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JAPAN PLEDGE OF ‘OPEN DOOR’ 1$ GIVEN U. S. Tokio Says Conditions May Cause ‘Modification’ of Nine-Power Pact. NOTE IS CONCILIATORY Soviet Makes Proposal to Nipponese for Treaty of Nonaggression. BY MILES VAUGHN United Press Staff Correspondent TOKIO, Jan. 16.—Japan pledged maintenance of the “open door” in Manchuria and China today in response to Secretary of States StimBon’s note, but noted that existing conditions in China might “modify materially’ ’the application of the nine-power treaty. The Japanese communication, handed by Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa to American Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes, was concilatory. It said replacements 8n the administration of Manchuria were necessary for the good of the local population and that Japan had ©o territorial aims in Manchuria. Rights Not Impaired Japan called Washington’s attention to the fact that legality of matters are not recognized which might Impair rights of Americans under the Kellogg pact, and said: “It might be the subject of academic doubt whether in a given case the impropriety of means necessarily voids the ends secured, but as Japan has no intention of adopting improper means, the question does not ftrise practically.” The communication was prepared for transmission to Washington at the embassy. Soviet Asks Fart a Soviet proposal for a RussoJapanese non-aggression pact was confirmed today by the Japanese government. The proposal was made by Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, to Japanese foreign minister, Kcnkichi Yoshizawa, when [the latter was in Moscow en route from Paris to Tokio. Simultaneously, Russian Ambassador Alexander Trojanowski visited Premier Inauki here and asked the official Japanese view on such a pact. Bombing Is Charged By United Press GENEVA. Jan. 16—China charged Jn a note to the League of Nations Council today that Japanese airplanes had bombed Finchow, Manchuria, killing one man and one woman and wounding several persons. “As the bombardment was without the slightest provocation, it is abundantly obvious that the Japanese are aiming to oust from Manchuria all lawful Chinese authority, which constitutes flagrant violation of international instruments to which Japan is a signatory and also the resolutions adopted by the league' council,” the Chinese note said: Boycott to Be Asked It;i United Press NANKING, Jan. 16.—China will ask for an economic and financial boycott against Japan at the meeting of the League of Nations council at Geneva Jan. 25. China, also decided to request convocation of signatories to the nine-power treaty to consider the Manchurian situation. The official announcement of China’s decision was made today by Fu Ping Chang, vice-minister of foreign affairs, on behalf of Foreign Minister Eugene Chen and the legislative Yuan of the government. CITY GETS $113,935 FROM BUTLER WILL Fund to Be Used for Benefit of Poor Health Care. Upon receipt by the city of $113,935 today from estates of Mrs. Susan W. Butler and Margaret Butler Snow, her daughter, the health board prepared to invest the money until provisions of the walls can be fulfilled. The money is held as a joint trust fund, income to be used by the health board for maintenance of a dispensary for the sick poor, and the principal later to be used to build a home for such a dispensary. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan qualified as trustee for the city in probate court. The gifts were made several years ago. Mrs. Butler died in 1899, and her daughter in 1929.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 215

FAMED SONGBIRD IN ‘FOUR-A-DAY’

Tetrazzini Makes Her Debut in N. Y. Talkie House

By United Press BOSTON, Jan. 16.—Luisa Tetrazzini, whose debut as Lucia in Hamerstein’s Manhattan opera house dazzled a nation, whose farewell operatic appearance with Caruso, Louise Homer and Renand moved admirers .to tears, made her debut here Friday night as an “added attraction” in a "four-a-day” talkie house. The songbird of Florence, who once wrote that her voice had earned her $5,000,000 as a contemporary of Melba and Sembrich, took her turn with the acrobats, wisecrackers and “ho-de-ho” singers playing for the aplause of the galleries that once sent grapefruit whirling through the air at Rudy Valee, the songbird of Westbrook, Me.

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Bryan Untiedt, 13, who saved the lives of several schoolmates marooned in a bus in a Colorado blizzard last March, is still a hero. He is shown here with his father, H. A. Untiedt, waving to a crowd that cheered the boy on a recent visit to Los Angeles. Bryan has signed a contract for a lecture tour.

BILLIONS FOR GREDIT House Passes Hoover Bill for Refinancing. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 16. —By passage of the reconstruction corporation bill, congress has supplied $2,000,000,000 credit as a starter for President Hoover’s financial relief program, which as a whole embraces basic credit of several billions. The house approved the bill, 355 to 55, Friday night. Many billions more of potential credit lies in this bill and other pending measures of the President’s program, together with the additional refreshing stream furnished by the federal reserve board in its new “easy money” policy, for credit of this sort expands as it circulates outward in various channels. HELD ON CHECK CHARGE Oil Salesman Admits Frauds in Seven States, Police Say. Charged with passing two worthless checks on hotels here, Joseph C. Wilson, Charleston, 111., an oil salesman, confessed today to spurious check operations in seven states over a period of six months, detectives say. Wilson was arrested Friday and was to be tried today. Wilson admitted, according to detectives. that the checks all were small, and that he wrote them in numerous Indiana cities, as well as in Ohio, Michigan. lowa, Nebraska. Illinois and Kentucky. WINS IN HERESY SUIT South African Professor Reinstated by Supreme Court. By United Press CAPETOWN, South Africa, Jan. 16. —Memories of the famous Dayton (Tenn.) “monkey trial” were revived here when the Cape supreme court reinstated Professor Duplessis of Stellenbosch university, dismissed for alleged heretical teachings. The professor had denied the inspiration of the Bible and had expressed doubt of the absolute divinity of Christ. He was dismissed from the Dutch reformed ministry and the seminary teaching staff. At his trial, he said he believed the story of Adams and Eve was an j “inspired allegory.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 36 9 a. m 37 7a. m 36 10 a m 38 . 8 V m 36

, Madame Tetrazzini, now 60, I short, fat, jolly, and lovable as ■ ever, stood in the wings as the ' management announced it took j “pride and pleasure in announcing the engagement extraordinary.” U U V THE “Grand orchestra” played Garibaldi’s rousing hymn, swung into the rousing march from Aida, and started the opening strains of “Caro Nome” coloratura favorite from Rigoletto. The black curtains parted. The spotlight framed the figure of the singer on a little white raised step beside an inconspicuous piano. Tetrazzini’s girl-like soprano j that once could take altissimo F, ‘SECRET’ TAX SESSION STIRS IRE OF BUSH Senators Intend Only to Obstruct Program, He Declares. “Obstructionists” was the epithet hurled today by Lieutenant-Gov-ernor Edgar D. Bush si the twelve members of the state senate who issued a call for a meeting here this afternoon to decide upon a tax program for presentation in event of a special session of the general assembly. Calling the roll of the twelve senators who signed the call, and urged that “no publicity” be given the caucus at the Washington hotel here, Bush said that it was started to hamper the work to be attempted by the citizens’ tax program committee. “Why don’t these senators wait and see what progress is made by the business men and leaders of industry and labor who are members of this committee,” asked Bush. “They were the best available, and were selected after much study by William H. Settle (president of the Farm Bureau) and John Kinghan (Indianapolis meat packer). Bush took umbrage at the statement contained in the. call that “we •are opposed to the attempt of out 2 * j side influences attempt to formulate bills for us to rubber stamp.” “To tell th truth, the majority of those invited to be present are opposed to an income tax, and in my opinion this move is made to sidetrack any attempt for real equalization of the tax burden,” stated Bush.

HOGS GAIN 10 TO 15 CENTS AT CITY YARDS All Cattle Classes at Lower Level for Week; Sheep Steady. Hogs continued the advance in evidence Friday at the city yards this morning, rising 10 to 15 cents on most classess. The bulk, 100 to 350 pounds, sold for $4 to $4.40; early top holding at $4.40. Receipts were estimated at 1,500; holdovers were 146. The cattle market was a nominal affair with all classes lower for the week. Receipts were 100. Vealers were unchanged at $8.50 down; calf receipts were 200. No test was made of prices in the sheep market. •’Receipts numbered 200. A few early sales and bids on hogs in Chicago held mostly steady with Friday’s average this morning, while bulk of 170 to 210 pounds were bid from $4.20‘ to $4.30; early top held at. $4.35. Receipts were estimated at 10,000. including 9,000 direct. Holdovers were 2,000. Cattle receipts, 200; calves, 100; market steady. Sheep receipts were quoted at 6,000; market unchanged from Friday’s prices. DIES IN 12-STORY FALL Wife of Christian Science Monitor Writer Killed at Capital. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Mrs. Edith M. Strout, wife of Richard L. Strout, Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, was killed when she fell from a window in the Monitor’s twelfth floor office in the National Press building. Strout was in an adjoining office at the time. Mrs. Strout had been in ill health recently. She had three children. Former Official Dies By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 16. Martin A. Lemmons, former member of the city council, is dead of heart disease.

She Gets Off By L nited Press CHICAGO., Jan. 16.—When the mail carrier had a vacation, he went for a walk. When Conrad Herget, street car conductor, took a day off. he rode the street car. That was Mrs. Herget’s testimony in applying for a divorce. She said her husband had one day a week off. And on that day he insisted that she and the rest of the family go riding on the street car, Mrs. Herget said. This in spite of the fact two of their children own automobiles. Judge Daniel P. Trude granted the woman temporary alimony pending further hearings.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932

the F above high C, thrilled with the first strains of the old favorite she had sung hundreds of times. Last night she, whose memory had been her pride, kept her eyes downcast as she stared at a trembling bit of paper on which every word of the familiar song was written. There was abundant applause as she finished the first song. The orchestra played the “Last Rose of Summer” and Tetrazzini’s voice gave proof of her returning confidence. She sang the words: “All her lovely companions have faded and gone.” Her hearers noted the catch in the famous star’s voice. And some there who revived with her the memories of her quarter century on the stage.

Son to Tell How Jackson Was Killed Jiij Times Speeial LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 16.—Closing evidence in support of the charge that Charles Vernon Witt is one of the slayers of Lafayette A. Jackson of Indianapolis, will be presented a Boon county jury Monday by state’s attorneys. Final testimony for the prosecution will be given by Chester Jackson, son of the elderly chain stores operator, who was in the central Standard Grocery Company store, 419 East Washington street, May 27, 1931, when his father was slain by bandits. State’s attorneys said they may attempt to introduce on Monday the purported confessions of Witt and Louis E. Hamilton, waiting trial on a murder charge. If this is done, defense attorneys said they are prepared to show Witt and Hamilton were forced to sign the alleged statements after being beaten by police and detectives. A blow was struck at Witt’s defense of being in lola, Kan., the day of the shooting, when the state Friday succeeded in getting testimony of Milo Stockberger, 730 Dorman street, before the jury. Stockberger said Witt formerly roomed ‘at his house in the 1000 block, Ashland avenue, Indianapolis, and admitted to him that he and Hamilton had shot Jackson. Mrs. Naomi Witt, wife of the defendant, formerly, was Stockberger’s wife, the rooming house operator told the jury. MOB BATTLES TO SEEHANGING Crowd Beats Down Door to Reach Gallows. By United Press BARRIE, Ontario, Jan. 16.—An infuriated mob broke into a coal shed of the county jail here today, and watched the legal hanging of Thomas Wesley Campbell, 35, convicted of murdering his aged father. Among the crowd was Campbell’s only son. The crowd milled around the jail yard for hours before the hanging, set for shortly after midnight. Refusal of authorities to permit campbell’s former neighbors to view' the execution angered the crowd. The neighbors stormed the jail, breaking down a door. A score of men and women had entered the execution room, where Campbell just had been dropped on an improvised scaffold, before police, armed, stopped the rush for the shed door.

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On the western front with the A. E. F., Henri Deering was a hard-fighting, cool-nerved machine gunner, In rest camps behind the lines he played pianos—everything from Berlin to Bach—and was able to resume his interrupted career as concert artist after he went into Germany with the army of occupation. Back in this country, he soon is to open his Amerysan season with a concert in Plfitadelphia.

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PROBE DENIEO BY ORYGHIEFS Miles Scoffs at Report of Inquiry Here. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—A report that Indiana Anti-Saloon League -officials would demand an in'fcstigation into the Indianapolis prohibition enforcement offices, and the Pat Currie shooting episode, was denied emphatically here Friday night by E. A. Miles, attorney for the league in Indiana. Miles said that neither he nor Lewis York, superintendent of the league in Indiana, had any intention of registering complaints of any nature while here. They arrived by auto Friday and will remain until Monday, attending the annual national convention of the league. With them are the Rev. J. Frank Jenner and the Rev. Leroy Hudson of the Indiana league office, and Bishop H. H. Fout of the United Brethren church, Indianapolis. According to the report. Miles and York had planned to press for an investigation through Senator Arthur Robinson. Miles said they did not expect to see Robinson before Sunday afternoon, when the latter will address the convention. FORECAST IS DISMAL i5 , • Rain, Sleet or Snow Due for Week-End. A dismal week-end of unsettled weather was predicted today by the weather bureau. The forecast called for rain, sleet or snow wth temperatures near freezing. After dropping to 32 Friday night the mercury climbed early today to 36, acompanied by rain and some sleet. The mercury slid twentyfour degrees here Friday in a temperature drop that was general throughout the state. COMMUNISTS TT) MEET Slate Secretary Will Speak Sunday on Lenin’s Teachings. Nathaniel Ross, Indiana secretary of the Communist party, will speak on ‘ “Benin’s Teachings and the American Labor Movement,” Sunday afternoon at the Workers’ Center forum, 932 Vi * South Meridian street. Eighth anniversary of the death of Lenin will be eommemorated at the meeting. World-wide, observance of Lenin's death will be held Thursday. - , - ? MELLON GIVES $50,000 Almost Doubles Donation.to Capital Communitly Chest. Bj United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.—Secretary of Treasury Mellon has given $50,000 to the Washington commuI nity chest. This is $20,000 more than his contribution last year.

Spy-te Work By United Press ALBION, 111., Jan. 16.—Stills in Edwards county are worth $1 a gallon. Sheriff Oscar Harper has offered that reward for tips on their location. He also will pay $25 a location for each slot machine and a similar amount for information leading to the arrest of chicken thieves. t

LEVEE BREAKS; THOUSANDS IN FLOODJERIL Families Flee to Hills as Torrents Pour Over Shattered Barrier. BOATMEN RESCUE MANY Collapse at Other Points Expected, as Heavy Rains Continue. By United Press CHARLESTON, Miss., Jan. 16—A fresh break in the Tallahatchie river levee system sent a wall of flood water roaring into the Tippo basin today, menacing the lives of more than a thousand inhabitants. Cut off by other flood waters, families were forced to seek safety in nearby hills. Boats plied back and forth all night, bringing out those trapped by the unexpected rise. No lives were reported lost but there was fear that some might be reported after a complete check. Many home in the basin were surrounded by water before the new rise, but the occupants had not abandoned them. George Merriweather, editor of a weekly newspaper here, said today he believed there were ample boats to remove all in peril. Many Are Trapped He declared it was unlikely that there would be any great loss of life, as the break had been feared for several days. J. W. Harris, a physician of Swan Lake, Miss., told of being on the outskirts of the basin shortly after the rise began. He estimated there might be as many as 5,000 persons living in it, but said rescue would have to be effected from the other side of the lowlands, as Swan Lake was shut off from the basin by flood waters. Torrents from the Tallahatchie have been lapping at the levees protecting the Tippo basin for several weeks, but the break did not come until Friday night. It was reported the levee crumbled in three places as the river, swelled by continued rains, burst its bounds. Town Is Threatened Glendora, situated farther down the river, was a scene of activity today,' Surrounded by greater flood threats, the little town was tarrying on In its work to stave off the levee breaks. More were threatened each hour as the river continued to rise. Charleston housed many homeless families today, and as more from the basin left their homes it was expected that shelter facilities would be .taxed to the utmost before nightfall.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Week-end profit taking brought irregularity into the Stock Exchange today. Gains and losses were about evenly distributed. Steel common slipped back to 45% off V&, and small declines were noted in American Can, Westinghouse Electric, Dupont, Standard Brands,, Electric Power and Light, Auburn Auto and National Power and Light. American Telephone held at the pre close of 12214 and a steady tone was noted in several of the railroad shares, coppers and motors. Western Union rose nearly a. point to 44%, while smaller gains were noted in Standard of New Jersey, Packard, B rooklyn Manhattan Transit, Consolidated Gas, Lorilalrd, International Nickel and Vanadium. Tickers barely moved and both buyers and sellers were reticent about making new commitments. Overnight market news was of little importance. The reconstruction finance corporation may be held up for another week while the house and senate iron out differences. The railroad w-age discussions were to be resumed today, but thus far while no definite decision has been reached, traders have discounted to a large extent a reduction of 10 per cent in w r ages. During the early trading there was a slight tendency toward lower prices. Steel common drifted to 44%, off Vi from the opening. Auburn, Case, American Can and other leaders eased off. Volume was small. New York Stocks Opening (By J. T. Hamill & Cos.) —Jan. 16. Air Red !i3% fc. Y. Cen 35% Atchison 89’i'N. Amer 36*4 Anaconda 11%: Nat. C. Reg 10% Am. F. Pw. .. B%'Penn. R. R. .. 22% Am. T. & T. .. 122>/!Packard 5 Auburn 447%iRadio 8% Bvers A. M .. 15 R. K. 0 6% Cons Gas 64‘VSinc. Oil 6 Case J I. ... 40% St. O. of N. J. 29% Ches. & O. ... 29% St. of Ind. ... 16% Gen. Foods ... 35% Texas Corp 13 Gen. Mot 23%U. S Steel ... 10% Gen. El 25% U. Aircraft ... 14% Goodyear 16% Un. Carbide .. 33% Gen. A. T. C.. 32%: Vanadium 15% Int. Nick 8 V Westinehouse... 29% Johns Manv. . 23 Woolworth 43% Mont. Ward .. 9% Chicago Stocks Opening (By James T. Hamill & Co.> —Jan. 16— Bendix Ayia ... 18% Insull com ....>5% Bore Warnrr... il% Insull 6a 40... ?5 Cord Corp 7% Middle West.... 6~s Cont Chi Com. 2 Sbd Util 1% Comm Edison. 118 Swift Inti ...... 22% Griesbv Grunow I*4 U S Rad & Tel. 12% Gt Lks Arcft.. 1% Ut & Ind Dfd.. 9% Houd Hersh 8.. 3%i Recovers in Suicide Effort Mrs. Susie Thompson, 58, of 723 North Alabama street, is recovering at the Methodist hospital today from effects of a suicide attempt Friday. Mrs. Thon\pson was rescued from her gas-fillcafcroom by neighbors.

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Murder!

Hawaiian Tragedy First Blow at Happiness of Grace Fortescue.

BY HELEN WORDEN Written for NEA Service NEW YORK, Jan. 16—For the first time in forty years of particularly happy living all over the world, life has ceased to be a gay adventure to Grace Bell Fortescue. But while she is held in Honolulu, along with her son-in-law and two

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airplane for the coast to catch the first fast boat for Honolulu. Her two daughters, Helene and Kenyon Fortescue, are already in Honolulu. Her third daughter, Rion (short for Marion) who is at Oxford working for a degree, has phoned from London that she leaves on the next boat for America. Her stepmother, Mrs. Charles Bell, who is wintering ia Rome, has cabled her intention of coming immediately. Her sister Helen, Mrs. Julian Ashton Ripley, of New York, who also

w r as in Europe, is enroute home to help. Her husband, Col. Granville Fortescue, who was gassed in the World war, is seriously ill here and unable to go to her aid. Dozens of friends both here and in Washington signify their willingness to aid her. Both Mrs. Fortescue’s family and her friends

carry the weight of gilt-edged society with them. She herself was born with a golden spoon in her mouth! u tt a NIECE of the famous Alexander Graham Bell and granddaughter of Gardiner Hubbard, wealthy Bostonian who financed Bell when he first put the telephone on the market, Grace Bell Fortescue’s childhood was one of glamour. She and her brother, Bobbie and sister, Helen,- spent their winters in the great Bell home in Connecticut avenue, Washington, still one of the show-places’of the capital.-

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of Rough Riders. From Washington, Granville Fortescue and his bride went to Central America, on official business. From Central America the Fortescues went to Europe and from then to the present time has been spent in the Orient, .in Europe and other foreign parts of the world. U tt tt J[£ST' before the war. their last child was born in Ostend. Getting h’er family of four little girls out of Belgium was a task to test the braveness of any woman, for Fortescue who was a war correspondent, was ordered on. At this time, Robert Bell, her brother, came to her rescue just as she and her brood took the boat from Calais to Dover. He could never speak highly enough of his sister’s cour-

age at that time. From England, Mrs. Fortescue sent two of her girls to her sister, Mrs. Ripley, and leaving the others in excellent care, joined her husband at the front, in Warsaw. Since the war, the family has divided its time between globe trotting, the old family home in Washington and many happy

months in Long Island, in the huge mid-Victorian house that belonged to the Roosevelts. U tt SLIM, boyish in figure, with only slight gray in her dark hair, Mrs. Grace Fortescue today is known as a normal, healthy, courageous type of outdoor woman. She plays bridge perfectly, is devoted to j both golf and riding, and still has time to do the domestic things a real-home-maker does. She was at their Long Island j home on a Sunday night when news i came of the attack on her daughter j Thalia, Mrs. Thomas H. Massie. By i dawn Monday she was flying to the | coast to catch a boat to Honolulu, i Her daughter Thalia, who has Mrs. Fortescue’s blue eyes, but is fair, instead of dark, like her mother, was her first-born. Her romantic marriage with the young naval officer from Annapolis, Thomas H. Massie, had delighted the mother’s heart. Now, from the comers of the earth, others are flying to Mrs. Fortescue’s aid as she awaits trial in Honolulu in connection with murder of the man she believed to have wronged her daughter. *' i

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JOHNSON QUIZ STIRS SCANDAL ON U.S.LOANS Foreign Bond Inquiry Bares Bad Business Deals, Hints at ‘Pressure.’ CLOSES CASE TODAY, California Senator Will Demand Legislation to Protect Investors. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Senator Johnson (Rep., Cal.) is ready to close his case today in the foreign bond investigation. At the crest of a wave of startling testimony, he is preparing to end the inquiry abruptly with two more state department witnesses. Johnson will go before the senate next week to analyze the record as it stands. He will demand legislation to protect investing interests in future flotation of foreign securities. The Californian believes he has his case in good shape, probably as complete as It ever will be. He could go on for months checking various aspects of the more than $815,000,000 of South American bonds now in default. Cuban Loan Mentioned Dozens of possible witnesses have been mentioned in testimony. Some important leads have been suggested in connection with Chilean and Cuban loans. The Cuban mater was brought up by Senator King <Dem„ Utah), who touched upon a sugar loan only in general terms. He asked a state department witness if any commission had been paid a government official and then dropped the matter. In connection with Chilean nitrate concessions, Johnson is preparing to put into the record a report of a subcommittee of the Chilean congress regarding the Cosach nitrate agreement of Guggenheim interests. No evidence has been given thus far to indicate it had any connection with a loan. Facts Are Developed In five weeks since congress convened.. the inquiry has developed the following outstanding facts: 1. More than $10,000,000,000 of foreign securities have been floated in this country, all of which are depreciated and some of which are in default. 2. In making loans to Peru, an alleged bribe of $416,200 was paid to the son of the president of Peru. 3. A $4,000,000 Colombia credit was held up by New York bankers, only to be granted ten days after Colombia reinstated the Barco oil concession of the Morgan-Mellon interests. The state department, which urged the bankers to grant the concession, repeatedly has denied there was any connection between the two developments. Warned Against Loans 4. The commerce department warned repeatedly against loans to many South American countries in 1927, but the state department sanctioned the loans from a diplomatic viewpoint. Most of the loans are now in default. 5. Bankers have admitted they made mistakes in overestimating the credit possibilities of South American and some European nations. The two witnesses with whom Johnson expects to conclude are Jefferson Caffrey, minister to Colombia, and Freeman Matthews, an assistant in the Latin American division of the statedepartment. HOLD 11 IN BOOZE RING Federal Special Agents Expect More Arrests, They Say. With eleven members of the alleged giant liquor ring at Anderson slated on federal booze charges here, at least a half dozen more arrests are expected scon by federal special agents. The eventh member of the allegd ring, Harry' King, operator of an Anderson dance hall, was arraigned Friday before Federal Commissioner Fae W. Patrick, waived, and was bound over to the grand jury under 52,500 bond. Ten other men were taken into custody by the special agents Thursday, and were put under bonds ranging from $15,000 to $1,500. CROWLEY IS SOUGHT lowa Invites Michigan State Coach to Hold Conference. By United Press EAST LANSING. Mich., Jan. 16. —Jim Crowley, football coach at Michigan State college, has been invited to go to lowa City next week for a conference concerning the head football coaching position at the University of lowa. Crowley said: “If it is an attractive offer I certainly shall consider it. However, if I accepted I’d have to get my release from Michigan State, where my contract has two more years.” Sheep Injures Woman By Times Special WABASH, Ind., Jan. 16.—Attacked by a sheep in the yard of her home, Mrs. Asa Driggs suffered a broken leg, cuts and bruises.

sailors in connection with the murder of a Hawaiian, from the four corners of the globe her relatives are rushing to her defense with all the fierce clan spirit of a wandering tribe. Her brother, Robert Bell, of New York and Washington, has chartered an

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Asa popular young belle, Grace Bell was an outdoor enthusiast, an excellent golfer and even better horsewoman. It was this love of horses that was one of the great attractions between herself and the debonair Granville Fortescue, cousin of Theodore Roosevelt and, one of the famous troop

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