Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1935 — Page 1

FUND-RAISING PLAN ASSAILED BY TAX CHIEF Zoercher, Board Chairman, Flays State Units for ‘lllegal’ Practice. WARNS OF EMERGENCY Additional Appropriations Must Be Warranted, He Says at Hearing. Practice of governmental units incurring indebtedness before an appropriation is made was assailed today by Philip Zoercher, State Tax Board chairman, as hearings were renewed on the Indianapolis civil city proposed $1.14 levy. , Warning that unless an emergency could oe shown the tax board would not be lenient in authorizing additional appropriations, Mr. Zoercher declared he believed contracts entered into before an appropriation is made are "illegal and void.” Holds Road Plan Illegal For this reason, Mr. Zoercher said, it was his belief, although the county rate was not under consideration at the time, that the 1-cent road levy sought by the county was illegal because the funds would be raised to pay a debt already created. Mr. Zoercher’s remarks followed defense of the city's position on its estimate of tax collections, sinking fund requirements and excise revenues and opposition to these estimates by Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers Association secretary and its counsel, Walter Horn. Says Staffs Jammed Virgil Sheppard. Chamber of Commerce governmental research bureau director, upheld Mr. Miesse except on sinking fund requirements on which he sided with Mr. Boetcher. Mr. Boetcher said a 6-cent levy was necessary due to $8,000,000 of city and school bonds maturing in 1939 and 1940, refunding of which, in Mr. Boetcher's opinion, would be costly. Mr. Miesse argued that most of them would have to be refunded anyway, and a 2.4-cent-rate would be adequate. Joseph Schmid, Real Estate Board representative, charged that all governmental departments were overstaffed. The board has indicated decision would be withheld until information had been obtained on total of fall tax collections. INHALES CHLOROFORM, DIES OF OVERDOSE Thelma Long, 32, Had Used Drug as Sedative 12 Tears. For 12 years Miss Thelma Long, 32, had been inhaling chloroform as a sedative. She had had an unhappy love affair that long ago and c ould not go to sleep without chloroform. her parents told police. Yesterday she inhaled too deeply and died at the home of Harry Hanna, 2321 Kenwood-av, where she was housekeeper. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Long, 231 S. Grace-st. Autopsy of the body was ordered today by Coroner William Arbuckle when the girl’s father and Hanna told the coroner he was stabbed and the girl struck on the head in a tavern brawl three weeks ago. BUILDING OPERATIONS SHOW $1,112,474 GAIN Increase for 10 Months Reported by William Hurd. Gain of $1,112,474 in Indianapolis building operations from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 over the same period last year is indicated today in figures released by William F. Hurd, building commissioner. For the week ending Nov. 2. there were 178 permits issued. Fees of $525 were collected on estimated improvements totaling $69,901. For the corresponding week last year 136 permits were issued and $341 in fees collected on improvements valued at $38,393. PRESIDENfAGREESTO DEDICATE MEMORIAL Going to Vincennes for Ceremony Sometime Next Spring. President Roosevelt has agreed to dedicate the George Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincennes, according to Gov. McNutt. Date for the dedicatory service has not been set, but it is expected to be in the last of May or early June, 1936, the Governor said. Times Index Page. Amusements 14 Auto News 6 Births, Deaths 15 Books 9 Bridge 5 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 17 Editorial 10 Financial . . . 11 Hugh S. Johnson 9 Pegler 9 Radio 15 Serial Story 7 Sports .12-13 Want Ads 15-16 Woman’s Page 4-5 4 Children Burned to Death 1 nited Press CARIBOU, Me., Nov. 6.—Four children, ranging in age from 1 to <• were burned to death when fire swept a wooden bungalow today. Mrs Alcide Martin and Mrs. Maxine Bouchard, mothers of the victims escaped with three other children.

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 206

IT’S GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH ETHIOPIANS DOING HIDING

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MAKALE'S FALL IS REPORTED Ethiopians, However, Counter With Claim Scouts Are Routed. By United Press ROME, Nov. 6.—lnformation furnished to Italian nwespapers from semi-official sources, as from Hauzicn, Ethiopia, said today that advance patrols of the Italian northern army reached Makale at 11 p. m. yesterday and were welcomed by the population. This information came soon after a dispatch to the newspaper 11 Tevere from Asmara that the occupation of Makale was expected Saturday. Claim Italians Routed toy L nited Press ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 6.—An official statement said today that an Italian detachment entered Makale, objective of the present drive on the northern front, late Tuesday and was driven out. The official announcement said that 10 men of a strong reconnoitering patrol were killed when Ethiopian warriors, in a surprise night attack drove the patrol from Makale after it had entered without resistance. Ethiopian casualties, the announcement said, were two killed and two wounded. The number of Italian wounded was not known, it was said, but four Italian prisoners were taken. The Italians descended on Makale from the north and found it empty, the report said. They were about to fortify it, and hold it until the main forces could move up, when the Ethiopians completely surprised them in a night attack, the report asserted. Peace Efforts Continue By t nited Press LONDON. Nov. 6. —Anew effort advanced today to lessen tension between Italy and Great Britain in the Mediterranean. It was indicated that negotiations, started yesterday, were aimed rather at halting anew threat of danger than at starting any talk about the solution of the general crisis. Sir Eric Drummond. British ambassador at Rome, saw Premier Benito Mussolini yesterday. Last night Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin hurriedly summoned Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary: Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell first lord of the admiralty: Sir Philip CunliffeLister, air minister; Sir Robert Van Sittart, permanent undersecretary for foreign affairs, and officials of the defense departments. They met at 10 Downing-st, Baldwin's official residence, to consider the results of the Mussolini-Drummond talk. It was reported as the result of the meetings that Britain might withdraw some warships from the Mediterranean if Mussolini took more troops from Libya, adjoining Egypt and the Sudan on the west; ordered the closely controlled Italian press to cease attacks on Britain, and ordered Italian wireless stations to stop anti-British propaganda.

MERCURY SKIDS TO 27, NEW 1935 LOW Starts Up Again. Reaches 44 at Noon. Accompanied by a heavy frost, the mercury hit the season's coldest mark here this morning when 27.7 was registered at 6 a. m. The mercury started upward after 7 a. m. and at noon had reached 44. Tonight, it is expected the mercury will drop again to near 30. The previous low for the season, 31. was recorded Oct. 6. Coldest reading in Indiana during the night was at Mays in Kush County, where 21 was reported. V

Fortitude It was cold early today—too cold for a 6-months-old baby—so Claude Moore, 19-year-old unemployed father, awakened and sleepily set about building a fire in the stove at his home, 654 Mary-st. He threw kerosene into the fire box and the embers sprung into flames that burned him seriously. His wife, Mrs. Augusta Moore, applied bicarbonate of soda, but the pain was intense. Claude couldn’t stand it, and he dressed and set out afoot, saying he would find a cruising police car that would take him to City Hospital. But he eventually hailed a cab. His burns are serious and his condition is fair, the hospital reported. Robert Eugene Moore, the baby, went sound asleep again as the house warmed to the fire.

CORN-HUSKERS MEET IN STATE CONTEST Twelve County Champions Clash Today at Franklin. By United Press FRANKLIN, Nov. 6.—Corn-husk-ing champions from 12 counties were to compete here today for the state title and the right to represent Indiana in the national contest to be held Friday at Attica. Lawrence Pitzer, Fountain County, is the defending champion. He won the state title three successive times. Representatives from the nine states, including Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, lowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota and Indiana, will participate in the national contest. Ted Blake. Minnesota. is defending national champion. DRIVER BADLY HURT AS CAR OVERTURNS Edward Groenert at Hospital in Serious Condition. Edward Groenert, 19. of 1330 W. 32d-st, was injured seriously today when his car struck another and overturned at 9th-st and North-western-av. He is in City Hospital. Mrs. Mary Boldt, 34, Clermont, Ind., is in serious condition in City Hospital today with injuries she received when her car was in an auto crash Monday on the Craw-fordsville-rd near the Speedway. Hoosier, 65, Killed by Train By United Press LOGANSPORT. Nov. 6.—Frank Dickerson, 65, was killed instantly late yesterday when he was struck by a Wabash passenger train on the Clymers crossing west of here.

Prodigal Pork Returns; Supply Up, Prici/ Down

By United Press CHICAGO. Nov. 6.—The squeals of thousands of hogs, just arrived from the country reverberated through Chicago's great, rambling stock yards today signaling renewed activity in pork markets from the packer down to the neighborhood butcher. A sharp break in the retail price of pork has returned it to the family dinner table, and packers, finding an improved market, require more hogs. Butchers report their pork sales now are two or three times greater than last August when chops were 40 cents a pound, and housewives in Chicago. Detroit and other cities were moved to open revolt against the high prices. With choice hogs at the world's largest stock yards selling well over sl2 per hundred pounds three months ago and pork loins at 284 cents per pound wholesale, the price of retail pork soon was far out of ,y

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935

ADMITS SERIES OF ROBBERIES ‘One-Man Crime Wave’ Tells of Looting North Side Homes of S4OOO. Charged with conducting a oneman crime wave, Eugene Eklund, 20, Jefferson Hotel, today is said to have confessed robbing North Side homes of loot valued at more than S4OOO. Much of the stolen property, police said, is being recovered from weed patches and alley hiding places where Eklund is alleged to have stowed it. Bonds and stock certificates, valued at S2OOO, were found in his room, detectives reported. Eklund started his campaign Oct. 28, police said, confining it to the North Side except once when he is alleged to have robbed an East Side residence. Bonds, jewelry, clothing and guns were Eklund’s hobbies, police sa;d. Residences he is alleged to have looted: August Bloom, 2836 Parkav; Harvey Dodge, 3119 Ruckle-st; Clyde R. Hesser, 3519 Graceland-av; Albert Mingor, 3618 N. Capitcl-av; Achie Bobbitt, 615 E. 49th-st, former state aud ! ter; William Ayres, 5148 Pleasant Run-blvd; W. C. Halstead, 152 Buckingham-dr. and Harry Israel, 3955 Washington-blvd. Eklund awaits grand jury action on grand larceny and burglary charges. John Hare. R. R. 17, Box 46. reported to police that a burglar stole belongings from his home valued at S6OO in the absence of the family. GULF CLEARED AS STORM RAGES WEST Hurricane Is Reported Off Florida Coast. By United Press JACKSONVILLE. Nov. 6.—The Gulf of Mexico was being cleared of small boats today as a tropical storm that took eight lives and $4,000,000 property damage on the Florida east coast, erratically coursed up the gulf to menace northwest Florida. The U. S. Weather Bureau at New Orleans placed the center of the storm as 275 miles southeast cf Port Eads, La. Strong gales and winds of hurricane strength near the center accompanied the storm as it moved in a west-rorthwesterly direction. Storm warnings were posted from Cedar Keys to Carrabelle, Fla. It seemed almost certain that the disturbance would pass over Florida again in the next 24 hours.

reach of the \ge consumer. Hog receipts at the yards were the smallest in 50 years as a result of the drought last year and the government reduction program. Acres of hog pens stood empty. Failure of housewives to include pork dishes in menus forced the recession in prices from the retailer on. Receipts of swine at the stock yards are larger now than at anv time since last February, although still small as compared with other years. Hog prices are at the lowest level since last June. The top price on choice hogs yesterday was $9.40 a hundred pounds as compared with $12.25 at the peak. The wholesale price on pork loins yesterday was 21 cents per pound, compared with 284 cents three months ago. Best pork chops were 32 cents a pound with some butchers selling cheaper cuts as low as 22 cents. In August they asked, but seldom received, 40 cents for identical chop 6.

GIRL REBEL, 15, MOURNS LOSS OF ‘FREEDOM’ Pretty Indiana Fugitive Says Foster Parents Denied Her ‘Boy Friends.’ ARRESTED IN KENTUCKY Found at Negro Maid’s Home, She Vows She Had Found Happiness. Time* Special LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 6.—Fif-teen-year-old Margot Harwood, who preferred personal freedom at the home of her Negro maid here to | restrictions at the home of her Wealthy, doting Richmond <lnd.) foster parents, had neither today. She is in the Detention Home. And while she is awaiting arrival of A. J. Harwood, her foster father, to take her back, she described her plight to police in forceful terms, shaking her pretty head as she did so. "I left home because my foster parents dictated every move to me,” she said. “They even selected the boy I should marry in two or three years, and they told me how I should walk downstairs if I was to be a lady. Couldn’t Mention “Poor Bov” “Whenever I’d mention the name of some poor boy schoolmate, they would get outraged and say I was dragging the name of Harwood—the name they gave me—into the dirt. “They wouldn’t let me answer the telephone and someone was watching me every moment. I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I just came along down to Kentucky with Roxie.” That’s what Margot said after she and her maid stepped from a bus here and into the custody of police, who had been notified to detain them. As for Roxie, who is 22 and w'hose last name is Hurley, she was not very talkative. “Just Followed Me” “Margot just followed me,” she said. “I wasn’t going to let anything happen to her.” The two w f ere traced to Cincinnati and Cincinnati police picked up the trail to Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Harwood returned to their Richmond home last night and found notes from each saying they were leaving. Margot was taken by the Harwoods from an orphanage in Cincinnati eight years ago. She is, advices from Richmond say, the only child in the family and has been the object of great, affection from her foster parents. Repression Charges Denied Spokesmen for the Harwood family denied Margot's charges of repression, and said they merely were attempting to establish some minimum control over her. “We don’t allow her to answer the telephone at meal times,” a woman said over the phone, “but, goodness, you must have some discipline. The telephone here rings all the time.” They said Margot was quite popular with her fellow students at high school and some times chafed at not being allowed to attend parties at night. Mrs. Harwood, overcome by the turn of events, is under care of a physician. Police here are prepared to surrender the girl to her father when he arrives, and they have placed a fugitive charge against the maid, who had been with the Harwoods only six weeks. EXCUSE BANKER AS JONES CASE JUROR Oaklandon Teller Had Faced Bandit Guns Twice. Edward Mock, 38, Oaklandon bank teller, today was excused from service on the Criminal Court jury that is to try Edward (Foggy) Dean and William (Willie) Mason in connection with the machine gun death of Sergt. Lester Jones. It developed that on two occasions Mr. Mock had faced the guns of bandits at his bank—once in 1925 and once in 1930. A jury composed entirely of women appeared as a possibility when, at noon, nine women and three men had been seated tentatively. If the three men are excused and an all-feminine venire accepted it will be the first in the history of Marion Criminal Court. Dean and Mason are charged with physical injury in commission of a robbery in the Peoples Motor Coach Cos. holdup Feb. 7, 1933, when Sergt. | Jones was shot down. CITY TO SPEND $15,000 ON GAS TANK REPAIRS Fifteen Indianapolis Men to Be Employed on Project. Citizens Gas and Coke Utility is to spend $15,000 repairing a gas j storage tank as the first step in a program of plant rehabilitation, Thomas L. Kemp, manager, announced today. Fifteen Indianapolis men are to be employed on the work, to start within two weeks. W. E. Steinwedell, Cleveland, is ; conducting a natural gas survey and is to report within two weeks as to whether the city would benefit by using natural gas exclusively, mixing natural gas with the manufactured product or to continue as at present.

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DEMOCRATS GET POPULAR VOTE INN. Y„ BUT LOSE; INDIANA G. 0. P. IN FRONT

Hoosier Republicans Hold 2-to-1 Edge; Balloting Is Heavy. Increasing - Republican strength throughout Indiana was indicated today as latest returns from yesterday’s town elections showed G. O. P. victories by almost a 2-to-l margin. A heavy vote tabulated in the first 200 towns to report showed unusual interest in the town contests. With only half the returns in, the result of the wet-dry issue in the towns was not expected to be determined for 24 hours. This issue and personal fights w'ere the ohief election controversies. G. O. P. Wins 64 of 102 Republican leaders claimed added strength on the basis of returns showing clear-cut victories in 64 villages, compared to 38 for the Democrats. Many other municipalities reported splits in the tickets where partisan contests were held and still others gave unanimous approval to citizens’ and independent tickets. In Marion County, Beech Grove was the scene of the mast spirited election in its first test as a fifthclass city. Charles Adams, heading the Progressive ticket, defeated Edward E. Myers. Democrat, for Mayor and took the entire ticket into office with him. A total of 1746 votes was cast at Beech Grove with Mr. Adams receiving 987 and Mr. Myers 727. The remainder were thrown out as mutilated or marked wrong. Water Plant Approved Lawrence voted overwhelmingly for installation of a town-owned water system, the chief election issue. Only 21 votes opposed the project as against 236 for it. The town has a Federal grant and Federal loan amounting to $58,182 to finance the water system installation. The Citizens ticket was voted into office in Speedway City, Herman Wahl, with 234 votes, was named clerk-treasurer, defeating Robert Heath, with 90 ballots. Three trustees named are: First, Robert Mann; second, Arthur Beeler, and third, John Leonard. Taking advantage of an old Indiana statute rarely invoked, a group of voters at Warren Park, East Side community, pasted on the official ballot strips of paper with names of a ticket filed too late for printing. 13 Ballots Contested Apparently elected are Gene E. Middleton, clerk - treasurer, and Floyd Hardy, Charles Mawson and C. S. Rosell, trustees. However, 13 ballots are contested and if thrown out, may result in election of the Citizens Ticket comprised of George C. Megorden, clerk-treasurer, and Oakley Patch, O. B. Rynerson and Mr. Hardy, trustees. A complete list of Beech Grove (Turn to Page Three) M’CUTIocirRESiGNS' FROM SAFETY BOARD Served Last Eight Months Without Pay, Mayor Says. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch today submitted to Mayor Kern his resignation as a Safety Board member. The Mayor accepted the resignation. Dr. McCulloch, who has been on leave of absence, has served for the last eight months without pay, the Mayor said. Dr. McCulloch is Sixth District director of WPA. Mayor Kern did not indicate a successor. LADYWOOD ROAD IS DONATED TO CITY Boulevard System Benefits as Link Is Completed. Donation to the city, by Sisters of Providence of Ladywood School of a right-of-way, makes possible linking an important part of the city's boulevard system, WPA headquarters announced today. In addition, the action assures continued work for 600 men who otherwise would have been out of a job in a few days. Now they are to proceed with grading and shaping the right-of-way, which will connect the two and one-half mile stretch of Fall Creek-blvd. just completed, with Kessler-blvd at the Brendenwood bridge, east of Millersville. The donated right-of-way is 1700 feet long. 100 feet wide and includes part of the Ladywood School ground. BANK DIVIDEND ORDERED Summitville Institution to Pay Depositors 20 Per Cent. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 6.—Approximately $22,000 is to be distributed to 650 depositors of the Farmers State Bank, SummitviUe, through a 20 per cent dividend ordered by Circuit Judge Charles E. Smith. The bank has been closed since 1932.

Un worried Roosevelt Sees Elections as Victory for New Deal.

By United Prist Hyde park. n. y„ nov. 6 President Roosevelt this afternoon viewed the' New York state election returns as sustaining Democratic popular majorities in the state as a whole and made light of Republican claims that the result could be interpreted as a repudiation of the New Deal. Mr. Roosevelt refrained from direct comment on the election, in which Republicans regained control of the State Assembly, although failing to get a majority of the total popular vote, but his views were interpreted by clase friends who went over the results with him. The Philadelphia result Mr. Roosevelt was understood to look upon as a “technical” victory for his party, inasmuch as the Democratic mayoralty candidate was defeated by only 47.000 votes. In 1932 Mr. Roosevelt lost Philadelphia by more than 100.000 votes. G. 0. P. GARNERS ‘THEMEJONG’ Gains Are Valuable as Psychological Factor to Republicans. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Nov. 6.—Republicans picked up a theme song today in recapturing the Assembly of President Roosevelt’s own state of New York—a song which they will pound out on their political pianos as a discord in Democratic ears. Sensing the outcome several weeks ago, they proclaimed this state election a test of the Roosevelt New Deal. Today they began to capitalize it for all it is worth. On the basis of returns this morning the count of Assembly seats was 82 Republicans: 68 Democrats. Republicans at once saw praspects of carrying New York and its 47 electoral votes against President Roosevelt in 1936. They interpreted the victory as another sign of Roosevelt weakness in the East, following the upset a few weeks ago in Rhode Island. Goaded by Republican claims, Postmaster General Farley, national and state Democratic chairman, had finally—and reluctantly—accepted the challenge to the New Deal and consequently will now be called upon to explain away his failure to make good against admitted odds. Psychological Victory Coming just at this time, when Republican 1936 hopes are rising but still not overly bright and when the party is scrambling about for a candidate, the New York victory is worth something psychologically, but perhaps will be worth more materially in opening up the purses along New York financial and business corridors where bitterness against the President is widespread. Jubilant Republicans would not listen today to Democratic reminders that the present narrowly Democratic Assembly—where the count is 77 to 73—was the first in 20 years and that if Democrats had retained control for two years in succession it would have been the first time since 1891. G. O. P. Pays No Heed Despite these considerations, however, and the fact that the districting of the state favors Republicans, Democratic prestige suffered from the very fact that their national leaders bent all their energies toward a continuation of Democratic rule in the assembly. The fight was on President Roosevelt’s home ground, where some of his New Deal reforms which are popular in other states have embittered the financial capital of the nation. Improvement in business, which Democrats emphasized, has not assuaged the anger of Wall Street, but rather has strengthened the desire to throw off regulatory restraints. The President’s promise of a “breathing spell” from reform has not softened the heart of big business. Democrats before this have recognized that Roasevelt weakness lies in the East, and accordingly will seek to make sure of other ground. That they can win without New York was demonstrated by Woodrow Wilson, who won in 1916 with the help in the East oply of Maryland and New Hampshire, but they do not like to figure it that way. City Sued for $10,900 Suit demanding SIO,OOO damages from the city for alleged personal injuries was filed by Harley Sanders in Superior Court Three yesterday. The complaint averred that he suffered a fractured left leg when his bicycle was struck by a city garage truck near Washington] High School Sept. 7.

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600.000 Majority Fails to Halt G. 0. P. Control of Assembly. BULLETIN By United Press LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Nov. 6.—Returns from 16 scattered precincts today gave I.leut. Gov. A. R. f handler 1390 votes in the rac' for Kentucky Governor, against 1050 for Judge King Swope. Republican candidate. By Unit id Press ALBANY, r. Y., Nov. New York Democrats piled up nearly a 600,000 majority popular vote over Republican opponents in yesterday’s “off year” election, but lost control of the State Assembly, virtually complete tabulations showed this afternoon. According to tabulations of returns from all except 18 counties in the state, Democratic Assembly candidates were given an aggregate vote of 1.934,873 as against 1,316,985 for Republicans. Despite the Democratic majority, 82 G. O. P. Assembly candidates were elected, reducing the Democratic Assembly membership to 68. Counties not tabulated comprised mostly rural districts, where election officials reported the final vote would not be available for 24 hours. The incomplete counties normally are Republican, but the final results are not expected to reduce materially the Democratic majority. Farley Claims Victory Postmaster General James A. Farley, state and national Democratic chairman, has contended the big popular vote was an “out-and-out” indorsement of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. “The Federal Administration was sustained by more than 500.000 majority, which ought to be sufficient to answer the question of the continued popularity of Franklin D. i Roasevelt,” Mr. Farley said. Republican leaders, however, argued the Democratic Assembly defeat was a “complete repudiation” of the New Deal and indicated Mr. Roosevelt’s defeat in his home state in the 1936 presidential elections. Thus, the bitter fight over New j Deal sentiment was not expected to |be definitely answered until next year. Similar to 1932 Situation The situation was similar to that in 1932 when Mr. Roasevelt carried the state by a pularit.v of 600,000, but Republicans controlled the Assembly. A majority of the Democratic votes were cast in greater New York City counties—Manhattan, Kings, Queens. Bronx and Richmond—where Republicans captured only one seat and retained two. Under present apportionment of Assembly districts, an assemblyman from Queens may represent 24,000 voters and an upstate member of the Lower House only 8000. Kentucky Awaits Count By United Press LOUISVILLE. Ky., Nov. 6.—Both sides claimed victory today s officials prepared to count upward of 1,000,000 votes cast in Kentucky's general election. Two men were killed and several wounded during election arguments. Although the polls closed at 4 p. m. yesterday, tabulation of votes was not to start until 10 a. m., in accordance with state law. Despite a split in party ranks, Democratic headquarters predicted victory for Lieut. Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler, nominee for Governor, by 50.000 votes. Gov. Ruby Laffoon and Thomas S. Rhea, Democratic leader defeated by Chandler m the primary, urged the defeat of the Democratic candidate. Circuit Judge King Swope, Republican nominee, issued a cautious statement. He said: “I am very much pleased with the support given the Republican Party by Kentucky voters. The trend of the voting throughout the state seems to indicate the party won.” Chester Jones, 30. and Kelly Adams, 28, were shot to death during an argument in front of a drugstore at Hindman last night. Win(Turn to Page Three) REPORTS G. 0. P. FUNDS Trade Commission Reveals Utility Contributions of $468,900. toy f nited Prtna WASHINGTON. Nov. 6—Th® Federal Trade Commission today announced that contributions by officers of public utility corporation* to the Republican National Committee totaled $468,900 in 1924, 1928 and 1932. Contributions to the Democratic National Committee were $120,100 during the same period. COURT UPHOLDS PRESS Rule* Newspapers Have Right to Publish Trial Proceeding*. By United Press AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 6.—Newspapers have a right to publish court trial proceedings, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held today, discharging from contempt six Houston newspaper men who violated an order agaifist publication by District Judge W. s. Munson of Angle ton, Tex. t