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: IFIY MOTORISTS FINED TOR SPEED; NO CARSSTORED ludge Wilmeth Refuses to Let Drivers Escape Actual Payment. Motorists, con-doted of speeding in speeders’ court 'today, had to pay their fines, Judge Delbert O. Wiltneth refusing to allow them to store their cars in preference to paying their fines. Wilmeth stated he wished to observe what effect his ban on storage on cars would have on speeding, and that if fewer arrests were made nest week, he would make the policy of forcing motorists to pay their fines, permanent. Fifty were fined. Judgment was withheld in two cases and continuances were granted to seventeen. To William Secrist, 1520 S. Harding St., went the crown as the fastest speeder since police began their drive against fast driving, more than six weeks ago. Secrist was fined,sßo and costs for going sixty miles an hour. Secrist was arrested by Sheriff George Snider after a race on Kentucky Ave., July 11. Lowest Is $4 The lowest fine was given E. M. Wells. 1426 Cental Ave. He paid 54 without costs for going twenty-eight miles an hour. Officers testified Wells was driving in a sparsely settled section near Crown Hill cemetery. Attaches noticed a number of speeder^-up in court for the second time. However, the affidavits these men did not include previous arrest. Wilmeth cautioned officers to include previous arrests in all cases in the future. These were fined (court costs are not included): Carl Allen, 3315 Kenwood Ave., thirty miles an hour, $35; Milford Bennett, 126 W. Thirty-Third St., thirty-two miles, S2O; Charles Stevens, 2831 W. Tenth St., thirty-five Leeds Ave., thirty miles, $10; Tony Jardina, 619 Stevens St., twentyeight miles, $10; Oscar Ferrei, 301 Auburn St., thirty-three miles, $33; Louis Walp, 829 Birch St., thirty miles, sl2* Fined SBO for Sixty Miles William Secrist, 1524 S. Harding St., sixty miles, $80; Martin Timmons, 415 N. Denny St., thirty-four miles, $27; Harry Kramp, 241 E. Minnesota St., twenty-eight miles, $10; Fred Snyder, 422 E. Pratt St., thirty miles, $27; Albert Neal, 1228 Cornell St., thirty miles, sl6. William Turner, 2010 S. Belmont Ave., thirty miles, S2O: Hayden Hibbitt, 1536 E. Eighteenth St., thirty miles, $27; Floyd Thompson, 1356 S. Harding St., thirty miles, sl6; Hubert Kenworthy, 2126 Boyd Ave., thirty-five mite, $36; Card Blackburn, 822 E. Athon St., twenty-eight miles, $10; Frank Farlow, 3316 Wilcox St., thirty miles, sl7; William Sweeney, 1750 W'oodlawn Ave., twenty-eight miles, $lO. One Escapes Costs Louis Sturgeon, 41S E. Twentieth St., thirty miles, sl6; C. J. McMeans, 1235 Central Ave., thirty-five miles, sl4; George De Van, 4835 X. Illinois St., thirty miles, sl4; E. M. Wells, 1426 Central Ave., twenty-eight miles, $4 without costs; Albert Meyer, 930 S. Xoble St., thirty-five miles, sl3; X. J. Fritz, 445 Sanders St., thirty miles, $lO. Clarence Schafer, 109 W. St. Clair ,St., thirty-one miles, sl7; Charles Smitha, 319 Beauty Ave., thirty-one miles, sl6; Clarence Schultheis, 1801 Wright St., thirty miles, $10; Charles Navorra, 542 E. Merritt St., thifty miles, sl4; A. L. Powers, 3662 X. Pennsylvania St., thirty-three miles, $10; Albert Moody, 1518 Roosevelt Ave., thirty Yniles, $10; John Hubbafd, Xoblesville, Ind., thirty miles, sl2; CTetus "Williams, 2519 X. Xew Jersey St., thirty miles, sl2; F. R. Alley, 18 N. Sherman Dr., twentythree miles, $33. Speed Averages Thirty Curtis Simpson. 1757 X. Pershing Ave., thirty mises, $11; Floyd "Webb, 826 E. Forty-Ninth St., twenty-nine miles, $9; William Ahlers. 1721 Thaddeus St., thirty-one miles, sl6; Charles Gaithers, 201 E. ThirtyThird St., thirty-three miles, $23; Glen Brady, 1227 S. Belmont St., thirty-five miles, sl6; Clarence Hulvey, 241 W. Xew York St., thirty miles, $10; Paul Stenson, 2327 Yan“des St., thirty-five miles, sl9; C. C. Thompson, Severin Hotel, thirtythree miles, $11; Fred Waltman. 2401 Brookslde Ave., thirty miles, sl4; William McCurdy, 1626 E. Tabor St., thirty miles, sl4. "William Benton, Salem Park, thir-ty-five milfes, sl9; Raymond Williams, 912 N. West St., thirty miles, $46; Herman Sawwell, thirty-orts miles, sl9; Ray Smith, ‘332 X. Blackburn St., thirty miles, $lO (suspended); Joe Reid, 3304 X. Sherman Dr., thirty-two miles, sl4; Roy Gates, Lawrence, Ind, thirty miles, .$lO. \ Wilmeth delivered the usual, lecture upon evils of fast driving and .failure to use proper hand signals. H* rtad a list of accidents which appeared trivial at the time they happened, but which resulted in detths. / Sergeant Halstead. In charge of the motorcycle squad, said that if enough additional men can be obtained police will start watching for speeders between midnight and 6 a. m. Early morning Joy riders and persons returning from dances appear to have discovered that- the motorcyclmen do not work during t£ese hours and are taking unfair -advantage, Halstead said. Police also were working out a scheme whereby speed cops would work in plain clothes in private au< tomobiles. _ r Eleven SlatAl Wednesday P. M. Eleven persons slated on speeding charges' "Wednesday night. They “were: - Ruben Hardy, 21, of 2050 N. Delaware St.; Wilson Pollard, 19, of Stop 6, Madison Ave.; William Ahlers, 27, of 1731 Thaddius St.; Emery Todd, 22,- of 6437 Julian Av*.; Clarence Clair JLAuis Walp. JLS, of 62 S']

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Birch St.; Elva M. Wells, 31, of 1456 Centra! Ave.; Thomas A. Hendricks, 31, of 2060 X. Delaware St.; X. J. Fritz, 23, of 445 Sanders St; Louis Cohen, 20, of 142 W. Vermont St., and Ray Smith, 24, of 332 X. Blackford St. Turner M. Johnson, 33, of 4025 E. Xew York St.; Fred Wurfel, 36. of 901 Jefferson Ave., were charged with driving while intoxicated. COMPETITION IS CLOSE IN t N. G. RIFU MATCHES Guardsmen Make Perfect Scores Rating of Contestants* Is Difficult, Shooting at the Indiana Xational Guard range at Frankfort was so accurate Wednesday that five to ten extra strings of shots were required to establish the relative positions of contestants. In the- 200 and 300yard individual rapid fire matches the first two men in each match scored fifty out of their possible fifty. Lowest in these matches was forty-eight. Results of Wednesday’s shooting: 33-vard individual competition match: Lt. Col. Basil Middleton, 45; lt l,t. Harry M. Turpin. 45; Ist Lt. Albert Black. 45; Ist Lt Fred F. Longfellow. 44: Strt. Jackson McCoviry, 44: Ist Lt .. John F. Houck. 44; Lt. Col. M&nford G. Henley. 43; 2d Lt. Robert S. Creaoy. 43; Lt. Col. Milo D. Snyder. 42; Is, Lt. Damon C. tVray.,42. 200-yard individual rapid fire match: Lt. Col. itanford G. Henley, fit w Ist Lt. John F. Houek. 50: Ist Lt. Albert Black. 49: Sfrt. Jaekson MeCoury, 49: Sft Bine Plunkett, 49: Ist Lt. Barrett W. BaiU49? Sfft. Dun Mt-lrik, 49: Ed Lt. Robert S. Creaoy 48; Sgt. Herbert C. Watson. 48; Lt Col. Milo D. Snyder. 48. 300 yard individual rapid fire match: Sgt. Herbert C. Watson. 50; Lt. Col. Manford G Henl@v 50: Sgt. Jackson MeCoury. 49; Li. Col. Milo D. Snyder, 49: First Lt. John F. Houek. 49: Major Jaes W. Hurt. 49: Lt. Col. Basil Middleton. 49; Major George R Gawt-iin. 49; Caupt. Lawrence O. Rariek, 49: Walter B, Lyon. 48. 500 yard individual rapid fire; time limit 1 minute and 20 aecdpds: Lt. Col MUo D. Snyder. 50; Sgt Herbert C. Watson, 48; Lt.'Damon C. Wray, 46: Sgt. Bine Plunkett. 45: First Lt. Barrett W. Ball, 45; Capt. Edwin C Ball 44; Mntor James W. Hurt, 42: Lt. Col. ManJord G. Henley. 42: First Lt. Albert Black, 41: Corp. Joe E. Rantiols. 41. | waierlm BROUGHT HERE C, L', Crowe, Former Resident, Drowns in Kentucky, Body of Charles L. Crowe, former resident of ’lndianapolis, who drowned Wednesday at Lexington, Ky., is expected to arrive in the city today. A brother, Forrest Crowe, resides here. Mr. Crowe had been identified for fourteen years with local "hotels. He was formerly chief room clerk at the Claypool. He left Indianapolis last May for Boonesboro, Ky., to become manager of the Boonesboro Beach Hotel there. He was bathing In the Kentucky River and drowned before the eyes of his wife and daughter. Elizabeth, 12, the daughter, was unable- to rescue her father.

EXCHANGE CLUBS TO fiETTRIDAY State Organization Will Be Perfected at Lincoln. State convention of Exchange Clubs at the Lincoln Friday will be addressed by Guy K. Jeffries of Indianapolis, national president. Montgomery S. Lewis, president of the Indianapolis club, will preside. A State organization will be perfected. The ihorning session win be devoted to business. Delegates wIH attend the ball game and & golf tournament in the afternoon.- A luncheon for women will be given at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Claris Adams will make the welcoming address. Dr. Douglass H. White, secretary, is planning entertainment. Other speakers: Harold M. Harter of Toledo,* Ohio, national secretary, and Robert F. Nitsche of Terre Haute, a national officer. Delegates will attend from Muncie, Huntington, Ft. .Wayne, South Bend,. Clinton and Terre Haute.

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ABOVE—(JUMPING) HANNA LEAH MILLER (LEFT) AND MARGARET QUINN. TURNING ROPE—MRS. R. E. SIEBERT (I,EFT) AND MIIS. HARRY N. KESSLER. BELOW— ROSA LEE NAOMA SHEA (SWINGING) AND NORMA CLARE RAHE.

Hocfeler Athletic Club .members and their families are recuperating today from the greatest day in the year—their annual picnic at Columbia Park, Wednesday. About 560 attended'. Mrs. R. E. Seibert, 3392 Boulevard PL, and Mrs. Harry N. Kessler, 220 E. Twenty-Eighth St., /had charge of childrens’ games. 'Miss Mary Helen Dutinington, 12, of 1943 E. Thirty-Fourth St., took first and Miss Margaret Anna Trimpe,'. 9, of 2151 Webb St., second in the one leg race. Francis Reagan, 15, of 3130 Pleasant Run Blvd, a student at Howe Military Academy, was voted a life membership by Xhe directors,

PRESIDENT WORKS ON ACCEPTANCE Writes Speech for Notification Ceremony, By United Pre* WASHINGTON, July 24.—President Coolidge today began writing his acceptance -address, to be delivered when he is formally notified of his nomination here Aug. 14. \ The President has decided on general scope of what he will say and the speech unduobtedly will be longer than the 4,000 words to which John D. Davis/ Democratic candidate, has-dfeided to limit his acceptance address. President Coolidge will summarize the accomplishments of the Republican party during his Administration and will set forth what it will seek to do'lf maintained in power. Tax reduction, economy In administration and efficiency In government are expected to form the keynote of the Republican program as out-' iined In the President’s address ORPHAN FUNDS SOUGHT County Commissioners May Use Money for New School. Funds of the board otrfrustees of the Indianapolis Colored Orphans Home may be turned over to the county commissioners tdl be used in connection- with establishment of the school at Its new location, Keystone Ave. and Twenty-Fifth St. The matter was discussed Informally today at a conference of the commissioners, James Harrison, inspector on the new buildings and member of board of trustees, and Donald Graham, architect. Legality of the action, •tfill be considered by attorneys for the trustees and the commissioners. The exact amount of money now’'-in the hands of the trustees Is not known. ■ 3i Breaks Hip in Fall Lidge Brock, 09, farm hand employed by John Storz, 5383 Tibbs Ave., received a fractured hip today when he fell Irom a straw stack. Motorpollce Schley and Long seat Mm to the city hospital.

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for his work In redecorating the club ballroom. After several hours of strenuous athletic contests, the picnickers had dinner, followed by dancing. Committee; Austin J. Edwards, chairman; E. R. Daggett. Harry M. Freeman, James A. Smith, Otto Rieke, A. A. Bouvey, Mrs. Walter Zimmerman, Charles Wilkerson, J. A. Maeeher, L. M. Egbert, II T Egbert, H. T. McAnly, Charle Jones, Charles Gardner, Thomas T. Johnstone, D. M. House, Mrs. J. A. Fehramback and Mrs. R. A. Kejieher. t Club members-and children are showtj in the picture enjoying oldfashioned pastimes.

OFFICERS NAMED BY RIFLE BOO! Adjt, Gen, Smith Is Elected President. Adjt. Gen. Harry Smith is the new president of the Indiana State Rifle Association which held its' annual meeting at Frankfort, Ind., during the shooting matches of the Indiana National Guard. Other officers elected: Vice president, MaJ. George R. Gawebn, Ft. Wayne; secretary, Lieut. Col. Basil Middleton, Culver; treasurer, Wilson E. Connor, Terre Haute, executive officer, Lieut. Col. Manford G. Hepley, Indianapolis. Directors: Lieut, Col. Milo D. Sny-der, Cromwell, Ind.; Maj. Henry W. Pease, Goshen, Ind.; Maj. George R. Gawehn, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Maj. James W. Hurt, Indianapolis; Henry J. Mueller, Terre Haute, Ind. I -*6. .SHANK ’ ACTION FINAL Mayor Promises to Promote Owens in Bureau Squabble. Mayor Shank issued his final edict on the police accident preventiorf bureau squabble today by promising Chief Rikhoff that the board of safety woujd promote Frank Owens to Sergeant and appoint him to the bureau if Rikhoff wanted him continued in that work. Rikhoff ' opposed the wholesale shakeup In the bureau while he was out of the city when the board removed Miss Rachel Bray, Edward Glenn and Owens. LINCOLN PRICE BOOST Indianapolis dealers have received notice from the Ford Motor Company of an Increase In pi Ice on Lincoln automobiles of |2OO. The increase’ covers cost of addition of equipment which makes the car complete. These English words have been incorporated Into the French language: Bookmaker, camping, challenge, court (In tennis, etcJ. and bridge (the card game).

DEMOCRATS LAY . PLANS FOR FALL CAMPAIGNMOVES Strenuous Attack Upon Republicans Is Keynote Sounded by Speakers, An aggressive campaign, based on tax reduction, economy in -edminisstratlon and honesty in Gevernment, will be the policy of the candidates in the fall campaign a& set out by Democratic State Chairman Walter S. Chambers in his speech before the State committee at the Claypool today. Every State candidate, district chairman and vice chairman w r as present. Chambers declared the Democratic party had nothing to defend in State or Nation " v , “Our Republican friends were a bit elated because Senator Ralston wouldn’t taste the nomination for President and we felt a bit disappointed, but we all feel now that we have a splendid national ticket,’’ Chambers declared. Tom Taggart, French Lick, veteran leader of the Indiana delegation at the national convention, praised W. H. O’Brien, member of the national resolutions committee, and L. G. Ellingham, members of the national convention rules committee. Tells df Ralston Boom “Our good friend, Senator Ralston, was recognized as the logical man of the Nation to break- the deadlock ffom Smith And McAdoo. I told them they started the break too early, but when they did thfi. Senator got word to me he had a little hay to finish and we had better stop.” “We did, but Ralston’s friends from other States# Started the landslide again. I want to say there were fifteen or sixteen men who had been in no previous conference gathered in a room at the Waldorf jyho were ready to deliver their States to Senator Ralston. “There is no doubt in nSY mind that if the Senator had kept pitching hay and kept away from the telephone he would have been our nominee today. 1 Charles A. Greathouse, Democratic national committeeman and secretary of the national committee, declared the attendance indicated the Democrats were alive. Chambers Presents Ralston Chambers introduced Ralston as the only man in the United States who ever turned down a nomination for President. “I admit I don’t know whether there is a man in Indiana who has proved more of a disappointment to his friends tiian I have,” Ralston said. "But I believe it wil! not be* long until the Democrats of Indiana will see that they have a man, and I am speaking from the heart, who will prove a more effective leader than I woujd have been had this great honor came to me. “I am profoundly and everlastingly under obligation, not only in a public way, but personally, to every j man and Woman who went to the Xew York convention.” "I shall work just as earnestly for the success of the party this fall, as I have ever done before. We ought to carry Indiana., and we ought to carry the nation. We ought to win hands down.” Spirit Commended Chambers complimented attitude of defeated primary candidates He especially mentioned Dale J. Crittcnberger, Charles W. Batt and. Senator Joseph Cravens, defeated candidates , for Governor. * Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for (Jovdrnor, will go to Clarksburg, W. Va., Aug. 11 to attend the notification of Davis. Virgil M. Simmons, Bluff ton, a member of the notification committee, and Greathouse also will attend. Dr. Oscar Langston, president of the branch of the Xational Association for Advancement of Colored People, attended the meeting. The national association has indorsed the State ticket. LEADERS CHOSEN BY LA FOLLETTE Progressive Campaign Committee Named." By United Preen WASHINGTON, July 24.—The personnel of the executive Committeo which will have supreme command of the policies of the Independent campaign of Senator Robert M. La Follette for President, was announced today. With exception of the eleventh member, whose name will be announced later, the following were selected: Representative John M. Nelson, Wisconsin, manager of La Follette’s campaign, chairman; Rudolph Spreckels, California; Mabel C. Costigan, Washington, D. C.; William Johnston, chairman of the national committee of the Conference for Progressive Political Action; Morris Hillquit, prominent New York Socialist; Senator Lynn J. Frazier, North Dakota; Basil Manly, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Evans, Boston; D. B. Robertson, president of the Locomotive JClrmen and Enginemen; Robert MrCa Follette Jr. Nelson, who as manager of the La Follette campaign will have his main headquarters at Chicago, will come to Washington frequently to confer with the committee. * Two French professors have invented a radiographic instrument which permits a “movie” to bp made ~of the beating of the. heart,

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JOHN W. DAVIS, DfMOCIiATIC NOMINEE, PAUSES IN PREPARATION OF HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, TO READ TO LUCY NANCY POST. SHE IS A GRANDDAUGHTER OF CHARLES DANA GIBSON, ( THE ARTIST, AT WHOSE SUMMER ESTATE AT DARK HARBOR, .%AIXE. DAVIS IS PREPARING FOR THE CAMPAIGN,

JEN PICNICKERS DIE WHEN TRAIN SMASHES FROCK Driver Brings Car to Stop Before Crossing Tracks — Fails to See Passenger, By United Preen OAK HARBOR, Ohio, July 24. Just as Ohio was completing ■ first big step toward eliminating grade crossing accidents at a “safe- ! ty-first' conference of . State, county j and city officials, meeting in ColumI bus, ten homeward bound picniek- ; ers were hurled to death near here Wednesday night when the truck iin which they were riding was j crushed by a speeding westbound i New York CentraT passenger train. The party had ((e'en to Lake Erie. | AH were members of Seneca County | Farm Clubs. Eight were under 16 years of age. ! Survivors said the driver had !stoppod as he approached the erossi ing, got out and scanned the track, i A tram, eastbound, on a far track, I had just passed. He stepped back j into his seat and drove onto the ; track in front of a train speeding i westward. j There was a tremendous crash/ | Residents living near the crossing j heard the moans of the injured and j dying. Broken little bodies lay strewn from the crossing almost to the point where the engine finally came to a stop. GFFICIALSSTILL • SEEKING FUNDS X Shank Remains Firm in Fight to Stay Below $1,05 Levyv While Mayor Shank repeated his intontioa of retaining the -pity tax levy below $1.05 for next year, the sanitary board was preparing to a si: the city council to restore the 2-cent tax reduction made on its leVy asked for 1025. * Sol Schloss, president of thejjoard of health, urged the mayor to retain the 10-cept. levy in the health department, pointing out that the amount of money It would raise would clear the board of health of debt. The mayor promised some relief. !R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, has had no success in obtaining a 7.5-cent levy. The mayor remained firm at 7. Items totaling $5.09$ were replaced in the budget of Martin J. Hyland, street commissioner. The does not affect the levy. SCHOOL ALUMNI TO HOED PICNIC Committees Are Named by St. John Association, Athletic contests are on program at the third annual picnic of the St. John’s Boys School Alumni Association, to be held Sunday at Columbia Park. Free bus service from the end of the Shelby St. car line will.be provided. Martin J. Cain is general* chairman. Other committees: Publicity—Edward Boren. Joseph McNamara, Fred Jones, Harry Rail and John Kelly. Grounds—James • Sherrin, Walter McNamara, William Sehiffordecker, Fred Monahan ana David O’Connor. inance—John Larner, John McShane and William Cosgrove. Danee—Joe Mack, Robert Monahan. John O'Brien. Pat Sullivan. James McHugh and John Sullivan'. Athletic—Albert Feeney. Dr. John MeCool. Tom Quinn. John Smith and Joe Canning. Bowling'—Edward Gall a per. Purchasing—William Dalton, William Flannery. John Pluneran, Elmer Beckert and Martin J. Cain. Lunch and Refreshments—Altar Society and. Living- Vtosary Society. . Booths—s oung Ladies Sodality. Transportation—James Tretton. Traffic—Police Inspector Michael Glenn, Eugene Shine. Anthony Sweeney, Pat McMahon, Tim McMahon. John Dalton, John Madden, Thomas Lynch, Captain John Mullen. John Dugan, John Gaug-han, Rodger McGuire and Claude Schover. A ball game between the Boy’s School team, and alumni Vill take , pla at 4 p, m.

HEAVY DAMAGE SUIIS FILED IN SUPERIOR COURT Total Xmount of $107,500 Is Asked by Six Plaintiffs, Damage suits, aggregating $107,500, were filed in Superior Court today. Mrg. Minnie Crabb asked $25,000 from the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, receiver for the Beech Grove Traction Company. She sustained injuries, according to the' complaint, when a traction car on which she was a passengt*-, failed to take a switch at Hobart Ave„ hurling her against the seat ahead of her. Her husband, Charles Crabb, asked SIO,OOO for loss of her services. Sallie Snyder asked $25,000 from the Indianapolis Water Company, American Construction Company, Daniel, Eugene and Louise M. Foley, and* Cyrus, Barrett, for injuries she says she sustained when she fell over an iron casting over a, stop cock in an excavation in the sidewalk at 1232 N. Senate Ave. v Husband Also Sues Her husband demanded SIO,OOO in another suit. According to the complaints, no warning Or danger signs were posted. The accident occurred the night of May 3, 1924. The Indianapolis Water Company was named defendant in a SIO,OOO suit by Letitia Rees Rehfeldt, for Injuries she said she sustained when she tripped over a wire adjoining an excavation in Eleventh St. near Illinois. St., Aug. 16, 1923. Burns Basis of Suit Mary Green was severely burned when coal oil with which she was kindling a fire, June 1, 1924, exploded. She claimed there was gasoline in the coal oil and demanded $2,500 trf’m her grocer, Henry Martine, 950 Pace St., and the Pure Oil Company. George W. Adams said he was knocked unconscious and permanently disfigured when he was run down May 27, 1923. at N. West St. Indiana Ave. and W. North St., by an automobile owned by the Saunders-Heater-Mitcheil Cos. The complaint charged that at the time of the accident the defendant was a Kentucky cdrp|ration operating in Indiana without legal authority.

SHANKAPPOINTS JAMESM. OGDEN Mayor Sidesteps Naming of New City Attorney. Mayor Shank, in the city after two days absence at Kalamazoo, Mich., horse races and at a Nbrthern Indiana Lake, today appointed James M. Ogden, city attorney, to succeed Taylor E. Gronlnger as corporation counsel Aug. 1. Ogden and Groninger have served since the beginning of the Shank administration. Groninger resigns Aug. 1 to take charge of the valuation of Indiana Bell Telephone Company property for the public service commission. Shank said names of Vinson H. Manifold and WJlliam Bosson, Sr„ have been suggested for the city attorney’s, post. After a long conference with Ogden, Shank announced he had turned the selection of a city attorney entirely over to Ogden. Ogden said he would deliberate a few days. Alvah Rucker and Ralph Bamberger also are mentioned for city attorney. Truck Driver Injured "Wesley Eleben, colored, 26, of 2142 Boulevard PL, was arrested today when machine he was-driving collided with a truck driven by Buck White, at Pennsylvania and St. Joseph S,ts. Wb ! e was going north on Pennsylvania St. when Eleben drove out of St. Joe St. and struck truck, parked o.i the left side of the street. White was injured about the sides. Eleben was charged with assault and battery and driving on" tile left aide of the street,

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EDITOR MAGEE 0 CONTINUES FIGHT ON COURT ORDER Conviction on Contempt Charge Is Taken to Supreme Bench. By United Pre EAST LAS VEGA{3, N, M., July 24.—Under custody of Sheriff Delgado, Carl C. Magee, editor of the New Mexico State Tribune, left the county jail here today for Santa Fa where his conviction on contempt charges will be reviewed by the State Supreme Court. \ Delgado took Magee to Santa Fe in response to habeas corpus proceedings filed after Delgado refused to recognize a pardon granted Magee" by Governor Hinkle. A corrected pardon was handed Delgado before he left wi h’ Magee. He refused to recognize it. Editorial Attacks Magee was sentenced for elltorial attacks on the New Mexico courts published in the Tribune, a ScrippsHoward newspaper. Ten days ago Magee printed a signed editorial in his papeps the New Mexico State Tribune, a Scripps-Howard publication, describing his predicament. The editorial follows: "Next Tuesday I must face Judge Leahy" in the District Court of San Miguel. I have just the same chance with Judge Leahy that a lamb has with a butcher. The worst trouble is I cannot recognize Leahy’s mockery as a cuort of justice. "Leahy’s court isn’t a court. It's a slaughter house. I doubt whether a case, civil or criminal, has been decided there on its merits in ten. years. • "When I attack Leahy, my enemies accuse me of attacking the courts. But I'm not. I realize that courts are necessary, that they must be respected. Courts are the very founrl;>tion of our liberties. “But I haven’t any respeet for Leahy’s court and I refuse to pretend thatvl have. To do so is to help perpetuate the awful conditions that prevail, to bend a servile knee and cease to criticise the gang in this State that has made such a condition possible. Wants Equal Chance “If the time ever comes that I can get Leahy on an equal footing with ma in An honest court, ‘l’ll take him to the worst cleaning one man ever "received. About once every two weeks for a year I have accused him of being a corrupt judge in the hope that I could inveigle him, into suing me for libel. Then Id have him down on the floor of the court with someone else on the tench and a jury in the box. Then the people will have a chance to know what Leahy really is. But *he won’t meet me on an footing. “Leahy refused by give place to another judge dn my cases. He fused to give me a change of venue. He brazenly sat as the judge of his own corruption—and decided that he ; wasn’t corrupt and that I was a dangerous maligner of the courts A year in jail an<4 a s4,ooovflne was his idea of what was due me.” A recent editorial in the Santa Fe Mexican, published at the State capital and consistently hostile to Magee and his paper, said: “It is impossible to disassociate Leahj- the politician from Leahy the judge. Another Source "Instance upon instance demonstrates the lack of impartiality, |he lack of self-control, the lack of regard for constitutional rights, the lack of regard for judicial proprieties and dignity, displayed by Judge Leahy “Such exhibitions have been in connection with defendants who have been involved in political fights against prominent Republican officeholders. There has been unrestrained abuse of defendants at the bar who have afterward been cleared of the stigma which Leahy attempted to place on them. "When a public official is demonstrated to be unfit for his office, it is the duty of newspapers of the right sort to expose his unfitness. It .matters not if he is Davis J; Leahy, backed by a powerful county political machine ahd a right bower ofc-a, State political machine.” MORGAN CALM; AWAITING WATSON * / May Appeal Case if Summary Discharge Comes, Bert C. Morgan remained at the head of the dry forces liL Indiana today, silently awaiting next move of Washington officiajs. Although an inspector wan going over Morgan’s records Wednesday, and R. C. Minton has been notified to get ready to take over work a* acting director; despite reports of Senator Watson’s friends Morgan will be ousted by the time Watson arrives in Indianapolis Saturday, Morgan appears calm and unruffled. Morgan says he will not resign nor accept transfer. When asked what his action would be if he received notification he was summarily discharged, he indicated he mTght appeal to higher authorities than the Federal commissioner. “Even then the discharge by Commissioner Haynes might not be final,” Morgan said. “I know what I’ll do in that case, but I don’t care to say what it is just now. I'm not crossing any bridges before I come to them.” Morgan declared presence of the inspector from Washington had no particular significance, as inspection was wi4. frequently*