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MRS. 6. B. WHITE TO REPRESENT VOTERS’LEAGUE President of Indiana Body of Women Appointed by Dr. Sherwood. Announcement is made by the Indiana League of Women Voters that its president, Mrs. B. B. White of Terre Haute, lad., has been appointed league representative on the committee on rural education of the State department of public instruction. The appointment wfts made this week by Dr. Henry N.- Sherwood, State superintendent of public instruction. Mrs. White is president of the Terre Haute board of education. The committee on rural education has been holding a series of district conferences of school problems. One is scheduled for Aurora next week and another is planned for Terre Haute. Dr. Sherwood has prepared a tentative study program of the problems confronting the committee and it is understood that Mrs. White will be assigned to one of the subcommittees. Mrs. White will be in Indianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday for a conference at State headquarters with Mrs. Paul Rit.tenhouse of Chicago. Mrs. Rittenhouse was formerly fourth regional secretary of the National League of Women Voters, and is now serving as secretary to the fourth regional director. JEALOUS; KILLS WIFE Colored Man Charged With Murder; Sister Also Shot. Love and Jealousy were given as the reasons for the slaying of his wife, Esther, 15, Friday night, by Roosevelt Hicks, 22, colored, 1915 Miller St., who is lodged in city prison todav charged with murder. Hicks told police some time ago his wife left him and went to her father’s home. He had been giving her money, he said, and met her at Belmont Ave. and Howard St., Friday night to question her about it. She was returning from a park, where Hicks said he had seen her with another man. Her sister, Ollie Lewis, 2210 Miller St., with her, was shot first. She was taken to city hospital. TWO SENT TO FARM Convicted of Operating Still Fatal to Brother. Bu United Press ANDERSON, Ind., July 25.—Samuel Haines and Ellison Stratton were to be taken to the Indiana State Farm today to start sentences of 100 days each for operating a still. The two men owned a still hidden under Stratton’s house. , Stratton’s brother,. Ralph, and Ralph Massley were killed by fumes while operating the still last spring. WIFE KILLS HUSBAND Terre Haute Woman in Jail on Murder Charge. Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 25. Mrs. Charlotte Owens is in jail today charged with the murder of her husband, Marty Owens. Mrs. Owens is said by police to have followed her husband and another woman to the home of a friend, James, Hopengarner, where she shot Owens four times with his own revolver. Mrs. Owens had recently filed divorce proceedings, naming the woman. HOLD-UPS ARE REPORTED Man Loses Watch and Money—Cash Taken From Lunch Wagon. Two hold-ups were reported to the police Friday night. Charles Pottftf, 514 E. Market St., said he was robbed of $40.20 and a SOS watch at New Jersey and Ohio Sts., by two men who were in a small touring car. Ervin Bradburn, 1645 De Loss St., night man in a small lunch wagon, Cl 2 N. Illinois St., said two bandits, both with automatic pistols, took $8 from the cash register. CABLE TO BE REPLACED Paper-covered cable, 1,100 feet long, ruined in recent storms, will be replaced by rubber insulation, John Berry, electrical engineer of the board of safety, said today. The cable is used for police and fire alarm signals. Births Girls Charles and Grace Marph. 6165 George and Taura Waergoner. 1526 Sruloy. Forest and Anna Gard: er. Christian Hospital.* , Turner and Bertha Haveley, 1608 Broadway. . _ _ Charles and Dallas Johnson, 2809 Adams. , Harry and Rosa Bums. lo7_ Bakemeyer. Roscoe and Opal Adams. 052 Taber. Clarence and Dorothy Ennis. 1404 Hoef&€Charlcs and Edna Ballard. 931 S. Hardmfklmer and Grace Carr. 1044 Woodlawn. Boys Fred and Laura Cunninsrhara. Frank and Anna Stump. 038 Kealintr John and Alwena Ellis. l(k> Hancock. Howard aod Alice Henry. Methodist H0 Cari a and Bertha Fisher. 1323 E. MtnneE °William and Myrtle Holycross. 2950 McPh Ob*v“r and Anna Wtllousrhby. 1137 S. and Dorothy Fishero. 526 W. and Anna Rice. 2015 W. Wilkins. H and Ophelia Brown. 637 Charlotte. Charles and Ella Mayes. 717 V LafasrVuie and India Schalf, 811 S. Coffey. Deaths Charlotte Ann 'Sanderson. 4 months, 20 Florenoe f °Fi'ncli S di/Methodist Hospital, 80 Rov T^ra r bie. ia 3B. Long; Hospital, hepaThrisa Lassen. 13 days. St. Vin'elCh?arle3SlCta Ku?Tler Ph 6^ US Methodist U HosPit Charies De E?mer S Sloan. 56. 2059 N. Ala'aHehritartainM?yer Grossman 58. 3101 N. EUen^Stonecipher. 15 oJj^Methodlst 'Hospital, broncho pneumonia. Harold L. Curd. I. 2737 Temple, enteroM Riri E. Rockwell. 63, 125 Johnson. ’•S^Tc 8 - Tetter. 57. 1736 Madison, apoDlf Rosa .Ternuklan. 39. 2454 Ashland. Harry J. Robertson. 68, city hospital. Ca james Patrick C'linlan. 6 months. TO4O W. North, gastroenteritis. Infant Stump. 12 hours. 938 Healing;, W Herbert 47. Christian city hospital. ■cute myocaruk'

TRUCK KILLS GIRL, 11 Brakes Alleged Faulty, Driver Held by Police. Bu United Press /-SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 25. Jess Asher, 32, truck driver for a South Bend factory, was held by police today in investigation of the death of Betty Baker, 11. The little girl was run over and killed by Asher’s truck. Police said they found brakes of the truck were out of order.

MARKET HAS NEW MELONS Honey Dew Variety Appears —Grapes Plentiful. Honeydew melons have been shipped into the city market for the first time this season at a price of 25 to 35 cents each. Tip Top melons of the home-grown variety are also to be seen on the stands for the first time at 35 to 50 cents each. Two other new arrivals are sugar pears at 10 to 15 cents a pound and purple cabbage selling at 10 cents a pound. There are plenty of huckleberries and blackberries at 15 to 25 cents a box. Purple grapes are becoming more plentiful at 60 cents a poundOther prices are sugar corn 40 cents a dozen; oranges 20 to 80 cents a dozen; transparent apples at 4 pounds for 15 cents and Georgia Belle peaches 3Yi pounds for 25 cents. CHAPTER WILL MEET Service Star Legion Members to Convene Tuesday. Hamilton-Berry chapter of the Service Star Legk n will hold a guest meeting Tue.'day at 2:30 p. m. at the public library. Mrs. Frank Nessler will preside. Mrs. Bruce Maxwell, national executive secretary, will give a report of the work of the National Service Star Legion. Mrs. Hilton U. Brown -/ill tell of her recent trip to France" with Mr. Brown, where they visitfed the American cemeteries. Gold star mothers are invited to attend. A group of piano numbers will be given by Miss Geneva PoUs, Columbus, Ind. BUS PERMIT DENIED Commission Says State Speed Lavs Have Been Violated. Alleging that busses operated by the Grandell Bus Line between Indianapolis and Cincinnati violate the State speed laws and that the vehicles are not adapted to carrying passengers, the public service commission has denied applications of the company to continue the line. Petitions under the ninety-day provision of the law and the beginners’ provision were disapproved. The following lines out of Indianapolis were authorized; Inter-City Safety Coach Company, Indianapolis to Peru, beglnnei; B. F. Davis Motor Line, Indianapolis o Plainfield and Indianapolis to Ben Davis, ( ninetyday permits. The Hiner’s Red Ball Line was authorized to buy a line between Rochester and Logansport owned by Charles Powell.

VIGILANTES TO SEFK PRACTICE Bank Protectors Will Ask to Use Rifle Range. Permission for vigilantes of the Marion County Bankers’ Protective Association to use the rifle range at Ft. Benjamin Harrison will be sought from the Government, George A. Snider, ex-sheriff, and chairman of the association, said today. Steps were taken Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce to make cashiers of forty-nine banks deputy sheriffs, forming a nucleus for combatting ..bandits. Marion County vigilantes will be armed with sawed off shot guns and .38 caliber revolvers within three weeks. The association will meet with Marion County Bankers Association Wednesday tc discuss a cooperative policy and set an award for capture of bandits. JACKSON TO BE TEACHER Governor Goes to Bedford This Afternoon Reception Planned. Bu Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., July 25.—A1l Bedford expected to turn out this evening for the reception for Governor and Mrs. Jackson, who will arrive this afternoon. Governor Jackton will conduct a Sunday school class at the First CThristain Church Sunday morning. s SUIT TO RECOVER MONEY Stockholders in Building Corporation Sue Two Banks. Suit to recover $25,000 held by People’s State Bank and Fletcher American Company as guarantee when they became underwriters for preferred stock in a proposed medical arts building at Massachusetts Ave. and Ohio St. in 1922 was on file in Superior Court Three today by nine stockholders In the corporation. The companies agreed to underwrite the stock if stockholders would meet certain qualifications, but later failed. The project was abandoned and tho bank? ar, charged with refusal to repay noney said to have been bonv „ .com the Bedford Stone ant. Company. LONG BUS TRIP STARTED Students Leave on 3,000-Mile Jaunt Through East. Twenty-five students of Indianapolis Teachers’ College left today on what was said to be the longest special trip ever undertaken from Indianapolis in a bus. The party, chaperoned by Mrs. Lela Poinier, will take a Jaunt of 8,000 milis through the East in a Hiner’s Red Bail Bus.

Hops and Malt Bow to Stem Law

Prohibition officers destroying *3,000 worth of liquor-making apparatus and materials.

The open season for shooting ‘'high-balls” is apparently on. Sheriff Omer Hawkins is only awaiting his “license” papers before he destroys the SIB,OOO Duckwall liquor stock. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell has under advisement the destruction of the $200,000 Squibbs distillery stock. Car of Beer Seized Hammond prohibition agents were ordered Friday to destroy 120 barrels of beer, seized in a freight-car at Whiting, Ind. Prohibition agents Friday afterL

HEAR LOAFERS AND LEARN LOT (Continued From Page 1) posed majestically on the corner. The cement work surrounding the cannon ground has been worn smooth by the sitters and it is here the village wag holds forth. He was going good when I arr'ved, explaining Crawfordsvilie poinA of interest to an inquiring tourlot. Unnoticed I sat down well within hearing distance of the two. “Some Write Checks” "Yes; Crawfordsvilie is a nice town,” he was saying. “It's a literary town. Everyone In Crawfordsvilie writes something. They write checks or telegrams if they can't write anything else, but once you live in Crawfordsvilie the writing bug bites you and it seems like you Just have to start writing something. Some writes poems, some plays, most everyone writes pageants, others write short stories or sermons and, those the bug bites the hardest, seems like they have to write books. “We have had a heap of books written here. Some books like ‘Ben Hur’ seem to go good and the public get to liking them and everybody hears about them, but we have had a sight of books written that no one, but the publisher and the author knows they came into existance. "What becomes of the hooks that the publishers don’t accept? Oh I guess the author gets them back and changes them a bit and then the movies get them. Wallace Beaten “Now if every one could write like Wallace,” continued the wag, "Crawfordsvilie would be a lot better known for Its books than It Is. Gen. Lew Wallace wrote ‘Ben Hur’ sitting right under a big tree on his own place, right here in Crawfordsvilie. Some say Wallace was inspired. Bob Ingersoll had been in town on one of his lecture tours, and the things he said about religion riled the old general some, and sort of put him in a fighting mood, I suspect. Wallace attempted that night to answer Ingersoll, but the general was a better fighter than spokesman, and, in fact, he was poor at words when compared to a great orator like Ingersoll, and Wallace was worsted In the argument. "Then he went home and wrote 'Ben Hur,’ the greatest Christian book ever written outside the Bible, and that book is Wallace’s ahswer to Ingersoll; in fact, it is Crawfordsvllle’s answer, and I guess every one admits we won the argument, even if it did take a little time for Wallace to write the book and have it put in print. "Just to show you, young fellow, that Crawfordsvilie was back of Lew Wallace and every word in that book, I want you to look at that building over yonder, the white slab building on Main St. That is the Ben Hur Bldg. The fraternal order, the Tribe of Ben Hur, was founded in this town and that is their home office. We wanted the character of Ben Hur to live forever, so we founded the order. No, I ain’t a member, but I was thinking of joining. The Kraut Girls Now, speaking of folks being able to think and to write but not to talk, my wife is just the other way. She is a good talker. Most women are, but right over in that direction is a big brown house with a fence around it. It is right across from the college, and Is the home of two ladies who are writers, not talkeTs, Mary Hannah and Miss Carrie. They have written heaps of books. Had ’em published, too. Crawfordsvilie always calls them girls. They are old women now, but seem like girls to us, by their first names. The world knows them as the Misses Kraut, I suspect. ' "Miss Carrie writes stories, fiction I guess they call it, but Mary Hannah was a newspaper woman and she deals in facts. For three years she was in London as correspondent for the old Chicago Inter-Ocean; then she went all over the world, Io China and the South Sea Islands and afl around for some New York newspaper syndicate. That’s the way with Crawfordsvilie people. They are sent everywhere and by big concerns that want a job well done and they always do the old home town credit.” The mention of the Misses Kraut interested me more he •• l 1 'v - ■ , n.oAe a • tv Su ?£ ’

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noon destroyed about $3,000 worth of apparatus, corn sugar, malt, hops, flavoring, and other materials, for the manufacture of liquor. The materials and apparatus were seized by prohibition agents when they raided' the Malt-Ade Supply Company, 12 Pembroke Arcade, and the Indianapolis Extract Company, 134 Virginia Ave. Managers Convicted Chester Petticord, Malt-Ade store manager, was convicted on a charge of possession and sale of the materials, and apparatus, and

and I wondered what Miss Hannah’s experiences had been and if she had found people cold and heartless. Judging from her books she had not. The wag had not stopped talking so I put my wonderings from my mind and continued my eves dropping. Wag Resumes "Now. if you are thinking of comin gto Crawfordsvilie to live,” ho was saying, “and can trace anceatory to the Wallaces and the. Lanes you don’t need to be ashamed of it, none, here in Crawfordsvilie. The Lanes were relation to the Wallaces, Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Wallace being sisters. Henry S. Lane was Governor of Indiana for four days once. He resigned to become a United States Senator, but we don’t hold it agin him none. Lane Place, over that way, was his home. In fact, it has been the home of several generations of Lanes and about everything that ever happened in Crawsfordville In the line of big receptions or speeches from balconies or soldeirs marching past, happened at Lane Place. "The estate occupies the entire city block and is owned by Miss Helen Smith, a niece of Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Lane. I,ane Place is one of the show places of Crawsfordville, young man, and you should see it. Our first Methodist Church is one hundred years old in September and I guess we will have a Centennial celebration. The pageant will be held at Lane Place, I expect. The ladies in town are busy now writing the. episodes for it. Visits Miss Kraut The tourist with Ohio license rolled away. The way betook himself down the street, but I still sat on the cannon wall. Lane Place was in my mind. I wondered what it would look like if I could get a peek inside. I could imagine its spacious rooms, its broad and winding staircase. Its old furniture and perhaps its chests fulUof heavy silk gowns with wide skirts as worn by the grand ladies of the olden days and handed down from generation to generation by a family which "kept things.” Also I wondered whether Miss Kraut would receive me if I called. I had read the books, "A Girl In China” and “A Looker on in London” and had often longed to meet the author. Here was my chance perhaps. It was well worth the try and try I would and did. My Monday’s story will be of the hour spent with Miss Kraut and other prominent persons of Crawsfordville.

CALL ALIENISTS TO HELP SCOTT Doomed Man 'Stir Crazy/ His Attorney Holds. Bit United Pre CHICAGO, July 25. Famous alienists will be summoned to showthat Russell Scott, twice saved from the gallows by last minute stays of execution, Is suffering from prison psycholis, William Scott Stewart, his attorney, declared today. In the vernacular of the penitentiary, Scott is "stir crazy," Stewart holds. Scott yesterday denounced the plan to save his life with a plea of Insanity. Following a conference with Stewart, he said to newspapermen: "I’m stir crazy, that’s what I am. "How could any man be locked up in this jail for nineteen months and not get a screw loose?" Stewart will attempt to show that Scott was not normal when he shot and killed Joseph Maurer, drug clerk, and that his mental condition has been aggravated /by the fear of hanging. CITY SUES FOR FINES Property Owners to Face Court Action, Say Prosecutor Aid. Property owners who have neglected to pay fines assessed In city court will face court action. Robert Brokenburr. deputy prosecutor, announced today. Suits have been filed against the following persons, for unpaid fines: Horace Page, 342 W. Tenth St., f46; Harry Lindsay, 2051 N. Illinois St., $25; Annie Booter, Slackville, Ind., sls; Lominie Palamara, 619 S. East St., $75, and John McNulty. 1337 Silver St., S2O. ' PHONE COMPANY BOUGHT The public service commission has authorized the Indiana Bell Telephone Company to‘buy properties of tha Louisville Home Telephone Company at New Albany and Seller sburg. Sale price is $393,300.

sentenced to the Marion County jail. Otto Pohlar, Extract Company manager also was convicted. Federal prohibition agents Oscar Holman, Billy Hindel, and Robert Neilan, and Deputy United tSates Marshal Charles La Selle supervised the work of destroying the materials. Three United States truck-loads of materials were hauled to the dumping grounds at White River ard Ray St. Six men sentenced to ihe Marion County jail ter implication in the Gary liquor conspiracy aided in the work.

GRAVEL MEN IN ‘FREEZE’CHARGE (Continued From Page 1) gravel from Marion gravel pits only have the hauling cost added. Hadden asserted the use of local gravel cuts out freight cost for the saving of approximately $2,000 to $3,000 a mile to taxpayers. “Dust in Public Eye” "This talk about one material being inferior to the other is just throwing dust in the public’s eyes,” Hadden said. All materials are found to be a little imperfect at times. There nre places in Indiana where stone should be used and places where gravel is better.” "Schmidt’s specifications of crushed stone or highly screened gravel would make good concrete, but not as good as those regularly recommended by the highway commission and as applied to local conditions,” Holtzman said. The vast difference is in price, he claimed. "What we want is open competition,” Holtzman said. Gravel men have termed the county road specifications to be "monkey specifications,” because they are not standard, according to Howard Maxwell, assistant manager of the Maxwell Gravel Company. Hard for Local Men "Local gravel men could not possibly meet the specifications. They are made hard for us, so It will bring the cost above that of stone. ‘ All we want is an equal chance with stone men, but instead we got frozen out in the county.” Schmidt’s specifications call for nothing over two-inch and allows only 5 per cent to pass through a si-inch screen,-while the State highway commission regularly permits on State roads 15 per cent through a $4-inch screen. “The specifications favor the stone men. Requirements are such that gravel men could not meet them without a large expenditure of money and time,” declared Warren Santsell, 700 E. Sixty-Fourth St., who is in the trucking business. “Schmidt’s specifications call for stone or its equal, but they do not designate who is to determine its equal.” County Commissioner John McCloskey opposed Schmidt’s specifications, declaring they “closed out” Marion County gravel. “Roads Poor” McCloskey said an inspector of the State highway commission last week condemned fifteen to twenty carloads of crushed stone shipped here for Improvement of the Three Knotch Rd., from the end of S. Meridian St. to the Johnson County line. The inspector, who was obtained on application of fifty interested property owners, rejected the stone on grounds it was too soft, dirty and unwashed, McCloskey said. A representative of the Indiana Crushed Stone Association, 802 Hume-Mansur BIJg., admitted there was no question that crushed stone cost more than gravel, as now supplied by local gravel concerns. However, he asserted that highlyscreened gravel, as specified by the county surveyor, would also be more expensive. He said crushed stone costs only from S3OO to S4OO a mile. “Marlon County roads have been in poor condition due to loose specifications.” he claimed. Under loose specifications there is danger of slipping in anything, he said. Although it takes more care and expense to get highly-screened gr*avel the results are more permanent, he said. Streets Affected City streets also entered into the question when it was announced a thorough airing of the question of paving on E. Tenth St., between Sherman Dr. and Emerson Ave., will take place at a public hearing to be held at 2 p. m. Friday by the board of works. Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts, which filed a report that gravel being used In construction contained too high a proportion of dirt and loam, will be invited to attend. Frank C. Llngenfelter, city engineer, reported to the board that the paving is satisfactory and that the public dispute was stirred up by a faction of the gravel interests jealous of the contractor, the Mead Construction Company. BAND TO PLAY AT PARK The Indianapolis Military Band will give a municipal concert at 7:30 p. m. Sunday at Garfield Park. W. 8. Mitchell is conductor and Mlsa Mary Case soloist.

BEECH GROVE CLUB ELECTS Community to Unite in Developing Resources. A. J. Eibling is president of the newly formed Beech Grove Civic Club. Election of officers was held Friday night at the I. O. O. F. hall. About 200 persons attending the community meeting, decided to unite to develop the town’s resources. Program of activities will be outlined at a meeting next Friday. Other officers’. William Glshwiler, vice-president; Mrs. W. S, Newcomer, secretary; and R. C. Wright, treasurer.

160 FURNITURE FIRMS INDICTED Federal Trust Law Violations Are Charged. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 25.—Indictments charging 160 manufacturers of bedroom and dining room furniture with conspiracy to violate the Sherman anti trust law were returned in Federal Court here today. The irdictments charge an unlawful combination of the firms operating in restraint of trade and with carrying on business under an agreement to prevent competition. They are charged with conferring together at Indianapolis and Evansville, among other cities. Showers Brothers Company of Bloomington, Ind., Is among (hose indicted. This was the second group of furniture men to be indicted here. Approximately 260 were indicted two months ago. Most of them pleaded guilty and were fined. TEN AFFIDAVITS FILED Grand Jury Deputy Brings Charges Against Thirteen. Ten affidavits were filed In Criminal Court today by William Scheaffer, grand jury deputy, agaiust thirteen persons. Persons charged are: George Stephenson, 2716 W. Washington St., and William Edson, each with receiving stolen goods; Forest Whitsell, 1520 Sheldon St., vehicle taking; Cephus Forest, 104 5 Congress Ave., Charles Drake, 2133 Bosart Ave., Harold Hinma, 933 W. Thirtieth St., Ruddell Bridges. 2412 Highland Ave., Roosevelt Pursley, 1146 Earhart St., with grand larceny; Frank Doherty and Evelyn Lloyd, with petit larceny, and C. O. Samuels and Lovlna Smith, 434 N. West St., with burglary. FOUR GET SENTENCES Judge Collins Asscses Terms on Larceny Charges. Rex Redwine, 19, of Cleveland. Ohio, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to one to fourteen years at the Indiana State Reformatory today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins on charge of grand larceny. Theodore Morrow, 16, and Richard Stone, 17, both colored, were given six-month sentences on the Indiana State Farm on similar charges. Robert Parker, 29, colored, was given a six-month Farm term on a petit larceny charge.

SAFES RESIST TWO ATTEMPTS Gibson Auto Company and Delicatessen Entered. Detectives today investigated two u "(successful attempts to rob small safes Friday night. Robbers visited the Gibson Auto Sales Company. Michigan St. and Capitol Ave. Although the combination was battered off. the safe was not opened. Motor Policemen Chitwood and Maas found a padded sledge in an automobile In rear of the building. Police believe the attempt wa* made by someone who waa locked in the building. Exit was made through a fire escape. W. Taylor, manager, said there, was about S2O and some checks in the safe. Arthur Page, who operates a rellcatessen at 314 Massachusetts Ave.. reported that his safe was battered by robbers. The combination was ruined, but the Inner door was not opened. TRANSPORTING SENTENCE Judge Gives Chicago Man Prison Term; Liquor to Be Destroyed. Ben Gltst, 31. of Chicago, was sentenced from one to two years at the Indiana State Prison today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, when convicted on charge oftransporting liquor between Chicago and Indianapolis. Glist pleaded guilty. Judge Collins ordered Sheriff Hawkins to destroy 118 gallons of liquor aaid to have been brought here by Glist. His automobile waa also ordered disposed of. FUNERAL FOR RACER Arthur Davidson Burled In Crown Hill—Was Dirt Track Driver. The body of Arthur "Fuzzy” Davidson, 28, dirt track automobile race driver, who died Wednesday, was laid to rest today in Crown Hill Cemetery. Services were held at the home of his mother Mrs. G. T. Davidson, 924 N. Oxford St., at 2 p. m. JUDGE NAMES REFEREE ; Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr announced today that Ml*s Clara Burnside has been named as referee to preside over case* involving girla. Office was authorized by the last Legislature. PoeiMon carries a salary of $4,000 annually. I

MRS. COOLIDGE’S SONG First Lady Shows Preference for "My Wild Irish Rose.’* Bu Times Borriat HAWMPBCOTT, Mass., July 25. To the first lady of the land, the first song is "My Wild Irish Rose.” Mrs. Coolldge asked Gerald Griffin, tenor, to sing the Hibernian air when he called to pay his respects at tire summer White House Friday eve ning. Mrs. Harding’s favorite song was "The End of a Perfect Duy.”

TRACTION RATE SLASH DENIED Interurban Officials Say Regular Fare Will Remain. Local interurhan official* today denied reported plans for a general slash In rates, declaring they will adhere to their regular 3-cent-a-mile rates, because of high operating costs. Sunday excursion fares, established some time ago many companies, will continue, officials said. . John W. McCardle, public service commission chairman, predicted a general rate cut soon. Chicago. South Bend * Northern Indiana Railway Cos. officials, in a letter to McCardle, revealed plans for a Straight I*4 cent fare. NINE DRIVERS SLATED Charges Preferred by City and State Poliee. Nine auto drivers were slated on Friday night by State and city police. They were charged as follows; G. L. Brown, 25. of 1815 Holliday St., speeding and driving on the left side of the street. Charles Schaub, 27, of 51 Schiller St.; Taylor Pierson, 29. of Terre Haute, Ind.; Chester Staley, 19. of Maywood Park; Harry Payne, 26, colored, 612 E. Court St., Buster McClaren, 25, colored, 411 W. Ohio St., with speeding; Edward Sanders, 42, colored, 2069 Boulevard PI., no lights, title or license. Luther Hartzog, 18, of 223 N. Summitt 8t„ failure to give a hand signal; William Hollingsworth, 35, of the Colonial Hotel, parking In front of a fire plug. FLOWER PRIZES GIVEN Mrs. F. H. Brinkman Submits Best Gladioli Exhibit. Awards for exhibits In the gladioli show, held under auspices of the American Gladioli Society, Garden Flowers Society of Indianapolis and the Bankers Trust Company, were announc'd today, Mrs. F. H. Brinkman, 173 N. Sherman Dr., was awarded a silver medal and Orville De Motte, 5626 X. Pennsylvania tjt., a bronze mednl, offered by the Bankers Trust Company. The Gladioli Society trophies went to Donald Rugenstoin, 1418 Leonard St., for the best primary amateur entry; Orville De Motto’ for the best and most comprehensive collection of named_varieties, and Charles G. Morris, for the best seedling gladioli. BOULEVARD HELD UP Highway Commission Will Aid Calumet District Cities. Governor Jackson has assured officials of cities In the Calumet d,trlct that the State highway commission will do all In its power to remedy a situation w'hlch threastens to delay paving of Indianapolis Blvd., gateway to Chicago. Refusal of the Hammond, Whlt.ng and East Chicago street railway to move Its tracks to the center of the roadway, is causing contractors temporarily to abandon the project. John D. Williams, director of tho highway commission, said A conference would be held Monday. TRAVELING MAN KILLED Lafayette Salesman Meets Death at Crossing. Bu United Press CLOVERDALE. Ind.. July 25. Carl Cummings. 30, traveling sales man from Lafayette, was killed Friday when his auto was stritek by a Monon train. POULTRY TOUR ENDS Bu United Press GREENFIELD, Ind , July 25. Two hundred members of the Indiana Poultry Association were on their wa yhome today following the close of a four-day tour of the State. The tour started at Lafayette and poultry farms of big fanciers were visited.

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COUNTY JAIL IS HAWKINS PICK Will Stay There Awaiting Appeal Action. Morton H. Hawkins, former president of the defunct Hawkin' Mortgage Company, convict'd in Federal Court on a charge of using the mail* to defraud, Ims chosen to remain in the Marlon County Jail pending his appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Hawkins was sentenced to fifteen years at Leavenworth penitentiary and fined $10,09(1 l>y Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Ills appeal bond was fixed at $50,000 and be woe allowed twenty day* to provide It. Failing to get It reduced. Hawkins petitioned to have his appeal carried to the higher court under the pauper act, tho Government bearing the expenses. The twenty-day period ex pires Sunday. "I am going to stay Jn the Marlon County Jail," Hawkins said late Friday. "until my ca*e la decided in the Circuit Court of Appeal*."

NEW HUNT ON FOR‘PHYSICIAN’ ‘Convict Aid’ Fails to Appear in Court. A second police search for A. J. Collins, alias Dr. R. Edward begun today. Collins waa arrested In Ft. Wayne as a fugitive from a charge of defrauding the Heverln Hotel Company of a SSO hill and returned hore. His bond of SI,OOO was provided by A1 Reeder, professional bondsman, but Collins failed to appear when hia case was called in city court Friday afternoon. The case waa postponed until July 28. Police and members of the Better Business Bureau say Collins, posing as a doctor giving part of his time In the Interests of families of convicts, solicited funds for the Prison Problem League, with offices at 638 K. of P. Bldg. He Is said to hnve received 25 per cent of all hia collections. He la said to have already collected sums varying from $lO to SIOO from local business men. PRESENCE IS SUFFICIENT Judge Sleeps During Trial But I That’s Alright. Bu Times Sneein l BERLIN, July 24—The bodily presence of a Judge la sufficient for the purposes of justice, the Supreme Court hHS decided in rejecting an appeal brought because the Judge who decided the case had slept throughout the trial. The Supreme Court decided that the bodily presence alone is ascertainable, while mental presence In all cases must he presumed. NEW PHYSICS HEAD Cornell College Man Chosen by De Pauw University. Bu Times Rnecdal GREENCABTLE, Ind., July 28Prof. O. 11. Smith, former professor of physics in Cornell College, Mount Vernon, lowa, has been selected head of the physics deportment at De Pauw University. Smith wss also former president of the lowa Academy of Science. PLAN GARDEN PARTY Democratic Women's Club to Give Affair ‘on Friday, Seventh District Democratic Woman's Club will give a garden party Friday at 6 p. m at. the home of the president pro tern.. Mrs. W. C. Smith, 2910 College Ave. Mr*. G. D. Teazel Is chairman of the program committee, Mr*. W. H. Bobbitt, chairman of the aoclal committee, and Mrs. P. C. Kelly of refreshment committee. RADIO SHOW PUBLIC!CT Blaine McGrath, president of the Indianapolis Advertising Club, will direct publicity for the Indianapolis Broadcast,a Listeners* Association radio show, to be held In Cadle Tabernacle Sept. 21 to 26, It waa announced today.

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