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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 188

33 ARE KILLED IN MINE BLAST AT MULGA, ALA

Only One Worker Escapes; 560 in Other Levels Flee to Safety.

CAUSE IS NOT KNOWN

Victims Apparently Tried To Avoid Deadly Black Damp.

MULGA, Ala., Oct. 16 (U. P.).—The bodies of 33 men were found in the Woodward

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Iron Co.'s coal mine, which | was partly wrecked by an un- | derground explosion early to- | day, Robert M. Marshall, com- | pany vice president, an-| nounced. Only one of the 34 workers on the| level where the blast occurred was saved. Ivan Fox, miner, was taken to the Bessemer Hospital where physicians said he was suffering from burns and gas. Rescue crews brought the last of the bodies to the surface shortly after 9 a. m, The explosion wrecked but one level of the shaft mine. About 560 other workers fled to safety when the concussion warned them of the danger. Officials said that dead miners) were found with their hands over| their faces, apparently in a last desparing effort to keep from breathing the black damp fumes that followed the explosion. Robert Davis, 27, Negro trip rider, | was one of the rescue heroes. | “I was about 500 feet from the] explosion,” Davis said. “There was | a noise like a shot gun going off} in my ear. Man! I was scared. I couldn’t move for a minute and the lights went out.

Warns 100 Others

“I could smell that there gas a-| comin’ up. I wanted to get out then. “I jumped on the carrier and got | to the surface land.” But Davis’ | stav on the surface was short. Officials pressed him back to the | pit and ordered him below. “They told me to go down and | warn the other men below of the explosion. So I had to get back | on the carrier and go on down. “I was scared to death but I managed to stay down a while and got to about 100 miners. “I told them to ‘scat,’ that something had bust. They did. “When I couldn't find any more | men to tell I came up again.”

600 in Mine

The approximate 600 men of the night shift were in the mine, but the others were working on other levels and were not hurt or endangered, though some were near enough to be knocked down by the explosion. They came streaming to the surface and were organized into rescue parties. The explosion occurred at 1 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), rocking this hamlet of 500 people, 12 miles from Birmingham. While no cause could | be assigned immediately, mining experts blamed coal dust. immediately after the explosion, alarm spread over the countryside, | dotted with the mines and steel mills of the vast Birmingham industrial district. The road leading up through the hills to Mulga from Birmingham was jammed with ambulances and the cars of physicians. | Miners gathered and within a few hours several thousand were at the shaft head along with sobbing wives, mothers and sweethearts of the men who had not come up. Rescue Parties Formed

W. E. Hillhouse, Chief State Mine inspector, and E. D. Dodge, mine superintendent, selected the most skilled and most level-headed of the miners and led them back into the shaft, where the fumes and suffocating dust still hung heavily. The company hires about 1800 | miners, working in three shifts. The | coal is used mainly by the company | in the production of pig iron. It is! a shaft mine with its deepest level several thousand feet. i

EX-COACH QUIZZED | IN MATTSON CASE

YAKIMA, Wash. Oct. 16 (U. ™).| —Jerry O'Keefe, 37, who was said |

by police to resemble sketches of the | kidnap-slayer of 10-year-old Charles Mattson of Tacoma, was questioned | by police today. | O'Keefe, who said he once coached football at the University of . Louis, said he knew nothing about | th- kidnaping. He was arrested with | another man on a carnival ground | at Toppenish on a minor charge.

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Churches Comics Crossword Curious World 13 Editorials ....10 Fashions Financial ishbein Forum

| co-operate with other

| declared war, Secretary

| giving perjured testimony

| inal lawyer, filed suit {of Columbia District Court today | against Mrs.

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FORECAST: Cloudy and somewhat warmer with probable rains tonight or tomorrow.

Compassion for a Dying Horse

mount, this Japanese cavairyman

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pauses during a North China ad-

vance to give his dying horse a last drink of water. It's a moment

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Davis to Attend

Brussels Parley for U. S.

Join in Mediation Of War.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. P). —The United States today accepted

| an invitation from Belgium to at-

tend a conference of Nine-Power Treaty signatories in Brussels Oct. 30, to seek “peaceable means for

ending the undeclared Sino-Japa- | | nese war.” Secretary of State Hull said that |

| the United States would be repre- | SHANGHAI—Chinese claim Japa-

sented by Norman H. Davis, American Ambassador-at-Large. Acceptance of the invitation was announced by Secretary Hull shortlv after Count Robert Van Der Straten-Ponthoz, Belgian ambassa-

dor, tendered the invitation to this | | Government.

The question for peaceable means

‘Hull Accepts Invitation to Italy Agrees to Recall Few

Troops From Spanish War.

LONDON—Italy agrees to partial | stitution of condemnation proceed-

withdrawal of foreign “volun-

teers” from both sides in Spanish | | appraisers might not be appointed

civil war. HYDE PARK-—President Roosevelt starts week-end of rest before preparing for American participation in Nine-Power parley at Brussels.

nese shock troops repulsed.

| WASHINGTON—Vatican's embassy

issues official denial of report that Pope is supporting Japan's drive in China.

LONDON, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—TItaly |

agreed today to partial withdrawal

to settle the Far Eastern conflict, |of “volunteers”—probably 5000—on

which the invitation called a “Tregrettable conflict,” conforms to President Roosevelt's pronouncement that the United States would nations in attempting to “mediate” Hull said. is

Mr. Davis, with his advisers,

| expected to sail for Brussels next

week.

Signatories of the nine-power

| pact agreed to guarantee the terri- | torial | China.

and political integrity of Mr. Davis will have as his advisers Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, Far Eastern adviser to the Secretar¥; Dr. Pierrpont Moffat, chief of the State Department European Division; Robert T. Pell, press officer,

‘and Charles E. Bohlen, the delega-

tion secretary. The Belgian Government's invitation, it was explained, does not

make clear whether only signatories | [or also “adherents” will attend the

consultations.

Secretary Hull said the agenda

| is undetermined so far as he knows.

Preside Roosevelt, in stating

| this Government's position said it | would seek to “mediate” the Far | Eastern conflict. {

The European powers signatory to the pact acted to call a confer-

| ence after the President's Chicago outlined |

address in which he America’s attitude and position in

| world affairs.

Secretary Hull indicated that the delegation attending the Brussels

| conference might not confer with | the President before sailing.

PERJURY CHARGED IN SHOOTING CASE TRIAL

Alleged Victim Jailed After Giving Testimony.

James Pruett, 22, of 1230 N. Illinois St, was held in the Marion County jail today in default of $500 bond on charges of perjury. Pruett was arrested yesterday as he left Criminal Court on the orders of Edward Brennan, Deputy Prosecutor.

in the trial of Irene Barnert, 33, on charges

| of assault and battery with intent |

to kill. According to Mr. Brennan, Pruett

allegedly by Miss Barnert.

SAMUEL LIEBOWITZ SUES MRS. M'LEAN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U.P.).—

Samuel Leibowitz, New York crimin District

Evalyn Walsh MgcClean, wealthy Washington socialite, seeking $15,000 which Liebowitz claimed for services in behalf of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Lindbergh baby kidnaper. Mr. Licbowitz said in his suit he was employed by Mrs. McLean because she “desired to be of assistance to Richard Hauptmann, and to assist in the solving of an important criminal case.” It was Mrs. McLean who, before

5 | Hauptmann was arrested, provided | diana Law School. ...... 8 Gaston B. Means vith $100,000 with | ber of the Legislature in 1919,

which Means was to effect the release of the child.

the un- |

both sides in the Spanish civil war

jand Britain and France reserved

the right to freedom of action if the plan does not solve the nonintervention crisis. The program calls for a symbolic withdrawal of a certain number of volunteers and then recognition by Britain and France of belligerent rights to both sides in Spain. The agreement was reached at a secret meeting of the “chairman's | subcommittee” of the Noninterven- | tion Committee of 27 nations. Nine nations are represented on the subcommittee.

The delegates agreed to ask their | respective governments to consider la five-point program submitted by | Andre Charles Corbin, French am- | passador. Ambassador Corbin said the French Government thought it {Turn to Page Three)

RITES FOR SHAFFER TOBE READ TODAY

| Body Arrives Here as Fate of ~~ Dalhover Is Studied.

Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. who died | In a Bangor, Me., street last Tues-

| day, his body riddled with G-Men’s

| bullets, was to be buried here this

| afternoon. It marked another episode in the | final chapter of the Al Brady gang. | The “boss” was buried in a Bangor potter's field yesterday witiaout clergy, flowers or crowd. James Dalhover, the “trigger | man,” sat in his Marion County Jail | cell awaiting almost certain death. Authorities still were undecided on | whether the Federal Government, Indiana or Marion or Cass County would prosecute the sneering little | killer who has confessed that the | desperadoes fatally wounded two Indiana police officers. The fourth member of the bandit mob, Charles Geisking, is in Ohio (Turn to Page Three)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1937

LAW COVERING UTILITY SALES HELD INVALID

Indiana Act of 1933 Ruled Unconstitutional in Boone Circuit Court.

APPEAL IS ANTICIPATED

Decision Given in Lebanon’s Suit to Acquire Power Lines of Utility.

Times Special LEBANON, Oct. 16. — Special Judge Edgar A. Rice, Crawfordsville, today held an act of the 1933 Legislature unconstitutional and ruled against the City of Lebanon in its proceedings to acquire the local distribution system of the Indiana Public Service Co. After the Public Service Co. refused the City’s offer of $140,000 for the electric lines, the City applied provisions of the 1933 act and started condemnation proceedings. Judge Rice, presiding in Circuit Court, held that the State law was unconstitutional because it applied to real estate only and did not provide adequate machinery for effecting just compensation for property condemned.

Appeal Is Anticipated

The State law provided that valuation of the property be fixed by three appraisers at the date of inings. Judge Rice cited that such until after such proceedings had been instituted, that they might not complete their appraisal for some time and that meanwhile the utility

| might acquire additional property

and that the appraisal would not provide for just compensation. Because several actions similar to the Lebanon case are being considered by Cities in the State, it was believed his ruling may be appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court.

HOME-COMING AT I. U, TOPS GRIDIRON MENU

Purdue Meets Northwestern; N. D., Carnegie Clash.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Cloudy skies and rising temperature was the Weather Bureau's forecast for Hoosier football fans this afternoon as Indiana's home-coming clash with Illinois highlighted the state’s contribution to a national gridiron program studded with outstanding contests. Purdue, running in high gear following its victory last Saturday over a sturdy Carneie team, tackled Northwestern at Evanston. The game was expected to demonstrate whether the conference champs can repeat. Notre Dame clashed with Carnegie at Pittsburgh. Besides the I. U.-Illinois game at Bloomington, which marks the first time the two teams have battled on I. U’s home grounds in 27 years, the smaller Indiana colleges contributed largely to the day's gridiron entertainment, DePauw and Ball State renewed an honorable feud at Greencastle, Earlham took on Wabash, Franklin met Indiana State, Rose Poly clashed with St. Joseph's, Central Normal tried conclusions with Oakland City and Manchester encountered Valparaiso.

Minnesota met Michigan in another Big Ten tilt. In the East all eyes were centered on he Fordham-Pitt clash in New york.

In the South the schedule brought together such titans as Tennessee and Alabama and Duke vs. Georgia Tech, while on the Pacific Coast attention centered in the struggles hetween Southern California and Oregon U, and Oregon State and U. C. L. A.

Funeral to Be Monday for

Mr. Brennan charged Pruett with |

- Former Judge M’Master

Private funeral services were ar- | Associations, Columbia Club, Phi

Master. former Superior Court judge and prominent in Indianapolis legal circles, who died last night in Methodist Hospital, where he had

| been ill a short time. He was 60. Services are to be held Monday morning in Hisey & Titus funeral home, with burial in Crown Hill. Mr McMaster was a lifelong Indianapolis residents and followed his father, John L., mayor here in the Eighties, in a political career. He was appointed to the Superior

He was dethe nomination later.

Mr. McMaster was graduated from Shortridge High School. He attended Indiana University and ob-

| tained his LL.B. degree from In-

He was a mem-

The former judge was a member of the Indiana and American Bar

| was shot in the chest last February, | ranged today for William S. Mec- | Sanna Lelia Fraternity, Phi Delta | Phi legal fraternity, Central Avenue

M. E. Church, Knights of Pythias and Lawyers’ Club. He is survived by his wife, Cuba R.; a son, William 8S. Jr.; a daughter, Miss Martha R. and a sisver, Mrs. Ovid Butler, Washington.

Honorary pallbearers are to be: Judge Earl R. Cox, Judge Smiley N. Chambers, Judge Joseph T. Markey, Judge Joseph R. Williams, Judge Clarence E. Weir, Judge Herbert E. Wilson, Judge L. Ert Slack, Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, Judge Dan V. White, Linn D. Hay, Martin M. Hugg, V. M. Armstrong, Elton F. Leffler, David E. Fox, Elmer E. Scott, John E. Scott, Ralph A. Young, Paul T. Hurt, Walter T. Pritchard, Harry D. Chamberlin, Carl Wilde, Charles R. Wiltsie, Sam Miller, Harvey Grabill, James A. Noel, Tom D. Stevenson, Russell Willson, Hubert Hickam, Russell J. Dean, Irving W. Lemaux, Ovid Butler, Washington, Harry E. Reagan, St. Louis, Frederick Cline and George W. Snyder,

ward Murphy,

Homesick?

COL. LINDBERGH MAY COME BACK

Report He Will Live Abroad

Permanently Is °‘Piffle,’ Says U. S. Aide.

BERLIN, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh does not intend to live abroad permanently, his friend and host in Germany, Maj. Tuman Smith, U. S. Military Attache, indicated today. Accompanying Col. Lindbergh on a tour of Berlin, Maj. Smith was asked whether there was any truth

lin the report that Lindbergh and

his family would remain permanently in England to which he replied “Piffle.” Col. Lindbergh arrived by train from Munich and went almost immediately in company with Gen. Ernst Udet to an inspection of fields and factories in the northern provinces,

Lindbergh Renews

Army Commission WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U.P.) — Renewal of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s Army Air Corps Reserve

commission today was believed to]

Entered as Second-Class Matte

at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.

BESSIRE & CO. AND TRUCKERS SIGN CONTRACT

Agreement Provides fo

45-Hour Week and Pay Raise.

STRIKE THREAT AVERTED

Hutson Reports ‘Progress’ Toward Solution of Milk Tieup.

(Editorial, Page 10)

A threatened strike of wholesale grocery truck drivers was averted this afternoon when Bessire & Co., Inc. signed an agreement with the Teamsters Union local 135. It provided for a closed shop, 45-hour week, and a wage increase estimated at 5 to 20 per cent, State Labor Commissioner Thomas Hutson said. Meanwhile, Mr. Hutson reported that “progress” was being made on solution of the dairy drivers’ strikes and the milk tieup that now is in its ninth day. The Bessire agreement is expected to be used as a model for other whoiesale grocery firms here, all of which were represented by Attorney Frederick E. Schortemeier. Only 40 drivers were affected by the agreement signed today,

Provides for Revision

Mr. Schortemeier said that the agreement provided that certain Bessire employees need not join the union. He added that it also provided that the closed shop provision would be revised to conform with contracts which may be signed with the union by other wholesale grocers or furniture dealers. Although no one involved in the

milk conference would make any prediction on the terms or time of settlement, a majority seemed agreed that the conference was on the best

footing since the drivers walked out

of three plants 10 days ago and the

21 nonstruck dairies suspended deliveries a day later. Meanwhile, a conference between drivers’ union leaders and Attorney Leo Rappaport, representing struck furniture companies, was scheduled for this afternoon. No gains were reported in the attempt to settle the Beech Grove Bus Lines strike. Arthur Viat, of the State Labor Division, said G. E. McFarland, bus line operator, had refused to reinstate two discharged union drivers.

FEUD SUSPECTED IN ARMY POST SLAYING

DENVER, Colo., Oct. 16 (U. P.) .— The Army had a homicide case today—the shooting of Private James

indicate lack of foundation for re-|B. Lowery, 23, Yancey, Ky., a guard-

ports that the trans-Atlantic flier) might relinquish U. S. citizenship | and reside permanently in England. |

house prisoner, by his guard, Private Emil B. Deichman, 28, Athens, Ill. The slaying was the result, per-

The Army disclosed today that haps indirectly, of a private feud beCol. Lindbergh on June 7 took steps| tween the two soldiers,

| necessary to renew his commission |

for five years. The flier has been a member of the air corps reserve since his graduation from the Air Corps Flying School in 1924. He was commissioned a colonel in June, 1927.

Today Private Deichman was in the guardhouse, held for investigation. Army officers said the usual procedure was to turn such matters over to Federal civil authorities for prosecution and trial, although court-martial was possible.

C.1 0. and A.

F. L. to Meet,

But Peace Hopes Are Dim

By United Press The American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization separately today that they

the ranks of American labor. The A. F. of L. executive council, meeting in Denver, wired the C. I. O. war council at Atlantic City that its delegates would be vice presidents George Harrison, Matthew Woll and Gus Bigniazet. The

ORDERS MRS. GODDE TO ANSWER CHARGES

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16 (U. P.).— Superior Judge Robert Kenny was convinced today that it was Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Godde’s lap, all right, into which a process server dropped the summons in a $2,000,000 suit over the affections of Jack Doyle. The court ordered that the heiress answer the suit by Oct. 25. Judith Allen, movie actress and former wife of Doyle, was the plaintiff. She was hoping for a reconciliation with the Irish boxer, she said, when Mrs. Godde stole his love.

BOYCOTT URGED AS REPRISAL TOC. I. 0.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—The local clothing industry was threatened with a boycott today une less C. I. O. affiliated workers are discharged. The boycott which would affect 12,000 workers, was promised by EdCleveland, seventh vice-president of the International Teamsters Union, who addressed 1000 garment workers at a meeting here last night. The audience consisted of members of the United Garment Workers Union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, which is warring with the C. I. O. affiliated Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union.

announced | would | participate in a conference Oct. 25 | in an effort to end the split in|

C. I. O. yesterday named a committee of 10. President William Green of the A. F. of L. set the Willard Hotel in Washington as site of the meeting. The a.anouncement came after a week of cross-country negotiation by telegraph between officials of the two rival labor organizations.

The agreement to meet brought the leaders of the rival factions closer to an effort to reunite their ranks than at any time in labor's two years of civil war. But, in the opinion of most observers, there still were tremendous obstacles to restoration of peace. There was little belief at Atlantic City, where C. I. O. leaders have been conferring all week, and in Denver, where the A. F. of L. has just closed its annual convention, that there were any immediate prospects of peace. Observers saw in an exchange of sharply worded telegrams an ardent desire on both (Turn to Page Three)

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J PERSONS DIE IN HEAD-ON WRECK NEAR RUSHVILLE

Aged Man Struck as Safety Groups Parade.

CONDITION GRAVE

Local Truck Driver Hurt Critically in Crash.

BOY, 6, IS VICTIM

Johnson County Girl, | All Those Killed Were

Hit Near Home, Is Dead.

BULLETIN Henry Winters, 80, of 1706 Arrow Ave. died this afternoon in Methodist Hospital of injuries received when he was struck, a few hours earlier, by an auto.

(Editorial, Page 10)

As more than 100 floats and several hundred persons paraded today in a Safety Week demonstration marking 14 days without an Indianapolis traffic death, an aged man was struck by a car and injured critically in another part of town.

He was Henry Winters, 80, of 1706 Arrow Ave., struck in the 1500 block Roosevelt Ave. by a car driven by John Fogle, 21, of 1971 Hillside Ave. He was in Methodist Hospital with a fractured skull and internal injuries. Also on the debit side of the traffic ledger was the death of six-year-old Mary Alice Morris, Johnson County school girl, who was struck last night by a truck as she alighted from a school bus. She died in Riley Hospital today. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Morris, R. R. 2, Greenwood, Ind.

Sheriff Claude McClain of Johnson County said that the driver, Clarence Hayes, 824 Muskegon St. Indianapolis, was being held under charges of manslaughter.

Drunken Drivers Fined

Meanwhile, two drunken drivers drew heavy penalties in Municipal Court. William Long, 53, of Danville, Ind., was fined $25 and costs, sentenced to 120 days on the Indiana Stae Farm, and his driver's license was suspended for one year by Judge Dewey Myers. Basie Hamilton, 40, of 403 W. 29th St., was bound to the Grand Jury on a charge of drunken driving by Judge Charles Karabell. Hamilton, court records showed, was arrested Sept. 24 on the charge. The case’ was continued. During the continuance, he was arrested again on a drunken driving charge and in another Municipal Court was fined $31 and sentenced (Turn to Page Three)

YOUTH ACCUSED OF KILLING MAINE PAIR

Slew Wife After 370-Mile Trip With Doctor’s Body.

NORTH ARLINGTON, N. J., Oct. i6 (U, P.).—With her husband's slayer at the wheel and her husband’s body, unknown to her, in the automobile’s trunk, Mrs. J. G. Littlefield of South Paris, Me., rode 370 miles through three states before being herself slain, police revealed today. Authorities pieced together this fantastic version of the crime after the suspected killer, 18-year-old Paul Dwyer, part-time chauffeur employed by the Littlefields, was ar= rested today with the bodies of Mrs. Littlefield and her husband in the car. Robbery motivated the doctor's murder, officials said, adding that the youth apparently killed Mrs. Littlefield in desperation the next day, lest she discover the earlier crime. They said Dwyer confessed. They said Dwyer confessed.

Community Fund Workers Press for Last $300,000

(Other Contributors, Page Four)

Still approximately $300,000 short of their $721,287 goal, the "500 volunteer workers in the Community Fund campaign today put forth increased efforts as they neared the Wednesday deadline set for the drive, Contributions of $58,723.45 reported yesterday brought the total pledged to $420,410.45 and campaign leaders reminded workers that to attain their goal their daily pace must be increased. Former Mayor Kern's pledge for the same amount as last year was contained in a telegram from Washington in which the U, St Board of Tax Review member said: “Congratulations and good wishes to all workers in this year's Com-

munity Fund campaign. Their success means much to Indianapolis, in the welfare of which I continue to be interested.”

Among new large contributions reported yesterday were: State Automobile Insurance Co. $5000; Arthur C. Newby Estate, $5800; Arthur V. Brown, $5000; Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co., $2000; Beveridge Paper Co. $1800; L. Strauss & Co., $1650; Union Trust Co., $1500; Polk Sanitary Milk Co. $1200; Booth Tarkington, $1000, and the U. S. Corrugated Box Co., $1000. Employee groups which increased their contributions over last year include: Crescent Paper Co. to $169.50; Star Store, to $660.63; H, P. Wasson & Co. (partial report from employees), to $1800; W, D. Allison Co. employees, $122.50,

Residents of Camp Point, Il.

RUSHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 16 (U. P.).—Five persons were killed in a truck-automobile collision on U. S. Highway 52 about eight miles southeast of here.

The victims were:

Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Beckett, Camp Point, Ill,

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hope, Camp Point, Ill.

Roger Beckett, 6 years old. Estel Johnson, Indianapolis truck driver, suffered a fractured skull in

the accident and was brought to Rushville City Hospital where physicians reported his condition critical. The accident apparently occurred when Mr. Johnson drove his truck ° around another car on the highway and crashed head-on into the passenger automobile in which the five persons were riding. The truck was headed southeast on the highway, apparently en route to Cincinnati. The passenger car was being driven in the opposite direction. Coroner R. O. Kennedy of Rush County, City Police and State Police began an investigation of the accident.

Purdue Alumnus Dies in Auto Mishap

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Oct. 16 (U.P). —Matthew G. Sackett, 47, Louis ville, was killed last night after a blowout threw his automobile into a utility pole near here on U, S. Highway 52. Mr. Sackett was an alumnus of Purdue University and president of a Louisville fuel company. Miss Ruby Nicolls, 22, Louisville, and Mrs. Sackett were injured. The party was enr. “*e to the PurdueNorthwestern fci'hall game at Evanston, Ill,

BURFORD CO. MOVES PLANT AND STORE

The William B. Burford Printing Co. is to move its stationery store from 40 S. Meridian St. to 111 S. Meridian and its printing plant to 601-605 E. Washington St. it was announced today.

The firm plans to remodel all six floors and the basement of the building which it has taken over for store purposes. It is to have 25,000 square feet of floor snace. The company is to occupy five of the 10 floors of the E. Washington St. site, known as the Spink Industrial Building. It has a lease on the balance of the building. Negotiations for lease of the Meridian St. building, known as the Bright Building, were conducted by W. A. Brennan, Inc. Negotiations for the plant site were carried on by Klein & Kuhn, Inc.

DIVORCE SUIT OF COUNT IS DISMISSED

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 18 (U. P)— The Count of Covadonga, son of the former King of Spain, planned to confer with attorneys today to determine his next step in the divorce sought by him and his second come moner wife, the former Marta Roca« fort, Cuban beauty. The mutual divorce proceedings brought by the couple at Havana were dismissed yesterday by Judge Eduardo Lens when the Count, for the second time, did not appear for the hearing expected to award a final divorce decree. The Count, confined to his hotel here with a mild attack of haemophilia, hereditary disease of the Bourbon royal line, failed to board

| a plane yesterday for Havana and

was unable to appear for the heare ing.

BANNED SUBJECT TORN FROM BOOKS

HATTIESBURG, Miss, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Biology at Mississippi State Teachers College went to class today with pages torn out of their textbook, Michael Guyer's “Revised Biology.” The pages missing represented a chapter on evolution which faculty members described as “bordering on Darwin's theory.” Mississippi statutes forbid the teaching of evolution in state supported schools.

SEVEN FIREMEN HURT FRESNO, Cal., Oct. 16 (U., P.).— Fanned by a stiff wind, a threealarm fire gutted two stores in a downtown building and damaged five others today. Seven firemen were injured.