Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1928 — Page 15
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INDIANA FIRM M NATIONAL TRADEDRIVE Showers Furniture Announces Opening of Advertising Campaign. NEW BUILDING READY Structures for Two Industries at Anderson Completed. Announcement of a national advertising campaign by the Showers Brothers Furniture Company, with . plants at Bloomington and Bloomfield, Ind., and Burlington, lowa, is outstanding in a business survey of Indiana covering the first few days of 1928. While the amount to be spent was not stated, it is announced that the campaign will be on a much larger scale than the one a few years ago which cost SIOO,OOO. The survey shows the following conditions in various cities of the , State: BLOOMINGTON--The limestone industry will have one of the most successful years in its history, is the prediction of Lawrence H. Whiting, chairman of the Limestone Corporation board of directors. The corporation has unfilled orders assuring seven months of operations, Whiting said. Work has begun on erection of the new SIOO,OOO building of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Burned Factory Replaced ANDERSON Operations have been resumed in the new maisonette frock department of the WardStilson Company. The building formerly housing the department was burned in September. The welded fabric plant addition to the American Steel and Wire mill has been completed. MARlON—Several carloads of machinery have arrived for installation in the plant of the newly organized Marion Tool Company. Officials announced intention of getting the factory ready for operations at the earliest date possible. Hoosier Cleaners, Inc., recently formed by the merger of three companies, announces plans to establish a wholesale cleaning plant. The South Marion Auto Supply Company has bought two buildings adjoining its present property to take care of expansion. PERU—The Chamber of Commerce announces completion of negotiations with Swift & Cos., Chicago packers, for establishment of yards here. The yards will make Peru a central purchasing point for hogs to be shipped to the Swift plants in Chicago. The McLaughlin Manufacturing Company, underwear makers, announces a very successful year in 1927, with prospects bright for 1928, exceeeding last year. FT. WAYNE—D. W. McMillen, president of the McMillen Company, reports Its shipments in 1927 were 52 per cent in excess of the 1928 total. Walter Goll, manager of the local General Electric plant, reporting on 1927 business here and the Decatur plant, said the year had been one of "satisfactory accomplishment,” and that the number of employes, 6,287, was the highest in the plants’ history. The pay roll was in excess of 1926. Unfilled orders Jan. 1 totaled $3,000,000. Producing Ford Parts COLUMBUS Production has started on 10,000 Ford automobile Jacks at the Indianapolis Pump and Tube Company plant. The company’s factory at Greenwood Is filling rush orders for parts for new Ford cars. C. F. Carroon & Cos. will completely modernize the Taylorsville Canning Company plant which It recently purchased. The seasonal rush Is on for the Columbus Handle and Tool Corporation and some overtime Is being put in by the 160 employes. EVANSVILLE —Business men believe construction of the new bridge across the Ohio River will stimulate business here, as it will enable buyers from outside the city to reach it with more ease than is possible now. KOKOMO—An optimistic report on industrial conditions has been submitted by Miss Mary Redmond, Chamber of Commerce secretary. Among the bright spots in the report is announcement of a 44.3 per eent increase in business of the Dirigold Corporation over 1926. Mine to Be Reopened SULLIVAN—The Martin Dugger coal mine near here Is to resume operations under lease by the Martin E. Lowish Company, Indianapolis. WABASH—The Union Ilbre Company will begin manufacture of mineral wool here about the middle of February. Rock in hills near the city is the raw material. BLUFFTON—The B. K. Settergren Company and the Erie quarry retwrt 1927 the best business year in their history. AUBURN—The Auburn Rubber Company has started production of anew automobile floor carpet. WINCHESTER—A new concern, the Winchester Auto Body Company, has started operations. BERNE—The Homer Manufacturlg Company has awarded a contract for erection of anew factory building 30x112 feet and covering two floors. Burned in Gasoline Blast Bv Timet Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Jan. B.—Mrs. Louis Witherspoon received severe bums at her home five miles west of here when gasoline used in operating the engine of a washing machine exploded.
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Stories of hardship come from various sections of Indiana as a result of the cold wave which swept over the State Saturday and continued into the New Year. Mrs. Shelby Howard, Tyner, is convalescing at the Marshall County hospital, Plymouth, following an operation for appendicitis, after fifteen men had cleared a path through snow for the trip from the
52 TRAPPED BY SNOWsADj SENT Food Carried by Rescuers to Group in Mountains. Bv United Press SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 6.—Huge snowdrifts today delayed rescue parties endeavoring to carry food to fifty-two persons snowbound in the Cascade mountains near Enumclaw. Snow, ice and fallen trees blocked the roads leading to the mountainous camps when New Year’s celebrants were marooned by a heavy snowfall. Rescue parties left yesterday with sufficient food for the snowbound groups until roads can be reopened. Twenty-five State road workers sent word by telephone from a camp high in the mountains that they were living on half rations.
KIMBLE’S WIFE ON STAND IN DEFENSE
BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times
DELPHI, Ind., Jan. 6.—Mrs. Lloyd Kimble took the witness stand in Carroll Circuit Court here today to testify for her husband in his effort to escape death in the electric chair on a first degree murder charge In the death of Daniel Sink last August. Her husband has always been a law abiding man, Mrs. Kimble, mother of six children testified. All the children were in court as the wife and mother faced a crowded courtroom. The youngest child, a little girl of 6, sat on her father’s lap. Mrs. Kimble was asked in detail about the family’s financial troubles. The defense has contended that Kimble has shown a disposition to be of all assistance possible to his creditors, having given up two farms when pinched by depression in land values, and refusing to take benefits of the bankruptcy law. The State is bitterly contesting every effort to obtain from Mrs. Kimble tetimony favorable to her husband. During Thursday’s session the defense continued its efforts to discredit Mrs. Jeanetta Taylor, principal prosecution witness. Testimony was offered attacking her moral character and her truthfulness. Jesse Taylor, husband of the woman who is the chief accuser of Kimble, declared she was not under the influence of liquor the morning aftei the fire at Sink’s home. Other witnesses corroborated the husband in contradiction of Mrs. Taylor’s story to the grand jury that she was
KING OF COAST RUM RUNNERS IS EXILE IN CANADA, HIS GREAT FORTUNE GONE
Bu NBA Service CAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.—Joseph J. Parente, who started out as a tailor’s helper and at 38 became millionaire king of all the rum smugglers on the Facific Coast, has reached the end of his string. The dramatic career that he built up—a career as colorful as any in the coast’s history—apparently has come to its catastrophe. Parente at present'is being held in Canada as an undesirable alien.
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The dance of the seven veils might be part of the ritual of the old Puritan church if the ladies wore seven scarfs like some being shown in Indianapolis stores. One of the scarfs, as photographed on Miss Mary Virginia Aldridge, Ayres model, would be more raiment than encases the average flapper. Put seven of ’em on a flapper and she’d be unable to walk.
Howard home to Plymouth. A doctor declared a few hours delay would have cost the woman’s life. A party in two autos and a truck started the Journey and the fifteen men armed with shovels went ahead, clearing the of snow which in many places was in high drifts. The M. O. Bennett home at Bicknell was flooded when frozen water pipes burst. The family was absent when the pipes let go. When they returned they found ice nearly two inches thick on the floors. It was necessary to pry furniture loose. Rugs were frozen to floors. Motorists were stranded on highways in many sections of the State. Twenty-seven persons who abandoned stalled cars ?ound refuge at the home of Herschel Hughes, three miles south of Attica. Some of the motorists were suffering from frozen feet, hands, ears and noses. Not all who were forced to quit their cars found hospitality like that at the Hughes home. Two motorists 3tranded near Valparaiso fell into the waters of a creek, and when they approached a farmer’s home, he ordered them away with a shotgun. At the next house there was a woman alone. She refused to admit them, but was forced to give aid when they they fell exhausted at the door. But after all, Love found a way. Robert M. Musall and Miss Mildred K. Davis were wed, after the bridegroom reached the home of the bride with a companion who used a snow showel, over roads between the Musall and Davis homes In V.'hite County.
drunk when she returned from the scene of the alleged murder. At the close of the day’s session,, Sheriff Riley Sink, distant relative of the dead man, and Gus A. Hall, a defense attorney, engaged in a physical encounter In the corridor of the courthouse. Several of Daniel Sink’s six sons were drawn into the encounter. No action wac taken by Judge E. E. Pruitt as a lasult of the trouble. Hall, It is said, was incensed because Sheriff Sink denied him permission to Interview Mrs. Taylor in jail here while she was being held as a witness. The sheriff had testified during the day and the defense sought to bring oqt denial of the interview in the course of testimony. SNOWBOUND; 4 DIE Doctor, Afoot, Travels 50 Miles to Fight Epidemic. Bv United Press MANDAN, N. D., Jan. o.—Dr. Frank C. Lorenzon brought word here today of the deaths of four children from diphtheria in rural home isolated by snowdrifts. Dr. Lorenzon, carrying medical supplies on his back, made his way on foot fifty miles through the heavy snow to administer aid to six other persons critically ill from diphtheria. At least a score more had been exposed, he said.
If he is returned to the United States, as seems likely, he faces prison sentences on half a dozen counts. His fortune has crumbled and his organization has gone to pieces. Though dramatic, Parente’s public career began only five years ago, when he emerged from San Quentin prison after serving a term for forgery. He got a job in his uncle’s tailor shop here, and seemed destined to continue his life as an insignificant wage-earner.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 1928
CAR SALES FOR 1927 HERE LED BY CHEVROLET Ford Chugs Close Behind Despite Long Vacation in Production. BUICK IN THIRD PLACE 12,590 Pleasure Autos Are Purchased in City Dur- . ing Last Year. Chevrolet led the field, but Henry and his old Tin Lizzie (not referring to the new modelc, of course), chugged right behind. That is to say, more Indianapolis and Marion County residents bought Chevrolet automobiles last year than any other of the forty-five makes of cars Indianapolis folks Invested their cash in. Os the 12,590 pleasure cars sold to Marion County residents in 1927, 2,828 were Chevrolets, according to summary of the Indiana Clipping Service, 327 Empire Life Bldg. But In spite of the fact Ford stopped production for more than five months, 2,061 Fords were sold. Three Rolls Royces Sold Fifty-eight of the Chevrolets were sold in December and seven Fords. But not all Indianapolis car purchasers are In the Ford-Chevrolet class. Three Rolls Royces were sold; one, probably a Christmas present, in December. And there were 67 Cadillacs, 38 La Salles, 20 Lincolns, 37 Locomobiles, 1 McFarland, 303 Marmons, 92 Packards, 12 PierceArrows, 2 Rickenbackers and 86 Stutz models. There was one electric, a Detroit Electric. The sedan was the favorite model, with 5.812 sold. There were 2,787 coaches sold, 2,766 coupes, 991 roadsters and 234 touring cars. Buick Third In List In addition to pleasure cars 1,141 trucks were bought. Os these 358 were Fords and 312 Chevrolets. Buick was third in the list of pleasure cars bought, with 1,093. Pontiac, a General Motors product, was forth with 857. Other makes of pleasure cars and the numbers sold: Auburn, 255; Chandler, 83; Davis, 24; Chrysler, 433; Diana, 3; Dodge, 278; Elcar, 47; Erskine, 15; Essex, 771; Falcon Knight, 24; Franklin, 40; Gardner, 22; Hudson, 212; Hupmobile, 200; Jewett, 7; Jordan, 56; Kissel, 34; Moon. 33; Nash, 485; Oakland, 306; Oldsmobile, 546; Overland, 465; Paige, 97; Peerless, 107; Reo, 123; Star, 39; Steams Knight, 2; Studebaker, 258, and WillysKnight, 125.
Pun Won Negro’s Tongue Slip Amuses Judge; Misses Term at Farm.
YES, Sir! She’s his baby and a “much right” baby too. That “much right” saved Charles Ben ?tt, Negro, of Bright and Center C a thirty-day sentence at Indiana State Farm when arranged before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Thursday. Bennett was charged with going to the home of Lulu Abernathy, Negro, 1050 Coburn St., and finding Robert Hall, Negro, 1015 Coburn St., visiting there. The result was an argument, a revolver drawn by Bennett and then the police patrol and court scene. Charged with carrying concealed weapons, Bennett talked in his own defense. “You see Miss Lulu is not married and a much right girl,” Bennett explained. “What do you mean by ‘much right’?,” Judge Wetter asked. “I means that I got as much right to her as any one else,” Bennett replied. “That’s anew one,” Wetter commented. “It will save you from the farm. You get a $5 fine and ten days in Jail instead.” Watchman Dies in Fire Bv Times Snecietl VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. 6. Charles Prohl, 65, died in a fire which destroyed an office building where he was employed as night watchman. It is believed he accidentally upset a stove, setting the building afire. Flames Injure Boy Bv Times Soecial FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 6.—William Hollis, 13, is in a serious condition at a hospital as a result of bums suffered when a sweater he was wearing caught fire while he was standing with his back to a gas oven.
BUT it wasn’t long before he had “got in” with the great Consolidated Exporters’ Corporation, the Canadian booze outfit. And it wasn’t long after that that he was a liquor runner in his own right, independently wealthy and waxing daily more powerful. Parente controlled the ship Principio, “mother ship” of the rum fleet, a squadron of fast power cruisers and a big string of tiucks and touring cars. He would bring the Principio down from Canada laden with bonded liquor. It would lie to,
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SLAYS WOMAN. ENDSOWN LIFE Man Roomer in Home Near Richmond Uses Revolver. Bv United Press RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 6.—Ray Mull, filling station attendant, died at Reid Memorial Hospital today of a bullet wound, self-inflicted, after he shot to death Mrs. Inez Williams earlier in the day. The shooting, which occurred at the Williams horn? on the National Rd„ was declared by authorities to have been preceded by a quarrel in which Mull opposed Mrs. Williams’ plan to leave Richmond and join her husband. Mull was a roomer in the home. Two arrests followed the shooting. A man who gave his name as James L. Ramey, 29, and a woman who said she was Mrs. Mildred Helms, 30 were held as material witnesses, pending an investigation. Police said they also roomed in the Williams home. Mrs. Helms was said to be Mrs. Williams’ sister. Police said they found that the gun with which Hull shot Mrs. Williams and himself was like one for which Ramey had been issued a permit. The slain woman’s husband, Clyde Williams, is an automobile salesman at Lexington, Ky AGED WOMAN IS BURIED Mrs. Tinsley, 92, Widow of Pastor in Methodist Church. Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Benton Tinsley, 92, who died Tuesday at her home, 134 W. Twenty-First St., were held at the Shirley Brothers funeral home, 946 N. Illinois St., this afternoon. Burial was at Crown Hill Cemetery. She was the widow of the Rev. Charles Tinsley, Methodist pastor for more than fifty years and one time pastor of the E. Tenth St. M. E. Church. Before becoming an Invalid, fourteen years ago, Mrs. Tinsley had been active in church and mission work and politics, belonging to organizations aiding in getting the franchise son women. TAXES CUT FUNDS SHORT Reduction of the State tax levy from 28 cents in 1926 to 23 cents in 1927 has resulted in a half million dollars less remaining in all State funds at the close of 1927, State Auditor Lewis S. Bowman announced today. State funds in the treasury at the close of 1927 totaled $15,968,648 in cbmparison with $16,547,857 in 1926. The general fund balance Dec. 31, 1927, was $11,069,905 in comparison with $11,416,375 for the previous year.
100 miles off the coast, and transfer its cargo to the cruisers. The price there was around S2O a case. The cruisers would take the liquor ashore, landing it usually on the beach below Santa Barbara at daybreak, and sell it to the wholesalers for $45 a case. The wholesaler would sell it to the retail bootleggers for S7O a case, and the bootleggers would peddle it to “the trade” at SIOO to $l2O a case. In all of these transactions Parente got a percentage.
“TTTELL, I haven’t caught pneutend to, either,” says Miss Margaret Wamsley, 520 N. Meridian St. Thereby she supports the theory of Dr. Leon Bernard, professor of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, who says “cold winds do not pneumonia make, nor icy blasts a red nose.” He contends that modern women’s clothes are close knit and of the finest texture, thereby protecting them from the cold. Moreover, women protect the upper part of the body, which contains the organs particularly sensitive to the cold. “That’s what I think, too,” says Miss Wamsley. “I just snuggle my ears into my fur coat collar and don’t mind about my knees at all. “Be careful about abrupt changes of temperature,” says the doctor. “Be sure to cover up well when going from a warm temperature to the open air. And don’t let your coat flap open, inviting pneumonia.” “Here’s what he means,” says Miss Wamsley, “letting your coat flap back like this (as shown on the left).
‘SACK MURDER’ LAID TODOCTOD Physician to Be Arraigned in Slaying Case Today. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.—Dr. Charles McMillan, accused “sack” murderer of Mrs. Amelia Appleby, wealthy widow of a Chicago Inventor, faced arraignment on a murder indictment today. Dr. McMillan continued to deny any connection with the crime, although the doctor last night admitted that he and Mrs. Appleby engaged in a “scene" in Yellowstone Park last summer. The admission was regarded as another link in the chain of circumstantial evidence which implicated him in the slaying of the wealthy widow, whose body, sewed in a sack, was found on the highway near San Fernando last week. In confessing the Yellowstone action, which witnesses said was an attempt to choke Mrs. Appleby, Dr. McMillan said he merely held his hand over her mouth to keep her from talking so much. “She wasn’t hurt,” he said, “and we fl&ed it up and got away from there the next day.” U. S. TO ARRAIGN 100 Alleged Whisky Strip Ring to Face Court. More than 100 persons, indicted by the Federal grand jury recently, will be arraigned Saturday morning before Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The 200 indictments, naming 347 persons, included about fifty Indianapolis persons, mostly on liquor charges, sixty Muncie residents, and a number from the southern part of the State. Muncie residents will form the largest individual group arraigned Saturday as practically all those indicted are either under bond or in jail. Several alleged members of a na-tion-wide counterfeit whisky strip stamp conspiracy will be among those arraigned, including Sam and Jake Fogle, 901 Viginia Ave., Indianapolis, and Kenneth and Guy R. Whetsel, Muncie. Fifteen others were indicted on the same charge. Three Noblesville and two Huntington men, who were reindicted in connection with failure of two banks, after pleading not guilty to a previous indictment, will be arraigned. They are S. Homer Federman, treasurer of the Steinbrenner Rubber Company, Noblesville; Edwin B. and E. Porter Ayres, officers of the Huntington County State Bank, and Newton W. Cowgill and Walter Bray, officers of the First National Bank of Noblesville. Henry G. Steinbrenner, named in the first indictment, later committed suicide at Chicago. PEACE NOTE ARRIVES Reply of France to U. S. Letter in London. Bv United Press LONDON, Jan. 6.—The British foreign office today announced it had received from France the reply to the American note of Secretary of State Kellogg asking France to join the United States in signing an arbitration pact to outlaw war. Great Britain also was asked to sign a similar agreement and awaited the French reply before drafting the British reply.
PARENTE soon was the leading rum smuggler of the West. Vicnent Quarterero once tried to compete with him. Parente slashed prices until bonded Scotch was retailing for SSO a case, and drove Quarterero out of business. The big money came in so easily that Parente grew over bold. He forme-i a partnership with Herb Madden, mayor of Sausalito, and Ralph Owen, owner of the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco. Owen became business manager of |he firm, and Madden, who owned a shipyard, looked after the
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BORDER CLASH AROUSESHARS New Polish-Lithuanian Break Is Threatened. Bv United Press BERLIN, Jan. 6. —Possibility of a new flare-up between Poland and Lithuania was seen today in the report that Polish and Lithuanian frontier guards exchanged shots near Krzaczyna last night, • One Lithuanian soldier was reported to have been wounded. In an effort to protest the present boundary, the Lithuanian guards started to cut down the posts marking the frontier. Firing following from the Polish guards. The Lithuanians returned the fire.
Out! Yorktown Marshal Dismissed After 25 Years’ Service.
Bu Times Special xjrORKTOWN, Ind., Jan. 6. -*■ Arthur Jones, who has served twenty-five years as town marshal here, is out. No one is telling just why Jones no longer wears a star. Jones admits he has made “no big hauls” and Intimates a Yorktown minister influenced the town board in dismissing him for alleged laxity in enforcement of the prohibition law. Jones says Justice of the Peace Amos Goings wouldn’t issue him search warrants in liquor cases. Besides being marshal, Jones served as night watchman and street commissioner, pne of the duties of the street commissioner was digging ditches. "Worked about eighteen hours a day,” was Jones’ laconic comment on the duties of the job that was. BANG! IT WASN’T OKE Bullet in Leg Tells Indiana Employe Hold-Up Is Real. Bu Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 6.—Joe Wachlinger, 40, is suffering from a bullet wound in the leg because he thought serious business was a joke. Bandits held up the Four-Mile Inn east of here where Wachlinger is employed. One of the robbers ordered Waclilinger to hold up his hands, and he, thinkings a joke was being perpetrated, refused. The bandit fired. The wounded man was robbed of S9O and SIOO was stolen from the inn’s cash drawer.
boats. Goods were landed in Madden’s shipyard. n a THIS couldn’t last forever. Not long ago Federal officers got wind of the situation and arrested ajl_three men. Owen and Madden went to prison; Parente jumped his $50,000 bail and headed for Canada, but now he has been arrested there and faces deportation to the United States. If he comes back he is almost certain to join his former partners in prison.
HERSHMAN IS ENTRY IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR Crown Point Attorney Will Give Daily Contest on Democratic Ticket. NOT ORGANIZATION PICK Won Friends as Member of Highway Commission; Is Lodge Leader. The first threat against the candidacy of Frank C. Dailey, former United States district attorney, for the Democratic nomination for Governor came today. George E. Hershman, Crown Point, vice chairman of the State Highway Commission, announced he is a candidate for the nomination. For weeks Democratic leaders have said they did not believe any one would be so bold as to challenge the strength of Dailey. Some strong organization leaders cast about for a long time for a candidate to oppose Dailey, but finally gave up. Dailey never has been the choice of party leaders. Not Organization Man Hershman’s candidacy is not understood to have been sponsored by the organization. He is believed to be basing his hope of nomination upon the friends he has made through his opportunity of doing favors throughout the State as a member of the highway commission. Hershman, a lawyer, was born June 29, 1885, on a farm in Walker Township, Jasper County. He attended the public schools of Jasper County and Valparaiso University, being graduated from the latter institution in June 1904. In his announcement, Hershman declared that he “realized that Indiana is in disgrace, that radical changes are necessary in the administration of governmental affairs, that the constitution must be permitted to function, and the government restored to the people.” Prominent in Lodge Hershman has been prominent in the Odd Fellow lodge for years. He is one of the grand trustees of the Grand Lodge of Indiana and Grand Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. He is a large landholder and Is interested in two banks. He has been district and county Democratic chairman and was his party’s nominee for Congressman of the Tenth district in 1916 and 1918. FIGHT~ON~IRADIO JOBS Open Hearing on Appointments of Three Commissioners. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. o.—The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee opened hearings today on the appointment of three radio commissioners—Sam Pickard, Kansas; O. H. Caldwell, New York, and Harold A. La Fount, Utah. All three are serving recess appointments, but none has been confirmed by the Senate. Conflict between large and small radio stations is / expected to crop out during the hearing. Recent rulings of the commission have been criticised severely by representatives of the small stations and they may oppose confirmation of the appointments. NEGROES MOB GROCER Attacked In Store; Alleged Member of Gang Is Held Frank Cory, grocer, at 2255 Columbia Ave., reported to police today that a mob of Negroes entered his store last night and attacked him. Henry Kinley, Negro, 25, of J 48 Arsenal Ave., was held on assault and battery charges, malicious trespassing and vagrancy. Police are seeking a 17-year-old Negio. These are the only two identified by Cory. He gave no reason for the attack. ASKS DRY LAW REPEAL 1 Samuel B. Wells Would Be Democratic Governor of Indiana. Bv United Press SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Jan. 6. The candidacy of Samuel B. Wells, attorney and editor of the Scott County Journal, for the Democratic nomination for Governor was announced today on a platform including repeal of the Wright bone dry act. Sale of medicinal whisky by druggists, reforms in the criminal code and restriction of the State tax board are other planks Wells will sponsor. SEEKS TO CLEAN LAKE State Health Officers Receive No Complaint From Chicago. Dr. William H. King, secretary State health board, has received no letter from Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, commissioner of the Chicago sanitary district, asking that negotiations be begun to prevent contamination of Like Michigan by phenol waste from Indiana industrial plants in the Chicago district. According to dispatches, Bundesen will write to King pointing out that Chicago water was nearly undrinkable from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27, because of the phenol wastes and asking that the plants be required to evaporate them. Fire Cop; Speeders Rejoice EATONTOWN, N. J., Jan. 6. Igatontown’s mayor discharged the one-man police force, and motorists turned its streets into speedways. Now the town can’t find anyone who wants to serve as peace officer. '