Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1928 — Page 9

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CITY’S UTILITY PAYS ITS WAY AT LOW RATE Crawfordsville Power Plant Builds Self to Value ' of $1,000,000. STARTED 37 YEARS AGO Municipal Concern Supplies Electricity to Four Small Towns. By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., May 24.—This city owns'lts million dollar electric plant. The plant has been paid for out of plant earnings not a dollar has been contributed from any other source. And while this million dollar utility was being “earned," it was serving its patrons at the cheapest rates granted by the Public Service Commission of Indiana. The plant now stands as a model in effeciency and up-to-dateness in electric equipment, being practically duplicated to meet any emergency. Started Plant in 1891. The city of Crawfordsville has owned its electric plant for thirtyseven years. The ownership has been exclusive; no partners participating and no other plant or corporation serving the community in that time. The first plant was built in competition to a privately owned concern which was floundering and failing to serve. These were the days of experiments and developments in electric service; the days of the old Thompson-Houston arcs with carbon sticks and the ilttle carbon film incandescents; the days of the one dynamo; days of burnouts and much grief. In June, 1891, the city of Crawfordsville issued $30,000 in bonds to pay for its first electric light plant. Rebuilt Five Times. Five times the plant has been gone over, rebuilt or added to in a material way. A bond issue has preceeded such improvements and enlargement. Each time, the enlarged plant has earned the money that paid off the bond issue. The first function of the plant was to light the city's streets. Then followed store lighting and later on, residences. Increasing demands for power in tunning Crawfordsville industries brought about the big increase in the plant’s capacity in 1911. At that time the plant was moved to a junction with the river and railroad for water power and the coal was moved by gravity from cars to boilers. This move brought a radical reduction in rates for both lighting and power, and a tremenduous increase in power use. The plant was again enlarged in 1923. Vote New Equipment. City Council voted for the purchase of further equipment Monday of this week. This time, however, there will be no bond issue, as the municipally owned utility has ample funds to pay the bill. The present enlargement will be for emergency cases. The books of the Crawfordsville Light and Power Company were oudited as of March 31, 1928 as follows: Appraisement, $746,328. Cash on hands, $197,297. Loans to city, $69,300. Bond issue remnant, $139,000, and you have the financial story of this municipal ownership. Majority For Power. In 1927, the plant sold 9,365,400 K. W. of electricity. Sixty-five per cent of this was for power to industries. Probably eighteen per cent was for municipal lighting, and the balance domesic consumption and sign lighting. The rates to customers is divided into three groups: For lighting the first 200 kilowat cost 7 cents, the next 100 kilowat costs 6 cents and by successive steps down to 4 cents with a discount for payment at the tenth of the month of 10 per cent. • The sign rate is 3Vi cents for the first ten kilowat and 3 cents thereafter with a discount of Vz -cent per kilowat if paid on or before the tenth of the month following. Four Cents Top of Scale. The power rate is very flexible and very low. It starts at 4 cents per kilowat and steps down by successive five hundreds and thousands to 1% cents per kilowat. A large consumer of power is able to get a rate of 1.65 cents per kilowat for power used. The large cor"umer of power may have a minimuu rate of one cent and sixty-five hundredth of a cent per kilowat hour. Several industries attain the minimum rate. Crawfordsville has twenty-six industries which includes the Mid States Steel and Wire Company, three large brick plants making fifty million brick per year, two wood working plants, two sheet metal works, three printeries, a foundry and a machine shop. The city boasts of being the best lighted city in the -world. In addition to serving its own community and its industries, it also serves four neighboring towns, and has forty miles of farm lines serving 260 fanner customers. All told, the plant has 3,611 patrons.

Milk Thief By Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind.. May 24_patrons of the various dairies are complaining that a milk thief is operating in the city stealing the filled bottles during the night from front porches.

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HERBERT LIKES STRAWBERRIES So Mrs . Hoover Always Serves ’Em for Breakfast

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Here are two pictures of Mrs. Herbert Hoover . . . her name is “Lou Henry Hoover” and she thinks “every wife’s first job is her home. - ’

LIMIT ON CHILDREN REFUSED BY COURT

Judge Will Not Aid Mother of T3 Who Seeks to Avoid Bearing More. Bft l'nitril Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 24. City Judge William A. Buckley refused to intervene today in the private affairs of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cromwell. The wife, who has had thirteen children, sought to have her husband convicted of “breach of the peace" because he insisted that she continue to bear children after physicians had warned her that another child birth might cause her death. After a brief hearing in which Daniel P. Griffin, city alienist, testified that, the 39-year-old proponent of bigger families had the mentality of an 8-year-old, Judge Buckley decided that his court should not take a hand in the Cromwell family affairs. Because it raised the delicate issue of whether the law should attempt to regulate the size of families, the Cromwell case attracted Nation-wide attention. Judge Buckley bemoaned that aspect of the case. He said that “news scavengers” had attempted to make a hero and heroine of Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell. The charge against Cromwell was a technical one, as there is no law covering his alleged offense. His wife had him jailed, explaining to authorities that he was a religious fanatic obsessed with the idea that she should have an unlimited number of heirs. Thus far Cromwell has enjoyed only a small measure of success; most of his children have died. The youngest is a cripple and a public charge; one is in New York and three live at home. N. MERIDIAN OPENED Resurfacing and Widening Project Are Completed. N. Meridian St. was opened for traffic today following resurfacing and widening of several sections. The section between St. Clair and Tenth Sts. was finished by the Marion County Construction Company, Wednesday night, and opened to traffic this morning. The McNamare Construction Company which was delayed in finishing the section between Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Sts. has completed that job. Meridian St. now is a uniform width of fifty-one feet south of Thirty-Eighth St. to St. Clair St.

PLAN TO FINANCE NICARAGUA FRAMED

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 24.—A comprehensive scheme for reorganizing Nicaraguan governmental finances on a basis giving the United States practically a financial protectorate over Nicaragua., was worked out at a secret conference at the State Department yesterday, it was learned today. Attending the conference were representatives of two New York banking houses: W. W. Cumberland, who recently made an economic survey of Nicaragua for the State Department; Brig. Gen. Frank E. McCoy, who will super-

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Long Haul By Timm Special BLUFFTON, Ind., May 24. —The Settergren Piano company has entered five of its products in the show in New York beginning June 4 and has made arrangements with the Smith Trucking company to haul the pianos from here to the exposition.

TALK PLANS International Relations Council Closes Parley. What to do if the Kellogg peace proposals are accepted by foreign .nations was discussed before the closing session of the second annual conference of the Indiana Council on International Relations at the Lincoln Wednesday afternoon. Miss Dorothy Detzer of Washington, executive secretary of tjie Women's International Leagde for Peace and Freedom, pointed out that after acceptance of the Kellogg multi-la-teral treaties outlawing war the entire plan may be checkmated by refusal of the United States Senate to approve them. Steps should be taken for the United States to enter the League of Nations and World Court, to pass the Burton resolution prohibiting shipment of arms to nations at war and the Shipstead resolution prohibiting the collection of private debts by use of the Army and Navy, she advised. PASTORS OF CITY JOIN IN DEDICATION OF CHURCH Assist in Service at New Meridian Heights Presbyterian Edifice. Indianapolis Presbyterian pastors joined the congregation of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church in a dedicatory service Wednesday night. The church was formally dedicated Sunday. The Rev. G. A. Frantz of the First Presbyterian church, delivered the sermon, and the Rev. T. J. Sampson, West Washington Street church, led the responsive reading. Dr. Edward Haines Kistler, Fairview church, read the scripture lesson; the Rev. P. M. Hunt, Seventh church, pronounced the benediction The Rev. J. P. Miller, Franklin, presided at the service. Elmer J. Knisely, designer of the church organ, will give a recital Friday evening. George W. Kadel, tenor, will assist.

vise the elections there in November; Secretary of State Kellogg, and others from the Department. It was learned that the plan calls for a loan of about $12,000,000 and for appointment by the bankers, with approval of the State Department, of an adviser or an advisory board with dictatorial powers over Nicaraguan finances. The adviser would be empowered to collect all revenues, against which a lien would be placed to insure interest, sinking fund and principal payments on the projected loan. He also v/ould be authorized, it was said, toj supervise some, if not all, governmental expenditures.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 24,1928

This is the second of a series on the wives of presidental candidates, by Allene Sumner, staff writer for The Times and Service. BY ALLENE SUMNER WASHINGTON, May 24. The breakfast of Herbert Hoover always consists of fresh strawberries with powdered sugar and Mrs. Hoover. This does not mean that the Secretary of Commerce has cannibalistic tendencies. It merely means that his day starts all w'rong without both strawberries and “The Madame,” as he calls Mrs. Herbert Hoover, in the bosom of the cheery Hoover home. What’s more, Mrs. Hoover just as’ unabashedly declares that her day’s all wrong, too, if she doesn’t have Herbert for breakfast. This despite the fact that Hoover breakfasts are famous in official Washington for their heartiness. There are always the strawberries when humanly possible, big platters of waffles or hot cakes with sirup, sausage or bacon and eggs, buttered toast and coffee. The Hoovers at home are jovial, cheery, informal, "folksy.” If there’s time before she drives with “Daddy” down to the Department of Commerce Bldg., Mrs. Hoover will show him her latest baby sacque or bootees, knitted for baby Peggy Ann, 2, whom her grandmother pronounces "the very image of her Grandfather Hoover.’’ Peggy Ann and her senior brother. Herbert the Third, 3, are the children of Herbert Hoover, Jr., who lives in Cambridge. tt tt tt THERE are those who will tell you that Mrs. Hoover is “highbrow’.” “They are awed by her college degree from Stanford, her authorship of a recondite w’ork on mining, her affiliation with this organization and that. But the picture of Mrs. licover, the "highbrow,” has been much more painted than that of Mrr. Hoover, the sweet-faced, grayhaired woman in the 50’s,* who knits whenever she sits down for a moment and who has a do.’.en knitting bags scattered over the lovely red brick house on S street. She is as proud of he * Italian cutwork luncheon set, with the Capitol and Lincoln Memorial design. as of her authorship, and likes nothing better than to get into a rough-and-ready jersey suit of u Sunday and go out with the secre - tary and any available children for a picnic with old coffee pot anl skillet. The Hoover table is famous for plenty of good, wholesome food, “but no spun sugar doo-dads.” tt tt tt Hoover home is that rare X combination, a homey palace—a livable rich man’s house. The green room w’ith looped back green taffeta curtains, pink freesias in a blue bowl, white paneled walls, was a haven for books —hundreds of them—first editions in time-seasoned history, everything. “There is no home without a garden.” according to Mrs. Hoover, who believes that homes—happy ones—are the most important things in the world. “It is the right of every child to have a happy home,” is one of her few creeds w’hich Mrs. Hoover will crystallize in words. “Every wife’s first job is her home,” she says further, intimating that no home can contain two fully-developed individuals and that, when necessary, the wife should submerge herself to make “a background” for her husband. tt tt tt MRS. HOOVER is of medium height, gray-haired, with that striking combination of blue eyes and Jet-black eyebrows. Her skin is pink and white. Her clothes are modish, but simple. She seems to prefer line to fuss and frills. She never goes to a beauty parlor, putting her own water wave in her pretty hair, and not even letting her maid “fuss” with her very much. She’s not “fat” at all, but she looks at her slim young secretaries ruefully and says, “I was just like you once.”

NYE WOULD PUSH DOHENY-FALL CASE

Coolidge Will Be Asked to Act for Prosecution of Oil Figures. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 24.—A resolution proposing to direct President Coolidge to prosecute E. L. Doheny and Albert B. Fall, central figures in the naval oil cases, lor bribery, was prepared today by Chairman Nye of the Senate investigating committee. Nye said he would introduce it in the Senate later in the day. Nye had also included In the resolution Harry Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome. His name had to be eliminated, however, because Nye ascertained no bribery indictment was pending against Sinclair. The status of limitations would prevent filing of anew indictment. The resolution says dismissal of

Hoodoo Street By Times Special MUNCIE Ind., May 24. Property owners on Thirteenth St., have banded together in appealing to the board of works to change the name of their street. The group has started a movement to beautify their street but decleare that the name is a hoodoo.

COUNCIL MAY PUSH PUNS ON CITYHOSPUAL Special Session Is Possible This Week for Action on Bond Issue. PROVIDE FOR ARCHITECT Committees Are Busy on Independent Probe of Institution Needs. Possibility of a special city council session this week to consider £n ordinance for a $60,000 bond issue to provide for an architect and a consultant to submit plans on the city hospital building _program, appeared today at city hU. Mayor L. Ert Slack planned introduction of the bond issue ordinance last Monday night, but the draft was not prepared in time, it was revealed this morning. The report about the $60,000 ordinance, which was understood to have been ordered following private conferences with councilman and social agencies, w r as the first indication that city hospital is to be granted emergency relief. Indicate Confidence Lack Demand of councilmen for a hospital consultant and architect to draw plans for the new units is considered by some city hall observers as a slap at the board of health and Mayor Slack, indicating a lack of Confidence in the present progam. Council finance and health committees let it be known that they were conducting an independent investigation of the hospital building program needs before acting on the $1,750,000 bond issue, pending several weeks. It is understood that the council plans to ask anew ordinance after a consultant and architect have surveyed the hospital needs and submitted detailed estimates on costs and specifications. Would Cause New Delay Killing of the present ordinance before council will cause further delay in the program, asked nearly two years ago by the department of health as an emergency measure, following condemnation of old units by the State fire marshal’s office. The present ordinance asks a power plant, service building, contagious ward and additional ward unit for the municipal institution. The request for $1,750,000 was made of council by the board of health and the mayor after a group of local architects surveyed the hospital needs free of charge and submitted estimates of the costs. A similar issue was passed by the former council and rescinded because of its illegality a year ago. Slack and the members of the revamped council have been shown the hospital needs on inspection tours with the health board and Dr. Wiliam A. Doeppers, hospital superintendent. Slack Makes No Statement No announcement of intentions to employ a consultant on the hospitalization and engineering problems and request for the $60,000 issue was made by Mayor Slack. Decision to employ a hospital consultant from another city was understood to have been reached after councilmen conferred with William Walsh, said to be a hospita 1 expert, who is conducting a general hospitalization survey under auspices of the Indianapolis Foundation. Councilman Robert E. Springsteen, president pro tern., urged a special meeting to act on the $60,000 request so the architect and consultant can be retained and proceed as rapidly as possible. It will take forty days to get funds for retaining the experts. Springsteen said the councilmen indicated they favor relief for the hospital, but desire to know where the funds are to be spent.

criminal conspiracy charges against the three oil defendants does not affect bribery indictments now resting against Doheny and Fall. The resolution would direct the President to instruct Special Oil Counsel Owen Roberts and Atlee Pornerene to “prosecute vigorously - ’ the bribery charges. “The public interest demands that every reasonable effort be made to bring to justice the individuals whom the Supreme Court has denounced as responsible for these corrupt and fraudulent transactions,” the resolution adds. MRS. KOEHL GOES EAST Wife of Bremen Flier Leaves City After 10-Day Stay. Mrs. Hermann Koehl, wife of Captain Koehl of the Bremen crew, who has been visiting at the home of Richard Kurtz, Seventy-Fifth St and White River, left for New York today after a ten-days’ stay in the Hoosier capital. Mrs. James C. Fitzmaurice, wife of the Irish flier, who arrived with Mrs. Koehl, left for New York, Sunday. Mrs. Koehl, who is a cousin of Mrs. Kurtz, was feted at a number of dinners and entertainments during her stay. She honored the city with the longest stay she has made in any American city on her tour.

Try Flapper Stop Signs

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The flapper stop sign appeared in Indianapolis today. The motorist drives full tilt into the sign, it flaps down and flaps right up again when the wheels have passed on. The Hoosier Motor Club and the Standard Marker Company, New York City, are paying for installation of twenty of the rubber signs along Meridian St. between New York and Twentieth Sts., as a trial. The sign is of rubber, with black letters siv inches high. More than 600 cities have adopted the signs to replace iron “mushrooms.” The manufacturers assert it is more visible than the old and less destructive to tires and springs.

Delegates A re Elected for National Convention

District delegates to the national Republican convention and candidates for presidential electors named in the thirteen district meetings at the Statehouse Wednesday night: To National Convention First District—Stuart Fisher, Princeton, and. Ben Hoffman, Rockport. Second District—William W. Weaver, Bloomington, and Frank T. Singleton. Martinsville. Third District—M. Bert Thurman, New Albany, and J. C. Tucker, Salem. Fourth District—Mrs. Estella B. Prince, Brownstown, and John P. Thompson. Greensburg. Fifth District—Glen H. Brown, Greencastle, and George J. Nattkemper, Terre Haute. Sixth District—John Millikan, Newcastle, and Mrs. Katherine Swaim. Greenfield. Seventh District—Ed Jackson and Tidge Mahlom E. Bash of Indianapolis. Eighth District—George A. Ball, Muncie, and Wayne Leeson, Elwood. Ninth District—John Owen, Noblesville, and W. J. Dickson, Kokomo. Tenth District—Walter J. Riley, East Chicago, and Lawrence Lyons, Brook. Eleventh District —Roy Wertenberger, Wabash, and B. A. Van Winkle, Hartford City. Twelfth District—Ralph F. Gates, Columbia City, and Fred Rodenhafer, Kendallville. Thirteenth District—Ernest M. Morris, South Bend, and A. H. Beardsley, Elkhart. Presidential Elector First District—Willidm Hendrickson, Boonville. Second District—Frank Gilkinson, Shoals. Third District—Horace Trueblood, Salem. Fourth District—William A. Guthrie, Madison. Fifth District—Mrs. Gail Roberts, Terre Haute. Sixth District—G. Andrew Golden, Connersville. Seventh District—William L. Taylor, Indianapolis. Eighth District—Harry Swisher, Bluffton. Tenth District—Charles W. Hanley, Rensselaer. Eleventh District—B. F. Long, Logansport.

KOKOMO FIREMEN RUM PARTY BARED

By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., May 4.—Chkrges cf “right smart drinking” by city firemen were made Wednesday in opening the inquiry into the accusations that liquor is used freely in the fire department. The hearings are being conducted by Prosecutor Homer R. Miller in Magistrate Edmond Jefferies’ court. Former firemen followed each other to the stand relating the part they took in the drinking at the fire station. Charles Smih, who was discharged twice, said that on one occasion he and Fire Chief Jack Aspy “bought

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I Twelfth District William M. Griffin, Ft. Wayne. Thirteenth District—l. O. Wood, Goshen. Contingent Electors First District—Mrs. B. S. Rose. Evansville. Ipecond District—Miss Ura Sanders, Gosport, Third District—Frank Sels, Corydon. Fourth District—Benjamin Douglas, Nashville. Fifth District—Charles Mendenhall, Hendricks County. Sixth District—Claude Kitterman, Cambridge City. Seventh District Mrs. Adalint McKay, Indianapolis. Eighth District William E Hitchcock, Muncie. Ninth District—Dr. W. B. Harbinson, Lebanon. Tenth District—Homer Henninger Lafayette. Eleventh District—E. H. Neal, Jonesboro. Twelfth District—Emmett O. Hall. Auburn. Thirteenth District—H. B. Holman, Rochester. ENVOYS JIGHT DUEL Diplomats Hurt in Affair With Sabres. By United Press ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 24. Two of the leading members of diplomatic corps wounded each other today in a duel, fought with heavy cavalry sabres. The participants were Gonzalo Montt Rivas, the Chilean miniseter, and Lieut. Col. Federico Recabarren, military attache at the Peruvian legation. Senor Montt Rivas was wounded slightly in the neck and shoulder. Lieut. Col. Recabarren received a deep wound in the left knee, serious because of the severity of a sabre slash. The duel was caused by an article Lieut. Col. Recabarren published in the newspaper La Tribuna regarding the anniversary of the battle of Iquique between Chile and Peru, in their war of 1879-1882.

a quart together and split it last summer.” “Aspy was half drunk,” Smith said, “when the mayor came in. They played euchre, with the chief hardly able to sit up.” Jack Hammond, fire captain, dealt another blow to the city administration in his testimony that liquor was used freely at the fire station with the chief's approval and the mayor’s knowledge. Charles Etchison, another discharged fireman, said that at times half of the firemen “were so drunk they could not have answered an alarm had one come in.” The investigation will be resumed Monday.

SENATE SLAPS COOLIDGE VETO OF FOUR BILLS Overrides President With Little Support for Executive. TWO NOW BECOME LAWS Others Must Be Acted On by House Before Going on Statute Books. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 24.—President Coolidge received the most decisive congressional rebuke of his whole administration today when within an hour the Senate overwhelmingly overrode his veto of four bills. First is passed two vetoed postal bills, making them laws, the only time except for the soldiers’ bonus bill that Congress had failed to heed his veto. Then it passed the Oddie Indian lands road bill and a few minutes later the Tyson emergency officers retirement bill. The latter two measures must still be acted on by the House. The President finally was sustained when the vetoed Army bandmasters grading bill failed to pass with the two-thirds vote necessary, although it got a majority, 44 to 32 Bruce Backs Coolidge “A President’s veto is entitled to some measure of respect in the Senate,” Senator Bruce (Derm), Maryland, said before the final vote, pleading for defeat of the bill which would give Army bandmasters an increased ranking. Only a few Republican regulars stood by the President in the voting. The seventeen Senators who voted with the President on the first postal bill were: Republicans—Bingham, Curtis, Gillett, Greene, Metcalfe, Phipps, Smoot, Steiwer, Warren, Borah, Fess, Reed (Pennsylvania), Sackett and Waterman, and Democrats—Fletcher, King and Overman. The nine who supported the chief executive on the second vote were all Republicans—Bingham, Curtis, Gillett, Greene, Metcalfe, Phipps, Smoot, Steiwer and Warren. Few Stand by Coolidge The stalwarts were able to musj ter twenty-two on the Oddie bill roll call, including seventeeen Republicans: Bingham, Curtis, Dale, Edge, Fess. Greeene, Hale, Keyes, McLean, Metzcalfe, Moses, Reed (Pa.), Sackett, Shortridge, Vandenberg, Warren and Waterman, and five Democrats: Bruce, Gerry, Overman, Tydings and Walsh Mass.):i Thirteeen Republicans and one Democrat stood by the President on the Tyson measure. The Republicans were Bingham, Borah, Curtis, Fess, Gillett, Greene, Metcalfe, Norris, Phipps, Reed (Pa.), Smoot, Warren and Waterman, and the Democrat, King of Utah. Delay Farm Bill Action />./ Vnltcd Press WASHINGTON, May 24.—Farm bloc leaders decided today to delay until Friday any action on President Cooiidge’s veto of the McNaryHaugen farm relief measure. The President’s scorching veto of the bill was seen here today as enlarging the protest to be staged by discontented agricultural elements at the Kansas City Republican convention, whatever may be its ultimate effect upon Individual presidential candidates. Senator McNary (Rep.) Oregon, sponsor of the bill in the Senate is expected to move to send the bill tc> the Agricultural Committee. If such a motion is adopted, the measure probably would lie in a committee pigeon hole the rest of the session Senate supporters of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, However, would like to force the issue, if they found the Senate would sustain the President, and thus also sustain the position of Hoover, who recently reiterated his opposition to the bill. It appeared doubtful today that the Senate could override the veto. Supporters of Frank O. Lowdcn, the other presidential candidate affected by the measure, would prefer that the bill rest with the veto. If Congress upheld the President, that would be a blow at his candidacy. which Is based primarily upon the farm issue. Farm Leaders Incensed By United Press CHICAGO, May 24.—Middlewestern farm leaders, incensed by President Coolidge's veto of the McNary-Haugen bill, today appealed to the agricultural classes to carry their fight for relief to the floors of the national party conventions. Criticism of the chief executive’s second refusal to sign the bill came from virtually section of the far mbelt. Some agricultural leaders predicted that the relief issue, as a consequence of Mr. Coolidge's action, would become the dominant one in the coming presidential campaign.

Court for Dogs Bu United Press CHICAGO, May 24,-The scope of Chicago's Judicial system was widened today by the addition of a “dog court.” The dog court, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, will handle all cases concerning dogs. It will be presided over by a regularly elected jurist, Judge Charles McKinley.