Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 341, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1927 — Page 2

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Snyder Jury Acted to Satisfy *The Mob, * Says Durant

By Dr. Will Durant Author of “The Story of Philosophy" The great spectacle is over, and the crowd that thirsted, for blood has had its way. When a woman, guilty hut human, made her last fight for life, and resorted to woman's final weapon, tears, the crowd in the courtroom laughted in her face. When the verdict was heralded to the hungry hordes outside they broke into cheers, .while the condemned murderess, stricken with an epileptic seizure, writhed on the lloor of herxcell. Hovf glad those safe onlookers were that the prey was cornered and caught and would soon be torn into pieces! Eveiy husband felt avenged, and every untempted heart fluttered proudly with a sense of its own sinlessness. Here and there, on the breast of cheering women, golden crucifixes hung. What is there to be said, now that it is all over but the killing? The jury did what it had to do by law. though would not even the law have forgiven them if they had recommended mercy? They had been se-

MAN RESEMBLING BOTH ATTACKER, SLAYER ESCAPES No Trace Found of Carter Case Suspect—Child Still in Hospital. A man, appearing nervous and worried, also answering the general description of both the slayer of Patrolman Charles E. Carter and the man who attacked a 9-year-old girl at New Jersey and South- Sts. late Tuesday, was seen near Lafayette Ed. and Spring Mill ltd. early today. He asked passing motorists to take him to Chicago, it was said. Capt. Herbert Eletcher sent an emergency squad to the scene, but they failed to find any trace of the man. Further investigation revealed that he told persons he was a parachute jumper and other stories that lead police to,"believe he is the patient of the Central Insane Hospital who escaped from the grounds Tuesday night. Condition Serious The girl attacked Tuesday is in a serious condition at city hospital. The child was on her way to school and enticed into a vacant house. Mrs. Myrtle Henderson, 502 S. New Jersey St., saw her leave the house crying, questioned her and called police. The child, afraid of being tardy went on to School 23, New Jersey and Merrill Sts. She was taken to the hospital from there. Mrs. Henderson and neighbors chased the attacker whom she saw run from the rear of the house, but he eluded tnem. Abandon Theory DetectivesNhave discarded the theory that the man who was recently discharged from jail, where he served a thirty-day sentence for threatening police officers who arrested him on an charge, had any connection with the slaying of Patrolman Carter at 500 E. Court St. Saturday night. Detective Captain Jerry Kinney said that officers questioned the man and that parts of his description definitely exonerated him. A man held 011 $5,000 vagrancy bond is being questioned concerning the, murder.

PURSE GRAB NETS SSO Man Snatches Handbag From Woman on Pennsylvania St. Mrs. Florence Keretch, 2208 N. Meridian St., reported to police that while walking north on Pennsylvania St., Tuesday night, a white man jumped from behind a tree near Pratt St. and .snatched her purse containing approximately SSO. The man escaped, running west on Pratt St. He was described as about 21 years old, of medium build and height. SHOPS REFUSED SITES Zoning Board Turns Down Petitions For Businesses. Petitions for businesses at Bosart Ave. and Tenth St., DeQuincy and Tenth Sts., and at 37 E. ThirtyFourth St., were denied by the board of zoning appeals Tuesday. The board asked Building Commissioner Bert J. Westover to investigate a sanitarium operated by Mabel Waddell at 2112 N. Delaware St. It was said no permit had been issued for the sanitarium, which was protested by neighbors. FORDS GIVE SBOO,OOO Last Half From Son to Woman’s Building Fund. Bn United Press*' DETROIT, May 11.—Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford today duplicated the gift of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, of $400,000 to the $4,000,000 woman's building fund campaign here. This made the total For# contributions sßoo,apO and carried the campaign to above the $2,000,000 mark. Robinson to Southport Senator Arthur R. Robinson will speak at Southport Masonic Lodge, Thursday nlglifcr- lie will present jewels to twenty-one past masters of the lodge. Auto Burned % Fire, originating in an ignition short circuit, destroyed an automobile belonging to W. H. Crowslcy, I.awreneeville, 111., at 1 a. m.. near Stop 4, National Rd., east of the city limits.

leeted democratically, as wc elect officials —that is, , without being called upon to show any special training for their task. They represented one of the oldest and finest institutions of j>ur race, the very source from which democracy itself originally flowed. They represented the common people, and they - did their best. 'lt is not their fault if they were influenced by the merciless laughter of tigresses in the courtroom crowd. It was not their fault if they had been made and reared too simply to achieve, or were bound by law too narrowly to indulge the perspective a!hd understanding that pardons all. The counsel for the defense did their best, or nearly so. 'Perhaps they could have saved the woman by advising her in her testimony and her conduct, to show to her accomplice the kindness atuj loyalty which might have stirred him to lie like a gentleman in support of her story, and go to his death with the flourish of one who luid saved a lover from the chair. But it is well that if he, must be burned to death to save us, she, too, should die. And yet we can imagine the same

HEROIC OFFICER LEAVES GRIEVING FAMILY TODAY After Funeral, Mrs. Carter Faces Task of Keeping Home Together—Aid of Public Asked.

It was only four days ago that two pals said good-by. They smiled happily at each other —the big, handsome man in his policeman's uniform and his little wife. Life looked good to them. Only a few days before they had moved into their neat little home —the curtains aren't hung even yet. The uniform the man represented an ambition fulfilled after weary months of unemployment. From just outside the door as this man and woman parted with each other last Saturday the happyboisterous laughter of their two boys came to them. ( Only I’al Suffers Now “Good-by, little pal.” the man said, and whistling cheerfully, and with smiling eyes he went away. They'll say good-by again today—these two, only the man will not know the anguish of the little pal wife when she touches that same uniform, looks into his sac Charles E. Carter of 2014 Brookside Ave., the policeman who gave his life while trying to disarm a crazed and drunken man last Saturday-, was laid to rest late this afternoon in Memorial Park Cemetery. Services at the home were conducted by the Rev. Victor B. Ilargitt, pastor of the Bright wood Methodist Church. Afterwards, the little woman, her two sons, Don, 8, Shirley, 11, and his aged father-in-law, 83, returned to that home and it largely depends upon the citizens of Indianapolis whether financial burdens, in addition to her great sorrow, must press down upon this brave man’s widow. The Times appeals to everyone

Charles E. Carter Fund Mr. John E. Ambuhl, Treasurer: I inclose dollars for the Charles E. Carter Fund for the relief of the family of Patrolman Charles E. Carter, killed when he attempted to arrest a drink or drug crazed man May 7. Name , Address (Clip fills coupon and -mail or take your contribution to John E. Ambuhl at police headquarters or to the Charles PJ. Carter P'uiid Editor, The Indianapolis Times.)

1927 PROSPEROUS, SAYS CAR CORPORATION HEAD Alfred Sloan, General Motors President, Here for Conference With Local Dealers, Is Optimistic.

Business prospects are bright for the remainder of 1927, believes Alfred P. Sloan Jr., General Motors Corporation president, here today to confer with Indianapolis General Motors dealers. ‘‘Conditions, as we see them, throughout the country generally are in excellent shape,” Sloan said. The volume of current business compares very favorably with that of last year. Crops Are Better “Strides in the direction of diversification are helping the South and Northwest; timely rains on the Pacific slope, providing for irrigation so vital in that part of the country, point to improved business in the Far West; activity and employment in the great industrial sections of the Middle West are running high; the corn belt is preparing for a big year.” The per capita wealth of the United States is the greatest it has ever been, and this wealth is finding a more even distribution than at any time in history,” he declared. Time Selling Aids “Hand in hand with this has gone a widespread acceptance of sound-

Newsboy Takes Rap at Adage That “fetching coals to Newcastle” does not always prove unprofitable was shown Tuesday afternoon by a newsboy who entered the Statehouse library and asked readers there to buy a magazine. There Is a whole rack full of magazines on hand there. He was unsuccessful in scv v eral instances, but at last lie did sell two. Purchasers were not those at reading tables, however, but men who were washing windows.

case differently in other hands. What would that merciful lion, Clarepce Darrow, have done with these pitiful victims of stupidity? Probably he would have counseled them to adhere to their confessions, to tell the truth unstintedly, and throw themselves upon the mercy of the court. And possibly the judge, seeing these two helpless before him, seeing them broken beyond any further peril to our peace, would have sentenced them sternly and irrevocably to punishment, but not to a death whose shame will torture generation^. Perhaps tonight Ruth Snyder will read the story of the woman taken in adultery and will mourn that she did not find in this Christian nation such gentle judgment for her sin. Perhaps Henry Judd Gray will stumble through Pirandello and pause at the lines that would seem to have been written for him: “For the drama lies all in this: Wc have the illusion of being one person for all, of having a personality that is identical in all our acts. But it isn’t true. We perceive this when tragically, in something we do, we

who feels that gratitude to a man who gave his life that others might be protected, should be expressed in helping to care for the helpless ones he has left. Task Widow Faces On this frail little willow of brave Patrolman Carter will depend the support and future of the little sons and the old father, who is far too feeble to work. “If I can just have the furniture all pai<j for—we owe about $200," Mrs. Carter has said. “You see, we had bad luck. My husband was out of work so long, we lost the home on Wallace St. we were paying for, and we couldn't keep up payments on the furniture, either. If I can pay for that —if there are those who will help me to keep a home together for the boys, I shall be grateful as long r-i I live.” The widow will receive a small monthly pension from the Police Benefit Fund, but this amount*will scarcely more than pay funeral expenses and cover present needs. How You Can Help If you admire a man, who put duty before personal safety, who gave his life in the performance of what he thought was liis duty, you will be glad to add your help to the fund and the movement The Times is sponsoring. Do not make checks payable to The Times, although you may send checks to either the Charles E. Carter Fund Editor, Indianapolis Times, or to Charles Ainbul\l, police headquarters. In either case, make the checks payable to Ambuhl as treasurer. The first mail this morfiing brought contributions totaling SSL

ly conceived plans of time selling, permitting the individual to satisfy his wants through the anticipated savings out of income,” he said. Referring to the automobile business, Sloan stated that on the whole it was not up to last year's level. “However, fs far as General Motors is concerned,” he said, "we are running very substantially ahead of last year.” Sloan and the party of General Motofs executives with him leave tonight for St. Louis. CITY MAY BUY TRACT Plan Commission Urges Moves to Further park Development. The city plan commission and park board will meet Thursday afternoon with Mayor Duvall to discuss' a proposed north side park between the canal and White River. The city plan commission recommended purchase of a tract between Capitol Ave. and Washington Blvd., owned by Dr. 11. 11. Wheeler for development of a huge park plan. Death Driver Cleared Bu United Pres* MISHAWAKA, Ind„ May 11.— David Hart. 26, driver of an auto which struck ans fatally injured Marion Freeman, 7. was cleared today of blame for the accident. The child was hit as she wasf 1 crossing a street near her home and died on the way to a hospital. Murder Jury Near Bit Vnitfd Pres* ANDERSON. Ind' May ll.—Selection of a jury was in progress today in MacUsorr County Circuit Court for 'the.'trial of Joseph Dunhain, indicted for first-degree murder in the killing of Alva Pine in October. Dunham shot Pine in a quarrel over a basket of apples. The State will seek the death penalty.

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are, as it were, caught up in the air as on a kind of hook. Then we understand that all of us w-as not in that act and that it would be an atrocious injustice to judge us by that action alone.” But it is too late to learn from literature, the jury has spoken. Majrkind does not wish yet to be judged, or to be ruled by its wisest men. Fear Popularizes Verdict The verdict is popular because the people are afraid. There is niore crime, they think, than ever before, and punishments must be increased. The immensity and enterprise, the national organization and unity, of the press, gathered the violence of a continent upon one page for our edification and delight. We read, and forget the peacefulness of our own neighborhood, the comparative security of our property, and the doubled tenure of our lives. We are frightened and conclude that half the world is murderous, and half the remainder suicidal. Perhaps in our largest cities, transiently, crime has grown. Every foreign nation is willing to present us with its criminals; and when they come they pass not to the healing

ASA MEYHOUGH WILL HEAD CITY ASPHALT PLANT Engineer Hopes to Start Work Soon—Shipment Delayed. Asa Mayliough, 475 S. Pine St., today was named general superintendent of the city asphalt plant by City Engineer Frank C. Lingenfelter. Meyhough has had ten years experienco with asphalt firms. He will receive SSO a week from the gasoline tax fund until the new budget is effective. * / Lingcnfelter hopes to start the plant before Monday and operate it at a saving to the city. The first shipment of asphalt from the New Orleans Refining Company due Tuesday has not arrived, and opening of the plant thus has been delayed. Kocliat Retained Ed Roclmt, 'nutdoor superintendent, will be retained. Lingenfelter estimated that the city plant can be operated at a cost of less than $1.30 an average square yard for laying asphalt patches, a raving of about half the price paid contractors. Contract for ion tons at slt was let by City i'nroha ing Agent John Collins through the llayes Construction Company, lowest bidder meeting specifications. 7,000 Yards a Week Oil asphalt to be delivered will enable the city to lav about 7,000 yards a week. As an emorgencj the city contracted with the Indiana Asphalt Company to lay repairs at $21.75 a ton or $2.03 a square yard. The city has laid some repairs with Its own force, buying asphalt from the McNamara Construction Company at $9 a ton, or $1.34 a yard. Lingenfelter estimated that it will take until fall before the city’s streets can be put in good condition.

ANOTHER DEATH CROSSING GUARD Warning Lights Also for Southeastern Ave. Following conference today with Police Chief Claude Johnson, It. R. Nace, superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad; M. V. Hines, C., I. & IV. superintendent, and Jerry Liddey, Indianapolis Belt Railway superintendent, agreed to place a watchman on the grounds at Southeastern Ave., Oriental and Cruse Sts. crossing, where Orla Woody, former city police reporter was killed recently. They pointed out that when an approach is made to the tracks from the northwest or southeast the gates can not be seen. Warning lights .will be adopted there, they announced. At present the watchman is in a tower. The superintendents said that if approval could be obtained from the public service commission a $40,000 block signal system will be placed at the Belt Railroad crossing' at Bluff Road and Meridian St. This will do away wish the necessity of stopping Belt .trains at the intersection. which 'hauses tragic delays. EAGLE EYE SPOTS TIRE Whenever any one steals a tire from the “U” Drive Auto Company, 130 E. New York St., they might as well figure that they are going to have Michael Hawson, 1328 E. Be Grando Ave., employe of the company on their trail. At least that Is what Earl Craig. Alexandria, Ind., held in city .prison today on larceny charge said. Craig was roused frem his slumbers at the Commercial Hotel, by police called by Hawson, who saw Craig's car parked and alleged that the left front tire on it was one stolen from the “U” Drive system. Road Bids Asked State tax board today ordered bids received for the Taylor Cain Rd., Davis Township, Fountain County. Bond limit was set at 515,000. Original petition was for $23,000. Bids were also ordered for the F. A. Rice Rd., White Post and Salem Townships,’ Pulaski County.

countryside, but to great centers where they may lose themselves in the safe anonimity of the crowd. They come to us poor, and they see on every hand a tempting and irritating display of unprecedented wealth. They have torn up the roots of their own restraining tions, broken the moorings of their awn moral code: and time is not given them yet to acquire ours. They learn the arts of “protection”; and if they are caught, some politician is their friend. They perceive that detection is a rarity and that the hand of the law can be indenitely stayed. Justice, Not Revenge Therefore this trial will help us not by its primitive verdict, but by its straight forwardness and its relerity. Let every potential criminal know’ that all the forces of the police will be used unharassed to discover him, and let him understand, that no obscurity or technicality in the law will shield him or delay his punishment and crime wil! be a hundredfold more discouraged than by penalties whose savage severity reveals our culpable incompetence. Let us have justice rather than revenge and courts as clean and expeditious as those of

After Tornado Vented Its Fury

Here are the first pictures to be received from the zone devastated by the tornadoes that swept Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and parts of adjacent States. From 575 to film are dead, many more are injured and property loss has been extensive. These pictures show scenes in Hutch inson, Kas. Altov ’ i- the wreckage of the Carey Salt Works, largest plant of its kind in the country. Below is a rui n'l residence.

GIRL WHO LAUGHED AT ILL LUCK OMEN MAY DIE

Miss Retha Webb Struck by Street Car Near Home. “I'll surely have terrible luck this day,” laughed Miss Retha Webb, 20,

of 1215 N. Pennsylvania St., as she closed the door of her home and started for work this morning. A minute later, the joking remark was turned into a tragical omen, when the girl almost directly in front of the house, stepped from behind one street car, and into the path of another. She suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries and doctors say

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she cannot live. Forgot Purse “It was odd that the street cars passed each other at this point—they rarely do.” commented Mrs. E. B. Mosier, with whom Miss Webb lived. “The whole situation seemed timed for this accident. Retha first started away this morning without her purse. She came back a moment later and I said to her. ‘lt's bad luck to come back for anything. Better sit down a moment and break the jinx.’ Returned for Umbrella She laughed at that and away she went, only to come back a minute or two'later. “Oh, Mrs. Mosier,” she called, gaily, “it's raining and I forgot my umbrella. Two forgettings—now I’ll surely have terrible luck this day. If I were superstitious I'd believe she was held up to get in that car's pathway:” - * Motorman Walter Bailey, 118 W. Eelevnth St., was in charge of the fatal car. Miss Webb was employed at Nordyke & Marmon. She was a .graduate of De Pauw University, and her parents, who hastened to the city after the accident, live at Greencastle. ■ —' College Honors Hoosiers Bii Tim- * Snr-lnl SPRINGFIELD. May 11.— Sophomores “tapped” by Pick and Pen, honorary junior men's society at Wittenberg College this year. Include Rolaud Kemper. .Richmond, and Ralph Van Metre, Carmel.

England are: or as our own once were, rather than verdicts that befit only the trembling despotism of a czar. . Scant Sympathy Well, then, they must die, and for these two we shall feel less sympathy than for almost any other of those upon whom we wreak our timid vengeance. But when we think of them —of the epileptic woman lying on the floor: of the man replying strangely (when asked why he killed) “That is what I want to know”; of ‘the simple Italian whom we shall slay with calm ferocity because he slew insanely in a frenzy of bereavement; and of those two who for seven years hare been facing death because one Massachusetts court is not strong enough to give defendants the benefit of every doubt —then our pride in our civilization wanes and our faith in man’s progress falters. Bpt while that word “guilty” was being spoken by the jury, two men were braving 3,00(1 miles of lonely sea to bridge continents invisibly through the air. Think Os it; that mind of man for thirty centuries, dream of flight has been in the ever since those days of ancient

DEATH SPOT AT' LAKE Boss Indicates Where Tucker’s Weighted Body Went in. Bu I n ltd Prca* WARSAW, I ml., May 11.—Martin Ross, Elkhart, today was taken to Center Lake, near Warsaw, and he pointed out to Kosciusko County authorities the spot where he says Tucker, missing Warsaw cigar man, was thrown into the lake in January. Men continued dragging for the body which Ross said was weighted witlf iron. The grand jury will meet Saturday to consider the case.

FAMILY DOG GETS MAN’S BURIAL, POETICAL EULOGY Mack’s Sad, With ‘Woodrow’, Collie Member of Household, Gone on to Canine Heaven.

“Woodrow,” just a collie, meant much to Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Mack, 412 E. Market St., so they buried him with a pomp, and ceremony shown to few dogs when they pass along to dog heaven or wherever it is dogs go. Today, while “Woodrow” rests beneath the sod on the farm of J. H. '’Oliver, northeast of Itldianapolis, there's a vacancy in the Mack home that hasn't been known there for more than ten years, because “Woodrow” was near and dear to the Macks as a part of the family. Why Tears Were Shed This explains why tears were shed Sunday when catarrh of the stomach. according to the dog doctor, killed Woodrow, and why there was a burial Monday, with Woodrow laid in a pine box covered with flowers. A motorcar, carrying the coffin and friends of the Macks and of Woodrow, fought its way through \ traffic to the Oliver farm for the I burial. „ / /1 . There’s something about a dog j that makes a pal ,of him. Let Mrs. i Mack tell her story: “Woodrow was just a pup when j we got him, ten years ago. Natural-j ly we-made a pet of him, and we j trained him. Pipe in His Mouth “You may have seen ‘Woodrow’ 1 walk around the block, a pipe in his mouth. He would do it when I suggested that he ‘smoke’. “Perhaps you’ve seen him at city | market, a lwsket of produce in his I mouth, or at the grocery, where I

legend when Daedaleus fashioned the first frail wings. Icarus tried to fly with them and was drowned in the Aegean Sea; but man did not forget. Two thousand years later Leonardo -da Vinci wrote across the face of drawings too beautiful to he seen without pain: “Study the mechanism of the bat’s wings and on that model make the machine.”' He tried to fly, and failed; but man did not forget. Four hundred years later a good man said, “Men will never fly. for it is evidently against the Will of God.” And on the morrow dispatches came, telling how Orville Wright, Hie day before, had flown in France. We belong to a race that can hold a purpose in its heart for three thousand years and never yield. * Nothing Impossible. Nothing is hard or impossible to man, given time. The day will come when that other dream —of justice without vengeance—will cease to he a dream. * The day will come when man, who is brave enough to challenge the eagle's flight, will be brave and wise enough to cure crime without killing criminals. There is a wisdom in old customs which no historically minded critic

Callouses Obtain CourVs Leniency I Joe Bauer, 1233 Bridge St., is | thankful today for calloused hands I and a frank nature. Bauer was arrested April 1(5 for l operating a blind tiger at his home | when forty-six quarts of home brew i were found there by fc’ergt. Clifford | Richter. “Look at this man’s hands,” Earl R. Cox, defense attorney, told the 'hourt dtiring examination, “no bootlegger would have callouses like that.” Sergeant Richter admitted feellng N "kindly” toward Bauer because he had told the truth at his arrest. He admitted possession of the home brew, hut insisted it was for his own use and the use of his friends. Bauer was given a suspended sentence of ninety days imprisonment and SIOO fine.

would send him with a basket and a note to the grocer. And ‘Woodrow’ always brought back what 1 sent him after. ' •> “When I sent ‘Woodrow’ after my htlsband, he would go to the garugc across the street, or to other places in the neighborhood. If he didn’t find him one place, he would keep on searching until he found him. But usually intuition led him directly to his master.” , Oil Numineer Vacation The Macks took “Woodrow” to northern Indiana lakes when they were spending summer vacations there. "Every day, after lunch ‘Woodrow’ would pick up liis bucket and go to the hotel for his dinner. He would bring his food back to the cottage and eat," Mrs.' Mack said. ” ‘Woodrow’s’ friends were legion. Everybody knew him and liked him. He was always friendly and he was a reahpal and protector to children. “He was my buddy, my companion and he stayed at home with me and went out with me. Penned After Funeral “I’ve written a poem in tribute to ‘Woodrow’—l penned it after the funeral Monday afternoon.” Here’<i Mrs. Mack’s tribute to her dog: "WOODROW AND-1” That * right, m.v dear o'cl iloggi^. I.nok m> with ,-nnr knowing cy And lick my hand with your loving tongue * That never hag told a lie And don't he afraid, dear comrade. If your time haa come lo go. For somewhere out in that great lieyond There * g place for you, 1 know.

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will question recklessly. In philoso* phy there are no certainties; und it (pay well ho that we are wrong I thinking men capable, even now, of preserving tho security of citizens without deliberately taking life. But some day we shall not ho wring. Some day, when the tide of immigration fails, and qyery American bus gone through school ami found the doors of a hundred colleges beckoning to him, we shall he Intelligent enough to cleanse the lust of crime from our hearts, and its lure from our literature, our drama, and our press. Some day we shall be educated -enough to face tho criminal not with a perverted curiosity, not with a cruelty born only of fear, but with the understanding pity that will see, behind all violence, some disease. Some day our social order, based on tho spread of knowledge rather than on tho multiplication of prohibitory laws, will he strong enough to let us deal more leniently with fools, to let us heal ignorance calmly without staining our hands with human blood. Some day we shall not bo wrong. Meanwhile, we write and read, tho condemned have begun to die. (Copyright, 1027, by New York Telegram.)

VIGILANCE BOOSTS LIQUOR JHARGES Police Chief Cites 271 crease to Safety Board. I Increased vigilance was responsible ! for a boost in liquor charges the first | quarter of 1927, Police Chief Claude !F. Johpson said today, lie reported . an increase of 221 blind tiger and 5J I drunkenness charges over the same ! board of safety. There were 93(5 arrests on blind | tiger charges and 97(5 on charges of I Intoxication. Police charged 152 drivers with operating under influence of liquor, an Increase of 19. There were 8,923 arrests on various charges the first, quarter, compared with 7,924 in 1920. An increase of $5,875 in feosjfor traffic law violations was reported. Fees this year to date totaled $8,378. ; Building Commissioner Bert J.VVestover reported a revival of building activity. Permits issued so far this year represent n valuation of $1,359,992 more than the period last year. Total valuation to May 7 was $8,215,789. 'TOWNSHIP NOTICE SENT I State Examiner Urges Lawful Handling of Contracts. - Bo that all township purchases may he duly, recordcdr-bids received, and contracts let in lawful manner, Lawrence F. (>rr, chief examiner of the State Board of Accounts, sent a circular letter and seven lnt flfl | forms to be used as classified notices to bidders to all township trustees. The letter points out that under the law these forms’ must bo used and a copy sent forthwith to the State Board. “Tl o best Interests of the township demand competition in bidding,” it reads, "Contracts must he let according to law. In assisting that trustees follow our instructions in this regard we are endeavoring to obtain for the taxpayers tho most for their money and we are sure that we can expect your co-operation to that end.” TWO REPORTED MISSING police Sock Mrs. Berilia .Muhin, M ho Disappeared Tttesduj. Two missing persons were on tho police docket today. Mrs. Bertha Muhin, 44, loft her home at 4301 Wlnthrop Ave., at 9:30 a. in. Tuesday, lrer husband told police, and failed to return. Ho said F'o recently underwent un operation ; id he fears Rhe may*have become 111 or is suffering an amnesia attack. She did not wear a hat and had on a gray dress and brown sweater whej* last seen. Officials of the Central Insane Hospital ask police to locale Frederick White, 32. of 1521 Wilcox St., who left the grinds.

SAFETY RALLY PLANNER C. I. & W. Entertainment Saturday at Guard Armory. The safety and welfare, depat';ment of the C. I. & W. Railroad wIH ; hold a safety rally and entertaini ment at the Indiana National Guard j Armory, 711 N. Pensylvania St., Saturday evening, to stimulate inter* ! est in accident prevention. There will be corrtmunity singing, vocal selections, instrumental solos, motion pictures and dancing. Tho public is invited. LIQUOR CAR PROBE ON I Auto Taken From Garage Seized by Sheriff. A, hold-up, following which a stolen auto laden with liquor was seized by Sheriff Omer Hawkins, was investigated by police today. John Hohl, lloosler Ambulance Service manager, 518 E. McCarty : St., , said two armed young white 'men came Into tho garage, hold him and three men In the garage and took the auto, bearing Michigan | license, now being held by the sheriff. BOY KNOCKED OFF BIKE , Ted Sell lea gel, 11, of 3818 Brookwood St., suffered an injured right 1 leg and lacerations above the left eye Tuesday when knocked from bbt bicycle by an Indianapolis PadH and Color Company truck, driven Phillip Ford, 22, of 1607 Draper St. Accident occurred at 417 Howard St.. Ford did not see the hoy, riding a bicycle to school, because his view was obstructed by a parked furniture truck, he said. The yoyth was taken home and his injuries dressed.