Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1932 — Page 9

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HALT CALLED ON ‘RUSH ACF OF CORONER City Hospital Orders Wait of 48 Hours Before Embalming. AGREEMENT UNDER FIRE Undertakers Assail Pact Made With Association by Vehling. Hurried embalmings by the Askin College of Embalming, whose activities have the support of Coroner Fred W. Vehling, now under criminal indictment, were blocked today by Dr. Charles W. Myers, superintendent of city hospital. Myers issued an order which prevents embalming of bodies of unidentified persons until forty-eight hours have elapsed after receipt of the bodies at the institution. This will apply in all cases, except where relatives of deceased persons give permission for performance of the embalming. Members of the city health board are supporting Meyers in his stand against the hurried embalmings. Sets 48-hour Limit “At a recent meeting of the health board it was decided that no embalming of bodies is to be done on these premises within forty-eight hours from the time the body is placed in the morgue, except with knowledge and consent of the rearest relative,” Myers’ order reads. "It therefore, is requested that all concerned will govern themselves accordingly, and that no unidentified bodies will be embalmed at this institution until a period of forty-eight hours has elapsed.” In the meantime, insurgent members of the Indiana Funeral Directors’ Association are preparing to battle the “agreement” of the association with Vehling and C. G. Askin, head of the Askin College of Embalming, which permits the rush embalming. Many undertakers said they signed an “agreement” as members of the association when it was submitted to them individually by Bert S. Gadd, president, but the charge sections relating to hurried embalming were added later. Time Held Too ( Short The “agreement” over which contention flared in the association's ranks provided immediate embalming of bodies of persons found dead Where persons died or were killed in the presence of witnesses, the “agreement” provided two hours should elapse before embalming was performed. City officials held in the case of unidentified persons, newspapers would not have opportunity to broadcast information which might lead to Identification of victims. "I plan to seek co-operation of newspapers in publishing descriptions of the persons who die in this institution,” Dr. Myers said today. “Death strikes under peculiar circumstances and many times the/e are no way of identification. Relatives should have opportunity to learn of the death through the papers or other channels. Halts Old Practice Under the two-hour rule, it was pointed out. with knowledge of death, relatives might not have opportunity to decide on an undertaker and make other plans before embalming took place. Myers’ order also will halt the provision of the “agreement” that students of the embalming school or any one else will proceed with the operation if city hospital records do not state relatives have selected an undertaker. The agreement was signed shortly before Vehling was indicted, and later charged in an affidavit with soliciting a bribe in a gas death ease. Vehling’s trial tentatively has been set for Jan. 25. DRY ACT IS RENOUNCED I'll I illicit Press TRENTON, N. J.. Jan. 19.—Republicans and Democrats in the New Jersey state assembly joined forces to pass a dry re ire a 1 bill. 42 lo 15. in a strategic move on the eve of Governor A. Harry Moore’s inauguration. The house. Democratic for the first time in seventeen years, called from committee Monday night the Republican measure repealing the Hobart law. the state’s prohibition act on the statute books since 1922. The minority party was surprised, but wet Republicans voted for the measure, with only the fifteen staunch drys opposing it. Poor Little Rich’ Back at School 7?;/ United Press CHICAGO, Jan 19 —The poor little rich children of wealthy Glencoe, Chicago suburb, have come to the end of their forced vacation trom school. Idle since the Christmas holidays, they will return to classes Thursday. Sale of tax warrants provided funds sufficient to run schools until March.

Fire Department Is Put on Cash and Carry Plan By L nited Press Jan. 19.—Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb, has put Arc protection on a ‘‘cash -and carry” basis. rnn pLca^ii depa fi men j ls unpaid and serving voluntarily. Chief T aSa d ’, and as iong as 11131 *oes on, there win be a service charge on alarms. n,.f Zs! S o hat Ve Ft, Melrose Park don’t have to pay when we ia s * Chlef p afsarella explained, ‘but we’re charging for any foreign fires we put out." Bi * uati . oll when Arthur H. Landgredar. a nonwfi d f com f plai " ed T thf> fi, o department was holding his automobile in lieu of $25. Langredars car caught fire in Melrose and the fire department extinguished the fire. ‘‘Well keep the car till he pays.’ Chief Passarella said, ‘‘and if people don t pay for our trips, we’ll just stop putting out fires altogether.”

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Ethel Butler Wehle It was a romance of the marine corps that culminated in the engagement of Ethel Peters Butler, daughter of Major-General Smedley D. Butler, retired, to Lieutenant John Wehle. They met at Quantico, (Va.) marine past, formerly commonded by General Butler. SIX KILLED IN BLAST Entombed Miners Found Dead by Rescuers. V.ii i nih il Press PARROTT, Va., Jan. 19.—Bodies of six men, killed in an explosion deep in the Pulaski anthracite mine, were recovered early today by a rescue squad which had battled tor hours against debris and gases to reach their entombed comrades. The dead: Frank Seffered, Dewey Seffered. Harvey Seffered, none of them brothers, Ernest Snead and Foster and Artie Boyd, brothers. The positions of their bodies indicated all had died instantly. The remaining fourteen men of the late shift managed to reach the surface safely, though several were so dazed and stupefied by the mad rush over the debris and through the deadly gases in the shaft that they stumbled and fell as they reached the outside. URGES LAW TO FORCE FULL UTILITY REPORTS Texas Senator Predicts Congress Will Enact Remedial Measure. lift Sri ipps-ll menrd Seiesynper Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. tion directing publication, under federal supervision, of details concerning assets, liabilities, tures and earnings of interstate public utlity holding corporations will be enacted bv congress following a study being made by the house interstate commerce committee, Representative Sam Rayburn of Texas, chairman, predicted today. Such a law. Professor William Z. Ripley, Harvard economist, told the senate committee investigating the banking situation, is more necessary than the regulation of utility rates. “Tlie most glaring need for intelligent, adequate and comparable publicity exists for utilities corporations.” Ripley said. MINERS ARE TAKEN FOR RIDE, LASHED Pair Missing Since Friday Claim Harlan County "Law” Beat Them. /<’,'/ l hi ted l'reus KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 19. Joe Weber, Pittsburgh, an organizer for the National Miners Union, bared his back today and exhibited two foot-long welts, that he said were administered “by the Harlan county law,” early last Saturday, at Lynch, Ky. Weber with Bill Duncan, member of the N. M. U. at Pineville, Ky., had been missing since Friday night. They told of alleged death threats on a wild automobile ride through two states. Weber and Duncan were found here today in a small hotel. They said they drove from Appalachia, Va., where they had spent two days in bed recovering from their wounds. Rugs, Wearing Apparel Stolen Theft of rugs, valued at SIOO, and wearing apparel trom the basement of an apartment at 3726 North Meridian street, was reported to police today by Charles H. Hard, Apartment 32.

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UNIONS STAND PAT ON WAGE CUT DEMANDS ‘Restore Jobless and We’ll Take Slash,’ Rail Heads Are Told. CONFERENCE TO GO ON Labor Leaders Insist Old Workers Be Given Back Jobs. BY JOHN B. MILLER United Press Staff Corresooisdent CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—1f railroads will guarantee their 1,900,000 union employee as much work as they had in 1930, the workers will agree to a 10 per cent wage cut to revive the impoverished industry. That, appeared today to be the status of the negotiations of the conference of nine railroad presidents and twenty-one union executives over the plight of the railroad business. The question put to the rail executives by David B. Robertson, chairman of the union executive committee, was: “Would the railroads agree to guarantee, during the period for which they have proposed a pay roll deduction (one year) to maintain as a minimum amount of work not less than the total man hours worked by each class of employes In 1930? Agreement Required “The distribution of this work would be made by mutual agreement between the representatives of the employes affected and the management of each railroad, contemplating th full observance of existing schedule rules unless otherwise agreed by the parties to the existing agreement.” As to the Pullman company this suggestion contemplates restoration to service of conductors in service as of Jan. 1, 1930, so far as the lines remain in operation. Labor leaders intimated that acceptance of this plan covering their principal demand for stabilized employment would be followed by agreement to the wage slash. Robertson pointed out there were considerably fewer rail employes in 1930 than in 1929 and about 10 per cent more than in 1931. It was believed the proposal had been so worded to allow adoption, in part, at least, of the union suggestion of a six-hour working day if this plan is found to be feasible. Cold to Shorter Hours Thus far the rail executives have opposed even appointment of a committee to study reduced working hours, sought by labor to spread employment among the 500,000 idle union members. Robertson explained the phrase concerning the Pullman company, meant the unions did not wish porters to do the won; of conductors along- with their own as in some instances at present. The question of regional placement bureaus appeared settled, except for minor details with the suggestion by the railroads that bureaus be set up under E. J. McClees at New York, N. V/. Higgins at Chicago and C. P. Neill at Washington The unions regarded this suggestion as satisfactory. Indication of the probable length of the negotiations w r as given when the ballroom in which the meetings are held was reserved until Jan. 27 for deliberations.

ORGANIZATIONS JOIN IN LABOR CAMPAIGN

Legion Back of Drive for 1,000,000 Jobs for Unemployed. , By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-A new “““J® 1 or § a nization to get jobs for 1,000,000 unemployed persons was at work actively today. Backed by the American Legion, the American Federation of Labor and the Association of National Advertisers, the organization also is going out to restore public confidence and effect a resumption of normal buying. A regular wartime organization is being created. The plan is this: The American Legion is organizing six regional committees. Through the forty-eight state commanders, 10,800 local committees are being organized in every city and town of any size in the United States. > These local committees are inviting to membership leading bankers, newspaper publishers and editors, manufacturers and retailers, representatives of labor, civic and religious leaders. The committees will canvas industry and homes to obtian an increase in employment. They will urge the use of the best features of the Rochester plan, the Buffalo plan and the Muncie plan, all based on the idea of an immediate expenditure requiring the employment of labor Large corporations will be asked to increase their personnel by 10 per cent. A number already have indicated they will. At the helm of the national organization is Carl Byoir, publisher of the Havana Post, and war-time associate chairman of the committee on public information. Working with him are ivffctthew Woll. vice-president of the American Federation of Labor: Lee H. Bristol, president or the Association of National Advertisers, and National Commander Henry L. Stevens of the American Legion. Frederick Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, is chairman of the division of news. ■■

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1932

An Editorial Slash Those Rates! Not Tomorrow, But Today!

Four members of the public service commission have ordered a 20 per cent reduction of electric rates in the city of Marion. One of the members who voted for this reduction has charge of the petition of the city of Indianapolis and the south side civic clubs for a reduction of rates in this city. If the argument of depression and excessive cost was valid in Marion, it is twice as valid in this city. A comparison of rates charged in the two cities shows that the people of this city pay much more than the people of Marion paid under the old rates which were ordered reduced. To be exact, were the rates of Indianapolis reduced by the same percentage as that ordered for Marion, the rates then would be approximately the old rates in Marion which are declared 20 per cent excessive. The rate schedules are somewhat different in basis, but the average rates in Marion are about mills per kilowatt hour lower than those charged in this city. The rates in this city should be lower, not higher, than in the smaller cities of the state. The volume of business

EIGHT IN SUIT ASK RECEIVER Mastoker, Inc., Defendant in Peru Case. By Times Special PERU, Ind., Jan. 19.—Suite is on file in Miami circuit court here asking a receiver be appointed for Mastoker, Inc., Lafayette, formerly a local industry. The suit, filed by eight stockholders and creditors, alleges misappropriation of the firm’s funds and schemes to keep stockholders ignorant of its affairs. Arthur V. Samsel, Peru, who invented machines manufactured by the corporation, is said to be friendly to plaintiffs in the case, but his names does not appear among those asking a receivership. Plaintiffs are Joseph Miller, Harry Thompson, Charles, Mary and Jean Rohrer, Oliver F. Rhodes, William Henderson and Lillian Beasenfelder. TARBIEU ARMS HEAD War Minister Will Lead French at Geneva. By ('piled Press PARIS, Jan. 19.—Minister of War Andre Tardieu was named today to head the French delegation to the world disarmament conference at Geneva. As premier, Tardieu was chief delegate to the London naval conference of 1930. He was expected to carry out the “big army” policies of his predecessor at the war ministry, the late Andre Maginot. Joseph Paul-Boncour will be vicepresident of the delegation which will include Minister of Navy Charles D”-.nont, Minister of Air Jacques Dusmenil. Jean Fabry, Paul Reynaud and C. J. Gignoux. Experts who will accompany the delegates will be named later.' URGES CUT BILL Senator Borah Would Reduce All Salaries, But President's, Judges’. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—A bill to reduce federal salaries, except those of the President and the judiciary, was introduced in the senate today by Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho). Borah's bill would reduce salaries of from $5,000 to $7,000 by 6 per cent; $7,00* > to SIO,OOO, 10 per cent; above SIO,OOO, 20 per cent. Enactment of the bill would cost Borah SI,OOO annually in salary.

LEGION BEGINS DRIVE FOR INCREASE IN JOBS Town Will Be Canvassed in Effort to Put Men to Work. A “man-a-block” campaign, to be sponsored by American Legion posts throughout the country, is expected to put at least 1,000,000 men back to work by Feb. 15. Each city block will be canvassed in an effort to encourage remodeling, painting and other odd jobs which will provide temporary employment. Details of the plan, and of the six-hour-day movement, were outlined by Henry L. Stevens, national commander, at a buffet supper Monday night in the home of Dr. A. E. Cory, director of the Disciples of Christ pension fund. Bowman Elder, legion national treasurer, and twenty pastors were guests of Dr. Cory. ’LEGGER IS CONVICTED Blind Pig Operator Given Suspended Sentence and Jail Term. After several continuances, Everett Wayte, 625 East Tenth -treet, today was convicted of operating a blind tiger by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Fine of SIOO and thirty-day jail sentence was suspended on payment of costs. Wayte was arrested by Sergeant Harold Morton, who said he found more than forty quarts of beer in Wayte’s home Dec. 14, 1931. RENA ME WETeRB AC HER Physician Again Chosen as Head of St. Vincent Staff. Dr. A. F. Weyerbacher was renamed president of the medical staff of St. Vincent's hospital Monday night at the annual election. Other officers renamed were Drs. M. Joseph Barry, vice-president; Bernard J Larkin, secretary, and Carl Habich and J. ,M. Cunningham directors!, u

GIRL POET BRINGS VERSES FOR SALE

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Writing poetry and “ pamphleteering” her books, Miss Goldie Laden, 22, is in the city today on a four-year canvassing tour which has carried her into forty-three states, where she has sold more than 17,000 volumes.

Miss Goldie Laden Has: Vagabonded Into 43 States. A blue-eyed, freckle-faced girl of 22, who has “pamphleteered” her way into success as a poet is a visitor here today. She 'is Miss Goldie Laden of Chickasha, Okla., who, by virtue of the rare combination of writing ability and salesmanship has earned the unofficial title, “poet laureate of America.” For four years her unique “oddessy” has carried her into fortythree states, selling copies of her first book of poems, “Dreams of Youth,” many of which she wrote since the age of 10. She has sold 17,000 copies “direct to the reader.” Vachel Lindsay Her Example It is by this method, Miss Laden believes, that poetry is presented at its best, and she points to the poet Vachel Lindsay, from whom she accepted the advice to “pamphleteer.” “And I’ve been very successful,” Miss Laden assures. “My book has paid my way into every large city and I’ve met many famous people, especially poets.” Between canvassing of office buildings, Miss Laden finds time to study philosophy and theology two hours a day, she says. “Two-thirds of my books are sold to girls. They read more than men, you know. The business man thinks he knows everything, and therefore isn’t interested in poetry. “But,” she said, “you’d be surprised how many business men write poetry.” New Book Coming She has met President Hoover, and has talked with the late Henry Van Dyke, who said of her poetry: “It was refreshing to meet you and read your verse, so full of poetic spirit and fresh, joyous feeling . . . I hope that the practice of it will continue to give you much happiness, which you will share with others.” Her next book of poems, “Deep Water,” soon will be published. This, she says, she also will s**ll direct to the reader. Now she is writing of her experiences as a poetsalesman, a book which will be entitled “Adventures of a Modem Troubadour.” Her father accompanies her on all her “tours.” THOUSANDS ASK REPEAL Seattle Voters Jam City Building to Sign Wet Petition. By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 19. —More than 20,000 signatures were affixed today to petitions seeking an initiative repeal of Washington state’s dry law. Eager signers jammed the citycounty building here until the corridors were blocked and the number of circulators were reduced to one in order not to inerfere with normal business. The lone petition, however, gathered thousands of signatures and more were expected today.

transacted makes for lower cost of production and distribution. Electricity is manufactured under the same laws and rules of economics as control costs in the manufacture of any other article. The greater production reduces the unit cost, whether it be in automobiles, clothing or kilowatt hours of electricity. What excuse can any of these four commissioners give for delay in following the precedent they have fixed for the city of Marion? The same depression which the commission noted in Marion, the same reduction in prices of materials and labor necessary to reproduce the plants, the same economic trends which were the basis of this order are present in this city. The people of this city are entitled to relief. The city has given other reasons for relief in the methods used by the local company in the purchase of coal and the payment of tribute of various kinds to the holding company. The city has called attention to the enormous dividends paid on the common stock of the company. The rates should be cut—not tomorrow or next week or a year hence, but today.

CHINESE ARE ROUTED Heavy Casualties Reported on Manchu Front. By United Press TOKIO, Jan. 19.—Japanese troops defeated 1,500 Chinese irregulars today at Diuchuang in one of the heaviest engagements in recent Manchurian fighting, advices received here said. It also was reported that Japanese had defeated 400 Chinese and occupied the walled town of Wutangpao, five miles north of Tangshancheng on the Mukdenantung railroad. Both sides reportedly suffered extensive casualties. Fighting at Diuchuang, a fortified city, lasted throughout the night. Japanese were victorious only after reinforcements arrived from Shaping and Heichen. Some buildings were fired. CLAP HANDS FOR SLUMP America’s Depression Only Thing World Applauds, Rogers Says. By United Press ROME, Jan. 19. —The depression in the United States is about the only thing the rest of the world has to applaud, Will Rogers said on his arrival here by air from Singapore, “I found tlie world nothing but an experiment. Russia, India and China are all experiments. Besides, everybody is applauding the depression of Uncle Sam and if they didn’t have this they would have nothing else.” Rogers left for London to meet his wife.

American Girl, Who Married Indian Croesus, Back for Visit ■ - ■ By United Press ■

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Nancy Miller, the American girl married to an ex-Maharajah of India, who is worth $300,000,000, arrived in New York today for her first visit to her relatives in four years. She arrived on board the Lloyd Sbando liner Conte Biancamano from Naples and left immediately for her home in Seattle. The maharani, whose Indian name is Sharmishthabai Holkar of Indore, left her two small daughters, Sharoda, age 3, and Sita, age 1, at Heliopolis, Egypt, with their father. She said reports that the ex-Mara-jah of Indore who lost his throne in 1926 as a result of a scandal over Mumtaz Begum a beautiful nautch girl, and was unhappy because she had presented him only with daughters, were absurd. “It makes absolutely no difference,” she said. “The prince’s son by his first

marriage is on the throne of Indore now. My having a son would not make the slightest difference. We are happy with .what we have* 1

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Entered an Second-Clan Matter at Poetofflee. Indianapolis, Ind.

LIFE CONVICT TO RE HEARD ‘Black Tom’ Evans Given Day for Freedom Plea. By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 19.—Indiana prison trustees have set aside an entire day. Jan. 27, to hear the plea for freedom of Black Tom Evans, life convict. He was sentenced here for the murder of his sweetheart, Ruby Mauzy. A few months ago David Davis, Green river fisherman, declared that his former partner. Aubrey Quinn, confessed he was the killer. Quinn died while serving a term at the state penal farm for another offense. According to Davis, the murder resulted from refusal of the victim to live with Quinn. A confession was introduced at Evans’ trial, but he contended thirddegree methods of police caused him to admit the crime. RETURN ‘FROM DEAD’ Fishermen, Believed Lost, Master Lake Gale. By United, Press ONTONAGON, Mich., Jan. 19. Given up for dead after being lost for days in a tiny boat on icy Lake Superior, two brothers today were ready to set out for home back over the treacherous inland sea. Allison and Manning Boutin, 27 and 24 years old, made their way here after being cut off from a fishing fleet in their open motorboat last Wednesday by heavy winds and a snowstorm. Fellow fisherman from Bayfield, Wis., their home, and a coast guard cutter from Two Harvors, Minn., searched unavailingly for the pair and finally gave up the hunt. Exposed to fierce gales and with only a few raw fish for food, the brothers were driven across the open lake 110 miles to this little fishing port. Gasoline soon was exhausted. Huge waves drenched the pair in the freezing temperature. They bailed constantly to keep the boat afloat. MINER-PREACHER TO LECTURE AT CENTER Kentucky Native on Tour Sponsored by Labor Defense. The Rev. J. M. Grace, who for twenty-three years has combined preaching with coal digging to earn a living in the Kentucky mine district, will speak at 8 tonight at Workers’ Center, 98214 South Meridian street. He is on a national tour sponsored by the International Labor Defense, and pleads in behalf of the striking Kentucky miners. Mr. Grace, a minister of the southern Methodist church, long has been active in the organization of Kentucky miners. Recently he joined the National Miners’ union and attempted militant organization of the workers. He was arrested in Neon, Ky., then taken out of jail by an armed band from Harlan, Ky., and beaten into unconsciousness. Postmastership Open Receipts of applications for four Indiana postmasterships will end Feb, 12, it is announced by the United States civil service commission. Points where positions are open and the annual salary of each are Grandview, $1,900; Milan, $2,100; Sharpsville, $1,700, and Wingate, $1,300.

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LESLIE FROWNS ON HARTZELL’S ECONOMY PLAN Wage Cutting Not Path Toward Prosperity, Governor Asserts. DEFENDS TEACHERS’ PAY Inefficiency Charge Against State Employes Brand- ‘ ed ‘False.’ Cutting the minimum wage of teachers, which is now SBOO a year, is not the solution of governmental problems in the present crisis in the opinion of Governor Harry G. Leslie. The Governor today took a strong stand against economies proposed here Saturday by Senator Lee J. Hartzell, Ft. Wayne. Hartzell is a Republican and president pro tem. of the senate. He arranged the so-called “secret meeting” of the senators which newspaper men attended. ‘‘A member of the legislature meeting here sixty-one days receives $6lO. which is more than two-thirds of the minimum wage of a teacher for nine months’ work, “Governor Leslie pointed out. “Surely the teacher’s service is just as valuable and the public school is not the place to begin the practice of economy. Cites Small Salaries “Right now it is difficult for any one to secure a job, and with adults and heads of families out of work, no one wants children of school age to enter industry. It is a period when school services should be expanded and not curtailed.” The Governor cited the small salaries generally paid in state governmental position and said that reducing these wages is not the way to bring back prosperity. “There are many men in the employ of the state who are working for purely patriotic purposes and have left high remunerative jobs in private life to become public servants,” Governor Leslie declared. Points to Tax Veto “To charge them with inefficiency and lack of ability and qualification for their job is falsehood. “These same legislators who now are shouting for extreme economy voted for measures which would have doubled the tax rate had I not vetoed them.’’ Hartzell’s whole idea about a special session of the legislature was expressed in his condemnation of the cost of government and he declared in a letter to senators suggesting the “secret meeting” that he would oppose any new revenueraising measures. Opposes Special Session Governor Leslie pointed out that in his message to the legislature at the 1931 session he directed their attention to the real problem which is the burdensome tax load being carried by real estate and personal property. Nothing was done to relieve the situation and he will not call a special session until some concrete plan of relief is agreed upon, he declared. The Saturday meeting of the senators demonstrated the difficulty of reaching any agreement and special legislative sessions called in other states have thus far been largely futile, the Governor asserted. NEWSPAPER ABANDONS COURT WAR ON JUDGE Ban Order in Miner Trial No Longer Effective, Suit Dropped. By United Press FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 19. The Kentucky court of appeals today dismissed without prejudice two applications of the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel for permanent writs of prohibition against Judge Henry R. Prewitt of Mt. Sterling, seeking to set aside a ruling by which he barred the newspaper’s reporters from trial of a miner on a conspiracy to murder charge. The dismissal was on motion of attorneys for the News-Sentinel, who set forth that Judge Prewitt had withdrawn his exclusion order against its reporters. Paul Patterson of Cleveland, attorney for the paper, moved the dismissal. It leaves the way clear for any subsequent proceedings in the case which had been presented to the appeals court by Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, as involving an issue of press freedom.

THE princess said she would make a quick trip to Seattle and then rejoin her husband either in France or in Egypt, staying in Seattle for about two weeks. The maharani was accompanied by a Hindu secretary who watched her every movement and guarded her from unwelcome intrusion. There also was a small retinue of servants and a French girl companion. She was in mourning for her grandmother who died in October. Her smart Parisian ensemble was all black. She wore a form-fitting French hat, which she had tilted on the side of her head. With her was a black and white collie which she is taking to her ill grandfather, Louis Schaeffer, as a present. On the voyage, the maharani kept very much to herself. She had her meals with her secretary and companion at a side table in an inconspicuous part of the dining salon. Once or twice while promenade, when she spoke to men she was quickly called away by the