Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1928 — Page 9
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HOOVER SEEKS FOREST PEACE BEFOREFIGHT Will Leave Insistent ‘Bells’ of Public Life Behind for Solitude. EAGER FOR FISHING Prepares Tackle for Outing Among Redwoods of California. By RAY TUCKER PALO ALTO, Cal., July 25.—Herbert Hoover will steel himself for the ordeal of campaign crowds by burying himself in the north woods. As if recognizing that he has moved Into an artificial world of cheers and torchlight processions and platform speeches, Hoover wants a few days of solitude. In the giant redwoods he will recapture the solitude that long ago drew him to the mines of the Sierras, the Australian mountains, the wastes of China, and the fastnesses of Burma. He wants to get away from the bells, he admits he hates them. Up ■in the isolated northern coast range, where he will go, there are no telephone bells, no jangling trolleys, no factories, no life and noise. It is as nearly a primitive place as can be found. Let's Forget Me It is miles from a town or telegraph office. When the correspondents explained that lack of facilities would prevent them from keeping the world informed about a man who is “big news,” whether he plays or works, he replied quietly, “Oh, let’s forget me and news for a while, I’ll show you some of the finest country in the world and give you a chance to fish in great trout streams.” Hoover is uncomfortable before a crowd, he is completely at ease with a few. His manner, his talk, his face reveal his preference for a small group sitting about him on his porch here or in his library. His shyness disappears and his conversation is stimulating and fascinating. Then his talk turns to homely, simple things. He explains that his real love of fishing springs from his interest in the tackle. He has a collection of fishing lines and hooks and flies and is still buying new apparatus. He mourns the fact that there are not enough modern murder mysteries being written to supply his demand. From his beautiful Moorish home he gazes down palm-studded slopes at the stations where he jumped off thirty-seven years ago with nothing but sl4 to help satisfy his eagerness for education, recalling his student days with wistful humor. Welcomes Public Service. Despite his shrinking from the demands political campaigning makes on him, another side of Hoover welcomes this as a necessary prelude to perhaps a more active part in public affairs. Even before Belgium called him, and the clamorous bells begrn ringing in his ears, Hoover had planned to abandon his mining career for one of public service. “He told me in 1913,” said Dr. David Starr Jordan, president emeritus of Stanford University, “that he was going to give up a SIOO,OOO a year job so he could get into public life. Hoover said that mining had come to mean only making some m6re money and he was tired of it.” So the opportunity that came In 1914 found Hoover not only waiting, but anxious.
MAN SUES FIRST WIFE •Seeks Divorce After Being: Arrested on Bigamy Charges. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 25. Jam cal Miles Hart, local truckman, har filed suit to free himself of one of his two wives. He is seeking a divorce from Edith V. Hart, whom he married in 1907. He charges that she left him In 1923 and that a few months ago after being informed that she had divorced him, he remarried. His first wife returned this summer and when refused a money settlement, filed bigamy charges, the petition states. UTILITY RATES REDUCED Nine Towns Affected in Brown and Bartholomew Counties. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 25.—Nine communities in Bartholomew and Brown Counties are affected by a new reductions •in electric power rates announced by Earl Murley, local manager of the Inter-State Public Service Company. Those affected include Burnsville, Clifford, Grammer, Nortonburg, Jonesville, Petersville, Walesboro, Waynesville and Nashville. The new rate will be paid by subscribers this month. HIRE SPEAKERS JOINTLY Four Counties Engage Same Talent for Teachers Institute. By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., July 25.—Program has been completed for the Henry County teachers institute to be held here Aug. 27 to 31. This county is cooperating with Randolph, Delaware and Wayne Counties in obtaining eight speakers for the institutes. The total expense ■* will be divided equally.
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Besides the titles of “Dance Queen” and “Miss Lexington,” Miss Virginia Mae Hendrick of Lexington, Ky., the other day was chosen as the State’s fairest daughter. She was crowned “Miss Kentucky” by Governor Flem D. Sampson.
MARINES RECALLED FROM CHINA BY U. S.
No Snake Mart Bu Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 25. The rattlesnake market was inactive this week. A resident of Brown county brought his four-foot “rattler” to market and offered to take as low as $5 from Indiana University officials for the reptile, but no sale was made.
SHELBY BONDS SALEDATE SET County Auditor Says Securities Will Go Easily. Sale of a $40,000 bond issue for Shelby St. improvement has been set for July 30, Harry Dunn, county auditor, announced today. Dunn said he expected no difficulty in selling the county bonds for the proposed paving project between Troy and Madison Aves. The improvement has been ordered under the connecting link law which provides the county and city shall share the costs. “There were some objections to the improvement but the twenty-nine-day period for filing a remonstrance has passed and no one opposed the project,” Dunn said. The city failed to get a bid on the $40,000 issue to pay the city’s share becaqge the Interstate Public Service Company, objecting to spending money for new tracks, protested the issue. Oren S. Hack, works board president, said he would attempt to sell the city’s bonds to south side taxpayers. TRIES TO FIGHT COP A free-for-all battle occurred in the street in front of the Princeton Hotel, 232 S. Illinois St., at 11:50 p. m. Tuesday. Police arrested Ray Hasbrook, 32, of the Princeton Hotel, but failed to find two other men who were said to have been in the battle. While going to police headquarters, Hasbrook is said to have started to fight Motor Policeifian Charles Viles, knocking the officer’s hat into the street.
FEDERAL JOB SALE QUIZ TO BE PUSHED
By Times Special WASHINGTON, July 25.—Indictments in the southern patronage investigation have just begun, according to opinion at Senator Brookhart’s office today. Brookhart is chairman of the Senate investigating commmittee. Recent indictments in Mississippi are only a forerunner of others in southern States, where investigations by the Department of Justice are under way, it is said. Scope of the inquiry has become so widened by information given the
PITY POOR BAKER MAN, NOT HOUSEWIFE, FOR MAKING BREAD IN HEAT LIKE THIS
BY DAN M. KIDNEY T'VO you pity the poor housewife ■“-'standing over her hot stove In a sweltering kitchen baking bread? Well, don’t, for your sympathy is only wasted. There aren’t any such housewives, or at least very few in Indianapolis. The old home-made country bread immortalized by James Whitcomb Riley is as defunct as
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Friendship for New Regime Prompts Withdrawal by Washington. BY MAURITZ A. HALLGREN United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 25.—Concrete evidence of the new American policy of “positive friendship” for the Chinese Nationalist government, details of which soon are to be made public, was revealed today in the Navy Department order calling for immediate withdrawal of 1,350 marines from Tientsin, China. These sea soldiers made up part of the force of 3,800 sent to the Far East in March and April, 1927, after the Nanking Incident of March 24 and other serious antiforeign outbreaks in South China and the Yangtze valley. When the remaining marines will be brought home has not been determined, although in considering the question here officials decided the wisest policy would be to retain a sizeable force on Chinese soil until they feel more confidence in the ability of the Nationalist armies to afford full protection to foreigners. Withdrawal of the marines was strongly urged upon the State and Navy Departments by Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol immediately upon his arrival in the Far East to take command of the American Asiatic fleet. He was supported by Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commanding the marines, but was opposed, according to reports received here, by Minister John Van A. Mac Murray. Eventually the 500 marines of the Pekin legation guard and the 900 regular soldiers of the 15th Infantry, stationed to guard the Tientsin-Pekin Railway, also will be withdrawn, it was said at the State Department, although they v ill be the last to come home. WOMAN CUTS THROAT Condition Critical at Hospital After Suicide Attempt. Mrs. Clara Davis, 36, is in critical condition at city hospital as the result of cutting her throat with a razor in a suicide attempt at her home, 74 N. Addison St. According to her husband, Harry Davis, who was home at the time, she has been despondent because of ill health.
committee that hearings probably will continue through the next session of Congress. Only $5,000 was allowed the committee for its work this summer and this fund will be exhausted soon. The committee is marking time until Postmaster General New supplies information relative to postmaster appointments in several southern States. New has asked all postmasters in the South to furnish information concerning campaign contributions and other money gifts made either before or since appointment.
ankle-length skirts, according to bakers here. They estimate that less than 10 per cent of the Indianapolis homes serve bread made in their own kitchens. “It has been more than a decade since home "'•’.de bread offere ” *ny c- ion to the t • • declare; i. ty yearn. y
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25,1928
SCHOOL COST TO TAXPAYER IS INCREASED Average Expense Per Pupil for Last Year Given as $106.57. COST OVER 5 MILLIONS 48,011 are Enrolled for ,1927-28; Libraries Add to Total. Average cost of educating children in Indianapolis public grade and high schools mounted $1.65 in the school year ended in June, the annual report of school commissioners showed today. In 1926-27 the average cost for the 46,541 pupils was $104.92. In 1927-28 it was $106.57 for 48,011 pupils. Indianapolis spent for actual conduct of all public schools in 1927-28 a total of $5,116,343.99, as compared with $4,883,216.59 in 1926-27, an increase of (232,282.60. The city-wide expenditures for all school purposes, including such items as interest on debts, building construction anl operation anl improvement of the public libraries compared thus: 1927-28, $11,936,524.59; 1926-2 TANARUS, $8,791,021.42. $886,000 in Treasury The schools wound up the year with $886,395.29 in the treasury July 1. Total instruction expense, including teachers’ salaries in 1926-27, was $4,149,064.70, against $3,860,937.71 in 1927-28. Maintenance cost dropped to $274,838.38 from $316,888.86 In 1926Operation costs, including such items as gas, coal, electricity and Janitor hire, jumpel from $491,722.98 in 1926-27 to $514,659.06 in 1927-28. Administration costs went to $177,781.85 from the $213,967.04 figure of 1926-27. Tire city spent $1,479,004 for new buildings and additions this school year, against $1,894,929 last. More for Libraries Upon public libraries $414,476 was expended this year and $400,418 last year. The report shows that the bonded indebtedness has grown from sl,682,000 in 1918 to $11,557,000 at the end of 1927. The tax levy crept up from 68 cents In 1918 to $1.03 in 1927. School enumeration as of June 3 'J, 1928, showed 81,898 of school age in the city, of which 49,712 were in public schools, 6,830 in parochial and 266 in private schools on that date. Arsenal Technical High School, with its average daily attendance of 4,618, cost the most money of any school in the city to operate in 1927- but the average per pupil was $179,55, as compared with the $198.55 average of Manual Training. It cost a total of $829,177 to operate Tech. Manual, with 1,648 pupils cost $327,217.
Average Cost Is $152 The average cost per pupil in high schools was $152.41. Average for common schools was $86.28 per pupil. Grade School 41 at Thirtieth and Rader Sts., had the highest daily average attendance of the common schools, 1,083, and cost $89,860, an average of $82.97 a pupil. The next largest grade school was No. 26, Negro, Sixteenth St. and Columbia Ave., where 1,059 were enrolled at a cost of $89,459, an average of $84.48 per pupil. The least costly school to operate was No. 23, Negro, Thirteenth and Missouri Sts. With 645 pupils, the lowest per capita cost was maintained. It was $80.12 per pupil. Total expenditure was $51,680. The report was prepared under direction of Albert F. Walsman, business director, and is being distributed for study by patrons. COUNTY TOUR PLANNED Group Will Visit Monroe Farms and Study Crops. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 25. Plas have been completed for the dairy-legume tour of the county Friday, according to Walter Rogers, county agent. The tour will start from the courthouse here at 9 a. m. and visit several farms during the day. One of the stops will be at the John Faucett farm west of here where the field of Japanese clover seeded seven years ago will bp studied. Two experts from Purdue University will accomapny the group. Accepts Illinois Position By Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., July 25.—H. D. VanMatre, Rush County agent for several years, will become agriculture advisor of Edgar County, Illinois, Aug. 1. His office will be in Paris, 111. He resigned as county agent here March 1 and has since been employed with the International Harvester Company.
“TS this a good thing?” one may J- ask. Here is the way one of them looks at it. “This bread like-mother-used-to-make talk is all hooey. “There was a time when it meant something. That was back in the early days of the commercial bakery. The baker of the period with his small shop and meager equipment worked on the principle of using little materials
Pupils Will Dance at Fete
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Pupiis of Mrs. Ruthanne Kersting will dance at the thirty-fourth annual Feast of Lanterns at Spades Park Saturday night. They are (left to right) Alma Elizabeth Edmonds, Virginia Tapp, Dorothy Maybe, Janet Cohen, Dolores Buck, Maxine Lambert and LaVonne Maloof.
COOLID6ES PLAN TRIP WEST Expect to Visit Yellowstone Park in August. Bu Vnitcd Press CEDAR ISLAND LODGE. Wis., July 25.—Tentative plans are being made for the departure of President and Mrs. Coolidge for Yellowstone National Park between Aug. # 10 and 15, it. was learned authoritatively at the summer White House today. The President and his official party would leave their lodge here Aug. 12. though no official plans have been formulated. Mr. Coolidge has not decided, It was said, whether he will remain at his fishing retreat on the Brule or make a protracted visit to the Naitonal Park. The condition of Mrs. CoolMge’s mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, who is ill at Northampton, Mass., may be a deciding factor in the late summer plans of the presidential party. It is known that the Coolidges are planning a visit to New England. Mr. Coolidge is said to wish to visit his boyhood home at Plymouth, Vt. The President and Mrs. Coolidge have expressed delight with their experiences in the Yellowstone last summer. Mr. Coolidge is not expected to return to Washington before Sept. 25, regardless of final plans for his summer vacation
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Automobiles reported to the police as stolen: H. E. French, Ft. Harrison, Ind., Whippet coupe, stolen from near arena at Ft. Harrison. L. E. Smith, 27 N. Walcott St., Chevrolet roadster, 641-283, stolen from Riverside Park.
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Stolen automobiles recovered by the police: Frank H. Wise, Noblesville, Ind., Ford, found at Pennsylvania and Eighteenth Sts. New Chrysler roadster, no license plates, found at Meridian and McCarty Sts. Webster Schrow r yer. Rural Route 2, Yorktown, Ind., Ford coupe, found at Canal and Ohio St. SNAKE SPREADS TERROR Reports Near Tampico Says Reptile Is 25 Feet In Length. By Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., July 25.—Residents on the outskirts of Tampico have been terrorized the last week by reports of a huge snake, said to measure more than twenty-five feet in length. The warning spread by those claiming to have seen the reptile, has caused mothers to keep their children close home. One man reported running over the snake with a wagon without killing it. Many berry pickers say they have seen the serpent. DROP 30 FEET; 3 HURT Bricklayers in Hospital After Scaffold Falls When a scafford on which they were working on anew building at 5140 E. Washington St„ gave way late Monday, William Glenn, 52, of Plainfield, Ind; Clarence Reynolds, 41, of Sherman Dr. and Raymond St., and John Cox, 26, of 549 N. Warman Ave., bricklayers, dropped to the ground thirty feet below. All were bruised about the body and city hospital doctors today watched for symptoms of internal injuries. j 200 Attend Gary Frolic By Times Special GARY, Ind., July 25.—More than 200 members and their families of the Grocers, Bakers, Meat and Milk Dealers Association held their first annual picnic Tuesday at the Serbian picnic grounds.
and Jots of air. He thought that what people wanted was a big loaf and his big loaves contained little nourishment. “It was easy for the housewife to make better bread. Finally the bakers began to take their business seriously.,. Now the modern plant > with its scientific product produces upder ideal conditions is much finer than can be produced in the home. It is also cheaper, counting everything^
Tastes Change New Drinks Win Favor as Booze ‘Goes’; Kraut Juice Popular.
BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 25.—Probition was given the American public a taste for harmless new drinks, including alfalfa extract, tomato juice, sauerkraut juice, “Cassine” near beer, soft drinks, tea, coffee and water, according to agricultural department scientists today. Dr. Edwin Lefever, kraut special. told the United Press that millions of quarts of sauerkraut juice are consumed annually as a beverage. “People have been eating kraut hundreds of years and they have just discovered the juice from it is good to drink,” he said. “Kraut juice contains a certain amount of nutrition and also an aperient property. “If taken in too large quantities, the salt in the juice is injurious, but taken in moderation it is as healthful as good water.” tt tt m MORE than 250,000 tons of cabbage was made into $2,500,000,000 worth of sauerkraut last year, and this developed thousands of gallons of kraut juiefe for the markets, Dr. Lefever said. Dr. J. W. Sales, head of the department’s food and drug control division, said tomato Juice and alfalfa extracts are being bottled for beverage use. He said both have nutritive value. “Tomato juice contains vitamins essential to the body and hence is an, exceptionally good drink,” he added. He said it is now fashionable to serve “tomato juice cocktails"—non-alcoholic. “Non-alcoholic cordials are big sellers, but In many cases people add alcohol to these beverages and make them up Into concoctions that defy the law,” Sales said. "Consumption of near beer has fallen off in the last year, and people are turning to old-fash-ioned soft drinks like ginger ale and root beer.” 8,000 MILES TO SCHOOL Mexican Hiker On Long Walk to Los Angeles Via New York. MEXICO CITY, July 25.—Mexico’s star hiker is on an 8.000-mile walking tour to school. His itinerary calls for a stroll to New York City and a return hike as far as Los Angeles, where he will be awarded a scholarship to the University of Illinois by the National University of Mexico Love Slayer Held for Murder Bu Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., July 25.—'Troia McDonald, who attempted suicide after slaying his cousin, Edna Elliott, 18, another man’s wife, because she spumed his love, was ordered held for first degree murder after a coroner’s inquest. McDonald is recovering after firing a bullet into his body near the heart. •
BIDDING KEEN FOR AIRSHIP CONTRACTS
By Times Special WASHINGTON, July 25.—Airship interests intend to enter into keen competition to receive the contract to construct one or both of the two huge dirgibles authorized by Congress it was indicated today when the initial bid was received at the Navy Department. Time for receiving bids does not expire until Aug. 9. Each airship will be nearly three times larger than the Los Angeles. Congress has fixed $8,000,000 as the limit of cost. v The latest German Zeppelin, the
EVEN the country folks no longer bother with it, the bakers assert. Indianapolis bread is sold daily for fifty miles around the city and some routes extend down to the Ohio River. They estimate that less than 20 per cent of the Hoosier farm wives are making their own bread now, and the number grows smaller daily. One local concern has
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KIDS KLUB GETS DONKEYMASCOT Mayor Makes Presentation at Treat Day. A record-breaking crowd, more than 1,500 youngsters, attended the seventh treat day of The Times Broad Ripple Park All-Kids Klub at the park Tuesday. Mayor L. Ert Slack presented the club with a fine donkey, named “Alfred,” in honor of A1 Smith. Mayor Slack introduced the new mascot to the kids and to Billy Whiskers, the goat and first mascot of the club. The club is absolutely nonpartisan, however, and if anyone has an elephant which he will donate to the club, it will be named “Herb” in honor of the Republican nominee. Oscar Baur, president of Broad Ripple Park, invited the club to the pool, for a swim, and to witness a fancy diving and swimming exhibition put on by Miss Regina Reiss, Miss Anne Bennett and Sam “Tiny” Keith. After their dip, the kids were given free rides. The membership prizes for the week were awarded to Richard Harold and Cora Weller. Next weeks’ winners will receive bathing suits from the Em-Roe sporting goods store. The scooters were presented by the Colonial Fur niture Company. If you are not a club member, clip the coupon from next Monday’s Times, bring it to The Times’ office Monday, or to the park Tuesday, and exchange it for the membership button, which admits you free to all the activities.
ROTARIANS HONOR TODD Adopt Resolution of Condolence; Dick Miller, Fred Hoke Speak. Resolutions of condolence on the death of Robert I. Todd, president of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, were adopted at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday at the Claypool. Members of the club stood for one minute in silent tribute to the deceased. Speakers at the meeting were Dick Miller, City Trust Company president, and Fred Hoke, president of Holcombb & Hoke Manufacturing Company. Both are members of the club and talked about their business. ASKS POLICE PENSION Widow of August DeVore Files Suit for Fund Aid. Charlotte DeVore of 617 N. East St., widow of August DeVore, city policeman who died July 20, 1927, has filed suit in Superior Court 2 demanding pension of S4O a month from the board of trustees of the police pension fund since her husband’s death. The complaint sets out that DeVore joined the police force in 1906, retired in 1916 and from that time to his death received S4O a month pension. The board has declined to allow her the pension, the widow declares.
LZ-127 was scheduled to start on a trans-Atlantic trip Aug. 20, will not .start before Sept. 15. Two of the Navy Department’s foremost experts in lighter-than-air aviation, Lieut. Com. Charles Rosendahl of the Los Angeles, and Lieut. Com. Garland P. Fulton are now at Friedrichshafen inspecting the German ship. They had planned to make the trial trip, but Secretary of Navy Wilbur has ordered Fulton to return to Washington to superintend the awarding of the American dirigible contracts.
forty house-to-house country routes. The farmers receive the same “fresh daily” service as the city folks. Summer is sandwich time and the big bread season. The daily production is at its peak here. In winter it drops considerably, with the eating of griddle cakes, waffles add similar bread substitutes.
CITY FEAST OF LANTERNS TO DRAWipCO Thirty-Fourth Annual Fete to Be Held at Spades Park Saturday. DANCING WILL FEATURE Big Four Band to Provide Music; Other Stunts on Program. One hundred thousand men. women and children, eating, drinking and dancing in a spirit of mardi gras, beneath 25,000 twinkling Japanese lanterns, with entertainment, band and orchestra music, country store and other high jinks is the promise of the committee in charge of the thirty-fourth annual Feast of Lanterns to be held at Spades Park Saturday night by the Brookside Civic Leigue. The event has become historic in the community life of Indianapolis and the 100,000 prediction, made by Windsor J. Weaver, 2227 S. Brookside Pkwy., general chairman of the Feast of Lanterns committee, is based on attendance last year. Two nights were devoted to the event at that time and more than 85,000 residents of Indianapolis and surrounding territory attended each night, Weaver said. Lanterns to Blaze The lanterns are to be strung on Brookside Ave., and surrounding territory and throughout the park. They may be procured from the committee for decorating lawns, for which prizes are to be given. Dancing will be on the pavement, with music by an orchestra. The Big Four Athletic Association fortypiece band will give a concert in the park under direction of V. T. Lowe. E, T. Kilrain is president. Pupils of Mrs. Ruthanne Kersting will appear in fancy costume dances as part of the entertainment. A jazz dance contest for prizes is to be held and those who want to enter must submit their names to Mrs. Kersting, Cherry 1056, not later than Saturday morning. The. contest is open to men, women ana children and will include all jazz dances, such aS the Charleston, black botton, hot foot, Jew’s hop, acrobatic dancing and the like. Oldham Is Chairman
The Rev. C. E. Oldham. 1772 Brookside Ave., president of the civic league, is chairman of the purchasing committee, which bought the lanterns and other decorations. Other committee chairmen are Mrs. H. C. Banes, 1556 Brookside Ave., decorating and lanterns; Mrs. Ida Erath, 1C34 Keystone Ave., refreshments; Mrs. Robert Wolf red, 2215 Brookside Pkwy., country store; Mrs. Leroy Jolley, 1409 N. Jefferson Ave., dancing; C. A. James, 1776 Brookside Ave., judges and prizes; Clyde V. Montgomery, 1501 N. Tuxedo St., entertainment; James W. Peggs, 1503 LaSalle St., finance; Mrs. William Kenkel, 1768 Brookside Ave., advertising. Mrs. Kenkel was general chairman of the event last year. Robert Owens, 1415 N. Jefferson Ave., was assistant chairman of the finance committee, and William Demmary, 2326 Coyner Ave., of the purchasing committee. OFFICERS FEARED~SLAIN MERELY DOING FAVORS New Albany Constable Explains Matters for Himself and Deputy. By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., July 25.—Constable Charles E. Wright and Deputy Constable Lloyd Mcßride, New Albany, are safe after fears were exressed Tuesday that they had met with foul play while having three local men in custody. The situation is explained by Wright, who said the prisoners, Mike Aleno, 26; John McMurphy, 29, and “Spike” Johnson, 28, asked him and his deputy not to let Bedford police know of their arrest at; New Albany on intoxication charges. The New Albany officers brought the men under arrest here and quartered them in a rooming house over night while payment of their fines were arranged. Then the officers returned to New Albany, “And that’s all there is to it," Wright says. CURSES PUZZLE POLICE Unknown Men Swear at Couple In Canoe, Youth Reports. Who swore at Ray Thorn, Y. M. C. A., and Miss Isabel Bates, Y. W. C. A., when they were paddling in a canoe at Riverside Park Tuesday night was one of the problems facing police today. The young man reported that they were on the river north of Thirtieth St., when two men appeared on the west band and ordered them to come ashore. When they refused one of the men flashed an officer’s badge and both cursed them, Thorn said. GETS TWO CONVENTIONS Seymour to Be Host to M. E. and Baptist Conventions. By Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., July 25.—Plans have been completed here for entertaining two of the State’s largest religious gatherings this season. The district convention of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held Sept. 17 to 23 and the Indiana Baptist Church convention will be Sept. 15 to 18. Each is expected t£ draw more than 1,000 persons.