Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1928 — Page 3

JUNE 12, 1928.

THURMAN IS GIVEN INDIANA G. 0. P. BERTH I*t r>~ Watson’s Chief Lieutenant Is State’s National Committeeman. JIM STILL" IS IN RACE Watson Appears to Think He Has Chance, Though Landslide Looms. BY ROSCOE FLEMING KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 12. Those Indiana gentlemen here who have been trying hard to believe that Senator J. E. Watson of Indiana might abdicate his presidential ambitions in favor of Charles G. Dawes about the fifth ballot are beginning to go around Kansas City with their chins on their chests. It doesn’t look like there will be a fifth ballot. In the second place, Watson shows every sign of finally having consummated marriage with the presidential idea, and of having ceased to be a candidate in name only, if he ever could be described as j such. In the third place, it is under- J stood that if Watson ever tries to' release the delegation to Dawes, at l least eight of the thirty-three will 1 vote for Herbert Hoover. Thurman Is Elected Watson demonstrated control of the delegation last night so far as organization is concerned, when, although he was absent at one of his regular anti-Hoover rallies, M. Bert Thurman, his national campaign manager, was elected Indiana national committeeman to succeed the late Joseph B. Kealing. Miss Dorothy Cunningham of Martinsville was re-elected national committeewoman. Thurman led the field of six can- ; didates with thirteen votes on the j first ballot, and when he received | twenty on the second, it was made unanimous. The first ballot candidates were Joseph B. Hutzell, Ft. Wayne, 4 votes; Henry Marshall, Lafayette, 5; W. J. Riley. East Chicago, 2; George Ball, Muncie, 7, and Schuyler A. Haas, Indianapolis, 2. On the second ballot, Marshall received 6; Riley, 1; Ball, 5, and Haas, 1. Several Get Berths Marshall was elected to the im- ; portant resolutions committee of j the national convention, D. R. ' Scott of Linton to permanent or- ' ganization; R. F. Gates of Columbia 1 City to credentials; Mahlon E. Bash j of Indianapolis to rules; Hutzell to 1 the committee to notify the presi- j dential candidate, and Riley to no- ! tify the vice president; John Owens, 1 Noblesville, was named delegation chairman, and Ball. Indiana vice president of the convention. This business over, it took the delegation two more hours behind closed doors to apportion out its share of convention seats, something more than 200, with about 1,000 Hoosiers here wanting them. As may be imagined there was j plenty of conferring and conspiracy, and a lot of heartburn about mid- j night on the part of those who will < have to view the convention from I the streets in front of the broadcasting horns of the Kansas City newspapers. In Race, Says Watson Watson twice assured the Hoosiers at his rally here yesterday that he is in the race to stay, and added that he has as good a chance as any other candidate. Edgar D. Bush of Salem turned his speech of the regular meeting of the socalled allies against Hoover at the Athletic Club yesterday into a Watson nominating address. It was received with some enthusiasm. Ex-Governor Goodrich came into the Aztec room of the President Hotel last night while the Hoosiers were dancing beneath the grinning skull and skeleton decorations of the room, and received a hearty razzing. ' Impromptu anti-Hoover and antiGoodrich speeches were made, and one Hoosier, who possibly had been enjoying surcease from Indiana’s strict prohibition enforcement, hurled an unprintable remark at Goodrich. The latter just grinned. Lee Nixon of Indiana is to be sergeant-at-arms of the convention.

ASKS $227,000 BOOST IN BUDGET FOR SCHOOL Increase in Salaries Responsible for E 'quest, Walkman Says. Increase of $227,000 in requests for various school departments for the last six months of 1928 is shown in the tentative budget to be submitted to the board tonight by Business Director A. F. Walsman. The figures will be considered by the board and before the budget is adopted. Funds for the budget already have been levied. Increased salaries for school teachers is credited by Walsman with most of the $206,784 increase in the tuition fund total of $1,183,205. Request of $2,114,098 for the special fund is an increase of $4,360 over the same period in 1927. The library request of $209,421 is an increase of $16,259. Free kindergarten request is $21,000, increase of $345. TWO CARS TURN OVER Three Are Injured When Autos Col- ■ * lide on Highland Ave. Lynn O’Neill, 5451 University Ave, is in city hospital with an injured hand, the result of a collision of his automobile and a sedan driven by Mrs. Karl K. Van De Walle of 1230 E. Ohio St., at E. Market St. and Highland Ave. Monday afternoon. Both cars overturned. Mrs. Van De Walle and her 18-months-old son, Robert; also were injured, not seriously.

The Gavel Falls; The Big Show Is on

Ope of the big quadrennial political shows is on. The Republican national convention opened in Kansas City today with the rap of a gavel in the hand of ex-Senator William Butler, chairman of the Republican national committee. The keynote speech of the convention will

CURTAIL TAXES, URGES COOLIOGE President Predicts Continued U. S. Prosperity, Bn United Pres* WASHINGTON, June 12.—President Coolidge foresees further and greater prosperity for the United States, but he believes it is necessary for State and local governments to curtail their expenditures if America’s tide of good fortune is to continue at the flood. The President, speaking at the Government’s semi-annual business meeting Monday night, gave this combined prediction and warning, pointing out that all classes of Government cost the country mere than $11,000,000,000 a year. “We have been favored with a long-continued era of prosperity,” he said. “Year after year the tide of good fortune has steadily risen. It seems not yet to have reached its flood. I can conceive no more dependable guaranty of genuine prosperity than a nation-wide effort in behalf of less and wiser spending by State and local governments.” He pointed out that in the period 1921-25 total Federal, State and local governmental expenditures increased nearly $3,000,000,000 a year. In, this period the Federal Government cut expenditures by $2,000,000,000. Mr. Coolidge predicted a surplus of more than $400,000,000 fo# the fiscal year ending in eighteen days, but he warned that the prospects are that expenditures and revenues nearly will balance thereafter, with a possible deficit. He emphasized need of Government economies on the assembled bureau and Government chiefs, in a plea to prevent the Government running into the red-ink side of the ledger. Government expenses for the next fiscal year are to be $3,801,000,000, and receipts are estimated at only $3,707,000,000. he warnedMINE OUSTER ILLEGAL Lewis Announces Ruling on Row in Scranton (Pa.) Region. The United Mine Workers of America, national headquarters here today released the text of a letter in which John L. Lewis, president, defines the constitutional status of the convention recently called in District 1 of the union, in the Scranton (Pa.) region. Lewis pointed out that the convention, which ousted officers of the district, was illegally constituted, and its actions invalid. In regard to the charges brought against the district officers, he stated that the charges had never been formally presented, and that if they were presented, a formal trial by the district board, with redress of an appeal to the international board, assured a fair hearing for both sides.

BY MAJOR HOOPLE (Copyright, 1928. NEA Service. Inc.) Kansas city, mo., June 12. —Egad, folks, I am beside myself with wrath. Understand me, though, wrath is not a delegate or politician. I mean I am in high temper. In/ my great anger I crushed two cigars that were given to me by an Indiana delegate with double vision. It all came about this wav. Through my private wire, (he means coat hanger—Editor's note), I learned that my old dear

Needed to Nominate —545

CONVENTION HALL, KANSAS CITY, June 12.—The voting power of States carried by the Republican party in 1924 has been increased for the Republican national convention which convenes here today. A bonus of four additional delegates at large have been granted In most instances. Following is the new apportionment:’ D'lg'tes Dist. D'lß'tes 1 * — Alabama 4 11 15 New Mexico .... 9 0 9 Arizona 9 0 9 New York 7 83 90 Arkansas ....... 4 7 11 North Carolina .4 16 20 California 7 22 29 r... c ,o /->„i n North Dakota ..7 6 13 Colorado 7 8 15 rv.ir, i si Connecticut .... 7 10 17 1 1 ,5 Delaware 9 0 9 n X m Finrirfa 4 s m Orgeon 7 6 13 A J; " South Carolina.. 4 7 11 Illinois II 50 61 n a n oo South Dakota... 7 6 13 Indlana 7 26 33 Tennessee 4 15 19 lowa 7 22 29 .Tennessee 4 15 19 Kansas 7 16 23 , f, 1 22 Vermont ”"!.*! 7 4 11 L .5 !„ Washington .... 7 10 17 Maryland 7 12 19 \v es r Virginia 7 12 19 Massachusetts .. 7 32 39 wfc' ’ ± 99 9 Michigan 7 26 33 Wteconsin 4 22 26 Minnesota 7 20 27 l X ? Mississippi 4 8 12 V„V ’ ’ tit Missouri 7 32 39 ° f ° L ‘ ’ 9X9 Montana 7 4 11 phiTinnin 202 Nebraska 7 12 19 I X l Nevada 9 0 9 Porto R 2 0 2 New Hampshire. 7 4 11 Total delegates 1,089 New Jersey 7 24 31 Necessary to nominate 545

‘MELLON-WATSON’ IS LATEST PROPOSAL

Annonymous PaiViphlcts Are Circulated Abusing Hoover. BY LEO R. SACK KANSAS CITY, June 12.—The enemies of Herbert Hoover are conducting an anonymous campaign of abuse and villification against him as the convention meets. A leaflet termed “The Truth About Herbert C. Hoover,” was slipped under the doors of delegates’ rooms in the several hotels. It contains a review of all the charges made against Hoover in the various primary fights. Another pamphlet suggested that Andrew W. Mellon for President and Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, for vice president, would make a “winning ticket.” The pamphlet urging Mellon’s and Watson’s nomination, was distributed in the lobbies cf hotels. It was signed by “I. A. Smith” whose identity the distributors of the pamphlets did not know. It suggested that western farmers and eastern-business men would welcome such a combination of candidates. Police Watch for Bandits Police watched on several roads leading from Muncie Monday night, watching for bandits who held up the White Kitchen Barbecue there. Need a plate glass floor show case for your business? You can buy one cheap. See the ad in tonight’s For Sale want ads.

HOOPLE FILLED WITH WRATH; OPENLY SNUBBED BY ANDY MELLON

friend, Andrew Mellon, was due to arrive in town. Knowing Mellon as I do, I am privileged to call him Andy. Roundmg up three bands and all the neutral delegates, I proposed a march to the depot. I borrowed a traffic cop’s horse while he was on foot untangling traffic. Calling out orders in my old Army manner, I swung the delegates in march formation, signaled the bands to play, dashed to the lead of the parade and commanded all to keep step with thr horse;

THE INDIAN’APOLTS TIMES

be delivered by Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, after which George Moses is expected to be named permanent chairman. In the upper right is a scene in the interior of Kansas City's convention hall. In the lower left is an exterior view of Republicans' meeting place.

PROHIBITS DIRT MOVING Judge Restrains Improvement as Block to Drainage. William Gale and Theodore Brydon, developers of an addition near .the east city limits on the National Rd., were restrained temporarily today from moving dirt on the improvement so as not to interfere with drainage across National Rd. Hearing to make the order permanent will be June 19. before Judge Byron K. Elliott in Superior Court Two. Assistant Attorney General Connor D. Ross alleged a fill is being made on the north side of National Rd. between Edmondson and Elizabeth Aves., preventing the natural drain from the south. BOND ISSUE PROTESTED Shadeland Dr. Property Owners Claim Paving for Subdividers Only. Protest to a $66,000 bond issue for improvement of Shadeland Dr., between Thirty-Eighth and FiftySixth Sts., was forwarded today to the State tax board by County Auditor Harry Dunn, with whom it was filed Monday by complaining taxpayers. The complaint alleges the improvement is to enhance value oi certain abutting real estate which is to be subdivided, rather than to improve the entire section.

AS we passed street after street toward the depot, thousands of citizens joined in the parade, almost rivaling in appearance my triumphal march of '96 into Algiers, (correction, into debt—Editor’s note). Pulling up at the depot. I called the V -kin’s into mass formation and lir.?d the delegates into an aisle of honor and welcome for Andy. The train was due in five minutes, and while waiting I made a short speech to the thousands of onlookers, bringing out

SENATOR PHIPPS FOR SECRETARY Leads Colorado Delegation for Secretary. ffv Times Special KANSAS CITY. June 12—Sentor Phipps, Colorado, silent until today about his choice for Republican presidential candidate, announced that he will cast his first vote for Herbert Hoover, and said he thinks the only question about Hoover’s nomination is whether it will be on the first, second or third ballot. Asa result of his pro-Hoover declaration Phipps was named chairman of the Colorado delegation. which is expected to cast twelve of its fifteen votes for Hoover on the first ballot. Senator Waterman, Colorado, one of the minority of three, said he is still “exceedingly friendly to the idea of having Coolidge as the party candidate.” CITY TO SELL GREASE Sanitary Board Disposes of Output From Reduction Plant. The sanitary board today signed a contract to sell the A. L. Webster Company, Chicago brokers, the grease from the city garbage reduction plant. The yearly contract provides that the city shall receive $6.65 a 100 pounds for the entire output of the plant, which will total about 1,500.000 pounds. It Is estimated the 'contract will amount to about SIOO,000 a year. President O. C. Ross said Indiana Trucking Company was low bidder on anew five-ton tractor for hauling garbage. The bid was $4,225. Hass Trailer Company submitted low bid of $1,050 each for eight new trailers. The bids were taken under advisement. HONOR TECH STUDENTS Tribute Will Be raid for Pupils* Achievements Tonight. Arsenal Technical High School will hold annual honor night at Cadle Tabernacle to give public recognition for the student achievements in extra-curricular activities. Recognition for achievement in music, art, home economics, athletics and academic, commercial, vocational, military and literary work will be given and awards for extra-curricular and vocational work will be made. Drug Clerk Pleads Bankrupty George Phemister, Acton, Ind. drug clerk, today filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in Federal Court listing liabilities of $1,926 and assets of $275.

those sterling words, “this is the dawn of anew era” and “I view with alarm” the general habit of sedan automobile owners never using their trunk rack on the back of the vehicle except for appearance. I was cheered to the echo for bringing up this national issue. The train was due in five seconds—borrowing a bystanders watch, I tolled off the ticks for a signal to the massed band to play “Hail, Hail the Throng Is All Here." Seconds passed, but no sign of Andy.

G. 0. P. LEADERS APPROVE FARM REUEF_PLANK Tentative Platform Gives Approval of Dry Law and Economy. BY PAUL R. MALLON TJpited Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, June 12.—A Republican platform which contains a “compromise” farm plank, denounces prohibition “nullificationists,” deplores lavish expenditures in politics and hails economy was approved early today by practically all the influential national leaders of the party. The same conference which discovered in a hotel room conference the apparent futility of attempting to draft President Coolidge approved with some minor eliminations and changes the tentative platform offered by Senator Smoot of Utah, who is to be chairman of the platform committee. As approved, the draft includes an indorsement of the Administration’s farm policies and recommends the Jardine plan of extensive cooperative marketing. It suggests revisions should be made to protect agricultural products to whatever extent is necessary. Contents Held Secret Its will not be made public officially until it has been approved and perhaps changed by the platform committee, which plans to sit all night tonight to prepare the final draft. The farm plank is the only one over which a serious contest now is in prospect. Twenty-seven farm organizations headed by the American Farm Bureau Federation have served notice on the convention that the equalization system must be approved. McMullen Turned Down The Kansas delegation, whose representatives in Congress all voted for the McNary-Haugen bill, adopted a resolution in caucus instructing its. representative on the platform committee to support only Coolidge policies and to oppose any plank criticising those policies. The Nebraska farm delegation voted 10 to 9 against appointing Governor McMullen, a McNaryHaugen bill leader, to the platform committee. , The Smoot draft contains thirty planks. Its foreign relations planks praise the efforts of Coolidge to a treating outlawing war; condemns the League of Nations; State American marines are in Nicaragua for the purpose only of protecting American life and property and make no statement concerning Russian recognition. BANDITS GET $20,000 JEWELRY LOOT IN OHIO Pair Escape on Foot After Robbing ’ Cincinnati Store. Rit United Prcn* CINCINNATI. Ohio. June 12. Two bandits today held up and robbed Frank O. Mueller, 36. of the Mayef and Brother Jewelry Company of gems and cash estimated at $?0.000. Upon opening the stcre for the day, Mueller was confronted by a man who apparently wanted watch repaired. The man entered and drew a gun, commanding Mueller to open the safe. He was followed by a second, carrying a handbag. After the loot was procured they fled on foot. SERVICE CLUB ELECTS Mark Hamer Named President; Dinner June 30, Planned Mark Hamer was elected president of the Service Club at the annual election Monday at the Lincoln. V. M. Armstrong was elected vice president; Capt. H. Weir Cook, seo*etary; Kenneth Badger, treasurer, and Hiram Seward, sergeant-at-arms. Members and their families will attend the annual chicken dinner and party at Page’s establishment on the National Rd., east, June 30 FIRE STATION SOUGHT Butler-Fairview District FiJes Petition for Engine House. Residents of the Butler-Fairview district today petitioned the board of safety for a fire engine house in the vicinity. The petition set out that the nearest station at present is a mile away. Officers of the Butler-Fairview Civic Association circulated the petition. President Fred W. Connell referred the request to Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell. Professor W. F. Bacon, Butler ‘University, will speak on “David, the Many-Sided King,” at the Bible Investigation Club session at the Y. M. C. *A. at 6:20 p. m. Wednesday Hfs talk will be the first qf twelve on “Great Men of History.” Charles M. Daugherty, tenor, will sing. You can make money with a cement block making machine; $125 buys the one advertised in tonight’s, miscellaneous for sale want ads.

■mjriNUTES mounted up into a half hour. Surely my old pal Andy would not disappoint me. Atfer forty-five minutes of anxiety, one of my couriers staggered up, drat it, I mean,, ran up to me with a message that Andy had ordered his private car to be drawn up past the depot to a side exit and had made away in a limousine unnoticed by anyone. Mopping my brow, I held my hand high for silence to the crowd and informed them of the catastrophft

Boom Launched

Roy Hoffman, Oklahoma City, department commander of the American Legion for Oklahoma, is being boosted for election as national commander of the legion at the San Antonio covention. He served overseas as a brevet majorgeneral and once was in charge of a division. Hoffman is president of the National Association of Reserve Officers.

Lost Glory

Great Influence Gone as Ex-Senator Wadsworth • Attends Convention.

BY RAY TUCKER I TRANSAS CITY, June 12.—A A*- national convention may be the scene of personal triumph and party jubilation, but it also hides heartaches and individual tragedy. Consider, for instance, the fate of ex-Senator James W. Wadsworth of New York—the “Big Jim” as his numerous worshipers called him when he played first base for Yale, ruled the New York Legislature in conflict and company with A1 Smith and controlled the New York G. O. P. with an iron hand. Eight years ago—four years ago —there was not a more influential figure in Republican politics. He attended the “2 o’clock in the morning conference'’ that nominated Warren G. Harding. He was one of the bosses who dictated the nomination of Vice President Dawes in the face of | Coolidge’s opposition. He was a dominant factor and picturesque personality at Chicago in 1920 and Cleveland in 1924. Women begged for introductions, men begged for his ear. He gave or withheld both, as he pleased, for a large part of the political v orld was at his feet. But two years ago he espoused the extreme wet cause and alienated enough drys to cause his defeat for re-election. In his place sits Robert F. Wagner, “Al” Smith’s spokesman and personal friend. “Big Jim,'’’ friendless and forgotten, returned to his farm in northern New York. Today he is here as a delegate at large—by sufferance. The days of his glory are gone. Together with about 1,080 of the 1,089 delegates he mulls around hotel lobbies awaiting the decision of the anti-Hoover leaders. He is not invited to party factional confabs. Four years ago no council would have been complete without him; today the leaders don’t even know or inquire for the number of his hotel room. In other years he led into the convention city the most powerful delegation in the party—ninety strong. In his grip he carried documents and pledges which helped to decide the party’s destiny. He rolled into Kansas City alone. He whiled away his long and lonely hours by reading a murder mystery novel. \ When it was suggested that had he pussyfooted on the prohibition issue, he might now be the logical G. O. P. candidate to oppose another New Yorker, he replied: “Then. I’m glad I didn’t. The presidency would be punishment for me. I’ll never forget what Warren Harding said to me two months after he had been in there. ‘Jim,’ ” he said, ‘it’s a prison.’ ” EX-OWLS’ HEAD HELD Ordered Taken to Michigan to Face United States Perjury Charge. John W. Talbott, former president of the Order of Owls, today was ordered removed to Grand Rapids Mich., by Federal Judge Robert C Baltzell to face a Federal perjury indictment growing out of an equity suit in which Talbott was plaintiff. He was arrested at Vincennes, where he is alleged to have been practicing law under the name of “John Devine,” according to officials. Talbott founded the Order of Owls at South Bend in 1904. Cutting an automobile gasoline tank, thought empty, with an acetylene torch Monday afternoon in the Isadore Kroot junk yard, 628 W. Washington St., John Walker, 48, of 121- S. California St., was burned about his entire body.

Friends, I want to tell you truthfully that five miles of running, under extreme pressure, is a terrible ordeal, even for an athlete. I still am catching my breath. I evaded the pursuing band and delegates by sideswitching into the Santa Fe freight yards and climbing into an empty swine car. Egad, I am provoked at Andy, and even if he is Secretary of the Treasury, I proudly will refuse any loan he offers to make me. Au Re voir, by Jova,

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WISCONSIN TO OFFER PARLEY OWNJPLATFORM Differs in Nearly Every Issue From Official • ‘Draft. BY RUTH FINNEY KANSAS CITY, June 12.—Following tradition established twenty years ago, the Wisconsin delegation will present to the Republican national convention a minority platform, differing on practically every issue from that drawn by the official platform committee, and will ask its adoption by the convention. According to present plans. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., will put the document before the convention. Protest Power Trusts ! The electric power issue is stressed as the major one now before the country in this protest platform. “The monopolization of electric power is the most alarming economic development of the decade,” it recites, declaring for Government development of Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam, and for conservation of coal, oil, water power and timber lands by the Government. Other planks are: Opposition to “control of foreign policy” by “financial imperialists” and specifically to the United States part in the Nicaragua war, and the Administration’s naval building program. Passage of the McNary-Haugen bill, reduction of railroad rates on farm products, and downward revision of the tariff. Passage of anti-injunction legislation. Seek New Dry Law Denunciation of corrupt practice in senatorial and presidential elections, opposition to seating William S. Vare, and a demand that the fight to punish oil men involved in the naval oil reserve scandals be continued. Maintenance of the Federal inheritance tax. Modification of the Volstead act. Denunciation ‘of the conversion of the Federal Reserve System into an instrument by which the nation's credit is, used for the advantage of stock market speculators and international -bankers.” REINSTATEMENT BALKED Former Policeman Loses Suit to Regain Position. Elwin D. Chilcote, 213 W. North St., lost a suit before Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott today to compel | the board of safety to reinstate him } on the police force from which he was ousted in September. Edward H. Knight, assistant city attorney, contended the board of safety had filed charges against Chilcote before he had finished his six months probationary period as a patrolman. Chilcote said he would appeal to the Supreme Court. Chilcote’s father, Thomas, won a suit to compel his reinstatement as a city building inspector a few weeks ago. DONATE. FOR INVENTOR Broad Ripple Raise Fund in Tribute for Rescue Work. Broad Ripple residents are raising a fund as a,tribute to Gilbert Weiss, 6142 Crittenden Ave., inventor of a submersible searchlight which has recovered a number of drowning victims from Indianapolis streams. The fund was started after Weiss Sunday recovered the body of James Cardinal, 5, Broad Ripple youth drowned in White River near tha Canal. The fund is to be deposited in th Broad Ripple State Bank for Weiss. Those desiring to add to the fund may send qontributions to the Weiss Fund, care of the bank, its sponsors said. FIGHTS IN COURTROOM Mcxicin Attempts to Attack Accuser After He Is Fined. It cost Santiago Mareno, 29, Mexican section hand, sixty days on tha farm to cause a disturbance in Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter's courtroom Monday afternoon. Mareno was fined $25 for assault and battery when Malcolm Salmond, Salvation Army home manager, appeared against him. Led from the courtroom by Baliff Smock. Mareno attempted to wrest himself free, in an effort to attack Salmond again. Judge Wetter then added the sixty days. ACCEPTS GRATIS OFFICE William Habeny, Democrat, Named Electrical Examiner. William Habeny, Democrat, Indianapolis Power and Light Company engineer, was appointed a member of the board of electrical examiners today by City Building Commissioner William F. Hurd. The appointment was approved by the board of safety. Habeny succeeds Paul Winter* who resigned because of business duties. The post pays no salary. DOG IS YOUTH’S"‘EYES* Blind Student Completes Europe Tour Without Human Aid. Bit United Press NEW YORK. June 12.—Maurice Frank. 20-year-old blind student at Vanderbilt University, arrived on S. S. Tuscania after traveling 5,000 miles through Europe without human aid. Frank has a German police dog which he trained to guide him through crowds.