Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1926 — Page 1

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OUSTER LAW IS PROPOSED FOR INDIANA Senator •Quillen Would Clip Wings of Political Cliques. QUICK TRIAL SPECIFIED Legislature to Get Bill Regarding Officials. Introduction In the coming Legislature of a bill providing for a “removal from office act,” designed to clip political cliques of their power, is contemplated by State Senator William T. Quillen, attorney, 421 Lemcke Bldg. The law would affect State, county and municipal officers, both elective and appointive, whose removal is not provided for in the Indiana Constitution. Providing a plan whereby charges could be made before the Circuit Court having jurisdiction, the proposed legislation would strike party factions which seek to protect office holders, because they are “politically right.” Electors Could Petition In the case of county or municipal officers, five electors could petition the court and, if charges were proven, the office holder would he removed automatically at once under the plan. In case of State Senators, twenty-five electors would he required. The hill would make it compulsory for the prosecutor to prosecute the office holder, stipulating the cases should have precedent over pending suits and be tried immediately. The law would be effective in cases of conviction on embezzlement, extortion, willful misconduct, mal-ad-ministration, neglect and refusal to perform duties, corruption, felony, intoxication and similar charges. Under the proposed law, it would be impossible for a public official to be indicted and remain In office several months or longer as in some pending cases. Follows lowa Plan Quillen declared the bill was designed after the lowa plan, where it has been working effectively several years. “I have discussed the idea with a number of persons and many believe it would be a practical law,” said Quillen. “I think every State should have a law whereby public offices can be freed of incompetence and dishonesty.” Vacancies would be filled as in cases of death or resignation. Quillen said he believes there should be some legislation curtailing and clarifying contempt proceedure before a court.

NAVAL MOVE BY U. SJN CHINA Two Destroyers En Route to Disturbed Hankow.

Bu United Press LONDON, Nov. 30.—Two American destroyers today were en route to Hankow, where anti-foreign trouble threatened, according to a dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily Mail. An allied flotilla already waa off Hankow on the Yangtze River, the Mail said, and the British cruiser Dispatch, with 200 marines aboard, was expected to arrive in Shanghai today. The marines would be sent up river to Hankow. Marshal Sun Chung Fang, according to the dispatch, had sent 100,000 of his troops to assist Marshal Wu Pel Fu in the latter’s campaign against the so far victorious Nationalist army from Canton. Several anti-foreign incidents were reported from Kiukiang, where Cantonese troops were said to have tried to invade the foreign concessions The Daily Express said today that allied naval parties already had land ed at Hankow, and that there was a food and water famine.

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LANDLORDS, WATCH THE THERMOMETER! Failure to Keep Apartments Warm Will Mean Trip to the Judge, Declares Health Officer.

Apartment House dwellers who shiver over cold radiators and house renters who have pleaded in vain with the landlord about the need of repairs on the furnace, take notice. A guardian angel is coming to aid you—a guardian angel in the form of the city health department. C. Tom Johnson, assistant city health officer, announced today that he is going to handle complaints for persons whose homes are heated in-

POLICE WILL PUT WOMEN’S DIVISION OUT Os EXISTENCE Plans for Abolishment Jan. 1 Disclosed Other Changes Due. Plans for abolishment of the women’s division of thfe Indianapolis police department Jan. 1, were disclosed today by Chief Claude F. Johnson. Under the budget allowance for the new year, seventeen of the women police will have to be dropped from the pay roll. To bring this about, Johnson will suspend all but five of his present force, now headed by Mrs. Rachel Schweir, who ranks as sergeant. Os the five remaining, three will be assigned to the matron’s office of the city prison and the other two will work in his office, Johnson said. The new budget allows for four civilians to be employed as office help. The detective department will get three of these, Johnson said. The salary allowance is SIOO a month for each. Mrs. Sarah Rodgers, Mrs. Bertha Duclus and Mrs. Bessie Reed, now assigned to clerical duty in that department, are to be retained, it is thought if they wish to work at the reduced pay. They are now ranking policewomen, drawing $144 a month. Silent on Personnel It also is believed that Mrs. Schweir will be one of the five retained as regular policewomen, but Chief Johnson would neither discuss nor hint who would be the five held over. Mrs. Anna Bruner, Mrs. Elizabeth Denny and Mrs. Irene Byers are the present matrons. Another change likely to be made necessitated by the new budget is moving of the police garage to the municipal garage, near fire headquarters. Four police assigned there will be brought back for regular assignments and four civilians hired to assist Sergt. George Cox, custodian. To Name More Four nevv police will be named, since the budget allows two police station municipal court baliffs and assistants. With these changes, Johnson says he will have the equivalent of twelve new police. New police assignment slates for December, made public today, revealed that patrolmen instead of detectives are to ride in the police 'emergency car. This will free three teams of detectives to work all the time on investigations. Patrolmen assigned to the emergency are Dean, Liese, Harley Jones, Anderson, G. Lowe and Sheets.

VICTIMS OF STRIKE BLAST ASK 590,000

Man and Wife Sue Street Railway Company as Result of Injuries Received Last Summer.

Damages totaling $90,000 are de ; manded of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company in three suits brought today in Superior Courts in behalf of John Gillespie, 64, of 438 N. Dearborn St., and his wife, Anna Gillespie, 52, the two of whom were injured when an E. Michigan St. car was dynamited during the strike last summer. In the suits, brought through the firm of Slack, Rinier and Anderson, 703 Continental Bank Bldg., separate damages are sought for injuries to

(MIMAS FUNDS TO GOOUT EARLY Will Be Sent Depositors This Week by Many Banks.

Early Christmas shopping will be greatly stimulated within the next ten days by distribution of more than $1,000,000 in Christmas savings funds by local banks. Many of the banks will start sending out the Christmas checks Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Bankers have cooperated in the early shopping movement by sending out the Christmas savings during the fore part of December. “Banks and financial institutions have been more than glad to acquiesce to the depositors’ demands,” declared President Evans Woollen of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. "Depositors found that when they had to wait until Dec. 15 or later for their Christmas mon ey they lost many opportunities afforded early Christmas buyers.”

1 sufficiently, and take the pleas Into court, if necessary, to get action from landlords. The announcement came after Johnson had received a communication from Deputy Prosecutor John L. Nibiack informing that landlords can be prosecuted for not heating houses or apartments sufficiently to protect the health of the occupants. Johnson said he had received several complaints. The Indiana law is set forth in Section 8262 of Burns Annotated Statutes for 1926, volume two. According to Nibiack, any person violating this law may be fined not more than $25, or sentenced to not les sthan ten nor more than thirty days in jail. Johnson said that the board would seek to rectify conditions without resorting to the courts, but that, if necessary, action would be taken under the law. Recording thermometers, which show the temperatures at all hours, probably will be installed In houses in question, and the charts from these introduced In court. TESTIFIES AIM ON OIL LEGALITY MASKED Ex-Attorney Geu:.! Daugherty Witness in FallDoheny Case. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty testified at the FallDoheny conspiracy trial today that he was not officially asked either by the Navy or Interior Department as to legality of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases. On the fifth anniversary of the delivery of E. D. Doheny’s little brown satchel confining SIOO,OOO to the then Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, "the former secretary’s son-in-law today told the FallDoheny jury how he disposed of the money. Fall himself was a few minutes late to the seventh day of his trial, with Doheny, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government, delaying the opening slightly. C. C. Chase El Paso, Texas, Fall’s son-in-law, was the first Government witness. He told of Fall’s bringing “approximately $100,000” to El paso on Dec. 4, 1921, practically all of which, he said, was spent in the purchase of a ranch. Chase told of Fall’s unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan from Price McKinney, Cleveland, Ohio, to repay Doheny, and described his trip to Cleveland in November, 1923, to see McKinney. It was at this time that the Senate Oil Committee first gave wide publicity to the SIOO,OOO transaction. Owen Roberts, chief of prosecution, then produced documents bearing on tho Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases made by Fall and other Government officials in 1922, which, the Government charges were influenced by the SIOO,OOO loan.

Gillespie and his wife and loss of the latter’s services. For injuries to Gillespie's legs, one of which was broken, $50,600 is asked. Mrs. Gillespie’s damages are placed at $30,000, due to the crip : pling of a leg, and the loss of her service as wife at SIO,OOO. The suits come as an aftermath of the strike last summer, when the Street Railway refused to accede to demands of employes that higher wages be granted. The accident in which Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie were injured occurred about 10 p. m. Sunday, July 25, near the intersection of E. Michigan St. and E. Drive Woodruff PI. A charge of dynamite which had been placed on the rails was exploded by the car wheels, shattering the floor and roof of the car and shaking about thirty-five passengers. Gillespie’s leg was broken in several places and his wife's legs were severely bruised. Negligence on the part of officials of the Street Railway is charged In the suit. Gillespie, who is a carpenter by trade, has been unable to pursue his occupation since the injury, the complaint alleges.

Discuss Crime War in Southern Illinois

Bu T'nitrrl Prc** HARRISBURG, 111., Nov. 30. Southern Illinois’ two sheriffs-elect today began planning of work to suppress the under world war between the Birger and Shelton gangs which has resulted in the deaths of numerous gangsters and the destruction of much property. The two sheriffs-elect held a conference yesterday to discuss plans for immediate work in suppressing the crime situation. Their plans were not announced.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOV. 30, 1926

OIL STATION AFFAIRS TO BE PROBED Grand Jury Calls in Woman Property Owner and ExCouncil Head. } QUIZ LAWRENCE LYONS Witnesses Are Threatened, Prosecutor Reveals.

Two phases of the Marion County grand jury’s investigation into alleged corruption and graft in Indiana politics were covered in this morning’s session and a third phase was to come before the body this afternoon. The ’session opend with Lawrence Lyons of Brook, former Republican State chairman, as a witness, Lyons has admitted to the Times that he talked to Harry Reid, president of the Interstate Public Service Company, an Insull corporation about contributions to tho 1924 campaign fund. It has been charged that $19,000 in Governor Jackson’s gubernatorial campaign fund came from ’utilities, with the understanding that Jackson was to name public service commissioners favorable to the contributors. Following Lyons came several witnesses who are said to know something about activities around the city hall when Lew Shank was mayor. This afternoon the probe group will look into “various real estate deals” some of them concerning filling station sites, made during the Shank administration. Ex-Council Head Called Ben 11. Thompson, president of the city council during the Shank administration, has been called. Mrs. Mary Spaan, who owns property at the sou.h approach to the Delaware St. bridge at Fall Creek, where an effort is being made to erect a filling station, also has been subpoenaed. Meanwhile, Prosecutor 'William H. Remy and his aids were covering up the moves of grand jury witnesses after learning that threats had been made against the life of Mrs. Martha Dickinson of Seymour, and her husband. Mrs. Dickinson formerly was D. C. Stephenson’s confidante and has been quizzed in the jury probe. The threats were received in envelopes postmarked “Seymour, Ind.” They consisted of three segments of advertising pages of a local paper, with words formed by using printed letters from the paper. Clews to the sender are being followed. Mrs. Dickinson Guarded It is said that Mrs. Dickinson has been stopped on the streets. She is guarded in her movements, continually, by county attaches. She is said to be frightened and believes that some of the threats will be carried out. Witnesses other than Lyons this morning were: George J. Steinmetz, manager of the Ford Motor Company plant on E. Washington St ; Ed Rochat. city asphalt plant superintedent; Ellen Heidergott, board of works employe during the Shank regime, and Mrs. Pearl Riddell, inspector of weights and measures under Shank. With Steinmetz before the body, it was believed that grand jury was looking into the wrangle that came up in 1925 oyer the opening of Oriental St., near Washington St. The Ford company would have had to make numerous alterations in its buildings if this had been done. It has been reported that politicians told Stelnmets If he went to the "right” attorneys that no further efforts would be made to open the thoroughfare. Mrs. Heidergott was considered William Armitage’s personal representative at the city hall, during Shank's administration. She was before the grand jury about a half hour. Mrs. Heidergott was active In Ralph Lemcke’s primary campaign for nomination for mayor, but when he was defeated in the primaries she supported Mayor Duvall. It was reported then that she was to get a place on the present administration. She was not selected, however, and is now employed by a local attorney. In Short Time Mis. Riddell was in the grand jury room for only a few minutes. Rochat was placed temporarily in the streets department under Shank. Toward the end of Shank’s administration. the street commissioner and the street cleaning department were consolidated and Rochat was put a£ the head of the new division. Duvall did not reappoint him to this post, but made him superintendent of the asphalt plant. Monday afternoon the prosecutor considered the “Stephensonism” angle of the Inquiry, the basis of the probe, when he conferred with Mrs. Dickinson. Mrs. Dickinson did not go before the grand jury, but talked in conference with Remy and Special Prosecutors Fred Gause and Ralph Kane. Later she left with Jesse McMurtry, special investigator, who escorted her to a downtown hotel and then to other places. As far as is known, they met no one and Mr3. .Dickinson talked with no one. It is the general belief that the grand jury will terminate its probe this week. No authoritative response to queries about this can be obtained from persons handling the investigations.

Parents Believe ‘Man Without Name 9 May Be Son Missing. Twelve Years

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Crouch, 840 Tremont St., who believe that Jerry Tarbot, wounder World War veteran, “the “man without a name,” may be their son.

INJUNCTION PLEA IN MERGER CASE TO BE AffiKO Hearing on Complaint to Block Electric Combine Sei for Wednesday. Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker announced today that he would amend his complaint asking for an injunction to halt the merger of the two local electric utilities so that it will cover the amended petition filed before the Indiana public service commission Monday. The case is set for hearing in the Marion County Circuit Court Wednesday. Merely Revamped “Tho amended petition is merely a revamping of the original and does not eliminate my main contention that the Indianapolis Power and Light Company is a dummy corporation and cannot be considered a utility under the Indiana law,” Rucker declared. In the complaint Rucker charged utility magnates donated $19,000 to the campaign fund of Governor Jackson in 1925 with the understanding that the public service commission would favor them. Study Petition Rucker was made a defendant In a $200,000 libel suit because of the charges. The suit was filed in Federal Court by Harley Clarke, Chicago utilities man named in the $19,000 gift charge. The amended petit' >n was being studied today by Rucker and Attorney -Charles Mendenhall contemplating further action before the commission in blocking the merger. ROUMANIAN QUEEN REACHES FRANCE Had Wonderful Time in U. S., Marie Declares. Bu United Press CHERBOURG, Nov. 30.—Queen Marie of Roumania arrived at 3:20 p. m. today from the United States, explaining that she had had a wonderful time there, but had been compelled to curtail her Journey because of the illness of King Ferdinand. The first attempt to take the royal party off the liner Berengarla failed when the tug which went outside the breakwater to receive the passengers encountered high seas. A second effort succeeded. “I would have delighted to prolong my stay in America, but I was forced to cut it short because of the King,” the Queen said, as she reached the dock. Gen. Angelescu, marshal of the Roumanian court, today confirmed reports that King Ferdinand was suffering from a cancerous affliction of the lower intestine. Angelescu cam& here with his aid, General Oberesco, to salute the Queen on her arrival.

Lost Found . Christmas packages can be quickly recovered through a Times Lost and Found Ad. Call MA in 3500. Just say charge it. Surely in its 200,000 readers a night the person who found your package will see your ad.

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Ask Times to Help Them in Hunt for Boy Who Disappeared During War.

By Eidora Field Anew hope that their son, missing twelve years, may be alive, lived in the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Crouch. 840 N. Tremont St., today. Jerry Tarbot, World War veteran whose memory of past events was taken away by the shell which wounded him, may be their son, the aged couple believe. Back in the summer of 1914 United States troops were in barracks at St. Louis, Mo. Thousands of young soldiers there; many of them wrote faithfully home to their parents. One of there was Grover Crouch, 22. He liked camp life and never rr issed a week writing home to tell about it. His parents looked forward with especially eagerness to his letters, for Grover was their only child—their hope for the future. The Last Word One day, a gay postal came from Grover. It was of soldiers turning handsprings, or playing leap frog—something of the sort and Grover’s father and mother laughed heartily when they got that postal, “That’s like Grover —he likes fun,” they said and showed the gay postal to the neighbors. They treasured that postal. They treasured it more as the weeks went by. They never got another. It was the last ord. So today, Mrs. Crouch clasps the gay postal, and her only picture of Grover taken when he was 18, to her breast. Her husband pats her arm consolingly. “Mother prays day and night for word from our boy,” he says. Thar'rsgivlng day, the old folks (Mr. and Mrs. Crouch are both well into the seventies) felt especially lonesome. Mr. Crouch picked up a copy of The Times. On the front page was the story of Jerry Tarbot, who for four years has been traveling over the country seeking the name he has forgotten. “Come here, mother,” called Mr. Crouch, “If Grover is living, he’s 34 now. Wouldn't he resemble this man—Tarbot.” Mother looked. Same Features “It's Grover,” she said. “Anyway, it’s his forehead and his dear round ears. Why it’s our boy.” “Maybe it Is,” responded the old man, more cautious, but hopeful. So tho old folks got out writing material and sent this word to the office of the Indianapolis Times. “Please help us to find our boy.” Today they posed for their picture. "Send this to the man in Akron,” they said. “Maybe he’ll recognize us.” “Grover won’t know mother's white hair—it was dark when he saw her last,” the old man said. “But if it’s Grover—something will make him remember. He’ll know It's us.” The old folks declare they have little “book education." “That’s why we didn’t exactly know how to go about finding our boy after he got lost,” Mr. Crouch explains. After the boy quit writing they waited for months before making a move. Strange things happen when a war is on—they connected the fact with some war emergency. It was only after mother couldn’t sleep any more and moaned and cried through the nights and days, that father knew he had to do something. He wrote to Uncle Sam at Washington. He wrote to different postmasters. Nobody could give him word —said there was no man listed as Grover Crouch; suggested that the boy had enlisted under some other name. But the old folks won’t hear to this. “That would be sort of underhand—going under some other name. Grover wouldn’t do that," they say.

Flays Bishop, Critic of Marriage Decree Bu United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Bishop W'illiar.i T. Manning of the Episcopal diocese of New York was accused by the Rev. James M. Gillis, Paulist missionary nnd editor of the Catholic World, in a radio address last night of “using the tactics of a disreputable lawyer” in attacking the Marlborough-Vanderbilt marriage annulment. The Catholic clergyman said Manning had acted like a Congressman from Bencombe County making a Fourth of July speech.

THREE CENTS

TIG UN’S’ VERACITY RAISED AS TRIAL POINT State Rebu.'fed in Effort to Aid Credibility of Star Witness.

Bu United SOMERVILLE, N. .T„ Nov. 30. The State today begin its attempt to establish the good reputation of Mrs. Jane Gibson, “the pig woman” who appeared so dramatically on a sick bed and was the State's star witness in the Ilall-Mills murder trial. But the opening effort met rebuff. The first character witness called by ths State, was temporarily excluded from testifying because his acquaintance with Mrs. Gibson was too long ago to be pertinent. The second. Dr. .T. H. Cooper, when asked as to Mrs. Gibson’s reputation for veracity answered: "Um-um—not so good.” August Hartkern, handwriting expert, opened today's testimony in the case. Hartkern continued his testimony started yesterday and presented an enlarged photograph of tho highly controversial card found on the body of the Rev. Edward W. Hall, allegedly bearing the finger print of Willie Stevens. Stevens, with Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and Henry Stevens, is accused of the murder of Mrs. Eleanor Mills, who died with Hall. On the photograph wore outlined the initials, “E. H. 5.,” which were said to bo those of Edward H. Schwartz, Newark fingerprint expert. Before court opened, defense attorneys held a long conference around their table. It was believed that It had something to do with the threat of Alexander Simpson, prosecutor, to demand a mistrial because of alleged misconduct of the jury. Dofenso lawyers made no comment on Simpson's threat.

AUTHOR CHOSEN ENVOY

Paul Claudel Named France's Ambassador to United States. Bu United Press PARIS, Nov. 30.—Paul Claudel was unanimously selected by the cabinet today to succeed Henri Berenger as French ambassador to the United States. The selection will not he officially announced until Saturday In order to permit the United States Government to say whether or not Claudel would he acceptable. Claudel is more famous as an author than a diplomat. When Claudel went to his post In Toklo, the Japanese soon produced a Claudel play at one of their theaters as a special mark of welcome and honor. Books of reference rate Claudel ns an author of first rank.

Hoosier Elephant Is Operated Upon

Bu Times Special PERU, Ind., Nov. 30.—Tillie. giant Sells-Floto circus elephant, recovering from an operation on her leg to remove a rifle bullet, flapped her ears feebly today and contemplated the sad lot of the show girl. Tillie ran away from the circus recently at Cranbrook, B. C., with two other pachyderms for some Innocent fun in the Canadian woods, away from the gaping crowds. But they were misunderstood. An Indian squaw shot Tillie with a highcalibre rifle. Myrtle, one her girl friends, was also wounded and later died of pneumonia. The operation on Tillie’s leg was performed by Dr. W. E. Muldoon at winter quarters here. A rifle bullet and nine pieces of splintered bone were removed through an incision ten inches long.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 3210 a. m 33 7 a. m 32 11 a. m 35 8 a. m 31 12 (noon) .... 37 9 a. m 31 1 p. 41

Forecast Partly cloudy tonight; lowest tempprature somewhat above freezing; Wednesday cloudy and colder; much colder at night.

TWO CENTS

MARION COUNTY

RULING ON MERGER IS DISCOUNTED Gilliom Delivers Opinion That Commission Has No Jurisdiction. NEW PETITION IN WAY Amended Plea May Counteract Force, Is View.

Although Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today ruled that the public service commission has no authority to consider the original petition for the $55,000,000 merger of the two local electric companies into the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, the ruling has lost much of its meaning in tho face of the amended petition for tho merger filed by the utilities Monday. This is tho opinion of attorneys opposing tho merger and likewise the commissioners, who had asked Gilliom to rule in tho matter. “The nmended petition is obviously 1 designed to eliminate the mooted points and bring the matter within the commission's power to rule,” Commissioner Frank Wnmpler. np- . pointed to hear the orlignal petition. N declared. Dismissal Expected The commission was to meet this afternoon and dismiss the original petition in accordance with Gilliom's ruling. After a short conference this morning in which Gilliom’s opinion was studied, It was decided to consider at a special afternoon session nn order dismissing the original opinion. It has been the policy of the commission, one of the members stated, to follow recommendations of the attorney general when legal questions are involved. Study New Petition Opposition attorneys, however, are studying the new petition and anticipating fresh attacks. Some assert that the contentions can not be overcome by an amended petition and the matter must be dropped and anew start made. Tho Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce's motion that the first petl tlon be dismissed should be sustained, Gilliom said. “The petition seeks to have the commission exercise discretion in respect of a matter over which It cannot have Jurisdiction," Gilliom said. The Chamber of Commerce motion which Gilliom upheld attacked the merger on the grounds that tho commission had no jurisdiction because the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, the petitioner, is not a public utility. Second merger petition, filed Monday by Indianapolis Power nnd Light Company and the two local utilities, however, asked that the new company be declared a utility by the commission. Different Financial Plan It also provided for the merger under a slightly different financial plan. If the commission grants the new petition nnd declares the new company an utility it will then have jurisdiction even under the leims of Ullliom’s ruling, it is believed. Commissioners went into conference after receiving Gilllom's petition, without indicating what action they will take. They requested Gilliom to rule on the jurisdiction question raised on the original petition before it amended by the second petition *nd it was presumed would follow his suggestion.

HARRISON WILE LEAVECHAMBER Civic Expert Accepts Post in 'East.

Announcement of the resignation of Leonard V. Harrison, civic affairs expert of the Chamber of Commerce. was made today by Secretary John B. Reynolds. A conference is to be held this afternoon to determine his successor. It is likely that a local man will be chosen, Reynolds announced. Harrison served the Chamber three years. His resignation is effective Dec. 31. He will become a member of the special staff of the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial of New York City. His work here in budgeting and departmental efficiency has attracted nation-wide attention and he was rerecently “loaned” to Boston, Mass., to take part in a survey of criminal justice, conducted by Harvard University law school. He came in contact with the Rockefeller foundation there.

OFFICIALS TAKE OATHS

Administered to Sheriff and New Recorder by Clerk. Sheriff Omer Hawkins and Frank R. Childers, who will become Marion County recorder Jan. 1, took their oaths of office today. The oaths were administered by County Clerk Albert H. Losche. Hawkins will begin his second term as sheriff Jan. 1. k 1 1