Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 3ft—NUMBER 159

W Right Here in || Indiana By Gaylord Nelson

E"| D JACKSON', Governor-eieet. announced that he would ; soon appoint a committee to I study the State government with 41 | view to consolidating functions and j eliminating unnecessary boards. Quite a characteristic American | trait. We appoint committees to j study other committees. To-the-victors-belong-the spoils is an old but perfectly healthy bit of j political philosophy. And the pie , counter never lacks customers. Pub- ; lie weal may wait, but patronage j never. Patronage demands have chopped : all governmental functions into j wonderful and fearful hash. For j each subdivision multiplied jobs for ■ wheelhorses. with anew appointive body to supervise each. In Indiana the result is the Year; Book lists sixty-eight permanent j boards and commissions, including I controlling bodies of State educa- I tional institutions. R tnglng in; scope from the board of tax commissioners to the board of embalmers. j which embraces everything from live j problems to dead subjects. Should Ftaie boards and conunis- ; sions meet simultaneously in the i Statehouse. he would bulge i outward like rui-r wnlls of a toy balloon. But. after all. a board is just lum-1 her. Which, when piled up. converts State government into a political . lumber yard, where the wheels that turn public business are choked In | sawdust. Indiana's lumber pile j needs sorting. Hygiene mUBERCULOSIF in all forms is ! more prevalent In rural die- : tricts than in caies of the State, according to figures for last year Just compiled bv the State I board of health. And William F. King, secretary, in hls monthly bulletin, says the charge that children of rural schools are physically inferior to city school children seems to be substantially j correct. The healthfulness of life in the airy, open spaces of the country, in contrast with sickly existence in cramped cities, has been the theme of many pastoral ballads. Apparently these ballads require revision. Where population is dense, epidemies have repeatedly swept with startling toll. Until municipal authorities have becom* educated to the necessity of watching and guarding civic health. Just self-preser-vation. Where people are scattered, as in the country, spectacular exhibitions of the power of epidemics have been Ices frequent. And health is taken as a matter of course. So the old oaken bucket, covered with moss, is permitted to retain its lyrical quality—and typhoid. And the water it contains sometimes sparkles with the drainage of a barnyard. But health Is built on practical hygiene, not gauzy poe- ry. Drought [ I —! j OREST firo= have raged over j H I Indiana and adjoining States l—J for the past few weeks. With destruction of valuable timber and danger to property. For the whole Middle West has experienced the most severe drought since 1908. The rainfall in this State in September and October was nearly three inches below the normal for those months. Rain is an unwelcome guest at a picnic party. Milliners’ creations and shoddy snits do not chuckle with glee when caught in unexpected showers. But other vegetables and growing things laugh and expand under the moisture that drips from the clouds Man maintains a precarious footing among the* forces of nature. He likes to think this small, wrinkled planet was hung up in space for his special benefit and amusement. But in reality he is only a punctuation mark in the story of the earth. A few degrees drop in mean annual temperature and a glacial epoch overwhelms the temperature zone with consequent depreciation of real estate values and obliteration of animal life. A few inches decrease in annual rainfall and a productive countryside becomes an arid waste devoid of habitation. So the beautiful sentiment, "it ain't goin' to rain no more.” is more Joyous set to music than as a statement of dry fact. Gnats SHE attorney defending a N\ Illinois St. woman charged with maintaining a liquor nuisance Tuesday in Criminal Court argued the search warrant served on his client was illegal. It was made out "John Doe." whereas the name should have been "Mary Doe," for the defendant was a woman. So he argued. It was a delicate point and the wheels of justice stopped temporarily. It will come as a shock to many people to learn that John Doe has a wife. Laymen might think the question whether a search warrant be made out to John Doe. Mary Doe, Richard Roe, or another member of the family of mythical legal personages unimportant to justice. But It raises a technicality that courts must mull over and consult authorities. There is widespread disrespect for law and dissatisfaction with the administration of justice in this country. For the public feels there is too much law and not enough Justice. Qui bbltng over legal technicalities —eo often observable in court procedure —intensify this feeing. For people believe the law too frequently, ■trains at gnats and swallows cam •Is.

LOCAL BUSINESS MEN SEE STEADY EWE INCREASE | Upward Swing Said to Be Result of G. 0. P, Victory at Polls in Nation, WEATHER IS BIG FACTOR Confidence Restored While Boom Has Been Termed Marvelous, I Nearly every line of business eon-; I tinues or. the upward swing a week I .'after an election that restored con-! i faience with a rush that has been ! little short ot marvelous. Indianapolis business men said today. | ’ The wholesale dry goods trade is I waiting only on the weather, and j now that the temperature has begun l to drop, business should go forward in brisk style." said Felix (decides of Haven, Geddes & Cos. “With uncertainties that always precede an elec-1 tion out of the way and with the result generally admitted to be favor j able to business. I look for one of j the brightest years in nil lines of trade.” Business Becoming Stable “Business is tending toward a more stable foundation," said J D. Meek, vice president of the Indianapolis Electric Supply Company, "and. barring any uncertainties that may arise, prospects are bright for marked improvement and prosperity ■luring he year” “Restoration of confidence among prospective securities buyers has Seen little short of marvelous." said L. G. Wild of the j. F. Wild Company. "Security prices in the loeal market are bound to advance with the rush of buyers clamoring for safe investments.” It is too early to tell just what effect the election will have on general business, Felix M. McWhirter, president of the Peoples State Bank, believes. In a statement to The Times. McWhirter said: "A national. State and city administration committed to less expenditure will make for better business al>ove all other contributing factors. We need a budget system. By comparing the present per capffa national debt of S2OO with that of $lO hardly more than ten years ago, and with the county and city debt at the staggering total of $33,000,000. it is easy to see what a business and industrial retardative - the -ever-increasing debt and taxes have become.” Building Increasing "Inquiries for real estate are in creasing and a slight Increase in de- ; mand is being met by increased building." said Kenneth G. Reid, local real estate dealer. "Prices on residential property are tending lower. Rents are' decreasing and may be expected to drop noticeably luring the winter if the employment situation does not grow better. General prospect in real estate Is satisfactory and encouraging.” "General business " said Dick Miller, president of the City Trust i Company, “is satisfactory with election uncertainties removed, but it will take time for a full recovery." CENSORS NAMED 10 COVER SHOW (Shank Warns Against ‘Rough’ Reports, Declaring he understood parts of "Simon Called Peter," appearing at the Murat Theater next week, to be a little “rough," Mayor Shank to- ‘ day threatened to stop the show if | it failed to pass his censors. As censors to see the show Mnn- : day night, the mayor named Police j Chief Herman F. Rikhoff, Ernest L. | Kingston, president of the board of safety, and Jesse E. Sisloff. beard member. The mayor attempted to get In touch with Nelson Trowbridge, Murat manager, to warn him any indecencs’ would be stopped. More than a dozen attaches at the city hall volunteered to act as censors. Selection by the mayor was difficult. At one point in the hook an English clergyman is in a room when a woman tears part of her clothing off to compromise him. SENATOR LODGE BURIED I Simple Funeral Service in Christ Church. Boston. j Bn United Press CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Nov. 12.—8 y i the side of many of New England's greatest, the body of Henry Cabot 1 Lodge, late senior Senator from Massachusetts was laid at rest in Mount Auburn cemetery. A notable gathering of official and private mourners accompanied the funeral procession from Christ Church, where, at noon, brief and impressive services were conducted. HOURLY •TEMI’ERATI'RK 6 a. m 39 10 a. m 37 7 a. m 38 11 a. m 39 S a. tn. 38 12 (noon) .... 42 { 9 a. m 34 1 p. m 47

Whose Goat? By Times special LA PORTE. Ind., Nov. 12. Richard Anderson. 8. had to flee for his life when a stray goat was attracted to him by the aroma from a bucket of fresh milk he was carrying. The boy reached home safely after a race of three blocks. His paren's called police and the goat was locked up in the basement of the station. The goat ate up several copies of filed papers, Asa result police are in a quandary. “We have somebody’s goat and don't know what to do with it,” said the chief.

SURRENDER MOVE BY M. i HAHNS REPORTED TO U. S. 1 District Attorney Will Not Bargain With Missing Man, Federal officials w ill not bargain j or deal with Morton S Haffkins, | missing star defendant in the con- I i splracy to use tile mails in a scheme to defraud case before Judge Ferdl- | ! stand A. Geiger in Federal Court. “It is a case of unconditional stir render or nothing. Homer Elliott.: United States district attorney, stud today, on learning that a man giv-j ing his name as Beil and saving lie j represent*-,.! Hawkins, had presented ] a proposal to Washington (I). C.) i postal officials Tuesday that Haw-, kins would surrender if assured he: would l>e placed under reasonable bond. According to the story the pro-; p i.- il wts tnad'* to Rush D Sint- i mens, chief of postal inspectors at; Washington. Simmons 'h*n took! the matter tip by telephone with! (). B. Williamson, postal inspector in eha*-g* of the Investigation her*. I Controller on Stand George L. Coffinberry of Portland, Inti., controller of the Hawkins J Morigage Company, resumed the witness stand today. During crossexamination tile probable line of defense of the sixteen defendants on trial was developed. Questions asked the witness led to the belief they will contend that Hawkins was the j real directing head of the organiza- ; Hons involved in the transactions ond is responsible for any law viola lions. t'offinli ry testified that from January To March. 1923, h* was under .tistru-uions from Hawkins to draw -hecks for S6O a week for William M. Jones. Indianapolis, secretary of the state hoard of agriculture. an official m a Hawkins subsidiary and one of the defendants on tri.rt The payments were charged to "advertising. ('offinberry said. An effort by the defense to show that foimer t inted States Senator Albert .1 Beveridce wrote a letter recommending M S Hawkins, similar to one by Senator James E. Watson, mention*.! earlier in the trial, tame to naught. Coffinberry denied knowledge of I such a letter by Beveridge. Coffinberry said the company hor rowed money from welfare loan so cieties. subsidiary companies and re paid it only by entries on the hooks, i obtaining more than $84u,000 in such : a manner. Operated At a Ivoss "The Hawkins Company operated at a loss all the time," he stud. “Reports showing thso losses were made for income tax returns and signed by Hawkins and Anthony j Scheib, vice president.” Coffinberry went on the stand about 4:15 p. in Monday as first : Government witness, in the state- ; rnent of the defense, attorneys for the defendants made an apparent effort to shift the blame for all irregular conduct of ttie business to Hawkins, each claiming his client acted innocently and without knowl- ; edge of anything wrong. How W. H. Weld) was a minister ;of the gospel as a young man iri ' Dallas. Texas, was told by his counI sel. "Webb thought the Hawkins I company was a good institution and I he acted in good faith” his attorney said. Defense of other defendants was along similar lines. Senator Watson Mentioned Harry E. Yoekey, attorney for Mord (skirter, official of the Indiana : Rural Credits Association, absorbed by the Hawkins company, said he would Introduce a letter written by United States Senator .Tames E. j Watson, highly recommending the | Hawkins officials. Yoekey said the .defense would also show the merger was made only after a careful ini vestigation and upon recommendaI tion of bankers. BRAKE TESTS RESUMED | Traffic Inspector Says There Will Be Rigid Inspection. Resumption of brake tests was ordered today by Traffic inspector Michael Glenn at: Washington and Geisendotff Sts., | Southeastern Ave. near State Ave., Union and Palmer Sts., Rural St between North and St. Clair Sts.. Capitol Ave. between Twenty-Sec-ond an! Twenty-Third Sts.. and Park Ave. at Twenty-Second St. In addition, license plates, certificates of title, lights, horns and steering apparatus will be rigidly inspected before the "O. K.” cards is given^ Lieut. Lewis Johnson will be in charge, as Glenn begins his vacation.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 1924

Pupils in Orchard School Develop Their Own Personality With Pursuits Dear to Childhood

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A I'. O V K—BOX TOWN AT ORCHARD SCHOOL. CENTER—CHILDREN WORKING ON WOODCRAFT PROBLEMS. BEI-OW - MISS FAYE HENLEY. SUPER \ IVOR Bv PACLINK HOLMES VERITABLE Utopia for school children a place i___J whet'*- they ma> follow their own inclinations, carry out. their own ideas and develop (though they don't realize it), a personality that is their own: That is what Miss Faye Henley has ha I in mind while organizing the Orchard School at 50 r *o N. Meridian St. The lay's program at the .> r chard School, includes morning hours tilled with the study of the three R'h with a in o'clock lunch of crackers an.l milk which i lie children ft rve themselves. At tc on they h> !p with the serving of light luncheon for which they oc ■ iHionally make cookies and .jellies. There follows forty minutes of rest ivh'n the youngsters roll tip in blankets and actually rest in preparation for the afternoon's strenuous activities in the wo*si craft shop and "Boxtown,” which is: their pride and Joy. Boxtown is a village of pecking boxes which house a mayor, a druggist, a grocer, many householders and a pajter hanger, who. by the way, is a girl, doubtless an embryonic interior decorator. The youngsters at work in the center picture are making pump drills to illustrate one of the stages in the history of flrernaklng which they are studying. They are from left to right. Jack McKay, Jane Day. .Jack Appell. Barbara Parker and Betsy Home, sawing a log in the background. Business activities are attended by older students. There are two bankers who cash checks and give receipts for purchases in the school supply store for a month at a time. They train the two who serve the next month. At the of each day the bankers balance their accounts and present receipts and statements to each customer. Miss Henley says she has to almost -drive the children after school hours to get them home before dark. HOSPITAL NEARLY READY Riley to Take in Patients Early Next Week. Riley Memorial Hospital for Children, will begin taking in patients early next week, according to Robert E. Neff, administrator. Finishing touches on equipment necessary in treatment of patients has delayed the opening, Neff said today. About eighty patients have l:een accepted definitely. TEN VICTIMS OF CIDER Death Toll of Tragedy nt H!ks National Home Mounts. Bp United Press BE FORD CITY. Va„ Nov. 12. Another resident of the Elks National Home died from the effects of pdfSoned cider today, raising death toll on the tragedy to ten. The keg in which the poisoned cider was delivered had been previously used as a container for arsenate of lead, used in spraying fruit trees, it is believed.

$3,000 GIFTS Or UTILITIES SWELL COMMUNITY FUND Special Division Report ! Large Total at Noonday Luncheon, BULLETIN Tom! reported toduv s iun.-h eon was *74 it‘ 32, hnncimr ti ‘ amount to date to >299.55.'*.97. Five subscriptions of >• from public utilities, today swell* • . the total of (’onurninity Funds ca.n paign for $700,21,. They wi re announced by the *p I i ini gifts division at the < mpu: •*> luncheon at the Claypool The . vision’s total report v ts *54.•’.92,92 Each utility company's donation was greater than la>t v*ai * ’it i zens Gas Company Indiana Bell Telephone Company, I ndiarmpolis Light and Heat Company. Indian npolls * Water Company and Merchants Heat and Light Company gave Other large donations announced by til.- special gifts division !ndi.,t a polls News. $5,000; Vamp Camp Hardware and iron Cos.. $4 217 I. Strauss ,V ('o s2.foot: Indiana '■> , tional Bank. $2,500; Arthur R. Bax ter. $2,400; N’ordyko & M.arruon Company and officers, $2,375; Vonnegut Hardware Company. $2,250; R. Reilly, $2,250: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Taggart. $2,000: Charles I, M iver .v Cos.. $2,000; Beveridge Paper Com I jwny, $2,000: Arthur V. Brown Ar thur C. Newby, $2,000 each: Mr. and .Mrs W H. Coleman, $1,800; Cold ; stein Brothers. $1,800; Fletcher Sa\ lings and Trust Cos.. SI,BOO. and Mr and Mrs. Frank D. Stalnaker. $1 MiO. Alfred O. KaufTmann. campaign [executive chairman, returned from New York, presided at ih>‘ luncheon. RAIN AND COLDER ON WEATHER BILL Shower Gives Slight Relief From Droughtin keeping with the spring-like temperatures. Indianapolis and vicinity were treated to a shower Tuesday night with all the June trimmings of lightning and thunder. The rain was light all over the State. Slight relief from the drought which bun existed more than a month was brought, only one-fifth of an inch of rain falling. More rain was forecast for Thursday, with unsettled weather today. Colder weather is expected tonightJACKSON LEAVES CITY (lots on Hunting Trip to Rest From C-n.ni paign. Ed Jackson, Governor-elect left today on a hunting trip and a week of the open air as a rest from his strenuous campaign. He will return to his office at the Statehouse Monday.

Slayers Become Teachers

Bp United Press mOLIET, 111., Nov. 12. — Nathan Leopold, servir. life In State prison here for his share in the murder of Robert Franks, is now a profe.s sor of English on the prison sac tilty. Next week Richard Loeb, partner in the crime, will also become a member of the faculty and act as teacher of arithmetic. The teaching will not conflict

OUSTED PRECINCT HEABS MAY TAKE i STEPS IN COURT effin's Action Similar to; That in Last City Campaign. Prei-it , ; • omniitteetnen removed 1 Muri**n County Republican Chair,n George V. Coffin today dis- j :.->>* <! p ans for fighting back on j •he ground they w- ro duly elected | nd that th.-so was no legal au- j '!mr:ty for their removal. Mayor Shank considered action re. j -training • ’offin from removing com-J Mitt* >-men elected by the voters of the precinct Shank’s forces have -pposed < Viffin. Aaron Cohen, committeeman Sixth! precinct. Twelfth ward, said he j would take his case to court i'offin maintained his authority to , emcee tin* score or more officials j for alleged disloyalty t*. tie- Repub- j | ii.*m tick-t in the re ei.; election, j hies in a resolution adopted by the! host Reptibb* m county convention. ! •' >ffin declared :he resolution gives j I h:m jicwer to fill vacancies, remove j I committeemen for cause and to ap- ; point their successors. I am not going to announce mi < of those committeemen whom j I hay** removed," Coffin said, "be-j j cause I don't w ant to cause them ■ any humilia 1 lon. "If they want to fight and go *o j , (uirt. it's up to them.” ('offin said. Coffin's iction resembles the I shank-fni Mayor Club maneuvers In ; • lie city primary in which regularly! ei-cted committeemen not friendly to Shank were ignored and Shank men recognized in their stead. MRS. HARDING STRONGER Sleeps Five Hours During Night, Physician Says. Bp I nited Press MARION, Ohio. Nov. 12.—Mrs. I Warren G. Harding was stronger I and more cheerful today. Dr. Carl ; Sawyer announced, saying she slept ; five hours last night. Three thousand persons, attending the Armistice day celebration Tuesday night, stood in silent prayer for Mrs. Harding. DENTON GAINING VOTES Recount Gives Him 140 More In Marion County. George Iv. Denton. Evansville, Democratic candidate for Supreme Court judge, has received about 140 more votes from Marion County than registered In unofficial returns, according to totals reached in the Secretary of State's office, where official returns are being tabulated. According to unofficial returns from the whole State, Benjamin Willoughby. Republican candidate, was twenty-six votes ahead of Denton. Returns from forty-three counties have been tabulated so far. Autos Crash, Child Hurt Autos, driven by Mrs. E. F. Hanson. 34, of 2451 Park Ave., and Mrs. John C. Karstadt of 2430 N. Delaware St., collided today at TwentyFifth St* and Park Ave. Milton Olshewitz, 3, in the Karstadt car. was hurt about th eeye. Mrs. Hanson was slatod.

with their regular work in the irison factories, Warden Whitman stated in announcing the step. They will give two hours a night to their classes. For the first time since the millionaire youths entered jail two months ago. they met and talked Tuesday. It was during the holiday movie performance— Armistice day is a legal holiday in Illinois —and they took advantage of the mining around to meet and chat.

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EKES 111 MBITI LAW KIAf m FROM CHER TRIAL IN BALTIAAOSE Jury Gets Case Against Congressman Charged With Making Beverages Containing Over One-Half of One Per Cent Alcohol. JUDGE OVERRULES NUISANCE COUNTS IN INDICTMENTS Declares Decision Rests on Whether or Not Drinks Hill Made Were Intoxicating “in Fact” Says Proof Must Be Beyond Doubt. Bp I nited Press BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 12.—Decision in the case of Congressman John P. Hill, charged with violation of the Volstead act ior manuiaeture of eider and wine containing excess of onenaif ot one per cent of alcohol, may have a wide-spread effect on the prohibition law and make a revision necessary, it was indicated today. •fudge -Morris A. Soper, in charging the jury in the ease today, instructed the jurymen to firing in a verdict of not guiltv on the nuisance counts of the indictments.

lie tcild them that in the other | <-eunts. charting manufacture and I osFi'HKion us intoxicating wine and ' ider, the one question {or them I to letermine was whether these j leverages were intoxicating “in fact.” In an early opinion, the judge ruled Volstead Act provisions ile- > taring beverages containing onehalf of i per cent of alcohol ini toxicating do not apply to home- ! made cider and fruit juices. Reasonable Doubt” The judge also told the jury the i defendant is entitled to all "rert.aon- [ able doubt" and that the burden of I proof rests on the prosecution The jurymen were also told that question of whether they were in i sympathy with Hill's opposition to ! the Volstead act or not in sympathy i with it should not influence them ;in reaching a decision. The question of what is and what !is not intoxicating was not to be | determined either by the opinions jof Drs Howard A. Kelly and Harvey W. Wiley nor by tile testimony [of one witness who said Tuesday ! that it took twelve drinks to affect I him. These two were extreme, the (judge said. Arguments of attorneys were completed at 12:40 p. ni. and the jury excused for lunch, after which it i began deliberations. verdict* is j expected late today. Hill Elated j Congressman Hill today was elated over statement of Roy A Haynes, prohibition commissioner, j admitting some of his contention. | “Hill is right in his contention that the Volstead act does not limit to one-haif of one per cent the alco--1 hollo content of fruit juices and j cider made in the home for home ! use." Haynes said. "It is necessary, however, that the alcoholic content of such beverages should not reach a point that would cause intoxication.” RENEWED EFFORTS SEEN Anti-Saloon League leader Says •fudge Is Right. Bp Vniterl Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 12.—Re newed efforts by drya in the coming session of Congress to make the Volstad act apply to home brew were foreseen today as result of Soper opinion in the trial of Congressman Hill t lint It did not so apply. Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun- j sel of the Anti-Saloon League, said tlie Soper opinion was "clearly right," and that It might be necessary to "cork up the law a bit.” The Hill case will certainly be appealed to the Supreme Court for a final decision, it was felt here. Meanwhile, whatever the verdict, Soper’s decision will become temporarily the authoritative interpretation of this phake of the Volstead act. VOLSTEAD NOT WORRIED Prohibition Won’t Bo Weakened, He Declares. Bp United Press GRANITE CALLS, Minn., Nov. j 12. —Andrew Volstead, father of the I dry act, has no fear the law will j •it* Weakened by opinion of Judge : Soper of Baltimore that fruit juices may be used for home consumption, regardless of the alcoholic content, he declared in an interview with the l'nited Press today. “It’s old stuff," Volstead said. “Judge Hand held similar opinions in New York a long time ago." Ft. Wayne Hunter Killed By United Press COLDWATER, Mich., Nov. 12. Jerry Lynch, 23, Ft. Wayne, Ind., died early today at a local hospital of an accidental gunshot wound received while hunting near Snow Laka Tuesday.

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight, becoming unsettled * with probable rain Thursday. Slightly cooler tonight.

TWO CENTS

mm FREED ON ep BONO Thomas Dillon, Politician, One of Signers. John J. McNamara, business agent for the local bridge and structural , iron workers union, was released j from jail today on $20,000 bond. Bail j was provided by Thomas Dillon, former Republiean chairman of the Twelfth ward and once president of the boilermakers union; Henry Friedman. 3216 Park Ave., an or- | ganizer for the Central Labor Union. ' and William McKinney, Troy and Perkins Aves., member of the iron workers union. McNamara is j charged with blackmail. I The bail was obtained through ef- | forts of John E. Smith, president l of the Central Labor Union, who went to tiie jail with the bondsmen to sign tbe bond. After Judge Robert Baltzeil of Princeton, Ind., had notified him he could not sit as special judge in the McNamara case, due to heavy business in his own court. Judge Collins said ho would submit new prospective Judges to atorneys for both sides Thursday. WEAVERS DENIED WRIT [Judge Chamberlin Refuses Order on Poor Farm Balance Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin today denied George N. Weaver and Son. contractors, a mandate to compel County Auditor Harry Dunn to pay them $12,421 as the balance us on the men’s building at the ccunty poor farm. Chamebrlin held that Dunn was right in his contention that the contract had not been fulfilled. HERE’S SOME GOOD NEWS : Five Plants Move to Reduce Smoke Nuisance. Five additional industrial plants have compiled wtih the new city smoke ordinance by installing proper boiler equipment, H. F. Templeton, assistant chief smoke inspector, reported today. The plants are Nordvke & Marmon, H. Lauter Company, Kingan & Cos., Indianapolis Drop Forge Company and Indianapolis Street Railway Company (W. Washington St. plant)

Lost Bv United Press HICAGO, Nov. 12. Charles G. Dawes has i— i. lost hls upside-down pipe. This calamity In the life of the Republican Vice. Presi-dent-elect was caused by women. When surrounded by a bevy of chorus girls at the opera house he visited to purchase tickets. Dawes got so excited he left the pipe lying on the press agent's desk. The girls demanded a speech. Dawes said all he could say was that he was surprised he "should have so many friends in the opera, especially in the chorus.”