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EARLE ‘SWELL fellow; girl FRIEND CLAIMS ‘lntensely Romantic,’ Says Pretty Blond to Whom Wynekoop Proposed. NEVER MENTIONED WIFE Young Lothario Is Held as Accessory in Slaying of Pretty Mate. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 4—Earle Wynekoop, who is painted by prosecutors as an accessory in the slaying of his young wife, was by contrast described as “a swell young fellow,” by Florence Conley. Miss Conley’s name was one of several found in a diary kept by the young Lothario. “Earle was intensely romantic,” said Miss Conley, a comely blond, “and he tried to make love to me the first night we met. After three dates he proposed marriage. “He was a swell young fellow and his proposal seemed serious, but I refused.” Never, she declared, did Earle hint that he already was married to Rheta Gardner wynekoop. 23-year-old red-haired Indianapolis musician, whose bullet-shattered body was found in Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop's private medical office on an operating table more than a week ago. Rheta's Diary Studied Dr. Wynekoop is held under a murder indictment and Earle is charged as an accessory. Coupled in the investigation with the young husband's directory’ of attractive blonds and brunets was a diary kept by Rheta for a short time in August. 1929. Both books mentioned the name “Wade.” in Earle's notebook was found the name Jack Wade, while Rheta’s diary revealed that she was in the company of someone named Wade on the day preceding her marriage. Girls Friends Classified Detectives were assigned to identify and locate the man. Earle’s notes gave the clearest insight yet obtained into the philanderings which investigators expect to use in court as a motive for Rheta’s slaying. Knowing that her son was unhappy ih his married life, police brieve. Dr. Wynekoop may have planned to free him through Rheta’s death. Girls listed were classified in code as “cashier, blond, brunet, pretty, fair, wealthy, w’arm, red, exhibit, sentimental.” Some received multiple classifications, such as “blond, warm, exhibit, sentimental.” RUSSIAN EXPLORATION SHIP ADRIFT IN ARCTIC Soviet Expedition Is Helpless in Grips of Heavy Storm. By United /’risn ST. PAUL ISLAND. Alaska, Dec. 4.—The Russian steamship Cheluskin, carrying a scientific expedition, was believed drifting helpless in the grip of a heavy storm north of the Arctic circle today. Radio reports from the ship last night told of its plight. At the time of the message, the Cheluskin gave its possition at 60.80 degrees north, 173 west, which placed it at 100 miles north of Pitlekai, off the Siberian coast above the circle. Professor Schmidt, reportedly a close friend of Foreign Commissar Maxim LitvinofT, headed the Soviet expedition aboard the vessel. FEDERAL EMPLOYES TO ELECT OFFICERS Local l nion to Hold Balloting at Lincoln on Friday. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected by Local 78. National Federation of Federal Employes, at 7:30 Friday in the Lincoln. Candidates are: President, Lewis De Veiling. Floyd Toner. John O. Thistle. George G. Fortner; first, vice-president, Alfred F. Cowan, Russell G. Justice; second vicepresident, Fred H. Ackelow, Lewis H. Moehlman; third vice-president. James O. Fly, Lois Kelley; secre-tary-treasurer. Mary Myers, Agnes K. Eddleman. Esther Mahoney. Ruby Mae Ernest; recording secretary. Ruth Miller, Bettie Wolfe. Edna Rogers; corresponding secretary, Agnes Hinton. Mildred Kassen. PLAINFIELD COUPLE IS KILLED IN CAR CRASH Four Detroit Persons Are Injured in Five-Car Smashup. By Timet Special PLAINFIELD. Dec. 4.—Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reeder. Plainfield, were killed in a five-car automobile smashup on the National road about two miles west of here last night. Four persons, residents of Detroit, were injured in the accident. They are Gentry Adair. Miss Nellie Adair. W. L. Wagner and Spints Adair. FALL KILLS AGED MAN Police Seeking Relief Kitchen Employe's Relatives. Injuries received when he fell downstairs at the city employes’ relief kitchen Friday proved fatal yesterday to Fred Layman, 70, an employe of the kitchen. Police are seeking to locate relatives of Mr. Layman.

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5,000 LIVES-THAT’S LYNCHING TOLL

Noose Deaths Spread Terror in Every State of Nation

BY STANLEY A. TL'LLSEN NEA Service Staff Correspondent THOUSAND victims in a half century —that is the black record of iynching in the United States. Even this is a record from which pages are missing, one on which hundreds of names of those who have gone to their graves by violence are not listed, one which does not include those slain in race riots and other outbreaks. And before the time W’hich this record covers, before it was thought worth-while to investigate lynching, hundreds of others died at the hands of maddened crowds which acted first and looked into the facts after the grim deed was done. The nation at last is awakening to the appalling menace of lynch law, with the hideous acts of w’estern, midwestern, and eastern mobs fresh in mind, and a concerted effort is being launched to stamp out the evil. From the hero of a swift blow struck for American liberty comes the name that designates this most heinous of crimes, according to the most accepted version. Charles Lynch was a Virginia planter, a member of the house of burgesses, a justice of the peace, turned soldier during the war of the revolution. In 1780, as he prepared to lead his cavalry squadron against the invading British, he discovered a formidable conspiracy among Tories of Bedford county. Lynch essentially was a man of action. Without a moment’s hesitation, after capturing the ringleaders, he condemned them to imprisonment, and incontinently flung them into jail, thwarting the plot against the patriots. ana HE had exceeded the limit of his powers, in this heavyhanded emergency thrust, and from this action was coined the name given to lawlessness parading under the guise of law. Lynching, in its early days, rarely involved death. Tar and feather parties and riding victims on a rail were regarded as lynching. And even this was not frequent, except in sparsely settled frontier communities. From 1830 to 1840 it seldom meant inflicting the death penalty. As “civilization and culture” advanced, from 1850 to 1860, it often had that meaning. And from 1875 to the present day, lynching has meant death by horrible violence. However, except in the early settlement of California, lynching seems seldom to have been practiced until after the Civil war. Men trained in the rough school of the wilderness were impatient of legal forms and technicalities. They wanted their justice straight and swift. So

Self-Termed Royal Kin Demands Boarding House English Engineer Claims to Be Illegitimate Son of King George’s Brother: Calls Birth ‘Misfortune.’ By United Press LONDON. Dec. 4—Clarence Guy Gordon Haddon, 43. writing King George that he was the illegitimate son of the king's dead brother, the duke of Clarence, demanded as the price of his silence $3,000 a year and money enough to start a boarding house, it was revealed today.

Haddon’s ambition to maintain his alleged princely status as a boarding house proprietor was brought out at Bow street police court, where the consulting en-gineer-war veteran appeared on remand, charged with demanding money with menaces from the king. Haddon was remanded for eight days, to be committee thereafter to the Old Baiiey criminal court for trial. Bail was refusedd. G. D. Roberts, prosecuting, revealed that in letters Haddon “menaced" King George with the threat of publication of his claim. Wrote to Roosevelt Prosecutor Roberts read a letter Haddon is alleged to have written to President Roosevelt, detailing the "misfortune” of having been born the illegitimate “son of royalty.” “It is irrelevant to these proceedings,” said Roberts, “to inquire into the truth of falsity of Haddon’s allegation. “Haddon himself admitted in one letter that he knew he could claim nothing lawfully in the courts.” “There is absolutely no evidence to support his assertion. Furthermore. Haddon never produced any witness or document which would lead one to suspect his claim was anything but entirely groundless.” King George's assistant private 4 WOMEN’S PURSES TAKEN BY FOOTPADS Loot Is Small in Week-End Thefts, Police Reports Show. Purses of four women were stolen by footpads over the week-end, according to police reports. Victims were Mrs. Fred Junker, 318 North Bolton avenue. $10; Mrs. Ellen Adams. 329 North Pennsylvania street. $2 and fountain pen; Mrs. Gertrude Robinson, 319 Prospect street, small change and keys, and Mrs. Mattie Marvis. Negro. 706 Fayette street, $4 and dress material. CITY FIREMAN’S SON HUR,T CRANKING CAR Youth Taken to City Hospital With Broken Arm. Attempting to crank his father's automobile yesterday afternoon. Hubert Simpson. 14, of 1429 West Thirty-sixth street, suffered a broken right arm. Police took the boy to city hospital. He is the son of H. B. Simpson, city fireman.

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(From “Pageant o f America.” Copyright 1929 by Yale University Press. Reprinted by permission.) Stark horror of a lynching, in the lawless days of gun and rope rule in the far west, is shown vividly in this picture, from an engraving, after the painting, “Judge Lynch,” by Stanley Berkeley.

lynch law eradicated outlawry and cattle rustling from the forests, mountain passes and valleys of the far west. Then came the disorders after emancipation, during reconstruction days in the south. Lynching came to mean torture and death, with Negroes almost always the victims. And lynch law became, in the eyes of the world, a peculiarly American institution. Be that as it may, it is a crime which has prevailed in other countries. In England, it was practiced under the name of Lydford law; in Scotland it was called Cowper law. There also was giblet, or Halifax, and Jeddart law in Britain, which indicated the same fate for the unfortunate offender. n tt u RUSSIA, too, is not guiltless of lynching, and in Germany there was the Vehmgerichte. Northerners are prone to look toward the south when lynching is mentioned. But the hands of citizens of almost every northern state are stained with the blood of victims of the noose, the stake and the gun. The east has the cleanest rec-

secretary, F. H. Mitchell, was an interested auditor when Roberts read extracts from Haddon’s letters to the king. “I want to show the royal family I am not a rotter,” he wrote in one. “I do not want a great fortuneonly a comfortable living, which God knows I am entitled to have from my birthright.” Wants $3,000 Income “All I aim for is about £6OO ($3,000) a year private income and enough ready money to start a modern boarding house.” In another letter Haddon wrote: "I have done everything in my power to try to live a clean life, but this right I have been deprived of, owing to my birth, being the illegitimate son of your brother, the late duke of Clarence. “It would only have taken a year’s income of my father to make me the happiest and most contented man in the whole empire. It would mean so little to the royal family. “I hope the royal family will be contented at last with their handiwork. I will make every effort to let the world see the royal family in their true colors.”

Sound Prosperity Ahead, Father Coughlin Asserts Priest Also Predicts Silver Standard and More Foreign Trade: Offers to Verify Smith’s Call on Morgan. By United Press DETROIT. Dec. 4.—The nation is headed toward the silver standard, enlarged foreign markets and prosperity, Father Charles E. Coughlin declared in his regular Sunday address.

"Through the steady revaluation of gold that is in progress the prices' of commodities are rising, and with them the price of silver,” he said. "Soon silver will be restorew to a decent value. Soon shall a sound prosperity built upon international justice weld together the nations of the world—nations striving for mutual happiness instead of arming for commercial gold.” Supporting the President’s monetary policies, the priest again attacked j. P. Morgan & Cos., which, he said, controls one-sixth of the nation's wealth. The public will be asked to choose between Roosevelt and Morgan. Father Coughlin predicted. The Roosevelt program has put 4,000,000 men to work and will give work to 2,000,000 more this month, besides establishing a monetary policy that

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ord of any section, when lynching statistics are checked. In the west, most of the victims are white. In the south, Negroes are by far the greatest sufferers. One significant finding blasts the belief that a mob is motivated by chivalry, protecting the honor of the womanhood of its community. In 1918, for instance, it was shown that of a total of sixty-two lynchings, only sixteen were for criminal assault. A study by the Inter-Racial Cooperation commission of mob murder over a period of nearly a half century shows that many of the victims were innocent of the offenses for which they died deaths of horror. Seme were killed as the result of mistaken identity, others on unfounded suspicion, some by mob madness. There were cases of burnings, hangings and fatal beatings that involved crimes no more serious than hog stealing, “creating disturbances,” “quarrel with employer,” “failing to turn out of road,” and “not knowing his place.” No more ghastly evidence of the misplaced vengeance of a mob can be presented than that for which two men died at Celina,

Baby ‘Vamp’ There’s a Bat Birth in Bronx Zoo. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 4.—A baby vampire bat, “the spitting image of its mother,” was the newest and most scientifically important guest of the Bronx zoo today. Its birth—the first recorded in captivity—was heralded by a few mouselike squeaks. Head Keeper Peter Toomey, who investigated the strange noise in the bat cage, saw the litttle creature scampering over its mother’s back. “The mother is the only one of her kind ever exhibited in any zoo,” Curator Raymond L. Ditmars said. “Now we have the good fortune to be able to study the habits of a new-born vampire bat. The thing is worth its weight in gold.” NEGRO SHOT ARGUING OVER PINT PURCHASE Young Woman, Alleged Attacker, Lodged in City Prison. Argi*ing over the purchase of a pint of whisky with Miss Vivian Mullin, 25, of 323 East North street, Biffo Grimes, 33. Negro, 817 Ogden street, received a bullet wound in the arm from a revolver said to have been fired by Miss Mullin. Grimes was taken to city hospital and slated on a vagrancy charge. Miss Mullin was taken to the city prison on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill.

wil lead to prosperity, he said. The Morgans wish to continue on the gold standard, which is, in effect, he said, the “depression standard.” The priest reiterated his earlier charge when a loan was needed for financing of the Empire State building, Alfred E. Smith visited the Morgan company offices. “No one said that Mr. Smith obtained a loan on that occasion,” he said, referring to the controversy which resulted from his first declaration that Mr. Smith visited the Morgan offices. The bishop who accompanied Smith on the visit is willing to meet the Democratic leader, John J. Raskob. or representatives of either, and verify the story, Father Coughlin said.

0., in 1872. An enraged band of farmers, led by Thomas B. Douglas, hanged Alexander McLeod and Absalom Kimmel for the assault and murder of Mary Secaur, a child of 14, despite strong indications that they knew nothing of the crime. Years later, Douglas, on his deathbed in Denver, confessed that he had slain the child and had spurred on the mob to turn suspicion from himself. >t tt tt DESPITE the vigorous battle waged by pulpit, press and legislators, mob violence flames periodically, rising one year, falling the next, only to rise again. Hope is stirred that congress will enact a federal anti-lynching law when it convenes in January and thus take a great step toward eliminating the evil. Senator Edward P. Costigan of Colorado is drafting a bill which he asserts he will introduce on the first day congress is in session, and support has been pledged by a large number of senators. Under the Constitution, the federal government has little power now to check the barbarous crime. Punishment is left almost entirely

Bon Vivant of Old to Gulp First Legal Drink Telegraphic Flash in Barroom of Utah’s Vote Will Be Signal for Author’s Record Effort. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Benjamin Decasseres, who was one of New York’s most vigorous bon vivants in the days before prohibition, announced today that, barring an act of God, he will be the first person to take a legal drink of liquor tomorrow.

Aided by the magic of the telegraphic impulse, Decasseres will yield to his own impulses, standing before a bar. He will hurl a highball past his teeth a moment or two after the state of Utah officially puts an end to the eighteenth amendment. “I tried,” he told the United Press today, “to be the last man in the United States to take a drink on the night the Volstead blight came upon the land. But along about 10:30 p. m., I go so busy tanking up that I forgot about my noble aspiration. I must have fainted. All I remember is that my elbow was stiff the next day.” Decasseres used to make the rounds with James Gibbon Huneker, H. L. Mencken, and several others known for their conviviality. They frequented all the best-known spots, and gained great repute as epicures. In his resolve to take the first legal drink Tuesday, Decasseres sought a rapid way of finding out the moment prohibition actually achieves extinction. His arrangements will be elaborate. The flash announcing that Utah has formally voted for repeal will speed over a PURDUE DEAN NAMED ON RAIL COMMITTEE Roosevelt Names Dr. Potter to Science Research Post. By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Dec. 4.—Dean A. A. Potter of Purdue university has been made a member of the committee on railway research of President Roosevelt’s science advisory board, it was reported today in dispatches from Washington. The committee is co-operating with a group of railroad executives in an effort to insure the railroads maximum benefits from application of modem science. Dean Potter is president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an authority on steam engineering. CHURCH MONEY STOLEN Cash Box Containing S4 in Change Is Taken, Police Told. A thief who broke into the Spiritualist Church of God, 886 Massachusetts avenue, yesterday, stole a money box containnig $3 or $4 in change, according to a report made to police last night. Luncheon Scheduled A. D. Streight Circle, Ladies of the Grand Army, will hold a covered dish luncheon tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Ida Hussman, 512 West New York street

to individual states, where peace officers, fearful of the political result, usually dodge the issue. However, when a subject of a foreign government is lynched by an American mob, the federal government is held responsible, and on several occasions has paid indemnities to families of victims. Twice this happened in the case of Chinese lynched in Wyoming and California, and twice in cases of Italians lynched in California and Louisiana. The indemnity in all these cases totaled more than a quarter million dollars. The greatest number of persons done to death by mobs in a single year was 235 in 1892. From year to year since, there has been a steady decline in the toll. But the time is not here for congratulation. In 1932 there were ten lynchings in the United States. When a mob in San Jose, Cal., dragged two kidnap-slayers from jail and hanged them in a pjublic park and an enraged throng seized a Negro in jail at St. Joseph, Mo., and hanged and burned him, the total to date in 1933 mounted to twenty-seven, the highest mark since 1926, when there were thirty-eight lynchings.

special wire into the Manhattan bar-room where the epoch-making highball is to be taken. The wire will be near the bar, immediately next to Decasseres, and will lead directly into the New York offices of the United Press. When the ‘ flash” comes eastward from Utah that it is legal to assail the stomach with grog, it will be relayed in split seconds to the bar. The author of “Spinoza” will order his drink, snatch up the glass and gulp. “After it is all over,” Decasseres said today, "I will return to my home and my literary work, ready to die when Santa calls. I shall have filled my immortal soul with ineffable joy. I might add that between now and Tuesday afternoon, I am on a strict diet, for I have cherished this ambition for some years.”

Bridge Experts Seeking National Tourney Honors • - Auction and Contract Leaders From All Over Country Gather for Cincinnati’s Week-Long Contest. By United Press CINCINNATI, Dec. 4.—Nearly five hundred bridge players, all rated No. 1 by the coterie that each controls, ranged themselves about tables today in a hotel here to compete in the week-long tournament for national contract and auction honors.

At their own expense and at the additional cost of entry fees, 300 of the players have come from cities near and far to play for silver cups. A championship used to have a money value, derived from teaching and writing, but the depression has minimized that. The obsession to be No. 1 keeps the players competing year after year, this being the seventh annual tournament conducted by the American Bridge League. Probably the only undisputed No. 1 among them is P. Hal Sims of Deal, N. J., winner of many national tournaments, author of “Money Contract " and originator of a system of bidding widely used. Sims is a heavy-set maqr,\ distinguished on the tournament floor by his posture. He plays seated in a rocking chair. If there can be any gradations of No. 1, Howard Schenken of New York, winner of last year's individual masters’ tournament, probably would come next. Schenken is a calm, methodical player, practically without a temper. An opposite type is Oswald Jacoby,

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HUGE NRA DRIVE TO FINISH CODIFICATION OF ALL MAJOR INDUSTRIES. GETS UNDER WAY Deadline Is January 1, With Re-Employment Agreements to Be Continued After Expiration on Dec, 31st. 410 BUSINESSES ARE TO GET CODES Newspaper, Construction and Tire Conferences on Program for Recovery Hearings During Week. By Scripps-Howard Ve'cspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—A big NRA drive to complete codification of the major industries by Jan. 1, and all industries within three months, starts today. The blue eagle presidential re-employment agreement will be continued after Dec. 31, when it expires under present terms, to prevent any losses in the wage and hour levels. The blue eagle emblem itself will thus fly from its perch under these agreements direct to the coded industries.

DRY FORCES TO CENTERIN CITY Executive Director Reports Prohibition ‘Comeback’ Sentiment. Indianapolis once more deserves its title of "crossroads of the na-* tion,” this time by virtue of the fact that it has become the national headquarters for the dry forces of the country. Offices of the national prohibition emergency committee have been moved from the former headquarters in Washington the United Christian Missionary Society, 222 Downey avenue. Dr. James A. Crain, Indianapolis, executive director, w r ill have active charge. During the national campaign to retain the eighteenth amendment he assisted the dry forces in their fight in Indiana and several other states. Communications from various nationally known dry leaders have been received by Dr. Crain, indicating, he said, a strong tendency for a prohibition “comeback” in several of the states that have ratified the twenty-first amendment, which nullifies the eighteenth.

Pointless Thief Steals Nine Years’ Needle Work. THE work of nine years was lost when a thief broke into the room of Mrs. H. D. Adams, Lincoln hotel, and stole a twen-ty-three-inch square piece of needlepoint material, valued at SIOO, on w’hich she had been working nearly a decade, she told police last night. DOLLAR OPENS LOWER ON FOREIGN MARKET Steadiness Accompanies Slightly Downward Trend. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 4.—The American dollar opened slightly down, but steady, in the foreign exchange market today. The pound was $5,184. It opened Saturday at $5.20 .and closed at $5,174. French francs opened at 84 7-16. They opened Saturday at 84*8 and closed at 84 13-32. Robber Gets 35c A bandit who threatened William Hutzler, 29, of 741 North New Jersey street, taxi driver, with a razor, robbed him of 35 cents Saturday night, Hutzler reported to police.

New York. He frequently gets angry, insists that his partners play the Jacoby system. Jacoby, a former insurance actuary, is rated the fastest thinker in the game. From Chicago have come other No. 1 men, Lou Haddad, a dark Syrian called “the rug peddler” by his partners, and Bob Halpin. Haddad is well-mannered and delightful in play, and Halpin is tail, heavy-set and good-looking. Widely known in Cincinnati are Walter Pray, and Joe Kain, Indianapolis, 1932 winners of the Auction Bridge League tournament. The atmosphere of national tournaments is tense. Play is slow and deliberate, a series of twenty boards usually requiring 24 hours to play. No officials keep the players under surveilllance. Nevertheless, each player watches his opponent closely for the fluttering of a hand to a necktie, for a cough or an idiosyncracy of speech, all of which might mean something.

Administrator Hugh S. Johnson said today that by far the greater percentage of workers and production is now under permanent codes, although the number of codes yet to be acted upon is great. To speed up operations, NRA is I doubling its pace, and twelve separate industries will start code hearings today. So far. 143 codes have been signed by President Roosevelt, while 207 after completion of hearings are awaiting action, and sixty have ! hearings going on or scheduled —a total of 410 industries. Labor’s Demand Studied The main effort now is to complete action this month on the big industries, including construction, wholesale trade, newspapers, tires, telephones, aluminum and copper. General Johnson has threatened to impose hour and wage requirements on aluminum and telephones. This week, he plans to take in the newspaper conferences. Construction and tire code conferences will continue this week. The speed-up has diverted considerable attention from other phases of NRA administration, notably from General Johnson's appointments of government representatives to the major code authorities. Only a few of these have been named, and General Johnson is still undecided as to whether to grant labor’s demand for representation on these industrial self-gov-erning bodies. Deny A. F. of L Fight So far the effort of NRA chiefs has been primarily to set a separate industrial relations board in each industry to handle labor disputes. General Johnson has stated his intention to provide for such labor relations boards in every code. Ultimately, General Johnson hopes that trade associations will be organized to a point where they will take over the work of the code authorities. General Johnson and Assistant Administration Edward McGrady, an American Federation of Labor man, joined in denying reports that the federation will demand NRA’s abolition. General Johnson said he thought these reports resulted from garbling of a telegram written by Representative Connery (Dem., Mass.). President William Green of the A. F. of L. denied to Mr. McGrady that the federation would ask congress to abolish NRA. $200,000 LOVE SUIT IS FILED AT WABASH Ft. Wayne Man Sues Father-in-Law, Ten Other Persons. By Timet Special WABASH. Dec. 4—Walter Arick. Ft. Wayne, has filed a $200,000 damage suit in circuit court here against his father-in-law, Harry Hays; Walter Kelmke, Ft. Wayne attorney, and nine other •persons, charging alienation of his wife’s affections. He alleges they were responsible for his wife bringing suit for dirvoce, and that they caused him to give up a $4.000-a-year job on promise of a better one, which he did not get. REPUBLICAN CLUB OF IRVINGTON TO MEET Edward Hecker, President, to Address Members Tonight. “Ways of Politicians and Candidates” will be the subject of Edward J. Hecker, Irvington Republican Club president, in an address at 8 tonight at a meeting of the club at 54464 East Washington street. New officers will be elected by the club at the session. FATHER HELD AFTER SLASHING DAUGHTER Girl, 12, Is Injured During Argument Between Parents. Clyde Bartlett, 32, of 442 Goodlet avenue, was held by police today on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill, after an argument with Mrs. Bartlett Sunday in which their daughter, Helen, 12. was cut on the hands and forehead with a butcher knife. TRUCK DRIVER KILLED Otterbein Man Dies in Crash, Companion Hurt Critically. By Timet Special FOWLER, Dec. 4.—Everett Adwell, Otterbein, is dead today following collision of the truck he was driving, with a Big Four passenger train, seven miles south of here yesterday. Alfred Harbolt, also of Otterbein, who was riding with Adwell, is in a critical condition, and is not expected to live.