Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1924 — Page 2

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APPEAL IS MADE FOR MOTOR RACE LAP PRIZE CASH A, L. Block Issues Statement Asking Public to Contribute, A. L. Block, president of L. Strauss & Cos., today issued a statement calling upon all business people and individuals to assist in the movement to raise £IO,OO in lap prize awards for the Speedway races. He said: ' A "Indianapolis people cannot do too much toward helping the daring drivers whose feats have made the city internationally known and whose great skill and experimentation have done so much to lift the standard of the automobile. Thousands of Persons "The Indianapolis Motor Speedway annually brings thousands upon thrrusands of visitors to our city who otherwise most probably would not /Visit Indianapolis and has served to bring the city before the nations of the world ill a most favorable manner. "From a selfish standpoint the annual Speedway races bring thousands of dollars into Indianapolis, hut I have never attempted to reduce this problem to figures, for I have preferred to consider the very favorable publicity which the classic affords the c:t£ rather than its mercenary aspects. Contributions Asked "A committee from the Chamber of Commerce headed by Austin J. Edwards. is soliciting contributions to the lap fund, and I hold it most desirable for every one who possibly can to contribute to this fund which helps in a small way to compensate the drivers for their tremendous hazard as well as their contribution to the automotive world. “My greatest hope is that each lap will have its award, that the drivers may not think us ungrateful for their efforts.”

MINORITY REPORT ASSAILSWHEELER Senator Sterling Says Indictment Was Justified. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. May 19.—Indictment of Senator Wheeler of Montana by a Montana grand jury was “justified by the evidence,” Senator Sterling. Republican, South Dakotafi declared in a minority report today flaying the Borah eommittee, which investigated it. for “encroaching on the functions of the courts.” Wheeler was “wholly exonerated" by the committee in a report last Wednesday. Sterling said he was impelled by a sense of duty under the facts to dissent from the majority and declared he would be derelict in his duties if he did not express a contrary view. CITIZEN COMPLAINS ABOUT POLICEMAN Say's Officer Promised ‘Write-up’ in Paper. Complaint by ~ Louis Heid, 1946 Ludlow St., that Patrolman Mon; ninger forced him to give up a baseball that came into the yard of his mother. Mrs. Josephine Heid, 67, resulted today in Prosecutor William Remy turning the report over to Chief of Police Rikhoff. Young men playing ball in the street with a baseball belonging to small boys persisted in jumping the fence to retrieve fouls, Remy was told, much to the annoyance of Mrs. Heid. On one occasion when she kept the ball, the irate mother of the ball’s sfTiall owner, armed with a hall bat and brick, forced its return, it was said. The policeman threatened the Heid family with arrest and a “good write-up of the arrest in the paper,” Heid told the prosecutor. WOMAN SENT TO JAIL Allegpd Shoplifter Goes to Cell Pending Sentence. Despite lamentations and many tears, Special Criminal Court Judge Frank A. iiymmes ordered Mrs. Florence Simmons. 1417 St. Peter St., locked in the county jail today until 11 o’clock Tuesday morning while he meditates her sentence. She was tried on charges of shoplining. Three silk waists were stolen the Indiana Dry Goods store by the prisoner, it is alleged. “Oh. sir, just give me a chance,” sobbed the defendant. “I swear I won’t do it again. May the Lord forgive me!” “No, you’ll have to go with the (sheriff,” replied Judge Symmes. "All the crying in the world won’t help you. You know you served six months once before for shoplifting.” FORBES CASE CONTINUED Move to Quash Graft Indictments Delayed for Month. Bu L nited Press CHICAGO, May 19.—Due to a congested calendar. Federal Judge Carpenter today continued to June 23 arguments to quash the indictments charging Charles R. Forbes, former head of the Veteran Bureau, and J. W. Thompson, St. Louis, head dt a contracting company, in connection with an alleged graft in Veterans' Bureau affairs.

De Pauw Girl Student Stars Don't Even Wear Specs

LEFT TO RICHT, CORNELIA ALLEN. ELAINE CARSON, SARAH ST. JOHNSON. KATHERINE THOMPSON, DOROTHY RIST AND LUCILLE RHOADS.

By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 19. —Not very long ago all college students elected to Phi Beta Kappa were looked upon as “grinds.” They were pictured as dressed characters with hair slicked back and with the ever

Troubled MRS. EVELYN ROSE WRIGHT I. N. Rose, father of Mrs. Evelyn Rose Wright, 18, 516 N. Senate Ave., came all the way from Lexington. Ky., to tell police her name should be Evelyn Rose. Evelyn and Frank Wright, held by police, vow they were married at Jeffersonville, Ind.. six months ago. Rose says he could find no record of it and that Wright has a wife in Lexington. Mrs. Wright says she doesn't believe it.

JEALOOS, HURLS ACID; MAN DIES Woman Held on Murder Charge in Widower's Death, By United Press COLUMBUS. Chio. May 19.—Mrs. Grace Dolby. 35. was arrested in a rooming house here today and held on charge of murder in the death of George B. Hackney, a widower and father of four children Jealous of his attentions to other women. Mrs. Dolby, who has a husband and four sons, threw acid in Hackney’s face in a motion picture theater last night, causing burns and shock from which he died on the way to a hospital. “I just read that he was dead and was going to turn on the gas," Mrs. Dalby told police as they broke into her room. Mrs. Dalby confessed she had been “keeping company” with Hackney for three years and spent some time with him in Louis last summer. Her husband, hearing of this, filed suit for divorce, but later withdrew it when she returned.

From Far and Near Seven were killed in a head-on-collission on the Seaboard Airline Railway near Raleigh, N. C. Special prayer services were held in practically all Chicago churches Sunday, for the recovery of Billy Sunday, evangelist, who is ill. In addition to a pouring down rain, hundreds of Cleveland women who marched in a peace parade were jeeredlby crowds along the streets. Escaping gas resulted in an explosion which wrecked a downtown building at Monessen, Pa., with in-, jury to three persons and damage estimated at $250,000. Justice James TL Cartwright, dean of the Illinois Supreme Court and one of the best known jurists in the country, is dead. Discovery that Charles W. C. Dearing, wealthy Chicagoan, died from veronal poisoning has resulted in a rigid investigation of his death. It has been originally announced that he had succumbed to injuries in an aviation accident. Speaking in a Brooklyn church, United States Attorney William Hayward assailed Governor A1 Smith and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler as foes of law. Rlaj. Gen. Sir Charles F. Townsend, famous as the defender of Kut-El-Amara and commander of British forces in Mesopotamia, is dead. Night airplane service between London and Paris, with ijerths for passengers, is being planned by the New Imperial Airways. Limited. Damage Suit Heard Suit for $200,000 damages sought by Irene R. Whitcomb, administratrix of the estate of Samuel A. Whitcomb, against the Wabash* Railway Company was heard by* Federal Judge A. B. Anderson today. Whitcomb was killed in a collision on the railroad at Attica, Ind., Nov. 12, ‘ 1923.

present spectacles. Needless to say they were not popular. Compare with the condition today. Among the students elected to the scholastic honor this year at De Pauw University are the young women pictured above. They are all very active on the

COUNCILHIO ACI ON POLICE FORCE SURVEY | Safety Committee to Make Recommendations After Studying Report, Definite recommendations on police force conditions Vere to be formulated by the safety committee of city council this afternoon, according to John E. King, chap-man. The meeting was arranged ts be held in the office of Walter W Wise, council president, 206 Indians, Trust Bldg, ! The committee is studying the poi lice report of Leonard V. Harrison, j Chamber of Commerce eg.pert. Harrison’s outstanding proposals are elimination of the double patrol I system and the "top heavy” officer list. Councilmen have figured that ly proper ratio of officers and single patrolmen on beats, 103 more ruen would be available for patrol j duty. Chief Rikhoff had asked for 100 more policemen, causing the council to probe conditions. Any suggestion the council may make, will be considered Tuesday by the board of safety, Ernest L. Kingston, president, said. Pay Ordinance Up An ordinance abolishing the rank of fire lieutenant and giving lieutenants pay of a captain is scheduled for final action by council tonight. It was introduced two weeks ; ago. The contract of the city with the Merchants Heat and light Company for a ten-year street lighting franchise alsd is ready for final action. Police <Jhiet Rikhoff. who returned Sunday from Louisville, Ky., quoted figures today to prove, that Indianapolis has a smaller percentage of officers than Louisville. With a total police force of 364, Louisville has nine captains, he said. Indianapolis, with a force of 534, has eight captains. Four Bertillon (Jerks The La uisville Bertillon department has four clerks, in addition to a Bertillon expert._ while Indianapolis has only one man in that department Louisville also has a more complete equipment, he said. Lieut. Albert A. Perrott is to be congratulated on the caliber of the Bertillon department here, in spite of his handicaps, the chief said.

lE. CONFERENCE AVOIDS WAR VOTE I Special Committee Named to-Deal With ‘Peace,’ s Bu I nited Press SPRINGFIELD. Mass., May 19. The “anti war” resolution of the committee on state of church of the Methodist Episcopal general conference has been cast aside and a special committee authorized to deal with the question, it was announced this afternoon. The resolution adopted by the State church was to have been presented to the general conference today. Election of Bishops for vacant Episcopal scats at Buffalo, Omaha, Chattanooga and Singapore was on the day's order of business. Train Kills Woman By Vnited Press BEDFORD, Ind., May 19.—Mrs. Addie Dumont, 60, is dead today after being hit by a fast freight train Sunday night. Her skull was fractured.

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Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave. WASHINGTON, May 19. Trimly dressed and rather young looking, despite the fact that she has two sons who are almost grown, she paused before a millinery shop down on F St. the other day and surveyed the display in the windows with a captivated eye. A smart creation in dark red with dull ribbon interested her deeply; In fact, the longer she looked at it the better she liked it, so she entered the store. Somewhere, the saleslady mused, she had seen her natron's sac maybe a picture of it —before. The wealth of dark hair, the deep brown eyes and the comely features all seemed faintly familiar, in fact strangely—birt one can’t possibly remember all the faces one has seen before.

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campus and are among the college’s most popular women. The girls pictured are Sarah St. John, Salem; Cornelia Allen, Greencastle; Lucille Rhoads, Auburn; Katherine Thompson, Noblesville; Dorothy Rist, Hammond, and” Elaine Carson, Spartansburg, S. C.

Contender ; Lli i l oB $ P V -a.' EVEF.ETT GIBSON A strong contender for marble champion of Indianapolis at the city tournament to be conducted soon by The Indianapolis Times is Everett Gibson, 1918 Wilcox St., winner of the Haughville sectional tournament Monday at School No. 52.

-RAILROAD AGENTS TRY TO MISLEAD CONGRESS, CHARGE _ . _ _ / Telegrams and Letters Sent to Defeat Barkley Bill, Says Nelson, By l nitrd Press WASHINGTON. May 19. Secretary agents of the railroads using secret code telegrams have attempted to coerce and mislead members of Congress in order to defeat the Bark lev bill abolishing the raii- . Npison, Wisconsin, Republican lead i,r, charged in the House today when del,ate on tic l*i 11 was resumed Nelson said members of Congress j had been deluged with telegrams and j letters inspired by railroad agents. He read messages sent nut by raii- | roads urging various persons to j bring pressure on their CongressJ men to vote against the bill. Some of the railroad telegrams j cited by Nelson were in code. I “It may be wellrrot to attempt to translate ttys secret message,” said I Nelson, "but to wait and see what j translations the railroads wii) offer j of these mysterious instructions for j influencing Congress.

STOCK COMPANY NAME CHANGED Actors to Be Known as Murat Players, Walter Vonnegut today announced that he has changed the name of his stock company at the Murat from the Indianapolis Stock Company to the Murat Players. According to Vonnegut the Mi an go was made because some people had the impression that the cast was made up of local people only when the fact is that the cast includes Broadway actors. In changing the’name to the Murat Players, members of the cast are not only recognized but the theater as an institution is recognized, Vonnegut said.

$ “I'll take this one,” the purchaser said after the price had been agreed upon. “Do you accept change accounts?” "No,” answered the saleswoman rather firmly, “not unless we are acquainted with the purchaser.” The purchaser looked a little nonplussed and hesitated for just a moment. “Then,” she finally spoke up, “perhaps you will send it up to me C. O. D.?”\ • answered the saleswoman. "What is the 'name and address, please?*’ “Mrs. Caivin Coolidge, White House,” the purchaser replied. Two days later, the saleswoman had recovered sufficiently to tell Qiis to the wife of a newspaper man, so here’s your story.

G.C.P. DELEGATES DEGIN ARRIVING FOR CONVENTION Watson, New and Other National Figures to Attend State Meeting, Feverish activity marked Republican state headquarters at the Severin today as date of the State convention Wednesday ,v£hd Thursday draws near. Some of the 1,350 delegates have arrived and each train and traction line today brought its quota of representatives from the thirteen districts in the State. The Severin is already filled to capacity, with rooms at a premium. The corridor of the third floor, on which headquarters are located. Is draped with bunting and red, white and blue streamers. United States Senator James E. Watson, who arrived Sunday, is ensconced on the eighth floor and was busy throughout the day with conferences of party leaders. The Senator will deliver the keynote speech at the convention. Noted -Speakers on Program Other speakers will he ex Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Postmaster Geheral Harry S. New, State Chairman Clyde A. Walb, Mrs. Sylvester Wells, national committeewoman, of Kansas City; George Lockwood, Muncie, and Ed Jackson, nominee for Governor. "Walb arrived from Washington. New will arrive Tuesday. Senator Watson Sunday denied lie was a candidate for the ,vice presidency. It is understood, however, the. convention will indorse the | Senator for that office as a running mate with Calvin Coolidge, Great interest is attached to the election of the seven delegates-at-i urge. ’lwenty-six delegates will be named from the counties over the •State. -Those mentioned as candidates for delegate at large are. vVatson, Walb, Beveridge, New, Governor Emmett F Branch. Look wood. Henry W. Marshall, Lafayette,' indorsed by the Republican editors: Former Governor Winfield T. Durbin, Former Governor James P. Goodrich, E. M. Wasmuth, Huntington, formerly State chairman; Mrs. Ann Stude | baker Carlisle South Bend; Mrs. Florence Reddick Boys, Plymouth; ;A. R. Erskine, president of the ’ Studebftker Corporation, South ! Bend, and Marcus Sonntag. chairman of the World War Memorial ; Commissi oi# District Meeting Places Ezra Graham. Warsaw, has been named chief sergeant-at-arms of the convention, and David Jennings, Newcastle, chief usher. Other ser-geant-at-arms will be named by the county chairmen. Delegates will meet by districts at I ;,4<) Wednesday evening at the jStateliou.se ns follows: First District, Room 240; Second, Room 319: Third. Room 322; Fourth, Room 227; Fifth, Room 431; Sixth. Room 329, State Senate Chamber, i Seventh, House of Representatives chamber: Eighth. Room 206; Ninth. Room 303: Tenth, Room 202: Eleventh. Room 418; Twelfth. Room 17; Thirteenth, Room 401. The convention committee on'rules anti permanent organization will nnet in Room 921 at the Severin at To p, m Wednesday. At the same time the credentials committee will ■ vet in Room 821 and the committee on resolutions in Room 1224 | The floors of Tomlinson hall will be open at 10 a m. Wednesday and [the convention will tie called to order |at 11 a. m. On Thursday doors will be open at 9 anti convention called at 10 a. rn.

DELEGATES WILL BOOST RALSTON Personnel of Democratic 'Big Eight' Discussed, "Ralston for President” will be the battle cry of the thirty-four representatives from Indiana in the Democratic national convention in New York June 15. Indiana gets eight delegates at large—four men and four women—each with a half vote. Twenty-six regular delegates will be named by the various counties. Those primarily mentioned for delegate at large are: Lew G. Elling ham, editor of the Journal-Gazette, Ft. Wayne; W. H. O'Brien, Lawrenceburg; Thomas Taggart, French Lick; William Cronin, Terre Haute; Dan W. Simms, Lafayette; Fred Van Nys, Indianapolis' Mrs. A. P. Flynn, Logansport: Mrs. John W. Kern, Indianapolis; Mrs. Fred Lowenstein, Evansville; Mrs. Olive Belden Lewis, Indianapolis; Mrs. James R. Riggs, Sullivan, and Mrs, Harry McMullin, Aurora. TO TOOT IN LEW’S YARD City Baud Will Practice on Mayor’s Lawn. East tide residents in the vicinity of Mayor Shank’s home, 3547 E. Washington St., ihay have band con~certs once a week this summer. The mayor today ordered W. T. Bailey, assistant city attorney and manager of the police and firemen’s band to hold the regular weekly practice in his front yard. • “I’ll have some electric lights put up and set out some chairs,” said the mayor. “The band might as well practice out at my home as in the city hall, where no one can hear it.” Bailey said the band would start practicing at Shank’s home a week Tuesday night.

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Margaret Strother, 10, of 1132 N. Rural St., won her two pet bantams for making the best health

CUBAN REVOLT BE SERIOUS THAN ‘REPORTS’ - ✓ Cable; Press Dispatches Are Censored —Washington Criticised. "Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. WASHINGTON, May 19. —The Cuban revqlt Is far more serious than the Cuban government would have it appear. Censorship over press dispatches is maintained at cable terminals. But for the fact that the revolution broke out prematurely and thus far has been left practically leaderless, by this swept the island. ✓ f There has been unrest in Cuba for the p;ist year, it instill there in a semi-smoldering state, re&dy to blaze up at any time. Realizing this. President Zayas is doing everything possible to provent the spread of the news among the islanders. The revolt is partly against Washington and partly against President Zayas, whose administration is charged with many abuses, particularly by the Veterans and Patriots Association. Fired by Cable The president of the Veterans And Patriots is Gen. Carlos < JarT-ia-Velez, sen of the Cuban made immortal by Elbert Hubbard in his "Message to Garcia.” As Cuban minister to London. he was in New York on his way to loin his post wh* n fired by cable. He is now in the Cnited States From Havana it is reported that his government plans his extradition as head of the revolutionists. A brother, also implicated, is already in jail in Cuba. Gen. Garcia-Velez is none too friendly with the United States. During the Pan-American conference at Santiago, Chile, recently he publicly thanked Brazil for the eleven Brazilians who helped fight for Cuban Independence; and Argentina for the nine Argentines she sent: and Peru for her one, and so on, for all the Latin-American nations, but failed utterly even to mention the United States. Many Cubans accuse President Zayes of bending too readily to the will of Washington. It was the American ambassador, Maj. Gen. Enoch Crowder, it Is said, who caused President Zayas to veto the popular pensions bill, better known as the lottery law because of its lottery' feature. This bill was reenacted by the unanmious vote of the Cuban Senate, anti by a vote of 93 to 6 in the Chamber, over the presidential vote. This was taken as a crack at Crowder. A few months ago American intervention was openly talked on the ground that a bill introduced in the Cuban legislature by Col. Jose M. Tarafa, menaced American sugar and kindred interests in the island with cortfi.scation. This bill was to consolidate the principal railway lines of Cuba and close some 47 sub-ports used by the sugar companies for exporting their products. About 85 per cent of the sugar properties, including railway spurs connecting mills and plantations with the sub-ports, belong to Americans.

\ Life or Death The Cubans claimed the island’s trunk-lines and main ports were falling into decay because of disuse, and that it was a matter of life of death for Cuba to regulate her railway traffic and ports, as is done in the United States. Pressure brought by Secretary of State Hughes through Ambassador Crowder on President Zayas forced a postponement of action on the Tarafa bill “to permit closer examination of the facts,” when, somewhat amended, it became a law. Many Cubans insist there is too Tnuch Washington and too much Crowder In Cuban affairs. Others blame President Zayas with many evils of administration. Elections take place in October and the present crisis is due in a large measure to opposition to Zayas succeeding himself. t In most Latin-American countries revolts are commoT^in presidential election years and certainly, to some extent, this is true of Cuba. Investigate Shooting Police today ar einvestigating reports of a shooting in the vicinity of Eagle St. and Olin Ave. Sunday night. PerrY Tomlinson, 629 Olin Ave., reported he heard several shots.

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chat in a contest at School 54. She has entered the chickens in the public library pet parade next Saturday.

Claims Honor Mrs. Maude Perry, 23, 242 N. Lasalle St., claims she is one of the youngest, if not the youngest, greataunt in the city. f>v-", great aunt Mar II <-*&, Mrs. Myrtle Al- ■ Btott ' 44 ■ CoryP came a grand- . Kjk gfll mother. That IB ./ .j' .'' eighteen HE jB days prior so j s . Mra- Perry’s ! K < j seventeenth | Jg Mrs. Per r y (iHk*"*I*** 1 *** m wrote The Times JR when she read w™ that Mrs. George Miller, RichMAUDE mond, Indiana, PERRY claims to be the youngest greataunt in the world. Mrs. Miller bej came a great-aunt when 19. Mrs. Perry is the youngest of j eleven brothers and sisters, nine of ; " horn are living. .Mrs. Aistott, who was married when she was 18, has fourteen children. The grand-neice in question is Frances Askern. daughter of Mrs. Bessie Askern, I New Salisbury, Ind., a daughter of , Mrs. Aistott, who was married j when she was 15.

DENTISTS HOLD STATE MEETING Speakers Discuss Technical Subjects, Dental students and dentists from all parts of the State were attending the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Indiana State Dental Association at‘the Clay pool today. Talks were given by Dr. Clarence Simpson and Dr. Lester Furnace. The expresidents' luncheon was held at noon in the Florentine room. Dr. Edgar D. Coolidge spoke this afternoon on “Root Canal Problems” and Dr. George B. Winter on “Impacted Mandibular Third Molar” and “Third Molar Clinic.” Speakers tonight are Dr. Robert R. Gillis and Dr. Wallace Seceombe. A meeting of the board of trustees preceded the morning session. Tile Xi Psi Phi Fraternity will give a dinner dance tonight at the Severin. A reunion dinner of the class of 1904 was held at the Claypool.

0. S. AVIATORS RACE WEATHER Hop Off in Flight to Jap Mainland, Bu X'nited Press TOKIO, May 19.—The three American round-the-world flight planes arrived today at Hittokapu Bay on the Island of Yeteforu. The fliers. Lieutenants Smith, Nelson and Wade took off from Paramashiru at 7:30 a. m., and landed safely at Hittekapu Bay at 2:05 p, m. By United Press PA RAM ASHURI ISLAND, May 19 —The American round-the-world flight was resumed at 7:30 today. Lieutenants Smith. Nelson and Wade hopped off from Kashiwabara Bay for Yetorofu Island, 500 miles to the southward. They are endeavoring to reach Japan proper before threatened bad weather sets in. D’Oisy at Canton By United Press PARIS, May 19. —Capt. Pelletier D’Oisy, French flier, has arrived at Canton, China, in his flight to Japan. 1 _ BOARD MEETING ORDERED Mayor Wishes Filling Station Arguments Heard On order of Mayor Shank, the park board was to meet today in special session to reconsider action Saturday when it approved plans for a filling station at the northeast corner of Sixteenth St. and Capitol Ave. The mayor has refused to take any side in the controversy, but said the meeting should be held to get arguments for or against the proposed construction Opposition has developed because of the Methodist Hospital being across the street. It wak said.

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DISTRICT MARBLE TOURNEYS TO DE OVER THIS WEEK City Champ, Who Will Make Trip to Atlantic City, Will Be Picked, This week will close The Indianapolis Times’ sectional marble tournaments at the various public pchoois. Students of the McKinley School No. 39. State and Lexington Aves., were to play at 3 p. m. today. Other games: Tuesday, School No. 7, Bates and Davidson Sts., for students of that school and Nos. 8, 25 and 28 Wednesday, at School No. 61, 1233 Shelby St., for students of that school and No. 13; Thursday at School No. 9, Vermont and Fulton Sts., for students of that school and Nos. 1, 14 and Holy Cross. The city tournament will be held next week. All sectional champs will compete for the city championship. The Indianapolis winner will receive a week’s trip to Atlantic City, where he will play other city champs for the national marble crown. He will also receive a Crown bicycle and season pass to Washington Ball Park. Louis Douglas, 14, has been announced as the marble king of El Paso, Texas. Vere Warner, 14, recently won the championship of Das Moines, lowa,

AUTOMATIC TRAIN DEVICES PREVENT RAIL COLLISIONS Electric Controls Will Make Wrecks Impossible, Engineer Says, CHICAGO, May 19.—Railroad collisions in the United States will be made an impossibility ’ in future years by automatic train control, declared James R. Howard; chairman of the National Transportation Institute, at a’ safety conference here. “A recent railroad disaster in the East cost twenty-one lives and injured forty-three persons,” said Mr. Howard. “The railroad paid nearly $500,000 in death and injury claims. The property damage was nearly $200,000. $950,000 Paid in Claims Another railroad system paid more than $950,000 in death and injury claims as a result of four collisions in which the property damage ran close to $400,000. Even if no one is killed property damake in collisions may run into imposing figures with locomotives now costing from $50,000 to $75,000, Pullman oars $30,000 and up, day coaches SIB,OOO to $20,000, and ordinary freight oars $3,000 and pcs' sibly carrying $20,000 worth of freight. “Automatic train control would have saved the railroads of the United States more than §40.000,000 in property damage alone in the past fifteen years. There are a number of different automatic control systems in use both in the United States and Europe. Control Is Ordered The interstate commerce commission has ordered automatic control installed on 5.000 miles of road before Jan. 1, 1925. This will cost more than $2,000,000. Protection of more than 400,000 miles of track operated in the United States will cost hundreds of millions. How to raise this money for non-income-pro-ducing betterments is a hard problem in railway finance now. “Electric devices and ramps, which are like third rails and which rise beside the track and automatically set the air brakes, are characteristic methods being tried now.”

HOLT IS NOT KLANSMAN Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Claims Block of 409 Delegates. "lain not a Klan candidate, neither am Ia Ivlansman.” This was the statement today of Olin R. Holt, Kokomo attorney, Democratic candidate for Governor. Holt was fourth man in the Demoera tic primary. He is here today opening headquarteis at the Claypool. “I got some Klan votes and I got a great many Catholic votes,” Holt said. He declared he filed 900 delegate slates over the State and that he would go into convention with 409 delegates. Holt claimed his great support came from backing of the State Federation of Labor and the Eagles lodge. Exposition Meeting Held The Chamber of Commerce committee which has charge of publicity for the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition, to be held in the new cattle barns at the State fairground met today at .the Chamber of Commerce. The committee expects a large group of Indianapolis manufacturers to have exhibits at the exposition. Space wall be sold at a meeting of manufacturers June 2. Summer Camp Invitation Indianapolis boys have been invited by Maj. F. L. Beals. U. S. A., commander, to attend Camp Roosevelt, national summer educational training camp at Silver Lake, Ind., this summer. Contingents wall be received June 30, July 21 and Aug. 4.