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NEW HOOVER, SMTH GIFTS AIRED IN QUIZ Contractor Says $70,000 Donated for Love of N. Y. Governor. BOTH TOTALS BOOSTED Democrats’ Fund $105,310, Board Told; Secretary’s Now $251,675. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 16.—William F. Kenny, New York contractor, told the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee today the entire $70,000 he gave to the Governor Alfred E. Smith campaign chest was a donation. He said he did not understand that $50,000 of it was a loan, as George R. Vannamee, Smith’s New York manager has testified. Kenny’s surprising testimony came after the committee had spent a long time cross-examining Rush L. Holland, a former assistant attorney general in the Daugherty regime,' about $10,400 he had received for use in the Hoover campaign in the South. William Todd, shipbuilder, and Smith contributor, explained he admired Smith greatly. He made a $5,000 contribution. He has had minor New York City, but no New York State, contracts, he said, but would have preferred not to receive them. Would Give More Money Kenny and Todd both told the committee they hoped to make further contributions, adding that Smith could have as much of their money as he wanted. Kenny said his companies had never had a State contract from the Smith administration or any other. Kenny ‘said in the last eleven years he had received contracts from the New York City fire department, amounting to $242,407. “From my standpoint all my advances were contributions,’’ Kenny said. “They told me they needed some money and I gave it to them.’’ Ignorant of Loan

“Was anything said 10 you by Vannamee about $50,000 of it being a loan?” “No.” “Have you had any contracts with the State?” “Never had a State job.” “What are your companies?” “The William F. Kenny Company and the Hickey Contracting Company.” “Do you intend to give any more money to the Smith campaign?” “I do.” “To what extent?” “To any extent they want. Limited, of course, by my ability to ,'pay.” Made Cash Contributions “How was your contributions paid?” "In cash.” “How can you explain that Vannamee construed your donation as a loan?” “Well, that may have been his understanding. I did not so construe it.” "Is Todd considered a Republican except as to Governor Smith?” Kenny was asked. “Yes.” “The committee has heard you have offered your private railroad oar to the Governor to campaign in. Is that true?” "Be tickled to death to do so. u Gave for State Race Kenney said he had contributed to Smith’se gubernatorial campaigns, but never as much as $70,000. He said he knew nothing of any national organization for Smith. Kenny was excused and James J. Riordan. head of the New York Commercial Bank and T/ust Company was called. He said he had given $5,000 in cash from his personal funds to Vannamee. The payment was made at Smith headquarters. Herbert Lehman, New York investment banker, was called. He named seven large corporations in which he was a director. They included the Studebaker Corporation, the Fidelity Trust Company, Chelsea Wheel Corporation, Abrahams & Straus, County Trust Company of New York, Pierce Petroleum, and Franklin Simons Company. He said he contributed SIO,OOO by check sent to Vannamee. Makes Total of $105,310 These additional contributions would make the total Smith contribution $105,310, with disbursements of $94,090.28, including a total of $9,000 by Johnson in the western States. Kenny was recalled. He said he had contributed $25,000 or $30,000 to Smith’s various campaigns from Assemblyman to Governor. He also said h® had given $30,000 to pay off the' Democratic deficit. Rush L. Holland, former assistant attorney general under Harry Daugherty, told the committee he had been given $10,400 for use in southern States for the Hoover campaign. Best place for your family to EAT EVENINGS. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m.— Advertisement.

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Pain; Panes Broken Heart Is Soothed Only by Shattering Window Glass.

A SWAIN so persistent that he still attempts to force his attentions on the lady of his choice inspite of a S4O fine and a five-day jail sentence, was sought by police today. The persistent lover has broken the glass from eleven windows in the home of Carl Huffman, 734 Madison Ave., where the girl. Miss Helen Huffman, lives, police were told. About 2 a. m he drove up to the house, broke four windows, drove around the block and returned to fire four shots into the house, one of which missed Willard Eckhart, brother-in-law of Huffman, by a few inches. The man was sentenced to five days in jail and fined S4O several months ago when he first began his window breaking, Eckhart said. According to Eckhart, Miss Huffman has had no communication with the man for nearly a year.

STATE TO GET NEWJRY BOSS W. N. Woodruff, Hamilton Man, Is Selected. Appointment of W. N. Woodruff, Hamilton, Ohio, as acting prohibition administrator for Ohio and Indiana was announced today by Prohibition Commissioner J. M. Doran, according to a United Press dispatch from Washington. Woodruff succeeds W. H. Walker, who resigned, effective May 15, when he failed to qualify for reappointment under civil service. Walker was retained as a field supervisor, but was grafted indefinite leave of absence without pay. George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator for Indiana, today had received no official word of Woodruff’s appointment. Winkler said he never had met Woodruff. Doran said Woodruff has been given a considerable increase in appropriations to combat liquor smuggling from Canada this summer. He has instructed the acting administrator to shift as many dry agents as possible to northern Ohio. Winkler, Republican nominee for Marion County sheriff, today said he does not intend to resign the deputy adminstratorship until a successor is named by the commission

CALL COUNTY BOARD Council to Act on Taxes, Road Program. A special meeting of county council was called for June 1 today by County Auditor Harry Dunn.. The council will consider these items: Authorization of $300,000 temporary loan to meet current expenses until fall taxes are paid. Appropriation of $12,000 for adequate water supply at Sunnyside tuberculosis sanitorium, as advocated by commissioners and Indianapolis Water Company engineers. Authorization of the $500,000 road program tabled May 7, when’ the George V. Coffin controlled council blocked the move of the Otis Dodson controlled commissioners to get early action before the primary election. Authorization of payment of the county’s share of track elevation across Shelby St., part of which the city has paid, in order to prevent delay in the work while the county dallied. CLOTHING FIND PROBED Seek Owner of Apparel on River Bank. Police today checked the ownership of clothing found on the east bank of White River at TwentyEighth St., by Mrs. Ethel M. Wells, 1032 Udell St., Tuesday. A grocery bill in one of the pockets bore the name Cartwright. No person of that name is mossing according to Capt. O. D. Thomas. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m.... 62 10 a. m.... 65 7 a. m.... 62 11 a. m,... 68 8 a. m.... 64 12 (noon).. 70 9 a. m..,. 64 1 p. m..., 71

HUGE ARMIES MASS TO FIGHT FOR PEKIN

BY MILES W. VAUGHN TOKIO, May 16.—The Northern Chinese army today was reported firmly entrenched on an eightymile front below Pekin, but the fall of that city within a month to the advancing southern Nationalist army was expected. Gen. Chang Tso Lin, commanding the Northerners, has about 150,000 men in the field and declared he would defend his position to the utmost ability of his army. It was considered unlikely, however, that the resistance to the Southerners would be great, inasmuch as the Northern army is believed to be demoralized. Further

COFFIN ALLIES GIRD TO GRAB STATEPOWER Clash With Watson Forces Today for Control of Committee. FOLAND, ROGERS UP Robinson and Klan Arrayed Against Senior Senator in Contest. Senator James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson compromised in the battle over Republican State chairman this afternoon and agreed that Henry W. Marshall, publisher of the Lafayette Journal and Courier, should be named, it was reported after the Senators had talked between Indianapolis and Washington by long-distance telephone. Flattered by primary success, the Coffin-Robinson-Klan triumvirate today fought for control of the Republican State central committee. The State chairmanship was at stake when thirteen Republican district chairmen, eight of them newly elected, and numbering former lieutenants of D. C. Stephenson in their fold, convened in their biennial reorganization meeting at the Severin this afternoon. George M. Foland of Crown Point, collector of customs, who was displaced Tuesday as Tenth district chairman, was the choice of forces aligned W'ith George V. Coffin, new Seventh district chairman. Senator Arthur R. Robinson and Stephenson’s proteges. Rumor Coffin Ambitious Elza Rogers of Lebanon, new chairman of the Ninth District, was the man behind whom Senator Watson’s forces were being marshaled by Watson’s campaign manager, M. Bert Thurman. The chairmanship itself was not regarded as important as the alignment of forces in the contest. If the committee follows precedent, the new State chairman w’ill be announced as the unanimous choice of the committee. The gossip persisted that Coffin himself was ambitious for the State chairmanship. His control over the 219 State convention delegates of Marion County placed him in position to make trades with district chairmen for their support in the committee meeting and was a source of concern to his opponents. Coffin’s dictates to his army of delegates in the State convention may spell the success or defeat of candidates in close races, it was pointed out, making it opportune for district chairmen to court his favor. i Robinson Arrives Thurman expressed confidence of Rogers’ election, declaring only three district heads were openly against him—Ccffin, in the Seventh; David Hoover, Elkhart, in the Thirteenth, who is pledged to support John T. Moorman, now treasurer of the State committee, and John Killigrew, in the Tenth, who is pledged to support Foland. Senator Robinson came from Washington this morning to take a hand in the conferences. Todd Young, one of his managers, had handled his interests in his absence. Thurman was in frequent communication by telephone Tuesday night with Senator Watson, who evidently was taken unawares by the proportions of the junior Senator’s movement to control election of the new State chairman. Split Two Years Old Personnel of the central committee as a result of Tuesday’s district elections is: First district, Bruce Cooper, Stewartsville, succeeding Stuart T. Fisher, Princeton; Second, Ewing Emison, Vincennes, re-elect-ed; Third, Charles Brown, Paoli, re-elected; Fourth, Harry E. Nichols, Madison, re-elected; Fifth, Mark Nebeker, Clinton, re-elected; Sixth, Clarence Brown, Richmond, reelected; Seventh, Coffiin, succeeding Schuyler A. Haas; Eighth, Frank Gordon, Bluffton, succeeding Lawrence Cartwright, Portland; Ninth, Rodgers, succeeding E. W. Bowen, Delphi; Tenth, Killigrew, succeeding Foland; Eleventh, James Showalter, Wabash, succeeding Jesse L. Murden, Peru; Twelfth, John Yaeger, Wolcottville, succeeding Ralph Gates, Columbia City, and Thirteenth, Hoover, succeding E. M. Morris, South Bend.

retreat probably will put them to rout, it was believed here. The Northerners are greatly outnumbered by the Nationalists, military statistics here showed. On one of the advancing fronts, Gen. Feag Yu Hsiang is reported to have 200,000 troops while Gen. Chiang Kai Shek, commanding another wing of the Nationalists, is said to have 100,000 troops. It was General Chiang’s army that recently engaged in hostilities in Shantung province with the Japanese forces. The northern front is said to be established between Paotin and the Tientein-Pukow railroad.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928

Irvington Proud of Its Posies

Mary Janet O’Hara. 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. O'Hara, 5203 E. Washington St., enjoying some of the beautiful tulips in the garden of Mrs. Jennie Jeffries, 5329 University Ave. Mrs. Jeffries is chairman of the general flower show committee of the Irvin ’ton Union of Clubs, sponsoring a tulip shower at Carr’s salesroom, 5436 E. Washington St. Saturday. Some o the gorgeous blooms from the 4,700 tulip '„ulbs in Mrs. Jeffries’ garden will be on display with thousands of other flowers from Irvington lawns.

HOPE TO WIDEN - MICHIGAN ST. Plan for New East and West Thoroughfare. Opening and widening of Michigan St. as a main east and west thoroughfare is being considered by the boardd of works, President Oren S. Hack said today. Hack said he wants to develop an east and west street which will relieve Washingotn St. of the majority of city traffic, leaving it for the National Rd. tourists. Michigan St. would be widened to a roadway of fifty or sixty feet if selected for the main artery. Hack said. “I think a thoroughfare could be built about 40 per cent cheaper by using Michigan,” Hack declared. Ho* said he hoped to have plans started this year. Paving of English Ave. from the city limits to Leota St., to provide an outlet for southeastern Indianapolis also is conisdered by Hack. Finishing of English would give a good thoroughfare to Southeastern Ave. and Washington St. via Leota St. Opening of Leota between Washington and Southeastern is contemplated in connection with closing of Oriental to eliminate the traffic hazard at Southeastern Ave. elevation.

NOBILE JIEARS POLE Radios From Fog; Says Ice Weights Blimp. Bit United Press * KINGS BAY, May 16.—Gen. Umberto Nobile, radioed at 9 a. m. today that his polar dirigible Italia was continuing along the same course that it pursued on its last flight. Previously he had reported arriving over Cape Germania, Franz Josefland at 5:10 a. m. "We flew through a thick fog banfc Tuesday,” Nobile’s message added. “The visibility is variable now. We are flying against a headwind and the ship is rolling. However, Tromsoe (the meteorological station) predicts an improvement in the weather. “The weight of an ice crust forming on the hulk and metal parts of the ship might become serious, but the Italia is safer in the air than in her hangar at Spitzbergen.” SAFETY TROPHIES WON Pennsy Cups Awarded Western Region. Three of five safety trophies offered by President W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad temporarily are in possession of the western region of which Indianapolis is a part, during a year’s safety contest. While fatal accidents have decreased 25 per cent over a corresponding period of last year, non fatal accidents have declined 47 per cent. In the Indianapolis district accidents have been cut 67 per cent. Contest goal is not more than ten accidents per million man hours. The metal plaques will become the permanent possession of the winning region at the end of the year. PAY TRIBUTE TO LIEBER Conservation Offices Are Closed During Funefal. Conservation department offices were closed at the Statehouse between 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. today, for the funeral of Attorney Walther Lieber, son of Richard Lieber, de--1 partment director.

EXPERTS ON STAND FOR DUNCAN, TILTON

ILL; ESCAPES PRISON Gets Suspended Sentence in Shooting Case, Wesley \Hughes, 64, of 251 l'i Bloyd Ave., today was given a suspended sentence of cne to ten years by Criminal Judge James A. Collins on a charge of shooting with intent to kilj, when it was shown he is suffering from tuberculosis and will enter Sunnyside sanatorium. Evidence showed that Hughes shot a neighbor. William Stock, 2507, the bullet grazing Stock’s arm, after an over-the-fence argument regarding the keeping of pigeons near the two homes. The shooting took place Nov. 17, 1927. Hughes has been on bond. He will enter Sunnyside as soon as a vacancy there develops. YOUTH GETS JAIL TERM Ar, other of Gang of Robbers Sent to State Reformatory. Orville Webb, 20, one of three whose leader confessed to more than sixty robberies in Indianapolis, when arrested in March, was sentenced to one to ten years in the Indiana Reformatory by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Webb had been a fugitive until last week when he was arrested in Nashville, Tenn. Everitt Perry, 20, is in the reformatory, having received two terms of one to ten years each. The charge on which they were sentenced was robbery of a Western Oil and Refining Company station at 1712 Prospect St. BOOST YALE SALARIES Pay Increase Announced to Affect 125 Professors. By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 16. Salary increases affecting 125 Yale professors have been announced by President James Rowtand Angell. The Yale Corporation voted to increase by SSOO the salaries in each grade of assistant and associate professorship and raise the minimum salary for a full professor from $5,000 to $6,000. PREMIER CASE ENDED Receivers for oMtor Company Are Discharged. The receivers of the Premier Motor Company, after six years spent in adjusting affairs of that defunct concern, were finally discharged in Superior Court Two today. Attorneys for the receivers, the law firm of Ralston, Gates, Van Nuys and Barnard, were allowed $37,000 and the receivers, the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company and Harry V. Lyons, a like amount. ROAD BOARD TO ELECT State Commission Sets Thursday for Reorganization. Reorganization meeting of the State highway commission is scheduled for Thursday. It Is predicted that Albert J. Wedeking, Dale, Ind., will succeed to the chairmanship, formerly held by Charles Ziegler, Attica, whose term expired in April and who failed of reappointment. Governor Ed Jackson appointed Jesse Murden, Peru, to Ziegler’s place. Falls Down Stairs; Hurt Benjamin Duvall, 45, slipped downstairs at his home, 1019 W. New York St., and was taken to city hospital in the police ambulance badly cut and bruised on the head today.

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Handwriting on Check, Said to Have Been Forged, Is Scanned Carefully. Defense attorneys this afternoon called to the witness stand two famous handwriting experts, in an effort to break down damaging evidence presented by the Government in the retrial of State Representative Russell V. Duncan and Charles W. Tilton, in Federal Court. They are charged with conspiring to forge a Government income tax refund check. The Government rested shortly before noon. First defense witness called was J. Fordyce Wood, Chicago, who testified as a handwriting expert in the famous LoebLeopold murder trial, and who exposed as forgeries before the Senate investigating committee, the Hearst Mexican documents. Another expert, John F. Terrell, Milwaukee, was to be called to the stand. Doubts Signature Wood said it was his opinion Tilton did not write the indorsement “John W. Smith” on the back of the $3,094.91 Government check, which represented refund of excess income taxes paid by John W. Smith, deceased Muncie manufacturer. The Government charges Tilton with forging Smith’s indorsement on the check and giving it to Duncan. who, it declares, deposited it to his credit in a bank. Duncan's defense it that he was given the check by a Chicago broker, purporting to be “John W. Smith,” in a real estate deal. Wood also declared the alleged forged signature was written in a natural, free style and showed no attempt at disguised handwriting. Herbert S. Wood, first assistant cashier, Indiana National Bank, testified the forged endorsement appeared to have been written in a disguised handwriting by the same person who wrote the admitted Tilton signatures. Other Witnesses Called Other -Government witnesses called attention to placing of a period after in the indorsement, “John W. Smith,” and also after “Charles” in the admitted signature, “Charles W. Tilton.” The trial was not expected to be concluded by tonight. Duncan and Tilton and probably fifteen o.her defense witnesses, will testify, defense attorneys said. Retrail of the two, after conviction in Federal Court was set aside on appeal because of a technicality, began Tuesday before Special Judge Walter C. Lindley, Danville, 111. Rail Union Leader Dead Bn Vnitcd Proas CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 16. C. A. Donnely of Pittston, Pa., chairman of the general grievance committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for the Lehigh Valley railroad, died here today.

PLAN EARLY START ON FLOOD CONTROL

Bu United Prrxx WASHINGTON, May 16.—Preliminary wrk on Mississippi flood control will be started directly, now that President Coolidge has signed the $325,000,000 flood control bill. The measure releases $10,000,000 for immediately use, but the President believes that a $25,000,000 appropriation will be necessary for the first year’s work and this would be carried in the deficiency bill now being prepared by the House.

BREMEN FLIERS TO STOP HERE ON WAY TO DETROIT; MAY STAY TILL THURSDAY

Beats the Law By Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.. May 16.—Charles Foster, 20, paid a fine of sll for reckless driving in city court, but he won’t have to worry about having his auto license revoked. While awaiting trial, Foster had an accident which wrecked his car beyond repair, and so informed Mayor Harry C. Poindexter before the fine was imposed.

PRISON GOODS BILL JS PASSED House Acts on Draft That Affects Indiana. Bn Times Special WASHINGTON, May 16. The House late yesterday passed the Cooper bill giving States the right to regulate or prohibit imports of prison-made goods. The bill is or; the preferred calendar in the Senate and will be called up in a few days by Senator Hawes of Missouri, its sponsor there. It will have a considerable effect on Indiana, as the major portion | of the million-dollar yearly produc- : tion at Michigan City, is said to be j exported to other States. ! State law forbids its sale within Indiana borders in competition witii the producers of free labor under i the bill the States have three years Ito prepare for the law going Into effect. | All Indiana Representatives voted I for the bill except Representatives Hickey and Purnell, who voted i against and Representative Wood, who did not vote. During the House debate, charges previously made that the prisoners at Michigan City are compelled to sew labels on goods made there, indicating that they have been made in outside factories were repeated and amplified. POLL QUIZ RESUMED Grand Jury Will Hear New Witness Today. Marion County grand jury resumed its investigation of alleged irregularities in the primary election with the calling of several new witnesses today. The investigation had lagged since late last week, when it was dropped while prosecutors were understood to be gathering additional evdence. Several witnesses have ben heard, testifying to wholesale mutilation of ballots and irregularities in counting, it is said. All ballots remain under double guard in the courthouse, pending settlement of a suit for a recount brought by Archibald Hall, defeated candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress. HEADS NURSE BOARD Ft. Wayne Woman Is President of State Bureau. Miss Anna Holtman, Ft. Wayne, was re-elected president of the State nurses’ registration and examination board, at the board’s annual meeting at the Statehouse today. Miss Lulu V. Klein, South Bend, was re-elected secretary. Miss Martha MacDougall, Indianapolis, was named vice president. The board has examined 300 student nurses in the past year. CONCERT FOR CHILDREN Shortridge Orchestra to Play for Grade Schools Thursday. The Shortridge high school orchestra will give the second symphony concert of the year for Indianapolis grade school children Thursday at 2 p. m. in Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge. Will F. Wise, Is the director. The concert Is the second of a series planned by Ernest G. Hesser, school music director, to give upper grade school pupils opportunity to hear symphony music. A demonstration of each instrument will be given during the program.

The remainder of the $325,000,000 authorized will be appropriated from time to time, and many believe the eventual total will exceed the huge figure. The President Is expected soon to appoint the civilian engineer provided by the bill, who will act with the new special flood board, the chief o* Army engineers and the Mississippi River Commission in mapping out the mighty task of curbing the disastrous flood waters of the Mississippi.

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Fitzmaurice and Koehl Will Visit Briefly With Their Wives. FLYING CONDITIONS BAD Preparation for Reception of Airmen Is Rushed by City. Indianapolis was to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bremen trans-Atlantic fliers this afternoon, as they flew over the city to Schoen field, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, for a brief stop. En route to Detroit from St. Louis, the fliers were to drop off here to enable Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice and Capt. Hermann Koehl to greet their wives, who are resting in Indianapolis at the surburban home of Richard Kurtz. It was possible that the city might get to entertain the air heroes over night. A radio message from Selfridge field, Michigan, where they were scheduled to land late this afternoon, said that flying conditions were dangerous and that it might be advisable to remain here until Thursday. The message came to the Army radio station at Ft. Harrison. The message was to be handed to the fliers as soon as they landed. The unscheduled stop was arranged in a long distance telephone conversation early today between Capt. Koehl at St. Louis, and Mrs. Koehl here. Escort Is Organized An escort of ten planes to fly to meet the trans-Atlantic airmen was organized by Cept. H. Weir Cook and Lieut. Walter R. Peck. George W. Haldeman, Ruth Elder’s pilot in her attempt to fly eastward across thq Atlantic in his Stinson-Detroiter plane, was in the group. The Eleventh Infantry Band, Mayor L. Ert Slack, and Governor Jackson and Brig. Gen. George H. Jamerson, Ft. Harrison commander, also were to be at the field to meet the aviators. Chamber of Commerce officials and citizens interested in aviation rushed to the fort by motor as soon as it was learned that the fliers had decided to stop here. They waited for about three hours, the fliers having hopped off from St. Louis at 12:05 noon, instead of at 11 a. m., as planned. Luncheon Is Arranged Arrangements for a luncheon at the Columbia Club for the fliers hastily were made, but it was not believed they would have time to make the nine-mile drive downtown from the fort and still get to Detroit on schedule. The two wives arrived early in the Kurtz family motor. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz,' their son, Hermann, and Mrs. Kathleen Harding and Miss Mayme Schulmeyer were in the party. “I’m going to have a little talk with Fitz and if this tour is to keep up for ten days more, I’m going to New York to get Patricia and bring her back to Indianapolis,’’ announced Mrs. Fitzmaurice . Daughter in New York Their small daughter, Patricia, was left in Gotham when the fliers and their wives departed a week ago. C. L. Harrod, industrial commissioner, and Paul H. Moore, aviation secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. Wallace O. Lee, Stanley M. Dean of the Marmon Motor. Car Company, and John B. Wolf of the Stutz Motor Car Company were among those in the greeting party. COLUMBIA HEAD IS ILL Nicholas Murray Butler Reported Resting Comfortably in Hospital Bp United Press NEW YORK, May 16.—President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, who has taken to a hospital Tuesday night after suffering from acute indigestion, was reported resting comfortably today. Doctors said they did not consider Dr. Butler’s condition serious, but had advised him to take a few days’ rest. At the hospital this morning nurses said he spent a comfortable night and apparently was some improved. .

VALUE PUBLIC OPINION Railroads Depend on It, Says Big Four Executive. Success of American railroads depends on public opinion, C. A. Radford of Cincinnati, public relations manager of the Big Four Railroad, told the Indianapolis Foremen’s Club at Technical High School Tuesday night. Tracing the growth of railroads, Radford said their greatest period of efficiency has been reached in the past five years. The club contrbiuted S3O to a fund for anew pipe organ for Technical. Technical Principal Milo H. Stuart made a short address. Music was provided by the school orchestra