Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1923 — Page 2

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53,000 CHILDREN TO CROWD INTO CITY SCHOOLS MONDAY

CONSTITUTION IS ‘LIVING’ CHARTER, RUCKERDECLARES Former County Prosecutor Flays Enemies of Courts, “The Constitution of . the United States is a pulsating, breathing living thing. It is not dead. It is not slumbering. It is no technicality or mere historical document,” it was declared by Alvah J. Rucker, former Marlon County prosecutor, before a meeting of the Credit Men's Association at the Claypool today. Outlining the sentiment and the patriotic convictions of the creators of the Constitution. Rucker continued In agreeing that the document was "fundamental’ rather than specific. To the three main branches of Government was left the responsibility, he said, of interpreting modern exigencies in the light of these "fundamentals of the Constitution.” Defends Court Injunctions The alleged mal-administration of our courts was characterized as unfounded. Suggestions as to their improvement were given arid Rucker upheld the court as a moral and ethical institution, emprasizing the felicity of "government by injunction,” defending it from attacks by its enemies and citing the plague of want and innocent suffering which he said would have followed a rail strike had it not ! been thwarted by an injunction grant- j td by Judge Wilkerson of Chicago. In closing. Rucker said: "In spite of minor defects the Constitution represents for us the difference between civilization and barbar- I ism, between a government of law end not men and political anarchy. Instruction in Schools "It should be taught in the schools:! it should be discussed in public prints: ! it should be worn as a frontlet on the brow of every true American. "As we advance, the Constitution j will advance, for within it are the seeds of national blessing, the germi- j r ating essence of every rood and perfect aspiration of American life.”

BABES ON EXHIBIT RUN THE GANTLET * f jExamination of 381 Takes Place First Day, ! Its not much fun being handed {from one doctor to another, measured • and weighed, made to stick out your 'tongue having long things punched ♦down your throat, and being stared at. lt certainly is not. And babies at ’ the Better Babie Contest in the Worn- • en's building at the State Fair don't i hesitate to let the public know why Jthey don't like it. . But once it's all over, they come *out rosy and smiling. They're a healthy lot, these Indiana jtbts, all under three years. The cards 'of many of them have gone through rrt’ithout showing a defect, according Jtb Dr. Ada E. Scheitzer, director of tthe division of infant and child Thvgiene, State hoard of health. The Jmain trouble seems to be a failure •Os weight and height to agree. I Records for the first three days showed 381 babies examined. VETERANS TRAMP i IN ANNUAL PARADE

.'Boys of '6l With Decimated I Ranks March at Milwaukee, Vniteri Sew* I MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 6. JiEvery yetir the aged, faltering •jveterans of the Grand Army of the 'Republic parade at their national en{icampment. Each year many of them spurn the (kid of automobile transportation and Jfnsist on mraching afoot in their faded • blue uniforma as they did in the days ‘of ’6l- - And each year a number of these •stout old hearts collapse as the heat 'and the slow pace proves too much •for advancing age. , Twelve casualties were reported Jamong the decimated ranks which •made the annual parade at the tifty{elghth encampment, Wednesday. Six •then, all in the eighties, were taken Jto hospitals. 1 • Eight thousand participated in the iparade and 100,000 saw it. Among ‘the spectators, nine succumbed to the heat. • Previously the old veterans had ’been given a glimpse of modern warfare. They sniffed the powder as the days of the Civil War. but Wednesday they were seated in a comfortable {grandstand as Wisconsin National (Guardsmen staged a sham battle for ; their entertainment and airplanes and • submarine chasers operated along the ‘lakefront. • • . Fugitive Is Sought Here • Police were searching today for Roy Richardson, 19, who was sentenced to the reformatory from Sullivan County Jin J 912 for burglary and who escaped from the institution at Pendleton • Wednesday. Touring Car Found A Ford touring ca/ bearing license ’number M 345 was found at North- • western Ave. and Twenty-First St. I today. Police are attempting to find J the^owner.

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HAROLD FAUGHT, BOY SCOUT. WITH RICHARD PHILLIPS

The ever-present smile and the ever-ready willingness of Indianapolis Boy Scouts have won the hearts of State fair goers. No task is too large or too small for them to extend their best effort, the visitors have learned. For instance, here's Harold

BILL-JUMPER JUMPS FROM BAD TO WORSE Three Accounts Amounting to $78,55 Left Behind Alleged Worthless Checks Offered Later,

Tuesday, according to police, a man who gave his name as A. C. Paxton, "jumped” a $9 hotel bill at the Claypool, left a taxicab while still owing a bill for $19.45 for his ride, borrowed S6O from a man whose name the police do not give, and disappeared. Wednesday, the police say, he reappeared* paid the taxi bill with a

BOTH SIDES PAT AT MINE PARLEY Final Concessions Discussed at Meeting Today, By t'nited Press HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 6.—The final concessions of anthracite miners and operators were discussed for more than two and a half hours today at a meeting between the two parties and Governor Pinchot. When the session recessed for lunch there was no indication that either side had receded from its position. The ultimatum from the operators is that the strike must be settled on no more than a fiat 10 per cent increase basis. The contract shall not run longer than 1925; the union checkoff cannot be granted; disputed points must be left to arbitration. The "final word” of the miners is that day laborers must receive assurances in dollars and cents of how much of an increase they are to receive. 21 GOVERNORS TO ATTEND Word Awaited From General Wood and Alaskan Official. Twenty-one State executives, ud to today, have indicated to Govern >r McCray their intentions of attending the annual Governors’ conference at West Baden, Oct. 17 to 19. McCray received a message today from Governor Towner of Porto Rico in which the latter said he would be unable to attend. No word has been received from Leonard Wood, Governor of the Philip pines, or from Scott Bone, Alaskan Governor and former Indiana man.

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Traveling as the Duke of Cornwall, the Prince of Wales left England to visit his ranch in Canada. Mrs. Harding left Washington Wednesday night for a few weeks' visit in Marion. Governor Groesbeck will call a special session of the Michigan legislature for a reapportionment of the State. Because his wife refused to accompany him to a dance, Harry Farrar, 28, of Alliance. Neb., killed himself by taking poison. Ten cars of southbound Missouri Pacific freight train plunged through a trestle at Kehunt, Kan., Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Scranton was ordered to pay her husband $5 per week alimony by Judge Summerfield in a Los Angeles court. When Charles Korss, San Francisco xoc*r_ mailed $5 in pennies to San Rafael, Cal., court as speeding fine,

Faught, 2201 Parkway Blvd., of Troop 18, taking care of Richard Phillips, 1, son of Mr. and Mrs. Casper Phillips, 250 N. Tremont Ave. As anyone can see, Harold's glad to play nursemaid. Richard seems happy, too.

check, paid the hotel hill with a check and repaid the loan with a checkToday, the man Is In the city prison. The recipients of the checks say they were all right except for the fact the signer had no bank account. Police say the man's real name is George W. Powers of Pardee, Vt., and that he was once sentenced In Cincinnati for issuing fraudulent checks.

fTWO CINCINNATI MEN FACE MURDER CHARGE CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 6—A warrant charging Cecil Mullnrkey and | George Hogan, a former prohibition officer, and both of Cincinnati, with first degree murder of Van D. Powers, Muncie. Ind., gravel merchant, at the Grandview Inn bust Sunday, was sworn to Wednesday by Mark Beall, Muncie farmer, who was with Powers when the latter was shot. Mullarkey was placed under arrest Tuesday. Hogan has disappeared. A second warrant was sworn to by Beall charging Mullarkey with assault with | intent to kill. SHORTRIDGE PLANS ISSUED TO PUPILS School Opening Preparations Are Being Made, Instructions from Shortridge High School pertaining to opening on Mon- ! day were Issued today. All pupils except those entering from grammar grades are to report to their rooms at 8:25 a. m. Monday. All first-year pupils entering from the grammar grades or from out of the city will assemble in the Caleb Mills Hall at 1:30 p. m., officials stated; Students will use the North St. entrance for the new building and the Pennsylvania St, entrance for the old building. Rooms 1 to 36 are in the new building and 37 to 70 In the old. Pupils who transfer from one city high school to another must secure signatures of their former principal and Superintendent Graff before Monday.

he was hailed for contempt and fined SSO and sent to county jail for five days. Two thousand immigrants wno beat th‘ barrier at New York before Sept. 1 were admitted into United States today. “Freddy Thompson” strange “girl man” accused of murder of Richard C. Tesmer, will go on trial in Chicago Oct. 1. Eugene V. Debs has withdrawn his support from the ultra-liberal group of the Socialist party, led by William Z. Foster, the Socialist leader announced at Chicago Tuesday. Louisiana's rice harvest will be diverted to Japan under plans announced at New Orleans today. Mayor Hylan, New York, is ill with pleurisy of the right lung at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. The State Department has renewed the arbitration treaty with Portugal for a period cf five years.

-THE LNDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Increase of 2,000 Over Last Year’s Attendance —Lack of Room Felt, Approximately 53,000 Indianapolis children will start to school Monday. Between 1,500 and 2,000 more Children will be attending the elementary and high schools this year than last year. The total enrollment for the entire r hool year last year was 51,096; 41,683 in the elementary schools and 9.413 in the high schools. The increase this year is expected to be 3.8 per cent in the elementary schools and 6 ptr cent in the high schools. This includes the new addition to the school city at Broad Ripple. Need New Buildings The schools are badly in need of the new buildings lately provided for In the latest proposed bond issue. Only four rooms at schools 66 and 70. out of the twenty new portables are now ready. But D. T. Weir, assistant superintendent, said that fewer half day schedules would be necessary this year than last, in spite of these difficulties. To meet the increased enrollment forty new elementary teachers and sixteen new high school teachers have been added. This makes the total teaching staff 1,653. Fifteen of the new teachers are included in the Broad Ripple schools. ' "Dawn to Dark” The “dawn to dark” schedule of Technical High School will be continued Indefinitely, said Murray A. Dalman, director of reference and research in the public schools. "Why should a good school plant be idle half of the day," he said. Last year 46,551 school children were of the compulsary attendance age, 7 to 15 years. Private schools held 5,280 of these. The school city also gained from immigration. During last year, 5,215 entered the higher grades In school for the first time. Migration affected only 2,901. The same per cent of Increase ts due this year, said Dalman. “It Is Interesting to note,” he said, “that comparing the school attendance with the attendance in 1900 there has been an Increase of 166 per cent In the elementary schools and 418 per cent in the high schools.

CITY OFFICIALS STILL SEER LAX TANGLE SOLUTION Special Meeting of Council Discussed in Connection . ,With Difficulty, City officials through investigation by the legal department and the State tax board today believed they had a solution to the present tangled condition of city finances following the action of the council in which it passed a tax levy and refused a budget. Investigation of the 1919 tax law disclosed that the levies do not have to be certified until Sept 16 which would enable the city council to pass both tax levq and budget, and save the administration program. With the discovery, a special meeting of council for Friuay night was discussed. The rneetinng of the council may veto the present tax levy, and pass both budget and levy again. President. John King, It is understood, would favor such a meeting. City officials until today believed both the budget and tax levy of this year would have to go into effect accordinng to a 1913 State law. The levy of this year was 97.4 cents. A levy of $1,036 was passed by council Monday night.

LOUDEN SENDS HIS SYMPATHY Former Illinois Governor Writes to McCray, Governor McCray today received a letter from Frank O. Lowden, former j Governor of Illinois, In which the lat ter expressed strong sympathy with Indiana’s executive In his presentfinancial plight and in which he de-! dared the last three years have been exceedingly trying to farmers In gen oral. Former Governor Lowden’s letter, in part, follows: “I, myself, as you know, have been farming upon a large scale In recent years. When I got out of office two years ago last January all of my farms were losing money rapidly. This was due to two things: First, like every other man in office 1 had given absolutely no attention to my personal affairs while I was Governor: second, not within my memory has the farmer gone through as difficult years as the last three have been to him.” BOND RECEIPTS STOLEN Checks for $145 Disappear From 118% W. Ohio St, Frank Behringer, 118% W. Ohio St., reports the theft of a bank book con taining receipts for S6OO worth of Liberty bonds, a check on the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company for $125 and another from the lair-banks-Morse Company for S2O. Milltown Fair in Session Si Times Special , ENGLISH, Ind„ Sept. 6.—The third annual community fair at Milltown began Wednesday and will continue through Friday. The fair is conducted under the auspices of the Women’s Community Club of Milltown and is held in the community house and opgits lawn.

Farm Mother First Is Hoosier’s Pride

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MRS. CHARLES W. SEWELL. First of all a “farm mother.” is Mrs. Charles W. Sewell of Otterbein. Ind. After that she is a well-known farm lecturer and Farm Bureau worker. Oh, yes, p.nd she's a "farm grandmother,” too; very proud of her farmer granddaughter, in fact. Mrs. Sewell is acting as hostess in the Woman’s building during the State fair. She has been a member of the advisory committee to the State board of agriculture for five years. For four years she has been engaged in National Farm Bureau work and has spoken in fifteen States Being a farmer's wife of 25 years and having a home that is known as one of the most complete farm homes anywhere, with its own electric light, heating and water systems, Mrs Sewejl would seem well qualified to tell other farm wives how to manage their homes "We want 'em all to be ptosperone," Mrs. Sewell says. “We're satisfied to be farmers."

MERCHANTS READY TO PLEASE 2,1 STATE RETAILERS City to Be Decorated for Special Observance Next Week, Approximately 2,000 retailers from all parts of Indiana will meet in Indianapolis Sept. 12. 13 and 14 during Buyer's Week promoted by the wholesale trade division of the P n ipolis Chamber of Commerce. Seventeen of the leading wholesale firms of the city have already loaded their shelves with the lat st merchandise. Salesmen, representing the local firms troughout the State, will return next week to greet their customers. The city will be decorated in blue and gold for the event. Special features have been arranged for enter talnment. Thursday morning. An automobile trip through the city is planned with entertainment and dance at the Athenaeum in the evening. Buyers' week is being planned by Allan B. Maxwell, Kipp Brothers Company, general chairman; Charles T. Lee, Allen A. Wilkinson Lumber Company, reception; otto Keller, E. C. Dolmetsch Company, treasurer and chairfman finance committee; Ferd L. Hollweg, Mutual China Company, publicity; H. C. Ryker, Crowder-Cooper Shoe Company, entertainment, and Earl L. Ferguson, secretary wholesale trade division, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.

CROSBY OFFERED STATE POSITION Prosecutor May Fill Vacancy on Commission, Louis Crosby of Ft. Wayne, Allen County, prosecuting attorney, is the likely appointee to the public service commieion to succeed Edgar M. Blessing. resigned, according to substantial rumors at the Statehouse and to a dispatch from Ft. Wayne. It waa said that Crosby's strength as a candidate rests with the influence of Clyde Walb, Republican State chairman. At the Governor’s office it was admitted that Crosby’s name was "one of a list of several before the ,Governor.” Officials would not say whether the appointment had been offered by McCray, as was indicated in the dispatch. The dispatch said Crosby would neither confirm or deny his acceptance of the post, but admitted having it under consideration. Crosby is 32 years of age and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Crosby rumors began -to spread when it was ' learned Mayor Eli Seebirt of South Bend has declined to appointment. Marriage Licenses F. K. Van Arsdalr. 24, Greenville. Ky.; Thelma Seott, 21. 2152 N. Delaware. Merle Brookway. 35, 1653 N. Talbott: Lota Thomas. 34. 2520 College. P. L. Miller. 18, 520 W. Moreland: Irene Goodall, 10. 3557 Garden A. V. Gaskill. 22, 1202 Spann: Pauline Cramer, 21, University Heights R. W. Hill. 27. 513 W. Twenty-Eighth; Thelma Basey, 24, New Augusta. E. L. Roth. 19. 1039 N. Pershing; Winona Mtimaugh, 18, 1651 Martindale. W. R. Priddy. 25. 124 E New York; Clydia Smiley. 19, 8810 Central. Armen Harblson, 32. 1898 N. Pennsylvania; Dorothy Koons, 29. 1138 Blaine. G. E. Carmichael, 22, 130 Neil; Ethel Ferrell. 22. 936 N. Pennsylvania,

BODY OF WILCOX MET AT TRAIN BY OFFICIAL ESCORT * Funeral of Race Driver Will Be Held From Late Home Fridafy, Indianapolis today paid silent tribute to Howard (“Howdy”) Wilcox as the body of the most famous of her native racing stars was returned home. Wilcox was killed almost instantly Tuesday at Altoona, Pa., when the Duesenberg he was driving swerved and was wrecked on the 117th lap. Former buddies of Wilcox In the racing game and auto business met the train bringing the body at the Union Station this morning. Fred Duesenberg and Eddie Hearne, winner of the Altoona race, accompanied the body. Mayor Shank and a squad of police represented the city at the train. Led by motor policemen, t v e procession formed on Meridian St. and drove immediately to the home of Mrs. B. A. Warbinton, mother of Wilcox, 2044 N. Meridian St. None of the immediate family was present at the station. Services will be held from the home at 3 p. m. Friday, with burial at Crown Hill. Among his former associates at the train to meet the body today were; Seth Klein of the Klein Radiator Service; C. S. Crawford, Stutz Motor Company; Hamilton Scott, Scott Electrical Company; Edgar Updyke, Updvke Auto Company; S. C. Bohannon, of the S. C. Bohannon Company, and Traffic Captain, Michael Glenn.

CROWDS DEFY RAIN AND MUD AT FAIR Attendance Runs High, Despite Bad Weather Farmers Drive to City in Great Numbers,

The weather man said “probably j showers” for today. Then he carried out his prediction I with a shower at 7 a. m. That gave the State fair its daily rain which lias not failed to appear once in the four days since the fair opened. Still the crowds came, prepared to have a good time no matter what the weather man said. Many visitors were farmers, to whom a shower is a prom--400,000 KLANSMEN FROM INDIANA ARE EXPECTEDAT FAIR Fiery Cross Editor Says Members Will Not Wear Regalia, Indiana members of the Ku-Klux Klan will attend the State fair tomori row. Milton Elrod, editor of the Fiery j Cross. Klan paper, said between 350,- : i'oo and 400,000 members are expected to be present. If the anticipated ! crowd appears all attendance records | for the fair will be broken. Preparations were being made to- | day to handle the crowd. Special I trains and ...terurban cars will bring Klansmen from till sections of the State. No demonstration In regalia will be staged, according to Elrod, either In the city or at the fair. “There were never any plans made for such a demonstration,” Elrod said. Speeches scheduled for Friday have j been called off, out of courtesy to the i Indiana State Board of Agriculture, ! he said. Although Friday has not been officially proclaimed as Klan Day at the fair, more than three-fourths of the people there will be Klansmen, said Elrod. M ORAY CREDITORS DRAFT LAND PLAN Two-Year Trust Agreement Discussed Today, Members of the temporary committee, appointed to Investigate the assets of Governor McCray and the tprst agreement by which he has prof. ■ red to settle numerous obligations, rr.st today in the office of James W. Noel, McCray’s attorney, to complete plans which will he presented at another creditors' meeting Friday at the Severin. Some consideration will be given to the Governor’s valuations of his jeal estate, along with other dotails necessary before flal settlement can b made. With certain modifications, the Governor's two-year trust agreement will be recommended. The report of the Warren T. McCray Farms Realty Company, holding company for most of the Governor’s real estate, has filed Its annual report with the State securities commission. The report shows total liabilities of the company as $1,471,500 The land has depreciated $220,650 |n value since organization <*f the firm relic rt shows.

Indiana U, Instructor New Evansville Editor '• lii'iwF :x x 'i j "YJ. WYMOND FRENCH - By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 6 J. Wymond French, 27, instructor of journalism at Indiana University has resigned to become managing editor of the Evansville Press, one of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. French has been a member of the faculty since 1920, as instructor in journalism and faculty supervisor of the Indiana Daily Student, a student publication. He is a World War veteran, having served in the United States Marine Corps. French holds an A. B. degree in English and an A. M. degree in Journalism at Indiana University. He is a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, is a Mason and an Elk. His home is at Lawrenceburg, Ind.

’ ise of good crops, not a spoiler of good times. As one official of the State Board of Agriculture said; “They come as long as they can bring their cars over State roads.” Attendance Still Good The fact that, despitte the rain Wednesday, paid aimission numbered 29,000 indicates Indiana may be proud of her State roads. The attendance for the third day last year waa 27,500. Although the attendance thus far has been good, considering the weather, board officials said large crowds would be necessary today and I on the closing day, Friday, to prevent | a loss. It was estimated that the | first two rainy days cost the fair j $20,000. Last year's fourth day paid attendance was 37,500. The scorching heat of last year's i fair week is recalled by many of the I visitors, as they splash through the I puddles In the streets, or sink their heels into the soft, rain-soaked grass. Mud No Barrier Carefully picking their way, swerving from side to side to avoid as much of the mud as possible, they reach the horticulture and agriculture build- | Ings and the cattle, poultry and sheep ! pavilions to see the many prize wlni ners. With less difficulty and through less mud, the visitors reach the coliseum, which is filled all day with persons enjoying hand concerts, the horse show and the swine pavilion and the women's building exhibits. And, of course, no amount of mud could keep them away from the miuway, where the customary swordswallowers, girls with radio minds, midgets and even piqk lemonade venders hold forth to the delight of gleeful boys and grls. Gaiety Despite Weather When the wonders of the Midway have been explored, it is time to eat. And the food! Stand after stand, ardent church workers or private con'cession men vie to make the loudest i and most attractive sounds. It was a gloomy day, from the weather standpoint. But from the fair standpoint, it was as gay as Indiana State fairs always are. Births Girls Anthony a-nd Anna Mohr 705 N, Warman. ! John and Blanche Iveflert, 578 Laverock 1 Road ! Wynne and Francis Averill, 2810 Franklin Place. I James and Bessie Figs. 2442 Binford | Floyd and Marie Bush. 537 Virginia, i Hugh and Ruby Jones. 1741 Lockwood. James and Mary Goldner. 608 Hudson. ! Graham and May Shiflet. 2135 Pleasant Harry and Elian Simas. 464 W. Wash- ! ington. Frank and Alice Richardson, 1024 E. McCarty* Raymond and Mattie Martin. 062 N. Sheffield. Robert and Ermol fltimmel. 1317 Shepard. John and Addie Vlewegh, 1220 Haugh. Boys Ivan and Elena Kitcoff. 159 N. Blake. Harold and Adah White. 2046 Adams Charles and Zelma Livingston. 1054 S. Pershing. Tony and Fllomena Priola. 827 E. Georgia Thomas and Nellie Neoye. 1527 E. Washington. Alva and Rosabelle Tiller. 310 N. New George and Ada Miller, 1533 Mill. Robert and Francis Bullock, 640 N, Miley. Laird and Wilma Newgrent. 708 N. Alabama. John and Bessie Savers. 3849 E. Fourteenth. Jerry and Emily Longfert. 3807 E. Fourteenth. Wade and Magkie Stewart. 532 Spring. James and Margaret Raiooe. 519 W. Court. Henry and EUa Dills, 2044 N. DlinoU. Deaths Katherine Kahle Wallace, 42, 31 S. Grace, hepatitis. Willard Harslep. 63, 1134 Blaine, cerebral hemorrhage. India Quackenbush, 69. city hospital, peritonitis David Davis. 69. 519 E. New York, carcinoma. George Dwight Applegate, 36. Central Ind. Hospital, general paresis Samuel Delaney. 51, Long Hospital, fractured skull, accidental Sig Smith, 59, 1537 N. Senate, lobar pneumonia. Edward Fender. 56, Deaconess Hospital, spinal meningitis. Anna L. Doup. 50, St. Vinoent Hospital, chronic myocarditis. l Infant Miller. 4 days. 1*33 Mill, pulmonary (klema.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1923

TWO MEMBERS U. EMBASSY STAFF AT TOKIO ARE MISSING Message From Ambassador Woods Says All Others Safe So Far, By Vnitrd Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Major Crane of the American embassy staff at Tokio and Mrs. Crane were reported to the State Department today as missing, in a message from Ambassador Woods. Woods repeated the statement of a previous message that all the rest of the embassy personnel was safe. Two cables were received from Woods after a long wait for information. “Entire embassy staff reported safe with the exception of Major and Mrs. Crane, not yet heard from. Consul K.'rjassoff and family and Miss Doris Babbitt reported killed.” The department thought this message was somewhat delayed in transmission, as similar advices reported the two children of the Kirjassoffs saved. Officer Is Safe jj Lieut. Col. Charles Burnett Springfield, 111., military attache at Tokio, reported killed in the wrecking of a train during the quake, is safe. A message from him was received by the War Department today. Burnett also notified the department Major and Mrs. Crane had left Yokohama before the disaster and were safe. This was the Maj. Crane Woods reported missing. Crane, whose home is in New Mexico, is a language officer. Burnett’s message came from Iwaklm. the Japanese radio station near Tokio. A second message from Woods detailed the sort of relief supplies needed for more than 1,000.000 homeless refugees: Aid Is Sought “Any aid from American people for over 1,000,000 homeless Japanese should preferably take the form of tinned meat, condensed milk, flour, underejothes, galvanized iron sheets and missioned timbers for one-story shelters,” this message stated. The State Department later received a message from Consul Davis at Shanghai as follows; “Mary and Nellie Hands safe in Shanghai. Judge Lobinger and other court officials who were in Japan are reported safe.” Judge Lobinger is judge of the Amercan court in China. He. members of his family and other court officials were understood to be in one of the mountain resorts near Tokio. ‘a The Doris Babbitt referred to Wood's message was assumed to be the daughter of E. G. Babbitt, assistant Commercial attache to the Tokio embassy, killed in Yokohama. Attache Killed Enrmite The reason Woods' message did not include the Babbitt family in mentioning embassy casualties was stated at the department to be that Babbitt who was appointed to the Tokio embassy in June this year, had never reached his post. He was on his way to Tokio when killed. The state department and the Japanese embassy today were unable, despite their utmost efforts to obtain any further official information concerning Americans and foreigners.

BAR ASSOCIATION ADOPTSJEIRIAL 'Bell Was Man of Action, 1 Associates Say, A memorial to Joseph E. Bell, who accidentally shot himself last Saturday, has been adopted by the Indianapolis Bar Association. The memorial committee consisted of M. A., Ryan, Martin Hugg and Paul G. Davis. "Joseph E. Bell was a man of action,” the statement said. "He was , a man of genuine courage—a fighter |in every* sense of the word for the principles in which he believed. He had strong convictions from which he could not be swayed by a mere majority, yet while he was firm and generally known for his aggressiveness, he was always a gentleman, always courteous, and always kind. "He had many friends and his friends came from all walks of life. He was himself a true friend. He was companionable. His life abounded in good deeds, in acts of kindness and was an exemplification of layolty. He was loved by many and his place at this bar and in this community, from which he has been called at the very heighth of tis usefulness, will be hard to fill.” THREE ARRESTED HERE FOR FLEEING JUSTICE One Will Be Tried in Greenfield for Burglary, Larceny. Three men arrested here on chargee of being fugitives from justice today await the arrival of officers from cities where they are wanted for trial. Everett Jones, 18, McConnellsville, 0., arrested here, according to police, after he had pointed a revolver at a woman on W. Washington St., will be tried in greenfield on charges of burglary and larceny. William Varin, 36, of 229 E. Maryland St., is wanted in Peru on a charge of failing to give a signal at a crossing, according to police. Floyd Schwert, 35, of 1502 E. Tenth St., is wanted on charges of wife desertion in Erie, Pa., police aay.