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VACATION DAMPS ADVOCATED FOR MICCHIIIEN Great Progress in Work of Fresh-Air Schools, Report Shows. Romp'.ug through their vacation thi* iuxnmor Art several hundred Indianapolis aoltdran who leuat summer war* xo*mi4t '4o* hatleaa to play. They ar* d* -jhUdren who ;u.Uadd fresh far .iaxtru, win tor. need tor a ehlid rsutriMmimr < supplement the winter scwoola. i pointod out in the insnal report on '.he fresh air schools, made pubtlo today by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. Many children would not have to return to toe fresh air schools could they be cared to r ir such a camp, according to the report. Plans are being made to have a Camp by next summer, Mary A. Meyers, executive secretary' of the tuberculosis association, said. Work Improves The health-building program followed at the Theodore Potter Fresh Air School, where 115 children showed a total gain in weight of 5?4 1 ,-i pounds during the year, included a mid-morning lunch, substantial noon meal and rest period of thirty minutes in the morning and forty-five or fifty minutes in the afternoon. Children retarded at the beginning 1 of the year brought up their academic work. Mrs. Jeanette Williams, principal of the school, and Jessie I. Rodman; schc-oi nurse employed by the tuberculosis association, reported the average gain during the first semester was six ar.d one-sixth pounds for the larger children and three and two-fiftha pounds ~?or the smaller. l arge Cains Made One 12-vear-old girl, who suffered Infantile paralysis when she was 5, gained twenty-two and one-half pounds. In the fresh-air room at School No. 2* the average gain was five and one-half pounds, Amanda D. Rogers, school nurse, and Mrs. Ima H. Black, teacher, reported. School No. 12 had two fresh air rooms. In one,, the average gain of thirty-two children was five and onetenth pounds; in the other, eight and forty-four-hundredths pounds. Margaret Lloyd ar.d Augusta Coburn are teachers ar.d Mrs. Ida M. Crane is school nurse. Gain for twenty-seven children in ftr.e of two rooms at School No. 3 averaged seven and two-thirds pounds; for twenty-five children in the other room, five ar.d eighty-five-hundredths pounds.

FATHER AND SON mm court Alleged Speeders Again Face City Judge, Father and Son day was observed in city court today, when Bert McBride Sr. and Bert Mcßride Jr., 2012 N, Delaware St., both received fines on speeding charges at the hands of Garrett Olds, judge pro tem. Dad's fine was $39 and costs and his son’s S2O and costs. George Gfiuss, 643 S. Meridian St., -was fined $1 and costs on a speeding charge. Charges of malicious destruction of property were dismissed. Police said he struck ■ a car driven by Reese Wysong, 1938 W. ThirtyEighth St., which was backing out of a parking space at Raymond and Harding Sta. June 2. Franklin Merchant, 1325 McLain PI., drew a $1 fine on an improper driving charge. Carl Fearnaught, 2402 Park Ave., was fined *39 and costs on a speeding oharge. Motor Policeman Bushong testified Fearnaught was going thirty-three miles an hour. He was arrested June 19. MERIDIAN STREET APARTMENT SOLD Only One Bidder in Sale Ordered by Court. Meridian Courts, a sixty-six apartment building at Thirty-fourth and Meridian Sts., was sold by Receiver A. J. Hueber today to the firm of G. L. Miiler A Cos.. Atlanta, Ga., for 1473.926.82. ander order of Superior Judge Sidney S- Miller. The Atlanta company was the only bidder. The purchase was made to protect % first mortgage held by the company for *360.000, security for money advanced the Maloney Apartment Company to build the apartment last summer. Mech&ma Heirs totaling *70.000 will be paid from tbs purchase price. The sals was bald in the office of receiver’s attorneys, Fenton. Steers. Herhst & Kies, National City Bank Bldg. Judge Miller has not formally approved the sale. Story Is Investigated \ William Williams. 35, colored, 16 N. Noble St., sought by police eince June 16. when he is alleged to have participated In a fight between Edna Holt, colored, 1815 N. Nobie St., and Marguerite Williams, said to be his wife, was arrested today and held under 32,000 bond on a vagrancy oharge, pending Investigating of a story b ythe Holt woman. She told police Williams was wanted elsewhere on serious charges. •

Safes Which Yeggmen Blew in L. S. Ayres Store

LEFT—BIG SAFE IN THE BASEMENT COUNTING ROOM AT L. S.AYRES & COMPANY'S STORE, AND RIGHT, SMALLER SAFE ON SEVENTH FLOOR. AFTER YEGGMEN HAD BLOW.**' THEM OPEN AND TAKEN APPROXIMATELY $20,000 FROM THEM EARLY TODAY*

THREE KELO IN KiDNAPING CASE Three Youths Arrested After Decoy Payment of SB,OOO Is .Made. By United Press CHICAGO. June 25.—Three 18-year-old boys were under arrest today- for attempting to extort 18,000 from Jacob Franks, millionaire father of Robert Franks. The boys threatened to kidnap Josephine, Robert's 17-year-old sister. The boys—Walter Erus, Ige Thomas and Walter Boryea—were arrested when they Snatched up a decoy package planted by Franks. Instead of finding tne SB,OOO, they fell into the hands of ten detectives. The letter, a crude imitation of the famous ransom letter sent to Franks by Nathan Leopold ar.d Richard Loen when they murdered Robert, was received at the Franks home yesterday. Franks took it at once to police headquarters. “Give us SB,OOO or we will kidnap Josephine,’’ the letter warned. It ordered the money in denominations of 5, 10 and 20 dollars, to be left at a certain spot in the Italian colony. At the appointed hour Franks was driven to the spot and tossed a package out of his auto as indicated. Police waited in hiding. Finally three youths rounded a corner, snatched up the package and hurried away—right into the arms of the waiting officers. Young Thomas, leader of the trio admitted he believed Franks woull be frightened by the note and would rather lose the SB,OOO than risk having Josephine kidnaped. They admitted writing similar letters to other wealthy Chicagoans during the last few weeks. Lebanon Man Ends Life Bit United Pr, an LEBANON, Ind.. June 25.-111 health was given as the motive for the suicide of John Kersey, 17, who stuffed rugs in the cracks around the doors, closed the windows and turned on the gas

AUNT SARAH PEABODY ,it the Convention ' By AUNT SAR AH PEABODY. HEW YORK CITY, June 25. —I was all tired out last night from walking up and down the hotel stairs so 1 followed a lot of other U___J delegates^into a small cage that slid up and down. It took my breath away when it started and the first thing I knew I was right down in the cellar of the hotel. And it was full of street cars. Many of the folks who had “delegate" badges on got on one of the cars so I followed them. Pretty soon they all got off and I got off too. We went up an iron stairway and I was glad to get out of that cellar. Still following the crowd, I found myself inside a big hall. Frankly, I was disappointed. I had expected to see flags hanging around and a great swarm of delegates. But the hall was just plain and there were only about a hundred folks with ‘‘delegate’’ badges on. And instead of getting right down to business most of them were eyeing women delegatus who paraded up and down on a little platform. The gowns they wore were shocking. I heard one of the men delegates remark that a certain dress wasn’t conventional. I didn’t think so, either. I’m for plain clothes at conventions. One delegate announced he was for anew style of women’s areas for every month. That’s a platform idea I hadn’t heard of, but I was against it right away, for that would mean anew dress too often, and. I can't afford it. Then someone suggested that the‘meeting adjourn until the next day so the delegates could go over to the BIG convention. That’s how I came to discover that I was at the wrong meeting. It was a convention of the International Dress Reform Associati I was so mad 1 went right back to my hotel to prepare another plank for my list of suggestions for the Democratic platform. This plank, which I have just written, reads: “It shall be against the rules for the Democratic convention to be held in any city where another convention is on at the same time." I’ll take this suggestion up tomorrow with the Democratic resolutions committee.

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1 ****** •aat t £ 4 AJ Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary and intimate friend of the late Woodrow Wilson, caught in an informal moment at the Democratic convention. RELEASE IS PETITIONED Slioeinakev Charges lie Was “Railroaded” to Asylum. A hearing on the habeas corpus petition of Elias Peacock, GS, of 1221 Eugene St., a shoemaker, to be released from Julietta, county insane asylum, will be held Saturday meaning before Superior Judge Clinton H. Givan. Peacock charges the first he knew he had been adjudged insane was when a deputy sheriff arrested him and took him to Julietta, he says in the petition. He charges he was not present at the insanity inquest in the Justice of Peace Court of Wiliam Connor. Peacock's attorney, Thomas Garvin, said Peacock was “railroaded” into the asylum by a relative to avoid having to support him in his old age.

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y. S. FILES SUITS AGAiNST ALLEGED ‘GASOUNETRUST’ Charges Fifty Oil Refining Companies Are in Big Conspiracy. By United Pres i WASHINGTON, June 23—The Federal Government today tiled suit in Federal Court in Chicago against fifty of the greatest oil refining companies, charging general conspiracy among them to violate the Sherman anti-trust laws. The court was asked by Attorney General Stone, who announced the suits here, to prevent and restrain the companies from what the Government charged was “combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce,” among the several States and with foreign nations In gasoline, kerosene and other hydrocarbon derivatives. The suit was described at the Del partment of Justice as the greatest attack ever made by the Federal Government on trusts and monopolies. Indiana Company Named Chief among the defendants in the suit were the Standard Oil companies Indiana. New Jersey, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana. Now York, Ohio, the Texas Company, American Refining Company ?.nd the Aetna Refining Company. Attorney General Stone, charges that these companies 1 ave combin -d to control production of gasoline by pooling of asserted patent rights in violation of the Sherman ami-trust act. He names the primary deftaidants the Standard Oil companies of Indiana and New Jersey, and the Standard Development Company, Texas Company and Gasoline Products Company. Licenses Sold The secondary defendants, Stone charges, have become parties to the combination by accepting licenses by one or more of the primary defendants. The Government charged that though patents on the “cracking” process by which gasoline is made were issued sixty years ago and have expired, the primary defendants have pooled a number of patents covering unimportant improvements and are seeking to extort huge sums from manufacturers of gasoline in guise of royalties.

11 AND our MAN SHOOTS SELF Fires Bullet Into Breast — Not Expected to Live. Despondent over ill health and unemployment, Frank Mead, 44, of 1401 N. Alabama St., former chief of police at Bicknell, Ind., today went to the garage in the rear o.S his home, laid a blanket on the floor, and shot himself through the left breast. He is not expected to live. “Just despondent and down and out,” Mead told police. Mead, according to his wife, Mrs. Nettie Mead, went to Hartford City Tuesday on business, in an automobile owned by one of the roomers at his home. She did not know he had returned. This morning his daughter, Mrs. Emma Moore of Bicknell, who was visiting her parents, noticed her father’s grip on the outside of the garage. She notified her mother and they went to the garage and found Mead still conscious on the floor. He told them that he had shot himself about two hours before . Idea Results in Arrest * His idea of celebrating Grotto night resulted in the arrest of a man giving his name as Charles Sellers of Boston on a charge of malicious destruction of property and drunkenness. Police said he broke the plate glass windqjva of a sedan, owned by Gilbert Marshall, Atlanta, Ga.

CHANGES MADE IN GROTTO LINE Anthony F, Ittner, St. Louis, Becomes Grand Monarch of Prophets. BULLETIN Clinton G. Nichols of Aziz Grotto, New Britain, Conn., was chosen venerable prophet, Anthony F. Ittner, Alhambra Grot to, St. Louis, today was elected Grand Monarch of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm at the business session at the Claypool. Ittner is grand chief justice and his election came after Harry W. Ordway, deputy grand monarch of Aryan Grotto, Chicago, had been elected grand monarch and immediately resigned because of ill health. Ordway was voted a past grand monarch with all the honors and privileges which go with the office. George Edward Hatch of Lnlla Rookh, Rochester, N. Y., was elected grand secretary upon retirement of Sidney D. Smith of Mokanna Grotto, Hamilton, N. Y. Smith has been secretary of the organization since its founding by the Supreme Council in 1890. He retires with the title of grand secretary emeritus for life. Hatch is a past monarch of Lalla Rookh Grotto. Oihers “Step Up” All other grand officers were “stepped up” in line of succession. The office of venerable prophet, the only one filled from the ranks of the organization attracted the greatest interest. H. E. Christenbury of Anna Grotto, Memphis, and Miles Gregory of Jinnistan Grotto, Los Angeles, appeared to be outstanding candidates. The convention will be brougnt to a formal close with band contests at 2 p. m. and a grand ball at Murat Temple tonight. Rands Entered Bands entered in the contests are; 1 First division, Islam. Pittsburgh, Pa.; Amrou, Zanesville, Ohio: AutMori, Youngstown, Ohio; Yusef Khan. Akron, Ohio; Hindoo-Kaosh, Hamilton, Ont.; Azab, Fall River, Mass.; Kadger, Marion, Ohio; Baku, Mansfield. Ohio; Samoor, Richmond, lud.; Media, Topeka, Kan. Second division. Nazir, Canton, Ohio; Arara. Knoxvlile, Tenn.; Ox us, Dubuque, Iowa; Kishmee, Covington, Ky.; Amrita, Ft. Smith, Ark.; Yezdlgerd Portsmouth, Ohio; Zuleika, Buffalo. X. Y. Prophets and members of the women's auxiliary enjoyed an automobile sight-seeing tour of the city during the morning. Later the women were taken to Broad Ripple Park, where a picnic was held and cups were to be award-1 winning contestants in the women's drill team contests Tuesday. Winners were to bo announced at the time. Mrs. Othneil Hitch was to award the trophies. Rivals Armistice Night Tuesday night the prophets gave themselves over to making the pageant, mardl gras and night parade a huge success, and they succeeded. The parade followed the same line of march as the daylight parade of Monday, it was an informal affair, far different in character from the formal, dignified affair of the day before. Prophets swarmed over trucks, marched with bevies of pretty girls in their ranks, bands became hopelessly, mixed. Every one was out to get every-ounce of enjoyment and pleasure out of the affair. Capacity crowds swarmed through the downtown streets and hotel lobbies, darning, singing and staging various stunts. All in all, it was one of the best “parties” Indianapolis has seen since tho Armistice .day celebration of 1918. Hundreds of tho prophets attended the dance of Shalimar Grotto of New' Orleans. La., at Rainbow Casino Garden, following the parade. Cleveland Takes Prize Thousands of visitors thronged the Stale fairground Tuesday afternoon for the drill contests, band concerts and horse show. Chief interest centered In the

drills. Al Sirat Grotto of Cleveland, Ohio, was awarded first prize with a rating of 96.55, with Aryan of Chicago a close second with 96.05 and Achbar of Columbus, Ohio, third with 95.55. j The Cleveland contingent went wild when it learned that its drill team had dethroned Aryan, former title holders. The second division trophy was won by Tan Sein Grotto of Jackson, Mich. Second place went to Saba Grotto, Tulsa, Okla., with Ail Baba Grotto of Warren, Ohio, third. The prizes will be awarded at the grand ball tonight. MANY SEND IN SLOGANS C. of C. Committee Calls Attention to Contest Rules. A splendid response in the Chamj her of Commerce contest to obtain a slogan for Indianapolis that may be used in advertising and publicity matter by manufacturers and busi ness firms was reported today. The slogan committee again called attention to tho four major rules: 1. Write very legibly on plain white paper and enclose in an envelope upon which nothing is written. 2. Write name and address on plain white paper and attach to, but do not enclose within, envelope containing slogan suggestion. * 3. Enclose in larger envelope addressed to Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. 4. Any contestant may send in as many suggestions as desired, as long as each is handled separately. The contest will closg at 5 p. m. Thursday, July t lO. Merchants to Elect Officers of E. Washington Street Merchants Association will be elected at a dinner at the Lincoln at 6:30 tonight.

In^theSvmn Whatever the outcome of the Democratic nomination, you'll have to admit that Governor A1 Smith of New York is in the swim. These unusual -shots were made at Sea Gate, L. I.

SENATOR TRIES FOR SOLUTION TO FARMER ILLS Present Tariff Works Only One Way for Producers, Timex Waxhin'iton Bureau, t li.' Y<;<- York Are. WASHINGTON, June 25—While most Republican Senators are vacationing or explaining to the folks back home. Senator R. B. Howell of Nebraska Is sitting in his Washington office studying out what is to be" done for the farmer. First of all, he says the tariff stilts must be knocked from under American manufacturers, or else some kind of stilts must be put under the farmers. “Tariff enables American manufacturers to get United States prices for what they produce when they sell it in the United States. Only Half “If they produce more than the United States can consume they sell abroad for whatever they can get. It may be only half as much as they get in the United States. "What wove got to do for the farmer, as long as this tariff protection is given id manufacturers, is to insure him United States prices for what be grows and sells in the United States.” Howell questions the wisdom of knocking the tariff stilts frtun under the American manufacturer too suddenly. “It would cause economic chaos ami paralysis for a time," he says. Asked how he would put the American farmer “on stilts,” Howell suggested a sales tax on wheat products, which would be returned directly to the wheat grower, giving him tho equivalent of an American price for w neat used in t ie United States. ray Difference The MeXary-Haugen bill, which proposed to pay the farmer the “price difference” in “scrip,” by which the loss on the exported surplus would be checked back to the farmer, would accomplish the same purpose in a slightly different way. “The sales tax method is an operation without an anesthetic; the MeXary Haugen method is an operation with an anesthetic," Howell says. "As things stand now, the farmers are an exploited class. They must pay United States prices for what they buy, but can not get United States prices for what they produce, even when they sell in the United States.

FRISCO TRIP PLANNED Women's Overseas League Anticipate National Meeting. Indiana members of the Women’s Overseas League are anticipating the fourth national convention at San Francisco, July 14-17. Miss Inna Johnson, 413 E. Fifteenth St., is in charge of reservations on the special train which will leave Chicago July 3. Among the Indiana members who wil attend are Miss Ruth Mull, Miss Mary Horn, chairman of the national nominating committee and Miss Helen Courtenay, national recording secretary. Woods Grazing Hurts Opening the farm woods to pasture is harmful not only to the woods, but to the stock. Grasses in the wiods are sparse, unpalatable and lack the nutritive value of those that grow out in the open. At the same time cattle and sheep grazing there are more liable to destroy the undergrowth than they are to Teed on the grass. *

CALIFORNIA MAN PLACES MOO IN NOMINATION Former Senator Phelan Visualized Westerner as 0 New Jackson, By United Press MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW Y'ORK, June 25. —William Gibbs McAdoo was visualized as a new Jackson come to lead the Nation back to businesslike government for the common people in the speech of former Senator James D. Phelan of California, placing him in nomination before the Democratic convention here today. Setting forth McAdoo claims to the office, Phelan quoted the words of Woodrow Wilson when McAdoo resigned the secretaryship of the treasury after the war. Wilson Quoted "In my judgment this country has never had an abler, more resourceful, yet prudent, a more uniformly efficient Secretary of the Treasury,” Wilson wrote. The chief accomplishments of McAdoo as pointed out by Phelan were: Organization of the Federal Reserve' system and the victory loans. Revision of the Treasury, the Federal Farm Loan Bureau and the Rail-

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road Administration to the benefit of the farmer. Inauguration of the war risk insurance law. Building of the McAdoo tunnels under the Hudson River from New York to New Jersey. Protection of the religious freedom. Regarding this last point which a furor ha3 developed in pre-conven-j tion days, Phelan said: Upholds Law “McAdoo is deeply ground in American principles, the Constitution and the law. He opposes any discrimination on account of religious belief. America was the protest of free men of the world against the religious bigotry and persecutions of the past and* it is a matter of constitutional principal and precept to respect and protect the freedom of thought and speech—of religion, of press, of assembly'.” In conclusion, he said: ‘LA century' ago there came riding from the West a people's Presi&rwt, Andrew Jackson. Today there &hs come another man from the West, another old “hickory,” with the same sympathy for the common man, the same heritage of American ideals and an equal vision, courage and staunch determination. “He will, God willing it, be our next President.” Married 59 Years Bit Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 25. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stern today observed their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mr3. Stern were married here at the close of the Civil War. It has become possible to photograph excellent panoramas with ordinary cameras.