Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1927 — Page 2

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SENATORS REFUSE TRIAL PAT FROM GOVERNORS FUND Legislators Bow to Wishes of State G. 0. P. and Administration. Four Senators today refused to accept pay for serving in the Dearth impeachment proceedings from the Governor’s contingent fund on the ground that there is a legal appropriation for this expense and that to accept would acknowledge the contention of Governor Jackson that the entire impeachment has been illegal. They were: Senators Thomas A. Branaman, Joseph M. Cravens, Chester A. Perkins and Curtis H. Shake. Vouchers Drawn Vouchers which the State auditor agreed to honor were drawn by Miss Fern Ale, Senate secretary for four days service and mileage. She will complete the payroll for the other days served today. The four Senators declare that acceptance of the money from the Governor’s fund, an offer made to avoid a special session, Is humiliating and illegal. Action Illegal, View They take the position that if the appropriation measure for this expense is illegal, then it is also illegal to take money from the Governor who has no right to pay State funds for illegal purposes. But the Governor and the influences eager to avoid an extra sesion draw no such distinction and the other Senators accepted their checks. Bowing to the will of’ the State administration and the Republican State organization, thirty-one Republican and six Democratic Senators did an "about face” and voted to accept Dearth impeachment trial pay from the Governor’s contingent fund at a stormy session in the Senate Chamber late Wednesday. The action jwas despite the fact that many of the Senators had privately promised “never to recede” from their position that acceptance of money from the contingent fund would be an admission that the Dearth proceedings are unconstitutional. The result left Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman high and dry on his announcement that ‘‘the Senate must be recognized as a distinct branch of the State government.” In the face of a deserting army Van Orman stood his ground, maintained his previous contention and came from the battle as the outstanding figure of an inter-party fight. Despite the defection of six from their ranks, nine Democrats voted in protest and declared that “it would be beneath the dignity of the Senate” to accept the money. Pressure exerted by the Republican organization was seen several days ago, despite the verbal assurance by some Senators that “we mean to go through and show Jackson and Attorney General Gllliom where to get off.” O’Rourke Weakens The first to weaken visibly was Senator Edward ' O'Rourke, Ft. Wayne, who started the hostilities when State Auditor Lewis S. Bowman refused to honor his pay voucher. Senator James J. Nejdl, Whiting, who cast the lone vote against the Senate taking action in the Dearth impeachment proceeding and acknowledged spokesman of the Republican organization, told the Senate that on advice of counsel the Auditor of State would refuse to pay the trial expenses and salaries from the approprkition bill, although the measure contained a provision for such payment. Nejdl Makes Motion Nejdl moved that the Senate accept the offer of the Governor to pay the expenses from his contingent fund, after Senator Luther Draper read a letter from the Governor. The Governor promised in his letter to see that the Indiana Vegetable Growers get their SI,OOO from his fund, and that’ the appropriation for the Butlerville Feeble Minded Colony would be spent as intended. Amendments covering these two appropriations had been left out of the enrolled bill. House Speaker Harry G. Leslie assumed all responsibility for the “oversight.” Senators Howard Cann, Frankfort, and Robert Moorhead, Indianapolis, Republicans, joined the Democrats and said that a special session was the only solution. Moorhead suggested that the auditor be mandated to pay the money. Cann and Moorhead led the fight against the public utilities throughout the recent session. Both introduced bills which would have abolished the present personnel of the commission. Representative Delph L. McKesson of Plymouth, chairman of the House board of managers, told the .Senate that lie did not care whether he ever was paid for his services or where the money came from. "I have considered this a public trust and a public duty,” he said. The eleven Senators voting against the “whitewash” were: Democrats—Thomas H. Branaman, Brownstown; Joseph M. Cravens, Madison; James P. Davis, Kokomo; William V. Deogs, Cannelton; Andrew Durham, Greencastle; Thurman A. Gottschalk, Berne; Anderson Ketch um, Greensburg; Chester A. Perkins, South Bend; Curtis H. Shake, Vincennes. Republicans Howard A. Cann, Frankfort: Robert H. Moorhead, Indianapolis. Absent —William P. Evans, Indianapolis; Perry Johnson, Atlanta. SPINACH AND WIVES CHICAGO—Peter Trapani liked his spinach prepared in a certain manner, identical to the method used by Mrs. Margaret Trapani and Mrs. Sadie Trapani in cooking the greens. In discussing the subject, the women found they were married to t,he same man. MrS. Margaret, who 4as No. 2, was grantee! an annul-

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BANKERS’ NAMES CROP OUT DURING LIBEL CASE TRIAL Sapiro Mentions Baruch, Meyer and Others as Reed Questions. Bn United Press DETROIT, March SI. —Bernard Baruch, Eugene S. Meyer and other New Aork bankers were drawn into the testimony in the Ford-Sapiro million-dollar libel suit today. Resuming their two-man war of attrition, each trying to bend the other to his will, Aaron Sapiro, plaintiff, and James A. Reed, United States Senator and Ford’s chief trial counsel, turned their fire upon each other for another day when court opened. Sapiro told how in 1923 he collected $3,300 as fees and retainer from the Northwest Wheat Growers’ Association for obtaining for them a loan of $5,000,000 from the War Finance Corporation. To get this loan, he said, he had gone to New York and consulted Baruch, Meyer and ‘ many others.” Judge Fred M. Raymond, presiding in the -case, today took formal cognizance in open court of rumors that he had ordered an investigation to determine whether Henry Ford, injured Sunday, was attempting to avoid appearance as a witness. He said that not .inly was he without cause to order investigation of such a rumor, but he had no reason for any investigation of any sort into the accident whatsoever at this time. 4

War and Rumors of War All Over Earth

By William Phillip Simms Scripl>s-lloward Foreign Editor ashington, March 31. V\/ Wars and rumors of wars to(lay hold the stage from.one end of the earth to the other. Two-thirds of the total population of the globe are at tiiis moment engaged in killing one another or are on the verge of it. The other third are on, the side lines, fearful of what may happen. Such is the appalling situation nine years after the great war that was to end war. The whole world is tossing in a fever of unrest the outcome of which no man can tell, but whose possibilities are unthinkably dreadful. China’s 400,000,000 people are involved in a civil struggle which might at any moment, turn into an international conflict involving the United States, Britain, Japan, France, Russian and other countries, a situation chuck full of menace not only for China, but for the great powers themselves. India's 300,000,000 are chafing at the bit, angry at Britain, their overlord, and demanding to be free. I lie undercurrent of revolt is daily i unning stronger. Russia, with her 150.000,000 inhabitants, faces the world sullen and defiant, chip on shoulder. She hates the world and —not without cause thinks the world hates her, while Poland, Roumania, Britain, Italy and Japan-in-Asia are Russian danger spots, any one of which might, at any time, break into open conflict. Italy and Jugoslavia are glaring at each other across the Adriatic, and Italy, with 40,000,000 people behind her, stands ready to invade Albania, scene of an incipient revolt and the bone of contention between the two countries. France, with a population of approximately equal to Italy's, sides with Jugoslavia and looks with alarm upon Italy’s program of expansion in North Africa, the Balkans and the Near East./ An ominous rumble of dissatisfaction is heard throughout the Balkans and Hungary and Austria — dismembered and so reduced in size the 'allies after the war that' they will never rest content until the situation is remedied —are only waiting until Europe starts something so they can kick in. Roumania has no idea of what will happen when her very ill King Ferdinand dies and the several warring factions begin their fight for power. A revolution would surprise no one who has been watching the goings on. Kernel Pasha, dictator of Turkey, and Dictator Mussolini, of Italy are watching one another like hawks as Mussolini lays his plans for anew Roman empire and the Pashu dares him to touch Turkey.

10 CONSULATES IN CHINA TO BE CLOSED BY U. S. Action at Changsha and Chungkiang When Americans Leave. BULLETIN Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 31. American Minister Mac Murray, acting with the British and Japanese ministers at I’ekin, is drawing up joint demands on the Nationalist government relating to the Nanking riots and the anti-foreign situation in Nationalist territory, the United Press learned today. Secretary Kellogg declined to confirm tlisi information or comment upon it. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. March 31.—Nationalist troops at. Nanking pulled down the flag of the abandoned American consulate and tore it to pieces, ijt was reported today. United States Minister Mac Murray ordered the American consuls at Changsha and Chungkiang to close the consulates and remove archives to Hankow as soon as Americans are evacuated from those cities. Evacuation of Americans throughout the upper Yangtze Valley was reported progressing satisfactorily. Refugees Under Fire The Cantonese continued firing at destroyers and refugee ships on the Yangtze River between Nanking ant\ Shanghai, it was reported. All Americans in the vicinity of Swatow, except six Catholics, have been concentrated at the city for evacuation. The United States Is formulating its policy and tactics on the assumption that the Chinese trouble is not a flash in the pan, but will continue for a long time. Discreetly, it is trying to get practically all of the American missionaries over there back to this country. Offers Payment Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek, com-mander-in-chief of the Nationalist armies, today promised to indemnify foreigners or foreign nations for destruction of life and property at Nanking provided it were proved that Nationalist soldiers were responsible for last week's incident at the Yangtze River port. Chiang received foreign newspaper men in conference and made his to them. He protested against arrangements for defense of Shanghai and said that defense preparations and presence of soldiers and warships “was causing growing tenseness between Chinese and foreigners.” The status of Shanghai, said the marshal, must be changed. REAL SWEETIE CHICAGO—UzeII Brown has a real sweetie now. Marriage License No. 1,147,280 was issued to Uzell and Sweetie Ervin, at the county building here.

bers of the Sejm, despite their parliamentary immunity, on the charge of participating in a plot to overthrow the present regime by revolution and establish an independent White Russia along communist lines. Greece, free for the moment from a series of coups d'etat, is trying to discipline her army to prevent fur-

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Above is the first picture of Commander Francesco De Pinedo, the Italian aviator who flew from Italy to South America, and then to the United States. De Pinedo (right) is shown as he was greeted by Mayor Arthur O’Keefe of New Orleans, just after I>e Pinedo landed after his flight from Havana, Cuba.

COLUMN OF AIR A FOOT SQUARE WORTH $153.80 That’s Board of Work’s Estimate in Assessing Ayres Company for Vacating Pearl St. Ether.

A column of air a foot square from eighteen feet above the street to the sky in Indianapolis is worth $153.80. This is according to the charge made by the works beard against L. S. Ayres & Cos., in the preliminary assessment roll for the vacation of the air above Pearl St. The total assessment against the company was $62,510. The company was authorized to build a runway eighteen feet above the street, connecting its Washington St. store with the old Chamber of Commerce Bid. It will be so constructed that additional stores may be added. The board's action gives the company title To the air, but the street will be open and still city property. The hearing on the roll will be held April 6, when the company may object to the assessment, which the board <*an change if it sees fit. A hearing on the final roll will be held two weeks later, at which time the company has opportunity to prove that it has been erroneously assessed. The Lincoln Hotel Company has been assessed $7,510 for an alley and public comfort station which it incorporated in the present building fifteen years ago. The company, seek-

ther interference with the administration on the part of the militarists. Egypt and Britain are not on good terms: France is still at war With the Syrians of the Druse mountains; Holland is having her troubles in the East Indies; Portugal is emerging from another revolution; Spain is still uneasy; Lithuania lias just shot

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The horse is not passe in Indiana #et. County Commissioners at Greensburg have placed signs reserving the hitch racks on the court house square for horses and buggies only. A Columbus hardware merchant unable to sell fifty-five whips, advertised he would give them away to the first fifty-five farmers who drove to his store in buggies. His supply was exhausted an hour after the store opened. “Take my name off that petition asking for a city manager,” an Evansville man asked Walter Foley in charge. “My landlady’s husband says if my name isn’t removed she’ll kick me out. And it’s the best boarding house I’ve ever had.” Things look black for motorists at Anderson. All traffic signs have been painted that color. Robbers took their time at Seymour. They robbed the Marshall Jewelry Company of §4OO in watches. Spring cleaning saved Clarence Helmrich of Evansville from a Jail term. Found guilty of intoxication, Judge H. B. McCoy suspended sentence when Helmrich told him lie was a paper hanger and had ( a number of jobs awaiting him. .’Seymour firemen had visions of T <’• * *i * * *•

ing to quiet title, appeared before the board and asked the alley be condemned and close. Preliminary roll hearing will be April 6. Trains Transport Flood Refugees Bui niteti Pres 1 * LITTLE ROCK., Ark., March 31. ; Snow Lake. Ark., and the farming community for miles around was under sevaral feet of water today. The entire area is evacuated. Waters from the roaring Mississippi were turned loose on the community lust night when portion of the river Levee gave way and wot-kmen attempting to prevent the flood fled before the rush of water. Families were carried out of the Snow Lake community on passenger and freight trains. Many refugee were living in tents and box cars today. Engineers estimate the water will not recede for thirty days. WOMEN LIVE LONGER ALBANY, N. Y.—Women outlive men in the state's insane asylums, the department of mental hygiene announced. More men than women patients are admitted each year.

four communists for attempting to organize an uprising; and so all along the line. In Mexico not one, but several, revolutions are brewing as the enemies of President Calles rjeek his overthrow. The United States lias abrogated its anti-smuggling treaty with that country facilitating the arming of these anti-Calles bands.

called to the home of Mrs. Jane Bradbury. A hen house had eaught fire. The chickens escaped, however. A number of men had close shaves at Scottsburg when a hot water tank exploded in the barber shop of Lawrence Tash. The room was wrecked. Curfew will not ring any more at Walton, it will blow. A whistle lias been installed to take place of the bell. When a cork on a bottle of moonshine his deputies were opening popped. Sheriff Ernest Kroll of La Porte reached for his gun, fearing someone was trying to shoot him. There were not enough fires at Montpelier to make his job exciting, so Fire Chief Ireland has resigned to sell autos. De Pauw University registrar asked seniors what line of work they will follow when they graduate. Os 315 students, 152 said teaching; seventy said business; while fifteen each said they would take up journalism and the ministry. Petersburg sees one advantage of the flood. Fishermen arc making record catches of catfish left stranded in backwater. Lapel business men are distributing cards to visiting motorists reading: “'Welcome stranger. Park your car as long as you please ip Lapel.

DOME EXPOSITION CURTAIN GOES UP SATURDAY NIGHT Plans Complete as Chateau Model Is Christened by Mrs. Garland. Representatives of Indianapolis lirma that joined in building the French chateau centerpiece for the Home Complete Exposition opening Saturday at C p. m. were guests at a dinner given in their honor by the Indianapolis Home Builders Association. in the Manufacturers' Bldg., State fairground, Wednesday night. .Smashes Bottle Mrs. Isabel M. Garland, of the Chamber of Commerce convention bureau, “broke the bottle” over the front porch to christen the model home. Representatives of more than fifty firms which helped build the house described their products following the dinner. Everett J. Holloway, home builders’ association president, spoke enthusiastically of the show and M. M. Miller, chairman of the chateau committee, acted as toastmaster. Record Exhibits J. Frank Cantwell, exposition, declared this year’s show will eclipse these of previous years in the variety of Its exhibits. L. H. Lewis, president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, which is sponsoring the show, expressed gratitude for cooperation in staging the exposition. The opening night has been designated as “Realtors Night.” J. S. Cruse is chairman of the committee on arrangements for the special night. Thomas F. Carson is reception committee chairman. Auto Thief Wins Race With Owner Alfred La Rocque, 2019 S. Pennsylvania St., was paying bis respects to Miss Charlotte Cunningham at the latter’s home, 1741 Arrow Ave , Wednesday night when he heard the motor of his car, parked at the curb, start. Reaching the door. La Rocque saw the car being driven away. He and the young woman’s brother gave pursuit in another machine, but lost track of the thief after a dizzy chase about the east side. The car, a Buick coach, bearing Indiana license 500-144, had not been found by police today. ALLEGED BANDIT SHOT Bn United Press PHILADELPHIA. March 31.—An alleged bandit was shot in both legs when he refused orders of a policeman to halt as he attempted to escape after a store hold-up here last night. The suspect, Frank Pazley of Brooklyn, was shot by Patrolman Tollott, who arrested him. Pazley was found to have jewelry valued at $3,000 in his pockets.

A lifting of the arms embargo is expected and that would mean a general revolution throughout the country, complete cnaos and possibly American intervention. That, in turn, would mean war between us and Mexico. In Nicaragua the revolution continues despite the United States intervention in favor of the Conservative President Diaz against the Liberal President Sacasa and no one can foresee the end. In Panama there is a bitter antiAmerican sentiment, so bitter in fact that the co-operation treaty between that country and ours could not be ratified by its national assembly. A revolution is on in Brazil and a state of siege exists in several of its most important states. Chile, which lias changed regimes a number of times since the World AVar, with various presidents resigning and hurriedly leaving for Europe, continues in a state of unrest. The Philippines are demanding immediate independence. And so the story goes. These are not all the world’s troubles. They are just the high spots. At least a billion of the earth’s billion and a half people are either spilling one another’s blood or making demands or announcing programs of action, which promise bloodshed. China, of course, now ht\s the center of the stage, and justly so, even were no American or other foreign lives in peril. Anew China is in the making and the process is likely to be long, painful and dangerous to world peace. China is the richest undeveloped nation in the world. Were they to decide to do so, the great powers might easily dismember her and divide the spoils. But this is unlikely to happen for the simple, yet tragi-comic, reason that the great powers are afraid of themselves. They know that were they to tear China to pieces and try to divide her among themselves the bloodiest war the world has ever seen would likely result as they fought each other for the lion’s share. * The present menace in China arises out of tl* possibility of the Chinese rabble getting out of hand and committing acts of terror against foreigners leading to an international puntive expedition similar to that against the Boxers in 1900. AVere the foreign powers to undertake such a thing at this time the situation would be serious indeed. For the Chinese have learned much in tlie past twenty-seven yasrs and an ocean of blood would flow. Most of it would be Chinese, of course, for the land teems with people—cannon fodder for the effective, belching guns of the western world. But all the blood would not be

Jury Decides Man Should Not Die foil Killing Another in Whose Arms He Found His Wife A Criminal Court jury today decided a man should not die for killing another man in whose arms he found his wife.

The jury found Grover Foltz, 30, guilty of manslaughter in connection with the shooting of Malcolm Grayson, 32, who Foltz found holding Mrs. Grover Foltz at their former home, 228 E. Wyoming St., Nov. 16, 1926. Told Own Story Foltz took the stand In his own behalf and told of returning unexpectedly to his home the night of the shooting aryl seeing Grayson enter the kitchen door. The defendant told the jury he returned to his car and got a gunr firing through the kitchen door when he saw Grayson grab his wife. Grayson ran to the street, where he died. The charge carries a sentence of two to twenty-one years. Foltz will be sentenced April 12, by Special Criminal Judge Fremont Alford. The jury deliberated thirty-five minutes Wednesday, returning a sealed verdict. .May Appeal Frank Symmes, attorney for Foltz, asked until April 12 to straighten out the court record, probably looking toward an appeal. Mrs. Foltz, who testified she was in Grayson’s arms at their former home 228 E. Wyoming St., when her husband shot, was beside her husband when the verdict was read. When her husband gave her their child, Marie Waneta, 7, she hugged her passionately and broke into tears. The wife was ruled an incompetent witness after testifying for the State. ANGERED BANDIT FLOORSDRUGGIST “What’s the Idea?’ Brings Blow on Head. Doubting the seriousness of a bandit who ordered him to stick up his hands. Beverly D. Brown, druggist, Riley Ave. and Michigan St., today nursed a headache, the after effects of a blow on the head from the bandit’s revolver. Brown said he • was behind the prescription case when the bandit confronted him with a drawn revolver. Instead of holding up his hands, Brown asked, "What's the idea?” and was struck. He then obeyed a command to lay on the floor. Another armed bandit escorted Robert Gilkison, 14, of 726 N. Eancroft St., from the front of the store to the prescription room and ordered him to lie down. One stood guard, while the other looted the cash drawers and obtained S6O. They escaped in an auto parked near by which police believe was stolen. While Luther Boatman, 22 N. Audubon Rd., attendant at the Standand Rural St., and E. C. Branham, ard Oil station. Southeastern Ave. 2723 Southeastern Ave., sat in the station visiting Wednesday night, a hold-up man walked in, covered both with an automatic pistol and took S6O from the cash drawer and Boatman's money changer. He ran to a parked auto and escaped.

MOTHER AND GIRL BURNED! DEATH Former Local Family in Florida Tragedy. Mrs. William J. Wright, 57. and daughter, Miriam, 25, are dead and another daughter, Dorothy, 22, is seriously injured as the result of an explosion of gasoline in their home at Howey, Fla., AVednesday, according to dispatches received today. Dr. and Mrs. AVright and two daughters went to Florida from Indianapolis last October. The father was engaged in the real estate business and the daughters obtained positions as teachers. Wright formerly was a Christian minister at Crawfordsville. The explosion occurred when Mrs. Wright lighted a kerosene stove which bad been filled with gasoline by mistake. Dorothy rushed from the house and saved herself by roiling in the sand. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ralph W. Lieber, 2027 N. Talbott St., and two sons, Stanley, of New York, and Donald of Birmingham, Ala. SAYS MANKIND IS SLOW “The world faces serious problems, mo3t of which will be solved by the boys and girls of today,” said Bishop Harry S. Longley of Des Moines, lowa, in his third Lenter talk at Christ Church, AVednesday noon. “This generation has failed to build a secure spiritual foundation,” he said. “AVe have seen in the last one hundred years tremendous advances in science, philosophy and the things which minister to the comfort of man. All this change demand better men and man has made little improvement.” ELEPHANT EXECUTED PARIS, March 31.—Most famous elephant in France, Gaspard, old timer of Jardin des Pantes Zoo, has been executed. Becoming unmanageable, all efforts of his keepers failed to calm him. In the interests of safety, he was killed by asphyxiation.. To Stop a Cold in One Day Take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets. The Safe and Proven Remedy. iThe First and Original Cold and drip Tablet.) Signature of E. AV.

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BICKEL WARNS OF DANGER HELD BY NEWSMONOPOLY United Press Associations Chief Addresses Boston Business Men. Bn United Press BOSTON, March 31.—Speaking before the Boston Chamber of Commerce today, Karl A. Bickel, president of the United States Press Associ .Uon, declared that "not sine<d 19 1 4 have there been such possibili ti< s in the foreign field for weal or woe for America as now.” “Because ours Is a government by public, opinion,” he added, “and news is the raw material out of which public opinion is created, no greater blight could fall upon the United States than the creation of a monopoly in news distribution. Monopoly Menace “Such a monopoly, by virtue of its domination over the American press, could shape and mould the national mind, strangling progress and stupefying initiative. The organization of the United Press, which distributes its news reports on a non-exclusive basis, has forever removed not only in America, but throughout the world, the menace of such a news control.” Bickel’s subject was “Big Business and the News.” “We face a most delicate and sensitive state of public mind throughout all Latin-America,” be said. "Earnest, sincere and early steps will have to be taken to bring the nations of Latin-America and our own country again into a real accord. Hits “Red” Charge “Events in China are momentous. We are witnessing the literal birth of a great nation—a nation that within the present century will take its place as one of the world’s dominant powers. It is silly to refer to events now taking place in China as resulting primarily from Russian agitation or the application of ‘Mos 4 cow gold.’ The Cantonese have their’ program—a demand for the right to conduct their national life on a basis of equality with other peoples. It is enormously attractive to all classes and all divisions of Chinese. This did not spring from the Russians. It was a natural outgrowth and result of the years of mistreatment and diplomatic bungling that China has, generally speaking, suffered from most of the so-called western powers. News and Opinion Reverting to the relation of news and public opinion, Bickel said: “If public opinion is to retain its vitality and its strength the press of America must always ha\ e at its command a free and steadily expanding source of news supply, open to the constantly changing demands and desires of the nation’s news consumers—the newspaper readers — and ready at all times to welcome new and vigorous forces into the ranks of journalism. Had it not been for the existence of the United Press during the last twenty years many of the most important ami widely circulated newspapers in America would not bo in existence today.”

Darrow Deems Man Soulless Machine Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—Pessimists today had a. strong ally in Clarence Darrow, famous Chicago | criminal lawyer. Man is a soulless" piece of machinery and his life is merely a sequence of events, Darrow told members of the Penguin Club here. Reformers have changed the world so that now there is “mighty little we w'ant to do that we can do,” Darrow declared. “The only valuablo thing one can possess is a sense of humor.” Life today is a continual fight, according to the noted lawyer. One must fight for his life, as well as fight the law, churches, society, neighbors and wives, he elaborated. He himself had nothing to do with his professional rise, Darrow stated. He was forced into success by circumstances. NEWSPAPERS 'MERGED Galesburg (111.) Register-Mall to Use United Press Service. Bv United Press GALESBURG, 111., March 31. The Galesburg Printing Company, publishers of the Galesburg RepuhJ lican-Register, today announced pufl chase of the Galesburg Evening MsH and the consolidation of the papers under the name of the DaJKfl Register-Mail. The Register-Mail will have a culation in excess of 20,000 and be the only evening daily Galesburg. It will be served United Press leased wire. COURTESY TOUR AT A Thirty Indianapolis business men who participated in the first spring courtesy tour of the wholesale trade division of the Chamber of Commerce returned late Wednesday afternoon. The trip by auto included stops at French Lick and Indiana University. Clifford G. Dunphy, wholesale trade 1 V ' 7 -