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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Mercury Sets Days Record
at 95, Continues to
Go Higher.

Breaking the all-tirne July 1 rec
ord, the mercury continued to soar
today, far from indicating support of
the weather bureaus prediction that
the wave will break suddenly late
Thursday.
The new July record Is IS, es-
tablished at 1880. Previous highs
for the day were "a, reached several
times, the last in 1927.
High temperatures are scheduled
to continue Thursday and the
bureau forecasts the break probably
will come Thursday night.
Showers occurred throughout
areas near the Mississippi river dur
ing the night, rain reported to have
been heavy in several places.
This condition will move toward
indianapolis bringing with it rain
and cooler weather, forecaSters said.
Clouds gathered early this after
noon and showers appeared prob
able.
At 1 p. m. the mercury had re-
coded to 81 degrees, while storm
clouds threatened almost overhead.
Death Toll Mounts
Heat death toll in Indiana
mounted during the night with
two boys and an elderly man dying.
A 12-year-old boy whose name was
not learned, was drowned at
Shoals, Ind. Louis Conafella, Is.
OF Whiting, died of neck fracture
when he dived into a shallow pool.
and John Williamson, So, of VAL
paraiso, died Of heat prostration.
indianapolis mercury readings
showed the temperature climbed
Tuesday night as compared to Mon
day, when state rains brought cool
ness to Indianapolis. This morn
ing the mercury was six degrees
higher than at the same time Tues
day.
Suffering from heat prostration.
Bernard Neiheus, IS, of 1920 North
Illinois street, apartment IL, today
was found unconscious in bed. His
condition is serious. city hospital
physicians said.
Overcome on Farm
Seigfrid Bfuggeman, 16, r. r. S,
Box So, was overcome with the heat
while working on his fathers farm
shortly before noon. He was taken
to st. Francis hospital.
Residents fought for sleep Tues
day night when the low was go.
Many were at parks, along roads
and at camping and picnic grounds.
Other families separated in their
homes, some sleeping on porches,
in Easements and in yards. Fans
and showers were the most popular
house furnishings Tuesday night
and early today,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
3 MORE MINE WAR
TRUCES SEEN NEAR
Hopes Bright for Ending Strikes in
Pennsylvania Fields.
81 United Press

BY CUttcd EfeSS
PITTSBURGH, July l. - Hope
that peace negotiations with three
more large commercial coal pro-
'ducers would be contaminated this
week is held by P. T. Pagan, district
president of the United Mine Work
ers.
He said the Springer Coal Com
pany is attempting to organize its
mine near Canonsburg, and that
two other concerns are treating
With the U. M. w. of A., following
the agreement which during the last
week sent 2,4o0 men back to work
in I'VE mines Of the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Company
Not satisfied with its hunger
parade" Of yesterday, the Naional
Miners Union announced another
demonstration Aug. l against 'the
war plans Of the government"
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| lCNIC POISON
eddie GIVEN
GRAND JURORS
Doctors First to Testify;
StryChnine Killed Two
Sisters.
FATHER TO FACE QUIZ
Actions of Mother While
Children Were Dying
Also Studied.
BY ARCH sTEINEL


LEBANON, Ind, July with
testimony Of physicians estab-
fishing the cause of death as
"strychnine" poisoning, the grand
jury quiz into the mysterious deaths
OF Jean and Virginia Simmons
opened today in Boone county
courthouse.
DR.. j. r. Porter, who performed
the autopsy on the two children
following the picnic poisoning, told
grand jurors that death was caused
by eating capsules containing
strychnine.
Dr. G. A. Owsley, Boone coroner,
corroborated Porter's testimony be-
fore the jury.
Written testimony Of picnic wit
nesSes, gathered by the coroner, was
4 presented to the high jury.
The jury is expected to call Hor-
ace Jackson, Hancock farmer; Les
ter Carr, and John w. Simmons,
father Of the dead children, for adj
ditional questioning. Carr, Jack
son and Simmons suffered i'll ef-
fects after eating portions of the
poisoned sandwiches.
Prosecutor Ben M Scifres is ex-
pected to take the jury to the pic
mic spot in Memorial park, where
the poison deaths occurred.
Mothers Actions Studied
One of the major decisions before
the grand jury is to determine
whether the strychnine was placed
in the capsules in Lebanon and
shortly before the reunion picnic, or
whether the poison pellets were in
the sandwiches before the Simmons
family's automobile arrived in this
city.
Actions of the mother Of the girls,
Mrs. Carrie Simmons, while her
daughters were dying were to be
scrutinized carefully by the jury.
Witnesses in the coroner's inquest
declared that she seemed "Indiner-
ent'' to the agonies her daughters
suffered from the poison.
Opening Of the jury probe was
delayed this morning, when authori-
ties were forced to obtain Juror
TO replace Roy Metzger, Lebanon
lumber dealer, who became i'll. Leo
D. Grimes, farmer, was brought to
the courthouse from his farm to
serve on the panel.
Mrs. Simmons, held in the county
jail here pending conclusion Of the
jury probe, has maintained, after
frequent questionings, that she
would have seen any one who might
have put the poison in the sand
wiches she prepared prior to the
family'S arrival in Lebanon.
q Prosecutor Gets Aid
Roy w. Adney, widely known
Boone county attorney, will aid
Prosecutor Scifres in the grand
jury probe. Circuit Judge John w.
Hornaday also announced that
Adney would be appointed to aid in
s he prosecution of any murder
;harges at the request of states
attorneys.
Two sets Of detectives stepped
1 nto the investigation Tuesday.
They denied knowledge of who had
retained their services.
Rumors are rampant that they
were hired by Simmons, neighbors
Of the Simmons family in Hancock
county, and relatives Of Mrs. Sim
mons in Greenfield.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
CHICAGO PUTS IN BID

Citizens Committee Is After Both
Party Conventions for 1882.
By United Press
CHICAGO, July 1.-The Chicago
Citizens committee announced to-
day an attempt will be made to
bring both the Republican and
Democratic national conventions to
Chicago in 1892.
I'VE plan to raise the largest
amount of money ever subscribed
in Chicago to bring the conven-
tons here. said Walter j. Mala-
tesla, treasurer of the Citizens COM
nittee. Definite steps to secure
subscriptions will be taken as soon
as a budget of probable expenses
can be made uu."
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JULY / HEAT MARK
BROKEN; RELIEF IN
Sc HOURS SEEN
Relief Coming
o, United Press

u Cntte0 Press
WASHINGTON, July l.
Cooler, weather and showers
were reported from the west
today and the weather bureau
predicted lower temperatures
would extend eastward, reach
ing the Atlantic seaboard prob
ably late Friday.
While the bureau has not
ventured forecast for July 4,
it was indicated it would be
cooler, and perhaps rainy.
Drops in temperature Of from
II to 10 degrees were reported
from Nebraska, Iowa, South
and North Dakota.
Thfe prediction was that the
Ohio valley would experience
relief by Thursday night or
Friday, and that the east
would be cooler by Friday
night.
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GOVERNORS WIFE ILL
Mrs. Leslie Resting Easy
After Operation.

By United Press
MICHIGAN CITY, July Mrs.
Harry G. Leslie, wife of the Gov
ernor, was resting easily following
an emergency operation performed
at the ST. Anthony's hospital here
at $50 this morning.
Mrs. Leslie has been i'll for
some time and her condition became
serious Tuesday night.
She was brought here from her
summer home at the Indiana Dunes
State park and DR.. A. G. Arnett, La
fayette, a member of the state ar
mory board, made an airplane trip
here to perform the operation. Gov
ernor Leslie was at her bedside.
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Kinney yelled:
Hey, come out Of there"
The bather saw something In
the moonlight, too. It was s
sheriff's badge.
With long strides he gained the
beach and a towel-lais only ap-
parel.
Still running. the bather
wrapped the scanty towel around
him and fed into the weeds. Kin
ney gave up the chase.
He was not bathing beauty,
but he sure could run," Kinney
said. Guess we better watch
tbs place pretty eipeA C tnatss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
HOOVER MAKES
new MOVE ON
DEBT HOLIDAY
Memorandum Sent to Paris
in Effort to Clear Doubts
on Plan.
ACCORD HOPE HIGHER
Mellon Again to Confer
With French Premier
Thursday.
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press staff Correspondent

PARIS, July IA memorandum
from President Hoover. which it
was hoped might save the French
American negotiations over the
Hoover war debt plan was pre-
Sented to France today by Secre-
tary Andrew Mellon.
Premier Pierre Laval announced
the negotiations would be suspend
ed until $50 p. m. Thursday to per-
NIT the French cabinet to study the
memorandum Thursday.
The memorandum was intended
to show the possibility Of reconcil-
ing the French and American view
points, although admitting they
are widely different
1t will be published in Washing
ton, not Paris.
Hope for Progress
French observers believed the
memorandum would permit prog
resS at tomorrow nights meeting.
Laval issued a communique at 5
p. m, which said:
During this afternoons CONVEX
sations, Secretary Mellon and Am
baSsador Edge communicated the
text of document designed to en-
tighten the position of the United
States government in the converse
tons actually under way.
"This memorandum reveals SIM
ultaneouSly the desire of the Amer
lean government to contuine the
negotiations and the divergence in
the viewpoints Of the two govern
ments.
THE document will be published
at Washington by the United
States 1t will be studied by the
French ministries interested and at
a special cabinet meeting Thurs
day morning. The next conversa-
tons are scheduled for Thursday at
$3.50 p. m"
Conference Is Held
The announcement was made
after an important session Of the
United States and French con-
ferees today. attended by Mellon.
Edge, and Laval, Foreign Minister
Aristide BRAND, Finance Minister
Pierre Etienne FIandin and Budget
Minister Francois Poncet.
The International Chamber Of
Commerce published a communique
today announcing that it's American
branch, through Silas Strawn, had
requested an executive committee
meeting in Paris on July to ap-
prove the Hoover plan, stressing the
hope that congress at Washington
may recognize the relationship be-
tween ntergovernmental debts and
the existing world depression"
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as night shrouds White river,
many bathing enthusiasts slso
have been shrouded in darkness
and nothing else.
Reports. coming from dignified
summer residents along White
river, have it that conditions are
something awful"
Boys, girls, men and women, as
unclad as Eve and Adam have
been reported indulging in au
naturel swimming parties about
midnight, much to the disgust Of
the YictorianK
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heve in two-piece suits had for
gotten the upper half in their
haste to get into the water.
- e
DUT, as a whole, bathing ap-
- parel was in evidence. Even,
the deputies say, group Of act
reSses was in swimming wearing
more clothes than they generally
DO when they are before the foot
lights for the benefit OF the Gus
toners.
Having beaten their way
through all the bushes, lovers
lazas ana Eatahed nloselE tAa
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co many reports reached the
~ office that at midnight Tues
day, Deputy Sheriffs Pat Kinney
and Hally Cook hunted out the
dark spots along the river and
gazed with censoring eyes upon
every group of bathers whose
Splashes resounded in the moon
light.
Up and down the river bank,
the deputies prowled.
They called in various bathers.
True, some wore no more than
was necessary. That Is, many had
unfastened the upper parts Of
their suits Some Whe stt1 BE-
rAOl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01

river, the deputies re-entered their
car.
Looks Ike there's nothing to
this stuff" Kinney told Cook.
Guess not, but we might come
back later" Cook replied.
~
A the car bumped along the
= river road, q simmer Of
flesh against water attracted
their attention. The bather's
head bobbed up and down in the
water and there was just little
TOO much flesh rejecting moon
lisIskp
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
TALK FEE COLLECTION
State Institution Heads Discuss
Charges for Inmates.

State institution superintendent
met IL the Governors Office today
to discuss fee collection system
being instituted with Edward Court
ney, Danville, as collector.
Under the law, inmates who have
funds must pay for institution care
and Courtney proposes to make such
collections throughout the state.
Rockefeller Students In Inspection
Two Rockefeller foundation stu
dents called at the state health de-
partment today and were taken for
an inspection tour, which included
visit to the indianapolis sanitary
district sewage disposal plant. They
are G. P. Karakassonis, Greece, and
Elmer Vesse, Hungary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
SHOOTS FIRECRACKERS,
GETS SUSPENDED FINE
Youth Sets OF Noisemakers in
Front of Injured WOman's Home.

Front of Injured Woman's Home.
Leon Shaw, 16, Of 224 East Wyo-
ming street, will not shoot fire
crackers before the Fourth and per-
hapS not then.
In municipal court this morning,
Judge William H. Sheaffer assessed
a SIS suspended fine against him.
which will be revoked if Shaw vio-
lates the court order: Don't touch
fireworks until the Fourth
Shaw was arrested by police
Tuesday night. They said he was
firing Fourth Of July noisemakers
in front of the residence OF Mrs
virgie Page, 80, Of eos South Della
ware street. who is suffering from a
fractured skull sustained in an auto
accident Tuesday night.
Shaw tcld police he had pur-
chased the crackers in a south side
pharmacy. Police today are seeking
the store operator
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URGES ARAB-JEW PACT
Continued Rioting in Palestine De-
plored by Zionist Leader.

b Untteu PTeSS
BASLE, Switzerland, July IA
powerful appeal for an understand
ing between the Jews and Arabs in
Palestine was delivered by DR..
Chain Weizlnann, former head of
the Zionist organization, in his
farewell address" to the seven
tenth Zionist congress here today.
DR.. Weizmann, in a lengthy adj
dress during which he insisted that
he was laying down my Office for
mally and definitely deplored the
recurrent Arab-Jewish riots which
in the past have caused untold suf-
fering and bloodshed in Palestine.
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MURDER SUSPECTS
PLEAD NOT GUILTY
Alarms I'm
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July Lone
of the discoEntorts Of home is
being provided park bench
sIeeperS here in the form Of
an alarm clock service.
Park police do not object to
hot weather park sleepers, but
at 8 q. m. a bell is ruag to
get the drowSy ones out of the
way before government clerks
hurry through park paths to
work.
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No Banks Robbed in june

For the first time since the state
criminal bureau was organized, July,
1927, month passed without a sin
gle bank robbery reported to E. L..
Osborne. bureau chief, reported to-
day in his June review for the Sec
rotary Of state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
FIVE DIE IN AIR CRASH
Airplane Loses Wing and Dives at
Canadian Airport.
By United Press

By United Press
HAMILTON, Ont, July Five
persons were killed when an air.
plane lost a wing and crashed on
the Hamilton airport here today.
The dead: j. H. Maher, Montreal
owner of the plane; Captain Bob
Sterling, Montreal. pilot; Alfred
Rogers, Mt. Hamilton, Ontario;
Charles DAILY, Toronton, and H.
Raines, Canadian press correspond
ent who came here to cover the
start of the trans-Canada air
pageant.
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XXTHEN the sun goes down and

XXTHEN the sun goes down and
W the peaceful quiet Of a
summer night shroudS White
river
Perhaps the cottage is stuffy
and it's the proper time for swim
ming, but it's too hot to climb
into a bathing suit.
Then the brilliant idea of the
day strikes. Why not follow
suit" with the nudists and slip
into the river as you did when
the swimmin' hole down on the
farm was the summers delight?
And 50 1t has come to pass that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
IT'S HOT UP HIGH, TOO
Weather Forecasters on Tenth Floor
Suffer; Envy Post Gatty.

On the tenth floor Of the Con-
solidated building. the staff of men
who issue the forecast for hot
weather today suffered as much as
nrst and second floor jewellers.
But r. E. Spencer, bureau assist
aat, had an ambition despite the
temperature.
I'D like to have been with Wiley
Post and Harold Gatty, especially on
that Alaskan leg of their trip; he
said. They sure do travel"
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HEAT AID FOR HORSES
Overlooking Means Arrests, HUI
name Group Warns Draymen.

name Group Warns Draymen.
Hot weather relief was extended
today to dray horses as the Indi-
annapolis Humane Society warned
drivers that overlooking the ami
mails during the heat wave would
result in arrests.
Several coal and ice truck drivers
recently have been made to tighten
their loads because the horses were
in danger of exhaustion from the
heat, according to w. P. Hargon.
secretary of the society.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
RESIGNS STATE POST
Miss Landau Quits as Assistant Dr.
rector in Nursing Service.

Miss Henrietta Landau left her
position as assistant director of pub
lie health nursing in the state board
of health today to accept a similar
position in an eastern state, it was
announced by Dr. William p. King.
state health director.
She will be succeeded here by
Miss Virginia Jones. who has been
director Of public health nursing at
Richmond. Miss Jones viii begin
EnEk lallE a. Kine easd -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
DUcE GETS PAPAL NOTE
Fifth Vatican-Fascists Communica-
ton Delivered by Messenger.

N1VW " 1HCSStUBCFs
BIZ Tnifcd Press
VATICAN CITY, July THE
Nati9ans fifth note to Italy on the
Vatican-F Fascist dispute with italy
vas delivered to the government
Today hz messenger boy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Post and Gatty Sighted in
Manitoba in Dash to
New York.

By United Press
ST. PAUL, July 1.-The mono
plane Winnie Mae was reported
over Tower, Mimi, at 1919 p. m,
the Postal Telegraph Company in
formed the United Press.
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ANOTHER GOOD FRIEND GONE

In tile death of Hugo O. Wallace, former United States Ambassador to France, Alaska looses another staunch friend Active in councils of the Democratic party for many years Mr. Wallace is said to have en- tered politics merely for the pleasure he derived from it He never sought public office and although nomna- tons as governor and United States Senator were ire ouenty offered to him. he constantly refused to run for office.
 n public and private schools there He had resided since 1887 at Tacoma, Wash, where he was prominent in real estate and banking.
 During the rush to the Kondike gold fields in 1897 Mr. Wallace organized the Washington and Alaska Steamship Company During the Wilson admnistra- ton 1t was said that HIr Wallace closer to the president than any other westener and in sense was an adviser to Wilson affairs concerning the Vest eln part of the country and Alaska He heartily en- dorsed the Alaska Railroad project to the president
 The passing of these good friends of Alaska are keeny regretted by Alaskans and especially So in the death of Hugh Campbell Wallace
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ENGINEERs ARRIVE 10
 PLAN PRELIMINARY DREAsNATER N1RK

H. E. D. Wallace and Fred M. spach, engineers of the Alaska Roaa Commission are .ir town from their Anchorage headquarters giv- 'ing the Seward breakwater tne double ov.t and the lIp and dav
 They arrived riiday night a9d Were on the Ioa bri=l4g 4llr. Gar!y this morning accompani-j #sF An- tone Eide, also of the CgnQfraiNa
 we ate making \ pr5lE9inafA .racaHna aissance M regard to .l9ca
 tion. necessary rail cy44 sanction and rock work they sai1. Thay iil- dicated that they had noshiag of direct importance to s.ya cat Iot publication as they expc4tsd .nfol'a definite instructions 0n the rpNt steamer They stated that -Aeg thought it likely that Major Malcolm Elliott head of the coln- mission would come heIe sAortl:- to give plans his official Al. K, An though they would nol commit themselves definitely they satd they believed work would bc ini- tiated in the veryy near future.
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PIONEER OFFICERS

MS. AXel Osberg, president; Mrs. Frank Sayres. first vice- -presi- dent. Mrs. C. M. McBurnay, second vice e-president; Mrs. William Wik- strom, secretaryi MIS- Duncan Campbell treasurer; Mrs Patrick GiIdea, historian and Mrs Edward Williams. sergeant-at- arms were recently elected by tae Women's Auxiliary. Pioneers of Alaska, at Ketchikan, says the Chronicle. They were to have been installed this week |
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BUREAU or INDIAN AFFAIRS

we fa to see what terrible calamity would befall the Indians of Alaska government activities l n that direction We're transferred from the Bureau of Education to tie Department of Indian Affairs
 Thus far we have seen only condemnation by Alas ka papers regarding such A man may have been scondIe 20 40 years ago but if he since has standards of society," We would trust him. And it is with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Because in years gone by this department has been exposed in dshing out lot of drtothers get by with the truth never the face Of the present which far knowledge, which is limited we must confess is concerned has a clean sheet.
 In any case the Indians will not suffer; nor the Eskimo In fact would be interesting experiment and we do not hesitate going on record saying that the Indians theseves will be glad to be in the care of the same department their brothers in the States Such transfer will effect individuals of the present organization in the Territory They have and are today proving their worth in the numerous out posts.
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CLUB PRESIDENT IGNORED

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. fPi Indians of thc Blackfeet tribe of western Montana have made Mrs John F siopal. president of t1e General Federation of Women's Clubs. " princess Her tribal name is Princess Red Flower Wonl.l.
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COUNT BANK NOTES

WASHINGTON, Jan. X. lF1
 Counting from seven to nine thou sand bank notes apiece each day is the task of a staff of young wo- men in the United States treasury department. The girls must have nimble fingers and keen eyesight.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03

Postmaster Charles Sheldon made good his promise to get mail out for the Interior at every oppor- tuniy. A fat sack for Anchorage and way points was dispatched On the mixed train this morning.
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List your labor wants with us. we will endeavor to secure for you the help desired. Phone Adams 126 or call at the M S w Club, Seward. Alaska.
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QUICK SALE

Latest Model Sink Thirty Gallon tank. Small Bath Tub. Reasona bIe prices. Call immediately, Madison 127. NM.
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