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SIGNATURE ON $6,300 NOTEOENIED Farm Manager for McCray Says He Did Not Place Name Upon Paper Which Governor Gave to Fair Board as Collateral, STATE TREASURER AND DEPUTY TAKE STAND [Defense Continues to Fight f Against Certain Lines of . Evidence Offered by Prosecution —Bankers Tell of Pleas for Loans, That the signature on a note Or $6,300 put up by Governor Warren T. McCray as collateral with the Indiana board of agriculture was not his. wAs testified by William J. Hendry, former manager of the Morgan County Stock Farm, today in the Criminal Court trial of the Governor on charges of embezzlement and ?rand larceny of $155,000 of the board’s funds. Hendry also testified that, during state fair week in 1923. he was called o the Governor's office, where, in the iresence of Miss Adnh Bush, the Govmor’s secretary, and the Governor, le signed a paper, the contents of rhich he knew nothing: about. This part of the testimony was not llowed to stand. It was ordered rlcken from the records, by Special idpe Harry' O. Chamberlin, on objec |n of Michael A. Ryan, one of the Governor’s attorneys.

Witness Is Reluctant Hendry proved a most reluctant witness. Eph Inman, special assistant prosecutor, was forced to impeach his own witness. Time after time, Hendry answered, “I don’t remember” or “I don't know,” when asked about testimony he was said to have given at the grand Jury investigation of McCray's affairs, la3t fall. Ben H. Urbahns, deputy treasurer of Btate, and, Ora ,T. Davies, treasurer of State, both testified that when Governor McCray was told that a SIO,OOO warrant on the State treasury, which was intended for deposit to the State's credit in the Discount and Deposit Bank of Kentland, of which McCray was president, had been placed to the Governor's personal credit, he told them that there must be some mistake, as he had written the bank to place the money to the State’s account. Davies said this had been done. Hendry took the stand shortly before noon. He was asked by Inman: “I hand you a note for $6,300, dat?d April 13. 1923, payable to Warren T. McCray, signed by the Morgan County Stock Farm. W. J. Hendry, manager. Did you sign it?” “I did not,” Hendry replied. "Who did?” ‘ Mr. McCray.” "Do you know his handwriting?” Answers Indefinite Beginning at this pointy the witness wecame indefinite in his answers. “I wouldn’t swear to it,” he answered. Y‘Look at his name in the body of the note. Is that his handwriting?” "I don’t know.” The answer apparently wps a surprise to Inman. With some show of feeling, he asked- “Have you seen the Governor lately?” "Four or five months ego.” “Did you have any knowledge that your name was signed to a note for $6,300?” "No, sir.” “During fair week, September, 1923, were you called to the Governor’s ’ officer’ ’’No.” "Did you go?" “Tes.” “How did you come to go?" Word Left aet Farm "He left word at the farm that he wanted to see me.” “Who was there?” "Governor McCray. Miss Bush came in.” “Then what was done?” "Governor McCray said he had a paper he would like to have me sign.” "What did you Bay?” “I don't remember.” “What did Miss Bush say?” “Nothing.” did you do?” signed.” Vvhere did lie get the paper?” ™T don’t know.” “Where was it?” "On hie desk.” Did Not Read Paper Wa* It typewritten or in handswear which." read it?” Egrc3--ou read any part of it" r two of the first, words. SjfcJjSPCdk you signed it., w hat d,.l yoj an Pag* 11A

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POLICE SLAYERS SOUGHT Louisville Authorities Seek Men Following Shooting. Louisville police have wired local authorities to watch for four men who killed a police officer there Tuesday night. The wire said that the men were drinking. In a brawl, interrupted by the officer, the shot was tired, the dispatch said. MINERS TO REMAIN OUT Union Sends Out Notices to Workers in Southwest Coal Fields. By l nited Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., April 2. —Instructions for all coal miners in the Southwest to remain on strike were sent out by union leaders here today following failure to reach an agreement on wages in negotiations with mine pperators. About 35,000 men are affected. •LAW IN LARGE NUMBERS’ Fight Men Fiscape When Housekeeper Goes to Call Police. “The law sure comes in large numbers, ’* said Mrs. Ethel Austin, colored. 616 E. Court St., when she opened the door, on being told the “law” was ,here. Eight men filed in. While Mrs. Austin was calling the police the men escaped. Police say the men were probably on a random quest for liquor. ARTHUR WOLF ANNOUNCES Insurance Company Secretary to Flnter First Political Race. Arthur Wolf, 4136 X. Meridian St., today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for State Senator. He is secretry and general manager of the State Automobile Insurance Association. He is a Scottish Kite Mason and a Shriner and a mem ber of the Elks. This is his first political race.

•PULL UP TO THE CURB’ Policemen Said It to 225 Motorists During March. Two hundred and twenty-five motorists heard the gruff command, “Pull over to the curb,” from motor policemen during March, a report of Sergt. Charles Halstead, in charge of the motorcycle squad, showed today. Os the arrests 90 per cent resulted in convictions, the report said. Tags ordering motorists into headquarters on charges of traffic violation were fixed on 2,210 cars. QUIGLEY IS ACQUITTED Liquor Case Against Richmond Druggist and His Clerk Dismissed. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 2. —James Quigley, prominent local druggist, and James Wentz, clerk in Quigley's employ were acquitted on charges of selling liquor to Arthur Tyson, an electrician by Special Judge Llndennuth In Circuit Court here today. It was charged Wentz had sold liquor to Tyson while In Quigley’s employ. EVANSVILLE CLEANING UP Arrests Continue In War on liquor Law Violators. By Times Special EVANSVILLE. April 2.—Arrests in the city’s “booze mop-up" continued to grow with arrest Monday of Joe Cruze, alleged law violator. Twenty-five have pleaded guilty to liquor law violations and cases of twenty-seven remain to be disposed of. Defendants who pleaded guilty were fined from SIOO to $l5O and given thirty-day jail sentence. ENGINE USED IN CHASE Police Abandon Autos anJ Motorcycles for Locomoti/e. Police abandoned autos aid motorcycles today for a switch engine in a chase which ended in the arrest of a man giving his name as Ben McCloud, 35, of 1327 Chusehman Ave. He was slated on charges of vagrancy and carrying concealed weapons. Police emergency, motorcyclemen and district men boarded the engine at Kentucky Ave. and the Belt rail road. A woman reporting an attack in Garfield Park said McCloud was not her assailant. SEVEN CHARGES PENDING Greenwood Man Arrested When Liquor Is F'ound, PoSce Say. Seven charges are pending against William Snedeger, Greenwood. He was arrested at Capitol Avenue. g.nd Sixteenth St., Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Frank Kemp, who said he found four gallons of white mule in his car. Police Lieutenant Stoddard said Snedeger owned a 100-gallon still found at Qaklandon Jan. 15. He also is charged with failure to stop after an accident Feb. 2, when, it is alleged, his truck struck two other cars. His automobile was confiscated. -BIRD IN HAND’ RESCUED Passer-By Releases Captive by Kn xking Down His Captor. Gus Constople, 40 N. West St., had within his grasp a boy who he said had broken into his garage with several companions and had stolen candy. Constople had been lying in wait. Previous visits had been made to his garage, he said. The capture was a hard-earned victory. But as Constople was taking the struggling boy to a telephone to call police, a passer-by knocked Constople down and the boy escaped, police say. The rescuer also disappeared.

DOHENY GIF! TO DEMOCRAT POT, $34,900 Former Party Chairman Says Elk Hill Oil Tract Lesse Contributed to Campaign Funds During Years of 1920 and 1921, HARRY SINCLAIR MADE NO DONATION, WHITE SAYS Oil Magnate's Testimony of $75,000 Shows Difference Which Witness Can Not Account For Walsh Explains New Agency. I C | I'M MARY: Harlin Fiske Stone Iu [ narn “d attorney general, to 1 1 succeed Hairy Daugherty, resigned. George White, former Democratic party chairman, declares Doheny gave $34,900 to party fund in 1920 and 1921. Former Department of Justice agent tells of alleged overpayments amounting to millions on aircraft contracts, and failure of Daugherty to prosecute. Agent declares Secretary of War Weeks and others should he indicted for conspiracy on aircraft contracts.

By Vniled Brest WASHINGTON, April 2. George White, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, today told the Senate oil commitee E. L. Doheny contributed $34,9(>0 to the Democratic party funds in 1920 and 1921. White, when questioned about Doheny's testimony that he had contributed $75,000, said Doheny would have to account for the difference. White said he recalled no contributions from Harry F. Sinclair. Doheny gave him three checks aggregating $9,900 during the campaign in 1920, and in April, 1921, contributed *25,000 toward the party's deficit. White said. After hearing White the committee adjourned until Monday to give Senator Walsh an opportunity to work over, through his new investigating agency, additional information which has come to hirrt concerning the story of rumored bribery at the last Republican national convention. It is through this agency Senator Walsh expects to prove there was a conspiracy to lease the oil naval reserves as far back as the 1920 National Republican Convention. Here Is the way the new investigating agency works as Walsh described it today. Scores of Letters “We receive scores of letters each day—some from inmates of insane asylums and some from patriotic citizens who have evidence bearing upon our inquiry. Heretofore we have had no method of finding out just what these witnesses would testify. “A man writes that some prominent man told him there was a conspiracy at the last Republican convention. We have to subpoenae both men, sometimes half way across the continent and bear the expense of their visit. And when they get to the stand some times they do not tell the story I expect, or after consultation 1 learn that they have no direct evidence, only rumors. Sends Personal Representative “Through this new arrangement I can obtain someone in practically every city in the United States to go to see the man who writes me and find out just exactly to be testified.” George White, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, Is expected to testify today. Walsh also expects to consult another “surprise” witness before the hearing starts, and he may be put on the stand. MORE POOLS WANTED Civic Clubs Protest Move of Taxpayers’ League. A combined meeting of the Brookside Civic League, Brightwood Civic League and East Tenth Street Business Mens’ Community Welfare Association will be held at 8 p. m. Friday at the branch library at Commerce and Nowland Aves., to oppose efforts of the Taxpayers’ League to prevent the building of public swimming pools by the park board this summer. A. Le Roy Portteus, president of the Brookside League, said that practically every civic organization which Is a member of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs send representatives before the park board Saturday morning to ask for more swimming pools. Hydro Power Petition Discussed The public service commission today dismissed the petition of the Hoosier Hydro-Electric Company, Indianapolis, of which John A. Shafer is president, for authority to issue sl,500,000 in preferred stock and 80,000 shares of common no par value for construction of a hydro-electric power plant at St. Paul. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. • 28 10 a. m 84 7 a. m 30 11 a. m. • 36 8 a. m.. 31 12 (noon) 40 n a. m.Jf ■B2l p. m 41

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Radio Helps Lads Lying 111 at Hospital to While Away Long Hours and Keep in Touch With World

may be some who are 1 not thankful for Marconi’s l— invention of the wireless, but radio Is helping two lads recover from illness at the St. Vincent Hospital. Anson Riley, 14, Martinsville, Ind., son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Riley, and Theodore Perry, 12, son

MOVE MADE 10 NAME RALSTON FORJfSIDENT Indiana Democrats Forming Committee to Start National Campaign. The first organized effort to bring about the nomination for President of Senator Samuel M. Ralston, was started today at a meeting of the Democratic State committee and Indiana party leaders at the Claypool. A committee, the object of which will be to present the name of Ralston as a presidential possibility to the nation will be formed. Charles A. Greathouse, Indianapolis, national committeeman for Indiana, was named chairman. O'Brien Treasurer William H. O'Brien, Lawrenceburg, was made treasurer. Greathouse will appoint as members of the committee at least one person from every congressional district. The organization plans to conduct a campaign to line up delegates not only from Indiana but from other States. Following the meeting it was stated that this action Is Independent of any desire of Ralston himself. It was explained that Ralston is not seeking the nomination and that he was not back of the present movement. Taggart on Program Thomas Taggart and Greathouse addressed the meeting* urging that delegates be selected who would properly represent the State at the national convntion In New York June 4. Among those prsent were Lew G. Effingham, Ft. Wayne. Frank Culbertson, Vincennes, Dan W. Sims, Lafayette, J. K. Jennings, Evansville, J. E Frederick, Kokomo, and Fred Van Nuys, Indianapolis. DOCTORS SEEK SUPPORT Candidates Probably to Be Questioned on Attitude Toward liaws. Candidates for the State Legislature probably will be called upon to state their attitude toward medical legislatlon by the Indianapolis Medical Society. A resolution favoring election of a physioian to the office of coroner has been adopted by the society. An injunction clause in the medical practice act to permit the State board of medical registration to enjoin persons not meeting standards set by the board from practicing medicine also wias favored. Former Deputy Sheriff Held Charles Sherman, former deputy sheriff, and Ed Barrett, are under aresL Liquor violation is charged. The affidavit was filed by Deputy Sheriff Roland Snider, who said he found apparatus for manufacturing | home hrew. and ninety-five quarts of I- e\\ at 6840 ReJWontalne St,

AftSON RILEY (LEFT) AND THEODORE PERRY.

of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Perry, 4224 Carrollton Ave., pass the hours of hospital life by listening to Pittsburgh or Chicago or most any of the broadcasting stations. , “Oh, yes, we hear concerts, and when that gets old, we switch over to something new, and it sure is fun,” said Theodore, his eyes sparkling. He was operated upon for

BOY DIES OF SCALDS Fall Into Boiling Water March 1 Causes Death. Coroner Paul F. Robinson today investigated the death of Carl C. Swischer, 3, son of Mrs. Ida L. Swischer, 2626 N. Sherman Dr. at the home Tuesday night. The boy fell into a pail of boiling water March 1 and suffered burns about the back and hips. Mrs. Swischer said she was preparing to mop the kitchen and that she thought her son was going out to play in the back yard. He backed out of another room into the kitchen and fell into the water, she said. She did not see him until slae heard the splash, she said. FOUR PERISH IN FIRE Grand Rapids Hotel Burns at Loss of $300,000. By United Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 2. Three bodies had been recovered and Identified today following the disastrous fire which razed the Hotel Livingston Tuesday night. The number of dead was brought to four by the death of Miss Jennie Evan®, 60, ot Grand Rapids, who was fatally injured in leaping from a fourth-story window. Six persons are seriously injured and som? msy die. , Several are still missing. The dead: Edward Sargent. 48, St. Paul, Minn. Bessie Marlows, 32, Reed City, Mich. Giles Wade, 70. Grand Rapids, Mich. $30,000 DAMAGES ASKED Greeneastle Boy, Injured In Accident, Files Suit to Recover. B<! Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind.. April 2. Jerome Austin, 10, through his father, Leon Austin, today filed suit for damages asking $30,000 from the C., C., C. & St. L. Railroad in the Putnam Circuit Court. The lad was riding In a school truck last December when hit by a string of cars on a switching track crossing. He sustained a, fractured skull, loss of one ear, a broken arm and other injuries. POLICE HUNT TERRORIST Prowler Frightens Women Near Keystone Ave. and Walker St. Police rearched the neighborhood of Keystone Ave. and Walker St. for a man who has terrorized women in that vicinity recently. Mrs. Howard AVuolman, living one square east of Keystone Ave., in Walker St., told officers that a man prowled around her house and insulted her “very Lime she looked out. Finally, when she ran to a neighbor’s horn-:, he followed, attempting to grab her, she said. When her husband arrived the man ran. WHILE SMOKE POURS— State Considers Using City Heat to Relieve Smoke Nuisance. An investigation into the advisability of using city heat at the Statehouse will be made by Henry Roberts, State superintendent of buildings and grounds. Suffic.ent State funds are not available at present to install smoke consumers, afflcials claim. A definite effort will be made, however, to utilize a surplus in the 1924 annual Statehouse building appropriation of $95,000 to install the anti-smoke device. Meanwhile smoke continues to roll out of the Statehouse stack.

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j* appendicitis and expects to go home soon. Anson, in a plaster cast, does not expect to leave the hospital before June. But radio keeps him well-in-formed of happenings in the world beyond his narrow view from the window. “It takes my mind from my troubles,” he explained, laughing.

LA FOELETTE LEADS COOLIDGE TWO 10 ONE IN WISCONSIN Al Smith Delegates Have Comfortable Majority Over McAdoo. By L nitcil Priss MILWAUKEE, April 2 Robert M. La Follette, United States Senator from Wisconsin, was leading President Coolidge nearly two to one as scattered returns from Wisconsin’s delegate election straggled in early today over a mass of patched-up telephone and telegraph wires. With 407 precincts out of 2,574 reported, the vote was: La Follette, 40,194; Coolidge, 21.208. In the Democratic field the siate of delegates of Al Smith, Governor of New York, had a comfortable lead on William G. McAdoo in 302 out of the 2.574 precincts. The vote was: Smith, 6,198; McAdoo. 4,927. Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, v.-as re-elected over David S. Rose, non-partisan. ORGANIZATION FORCES WIN Roosevelt Takes Easy Victory in New York Over Woman. By l nited Press ALBANY, N. Y., April 2. —Organization forces were victorious in practically all sections of the State in Tuesday’s primary contests. Theodore Roosevelt. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who was designated as a delegate to the Repifblican spring convention from the First Assembly district, won an easy victory over Ruth Lett, an independent. The chief fight in the Democratic party occurred in Schenectady where insurgents put out a. ticket against that of Lieut. Gov. George R. Lunn. The Lunn delegates won by a vote of ten to one. physician rs Arraigned U. S..jfharges Dr. Harry FI. Spickerrnon With Violating Laws. Dr. Harry E. Spickermon, physician of Muncie, Ind., was arraigned today before John W. Kern, United States commissioner, on a charge of violation of the narcotic law. He waived examination and was bound over to the Federal grand jury. Bond of $5,000 was provided. Possession of narcotics and selling to addicts are the specific charges brought against him. According to L. T. Ulmer, Federal narcotic agent. Dr. Spickermon is alleged to be head of a dope ring at Muncie, with doperunners between larger cities. POWER LINE HEA RING Traction Company Resists Crossing of Its Right-of-Way. Public service commission today heard arguments upon the Indiana Electric Company’s petition for right to cross the Terre Ilaute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company’s right-of-way with a power line at four points between Terre Haute and Indianapolis. The line would connect a power plant on the Wabash River with the Merchants Heat & Light Company lines here. The traction company resists the petition. Recreation Coordination Sought Recreatn subcommittee of the Council of Social Agencies met today at the Linqoln to take definite steps for coordinating recreational programs of public and private social organisations.

HARLAN FISKE STONE, DEAN OF COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL, NAMED ATTORNEY GENERAL f College Chum Is Selected by Coolidge and Nomination Is Sent to Senate for Confirmation New Cabinet " 0 Member Known as Liberal. ./ SENATORS MEET APPOINTEE AT ‘BREAKFAST CONFERENCE’ 1 Accepts Law Department Post at Tremendous Sacrifice, as New Englander Is Member of Prominent New York Firm of Attorneys. - By United Press \N ASHINGTON, April 2. —Harlan Fiske Stone, New York, former dean of Columbia Law School, has been selected as attorney general of the United States by President Coolidge. Official announcement of the selection was made today and Stone s nomination was sent to the Senate for confirmation. He will take office as successor to Harry M. Daugherty as soon as the Senate confirms him. He was President Coolidge’s guest at breakfast at the White House today. Several Senators were there also, and though Mr. | Coolidge did not tell any of them Stone had been selected, they got the impression he was to be the new attorney general.

Stone was a classmate of President Coolidge at Amherst College and the two are old friends. Will Fit High Post Stone, declared by White House officials, is a man of the type and ability the President knows will fit the high post as head of the Department of Justice. Mr. Coolidge had Stone in mind when he made it known Tuesday he was seeking a SIOO,OOO-a-year man to accept a $12,000-a-year job with an automobile thrown in. The new Attorney General is accepting the post at a tremendous financial sacrifice. White House officials said. Stone is a member of a prominent law firm in New York and is on leave from the Columbia University School of Law. Stone's nomination :s expected to be approved by the Senate immediately. He will return to Washington after putting his personal affairs in New York in shape and take over the duties of the Department of Justice. He is known as a liberal in his views. He opposed the_ “red raids” conducted against radicals in this country by A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney general under the Wilson administration. Bom in New Hampshire Stone was born in New Hampshire, Oct. 11, 1872. He was admitted to the bar in 1898 and ever since then has been a noted lecturer on the law. In September. 1920, he became dean of the Columbia University school of ltftv. His firm is Canfield, Satterlee & Stone, and he is a director in a number of enterprises. Stone lives in Englewood, N. J. He married Agnes Harvey of Chesterfield, N. H.. in 1899. After Stone’s name had been presented to the Senate, most Democrats refused to comment on the appointment. “I don’t know him and never neard of him.” Democratic Robinson said. Stone’s nomination was to be referred to the Judiciary Committee late today in executive session. DOUBLE SUIT IS FILED State Savings & Trust Cos. and FYed W. Shideier Fin ter Complaints. Financial dealings between Fred W. Shideier and the State Savings & Trust Cos. reached Superior Court today when Shideier filed suit for $35,000 against the bank and the bank entered suit for $6,500 against Shidelr in a suit for foreclosure of mortgage. Shideier alleges he deposited stock in the Lindeman Wood Finish Company worth $35,000 as security for a note of $7,5000. The bank sold the stock, he says, for $3,509.79 thereby defrauding him. The bank asks foreclosure of a mortgage on real estate cwned by Shideier. alleging non-payment of a note the mortgage secures. That’s Tough Luck PHILADELPHIA, April 2.—After thirty-six years of climbing poles, R. F. Atkinson, a steeplejack here, fell downstairs while sleep walking and had to be removed to the hospital. Confess Auto Thefts By United Press SULLIVAN, Ind.. April 2.—Less than twenty-four hours after they were arrested for stealing an auto, three young men, Lawrence Perier, Donald Baker and George Robinson, from Detroit pleaded guilty and were sentenced to the State reformatory.

Forecast FAIR -weather is the forecast for this vicinity tonight and Thursday. Continued rising tern perature tonight and Thursday is prediction.

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CAME INCREASE PETITION TO MEET LITTLEOPPOSITION Two Civic Clubs Only Active Opponents to Fight at Thursday's Hearing, ♦ With no organized city-wide opposition to increased street car fares, the petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway for “at least a 7-cent cash fgre" will be heard by the public service commission Thursday at 10 a. m. in the Statehouse. John W. McCardle, chairman of the commission, will preside. The company asks for. the increased cash fare, one cent transfer, with four tickets for 25 cents, and sixteen for sl. With the exception of insisting on seventeen tickets for sl, the "city will offer no objection to the company's petition. Groninger Modifications Corporation Counsel Taylor E. Groninger's answer to the petition asked sonly that increased revenue from additional fare go into a special depreciation reserve fund, that the new rates be temporary, that double transfers be and that Broad Ripple shall have a city fare schedule. E. O. Snethen, president of the Federated Community Civic Clubs, announced today that the federation would have no representative before the commission. Snethen pointed out that divided opinion on the car fare boost made it impossible for the federation to take a definite stand.* Two Clubs Opposed The Enterprise Civic League and the Englewood Hustling Hundreds two clubs actively opposed to a fare increase planned today to have representatives before th& commission. Stephen Fullerr, an attorney and abstractor. led the opposition to a fare increase at the hearings before the city council for clubs opposed to higher fare. McCardle was uncertain today as to when the order of the commission would be announced. MUNCIE P. *M. IS NAMED Name of William H. Williams, Jr., Sent to Senate by Coolidge. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 2.—President Coolidge today sent to the Senate the following nomination for postmasters: William H. Williams, Jr., Muncie, Ind. RAILROAD HEAD~HO¥ORED Traffic Hub Will Observe “New York Central Lines” Night. More than 1,000 persons are expected to attend “New York Central Lines” night, to be observed by the Indianapolis Traffic Club tonight. A, H. Smith, president of the railroad, will be the guest of honor and principal speaker. F. A. Doebber is president of the club. Several high officials of the road will be guests. Other “railroad nights” will be>observed later.