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COLD TO STAY, IS WARNING OF WEATHERMAN Mercury Skids to 21. Then Climbs Back to 28 by Noon. TWO MEN ARE INJURED Frozen Radiators Delay City's Early Morning Motorists. Told va-ve that, struck Inc! tana puli'- today, forcing the mercury to a net low of 21 and resulting in injury to two men. is to remain overnight weather bureau forecasters predict. The low mark was established at f this morning and hundreds of Indianapolis motorists battled frozen radiators due to the unexpected cold snap. At noon the mercury had risen to :’R. It wa expected to slide to 26 by tomorrow morning with the afternoon clear and chill. Rov Elsev, 25. of 1415 Blaine-av, was burned on the face when alcohol fumes from the radiator of his truck exploded as he investigated with a lighted match The accident, occurred in a garage at 1214 Oliverav. He was taken to City Hospital, Motorcycle Policeman Hurt Motorcycle Policeman James Hasch was cut and bruised this morning when his cycle slid on ice at Morris and Division-sts, throwing him to the pavement. Officer Hasch refused to go to City Hospital for treatment and appeared in Municipal Court to testify in a traffic case. Reports af the weather bureau indicated Indianapolis was the coldest city in central Indiana. Forecasters said northwestern Indiana probably felt the temperature drop more than Indianapolis due to snow and an 13-degree mark in Chicago and the lake region early today. Mercury to Stay Down Scores of motorists pulled to the curbs and garages this morning as their radiators froze. Many, who had rats in garages last night, beJ’pveri they were going to escape the difficulty. Filling stations reported a rush on anti-freeze solutions and alcohol a,' many motorists sought to catch up with the weather. Taxi Motors Kept Going: Taxi drivers, on duty all night, solved the problem by letting motor? of rabs run. Street car patrons huddled on corners during the early morning hours, rhilled by the wind. Fort Wayne reading was 22 this morning with 24 registered at Terre Haute. A year ago the mercury stood at, 57 here.

HOPE AGAIN REVIVED FOR KINGSFORD-SMITH Missing: Flier and Co-Pilot May Slill Be Alive, Report. Hit J nil id Press LONDON. Nov. 22. Hope that Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. transoceanic flier, ami his co-pilot of the Lady Southern Cross, T. J. Pethybridge, missing since Nov. 8. may still be alive were revived today by word that flares had been sighted on an island off the west coast of Siam. The master of an unnamed steamer, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Singapore. wirelessed from Penang that lie had seen signal flames ascending item Saver Island yesterday. Heavy sens made ii impossible for the steamer to approach. GENERAL STRIKE MAY HIT MEXICO SUNDAY •'Golden Shirts" Held Responsible for Disorders in Republic. Bp r nited Press MEXICO CITY. Nov 22.- A general strike involving several hundred thousand workers will start in Mexico Sunday unless the government orders dissolution of the anti-Semi-tic. anti-labor "Golden Shirts." A resolution ordering the strike was voted as a sequel to tlie clash Wednesday between its members and the Golden Shirts." Several persons were killed and scores wounded. The strike will continue, the resolution said, as long as the "Golden Shirts" remain in existence. REACHES 47.806 FEET Soviet Aviator Claims World's Record for Altitude. r.'i > fit >d p, r MOSCOW. Nov. 22. —A world airplane altitude record of 14.575 meters <47.806 feet) was claimed today on behalf of Vladimir Kokinacki, Soviet army pilot, at the military field near Moscow. Dressed in a fur-lined suit and carrying oxygen apparatus, he used a small open military plane for the ascent, which required 62 minutes. The previous record of 14.443 meters was established in 1934 by the Italian. Renato Donate Times Index Amusements 24 Births. Deaths 86 Bridge 21 Broun ’" 21 Church News 29 Comics 39 Editorial 22 Financial 1. '.!!!”!.!.! 38 .tumor Aviation .*!'.!.!.! 16 Pegler # ! 21 Radio 24 Serial Story _ > 2" Want Ads 36, 37 Woman's Pages .26, 27

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Generally fair tnnijrht and tomorrow; continued cold tonight with lowest about 26; rising temperature tomorrow.

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Its motors primed, the giant China Clipper, shown above, will lift itself over the Golden Gale late this afternoon and point toward the Orient on its historic air mail flight, the first scheduled trans-Pacific pay load trip. A 25-ton. $500,000 rraft, the China Clipper will pick up 14 passengers at Honolulu, hound for Wake. Midway a.nd Guam Islands. Heading the crew on today’s flight will be Capt. Edwin Musick.

SHIFT PLEDGED BY M'KINNEY New County Treasurer to Revise ‘Antiquated* Accounting Plan. Frank E. McKinney today promised to revise accounting systems he described as antiquated when he takes office as county treasurer Jan. 1. and announced four appointments to his staff. At the same time he announced he will be a candidate next May 10 succeed himself in office two yeais from Jan. 1. His salary is S6OOO a year and fees are reported to amount to about SSOOO a year. Mr. McKinney reappointed Fay Wright as chief deputy and Charles A. Slinger as chief deputy in the Barrett law department. He named Albert L. Koesters. who is assistant cashier, to the position as cashier, and reduced John Fogarty, who is rashier. to assistant cashier. Mr. McKinney said he has studied accounting setups in Eastern county treasurers' offircs and has found that the system in use here is between 40 and 50 years behind the times. He proposes, he said, to revise the books in sueh a way that the taxpayer will be able to get all information on his taxes at one time and not have to go from one window to another.

MARION MAN, SON SHOT MYSTERIOUSLY Trappers' Feud Is Hinted as Motive. I mu * Spi 1 iill MARION, Ind., Nov. 22.—Glenn Campbell. 45, and his 15-year-old .son. Charles, are in Marion General Hospital in serious condition after being shot by an unidentified assailant while inspecting muskrat traps near Fairmount early today. The father may die. physicians said, shot by an unidentified assailant while inspecting muskrat traps near Fairmount early today. The father may die. physicians said. Sheriff Orville Wells. Grant County, and Elmer Riggs. Fairmount marshal. said a trappers feud may have been responsible. They learned that the assailant fired five times front ■v shotgun. Mr. Campbell received 60 pellets in his back, left arm and abdomen. Two charges struck the boy. one almost, tearing off an ear. He also was wounded on the head. Mr. Campbell told investigators he and his son were inspecting trap lines on Black Creek, near Fairmount. An automobile drove up and a man approached them. Mr. Campbell flashed a light on the stranger who immediately opened fire and then fled.

INJURED BY TOWED CAR Auto RolW on Gordon Reese When He Steps in Path. Gordon Reese. 51. of 715 S. Me-ridian-st. was injured by his own car today at 231 3. East-st. The car was being towed by another. They stopped on East-st and Mr. Reese went between the cars. His car rolled on to him. injuring his head. HITCH HEARING SET Arguments on Motion for New Trial to Be Held Tuesday. Hearing of arguments on a motion for new trial for Ralph Hitch, former deputy sheriff serving a prison term lor embezzlement, is to be before Special Judge E. E. McFerren in Criminal Court at 10 Tuesday morning. MASARYK IS TO RESIGN 85-Year-Old Czechoslovakian President to Give t'p Post. fly I nittrl Pr ss FRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov. 22. —President Thomas G. Masaryk. 85-year-old head of the po?t-war Czechoslovakian republic, decided today to resign immediately.

CHINA CLIPPER READY FOR HISTORY-MAKING AIR MAIL FLIGHT TO ORIENT

Such Service By I nil(4 Press LA PLATA. Md.. Nov. 22. Roland Paeard thought the service was pretty bad at. 4 a. m. w'hen he drove up to a "gasoline filling station” and honked the horn on his automobile. No one gave him any attention. Determined to make a purchase, he honked again. Still no response. Imagine his embarrassment when a khakiclad figure finally emerged from the building —it was Maryland State Police Substation No. 3—and demanded to know what w r as what and wffio w f as who. "Excuse me,” said Roland,."l thought this was a gasoline station.” “That’s all right.” the officer replied gayly. The judge in Circuit Court didn't agree, however, and Roland was fined SIOO and costs for driving w'hile intoxicated.

3-CAR AUTO VICTIM HAD POLICE RECORD Identified as Forest Smith by Fingerprints. The body of Marion County's 132nd traffic victim this year was identified today by police Bertillon records as that of Forest Smith, address unknown. Fingerprints of the man were found in the police records. He was photographed by police here on July 10, 1924. when he faced charges of conspiracy to commit a felony. Later, records show, lie was sent front Vanderburgh County to Indiana State Prison on conviction of grand larceny. He was struck by three autos

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The Johnson car was first to hit the man and knocked him to the pavement into the path of tw'o north-bound cars driven by Amos Perry, 31. of 2339 Hoyt-av and Lewis F. Schelter. 64. of R. R. 14. Box 131. both of which struck the body. They w'ere not held.

ROOSEVELT TO ADD 4000 MEN TO NAVY President Reveals Plans to Increase Force to HKMHH). Bjt In i led Press WARM SPRINGS. Ga.. Nov. 22. President Rosevelt will make provision in the new 1936-37 budget for an increase of 4000 men in the Navy, he revealed today. To reporters gathered about his automobiles in an "open air” press conference. Mr. Roosevelt said that the naval force would be brought up to 100.000 men or a yearly average of 96.000. This compares wfith a present maximum of 96.000 or an average of 92.000.

New Deal and ‘Big Business * Open Fire in Bitter War Over ‘Recovery"Policies

BY JOHN A. REICHMANN United Pre* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—The Administration met a deluge of attacks on constitutionality of the New Deal laws today with a threat of civil suits to force compliance with the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. The government prepared to rush its legal experts into the conflict with "big business” over major planks in the Roosevelt program. The holding company attack w’as considered one of the most important and. for the first time, the Administration indicated its action against those refusing to register under the new law. Constitutional test of the holding company jaw before the Su-

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CLIPPER POISED FOR NEW FEAT Famous Craft Set to Hop on First Mail Dash Over Pacific. ! By T~ niter] Press ALAMEDA. Cal.. Nov. 22. —America's greatest commercial seaplane. Pan-American Airways' China Clipper idled in its hangar today awaiting a takeoff at 5:25 p. m. (Indianapolis timei on history's first sched- i tiled trans-Pacific airmail flight. Capt. Edwfin C. Musick and a crew of eight will climb aboard the four- i motored sky-liner and send it out | across the Golden Gate, bound for Honolulu, Midway Islands. Wake Islands, Guam and the Philippines, carrying more than a ton of mail . Lavish ceremonies, which began two days ago, will attend Ihe takeoff. At the airport wfill be Post-master-General James A. Farley. Gov. Frank F. Merriam of California. Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco. Mayor Joseph 'McCrack- ; en of Oakland. Juan T. Trippe, Pan American president, and other dignitaries.

At Honolulu, the China Clipper will pick up 14 pasesngers, bound tor Wake, Midway and Guam.

early today in Dela-ware-st near St. Joseph-st. The driver of one car. Ralph Johnson 24, of 401 Harlan-st, was charged wfith involuntary manslaughter.

STROH, BANK ROBBER, IS DENIED CLEMENCY Board Refuses Him Parole Despite Plea for Wife. John Stroh. 35, Indianapolis, serving a 10-vear term in the State Prison for robbing the Burlington State Bank in Carroll County twice in 1933. w r as denied a parole today by thp State Clemency Commission. Stroh asked for his freedom to care for his wife, ill with tuberculosis. and two young sons. Thomas Howard and Harold Keil. also of Indianapolis, both serving similar terms, participated in the robberies, according to Stroh's statement to the commission. He admitted they obtained SIBOO in the first robbery and nearly the same amount in the second. A parole was granted Herman Rollins, sentenced from Marion Criminal Court Oct. 17. 1933, to three td 10 years on a charge of robbing the Bader Coffee Cos.

prente Court already is assured in action taken by utilities, but by today's action the government would take the offensive. At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission again assured the holding companies they do not waive constitutional rights if they register with the SEC prior to Dec. la? provided for in the law. Several large utility holding companies have announced their intention not to register because they teel this action might weaken their case when the entire utility act's constitutionality is adjudicated. ' It is the purpose of the commission." the SEC said, "to proceed with enforcement of the act in an orderly and economical manner. The commission will not harass the industry with a multiplicity of

THp start, today of FanAmerican’s air service to the Orient is an historic event. The story of the China Clipper and the men who planned the conquering of the Pacific forms an enthralling chapter in American aviation history. On Page 21 of this edition. Times readers will find the third of a series of articles on “Blazing An Air Trail.”

’Ray Sans Hip! Times Spenial BLOOMINGTON. Incl.. Nov. 22.—01d grads from Indiana and Purdue apparently are in for a ‘ hip” of trouble tomorrow. They're expected to—and no doubt will —line the tiers at Memorial Stadium to whoop it up as their alma maters clash in another historic football battle. Their suggested behavior for the titanic strain, however, is problematical. They w'ere asked a few' days ago to forget hip flasks. President Bryan, doubting alcoholic beverage is a gridiron essential, appealed to them to do r>o drinking. "Nix on the nip on the hip,” he suggested. Now' comes a conflicting warning. “Watch out for pickpockets”—and wfith billfolds the accepted currency conveyor for the male species, that, amounts to saying, "Keep a hand on your hip.” But "whatever is to be done with the hip. it probably will come in for mention. At least it’s asking too much that a feverish fan can't leap in the air with a “hooray”—and no “Hin. Hip.”

ITALY'S DEFEAT IS FORECAST BY HAILE Emperor Optimistic After Tour of Front. In an Interview with Edward IV. Beattie, United Pres* staff correspondent. Emperor Haile Selassie said today—after a visit to the front—that he knows his men are going: to defeat the Italians. His interview is perhaps the most important he has made since the ■war started. BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE (Copyright, 1935, by United Press! ADDIS ABABA. Nov. 22.—“ Operations to date on the southern front have demonstrated my armies are :apable not only of resisting modernized troops, but even of defeating them.” Emperor Haile Selassie said today. He made his statement in a selfwritten interview, in response to my questions, after an airplane flight to the eastern-southern front. "We saw' no Italian airplanes in | the course of our trip,” said the emperor “But their presence w'as signaled from Jijiga, Harar and Diredaw'a —and there was another escadrille over Arussi—immediately after our departure from the fronri” Jijiga and Harar, south of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway are (Turn to Page Three) SEC THREATENS SUITS ON HOLDING COMPANIES Public I'tilities Must Comply With 1935 Art, Board Says. By T ailed Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—The Securities and Exchange Commission today threatened public utility holding companies with prompt civil suits unless they comply wfith the Public Utility Holding Company act of 1935.

suits. And the commission will resist any efforts that may be made to vex the government with a multiplicity of suits or to provoke litigation with a view to presenting the issue of constitutionality on the basis of an inadequte record or a record not fairly typical of the situations covered by the act. • Apparently reference to thp Baltimore test ca.se decided against the government). “If there is a genpral failurp to register under the act. the commission will proceed promptly to bring civil proceedings against on® or more large and important companies. which may fail to register, to enforce compliance with the act •Turn to Page Three;

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FARMERS CRACK DOWN ON INDIANA TAX STATUTES; PLEDGE SUPPORT TO AAA

‘Shotgun ’ Threat Recalled as Husband of Girl, 16, Is Quizzed on Murder Victim 'Only a Friend of Mary's.’ Cries Mother of Young Wife Whose Marriage to Suspect Is Now Being Annulled. By i nited Press NEW CITY. N. Y„ Nov. 22.—A youth whose marriage to a vivacious and precocious girl of 16 is being annulled w'as questioned by authorities today in the mysterious slaying of a farmer's son who was popular in this old Hudson Valley community. The south detained for questioning was Luther Philpot. who doped Cincinnati last February with th® girl. Mary Virginia Swope, and then came East when her mother broke up the marriage and brought Mary

back to her home here. Mary and the slain young man. Leroy Smith, w'ere good friends but nothing more, her mother insisted. Smith's body was found yesterday 100 yards across the road from Mary’s home. He had been killed by a revolver shot fired at close range. “Shotgun” Wedding Boast Young Smith reportedly had boasted to friends that he had been threatened with a “.shotgun” wadding. But District Attorney Vincent Dorsey and his aids gave no indication they had obtained any evidence linking those purported threats wfith his death. They detained two other men for questioning, but declined to reveal their names. Mary and her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Salamon, w'ere questioned early today and released. Later the Salamons received reporters in the gloomy living room of the 16-st,ory mansion in which thpy live a mile outside of New City. It is a. rambling old house that dates back to Revolutionary War times. Mother Does Talking Mary was kept out of sight and Mrs. Salamon. a all. suave woman, did all the talking for the family, "It is preposterous my daughter could have been involved with Smith.” she said. “There were no relations of any kind between her and Smith except that they were friends. The last time any of us saw him was Saturday night when he was here for dinner.” So far as authorities revealed, no one else had seen young Smith since. They believed he probably killed early this w'eek and his body dumped in the field across the road from the Salamon residence. Thirty feet from where the body was found. Sheriff John Cook today discovered the weapon wfith which Smith was slain. It was a .32-caliber nickel-plated revolver, and two of the five bullets had been fired.

Moved Year Ago The Salamons moved here a year ago because living in New York is too expensive, Mrs. Salamon said. She is a designer and shoppet. Salamon is a commercial artist. Mary's father w'as Fred Swope, whom Mrs. Salamon said she thought was a distant cousin of Gerard Sw'ope. General Electric Cos. president, she divorced him in 1919 and believed he now was in Germany. Last year Mrs. Salamon sent Mary to Cincinnati to live with relatives and attend high school. Mary met Philpot, a Pineville <Ky.) youth and they eloped to Covington on Feb. 15. Hears About Marriage Mrs. Salamon heard about the marriage in March, went to Cincinnati, started annulment proceedings which have not yet been completed and brought Mary home. According to her friends in Cincinnati the precocious bride, then only 15, defiantly asserted she w'ould “stick to my husband.” In any event, Philpot soon came to New York and got a job in a PWA project. But Mrs. Salamon said that so far as she knew, he had never seen Mary or “bothered her in any way” since he came to New r York.

1500 APPLY FOR JOBS AT CITY POSTOFFICE 600 Extras to Start Work for Rush on Dec. 15. More than 1500 have applied for the 600 extra jobs to be given out during the Christmas rush. Postmaster Seidensticker announced .today. Application blanks have been exhausted. One hundred jobs have been reserved for war veterans and the others will be apportioned on the basis of need. Extras are to start work Dec. 16. 70 PARK EMPLOYES TO GO IN DECEMBER Shortage in Pay Roll Given As Reason for Layoffs. Seventy park department employes will be laid off the latter part of December. Superintendent A. C. Sallee announced today. Less than SSOO remains in the pay roll to meet the weekly SI3OO figure. Mr. Sallee said, explaining that this year's budget contained SII,OOO less than last year's for labor. Forty other park employes were laid off last week.

BLUE LiST WETS LOOK OVER LAW Militant Warsaw Imhibers Cast Frantically About for Legal Loophole. Times Special' WARSAW, Ind . Nov. 22.—A militant group of the 62 men and two women Police Chief Frank Lucas Monday listed as habitual drinkers wffio were not. to be served any more is out looking for an attorney today to see what can be done. Bright-eved after three drinkless days and nights, the group is insisting to prospective counsel that their constitutional tights have been violated and that in this country a man has a legal right to get soused if he wants to. Until now they have not interested an attorney, however, because tnc lawyers have recalled the Indiana law prohibits sale of intoxicants to habituals, and thg penalty for violation attaches itself to th° seller, not the buyer. It was to liquor dealers that Chief Lucas issued th 3 lists and the warning and none has violated it. Chief Lucas, who says he is not personally a prohibitionist, says he will remain steadfast in his determination to make good boys and girls out of those listed, and says some of them have themselves com? around to his point of view'. The militant group says it will protest to Gov. McNutt and Paul P. Fry, state excise administrator, charging unwarranted discrimination. Chief Lucas claims all those listed are habitual drinkers whose drinking has interfered seriously with normal lives of their families.

TWO LAVA STREAKS PERIL HAWAII AREAS Fire Moves 15 Miles in Less Than 24 Hours. By 1 niter] Press HILO. T. H.. Nov. 22. Moving at unusual speed, two streams of fiery lava from M okuaweoweo. s:econd largest active volcano in the world, advanced steadily ort Hilo and the Kona coast, today. The northeast stream, threatening Hilo, was only 25 miles from the city. It had moved 15 miles in less than 24 hours. The lava tide washing down the other slope, toward the Kona coast, ha'd traveled an equal distance. The U. S. S. Tiger of the coast guard service was ordered to stand ! bv for emergency evacuation of the jcity and of villages along the roast of the Island of Hawaii, largest | island of the mid-Paeific group. At present the lava, which had a spread of five miles in width before it split into two streams, is working its way relentlessly through forest areas.

JAIL FOOD POISONED, COUNCIL CONVINCED W. A. Brown Reports After Investigating Case. William A. Brown, vice president of the Marion County Council, today said the investigating committee, after an examination of the County Jail, is convinced someone put a foreign substance in the food that Wednesday made a score of prisoners ill. SENTENCING OF DEAN. MASON IS DUE TODAY Convicted Killers to Re Sent to State Prison for Life. William iWillie> Mason and Edward 1 Foggyt were to b® sentenced to life imprisonment this afternoon in Criminal Court by Special Judge William H. Remy for the machinp gun killing of Sergt. Lester Jones Feb. 7. 1933. They were convicted by a jury Tuesday night.

FINAL HOME PRICE THREE CENTS

Delegates Excoriate Utilities and Holding Companies in Resolution. BACK ADMINISTRATION Hassil Schenck and Mrs, L. D. Scott. Clayton, Elected Vice Presidents. Rapping utilities and holding companies, members of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., this afternoon pledged support to the Administration in efforts to obtain favorable rates through TYA operation. The resolution was one of a series adopted by the farmers in th= concluding session of their convention at Tomlinson Hall. They lauded the AAA and cracked down on Indiana 5 tax laws, asserting the state should make the gross income tax law cany a fair share of the lax burden. "Stranglehold on Production" Operations of utilities and their holding companies were branded as 'powerful” in the resolution and the farmers charged the organizations had ”a stranglehold on pow'er production and distribution.” Delegates, in indorsing thp Administration's power rate reduction campaign, said that TVA would aid in measuring true costs of utility operation and serve as a check on rates enforced by utilities. Hassil Schenck. Lebanon, wa< re-elected first vice president, and Mrs. Lillie D. Scott. Clayton, second vice president. They, together with Lewis Tavlor. president, will serve as delegates to the national convention in Chicago. Dec. 7. 8 and 9. The convention adopted resolutions asking for lower interest rates in the Federal Land Bank: a constitutional convention to be voted upon at a special election, end retention of the primary election system. Demand Legislature Act They demanded law-enforcing agents enforce the law continuously instead of sporadically; that a uniform mortgage fee be made legal, and that laws be passed fixing financial responsibilty on motorists. They insisted the intangibles tax be doubled and that a net income tax law be enacted. They demanded the Legislature repeal the emergency clause in the $1.50 tax law at its next session, and asked that tax laws be amended to provide for an impartial tax adjustment, board. They demanded pnaet.mpnt of excise tax on all in competition with wool and they demanded Federal and state taxes on oieo. Holt Hits I'tilities Yesterday afternoon Rush D. Holt, West Virginia Senator, told the delegates public utilities of the country are attempting to control .he schools and the government and 0 manipulate the press. Private utilities, he charged, are becoming so powerful that no person or state can regulate them. The Federal government, he said, must step in when state governments can not handle the situation. ‘The utilities are not fearful of city councils,” he said, "and they are not fearful of state commissions, because they can control them. But they are fearful of expose?. Many eournmen* official merely are puppets of the financial ;nterests and want to make you pay the bill. "Hoosiers,” he said, “pav approximately $39,000,000 in electric bills each year, and you could buy the same amount of current from the Tennessee Valley Authority for $20,000,000. "In other words, the people of Indiana pay 519.00n.000 of tribute to the power companies a year -so that the holding companies can live.” 4 INJURED AS AUTO~ AND TRUCK COLLIDE Three Are Seriously Hurt in Crash at Local Intersection. Four persons, were Injured, three seriously, this afternoon when a truck and coupe collided at Rocktulle and High School-rds. The injured are: Carl Meyers. 30. Clinton, truck driver, broken left leg and back injuries. Kennnh Nelson. 27. Clinton, bruises and cuts on the face and body. Thomas Spittler. 40. of 607' W. Washington-st. internal injuries. Mrs. Lillian Spittler, 39. head injuries and lacerations.. The injured were taken to City Hospital. Meyers, hauling a load of stokers, was driving we?t on Rock-ville-rd when the Spittler coupe is said to have failed to stop at the intersection as it traveled north on th= High School-rd. WINS S7OO JUDGMENT Oscar Harris Awarded Damages by Federal Jury. Althogh he sued for $30,000 Oscar T. Harris. 401 S. Alaoama-st, truck company president, today had to oe ; content with a judgment of *7OO. A jury in Federal Court yesterday awarded him this sum in his action , against the Universal Car Loading 1 Cos. on breach of contract.