Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 317, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1927 — Page 9

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CIA PREPARES FIRM ANSWER TO O.S. AND BRITAIN Course in Replying to Nanking Note by Chen Forecast. Bu United Perns • SHANGHAI, April 13,—Sharp replies to the United States and Great Britain are being prepared by Eugene Chen, Nationalist foreign minister at Hankow, the United Press was informed today, in response to the notes of 'protest against last month's Nanking disorders which were delivered to Chen by the consuls of the powers. Replies to Differ .lapan. France and Italy submitted notes identical to those handed Chen by the British and United States consuls, but it was understood that Chen's replies to these tepowers would differ from the others. was expected he would seek to conciliate Japan and would reply innocuously to Italy and France. The United States and Great Britain would be treated equally regarding firmness. A general strike was on in Shanghai today and native mobs, excited by rupture within Nationalist government, made repeated half-hearted attempts to storm the barriers of the foreign settlement. Shots fired over the heads of the natives by settlement defenders repulsed the attack. Northerners Encouraged Spurred by nationalist dissension, northern troops were reported to be making new advances along the Yangtze River. The nationalist flag on the customs house at Chinkiang was furled .and it was reported the southern army was evacuating that city. An unconfirmed British naval report said the northerners had captured Pukow, across the river from Nanking. Pukow was known to have been bombed by northern airplanes for the second successive day. British Ship Attacked The British warship Woodcock was fired on by land batteries between Hankow and Chinkiang, and returned the fire with machine guns and six pounders. A Cantonese cruiser, transport and torpedo boat shelled the northern bank of the river near Chinyesterday, it was learned. STOLEN AUTO IS LEFT IN CANAL Machine Believed Driven Into Water by Thieves. Police believed that the auto owned by Miss Lettia Saffenfield, 133 W. Twentieth St., found submerged in the canal at Thirteenth St., early today, was sent into the water by automobile thieves after a "joy riding." It is the second auto deserted in this manner within a week. After the e;y was recovered, Sergeant Eisenh | learned the ownership from the certificate of title. Miss Saffenfield said she placed the car in the garage at her home at 4:30 p. m. Tuesday, and that it was stolen. Police have not entirely discarded the theory that someone might have been in the auto in the plunge, as the lights were on and the car was in gear. The door on the. driver’s : !dc was open, Eisenhut said. MERGER REPORT WANES Republic Company Announcement Follows Directorate Changes. Bu United Press JERSEY CITY, N. J„ April 13. The directorate of the Republic Iron and Steel Company was reorganized today at the annual stockholders' meeting, but a statement was issued after the meeting by John A. Topping, chairman, emphatically stating that the changes were "incidental” and that no change of policy was contemplated. Topping's statement was believed to be his reply to reports that the reorganization of the directorate would result in merging of several steel companies.

Daylight Saving! Do You Want It? City council has before it an ordinance providing for daylight saving in Indianapolis. The plan is in operation in a number of large cities and was ft’ied out in Indianapolis during the war period. The clock would be advanced one hour on May 1 and restored to normal on Oct. 31. / In order that councilmen may be guided by the actual sentiment of citizens in passing upon the ordinance The Times is giving everybody an opportunity to vote. Fill out the ballot and mail or bring it to The Daylight Saving Editor, Indianapolis Times. The result will be presented to city council. Do you favor daylight saving? Yes j ]No f~j Name Occupation Address V.

Local Man Given Council Post

Ray S. Trent, newly named executive committee chairman of the Indiana Council of International Relations. Trent, who was formerly a professor in Indiana and Wisconsin Universities, is now a real estate broker with offices in the Merchants Bank Bldg.

Yes, Sir, Library Is a Very Busy Place During a “typical day" recently, Charles E. Rush, city librarian, ordered a ,close check kept of the activities in the public library and its branches throughout the city. The check showed: Books borrowed . 8/334 Books returned 9.005 New books catalogued .. 619 Books repaired 1.303 Index cards typed 2,343 Index cards filed . 3.810 Reference questions answered 868 Books arranged and shelved 11,730 Applicatio/is for cards 964 Overdue notices sent out 790 The library telephones were answered three hundred times: the tguek traveled sixty-seven miles, and a pedometer showed that a librarian walked four miles during the day. Anxiety Apparent in Armour Grain Case Iln Tnitcd Press CHICAGO, April 13. —Action of officials of the Armour Grain Company to prevent complete dissolution of the organization as result of an order denying the company trading privileges on the Chicago Board of Trade was anxiously awaited today. That the company—probably the largest firm of grain traders in the world —will not yield pacifically to the order which would have the virtual effect of stopping the company's operations was believed probable. The order is effective Saturday. Officials of the Armour concern maintained silence today. Ground for the action against the Armour company was that it caused failure of the Grain Marketing Corporation, a farmers' cooperative, through illegal dealings. Evidence to this effect was brought out before an investigating committee of the Illinois Legislature and in chancery proceedings against the Armours by other grain interests as a result of the co-operative failure. HELD IN JEWEL THEFTS Youth of 21 Accused of SBI,OOO and $50,000 Robberies. Bu United Press NEW YORK, April 13— Harry Baum. 21, was held here today in connection with theft of SBI,OOO worth of diamonds in New York and $50,000 worth of jewels from the home of Mrs. C. Williams of Washington. D. C. Baum was arrested last year in connection with the Washington robbery, but was later discharged., Later a butler in the Williams home admitted he had planned the robbery, but said Baum had participated in it. MAY SET OWN TRIAL Bn Uniteit Press , NEWCASTLE, Ind., April 13. Melvin Rigsby, former town marshal of Shirley, indicted by the Henry County grand jury Tuesday on a first-degree ljiurder charge, has been given permission to set the time of his own trial by Judge Rufus Hinshaw. Rigsby was indicted for the murder of Herman Riggs, 41, a Henry County farmer, at Shirley, April 1. Rigsby probably will be arraigned Friday.

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STREET CAR CO. CONTENDS WAGES ARE UP 10 LIE Opens Financial Reports in Answer to Ex-Employe’s Petition for Raise. Reports of earnings and operating expenses of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for 1924, 1925 and 1f126 were to be laid before the public service commission, sitting as a board of arbitration, this afternoon as the company's answer to the petition of James Green, former striking employe, for increase of pay. Company attorney Will H. Latta said the reports would bp introduced to show that the company is unabl eto pay higher wages. Baker Rests Case Frank P. Baker, Green's attorney, rested his case when witnesses failed to appear,, but asked that they be permitted to take the stand If they came In this afternoon. Commissioner Howell Ellis, In charge of the hearing, reminded Baker the success of the hearing depended on the cooperation of defense and prosecution, for the commission is without power to compell the appearance of witnesses. Edward L. Dreyfuss, general foreman in the Louisiana St. shops of the traction company, told of Green’s earnings in March, 1926. Wages Compared Classing motormen and conductors of city street cars as handymen, the company placed on the stand Andrew J. Allen, secretary of the Indianapolis Meta) Trades Association, who presented a chart showing the wages of forty-five local firms employing, he said, 5,812 men and women. The chart showed the average hourly wage of women to he 24.2 cents and the highest wage paid women, 50 cents. Hourly pay of handimen ranged, he said from 25 to 75 cents with the average at 41.7 cents: laborers, from 25 to 62.5 cents with the average at 40.7 cents. The lowest average wage for men was cited at 39.2 cents and the highest, $1,075. Commissiners Ellis and Jones were the only ones present this morning. 68 KILLED IN lEXAS STORM (Continued From Page 1) drove her from her post and the wrecked and ruined town was isolated from the world. Help was being sent from San Antonio. Junction, Kerville, Del Rio and Uvalde, but the nearest of those towns is seventy miles from Rocksprings and no railroad runs within fifty miles of the town. Hardly a family escaped unscratched from the fury of the wind. Mrs. Jack Rote, the telephone operator. said there was no warning of the tornado and the inhabitants were caught unprepared. The .telephone building was razed, but linemen worked In the rain which followed succeeded in setting up a temporary phone, nailed to a post, one mile from town. Braves Storm’s Fury There, with no protection from the rain and hall and with lightning Hashes giving periodic warning of her danger. Mrs. Rote took up her post to send warning of the storm nnd requests for aid to the outside world. She reported she was shocked several times before she finally had to leave the telephone and seek shelter. There were countless exhibitions of the grief and desolation left by the dust blackened winds, reported today. Small children were found buried under the timbers, their bodies pitifully crushed and battered. One child, barely able to walk, was found weeping bitterly over the bodies of her mother and father and two other members of her family. Sits Beside Bodies Scenes of the sort were to be found all over the area. Stunned by the loss of her husband and baby boy, one mother sat dry-eyed over the bodies refusing workers permission to remove the bodies to the courthouse. A sheep herder’s dog snarled viciously as workers strove to reach the body of his master, buried beneath a pile of timbers. The dog stood guard throughout the night and today continued to defy all who came near. FIVE DEAD IN TWO STATES Storm Sweeps Eastern Oklahoma and Northern Arkansan. Bu Uniteit Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., April 13.—Five lives were lost and a score of persons injured in a tornado which swept eastern Ohlahoma and western Arkansas last night. Continued reports of Hood over Oklahoma reached here today. Rain was reported from various sections. The tornado ripped through a half dozen little villages In the two States, laying waste to a large tract. Two were killed in Ft. Smith, Ark. Extensive damage was caused there, reports said. Three others, two in Haskill and one in I,e Flore County, were killed when the wind destroyed homes. Albert Dozier was killed near Milton, Okla.. and A. D. Di'iegher and John Roes near Stigler, Okla.

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Members of the Girls’ Expression Club who will give a juvenile minstrel show at the West Indianapolis 'Library, Thursday evening. Firs! row, left to right: Bessie Ivee Short, Louise Butler, Audrey Totten, Mary Smallwood, Irene Gross. Second row: Nellie Schmidt, Irene Sipple, Mary Richardson, Ernestine Asbury. Mae Boyl Brown (interlocutor), ELsie Croomer, Sanders, Helen Anacher, Geraldine Kelly, Virginia Tapp. Third row: Louise Wayman, Mildred Adams, Mildred Akers, Mildred Atwell, Virginia Sage, Helen Butler, Josephine Schafer. Bertha Geisendorff, Margaret Kent, May Tyrell, Bessie Hied.

MANAGER DRIVE 10 BE CARRIED INTO PRECINCTS 3,000 Workers Will Wage Campaign Before June Election on Plan. Plans for an Intensive campaign in each of the city's 225 precincts before the city nianager election in June will be made Friday noon by the executive committee of the manager organization. The committee is composed of Frank E. Gates, chairman; J. Walter Estcrline, Esterline-Angus Company; Henry L. Ditlimer, Polar Ice and Fuel Company president; John R. Welch, realtor; Sol Schloss, Schloss Brothers Investment Company sec-retary-treasurer; Frank Manly, Indianapolis Life Insurance Company president; James H. Lowry, Lowry Nursery and Landscaping Company; Mrs. George C. Finfrock and Mrs. EUa Huebner Olsen. Have 3.(KM) Workers First steps will be to educate the public in the merits of the proposed new form of government. Organization work, similar to the plan which netted 33,339 petition signers in less than two weeks, wall follow the speaking campaign, which begins next week. Approximately 3,000 persons who participated in the petition campaign wdll form the nucleus of the election organization, Claude H. Anderson, executive secretary, said. Anderson spoke before r meeting of the Sherman-Emerson Civic League at Public School 62, E. Tenth and Wallace Sts., Tuesday night. He stressed the nonpartisanship of the city manager government and emphasized that the campaign is backed by many Indianapolis civic leaders. Woman Speaks John F. White. Federation of Community Civic Clubs president, and a member of the city manager organization's executive committee, also spoke. Mrs. George C. Finfrock, a member of the campaign committee, addressed a meeting of the Fortnightly Club at the Prophyleum Tuesday afternoon. 15-STORY TOWER BURNS One-Hundred Thousand Watch Spectacular New Y'ork Hotel Fire. Bu United Press NEW YORK, April 13.—A 559_f00t torch, from wlych flames leaped at times nearly 100 feet higher, offered a spectacle which drew 100,000 New Yorkers fVom theaters and night clubs last night. Firemen, helpless to do more than prevent spread of the fire, stood by and watched the flames eat through scaffoldings inside and out of the fifteen-story tower of the thirty-eight story Netherland apartment hotel. In the center of the flames, only visible occasionally as a breeze blew the,curtain of fire aside for a moment, an American flag fluttered for hours, apparently untouched. YOUTH HURTS WOMAN Mrs. Mary Richart Injured While Befriending Girl. Befriending a young girl, rooming at her home, was costly to Mrs. Mary Ricliart, 31, of 961 W. TwentyNinth St. Today she is suffering a broken collarbone. Police are seeking a youth who Tuesday night pushed Mrs. Richart from the running board of his automobile and drove away, leaving the injured woman in the street. The youth was said to have attempted to get the girl roomer Into his car. Mrs. Richart went to the car to remonstrate with him. Spillman Leaves Force The board of safety Tuesday accepted the resignation of Patrolman Leslie Spillman, 2524 N. Olney St., alleged to have been absent from duty under pretense of Illness. Auto Injuries Fatal Bu Times Bverial MARION, Ind.. April 13. —Injuries deceived when his auto was struck by a train proved fatal to George W. McFarland, 63.

METHODISTS RENEW FIGHT ON DR. BUNDY Resolution Adopted Secretly at Goshen Conference Against De Pauw Bible Teacher.

The fight against Dr. Walteix E. Bundy. De Pauw University Bible teacher, was renewed by the North Indiana Methodist conference at Goshen this week. Rev. C. E. Line, retired minister, 1405 Ashland Ave., admitted today. The fight on the De Pauw professor which was Bald to have been started several years ago by friends of Taylor University, a fundamentalist institution, at Upland, Ind., culminated in the adoption of a resolution by the Goshen conference asking- De Pauw trustees not to continue Bundy’s contract. Secret Session The action was taken in secret session according to the Rev. Line, said to be an active anti-Bundy leader. The action was taken despite the 8 to I vote of the special investigating committee named last year, which exanerateu Bundy. The Bundy fight flared up at the conference last year and the investigation resulted. Several weeks BULLETS HALE BURGLAR PAIR (Continued From Page 1) vacant house a square away. When the man bolted from a rear door toward a railroad yard, Sneed fired and Durham halted. Caught in Store Ernest Jacks, 18, of East Chicago, Ind., was captured in the Frank Hahn confectionery, 3 407 S. Relmont Ave., by Lieut. O. D. Thoma* and emergency squad. Officers said Jacks had $2.42 in cash and a. quantity of merchandise in his pockets. He was charged with burglary and grand larceny. While two burglars were halted by gun-fire a filling station bandit and companion escaped under a fusillade of shots from the Western Oil station, Twenty-Second and Delaware Sts., Tuesday night. Ruse Causes Flight M H. Wild, 2455 N. Alabama St., the attendant, told police he was counting up the day's receipts when a man jumped from an auto that drove in the station, threw open the door and leveled a gun at him. Wild shoved the money toward him in response to his demand, saying: “Take it quick and get out! The police are parked across the street in an auto.” Apparently' unnerved, the bandit pift his gun in his coat, jumped into the car, where his companion was sitting at the wheel, and drove away. Seizing a gun from the safe. Witd fired at the bandit car as it crossed Delaware St. One bandit returned the fire, he said. Holds Up Grocery A bandit, believed probably one of those in the filling station holdup. held up the A. and P. grocery, 2459 N. Talbott Ave., three hours earlien. Ordering a bill of groceries, the i man thrust a gun into the face of C. F. McAulley, manager, and his brother, R. A. McAulley. clerk, both of 2351 N. Delaware St., and ordered them into a back room. They said the bandit scooped up SBS they were counting and ran. ‘CAT’ BANDIT ROBS FOUR Fifth Chicago Woman Escapes When Man Becomes Frightened. Bu United Press CHICAGO. April 13.—Chicago's “Cat” bandit, who has terrorized outlying residential districts for months, succeeded in robbing four women within three hours before a fifth drove him off by screaming. A check-up today reveals the bandit obtained only sl6 in cash and a diamond ring. Those robbed agree in their descriptions of their assailant. Fight in Anderson Jail Bu Times Soreial ANDERSON. Ind., April 13. Joseph Dunham, wealthy farmer, held in jail on a charge of murdering Alva Pine, was attacked in his cell here by A. J. Foster, arrested, on charge of failure to pay his rent. Foster struck Dunham following a trivial argument.

ago President Lemuel H. Murlin of De Pauw and several faculty members and university officials with Bundy met the committee in Indianapolis. The committee after hearing the evidence voted in favor ( of Bundy. Murlin Praises Bundy President Murlin at that time said "Dr. Bundy is a fine man and we have nothing to fear. We’ll present them the facts. The trouble is they do not kiiow whereof they speak.” The De Pauw trustees affirmed their faith in the Bible teacher by retaining him another year with, a salary increase. The anti-Bundy leaders at the 1926 conference charged the Bible professor's teachings had "shaken the faith of some students.” Pro-Tay-lor delegates declared him "unfit to teach young Christians.” Dr. Bundy has a tremendous following among younger churchmen, and the trustees are expected to ignore the demand for his ousting. Some church lenders declared antiRundy leaders were friends of Taylor University and were jealous of conference support to the Greencastle school. “The action was taken in secret session and I refuse to be interviewed on he Bundy matter. Besides the conference was misreported last year by some out-State papers.” said the Rev. Line. “My views on the matter are too long to express. I made my speech at the conference and have no more to say. T like to lie a gentleman, but .iust can't discuss the issue,” he concluded. Trustee Noncommittal H. H. Hornbrook, attorney, Fletcher Savings and Trust Bldg., a De Pauw trutee, was non comm ital. “I don’t think a trustee should spec ulate on what action the trustees would take,” he said. “Although I don't know any of the particulars I think the matter should be investigated. There has been so much said about the situation I believe the trustees should name a committee to collect information and put an end to the affair,” declared James M. Ogden, another De Pauw trustee. Bishop Locke of St. Paul, presiding bishop at the Goshen session, recognized the vote to demand Bundy's removal, forced by the conservative element. Although the North Indiana Conference is more conservative than the Indiana or Northwest Indiana Conference it has been liberal in supporting De Pauw. Hoosier Held in West Bu United Press GOSHEN, Ind., April 13.—Frank J. Solari, formerly of Goshen, held at Los Angeles. Cal., on a forgery charge, will be brought back for trial. Solari, when manager of the Goshen Buggy Top Company, is said to h&ve forged his wife's name to a note for $15,000. Salesmen to Dayton A delegation of fifty salesmen from the Indianapolis branches of Frigidaire Corporation and the Delco Light Company today attended a sales convention at Dayton, Ohio.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Wilson D. Nash, 541 Udell St.; Buick. from New York and Pennsylvania Sts. W. E. Varin, 5233 E. North St.; Hudsin. from in front of residence. S. R. Hawkins. 204 E. TwentyFourth St.; Studebaker, 12-542, from Senate Ave. and Market St. W. A. Steinhilber, 3633 Guilford Ave.; Chevrolet, 49-687, from Fall Creek Blvd. and Ruckle St. Arnold Carroll. 3614 N. Illinois St.; Chevrolet, 528-531, from Market St. and Senate Ave. C. R. Hamil, 1705 Olive St.; Ford, from Minnesota and Olive Sts. Harry Ware, 41 Trowbridge St.; Chevrolet, 534-544, from Maryland St. and Capitol Ave. W. R. Harrison. 808 S. Noble St.; Chevrolet, 20-887. from Virginia Ave. and Washington St. Blake F. Thomas, 18 S. Butler Ave.; Ford. 27-154, from Capitol Ave. and Market St. Harry Cohen. 3057 Washington Blvd.: Chrysler, from Twenty-Fourth •nd Meridian Sts.

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State Health Officials Will Go to Argos Dairy—Analysis for Poison Is Made Dr. S. C. Wilson anrl Dr. William Lee of the laboratory of the State board of health said today they jould go to Argos, Ind., to investigate the serious illness of fifty-four persons, including school children, believed caused by poisoned milk.

Dr. W. C. Barber, Marshall County health officer, sent samples of the milk which came from one dairy, here for analysis. He said there had been rumors there that there had been labor trouble at the dairy and one of the drivers had poisoned the milk. Tests were made here for strychnine and arsenic, but no trace was found, Dr. Wilson said. He said, however, he believed the milk was infected. HEALTH BOARD DEADLOCKS ON KING POSITION Postpones Election of Secretary Until New Members Are Named. Due to a deadlock at the State board of health meeting today, election of a secretary was delayed until two new members are appointed by Governor Jackson. Terms of Dr. T. Victor Keene. Indiana(oUs, and President John H. Green, North Vernon, will expire May 6. Keene led the fight against reappointment of Dr. William F. King, secretary for nine years and a member for sixteen years. Dr. Charles Good. Huntington, was recommended and Dr. Jamas A. Turner, Nashville, joined Keene in his support. Dr. Green and Dr. A. J. Hostetler. La Grange, supported King and deadlock ensued. Hostetler moved to postpone consideration until the new board meets, or "at a special meeting called by the president and approved by a majority of the present board.” King’s term expires Thursday, but he will continue as a hold-over until the matter is decided. The postponement was considered a victory for King, as Keene will probably be retired by the Governor. Approval was given to the appointment of Dr. Charles F. Adams as new laboratory head: Miss Eva MeDougall as director of Public Health Nursing, and Herschel Hill, exhibit director of the .child hygene department. Norman M. Beatty, son-in-law of Governor Jackson, is to be retained In the laboratory as part-time assistant to Dr. Adams. Reduction of salary from $125 to SIOO was voted. Today’s meeting was a. star-cham-ber affair, reporters being kept out. ISSUE TRAVEL ORDERS School Board Approves Requests of Rush and Others. Request of Charles E. Rush, city librarian, who has been nominated vice president of the American Library Association, to attend the Southern conference of librarians at Gatlinburg, Tenn., April 28, was approved by the school board, Tuesday. The board also approved a travel order for Mrs. Lillian W. Sedwick, a member, and Mrs. Angela Moler, School 1 principal, for the first week In May. They will visit Detroit and Cleveland to study new teaching methods. Shortridge High School’s application for $6,000 to equip its Fairvlew park athletic field was referred to the board's finance committee. ‘Vote-for-Flappers’ Bu United Press LONDON, April 13—The "Vote-for-Flappers” movement triumphed today. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Premier Baldwin skid the government would Introduce a bill after Easter giving women equal franchise with men at the age of 21, Heretofore women voted at 30. Epidemic Hits Orphans Bu Times Bveeial ANDERSON. Ind.. April 13. Twenty-two children at the Madison Co.unty Orphans’ Home are 111 with Influenza.

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SIREEI PROGRAM AWAITING TEST OF POCKET VETO

Thoroughfare Commission Act Needed Before Project Can Be Started. A thoroughfare plan for the outskirts of the city has been held up by Governor Jackson's "pocket veto” of a bill creating a thoroughfare commission for Indianapolis, J. Ray Monaghan, city plan commission engineer, declared today. The commission is interested in the outcome of litigation testing legality of the "pocket veto.” If the "pocket veto” is ruled illegal, the commission will be able to carry out its program of straightening arid widening streets in all sections of the city, said Monoghan. The measure would create a thoroughfare commission comprised of two plan commission and two works board members, empowered to bond the city to $6,000,0')0 under a separate tax district. Bonds would be issued for ten to twenty years to provide funds for building the outer belt for mixed traffic. The streets would be eighty to ninety feet wide. Among the city plan commission s recommendations in event the program could be carried out are: Straightening and widening of Sixteenth St. from Martindale Ave. to the canal; widening and straightening of Prospect St. from the Belt Railroad to West St.; opening and connecting of Keystone Ave. and Rural St. from south corporation line to Broad Ripple; and Thirtieth St. from Keystone Ave. to Riverside Park. Hearding St. would be widened and straightened from Thirtieth St. to Kentucky Ave., Monaghan said. SAY VOTES BOUGHT AT I. U. POLLS Hoosier Politics Prevail in Student Elections, Charge. Bu Times Bneciat BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. April 13. Typical Hoosier politics are being employed in Indiana University student elections, it was charged today. Monday, Indiana Union elected a slate of officers nominated by petition. defeating an organization slate. Today students were choosing a prom queen. Votes are being bought for an unknown candidate at the rate of 50 cents apiece, it is asserted. New officers elected for the Union are: Alfred Ringer, Williamsport, president; Philip Clark, Ft. Wayne, vice president; Clarence Deitseh, Evansville, secretary: Harry Champ. Indianapolis, treasurer, and the following directors: Dow Richardson. Marion: Richard Ray, Sandford; dumb Bucher, Huntington; Gerald Redding, Michigan City; William Ramsey, Terre Haute; Richard Wall, Lebanon; Paul Spurgeon, Kokomo; darence Forkner, Terre Haute, and Harold Jones, Danvjlle. Eight of this slate were on the original organization slate, but withdrew to be nominated by petition. The members of the original slate who were defeated w r ere Frank Stimson, Kentland, for president: James Miller, Rockville, for vice president, and Jack Biel, Terre Haute: Richard Holdeman. Elkhart, and! Joe DeLo, Kokomo, for directors. Regula r electioneering tactics were employed by the Insurgents. Autos were used to haul students to the polls. At least one student voted three times. Nominations for the prom queen closed ten days ago with three girls named. A ring. It Is said, has raised $75 to buy votes for the fourth candidate. Whether the fourth candidate will be recognized will be decided by the prom committee, headed by Malcolm Mallette of Evansville. GIA nt~dTrTgibleTa nds High Wind and Shortage of Ground Force Kept the Los Angeles Up. Bu United Press LAKEHURST, N. J„ April 13. The giant dirigible Los Angeles was up in the air all night because of the Chinese situation. The connection, however, was Indirect. The Los Angeles left Lakehurst for a flight yesterday and returned during the night. Wind was so strong it could not moor to its mast. Under normal conditions. It would have alighted and been put In Its hangar. But it takes a large corps of trained men to land the dirigible in a wind, and the Lakehurst force of Marines was depleted to fill the last regiment, assembled for duty In China. The Los Angeles finally was run tlie hangar at 6 a. n.