Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1928 — Page 2

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URGES GOUNTY AND GUY JOIN IN GOVERNMENT Merger to Bring Friction to End Is Advocated by Attorney. Merging of city and county governments, as a means of eliminating friction between the units, was advocated today by Smiley N. Chambers, assistant city attorney. Referring to the county's injunction suit to restrain the city from proceeding with the erection of the new Morris street bridge in accordance with flood prevention plans, in which the city and county joined, Chambers said: “It may be this is the time finally to thrash out this question.” Frequent clashes between the two branches of government have arisen in recent years, political jealousy often featuring in the quarrel. Chambers pointed out that a great deal of useless work and expense could be eliminated by combining the Marion county government and the municipal corporation. , “There is a great deal of useless motion in the separate units. I suppose 90 per cent of county taxes are paid by citizens of Indianapolis,” said John C. McCloskey, works board member and former county commissioner. “A always is difficult to reach satisfactory agreements between two separate political units.” Chafed by the county’s suit, which threw a stumbling block in the wav the T. and prevention project, City *ngintA. H. Moore suggested to the board of works that the county should “keep its bridges Repaired and pay the cost,” if it is so proud of ownership. The county’s suit to restrain the city from tearing down the old Morris street span was based on the fact that the county owned the bridge. The New York street bridge, owned by the county, is said to be badly in need of repair. BANK CASE UNSETTLED Jury Disagrees at Wabash in $55,000 Check Suit. By United Press WABASH, Ind., Dec. 7.—The jury which heard evidence in the suit of the Guardian National bank, Chicago, against the Huntington County bank of Huntington, after being out twenty hours, reported to Judge Frank O. Switzer, in Wabash circuit court here, that it could not agree. The case was the outcome of four checks amounting to $55,000 being presented the Chicago bank for collection by the now defunct Steinbrenner Rubber Company, Nobiesville, just before the company went into receivership. Judge Switzer dismissed the Jury and said that the case would be presented again during the January session of court.

HYPNOTISM NOT NEW Magazine Cites Facts Showing Greeks Practiced It. Bit/ United. Press NEW YORK, Dec. 7. —Although the modem world discovered the powers of hypnotism less than a century ago, the hypnotic art was known to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians and accounted for the cures and so-called miracles worked by the priests of their gods. Convincing evidence that the “laying on of hands’” and “dream cures” practiced in the tempies of those early civilizations were based on hypnotic influence is contained in a compilation of excerpts from ancient manuscripts and inscriptions just published here in the December issue of the Golden Book magazine. WOMAN POET RECITES 400 Hear Edna St. Vincent Millay; Comes to City by Plane. Four hundred persons Thursdaynight heard Edna St. Vincent Millay, America’s leading woman poet, recite her verses at Tudor hall. She read choice bits from several volumes, including her latest work, “The Buck in the Snow.” Appearing in her traveling clothes, Miss Millay explained that she had taken a mail plane from Nashville, Tenn., to Terre Haute in order to keep the engagement, and her baggage had not arrived. She was accompanied by her husband, Eugen Boissevain. COAL THIEF GIVES UP Martinsville Man Becomes Tired After Chase Follow jig Sentence. Bn United rress MARTINSVILLE, Ind„ Dec. 7. Cecil Rapp, charged with the theft of coal, admitted the charge, was fined $lO in city court, and sentenced to thirty at the penal farm. When authorities started to the farm with Rapp, he suddenly dashed down an alley and escaped. After a run of several blocks, he be came tired and surrendered. When questioned about the theft, Rapp said, “I don’t know why I did it I was just thinking about my family.” GLOBE SAILOR IN ROME American Captain Is Girdling Earth in His Cutter. By United Press ROME, Dec. 7.—Captain Edward Miles of Memphis, Tenn., arrived here today in his cutter Sturdy from Malta on a trip alone round the world. He left New York Aug. 31, and expects to leave for the Red Sea by way of Greece shortly. South American Troops Clash By United Press ASUNCION, Paraguay, Dec. 7. Th® newspaper La Razon said today that serious skirmishes occurred o” the frontier yesterday between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops.

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