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strait HICHlOArg OKKATB8T WEATHER Unsettled KIWI FAFBK Vol-, 93- No. 39 DETROIT, MICHIGAN. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 192 7 WENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE: THREE CENTS PMWZEi BY HEAD ARE VET UC3COUE3TED FINAL EDITION mo Ml; MAN'S MURDER EX-TELLER ADMITS THEFTS 10 FEET WATER IN STREETS, SAY REFUGEE GIRLS WARRANTS OUT FOR SINCLAIR, AID, AS 'FIXERS' TELLER BLAMES BLACKMAILERS IN HUGE THEFT LAWS VIOLATED IN VOTE PROBE, O'NEIL CHARGES Corporation Counsel Asserts Reading's Methods May Void Election. I i BEAUTY WORTH $20,000, AVERS DETROIT GiRL Asks Amount as Damages for Scar Suffered in Auto Accident. Special to The Free Pretn.

Mt. Clemens, Nov. 4. Placing a value of on her pulchritude. Miss Margaret Campbell, 13 years old, of 1652 Gray avenue, Detroit, today told a Jury in circuit court of "great mental anguish" and humiliation she has suffered because of a scar on her left cheek, caused by Injuries Buffered in an automobile accident October 14, 1922.

Mlsa Campbell, by her next friend. if-v Y'4v i.aMnmwt -I i i-i-rnri iiniiiii -i Deputy U. S. Marshal George Radtke, who has confessed $115,000 POLICE ARREST BAIL JUMPERS Rader and Brooks," Who Fled Trial, to Face Accuser in Jewelry Holdup. Morris Rader, 28 years old, 433 East Palmer avenue, and Robert Brooks, 28, 680 West Ferry avenuo, who two weeks ago Jumped ball of $5,000 each when they learned they were to be tried on a robbery arm-ed charge by Judge John V.

Bren-nan in recorder's court, were arrested yesterday. At the time of their disappearance, which followed shortly after reduction of their bond from' 110,000 to 15,000 each, It was believed they feared the heavy sentences being Imposed by Judge Brennan. Kader waa arrested by Inspector Henry J. Garvin, head of th. criminal Investigation squad, at East Grand boulevard and John K.

street, when Garvin bhw Kader drive by In an automobile. In which hia belongings, in a traveling bag, were found. In the traveling bag was a note reading: "Your friend will meet you at Case and Charlotte this afternoon at I o'clock." Police waited at the corner named until the appointed time, when Brooks drove up in a taxlcab. As Brooks saw the officers ha ran, but waa caught when h. went into a grocery ator.

after Garvin had fired at him. Both Brook, and Rader wer. armed when arrested, police said. It Is believed they wer. planning to leave town.

The two had 'been ordered held for trial on a charge of holding up Solomon Freudenhelm, New York diamond aalesman. July 28, at Clifford and Griswold streets. They were captured after a running gun battle with police, in which on. officer and three pede.trlana wer. wounded.

Brooks disappeared two days before the cases were called befor. Judge Brennan, and Rader, who had been in the courtroom on the day of his escape, disappeared a few minutes before his nam. waa called. After the escape of the two alleged thugs, police learned th. two bondsmen each had long police records.

An investigation waa Instituted to determln. why the bonds wer. reduced. FORTllETCAR SERVICE EXTENDED D. S.

R. to Run. to Pepper Road, Beginning Sunday. Effective tomorrow, service on th. Fort street car line will be ex tended from Ita present terminal.) at Fort street and Oakwood boulevard to Pepper road, a distance of two and one-half miles, Del A.

Smith, general manager of th. D. 8. announced yesterday, There will b. no far.

Increase. The extension was made possible by an agreement with the Detroit United which owns th. tracks west of Rlv.r Konge. LEAVES WIDOW, SONS IN WANT Boys Wonder Who Will Walk in Woods With Them as Father Did. Today, Russell and Robert Burger, who live at the comer of Branet avenue and Stevens highway, In Hazel Park, are wondering who will walk with them in the woods and show them all the mysterious things that are to be found there.

Whoever does, tbey'kndw that he will never be able to tako the place of the man who loved the outdoors and who spent as many hours there with them as ha could find time for. Their father, Russell Burger, loved ah. outdoors, and he taught his two aona, Russell, and Robert seven and eight respectively, to love It as he did. But Thursday Russell Burger died of a bandit's bullet which h. received last Tuesday night.

Air. Burger managed the Flsher-Ralelgh store at 2 Rmrt Pair avenue. Tuesday night three Negro uanous enierea me store and demanded money, burger a-sve them all he had in his pockets and they rifted the cash register. Then they demanded liquor. When none was rortncomlng Burger was shot down.

Th. dead man left no life Insur ance. He was buying his own home and the money for the payment now due was In his pocket the night he was Kiiiea. me pantuts got It. Yesterday when a welfare man called at th.

Burger home to offer aid, Russell, asked, "Who will buy milk for us now?" Clarence Fisher, Burger's employer, has started a relief fund wtih a $100 Contribution. Doubtless the funnTWIU grow rapidly and th. lmmedlat. needs of Burger's widow and two small snna will be cared for, but no matter how large it grows It can never replace the man who used to take them Into the country Sunday and holiday. TAXWIlIT IS $225,000,000 Coolidge Makes That Maxi mum Amount; Farmers Ask Reassessment.

'Washington, Nov. i. (A. While witnesses before the ways and means committee were sug resting an overhauling of tbe na tion's revenue laws, President Cool let It be known that the $225.. 000,000 reduction maximum set by the treasury must be adhered to In drafting the new law.

The president was pictured standing squarely behind the treasury estimate and the White House discussion of the tax cut In advance of the treasury estimate when the president made known that he was opposed to the i lOO.OuO.UOO reduction proposed by the United States chamber of commerce. Speeding Appeals Urged. As the house committee with Its hearing of testimony from witnesses representing th. legal profession, th. business world and miners and farmers, It found Itself confined again to a discussion of administrative features of the law rather than with the actual rat.

structure. A large part of the' testimony dealt with suggestions for speeding up machinery of the board of tax appeals now clogged with an Continued I'nge 4. Cslamn 6 MOWED DOWN IN SAFETY ZONE Parents, 3 Children and Man Struck; Youths Capture Driver in Foot Chase. Two men, a woman and three small children, standing in a safety zone at Michigan and Renvilie ave. nues early last night, were mowed down by a hit-and-run driver, Julius Siemaz, 43 years old, 3643 Martin avenue.

He leaped from his ma chine and was chased for two blocks by two high school boys before being captilred. Siemas Is being held on a charge of leaving th. seen, of an accident. He waa the second alleged reckless driver detained by police last night, th. other being Hugh Carless, 20 years old, 4134 Dicker son avenue.

Th. six Injured persona who war. taken' to Receiving hospital were Wallace Donaldson, 30 yeara old, 487S Ogden avenue; his wife, Mary, 25, their three children, Donald, 7, Frederick, and Dolores Jane, and John Kuras, 62, of 5914 Renville avenue. The three-year-old girl suffered Internal injuries and possibly a skull fracture. Her condition Is said to be serious.

All of the other victims, hospital attendants said, may have skull fractures. Donaldson has af fractured left leg and his son, Fred erick, may have a fractured right leg. Kuros also may have a fractured right leg. It was said. After abandoning hia automobile.

Pieman ran for two blocks before being overtaken and tackled bv two alleged witnesses, Thaddeus Malolenszv. 6160 Lnnvn hntilevard. and Louis Urekor, 4427 Thirtieth street, high school boys. Siemas told police the six? persons stepped out In front of his machine. Four witnesses, however, told police Siemas drove directly through the safety sone.

1 lariess la charged with having struck Joseph Kevllle, 32 years old, 9157 Wlnton avenue, as he stepped from a street car at Harper avenue and Robert street, eariv Ijtnt nifrht Seville suffered double fracture, of both legs. Surgeons at Receiving hospital late last night feared am putation or the lett one would be necessary. STEW AIICAniA BUS NIGHT TONKJHT. 2 Bands. Texas Tommy Orchestra, Dan Kusso.

Kntertalners. Ladies 20c, Men 30c. Adv. irn skatim; at ni.vwTMi a 2:10 p. m.

p. in. a Bursting Dams Spread Havoc In Towns of Three New England States. HIGH WATERS MENACE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY Heavy Rains, Weak an ed Wall May Cause Damage South of Albany. Br i t.

KKLTV, Associated Prn Correep.adent. Monrpelier, Nov. 4. 5:30 m. (By radio via Bing-hamton, N.

Y. Montpelier and central Vermont are experiencing the worst flood in their The estent of damage is unknown. No check hss been made on loss of life. Rain has been falling for the past 28 hours. All business places are dosed.

Property loss may reach millions. The Red Cross is distributing food. All communication except by radio is cut off. Ten are reported killed in Barre, but the report is not confirmed. Thrilling rescues of life have occurred.

Many people still are marooned in blocks with water running in the streets. The water is 20 feet above normal and has in- vaded the principal streets. Lieutenant Governor S. H. Jackson is reported killed in Barre.

Light and power have been off all day. Many bridges, highways and railroad tracks have been carried away. Farms are under water. It will be Monday before railroad com-, munication can be resumed. Power hss been off all day.

The electric plant is under water. Power was on only while I had contact with you. Am using door bell batteries. At this point the radio message ended in sputtering. BV THE ASSOCIATKO TRESS.

A steadily mounting (loath toll and property damage of millions of dollars is indicated in reports from flood-ravaged towns of New England. Unconfirmed reports were that from 137 to 212 persona lost their lives in Montpelier, Vermont, when the retaining wall of a large reservoir col lapsed. (In a rsdlo report from Montpelier Friday night, the correspondent did not mention the collapse of the wslL Neither did he estimate the extent ot the death toll there, although he reported deaths in Barre, a neighboring town.) A score or more of other deaths were reported from widely separated towns in Vermont, Connecticut and Massa chusetts, in the grip of floods for two days due to dams in rivers bursting as a result of excessive rains. The affected area comprises largely the New England mill Catlaaed an fata Three, Colama fan. FATHER DYING SON TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Carries Out Threat When Par ent Lies on Deathbed.

Spedal to The Free St. Louis. Mich 4. After re peated threat, that h. would "cot live to se.

hi. father die," George Buck, St years old, ended his life with poison today, a few hour, after a phyalclan announced that hia parent would di. within ti Found by relative, shortly after h. had swallowed tha poison. Buck died at hia home befor.

a phyalclan arrived. He was connected with th. Re public Truck eompany here, and formerly waa cashier of th. Gratiot Stat. bank.

Surviving ar. the father, who ha. been 111 since last summer: his mother, widow and on. child. The Stage Hits of the Day in Print Starting tomorrow.

The Free Press will publish each week a complete play, a recent or current hit on Broadway, un-der the title "BROADWAY SUCCESSES" Several of these- plays are scheduled to be presented in Detroit this season, and readers will find these condensed versions of special interest. The play which appear in print tomorrow is "The riay's the Thing," by Ferenc Mol-nar. Feature Section Tomorrow's Free Press Move Against Oil Magnate Held in Abeyance vby U. S. Attorney.

ACTION FOLLOWS DAY'S REFUSAL TO TESTIFY Fall Suffers Relapse While Preparing to Return to New Mexico Home. Washington! Nov. 4. (A. A formal complaint charging Harry F.

Sinclair and one of his agents, Henry Mason Day, with conspiracy to tamper with the Jury wnicn was hearing the criminal oil conspiracy charge against the wealthy oil op erator and Albert B. Fall, was issued today by United States Commissioner Needbam C. Turnage. A warrant against Sinclair also was sworn out, but subsequently District Attorney Gordon said this action had been a mistake and that the warrant had been revoked. It developed, however, that th.

warrant simply waa held in abeyance pending tinal action by th. grand Jury which la Investigating activities of detectives of the Burns agency In shadowing members of the trial Jury. DarxTeatlmonT Exempted. The complaint was sworn to by Neil Burklnshaw, assistant district attorney In charge of the grand Jury Inquiry, Immediately after Chief Justice McCoy, of the District of Columbia supreme court, had ruled that Day could not be compelled to testify before the grand Jury since h. had taken the position that any evidence he would give might tend to Incriminate him.

Day and his counsel, former Justice Daniel Thew Wright, of the district court, accompanied Burklnshaw to the commissioner's ofne. and ware present while the complaint waa prepared. Day surrendered himself; waived a preliminary hearing and was liberated on (25,000 bond to await the action of the grand jury. Fall Suffer. Relapse.

While these stirring were transpiring in and around th. district court building. Albert B. Fall suffered a relapse in hia apartment at the Mayflower hotel and was ordered to bed by hia physician, J. J.

Kllroy, who said the former Interior secretary's physical condition waa bad on account of his previous Illnesses. Fall's Immediate ailment Is a con gestion of the lungs, superinduced by a chronic plural condition. The former cabinet officer, who Is 6 years oia. naa pneumonia less than a year ago, and was in bad physical shape when he came her. in mid-October for his 'trial with Sinclair.

Ho had expected to leave today for his horn, at Three Rivers, New Mexico. With attorneys and secret service men engaged In running down many rapidly developing new "leads- in the rase, the grand Jury inquiry proceeaea only slowly during the day with six witnesses questioned. They wer. Mrs. An-nela It.

Bailey, Conrad J. Henog, William H. Ooucher and John P. Kern, members of the trial Jury; Charles Marchal, a chauffeur, reputed to have been In Sinclair's employ here, and A. C.

Gill, a Washington newspaper reporter, who Investigated reports that private detectives were obtaining Information about prospective Jurors before the oil trial started on October 17. Short Session Today. The grand Jury will meet for two hours tomorrow to carry forward the Investigation, and. upon reas sembling Monday will have before It William J. Burns, head of the detective agencV, his son.

Wa sherman Burns, to whom the chief of the private operatives here r. ported, and Sheldon Clark, vlceJ president and general manager of the Sinclair Kenning company, who telegraphed today to District At torney Gordon from Chicago that h. would arrlv. here Monday or Tuesday. Clark was In Washington while the trial was In progress and th.

government charges that tne Burns men reported to him aa well aa to Day. The dav at th. district court started out in a rather prosiac fashion with Justice Frederick Contlnoed on Per. Two, Colann Three. 2 Americans Held For Flag 'Insult' London, Nov.

4. U. Be-rauus. they did not rise while a detachment of Italian Infantry passed them with the regimental colors, two Americans one a United States shipping board officer were arrested and detained at a police station, a Venice dispatch said The Americans were Chief Mate Galther, of th. shipping board steamer Labette, and a companion named Payer.

With Captain Petersen and Chief Engineer Glase nf the Labette, the dispatch said, Gafther and Payer were sitting at a cafe when a portion of the First Infantry regiment passed. Not realising th. significance of the occasion, they remained seated. Italian officers In the procession complained to the police, the dispatch said, nnd the four Americans were asked to go to the police station to explain their "insult to th. Italian flag." The party futile' protested that no offense had been meant.

The American consul Intervened without success, and the Italian au thorltles decided to hold Galther and Payar. Italians frequently ar. arrested for such "insults." When You Vote do you just mark names because you like the sound of them and let it go at that? Nina Wilcox Putnam great American humorist, lets more than one grain of wisdom creep between the lines of her fun in "Vote Early and for Something You Want." Read what she has to say to voters. In the Magazine, tomorrow's Sunday Free Press Says $115,000 Defalcations Began Over Bad Check Which He Made Good. SECOND MAN HELD; THIRD'S ARREST NEAR Walter Radtke Asserts Threats of Exposure Caused 4-Year Plundering of Bank.

Systematic plundering ot the National Bank of Commerce which has cost the bank $115,000, resulted in tbe arrest of two men. yesterday and brought to light a novel story of embezzlement and alleged black-mall which has been in the writing for about four years. The loss is covered by bonds and Insurance. After Walter F. Kadtke, 31 years old, 6001 Llnsdale avenue, former teller and assistant auditor, was taken Into custody yesterday morning, Claude Smith, if) yeara old of tlaglnaw, was arrested and held Incommunicado In the county jail, while a third man named by Hadtke in hia confession la being hunted by the police and department of Justice operatives.

Arrest Bring. Relief. Tired, and showing th. strain of months during which he expected discovery of his theft and arrest, Kadtke was taken Into custody at his home yesterday morning bv police, and voiced his relief at being finally apprehended. "I'm glad that's over," he said when arrested by police of the Be-triune avenue station and turned over to George A.

Beamer. deputy United State, marshal. "I am th. victim of swindlers whom 1 thought were good friends, and 1 suppose 1 must pay th. penalty.

But as God is my judge, neither myself nor my wife and two little children ever received a penny of the 1115,000." In his confession. Radtk said. that one of two men, whom he knew, telephoned him four years ago and asked him to make good a check for which hia funds were Insufficient. He said he paid the check and that when he demanded reimbursement. th.

men threatened exposure. Later, they came to him with bad checks which they compelled him to cash, Usually for large amounts, and he juggled the accounts ot depositors so as to escape detection, his confes sion Afraid to Tell Truth. "I was afraid to tall the truth and Just got In deeper and deeper, and now I'm glad It's over with," he said. Offlclala of the National Bank of Commerce explained that Itadtke's position enabled him to cover up th. defalcation, by entering checks ss they wer.

cashed agulnat the bank balance of large creditor, and then to eliminate the checks charged to tnese companies when th. month ly statements were mad. to depositors. By using th. accounts of the larger depositors, the former teller waa able In this way to satisfy the bank's examiners and those of the state and federal government, and at the same time, lead the large depositors to believe their accounts were in good condition.

The former assistant auditor's downfall came about when he waa discharged two months ago because hfs work was erratic, officials said yesterday. The discrepancies In hia accounts became Immediately apparent when one of the depositors checked up on their balance two months after Itadtke's dismissal and asserted that their account was short more than $116,000, offlclala said. A checkup revealed the serlea of bad checks and Kadtke, when taken Into custody, confessed his part In the scheme. Promised Share in Magasln. Radtk.

told Tom Wilson, head of the department of justice in. Detroit, that hia first check was for a comparatively small amount, and that th. two men whom he accused In his confession as accomplices, promised him a share In a publishing company, which, they told him. was to produce a nationally circulated moving picture magazine. Kadtke has a wife and two children, 1'rlscllla, 4 years old, and Helen Marie, five montha old.

He will probably be arraigned before J. Stanley Hurd. United States com- missioner, today on charges of vlo-t lating the national banking laws. sine, the National Bank of Com merce Is a member of the federal re serve system. Hurd waa out of th.

city yesterday. Wraie federal officials refused to comment on the case. It Is under- Continued on Page 4, Column 4. U. S.

Judge Sued For $2 00,000 Dallas, Nov. 4. i A. Federal Judge James C. Wilson was named defendant In a S2.S0O.OO0 damage ult filed here today, alleging that decision rendered by the Judge had deprived him of his constitutional rights.

William B. Slaughter. 75. of Ran Antonio, brought the suit In federal court, naming th. heirs of his brother, the late Colonel C.

C. Slaughter, as well ss Judge Wilson. The petition alleges that certain of the defendants obtained from Judge Wilson an order enjoining the prosecution In a state court of a suit known as W. 14. Slaughter vs.

C. C. Slaughter company and others, and that Judge Wilson st the time lacked Jurisdiction because he was In California. Property of C. C.

Slaughter wa. estimated at Yawl Collision Damage Slight The auxiliary yawl. Mlndoro, which was repurted In a I'ort Huron dispatch to the Free Press, as having sunk In th. St. flair river on October 21 was.

It develops, but slightly damaged. The bow of the yacht was slightly rruh4 In th colllmon with the ttiermer t'larkson and the damage from water to the yawl wa. practically negligible. The boat was towed to Hay I'lty from Port Huron three dnya after the accident and repairs are now being made by tha IieKoe Itoat and Engine company of that city. Responsibility for the accident has been acknowledged by Insurance repren' ing the Kinsmen Transit company, la.

yawl'a owners aajr. TWO OFFICIALS DUEL; LODGE WARD' QUIZZED "Arbitrary Disfranchisement" Assailed in Opinion by Legal Authorities. In a formal opinion Issued yesterday afternoon, after consultation with leading attorneys, Corporation Counsel Charles P. O'Nell held that certain aspects of the registration piobe instituted by City Cleric Richard W. Reading were illegal, it persisted in, threatened to invalidate the result of next Tuesday's election.

Intimated that he would ask an Injunction against Reading today. 1 Other developments In the probe which has resulted In acrimonious exchanges between members of the rival political camps, the city clerk and election officials Included the Jatlln of a confessed illegal registrant, the Issuance of 33 new warrants and an announcement by Reading that he Intended to continue hia activities regardless of criticism. Reading Defies O'Nell. "If Mr. Reading's Interpretation of the election law were correct," O'N'ell declared, "It would mean that the city clerk would possess the arbitrary power to disfranchise any or all of the electors.

The evidence upon which he acted would be solely within the purview of his own mind and It would be possible for him through such a course to dictate the entire city government ao long as he retained the office of city clerk." "The single phase In the election law on which Mr. Reading relies for 7 Developments In City Clerk's Registry Probe A lammirr of City Clerk Richard W. Head Ins' registration Inveatlsvatlon fallow Imauina; of formal opinion In wnlefci tho corporation eonnael'a ottlre. actual a Heading of dle-franehlalna; vutenv warna that nla notions may Invalidate th whole of the comliiir election. tine Illegal regulation conviction, that of a watchman who haa a I nee won motion for a new trial by Jury.

Nlarnlna; of Stt warranta charging fraudulent reglatrntlon, all ready for service IC defendanta can he located. Withdrawal of 19 other warranty part of 09 obtained laat week Delaying of aervlce on the rent of the Stt, Innamnch aa the IB proved to merit no court action. Continued atndy by the proae-eii tor's office of the 1,105 eases In which Reading baa sought warranta. Continued atndy by Beading of more names and addresses In the Hat of StN.OOO voters he originally placed "under suspicion." his attitude must be rend tojrflthnr with the other provisions oi the CnnMinmon una tne law, OKeil's oDinlon followed his ap pearnive at the ofticw of the city clerk where he formally notlflnd Keadlng that his course wan con-trary to law. Reading; 1 Informed O'Nell that he had not asked htm for an nuinioii and therefore wa receiving no opinion from the corporation counsel.

City Clerk Cltea Law. When O'Nell left, Reading stated that the corporation counsel failed to state whether he appeared aa a campaign manager or as the city KR.l representative. The clerk read for the Public Acts of 1926. Section I and Informed O'Nell that this was the law he was following. The section reads: "The- name of no person but an Actual resident of the precinct at I nr5 lllliu irini.ininiii, nuu en titled, under the Constitution, If re maining such resident, to vote at the nest election or primary election, shall be entered In the registration book.

Neither the township, nor tbe city clerk shall write or enter In the registration book the name of any person, nor suffer It to be written therein, whom such clerk shall know, or have good reason to believe, not to be such resident and so qualified; nor shall any person, knowing, or having good rea-C'ontlnned on Page 4, Column 8. Two Try For Hand Of Marilyn Miller Special to Free Press and Chicago Tribune, New York, Nov. 4 Marilyn Miller, petit, musical comedy dancer, lives a hard life, and It became even harder today. When she Is married every on. conspires to get her divorced, and now that she la divorced from Jack Pickford, the world is tryin; to marry her.

And despite her denials that she was ever going to marry again, believing that a career and wifehood ar. Incompatible, two men bobbed up today as potential candidate, for her hand and heart They are Ben Lyon, movie star, now in Hollywood, and William John Warburton, man-about-town, of New York, Paris and wherever thlnsa ar. merries. According to press dispatches, Lyon gravely decrees that he and Wins Miller "have an understanding." The details he laughingly waves aside and refers Interrogators to Miss Miller. As for Warburton, of the Philadelphia Warburtnns, he used to b.

married to Edna Hoyt. but a divorce In Iteno, on July 25 last, settled all that, after seven years of connubial bliss. Since then, friends of Warburton have been watching attentions the dapper gentleman has been peying Miss Miller, In Parl.t, and latterly In Manhattan. ritisen. Rally.

New Masonic Temple Sit. Eve. Mayor Smith and John Lodge Invited to debate. Judge Kll-patrick. Councilman Ewald end oth er candidates will speak.

Everybody aqv. Ire Pkntlnr- Kverv Evening p. C'lAdaor. 4j.BjWr-.4.(lV m. John L.

Campbell, her father. Is suing Arthur Spens, 21 years old, of Halfway, ror the damages. According to testimony MIbs Campbell and her father wer. riding In an auto-near her. with Samuel Sowden, 621 Free Press building.

Detroit, when th. car driven by Sowden collided head-on with Spen'a car In the center of the highway and she was thrown through the windshield. The acar on her face Is about three Inches long and a quarter of an jnen croaa. CHURCHGROUP FAVORS LODGE Directors of Council Adopt Resolution Bearing on Mayoralty Race. Without mentioning John C.

Lodge by name, directors of the Detroit Council of Churches have endorsed his candidacy by unanimously adopting a resolution criticizing Mayor John W. Smith, although not mentioning him either by name. The statement follows: "There arise occasions when it becomes necessary for thoughtful citizens to look facts squarely In the race, and having done so to act den nltely upon the result of such ex animation. These instances are known as emergencies. One such has com.

upon our city rather unaware. "Hot Interested In Personalities." "We ar. not Interested In the personalities Involved. The issue, in principle, la clear cut and distinct. It can not be clouded by a compart' son of nersons.

"The Issue Is not that of prohibition. Rather It cuts much deeper Into our social and political life than the prohibition issue ever can, "When a man, as a private cltlxen declares that a section of th. Con- Contlnaed on Pass Two, Column tout. STORM-DELAYS COL. LINDBERGH Forced Down With Lanphier in New York En Route to Selfridge Field.

Plans for the reception of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at Selfridge field late yesterday afternoon were postponed until today upon receipt of word that Colonel Lindbergh's plane had been forced down by sleet and rain near Binghampton, N. Y. Colonel Lindbergh's plane was escorted by a plane flown by Major Thomas E. I-anphler, commander of Selfridge field.

Major Lanphier also was driven down, landing near Lind bergh's ship. Th. two filers had taken off from Mitchell field, N. and planned to reach Selfrldg. field late yester day after a short atop at Buffalo.

Neither of the planes were damaged In landing and will proceed to Buffalo, and from there to beitriage, today. Colonel Lindbergh Is comng to Selfrldg. field to Join officer, of the First Pursuit group in a military aviation tacticlal course at Camp Skeel, Oscoda. Mich. Cyclone In India Claims 300 Lives London.

Nov. 4. (A. A dia- patch to the Dally Mail from Madras, Inrtia, says the city ana district or Nellore have been de vas led by a cyclone, which killed 300 and Injured unknuwn hundreds In the city alone. The dispatch says that the town hall, church, hospital, and pub lic buildings in the district capital were unroofed and several office bufldinRs were blown down.

rv el lore, capital of the district or that name in the province of Madras, Is a town of about 35,000 population approximately 98 miles from the city ot Madras. Result of Eyes Test Gives Clue To Bandit Killer Results of an examination for spectacles, police expect, will furnish a clue to identification of at least one of three Negro holdup men who robbed and fatally wounded Russell Burger, 38 years old, 1339 Grant avenue, when the thugs attempted to rob Burger in his drug store, 1500 State Fair avenue, a night Burger died in Providence hospital Thursday. Opticians and physicians are requested to notify the homicide squad if they recognize the following prescription, or if anyone applies for glasses on it. The prescription reads: Finished P. D.

687 hight outset 6 in. temples. Right Minus 27S Plus Axis 90 Degrees. Left Minus 200 Plus 25 Axis 100 Degrees. 42 Round Toric two shade Crooks.

Beamer (left) and Walter bank theft. 70.4 PER CENT 4 OF FUND GIVEN Community Drive Solicitors Get Big Donations to Swell Total. Heavyweight gifts ot $75,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, $65,000 from Dodge Brothers, $20,000 from Mr.

and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs end $15,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dlllman provided the main leverage by which the total of the Detroit Community Fund campaign was lifted $264,442 yesterday, the fifth day of the drive.

This makes the total raised to date which la 70.4 per cent of the entire amount requested. Soliciting Unnecessary. Other aspects of th. drive stimulating to th. worker, were these: Enclosing pledges of $1.1118 5 from employes of th.

Detroit Mo-torbus company, J. F. McGough. chief of personnel of th. company, wrote the fund: "The writer la attaching hereto subscriptions of employes of the Detroit Motnrbua compuny amounting to $1,164.50.

"These subscription, ar. th. voluntary offerings of our men made without any soliciting, other than posting your literature In our various garages and advising that subscription blanks could b. obtained from foremen. Company Raise.

Record. "Our men seem to be moat happy to have the opportunity ot contributing to the Community fund, urged by the thought that their employment has been more or leas steady during the past year and they wish to do their share In relieving poverty and distress." The 11,166 Is three times a. much as was given by the motorbus workers a year ago. The corporation pledge also was Increased 15 per cent. Half of th.

employes of the Michigan Copper A Brass company, It was announced, have subscribed twice the amount subscribed by all the employe of the company In 192. Division Hear. Quota. Subscription, of of the department of education, with the high school ataffa missing, total 140,660.27 to date. The work Is In charge of Miss KHr.nl.

-th Bessev. Division had attained 92.7 of Ita total quota yesterday. noon with pledge. In hand of 1414.350, and on. of its groups had topped its quota with collections of 103.5 per Th.

divisions and the result, of their canvass so far follow: Division 1267,214. or 4 per cent; Division S185.322. or 45,6 Continued Pas. Three. Colama Two.

PHONE COMPANY TO OPEN NEW CABLE Special to The Free Press. Grand Rapids, Nov. 4. Th. Michigan Bell Telephone company Is preparing to celebrate on November 10, the opening of a new cable containing 400 pairs of wires in a lead between Grand Rapid, and Kalamaxoo.

Luncheons will be held In both cities with city officials. officers of commercial associations and other, as guests. when the hook-un la made, all guests will liaten in to the special program. estate holdings to b. worth SI, (OS and her personal property, 1100.

On December 25. a little over a month after his first wife's death, Obenauer married Mrs. Fannie Fox Adams, at Aigonac. He died the following February and the second Mrs. Obenauer petitioned for probate.

8h estimated hia estate to consist of 126,000 In real estate. Including Edgewater Inn, a Wayn. county summer resort, and 11.000 In personal property. Tare. Name aa Helra.

Besides herself, ah. named H. Welton Obenauer. her husband a son by his first marriage, and her own son, Frederick Adams, aa helra In th. divorce) trial, the first Mrs.

Obenauer will be represented by her son, H. Welton Obenauer: and her dead husband will be represented by William R. Orover. 6941 Woodwsril avenue. Judge Jayne Instructed th.

representatives to prepare for trial within a few days. The outcome will determine th. dlspoeition of the estate and th. validity of th. first wife's will.

OSNCE GH YTOK TOMTK. McKlnney'a Cotton Pickers Orch. Sunday, continuous, 1:15 to mldnite. Adv. THB TWO JOHNS JOHM Nairel JOHN Stevenson Re-eUct tot Couacil.

Adv. Court To Try Divorce Suit of Dead Couple Estate Settlement Hinges on Decision; 3 Involved in Litigation. For the first time in the history of Wayne county's circuit court, a suit for divorce will be tried in which both ot the principals are pow dead. Judge Ira W. Jayne will determine whether Julia E.

Obeiv-auer. who died November 10, 1926. shall be divorced from her husband, Frederick who died February 12, 1927. The case will be tried In an effort to untangle an estate litigation. Th.

Obenauer. were married September 12, HS3, and separated February 5. 1S22. Shortly after their separation. Mrs.

Obenauer tiled a bill for dlvorc. in which she set forth that her husband claimed property owned by her and located at Brooklyn and Hudson avenues. Claimed Deed Fraudulent. According to her charge. Obenauer maintained she had deeded him the tract In January.

1917. Mrs. Obenauer atated that if such a deed did actnsllv exist. It was fraudulent. In the will probated at the time for her death, she uUrSted hex real.