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PROSECUTOR SAKS' M’COY MURDERED WOMANFOR LOOT Former Pugilist Is Plain Bandit, District Attorney Charges. By United Press LOS ANGELES. CaL, Aug. 21. Picturing Kid McCoy as a plain everyday bandit, instead of the “great lover." who killed his latest sweetheart. District Ottorney Asa Keyes today indicated he would prosecute McCoy on a charge of murdering Mrs. Theresa Mors, with robbery as the motive. This decision came after the former pugilist's sister. Mrs. Jennie Thomas, turned over to police jewels valued at $12,000, which Mrs. Mors was said to be wearing at the time of her death, in the “love nest” where she and McCoy were living as man and wife. Keyes said he was satisfied McCoy gave them to her on the morning of the murder when, according to his sister’s testimony to the grand jury, McCoy told her “I'm afraid I’ve killed Theresa.” Meanwhile attorneys for McCoy Indicated the Kid will seek escape from a death sentence on the grounds of insanity. The penalty for murder in California, other than hanging, is from one year to life, with the possibility of parole if mitigating circumstances are proven. By pleading guilty, McCoy would avoid going on trial for jobbery, for which crime he also was indicted, an offense which carries a penalty of from fifteen years to life. AUTOISTS FACE a-DAT TERM \ Fate Hangs on Date New Law Went in Effect. On the time that the new State law governing second convictions on speeding charges goes into effect depends the fate of Julius Keller, 2337 N. Alabama St., and Kenneth Fowler, 18, of 237 Rybolt St. The cases of these two youths were taken under advisement by City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, in the speeders’ court today. Keller admitted being convicted on a speeding charge April 11, 1923. He was arrested Aug. 15, 1924, at Illinois and Fourteenth St., charged with driving thirty miles an hour. Fowler, who is charged with driving a motorcycle thirty-five miles an hour, admitted serving four days in jail after a conviction March 2.3. 1923, and paying a S6B fine and storing his cycle for six months, July 23, 1923.’ If the new speed law went into effect after these oth4r convictions. Fowler and Keller will escape a sentence of thirty days on the Indiana State farm. The law compels the judge to give the sentence on second conviction. Judge Wilmeth said he would find out from the secretary of State's office the exact date the law went into effect.

BOOZE IN AMBULANCE Police Give Rum-Runners Right of Way Unintentionally. By Times Special MIDDLETOWN. Conn.. Aug. 21. Boose runners hit upon a clever scheme when they rushed a load of contraband from New Haven over the State road through here in an ambulance. There was a red cross on the ambulance and the driver kept the gong clanging as evidence that someone was in “distress.” State policemen obligingly held up traffic on the highway bridge over the Connecticut for the ambulance to pass unobstructed upon its errand of “mercy.” Later State policemen learned what the contents of the ambulance was and gave chase, but tfc* ambulance hid in an old quarry Portland for several hours and then proceeded on its mission of “relief.” NEW PRESIDENT NOW Head of Old Maids and Bachelors Weds. By United Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., Aug. 21. The widows, widowers, maids and bachelors organization of this city is seeking anew president today. Marion Fiery, head of the organization, married Mrs. Finney Williamson, a member of the Peru unit, and was automatically disqualified from membership. t TWO-DAY CHAUTAUQUA Colored Musicians to Display Talent at Cadle Tabernacle. The General Conference Chorus of Indianapolis ■will produce a two-day Chautauqua at Cadle Tabernacle Sept. 1 and 2, introducing the best colored musical talent in the city. Prof. H. B. Hall is director and Mrs. Mildred King, accompanist. Glee club, quartette and chorus work will be presented. THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE Attractions of his wife’s 14-year-old sister. Gertrude Radican, 233 Douglass St., proved irristsible to Howard McGowan, 21, and the couple eloped today, according to stories told the police by Mrs. Go wan, mother of both young women. Mrs. McGowan said her husband admitted he loved her sister a lot more than he did her. When last seen, Mrs. Radican said, the couple were going west on W. Washington St,

U. S. Student Band ‘Jazzes Up’ Britain

WHEN TWELVE YOUNG STUDENTS OF NORTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY ORGANIZED A JAZZ BAND AND STARTED ON A TOUR OF EUROPE. THEY ALSO STARTED A LOT OF LABOR TROUBLE in BRITAIN, AS THE PHOTO SHOWS. SANDWICH MEN APPEARED TO PICKET THEIR PERFORMANCES AND HEATED PROTEST WAS MADE AGAINST THEGRANTING OF A PERMIT BY THE MINISTRY OF LABOR.

ALASKAN SALMON PACKERS OBJECT TO CONSERVATION. Rapidly Diminishing Supply Causes Government to Intervene. Timet Washington Bureau, JS2S Xetc York A>e. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Alaskan salmon packers are raising a great protest because the United States Government, through the Department of Commerce, is now conserving salmon in Alaskan waters. For years the supply of salmon in the Northwest has been diminishing to such a marked degree that even \ the packers realized there was need ; for action of some kind if salmon was not to be exterminated as com-; pletely on the West coast as it has! been on the East. I The salmon is a temperamental ] fish. It will not spawn anywhere! but in fresh water and it will not spawn in any fresh water except the place where it was born. Will Eradicate Fish Consequently the practice of catching salmon as they come upstream from the sea to spawn results in time in complete eradication of salmon from certain streams, unless some spawning takes place in that stream. Accordingly, after much dispute on the matter. Congress passed* a measure just before adjournment last June empowering the Secretry of Commerce to make any reguia tions necessary for conserving Alaskan fisheries, and requiring him to make certain of at least 50 per cent of the run in any stream escapes from the fishermen. Fifteen days later Secretary Hoover issued the regulations. That was when the storm'of protest started. Drastic Restrictions Unexpected Apparently each of the packers who had urged conservation expected the conservation to take place on ' some other man’s fishing x*reserves. I None of them expected restrictions so drastic as those laid down. And all of them joined in shouting plaintively that which preparations were ! made early in the year to handle a j pack of the normal size, only a ! 50 per cent or perhaps a 49 per cent pack can he secured this year. The I result will be a 6,000,000 loss, a number of ruined companies, and perj haps an increase in the price of ; salmon, the packers say. But another result, the bureau of I fisher.ss points out, will be an inI creased run of salmon in future j years and eventual preservation ln- ; stead of eventual extinction of the . salmon packing business. WALK GANG LAID OFF Lack of Funds Puts Another Department Out of Business. Stringent reductions In appropri- ! ations made this year by- the city put another department out of busij ness today with the announcement i that the cement walk repair force •at the city yards has been laid off I because of lack of funds. of broken cement walks j from over the city have been re- | ceived, many of them constituting a safety menace, but officials are unable to repair the wajks. 1 Other city bureaus tied up by lack of funds include the street oiling department and city weed cutting forces. Tipton Man Bankrupt A voluntary- petition in bankruptcy was filed in Federal Court today by Walter Reed, Tipton, Ind., proprietor of a plumbing and electrical supply store. His assets were listed at $479.03 and his debts, $2,512.95. Sawyer Is Killed By Times Special ENGLISH. Ind.. Aug. 21.—Gilbert Deich, 40, was killed when struck by a timber he was sawing at the Roy Stum sawmill at Eckerty. .Alleged Thief Held Carl Woods. 44, colored, 534 N. Senate Ave., is held on a vagrancy charge pending investigation of a recent theft he is alleged to have committed. Four postcards recently delivered in Heyling Island, England, were posted in Germany twenty-two years ago.

TRUEBLOOD PRESIDENT Members of 154th Volunteers Elect at State Reunion. By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind.. Aug. 21.—H. L. Trueblood of Indianapolis was chosen president of the 154th Indiana Volunteers at the annual reunion Wednesday. Other officers chosen were: Thomas V. Clements, Kokomo, vice president; William A. Young, Lafayette, chaplain and A. N. Grant. Indianapolis, secretary treasurer. Greencastle was chosen for next year’s reunion. CONMIEOGASE CAUSES STORM Local Attorney Again Tried on Liquor Charges, Assertion by Prosecutor William \ H. Remy today in Criminal Court in an attempt to convict Charles. Rollinson. attorney, on liquor charges that “This is a notorious case and has been continued twenty times’’ caused a stormy scene. Rollinson insisted on telling Special Judge Clarence Martin the continuances were not the ’’fault of the defense.” Rollinson was arrested last September by Lieut. Orville Hudson, who testified he saw a bottle of gin and a whisky glass and smelled liquor on the breath of two men coming out of Rollinson s office in the J. F. Wild Bldg. The men claimed ownership of the liquor, he said. Remy made a fight to convict on the nuisance count of the indictment. alleging-the office was a place resorted to for drinking purposes. ‘ Judge Martin took the case under advisement until next Thursday. Rollinson has been tried on previous occasions on liquor charges, the findings having l>een in his favor. Disbarment proceedings were also started against him in Circuit Court more than a year ago, which were taken from the county on change of venue. TAX DELEGATES NAMED Will Attend National Conference at St. Louis Sept. 15-19. Representatives to the national tax conference at St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 15 to 19, were named by Governor Branch today as follows: Winfield T. Durbin, Anderson; Dan W. Sims, Lafayette; Thomas Ta'ggart, French Lick; Raymond C. Morgan, Knightstown; Joseph M. Cravens, Madison; William H. McCurdy, Evansville; Frank Oliphant, Vincennes; James Fleming, H. K. Todd and E. G. Hoffman, all of Ft. Wayne: William A. Hough, Greenfield, and Fred O. Gardner, Evans Woollen. Fred A. Sims. Harry Mlesse. Bernard Koridy, Frank D. Stalnaker, Charles A. Greathouse, Earl Crawford, William Settle, John J. Brown and Philip Zoercher, all of Indianapolis. SALARY TOO SMALL Mail Carrier Says He Can't Afford to Buy Speedometer. When Judge Wilmeth in city court today suggested that Fred Steele 142 E. Ohio St., arrested for speeding, buy a speedometer for his car, Steele, who is a mail earner, said: “Judge, on my present salary, I can’t afford it.” The judge, however, said second arrest would mean a thirty-day jail sentence and he should look to the future. “There ain’t gonna be no future,” Steele replied* He was fined $1 and costs. Robber’s Loot Totals $285 John Miner, 2034 N. Capitol Ave., reported to police today his home entered and two watches, rings, bracelet and a suit all valued at $285 stolen. Planes for Pigeons LONDON Two giant “pigeon planes,” equipped solely for transporting racing birds owned by members of pigeon clubs in England and Belgium, are being flown between here an . Brussels. The planes carry The 1 ree-Climbers’ Club, the members of which spend their holidays climbing the tallest trees they can find, has been organized in Godaiming, Surrey, England.

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HERRIOT URGES PACT APPROVAL Cheered and Hooted as He Appears Before Deputies,. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 21.—“1 had to choose between re-establishing the entente or maintaining isolated action. I've chosen —now it is Parliament's turn to choose.” Premier Herrfot of France hurled this challenge to the Chamber of Deputies when he appeared before it today and outlined the accords I reached in the conference on appll- | cation of the Dawes report just | completed in London. Herriot's entrance into the chamber for presentation o? his case was dramatic. His appearance was greeted with cheers and applause, which rose to an ovation from the | Socialists, while the center and right hooted and jeered. FIGHT PROMISED ON SANITARY LEW Board to Meet Council Committee Tonight, City council finance committee headed bv Ira L. Brarnblett will | meet with the sanitary board tonight ito die uss the boards proposed tax I levies for 1925, it was learned today, j The board asked a levy of 7.5 cents ion each SIOO for maintenance and | four cents for sinking fund. Mayor Shank cut the maintenance levy to 5.5 cents, the same as this year. Attorneys for the board are prepared to fight the legality of the cut, holding that the sanitary district is a separate unit and should certify a levy direct. Councilmen will be asked to replace the levy, although statutes deny council the power to increase a levy over figures of the mayor. DAMAGE JROLL HEARD Park Board in Session Over Ground Near Fairview. Hearing on final damage roll for acquisition of ground along Cons*T Ave., between Forty-Second anl Forty-Sixth Sts., was held by the park hoard today. The ground will be used for an entrance into the new location of Butler University in Fairview. The board also held hearings on damage roll for acquisition of a Haughville playground at Arnold* and St. Clair Sts., and acquiring the Koopman property in Douglass Park. * Hearing was also scheduled on acquiring stirp of property for boulevard in the Meridian hills district along 'Williams Creek. HOOSIER BRAVES DAM Swims Through Churning Water for First Time in History. By- United Press CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa, Aug. 21. With the Cedar River at flood stage, H. J. Federspeil, 20, Ft. Wayne, Ind , after securing a bathing suit from a local store, pulled himself to the middle of the river on a life linfe just above the F Avenue bridge and swam over the dam with the water boiling and dashing ten feet in the air. * Hundreds of people saw the lad make the daring dive, the first time in the history of the city this has been accomplished. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: C. J. Zerr, R. R. E., Box 205 TANARUS, Overland, from 122 N. Senate Ave.; Raef Thipps, R. R. E., Box 85, Ford, from Market and Blackford Sts.; Herbert Spier, 413 N. La Salle St., Ford, from Vermont and Delaware Sts.; Clyde Rarer, 1406 Martindale Ave., Oakland, from Delaware and Ohio Sts.; C. E. Herin, 4040 Ruckle St., Oakland, from Monument PI. and 35. Market St.; J. T. Schwarz, 2010 N. Meridian St., Ford, from Vermont and Meridian Sts.

ENROLLMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL SHOW GAIN Per Capita Cost Approximately $93.21 or $4.19 Greater Than 1924, The total enrollment of Indianapolis school children for the year 192425 will be about 55,926, according to Murray Dalman, head of the research bureau of the city schools. The schools open Sppt. 8, according to Superintendent E. U. Graff. The increase in school children for this year over last year’s total enrollment will be about 2,200, Dalman said. The proposed expenditure under next year’s budget will be about $93 21 for each child. This per capita expense, ascertained frWn the proposed maintenance appropriation in the new budget, is $4.19 greater for each child than it was last year, the figures show. In estimating the per capita increase in expense, the capital outlay for the erection of new high schools is disregarded, Dalman said. The new buildings will serve for' years to come and cannot be considered as a per capita increase in expense for next year alone. The per capita expeniture for 1923-24 was $89.02 and the total enrollment for the year was 53,726, according to Dalman. The total number of high school students last year was 10,601 and the total enrolled in elementary schools was 43,125. The maintenance approriation under the budget for 1924-25 is $5,212,149.29. Last, year the amount expended for maintenance was $4,784,750.34.

STANDARD DENIES ‘GAS’PRICE FUG Supply and Demand Rules, Says Oil Official, By United Press JEFFERSON riTY. Mo.. Aug 21. —“Only the laws of supply and demand determine the price my company pays for crude oil,’’ President William Burton of the Standard Oy Company of Indiana said today in Attorney General Barrett’s probe of gasoline prices. “We pay whatever the Prairie Oil and Gas Company posts aa the price,” he said. Burton denied there was any ccl lusion between various Standard Companies to restrict competition. Having found that gasoline can be made and brought at an average cost of Rtj cents a gallon to Jefferson City, where it is sold at from 16 to 19 cents, Barrett today continued his attempt to find opt whether there is grounds for anti-trust proceedings against the oil companies B. T. Banks, president of the MidContinent Oil Company, Wednesday testified to the above costs of production and said there was no doubt that Standard of Indiana dominated the oil industry in Missouri. REMY CHECKS BOARDACTIVITIES Indianapolis Times Editor to Be Called in Conference. Following a conference Wednesday night with Edward P. Brennan, field examiner for the State board of accounts, Prosecutor William H. Remy today was busy checking up activities of the State highway commission during the past three years, In reference to sale of surplus war material. The matter will be laid before th? grand jury when its vacation &ids Sept. 1. Remy said he would summon Into conference Felix F. Bruner, acting editor of The Indianapolis Times, who uncovered the first evidence of alleged irregularities for his paper more tha.n a year ago. The investigation is directed in particular at the interior workings of the division of equipment, which controls the central garage of the commission. Remy has possession of the records of equipment bought by M. Goldberg & Son, Indianapolis firm, which obtained most of the equipment in question, showing the amount purchased and prices paidPATROLMAN’S SON FINED Youth in Speeders’ Court Does Not Reveal Identity. Robert Groves, 17, of 2864 Shriver Ave., member of the United States Naval Reserve Corps and a son of Patrolman Clarence Groves, was fined $22 and costs on a speeding charge in speeders’ court today. Groves did not the fact his father was a policeman when heuwas arraigned. Patrolman Groves is 111 at the city hospital. City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth agreed to allow Groves to pay his fine after he returned from a Great Lakes cruise Sept. 8. Contract Is Awarded Contract for an automatic conveyor system at the new garbage disposal Qlant was awarded to the Dow Company of Louisville by the sanitary board today on a low bid of $23,717. The conveyor system will speed handling of garbage, and eliminate manual labor now being employed, board members said.

Girls at Motor Club Direct Tourist Traffic of Nation

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LEFT TO RIGHT—MISS BERN IE CE SMITH. MISS LEONA BERRY AND MISS CHARLINE M’NEIL.

These three young women are asked nearly 25,000 questions a year by tourists. They work from 7 a. rn. to 6 p. m. daily, except Sunday, ready to aid motorists who must be on their way at the touring department of the Hoosier Motor Ciub. fmpatient? Certainly not. Always 1 they are at their post ready to serve tourists. They must meet all with a smile—the male and female of the tourist species, the optimist and the grouch, the gentleman and the flirt. # They must know the best road to take, the mileage, population of the towns through which the tourist passes, points of historical and scenic interest, dangerous railroads to cross, detours, if any, and names of hotels en route. Must Know Indianapolis Especially must they know all about Indianapolis, its points of interest, business houses and manufacturers, its amusements and, according to some tourists, they should know where to pro-

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P RESIDENT COOLIDGE— The President intended to break lis rest today with the strenuous work of pitching hay in a neighbor’s field. A few townspeople called at his father's home, but the President held no political conferences. JOHN \V. DAVlS—After heading a series of conferences with his managers at the eastern head-

NORSE HELD IN MURDER PROBE Patient Leaped From Hotel Window, She Says. By United Press OMAHA. Neb..' Aug. 21.—Miss Catherine Ford, 51, Santa Barbara, Cal., fell to her death on the sidewalk from an eignth story room in which she was undergoing treatment for a -nervous disorder at a hotel here today. Rose Cavelleri. a nurse at St. Francis' Hospital, Santa Barbara, who had been treating Miss Ford, said her patient had leaped from t)ie window io her death below. The fact the body was cold when found led police to hold Miss Cavalleri. They believe Miss Ford, if she leaped from the window, must have doftp so many hours before Miss Cavalleri reported the tragedy. YOUTHS TRY TO OUIDO SLAYERS Boys Who Threatened Franks Family Caught. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—" Loeb and Leopold are college graduates, and I only finished grammar school, but I thought I could show them up.” explained Fielding Smith, 19, after he confessed to police he and his brother. Earl, 11, had attempted to extort SB,OOO from Jacob Franks, father of the murdered Robert Franks, by threats of lulling Mrs. Franks and their daughter, Josephine. Earl was arrested late Wednesday as he took two decoy packages from a rubbish box and implicated his brother when questioned. DRYS AGAINST COUZENS Michigan Anti-Saloon League Won't Aid Senator. By United Press LANSING, Mich., Aug. 21.—The Michigan Anti-Saloon League will support former Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle against Senator James Couzens in the Republican primaries, Sept. 9, league officials announced today. Hal H. Smith and Daniel W. Tussing, the other senatorial candidates, are satisfactory, but the league wishes to concentrate on one man, the announcement said. CHIL DESERTED, DIES County Officials Are Looking for Parents. By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 21. Cass County officials were on the lookout, for William Jones and his wife, whose twenty-months-old child died at the home of Its grandparents here today after it had been deserted by the parents while In a critical condition. The child was unattended by a physician at the time of death.

cure good liquor at a reasonable price. It is estimated 30,000 persons are employed throughout tlie United States especially to direct tourists to their destination. Although requests are received all year round, the .heaviest seasoa is from May 1 to Oct. 31. Calls Are Numerous During this period this year 9,000 office calls were answered and over 12,000 telephone calls. Most of the requests in the spring and summer are for points east, west and north. In November and December most tourists seem to be drifting to Florida and California. Visiting tourists from all parts of the country, Canada, Australia, England, France, Switzerland and Mexico apply for information. Staff of the touring department are: Miss Charline McNeil, manager; Miss Leona JBerry, 4821 E. Michigan St., and Miss Bernice Smith, 414 Euclid Ave., assistants. These girls have won the praise of motorists from all parts of the country.

quarters here, the Democratic candidate left late this afternoon for Seagirt, where he will be the guest of Governor Silser and address the New Jersey State committee and huge mass meeting Friday. SENATOR LA FOLLETTE— Senator La Foilette conferred with his leader and team mate. Senator Wheeler, on campaign plans.

FATE BALKS CUPID Ft. Wayne Men May Lose Childhood Street he arts. Bv Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 21— Because Nick Pope, 24, and John Burson. 27, both e.mployes in the rolling mills, aren't American citizens, they may lose the chance to jwed their ohildhood sweethearts in far-away Roumania. Although both men served in the American army during the war, Roumania has refused to let the two brides-elect leave the country because Pope and Burson aren’t American citizens. FIFTEEN FACE CHARGES Men and Women Annoy Hospital Inmates, Police Say. Thirteen men and two women were to face charges on congregating in city court today following their arrest Wednesday by Patrolman Conway, along the fence at the Central Insane Hospital. The arrests followed complaints filed by citizens living near the hospital, that men and women stand along the fence while the patients are taking exercise, and annoy the inmates. On several occasions, it was said, the crowd has challenged the guards when told to stay away from the fence. PHI SIGMA CHI MEETS Convention Closes Friday With Election of Officers. Nearly 100 delegates from the seventy-two chapters of Phi Sigma Chi will elect officers Friday in the third and final day’s meeting of their twenty-second national convention at the Lincoln. Today’s program included a business session, followed by a dance. Building Permits W. Frank Reidman. paraga. 5757 Lowell. $650. Andrew Watson, addition, 422 E. Orange, $1,200. William A. Quillln, dwelling. 5417 Winthrop. $.'1,500. William A. Quillin. dwelling. 5425 Winthrop, $3,500. .John E. Patrick, porch. 2157 N. Jefferson. S4OO. Anna Ernsting. garage. 226 McKim. S2OO. C W Shelbum. double, 3000 Bellefontaine. $3,260. C, W. Shelbum. furnace. 3000 Bellefontaine. $250. Otto Oberfelt. double. 654 N. Oxford. $7,500. Otto Oberfelt. furnaces, 654 N. Oxford. S4OO. Charles Lang, garage. 1615 N. Tuxedo. S3OO Real Silk Hosiery Company, building. 602 N. Noble. $5,500. Real Silk Hosiery Company, stack. 602 N. Noble, $4,600. C. A. Suffrins, garage, 8248 Kenwood. $350. Harry Barnett, double. 02f( N. Mtley, $3,500. Harry Barnett, double. 933 N. Mtley. $3,500. Harry Barnett, double, 926 N. Mlley. $3,500. Harry Barnett, double. 937 N. Miley. $3,500. Walter Tellman. garage, 51 N. Bradley, S2OO. Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, repairs.*. 2206 W. Michigan, SBSO. L. J. Brown, addition. 1631 English. S3OO. Crandall-Donnell Corporation, oil tank, Hllnois and Vermont. $425. Robert Dalce, garage. 961 N. Rochester. S3OO. H. Lanetaedt, garage. 38 N. Sherman. S2OO. Anna V. Avery, garage. 4513 Washington Blvd., $3,000. * Walter Cox, dwelling. 6228 N. Delaware, $6,500. E. M. Stewart, remodel, 1075 Udell, $697. Elmer L. Cline, addition, 3215 Washington Blvd.. $1,500. Timothy Fenton, reroof. 1201 E. New York. $251. Marie H. Stewart, reroof. 314 Grah, $240. James P. Monaghan, furnaces. 322 N. Jefferson, S2BO. James P. Monaghan, double. 322 N. Jefferson. $4,000. Columbia Securities Company, remodel, 143 E. Ohio. $4,000. Centra! Library floor. St. Clair and Pennsylvania. $225. Kahn building, repair elevator. Meridian and Washington, S2OO. Nichols Candy Company, repair elevator. 406 S. Meridian. S2OO. T. M. Whitlock, remodel. 1457 Churchman. $260.

THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1924

TEXAS WITNESSES 1 spiriteocontest; FOR GOVERNSHIP . I Primary Saturday Will Decide Fate of Klan —'Ma' Ferguson Confident, By United' Press DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 21.—“Pou* it on ’em” was the cry from the State political grandstand today as two candidates thundered into tha home stretch of the Texas Democratic gubernatorial derby with the governorship of Texas virtually tha prize for the winner. Texas voters will settle a doubla isue in the run off primary next Saturday when the ballots will decide whether Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson of Temple, Texas, —“Ma” Igerguson, her supporters have dubbed her—or Felix D. Robertson of Dallas shall sit in the Governor’s chaii* Klan Is Issue Their ballots will decide whether Texas is to have the first womatt Governor ever elected and fix definitely the political strength of th® Ku-Klux Klan in the State. Tha Klan question is admittedly the outstanding issue in the campaign. Interest centered on the gubernatorial race from the opening of tha Initial primary when “Farmer Jim* Ferguson, impeached Governor, w. 4 barred from the ticket, and it wa* found that Marian A. Ferguson, his! wife, had ajso filed for the office. Mrs. Ferguson ran an easy seconds to Robertson in the opening primary. Mrs. Ferguson herself took !lttlj active part in the fight, appearing oni the platform with her husband* only; a few times during the rump primary campaign. Husband on Stump “Farmer Jim” took the stump t<X elect his wife Governor of Texas. H threw the Klan issue to the forefront in his opening speech and intensified his blows throughout. Both candidates will continue the!* campaign on the eve of the election* With the start of the balloting—only two days away—both were optimistic as to their prospects. Mrs. Ferguson declared she woul(X not be satisfied with less than 125,000 majority and Robertson claim® election with 90,000 votes to spare.

ENTRIES HEAVY FOR STATE FAIR Twenty-Five Per Cent Increase Over Last Year, Entries at the swine, horse and cattle departments at the Indiana State Fair are .25 per cent greater than last year with more coming in, William Jones, secretary of the fair board said today. Entries in agricultural display and in every department are greater than anticipated, Jones said, and the biggest fair in the State’s history is expected. The fair management has opened offices at the fairground and a force of clerks are already installed. The new horse show building is already swamped with entries of more than 200 horses for the horse show. DAMAGES ARE CLAIMED Service Commission Asked to*interrene in Complaint. Charges that loss of $160,000 was sustained in seven months through failure of the Southern Railway Company to supply cars to the J. L, Wolley Coal Company and the Whr* rick Coal Company, both of Evans, ville, were contained in a complains filed with the public service commission by the companies today. Between September, 1922, ani March, 1923, the railroad company discriminated against the plaintiffs in favor of mines in Alabama and Indiana in alloting its cars, the complaint states. The commission is asked to asses® damages against the railroad com, pany. Machine Strikes Pedestrian Ed Campbell, Stop 7 on the Franklin traction line, was injured at Virginia Ave. and McCarty St-, today when he was struck by a machine driven by John Routier, S2 N. Brook* ville Rd. Tournier was held. Births Boys William and Amanda Shaw, 1818 SToofc calm. Odin and Louisa Wadlelgh, 8030 N, Delaware. James and Mabel Kell etna. 3019 W, Washington. James and Helen Ricketts, 1230 W. Thirtieth. Thomas and Ruth Denny, 2825 Shriver, Harry and Ursula Bryan. Deaconess Hoe, pital. Hobert and May Chandler. 813 N. New Jersey. Virgil and Georgians Brown. 8646 EL Eighteenth. MUo and Eunice Ray. 431 S. Pine. Daniel and Grace Day. 2851 Keystone. Cleo and Mary Hensley. 327 Minerva. Girls Anthony and Mary Conolaa. 717 NL Holmes. George and Grace Rutledge, 512 S. Missouri. Bennard and Marguerite Ayres, 2146 Barth. Charles and Minnls La Fary, 2228 Haynes. Leaner and Nettie Wheat, 1654 Kelly. Olive and Eddie Llnhart. 2167 Drexel. Clarence and Hallie McNabney, 148 9* Arsenal. William and (lemma Pgal, 216 S. Eas^ Deaths Lena Wheelan. 76. city hospital, erysipelas. Sarah Morrow, 90. 1568 Brookside, cere, bral hemorrhage. Helen Mamie Alderson, 1 month. Methodist hospital, dysentery. Flora L. Davis. 41. 2243 Carrollton, chronic parenchymatous nephritis. Frederick T. Berger, 73. 618 N. Capitol. lobar pneumonia. Anna Barbara Lustig. 68. 3606 E. Tenth, chronic myocarditis. Frank Leslie Wilmot. 66. 1501 W. Twenty-Seventh, cerebral hemorrhage. Josephine Effie Hewes, 31. 529 Highland. septicaemia. Dorothy Eloise Brooner. 13. 2228 Parker. pulmonary tuberculosis. Catherine Tarhune. 24. 2426 Brookside* pulmonary tuberculosis.