Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1927 — Page 1

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FUND READY 10 PREVENT RAMSES $200,000 Will Be Posted to Bar Electric Rate Increases for 5 Years. SLASH SAVES $528,000 Domestic Users and Industries Benefit by Cut. With the new electric rate schedule ordered into effect by the public service commission, officials of the Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company said the $200,000 trust agreement, guaranting against any increase in rates and posting the $200,000 to be forfeited if any increase is attempted, would be completed Monday, The trust agreement was promised the Chamber of Commerce committee which arranged the compromise under which the public service commission approved the merger of the Merchants Heat hnd Light Company and Indianapolis Light and Heat Company into the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Terms Fixed “The terms of the trust agreement have been agreed upon,” declared Robert D. McCord, attorney for the chamber committee today. McCord assumed the trust agreement details from Frederick E. Matron. attorney, who handled the committee’s objections and ultimate compromise on the merger terms. “We wish to include the new rates in the text of the agreement and obtain the signature of Dick Miller as chamber president, before the money is deposited,” McCord continued. “This will be accomplished the first of the week.” The new schedule, effective March 1, reduces rates to domestic consumers $328,000 yearly, the increased discount from 5 per cent to 10 per cent for Industrial power consumers bringing another reduction of about $200,000. - New Kates The new rates are: 6.5 cents a kilowatt hour for firs) fifty kilowatt hours. 6 cents a kilowatt hour for next fifty. ' * 5 cents a kilowatt hour for next hundred. 4 cents for each kilowatt hour used over 200. Old rates were: 6.75 cents a kilowatt hour for first fifty. 6.3 cents a kilowatt hour for next IDO. $A cents for each kilowatt hour used over 200.

ffll, 14, USES RUSE BNMOTHER Missing Since Wednesday —Second Absence. Latonia Waggaman, 14, of 1743 S. Meridian St., high school student, who baffled police several months ago when she disappeared from home, was missing again today. Her parents told police Friday that she had been missing since Wednesday. Thinking she would return in a few days, they failed to report her absence. The other time she returned after visiting relatives. Friday afternoon Mrs. Waggaman received a telephone summons to appear at the office of Miss Leona Foppiano, missing persons bureau head, at police headquarters. She responded and was told that Miss Foppiano had not sent for her. Miss Foppiano suggested that she return home, because in all probability her daughter had arranged the ruse to get her from/the house so she could obtain clothing. Returning home Mrs. Waggaman found her daughter had been there and taken her own clothing and part of her mother’s apparel.

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COLLEGE AVE. BRIDGE FALL CREEK SLIDE IS TEMPORARILY STOPPED ‘‘London bridge is falling down, falling down.” Hundreds of Indianapolis persons journeyed to College Ave. and Fall Creek today to.see an Indianapolis version of this old nursery rhyme. For the College Ave. bridge is falling down.

City Engineers Chester C. Oberleas inspecting the structure today said it had sunk a total of two feet, nine inches into the creek bed.^ It has sunk two inches he said, since he inspected the structure late Friday after police closed it to traffic when a length-wise crack appeared in the bridge sidewalk. He said he believed the bridge now had at least temporarily stopped sinking. , Five Foot Gap The crack widened during the night and morning and at noon was from five to six feet wide at its widest point and extended nearly half the length of the structure. In the meantime city officials debated moves to rush erection of a new bridge. Councilmen O. Ray Albertson, Walter R. Dorsett and Otis E. Bartholomew Inspected the ruins of the old structure and said a special session of council might be called next week to consider a special bond Issue to erect anew bridge. Cost About $270,000 Roy C. Shaneberger, board of works president, estimated anew bridge would cost about $270,000. He recommended erection of anew bridge at city cabinet meeting this morning and Mayor Duvall said he favored anew structure. The board of works Friday, before learning of the latest collapse of the old structure, voted to advertise for plans and bids for anew bridge and for repairing the old one. They are to be received March 25. , The bridge was closed to traffic late Friday when police inspected the middle arch and support and reported it had sunk four feet during the afternoon. Pieces of the balustrade are consistently cracking, showing some disturbing vibration. Looking lengthways along the structure on the east side, the railing and underwork of the ' bridge seems to have dropped about four feet and is leaning out about the same distance. The middle arch of the structure, south of the sunken support, is In the worst condition. A gap about three feet in width zig-zags down the sidewall. The crack extends into the south side of the north arch. A special council committee composed of Boynton J. Moore, Walter R. Dorsett and Otis E. Bartholomew, recommended that the bridge, built twenty-two years ago, be closed after inspecting it about two weeks ago. Oberleas declared that the bridge was in no danger of falling and refused to close it. The council passed a resolution at its last meeting that it go on favoring the closing of the bridge immediately. Street cars have been rerouted to take care of the passengers who used the College Ave. line north of the bridge, J. P. Tretton, superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, said. One line, combining the ThirtyFourth St. and Central Ave. cars and some of the College Ave. cars, will be run by way of Central and Fairfield Aves. to Forty-Sixth St. and College Ave. and to Broad Ripple. Another line between downtown and College Ave. is to operate over the loop at Twenty-Seventh St. and College Ave. Bus service over the Thirtieth St. bridge will connect wish the north College Ave. line at Fairfield Ave. Union Traction cars will use the Central Ave. bridge while the bridge is out of commission Tretton said. “There is little to be done with the bridge now,” Oberleas said. “All we can do is close It and make all the speed possible toward erecting a new one.” “The bridge needed repairs,” was his only answer when asked what caused sinking of the structure.

BANK BANDIT GIVEN SENTENCE Carl Jennings, 22, of 130 S. Bancroft St., was sentenced one to fourteen years at Indiana Reformatory ifnd fined SI,OO today in connection with the $5,500 robbery of Paul Tolan, 18, of 830 Bates St., Livestock Bank messenger, Jan. 25. Jennings also received a two to fourteen-year sentence, to be served concurrently, for alleged robbery of a drug store Jan. 15. Two companions received suspended sentences. Criminal Judge James A. Collins ordered Jennings disfranchised five years. An accomplice of Jennings In the robbery of Tolan on a Stockyards street car has been Indicted, but not arrested. Tolan, who was held by police, was released by the court after no evidence was presented against the messenger. LIONS” GIVEN COOLIDGE Bu United Press WASHINGTON', March 12. President Coolidge could start a three-ring circus or a second-hand store if ho kept all the gifts which are sent to him from all over the world. Lions, raccoons, kangaroos, peacocks, rabbits, canary birds, bears, dogs and cats have bene sent to him in the last year. The latest gifts are two young lion cubs, on their way from Johannesburg, South Africa.

POLICEMEN FOR RADIO New Commission Prepares to Carry Out. Its Duties. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 12.—A full-fledged police force, with delicate instruments instead of clubs, will be at the call of the new radio commission to keep broadcasters on their assigned wave lengths. The force Is ready to function at the Bureau of Standards under the direction of M. S. Strock, radio division. He has a room full of apparatus devised in the last few months. He can pick up any station at any time and tell whether It is off its wave band. Because of the great number of stations now this policing will be most important—for the commission,, the broadcaster and the listener. ARRESTS AT WARSAW Charges Filed in Connection With Man’s Disappearance. Bu Tima Special „ WARSAW, Ind., March 12. —Murder conspiracy charges were filed today against Robert Sharp and Bill Clark, Elkhart; Harry Bullers of Warsaw and Sherman Jones of Oswego in connection with the disappearance of Frank Tucker, 57, local cigar maker, who disappeared here Jan. 28. The charges followed an alleged oonfession, police say, by Bullers and Jones that a year ago the four plotted to kill Tucker for his money. The men, however, deny any connection with Tucker’s disappearance. CROARKIN’S FATE NEAR Murder Case Will Go to Jury Next Week—State Asks Death. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 12.—The question, ‘‘Was Harold Croakin sane when he killed 6-year-old Walter Schmidt last December?” will be answered next week by twelve jurymen who have heard State and defense doctors discuss every quirk of the 26-year-old slayer’s mind. Only one witness remained to be heard before Prosecutor Robert E. Crowe and defense counsel were to start their closing arguments. Crowe contends that he has a “hanging case” In undeniable proof that Croarkin committee the crime, and testimony of outstanding alienists that he killer is sane. Defense Counsel Michael Ahearn, Thomas Nash and P. H. O’Donnell say they have proven beyond a doubt that Croarkin is mentally defective. WORKER SAVED PRINCE a Dye Factor Employe Keeps Wales Away From Caustic Fumes. Bu United Press LONDON, March 12.—A workman in a dye plant saved the Prince of Wales from being maimed when he visited the plant Thursday, It was learned today. The Prince reached toward a vat of boiling dye, asking whether his hand would be dyed blue If he put it In the vat. Just before the royal fingers got within range, of invisible vapor rising from the vat the workman cried, “Don’t do that—your hand would drop off.” The Prince hastily withdraw his hand before it reached the caustic fumes. WALES BEGINS TRAINING Prince Stops Smoking as He Prepares for Steeplechase. Bu United rrcss LONDON, March 12.—The Prince of Wales stopped smoking today as* part of his training for two steeplechase races similar to the one in which he almost suffered a broken neck near Reading three year* ago this month. Even more strenuous calisthenics than usual form part of Wales’ strict training program for the Bicester and Warden hill point-to-point races at Hillesbon March 16 in competition for the Manners cup. Wales thrice has ridden for the cup without success, but this year he has a new steeplechaser, Cark Courtier, with which he hopes to win. DASH FOR LIBERTY FAILS One Federal Prisoner Caught—Another Believed Wounded. Bu United Press GALLIPOLIS, Ohio., March 12. One of two prisoners who' escaped from the Federal prison at Chlllichote was recaptured here today and the other was believed wounded when flved on by police. Milton Patterson, 28, serving a term for postofflee robbery in Atlanta, Ga., was caught when he ran from a clothing store. Roy Bradley, also sentenced from Georgia, escaped, although believed wounded. He made away with money from the cash drawer of the clothing store. $250,000 FIRE LOSS Bu United Press . BLOOMSBURG, Pa., March 12. Byron' Lynn, manager of the Victoria Theater Here, and three firemen were overcome by smoke while battling a fire which today swept three buildings here with a loss estimated at more than $250,000.

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VETOES 33 BILLS VIA ‘POCKET’ Buspr’s Pay Increase and Commissioners’ Raise Killed by Governor. SIGNS UTILITY MEASURE Ignores Gilliom’s Opinion on Its Illegality.. Governor Ed Jackson, who accepted Attorney General Arthur L. Gillioms opinion that impeachment of Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie was unconstitutional, totday overrode the opinion of Gilliom that a public utility measure was unconstitutional. Despite Gilliom’s opinion that the Nejdl bill allowing appeals to Circuit or Superior Courts in counties affected by public service commission orders is unconstitutional the Governor today signed the bill. After announcing he would sign no more bills, the Governor left Friday for Des Moines, lowa, where he will deliveer an address. This action cleaned up the bills left In his hands by the Legislature. He let thirty-three bills die by failure to approve or veto. He signed and vetoed a number of others. Buser Loses Boost Among those bills which Jackson let die by pocket veto was that providing the sl,ooo-a-year salary increase for William C. Buser, city controller and brotber-ln-law of Mayor John L. Duvall. He also pocket vetoed the bill providing boards to examine and regulate barbers and beauty parlors and the bill granting $1,200 a year Increases to county commissioners of Marion and Lake Counties. Majority County Commissioners Cassius L. Hog Is and Charles O. Sutton at present are fighting George V. Coffin, Republican county boss. Jackson took a slap at Speaker Harry G. Leslie of the House by allowing the only bill Leslie Introduced, regarding a cemetery In Tippencanoe County, to die. Late Friday the Governor signed the bitterly fought Huffman medical bill. Evansville Mother Kills Her Babe , Self Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 12— When Jesse Grissom, 27, railroad clerk, returned to his home from work Friday night he found his 15 months’ old baby lying on a bed strangled to death and his wife Louise, 24, on the floor, a suicide. A note addressed to tbe husband read: ‘‘My Dearest Jesse: I am not mentally able to go on with life. Please forgive and forget.” Mrs. Grissom had taken poison after strangling the child with a handkerchief. The husband said she had been mentally unbalanced since the baby was born. Better to Whip Than Be Whipped “Put and take,” when a beating is concerned, makes the putting preferred to the taking, in the opinion of Mrs. Jane Smock who called police to 230 N. Liberty St., to save her from an alleged beating at the hands of her husband, Edward Smock. Two years ago, police say, Mrs. Smock, then Mrs. Taylor, broke into police records when she was charged with horsewhipping her husband in th® street. She seconded this action by beating up “the other woman” after the trial, police add. Police suggested to Mrs. Smock that she swear out an assault and battery warrant for her husband. Youth*s Suicide in Dunes Unexplained Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 12.—N0 explanation was offered today by friends for the suicide, near Gary, Ind., Friday of Mclntire Harsha, 19, freshman student at the University of Chicago. Harsha’s body was found in the dunes district near Gary with a bullet wound inr the head. The youth—known as the best wrestler In the freshman class at the university—left his home Thursday evening, remarking to his mother: “I will not be home until dinner time." He was not seen again until his body was found. He left no notes explaining his suicide and members of his family said he had no ; love affairs and had not seemed moody. NICARAGUA BATTLE NEAR Decisive Engagement Looms American Marines on Watch. Bu United Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 12. —A decisive battle in the Nicaraguan revolution was believed imminent today as government troops at Boaca, under General Viquezen, prepared to attack Liberal forces at Muy Muy. Four thousand United States marines are here ready to prevent damage to American property or injury to Americans.

TWINS BORN TO SISTERS

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Two sets of twins were born in Buffalo on Friday, March 4—but the extraordinary thing about it is that the mothers, Mrs. William T. Wright and Mrs. Emile L. Frigon, are sisters. Mrs. Wright and her daughters, Jean and Janet, are shown in the upper photo, Mrs. Frigon with son Earl and daughter Ervena below.

LEADER OF ‘OLD BOYS’ AT THORNTOWN, DEAD Biennial Reunions of Brown Academy Grads May Never Be Held Again, Hoosier Town Fears.

Bu Times Sncciat THORNTOWN, Ind., March 12. The "old boys” may no longer gather lie re. Their leader, Homer C. Cones, merchant and philanthropist, of Denver, Colo., died there Friday night. A quarter of a century ago, Cones felt the pangs of lonesomenesa

WEAKNESS OF POLITICAL PLAN FATALJSTERLINE City Manager Leader Tells Why Best Men Rebel Against Bossism. Weaknesses of th© present political form of government in Indianapolis “are numerous and faU.l,” declared J. W. Esterlln, president of Esterline-Angus Company, at th© branch library, Nowland and Commerce Aves., before the Women Would Know Citizenship class Friday night. Esterline, an advocate of the city manager form for Indianapolis, explained the difference between the political and business-like form. System Outgrown "The present Federal form was designed in the days wheh houses were log cabins and city problems were confined to operating a school and keeping the cows and chickens off the street,” said Esterline. .“In the Federal system you have a double-headed government which gets nowhere when the mayor and council are opposed, and which Is capable of infinite harm when they are not working in harmony. "Any person who studies the development of municipal charters in America is led to the inevitable conclusion that we started with a system which Is fundamentally wrong. We have patched and repaired in trying to make the system work. The Federal system is all brakes and no motive power. It gets nowhere. No Motive Power "You never will get the best type of men to serve under the political system. They are unwilling to' compromise themselves in order to secure nomination and election. "If elected they have no assurance of accomplishment under a double-headed government. The results they might accomplish are only temporary, because there is no possibility of continuity under the old system. "The men who are elected to office now must be men who are willing to attend to a mass of details. Capable men don’t work that way. “No sane man cares to subject himself to the petty, annoying political pressure which is brought to bear on officeholders,” he said. BOMB BANDITS ESCAPE Wre kors of Pay Roll Cars Leave no Trail in SIOO,OOO Robbery. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 12. Covering their tracks with the same careful precision with which they dynamited two pay cars of the Brink s express late yesterday and obtained more than SIOO,OOO, nine bandits were still at large today. Blit one clew has been uncovered by detectives today. A woman living near Bentleyville, Pa., said she saw a car answering the description of the stolen car ysed by the bandits roar past her home shortly after the explosion. Two of five guards injured in the wrecking of the pay cars, Howard Blackstock, 38, and Edward Herbster, 27, were still in a serious condition today, although it is believed they will recover.

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despite his fortune, his family, his friends. He wanted to visit again the scenes of his youth and swap yarns with pals who attended the old Brown academy her® with him. So he wrote a few letters, got a few replies and in July 1902, twenty of the old-time grads appeared here. Some were gray with shoulders stooped, others were still as mlschievious as of old. The next reunion two years later found twice as many In attendance. And the “old boys’ ” order was born with Cones as the guiding spirit. The biennial reunions became more popular. Increasing numbers came to this quiet little Indiana town to confess proudly pranks they had so stoutly denied in their teens; to cast stones reverently in the “ol’ swimming hole” in which they had ducked each other. From the original twenty, the "old boys’ ” membership swelled to hundreds. Thorntown took notloe. Lavish decorations were put up by the merchants and everything was done to aid the aged and graying grads to forget the cares of manhood for a day. The last meeting was held in 1924. Last summer Cones was ill and npws that he would not attend dampened the spirit of his friends. Tho reunion was called off. And now that Cones Is dead —and nthny others of the old grads, too, have passed away, Mrs. Mae Norris, acting secretary, doubts if the "old boys” will ever gather here again.

RESIGNATION IS NOT WITHDRAWN District Attorney Firm as Solons Seek Pay Boost. Despite reports to the contrary. United States District Attorney Al- - S. Ward, today reaffirmed his statement that he had not Withdrawn his resignation. “I am merely considering Senator Arthur R. Robinson’s request that I remain,” Ward declared. Senator James E. 'Watson also solicited Ward to stay in his present position, until the two Indiana solons at Washington could renew their efforts to obtain a pay Increase for him. Although Attorney General John G. Sargent has favored Ward’s salary being increased from $5,500 a year, Budget Director Herbert M. Lord has not considered the matter favorably, it Is said. Boston Police Place Ban on Nine Books ! Bu United Press BOSTON, March 12.—Like New I York's stage, Boston's literature is ' now in process of purification. PoI lice admitted today that they had | suppressed nine books. Including I several “best sellers.” These books cither "contain obscene, Indecent or impure language,” or “manifestly tend to corrupt the morals of youth,” the authorities contend. The book merchants in Boston can no longer legally sell: "The Marriage Bed,” “The Hard-boiled Virgin,” “The Plastic Age,” "The Rebel Bird,” ‘The Butcher Shop,” "The Anlecnt Hunger,” “Antennae," "As It Was,” “The Beadle.”Among prominent publishers affected bj( the ruling are Harper Brothers, the Century Company, Bonl & Liveright, George H. Doran & Cos., and Harcourt, Brace A Cos. Possibility of a tesTcase was seen doday in the report of police that some of the New York publisher® affected had assigned special investigators to Boston to determine what steps could be done to override the ban. /

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SIGNATURE OF SIMS HILL B 1 GOVERNOR IS BOOM TO CITY MANAGER MOVEMENT Business Government Leaders Spurred to Activity by Signing of ‘Mayor Savior’ Measure READY TO FIGHT POLITICIANS Prominent Citizens to Continue Drive for Election on Proposed Form Slapped in the face by Governor Ed Jackson when he signed the Sims “mayor savior” bill late Friday, Indianapolis leaders in the city manager movement today declared in effect: We are going ahead. A Governor who listens to the dictates of Political Boss George V. Coffin over the desires of thousands of earnest citizens desiring decent city government can do noth* ing more than delay the day when business like administration is inaugurated.

While the city manager advocates put up a fight to prevent the bill, which perm.t'9 mayors to serve out their terms even though citizens have voted in the city manager form and hundreds of telegrams were sent to the Governor urging him not to sign the bill, local city manager leaders have expected the Governor to be guided by the desires of the George V. Coffin politicians. George’s Hide, Too Coffin; Republican county chairman, controls the local Republican machine through Mayor John L. Duval], and the Sims bill was introduced to prolong this control when it became evident that tho city manager movement was gaining formidable strength. Another city vitally interested in the Governor’s alignment with Republican politicians was Evansville, where the city manager movement has gained even stronger headway than in Indianapolis, Mayor Herbert Males of Evansville, who with Mayor Duvall was shown in tho Reed senatorial inquiry to have been quite close with Ilirmant W. Evans, Imperial wizard of the Ku-Klux Klan, desperately fought for passage of the bill to save his political skin. Evansville Determined, Too Evansville manager movement leaders were as determined to push the battle as those In Indianapolis. The committee advocating the change In government as relief from the bossism of politicians will meet soon to decide whether the election will be held this spring or later. Here are expresselons from Indianapolis manager movement leaders: J. W. ESTERLINH President Es-terline-Angus Company—The Governor’s signing of the “mayor protection” bill was no more than could be expected. Personally, I believe the plans for the city manager form of government will go on Just tho same. JOE RAND BECKETT, Attorney —The hill denies tho people the right to get representative government when they want It, but wo are going ahead with our plans. E. O. SNETHEN, Attorney—This law will have no effect on our plans for a referendum vote exqppt that It may delay things a little. My desire is to see an election now ttT during the spring of 1929. JOHN F. WHITE, Chairman of Civil Service Commission —The hardships this bill imposes can easily bo overcome. The worst it can do is delay matters somewhat. It can’t change the outcome. FRANKLIN VONNEC.UT, President Vonnegut Hardware Company —Of course, the committee of 1,000 and especially the executive committee will go right ahead, but the new law probably will delay the election. ' HENLEY T. HOTTEL, Real Estate Department Manager, Washington Bank and Trust Company— A law is a law, and I am afraid this one is going to seriously hamper the work of those who are trying to bring the city manager form of government to Indianapolis. HENRY 1.. DITHMER, Polar Ire and Fuel Company president: "Signing of the ‘mayor protection bill’ by Governor Jackson will not dampen our efforts In the least. It will only delay the establishment of the city manager form in Indianapolis. The business like type of government is hound to rome, because it has been a success every place H has been tried. "It was very unfortunate that the Sims hill passed both houses nnd was signed by Jackson. Rut it became a law, despite our plea before the Senate, House and Governor Jackson. They all turned down the 22,000 citizens who have

Here’s Smooth Politics

Bu Times Special ALEXANDRIA, Ind., March 12.—Mayor John H. Heritage played smooth politics in appointing the new police and fire chiefs to fill vacancies caused by death. There were two candidates for each office and all four were friends of the mayor. Here's how he solved the difficulty: He appointed Dolph Fuller as police chief and Herman Swift fire chief for seventeen months.

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signed the petition for the new form. "We already have more than enough signers on the petition for an election,” Dithmer said. CARL TAYLOR, Taylor Carpet Company President —Thia waa a most unfortunate move on the part of Governor Jnckson. It removed one more chance for controlling a bad situation by the better element of citizens, I was very much surprised that Jackson took such a stand since there has been such strong sentiment for a good city manager form of government In Indianapolis. The better clement of residents nnd business leaders have made a big effort for the businesslike form. However, I think the ultimate effect will be only a delay. FRANK E. GATES, ex-president Indianapolis Real Estate Board — Personally, 1 nni deeply disappointed that the Legislature passed the bill affecting the ortginnl and Just law providing for city management. It l.< also a great disappointment to leurn that the Governor signed thii bill, thus iiermitting It to become' a law. For Minority Only Ccrtulnly such a measure only gratifies tho selfish interest of u small minority, the professional .politician. No mayors fulfillng their duties according to the oath of office were In any danger under the former law. In such case the pet* pie would not vote for a change. If an administration were not rendering an honest and efficient aervtee, I cannot understand what reasonable excuse those who changed the law enn give for compelling any municipality to continue under inefficient and wasteful tlon. Thousands of people not only in Indianapolis, but In every city of Importance throughout the State, deeply regret what has happened. In my Judgment It will result tn a Rtrong determination on the part of everyone Interested in good local government to fight hnrrler to secure the kind of government to which they are entitled. The polltlcians have only postponed the day of reckoning and will go down under a much greater public criticism. I do not know at this time Just what action our local committee will take, but I assume we will go forward with greater effort nnd determination than before and ©'•en though we may be delayed two years we will In the end meet wile overwhelming success. No Word From Lone Flier on Long Hop Bu United Prrss BOLOMA, West Africa. March 12. —Somewhere between Africa and South America a lone airplane battled with tho elements today in an attempt to accomplish anew feat tn aviation —a non-stop flight from Africa to the Brazilian mainland. No word had been received her® this morning of Sarmento Belren, Portuguese aviator, who left at 5:30 p. m., yesterday for Port Natl, Brazil. If Ills fuel holds out and he does not meet with accident, Belres should reach his objective early this afternoon. Belres experienced difficulty for several days In getting his plane to rise with its full load of fuel, but he finally succeeded yesterday in getting it Into the air. * Col. Francesco de PJnedo, Italian, attempting a similar flight a fortnight ago, ran out of fuel and was forced to land near the Island of Fernnndo Noronha, oft the Brazilian coast.

For the remaining seventeen months of the administration, he named Homer Manring pollc® chief and George Rosenberger fire ch|ef. Fuller will fill the vacancy created by tho death of O. P. Hughes killed by Georg® Sc limn use several weeks ago. Swift succeeds John 11. Merker, who was fatally Injured in an auto crash.