Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1927 — Page 9

Second Section

RAUB ASSAILS COUNCIL FOR ‘PLUM GRAB’ Impeachment Threats Held Over Mayor to Get Jobs, Moore Told. HOODWINKING CHARGED 'No Move Made for Ousting of Duvall at Recessed : Conference. Councilman Edward B. Raub, iDemocrat, today charged the threat of majority faction councilmen to impeach Mayor John L. Duvall “was Only a club over the mayor’s head.” The move to oust Duvall and Mrs. Duvall, city controller, died Tuesday night, with a heated argument between Raub and Boynton J. Moore, majority faction member, who a lew days ago revived the impeachment idea. It was the second impeachment threat of majority councilmen. Monday night, on motion of Councilman Otis Bartholomew, the council voted unanimously to recess twenty-four hours, the inference being that an impeachment resolution was not feady and would be presented by Moore Tuesday night. Bartholomew introduced the first impeachment proceedings. Impeachment Talk Hushed Meanwhile, Mayor Duvall "made certain changes” Tuesday to appease irate councilmen. Two relatives of Moore were promoted to better positions. No mention of the predicted impeachment resolution was made at Tuesday night’s meeting until Councilman Raub reminded members that the majority faction had promised a resolution after the recess. “Where is the impeachment resolution?" Raub demanded of Moore. “Did you ever hear me say I would introduce such resolutions: Moore replied. Raub Wants Action “Yes, you said last night that you would, and the purpose of the recess was to give you time to complete it,” Raub insisted. Raub continued: “Some of us unwittingly agreed to a recess with the understanding that more time was needed to prepare the resolution. Now it seems that political patronage was in the minds of some councilmen and part of us have been used as tools. “I understand certain concessions and appointments were made by the mayor today, and this seems to explain the attitude of some councilmen tonight. The same thing happened to the previous impeachment sesolutlon. “These repeated threats seem to have only one effect, and that is to create changes in the administration. For myself, I do not want to be a party to such business and i I apologize to the citizens of InI dianapolis.” L Won’t Be Intimidated I The tilt was ended by a move for I adjournment. [ “You can’t intimidate me,” Raub I told Moore after the meeting. L Councilman Robert E. Spring■steen, Democrat, explained that he ■Voted for recess Monday night beBcause he believed the majority sacPtion was acting in "good faith and in response to the public cry for removal of the Duvall family.” "I came here tonight hoping the change would be carried -out,” Springsteen said. Councilman Austin H. Todd, who frequently votes with the "majority,” was silent during the meeting. He afterwards issued a statement declaring he was not associated with the majority faction. .-"411 never did belong to the majority faction and don’t want my name mentioned with it,” he said. An ordinance rezoning FiftySeventh and Central Ave., was amended to allow a school and bar business houses. ADVICE ON SEED WHEAT Purdue Staff Member Gives Suggestion for Farmers. By Vnited Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. s.—Farmers should immerse seed wheat in water just before sowing in order to separate any cheat seed therein from the grain, is the advice of A. A. Hansen of the Purdue extension staff. If this is done the cheat seeds will float to the surface and can be easily skimmed off. The wheat then should be thoroughly dried before seeding. “The common belief that cheat is, degenrate wheat is untrue, since cheat plants come from cheat seeds only,” Hansen says. “It is a mistake to use seed wheat badly contaminated with cheat. In wheat intended for the mill, cheat should be removed before grinding, since it may impart undesirable properties to the flour.” SLASH WARREN LEVY l| First slash in the Marion County ■taxing unit budgets was made by the ■State tax board today immediately ■following a hearing on the Warren ■Township rate, set at $1,215. Nine ■cents was lopped off, making the ■final rate $1,125. I It was discovered that $6,500 State Kchool revenue due the township ■was overlooked, which cut the budIget 5 cents. ■ The township board agreed to ■spread their abandonment of tempoBrary loans over a two-year period, ■butting off an additional 4 cents. ■Amount to abandon such had been Bolaced in the budget at SIO,OOO and Rvas later cut to $5,000.

Pull Leased Wire Bervlce nl the United Press Associations.

PUT A BIRDIE IN YOUR HOME

That’s Indianapolis Slogan, in New Canary Craze

BY GLADYS CRAIG EF you haven’t a little canary in your home, you’ll be ashamed to show your face at the bridge club-before long. For, at the present rate, there soon will be few homes without a little songster, according to Richard Ward of Ward’s Pet Shop, Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. From 100 to 150 canaries a week are imported into Indianapolis from Germany. They are part of the lot which, just now, is coming to the United States from Germany at the rate of 20,000 a week. It’s' hard to determine whether a sudden affection for the feathered songsters or the attractive cages they come in has caused the keeping of canaries to become so fashionable in Indianapolis. Certainly, the fanciers say, the elaborate affairs the little yellow fellows trill about in these days add a note of beauty to any living or dining room. * ♦ * ■p. RACTICALLY all canaries received in Indianapolis come from the Hartz mountain district in Germany, according to Ward. Very few Americans are willing to bother

PLAN ANNUAL RILEnRIBUTE Simple Rites Will Mark Poet’s Anniversary. “The simple ideals” characteristic of his work will mark the celebration here Friday of James Whitcomb Riley’s birthday, the James Whitcomb RilDey Memorial Association announced today. At 10 a. m. school children will gather at the Riley home on Lockerbie St., for a short program. William A. Hough, a friend of Riley, will speak and recite some of his poems. Following this, a group of old friends and associates will go to Crown Hill Cemetery to lay the annual wreath of tribute on his grave. In the afternoon Riley Hospital, built in the poet’s memory, will be open to the public and a program given. Members of the association and guests will attend an informal dinner and brief ceremony in the evening.

WIGGINS IN BRAWL Aged Bystander Knocked Down'in Fist Fight. Police today were searching for Chuck Wiggins, late sparring partner of Gene Tunney, following an unscheduled, one-round bout in front of the Traction Terminal Bldg. Tuesday night In which an innocent bystander was the victim. Police reported that Wiggins was gone when they reached the scene, but they learned that Wiggins and Sam Markowitz, his former trainer, got into an argument which developed into a fist fight on the sidewalk. In some manner C. W. Wilson, 74, of 4102 E. Tenth St., walked into one of the swinging fists, whose police could not determine, and was knocked down, with his nose freely bleeding. An angry crowd collected and Wiggins departed.

CITY CHRISTIAN PASTOR IS TAKEN BY DEATH The Rev. D. H. Richardson Centenary Church Minister Two Years. The Rev. Dana H. Richardson, pastor of the Centenary Christian

In

Rev. Dana H. Richardson

the pastorate of the Ceptenary Church in January, 1926. He is survived by the widow.

SUN SHINES AGAIN FOR LITTLE MAXIE, BUT DIAMONDS’ GLITTER IS GONE

By United Fresa rr-rpw york, Oct. s.— Little IMaxie, by and large, had made out pretty well in years gone by as a salesman of glass diamonds. But after getting caught a couple or three times, he decided to abandon such ways of living and became an honest bartender at a Christie St. speak-easy. Then, one day, a well-dressed man dropped into John Ecker’s shoe shop at Hicksville, Long Island. He was much taken with Hicksville and was going to buy a home there and add his dignity to its citizenship while he sent his oldest daughter to college.

with the tiresome detail of raising and training the birds. Imagine yourself handling a canary’s young—they have to be fed exclusively upon hard boiled eggs for several weeks. Your true German bird lover, however, raised canaries with pleasure. He must. After several months of anxious watchfulness he can market each bird for the expert trade for about sl. It is difficult to keep canaries through the mountain winter, so the German’s part with their flocks before Nov. 1. The raising of birds is merely a sideline with these Germans. If they are wealthy, they maintain large birdrooms with high ceilings where the birds are allowed their freedom, isl they are peasants, they usually make a breeding room out of the attic, or some other room of the house where the birds will be undisturbed. * * * GjERMAN fanciers make song a specialty. One family will gather fifty birds or more from the neighborhood and conduct a singing school. The birds learn to sing by imitation, and some times an expert roller is placed in the room to train the potential young coloraturas.

The Times Sworn Statement MADE UNt>ER THE POSTAL LAW. Statement of the Ownership, Management. Circulation, etc., required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of The Indianapolis Times, published daily, except Sunday, at Indianapolis, Indiana, for October, 1, 1927, State of Indiana, County of Marion, ss: Before me, a notary public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Wm A. Mayborn. who haying been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Business Manager of The Indianapolis Times, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and beiief, a true statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor and business manager are: PUBLISHER Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 214-220 West Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Ind. EDITOR Boyd Gurley 3216 N. Pennsylvania Street MANAGING EDITOR Stanley Tullsen 640 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, Ind. BUSINESS MANAGER William A. Mayborn 3251 Park Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. 2. That the known owners are: The E. W. Scripps Cos.. Hamilton, Ohio; G. B. Parker, Cleveland, Ohio; the Roy W. Howard Cos., Wilmington, Delaware; Thomas L. Sidlo, Cleveland, Ohio; the Robert P. Scripps Cos., Hamilton, Ohio; the Managers Finance Cos., Cincinnati, Ohio; W. W. Hawkins, New York City; the Third Investment Cos., Cincinnati, Ohio; the Fifth Investment Cos., Wilmington, Delaware; Hazel P. Hostetler, Cleveland, Ohio. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders holding one per cent 11%) or more of the total of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: Wabash Realty and Loan Cos., Terre Haute, Indiana. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the uames ot the owners, stockholders and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon tie books of the company, but also in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation the name of the person or corporation for -whom such trustee is acting. Is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustee, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is 65,608 WM. A. MAYBORN, Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this Ist day of October, 1927. (SEAL) W. B. NICEWANGER, Notary Public. My commission expires Jan. 29. 1928.

Juries in Indiana Easier on Habitual Criminals

Michigan Life for Gin’ Term far More Severe Than Hoosier Action. Indiana juries, composed of men who live in the State nationally known for its severe 'iquor law and one of the pioneer States in the adoption of the habitual criminal law, have not taken the law as seriously as has Michigan. - Last week Fred Palm of Lansing, Mich., was sentenced to life imprisonment for possession of a pint of gin, under the habitual criminal law. Investigation of records in the Marion County Criminal Court show that on July 26, 1926, a Shelby County citizen was given only one to five years in prison for possession and operation of a still by a Jury that entirely ignored the habitual criminal act. An affidavit was sworn out against Walter Snepp, 42, and approved by Ralph Adams, Shelby County prosecutor, March 13, 1926. It cited two other felonies committed by the defendant and charged possession and operation of the still and habitual criminality. The case was venued to this county. Special Judge John W. Roltzman and a jury heard the evidence. After a short deliberation, the jury found Snepp guilty of possession and operation of the still. The other felonies set out in the affidavit were: That ' nepp was sentenced to one to fourteen years for grand larceny, March 28, 1911, and in 1915, after serving the required part of the sentence, was

Church, Eleventh and Oxford Sts., died at the Indiana Christian Hospital, at 6:30 a. m. today following an operation for appendicitis. The pastor, who lived at 1033 Parker Ave., underwent an operation Aug. 1 from which he was convalescing when his conditions caused him to he returned to the hospital last Saturday for a second operation. The Rev. Richardson assumed

That appealed to John, for he knew college girls needed shoes. About that time a big man, with a solitaire sparkling in his cravat, came in. He, too, thought hicksville would be a fine place to live. He would buy a house if he only could dispose of twenty-four beautiful smuggled diamonds. The visitor show'ed them the twenty-four—all four-carat stones. He’d sell them pretty chea? if he could get cash. • • * mOHN was interested, but the stranger wouldn’t take a chance until his jeweler friend from Maiden Lane passed upon them. The jeweler friend

The Indianapolis Times

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1927

When a finished artist is not available among the canaries, the Germans, use a bird organ. Eighty per cent of the birds trained by these organs become expert roller canaries. The organs cost from $8 to S4O each, but they do not last in the American climate and soon become out of order. * * * —ANY times the trainers add W[ to the repertoire of the birds by use of flutes, triangles, pianos, organs, and other musical instruments, the flute b ing the instrument best adapted to the bird’s voice. Birds with harsh, sharp, choppy voices immediately are removed from the group. American-bred canaries, with their untrained voices, compare very poorly with those which have received their training abroad Roller canaries have the artistic temperament, and often are peevish and fretful. They are polygamous, but show a very engaging disposition during courtship. Most Americans choose their birds for its pure yellow coloring rather than for its trained voice. Dealers still are struggling to teach the public that “fine feathers do not make fine birds.”

convicted in Yuma County, Ariz., for robbery and sentenced to ten years in prison.

LAY PHONE CABLES Increased Service Will Be Provided by Extensions. Largely increased telephone service will be provided for residents of Forrest Manor and St. Andrews additions by new underground cable lines being laid by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Four and one-half miles of underground cable are being laid from Massachusetts Ave. and Tenth St., north and east. This will provide telephone service for many applicants in that section who heretofore have been unable to obtain service. The addition could accommodate 3,600 phones if necessary. Another cable line, five and onehalf miles in length, is being laid underground along the National Rd. between Roena St. and Bridgeport. This will mean that the Terre Haute to Dayton cable will be in underground conduit for five miles each side of Indianapolis, ana that telephone service will be extended west of the city. The two projects will cost approximately SIOO,OOO. John L. Sullivan he]£ the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter—from 1882 to 1892.

came, with his microscope, his funny glass that fit in his eye and many vials of colored liquids. “Look good,” said he scanning ' the diamonds. “I’ll give them the acid test.” He poured a green fluid which hight have been creme de menthe over one diamond at a time. “That,” he said, “is bombastic acid. It will dissolve anything but a diamond. If these stones don’t dissolve, they are diamonds.” The stones didn’t dissolve. S5 there was much bargaining. The expert appraised them at $28,000 and finally the stranger agreed to buy them for $9,000 if Jonn Ecker would loan him $4,000

HOPES RAISED FOR CONCRETE PAVING FIRMS City Hall Shakeup Heralds New Day, Declaration of Lobbyists. CONES FAVORS CHANGE Reorganized Works Board Expected to Put Material on Fair Basis. It’s an ill wind that blows nobody some good. Concrete interest lobbyists chanted that old saying today as they roamed about city hall corridors and congratulated each other on Tuesday’s board of works shake-up. For the concrete paving boosters expect much easier sailing with the new board of works. With Frank Cones as new board president and Virgil Vandagrifft removed they anticipate a change in the concrete specifications which will result in more concrete streets being laid in Indianapolis. Fair Basis for Concrete Cones declared one of the first things the new board will do will be to put concrete on a fair competitive basis with asphalt. Present concrete specifications call for a nine-inch depth with 67 pounds of steel reinforcement to 100 square foot of paving. Previous specifications have been for a eightinch depth with 42 pounds of steel reinforcement. The higher specifications, concrete interests declare, increases the cost of concrete paving $1 a lineal foot and makes property owners seek asphalt when many would prefer concrete if the specifications were not unnecessarily high and costs high. Forced to Petition it Cones and John Friday, who with the new member, Charles Riddle, compose the present board, are regarded as friendly to concrete. At the time concrete was given its old place on the specifications list and the specifications were made higher Cones and Friday declared they had nothing to do with the action. Before that concrete had literally been out in the cold. •It was not included among the paving materials on which bids were asked. Property owners were forced to petition it before bids were asked on it. Hoosier Kills Self By Vnited Press MT. VERNON, Ind., Oct. 5. Adam Bayer, 59, a retired farmer and Automobile salesman, committed suicide in the basement of his home early today by shooting. Mrs. Bayer discovered the body at the foot of the basement stairs when she started down the stairway to fire the furnace. Despondency over ill health was believed to have been the cause. The widow and four children survive. 1 Presbyterians Meet Rtl Vnited Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. s.—More than 175 pastors from over the State are here today attending the 102d conference of the synod of the Indiana Presbyterian Church. Preliminary sessions began Tuesday. The conference will close Thursday.

ROSS SELECTED AS ROTARY CLUB CHIEF Hub Party Enjoys Landslide at Annual Meeting. James A. Ross, of the law firm of I.latson, Carter, Ross & McCord, was elected president of the Rotary

Club when the Hub party made a landslide of the election at the annual meeting and revue at the Claypool Hotel, Tuesday night. Ross will sucSparks. Other officers elected: Alfred Henry, first vice president and director; Clark S. Wheeler, second

i ■■ ■ ■ ■

J. A. Ross

vice president and director: Earl W. Showaiter, secretary and director; Eugene D. Foley, treasurer; Clyde A. Bowers, sergeant-at-arms and Joel B. L. Ryde, director. Entertainment included an appearance of Count Vernl Vici and his Symphonic Girls, headlining at B. F. Keith’s and a burlesque meeting of the Rotary directors. Forty-four government employes are provided to serve the President of the United States in the White House.

and take the diamonds as security. John did. But his friends never came back to Hicksville. • • • r~"]HE village jeweler looked at the diamonds, and found I 1 I them plate glass, not long out of Pittsburgh. So John called on the district attorney, who called on the New York police; and they went to their card index of diamond switchers, “box men” and the like. “It’s little Maxie,” pronounced the detectives. For Maxie it was serious business. With three convictions behind him, a fourth meant life imprisonment under New York’s Baumes law. Little Maxie protested innocence.

Beauty Taste 100 Per Cent

.*.*.*.* v.'iv ‘‘ /**.*!♦ *xv ****** *.*.*.* W vX'!' > **** , *^^p *•*•*•* ******* Iv.vX •***•*•*•*• • .-.v. **• *.*.*.*•

Freshmen at the University of Oklahoma have passed at least one examination this year—their taste for beauty seems to grade about 100 per cent. They chose Miss Marguerite Croy (above) of Drumright, Okla., as class queen.

INDIANA MINE PARLEYOPENS Operators and Union Leaders Confer at Terre Haute. Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 5. Indiana’s coal mine strike may be ended as the result of a conference which opened here today between members of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators Association and officials of District 11, United Mine Workers of America. Following settlement of the strike in Illinois and lowa, the Indiana operators Tuesday invited the union leaders to a discussion of terms foi this State. The Invitation was extended after a conference of operators, as informal, but believed to have included men representative of the entire industry in the State. lowa Mines Reopened Ru Vnited Press DES MOINES, lowa, Oct. 5. Coal mines ot lowa reopened today after a six-month strike. The wage dispute between miners and operators was settled yesterday, on a basis similar to that adopted in Illinois, Saturday. About 9,000 lowa miners were affected. Under the agreement, the miners will be paid on the Jacksonville scale, which expired last April, pending arbitration of the wage and profit situation.

OBSERVE YOM KIPPUR Jewish Services Will Start Tonight. Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement,” will be observed in Indianapolis Jewish synagogues tonight and Thursday. Services will be conducted at the Temple, Tenth and Delaware Sts., by Rebbi M. M. Feuerlicht, at 7 tonight and all day Thursday starting at 9:30 a. m. Rabbi Feuerlicht will speak tonight on “Wherein Have We Sinned?” Thursday he will speak on Nationalism and Internationalism.” Rabbi S. A. Katz will conduct services at 6 tonight at the synagogue, at 1039 S. Meridian St., and at 10 a. m. Thursday at the Synagogue at Meridian and Merrill Sts. 3 ESCAPE FROM JAIL By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. s.—Three men are free today after a break from the Madison County jail here Tuesday night. They are Ralph Leever, 23, facing a petit larceny charge; John Barnett, 17, Negro, vehicle taking, and Kenneth Sexton, 18, contributing to delinquency. The prisoners worked a lock on the second floor of the Jail, Sheriff Frank Daniels believes.

But everyone Identified him. Maxie, in his day, had sold too many glass diamonds. So he was found guilty and went to jail to await his life sentence. But in the next cell was a man who knew a little about the glass diamond trade and the people in it. He sent word to police that they ought to take a look at Abe -Schwartz. The police did. AncTSUre enough, one couldn’t tell which was Maxie and which was Abe. * • • B’ I’JT the folks who live by selling the Woolworth i__l tower to the visitor from far away, and who retail the

Second Section

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis.

EXPECT ARREST IN DEATH Confessed Slayer Insists No One Else Is Involved, By Vnited Press WOODBURY, N. J., Oct. s.—Another arrest was expected today in connection with the murder of Rose Sarlo, 17, who was slain early Sunday morning. After questioning George Yawow, confessed slayer, for four hours Tuesday, Sheriff John B. Stratton dispatched several state troopers under Jacob K. Tryson, deputy sheriff, on a hunt, presumably to bring in a man for examination. Yarrow has maintained no one else was connected with the crime, but officials continued to question him because of the insistence of Blanche Sweeten that another man besides Yarrow was standing beside the latter’s automobile just before he drove off with Miss Sarlo. Police investigating the assertion of Yarrow’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Sylvia Michaels, that Yarrow killed his wife, believe that the missing woman still is alive. A young woman in Atlantic City Tuesday said she had seen Mrs. Yarrow there within two weeks. The funeral of Miss Sarlo was to be held today from St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, where she has taught a catechism class of forty children.

CAPITAL ORGANIZES FOR FUND CAMPAIGN Work Among State Employes Is Outlined. Workers In the state employes division of the Community Fund met this afternoon in the office of Pliny Wolford, secretary of Governor Jackson, to organize for the campaign, which begins Nov. 4. Wolford is chairman of the State employes division. Included among those who will actively assist in carrying out the plans of the State employes division are Lewis Bowman, Lawrence Orr, John A. Brown. Russell Bozart, Theodore Kingsbury and Miss Ethel Hoffman. This afternoon’s meeting was addressed by Robert Bryson, director of the public employes group of Community Fund workers, who outlined the plans be followed in next month’s drive. Medical Society Meets By Vnited Press SOUTH BEND. Ind., Oct. s.—Approximately 125 physicians and surgeons ot northern Indiana are In South Bend today for the annual meeting of the thirteenth district medical society. Dr. P. C. Traver Is in charge of arrangements and clinics will be led by Dr. A. S. Giordano, South Bend.

Brooklyn bridge on the Installment plan, knew the difference. “Come clean” they said to Schwartz—and Schwartz recalled that ,he had no previous convictions back of him and a sentence wouldn’t be a life sentence for him, and came clean. Last night the gates of Nassau County jail swung wide open and through them walked Maxie straight away to Christie St. "Your job Is waiting for you,” said the owner of the speakeasy. And on Christie St. there was a block party: the folks all came and little Maxie told how ' the man in the cell next to his had saved him from life in Sing Sing.

BOARD CLOSES HEARINGS ON COUNTY TAXES All Budgets Are Taken Under Advisement With Briefs Asking Cut. PROMISE RULINGS SOON Tax Board Chairman Proves McCullough’s Champion at Meeting. Following a strenuous day of listening to objectors to proposed tax levies in Marion County Tuesday, t l -" State tax board closed the local . nngs this morning by listening to arguments for and against the proposed levy of $3.30 for Warren Township. Perry and Center Townships were heard Tuesday afternoon. All tax unit budgets were taken under advisement, together with briefs suggesting rate cuts submitted by the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. Tax Board Chairman John J. Brown announced that Informal hearings may be held if new facts are wanted and that the board would rule in these matters as soon as possible. Brown Champions McCullough The closing session Tuesday was on the proposed sanitary district levy of $.115 and resolved itself into a sort of testimonial meeting in vindication of Maintenance Superintendent E. W. McCullough of the garbage and sewage disposal plants. McCullough was the target of critical attack recently when he was given the position at $6,000 annually and the establishment of the Job postdated. Brown proved to be a champion of the superintendent, backing him on the record made at the garbage disposal plant since 1922. William H. Book of the civic affairs committee turned out to be a lone critic. McCullough cited figures showing a loss of $1,047 a ton on by-products in 1922 when he came to the plant and a constant yearly increase of profit to $.959 last year and an estimate of $2 net gain this season. Mrs. Duvall on Sidelines Book pointed out that McCullough was brought here as supervising engineer and was in charge of construction of the new plant, having little to do with the old one, on which the record until this year was based. He attributed the Increased profit to “market conditions.” The Chamber of Commerce objected to the proposed rate, but had no specific suggestions, Book de dared. Newly appointed City Controller Mrs. John L. Duvall made her first appearance before the board at the hearing on the civil city levy shortly after noon Tuesday. She sat on the sidelines, however, and had nothing to say. Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew, finance committee chairman, and Corporation Counsel Schuyler Haas defendend the proposed rate of $1,085, which objectors sought to cut to $1.03 or less. City Behind on Bills Book asserted that he had pointed out to Bartholomew that the proposed budget boosted salary appropriations and cut current expenses already in arrears. The councilman did not recall this, but Book's contention was proved when attorneys for both the water and electric utilities gave figures showing that the city is constantly behind in paying their bills for street lighting and water supply. Both Book and Harry Micsse, Indiana Taxpayers Association secretary, objected to the salary budget, which was boosted by recent police and firemen raises and those of other city employes. Support County Levy County Auditor Harry Dunn, county councilmen and commissioners appoared to support their proposed county levy of $.345, to which objection was raised by Book and others on the ground that the gravel road repair fund should be cut from 5 to 3 cents. A blanket cut to $.29 was suggested. William A. Hough, State tax board member, inquired why it was that Marion County must pay $3.75 for gravel when other Indiana counties paid but $1.75. The mystery was unsolved and the board went on to further questioning.

STATE IKE WALTONS TO HEAR NOTED SPEAKERS Judge Dickinson and Judge Landis on South Bend Program. Local Izaak Walton League members will go to South Bend, Oct. 13, to attend the annual State convention there Oct. 13-15. Indiana Supreme Court Clerk Charles L. Biederwolf, State secretary of the League, announced principal speakers will be Judge Jacob M. Dickinson, Chicago, national president, and former Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, baseball czar and sportsman. State Senator L. O. Bradford is president of the Indiana organization. State Senator Claude S. Steele of Knox will tell the gathering "What Indiana Has Done.” On Oct. 15, bait and fly-casting contests are also trapshooting and a fish fry at Playland Park.