Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1921 — Page 8

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GETS SENTENCE; JUDGE HALTS HIS REMOVAL Sheriff Can Not Move Man Until Court Issues Orders. Halted by an order Issued by Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court, Sheriff George Snider today was still unable to deliver Leonard Campbell, who was returned from Chicago, 111., to face charges of Issuing fraudulent checks and embezzlement, in prison at the end of the flTe-day period generally extended to defendants who are sentenced to the penitentiary. As the result of the “order” Issued by Judge Collins, Campbell, although sentenced to service from one to five years on Nov. IS, on a charge of issuing a fraudulent check, today was still • a “guest” at the Marlon County JalL SHERIFF GETS ORDER. Under the date es Nov. 19, Sheriff Snider received the following typewritten order fro mthe Criminal Court and which was signed by B. D. Billmanas deputy clerk: "To the sheriff of Marion County, greeting. The above named defendant, Leonard Campbell, to be held in your custody pending the filing of a motion for anew trial and until further order of the court.” Sheriff Snider stated that ie is acting under that order of Judge Collins and will keep Campbell in jail until he is ordered to do otherwise. Prosecutor William P. Evans expressed surprise when informed that Leonard was still in jail and not at the Indiana State prison. NO RECORD SHOWS. The records of the clerk does does not show that a written application has been made by Campbell for anew trial. Generally such orders are on file. A motion for anew trial when overruled is followed by application for an appeal to the Indiana State Supreme Court. Then the matter of appeal bond is fixed by the court. Five other charges are pending against Camp tell in the Criminal Court. Four of them are embezzlement charges and one is on a charge of conspiracy to commit embezzlement. In the latter case he is Indicted with Neva Welty. TIPPECANOE TO BE SURVEYED State Conservation Commission Will Look Into Dam Plans. A snrvey of the Tippecanoe River where the Indiana Hydro-Electric Company plans to build a number of power houses operated by water power, will be made, Richard Lleber. director of the State conservation commission, announced today. The financial plans of the company wre approved yesterday by the public service commission. Mr. Lleber said it Is not necessary for the corporation to obtain the consent of the State to dam the river and build power plants on it, but that he be.ieved it prudent to determine in advance what changes such procedure would make in the territory affected. He said the building of dams probatly would change the whole nature of the river and of the surrounding territory.

72 HOURS’ RAIN BRINGS FLOODS TO TWO STATES (Continued From Pag© On©.) Toughiogheny River flows into the Monogahela at McKeesport and both rivers are on a wild rampage. Reports at noon said a rise of a few more inches and the great steel and tin plants would have to close down, making thousands idle. The Allegheny River, on© of the tributaries of the Ohio, is still rising. Numerous towns above Pittsburgh are beginning to bo flooded. These are steel Industrial towns. OHIO RIVER MAD TORRENT. From Pittsburgh to Parkersburg, W. Ya., th© Ohio River is one mad torrent. Half a hundred towns down the Ohio will be in serious shape by midnight. Wheeling, W. Ya., apparently will suffer the worst and a large part of the business and. residential section will be unde* water if the United States weather bureau’s forecast of a 36-foot stage Is It&lized. In Pittsburgh, the lower part of the old city of Allegheny is flooded and the waters are spreading into the residential section. Police reserves have been stationed about the flooded section and, assisted by squads of husky boat men, are taking families from upper stories to points of safety. B. A O. TRACKS UNDER WATER. Th© Baltimore & Ohio railroad is tinder water in th© Allegheny section and train service on that part of the railroad has been abandoned. Johnstown, Pa.. Is badly flooded by the Conemaugh River and the great Pennsylvania railroad yards at two points arr tied up. Street car traffic is partly suspended. Southwestern Pennsylvania was in the grip of a severe snow storm last night and early today and five or six Inches of slushy snow fell This has helped to swell many large and small streams out of bounds. CAR TRAFFIC TIED UP IN HISTORIC FIOOD CITY JOHNSTOWN, l'a., Nov. 29.—Heavy rains of the past two days have sent the Conemaugh River on a rampage today and parts of this city are under water. Street car traffic has been partly abandoned. Portions of the Conemaugh and Morrellville yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad have been submerged. Some sections of the city are almost Isolated but there is no danger of another Johnstown flood. WHEELING PREPARES FOR FLOOD DANGER WHEELING, W. Va., Nov. 29—Before night a serious and menacing flood is likely to sweep large portions of the city nd its surrounding towns. The Ohio £ s already reached thirty feet and the united States Weather Bureau at Pittsbn'gh forecasts a stage of thirty-six feet by midnight. If the Ohio River goes that high, tremendous damage will result, as the entire wholesale section of the city will be under water with a thirty-six foot stage. Wheeling Island, where a large portion of the best residential section la located, would likewise be under water. Wheeling, Benwood, Bellair, Martin's Ferry, Bridgeport and all other towns along the Ohio between Wheeling and Parkersburg are speeding precautions against a serious flood. FEAR FLOOD CREST AT EAST LIVERPOOL EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Nov. 29 With the Ohio River rising rapidly, people residing in the lowlands here were preparing today to cope with a flood stage. The 29.6 foot mark—almost flood stage—was reached at 10 o'clock this forenoon. A thirty-five foot crest is expected before night,

Government Again Denies Cancelling Any Foreign Debts WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The United States has put a final quietus on suggestoins from foreign sources for cancellation of allied debts to this Government, amounting now to about 511.000,000,000, including accrued interest. Authorized statements today from leading Administration spokesmen left no further doubt that such appeals will meet with this Government’s disfavor, and, if made officially they will be rejected firmly and promptly. The statement from one of the most reliable of Government resources, repeated an earlier declaration from the White House that cancellation of these debits is a thing “inconceivable’’ at this or any future time.

MAN WHO DRANK ‘MULE’ AT PARTY IS FOUND DEAD Post-mortem Reveais Stomach Filled With Liquor—Two Are Held. As the result of what is said by the officials to have been a “liquor party” at the home of Lewis Stever, 6000 Ferguson street, Glen Arnold of Evansville was found dead there this morning. Dr. Paul F. Robinson, county coroner, has ordered a post-mortem over the body. The authorities of Broad Ripple have placed Fred Ehlers, john Garrily, Tom Egan, 716 North Pine street and Stever under arrest on liquor charges. According to information gained by the coroner Arnold became intoxicated at the party and refused to go to bed when the others retired. He slept on the floor and was found dead by Ehlers when he awoke this morning. Dr. R. C. Light examined the stomach of Arnold and found that it contained a large quantity of “white mule.” The dead man is said to have been rooming in the SOO block on East St. Clair street. Marshal It. G. Gibault of Broad Ripple, who is holding the men, investigated the premises about the Stever home today and found two and one-half pint bottles of “white mule'’ In an outhouse. Stever is being held on charges of operating blind tiger and the others on vagrancy charges. GIRLS IN KHAKI UNIFORMS HELD BY THE POLICE Youngsters Claim They Hiked From Chicago Here — Both ‘Broke * Dressed in military attire, two girls giving their names as Lucille Hatch, 21, of Dowalgac, Mich., and Gertrude Chandler, 18, of Atlanta, Ala., this afternoon were being detained by the police at the Marion County jail pending word from their parents. The two girls appeared at the Union Depot in Indianapolis. Sunday night They were “dead broke, - ’ but happy In their O. D. shirts, kaki trousers, leggtus and army shoes. They gave their names with home address as Detroit, Mich., to the matron In charge at the station. Th© girls claimed that they “hiked” from Chicago to Indianapolis and were en route “on foot - ’ to Florida. They were sent to the Y. W. C. A. where they remained until Detroit authorities advised officials here that their addresses could not be found. Following Inquiry at the police station, the girls changed their story and gave different under which they were slated and sent to Jail. Although both claim they are 18 or over, neither look over 16. The Cnandler girl told the women police she wished she were a “boy.” She wears her hair bobbed and could easily pass as a boy in her military uniform. The Hatch girl wears her hair tucked under her cap.

TRIO IS SENT TO PRISON IN BANK SWINDLE (Continue From Pate Oim.) held out so that they would not show as OTerdrafts. He also said that he had not profited one penny by the Hull and Ingle affair Os the $4,707 overdraft against him he said he had paid back $4,000. The Jury was out thirty minute* before returning a verdict. The defendants will be taken to Leavenworth Monday, according to Mark Storen, United States marshal. Heldt was the star witness for the Government yesterday and testified that Hull and Ingle had overdrawn their accounts at the bank during about a six months period in 1920 to the extent of almost $12,000. He admitted that he had permitted these overdrafts and that to keep bank officials from discovering the overdrafts he had removed sheets from the bank's ledger and had secreted checks amounting to about $3,400 drawn by Hull and Ingle. DEFENDANTS DENT ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD. The defendants took the Btand In their own behalf but did little more than enter a general denial of any attempt to defraud the bank and said they did not believe the overdrafts as shown by the bank ledger were correct. Several witnesses testified they had made deposits for Hull at the bank. These alleged deposits do not appear on the bank books to Hull’s credit, it was shown. Attorneys for the defense made a strenuous effort to get before the Jury testimony to the effect that the affairs of the bank were loosely conducted and that overdrafts had been permitted In other cases. These attempts failed when Judge Andersou ruled that the question was simply one of guilt or innocence of Hull and Ingle and had nothing to do with the gnilt of any one else. SAYS NOTES ARE EVIDENCE OF GUILT. In the opening argument for the Government, Frederick Van Xuys, United States district attorney, laid great stress on the fact that the defendants had given their personal notes for the amounts of the alleged ovedrafts, and he said this was conclusive evidence of gnilt. The defense argued that the evidence was not sufficient to Justify a conviction, and that it had been admitted by C. E. Battin, president of the bank, that the ledger sheets on which the Government's case largerly was based, were “admittedly incorrect.” ADDRESS BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE. Four hundred Baptist young people heard addresses by the Rev. J. P. Morris of the Emerson Avenue Baptist Church and the Rev. F. A. Hayward, city missionary executive, at the Tuxedo Park Baptist Church last night The Rev. Mr. Morris spoke on “Why Qo To College” and the Rev. Mr. Hayward spoke on “Training As An Effective Tool j For the Service of God.” The church j was decorated in the colon of the vari- j ous Indiana College!,

STRONG CLAIMS IN STILLMAN HEIRSHIP CASE Testimony Indicates That Baby Guy Is Real Son of Banker. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 29Testimony declared to be the strongest yet presented to establish the claims of it/year-old Guy Stillman as the son of James Stillman, multi-millionaire, was given today before Referee Daniel Gleason, who is hearing the sensational divorce and Illegitimacy proceedings brought by the banker. Charles Nasoard and Theodore Ruth, employes of the St. Kegis Hotel, New York, testified that Stillman occopied a suite at the hotel with his wife, Mrs. Fifi Stillman, in February, 1918. They produced the hotel’s register showing Stillman registered with his wife Feb. 13, 1918. Guy was born in November of the same year. The evidence was declared by Mrs. Stillman's attorneys and John E. Mack, guardian of the boy whose paternity is disputed by Stillman, as Indisputable evidence that, under the law, the millionaire is the child’s father. A notation on the hotel records shows that Beauvais’ bill was to be charged to Stillman's account. On cross-examination it was revealed that Stillman did not register himself, but that the clerk of the hotel wrote his name, Mrs. Stillman's name and the names of the three children —Anne, “Bud” and Alexander, Registering in this manner is usual at hotel, it was testified. On the day following Fred Beauvais, the Indian guide, who Stillman alleges Is the father of little Guy, registered at the hotel, the records produced showpd. Stillman arrived at the hotel with Mrs. Stillman and the three children, according to 'the testimony. The family, with the children's nurse, occupied four rooms, the hotel employes testified. Mrs. Stillman unexpectedly appeared at the hearing just before the two hotel employes arrived. Failure of some of th© witnesses to appear caused an adjournment shortly after noon. The hearings will be resumed next Tuesday, it wag announced. 3 BRING SUITS FOR DAMAGES Two Allege Auto One Loss by Fire. Three flatting© suits today were filed in the local county courts. Damages of $2,000 were asked in a suit filed In Superior Court, room 2, in Interest of William Thompson, a minor, and against Lon and Marlon Oberlles because of alleged Injuries sustained by tho plaintiff Oct. 20 when, he claims, he was struck by the defendant's automobile. The accident happened on Thirty Eighth street, it is stated. Judgment of Im,ooo in damages was asked against Benjamin K. Miller, 1020 West Thirty-Second street, in a suit filed by Charles E. Caldwell in Superior Court, Room 5. Caldwell claims he was Injured in an automobile collslon with Miller's car near Maple Itoad boulevard. Damages of $1,500 was asked in a suit filed in Superior Court, Room 2, by Herbert R. Duckwell against the Citizens Motor Car Company which operated a garage at 31 West Thirty-First street. Duckwell claims he stored his automobile there and that It was partially destroyed by fire.

MAY FORM NEW AGENCIES TO AID CORN GROWERS (Continued From Page One.) by Eugene C. Meyers, general manager 1 of the War Finance Corporation, and the bankers who are members of the Indiana | agency of the corporation. It was stated j there that the situation was being disi cussed In a general way. Both meetings were held behind closed doors and there wns considerable reluctance among those attending to discuss what was being done. It was stated following the meeting in the Governor’s office that the advisory committee and Mr. Meyers would meet this evening following the public meeting and would endeuvor to formulate some definite plan. FARMERS COME FROM TEN STATES. Farmers from ten Stutes attending the conference present the corn slturtlon as a bad one. They point out that unless something Is done there will be a great reduction In acreage next year. One farmer made the statement that with corn at the present prices the farmer receives only 5 cents an hour for his corn. This Is calculated on the basts of nine hours' labor to a bushel of corn. The States represented nt the conference are Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Oklahoma. Each of these States Is represented by the president of its State farmers’ organization. Indiana is represented by farmers and bankers from all parts of the State. Besides the farmers and the bankers, there were attending the meeting the memb'Ts of the corn belt advisory committee and Eugene C. Meyer, manager director for the War Finance Corporation. The members of the advisory committee, besides the (governor, nre. J. R. Howard, Chicago, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; E. T. Meredith, Des Moines, publisher of Successful Fnrmlng; Edward Chambers, Chicago, vice president of the Atchison, Topeka ft Santa Fo Railroad; Alexander Legge, Chicago, manager of the International Harvester Company; Charles Brand, Urhana, Ohio, a member of the Ohio Legislature; L. S. Tenny, assistant to the chief of the bureau of markets and crop estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture; C. 11. MacN’lder, president of the First National Bank of Mason City, lowa, and 11. B. Updike of the Updike Grain Company of Omaha, Neb. Railroad Files Suits to Recover Charges Two suits for balances alleged to be due on freight shipments were filed hy the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company In Federal Court today. Salvatore Castro of this city, doing business as the Ch .ro Fruit Company, is named as defendant In one suit for $.lO. It Is alleged In the complaint that there is an unpaid balance of v C 50 due the plaintiff for a carload of grapefruit shipped In 1916. Judgment of SIOO is asked of Flay Lacy, doing business as the Flay Bakery Company of Newcastle. The complaint charges that the defendant still owes a balance of $58.21 on a carload of flour shipped over the plaintiff's lines In 1917. Temporary Change in Street Car Routes Beginning tomorrow morning, College and Columbia avenue street cars will be routed over Alabama street instead of Deleware street. The construction of new tracks on Delaware street between Ohio apd Washington streets has made the change necessary.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1921.

Congress Getting Ready to Throw Another Wrench WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. There were unmistakable indications today that the Senate will become embroiled at the outset of the regular session of Congress next week over President Harding's proposal for participation by the United States in an “Association of Nations," to give permanency to tile objectives of tile Washington conference. Both Republican and Democratic Senators now here are at eross purposes as to the meaning and purpose of the President’s suggestion. Some of them are expressing the hope that he will clarify the situation by explaining lu Ills message to Congress it the opening of the regular session just what he lias in view.

SEE RAIL RATE CUT WITH SLICE IN EARNINGS Esch-Cunimins Law Demand May Be Removed After March I. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Railroad profits may be cut after March 1 next, the Interstate Commerce Commission indicated today. Such actions officials said would make certain a reduction of railroad rates. The commission directed thirteen questions at the railroads for answer in hearings to he held hare Dec. It to 21, to determine whether a general reduction in rates can be made next year. The most significant of the questions was the thirteenth, asking the roads what the financial return to tuem should be after March 1, 1922. Until that time, the commission is bound by the Eseh-Cuinmins law to keep rates at sr.eh a level that the return to the rallronds will be from OV6 lo 6 per cent. This congressional barrier has prevented extensive rute reductions. After March th© law provides that the commission shall determine what the return shall be. Present rates are based on a combined railroad valuation of $lB,800.900.000 and th© belief prevails here that because of the easier money market the commission may cut the general level | of railroad profits below the f.Vi per cent i level and reduce rates accordingly. COUNTY STUDIES BEST POSSIBLE APPRAISERS (Continued From Fage One.) building this afternoon. A number of prominent Hoosier architects are expected to attend. The State memorial law appropriates $35,000 to le used as prizes for three architects submitting the best sets of plans for the building. The competition is to be natoln wide, under the law, but t is expected that Hoosier architects will be given preference. | According to city officials It has been decided that the building will be erected upon the block of the plaza which the city is acquiring, namely that bounded by North, Michigan, Meridian and i’ennsvlvania streets. This matter also probably will be talked over by the State board. The State, by legislative enact rnent, has designated University Square, St. Clair Park and the bloek on which the State School for Wie Blind is located for plazn purposes. The city and county are buying the two blocks between the blind school and University Square. The law pledges the State to remove he blind sehool buildings. It is understood that th's will not be done, however, until after the 1923 Legislature makes provisions for anew site for the school. Marcus Sonntng, president, will preside at this afternoon's session. Other members of the commission, which is innde up of a member from each of the thirteen congressional districts, are as follows: James P. Goodrich, ex Governor: Ann Pfudebaker Carlisle of South Bend, Howard O'N'eall of CrawfordsvHie, William P. Gleason of Gary, Judge Cecil Teague of Brookville, Samuel D. Royse of Terre Haute, Will 11. Hays of Sulli van. postmaster general; Carl Houston of Marlon, Evans Wolleu of Indianapolis, Cornelius O'Brien of Lawrenceburg and Mrs .Charles W. McCord of New Albany,

PETITIONS FOR BOND ISSUE OF $18,500,000 (Continued From Page One.) 250,000 in 714 per rent first and refunding mortgage bonds; $2,250,000 of "14 per cent general mortgage bonds; notes aggregating $700,000; $1,850,00 in 8 per cent preferred stock and $4,000,000 in common stock. This shows a cut of $1,000,000 in the common stock, $700,000 in notes and $350,000 In preferred stock. Sometime ago the public service commission refused to grnnt a petition of the corporation for permission to purchase the seven utilities Involved on the ground that there was an effort to overcapitalize the concern and to fix values that were too high on the property Involved. The properties which the corporation seeks to consolidate are the Merchants Heat and Light Company of Indianapolis, the Kokomo Railways and Light Company of Kokomo, the Valparaiso Electric Company, the Elkhart Light and Fuel Company, the Putnam Electric Company, the Cayuga Electric Company and the Wabash Electric Company. The corporation at that time had asked the commission for permission to issue more than purchase of the roperty. There was a long drawn out hearing in which a wide range of values were given for each property. It was announced at the time that the new concern planned to build a power plant in the coal fields and to supply electricity to the titles in which the plants Involved are located. Following the denial of the petition representatives of the corporation went to the public Bervtce commission and asked that the order be set aside in order that n new petition could be filed. The commission Instructed the corporation to file its new petition and it would be taken up la the regular way. You Can Buy It Cheaper at MOYER’S 137-139 W. Wasftin SL We Make PANTS and sell 'em direct to YOU at a saving. I rAM tailoring co. LLUn 254 Mass. Ave. ________

TIME GOES ON, BUT SEWAGE PLANT DOESN’T (Continued From Page One.) White River without dauger of stream pollution. CONTRACT AWARDED JULY 16, 1919. The original contract for the first division was let to the William Grace Company on July 16, 1919, on a bid of $321,475. The United States Fidelity & Guaranty Cos. was surety on this contract in the sum of $300,000. The William Grace Company started work in August 1919. Early in 1920 the company began to have difficulties in getting railroads to deliver materials and altercations with the board over alleged changes in specifications and unreasonable orders began to occur. Inability of the contractor nd the board to get along together continued until Oct. 8, 1920, when tho Wiliam Grace Company notified the board bat it would cease work altogether on Oct. 9. The letter set out the following r -asonj why the company was quitting: SOME REASONS WHY COMPANY QUIT. “1. You have failed to make payments to us as required by the contract, which payments we have been entitled to receive. "2. You have proposed to make, and have made, unfair, unreasonable and improper deductions from estimates due us in a manner and to an extent not justified ly the provisions of the contract. "3. Estimates allowed to us hav© not been computed in such a manner as fairly to compensate us for work performed ''and material furnished and as required by the provisions of the contract. “4. We have not been allowed to prepare or present estimates for work done or material furnished, and have been given no opportunity to have any part In the preparation of such estimates or in determining the amount thereof. “5. You have not had an engineer upon the job at times when such engineer should have been in attendance upon the work. charge overseers IVKRE INKEASONABEE, “0. When present, the engineer, his inspectors, assistants and agents have been arbitrary and unreasonable in their direction and requirements. “7. We have been delayed at various times by causes for which you and your representatives have been responsible. “8. We have encountered conditions In and about tho work and th site thereof different from representations made to us by you and your agents prior to the execution of the contract, upon which representation we relied when the agreement was entered into. “9. Material and substantial changes have been made in the plans for the work since the contract was executed, by reason of which wo have boen required to do a large amount of extra work not required by the contract, %nd for which you have failed and refused to pay ui reasonable and adequate compensation. BOARD DECLARED TO BE INCONSISTENT. “10. Verbal representations and agreements in relations to the work, the manner of performing the same, and the furnishing of certain materials therefor, made by you to us. and with us, respectively, since the contract was signed, have not been justified by the facts and hav* not been performed by you. “The acts and omissions of your board and Its representatives above set ojt, together with other nets and omissions not specifically stated herein, constitute a breach of tho latter and spirit of the contract and from both a legal and an ethical standpoint release us from any and all obligations to furnish any labor or material in further performance of the agreement. Your acts and omissions also have been to our manifest detriment and have caused us large loss and damage, ail our rights and remedies in relation to which hereby aro expressly reserved.” SWIFT WRITES LETTER OF DENTAL On Oct. 11, 1920, Mr. Swift, as president of the board, wrote to the William Grace Company denying that the, board was responsible for any of the things charged in the above letter and asserting that the contractor had no right to stop work. The full board signed a letter to the contractor on Oct. 15. 1920, Informing the William Grace Company that unless work (which had been stopped on Oct. 9) was started before Oct. 19, 1920, and prosecuted with vigor the board would declare the contract abandoned and forfeited. Tho contractor did not resume work and on Oct. 20, 1920, the board adopted a resolution on declaring the contract forfeited and abandoned and directing the surety to complete the work. The United States Fidelity and Guaranty and the contractor were notified of this

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action and the surety company, tinder date of Oct. 21, 1920, replied to the effect that the board had first broken the contract and therefore neither the contractor nor the surety were responsible for completing the work. The remedy of the board, it was suggested, lay in appeal to the courts for a decision as to how much the board had been damaged. HOW ORIGINAL CONTRACT READS. It is interesting at this point to recall that the bond upon the original contract read, in part: “The conditions of the above obligation are such that if the above named William Grace Company shall faithfully comply with the foregoing contract and shall fulfill all tho conditions and stipulations therein contained, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, in all respects, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law. In the event the board of sanitary commls-

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sioners of Indianapolis, Ind., shall extend the time for the completion of said work such extension shall not in any way release the sureties on the bond.” The surety company in all set out twelve points which it contended were to the advantage of the contractor and Itself and the disadvantage of the board and announced is willingness to confer with the board on the matter. Conferences were held with the result that on Oct. 27, 1920, the agreement, which fixed the completion date now two months past, was signed by the surety company, the contractor and the board and approved by Mayor Charles W. Jewett. COMPANY GIVEN TEN MONTHS. This agreement provided that the surety company should complete the work within ten months from Dec. 1, 1920, the original completion date, for $256,517.94, the unpaid balance of the original contract price of the William Grace Company and $22,535 extra compensation. The latter sum represented an amount over and above the figure for

which the bonding company originally was bonded to guarantee the contractor would do the original contract work for. Attempting to defend this action, th© board inspired a long article in the Indianapolis News to the effect that the board was faced with the possibility of long drawn-out suits and delays and expense incidental to reletting the contract to another contractor and chose the agreement at the higher price to the bonding company as the better course. Among other errors which' have delayed construction of the sewage disposal plant are recalled the award and recall of a contract for the second division when a defeated bidder discovered that the board had made the award to a contractor who had not accompanied his proposal with a certified check for a percentage of the contract according to law and recently the necessity of readvertising a $350,000 bond issue after it had been awarded to a local concern, when it was discovered that the issue was adver-i tised for two purposes.