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POLICE ORDER HALTS SCHOEN KILLING PROBE Detectives Called Off Case After Weeks Spent in Seeking Slayers. RETICENT ON REASONS Definite Progress Indicated Toward Finding Key Men in Crime. Police investigation of the unsolved gangster murder of Norman Schoen, Indianapolis patrolman, has been halted suddenly, it was learned today. Despite assertions of high city officials that the probe would continue until solution of the crime, Detectives Stewart Coleman and Morris Corbin admitted they now have ‘ other assignments.” According to the detectives, questioned by The Times, the order to resume regular duties in the detective department was issued late Wednesday. Detective Chief Fred Simon would not. comment on the change of orders to the investigators, but Cole-, man declared "the ease is not closed.” Mayor Sullivan declared he knew nothing of the "recall” order. Spend Weeks in Search Chief Mike Morrissey today said. "As far as I know, the detectives have not been taken entirely off the rase. Ask Corbin, he knows.” Halt in the investigation came aft ri the detectives had spent weeks gathering evidence pointing to the slayers. They had traveled throughout the state obtaining information, now cold since the murder and a hasty investigation more than four years ago. Neither of the detectives would confirm reports of progress in nearing solution of the crime, but it was reported that the investigation has led into underworlds in this city and other large cities in the state. It also was reported reliably that Ihe officers’ probe now hangs on the statement of one man. With this statement, it is said, the case woulci be solved within a few weeks. Slain Near Home Schoen was slain near midnight March 6, 1928, within a few yards of his home on Irvington avenue. He was shot down by two men, who awaited his arrival. They fled in a car after the crime. Prior to the slaying, Schoen had been beaten twice in Military park, with the warning “you know too much, lay off.” According to information, solution of the Schoen slaying would result in an upheavel in local crime circles, solution of another murder three years ago, and a society jewel robbery. The Times reopened investigation of the Schoen slaying seven months ago. Later, city and police officials agreed to carry on the probe, and Corbin and Coleman, although it was not revealed at the time, were assigned to the case "and do nothing else." Follows ‘Economy’ Expose Recall of the officers came within a few hours after The Times Wednesday revealed how the "economy” move at police headquarters, which caused discharge of Mrs. Ruth F. Schoen, widow of the slain officer. actually has cost the city several thousand dollars. Mrs. Schoen, mother of two children. was fired recently and the safety board' has refused to reinstate her. Morrissey declared her riif nissal was because of ‘'economy,” but records reveal that more money now is being spent for clerks and equipment in the new "economy” office. The murderers of Schoen still are alive, it Is reported, but. despite the offer of SIOO reward by Claude Worley then police chief, officers never have been able to capture them. •NO FISH?—GET" OUT!’ Wife Asks Divorce Because Mate Never Came Home With Catch. fin United Pres* DETROIT. April 7.—Because her husband failed to bring fish home from his week-rnd trips. Mrs. Lillian F. Fuller has filed suit for divorce. "He told me he was going fishing,” she charged in her suit, "but I never saw any fish." BOY, 47 PROVES _ A~HERO Tears Blazing Clothing Off His Brother. 2; Saves His Life. By United Presg ANDERSON, Ind.. April 7.—Jack Eads, 4, saved the life of his 2-year-old brother Richard by tearing his clothes off after they had been ignited by matches with which the children were playing at their home near here.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 285

Able-Bodied War Veterans Get Millions From U. S. Treasury; Meager Sum Flung to Widows

A BURDEN THAT WILL CRUSH A NATION

Veterans’ relief is costing tnxpayers wore than a billion dollars a year. Another two billion dollars’ expenditure is proposed in the pending bonus hill. The history of this type of legislation is a revelation of congressional servility ond gross indifference to sound economy; if is n story of skyrocketing taxes and shameful human inequities. Veterans’ relief accounted, for 76 per rent of the 076 million dollar deficit; it got Itl per cent of the income tax in 1931, and, in 1932 will get all of the income tax and more In ten years veterans' relief will be, costing this country two billion dollars a.

DEADLY DEVICE MAY END WARS Weapon Effective at 1,000 Miles Offered U. S. By United Peru* WASHINGTON. April 7.—Lester P. Barlow, inventor of the depth bomb, today offered the United States government a mysterious war machine, which, he claims, will destroy cities or armies 1.000 miles away. He made the offer in a personal visit to President Herbert; Hoover. ‘‘l have nothing to sell,” said Barlow. "I am wiling to sign a contract with the secretary of war waiving any personal profit to me.” Barlow refused to divulge anything about his invention other than his claim of its effectiveness. Senator Lynn D. Frazier (Rep., N. D.) convinced that Barlow “has what he claims,” is author of a resolution to name a committee, which would investigate the purported discovery in deepest secrecy. Under the Frazier resolution two civilian '” , rineers, a Republican senator and a Democratic house member would form a committee to investigate his claims. They would be permitted to disclose their findings to the President and the secretaries of war and navy, and to report to congress without divulging the nature of the invention. His new device would end wars as all existing defensive armaments, including the heaviest battleships, would be. powerless against the weapon, Barlow claims.

Drunk? Bunk! Trainer Denies Pint of Booze Causes Elephant's Broken Leg.

By United Press Atlantic city, n. j., April 7.—Zoobu, 350-pound, $lO,000 baby elephant, is the first elephant on record in America to suffer a broken leg—and all, some are so prejudiced as to suggest, because she was given a pint of whisky for the colic. Her trainer, Karl (Dutch) Easquin, who confessed he gave his ailing charge a quart of mineral oil mixed with the pint of whisky, denied the broken leg was due to the whisky. "Zoobu never got drunk before.” he said, “and she wasn't drunk this time. She was just weak from colic.” which should be a good enough story in any man's court. a a a THE “baby's” bellowing could be heard all over the steel pier where the accident occurred. A hurry up call brought X-ray equipment from Philadelphia zoological gardens and the Ringling circus in New York. The X-ray showed the leg had been broken between the shoulder and the knee. Dr. W. J. Carrington, a physician here, and Dr. Louis Greenberg. a veterinarian, decided the leg could be set. Shooting Zoobu was out of the question—at least SIO,OOO out. • a a a WITH the assistance of twelve men and a block and tackle, the elephant was held on her side while the leg was placed in a plaster cast. Dr. Greenberg declared his patient w r as doing well and would be up and around in a month. “Dutch” was a little skeptical, however. He declared an elephant until it reached the age of 3 is more delicate than a human baby. Zoobu is only eleven months old. She was captured on the Malay peninsula when twelve days old. Zoobu is being kept in an incubator at a temperature of 92 degrees, and is fed boiled rice, oatmeal gruel, vegetables, fruits and a patent food for invalids.

DENIES CAPONE PLEDGE Judge Wilkerson Asserts No Promise Made on Sentence. Ky r tulcd Pirn* WASHINGTON, April 7—Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago, denied in a letter to Senator William E. Borah that he had made any agreement with United State? Attorney George E. Q. Johnson of Chicago with attorneys for A1 Capons_ as to Capone's sentence.

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year! it now is costing the taxpayers more than the army and nary combined. Veterans' relief gives the mother of a dead soldier S2O a month, but gives a veteran with a minor gland ailment 323 a month. If the present trend of government income, and the present trend of veterans' relief is maintained, the cost of veterans' relief will, by 1935, swallow the entire governmental income. The story of this staggering burden of expense is told in a,series of articles by Talcott Powell. The Times presents the first article herewith.

BY TALCO TT POWELL Action of Willard Straight Fost, American Legion, in New York City, in protesting the passage of further bonus legislation is a dramatic public challenge from within the legion of the veterans’ relief program, which now is costing the taxpayers more than one billion dollars a year. Quietlv and without fanfare, from year to year, this burden has been increased, until the care of veterans, disabled and sound, has become the most expensive function of the federal establishment. Constant pressure on congress by a powerful Washington lobby has brought into being bills which apparently represent no continuing policy, except that of tapping the treasury for greater sums each month. Ts nntViintr fnrthpr is added to the

If nothing further is added to the already existing legislation, experts calculate that the. total cost of World war veterans’ relief will reach one hundred billions of dollars by the time the last beneficiary has died. 1 Pension Drive Is Next Despite the economic slough into which the world is plunged, anew drive is under way at Washington to pay immediately more than two billion dollars in bonus to veterans. After that is out of the way, another campaign is planned for payment of a service pension to every individual w'ho served in the World war. A deficit of $976,000,000 appeared on the government’s books last year. Cost of veterans’ relief, without including money set aside to pay the present bonus, was 78 per cent of this. This relief took 15 per cent of the entire government revenue, 31 per cent of the income tax, and cost nearly a fifth of all government expenditures in 1931. It will take all the income tax and more besides I to meet the bills of ex-soldiers during 1932. Payments Mount Fast It was not until 1914 that the whole income of the federal establishment reached a billion dollars. To visualize such a sum, if a million represents one inch, a billion would be eighty-three feet. Under present laws, in a little more than a decade, payments to veterans will have mounted to almost two billion dollars a year, provided the United States treasury I can stand the pressure. Congress has not been lavish with j the dependents of those who died in the world’s bloodiest fighting. The widow who sent her only -son and : support away in 1917 to the strains j of “Over There,” never to see him again, now is receiving only S2O a month as her share of the billion dollars a year, unless she has insurance benefits w'hich her boy paid ! for himself before he died. The man who contracted mumps in a training camp and suffered, as a result, the permanent atrophy of one gland—a difficulty which medical opinion agrees is in no way disabling—receives a flat compensation of $25 a month. Poor Reward for Widow A woman with two children who lost her husband under the enemy guns gets $46 a month. Any veteran who could prove that he had a 10 per cent disability case of tuberculosis prior to 1925 which had been arrested completely and ! thus no longer was a handicap to his earning power now is getting j straight payments of SSO each month. Legislation on veterans’ relief is j full of such contrasts. Pressure for ; new legislation increasingly has been to get more for the living veteran, regardless of his need or earning power, rather than to place a higher value on the lives of those killed in : the war. Dead men have no political influence. Neither do they pay dues to support a Washington lobby. Veterans of wealth are receiving regular compensation they do not need. Athletes Listed as Disabled Professional athletes, policemen, firemen, all going about their regular tasks, are listed as disabled enough to be on the veterans’ relief pay roll. Official records list the names of business men, lawyers, and doctors earning salaries of from $4,000 to , SIO,OOO yearly who are getting full | retirement compensation if they are "30 per cent disabled.” There are 683,110 men getting (Turn to Page Eight)

SPEEDWAY CITY AVOIDS WATER GOUGE BY OPERATING OWN PLANT

BY NORMAN E. ISAACS SPEEDWAY CITY, the small municipality that nestles at the west side of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, three miles west of the city limits of Indianapolis, isn't concerned with the worries of the state capital over water rates and water companies. Speedway City doesn't care how many water rate compromise settlements are made, or whom they affect. It doesn’t matter out there. Speedway City owns its water company and the domestic consumer pay* $1.50 a month —no more.yio less.

SENATE IS GOLD TO SALES TAX House Action Apparently to Be Let Alone. By United Prc*x WASHINGTON. April 7. The manufacturers' sales tax appeared today to have been eliminated definitely from the billion dollar revenue bill. Senate Democrats, after a party conference, indicated that the house action against the sales tax would be permitted to stand. Also, Senator James Couzens (Rep.,. Mich.) quickly stopped an attempt to revive the subject at the finance committee hearings. Asa companion activity to the writing of a revenue bill in ,he senate, the economy drive showed new developments when President Hoover invited the house economy committee to meet at the White House Saturday. The invitation was accepted by Chairman McDuffie, who had criticised the President by asserting that the administration was withholding any definite recommendations for governmental savings. Another side of the economy question was presented in a letter from State Secretary Henry L. Stimson to Chairman Jones of the senate appropriations committee. Stimson suggested various methods of savmg money in his department, but was emphatic in his opposition to salary reductions or decreases in personnel.

NAVY WILL SEND AID Paper Asserts British Warship to Sail for Newfoundland. By United Press LONDON, April 7. —The government has decided to send a warship to St. Johns on request of Governor John Middleton, the Evening Standard said today. The admiralty declined to confirm the report. REBELS ATTACK FCRT Ecuador Sends Troops lo Quell Foray at Punta Piedra. By United Press GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR. April 7.—Rebels, with two armed ships, attacked the fort at Punta Piedra, a strategic point on the gulf of Guayaquil today. The government sent, troops to attack the rebels. ‘RUMP’ SESSION URGED H. H. Evans Tells Governor Tax Reform Could Be Planned. Representative H. H. Evans of Newcastle conferred today with Governor Harry G. Leslie, urging him to call a “rump” session of the legislature to form a definite tax platform for a special session. Deny Bank Case Rehearing The supreme court tdoay denied a petition for a rehearing in the cases of Robert I. Todd, Frederick Appel and Frank M. Milligan, who recently were ordered to reimburse the receiver of the defunct J. F. Wild & Cos. State bank for SIOO,OOO borrowed on nbtes prior to the institution's closing in 1927.

The mailing address of the company is a pharmacy at the "main corner - ’ of the town. 300 yards from the main entrance gate of the Speedway track. The owner of the pharmacy, William Rosner, is known as the “manager” of the water company. "Allison and Fisher owned the water company,” said Rosner. “and we had made several efforts to buy it. The price was just out of our reach. After Mr. Allison's death, the owners of the company were willing to sell "They placed an $35,000 valuation on the water conjpany. We

CLIMAX SEEN NEAR IN LINDY BABY SEARCH Governor Moore of New Jersey Repeats Statement That Return Is Certain. OPTIMISTIC IN NORFOLK Trio Conducting Hunt Say They Have Located Kidnapers.

BY BATES RANEY United Pres* Staff Correspondent HOPEWELL. N. J., April 7. Diligent work toward recovery of the kidnaped Lindbergh child continued today with belief still prevalent that the child was well and safe and would be returned to its parents. There was no announcement upon which the safety belief positively could be pinned. Governor A. Harry Moore had expressed such a belief and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh had made secret flights to the New England shore. Norfolk negotiators al'o professed to have assurances the baby was well. Today's police bulletin cast no light on progress of the case other than that the search for Harry Fleischer, former Detroit purple gangster, and Abe Wagner continued.

Detroit Gangsters "Fleischer and Wagner are still being sought and from time to time information comes in which immediately is investigated.” Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf reported. “Peculiar circumstances surrounding their disappearance as well as the report as to where they had been seen, seems to bring them under suspicion. And it is important to this investigation that they be located and questioned.” Meanwhile, the activity in the Martha's Vineyard section abated somewhat. There was a coast, guard vessel off the coast Wednesday night, however, leading to belief it had been assigned to aid in the investigation. From Norfolk came an equally optimistic statement from the three men Who are confident they have established contact with persons who have knowledge of the baby's whereabouts. John Hughes Curtis, one of the trio, returning from a mysterious four-day journey, announced that the baby was “well.” Admiral Answers Queries “On my trip,” Curtis said, “I made contact, and was informed by my contact, that Charles was well. I saw Colonel Lindbergh personally, but am not at liberty to say where. I regret my inability to say more at this time.” Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage, another Norfolk negotiator., after a conference with Curtis, met reporters and answered these questions: Q—Are you convinced that the persons with whom you are dealing are in possession of the Lindbergh baby? A—We still believe in our clew. Q—Have negotiations, so far as the Norfolk intermediaries are concerned, broken down? A—No. Q —ls the baby had been returned to his parents, would you tell us now? A —Yes, unless Colonel Lindbergh had requested us not to do so. and he has not made such a request. Burrage refused to discuss suggestions of ransom arrangements. Major to Return Friday By United Pres/> LONDON. April 7.—Major Charles Schoeffel of the New Jersey state police is expected to return to the United States Friday, the Daily Herald said today. Schoeffel could not be found for a statement on his future activities in connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping. Glasgow police were understood to be checking the movements of several residents of that city at the request of Major Schoeffel.

Boy, 2, Sees Grandpa First Time After T rip From Java

This was one of the happiest days in the life of Samuel Geddes, 41 Spencer avenue, a veteran police officer, as he was to see, for the first time, his 2-year-old grandson, David Ridgeway Geddes, who was to arrive by train from Chicago with his parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Trevor Geddes, after a journey which started at Batavia, Java. Trevor Geddes has been in the service of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The child’s father, known to his friends as Buck, has been absent three years, and after a three months’ vacation, will be assigned to another foreign post by his employer. Previous to his stay in Java, he spent three years in India and was here on a vacation at the end of tnat service. Trevor and his brother, Gene Geddes, a city fireman, are World war veterans.

could rustle up $72,000, so we haggled and bargained. a a a “TT'INALLY we told 'em flat. We JU had $72,000. We'd pay that $72,000 and not one cent more. They took it. "That was in December, 1928 and the company had 242 users out here. Now we've got 337 home users alone. For home consumption, we charge a fiat rate of $l5O a month. “That allows a home to as much water as it wants to use. There are about 450 homes in Speedway City and we supply all

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Edward W. Fenger looking out of his ollice window at the barber pole that means so much to him.

'ELECTRIC GOP 1 JAMS TRAFFIC 'Foolproof’ Signal at U. S. Crossroads on Blink. Thp city's "$1,700 plus” fool-proof traffic signal at Meridian and Washington streets, the “crossroads of America.” went awry today and at noon traffic was moving across the corner directed by a policeman at a semaphore. Besides the cast of $1,700. the city paid for cables, other materials and installation costs. This morning, traffic wound up in wild jumbles as the lights went dead, and to the scene came hurrying Thomas Haefiing. the city's Gamewell department superintendent; William Griffis, assistant superintendent; Police Captain Louis Johnson and Lieutenant Eugene Shine. The quartet "wrestled” with the sign for several hours as tmfflc veered crazily across the streets. A policeman was stationed at the center, and the lights were put into use, only to go "haywire” again as the traffic policeman was withdrawn from his station. Finally, they gave up. and policemen were stationed at the corner.

DAMAGE SUIT ENDED Phillips Gets SI, Costs in Murder Charge Action. A $25,000 defamation of character suit, based on dismissal of a first degree murder charge, was settled on a basis of $1 damages and costs in superior court three today. The settlement was by agreement of principals. Alva Phillips was the plaintiff and defendants were his sisters-in-law, Mrs. Katherine Gilligan. 1265 Kentucky avenue, and Mrs. Lillie Galvin, 1311 Kentucky avenue. He alleged that they appeared before a grand jury causing him to be indicted on a charge of murdering his wife, found dead in the family home Jan. 16, 1931. The murder charge was dismissed on motion of the state.

GREAT STONE FACE GROWS DOUBLE CHIN Photographer Risks Life to Take New Pictures of Famous Profile, By United Prets CONCORD. N. H.. April 7—The great stone face of the “Old Man of the Mountains” which down through the ages has guarded Franconia notch, the White mountain portal, evidently is developing a double chin. This is revealed by new photographs taken by Homer C. Forbes of Littleton, who risked his life to climb within seventy-five feet of the famous profile for his snapshots.

homes we can reach. The ones we can't reach just now are out there on the west end, where we haven't any mains yet. We're planning to lay mains out ther° and then we ll supply every home in town. "Making money? Sure, we are. We re paying all of our operating expenses, and laying aside surplus. From that surplus fund we re going to retire our bond issues, and then perhaps issue new bonds. “Not long ago. we took ,*18,500 from our surplus and installed a new water tank. aV anew pumping station. Were well satisfied

BY ARCH STEINEL DISCOVERED! A barber pole with faded red stripes on South Illinois street in front of the Spencer hotel. That barber pole is a discovery of as much moment in one life in Indianapolis as was the south pole to Commander Richard Byrd and the north pole to Perry. Byrd and Perry mushed through darkness to find their poles, and Edward W. Fenger, 67, of 40 Jackson place, waited six years in the gloom life of blindness to see the red stripes on the barber pole. Six years ago blindness slipped upon Fenger as he worked in his office as cotton converter at 206 Fair building, across from th° union station. The stripes on the familiar barber pole he could see out of his window faded like the stripes on a piece of stick candy in the mouth of a school boy. In foutyears time the pole was gone—he was blind. Today he sees the pole and its weather-worn stripes again. " AN operation at Sit. Vincent's hospital by a city doctor, and removal of two eye cataracts, brought back his sight. Two years ago, he barely could tell light from darkness. One week before his operation, held in March, physicians assured him that he would be totally blind within a few days. Due to his blindness, Fenger was forced to quit work. “You dont know what seeing again means to me. Take this rug on the office floor—l bought it six years ago, and never had seen its pattern. When I came back to work a few days ago. I asked my daughter, ‘Where'd that rug come from.' She told me I'd purchased it.” Fenger has tried his “new eyes” on the talkies with the help of his grandson, and he'll proudly tell you; “I saw them. It was ? cowboy picture. My grandson likes cowboy pictures, and he wanted me to take him. I did. It was the first movies I had seen in six years." B B B I’VE never seen the new World war memorial.” he said. “Some have told me it was a pile of stone. I’ll get up there some day. I’m taking my time about seeing things. “Every day I see something new. It's like being born again when you’re old enough to know something about it all.” Fenger has lived in the city forty-four years. When he came to Indianapolis four tracks and a “mud-hole” were on the Union station site. He once lived in a house on the site of the present postoffice.

BACK LUESSE PLEA 16 Prominent Citizens Ask Leslie for Release. Governor Harry G. Leslie today was presented with a petition signed by sixteen leading Indianapolis citizens asking remission of v the SSOO fine imposed on Theodore Luesse, unemployed leader, and his release from the Indiana state farm. Luesse has served his year imprisonment term, given by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, for leading a group of unemployed in preventing an eviction for non-payment of rent. Signers of the petition included six Christian ministers, two Jewisn rabbis, a Catholic priest, a banker, three business men and three manufacturers. The petition was presented to the Governor by Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian church, and Franklin Vonnegut, president of the Vonnegut Hardware Company. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 56 > 10 a. m 67 7a. m 56 11 a. m 69 8 a. m 61 / 12 (noon).. 70 9 a. m 64 1 p. m 65

and everybody else in town is, too. It's fair and it’s reasonable.” a a a SPEEDWAY CITY, in fact, is so well satisfied residents are looking to the future—a future when perhaps the town will own its own power and light company “We have a cohtract with the Indianapolis Power and Light Company,” said Rosner, “and we will do something about that matter when our contract expires. We’ve got five years to go yet. but when it's over, keep an eye on us.'*

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FRANK HAWKS IS INJURED IN PLANE CRASH Ship Smashes Into Stone Wall in Takeoff on Soggy Field. MACHINE IS WRECKED Suffers Severe Hurt but Condition Apparently Is Not Critical. By 1 vital Pi c*< WORCESTER Mass., April 7. Captain Frank M. Hawks, famous speed flier and holder of many air records, suffered severe, but apparently not critical, injuries when he cracked up in an attempted take-off from Worcester airport here today.

Rescued unconscious from his wrecked monoplane after it had failed to take off from a soggy field, and crashed against a stone wall on the edge of the airport, he was taken to Worcester city hospital where his name had not been pm on the danger list more than two hours later. Hawks' most severe injury appears to be a fractured jaw on which Dr. Ernest L. Hunt performed an operation Also the flier suffered painful lacerations of the head, face and hands. Fulfilled Lecture Date Hawks had fulfilled a lecture date before Worcester Boy Scouts Wednesday night and had intended to return immediately to New York He deferred his start until this morning, however, because of 'he muddy condition of the field. Unable to get his heavily-loaded, low-wing monoplane into the air from a soggy field, he crashed intp a stone wall on the outskirts of the airport. The plane was smashed, but did not take fire. Unconscious and suffering from severe head and face lacerations, the noted airman was pxtricated with little difficulty by airport attaches. En route to the city hospital at Worcester, a few miles away. Hawks regained consciousness. Mired in Landing Hawks flew here from Detroit in 3 hours and 55 minutes, and his big plane nosed over in landing. His handling of the craft averted an accident at that time, however. An escort plane, piloted by John W. Lasell, Whitinsville aviator, was not so fortunate and stood on its nose on the muddy field. Speaking Wednesday night at a Boy Scout gathering in Worcester Hawks stressed the need of faster and fool-proof planes. When Hawks’ plane was mired on landing here Wednesday, he voiced concern over the condition of the runway, expressing the hope that conditions might improve overnight, so he would have no difficulty taking off this morning. NAB THREE IN DRY RAID Two 10-Gallon Stills Also Seized in Arrests at Vacant House. Three men were arrested and two ten-gallon stills, in operation, were confiscated by police in a raid today on a vacant house on R. R. 8 several miles from the city. Attempt of the men to escape from the house as police squads approached was frustrated by officers, who previously surrounded the dwelling, police said. Arrested are Walter Mobley, 1152 South Sherman drive; Dudley Barlow, Negro, of 1027 Vanderman street, and Dewey Clark, Negro, of 1408 Earhart strpet. AGREE ON JOB VOTE Senate Group Sets April 14 for Wagner Bill Action. By United Prcsi WASHINGTON, April 7. The senate commerce committee agreed today to vote April 14 on the Wagner bill to create a national system of federal-state employment agencies. The bill is a part of an unemployment relief program introduced by Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem.. N. Y.) at the previous session of congress. VICTOR M’LAGLEN SUED 510,000 Damages Asked of Actor by Man Charging Attack. By United Pre LOS ANGELES, April 7.—Charging Victor McLaglen, motion pic- ; ture actor, “set upon him and beat him severely, ’ Thomas B. Hughes asked SIO,OOO damages in a suit on ! file today. He charged the attack j occurred at the Fox studios last January.

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