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Evening star., 1929-06-29
TEXAS QUIZ INVOLVES
FOREIGN RELATIONS
international Effects Seen by
Brookhart From Evidence
Secretly Given.
BY the Associated Press.


SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June 29.-Evi-
dence which Senator Smith w. Brook
hart Of Iowa said might have an i'm
portant effect upon international rela-
tions" was before the Senate patronage
committee today as 1t continued It's in
restigation Of the manner in which the
Republican party bestowed ofices In
Texas.
The evidence referred to by Senator
Brookharb was obtained by the COM
mittee in executive session yesterday,
and will not be revealed for the present,
the Senator said.
1T was an executive session, and we
have no further statement TO make
other than we heard more than one
Witness" he added.
It was known that at least two wit
nesSeS testified. They were Col. p. j.
Hennessey, former co-ordinator of the
9th Corps Area, who already had told
the committee of differences between
Texas customs and immigration officials,
and e. T. Needham Of Cerralvo, Mexico.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
We Are All Right
Franco Declares in
Message to Madrid

MADRID, June 90 Gpl.-"We
are all right. Kind regards and
embraces.
(Signed) Ramon Franco
That was the message, which
Comdr. Franco sent from the
British airplane carrier Eagle to
the commanding ofiicer of the air
port of Alcazares today. The
flyers used the Alcazares air port
as their base on their hop for the
Azores.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
CLAUDEL SEES sTIMsoN.
Carries Ont Poincare's Orders in Asking
Due Date Postponement.
sy the Associated Press.

l5s
By the Associated Press. z
Negotiations for unconditional post.
ponennent from August to Decem-
her 81 OF the due date of the $780,
600 900 French war supplies debt to
the United States were initiated yes
terday by Ambassador Claudei under
instructions from Premier Poincare.
Although Congress voted shortly be-
fore It recessed to permit q postpone
ment the understanding was that such
action would be conditioned upon
French ratification in the meantime
of the three-year-old Mellon -Berenger
agreement which provides for settle
mnt of that and all other war and
postwar obligations of France to the
United States.
Stinson In Quandary.
Furthermore, the resolution Is not
In effect. except as moral sanction"
for conditional postponement, because
it was voted on too late to receive the
signatures of the presiding officers. and
Secretary Stimson Is at loss as to
whether the payment could be put of
Internationally without specific con-
gressional sanction. The Senate will
not meet until August 10, and the
House, which acted first on the condi-
tional postponement resolution. will not
be assembled until september rs.
In congressional circles, meanwhile,
dispIeasure has been aroused by state
ments attributed to Franklin Bouil-
lion, president of the foreign affairs
committee OF the French Assembly, to
the effect that the United States was
trying to force ratification by France
of the general debt settlement agree
nent.
Borah Comments.
Citing that the debt first fell due
10 years ago. that the agreement was
reached more than three years ago,
''that we settled with France for about
so cents on the dollar" and that
France Is now the most prosperous
nation in Europe" Chairman Borah
OF the Senate foreign relations COM
mittee, said:
"It is perfectly evident that such
gentlemen as the president Of the for
eign affairs committee of the French
Assembly are not fighting for time. be-
cause they have had all of that: they
are not fighting for justice, because
they have had that In the settlement.
There must be something else"
Evening star., 1929-06-29
WARNED OF SPEEDING,
Won PRlTTWITZ THINKS
Police Department Report Says
German Ambassador Offense
Was Double Parking.

Herr Friedrich w. Won Prittwitz und
Gaffron, the German Ambassador,
whose name was included in the list
Of diplomats forwarded to the Senate
yesterday by Maj Henry G. Pratt, su-
perintendent of police, in response to
the Caraway resolution, asking for in
formation regarding representatives of
foreign countries who had been stopped
by the police for trafhc offenses, ex-
planned today that he thought he had
been warned for exceeding the speed
limit.
Mai. Pratt's report read Won Pritt-
witz, Germany" and did not indicate
the offense The Police Department
said that he had been warned for
double parking.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
Four, Found 100 Miles Off
Island, Are Aboard Aircraft
Carrier Bound for Gibraltar.
AVIATORS FROM EAGLE DISCOVER
WRECKACE AS HOPE WAS WANING
Great Demonstrations Are Held i'm Mad
rid When News Is Received, Rain
4 Failing to Dampen Ardor.
BY the Associated Press.


MADRID 29-An but given up for dead, Maj Ramon
flight to the United States the Azores
than week and have missing today route
to Gibraltar aboard the British airplane carrier Eagle
Snached from the of the Atlantic
100 miles southeast of the Island of Santa of the
Archipelago the
ship.
First of the Spanish ministry
which announced had received the word from the Spanish
consul at Gibraltar the conSuls read
Franco and companions picked alive by Eagle
coming Gibraltar"
Admiralty Confirms News.
This later
which received the stating
plane had been found latitude north
The time of the
took place during the night today
that the
Evening star., 1929-06-29
By the Associated Press.

LONDON. June 29.-Relinquishing of
Britain's naval bases in the West Indies
Is suggested by Charles Kingsley
Webster, professor Of international
politics at the University of Wales, In a
contribution to the current issue Of
the Nation.
Webster, author of numerous political
works, once assigned to the British
general staff, argues that such move
would advance greatly o. better Anglo
American understanding and that the
present is particularly appropriate for
action.
Changes in the governments of both
countries have removed barriers which
could have hindered before. he writes.
and the tide Is now moving In full flood
in the right direction. The problem Is
delicate and intricate one and he
urges that to ease II the problem OF
sea law be eliminated from any dis.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
MISS MINNEAPOLIS
IS FORCED DOWN
Fails in Endurance Flight
After Being in Air
$50 Hours.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 80 R).-
'Miss Minneapolis, piloted by
Thorwald Thunder" johnson and
Owen Haughland, failed today in
the attempt to break the worlds
endurance flight record after $50
hours continuous flying. The record
is l72 hours, 80 minutes. / second.
The plane was forced down at
Langdon, Mimi, Is miles from here,
at 11:40 am. today by motor
trouble.
BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 29.-Two mer
in a plane were fighting for new
world endurance record today as ar
oil leak menaced the flight of Mis-:
piloted by Owen Haugh-
land and Thorwald Thunder" john
son.
Barely 80 hours separated the flyers
from their goal when oil began leaking
from the crank case of the motor al
5 am. today.
A note dropped at Wold-C Chamber
lain Airport asking for more oil sent
Gene Shank aloft - tsss refueling shiE
with five gallons. It was taken aboard
and arrangements were
made to keep the flyers supply con-
tinually replenished during the day
and night.
The 15-gallon reserve will be main
tanned aboard the ship If 1t becomes
to make contacts every Is
minutes, Shank said. A bolt in the
crank case was believed to have fallen
out. Ground observers expressed con-
fldence that If no further leaks de-
veloped, the flyers would be able to keep
the oil level sufficiently high to con-
tinue in the air.
The plane droned on to its 148th
hour at am. The present world
mark is Ito hours, 80 minutes and l
second.
Evening star., 1929-06-29

First Annulment
Of COmpanionate
Marriage Asked
By the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOClALeQ EIeSSs
MUSKOGEE, Okla, June 90.
An unusual court record was
filed here yesterday when w. D.
Halfhill, Muskogee lawyer, asked
annulment of a companionate
marriage contract entered into q
month ago with Flora S. Ferry.
Because of the precedent the
case may establish by virtue of
the pleadings Of the prenuptial
agreement. considerable interest
was aroused in legal circles. The
question of whether an annul-
ment can be granted will be de-
cided by the same official who
performed the marriage cere-
mony-District Judge Enloe v.
Werner.
Judge Werner said that so far
as he knew the case was the first
on record asking a judicial opin-
ion on a companionate marriage.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
HOOVER GIVES UP TRIP.
Heavy Rains at Fishing Preserve
Keep President in City.

President Hoover decided to forego
the trip to his Virginia fishing preserve
which he had planned for today and
instead, If possible, take short auto
mobile ride in the afternoon.
The Presidents decision was made
after receiving reports from the pre-
serve, which said extensive rains had
drenched the forest and made a quag-
mire of the infrequently used road lead
ing into the camp.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
STUDIES GERMAN CAVALRY

For the first time since the World
War the American Army has assigned
cavalry onacer to study at German
military school.
Capt. Ray T. MaddockS of Fort Riley,
Kans., has been ordered to report to the
German cavalry school at Hanover for
a course Of instruction beginning Oc-
tober /.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
Bank Statements

Washington clearing house, $685.
467.22.
Treasury balance, $4oo, ,646, ,s06 .s3.,
New York clearing house exchange.
$2,025 .000, 900.
New York clearing house balance,
$24I ,0o0. 900.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
nry Agents Continue Raids.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 20 R.--Six
squads of Federal dry raiders, each ac-
companied by city policeman, launched
a second liquor crusade today, and ex-
pected by nightfall to add 20 prisoners
TO the 80 arrested earlier in the week.
Evening star., 1929-06-29
New Canal Tonnage Mark.

The cargo tonnage carried through
the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to
the Pacific In May set o new record for
III time with e2O, $50 long tons.
Evening star., 1929-06-29

Radio Program-Page Is
Evening star., 1929-06-29
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow: some
what warmer tomorrow.
Temperatures: Highest, 81. at / pm.
yesterday; lowest, 81 at am. today.
Full report on page z.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
WAR IN OFFING, SAYS
PROF. HARRY BARNES
Conflict Between Rival Nations
Just Over Horizon, Claim.

Just Over Horizon, Claim.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-War is
lowering over the horizon, according
TO Professor Harry E. Barnes OF
Smith college.
I'VE have made no progress in
disarming since the war except in
the case of Germany" he says.
''Italy and France are likely to clash
In colonizing north Africa. Hungary
Is spelling for fight.
Bulgaria is shut off from the
sea and Russia wants the straits
and BesSarabia. There are more
potential causes for war than in
1914"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
SEEK MOTIVE
FOR ATTEMPT
TO KILL Chief
Argentine President ES-
Capes Injury as ASsaiIant
Is Shot Down.
BIZ Cmited Press

BIZ United Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec.
25.-The Argentine capital cele-
brated Christmas calmly today, APP
parently unruffled by the attempt
on the life of President Hipolito Iri-
goyen, who escaped injury when his
would-be assassin who had fired
three shots at his automobile, was
killed by the presidential body
guard.
The body of the presidents as
Sailant, 44-year-old Gualterio Mari
nelli, lay in a morgue, grieved by a
Frustrated wife with three children.
who were unable to furnish police
able, especially in view of the fact
In light of the full details of the
attempted assassination, President
Irigoyen's escape appeared remark
able, especial in view of the fact
that the nearness Of the assail-
ant offered a clear mark for the
three shots. Only poor markSman-
ship accounted for the presidents
escape.
The attempt occurred shortly be-
fore noon as the president was leav-
ing his residence to drive to the gov
eminent house. TWO of the body
guard we're wounded by MarienlliS
three Shots-Pizzia, chief body
guard, and a man named Stella.
Both we're pronounced out of dan
ger.
One of the guards, Canzanello,
who was following in smaller car,
leaped to the pavement and killed
Marinelli.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
YULETIDE GIFTS
PART OF THIEVES
HOLIDAY LOOT
Burglar Enters Apartment,
Takes $500 in Clothes
and JeWeIry.

Christmas gifts, money and
clothes, valued at more than 500,
were in the possession OF thieves
and burglars today after a series
Of housebreakings, thefts from autos
and pocket pickings Tuesday night.
Charles Weimer, 1886 College ave-
nue.. Apt 3, told police a burglar
entered his apartment Tuesday
and stole more than $500 worth of
clothes and jewelry The stolen
articles included watch, ring,
shirts, a coat, seven dresses, shoes
and hosiery.
The burglar gained entrance
through a window in the dining
room.
Gifts Are Stolen
Candy, silk underwear and ties,
which Leonard Meyers, 1888 South
Pennsylvania street, purchased as
Christmas gifts we're stolen from his
home Tuesday night.
j. w. Vanmeter, 4501 Guilford
avenue, reported to police that his
house was ransacked Tuesday night,
but was unable to tell what was
stolen. Mrs. Leo Suez, 635 North
Rural street. told police that her
residence was ransacked and So
stolen.
A purse valued at $40 and con-
tanning $3.50 was stolen from the
residence Of Claude c. Clark, 43,
North Brookville avenue, according
to his report to police today.
Taken From Auto
Clothes and jewelry, valued at
$40, were stolen from the auto of
Harry Sagalowsky, 3640 North Me-
ridian street, while it was parked at
Market street and Capitol avenue,
Tuesday night.
Other thefts from autos were re-
ported by Bob McHugh, 645 Eastern
avenue, tuxedo valued at $40; r.
W. jackson Chemical Company,
Forty-Sixth street and Allisonville
road, packages valued at $35; r. II.
Lutens, 1104 North 4&asStone avenue,
clothes and an eiecIric toaSter,
valued at $50.
Mrs. M. j. Mannix, 80 Johnson
avenue, told police a pickpocket
stole Sill from her Tuesday night at
Fourteenth and Meridian streets.
Vern Davis, 2012 West Michigan
street, reported the theft of SIS by
two Negroes while he was riding
a West Tenth street car, Tuesday
night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
IS DEAD
Infection Is Contracted
During Operation.

Victim of an infection contracted
from the arm of a patient, DIR.
James r. Ball, 81, Lebanon, ex-
member of the board of trustees of
the Methodist hospital, died early
today at the hospital after weeks
illness.
A son Of DR.. Ball, Dr.. Robert Ball
of Lebanon, also is confined at the
Methodist hospital, with pneumonia.
According to hospital attaches, DR..
Ball operated on the arm of a
patient at Lebanon seven days ago.
He Is said to have pricked his own
arm accidentally with an in
strument being used in the opera
ton and infection set in.
Survivors, besides the son Robert,
are the widow, Mrs. Etfie Ball Of
Lebanon and another son, Clarence,
Of Toledo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
NEW PHONE BOOKS
TO BE DISTRIBUTED
100000 Copies Prepared for Delivery
to Indianapolis Patrons.

Shake out the old telephone di-
rectory Thursday before the collec-
tor comes to deliver the new book
and take up the old, is the advice
from officials of the Indiana Bell
Telephone Company.
The Jan. l delivery is expected to
be completed before Saturday, &C
cording to officials, despite handi-
caps vi the weather. About 155
students from Butler, Purdue, In
diana. Notre Dame, Indiana Central,
Illinois and Hanover and Indian
apolis high schools will act as dis
tributing agents. A total OF 100000
copies have been prepared for dis
tribution in Indianapolis.
Patrons have been cautioned TO
see that no valuableS or papers are
left in the old directory during ex-
change. Many such instances are
reported each time distribution is
made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
SHOT IN ARGUMENT
Love Triangle Results in
Serious Injury.

Fred Sanders, 81, of 2034 Euclid
avenue, shot by Mike Doss, 81, of
3411 Massachusetts avenue, Tuesday
afternoon in an argument over a
love triangle, today was in a critical
condition at city hospital.
The shooting occurred on Station
street near Roosevelt avenue.
Doss, arrested by a police squad
in the charge of Sergeant Walter
Coleman, is said to have admitted
shooting Sanders after charging him
with keeping company" with Mrs.
Doss, The arrest was made in a
vacant upstairs of house adjoining
the DoSs home, DoSs was held on
charges of assault and battery with
intent to kill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
POLICE SEEK IDENTITY
OF DEAD CHINESE

Police today sought to identify the
body of a man who died Tuesday
in a store at 118 West Ohio street.
The man, described as being IS
years old, appeared at tea and
coffee importing shop Of Tom Sing
and Joe Bing with a complaint of
illness. Sing and Bing, with the aid
of G. S. Chin, $40 Massachusetts,
avenue, put the stranger to bed in
the basement. He died shortly
after.
Of Chinese origin, the mans sole
possessions were two razor blades,
$685. in money and some white tab
lets. Police removed the body to
the city morgue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
Santa Claus Aid Rests

SANTA CLAUS, Ind, Dec. 25.-
James M. Martin, postmaster here
for tWenty-seven years is resting to-
day after handling about 5000
pieces of mail in the last ten days,
because persons all over the country
want their Christmas mail to bear
the postmark, Santa Claus"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
RAIL MERGER OPPOSED
Monon President DiSapproyes Union
With Is. e. o.
RI Times SDecidI

RI Times SDecidI
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 25.-
Harry Kurrie, president of the
Monon railroad, in a telegram from
Chicago to Henley sc Evans, local
legal representatives OF the road,
announces it will oppose being
merged with the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad.
The statement by Kurrie has ref
erence to a recent announcement Of
railroad consolidation plans by the
interstate commerce commission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
Tambering With
Witnesses Laid
to Millionaire

By NEA Serrice
MONTREAL, Dec. 25.--Harry
1V1 Bronfman, millionaire head of
the Dominion Distillers, Ltd, will
| 90 to trial shortly on charges of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
CLAIMS CORE IS SOLID
German Scientist Causes FURRY by
Assertion About Earth.

BN United Press
BERLIN, Dec. 25.-ProfeSsor
FROM Simon of the Physio-C Chem
zeal institute, has caused a furry In
scientific circles by his assertion that
the center of the earth is solid and
not a molten mass as has been
supposed.
He claims the earths core is kept
solid by the enormous pressure ex-
erted upon it from the weight of
the soil on the outside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
HOLIDAY SPENT IN JAIL
Wife of Gene AIger Unable to Pro-
vide $4,000 Bond.

BN Times SDecidg
WABASH, Ind, Dec. 25.-Mrs.
Josephine Alger, wife of Gene Alger,
slayer of an Indianapolis police
man and recently given a fifteen
year sentence for bank robbery, is
spending Christmas in the Wabash
county jail here.
Relatives had hoped that Mrs.
Alger, who is to become q mother
soon, would be released to spend the
holiday with them. However, they
were unable to provide $4,000 bond
under which she was placed pend
ing trial on charges Of aiding her
husband in robbery of the Bank of
La Fontaine in October.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
Arrested in Santa Suit
Be- Times Special

b. Times Special
ANDERSON. Ind. Dec. 25.-AIlen
Rouner Of Alexandria, while dressed
as Santa Claus was arrested here
and returned to his home town
where he was forced to turn back
his Christmas garb to merchants
who provided it. Rouner attracted
considerable attention when he won
a court fight to keep his mothers
body buried in the front yard of his
home, when an effort was made to
compel him TO place it in ceme-
terry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
OVERCOME BY FUMES
Lives of Three Men Saved by
Artificial Respiration.

30 CHtted PresS
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 25.-Three men,
overcome with carbon monoxide gas
fumes when the engines of twelve
buses were kept running in a
downtown garage to keep them
from freezing, we're saved from
death late Tuesday by artificial
respiration. The. men are Charles
Mcconnell, Dan Devanney and
Austin Thomas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
PIRATES GET MODERN
Even Plane Is Included in Equip
ment on Buccaneer Ship.

BIZ United Press
ATHENS, Dec. 25-The romance
of piracy is not extinct, but it has
been modernized as witnessed in the
recent looting of a Greek ship near
the port of Constanza on the Black
sea.
The pirates manned ship with
all the latest naval convenienceS,
including an airplane for scouting
purposes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25

nesses from testifying.
The case has been a political is
sue. A few months ago charges
that wholesale bootlegging was 60
ing on were one of the chief issues
used when the Saskatchewan gov
eminent was overthrown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25

- ~
tampering with
witnesses in con-
n e ction with
liquor scandals.
Bronfman was
arrested follow
ing illegal liquor
sales from dis
tilleries in SaS-
katchewan. He
W a 6 reIe a s e d
under bond Of
$50, 600, only to
b e rearreSted
later and accused
of trying to keep
uOvprpn1nY1t. wit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-25
INSTALLMENT MARRIAGE
Bridegroom Unable to Pay Fees;
Follow Modern System.
Bu United Press

Bu United Press
LONDON, Dec. 25.-One of the
most unusual marriage ceremonies
seen in England was performed in
a North London registrars Office re-
Gently.
After the ceremony the bride
groom informed the registrar that
he was unable to pay the marriage
fees because he was out of work and
money. He made arrangements to
pay off on the installment plan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-05

has been driven down 250 feet on an incline of 45 degrees. This shaft, according to MT. Jones, taps tunnel 1,400 feet long, that was bored by former operators, which parallels vein of bituminous coal of good grade which offers no great obstacle to mining.
 An information tunnel APO feet long has also been bored and showed findings of heavy veins. The prospect tunnel will later be used for ventilating the main shaft, said MT. Jones. The work of sinking the main shaft down 2o0 feet more will be started in the near future, he added. Two hun dred tons of coal have been mined during the winter