Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1924 — Page 2

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INDIANA VICTORY IKES KU-KLUX NATIONAL ISSUE Klan Greatest Stumbling Block Ahead of Coolidge, Political Writers Say, By C. A. RAiN’DAU I'imes Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May It; —lnd ana's contest over the Governorsh p has become a national problem Washington political writers in •ome cases even go so far as to regard the ascendency of the KuKlux Klan in the Republican party hs the greatest stumbling block President Coolidge has yet encountered. Correspondent Quoted Charles Michelson, special correspondent of the New York World, says today: ‘ Indiana having gone Ku-Klux so far as the Republican nomination for Governor is concerned, produces anew complication for President Coolidge. Under ordinary conditions the Presidential nominee would not necessarily be affected by a local turnover, but the exodus of negroes from the South has given them an enormous vote in Indiana, as well as in Ohio and Illinois. "In the Hoosier State they now hold the balance of power and Republican leaders are terrifically alarmed at tbe domination of the Klan. Should the President campaign with Jackson. the fears of the negroes may cost him the State. In some circles It Is believed the Situation will compel! a declaration by the President on the Klan issue, something that he, like most politicians, has avoided up to this time. Chance for Democrats "Whether the Democrats adopt a national anti-Klan plank or not in Indiana, that party is forced by the logic of the situation to make domination of the invisible empire their principal Issue. If the President goes ahead without declaring his position, with the campaign in’Jackson’s hands he will be playing into the hands of the Democrats not only with regard to negro voters, but independent voters opposed to the Klan.”

METHODISTS ASK ANTI-WAR PLANK ■Conference to Petition Both Political Parties, Ftp I nitrd Press SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 12. The Methodist Episcopal Church will petition both major political parties to incorporate in their platforms a plank outlawing war. A resolution calling for the petition was presented today by the Pennsylvania delegation to the quadrennial general conference here and adopted. The conference also adopted a resolution requiring appointment of a commission to study the entire question of advisability of holding central conferences. The proposed' central conferences would to place in all lauds where there are several Methodist bodies for the purpose of Improving work of the church in the communities involved.

RULING MADE ' IN RUM CASES U S. Court Holds Search Warrants Necessary. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, May 12.—1n & decision of direct bearing on enforcement of the national prohibition, the United States Circuit Court here today held that Federal prohibition agents must have search warrants to enter premises to search and seize intoxicating liquors; declaring that Congress, in passing the Volstead I act, did not intend to do “away with all our traditions.” The ruling was announced in the opinion filed by Judge Victor B. Wooley, setting aside the conviction fm<i sentence of a year in the Federal prison at Atlanta of Victor Copper, Trenton, N. J., by District Judge Runyon, New Jersey, for removing eighty-two barrels of beer which had been seized by a prohibition agent without a warrant. The ruling is not in accord with views of Pennsylvania prohibition forces that under the State’s law they can search and seize without a warrant. FIRE RULES ARE LAW All Gasoline Containers Must Be Painted Red, Is Edict. Rules promulgated by the State marshal have the force of law and must be observed as the law. John D. Cramer, deputy State fire marshal and chief inspector of the fire marshal's department, declared today. He called attention to the fact all cans, tanks and containers used for the purpose of handling and carrying gasoline must be painted red* to distinguish them from containers of other fluids. The intent of this rule is to prevent the confusion of gasoline with kerosene. Nicholson Addresses Printers The Old Time Printers' Association, meeting for dinner Sunday at the Severin, heard talks by Meredith Nicholson, author; Fred A. Sims, former chairman of the State tax board; 3Lot Lee of The Indianapolis News. Iff signor Francis H. G&vlsfa

Denby Revisits Washington

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WHEN LAST EDWIN B. DENBY WAS PHOTOGRAPHED IN WASHINGTON IT WAS IN THE ROLE OF SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, RESIGNING IN THE MIDST OF OIL LEASE CHARGES. HERE HE APPEARS AS MAJ. EDWIN B. DENBY, U. S. MARINES, VISITING THE CAPITOL TO INSPECT THE NEW MARINE TANK. DESIGED AND INVENTED BY WALTER CHRISTIE.

MAJ. WIN ORDERED BACK (Continued From Page l) Arctic storms which came raging down out of Bering Sea and which were the cause of their disaster. Rest Three DayThe aviators stayed at the trapper's cabin at the head of Port Moller Bay three days resting, and then started walking the beach while they waited for expected aid to arrive. The airmen reached Port Moller at 6 p. m., Saturday, with a thrilling story of hardships in the Arctic wild. Word that they were safe was sent out immediately. Employes of the cannery had aided in the search for Martin and Harvey, but like many others they abandoned hope of the filers being found alive. When the two walked into the fishing camp, natives and Americans were astonished. Groups gathered around them and it was half an hour before it was possible to give them the food and rest their condition demanded. Martin told the handful of English speaking residents the story of how. shortly after noon on April 80 his plane had crashed into a mountain side how he and Harvey had picked themselves from the wreckage salvaged their emergency rations and a few useful instruments and decided to walk across the snow to Port Moller —the nearest settlement. Their course in the tramp was set by means of charts of the country carried in their Right and small compass salvaged from the wreck of the plane. General Patrick and other officers of the department will confer today on the instructions to be sent to Martin. They are awaiting also a more detailed report of the accident which caused Martin's plane, the

MAJOR MARTIN flagship of the fleet of four, to crash into a mountainside not far from Chignik. Interested in Food Army officers here were interested in reports that “concentrated food" proved the salvation of the two airmen in their battle with the stor.n and other difficulties of the northern waste. Officers said they did not know exactly what this food was, as Major Martin was provided with funds to supply his fleet with |pod and purchased it himself. As soon as word was received here from Unalaska, President Coolidge was notified and expressed great relief over the finding of the fliers. The President and Mrs. Coolidge had manifested deep concern, but neither would abandon hope the airmen would be found. CUTTER ORDERED TO RESCUE Will Bring Back Aviators to Dutch Harbor at Once. Bit United Press CORDOVA, Alaska, May 12.-r-Preparations to bring Maj. Frederick L. Martin and Sergt. A!ve Harvey, American round-the-world fliers, to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska. were under way today. The coast guard cutter Algonquin was ordered from Dutch Harbor to Port Moller to bring the aviators — who miraculously escaped death—to Dutch Harbor. Reports from Port Moller tell of stirring scenes when Martin and Harvey, tired from a week of tramping over the frozen Arctic wastes, unshaven and unkempt, walked into the little* village. MOTHER OBSERVES BIRTHDAY “Happiest Day of My Ijfe," She Says as Son Is Heard From. By i' tlte t Press CONNERSVILLE, Ind., May 12. Mrs. Nancy Martin today celebrated her sixty-third birthday anniversary

Hope to Represent U. S. in Olympics

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LEFT TO RIGHT—FIRST CLASS SEAMAN DONALD E. DUCK WORTH. PRIVATE RUSSELL APPLER, FIRST CLASS SEAMAN F H PRENTICE, AND PHARMACIST'S MATE (FIRST-CLASSI RICH ARD W. HARRIS.

Uncle Sam is expecting to send these seamen to represent the naval department in the Olympic games to be held in July and August at Paris, France. The three gobs and one marine who are ex pert divers expect to bring all plain and fa ncy diving laurels back to the United States. Private Russell Appier of the Marines was brought from Honolulu to compete

in rejoicing over news that her son, Maj. Frederick Martin, commander of the American round-the-world flight, was safe at Port Moller on the Alaskan peninsula. “This in the happiest day of my life,” she said when word of her son’s safety ended the strain of the twelve, days' vigil. Though confident at first that her Son was safe, she had practically given up hope of ever seeing him again as the days passed without word. French Society to Elect Officers will be elected by I*e Cercle Francals Tuesday night at the D. A. R. chapter house, 824 N Pennsylvania St.; Alexander G. Gavins, president, has announced. Miss Genevieve Scoville will read a paper on "Impressions of Europe.”

Official Returns Show 91,202 Vofes Cast for Governor Candidates in Primary Last Tuesday

Official totals of the vote cast in last Tuesday’s primary in Marion county, obtained from canvassing hoard records today, showed a total of 91,202 votes east for Governor.

Os these 68,929 were sos Republican candidates and only 22,273 for Democratic. Eight thousand lees votes were cast for Republicans for Presidential nomination than for the Governorship, the presidential total being 60,668. The canvassing board completed Its work late Sunday. Delay In returns from a few precincts until Friday slowed up the official audit. The official returns: REPUBLICAN FOR PRESIDENT Calvin Coolidge 56.660 Hiram W Johnson 4.989 FOR GOVERNOR Edgar D. Bush 1.453 Ora A. Davis 408 Elia* W. Dulberger 200 Ed Jackson 38,668 Samuel Lewis Shank 20.306 Edward C. Toner 7,894 FOR CONGRESS Morris Greenleaf ..... 755 French Hollinshead 451 Merrill Moores 25.796 Wallace A. Roberteon - 1.774 Ralph E. Updike 27.808 FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY James E. McDonald 25,452 William H. Remy 30.069 Frank C. Riley 2.106 FOR STATE SENATORS Fred M. Dickerman 24,602 I.uke M. Duffey 8.982 Jacob H. Hahn 2.59.7 Russell B. Harrison 27.480 Carl Humble 3.091 Tyrah Ernest Maholm 4,544 Louts Mnrkum 7,269 Winfield Miller 12.550 Robert L. Moorhead 20.973 Sylvester A. Morgan 2,196 •Tames R. Norrell 11.939 William T. Qui’lin 25.533 Solon B. Selleck 2,949 Harvey G. Shater 18.609 Robert, S. Turner 3.160 Clarence C. Wysong 7,980 FOR JOINT STATE SENATOR MARION AND JOHNSON COUNTIES. William E. English 35,793 FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVES John L. Akard * 1.527 Hubert Oscar Alstatt 1,107 R. L. Ashiuger 1,711 Charles E. Beblnger 23,679 Frank Boms 21.455 William Boseon Jr.. 9,112 William Breldenbach 2,165 Joseph C. Buchanan ........... 25.109 Leßoy C. Bush 3,764 Jackson Carter , 6,183 Samuel H. Cooper ............. 3,376 Obedlah Craig 2.425 Frank D. Davy 2,824 H. Walker DeHaven 2,178 Thomas M. Dexter .. .. 11092 Arthur N. Dinsmore .. . 4.125 Robe-t J. Douglas 5.707 Ruesoii V. Duncan 24.196 J W. Ebaugh . 21.059 Georgs W Elliott 23,433 Howell Ellis 0.517 Clifford W. Ferguson •• • 3,719 John P. Fitzgerald 2.434 Ella V. Gardner 6.094 William D. Hamerstadt 6.287 Heater M. Hart 8.220 Horae© F Harvey ............. 7,668 William Y. Hinkle 22.020 Ad<vm S. Larison 1.461

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WHO WOULDN’T SULK? Count Who Lost $400,00,000 Bride Peevish VVth Reporters. By Initrd Press VIENNA, May 12.—Count Ludwig Salm. husband of Millicent Rogers, sulked here today and refused to tajk about his separation from his heiress bride. "I’ve been talking to reporters ever since we arrived in Europe,” the count shouted angrily as he alighted from the Orient express and was met by no one save a delegation of newspaper men who wanted to hear what ho had to say about the action of Col. 11. H. Rogers in taking Millicent home on the liner France Saturday. LONDON. May 12.—Count Ludwig Salm. 1 his brother. Count Otto; Paul Brick and Otto Relly will compose Alstria's Davis cup team which plays Switzerland at Vienna May 17, 18 and 19, it was announced today. HEALTH MEN TO MEET State Officers' Conference Will Be Held May 27-28. The annual State health officers conference will be held here May 2728 with about 300 county, city and township officers in attendance. Governor Branch will make the opening address. Visits will be made to the new Indianapolis sewage and garbage lisposal plant. An illustrated lecture on food poisoning and botulism will feature one evening session.

Broad Ripple swimming pool in the national try-ouls. Appier is considered one of the greatest high and fancy divers in the naval service. He h.as never been defeated in any service diving evejt. Duckworth, Prentice and Harris, all of the Navy, have won individual honors which have qualified them for the All-American team. They will also fake part in the events here in June.

FLOOD IN PENNSYLVANIA Cloudburst Fills Shenandoah River to Overflowing; Farms Ruined. Ftp United Pro* HARRISONBURG. Va., May 12. The greatest flood since 1870 —the ! year of tho big deluge—is plunging j down the Shenandoah valley river to i the gateway at Harper's Ferry today. A thirty-hour rain storm, which at times assumed proportions of a cloudburst, in the upper valley regions. around Staunton. Harrisonburg. Kamshurg, has sent n deluge of water into the two branches of the Shenandoah. Farms have been converted into a mighty lake. River bottom lands up and down the vali ley have been washed clean of tln-ir i crops.

Ulj-sees G. Lecdy 7.093 Jessie Levy 6.366 Asa R Mathis 5.632 John McGregor 6,146 Charles Mendenhall . . 23.400 Paul O Meredith 6.703 Charles R. Meeeoiore 1,488 Clyde P. Miller 4,190 Paul E Miller 4,114 Rowland W Nichols 6,984 William E. Peats 1.976 Lawrence A Shaw 5.9c3 Claremont R. Smith 19.437 Judson H. Stark 4.691 James H. Storm - Old Austin H. Todd 3.904 Homer L. Traub •• • • 8,183 William F. Werner ■ 19,._89 Thomas C. Whalon 5,.2.i Charles A Wilson 4.1-19 FOR JOINT REPRESENTATIVE MARION AND JOHNSON COUNTIES. Frank E. Cline 12.467 Charles M. Clark 26.499 FOR TREASURER John L. Duvall 23.060 Edward A. Ramsey 2;>,494 FOR SHERIFF Charles W. Freeman 1.153 Omer Hawkins - 21.203 Claude F. Johnson 12.134 Joseph J. Klaiber 3,495 Madison W. Monnett 304 Frank E Sine 875 John F Walker 7.217 Seth E. Ward 2 230 Andson B. Wiltsie 2.595 George L. Winkler 4.533 FOR CORONER Edgar V. Arn 5.114 William D. Beanbloesotn 5,311 Harry A. Boyde 998 George E. C. Kinkaid 1,203 Samuel McGaughey 5,124 Paul F. Robinson 32.411 FOR SURVEYOR Paui R. Brown 17.492 Wayne L. Horton 1,100 Frf.nk P. Joyce 7.103 De Witt V. Moore 2.038 George .0. Schmidt 23.368 FOR COMMISSIONER FIRST DISTRICT Cassius L Hogle 22.390 Daniel T R‘ser 5.591 John E„ Shearer 15.833 FOR COMMISSIONER THIRD DISTRICT Albert Hoffman 10.845 Charles O. Sutton 27,344 DEMOCRATIC FOR GOVERNOR Charles S. Batt 152 Joseph M. Cravens. 1,577 Dale J. Crittenbergea-. . . . .. 409 George R. Drgan 7.319 Olln R. Holt 245 Carleton B. McCulloch 12.339 Frank A. Priest 96 James K. Risk . .. ! 136 FOR CONGRESS Charles B. Clarke 0.954 Julia A Landers 2.795 Raymond F. Murray 2,394 Jesse Saxidford 740 Albert Stanley .. ’ 633 Joseph P. Turk 7.75 H FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Richard M. Coleman 8.164 James E. Deery •••■• 11.659 Patrick J. McCormick 746 rFOR STATE SENATOR WilUaA A. Arnold. 2,419 Harry W. Bassett 8,514 Earl.ft. Oar ,

GOIWERS 0. K.S POPPY CAMPAIGN OF WAR VETERANS Memorial Day Custom Is Tribute to Soldier Dead, Says Labor Leader, By 'limes Special KANSAS CITY,. Mo.. May 12. Labor's indorsement of the annual poppy campaign conducted on Memoral day by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has been given by the "Grand Old Man” of labor, Samuel Gompers. following an invitation from the organization that he visit the V. F. W. factory at Pittsburgh, Pa., where disabled veterans of the World W ar are employed in turning out the symbolic blossoms. In a letter to Gen. Lloyd M. Brett commander-in-chief of the V. F. W., the labor leader pressed sincere hope for the success of the campaign and added: “No more beautiful custom could become associated with Memorial 0.,y than to make the wearing of a poppy part of the ceremonial tribute to oui soldier dead. We can express our deepest emotions .*nly in symbols. The choice of the poppy as the emblem of our tribute to those who made the supreme sacrifice in foreign raids not only affords a most fitting symbol, but serves a constru* tlve purpose in affording employment of our soldiers still in hospitals and facing a handicapped existence.”

CATHOLIC KNIGHTS IN DISTRICT MEET Favor Participation in Patriotic and Civic Moves, The Indiana District Assembly 'of fourth degree Knights of Co- | lumbus today was on record as favoring participation of its members in all patriotic and civic movements. Other resolutions, adopted Sunday at a meeting in the Knights of Columbus auditorium, gave encourage- ! ment and support to boys' work to | be started under direction of the su- 1 preme council, Knights of Colum-i bus, support to ttie Catholic press and indorsement of work of the K. j of C. historical commission. William L. Fox of Indianapolis. a| supreme director of the order, talked j on the organizing of boys’ work. J.! Olias Vanier, Indianapolis, master of the fourth degree for Indiana, had charge. Scouts to Present Pageant Scout Troop No. 57 of the W. Washington St. Presbyterian Church will present "History of the Stars and Stripes,” a pageant, Tuesday night at a mid-way scoutmasters' meeting a’ the Indiana School for the Blind. Scout demonstrations will be given.

Arch D Hinoh 1.056 Albert A Henry 3.018 Edward W H01t.....' 4,191 Willett A. Judaon 973 John W Lost) 2.213 Michael M Mahoney 10.379 Meredith Nicholson ‘, . . 13,800 Benjamin C. Reed 3,062 Lawrence J. Sexton 9,290 Wuilleld C Snyder 1.790 Arthur Wolf 2,728 FOR JOINT STATE SENATOR i Marion and Johnson Counties) George W Curtis 10.252 Ellwand W Little 4.130 Frank J. MeCouaughy 3,540 FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE Howe Abbott 2,749 John C. Bankett 0].317 Max A Blackburn 2,787 Peter A Boland 7.584 I*o T. Brqwn 2 432 George N. Burkhardt 3,716 H. E. Calland 7*779 B. Howard Caughran ' 2]040 Charles Murray Clayton 2]087 Stephen A Clinehens 3,470 L. William Curry 2.722 Catherine De Miller 2 905 Edward Donaldson 2,342 John W. Friday I'naa John A. Hayes .!] laoi George A. Henry 3]231 Mcrica Hoagland 0'564 William B. Johnson 2^923 Eugene F. Lents l 904 John F Linder oi7 Michael W. McCarthy 0 151 Edward K. McKinney ] 7 287 Vincent H. Mercurio 7'986 William H. Montgomery..,.. 2 134 Edgar A. Perkins 5r....] ]* 9.500 lacob F. Poe ° 093 Hubert S Riley .']]]']]] p’yjjg Louis C. Schwartz.. o'oqq Alma L. Sickler .... 3414 Leo X. Smith .]!!!] 9 991 Marion Schwartz ! " *> sin Lafo D. Weathers 3 325 John E. Webb 7 2 George W. West II".!! 1853 Joseph R. Williams 5 ‘>qo Floyd E. Williamson fiSio Henry H. Winkler a'ai o Car! E. Wood 7 677 FOR JOINT STATE REPRESENTATIVE (Marion and Johnson Counties) William W. Spencer 7 473 FOR TREASURER William E. Clauer a William Gale. o'i-i William H. Geokler ‘ ' 1 350 J'rank F. Woolling 4 454 FOR SHERIFF * Gabriel H. Cook 510 John E. Healey .' " par Wallace G. Miller eke John B. Poole . ' 40S Otto T. Ray 8,747 Edward A. Schneider 1 10.9 William P. Sidlinger ' 3237 'Theodore Walker “ 1 025 Albert F. Walsman " * 3.296 FOR CORONER Vernon D. Brigham 2 890 G. John Herrmann .. I’3P4 Garrett F. Kirby 7 087 Livingston M. Marker ....... I] 1026 John Fuark Potts 828 Charles A. Reed "' 3 704 Patrick E. Walsh x!o78 FOR SURVEYOR George M. Cheney 5.545 E. Edward Fillion 1.702 Rush F. Pickens 6.3P0 Bruce Short ‘ . 3,136 FOR COMMISSIONER (First District) William H. Flanders 1 p2t John Kitley 1L661 Enoch Walter McCord 3,109 John Schildmler .' 1,172 FOR COMMISSIONER (Third District) John H. Danner 3,228 Alva W. Gulley 1,722 George D. Hardin —. 12.666

‘Ham’Drops in on Washington

JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS OF ILLINOIS. THOUGH ONLY AN EXSENATOR NOW, IS A FREQUENT VISITOR IN WASHINGTON. HERE HE IS (RIGHT) CHATTING WITH HIS OLD FELLOW-LAW MAKER. SENATOR OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD OF ALABAMA, EXSENATOR "JIM HAM” IS CREDITED WITH THE FINEST SET OF "PINK WHISKERS" IN DEMOCRATIC POLITICS.

Party Heads

SULLIVAN RYAN k*h HEjjKf jggSw HAAS COFFIN New party leaders in Marlon County, chosen in conventions Saturday are: Reginald Sullivan, Seventh District Democratic chairman; Russell J. Ryan. Democratic county chairman; Schuyler Haas, Republican Seventh District chairman and George V. Coffin. Republican county chairman.

17Q EXAMINED BY HEALTHLKPERTS Woman Walks Five Miles to Child Conference, One hundred and seventy children were examined at child health conferences in Indianapolis last week under direction of Dr. Ada Sweitzer of the State Board of Health. Con sere flees at which children will be examined and mothers instructed in child care are scheduled in a different part of the city each day for the next two weeks. "One little girl was found who was in ill health because of enlarged neck glands and poor nutrition,” said Dr. Sweitzer. "We found her father was tubercular and that the mother had been afraid to consult a doctor for fear she would be told the child was tubercular. “Friday from forty to fifty farmers' wives and children attended conferences in Fairfield and Huntsville. One woman had walked five miles with her baby in her arms.” VOTE RECOUNT ASKED Muncie Republicans Charge Fraud in Primary Returns. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. May 12.—Suits asking recount of Republican ballots in Delaware County in last Tuesday’s primary, have been filed by two of the defeated candidates for county commissioner. The suits charge legal ballots were thrown out as mutilated and in several precincts ballots were counted which did not bear initials of the polling clerks. Cincinnati Drive Studied Miss Florence M. Seder, publicity secretary of the Indianapolis Community Fund, is in Cincinnati, Ohio, today to observe how they are conducing their fund drive. The drive which began May 5 has already netted $1,200,000 of their goal of $1,800,000. Hamilton County Re-Elects By United Prrss NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 12. L. G. Heiny has been re-elected chairman of the Republican committee in Hamilton County. He had no opposition. A. H. Baker was chosen Democratic chairman over John Achenbach by a vote bf 28 to 4

VOTE OF FRENCH IS CONSTRUED AS ONE FDR PEACE i Elections Declared Democracy’s Greatest Victory Since Armistice, By J W. T. MASON Written for the United Press France has voted for peace with Germany. Yesterday's elections mark the most important victory for Democracy since the ending of the war. The French people want a settlement of the reparations prob- | lem that will not lead to another world conflict. The industrial and military imperialism of President Millerand’s has gone down to complete defeat and brings to an end the effort of Mlllerand to establish a quasi distatorshlp in the presidential palace. Millerand’s resignation now will be the outcome. Premier Poincare intuitively knew the storm was coming, so he reorganized his ministry in March by taking in cabinet members of the opposition which has now made such significant gains. Despite his knowledge. Poincare is liable to go out of office because he waited so long before changing Millerand's game of simultaneously crushing Germany and making her pay. The so-called Radcal-Socalst party, whch is leading in the elections, will have to devise anew policy in dealing with Germany if it is to succeed the Poincare bloc. A number of radicals supported Poincare in the Ruhr, but the Ruhr adventure is now over and must be superseded by a policy that will not cost French people extra taxation levies. Germany’s ability to pay the reparations bill can no longer serve as the permanent issue in Europe. The chief point for the new French government mtlst be how much money France can make Germany pay. The policies of Mlllerand has demonstrated that France cannot make Germany pay the whole indemnity. Mlllerand hits been insisting that Poincare throw good money after bad in his hopeless quest and the French voters have called a halt in this uneconomic procedure. The Dawes report has failed to save Millerand's influence because there is nothing in the report to make it work, except Germany's word which has no intmational value. No German government can pledge the German people in advance. Poincare couldn't make the- Millerand plan work and the Dawes plan is simply the Millerand plan in detail. The French people have now proved to themselves what they cannot do. The way has been opened for the Anal phase of the peace settlement. The new French government has been given a free hand by yesterday's elections to prove what France can do. ,

SPEAKERS ARE NAMED Unitarian Anniversary Week to Be Observed in Boston May 18-23. Members of the Unitarian. Church here have received announcement of the following speakers on the program for Unitarian anniversary week in Boston, May 18-23: Dr. Charles IV. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University; John W. Weeks, Secretary of War; John H. Finley of the New York Times; Rev. Preston Bradley of the People's Church, Chicago; T. Rhondda Williams, noted English author and preacher; Dr. Richard C. Cabot, professor of medicine and professor of social ethics at Harvard; Dr. William Laurence Sullivan, mission preacher of the Unitarian Laymen’s League. Standard Oil Low Contract will be awarded Wednesday by the State highway commission for the year's supply of gasoline and oil. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana was low among eight bidders. It is estimated the oil and gasoline needed will cost $200,090.

MOiSUAY, MAY 12, 1924

COUNTY IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR FAULTYBUILDING Contractor Says Specifications Were Followed at Poor Farm, Criticism of the new men’s building at the Marion County Poor Farm was directed at county commissioners by Windsor J. Weaver, of George A. Weaver & Son, who built it. In a report to Circuit Court and the commissioners, the county board of charities said the building looks more like a cow barn than a place for human habitation,” and called attention to the fact that the aged inmates would be required to live on cold cement floors, surrounded by bare brick walls, and that no screens or shades were included in the specifications. “The reason that there are no screens, wooden floors or w'alks and that the walls were not plastered or painted is the commissioners did not order them,” said Weaver. “We, as contractors, had nothing to do with the plans. We merely put up the building according to specifications. Repairs Under Way “Os course, there were minor defects in the-construction, as pointed out by the commissioners and The Times, but we have agreed to makel all that good, and have six to eight men at work now doing so. Anybody can find flaws in the work another aoes.” The flaws referred to are several cracks in the new cement floors and walls, failure of outside doors to meet properly, and a place where a brick was pulled out of the new wail where the mortar had crumbled. Weaver said: "Mr. Hoffman (Albert Hoffman), one of the commissioners who let the contract, after the charities board had complained about the windows having iron strips instead of wood for frames and the fact that the type of windows prevented screening, asked me why I hadn’t tpld him wooden windows were best. I replied that the contractor had nothing to do with the planning, and probably would have been told to mind his own business if suggestions had been offered.

“Just Fanners” “Hoffman and the other commissioners said they had to leave the building in its bare condition because the county council had limited them to $130,000.” Hoffman said it would have taken “a Philadelphia lawyer” to figure out the plans and a specifications of I the building after drawn up, and the board “was just farmers and never had had much experience in technical matters.” Commissioners have said they will ask the county council, which meets in special session late this month, to appropriate more money for i screens, to paint the wall and to cover the floor with linoleum. The building has not been acepted yet. although the contractor has been paid approximately $78,000. CHURCH UNION IN CANADA IS URGED Resolution Offered at A, M. E, Zion Convention. Resolution for union of the British M. E. Church, the A. M. E. Zion Church and the A. M. E. Church in Canada was offered at convention of the A. M. E. Zion Church in session in Tomlinson Hall this morning. Other resolutions offered provided for reviving of the periodical, “Western Star of Zion,” better support of aged ministers, and equal lay representation in the general conference. They will be acted on later. Professor Taylor principal of kinson College and Professor R. J. Bolware. principal of Clinton Institute, reported progress of their institutions. Dr. J. W. Brown, New York City, Dr. R. J. Buckner, Knoxville. Tenn., and Rev. R L. Houston of North Carolina, delivered sermons at Sunday services. SPICELAND MAN DIES Arthur \V. Osborn, History and Nature Student, Succumbs. Liu Times Special SPICELAND, Ind., May 12 Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Arthur W. Osborn, 65, who died at his home here. The deceased was the great grandson of Charles W. Osborn, who published the first anti-slavery periodical In America. He was a member of the Henry County Historical Society and the Indiana Nature Society. He had made a collection of historical papers during his life and had been active in nature study originating several new' species of peonies.

POSTOFFICE IS ROBBED Yeggs Bum Way Through Two Doors, Get 830,000 in Stamps. By United Press ALTON, 111., May 12.—Thirty thousand dollars in one and twocent stamps and $lB In cash was obi tained today by yeggs w r ho broke into the postoffice, burned two doors with an acetylene torch and blew open the safe. The blast was heard, but no alarm raised. The robbery was discovered' when the postoffice was opened. $125 Theft Investigated Police today are investigating theft of $125 from the Freeman Furniture Company, 1266 Oliver Ave., over the week-end. Combination of the safe was “worked,” they say.