that woman sitting beside him there,’ ’the witness answered. Horace Eller, Indianapolis police officer, and Detective Charles Bauer, who was shot by the Standard Grocery Company bandits, told of attempting to trail the bandits after the shooting, May 27, 1931. Eller said the car the bandits used was found the following day on a west side street, with blood marks on the body. Edward Weist, son-in-law of the slain grocer, said he was in the warehouse of the company when the shooting occurred, and he hurled several tear gas bombs. Son to Take Stand Mr. and Mrs. Robert Healey supported Stockbergcr's testimony that Witt roomed at his home, asserting that they had recommended that Witt live with the Stockbergers. Chester Jackson, son of the murdered grocery chief, was expected to take the witness stand this afternoon to relate the story of the fatal shooting. Chester Jackson was to testify that he and other employes dropped to the floor when the bandits opened fire after their demands for money were refused. He also was to relate to the jury that his father struggled to his feet and returned the gunmen’s fire at close range. After the shooting, L. A. Jackson fell, mortally wounded, with three bullet wounds in his body. State to Close Next Week The state’s case against Witt is expected to be completed Monday or early Tuesday, after adjournment of court over the week-end. Witt, if convicted on the charge of murder during perpetration of a robbery, will be sentenced to die in the electric chair at the state prison. Hamilton, charged with firing the fatal shots from his automatic pistol, will be tried later before Judge John W. Hornaday. James B. Hoffman, auditor for the Standard company twenty-eight years, was the last state’s witness Thursday. “Four of the shots were fired directly over my head,” he said. “About twenty others were fired from all parts of the store. Chester shouted. ‘Don't shoot any more; I’ll open the safe and give you the money.’ “After the bandits fled I went to Mr. Jackson and he told me ‘They got me right here.’ He had his hand on his abdomen and blood was streaming from his forehead. EXECUTE THREE KILLERS Two Die in Chair in Chicago; One on Missouri Gallows. By I'nited Press CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—Two condemned murderers were put to death in the electric chair in Cook county Jail today after unsuccessful efforts to obtain a stay of execution at the eleventh hour. The men were Ben Norsingle, 19, and John Reed, 26, both Negroes. They were convicted of the slaying of John Martin, meat market manager. in a holdup attempt. By United J'ress KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Jan. 15. Joe Hershdn, sentenced to death for murder, died today on the gallows in the county jail here, denying he hd fired the shot that killed Charles M. Dingman Jr., patrolman.

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KILLED AS HE HUNTSFOR JOB Truck Strikes Hitch-Hiker at Cumberland. Struck by a truck as he was hitch-hiking to Dayton, 0., to seek work, Lester D. Hanscom. 35, of 1333 North Pennsylvania street, .was killed instantly this afternoon at Cumberland. The truck careened from the National road, struck an automobile

and Hanscom, and stopped 150 feet away. William Orebaugh, R. R. 8, Box 141, driver of the truck, who told deputy sheriffs the steering gear of the ve-

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hide snapped, and was slated on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The car which was struck was driven by E. E. Pursley, 106 West North street, an acquaintance of Hanscom’s, who was slowing down to offer Hanscom a ride. The rear of Pursley's car was wrecked, but he was not hurt. Hanscom's head was crushed beneath a rear wheel of the truck, which hit iim while he stood by the traction tracks. Hanscom's body was sent to the city morgue. He had been without employment several weeks, it was said. His death was the fourth traffic fatality in Marion county this year.

BOMBING IS CHARGED Outrages Laid to Japanese ' in Manchuria. By United Press BERLIN, Jan. 15. —Reports that Japanese troops had bombed towns along the Manchuria-Inner Mongolia border and executed Chinese civilians were telegraphed here today by Walter Bosshardt, Mukden correspohdent for the ITllstein agency. The correspondent, who made a five-day tour of the region, reported that Japanese airplanes dropped eighteen bombs on the main street of Tunglaio and killed twenty citizens, . although Chinese forces had withdrawn from Tungliao five days previously. Bosshardt said that a Japanese firing squad executed nineteen Chinese civilians at Tahoshan on Jan. 10 and that three other Tohashan citizens were burned alive the same day. . STEAMER HITS CUTTER Coast 'C>uard Speeds to Rescue of Ships off Atlantic Seaboard. By United Press NEW LONDON, Conn., Jan. 15. Two coast guard vessels sped at full steam today toward the scene of a reported collision between the S. S. Lemuel Burrows and the coast guard cutter Herndon. Radio reports intercepted at the coast guard base here said the destroyer Hampton was only thirty miles away from the scene and tfie cutter Marion was somewhere south of Block island and proceeding at once to the rescue. MARINES TO NICARAGUA Force to Be Augmented for Coming Elections. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Secretary of Navy Adams said today that plans were being completed for sending additional United States marines to. Nicaragua to assure maintenance of order during the forthcoming elections there. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 56 10 a. m 40 7a. m 52 11 a. m 38 8 a™m 48 12 (noon).. 37 9 tfui 42 Ip. m..... 35

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THE AMERICAN LEGION is minus a messenger “boy” this week. The star message carrier of the national headquarters turned out to Tbe a girl—and resigned. “Dick” Chatman, whose real name, it has been revealed, is Elizabeth Chatman, resigned suddenly Monday when friends identified “him” as a girl. The administrative department of the legion hired “Dick” approximately nine months ago. Legion officials state that, until Monday, they had no intimation that their handsome, small, “17-year-old” message carrier was a 28-year-old girl, Elizabeth, was one of the best messenger “boys” legion headquarters ever had, it was said. u n “TTE” had small feet and a n rather high-pitched voice, they say, but smoked an underslung pipe—Dawes style—with all the nonchalance of any boy of the ’teen age. Investigation uncovered the fact that “Dick” has been masquerading as a boy for the last five years. “He” has worked at two Chevrolet sales agencies as an office boy. Carrying “his” ruse further, “Dick” became engaged to a Technical high school student. This girl, daughter of “his” landlady, stated Thursday that “as soon as Dick gets a good job somewhere, I expect to go to him.” She had not learned yet that her “fiance” is a girl. Employes at legion 'headquarters recalled almost no feminine characteristics displayed by “Dick.” They do know, howevei, that they now have solved the puzzle of why “he” would not go swimming with legion members at the Antlers hotel pool. , # M tt # “TTE was one of the most effiXjL cient messengers we have had in a long time,” said Frank E. Samuel, assistant national adjutant, speaking of “Dick.” “He was courteous and wide-awake all the time. Everybody liked him.” At the legion, and at his rooming house, “Dick” claimed to be from Louisville. However, the persons who identified “him” Monday, and to whom “he” admitted the pose, lives in Hartford City, Ind. They assert that “Dick” is a native and long resident of their home town. Information as to where “Dick” may be now is varying. The legion professes ignorance on the subject. His former landlady—to whom “he” owes two weeks’ rent—, and his erstwhile sweetheart, say “he” is in Ft. Wayne. “His” friends from Hartford City believe “him” to be in Indianapolis. And there you are.

AGREE OW WET BILL House Democrats and G. 0. P. Favor State Choice. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.—Democratic and Republican wets in the house agreed today upon/a proposed modification of the eighteenth amendment, which would permit states to legalize liquor if they desired. A vote on this proposal will be sought in the house at this session. The measure will be introduced jointly by Representatives Beck (Rep., Pa.) and Linthicum (Dem., Md.>, leaders of the respective Republican and Democratic wet blocs in the house. A petition will be started to secure the necessary 145 signatures to bring the proposition to a vote. Mexican Bandits Rob Express Car By United Press MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15.—Two bandits who boarded the blind baggage of an express train from Agua Calientes today entered the express car, threw lime in an express messenger’s eyes and escaped with 15,000 pesos cash when the train slowed down Tacu.be., a suburb,

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PROBERS LINK OIL DEAL AND LQANBY U. S. Senator Johnson Pins Down Witness, After Refusal to Show Records. MELLON ENTERS DENIAL Answers Patman Charges; U. S. Neglect of Navy Hit by Admiral. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Frees Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jar. 15.—The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey received a concession to oil lands in Bolivia in 1922, thirty days after American bankers made a loan to Bolivia, it was developed before the senate loan investigation today. The statement regarding the Standard Oil concession came while Senator Johnson (Rep., Cal.), who is seeking to show a connection between loans to Latin-America and oil concessions, was examining Francis White, assistant secretary of state. Previously, White had refused for a third time to deliver to the investigators correspondence with the American legation at Bogota, on the grounds that it contained matter “incompatible with the public interest.” When he offered to permit Johnson to see the correspondence in confidence, as he had done with New York bankers, Johnson refused, saying he would not permit his “tongue to be tied” in a matter involving the “interests of the American people.”

Mellon Denies Charges While this was transpiring in the senate committee, the house committee hearing on the impeachment charges of Representative Patman (Dem., Tex.) against Secretary of the Treasury Mellon received a general denial from Mellon of any connection with oil concessions or ljke matters. One oil concession said to be worth $2,000,000,000 from Colombia, granted ten days before a $4,000,000 loan was made to Colombia now is said to be in the hands of Mellon and Morgan interests. Mellon denied that. He used his office to obtain the oil concession from Colombia. That he had discussed the concession with President Olaya of Colombia. That he owned a controlling interest in any corporation. That he owned any shipping, although he did own stock in companies which owned ships. That he surrounded income tax refunds and kindred matters with undue secrecy. Cites Mellon’s Advice Johnson, persisting in his search for some connection between the loans and the oil concessions, read an article from the New York Times of Aug. 8, 1931. It quoted President Olaya' of Colombia as saying he was optimistic about the future of Colombia, because of “Secretary Mellon’s advice that if the petroleum problems were settled it would hasten Colombia’s recovery.” Assistant Secretary of State White said he had a copy of a story published in Bogota, indicating that Olaya had spoken approximately as quoted. Johnson asked him to bring it to this afternoon’s session of the committee. Rear Admiral Upham, chief of the navy bureau of navigation, declared today that unless congress approves a warship building program the United States will become a second rank naval power “unable to defend our trade, our interests or our country.” Upham testified before the house naval affairs committee at hearings on the Vinson bill to build 120 warships over a period of ten years. Upham told the committee that since the ratification of the London arms treaty, the United States has not authorized construction of a single ship, and has not even built those for which funds were previously were appropriated. OVERCOME BY CAR GAS Harry Pohlman Rescued From Garage by Neighbor. Overcome by carbon monoxide gas while working on his automobile, Harry Pohlman, 35, of 3165 Station street, today was rescued from his garage by neighbors. He was taken to city hospital in serious condition, but will recover, physicians said. Mrs. Wilbur Leavelle, 3163 Station street, told police she found Pohlman in the garage after she heard the car motor running for some time, but had not seen Pohlman. COSTIGAN COMING HERE Colorado Senator Will Speak at Democratic Editors Meeting. Acceptance from Senator Edward P. Costigan (Dem., Colo.) of an invitation to address the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, Feb. 27, was received today by Claude G. Brodhecker, association president. The executive committee of the association Sunday is to complete plans for the meeting. Senator Cootigan said he would be here unless some important public legislation detained him. John Nance Garner, speaker of the house of representatives, had written to say that he .will be unable to be present. V

'Fatal Pause By United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. 15.—For weeks. Mrs. Margaret Ordner, 44, had worried because she had heard no word from her niece, Miss Helen Pushcott. Thursday night, a neighbor summoned her to a telephone. “I’m a friend of your niece,” said a girl’s voice over the telephone. “I Wanted to teU you Helen is in a hospital— Mrs. Ordner heard no more. She collapsed. The neighbor helped her to a chair and grabbed the telephone. “Hello—hello,” the voice continued, “what I wanted to say was that Helen is in a hospital, working there. She wants me to tell you that she’s weU and happy.” But Mrs. Ordner never learned the good news She was dead.

AL SMITH'S SON HELDASKILLER Youth Freed on Bail After Auto Hits Pedestrian. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Walter Smith, youngest son of former Governor Alfred E. Smith, was arraigned in homicide court today after his automobile killed a man. He pleaded not guilty to a tech-

nical charge of homicide and was released in SI,OOO bail for hearing Jan. 22. His brother, Alfred E. Smith Jr., an attorney, was called to police headquarters after his arrest. “There is no statement to make. It was an

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unfortunate accident. Everything was on the up and up. I am going to defend him,” Smith Jr. said. Smith’s car killed Harry Wallace, .55, when Walter crossed Lexington avenue against the red lights at One Hundred Twenty-eighth street. Smith stopped at once and rushed Wallace to Harlem hospital, where he was pronounced dead. * After being detained in the hospital, Smith .was taken to the East One Hundred Twenty-sixth street station, where he was locked in a cell. $20,000,000 WILL OF ROSENWALD PROBATED More Than Half to Charity, Rest to Five Children. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—Julius Rosenwald’s will, disposing of an estimated $20,000,000 estate, was admitted to probate today by Judge Henry Horner. The instrument, drawn last Dec. 12, while the multi-millionaire was at death’s door, named the eldest son, Lessing Rosenwald, and a daughter, Mrs. Marion R. Stern, as executors. It stipulated that sll,000,000 of the fortune shall go to philanthropic enterprises and ths£ the remainder shall be divided equally among the five children. No provision is made for Rosenwald’s second wife, Mrs. Adele R. Rosenwald. Financial provision for her previously had been made, it was said.

COST ROLL IS ADOPTED FOR SIXTEENTH STREET Apartment Owners Give Notice Appeal Will Be Taken. Assessment roll for widening and resurfacing of Sixteenth street from Delaware to Illinois street, today was adpoted by the works board, following a public hearing in which most of a number of remonstrators withdrew objections. Notice that the board’s action would be appealed in court was given by representatives of the Rodman Realty Company which was assessed $1,813 on its apartment property on the south side of Sixteenth street between Illinois and Meridian streets. The project Was completed Dec. 18, IS3I, at a cost of $27,760. The works board expects to push widening of Sixteenth from Illinois to Northwestern avenue within a few months. PREDICTS PRISON RIOT Convict Witness Tells Ohio Probers Worst Is to Come. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 15.—A “sell out” riot today was predicted for the Ohio penitentiary by William Baron, assertive convict-witness before a state investigating committee, “unless something is done to stop brutality.” The committee was appointed by the last general assembly and will canvass conditions in all Ohio penal institutions. “Prison riots that have gone before will be picnics compared to this one,” Baron, convicted of bank robbery, continued. ,I‘The next one will be a ‘sell out.’ And that is just this: Take a life and give a life.” EDITOR SHOOTS SELF Louisville Newspaper Man Fonnd Dead at Home, by Wife. By United Press LOUISVILLE, Jan. 15.—George R. Newman, 55, managing editor of the Louisville Herald-Post, until a few months ago, was found shot to death in his home here last night. Newman was seated in an arm chair. A pistol lay nearby. Coroner Ray L. Carter said he would return a verdict of suicide. Mrs. Newman said her husband had been despondent.

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FRIENDS START mm DRIVE Postal Chief Directs Work of Lining Up Delegates. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—President Hoover’s friends, under direction of Postmaster-General Walter Brown, soon will begin the work of rounding up Republican convention delegates to renominate him for a second term. It long has been known that Mr. Hoover would seek a second term. His candidacy was confirmed officially when Brown, the President’s chief political lieutenant, said after a call at the White House: “Mr. Hoover’s friends will see that his name is put up in accordance with the legal requirements of the various states.” Brown added that a formal announcement of Mr. Hoover’s candidacy was unnecessary and confirmed previous United Press accounts of the campaign plans of the Hoover forces.

TWO BOYS' MISSING Fear Voiced for Life of Orphan, 111. Two runaway boys are. believed on their way to Florida today, planning to pay expenses by stealing milk bottles, their friends say. One boy is an 11-year-old orphan, Howard Theodore Russell, whose absence has caused anxiety to officials of the Indianapolis Orphans’ home, 4107 East Washington street, as Howard is suffering from a serious heart ailment. This ninety-pound adventurer has been under care of physicians at Riley hospital, and it was feared at the orphan home that he would suffer an attack, and that he would not be cared for properly. Howard, who is blond, 4 feet tall, and was wearing brown cirduroy trousers, a black leather coat and blue waist, vanished with Harry Henry, 11, Thirty-second and Illinois streets, Thursday afternoon. The orphan had been boarding with Miss Aileen Martin, 3538 North Illinois street. Information may be phoned to the Orphans’ home, Irv. 5683.

PAY PARLEY DELAYED Railroad President Obtains Stay Until 2 P. M. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—The railroad wage conference was postponed today for a third time, although the committee of twenty-one union labor leaders was ready to proceed. The potsponement was made at .he request of Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore <fc Ohio railroad, and chairman of the nine railroad presidents who.were scheduled originally to go Into conference at 10 a. m. yesterday. Unless further hitches developed, the conference was to begin at 2 this afternoon. The first postponement was until 2 p. m. yesterday. Another delay was granted until 10 a. m. today, but an hour before the meeting Willard called it off. BRIAND REFUSES POST Declines Laval Offer to Become Minister at Geneva. By United Press PARIS, Jan. 15.—Aristide Briand, dropped from the French cabinet by Premier Pierre Laval after six years as foreign minister, today politely refused Laval’s offer to become permanent French delegate at Geneva with the rank of minister. Briand offered to reserve his final decision. His tacit rejection, however, cast the first shadow over the new Laval ministry, for powerful groups in the chamber of deputies still are loyal to fcfiand.

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By United Press MILLERSBURG, 0., Jan. 15. The age-old question of whether a father has the right to take the life of his invalid child—an incurable idiot—confronted a group of small town business men and farmers on the grand jury today as they deliberated the case of James Stenhouse. He had confessed, to ease his own mind, that three years ago he killed his 2-year-old son, David Oscar, who suffered from convulsions, whose death was a matter of time, and whose existence was one of constant screaming and lack of understanding. Driven frantic by the boy's plight, Stenhouse, a- British war veteran, finally chloroformed the baby after girding himself for the ordeal by drinking liquor. He feared for his wife who constantly cared for the child. Stenhouse served with the Royal engineers in the British army during the World war. He married in England after the armistice, then emigrated to Canada. He moved to Killbuck to work as a stone cutter nine years ago. /tutt "TITE had three children, then W David Oscar came. There was something wrong. He would scream for hours at a time. We consulted specialists in Canton and Cleveland. “They said the boy was born with inflammation of the brain, and that it was only a question of time before the boy died in agony. All he did was to lie in his crib and scream. He didn’t even recognize us when he was 2 years old. “My wife wouldn’t leave the baby. She was dying, jiist caring for him. I loved the boy just as I did my other children, but I couldn’t stand it. I thought he was killing my wife.” So, one night, while Mrs. Stenhouse lay ill, the husband got some chloroform. And he got some whisky. * # “ A T first I didn’t have the nerve, x\. so I drank some whisky. Then, when the boy stopped breathing, I threw up the window, smoked some cigarets, and called a doctor. The doctor, who had been expecting the child to die at any time, saw nothing strange in the case. The child was buried. Then Stenhouse told his wife what he had done. “He couldn’t sleep well after that,” the young wife, bowed by Suffering and grief, told questioners. “On those nights he would visit the grave where little David Oscar is buried. One night he slept on the grave all night long. “It was never off my mind, I was afraid that I would be arrested, but my conscience was clear. I’m sure I did right to kill my boy,” he told the prosecutor, when asked why he told after three years, in which no one suspected the truth.

ANAEMIA CURE FOUND New, Powerful Liver Extract Restores Blood to Normal. By United Press ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 15. Sufferers from pernicious anemia can hope to have their blood restored to normal with from four to six injections of anew liver extract, discovered at the Simpson Memorial institute, Director Cyrus C. Sturgis has announced here. Dr. Sturgis and his assistant, Dr. Raphael Isaacs, have found a compound, fifteen to thirty times more powerful than ventriculin, the ’’sst available treatment for the dread disease today, the announcement said. The extract is injected directly into the blood, whereas ventriculin, made from dried hog’s stomach, is taken as food, in connection with a liver diet. HONEYSUCKLE IN BLOOM Statehouse Bushes Sneer at Weather Man’s Forecasts. The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow, insists the weather bureau, but so far as the bushes on the statehouse lawn are concerned, it’s spring in Indiana. A honeysuckle bush on the Capitol grounds was in blossom today, Just as if the usual rigid blasts of January, February and March were past and forgotten. FIND HIDDEN” NECKLACE 31-Carat Diamond String Added . to Recluse Widow’s Estate. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—A thirty-6ne-carat white diamond necklace has been found in a box of stale biscuits in the hotel room of Mrs. Ida E. Wood, 93-year-old recluse, it was learned today, as appraisers continued to assort jewels and money worth approximately $1,000,000 found secreted there. SCHOOLS GET $154,000 That’s County’s Share of Annual State Distribution. Marion county schools received $154,000 of the $1,369,063, distributed today through the offices of George C. Cole, state schools superintendent, in the annual distribution of state school funds. Os the Marion county amount, Indianapolis schools receive $131,262.55, the superintendent announced. *

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Movement Is Launched by Lee Hartzell, G. 0. P, Floor Leader. TRIES TO HUSH SESSION Bush Getting Nowhere With His Program, Letter Declares. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Indiana state senators have been invited to a so-called “secret meeting,” to be held Saturday afternoon at the Washington hotel, to discuss a special session tax program of their own, it was learned by The

Times today. The movement originally was launched by Senator Lee J. Hartzell of Ft. Wayne, G. O. P. floor leader an and president pro tern, of the senate. Twelve senators, eight Republicans and four Democrats signed the invitation to the meeting, drafted by Hart zell and sent out on s t a t i onery of Hartzell & Todd, the president pro tern's law firm af Ft. Wayne. The invitation is signed by Republican Sen ators Alldredge, Beckett, Hartzell, Lindley, Pell, Shull, Tor-

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mohlen and Walters, Democrats signing are Senators Ballard, Clouser, Druley and Lochard. In a letter sounding sentiment on the matter, Hartzell said he thought It might be a good idea to have a “secret meeting” of this sort. He also had this to say: “To my way of thinking, no tax relief program will succeed when presented by outside sources, and I firmly believe that the only way it can be accomplished is by the members of the general assembly them•elves. “Bush Getting Nowhere” Bush is trying hard, but in my opinion will get nowhere with his program. Personally, I will vote for any bill that will reduce taxes, but I am not going to vote to raise another dollar of revenue.” Hartzell’s idea seemed to take. For each member of the senate since has received the following invitation to the meeting: “There is a persistent demand by the taxpayers of the state that the legislature be called in session to grant relief from present conditions. We are opposed to outside influence attempting to formulate bills for us to rubber-stamp. “We feel that if the members of the senate could get together in a private meeting, free from outside influences, they could formulate a plan and co-operate with the members of the house, and agree upon some tax relief measure that would meet approval of the Governor and prompt him to call an extra session of the general assembly. Interest Only Patriotic “Our only interest in this matter is a patriotic endeavor to see if we can not work out some plan whereby something may be accomplished. “Feeling that someone should start the ball rolling, we, therefore, have signed this letter asking the members of the senate to meet at (Turn to Page 4)

DAWES MEETS HOOVER Plans to Sail for Europe Next Wednesday for Conference. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.—Ambassador Charles G. Dawes returned today from a brief business trip to Chicago and again became a guest at the White House. He conferred with President Hoover almost immediately on his arrival this morning. Dawes expects to remain here until he sails for Europe Jan. 20, as head of the American delegation to the Geneva disarmament conference. He has announced that he will resign as ambassador to Great Britain as the conference’s preliminary werk is done, to devote himself to his Chicago business interests. %

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