Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1928 — Page 3

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MASS MARINE FORCES TO SAIL FOR NICARAGUA Le Jeune, Corps Commandant, to Head Reinforcements; Plans Inspection. Em United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—ln'the. East and West today, 1,148 marines and officers were converging on Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S. C., and San Diego, Cal., preparatory to departing to aid “Devil Dog" comrades fighting the liberal leader, Sandino, in Nicaragua. Headed by MaJ. Gen. John Le Jeune, marine corps commandant, 681 will sail from the East coast ports, while 467 will embark on the West coast. Le Jeune will leave from Charleston, and the transport carrying the forces from Hampton Roads is expected to depart simultaneously. Le Jeune will spend ten days or two weeks in Nicaragua inspecting United States forces and looking over the area where the marines will endeavor to eliminate Sandino before the Nicaraguan presidential election in August. General Fcland to Command The 1,148 men leaving Monday will bring the total American forces in Nicaragua to 2,454 men. The new force will be organized into one regimental headquarters company consisting of 147 men, and two battalions to be known as the first and second battalions, composed of 467 men each, with a total of 934 men. The entire Nicaraguan marine force will be under the command of Brig. Gen. Logan Feland, who will leave from Charleston with Major General Le Jeune and Lieut. Col. C. R. Sanderson. The new force will be commanded by Col. R. H. Dunlap, sailing from Hampton Roads with about 200 men. In addition to Feland, Dunlap and Sanderson, forty other officers will be included in the force leaving from the East coast, of which three are majors, twelve captains, thirteen first lieutenants and twelve second lieutenants. Two chief gunners will also accompany this group. Send Mounted Battery The Pacific coast force will be j headed by Maj. H. C. Pierce, who i will have assisting him nineteen of- j fleers, of whom five are captains, j eight first lieutenants and six sec- ; ond lieutenants. One chief gunner j will accompany this group. Tire new force will be known as j the 11th Regiment, and the eight i companies composing the regiment ! will be known as the 2d, 14th, 46th, ; 47th, 50th, 52d, 55th and 57th. Twenty-four naval medical offi- | cers and seventy hospital corpsmen ! will accompany the new force. One mounted battery, consisting of four three-inch guns, to be used in the mountains against Sandino, is being seirt along with the Marines, it was said at Marixrc hedaquarters. INDIANA MINERS NEED FOOD AND CLOTHING Bicknell District Hardest Hit; Appeal for Relief Sixteen thousand Indiana coal miners have appealed for food and clothing to local labor organizations, Indianapolis Church Federation, and Mayor L. Ert Slack. The message for relief was carried by Dick Wade, Vincennes, and E. H. McGinnis, financial secretary of the Bicknell union No. 3829, United Mine Workers of America. Suffering is worst in the Bicknell region but miners all over Indiana are hard hit, said McGinnis. Miners i have been out of work more than a year. The coal surplus over the country is keeping the mines closed, he said. A committee from the Central Labor Union, the Church Federation and other agencies will meet with McGinnis and Wade Monday to form plans for relief.

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Automobiles reported stolen to | police Delong to: Rev. George Dunn, 1347 N. Me- ' Timan LC., Nash, 591-231, from Fourteenth and Pennsylvania Sts. M. A. Riddle, 1409 Broadway, Ford, 524-035, from Mortis St. and Kentucky Ave. George Wells, 2724 Butler Ave„ Oldsmobile, 562-570, from Ohio St. and Senate Ave. Harvey King. 1815 Union St., Ford. 581-800, from Virginia Ave. and McCarty St. Henry Cantrell. 1018 Edgemont Ave., Ford, 589-654, from garage in rear. Stanley Dean. 2408 Brookside Pkwy., Hudson. 576-424. from Mcridann and Eleventh Sts. Ephriam Henderson, 947 S. Alabama St„ Ford, from Senate Ave. and Market St. Arthur Eaton, 656 S. Illinois St„ Chevrolet, from 400 Massachusetts Ave. Fay Morrison. Bridegport, Ind., Ford, from Danville, Ind. 'Dr. Charles Cabalzor, 1813 Lafayette Rd.. Whippet. 8-071, from Sixteenth St. and Capitol Ave. Paul Vavul, 723 E. New York St., Ford, from that address. Hary Adler, 733 Union St., WillysKnight, from Ray and Illinois fits. Kenwood Tire Company, 927 N. Capitol Ave.. Chevrolet. 29-652, from Vermont and Illinois Sts. Maryin Zinsir, Jr., Waldron, Ind., Ford, from 151 N. Illinois St.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Atwell Kerr, 340 W. Raymond St., Ford, found at Arizona and Meridian Sts. C. F. Weiland. 1867 Barth Ave., Chevrolett. found at Louisiana St. and Capitol Ave.

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Here is William Edward Hickman (third from left) as he appeared in court in Los Angeles to plead not guilty to the charge of murdering Marion Parker, 12-year-old Los Angeles girl. All the other men in the picture are guards. Los Angeles is taking no chances on a lynching—or an escape either.

SCHOOL BOARD CONTROL HELD BY VONNEGUT Majority Faction to Retain Major Posts: Gains One New Vote. Re-election of Theodore F. Vonnegut as school board president late Thursday indicated the old majority faction will entinue to function despite two new members on the board. Vonnegut was elected on the first ballot by four votes, Fred Kepner, new member, receiving one vote. One of the two new members, thought to be Lewis E. Whiteman, voted with the majority faction. The majority faction, during the past year has been composed of Vonnegut, Charles W. Kern and Mrs. Lillian V. Sedwick. Fred Bates Johnson and Charles R. Yoke, who retired Jan. 1, composed the minority faction. Kepner was elected vice president on the second ballot. Hugg Is Re-Elected The first ballot resulted in one vote for Whiteman and two votes each for Kepner and Mrs. Sedwick. On the second ballot Kepner received three votes and Mrs. Sedwick two. Martin M. Hugg was re-elected attorney with four votes, Clinton 11. Givan receiving one. • Control of the two most important committees was retained when Vonnegut reappointed Kern chairman of the building and grounds committee and Mrs. Sedwick, chairman of the instruction committee. Take Up Butler Offer Committees for the year. Instruction, Mrs. Sedwick, chairman, Kern and Whiteman. Building and grounds, Kern, chairman, Mrs. Sedwick and Kepner. Finance, Kern, chairman, Mrs. Sedwick and Kepner. Library, Kepner, chairman, Mrs. Sedwick and Whiteman. Butler officials’ offer to lease or sell the present Irvington plant to the schools for an Irvington high school w'as taken under advisement. The proposal will be discussed in detail Monday. The college will abandon the property next fall when it moves to the new Fairview campus. NAME CONVENTION HEAD Chamber of Commerce Bureau Board Elects W. B. Smith. Walter B. Smith, proprietor of the Denison, Lorraine and Stubbins Hotels, was elected chairman of the Indianapolis convention bureau board at the first meeting of the year Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce. Clarence E. Crippin, Enquirer Printing and Publishing Company president, was named vice president, and Dwight A. Murphy, City Trust Company, treasurer. The three officers and R. L. Meyer, Hotel Lincoln general manager, and George Vonnegut, Vonnegut Hardware Company secretarytreasurer, will compose the finance committee. TURNS GRAY IN SLEEP Woman Injured in Auto Crash Slumbers 100 Hours; Not Yet Awake. V.;f ( nitc<J Press SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 7.—Suffering severe shock from an automobile accident, Mrs. Nora Anderson, 36, fell into a sound slumber here last Monday and had not awakened early today. She had been asleep for more than 100 hours and in that time her hair has turned gray. Doctors predicted Mrs. Anderson would recover but admitted they were puzzled by the case.

MOONSHINE STILLS OF SOUTHERN HILLS MAKE BASE FOR ‘PREWAR’ DRINKS

BY JOHN W. HARDEN, NEA Service Correspondent GRAHAM, N. C., Jan. 4.—A moonshine still in the Southern mountains is one of the hardest things in the world to visit. Stills just aren't social gathering places. Their guardians are too prone to shoot first and ask questions later if a stranger comes up the path. But, if you happen to know the right man, you can visit a moonshine plant and see how it operates. If you do, you probably won't ever want another drink of moonshine: but it's a trip worth making, regardless. A two-year acquaintance with a certain handy man in a small North Carolina town fixed things so tljiat this man volunteered to

BUILD PHONE STATIONS Terre Haute-Pittsburgh Long Distance Lines Are Improved. F. H. Harris, plant superintendent of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, announced todayy that two buildings housing repeater stations for the amplification of energy on the Pittsburgh-Terre Haute toll cable, have been erected, one at Milton, near Richmond, and the other at Greencastle. Each building is valued at $36,000. The former station will have equipment valued at SIIB,OOO and tl*e latter equipment w'orth $136,000.

1,035 MILES OF ROADS BUILT County Highway Superintendent Makes Report. Marion County taxpayers contributed to the construction of 1,035 miles of road in the county last year, it was shown today in the annual report made to County Auditor Harry Dunn by County Highway Superintendent Luther Tex. This aggregate is composed of the following: One hundred thirty-two miles of county paved roads; 813 miles of county gravel, stone and earth roads and ninety miles of paved State roads. Eight new culverts were built during the year, while fifteen were repaired and sixteen bridges were repaired. Salaries for road superintendents and employes totalled about $90,182. Eighty-six tons of stone, sixty yards of sand and seventy-three pounds of asphalt were used in patching concrete roads. The following amounts of materials were used in other road repairs: 66,982 gallons of tar: 19,786 yards of gravel: 3.656 tons of stone and 385 yards of cinders. Forty-two bridges and 3,260 feet of guard rail along dangerous road beds were painted. The county erected 175 white crosses, marking spots where persons were killed. BUTLER TO BROADCAST OVER WFBM TONIGHT History Professor to Tell of Trip Through Canadian Rockies. Having made a thousand-mile journey exploring the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, Paul Leland Haworth, head of the history department of Butler College, will bring his experiences to listeners of WFBM tonight at 9 during Butler hour. Haworth explored a range of the Canadian Rockies in 1916, at that iime practically unknown, and discovered a large glacier, a 160-foot waterfall and two lakes. He Is the author of several books. This is the first program given under the auspices of the Butler Radio Bureau this semester. Other features include a xylophone specialty by Imogene Pierson and Mildred Booth and a number of singing groups. AFFIRM DEATH SENTENC John Hall, 22, Must Die in March For Druggist's Murder. John Ffcll. 22, convicted murderer, must die in the electric chair at Indiana State prison March 9. unless Governor Ed Jackson grants reprieve. The Supreme Court today affirmed the death sentence passed by the Elkhart Superior Court and denied motion for new trial. Two stays of execution have been granted during the pendency of the case. Hall was found guilty of shooting and killing Louis D. Kreidler, 52, South Bend druggist, w r hile he and a companion, Thomas O.Briend, were holding-up Kreidler's store on April 5, 1926.

show me a mountain still in operation. I prepared myself for a long trip into undiscovered wilds. To my surprise, however, I was taken to a spot not more than 100 yards from the highway, and not more than a mile out of town. “Won’t they be found here?” I asked. “Not a bit of it,” replied my guide. “A courthouse would be the safest place in the wwld to moonshine.” ~*V m tt tt ONE man was in charge of the still. He greeted my guide casually, was told that I was “aw right,” and stood up to show us his plant. The moonshine still was of 50gallon capacity. In addition, a

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SYMONS, BARR MAY FACE NEW BANKCHARGES Prosecutor at Kokomo Considering Additional Indictments. Bn Times Sorcial KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 7.—Luther F. Symons, State bank commissioner, and Thomas D. Barr, his deputy, already under Indictment in connection with failure of the American Trust Company Bank here, may face new charges. Homer R. Miller, Howard County prosecutor, may call anew session of the county grand jury in an effort to obtain other indictments against Symons and Barr, he announced following a ruling by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom that the law of 1893, under which the two are accused, was repealed by a 1921 law. It is Miller’s opinion that indictments under the 1921 law w ill make a stronger case than those under the act Gilliom says is now invalid. He plans to confer with William Re my, Marion County prosecutor, in connection with the case, as Remy is in possession of data provided by D. C. Stephenson, life term murder convict. At a conference with Stephenson in the Indiana State prison this week, he told Miller that if permitted to appear before a grand jury he would bare “a most amazing intrigue” whereby persons whose names have not yet been disclosed profited by illegal practices involving banks.

CLAIMS SENATE DRY Not Enough Wets Votes, Is Opinion of Caraway. Bi' Timeft Bnr^inl WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—ls the Senate were called on to vote upon change in the Volstead act today, not enough wet votes could be mustered to make a presentable showing, in the opinion of Senator Caraway, Arkansas. Caraway is a Democrat and a dry, but ready at all times, he says, to look at a subject from all angles. If a national referendum is held today on w’hether modification is w'anted. Caraway believes the country will vote dry. When the country becomes wet in popular opinion, it quickly will be reflected in the Senate and House, he believes. Advised that Democrats are planning to organize a dry bloc in the party, Caraw-ay predicts it will create little interest. “The drys are not going to get excited in the next election,” Caraway said. hoosFe'r 7 s _ crossing’ DEVICE TO BE TRIED B. A O. Railroad Will Test Ft. Wayne Man's Invention. ' B.u United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 7.—A new safety device for grade crossings recently invented by F. C. Bollinger of this city will be given a trial soon, according to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad officials. The trial is to be made on the Chicago division of ,the Baltimore and Ohio. Employment of this device at crossings instead of the electric signals now used, it is believed, w'ould eliminate all danger to motorists. The approaching locomotive furnishes power for the new signal. The flanged wheels of the engine throw a trip one mile from the crossing. A thin but powerful rod extending from the trip to the crossing automatically drops the gate. Immediately the train passes the wheels of the engine hit another trip a mile from the crossing which raises the gate.

quantity of beer was being made. <Seven 60-gallon barrels stood under the trees, filled with liquid that was covered with a foul-look-ing froth. “Want to try it?” the keeper asked. Without waiting for my hasty, “no, thanks,” he got a straw, put his head close down to the barrel, thrust the straw through the unwholesome-looking bubbles and drank deeply. He smacked his lips with gusto. “It don’t look so good on top, but it's sure good stuff underneath,” he said. * Then I was led to the steaming boiler. An L-shaped copper apparatus stood over a slow, steady fire. Connected to it was a copper tube leading to a nearby barrel filled with water.

WALB TO QUIT G. 0. P. POST AT PARLEYJAN. 12 Meeting Call Out to District Leaders; Marshall Will Not Take Job. The Republican state committee will meet at the Severin Thursday, noon, Jan. 12, to accept the longpromised resignation of State Chairman Clyde A. Walb, of Lagrange. Call for the meeting y/ent out Friday evening to the thirteen district chairman who, with Walb, comprise the committee. Announcement of Henry W. Marshall, publisher of the Lafayette Journal-Courier and an old line Republican, that he would not accept the chairmanship if it were tendered him, left tire matter of Walb's successor still open to speculation. Cartwright Not Candidate There appeared to be little likelihood of any district chairman being advanced to the chairmanship because a number of hem, it was understood, had the impression that Senator James E. Watson favored them for the post. To find a way out of an embarrassing situation, the Senator is known to have insisted upon election of someone outside the committee while conferring with party leaders and district chairman here the past week-end. Lawrence W. Carthwright, Eighth district chairman and chairman of the executive committee, has announced he would not seek the chairmanship at the organization meeting in May and would prefer not to accept it temporarily. Dave Scott of Linton, former Second district chairman, was mentioned today as a possible solution of the quest for an “outside” chairman. Watson Will Return Senator Watson said upon his departure for Washington, Tuesday, he would return for the meeting. He is expected to make formal announcement of his candidacy for the preferential vote of the State for the Republican nomination for president. The move is made to enable him to control the Indiana delegation to the national convention. Petitions to place his name on the primary ballot were sent to Watson county managers Friday, by James House of Vincennes, deputy attorney general. Copies of the petition are being circulated here. Date for the State convention probably will be set.

0. K. CONCRETE IN CITY PAVING Revised Specifications for Work Are Approved. City Civil Engineer A. H. Moore's recommendation for street paving specifications providing eight inches of concrete was approved today by the board of works. Revised specifications are practically the same as those adopted by the Duvall board of works when Roy Shaneberger was president. Oren S. Hack, board president, was Democratic member of the board at that time. Material representatives and engineers from all over the country attended conferences and agreed on the specifications. The specification drawn by former City Engineer Paul R. Brown provided for nine inches of concrete with sixty-seven pounds of reinforcement in each 100 square feet. The revised specifications will require reinforcement at joint and on streets with heavy traffic. Concrete Association representatives charged the former specifications gave asphalt contractors an advantage. Another important change is the change from a 13-6 mix to a l-2 Vs-5 mix for concrete base to asphalt. There was objection to the lean mix of one part cement, three sand and six gravel for the base for asphalt streets. Change of the specifications is expected to create competitive bidding and cause several asphalt contractors to start laying concrete streets. OPEN CHURCH SUNDAY North Baptist to Be Dedicated; Edifice to Cost $40,009. The Rev. L. C. Trent, pastor of Woodruff Place Baptist Church, will have charge of the dedication services at North Baptist Church, Fifty-Second St. and Sangster Ave„ Sunday at 2:30 p. m. The address “Foundation Stones” will be given by the Rev. Harold L. Proppe, pastor of College Ave. Baptist Church. The Rev. George C. Chandler of Memorial Baptist Church will give the dedicatory prayer. The present building is the first unit of a $40,000 edifice. The Rev. S. W. Hartsock recently was installed as pastor.

Coiled closely, the tube ran through this barrel, emerged and ran through two similar barrels, a little earthenware container, across the top of which a bit of burlap had been stretched to serve as a strainer. Out of this spout came a thin trickle of colorless liquid. a a a I SUPPOSED that this was the completed product, but learned my mistake. When the copper retort is emptied of its contents, the distilled liquor is put back in and re-distilled. Then it is ready for the retail trade—clear, colorless and strong as a mule. The keeper was very proud of his plant, even though it was surrounded by many flies, enveloped in unearthly oders, and as

KIMBLE ON STAND IN OWN DEFENSE

Fire Murder Accused Denies Slaying of Daniel Sink. Bit Times Svec.ial DELPHI, Ind., Jan. 7.—Lloyd Kimble rests today after telling the story which he hopes will save him from death in the electric chair for the murder of Daniel Sink last August. The 50-year-old defendant, father of six children, completed testimony in his own behalf in Carroll Circuit Court here Friday and Monday will undergo cross-examination by the prosecution. Mrs. Jeanetta Taylor, 24, farm hand's wife, who testified that Kimble threatened her with violence if she told anything about Sink's death, was merely w arned by Kimble not to tell abut his whisky selling operations, he declared. He said he had told her to keep still about the whisky, or he would inform officers that Daniel Sink told him Mrs. Taylor stole sl4 and ? ring from Sink’s home. * According to Kimble, the last time he saw Sink alive was a week before the fire w’hich destroyed Sink's home, from the ruins of which a body the State declares Sink’s was taken. The accused man denied that Mrs. Taylor ever rode in his car, that he ever told her where he could get some easy money, or asked her to run away with him. Asked directly if he had killed Sink, Kimble replied firmly and clearly, “I did not.” LEVINE FACES SUITBY U. S. Settle $500,000 Claim or Go to Court, Is Edict. . By JOSEPH S. WASNEY WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The Government’s $500,000 claim against Charles A. Levine, trans-Atlantic flier, may be settled out of court next week. If it is not, the Government intends to take into court the claims against Levine, growing out of contracts for handling surplus war material, the Justice Department revealed today. Attorney General Sargent has instructed Federal attorneys to advise Levine's counsel the Government is through arguing, and that a settlement must be reached immediately or a suit will be instituted. The United States, it authoritatively is understood, is willing to compromise its claim for $300,000 while Levine is said to be insisting on SIOO,OOO settlement so far. Justice officials said that immediately after the war Levine contracted with the War Department to handle old munitions and other surplus military material. He bought material at a flat price and then deducted freight costs when making payments to the United States, was alleged. The Government also contends Levine owes money from a profitplus arrangement, under which Levine is said to have made a small fortune. Officials said Levine made millions of dollars from his war surplus material business and then began manufacturing airplanes. USE OFJOAL GAINS Water Power Not to Take Place, Says Speaker. Coal is king and water power never, will usurp its functions. This is the opinion expressed by Henry M. McCormack, educational director of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Friday night at a dinner of the Indianapolis Bond Men's Club at the Indian - apolis Athletic Club. “Sixty-nine per cent of all electricity is generated by steam,” he said, “and the percentage is increasing each year. Hydro-electric power is becoming more expensive per kilowatt hour comparatively than steam-electric power. “The day will come,” McCormack predicted, “when electricity will be used exclusively for power and manufactured gas will be used for heating.” A1 Smith May Be Lawyer NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Friends of Governor A1 Smith are urging the Legislature to pass a special bill admitting him to the bar. Although a layman, the executive has been offered admittance to a law firm when his term expires. Tammany Gets Big Profit NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Tammany Hall is happy again. The firm to winch the sachems sold the old headquarters made a $70,000 profit on them a few days later. But the realtors benevolently gave the profit to Tammany’s coffers.

sanitary a spot as you could find. Liquor from a plant such as this is sold at low prices to the bootleggers, who supply the customers. Contrary to general belief the entire product of the Carolina stills is not consumed in the State; much of it gets far afield, and winds up, suitably colored and bottled, as “genuine imported Scotch.” Os recent months there has been a shift in the moonshine industry in this State. Originally it was confined largely to the western mountain areas; then, as the revenue officers became too familiar with that region, it moved to the coast, and scores of plants were operated along North Carolina’s network of creeks, swamps, inlets, sounds and rivers.

LAWYER IS ON TRIP TO CHECK HICKMAN PAST Tour East Made to Obtain Evidence for Insanity Plea of Slayer. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7.—Jerome Walsh, youthful lawyer defending William Edward Hickman, was en route East today, accompanied by Deputy District Attorney James Costello, to collect the insanity evidence which will be used in the trial of the confessed double murderer here, Jan. 25. Costello was more or less an unwelcome traveling companion for Walsh, who Friday resented having a representative of the State accompany him on his evidence gathering tour. Mother to Be Witness Superior Judge Carlos Hardy rifled, however, that it was customary in criminal cases to have a member of the district attorney’s office present when depositions were taken and appointed Costello to make the trip. The attorneys were expected to proceed to Kansas City, where the first evidence will be gathered to prove Hickman insane at the time he kidnaped and murdered Marion Parker, 12-year-old daughter of a Los Angeles banker. Mrs. Eva Hickman, mother of Edward, was expected to return with Walsh to act as star defense witness. A report that Hickman had made anew confession, advancing his motive for the slaying of Marion, resulted in a clash between Welsh and District Attorney Asa Keyes, Friday. Refused Copy of Confession Walsh appeared at Keyes’ offices and demanded a copy of the alleged confession and was refused. Keyes, while neither confirming nor denying that such a document existed, said there was no law which would force the State to disclose its evidence to the defense. The confession generally was reported to be the State’s trump card to be used at the trial of Hickman. Meanwhile, Hickman continued actions in his cell which were said to tend to show his mind was not normal. SU pp ORT RAIL PLEA State Recommends Certificate for Goodrich Line. Granting of a certificate of convenience to ex-Govemor P. Goodrich’s brand new railroad, the Alzers, Winslow & Western Railway Company has been recommended to the interstate commerce commission by the State public service commission. Haring was deputized to the State commission by the I. C. C. Chairman Frank T. Singleton was the presiding commissioner. According to the petition the line would be fifteen miles long and located in Pike County. It would extend from the Patoka Coal Company miles to the Southern Railroad. Pierre Goodrich, son of the former Governor, is secretary-treasurer of the Patoka Coal Company. Objections were presented by the Evansville, Terre Haute and Indianapolis railroad which, according to coal company heads, refused to extend a four-and-one-half mile switch track to the miles. REFUND OF TAX~NAMES Baltzell Indicates Dismissall Due to Non-Jurisdiction. Motions to dismiss original and amended complaints in the test suit filed by E. C. Atkins Company last August to prevent tax refund in Marion County will be sustained because of lack of jurisdiction, Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell indicated today. City, county and school officials are defendants in the suit, which was filed with the backing of the Indiana Taxpayers Association. The motions were filed by three party defendants, William H. Smith, Elizabeth Masters and John W. Staub. The proposed tax refund is based onon a Supreme Court decision holding a horizontal tax increase ordered by the State tax board, under which increased taxes were paid in 1919, 1920 and 1921, was illegal. “Gentlemen prefer blondes’’ —and gentlemen also prefer a clean, warm, homey room for winter—that’s why they read the want ads in The Times for they know they’ll find the best rooms in Indianapolis listed there. Is yours?

BUT the prohibition agents put on an extended campaign, and succeeded in driving many plants out of business. So there came a third shift—to the Piedmont section, the rolling country in the rolling country in the central part of the State. It was in this section that I saw my still. Conditions in the Piedmont are favorable for the moonshiner, although the country is more thickly settled than the other tw r o sections. The abundance of good roads provides countless routes for the runners who distribute the liquor, and makes the task of the prohibition agents harder than it was in the other localities. So at present the Piedmont Is one of America’s leading sources of whisky.

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OPEN DRIVE TO ! REVIVE MARION COUNff KLAN First of Series of Meetings Held; Huffington Pleads for Strength. An effort to revive the Marion County Klan was started by Joseph M. Huffington, Klan grand dragon, formerly of Evansville, at the first of a series of meetings Friday night at 116 E. Maryland St. About 300 members of the various county Klan factions were admitted by a card inviting the bearer to “an old-fashioned Friday night meeting.” The card bore the nam# of the bearer and the Klansman who recommended him. Huffington made a lengthy speech pointing out the need for all factions to forget their “grievances’* and pull together to “build up” the Klan organization in Marion County. Sorry for Mistakes He announced George S. Elliott, former Marion County Klan Cyclops, and Louis Muller, former national organizer, had been named captains, without salaries, to aid him in reorganization. Elliott declared he was sorry for his mistakes and urged all “true Klansmen” to shake hands, forget the differences which split up the local organization, and start “klucking strong.” Several Klansmen representing the various groups, pledged support to the program. Oren S. Davis, Horesthief Detective Association head, attended. Muller, who at one time was active in Washington, told the crowd that national leaders were considering abolishment of the visors “and coming out in the open.” The announcement met with applause. Huffington and other leaders will attend a national meeting in Chicago next week when the Klan program will be outlined, Muller said. Gilliom Is Flayed He declared the Klan is going to “lay off” of politics as an organization, because politics was its downfall, but urged all “true patriotic Americans to support Prostestants for office.” Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, who filed suit to drive the Klan from Indiana, was flayed by Huffington. "If I was picking a jackass to ride I don’t know anyone I’d rather select than Arthur Gilliom,” he said. Hufflgton declared Gilliom had attacked the Klan in court because “ we are weak and cannot fight back.” He asked those present to ‘search their files for a copy of a blue letter signed by D. C. Stephenson asking the Klansmen to support Gilliom.” SIO,OOO in Debt Referring to Gilliom’s charge that the Klan has property valued at $10,000,000 in Indiana, which is not assessed for taxes, Huffington said “instead we are about SIO,OOO in debt.” Huffington declared the days when the organized Klan had a huge pay roll for propaganda and promotion was over. “There is no use lying about things any longer. We had better realize our actual strength. There is no reason why we shouJd not have 5.000 members here in a few weeks if all here will work as individuals,” he said. Huffington referred Indirectly to Mayor L. Ert Slack when he scored “dismissal of Protestant leaders and replacing them with Catholics or anti-Klan henchmen.”

CHEMISTRY TEACHER AT SHORTRIDGE DIES Miss Ellinor Garber Was Lifelong Resident of Indianapolis. Miss Ellinor Garber, 42, Shortridge High School chemistry teacher, died Friday night at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Garber, 1228 N. New Jersey St. She had been ill with pneumonia for the last five weeks. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, she was graduated fA>m Knickerbocker Hall here and later received an A. B. from Vassar College in 1908. She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church and active in the Woman's Club and the Vassar alumnae. At Shortridge she had been sponsor of the Thursday edition of the Shortridge Daily Echo a number of years. She also was sponsor for the Shortridge chapter of the National Honor Society and head of the board in charge of college entrance examinations for Tudor Hall students. Besides her parents. Miss Garber is survived by a brother, Thomas S. Garber, who is associated with his father in the firm of Garber & Garber, shorthand reporters. NAMED FOR FIRE PARLEY Frank C. Jordan Is Vice President of Association. Frank C. Jordan, Indianapolis Water Company secretary, will be sent by the water company as representative of the Chamber of Commerce fire prevention bureau to the executive committee meeting of the National Fire Protective Association at Atlantic City Jan. 21-23. Jordan is second vice president of the association. He will attend a meeting of the publication committee of the American Waterworks Association in New York Jan. 17-18, CONFESSED,'BUT FREED Indiana World War Veteran Ac quitted of Arson Charge. Bn Times Soei ial BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Jan. 7. Roy F. Clemens was acquitted of an arson charge by a Greene Circuit Court jury in five minutes, despite his plea of guilty. Declaring he confessed to burning his home in Jasonville last May while insane impressed the jurors, as Clemens, a volunteer soldier during the World War, suffers at times from a xondition caused by being gassed. | ‘