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U. $, TRIAL OF GEORGE DALE STARTS HERE Muncie Mayor Will Face Liquor Plot Charges With 10 Others. (Continued From Pxgr 1) Lifted he was with Johnson when the latter left a pint of liquor at Massey’s home. On cross-examination, the defense brought out that Johnson left Muncie and moved to Hartford City shortly after Dale took office as mayor. Jeffrey, in his statement, declared that Dale was put into office by the efforts of bootleggers. He charged that the government will shorn that Dale and Massey, who also is on trial, ordered liquor transported to Inaianapc.u - political convention in 1930. Jeffrey asserted a downtown hotel was the Muncie headquarters and that "liquor flowed freely” during the convention. Anticipates an Attack Apparently anticipating a defense attack on Joseph Denny, federal special agent, who was arrested in a Muncie house, Jeffrey undertook to explain to the jurors that Denny was in the house "in the course of his duty,” and sought to intimate that Denny had been trailed in an effort to "frame" him He asserted that Denny was quizzing Lucille Justus in the house. that the blinds were raised, that all ihe lights were burning, and that Denny was writing on a pad resting on his knee when police officers entered the place The ten other men. besides Dale, on trial arc: Dan Davis, policeman; Fred Ellis, Republican secretary of the board of safety: Ernest Flatters, alleged bootlegger; Kenneth Horst man. detective; Raymond Hoover, police garage mechanic; 1 Fred Kubeck, bootlegger; Massey; Harry Nelson, detective; Albert Parkhurst, night police captain, and Ray Powell, policeman. One Is Fugitive Two other men were indicted by the federal grand jury. Chauncey Stilson. alleged bootlegger, is a fugitive and Corbett Johnson's guilty plea will result in his sentencing after the trial. Dale last week returned from Washington, where he conferred a second time with Aaron Youngquist, assistant attorney-general, protesting he had been "framed" by government agents. On his first visit to Youngquist. j it was reported an investigation of circumstances surrounding the re- j turning of the indictment was promised by the assistant attorneygeneral. However, on his return from the second trip to Washington. Dale said he doubted if Youngquist had investigated the charges, although Youngquist said a report of the investigation was prepared and would be read in open court when the j trial started. "I told them in Washington that all this disorder is intended to dis- ‘ rupt my administration.” Dale said j "I told them that these hoodlums 1 who claim they are federal inform- j ants and are the law are to blame for the trouble.” He said Muncie has been in the grip of a crime wave since he and police officials were indicted several weeks ago. and laid blame directly at the door of prohibition agents working in the case.

Police Work in Fear He added that “criminals in Muncie who perjured themselves to obtain my indictment now are defiant of local authority, and it almost is impossible to police the city, because city police arc afraid to arrest any one for fear they may be prosecution witnesses and the ring and federals will raise the cry that police are attempting to intimidate federal witnesses.” Defense attorneys include the law firm of R. W. Lennlngton Sons, C. A. Taughinbaugh, Muncie city attorney; W. A. and F. M. McClellan, all of Muncie, and Clarence G. Nichols and Dixon H. Bynum of Indianapolis. District Attorney GeoTge R. Jeffrey will be assisted by his deputies. Alex G. Cavins and Telford B. Orbison. Davis, it is charged, was instructed by Dale. Massey. Ellis and Parkhurst to arrest Joseph H. Denny, justice department special agent, to prevent investigation of alleged liquor ring activities by government operatives. The indictment sets iut that Flatters collected protection money for Dale and Massey, and that he delivered whisky to Dale about Feb. 1, 1930. Horstman is accused of arranging protection for the “Pig Stand.” while Johnson is charged with paying Massey for protection and with delivering whisky to Massey several days later. Kubeck, it is alleged, directed an alleged bootlegger to aid in Dale's mayoralty campaign, if the bootlegger’* wanted to sell liquor in Muncie." The indictment charges Dale with promising, before his election, to appoint Frank Massey police chief, because, it is alleged, “Massey's arrangements would be all right.” Charged With Transporting He also is charged with arranging with Massey to have Hoover deliver liquor from Muncie police headquarters to a downtown Indianapolis hotel, about the time of the Democat state convention, and. with Massey, of having received bootleg protection money. Ellis and Massey are charged with ordering two men to get liquor from Anderson for a policemen's ball and Ellis also is accused of attempting to block a raid on the "Fig Stand ’ in Muncie. Members of the Jury are: Harry Powell. Fontaine county, farmer; John A. Dorsett. Daviess county, retired railroader: Gus Thomas, Shelby county, surveyor: Oscar Sherfick. Martin county, merchant; Walter Rump. Dearborn county, building contractor; Vem Youngblood. Warrick county, farmer; James M. Rudy. Vermillion county, farmer: Ervin Roberson. Crawford county, lumber dealer; Sam W. Moore. Clav coynty. merchant; James H. Hudson. Greene county, machinery salesman; Edward Heckle. Clarke county, merchant. and Daniel P. Griffin. Harrison coun y, merchant.

“CAPPY RICKS” IS DEAD!

Colorful Career of Captain Dollar Ends

B H littil*4 Prttn SAN RAFAEL. Cal., May 16 Many decades ago a young eookboy sat scribbling and figuring on the top of a flour barrel in the commissary of a Canadian lumber camp. "What are you doing there?” demanded the camp boas, looking over his shoulder. "My work is done." said the boy. "When I have time, I like to write and figure ' The eookboy was already laying the foundation of a success that later ranked him near the top in the list of American business men. Robert Dollar, who died here today and known in later years as "The Grand Old Man of the Pacific.” did not long remain a eookboy. While he continued to study, he learned to fell trees. He became a woods foreman, handling rough men on that most hazardous of all lumber work—driving logs on the white water of a river—before his own face was roughened by whiskers. m m m ROBERT DOLLAR was born in Falkirk. Scotland, in 1844. into a seagoing family. The year of his birth three of His uncles were lost at sea when a typhoon struck their ship. Helen Mar. while it was on a voyage from Bombay to Calcutta. Captain Dollar left school when he was 12. and in his memoirs he told of how he ran the whole way home to show his first week's salary, a half crown (60 cents* to his mother. He was employed in a machine shop. His mother died and his father took to “drinking occasionally to drown his sorrow.” Writing of his life at this time. Captain Dollar said: "This brought about the necessity for our emigrating to Canada and it made me a strong temperance man. as I vowed I never would touch liquor as long as I lived.” In 1858 when Dollar was 14. the family emigrated to Canada. Young Dollar worked in an Ottawa lumber mill for $6 a month, for a while, and then went into the woods as a lumberjack. There he increased his education by constant study and became camp foreman.

HE followed the Canadian lumber camps, his pay increasing. continually storing away knowledge of books and men and lumber. As his pay increased, his savings grew, and when only 27 years old he went Into business for himself. In 1882. Dollar moved his interests to the United States, following the receding timber line westward. For five years he lumbered in northern Michigan and adjoining territory, and then in 1887 he moved again, this time to the Pacflr coast. The Dollars lumbered up and down the coast, until they found that the shortage of shipping facilities war a handicap to greater fortune. Thus shipping, renounced bv the Dollars when the Helen Mar went down, again became important to them. Dollar discovered shortly after his business had been firmly established in California that he could cut. his water transportation charges in half if he had his own vessels. The steam-schooner “Newsboy,” of 300 tons, was purchased, and proved to be the first of a great fleet.

* u m ORIGINATING as a by-prod-uct. of lumbering activities, the Dollar shipping was to become a great deal more famous than Dollar lumber. In 1901, a Dollar steamer made its first trip to the Orient. The trip was repeated in 1902, and soon the Dollar flag flew 1 over ell the seas. Dollar .saw his lines enjoy the greatest growth after he passed his seventieth birthday. It was in the hectic years of the Dollar expansion, between 1915 and 1930. that Captain Dollar became a San Francisco legend. Hsi good friend. Peter B. K.vne, wrote stories about "Cappy Ricks.” and Captain Dollar was Cappy Ricks—although neither Kyne nor Dollar ever admitted it. Captain Dollar liked to tell of his first experience with the electric light. He read of it first n a newspaper, he said, and was "so disgusted at the crazy idea that I threw the paper in the waste basket." In 1901 the Dollar concern made its first venture in China trade with the steamer Arab. The vessel carried only half a rargo of Dollar lumber on its maiden voyage, and Captain Dollar saw there was need of an organization on both sides of the Pacific if the steamship venture was to be a success. * m m A YEAR later he and Mrs. Dollar. a lifelong helpmate, made their first trip to the Orient to stimulate business. That year a steamer carried a cargo of Oregon fir to China, and brought back a load of Japanese oak ties for railroad building in Mexico. Dollar was getting started. Since then the Dollar houseflag has flown over every sea. Dollar line offices have grown in every maritime country. The shipping business which started as an adjunct to the lumbering business now has weekly sailing to oriental ports, regular affiliated lines proride complete coastal schedules. "The early training I received in Scotland.” he wrote in his memoirs. "has stuck to me all my life, and when living in the lumber camps, among the roughest of the rough, having no opportunity to read the Bible in quietness, I always made it a practice on Sunday to take my Bible out to a quiet place and read it, even in the coldest Weather. “Ever since I had had the opportunity of being alone in a room I have always read a passage out of it every morning, and among other things attribute much of my success to the teachings received from this daily reading.”

Plea Voiced Against Tax on Cinema Admissions

Jug ’Em All By I nitrd Prt.n WASHINGTON. May 16. The prohibition bureau announces that 4.228 dry law violators were sentenced in April to federal jail terms totaling 2,264 years—more than twentytwo centuries. The sentences averaged a little over six months each. Fines of $685,625 were collected. Arrests for the t en months of the fiscal year totaled 35,894.

WANTS DRY ACT WASTEHALIED •Let Beer Pay Taxes,’ Is Plea of Orr. B. y Time * Bprdol COLUMBUS. Ind., May 16. America has spent 8400,000,000 in a vain attempt to enforce the prohibition law and it now Is time to call a halt and make the liquor business pay taxes by legalization of light wine and beer, members of the Rotary Club were told here today. The speaker was Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner ol' the state board of accounts, and candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. "The liquor problem can not be solved by either dry or wet fanaticism,” Orr asserted. ”1 am opposed to the speakeasy as much as I am to the saloon. Speaking on the mounting governmental expenditures, Orr pointed out that in Indiana state taxes have increased from $63,000,000 levied in 1918, to 1144,000,000 in 1930. “The cost of administration of justice in Indiana increased from $565,763.66 in 1918 to $3,138,313.33 in 1930." the speaker declared. “The cost of maintaining police departments in our state increased from $1,710,931.53 in 1918 to $4,918.832.26 in 1930. "These figures are interesting since they show the trend since the passage of our prohibition laws."

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST GATHER AT SEYMOUR Dr. Athearn of Butler Will Be Tuesday Night Speaker. Hv TANARUS, on fiprriml SEYMOUR. Ind.. May 16—Principal educational speaker on the Tuesday night program of the state convention of Indiana Disciples of Christ churches, which opened here today, will be Dr. Walter Scott Athearn president of the Butler university. Butler college of education choir, direction of Mrs. Ruth O. Benedict, will appear with Dr. Athearn. presenting a concert of six religious numbers, including works of Shubert, Handel. Gaul and Grieg. Annual ministers' banquet will be held tonight. Bernard P. Smith of Evansville will be toastmaster. Annual men s dinner will be held Tuesday night. Myers Y. Cooper, former Governor of Ohio, will speak. H. H. Purkhiser of Mitchell will preside. A luncheon will be given Wednesday by the Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity. Accountants Name Evansville Man Annual meeting of the Indiana Association of Certified Public Accountant* closed Saturday at the Severin with the election of Earl E. Thomas. Evansville, as president. Other officers: Harry Boggs, vicepresident; A. R. Chapman, secretary. and H. A. Roney, treasurer, all of Indianapolis. Child Burned By Pie A freshly baked, soft top pie. which Virginia May. 5. pulled from a table, caused her to receive slight bums on the chest Sunday. The accident occurred at the home of Mrs. Mary Stone. 1364 Hiatt street, where the child is a boarder.

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Ruin Foreseen If Senate Levy Goes Through on Movie Houses. B i/ Brrippu-Hotrard Xewnpnpcr Alliance WASHINGTON. May 16.—The motion picture industry's protest against the senate's proposed tax on admissisons was issued today by Senator Samuel Shortridge of California. Shortridge said: “More than 5.000 more picture theaters in the United States have closed since 1929, due to unemployment's drain on attendance. If the proposed tax on admissions of 10 cents and over is enacted, at least another 5,000 willl close, unable to meet rent and pay rolls. The nation's normal supply of entertainment will have been cut in half. “The effect on producers and distributors, who also depend on theater customers, will be a similar 50 per cent reduction. It is proposed, through this tax. to complete the wiping out of at least half of a major industry. "Half of the 325.000 Americans normally employed will be kept out of jobs. Half of the 1.250,000 constituting their families will be without livelihood. Half of the 3.000,000 whose family heads are employed in normal times because of the motion picture industry’s purchases from other industries, further will be added to the unemployment crisis. "The revenue expected by the sponsors of the 10-cent. admission tax will not materialize, and many normal tax values will be destroyed. "No industry is more vital today than the motion picture industry, fulfilling its necessary educational function and providing a let-off for care and worry. And no Industry is in less position to bear an added crushing burden of taxation." The statement declared that two and one-half billions of dollars are invested in the industry.

SEEK MISSING GIRL Cops Launch Search for Tech Student, 16. Search for Miss Ethel Teets. 16, Technical high school pupil who disappeared from her home. 514 North Pine street, seven days ago, was launched today by police. Edward Teets. the girl's father, told police he had not heard from her since she left home a week ago to hitch-hike to Noblesville, where her sister lives. He described his daughter as being 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing about 112 pounds, with dark brotvn hair and blue eyes.

OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Jewish Community Group Hold* Dinner-Dance; 400 Attend. The Jewish Community Center Association observed its seventh anniversary with a dinner and dance at Kirshbaum Center. Twenty-third and Meridian streets. Sunday night. More than 400 persons attended. The association adopted a resolution to incorporate. Leonard A. Strauss, president of the J. C. C. A.; A. H. Goldstein, Sidney Sternberger and Mrs. I. G Kahn were named as incorporators. School Cost Put at $48,000 School board members at a special meeting today set $48,000 as the cost of remodeling the Arsenal building at Technical high school. Previously a resolution covering the work had stated the cost should not exceed $60,000. Named Boy Scout Treasurer H. Foster Clippinger. vice-presi-dent of the Fletcher Trust Company, has been elected treasurer of the Indianapolis and central Indiana Boy Scout council. He succeeds Fred L. Hollweg.

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DEMANDS U. S. PUNISH DRY ON PERJURY COUNT Tinkham Wants Charges Filed Against Church Official. Xff T'nitrd Prrn WASHINGTON. May 16— Representative G. H. Tinkham 'Rep., Mass i in an open letter to Attor-ney-General Mitchell demanded that perjury charges be brought against Deets Pickett, prohibition leade and research secretary of the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals. Tinkham said he had evidence that eleven packages of records were transferred from the board's headquarters on April 9, 1930—the day that Tinkham demanded a senate lobby committee subpena the board's books to determine whether it was spending funds to influence legislation. Tinkham said Pickett on May 28. 1930, swore before the committee that no material had been removed from the boards headquarters between Jan. 1 and May 28, 1930. By 1 nitrd Prr ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. May 16. —Deets Pickett, research secretary’ of the Methodist Episcopal board of temperance, prohibition and public morals, said today he would look into the legal possibilties of suing Representative Tinkham (Rep., Mass.) lor 81,000,000 as a result of Tinkham's perjury charges against Pickett. Tinkham based his accusation of perjury on Pickett's testimony before a senate committee in 1930 in which Pickett testified nothing had been shipped from his office since January of that year except by mail or parcel post. Tinkham claims to have copies of a freight bill for parcels sent from Pickett's office to Baltimore. Pickett in a statement said Tinkhame's charges were “inexcusably injurious,” that spreading of the charges was “unspeakable" and concluded by saying: “I denounce him as a liar and a coward.”

DIVORCEES HURT BY HARD TIMES Alimony Collections Are Very, Very Bad. Divorced women with alimony or support money due are victims of the depression, it was revealed today by Mrs. Katherine T. Demiller, bookkeeper in the office at County Clerk Glenn R. Flalston. She handles thousands of dollars annually, paid under court orders by the male principals in divorce suits. "The alimony business fell flatter than the stock market,” Mrs. Demiller states. Consequently, we haven't a ‘real-for-sure’ alimony racketeer on our books today.” She revealed that half the men who have been ordered to pay support or alimony money have obtained reductions in the last two years. Threat* of wives, "I'll have you sent to jail If you don't pay,” mean little now. because most courts hold the same view as Superior Judge William A. Pickens, who says: "When men lose their jobs they can not be expected to pay. and where their wages are cut I have reduced support orders accordingly.” In the last year and r half. 122 husbands have not paid a penny, the records show.

BUDWEISER WINNER It’s for Frog Jump Crown, Though, Not Beer. By railed Preen ANGELS CAMP. Cal.. May 16. Budweiser. rugged old veteran from the Stockton (Cal.) marshes, today was acclaimed victor of the annual Calaveras county frog-jumping contest, made famous by Mark Twain. Without any preliminaries. Budweiser closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and sailed into the air to land thirteen feet three inches away. It bettered his 1931 mark by two feet and set anew record. The old veteran won his first victory in 1928, but, according to his owner. Louis Fisher of Stocktoft. it went to his head. He refused. Fisher said, to keep training rules and took to running about the marshes at night with a group of rounders, so that he lost- in 1929 and 1930. AUBURN PRISON LOSES TALENTED STAGE STAR Nataliy Chadwick. Former Follies Star, Is Released. By Vailed Preen AUBURN. N. Y.. May 16.—Auburn prison lost one of it* most talented actresses—a former Ziegfeld Follies star—today. Natalie Chadwick left for New York City at 9:05 today, after serving two years of a 2 , j-to-five-year term on a grand larceny conviction. Miss Chadwick appeared in several of the women’s prison shows while here, and each time easily starred. H-?r last appearance before the prison "public" was a solo in chapel Sunday. Miss Chadwick, who now is 31. was sentenced from Nassau county in 1930. Her release had been expected several timer, during the last two weeks, but each time was delayed. Home Circle in Card Party Capitol City Circle No. 176, Protected Home Circle, will sponsor a dance, card and bunco party at 8 Friday in the hall at 322 East New York street.

Stomach Ache Is Blamed for Life as ‘Wild Man’ Hermit, Arrested for Fishing Without License, Back on His River Bank After Serving- Ten-Day Jail Term. By t'nitrd Prnt BENTON, 111., May 16 —George Survel made clear today it was a stomach ache and not a wish to emulate Rousseau a "noble savage' that drove him to hermit life in a hut on the banks of Big Muddy river. For six years. Survel has lived in philosophical calm and classic solitude, eating nuts from the trees and fish from the river. It was a game warden, who spied the hermit fishing without a license, who brought Survel back to civilization for a ten-day Jail sentence. The warden announced his find as a "wild man.” who had forsworn steam heat and iceboxes for the existence of a savage.

But when the matted beard and tangled hair was cut from the features of the "wild man," coal miners recognized their comrade, Survel, who they thought had died in 1926. or gone back to his native Austria. His Jail sentence over, and back in his river bank hut, Survel scoffed at the game warden's theories of why he chase to make his life apart from fellow men. “It was this way,” said he. "I had worked in the mines all my life. And it got so I had pains in my stomach every time I ate. I had a dizzy feeling in my head too. Then my brother died and mining didn't pay much any more. "So I thought I would just try living by myself here on the river, and see if I couldn't get to feeling good again. Well, it worked. Now I don’t have any pains in my stomach any more, or dizzy spells. My life is easy. I'm used to to any kind of weather. "I'm 42 years old. and all I'd like to do is to be able to live here until I die.” As he talked. Survel busily was mending his fishing net. Whether he has purchased a fishing license, he did not say.

‘OLDEST TOWN' IS DISCOVERED Archeologists’ Find Dates Back to 3700 B. C. By Vnitrd Prrn PHILADELPHIA. May 16.—The oldest to wan ever uncovered by archeologists. according to Dr. E. A. Speiser. has been found by the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania museum and the American Schools of Oriental Research near Billa, in northern Mesopotamia. The town dates back to 3700 B. C., Dr. Speiser, field director of the expedition, said. The discovery was made beneath the huge mound of Tepe Gawra, where the expedition has been carrying on research for two years. In spite of its unusual antiquity, the town was built according to a carefully conceived town-planning scheme, and within it were found many architectural features whose existence at so early a date hitherto had not been suspected. Dr. Speiser said. The settlement, nearly 6.000 years old and ante-dating by nearly 500 years the period of the rayol tombs at Ur in the Chaldees, w’as grouped around an imposing forum.

COURT MAY ACT ON WRIT PLEA Closing of Stephenson Case Depends on Move. Summer may see some action taken on the petition for writ of error coram nobis filed on behalf of D. C. Stephenson, it was reported at the statehouse today. Due to the writ pending, the murder appeal case is not closed entirely and the judges of the supreme court have it within their power to permit introduction of evidence which would practically constitute a retrial of the case. Action on the writ present* several avenues for the court to follow: It may be denied, the new evidence heard by the high court, a judicial body appointed by the supreme. court or by the Hamilton circuit court where the original case was tried. To deny the petition will mean, that the affirmation of the murder sentence, as passed on by the supreme court three to two. stands and that the one-time Klan dragon will have no chance to prove allegations in the writ petition. These include charges of conspiracy to kill him should he take the witness stand in his own defense. Denial of the writ will leave the Stephenson case rest with the Governor. so far as any clemency from the life sentence is concerned. Stephenson was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Indiana state prison on a murder conviction growing out of the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis. Report today was that the coram nobis case may be disposed of and the docket, cleared of the Stephenson case before next fall. It also was rumored that the writ petition may be granted. HUNT AUTO~ VANDALS Cops Seek Couple Who Fired Car on Valley Avenue. Vandals who set fire to an auto which burned early Sunday while parked in rear of 2300 Valley avenue, are sought today by police. Percy Graves, 1812 Tallman avenue, summoned police when he found the car in flames. He said he saw a man and a woman standing behind the car and that they ran as it was enveloped in flames. The auto was property of Mrs. Ada Patton. 2310 Valley avenue.

M. Bert Thurman Candidate for the Republican Nomination for Governor Will Speak From Station WKBF Monday Evening at 8:15 ON THE SUBJECT OF TAXATION

STOCK FRAUD PROBE OPENS •Financier' Held in $500,000 Forgery Case. By 1 nitrd Prrn NEW YORK, May 16.—Assistant District Attorney Joseph B. Martin today began a detailed checkup on the complicated records furnished him by Thomas F. Curran, 41-year-old former bank director, who. he said, confessed to peculations totaling at least 8500.000. While Curran was held in Tombs prison, Martin sent investigators out to check up with six banks and three broicerage houses which were ellegedly defraunded by means of bogus stock certificates of the Worcester Salt Company. Curran disappeared May 4 and shortly thereafter was indicted on charges of forgery and grand larceny. the indictment specifying a 820,000 loan he obtained from the Continental Bank and Trust. Company for which he deposited forged stock certificates as collateral. By his own admission, according to authorities, he obtained $265,000 from the National City Bank, 820.000 from the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Company. 840.000 from the Bank of Manhattan Trust Company, $70,000 from the National Bank of Queens County, in which he was a director, and $30,000 from the Bank of America. Curran is the father of four small children.

SIGHT MYSTERY PLANEJT SEA Ship Is Believed Carrying Mail From Liner. By C nitrd Prenn LONDON. May 16.—A mystery airplane was sighted by two steamships in the Atlantic today, flying from the direction of North America toward the British isles. The ship was a monoplane equipped with pontoons. The air ministry had no knowledge of any airplanes maneuvering at sea. Other aviation quarters and shipping offices could not identify the plane. The ship was reported by the American steamer Ala, over which it passed at 11:45 a. m., g. m. t. (7:45 a. m. New York time*, flying east. At that time it was about 155 miles from Landsend. It had passed the American steamer McKeepsort an hour earlier, j By I ailed Pernn NEW YORK, May 16 —The plane reported by two ships to be flying towards the European coast was believed here possibly to be a mail plane from the liner Europa. The Europa dispatches planes while several hundred mile* at sea, the offices of the North German Lloyd line said.

EDITOR QUITS POST Sheldon to Take Minteer's Ft. Worth Job. By f nilcd Prenn FT. WORTH. Tex., May 16.—Edwin D. Minteer today announced his resignation, effective Immediately as editor of the Ft. Worth Press, a position he had held for two years. Minteer will be succeeded bv Seward Sheldon, former city editor of the Oklahoma News. Oklahoma City, and more recently a staff member of the Cleveland Pres*. SET STATE CONVENTION Prohibition Tort* Mrrtins Will Bo Held June 2 at Clavpool. State convention of the prohibition party of Indiana will be held June 2 at the Ciaypool, on order of the executive committee, it i* announced by B. L. Allen, state chairman. 338 North Ritter avenue. The meeting i* for the purpose of nominating a full state ticket and presidential electors; adoption of platform, election of fifty-two delegates and a like number of alternates to the national convention to be held here July 5 and reorganization of the party's state committee. Any person who has voted the prohibition ticket regularly or Intends to do so this fall. Is welcome to attend the convention. Alien states.

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HOOVER CANT ;i MAKE UP MIND, : AVERS GARNER Speaker Declares President Contradicts Himself Every Ten Days. By 1 nitrd Prrn . WASHINGTON. May 16—Representative Bertrand Snell (Rep., N. Y.) minority leader in the house, told President Hoover today that the house was "economy-minded.” and ready to give quick action on both the economy and tax bills. "Most of the members have heard from home," Snell said after talking to Mr. Hoover. "They have discovered that the people throughout the country want cuts in the cost of government, and most of them have been told to vote for anything that looks like economy." Snell said that he was hopeful that these two major items, taxes and economy, “could be got out of the way In time for adjournment June 10.” He said he thought the house was in a mood to approve the tax bill when it comes from conference. and that "I believe the conference will produce a good tax bill.’* i Speaker John Gamer today renewed his attack on President Hoover for his economy statement* with an offer "to buy anew hat” for any one who can find "that the President in any ten days' period does not contradict himself." Garner said "the truth is as long as Mr. Hoover is in the White House the people will not have any confidence. "A man who talks as much as he does is bound to contradict himself. Look back over his statements.” Noting that the budget bureau has been sending recommendations to congress for supplemental appropriations to run government department, Garner said: "The President says practice economy one day and the next day he sends recommendations up here for millions in appropriations. One day he says build buildings and give men work, and the next day he says there must be no bond issue to pay for the buildings. How does he expect the buildings to be paid for?”.

NAB TRIO ON CHARGES OF DRUNKEN DRIVING One Motorist Also Is Alleged to Have Resisted Officer*. Three men arrested following week-end traffic accidents, today faced charges of driving automobiles while drunk. Thase held are Charles Buck. 34, of 2023 College avenue; Frank Purtlebaugh, 49, of 1149 Deloss street, and Troy Edgar, 33. of 1626 Hall place. Buck, according to police, was found in his automobile at 23 South Beville avenue. In addition to the drunken driving chazge, he is accused of being drunk and resisting an officer. His car was seized. Another automobile and a street car are alleged to have been strucx by Purtlebaugh's car at English and Keystone avenues. His automobile was impounded. In addition to drunken driving, Edgar, whose car crashed into a railing of the White river bridge at Thirtieth street, is charged with blind tiger, transporting liquor and drunkenness. Police reported finding a gallon of alcohol in the car. Edgar incurred cuts on the face and two teeth were knocked out.

SUGAR BEET WORKERS’ WAGE STRIKE SLATED Colorado Harvester* Demand ray Boost to $24 an Acre. By Ijailrd Prenn DENVER. May 16—Workers in the Colorado sugar beet fields planned to strike today for a $24-an-acre wage. It was reported the walkout had been called by the Association of the United FYont of Agricultural Workers. The association claims 8,000 members, and the worker* predicted that 20,000 workers would be involved in the strike. Wages for preparing, tenoing and harvesting the beet fields this year have been set at from sl3 to sls an acre. In 1931 they were paid sl9 an acre. 3 GUILTY IN DRY CASE All Draw Fines. Jail Terms as a Result of Raid. Three persons arrested on blind tiger charges by Sergeant Edwin Kruse and squad as a result of a raid at 538 Fletcher avenue, were convicted today in municipal court by Judge William H. Shcaffer. Charles Baker was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to the penal farm for 120 day*; John Miller, same fine and thirty days at the farm, and Fannie Harris, same fine and thirty day* in the Indiana Womans prison. Fine and costa were suspended in her case. Lieber Named U. S. Park* Head Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department haa been elected president of the National Conference on Parks. It was learned upon his return from the conference, which was held this year in Virginia.

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