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0. S. EMPLOYES MB 10 GIVE 10 0:0. P. FBI N Letter Points OuKParty Is 'Badly in Need of Funds’ —Law Recalled, Federal employes have received letters from the Republican State headquarters at the Severin, soliciting funds for the committee, according to information today. These letters, Federal employes state, solicit S3O. The letter read: “You are no doubt aware that the Republican State committee in Indiana is badly in need of funds for the campaign, now begun, we have to appeal to our friends. We expect your check for SSO to be sent to me for the committee as soon ns possible. If you are unable to pay the full amount at once you may make it in two installments. I will expect to receive your check for by return mail.” New Method Used According to political leaders this is the first time any State committee has solicited campaign funds from Federal employes by mail. According to seme interpretations-the action may be construed as a violation of the statute which prohibits solicitation of campaign funds upon Government property. Some department heads have expressed concern over financial condition of the State committee. According to statements expense of keeping up the fifteen bureaus and their scores of employes occupying almost the entire third fioor of the Severin and four or five rooms on the ninth floor, is approximately $■3,000 a week, to say nothing of the cost of carrying on the campaign. lilan Aid Fades? One leader declared today that the expected contributions from KuKlux Klan sources had not materialized in amounts expected and help had not yet been received from the national committee, financially. Five or six department heads are living at the Severin with an unlimited expense account. Willis Bye, Kokomo, is head of the finance bureau. PETITION LIFE OF CHICAGO YOUTH

(Continued From Page 1) vantages of two rich youths, is too young to hang. "All I ask for is sample justice for this poor boy.” The Chicago Tribune printed an editorial saying it would be unfair to hang Grant and Walter Krauser, 20. who confessed to the Souders killing. “With Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold installed in the State institution at Joliet, it would he grossly unfair to hang either Ivraused or Grant,” the editorial sail in part. “They had no meanfc to make a spectacular fight to escape the penalty fixed by Jaw for such an offense of thks. Cold logic might support that the full law be fulfilled in their cases without regard to any other case. “But there Is a higher logic which protests against such inequality in punishment. “It would be unfair to hang young Grant and Krauser white Loeb and I-eopold escape the penalty for ar worse crime.” Crowds Visit Home .Crowds of curious persons gather daiiy for a glimpse of the weatherbeaten little frame house in the •“back-of-the-yanls” district occupied by parents and a brother and sister of young Grant. The bare, unpainted structure presents a stalling contrast to the palatial homes of Leopold and Loeb, also on the South Side, but in front of the stockyards. Bartley Grant, father of the youth, with both leg3 off at the knees as result of a railroad accident fifteen years is appealing to his friends tq. help save Bernard. *‘l know he is innocent," Grant said. “But we didn’t have the money to fight the case in court and we haven’t the money nojv for this fight“But a lot of people tell me they won’t stand to see the boy hanged while those two rich boy* are alive. “My boy had to leave school when he was 14 —he hadn't passed the seventh grade yet—to help support us. What did he have to teach him to keep away from bad companions? Nothing but hard knocks, hard work and no spending money to speak of, not a thing that most boys have to give them a decent start in life.” Local American Legion officials announced they would take part in the fight to save Grant from the gallows. Attorney Jay J. McCarthy has been retained to help in the fight. Officials of the Legion said they would call Grant's case to the attention of the national convention oCthe Legion at St. Paul.

GRANDMOTHER IS HELD Father Says He Is Refused Fermission to See His Child. Juvenile court authorities will he asked by police today to unravel the mtxup that resulted In the arrest Saturday of Mrs. Nettie Baker, 45, of 80S Tecumseh St,, on a charge of detaining her grand child. Glenn Sehering, It'oo Harl tn St.. a son-in-law caused the arrest after he alleged Mrs. Baker would not allow him to see his child. . Scherring said tha't the custody of the child Was not determined recently when he obtained a divorce from his wife now at the Sunny Side Sanitariuijk -Mrs. Baker'dias had the child sin<& * was a few weeks old.

Chinese Soldiers on the Way to Shanghai

TRAMP. TRAMP. TRAMP—THE CHINESE SOLDIERS ARE MARCHING ON TO SHANGHAI TO PROTECT THE CITY, WHERE THE FIGHTING GROWS HEAVIER. THE HARBOR IS FULL OF AMERICAN. BRITISH. JAPANESE AND FRENCH WARSHIPS READY TO PROTECT FOREIGN INTERESTS.

HOOF-AND-MOUTH GERM RESEARCH TO BEWITHHELO Bu XEA Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Despite the threatening aspect of the foot-and-mouth disease in this country. Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture has deemed it best to withhold research work on this contagion. The reason is that the foot-and-mou'h disease spread is so fast and ■ip dangerously that the er-.-m cannot be separated long enough, with safety, to make experimentation possible. In a recent letter explaining his viewpoint to the Los Angeles County Medical Association of California, Wallace writes: “Our reasons for not permitting such experiments are: “First, only a cursory study of the disease could be made in infected areas under our system of prompt slaughter and burial of affected and exposed animals, unless the virus were propagated and kept on hand forjm extended period after the disease would otherwise have been stamped out. Nothing Gained “Second, there is little or no prospect that such a study would add antyhir.g to the knowledge that has been gained by the vast amount of experimental and research study by i European investigators. “Third, the difficulty of controlling | the virus of this highly* infectious I malady and preventing the escape of the infection. “Fourth, the probability that many of the States would immediately place embargoes upon practically all the products of the State in which j investigations were being made. “Fifth, the likelihood that any in-j vestigation or research study that might produce worth while results i would have to he carried on for ; months and possibly years, during which time the virus of the disease would be a potential menace to healthy, susceptible animajs in the vicinity.” Europe Research Fails Wallace points to the failure of research on this subject in Europe, where the disease is practically endemic. When Professor Loeffier of Germany was carrying on his research t Berlin, the disease escaped and the German government was c lied on to pay damages for the Targe j losses resulting. The Briiish Minis try of Agriculture and Fisheries undertook to conduct a series of experiments at sea on an old war vessel equipped as a laboratory, but was compelled to give up because it was found Impossible to prevent the healthy control animals from contracting the disease. In France investigators at the I government farm near Alfori likewise were obliged to give uo their experiments because, noiw.thst.mding their specially equipp*** buildings and every known precaution, the malady cdvld not be prevented from jumping from one barn to another. ilesTo address club Chairman of Exposition Will Talk at Gyro Meeting Tuesday. O. B. lies, chairman of the Second Indianapolis Industrial Exposition, Oct. 4-11, at the State fairground, will speak on the exposition at the Gyro Club luncheon at the Lincoln Tuesday. The club will hold a bridge party and dinner at Walnut Gardens this afternoon and evening. Gjp:o bowling season opens Tuesday evening at Illinois alleys. Car Owner Missing Police have an auto and five gollons of white mule, seized in an auto at Rankin and West Sts. Federal officers Holman and Lyle are searching for the car owner.

Rites for Straw Dicer Tuesday

. . ERE’S a funeral we’re all | T I invited to, according to a l * * i biaA-bordered announcement of the Mercator Club; “The official funeral service of the straw hat will be held under the auspices of the Mercator Club in front of the Spink-Arms Hotel on Tuesday 12:15 p. in. sharp. Sept. 16, 1924. “Alvah J. Rucker, the noted elocutionist, will preside and will eulogize the straw hat in that most feverish, pass’onate and eloquent manner of hi 6. Mayor Lew

Art Students

MARGARET GRAHAM ROBERT WORMAN

Miss Margaret Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman A. Graham, Forty-Second St. and Sherman I>r., and Robert Worrr.an, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Worrnan, 34f>5 Guilford Ave., have been awarded full scholarships at John Herron Art Institute. They are graduates of Shortridge High School, where their work In classes _ of Miss Ithoda Selieck and Mis* Carolyn Ashbrook attracted attention. INJURED LAD IS BETTER Boy StrucJc by Machine Improves at Hospital. Clay Ficklen, 9, of 123 Herman St., Is improved at St. Vincent's Hcspital, after being struck, police alleged, by an auto driven by Harry Schwinn, 615 Dorman St. The accident occurred at 1000 block E. Ohio St. The boy was taken home and when his condition became worse ha was taken to the hospital. Schwinn' was charged with assault and battery. Edward Wilcox, Chicago, was charged witli assault and battery, after his auto is alleged to have struck John Tracey, 73, Stebhins, at Illinois and Mary Land St., Sunday. He was takento city hospital.

IDENTITY IS SAME? Defective Says John Boles Was Grieving Husband. Detective Capt. Fred Simon today declared that a inan giving the name of John Boles, 35, and held for the Government in a white slave investigation. is the same man who gave the name of Philip Privetera, 2122 Pleasant St., when he reported his wife and five children missing several weeks ago. Boles \*as arrested by detectives in company with two 16-year-old girls. Detectives said fare of the girls from Illinois had been paid. Privetera spent several days In city hospital grieving for the missing wife and children, detectives said. Pioneer Resident Buried Bu United Press MARION, Ind.. Sept. 15. —Funeral 'services were held today for Rev. David Harris, 36. one of the pioneer residents of Grant County. He was a pastor in the Friends Church for more than forty years.

Shank will be present and read the official proclamation on the discarding of the old headgear. The'Mercator Quartette will provide the music, together with the Mercator Jazz Orchestra. “Our able and efficient mortician, Charles A. Hockensmith, will have direct charge of the remains.” After the "funeral,” Taylor E. Groninger, special counsel for the pul die service in the Indiana Bell Telephone Company valuation, will discuss “Problems of Public Utilities.”

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POSTMASTERS 10 HEAR HARRY NEW Tentative Program Arranged for Convention, The tentative program of the annual convention of the National Association of Postmasters, Sept. 23-21-25, at tiie Claypool, Includes addresses by Postmaster General Harry S. New, Governor Emmett F. Branch. Hon. Frank J. Bock, national president of the association, of Newark, N. J. and prominent members of the postoffice department. Governor Branch will welcome the delegates at the opening session. Book will respond. New will speak at the same session. Other speakers. Hon. John 11. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general: William R. Spllm.an. superintendent division of postofflee service; Walter H. Riddell, general superintendent division of railway mail service; E. W. Satterwhlte, assistant general superintendent division of railway mail service ;C. H. Buckler, superintendent division of registered mails, and George Landick, superintendent division of equipment .and supplies. NEW DELAY SEEN IN SCHOOL FIGHT (Continued Front F.age 1) in favor of the levy asked by the school board. It is understood opponents of the building program will center their drive upon the levy of 8 cents for a new west side high school. This levy is xepfiected to raise about $446,0<>0. They will argue, it is said, that the (school should he constructed by bond issue, if built at all. School officials point out in answer to this ! argument that The bonded indebted ness allowed the school city under the law lias been used to point where only a margin of $2,650,000 remains. The board plans to expend $2,000,000 of this erecting anew Short ridge and a colored high school. Were the west side high school added to this there would be left <jnly $150,000 as a margin for emergencies, generally concede,l to bo in sufficient, and members of tlie tax payers’ association would be quick to raise the question should the school board attempt to do this, ad herents of the building program argue. Effect on Grade Schools Should construction of the West Side High School be prevented this year it will have an immediate effect upon the overcrowded conditions in the grade school, school officials said today. At present there are ahout 10S rooms, housing 4..360 grade school pupils, which never were intended for school purposes, basement rooms, third floors, cloak rooms, portables, etc. In the post school officials have postponed high school construction until some relief could be given grade schools. Meantime high school conditions became almost intolerable. Arsenal forced to add a big wooden porWble :o take care of some of its 5,000 pupils. Shortridge overflowed Into third floor rooms at a nearby grade school and into rented rooms in the vicinity. Conditions at Manual tvero almost as bad. Forced by necessity the school board took up the high school problem. Should the levy for the West Side High School be prevented by the State tax board, this year it wi" moan that some grade school construction will be delayed in proportion. Barry’s Hand Blocked Charles L. Barry, school board member, who played an important part in the fight waged against, grade school construction by members of the Indiana Taxpayers’ League three years ago, at a recent meeting of the school board attempted to put through a motion cutting the levy to 96 cents. He was defeated. It is said the petitioners will ask substantially the same thing from the tax board that Barry failed to get through the school board. filed with the county auditor by Ail protesting petitions must be next Monday, Sept. 22. Absence of Harry Miese, an official of the In, ana Taxpayers Association from t ie city, will delay filing the petition against the school levy for several days, it was said today. Miese left for St. Louis, Mo., where he will attend the national tax Members of the State tax board also are there.

M. E. MINISTERS GIVEN CHARGES - ATCONFERENCE State Annual Meet to End With Reading of Appointments,' Assignment of ministers to their various charges faced the Indiana annual Methodist conference which was to close at E. Tenth Street Church today. Bishop Joseph F. Berry of Philadelphia, Pa.,* dean of Methodist bishops, who presided, in nbsence of Resident Bishop Frederick D. Leete, is to read the apointments. The bishop and cabinet had worked several hours overtitme making assignments. Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church was chosen for the 1925 conference. Examiners Board Named Rev. W. B. Farmer of Columbus was elected president of the board jof examiners. Other pastors chosen I members: C. E. Flynn, Bloomington; | S. J. Cross, New Albany; E. A. Rob- | ,-rtson, East Park, Indianapolis; J. E. Craig, Indianapolis: W. R. Ashj by. Winslow; J. W. McFall, ConnatsI vi!ie; W. H. Wylie, Vincennes; D. S. ! Black, New Albany: W. C. Patrick, I College Corner: L. T. Freeland, Seymour; A. W. Dunlavy, Roberts Park M. E., Indianapolis, and W. J. Jones, Conners villa The Rev. Farmer was also elected manager of the campaign- for Preachers* Aid, the endowment of which was increased from $400,000 .to $1,000,000. The Rev. O. Fifer, Central M. E Church. Indiaanpolis, and Fred link--, ,*v<>re chosen trustees for the Methodist Episcopal Hospital and Deaconess home. Official recognition was given by the conference to Methodist Orphans Home at Lebanon, Ind. Figures on church property valuation and membership were read ■*y C. C. Black, conference statist] i clan. Total valuation of churches in the conference is $6,203,210; parsonages, $579,Cu2; membership, 113.287, a gain of 2,988 over last conference. Total salaries paid to ministers, $579,602. In the Indianapolis district. church property is valued at 11,635.110; parsonages, $83,209, and salaries to ministers, $125,042. A total of 22,078 members was reported, Shumaker Speaks E. S. Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon League urged sentence on the Indiana State Farm for those who drink "bootleg liquor,” the same as the bootlegger. The Rev. H. W. Davis of Clay City was retired. Sunday was a full day at the conference. Following a "love feast” conducted by Dr. C. C. pdwards of Franklin, Ind., Bishop Berry delivered the conference sermon before a large nudler.ee. Ills text: Psalms thirteen: “As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” The venerable churchman discussed “God. and How We Dei! with God.” He related the experience of his conversion when a lad. in a very impressive manner. Too Many Dead Men “We’ve got too many dead men In some churches; too many dead men standing before Sunday school classes; too many dead men In the pulpits. 1 get tired of this cynical spirit and wish the universities would stamp it out. Shallow intellects. May God protect us from the cvr.ical attitudes of some professors that pose as intellectual giants," the Bishop said. Ordination services were held In the afternoon. In the evening Dr. F .W. Mueller, of Philadelphia, spoke in the church and the Rev. Will Huff, in the annex. The Rev. Harry W. Baldridge, secretary of the conference for fifteen years, was in charge of a film “Lest We Forget.” The Rev. Edward P. Jewett, a minister for a third of a century, a former Indianapolis pastor, father of former m: yor Charles W. Jewett, has retired to the superannuated list. dog Accepts necklace Store <*terk Pets Pup and Gives Him Pearls. Bu Times Special PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 15 During a lull in activities in a mercantile establishment, here a clerk petted a dog which had strayed into the place. Observing that the animal had no collar, she placed a pearl necklace about his neck,—-then held him bp by the paws to view the effect. The dog broke away and dashed from the stole, with the young lady racing after him to recover her beads. But she was no match for the fleet-footed canine and abandoned the chase after a pursuit of several blocks.

FRAT PLEDGES NAMED Eight Indianapolis Students Chosen fly Do Pamv Chapter. r.jj Timex Specidl GREENCASTLE, Ind., Kept. 15. Eight Indianapolis men are included T>e Fauw University fraternity pledges,sit was announced today. The Indianapolis pledges: Bota Theta Pi, Gordon Ritter and Robert Stahl; Phi Gamma Delta, Frank MeFall, Fred Bruce anjj Kurk Martz; Stigma Chi, Robert Gray; Phi Delta Theta, Edwin Aneregg and Albert Brown. Insurance Policies Given M. J. Walsh, manager of, the Mentor Company, 14 E. Washington St.., announced today that the,store is the first in the city to give travel accident insurance policies to customers. Policy will be issued with each clothing purchase of S2O or over. Ohio ‘Gas’ Price Cut His United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 15. The Standard Oil Company today reduced the prffce of gasoline at its Ohio filling stations from 18 to 17 cents a gallon. i

Violinist Listed for Church Recital

ARNOLD DAVT S, VIOLINIST.

On Wednesday night, Oct. 1, at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Arnold Davis, violinist of this city, will give a recital under

CHINESE LEADERS WE 10 FIGHT FOR CAPITAL CITY Manchurian War Lord Seizes Important Post Near ‘Border, Bu United Press PEKIN, Sept. 15. —General Wu Pel I*u, most powerful of the Chi Li Leaders, was expected to return to Pekin today for conference with President Tsae Kun concerning defense of the capital against Chang Tso Lin. The Manchurian war lord announced from Mukden that he had captured Chao Yang Fu, an important city of 659.000, twenty miles from the Manchu border. Wu Pei Fits troops are advancing to meet them. Chang’s young son is reported leading the attack. By United Press SHANGHAI, Sept 15.—Fighting I has been regumed in the Wang Do district and 1 eavy firing was heard ip Hnanghai last night, but heavy fresh rains prevented the conflict from becoming general. Bu United Press LONDON, Sept. 15.—The Dally Mail’s Mukden correspondent cables ar. interview with Chang Tso Lin. in which the Manchurian leader says: “I am moving troops to certain strategic places to meet a threatened attack from Wu Pei Fu, but I will not fire the first shot and I guarantee full protection to foreign life and property. “I consider Wu Pei Fu a man whose ambition is driving him mad. He wants to be dictator of China, but his claims to be another Na poleon are signs of insanity. “I have telegraphed President Tsae Kun many times that civil war. when millions of Chinese are suffering through floods, would be criminal, but he takes no notice.” Chang Tso Lin, the correspondent says has massed 300,000 troops at Jchol. 115 miles northeast of Pekin. NEWS OF DEATH AWAITS TRAVELER Miss Merle Irick Dies on Birthday, When Detective Sergeant Harry B. Trick. 714 N. Noble,St., arrived in Indianapolis early today from Pueblo, Colo., he called his home immediately to inquire about his daughter, Merle, ill four riveeks. He learned from his wife's lips that their daughter died Sunday at St. Vincent Hospita lockjaw, which | developed from ulcers of the stomach. Irick. with his partner, Detective Sergeant John Giles, was on his way home with three prisoners when Miss Trick’s death occurred, and efforts to reach him failed. Miss Trick died on her 26th birthday. was a stenographer at the Fletcher American Bank. The funeral will be on Wednesday morning at St. Patrick’s Church. Surviving are the parents and two sisters, Mrs. E. W. Fox of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Adele Irick of Indianapolis.

BANKERS SPURN BONDS County Receives No Bills on $750,000 Issue at 4 Per Cent. Because bankers said 4 per cent Interest’ on tax-exempt honds was too low, county commissioners today received no bids on a proposed issue of $750,000. The sale of the bonds was ordered by county council to provide 45 per cent of the cost of building new river bridges at Oliver and Kentucky Aves. The city will pay 45 per cent and property owners of the neighborhood 10. County Audtior Harry Dunn said council will reconsider the bond issue Thursday. It is probable the Interest rate be raised to 4Vi or 4V& per cent. / Commissioners recently sold an Issue of SBOO,OOO to refund a debt incurred in 1004 for bridges, at 4% per cent. Dunn said bankers said the county got an exceptionally low rate then. Dental Society to Dine Members of the Indianapolis Dental Society will meet at the Lincoln for dinner tonight. They will be addressed by Dr. George S. Bond, associate professor of medicine at Indiana University, whose subject will be “Relation of Dentistry to Cardiovascular Renal Disease.”

the auspicies of the Bethany Class of the church. He will be assisted by Fred Newell Morris, bass, and Bertha Jasper, accompanist.

■MACAULAY WAS WRONG’ : Dr. McCulloch Says Democratic Government Will Stand. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, DemoI cratlc candidate .for Governor, adI dressed the Scientech Club at lunchj eon today at the Chamber of Commerce on ‘Faith in the Future.” He I pictured progress of government as | forward-looking and satisfying the j needs of its citizens, j “Lord Macaulay, in 1857, declared ! no democratic government could exist—that either the government would be destroyed or liberty would be destroyed, or both; that eventually chaos would result or some dictator like Napoleon would seize the reins of government. Sixty years of democratic government in America since Macaulay’s time have proven i him wrong,” McCulloch said. ALLEGED BANDITS ESCAPE POLICE Filling Station Robbed of $lO0 —Another of ssl, Police, investigating a filling sta- ! tion robbery, fired at three colored | suspects as they fled from an automobile. The men escaped: The men are thought to have been the ones who forced Lewis Ellis, 32, of 259 N. Illinois St., to open the safe | at the Pure Oil station, Kentucky j Ave. and West Sts., from which they , took $1 0 Sunday night. The suspected bandit car was j seen by Sergeant Brennan and I squad at Colton and Johnson Sts. ' The car. deserted by the colored i men, had been stolen from Edgar ! Cox, 2234 Avondale PI. .early Sunday. Police also sought two colored bandits who took ssl in cash and checks from the Indian filling station, St. Clair St. and Capitol Ave., early Sunday. raidgnpoker" GAS IS FATAL One Killed, Two Wounded at Seymour, Bu United Press SEYMOUR. Ind., Sept. 15.—One man Is dead, two others are wounded and eleven participants in a Sunday afternoon poker game are .under arrest today after a clean-up raid on a gamblers’ rendezvous near here. Clyde Cooper, 36, was killed and Ray Editions, 33, and Nat Williams, 3J. all colored, were wounded in the exchange of bullets between the sheriff’s posse and the gamblers. Williams, a special policeman for the railroad, was aiding the officers, while Cooper and Editions were in the game. Edmons was shot in the leg and it may have to be amputated. Gambling had been in progress for several weeks at the point on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad where the shooting occurred Sunday, according to authorities. Children Fire Home Bu Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 15. Children upset a can of coal oil at the home of Albert Steward, near here. They were rescued with difficulty. The house was completely destroyed. '

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MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1924.

J. W. DAVIS STIRS CROWDS AT OLD STYLE BARBECUE I t Praised Missouri Democrats of Bygone Days—Lauds Champ Clark* Bu United Press EASTWOOD FARMS, BUNCETON, Mo., Sept. 15.—1n the picturesque setting of an old-fashioned barbecue, John W. Davis, Democratic candidate today, made an oldfashioned speech to Missouri Democrats. Davis first stirred the enthusiasm of his monster audience of 40,090, gathered from all parts of central Missouri, a Democratic stronghold, by calling the roll of Missouri statesmen of bygone days—Benton, Vest, Cockrell, Stone and Champ Clark. New Method It was anew method of campaigning for Davis and the effect on the crowd was magical. The mere mention of revered Democratic names brought storms of applause from the crowd and revels from bent, bewhiskered men who smoked corncob pipes and nodded approval at every word the candidate spoke. , In glowing tribute to Champ Clark, Davis threw In a personal touch by referring to the kindness of the late speaker to him when a young member of the House. “The Democracy of the Nation is poorer for the passing but richer for the life of CHbipp Qflrk,” he said. Then taking his inspiration from the crowd, Davis flayed the Republican party, calling it the party of “special privilege,” reviewed the scandals in the Administration and pledged himself to give the people an honest Government if elected. Davis made an appeal to the women of the country to support the Democratic ticket, by declaring the party's ideal “is an exact and equal partnership, with all men and women of the Nation working side by side for the common welfare of themselves and their posterity.” i “There is, there can be, neither diversity ror conflict in their interest,” he said, “and then a nation needs now and always' the strength of their joint endeavor.” Davis took up question of cheaper transportation and declared for lower freight rates and development of Inland waterways in a scientific way, j with “pork barrel” and “log rolling” methods eliminated. The great Democratic mass meeting was held on the farm of Dr. Arthur WVN< Ison. Democratic candidate fo# Governor. Before the | speaking began, the crowd feasted jon tons of ’ barbecued beef and mutton, fried chicken and cakes and pies baked by the wpmen of the surroundirg coi INDEPENDENTS TO UNLEASH FORGES i La Foilette to Make Speech Thursday, By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 15.—'The big guns of the independents, restrained since the start of the campaign, will be unleashed in full force this week. Robert M. Da Foilette will come out of retirement for his first public appearance in the campaign here Thursday; Burton K. Wheeler starts tonight on a stump to the home State of former Attorney General Daugherty, whom he ousted from office; anew drive for money has been ordered and half a dozen speakers are to begin campaigning for the ticket. Wheeler start stho ball rolling- tonight at a dinner here to La Foilette leaders. He will leave late tonight for Pittsburgh and then start through Ohio on Tuesday, making speeches in Cleveland Tuesday, Toledo and Columbus Thursday and Dayton and Cincinnati Friday. From Cincinnati he will go to Cljicago to campaign against Charles G. Daw**, liar Meeting Wednesday Indianapolis Bar Association will hold its first fall meeting with a dinner at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Informal speeches will be made by members who attended the American Bar Association meeting in \ Ixtndon. President Charles E. Cox will preside.