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HUNT BANDITS IN KILLING AT BEER RESORT Conflicting Versions Given to Cops on Madison Avenue ‘Booze Row’ Slaying. ‘DOUBLE LIFE’ PROBED Operator of Joint Shot Down by Two Young Masked Men. Conflicting versions of the murder of Rowland P. (Dusty) Rhodes, 42, of 331 North Temple avenue, today confronted detectives as they started search for two masked bandits, who shot Rhodes as he started to pnter his alleged beer joint at 3750 Madison avenue at noon, Sunday Attempting to piece together stories of Rhodes’ mother-in-law and friends, police found the slain man, former county employe in the city controller’s office and a Republican precinct committeeman, had lived a Jekyll and Hyde existence for almost a year. He operated the beer joint where he was murdered, and lived at the Temple avenue address of the mother-in-law. Mrs. Charles Calvin. Rhodes, before oying of his wounds, told police that he left the Boy Howdy restaurant, Shelby street and Madison avenue, about noon and had gone to the beer resort to feed a flock of chickens. He said two masked men came out of the house as he prepared to enter. and one drew a revolver and sjiot him through the abdomen. Fell Screaming for Aid Rhodes fell to the porch, screaming for aid, according to H. D. Miller, 1405 Lawrence street, University Heights, a passerby. There Rhodes was found by police emergency squad under Sergeant Harry Schley. Rhodes was sent -o city hospital where he died at 1:12 a. m. today. Schley said Rhodes could tell nothing of the identity of his assailants and only gasped: “They got me—l’m going to die.” Schley also asserted it was necessary for him to unlock the door to the house to gain entrance, in variance to Rhodes’ claim the masked intruders were coming out when they shot him. In the kitchen, police found 239 quarts of home brew, a number of empties, a gallon of gin and several empty gallon alcohol cans. Woman Is Arrested Mrs. Carrie Wilson, operator of the Boy Howdy restaurant of which Rhodes was habitue, told police she was the owner of the furniture at the beer joint. She was arrested on a blind tiger charge. Her case was continued today by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron until Oct. 5. Stories of Denzel O’Neil, employe at the Boy Howdy and Miss Mildred Wilson, daughter of its owner, served further to complicate the search for Rhodes’ killer. They asserted pillow slips had been taken from the beer joint to carry away loot frortl the house. A number of bills and several coins were found scattered on the kitchen porch on which Rhodes was shot. They said he was in the habit of carrying a large amount of currency, and that he had lived at the beer resort for at least a year. Mrs. Calvin Rhodes’ mother-in-law, asserted he had been living at her home on Temple avenue since the death of Rhodes’ wife, Ruth, in the Grotto wreck in 1927, when twenty-three persons were killed in a traction-bus crash. • “Double Life” Lived Mrs. Calvin was unaware of Rhodes’ operation of the Madison avenue resort. Both O’Neil and Miss Wilson told police Rhodes had informed them “the brother of the man who held us up at the Boy Howdy has threatened to get me.” Both were with Rhodes in the restaurant about eighteen months ago when it was robbed by members of the notorious Brown brothers' gang, all of whom later were sent to prison. During that holdup, one of the bandits fired a shot which passed between Miss Wilson and Rhodes. The restaurant was robbed again at a later date. The resort where Rhodes was shot is a large, frame house setting on the west side of the road. It is not fn the city limits, and is in the heart of the section where investigation by The Times disclosed booze joints are flourishing, both in number and in business. Former County Employe. Rhodes, Republican precinct committeeman from the Tenth precinct, Ninth ward, formerly operated a restaurant on Massachusetts avenue. He was County Treasurer Clyde Robinson's representative in the city controller's office under the Duvall administration, and was ousted at start of the Sullivan regime. Police were given a good description of the bandits by Miller, who saw the shooting. Both were about 25 to 30 years old, and about five feet eight inches tall, he told police. The pair fled in Rhodes’ car. a Dodge sedan, license number 122592. which has not been recovered.

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"he Indianapolis Times Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, with probably occasional rain; somewhat warmer tonight.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 118

U. S. Rests Case Against Sen. Davis Completes Week of Testimony in Effort to Link'Moose Leader With Alleged Charity Ball Lottery. BY SAN'DOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent N®W YORK, Sept. 26.—The government today rested its case against United States Senator James P. Davis, charged with violating the lottery laws. The government ended its case after a week of testimony designed to show that Davis, dominating figure in the Loyal Order of Moose had been closely connected with the organization’s charity balls, which’ it was contended, were lotteries. The government also had attempted to show that the senator personally received part of the proceeds from the charity balls. The defense considered the most incriminating evidence against Davis was the tracing of a check for $15,300, alleged to be part of the charity ball proceeds, to Davis. H This the defense promised to combat by attempting to show that the check was in payment for a personal loan made by Davis to Theodore G. Miller, secretary-treasurer of the Moose propagation department.

MINERS RIOT IN ILLINOIS CAPITAL

Springfield Street Fighting Takes Toll of One Dead, 20 Injured. BY DON E. CHAMBERLAIN United Press Stff Correspondent SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 26. j .Violence in the Illinois coal war swept into this shrine of Abraham Lincoln, and today left a toll of one dead and twenty injured after a battle in the heart of the city between miners’ factions. Detective Sergeant Porter William, 42, was slain, as 1,100 miners fought out their differences with revolvers, knives and clubs. Half a hundred police carrying riot guns and tossing tear gas bombs finally quelled the riot after half an hour’s turbulence in front of the Leland hotel, a favored hostelry of Illinois legislators. Streets were patrolled to prevent renewal of fighting today. 25 Men Are Arrested Police arrested twenty-five members of the United Mine Workers of America and lodged them in jail on charges of inciting a riot. Garnett Smith, president of a Herrin (111.) local union, was charged with slaying Williams. He was in critical condition in the hospital. Physicians feared he would not recover from the stab wounds and a severe beating. The outbreak, most serious in this district of the bitter controversy over the Illinois coal mines wage scale, started suddenly. A group of about 100 United Mine Workers had met in a hall to plan reopening of several Sangamon county mines on the $5 daily scale approved by this union. Outside, gathered 1,000 members of the progressive miners’ union, which seeks a $6.10 daily scale. Jeers and catcalls greeted the 100 men when they emerged from the meeting. Shots by Union Men While the crowd of 1,000 hurled taunts, the smaller group marched up the street toward the Leland hotel, headquarters of John L. Lewis, international president of the union. As the throng of men, hurling insults at each other, neared the hotel, the picketing miners executed a flank movement and encicled the smaller group. The United Miners tried to break through the circle. They were repulsed. Suddenly a shot rang out. Instantly the scene was turned into a riot. Police said investigation showed all the shots were fired by the smaller group of United Mine Workers. The progressive miners were unarmed except for clubs and stones, and a few knives, police said. SUICIDE IS BLOCKED Apartment Custodian Saves Young Woman’s Life. Quick action by an apartment custodian today saved the life of Mrs. Fabian Crowley, 21, of 3515 North Pennsylvania street, apartment 4, who attempted suicide by gas. Prompted, she told police, by domestic unhappiness, Mrs. Crowley stuffed rags under doors to her kitchenette and turned on three gas burners. Complaint of the gas odor by persons living on the floor above brought Roy Osborne, custodian, who turned off the burners and raised window’s when he found Mrs. Crowley sitting on the floor of the kitchenette in a semi-conscious condition. She is the wife of Francis B. Crowley, manager of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety UnderwTiters.

MOTHER’S DEATHBED WISH UPHELD IN COURT BATTLE

Deathbed wish of a mother for the future of her two children was upheld by Superior Judge William A. Pickens today in a ruling the children should remain in custody of their half brother. Fight of the father, Eugene Dumont, 41, veterans’ hospital employe, for his children was futile when evidence disclosed he had beaten his son Eugene, 12. Eugene and his sister Blanche, 4, were sent back to live with the half brother, Paul Hussey, 24, of 528 West Thirty-first street. Dumont sought custody of his children on a habeas corpus petition.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1932

Killing Wages By United Press WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 26. —Poland’s official executioner complained bitterly to the government today that he is the “worst paid hangman in the world.’’ Asking that his pay—sls for each person executed—be increased, the executioner pointed out that he has become so destitute that the government seized his furniture Saturday and auctioned it off to meet delinquent taxes. He explained that he has hanged only eighty persons so far in 1932, “and that doesn’t constitute a living wage.”

ROOSEVELT AT 'DUDE RANCH' Shoves Aside Campaign Work for Few Days of Rest. By United Press WILLIAMS, Ariz., Sept. 26.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt today shoved aside arduous presidential campaign duties to became a “dude wrangler” for twenty-four hours. Roosevelt was the guest until Tuesday of Mrs. John C. Greenway at her ranch home near here, one of the show places of central Arizona. "Hie special train bearing the Governor and his party rolled into Williams Sunday night. At the Greenway home, deep in the mountains, Roosevelt settled down to enjoy his first real rest since starting his trans-continental tour, and to get a glimpse first hand of a program of cowboy sports. Mrs. Greenway arranged a rodeo for the party which was to be topped off with a chase of an Arizona mountain lion by a pack of hunting dogs. For those who wanted t go, there also was planned a trip to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Mrs. Roosevelt joined the Governor at the ranch, having flown from Kansas City to Winslow. Ariz., and then motoring to the Greenway home. She made the first stage of the journey by train. PAL’S HELPING HAND BRINGS ON GRILLING Friend Intercedes for Man Held as Drunk; Now Robber Suspect. Robert Linlau, 29, of 33 Eastern avenue, would not be held by police today as a bandit suspect if it had not been for the intercession of a friend. Late Sunday night Sergeant Leo Troutman arrested Linlau on an east side street on a charge of drunkenness and profanity. Linlau was lodged in the city prison in default of a small bond. Shortly afterward A1 Prinz of 245 Leeds avenue, a cab driver and friend of Linlau, approached Troutman in a police station corridor. “Lindau didn’t take any part in that robbery, sergeant, because I have his alibi,” Prinz declared. Troutman paused momentarily, then added an additional charge of vagrancy against Linlau. The suspect was to be questioned today by detectives. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 54 10 a. m 62 7a. m 55 11 a. m 62 Ba. m 58 12 (noon).. 64 9 a. m 60 1 p. m 65

The mother died in September, evidence disclosed, while a divorce suit against her husband was pending. Hussey testified his mother “asked him to care for the children.” When Dumont showed he could not provide a home in this state for the children, but would have to send them to relatives in Michigan, Judge Pickens ruled he had* no right to their custody. Supporting the brother’s plea for custody was testimony of his sister, Mrs. Violet Patterson, 22, of Thirtieth street and Broadway, who testified “he had been treating the children with the devotion of a father,”

FIGHT WON BY GANDHI; ENDS FAST British Accept Agreement of ‘Untouchables’ and Caste Hindus. • - ~ \ COLLAPSE IS FEARED Mahatma in Danger of Paralysis Stroke, Say ✓ His Doctors. By United Press POONA, India, Sept. 26.—Mahatma M. K. Gandhi abandoned his “fast unto death” today as vitality ebbed steadily from the frail, brown body he had staked against the British settlement of India’s communal voting problem. Physicians w’ho attended the mahatma said he still is in danger of collapse or of suffering a stroke of paralysis, as he entered the “danger zone” with very little fat reserve, and was left living on muscle. British aceptance of an agreement reached between caste Hindus and “untouchables” ended Gandhi to end his hunger strike. Suffers Fainting Spells Doctors attending the mahatma at Yerovda prison, where he lay on a cot in the shade of a mango tree in the jail yard, told Indian government officials that Gandhi’s vitality was at its lowest ebb since he ate his last meal at noon last Tuesday. Today was Gandhi’s weekly day of silence. He suffered from frequent periods of nausea and fainting spells during the last stages of .the fast. ' His wife rubbed his head with olive oil to restore consciousness when he fainted. The scene at the jail when Gandhi ended his fast was dramatic. He read the government’s statement, smiled and whispered “passive resistance has triumphed? Mrs. Gandhi Weeps His wife prepared orange juice but he insisted on prayers first. They also sang hymns, and then he broke his fast. Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, also was present when Gandhi lifted a glass containing two ounces of orange juice to his lips, looked toward heaven, sipped and sank back in silence. The assembly spontaneously sang Gandhi’s favorite song, and several of Tagore’s compositions, ip which the poet joined. Mrs. Gandhi wept joyfully when Gandhi declared the British reply satisfactory in every respect. Tonight and Tuesday Gandhi will be permitted only fruit juice at regular intervals, then barla, water and then goat's milk, MORE RUN LIKED Rising Temperatures Also Are Forecast Here. Continued rains, with rising temperatures tonight and Tuesday was forecast today by J. H. Armington, United States meteorologist. Rainfall of 47 of an inch in the last twenty-four hours brought the year s total to 29.37 inches, .98 short of normal, Armington said. Moderate rains, extending over Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee will be accompanied by a temperature rise early Wednesday. Mercury reading here at 7 a. m. was 55, 4 degrees above normal, Armington said. FIGHT LUMBER LICENSE Ordinance Demanding Annual Fee From Dealers Called Double Tax. Charging the assessment constitutes a form of double taxation, Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin today held invalid a city ordinance providing tol collection by the city of an annual ssl license fee from city lumber dealers. Ruling in a suit filed by rhe Anderson & Davidson Lumber Company, Chamberlin enjoins future collection of the tax levied under a 1925 ordinance. Wheat Sale Plan Hopes Drive By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Reconstruction Finance Corporation officials today said theer was only a remote possibility that the corporation would be able to advance China $8 000,000 to enable it to purchase 15,000,000 bushels northwestern wheat.

DOGS “LOST—Boston bulldog. One blue eye.” Somebody's pet, of course. Affectionate little devils, those Boston bulls. Awful kissers, though. Like to lick the ears of everyone who speaks kindly to them. Take a wire haired Fox Terrier. He's more of a rowdy. When he steps into a situation, business picks up. There's not a dull moment when he’s around. A Chow is more sedate. Always seems to be thinking about something. A Pekingese, now, is different. Has eyes like a woman. Kind of toddles when he walks. Hope you don’t lose YOUR dog. But if you do. put a Want Ad m The Times. Times Lost Ads bring results at low rates.

OVEN MAN BACK ON FEET

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By XEA Service • MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 26. Jack Doty, the oven man, is back on his feet after sixteen months, or exactly 489 days, of torture and pain. A black-haired six-footer, with a smile that dreary days of suffering couldn’t erase, he’s able to get around on crutches now. And he’s confident that it won’t be long before he can go back to work. Doty’s case is unusual in medical annals. Doctors literally had to ‘bake” anew coating of skin on his back while he lay in an electric oven here. It all began when he was burned in an automobile accident on May 4, 1931. His entire back from his feet to his neck was seared; the middle section of his back was burned so badly that doctors feared it would not heal. “Die?” Doty replied through his lips drawn with pain when told of the gravity of his condition. “Not me. I’m going to fight. I’ll show those doctors!” n n a FOR nine months he lay in the hospital on his stomach in a specially built oven set to a temperature of 103 degrees. Then they sent him home, with his oven, for seven months more. In the meantime, flesh taken from other parts of Doty’s body was grafted on his back. In time it grew there, and the back began to heal. Finally, a few days ago, Doty was able to leave his oven. Doty’s struggle „ against death attracted national attention. Letters poured in from all parts of the country. They were from folks who didn’t know him, but who admired his stamina and courage. These folks will be glad to learn now that Jack Doty is getting well. The doctors don’t claim the credit for it; they’re giving all the credit to Jack. FLIERS FEARED LOST Hope Dim for Rescue of Japanese Airmen. By United Press NOME ALASKA, Sept. 26. Storms raging over the treacherous Bering sea dimmed the hopes of rescue vessels today for finding the Japanese airplane, Hochi Nichibei, long overdue on its projected nonstop flight from Sabishiro Beach, Japan, to Nome. The single-motored monoplane left Sabishiro Friday" with Eichiro Baba as pilot. He was accompanied by a navigator and a radio operator. Baba expected to cover the 2,600 miles to Nome in not more than thirty-one hours. 16 “speak at rally 500 National Party Supporters Hear Talks by Ward Hiner, John Zahnd. Sixteen candidates made speeches to the 500 National party supporters who picnicked at Somerset grov e Sunday. Ward B. Hiner, governor candidate, warned state officials that schools and courts will close by January unless drastic cuts are made. Tax strikes are brewing in many communities, he said. Congress was rapped by John Zahnd, candidate for President, for “handing out the country’s money to the bankers who gain much in interest charges.” ‘AIR FAMILY’ SETS SAIL Hutchinson Group Embarks on Liner En Route to New York. By United Press PLYMOUTH, England, Sept. 26. —The “Flying Hutchinsons,” Col. Robert R. Hutchinson and his family and crew, rescued on the Greenland coast after a forced landing in an attempted transAtlantic flight, were en route to New York today aboard the liner Champlain.

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COUNTY BOARD PONDERSTAXES Adjustment Group Meeting to Review Levies. Hope of keeping the tax rate within the $1.50 limit was in the I background today as the county tax adjustment board met to review levies of the civil city, school city and county. The board was to be organized at its first session this afternoon. If the board can pare the budgets to last year’s level, it will accomplish a huge task, board members indicated as they gathered at the court house before the session. This will mean slashing approximately 42 cents from the three levies fixed by taxing officials of the three units. „ Largest cuts proposed by board members will ‘ e on the school and city budgets. City officials increased their levy from SI.OB to $1.30 and school officials raised the school levy 8.7 cents. Board members indicated 'they held little hope of greatly lowering budget figures of the county council. Charles A. Grossart, county auditor, and three councilmen are members of the adjustment group. The 1933 county levy is 41.25 cents, or 11.7 higher than the current rate. Among recommendations for lowering the school budget is a proposal to take one or two months from the city school term. Another proposal would limit the number of school nurses employed by the city health department. LOVE-SLAYER DEAD Self-Inflicted Wound Fatal to Akron Killer. By United Press AKRON, 0., Sept. 26.—George Wolfe followed in death today the woman he shot from ambush because she refused to center her love upon him. His death resulted from a bullet he fired into his head after he had slain Mrs. Edna Stewart, 37, attractive divorcee and juvenile court clerk, Friday night, as she returned home from an automobile ride with another man. GAS KILLS WOMAN, 60 Anderson Victim Didn’t Know Flame Had Been Blown Out. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 26.—Gas from a kitchen stove on which she was preparing dinner caused the death here of Mrs. Alberta Vestal, 60. The flame was blown out shortly after Mrs. Vestal lighted it. The husband, Walter who found the MRS. BORAH IMPROVED Wife of Senator Apparently Winning Fight With Parrot Fever. By United Press BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 26.—Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of the Idaho senator, was somewhat improved to- i day, and apparently winning her: fight against the dreaded “parrot' fever” malady.

Superb Sport Staff to Cover Series for Times The best sports writers of three great national news and feature services will cover the world series for The Times, starting Wednesday with the opening of the classic in Yankee stadium. Every move of every star of the Cubs ans Yankees will be followed and written for the thousands of fans who read The Times sports pages. * Ball and strike detail of every game will be carried by The Times in its Home, Stock-Sports and Final Pink edition, which will be first on the streets with the full story of the diamond classic. Joe Williams, representing the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. will tell the story of the series in his.inimitable way; William Braucher, NEA sports editor, will cover the games from another angle, and four United Press experts—George Kirksey, Stewart Cameron, Jack Cuddy and Henry’ McLemore —will be on the job every minute, in both New York and Chicago. In addition to the topnotch coverage of the big series, The Times Tuesday afternoon will carry play by play detail of the little world series game between Newark, International loop chairman, and Minneapolis, winner of the American Association banner. This game rivals in interest the Yank-Cub series, due to the fact that the Millers are led by Donie Bush, Indianapolis’ pride. Buy a Times and you’ll get the best possible coverage on the big games.

TRICK RESTORES COFFINJOWER Rule Is Changed to Give Boss Control. BY BEN STERN Secretly, and with stringent injunctions not to divulge the act, the Watson-controlled Republican state committee has abolished its Rule 157, in an effort to perpetuate Coffin control of the Marion county organization, it was learned today. This action was taken several months ago, but not revealed. Because of this move, two antiCoffin ward chairmen have not been permitted to assume their duties and the posts were given to faithful henchmen, the records reveal. Rule 157, which provides that precinct committeemen and vice-com-mitteemen shall approve the choice of ward chairmen and requires that each shall be a resident of the ward which he leads, was written into the state Republican rules in 1930 after a bitter factional fight. William Taylor and Martin M. Hugg, appointed district and county chairman following the 1929 city election, when the Coffin organization decided to adopt a respectable front, led the fight for the rule, to the chagrin of the Coffinites. But the change came too late, George V. Coffin, local boss, caused both Hugg and Taylor to be ousted at the reorganization meeting and elected Schuyler Haas, veteran cog in his machine, as district chairman, and Clyde Robinson as county chairman for the 1930 campaign. When the party went down to defeat under their leadership, the respectable wing of the organization decided to fight the question out on the basis of precinct committeemen and carried a majority in several wards. Coffin, it is learned, realized that in spite of his control of the heads (Turn to Page 7) EMBEZZLER TO PEN Whiting Real Estate Man Gets 1 to 10 Years. By United Press CROWN POINT. Ind.. Sept. 26. Henry F. Davidson, 58, Whiting real esate dealer and former secretary of the Whiting Savings and Loan Association, was sentenced to one to ten years in the state penitentiary today on charges of embezzlement. He was accused by state bank examiners of using SIIO,OOO of loan association funds to cover his personal losses in the stock market. The specific charge accused him of stealing $1,710. RUM A D Y A1 Capone, 100 Others May Be Indicted on Conspiracy Count. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Evidence for a possible second indictment of A1 Capone and more than one hundred others on a charge of conspiracy to violate the prohibition act is almost completed, it was learned today.

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‘STARVING PAY’ MADE LAW BY HOOVER RULE State Move to Help Highway Workers on Federal Aid Jobs Checkmated. $9 A WEEK TOP WAGE President’s ‘Stagger’ Plan to Allow Only Thirty Hours to Man. Benefits to workmen through the 30-cent minimum wage provision in state highway construction contracts will be check-mated through a federal ruling which will not permit such laborers to earn more than $9 a week, it-was learned today. Announcement of the federal rul- : ing was made by Ralph Simpson, I assistant state highway director, who on Saturday stated that 30 | cents an hour would be the minimum wage for common labor. The ruling limits the time of a ! single workman to thirty hours a 1 week on any state highway con- ! struction in which the federal govl erment shares the expense. At the 3C-cent minimum, set by the state highway commissioners the federal ruling means that no one man can earn more than $9 a week on a federal aid job, Simpson explained. Part of “Stagger.” The thirty-hour provision is part of President Hoover's plan to “stagger employment.” Simpson also pointed out that nearly all paving projects contemplated for next spring and summer will be financed from the $3,000,000 special federal aid alloted Indiana and the thirty-hour week will apply. Congress adjourned without appropriating the regular federal aid and the $3,000,000 must be absorbed not later than Aug. 1. With the special session of the legislature taking away half of the state funds, this will be impossible Simpson said. But plans are under way to let about 100 miles in short projects so that $1,000,000 or more can be absorbed by the end of July, he declared. Setting of a 30-cent wage was termed “a real step in advance” and resulted from a two-year fight by The Times which culminated in action by the legislature. Weiss Law Passed Investigations disclosed that contractors were paying common labor at low as 15 and 20 cents an hour on state highway construction work. The special session passed the Weiss law, ordering the highway commissioners to write minimum wage clauses into all contracts, the wage to be based on that paid for similar labor by the state. Commissioners decided on uni- ! versal pay of 30 cents, but the federal ruling again reduces the j workmen to “starvation pay,” it was pointed out. It will make the contractors emI ploy two shifts of men and costs of I living in construction camps durj ing on and off time will be such as to absorb most of the $9 pay, an authority predicted. INDICT - JOURT CLERK FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Six Counts Returned Against Bedford Man by Grand Jury. By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., Sept. 26—Six indictments were returned by the 'Lawrence county grand jury against Roy Mitchell, 36, clerk of the circuit court, it was disclosed today. Four of the indictments charged Mitchell with forgery, one with embezzlement and one alleged conspiracy to commit a felony. The grand jury was called into special session to investigate Mitchell’s office by Judge John Branaman several weeks ago. In summoning the jury, the court said he was promopted by "numerous rumors concerning Mitchell prevalent in the county.” Mitchell is a Republican and is, serving his second term. He is expected to be given a hearing in a few days. BOY, 5, NEAR DEATH: DOG POISONER SOUGHT Victim Believed to Have Eaten Food Placed to Trap Animals. B’l United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Sept. 26.—Five-year-old Sammy Trevey, son of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Trevey, was reported recovering today in Lutheran hospital here, from strychnine poisoning, while detectives and citizens sought what they believed was a chronic dog poisoner. The boy was believed to have eaten some of the poisoned food placed in a residential section by the dog poisoner. Numerous pets were reported to have died from the poisoning during the last week. FORGER IS GIVEN YEAR Confessed Guilt; Sentenced to State Farm by Criminal Judge. Confession to check forgeries, in criminal court today, drew a year’s state farm sentence for Arney A. Parrish, 40, alias H. E. Williams. He was alleged to have defrauded Louis Haboush, of 4129 East Tenth street. Judge Frank P. Baker gave Harry Sawyer. 23, a sentence of one to five years when he pleaded guilty to petit larceny. He was charged with stealing $1 from the store of Arthur Meumer, 2331 Prospect street.