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MAP CAMPAIGN AS ROOSEVELT RETURNS EAST Presidential Drive Plans Are Made in Smoke-Filled Private Car. CONFERS WITH PALMER Governor in Shirt Sleeves As He Goes Over Details for Election. BY PAUL II KING Vnited Pres* Staff Corrrspondrnt EN ROUTE TO ALBANY WITH FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, DETROIT, Mich., July 4—Franklin Drlano Roosevelt laid plans for his presidential campaign today in a smoke-filled private car as he sped toward Albany. Seated comfortably in his shirt sleeves, the Democratic nominee for the highest job in the land, talked at length regarding the campaign with former United States Attor-ney-General A. Mitchell Palmer. The New York state Governor, cheerful despite the rigors of his dramatic last-minute appearance before the Democratic national convention to deliver his official acceptance address, discussed with Palmer, one of his political advisers, various phases of the ensuing November elections. Get Machinery in Motion ■ f Although Roosevelt declared that ,K!s bid for the presidency started directly after he completed his ad-j-dress, he remained silent upon his personal ideas. f) Prior to retiring late Sunday ! night, the Governor also “talked jjoolitics” with Palmer and Louis [Howe, one of the leaders of his [Campaign for nomination, s, They planned, it was learned, tentative arrangements for a meeting -pi party leaders in Albany, probably Jate this week, when definite steps toward launching of the campaign will be discussed. “We talked of many things,” the Governor declared. Mrs. Roosevelt, w'ho has not, so far, taken an active part in the Governor’s political affairs, remained in the background as they talked in private. While Roosevelt indicated he planned to attend to state business a greater portion of this week, he was expected to confer at intervals with party chieftains and throw in motion his pre-campaign machinery. Fix Campaign Offices Soon Palmer, who was attorneygeneral in the Woodrow Wilson administration when Roosevelt was assistant secretary of navy, took an active part in the Governor's prenomination campaign. National headquarters are expected to be selected by the Roosevelt forces in the near future. “Wa haven’t decided upon a site definitely," he declared. The Governor, who said he probably would not make a lengthy campaign tour, but instead would confine his bid for the presidency to numerous short trips from Albany, returning after each, arose early, had breakfast, scrutinized newspapers and resumed “talking politics” which has claimed much of his attention the past several months. Smith Keeps Silence *fit) United Press NEW YORK, July 4.—Alfred E. Smith, who came home from the Chicago Democratic convention the •'unhappy warrior,” still maintained his silence today on all things political, reiterating “I have absolutely nothing to say.” The former Governor arrived Sunday to be greeted by a small crowd of admirers. At his son's home he again was questioned by newspaper men on his attitude toward the Roosevelt-Gar-ner ticket. “Not a word.” Smith said tersely, “not a word. I’m going for a swim as quickly as I can. I need it.” Members of Smith’s convention party, who returned with their defeated candidate, have raised the charge of being “double crossed” by William G. McAdoo, head of the California delegation. McAdoo, they declared, had violated a “gentleman’s agreement” not to make any change in the California or Texas delegations’ vote without first notifying the Smith forces. Smith cohorts also intimated that Speaker John N. Garner had participated with McAdoo ard William Randolph Hearst in an alliance to force Smith out of the running. They cite Garner’s refusal to talk to Smith over long distance telephone Friday night when the former tried to get in touch with him. John W. Davis, nominee in 1924. returned and predicted success at the polls for the ticket.

twitted about age. MURDERS HIS WIFE 63-Year-Old Chicago Man Kills Younger Mate. After Taunts By United Presg CHICAGO. July 4 Sixty-three-year-old Peter Meissner shot his 35-vear-old wife to death, he confessed, because she taunted him about his age "She called me an old fool, and I guess I was." said Meissner. ‘ She insulted me during ill the ten years we were married. Saturday night. I wanted to go out with her and she told me she was ashamed of me.” Meissner said he seized a pistol during the ensuing quarrel. He fired nine shots, one of which went through his wife’s heart, another through her head.

. The Indianapolis Times Mostly unsettled with probably occasional showers or thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday; slightly cooler tonight.

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As all forms of noise sounded in every section of town today, Miss Ethel Moehrling found she was more than well-equipped to shoot out the day. She is shown

NINE LIVES LOST

Damage Over Week-End Is Estimated at Nearly $1,000,000. By United Press SAN ANTONIO. Tex., July 4. Southwest Texas went grimly to work today to relieve distress and restore order in flood-stricken area, where at least nine lives were lost. Probably $1,000,000 damage was done over the week-end. Because the waters had not receded fully, and the affected sections still were almost totally isolated, extent of damage and loss of life was not known definitely. Highway and rail traffic almost was at a standstill. The area affected most seriously extended from Pearsall, sixty miles south of here, to Uvalde on the west, and upward through the hill country to Kerrville. Prolonged and record - breaking rains caused the floods in an area noted for dryness. Livestock Losses High Accounts of the damage trickled into San Antonio as Red Cross officials and army engineers at Ft. Houston started relief work. Livestock losses will be high. Crops and highways heavily have been damaged. Railroad bridges were washed away. Backwater from the Leona river, normally a dry streamed bed, created a lake five miles wide and fifteen miles long near Uvalde, home of Speaker John N. Garner. Fifty families were taken from their home there in boats. Two men were drowned in the nearby Frio river. The village of Batesville, below Uvalde, was inundated and the highway leading to is covered with water. Kerrville. popular summer resort town of 500 population, was cut off from the outside for the third day. Railroad Bridge Swept Away The Guadalupe river, rising thirty-five feet in a few hours, swept away a railroad bridge at Waring. The waters were receding today. Four persons were drowned in i hat vicinity. An amateur radio station was Kerrville’s only communication service. The operator reported campers in the hill around the town were marooned. At Pearsall, the Frio river rose suddenly and sent fifteen feet of water over a highway, cutting off many independence day celebrators from Laredo. FRAUD SUSPECT DEAD lowan Accused of $3,000.00# Con Game Succumbs in Jail. By UniterfPrcss CEDAR RAPIDS. la., July 4. George E. (50 per cent) Huckins, against whom a $3,000,000 fraud was charged, was dead today, after being stricken with hardening of the arteries in Jones county jail, where he was confined. Huckins was in prison awaiting his fourth trial on charges of defrauding investors in a fictitious cigar business.

OLD UNCLE SAMUEL, 156 years old today, is celebrating his birthday noisily at his home on U. S. A. street. With firecrackers booming in his ears and torpedoes cracking intermittently, the spry young gentleman temporarily forgot the problem of his 3-year-old child, Depression. and his 12-year-old trouble-maker. Prohibition, to take an automobile ride, and to listen to a few speeches. Besides the thousands of family celebrations of the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, organized observances will be held in Indianapolis in the various city and amuse-

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with the load of firecrackers, Roman candles, skyrockets and pinwheels she carried home for the holiday. She is a statehouse employe.

Wettest Wet By United Press NEW YORK. July 4.—Federal agents don’t know whether to believe it or not, but one of the men they seized on a rum runner off New York gave the name of John Wettiwet. He and two other men were arrested aboard the trawler Sylvester, loaded with 500 sacks of rye whisky, worth approximately $25,000. “Go ahead and laugh.” he told the agents, “but my name is Wettiwet and I’ll stick by it.”

HAMILTON TO GO ON TRIAL Jackson Murder Case Starts Wednesday at Lebanon. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., July 4.—Stage was set here today for opening of the trial Wednesday of Louis A. Hamilton of Ida. Kan., charged with slaying in May, 1931, of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store owner, during an attempted holdup of the main store in Indianapolis. Names of twenty-five talesmen were selected Saturday on order of Judge Brenton A. Devol of Frankfort, special judge. Questioning of the veniremen was expected to require several days. Hamilton and Charles Vernon Witt, former Putnam county youth, were indicted jointly by the Marion county grand jury. Witt was convicted here and faces a death sentence following conviction under a 1929 statute.

PARADE RAINED OUT Bonus Army Forced to Call Off Demonstration. By United Press WASHINGTON. July 4. A drenching rain today forced the bonus army to cancel plans for an Independence day parade. Instead, a group of fifty veterans, headed by Commander-in-Chief Walter W. Waters, planned to march to the tomb of the unknown soldier and place a wreath on the catafalque. Waters and his lieutenants discussed the possibility of holding a parade Tuesday, as well as a demonstration before the Capitol, protesting adjournment until after federal relief is given the veterans. A drenching morning rain turned the bonus army camps into mud seas. Bedding was soaked. Wet clothing added to the discomfort of hunger. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 71 8 a. m 73 ? a. m 71 9 a . m 75 10 a. m 77

ment parks. Various posts of the American Legion also will join in the celebration. Communities in West Indianapolis were to join in a celebration to be held at Hawthorne playground, Belle Vieu place and Washington street, and at George Washingon high school athletic field. Activities were to include a track and field meet on the Washington high school track. A fireworks display will be given at 8. It will be preceded at 7 by roller skating for grade school children in Hawthorne community house. Following the fireworks, persons of high school age and above will skate.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1932

DEATH’S HAND UPON CURVES OF ROAD 52 One Killed, Five Injured in Two Accidents Short Distances Apart. MANY HURT IN CITY Slippery Streets Make Peril Greater for Pre-Holiday Motor Throng. When drivers lost control of their cars in two accidents on curves, less than a quarter of a mile apart, on state Road 52, northwest of the city Sunday, one man was killed and five persons were injured. These accidents were most serious of the pre-Fourth of July automobile crashes, in and near the city, which were increased by rain that made streets slippery. Nathan Giles, Negro, 24, of Gary, was killed; his wife, Mrs. Birdie Giles, 25, suffered a broken hip and cuts, and his brother, Wilson Giles, 19, of Girard, Ala., was cut in the face. Albert Olsen of Chicago received hip and back injuries in the other accident. His son, Arnold, 16, was cut on the legs and hip and another son, Harold, 13, suffered a broken collar bone. Olsen’s wife and two daughters were not injured. Baby Suffers Broken Arm. A headon collision of his automobile with a street car at Wallace and East Washington streets, caused by slippery car tracks, critically injured Walter Wiley, 40, of 218 North Walcott, city fireman. He suffered a fractured skull and arm fractures. His passenger, Miss Eva Hurt, 16, of 735 Elm street, was bruised and cut. A man and 3-months-old baby suffered broken arms in an accident at Twenty-fifth street and Indianapoli: avenue late Sunday, Those injured were Marion Dicks, 61, of 2702 Burton avenue, and an infant son Ralph. Police arrested George R. Willman, 28, of 501 East Thirty-second street, for reckless driving as result of an accident at Massachusetts avenue and Sherman drive. Five Hurt in One Crash Willman’s car collided with an automobile driven by Edward McGill, 28, of 5260 East Thirtieth street. Arthur Dayhoff, 29, of 2734 North Olney street, a passenger in McGill’s car, suffered cuts and bruises. Five persons were injured when a car driven by Clarence Wood, Negro, 30, of 2454 Ethel street, skidded on the car tracks at 4200 Shelby street. They were: Clarence Wood, Mary Wood, 23; Thomas Wood, 92, his father; Mary O’Bannion, 43, of 427 West Twen-ty-eighth stieet, and Otis Smiley, 48, same address, all Negroes. Anna Allison, 24, of 1554 Egemont street, was cut and bruised in an accident at Thirty-fourth and Capitol avenue, late Sunday, when a car driven by Sam Shambaugh, 23, of 269 East Minesota street, struck another driven by Shirley Hopson, 45, of 314 East Raymond street. Arrests Are Made Police arrested Raymond Agan, of 1518 South Sheffield avenue, on charges of assault and battery and reckless driving, following an accident at 1044 Hyatt street. Agan’s car, driven on the left side of the street, struck a car, driven by James Robinson, Route 2, Box 902, Valley Mills, injuring his sister-in-law, Miss Anna McGinnie, 57, of Route 2. She is in the city hospital. Mrs. Anna Tager, 76. of 3351 Kenwood avenue, and Betty Ann Roesner, 16, same address, were injured when a truck, driven by Joe Johnson, Negro, 32, of 344 California street, struck an automobile driven by Fred Roesner, 26, of 3351 Kenwood avenue. Harry Demoss, of 1527 North Temple street, was arrested and charged with drunken driving and operating a blind tiger, late Saturday. His car struck and automobile, driven by Robert Jones, 40, of 5265 East Tenth street, at Beville avenue and Tenth street.

HINDUS FIGHT MOSLEMS Two Dead, 100 Injured in Clash Over Parade. By United Press BOMBAY, July 4.—Clashes between Hindus and Moslems resulted in many injuries and a few fatalities over the week-end. Military authorities had to be summoned to control the situation. Four thousand Moslems had a procession Sunday along a banned route. At many points they were stopped by Hindus and fights followed. Two were known to have been killed and at least 100 injured. Police had to fire into the groups to restore order.

npHE program is given under auspices of the Hawthorne Social Service Association. Celebration at Brookside park is in charge of East Indianapolis post No. 13, American Legion. Fireworks tonight will be the feature or the program. Commander of the post is Arthur V. Robinson. Nearly 300 children from three Indianapolis orphanages were to be transported to the celebration free of charge by the street cars and busses of the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. Children from the Indianapolis Orphans’ . Home, Twenty-fourth street and Keystone avenue, and

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Le Roy Allen, Indianapolis scoutmaster, smiles from his bed in Methodist hospital.

“/\H, God, save Leßoy. Bring him back to us. Don’t let him die.” With their knees on the floor and their heads bowed in the fervent, but simple prayer of youth, more than a score of boys pleaded with God to save their best friend. That was three months ago. Their best friend was their scoutmaster, Le Roy Allen, who lay within the shadow of death in the city hospital. Physicians did not believe Allen would live. The most serious prayers were given by those boys who were with Allen the night he was hurt in an automobile accident. He and several members of Troop 72 were returning to their homes after completion of the offering of their troop, No. 72, of

‘STARVATION WAGE’ CHARGED ON ROADS

Contractors on Route 50 Pay 15 to 20 Cents an Hour, Workers Say. Contractors on state road 50, near Seymour, openly are ignoring recommendation of the state highway commission for a “saving wage” for laborers, investigation by The Times reveals. Pick and shovel men, laboring eleven and twelve hours a day constructing a concrete highway between Seymour and Brownstown, receive only $7 to $lO weekly for their labor, they stated. Necessity for jobs has become the taskmaster of tne workers, they asserted, forcing them to accept wages that barely keep their families from starving. Workers Quit Jobs Thirty workers, receiving 20 cents an hour, demanded a fairer wage from contractor U. R. Price of Bloomington, and quit when he refused to enforce the highway scale. “They couldn't make anything, for Price has been paying wages on a scale ranging from 10 cents upward,” Isaiah Persinger, laborer of Brownstown, declared. Persinger is employed by Hancock & Kieffer, culvert and bridge contractors, at 20 cents an hour. “I have been drawing from $7 to $lO a week and have a family of five children to support. It’s either accept this or give up my job,” he stated. Denies 15-Cent Scale Workers reported that Price had hired several men for 15 cents an hour, but this was denied by his foremen. G. Jordan of Seymour, highway superintendent, inspecting the job, declared: “I don’t see how the men live on such wages. Some, I know, have been paying more for board and room than they receive working long hours on the road.” Investigation revealed that contractors are following the state recommendation in most instances, allowing men to work but fifty hours weekly.- Several workers, however, declared they were working eleven hours daily, seven days a week. JEAN HARLOW IS BRIDE Platinum Blond and Mate Spending Quiet Honeymoon. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. July 4.—Jean Harlow, platinum blond film actress, and Paul Bern, her husband, today were spending a quiet honeymoon at their home here. The couple was married Saturday night, John Gilbert was best man and many prominent screen stars were anjong the guests.

the Children’s Guardian Home, 5751 University avenue, were to attend. Frederick E. Schortemeier, former secretary of state, was to give the principal address at an observance at Ellenberger park at 3 today. The celebration was arranged by Irvington post, No. 38, American Legion. The Newsboys’ band was to play. A flag drill was to be presented by the Boy Scouts. Money usually used by the post for fireworks has been set aside this year for relief work next winter. Members of the committee in charge are William H. Keller, Charles J. Spotts, Charles O.

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the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, during Scout week. After the accident at Thirtysecond street and Park avenue, Allen was picked up unconscious. Doctors feared for his life. But his boys, refused entrance to his hospital room to see him, deprived of the chance to stand by his bedside and wish him well, turned to God. Their prayer service was led by S. J. Craig, assistant Scoutmaster, and Pearson Herrington, scout commissioner. In May, Allen was moved to the Methodist hospital. The battle was far from ended. But today, Leßoy Allen has left his bed. He has ridden in a wheel chair. He knows of the prayers of the boys of Troop 72. “I’m going to get well,” he says. “Those boys are more in my heart now than ever before.”

In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West, northwest wind, 11 miles an hour; temperature, 75; barometric pressure, 29.60 at sea level; ceiling, low scattered clouds, unlimited; visibility, 15 miles; clouds, variable.

SLAYS HUSBAND IN AIDING WIFE Mediator in Domestic Row Faces Murder Charge. Murder charges were placed against James Crawford, 56, of 446 East Merrill street, today following the shotgun slaying of Merle Lustig, 24, of the same address, during a quarrel early Sunday. Crawford, who called police after the shooting and awaited their arrival, said Lustig, a wall washer employed at the Traction Terminal building, came home intoxicated and became abusive to Mrs. Lustig. Crawford, asleep in another room, was awakened, he said, and attempted to quiet Lustig, who cursed him and threatened “to get him.” Crawford obtained a shotgun to “scare” Lustig, and as Lustig started to enter the room in which his wife and her child by a former marriage had been sleeping, the gun was discharged accidentally, Crawford said. The shot struck Lustig in the back and he died almost instantly. Lustig came to Indianapolis about a year ago from Kentucky. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

INJURED BY AUTO Hurt Seriously Returning With Holiday Dinner. Returning from a grocery, where he purchased food for a Fourth-of-July dinner and a few firecrackers for his children, Victor Miles, 69, of 1442 East Market street, was injured seriously today when he stepped in front of an automobile. City hospital physicians reported that he was not expected to live. He suffered a fractured skull. Miles stepped backward into path of a car in which two youths, en route to Olympic game tryouts at Columbus, 0., were riding. Robert Pierce, 22, of Cushing, Okla., was the driver of the car, and Le Roy McGuirk, 21, Tulsa, Okla., was a passenger.

Warfel, Charles A. Broadhead, Clarence J. Toner, H. F. Osier, Merrill J. Woods, Dr. Harry H. Nagle and Albert F. Meurer. Edward J. Hecker represents Irvington business men. nan SARAH E. Bolton park will be the scene of the observance of Beech Grove. The celebration will be sponsored by the Beech Grove M. E. church and the Beech Grove Christian church. Addresses by prominent Beech Grove citizens, games, band concerts, a flag drill in the afternoon, and a torch drill at night constitute the program.

BORAH BELIEVED UNLIKELY TO LEAD PROHIBITION PARTY AS NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT Senator Apparently Has Turned Down Leaders of Group Who Hoped He Would Be Moses in Repeal Wilderness. CONVENTION OPENS HERE TUESDAY National Chairman Colvin’s Desire to Make Real Third Party Campaign on Liquor Issue Conflicts With Board’s Strategy. BY BEN STERN Apparently turned down by their hoped-for Moses, leaders of the Prohibition party, on the eve of their national convention here, were casting about today for someone to lead them out of the wilderness of repealists, where they have been left deserted by both Republicans and Democrats. Although D. Leigh Colvin, national chairman of the party, upon his return here today from an airplane trip to Washington, refused to comment on the outcome of his efforts to induce Senator William E. Borah (Rep.) to become the prohibitionist candidate for President, it was intimated that the dry senator was not in an “acceptable” frame of mind. Colvin refused to say whether Borah had indicated that he would accept the presidential nomination if offered by the convention here.

“I must confer with party leaders before any statement regarding Senator Borah is issued,” the chairman said. “We expect some important developments,” he added. “We intend to wage an aggressive campaign and to do this we must nominate for President a candidate who will attract national attention and be a fighter,” Colvin asserted. Conflict in Views The chairman's desire to make a real third party campaign apparently does not coincide with the opinion of the board of strategy of the prohibition organization which in a formal statement announced today intimated that it will support Republican candidates in general and makes no mention of a third party movement. Although not specifically urging support of Hoover, the board of strategy merely says that it “heartily agrees” with the Republican law enforcement pledge, and opposes any attempt at resubmission. Chairman Colvin attended the sessions, which w r ere featured by internal debate and friction, and fought vigorously for national support of his party. 38 States to Send Delegates No formal session of the Prohibition party convention has been set for tonight, although a conference of the delegates present will be held at 7 p. m. at the Claypool, convention headquarters. None of the former presidential nominees of the party will be acceptable at this time, asserted many of the delegates present. “The need is for new timber.” Those being mentioned are Owen M. Bruner of New Jersey, Frank Regan of Illinois, Dr. B. E. Prugh of Pennsylvania, former national chairman, and Dr. Grafton E. Day of New Jersey. None of these is making an active campaign for the honor. Colvin said that delegates from thirty-eight states will be present when he calls the convention to order at 10 a. m. Tuesday. He will present Dr. Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N. Y., “little giant” of the prohibition platform, as permanent chairman. Appoint Committees Tuesday There is a possibility that Howard, who is regarded as the leading dry orator, may make a “cross of gold” speech which will win him the nomination. No tests of political strength have been made yet, and neither has the identity of the permanent chairman been decided upon, Colvin said. Committees on rules, platform and permanent organization will be appointed at the Tuesday morning session. It is hoped that the platform will be ready for presentation and action at the Wednesday forenoon meeting, and work on this expedited so that the nominations can be made Wednesday afternoon. Party strategists are considering the advisability of nominating a woman for the vice-presidency. The one most discussed is Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson of Chevy Chase, Md., national president of the Women’s Democratic Law Enforcement League. Mrs. Nicholson, Colvin and Mrs. F. I. Johnson of New York will be

Dinner will be served on the grounds by the two churches. General chairman is Carl Koch. Emerson K. Whitaker is chairman of stands and concessions. C. M. Hamilton is program chairman, and E. I. Bailey is chairman of decorations and lighting. Fireworks were to feature the programs at Riverside and Broad Ripple amusement parks. Riverside's display will be given at 10:30, w’hile the show at Broad Ripple will be sent sk- 2 at 9:30. A bathing beauty contest at 2:30 and three wrestling matches at 8:30 have been announced by the Broad Ripple management. Both parks were expecting picnickers in large numbers. ,

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the speakers at tonight’s session. The delegates will be welcomed by E. Howard Cadle, the party’s nominee for Governor. The meetings will be broadcast by the NBC network and station WFBM, it has been announced. Those already on the ground are William F. Varney of New York, the 1928 presidential nominee; George P. Harger of Pittsburgh, and George L. Pennock of Landsdowne, Pa., national committeeman, and Miss Esther Elfreth of New Jersey, former state president of the W. C. T. U. and candidate for United States senator there. All declare in favor of a stringent prohibition and law enforcement plank, and favor constructive economic legislation. Organize Third Party By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 4. Members of a unified third party movement, seeking to organize against the Republicans and Democrats, met here today to select a presidential candidate. Two hundred and fifty delegates, representing seventeen states and seven different third parties, were considering General Jacob S. Coxey (O.), William H. (Coin) Harvey (Ark.), Norman Thomas, Socialist, and Frank E. Webb (San Francisco 1 ), leader of the Karmer-Labor party. If leaders are successful in merging the various movements, the unity party will present a platform calling for payment of the soldiers’ bonus, a guarantee of production costs, plus profits, for farmers, and issuance of federal money to be placed in circulation at service cost. Coxey has signified his willingness to head the party’s ticket. WOMAN BETTER AFTER TAKING POISON IN RAID Mrs. Kate Norris Faces Charges of Child Neglect, ’Legging. Mrs. Kate Norris, 1528 Blaine avenue, today w r as reported recovering from effects of poison she drank while a police squad under Sergeant Wayne Bear was conducting a liquor raid at her home Saturday afternoon. Police said Mrs. Norris drank the poison before they could stop her, after they had found a small quantity of alcohol in the house. She was rushed to city hospital for treatment, and later taken to the detention home on charges of child neglect and blind tiger. Officers said the raid was made after Mrs. Norris’ son, 8, told neighbors: “Smell my breath—mother just gave me a drink of liquor.” BILLIE BURKE IN MOVIES Screen and Stage Star Signs for First Talking Picture. By United Press NEW YORK, July 4.—Billie Burke, who has been seen infrequently on the stage since her marriage to Florenz Ziegfeld, has left for Hollywood, after signing a contract to make her first talking picture. Movie-goers will remember her career in silent films, when she stared in “Peggy,” “Gloria’s Romance,” “Arms and the Girl,” “Land of Promise,” and others. In her talkie, to be produced by RKO Radio Pictures, she will play a mother role. AMELIA IN CALIFORNIA Rests After Flight Across Continent With Husband. By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 4.—Amelia Earhart Putnam, trans-Atlantic aviatrix, rested here today after a flight across the continent with her husband, George Palmer Putnam, publisher, and his son, David Binney Putman.

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