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f'riiinr Times — SINCE the President's Des Moines speech, the subject of Rood sportsmanship suddenly has been projected into the campaign in a bit? wav and bids fair to become one of the leading issues. To those of us who retain a vivid recollection of the hectic days of the 1928 campaign, it is heartening to learn that the President is beginning to appreciate the worth of good sportsmanship in a national campaign. My only regret is that his newly acquired attitude can not be made retroactive. We didn't hear much about this admirable trait four years ago. At that time some of the. President's most prominent supporters were engaged in promoting a compaign of hate. How successfully they accomplished their ignoble task is a matter of record—black record. Through the machinations of the Hoover high command,” there was unleashed the vilest and most degrading campaign of calumny, slander and prejudice that ever scandalized our citizenship, causing the real sportsmen in the Republican party to hang their heads in shame Was there a word of protest from the ‘ high eommand"? Not as much as a syllable. ELMER HOCKADAY. 847 Greer street. w • T'fit tor 'll uif* — I HAVE read and heard numerous speeches of Jim Watson. I give him credit for being one of those rare individuals—an honest politician. He has a knack of appearing just at the right, time. I heard Jim some thirty-odd years ago helping the farmer and he still is helping him. When Governor Hanley called the special legislative session to pass a local option election law, he was of great help to the Governor. Then he gained his point when the President's salary was boosted to $75,000 a year. In the next campaign, woman's suffrage was coming on. Watson saw that was going to be a vote getter, so he again became exceedingly prominent. After that, he was the Klan's favorite candidate. Now he takes credit for the home loan banking law. If it takes as long to try this law as it did to try the eighteenth amendment, there will be plenty of business for the moving vans. All we can do is tb pay taxes and vote. R. H. COOK.

F.ditnr Times — YOU have read of the deplorably overcrowded state and federal prisons. Out of the vast number of Republican politicians who were inmates, several are on the inside yet. So, by voting the Democratic ticket Nov. 8. you will be doing humanity a wonderful service by helping reduce this prison population. WILLIAM LEMON. 213 West New York street. a a a Fdilnr Times— YOU always have been of great service to the workers, but in giving us your front page space you have become our salvation, if we will profit by it and take advantage of your intelligent generosity and express ourselves to the point. I wonder if residents of "Hooverville and Curtisville are looking beyond this “noble gesture” of city officials. We are so surprised that they, at this particular time, realize this intolerable condition, foisted on a supposedly civilized, Christian race. I wonder if the Churches, loyal supporters of all missionary systems, feel absolved of all responsibility in this dereliction. However, this is not the main issue of the “noble gesture." Right now. the main issue is that if these people can be brought in and housed now they will lose their votes. I can hear the subtle conservatives yell “wet blanket,” but I insist that any Christian community that would allow little children to be exposed to such miserable conditions for one hour is not Christian, but far worse than heathen. And to think the noble citizenry are coming to their rescue at the eleventh hour! A READER. ' a a Fdilnr Timm — YOUR editorial in Tuesday’s Times does indeed point an obvious moral. It says: . . . “The citizens of Huntingburg wil pay no taxes this year. They had no overlord to furnish them electricity and water. They ow n their soureOs of supply. The profits from those plants run all their local government. The lesson seems obvious." Os course it is obvious. The utility customers of Huntingburg should pay all the taxes, and the non-utility customers should pay none. And that is what happens. Huntingburg's electric rates are 9 cents each for the first 25 kilowatt hours used. 8 cents for the next 150. and 7 cents for the next 30. The average Indiana electric customer uses about 36 kwh a month. That would make the Huntingburg bill $3 13. If he has a range or other modern electric equipment, he will use perhaps 200 kwh. in which case his bill would be sl6. Those rates are high enough, certainly, to make profits with which to run the town's government. At Petersburg, not far from Huntingburg. the Public Service Company of Indiana (with which I am connected! sells 36kwh for $2.64. and 200 kwh for $7.80, and we pay taxes out of those rates —but not all the town's government costs. Why make the electric and water patrons pay everybody's taxes in high utility rates? JOHN C. MELLETT.

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TORTURE FARM WIFE TO GET HIDDEN $450 Robber Gang Straps Woman to Davenport, Forced to Give Money. MENACED WITH BURNING Crooks Time Descent on Home as Husband Goes to Obtain Milk. By 7 imes Special SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. Oct. 13Four robbers who timed their descent on the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Roll Carter of near London, Ind., tortured Mrs. Gertrude Carter, 52, Wednesday night until she revealed the hiding place of $450 she just had received from the sale of building and loan stock. Mrs. Carter’s husband had gone to the home of neighbors to obtain milk when the robbers appeared at the farmhouse. Three entered and a fourth stayed in an auto with the engine running. Threatened With Burning “We know you’ve got the money. Where is it?” demanded the leader of the trio. When Mrs. Carter denied possession of any unusual amount of money, the trio tied her to a davenport and twisted her arms, taking turns at the torture. When this method alone failed to break Mrs. Carter's resistance, the torturers tore away of her clothing and threatened to hold her against a hot stove. She then showed them the hiding place of the money—the oven of a small coal oil stove—in which she had placed S4OO in new currency still in the wrapper of the Shelby National bank. All these bills were of $5 denomination and SSO was in miscellaneous sizes. Description Is Broadcast Mrs. Carter's husband returned twenty minutes later to find her in a state of near collapse, and tied to the davenport where the torturers had left her. Description of the trio was broadcast to neighboring police departments by Emerson Brunet Shelby county prosecutor.. The leader was described as 30 to 35. short and weighing 180 to 200 pounds, and wearing a dark mustache. His companions were about the same age, tall and wore gray suits, Bruner said. Description of the driver could not be obtained.

CALLED CROOKS' AID Mrs. Gentry Plotted to Rcb Bank, Jury Told. lly United Pres* HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 13. —Testimony of Mrs. Hazel Green, Muncie, an alleged member of a bank robbery gang in Indiana last year, was against Mrs. Elmer Gentry here today as her trial on bank robbery charges was resumed. Mrs. Green, who testified for the state, identified Mrs. Gentry, accused of conspiracy in the second robbery of the Citizens State bank of Hartford City on July 8. 1931. She declared that Mrs. Gentry and her husband, who also is under indictment on bank robbery charge, had plotted to rob the bank. Freel Hall, brought here by the state from the Indiana reformatory, testified that Gentry had talked to him about a proposed robbery, but said he did not participate.

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EASY TO BE A JUDGE? HE SEVERS CHILDHOOD PALS

The fabled way of the transgressor is no harder than the plight of a judge, who must obey the dictates of law, and deny the instincts of his heart by separating two childhood playmates. While Superior Judge John W. Kern listened to arguments in a divorce custody decree, he heard frtm his private office the voices of the playmates. Fred Laboyteaux. 6. and Fred's baby sister. Patsy Ruth, engaged in putting together a puzzle and reading a picture book. Buddy, in his first year at school, did the reading, to be interruDted occasionally by Patsy Ruth's baby treble: "Let me see, Buddy."

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1932

Convert Gangsters to Christianity, Is Church Parley Plea

CONVERSION of gangsters to Christianity was suggested today as the answer to America’s crime problem by the Rev. Linn D. Cartwright, pastor of the First Christian church of Nashville, Tenn., before the international convention of Disciples of Christ at Cadle tabernacle. “Os all the penaceas for the solution of the crime wave, has anyone suggested converting the gangsters to Jesus Christ?” the Tennessee cleric queried. a "Where the apostle Paul would have said, ‘Believe in the Lord. Jesus Christ, and ye shall be saved,’ we call a policeman, or appoint a commission to investigate.”

URGES CITIES TO OWN UTILITIES System Will Solve Poor Aid, Cut Taxes, Is Claim. Municipal ownership of utilities was advocated here today, both as a means of affording tax relief and combatting unemployment, as officials from every community in the state assembled at the statehouse, surveyed Indiana's relief needs, and launched a concerted campaign for indigent aid this winter. C. Y. Andrews, Peru city attorney, asserted the Peru tax rate has been reduced through its ownership of the light and water plants there, and that profit obtained from their revenue was used to make jobs by construction of improvements and additions to the buildings. "No Hoosier shall starve this winter,” was the pledge of Governor Harry G. Leslie. He told of plans to utilize Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds for self-liquidat-ing prtjects “so long as taxes of the state or local government won’t be increased. ’ He cautioned against "pauperizing a community” in attempts to care for the needy. C. Oliver Holmes, Gary, presiding, estimated there are 350.000 persons out of work in Indiana and that $6,000,000 will be needed for relief this winter.

Bright Spots

By United Press Electric output of North American Company subsidiaries has shewn a progressive increase in volume for each week since Labor day, as compared with a progressive decrease during the corresponding weeks of last year, Frank L. Dame, chairman, said at Philadelphia. Republic Steel Corporation resumed operations at its Niles t. 0.) sheet plant. Shipments of Hudson and Essex cars in September were 1,229 units in excess of September, 1931, it was reported at Detroit. Another rise in steel corporations was reported by "Iron Age.” Five new and reopened banks with a capital in excess of $5,000,000 was the outstanding feature of the Rand-McNally weekly report on the national banking situation this week. This is the largest single week since Feb. 18, 1931, and is 50 per cent above the 1932 average. Shipments by air express in the last fourteen days were 30 per cent larger than in any two-week period of the year, the United Air lines reported.

BRITISH TROOPS QUELL BELFAST JOBLESS RIOTS Machine Guns Mounted on House Tops; All Business is Paralyzed. It)l I nited Press BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Oct. 13.—British troops co-operating with Belfast police preserved order in Belfast today after two days of rioting, looting, and hand-to-hand fighting between police and unemployed. Business w ? as paralyzed in the banking, trading and shipper center of northern Ireland. Machine guns were mounted on house tops. BANDIT IS SLAIN IN CHASE AT FT. WAYNE Dies of Wounds Received in Pursuit After Attempted Robbery. Bii T nited Press FT. WAYNE. Ind.. Oct. 13.—Howard W. Kalberer, 25, of Cleveland, wounded during an attempted theater robbery Wednesday night, died in Methodist hospital here today. Lester Belt, a merchant policeman, who was wounded as he pursued Kalberer. was recovering from two bullet wounds in the chest. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 54 10 a. m 60 7a. m 53 11 a. m 61 Ba. m 56 12 (noon).. 62 9 a. m 60 1 p. m 64

The children are those of Fred C. Laboyteaux. Columbus. 0., and his former wife, now Mrs. Ella Thompson. 908 Bosart avenue. In a divorce action in 1931. the father was granted custody of the boy and Mrs. Johnson custody of Patsy Ruth. Buddy visited his mother and sister last summer, and after a court battle here Laboyteaux regained possession of the boy on a habeas corpus writ. Today Kern was forced to rule, finally, that Buddy must live with his father during 'he school term, but may continue to visit his mothier and baby sister playmate.

Mr. Cartwright declared that our present forces against corrupt government are superficial. "They offer no permanent solution,” he said. "We must turn to Christ, not to sub-machine guns and bullet-proof vests, in combating evil.” The Rev. John T. Nooe, pastor of the Vine Street Christian church of Nashville, Tenn., declared that the World war "set the wheels of progress back a hundred years.” "In our delirium,” he said, “we honestly thought that we were forging ahead. Now we know differently.” Other speakers at the morning session were Hilton U. Brown of the Butler university board of trustees; Ludwig von Gertell of the Butler faculty, who will brinr greetings from the German Disciples; tt Rev. Linn D. Cartwright of the First Christian church, Nashville, Tenn., and the Rev. John A. Tata of Richmond, Va,. state secretary. Great Era Is Predicted A great era for the church was predicted by Dr. Homer W. Carpenter of Louisville, Ky., acting president of the international convention. Tuesday night at the opening session of the convention at Cadle taberacle. “The glamourous age of materialism has come to a close,” declared Dr. Carpenter. "A great new epoch is opening for the church if we, as believers in Christ, have the vision, the wisdom and the courage to master the opportunity.” Dr. Carpenter spoke before more than 7,500 delegates and members of the church. The convention, which will continue until Sunday, opened following the close of the two-day conclave of the National Evangelistic Association. Honor Leader’s Memory The memory of Dr. Charles S. Medbury, president of the convention, who died last year in his pulpit in Des Moines. la.. was honored in addresses by Dr. D. W. Morehouse, president of Drake university of Des Moines, and the Rev. Raphael H. Miller, pastor of Independence Boulevard Christian church, Kansas City, Mo. .An invitation was extended to the American Disciples of Christ to attend the church's world convention in 1935 in Leicester, England. The bid was offered by John Wycliffe Black of Leicester, world convention president. Butler university will be host to delegates and guests of the international convention of Disciples of Christ at 4 today.

ACCUSES HOOVER OF ‘PRE-ELECTION HOAX’ Senator Carter Glass Attacks Claim U. S. Gold Standard Periled. . Up I nited Press BALTIMORE, Oct. 13.—Senator Carter Glass (Dem., Va.), in a twocolumn statement published in the Baltimore Sun today, declared that any statement that the United States had been in danger of being forced off the gold standard was a "pre-election hoax damaging to the financial structure at home and abroad.” Glass, ranking Democratic member of the senate banking committee, asserted further than any such statement, coming from a responsible person, “amounted to actual mental and economic delinquency.” President Hoover, ir his recent Des Moines speech, said the treasury secretary at one time informed him the United States could withstand gold withdrawals for only two weeks more, unless emergency remedies w'ere put into effect. WATSON ALLY MAY BE NAMED ™ BANK POST Home Loan Dictators Continue Discussions About Site. Directors of the Indianapolis Home Loan bank today continued discussion on the selection of an executive vice-president to manage the institution and selection of a site for the offices. The bank is scheduled to begin operation Saturday. Ernest Thomas of Rushville, former official of the Federal Farm Loan bank in Puerto Rico, w'ho declined a position on the federal farm board to manage the campaign of Senator James E. Watson, as state committee vice-chairman, is receiving prominent mention for the vice-presidency of the bank. Four principal applicants for housing of the institution are the Continental Bank building, the City Company, the Meyer-Kiser bank building, and the Washington Bank and Trust Company. All of these institutions are defunct and the banking roems are available.

BANK BANDITS SEIZE S2S,OOO,J<IDNAP GIRLS Force Stenographers Oft Car Block From Scene of Holdup. ByUnited Prm * GRAND ISLAND. Neb.. Oct. 13 A band of bandits raided the Nebraska National bank here today, took 525.000 in cash and currency and fled, forcing girl stenographers to stand on the running board of their car to shield them from possible gunfire. The stenographers were ordered off the car a block and a half from the bank.

GREECE WILL ASK INSULL TO ‘GET OUT But He Can’t Be Arrested Again If He Refuses, Officials Rule. HOLDS TO PASSPORT Refuses to Give It Up When American Consul Makes His Demand. BY ANTHONY KEDRAS United Press Staff Correspondent ATHENS. Oct. 13.—Samuel Insull, indicted Chicago ultilities magnate, will be requested to leave Greece, although he can not be re-arrested, the minister of the interior told the United Press today. Insull refused today to surrender his passport when the American consul called on Insull personally, and asked for the document. Insult's passport is visaed for a thirty-day stay in Greece. Until that period expires. Greek officials are expected to regard his papers as being in order. Waits Wife and Son Loss of a passport would leave the indicted utilities magnate subject to arrest or deportation for lack of proper papers. That would lead to deportation to answer the Chicago indictment.' Insull is awaiting the arrival here of his wife and son from Paris. It was understood he would be requested to leave the country after their arrival. There is no immediate indication where he would go. The minister of the interior conferred with the general director of the foreign office, before announcing that Insull would be asked to leave. . *

Premier to Decide Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek premier and foreign minister, will decide the question of seizing Insull's passport, the minister of interior said. The minister also said that the question of deporting Insull to a country from which he could be extradited, or asking him to leave Greece, would depend on conferences between the premier and officials of the ministry. The American legation was expected to insist that Insull be sent to Italy or France, where extradition papers could be served. 15 ARE INJURED IN FALL Drop 300 Feet Dtwn Shaft of Huge Aqueduct Siphon. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 13.—Fifteen men were injured, two seriously, when they fell into a huge siphon of the Los Angeles aqueduct near Indian Wells, in the Mojave desert today, and dropped 300 feet down the shaft.

NAB MAIL SUSPECTS Indiana Youths Accused of Terre Haute Robbery. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13.—Two Indiana youths were in jail here today charged with the theft of $24,000 in money orders. The suspects, Harold Fasig, 23, and his chum, Kenneth R. Coker, 22, both of Terre Haute, were arrested late Wednesday night in an exclusive - Hollywood apartment house. Detective Chester Lloyd said Fasig was employed as a postal messenger in Terre Haute last Sept. 11, when he absconded with the money orders, totaling $24,000. Coker was acused as his accomplice. Through the cashed money orders. which police said they distributed with a lavish hand, the youths were traced from Terre Haute to San Diego and then to Tijuana. A few days ago they came to Hollywood.

R. F. C. TO LEND FUNDS FOR WHEAT EXPORTING Other Loans Also to Be Made to Dispose of Surplus Crops. 8u I nitrti Prr*t WASHINGTON. Oct. U.—The Reconstruction Finance Corporation today announced that it would advance funds to aid agriculture by financing exports of surplus farm crops. The corporation said it would advance funds to finance sale of 15,000.000 bushels of wheat to China. Other loans to finance disposal of surplus domestic crops probably will be made to exporting companies. SPURNED BY WOMAN. TRIES TO END LIFE City Man Takes Poison; in Serious Condition at Hospital. After leaving a note telling of despondency because his affections were spurned by a woman. Thomas McKenzie, 36. of 559 North Tacoma avenue, formerly of Morgantown. Ind., attempted to end his life today by drinking poison. He is in a serious condition at city hospital. In the note, found in his room at the Tacoma avenue address. McKenzie thanked several city friends for their kindness, and said his act was prompted because a woman "Turned me down." "She was once my pal, but since she has been treating me the way she has. I can’t stand it any longer,” he wrote.

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Mrs. Hertie Elizabeth Huhn greeting her son. Helmuth Shulz when he met his mother a year ago. after eight years' separation. Today police probed circumstances of Mrs. Huhn's death.

CANADA TARIFF BLOW TO U. S. New Drastic Restrictions Put Into Effect. By United Press OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 13. Drastic tariff changes expected to eliminate from $75,000,000 to $150,000.000 in sales by the United States to this country went into effect today. They affect agricultural and manufactured product exports from all sections of the United States, and. accordingly, all wage-earners dependent upon such exports. The business, it is intended, will be transferred to members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The new rates are the result of agitation which became widespread with passage of the Smoot-Hawley tariff act in the United States more than two years ago, which Canadians and others said reduced their market. More restrictions on United States exports are to come, these from Great Britain and other empire units. Britain's changed will be announced next week. Two hundred sixty-two items were changed, about one-fourth the total number on the Canadian schedule.

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JUDGE GRANTS PLEA OF 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL Delinquent Child to be Permitted to Stay Home Until Birthday. Plea of a 13-year-o!d girl to remain home until after her birthday, Oct. 27, before being sent to a girls’ reform school was granted today by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler. Finding the girl a delinquent child, Geckler sentenced her to White's institute, juvenile* correction home. "Please let me stay at home until after my birthday.” she pleaded. With the warning she w-ould be under observation of juvenile authorities, meanwhile, Geckler granted the request. BLOCK REBELS’ PLOT TO OVERTHROW STALIN 24 Prominent Communists Are Expelled From Party. B;j United Press MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—A dramatic story of how certain leaders within the Communist party plotted the overthrow' of Josef Stalin and his immediate associates has been disclosed in the Soviet capital after twenty-four prominent Communists had been expelled from the party. Dissolution of the collective farms —one of Soviet Russia’s most ambitious undertakings—was planned by the conspirators, who likewise, intended to invite foreign capital to assume control of Soviet industries.

GRANT LEISURE CLUBS USE OF COMMUNITY HOUSES

Use of city park community houses as meeting centers for Leisure Hour Clubs being formed in Indianapolis in a movement headed by Dwight S. Ritter, was approved today by park board members. Under tentative arrangements, groups may use the buildings one night a week until Jan. 1, when, park board members said, it may be necessary to discontinue their use because of reduced budgets. Ritter presented the request,

HOOVER SLAPS AT ‘RADICALS' Attacks ‘False Prophets’ in Talk to Bar. By t nited Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—President Hoover's arraignment of “false prophets of a millennum” in his address to the American Bar Association Wednesday night, as well as his warning that “our very form of government is on trial” indicated he will continue to carry on his campaign for re-eiection with appeals against “radicalism." The interests of the people, “often in history,” the President said in his Constitutional hall address, had been betrayed by "false prophets” who offered ‘ seductive but unworkable and disastrous theories of government.” He warned that “the menace is doubled by the fact that these vain allurements today are being offered to our harassed people by men of public reputation in economics and even by men in public life.” The reference generally was accepted as an attack on campaign statements of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt The chief executive described the relations among the states "and between them and federal government as “one of the most delicate relations of our republic.”

LAPEL RANK ROBBED SI,OOO Loot Taken by Trio of Bandits. By Times Special LAPEL. Ind.. Oct. 13.—Three bandits, one of whom was armed with a submachine gun, today staged a daylight robbery of the Lapel State bank, escaping with SI,OOO. The bandits, who ordered William Kerr, cashier, and Glenn Turner, assistant cashier, into a back room, escaped in an automobile, parked outside. The ear bore license plates stolen in Anderson. The bank safe was open, and the bandits took all funds in the strong box and bank tills, Kerr said. Posses were formed and started in pursuit of the bandits while Anderson police guarded State Road 32. Kerr and Turner said when they were forced into the room the bandits handed them newspapers telling them to “read a while.”

TROOPS’ FIRE HALTS MINE PICKET’S AUTO Striker Tries to Run Gantlet; Halted by Soldiers’ Bullet. By United Pr<■in TAYLORVILLE. 111., Oct. 13. A mine picket’s automobile, attempting to run the gantlet of a national guard patrol, was stopped by rifle fire today. The automobile, driven by Claude Bernard. Gillespie miner, is alleged to have been bent on harassing operations at the Hewittville and Langleyville mines, which the troops are guarding. John Thompson, Gillespie miner, was cut on the wrist by flying glass. Another shooting occurred in front of a miner’s house, when Isaac MaGuire. a working miner, shot into a group of pickets.

granting of which, he said, will provide meeting places for at least twenty-five groups, now being formed. He said offer has been made by several city dramatic and music groups to provide entertainment for members of the new clubs. Use of the buildings will be of no expense to the city, he said. C.ty school board members already have granted permission of the clubs to use city school build- ( ings, provided no cost results.

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POLICE PROBE CITY WOMAN’S TRAGIC DEATH Victim Reunited Only Year Ago With Son After 8 Years Apart. AUTOPSY IS PERFORMED Theory of Murder Dropped by Officers: Mystery Hides Cause, Theory that an overdose of drug caused the death of a mother, who a year ago figured in a reunion with her 15-year-old son. Helmuth fchu’z, whrm she had not seen for eight years, was advanced by detectives today. The woman. Mrs. Hertie Elizabeth Huhn. 36. ot 910 Leland avenue, a native of Germany, was found dead on the bathroom floor of the home by Helmuth. a pupil at Manual Training high school. The verdict was expected to be given this afternoon by Deputy Coroner John E. Wyttenbach following an autopsy on the body Wednesday night. Results of the autopsy were not disclosed. A theory that Mrs. Huhn was slain was abandoned Wednesday night by Wyttenbach and Deputy Corcrner O. H. Bakemeier following an autopsy on the body. Son at High School Theory of murder was advanced by Wyttenbach and Bakemeier after bruises were found on the woman's head and neck. At first it was believed she was choked to death. The autopsy was performed after cursory examination of the body revealed traces of a fluid believed to be poison. The woman apparently had been alone in the house most of the day while the son who traveled from Germany a year ago to join his mother, was at school. Family Quarrel Denied At an inquest today in the office of Coroner William E. Arburkle. the youth narrated how he had returned home from school and found keys to the side door hanging in the lock. He said he went to his room, changed his clothes, then saw the body of his mother lying on the bathroom floor. He said he ran to the home of Mrs. V. D. Taylor. 923 Leland street, where he notified Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Samuel Sanner, a visitor. He said his mother had been "nervous" for a long time, but he denied that a family quarrel, possibly over his own custody, could have alfected his mother’s health. Custody of the boy led to a family quarrel of more than eight years duration, while the child was being cared for by his grandfather in Germany. Mrs. Huhn left her home there shortly after the World war. in which her husband, a German soldier, was killed. Drama Marked Reunion Fac;ng privation for herself and bov, Mrs. Huhn came to America alone, working for years to get money to send for her son She was married, meanwhile, to John Huhn, 42, her present husband. After the reunion Oct. 15 last year, when the son and mother met at the train at the union station, the boy lived with his stepfather and mother. Then he was unable 1 to speak English, but since hast learned the language. Drama marked the reunion of the boy and his mother. Pacing the platform in the station hours before the train bearing her son was to arrive, Mrs. Huhn joyfully exclaimed many times: “I will know him. i will know him.” Estranged From Brother An estranged brother of Mrs. Huhn also waited for the boy’s arrival. “He won't speak to me.” Mrs. Huhn told friends awaiting with her. When the train arrived, the boy’s uncle was first to greet him. Her fists clenched, Mrs. Huhn ran to the boy. “I will take .him away, if I have to use these,” she said, shaking the fists.

Tales of the Tammany Tiger j THE absorbing story’ of Tammany Hall . , , most powerful and longest-lived of the nation's political machines . . . has been written for this newspaper. The first of three colorful articles, describing the inner workings, the glamorous history, and the past and present leaders of this amazing organization, today Is on Page One. Section Two, of The Times