Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1928 — Page 3

MARCH 6, 1928.

TEN MAY RUN IN G. 0. P. RACE FOR GOVERNOR Eight Already Announced and Two More Ready to Toss Hats in Ring. SCHORTEMEIER GETS IN U. S. Lesh Also to File; Landis and Draper Preparing to Take Plunge. Prospect of at least ten candidates seeking the Republican nomination for Governor increased today as Frederick K. Landis, of Logansport, and Luther O. Draper, State Senator of Spiceland, prepared to file. Jhe lists close Thursday. Candidates seven and eight entered the gubernatorial race today in announcements by Frederick E. Fchortemeier. Secretary of State, and U. S. Lesh, former attorney general. Disclaiming allianace with any faction, Schortemeier said: “I plead for harmony within the Republican party. As secretary of the Republican State committee for five years, I was not a factionist and I am not controlled by any faction. I believe every public office should be conducted independent of favoritism of prejudices." Stands for Enforcement Schortemeier asserted "improvements should be made in the conduct of our primary elections,” but held that responsibility for any changes rested with the party platforms and the Legislature. He said public utilities merit constant attention, that capital should have proper protection, but that ‘‘interests of the public should be guarded zealously.” Enforcement of all provisions of the Federal and State Constitu.ions is urged by Schortemeier. “The people know or can ascertain my record as Secretary of State during the last three years,” he said. "I stand upon that record.” Schortemeier was born in Shelbyville, Ind., March 25, 1889. He was educated in the public schools here, later being graduated from Butler College and Harvard law school. Lesh Enters Race He was secretary of the Republican State committee for nearly six years and in 1924 was elected secretary of State. He was re-elected in 1926.“ Lesh said: "I do not interpret the popular demand for anew deal to contemplate a candidate inexperienced and unfamiliar with public business, but rather one whose appeal reaches beyond factional or group support; who is capable and willing to meet the issues of the day as they arise and not waste time and money on questions that have been disposed of; who can be depended upon not to enter into secret bargains inimical to the public good to obtain support, first to be revealed in the unfolding of an administration; and who would not use the office to further selfish purposes.” Lesh was born on a Wells county farm. After graduation from the law department of Michigan University in 1891. he began the practice of law in Huntington. He was appointed assistant attorney general in 1917, serving four years in this capacity. In 1920 he was elected attorney general. Since expiration of his term in January, 1925, he has been practicing law here. The six others who have announced their candidacies for the Republican gubernatorial nomination are: Charles W. Jewett, Indianapolis; Arthur Symmes, Linton; Alvah J. Rucker, Indianapolis; Harry G. Leslie, Lafayette; Charles Lowry, Portland, and Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes.

ACCEPTS TOLEDO POST Miss Dorothy Biair Named Assistant Curator of Museum. Miss Dorothy Blair, former assistant director of the John Herron Art Institute, has been appointed assistant curator of the Museum of Art of Toledo, Ohio. About a year ago J. Arthur Mac Lean, then director of the Herron institute, resigned to go to Toledo and take charge of the new department of oriental art at the museum. Miss Blair is one of the few women orientalists in America. She studied at the Imperial University of Japan and just has completed a year in the orient. In 1914 Miss Blair graduated from Holyoke College. She held the assistant directorship here from 1923-26. MISSOURI BISHOP HERE Speaks at Noonday Services at Christ Episcopal Church. Bishop Sidney C. Patridge of the Episcopal diocese of western Missouri gave the first of a series of five noonday Lenten addresses at Christ Church today. At 10 a. m. he taught a Bible class for women of the church giving the first of four talks on “The Marriage Feast at Cana of Galilee.” Cheston L. Heath gave a fifteenminute organ recital preceding the noon service. ROBS PHARMACY OF $57 Well Dressed Bandit Holds Up Clerk, Rifles Cash Register. A well-drefcsed bandit, described as “having a fine line of talk,” held up Orin Wells, 810’/ z N. Illinois St., clerk at the Jackson pharmacy, 2670 Northwestern Ave., Monday night and robbed him of $57. While Wells was in the rear of the tore, the bandit entered and drawing a gun, told him to keep his hands up and face the wall. The bandit walked to the cash register and rifled it.

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CONGRESS WILL STAY TILL JUNE Lawmakers Will Recess for Conventions. By Times Special WASHINGTON, March 6,-Con-gress will not adjourn before the national political conventions assemble in June, congressional leaders have decided. Instead of seeking to complete the legislative program during March, April and May, an apparently impossible task, it has been decided to accomplish as much as possible and then take recesses during June. This will enable Democrats and Republicans alike to attend their respective conventions and return to Washington in July for the completion of the Congress. This plan was adopted four years ago. A handful of members will be in Washington. They will meet, discuss and pass "unobjected" bills and recess for three days at a time until the conventions are over. PEDESTRIAN HURT WHEN CAR CATCHES OVERCOAT John Yolniar, 70, Run Down While Crossing Street. John Volmar, 70, of 522 E. North St., suffered severe bruises when the door handle of an automobile driven by James A. Post, 46, of 4934 N. Pennsylvania St., caught his overcoat and hurled him to the pavement at North and Meridian Sts. late Monday. Volmar, who was on his way home, was crossing Meridian St. when he walked into the side of Post’s car, police learned. John Summers, 862 N. Bosart Ave., is in city hospital with scalp lacerations suffered Monday night when his auto crashed into the rear end of another car in the 800 block on E. Washington St. Summers’ car turned over.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police today belong to: W. J. Barrett Sr., 1001 N. Delaware St., Apt. 41, Ford, from in front of residence. John A. Boyd Motor Company, 833 N. Meridian St., Buick, M-391-19. from rear of office. Roy Holtzclaw, 226 N. New Jersey St., Ford, from 1300 block on W. Morris St. Thomas Reger, 2032 Ruckle St„ Chevrolet, 40-197, from in front of residence. Jack Goldfarb, 3419 Winthrop Ave., Auburn, 10-950, from in front of Lincoln Hotel. W. E. Carter, Danville, Chevrolet, from Delaware and New York Sts.

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Automobiles reported recovered by police today belong to: Henry Caldwell. 1353 S. Tremont Ave., Essex, 643-481, at Virginia Ave. and Maryland St. Harley Guy, Martinsville, Ford, 627-718, at Kentucky Ave. and Belt railroad tracks.

BY ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor, NEA Service WASHINGTON, March 6. Every evening a scientist at the United States Naval Observatory at Washington sits down to a transit instrument, which is really a small telescope, and gazes steadfastly into the sky. Patiently he waits until a faint light appears. Then there’s a

PROBERS WILL DIG DEEPER IN G. 0. MHL LINK Four Witnesses Are Called to Appear Wednesday at Quiz. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.—The Senate Teapot Dome committee has received information concerning the disposition of $160,000 of Continental Trading Company bonds by the Republican national committee and has called four witnesses for Wednesday to see what they know about it. Those subpoenaed Include: M. J. Pessin, advertising man of New York, who is supposed to have received $70,000 of the oil profits from the Republican national committee in payment for advertising work. Wheat King Subpoenaed James A. Patten, Chicago wheat king, who is reported to have handled some of the $60,000 of Continental bonds sent to Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Republican national committee, by Will H. Hays, committee chairman. B. A. Eckhart and his son, Percy, officials of the Eckhart Milling Company, Chicago, who are supposed to have worked with Patten in disposing of the bonds for Upham. Hays recently testified that in addition to the $60,000 of bonds sent to Upham, $25,000 was given to former Secretary of War Weeks, and $75,000 was used to pay off committee notes at the Empire Trust Company. This distribution did not take into account $70,000 said to have been received by Pessin, and the committee desires to clear up the discrepancy. Plan Warrant for Stewart A bench warrant for arrest of Chairman Robert W. Stewart of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, signed by Chief Justice McCoy, of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, will be mailed to Chicago today. United States Attorney Peyton Gordon announced today. Under the warrant the Rockefeller company head will be required to plead to the recent indictment charging him with contempt of the Senate in refusing to answer questions of the Senate Teapot Dome committee in connection with the Continental Trading Company investigation. Gordon said the warrant, with a certified copy of the indictment, would go to the United States Marshal at Chicago and that the oil man’s attorneys would notify him to appear to accept service at a time yet to be agreed upon. After services, Stewart’s attorneys would post a bond and he would be directed to appear here for arraingnment and pleading on the indictment.

HURD IS APPOINTED Architects Named City Building Commissioner William F. Hurd, architect, 1821 Olive St„ was formally appointed building commissioner today in accordance with Mayor L. Ert Slack’s recommendation. This gave the city two claimants to the job. Slack announced Hurd’s appointment several weeks ago subject to the engineering examination. Hurd made a grad eof 88. Passing mark is 70. Building Commissioner W. A. Osbon, Republican, wh owas named to the board during the Duvall administration, refused to resign the $4,000 post. “The board will have to proceed according to the statute before I will get out. The law provides the commissioner can not be removed without charges,” Osbon said. It was indicated Osbon will file suit for his salary after his name is removed from the 'city pay roll. Plate Glass Magnate Dies By United Press PITTSBURGH, March 6.—Capt. Charles Brown, 70, president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, died at his home in Sewickley today.

DEMAND HEAVY FOR ‘EXOTIC’ VEGETABLE

Among the more exotic vegetables to be had at city market today was Broccoli, a combination of cauliflower and asparagus just making its debut in these parts. It has been in use in the East for some time and though it is rare here there is a large demand for It. Broccoli is selling at 25 and 60 cents a bunch There are a number of things in the out-of-season class. Strawberries sold at 75 cents a quart. Mushrooms. scarcer today than at any time last week, were 80 cents a pound. Grapes also were higher, 40 cents a pound. Fresh asparagus was priced at 45 cents a small bunch. Brussels sprouts were 25 cents a pint. Artichokes were a little lower and a little smaller. They sold at 20 cents a piece. French endive, which was rather scarce, was 80 cents a pound. Chinese celery, only to be found at one stall, was 20 cents a stalk. There was not much difference in price on the old stand-bys. Head

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Coal Strike Causes Nation to Discover There Is Another Senator From Idaho

BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, March There is another Senator from Idaho! Out in Idaho, where the big potatoes grow, they know that very well. But until recently if you asked the rest of the country and even most of Washington to name Idaho’s two Senators, the response would be, “Bill Borah and—and—well, let’s see.” But many more people can answer the question now that a Senate subcommittee has investigated conditions in the Pennsylvania bituminous coal fields. For the other Senator from Idaho. Frank R. Gooding by name, was chaiman of that subcommittee and the manner in which he conducted that inquiry attracted na-tion-wide attention. While Borah has served the country as an international figure, Gooding has been fighting tenaciously for farm relief and for his “long and short haul” bill, a piece of legislation designed to lower freight rates for Western shippers. He has been an active member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture. Gooding is a self-made farmer. He came to this country from England when he was 9 years old. By 1915 he was one of the biggest

MISSING BAKER FOUND IN OHIO H. H. Freeman, Lost Twice, Located in Cincinnati. H H. Freeman, formerly of 4020 Graceland Ave., who had disappeared for the second time within five weeks, walked into central police headquarters at Cincinnati today and asked the officers to care for him. He was sent to General Hospital. He said the was unable to recall his past. Identification was made upon a note in his pocket bearing the name of Mrs. Freeman and the Indianapolis address. Freeman, former superintendent of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company bakery, first disappeared the night of Feb. 1, He left the bakery with his salary in his pocket, saying he was going home. He was not heard of again until Feb. 22, when he returned home after wandering about the West. A week ago today Freeman telephoned his wife about 3 p. m. that he had an appointment downtown at 4:30 and would be home for dinner. He did not appear and anew search was started for him. His wife gave up their home here and went to Dayton. Ohio, to be with her mother. The first word she received of the missing man went ts her today in a telegram from The Times. He told Cincinnati officers he recalled nothing except that a few moments before “I was almost struck by an automobile down by the bus station and I realized I ought not be walking around the streets like this.” DISCUSS CHILD HEALTH Leaders Urge Congress to Set Aside May Day for Program. Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer, director of the Child Hygiene Division of the State Health Department, urged adoption of a resolution pending before Congress setting aside May 1 as National Child Health day, at a luncheon at the Hotel Lincoln Monday. Plans were discussed for a Statewide Indiana May day program by Dr. William H. King, secretary of the State board and Aida de Acosta Breckenridge and Mrs. Walter McNab of the American Child Health Association, Washington. Marion Banker Buried By Times Special MARION, Ind., March 6.—Funeral services were held here this morning for Philip Matter, 85, banker and capitalist, who died Saturday.

lettuce went at 10 and 15 cents a head. New cabbage was higher than Saturday at 8 cents a pound. Cauliflower ranged from 20 to 35 cents a head. Heart celery was a quarter a bunch for hearts and 10 cents a stalk. Mustard greens were 25 cents a pound and endive 10 and 20 cents a head. Button radishes were 10 cents a bunch and the long reds two bunches for 15 cents. Green onions went at two bunches for 15 cents. Green peas were 20 cents a pound. Wax beans sold at 40 cents a pint. Tomatoes are 35 cents a pound for the better grade and beets 10 cents a bunch. Carrots were 5 cents a pound for the old and 10 cents a bunch for new. Florida new white potatoes were two pounds for a quarter. Eggs were 35 cents a dozen today and chicken 45 cents a pound. Tempting little squabs still were 75 cents a pound.

QINCE we can’t see the earth rotate, we do see the stars above aparently move from East to West. It is this movement of certain socalled “fixed” stars on which we rely for our exact time. The scientist sets his transit toward a fixed point on what is called the meridian. This is the line that divides the sky directly overhead from north to south.

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Opinion Here Gentle in Blaming ‘Hoaxßaby’Wife

Was Justified, Think Some; Should Have Adopted Child, Say Others. Indianapolis ministers, educators and social workers were divided today in opinion as to whether Mrs. Myron L. Boyer of Detroit was justified in deceiving her millionaire husband into believing that an adopted baby was their own flesh and blood. Most of those persons interviewed by The Times held to the view that a sensible agreement to adopt a baby would have been far better than the practice of deceit, but practically all were gentle in dealing with the wife. Views of Indianapolis persons: The Rev. Virgil E. Rorer, pastor of the Meridian St. Methodist Episcopal Church: “She may have been justified but not sanctified in deceiving him. In any case. I think he is extremely dull in the beginning and throughout to have been so deceived.” Mother’s Love Condones Action The Rev. E. E. Guthrie, pastor of the University Heights Christian Church: “I believe she was justified although we are careful not to condone deception. I feel that she was quite justified in this as the only way to hold her home together.” Frederick Van Nuys. attorney, Grandview Dr.: “The inherent mother love which prompted her actions wholly justified her in what, she did." Dr. I. J. Good, president of Indiana Central College: “I don't feel that deception or fraud Is ever justified. I do not believe that any woman should practice it in the relationship that Mrs. Boyer did.” Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president of the City Federation of ParentsTeachers, 1728 Cross Dr., Woodruff Place: “Her intention was undoubtedly noble and I believe she was justified in doing what she believed would weld their domestic life together.” Should Have Adopted Child Miss Isabelle Somerville, juvenile court probation officer: “I don’t think that she was justified even to keep her home together. She and her husband should have peaceably agreed to adopt a child. I understand the viewpoint, but still do not think that anyone can profit by deception of that kind.” L. E. C Fackler, pastor of St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church: “There is too much deception in modern married life as it is. I do not think that Mrs. Boyer should have attempted to deceive her husband. She should have adopted a baby properly, and legally and openly.” Mrs. Roy G. Taylor, club woman, 4310 College Ave.: “I don’t believe that deception is ever justifiable. I can understand Mrs. Boyer’s viewpoint as a woman, but it never pays to do the thing she did.” COLLEGE FUNDS SOUGHT $200,000 Eliza A. Blaker Memorial Endowment Aim of Drive. Plans for raising a fund of $200,000 as an Biiza A. Blaker memorial endowment were adopted at a student meeting at the Teachers College of Indianapolis, Monday. Miss Emma Colbert, dean, was named endowment and alumnae chairman. Virgil F. Binford is endowment manager and Mrs. F. D. Norris is chairman of the Indianapolis district. The State will be divided into eighteen districts managed by an alumnae chairman. Blaker memorial clubs will be established in eighteen State towns. Dies of Sleep Malady FT. WAYNE. Ind.. March 6. William Davis, 38. is dead in a hospital here, a victim of sleeping sickness. The end came Monday night after ten days of unconsciousness.

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porters of farm relief and the Mc-Nary-Haugen bill. Gooding is a bitter enemy of the I. W. W. He gained his ideas

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ENGINEERING MEN MEET More Than 100 Attend Session of City Society. More than 100 engineers and representatives of the State highway commission attended the dinner of the Indianapolis section of the Indiana Engineering Society at the Spink-Arms Hotel Monday night. Other organizations represented were: Indiana Sand and Gravel Producers Association, and Indiana Crushed Stone Producers. Methods of mixing concrete were debated. R. E. Crum, engineer of materials and tests of the lowa highway commission. and R. T. Giles, former test engineer of the North Carolina highway commission, were speakers* HOOVER BARS FILING | Withholds Name From Wisconsin’s Primary Ballot, By United Pm is MADISON. Wis., March 6.—The Wisconsin preferential primary ballot was certified by Secretary of State Theodore Dammann today, minus the name of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. A controversy arose when friends of Hoover filed his name as a Republican presidential candidate. The secretary said the filing was unauthorized and asked that his name be withdrawn. MAROONED CREW FOUND Bf/ United Press ARCHANGEL, Russia. March 6. Russian aviators, scouting over the White Sea, discovered a group of fishermen who had been stranded on a floating ice block, without food, for eight days. The aviators dropped food and clothing to the marooned men and notified an ice cutter, which rescued them. Motorist Dies in Crash Bn Times Special MISHAWAKA, Ind., March 6. William Brown, 30, was fatally injured when the automobile he was •driving collided head on with an interurban car here Monday night.

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about that organization first hand, for he was Governor of Idaho during the famous Hayward-Moyer-Pettibcne trial. Who was Gooding when he returned from Pennsylvania? He was a conservative who, in the eyes of the coal operators, at least, had gone radical. Never before had he identified himself as a strong friend of union labor. He never had the support of labor. He was regarded as a standpatter. But the sights he saw in the coal fields made him burn with the injustice of it all. Protests had been expected from Senators Wagner and Wheeler, but Gooding suddenly began to outdo them. It takes a good deal to shake the Gooding stolidity. It takes a while for things to sink in. But once he’s aroused and sure of his facts, there’s no stopping him. So it was that for the first couple of days he let other members of the committee do all the talking and examining. Then he suddenly pitched into the operators and their bosses. He showed them that he was chairman of that committee, and became ruthless in exposing camouflage. Gooding is 67, but he was tireless in his quest for information. He was up every morning by 7 and held hearings all over the coal fields that often lasted past midnight.

PROPOSE NEW FEEDER MAINS Expenditure of $600,000 in 1928 Program. Additional feeder mains, costing approximately $400,000, comprise the major item in the Indianapolis Water Company's construction program for 1928, H. S. Morse, manager, announced today. Expenditures of $600,000 are contemplated during the year, Morse said. While feeder mains comprise the largest item, $70,500 will go into replacement of two boilers at the Riverside pumping station. An equal amount already has been expended on this project. Two hundred forty new fire hydrants will cost approximately $28,800, Morse indicated. Electrically driven pumps at the filter plant to take care of peak loads will cost SIO,OOO, he saic. Additional feeder mains hinge upon the city’s paving and sewer program. Mains already included in the water company’s program for 1928 are on Manlove Ave., from Forty-Second St. to Forty-Sixth St.; Forty-Sixth St., from Manlove Ave. to Ralston St., and on to the Monon railroad; English Ave., from Emerson Ave. to Ritter Ave.; Turner St., from Holmes Ave. to Mount St.; Turner St., from Pershing Ave. to Belmont Ave.; Vermont St., from Holmes Ave. to Warman Ave.; Nineteenth St., from Meridian St. to Park Ave.; Beecher St., f'om Madison Ave. to East St.; Washington St., from East St. to Southeastern Ave.; Locke St., from Indiana Ave. to Michigan St., and Pleasant Run Parkway, from Churchman Ave. to Keystone Ave.

COMMITTEES NAMED Hoosier Athletic Club Appointments Made. Appointments have been made Hoosier Athletic Club by Harold J. Hampson, president, as follows: Entertainment, Harry Woodbury, chairman; Charles Nelson, Carl Patterson. Ike Riley, A. O. Evans, R. E. Creighton, Fred Denny, Howard Muller; house, Walter B. Smith, chairman; Joseph Morgan, Sam Hoffman, Robert Wands, Russell Goodrich; swimming. Dr. K. I Jeffries, chairman; Dr. H. P. Clarke, Harvey Elam, A. H. Moore, Dr. E. M. Fitch, A. M. Taylor. E. W. Hildebrand: membership, Joseph Morgan, chairman; Earl Blakely, A. W. Fry. E. R. Klug, W. E. Slinger, A. A. Stein. Fred Townsend. Publicity, George Wellbaum. chairman; Harry Britan. Chris Albion, Albert Evans, Vedder Gard, William Kellogg; dance, Carl Patterson, chairman: Earl Blakely, Dr. H. P. Clarke, Warde Fowler, Sol Greenberg, Ralph Hart. E. R. Klug, Dr. H. L. Mcllroy, J. B. Marsh, Harry Morton, J. H. Powers, Frank Weber. R. H Whittemore, John W. Davis, Harry Freeman, B. B. Ochs, Ross Mitchell, Glen Riser. Oti£ Skinner; finance, Otto Feucht, chairman; Harvey Elam, F. W. Asperger, Warren Colby, Frank Kern; bridge, A. M. Taylor, chairman; C. C. Stevens, W. W. Colby, W. C. Best, Harry Conklin; cards, Joseph Weir, chairman; E. L. Goddard, R. A. Luley, W. V. Schultz. E. B. Andrews. A. E. Mantel, E. E. McFerren, E. L. Steinmetz. Gas in Bus Prostrates Six By Times special SOUTH BEND. Ind., March 6 Six persons overcome by monoxide gas in a Chicago-Detroit bus are being treated here. All are expected to recover. The six are William Moore, Lioes Yiatoests. William Clemens and Albert Lee, all of Chicago; J. R. Brewster. Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. J. A. Schaffer, Haven, Kan.

right. It is usually only a fraction of a second that these clocks wander off the correct time. These clocks are connected electrically with transmitter clocks in • the “time room” upstairs, and from here the signals are transmitted to the naval broadcasting station at Arlington. The signals then are broadcast from Arlington and the clocks of the country are set right.

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REMEDIES FOR POLITICAL ILLS ARE PRESCRIBED Candidates Flay Corruption in Office in Appeals to Voters. Remedies for political ills wer prescribed with variations in four meetings in the city Monday night, three of them in Irvington. Addressing the Irvington Republican Club, Inc., in the Carr Bldg., 5436 E. Washington St., Cassius L. Hogle, county commissioner pleaded for more “Simon pure” Republicanism and less factionalism. Hoglw lauded Republican State and county administrations and urged anew county organization be built to unite factions for the coming campaign. Asks Intelligent Voting Edward J. Hecker, proprietor of the Irvington Print Shop, addressing the Irvington Republican Club at 544012 E. Washington St„ blamed political corruption upon “the failure of the people to vote intelligently in the primary elections and to understand party organization.’* Decrying the need of a housecleaning in Indiana, Hecker warned Republicans against turning to the Democratic party for relief. Such voters, he declared, would have to choose between aligning themselves with the “Keach faction or with the factiaon headed by Mayor L. Erfc Slack, which is trying to build up an organization such as ours.” Promises Prosecution Judson L. Stark, deputy prosecutor and candidate for the Republican nomination for prosecutor, addressed members of the South Irvington Community Club at a meeting at English and S. Emerson Aves. Explaining the work of the prosecuting attorney’s office. Stark said: “My experience in the office has shown me the futility of any promises to rid the county of vice. A conscientious effort to prosecute every possible law violator Is all that any human can do and all that I believe is asked of a prosecutor.” He asserted, that if elected, he would conduuct the office free from political influence. Blames Republicans Raymond F. Murray, Democratic candidate for the nomination as prosecuting attorney, charged the Republican party with responsibility for corruption in politics and government, while addressing a meeting of the Democratic Progressive League in the Indiana Democratic Club. “The Indiana voter,” he said, “will not clean D. C. Stephenson mud from the political boots of Republicans by electing them to office in 1928.” “I am opposed to criminal prosecutions instituted for political effect and faithfully promise that indictments will not be permitted to be barred by the statute of limitations because of political reasons.”

MAN NAMED SENATOR AT AGfe OF 21 IS DEAD Funeral Services for Henry A. Harmon to Be Held Wednesday. Funeral services for Henry A. Harmon. 61, of 5239 Central Ave., will be held at 9 a. m. Wednesday at St. Joan of Arc Church. Burial will be at Holy Cross cemetery. He died at his home Monday, after a long illness. Mr. Harmon was born at Harmon Heights, now Mars Hill. He was educated in the local schools. He was engaged in real estate and gravel selling before retiring two years ago. Prominent in Democratic politics, he was elected to the Indiana Senate when 21. He twice served in the upper house and once in the lower. During the 1913 flood Mr. Harmon was a leader in relief measures and active in fostering a flood prevention program., He was a member of St. Joan’s Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Harmon; two sisters, Mrs. Herbert Miller of Maywood, and Sister Josephine Marie Harmon of the Sisters of Providence at St. Marys-of-the-Woods, Terre Haute, and one brother, Thomas Harmon, of Maywood. TEST WATER LIGHT City Officials Will Examine Devlca for Locating Bodies. The underwater light invented by G. C. Weis of this city and manufactured here will be demonstrated to city officials at the Central Ave. bridge Friday at 2 p. m., in an effort to interest the city in the purchase of one. The light has been used on a number of occasions to locate drowned bodies. It can also be used to inspect bridge bases, sewers and any other underwater construction, 14 was pointed out. Members of the board of works, the safety board, county commissioners and Police Chief Claude M. Worley will attend the demonstration. Orein S. Hack, works board president, announced. or i PARKS IN APRIL! Employes for Season 1' Be Cho*ei| Soon by Bo \ Indianapolis parks wi open between April 1 and Ap-il m, according to weather condi’ or Michael E. Foley, park boan .n her. announced today. City playgrounds will open a levy days after public school, dismiss in June. Employes of the park depart ment for this season will be selectee at an early meeting of the board. Truck Kills School Girl By Times Special GARY, Ind., March 6.—Dorothy Massena, 6, was killed when struck by a truck while on her way homa from school. E. L. Kenninger, 39, truck driver, is held on a man* slaughter charge.