Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1926 — Page 1

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CHRISMS LIQUOR TO GOSTMOR Increase of One-Third Over Last Year Is Indicated. ALCOHOL MOST POPULAR Large Quantities Yet to Be Brought In. Indianapolis will pay about onethird more for its holiday liquor this year than it did last. And it will be an alcoholic Christ■as and New Year's. ' This was what a survey of the outskirts of the Indianapolis bootleg world showed today. For Indianapolis has a bootleg world in spite oC the efforts of police, the sheriff, Federal prohibition forces and the Anti-Saloon League. Between 500 and 1,000 gallons of alcohol will be brought Into the city between now and Christmas, it Is estimated, and probably 200 to 500 gallons of various kinds of mule whisky. • Bootleggers here this year have not stocked up in advance for the usual holiday rush. They are afraid of the hi-jackers. Two Big Rings Two big bootleg rings and their allies are attempting to corner for themselves the city's liquor trade, Is the word whispered about. A small operator runs the risk of having his liquor cargo whisked away as he lookos into the automatic pistols In the hands of four or five husky gangsters. One stoi-y thus explains the recent south side hi-jacking when 200 gallons of alcohol were taken from

Christmas *Cheer* Prices Here Here’s what you wHI pay for Christmas liquor a quart: Alcohol (good grade), $5 to SB. Mule, $4 to $5. Cut alcohol, $3 to $5. “Red" whisky, $lO to sl2. Gin (so labeled), $5. Whisky (real, perhaps), sls to S2O.

a bootleg auto at Pine St. and English Ave., after the lii-jaekers had chased the liquor car around the block several times, firing more than fifty shots during the chase. This also is said to be the cause of a recent liquor price increase. Good Alcohol Good alcohol, commonly known as “alky,” bought at Chicago distilleries for from sl6 to $22.50 a fivegallon can and sold to retailers here for S4O to $44, will be sold to the ultimate consumers for from $5 to $8 a quart this Christmastide. And this will be the most popular brand of Christmas cheer and New Year’s exhilaration drank in Indianapolis. however, will prefer mule, a concoction distilled from corn or raisin mash in the hills of southern Indiana. That can be had for $4 to $5 a quart. Cut alcohol (the good grade alcohol with water and sometimes a little mule added) is on the market for 75 cents to $1.25 a half pint, or $3 to sst a quart, depending in the amount of water added. A little “raw” or “red” whisky will he sold at $lO to sl2 a quart. This is a good grade of alcohol cut with distilled water and colored and flavored with bourbon extrct. , “Gin,” §5 Quart He who prefers gin may buy this alcohol and distilled water in real “Gordon Extra Dry” bottles, labels and'Cverything, for $5 a quart. But only the favored few will imbibe real, honest-to-goodness pre-war whisky. ■ A few cases will straggle into the xity from Florida or Canada, it is said, and wil be sold to regular customers for from $l5O to S2OO a case, or sls to S2O a quart. But the occasional drinker will have no chance at this, unless he obtains it from some friend who has been a steady patron of one of the few "fancy stuff” bootlegers. 110 ~STORY BUILDING Indiana Limestone Would Be I,'sed In Proposed New York Tower. Ru I'nited Press I , NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—An office building rising 110 stories until its flagpole is 1,208 feet above the street, will be built next year in the Times Square district, according to plans submitted by John A. Larkin, president of the corporation proposing the vast structure. Total cost is estimated at $22,500,000, of which $4,500,000 is estimated value of the site. The building will be of steel, limes(pne and brick construction, with a granite base, with Vermont marble for its first story and Indiana limestone for its second and third stories. The building will be served by CO high-speed elevators. HISTORICAL INKWELL Veru Has One Used In Writing “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Rn Times Knrrial PERU, Ind., Dec. 18.—Arthur T. Rankin, Jr., has presented to the Miami County Historical Society the Inkwell, which Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe used in writing “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

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College Boy Who Killed Self

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t,u. ' |I.I .uiUll, IJ, ..i. at Manchester College. North Manchester, Ind.. who committed suicide by taking slow poison. Despondency because a pretty coed he was caught smoking with was expelled from the college, was declared to be one of the motives.

FOUR YOUNG BANDITS GET SENTENCES Speedy Execution of Justice " Concluded in Criminal Court. An example of speedy execution of justice was concluded in Criminal Court this morning when four youths, arrested Monday night, received sentences of ten years each in the Indiana State Reformatory on burglary and auto banditry charges. The four, Vincent Perdiew, 21; of 2010 Jones St.; Oscar Barnhill 19, of 556 S. Drover St.; Wesley Bailey, 19, of 514 S. Drover St., and Marlon Bolling, 19, of 548 S. Drover St., pleaded guilty before Judge James A. Collins to the charges, admitting holding up seven filling stations and four other places. All the hold-ups took place between Nov. 17 and Dec. 13, total loot being about S3OO. The quartet was indicted Wednesday by the Marion County grand jury. Arrests were made by Detectives Holihan and Englebright. Admitting the robberies, ,the youths said they were "hard up” and out of work. Tfyey denied planning to hold up the p?fy roll messenger of the Burdsal Paint Company ns he left the Merchants National Bank last Friday. Twelve detectives watched for them, but they failed to appear. Judge Collins complimented the detective department, grand jury and prosecutors for their speedy work In tho case. Miss™ GHILOIO PRIEST Man Flees After Giving Location of Boy’s Body. Bit I'vital Press CHICAGO, Deo. 18.—A city-wide search was begun today for the slayer of little Walter Smith, Jr., who was found unconscious in a hayloft early today and died a few hours later from fractures of the skull and effects of other brutal treatment. The boy was discovered a few minutes after a man appeared at a Catholic church, told the priest that "You’ll find a boy dead in that barn yonder,” and then disappeared. The Priest, Father L. .1. Sweeney, went to tho barn and found the boy. Walter regained consciousness long enough to tell them merely that his name was "Walter” and to give his home telephone number. The man who appeared at the church Is believed to have been mentally deranged.

Woman Diplomat in Class by Herself

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Here is Mine. Alexandra liollontoy, Soviet ambassador to Mexico and the world’s only woman diplomat of her rank. Upon her arrival in Havana, en rouie to Mexico City, on the SS. Lafayette, when this photo was made, the ('iilinn authorities refused to let her debark.

POLICE NEED MRP EYE, ESI SHOWS ) Aspirants for Jobs on -orce Take Mental Tests as Last Hurdle. GUARD AGAINST COPYING Spelling Included in Civil Service Exam. Sharp eyes nnd general information were deemed more necessary for Indianapolis policemen than forma! education in the police civil service tests for fifty-eight applicants today at Shortridge High School. For Instance, those examined were required to answer twelve questions concerning Information revealed In a photograph of an auto collision with a street car. After studying the photograph of ten wanted by police, they were required to select them from a picture containing forty-eight photographs. Eight questions were asked to test their general information. Aspirants were asked to name the president of the board of safety, describe the functions of the grand jury, name who directs that body, name five important public buildings Or structures and five railroads. What Should He Do? “If a police officer should observe a man loading a truck with bolts of silk at 2 a. m. In the rear of a department store, what should he do?” was one question. Whether a patrolman should release a prisoner as a personal favor to his seregant, was another poser. Directing a person from Pennsylvania and Washington Sts. to the Methodist hospital was another. There also was a question relating to circumstances in which a policeman should use his revolver. Spelling and arithmetic counted for 10 per cent each in the examination. Only elementary questions were propounded In arithmetic. The following twenty words were given In the spelling examination, alibi, fracture, collision, verdict, municipal, substitute, careless, criminal, identity, parole, rainy, federal, prohibition, still, asphalt, frozen, skidded, forgery", cruelty, explosion. Proctors on Watch Police Chief Claude F. Johnson said there probably would be twentytwo vacancies on the police force Jan. 1, which would be filled by those successful In the examination. Questions were selected by the civil service commission members from a large number prepared at (he last moment before the examination. John F. White and Emerson W. Chaille, commission members, and Leonard V. Harrison, Chamber of conducted the examination. Commerce civic affairs secretary, Applicants were required to take seats far apart and proctors patroled the examination room to guard against cheating.

SMITH POSTPONES SENATE DECISION Delay Until Elective Term Begins Is Forecast. Ru United Preen CHICAGO, Dec. 18. SenatorDesignate Frank L. Smith, who the Senate is expected to return to his home in Dwight, 111., today without making a statement regarding the course he will follow to obtain his seat. Smith, appointed to fill the uncxpired term of the late Senator William B. McKinley, was ready to announce his plan yesterday if the Senate had either defeated or passed the Ashurst resolution, which would deny him the right to take oath. But tabling of the resolution has left the Illinoisan undecided as to what he will do, friends said. There is a possibility now that Smith may elect to forego entering the Senate until the next session when we will enter as a duly elected Senator, according to rumors in political circles. This would leave Illinois with only one Senator during the present three months term. BAIL DENIED M’ERLANE Ru United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 18.— Bail was refused Frank McEriane, alleged murderer, but his petition for removal from Crown Point to Valparaiso was granted here late Friday by Judge Crumpacker. McEriane, a Chicago gangster, has been kept in the State prison and in Crown Point jail since his arrest because the Porter County jail was not considered safe. The murder of which McEslane is accused occurred last summer at Crown Point. Frank Fancher, an attorney, was the victim. ENTERTAIN LEADING MAN The Phi Delta Theta Alumni Club of Indianapolis had as honor guests at their luncheon today at tha Chamber of Commerce, Russell Gobring, leading man in the University of Michigan opera, “Front Page Stuff,” to be presented at the Murat Theater this evening, and other fraternity members of the cast. Albert Wolgemuth, a Michigan alumnus, is arrangements committee chairman.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 1926

You’ll Appreciate This Next Summer

, t * • ' • •' : .' i > If ||l| Vbove—McClur" Beach, showing (at left) swampy portion which is bc- ■ Ws Hilod and (at right, where clump of threes is located) ground which /?jj will lie scooped away to extend flic beach. Below—Euphrasia Donnelly, | Indianapolis swimming star, who may l>e among those using the en‘GLAD TO HELP’IS j MESSAGE TO SANTA Membership of Times Christmas Club Growing Rapidl; —Many Phone Calls From Generous Folks. ” f “I so glad to help;'’ That’s ragged little children, helpless ol jEHwI what generous Indianapolis folks folks, or overworked mothers o: j * JfffPW telephono to tiie Times Santa Claus Christmas day. Think what jo; ( i editor, over and over again these they will witness in faces that woul V 1 December days. otherwise be drawn and sad. Thin; These persons have each taken a of the dancing light in children’ t rapraßß needy family under their wing an 1 eyes that these same good Indlnr will be Santa Claus to eager eyed, a polls Santa Clauses will brinj SB ! IB FARM DFIIfF AIM j SijH I HlllSl 111 111 I Hllll Clauses we’ve talked with was \\ '• t 1 11,1,1 V ,U S. Tuttle, who lives at the Wesle I MM IJllinni r 0110110 Hotel - “The Times is doing a wor . ! Ilf 11 I\l I H VHII AI \ derful work, finding friends for thes [ mUOULL onUnLO m “‘ y ,a 7C, " PROVIDE LAUGHS child dies

City Workmen Labor in Cold to Make McClure Beach Larger. Preparedness. That’s the watchword of the city recreation department these winter days. That the word Js being followed out in actual practice can be seen at McClude Beach, White River at Twenty-Sixth St., where city employes are extending the municipal beach 200 yards south. In preparation for crowds which will flock to the water next July. To Be 300 lards I/mg Under direction of Recreation Director Jessy P. McClure, the beach is being extended from its present length of 100 yas*Js to 300 yards. The first step in this process is filling in of a swampy portion, located some distance back from the river. Ashes, tree branches and other debris are being dumped here. Then the ground along the river is being scooped up and the earth piled on top of the debris, making regular terra flrma of the present lagoon. Then tlie Beach On the river front, where the ground has been scooped out, the beach will be constructed. And next summer, the city will have a playground where workmen now are laboring through the cold winter hours, GRAFTPRiIN EARNEST INCA) Several Witnesses Expected Next Week. The Marion County grand jury's quiz into alleged political graft and corruption in Indiana will be resumed in earnest Monday, it was announced today. Several witnesses are expected to be called during the next week. Wednesday the grand jurors must go before Criminal Judge James A. Collins and present the report on their visit to county institutions and all remaining jail cases, in which indictments may be returned. Report of the body on the graft Prosecutor William / H. Remy declared that if there are any indictquiz still be made before Jan. 1. ments, they will be contained in the report and the new jury which takes office the first of the year will continue the investigation. Harry Pearson, Hotel Royal, who Is said to represent truck interests, and who spends his time around the State highway commission offices, was the only graft probe witness Friday. He was before the body more than half an hour. CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT Bu United Press BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 18. —Announcement was made hero today that Robert R. Thompson, general manager of the Postum Company here, will assume, on Jan. 1, the duties of general manager of the Jall-O Company, Leroy, N. Y.; Iglehart Brothers and Phoenix Flour Mills at Evansville, Ind., and the Minute Tapioca Company, Orange, Ma;s.

Vbove—McC’lur" Beach, showing (at left) swampy portion which is being filled and (at right, where clump of threes is located) ground which will lie scooped away to extend tlie beach. Below—Euphrasia Donnelly, Indianapolis swimming star, who may lie among those using tlie enlarged beach next summer.

‘GLAD TO HELP’ IS MESS AGE TO SANTA Membership of Times Christmas Club Growing Rapidly —Many Phone Calls From Generous Folks.

t “I am so glad to help!" That’s what generous Indianapolis folks telephone to the Times Santa Claus editor, over and over again these December days. These persons have each taken a needy family under their wing and will be Santa Claus to eager eyed,

FARM RELIEF AND MUSCLE SHOALS PROVIDE LAUGHS Western and Southern Members of Congress Manage to Support Both. Times Wnshin'iton Rurrnu. titi .veto York Avenue WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Western and southern Congressmen took new hitches In their galluses today and prepared again to save the American farmer. Seldom have solicitous solos faced a more para- | doxteal problem. ' \Asked, on one hand, to enact the revised McNary-Haugen bill for disposal of yearly crop surpluses, they are urged, equally, to lease Muscle Shoals to private interests and provide .cheap fertilizer that the farmer may, in effect, grow bigger and better ones. v Assuming even that the paradox is more apparent than real, which is not at all certain, the intellectual ease with which such men as Senator Tom Hofflin of Alabama orate for both proposals, is somewhat amusing. How much real connection there is between a crop surplus and fertilizer, is best studied down in Heflin's own country. The South produced an estimated 18,618,000 bales of cotton this year, largest crop In history, and usetl 4.936,537 tons of fertilizer, a consumption exceeded only twice before. The increase in land cultivated was partially responsible for the large crop, but fertilizer manufacturers are not loath to share the credit or blame. North Carolina averaged 295 pounds of cotton per acre, according to Dec. 1 estimates, and South Carolina only 180 pounds. Pointing out that soil and growing conditions in the two States are practically the same, the National Fertilizer Association argues: "Allowing for variable factors, the wide difference in yields Is believed due largely to the amounts of fertilizer used. In North Carolina the applications have averaged 440 pounds per acre this year, hut in South Carolina the average is 325.” Advocates of Government operation of Muscle Shoals, most of whom favor the McNary-Haugen bill, will argue this winter that Muscle Shoals should be considered not as a fertilizer factory, but as a giar.t power plant. They have long claimed that the fertilizer talk was merely a smoke screen to cover a power grab. PAYS FOR ADVERTISING Bu United Press NEW YORK, Des. 18.—Paid ad vertisements announcing the complete program of a broadcasting station apeared In New York newspapers for the first time yesterday. The Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation, which took over the WAHG with the new call letters WABC, had inserted In paid advertising space in all New York morning and evening newspapers the complete opening program which was broadcast 'ast night. Officials of the corporat.on stated that it was expected WABC would follow this procedure regularly in the future.

NOTICE! Monday is last day for doll roupons. All coupons must be in The Times offlre by Monday, Dec. 20. None accepted after that date.

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ragged little children, helpless old folks, or overworked mothers on Christmas day. Think what joy they will witness in faces that would otherwise be drawn and sad. Think of the dancing light in children’s eyes that these same good Indianapolis Santa Clauses will bring forth. Wants to Help * One of the most encouraging Santa Clauses w’e’ve talked with was W. S. Tuttle, who lives at the Wesley Hotel. "The Times is doing a wonderful work, finding friends for these needy families.” he commented "I (Turn to Page 11) CHILD DIES AS BIRTHDAY CAKE WAITS " ■ - - Table in Burned Home Bears Ironical Reminder of Life’s Uncertainty. \ 1 Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.— A white-iced birthday cake, with the names of two children in pink let- ; ters. slightly soiled by soot, but othjerwise undamaged, lay ironically on a charred table in a ruined home here today, but one of the children was dead and the other badly burned. The second girl and other members of the family were'saved from death by a pet cat, which clawed Meyer Rosenblatt, 20, uncle of the girls, until he awakened to find the home on fire. Rosenblatt, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Solomon, parents of the girls, and Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Rosenblatt, grandparents, were injured in desperate efforts to save Blanche Solomon, whose charred body was found, by firemen under her mother's bed, where she had crawled from her own room after the heat of the flames forced the family to flee. Sylvia Solomon > w T as rescued, badly burned. Blanche would have been 6 tomorrow, and Sylvia, 4.

M’BERMOTT CASE DEFENSEBEGINS Nine Witnesses Called to Aid Murder Defendant. Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 18.—The defense today began its efforts to batter down the case built up by the State against Pat McDermott, on trial charged with murdering Don R. Mellett, militant editor. Nine witnesses were called to refute damaging testimony against McDermott, first of three men to be tried for the assassination. The State rested its case shortly after court opened today with the testimony of William Brumme, who said he had seen Seranus Lengel, deposed police ’ chief, in conversation twice the week of the murder with Ben Rudner, one of those awaiting trial. One of those called to aid McDermott helped the State’s case when he said the defendant looked like a man he saw with Rudner the Sunday before the slaying. ' McDermott will take the stand in his own behalf early next week, the defense indicated today. COTTON MERCHANT DIES Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Joseph Newburger, 68, of Memphis, Tenn., millionaire cotton merchant and a leading figure in the cotton world for more than a quarter of a century, died in his room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel last night of pneumonia and heart disease. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m • 10 10 a. m 17 7 a. m 9 11 a. m 23 8 a. m 9 12 (noon) .... 22 9 a. m 14

COMMISSIONER PROMISES FULL INVESTIGATION OF GILLIOM REBATE CHARGES Gilliom’s Assertion He Was Told Utilities Favor Some Will Be Probed, Declares Wampler. VIOLATORS TO BE PROSECUTED Attorney General Offers Aid in Pressing Inquiry to End. . The public service commission will investigate charges of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom that the two local electric utilities are violating the law by granting rebates to large power users, Commissioner Frank Wampler declared today. And if violations of the law are proven the violators will be prosecuted if possible, Wampler said.

Gilliom declared Thursday at a hearing on the proposed merger of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and Merchants Heat and Light Company that he has been told that the two utilities are continuing to give rebates to favored customers. Half Million This practice, he said, is costing j the small power and light users of | Indianapolis Half a million dollars a | year. v The Indianapolis News is one of i those receiving rebates, he said he ! has been fold. “The commissioners will not !g----i nore these charges of the attorney I general,” Wampler said. “It Is de- ! termined to go to the bottom of the j matter. Those guilty should be brought before the bar of public opinion and, if possible, prosecuted.” Soon as Possible The commission will take the matter in hand as soon as possible, he said, but that may not be until the | commission has proceeded with : the hearing on the merger petition. It will take commission engineers ! and accountants some time to check j the books of the company and j gather evidence to prove or disj prove the rebate charges, ho said. Wampler declared he believed the ! other commissioners felt the same as ho did In the matter. Gilliom Approves Gilliom reiterated (■ ’ay the charges declaring that he had been informed, he “believed reliably,” that rebates are still being given by the electric companies to the extent of $500,000 per year and that these special rate records are kept in ’’secret ledgers.” “I am heartily in accord with the commission's desire to unearth the facts to substantiate these charges,” the attorney general declared. ”In fact, I advised them to do so when I made these charges public. “If the facts warrant I will use every of this office to bring about just punishment of offenders. We stand ready and anxious to prosecute any such secret and criminal practices that are brought to our attention by the commission.” McCardle Noncommittal Chairman John McCardle remained somewhat noncommittal regardir#? the njove, declaring that as yet it had not been discussed at a commission conference and that aside from tho Gilliom charges he knew little about the rebates at this time. He pointe dout that he had been a leader in getting data in 1924 when the two utilities were fined $2,0&0 apiece for giving rebate to the Indianapolis News and others. Hearing Wednesday The hearing on the merits of the petition to merge the two local electric utilities with a capitalization of $55,000,000 will begin Wednesday at 9 a. m., the commission decided late Friday. Indianapolis bankers aided Harley Clarke, Chicago utilities promoter, an early hearing, it is believed. Attorneys representing interests opposing the merger at what they term “excessive capitalization,” agreed to an early hearing with the understanding that they would be given ample time to secure their own evidence, after the utilities and commission evidence has been introduced, or they were unsuccessful in opposing the setting of an early date and the triple combination of bankers, Clarke and the commission jammed through the early date and “made them like it.” Hearing Wednesday One of these alternatives prevailed, for the hearing date for the merger petition was set for next Wednesday at 9a. m. It will be held in the chamber of the House of Rep- I resentatives. Such was the announcement made i by Commissioner Frank Wampler ' following a conference in the office , of Frank McCardle, chairman of (he public service commission, ’ Friday afternoon. Those attending were the bankers, Clarke, the commissioners > and opposing attorneys. The meet.- 1 ing was closed to reporters and i those who attended were non-com- I mital concerning it. Wampler announced that all par- ' ties agreed to the early date. If they did it was no; without ' objection, for vigorous protest could j be heard in the hallways. Voices of attorneys, fighting for time to bring in their own valuation figures as evidence, to he placed alongside those of the com:. I ’tin's engineer

Forecast Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight with lowest temperature about 15. Sunday cloudy and warmer; probably snow by night.

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and the figures of the utilities companies, were heard. Commission, figures, compiled by Earl L. Carter, chief engineer, made public Friday and published by The Times, gave the present replacement value of the Merchants Heat and Light Company at $12,615,871 and the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company at $20,951,724. The utilities are asking for $55,000,000 capitalization and securities issue for the purchase of the “used and useful” properties of the two companies, whose total value is placed by Carter at $33,567,595, spot reproduction as of Oct. 1. Near Equitable Carter’s figures received favorable comment from several of the opposition attorneys who attended the conference. ‘‘They sound somewhere near equitable,” Samuel Bowden, attorney with Edward O. Snethen, for the Indianapolis Federation of Community Clubs, commented. “Carter's figures are vastly different from a $55,000,000 capitalization,” Frederick E. Matson declared. Matson is attorney for the Chamber of Commerce, which has employed Benjamin Perk, expert utilities accountant, to go over available figures and determine whether a separate appraisal of the properties is needed by outside engineers and accountants. Matson led the pleading for ample time at the conference Friday. He pointed out that the commission figures were unavailable to Perk until Friday morning and that he (Perk) had not sufficient time to determine what might be necessary to secure evidence. If it was decided to employ egineers and accountants and make a third appraisal, in addition to those of the commission and utilities, the Chamber of Commerce and others wanted time to do so. Separate Appraisal All opposing attorneys seconded this and A. B. Cronk, of Cronk & Wilde, representing the American Foundry and Chapman-Price Steel •companies, declared that their clients would favor a separate appraisal. It was estimated that the time required might be up to six months. ' Other opposition attorneys taking part in the discussion were Charles Mendenhall, representing City Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker and William Bosson. President of four large local banks who attended the conference were Elmer W. Stout, Fletcher American National; Frank D. Stalnaker, Indiana National; Reily C. Adams, Security Trust Company, and Arthur V. Brown, Union Trust Company.

‘KING BEN’CASE ARGUMENI HEARD Cult Leader Not in CourtReported 111. Bu United Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 18. —With “Queen” Mary Purnell but no “King” Ben present, the legaldifficulties besetting the Israelite House of David of Benton Harbor, Mich., in Federal Court, were argued here today before Judge Fred M. Raymond. Illness prevented the presence of “King” Ben, H. T. Dewhirst, attorney and member of Purnell's cult, explained to the United Press. He was assisted by William J. Barnard, Paw Paw, Mich., attorney, and had private stenogrpher to take notes. LOOK OUT. AUTO MEN Cars Sold Bootleggers on Payments May Be Confiscated. Automobile dealers who sell high priced cars on small down payments to bootleggers are dodmed to disappointment in the event the ears are confiscated by the government, A. R. Harris, Indiana prohibition administrator, said today. Five passenger cars and one truck have fallen into the hands of the prohibition department in Indiana during the first half of December, records show. These cars, partially paid for, will be sold as provided for by law, and the sale proceeds turned over to the United States treasury.