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BONUS FORCES WIN IN HOUSE TEST BALLOT Consideration of Bill Is Voted, 226 to 175: Showdown Tuesday. 'ARMY' IN GALLERIES Delegates From Camp of 17,000 Crusaders Listen In on Debate. By I nili rl Pr< st WASHINGTON. June 13. The shock troops of the bonus expeditionary forces marched up Capitol hill through the rain today and won their first major victory when the house, on a test vote, approved consideration in the house of the Patman bill for immediate payment of $2,400,000,000 to discharge the government’s obligations to the veterans. The vote was 226 to 175. The house immediately reaffirmed Its bonus vote by adopting, 225 to 169, the rule which makes the bonus hill the order of business Tuesday. The rule limits debates to four hours. Rain-sodden veterans from the flooded flats of Anacostia park peered over the gallery rails as the house went through the technical procedure of discharging the rules committee from further consideration of a special resolution for action on the bonus bill thus opening the way for a vote on the Patman bill. But two obstacles, both apparently insurmountable, still stand in the way of the veterans who came from all points of the compassto sit on congress’ doorstep until fiction was taken on the Patman measure. Faces Two Big Obstacles One obstacle is a definitely hostile senate; the other is the assurance from administration sources that President Hoover will veto the bill if it should, by chance, slip through the senate. Before the vote, Representative Patman (Dem., Tex.), author of the bill, announced he would move Tuesday to .substitute the so-called "Owen plan” for the proposal in Tuesday measure to issue new currency with which to pay the bonuses. The Owen plan calls for issuance of $2,400,000 in 3’i per cent federal bonds to be deposited in reserve banks. Currency then would be issued against the bonds. Since the bonus advicates failed to get a two-thirds majority, their success in forcing a vote on the Patman bill also showed that they would be unable to pass the measure over a presidentaial veto. Taking cognizance of the crowds of hundreds of veterans in the galleries Major Leadeb Rainey who was presiding in the house, sternly warned them against audible expression of “approval or disapproval” during the bonus discussion. Army Increased to 17,000 Week-end reinforcements swelled the bonus army to 17,000 and it eeemed likely to mount to 20,000 by noon. The broad and rain-soaked Anacostia flats were filled to overflowing. Police Chief Pelham D. Glassford obtained new' quarters for Ipany of the incoming veterans. Several hundred were billeted in Hn old department store condemned for the government’s $60,000,000 building project in the heart of the fcity. With nothing under them but the hard floor, weary marchers stretched out to sleep in the glass tfisplay windows, in full view of passersby. Even these billets were vastly superior to the Anacostia camp, where fi day of rain reduced the broad fields to a spongy morass of grass W’.d a slithering surface of mud. The bad weather made authorities doubly fearful of an outbreak of disease. Scores were treated for sore throats and respiratory ailments. PICK EVANGELINE BOOTH Salvation Army Leader Will Offer Invocation at Convention. B'J f nited Press NEW YORK. June 13,-Evan-geline Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, announced she has accepted an invitation to offer the invocation at the opening of the Democratic national convention in Chicago on June 27. She was asked to take part in the convention by a group of women delegates, headed by Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miss Elizabeth Marbury. MERCY PLANE SAVES 2 Air Ambulance Flies to Sea to Take Off Burned SeamenBy United Press PHILADELPHIA, June 13.—Two seamen, burned critically, were in a hospital here today, after being taken off a boat at sea by a flying ambulance of the United States coast guard. The men, Leonard Ambrose, first assistant engineer. and Hans Schwaiger. oiler, of the Standard Oil tanker, Samuel Q. Brown, were burned seriously in an explosion. The tanker radioed the Cape May coast guard station for aid. Negro Ends Life With Poison Despondent because of the recent death of his wife. William Howard 39. Negro, of 1421 East Fifteenth itreet. committed suicide today by drinking a quantity of poison'. Hourly Temperatures 8• m 68 10 a. m 78 7 a m 70 11 a. m 79 f Ba. m 73 12 (noon),. 83 1 a. m 76 Ip. m 83

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Charge U. S. Cops in Lindy Quiz Hounded Maid to Her Death British Press Bitterly Flays American Police for ‘Vicious Third Degree’ of Innocent Morrow Servant. By United press LONDON, June 13.—Bitter newspaper criticism that New Jersey police "third degree” methods had driven Violet Sharpe to kill herself reached the house of parliament today. Some members were prepared even to raise the question of representations to the United States government on the ground that the police had “hounded the girl to death.” Many British newspapers displayed New' York dispatches suggesting that the police methods were responsible for the death of the servant, in the Dwight W. Morrow household. There is strong belief in some quarters that an innocent girl was bullied by police into taking her life,” a cable to the News of the World said. ,

“Hounded to Death,” was the I title of of an editorial in the Lab- j orite Daily Herald. The Herald said that Frederick S. Cocks, Laborite member of the I house of commons, would ask j Foreign Sectary Sir John Simon j whether repifesentations would be I made to the United States. The liberal News-Chronicle said I that Brigadier - General Howard j Clifton Brown, representing the Newbury division of Berkshire, where the Sharpe family lives, would take up the question of representations. if the Sharpes, or any member of his constituency, requested. The conservative Daily Telegraph i was severely critical of the New Jersey police, saying: ‘‘All the work of the American police after many weeks discovers no single relevant fact, but adds to the baby murder the death of a tortured girl.” The Manchester Guardian said the Sharpe case “seems particularly designed to ventilate the inadequacy of American civilization.” Cops Start Over Again By United Press TRENTON, N. J., June 13. ’ The collapse of numerous clews I growing out of the suicide of a I dining room waitress in the home ! of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow re- J tarded the Lindbergh kidnaping inquiry today. While the body of Miss Violet | Sharpe awaited funeral arrangements at a morgue in Englewood, police here prepared to start all | over again in their attempt to find the kidnapers and killers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Although Colonel H. Norman i Schwarzkopf, head of the state constabulary, declared on Friday that Miss Sharpe’s suicide tended to confirm the suspicion that she had “guilty knowledge” of the Lindbergh case, he admitted today that the case against her and Ernest Brinkert had collapsed. Brinkert was believed to have been with Miss Sharpe at a roadhouse on the night of the kidnaping, March 1, but police later learned that her companion was one Ernest Miller of Closter, N. J. Miller was cleared of all suspicion. ‘Driven to Her Death’ By United Press BEENHAM, Berkshire, England, June 13.—There was no reason for Violet Sharpe to commit suicide, "except that the police questioning was enough to get on any one’s nerves,” Emily Sharpe, sister of the Morrow servant, said at her home here today. Emily made a statement soon after Chief Inspector Horwell of Scotland Yard said he was satisfied that Violet and Emily were “both good, respectable girls." Horwell said the affair was ended as far as Scotland Yard was concerned. “I did not, as has been suggested in some quarters, introduce my sister to a man called Brinkert,” Emily’s statement said. “I do not know how my sister came to know him I know no reason why she should have committed suicide except that the police questioning was enough to get on any one’s nerves." Fleisher Is Quizzed By United Press DETROIT. June 13.—Detectives concentrated their Detroit investigation of the Lindberugh kidnaping case today on Harry Fleisher, with attempts to link the notirious Purple gangster to the ransome negotiations. Convinced after hours of fruitless questioning that Fleisher had nothing to do with the actual kidnaping, the investigators are shaping their inquiry in an effort to connect him With at least one of the notes sent Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. So far, detectives are working on two established facts—that Fleisher was “in the east” and that he needed money badly. LIFT DUBLIN RUM BAN Hours of Sale Extended During Eucharistic Congress. By United Press DUBLIN. June 13.—Circuit judges were empowered to extend the hours of sale of intoxicating liquors in hotels and restaurants when deemed necessary, unde the provision of the eucharistic congress bill. Bona fide residents aboard ships here for the conference also will be entitled to liquors. The bill will be effective from June 18 to July 1.

THE greatest staff of political writers ever to cover a national convention for The Indianapolis Times is assembled in Chicago today for the opening of the Republican conclave Tuesday. In adidtion to Ben Stern. Times political writer, who will cover ever activity of the Indiana delegation, expert staff writers of the United Press, Scripps-How-ard Newspaper Alliance, and

WAR COMMERCE SECRETARY DIES William C. Redfield Served in Wilson Cabinet. By United Press NEW YORK, June 13.—William C. Redfield, secretary of commerce in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, died during the night. He was found dead in bed this morning. He would have been 70 years old on June 18. He had retired last night seemingly in excellent health. When his wife went to his room to awaken him she found him dead. Redfield, an authority on business and government and the author of numerous books on these subjects, was born in Albany, N. Y. He first entered public affairs as commisioner of public works for the borough of Brooklyn in 1902. He served in the sixty-second congress (1911-13) and was secretary of commerce from 1913 to 1919. CEMETERY FOR SALE Modern Graveyard Put On Auction for Taxes. One hundred forty-eight acres of one of Indiana’s most modern cemeteries was high upon the auction block today as county officials sought to clear their tax books of delinquencies. The cemetery, owned by the Mount Moriah Cemetery Association, is located on Kessler boulevard, north of the city, and at the time of its origination, was advertised throughout the state as one of the best graveyards of the period. Today, though, the stock advertising meant nothing as Fay Wright, chief deputy treasurer, again sought to sell the real estate. During the recent tax sale, county officials failed to dispose of the property. “We’ve still got one of the best cemeteries we know of,” Wright said. “It is valued at $50,000, and we’ll sell it to the first buyer for $1,600 and a. penalty now totaling $54. The taxes have been unpaid since 1929.” DE VALERA’S KIN DIES Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright Was Mother of Irish President. By United Press ROCHESTER. N. Y., June 13. Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright, the mother of Eamon De Valera, president of the Irish Free State council, died at her home here Sunday after a long illness. De Valera is the only son by Mrs. Wheelwright's first marriage to Vivian De Valera, young Spanish sculptor. His father died shortly after marrying the young Irish girl, who had just arrived in New York. Akron Soars Over Alabama By United Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 13. The Navy dirigible Akron passed over Montgomery at 11:05 a. m. today, en route to Lakehurst. N. J., from the Pacific coast.

SENATE TURNS ATTENTION TO FARM RELIEF PLANS

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 13.—Congress went to work with renewed vigor today on farm relief, unemployment aid and economy. Adjournment by the end of the week was the goal, although leaders believed at east two weeks would be necessary to clean up the necessary legislation. Yielding to insistent demands for farm relief, senate leaders agreed to take up the McNary bill which has the united support of three great farm organizations. A vote was expected today or Tuesday. The measure provides three alternative plans to be administered at the discretion of the farm board, all designed to take surplus pro-

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UTILITY SEEKS TO SET LIMIT ON ITS LOSSES Compromise to Cost Not More Than $55,000, Plea of Water Company. RATE HEARING STARTS Mayor Endeavors to Keep Concession for Those Paying Low Levy. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Compromise rates, which would not cost the Indianapolis Water Company more than a $55,000 annual loss in revenue, is the objective of the latest rate hearing, as outlined before the public service commission today by company attorneys. Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson is conducting the case. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan pleaded for retention of the present compromise rate provision, so far as a $66,000 saving to the city is concerned. He was joined by Walter Rothermel of the South Side Civic Clubs in urging retention of the SI.OB minimum rate to small consumers. Attorneys for large apartment owners argued that they should not have to bear the burden of the decreased rates by paying increases j provided in the compromise rates | of March 25. Injunction Brings Hearing One of their number, T. A. Moynahan, has secured a court injunction against the increases. It was this which brought about the hearing today on the company petition to restore old rates, make a complete audit and appraisal and grant increases. Company representatives were more subdued in presenting the case than their petition sounded. They are willing to compromise on the $55,000 lass basis, which was the basis of the previous compromise. They contend that to grant the decrease without the increases would mean a drop of $275,000 a year in revenue. They want the large consumers to bear the $220,000 increase difference. Or they would raise the minimum to the small consumers and cut apartment house costs. Accountant On Stand The utility put Harry Boggs, utility accountant, on the stand to show it already is suffering from the depression. He testified that revenues dropped $71,774 in 1931, as compared to 1930. He testified that the first five months of 1932 showed a $55,268 decrease over the same period in 1931, and the net income of the company fell off $112,568.70 from April 1, 1931, to March 31, 1932, as compared with the previous similar period for 1930-31. The hearing is expected to occupy considerable time, although all former evidence was stipulated by agreement of attorneys. It is being conducted in the house of representatives.

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duction off the market, and increase domestic prices for farm crops: 1. The equalization fee, under which producers would be assessed the cost of disposing of the surplus abroad. 2. The debenture plan, under which producers would do the exporting, and would, in effect, receive a rebate of one-half of the tariff on that particular commodity. 3. The allotment plan. This provides for the board to ascertain the proportion of any crop needed for domestic use. Each farmer then would be permitted to sell domestically only a corresponding proportion of his corp. The balance would be exported or otherwise disposed of as the board saw fit.

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DEMAND G. 0. P. SILVER PLANK Group Drafts Proposal to Stabilize Metal. By United Press CHICAGO, June 13—The campaign for a silver stabilization plank in the Republican platform was opened here today when representatives of a dozen states, mostly western, agreed upon a plank for submission to the resolutions commission. The draft resolution urges international consideration to restore silver as “primary” money to strengthen and stabilize the gold standard, and takes a strong position against “fiat artificial money.” States represented by national committeemen, delegates and silver interests, were Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, North Dakota, Rhode Island. Montana, Wyoming, New York. New Mexico and Virginia. The resolution emphasized the necessity of maintaining the gold standard, but said the present reserve of monetary gold, and future prospects “afford no reasonable expectation that gold will continue to serve unaided as a sufficient and satisfactory money and credit base.” The present commodity price level, it continued, “has reached a point where productive industry is becoming unprofitable and the payment of taxes and other debts is becoming impossible.” “More than one billion people, half of the world’s population, have always used and will doubtless continue to us silver as their exclusive money metal, and, hence, the foreign trade of the United States with these countries is dependent upon the buying power of silver,” it said. LINCOLN DOCTOR DIES Charles A. Leale First to Reach Abe When He Was Shot. By United Press NEW YORK, June 13.—Dr. Charles A. Leale, 91, the first physician to reach the side of Abraham Lincoln after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, died today at his home here. Dr. Leale was in the Washington theater when the assassin bullet struck Lincoln. He ran to the President’s box and helped remove the President to the Peterson home nearby, where he aided other physicians in the unsuccessful fight aninst death. Three Coal Miners Killed By United Press HARLAN, Ky., June 13.—Three miners were killed today in a slate fall at mine No. 31, of the Black Mountain Coal Corporation, Kenvir, 12 miles east of here.

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Tidal Wave of Protest Is Rising Which May Engulf Resubmission Plan. BY LEO R. SAC£ Times Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 13.—The rising tide of discontent over the administration’s proposed prohibition platform threatens today to develop into a tidal wave of angry protest which may engulf carefully laid White House plans to satisfy everybody. The eve of the Republican national convention finds President Hoover’s hope that a dry law fight would be avoided is certain to be disregarded dramatically. The “resubmission” idea of evading a direct declaration for repeal, developed in conferences in Washington last week between Republican “best minds,” is unsatisfactory to militant wet delegates, and they are saying so. Equally dissatisfied are bitter-end drys who are alleging that President Hoover has double-crossed them by disregarding a promise, made just a few weeks ago, that he would continue dry. Both groups are protesting—the wets because the administration plan does not go far enough, and the drys because it goes too far. Warnings Are Issued Between them are those Republican politicians who seek a compromise ana whose views are certain to prevail within the administration - dominated resolutions committee, which will recommend the prohibition platform. Warnings of the allied prohibition organizations are not concerning Pcstmaster-General Walter Brown, the President’s political field marshal. and his lieutenants, nearly as much as the threats of the wet delegates. Brown and his associates feel that Republican drys will be mollified, and will stay within the party. But the wet voters may go Democratic next November, particularly if the Democratic convention shows more courage in facing the prohibition issue. State delegations are caucusing today, adopting resolutions urging repeal of prohibition. Many are demanding a straight - forward, clear and concise pledge for repeal. Advises Against “Straddle.” Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia university president, long a Republican elder statesman; Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by telephone from his sick bed in Atlantic City, Pierre Du Pont and others are leading the repeal fight. "If the convention adopts a declaration which is a straddle or which is hypocritical or which is meaningless, they must take the consequences in November,” Butler warns. Butler claims the support of 620 delegates from twenty-one states.

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CABINET MEMBERS ASSERT VICE-PRESIDENT SHOULD BE GIVEN NOMINATION AGAIN Convention Floor War to Substitute Outright Repeal for Resubmission Plank Is Believed Certain.

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Corresnondent CHICAGO. June 13.—The fight, for outright repeal of the prohibition amendment will be led on the floor of the Republican national convention by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. It became necessary for Bingham to make the fight instead of Dr. Nicholas Butler of New York, the other leader of the extreme anti-prohibition wing of the party, because the latter will not be a member of the resolutions committee. Under the convention rules he is prevented from making a minority report. Bingham will be Connecticut's member of the resolutions committee. New York’s member will be Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, who, while he agrees with Butler on the prohibition issue, does not feel in a position to take a leading role in the struggle because of his administration position. Bingham recently gained prominence as champion of the anti-pro-hibition cause when he fought an oratorical duel on the senate floor with the great dry spokesman, Senator William E. Borah, and drew cheers from the gallery which brought a stern riprimand from Vice President Curtis. He is the author of several 4 per cent and other modification bills, but his activity here is directed at outright repeal. Drys Hold Parleys He, like other repealists, expects that the Republican platform committee will vote them down, since each state has but one vote on this committeee. They are staking their chances on a fight later on the floor of the convention, where, when the minority report for repeal is forced to a vote, each delegate will have a vote, giving the large anti-prohi-bition eastern states greater voice in the result. Meantime, organized drys were holding conferences, preparing to go before the platform committee in an attempt to hold the party to its dry position of 1928. Still apparently debating their future course, the drys adopted a resolution at their joint conference forbidding all participants from discussing the proceedings with the press. Miliant women drys were outvoted by their male colleagues of the prohibition board of strategy on a project to plump a dry challenge on the White House steps. Anti-Saloon League men checked plans of the angry women led by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the Women’s Christian Temperance union. Repeal Plank Is Produced Mrs. Boole wanted to wire Mr. Hoover that if he had been informed the drys would accept resubmission he was mistaken and that they wanted unqualified enforcement of the prohibition law. Ernest H. Cherrington. general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, and his colleague, F. Scott Mcßride, counseled caution. Some observers saw in this attitude a change from the bold position of former days, when any and all were welcomed by the drys in a test of strength. New York produced its repeal plank amid the first boisterous demonstration of the pre-convention show. In a hotel caucus, Russell Wiggins, former county judge of Port Jervis, N. Y., brought the delegates up cheering when the so-called "Congressional Country Club” repeal plank recently drafted by a group of wet Republican senators in the capital. Third Party Hinted With a whoop the caucus adopted repeal unanimously. The plank stipulated that the issue should be submitted to state conventions whose delegates had been chosen at special elections. A hint of a third party bolt was read by many persons into the opening speech of Jams Cannon Jr. before the Illinois state Anti-Saloon League convention in session here. Cannon suggested the drys might meet after the conventions.

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BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Stiff Corresnondent (Copyright. 1932. bv United Press) CHICAGO. June 13.—Administration forces mobilized at convention headquarters today to fight off raids on the White House program, which is understood to call for renomination of Vice- President Charles Curtis, and adoption of a resubmission prohibition plank. One of the last of the cabinet strategists to arrive, Agriculture Secretary Arthur Hyde, without attempting to speak for the adminis-

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tration, declared it his own personal view that Curtis should be renominated. "It is my own personal opinion.” he said, “that Vice-President Curtis has been co-operative and helpful and is entitled to renomination.” This statement was echoed privately by half a dozen of the men most intimately associated with President Hoover. Dawes Draft Defeated It was expected to effect final collapse of the attempt to draft former Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, War Secretary Patrick Hurley, or others mentioned in corridor gossip. At Washington, Hurley today denied rumors that he was a po- : tential candidate for the viceI presidency. “They can't shoot at my old friend | Charley Curtis wiNi me,” Hurley I said after a conference with Presi- | dent Hoover. “I am not and wiil not be a candidate for Vice-Presi-dent.” Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of VicePresident Curtis, arrived today to look out for her brother's Interest. Widespread sentiment among delegates had favored replacing Curtis by a younger man. John D. Rockefeller who recently created a sensation by reversing his life long prohibition views and declaring for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, arrived today. It was uncertain whether he* •would go before the platform committee to argue for repeal in accordance with his recent declaration. Pound at Repealers Administration forces also were turning o nheavy pressure to break up the eleventh hour drive of the prohibition repealers, who threatened to upset the milder resubmission or referendum program of the White House. The repeal forces gathered momentum as the eve of the convention approached, and plans were afoot for a demonstration which would bring the prohibition issue to to a crisis on the convention floor. Members of the Pennsylvania delegation, second largest in the convention, assembled today with expectations of declaring for outright repeal. Delegates arriving for the opening session of the convention Tuesday were confronted with newspaper headlines announcing that New York, with the largest delegation in the convention, had voted for repeal. Bingham to Lead Wets At the same time, the repealers selected Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut as their champion to make a fight on the floor. This tall, spare son of an American missionary, will present the minority platform for repeal, and debate it on the convention floor. Drys were in conference, disheartened by the failure of the White House to support their fight against re-submission. They refused to discuss their plans, having adopted a resolution pledging absolute secrecy Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills, among the closest to the President in his official family, came out Sunday night flatly for the renomination of Curtis. Many Fantastic Rumors Party intriguers and the rival prohibition forces, playing on the uncertainty in the pre-convention situation have fanned among delegates a very jumpy state of mind. The most fantastic rumors gain credence among them. This was instanced by those who accepted seriously the report, started as a joke, tliat former President Coolidge was to be drafted for VicePresident, which was absurd even before Coolidge scotched it. NEW EDITOR IS NAMED Robert Brown Succeeds E. T. Austin at Toledo News-Bee Helm. lig United Prca TOLEDO, 0., June 13.—Robert Brown, former managing editor, was made editor of the Toledo News-Bee today, succeeding Edward T. Austin, resigned.