Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1923 — Page 7

GERMAN CASH IS PLENTIFUL IN PARIS OF WORLD South American Banks Bulge With Money of Teutons. By CHARLES P. STEWART By NEA Staff Writer. POVERTY STRICKEN as Ger mans may be at home, it’s worth considering that there are a few parts of the world where they ended the war with more actual ‘‘cash

most anybody. True, so many countries were aligned against the central powers yldiat there were not many where their assets, liquid and otherwise, were very safe from alien property custodians. Still, there were a few, notably in South America. Argentina and

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STEWART money" than al- ' 'hile Yemained neutral to the end. ;f not a ti-ifie* pro-German in their sympathies. Brazil joined the allies and seized German ships in her waters, but never interfered with her German residents’ private holdings. Now, Germans were and are very numerous in all these countries and owned a great deal in all of them. Barrels of Money If they could have done so, no doubt they would have realized heavily and sent the money home to be used against the allies, but they couldn’t get It across the ocean. Consequently it piled up in banks In Ruenos Aires. Rosario. Santiago de Chile, Valparaiso. Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and other cities until they were fairly bursting with it. Throughout the whole period of huge war profits, with the allied subjects financially pinched by demands from their native countries, the Germans had these vast sums to operate with. The black list was supposed to cripple them, but there were precious few Germans who couldn't And neutral firms to trade through. Fnally the armistice and the ensuing business depression found the allies, on the one hand, in many cases hard put to it even to last through the hard times, and the Germans, on the other, simply rolling in ready cash with wjtich t'> cobble up every bargain that the money crisis <oon forced into the market it. endless numbers. Cash Right at Hand Today, in finance. Germans are far .stronger in South American than ever before. Not the least of their advantages is that. when a Gatin American government or enterprise wants fcntiie accommodation, the Germans don’t have to refer .the proposition to the home co\mtry. If they care to handle it. they have the resources right at hand. It wouldn’t be surprising if. on a showdown, theirs would prove to be the most influential single foreign interest on the southern continent. Just what it amounts to in cash it's impossible t> say. but there's no doubt it runs high into the hundreds of trillions -■ 'High to pay reparations foi quite a while, if it were possible to get at it. PLAYS NEW ROLE Fatty Arbuckle ‘Done With Acting’—Will Be Director, Hu United Press LOS ANGELES. Ca!., Jan. 31. Armed with a megaphone. Roscoe Arbuckle. film comedian, sallied forth today in anew roie. Fatty announced he waff ’idone with acting” and that he had signed a Contract as director of motion picture comedies. "I want Ukjielp make the world happy,” he said, “and I believe I can do it best as a director. I have had thy turn at acting.” Arbuckle. before.his fall from favor, had/directed and written comedies as well as played in them and is considered among movie folks a first-class director. AUCTIONEER CLAIMS CASH Says Goods to Be Auctioned Sold at Private Sale. After Isaac Binzer had been retained to- sell at public auction the business and fixtures of the Washington Dairy Lunch. 310 W. Washington St., the owner. Isaac Rothbard, 2213 .V. Meridian St., sold the things at n private sale the day before the advertised auction, Binzer charged in a suit for *l6O filed today in Superior 1 ’ourt, Room 1. The crowd collected, Binzer 1 says, and he feels he could have sold the assets for $4,500, and accordingly asks the court to award him the 10 per cent commission he was to have received, according to his claim. Rainbow Vets to Meet Members of the Rainbow Division Veterans' Association will meet at 6 o'clock tonight in Superior Court, room 3. Officers of the organization announced a number of matters of importance will be discussed. Capture Runaways Eari Weinring. 13. of 933 l-larris St,, and Harris, 14. of 923Harris S'., we,-, brought hack to Inianapoiis today 1 v E. G. King of the Alerchants Heat and Light Company after they had been taken in custody by the sheriff at Danville as runaways.

Legion Contest Winner to Spend SSOO Prize on College Education

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With the S6OO she won as second prize in the American Legion international contest for the best essay on “How the American Legion Can Best Serve the Nation." Mjss Pauline Chastain will continue her education at Butler College. Miss Chastain is in the freshman class, having entered last fall. She is a quiet young woman who surprised her college friends when announcement that she had won the prize was made. While at Manual Training High School she was a member of the school paper and won an essay prize. Miss Chastain lives with her parents at 2188 Sugar Grove Ave.

WOMEN ARDENT IN BATTLE ON SMOKE

Indianapolis women, rising at last in determined protest against the sipoky atmosphere which makes clean linen a mirage and healthy breathing an illusion, going to strike at the root of the evil. A school for stokers is the plan of the Local Council of Women. The council prepared to present plans to the Chamber of Commerce for a luncheon for furnace custodians, a: which they would be initia'ed info the intrii aeies of scientific firing. This action followed a meeting at FORGETFUL WIFE LOSES ILL SPOUSE Woman Can Not Recall Name of Hotel, • Has any one seen the husband of Mrs. Ethel Bosti,-. 25. of New Albany? Mrs. Bostic left her husband this morning at a hotel where they spent the night, an dafter a visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. Utley Bland, 226 Shelby St., started back to the hotel. She was dismayed to find she had forgotten the name of the hotel. Nor could she remember its location. She enlisted the aid of the police hut, although they called every hotel listed in the telephone directory, Ernest Bostic, the husband, was registered at of them. Mrs. Bostic said her husband is ill. SING SING’S COW enjoys mm Yield Slackens When Lifer Gets Pardon.' OSSINING. N. Y.. Jan. 31.—Sing Sing's cow, which has been in rather poor health lately, was all bundled up in blankets, placed in a crate and taken in an automobile to the socalled “Sing Sing Country Club” at Wingdale to recuperate. The cow had been faithfully cared for by Eugene Norris, a life convict, who was pardoned two weeks ago after serving about seventeen years. Convicts say the cow seemed greatly to miss Norris and she had not appeared up to the mark since he left. Her yield of milk failed so that Warden Lewis E. Lawes ordered her sent to the prison farm and Keeper Richard O’Bierne took her on the fortyfive mile automobile ride. The coun try air. it is believed, will improve her health and increase her milk production. SAFE BLOWING COURSE LATEST IN PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Jan. 31.—A corr spondence school for training safe blowers has been brought to light here, the police say. They arrested William T. Riheldaffer. 25. In his home the police found a complete set of safe-blower's tools Bnd instruction books showing how to open twenty-seven diffeiont makes of safes. The police refused to give out the titles of the books seized. Neither would they give the names of the publishers, saying that they had communicated with the police i' the city where the books were printed with a of having legal action taken against the publishers. Attend Chicago Auto Show ANDERSON. Ind.. Jan. 31.—Officers of the Remy Electric plant left today for the Chicago auto show on a special train. About thirty-five made the trip.

tiic Board of Trade at which the mat ter was presented by Mrs. Felix T. MeWhirter, vice president Frank C. Jordan, representing the Chamber of Commerce, and Francis F. Hamilton, city building commissioner, suggested work that the women may do. Mrs. B. F. Gadd. in seconding Mrs. C. 11. Winders' motion for the school for stokers, suggested that the women go :o the school hoard and ask that only trained men hi employed to fire furnaces in public school bui'dings, since these are among the largest heating plants in residence neighborhoods. At a meeting of the executive board, the county unit bill was Indorsed and the repeal of the uniform textbook and anti-German acts was opposed.

Women Legislators Seek' to Erase Scarlet-Letter Brand From Child

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MRS. .\IABETII HURD PAGE. MISS MYRTLE CAINE. MRS. HANNAH KEMPFER AND MRS. SUE M. DICKEY HOUGH (READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT), MINNESOTA'S WOMEN LEGISLATORS WHO ARE WORKING TOGETHER FOR A LAW TO GIVE CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDUJCK EQUAL RIGHTS WITH THOSE OF REGULARLY SOLEMNIZED UNIONS IN THEIR STATE.

Hu NEA Sen ire ST. PAUL. Minn . Jan. 31. —Minnesota's four women lawmakers have joined forces in the State Leg islatqre in support of a statute to erase the scarlet-letter brand from the brow of the innocent lit tie ones born out of wedlock in their State. The measure, -prepared at the Sal vation Army's suggestion, was introduced in the 1 louse of Representatives with the joint indorsement of Mrs. Mahcth Hurd Page, Miss Myrtle Gain". Mrs. Hannah Kempfer and .Mrs. Sue M. IJickey Hough. It is declared by legal authorities the most sweeping of its kind ever laid before the Legislature of any State. What Authorities Say The women demand for children born out of wedlock precisely the same rights at law 1 as the offspring of regularly contracted marriages—not only support, as already required. but a father's name, and a share in whatever estate which, dying. he may leave to his heirs. On Jho other hand, the proposal has won numerous strong supporters. to a great extent through the representations of the Salvation Arruv relative to the plight of nameless children and expectant mothers, many of the hitler, girls from 15

Boot Black Commission Burlesque of Senators

Senate 1 leaflet'' were disturbed today with the introduction of *-■measure •striking at the feel of State government. Creation of another commission. which would blacken legislators and State officials alike, was asked in a “bill" providing for a bootblack commission. Senator Chambers and Beardsley, joint authors of the hill, propose a commission of five members to be appointed by the Governor, each receiving $ 10,000 a year, and a secretary receiving $5,000 a year. Among the far-reaching effects of the measure are provisions which

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HOUSE APPROVES TIMES PLAN FOR PEACTPARLEY Confidential Adviser to Wilson Says Conference Is Essential, />’.,/ Times Special NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—"1f we are not to enter the League of Nations, or even cooperate with the league, then a conference such as The Indianapolis Times suggests is essential.” That Is-the opinion of Col. E. M. House, intimate friend of and confidential adviser to President Woodrow ■ Wilsoti when tlio latter was In the White House. “The present state of chaos,” ho went on. “cannot otherwise be remedied. “Our delay In cooperating with Europe lias already resulted in dangerous developments, and tl e longer we withhold from cooperation the more serious will the situation become. “Had we been a member of the league the present Ruhr developments would have been avoided, rep arations solved and the Gormans would now be meeting their obligations. “From the beginning the situation was bad. Rut that was a natural re suit of a long war. Our standing aside aggravated the dangers, consequently we are largely responsible for recent developments. “The Times's plan for calling an international conference is an excellent one. We undertook ajjreat task and withdrew before It was carried to completion. The Administration should be urged to action.” YEGGS CRACK FOUR FT. WAYNE SAFES No Trace of Robbers Who Escape With Over $1,500, Hu United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind.. Jan. 31.—‘Robbers last night entered four business houses in the business district of Ft. Wayne, cracked safes in each place and escaped with approximately J 1.500, it was learned this morning. One thousand dollars was taken from the office of the Indiana Service Company and S3OO from the real estate office of Charles M Rrebel and L. F. Curtis It is not known how much was’taken at the Singmaster Printing Company.

to 18 years old, who have drifted in from rural communities to St. Paul and Minneapolis rescue homes. On the other hand, the point is made that the Legislature must be careful to avoid providing unscrupu ions persons with a weapon for extorting blackmail —women being especially insistent upon safegirtirds against injustice to lawful wives and children of men wrongfully accused. Typical of comment on the measure: “I am opposed.” said the Rev. E. M. Gross of St. John’s Episcopal Church, "to any discrimination between so called illegitimate and legitim ite children. Care must be taken, however, to prevent blackmail by the unscrupulous." "From the Christian viewpoint,” said the Rev. Howard Y. Williams of the People's Church, “I believe the proposed law is „ a great advance.” “It is only Christian that children should not ho made to suffer for something they tire In no way responsible for,” declared the Rev. John Dunphy St. Mary's Catholic Church. Fearful of Blackmail ”1 favor the proposed amendments.” said the Rev. J. W. Hol-

would license all bootblacks, inspect their work and revoke a license in case a customer was overcharged or treated in-a discourteous manner. With the Assurance that Ihe billwould not interfere with Senators polishing their own shoes. Senators Joseph Cravens and V. H. Van Orman were busy today preparing speeches in favor of the bill. Even Senator Batt. who has voted “no" on every bill creating a commission in the State and ‘‘aye’’ on every measure to abolish one, is back of the movement on the grounds of “personal liberty.”

Britian s Hosts of Unemployed March on London Like Second Coxey’s Army

Scotland and North England Idle Tramp Into Empire’s Capital,

By MILTON BRONNER, NEA Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 81,—Not since the j hard times of nearly thirty years ago, when Coxey’s army of unemployed | marched upon Washington from all ! over our Middle West, has any great capital of a big civilized nation seen anything like London has been experiencing—an invasion from Scotland and northern England of the unemployed. Several thousands have put in an ’ braving the hardships of j a tramp over rain-soaked roads, facj ing cold, hunger, lack of shelter and probability of arrests as vagrants. Some walked 500 miles coming from north Scotland. Many are married men who left their wives and children behind. Their object was to focus attention upon their lot ind to force an early meeting of Parliament to deal with the unemployment problem. There are about 1,300,000 people out of work In Great Britain. The country gives many of the workless an unemployment dole. Although this runs Into millions of dollars p*# - year, the dole in many cases hardly keeps body and soul together. In the last meetings of Parliament. after Bonnr Law become prime minister, the big Labor represenfa- : tion in the House of Commons insisted that the Legislature should not adjourn until shomething more had been done for the workless. Nevertheless, Parliament was prorogued I Feb. 13. It was then the march upon I.onl don was decided upon. Many say I Communists are back of the thing. But the regular Trades Union movement is also Interested and on a reI cent Sunday decreed that the day I should be known as “National Un i employment Sunday." Over 1,500 : meetings of protest were held all ; over the United Kingdom. The most Interesting and most crucial "meeting was held In London in famous Trafalgar Square. The speak ers addressed the crowds from the Nelson monument. Things were done without police interference that would "have led to wholesale arrests in American cities. Many Communist organizations participated and brought their red flags along. Before George Lansbury. a Labor member of Parliament, addressed the meeting, the crowd sang "The Red Flag." Laris bury sang, too. i The meeting passed a resolution denouncing the parliamentary holiday as a manifestation of indifference to the chronic sufferings of the riiou sands of men. women and children if fected by unemployment. They demanded that the government treat the situation as a national emergency, and either take steps to secure erriployment er else provide for them a proper standard of maintenance.

land, pa-stor of the First Methodist Church, "from the very fact that it is supported by women legislators. I believe it will curb illegitimacy and remove some of the stigma that many innocent children have had to suffer.” “I believe,” said Mrs. M. K. Knauff, president of the Woman's Welfare League, “the bill would give an unscrupulous woman a chance to rob the rightful heirs of a man after his death." "If children born out of wedlock share equally with the lawful off spring," said Mrs. John Wharry, chairman fourth district. State Federation of Women’s Clubs, "I believe men will realize more keenly the responsibility of fatherhood.” DENTISTS PROFIT BY FLAPPER FAG HABIT Girls Have Teeth Cleaned to Fool Watchful Parents. CHICAGO. Jan. 31. — Dentists are profiting by the sweet young dapper’s growing addiction to cigarettes. The girl goes to a tea dansant, varies foxtrotting with “coffin naiV’ and then has her teeth cleaned so that mother may not know. So Dr. Dan Cameron told 10,000 delegates to the fifty-ninth annual clinic of the Chicago Dental Society. "The cigarette habit among girts is growing.” Dr. Cameron said, “and we dentists are furnishing the camouflage that prevents parents from guessing their daughters have become devotees of My Lady Nicotine." Local Boy Honored Harold P. Mabee, 624 E. Fifty-eighth St., was nominated by Senator Harry S. New today Jo. take an examination for appointment to Westpolnt Military Academy Feb. 7, a Washington disfYatch to the Times said. Hardings To Take Trip Bt/ t nit ed Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. —President and Mrs. Harding will leave for their trip to Florida on the evening of March 5, White

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SHANK THREATENS TO ARREST WORST SMOKE OFFENDERS Mayor Disapproves of SixtyDay Delay Granted by Hamilton, “If the smoke inspector doesn’t want to arrest any of these smokers I think I’ll go out and haul some Pf the worst offenders into court myself." Mayor Shank said today. “The other day l was out looking for smokers when a speeder came along and we chased him and forgot all about looking for smoke.” "Constables Look Hungry” In a conference with Francis F. Hamilton, city building commissioner, Shank said tlie offenders would not “clean up" unless made to and the only way to do this was to go out and arrest them immediately. “Say, " the mayor said, "I had this town cleaned of smoke the other time I was mayor and if 1 have to I can do it again. The way to get those boys is to haul them into court and let the Judge set tlm time for them to sN>P their smoke offenses. And if the Judge won’t do anything we will arrest them under the State law. I know a lot of hungry looking constables around here that are waiting for jobs like that.” Hamilton disagreed with the mayor, saying as he had only one smoke Inspector in the department it was difficult to get results very fast. “We have been taking pictures for the last two weeks.” Hamilton said, "and we ijave already notitb-d some of these plants and given them sixty days in which to clean house. If they have not complied with our request in that time they will he arrested.” Opposes Sixty-day Grace The mayor was of ilie opinion that If they were given sixty days to get rid of smoke and then arrested, tire judge would give them yndi-e time when the case came to trial and it would be six months before results could be obtained. Purdue University will not be asked to aid on the problem because SIO,OOO was asked for expenses. The mayor said that if the building department had that much money it could get as good results as Purdue. “They’ll send a lot of students down here to make an Investigation and report to us that Indianapolis is a very smoky city and tell us how much coal is wasted every year,” the mayor said. BILL HITS AT LAWYERS Senate 1 jmits Practice of Former (Commissioners. A bill which would prohibit former members of a public sendee commission from appearing before that body as attorneys within a period of two years after leaving the commission, was passe,! by the Senate Wednesday, 27 to 17, after a sharp debate. Senator Oliver Holmes of Gary Introduced the measure. THREE-CUSHION LEAGUE Ijayton and Denton Tied For Lead in Race. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Pierre Maupome, Chicago, defeated John Hahman, Cleveland, in two matches of the Interstate Three-Cushion League Tuesday night. The scores were 50 to 43 and 56 to 46 h Johnny Layton of St. Louis and Tiff Den tot.. Kansas City, are tied for the lead in the league. For lens Law Repeat A bill, introduced by Representative Waldemar Eickhoff of Ft. Wayne, calling for repeal of the present automobile lens law. was recommenced for passage today by Judiciary tee. Russell B. Harrison cb a i

FLAPPER BANDITS WORK IN DES MOINES Use Revolvers and Take tale Cash Register. Bv United Press DES MOINES, la., Jan. 31.—“ Flapper bandits" operated in Des Moines today. Two girls escaped with a restaurant cash register containing SSO. Later .brandishing revolvers, they entered another restaurant but were frightened away. They escaped in an automobile. BILL TO PROTECT CONSUMER PASSED Labeling of Coke and Coal Provided, The consumer will know just what he tis getting in the way of coal, coke, hay or straw, if a bill which passed the Senate to, day (38-3) also passes the House. It provides that each wagon loan of these products he accompanied by a delivery ticket showing gross weight, net weight -and quality. The lull was introduced by Senator Rowland Hill of Carthage. Other measures passed Wednesday by the Senate included a joint resolution to amend the constitution so that the pay of a State official could not be increased while lie is in office (41-0), one permitting cross complaints to be filed in damage suits (40-1), and one providing for a uniforrff stock transfer law (39-0). FESLER FHM FOR $1 PRISON CHARGE U, S. Marshal Threatens to Withdraw ‘Lodgers,’ Federal prisoners will be kept in the Greenfield County jail and at the Indiana State farm if Marion County insists on charging more than 60 cents a day for each one. United States Marshal L. D. Meredith notified Leo K. Fesler. county auditor, today. Fesler said the county has spent $130,000 in the last three years on Federal prisoners, and he held out for $1 a day. "I won’t negotiate at all if you come in here with that attitude,” said Fesler. "We are willing to do what Is right, but 60 cents is not-enough.” Sheriff George Snider and Commissioner John Kitley took part in the conference. Snider said there were about forty Federal prisoners in jail here now, but sometimes he had as many as sixty. The matter will be taken up with the Department of Justice at Washington, Fesler said. Denies Name Injunction The temporary injunction asked against the Anderson Oil Company of Anderson by the National Refining Company of Cleveland, Ohio, for alleged Infringement of trade name, was denied by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. / The complaint charged that the brand “Anoco” used by the defendant for motor oils and greases was an infringement of the plaintiff's brand, “En-ar-co.” Nice for Constables. Day by day, in more ways than one, the pay of constables is growing more and *nore munificent. Representative George"F. Ogden of Laketon today introduced a bill to raise the one-way travel pay of constables on official trips, from 10 cents a mile to 20 cents. The bill also provides for an increase of usual 20 cents for t m mons anri sub-

FAMILY WATCHES LIFELESS BODY OF ‘DEAD’ PHYSICIAN Confidently Expect to See Him Arise at Any Moment, Bp United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 31.—The family and students of George Stevenson today began their ninth-day watch over his lifeless body, confident j that the spell of “suspended anima- ! tion,” supposedly self-imposed by Stevenson in quest of new life and better health, will be broken. They expect him to arise at any moment, although pronounced dead a week ago by nine leacfmg physicians, and his body removed so the morgue despite protests of his family that he was only sleeping. Since then his body has been zealously guarded and the inquest has been postponed, the family and friends convinced that his present state is not death. George Stevenson, former physician, renounced science and medicine in favor of his own theories of evolution, which led him to the belief of the control of the mind over the body to the extent of even causing temporary departure of life, that the body might ;be revived with all the diseases | eliminated. FIGHT TO BRING OP BILL FAILS x (Continued From Page 1) I Y. M. C. A. Post No. 107, colored, I was in favor of it. Unofficially Opposed j Unofficially, commanders of five of i the seven posts which have not acted, | but will soon, said sentiment among ; their members was overwhelmingly i against the bill. Posts expressing opposition to the | bill through action of their executive 1 committees or vote of the n ember- > ship were Dewey, Paul Coble, Robert E. Kennington, Edward Kahle, Howard C. Root, Skidmore-Dean, St. MihiekLoer, Mcllvaine-Kothe, John H. Holliday, Jr., William Noble Wal 1 lace, Striebeck-Losche and Madden--1 Nottingham posts, i The commanders adopted resolu ; tions condemning the bill and instructing James H. Duncan, seventh district committeeman, to use his efforts to urge the State executive committee to turn the whole fight over to the national legion and have it made a national issue. Faulkner Stays Away Another meeting of the command ers will be held today at the Hotel Severin at 7:30 p. m. Commander Faulkner was invited to attend Monday night’s meeting, but did not come. He was represented by Philip Stapp. editor of the Hoosier Legionnaire. Stapp said Faulkner had been advised by the legislative committee not to attend the meeting. This statement brought a general laugh. Considerable friction developed at times between Duncan, who presided., j and the commanders. Duncan pre viously had expressed himself as in favor of the bill'and has been- re garded as a supporter of the State | legion authorities in their fight against j the Marion- County posts. • Determination to stand by their guns in the fight was expressed by the commanders. The action of Faulkner in attempting to suspend charters of post di-agreeing with him was con 1 demned as “despotic,” “un-American" l “unconstitutional” and “unwarrant ed.” The commanders expressed a : hope that the troubles could be ironed out without wrecking the legion in) Indiana. Charged Faulkner today refused to what action he would take in regain, to posts supporting those who were , already in revolt and whose charters he had announced were suspended. This was taken as indication by Ma i rion County Legion men that the State authorities changed their tactics when they found the old policy would result in the suspension of a majority of Marion County post*. > j That legion posts outside Indian apolis were trying to “get back” at i Indianapolis for obtaining the State Memorial Plaza was a charge made | by several speakers. t Resolutions opposing the bill were adopted today sixty-two employes ' of the Stafford Engraving Company. SHELVE LAND VALUE MEASURE IN HOUSE Provided New Figures in 1925 and 1929. A bill providing for real estate val nations in in 1925 and 1929 instead of in 1924 and 1928 as pro vided by the present law, was in 1 definitely postponed in the House to : day. The bill had been Introduced by Harvey Z. Collins of Huntington and James I. Day of East Chicago. As originally introduced the measure provided for va.lua.tions in 1923 and 1927. but the other, dates were , inserted by amendment. The purpose of the bill originally was to bring about an immediate assessment on the theory that present valuations are too high. ABSENT VOTER LAW HIT Senate Concurs in Report for Re peal of Act. j Moves against the absent voters' law were speeded today, when the Senate concurred in a committe re port recommending passage of the bill providing for ith repeal. Th ebill proposing that the Stale \board of accounts be included in th* office of Auditor of State was indefi nltely postponed in the Senate.

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