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"tl IT" IT A TTT) Sunday NGI The Editorial Page Here you will find what we have to say about local, state, national and world affairs. These editorials are always fair, yet they are not written with the idea of pleasing everyone. in News, Circulation and Advertising Today Russia Worries Us. We Laugh No Longer. Dredge Jaw Elephants.

Noble White Caucasians, By Arthur Brisbane PRICE TEN CENTS. VOL. 54 NO. 90. MUNCIE, INDIANA, SUNDAY, JULY After 100 Were Injured in N.

1 J. Rail Wreck INFANT MUDDLE IMPELS CRUSADE Chicago Mothers Plan to Offset Future Tangles. Chicago, July 26 (JP) Stirred by the tragic consequences of the confusion in identities of the babies born to Mrs. Charles Bamberger and Mrs. William Watkins in Englewood Hospital, a group of Chicago mothers met today and planned a crusade against recurrences of such mix ups.

Mrs. Grace Eibrell, prominent civic worker, who headed the movement, issued a call to all Chicago mothers for a mass meeting next week when it is planned to launch an intensive investigation of the maternity wards of all hospitals of the district. To Hit Careless Practices. "We intend to make a clean sweep of all careless practices that place a new born babe's identity in jeopardy," Mrs. Eibrell said.

Meanwhile the two mothers fought for strength to nurse the infants that may or may not be theirs. As a result of the worry and the strain of the numerous scientific tests they have undergone with the babies this past week they were reported to be in a highly nervous condition. Barrett O'Hara, former lieutenant governor of Illinois, today was retained by Mr. Watkins to take care of the latter's interests in the case. Watkins.

who said he was convinced tfce child given his wife was the one born to Mrs. Bamberger, had not decided on a definite line of action. The other father. Charles Bamberger, continued adamant that the baby given the Bambergers by hospital attaches is his own. "Not Ours, but Isn't He Cute?" The baby now called Watkins sleeps peacefully most of the time, too young to have its feelings hurt because, for the time being, it is the baby neither family The Watkins look at him with a sort of hostile affection.

"He's not ours." they said, "but isn't he cute?" "I'm sure I've -got the Bamberger baby and he has my son. But then when some folks say they think this baby looks like me or my wife all I Continued on Fifth Fag. TWO MEN KILLED, ANOTHER WOUNDED IN ROW OVER DOG Hazelhurst. July 26 Two men were killed and another was wounded here tonight in a quarrel, over a dog. Joe L.

Crosby, 60. fell before the gunfire of Ben Nabers. 24. Nabers died a moment later with a bullet wound in the chest. Tom Crosby told officers he killed his father's slayer.

Tom was wounded by Nabers. The elder Crosby and Nabers met here tonight following a recent altercation, which was stopped by police interference, and renewed an argument about ownership of a dog. Nabers and the elder Crosby were farmers. Tom Crosby and his brother, Lee. were arrested.

Officers did not disclose why Lee was being held. Chicago. July Frrrat: INDIANA Mo.tlr fair Sandar and day) slight! warmer in ritrfme portion Panda. Courtesy Hupp Coal Co. MI'NCIF.

AND VICINITY Storm Ing In the direction of the wind. TEMPERATURE IN MUNCIE Last 34 Hours Courtesy Indiana Oeneral Service M-nortb hrew Co. 1 a. 77' 9 R7 5 p. 2 a.

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The Weather First Van Loan in Jail MS- H. H. Van Loan, noted short story writer, is shown here in his cell in the Los Angeles jail where he has been held on a fugitive warrant, brought by his wife, formerly Gertrude Cameron, actress, to face charges in New York City of abandoning his 13-year-old daughter, Gertrude. Van Loan asserts his arrest is due to a spite plot on the part of his wife against whom he recently filed a divorce action. FORD AID DENIES 'RED'TROUBLEIN MOTOR FACTORY Sorenson, U.

S. Quiz Witness, Favors Secret Police to Check Communism. Detroit, July 26 (JP) Charles E. Sorenson. personal representative of Henry Ford, told the congressional committee investigating Communism in the United States today that he "was very much in favor of a secret police force to check Communist activities." Sorenson.

who appeared without a subpoena before the committee to tell what he knew of alleged Communism in the Ford organization, said, however, that the Ford Motor Company never had experienced any trouble from Communists in its plant and that the company's business relations with the Soviet government, always had been satisfactory. Russia Contract Defended. "We are not ashamPd of the contracts we have made with Russia," he said. Questioned regarding an interview with newspapermen in New York last week upon his return from Russia, Mr. Sorenson denied he had been correctly quoted when he was reported to have criticised the idea of a secret police of the government to keep a check on Communist activities.

Under questioning by Representatives Hamilton Fish, of New York, Mr. Sorenson said that Henry Ford "probably had been misrepresented" when newspapers printed a statement said to have been made by Mr. Ford that he needed 30,000 workers at once. Asked if it were true that more than 30.000 workers flocked to Detroit to get jobs, that there were no jobs and that the hose was turned on the crowds at the Ford plant in order to disperse them Mr. Sorenson replied: "I think so.

We have had to do that before." Says He'll Learn Something. Sorenson denied he had said in the newspaper interview that for eight months some fifty skilled Russian Communists had been employed in the Ford plant with the knowledge of the management and that the morale of the organization had proved impervious to their efforts. "I said Russian workmen, not Russian Communists," Sorenson said. "Do you believe it likely that Communists would be sent to your plant Continued on Sernnd Tr. What's New IN TODAY'S CLASSIFIED ADS See the Classified Pae for complete details, address and phone numbers.

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MONDAY, July 28th. the following goods will sell: Kitchen cabinet, dresser, davenport, library table, etc. WANTED BOYS between the ages of 8 and 13 for three hours work Monday morning. Watermellon feed. 'Phone Your Ad to 625 cr 27, 1 930.

aB I A graphic view of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Elizabeth, N. which sent fifty-six persons to the hospital and painfully injured forty-four men and women. A seven-car Philadelphia -New York express train hit a hastily abandoned automobile and carried it for a quarter mile. Shown above are three train coaches tumbled over an embankment. KING COMFORTS QUAKE VICTIMS Italian Monarch Ends Most Sorrowful PHgrimage.

Naples. Italy, July 26 (JP) King Victor Emmanuel concluded one of the most sorrowful pilgrimages of his thirty years reign tonight. Across a zone of desolation reeking with the stench of the unburied, and scene of at least 2.143 deaths of Italian subjects, the soldier-monarch journeyed, everywhere speaking words of comfort and hope to the awed survivors of the catastrophe. Waives Royalty's Salute. No pomp and circumstance attached to his royal visit and few flags were flown from the ruined buildings that on other occasions of royal visits were festively decorated.

The accustomed cheers for the king, though hearty and sincere, were mingled with tears of sorrow and suffering. Patiently and intently the soverign assembled first-hand data on the extent of the disaster and on the or-gainzation of relief measures. He received the explanations of the perfect, doctors, and sanitary directors of how the huge problem of extracting bodies from the debris and burying them was being met, and what measures were being taken to prevent epidemics and take care of the survivors. Those With Means Sent Awar. Government officials supervising the relief work decided today to send away from the ruined area all those whose relatives in hamlets that were spared are able to receive them into their homes.

It also decided to move out of the earthquake zone such families as are known to have means enough to. permit of their temporary sojourn elsewhere. This decision made it possible to e'acuate some fourteen thousand men. women and children. The congestion in the hastily erected tent cities was considerably relieved there-by.

and fourteen thousand mouths less had to be fed from the rations dealt out by the army and other organisations. So sweeping was the earthquakes that Sunday morning will see fully half of the houses of worship either destroyed nr rendered too dangerous to hold congregations. Extra masses will be said or sung in the religious edifices still standing and solid, to bring comfort to the pious village folk who wish to thank providence for their escape from the tremor's wrath, and who, above all, Continued on Srrond Fagr. TOKIO-U. S.

FLYERS EMBARK FOR JAPAN Seattle. July 26 (P With their plane, the City of Taconia. lashed on the after deck of the American mail liner President Lincoln, Harold Bromley, Tacoma and Harold Gatty, co-pilot, left today for Tokio, from where they hopp to fly back to the United States. The aviators will disembark at Yokohama and travel by train to Tokio. "I expect to be back on American soil within three weeks," Bromley said.

"I am very confident of making the projected non-stop flight. Mv plane has plenty of fuel and will have the additional advantage of a west-to-east wind. Only Harold Gatty and myself are sailing to Japan. John Buffelen, our backer, will remain in Tacoma." Bromley has planned a trans-Pacific flight for more than a year. The plane was hurriedly dismantled last night after a sudden decision to abandon a Tacoma-to-Tokio flight attempt.

WHEN Russia, announced a five-year program to spend thirty-three billions of dollars and make Russia industry invincible, American kings of industry laughed. They have stopped laughing and requested the United States government to put an embargo on importations from Russia, with which they'can-not compete. Manganese mines in this country have shut down, putting 3.000 men nut of work, destroying owners' profits because Russia is "dumping" manganese ore at $26 a ton. against $34. the American producers' price.

And Russia pays $14.25 a ton for water freight from Russia out of the $26. Our government has just put an "embargo on Russian wood pulp, threatening profits of paper concerns here. Manganese producers and others say Russia employs "slave labor," enabling it to dump wheat, pulp, wood, manganese, lumber, at prices which we can't compete. Temporarily embargoes my be but if events prove that Russia is using not only slave labor but BRAINS embargoes won't solve the problem. If we refuse, cheap goods from Russia, other nations will take them.

The price of wheat and other important products is made abroad, not here. We may have to compete with prices created by Russian competition or give up our foreign trade in important commodities. United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel and other big American concerns, it seems, wickedly purchase manganese from Russia for $26 instead of patriotically buying it from Americans for $34, which is sad. Russian labor is paid $10 a week. We shall have to meet that, if at all, with greaer efficiency.

We it. in the automobile industry, ten American workers with America, i machinery producing as many automobiles as 100 European workers with their methods. In Detroit a Catholic priest, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin.

of the Shrine of the Little Flower Church, tells the congressional committee investigating "Red Russian activities" that "the greatest force in the movement to internationalize labor throughout the world is Henry Ford." The Rev. Mr. Coughlin says "Ford is helping the Soviet government in Russia." He refers to an $18,000,000 contract which Ford signed with Soviet representatives. Father Coughlin believed that a revolution was near; Ford, however, has no monopoly of dealings with Russia. Schwab's Bethlehem Company buys manganese from Russia.

The United States Steel Corporation has a contract to buy from Russia from 80.000 to 150,000 tons. The General Electric Company sells to Russia on a gigantic scale and helps to finance the business. It recently manufactured for Russia's government the biggest, hydro-electric turbine engine ever manufactured on earth. It may be necessary for American capital and industry to study Russian methods more closely, to compete with them in efficiency, as well as in virtuous denunciation. Roy Chapman Andrews believes that he has found in an ancient Mongolian mud pit the most remarkable fossils ever discovered.

Some convulsion happened 3.000,000 years ago. and twenty-five monstrous prehistoric elephants with "dredger jaws five feet long" met death suddenly where Andrews found their skeletons. Science says the monsters with dredger jaws came gradually, as a result of evolution, using their jaws like the working end of steam shovel to scoop up marine grasses by the roots. But it is not necessary for fundamentalists to believe that. You can readily understand that elephants with dredger jaws might have been extremely useful in the Garden of Eden, to dig ditches, canals, excavate artificial lakes or any other work that Adam might have planned.

And think how they would have interested little Cain and Abel. Even grown men in our day will stand for hours watching a steam shovel. Here and there the Ku Klux Klan is rearing its snow-white hood, calling upon "Caucasians and noble white men" to arouse and assert their rights. Klans and kleagles were quiescent in booming prosperity when everybody seemed to have jobs and money. But when "noble Caucasian white men" find it difficult to secure employment, that calls for no particular muscular or mental effort.

Conditions change. Then it seems desirable to suppress those that are not Caucasian, white cr noble. Copyright. 1930. bv King Features Syndicate.

Inc. FATHER ADMITS HE FELL ON BABY WHILE DRUNK, KILLING HER Chicago, July 26 iJP) Police tonight said Edward M. Johnston, broker's clerk, confessed he fell on his daughter, Mary Jane, five months old. while intoxicated, causing the child's death. Johnston, according to police, said he had been drinking heavily and that when the baby awoke and cried he picked her up to soothe her.

Before he got back to his own bed. police said he told them, he fell with her three times. Johnston is being held on open charges, pending a coroner's inquest. TWO BANDITS SLAIN BY R0ADH0USE OWNER Chicago, July 26 (JP) Two unidentified men were shot to death tonight when they tried to hold up a road-house in Lansing, 111., a suburb. Tony Sodo, proprietor of the place, heard the two in his dining room taking money and jewelry from the eight patrons who were there.

He took a shotgun, went out the back door and around to the front, where he lay in ambush. When the two" bandits left the front door he opened fire, killing both instantly. PARTIES DOING HIGH-POWERED WORK IN RANKS Democratic and Republican Candidates Tour Counties to 'Pep' for Campaign. By Maurice Early. Indianapolis, July 26.

In spite of the apparent inactivity in state politics, high-powered missiohfy work is now under way by both of the major parties. Candidates for state offices in both parties have been assigned to districts and are making regular tours of the counties for the purpose of getting a line on conditions and injecting pep into the local brethren. This activity is designed to precede the opening up of county campaigns in August and the swinging into the public oratory events in September. Supplementing the work of the state candidates in the field, R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, has arranged eight regional sessions for candidates and county organization heads to start August 4.

Regional Meeting Dates. These meetings will be at Fort Wayne, August Muncie, August Indianapolis, August 6: New Albany, August South Bend, August 11; Laiayette, August 12; Terre Haute, August 13; and Evansville, August 14. The counties which have been designated to attend the Muncie meeting are Blackford, Delaware, Grant. Henry, Jay, Madison, Randolph and Wayne. Elza O.

Rogers, Republican state chairman, is making arrangements to spend most of his time at the state headquarters in the Hotel Severin. starting next month. He is at work whipping into shape the various bureaus usually operated by the G. O. P.

during campaigns. Miles Furnas, of Winchester, former state senator and a veteran in G. O. P. affairs, is at work in the field for the Republican headquarters, checking on the status of local organizations.

Tax Scandal Is Topic. The gasoline tax scandal continues to be the subject of most political gossip. It has served to recall the spectacular part that Bruce E. Cooper, of Stewartsville. former First district G.

O. P. chairman, played in the last contest made for control of the Republican state organization. Cooper resigned as investigator for the gasoline tax department soon after the publicity given to the tax evasion by gasoline bootleggers in Lake County. It was always understood that Cooper landed his position in the state department because of the services he performed at the 1928 star; committee reorganization.

At that time Senator Arthur R. Robinson was making an effort to elect George M. Poland, collector of customs, state chairman. The failure of the Robinson-Foland attempt, according to inside political gossip, was laid at the doors of Cooper, who came to Indianapolis that year as the new chairman from the First district. It was declared by the backers of Foland that they had elected Cooper district chairman with the understanding that he would support the collector of customs for the head of the party machinery.

Cooper's Act Rewarded. But Cooper was soon won over to the camp of M. Bert Thurman. national committeeman, who was determined that Foland would not be elected chairman. Thurman, who had come up to the day of the re-organization without a candidate for the state chairmanship to succeed E.

F. Kitselman of Muncie, who declined to Continned on Second Page. "MA" FERGUSON IS LEADING TEXAS VOTE i Hoover Democratic Faction Shuns 1928 Leader. Dallas. July 26 (JP) Texas Democrats today marched to the polls and cast what is probably a record primary vote, early gubernatorial returns, the race of most interest, indicating that the Hoover faction had forsaken their 1928 leader and that Mrs.

Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, former governor, was much in the running. Returns from 174 of the state's 253 counties. Including four complete, gave the following total vote for governor. Mrs. Ferguson, Ross S.

Sterling, 37.517; Clint C. Small, Jim Young, 16.442: Thomas B. Love, 16.111; Earle B. Mavfield. Barry Miller.

9.983: C. C. Moody. 846; Frank Putnam. 678; Paul Loven, 616, and C.

E. Walker, 459. Tremendous Vote Cast. In the Democratic race for the United States Senate, Senator Morris Sheppard had 75,611 votes to 26,674 for Robert L. Henry and 5,155 for C.

A. Mitchner. Ideal summer weather brought out a tremendous vote, estimates from reliable quarters placing the total at far more than the 737,901 votes cast two years ago. The polls close at 7 p. m.

Total registration was 1.283.897 and the voters ballotted on candidates ranging from constable to United States senator. Nomination of Morris Sheppard, Democrat, author of the Eighteenth amendment, was accepted as SPECIAL MOVE DEFEATED 11 T05 IN INDIANA VOTE Plan Would Have Created Group to Observe Effect of Volstead Act. Indianapolis, July 26 (JP) The Indiana crime commission decided today to forego the study of anxneon-nection prohibition may have with law breaking, and rejected by a vote of II to 5 a motion to create a special sub-committee to study present laws on prohibition and their effecs on law enforcement. The commission also Teceivei major recommendations of a subcommittee appointed last fall, but deferred both action and discussion of them until after each member has had an opportunity to study them alter he receives a printed copy. Attorney Proposes Motion.

The motion urging that a committee study prohibition laws, their effect on law observance and enforcement and on the "evident increase" in population of penal institutions and jails, was offered by Leo M. Rappaport, Indianapolis attorney. Rappaport made a lengthy speech accompanying the resolution, in which he admitted that he enjoyed certain beverages banned by law. but he declared that was not his purpose in offering the motion. Major recommendations placed before the commission today were as follows: Creation of a state department of public safety to have control of the state motor police, criminal identification bureau, game wardens, oil inspectors and fire marshals, and to have supervisory regulation over all peace officers Including city policemen.

Non-partisan election of all judges on a special judicial ticket. Favor Safety Commission. Repeal of the present pardon law and making only "lifers" or persons sentenced under evident miscarriage of justice eligible to pardon and subject to investigation by the proposed safety commission. Placing prosecutors on a straight salary basis, elimination of the fee system and fixing three-year qualification. Empowering the Supreme Court to prescribe qualifications for admission to the bar.

Creation of a state judicial council, composed of all judges, with power to assign judges to congested courts, and to revise the rules of procedure. Creation of a state probation commission with powers over all local probation officers. Establishment of a school for probation officers at Indiana University. Propose Special Education. Authority for school authorities to establish special classes for retarded children under the direction of the board of state charities and the state department of education.

Mental examination of persons accused of crime before trial, authority for judges to call psycharistrists to the witness stand in criminal trials and organization of mental clinics in the state institutions. Establishment of state mental hospital: adoption of the uniform code of criminal procedure; tightening up on lax jury service: more adequate statistics for the study of criminality; elimination of the fee system for the care of jail prisoners; eradication of the bail evil and the enlargement of the probation system. Chairman J. A. Vanosdol of Anderson, insisted upon a discussion of the recommendations today in order to Continaed on Seeond Fage.

POLICE, SAFETY BODY WARRANTS UNSERVED Evansville Judge Unable to Get Action on Four. Evansville. July 26 (Warrants were issued tonight for the arrest of Chief of Police Emmett Bell, of Evansville. and three members of the board of safety, but city Judge Charles J. Eichel.

who caused their issuance, has failed to find anyone willing to serve them. The filing of the warrants followed raids this afternoon under the orders of the court in which two men were placed under arrest and which, in turn, led to the arrest of five of the ten raiding officers. City Judge Eicnei, 22, who heads a political faction in opposition to Mayor Frank Griese. this afternoon, charged the city police were lax in law enforcement. He appointed and swore in ten special City Court bailiffs to conduct raids on four gambling places.

Two men were arrested as the result of the raids. Sheriff Refuses to Aft. Orders then were sent out by Chief of Police Bell ordering the arrest of the special City Court Bailiffs. Five were arrested, one charged with carrying concealed weapons and the other four with impersonating officers. Judge Eichel then swore out warrants charging Chief of Police Bell and members of the board of safety, Ed F.

Diekmann, Harry Lowenthal and W. H. Bytngton. with interfering with the court. These warrants wera placed in the hands of Sheriff Wil liam Rustom.

of Vanderburgh County, the sheriff, however, refused to serva them, claiming that they are illegal. The two men arrested in the gambling raids this afternoon were placed under $500 bond in City Court ant $1,500 bond In Circuit Court. NEXT CONGRESS MAY FACE RAFT OF WET DRAFTS Majority of Those Proposing Change Reluctant to Specify an Alternative. By David Lawrence. Washington, July 26 (CPA) It is generally taken for granted that when Congress reconvenes in December there will be a raft of proposals advocating a change In the prohibition situation.

These will range from resolutions designed to repeal the Eighteenth amendment to others seeking to modify its provisions, Broadly speaking, the two political parties are jockeying with the issue and the congressional elections' will yield no definite solution unless, of course, the registration of a protest vote is regarded as the forerunner of ultimate change. Two Points of View. Most members of the Senate who have declared themselves for repeal and this goes also for the candidates for the Senate have been reluctant to put in precise language their recommendation of what the country should adopt as an alternative if the Eighteenth amendment were to be repealed. There have been suggestions, of course, in speeches and various solutions advocated, but when it comes down to "brass tacks" the alternative solution has never been put in constitutional or legal phraseology so that it could be concretely examined. There are two points of view about the substitution of a new amendment for the Eighteenth.

The advocates of one would write into it a formula for handling the liquor problem such as a stipulation that the federal government take care of interstate commerce and the states enforce the law on traffic within the states. The other suggestion is a general grant of power to Congress and the several states with an explicit definition of the powers of each. Very little as a matter of fact has been heard from the constitutional lawyers as to the proprieties and the precedents, with the possible exception of a few speeches such as that John W. Davis delivered a few years ago in St. Louis criticising the wording of the Eighteenth amendment.

Substitute Language Vital. If the debate as to repeal grows serious in the next session of Congress, much will depend on the language of the substitute resolutions. It is difficult at this time to say that a repeal amendment cannot go through, but it would seem to be highly improbable unless, of course, the substitute resolution can be made satisfactory to the drys. The test of any amendment which would satisfy the drys would be whether the grant of power were such that complete prohibition of manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages would be possible under the new amendment by virtue of legislation as it has been possible under the existing amendment. In other words, so far as the power of Congress to make laws to prohibit the liquor tariffic is concerned, it would have to be as absolute under a new amendment as before.

The difference of opinion would arise as to whether the power should be vested at all in Congress or the state legislatures, but it is a fact that criticism from some cf the constitutional lawyers on the wording of the present Eighteenth amendment has been expressed entirely apart from the merits of prohibition itself of its enforceability. There is indeed a controversy on the constitutional law side which is separate from the questions involved in the legislative idea itself. Copyright. 1930. PROHl AGENT HELD AFTER KILLING BOY DELIVERING LIQUOR Columbus.

July 26 (VPV-W. K. Johnson, federal prohibition agent, was held here tonight following on the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old boy last night. Federal and state authorities are investigating the youth's trail of alleged liquor running and the agent's story that the shooting was accidental. The boy, Ray Rodgers, was killed after Johnson surprised him in the act of making delivery of a gallon of liquor.

Eunice Johnson, 19, was with Rodgers when he was slain. Johnson said the boy was shot accidentally as he and the girl struggled with him for possession of a pistol. The girl, however, told police the agent fired without notice. Her account was that Johnson stepped to the car and fired the fatal shot without warning. George Moscley.

to whom the liquor was delivered, told a similar story. OHIO SUGAR RACKET BARON GANG VICTIM Cleveland, July 26 (JP) Jim Porello, one of the leaders in the corn sugar racket here, died in a hospital this evening, several hours after he was shot down by gunmen, in renewal of the sugar war which has brought numerous deaths In the last several years. His assailant escaped. Big Joe Jorello. brother of Jim, was shot and killed with his bodyguard near the place of today's assault only three weeks ago.

He had been recognized as the "corn sugar king." HEAT TO LAST OVER WEEK-END Predict Showers Will Cool Some Localities. Chicago, July 26 iJP) The mid-West and East were faced with another uncomfortablbe week-end with reports today of 100 degree temperatures scattered along a new heat belt extending from Kansas and the Dakotas eastward to the Atlantic seaboard. Showers were predicted to bring relief to some localities, but for the mast part there was---a general exodus to the wide-open spaces, starting tonight in the sweltering cities. Temperatures above the century mark were reported in southern Illinois. Nebraska, Ohio and western Maryland, with others ranging from 95 to 99 in parts of South Dakota, Iowa and Pennsylvania.

Showers and winds kept the mercury down to normal averages along the Great Lakes in the mid-West, but the belt expanded in the East to stretch into tipper New York and eastern Lake Erie points. High temperatures were reported in Philadelphia and Baltimore in the East, but the thermometer reached onlv 88 in New York City. HEAVY RAIN STRIKES MUNCIE AND VICINITY; LITTLE DAMAGE A heavy rain beginning about 9 o'clock last night was calculated to revive the dying corn corp and to a great degree prevent damage of that and other grains in the fields. There was more than half an inch of rainfall before midnight. .04 inches falling in the first thirty minutes of the storm.

Corn in the fields was drying up and the earth was baked marble-hard under the searing sun of the past few days. Harry W. Hoppes. government meteorologist, reported a maximum temperature of 95.5 degrees at noon yesterday, a mark on a par with temperatures during the week. Last night's storm was accompanied by an electrical display and wind which at times reached great force.

Scores of branches were torn from trees and lay about the city streets but there was no serious damage reported done by either wind or lightning. The telephone company had several poles down in scattered sections of the county it was said, and a few telephones were reported temporarily out of order. Downtown street intersections were flooded by the heavy rainfall at 11:30 clock. HOOSIFKS SWELTER AS RAINS RAISE HUMIDITY DURING DAY Indianapolis, July 26 (Pi There wasn't much to do. except grin and bear it, as a relentless sun and extremely humid conditions made today one of torture in the shade or in the sun all over Indiana.

Generally, what would have been welcome thunderstorms did more damage than good. The slight rainfall tended only to aid old Sol in his sizzling campaign on crops over the state, while the stuffiness of the at- Centinurd on Second Fmge. PHYSICIAN, FATHER END LIVES WITH GUN Indianapolis, July 26 (JP) Dr. John Q. Davis.

54. Indianapolis, and his father. H. W. Davis.

82. ended their lives this afternoon in the physician's office in a downtown building. After investigating Coroner C. H. Keever said it was a double suicide.

No explanation of the tragedy was offered. The father had shot himself in the heart with an automatic pistol and the son had fired a revolver bullet into his temple. The elder man lived in rooms adjoining the physician's office. Dr. Davis lived with his wife at 5632 Winthrop avenue.

did mine" read two notes, one beside each body and in the hand writing of the respective men. Added to Dr. Davis's- note was: Forgive me, Dode." believed to have been addressed to Mrs. Davis. She is in poor health and police were reluctant to' inform her of the deaths..