Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1928 — Page 1

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TAXI DRIVER’S I STORY SPURS i HUNT TOR GIRL Scene of ; Hunt for Lost Student; Luggage Clew. WOMAN TALKS QUEEftLY ‘Strange’ Conversation in Cab Causes Suspicion; Northampton Label. By Vnitei Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Miss Frances St. John Smith, missing r 1 * c f '•■"'•ith College. Northampton, Mass., was sought by a uctau nere today, after a taxicab driver reported he had a passenger at 8:30 Sunday night, a “strange” acting young woman with baggage initialed “E. St. J. S.” and labeled “Northampton.” The taxicab driver, a man named Flynn, described by police as “reliable,” said the young woman dropped a box when she entered the taxi. Some hair spilled from the box. She explained that her hair had just been bobbed and that she was keeping the locks. Flynn said the girl became very communicative but talked queerly. She informed him she was a student from in Massachusetts, and that she was in Washington with a young man. Flynn told police the girl hailed him in the center of the city. She asked to be driven to the Capitol, where, she said, she was to meet the young man, but got out a block from the building. Tn this section there are numerous rooming houses and small hotels. Suspicion Is Aroused As she left his machie, Flynn said, the girl remarked she was going to see a friend named Mary Carlotta. This, Flynn told police, aroused his suspicions. He knew a family named Carlotta that lived around the comer. She went in the direction of the Carlotta girl's home, Flynn said, but subsequent questioning of the Carlotta family and Mary Carlotta revealed they knew nothing of her. A check of the description the taxi driver furnished with that of the missing Smith College student showed, police say, tallied “identically.” The young woman. Flynn said, was well dressed and seemed well educated. Initials Believed Clew Flynn had not known of the Smith girl's disappearance Jan. 13, and reported on his “fare” merely because she acted “strangely,” he said. A check of rooming houses and hotels failed to reveal any trace of her. police said. Authorities proceeded with the search, however, on the theory that the initials Flynn said were on the girl’s bag constitute a definite clew. A woman resembling Miss Smith was reported to have fainted last Wednesday in a restaurant here, when she was accompanied by a young man. Later, the two drove away in a closed car.

Believe Girl Ran Away By United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 23. —Belief grew today that pretty Frances Smith, freshman at Smith College, who has been missing since Jan. 13, had purposely run away So strong was this belief that the parents, Mr. and Mrs. St. John Smith, broadcast a letter to their missing daughter. They believed the girl may have sought quiet and a different life. The letter, made public by the father, read: “Dearest Frances: “We want you to know we are thinking of nothing but your safety and happiness. “If you are safe and wish to make * different life for yourself, we do not want to interfere, but to help if we can. “But we do want to know that you are safe. Won’t you write to your Aunt Susie or M. T. and say that you are? “They will see that your confidence is respected and your wishes are carried out. Above all, we want you to come home, but if you wish quiet and seclusion, we will see that you have it. “We want pp explanation. We only want to care for you and know you are safe. We get through the days only because we hope evpry hour to hear from you. “With dearest love, % “MOTHER AND FATHER.” The missing girl was extremely shy, somewhat inclined toward moodiness, and had few close friends. She grieved because one of the girls she had chummed with had grown a bit distant since the two started in Smith this fall. Also, she was worried about her grades. While she was not falling, her marks were not high. These may have combined co cause her to leave the school and seek a haven where she was not known, authorities believed. State police continued searching through the woods near here for the girl, while a close watch was kept on Connecticut River, where it was reported that an object had been *bsb shich rwejnbled * girl’s body.

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DRY QUESTIONS PUm BORAH Senator Seeks Views of All G. 0. P. Candidates. B>j United Pres* WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Senator Borah set out today on his campaign to place all candidates for the Republican presidential nomination on record regarding prohibition, sending a public letter to Senator Curtis, Kansas, asking his attitude. Curtis is a candidate. Borah presented question seeking to ascertain whether Curtis favors a prohibition plank in the Republican platform. He asked what would be Curtis’ attitude toward enforcement if elected; whether he would favor an executive program to enable States to determine alcoholic content of liquor sold within their borders, and whether he would favor repeal of the Volstead act or the Eighteenth Amendment. “Your friends have placed you in line for the nomination for the presidency,” Borah w r rote. “I venture in view of that fact to ask your view's upon a matter in which there is a wide and deep interest throughout the country. “I am sure you will be free to express yourself on this important issue.” Curtis always has been considered a dry.

GIANT FIGHTING BULL BLOCKS MADRID TRAFFIC Famous Matador Finally Kills Animal, Paging on Streets. Bn United Press MADRID, Jan. 23.—A magnificent fighting bull, long horned and powerful, disrupted traffic for an hour in the center of the city today when it took its stand at the entrance of the American consulate and snorted defiance at the world. The bull had escaped from a breeding center. As it whirled about in front of the consulate after a brief run, a tremendous crowd gathered and all traffic halted. Amateur matadors in turn sought to conquer the bull, but vainly. Finally the famous bull fighter, Fortuna, arrived with a sword. He took his stance, and with a perfect thrust, plunged the sw'ord into the bull’s neck, killing it instantly.

PLEADS GUILTY TO STABBING; FINED SSO New Verdict for Beech Grove Man Easier Than First. Pleading guilty to assault and battery with intent to kill, Commodore Lawrence, 58, Beech Grove, today was fined SSO in Criminal Court by Special Judge Frank Symmes. A jury for the trial had been called but was dismissed when Lawrence entered the guilty plea. He was charged with stabbing Frank Flom in the chest with a knife during a fight last year. Lawrence was fined $250 by a jury in the same case several months ago. Symmes, however, set the verdict aside on the grounds that it was excessive. Following a conference with the court and members of the former jury, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark .agreed to the guilty plea.

LEGION WORKER QUITS Director of Publicity Resigns to Write Fiction Hero. Resignation of Frederick C. Painton, formerly of New York City, as national publicity director of the American Legion, effective Feb. 15, was announced at Legion headquarters today. No successor has been chosen. Painton took charge of the publicity in December, 1923, after pre-< vious connection with the “Stars and Stripes” during the World War and later with the New York Herald Tirbune. eH will remain in Indianapolis writing fiction.

MASONS TO HEAR SLACK Mayor Will Be Guest of Calvin Prather Lodge Tuesday. Mayor L. Ert Slack will be guest of Calving Prather Masonic Lodge Tuesday night. Slack will speak following dinner. The mayor has five other addresses scheduled this week. They are: Indiana Insurance day welcome, Claypool, Tuesday; Railroad Police Association, Spink-Arms, Wednesday; Anti-Saloon League welcome, Roberts Park; Peet Stock Food Company, Severin, and Fish and Game dinner, Marott, Thursday. WHERE HUNDREDS EAT DAILY. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, Basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 . m. to 7:30 p. m.—Advertisement.

INDIANA MAN DIES IN CLUB, FIRE MURDER

Partially Burned Body Is Found on Monroe County Farm. LIQUOR DEALING BLAMED Widow Admits Young Farmer Was on Whisky Delivery Trip. By United Pres* BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 23. Motive for the “club and fire” slaying of Ellis A. Medlock, 23, formerly in the United States Navy, became clearer today when Mrs. Medlock admitted to Sheriff W. S. Curry that her husband left their home to deliver a gallon of white mule to a customer Friday, Jan. 13, the day' he vanished. Although Mrs. Med'.ock was unable to name the customer, Sheriff Curry was of the opinion that her admission, made after repeated refusals to talk, strengthened his theory that Medlock was clubbed into insensibility, if not death, and then set fire by, vengeful bootleggers attempting to disfigure the body beyond identification. Find Large Club Another clew’ was a heavy, green branch of a tree, more like a log in its formidable dimensions, found near the thicket in w'hich Medlock’s body had lain face downward, apparently since Jan. 13. It w'as thought to be the weapon with which Medlock’s skull was crushed. The fire, which appeared to have been caused by igniting gasoline throwm on the man’s clothing, burned one leg almost from the body and badly charred the other leg and both arms. It also ate through ropes which had bound the body to a tree. This released the body from its upright position and pitched it face downward into soft earth in the thicket. The plans of the slayers were thw'arted as a result, fcecaus: the fire appeared to have died out before It reached Medlock’s face, making identification easy, according to Curry. Robbery Not Motive Robbery as a motive was discarded when 40 cents w’as found in Medlock’s pocket. Mrs. Medlock said her husband had taken $2.40 witli him, intending to spend $2 at a Kirksvillc grocery. It was learned at the grocery that he had spent the amount. Medlock’s revolver was found in his hip pocket, the handle burned aw’ay. One bullet was missing from the chamber. A point on which Curry had hope of tracing the murderers was the fact that Medlock’s automobile has not been found. A description of the automobile was to be sent out to all surrounding cities in the hope the slayers may still be in possession of it. Medlock leaves his widow and two daughters. 2 and 5. The funeral will be held after the inquest.

REPAIR HOSPITAL WELLS Sunnyside Sanitarium Patients Return; Remedy Water Shortage. Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanitarium patients, removed last week when the water supply was diminished while repairs were being made on the wells, returned today. Two wells are in operation and anew pump is to be installed on a third one w. thin a few days. County officials said that with a third well in operation soon there will be a surplus of water. THIRD CHURCH BURNS Building of Methodists at Carbon Destroyed; Loss SIO,OOO. By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 23.—The Methodist Episcopal Church at Carbon was destroyed by fire Sunday night for the third time in recent years. The loss was SIO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. The building was seven years old. Brands from the blazing church were carried by high winds to nearby residences, but the Brazil fire department sent aid and held the flames in check. - BOOK BUILDING SOLD University Buys BobbsMerrill Site for $125,000. Purchase of the old Bobbs-Merrill building and its site at 122 E. Michigan St. by Indiana University for use as a headquarters for its Indianapolis extension classes, from the Automobile Underwriters Inc., was completed today. Consideration was $125,000. The university will begin remodeling at once. Emerson W. Chaille & Cos. negotiated the sale. The old BobbsMerrill building, a three-story brick structure, formerly was located at 32 E. Vermont St. It was moved to its present location a year ago to make way for the World War memorial. * __ L t „ ,

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MOST women are more afraid of a gun than a bandit, but not Mrs. Charles Puckett, 3310 Broadway—to which Ralph Batchelor, 19, Edgewood, can testify. “My only regret is that I didn’t hit him,” said Mrs. Puckett, as she described her encounter with the youth, bent on mischief Saturday night. “Afraid of a gun! I should say not. I was tickled to death that Lhad it.” Mrs. Puckett was coming home alone from a theater in her car. On Pennsylvania St. she noticed an, automobile following her. She stepped

LINDBERGH TO VISIT 7 CITIES Flier Will Start Friday for Venezuela Visit. By United Press PANAMA CITY, Jan. 23.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh this week will resume his flight of good will and will start an ambitious program that includes visits at seven cities and flights over much difficult territory. He expects to leave here Friday for Bogota and will land there the same day. Other visits include: Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 29. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Jan. 31; Porto Rico, Feb. 2; Santo Domingo, Feb. 4; Haiti, Feb. 6; Havana. Feb. 8. He has not decided on his plans after arriving at Havana. The flying Colonel was entertained Sunday by numerous officials who took him on a tour of interesting places about Panama City. Today he will inspect his good will plane, the Spirit of st. Louis, which recently has been overhauled.

GAS HEARING DENIED U. S. ‘ High Court Through With Row Over City-Owned Stations. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.—The United States Supreme Court today denied the Standard Oil Company of Nebraska a rehearing of its injunction suit against the city ol Lincoln, Neb., in which the high court a few weeks ago upheld the city’s right to operate municipal gasoline filling stations. U. S. Supreme Court Recesses By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The United States Supreme Court recessed today until Feb. 20. ALLEGED CHICKEN THIEF FATALLY SHOT AT GARY Victim of Police Identified as Jess Harris, Bass Lake. By United Press GARY, Ind., Jan. 23.—A man identified as Jess Haris, 35, Bass Lake, Ind., believed by police to have been the leader of a band of chicken thieves operating in northern Indiana, was shot and killed by police today when he attempted to escape a trap set for the gang. The gang’s supposed headquarters was discovered in an old bam on the outskirts of Gary. An ambush was made and police say Harris and a Nego companion drove there today in a stolen automobile loaded with chickens. Harris reached for his gun when police appeared, but the latter’s bullets struck him before he could fire. His companion escaped.

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on the gas and made for home, the aspiring bandit in hot pursuit, AS Mrs. Puckett pulled into her drive, he parked across the street. Then followed a wild scramble while Mrs. Puckett quit her machine, unlocked the house door and got within refteh cf her revolver. Nothing daunted that her pursuer was on the lawn, Mrs. Puckett invited the young man to depart, “unless he felt like stopping a bunch of lead.” Batchelor, police said, continued to stand, regarding the Puckett car with covetous eyes. “He didn’t, move, so I shot him. I wasn’t going to let him get my car,” explains Mrs. Puckett. When police arrived in response to Mrs. Puckett's call, the youth was trying to start the car ot Emory Baxter, 3301 Broadway, parked in front of the Baxter home. The W’ould-be bandit was arresteci on a vagrancy charge. Ownership of the car he was driving has not been determined. HEFLIN FILLS GALLERY Crowds Wait for Renewal Attack on Catholicism and Smith. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. The largest crowd of this session was packed in the Senate galleries this afternoon to hear Senaton Heflin of Alabama, who had announced he would renew his attack upon,,the Catholic Church and Governor A Smith of New York. Long before Heflin was scheduled to speak, Senate rules were waived so spectators could sit on the steps in gallery aisles. Even this concession failed to accommodate all visitors. Long lines waited outside entrance doors. , DOG SENTENCED TO DIE Appeals Court Holds Fate of Bessie; Biting Is Charge. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 23. The court of appeals today was to decide the fate of Bessie, 4-year-old police dog under sentence of death. Bessie bit a 15-year-old boy last November. She was sentenced to die, and since then her case has been fought through lower courts.

LIFT FALLS; 3 HURT Federal Building Freight Elevator Drops 20 Feet. Three Federal Bldg, employes were injured today when a freight elevator fell about twenty feet from the first floor to the basement. All were bruised and injured on the backs and legs. They were Capp Ray, 55, 328 E. Market St., head custodian; Lee Pryor, 51, Negro, 1140 N. Pershing Avc., and John Nawland, 55, 2214 Coyncr Ave. They were taken to city hospital for examination. Harry P. Owen, 285 N. Denny St., and James Pruitt, 516 Highland Ave., had just stepped oft when the cage fell. ,

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JUDGE TO GET JACKSON CASE PLEAS TODAY Motions Expected to Ask Separate Trials on Plot to Bribe Charge. SPECIAL VENIRE LIKELY Jurors From Outside Marion County May Be Chosen for Hearing. Separate trials for Governor Ed Jackson, George V. Coffin, Republican county chairman; and Attorney Robert I Marsh w’ere expected to be asked in motions filed before Special Judge Charles M. McCabe in Criminal Court this afternoon. The trial, on charges of conspiracy to bribe former Governor Warren T. McCray, is set for Feb. 7. If separation is granted, it is understood Jackson will be tried first. Defense attorneys would not discuss a report that a motion for a special venire from other counties for the jury might be filed. It is regarded as certain that a special venire will be asked, but whether from outside Marion County w'as problematical. May Ask Special Venire The section under which jurors from other counties could be called reads: “. . . the judge of such court shall be satisfied, after having made a fair investigation in good faith for that purpose, that from any cause it will be improbable that a jury-, without bias or prejudice, can be’ obtained within the county wherein the prosecution is pending, he shall enter an order of such determination and shall include in such order a request upon the judge of the Circuit Court of an adjoining county, i to be named in such order, to forthj with procure the drawing of names ! for a jury ...” Action on Fout In Doubt State’s attorneys have not yet aun6unced whether they will accept the deposition taken from Bishcp H. H. Fout of the United Brethren Church. He is one of the defense's chief witnesses and is planning a foreign tour at the time of the trial. In nis deposition. Bishop Fout states that lie requested Jackson, when secretary of State, to ask lormer Governor Warren T. McCray to appoint James E. McDonald county prosecutor. The deforciants are charged with offering McCray SIO,OOO and promising him no conviction in Indiana courts if he appointed McDonald;

SLAYING ENDS MAN’S CANDY BUYING ERRAND Father of Four Admits Killing Negro at Terre Haute. B’l Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Jan. 23. Columbus Kelley, 35, white, is held on a first degree murder charge following the death of Nelson Waldron, 26, Negro. Kelley admits the slaying, but declares he acted in self-defense, saying he used a knife on the Negro following an argument over a card game at a soft drink parlor. The accused man is married and the father of four children. He sid he went to the parlor to buy candy for his family, but stayed to take part in a card game. FREEbnN~BLUfT~CASE’ Pittsburgh Symphony to Continue Sunday Night Concerts. Bit United Press PITTSBURGH, Jan, 23.—Found not guilty of violation of Pennsylvania’s blue law, the Pittsburgh Symphony Society will proceed with its original plans and hold Sunday night concerts during the winter months, it was announced today. Nine members of the society were exnonerated of the blue law violation because of a concert held on Sunday last April. Oxygen Fails in Pneumonia Case By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—A twenty-four-hour application of oxygen with a lungmotor failed to save the life of Mrs. Esther Englund, pneumonia victim.

HEARING IS HELD ON SALE OF GAS STOCK Arguments Favoring Disposal of $1,000,000 Issue Made. Hearing on the Supplemental petition of the Citizens Gas Company for a $1,000,000 preferred stock issue to bear 5 per cent interest and sell at 96, was held this afternoon before Commissioner Howell Ellis of the Public Service Commission. The commission already had issued an • order permitting the $1,000,000 issue to sell at 100 and bear bVs per cent interest. This was upon a previous petition. The company now holds that the market is such, due to publicity given the matter, that they can sell the 5 per cent and save money over the proposed 5% per cent issue. The money is to be used to retire ft J per cent issue, (

Talk a Mile New Loud Speaker Will Enable Million Persons to Hear Address.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Politicians, boxing announcers and champion hog callers were shamed to approximate silence today, with announcement that a loud speaker had been perfected to throw the human voice a mile without distortion. The speaker has been developed by the Bell Telephone laboratories and a private demonstration w’as arranged. A group of engineers and witnesses climbed to Castle Stevens Bluff, Hoboken, where was stationed a field telephone. Dr. R. W. King was the first to speak. "Hello, there, tug captain,” he said In a normal tone. Five seconds later, from across the Hudson River, came the words back with a deep boom. The voice had gone over the telephone wire to a small moving diaphragm made of aluminum alloy at the back of the new loud speaker. The diaphragm is a little larger than an ordinary watch and is thinner than gold leaf. The powerful instrument was designed primarily for public addresses and for reproduction of speech and music in connection with talking motion pictures. < Telephone officials estimated that the device would enable 1,000,000 persons in an area up to a mile away to hear reproductions of sound.

COSGRAVEMUM ON PROHIBITION Irish Chief Refuses Comment on Dry Question^ By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—President William I. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State named George Washington as the greatest American, tried to evade questions on prohibitien today during a mass interview at his hotel here before beginning a four-day series of official engagements. Regarding prohibition, he reluctantly said that in this country “the beer was like champagne.” but did not embellish this remark. Discussing the question of funds collected in the United States in behalf of the Irish Republic before the Free State was formed, Cosgrave said his government still was willing to make payment in full to all holders of Irish Republican bonds, provided money deposited to the Irish Republican account in this country were turned over to the Free State government. The Free State, he said, would appropriate money to make up the difference between the sum now held in banks and the face value of the outstanding bonds. The president still w r as enthusiastic over his visit to Chicago, where he met Mayor Thompson. “I saw no machine guns,” he said. SLAYER DIES IN CHAIR Pennsylvanian Who Killed Brother of Sweetheart Pays Penalty. Bji United Pres* BELLEFONTE, Pa., Jan. 23. Leon Scovern, 20, was put to death in the electric chair at Rockview penitentiary today for murder. Scovern killed his sweetheart’s brother, Joseph Baranoskie. The youth w’as strapped into the death chair at 7:01 a. m. Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania and other Eastern States, pulled the switch. One current of electricity at 7:02 a. m. ended Scovern’s life. PREDICT RAINTuESDAY Mercury to Rise Tonight, but Will Drop Again Tuesday. Warmer temperatures tonight, but with colder weather again Tuesday and Tuesday night, the United States Weather Bureau experts predicted for Indianapolis today. Rain is likely .Tuesday. With a low’ temperature of 21 Sunday, the day’s temperatures averaged 30 degrees, 2 degrees above normal. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature of 29 also was 2 degrees above normal.

MOTHER WITH ‘FOX' Arrives on Coast to Aid Son ' at Death Trial. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23.—Mrs. Eva Hickman arrived here today from her home in Kansas City, Mo., to join the fight to save her son, Edward from the gallows. Mrs. Hickman avoided newspaper men and photographers and went to the home of an unnamed friend. There she prepared to meet her son in his cell. Urge Sex Education by Churches CLEVELAND, Ohio. Jan. 23.—Institution of sex educational branches in churches, especially for the benefit of parents, was proposed here today at the conference of the Federal Council c l Churches of Christ.

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POOR HOUSING ADMITTED DY SCHOOL BOARD Agree With Engineers Th*t ‘Deplorable Condition’ Must Be Corrected. BOND ISSUE SUGGESTED Taxpayers’ Assooiation Gets Blame for Influencing State Board. Agreement with the report of a. special committee of the Indianapolis Engineering Society, calling attention to the deplorable school building situation, was expressed today by school board members. The engineers criticised the large number of portable buildings in use and declared the State health board has failed to enforce a law to compel construction of enough permanent buildings to care for all school children. “The report calls attention to facts which the school board has known and has tried to get before the public for some tune,” President Theodore F. Vonnegut said. Blames Tax Group “We appreciate the great public service the society is doing in calling attention to conditions. Each community has seen its own needs, but did not see that the same conditions prevail over the entire city, and wondered why the board could not do anything. “Housing conditions of the Indianapolis schools are a disgrace to the city, but that doesn’t seem to worry Harry Mi esse and his Indiana Taxpayers Association.” The engineering society report attributed the “deplorable conditions” to “control over the school budget by the Indiana Taxpayers League, exercised by means of its influence with the State tax board.” The report recommends an annual levy of 13 cents on each SIOO for five years for new buildings to replace portables and keep up with annual'growth In school population, and another 8 or 10 cents to replace buildings thirty to sixty years old. Bond Issue Suggested Commissioner .Charles W. Kern suggested that a $590,000 bond issue, together with a 14-cent levy for buildings for the next ten years, would enable the city to catch up with its building requirements if there be no great increase in school population. “The housing situation developed a number of years ago,” he said, “when previous boards failed to levyenough for new buildings. It is not fair to try to levy enough in one or two years now to catch up. Efforts of the board in the last few years to speed up the building program has been handicapped by levies being slashed by the tax board. “We desire to relieve the situation as soon as possible. We have several classes in churches, many half-day classes for the lower grades, several thousand children in portables, and many classes in rooms never intended for classrooms, most of which are deficient in light and ventilation.” Brown Charge That the city should go ahead with its building program through tax levies rather than through continued bond issues was suggested by Fred Kepner, new board member. “Bond issues are all right for the bankers, but they are hard on the taxpayers, who must pay almost as much interest as principal," Kepner said. “The State tax board has not denied a single Indianapolis school bond issue since the building shortage developed,” declared Chairman John J. Brown. “We have on several occasions stipulated that we would not approve bond issues unless the amounts were reduced, because we found the programs were extravagant, but we have not denied the issues. “About four years ago we refused to approve a $1,600,000 issue on the ground, suggesting that it would be favofed if the amount were cut to $1,200,000. It was not sent back to us. “Charges that the Indiana Taxpayers League unduly influences the board are erroneous. We accept any suggestions of the league with pleasure, but we arrive at our decision only after both sides present their cases.” g. o7>7"heads to meet District Chairman Will Meet Kitselman at Sever in Tuesday. Thirteen Republican district chairmen, comprising the State central committee, and a number of vice chairmen will meet with the newly elected State Chairman E. Faye Kitselman of Muncie, at the Severin Tuesday. The meeting is described by leaders as more of a social than business affair, the new chairman not having met most of the committeemen. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 29 10 a. m.... 34 7 a. m.... 29 11 a. m.... 37 Ba. m.... 28 13 (noon).. 40 l' a. .m..,, 30 ip, si..,* 49