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KIRK M’KINNEY IS ASSURED OF VANNUYS’ HELP Statement Indorsing Former HOLC Chief Expected Next Friday. MINTON MAY AID PLEAS Junior Senator Listed to Speak for Greenlee That Night. BY JAMES DOSS A complete Indorsement of E. Kirk McKinney’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor Is scheduled to be made next Friday by United States Senator Frederick VanNuys, it was learned today. Thus, the eve of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association midwinter meeting publicly will find Indiana's two Senators sharply divided on the question of the next gubernatorial nominee. Senator Sherman Minton is scheduled to take the stump for Pleas Greenlee next Friday night at Mr. Greenlee's home town of Shelbyville. It generally has been conceded that. Senator VanNuvs wholeheartedly is for Mr. McKinney inasmuch as the former Indiana Home Owners Loan Corp. chief was Senator VanNuys’ floor leader in the last senatorial convention. However the Senator has made no formal statement until today. No Secret, Says VanNuys “I guess there is no secret as to where I stand,” Senator VanNuys said in Washington. “Everybody knows I’m for Kirk. Os course, I won’t make a McKinney-for-Gover-nor speech at the editorial meeting, but I think I will have something to say in support of his candidacy in a statement to the press.” Since the first announcement that Senator Minton would headline Mr. Greenlee’s home town booster meeting at Shelbyville, there has been some question whether it was not partly ballyhoo. Mr. Greenlees friends say Senator Minton is for their candidate and will remain stanchly so. Support May Be Hedged But Mr. Greenlee’s opponents say that Senator Minton’s political loyalty really belongs to Gov. McNutt and the state administration, from which Mr. Greenlee has been severed, and that the junior Senator will not be wholeheartedly for Mr. Greenlee, because of the Governor’s disapproval of his candidacy. Consequently, there is a great deal of speculation among the politically minded as to whether Senator Minton goes through with the Shelbyville schedule and if he does, as to what he will say. Apparently Gov. McNutt and that faction of the state administration responsible for Mr. Greenlee's re(Turn to Page Three)

FOUR CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM KENTUCKY PRISON Overpower Guards, Raid Arsenal, Flee ir. Taxi. By United Pr<■** FRANKFORT. Ky„ Feb. 7.—Four prisoners pretending to have orders to go outside the gates to get medicine overpowered guards at the state reformatory here today and esesfped. The prisoners, two of them convicted of murder, disarmed Robert Wells, 60. a prison guard, broke the lock on the arsenal near the gate, and hijacked a taxicab. Two attendants in the prison hospital were intimidated and Luther Dunn, another guard, was handcuffed. Those who escaped were Henry Coomer and Dexter Anderson, both sentenced for murder; Clarence Crawford, robbery, and Joe Morris, bank robbery. STOCKS IRREGULAR IN DULL MART TRADING Communications L;ad List; G. M. Continues Easy. By United Prc** NEW YORK. Feb. 7.—Stocks were irregular in dull trading today after an opening display of firmness. Communication shares again led the list. Chrysler churned about after opening, and General Motors continued easy. Atchison, Topeka <fc Santa Fe led a reaction in rails with a point decline. There was an easy tendency in some of the lower-priced utility shares. 15-OUNCE BABY GIRL HAS CHANCE TO LIVE Physicians Say Nancy Ann Voght Should Develop Normally. By United Prci* OAKLAND, Cal., Feb. 7.—'The world's smallest human probably will live and develop into a healthy, normal child, physicians announced today. She Is Nancy Ann Voght, three days old, weight 15 ounces. She is 12 inches long, her head is two and one-half inches in diameter (the size of a tennis ball) and her fingers are half an inch long. Nancy Ann was bom two months prematurely. Her mother, Ann, 38. a nurse, has not seen her. since she is incased in cotton in an incubator. Every hour she gets 30 drops of milk from an eye-dropper. Sullivans Condition Critical Condition of Sidney A. Sulivan. publicity director of L. S. Ayres & Cos., was reported today as still critical. He is at St. Vincent's Hospital suffering from pneumonia.

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FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness tonight, becoming unsettled tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight 10 to 15 above zero; much colder Sunday.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 286

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BUTLER MARKS FOUNDERS' DAY 1000 Alumni and Friends Attend Exercises on Fairview Campus. College professors must have freedom of speech if our civilization is to progress, Dr. Tolbert F. Reavis, faculty representative, told more than 1000 alumni and friends gathered in the fieldhouse today to celebrate the founding of Butler University. “If educators are to function as searchers for truth and promulgators of truth, they ought to be untrammeled in announcing and teaching their findings,” he said. ‘‘This is toe greatest bulwark of our American system. Where this has been wanting—where the college and university professors have been gagged, the day star of civilization has struck partnership with the setting sun and gone down.” Dr. Reavis gave two historic examples. The whole world knows, he said, how Spain, a few centuries ago. almost rubbed herself off the map of Europe by her intolerance to modern science and the teachings and writings of scholars of that time. He asserted the same thing now is going on in Germany. “The racial paranoia in Germany (Turn to Page Three)

BANGS PETITION FOB UTILITY IS REFUSED Public Service Commission Denies Certificate. The Indiana Public Service Commissio ntoday denied the petition of the Municipal Light and Power Cos., Inc., Huntington, for a certificate of convenience and necessity to become a second public utility in Huntington. Denial by the commission follows a day of public hearing Wednesday at which Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs of Huntington, and a delegation of Huntington citizens attacked service and facilities now offered in Huntington by the Northern Indiana Power Cos. The Bangs-backed company had incorporated with SIO,OOO common stock and SIOO,OOO preferred stock. The commission order of denial set out that; No plans ever were submitted to the commission for any contemplated generating or distribution system; no showing of competent or efficient management and personnel was made to the commission; no showing was made that persons seeking the certificate were experienced in the generation and distribution of electricity, and that no showing was made that the company would or could render satisfactory or efficient service at a fair and reasonable rate. * Two Hoosiers Die in Crash By United Pres* BRADENTON, Fla., bet —’l he bodies of Mrs. May Chainer. 31, and her foster mother. Mrs. Samue' Muscat, killed instantly when theii automobile was struck by a freight train, will be taken today to the r home in Gary, Ind., for buri il services.

Score Tied By United Press WHITING. Ind., Feb. 7. John Benak Jr., today exposed a novel plan by which he “got even” with Harry Parker, a policeman, who was the state’s star witness in Benak’s trial on charges of liquor law violation. He was convicted and sentenced to Indiana State Prison. Just prior to his departure he muttered. “I’ll get even with that copper if it’s the last thing T do.” The Whiting youth hardly h-d left prison after serving his term when he spied his adversary’s comely daughter, Bernice. There was a she~t courtship and a hasty marriage. The marital bliss had last<!d only a few days when Benak told his young bride he was “through.” “I just married you to get even with your old man,” he explained. Mrs. Benak won a default divorce after relating her story to Judge Strickland in City Court.

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Public Has Reformed, Not Movies, Exchange Club Members Told. “Today’s nominations of Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone, for best performance award in a moving picture during the last year show the trend in movies which means that it is the public which has reformed, and not really the movies.” That is what Will H. Hays Jr., son of the film czar, told members of Indianapolis Exchange Club at luncheon today in the Washington. “ ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ is a fine example of modern pictures and if this is what the people want, the producers will see that they get it. Censorship, specifically the example when the League of Decency made that trouble some time ago, merely points the way for Hollywood,” he said. “I have seen Cecil B. DeMille, directing ‘The Crusades,’ scrap a shot which cost $25,000 because one oi the extras was shown wearing a wrist watch, but they don’t throw money away without cause. After all, hamburgers are only a nickle in Hollywood just as they are anywhere,” Mr. Hays said. He Picks Marsh, Shearer “My favorite actor and actress? Well, I’d pick Fredric March and Norma Shearer, I think.” Mr. Hays, a 19-year-old. Wabash College junior, spends his summers in Hollywood but attends the Hoosier college because of his father’s connection there. He said he liked “small colleges.” “I worked on a pick and shovel gang on the roads out there last year,” Hayes said, “but I doubt if I will next summer. But I wouldn’t take a job which would disappoint any of the thousands who come out there looking for work. Not unless I could get the job under another name.” He told then of Jack Oakie. whose jokes fell so flat at a party one night that the comedian left, returned a few minutes later with his hand-picked audience. He had hired a dozen stooges who were instructed to laugh every time Oakie opened his mouth. GREEN PESSIMISTIC OVER JOB OUTLOOK 11,401,000 Still Unemployed, Labor Chief Says. if./ United Pres* WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Unemployment in December was at the lowest point since March, 1933, but still was 11,401,000, William Green, American Federation of Labor president, said today. Mr. Green said that while conditions at the start of the year are “more encouraging, 1 ' a nation-wide survey disclosed that employment has not kept pace with business recovery. “The gains we have made are of small significance when compared with the magnitude of the problem we face,” he said. “No solution is yet in sight.” Times Index Page Amusements 14 Births. Deaths 12 Comics 29 Editorial 20 Financial 22 Food Pages 23-24-25 Mrs. Roosevelt . 16 Pegler 19 Radio 4 Serial Story ; 17 Sports 26-27 State Deaths 12 Want Ads 27-28 Woman's Pages 16-17

103 City Boy Scout Troops Join U. S. Celebration; Roosevelt Is to Broadcast Anniversary Message

(Pictures on Page Three) One hundred three Indianapolis Boy Scout troops today joined troops throughout the nation in observance of National Scout Week. President Roosevelt, as honorary president of the Scouts, is to broadcast a twenty-sixth anniversary message from the White House tomorrow to commemorate the organisation's silver jubilee year in America. The observance locally is to be featured by father and son banquets, scouting events and dra-

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Laughton, Gable and Tone Get Call for Work in 'The Bounty/ By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7.—Six actresses and four actors, three of them from the same picture, today were nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 1936 achievement awards, filmdom's highest honors. For the first time three men who appeared in one picture were considered for the prize bestowed for the best performance of 1935. They are Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone, who starred in “Mutiny on the Bounty.” The picture also was included among the 12 nominated for the best film of the year and its director was a contender for the prize in his division of film work. Winners will be announced March 6, at the academy's eighth annual banquet. Victor McLaglen was the fourth nominee for the men’s award for his work in “The Informer.” Six Women Nominated The six women nominated for honors in the actress’ division were Elisabeth Bergner for “Escape Me Never,” Claudette Colbert for “Private Worlds,” Bette Davis for “Dangerous,” Katharine Hepburn for “Alice Adams,” “Miriam Hopkins for “Becky Sharp,” and Merle Oberon for “Tlie Dark Angel.” Nominated for the best production prize were “Alice Adams,” “Broadway Melody of 1936,” “Captain Blood,” “David Copperfield,” “The Informer,” “Les Miserables,” “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Mutiny on the Bounty,” “Naughty Marietta,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” and “Top Hat.” Nominations for the best song were “Cheek to Cheek,” from “Top Hat,” by Irving Berlin; “Lovely to Look At,” from “Roberta,” Jerome Kern and James McHugh; “Lullaby of Broadway,” from “Gold Diggers of 1935,” by Harry Warren and A1 Dubin. Three nominated for the directors’ award were John Ford for “The Informer.” Henry Hathaway for “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” and Frank Lloyd for “Mutiny on the Bounty.”

MINE UNION OFFICERS REFUSE PAY INCREASES Convention Ends on Dramatic Note at Washington. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The United Mine Workers’ convention ended on a dramatic note today with executive officers turning down proposed salary increases and delegates emphasizing their determination to press the fight for industrial unionization. President John L. .Lewis sent the 1700 delegates back to the nation's coal pits with a speech refusing to accept a pay raise from $12,000 to $25,000, voted yesterday. The convention, meanwhile, decided to lift contract schedules to allow union members to work an extra day a week to produce coal needed for the emergency in areas suffering from severe cold spells. DOG SAVES INJURED B°-V Drags Unconscious Youth Home After Fall From Haymow. By United Press CROOKSVILLE. 111., Feb. 7. Harlan Spencer. 10. fell backwards from a haymow, cutting a deep gash in his head. He lay unconscious in zero weather. His shepherd dog dragged him to within sight of the farm home, where his mother rescued him.

matics. Troop 44, led by Scoutmaster J. J. McGowan, is to hold a father and son banquet tonight. Troop 7, under the leadership of Charles E. West, is to have a similar celebration tomorrow night, and Troops 24 and 78 have planned banquets and special programs for next week. Observances tomorrow include the'Annual Senior Scout Rally to be held in the evening at Tomlinson Hall. Deputy Commissioners H. T. Vitz, Lloyd Byrne and W. A. Sanford are to have charge.

PROBE DISPELS SUSPICIONS IN FIRE DEATHS Mrs. Stewart Victim of Burns, Shock, Finding in Autopsy. FAMILY IS SATISFIED Double Pneumonia Fatal to Husband; Wiring Is Investigated. An autopsy performed on the body of Mrs. Robert S. Stewart, 32, revealed that she died of third-de-gree burns and shock resulting from the fire in her apartment early yesterday, Dr. John A. Salb, deputy coroner, said this afternoon. Mrs. Stewart and her husband died yesterday after the fire at 3640 N. Meridian-st. Mr. Stewart died of double pneumonia following inhalation of smoke. The autopsy was performed by Dr. Salb last night at the request of Mrs. Bert Gillespie, Shelbyville, Mrs. Stewart’s mother. Blaze Cause Investigated Mark Mercer, coroner's special investigator, said that three spots in the apartment burned more than the rest of the apartment were where electric sockets had been attached. Mr. Mercer said he was investigating the theory that the fire was caused by defective wiring rather than by cigaret burns, a theory held by Fire Department officials. Both bodies were released today, Mrs. Stewart's to C. F. Fix & Son, Shelbyville, and Mr. Stewart's to Shirley Brothers, 946 N. Illinois-st. Services have not been arranged. Suspicions of foul play in Mrs. Stewart’s death, reported to have been held by her family, were proved false by Dr. Salb’s examination. Mrs. Gillespie said she was satisfied with his findings.

STICKERS RUN LOW, TRAFFIC WAR HALTS Situation Proves Source of Embarrassment. The sudden lull in the police traffic drive is due to the meager supply of old stickers, the traffic department admitted today with some embarassment. Conserving the dwindling supply, police issued about 10 stickers this week up to yesterday noon. Only four officers have stickers. The motorist who thinks he can take advantage of the lack of stickers may be so unfortunate as to insult one of the four policemen with stickers. The traffic department won’t divulge their names. The cold weather came to the aid of police, because fewer autos were on the streets and motorists drive more carefully when roads are icy. Traffic Capt. Lewis Johnson said. A1 Schlensker, secretary to Chief Morrissey, cautiously said he thinks that the stickers will be in today from New York. NEW COLD WAVE IS FORECAST FOB CITY Temperatures to Be Much Lower Sunday. Anew cold wave, bringing “much lower temperatures Sunday,” is forecast for Indianapolis, whose citizens only today moved about outside with any degree of comfort after a prolonged siege of bitter weather. Tonight the lowest temperature is to be 10 to 15 above zero, with cloudiness and unsettled weather tomorrow. At noon the temperature was 28. The new bitter wave will find the city side streets and (Turn to Page Three) FAR MBILL”DELAYED AS SENATE RECESSES Capital Blizzard Keeps Members From Scheduled Debate. P<> United Press WASHINGTON. Feb., 7.—Senate vote on the Administration’s new farm program today was delayed until next week when the Senate recessed until Monday due to a blizzard in the capital. Administration leaders had hoped to complete Senate consideration of the bill this week. At the same time prospect of a House controversy over the measure developed when three conflicting reports on the bill were filed by House Agriculture Committee members.

A dramatic presentation of “The Onward March of Scouting," is to be broadcast over radio station WFBM from 4 to 4:15 p. m. and over station WIRE from 5 to 5:15 o'clock. A 12-piece choir representing the Indianapolis Boy Scout Band also is to be featured. Mr. Byrne, commissioner of the Garfield district, is to direct. Special emphasis in the observance this year is to be placed upon | the traditions of scouting and the I leaders who have been active in ' the organization in iU quarter-

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Trouble broke out again today at the New Albany plant of M. Fine & Sons, Inc., shirt factory, resulting in the arrest of two strike sympathizers. The photo shows a group of workers, who have special police protection, entering the shirt company factory. Only recently was the National Guard withdrawn from New Albany and Jeffersonville following labor disorders.

$500,000 May Be Sought for Gamewell Expansion Superintendent of Fire, Police Alarm System Launches Survey as First Step Toward Modernization. BY TOM OCHILTREE A survey of police and fire department equipment was launched today by Thomas Haefling. Gamewell superintendent, and Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy, as the first step in a $500,000 program to modernize and expand the city's alarm system.

PRESIDENT STUDIES RELIEF FUND NEEDS Definite Estimate Now Is Impossible, He Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—President Roosevelt was disclosed today to be studying the amount of funds needed for relief between now and July 1 in connection with his chec.rup on government spending and ts x requirements. The amount necessary to car y on relief until July was discussed by the President and the heads of various government spending agencies at the White House yesterday. In connection with the tax program which is to be presented to Congress within about a week, the President has indicated an effort to put the brakes on three years of unprecedented peace-time spending. He said no definite estimate of relief costs could be made at the present time. He revealed that an investigation was being made to determine whether relief could be carried on with existing allotments or whether transfer of additional funds from unexpended allocations of other departments would be necessary. 44 PAROLES GRANTED BY BOARD AT PRISON Seven Petitions Denied; Leniency for Two at Reformatory Advised. Kn United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 7. —Forty-four paroles were granted last night by the board of trustees of the Indiana State Prison. Seven petitions of prisoners who have completed their minimum terms were rejected and seven cases were continued. Two reformatory cases were recommended for parole. BELMONT-AV PAVING APPROVED BY BOARD Labor to Be Furnished by WPA; Cost to City Set at $7297. The Works Board today authorized the paving and curbing of Belmont-av from Oliver-av to Wy-oming-st at an estimated cost of $7297 to the city. Labor is to be paid for by the Works Progress Administration under a blanket grant.

century of existence in this country. F. O. Belzer, local scout executive, has been in charge of headquarters here since 1915. The first Indianapolis troop was founded in 1910. Dr. James E. West, chief scout executive, has been actively engaged in scouting since its introduction into the United States. In 26 years 7,000.000 men and boys have belonged to the Boy Scouts of America. Os this number, 1,300,000 now are active. • - - . - - * .* - v•• -

They hope, within a year, to install 300 additional telegraph boxes, to move the fire Gamewell division from the fourth floor of the City Hall to a one-story building and to cut operating costs. “If these changes can be. made, Indianapolis can expect a reduction in fire insurance rates,” Mr. Haefling said. “The Fire Underwriters’ Association has recommended that this work be carried out as soon as possible. Buildings Were “Black Spots” “We gained a reduction recently because the old Denison Hotel was dismantled and a sprinkler system was installed in Tomlinson Hall. These two buildings,” he added, “were classed by insurance men as black spots in the mile square.” The underwriters aie dissatisfied, however, with the Gamewell system, Mr. Haefling said. The present equipment is 35 years old and is too cumbersome and heavy for efficient service, officials said. Since the fire Gamewell center is not located on a ground floor, there is always danger, he said, that something may happen to the suspended cables that lead inti this nerve center. “A bad fire in City Hall,” he pointed out, “would paralyze the system. We hope to erect anew building in one of the public parks that is to be used for no other purpose.” Systems Are Separate Police and fire networks now are separate systems. When new boxes are installed, they are for the use of either department. New boxes also are to be equipped with bells which ring whenever a call is made. Because of the attention which they attract, fewer false alarms probably will be turned in, he said. It is estimated that the needs at least 300 more boxes. Putting in new cables and installing and renumbering the boxes is a task which is to take a year to complete, Mr. Haefling said. U. S. MOVE DOOMS BRUNJVIS OPINION G-Men Refuse to Reopen Kidnaping Probe. Bp United Pre* TRENTON, N. J.. Feb. 7.—Refusal of the Department of Justice to re-enter the Lindbergh case and development of a political war made Bruno Richard Hauptmann's death next month seem virtually certain today. Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, who saved Hauptmann with a 30-day reprieve last month, replied to an attempt to depose him from party leadership by warning the Republican State Committee off gubernatorial preserves, but many observers believed he had accepted an implied rebuke for his much-criticised intercession for Hauptmann. Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings refused flatly to grant a request from State Police Chief H. Norman Schwarzkopf for reassignment of Federal agents to the Lindbergh case. So far as the Federal government is concerned, the case is closed, Mr. Cummings said.

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150 Demanding Release of Two Pickets Dispersed by Deputies. NO CALL FOR TROOPS Trouble Flares Again in Labor Dispute at Shirt Plant. Timr* Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 7.—Sheriffs deputies today used tear gas to disperse a crowd of approximately 150 sympathizers who sought to release two strike pickets from the Floyd County jail. Col. Paul E. Fechtman, Indiana National Guard observer, said local authorities handled the situation efficiently and he anticipated no no request for recalling the National Guard. The prisoners were two men alleged to have been picketing the plant of M. Fine & Son, shirt manufacturers, focal point of labor disturbances, which precipitated proclamation of martial law In Clark and Floyd Counties Jan. 20. Enter Jail Office A few members of the crowd, which included a number of women, gained entrance to the jail office but were driven out by a dozen deputies. The men were arrested on inciting to riot charges when they resisted efforts of deputies to disperse a group gathered near the Fine factory. deputies said. The men, Charles Martin, 35, and Roscoe Taylor, 25. were started toward the police station, but when a crowd of sympathizers followed closely they were rushed to the county jail. One Taken to Hospital Delbert Steveas, 22, a strike sympathizer, was taken to a hospital for treatment when overcome by tear gas. Col. Fechtman said that local forces, augmented by 63 extra deputies, were able to handle the situation without any assistance from the National Guard. The two counties were removed from martial law jurisdiction Jan. 30 by Gov. McNutt. Workers at the Fine company plants here and at Jeffersonville have been on strike for more than three months. M’Nutt Gets Report Gov. McNutt said today that any request for recall of the National Guard would have to come from local authorities in New Albany and that he was in communication with Col. Paul E. Fechtman. Indianapolis, National Guard observer. AGREEMENT ON WAGES ENDS HOUSING STRIKE Mason Tenders Here Accept Scales Effective to Sept. 1. Mason tenders employed on the low cost housing project under construction near City Hospital have accepted wage scales which are to continue in effect until Sept. 1, .it was reported today. An hourly wage of 72 Vs cents is to be paid until May 1 and a wage of 80 cents an hour from then to Sept. 1, it was said. The mason tenders have been on strike with ironworkers, carpenters and truck drivers on the project who object to the scale set by the Federal government in its specifications. Federation of Labor is reported to have named a board to go into the matter of wage scales paid craftsmen on Federal projects. CHRYSLER PLANT FIRE BURNS TWO CRITICALLY One-Story Unit at Detroit Wrecked by Explosion, Blaze. By United Pri ss DETROIT. Feb. 7.—Two employes of the Chrysler Motor Corp. received probably fatal bums today when fire and explosion wrecked a onestory unit in which they were working with a blow torch. The victims, Fred Clements, 43, and Robert McCarthy. 35. were taken to Harper Hospital. It wtw believed the fire started when sparks from the blow torch struck the highly inflammable paint material. Firemen, responding to three alarms, brought the flames under control after an hour. 89-YEAR-OLD FATHER KILLS WIFE’S RELATIVE Prolonged Bickering Climaxed With Shotgun Slaying in Missouri. By United Press KEARNEY. Mo., Feb. 7.— The octogenarian father of a 10-month-old child today shot and killed the stepfather of his 22-year-old wife. Zenus F. Milburn, 89, slew Jacob Fiscus, 60, with a shotgun, then drew up a chair near the body and sat quietly watching it until the town marshal took him to jail. I The victim’s wife was the only witness to the violent ciimax to prolonged bickering between Milburn and Fiscus.