Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1928 — Page 11

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MBATTLE SWINGS INTO GRAND CUMAX Last Week of Campaign to Be Most Spectacular Since 1916. HOOVER HEADED WEST Smith Will Speak in East; Both Will Be Given Powerful Aid. \ BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent ; WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. The Hoover-Smith presidential contest . today swings into the most sensational last week windup of any political campaign since Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes battled it out for California’s electoral ! yote in 1916., • Though Hoover leaves for the west Tuesday, to deliver another appeal to the com and wheat country, he will have numerous champions fighting for his interest as Governor Emit hsweeps down the Atlantic seaboard with four speeches. , Hoover’s last formal speech will be 1 at St. Louis on waterways and agri- ' culture, with the hour and radio ' hookup to be announced later. Smith will speak at Baltimore to- . bight, Newark probably Wednesday ! night, Brooklyn, Friday night and (Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, Saturday. The subjects of these j speeches are being carefully guarded [but foreign affairs, labor, Hoover’s record, and state issues are to be : touched upon. * Borah to Trail Smith ; Just as he has trailed Smith ' through the west ancf border states. Senator Borah, Hoover’s progressive spokesman, will follow Smith throughout the east, after a short expedition into North Carolina and .Virginia early in the week. In the northeast Borah will stress the protective tariff and assail Smith’s prohibition program, with the cry that it will lead to nothing. Borah is scheduled to appear in Baltimore Wednesday, Boston Friday and Utica Saturday. His final address will be well radioed, and it will be one of the longest speeches of the campaign, an hour and a half having been alloted to him. Borah conferred with Hoover Friday and the subjects of both their speeches were discussed. Secretary Mellon and Hubert Work, national G. O. P. chairman, ■will speak Monday night, and their speeches will have a country -wide hook-up. Secretary Kellogg makes his final appeal for Hoover Tuesday night, and his predecessor, Charles Evans Hughes, will go. on th| air from Kismet temple, Brooklyn, Tuesday night. i Smith to Get Help Smith also will have aids In the grand finale. They include Senator Robinson, vice-presidential candidate; Senator Reed, Missouri; Newton D. Baker, Ohio; Senators Glass and Swanson, Virginia, and Senator Harrison, Mississippi. In an effort to combat Republican cries that a Democratic victory will mean hard times, the Democrats hope to enlist such business and industrial leaders as Owen D. Young, John W. Davis and E. S. Harkness, Standard Oil director, in a campaign of nation-wide radio talks.

ILLNESS KEEPS JEWETT FROM SPEECH TONIGHT Attorney in Oklahoma; Slated to Address Rally. Charles W. Jewett, local attorney, unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, will be unable to speak in behalf of the Republican state ticket at the G. O. P. meeting at 523 North Belle Vleu place tonight, Republican county headquarters announced today. Jewett, it was explained at the office of George V. Coffin, Severln 'district chairman, is in Oklahoma on his doctor’s orders. RAIL WOMEN TO MEET Five Hundred Members of Aid Society Due Here. Arrangements have been completed for a meeting of the Pennsylvania Railroad Women’s Aid of the Southwestern division to be held at the Columbia Club, Tuesday at 1 p. m. More than 500 members, representing the Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Columbus divisions will attend. The day’s activities will include an informal reception, a business meeting and a banquet. Mrs. C. E. Whitlock, wife of the general superintendent of the Southwestern general division, will be in charge. STICKERS CAUSE CRASH Pedestrian Run Down; Leg Broken; Driver Arrested. Politics caused a traffic accident Sunday that resulted in a broken left leg and severe scalp wounds for John Garrity, 40, of 1240 Oliver street. Garrity was struck by a machine driven by Rupert Forney, 17, of 1137 Gimber street, at College and Massachusetts avenues. Police found twenty-one political stickers pasted on the windshield of Forney's ear. Rorney was arrested on an assault and battery charge.

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INDIANAPOLIS LAGS AS NEW AIR FIELD SITES ARE CHOSEN

Preparations Are Rushed for Mail Route Safety Landings and Lights. Sites for intermediate landing fields and for beacon lights on the northern half of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago air mail route have been selected and delay pf Indianapolis in selecting a municipal airport site is holding up completion of the lighted airway, Lawrence C. Elliott, airways extension superintendent of the airways division, department of commerce, announced here todal. Elliott is making Indianapolis his headquarters while the emergency landing fields and beacon locations betwen Indianapolis and Cincinnati are determined. Preliminary work between here and Chicago is finished. Lighting of the route from Cincinnati to Chicago is part of the department of commerce’s plan to have 11,000 miles of lighted airways in the country by June 30, 1929, end of the fiscal year. The department now has 7,000 miles lighted. The general plan calls for emergency landing fields every thirty

‘FOR TOMORROW--!’

Birthday Party in Death Row

BY HAROLD E. RIGHTER United Pres* Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, 0.. Oct. 28.—John Sabo, who is to die soon in the electric chair, gave a birthday dinner party for Death Row Sunday that was not mentioned in the society columns. Seven men, six of them condemned to die soon, sat around a narrow bench-like table and ate with “The Kid.” John had turned 21, and the party was on him. He took $lO of the $29.03 they told him he had in the prison treasury and put on a real spread. The dinner was a success and John’s strange buddies of Death Row agreed "The Kid” was a sport and a good host.

Shortly after noon the six men came out of their cells into the litt’e space just outside their doors where they exercise. There was a plain pine table loaded down with good things to eat. There it was—the dinner John had been planning and anticipating for days—days full of important interviews and conferences with “Mother,” wife of Warden P. E. Thomas. “Mother” Thomas prepared the meal. There it was—carried out to the letter. tt * m . THERE were twenty-one yellow unlighted candles on the birthday cake. It was set in front of John's place. John smiled when he sat down and looked at the cake. He had insisted on yellow candles and nobody asked him why. Os course—John had seen them in church. There was a second cake on the table which had pink candles on it. Everybody sat down congratulating John. The felicitations were given In halting, stammered, self-conscious remarks except a Negro who smiled as he remarked. “Boy, you’re a man now.” John gave a little laugh. Fai nor O’Brien, the prison chaplain, asked the blessing. After the little prayer was over, the men fumbled about, looked at each other and did not seem to know what to do. Only the three Negroes seemed primarily interested in the task at hand. They began eating immediately. “Get right in there,” cajoled “Mother” Thomas. They began making overtures with their cardboard knives and forks—metal tools being forbidden. Now and then John tried to make conversation. Father O’Brien helped. u u 0 EACH of the diners had a half chicken fried. There was mashed potatoes, chicken noodles, southern style sweet potatoes, biscuits, gravy, red peppers stuffed with rice, pear salad, apple pie ala mode, assorted candles and a good cigar for each of the men except John, who does not use tobacco. John Sabo, who was convicted ■of killing Burton C. Painter at Akron, 0., in 1926, speaks a little English, most of which he has learned since he was admitted to the prison eighteen months ago. He is short, stocky and has a handsome face, white-skinned like a girl’s, with even white teeth. The date of his execution has not been set. Stanley Hoppe, Cleveland clubber, who must die Friday for the slaying of a 7-year-old girl, sat at Sabo’s right. Mabel Visits Volsted Home By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 29.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney-general, was the guest here today of Miss Laura Volstead, daughter of Andrew J. Volstead.

LAST CALL! DO YOUR PLANTING AND WINTER WORK WITH FLOWERS NOW

BY ARTHUR N. PACK President, American Nature Association (Written for NEA Service and The Times) THIS is the best time of all the year for planting shrubbery. The ground can be worked readily and a good job done. Walt until after a freeze has killed the leaves and put the shrubs into their dormant winter state, but don’t wait until after the ground has frozen hard. The shrubs will get established firmly by spring and will begin their growth at the right time.

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miles and beacon lights every ten miles. The postoffice department is requiring each city which is a stop on the air mail route to provide a landing field. If night stops are to be made they must be equipped with beason, landing, boundary and obstruction lights. It was necessary two weeks ago to move up the Indianapolis air mail schedule one hour because planes could not always safely land on the present field in the dark. The intermediate fields are to provide emergency landing fields for planes in case of motor trouble or ba<V weather. Fields this close will enable a plane in ordinary trouble to alight safely, since it always will be within at least fifteen miles of a landing place. The intermediate fields between Indianapolis and Chicago will be at Lebanon, Lafayette, Wolcott and Shelby, Ind., and at Lansing, 111., Elliott announced. The fields were selected from the air and then surveyed from the ground. The department hopes to have at least some of the lights in operation by Feb. 1. The government will not provide hangars at the intermediate fields, but will have boundaries marked by lights and the ground levelled.

FRENCH POLICE SHOOT RIOTERS Mob Mutilates Statue and Defies Law. By United Press PARIS, Oct. 29—The heated political dispute on France’s religious problem culminated in a violent riot at Pons Sunday when a monument to Emile Combes, “father of the 1903 separation law,” was unveiled. Police fired on a mob which mutilated the statue and killed one man. Another rioter was wounded. The rioting started immediately after the ceremonies, when a man rushed up to the statue and began pounding it with a hammer. A big crowd of opponents of the separation law, which banished religious orders from France, assembled as the face of the statue was hacked and broken. Police placed on guard because of threats to destroy the monument, ordered the crowd to disperse. A low rumble of voices rejected the order. The police fired In the air and, when the mob threatened again, fired into the ranks of the oppositionists. One man, a Royalist, fell dead, another was wounded and the rest retreated. LIQUOR - SEIZED AFTER CHASE; AUTOIST HELD Police Confiscate 45 Gallons of White Mule. Joseph R. Jardena, 24, of 914 Lexington avenue, faces charges of operating a blind tiger, improper driving and transporting liquor because he couldn’t control himself when Lieutenant Patrick O’Connor and squad drove passed his automobile Sunday night. ' Jardena speeded up and police gave chase and caught him. They found forty-five gallons of white mule. Chasing a car containing the two through south side streets, Sargeant John Eisenhut and squad saw the men toss two gallon cans of alcohol over a fence in the 100 block West Morris street. Shortly afterward the driver of the car leaped out and ran. Police arrested his companion, George Jones, Bloomington, Ind., on blind tiger and liquor transportation charges. Club Leader Dies Bjn Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 29. Mrs. Lutie Baker Dunn, president of the Progress Club and who presided at ceremonies attending dedication of its new $130,000 building Sept. 23. She was active in club work and known throughout the state.

Fall planting, with heavy prunning, means good blooms . next year. Some of the older shrubs may have outgrown their usefulness and can be removed for newer and better sorts. Plant a shrub firmly. Prune it back early and mulch well for winter. Do not hurry to cover the perennial border for the winter. Late November or early December Is plenty of time. Wait until after the ground freezes hard bejjre you do it. But hill up dirt around the hybrid

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCT. 29, 1928

LEGION MAY BATTLE CITY BOXING RULE Leaders Will Meet Soon to Decide on Action on New Ordinance. BILL HAS TEETH IN IT Bitter Fight to Prevent Council Approval Is Fruitless. American Legion boxing promoters plan a conference this week to decide whether to start a court battle to prevent the city from supervising and collectinf 5 per cent tax on legion boxing matches at Indiana National Guard armory. The new boxing ordinance, signed last week by Mayor L. Ert Slack, who announced he was opposed to two provisions of the measure, will bcom effective Saturday. It is expected that the legion benefit fund trustees will decide whether to submit to city supervision within a few day,, Mark Hamer, trustees’ president, said. The legion ignored the old boxing ordinance on the ground that it was illegal Some attorneys have advised the legion that the present city ordinance is “discriminatory” and can be defeated in a court battle. • Legion Fights Bill The Legion bitterly protested the passage of the measure, but received no support In council except from Councilman Albert Meurer, a Legionnaire. Councilmen ha-.e been bitterly set on enforcement of the measure and saw to it that the ordinance "has teeth.” Fred W. Connell, safety board president, who is ex-officio chairman of the boxing commission expects to call the first session of the new commission this week, to set up regulations for wrestling and boxing matches. Other members of the commission are: David H. Jennings, Continental National bank vice-presi-dent; Gideno Blaine, attorney, and Kenneth K. Woolling, grain broker. The commission is expected to establish regulations which will be friendly to the Legion’s cause. May Be Amended Slack announced when he signed the measure that he was opposed to the 5 per cent tax on gate receipts and the clause prohibiting promoters fiom paying fighters percentage of gaie receipts. The mayor pointed out the possibility of council amending the ordinance. Council Athletic Chairman Robert E. Springsteen introduced the new ordinance, taking the boxing troubles away from the councilmen. Legion promoters Insisted they be permitted to continue boxing matches without city supervision and demanded that Slack veto the measure. Matches hext week will be subject to the regulations under the new ordinance, City Clerk Wiliam A. Boyce, Jr., announced.

RAPS 'MUD' TACTICS Democrats Guilty, Charge of Henry Allen. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Former Governor Henry J. Allen, director of publicity for the Republican national committee, declared in a formal statement Sunday night that his forecast that “major tactics of Chairman Raskob in directing the Democratic national campaign for the final weeks would be an Increasing crescendo of mud, slander, misrepresentation and fabrication,” has been “fully verified during the last week.” Allen said he desired “to call attention to the fact that not one single piece of printed matter or one speaker under auspices of the Republican national committee has made one single statement derogatory to the character of Governor Smith.” SIGN UP FOR CONTEST Hunt for City’s Most Popular Girl Goes On. Girls desiring to enter the popularity contest sponsored by the East Washington Street Merchants Association as a feature of the Harvest festival, now under way, may do so by appplying to E. M. Ragland at the Ludwig Millinery Company. The ranks will be kept open for several more days, Ragland said, in order to give all girls desirous of competing for the *s2oo in prizes an opportunity to present their names. More than a score of girls have applied and a similar number are expected to file within the next few days.

tea roses before the ground freezes then mulch after it is frozen. nan THERE is still time to plant iris and peonies, tulips, narcissi and other spring-flowering bulbs. Good-sized, thrifty clumps of perennials can still be planted safely in early November in the perennial border, especially if it be well drained, and in the rock garden. But do not transplant things from the seed frames. Leave them where they are until spring. Hill up the soil around the roses to about six inches and then cover the tops with straw or brush.

NEW STARS IN FILMLAND SKY

Six Certain to Win Annual Wampas Laurels

around the celluloid hamlet except that it is almost time for the '; JT \. Wampas to name its thirteen baby S W stars for 1929. eJEAN ARTUUR * DORIP DAVPON

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Hollywood. Cal., Oct. 29. It’s getting winter now—which means little or nothing around the celluloid hamlet except that it is almost time for the Wampas to name its thirteen baby stars for 1929. Every year the Wampas, an organization of Hollywood publicity men, elects thirteen baby stars—its candidates for future stardom in cinemaland. However, there are now about six outstanding young actresses certain to be among the lucky girls. For the other seven places there are at least a dozen likely prospects. Anita Page “Sure Bet” Heading the list of this season’s “sure bets” is Anita Page, the beautiful blonde girl whom Harry Thaw brought here from the east—and who crashed into films as soon as her contract with Thaw expired. Miss Page, now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1s considered one of the best prospects movtana has seen in many months. Then there Is little red-headed Doris Dawson, by far the most captivating creature to be found anywhere on the First National lot. Doris hasn’t risen with the rapidity of Anita, but she has been in pictures a trifle longer, and in Hollywood's language she’s a “cinch." Sure of Victory Ethlyne Claire is another prospect who seems sure to be put under the Wampas banner this winter. She, too, sports titlan locks. Ethelyne spent two years under contract to Universal, but has been free lancing for the last six months. Another girl who at last is coming into her own is Jean Arthur. Jean fought against odds for fully three years, often when there seemed not the faintest hope for success. Lately, however, she has been getting a few “breaks”—the vital factors in a screen player’s success or failure. And she has made good. New York Girl ‘ln” New York will have its representative among the baby stars in the person of Helen Twelvetrees, one of the most beautiful actresses ever snatched away from Broadway. Sixth of the outstanding Wampas contenders is Jeannette Loss, the blonde image of Vilma Banky, who has been seen as the leading lady in so many Pathe films during the past year. Jeannette has passed the crucial stage and seems to be headed for big things. TALKS ON FARM RELIEF Greene County Voters Are Told to Vote for Hoover. Bn Times Special SWITZ CITY, Ind., Oct. 29.—Luke W. Duffey, Indianapolis, former state senator and former farm bureau man, told Greene county voters Saturday night that he expects Herbert Hoover to accomplish agricultural relief. Duffey admitted he vigorously opposed Hoover’s nomination. 'But as the chief officer of the greatest result-getting party the nation has ever known,” he said, “Mr. Hoover surely will not practice any further tariff swindling on the American land owner.

If you live north of the latitude of New York City, tea roses must be further covered by bending down the twigs before they have become stiff from the frost and covered with sand or very light earth. Holes in the lawn must be filled in and grass seed planted, if the weather is not too severe. If you have room, dig a pit in the ground to fill with the dead leaves and next spring you will have a splendid top covering of decayed vegetation for the perennial beds and the garden. Prune the raspberry busaes

‘CONFESSION’ STIRS NEW INTEREST IN SACCO DEATH CASE

Gangster Declares One of Executed Men Was Not in Holdup. BY HENRY MINOTT United Press Staff Correspondent BOSTON, Oct. 29.—Interest in a murder case which balanced on the scales of Massachusetts justice for more than seven years, was revived today—fourteen months after the execution of Nicola Sacco, shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler. From April, 1920, when a paymaster and his guard were slain and robbed in South Braintree, until August, 1927, when Sacco and Vanzetti went to the electric chair, the world was aroused as never before over the fate of two humble workingmen. Now, in its current issue, the magazine Outlook publishes “the truth about the Bridgewater holdup"—an attempted robbery of which Vanzetti was convicted prior to his and Sacco’s conviction of the South Braintree murders. “Confession” Published The magazine publishes the purported confession of Frank Silva, described as a Boston gangster, that he and three other gangsters committed the Bridgewater holdup, and that Vanzetti had no part in the crime. Silva’s “confession” is accompanied by corroborative statements from others alleged to have been involved. Arguing that Silva’s “confession” absolves Vanzetti of implication in the Bridgewater case, The Outlook contends that Sacco and Vanzetti were not tried fairly on the subsequent murder charges, because the Bridgewater conviction contributed to the verdict of guilty in the later case. Called Unconvincing In an effort to determine what effect, if any, the data presented by The Outlook might have had on either the Bridgewater or Braintree verdict had it been known at the time of the trials, the United Press today interviewed several persons officially connected with the case. It was the consensus of opinion that the results of The Outlook’s Inquiry were unconvincing and would not have affected the course of justice. Dies After Long Service Bn United Press BINGHAMTON, N. Y„ Oct. 29. Scarcely three hours after Silas E. Coon, 66, had made his last run as a trainman for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rilroad, completing forty-six years of service, he died of angina pectoris.

by cutting out the old wood and the weak new wood. a n 'T'REES set out in fall should have the earth heaped up around their trunks to prevent water from settling around the roots. The consequent freezing of this water does serious damage to the root systems. When heat is started ferns and other house plants will suffer! Be sure to keep them in a comparatively cool place so that they will get accustomed to the he,at gradually.

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Cheats Tomb Frenchman Tells Story of Fleeing Living Death in Prison.

By United Press CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 29. —A thrilling epilogue to France’s most absorbing murder mystery of a decade was related exclusively >to the United Press when Dr. Pierre Bougrat, under arrest again today, told how he escaped from Devil’s island. Dr. Bougrat was sentenced in 1925 to life on the fever-infested, sun-boiled dot of land almost under the equator where France sends the men she ngver wants to see again. Few men have cheated the horrors of the famous penal colony off the coast of French Guiana. Dr. Bougrat, until 1925, was a respected physician cl Marsailles. Then, in a cabinet in his office, was found the body of Jacques Rumcße, who had once been one of Dr. Bougrat’s dearest friends. m a SIX weeks of peril and a thou-sand-mile journey In a cockleshell of a boat along the junglefringed coast of Sopth America, were necessary for the escape. The chances of success, at the beginning, were hardly one in one thousand. “Two companions fled with me into the jungle, where we joined five others who had escaped five days before to prepare matters for our final desperate effort. “The second sunrise following, we left the Jungles and pushed out to sea in the ynall boat we had obtained. That was Sept. 1. “Almost immediately we encountered bad weather. We bailed the boat with cocoanuts and our headgears. Six days of storms finally threw us bodily on the coast of British Guiana. The boat was stove in. We remained at the spot three days, repairing it.” “At last we entered the serpent’s mouth entrance to the Gulf of Paria. To the east, in plain view, lay the island of Trinidad, British owned and to be avoided. To the west was Venezuela, but an uninhabited section. We were nearly dead by then, but we miraculously arrived on the coast between Soro and Irapa and found food after we had not eaten for four days and had been thirty hours without water.”

The sudden dryness of the atmosphere must be offset by an occasional spraying of the foliage or fronds with wiater. Cyclamen and bogonias are fine plants for the winter garden, as they bloom continually for a long time. They thrive best in a cool room. Most of the plants in the winter garden require a great deal of sunlight. Be sure not to place a tall plant nearer to the window than a short one, so that the latter will be shaded by it. Every few dayA the plants must be turned around.

URGE MILLION BESPENTFOR STATE LIBRARY Special Committee Called Into Session to Plan Legislative Plea. FIRE PERIL IS GREAT New Building Is Sorely . Needed to Preserve Historical Papers. A special committee, appointed by trustees of the Indiana state library, will meet this week to prepare plans for anew million-dollar building to house the library and historical departments. The plans will be presented to the 1929 legislature and a special levy asked, library officiails said. A half-cent special levy would pay for the building in four years, they contend. “Although similar requests have been made, without success, there is every prospect of the project being accepted at this session," Charles Kettleborough, secretary of the board of trustees, declared today. He pointed out that both parties have recognized the need for adequate housing for the library and historical documents in their platforms. Republicans in Favor The Republican plank reads as follows; “The Indiana library and historical department is an important part of our educational system, and it posseses property worth many hundred thousand dollars, many pieces of which could not possibly be replaced. “This State Library is housed most inadequately, and we urge the Legislature at its coming session to enact some legislation providing for proper preservation and use of these valuable historical records and archives of the State.” Following is the Democratic plank: “We favor adequate provision for the state library, to the end that the history and the records may be preserved properly. We pledge our i support to the providing of proper housing facilities therefor.” "The need for such housing is obvious,” Kettleborough asserted. “There are files of papers of great historical value stored away in such a manner that access is next to impossible. Every Space Utilized “Every nook and cranny in the space given us in the statehouse is being utilized and the shelves are so crowded with volumes that each year some must be stored. This means that they are taken out of general circulation. “If a library amounts to anything, it must be a living organism, which means constant growth and expansion. Under present conditions this is next, to impossible. A brochure has been prepared to state their case to the public, and the following excerpts have been taken from it. “One-third of the population of the state has no other library service. They are entitled to this service. The Indiana state library, created in 1825, is a state-wide circulating and reference library, lending material direct to any citizen without local facilities. Traveling libraries are sent to schools, clubs, or to any five persons forming an organization. “The state library is the official library of the state. It is a depository for United States public documents and th i official agency for preservation and distribution of all state publications. Demand on Increase “Service is limited by lack of space. Demand Is growing 2 per cent annually, but the only floor space added in forty years is that taken in the corridor, and no more is available. The historical bureau is obliged to vacate its offices during the legislative session. “Valuable material is inaccessible because of the manner in which it must be stored. “Work for the blind, in distribution of Braille books, Is at a standstill for lack of room. “Public records not in the state library are being lost and destroyed, and a million dollars’ worth of material now stored in vaults that are not fireproof is in constant danger. Once lost it never could be replaced. “The need for anew building has been apparent for twenty years. It has now become a necessity. Delay means irreparable loss.” KILLS SELF OVER “WORK Banned a Job Boy Is a Suicide; Uses Dog’s Collar. Bn United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 29.—A 12-year-old boy committed suicide here because his parents would not permit him to quit school and go to work. The boy, Edward Zlotorowicz, asked for permission to stay home from church yesterday “to read a book.” As soon as the family had left, Edward took the leash from his dog’s collar, climbed on a chair and fastened the leash to a nail. He adjusted a noose around his neck and then kicked the chair away. City Refuses Land Gift Pm Times Snrrial EVANSVILLE. Ind., Oct. 29.—The city of Evansville has turned down a gift of land known as “the sunken garden,” offered by Marcus S. Sonntag, president of the American National Bank. Refusal of the gift was based on a resolution drawn by Henry Hardin, city attorney, declaring the land worthless, and that it was being offered in an effort to avoid payment of a street assessment.