Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1927 — Page 2

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MEXICAN REVOLT ARMY FLEES ACROSS MOUNTAINS

REBEL FORCES EVADE BATTLE; DOOmS NEAR Crushing of Revolution by Calles Seen as Matter of Few Days. RAIL TRAFFIC BLOCKED Huerta’s Brother Slain in Fray With Federals at Point Near Border. By G. F. FINE United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, Oct. B.—Rebel forces under Gen. Arnulfo Gomez and Gen. Gonzalo Hector Armada, •were reported moving southeasterly today in densely wooded mountains near Perote, in Vera Cruz. Federal troops have been unable thus far to establish contact. The government feels it is only a matter of time before the remaining rebel troops are overtaken and the revolution crushed. A report circulated in the United States earlier in the week that Vincente Gonzales had been executed in the state of Morelos was found by the United Press today to be without foundation. This correspondent talked with Gonzales over the telephone at his home. Deny Legislators Executed The earlier report said thirteen Legislators in Morelos were executed at the same time as Gonzales, but that, too, was believed baseless, the Morelos Legislature not being in session at this time. Gonzales quit his post as artillery chief and is bping replaced by Gen. Jesus H. Contreras. Arrangements for trial of Felix F. Palavicini, founder of the newspaper El Universal, have not been completed. Appeal for clemency has been made editorially by the Universal, though Palavicini no longer is connected directly with the paper. Resumption of rail traffic has improved, but is not yet completed. The inter-oceanic division of the National Railways, which crosses the States of Vera Cruz, Mexico and Puebla still -is closed to regular traffic, owing to troop movements, but is expected to be restored to normal again in a few days. Refuse American’s Request Local newspapers print full pages of photographs of the execution of Gen. Alfredo Quijano, as well as detailed accounts of the execution. The only source of information about the revolution, however, is from the government spokesman, General Alvarez. The government has refused permission to Maj. Harold Thompson, American military attache, and Col. Tanaka, Japanese attache, to visit the battle front in Vera Cruz. The president’s office made official announcement last night that Alfonso de la Huerta, brother of the former president, and six companions were killed in a conflict with federal troops at Cordan de Canada, 150 miles from JTogales. Slain in Battle i The government said the rebel group had crossed the border for the purpose of inciting the Yaqui Indians to aid the rebel leader, Gomez. They met a force of federal troops under Gen. Manuel Aguirre and were killed in the conflict, the government announced. The newspaper El Sol reported that several of the highest officials of the anti-re-electionist party have succeeded in escaping to the United States and Cuba. REVIVAL TABERNACLE JO BE BUILT IN DAY Community Leaders and Workers Are Invited to Aid. Leaders and workers from every community center in Indianapolis have been invited by the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, pastor of the University Place Christian Church, to build a tabernacle in one day at ThirtyEighth and Illinois Sts., for the North Side Evangelistic campaign which opens Oct. 16. Thirty thousand nails and 64,000 feet of lumber will be on the ground at day-break Tuesday where the workers will attempt to erect the 3,000 person capacity building. Dr. E. E. Violette, Kansas City, world traveler and orator, will be the principal feature of the thirty-day evangelistic campaign. Women’s Calender Circle Club will serve a hot lunch to workers. M. L. Clark of Clark & Staton general contracting Cos., will have charge of the work.

FOX HUNTERS TO MEET Southern Indian* Body to Convene at Connersville Monday. Bu Untied Press CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Oct. B. The annual convention of the Southern Indiana Fox Hunters’ Association will open here Monday, to continue through Friday. 7 Field trials for hounds will start at 5 o’clock each morning of the meet. In addition to a speaking program, there will be band concerts, old fiddlers’ contests and coon and fox chases during the week. Local Woman Sues By Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., Oct! B.— Mrs. Mary B. Smith, Indianapolis, asks SI,OOO damages for personal injuries in a suit filed in Pike Circuit Court here against Clarence Huebner, Stewardsville, as the result of an auto crash in Evansville, involving the car driven by her husband, Claud smith, and one driven by Huebner.

Shield ‘Them Dimples’in Knees, Edict in Capital Bp Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Mrs. Ross W. Keller, and with her all the women of Washington, have lost the right to sit in public parks Ip any manner pleasing to themselves. Hereafter they must sit, if at all, in such a way that circumspect men sitting opposite them will not stare at them in a way to attract the attention of equally circumspect cops. An officer so attracted is empowered to do one of the following things: • He may arrest the offending woman at once, “if circumstances warrant.” He may withhold action until the occurrence of some offense inspired by a woman sitter’s unusual posture. Or he may “shoo” spectators away, as Park Policeman J. B. Lawler did in Mrs. Keller’s case. This was the decision of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant 111, head of park police. Grant, descendant of the fighter-president, absolved Officer Lawler and decided he need not apologize for asking Mrs. Kelley to “pull her skirt down.” Mrs. Keller testified she had worn the skirt for six years and that though she altered neither its length nor her sitting position in all that time, no one had complained until Lawler came along. Her' husband supported her statements. . Lawler produced two witnesses who said Mrs. Keller had exposed rather more of “knee plus” than appeared necessary, anu the policeman added he spoke to her only because one of three men he tried to “shoo” away refused to “shoo.”

HURRIES NEGRO OUTJIFJTATE Georgia Officer Turns Kidnaper at Terre Haute. Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. B. Samuel Kennedy, Negro, today is being hurried back to Georgia to complete a sentence for an assault upon a white man, having been kidnaped here despite allowing of bond pending outcome of habeas corpus proceedings in Vigo Circuit Court in an effort to prevent return. Late Friday afternoon, after the court set bond, Kennedy was turned over to Roy Foncannon, Vigo sheriff, pending providing of bond, but before this was Accomplished he was taken in charge by Deputy Sheriff J. E. Ivey, Madison, Ga., and taken out of the city by automobile. Counsel for Keddedy declared the kidnaping gives them a strong case, saying “We may file charges in the Uinted States courts.” Hugh L. Barr, Foncannon’s counsel, asked about the sheriff’s nection with the spiriting away of Kennedy, said it was “without my knowledge. He can’t blame me if he gets into trouble.”

DRUGGISTS TO TELLOF WORK 300 City Stores to Join in Pharmacy Week. Three hundred Indianapolis drug stores are to be joined during National Pharmacy week, Oct: 9 to 15, in an effort better to acquaint the public with services of the neighborhood druggist. Appeal has been made to the 300 members of the Indianapolis Association of Retail Druggists by W. C. Freund, pharmacy week chairman, for special window displays of pharmaceutical products. Advertising will be used to inform the public of service given by pharmacists, who, in the last fifteen years have seen their business grow from one of the simple dispensing of drugs and medicines to the present day department store status. William A. Oren, local druggist, who was elected president of the National Association of Retail Druggists at its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo., last month, will “go on the air” from, one of the Indianapolis broadcasting stations Monday evening. George C. Schaub is president of the Indianapolis organization. Fifty-two thousand drug stores throughout the United States will give similar publicity to their business during the week, Schaub said. TWO WATCHES STOLEN Clothing Is Taken From Car Parked on Washington St. Homer Wiegand, ISIO N. Illinois St., reported the theft of a watch and a charm set with a small diamond, valued at $l4O, at the Columbia Club. Miss Emily Horner, 3912 E. Washington St., said a woman who struck up an acquaintance with her on the street stole a watch, valued at $35. Mrs. George H. Holzbog, Jeffersonville, Ind., reported a suit case and hat box containing clothing and jewelry valued at $5lB stolen from her car, parked at 27 W. Washington St.

Corner Stone Laying to Be Held Here Sunday

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On Sunday afternoon, the corner stone laying of the new Broadway Evangelical Church, FiftySixth St. and Broadway, will be held at 3 o’clock. The Rev. Carl C. Hirschman, former Indianapolis resident, but now pastor of the Calvary Evangelical Church at Cleveland, Ohio, will deliver the chief address. The pastor of the church is the Rev. L. E. Smith.

Sues W. C. T. U.; Says Beer Is Her Medicine

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Two Bottles of Brew in Dry League Member’s Refrigerator. MUSKOGEE, Okla., Oct. 3.—Because two bottles of beer were found in her icebox, Mrs. M. E. Hunt, for years a member of the W. C. T. U., has sued the temperance organization for $75,000. The W. C. T. U- members, according to Mrs. Hunt’s petition, accused Mrs. Hunt of breaking the organization’s pledge never to taste intoxicants. Mrs. Hunt says she was using the beer on a phyisician’s orders. Mrs. Hunt’s petition points out that for years she has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church: that she has been active for years in the W. C. T. U.; that she recently was a delegate to a State convention of that organization, and that she had been injured by comments of W. C- T. U. members in regard to the beer. Mrs. Hunt is a cousin of Governor George W. P. Hunt of Arizona. END MISSION PARLEY Work in New Zealand and Australia Described. “The Relation of the Layman to Missionary Work” was the topic of Dr. H. ~8. McCormick, St. Louis, Mo., promotion secretary for the United Christian Missionary Society, Friday night at a dinner for mm at the Central Christian Church closing the district convention here. Dr. Royal J. Dye, Los Angeles, and te Rev. Jesse Bader, St. Louis, Mo., who returned last week from missionary work in New Zealand and Australia, told of their experiences. Women of the Third Christian Church held a dinner at the same time. Mrs. W. F. Rothenburger, Mrs. William A. Shullenburger and Mrs. H. C. Armstrong, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. B. H. Bruner, Greencastle, spoke. Mrs. Effie Cunningham, Indianapolis, ofrmer secretary of the United Christian Missionary Society, opened the afternoon meeting. Mrs. O. H. Greist, also spoke. The Rev. W. F. Rthenburger, pastor of the Third Christian Church, spoke on “Partnership With God.” Dr. Dye spoke on “Foreign Missionary Enterprize.”

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LABOR PARLEY TAKES STRIKING STEPSONISSUES Tone of Convention’s First Week Is Conservative; Big Problems Wait. By DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Oct. B.—Marked by significant action on problems of national and international scope, the first week of the forty-seventh annual convention of the American Federation of Labor drew to a close here today with the termination of business sessions still indefinite. A plea for anew wage policy based on the productivity of the American worker; action favoring removal of all discrimination against the Negro race and an attack upon jurisdictional disputes as the greatest foe of organized Labor were the highlights of a week of intense activity. Many Questions Remain While more than ten resolutins have\ been acted upon favorably ninety-seven yet remained to be brought to the convention floor. Among them were many of the most important problems, including the Boulder Dam question, intervention in Nicaragua and China and the soliftion of the Mexican immigration dispute. Although the tone of the convention has been for the most part conservative, the strong denunciation of communism by President William A. Green and the proposal that wages be increased on the basis of the production ability of the worker, lent sensational aspects to the conclave. An address by John P. Frey of Cincinnati, secretary of the metal trades department of the Federation, launched a national movement for increased wages for organized workers demanded “increased pay on increased production.” The new basis which is expected to give labor for the first time a reliable rule of measurement by which it may discover a reasonable wage demand, is looked upon as the forerunner of important action. Frey’s address indicated that labor’s first need was a statistical bureau through which the worker would gather his own facts concerning productivity and make his own interpretations of the statistics compiled. His proposal was also interpreted to indicate that the time is not remote when labor will demand to see the ledgers of capital that it may force increases in wages proportionate to the increases in production. Consider Davis’ Plan The suggestion of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis in an address before the convention, that jurisdictional controversies be settled through a central organization of all trade unions, created for that purpose, has caused a startling reaction among the delegates. Following the address by Davis, the convention sympathies turned toward dissolution of the Federations national board of jurisdictional awards of department disputes on labor, arfci the problem has grown increasingly serious. In his address, Davis declared that jurisdictional disputes had, more than any other element, tended to divide employer and worker and further that it was the greatest obstacle in the way of collective bargaining. While some officials of the Federation were reported to be definitely opposed to bringing the matter of forming such a central organization to the floor, others were said to favor the idea. Resolutions now pending before the convention demanding the Government exercise a more strict enforcement of immigration laws as applied to entry into this country from Mexico, may be shelved as a result of Mexican labor’s proposition to assist in the solution of the problem. BIRTHS GAIN IN JAPAN Population Will Increase 1/500,000 This Year. Bp United Press TOKIO, Oct. B.—The population of Japan Proper this year will increase practically 1,500,000, if the excess of births over deaths for the rest of the year equals the phenomenal record made in the three months of January, February and March, the figures for which have been made public by the statisticians of the Home Department. •In those three months there were 708,936 babies born, while the total number of deaths were 325,248, leaving the net increase in population 383,688, a rate of increase nearly 50 per cent bigger than in 1926, which year showed up to them the greatest net increase in population in Japan in i? 5 history.

Indiana’s ‘Boys in Blue’ Went to War in Gray Uniforms Like Troops of South

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Indiana s Last Civil War Nurse Suffered in Prison

Death of Mrs. Julietta Miller Recalls Services of ’6l-’65. Bn Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. B.—Funeral services here Monday for Mrs. Julietta Smith, 86, will mark the passing of Indiana’s last surviving Civil War nurse. Mrs. Smith died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Orville L. Bickel Tuesday night after a week’s illness. Born in Albany, N. Y„ the woman destined to be a prisoner in famous Andersonville after serving wounded men of the Union Army, was married at the age of 18 to Charles Taylor, and became a resident of Connecticut, from which State her husband enlisted for service as a Union soldier. He was wounded during one of the early battles of the war and his wife, leaving their two children at their home, went to Washington, D. C., to serve as his nurse. There she saw the need for women’s services and enlisted in the nursing corps. Following her husband through the engagements at Fredricksburg and the Virginia campaigns, 1862 and 1863, Mrs. Smith in May, 1864, was captured with twenty-one other nurses by a detachment of Confederate cavalry which ihterrupted services to the wounded in Grant’s advance into the Wilderness. The nurses wore men’s clothing. Their captors hurried them off to <h? dersonville prison, which with Libby, provided two horror-ai.oa o liters of Civil War history. Only a few of those captured with Mrs. Smith survived the rigors of prison life. She was released at the close of the war and with her husband, came here to live. He died many years ago and she became the wife of Tunis P. Smith, Civil War veteran, who died several years ago. Mrs. Smith was active in patriotic organizations until a few years ago when infirmities of age confined her closely to her daughter’s home. In 1923 she was honored by election as conductor of the National Association of Civil War Nurses. BUILDERS KEEP BUSY Permits for Week Hit Mark of $368,600. Building permits for new structures valued at $368,600 were issued here this week, according to Real Estate Board records. Permits were issued for thirty-five residences, to cost $117,300. Anew apartment house will be built at 3727 N. Meridian St., by T. A. Moynahan at a cost of $205,000. Permits for three storerooms were issued, one to the Victory Cleaners for a plant at 2706 E. Michigan St., $8,600; one to Isaac George at 2528 Brookside Ave., $2,800, and one to the Western Oil Refining Company, 300 E. Thirty-Third St., $6,500. I. Marks was issued a permit for a storage house at 511 S. Delaware St., to cost $3,000. The Mercury Oil Company was issued a permit for a filling station at 1015 E. Thirtyeighth St., $7,000. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church was issued a permit for a new building to be erected at Holmes Ave. and New York St., to cost $18,400.

PLAN 40-HOUR SERVICE Catholic Rites Open Sunday Morning, Close Tuesday Night. Forty hour devotions will open at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Sunday at 10:30 a. m. with solemn high mass and will close Tuesday night with a processional. In addition to regular daily masses, services will be held at 8 p. m. Sunday and Monday. Rev. Dom. Licinio Reflce, music director at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, Rome, will conduct a double choir at Sunday’s solemn high mass. The music will be under the general direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen, with Frances Beryl Spencer as organist. Masons Meet at Richmond Bn Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., Oct. B.—Attendance exceeded 200 here Friday night at a banquet of Scottish Rite Masons of Wayne, Union and Fayette Counties.

GIRLS WORK FOR PRINCE’S VISIT Committees Are. Named for Oct. 12 Lecture. Joint councils of the Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls constitute the general committee in charge of arrangements for the visit of Prince William of Sweden to Indianapolis. Under auspices of The Times, His Royal Highness will speak at the Armory, Wednesday evening, Oct. 12, giving his famous lecture on ‘Hunting ig Game in Pygmy Land,” illustrated with 6,000 feet of film. Proceeds of the lecture go to the camping fund of the Girl Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls. Members of the committee are: Mesdames S Charles E. Cole Ralph Colby Thomas A. Wynne Oscar Jones Edward Gardner Gavin L. Payne, C Willis Adams Louise Billman John J. Brandon Linton A. Cox Louis Burckhardt Samuel Ralston Cecil Calvert Albert J. Beveridge Maxwell Droke T. C. Howe Stuart Dean Ed Jackson Carl Fletcher Henry Blatt George Fromm A. J. Clark James L. Gavin Bert S. Gadd Morris Haines Peter C. Reilley William Henry L. P. De Veiling Harrison O. C. Neier Henry 3. Hayward John T. Wheeler Harrv Jordan P. C. Laßlant Arthur R. Kling John A. Sink Arthur E. Krlck Ethel P. Clarke Hugh McK. Landon Frank L. Jones Allred Lauter N. O. Tracey Montgomery Lewis C. R. Sowder R. Harrv Miller Leoti Trook E. H. K. McComb S. E. Perkins L. H. Milliken David Ross Joseph Miner Allen T. Fleming Paul Richey C. H. Winders Frank Streightoff Nathan Kahn Theo. Vonnegut Charles Smith Misses Dorothy Bell Carrie Scott Flora t. Drake Dr. Ada Schweitzer Charlotte Howe May Beuhler Mamie D. Larsh Margaret Bruner Mary Meyers Gertrude Theumler Dr Mary' Westfall Della Thompson Bernice Smith Ina M. Gasfcill Messrs. James Ross Ed. W. Harris Lawrence Sheridan John Hook Richard Lieber E. O. Snethen Dr. Herman Morgan Albert Stump Herbert Foltz Edward Kahn Barrett Moxley Dr. E. W. Dunlavy Fred Hoke . Mark V. Rinehart Merritt Harrison Dr. H. N. Sherwood Charles Brossman Arthur C. Newby j. I Holcomb Rev. George W. Dr. Frank S. <!. Allison Wicks Dr. D. W. Rosier Earl Kieer F. E. Raschig E J. Baker Dr. E. A Robertson Rt. Rev. Francis Rev. H. T. Graham Gavisk J. Ed. Stilz R Walter Jarvis Dr. A. L. Marshall Dr J E. Kernel Lawrence McTurnan Norman A. Perry Rev. C. G. Baker Sami E. Perkins 111. Russell T. McFall Charles E. Rush E. U. Graff W. W. Southard F. T. McWhirter James A. Stuart Frank Carroll Theo. Vonnegut Samuel O. Dungan Dr. Herbert T. Curtis Hodges Wagner T. C. Howe Carl Wagner J. C. Sprii^er T. Neil Wynne James A. Post Charles R. Yoke Dr. F. A. Wlldason John I. Kautz

ORGANIZE REALTY FIRM N. Meridian St. Company to Purchase Lease on Property. The 1010 North Meridian Street Realty Company was organized Thursday with SIO,OOO capitalization to purchase a ninety-nine year lease held by Cartmell-Burcaw-Moore, Inc., oin property at 1010 N. Meridian St. Incoporators were Wayne M. Harryman and William T. Pearcy of the Washington Bank and Trust Company, and Francis W. Payne, attorney, 5345 University* Ave. Pumpkin Crop Short By Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct. B—Canning company officials estimate that Jackson County’s pumpkin crops this year lis 35 per cent short and point to shortage t)f other canning crops this season. They estimate corn 40 per cent below normal; beans, 40 per cent and tomatoes, 65 per cent.

Hen Race RU United Press OMAHA, Neb., Oct. B.—Disputes over candidates for egg laying honors threatened today to become an epic of the barnyard, or a lay of the hens or some such species of literature. While Babe Ruth, otherwise known as Lady Norfolk, laid her 162nd egg in 162' days under official recognition, chicken experts discussed the rival claims of Lady Skyline of Canon City, Colo., who was said to have laid her 227th egg in 227 days yesterday, and of a mysterious and as yet unidentified hen in western Nebraska for whom was claimed 273 eggs in 273 days.

Ten Surviving Members of ‘3rd Cavalry’ Here for Reunion. Indiana Union soldiers were not the “boys in blue,” but actually wore gray uniforms, the color of the Southern Confederacy. At least such was the case at the start of the Civil War, when the regiment later known as the Third Indiana Cavalry went forth in 1861 as the First Indiana Mounted Volunteers. Authenticity of this information was vouched for Thursday when ten surviving members of the “old Third Cavalry” gathered for annual reunion at the Statehouse. Wilkenson Is Commander The gathering has been an annual event since 1869, Lieut T. B. Wilkenson, commander of the veterans’ organization, declared Wilkenson, who lives at Knightstown, is the sole surviving officer. The muster roll of the regiment was 1,200 in Civil War days. “You see the Indiana State uniform was gray,” Thomas Day, 86, Vemilles, one of the liveliest of the aged veterans explained. “Colonel Conrad Baker organized our regiment and equipped us with the gray uniforms. We used to say that we had the ‘Rebs’ uniform and we were going out to take his flag. “Another thing not generally known is that Stonewall Jackson got his name from being barricaded with his men behind a stone wall and not like the story-his-tory books say.” Comes From Oregon Day has a fund of other information with which he makes the, final re inions lively. ‘ Comrade E. T. Bryant came all the way from Oregon to attend. He brought a box of semi-precious stones which he has been gathering in the West for years. Other members are John A. Moore, Bloomington, 111.; Newell Morrison, Jackson County; Francis Large, Madison; H. V. Weaver, Greenwood; Simpson Burgin, Zionsville, and William Watthington, Madison. The latter's daughter, Mrs. H. Belle Dow, Indianapolis, acts as secretary.

ASSAIL CORRUPTION National Party’s State Chiefs Are Named. Condemnation of political corruption in Indiana was expressed i#i a resolution adopted Friday night by the State executive committee of the National party at 336 American Central Life Bldg. Citizens were invited to join the National party “in order to clear the fair name of our state and to restore it to its high and respectful place among the other States of the Nation.” John Zahnd, Indianapolis, national chairman, presided. Leonard G. Simmonds, manager of the Allied Truck and Equipment Company, was chosen State chairman; Dr. Elva C. King of Corydon, vice chairman; Miss Nancy A. Hicks of Indianapolis, secretary, and Wiley J. Reminger of Indianapolis, treasurer. State advisory board members selected were: H. Earl Brown of Franklin; Edward W. Clark of Indianapolis; Henry O. Shaw of Zionsville, John A. Kern of Brookston and Edgar Pettit of Bedford. Candidates for State offices will be nominated at the next meeting in January. A movement is taking shape in the Indiana organization to suggest Zahnd’s name as the State’s choice for the patry’s United States presidential nomination.

SEEK CHURCH FUNDS Plans Completed to Raise SIBO,OOO to Pay for Broadway M. E. Church. A committee to complete plans for raising SIBO,OOO to defray final costs of the new S4QD,OOO Broadway M. E. Church and community hall, Fall Creek Blvd. and Broadway, was appointed at a dinner meeting Thursday night. About 350 attended. Dr. J. Wesley Miller, Chicago, campaign director, announced the drive would begin Oct. 21. J. Edward Morris was appointed general and Roy N. Downs and C. P. Whitlock majors. Other committee niembers are F. A. Likely, F. F. Bates, Albert Brown, P. A. Cooling, O. M. Conner, A. G. Wilson, Frank Ebner and J. A. Shearer.

OCT. 8, 1927

CLEAN-UP WEEK IS JOINED WITH FIRE PREVENTION Program Is Arranged for. Semi-Annual Move for City Sanitation. The semi-annual clean-up campaign will be observed in Indianapolis beginning Monday, in connection with Fire Prevention week, Harmon E. Snoke, Junior Chamber of Commerce secretary, announced today. Elaborate plans for Fire Prevention week have been made by Chairman Frank C. Jordan and his chamber committee. Arrangements have been made with the board of sanitary commissioners to haul away all trash and rubbish from homes, except straw, paper, leaves and tree limbs. Trash is to be placed in suitable containers in alley or on front curb line in case there is no alley. Containers must be small enough to be handled easily bjr one man. Clean-up program will be spread over two weeks this fall. Next week collections will be made in the east and south sections, including everything east of the L. E. & W. Railroad north of Washington St. and east of White river south of Washington St. Tfle remainder of the city will be covered the following week. Slogan Is Adopted In combining Clean-Up and Fire Prevention weeks the slogan, “Clean Property Seldom Burns,” has been adopted. / Indianapolis has made an excellent record in fire prevention in recent years, each year showing reduction in fire loss. Toll for the first nine months of this year has been $51,000 less than for the same period last year. Through fire prevention work, Indianapolis has advanced half way from a second-class to a first-class fire insurance base rating. The city has beep divided Into seven districts and a record will be kept to learn which districts have fewest fires. Inspections will be mpde by forty city firemen under ten Inspectors from the fire prevention division. Fire Drills Arranged Fire drill exhibitions have been arranged by Horace W. Care, chief of the fire prevention division, for next week. Drills will be held Monday at Goldstein Brothers department store at 8 a. m., Vonnegut Hardware Company at 9 a. m., and Indianapolis Candy Company, 225 E. Maryland St., at 9:30 a. m. Other points of interest during the week will be fire drills in schools, lectures in fire stations, radio talks, civic club talks, essay contests in schools, demonstrations of call box operations, campaign for fireproof roofs, training for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and many others Executive committee for the program includes Chairman Jordan, J. W. Stichney, vice chairman, insurance representative: Fire Chief Jesse A. Hutsell; Horace W. Carey, chief of fire prevention division, and J. Curran, Indianapolis Salvage Corps head.

OBEY LAW IS PLEA Personal Liberty Is Dangerous Says Educator. “There is no personal liberty today,” said Dr. Stanley Coulter, former dean at Purdue University, Friday, before the noon luncheon of the Optimists Club in the Claypool. "When persons seek personal liberties, civilization crumbles. We find insidious evasion of the law even among our best citizens. Indiana’s fetid atmosphere is reeking of corruption in high places. A clarion call for good citizenship is needed for today. “What we need is men—good men and competent citizens,” said Dr. Coulter. Most of us evade laws and violate laws when it is not convenient for us to obey them. We must obey the law to preserve cMllzatlon. The price of civilization is the surrender of a part of our personal liberty.” Dr. Coulter ended his talk by pleading with the Optimists to stand back of law observation and work for a higher demonstration of clean citizenship. FIGHTS TUBERCULIN TES Prosecution of Porter County Dairyman May Mean Showdown. Bu Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. B— Two actions are on file in Porter Circ’.ilt court to determine whether or not Indiana’s statute on tuberculin testing of cattle has teeth. Louis Gast, Valparaiso city aiderman and dairy farm owner, is the defendant on charges that he refused to permit his cattle to be tested and that he violated a quarantine placed on his farm, having sold milk after posting of the quarantine notice. Known as a bitter foe of the testing law, Gast asserts it is ineffective because it does not apply to feeder cattle, which he asserts are often in close contact with dairy cattle to which the test does apply.

Family Affair Bn Times Special CLAY CITY, Ind., Oct. B. Doss Church Joined his father, Algie Church, at the State penal farm, both having been convicted of violating the prohibition law. Six weeks ago the father was fined SSOO and sentenced to six months at the farm. His son moved to his father’s home and took up the liquor business, was caught and convicted, receiving the same sentence as his parent.