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HOOVER BACKS ‘DICTATOR’ CRY AT ROOSEVELT Flatly Opposed to Plans of Democrats, House G. 0. P. Leaders Report. MORE POWER PROPOSED Garner Seeks to Give New President Even Heavier Economy Club. BY WILLIAM F. KERRY I'nitfd Prrn* Staff Cnrreanondent WASHINGTON. Fob. 10.—President Herbert Hoover was represented today by Republican concessional leaders as unalterably opposed to Democratic plans to invest President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt with powers which house Republicans denounce as ‘dictatorial.” Mr. Hoover conferred at length "it h House Republican Floor Leader Bertrand H. Snell and Representative Will R. Wood (Rep.. Ind.t, ranking party members on the appropriations committee, on the drastic proposals to give Mr. Roosevelt a free hand to reduce government expenditures. A wide-open split in the Democratic ranks over the "dictatorship proposal,” so-called by the Republicans, appeared in the house when leaders sought to send the treasurypostoffice bill to conference. Chairman John J. Cochran of the house expenditures committee and Chairman John E. Rankin of the house veterans committee both denounced the program of their party leaders in bitter terms. Propose Greater Powers The President on Wednesday expressed his support of the plan approved by the senate to invest the incoming administration with complete authority to reorganize the led oral departments. However, house Democrats, led by Speaker Garner, now propose even more drastic powers. They would give Mr. Roosevelt authority to reduce expenditures on a wide front without requiring congressional sanction. This latter proposal was the one to which Mr. Hoover was represented as being definitely opposed. “I stated my opposition to this plan," Representative Wood said after the White House conference,! “and so did Snell. I think he <the | President! is in agreement. He at no time approved abrogation of congressional powers.” Sweeping Power Provided The senate plan gives the executive power to abolish bureaus as well as to consolidate and rearrange them. It also provides that he may abolish functions of bureaus which virtually amounts to permitting him to set aside law's. A group of house Democrats wants to go- even farther in this respect, and make it possible for the President to set aside some of the provisions of law' under which the annual bill for veterans mounts up to a billion dollars. However, before this is done, a study will be made to determine just how far the law can go w'itliin the Constitution. Can End Enforcement The President probably could put an end to prohibition enforcement under the senate's reorganization plan as it stands, without further amendment. It is the drastic clause permitting abolition of bureaus and functions which Democrats are counting on to make possible economies in connection with reorganization. President Herbert. Hoovers reorganization plan which simply rearranged and consolidated bureaus was not accompanied by any estimate of possible economies. Unless a considerable number of bureaus and functions are abolished, the Democratic administration has little chance of redeeming its campaign promise of a 25 per cent reduction. Congress relinquished its veto power over reorganzation almost completely in the senate plan. Granted for Two Tears One house was able to prevent President Hoovers proposal from becoming effective, but the only way President-Elect Roosevelt's plan can be set aside is by repeal of the entire economy act containing the reorganization provisions. Since the President undoubetdly would veto such reoeal. two-thirds of both houses would be required to undo whatever he does. These extraordinary powers are granted for a period of two years. Mr. Roosevelt's plan is being framed now by Senator James F. Byrnes (Dem.. S. C.L Representative Lewis Douglas (Dem., ArizJ and Swager Shirley, former representative and chairman of the house appropriations committee. It probably will be sent to congress on the first day of the special session, and will become effective sixty days thereafter. Limitation Is Opposed The only thing the new President can not do under the senate plan is to abolish any of the major departments. House Democrats in favor of consolidating the war and navy departments will try to have this limitation removed. However, even if they are not successful. the new President will be able to shift burdens from one department to another, leaving only a skeleton organization in some of them. He could, for instance, unite the army and navy air services. Fire Damages Grocery Fire believed to have been caused by an overheated furnace caused damage estimated at several hundred dollars in a Standard grocery in Beech Grove Thursday eight.

The Indianapolis Times Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday; probably snow flurries; slightly warmer tonight with lowest temperature about 15 degrees.

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Zero Wave Is Relaxing Hold Here Temperatures Today Far Above Low Marks of Thursday. Hourly Temperatures 12 midnight 4 7 a. m 8 1 a. m 5 8 a. m 10 2 a. m 5 9 a m 11 3 a. m 6 10 a. m 14 4a. m 7 11 a. m 16 sam 7 12 <noon).. 19 6 a. m 7 1 p. m 20 With its fury diminishing hourly, winter gave promise of moderating today as temperatures remained above zero. Almost 21 degrees higher this morning than at the same hour Thursday, the mercury at 1 stood at 20 above zero. Severe grip of 1 the cold wave has broken in the far southwest, although temperatures ! were far below zero in Nevada, Utah and adjoining states. Rain was falling in Texas today ! in an area which this week ex- ! perienced extreme, cold, according to | the weather bureau. Higher temperatures today will be followed by snow flurries tonight, when a low temperature of about 15 is predicted. Elkhart Was Colder Temperatures generally over the i state were from 12 to 15 degrees higher today than Thursday, giving much-needed relief to some areas paralyzed by extreme cold and deep snow. In sub-zero weather that prevailed. in Indiana Thursday two deaths were attributed to the cold and widespread suffering w'as reported. Coldest in the state w'as recorded at Elkhart, where the temperature was 21 below', while in La Porte, Goshen, Rochester. Huntington. Kokomo. Marion and Crawfordsville the mercury ranged downward from 14 below. Milk Shortage Faced Blocked road conditions slowly w'ere being alleviated by the state highway commission as snowplows battled drifts on upstate thoroughfares. Elkhart faced a possible milk shortage today as county highway j maintenance crew’s were finding it | impossible to clear highways for (Trim to Page Three)

UNDY TERROR PLOT CHARGED Three Accused of Threat to Kidnap Second Baby of Flier. By United Pre*s ROANOKE. Va., Feb. 10—The stringent federal anti-kidnaping law' passed at the height of the search for the kidnaped and murdered Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., w r as expected to be used today against two small town young men and a bewildered woman accused of a clumsy, amateurish effort to extort $50,000 from Colonel Lindbergh by threatening the same tragic end for his second baby that overtook the first. The three, Norman Harvey, 26; his wife, and Joe Bryant. 19, stoutly maintained their innocence under long police questioning. Bryant said he just happened to pass by a tree stump in a Roanoke suburb and noticed a check for $17,000 hidden in it. Harvey and his wife said that, as a favor, they had driven Bryant to a bank, where his attempt to cash the check bought about the arrests. The check was placed in the stump by Detective Robert C. Johnson after lengthy negotiations with the extortionists, who reduced their demands from $50,000 to $17,000. 13 HELD IN SOUTH BEND DEMONSTRATION FREED All Are Placed on Parole for 60 Days by Municipal Judge. By t nitrd Per** SOUTH BEND. Ind., Feb. 10.— Thirteen persons held here since Jan. 30 on riot charges growing out of an unemployed demonstration, were released on their own recognizance by Municipal Judge A. W. Hosinski Thursday night. They were placed on parole for sixty days, after which charges will be dismised if behavior warrants, the court said. Eleven other persons, arrested in a twenty-minute skirmish with police at the same time, previously had been released.

Slain Mother Will ‘Rise’ to Save Him, Is Claim of ‘Sacrifice’ Killer Suspect

By l tiilni Per** INEZ. Ky.. Feb. 10. —A Kentucky mountaineer of 36. subdued after hours of hvsterical screaming in a cell, waited confidently today for his mother to rise from her grave, "born anew without sin." and thus save him and eight relatives from prosecution for her slaying. John H. Mills, accused of beating and choking Mrs. Lucinda Mills, 73, to death in a frenzy, after days of fasting and dancing in an isolated mountain cabin, will be arraigned Saturday, with the eight other prisoners. For hours Thursday and Thursday night he raved in his cell, screaming gibberish which members of the cult he heads referred to as "the tongue." He was handcuffed and bound to the bars of his cell lest he harm other prisoners. Seven relatives were held in jail with Mills, and an eighth, Mrs. Trixie Mills, 23, daughter-in-law of

BEER BILL IS ADVANCEB, IN | HOOSESTORM ‘Castor Oil’ Methods Laid to Administration in Pushing Over Program. PROTESTS ARE QUELLED Measure Rushed Through to Engrossment by Big Majority. Charges that administration measures are being “stuffed down the throats of representatives like so many doses of castor oil” accompanied the passage to engrossment of the beer control bill, in a stormy session in the house of representatives. Rropresentatives Eugene Martin ; iDem., Ft. Wayne), and Lenharat ; Bauer (Dem., Terre Haute), the stormy petrels of the younger element of the house, started the fireworks when the bill was handed ! dow-n unexpectedly by Speaker Earl Crawford. The bill was not listed for action. Martin, charging the bill was laid on the members’ desks only Thursday when the house spent most of the day in action on the adminisi tration county salaries bill, moved it : be made a special o’-der of business at 10 Tuesday morning.

Objects to ‘Castor Oil’ Martin's motion came when Representative John F. Ryan (Dem., Torre Haute), chairman of the public morals committee, movea the bill be advanced to engrossment. Bauer immediately seconded Martin and demanded .he right to speak. "I. for one, am tired of administration leaders stuffing bills dowm our throats like castor oil,” shouted Bauer. “The foundation of our Democratic party is the right of the people's representatives to be heard and I think the people are getting tired of having bills jammed through the house.” Moving the special order motion be tabled, Representative Edward H. Stein (Dem., Bloomfield), majority floor leader, voiced the case for the defense, when he said the only intent of rushing the bill was to avoid a threatened legislative jam. Given Chance to Protest “The public morals committee,” declared Stein, “has w'orked on this bill until it has gotten it into the best possible shape. Both Martin and Bauer had chances to appear before the committee. If there are any legitimate amendments to be made to the bill let them be made in the senate. “Several administration bills still need a lot of attention, and I think the senate ought to get this bill as soon as possible.” Representative H. H. Evans (Rep., Newcastle), minority floor leader, was demanding vainly the right to be heard on a point of “special privilege. ’ However. Craw'ford recognized Representative William J. Black (Dem.. Anderson), in a demand for the previous question. Evans still w’as demanding the right to speak w'hen Crawford hammered him dow’n with lusty clouts of his gavel on the Speaker's rostrum. Fifty-two votes defeated the special order motion and the bill was advanced to third reading.

BITTER COLD LEAVES 130 DEAD IN WAKE Hope Dwindles for 11 More Missing on Yacht. Bv United Press Known deaths totaling 130 with fate of eleven persons on a missing schooner in doubt, was the tragic toll today of the receding bitter cold that had gripped the nation. Wind-driven surf beat into the homes of fisher folk on a Newfoundland sandspit, endangering lives of the 700 inhabitants. A four-day reign of blizzards, icy gales, and record-breaking cold left death and suffering over virtually the entire country. People froze to death in the streets and in prairies, burned to death in fires, w'ere asphyxiated. struck down by vehicles, or overcome by exhaustion. Hope dwindled for the ten men and one woman aboard the schooner Saugatuck, missing off Connecticut. Legislators to Honor Lincoln Indiana legislators will observe anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln at 10:30 Monday in the senate chamber when Dr. Louis A. Warrren of Ft. Wayne. Lincoln historian and scholar, will be the speaker.

the slain woman, was released on her own recognizance because she is an expectant mother. The eight were present, deputies said, at the rites which ended in the death of the elder Mrs. Mills. From the backwoods region where the cult, headed by Mills, held forth, a succession of stories came today of almost unbelievable orgies of religious ecstasy. The Mills followers, it was said, believed their leader could turn water into wine and grapevines into snakes. Their religious observances frequently lasted for days. One version was that m°mbers of the cult believed they must sacrifice one baby from each family so the child could be ‘ born anew' 1 and saved from sin. It was reported by some neighbors that at the ceremonies which led to Mrs. Mills’ death, the sacrifice of five virgins had been planned, but had been abandoned because Mills demanded that there be six.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1913

Science Is in Action at Butler U. to Test Ability of Public Speakers

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Upper—Miss Virginia Raffensperger, left, and Miss Rosemarv Ford. Lower Left— Professor C W Waiters performing one of his speaking tests on Miss Winifred Jean Louden. 56 Soutn Audubon road Lower Right—lt's a mater of puff and blow with Miss Edith Miller, 3234 Ruckle street

Quiz Ex-Convict in Hunt for Gangster Murderers Policeman. Bandit Victims Fail to Identify Suspect as One of Killers; Gunmen's Names Known, Is Report. Police today were expected to complete their questioning of Hilton Crouch, 30, of 1730 North Illinois street, former convict, in connection with the machine gun slaying Tuesday

SPEEDY CLOSE FOR ASSEMBLY SOUGHT Legislature May Adjourn Early, Says McNutt. If administration tax bills secure legislative approval and the beer control bill is passed, the legislature may adjourn before the sixty-one days which terminate March 6. it was announced today of Governor Paul V. McNutt. The Governor plans to attend the inauguration of President-elect Roosevelt on March 4, and has been invited, with Governors of other states, to confer with Roosevelt March 6. Rehabilitation of defunct industry and caring for the unemployment has been announced as the text of the conference. Governor McNutt was hopeful today that adjournment w'ould be possible to permit him to attend. HARD ASSAILS JAPAN Invasion of Manchuria “Last Flicker of Expiring Era,” He Says. Japan has grasped only the ghost of Imperialism instead of a live and enduring policy, said William Hard, American newspaper man. often assigned to Europe and the Geneva conference, before a Town Hall audience at English's today. He declared that Japan’s invasion of Manchuria is “the last flicker of an expiring era.” Hard said that as China, with its millions, drifts more and more toward nationalism it “will shake the pygmy. Japan, off the back of the monster.”

of Sergeant Lester E. Jones. Crouch was questioned by detectives for several hours late ! Thursday after he had surrendered when he heard police had been ; searching for him. | According to authorities, pictures : of Crouch had been identified partj ly by victims of the Peoples Motor Coach Company robbery, in which ! Sergeant Lester Jones was slain, and ! the Capitol Dairies stickup which was staged a few hours earlier. In the detective office, however, patrolman Michael McAllen, companion of Sergeant Jones on the death raid, was unable to name Crouch as one of the bandits. Other persons who were involved in the robberies also failed to identify Crouch as one of the gangsters. An afternoon Indianapolis newspaper late Thursday printed the erroneous story that Crouch had been identified positively at that time. This story met with denials from Chief Mike Morrissey, who said that "despite what was printed, the man has not been identified positively. He is being held for investigation.'* Names Known, Is Report Chief Mike Morrissey today said the search for the bandit gang is continuing, and it is reported at headquarters that the names of four of the five gunmen are known. It is understood police have been informed that two of the gangsters are from out of the city and that the others are local hoodlums. Police started their search for Crouch after pictures of him had been shown. His father, who came to headquarters with him, said they knew of the police search and that Crouch had made the decision to come before authorities. Crouch recently was released from the Indiana state prison after serving of a five to twenty-five year term for the Duesenberg payroll robbery in 1927. Jones Funeral Is Held He is held for further questioning in default of a $5,000 bond on a vagrancy charge. While police were questioning Crouch, last rites for Sergeant Jones were held at Crown Hill cemetery. Members of his family, members of lodges with which he was associated and police officers and city officials attended the services and burial. Full Masonic rites attended the ceremony. JUDGE BILL IS OPPOSED Bar Association Membership Against Measure. McNutt Told. Seventy-five per cent of the membership of the Indianapolis Bar Association opposes the plan to appoint. rather than elect, Marion county judges. Governor Paul V. McNutt was informed today by a committee of lawyers. They called on him to oppose passage of a bill incorporating the plan.

tI¥7TTH the use of manomet- * * ric flames, variable rotators and a spirometer, Butler university has tintroduced an innovation with operation of the only college speaking clinic in Indiana. Established for the purpose Os determining, in advance, the ability of prospective public speakers, Professor C. W. Walters is utilizing the fundamentals of science and mechanics to determine vocal ability. He plans to test the voices of more than 200 students in the university in the next few months. The tests will be given any college student whether he plans to engage in speaking or merely w'ants to know the power of his voice. The pitch of the voice of the person undergoing the test is determined by the reaction of a manometric flame and variable rotator to exhalations. The record vibrations then are interpreted by Walters as part of his experiments. This test is shown in the upper photo. Nasality has much control over the speaking voice, and. in the clinic. Walters uses a delicate instrument to determine the presence of this characteristic. He is making this test in the lower left photo. Another important phase is the lung volume test. With the use of rubber tubing and a spirometer the lung capacity is recorded. Miss Miller demonstrates the device in the third photo.

Pick a Cabinet Maybe you can help Franklin Roosevelt select his cabinet. And maybe you cant. But you'll at least have some tun guessing at who it'll include, and at the same time you may win a cash prize. The Times Monday will print a picture of a “headless cabinet.” On the three days following will be printed pictures of cabinet possibilities. You match them on the headless figures, write ICO words why you made your selections, and mail it to the Cabinet Contest editor. Indianapolis Times. Watch for the picture Monday and the one following.

Marion Mayor Protests Innocence; Will Not Resign

By Times Special MARION. Ind, Feb. 10.—Mayor Jack Edwards today asserted his innocence and announced he will not resign office following his surrender late Thursday to deputy United States marshals on federal charges of liquor conspiracy. Edwards was one of seventeen Grant county persons indicted by the federal jury at Ft. Waj’ne last week, fifteen of whom have been arrested. The youthful mayor was sought by Dr. E. O. Hall, marshal. Wednesday night, but could not be located until his surrender Thursday. Edwards provided $5,000 bond and was released. Clarence Seifert, 30, was arrested

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WARSHIP MUTINY CREW GIVES UP; BOMB KILLS 18 Immediate Surrender of Vessel Results After Dutch Airmen Attack Cruiser; Officers, Held Prisoners, Are Unharmed. 25 NATIVE SAILORS ARE INJURED Naval Squadron Commander Previously Had Radioed Demand for Sumatrans Not to Resist Capture; Curt Refusal. By L nilffl Pres* AMSTERDAM. Feb. 10.—A Dutch naval seaplane bombed the mutinous cruiser De Zeven Provincien today, killing eighteen men and wounding twenty-five, and bringing immediate surrender of the craft. The bomb, weighing 100 pounds, was dropped to the deck of the cruiser, which was in the hands of a rebellious native Sumatran crew. The bomb exploded with terrific force.

AGREE ON PLAN TO EASE DEBTS Last Desperate Effort Is Made to Get Action From Congress. By I nitrd Pres* WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. Bipartisan agreement on unprecedented legislation to ease debt burdens, especially of the railroads, was announced today in a desperate effort to obtain action at the short session of congress. Senator Daniel Hastings (Rep.. Del.!, said today that representatives of the justice department, railway executives, interstate commerce commission, and of PresidentElect Franklin Roosevelt had approved an amended railroad bankruptcy bill. Mr. Roosevelt was represented here by A. A. Berle, an economist. The house passed a revolutionary relief program a fortnight ago. Hastings prepared a substitute sponsored by the administration. Both bills were designed to enable over-burdene# individuals, businesses and railroads to scale down debts without going through bankruptcy. Controversy centered largely around the railroad provisions. That section now has been revised in a compromise form. Hastings said relief for individuals and other corporations had not been materially altered. The revised version would require petitions for debt adjustment to be filed simultaneously with the interstate commerce commission and a federal judge, instead of merely with the latter. The judge would pass upon the petition only after obtaining the commission's report.

TRAIN HITS SCHOOL BUS; NONE INJURED Driver Orders 22 to Jump Just Before Crash. Bu United Perm SULLIVAN, Ind.. Feb. 10.—Quick thinking of a school bus driver averted what might have been a 1 major tragedy today when he ori dered twenty-two young passengers j to jump out a rear door just before the bus was struck by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois freight train. All except the driver, William Springer, and one boy were out before the crash. Three pupils were hurt in jumping and Springer was thrown through the front of the bus. None of the injuries was serious. Springer said the severe cold prevented his brakes from working. J A PAN ATTACK S JE H 0 L 900 Civilians Slain in Air Bombardment; League Informed. By United Pres* GENEVA. Feb. 10.—The killing of 900 civilians, including women : and children, in aerial bombardment in the Chinese province of Jehol. was reported today by the Chinese delegation at the League of Nations.

as one of the Marion alleged conspirators at Logansport today and will be taken to Ft. Wayne for arraignment. In addition to Edwards and Seifert, the marshal has arrested Sheriff Bert White. Deputy Sheriff Orville Wells, former Sheriff Jacob C. Campbell. Police Captain Charles Truex and Roy Collins, city fireman and former assistant police chief. Others arrested included: Harry E. Roberts, criminal attorney; Harry Miller, electric shop proprietor; Asher D. Quick, his brother-in-law; Edward Day, mayor of Gas City, six miles southeast of Marion: Elmer Veronet, Gas City police chief: Sylvester Johnson, (Turn to Page Twelve)

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Three European enlisted men were among: those killed. Fire broke out and the mutineers gave up in the face of the superior naval force. All the wounded men were natives. the ministry of defense told the United Press. All officers taken prisoner when the mutineers put out to sea Sunday were well. En Route to Base The cruiser is en *-oute to the naval base at Tandjongpriok, Batavia, with a loyal crew in charge. Messages from Batavia reported that one officer was among the wounded mutineers. Two European marines appeared to be the leaders of the mutiny. Shortly before the bomb was dropped, a squadron of Dutch warships met the mutiny ship, spread out in battle formation, and the commander radioed demanding unconditional surrender. He said he would attack unless the mutineers hoisted the colors and spread a white flag on the deck. Ordered to Drop Bombs The reply from De Zeven Provincien was a curt refusal concluding: ‘'Don’t trouble us.” The commander, under orders from home to deal firmly with the mutineers for the sake of naval morale in the East Indies, ordered a seaplane to drop bombs. One struck the deck, and started a small fire. The mutineers, who apparently had though the navy was bluffing, immediately surrendered. The serious view the government takes of the mutiny and other unrest in Dutch colonies was believed responsible for a decision of Premier Ruys de Beerenbrouck not to resign, although the government was defeated in the lower chamber of parliament. Premier Gets Vote The premier received an adverse vote of 50 to 33 during debate on the proposed abolishment of four district tribunals, a local matter not connected with colonial unrest. The government, however, apparently decided that a cabinet resignation would be inopportune. The minister of colonies told the United Press that the cruiser Java, the destroyers Evertsen and Piethein, six auxiliary ships and eight seaplanes took part in forcing the mutineers to surrender. SENATE REFUSES TO CUT DRY RAID FUNDS Enforcement Appropriation Restored to 58,440.000 by Committee. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The senate appropriation committee today refused to trim another 10 per cent from prohibition enforcement funds, but after sharp dispute outlawed wire tapping as a means of detecting liquor violators. The enforcement fund w r as restored to the 58.440.000 approved by the house. The committee deleted the socalled anti - snooping provisions adopted by the house wdiich forbade purchase of evidence with government funds. Policeman’s Wrist Is Broken Attempting to crank his automobile at police headquarters. After it had stood for nine hours in the cold, patrolman Andy Heller incurred a broken wrist on Thursday when the motor backfired. He was taken to city hospital for treatment and sent home.

Last Day The last jigsaw crossword puzzle of the thirty in The Times contest will appear in Saturday's paper. But you still have time to start. You can get a “dodger” with the first fifteen of the puzzles by calling The Times circulation department and you can get back numbers for 2 cents each for the remainder. You take the thirty solutions and they form a map of the United States. Then, reading from left to right, you also have —if your lineup is correctexcerpts from the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's inaugural address, and his Gettysburg speech. You may have forgotten the words of these immortal documents. For your convenience, they are printed today with the puzzle on Page 17.' Remember—only one day left. Get going now.