Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 163, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1932 — Page 11

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FATE OF BEER SQUARELY UP TO DEMOCRATS Roosevelt Will Be Urged to Act for Modification Next Month. FEW VOTES ARE NEEDED Swing by Eight Men Enough to Put Measure Over in Senate. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The power to legalize and tax beer at the short session of congress starting Dec. 5 lies irf the Jiands of PresidentElect Roosevelt and other Democratic party leaders. If they will demand that Democrats in the lame duck session live up to their platform pledge, there will be enough votes to modify the Volstead act. A poll of the senate, leaving out such standpat drys .as Senator Sheppard (Dem., Tex.), shows that if such pressure were exerted on as few as eight men, modification would pass. A group of relative size in the house apparently will control the situation there. Talk of urging Roosevelt to suggest modification this session, to clear the way for other economic legislation in the proposed special session next spring, is heard. This, it is believed, will be urged upon him at the coming Warm Springs' conference, late this month. Southerners to Switch Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark.), minority leader in the senate, said before the election he would consider a Roosevelt victory a mandate to modify the Volstead act. Senator Harrison (Dem., Miss.), another leader, has come out for modification, and Vice-President-Elect. Garner has predicted beer by spring. The senate poll t indicates that there now are about forty members willing to modify the Volstead act. The remainder stumble on two considerations: the platform declaration that modification must be within the Constitution, which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors, and the question of how the beverage, if legalized, is to be distributed and sold. The reply of Senator Costigan (Dem., Colo.), in reply-to an inquiry from the Scripps-Howard newspapers, is indicative. Costigan wired: "Before replying to your inquiry, prefer to examine proposed measure or measures in relation to the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution.” George in Quandary Senator George (Dem., Ga.), also is concerned about the constitutional prohibition against intoxicating liquors, but apparently holds the belief that beer of say 2.75 per cent alcoholic content would not be intoxicating in fact. Senator Kendrick (Dem., Wyo.), is in the came quandary as Costigan. “I am ready to vote to legalize manufacture and sale of beer,” he wired, "whenever I am convinced that I have constitutional authority for such vote.” Counting all votes, thirty senators last session went on record for beer. Since then nearly a dozen have gone from the dry to the wet side, including Harrison, Robinson, Swanson, Hull, Fletcher, George, Kendrick, Barkley, Schuyler and Norris. ■ 30 Strongly Wet If Logan, Costigan, Smith, Cohen, Stephens, McKellar, Neely and Bailey were confronted with a vote as a test of party regularity, and voted for beer, modification virtually would be assured. The margin of victory would be greater if such Republicans as Steiwer, McNary, Couzens, White/Watson, and others, known as “resubmissionists,” come over to the modification side. The unswerving wet strength in the senate lies in the group of thirty, including Barbour. Bingham, Blaine, Broussard, Bulkley, Bulow, Coolidge, Copeland, Davis, Glenn, Hawes, Hebert. Johnson, Kean, Lh Follette, Lewis, Metcalf, Moses, Oddie, Pittman, Reed, Schali, Shortridge, Tydings, Walcott, Walsh (Mass.), Wheeler, Wagner, Shipstead and Cutting.

ORDER GAS STATIONS OFF RIGHT-OF-WAY State Highway Commisison Issues Edict to All Violators. Gasoline pumps, filling stations and hot dog stands that have usurped the right-of-way on state roads were ordered removed forthwith today by the state highway commission. The folowing resolution regarding their removal was adopted: “It Is and shall be the rule of this commission that all such gasoline pumps, filling stations, buildings and other commercial establishments shall be ordered moved off the right-of-way, and that on narrow, but heavily traveled roads such gasoline pumps, filling stations and commercial houses, shall be set sufficiently far back from the edge of the right-of-way so as not to require or induce tne patrons of such institutions to park their cars upon such right-of-way. such establishments being hereby declared as public nuisances and shall be ordered closed or removed from their present location." RELIEF HEAD IN~EAST George Gill j Give Indianapolis Views at Research Parley. George E. Gill, director of the city unemployment bureau and emergency wort committee, was in New York today to discuss Indianapolis relief problems before the Personnel Research Federation at its annual cc..iite in the Hotel Astor. "Indianapolis is believed the first city to recognize unemployment as one of the outstanding problems of community life, and to try to attack It in an organized scientific way,” Gill stated before leaving for ■the conference. His subject will be “Serving Worker. Employer and Community in Good Times and Bad.''

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MORRIS DROPS . FIGHT ON BIDS Safety Board Member Says Matter Is Adjusted. Donald S. Morris, safety board member, who charged irreguiar procedure and “collusion” in connection with purchase of a quantity of copper wire by the city purchasing department Tuesday, today stated that the matter “had been explained satisfactorily,” and that his objection to the bids was “withdrawn.” Morris’ statement followed a conference with Albert Losche, city purchasing agent, who explained the manner in which the bids had been received. Losche was absent from the city Tuesday, but conducted an investigation of the charges immediately on his return Wednesday, A clerical error in failing to mark the bids as tentative quotations received by telephone caused Morris to believe the prices had been submitted in an irregular manner, Morris said. “I failed to understand thoroughly the explanation submitted to the board by William Gibson, and, on the face of the matter, I believed the handling of the bids irregular,” Morris stated. “Losche showed me records and earlier prices which have changed my opinion. I shall add my approval to the prices at next board meeting.” Gibson, an assistant in the purchasing department, appeared before the board in Losche’s absence when Morris objected to the bids. ENDS LIFE jN NOOSE Despondent, City Man Kills Himself at Home. Anson Bales, 45, killed himself today by hanging in the basement of his home at 537 North Tacoma avenue, his second attempt to end his lisp in a month. Previously he inhaled gas, but was revived. 11l health and financial reverses are blamed for the act. An invesftgation was made by Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner. The body was found by a daughter, Margaret, 12. NOYES TO BANK PO.ST Named Class B Director of Federal Reserve Institution. Selection of Nicholas H. Noyes, Indianapolis, as a class B director of the Federal Reserve bank, Chicago, was announced here Wednesday by Eugene M. Stevens, chairman. Noyes, secretary-treasurer and director of Eli Lilly & Cos., was supported by the Fletcher Trust Company, Fletcher American National bank, and Merchants National bank. He succeeds the late Robert Feustel, Ft. Wayne.

Garner Looks Ahead to Dress Suit and Suppers By Scripps-Howard Xewspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Vice-President-Elect John Nance Garner dreads the inauguration next March because he will “have to wear a dress suit and top hat.” Incidentally, he owns both articles. One year ago, Jack Garner, then presumably the next Speaker of the house, ordered his “speakership’’ wardrobe —somewhat reluctantly. The order included: 1. A sack suit, blue with a faint stripe. 2. A full dress suit. 3. A morning coat. 4. A silk topper. Mrs. Garner, who serves her husband as secretary, social mentor and diet watcher (she sent him a daily pint of milk for his lunch at the Capitol), insisted that he dress up. “Jack, your old dress suit is too small and frayed around the edges,” she pointed out a year ago. Despite Garner's squirms and protests, she mad him buy anew morning coat as well. Jack has no mind for sartorial niceties. He wears full evening dress only on the most formal occasions—and invariably under protest. All those punctilious changes of clothing which Nick Longworth loved. Garner despises. “I object to the cutaway,” he growled. But he ordered it. The only thing he could do was threaten to cancel the order if he lost the speakership.

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ELECTION ROUT MAKES HOOVER ‘MOREHUMAN’ Shock of Defeat Is Over and President Takes/ Loss Calmly. CURTIS ALSO CHEERY Politicians Kept Bad News From Executive as He Started West. BY RAY TUCKER, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Adversity has softened Herbert Hoover and his fellow-victim of Nov. 8, Vice-President Charles C. Curtis. A more human and philosophic President has returned to the White House than the desperate, dispirited candidate who left here ten days ago for a transcontinental dash designed to stave off defeat. Despite a certain almost boylike wistfulness, Hoover shows a great relief that the ten, c 'responsibility of the presidency v* til tumble off his shoulders in four months. "I feel a thousand times better,” he said at Palo Alto a few minutes after the fatal blackboard in his living room recorded his defeat. Crowds Are Friendlier Larger and friendlier crowds greeted him to the day of his return to the capital, and these tributes to Hoover the man gave him great satisfaction. With the press, with the politicians and with members of his entourage, he was a completely changed individual in appearance and conversation and in his ordinary contacts. Just as Charles Evans Hughes mellowed after his 1916 defeat, so Hoover seems to have accepted political disaster with the same sort of philosophy. Curtis actually was jovial after emerging from his first conference with the President. The sympathy expressed for them in the White House anteroom apparently was wasted, as were references to their meeting as a restaging of that fine old-fashioned melodrama "Orphans in the Storm.” “Debt?” said the Vice-President as his swarthy face crinkled in laughter, "we’re not in debt. The only ones I know are in debt are the Republican national committeemen.” , Curtis Is Cheery Then, instead of dashing out the front door to his car, the Vice-Pres-ident shook hands with members of the press, secret service, and the White House clerical staff. For Hoover, however, the last few days of the campaign were a strain which showed in his shadowed face, and his general demeanor. His friends believe he knew he had lost even before he left the capital, but it is their belief he did not dream of the extent of the rout. His principal purpose in crossing the country, they insist, was to save the party from complete wreckage, and to strengthen the chances of Senators Tasker H. Oddie of Nevada, Otis F. Glenn of Illinois, and Reed Smoot of Utah. All three were beaten. Local politicians climbing aboard the train gave the President no inkling of conditions. "It was bad for a while,” most of them told him. But the trend is all in your direction since you took to the stump. We’ll deliver 100 per cent.” Predictions All Wrong Their predictions were 100 per cent wrong, and they knew it. After leaving the President, some of them informed other members of the presidential party that there wasn’t a chance to win. Almost the only man who pictured the seriousness of the popular revolt was said to be Representative Robert G. Simmons of Nebraska. At Carson City, Nev., where Hoover made his last public appearance in the campaign, he showed the extent of the strain he was under. It was there he invited the person who shouted “raspberries’ at him to step up to the train platform and repeat the remark. Subsequent investigation revealed that the President’s enthusiastic critic was an 13-year-old boy. He seemed in a daze when the bad news hit him full force. He shook hands absent-mindedly with friends who had come to hear the returns, and grasped the hand of one three times. But before he went to bed, he had recovered apparently, and the next day acted as if he had not been the central figure in the nation’s most one-sided presidential election.

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HOOVERVILLE gets a jbreajc Whistling Winds Carry Huge Drifts Away From Town

HOOVERVILLE and Curtisville, twin towns inhabited by the city’s evicted, got a break, even though it is only a windbreak. * When snow deluged the city Tuesday night, the shanty-town encamped on the west bank of White river, between Washington street and Oliver avenue, naturally would have been presupposed to be buried in drifts. The shanties had been built into the river’s bank for a wind break and luckily the gusts that whipped the snow into drifts were a boon to Hooverville, taking their white burden to level places instead of burying the tin-roofed shacks on the hillside. Hooverville took the storm philosophically with: “It might have been worse.” Residents quickly dug walks and cleared away banked spots around their homes. n n “T WOULDN’T trade my house 1- for all the palaces in town,” declared one bachelor resident, as he scoured the surrounding terrain for firewood. If some homes were splendid observatories for counting stars at night, their owners joked off the insufficient weather boarding with: “It could be worse and we’ll get by.” Need for an extra bed was the problem in one home. The parents were sleeping on the floor with an 11-month-old babe, warmed by their own body heat, while three other children slept in a bed. But the father got a job as a carpenter and hoped to rectify ' this household necessity on his first day’s work. FOOD was the least of their troubles if they’d but go for it. The. township trustees and Community Fund agencies were caring for their food, fuel and clothing. Stove-pipes broken by the weight of drifting snow, coupled with leaky roofs, formed the major problems. Social agencies of the city were busy today repairing the storm’s damage to houses ant souls in Hooverville and Curtisville. ODD FELLOWS HONORHANDLEY Former Richmond Mayor Is New Grand Master. L. A. Handley, former Richmond mayor, was elevated to the office of grand master at Grand Lodge I O. O. F. sessions ending today in the Odd Fellows building. The conference, which opened Wednesday was preceded by the Grand Encampment of the lodge Tuesday. The lodge Wednesday approved an economy plan which will effect an annual saving of SIB,OOO, through reduction of salaries of all officers and reduction of district deputies from ninety to twenty-seven.

HUNT SJATE KILLER Nation-Wide Search Opened for Sheriff's Slayer. Nation-wide search was instituted today for Herbert Burris, wanted for the slaying of Ray Compton, Rush county sheriff, by E. L. Osborne, chief of the state criminal bureau, when he learned that Burris had been convicted of two other murders. The sheriff was shot down Oct. 13 when he arrived at a farm, on which Burris was a tenant, with a warrant to search for liquor. Osborne was informed today by Thomas P. Hollowell, warden of the lowa State prison at Ft. Madison, that Burrts escaped from the institution, Feb. 27, 1927, having been sentenced Dec. 15, 1923, to a life term for murder in the first-degree. According to Hollowell, Burris, who has used the aliases of James Walker and James Webster, was given a ten-year term in Missouri for second-degree murder and a fiveyear term in lowa for larceny, PICKETS BEAT ILLINOIS MINERS; TROOPS ASKED 1,200 Strikers Clash With Employes at Shaft; Many Hurt. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Id., Nov. 17. National guard protection to avert “loss of life” was asked today for the Peabody Coal Company's Cora mine at Andrew, after the second clash in two days between employes and striking miners and use of tear gas to disperse the attackers. Acting-Sheriff Widiam Beynon of Sangamon county went in person to Adjutant - General Carlos Black’s office in the statehouse. He was accompanied by Walter L. Moody, chief of the state highway podce. “The situation is beyond my control,” Beynon Informed the-national guard head. "Troops are needed immediately to prevent loss of life.” Decision to appeal for troops was reached by union leaders, mine officials, Beynon and Moody at a conference today shortly after a number of miners had been taken from their automobiles and were severely beaten by an army of 1,200 pickets. Motorist is Held Here Charles L. Johnson, 23, St. Louis, believed to be wanted in Orlando, Fla., in connection with death a,! a child in an automobile accident, was arrested Wednesday night by police, wht# have communicated with Orlando authorities to check his identity.

1 """ ~ '"T"-' ‘ S x'. ~ Memorial Services Are He by Bar Association. * {+ A resolution in tribute to Micha v x v A. Ryan, 72, prominent Indianapol JK attorney, who died Tuesday, w If vw adopted today by the Indianapol "■* Bar Association at memorial ser V J -i ices in superior court one. HI i Jut * “Nature bestowed her gifts boui v 18. teously upon Mr. Ryan, endowii •*> him with a strong and brillia i mind, together with a spirit vivacity which was imparted to i * ‘A,- with whom he came in contact Wt - the resolution read

Upper—Except for a broken stove pipe that blackened their faces, members of the family of Ed Bowles of Hooverville are “getting by pretty good.” Center—A Hooverville scene looking down upon Shantytown. Lower—Paths have been dug out for walking.

Hears 18 Years of Woe in Court; Still Optimist

“Things don’t change much. People dispute one day and forget the next and, for most of us, our bright days far exceed the dark ones.” This optimistic philosophy is that of William M. Hedrick of 615 East Fifty-third street, who, as official reporter of circuit court for eighteen years, has heard many tales of human woe.

He has written one hundred million words of testimony, the equivalent /O f 1,500 ordinary novels, since he began service Nov, 14, 1914. Monday, h e celebrated h is eighteenth year on the same job by recalling the kinds of evidence that fill the 905

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stenographic books he has used. Atmosphere of the courtroom is about the same day after day for him. Divorce suits are the most, common cases, just as they were years ago. Hedrick made these observations a bit wistfully, as he sat in his private office today, for his days as a court reporter are nearing the end. The recent political landslide determined that he must leave his post Jan. 1. He has reported 3,500 divorce cases, but has not found any chief cause for divorce. “Os course,” he says, “cruel ahd inhuman treatment is the most freREPAIR BREWING PLANT $40,000 to Be Spent on Logansport Factory, Says Owner. By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind„ Nov. 17. The Columbus Brewing Company plant here, abandoned fourteen years ago when Indiana passed its liquor prohibition law, was undergoing repairs today in anticipation of the return of beer. The owners, George L. Schmidt Company, Chicago, announced $40,000 would be spent in the reconditioning. SAVED FROM GAS DEATH Dr. John Leech, 1107 Nerth Butler avenue, is recovering today from the effects of being overcome Wednesday by carbon monoxide fumes from the engine of his automobile. He started the engine while the car was in a garage at the rear of his home, and was found unconscious by his wife. Physicians and firemen, using an inhalator, worked nearly two hours in restoring Dr. Leech to consciousness.

quent grounds for divorce, but that covers a multitude of sins.” He has learned, however, that it doesn’t pay to bring suit for libel and slander. The largest verdict he remembers in a slander case is SSOO. Another jury trial lasted .four days and the plaintiff was awarded one cent damages. Hedrick is an expert at “catching” testimony, regardless of the speed with which attorneys draw it from witnesses. He is a law school graduate. He contemplates starting a private court reporting agency when he leaves the courthouse, along with Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, at the end of the year.

French Plan of World Army Is Branded Peril

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Such grave peril is seen in the Gargantuan “international army” feature of the new French disarmament plan that it was regarded here as doomed in advance if France insists, as she indicates she will, that “the several parts of the plan constitute one indivisible whole.” “The mere concept of an international major force is a frightful nightmare,” said Salmon Oliver Levinson of New York and Chicago, regarded abroad as largely responsible for the Kellogg pact to outlaw war. “It would be confusion worse confounded,” he declared. “It would be resisted by any nation or set of nations against whom it is directed as international tyranny and brutal injustice.” It was this doctrine of the use of force to prevent war or punish an aggressor, Levinson observed, that caused the greatest schism in the peace ranks of this country. It was this that kept the United States ; out of the League of Nations. Possession by the league of an armed force, equipped as no other force would be equipped, as now proposed by the French, would, it is said, create what inevitably would become a superstate “under the guidance from time to time of God-knows-what combination of nations.” Part 11, Section B, of the French plan, provides that “each of the contracting powers permanently will place at the disposal of the League of Nations a small number of specialized units consisting of troops serving a relatively long term, and provided with the powerful materials prohibited for the national armies.” Section A states that a nation shall have the right of league as-

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PAY TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL RYAN Memorial Services Are Held by Bar Association. A resolution in tribute to Michael A. Ryan, 72, prominent Indianapolis attorney, who died Tuesday, was adopted today by the Indianapolis Ear Association at memorial services in superior court one. “Nature bestowed her gifts bounteously upon Mr. Ryan, endowing him with a strong and brilliant mind, together with a spirit of vivacity which was imparted to all with whom he came in contact,” the resolution read. Martin M. Hugg and John C. Ruckelshaus, attorneys, gave memorial addresses. The association also resolved- that in his death “the bar has lost a lawyer of rank and superior quality, the city and state a patriotic citizen and we a delightful and worthy friend.” The funeral was to be held at 2 this afternoon at the home, 2266 North Meridian street. Dr. Lewis Brown, St. Paul’s Episcopal church rector, was to conduct the service. Burial was to be in Crown Hill cemetery. In tribute to Mr. Ryan, criminal court, where he took part in many trials, was closed today by Judge Frank P. Baker. Pallbearers were to be Arthur E. Bradshaw, Frederick Van Nuys, M. E. Foley, Charles Remster, John C. Ruckelshaus, Fred C. Gardner, Martin M. Hugg and Bernard Korbly. Athletic Coach Is Injured WINDFALL, Ind., Nov. 17. Charles Hite, 29, athletic coach at Windfall high school, was recovering today in an Elwood hosp'tal from a bullet wound received when a pistol was discharged accidentally.

sistance “when a territory under the authority of one of the signatory powers is attacked or invaded by foreign forces.” Aggression, therefore, is thus defined. The United States, apparently, Is not subject to the above arrangement. Only European nations presumably alone would be called on to contribute to the international, super-equipped army of the league. Presumably also the United States, not being a member of the league, nor a contributor to the international army, would not be entitled to store any of the stocks of prohibited weapons of war such as member powers would have in their possession. The United States, however, would be expected to agree to a consultative pact. PROBE RACKET CHARGES Three Men Complain; Defrauded by Suit Salesman, Is Claim. Three men who believe they are suit racket victims made complaint to police Wednesday night. Everett Burns and his son Robert, both of 2824 East New York street, and Forest Warner, 209 North Rural street, each paid $2.50 on Nov. 7 for suits to have been delivered Monday, but none has arrived. The money was paid to a man who solicited orders in a grocery at 4803 East Washington street, where Robert Burns is employed. City Firm Gets Big Order Indianapolis Paint and Color Company, 640 North Capitol avenue, is furnishing approximately 15,000 gallons of paint for 150,000'chairs made by the Standard Manufacturing Company, Cambridge City, for the Chicago world'* fair,

BRITAIN URGES BERLIN AID IN ARMSJMEY Germany Invited to Join in Conference on Basis of Equality for All. SUBMARINE BAN ASKED Limitation of Air and Sea Fighting Also Part of Program. BY STEWART BROWN United Pres* Staff Correseondent GENEVA. Nov. 17.—Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, invited Germany back to the world disarmament conference today on the basis of recognition of the principle of armament equality for all nations. The British proposals provide that the present limitation of German armaments under the Versailles treaty be superseded by anew convention, and that German limitation “would be arrived at by the same process and expressed in the same document at those of all other countries.” Sir John proposed that Germany have the legal right to possess all weapons granted other powers under a system of disaramament by stages. Addressing sthe steering committee of the conference, the foreign secretary suggested that Germany return to the conference on the basis of the following points: All European states should join in solemn affirmation not under any circumstances to attempt to solve any present or future difficulties by force. Arms Limitation Urged Limitation of Germany’s armaments will be contained in the same disarmament convention (to be framed by the present conference) as that in which limitation for other nations is defined. Limitation of German arms will last for the same period and be subject to the same revision as that of other countries. Germany should be granted the legal right to arms permitted other countries, on condition of no rearmament. Sir John proposed that air forces be reduced to the British level—he said the United Kingdom ranked fifth in this branch of the service—and then be further reduced by a one-third all around cut. He proposed limitation of battleships to 10,000 tons, reduction of size of cruisers, abolition of submarines and limitation of the weight of tanks. Would Give Germans Tanks He said Germany must not increase her total naval tonnage under the Versailles * treaty, if her 10,000-ton unit limitation is lifted. Sir John proposed that Germany have the legal right to tanks, but that the reich refrain from asking for military or naval aircraft at present. “By what means and what stages these principles can be applied must be the subject of detailed discussion, in which it is essential that Germany join,” the foreign secretary said. Like Hoover’s Proposal “The principle of equality can not be changed all at once,” Sir John said. He declared that Germany should be allowed to reorganize her military forces, “but this must not involve any increase in Germany # powers of military aggression.” The foreign secretary said Great Britain was impressed favorably with President Herbert Hoover’s suggestions regarding limitation of military effectives, and was prepared to accept them in principle as the basis of discussion. Sir John praised the “thoroughness and sincerity” of the new French disarmament plan. He noted that the plan would involve modification of one of the clauses of the Versailles treaty, which itself aims at applying the principle of equality.”

STUDENT’S WIFE WRITES TRAGIC VERSE AND DIES “Power to Smile Beneath My Fate,’* Is Plea in Poem. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—Mrs. Ruby Jane Short wrote the following poem to her medical student husband: I hope God may five me power To smile beneath my fate Through every sorrow-laden hour Until the end I wait. That night she swallowed poison, Wednesday she died in a hospital. Police sought Short for an explanation. 4 DELAY HAMILTON TRIAL Judge, Attorneys Unable to Reach Over Icy Roads. Bty Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Nov. 17.—Second postponement of the trial of Louis Hamilton, lola, Kan., charged with the murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store operator, during a holdup in May, 1931; was anounced here today in Boone circuit court. Inability of the Judge and attorneys to reach Lebanon due to snow covered roads caused the delay. No session of the trial was held Wednesday. VOTE RECOUNT SOUGHT Cass County Democrat, Beaten by One Ballot, Files Petition. By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Nov. 17— Recount of votes for county coroner in the Nov. 8 election is sought in a petition filed by Dr. Donald Miller, Twelve Mile Democrat, who was beaten by one vote on the basis of first returns. The county election commissioners certified Dr. M. B. Stewart (Rep.), who polled 9.498 vote* a* against 9,497 for Miller,