Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1926 — Page 11

JULY 3, 1926

DOUBLE HOLIDAY CELEBRATION FOR CITY IS PLANNED -f Picnics, Patriotic Services and Fireworks Displays Are Scheduled. With fireworks already booming. Indianapolis today prepared for a two-day celebration of the nation's independence for the first time in eleveh years. The Fourth of July, birth date of the Declaration of Independence came on Sunday the last time in 1915, causing a two-day observance. The double outing will be the occasion of outings, picnics, reunions, patriotic services and addresses, band concerts, community singing, games, contests, readings of the Declaration, motor • trips, fishing trips, fireworks displays and excursions of varied kinds. Business will cease Monday, except at the general delivery window at the postofHce between 8 a. m. and ndon, Lhe livestock exchange and In Criminal Court, where more than fifty alleged law violators, arrested In June, will be arraigned before Judge James A. Collins.. Services at Fort Sunday, patriotic services will be [held at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and 'at the seventeen Marion County Legion posts' headquarters. Brig. Gen. Dwight Aultman, post commandant, will be the principal speaker at the Army services. Capt. Thornton Chase, post adjutant, will read the Declaration of Independence. The post band will provide music. The service will start at 11:30 a. m. in the assembly hall. Secretary of State Frederick E. Scbortemeier will be the principal speaker and the photoplay, “Barbara Frietchie” will be shown at the pricinpal community demonstration at 9 a. m. Monday at the Circle Theater, sponsored by the Marion County W. C. J. U., Seventh Dis-fe-iet Federation of Clubs, the Local Council of Women and the Indiana Photoplay Indorsers. Activities Planned Activities of all kinds are planned for Monday. Events and organizations sponsoring them include: Reunion, G. A. R. veterans, Ft. Friendly, 2. p. m.. Elks’ outing, Walnut Gardens, all day; Beech Grove Civic League celebration, Beech Grove public school park, all day; picnic, First Ward Republican Club, Dearborn Park, all day; picnic, North Indianapolis Better Business League, Riverside Park, all day; picnic, Ray Street Nazarene School, Christian Park, all day; picnic, New Jersey Street Methodist Church, Dearborn Park, all day; picnic, Movie Sta>s Baseball Club, Douglass Park, all day; picnic, Merritt Place Sunday school. Jameson Park, all day. picnic, Spanish War Veterans, Brookside Park, all day: fireworks display, Meridian Hills Country Club, night, and park patrons picnic, city recreation department, Dearborn Park, all day.

COTTOM BURIAL MONDAY Traveling foreman for Big Four Railroad Dies. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Monday for YVallace Cottorn, 42, traveling fireman for the Big Four Railroad on the Indianapolis’ Terminal and Springfield division, who died Thursday. Services will be held at the Cottorn residence on Norman Ave., and burial wjll be in Memorial Park cemetery. He was a member of Knights of Pythias lodge, No. 97, and Logan Masonic lodge, No. 56. Cottorn is survived .by his widow, a daughter Ruby, 6; his mother and father, Mrs. and Mrs. George M. Cottom, 1049 E. Vermont St.; a brother, YVilliam H. Cottorn, of Muncie, and three sisters, Mrs. L. H. Seidensticker, of Detroit. Mich.; Mrs. W. A. YVorley and Mrs. Arthur Grant, of Indianapolis. -BUYERS’ WEEK SEPT. 20 More Than 1,000 Retailers to Visit City for Event. More than- a thousand retailers or their representatives are expected to i visit Indianapolis the wqek of Sept. 20, when the Buyers’ week will be held under auspices of the wholesale trade division the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. C. B. Crets is chairman of a committee which will prepare a program of entertainment for the visitors whose railroad fares will .be refunded. LAKE COUNTY BOOMING New Water Plant Authorized for Hammond Suburb. Bv Times Special /< HAMMOND, Ind., July 3.—Lake county’s monster 1926 industrial expansion is running true to predictions. Early this week work began on a pipe line from Oklahoma oil fields to the new Roxanna Petroleum Company $1,000,000 refinery here. Munster, <a suburb. Friday was authorized by the public service commißion to issue $33,000 bonds to finance anew water plant. H • : FIRE LOSS IS $75,000 ( Factory Bums at New Haven, Near Ft. Wayne. Bv United, Press FT. YVAYNE, Ind.. July 3.—Officials of the Speery f Manufacturing Company at New Haven, near Ft. YVayne, today estimated at $75,000 the loss from fire which swept the plant late Friday. / LEAVES STATE $500,000 Bv United Press CHEYENNE. Wyo., July 3.—A gift of half a million dollars has been made to the State of YVyoming by John E. Higgins, Montana oil man.

Pigeons on Submarines

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The carrier pigeon has joined the Navy. Further, he’s shipping on submarines. The birds are put In sealed traps which float to the surface and open automatically, as the diagram above shows, allowing the bird to fly in with his message. The bird shown above is named J. T. Sullivan, and is one of the Navy’s fastest carriers. Inset shows a sailor launching a pigeon on its fight.

RECEPTION IS PLANNED Farewell. Welcome Meeting at Salvation Army Sunday. A "farewell and welcome’’ meeting will be held at the Salvation Army citadel, 24 S. Capitol Ave., Sunday evening in honor of Adjutant and Mrs. Thomas Laiyie and Adjutant and Mrs. O. Schnarr, former divisional commander at South Bend, according to W. D. Sowers, in charge of arrangements. Adjutant and Mrs. Laurie formerly were second in command of the State work of the Army, but have been promoted to divisional commander at . Des Moines, lowa. Adjutant and Mrs. Schnarr will take the post of second in command here.

7 NAMED DEFENDANTS Affidavits Filed by Sheaffer, Deputy Prosecutor. \ Seven affidavits were filed in Criminal Court today by William H. Sheaffer, deputy prosecutor. Defendants and charges fa 'ed are: Floyd and Orville Bohannon, Ray Bryant, Floyd Manuel, Russell Aubrey. Ernest and Russell Blackwell, Robert Rudell, vehicle taking; Ralph O'Neil, petit larceny; Paul Butterfield, child desertion; William Harett, William Bright, Ralph Dixon alias Guy Jacks and Lawrence Porter, grand larceny. They will all be arraigned before Judge James A. Collins Monday morning. WANTS WADING ALLOWED Councilmen Seeks to Make Sportsmen Share Casting Pool. Sportsman who practice at the municipal casting pool at College Ave. and Fall Creek will share the pool with child waders, if a move by Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew is effective. Bartholomew said he will propose at next park board meeting that children be allowed to wade in the pool at certain hours and that they have equal privileges 7 with the casters. TWO AMERICANS KILLED I’hilade’plua Couple Die in Airplane Accident. Bu United Press PARIS, July 3.—Dispatches from Strasbourg state that two Americans, listed on records as Mr. and Mrs. Dawson of Philadelphia. were killed in a passenger airplane crash. DEFINES JUDGE’S POWER Superior Court judges, as (veil as circuit judges, are empowered by execute commitments to the Riley Children’s Hospital, Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom held today in an submitted to Robert E. Neff, hospital administrator, SKELETONS DUG Ul* Bv United Press COLUMBUS, Ind„ July 3.—Bartholomew County authorities today investigated the finding of the skeletons of a man and a boy in a gravel pit near here. The skeletons had been in the ground many years, DYING GIRL'S KIN PAROLED Governor Jackson today’extended a five-day parole to Elza West, a Lawrenceburg youth serving out a $42 fine at the Indiana State farm, in-order .that he might be at the bedside of a dying sister. , BOtf FRACTURES LEG / Charles Calderon, 13, of 1031 S. Illinois St., broke his leg today when he fell from his bicycle in front of his home. He was-taken to the city hospital. -WEDS NEYV YORK BANKER Bv Vnilrd Press NEW YORK. July 3. —Mrs. Mona Strader Bush, former wife of James I. Bush, vice president of the Equitable Trust Company, has become the wife of Harrison Williams, millionaire banker. NATIONAL BANK CALL Bu United Press WASHINGTON. July 3. The comptroller of currency today Issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of the close of business on June 30, 1926.

Livestock Markets

CHICAGO. July 3.—Cattle—Receipt*, 2.000; imoftly a direct Southwest run; yearlings and medium steers, 23@ 40c hither; yearlings. including all grades of light heifers showed most advance, average. $11.50 downward: take lead over heavies, 120-pound steers. $10.65; best heavies. $10.5o; numerous loads lights at $10.50 ft 10.60: typical long yearlings at inside figures: numerous at $10: little under $0 to the killers: grassy cows, s7.7ster 8.50 to killers. $8 down to feeder dealers: packers sieady to weak: feeders in medium supply: weighty heifers and bulls strong: grassy cows 25c lower; vealers strong to 25c higher: fed steers, $9.25® 10.25: fat cows. $5.25 @7.35: heifers, $7.75@10: cutters and low cutters. $4.25 @4.85- veal calves. sll (it 12.25. stockers and feeders. $6.50 @8.25. Sheep—Receipts. 1,000: all direct: none on sale today: for the week. 14,000 direct and 139 doubles from feeding stations: fat natives and westerns, s(>@7oc lower: culls, native yearlings and feeders steady: fat sheep 2oc higher: top on westerns. $15.60: natives, SI .i.15. culls. $11.50 fed yearling wethers, $13.75: ewes. $7: feeders, $14.50: bulk fat range lambs. $15.10 ft 15.50: natives. $14.50 ft 15: cull natives. sll ft 11.50: yearlings. sl2® 13; fat ewes. ss® 0.50: feeders. $14.25 ft 14.50. Hogg—Receipts, 2.000 market uneven, steady to 10c lower. lower grades off most: 190-pound weights top. $14.90; 210-pound weights. $14.65ft 14 85: 225 to 240-pound, good and choice, maiority. $14.20 ft 14.50: desirable 250 to 350-pound butchers. $13.50 @14.10; packing sows. $11.3501.0(1: slaughter pits. $14.90: shiperg took 1,500 holdovers. 3.300: week bulk prices, top, sl4 90. bulk. $13.75@ 14.2-1; heavyweights 813.25 ft 14.25: mediumwe'ghts. sl4 ed 14.80: lightweights. $l4O 14.90; no quote on light lights: packing sows. [email protected]; slaughter pigs. $14.50® 15.00. % CINCINNATI. July 3.—Cattle Receipts. 425: market weak, good to choice. $9.50® 10.50. Calves—Market $1 lower: good to ehoiee. $10.50 ft 11. Hogs—Receipts. 140: market very slow; mostly 10c lower: good to choice packers nad butchers. $14.75. Sheen—Rc<—ipts. 1.800: market steady: good to choice. s4@6. Lambs —Market active and strong; good to choice. sls 015.59TOLEDO. July 3.—Hogs—Receipts. 400: market, steady: heavies. $14.25® 14.50: mediums. $14.75ft 15: Yorkers. sls ft 15.25. good pigs. sls® 15.25. Calves— Market, steady Sheep and lambs—Market, steady. Buttei—4o® 43c. Eggs 20 ft 28c. Hay—s3o.

Banks and Exchange

—July 3 LOCAL CLEARINGS I Indianapolis bank clearings for today amounted to $5,151,000. Clearings for the week were $39,106,000 Debits for today amounted to $0 106 000. Debit* for the week were S7O 225.000. CHICAGO STATEMENT Bv United Press CHICAGO. July 3.—Clearings, $120.700.000: balance. $8,900,000.

Produce Markets

CHICAGO, July 3.—Cheese Twin*. 19 Vi @ 20c: Americas. 20 Vi® 21c. Poultry Receipt*, a ears: fowls. 25 '/<■. springs, 35c: ducks, 220: Biirtnaa. 30r: geese. 16c: springs. 21c: turkeys. 30c: roosters. 1,7 Vic; broilers. 29c. Potatoes —Arrivals. So: cars on track. 91: North Carolina barrel Irish Cobblers. 85.25 it 5.40: Alabama sacked Irish cobblers, best. $2.7c ® 2.90: ordinary stock as low as $2.40. CLEVELAND July 3.—Potatoes—Virginia. $6.10® 6.25 per barrel. Carolina stave, $5.75® 5.90 per barrel: Michican choice fancy. $4.75@5 npr barrel. Poultry—Heavy fowls. 28® 29c: Leghorn fowls 26®-27c: Leghorn broilers. 30® 32c: heavy broilers. 40® 42c; cocks. 17ft 18c: young ducks. :iflft33c: old ducks. 25 ®.2Bc. Butter—Extra in tub lots. 42 ft 42 Vic: extra firsts. 40® 41c: firsts. 38ft 39c: packing stock. 28c. Exgs^—Extra. 31 Vic: extra firsts. 30Vic: firsts. 28 \ ft 29c; ordinary firsts. 27Vic. Births Girls Theodore and Martha Dinwiddle, city hospital. Delbert and Mabel Meyer, Methodist Hospital. Waiter and Willie Durrott. 2877 Highland PI. Charles and Ferrol Sherfiek. 954 Eugene. w Harry and Beulah Ronteril. 225 N. Beville. Joseph and Liddie PoWell. 2248 Daisy. Harvard and Mary Townsley. 4175 Har. lin., Fred and Genevieve Elliott. St. Vincents Hospital. William ami Venita Shine, St. Vincent's HosnPal. Clyde and Norma Trader, city hosnttsl. George and Grace McCorkle, 839 N. Capitol. Robert and Lois Woods. 1534 Commerce. Boys Edward and Evelyn Kitnbel. city hospital. Claude and Marie Hadden cit.v hospital. Elmpr and Alice Phillips, Methodist Hospital. Joseph and Winifred Touhy. t>2o N. Denny. Frank and Lueile Goodnight. 940 High. Vernon and May Headley. 4425 E. Thirtieth. Dalbert md Bernice Owens. 2009 Howard. Clay and Annie Jenkins. 2009 W. MiehlgaHarry and Miriam Hoe wren, . 3228 W. Pratt. Robert and Culassa Drake. 226 S. Emerson. Charles and Grace Ross. Methodist HosThomas land Violet .Tett. Christian Hospital. Reno and Bessie Webber, city hospital. Twins Louis and Caroline Stanlch. 765 N. Holmes, girls Deaths. Eliza C. Ba’dwin. 57. 4027 Carrollton, chronic myoeH-ditis Mary J. Jennnig-i. 19. St. Vincent Hospital. peritonitis Mae Conley Msnn. 52. 2904 E. Michigan. acute mastoiditis Joseph Flora. 60. etiy hospital, chronnnephrltis. . „ . Everett Artis. 62. 2040 N. Oxford, chronic myocarditis Norris N. Wade. 34. 709 Indiana, tuberculosis. „ , Andrew B. ftpse. 03. o7J N. Lynn, mitral insufficiency. Edward Runyan. 58. 1431- E. Vermont, mitral insufficiency. _ , .. Luther A. Boyd. 67. Centi ai Indiana Hospital, pericarditis. , Roby T. Hanger. 38. city hospital, nephritis.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

175,000 LEASE ON DOWNTOWN BUSINESS SITE Real Estate Deals for Week! Total $50,000, Report Showed. Lease of property at 229 YV. Washington St., for fifteen years, to Maurice Tavel, for about $75,000 ’,vas announced today by A. Edward Mantel, realtor. Tavel will spend about $12,000 to remodel the location for a jewelry a frontage of twenty feet in Wash a frontag eof twenty feet in Washington St., and a depth of 195 feet. To Erect Home Tavel sold a corner lot at Powell and Central Aves., to Ilomer Nogley. This deal was negotiated by Martin Frankford of the Mantel Company. Other deals total more than $50,000. E. J. Sexton announced the sale of 902 04 S. Delaware St., to S. L. Johnson for $10,500. The Nelson Realty Company has bought a tract of 175 feet frontage in Pennsylvania St. at Fifty-Fifth St. from John M. Eekman of New York City. Three brick homes are to be erected on the property at a cost of $25,000 each. Charles E. Mikesell will build three homes on Fifty-Fifth St. near Meridian St. which he purchased from Eekman for $4,000. The property has a frontage of 150 feet In Fifty-Fifth St.' 50-Aere Site Sold Thomas F. Carson, reatlor, announced the sale of. a 55-foot lpt on the west sido of Pennsylvania St., soutli of Fifty-Fourth St., to Charles E. Willlsie for S4,2QPO. Wlllsle said he will construct a brick veneer home on the site. Not included in the aggregate total is the sale of 50 acres of ground at Stop 6, Ma<flson Ave., to T. E. Grinslade of the Grinslade Constructon Company. ' Benjamin Hiney formerly owned the propgrty. Grinslade said he will divide the property into acre and one-half-acs-e tracts. The consideration was not given. i

BIG LOSS FROM DROUGHTFEARED (Continued From Page 1) week-end, with probably showers or thunder storms. Somewhat cooler tonight. Showers Likely Armlngton declared considerable damage will be done crops if the dry sp&ll continues several days. So far it has not been sufficiently serious to cause great loss, however. Bhowers are likely, he declared. The droughth Is more pronounced in the south and southwest portion of Indiana. Only 1.28 precipitation for June a deficiency of 3.03 was reported In the months’ meteoroligical summary. Normal is 4.31. Fair weather with rising temperature was forecast for Monday in the prediction for the Ohio Valley. Temperature will be slightly above normal throughout next week, with possible showers or thunderstorms. “Unless rain Intervenes soon, considerable damage will be done to crops throughout the State,’’ said William Stahl of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. Unofficial reports received at the bureau claim the oats crop Is suffering most. Moisture Is the thing needed most by oats now, he said. Vegetable© are still doing fine, but unless rain comes within a day or two it will also be affected by the heat wave, he said. However, this is fine weather for corn, Stahl claimed. Y'et unless the drought subsides this crop will also suffer considerable damage, he said. The drought has not lasted long enough-to do any considerable damage, lie said. Wheat Crop Good Stahl said there has been a report of unusually good wheat crop throughout the State. Most of the wheat is being cut, he said. John Kitley, former county commissioner, who lives on his farm, east of Indianapolis. on the Brookville Rd., reports damage to wheat on his farm. All the crops are “burning up," he said. “It is awfully dry and the crops are suffering from want of rain. The greatest damage is being done to clover, wheat and oats. The wheat is due to be cut next week in this part of the country.’’ said Kitley. Harry F. Dietz, assistant State en tomologist. said that truck gardeners and berry growers were .the principal suffers over the State. There has been no rain in Columbus, Tnd.. for six weeks he said. PENDLETON .CELEBRATES Candidate St limp to Open Two-Day Program. B (/ Times Special PENDLETON, lnd„ July 3.—Albert Stump, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, long term, will open at 2:30 p. m. Sunday a twoday celebration df the signing of the Declaration of Independence here. A musical program, golf and tennis tournaments,. beauty contest, a pageant and other features will entertain the visitors. Special excursions for picnickers will be Operated by the Union Traction Company. HOOSIER FIRM FINED Bu United Press CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 3.—The Malleable Iron Works, Marlon, Tnd., and Edwin F. Leigh, an official, were under sentence today to fines of $3,000 each costs for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Judge D. C. Westenhaver set the penalty afterjhe two defendants pleaded guilty.

From City of Love, but He Paid A free-for-all fight led to municipal court today and Enos Pennock, 21, of sedate Philadelphia, the "City of Brotherly Love,” was fined, in -all. $75 for resisting an officer and Intoxication by Judge Paul C. Wetter. His companion. Miss Mary Corliss, JtO. of 328 State, was fined $1 for assault and battery. Testimony showed the fight, which followed an accident In front of 2618 Cornell Ave., consisted of loud talk, hair-pulling, face slapping and blows with fists and clubs. Pennock, a Cornell. University student, struck Officer Everson, and Everson retaliated with half a dozen hard blows on the head with hie club, it was testified. Miss Corless, who was riding with Pennock, (.slapped the face of Miss Pauline Frazier, 3104 N. Sutherland Ave., a witness of the accident, evidence showed.

PONZI THREATENS HIGHER-LJPEXPOSE Says He Will Talk Unless Clemency Granted. Bv Vnilrd Press HOUSTON, Texas, July 3.—Unless executive clemency is granted him, Charles Ponzl, held In jail here for Massachusetts officers, will “tell what I know about all attorney generals. bank commissioners and others,” the former financial genius said today. Ponzl faces a prison sentence of seven years in Massachusetts for his manipulations in Boston. He was arrested several days ago when trie boat on which he had shipped to Italy as a waiter docked at New Orleans. "I was convicted to protect higher ups,” Ponzi said. “But before I’ll enter the Massachusetts prison for seven years I’ll tell what I know about all attorney generals, bank commissioners and others.” JUDGE SCORES BAR BODY FEE Asserts Tax of Members an ‘Outrage.’ The practice of the Incianapolis Bar Association in requiring a $lO fee of all applicants for admission to the Marion County bar is "an outrage and unconstitutional," asserted Judge Clinton 11. Givan of Superior Court Four who has issued an order which in effect Invalidates the bar association rule in his court. “Any person who cun pass-Tan examination given by a committee appointed by the court and who is a good moral character, can practice ir. this court.” said Judge Givan. “I think that young mert Jujt out of school need their money,” he said, G. W. Saunders, law school graduate, has filed a suit in Circuit Court to test the validity of the bar asso ciatlon rule. The case will probably not be tried before fall.

RUMANIAN FLOOD TAKES2O9 LIVES Official Figures Given Out at Bucharest. BUCHAREST, Roumania, July 3. —Two hundred and nine persons have been drowned in the floods .which have swept Roumania, it was officially announced today. Authorities said they expected the death toll would be increased when full communication with the affected areas was established. Many districts are still isolated by waters of flooded rivers. FREE AFTER 64 DAYS Pair Found Not Guilty Following I/ong Stay in Jail. After spending sixty-four days in Marion County jail. Richard Andrews and Earl Duncan, charged with conspiracy to commit burglary, were found not guilty and discharged today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. An officer testified they attempted to enter a Standard grocery at 1190 Kentucky Ave. They denied the charge and were released. Robert Marlin who has been in jail for more than ninety days on robbery and grand larceny charges was released on his own recognizance. His trial again was delayed by failure of Phillip YY’alpa, 6 S. YVest St., chief witness, to appear. NEWS FOR RADIO FANS Bu United Press NEYV Y’ORK, July 3.—The Broadcasting Company of America has announced that sixteen of its associated stations will broaacast the sesquicentennlal ceremonies at Philadelphia on Independence day. July 5, an addVess by President Coolidge to feature the proceedings. GASOLINE STOLEN Three young men in an old auto drove into the YY’estern Oil filling station. Massachusetts Ave., and Newman St., early today and broke open a pump, stealing several gallons of gasoline. Joe YVllkinson. attendant, was unable to tell how much was taken. MARX SETTING PRETTY Bv United Press BERLIN, July 3. —The German Reichstag has adjourned until Nov. 3 and the cabinet of Chancellor Marx aeems assured of continuance In office throughout the summer.

Cat ‘ 'Mothers’ Bunnies

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If you think mother's love applies only to one's offspring In the animal kingdom take a look at this picture. A Maltese cat Is shown “mothering" three rabbits In addition to her own four kittens. Art llodge, Morris St. and Eagle Creek, said the cat “dragged” the hunnlcs, one each day, In from the woods and placed them in the neat with her own family.

DECIDE SHUMAKER CASETHIS MONTH t ' Final Action on Contempt Charge Indicated. Final decision by State Supreme Court as to whether the Rev. Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent u. nuidtia Ami-Saloon League, should be punished for temptuous remarks in his annual report, will be reached late this month, it wa sindicated today. With the court in vacation, It is doubtful if all the justices will be able to assemble in special session before the latter part of the month. Members of the special advisory committee are to convene Tuesday to draft their recommendations to the court. Attorney General Arthur 1., Gilliom, author of the charges against Shumaker and two of his associates, will he out of the city the coming two weeks, lending force to the belief that thrf decision will not follow immediately on the heels of the committee's recommendations. U. S. DELEGATION TO BE REDUCED * r League Defeats Naval Disarmament Plan. * Bv Vnilrd Press GENEVA, July 3. —Because of the defeat by the Teague of Nations disarmament s.ih-commlssions of the American project for a basis for naval disarmament, the American delegation Is to be greatly reduced. When the commission reconvenes on July 28 to carry out the remainder ent its work, the American delegation probably will be composed of only Hugh Gibson, American minister to Switzerland, and three experts, it is understood. The American report, demanding acceptance of tonnage by classes of vessels as the basis for naval disarmament, was defeated by a vote of 14 to 4, with Germany abstaining from voting. NORRIS QUITS COMMITTEE Resigns From Senate Agriculture Board. Bv United Press • WASHINGTON, July 3.—Senator George YV. Norris. Republican. Nebraska, today offered to the Senate a resolution asking that ho be relieved from chairmanship of the important Senate Agriculture Committee. His virtual resignation caused surprise in the light of his standing as agricultural leader. “I have resigned as- chairman of the Senate Committee on agriculture, because the numerous details take up so much of my time that it is an impossibility for me to give attention to many subjects of legislation in which I am deeply interestested and to which I intend to devote a great deal of my time,” Norris said In a statement. BANDITS LOOT FACTORY Dozen Hold Six YY'atclimen, Five Firemen at Bay. Bv United Press f RAHWAY*. N. J., July 3.—Twelve handltn* today overpowered six watchmen and five firemen at the factory of Merck & Company, chemists, and escaped with cash from the office safe and a truckload of drugs. One of the watchmen resisted and was shot and wounded. A firemen was blackjacked. BANDIT 8U HELD BV United Press LEBANON, Ind., July 3. —Hunted for nearly a year after escaping from jail at Clayton, Mo., Joe Sshell.v. 24. was held here today to return him to Missouri. He was arrested here with Ray Campbell of Chicago when they attempted to rob a clothing store. MAN, YVTFE KILLED CAMDEN. N. J.. July 3—Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dableatean of Mantua, N. J.. were killed- when their auto mobile was struck by , a Pennsylvania electric at a grade crossing In North Woodbury, near here today.

INSTRUCTORS ORGANIZE Instructors of printing in elementary, high schools and colleges at their convention hero Friday indorsed a tentative constitution for an organization, submitted by Dr. F. It. Bird, research director of the United Typothetae of America. “Instructors cannot do an effective work unless there is a central association to standardize instruction,” Dr. Bird said.

BEECH GROVE BUS FIRM WINS CASE Supreme Court Inlefinitely Restrains Town Officials. ■ The State Supreme Court today Issued an order indefinitely restraining officials of Becciv Grove from Interfering if Ith South Side Motor Coach Company bus operation on 'Main St. in Beech Grove. Harry Britton, YY'lnflcld S. Newcomer, Lewis C. Dukes, members of the town board; Obie Craig, town marshal, and Henry L. Hurst, justice of peace, Friday appealed to the court to discharge a temporary restraining order granted by the court June 29 and today’s indefinite order resulted. It was a coach company victory Indicating the court might reverse the decision of the Shelby Circuit Court upholding ordinances against the bus operation on Main St. The battle between the rompany and the town l as been waged In courts for ready a year, originating In Marlon County and being taken to Shelby Circuit Cour. on change of venue.

NEW YORK FACES TRANSIT TIE-UP Subway Strike Called for Midnight Tuesday. NEW YORK, July 3.—A subway strike that threatens to cripple transit facilities seemed Inevitable today. Y'lrtually the entire crew of motormen and switchmen of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which operates the bulk of the city's subway and elevated lines, have voted to strike at one minute after midnight, Tuesday. Os the 762 motormen and switchmen employed, on the Subway, 579 have Joined the strike movement. The eleva.ed men are not Invdlved. The city Is preparing to meet the situation by mobilizing emergency fleets of trucks, busses and drays.

WOMAN DROWNS IN GRAVEL PIT I " Sought Relief From Extreme Heat —Body Recovered. Coroner Paul F\ Robinson today investigated the drowning Friday night of Mrs. Dora Meyers, 54, It. R. C, box' 265, in a fcravel pit near the Dandy Tiall and the Speedway, south of W. Tenth St. According to Sheriff Omer Hawkins, who assisted in recovering the tody, Mrs. Meyers and another woman had gone swimming, seeking relief from the Intense heat. Mrs. Meyers is said to have stepped into the water up to her waist nnd suddenly went under when she took another step. Deputy Sheriffs Charles Beil and Dale Brown dragged the pit. August Meyers, 48, the wonrfkn'B husband, fainted when the body was recovered. Besides the husband, Mrs. Meyers Is survived by three sons from a former marriage, Charles, William, and George Melton. and a brother who lives In Ken tucky. The'body was sent to the city morgue. TYVO KILLED IN QUARRY Bv United Press WESTFIELD, MaAs.. July 3. Two were instantly killed in a pre mature explosion at the Lane trap quarry here today.

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SEEKS CITATION OF FORMER WIFE Husband Given SSO to Pay Attorney’s Fee. Cited for eq iempt of court be* cause ho neglected to pay SSO attor* ney fees to his former wlfa'a at* torney, Charles J. Robertson, College Ave. and Fifty-Second St., today In Superior Court One attempted to have his wife also cited for oonten.pt because she refused to let him see their three children. Robertson claimed he did not think lie should meet his obligation If his former wife would not comply with her pnrt of the order. Special Judge Lawrence A. Shnw who granted Robertson a dvloree on May 13, ruled the father was to gee his children three days a week. Robertson testlged that he was refused admittance at his former wife's homg \ 21N. Jefferson Ave. He testified eldest daughter threatened him when he knocked on the door. Two amnll Hone testified they didn't want to see their father. Robertson's attorney sought to have the children taken awny from the mother on the grounds the had "poisoned” them agnlnst their father. Shnw gave Robertson until Friday to pay the attorney fee.

HAD FORGOTTEN WHEN MARRIED Long Time Ago, Either 1922, or, Maybe, 1920. “Judge, I jist cain’t remember when I was married,” testified Oscar McKay, Negro, In Superior Court One today, who sought a divorce on the grounds of abandonment. “You mean to say you don’t recall the year Is which you were wed?” asked Special Judge Lawrence A. Shaw. - “YVoll, Judge, your honor, you tfnow yourse'f you oain’t remember when you were married when it Is so far bnck,” argued McKay. McKay said he believed he was wed In 1923, but then it may have been 1920. “Were you ever married” questioned the court. “I ought to be I paid smiled McKay. McKay aald his wife ran away to Join a show/’ Judge Shaw granted the divorce on condition that McKay not marry for two years.

DUVALL AGAINST STREETJHANGE Mayor Wants E. New York St. Widened First. Opposition to the proposal to change Meridian St. from Fall Creek north frdfn a boulevard Into a street, was voiced by Mayor Duvall today. Duvhll said he did not favor widening the thoroughfare now and suggested -thnt E. New York Kt. should first be widened. Under iark board control at present as a boulevard the atreet may be repaired with part of the Improvement assessed against property owners, Duvall pointed out. Repairs In the shattered wood block paving near Thirty Fourth 81., now are In progress. The material used for repair is the wooden block, despite the fact that great stretches of It have floated away during heavy rainstorms. The park board ta supplying the material and the board of works the labor. OLDEST PAPER IS SOLD Vincennes Hun Taken Over bjr Washington Man. Bv Times Sprrial VINCENNES, Ind., July S.—The Vincennes Sun, the oldest newapaper In Indiana, has been sold by the owners Royal K. I’un’ell A Sons to John T. Harris, business manager, who was formerly business manager of the Washington (Ind.) Herald. The present Democratic political policy will be continued. J. D. Hogue Jr.. Vincennes, will be managing editor. The Hun was organized tn 1804. During Its 112 years It has been owned by only three families. CONVICTED MAYOR APPEALS Bv Vnitrd Press CINCINNATI, July S. —Mayor Peter Jesewskl and safety Director Max YVoslnlskl of Hamtramet, Mich., convicted of conspiring to violate the prohibition act. petitioned the United States Clrcut Court of Appeals toqav for a re hearing. Each official Is under sentence to two years In Atlanta Federal prison. The court recently affirmed their conviction. TRIPLETS BORN Bv Vnitrd Press DETROIT, July 3.—"A1l doing nicely," was the report today on Jean. Joan and Jane Thrasher, bom to Mrs. Lillian Thrasher, 21 years old, at Provindence Hoapltal here Friday. ELKS DATE CHANGED Bv Times Pterin! ELKHART, Ind.. July 3.—To rotnrtde with the Elkhart eipoeltion of progress, the Elks State convention will be held here Aug. 31, Sept l and 2 Instead of Aug. 17. 18 and 19, as originally scheduled, It wa* announced today. TWO HURT IN CRASH Bv United Press JASPER, Ind.. July B. Y'olmer nnd Mrs Flora were recovering tndav received when their ;tuto -’ r „ .-deep embankment 14' Ta*. V' * burg yesterday. f L i