Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1926 — Page 2

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‘Fussy’ Babies Bothered Chaplin, Lita Grey Asserts

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ARMY POST FUND FIGHT MAY REACH FLOORIFHOUSE Opponents so Budget Director Lord’s Proposals Become Active. By Roscoe B. Fleming WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Recommendations as to the manner of spending $8,600,000 in army post construction, made by Budget Director Lord to the House Appropriations Committee, are rousing opposition, and if they pass the committee probably will be fought on the floor. Among other items, General Lord set out $300,000 for Camp Meade, Maryland; $72,000 for Fort Sill, Oklahoma; $1,299,000 for March flying field, near Riverside, Cal.; $490,000 for Kelly field, and $521,000 for Brooks field, Texas, and $300,000 for Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Os the total fund, $7,200,000 is from the military post construction fund, raised by the War Department from sale of old army posts under the Hill-Wadsworth act of last year, and $1,400,000 from general army funds. Representative Hill of Maryland said today that the Hill-Wadsworth act stipulated the construction fund was to be used fgr improvement of established posts, especially to discard the temporary quarters built during the war, which are on the verge of falling down, but still shelter about a third of the Army's personnel. Apparently, he said, the budget recommendations disregard this and arbitrarily a part of the fund to build flying fields. He has asked War Secretary Davis to give to the Military Affairs Committee the original War Department recommendations, which, it is believed, contain items for relief of Army posts discarded by the budget bureau. “For instance, I understand the War Department recommended $580,000 this year for Camp Meade, which last year received $410,000 from the Hill-Wadsworth fund,” he said. "The budget bureau cut this down to $300,000. i “I do not contend that the Army does not need and would not welcome new air fields, but that this particular fund was intended to be devoted to another purpose. It was estimated that sales of surplus property would raise about $20,000,000 to relieve the present terrible housing situations at many permanent posts.”

MEDICAL HEAD ELECTED Slate Association Holds Mill Winter Conference Here. Members of the executive council of the Indians, State Medical Association re-elected Dr. William R. Davidson of ‘Evansville, chairman at the mid winter conference, Friday, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Council members are from the thirteen congresional districts. Others attending the meeting were: Dr. Charles N. Combs of Terre Haute, president of the association; Dr. Frank W. Cregor of Indianapolis, president-elect: Dr. William A. Doeppers of Indianapolis, treasurer: Thomas A. Hendricks of Indianapolis, executive secretary and Dr. Albert E. Bulson, Jr., of Ft. Wayne, editor of the medical journal. ‘THREE GODS OR ONE?” New York Man to Speak Before Y. M. Big Meeting. Dr. Stanley Krebe, New York City, will address the big meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at English’s Theater Sunday afternoon at 3. His subject will be “Three Gods or One?” Special music will be furnished by the mixed quartet of the First Friends Church and the big meeting orchestra. This meeting will be open to all men and women. BUILDING PERMITS John C Cole, dwelling- and garage, 1236 N. Keystone. $3,000. Raymond Roes, dwelling, 2188 N. Drexel. $2,500. Merchants Heat and Light Company, sign. PiltyJ'ourth. and College, $2,800. Rirltan Finance Company, dwelling and nngt. 430 Congress. $1,700. Hin-y Goldstein, dwelling and garage. 42402-4-6-8 Washington Blvff. $26,000 Mrs. K. Hinze, boner. 18 S. State, $226 Wifilgm Sdhmid Jr.. office. 100 N. Mini. B "%rnr wid Cory Miller. Are loss, 1517 ,W Yorrie, S3OO.

MR. FIXIT Lights Held Up by Contract Squabble-

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Disposition of all requests for corner lights will depend upon negotiations now in progress concerning the city's light bills for 1926 and 19271 DEAR MR. FIXIT; We wish you would help us get a street light at Fourteenth St. and Sheffield Ave., as it is a dark corner. There are no lights from Twelfth St. to the boulevard about three blocks. SHEFFIELD AVENUE RESIDENT. Get a blank for a petition and obtain as many signatures as possible. Petitions may be obtained at the Board of Works office. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The alley between Thirty-First St. and Congress Ave., west of Shriyer Ave., is in u deplorable condition. The Board of Works has approved it for paving next spring, but that doesn't help u this winter. MRS. F. E. KING. 421 Congress Ave. You should have relit! before you read this. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The town clock strikes sometimes. -Of course, we of the Eighth Precinct of the Seventh Ward don't depend altogether on that, but get along very well unless smog or darkness overtakes us. In that even we cannot tell the time of day, because the tenwatt globe that lights the tower is nil. A TRUSTING REPUBLICAN. Please give more specific location and Information so that Mr. Fixit can act intelligently, if possible. l FORD SEES U. S. NEA R NORMALCY Urges Wise Management of American Home as sid to Nation. (Copyright, 1926, by United Press) DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 18.—Henry Ford probably is the most “rumored” man in the world today. If he isn’t "just around the corner” from production of a six cylinder car, he is "paying the expenses” of a globetrotting queen. And except upon rare occasions, Ford maintains a Sphynx-like silence rather than dignify the rumors with a formal denial. At the request of the United Press, the man whose business course is charted “alone, afoot and acrosslots” has taken a general “peek” into the near iliture of America, 4ias again punctured the six-cylinder bubble, and has explained his "fiveday week." Refering to 1927, Ford declared: “The country is getting back to normal, but some people find normal too slow for them. There is too much debt, for one thing. We must learn to call credit by its real namedebt. "The American home needs better business management. Let the American home manage its own affairs wisely, and the country will be alright." The five-day week. Ford explained, is predicated on the principle of "economic leisure,” or time in which to enjoy the returns from one’s labor. "It is good business,” he said, “to give workers more leisure for the simple reason they have more time to use more of what they produce, thus automatically creating a larger general market.” HELD IN CHECK CASE Man Turned Over to Police by Drug Store Manager. A man giving his name as J. L. Donohue, 1044 E. Market St., was arrested and held on high bond after he had attempted to pass a check on Harry K. Armstrong, 3945 Kenwood Ave., manager of Liggett's drug stVre. Pennsylvania and Wash ington Sts. Armstrong, held the man until the arrival of police. He said r.he man came to the store In the afternoon and borrowed 26 cents to send* a. telerram. He later returned and asked Armstrong to cash the check.

By Dan Thomas, NEA Service Writer. LOS * ANGELES. Dec. 18.—The story of a. 16-year-old girl who was "scared of Charlie at first, as any young girl might be" — Os a proposal while they were on their way home from the theater one night— Os a secret marriage in Mexico— Then, for two years, of a "neglectful” husband who said, in effect, “Spend what money you wont, but don't expect too much of my lime apd attention."— That’s Lita Grey Chaplin’s story of her shattered romance with the world's most famo |: comedian. She told it to me exclusively for The Indianapolis Times and NEA Service. As she talked, she sat in the little “Curry Cottage." Hollywood home of her grandparents, with Sidney Earl Chaplin and Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., playing about the room the while. . Friendship, Then Love* "My life with Charlie Chaplin really started when he signed me to play the feminine lead in “The Gold Rush," commenced Mrs. Chaplin. “I was just a girl then —only) 16. Our work in the picture brought us together almost constantly every' day. That was the start of a friendship which soon turned to love—at least on my part. I sometimes doubt now if Charlie ever really loved me.

SWITCH DIES IN FALL UNDER ENGINEWHEELS Fatal Accident in Yards — Woman Hit by Auto in Critical Condition. A yard switchman was killed instantly early today, in an accident at the Hawthorne railroad yards, S. Emerson Ave. and the Pennsylvania tracks, and later in the morning, a 72-year-old woman was struck by an auto at Ohio and Illinois Sts., and critically Injured. The woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, 719 Massachusetts Ave., stepped from the curb at Goldsmith’s drug store, in front of a machine driven north on Illinois St. by J. B. Sconce, Greenwood, a salesman for the Fair-banks-Morse Company. She was taken to city hospital with a deep cut in her forehead. Witnesses said Sconce was driving slow and was not to blame. Crushed Beneath Engine After jumping on a Pennsylvania switch engine, the switchman, George Bogard, 39, of 2827 E. Washington St„ fell and was crushed beneath the engine, the mangled body being found lying beside the tracks by C. R. Manion, 1134 Broadway, another switchman. Bogard had been trying to hook the engine to a cut of cars, which had broken loose- on an incline. According to H. J. Moore, 417 N. Ookland Ave., conductor, the engine had just released three cars and had started up the inline when three other cars broke loose. Moore said he did not see Bogard hop on the engine, hut thought he must have attempted to get between the cars and hook them hack together. C. Whitford. engineer, said he was looking out of his side of the cab and did not see Bogard. Body to Morgue Dr. 11. B. Hlne, deputy coroner, who was called to investigate, ordered the body moved to the city morgue. Mrs. Flossy Nugent, 25, of 126 Koehno St„ was taken to ftie city hospital after an accident at Rural St. and Massachusetts Ave. Police say she was driving west and was forced to drive into a parked truck to avoid a hend-on collision with a funeral car. Her left leg was broken and her face cut. VETERAN KILLS SELF Slashes Throat With Razor—Nativo Is Unknown. Bv United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Dec. IS.— John Qwen, 39, a World War veteran who saw active service with the A. E. F., died at a hospital here today from a self-inflicted knife wound. Owen staggered into the room where his aged mother was sitting at the Owen home Friday, mumbled a few words of farewell and fell unconscious at her feet. At the hospital where he was taken his throat was found to have been slashed with a jack knife. Beside his mother, a widow survives Owen. Both were at a loss to explain the motive for Owen’s suicide. FIREMEN DRAFT BILL Chiefs Seek Uniform Civil Service Regulations in State. Uniform civil service regulations of firemen in all cities of the State is sought by the Fire Chief’s Association organized in Indianapolis Friday. About forty fire chiefs were present. Plans for submitting a bill providing the desired change were made and committee appointed to draft such a measure. PASTOR, WIFE KILLED Train Strikes Auto at Crossing at Osceola, Ind. nu Times Bnecial SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 18.— Rev. C. M. Vawter, Methodist pasor at Osceola, Ind., and his wife were dead today as a result of an auto-traln crash at Osceola, near here. The pastor drove his auto' In front of the train. A son, 5, was slightly hurt.

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AUTO RIDDLED BY B ULLETS, VANISHES Who Spirited Away Abandoned Auto Is Question That Baffles Police —Found Near Nora.

The mystery of a vanishing, bulletriddled auto puzzled police today. The auto was found at SeventyFifth St. and State lid. 31, a half mile south of Nora. Police at first believed that the machine was a bootleggers' auto which had been sliot up and looted of its liquor cargo by hijackers. The theory was weakened, however, by the fact that their was no odor of alcohol. Bullets had passed through the back end and front seat and shattered the dashboard. Stripped of Platen The auto, a Hudson coach, had been stripped of Its license plates and certificate of title card. Nothing

THINKS HOLD-UP WASTHWARTED Man Who Sought Warmth Had Revolver. Police believe a hold up was thwarted Friday night by Irwin Kinsey, 14 N. Euclid Ave., attendant at a White Rose station at Chester Ave. and E. Washington St. Kinsey told a rnan who Said he came in to get WTir,m that his boss just drove in the drive and would not allow any one to loaf In the station. Kinsey said that he noticed a revolver in the man’s pocket, and wrb afraid of being held up. The man left when he heard a customer drive up.

Jingle Bells

NEW YORK—The Santa Claus question has been settled. Lincoln C. Ellswortji and Commander R. E. Byrd, who visited Kris Kringle’s domain around the North Pole last summer, have written to the Aerial League confirming the presence of Santa Claus in the far north. "Absolutely. I hope the time will never come when I can not see Santa Claus,” Ellsworth replied to a question as to whether he had viewed the Christmas saint. NEW YORK—More than 1,100 members of the city’s affiliated women’s clubs will attend an annual Christmas service tomorrow at the chapel of hte intercession. Protesfcyit, Catholic and Jewish club wome nare cooperating in the service. J. L. LEWIS IN LEAD Re-election of Miners’ Head Predieted From Returns. Re-election of John L. Lewis, president, and his complete ticket is indicated by early returns from the United Mine Workers of America election as received at the national headquarters Friday. The Lewis lead over John Brophy, his opponent, is being increased by every report and so great that it is indicated his entire ticket will be carried. Approximately 4,500 unions voted and about two weeks will be required before complete returns are available.

Wife, Weight 300, Denied Divorce Bv United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Mrs. Margaret Frank, 300-pound wife of G. O. Frank, who tips the scales at 130 pounds, sued Frank for divorce, charging cruelty. Frank exhibited two broken ribs at the divorce hearing, the result of "handling by my wife.” Judge Fred Rush surveyed the couple. "Cruelty,” he said, looking at Mrs. Frank. “Divorce denied.” A

lshed our day's work on the picture. Mother liked him, too. It wasn’t long before I began to have a feeling that made me know 1 loved him. 1 was scared at first, as any young girl might be who was in love with Charlie Chaplin. But he was so attentive that I began to think, too. he might really care. Charlie Proposes "Then came ttfe night he proposed to me. We were on our way home from a theater. He wanted to keep our marriage a secret until after the picture was finished, so we went to Mexico ffo have the ceremony performed. But even from there the news leaked out and by the time we got back to Hollywood everyone here knew about it." Chaplin, the husband, no longer was the Chaplin attentive, consider ate suitor, she said. Instead, he was a ."neglectful” husband who said, “spend what money you want, but don't expect too much of my time and attention.” The Chaplin of the films who in his famous reel of "The Kid,” tended the young Jackie Coogan with an aunost maternal tenderness, and in real life has been Idealized by that lad, “never Saw his own babies for days at a time,” according to the comedian’s wife. "Fuss : ng” Annoyed Him "He always expected children to be like grown-ups, and did not want to be annoyed by their fussing," she said. "When Carlie junior was born I

was in the car, according to MotorPolicemen Okey and Webb. According to the course taken by the bullets, the driver and any one in seats would have been struck, but no trace of blood was found. The officers left the machine by the side of the road and notified the Ohio Garage to get the wrecked machine. When the garage wrecking car arrived they found the bullet-riddled auto had vanished. Who hauled awuy the wrecked car, is the first mystery police are attempting to solve? Garage Notified Samuel Moore, charged with vehicle taking, was sentenced three to five years at the Indiana State Reformatory and fined SIOO. He was charged with stealing an auto belonging to William F. Shirley^

Far and Near

M’COOK, Neb.—Ben Olcott, 55, helped build McCook's first jail and was the first prisoner in it. He is helping build its new jail now and will be its first prisoner. He is serving sentence for possessing liquor. During his forty-three years residence here, Olcott estimates he has been in Jail lNi times. STERLING. lll.—After cashing his | say dus k of $l4O, a railroad employe here lost the money walking home. Other workers who helped hint look for it not only found the sllO but an additional dollar he had forgotten in Ills pocket. The currency had blown up against a wire fence across a ten-acre field. NEW YORK. —Santa Claus was heavyweight champion of the world today. Gene Tunney visited the Salvation Army headquarters and was taught the te -linique of properly wrapping a doll In paper, "Quite different front doing up an opponent in- the ring,” he commented. "but more difficult and equally Interesting.” MIAMI BEACH, Fla.— Poetic justice overtook Max Heiner, engineer at one of the beach hotels when he attempted to take a cold shower after “crossing up” the hot and cold water lines. A physician treated him for scalds. MARLBORO, Mass.—A shortage of muzles threatened the life of every dog In this town when an ultimatum to muzle or kill sent owners scurrying to dealers to find that no dog muzzles were to be had. A reprieve for the dog population was expected until muzzles could be rushed in to save the canines. PARTS—Mrs. Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison of Berkeley, Cal., has filed suit for divorce against F’rancis Burton Harrison, former governor of the Philippines. USBON—Tidal winds of cyclonic proportions stjjl are sweeping Madeira, said a ill's patch from Funchal. Houses have been destroyed in Canmralobos, Canieai and Machico, with damages estimated at $1,500,000. LONDON —British Minister Lampson has left Hankow after a series of conferences with Eugene Chen, without arriving at an agreement in, regard to British claims for protection from the Cantonese troops. LIFE SENTENCE UPHELD Judgment of the jury in the Marion County Court was affirmed when the litllana Supreme Court upheld the finding of John Smith, 5201 Agnes St„ guilty of murder in the second degree. Smith was sentenced for life Aug. 2, 1925, following the fatal shooting of Rose Johnson. APPRAISERS NAMED E. Kirk McKinney, Frank A. Dunlop and Albert E. Uhl, real estate men, were appointed in Circuit Court to appraise property at Nineteenth St. and Brookslde Pkwy„ owned by Frank F. Wooling. The school board recently filed suit asking that the court condemn the property for School purposes.

thought he would change and spend more time at home,” said the young mother. "But ho didn't. I stayed home and took care Os my baby while Charlie went out evenings with with his friends. At the theater pre mleres, where I belonged at the side of my husband, Charlie appeared alone or with his friends. If I wanted to go, it was up to me to go by myself. But to do that would have been too humiliating. So I stayed at home. "I used to hear of Charlie being at the Montmartre and the Ambassador with other girls. Those were the stories tha,t hurt more than anything else, because those were the places where we had our best times before we were married. Break Comes “Sydney was born last March 30. But even both babies and my efforts failed to make our home attractive enough to keep Charlie there. And when he did stay home, he shut himself up In his library and read. He even refused to meet my friends, wljo often visited me at house. He said that they were common and that he did not care to know them. “Then came that fatal Monday night. I was entertaining a few guests after the theater. Charlie deliberately insulted them and ordered them to leave the house. That was too much. He had never been a good father or husband and I could tolerate him no longer. So I left him and came to my mother's. And I never will go back.” (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

3 EX-CONSTABLES FODND GUILTY DN LIQUORCHARGES Trio Given SIOO Fine, Thirty Days’ Sentence in Criminal Court. Three former constables were found guilty of violating the liquor law, Friday afternoon in Criminal Court, and were sentenced to thirty days on the State farm and fined SIOO. They are: Jack Fisher, John Taylor and Ned Russell. They were specifically charged with manufacture, sale, possession and transportation of intoxicating liquor. •‘Planting” Charged The ex-constables were charged with having "planted” two bottles of liquor in the Pathfinder Auto Service Company, 215 E. New York St., where they went to arest H. L. Pace and Henry Friedmeyer, firm officials. The ex-constables testified they had a warrant calling for a diamond stick pin and some clothes owned by Taylor, and found the liquor there when they arrived. Held to Grand Jury Municipal Judge Dan V. White withheld judgment on liquor charges against Pace and Friedmeyer, ordering the ex-constables to turn the liquor over to William H. Sheaffer. grand jury deputy. This resulted in indictment of the trio. Testimony of State's witnesses brought out there was no liquor in the place before the trio arrived. Attorney Jack Joseph asked anew trial preparatory to taking an ap peal. BIBLE CRUSADE JAN. 1 City to Participate in General Reading Plan for Two Months. Indianapolis will join, the general crusade of Bible reading during Jan uary and February, according to an announcement made bv the Church Federation of Indianapolis Friday. A chapter a-day schedule, embracing the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts has been adopted. The services will begin Jan. 1 and continue through twenty-four days of January and the entire month of February. This crusade is for the purpose of reviving the interest of the people in daily Bible reading. OPEN CHURCH SUNDAY Blaine Avenue M. E. to Hold All-Day Services. The opening services of the Blaine Avenue M. E. Church, which has been recently remodeled at a cost of $20,000, will be held Sunday, with an all-day program. The services will open with Sunday school at 9:30 a. m., followed ' by a sermon by Rev. Harry A. King, district superintendent. A basket dinner will be served at noon. The program will elose with the night services, which will include Epworth League and a sermon by Rev. George Smith, superintendent of the Methodist Hospital. The formal dedication exercises will be held Dec. 26, at 10:30 a. m. HEADS NEWARK UNION William F. Deery Formerly Employed in Indianapolis. William F. Deery, 28, formerly of Indianapolis, and son of James H. Deery, 2141 N. New Jersey St., has been elected president of the Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union Local No. 18, Newark, N. J., according to word received here. At present employed on the Newark Evening News, Deery served his apprenticeship on The Indiana Daily Times, now the The Indianapolis Times, Joining the union In 1916. He saw twenty-four months of service during the World War. NEW BRIDGE PLANNED The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chi cago and St. Louis railroad today petitioned the public service commission for authority to build a bridge over the Wabash River at Terre Haute, Ind. The bridge would extend over the combination highway and levee on the west side of the river, the petltionvsald.

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After their secret wedding, and "fussy" little Charles Chaplin Jr., (left) and Sidney Earl arrived, Charlie somehow didn't want to he bothered.

Hoosier Briefs

Ward Harvey of Marion, claims a record. He drove his auto from Kansas City to Marion, 654 miles, in one day. Dale, 2, son of Corbett Selby, living near Winslow was seriously burned when a cup of coffee was overturned, spilling on the child’s face. When Frank S. Perkins appeared in court drunk to answer intoxication charges, a Connersville judge gave him the limit, SSOO fine and six months. Ethel Thomas, 12, of LaPorte, will have a Christmas after all.’ She lost her purse, containing sll, savings of months, but Helen Clark, 11, found it and returned it to her. Clarence Bradley told Peru police lie had nothiffg saved up now for a rainy day. Thieves stole Ids slicker, which lie had thrown over the radiator of his auto. A fall on the Ice proved fatal to William Snyder, 83, at Kokomo. John Parker of LaPorte won fame by stealing a horse. lie also won a three to fifteen-year prison sentence. Muncie firemen gave a small dog found shivering in front of headquarters a home, but also a handicap. They named him "Juicy.” Recent newspaper accounts of the killing of several snowy or arctic owls in Indiana mean nothing to Cortez Knight of Marion. He has one mounted at his home which he killed ten years ago. Rochester folks see hope for an open winter and an early spring. Orhra Taylor captured a live frog, while running hLs traits on Lake Manitou. Mrs. Otis Street of Clinton, was seriously burned saving her son when a gasoline lamp exploded in her home.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen last night belong to: Joe Nathan, 3016 N. Meridian St., Packard, 587-991, from 3761 N. Meridian St. James T. Sullivan, 1404 N. Pennsylvania St., Ford. 80-086, from Court and Pennsylvania Sts. Fae Youll, 45 W. Twenty-Fourth St., Chrysler, 577-539, from 200 block E. Ohio St. O. R. Morris, 615 Spruce St., Ford, 583-339, from 944 S. West St. Harper Ransburg. 4902 Park-Ave., Chevrolet, 586-042, from Murat Theater. Hampton Williams, 439 N. Illinois St., Ford, 575-179, from Tibbs Ave. and E. Michigan St. C. F. Wiley’, 639 N. Jefferson. Buick, 24-464, from Delaware and Thirteenth Sts. Harry Calland, 3840 Graceland, Ford, 3840, from rear of home.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found beg long to: James C. Dinehart, 3920 Chevrolet, 575-865; found downtown. Thomas M. Conaulty, 259 N. Park view Ave.; Chevrolet, 185-559; foun: in 2100 block Adams St. A Ford touting, license numbei 625-991, found at Wisconsin St. ami Illinois Central Railroad.

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EVERY f® If STATE DANGEROUS, SAYS INSPECTOR Law Needed to Compel Owners to Rockdust All Shafts, Official States. Bv Timex Bneeinl EVANSVILLE, Tnd., Dec. 18.— Hazardous conditions in Francisco Mine 2, where an explosion last Thursday cost thirty-six lives, are duplicated in practically every coal mine In Indiana, G. T. Powell, Evansville, United States n|ine in spector, declared hare. Powell was reminded that, since the Francisco disaster, miners have expressed fear of other mines in the southern part of the State. Law Needed “I don't blame them,” Towell said. “These mines are filled with coal dust, and because there is no State law compelling the operators to rockdust the mines the hazardous conditions remain. “We need State legislation to protect the Indiana miners. A bill was up two years ago angawas lost.” W The Francisco explosion vrould have taken less than half the number of lives if the mine had been rock dusted throughout, Phil Centers, Princeton, a mine boss at the mine for seven years, contends. Too Busy Centers said rock dusting of the mine was starred, but was never completed, because of the rush to get coal out of the mine while coal prices were still high. Powell agreed with Centers. Powell has directed rescue work in practically every mine disaster in the tri-state territory during the last ten years. "It is agreed that coal dust Is the cause of the largest number of mine explosions,” Powell said. "And where the explosion is from gas. the death toll and damages usually are increased at least 50 per cent, because the coal dust Ignites and explodes.” BLAMES ROBBERY LOSER Police Official Declares Bank Messenger Not Properly Guarded. flu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 18.— Carelessness on the part of bank officials who, because they carry blanket insurance on losses by robbery do not employ sufficient guards for their messengers, was blamed today by Kniil W. Koch, police commissioner, for (he $79,600 hold-up of a Fidelity National Rank messenger yesterday. Police throughout the notified-to be on the lookout for the bandits who escaped with the satchel full of new currency after holding up W. A. Green, messenger for the bank, on a busy downtown corner just before noon Friday. lIOOSIERS IN DEBATE Bv Times Special CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Dec. 18. Edward M. Rowe of Tndlanapolis, a senior, and E. H. Hubbard of South Bend, a freshman, have bean chosen with Frank W. Lorenzon of New Haven, Conn., as members of the Harvard University debating team vhich will meet Leland Stanford University on Jan. 6. The subject f the debate is: "Resolved, That nore is to be feared than hoped from science."