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SCORE STRICKEN IN JAIL AFTER LUNCH; RUSH MEDICAL AID

Ptomaine Poison Feared: Majority of 214 in Building Affected. MASON, DEAN INCLUDED Prisoners Become 111 on Way to Cells: Sheriff Ray Orders Probe. Failing to respond to emergency treatment, Will H. Roberts, Joseph McDonald and Edgar Walden, jail inmates, were taken to City Hospital. More than a score of prisoners in the Marion County Jail became seriously ill this afternoon after they had eaten lunch. Reports from the interior of the jail, where the prisoners were locked, indicated that a majority of the 214 prisoners who had eaten the noon meal were affected by what was believed to be ptomaine poison. Many of the men were in such condition that they were given prompt medical assistance by three physicians. Police were rushed to the scene. Several Drop in Line First signs of the illness came as ihe inmates started filing back to their cells. Several dropped out of line and within a few minutes the .tail was in an uproar with sick men tottering along the cell block ways and in the main assembly room. Sheriff Ray said that he did not intend to place the blame for the sickness on any item of the food until- further investigation. It w.'* learned that women prisoners had eaten the same food as the male prisoners but were not stricken. Dr. Robert Dwyer. Federal physician, was the first doctor on the scene. He later was assisted by Drs. Neal Baxter and Jack Dithmer from the City Hospital. The prisoners were forced to drink large quantities of milk. Mason, Dean Stricken Those who appeared to have been stricken most seriously are: James Rose, 16. of 1012 S. Alabama-st; Ted White, 16, of 518 Warsaw-st; Willard Bellinger. 18. of 1322 E. Mar-ket-st; Preston Lord. 41. of 744 W. WalnuL-st. and Charles Turner, 22. of 971 Indiana-av, the latter two Negroes. The prisoners were served hamburger, gravy, mashed potatoes, coffee, bread and stewed peaches for lunch. Representatives of the firm which sold the hamburger said 500 pounds of it had been distributed today and that there had been no complaints of other illness. Willie Mason and Edward (Foggy) Dean convicted last night in Criminal Court in connection with the machine gun slaying of Police Sergt. Lester Jones, became ill, but their condition was not considered serious. Hints Jail Break Plot Sheriff Ray said he believed that the sickness might have been caused by poison administered bv someone to pave the way for a jail break. The jail has been under special guard recently after Rav said he believed the place was being spotted by outsiders. George Vaises, jail chef, said he received the meat this morning and immediately started preparation of the noon meal. Deputy sheriffs were preparing to eat at the time the prisoners became ill. Sheriff's aids estimated the entire sick list would total more than 60. FAMED TEST PILOT DIES Boeing Flier Succumbs to Injuries in “Fortress" Crash. H ■ r Puss DAYTON. Ohio. Nov. 20—Military attaches at Wright Field today awaited word from the parents of Leslie Tower. 32, chief pilot of the Boeing Aircraft Corp., Seattle, before making funeral arrangements for the flier who died here last night. Mr. Tower died of injuries received at Wright Field Oct. 30 when the giant Boeing bomber he was testing crashed. His death was the second as a result of the accident. Maj. Ployer P. Hill, chief of the Army's flying squadron at the field, died soon after the crash. Times Index Page Amusements 6 Births, Deaths 15 Books 11 Bridge 9 Broun 11 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Pegler 11 Radio 6 Serial Story 4 Sports 14. 15 Want Ads 15. is Woman's Pages 8. 9 20 New Cardinals to Be Named R't i n n<4 rtf •, VATICAN CITY. Nov. 20—A consistory will be held on Dec 16 for the creation of 20 new cardinals, it "as announced officially today.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Fair tonight with lowest temperature about 30: tomorrow fair and slightly warmer.

VOLUME 17—NUMBER 218

Mass Murder Hinted as Poisoned Soda Kills Three in California. OTHERS SERIOUSLY ILL Child Dies After Eating Soup in Pennsylvania: Probe Launched. Bp I II it 1-4 Press HOMESTEAD. Pa., Nov. 20. Margaret Brugas, 2-year-old Munhall child, died today i:i Homestead Hospital after eating a dinner of bean soup and dumplings at her home. Her two step-brothers, Albert, 8, and Eddie, 6, are in the hospital, seriously ill. Authorities were investigating the possibility of fond poisoning and an immediate autopsy was ordered. BY JACK WELTER United Press Staff Correspondent SAN F'RANCISCO, Nov. 20. Death in a teaspoonful of baking soda menaced an untold number of men, women and children today in a mystery developing, police said, either from an unusual accident or a fantastic mass murder piot. Health authorities employed newspapers and radio to warn potential victims of 600 pounds of poisoned baking soda sold by a department store in small packages since Oct. 23. Three already were dead. Chemical analysis revealed the baking soda contained so much arsenic trioxide and fluorine that half a teaspoonful taken internally would prove fatal. Police, uncertain of how the poison got into the soda, began an investigation. Three Already Dead The dead were Alfred Terry, 81; Mrs. Bessie Shufelt, 53; Terry's daughter, and Mary Ogle, 61. Nine others who used the soda in cooking or to relieve stomach distress required hospital treatment. The soda, came from a "cut-rate” department store. In bulk, 800 pounds had been sold in two-pound bags. Police estimated it had entered at least 400 homes. A mass murder theory was advanced when Dr. Clarence Lee. University of California professor of pharmacology and chief consultant of the health department, announced he did not believe a contaminated barrel as a container for the bulk soda could have produced so many positive poison samples. After hours of investigation. Dr. J. C. Geiger, San Francisco city health officer, agreed. Fear Mass Murder “I fear this may be a case of attempted mass murder," he said. “There seems to be every reason to suspect this was not an accidental mixture. Had the poison been poured by mistake into one or more barrels, you would have found either all soda or all arsenic in spots. This stuff appeared too well mixed to permit us to look on it as accidental.” The 600 pounds sold by the store was contained in three barrels. Officials announced that a grand jury investigation and arrests probably would be forthcoming. Geiger said health officers traced the poisoned soda from the department store to the Manno Salvage Cos., where it had been purchased. It was made up, officials of the company said, from broken packages of a nationally advertised brand of soda, haring been repacked in barrels before being sold to the store. Authorities padlocked the plant of the salvage company. Sixteen hundred pounds of the soda was delivered to the department store, w'hich sold 800 pounds in two-pound paper bags. The re(Turn to Page Three)

CREW BALKS ON SHIP WITH WAR SUPPLIES Les Up Vessel Ready to Sail for Orient. By United Press SAN PEDRO. Cal.. Nov. 20. Ready to sail for the Orient with war supplies supposedly intended for Italian forces invading Ethiopia, the freighter Oregon lay idle in her berth here today because the crew refused to work the vessel. Sailors objected to handling the ship while it was being loaded witn 36.000 drums of aviation gasoline, but apparently were pacified when operators promised them vwar bonuses” and insurance on their personal belongings. Minutes before sailing time, however. they reversed themselves again and refused to weigh anchor. Spokesmen from the forecastle said the seamen had held a conference, and decided they would “appear mercenary” if they consented to deliver the cargo for extra money. FIND 225 OPiUM TINS Treasury Department Seizes Cans on Ship at Honolulu. By i nitrd Pri ss WASHINGTON. Nov 20—The Treasury Department disclosed today that 225 tins of opium, valued at SIOO to $l5O each, were seized in a stateroom on the S. S. President Hoover at Honolulu on Nov. 15. No arrests have been made.

Greetings! Old Sol shone forth in his accustomed splendor today and appeared unconcerned over establishing a 21-year record for being A. W, O. L. Weather Bureau officials said that the longest previous sunless period was between Dec. 3 and 10. 1914. This was the record up until Nov. 18 when the sun shone briefly for the first time in eight days. Temperatures were slightly below normal early this morning and appeared to be descending as the day wore on but the forecast is for warmer weather tomorrow. Tonight it may go as low as 30.

FOUR ESCAPED CONVICTS HELD Quartet Nabbed in Muncie After Five Days of Freedom. By United Press MUNCIE. Ind., Nov. 20.—Four prisoners who escaped from the State Reformatory at Pendleton Nov. 15 were captured without resistance today in a Muncie residential section. The men, Donald Conaster. 18. Muncie: Herschel Bedwell, 19, Linton: Russell Bennett, 20, Marion, and Jack Thorpe, 28, Terre Haute, were serving terms of one to ten years each on vehicle theft charges when they escaped from a corn shucking detail at the reformatory. Police said they appeared glad to surrender. The convicts said they had hidden in fields during the daytime and foraged in orchards for apples and pears at night. A meal given them at the jail shortly after their capture was the first they had eaten since the escape five days ago, they said. U. S. PICKS DELEGATION FOR NAVAL CONFERENCE Three-Man Group Ready for London Parley. B.y United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.—The United States was prepared today for deliberations at the London naval conference with appointment of a three-man delegation to represent American interests. The delegates, named by President Roosevelt, are Undersecretary of Sta'e William I. Phillips; Admiral William S. Standley, chief of naval operations, and Ambassador at Large Norman H. Davis. Davis is chairman of the group.

ETHIOPIANS PLAN TO ATTACK IN NORTH Indicate Effort to Break Italian Advance Lines. By United Press ROME, Nov. 20.—Italian general headquarters at Adigrat today indicated the Ethiopians are planning a strong mass attack on the northern front. Headquarters, believe, the dispatches said, that the Ethiopians plan to try to break the strongly fortified Italian advance lines between Dolo and Makale, which would entail serious fighting. Messages from the northern front said information obtained from natives and many reconnaisances by Italian air and land patrols confirmed the offensive intentions of a large body of Ethiopians concentrated between Scelicot, Antalo and Buja. forming a triangle directly south of Makale. Meanwhile on the southern front, according to Italian advices, troops under Gen. Rodolfo Graziani continued a determined drive toward Harar. FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP PROTESTS BOND ISSUE Proposed New Bethel High School Brings Remonstrance Franklin Township residents have filed with the State Tax Board a protest against issuance of a $75,000 bond issue to construct a new' high school building southwest of New Bethel as a WPA project. The delegation comprised of Charles Folkning, Harry Wulf and Dan Dorsey, which presented the protest, told the board a remonstrance bearing between 600 and 700 names will be presented when the hearing is held. 5 SCHOOL PUPILS HURT Auto Hits Bus Near Warsaw; Motorist Injured. By United Press WARSAW, Ind.. Nov. 20.—Five pupils of the East W’ayne public school suffered injuries today when an automobile collided with a school bus in which they were riding. Miss Mina Underwood. Pierceton. driver of the automobile, w’as brought to a hospital here. None of the injuries suffered by the children was believed serious. CHANDJIE IS ARRAIGNED Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Assault in Tavern Brawl. Herman Chandjie was arraigned last night before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker and pleaded not guilty to charges af assault and battery with intent to kill. His attorney was Clyde C. Karrer. He is accused of having beaten Louis Shuffield in a tavern brawl June 20.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1935

FARM LEADER URGES SESSION TO ACT ON TAX Lewis Taylor, Bureau Head, Demands Action: Hits Poor Relief Bonds. ASKS CLAUSE REPEAL Assails Emergency Section of $1.50 Law Before Convention Here. Lewis Taylor, president, today keynoted a three-day convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau here with a demand for tax consideration at any special legislative session, and an attack on poor-relief bonding as "outrageously unfair to property owners.” At Tomlinson Hall before several hundred delegates, Mr. Taylor called upon the Legislature to repeal the emergency clause in the $1.50 tax law at any session it may have, which includes the proposed special session now pledged for consideration of only social security measures. Recalls Previous Action He called attention of the delegates to the political death the bureau's previous demand for repeal of the clause had died in the last Legislature. Mr. Taylor advocated abolition of “indiscriminate” poor relief bonding, and suggested that relief money be raised in a great states-Federal pool from broad taxes including an increased gross income tax and a net income tax. Through Mr. Taylor, the farmers demanded that agriculture prices be raised on a parity with the most “favored industrial prices.” Defends Farm Crop Cuts Mr. Taylor called the Agricultural Adjustment Act the “greatest piece of legislation the Federal government ever handed the farmer.” He defended the farm crop cuts by pointing out that industry shuts down over night when it has overproduced. There are too many deputies for county officials, he said, and they merely enable the elected officials to attend conventions while the deputies do the work they were elected to do. And he said it was his opinion that people on relief w'ho refused to work because of the wage rate are not entitled to eat. No Legal Loophole Voiding the emergency clause of the tax law? would leave no legal loopholes through which tax-rais-ing bodies could assess more than $1 for each SIOO of assessed valuation in rural communities, nor more than $1.50 in cities. Officials of the bureau expect an attendance for the three days of around 5000 persons and most of the session will be devoted to ihs problems and plans of rural electni fication. Boyd Fisher, director of the coi operation section of (he Rural Elecj trification Administration, outlined | to delegates today the advantages of electricity both to the farmer and the farmer’s wife. All by Electricity He pointed out the farmer could milk his cows by electricity and the farmer's wile could curl her hair and wash her dishes and do her churning by current. However, he related that in sections of Indiana. Illinois and Wisconsin where power is available, a majority of the farmers have not vet taken advantage of it. w'hethe r from indisposition or from lack of funds. Tonight’s speakers are to be Mrs Lillie D. Scott, .Hendricks County; L. L. Needier, bureau insurance director, and L. A. Wilson, manager of the insurance department of the : Illinois Agricultural Association. | Heads of departments of the | bureau will make their reports to- | morrow. APPROVE $38,307,630 PROJECTS FOR STATE National Emergency Council Makes Announcement in Washington. Approval of $38,307,630 in projects in Indiana has been given by the National Emergency Council in Washington. Approval of the appropriation will permit Works Progress Administration officials of the state to initiate work on a large number of projects. LA GUARDI A IS ELECTED Named Unexpectedly as President of Mayor’s Group. By United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.—1n a w'holly unexpected move today the United States Conference of Mayors elected Fiorello La Guardia of New York as president. The vote for the vigorous New Yorker was unanimous. The 100 city executives selected Edward J. Kelly of Chicago a# vice president.

Ringer John D. Deßurger. 1755 Somerset-av. was detained last night at a drug store, 161 E. Market-st, due to the presence under his coat pocket of an alarm clock. This might have gone unnoticed. except that the alarm clock chose the moment Mr. Deßurger was leaving the store to ring. This caused some gossip among the clerks that resulted in the arrest of Mr. Deßurger on charges of petit larceny.

Bishop Asks Women Aid Roosevelt Catholic Delegates Debate Social Security Bill and Birth Control. By United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 20. Urged to support social legislation of the Roosevelt Administration by a bishop of their church, delegates to the fifteenth annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women today debated resolutions on social security, peace, paganism and birth control. A vigorous denunciation of religious persecution in Mexico also was to be included in resolutions scheduled to he adopted late today. Bishop Robert E. Lucey of Amarillo, Tex,, pleaded for support of New Deal measures last night. Upholds Administration "The present Administration,” he said, "has made an earnest effort to control by legislation the conflict and immorality that are rampant in industry, it has tried to help owners, employers and workers; it has desired to eliminate child labor and to protect women in industry. At every step the Administration has met with defiance and stupidity. “The American business man has been too free and his excessive freedom has resulted in the growth of unethical and dangerous practices. Now that this swollen and exaggerated freedom is under attack, headstrong men are rushing to the shelter of the dear old Constitution which has been twisted and bent to their satisfaction these many years.

60 ON WARSAW ‘WATER WAGON’ Barroom Gang Plenty Peeved, Vowing They’ll Do Their “Pastiming’ Abroad. Times Special WARSAW. Ind., Nov. 20.—There are 60 men in this town today on a w’ater wagon the chief of police fixed up for them—and some of the 60 are pretty mad about it. Last night Chief Frank Lucas gave each tavern keeper and liquor dealer a list containing the names of the 60 men and told them not to sell them any liquor whatsoever. If they did. the chief warned, they would be subject to prosecution by affidavit, and the chief is backed in this by Mayor C. C. Dubois. Sheriff Virgil Yeager and the state excise police are co-operating. Became Bar “Fixtures” Chief Lucas said the men became eligible for posting when they spent a good part of their time in barrooms, spending money for liquer that their families needed. He said the list was compiled after a careful study of the bar life of the men, and the home life of their families and that there will be no appeals from the decision of himself and other public officers who collaborated. Probably several more names will be added to the list, he said, and if this doesn't have the anticipated effect, then he will ask the newspapers to publish the names. This would, in effect, put the miscreants in public stocks as the old Puritans did. Chief Lucas says he, personally, wouldn’t mind that at all. “Pastimers" Protest Last night an assortment of the listed persons called upon the chief and protested the ban of their “favorite” pastime. “We'll go to another town and get it,” they threatened, and Chief Lucas said that would be all right with him. He says he doesn’t believe they will. The chief said he expects a lot more of them to call on him today and that he'll be glad to see them.

CUMMINS TO BUILD DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE Coli.mbus (Ind.) Concern Receives Burlington Order. Bp United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 20.—Preliminary work on a 90-ton Dieselpowered railway locomotive was begun here today by the Cummins Engine Cos. An order for the huge locomotive, to be driven with two SJO-horse power V-12 cylinder Cummins Diesel engines, was received from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Cos., it was announced by Irwin Miller, general manager. The Cummins plant has been building Diesel units for use in locomotives for some time but this was the first order for an assembled locomotive, Miller said. CHARTERS SUED FOR $7500 BY ATTORNEYS Millionaire Former Tax Expert Was Defended in Divorce. A $7500 suit for professional services against William F. Charters, millionaire former tax expert, was on file today in Superior Court. Plaintiffs are Emsley W. Johnson and Chester L. Zeckiel. attorneys, w'ho defended Mr. Charters recently in a divorce action. A claim for $200,000 alleged delinquent taxes has been filed against Mr. Charters with County Auditor Charles A. Grossart. Mr. Charters is believed to be a resident of Florida. He formerly was employed by the county to collect delinquent taxes.

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PFAFF, HUGHEL GUILTY ON SIX FRAUD COUNTS; SENTENCE IS DEFERRED

COUNM.MPS MANAGEMENT All IKK Poor Farm. Julietta and Negro Orphans’ Home in Report. Criticism of the management of three county institutions was contained today in a partial report submitted to the County Council by an investigating committee of the Council. Dr. A. O. Ruse, Poor Farm superintendent and his wife, the matron, should take up residence at the infirmary and devote their entire time to their jobs, investigators said. They also recommended that heads of the infirmary and the Julietta Insane Hospital should encourage inmates to devote more time to farming and that managers of the Negro Orphans’ Home should exercise more diligence in preparation of meals and in guarding against theft of property. Improved Cost Accounting Improved cost accounting systems in these institutions also was advocated. The council urged the committee to continue its recommendations and also authorized county commissioners to issue poor relief bonds not to exceed $500,000. They also approved additional appropriations of $20,000, which was $3225 less than the amount requested. The investigating committee includes Harry Hohlt, William A. Brown and George W. Fox. Non-Resident Managers Commenting on the recommendations, Commissioner Dow R. Vorhies said experience had proved that the infirmary could be better managed if those in charge did not have permanent residence there. Dr. Ruse said it was “out of the question” to expect him to devote full time to the job at the SI4OO yearly salary. He said Mrs. Ruse recently had been in poor health and was unable to give all her time to the institution.

BRITISH, EGYPTIANS THREATEN TO STRIKE Coal Miners Vote 14 to 1 for Walkout. Bp United Press LONDON. Nov. 20.—Coal miners of the United Kingdom have voted more than 14 to 1 in favor of a nation-wide strike to enforce their demand for a wage increase of 50 cents a day and a national wage agreement, it was announced today. The strike vote, threatening the most serious industrial dispute in Britain since the general strike of 1926, w'as announced by the executive committee of the mine workers’ federation, w'hich also communicated the result to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and asked him to meet with it at the earliest possible moment. Bp T nited Press CAIRO, Nov. 20.—Police made elaborate arrangements today to combat violence during a general strike w'hich anti-British students called for tomorrow. There appeared grave danger that the strike might be w-idely effective, as the newspapers and lawyers already have joined it. If the students, as they threaten, try to force the closing of shops and business houses which do not join the strike, it was feared there w'ould be a renewal of last week's rioting in which seven were killed.

Japan, Wary, Postpones Its North China Grab

' By Vtv ted Prem SHANGHAI. Nov. 20.—A sudden postponement of the declaration of an autonomous state in North China is due to mutual Japanese and Chinese belief that the League of Nations has sen an inviolable precedent in the Ethiopian crisis, it was learned today, and hence China's hand has been strengthened. Chinese leaders here believed that Chiang Kai-shek, the country's . strong man and real head of the government, is playing skillfully the few cards he holds against Japan. The Japanese realize, they said, | that there is a limit beyond which ; the central goverment can not be forced and still survive. Recent negotiations in the North, by which the Chinese at the last moment won a postponement of the declaration of the new state, were designed to test the length to which j the Japanese can push without meeting a resistance fired by desperation. it was added. Both countries, it was said, are following closely developments in the Italian-Ethiopian case, believing i that with it as a precedent the

CONVICTED

Myron Hughel

‘CURFEW GIRL' GETS 25 YEARS •Guilty!’ Chants Jury: 'Ah!’ Cry Spectators: ‘Honor of Mountains' Wins. BY HARRY FERGUSON I'nited Press Staff Correspondent WISE. Va.. Nov. 20.—Edith Maxwell. sitting red-eyed in a brick jail today, must spend 25 years in prison because the law of the courts and the law' of the mountains agreed it is a sin for a 21-year-old girl to stay out after 9 o'clock at night. This girl, w'ho beat her father to death w'ith a shoe when he tried to whip her after she came home on° July midnight from a date, staked he- freedom on the belief that the dead hand of yesterday no longer rules the lives of youth. In the quick time of 40 minutes she lost that gamble when a jury drawn from the mountaineers filed back into the court room last night and told her she was guilty of first degree murder and fixed her penalty at 25 years imprisonment. “Ah!” Cry Spectators A long, approving chorus of “Ah!” rase in the courtroom, packed to the last aisle w'ith the hill people. They had seen their own ideas of life and morality vindicated in “gov’ment” court and they w'ere happy. At first Edith, w'ho ventured into the outside w'orld w'here dances sometimes last until 1 a. m.. took it calmly, grasping her brother’s arm and saying. “I’m all right, I’m all right.” Then reaction set in and she peered through her tears at the haggard woman w'ho is her mother—a woman w'ho has just buried her husband and seen her daughter doomed to the penitentiary. Edith sobbed then until her shoulders (Turn to Page Three) CONGRESS MAY BUF LAND FOR SETTLEMENT All Acreage Not Actually in Use Would Be Purchased. Bp T'n it ill Press KANKAKEE. 111., Nov. 20—All land not actually in use would be purchased by Congress and opened to settlement under a proposed amendment to the Federal Constitution considered today by 4000 farmer delegates from 36 states. The resolution was presented to the fhirty-first annual convention of the Farmers’ Education and Co-Op-erative Union of America by T. H McLemore of Elk City. Okla. Nashville Man Killed By f nitrd Pr^nn COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 20— Ear! Harkness, 48-year-old Nashville Civilian Conservation Corps worker, was killed here last night by a train in the north yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

League can not ignore a passible war in China over the northern situation. They believe that th? League could not again, as it did in the case of Manchuria, submit humbly to Japan. Only the most optimistic Chinese suggested that the central government has already won a big success in halting the Japanese. It is indicated, they said, that they may halt the Japanese sufficiently to permit a bargain which will be acceptable to both countries if not mutually satisfactory. Maj. Gen. Kenji Doihara, conducting the negotiations for Japan in the north, has carefully avoided an ultimatum from which recession would be embarrassing. He has tried to influence the northerners with leferences to Japan's mihtarv strength. He firmly denied reports that he had delivered an ultimatum setting noon today as the deadline for declaration of the new state. A few hours later he admitted that the declaration probably would be postponed for two days and northern Chinese officials said it might be delayed for a week.

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Face Five Years on Each of Six Counts on Which They Were Convicted. FATE SET FOR NOV. 30 Former Brokerage Partners Take Verdict Calmly: to Keep Up Fight. Convicted of using the mails to defraud. Walter Pfatf and Myron Hughel, former officers of the defunct brokerage firm of Pfaff & Hughel, are to be sentenced in Federal Court Nov. 30. Sealed verdict was delivered by the jury this morning to Judge Robert C Baltzell and defense attorneys announced they would fiie motions to arrest judgment and probably appeal. Neither defendant displayed emotion at return of the finding which was reached last night after five j hours' deliberation. Under the law, Pfaff and Hughel | may be given maximum sentences of five years each on each of the six counts of the indictment. Pfaff watched the jury continuously throughout the proceedings wTiile Hughel stared at the walls and ceiling of the courtroom. Pfaff after the guilty verdict was pronounced, drummed the top of the defense table with his hand. Hughel slumped slightly in his chair, but never altered his gaze. Defense attorneys immediately informed the court the motions to arrest judgment would be filed. McTurnan, of the defense, said he believed an appeal would be filed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and Fred E. Hines, Pfaff t attorney, announced definij Lely such action would follow. “Nothing to Say” Pfaff seemed to recover from th<s ' shock sooner than his former business partner. "No, I've nothing to say at this [time; no statement to make,” he j told reporters. Hughel curtly told reporters: “I've | no statement now.” District Attorney Val Nolan, who led the government in the trial, : summed up his feelings in three I words: “A just verdict.” The jury w'as given the ease at S midafternoon yesterday and had reached a verdict shortly after 8 last night. The trial lasted nine days. There were but few spectators in the courtroom this morning, contrasting with the attendance during the trial when witnesses and (Turn to Page Three) COAST TRAIN SPEEDS TOWARD NEW RECORD Santa Fe’s New Super Chief Clips Hours Off .Mark. B>/ t nilrd Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 20 The Santa Fe Railroad's new Super-Chief train was speeding through Kansas today in a race with | time from Chicago to Los Angeles. It made the Chicago-Kansas City leg in seven hours fiat, 40 minutes le.ss than the schedule called for. The average speed was about 65 ; miles an hour, with the train at ] times traveling 95 miles an hour. The run is a preliminary feature to a proposed 43-hour schedule between Chicago and Los Angeles, some 11 hours faster than the ! speediest existing train schedule. SHOT CRASHES INTO WINDOW OF SCHOOL Crooked Creek Pupils Have Narrow Escape From Bullet. A 22-caliber bullet yesterday aftf ernoon broke a window of the Crooked Creek School. Kessler-blvd and Michigan-rd. narrowly missed pupils seated in the room, and embedded itself in a wall. D. F. Carter, principal, said he rushed outside, but could see no one carrying a gun. He said hunters frequently pass that way and he warned them to take more care. SIX PROPERTY OWNERS SUE HIGHWAY BOARD Damages of $2600 Asked by Action in Superior Court. Damages of $2600 against the State Highway Commission are asked in Superiod Court by six property owners on the Alex?.ndria-Al-bany road, now under construction. The plaintiffs. Terress Alice Fisher Carlook, Claude J. North, Omer E Kirkpatrick, Lillie Chalfant, Chester Blades and Forest Groscost alleged the state appropriated sections of their property without legal action. CATTLEMAN. 85. DIES Thomas W. Grey Succumbs to Auto Accident Injuries. By United Pr< < CRAWFORDSVILLE Ind.. Nov. 20—Thomas W. Grey. 85. Montgomery County cattleman, died in a hospital here yesterday from injuries suffered in an automobile aci cidem Nov. 9.