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ACCUSE FLIER OF MURDER IN WRITER DEATH Warrant Charges Lancaster Killed Fiance of Mrs. Keith-Miller. DEFENDED BY WOMAN ‘I Know He's Innocent/; She Says: Early Trial Is Expected. /tv t nitfd Prrti MIAMI, Fla., May 3.—Mrs. Jessie | M. Ketth-MUler, noted Australian woman flier, today defended Cap- , Um William N. Lancaster, noted flier, against the charge that he murdered the man she was to marry. “I know he is innocent,” Mrs. Keith-Miiler said of Lancaster, who was arrested late Monday, accused of first degree murder in the death of Haden Clarke, her fiance, a Miami writer. Clarke was found dead in the bungalow occupied by Mrs. KeithMiller and Captain Lancaster on the morning of April 20, and notes, found indicated Clarke may have committed suicide by shooting him- ; self with a pistol. Captain Lancaster also declared he was "absolutely innocent and the outcome of the case will prove At." Vernon Hawthorne, state's attor- j ney who has been investigating i Clarke’s death, characterized the i affair a* the ' most mysterious case I ever have investigated.” Voluntarily Clear* I'p Note* Hawthorne indicated he expected Indictments will be returned against j Lancaster by the grand Jury now in session. Mrs. Keith-Miiler, appearing hag- j gard, expressed confidence in Lan- ; caster despite the fact the murder j charge was filed after he volun- 1 tartly admitted he had written two' notes, signed in Clarke's name and j indicating the youth had committed ; suicide. “Captain Lancaster and I cleared j up the mystery of the notes when i we voluntarily made an appoint- [ ment last Sunday morning to see the state's attorney,” she said. Captain Lancaster had explained he wrote the ”suicide" notes, to save himself and Mrs. Keith-Miiler ' from involvment. Early Trial I* Asked Asked why Lancaster tried to re- < vive Clarke to get him to sign the notes, the Australian flier said: “That probably was momentary ' panic." Hawthorne’s intimation that, he would try the case at once, if an j indictment is returned, was consid- ; ered as in deference to the captain's , wishes. Behind the arrest is one of the strangest mysteries local authorities have had to deal with in years Mrs. Keith-Miiler and Lancaster, an internationally-famous flying team, have been here several years. Their fame spread five years ago when they made a flight from Lon- j don to Australia. Since then. Lan- . caster had served as manager, and close associate, of the British woman. Reverse* Encountered Sine** coming to Florida, how- l ever, they had encountered re- j verses. None of their flying projects j succeeded. There was even in-1 sufficient money to pt y gas and electric bills. Mrs. Keith-Miiler said. Then, about that time, she met' Clarke through his mother, an in- 1 structor at Rollins college. While Lancaster was in Mexico examining a flying projection which ! he subsequently claimed was a plan i to smuggle Chinese into Mexico— Clarke and Mrs. Keith-Miiler worked on a book ot her flying experiences. They fell in love. They notified Lancaster, who was j in St. Louis, of their plan to marry, and he telegraphed them urging they postpone the nuptials until he 1 could arrive and be best man. He; hurried to Miami, arriving at the house the trio shared on April 13. The following day. Clarke was j found dead. He had been shot. A pistol was under the body. The two i notes were found in the room. Mrs. Keith-Miiler and Lancaster subsequently were detained by police and questioned for several days. Pair Questioned Again Throughout the questioning Mrs. Keith-Miiler told of her love for Clarke, of their marriage plans, of the economic hardships that had pursued her recent career, and of the fact that Lancaster and she had never been in love, but had been friends and business associates. They Anally were released. Today they again were summoned for questioning. A*ter considerable time they emerged. Mrs. KeithMiiler appearing haggard and c.awn, but Lancaster was calm. He advised he had been treated fairly, and ‘would talk when the proper j moment arrived. Mrs. Ida Mae Clarke, the dead man's mother, told authorities that the pistol found under her sons body had been purchased by Lancaster In St. Louis. She said she always had doubted the suicide theory. CAPT. DOLLAR IMPROVED Dean of Shipping Magnate* Suffering From Cold. 1 nit. ,1 ■ . SAN RAFAEL. Cal, May 3 Captain Robert Dollar. 88-year-old dean of American shipping mag- i nates who is ill at his home here, was reported slightly improved today by his physician. He was suffering from a cold. I

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Year in Oven By t nite>i Prrtt MEMPHIS. Tenn, May 3. “Smiling'’ Jack Doty today still smiled as he began his second year in an oven electrically heated to a temperature of 103 degrees. A year ago more than a third of Doty’s skin was burned off in an automobile accident. Physicians said he would live a few hours, or day at most. Doty smiled and began a stubborn fight for life. Day and night since then Doty has lain flat on his stomach in the especially constructed oven, which is fitted over his head and heated by electric light bulbs. Doctors, however, say it will be many months yet before Doty can be removed from the oven. The physicians are grafting skin to his burned body.

U. S. TROOPERS EJECT JAPANESE Clash Is Narrowly Avoided in Shanghai Settlement. By I mted Prml .SHANGHAI, May 3. —United States infantry troops forced a Japanese raiding party to retire from the American de.cnse sector of Shanghai tonight after a Japanese raid in which the doughboys were called out to defend Chinese civilians from the raiders. The Japanese retired stubbornly, threatening to return in force regardless of the Americans if any more stones were thrown by Chinese across the creeks into the Japanese sector, as they alleged had been done. A clash between the Americans and Japanese narrowlv was averted when Japanese marines from the Chapel district crossed Soochow creek into the American sector. The Japanese marines crossed the Wuchen road bridge, climbed the locked gates and began an indiscriminate attack on all Chinese in sight, using stones, bayonets and rifle butts. PLANT LOSS $12,000 Flames, Water Damage Excelsior Stored in BuilSing. Damage estimated at between $12.00(- and $15,000 resulted today when fire wrecked a warehouse of the Indiana Excelsior Company. 1502 South Keystone avenue, and its contents were damaged by the flames and w’ater. The fire was discovered at 3 this morning by Charles Shute. a watchman. and three companies of firemen w'ent into action. Although the fire is under control, firemen still are on duty soaking smoldering bales of excelsior as they are dragged from the building. Estimate of the loss was made by D. B. Shimer. president of the comoany. He said building and contents are covered fully by insurance. He said he believed defective wiring started the fire. No smoking is permitted in the building. KIDNAPED BOY'S DA? GETS THREAT LETTERS One Missive Mailed in Joliet Demand* $25X00. fit / United Pre.* JOLIET. 111., May 3.—Two threatening letters, purported to be from the kidnapers of Gustav Miller. 23. son of a wealthy Joliet dealer in malt and hops, were receded today by the father, Max Miller. One letter, pasted in Joliet Monday, demanded $25,000 and gave instructions for placing the money under the Ruby bridge here, and carried the warning, "act quick." The other, sent from an eastern city, instructed the elder Miller to go to that city, which he c.id not announce, and get in touch with the kidnapers by inserting personal notices in newspapers. Young Miller was seized by two men Thursday night. It was reported that ransom of $50,000 had been demanded by the kidnapers, who communicated with the father by telephone. BOXER KIDNAP TARGET Brrlenbach's Baby Son Threatened in 525.C00 Demand. S.v United Peru* NEW YORK. May 3 Paul Berlenbach. former light heavyweight boxing champion, admitted today that a police guard has been stationed at his home in Astoria. L. 1., following receipt of a letter threatening that his infant son. Paul Jr., will be kidnaped unless he pavs $25,000.

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BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE l nitrd Prm Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. May 3 —She was a taxi-dancer—the temporary possession of any lumbering disciple of terpsichore with a thin dime to squander. He was the drug store sheik type—the sort who used to panic the crowd at the corner soda fountain where “the gang'' gathered on spring nights back in Wisconsin. The sovereign state of New York said Ward and Elvira Summerfield were bandits, when they were arraigned Monday night in a west side court to answer seven charges of robbery. They looked more like a pair cf frightened children when they shuffled before the magistrate. Ward nervously straightened his one-button coat of extreme cut and patted his crrlmg hair.'plastered to his skull with what New

CAPONE SULKS AS HE WAITS PRISON‘RIDE’ Swears and Storms in Cell When Visitors Try to Approach Him. •TOUGH GUYS’ ABSENT None of Ex-Henchmen Go to Say Farewell to Ex-*Big Shot.’ BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Pre* Stiff Corresnandent CHICAGO. May 3.—Al Capone sulked in his county jail cell today, cursing those who sought to see him before he starts tonight for Leavenworth penitentiary to begin serving the eleven years he must spend behind bars for income tax evasion. “Go to hell, you lousy rats.” Capone bellowed when newspaper men approached his cell. “Want to take me for a ride some more, eh? Well. I’m not talking—see! Get to hell out of here." The 265-pound gangster trembled with rage. His face went to sickly purple. He shook his fist. While the man who once ruled the Chicago gangs with machine gun and bomb, making this his capital of crime whence he drew millions in revenue from liquor, vice and gambling, stormed in his ce,l. last arrangements were made lor sending him to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kan. Fear Trouble at Train He will go with some sixteen other federal prisoners, narcotics dealers, automobile thieves and the like, on a Chicago. Burlington <& Quincy train. He will be taken from the jail directly to the Union station. Capone will be handcuffed like the others. Guarding him will be United States Marshal Henry C. W. Laubenheimer and three of the brawniest deputy marshals in the Chicago office. Each weighs 200 pounds or over. Time of the train's departure w'as not announced. The officials feared disorder at the station, or a possible attempt to liberate Capone. The scar-faced gangster saw only wife, mother and sister in the county jail today. They are loyal although the “big shot" is only a convict hoodlum now'. Mife, Mother Say Good-By His wife. May Capone, a married sister and his aged mother spent a considerable time talking with him in low tones. Capone managed a crooked smile when they came in. But no friends other than the three women helped Scarface A1 spend the last day in Chicago that he will spend here for some seven years. He must stay approximately that long in Leavenworth, counting time off for good behavior from his ten-year penitentiary sentence. Then, when he does come back to Chicago, the city he took for a ten-year. $10,000,000 ride, it will be to return to the county jail to serve a year's jail sentence. Warden David Moneypenny of county jail and federal guards who hvae watched Capone's cell said none of his henchmen had attempted to bid him good-by. Ignored by "Tough Guys" So Capone, prison-bound, will go like a petty hoodlum, Ignored by the "tough guys” he drilled into a ruthless criminal army, and by the scores of gay livers on whom he lavished jewels. diamond belt buckles and expensive liquor parties. “He wouldn't watch his step and the big guy slapped down.” a gang, dom spokesman said. "A1 ways always too stubborn. From the time Johnny Torrio brought him in here to bounce at the Four Deuces case. A1 was a know-it-all guy. It worked all right in the gang for a while because he gave orders that nobody dared to slip up on. "But he w'as too stubborn when he was wrong. Plenty of smart heads in the gang told him to go in and get straight with the government* on his tax. " ‘Hell, they can t touch me. I didn't sign my name to anything,’ he told them. "But the government gave him the works, and now look where be is.” There were critics in plenty today, some of them who would never have dared speak disparagingly of the gang leader in the old days when he lived in the Lexington hotel in a ?. armed camp, and his gambling halls and vice places ran wide open from Cicero to Burnham and from the loop to the levee.

Yorkers call “erl" when they mean "oil.” His face was white and drawn. 9 9 9 ELVIRA'S shabby blue dress. liberally sprinkled with glass buttons, shrieked of professionalism and her alligator-skin pumps were scuffed by casual and frequent contacts at 10 cents a dance. Herded in between pickpockets, drunks, dope peddlers, vagrants and perhaps a few burglars, they shrank from all contact with their fellow prisoners. Court attendants. callous to the customary drone of offenses against the peace and dignity of the state, looked up with interest as they approached the dock. Assistant District Attorney Harold Frankel read the charges in an impersonal tone—seven holdx.

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TWO DEAD IN LOVE TANGLE Murder, Suicide Ends Alleged Illicit Romance. lly Time* Special SCIPIO. Ind.. May 3—Murder and suicide brought death today to the alleged principals in an ildcit romance. Mrs. Gladys Jaynes. 31, was shot fatally by John Woodson, 42. as she lay in bed at her home near here. Woodson then turned the gun on himself, inflicting a mortal wound. „ . Woodson was an uncle of Lawrence Jaynes, husband of the slain woman, and had been living in the Jaynes home. Neighbors told authorities that Woodson had said he and his nephew'’s w'ife were in love and that she had planned to run away with him. Verdict of murder and suicide was returned by Coroner George Jordan. Woodson left a few days ago. saying he was going to Louisville. He returned early today to the Jaynes home and was admitted by his nephew. While Jaynes was building a fire in the kitchen stove. Woodson went to Mrs. Jaynes’ bedroom. "Gladys. lam going to end my life and yours,” he said, and began shooting. Five years ago. Woodson shot and wounded his wife and was given a three-year prison term, having been released in February. Jealousy was the motive of the shooting. Mrs. Woodson obtained a divorce. BAKER VISIONS GREAT FUTURE FOR AMERICA Ex-War Chief Pleads for Cash to Help Unemployed. By T nitrd Prt*9 TOLEDO. May 3.—America will evolve into an “even greater nation" when she shakes off the mantle of the depression. Newton D. Baker. Cleveland attorney, believes. The former secretary of war. appearing before the Toledo community chest workers, made a dramatic appeal for funds in behalf of the suffering unemployed. “No matter how long this depression lasts, there must not be a hungry child." Baker said. "During the last four or five years, the United States has become an increasingly industrial nation and now is the most highly Industrialized nation the world has ever seen.” The concentration of population in cities has forced workers to become dependent, he said. Typhoon Death Toll Reache* 27 By f nilrd Perm MANILA, May 3.—Death toll from a typhoon which struck the seaport town of Jolo last Friday grew to twenty-seven today and may be increased when reports arrive from isolated interior sections

ups of frightened shopkeepers. They paid no attention to the reading. Instead, they looked into each other’s eyes and wept. A woman in the back of court created a commotion as she struggled through bail bondsmen, pettifoggers, lawyers and political riff-raff. a a a “lIIHATEVER you say, he’s VV my boy. judge. All I got is God and him. I have faith in God and him." Then she stopped, a little embarrassed because every one was looking at her. and even the drunks ceased their mumbling to peer through bleary eyes at the unusual drama. Victims of the seven holdups marched up to the stand and, without looking at Ward and Elvira. described the holdup. Yes, the girl had helped him. standing at the door as a lookout.

choose between parties and slates in the Ninth precinct of the Fourth ward. Upper Right—The Irish and the Dutch get together in this photo under the Democratic emblem as nurses from St. Vincent's hospital cast ballots at 2639 North Illinois street. The nurses, left to right, are, Misses Mary Downey. Raseann O'Brien, Garnett Tooley and Constance Datzman.

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EVIL IS GAINING, BISHOP CLAIMS •Tax Plot’ Against Poor Is Charged at M. E. Parley. By Vnilrd Pres* ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. May 3. —Decrying the fact that “the forces of evil never were more aggressive, more defiant, than they are today,” the Rt. Rev. William F. Anderson, retiring bishop of Boston, in the Episcopal address before the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, said today that a civilization which ignores Christian ideals can not endure. A charge that “a small, but outstanding group of America's rich men” are seeking to spend large sums of money to obtain repeal of the eighteenth amendment “for the purpase of shifting the burden of taxation to the backs of the poor.” also was made in the address. He sharply criticised the present world attitude toward peace. “We stand at the end of an epoch in which war-mindedness was the centers” he said. “That era has brought modern civilization to the brink of ruin. The whole world is a-tremble in the balance between hope and despair. “Science, by making possible mass destruction of life and property, forever has put an en'd to warwinning.” The most common failure of modem institutions, the bishop said, is their neglect of human values. “Life has become appallingly cheap,” he continued, “as the frequent abductions and startling homicide figures witness.” BLUE LAWS SCRAPPED Baltimore Liberalizes Restrictions on Sunday by Sweeping Vote. By United Pre*g BALTIMORE. Mr.. May 3.—Baltimore’s two-century-old Sunday blue laws went to the scrap heap today. By voting in an ordinance liberalizing Sabbath restrictions by an 83.990 majority. Baltimoreans can go to the movies, bowl or wash their automobiles on Sunday without fear of fine or imprisonment. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 49 10 a. m 56 7a. m 50 11 a. m 57 Ba. m 53 12 (noon).. 57 9 a. m 54 1 p. m 57

Detective Thomas Beckled told of Ward's arrest. “And then, after we got him to the station.” he said, "this here girl comes in. I said, 'whatta you here for.’ She said, ‘because i love him. And I was in on all those jobs with him.’ so I arrested her." Detective Beekler looked a little puzzled. As though he were wondering why any dame would “take a rap” with a guy and explain that she "Just loved him." a a a Attorney martin Israels told the story for the defense. He related how Ward only had been in New York a few weeks when he strolled into a lower Broadway dance hall and was attracted by Elvira's flaming stresses. They were married. Ward had a job as a grocery clerk, but as they were also much

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Lower Left—The smile on the face of Miss Julia Kuzmitz as she patrol* for the G. O. P.. the precinct at 1215 North Capitol avenue. forecasts luck for the slates she's passing out. Lower Right—Hand-balloting in the primary slowed election workers as the view shows. A line of about twenty-five voters awaited their turn this morning at 2957 Central avenue. Fifteenth precinct of the Fourth ward.

78 DELEGATES' VOTES AT ISSUE Attention Is Centered on Three Primaries. Bt United Pr Seventy-eight votes at the Democratic national convention in Chicago were at stake today in three state primaries with chief interest centered in California where three candidates are in the field. California's primary was the first test of strength of the boom for John W. Garner, Speaker of the house of representatives, who is backed on the coast by William G. McAdoo, one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Garner is opposed in California’s primary—where forty-four votes will be selected —by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alfred E. smith. In Alabama, two slates have been named for the 24 votes. One is pledged to Roosevelt and the other is "uninstructed.” but not necessarily oppased to Roosevelt. In South Dakota, the primary for the Democrats is a mere formality of naming ten delegates who will vote for Roosevelt at Chicago. The Republican primaries in South Dakota attract the most attention with two slates, one pledged to President Hoover and the other pledged to a • progressive” candidate. President Hoover won in the first campaign in which he has permitted his name to be entered— Maryland. He was opposed by former Senator Joseph I. France and the entire delegation of nineteen will vote for the President at Chicago. The Democratic delegation Is pledged to Governor Albert Ritchie. In the Democratic state conven- , tion in Rhode Island Monday, the state's delegation of ten was instructed to cast its vote for Alfred E. Smith at Chicago. A motion to instruct the delegation for Roosevelt was defeated. KILLS FATHER, SELF Bookbinder Leap* Under Train After Ax Murder. By United Prc* NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y., May 3. —Charles Fiorella, 42, a bookbinder, committed suicide by jumping in front of a speeding train today shortly after he had killed his father. Vincenzo Fiorella, 67, with a pickax. OPERATION IFOR "PREMIER MacDonald's Right Eye Require* Immediate Surgical Attention. By United Prei* LONDON. May 3.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald will undergo an operation on his right eye immediately. The prime minister's left eye was operated on several weeks ago.

in love, neither paid a great deal of attention to business. They both lost their jobs the same day. Taking their last few dollars. Israels said, they bought a toy pistol made only for blank cartridges. They stole because they had to eat. a a a 'T'HE magistrate blew his nose and blinked nervously behind green lights. But he had a duty to perform, he said, and he looked dubiously at the couple. Guessed he'd have to hold them in for trial. Ward and Elvira, still crying and 'stiH hugging each other, walked back to the prisoners’ benches. They still were there and still were crying after the courtroom crowd filed out. “I think it must be spring." said the clerk of the court. “I think I'll go out and gu a little air.”

RAIN CUTS PRIMARY VOTE; CITY TOTAL MAY DROP FAR BELOW 70,000 ESTIMATE Democrat Turnout Heavier Than G. 0. P. Balloting for First Time in Many Years. ‘FLOATER’ FRAUDS ARE CHARGED Suspicion Centers on Seventh Ward; AntiCoffin Forces Wage Hot Battle on Organization. Showers which began shortly before noon were expected to retard independent voters from going to the polls in today’s primary. If a heavy downpour developed organization leaders said it would cut the size of the vote of each party from 10,000 to 15,000, which would reduce previous estimates of a total 70,000 vote to between 55,000 and 60.000. For the first time in almost twenty years, the Democratic primary vote was reported heavier than the Republican. Voting over the state also had slowed up because of the rain, press dispatches declared.

Attention of election commissioners was attracted to the Seventh ward, where a large number of “floaters were said to be voting. Alan Boyd, election commissioner, asserted election officials in two precincts of the Seventh ward asked whether they could halt voting of more than twenty persons who gave the same address as their residences. Democratic Vote Heavy Managers of both parties expressed surprise over the heavy j Democratic vote being case in what normally were overwhelmingly G. 0.. P. precincts. Republican headquarters were deserted and it was said that all the leaders are engaged personally in fighting the Inroads of the antiCoffin organizations and slates. Literally hundreds of slates have made tlieir appearance and in manv wards, especially on the west side, lists headed by a picture of Paul V. McNutt, candidate for the Governor nomination, and signed •McNutt Democrats." are being circulated. No delegate lists are attached. Fight Township Move A hot fight against legislative candidates favoring consolidation of townships as a means of reducing public expenditures is being waged under leadership of Walter Clarke, attorney for Hannah Noonc, Center township trustee. Clarke was the principal speaker at a meeting of township officials and trustees, grocers and others Monday night in Redmen's hall. Twenty-ninth and Clifton streets, where a slate was drawn. Walter Boetcher, candidate for county commissioner. Second district, is one of the focal points in the battle. Clarke asserted if Boetcher were nominated and elected he would advocate a public commissary for poor relief instead of continuing the present contract system with grocers and coal dealers. Reports from scattered precincts on the north side at noon indicated the Democratic vote is far heavier than the Republican. Figure* Are Given An unofficial survey of the district showed the following: Fiftieth precinct, Washington township, 109 votes with Republicans in the majority; Third precinct of the Third ward, 140 votes. 6 to 1 Democratic: Eighth precinct of the Third ward, 170 votes. 10 to 1 Democratic; Seventh precinct of the Third ward. 117 votes. 3 to 1 Republican: Ninth precinct. Third ward. 150 votes, even split fcietween parties; First precinct of the Fifth ward. 138 votes, 8 to 1 Democratic: Second precinct of the Fifth ward. 228 votes, 10 to 1 Democratic, and Sixth precinct of the Fifth ward, 120 votes. 3 to 1 Democratic. Shortly before noon election commissioners sent 100 additional Democratic ballots to the Nineteenth precinct of the Tenth ward There are indications throughout the city that many former Republican voters are asking for Democratic ballots. Warning of possible federal and county grand jury investigation was issued by election commissioners when they received reports that the Negro Y. M. C. A. and certain hotels were packed with men believed to have been imported to stuff the ballot boxes. Boards Get Warning Commissioners warned that election boards will be held accountable for permitting "floaters” to vote. It was pointed out the federal grand jury would have jurisdiction to investigate, inasmuch as this is a federal primary election. Commissioners instructed board members to check on all persons giving hotels or other public lodging places as their residences. Drive for the election of antiCoffin precinct committeemen and the nomination of the Republican Union slate features the interest in that party. G. O. P. insurgent hope to obtain •lection of sufficient committeemen to oust George V. Coffin from control at the county and district conventions Saturday afternoon. In this county the fight has centered on the Democratic senatorial nomination. It had been the intention of party managers to divide the 205 convention votes between Frederick Van Nuys and

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Walter Myers, both residents of the county. The Democrats also are hot about two other contests, the fights for the circuit Judge nomination and county treasurership. Other Heated Fights In the Eleventh, two shouting wets are battling for the Republican nomination against two slated by the Anti-Saloon League. The wets are Seth Ward and Ira Holmes, and Archibald Hall and William Henry Harrison, the drys. The Republican organization has swung behind the last-named. Congressman Louis Ludlow's vote against the Beck-Linthicum resolution brought him opposition from Thomas D. McGee, whose platform is repeal of the dry law. Ludlow has the organization support. The usual demand for more booths and more election clerks was received from the Thirty-first precinct, Wayne township, when an army of poor farm inmates moved on the polling place. Ordered to Walt Election commissioners decided the inmates had nothing much to do all day and that they would have to stand in line and await their turn to ballot. With exception of a few minor •Cases, little trouble was reported as the voting progressed. Election commissioners investigated several complaints of poll workers and politicians using unethical tactics to gain votes. One of these was a charge that a city fireman illegally had aided several voters to mark their ballots. Among 110 voters in the Tenth precinct. First ward, eighty-six were Democrats. In the First precinct. Second ward. 138 had voted at noon, with the vote divided evenly. Although the vote was light in the Sixteenth precinct. Second ward, Republicans led with forty-six voters. Light voting was recorded in the Second precinct. Third ward. Poll officials said at noon 75 per cent of the 123 votes were Democratic. 120 Vote in Precinct During the forenoon, 120 persons voted at the Eleventh precinct, Third ward, and 129 cast ballots in the Third precinct. Fourth ward. Officials reported a total vote of 130 in the Thirty-second precinct. Fourth ward, seventy Democrats and sixty Republicans. Less than 150 votes for the day w-ere expected in the First precinct, sixth ward, where forty-eight had voted at noon. Os this number, thirty-one were Democrats. Eighty-five voted in the Second precinct. Eighth ward, by noor* Forty-five were Democrats and forty Republicans. Democratic voters were 3 to 1, Republican, in the First precincf, Ninth ward, at noon, officials reported 117 voters. Normal vote was recorded in the Thirteenth precinct, Wayne township. Seventy-three had voted at noon, with Democrats leading. Only forty-six voters cast ballots at the Thirty-seventh precinct, Wayne j township. In Washington township. Forty- ! eighth precinct, the vote was light. Democrats cast forty-five of eightyj eight votes. More Republicans Vote By Lnitcd Prtt HAMMOND. Ind.. May 3.—Balloting started slowly in Lake county today, as a light rain kept voters from the polls. Early indications were that a heavy Republican vote was being cast Although Democrats swept , the last election, and were waging ' a heated battle in today’s primary, it was reported unofficially that a larger number of Republican ballots were being distributed. Heavy in Hancock County By tin lr..l Prut GREENFIELD. Ind.. May 3 Heavy early voting was reported in Hancock county in the primary election today. The county generally is strongly Democratic, but Republicans were reported to be casting the greater number of ballots. Slow in Anderson I By Time* Sprrinl ANDERSON. Ind., May 3.—Votes cast up to noon here were far below expectations, being about half the total that had been forecast. However, election officials expressed a belief that a large number of ballots would be cast during the afternoon.