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SARBER FEARED PIERPONT RAID, WITNESS SAYS Sheriff Warned of Attempt to Free Dillinger, Prisoner Reveals in Murder Trial of Mobster at Lima, 0. ‘TRIGGER MAN’ AGAIN IDENTIFIED Convict Describes Attack on Jail and Terror Mob’s’ Flight; Deputy Sheriff Also Accuses Defendant. H'l I filed Prr ** LIMA, 0., March 9. —Sheriff Jesse L. Sarber had been warned that an attempt would be made to free John Dillinger from Ihc Lima county jail here last Oct. 12, it was disclosed today in testimony at the trial of Harry Pierpont, accused of Mr. Sarber’s murder. This sensational disclosure was made by Arthur Miller, convicted on a charge of murder and a prisoner in the Lima jail when gangsters killed Sheriff Sarber and liberated Dillinger.

Miller was a Witness sum- 1 nioned by Prosecutor Ernest Botkin in his attempt to send Pierpont to the electric chair. Miller said he had learned from Sheriff Sarber that the lattpr had been expecting a jail delivery at-1 tempt. | Miller was in the cell block the gangsters invaded, he said. A few moments before he rpvealed that Sheriff Sarber was aware of a delivery plot. Miller had identi- . or) piPipont asthe gangster who n into the cell tier, opened Dil•'ger’s door, locked Mrs. Sarber me.’ Deputy Wilbur Sharp in a cell.! ,i n ri then fled with the gang leader. p,f rpont. Miller testified, handed Dillinger a revolver and said: Come on. Johnny, let's go.” Millers identification of Pierpont was the second in the gangster's j trial Yesterday Deputy Sharp, a witness of the slaying, named Pierpont as the man who fired five shots Sheriff Sarbrr an dthen slugged the official as he fell. Shouse to Testify gij I nited Prrss MICHIGAN CITY*. Ind., March 9. —Guarded by heavily armed squads of officers. Edward Shouse, alleged member of the Dillinger gang, was taken to Lima, 0., today to testifv against. Harry Pierpont. Shouse. who will take the stand against one of his former confederates in crime, rode in an orrnored automobile provided by Mavor Jack Edwards of Marion. Officials of the state prison here said that Shouse was being transported in the big. gray bullet-proof car flanked by guards because they feared the marauding John Dillinger or some other fugitive member of the gang might attempt to kill him and seal his lips.

NAZI INSULT RESENTED BY COLLEGE STUDENTS Swastika Emblazoned on Walls, Columbia l'. Orders Trobe. F’l 1 nited Prrss NEW YORK. March 9. A second attempt within a week to spread Nazi propaganda within the halls and class rooms of Columbia university brought a roar of protest from the student body today and the promise of an immediate investigation. Students hurrying to early morning classes paused to glance at walls and bulletin boards emblazoned with -wastika placards and bearing in flaming red letters the motto: -Heil Hitler. Savior of Germany.'' Liberal authorities of the school, incensed at the invasion of a campus noted for its intelectual liberality indicated the thoroughness and secrecy surrounding the vandalism precluded possibility that it was a student prank. FRANK WHITE FILES FOR TRUSTEE'S JOB Editor Seeks G. O. P. Nomination in Washington Township. Frank A. White. 6008 Norwaldo avenue, newspaper man. filed his candidacy today for Washington township trustee, subject to the Republican primary in May. Mr. White, a war veteran and graduate of Indiana university, worked for various city papers and for the last five years has been editor of the Hoosier Legionnaire. He has been active in Washington township politics for some time. He is married and has two children. Times Index Page America Must Choose 8 Berg Cartoon 22 Bridge 23 Broun 21 Classified 30, 31 Comics ... 33 Crossword Puzzle 33 Curious World 33 Editorial 22 Financial 32 Food Section 28. 29 Hickmnn Theaters 21 Life of Our Lord 21 Peg’er 21 Radio 13 Sport* 24, 25 State News 18 Woman's Pages 16, 17

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2 ARMY PILOTS CRASH VICTIMS Air Mail Toll Reaches Eight: Planes Fall in Ohio and Forida. % By ITnitpH Press Crash of two army planes today, one in Ohio and the other in Florida, brought to pight the number of fliers killed in this connection since the army assumed the air mail service, less than a month ago. A huge Keystone bomber en route to Miami with four sacks of mail crashed when both motors failed at Daytona Beach. Sergeant Ernest C. Bell was killed but the pilot and a radio operator escaped. Lieutenant Otto Wienecke. flying the Newark-Chicago mail, crashed j at Burton. 0., apparently the vie- j tim of a storm. Thp first three fatalities occurred ] before the army had flown a single sack of mail. Three lieutenants crashed to their deaths in the far west while flying to assignments. On Feb. 22. Lieutenant Durward O. Lowry was killed at Deshler, 0., and on the same day Lieutenant Fred I. Patrick crashed to his death at Denison. Tex. Lieutenant George F. McDermott drowned in the bay off Rockaway Point, N. Y.. on Feb. 23. when the plane in which he was flying with two brother officers was forced down. Since Feb. 18. when the. government assumed the mail service, twelve persons have been killed in crashes of privately owned planes. OLDEST FLIER ANXIOUS TO CONTINUE RESEARCH Major Ocker Tolls of Desire to Develop New Instruments. j By 1 nited Press FT. SAM HOUSTON. Tex.. March 9-—A search for a haven where he would be free to develop his aeronautical inventive genius was described today by Major William C Ocker at his trial by court-martial on charges of speaking derogatorily of a superior. The 58-year-old Kelly Field officer testified his only wish was so continue the work which made him famous as a blind flying expert. "I would rather be a pilot without pay than an observer with 50 per rent extra pay.’’ he exclaimed while testifying as to alleged "collusion” in examinations which caused him to be temporarily removed from flying status because of defective vision.

STATE CONSERVATION OFFICER APPOINTED Ira P. Nelson Named to Succeed Dr. Milton T. Jay. Ira P. Nelson. Monticello. has been appointed to succeed Dr. Milto T. Jay* Portland, in the educational division of the state conservation department, it was announced today by Virgil M. Simmons, conservation commissioner. Mr. Nelson formerly was principal of the Montpelier schools. Dr. Jayresigned the place because of ill health. Mr. Simmons said. economkTwriter is DEAD ON WEST COAST Lorin Baker. Cousin of Newton Baker. Passes Suddenly. By r* nitcd Pre* LOS ANGELES. March 9. —Lorin L. Baker, 50. economic writer and a cousin of former War Secretary Newton D. Baker, died at his home here late yesterday following an acute attack of indigestion. BUS SKI RAMS POLE I nidentified Young Woman Killed; 7 Passengers Injured. ft’/ T nilrd Prr JOHNSTON. R. 1.. March 9.—An unidentified young woman was killed, eight men were severely injured. and seven other passengers and the driver escaped with minor hurts today when a big New York-to-Boston bus skidded on a hill, sideswiped an automobile and crashed into a pole.

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Life Term Murderer Makes Escape From Farm at State Prison Absence Is Discovered When Routine Checkup of Prisoners Is Made: Fleeing Man Sentenced in 1924; Transferred Last November. By l nil'll Pren* MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 9.—Paul Harrell, Wabash, serving a life sentence on charges of murder, escaped from the Warren farm of the state prison, six miles south of here, today.

FALL IS FATAL TO ‘POP' JUNE Famed City Restaurateur Taken After Short Illness. (Picture on Page W) George (Pop) June, famed theatrical and restaurant man, and ■ father of Indianapolis Elks lodge," died today at the Milner hotel after a short iilness. Death was said to have been caused by injuries which he received in a fall too weeks ago. Mr. Jun is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alberta June. The couple had no children. For many years Mr. June resided with his wife at 626 Fort Wayne avenue. Following his injury, physicians feared to remove him from "the hotel, where he had been taken after the accident. Mr. June was the proprietor of Pop Junes Down East Oyster House and Fish Cookery at 130 South Illinois street, a famous rendezvous for theatrical and literary figures. Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed. BREAK 'INSIDE JOB,’ IS CLAIM OF LUTZ Blunk Decoyed Guard Into Cell. Says Prober. Evidence that the escape of. John Dillinger from the Crown Point jail was an "inside job” involving one or more of the desperado’s guards was claimed by Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr. today. The evidence was turned over to the attorney-general by Edward J. Barce, special deputy in charge of the investigation of Dillinger's sensational escape by means of a toy pistol.' • . - - Mr. Lutz said Mr. Barce’s findings alleged that Ernest- Blunk. fingerprint expert at the jail and one of the two men kidnaped by Dillinger in his getaway, decoyed Matt j Brown, a special guard, into a cell ! and locked him in a few minutes i before Dillinger fled. Blunk is under arrest on charges i of aiding and abetting the escape.

SHEBA’S LOST CAPITAL IS REPORTED FOUND Legendary City of Biblical Times Discovered, Fliers Claim. By Z nited Press PARIS, March 9.—French aerial explorers wirelessed from Djibouti, Africa, today that they had discovered the lost capital of the Queen of Sheba. The explorers, the French Captain Corniglion-Molignier and Aldre Malreaux. author, reported that they had flown over the legendary city from which the queen came, in biblical times to visit King Solomon in Jerusalenft. They said that, twenty towers and Lfmples still were standing in the city. V. OF F. W. OPPOSES PARDON FOR BERGDOLL Would Be Insult to War Dead Cummings Is Told. By T nited Press KANSAS CITY. Mo.. March 9. A protest against a pardon for Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft dodger who has written President Rsevelt asking he be permitted to return to the United States from Germany, was made today by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. James E. Van zandt, national commander-in-chief of the veterans. wired Homer S. Cummings, attorney general. “We fel that a pardon that would restore American citizenship to this notorious draft evader would be a direct insult to the memory of America's heroic world war dead.”

House Democrats Break Away From Roosevelt Leadership , Carry Veteran Pay Fight to Floor

Bv Fritted Prfx* WASHINGTON. March 9.—House Democrats broke with the Roosevelt administration today on the veterans’ compensation issue. The leadership was glum over the chances of salvaging $350,000,000 in economy act savings. The veterans bloc emerged victoriously today from an angry party caucus despite warnings that President Roosevelt would veto the independent offices bill unless senate amendments increasing veterans compensation and government pay were changed. The friends of the veterans upset administration hopes that the house had “cooled down” on the ticklish issue. The * succeeded in preventing majority 1< ders from binding the party to unit action. They managed to force the fight back to the floor of the house, where,

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His absence was noted at 3 a. m. by William Cannon, supervisor, who made a routine checkup of’the prisoners at that time. Cannon said Harrell apparently disappeared a few minutes before 3, 'ince he had been seen in the bunkhouse at 8:30 p. m. Harrell was sentenced in 1924. He was employed in the powerhouse at the prison until last November, when he was transferred to the farm. DILLINGER DESERVES TO GO FREE, SAY 27 SHORTRIDGE PUPILS John Dillinger displayed so much cleverness in escaping from the Crown Point jail that he is entitled to freedom, said twentyseven Shortridge high school students out of 143 expressing opinions yesterday. Five others said he should be looked on as a hero. The poll was conducted by Paul Seehausen, instructor. Fifty-two pupils said Dillinger is a menace to society and should be done away with as soon as possible. Fifty-nine others said he should be caught, tried and punished. 50 NAZIS ARRESTED IN ALLEGED AUSTRIAN PLOT Reported Uprising in Upper Section of Nation Is Halted. By Unit'd Pre** LINZ. Austria. March 9.—More thar fifty prominent Nazis have been arrested in ripper Austria in connection with the alleged discovery of plans for a Nazi putsch before Easter, it was disclosed today. Rumors have been current for weeks that the Nazis were preparing an uprising. Authorities have been constantly on the alert, and thousands of government schutzcorps troops and other forces have been concentrated in upper Austria for the last two weeks.

OHIO RIVER HEARING 35-FOOT FLOOD POINT Rapid Rise Is Noted During Last Few Days. By United Press EVANSVILLE. March 9.—Swollen by melting snows and heavy rains in its upper reaches, the Ohio river neared the thirty-five-foot flood stage here today. A rapid rise has been noted during the last three days. The river is expected to reach the forty-foot mark, but no serious damage is likely, weather bureau officials said. ADOPTION OF TARIFF PROPOSALS IS URGED President’s Plan Only Way to Get Results, Says O’Brien. By nited Press WASHINGTON. March 9—Robert L. O'Brien, chairman of the United States tariff commission, urged congress today to adopt President Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff proposals as "the only way for us to get results in our foreign trade.'’ ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP iOWA PACKER FAILS Three Men Attack Son-in-Law By Mistake. Is Report. By United Press OTTUMA, lowa, March 9—An attempt to kidnap T. H. Foster, president of the John Morrell & Cos., packing firm, was disclosed towhen it was revealed three men last night attacked his son-in-law, R. B. Vernon. Mr. Vernon confirmed to United Press that he was accosted but escaped when he convinced his attackers that he was not Mr. Foster.

the veterans’ bloc is convinced it will win an ultimate victory* Administration leaders had pigeonholed the bill for a week, hoping to win fresh support for the President in his effort to maintain the governmental savings. But the caucus showed that the Democratic congressmen, all facing re-election this year, w r ere as vigorous as ever in their desire to better the lot of veterans and government employes. A resolution to send the bill to conference was adopted only after a “veterans bloc ' amendment was tacked on instructing the conferees to allow increased pensions for Spanish American war veterans and World war veterans with presumptive disability cases. The amendment was adopted 118 w> 89. The amendment resolution was adopted 136 to 71. Even as passed, the resolution was ,

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PLUNGER H CHICAGO AREA. POLICE FEE Gunman Is Identified by Gas Station Attendant as Desperado. By United Prrxt CHICAGO, March 9.—John Dillinger was believed today to be preparing another of his machine gun bank holdups as police changed their hunting for the notorious outlaw to the south side of the city, where he was reported to have been sighted twice. Dillinger appeared in a south side gasoline filling station yesterday, according to police reports. E. H. Deacon, attendant at the station, failed to recognize the alleged killer immediately. Dillinger removed his coat inside the station building, revealing two revolvers in shoulderholsters. Deacon hid his change-making device when he saw the guns, but Dillinger was reported to have said: "I don’t want your dough. Don’t you know me?" Deacon reported that he told the outlaw he didn’t recognize him. "You'd better not recognize me, but you can tell your friends that I fooled the Indiana police," Dillinger was reported to have said. Dillinger entered a small gray automobile without license plates in which at least one more man was seated and drove away, police said. Later in the day, police had reports from several guests at a south side hotel not far from the gasoline station that they had seen Dillinger driving in an automobile. Police believed that the outlaw was no longer in hiding and feared that, he might attempt to hold up a bank within the next few days. Every available detective was put on duty in cruiser cars to cover the south side.

City Raids Futile Belief that John Dillinger. the “whittling” desperado, bandit, and murderer is not in Indianapolis was expressed today as the nation's law’ enforcement network entered its seventh consecutive day of a feverish hunt to locate the escaped convict. Discouraged by more than a score of futile forays into various parts of the city and its environs on tips that the bandit W’as in or near Indiana polis, city police still held j themselves in readiness to investi- | gate even the wildest rumors of the j bandit's activities. Meanw’hile. it was learned, the ] Marion police department's armored car was taken to Michigan City today for use in transporting Edw’ard Shouse. former Dillinger gangster, to Lima, 0., W’here he will testify ! as a state's witness in the murder | trial of Harry Pierpont. From Rochester, ind.. early today ' came another story that Dillinger was in the state. Previously during the day reports came from Fulton, Anderson and South Chicago, that j the notorious middle w’est “bad | man” had been seen near those j towns. Police received information from | Raymond Bowers, 21-vear-old sari mer of Rochester, that he w’as given a lift by a man resembling Dillinger. yesterday. The man was driving a. black Ford : sedan along road 25 when Bowers j “thumbed” him for a lift, accordi ing to the farmer's story. The driver | told Bowers he was on a business J mission to South Bend, t “Would you know’ this man DillI inger, they are huting, if you saw | him?” the driver asked. Bowers said he would not, "Well be sure and keep your | mouth shut about our conversation,” (Turn to Page Thirty) Hourly Temperatures 6a, m.... 25 10 a. m 28 7a. m 24 11 a. m 28 Ba. m 24 12 (noon>.. 28 9 a. m 26 1 p, m 28

small consolation for the leaders. Lack of a two-thirds vote kept the decision from being binding on party members and was construed as meaning that the w'hole veterans pay cut issue will be - forced to a decision on the house floor, a fight the veterans bloc is eager for. The bill, as amended by the senate, now reposes in the house appropriations committee due to a parliamentary maneuver designed by the leadership to give time to seek a compromise w-hich would assure presidential approval of the bill. However, it probably will be called upon the floor next week, a procedure which will permit the house to vote outright on whether to accept the senate changes, in part or in toto. if all senate changes are approved, no conference will be necessary. The senate amendments restore*

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GREENLEE IS M'NUTT-BOUND ‘Just Politics, Not Feeney Fight/ Pleas Says of Trip. Some of the more austere, if less astute. Hoosier statesmen may frown when termed a "politician,” but not Pleas Greenlee. The McNutt patronage secretary revels in the title. Some of the critics within his own party claim that he doesn't deserve it and that "marplot” is more fitting. But the 3,000 “deserving Democrats.” including the "poll-book holders" on the state police force, believe that Mr. Greenlee is the heading politician in the party and has rare judgment. They got their jobs from him. It was the system which Mr. Greenlee inaugurated that caused A1 Feeney, state safety director, to protest that politics prevents perfecting the state police force. Mr. Greenlee’s reply w’as that Mr. Feeney is neither policeman nor politician, although he said it more vehemently. After that came out in' The Times yesterday afternoon, Mr. Greenlee left town. His office reported that he has gone to Washington to meet the Governor. They said he wasn't leaving town because of the fight with Mr. Feeney, nor to be the first to catch the Governor’s ear to report the latest round. Mr. Greenlee, they said, w’as gr*. ing to Washington, having long planned the trip, in the role of his best loved character—the politician. Here is how that was brought out. "Is Mr. Greenlee going to meet the Governor to tell him first about the Feeney fight?” it was asked. The answer was “no.” "Has he gone to Washington on business?” was the next question. “No.” again. “Well, what has he gone to Washington for?” Oh! The same old thing,” wee the final reply. “Just politics.” ELLIS CUNNINGHAM TO RUN FOR CITY CLERK Father of Ten Will File for Demorrafic Nomination. Ellis Cunningham, an employe in the city engineer’s office, today announced his candidacy for the office of city clerk. A life-long resident of Indianapolis. Mr. Cunningham has been active for many years in Democratic politics. Mr. Cunningham is 39. married and is the father of ten children. He lives at 1950 Tallman avenue. $550 RINGTcASH STOLEN Sneak Thief Enters Apartment on North Meridian. A sneak thief entered the apartment of Margaret Dorset, 3330 North Meridian street, today, and stole a purse containing a platinum ring valued at $550 and $lO in cash, she reported to police.

. the 15 per cent pay reduction to government workers with salaries of $6,000 or less and practically erased ; the major veterans economies of the economy act. The amendment to the resolution i adopted at the caucus was offered by Representative Gordon Browning <Dem., Tenn.), World war veteran. It would put back pre-econ-omy act pensions for 69.000 Spanish American war veterans w-ho actually were in service, and would limit reductions of all World war injury | presumptive cases to 25 per cent. It was understood that the administration would be willing to accept i such Spanish-American war economy revisions. The Democratic caucus lasted three hours. Continually the hum of noisy debate filtered through the i closed doors. *

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‘I Would Accept Post Should Rival Groups in Party Demand,’ Former U. S. Senator Says. ‘COULD DO WORSE,’ ASSERTS NYE Drafting of Famed Hoosier for Office Looms as Leaders Gather in Capital to Attack Sanders. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer Should Everett Sanders he ousted as national Republican chairman, James E. Watson will take the position if it is tendered him, the former senator said today. He is in the city to attend the Indiana Republican Editorial Association meeting - . “I will not be a candidate for either senator or congressman, ” Mr. Watson said in stating his stand. “But should both the so-called progressive and conservative, eastern and western, groups in my party demand. 1 would accept the national chairmanship. In no sense am I an active candidate for the. place, however.”

G. 0. P. DEFEAT IN SENATE ELECTIONS IS SEEN BY WATSON

“No new Republican senator will be elected next fall and we shall have a difficult time reelecting those now holding senate seats.” This prediction came today from former Senator James E. Watson, long time G. O. P. leader and recognized as outstanding among the political prophets. (Privately he predicted his own defeat in the Roosevelt landslide in 1932.) "With a strong party organization and well planned campaign, we should capture at least seven-ty-five new seats in the house, however,” the former senator added.

SEVEN INJURED IN SUBMARINE BLAST Four Hurt Seriously in Explosions. Bii United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 9. Seven men were injured, four seriously, by explosions in the engine room of the submarine Nautilus while it was making a full power run 150 miles off the coast last night. The injured were returned here this morning yb the destroyer Barry, which answered a radio call for help from the Nautilus. RECOVERY GOAL NEAR. STATE REALTORS TOLD Houston Man Sees Long-Term Mortgages as Further Aid. The depression still is with us, but gradually the nation is lifting itself out, Hugh Potfpr, Houston (Texas) National Association of Real Estate Boards president, said yesterday at a meeting of Indianapolis and Indiana Realtors and home builders. The speaker said that action by the government to provide longterm mortgage money for financing home construction will do much to restore better times to the home construction industry. He also discussed the real estate code, which has been approved by the national association and presented to the government for approval. PENNSYLVANIA POLICE READY FOR DILLINGER State Troopers Have Pictures of Desperado on Windshields. By United Press HARRISBURG. March 9.—Pennsylvania state police are taking no chances of mistaken identity in their part of the nation-wide search for John Dillinger, notorious bandit. On the windshield of each state police automobile are pasted two photographs of the desperado beneath which is a detailed police description. OPEN VERDICT GIVEN IN DEATH OF WOMAN Coroner Reports on Fatal Injuries in Hutchinson Case. An open verdict was returned today by Coroner William E. Arbuckle in the death of Mrs. Eliza - beih Hutchinson. 69. of 3651 North Illinois street, who died early in January of head wounds. Mrs. Hutchinson's body was found at the foot of the basement stairway. with a skull fracture. Dr. John A. Salb. deputy coroner, contended the injury was not received in a fall. Dr. Arbuckle's verdict today attributed death to a “fractured skull, basal, head coming in contact with some object—unqualified.”

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Position of the former senator and ionp-time leader in the G. O. P. was stated after being- shown a United Press dispatch from Washington in which Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota progressive, approved Mr. Watson for the national chairmanship. Complete overhaul of the Republican party and a top-to-bottom shift in leadership were demanded by Senator Nye as essential for any success in the coming elections. He came out with an unqualified recommendation for removal of Mr. Sanders, a movement which, having started in Washington, is spreading throughout the. country. To effect change, a committee meeting could be demanded by sixteen members and vote taken. Ordinarily calls for the committee to meet come from the chairman himself. "Party Could Do Worse” Senator Nye said that, he doubted if eastern Republicans would accept any western progressive as party chairman, but declared the west must be considered the most important factor in the coming campaigns. When former Senator Watson was suggested as Mr. Sanders’ successor, Senator Nye said: “The party could do worse. Senator Watson had a fine record in the farm fights when the cause of agriculture was receiving its first real recognition in congress. In matters of party organization he gave fair consideration to the progressives. He would be far more acceptable than are the likely conservative eastern candidates.” Mr. Watson readily agreed with all that, particularly the. point that the party “could do worse.” He then went on to show that while he was labeled an ardent "stand-patter” he had fine personal relationships with the progressives and at times supported their cause in behalf of both agriculture and labor. “A Matter of Principle” "If the progressives would choose a conservative. I believe they would choose me,” he said. "I was called a stand-patter because I stood for the tariff and I still do. I also stand for the Constitution of the United States. “Those things are a matter -of principle, but principles can be used to effect change to meet modern conditions without being abandoned or essentially modified.” Mr. Watson then cited his record to show that he supported the idea of a tariff commission when he was a congressman and received a letter of thanks from the then President Theodore Roosevelt. He introduced and passed a railway labor arbitration law’ and “there hasn't been a strike ssince,” he said. He also was in favor of woman suffrage and supported it as committee chairman, the former senator pointed out. Willing to Take Job His fight for the McNary-Hagan bill over the veto of President Coolidge was also cited, as well as support of the coal control bill backed by the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Watson said that he had announced upon his retirement from the senate that he was “out of politics” and that he had not set foot in the capitoi building since, although living in Washington. “But if the members of the national committee want me for chairman and I could take the position without schism within the party I woufd do so.” he declared. POST WILL ENTERTAIN Irvington V. of F. W. to Give Card Party Tomorrow, Members of the new Irvington Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will give a card party and entertainment tomorrow night at 8:30 at the Sherman inn. Sherman drive and East New Y'ork street. The committee in charge includes Harold Eastman, William Meese, Harry Crooke, Arch Everett and Hugh Meyer.