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‘OVERHEAD’ OF POWER CO. IS UNDER ATTACK Expenses Are Unreasonable, Is Charge of Minton, Public Counselor. PROBERS STILL AT WORK Cost Three Times Average Gas Cos. Fee, Is Claim of Accountants. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Time. Staff Writer Probing deeper into the alleged unreasonable "overhead expenses" of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, Sherman Minton, public counselor, today revealed that the total cost of this item to the average light consumer is two and half times that of the gas company and three times that of the water company. That is to say, for the item ‘‘overhead expenses," an accountant has computed that in the year 1932, for example, it cost the average light customer $9.27 for “overhead expenses" of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. In contrast to this figure, accountants point out, that computation of this item for the Citizen Gas Company and the Indianapolis Water Company reveal that the overhead charge per customer for the year 1932 amounted to only $3.59 and $3.37 respectively. Hearing Set for Feb. 1 Mr. Minton declared that the “overhead expense item in the local utility picture has a definite bearing on the present action of the public service commission in issuing an order to show cause why electric rates in Indianapolis should not be reduced." Because of the efforts of Mr. Minton and The Times, hearing on the order to show cause has been set for Feb. 1. The following table of figures reveals that the alleged exorbitant overhead expense of the light company, in comparison to the same expenses for the gas and water utilities. were not confined to 1932. The computations from reports to the public service commission have been made by an accountant for The Times on a “per customer basis." Total Overhead Expenses Light Cos. Gas Cos. Wat. Cos. 1928 $10.07 $4.08 $3.48 1029 $10.48 $3.72 $3.61 1930 $10.73 $4.24 $3.68 1931 $10.75 $4.03 $3.66 1932 $ 9.27 $3.59 $3.37 While investigators into the operation of the light company held no brief for the operations of the other local utilities, comparisons are drawn, they point out, merely for the sake of illustration. x Higher Expenses Revealed In the expense item marked "collection salaries and commissions," the Indianapolis Power and Light Company reports to the public service commission reveal higher expenses than the two other local utilities. The light company in 1931. for example, reported to the public service commission that “collection salaries and commissions' cost $156,193. The same item was reported by the gas company as costing only $9 346 and by the water company as $5,675. Since the merger, reports of the light company to the public service commission reveal that this item has always bulked large in comparison to the reports of the gas and water companies. The following figures reveal the contrast: Collection Salaries and Commissions Light Cos. Gas Cos. Wat. Cos 1928 $147,452 $ 9.763 none 1929 $148,802 $10,428 $2,212 1930 $157,308 $10,996 $6,165 1931 $156,193 S 9 346 $5,675 1932 $130,131 $11,486 $5,125 An Item in the reports of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to the public service commission captioned • uncollectibie supplies and expenses" has puzzled accountants for The Times. Promises Are Recalled Neither the Citizens Gas Company nor the Indianapolis Water Company have any similarly captioned item listed in their reports to the public service commission. In the reports to the public service commission, the water and gas companies show no expenditure for this item. Under the heading ‘uncollectible supplies and expense.” the light company reported expenditures of $95,310 for 1928: $lO6 276 for 1929; $105,256 for 1930; $101,395 for 1931. and $93 706 for 1932. In recalling the “promises" at the time of the merger when both the promotors and the public service commission practically pledged electric consumers that overhead expenses would be cut down, with the elimination of duplication, accountant* have estimated that instead of overhead being reduced it increased approximately 25 per cent for no apparent reason. The overhead of both the Merchants Heat and Light Company and the Indianapolis Light and Heal Company before the merger only amounted to $8 08 in 1925 and $852 in 1926 as computed by accountants on a per consumer basis. Ex-Judge's Wife to Speak “Youth's Challenge to the Church” will be discussed tonight at the Garfield Park Christian church by Mrs Frank J. La hr. wife of :he former Marion county juvenile court judge. The program is sponsored by jhe Gerf-ld Builders organization of vh ch Mrs. Glen E. Gabhan is president.

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Theodore Dreiser, the “Forgotten Man.”

COURT UPHOLDS TAGS ARRESTS Police Await Official Word of License Ruling. Indianapolis police today can start arresting motorists without 1934 auto license plates, but can not impound cars of erring drivers. Thp license plate situation, which has been muddled for days following issuance of a superior court order against arrests, by state police. was cleared by a ruling of the Indiana supreme court The ruling makes permanent a temporary writ of prohibition against an injunction issued by Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams upon petition filed by Attorney T. Ernest Maholm. It prohibited city and sttae police and deputy sheriffs from arresting motorists driving cars with old plates. State orders had been to start such arrests on Jan. 1. A1 Feeney, state safety director, took the case to the high court, where the writ of prohibition vitiating the injunction was issued. The temporary order did not apply to city police and no arrests were made by them or the sheriffs' office. Apprised of the ruling, city police officials said they would delay action until notified officially. ROOSEVELT ATTACKS POLITICO-LAWYERS President Hits Prostituting of Party Positions. By In tied Pri * WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—President Rooseveit struck sharply today against the custom of national committeemen establishing themselves as lawyers in the shadow' of the Capitol. The President is opposed to the practice, it was revealed at the White House. This revelation came close upon the action of Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes in forbidding certain well known lobbyists to ply their trade with persons in his department. The President’s attitude became known in response to questions today. There has been much gossip and some newspaper comment on the activity of politico-lawyers in this administration, although the custom of practicing law here has not been expanded since the Democrats came into power. Republican politicolawyers also frequently have offered their legal talents in the capital. Mr. Roosevelt feels that it is not quite in accordance w'ith the spirit of the administration for any persons holding high party place, such as membership on the national committee. to make a livelihood practicing law here if there is any disposition for the law r yer to present himself as having back door access to the government. Jewelry Valued at $45 Stolen Entering through a side window last night, thieves ransacked the home of Theodore Buch, 518 East Thirty-third street and stole jewelry valued at S4B. $25 Clothing Is Loot Clothing valued at $25 was taken from a Trans-American Freight Lines truck parked in front of 305 North Senate avenue last night, Everett loof. driver, reported.

‘You Should Hear Some of the Inflections,’ Whispers Rudy of Records

fy l nitrtl rrr* NEW YORK. Jan. 17.—Rudy Vallee. his hair uncombed and sleep m his eyes after a trip across the continent, said today that when he heard dictaphone records of telephone conversations between his wife and Gary Leon, adagio dancer, he had to do scgnething. or “be a sap.” "I had no alternative,” Rudy said. “I either had # to pull out the offending tooth or be a sap." Mr. Vallee arrived from Hollywood at 9 g. m. to find a bevy of blondes from the Hollywood restaurant, where he leads the orchestra. waiting to welcome him. They had stayed up all night after the last show and were tricked out in the white duck pants and white sweaters as cheer leaders. The restaurant s band struck up •My Time I& Your Time,” when

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Found! —Indiana’s ‘Forgotten Man’

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Time* Staff Writer DISTINGUISHED man of letters. Theodore Dreiser, is the “forgotten man" so far as lists of Hoosier men of genius, compiled by Indiana politicians and educators, are concerned. But Louis Ludlow. Twelfth district congressman and prolific contributor to the Congressional Record, is remembered. Latest of these lists to exclude Mr. Dreiser, generally acclaimed by most literary critics of distinction as a contributor to the American classics, came from Floyd I. McMurray, new' state superintendent of public instruction.

MR. McMURRAY listed an outstanding group of Indiana writers in a radio address Sunday night. Those to whom he felt literary tribute should be paid are: Lew Wallace, Maurice Thompson. Edward Eggleston. James Whitcomb Riley, Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, Albert J.

THE McMurray listing practically is the same as that used repeatedly bv other public speakers from political rostrums. It was, for the most part, used in listing the literary great in the souvenir book printed by the state for distribution at the national Governor s conference at Ftench Lick in 1931. Asked regarding the Dreiser omission. Governor Paul V. McNutt at one time admitted he w'as at a loss to explain the apparent snub to one of the outstanding writers, not only of Indiana, but of the United States. . . .

T'HE Governor recalled, however. that when he was dean of the Indiana university law school at Bloomington, he called on Mr. Dreiser in New York in behalf of a university project. Mr. Dreiser was not interested, the Governor explained. Yet, the writer’s admirers point out. Mr. Dreiser published a book about Indiana that expressed his affection for his native state, and the book was not issued as a commercial venture. His brother, Paul Dresser, reared w'ith the author at Terre Haute, is the writer of “On the Banks of the Wabash.” Congressman Ludlow, w r ho is included in the literary notables list at the expense of Mr. Dreiser, has written a recent book entitled “America Go Bust.” It is a study of the government’s fiscal operations.

BOOTLEGGERS' FATE BEFORE HIGH COURT Disposal of Pre-Repeal Arrests Studied. By 1 nited Preng WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—The fate of 13,000 prohibition law violators hung in the balance today as the supreme court heard arguments on a test case w-hich will decide whether repeal of the eighteenth amendment means anything to them or not.. They compose the vast army whose roster is to be found on the unfinished cases pending in the crowded federal court dockets of the country. They were arrested or indicted under the Volstead act before repeal and have not yet come to trial. Courts from all jnrts of the country have tried to decide their case. One judge in North Carolina ruled on Dec. 6 that the Volstead act was dead and the federal courts had no power to hear cases under it. He held that Byrum Gibson and Claude Chambers, charged with dry law conspiracy, were free men, thereby furnishing the test case. CONVENTION OPENED BY LUMBER DEALERS Special-Made Woodwork Division Holds Code Meeting, Fiftieth annual convention of the Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association of Indiana w'as opened here today at the Claypool. First on the program was a code meeting of Indiana special-made woodwork division. A luncheon in honor of past presidents was to be followed by officers’ reports. Various demonstrations and election of officers are included on tomorrow's program. 726-KARAT DIAMOND DISCOVERED IN AFRICA Stone Is Believed to Be Fourth Largest Ever Found. By United Prrng CAPETOWN. South Africa. Jan. 17. A flawless w'hite diamond weighing 726 karats, believed to be the fourth largest stone in the world, has been discovered on a farm at Elandsfontein, near Pretoria, it w’as learned today. It was found within three miles of w'here the famous Cullinan diamond w'as discovered in 1905. Another diamond of 500 karats was found on the same farm. The owner. J. J. Jonker, refused 75,000 pounds (about $380,000) for the present stone. The Cullinan. the largest diamond ever found, was presented to King Edward VII and was cut into nine large stones and a number of small ones.

Rudy stepped off the train, but Rudy and his attorney, Hyman Bushel. were anything but pleased. Rudy hurried through a rush hour hrong to his car, leaving the girls in high dudgeon. They had expected to be photographed for the newspapers. Later, in his plush carpeted, walnut paneled office. Rudy sat at his desk with Attorney Bushel at his elbow and told how he first came to suspect Fay Webb Vallee. “Most of you know my brother William.'' Rudy said to the battery of reporters. “On Friday. Jan. 13, 1933. I left for Albany to keep an engagement. My wife entertained Leon in my apartment at 58 Central Park West that night, until 6 a. m. Saturday. When I got back from an engagement at the Cleveland auto show, William told me about it. “It took: me off my feet*

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Beveridge, Charles Major, Claude Bowers. Gene Stratton Porter, Booth Tarkington. Louis Ludlow, George McCutcheon and Kin Hubbard. No mention is made of the author of “An American Tragedy,” “Sister Carrie,” and “Jennie Gerhardt.”

ONE HURT IN $75.000 BLAZE

Three-Story Building at Evansville Is Destroyed 'by Flames. By United Prenn EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 17.—A three-story building w'as destroyed and one fireman was injured today in a downtow'n fire w'hich raged tw'o and a half hours before being brought under control. The fireman, Carl Wyer, was cut by falling glass. The blaze started at the machine shop of a leather company and spread to a restaurant and rooms formerly used as a traction station. Damage was estimated at more than $75,000. BISHOP M’MURRY OF M. E. CHURCH DEAD Officer of Southern Branch Is Stricken in St. Louis. By United Preng ST. LOUIS, Jan. 17.—Bishop W. F. McMurry of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and former president of Central college at Fayette, Mo., died in Barnes hospital here today. Death was attributed to heart disease. At the time of his death. Bishop McMurry was assigned to Illinois and Kentucky as ranking officer of the church. Previously he served as Bishop of Missouri.

Independence by 19401s Goal of Philippine Plan

Senator Quezon to Present New Proposal to Roosevelt. By United Preng WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Independence of the Philippine islands by 1940 w'as proposed definitely to the United States today in anew plan drafted by a mission headed by Senator Manuel L. Quezon, majority leader of the Philippine legislature. Senator Quezon led the fight in the legislature for rejection of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting bill, providing for independence by 1944, on the ground that various of its clauses fell short of Philippine national aspirations. He came to the United States last November seeking more equitable terms. The present plan is the result of the suggestion by President Roosevelt that the mission itself state its objective. All delegates in the mission voted in favor of the Quezon plan except Isauro Gabaldon, former resident commissioner of the Philippines in Washington, who favors immediate independence as provided in a bill presented to congress by Senator William H. King (Dem., Utah). Mr. Gabaldon told the United Press he w'ill send a memorandum to the White House today expressing his views. Unless a last-minute effort is made to extend the Hare-Hawes-Cutting bill, it will lapse at midnight tonight. That bill was passed over the veto of President Hoover last January. Last Monday. Resident Commissioner Camilo Osias made a speech in the house of representatives, urging that the bill be extended for

WILLIAM asked me if I would permit him to get the proof. I told him that if he got the proof. I'd face the facts." Mr. Vallee said that at his brother's suggestion he installed a dictaphone in an unused maid’s room of the apartment, and had an extension telephone run to the room. From that time on every conversation on his line was recorded, Rudy said, adding that his lawyer knew nothing of the arrangement. "I'd rather not have heard what I had to.” Rudy continued. "My marriage had cost me a lot of money and I hoped to make a go of it. But I had no alternative.” “What did you feel like doing—did you want to take a poke at Leon?” a reported asked, Rudy flared in anger. "Lay off the silly questions,” he shouted. “Lay off the baiting. Treat me like a gentleman and 111

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Perfect Split It Seems to Ruth Hale She’s a Spinster.

By United Prenn NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Ruth Hale, head of the Lucy Stone League, which advocates women retaining their family names after marriage, today explained w'hy she got a divorce from Hey wood Broun, columnist and author. “I always w’anted to be an old maid,” she said. “I should never have married at all. But being so much in love with Broun, and thinking I could outride my own psychological being. I did marry, and I did have a most enchanting boy. Then it was a long road to travel to get back to being a spinster.” The Brouns married in 1917 and the divorce which Miss Hale obtained in Nogales, Mex., several months ago, seemed to have little effect on their routine. Mr. Broun and Miss Hale dined together last night and they are collaborating on a play and a book. They have separate apartments in the same building. Miss Hale said she went to Mexico for her divorce because she had no particular cause for divorce. “I wouldn’t make an accusation against that man for anything in the W'orld,” she said. “He has been perfectly magnificent. Our parting was quiet, gentle, and refined.” ..The. JBrouns have one . child, Heywood Hale Brotm, now' 15. The divorce awarded the child to the* custody of both parents and a property agreement for him was signed last spring.

; nine more months, in order that the Philippine voters might have a chance to pass on it at the next elections for the Philippine legislature in June of this year. Mr. Osias contended that Quezon’s strong campaign against the bill led to its rejection by the legislature, without calling for a special convention to deal with the subject, thus depriving the voters of a chance to pass on the question. While contents of the Quezon plan w'ill not be divulged until President Roosevelt has had a chance to study the draft, it was understood authoritatively that its terms were much more satisfactory to Philippine nationalists than the Hare-Hawes-Cutting act. The new plan provides for quicker independence, and for arrangement of reciprocal trade agreement. Enemies of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting bill argued that it was drafted principally in the interests of certain American agricultural interests, w'ho desired to restrict the importaton of -sugar and coconut oil from the islands. The forrper bill provided for retention by the United States of important naval and military bases in the Philippines. It is understood the new plan calls for neutralization of the islands, or, if that is found impossible, for an arrangement to be worked out later on a basis ,of mutual obligations which would not interfere with the complete sovereignty of the new' nation which it is proposed to create. Evansville Student President Killed By l nited Prenn EVANSVILLE. Jan. 17.—Burt R. Dill. 22, president of the 1933 class of Evansville college, was killed yesterday when his motorcycle collided with an automobile.

treat you like one. Any man who would take a poke at his rival in a situation like that is a damn fool.” Rudy said that he telephoned Police Chief Clarence Webb of Santa Monica, Cal., Fay s father, to come east. Those recorded telephone conversations. Rudy said, were “the straws that broke the camel’s back." Among them were two, each of a couple of hours’ duration. preceding and following a visit made by Fay to Leon’s dressing room. The visit lasted two hours. The dressing room rendezvous occurred, Rudy said, on March 31. 1933, just after he had left town to play an engagement at Delaware, N. J. “Significantly enough. I was playing at the Black Cat ballroom at Delaware,” Rudy said. “The picture at the Paradise that

GHASTLY DEATH CHAMBER IS PORTRAYED IN COURT; RHETA KILLED SELF, DEFENSE HINTS

CHECK SOUGHT ON POWERS OF GOLD PROGRAM Congress Would Curb Wide Jurisdiction of Treasury Head. By United Prenn WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—A move was started in congress today to place a check upon the sweeping powers that would be given the treasury secretary under the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund proposals of the new' Roosevelt gold program. It w'as learned that support was gathering to a proposal advanced within the senate banking and currency committee that the secretary be made accountable to congress for his stabilization operations. The bill, as considered by the committee yesterday, states that the secretary's decisions shall be final and not subject to review by any other officer of the United States. The faction desiring a change will strive to have this amended to read, not subject to review by an administrative officer, thereby leaving the way open for a review by the legislative branch of the government. Exchange Stabilization Sought Under the gold reserve act the $2,000,000,000 , stabilization fund would be used for the purchase, sale or negotiation of all types of securities, both domestic and foreign. The object of such operations would be to stabilize the exchange value of the dollar. These stabilization operations are counted upon to benefit the United States in international trade. The proposed fluctuation of the dollar devaluation between 50 and 60 per cent will narrow the field of stabilization but will not fix it exactly at any given point. The senate committee was told yesterday that exact stabilization is not wanted by President Roosevelt at present because it would enable other countries to fix their currencies to gain a trade advantage. They will not be able to do this if the President has his ten-point leeway, a range which is not w'ide enough for violent fluctuation but still is ample for bargaining purposes. Question Bill Constitutionality At the committee meeting Senators Carter Glass (Dem., Va.i; William G. McAdoo (Dem., Cal.) and Thomas Gore (Dem., 0k,1a.) raised the issue of constitutionality of the President’s gold plan. It was revealed that Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings has, not presented a written opinion on this subject, the supposition being that he assured Mr. Roosevelt verbally that he believed the plan to be sound legally. At Senator McAdoo’s insistence the committee called on Mr. Cummings for a w'ritten opinion on the legality of various phases of the bill. Hearings on the bill were arranged to begin today. They will continue several days. Among witnesses expected to appear are Adolph C. Miller, former chairman of the federal reserve board and one of its oldest members, Eugene R. Black, present federal reserve governor; Walter Wyatt, the board's general counsel, and James Harvey Rogers, Yale professor. Farm Leaders Indorse Plan The hearings are to be in secret. Chairman Duncan U. Fletcher said none of the members wanted public hearirigs. Action on the gold bill in the house w'as delayed by a squabble over jurisdiction. Speaker Henry T. Ramey decided that it should be handled by the coinage committee, but the banking and currency committee was expected to insist on a vote in the house before surrendering its claim to the bill. Governor Black and farm leaders indorsed the Roosevelt gold plan. Mr, Black said that the federal reserve board, instead of opposing the nationalization of gold, actually had proposed it. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 20 10 a. m 24 7a. m 21 11 a. m 25 Ba. m 22 12 (noon'.. 27 9 a. m 23 1 p. m 28

night was ‘Sign of the Cross.’ And the next day was April fool s day." He smiled bitterly. u n “QOME of those dictaphone conversations," he said, “we hope w'e’ll never have to give any one—or someone will jump out a window. There is one reference too horrible to mention.” The “proofs” of his wife’s infidelity were obtained. Rudy said, after his reconciliation with Miss Webb after their first separation. Someone showed the crooner a clipping detailing Miss Webb's demands for $7,400 a month in her Los Angeles separation suit now pending, and asked if he thought it reasonable. “Are you kidding me?” Rudy answered. “It's outrageous!” “Remember,” Rudy said, “for eight months I’ve not had anything to say. Even when I left

Entered as Second Cias* Matter at Poatoffice. lodianapolia

Operating Table and Slain Girl’s Clothing Prominent in Grisly Exhibit; Police Describe Finding of Body. ‘DON’T SPARE ME.’ SAYS DOCTOR ‘Why Don’t sou Bring in Corpse, Too?’ Hisses Catherine; Jury on Feet to View Grisly Exhibition. By l nit fit Pi run CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING. CHICAGO, Jan. 17. —Attorneys who hope to save Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop from death in the electric chair demanded by the state* hinted in cross-examination today that Rheta Wynekoop mipht have died by her own hand. Examining two police witnesses called by tiie state, Defense Counsel W. W. Smith and Milton Smith inquired minutely into the exact position of the slain girl’s body on the operating table in the basement of the Wynekoop home where it was first viewed by police.

FARMER NABS TEXAS CUNVIGT One of Five Fugitives Is Captured at Home of Negro. By United Prenn CROCKETT. Tex., Jan. 17.—J. B. French, one of five convicts who escaped from the Eastman prison farm near here yesterday, was captured early today four miles from the camp by a Negro farmer in whose house he sought refuge. Gebe Wright, the Negro, held the unarmed French until Sergeant Charles Flournoy and his pack of bloodhounds from the prison farm closed in on the house. Manager B. B. Monzingo of the farm said French was not included in the escape plot which resulted in the wounding of two guards. Meantime, M. H. Crowson. one of two guards shot down in a barrage of machine gun and pistol fire at the Eastham prison farm, was reported in a dying condition at the main prison hospital. Officers believed the break was engineered by Clyde Barrow, notorious gunman wanted for crimes throughout the southwest. Foremast among the prisoners liberated was Raymond Hamilton. Barrow’s former ally, serving a total of 263 years' for robbery and murder. GAR SMASHES RAIL; FOUR ESCAPE UEATH Auto Drops 40 Feet After Missing Double Jog. Agitation for removal of a dangerous double jog on High School road at the Pennsylvania tracks was renewed today, following an accident last night in which four persons narrowly escaped death. Failing to make the turn, a car driven by Morris Epstein, 1915 Park avenue, plunged through the guard rail ana down a steep embankment forty feet to the railroad right of way, turning- over several times on the way down. No one was injured. Several surveys for removal of the jog are said by residents of the vicinity to have been made without definite action. SAFETY DIRECTORS FOR CWA ARE SELECTED Marion County Leader Is Named to Works Projects Post. Twenty-eight district safety directors for civil works projects have been announced by the state CWA board. Included in the group were two Indianapolis men, John Irons, assigned by W. Pierce McCoy, assistant CWA safety director, to District 14, including Warren, Fountain. Montgomery and Park counties, and ana W. E. Paul, assigned to Marion county.

for Hollywood I didn't say anything. She forced me into this. “The most asinine part was the statement referring to the records. Leon says they were only kidding, why not publish the whole thing? Why, the amount published is only about 40 per cent of the w'hole. The rest is worse. The man must be mad to want it all published. “Even the printed record doesn't reveal everything. You should hear some of the inflections!” The interview ended when som? one asked if he would make i statement regarding Alice Faye, named by Miss Webb in the separation action. “I’ll reiterate the old bromide, that Alice and I are Just good friends, dear friends. She is a fine girl—they don't come any better. Any reference to her by my wife is just a smoke screen to cover her own guilt”

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Heeding the admonition of the frail defendant not to “spare me,” the attorneys reconstructed elaborately in the courtroom the scene of the death chamber. The opera ting table upon which Rheta's body lay was placed squarely before the staring eyes of the twelve jurymen. The pillow on which the girl* head rested was placed in the position it w'as seen on the fatal night of Nov. 21 and by the answers of the officers the scene was sharply etched in the minds of auditors. Officers Arthur March and Walter Kelly described the girl's body, covered with a heavy bianket. She lay on her left arm with her right hand clutching at her breast, said the officers. Revolver Few Inches Away A few inches away, said the officers, was the revolver with which she w'as shot to death. By inferqpw, the defense showed that it/ was w'ithin the realm of possibility for Rheta to have placed the gun just above her head before she died. Defense counsel was unperturbed by newspaper reports of a "second confession" supposed to have been made by Dr. Wynekoop a few hours after her first disputed "confession” statement. "Dr. Wynekoop made no second statement to police," said Counsel Frank Tyrrell and his associates. "The first, supposed statement will not go into evidence if we can help it.’’ Minister Sits Near Bv Near by Dr. Wynekoop today sat the Rev. John H°nry Hopkins, a high church Episcopal minister and long time friend of Dr. Wynekoop. He told reporters he carried the religious oils for administration of the rites of the church. He said he was advised by Dr. Wynekoop'* physicians she might, be stricken with a fatal heart attack at almost any moment. Obviously shocking to the prosecution itself, the portrayal of the death chamber brought angry remonstrances from the defense. Over heated objections from the defense, the table was set up in front of the jury box yesterday. Sergeant Marsh gingerly placed the little articles of clothing which Rheta had worn the day she was killed in a neat pile at the foot of the table. Ho arranged the bloody sheet and blanket, in all, twenty-seven state exhibits were introduced to build.the picture. The jury was on its feet for a better view'. Effect Is Electric The effect was electric. Even the prosecution was shocked. Across the counsel table, Dr, Wynekoop shuddered and collapsed in her chair. Her daughter, Dr. Catherine Wynekoop, administered treatment and then leaned across the table to denounce the prosecution. "Why don't you bring in the corpse, too?” Catherine hissed. Assistant State's Attorney Charles S. Dougherty, who had considered introducing an effigy of the slain girl, had abandoned any such plan for fear of a mistrial. The introduction of the exhibits forced the prosecution to show its hand on a statement that Dr. Wynekoop gave police shortly after the killing. Defense counsel objected to the introduction of the exhibits, saying they were prejudicial. The state contended the exhibits were being shown to break down parts of this statement. Exchange Has But 7 Phones By l nitert Prent PARMA. Mich., Jan. 17,-The Hall telephone exchange, believed the smallest in Michigan, serves only twelve homes. V has been in operation more than niirty years. Times Index Page Auto News 8 Bridge 11 Broun 13 Classified 17, 18 Comics 19' Crossword Puzzle 2“ Curious World 1 Editorial 1 Financial 1Hickman—Theaters 13 Lippmann IS Our Gang—A Series 13 Pegler 13 Radio 8 Sports 16 I 7 State Womans Pages 10, 11