Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1927 — Page 13

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JACKSON ASKS EMERGENCY FUND INCREASE

U. S. Included in Plan for Shanghai’s Defense

SUNDAY SCHOOL ALIBI, DEFENSE OF RJCHFARMER Was Preparing Lesson at Home When Soldier Was Slain, Claim. Bn Time it Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 28.—Defense attorneys for Jacob Ratcliffe, wealthy land owner on trial for the alleged murder of Guy Orville Pritchard, a soldier, today attempted to prove Ratcliffe was preparing a Sun•lay school lesson at his farm home lor his class in the little Normanda church, of which he has been a memthe State alleges Pritchard was slain. The State rested its case Thursday afternoon after witnesses had identified Ratcliffie and David Orr, another farmer who will face trial later, as two men seen b-nding over a soldier’s body on State Rd. 31, near Carmel. Pritchard’s body was found there with the head crushed last October. The State’s theory is that Ratcliffe was jealous of attentions Pritchard paid to Mrs. Orr, wife of David Orr, and conspired with Orr to kill Pritchard. A letter with which Ratcliffe is alleged to have lured the soldier to his death was admitted as evidence. The letter was found among Pritchard’s effects at Ft. Harrison. Accordin to Detective Jackson here, a State's witness, ‘‘Fat,’’ mentioned in the letter, is the nickname for Mrs. David Orr, wife of another farmer, indicted jointly with Ratcliffe, who will face trial later. The letter: Sharpsville, Indiana. 8-11-26 “Dear Friend: 1 saw your mother the other day. She said she was allright and you was at home Sunday. I would of liked to saw you. 1 didn’t see anything of you at Kokomo the other Saturday night. I talked to ''Fat” the other day. She said she saw you a few nights ago. She said you looked in at the window and she knew that it was you. She said you had better be careful how you - e hanging around there. I didn’t Hnow whether it was so or not. 1 will not tel) you all in this letter, but will tell you when I see you. I know lots to tell you, but I don't want to write. “I had a long talk with her yesterday. I wish you could of been at Kokomo that night. Guy, don’t be afraid that I am trying to work you into something, but will tell you for your own good and as a friend, when you come home I want to see you somewhere, I don’t care where, just anyplace you can meet me, or you can come over to my house Just after dark and I will come out and tell the folks that it is someone else, or if you want to go to Kokomo I will meet you at the place you said before we would meet. “I will stay with you and you need not be afraid. She said Jesse Merritt had told you that she said you was afraid to come and she said she told him. “Tour friend “Jake.”

BILL DECEIVING, SAYS STOOPS Claims Garard Measure Will Decrease Road Fund. “The Garard bill, If passed, would j cost the motorists of Indiana more than $3,000,000 a year in taxes and give the State highway commission $1,000,000 for expenditure on roads,” said Todd Stoops, secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club. * “Figures in the office of the Hoosier Motor Club show that the State highway commission received in 1926 the sum of $10,710,305.24 from automobile license fees and from the gasoline tax. Under the Garard bill, which provides for an Increase in the gas tax from 3 cents to 5 cents and a reduction in license fees, the State highway commission could not receive more than $9,600,000. "The Garard bill is deceiving, in a way. It gives the State highway commission 3 cents of the proposed 5-cent gasoline tax. which will ' amount to about $3,000,000 more to the State highway commission from tax on gasoline, hut in reducing the license fees the State highway commission loses a little over $4,000,000, so that the net to the State highway commission will be more than a million dollars less than it formerly received. "Under the Garard bill the real fain from increased taxation of the motorist is to the counties, cities and towns, for they will receive 2 cents of the proposed 5-cent gasoline tax Instead of 1 cent under the present law.” KEEPS WEBSTER’S DESK wL/ United Press " HANOVER, N. H., Jan. 28.—Dartmouth College has regained possession of the desk used by DaniM Webster while a student here. The desk came back to the college under the will of the late Mary R. Cummings of Lisbon. It Is a folding desk, two feet long, one foot wide and six Inches deep, containing several se-c-et drawers and repositories.

Great Britain Also Names France, Italy and Japan. ADMISSION BY LONDON Officials Concede New Treaties Needed. It n Vnlterl Press LONDON, Jan. 28. —Joint defense of Shanghai by the naval and marine forces of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, in the event of anew outbreak of antiforeign excesses, has been suggested to the diplomatic representatives in Pekin in a note from Miles W. Lampson, British minister to China, the Pekin correspondent of the Westminster Gazette cabled today. The minister’s memorandum emphasized the possibility of an immediate renewal of disturbances, the dispatch said. The other ministers will withhold their replies pendipg instructions from their home governments. Meanwhile, the British government, while persisting in the policy of silence which has characterized its movements in Chinese affairs, has admitted advisability of revising its treaties with China, but its immediate efforts, according to government circles, will be directed against averting trouble in China. * MARINES CONCENTRATED Forces on Pacific Coast Massed at San Diego, Cal. ill/ United Press , SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Jan. 28.—Approximately 1,500 United States Marines were stationed in San Diego, today and 100 more are expected to arrive within the next few days. The men were concentrated from the mail, barracks and recruiting stations from over the Pacific coast. Marine headquarters at San Francisco said the concentration had no particular significance. However, it was learned that the transport Chaumont, scheduled to undergo an overhauling at the Mare Island Navy yard, would cut her stay short and sail from the yard Tuesday. The Chaumont had been scheduled to leave for China March 10, but it is now believed she will come to San Diego when she sails next week.

STUDIES NEUTRAL PLAN Washington Officials Inclined to Favor Shanghai a* Zone. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 28.—With 12,000 American lives menaced by tho Chinese civil war and antl-for-eign riots, officials here today were studying reported Chinese suggestions for creating a neutral ?one at Shanghai, the foreign center. Twenty-five American war vessels concentrating on Shanghai have been ordered to protest the 5,000 Americans there. Great Britain Is sending vessels and soldiers to protect her nationals. But the Washington Administration is of the opinion that use of foreign arms, even when absolutely necessary, may further complicate the already difficult problem of future foreign treaty and trade relations in China. Therefore, this Government would welcome an agreement between the contesting Chinese forces to place Shanghai, the chief foreign and trading center, entirely outside the fighting zone. Such action, it is believed, might obviate the necessity of landing foreign troops or evacuating foreigners. WOMAN, 102, DIES Bu UnitPr-ss MT. VERNON. Ind., Jan. 28. Rachel Morrison. 102, a Negro, a former slave, died here Thursday night.

Ex-Head of Miners* Union Is Visitor

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JOHN P. WHITE It seems to be “Hello John” at the United Mine Workers of America convention as John P. White, former international president and at present a special representative of the Union, Is visiting the convention. White lives at Albia, lowa.

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CROSSING STOPS FOR CAR TO BE FOUGHT BY CLUB Impracticability if Measure Is Great, Says Official of Motorist Body. Any legislation requiring motorists to stop before railroad and interurban crossings will be opposed by the Hoosier Motor Club, according to Todd Stoops, secretary-man-ager of the club. “At every session of the Legislature,” says Stoops, "many bills have been presented in the interest of saving human lives and bills requiring motorists to stop before rail crossings have always been among these humanitarian efforts. “The Hoosier Ityotor Club is interested in saving human lives, but stopping at railroad crossing is not included in their list of things required for safety. The motorist will disregard what he honestly believes in worthless. "There should be no attempt by any General Assembly to legislate brains for the motorist. “Passenger automobiles in Indiana carry more people than all the trains and interurbans, yet some would seek to make the masses stop before rails carrying less than half, the passenges carried by automobile traffic. “In States where rail crossing stop laws are in force it is found that they are generally disobeyed. It gives the fee-grabbing justice of the peace an opportunity to set traps for the unwary motorist from out of the State. “Another feature of a stop law before rails is that it places an extra burden on the motorist who has a rail-crossing accident. He must prove that he did stop before the rail crossing or he may not be able to collect damages. "Stopping before rails is a physical impossibility on some of the congested highways leading out of Indianapolis. Along such highways travel would mean running a car’s length at a time, stopping and starting along the entire distance.. Any legislation which is aimed at the motorist should first be given consideration as to its physical possibility of being carried out over every highway in the State.

CHICAGO SHOW TO -NAVE BIG DISPLAY OF MARMON CARS All Types of Autos Will Be on Exhibition —Hotel Spaces Utilized. The public will be given an opportunity Saturday at Chicago to view the full line of Marmon automobiles. Featured by the new little "Marmon Eight,” exhibits will be shown at the Congress and Drake Hotels and the coliseum. Twenty-Five Body Styles Twenty-five body styles will be shown at the three exhibits. Designs and beautiful color schemes distinguish both the open and closed cars. The show proper will consist of nine body styles and one chassis. Four large Marmons will be displayed, a custom-built four-passenger speedster, custom-built seven-pas-senger sedan, and a standard twopassenger coupe. Little Marmon Types of the new little Marmon will be a custom-built two-window sedan, custom-biult town car, standard two-passenger speedster. In addition to these, a little Marmon chassis will be shown. The local sales branch of the Marmon company, under S. V. Harding, is making preparations for the Indianapolis Auto Show Feb. 14. MOITiSSVE; SO DORESIDENTS England, Switzerland Have Odd Phenomena. Bu XPA Service PARIS, Jan. 28.—Two mountains 1 ave been reported as moving—one :n England, the other in Switzerland. The first is Doumen Fawr, the moving mountain of Monmouthshire, and the other is Mt. Arbino, near Belllnzona. The latest shift at Doumen Fawr moved the bed of a river and made thirty families homeless. The city of Bellinzona, the capital of the Swiss canton of Ticino, is reported to be in danger of being wiped off the map by Mt. Arbine. Sometimes the mountain moves as much as three feet in forty-eight hours. Scientists have studied these phenomena. Some say that the moving mountain becomes topheavy because of rains and the trickling of water. The movement is usually slow, but dead ft'.

Flames Cause Heavy Damage to Ninth Floor of Athletic Club; Pumper Fails

W hat the flames left of the WFDM broadcasting studio on the ninth floor of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, The mass of ruins in the center once was a baby grand piano.

Inspection of fire department pumper, said to have failed in its efforts to force water to the ninth floor of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Vermont and Meridian Sts., wh\re fire of unknown origin caused a loss of more than $6,000 at 1 a. m., was made by A. J. Meyers, engineer of the Indiana inspection bureau, today. Three firemen were injured in battling the flames that destroyed the WFBM radio broadcasting studio, damaged equipment in the club golf school, operated by Lee and Dick Nelson, and club ballroom floor. Battalion Chief Fred C. Kennedy was burned about the hands, and Charles Millender and William Bui-

BROWNING TO HIT ‘FLAMING YOUTH’; GLADSTONE ‘HEAVY SUGAR DADDY’?

Plans Testimony About ‘Peaches’ and Five Boy Friends.

Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—A portrait of flaming youth will be painted next week in the Westchester County Supreme Court, scene of the Browning separation trial, where already hangs a picture of frolicsome dotage. The good times Frances Heenan had at 15, her conduct with “boy friends,” and her comments thereon to girl companions will be depicted by counsel for Edward W. Browning, 52-year-old millionaire, who was unable to retain the love of his youthful bride. Browning has learned the names of five young men who “stepped out” with his overripe “Peaches” before her marriage. Efforts have been made to induce the former escorts to testify in behalf of the wealthy realty operator when he seeks to break down the charges of cruelty which “Peaches” says forced her to desert him. Charlotte Mills May Speak In the way of providing an out-of-court sensation, Browning’s counsel announced today that Charlotte Mills of Hall-Mills case fame might be called as a witness in Browning’s behalf. Miss Mills’ account of the trial in Somerville, N. J., when Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and Willie and Henry Stevens were acquitted on charges of slaying The Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, Charlotte’s mother, was syndicated by the same firm which distributed “Peaches” memoirs under the caption, “Why I Left Daddy Browning.” Charlotte, as slender and dark as Mrs. Browning is fair and plump, was reported to have said that she saw “Peaches” conferring with syndicate officers before she left her millionaire husband. Not permitting Browning to remain alone in the spotlight during the trial’s adjournment, Henry Epstein, counsel for the young wife, intimated today that the one more witness to be called by the defense will provide electrifying testimony. The “surprise” witness is an alienist who has studied “Daddy” Browning and who now proposed to discuss his characteristics in a courtroom everavid for sensations. Browning’s counsel intends to read a score of letters which the girl wrote to Pearl Bayer, a close friend, who attended the wedding of "Peaches.” According to Miss Bayer, 'as blantantly pretty as Mrs. Browning herself, the letters are open to misinterpretation. “Frances is a good girl and there is nothing wrong in the letters,” she said, “but some of them sound kind of silly.” The New York Daily Nows, in a copyrighted story today, listed the following “boy friends” as having been named in the letters: Syd Abrahams, 22, an architect; Lester Reis, 25, son of an underwear manufacturer; Ditz Levy and Harvey Kearns, 20, a student at Syracuse university. Then there is Joseph Morris, a young bank clerk, who caused "Peaches” to delete and rewrite her diary before it was introduced in court. At the offices where Morris has been employed the United Press was told today that he was no longer oonnected with the Arm and had left no address.

mdr, members of Company 1, were overcome by smoke and cut by flying glass. All were taken to city hospital for treatment by the clubhouse physician, Dr. W. S. Owen. The fire broke out in the radio station fifteen minutes after the close of the radio program. The building of fireproof construction, held the blaze In the southwest corner of the ninth floor. The heat was so intense that firemen could not get in to break the windows. Milender, Kennedy and Bulmer were injured while crawling on the floor ins'de the room. Guest3 aroused by the club telephone operator, left their rooms hurriedly, many of them in robes and

TALK ABOUT ‘PEACHES’ AS SWEET KID Elocution Teacher, Convent Superior and Aunt Remember. Bu United Press Columbus, Jan. 29. The "Peaches”, Heenan Browning, who led an African honking gander into the public eye and has been accustomed to front page pictures in the newspapers, is a stranger back here in her own home town. Mary June Wynters. who taught | Frances Heenan elocution in Colum-1 bus some years back, shook her head as she examined a courtroom photograph of Mrs. Browning. "She was such a little tot,” she explained, as she wondered over the sometimes lurid, sometimes pathetic testimony of the separation suit of Edward West Browning, the "big gander and egg man," at White Plains, N. Y. Remembered at Convent At St. Mary-of-the-Springs, the beautiful. little convent on the edge I of Columbus, half-ihdden by trees and rolling green lawns, the Mother Superior searched through the files for the record card of Frances Heenan, who played and studied inside the vine-covered building. • "Her deportment card shows a good record for the two years she was with us,” the Sister said. "Os \ course, she was only & child of 6 when she first came,” she added, somewhat hurriedly. "The seernd time she was here, a few years ago, she remained but a little while.” I An aunt, who has a daughter of the age of the modern Cinderella. | remembers Frances only In the pri- j vacy of her comfortable little home. ! The relationship she at first denied when questioned by callers. "We can’t help what our relatives do,*’ she explains. “And such terrible things as they are telling in court,” the aunt said in a deploring tone, but with an unmistakable rising inflection. Then the aunt told of the "Peaches” that the home folks knew Just a few short years ago—a "Peaches” unsullied by the unprintable things testified to by the 16-year-old girl in revealing the unhappiness of her "May and December” marriage. “Bright, Modest" The “Peaches" the aunt talked about in the privacy of her home j was a “sweet little girl,” she said. “She was a bright, vivacious, modest child. Just an innocent little girl of 10 or 12, who wanted to skip rope and play all the day long. “My, what things happen In a few years.” Then the aunt told a little of Mrs. Carolyn Heenan, mother of the most talked of girl In America. To give Frances an education the mother worked as a nurse and sacrificed for her, she said. The girls coming home from school to the red brick apartment building where “Peaches” once played “Jacks” and other games were about the age of Mrs. Browning, but ijpne could remember her.

night clothing. Manager M. V. Robb said that the hardwood flooring was badly damaged, as well, and the windows and frames were a total loss. Officials of the Merchants Light and Heat Company say the radio program will be carried out on schedule from the Severin studio. Robb listed the club loss, at $3,000 and the Merchants Light and Heat Company officials would not estimate the radio loss, Including all equipment and a piano, which Robb estimated at $2,000. The golf equipment used by the Nelson brothers in the indoor school was listed at SI,OOO by Robb. Fire department officials gave the loss at $5,000.

Libel Trial Brands Victorian Premier Man of j Many Women.

Bu United Press LONDON, Jan. 28.—Flung open by a rude commentator on morals and manners, the historical volume of the Victorian era of sofas, whiskers and piety today awaited any corrections which may have to be made in its records with respect to the alleged maritr.l infidelities of William E. Gladstone, one of its two greatest political figures. The question before the King's bench division of the English Court of Law, hut couched in modern, nonlegal verbiage, was this: Would Gladstone, “the grand old man of liberalism,” have been known as a heavy sugar papa if he had lived today? Capt. Peter Wright, author of "Portraits and Criticism,’’ infers that Gladstone would so have been known. Viscount Gladstone, 73-year-old son of the former premier, has interposed a belligerent denial, with some adverse crticism of Wright contained in it. Now, Wright has sued for libel and the case is being tried. According to Wright, Gladstone “pursued and possessed every sort of woman.” And to make his contention stick, Wright has named Lily Langtry, famous English beauty and actress; Laura Bell, a professional hawker of her charms; Olga Nonikoff, a Russian political agent whose beauty was considerable; a French actress known as Mile. Balvatsky and the girl friend of a steeple chase jockey. VILLAGE BANISHES WOMEN WITH 808 Peasants Drive Two Alpinists From Town. Bu United Press MUNICH, Germany, Jan. 2S.— Word has reached here of a miniature peasant uprising against bobbed hair. Two young Viennese women, accompanied by their husbands, arrived in the alpine village of Lungau and, tired after a long tramp, removed their hats. Shocked villagers observed that their heads were bobbed. Turning in an emergency fire alarm, one of the local citizens hastily summoned the village greybeards to a conference. The meeting promptly decided that the two Viennese alpinists must be deported from Lungau. Despite rain and chill darkness, the bobbed haired women were routed out of the inn at night and forced to leave the precincts by a crowd of indignant villagers. The inkeeper who had given shelter to these "disreputable” guests was warned never to disgrace the village again by harboring bobbed haired strangers under his roof. If you are an asthma sufferer, keep away from rabbit hair, house dust, duck feather, horse dander, cat hair and ragweed.

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DEATH SUMMONS J. Oils ADAMS, FAMOUS PAINTER Succumbs After Illness of Several Months—Well Known in Indiana. J. Ottis Adams, 76. famous Indiana artist, died early today at his home, 2022 N. Pennsylvania St., after having been ill for several months. He came here for treatment. Mr. Adams is the third of a group of Hoosier artists to die within the past year. He was a close friend of Otto Stark, who died April 14, and Theodore C. Steele, who died July 24. All three of the men, about the same ago. returned to Indiana to live after studying art abroad. William Forsythe, John Herron Art Institute Instructor, is the sole survivor of the group. Intimate friends described Mr. Adams as a “wonderful and congenial gentleman.” He was born at Amity, Ind., and had a home, here for many years. He spent several winters at his homo at New Smyrna, Fla., and the summers at Leland, Mich., as well as maintainnig a home at Brookville, Ind., for many years. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The widow, formerly Mrs. Winifred Brady of Muncie, and three sons, Edward, Robert and Aldan, survive. Before studying abroad Mr. Adams attended Wabash College, Crawfordsville. He was one of the founders and former president of the Society of Western Artists. In later years his efforts wore devoted principally to landscaping. His paintings took numerous prizes.

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ing her son as he lay seriously wounded at the Indianapolis city hospital the day of the shooting. “And I said to him ‘Gene, here’s mom,’ but he didn’t answer me. His eyes were closed and his breathing very labored. The doctor was putting something in his arm and he was very, very pale,” she testified. “Did you talk to him any more that day, Mrs. Alger?” she was asked. “No. I would not, because he was so low and the doctor said his only chance was to keep him in perfect quiet.” That, beside a few minor questions, was all the defense asked, then the little woman braced. Cross-ex-amination. “We will not cross-examine,” announced State's Attorney John T. Hume, and the mother of Gene Alger walked from the stand, a little bewildered—. Brother Called The brother of the defendant, Gall Alger, a student in Technical High School, was also called. He identified a little pocketknife found in Gene’s pocket as his own. Then Dr. Herbert C. Wagner, with offices in the Medical Arts building, told of seeing the boy when he was turned over to Officer Mosbey, but the doctor’s testimony was of no strong value. It promised to be for a moment, when he said that three blows from the butt of a revolver, which Gene Alger had suffered from the hands of one of his pursuers, might cause concussion of the brain, but a moment later, he admitted he was making only a general statement and had no knowledge of this particular case. Brlzendino Called A. J. Brlzendine, who is employed at 230 N. Illinois St., and who was on the stand several days ago, was recalled, but his testimony must have proved a disappointment to the defense as he told of a conversation with Beyer. “Didn’t Beyer say to you, ‘You were on one end of the killing and I was on the other. When the boy and I were in the closet, the officer shot through the door before the bod did any shooting’ ”? “Well, Beyer told me about the officer shooting through the door before he told me about the boy shooting, but he didn’t say which one of them shot first,” answered Brizendlne. “He didn’t tell you the officer shot first?’ asked Gulley. “Not In those words,” the -witness answered. “Did you ever hear him say who shot first?” the attorney inquired. • I did not.” Brlzendine replied. Character witnesses followed. Invariably they answered “good” or “very good" or “excellent.” The Rev. Leonard C. Trent, pastor of the Woodruff Place Baptist Church, testified. "I always felt that when my boy was with Gene he was in good company.” Somebody in the room applauded, and Judge Blessing, rapping sharply, declared he would fine anybody for contempt of court who repeated the offense. A number of Alger’s former teachers, both men and women, and a number of personal frelnds were also called. ,

Seeks $30,000 for This Year in Addition to SBO,OOO. PAYS PROBE ATTORNEYS Stenographer Gets $1,665 Out of Special Sum. Request of Governor Jackson for an extra $35,000 to add to the contingent fund for the present fiscal year is drawing considerable adverse comment in the House of Representatives. Jackson received SBO,OOO- - the contingent fund in October and at present there is a balance of $37,143.92. The $35,000 request is made so the fund will not run short before : the year closes and, according to the request, is to be U3cd between April 1 and Sept. 30. Investigation of expenditures reveals that sll,oo|was expended from the contingent fund for attorney fees in the recent Marlon County grand Jury investigation into political corruption. The grand Jury failed to return indictments after hearing witnesses for eleven weeks. Attorneys Fred Cause and Ralph Kane received $5,500 each. Many Large Items Other sizeable items since the Oc tober appropriation include the SIO,OOO survey of higher education in Indiana, made by a Kentucky university and others. Dr. William F. King, secretary of the health department, received $3,0000 in amounts of SI,OOO and $2,000 for the "hydrophobia fund.” Reporting the Marion County grand jury cost the State $1,665.30 in feet to N. E. Metcalf for stenographic services. A recent expenditure was $19,045.50 for land at the Northern Insane Hospital. Telephone bills included calls by Jackson and his secretary, Pliny Wolford, to Vincennes, home of Thomas Adams, whose charges of scandal in Indiana political life, based on information from D. C. Stephenson, life-term prisoner at Michigan City Penitentiary and former Klan leader and political dictator, led to the grand jury Investigation, They also include several calls to Warden Walter 11. Daly of the prison, who figured prominently during the scandal investigation. The calls were made when Daly was refusing admittance to State Senators and newspapers. A fee of $750 went to Attorney Horner Elliott for special prosecution of Ralph Lee, who recently escaped from the Franklin, Ind., jail and is now in a Florida hospital. It was Lee’s ninth Indiana escape. Hesitate on Appropriation A $25 salary addition goes monthly to Miss May Nlchol, pardon board employe, according to the vouchers, W. R. Becker, Philadelphia, received $77.46 for coming to testify before the grand jury. These items and hundreds of others cause considerable doubt among many legislators as to the feasibility of giving the Governor an SBO,OOO annual appropriation for the contingent fund. The present budget asks for $160,000 for the two years. The $35,000 for anticipated deficit is additional.

CONSTITUTIONAL meet™ Prepare Resolution Demanding Vote on Question. A constitutional convention for the State of Indiana in May, 1929, will he demanded in a resolution being prepared by Senator John S. Aldridge, Anderson. Numerous organizations, includinr the Farm Bureau Federation and the State Federation of Labor, have demanded such a convention. The resolution calls for the submission of the question to the voters in the general election of 1928, with a majority of the votes cast on the question necessary to insure the convention. If the convention Idea is successful in this election, then a second election for the first Monday in March, will follow’ when delegates to the convention will be elected. The convention would consist of the same number of representatives as the counties now have in the genes** assembly. IMSULL CASE CITATION Heed C'onuniUee Orders Matter Taken Before Senate. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Jan, 28.—The case of Samuel Insull, Chicago public utilities operator, and .four other witnesses who declined to give requested information to the Reed election investigating committee, will be cited to the Senate next week. In executive session today, the committee decided to submit a report of facts to the Senate for action. 70-YEAR-OLD TOBACCO Bu NBA B err fee LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 28. Gen. M. D. Vance, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, must have his little joke. Recently passed a plug of tobacco among a gathering of his friends They all took heathy bites. Pretty soon all of them spit It out. It was a plug that was seventy years old, being given to Vance recently while on a visit to Bristol. Tenn.. by E. M. Woolsey, mayor of that town. i'