Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1926 — Page 9

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SCHOOL TAX RATE REFERENDUM PROPOSED

LAW PARTNER OF 'JACKSON UNDER ANDERSON FIRE Illegally Named to Assist City Attorney—Paid SI,OOO in Fees. Bv Time Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. I.—Robert I. Marsh, of Indianapolis, law partner of Governor Ed Jackson, was illegally appointed to assist City Attorney Arthur Beckman here and receive SI,OOO in fees for getting a $70,000 loan from the Municipal Right Plant authorized by the Public Service Commission, it was learned today. Marsh was appointed by Major Williams, who is lighting a decrease in municipal light rates in a controversy that involves Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, the commisfcion and insurgent city councilmen. Law Cited Appointment of Jackson's partner is held illegal in view of State statutes which declare: "And in all cities, the city attorney employs such assistants as he may be authorized to do by ordinance and no other.” No ordinance was passed by the Anderson council, ordering Marsh's appointment, Williams named Attorney Marsh last spring when the insurgent councilmen prevented passage of appropriation ordinances to operate the city government. To obtain funds, Williams had Marsh go before the public service commission and ask that $70,000 of the light company funds be transferred to the city's general fund. This was granted and Marsh secured two fees of SSOO each for his work. Lower Kate Granted The insurgents petitioned in the name of a tax payer for a reduction in light rates, thus preventing the utility from realizing a surplus from Which Mayor Williams could borrow money to run the city government. The commission granted the petition. Mayor Williams then sought to halt the proposed decrease. Marsh and City Attorney Beckman filed a petition with Circuit Judge William A. Kittinger, asking the commission be restrained from putting the new rates into effect. Gilliom on behalf of the commission then filed his demurrer against g the appeal. b Judge Kittinger is expected to rule Psbn the demurrer soon.

COLD WAVE HEADS FOR MIDDLE WEST Temperature 15 Above Zero Forecast. Bu United Prexx CHICAGO, Doc. 1. —A cold wave Which is scheduled to drive the thermometer down to the 15 degree above zero mark, settled over the Middle West today. The early morning forecast of the Weather Bureau said that conditions would be unsettled throughout today, with snow flurries during the morning. The really cold weather is scheduled to begin this afternoon. Extremely low temperatures have prevailed for several hours in North Dako'a and upper Michigan. The heaviest nor'east er in fifty years covered the roads with snow drifts in the vicinity of Calumet, Mich. Hundreds of deer hunters were said to bo stranded in camps. The forecaster promised relief from the present cold wave by tomorrow. COIiD SNAP TONIGHT of 15 to 20 Degrees Is Predicted. Indianapolis will experience a cold tmap tonight, as a part of the cold Wave which is sweeping the Midwest, the United States weather bureau announced today. Low temperature of from 15 to 20 degrees is anticipated, according to Meteorologist J. 11. Armington, who said the mercury likely would stand nearer the higher figure. Thursday should be cold, with rising temperature in the afternoon or night, it was said. At 7 today, the temperature was SO, which is 3 degrees above normal. Fair weather is anticipated. The northern part of the State, Armington said, will have lower temperatures. KIWANIANS TO ELECT Annual dub Election This Evening at I. A. C. Dinner. The Kiwanis Club will elect 1927 officers at a dinner this evening at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, two tickets in the field. Nominees have been dubbed the “Owls” and the "Eggs.” The former consists of: Walter B. Harding, president; M. K. Foxworthy, vice president; C. R. Ammerman, treastrer; F. J. Ostermeyer, M. I. Miller and O. F. Hammer, directors, and Walter T. Wihte, dictriot trustee. The “Eggs” ticket has named R. P. Oblinger for president; Frank B. Flanner, vice president; John W. Quill, treasurer; Carl J. Prinzler. Carl C. Welland and J. T. Llpplncott, directors, and Jack Rhoads, district trustee.

Funeral Friday for C. W. Smalley

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Funeral services for C. W. Smalley, 60, Continental National Hank vice preisident, who died Monday, will be Friday at 2:30 p. in. at the residence, 3029 Park Vve. Dr. O. W. Fifer will conduct services. Burial will be in Crown Ilill cemetery.

INSURGENTSSHOW LITTLE RESPONSE TO PEACE MOVES Worry in Republican Ranks Due to Doubt Over Senate Control. Hu United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. I.—More thorns were thrown in the path of Republican Senate leaders to<tyiy when the so called insurgent group manifested indifference about returning to the party fold. With the Republicans holding only a theoretical majority of 48 to 47 in the new Senate, Senators Curtis. Watson and other leaders have made overtures not only to ousted Independent Republicans, hut to the lone Farmer-Laborite, Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, In the hope of holding control of the new Senate. Curtis and Watson have offered to restore Senator Frazier, independent Republican, North Dakota, to chairmanship of a committee and give him all possible party favors. President Coolidge has had Shipstead at the White House for breakfast and reports have been spread that he will “turn Republican.” Frazier and Shlpstead, however, indicate no immediate Intention of embracing the Republican organization. The United Press is informed reliably that Frazier has recently been antagonized by the appointment of C. F. Mudgett as United States marshal In his home Slate. Mudgett was the candidate of former Governor L. B. Hanna of North Dakota, who has fought both Frazier and his friend, Senator Nye (Rep.), North Dakota. Believing he has the upper hand, Frazier has given Republican leaders to understand that he must receive State patronage if he is to be "accepted” by the party organization. Ho was ousted from the organization two years ago, with Senators Brookhart. La Follette and Ladd for joining in the La Follette presidential movement. Conscious of Power Shipstead is keeping discreetly silent, and is proud of his position of holding the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats in the closely drawn Senate line up. Republican leaders have indicated they will attempt to restore Frazier and Shlpstead to patronage, in accordance with their new policy of letting bygones be bygones. If they do not, and if Frazier and Shipstead are not pacified, there is a possibility that Democrats may organize the next Senate, though they are in the minority.

Heavy V o{e Forecast on Prohibition Issue Bu United Prexx OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. I.—The larg; est vote in the history of Ontario was expected to decide whether the province shall continue prohibition or follow the example of western Canadian provinces In the establishment of government stores for the sale of alcoholic liquors. Interest in the liquor issue subordinated the actual purpose of the election, which was to elect provincial officials, from Premier Ferguson down. The premier and his conservative government made the liqusr question the sole issue. Conservatives, if elected, will Junk the war-time prohibition act and establish liquor stores. The Liberals and Progressives, if elected, will continue prohibition. EX-PI BLISHEB KILLS SELF Bit l n’t'- 1 i‘•'•■st WORCESTER. Mass., Dec. I.— Austin Phelps Cristy, 7(1. founder and former publisher of the Worcester Telegram, died in a hospital here early today from a self-inflicted wound. He was taken to the hospital late Monday, following an attempt at suicide In the brokerage offices of J, S. Bache. Financial reverses, which he was reported to have suffered, were held responsible for his act.

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DOCTOR, ARRESTED i ON POISON PEN CHARGE, ENDS LIFE Clinton Physician Dies After Firing Bullet Into Temple. Hu United Press CLINTON. Ind., Dec. I.—Believing his name and family disgraced by his arrest on a Federal charge of sending an unprintable lotter through the mails. Dr. Annibale Salaroglio of Clinton died today, the vie time of a self-inflicted bullet wound in the head. Salairogllo was arrested tn the Clinton postoffice late Monday by Deputy United States Marshal Cy Hickman of Indianapolis, and arraigned at Terre Haute. He was released on $3,000 bond. Immediately the physician returned here and, judging from let \ers found in his apartment, he had spent TuesdayUn preparing to kill himself. Saiarogiio late Tuesday afternoon telephoned Dr. A. P. Warman, a doctor friend, to come to his apartment. Warman found Dr. Saiarogiio in a pool of blood, with a gajiing wound in the temple, a revolver near by, but still breathing faintly. Saiarogiio was rushed to the Clinton hospital, but death came early this morning. Dr. Saiarogiio, it is declared by Federal authorities, wrote several letters in Italian to Mrs. Paulino Marchetti, wife of a Clinton baker. The one which caused his arrest cast broad insinuations on the character of Mrs. Marchetti and Joseph CaI nova, a business partner of Mrk Marchetti’s husband. This letter, \V was said, was unsigned. It was addressed to "Mrs. Paolino Canova and Marchetti." Dr. Saiarogiio was 52 years old and had practiced medicine in Clinton for eighteen years. For many years he served as an agent for the Italian government consular service in Indiana. Mrs. Saiarogiio was in Indianapolis when her husband She is only 26 years old.

JURISDICTION OF COURT AnACKED (Contbuiod From Pago I) mission, had said the defendants would waive the jurisdlc'lon question in order that the defendants might prove the untruth of Rucker's charges. Judge Cite* Conflict "Tills putH me in rather an anomalous position," the judge declared. "At the first hearing in this matter, the attorney general stated that he wanted the case to proceed regardless of its legal aspects. He, of course, represents the public service commission, as individuals, and other clients, perhaps, who have been attacked in this complaint and he wants a chance to disprove the charges. “Ideas of the attorneys for the other defendants do not seem to run parallel with this. I feel, of course, that If there is question of jurisdiction of this court that should he settled first and would advise that all defense attorneys come to an agreement on how to proceed. The granting of a continuance is, of course, customary, where ju3t cause is shown.” Attorney General Gilliom, who came In late and apparently was unfamiliar with the motion on jurisdiction, told the court that this, of course, should be decided first and he was willing to proceed in that manner. Judge Chamberlin stated that he felt that Rucker should have some time to prepare arguments to meet this new aspect of the case, and upon the corporation counsel’s asking for "three days” the hearing on Jurisdiction was set over until Monday. Asks Date Fixed Rucker also asked that a date be set for the injunction hearing proper, but agreed with the court that it would be better to wait until

No Classic Phrases for School Board School board members Tuesday night w r ere discussing the advisability of placing classical inscriptions on the two tablets in the hall of the Crispus Attacks High School, under construction. "Lex veritas utilitas," meaning “law, truth and service,” was suggested by E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools. Jacob Hilkene, superintendent of buildings and grounds, presented a blueprint of the inscription, in ancient lettering. "But nobody knows what that means,” declared Theodore F. Vonnegut, board president. “A person has to be an authority on clossies, Greek, and what-not, to figure it out—and the lettering is so intricate that it looks like a bunch of monograms.” "What kind of a low-brow crowd is this, anyhow?” interposed Commissioner * Fred Bates Johnson. But the ‘‘low-brows” won, evidently, for the decision was to leave the tablets blank, allowing the school to choose an inscription.

School Damaged by Fire

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Nt. Bridget's School, St. Clair and West Sts., which suffered damage of about $7,000 in a fire early today. The roof and belfry were damaged most.

MLLE. HEWES ONE JUDGE IN CONTEST SIOO in Prizes Offered for Best Reasons Why Your Hair Is Long or Short.

One of the three Judges who will decide the winning letters in the Times Robbed Hair contest will be Mile. Theo Hewes. Two other well-known Indianapolis women will be the other Judges. Their names will be announced later. Hundreds of letters are being received from feminin# readers. Prizes totaling SIOO in gold and other prizes. Including tickets to the Circle theater for two of lta biggest movie features of the city, await the winners. Letters, hundreds of 'em (and another big lot has Just been received), are now on the desk of the contest editor. One of the contestants writes that she had her hair bobbed not so mnrh for looks as for health's sake. She also remarks that she can now get a hat that will fit her. The Otlier Side On the other side of the question comes a letter from a woman who states that she has not bobbed her hair, because It Is beautiful and her friends admire it so. Another defender of long hair writes: ‘The reason I have never bobbed my hair is that all the arguments I have heard advanced in favor of bobbed hair are not sufficient in my opinion to overcome the objectionable features of bobbed hair. "I grant that it is a personal matter to he decided by each individual. If grandma want's to look like a little old man, or -Aunt Sue wants to look like a Zulu Chieftain with powdered hair or Slstor Jane wants to look like a sheik—that is their affair. “I maintain that a woman's hair Is her crowning glory and I therefore have not bobbed my hair.” Another defender of long hair, writes: "It's God's given gift and the hair of women when artistically arranged is irresistible. A plentiful supply of hair Is your birthright. It is as much your clue as are your fingers, your eyes and your ears.”

the Jurisdiction point was decided. The Judge Indicated, however, that i such hearing might he docketed for | the -week between Christmas and New Years. "I want to know definitely when it Is to be, as soon os possible, so that I may bend every effort to getting’Reld here," Rucker declared. “I think the representatives of the Insull interests here ought to aid me in producing him. Reid has been absent from the city and process servers have been unable to locate him. At his home it was said that he was in the East on business and would return Thursday. Although Reid was not on hand, there was a goodly number of other utility men and more than a sprinkling of lending Republican politicians land officeholders, all of'whom had been summoned by Rucker. Governor Jackson is among the number subpoenaed, but was not on hand. Those present included Clyde Walb, Republican State chairman; George Coffin, Marion County Republican chairman; Harry Fenton, secretary of the Stnto committee; Senator William P. Quillen and members of the public service commission and others. Rucker late Tuesday filed np amendment to his complaint to make It apply to second merger petition ; filed before the public sendee comI mission. The first merger petition | was dismissed by the commission Tuesday when Gilliom ruled the commission had no Jurisdiction over the merger plan proposed in the first petition. Marriage Licenses Opoi-bp R. Pavia. SI 8 R. Vrrmo'i* Martha Perkin*. 18. 828 E. Twenty-Fourth. George Westerhouse. 80. 000 TV. ThirtySeoond machinist: Mary Hillman. 2(1. 1422 Broadwav. candy company employe. T. Earl Dortch 21. R. F D„ Box 366. Indianapolis, butcher supply repairman: n-i.h to 1337 Rajaiiar uluaumwi.

And then to the rescue of bobbed hair, another contestant writes: "I bobbed my hair because everybody thought It would be a crime for me to cut my hair, because it was so long and thick. Os course, when everybody Bald 1 shouldn't boh my hair I wanted bobbed hair more than i even, so I had It bobbed.” And even a bit of poetry with

Bobbed Hair Contest Rules 1. Feminine readers of The Indianapolis Times, married and single, hobbe-d and unbobbed. may compete for prizes totaling SIOO In gold. 8. Essays of 150 words or less, reason why hair has not been bobbed or has been bobbed, should be sent to Bobbed Hair Contest Editor, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Ind. 3. All letters must be received by Saturday night at midnight, Dec. 4. 4. Three Judges, selected from lending women of this city, will decide the winners. 5. Prizes. SSO, first, $25, second; sls, third, and ten prizes of $1 each to the next ten best, and twenty pairs of tickets, a pair to each winner of the next twenty, for showing either of “Syncopating Sue” nr "I.a Boheme” when presented at the Circle.

apologies to Shakespeare Is used to express a reason for bobbed hair. Tho Muao expresses the thought as follows: “To bob. or not to bob? That wm the question. Whether ’twaa nobler In the mind To suffer the pnnge of remet Or to take anus against lon* hair And by the shear* end It. And so tho merry contest poos on and on until at least mldnipht of next Saturday. This contest was inspired by Mary Pick ford, tho star of “Sparrows,” now at the Circle.

DELAY FUND MEETING Community Body Budget Session Set for Dec. 7. Postponement of the Community Fuad budget committee meeting until Dec. 7 was announced today. The committee will meet to apportion the fund among the thirty-fcix social agencies to share the money. In the meantime the fund has reached a total of $655,861 through late subscriptions and voluntary mail contributions. Officials of the fund believe that late subscriptions due to come in through the employes’ divisions and other sources will bring the fund to $660,000. With an additional $1,327 the employes' divisions total has reached $109,625.30. Its quota was $129,390. The public schools section, organized under Mbs Maude McVicker, with a quota of $10,050, hits gone over the top.

Sues Himself for $4,000 Back Pay Bu United Prexx CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa, Dec. 1. —Grant E. Reynolds, president, general manager and sole stockholder in Grante Reynolds, Inc., has sued himself for $4,000. Reynolds said he owed himself $4,000 hack salary and in order to collect he filed a petition for a receiver for hlsincorporated self. He asserted he had been drawing $4,000 as a yearly salary, but for the last two years has paid himself only about half that amount.

U.S. DECIDES ON LONE COURSE IN CHINESE CRISIS Holds Customs Control Native Affair —Opposes Armed Action. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—The State Department made an important decision on Chinese policy today in line with Chinese nationalist demands, which may drive a wedge between the United States and other powers. It was officially stated this government considers control of customs houses a native matter with which the United States is not concerned, and that American Naval and Marine forces at Hankow and elsewhere will be used solely for protection of American lives and property. American forces will not line up with British and other foreign forces to prevent the anticipated seizue of Hankow customs by the rebel Cantonese army, following seizur oof the Canton customs. The seriousness of the customs conflict arises from the fact that the British and other foreign officers ridminister the Chinese maritime customs service, using most of the proceeds to repay British and foreign loans. Official reports Indicate the situation at Hankow, industrial center on the Yangtze River recently captured by the radical Cantonese, is serious. American reside/its at Hankow have requested protection. Officials are anxiously awaiting confirmation of press reports that Chinese troops have invaded the Hankow foreign quarter. AUTO ACCIDENT IS FATAL TO ft'OW Coroner Probes Death of Mrs. Laura Crow. An Inquest into details of an auto accident that resulted In the death of Mrs. Inura Crow, 46, R. R. C.. Box 141, Tuesday night, was begun by Coroner Paul F. Robinson today. Pending the outcome of the Inquest. Richard Bruene, English Hotel, driver of the car. will be held on a technical charge of involuntary manslaughter, Robinson said. An auto and interurban crashed at Harding St. and Oliver Ave. Tuesday night. Mrs. Borral Tolson, R. It. 3. Box 267, driver of the auto, was badly bruised, and her daughter, Denrie, 6. was Injured about the arm. Mrs. Opal Brackett, same address, was seriously injured.

BEECH GROVE HEARING HELD Council Considers Annexation Bill. With more than 70 per cent of the Beech Grove voters signed against annexation, city council this after- ; noon hold a public hearing on an ordinance to add all of that suburb but the Big Four shops to the city. liemonstrators presented their petition at the hearing. Councilman Boynton J. Moore and Otis E. Bartholomew denied reports that they had determined to drop the annexation movement, saying they would withhold Judgment until after the hearing. Probation Workers Gather at Elkhart Bu Timex Rnertal ELKHART, Ind., Dec. I.—The State Advisory Commission to the Stato Probation department met here today. Charles A. McGonagle; superlnj tendent of the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield, and Judge E. Miles j Norton of Crown Point, addressed a joint luncheon meeting of the Lions, | Rotary and Kiwanis clubs at noon, i Five women's clubs held a Joint | meeting this afternoon, addressed by i Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon of Evansi ville, president of the commission; | Mrs. Harriet Ristine Pierce, of Clin;ton, secretary; McGonagle and j Judge Norton. GYRO CLUB SPEAKER AustiaJian Woman Judge Talks on Near East Belief. Mrs. Edith Glanville, Judge of the | children’s court at Sydney, Australia, I and national president of the National Women’s League of Australia, nddressed the Gyro Club on ‘‘Near East Relief” at the club's luncheon Tuesday at the Lincoln. ‘‘lt is astonishing to see the high character and morality among the Syrian refugees,” the speaker said. ‘‘To observe 35,000 people living huddled together in camp style, the uplifting result of America’s Near East relief work is very gratifying.” Mrs. Glanville made a particular of the Near East children and has been touring English speaking j nations in the interest of Near East , relief work.

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New C. of C. Civic Affairs Head

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William H. Book, apointed director of file Chamber of Coimnerce civic affairs department, succeeding Leonard Y. Harrison, who is leaving Indianapolis. Chamber secretary, Jolut B. Reynolds, announced Book's spool,) ■ had been Harrison’s assistant foe the past nine iiioii<lls. ~. . . lie was business director of the city schools. lie will assume his new post Jan. 1.

TACNAANDARIGA TO BOLIVIA, NEW PLAN OF KELLOGG U. S. Proposal Saves Pride of Disputants, Chile and Peru. Itv United Press SANTIAGO, Dec. I.—Delivery of the provinces of Tacna and Arica to tho republic of Bolivia is the solution of the dispute over the provinces between Peru and Chile, proposed by United States Secretary of State Kellogg, it was learned from a high and reliable source by the United I’ress today. Kellogg's formula will not be made public until 6 p. m. today, but a digest of the proposals was indicated by a high official. By conceding the disputed territories to Bolivia, neither Chile nor Peru accepts moral surrender, It was said, because the sacrifice provided in the formula will he mutual. Bolivia would compensate Chile and Peru in full, including the amounts spent by those countries for public buildings, railroads and other properties during the years of their control over the provinces. Arica, the capital of the province of Arica, would be made a free port, where the three countries—Peru, Chile and Bolivia would enjoy equal rights, treatment and railroad rates. If Kellogg’s formula is accepted, a question which has interested the entire world and caused exrtemely hitter feelings between Chile and Peru, will he ended without hurting the pride of either of the two countries relinquishing their rights to the province. "Owing to the cordial terms of this suggestion and the spirit of harmony which inspired it,” stated an official foreign office communique, “the Chilean government will consider tho formula most attentively.”

‘COLLEGE CROOK’ HELD Ohio Man Arrested on Forged Check Charge. Hu J vitrd Press OKA W FORI >S VII AAZ, Ind., Dec. I.—H. R. Stanley, 24, Columbus, I Ohio, was arrested here late yesterday on a charge of forgery, i Stanley has been sought by the j Indiana Bankers’ Association for j some time and acording to local ! authorities he has confessed to fori geries in three States. He was known as the "college crook,” carrying forged credentials from Ohio State University which he employed to gain entrance to several ) Indiana colleges. He used his col- ! lege friends to identify him at the banks where he cashed his forgeries. CHURCH PLANS BAZAAR Pre.sident of Service Circle Is in Charge. Mrs. John B. Schramm, president of the Service Circle of the Carrollj ton Ave. Reformed Church, ani nounces that the annual Christmas bazar will be held Friday afternoon and evening in the social hall of the church, at Carrollton Ave. and Forty-Fourth St. ' Chairmen in charge are: Apron booth, Mrs, William Schroiucke; candy booth, Mrs. Harry A. Rost; fancy work booth, Mrs. Emma J. Pfafflin; fish pond, Mrs. Ariel B. Mulford; home cooking, Mrs. Bertha Iske; art novelties, Mrs. George Mess. FRATERNITY TO BANQUET Kappa Omega Dinner for New Members Friday Night. New members of Kappa Omega, social fraternity, will be guests at a dinner Friday night at the Spink Arms. W. W. Hammond and Dr. E. J. Rogers will speak. C. O. Olasson Jr., will he toastmaster. Officers are: Vernon Rogers, president; Frank W. Plrtle J- vee president; Norman H. Schulz, secretary: Charles O. Glasson Jr., treasurer; i Leslie Stoner, scribe.

Board Members, at Meeting, Attack Power of State Body. ACTION TO BE PLANNED East Side High School Plea Starts It All. Proposal before tho coming Legislature of a bill which would make it possible for the people of Indianapolis to vote directly on school budgets and tax rates, is being considered by the council of the union of i twenty-four East Side clubs, it was Announced by officials today. Tho action has been contemplated for some time, it was said, and will take definite form at a special meeting soon, as a result of the disheartening reception by the school j board Tuesday night of the club j union’s petition for anew high school in Irvington. | A special school board meeting will j be held Monday afternoon to discuss I the financial difficulties of the school i city. Indications are that a commit I tee will be named to lake the matter before the Legislature. Declaring that the State tax board's recent slashing of the school budget would make now projects practically Impossible for the next two or three years, Commissioner Fred Bates Johnson stressed 6he need for new methods of meeting the situation at the board meeting Tuesday when Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler University, and Mrs. Elijah Jordan, chairman of the club union council, presented the pe titlon. Would Have Big Enrollment "An Irvington school erected with In two or three years would find an | initial enrollment of 1,000 students living In the district bounded on the west by Sherman Dr., on the east by the city limits, on the north by Twenty-First St. and on the south by Raymond St„” Howe said. ! "Irvington offers a higher elevation for a school site and the district Is freer from smoke.” The l>oard received the petition, promising investigation, but discouraged the delegates from "even 7 thinking” of tho project In the face of the existing reduced budget. A delegation of residents from N. Pennsylvania St., in the vicinity of the proposed new Shortrldge High School “back door,” as they termed It, raised objection to the location of the new school’s power house, smoke stack and coal bins on the northeast corner of the lot, and asked that they he moved nearer the center of the building. Commissioner Charles W. Kern, the second board member to bring the expense problem to the front, declared that changes in the tentative plans would result In recasting the whole scheme of the building, entailIng an additional structure, with the money burden Increased.

liern Gives Warning Kern again warned against the advisability of erecting new buildings when J. F. Wetzell, president of the Indianapolis local of the United Typothetae, presented arguments for the enlarging of the school of printing at the Arsenal technical School. A plan has been considered, Kern declared, but progress is retarded by lack of funds. Just before the meeting closed at midnight Commissioner Johnson exploded the “money bombshell” that had been simmering all evening, when he declared that the attitude of the tax board had “tied the hands” of the school hoard and “forced it tip a blind alley." “I suggest three alternatives in copying with tills situation, he said. "One of these is to join with forces in the Legislature which have for their object the curbing of the tax board's power. Another is to make every possible effort to change the personnel of the present State tax board, and the third measure that might he adopted would be to obtain the passage of a law which submits school budgets and tax levys to the voters of the city either at a regular election every two years or at a special referendum. “Sanitary conditions are appalling in some school Instances, but we have no money with which to remedy them. The tax cut was made evidently because the school board was the most vulnerable spot to hit, and a cut of any kind would appease the plea of the citizen for tax reduction. "The burden of improvements and expenditures iff taken from our shoulders because wo are ‘broke’, hut it is not our duty to ‘pass the buck’ Just because of that." EMPLOYE DROPS DEAD Heart Disease Proves Fatal to Charles McCarthy, 65. A heart attack today was fatal to l Charles McCarthy, 65, of 1201 AshI land Ave., employed at FairbanksMorse Company, Twenty-First*' St. and Northwestern Ave. He dropped dead while at work. Dr. U. B. Hlne, deputy coroner, sent the body to the city morgue. GOULD HOLDS STRONG LEAD Bu United Prexx PORTLAND. Maine, Dec. I.—'The victory of Arthur It. Gould. Republican, in Monday’s specinl senatorial election, appeared even more impressive as tabulation of returns neared an end today. Returns from all hut seventeen small villages gave Gould a 48,145 majority over Fulton J. Redman, Democrat, and showed that the Republican carried 479 out of 619 cities, towns and plantation*.