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TWO CHILDREN KILLED IN CITY RAIL MISHAPS Girl. 9, Runs Into Path of Train While Playing With Sister. BOY LOSES LIFE FIGHT South Side Lad Struck by Street Car Saturday Dies at Hospital. Death claimed thp lives of two 9-vear-old children today, one from injuries received when struck by a train, and the other from injuries received when hit bv a street car. William Henry Catobitis, 9. of 952 Albany street, died early today at city hospital as result of a skull fracture received Saturday night w-hen he was struck by a street car as he ran across the street in the 2800 block Hhelbv street. Collene Dunham. 9, of 1413 Newman street, while playing with her sister, Thelma Jean, 11, near the Big Four railroad right-of-way late yesterday, stepped in front of a Big Four passenger train locomotive and was injured fatally, dying early today at city hospital. The Catobius boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Antone Catobius, had gone to the grocery for a can of kerosene. While waiting for the order to be filled, according to witnesses, he ran across the street and was injured fatally. He is survived by thp parents and seven brothers and sisters, Wilmuth, 15; Elnora, 14; Edith, 12; Marcella 11; Paul, 8; Marvin. 6, and Harry. 2. The body was taken to th? Blasengym funeral parlors. The child attended the Nazarrne Sunday school at Olive and Legrande streets. Bells, Removed. Police Told Tlie Dunham child, according to witnesses, was dancing and playing with her sister, heedless of the oncoming train. As it neared the spot where they were playing she ran cn the track. The impact hurled her about ten feet east of the crossing. The child's parents said they were informed by the railroad that bells were ordered removed from the flasher signals in the vicinity by the city several weeks ago. Critical injuries were sustained yesterday afternoon by Elmer Brant, 6ft, Negro, R. R. 16, Box 96, when a wagon he was driving was struck by a car driven by Jerry Nutter, 18, of 1336 North Alabama street, at Meridian and Eighty-sixth streets. Woman Injured Critically Falling against the side of a moving automobile, Mrs. Ida May Kurtz, Negro, 24. of 556 West Twenty-eighth street, was injured critically last night. The accident occurred at Twenty-eighth street and Northwestern avenue. The car was driven by Samuel Kirakian, 50. of 1121 Pomander place. Thomas Brady, 4. Negro. 2447 North Oxford street, sustained a broken leg late yesterday when he ran across the street in front of his home in the path of a car driven by Edward Mueller, 52. of 2708 North Illinois street. FORMER CITY GIRL IS DIVORCED FROM PRINCE Mexican Judge Grants Quick MailOrder Separation. _ By United Press JUAREZ. Mpx.. April 17.—. Judge Ignacio Gutierrez Zamora today granted Janet Di Sirignano a quick mail order divorce from Prince F. Caravita Sirignano of Italy on the grounds of incompatabilitv. Pyincp Di Sirignano and Janet Snowden, daughter of the late James M. Snowden, formerly of Indianapolis. were married in New York after a twenty-four-hour courtship. The wedding was Aug. 17. 1933. 'Five days later the bride told reporters that the. Italian nobleman was “ft good enough guv" but that she was going to get the marriage annuled.

COPS SIFT CLEWS IN BELLE ISLAND DEATH Probe Report Tthat Rich Victim Disposed of So.OOfl. Bn T nitrd Prctm NORWALK. Conn . April 17.—Police sifting meager clews in the mysterious death of Arthur Todd, wealthy Belle Island eccentric, today investigated a report that Todd had disposed of $5,000 in securities in New York two days befor he fell to death from a retaining wall on his estate. Meanwhile, a report of a Yale i medical school toxicologist was awaited to determine whether the retired manufacuturer had been drugged or poisoned. Police believe he was slain and are seeking a mysterious woman who was with him about the time of his death. Times Index Page : Bridge 9 Broun 11 Classified 16 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 17 Editorial 12 Financial Hickman—Theaters 3 Lippmann . 11 Pegler 11 Radio 3 Sporta 14, 15 State News 3, Vital Statistics 15 Wallace Series 6 Woman s Pages 8, 9

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Hoover Aid Involved in Mail Probe Brown's Policy ‘Wrong,’ California G. 0. P. Chief Is Quoted. By t nitrrl Prt WASHINGTON, April 17—The “friendly co-operation” of Mark L. Requa, Republican national committeeman from California and close friend of former President Hoover, was enlisted by the Century Airlines in 1931 in a campaign of independent operators to obtain mail contracts, it was testified today before the senate air mail committee. Documents introduced showed that Mr. Requa told Century representatives in 1931 that he would have former Postmaster-General Walter F. Brown “called on the carpet" in an effort to obtain an air mail contract for the line. Mr. Requa, according to correspondence between officials of the airlines, expressed the opinion that Mr. Brown’s air mail policy was “wrong" and "embarrassed" Mr. Hoover. Chairman Hugo L. Black (Dem., Ala. read a letter from E. L. Cord, head of the Century company, to L. B. Manning. Cord corporation official. dated Nov. 12. 1931. which brought in Mr. Requas name.

G. O. P. Leaders Blame Coffin for Klan Session Vehement Denials Follow Revelations of Meeting: Union Takes Determined Stand. Vehement denials from influential Republicans today followed a meeting at 210 1 - East Ohio street. Sunday at which it, is alleged the KuKlux Klan again reared its head.

BURGLARS LOOT LAWYER'S HOME Jewelry Valued at $132 Is Included in Booty at Royse Home. Burglars looted the home of John A. Royse. 415 East Fifty-sec-ond street, prominent Indianapolis attorney, last night and obtained jewelry valued at $132.50 and an automatic pistol worth $55. Entrance to the home was gained by cutting a hole in a basement window. A child's bank, containing $7, and a boy's watch also was stolen. Other robberies last night and early today were. Standard Grocery, 2130 West Washington street, $14.28 in rash and a ham valued at $2.21; Earl E. Maple, 2527 Shelby street, clothing valued at $47.50; A. H Schwartz, Kokomo, Ind., clothing from parked car valued at $75; Edward McArdle. 1408 East Market street clothing from parked car \alued at $26. VAL NOLAN ACTS IN STATE NRA CASE U. S. Agent Removes Blue Eagle at Evansville. First use of new powers given District Attorney Val Nolen last week to "crack down" on NRA violators has been taken. Mr. Nolan announced today. The action was taken in the case of the Downen Press Shop, Evansville, which last month was ordered to return its blue eagle to the Evansville postmaster. When the company refused to comply with the order. Mr. Nolan said, the district attorney sent an agent of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice to Evansville. The agent returned yesterday with the blue eagle embiem. it was reported.

Repentant, Killer of Son Awaits Grand Jury Action

Everett Arbuckle Sits Bewildered in Jail, Contemplating Slaying of Youth, 19. Repentant and bewildered, Everett Arbuckle. 43. of 734 Elm street, today contemplated the slaying of his son. Noah. 19. and the serious stabbing of his wife. Verna. 42. following a quarrel at a dance early yesterday. Arbuckle is held for action of the grand jury, charged with murder. Mrs. Arbuckle's condition was de- i

scribed as "fair” at city hospital today. Her son died yesterday after being rushed to the hospital from police headquarters where he reported tne stabbings. The stabbing fray occurred at the end of a dance at Germania hall. 39 South Delaware street. It was the climax of what Arbuckle described to police as “a good time.” When the tragedy happened Arbuckle. his wife and four of their Ten children were standing near the checkroom preparatory to leaving. “Why didn't you dance the last dance with me?” Mrs. Arbuckle is reported to have asked her husband. Before any one could interfere, according to the police. Arbuckle muttered something and suddenly stabbed his wife in the left side with his pocket knife. Arbuckle then ran down a flight of stairs pursued by his sons Noah and Clyde, 17. *

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GRAIN PITS IN TURMOIL; ALL PRICES FALL Quotations Drop to New Low Levels for 1934 in Hectic Trading. WILD SCENES 'PREVAIL White-Jacketed Traders Are Caught in Center of Whirling Mob. By l piled Pri ss CHICAGO, April 17.—The grain pits of the Chicago Board of Trade were thrown into turmoil today with the most hectic trading of the year Prices sank to new low levels for 1934. Wild scenes, approaching the pandemonium of last July, when wheat skyrocketed to $1.28 a bushel, prevailed in the terraced pits. By strange contrast the scene today was the result of a wave of selling that sent prices tobogganing to new | low's instead of skyrocketing to new I highs. White-jacketed traders, stum(Tiim to Page Thirteen)

| At a meeting of the ward chairmen of the Republican Union in the Meyer-Kiser building yesterday, a resolution was adopted, opposing activity of any of its members in the membership of any so-called “100 per cent American" organiza- ! tion. The resolution was adopted fol- ! lowing newspaper reports that some of the members of the Republican Union had attended the meeting Sunday at which “Doc” Farrell, national representative of the KuKlux Klan, was the principal speaker. William A. Boyce Jr., Republican Union secretary, showed letters 1 signed by members of the Union in | which they explained their attend- ; ance at the meeting. One of the letters was signed by Carl E. Hiatt, Fourteenth ward chairman, who said he attended the meeting because of his former membership in the Junior Order of i United American Mechanics. Mr. ! Hiatt said he personally knew nothj ing of any “klar.” agent making a | talk. Earl Burns. Sixteenth ward chairj man. in another letter explained that he had attended the meeting at the invitation of a fellow memI ber of the trainmen's union and j said he knew' nothing of the “re- ! ligious tenor" of the meeting. Bert Thurman, director of the j George L. Denny campaign for | mayor, attended the meeting yesterday of the Republican union and | spoke in favor of Mr. Denny's canj didacy. I Many chagrined Republican can- : didates today blamed George V. j <Cap) Coffin. Republican “boss," for i their presence at the meeting, dej daring that the astute politician ; had seen to it that they were invited to a meeting with a “Klan tinge" in order to embarrass them | with their constituents. HARVEY HARTSOciTIS NEW DE PAUW TRUSTEE City Attorney Elected by Alumni of State School. i By Vtried rrtgg GREENCASTLE. Ind.. April 17. Harvey B. Hartsock. Indianapolis attorney. has been elected to the board of trustees of De Pauw university by I the alumni, it was announced today. He polled 1.228 votes. His opponents were David B. Lillienthal. counsel for the Tennessee Valley ; Authority, and Charles C. Johnson, i New York.

They seized the father and he slashed with his knife several times inflicting several deep wounds in Noah's body. Despite his wounds. Noah clung to his father and with his brother brought him upstairs where their mother and two sisters, Ruth. 16. and Effie. 14. were, attempting to care for their mother. Bleeding profusely from sevpral wounds. Noah ran a block and a half to police headquarters where he collapsed after telling his story. Arbuckle. his wounded wife and other members of the family, were found at Germania hall by the police. In city hospital, Mrs. Arbuckle told the police that her husband drank several bottles of beer at the dance. She said her husband had threatened her life on previous occasions. The Arbuckles have been married twenty-six years.

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Jane Hinton, above, Philadelphia socialite and rising playw'right, is a bride, all because another scenarist read her plays, saw her photo in a newspaper and demanded an introduction. She W'as married in Hollywood to How’ard Smith, who writes for the films and is prominent in polo circles.

STRIKE VOTE DEFERRED BY TOOL AND DIE UNION Decision to Call Out 18,000 Skilled Workers Held in Abeyance. By t inted Press DETROIT, April 17. Striking members of the Mechanics’ Educational Society of America today held in abeyance the threat of a general strike call which could take their 18.000 members away from their tool and die machines. At a meeting last night 2,000 of the union members deferred a proposal that the general strike be called to aid some 1.500 members who are striking in sixty jobbing plants. Calling a general strike would afJect 165 plants, including workers in hiajor automobile company shops, and might, seriously hamper the automobile industry.

NEW BASEBALL SEASONSTARTS Another Season Starts and Nearly 200,000 Will See Openers. Baseball, with hopes of a bigger and better season, started the long 1934 campaign today on all major fronts. Diamond fans. 165.000 strong, were expected to throng major league parks for the eight American and National League struggles, while another 30,000 was predicted for the four American Association battles. Red Killifer's Indianapolis Indians were to inaugurate the A. A. title race at Toledo, where the Tribe chief expected to send Bob Logan, the young lefty, to the mound against the Mud Hens. Roxie Lawson, Cleveland castoff, was slated for Toledo slab duty, and with fair weather on tap. more than 5.000 fans were anticipated for the lid-lifting tussle. Louisville at Columbus The champion Red Birds, title favorites in the A. A. again, entertained Louisville at Columbus. Minneapolis invaded Milwaukee and St. Paul played at Kansas City in the other games. With one of the hottest races in the fifty-nine years of organized baseball in prospect, the National League held the center of the stage today. An estimated 100.000 was scheduled to see the four struggles. The world champion New York Giants, flag favorites despite a shaky spring training start, tangled with the lowly Phillies at the Polo Grounds, with the one and only Carl Hubbell slated to oppose Ed Holley of the Phils. Boston at Brooklyn Casey Stengel’s Brooklyn Dodgers took on Boston at the Flatbush park, Pittsburgh invaded St. Louis and Chicago's slugging Cubs, with Chuck Klein, the Indianapolis powerhouse, making his debut, invaded Cincinnati. Washington's scheduled opening with Boston yesterday, at which President Roosevelt was to throw out the first ball, was rained out and they were to try it again today. With Oral Hildebrand, the Indianapolis youngster, on the mound, Cleveland entertained St.* Louis, while Babe Ruth and his New York Yankees invaded Philadelphia to tangle with veteran Connie Mack's revamped club. Detroit at Chicago completed the American League card. ,

THREE SONS NAMED IN MRS. MAYER’S WILL Entire Estate. Value I’nestimated, Is I/eft in Trust. Will of Mrs. Josephine K. Mayer, widow of Charles Mayer Sr., who died last week, was filed for probate yesterday afternoon in probate court. The will leaves the entire estate, value of which was not estimated, in trust for three sons, Charles Mayer. A. Kiefer Mayer and Edward L. Mayer, also named coexecutors. and at their death, the estate is to go to the Indianapolis Foundation. A bequest of SI,OOO was left to Carrie Brunson, Negro, Mrs. Mayer s personal maid. *|

ENGLAND NOT TO PAY WAR DEBT TO U. S. Budget Chief Continues to Seek Revision or Cancellation. BRITISH TAXES SLASHED Treasury Surplus Fails to Change Policy; Token Payment Expected. By United Press LONDON. April 17.—Great Britain adheres to her policy of refusing •to pay her war debt to the United States pending negotiations for revision or cancellation. Sir Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, revealed in presenting the 1934-1935 budget to the house of commons today. Despite a treasury surplus at the end of the fiscal year on April 1 of $160,567,940 and a prospective surplus of revenue over expenses in the current budget of $149,350,000, Sir Neville made no provision in the budget for war debt payments nor for reparations receipts. He did the same thing in the preceding two years. Nevertheless, Eritain has been making small "token" payments to Washington to avoid being openly in default, and it was generally assumed such a payment would be made this year, outside of the budget. The tall, dour chancellor, whose ability and orthodoxy in finance are universally respected, even if his personality is not of the type to inspire warm public affection, bid fair to become the most popular man in England tonight when he announced welcome relief measures affecting everybody. The British income tax, heaviest in the world, will be cut 2per cent to 22 H per cent. The ten per cent cut in unemployment insurance and the dole will be restored. Salaries of soldiers, sailors, policemen, teachers and other government employes, w'hich had been cut 10 per cent, will be one-half restored. The heavy tax on automobiles also will be reduced. The tax changes became effective immediately on the finish of the speech. 1 The income tax reduction was greeted w'ith vociferous cries of “hear, hear” from all parts of the crowded house. Sir Neville said it would cost $105,575,000 for 1934 and $123,600,000 for the full fiscal year. “I have no hesitation,” he declared, “in saying that it will confer the most direct benefit on the country and provide a stimulus for the expansion of trade.”

PRISON TERM FOR PUBLISHER UPHELD Blackmail Sentence for City Man Ordered. Sentenced to serve two to fourteen years in the Indiana state prison. Irving Webster, former publisher of the Indiana Journal, heard blackmail charges, lodged against him in 1930, upheld by the supreme court yesterday. A fine of $25 was added to the jail sentence. Alleged to have threatened local people with publication of malicious 'stories if they refused to advertise in his proposed book to be called “The Progress of Indianapolis.” Webster was indicted with Ben Newman, who was alleged to have been co-operating on the book. PRESBYTERIANS TO END NOBLESVILLE SESSION Muncie Society Stages Final Program Topight. By United Pregg NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 17. The fifty-seventh annual session of the Muncie Presbyterial Society will be concluded here tonight, Speakers on the final programs will include Miss Mildred Manders, Gary; Mrs. C. L. McKay, Elkhart, and Mrs. W. J. Smith of the Phillipine Islands. The society embraces Presbyterian churches in north central and northeastern Indiana. COUNCIL BANS SCALPING Reselling of Railroad Excursion Tickets Barred by Law. Persons found guilty of scalping nontransferable railroad excursion tickets will be subject to a fine under terms of an ordinance passed by the city council last night. The ordinance aims to jjfevent scalpers from meeting excursion trains to purchase return tickets from persons making a one-day journey and selling the tickets at a profit. The ordinance provides for a fine of not less than $lO and not more than $25 for persons found guilty. HAITI CHIEF WELCOMED Roosevelt Extends Front Porch Greeting to Visiting Executive. By United Pr*•** WASHINGTON. April 17.—President Roosevelt today gave one of his famous front porch welcomes to President Stenio Vincent of Haiti, who paid an official call. Mr. Roosevelt spoke rapidly in French to the Haittian president and then posed with him before entering the White House where they discussed topics of interest to both governments.

U. S. Takes . Jake Factor in Custody Speculator Arrested for Extradition to Britain for Fraud Trial. By United Press CHICAGO. April 17. —John (Jake the Barber) Factor, wanted in England on charges of swindling investors there of $7,000,000 in a stock company venture, today was ordered into custody of U. S. Marsha) H. C. W. Laubenheimer for confinement pending his extradition. The one-time Halsted street barber who became a multimillionaire, won the privilege of becoming a prisoner in his hotel room with a plea that he feared violence from fellow prisoners if he were sent to jail. “I helped the state send four gangsters to prison for kidnaping me.” Factor argued with Federal Judge Philip Sullivan. “The underworld hates me. If I am sent to a jail I’m afraid of what might happen.” Judge Sullivan ordered deputy marshals to telephone Joseph Keenan, assistant attorney-general, in Washington. Keenan consented to confinement of the speculator in his own>hotel apartment and Judge Sullivan so worded his order. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 48 10 a, m. ... 60 7 a. m..... 50 , 11 a. m. ... 62 Ba. m 54 12 (noon) .. 65 9a. m 58 Ip. m. .65

*Shake Down' Gang Is Hunted by City Police Blackmailers Disguising in Feminine Atfire May Be Questioned in Callahan Murder. Detectives today were ordered by Chief Mike Morrissey to keep a sharp lookout around downtown hotels for a gang of alleged blackmailers who sometimes disguise themselves in female attire to “shake down" victims.

In an order issued to all plain clothesmen. Chief Morrissey stated that a complaint had reached his office of the operations of the gang. Chief Morrissey, it is understood has learned that several local men have been “shaken down" by members of the gang. Detectives at police headquarters today recalled that Lieutenant Chester Butler of the state police had seen a figure which he described as ft “woman in white” pounding on the front door of the home of Bert Callahan, wealthy and eccentric bachelor, who was found murdered in his home at 1636 North Illinois street, in his expensively furnished apartment more than a week ago. Although the word did not announce specifically that the gang of alleged blackmailers were suspected in the death of Mr. Callahan, local police intimated that this angle might be considered in the investigation into the mysterious murder of the local real estate man. Mr. Callahan was found shot through the chest and lying on the floor of his home. A diamond ring valued at more than $2,000 was missing from his right hand. Detective Chief Fred Simon said today that his department had not received any complaints alleging blackmail, recently. He was inclined to scoff at reports that Mr. Callahan might have been the victim of blackmailers, asserting that the murderers of the bachelor had only one motive—robbery. CURRY OUSTER NEARER; REBELS GAIN RECRUITS Tammany Chief’s Resignation to Be Asked This week. By United Pregg NEW YORK. April 17.—John F. Curry. who came from the fringes of Hell's Kitchen to rule over Tammany Hall. was one step nearer abdication today. The spreading revolt against his rigid, unyielding leadership, and his old-school political methods, reached into another powerful and hitherto loyal political district today, when the eighth assembly district swung away from him and joined the rebels. A formal demand for his resignation was expected this week. State of Alarm Declared MADRID, .April 17.—A state of alarm was declared today in the province of Valencia because of disturbed conditions there.

Trotzky Must Leave France; Seeks U. S. Aid Exiled Soviet Leader, Ousted for Plotting Revolution, •Moves to Obtain American Haven.

By United Pregg. PARIS. April 17.—Leon Trotzky, exiled Soviet leader, was informed today that he must leave France, and he began at once to try to obtain refuge in the United States or elsewhere in the western hemisphere.

The cabinet decided that Trotzky must leave French soil after it had been informed that, refused here as a political exile under a pledge of neutraity. he was trying to form a “Fourth International'’ to foment revolutions throughout the world. The organization already is active in a dozen United States cities. /s soon as the order was conveyed to him at his closely guarded villa at Barbizon. the former co-dictator of Soviet Russia communicated with friends and asked them to determine whether he might find a haven in North or South America. Trotzky’s followers feared there was no chance after the revelations of his intense political activity in France that any European country

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WIRT’S TESTIMONY IS REPUDIATED BY ALL ‘PARTY GUESTS’ Gary School Head Broke Commandment of Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness,’ Probers Are Told. TODD DENIES ‘KERENSKY’ REMARK Hoosier Did All the Talking, Companions at Dinner Assert in Evidence Before House Committee. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 17.—Laurence Todd, correspondent for the Tass Soviet news agency, denied today before a house investigating committee that he called President Roosevelt “a Kerensky” at the Wirt dinner party last fall in Virginia. Mr. Todd, fourth witness today at the “red plot” hearing, said he had not told Dr. William A. Wirt that “President Roosevelt is only the Kerensky of this revolution.” “Did you use the words, ‘We think Mr. Roosevelt is the Kerensky of this revolution?’” asked Representative John J. O’Connor (Dem., N. Y.). “I did not,” replied Mr. Todd.

SOVIET ENVOY VISITS D. A. R, Members, Militant Foes of Communism, Gasp in Surprise. By United Pregg WASHINGTON, April 17.—Repercussions were awaited today in the Daughters of the American Revolution. militant foe of Communism, after the first entertainment of the ambassador of Soviet Russia sjs its official guest. A thrill of excitement ran through the 3.000 members of the D. A. R. when Ambassador and Mrs. Troyanovsky of the Soviet appeared in Constitution hall, which has echoed many times with attacks by the Daughters upon Communism and Soviet Russia. The ambassador and his wife, in sauve evening dress, seemingly were unconscious of the stir their presence created in the midst of the society which had been regarded as the arch-foe of Russian recognition. The ambassador was invited to the society’s evening meeting as a routine matter. Invitations are customarily sent to the whole diplomatic corps. Today a report of the D. A. R. resolutions committee was expected. In other years it has always contained a strong denunciation of Communism and an uncompromising stand against Russian recognition. With recognition achieved, it was uncertain whether a Communist plank would be included in the platform. NAMES ARE SIMILAR Attorney Asks That in Cognomens Be Explaine,' Clyde P. Miller, attorney, 802 New City Trust building has asked The Times to state that he is not the Clyde Miller listed as having been one of the six ward chairmen of the Republican League in attendance at the alleged klan political meeting held at 210 East Ohio street Sunday.

would accept him, particularly in view of the wave of Naziism and Fascism that has spread over the continent. His presence in France created a serious situation for the cabinet. The order for Trotzky s departure was conveyed to him through Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut, supreme police authority, who had reported to the cabinet on his activities. Trotzky spent yesterday, last night and this morning writing steadily, halting only to eat fruit. Indicative of his constant fear of assassination and in view of the disclosure of his whereabouts, he ordered merchants to stop deliveries to him, f

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Mr. Todd revealed one of his ancestors was one of the first settlers of Connecticut, and that “one of my parental uncles helped found the Re--1 publican party.” Mr. Todd was preceded on the j stand by the three women who were present at the Virginia dinner last fall. Like Mr. Todd. they. too. denied that the names of Kerensky and Stalin were used at the dinner, adding that Dr. Wirt monopolized the conversation at the party which he charged a week ago bristled with Communistic sayings. Mr. Todd identified himself as correspondent for the Tass agency, which he described as “the Associated Press for Soviet Russia.” He denied the Wirt statement he had said “we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of the stream.” •‘Most Wearying Experience ' You said you met Dr. Wirt at 8 o clock and shortly after 11 you drove fiim home—isn't it a gross exaggeration to say Wirt talked for five hours?” asked Representative Frederick Lehlbach (Rep., N. J.). ’ All I know was that it was "a most wearying experience,” sain Todd. It may have been a fourhour monologue,” added Mr. Todd. Robert Bruere of the cotton textile industrial board waccel next Mr. Bruere said he had met Dr. Wirt, “once or* twice" before the dinner party. Mr. Buere was said by Wirt to have protested about the trend of the conversation, and outside of that said “practically nothing.” “I was impatient with Wirt for monopolizing the conversation to expound his views oof money,” Mr. Bruere said. Did your protests do any good?” asked Mr. O’Connor. Absolutely no,” Mr Bruere. Gives Sharp Answer „ true," Mr. O'Connor asked, that you couldn’t get a word in edgewise at the party?" “Yes." Mr. Bruere replied. Mr. O Connor: “Did any one say that you felt you had President Roosevelt in the middle of a stream?” Mr. Bruere: “No. and I will say that Dr. Wirt is guilty of violating the ninth commandment in the twentieth chapter of Exodus, which tells us ‘Never bear false witness agaiast your neighbor.’ There was no conversation. It was a monologue, unsuccessfully interrupted, about Dr. Wirt’s theory of money.” 2 DETECTIVES KILLED IN DUEL ON BOX CARS Three Negroes Shoot Down Officers As Train Speeds Along. By United Pregg ELDON, Mo., April 17.—Two railroad detectives were shot to death early today as they fought a pistol duel at close quarters with three Negroes. The scene of the fight was the top of freight cars as a Rock Island train rolled aiong between Bland and Eldon. The detectives were J. W. Whitted and E. C. Shane. The Negroes left the train before it reached here. AMENDMENT BILLON TAX EXEMPTS DOOMED Petition Requiring Vote Attracts Only Eleven Signatures. By United Pregg WASHINGTON. April 17.~Congressional action at this session on a proposed constitutional amendment providing for taxation of present tax-exempt securities was believed today unlikely since only eleven house members have signed a petition to force a vote on tha issue. FUTURES SALES BACKED Defeats Arbitrary Farm Prices, Grai Executive Declares. By United Pregg WASHINGTON. April 17.—Futures trading on grain exchanges is the farmers' sole defense against arbitrary price control, J. M. Mehl, grain futures administration executive. today told the house committe considering the Jones commodity exchange bill. He urged enactment. i