Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1927 — Page 2

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IMPEACHMENT OF MAYOR IS HINTED ■ AT EVANSVILLE Males Given Ultimatum by Councilmen to Clean Up Town.. ’ Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 10.— Virtual notice of possible impeachment was served today on Mayor Herbert Males by ten of Evansville’s twelve city councilmen who, at a secret meeting Wednesday night, prepared a note to the mayor demanding that all gambling places in the city be closed at once. "Should you not comply with our demand,” continued the edicL "then we * • * will exercise the authority that is vested by law in our body.” This was interpreted here as a threat of impeachment yoceedings against Mayor Males. The mayor was in Indianapolis today lobbying for the Sims bill, which would amend the city manager law to enable city officials to complete their trms in event of a city manager election. The council’s action was variously interpreted. In some quarters it was viewed as sincere; in others as a move to offset growing sentiment for a city manager form of government, and in still others as a blow through Males at Police Chief Harry Anderson, who won enmity of one wing of the local Republican party through his opposition to a criminal court here.

‘THRILL SLAYER’ AGAIN ACCUSED IN PRISON BREAK * One of Six Men Facing Death Sentence Turns on Nathan Leopold. Bn United Press JOLIET, 111., Feb. 10.—The of Nathan Leopold, millionaire thrill slayer of Bobby Franks, today was again brought into the escape of six prisoners from the State penitentiary —an escape that resulted in the murder of Deputy Warden Klein — as the six men began anew attempt for their own lives. The six—Charles Duschowski, Bernardo Roa, Charles Shader, Walter Stalesky, Robert Torrez and Gregorio Rizo—were to have been hanged tomorrow, but yesterday they filed ap-1 peals for anew trial before the Cir- J cuit Court. The execution was continued to March 4. Immediately thereafter Duschowski called authorities and again gave Leopold’s name ih connection with the escape early last summer. He j charged that Leopold had hidden in j cash in his cell at the time of the j escape—a fund to be used expressly ; for the escape. Shader verified the charge in part saying he knew Leopold had a num- j ber of large denomination bills in his cell at the time of his escape. Duschowski said reason Leopold did not escape with the other convicts was that the prisoners did not have a key to Leopold's cell. He promised to make more complete charges against Leopold later. BIRGER TO MAKE FREEDOM MOVE Gangster Held ‘Somewhere in Illinois.’ \ Bu United Press MT. VERNON, 111., Feb. 10.— Charlie Birger, gangster extraordinary, was in' jail "somewhere in southern Illinois” today and scheduled for appearance here on a writ of habeas corpus. • It will be Birger’s first public appearance since he testified last week in Quincy, 111., at the trial of his rivals, the three Shelton brothers, now serving twenty-five-year sentences at Leavenworth penitentiury for mail robbery. Birger is believed to be a prisoner in Saline County jail at Harrisburg, where he was locked up Tuesday following arrest on a warrant issued in Franklin County for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City. rfeporta that he was taken to Wil- j liamson County Jail at Marion were denied by Sheriff Orin Coleman In Marlon. A deputy in Saline County Jail at Harrisburg, where it was announced yesterday that Birger was equipped In his cell with a machine gun and revolver, refused to confirm or deny reports that the gangster had been moved during the flight. TIME FOR PET’ BILLS Speaker Leslie Says He’ll Quit Handi ing Down Measures. ' Speaker Hardy G. Leslie warned Members of the Indiana. House of an ty>resentatlves Wednesday that lie d*cmY have t 0 beßln Boon band ir~ Clde for consideration solely i,, e received a lot of requests,” “to hand down bills and f-lded to quit the practice. If k have any pet measures; K|Mgnt. Ts there Is any possibility rjfifU'jflkjr along without a bill will withdraw it?”

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Two of the best known families of Virginia and Illinois were united when Elizabeth Stevenson of Bloomington, 111., beeame the bride of Ernest L. Ives of Norfolk, Va. The marriage took place in Italy. Ives is in t lie consular service and the couple will live in Constantinople. The bride is the great granddaughter of Jesse W. Fall, who, more than any other man, was responsible* lor Abraham Lincoln’s nomination to Iho presidency. PRICES STABLE ON CITY MARKET Strawberries Jump to $1.30 a Quart, Only Change. While there have been a few exceptions, commodity prices as a whole have' been stable at the city market l’or several days. The only change made today was ki strawberries, whifch fluctuate with almost periodic regularity. They advanced tq $1.30 a quart. Alligator pears were 60 cents each, hothouse rhubarb 25 cents, green beans 50 ceqts and peas 30 cents a pound. Creamery butter sold around 5S cents and fresh country butter 62 cents a pound. Eggs were 40 to 45 cents a dozen. Chicken bakes and stews sold at 45 cents, capons 55 cents, and ducks 50 cents a pound. Chicken fries and geese, which are not plentiful, were 60 and 40 cents a pound, respectively.

’FIRE BOG’SCARE SPURS STATE QUIZ (Continued From Page I) John L. Preptice, pastor. Prentice said neighbors told him they heard an explosion shortly before the blaze was discovered. Firemen, however, could fine no evidence of gasoline or other inflammable material because the fire ate through the entire basement, damaging the Sunday scliooi and dining rooms, flooring of the first floor and necessitates redeeoration of the auditorium. Bus-Truck Crash Cleo Miller, Negro, janitor, said he' left about midnight and noticed no evidence of tire. Pumper Truck 8. going to the church fire collided with un Indianapolis Street Railway bus at TwentyFifth and Bellefontaine St-s., tmjt good driving by Chauffeui Herbert Nicholson of the fire truck and Driver John Smithson. R. it. 15., Box 64 of th? bus. prevented injury to themselves and four firemen and only slight damage to the equipment. Smithson said he did not hear the fire truck. lie was charged whh failure to give right of way. A fire starting from unknown causes practically destroyed the home of J. H. Gill. Negro, 717 Drake St., at 5:30 a. m. Damage was estimated at $1,500. Gill, shortly before, started a fire in the stove and was about to call his family to breakfast when the tiro broke out. The members of his family were forced to take refuge with a neighbor. 1

D’Annunzio Bathes With Gold Fish Bu t nitru J'rrus ROME, Feb. 10. —Oabrielle D’Annunzio, Italian pe\ soldier and aviator, bathes with gold fish in his bath tub and reads rubber books to inspire himself with beautiful thoughts. The poet revealed his strange practice to Miss Luella Pa kin, an English singer, who saw him ill Italy. 11c also confided that he would commit suicide when lie became tilled of life. D’Annunzio has chosen his exit from life. He would load himself into a cannon and ride to eternity on a -charge of gunpowder.

300 MARINES OF 0. S. ARRIVE AT CHiNAPORT CITY British Force Continues on to Shanghai—Fail to Stop at Hongkong. Bu United Press LONDON,F'eb. 10.—Three hundred United States marines arrived at Shanghai today, an Exchange Telegraph displatoh said. Two battalions of Indian troops from Calcutta, scheduled to arrive at Hongkong today, continued on their way toward Shanghai without stopping. Naval wireless reports today said Chinese troops had fired on British steamers in the neighborhood of Ichang, a Yangtze river pprt above Hankow. Two battalions of white British troops left Hongkong for Shanghai yesterday. WAR LORD WILL FIGHT Powerful Marshal Chang to Oppose Cantonese. Bu United Press , PEKIN, Feb. 10.—Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, most powerful of the North China allies, today declared active war against the Cantonese Nationalists from south China. Chang said pe would send his own Manchurian troops into the province of Honan, across the Whangiio River and through Wu's lines to attack the Cantonese. The Manchurian army of Chang probably is the best disciplined and equipped in China. The cabinet of the North China government has decided to ignore Secretary of State Kellogg’s proposal to the Chinese powers that the international settlement in Shanghai be neutralized, a Daily News dispatch said today. Reports from Japan, according to the dispatch, said the Russian government had sent munitions to Canton from Vladivostok, including 35,000 rifles, more than a million rq*uvds of ammunition, sixty machine guns and three other guns. LEAGUE ACTION OPPOSED Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Efforts to bring the League of Nations into the Chinese dispute were coldly re ceived in Washington today. The United States Government will not support the informal proposal, put out allegedly as a feeler in Pekin and London, that Shtnghai be made a free port or zone like Danzig, under the league. A second feeler emanating from Geneva, that the United States call a nine-power Chinese conference under league auspices, aroused i.o enthusiasm here. In line with the Administration's announced policy of conciliation on Chinese nationalist demands, no American protest is anticipated against the nationalist order that no American officials may appear with American plaintiffs in native courts. Britain does not deem the present rrfbment favorable for league intervention. a communication leceived i from Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, informed the secretariat at Geneva today. The document explained Britain's policy in China and insisted that it was In harmony with the nrinciples i set down in the covenant of the league. If an opportunity . later, should arise for league intervention, Chamberlain said, Britain would , work with the league. • The British cabinet has decided to . siiow more firmness in its dealings with the Cantonese government, the United Press learned today from an : authoritative source. Encouraged by recent govern- . mental declarationos in the United States, Ttily and'Japan which were j regarded here as sympathetic toward | Great Brittin, the cabinet has drawn I up a program.

FOUR HURT IN WRECK I Seven Cars of Rocky Mountain Limited Derailed in lowa. Hii I nilrrl Press WALNUT, lowa, Feb. 10.—Four I persona were dangerously injured i and many other severely bruis and when seven cars of the Kocky Muiin- ! tain limited of the Hock Island railj rood were derailed last midnight. ! Those most seriously injured were | L. E. Houck, Chicago; G. M. Danty, Chicago; J. L. Roosc, Kansas City, and George Adams, Omaha. They were taken to hospitals in Council Bluffs. DEFENDS PROHIBITION | .Speaker Declares U. S. Leader of World-Wide Dry Campaign. ft. t World-wide prohibition is dependent upon the United States, declared Dr. Gifford Gordon before the Bible Investigation Club at the Y. M. C. A., Wednesday night. Dr, Gordon is secretary of the temperance and social welfare board of Disciples of Christ. “You might as well reiteal the Ten Commandments as the Volstead act on the grounds that it did not prohibit.” No law of man has ever been 100 per cent efficient, Dr. Gordon said. TO INSTALL OFFICERS Installation ceremonies for officers of the Sojourners' Club will be held at the Chamber of Commerce tonight, following a dinner and musical program. Governor Jackson and Representative L. A. Pittenger, from Delaware County, will speak, Brig. Con. Dwight Aultman presiding.

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Miss Nova Hauck, Kokomo, Senate stenographer, has trouble with her front name. She says that on first reading it they change the “V” to *‘R.”

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HOBOKEN, N. J.—Struck by a railway locomotive and knocked from Jersey City into Hoboken. Richard Vietheer, 74, probably will survive. Vietheer was standing fifteen feet from the Hoboken City line when the Lackawanna locomotive hit him. He was removed to a hospital with both arms and collarbone broken. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Rod and greeh feathers will adorn certain styles of men's hats this spring and chic lace-trimmed . visors of tulle or voile for bridegrooms are to be manufactured, F. S. Donnelly, president of the New Jersey Retail Clot hers Association, told a convention of that body. WHEATON. lll.—Ernest Overcash is held in the county jail on a charge of stealing 4.103 chickens in ihe past three years from which be made a profit of $5,081.50. DENVER, tol. Miss* Mary Hung, who holds a doctor's degree and is very much an Americanized Chinese girl, will decide whether her father. Woo (Juong Hung—late "Mayor of Chinatown”—is to have an Oriental or occidental funeral. OCEAN CITY: X. .T.—The first whale to appear near here tbits year took up a position two miles off shore and entertained boardwalk -crowds for hours. NEW YORK—Edward Preuss. 1?. had been missing since Jan. 29. Whin j found in a furnished room he was reading a life of John L. Sullivan. I Nearby were paper-bound boxing manuals, a punching bag and boxing gloves. Edward said he wanted money and had read of Geqe Tunney's ring profits, resolving to enter the ring himself. PERTH AMBOY , X. J.—President Coolidge was not athletically inclined as a boy and seldom entered into games and pranks, but nevertheless was pofMilar with his school fellows, said Ernest C. Carpenter, who taught the President in tlie little school at Plymouth Notch, Yt, Carpenter, who addressed a Y. M. C'. A. meeting here, said the presidential twang so familiar to radio listeners was noticeable even at the age of 12. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Emory Titman. 37. who weighs 587 pounds, is ill at bis home here after a paralytic stroke. Titman hns been working here as a taxi starter. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.—Moth balls, planted at the base of fruit trees, protect the trees from depredations of deer, local fruit growers have found. Discovery of the new use for moth balls lias saved tens of thousands of dolars, it is estimated.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Fifteen years ago there were fifty livery stables here, now there is none. In consequence, when the city seized a team of horses to satisfy a .597 judgment it was forced to return them to the owner, Jerry Wood, because there was no stable to house them. CHICAGO —On Thanksgiving day Paul Hammer asked his wife for the turkey gizzard. ' Sim replied it was in the gravy. She lias not seen him since, according to her petition for divorce. GRINNELL, la.—Co-eds at Grinne! College were bothered by a “peeper” and with curtains raised gave a negligee •show in order to hold the “peeper” until police arrived. The man arrested was Laverne Belie. CHICAGO —The World War was supposed to be the last but since then there have been twenty-0110 major wars and America is the only nation asking arbitration to end war. Col. Elroy F. Smith told a patriotic organization. MEXICO CITY— Municipal President Timoteo Hernandez of the town of Xala, State of Nayarit, and four of his companions were killed with pistols in city hnll by a group of disappointed politicians who escaped, pursued by troops. GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala —The first borings for oil in Guatemala have been made by the I’rrpelual PeiiHileuni Company of Boston, whose vice president, W. Carnahan, has gone to New Orleans so bu> additional supplies. LIMA.‘Peru —The personnel of the United States army’s Pan-American flight is here and Expects to arrive at La Pat., Bolivia, Saturday.

POLICE ARREST 48 MOTORISTS IN TRAFFIC OR! Victims Include Four Women—Ten Are Charged With Speeding. Police continued their drive on traffic law violates?* on Wednesday night. Forty-four men and four women were caught in the net spread for drivers who fail to observe "Stop and Go” signals and preferential street signs, police say. Nineteen were fined $3 with costs suspended in municipal courts this morning. Those who pleaded guilty were fined $3. with costs suspended. Those who pleaded not guilty were fined $6, with costs suspended. Ten alleged speeders arrested Wednesday night are: Joe Hill, 24. Negro, 2704 Boulevard PI.; K. W. Stanley, 20. of Plainfield, Ind.; Robert Feurerbach. 18, of 2356 College Ave.; James Dulian, 30, Negro. 915 E. Twenty-Fourth St.; C. A. Dutton. 1831 Middle Dr., Woodruff PI.; O. E. Roberts, 23. of 2538 College Ave.: Randal Swisshela, 16, of 634 N. Gladstone Ave.: M. R. Roache, 22, of 340 N. Tacoma Ave.; Oren Postalwaite, 16, of R. R. G. Box 333, and Robert Fair, 21, of Greenfield, Ind. R. Douglass Nutt, 31, of 2629 E. Riverside Dr., was charged with driving while intoxicated. BOARD NAMES NEW STREET OFFICIAL

Street Specifications Held Up Until Friday. Charles Riddle. 1109 Broadway, was appointed assistant street commissioner Wednesday by the board of works. He tills the vacancy caused by the death of Walter Monroe. The board postiioned the adoption of new street specifications until Friday. The recommendations of City Engineer Chester C. Oberleas, on the specifications, was favorably accepted by both the asphalt and concrete interests. Oberleas recommended that a onepart cement, two and a half parts sand and two parts gravel mixture be used for the six-inch base of asphalt streets. He recommended that a mixture be used for concrete streets. 'A one and one halfinch asphalt top and a one and one-’nalf-lneh binder was also recommended. “Oberleas’ recommendations probably will bo adopted,’ Roy C. Shaneberger, president, said. REAL ESTATE MEN REVISE LISTINGS Judges Named for Coming Home Poster Contest. The multiple listing bureau of the Real Estate Board has been revised, according to a report today by E. K. McKinney, realtor, at the Chamber of Commerce. McKinney is chairman of the listing committee. Announcement was made that H. L. Richardt has been appointed chairman of a poster committee, in charge of a contest in connection with the Home Complete show. Cornelius Holloway and George W. Klein are other members. Judges: Walter D. Hickman, dramatic editor of the Indianapolis Times; Charles H. Kuhn, cartoonist of The News: Frank Chance, advertising man; Leonard Shick, display artist of The Star; Wilbur B. Shook, architect; Randolph LaSalle Coats, artist; Everett F. Agnew, manager of W. K. Stewart Company, and Miss Anna llasselman, curator John Herron Art Institute. INDOOR GOLF MEET Advertising Club luncheon at the Spink-Arms today was addressed by Fred Millis. An indoor golf contest under the direction of J. M. Niehaus, golf committee chairman, featured the meeting following the .luncheon.

Have you “White Elephants” in your home? "White elephants" in the form of a used baby buggy, bed, outgrown clothing—a . sewing machine, davenport, piano, etc. These articles arc "sleeping dollars.’ Chase your "white elephants’’ out of the- corner of the attic, garage, basement and sell them for cash, as many others are doing. Airs. Olin Richartlson, 1135 Jefferson Ave., had a baby buggy that her little boy had outgrown. A little 2-line For Sale Ad In The Times brought 11 replies—of course the baby 'buggy was sold. Thus at least 10 Times readers want to buy a babybuggy. Will you sell them yours? In The Times not only will your want ad reach buyers with cash, but. also cost you less. Want ads cost less in The Times. • Call MAin 3500 You Can Charge Your Ad.

Eats 432 Inches of ‘Hot Dogs*

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Anthony Lungo of Bloomfield, X. J., likes his hot dogs hot and long. By reason of his devouring a 432inch length or 84 of them, in two hours and fifteen minutes, “Tony” claims the roll-less frankfurtereating laurels of the western hemisphere. Here lie is approaching the end of liis masticating journey.

CASINO PROTEST BEARING TONIGHT Park Board Helpless to Buy Gardens, Milnor Says. That the park board is helpless in the plea to purchase the Casino Gardens, to frustrate possession by a newly formed Negro club, was the declaration of President John E. Milnor today. Delegations from the Riverside and Haughville Civic Clubs will make a formal request far this action before the board tonight. Mi!nor announced the city council had been striving to annex this territory. If this plan could be carried out, he said, the board could condemn the property and take it over as a park. This would cost the city between $125,000 and $150,000. The- Negroes hold a ninety-day option on An agreement of purchase is said to have been drawn whereby the present owners take $40,000 in stock in the new venture, while the buyers must raise $40,000 cash. Milnor announced that the board had information that the $40,000 had bsen obtained. Bandit Loot Paid Honeymoon Bills Bu United T’rrs* BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Feb. 10. —Mrs. Harold Smith, pretty and just 21 years old, paid the expenses of her wedding and honeymoon with money obtained in oil station holdups here and at Kalamazoo, she has confessed, according to police. Mrs. Smith, arrested Sunday on information obtained from Eddie Hessmer, 23-year-old gang leader, who confessed to participating In more than thirty-five robberies In southern Michigan during the past year. The girl admitted participating in four of the robberies, in two of which she carried the guns, according to police. Hessmer and Lyle Mcllvain, both of Battle Creek, pleaded guilty to robbery while armed charges and were sentenced to from seven and one-half to fifteen years, the judge recommending the minimum. A third member is to be sentenced tomorrow. OPPOSE TAX MEASURE Utilities Representatives Hit Bill at Committee Meeting. - Opposition to the Trowbridge-Mur-den tax bill was voiced at a Judiciary B Committee meeting of the Indiana House of Representatives Wednesday by utilities representatives. The bill plans to use the tax valua tion as the basis for rate making in the case of public utilities. According to its proponents the measure would materially reduce present utility rates. The bill is expected to be considered in the House soon. EDISON 80 TOMORROW Henry Font Will Be Among Birthday Dinner Guests. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 10. —'Thomas A. Edison tomorrow will be 80 years old. He will observe the event with his usual birthday party and tins year he has asked his young friend, Henry Ford, to come over and help him enjoy the day. Ford was expected at Tom Edison’s house early tomorrow morning ! and lie’s going to stay all night I At noon Edison will have a birthI day dinner with the Edison Pioneers, , a group of men associated with him Hn the early days of his work. I

New York Police Close Three Shows —Theaters Plan Defiance. CAST MEMBERS HELD Producers Also Defendants in Cases.

What Those Plays Are All About Bu t nited I’nun NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The three plays under lire from the district attorney’s office in New York and a brief summary of their subject matter are: "Sex”—By “Jane Mast,” supposed nom de ifiume of Mae West, the play’s star. It deals with dissolute women who "follow the fleet.” The language in the production is particularly robust. "The Captive”—By Edouard Bourdet, French playwright, translated by Arthur Hornblow Jr. A woman who is captured emotionally by another woman. The victim inteffectuarlly attempts to escape the attraction by marriage. Critics have called the play a delicate treatment of a 'heme hitherto untouched on the American stage. “The Virgin Man”—By William Francis Dugan and H. F. Malthy. An undergraduate in New .York who resists the unmistakable attentions of three women. The humor is exceedingly broad.

Bu United Press - NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The campaign against sex plays on the New York stage readied a climax today with arrest of forty-one persons and police action to close the three plays with which they were connected. Officers in plain clothes visited the three theaters last night and arrested actors, producers and managers. The plays were "Sex,” "The Captive” and “The Virgin Man.” Those arrested were arraigned in Night Court and released, in bail of SSOO to SI,OOO for hearings Monday and Tuesday. The producers of all three plays said they would continue the productions, under protection of injunctions, if necessary. Police were equally firm in insisting the plays must remain cjpsed until the courts have decided whether the plays violated public decency. A test was expected this afternoon when “The Virgin Man,” only one of the three with a Thursday matinee schedule, tries to open its doors. The theaters raided Included the Empire, where “The Captive” has been playing to crowded houses. The historic Empire is intimately associated with the best traditions of the modern tneater and the names of Frohman, Barrymore and Drew "Sex” was playing at Daly’s and "The Virgin Man” at the Princess. Those arrested Included Helen Menken and Basil Rathbone, principals, and Gilbert Miller, producer of "The CaptivA” Also arrested were Mae West, leading woman and supposed author of “Sex,” and Dorothy Hall, leading woman of “The Virgin Man.”

LINCOLN TO BE HONORED Legislature to Observe I Birthday Saturday. Paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln and honoring the name of his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Indianapolis will observe the birthday of the Civil War President Saturday. Practically all Federal, count*, city and State offices will be qlosed. Lincoln programs will be 'given in schools Friday and at the Lincoln ! grade school, Palmer'St. and Barth | Ave., named in honor of the mar- | tyred President, a special memorial j program will be given, according to Miss Emma Donnan, principal. At a joint session of the State Legislature in the House of Representatives, Friday morning, Prof, j Thomas F. Moran of Purdue University, will speak on Lincoln. Tho Eleventh Infantry band from Ft. Benjamin Harrison will give a musical program and State officials will attend the session. On Sunday churches will observe Lincoln’s birthday, most of the mirfisters talking on his life. Luncheon clubs have devoted a part of their programs this week to addresses on Lincoln. Governor Jackson’s proclamation on Lincoln and his mother was distributed to school children by E. U. Graff, 1 superintendent. NICARAGUA CASUALTIES Conservative Dead, Bid; Liberal, 200, in Chinandega Rattle. Hu I Hit< tl Pri sts MANAGUA. Nicaragua, Feb. 10. —The battle of Chinandega cost the conservatives 130 dead and ISO wounded and the rebels suffered 200 killed and 300 wounded. Gen. Jose Bolarcano Diaz, commander-in-ehlef "of the' conservative forces, reported today. Ilis troops captured three machine guns, IS# lilies and large supplies of ammunition, he said. Telegraphic and railroad communications toftvc been restored. Report# persisted without confirmation toil®®’ that an attempt was being made 1o foment revolution in Honduras and establish a government there hostile to the Diaz regime in Nicaragua. * WIIKN YOU i KKI. A (Ol.l) COMING ON Take Kazntive BItOMO (jli ININK Tablets to work off the Cold and to for tif.v tlie system against ail attack of Grip or Influenza. A Safe and Proven Kemcd.v. The box bears the signature of K. W. Grove. 30r.—Advertisement.

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VAST EXPANSION PROVIDED IN NEW UNIVERSITY BILL Measure Sets 3-Cent' Extra Tax Rate for Period of Ten Years. Providing for a ten-yeafl* program of expansion for Indiana colleges and universities, and involving the expenditure of at least $15,000,000, a bill was introduced into the Indiana House of Representatives Wednesday afternoon. The bill is sponsored hjy Representatives Lemuel A. Pittenger, Republican floor leuder, Delaware; John W. Chamberlain (Rep.). Terre Haute; J. Glen Harris (Rep.), Gary, and Lloyd D. Claycombe (FLep.), Indianapolis. . A flat tax rate of 3 cents annually for ten years is proposed as the method of raising the funds. The measure is a copy of Governor Jack'smi's expressed wishes for a tax levy for the colleges, except that lie placed the maximum levy at 2 cents. A levy of one cent now raises more than one-half million dollars for i ie State higher education fund. Wi' a increased valuations certain dr ing the next ten years and a 3-cent levy the annual total may approach $2,000,000. During the ten-year period . between ten and twelve millions of dollars will be spent for Purdue and Indiana Universities. The remaining five million will go to the State normal schools particularly. According to the bill, the money must be spent for physical improvements. longworFfoe OF COOLIDGE ON CRUISERS ISSUE

Speaker of House Favors Stronger Navy Despite President’s Views. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—Again taking issue with President Coolidge, Speaker of the House Nicholas Long worth, Ohio, has expressed hope that the House would reverse itself and vote funds for construction of thfee authorized cruisers. Longworth told the Women’s Pa triotic Conference here last night he believed the Navy was inadequate to meet the country's needs. He said he hoped the House would accept the Senate amendment to the naval appropriation bill providing' $1,200,000 for starting work on the three vessels. "I am entirely confident,” Longworth said, “that the great majority of the American "people demand a thoroughly adequate navy. Are we maintaining our Army and Navy today at a standard of efficiency adequate to the protection of our interests? As to the Army I would say ‘yes.’ With regard to the Navy, however, I would say emphatically ‘no!’ . "Today I grieve to say we are in a position with distinct inferiority to Great Britain, and not so very far away from Japan. To me this lapse from our former high estate is nothing short of lamentable, if not humiliating, and it will become increasingly aggravated if the bill as passed by the House should become . a law.” Longworth did not mention Presi-J dent Coolidge. but he said the arguj ment that construction of the three ships might interfere with a future! arms conference refuted itself. “I have not the slightest doubt," 1. 0 \ Raid, "that it was our commanding;! strength and generous willingness ini make a sacrifice that brought aboutj the successful result of the Washing-1 ton conference. Today we are in no* such of superiority, but! rather in a position of inferiority. Wei must take up the question of a newl conference on the limitation ofl armaments, not as a nation willing j to make great sacrifices in the cause] of peace, but as a nation begging] others to .make sacrifices themselves.” REPUBLICANS ORGANIZE Incorporation of the national committee of the Order of Elephants, the new Republican organization to replace the old Marion Club, was completed this morning, according to County Clerk George O. Hutselt, and treasurer of the new group. There is no capital stock. .George V. Coffin, Harry p. Tutewiler and Schuyler A. Haas comprise the directors until 1929. Tho new club was organized for the promotion and extension of the Republican party. Departments In the following will lie maintained: Public speaking, ]n,J litical science, government, agendo* and political organization. Papers o® incorporation provide Tor functioning for 100 years. National headquarteiTl will bo maintained here.

Hubby’s Defense Effective, Charge Police, answering a call to 417 Vi Virginia Ave., at 1:05 a. in. today, found Mrs. Mabel Martin with a broken collar bono and two fractured ribs. She told officers she was injured when her husband grabbed and held" her in un effort to protect himself from blows she attempted to iund during an argument.