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DRY LEAGUE IS REPUDIATED IN OHIO ELECTION Wet Republicans Named as Governor and Senator Nominees. GIVEN IMPRESSIVE VOTE Defeated Candidates Both Backed to Limit by AntiSaloon Group. • By T nilrd l'r.„ ■ CLEVELAND May 11.-Ohio to- * day nominated two major officers t who stand for prohibition repeal. ' The Republican nomination for both Governor and United States \ senator was thrust by an impres- ; sive vote in Tuesday's primary upon 1 cand!da f es whose views had aroused hostility of the Anti-Sa-loon League and its allied forces. David S Ingalls, young flying ask secretary of the navy, triumphed in 'he gubernatorial coni' over State Secretary Clarence .1 Brown and former Governor Myers Y. Cooper, both of -..horn were indorsed by prohibition societies Ingalls claimed a plurality of 30.000 over Brown. Attorney-General Gilbert Bettman, who issued a ringing appeal for prohibition reform, was carried to an even larger plurality In unofficial returns from nearly two-thirds of the state's precincts in the senatoral rare. He massed a plurality of 50,000 over Louis J. Taber, national master of the Grange, who was supported by the combined dry forces of the state. What anti-prohibitionists hail as a sweeping victory was carried into the congressional ranks when each of the two parties apparently nominated two congressmen-at-largc, who advocate reform. President Hoover was conceded to have won the party's slate of fifty-flve nominating delegates. The Democratic slate of flfty-two, apparently was just as safe for Governor George White, a “favorite son’’ candidate. Alfred E. Smith entered the Democratic contest in five Cleveland districts where a slate of delegates was offered by Peter Witt, but the former New York Governor drew little support. The Democratic delegates are considered likely supporters of Newton D. Baker after a courtesy ballot or two is cast for White at the Chicago convention. Ohio Democrats renominated Senator Robert Bulkley, a wet, and Governor White. 16 for Roosevelt Py United Prg it West Virginia Democrats in Tuesday's primary supported a slate of sixteen delegates pledged to Governor Roosevelt of New- York. The nineteen Republican delegates were assured to President Hoover. Democratic county conventions in Texas without exception instructed state convention delegates to back Speaker John N. Garner of Texas lor President. The Wyoming Republican convention indorsed President Hoover, but did not pledge its nine national convention delegates to him. Wyoming Democrats the day before electea six Roosevelt delegates. PAUL~BERLENBACH IS LOSER IN BALM SUIT Girl Awarded $3,500 in Breach of Promise Action. P ■! I nilrd Prrn* NEW YORK. May 11.—A judgment of $3,500 against Paul Berlenbach, former prizefight champion. was awarded in Queens supreme court today to Miss Claire Feidner of Astoria. L. 1.. who charged Berlenbach with breach of promise to marry. She had asked $50,000. Miss Feidner had testified that she had become engaged to Berlenbach in 1928 ard in the following year he jilted her and married another girl. FILE $1,000,000 SUIT Galleries Assert Cadillac Chief Owes for Paintings. By United Prttt DETROIT. May 11.—Suit to collect $1,000,000 from Lawrence P. Fisher, president of the Cadillac Motor Car Company and vice-presi-dent of General Motors, alleged due for payment of valuable paintings, was filed today in federal court by attorneys for the Howard Young Galleries. Inc.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 314

AKRON IS SAFE AT SAN DIEGO AFTER TRIP OVER NATION

Texas Storm Probably Worst Buffeting Dirigible Ever Stood, Says Chief. , By I nilrd Prett SAN DIEGO. Cal., May 11.-The naval radio station here reported the Akron over Camp Kearney at 9:35 a. m. <P. S. TANARUS.), ready to moor. The radio also reported that one of the Akron's planes landed at the field at 9:15 a. m. Lieutenant W. D. Harrigan piloted the Akron's small plane and was accompanied by Lieutenant S. E. Peck. They immediately took charge of directing the landing operations. The high fog which obscured the sun was regarded as a boon to the landing operations, as it tended to keep the ship’s helium gas from expanding. Several thousand spectators were at the field when the Akron was first sighted through a break in the fog. A ground crew of 200 sailors from the naval training station waited by the mooring mast to catch lines and make the ship's nose fast to the stub mooring mast. Radio communication with the craft was impossible as it hovered over the mast, because of the noise and interference of the craft's mai chinery. The Akron obtained the proper mooring position at 10 a. m. and prepared to drop her nose cable into i the hands of the ground crew. Ends Perilous Trip Commandinc Nars Diririblr Akron Written for the United Pres* ABOARD U. S. S. AKRON. SAN DIEGO. Cal., May 11.—The dirigible Akron was on the Pacific coast today, after undergoing the most • severe conditions, in my opinion, a rigid airship ever experienced. All one night was spent completely surrounded by severe lightning. and the ship was running at i top speed <*> avoid being caught in i violent thunderstorms that blocked out every available route to El Paso. After being prevented by zero visibility twice from getting ovcY mountains, we decided to try the route from Pecos via Van Horn, but we found a similar barrier there. Packed With Drama After fruitlessly awaiting a clearing from there, we decided Tuesday afternoon to break through by flying blind. About the middle of the afternoon, we successfully negotiated the tortuous seventy-five miles between Pecos and Van Horn by flying solely on dead reckoning and the ship's instruments. I Our course was laid to the curving Southern Pacific railroad tracks, and finally at 6.800 feet elevation. the ship plunged through from its cloud of blindness and i into a broken and clearing sky just short of Van Horn. The plunge through the fog really was filled with drama. Just before reaching El Paso, we encountered what was styled a moderate sandstorm, but the resulting disturbance in the upper air column is not to be so conservatively estimated. About two hours of fighting our way through the pass at El Paso j suddenly out of a clear sky and entirely unannounced, another ter- ! rifle sandstorm tried to impede our , progress, rocking rolling and thrusting the ship up and down. But the Akron took it beautifully. All Hands in Good Shape The night was spent in snaking through passes in the mountains, but, due largely to the splendid system of beacons installed by the department of commerce, aerial navigation. even under such conditions, readily was accomplished. The Akron stood her severe tests magnificently. Due to unanticipated necessity for extra crusing, ' occasioned by thunderstorms and fog. our fuel supply, while not depleted, was so reduced as to render it imprudent to proceed beyond San Diego without replenishing, experience having taught us the value of adequate reserve. All hands and the ship are in excellent condition, except that we ahve four radio operators suffering from static ears from long exposure to thunderstorms. COURT J(OTE NEAR Borah Thinks Measure Wi!‘ Go to Senate. | By United Prrst WASHINGTON. May 11.—The senate foreign relations committee decided today to terminate the long secret committee battle over the world court with a vote Thursday on whether it shall be reported to the senate. Chairman Borah expressed the opinion today after the committee met that a majority would support a move to send to the senate floor the project for American adherence to the court.

MURDER OF QUARRELSOME WIFE CONFESSED; DEATH PLOTTER KILLS SELF

By United Prett MILLERSBURG, 0.. May 11.— The alleged conspiracy of two neighbors to rid themselves of the quarrelsome wife of one of them moved rapidly toward a conclusion today with her death, the suicide of one of the plotters, and the arrest of her husband on a charge of first degree murder. The compact that Herbert Meeker. 23. the husband, sealed with his neighbor. Harold Young. 28. in a death plot was brought to a swift climax late Tuesday night w&n Young shot and killed him-

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, Old Stuff! By United Pre* * MINTURNO. Italy. May 11. —A paleolithic fragment be- * lieved to date 25,000 years before Christ, has been discovered near here by Dr. Jot ham Johnson, head of the Uniersity of Pennsylvania expedition excavating the ancient city of Minturnae. The fragment is triangular and the apex is a sharply pointed edge. One side is sharpened. Dr. Johnson believed the instrument was used for scraping wood, flesh and articles of food and clothing used by primitive people.

SHIFTS SCENE IN BABY HUNT Curtis Negotiations Center Off Long Island. By Unilrd Prrt NORFOLK. Va„ May 11.—John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk boat builder, has been negotiating since Saturday off the Long Island coast with a group that claims to be kid- ! napers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., it was Darned today. He is using a private yacht for his negotiations, just as he did in his negotiations off Norfolk in the yacht Marcon. This fact became known today shortly after publication in a New York newspaper of an advertisement reading “Money is ready,” which to many was indicative of a new message to the kidnaping gang. The newspaper previously carried the “Jafsie” advertisements and one of these read: “Money is ready.” Shortly afterward Dr. John F. Condon. “Jfsie,” paid $50,000 to one of the men he had been negotiating ! with, but without affecting return of the baby. Meager information coming back to Norfolk today said Curtis had been having difficulty reassuring I the group, inasmuch as they were ' frightened away from their rendezvous with him off the Norfolk shore, first by a fishing boat, then by government vessels and finally by publicity. PLAN HOSPITAL MOVIES Showing Scheduled Thursday at Methodist Institution. Movies of a hospital at work will feature the National Hospital day celebration at the Methodist hospital Thursday. The movies will be shown at an open house to be held at the hospital from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Each performance lasts one hour.

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SENATE COMMITTEE TO DECIDE ON RUBBER TAX Leaden of Iniustry Complete Their Testimony. By United Prces WASHINGTON. May 11.—Rubber interests, disagreeing on the question of an import tax. today concluded presentation of their testimony before the senate finance committee. The committee planned to meet this afternoon to decide whether to retain the 5 cent import tax on crude rubber, at present contained in the 1932 revenue bill, or to modify that schedule with a sales tax on rubber articles or a tax on large quantities of crude rubber at present in this country.

self. just as two sheriffs arrived at his home to take him into custody. He was suspected of complicity in the murder of Meeker’s 18-year-old wife, Gertrude, whose nude and battered body was found in a muddy stream near here Monday. m m m IN a signed confession, officers said, Meeker told how he plotted with Young to kill his girlwife, after she had quarreled and threatened him. and of how he pretended to take her fishing, but. instead drote her to a lonely road

ANDERSON RUM RING CHARGES AIRED IN TRIAL Dozen Defendants Brought Into Court, Accused by Government. TELL OF PROTECTION Bootleggers Say Police Took Money to Let Them Operate. The government today launched its case against twelve Madison county officials and residents charged with liquor conspiracy, before a jury in federal court, after federal attorneys and the defense had made their opening statements to the Jury. With Judge Robert C. Baltzell on the bench, the government placed its first witnesses on the stand to testify to the alleged Anderson liquor rings, which the government charges dominated the city administration. George Alpert, Anderson laborer, was the first to take the stand. He identified himself as a former bootlegger and testified that about April 1, 1929. he was at the home of Mrs. Erma Wetzell, when Ralph Rich, ex-captain of the detectives, then a patrolman, came to the house and asked him for liquor. Arrested Three Months Later Alpert testified he gave Rich a pint of liquor and that he was not arrested. He said he was arrested three months later by Rich and Elmer Nightbert, then police chief. Ex-police Chief Alvin Riggs also is on trial. The twelve defendants, who have pleaded not guilty, are among twenty-eight indicted by the federal grand jury several weeks ago. Mayor Jesse H. Mellett. under indictment, has not been arrested due to illness. Mrs. Lola Knotts of Elwood, testified that she and her husband were Teggers in 1929 and bought their liquor from Ray and Edna Boyer in five-gallon cans, paying from $22.50 to S2B a five-gallon can. Mrs. Knotts asserted that Boyer had said that if she and her husband bought their liquor from him he would warn them pf possible raids. She said that she installed a telephone, but she and her husband later argued with the Boyers over the price of liquor and cut off their alliance Aug. 1, 1929. Raid on Home Followed She said twelve days later their home was raided by the Madison county sheriff. Knotts told a similar story, declaring he "quit when the 'gyp' got too strong.” He declared the sheriff found only about a half pint of beer at his home, but that he was placed under SIB,OOO bond, con(Turn to Page Nine)

ADMITS_ARSON GUILT , ‘Fire Bug’ Tells of Desire to See Flames. Admitting to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker that he set fire to i twenty-five vacant houses because j of an “Insane desire.” Herman Jesse, 26, of 619 East Market street, plead- ! ed guilty today to a charge of arson. "I couldn't get it off my mind,” Jesse said. "When I tried to go J to sleep at night I kept thinking , about fires, so I got up and set the I houses afire.” Baker said sentence will be pronounced May 16. Maximum penj alty of ten years imprisonment is provided.

beside a stream. There she was felled with a tire pump, and crushed under the wheels of his car. He described a quarrel in which he refused to take her fishing. Then the death plot had been contrived. "I told Gertrude I had decided to go fishing, after all. and we drove along Killbuck creek in Holmes county early Sunday," the young husband's confession said. “Harold followed in his Ford. My wife didn't seem anything.

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Modern Cooking Institute to Be Conducted for Three Days. The Indianapolis Times’ Better Housekeeping Institute will be held in the English theater three days next week. The dates are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 17, 18 and 19. Admission is free. Dorothy Ayers Loudon, nationally known home economics expert, will lecture and give practical demonstrations at ali sessions. The Better Housekeeping Insti- ; tute is a modernized cookipg school. Not only will instructions be given in the preparation of food, but various other phases of homemaking, such as balancing budgets and diets, will be explained by Mrs. Loudon, j recognized authority on these subI jects. On the English theater stage will be a modern kitchen, and here Mrs. Loudon will explain the rules for scientific cooking. Instructions Are Practical She makes her instructions practical and never forgets that she is talking to women upon whom rests the responsibility of keeping hundreds of families healthy and happy. Dieting to keep one’s figure, than which there is no subject dearer to the heart of the average woman, is one of the many subjects to be discussed by her. Mrs. Loudon is in a position to tell how this can be done without endangering one’s health, as she formerly was dietitian at St. Luke’s hospital at Fargo. N. D. She was selected as a member of the board of the hospital dietitiary council, a national organization, and was made a member of the National Dietetics Association. Mrs. Loudon holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin. Was State Food Specialist After she gave up her hospital work, she was state food specialist for the North Dakota agricultural college. Here she learned first hand of the myriad problems that the average housewife must meet and solve daily. The latest scientific discoveries for solving these problems will be given in her lectures. The institute will be at 2 o’clock each of the three afternoons, with a closing session Thursday at 7 p. m. WINS POST BY TOSS Mta Alma McAtte Call! Flip ol Coin to Be Delegate. Winning by the flip of a coin. Miss Alma McAtee, 1215 Olive street, today prepared to sit as delegate to the Democratic state convention from the Tenth ward. Because of a tie vote in the primary election with Mrs. Louise Betzler. 1413 Gimber street, election commissioners decided the contest by tossing a quarter.

“T PULLED up in the driveway x near an abandoned school house, got out and started talking to Gertrude, who was in the back seat. Harold walked up behind her, and hit her on the head with a tire pump. ‘He opened the door of the car and pulled her out to the ground. Then he hit her several times again with the pump. I don't remember whether I hit her. I got in and backed the car over her to make sure she was dead. “Then we stripped off her clothes, and carried her down a

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WOMAN DIES IN CROSSING CRASH Traffic Toll in County Is Boosted to 40. Instant death was the fate today of Miss Catherine A. O'Connor, 52, of 305 South Emerson avenue, when the automobile she was driving was struck by a Baltimore <& Ohio passenger train at the South Emerson ave- /\ f\ nue crossing, two blocks T*l I south of Washington 1 street. Miss O’Connor left her home to go to a school in Irvington to return her niece, Mary Rentz, 15, for luncheon. John Earl, 213 Trowbridge street, who was seated beneath a tree on the old Butler university campus, witnessed the accident. He said bells and lights were operating at the crossing, but were unheeded by Miss O’Connor. The car was hurled from the track and Miss O’Connor thrown to the pavement. Her skull was fractured. Rear half of the automobile was demolished. The victim came here from Richmond twelve years ago and lived with her sister. Mrs. Ray Rentz, at the South Emerson avenue address. Crew qI the train included Lee A. Miller, engineer, 3304 College avenue, and H. F. Reynolds, conductor, 814 Tecumseh street. Police investigating the tragedy had the train backed and moved forward again and report that the crossing warning signals operated. It is believed rain on the windshield obscured Miss O’Connor’s view of the track. Miss O’Connor's death raised the county’s traffic toll to forty since Jan. 1.

MEANS OBTAINS $50,000 BOND IN FRAUD ARREST

By Untied Pret* WASHINGTON, May 11.—Gaston B. Means obtained satisfactory bond for his release from jail today. He was arrested last Thursday, charged with mulcting Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean out of SIOO,OOO on representations that he could bring about return of the kidnaped Lindbergh child. Judge Proctor, in District of Columbia supreme court, reduced his bond to $50,000. The prosecutor refused to accept a surety company bond. Later, Means' attorney obtained two local signatures to the bond and Judge Proctor approved it, making way for Means’ release. Federal authorities, meantime,

ravine and threw her into the creek. There was blood on the rear wheel, so I put the car in second gear, pulled the gas down and jumped out. It went part way across a plowed field, and crashed against a tree." a a a PR hours, the confession said, the . two conspirators drove aimlessly through the hills before they separated ano returned home. There Meeker was arrested the next day, a A* hours after a farmer, a trail of

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HOOVER PUSHES ECONOMY CAMPAIGN AS DEMOCRATS PRESENT RELIEF PROGRAM Federal Bond Issues for Employment and Construction Projects Urged by Robinson in Senate to Fight Depression. SAVINGS PROPOSALS ARE OUTLINED President Maps His Proposals to Bipartisan Group at White House Breakfast; Mills Explains Economic Measures,

By United Per t* WASHINGTON, May 11. —A Democratic. program to boost the country out of depression by providing federal bond issues for unemployment relief, and construction projects was presented to the senate today by Minority Leader Joseph T. Robinson. He accompanied his recommenda- : tions with a plea for a balanced j budget, a test of the equalization I fee system of farm relief and the 1 five-day work week. Robinson said “it is not practicable to provide all expenses out of revenue this year.” but that action to bring the budget into approximate balance was indispensable. He would obtain “complete balance” next year. Business Revival Program He called upon the administration for a “frank and unequivocal statement of probable revenue and proposed expenditures, not omitting from the latter items merely deferred.” Robinson’s statement was interpreted as the Democratic party’s business revival program. Senator James J. Davis (Rep.. Pa.) offered at the conclusion of Robinson’s speech a bill to authorize the reconstruction finance corporation to loan states and municipalities $500,000,000 for unemployment relief. Robinson offered in his program proposals for a $300,030,000 federal bond issue for unemployment relief and a $2,000,000,000 issue to stimulate construction of bridges, tunnels and rehabilitation of city slum districts. Indorses 5-Day Week He indorsed the Wagner bill for a $300,000,000 bond issue, proceeeds of which "would be advanced to the states and municipalities in relief for suffering caused by unemployment.” He said unemployment was increasing. The $2,000,000,000 construction bond issue would be spent upon selfliquidating or profit-making enterprises. He estimated there is enough deferred municipal work pending to employ 1,000,000 men. He would provide for replacement of the government funds. Robinson also indorsed the fiveday work-week; application of the equalization fee farm relief program to the wheat crop “as a test whether it is practicable to make tariff rates effective as to agricultural products.” and modification of the reconstruction finance corporation act to permit loans to farm loan associations. SPEED ADJOURNMENT Congress Leaders Hope to Quit by June 10. By Unilrd Preen WASHINGTON. May 11.—Senate and house leaders met today in a senate cloakroom and agreed to expedite essential pending legislation in an effort to adjourn congress June 10 without the necessity of returning, after the Chicago conventions. Speaker Garner and House Minority Leader Snell met j with the senate party leaders. “We agree to make a heroic effort to adjourn,” said Senate Ma- | jority Leader Watson.

were ’pressing an investigation of circumstances under which Means is reported to have obtained or tried to obtain another large sum from Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, wealthy and socially prominent New York woman, daughter of the late Jay Gould. District Attorney Leo A. Rover, seeking to have Means kept in Jail pending trial, told Justice Proctor there was “a very serious possibility” that the New York investigation would lead to additional criminal charges against Means. It was said that Means had approached Mrs. Shepard with the idea that she retain him to protect her and her family from Communists.

blood, came across the body. Young’s death followed with dramatic suddenness. Sheriffs John Stevens of Holmes county and Clark Shearer of Wayne county knocked on his front door shortly before midnight. m a THE roar of a shotgun split the silence. The two officers burst in the door and found Young dead. Prosecutor Elmo Estill of Holmes county said today he would ask the grand jury to indict Meeker for first-degree murder.

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BY LYLE C. WILSON United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 11. —President Herbert Hoover called the members of the senate’s new bipartisan economy committee to the White House today and at a breakfast conference outlined a general program for saving $300,000,000 in government costs during 1933. The President and Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills went over economic measure; “along the lines which have been followed in the economy program in recent months in the house,” as Mills expressed it. Mills acted as spokesman for the group at conclusion of the conference. Hope for Reductions Chairman Wesley Jones of the ! senate economy committee and other members of the bipartisan group returned to the Capitol for another meeting of their committee there. "We discussed economy along the lines of an economy program in an omnibus bill,” Secretary Mills said. “The hope is for reduction in appropriations and for authority to make combinations in government posts to save something like $300,- ! 000.000. or more, below the estimates set by the budget. “We did not go into any details, i but stuck to the general outline of | the plan—you can’t settle very ! much in an hour at the beginning of such a move.” Budget Director Attends Mills, in response to questions, said that the discussion over the coffee cups had been along the j "general lines of the house economy ; bill.” Further than that, however, j he said he did not care to go. In response to questions as to whether the three Democratic members of the committee would support the President, Mills responded: “I think we may say to that that it was a very harmonious meeting.” Asked whether there would be speedy action in the senate on economies, Mills, in a serious demeanor, said, "I hope so.” Budget Director Roop also attended the breakfast conference. Shouse Issues Statement Meantime, a statement issued by Chairman Jouctt Shouse of the Democratic national executive committee indicated that members of hi 6 party still resent President Hoover's recent statements concerning partisanship, in spite of the working coalition arrangement that has been set up in the senate. "Few people will take issue with President Hoover in his arraignment of congress for its delay in enacting a comprehensive and adequate tax bill, and in putting through an economy measure that will really result In decreasing the expenditures of the federal government to the extent required by our present emergency,” said Shouse. Blame Laid on Hoover “On the other hand. Mr. Hoover stultifies himself by appealing for nonpartisan action on the great fiscal measure, while at the same time he is holding congressional conferences in regard to them and excluding carefully from those conferences Democratic committee members and even designated Democratic leaders of the senate and house. “The present emergency lies at the President’s own doorstep. He has had two years and a half since the inevitable decrease in government revenues was foreshadowed and during all of that time he not only refrained from any move to reduce the expenditures of the various departments, but has permitted the heads of those departments and his own secretary to lobby in the Capitol against reductions a house committee wished to put into effect.” WHEAT OUGHT TO GO UP. DECLARES STONE Speculator, May Not Let It, However, Says Farm Chief. By United Pret* WASHINGTON, May 11.-Chair-man Stone of the federal farm board believes wheat prices ought to rise at least 10 cents on the basis of the new government estimate of a winter wheat harvest of only 440,781,000 bushels, compared with 787,465,000 bushels last year. But whether the price does go up depends on the speculators. Stone said. “Speculators were responsible foi the recent drop which followed the April rise,”’ he said, "and I won't predict what they will do now. The price of wheat should go up, but I'm not predicting that it will, and if it does, I’m not predicting how long the speculators will allow it to stay up." Hourly Temperature* 6a. m 51 10 a. m 50 7a. m 51 11 a. m 50 Ba. m 51 12 inoon).. 50 9 a. 51 1 p. m-.... 51