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DIRTY POLITICS BLAMED FOR LASH MURDER 11 Floridans Are Indicted After Kidnapings and Deadly Assault. 3 MEN BEATEN HORRIBLY Victims Abducted at Portals of Tampa City Hall, Tarred, Feathered. Thl* is th? first of a series of dispatches on the notorious floggings and murder *t Tampa last November, a brutal exploit which is having violent political repe.tussions. BY DAVID E. SMILEY Editor of The Tampa Daily Times TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 20—What is the truth about Tampa’s flogging murder? Winter visitors here almost invariably ask this question. They want to know by what authority six policemen entered a private home, without legal warrants, where Joseph A. Shoemaker, Eugene F. Poulnot and Sam D. Rogers were framing a constitution for a political party called the Modern Democrats, arrested them and took them to City Hall for questioning late on the night of last Nov. 30. They ask who was responsible for handing the men over at the very portals of City Hall to abductors who took them in automobiles to a dark street, where other cars were waiting, and then drove them 14 miles into the country where they were shockingly beaten, tarred and feathered. What Was Motive? What, they want to know, was the motive for the cruelty, especially visited upon Mr. Shoemaker, who was beaten unconscious and died nine days later after surgeons had attempted to save him by amputating a leg? Did the Ku-Klnx Klan do this? Were the victims Communists trying to undermine the governmen? How was it possible to kidnap the men in the heart of a busy city, with Saturday night crowds on the streets, without attracting attention? What is behind it? There is just one answer. Rotton politics. Crooked, dirty, corrupt politics. That and nothing else. Poulnot Had Had Trouble Mr. Shoemaker, although only recently a resident of Tampa, had dared to organize an independent party to oppose the machine running the city go’vefnment. Mr. Poulnot, associated with Mr. Shoemaker in this movement, had (Turn to Page Five) GOODYEAR ASKS FOR PICKETING INJUNCTION Suit Seek* to Restrain Strikers’ Activities at Akron. By United I'rexx AKRON, O. Feb. 20.—The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Cos. today sought an injunction to restrain rubber workers from chain picketing and interference with Goodyear employes and shipments. The company filed suit after Sheriff James T. Flotfer announced plans to commission 1000 special deputies to break mass picketing in protest of dismissal of 70 veteran tire builders. Simultaneously, Goodyear officials locked the main gates to their three plants, besieged by irate, shivering pickets since midnight Monday. Strike leaders asked that the city's liquor supply be cut off during duration of the controversy. COMMERCE CHAMBER COMMITTEES NAMED Appointments for Year Announced by George S. Olive, President. Chamber of Commerce committees for the year were announced today by George S. Olive, president. Chairmen are: Agriculture. John A. Brookbank; athletics. Wallace O. Lee; aviation. Walker W. Winslow; building industry. Robert S. Foster; civic affairs, William Fortune; education. Paul C. Stetson; finance, James S. Rogan; fire prevention. Rank C. Jordan, and foreign trade, J. M. Bloch. MRS. ELLA HITCH DIES Frincoton Woman Served as State Democratic Club Officer. Bit United Prexx PRINCETON. Ind.. Feb. 20 Mrs. Ella Hitch. 71, former vice president of the State Women’s DemocraticClub, died at her home today after *n attack of pneumonia. She also had sc r ved as vice chairman of the old First District and of Gibson County. TIMES INDEX Amusements 16-17 Births, Deaths 20 Books 13 Bridge 10 Broun .. .T. 13 Cornice 21 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Merry-Go-Round 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 10 Pegler 13 Radio 6 Serial Story 11 Sporta 18-19 Want Ala 20 Women’s Pages 10-11

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MOVIE DIRECTOR PROUD OF QUINS Henry King Considers 'The Country Doctor’ His Best Talkie. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON The first liquid given the famous Dionne quintuplets was rum, 10 drops of it in water. That was when they were only a few minutes old, according to Henry King, Twentieth Century-Fox movie director. He plowed his bright red plane through the snow at the Municipal airport yesterday afternoon and chatted for an hour at the restaurant with local newspaper and theater men. Mr. King, who directed the quins in “The Country Doctor,” the serialization of which starts Monday in The Times, got his information from Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe, pretty good authority. “Dr. Dafoe told me.” Mr. King said, “that he had gone without sleep for 24 hours before the Dionnes were born. Some other Canadian lady had had twins the night before and his practice had kept him up all that day. When he got word to come to the Dionnes, he could hardly get himself awake.” Mr. King sipped coffee and bit into a toasted sandwich, went on, “One baby had been born when Dr. Dafoe got there. He thought that was all there was going to be. When the second one came, he thought he was dreaming, had to pinch himself to keep awake. And after the fifth one was born he was sure it was all a nightmare.” According to Mr. King, Dr. Dafoe was not surprised when the five babies, spread out on the only sheet in the Dionne household, turned black first, then purple. But he snapped in to action they started to pale. “I would have given them anything,” the doctor told Mr. King. "I knew they were the only quintuplets ever born alive. So I mixed up ten drops of rum in water and used an eye-dropper to get it down them. The sugar in the stuff made (Turn to Page Eight)

DRASTIC ARMS BILL GIVEN SENATE 0. K. Regulatory Measure Goes to House for Action. By United Prexx WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The Senate sought to aid disarmament of the underworld today by passing a bill to regulate interstate shipment of all firearms. Coincident with Munitions Committee testimony as to the ability of criminals or even would-be revolutionists to secure arms, the Senate acted on the drastic measure which had been pending since last August. The firearms regulation bill now goes to the House for consideration. FIRE DESTROYS CHURCH Overheated Stoves Used to Cook Chicken Supper Blamed. PLYMOUTH. Ind., Feb. 20.—Overheated stoves that cooked a chicken supper last night caused a fire early today that destroyed the $50,000 Methodist Church at Walkerton, 12 miles northeast of here.

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BY VERN MARSHALL 2, go to 214 W. Maryland-st, pick up a man. Central 2. go to . . . ” Patrolmen James Senteney and Forest Watson looked at each other and wondered what could be happening so early. They had just gone to work. “Well, what have you been doing?” they asked when they reached their destination. “I’ve been working,” the man replied. “Now I'm going to watch you work.” "Very well.” said Copper Watson. "climb in. If you can stand the alcohol fumes —from the radiator, of course—and you look to me as if you can, you're welcome.” And so I began my .two-hour policing of policemen. # * a "Central 2. go to 1271 W. New York-st, man beating woman. Central 2 "

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NEW REDFERN STORY BRINGS PROBEORDER State Department Acts After Report Flier Is Held in Brazil Jungle. CONSUL TO INVESTIGATE Aerial Searcher Said to Be Convinced Aviator Is Prisoner. By United Prex WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The State Department today ordered investigation of the possibility that Paul Redfern, American aviator lost on a flight to South America nine years ago, is a captive of savages in the jungles of North Brazil. The United States consul at Trinidad. British West Indies, was ordered to investigate the latest reports of private expeditions that the missing flier was believed to have been located near the village of Spokat or the village of Duniya, both near the Brazilian frontier. These advices, relayed by British diplomatic channels in Brazil, came to the State Department indirectly from Art Williams, who has been conducting an aerial search for Redfern. Williams was described as visiting a village where he was convinced Redfern was held, but as failing to se the missing flier. Williams Denies Story By United Prexx GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, Feb. 20.—There is no definite evidence that Paul Redfern, American flier missing since 1927 while on a flight from Georgia to Rio De Janeiro, is alive, Art Williams, aviator who returned from an exhaustive air search for Redfern, said today. “I never saw Redfern or his plane,” Williams said, denying a statement issued by Alfred Harrod, newspaper man of Paramibo, Dutch Guiana, that he and Williams had found Redfern alive and talked to him. “I met the Kayser expedition (one of the searching parties) but I don’t recall meeting Harrod,” Williams said. “His report is all wrong.” „ “When I see Redfern,” Williams continued, “I’ll bring him into town. I don’t know whether he is there; whether dead or alive; whether crippled or married, but from my talks with Indians I behove I was in the right locality.”

WARM SUN CHASES TEMPERATURE TO 22 Respite From Bitter Cold Brings Out Shoppers. A warm sun and a temperature of 22 this afternoon brought to downtown streets shoppers who have been confined to their homes by the cold wave. Relief from the intense cold came today in time, possibly, to save Hoosier communities from a threatened fuel famine. Even so, the threat of no fuel for domestic heating plants continues and will become more serious if the weather turns worse before miners can get into full activity and refill retail coal yards. The Weather Bureau predicts a possibility of snow tonight and tomorrow and continued cloudy skies. The lowest temperatures tonight are forecast at between 10 ana 15. Threat of a flood was definitely stayed when the cold wave locked snow and rain to the ground in ice. Fear Fuel Shortage By United Prexx LAGRANGE, Ind., Feb. 20.—Moderating weather was the only hope today of averting a serious fuel famine which threatened Lagrange and surrounding towns. Dealers’ supplies of coal were exhausted, and no new shipments were in prospect until the end of the week.

/"'VFF we go, over ice-covered streets, sliding through 5 o'clock traffic. "It always happens this way,” remarks Officer Senteney. "Here we are at South and Meridian-sts, the southeast corner of our beat, and the call comes from the northwest corner. Seems like we’re always where they aren't.” A squalid house—barren room —three sniffling babies, a red-eyed young mother, a wrinkled grandmother, a bruised husband, huddle around an ancient stove, as the men enter. It was the old story. Clarence came home drunk. He'd spent most of his money. Frances, his wife, had taken the remaining $7 from his pocket. He had asked for it. She gave him $5. He wanted the other $2. An argument— neighbors called the police. "Why don’t you let her keep the $7?” asks Officer Watson. "You've had your fun.”

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RHINELANDER DIESIN EAST Pneumonia Is Fatal to Plaintiff in Notorious Annulment. By United Presx LONG BEACH, N. Y., Feb. 20. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, 33, wealthy young socialite who 12 years ago dragged one of the proudest names of New York through a sordid trial, died here today from pneumonia. Rhinelander, former husband of Alice Beatrice Jones, quadroon daughter of a Negro hack-driver, died unexpectedly. He had been ill only a few days. Since the court struggles which he undertook to free himself from his cross-blood wife, young Rhinelander had lived almost in seclusion. He was seen only at his desk in the real estate office of his father, Maj. Philip Rhinelander. In the annulment trial at White Plains, Rhinelander contended that if his wife did not commit an affrmative fraud by concealing her racial background, she at least committed a negative fraud by failing to reveal it to him. The prosecution claimed that Miss Jones, wise in the ways of the world, had taught love-making to the unsophisticated Rhinelander. The jury returned a verdict finding that Rhinelander, at the time of his marriage, was “fully cognizant” that his bride was the daughter of a white mother and a halfNegro father. The marriage was dissolved in December, 1929, when Rhinelander obtained a decree in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Jones received a large out-of-court settlement, rumored to be between $250,000 and $500,000 plus alimony. In return, she agreed never to use the Rhinelander name and to drop a $500,000 alienation of affections suit she had filed against Rhinelander’s father. She has lived in virtual retirement since then. 300 TO BE REHIRED WITH GOOD WEATHER Park Board Ready to Put Staff to Work, Says Sallee. Three hundred Park Board employes who were laid off during the winter will be rehired when the weather improves, A. C. Sallee, superintendent, said today. Mr. Sallee also ordered all greens foremen at municipal golf courses to start an inventory on equipment. Kern Better, Stays Home Mayor K?rn. recovering at his home, 236 15. 15th-st, from a severe cold, is not expected to return to his office this week, his secretary, Joe Tynan, said today. .

"I need shoes and clothes. So do the babies,” the wife sobs, looking down at what once had been a pair of shoes. "I’ll give her the money,” mumbles Clarence, almost apologetically. "She can get tire shoes. I want her to.” "Don't take him away,” pleads the wife. "He’s a good man—except when he goes out with that gang at the plant and gets drunk. He doesn’t do it very often.” "Listen, buddy, you give your wife that money. Let her buy what she wants. And don’t you bother her any more about it. If we have to come back here again, we'll lock you up. That's for sure. Say, where did you get the cut ana cruises on your face?” "I fell off the davenport last night when I was drunk.” m u a THAT'S the way it usually is.” says Officer Senteney as we drive away.

PAL SLAIN, 2 TO FACE CITY JUDGETODAY Suspects to Be Arraigned at 3 for Robbery, Auto Banditry. PHOTOS ARE IDENTIFIED Pair to Be Requestioned About Local Grocery Holdups. Their companion in crime dead — a victim of police bullets —two robbery suspects, nabbed in a dramatic chase last night, were to be arraigned in municipal court 3 this afternoon on charges of robbery and auto banditry. The alleged gunmen are John Faulk, 64, of 1011 Sanders-st, and Wade Stiles, 1107 Owosso-av. Their slain pal, Howard Lipscomb, 34, of 4626 Hovey-st, a tavern piano player, was shot through the heart in the East Side gun battle. It was indicated the two would be questioned again concerning recent grocery holdups. Deputy sheriffs said their descriptions tallied with the ones given in several West Side stickups. Pictures Are Identified Pictures of Stiles and Faulk were identified today by two employes of the Dady grocery, 4301 W. Washing-ton-st, as the gunmen who held up that store on Dec. 24, police said. A cap said to have been dropped by Stiles during the chase was brought to detective headquarters today by Roland C. Snider, 311 N. Summit, a former deputy sheriff, who said he found it in his yard. Mr. Snider said that he saw Stiles in his yard during the chase and. thinking he was a prowler, grabbed a butcher knife and chased him away. Later, a .38-caliber revolver found at 302 N. State-av by George Wittemier, a filling station attendant at State and Marlowe-avs, was given detectives. It had not been fired. Police believe the weapon was the one carried by Faulk when he eluded pursuing officers. Force Car to Curb The bullet-punctuated chase started after the trio is alleged to have held up employes in Standard groceries at 2007 E. Minnesota-st and 423 Harris-av. Harry Gist, manager ol the Minnesota-st store, was beaten with revolver butts. Police were given the license number of the alleged bandit car by Tarius Tripp, 500 S. Temple-av. Sergt. Ed Kruse and two patrolmen, John Sullivan and Herman Feltman, cruising in the neighborhood, picked (Turn to Page Three) NEW ARREST JUNKS JUNK CASEWCTURY Goldsmith Is Accused Again After Acquittal. At 9:20 this morning, Samuel M. Goldsmith thought his troubles with South Side residents were all ironed out. At 9:50, Mr. Goldsmith knew he was mistaken. First, a charge that he was operating a junkyard at 2128 S. Meri-dian-st without a city permit was dismissed by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers on grounds of insufficient evidence. Mr. Goldsmith contended that the alleged “junk” to which neighbors objected was left by a firm which occupied the building previously. Feeling elated, Mr. Goldsmith was surprised when, 30 minutes later, he was arrested again on the same charge on another affidavit filed by another property owner. He was ordered to appear tomorrow. South Siders have sworn that Mr. Goldsmith will have no peace of mind until his alleged junkyard is moved. It looks like they mean it. Bar Association Head Dies BEDFORD. Ind., Feb. 20.—Robert N. Palmer, 87, president of the Lawrence County Bax‘ Association and former juvenile court judge, died at his home here yesterday after a long illness.

"Do you have many runs like this?” "Car 31. go to W. 25th-st. Man beating woman. Car 31 ...” growls the police radio, which seems answer enough. There are two more calls just like it during the next hour. ""Now if a woman would beat a man that would be real news,” I remark. "We get some of them, too,” says Jimmy, and turning to his partner: "Remember the gravy thrower?” He explains: “One Sunday morning, we were sent on a call to stop a family fight. When we got there, we found a man and his wife going round and round. We asked them why. Well,’ said the husband. I bought anew suit last night. During dinner today she sat opposite me and flipped gravy at me with a spoon.’ “ ‘Why the target practice?’ we asked the wife. “‘ I just wanted to see if he

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Bear Fact By United Prexx HERSHEY, Pa.. Feb. 20. Winter is over. Ward R. Walker, zoo director, announced today. His grizzly bear hibernated Jan. 1 and came out yesterday in the sunshine. “Grizzly bears in captivity rarely ever hibernate,” Mr. Walker said. “This is the first year that one of our grizzlies really hibernated. His coming out convinces me that the cold weather is over.”

STERN AIDS TO ASK NEW TRIAL Three Salesmen Intend to File Motions in U. S. Court Today. Attorneys for three investment salesmen convicted of mail fraud in Federal Court yesterday plan to file motions for new trials with Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell this afternoon. Meanwhile, two defendants, Louis Stern, 72-year-old president of Louis Stern & Cos., and Sam Schweitzer, 42, alleged “financial wizard,” are being held in the United States Marshal’s office until SIO,OOO appeal bail can be raised. . Harry N. Collins, president of H. N. Collins Cos., was released on his original bond of $2500. Seven salesmen, Ronald P. Henry, Robert Polhamus, Albert Tieman, Morris Nieman, Gerald Capoot, Arnold T. Bunt and H. H. Cleveland, were acquitted by the jury which deliberated two hours. Judge Robert C. Baltzell announced that he would sentence Stern, Schweitzer and Collins on Feb 29. Stern, Collins and Schweitzer were convicted on 16 counts charging use of the mails to defraud. Each count carries a maximum sentence of five years. They were charged on another count with conspiracy, which carries a maximum of three years. Trial Lasted 10 Days The original indictment carried 45 counts, but 28 were stricken out by Judge Baltzell. The judge’s instructions to the jury lasted 45 minutes. Trial of the 10 defendants started 10 days ago. Although 15 defendants were named in the indictments went on trial. Miss Myrtle Carbaugh, Earl Warren, Alfred H. Peterkin and George B. Hoague are fugitives. James Mintz, office boy, was discharged early in the trial on a directed verdict. The government based its case on using the mails in a conspiracy to sell securities locally without delivering certificates. The securities were sold on an installment basis and before the customer completed the final monthly payment testimony revealed that high-pressure methods were used to “switch” the customer to another higher priced stock. DR. TOWNSEND FACES CONGRESSIONAL QUIZ House Committee to Call Pension Advocate in Investigation. By United Prexx WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The House Committee to investigate the Townsend and other old age pension plans is to question Dr. Francis E. Townsend, Rep. C. Jasper Bell announced today. Thief Takes 100 Light Bulbs A thief took the trouble to steal 100 light bulbs, valued at 30 cents each, after removing them from lights on the front of Zaring Theater, 2741 Central-av, early today.

would get mad,’ she said. “He did.” U tt tt ANOTHER half hour of cruising, listening to squawking radio, and we get to talking. "Yes, that radio does get on your nerves at times. After about seven hours, you feel lots of times like kicking it right out of the door. But you don’t. "How many miles do we cover in a night? Well, sometimes 20, sometimes 40. It's all according to how busy we are. I remember one night when we made 12 runs. We were so busy that I dropped in to get a cup of coffee, and had to go back five times before I finished it. "Say, a bowl of that hot stew certainly Would taste good right now. Just the thing to warm us up for the rest of the night.” Which is my cue. I unload, dragging two half-frozen feet behind me across the icy sidewalk. I wonder how Clarence is doing today.

Convicted Killer Knew He, Had Ransom Money, Official Reports. TALKS OFTEN IN CELL German Carpenter Looked Upon as One Not to Be Trusted. BY' ROBERT MUSEL (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 20. —From the deat.i house of State Prison there came today the sensational charge that Bruno Richard Hauptmann, despite his testimony at Flemington, knew when the first Lindberg-h ransom bill left his hands that he was distributingl the most widely advertised Currency in the world. This and other hitherto unrevealed bits of information gleaned from the convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby In his day-to-day conversations with guards was disclosed today to the United Press by an official source within the prison gates. On the witness stand during the trial that ended with his sentence to death, Hauptmann swore that he had spent the money he insisted was left in his home by the late Isidor Fisch without any investigation into its origin. Makes Other Statements “From certain occurrences I would say definitely that Hauptmann did know he was passing ransom money from the very first,” the United Press was told. Hauptmann, it was said, has also made at least one other statement contradicting his Flemington testimony, and once sent his guards searching for hidden meanings in an enigmatic statement concerning his reasons for not immediately informing the investigators who arrested him that he had another cache of money hidden in a board in his garage. This hoard was found with a revolver in holes gouged in the board. “I was more afraid they would find the gun than the money,” Hauptmann was quoted as having said. Not Considered Trustworthy The picture of Hauptmann in Cell 9 of the death house drawn for the United Press, shows him to be far from the taciturn prisoner of the early days of |ha case. He talks frequently but none of what he says is dicounted by his listeners who consider him not entirely trustworthy. This is based on one incident when his case was under discussion. Althought the subject matter of this conversation could not be revealed for publication, the United Press was given to understand that any ordinary man would have given a simple “yes” or “no answer.” “Hauptmann went to the back of his cell and thought a minute, it was declared. “Then he returned and said ‘I could make up a story about that.’ That was the tip-off on his character as far as we were concerned.”

NEW BREAKS FEARED IN OHIORIVER GORGE Water Above Flood Stage as Ice Chokes Channel. By United Prri* EVANSVILLE, Ind„ Feb. 20 —New breaks w T ere feared today in a 90mile ice gorge extending from Owensboro to Uniontown on the Ohio River. A break late yesterday smashed a wharfboat, towboat and a barge in the harbor here. The Ohio River, now six inches above flood stage of 35 feet, still is rising. Ice Jams Blue River Tim ex .Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Feb. 20. City officials prepared today to ask the State Conservation Department for permission to blast an ice gorge in Blue River, should a flood threaten. The ice jam, at the city’s western edge, formed several days ago, and is said to be reaching dangerous proportions. Officials fear that a sudden thaw would result in an overflow. LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION IS FATAL TO FIREMAN Engineer of Crack Train Critically Hart in Boiler Blast. By United I’rt m CLINTON, Ind., Feb. 20.-C. W. Cheney, Bicknell, fireman on the Dixie Land Flyer, crack C. & E. I. train, died In Vermilion County Hospital today from Injuries received last night when the locomotive's boiler exploded. Curtis Smith, 52, Evansville, engineer, was burned critically.

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Outlook Is Gloomy, Admits Lloyd Fisher, Lawyer for Bruno. AT END OF LEGAL ROPE Not Alone in Crime, Says Famed Court Veteran From New York. BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 20. Bruno Richard Hauptmann's life is in the hands of Gov. Harold G. Hoffman today. Unless he grants another reprieve, Hauptmann's hair will be shaved five weeks from now and he will be taken out of cell nine in the State Prison death house and electrocuted for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. One lawyer has deserted him— Samuel Leibowitz, “the great mouthpiece” who has saved 112 men from the electric chair. He walked out of the case admitting he was unable to break Hauptmann and saying he believed him gudty. There may have been accomplices, Mr. Leibowitz believes, but there is no question in his mind but that Hauptmann is neck deep in the Lindbergh crime. Fisher Is Pessimistic Red-eyed from loss of sleep and despairing at the sudden turn of events, C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. the one lawyer who has stuck to Hauptmann through the best an<J the worst, admitted today that "the outlook is dark.” Mr. Fisher sat silent, slumped in a chair, while Mr. Leibowitz—choosing bis words carefully—said the legal chess game was over; that Hauptmann’s only chance for life was of ‘making a clean breast of whatever guilty participation he may have had in this crime.” That threw the whole case back into Gov. Hoffman’s lap. New Jersey law says he can grant reprieves totaling 90 days. He already has used 30 days, and is not inclined to grant a further reprieve unless new evidence is found. Mr. Leibowitz and Mr. Fisher (Turn to Page Three) UTILITY STOCKSIOAR, GAS ISSUE IN LEAD Ralroad Shares and Chrysler Also Show Substantial Gains. By United Prexx NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Consolidated Gas with a gain of 1(4 points at 34(4. led a substantial utility rally early this afternoon on the Stock Exchange. Previously railroad shares had risen 1 to more than 3 points. Motors were bid up under the lead of Chrysler, which reached 97ft, within Vi point of its high since 1929, made a few days ago. Steel common was steady at 63%, up Vi. Union Carbide made anew high ab 86%. WAR HERO BECOMES PARAGUAY’S PRESIDENT Col. Rafael Franco to Take Oath as Head of Cabinet Today. By United Prexx ASUNCION, Paraguay, Feb. 20. Col. Rafael Franco, Gran Chaco war hero, is to take the oath as provisional president today, leading a revolutionary cabinet set up by army men dissatisfied with the old government’s policies, particularly its peace negotiations with Bolivia. Franco accepted the provisional presidency last night. UTICA~RESUMES~WORK AFTER GAS EXPLOSIONS Workmen Repair Broken Mains, Find Source of Leaks. By United Prexx UTICA. N. Y., Feb. 20.—Business was resumed today in downtown Utica, paralyzed for two days as gas flames smouldered beneath city streets. Workmen, repairing broken gas and water mains, removed a length of eight-inch gas pipe believed to be the source of gas leaks which caused explosions and fires. 3-Month-Old Baby Strangles Jimmy Zaring. 3-month-old son of Mrs. Flora Zaring, 941 S. East-st, died today of strangulation, apparently as the result of whooping cough. Mark Mercer, coroner's assistant, investigated.

W elcome Add back home again: Missing since last Saturday, county car No. 10. property of Sheriff Ray's office, has been found. It was found, “wearing” stolen license plates, at 30th and Rader-sts today by police.