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U. S. TO GRILL DILLINGER JAIL BREAK AID; 2 MORE ARRESTS BELIEVED NEAR

State to Reveal Identities of Plotters in ‘Wooden Gun* Escape From Cell at Crown Point. DELIVERY SOLVED BY CONFESSION EigTit ‘Captive Witnesses’ Are Released; McNutt Denies Barce Will Resign After Cleaning Up Probe. With a complete confession of the plot which enabled John Ihlhnjrer to carry out his notorious wooden gun escape from the Uke county jail in their possession, state officials today were scheduled to announce the plotters’ identities and to turn the case over to federal authorities lor "moppinj? up.” Announcement of the confession last night, first catned exclusively in a copyrighted story in an Indianapolis Times "extra,” climaxed the exciting investigation which J. Edward Barce, assistant attorney-general, had been carrying on for sixty hours with eight witnesses detained in "secret” places around the state while Mr. Barce and numerous police investigators questioned them.

The plotter who has confessed is not one of tlie eijfht witnesses and all eijfht were back in their Crown Point homes today. Police protection was promised them from two sources. Mr. Barer said they would be guarded against possible gangland reprisals. Mayor W. Vincent Youkey, Crown Point, irate at the wav in which the eight had been spirited from their homes Tuesday morning and whisked out of the county, said special police would “protect" them against state police. Meanwhile. James R. Fleming, United States district attorney for northern Indiana, had taken charge of the case for the federal government's department of justice and there was a possibility that ace manhunters of the department s Chicago division of investigation office would be brought into the picture. JHrXatt-Denies Rumor A statement issued last night hv John Klinger, secretary to Governor Paul V McNutt, presumably on the Governor's behalf, said that Mr. Barce had an appointment with the depprtment of investigation men in Chicago this morning. The United Press today quoted Melvin Purvis, head of the Chicago office, however, as saying he knew nothing of such an appointment. While Mr. Barce was preparing to wind up the case for the state, which apparently was well satisfied to leave actual prosecution of the jail plotters to federal authorities. Governor McNutt was denying unqualifiedly that Mr. Barce would resign. “He has don a fine piece of work, although he almost worked himseif to death doing it.“ the Governor said of Mr. Barce and the investigation. Otherwise. Governor McNutt hid little to say about the case. Reports that Mr. Barce would resign were based on the belief that Governor McNutt, despite the triumphant tone of Mr. Klinger's statemetn last night, was more than a little irritated by the "heat" which the sensational Barce investigation had “turned on" the McNutt administration. 11. A. Takes Over Case With the federal government in the picture, it was believed partisan criticism of the investigation would be lessened considerably and Mr. Fleming made it plain that he woud conduct his inquiry in a more customary fashion than had Mr Barce. Allen P Twyman. East Chicago attorney, whose action late yesterday in obtaining writs of habeas corpus for four of the eight witnesses seems to have precipitated their release, started back to Crown Point with the announced intention of attempting to institute criminal proceedings as a result of what he called hia clients kidnaping." Mr. Twyman. who first entered the picture as attorney for Ernest Blunk. once indicted in the "wooden gun” escape, charged illegality in Mr. Barce's action and said he would press the matter as far as possible. Blunk, a deputy sheriff and fingerprint “expert.” was acquitted on charges of having aided in DUlinger'a escape. Mr. Twvman uttered his threats of prosecution for Mr Barce and the Utter s police investigators after a hearing before Circuit Judge Lari R. Cox this morning on ihe formal return of the habeas corpus writ, which Ralph Hitch, chief deputy sheriff, was unable to serve yesterday afternoon They came in explanation of a remark which Mr Twvman had made to Judge Cox during the brief hearing Hitch Files Report “I think I have a remedy in behalf of my clients," he told the Judge. “Undoubtedly,” snapped Judge Cox. The hearing developed a difference in the glory as to whether the four sought through the writs actually had been in the Lockerbie when Mr. Hitch attempted to serve the writ. Yesterday, according to Mr Twyman. Mr Hitch had told him he ill*® to rage Jj

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JUSTICE AGENTS ACTIVE IN HUNT U. S. Attorney-General’s Aid to Help State in Jail Break Probe. j By United Prcs* WASHINGTON. Nov. 2—Department of Justice activity in investigating John DilUnger's escape from the Crown Point, Ind., jail last spring was viewed this afternoon as an effort to strengthen the government's efforts to complete • its roundup of everyone who aided the aesperado evade the law. More than a dozen persons already have been convicted on federal charges of aiding Dillinger at one time or another. Others, including Louis Piquette. Chicago lawyer, are under indictment. Piquettes case is scheduled for trial Dec. 4. William Stanley, assistant to the attorney-general, said the justice department was actively investigating the Crown Point escape. He declined to give any indication as to who was suspected of complicity in the plot. In some quarters, however, it was considered significant that the federal activity I coincided with the approaching trial 1 of Piquette. Stanley explained that federal participation in the investigation was based on the fact that upon his escape from the Crown Point jail. Dillinger stole the automobile of Sheriff Lillian Holley, and transported it across a state line. Any who conspired to help arrange the thpft of the car would be guilty of a federal offense. Federal agents in the inquiry are working under an agreement under which Indiana authorities have made all their information available to the justice department. The federal government, in turn, will give state authorities any information it acquires which might lead to state prosecution. GERMANY SEEKS WAR. CHURCHILL CHARGES Statesman Tells Constituents Reich Is World Menace. Hv t mifr4 PrrtM LONDON. Nov. 2.—Germany was pictured as an international menace and as a nation preparing for war m a political speech by Winston Churchill, conservative, to his constituents at Woodford Bridvge today. "Germany is aiming secretlv. illegally and rapidly." Mr. Churchill said. "A reign of terror exists in Germany in order to keep secret the feverish and terrible preparations they are making. NEW COUNSEL ENGAGED BY BRUNO HAUPTMANN Brooklyn Lawyer Announces He Will Replace Fawcett. By T im.-* special NEW YORK. Nov. 2.—Edward J. Reilly, well-known Brooklyn criminal attorney, today announced his retention as counsel for Bruno R. Hauptmann. Lindbergh rase suspect. replacing James M. Fawcett. "Mrs. Hauptmann called here and retained me as counsel for her husband today." Mr. Reilly said. Mr Fawcett was not available for comment. Times Index Page Bridge 10 Broun .. 21 Comics 33 Crossword Puzzle 16 Curious World 33 Editorial 22 Financial 32 Food Pages 25. 26. 27 Hickman. Theaters .. 24 Pegler 21 Radio 18 Sports 28. 29 Stale News 7 Woman t Pages 10. 11

INSULL SHOUTS ANGRY DENIALS IN FRAUD CASE Former Magnate Matches Wits With Attorney in Cross-Examination. By ' ml' <1 Prr ** CHICAGO. Nov. 2.—Samuel Insull matched wits with a government prosecutor in federal court today, his face red with anger as he almost shouted denials to charges that he engineered a $143,000.000 swindle. Leslie Salter, blunt-spoken assistant attorney-general, sent from Washington to prosecute the case, wafked slowly to the witness chair where Insull sat and launched a savage volley of questions as soon as direct examination was concluded. Insull, sitting with back stiffly arched and anger in his deep-set eyes, repeatedly sought to evade direct answers to Salter’s questions. ‘Til answer if you stop shooting double-barreled question at me,” he retorted once, his voice rising. On direct examination Insull said he fled to Europe three years ago •because I thought it was best for my companies and the investors.” • When did you leave Chicago, and why?” asked his attorney, Floyd E. Thompson .opening the way for the government attorneys to question Insull about one of the most sensational episodes of his colorful career. Describes Flight to Europe • Well,” said Insull, sighing heavily. "I was pretty well broken down. I had been through a terrible ordeal. My career had been wrecked and it had affected my health.” He had described how on the afternoon of June 5, 1932, he had resigned from the directorates of fifty-seven Insull-controlled companies and calmly telephoned his wife, ‘ Well, I’m out of a job.” When did you leave Chicago?” Thompson repeated. “It was June 15, 1932.” Q —Did you have any other reasons? A—Yes. All the people i r my three operating companies I „ . grown up under me. They all loved me, from presidents down to office boys and oil wipers. I knew that with my absence the companies would be better served under receiverships because it would overcome the others’ habi tof coming to me for advice. Q—Was there any investigation under way when you left? A—No, absolutely none. Hits “Political Campaign” Q—When did you first hear of an investigation? A—l read of it while I was in Paris with my wife and son. “Why didn’t you want to return to the United States at that time?” Thompson asked with measured words in the hushed courtroom. "I didn’t want to come back to Chicago then and be prosecuted in a political campaign,” Insull said The 74-year-old defendant, his usually ruddy face wan and drawn after seven hours on the witness stand, said that when he arrived in Athens. Greece, on Oct. 5, 1932. he had between $3,000 and $4,000. “Have you any money or property now?” he was asked. "None that I know of. sir. I’d like to find some income. My son Junior provides for me.”

$500,000 Mark Topped in Community Fund’s Drive Pledges Show Huge Increase Over Those for Last Year, Canvassers Are Told. Community Fund workers reported $55,615.49 at the noon meeting today at the Claypool. This makes a total of $549,687.24, or 75.6 per cent of the goal set for the campaign. More than $500,000 of the $727,217 goal set for the fifteenth Indianapolis Community Fund had been pledged today when volunteer workers assembled at the Claypool for the fifth report meeting. A total of $494,170.75 had been subscribed when Arthur V. Brown, general chairman, yesterday declared pledges to date show a $115,000 increase over the corresponding period of last year’s drive.

Subscriptions reported totaled $55,306.56. Several large employe gifts were scheduled for reporting at the fourth meeting, it was announced. but were withheld because solicitation had not been completed. Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht told the workers yesterday that the Indianapolis Community Fund represents the epitome of the highest expression of Americanism and the highest expression of humanity’s idealism. Ha predicted sucess for the drive. Chairman Brown asserted the goal will be reached speedily if donors continue to increase last year's gifts. “We have made a marvelous beginning.” said Mr. Brown, "and we are getting ready for a grand finish." Employe division reports show* increased giving. Donations reported yesterday include: Continental Bak■ng Company. $659.20; Union Title Company, $275, National Map Com-

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Congratulations from all moviedom showered on Ginger Rogers, dancing screen beauty, and Lew Ayres, film headliner, when Ginger's mother Mrs. Lela Rogers, announced the couple will be wed this month in Hollywood. The betrothed pair are shown here with Mrs. Rogers. The bride-to-be is 23 and Ayres is 26. Both have been married before and divorced

Ba ron Edmond Rothschild, Famed Banker, Dead at 89 Last of Third Generation of Noted House Succumbs to Complications of Old Age. By I nilerl Pres* PARIS, Nov. 2.—Enron Edmond James Dc Rothschild, famed art collector and financier, died today. He was 89. He w r as the last of the third generation of the great Frankfort banking family, being one of the three grandsons of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, in the French branch of

SUDDEN COLD SNAP FREEZES RADIATORS Mercury Drops to 27 at 6 in This Area. Unwary Indianapolis motorists who left their automobiles standing outside last night, were chagrined and considerably irritated today to discover that their radiators had frozen during the night, because of a sudden drop in temperature. With the mercury at 27 degrees at 6. early traffic contained a conspicuous number of sputtering vehicles with radiators sending up clouds of gasping steam. But there is a silver cloud on the garageless motorist’s horizon, for J. H Armington, local meteorologist, in giving out his forecast today, promised that, during the next thirty-six hours, the temperature will not drop below the freezing point within a radius of 200 miles around Indianapolis. STATE'S TARIFF INCOME SETS ALL-TIME RECORD 1,232,065 Is Collected for Month ofOctober Tariff collected on merchandise from foreign countries received in Indiana during October reached the highest figure in the fifty-year history of the Indiana customs district. Wray E. Fleming, collector, announced today. The total collected from imports in the state last month was $1,232.065. The September figure was $603,000. During the first four months of the fiscal year beginning July 1, more than $2,000,000 was collected in Indiana. Collections in October, 1933, amounted to $21,204. The cost of collecting cah dollar of the $1,232.065 received last month was only two mills.

pany. $161.40; Bemis Bros. Bag Company. $460: Standard Oil Company. $1,500. Other gifts where all employes pledged support are: Excelsior Laundry company, $60,75; C. O. Warnock, $34.25; Mutual China company. $26; Frank Hatfield company, $68.75; Peoples State Bank. $42.50; Insurance Research and Review, $91.60; Otis Elevator company, $73; Griffith Distributing company, s4l; General Motors Truck company, $4150; Rost Jewelry company, $36; Kipp Bros, company. $34; Kiefer-Stewart company, $416.35. Also General Outdoor Advertising company, $160.70; Mercantile Realty and Investment company. $54.40; Crown Paper Box company, $62.25; F. W. Woolworth <fc Cos.. $114.50; Firestone Service Stores. Inc., $25: Challenge Gauge and Tool company. 546.

progeniture of that grizzled old Jewish money-changer of the ghetto of Frankfort-Am-Main, who carried his family to fame and fortune. The baron died at his castle in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Sur-Seine, surrounded by scores of relatives. The doctors attributed death to complications of old age. A member of the Academy Des Beaux Arts in the Institute of France, Baron de Rothschild leaves one of the richest collections of art existing in Europe. He spent a lifetime collecting old engravings and has some oft he finest known plates and originals of Rembrandt. Millions of his money was spent in providing homes for Jewish exiles in Palestine, for he was one of the ardent founders of the Zionist movement. Baron Edmond was-the third son of Baron James de Rothschild, fifth of the sons oFMcyer Amschel Rothschild. Baron James had been sent by the elder Rothschild to open the firm’s banking house in Paris, thus founding the French branch of the family which has won distinction in finance, industry and art. The baron’s town house, next door to the British embassy on Rue Du Faubourg St. Honore, is like a museum, filled with rare art treasures. Among his many philanthropies was generosity to young men and women students of art.

TODAY’S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 27 10 a. m 39 7 a. m 28 11 a. m 42 Ba. m 32 12 (noon'.. 43 9a. m 35 Ip. m 46 Tomorrow's sunrise. 6:17 a. m.; sunset, 4:41 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southeast w'ind, ten miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.18 at sea level; temperature, 32; general conditions, high, broken clouds; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, tvfro miles, smoky. IDA SHONKWILER DIES: FUNERAL TOMORROW Resident of City for 30 Years Is Dead at 73 , Funeral service for Mrs. Ida A. Shonkwiler. 73, who died today at her home, 3901 Park avenue, will be held at 4 tomorrow at the Flanner & Buchanan funeral home. Burial will be in Petersburg at 2 Sunday. Mrs. Shonkwiler had lived in Indianapolis thirty years. She was a member of Unity Truth Center. Surviving her is one daughter. Mrs. Edwin Bamberger, with whom she made’her home. ROCKEFELLER JR. GIVES $5,000 TO REPUBLICANS Campaign Contribution Revealed in House Report. Bn L nits <i Prrxx WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.—A contribution of $5,000 by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Republican campaign funds was shown in a report filed. today with the clerk of the house. Other reports, showing contributions and disbursements of the political parties during the last week of October, reflected strenuous lastminute election efforts in strategic points, particularly Pennsylvania. FAIR WILL SHOW~PROFIT $344,029 to Be Realized after Paying $1,000,000 to Clear Site By l nited Pres* CHICAGO. Nov. 2.— Accountants of a Century of Progress Exposition estimated today that the fair will show' a profit of $344,029 for the two years after more than *1.000.000 has been spent to demolish its buildings and return its site to its original condition.

‘LI’L ARTHUR’ DENOUNCED BY RAILROADERS’ UNION! AS WORKING MAN’S FOE:

OOt, lIIHI OF 18, FOUND RABIES VICTK Health Board Biologist Makes Report After Examining Head. The handsome white and brown bird dog which ran amuck for nine- • teen hours yesterday and early today, biting eighteen persons in its | mad career, definitely had rabies, j Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state board of | health biologist, announced today after examination of the dog’s ; head. The dog, which had numbered two policemen among its victims, was : brought to earth at 1:30 this morning by bullets from barking police | pistols as it raced along Central | avenue, a short way south of Fall creek. Warning had been given all those bitten to take the Pasteur treatment for rabid infection. Treated at City Hospital The dog’s range of operations was great, but, it apparently stayed north of Washington street most of the time. Most of its victims were treated at city hospital; others, by their personal physicians. • The bitten policemen were John R. Moorman. 60 North Chester street, a motorcycle officer, and Curtis Barge, 1434 Girnber street, patrolman. Officer Moorman was bitten as he left his home to start for headquarters; patrolman Barge, while he was on duty at New Jersey and Washington streets. It was Sergeant John Eisenhut’s squad which finally “got” the dog after five squads had spent most of their time for several hours hunting it. Victims Are Listed Those bitten by the mad dog besides the policemen included: Floyd A. Augustus, 3020 Ruckle street; Joe Goudo. 50, 723 East Ohio street; Rollin M. Probst. 507 East Twenty-first street; Miss Virginia Peters. 1124 Broadway; Henry Weibert. 47. 42 South State avenue; Miss Jean Burnside. 3822 College avenue; Mrs. Mary Fagan. 57, of 316 Virginia avenue; Leslie Drury, 52, of 2354 Kenwood avenue; Miss Nancy Moore, 21. of 408 East Louisiana street; Miss Elizabeth La Vachy, 4760 Carrollton avenue; Mrs. Helen Hiatt, 45, of 716 Lexington avenue; Mrs. Elise Fisher. 58 South Chester street; John Jordan, 12. of 2346 Detroit street; Fred Elstrod Jr., 16, of 41 Hendricks place, and Miss Lorena Frank, 27, of 240 Virginia avenue. 3 WORKERS PERISH IN SOAP FACTORY BLAST Victims Sprayed by Scalding Tar From Still Explosion. By Unileti Press CINCINNATI. Nnv. 2.—Scalding tar which was sprayed upon workmen by the explosion of a still at the Procter & Gamble soap factory late yesterday took the lives of three men Luther Garber, 45; Lee Stouder, 43. and John Courte, 40. died last night of their injuries. Two of the four others burned by the molten tar were reported in critical condition. Damage to the plant was estimated at $15,000. Harvey C. Knowles, general superintendent. said the sides of the still suddenly gave way, pouring forth approximately three tons of molten tar in a wave ten feet high.

‘White Hibiscus’ Notes to Be Read at Murder Trial Slip by State Witness Paves Way for Reading of Poet’s Love Letters to Suspect’s Wife. By United Prrxx WOODLAND, Cal., Nov. 2.—A state witness, the "prostmistress" of the "white hibiscus romance." unwittingly threw open the door today for attorneys defending Judson C. Doke on murder charges to read to a middle-aged mixed jury the burning love letters and poems of passion sent Doke’s wife by the campus poet killed, young Lamar Hollingshead.

A courtroom, aware of the duel between the prosecution, which claims the letters are irrelevant to the case, and the defense to get Hollingshead's writings into the record was astonished when Mrs. Elizabeth Ingels mentioned them in her testimony. She was the “intermediary" in the exchange of letters between the University of California student and the pretty housewife. She also was the woman “who told.” for she testified that she had informed Doke that she believed the affair between his wife and Hoilingshead “had gone too far." It was for the purpose of establishing that Doke had knowledge of the extent to which the romance had carried that Prosecutor C. C. McDonald presented the San Lean- i dro woman as witness. But neither he nor the defense apparently was prepared for her testimony relative to giving Doke one of the letters which had been intrusted to her. “I told Mr. Doke they were exchanging letters frequently and that

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Repudiation By Brotherhood for His Attacks ; on New Deal Staggering Blow to ; Republican Robinson. ; SUPPORT IS PLEDGED TO MINTON j Trainmen’s President Scores Senator, Hopes Voters of Indiana Send Democrat to Senate on Nov. 6. BY JAMES DOSS Timf* SUIT Writer Organized labor struck another staggering blow at Sen- < ator Arthur R. Robinson. Republican nominee for re-election, today when the railroad brotherhoods repudiated him and went on record favoring the election of Sherman Minton, Democratic nominee. This latest labor slap at Senator Robinson came in a 1 statement from A. F. Whitney, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen board president and Railway Labor Chiefs Lxeoutive Association chairman. Addressed to Martin 11. Miller, Indiana representative for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Mr. Whitney’s J statement said: "I am in receipt of your special deli\et\ lettei of the I 1 30th and inclosure, regarding :

LABOR CROWD CHEERS MINTON ‘Go Forward With New Deal,’ Is Plea of Senator Candidate. Outlining remedial economic measures which he intends to back in the senate, Sherman Minton, Democratic senatorial nominee, last night put the question squarely to the working class as to whether o r not they wanted “to go forward with the New Deal.” Mr. Minton spoke at a Seventeenth ward meeting at 2320 Shelby street. The entire crowd which jammed the small hall rase £o its feet and cheered as Mr. Minten entered. "You are the humble people and you never have had a, better friend than Franklin D. Roosevelt. I am going to Washington to help the President carry on the New Deal,” Mr. Minton said. “The Republicans have not been able to find an issue in the campaign, so my opponent, Arthur Robinson, has run out on me and for some peculiar reason is running against Governor Paul V. McNutt. Governor McNutt is not running for anything despite the Republican signs, “Stop McNutt.” “G. O. P. has changed to STOP, revealing the true character of the party. The Republican party always has been a party of standpatism, do nothing. It stopped the people from working and eating. It stopped thp bonus army. “Where was Senator Robinson, the alleged friend of the veterans, when the Republican administration sent soldiers with bayonets to run the bonus army out of Washington. The Republicans don’t want to stop McNutt. They want to stop President Roosevelt, but they haven’t the courage to sav it. We say. forward with Roosevelt.’ “The leaders of the opposition are trying to frighten the people. It is not the people who are frightened. It is the multimillionaires like Ogden Mills, Andrew Mellon and the Wall Street controlled Liberty League who are afraid. You and I (Turn to Page Threel

something should be done," the witness said. “. .1 had a letter at the time but didn't give it to him. I gave it to him later, however.' “This is just what we wanted but hardly dared to hope for,” said A. C. Huston Sr., of the defense legal staff when Mrs. Ingels had spoken. “That make the letters admissable at evidence, ana we crtainlv shall demand that every one of them be r*ad.” Huston, whose defense plans had been dependent on the letters to show possible justification for the slaying under the “unwritten law.” also announced that Doke himself will be called to the stand "to clarify the whole situation." Previously the defense had revealed plans for bringing Mrs. Doke from seclusion and presenting her as a witness in behalf of the husband whom she admitted wronging and to whom she wishes to make retribution. It was believed that the state can and probably will complete presentation of its side of the case during today a seaaon. * . k

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the senatorial campaign in Indiana, and, in view of the tact that Senator Robinson has t made an altack on the New Deal and has practically repudiated I thp support w'hich he gave to PresiI rient Roosevelt and the administrai tion during the seventy-third congress, I feel that the brotherhood should give its unqualified support to the Honorable Sherman Minton and sincerely hope that the voters of Indiana will elect Mr. Minton to the high office of senator on Nov. 6.” Mr. Whitney was supplied with a complete dossier on the records of Senator Robinson and Mr. Minton by Mr. Miller, who is a Republican. Last Labor Support lajst Much capital has been made b l * s Senator Robinson and Republj’ 1 be i leaders of the fact that the jo bent senator had the brotherrtbo?Y indorsement prior to the Repubilacn state convention in June. He was indorsed then on his past record, but the indorsement for the convention w'as weightless, because the senator was unopposed in the convention. The railroad organizations’ action today through Mr. Whitney withdraws the last labor support held by Senator Robinson. The railroad leader is the third international union chief to denounce Senator Robinson for his anti-administration position and to indorse the Minton candidacy. Tobin Racks Minton Daniel C. Tobin. Teamsters and Chauffeurs union international president, an American Federation of Labor vice-president, and NRA executive, has taken the stump for Mr. Minton. So has James C. 3hannessy, International Union of Journeymen Barbers president. Union miners of District 11. United Mine Workers of America, have been asked to support Mr. Millton and the New' Deal by Joe Timke, district president. Senator Robinson’s claims of friendship for labor also have been attacked by Adolph Fritz, Indiana State Federation of Labor secretary, and Clarence MacPherson, state vice-president. A final labor broadside at SenaI tor Robinson will be fired by Mr. I Tobin when he speaks at 10 on a five-minute radio hookup. The Tobin broadcast will be neard from WKBF here. WOWO, Ft. Wayne; WAVE. Louisville; WGBF, Evansville. and WBOW, Terre Haute. CITY MAN WOUNDED IN , CROWN POINT TAVERN Wife Held in Alleged Plot to Hold Up Resort. 8.1/ 7 imrx Special CROWN POINT, Ind., Nov. 2. Barren Piercefield, 23, of 918 East Market street, Indianapolis, is in Crown Point hospital today seriously wounded following his arrest by five deputy sheriffs. His wife, Mary, is in Crown Point jail. The Pierceflelds are alleged to have been in a group which atteempted to rob a Cook (Ind.) tavern last night. Acting on information given Sheriff Lillian Holley, the five deputies laid a trap at the tavern. which has been robbed five times recently. The deputies, hidden in and around the place, said they fired wh'.-n two men and two women, entering. refused to halt.

POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN $21,546 Increase Over Last Year for October. Postal receipts reported for October by Adolph Seidensticker, In* dianapolis postmaster. Vere $330,685, compared with $309,138 for the same month last year, it was announced today The October figure is an increase of s2l 546 or 7 per cent over last vear. Stamp sales increased $17,122. Mrs. Minnie Humston Dies The body of Mrs Minnie B. Humston. who died in Miami this morning. will arrive in Indianapolis Sunday. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Mrs Humston was the widow of the late Frank B. Humston o i the Macon railroad.