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FOUR PUNTS IN STATE TO BE ENLARGED Expansion at Kokomo, Crawfordsville, Richmond | and Evansville. BEBUILD AFTER FIRES pestroyed Factories to Be j. Replaced at Marion and Brazil. FT BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Time* Announcement of expansion programs by manufacturers at Kokomo, Crawfordsville, Richmond and Evansville, and of plans for rebuilding plants destroyed by fire at Marion and Brazil feature a business and Industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. Davis Industries, Inc., Kokomo, Will add dining and bedroom furniture to its production, necessitating a 40 per cent pay roll increase. The Kokomo Chamber of Commerce announces that the seasonal slump which caused some factories to operate on a part-time basis is now practically ended. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company plant is operating on a three-shift basis. Other plants providing steady employment are the Kokomo Steel and Wire, which expects to add 800 to 800 men to its force within a few months; Seven Allied Industries, Kokomo Rubber Company and Globe Stove and Range Company. An expansion program designed to assure steady operations and a larger working force is announced by the Umphrey Manufacturing Company, Crawfordsville, which produces furniture. Plans $12,000 Addition A contract has been awarded for erection of a $12,000 addition to the Richmond Fireproof Door Company plant, Richmond. Two warehouses that will cover fifteen acres of ground and increase it working force several hundred comprises the expansion program of the Monitor Furniture Company, Evansville. Erection of a factory for the Case Electric Company, Marion, replacing a structure destroyed by fire early this year, is under way. The building is 140x137 feet. The company plans speedy construction, to enable it to handle a steadily increasing volume of business. The United States Brick Company, capitalized at $300,000, plans to rebuild the sewer pipe factory at Brazil destroyed by fire nearly three years ago. Conditions elsewhere in the State are as follows: FT. WAYNE—A $750,000 warehouse is to be built here for the International Harvester Company. A $145,000 switch house will be built by the American Gas and Electric Company. Anew candy manufacturing company has started operations. Howard J .Muhler is directing plant operations and sales are in charge of Clem A. Fox. The Auto Electric and Radio Equipment Company plans establishment of an aviation branch here, offering both passenger and freight service. 120 Miners at Work

TERRE HAUTE—The Grasselli coal mine, employing 120 men, has resumed operations after a shutdown. CONNERSVILLE Production started this week at the local plant of the Auburn Motor Company, which handles body, paint and trim work. The company is occupying a factory on which it spent SIOO,OOO. Anew record was established Monday by the Indiana Lamp Company factory when production reached 26.000 automobile lamps for the day. BLOOMINGTON—Erection of a SIOO,OOO mill for the Sare Stone Company is under way. Continued prosperity for the BloomingtonBedford districts is indicated in an announcement by the Indiana Limestone Company that $250,000,000 will be spent in the United States this year on religious structures, and the forecast that many of these will use Indiana limestone. Peru Factory Sold PERU— Stokely Bros. & Cos., New Port, Tenn., already the owners of nine canning factories, have bought the plant of the Peru Canning Company and already plans operations during the coming season. COLUMBUS —An addition costing between SIO,OOO and $15,000 is to be built by the Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc., to handle production of tubing for Ford automobiles. This line is also being produced at the corporation’s plant at Greenwood, which is running at capacity, but unable to keep abreast of the demand. More Jobs at La Porte LA PORTE—A survey of employment conditions here by the Chamber of Commerce shows 574 more persons working than during the low point of employment last year. MICHIGAN CITY—A pay roll of $65,000 to 1,200 persons at the local plant of the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corporation was made early this month, after a slump during the winter. SEYMOUR—Thirty-six business men here have signed an agreement for a trade expansion program to extend over a year. Vernon Man Dies in South Bp Timet Special VERNON, Ind., March 16.—Lyman Fowler, 67, this city, is dead at New Orleans, La., where he went on a pleasure trip recently. The body will be returned here for funeral services. Burial will be in Cleveland. Ohio.

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THIS HAS HAPPENED SALLY FORD, 16, lives in the State orphanage, the only home Sally has known since she was four. It Is rumored that the matron, MRS. STONE, has selfishly frustrated several proposed adoptions of Sally, vrantinr to keep her there where her understanding and sympathy with the small children make her a valuable helper. She Is summoned to the matron a office where a man. a farmer. Judging from his clothes, awaits her. Sally is suddenly paralyzed with fear. She wonders what it all means. Then brightening with the hope that perhaps it Is a father come to claim a long-lost daughter. she hurries to the office door. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER n WHEN Sally Ford opened the door of the office of the orphan asylum, radiance was wiped instantly from her delicate face, as if she had been stricken with sudden illness. For her worst fear was realized—the fear that had kept her awake many nights on her narrow cot, since her sixteenth birthday had passed. She cowered against the door, clinging to the knob as if she were trying to screw up her courage to flee from the disaster which fate, in bringing about her sixteenth birthday, had pitilessly planned for her, instead of the boon of long-lost relatives for which she had never entirely ceased to hope. "Sally!” Mrs. Stone, seated at the big roll-top desk, called sharply. “Say ‘How do you do?’ to the gentleman. . . . The girls are taught the finest of manners here, Mr. Carson, but they are always a little shy with strangers.” "Howdy-do, Mr. Carson,’* Sally gasped in a whisper. “I believe this is the girl you asked for, Mr. Carson," Mrs. Stone went on briskly, in her pleasant “company voice,” which every orphan could imitate with bitter accuracy. The man, a tall, gaunt, middleaged farmer, nodded, struggled to speak, then hastily bent over a brass cuspidor and spat. That necessary act performed, he eyed Sally with a keen, speculative gaze. His lean face was tanned to the color and texture of brown leather, against which a coating of talcum powder, applied after a close shave of his black beard, showed ludicrously. “Yes, mum. that's the girl, all right. Seen her when I was here last June. Wouldn’t let me have her them, mum, you may recollect." Mrs. Stone smiled graciously. “Yes. I remember, Mr. Carson, and I was very sorry to disappoint you, but we have an unbreakable rule here not to board out one of our dear little girls until she is 16 years old. Sally was 16 last week, and now that school is out, I see no reason why she shouldn’t make her home with your family for the summer—or longer if you like. The law doesn’t compel us to send the girls to school after they are 16, you know.” “Yes’m, I’ve looked into the law,” the farmer admitted. Then he turned his shrewd, screwed-up black eyes upon Sally again. “Strong, healthy girl, I reckon? No sickness, no bad faults, willing to work for her board and keep?” He rose, lifting his great length In sections, and slouched over to the girl who still cowered against the door. His big-knuckled brown hands fastened on her forearms, and when she shrank from his touch he nodded with satisfaction. “Good big muscles, even if she is a skinny little runt. I always say these skinny, wiry little women can beat the fat ones all hollow.” “Sally is strong and she’s marvelous with children. We’ve never had a better worker than Sally, and since she’s been raised In the Home, she’s used to work, Mr. Carson, although no one could say we are not good to our girls. I’m sure you’ll find her a willing helper on the farm. Did your wife come into town with you this afternoon?” “Her? In berry-picking time?” Mr. Carson was plainly amazed. “No, mum, I come in alone. My daughter’s laid up today with a summer cold, or she’d be In with me, nagging me for money for her finery. Now, seeing as how my wife’s near crazy with work, what with the field hands to feed and all, and my daughter laid up with a cold, I'd like to take this girl here along with rne. You know me, mum. Reckon I don’t have to wait to be investigated no more. Mrs. Stone was already reaching for a pen. “Perfectly all right, Mr. Carson. Though it does put me in rather a tight place. Sally has been taking care of a dormitory of nineteen of the small girls, and it is going to upset things a bit, for tonight anyway. But I understand how it Is with you. You’re going to be in town attending to business for an hour or so, I suppose, Mr. Carson? Sally will have to get her things together. You could call for her about five, I suppose?” “Yes, mum, five It is!” The farmer spat again, rubbed his hand on his trousers, then offered it to Mrs. Stone. “And thank you, mum, I’ll take good care of the youngun. But I guess she thinks she's a young lady now, eh, miss?” And he tweaked Sally’s ear, his fingers feeling like sandpaper against her delicate skin. “Tell Mr. Carson, sally, that you’ll appreciate having a nice home for the summer—a nice country home,” Mrs. Sotne prompted, her eye stern and commanding. And Sally, taught all her life to conceal her feelings from those in authority and to obey implicitly, gulped against the lump in her throat so that she could utter the

808, BULLDOG WHO KNEW HORRORS OF WAR, ‘GOES WEST’

'T'HEßE is mourning in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kuempel, 1425 Lawton Ave. Bob, brindle bulldog and World War veteran, is dead. There was a time when Bob rode beside his young American master on the seat of a British ambulance in France. The master was killed and Bob, left alone in a war-torn country, was shipped to his master’s sister in Indian-

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lie In the language which Mrs. Stone had chosen. The matron closed the door upon herself and the farmer, leaving Sally a quivering, sobbing little tiling, huddled against the wall, her nails digging into the flesh of her palms. If anyone had asked her: “Sally, why is your heart broken? Why do you cry like that?” she could not have answered intelligently. She would have groped for words to express that quality within her that burned a steady flame all these years, unquenchable, even under the soul-stifling, damp blanket of charity. She knew dimly that it was pride—a fierce, arrogant, pride, that told her that Sally Ford, by birth, was entitled to the best that life had to offer. And now—her body quivered with agony which had no name and which was the more terrible for its namelessness—she was to be thrust out into the world, or that part of the world represented by Clem Carson and his family. To eat the bitter bread of charity, to slave for the food she put into her stomach, which craved delicacies she had never tasted: to be treated as a servant, to have the shame of being an orphan, a child nobody wanted, continuously held up before her shrinking, hunted eyes—that was the fate which being sixteen had brought upon Sally Ford. Every June they came—farmers like Clem Carson, seeking “hired girls” whom they would not have to pay. Carson himself had taken three girls from the orphanage. Rena Cooper, who had gone to the Carson farm when Sally was 13, had come back to the Home in September, a broken, dispirited thing—Rena, who had been so gay and bright and saucy. Annie Springer had been his choice the next year, and Annie had never come back. The story that drifted into the orphanage by some mysterious grapevine had it that Annie had found a “fellow” on the farm, a hired man, with whom she had wandered away without the formality of a marriage ceremony. The third summer, when he could not have Sally, he had taken Ruby Presser, pretty, sweet little Ruby, who had been in love with Eddie Cobb, one of the orphaned boys, since she was 13 or 14 years old. Eddie had run away from the Home, after promising Ruby to come back for her and marry her when he was grown up and making enough money for the two to live on. Ruby had gotten into mysterious trouble on the Carson farm—the “grapevine” never supplied concrete details—and Ruby had run away from the farm, only to be caught by the police and sent to the reformatory, the particular hell with which every orphan was threatened if she dared disobey even a minor rule of the Home. Delicate, sweet little Ruby in the reformatory—that evil place where “incorrigibles” poisoned the minds of good girls like Ruby Presser, made criminals of them, too. Sally, remembering, as she cowered against the door of the orphan-

WINNERS PICKED IN DANCING CONTEST

Miss Claraene Panscher and Ernest Wetter (left) and Miss Mary Lou Hazelwood with Elton Bronhard (right) were the couples winning the first preliminary in the National Eccentric Dance contest at the Indiana ballroom Thursday night.

Miss Mary Lou Hazelwood, 623 N. Delaware St., and Elton Bronhard, 2110 College Ave.; Miss Claraene Panschar, 133 S. Sheffield Ave., and Ernest Wetter, 141 Wisconsin, were selected as the two best couples in the first preliminary of the National Eccentric Dance Contest Thursday night at the Indiana Ballroom. The contest is under auspices of The Indianapolis Times, and the two winning couples Thursday night will enter in the State finals April 12. Miss Mary Allbright and Charles Dant, Indiana University students, gave an exhibition dance before the contest. The couple are star dancers from the 1928 Indiana University Jordan River Revue,

apolis, in 1917. His master’s buddies saw to that. In this home he was a loved and honored pet, but conditions were such that his food and taxes were too much for an already over-burdened family to keep up. The Humane Society was notitfied and through the society’s advertisement Bob came to a “golden” home with Mr. and Mrs. Kuempel. Mrs. Kuempel was an active

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age office, was suddenly fiercely glad that Ruby had thrown herself from a fifth-floor window of the reformatory, Ruby, dead, was safe now from charity and evil and from queer, warped, ugly girls who whispered terrible things as they huddled on the cots of their cells. “Oh, Sally, dear, what is the matter?" A soft, sighing voice broke in on Sally’s grief and fear, a bony liand was laid comfortably on Sally’s dark head. “Mr. Carson, that farmer who takes a girl every summer, is going to take me home with him tonight,” Sally gulped. "But that will be nice, Sally!” Miss Pond gushed. “You will have a real home, with plenty to eat and maybe some nice little dresses to wear, and make new friends—” “Yes, Miss Pond,” Sally nodded, held thrall by twelve years of enforced acquiescence. “But, oh. Miss Pond, I'd been hoping it was—my father—or my mother, or somebody I belong to—” “Why. Sally, you haven’t a father, dear, and your mother—But, mercy me, I mustn’t be running on like this,” Miss Pond caught herself up hastily, a fearful eye on the closed door. “Miss Pond,” Sally pleaded, “won’t you please, please tell me something about myself before I go away? I know you’re not allowed to, but oh, Miss Pond, please! It’s so cruel not to know anything! Please, Miss Pond! You’ve always been so sweet to me— ’’ The little touch of flattery did It, or maybe it was the pathos in those wide, blue eyes. “It’s against the rules," Miss Pond wavered. “But—l know how you feel, Sally dear. I was raised in the Home myself, not knowing—. I can’t get your card out of the files now; Mrs. Stone might come and catch me. But I'll make some excuse to come up to the locker room when you’re getting your things together. Oh—” she broke off. “I was Just telling Sally how nice it will be for her to have a real home, Mrs. Stone.” Mrs. Stone closed the door firmly, her eyes stern upon Sally. “Os course it will be nice. And Sally mu it be properly appreciative. I did not at all like your manner to Mr. Carson, Sally. But run along now and pack. You may take your Sunday dress and shoes, and one of your every day ginghams. Mr. Carson will provide your clothes. His daughter is about your age, and he says her last year’s dresses will be nicer than anything you’ve ever had.” “Yes, Mrs. Stone," Sally ducked her head and sidled out of the door, but before it closed she exchanged a fleet, meaningful look with Miss Pond. “I’m going to know!” Sally whispered to herself, as she ran down the long, narrow corridor. “I’m going to know! About my mother!” And color swept over her face, performing the miracle that changed her from a colorless little orphan into a near-beauty. (To Be Continued)

which will play Monday night at the Murat Theater. Contest judges were Miss Patricia Slaback. dancing director of Jordan River Revue; Russell McDermott, assistant stage director of the revue: Charles Dosch, assistant stage director of the Little Theater Society: Rader Winget of The Indianapolis Times, and Miss Allbright and Dant. The second contest will be held next Thursday night, when two winners will be named. Winners in the State contest will be sent to Chicago April 18, to enter the national contest, in competition with dancers from twenty-nine other States for the national title.

member of the Humane Society. She gladly made a welcome for the brave wanderer. * tt u THE little veteran was known to every one in the neighborhood. His bright eyes peered from the windows of the Kuempel car almost every time it left the garage. More peaceful motoring than Bob had known or shell torn roads overseas. But that was* all in the past and Bob was cared for

HOOVER ENTRY STIRS INDIANA G. 0. PJPULT Governor Candidates Find Selves in Quandary Over Issues. DOUBTFUL ABOUT STAND Several Are Deterred by Watson Machine Power in State. BY ROBERT BEARB Nineteen gubernatorial candidates found themselves crowded out of the Hoosier political spotlight this week by a discordant duet of Republican presidential aspirants, Herbert Clark Hoover, characterized as “an opportunity for Indiana,” and Senator James Eli Watson, billed as Indiana's favorite son. Eight candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor took the loss of the Indiana political ear with less concern than did their eleven Republican rivals. For Democrats, so long as Evans Woollen is their presidential choice, speak kindly of the Indianapolis banker, and theoretically have the Impartial regard of the Democratic State organization. With no reason to alter their opinion that “corruption is the big issue in Indiana,” Democratic gubernatorial candidates continued to berate super-government, Stephensonism, official misdemeanor, Governor Ed Jackson’s administration, George V. Coffin control and the Public Service Commission. Turmoil in G. O. P. Hoover's entry as Watson’s opponent for the presidential preference vote of the State, however, is more than a diversion for eleven Republican candidates, and. in fact, for all Republican office seekers in the State who are courting the approbation of the Republican State organization. For the Republican State committee’s indorsement of Senator Watson's candidacy is construed as an appropriate criterion for all Republican candidates anent the presidential race. Were the old line Republicans absolutely certain of Watson beating Hoover in the primary, there would be no cause for nervousness, say the political obserevers. But with the evidence unmistakable that considerable Hoover sentiment exists in the State and that it is growing, some Republican office seekers are wondering if it would not be expedient to be in such position as to make a last-minute jump into Hoover’s band wagon. Creates Real Stir

The local situation is indicative of the situation throughout the State. Not only are pro-organiza-tion candidates and workers concerned about Hoover’s candidacy, but thousands of voters who are impelled by the desire to be on the winning side. They want to be numbered with him. if he goes over; but for the present, at least, they are hesitant about taking a step that would bring them into the ill favor of WatsonRepublican organization leaders if Watson should triumph. It is too early to judge Hoover’s Indiana strength with any degree of accuracy. Potentially, it is conceded to be great and it will gain in momentum as the more daring Republican leaders announce their affiliation with his cause. Enrollments are mounting in the Hoover-for-President clubs throughout the State, to provide this evidence. Although admitting they now are forced into a lot of Indiana campaign work they would have liked to avoid, Watson backers are rebuilding Watson's primary organization of 1926, determined to accord their favorite a 200,000 majority over Hoover. Watson beat Claris Adams by 162,000 votes for the senatorial nomination in 1926. Ilot Primary Certain With Hoover headquarters determined to parallel Watson’s organization, a task which the Watson forces declare impossible before May 8, it is certain that the primary election will be one of the hottest political fights Indiana has had in years. The senior Senator has announced his intention of making a number of speeches in the State, while Hoover’s plans in this direction are uncertain. The Secretary of Commerce may rely supporters for oratory, as he relied upon their advice, in entering the contest. Indiana’s thirty-three votes in the National Republican convention are at stake. They go to the winning candidate, so long as his name remains before the convention. His withdrawal in the national convention would free them to vote the sentiment of their respective districts. Mind After Death Lives? NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 16. Science has been unable to disprove that the mind lives after the body is dead, Prof. Wililam Brown said at Yale University.

and happy—and growing a little old. Wednesday night, after an illness of three weeks, during which time the Kuempels had ministered to the sick dog’s want with unfailing kindness, a merciful hypodermic put an end to Bob’s suffering and sent him West. Today the neat white bed in which he spent his last hours is empty and Bob lies in a sealed cement casket in a deep grave. Mr. and Mrs. Kuempel mourn

LITTLE BIT O’ BAG h —~ ■ .. —■—- - —•+ Brevity’s Soul of Kit audit

“ \ ND they call that thing lugIx. gage,” ejaculated the Union Station baggage man sarcastically as with one finger he tossed a neat week-end bag onto a high-piled truck. “Anyway, the work ain’t so hard as It used to be when grandma was a flapper. “You should have seen how they used to pile ’em In on us. Instead of a week-end case, grandma, for a trip from Saturday to Monday morning had to take along a trunk and two of those snappy canvas valises they used to use ... And the baggage man got down to facts and figures. Busses, he said can’t be blamed for all the falling off in the amount of baggage handled at the Union Station In the last few years. Approximately 1,000 less pieces were handled last year than year before. More compact luggage, greater skill In packing and the fact that women’s clothes don’t take much space have cut the baggage bulk, he said. Miss Blanche Jones, L. Strauss & Cos. model, pictured above, with the week-end case in which she can pack smartly and comfortably for a three-day trip to and from a college house party, compared what she has to take along with what grandma just had to have. The modem girl, she says, packs into her wee kit: Three combinations, one slip and several pairs of flimsy hose—all of which can be crushed up into a hand. A slim evening dress and two or three frocks, the scantier the better. Dress shoes and two soft hats. As for grandma, it vas: Four starched petticoats with deep, stiff ruffles. A warm litttle underskirt “to ward off malaria.” Several be-ribboned corset covers and several other underthings the names of which we don’t even remember, all scalloped and embroidered and

AND they call that thing luggage,” ejaculated the Union station baggage man sarcastically s with one finger he tossed a neat , |||||§j| reek-end bag or.to a high-piled ,s It usedrto be when grandma was fT ised to pile 'em In on us. Instead of * * W *™|b rip from Saturday to Monday % v noming had to take along a trunk fm ,nd two of those snappy canvas f s\ , \ S allses they used to use ... j ,• \ -* mM fedUl And the baggage man got down ||f ; ; \ yKf s o facts and figures. f Busses, he said can’t be blamed §/ Mmm or all the falling off in the amount i \fS ■'fnßH f baggage handled at the Union f i M„ . V ••• ’ %). y ¥lppl| itatlon in the last few years. Ap- x _f > ’ \ \j|H iroximately 1.000 less pieces were , , >■ \ landlcd last year than year before. t A ■ iHB lore compact luggage, greater skill Ik * - \ <* •’ - |||§ n packing and the fact that worn- \ iave cut the baggage bulk, he said. %, ' Miss Blanche Jones, L. Strauss f fjr \ z Cos. model, pictured above, J an pack smartly and comfortably ||||||B^sr or a three-day trip to and from a 8111111111 '/ f|S ollege house party, compared what w%f!l he has to take along with what gaSgBBI randma just had to have. The modem girl, she says, packs Three combinations, one slip and ' ■ everal pairs of flimsy hose—all of \ .•hich can be crushed up Into a iand. r , $ t 1 A slim evening dress and two or h9B9H|9| • y : : i I hree frocks, the scantier the better. : \ 1| Dress shoes and two soft hats. ’our starched petticoats with eep. stiff ruffles. A warm litttle unerskirt “to ward off malaria." Sevral be-ribboned corset covers and everal other underthings the names . JHHHB f which we don’t even remember, 11 scalloped and embroidered and

Miss Blanche Jones and baggage for a week-end journey

weighing in all a little short of a ton. An extra bustle, the bigger the better. Monstrous hats—a couple of them. Street and evening dresses of bulk in keeping with the undergarments. Shoes, the height and weight of

HOOVER HEADS RADIO AFFAIRS Secretary to Turn All Matters to Commission. P4l l niter! Prefix WASHINGTON. March 16.—Secretary of Commerce Hoover became chief administrator of radio today, but he announced he would turn over to the Federal radio commission, now an advisory body, radio matters that come before him. The changed status was due to failure of the new radio bill to become a law by midnight last night, thus making applicable provisions in the last radio act which were to become effective after a year. Senate and House conferees met again today in an effort to reach an agreement on the new bill, which extends the administrative authority of the commission for another year, limits licenses and provides equal allocation of wave-lengths, station and power in the five radio zones and equitable distribution within the States on the basis of population. Hoover probably will remain chief administrator, nominally, for several days, as several differences are ironed out. Administrative authority will revert to the commission when the bill is approved.

SALES TALK GIVEN Principles of Selling Subject of Speech to Insurance Men. Five “human” principles of selling were outlined by Howard J. Wisehaupt, Cleveland, before 309 Indiana representatives of the State Auto Insurance Association Thursday night at the Claypool. Correct mental and physical approach, alertness, exercise and cheerfulness while working were given as the fundamental. Lack of knowledge of value of time and the lack of preparation of a systematic intelligent sales argument were pointed out. Harry Fenton, general counsel, welcomed the visitors. The two-day session ended today.

the loss of a loyal and intelligent pet. With them grieves Bob’s daughter, Trixie, who has spent the four short years of her life with her sire in the Kuempel home. Bob is gone. Trixie runs frantically from one familiar spot to the other, or stands in the empty bed and whines a lonely call to the small veteran of a great conflict, who has gone to whatever reward awaits the legion of faithful canine hearts.

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which would label them as riding boots today. “No wonder grandma had to take along a trunk.” sighed Miss Jones. “Yeah, but handlin’ baggage was a man’s job in those days,.” grunted the baggage man. and flipped an overnight bag to the ceiling.

Free Auto Stealing Hi-Jacker’s Car No Crime Indiana Judge Holds.

Up Times Special VALPARAISO. Ind., March 16. —A hi-jacker who steals a rum-runner’s automobile does no; violate the law, according to Circuit Judge Crumpacker. His decision brought freedom to Edward Manning, Indianapolis, and Joseph Franks, Louisville, Ky. Defendants were charged with stealing an automobile when they “hi-jacked” Robert McKenzie, De-troit-Chicago rum runner, on the Dunes highway near Tremont Feb. 1. Both Manning and Franks admitted taking the car. Using the Wright bone dry law as a basis for a motion to suppress evidence of robbery, defense counsel cited that the law declares that no property right is vested in the owner of a car when he uses it for Illegal transportation of liquor. Judge Crumpacker sustained the motion.

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STATE SLIPS IN PROGRESS, PARLEY TOLD Esterline Sounds Warning at City Manager Group Conference. 500 ARE AT MEETINGS Principles of New Form of Municipal Rule Are Expounded. Indiana is slipping behind the nation in the “march of progress of American cities,” declared John W, Esterline, Indianapolis City Manager League chairman, at the Statewide city manager conference today at, the Claypool. About 500 Hoosiers attended the gathering under joint auspices of the Indianapolis City Manager League and the League of Women Voters. Civic leaders from the thirty Indiana cities represented will play a big part in the legislative program of the city manager leaders in the 1929 general assembly. The conference was to educate State leaders In city manager principles. “Our difficulty today is that many cities are trying to limp along with an antiquated, worn-out, patched-up contraption, designed and built in the days when we did not have complex city problems,” Esterline declared. Remedy Is Sought “Things have occurred in Indiana during the last two years which are not possible in most States of the Union and we are here to And out why.” Loss of confidence in the political leadership of the State was blamed for the successful Klan reign in Indiana. “The real reason why the name ‘lndiana’ is a byword and a joke throughout America and even across the seas is because we citizens have not kept abreast of the time; we have followed professional politicians oi and reactionary newspapers up the Kind alley of civic stagnation. Indiana should be one of the most progressive States in the Union,” Esterline said. Esterline scored the State-wide organization of machine politics and urged a “civic awakening.” “What we need is a good housecleaning in about sixteen cities by adoption of the city manager form,” he concluded. Charles P. Taft, 11, of Cincinnati, Hamilton County prosecutor, addressed the luncheon.

Face Heavy Competition “If our cities continue to be misI governed, American industry and I commerce will have to carry a con- , stantly heavier load, not only in : business competition within the | United States, but in international i competition and world markets as well.” declared Dr. Leonard D. White, University of Chicago professor of public administration. Adoption of tested business principles as fostered in the city manager form, establishment of simple, responsive democratic method of deciding municipal policy, permanent organization of the disinterested section of the community for effective political action and selection of competent, right-minded men and women for city council and school board, w’ere suggested by Dr. White. “There must be permanent and effective organization of the community and readiness of rightminded citizens to run for public office if the old political crowd is to be defeated,” he said. Stresses Good Council Importance of a ‘‘well-organized l and intelligent council,” w r as stressed by Dr. White, in his talk on "The Way Out for Indiana Cities.” The fight for the city manager form in Indianapolis was reviewed by Claude H. Anderson, executive secretary of the league. “We realize that the big fight to elect good commissioners is ahead, but, at least, we won the first skirmish. Emerging from our campaign, as most desirable by-products, our people have become more hopeful, our citizenship more alert, there is more civic pride, we are more optimistic, there is more good cheer and neighborliness among us. We feel therefore that we are on our way towaid making Indianapolis the city it should be,” Anderson declared. Mrs. H. R. Misener of Michigan City, where the manager plan has operated for six years, declared the “commission-manager plan is a challenge to Indiana citizenship.” “Serious work along constructive, administrative lines for the sake of her city is due no less from woman than from man. She owes to her city some of the time now wasted in pleasure seeking and frivolous pursuits,” said Mrs. Misener. Winfield Miller, attorney, ex* plained the Indiana manager law. GIVE CREDIT TO WRIGHI] Smithsonian Resolution Settles Air* craft Controversy. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 16.—Th board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution passed a resolution Thursday crediting the Wright brothers “with making the first successful flight with a power-pro-pelled heavier-than-air machine carrying a man.” The regents did not, however, sa£ the Wright plane was the first capable of flight. The institution already has given this credit to the Langley plane, built in 1903, but not flown until 1914.