Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1927 — Page 2

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LINER OF RESCUE FAME CRIPPLED; SPEED CUT HALF Loss of Oil Supply Disables the President Harding Off Halifax. Bn United Prexx NEW YORK, Feb. s.—The United States liner President Harding, which a year ago figured in one of the most thrilling rescues in the annals of the sea, today was In serious trouble herself. Her oil exhausted by a continuous fight with heavy seas and wind, her speed slowed down to less than half, the liner was moving slowly toward Halifax and will be days overdue reaching here. A leak in a main fuel tank, into which salt water seeped, was given as the cause of her distress. The President Harding left Queenstown Jan. 2S and was due to arrive hero yesterday. Instead of proceeding directly to New York, however, its owners announced, the liner will head for Halifax, replenish yiere its fuel tanks and continue to New York. The liner played the principal role in the rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Ignazio Florio last year. Other trans-Atlantic liners were overdue because of mid-Atlantic storms. Among them were the Conte Biancanmno, the Bremen and the Hindenburf. They will arrive from one to three days late. STATE TEACHERS' MEASURE PASSED Bill Provides Permanent Job After 5 Years’ Service. i The Indiana State Teachers’ Association bill, providing for indefinite tenure of teachers after five years’ service in the same school, passed the Indiana of Representatives Friday and was immediately turned over to the Senate for consideration. The vote was 66 to 22. This measure provides that teachers, after five years’ service, cannot be removed for personal, political or religious reasons. A teacher under fire can demand a hearing of the school board. “We have an annual turnover of 35 per cent of teachers in our schools,’* said Representative Lemuel A. Pittinger, in his advocacy of the measure, “and it is bellieved that this expense to the State can be saved. We seek to build up a corps of teachers in this State that knows citizenship and can more effectively man our schools.” ALIMONY v ‘DIGGERS’ FACE WOE Worse Than 'Sugar Babies,’ Judge Says—Proposes to Deny Money. Bn United Pi-mu WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Members of the genus “sugar baby” have long been regarded us experts at the business of decreasing the bank accounts of men, but as gold diggers they are rank amateurs ccjpipared to the alimony hunting ex-wife, according to Justice James F. Smith of District of Columbia Supreme Court. justice Smith calls a spade a spade and since he weekly views a parade of Washington wives seeking money from Washington husbands, he believes he knows a miner when he sees one. “This divorce business seems to me to be in large measure the business of gold digging,” the justice said from the bench yesterday. “Wives who are able to support themselves, but will not do so and Who come to my court for alimony are going to bo disappointed.” If an ex-wife is actually unable to support heyself, she deserves enough alimony to support her but no more, the justice asserted. CHURCH APPEAL HEARD Speakers Urge Cooperation in Interest (\l Loral Needs. Appeal for a cooperative spirit among local Protestant churches, in the interest of the common needs of the community, was made by Ur. John Moore and Dr. Samuel L. Calvert, secretaries of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, at a dinner at the Y. M. C. A. Friday night. “Wo see the increasing need of more comity arid toleration on the part of our church forces in Protestantism,” Dr. Moore said. "There must be sounded more the note of positive cooperation.” Dr. Calvert declared cooperation was the “keystone of the march of progress and power.” BANKS ADD TO FORCE Two New Employes Named by Real Estate Departments. R. E. Peckman, real estate manager of the Meyer-Kiser Bank, today announced that Edwin R. Roberts has joined bis sales force and will specialize in north side and downtown properties. E. Kirk McKinney, real estate manager of the State Savings and Trust Company, announces the addition to bis sales force of H. B. Randolph. Randolph will handle general real’ estate sales.

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Aimer Semple McPherson in action at ladle Tabernacle.

Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist, will preach the remainder of her sermons in Indianapolis at reduced prices. A reduction in the price of reserved seats from $1 to 50 cents was announced by her local manager.

MR. FIXIT Complaints of Dirty City Inspires Conference,

Write your troubles to Mr. Fixit. The Times representative at the city hall, lie will be (dad to present them lo the proper city to official*, write him in can of The Time* signing full name ami address. Name will not be used if anonymity ia desired. A great many of the complaints received in the past few weeks by Mr. Fixit stated that Indianapolis was a very dirty city. Some complain of the dirty conditions of the street and alleys. Others that the garbage is not collected at regular intervals. Mr. Fixit had a talk with a number of city officials yesterday among whom were Dr. Herman G. Morgan, board of health secretary, and Truly Nolen, garbage and ash collection superintendent, about this matter. They said that to their knowledge Indianapolis is cleaner now than it has been for a number of years. They also said that they were glad to receive complaints that would make it possible for them to make Indianapolis a cleaner city. One of the complaints: Dear Mr. Fixit: I wonder why people pay taxes when they get no help in trying to keep their property ijlean? I'm afraid that “Beautfiul Indianapolis” is a city with a 'beautiful silk dress covering rags. Meaning beautiful streets, dirty alleys. Hoping that I can get some help in cleaning up the alley between N. Warman St. and Hugh St., 400 block south, I beg to remain, MRS. J. W. E. This letter was shown to both Dr. Morgan and Nolen. They promised Mr. Fixit they would investigate the matter and see what could be done. Dear Sir: Please see that cinders or gravel is put in the alley back of Oxford St., between TwentyThird and Twenty-Fifth Sts. I am a taxpayer and have a-garage in the rear of my home, but during thawing weather I cannot get my car through the alley. Please do what you can for me. C. L. R. Mr. Fixit turned this complaint with several more like it over to George Woodward, street commissioner. He told Mr. Fixit that lark of money and equipment was holding up the work of cindering and repairing alleys. He stated that it was out of the question to try to cinder an alley for a block or two at present. He is trying to get the worst boles fixed and will make better improvements as soon as he gets funds for the work. Mr. Fixit is investigating the following complaints: Mr. Fixit: Freight traffic of the traction lines eontinue-s to leave at 5 p. m. Is not the system for routing our street cars poor enough and causes enough delay to our good people without them being hid up by traction ears which have to use the street car tracks? Why do we have to be with an interurban of four or five cars moving through our main thoroughfares at the time when we want to get home? This freight will arrive at destination in plenty of time with a later hour departure. Please try to help make living in Indianapolis a pleasure instead of a pain. ONE WHO CARES. Dear Sir: In the 600 block on S. Emerson Ave., Contractor &/ A. Morrow has been building a number of houses. When he builds the cinder driveway into the garages he builds them across the open ditch without any tile under them. This forces tile water to run across the road to the ditch on the opposite side and makes it impassable for pedestrians. What can be done to relieve this situation? A PEDESTRIAN.

Claud S. Wallin. An attempt is being made to pay the expenses of Aimee’s touring party, announced at SI,OOO a day, he said, fier first day j at Cadle Tabernacle, afternoon and ! evening, realized about $350, it was i announced. j Except for 1,000 choice seats now ; on sale at 50 cents and a collection iat each service, Aimee’s campaign here is “free.” White Filiform Clad in a white uniform similar j lo those usually worn by nurses and | a blue cape which reached to the I hem of her dress, during services j Friday, Ainiee presented a contrast to the chic figure she was when she I arrived in Indianapolis. Upon her (arrival she wore a tan ermine coat said to be worth a small fortune. During the taking up of the collections, Aimee explained that the proceeds over the amount necessary to finance the trip would help pay off an SBO,OOO debt on her Los Angeles Bible School. Aimee announced Friday night that the subject of her sermon tonight would be “The Story of My Life.” Against: “Modernism’* Denouncing modernism at her Frli day night service, she scored the 1 teaching of evolution in the public schools. “Man may become a monj key,” she said in speaking of evoluI tion, “but a monkey can never become a man." She scored modernism In the church. Condemned the turning of church halls into pldoos for dances, 1 card parties, and declared that she knew of “one church that staged boxing bouts every vVednesday night before prayer meeting.” “.What we need in our churches today,” she said, “is less fire in the cook stove and more in the pulpit.” LOCAL MAN ELECTED Lemuel M. Brown of Indianapolis was elected second vice president of the Central Electric Railway Association at the association’s annual convention Friday at Detroit according to word received here today. Brown is also general superintendent of the Interstate Public Service Company. John 11. Crall, general passenger and freight agent of the T. H., I. & lE. Traction Company, was named i a member of the excutive committee.

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INDIANA SENATE DEIS 51 BILLS; TWENTY PASSED Old Age Pension Measure May Be Recalled by Senator Nejdl. Fifty-one bills wore , introduced, twenty being passed during the week i by the Indiana Senate, which Friday 1 adjourned until Monday at 2 p. m. At the closing session the old age 1 pension bill of Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep.), Whiting, failed to mus ter a constitutional majority for passage on third reading. Eleven mem- ! bers of the Senate were absent and the vote stood twenty-two for to seventeen against. It may be called up again by the author. Opponents of the measure termed it “socialistic” and ‘‘unscientific.” Nejdl, Republican iloor leader and chairman pro tern, of the Senate, came to the defense, i>ointcd out that it was optional with counties and no more socialistic than any other method of caring for the infirm. The list of bills included the Sims j measure to prevent ouster of electit e officials by governmental change ' during their term of office; Clancy cill service bill for police and fire departments; Holmes eugenics bill, providing for sterilization of the unfit; Nejdl bill for court appeals from public service comntsision decisions; Harlan bill to permit public service commission to deduct excessie salaries in rate making; Gradford bills to prohibit granting permission to carry concealed weapons, and another to abolish requirements of nutrition teaching in the schools. Others were the Alldredge bill calling for a constitutional convention in 1929, upon ,a referendum vote in 1928; Cooper and Blackburn for a toll bridge across the Ohio at Evansville; two bills for State education board reorganization, one each for junior colleges, real estate reappraisal and appeals from State tax board decisions, changing the name of • East Chicago to Harbor, Ind., and to extend the primary to include all offices. PARENTAL CONTROL LACKING College Suicides Blamed on Terrific Pressure of Social Life. Lack of parental control and the fast pace of modern life is responsible for the growing number of suicides among college students. Bishop Frederick D. Leete, of Indianapolis, believes. Bishop Leete, In Chicago for a Methodist educational roni'erenee, was quoted in a United Press symposium from prominent Methodists attending the conference. “The awful pressure of our social life has much to do with this suicide question,” Bishop Leete said. “It is ; not a moral question at all. The youth of today can't stand it. They get more of life in ten years than I got in twenty-five. The quantity is too much. The strain is too much. There is no'parental control.’* Dr. Daniel D. Marsh, president of Boston Universty, said: “If a person is taught to believe he is only an animal he will act like an animal. If a young person has no faith in the hereafter, and no present belief in God and in the dignity of life, he will have but little incentive to try to lead the Godlike life.” Dr. Henry Hopkins, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, said that the atheistic tendency of modern education is one of the chief causes.

New Name, New Sweetie

\\ lieu imagine Wilson, ex-playmafe of Frank Tinney, the comedian, returned from die European movie lots she had anew sweetie. Nils \nton Asther, German actor, and anew name—Mary Kobcrison.

About the Lobbies

There will he no more fishing through tin*- ice if a bill introduced by Senator John S. Alluredge, Anderson, finds favor. “The Senate is no dumping grounds for petitions engendered by agitation,” Senator C. Oliver'Holmes, Gary, contended when an effort was being made Friday to stem the flow of anti-medical injunction bill petitions by committee reference. He pointed out that when such petitions become epidemic it is not because the signers are so much interested as urged. Senator Delbert V. Blackburn said that die bill had support of doctors of the Stale, but they were urged not to flood the Senate with useless petitions. After introducing Iris eugenics bill, aimed at halting propagation of the unfit. Senator C. Oliver Holmes, Gary, jestingly declared that it was not aimed particularly at Democrat*. After an invitation lu*l been pre-

Legislative Calendar

HOUSE Bills Introduced TT R 2 47—Sauml<*r. ProvUlinqr tint cxpjnw* of cMKiiiforins: to build any sidewalk be iueludcd to asspssment for buildingthe sidewalk. Cities and Towns. H. B. 24*—Murden. Provide.* conditions under which ag rand Juror nny be excused from attending sessions and names renalty fer absence therefrom without excuse. Judiciary A. M. B. 240—Gwm. Provides that townsnip trustees in Martin County shall enforce truancy law and each township, town and city are created truancy districts. Education. H B. *Lro—Huffman. Declare* that fees paid by lituants before any State board, department, or commission for manuscripts and transcripts shall >e the property of the stenographer* making same. Judiciary B H. B. 251——Cirertmwait. Extending time for filing: lirim on storage and moving from ten davs to si.vtv days. Judiciary A H. B. 252—Knight. Authorizing and directing secretary of State to procure and erect white crosses on highways at dangerous points/ Ways and Means. H. B. 252—Hunt Changing primary date to first Saturday in September and removing sheriffs from election boards, authorizing judges to do counting. Elections. H. B. 254—Alilgren. Babcock, Brewster, et al. Adds “civics” to State list of adopted schools books. Education. H. R. 255—Clayeotnbr Provides fur State printing and adds certain embossing lithographing, and engraving to tho present law on_ printing. Judiciary A. H. B. 250—Duncan. Abolishes capital punishment. Code. H. B. 257—De Haven. Empowering constables to appoint deputies in certain townships, which include the greater part of any city of the first class. Criminal Code. H. B. 25ft—De Haven. Providing for the payment of traveling expenses of judges of circuits with two or more counties. County and Townships. H. B. 251 i—Kbaugl . Provides that resident taxpayers become automatically registered voters. Elections. H. B. 200—McKesson. An act to discontinue school boards in towns \o< s than I.nOO and to provide for transfer of school property to township trustees. Countv and Townships. • ‘ H. 1. 201—Wedeking Increases requirements for county superintendent of schools to minimum requirements for teachers. Education. H. B. 2B2—VVedeking. Changing dates

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sen tod *o the Senators to attend a picture entitled “The Capture of Vincennes,” Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van O. man said that he understood that Vincennes had been captured by the Democrats. He was referring to the capture of last fall when the home town of Thomas H. Adams went solidly Democratic, after tlto “fighting editor” had been expelled from official Republicanism by making corruption charges against the officials. The first Senate effort readied the Governor Friday. It was concurrent resolution number one. which inemoralizes Congress to repeal Federal inheritance taxes. Senator Russell It. Harrison would win a prune tart were one offered for tiie legislator introducing the most bills that mystify the layman. Thursday Ids contribution was a bill to abolish further use of the cognovit

tor* .-imi reports of foreign ineur-I •*nee complniie!*. 1 n-uranrr !, H. B. 263—Haw kins. Curvy. Repeals i r i requiring 1 examinations of eiglilli grade I I pupils hv eoiinty superintendent of | I senools. Ediiention. H. U. “tit Smith (Tippoeanoe). Pro- ' | yttling for the care and maintenance of lots in li eorpnrated cemeteries. Judiciary B. j Hoii-e Concurrent Resolution I—Besson. : Penijml- a commission from live to nine to \ mvestiiriie coins mine private and ele?pinsynary corporations and report - irvey with recommendations on same. t orpor- , ations. Bits Withdrawn If B I‘.’S —Weinke. Providing for ! licensing ami n'culatlon ol itimrant vm- ; dors and peddlers of druas and toilet prtp- | orations. Bills Passed 11. B I >P—Pill.msor. Drake. Appropri- I , alius -500.000 for lieorse Rogers Clarke ; im morial Ayt s !>•’ noes (1 11. it I 80-—Plttemrer. Authorizing the: tiovernor In receive certain funds from ee--1 ret.ary of war originally raised for Indiana National Ifnard. Ayes !!•.’. no. sO. 11. I! ISA—Scott Authorizing common, ; councils of cities to regulate, examine and ircinso building, plinnmne. electrical and i other c on'rat io s Ayes SO. noes It. 11, It. I:l—Drntlincrr. Providing for rc- | lorn bond'to Nettie J. Hushis. it. B. 14.5—Pittengcr. Harris. Providing I for "permanent'' teachers and classifying j t< achers as sm-h after five years service in I samp school. Cannot he removed without- | liraring and not for religious, political or personal reasons. Ayes til), no’s 22. j H. 11. 47—Grant. Providing that sig- | ral- along State highways within towns | cannot he in-taded without consent of State highway commission. Ayes. OK; i oes, IS. ! H. B. 57 —Grant. Prohibiting the use of oleoni; rgarinc or other butter substitutes in certain State institutions and placing restrictions around tile sale and advertising of such. 66-20. If. B. 7.6—Wray. Creating the Seventy- ! fourth Judicial Circuit Court of Can-oil County. 56-25. H. R 41—Greenwalt. Giving abstractors liens on land for abstract work. 64-14. t Senate Bill Passed hv House ] S. B. 65—Nejdl. Permitting certain townships to purchase nark projierty. 78-0. 'Signed hy Govrrpor i H. B. 17—Grant Thi“l ami Ahlgren. Crmting two additional bake Comity Sui Court*. iEmergency clause.) Os. ! gunir.ation of Courts. H. B. IS—Ahlgren. Giving incorporated Town tin- same privileges as cities in ; zoning and city planning. Cities and 1 Towns. \ 8 C. R. I —Lock hard. Memorializing Congress to veiieal the Federal estate inheritance tax. Judiciary A. SENATE Bills Introduced S B 10.5—Alldredge. To prevent fishing through the ice. Natural Resources. S. B. 106—Draper. To raise salaries of judges in Madison County. Judiciary A. S. B. 107—Draper. To increase safety of steam boilers. Judiciary A. S. B. 108—Hewitt. Regulating the appointment of Probate Court assistants. Judiciary B. S. B. 100—Payne. Providing that county commissioners shall not spend money until bonds providkig the money are sold. County and Township Business. S. B. 200—Steele. Authorizing appointment of election judges b.v the county I commissioners. Election-. I S. B. 201—Qttillin. Amending primary I law to provide first and second choices for j office and also to allow a person to register j lor the general election by voting in the I primary. Elections. S. B. 202-—Hodges. Holmes. Xeidl. To change the name of the city of East Chicago to "Harbor. ' Cities and Towns* Concurrent Resolution No. 6—Moorhead. To request Congress to appropriate suffi- . ; t timds to carry out the National DcI Act with respect to the Army, stipuI ,g an Army of 1.50.000 privates, lit.- ( iWTicrrs and a National Guard of 250,OvJ. Federal Relations. Indefinitely Postponed S. It. 28—Doogs. To make the American men s tabic oi mortality the minimum basis for life and endowment policies. S. B. 40—Alldredge. To provide for free textbooks in all common schools in Indiana. Such books to be prepared bathe State hoard of education and printed at State institutions. Bills Withdrawn S B. 7—Perkins. To create the offices of assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of the South Bend school board. On Third Reading S B. .24—Nejdl. Allows counties to award old age pensions to those over 65. who have lived in the county fifteen years, at a year. Vote of 22 to 17 not sufficient for a eonstutiohal majority. S. B. 46.—Dickerman. Part-time religious education measure authorizing attendance by public school pupils at private schools for religious instruction not t oexcecd two hours each week during the school year ami providing that attendance records of religious schools shall he open to public instruction. Failed to pass by vote of 21 to 24. S.* B. 36—Pell. To give townships the right to appropriate sums to be paid to nearby cities for fire protection. Failed to pass through want of a constitutronal majority: 20 ayes. 15 noes. S. B. 115—Davis. Requiring city engineers to file with the boards of public works estimates on the maximum cost of four types of street paving named in paving resolutions. Passed, 37 to 0. *Tlic Government departments at Washington employ eighty-seven women as scientists. They are chemists, zoologistia botanists, physicians and pathologiSts.

Alcoliol Also Taken From Filling Sta-* tion —Lone Hold-Up Reported to Police I ~ : ii Police today sought burglars who Friday night carted away a 400-pound safe containing .+ 100 from the Pure Oil filling siction at Forty-Second and College Ave. Thirty-two gallons of # wood alcohol also were hauled away.

BUTLER HONORS HARRY S. NEW ON FOUNDER’S DM Postmaster General Gets Doctor of Laws Degree at Chapel Services. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Postmaster Genoral Harry S. New today as part of the Founder's day program at Butler University. Special chapel services were held j at 10 am., presided over by Dr. j Robert J. Aley, president of Butler. I The principal address was deliv- ! ered by Postmaster General New. j Wear Gowns About 200 university seniors at- j tended the exercises, wearing of- I ficially, for the first time, their I acadeniic caps and gowns. A banquet will be held this evening in the Riley Room of the Clay, pool. Principal speakers will be Mr. New, Meredith Nicholson, and Dr. W. P. Hearing, president of Oakland City College. The Butler Glee Club will furnish music. In his address this morning, New pointed out the fitness of remembering those of the past who have helped us, at the same time, keeping "our eyes turned toward the | broad avenues that lead to the to-1 morrows.” Lauds Founder “Seventy-two years ago this college began its service. It was first \ given thei name of Northwestern J Christian University, which In later { years was changed to Butler Univer- I sity, in honor of its principal i founder.” New paid high tribute to Ovid Butler, founder of the university. Os people living when Butler was founded New declared: “They never i shirked the performance of their du- ( ties to the public.” > “The scramble for local political I spoils had happily not yet arisen,” I he said. j This Founder’s day exercise Is ; probably the last that will be held in ; the present University chapel. Next year the new buildings at Fairvicw • will be ready for occupancy, it is ; hoped. STREET PLANS UP ; NEXfWEDNESDAY . • -—: Specifications of Concrete Construction Heard. The board of works has set Wednesday, Fob. 9, to hear all new j street specifications. ■Walter Krull, representing the cement interests in regard to proposed street specifications, appeared before the board Friday with a brief declaring a 1-2-3 > 2 concrete mixture was I better than the 1-3-6 mixture presented by the asphalt interests last | week. He explained that t lie latter mix- ! ti:re would be satisfactory if mixed j each time, but that tn the majority | of cases a lean mixture would re- ; SUlt. Co-Ed Arrested in Bank; Call Too Early ; Bit United Prefix VERMILION. S. D„ Feb. 5. j Miss Marian Meyers, 19-year-old coI ed at the University of South Da- ! kota, was arrested today when she i was unable to explain her presence i in the First National Bank before it , had opened its doors. Dennis Sullivan, night watchman |at the bank, found the girl hiding near the vaults. He said she was ; concealing an electric drill when he I came upon her, but that the cord j was too short to reach the nearest electric light plug. An open window at the rear of the bank is believed to be the explanation of the girl's presence. She was taken into custody by county authorities and subjected to a severe cross-examination. GERMANY TO PAY U. S. Bn United Prefix WASHINGTON. Feb. s.—The United States and Germany have concluded an arrangement providing for payment to this Government of its 214 per cent share in German reparations payment under the Paris experts’ plan, tho State Department announced today.

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Roy Ralston. 1516 Astor St., attendant, discovered the loss early today upon arrival at work. A window had been shattered to gain access to the door latch. Tools, including numerous drills which police believe may be used in attempts to enter safes, and valued at SIOO, were stolen from the shops of the Standard Nut Margarine Company, 1102 Roosevelt Ave. Bandit Gets sls Entrance was gained by breaking a window. Alton Taller, 840 N. Meridian St., attendant at the Standard Oil filling station at State and English Aves., told police he*was held up at CGS p. in. Friday. A lone bandit took sls. He gave police an accurate description of the. thief. Floyd Leslie, 518 Marion Ave., reported'to police that lie fired two shots at a man he found prowling in his back yard Wednesday Coal lias been stolon on several casions, Leslie said. A neighbor to Leslie told him the next day after the shooting she saw a young man with his arm’bandaged and he said lie had fallen and injured it. Felice sought him. Watch .Stolen Mezzie Dalton, 3204 E. Tratt St,, reported a purse, $2, a wrist watch and a S9O check were stolen from the Hoosier Athletic Club. A. S. Miles, Plainfield, Ind., telephoned that fifty-six chickens, all branded, wore stolen from liis coop. Value, $125. Patrolmen Nagelson and Harrison report they chased a Negro, who iti his flight dropped a sack containing nine headless liens and a rooster at Martindale Ave. and Nineteenth St. HIE 5.000 ID ANNUAL DINNER Associated Employers Will Hear Eastern Speaker. Five thousand invitations have been issued for the annual dinner of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, Feb. IS, at the Claypool. Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton, noted author and former editor of Leslie.^

Weekly, will ap* pear. Dr. Katon is representing the Fourth district of New Jersey in Congress. New officers will be elected. Retiring officers: Waller B. Harding, president; J. M. Antrim, first vice president; Victor C. Kendall, second vice president; J. Edward S t i 1 z, treasurer. Nominees for offices are: A. E.

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Bradshaw. C. A. Sellers, Carl C. Gibbs, Guy A. Waimvrgiht, Edward W. Harris, Henry L. Dithmer, Fred C. Gardner and E. J. O'Reilly. A. J. Alien lias been secretary for twenty-three years. TOWN ZONE BILL SiGNED Governor 0. K.s Resolution on Inheritance Tax Repeal. Governor Ed Jackson signed two bills and one resolution Friday, Tho Ahlgren House bill, giving incorporated towns the same privileges in zoning and city planning as are now enjoyed hy the cities of the .State, is the first law of general interest that lias come out of the legislative hopper. • Tho second bill provides two additional Superior Courts for Lake County. The resolution memorializes Congress to repeal the Federal §state inheritance tax. Representative Oscar Ahlgren, Lake Count}', has the peculiar distinction of fathering one of the twofirst bills si.cfhed by the Governot' and being a co-author of the cither. COUNTY AGENT AGAIN Hi / Times Suer,ini ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. B.—A county agent was to be hired again here, following action of the county council in appropriating $2,000 for the office, twice abolished. WRONG ADDRESS GIVEN In printing a police report that a young woman had taken poison after a quarrel Thursday, tho address of 2303 N. Illinois St. was printed erroneously. — All university students In Russia,' | including women, are required to | take 180 hours instruction in military science during their regular four-year course, and two months’ field practice during the summer.