Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1929 — Page 1

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LAWYER FACES MARION CLUB FRAUD CHARGE W. R. Waddel Accused of Swindling Stockholders of Defunct Body. HEARING BEFORE JUDGE Misappropriation Alleged in Collection of Assets; Promises to Pay.

W. R. Waddell, attorney, 314 Board of Trade building, was accused of a scheme to swindle stockholders of the Marion Club, defunct Republican organization, at a heartog before Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott today. Waddell, Deputy Prosecutor George Eggleston and John L. Niblack, former deputy prosecutor, declared, has been telling stockholders of the club that as little as $7 was their share of the defunct organization’s assets and offering to collect the money for a 50 per cent fen. He then would collect the $47.50 due each stockholder and turn over to the stockholders only half of the leaser amount he had misrepresented as due, it was charged. Widows Victims, Is Charge The prosecutors declared that records show Waddell has collected $2,100 for stockholders from County Clerk George O. Hutsell and that a man named J. J. Jones, for whom Waddell acted as attorney, has collected $1,300. Widows and relatives of dead club stockholders were among the victims of the schemes, it was charged. Jones, Niblack said, would file a petition to be named administrator of the estates of dead stockholders. Under the Indiana law anyone may be appointed administrator of estates upon application within twenty days of the death of the parties. Appointed administrator, Jones, represented by Waddell, wquld collect the $47.50 due each ofLtha estates. •'■Vaddell promised to make restitution when brought before Judge Elliott today on a bench warrant. “I’m willing to pay,” he stated. • Willing? You have to pay!” declared the judge. ' This is one of the worst frauds I’ve seen around here and the person guilty is going to be punished.” Jury Investigating Niblack, who retired as deputy prosecutor Jan. 1, but who had investigated the charges against Waddell before leaving office, said 100 estates for which Jones had acted as administrator are being investigated. Jones would file as administrator in cases where the size of the estate or the shape of the assets made it unnecessary for relatives to have an administrator appointed. The grand jury is investigating the swindle scheme, Niblack stated. He asked Judge Elliott if he might cite Waddell for contempt of his court, but Judge Elliott instructed Waddell be given two weeks to make restitution. If he does not do so in that time the contempt charge may be filed, Elliott said. Waddell made payments to two women he is said to have defrauded this morning. fays Women Mrs. Helen H. Preston, widow of the late Charles Preston, declared Waddell had told her he could collect $7 for her and offered to do so and give her $3.50. Waddell collected the $47.50 due her and had paid her nothing, she said. Waddell, who said he had not given her anything because he had not "seen her since, ’* wTOte her a check for $47.50. "If that check isn’t good, let me know,” said the judge. Waddell also gav? Miss Florence Warrington, 271 Randolph street, a check for $32.50. He was alleged to have told he had collected S3O for her and to have given her half, sls. The court asked Waddell about ihf case of F. Lorenz Gemmer, 2010 Nrjrth Meridian street, administrator for the estate of his father, whom Waddell is alleged to have >ild he had sls coming. Waddell, it as alleged, collected the $47.50 due Jaemmer and paid him nothing. jl|D IN FLU EPIDEMIC vollege Kept Closed So Students Can Help Fill Prescriptions. 1/ L r.iti and Pnss | NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.. Jan. 2. |opening of the New Jersey Colfee of Pharmacy will be postponed .Te days because only 75 per cent of f idents reported. i Dr. Little Dean, said that a large 1 ;mber of students requested to be j cused from classes, because they ’ tre working in drug stores and re badly needed to cope with the luenza epidemic. opuois chlef dies Ilian Leader to Be Buried in Syracuse, N. I. ! Prats BUFFALO. Jan. 2.—The bedy of jornelius Johnson. 99, foi mer chiet It the Iroquois, who died * his home here, will be token to racuse Friday, for burial. To CINCINNATI and return by ; lephone; basic rate only 70 cents.

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' Jiggs Deb By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 2. Corned beef hash, a dish genilly regarded a plebeian, was served this morning at the Ritz-Carleton hotel in one of the most fashionable parties of the holiday season. Mrs. Richard Edward Breed introduced her daughter Jane to society Tuesday night at a large ball at the hotel. There was dinner, and later another debutante party joined and there was supper. The dance continued and finally early this morning a breakfast was served at which the main dish was corned beef hash.

POWER LINES CUTs REWARD SI,OOO Offered for Arrest of ‘Tamperers/ Reward of SI,OOO was offered today by the Southeastern Indiana Power Company of Rushville, Ind., for information leading to the arrest of persons who have been tampering with the utility’s high tension lines. Power shut-downs have been necessitated four times within the last few weeks by malicious tampering with high voltage lines, the company announced. The power company is a sister company to the Indianapolis and Southeastern Railroad Company, with office sin the Traction Terminal building, and power shutdowns not only affect more than 3,000 light customers of the utiilty, but the operation of parlor cars on the Connersville and Greensburg dlviisons of the traction company. Advertisements offering the reward declare such sabotage is in violation of the law and is punishable by fine and imprisonment. In one instance, a high tension line was severed near Julietta, ten miles southeast of Indianapolis, on the Connersville division, "it was said at offices here. In the other cases, the tampering was along the line in isolated places in the country.

RULE AGAINST STATES FIXING GASOLINE PRICES Laws Unconstitutional. United States Supreme Court Holds. Bn Ini ted Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—State regulation of the price of gasoline is unconstitutional, the United States supreme court decided today in two cases appealed by the State of Tennessee, which by statute in 1927 proclaimed that the sale -of gasoline was a “public service” and created a board to prevent discriminatory and unreasonable prices. The court held the entire act invalid. BURY INDIAN FIGHTER Pony Express Rider Had Career Full of Adventure. Bu United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 2. Kennedy B. Hamilton, Indian fighter, scout and pony express rider under Buffalo Bill Cody, was buried there today. He died at the age of 84 years. Born in Cincinnati and trained as a civil engineer, Hamilton began an adventuresome career as pony dispatch rdier out of Kansas City in 1866. He was once seriously wounded by an Indian's spear and carried miles over the plains oy a comrade to a camp where his wound was closed with a darning needle and linen threat. Since 1871 Hamilton had been an engineer on the Minneapolis board of education. PREPARE INAUGURAL Committee Named to Arrange for Leslie Ceremonies. O. Rogers, Republican state chairman, today announced appointment of the committee which will arrange for the inauguration of Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie Jan. 14. Charles L. Biederwoii, supreme court clerk, heads the committee. Other members: Archie N. Bobbitt, new state auditor: Bert Fuller, Leslie's campaign manager, and James McCann, Lebanon. 3 WOMEN DIE IN~FIRE Christmas Tree Starts Blaze in Home of Normal School Students. Bit l nited Press MONMOUTH. Ore., Jan. 2.~-Fire believed to have been started by lighted Christmas tree candles caused the death of three women students of the Oregon normal school here. The blaze destroyed the private home in which they were staying.

AT LAST—FOUNTAIN SQUARE DISTRICT MAY LOSE SHELBY STREET MULE BARN

MAYBE, perhaps, after ail these years, residents of the Fountain Square district, are going to lose the Shelby street mule barn. To the smug northsider who doesn’t have to worry about anything but the smell from Kingan's, and. perchance, Fall creek

OFFER $25,000 FOR BEST DRY REPEAL PLAN Telegram to Durant Motor Official by Hearst Reveals Contest. ‘CAN’T STOP TRAFFIC’ More ‘Liberal and American’ Measure Is Urged as Substitute. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—William Randolph Hearst, publisher, today offered a prize of $25,000 for the best plan to repeal the eighteenth amendment and substitute in place of prohibition a more liberal and more American measure. In making known his plan in a telegram to Edwin J. Clapp of the Durant Motors, Inc., Hearst said: ‘‘lt never has been possible and never will be possible to prevent traffic in compact and concentrated alcoholic drinks.” His offer followed closely upon a demand from W. C. Durant, donor of $30,000 in prizes for the best plan to enforce the eighteenth amendment, for the appointment of a congressional committee to ‘‘determine why the eighteenth amendment has not been satisfactorily enforced.” ‘‘l do not believe prohibition ever will be enforced,” Hearst wrote. “And I do believe that if a violent effort is made to enforce it during the next four years by the Republican administration, the next President of the United States w’ill be a Democrat therefore, I think in offering a prize on how best to enforce prohibition, Mr. Durant really offered a prize on how best to put the Republican party out of power.” Publish Liquor Survey Results While these two developments were engaging the __ attention of supporters and opponents of prohibition, the New York Telegram, in a copyrighted article, published the results of a survey showing that 24 per cent of the liquor sold in New York speakeasies contained poison in some form. Ten per cent of New York’s liquor supply contained wood' alcohol, the Telegram said. Thirty investigators worked three weeks getting 504 samples from 400 drinking places in Manhattan. These samples all were analyzed by registered chemists, who found, the Telegram said: That fifty-five contained wood alcohol. That seventy others had poisonous impurities resulting from improper renaturing. Ihat 362 others, while drinkable, either were purely synthetic or cut so they had only 5 to 20 per cent of genuine liquor. The highest percentage of wood alcohol was one-half of 1 per cent. Places selling wood alcohol were revisited for new samples, so that in some cases triple proof was obtained against them. Advice to Whalen The list of establishments selling wood alcohol was turned over to Police Commissioner Whalen for his guidance, and the telegram urged him to concentrate against them in his driv; against speakeasies. r ine newspaper said that sixty Known deaths had occurred in New York City from wood alcohol drinking in 1928, or twice as many as in 1927 and three times as many as in 1926. In an editorial the Telegram said the city has 20,000 speakeasies, and called on Commissioner Whalen to center his raids “where they will do the most good.”

PUSH SCHOOL PLANS Speed Action to Save Money on Bid. Plans for the new Irvington high school, Riley avenue and Washington street, were rushed by the city school board this afternoon after Charles W. Kern, new president, announced contractors had advised him the city could save $50,000 if the contract could be let before May 1. The board conferred with the architects. McGuire and Shook to get action started. Kern said the contractors could bid lower now than after May 1, when they will be busy. If they can have the Irvington job well under wry before the rush they can bid lower. Seven Below in Indiana Bn United Press ROYAL CENTER. Ind.. Jan. 2. The United States weather bureau thermometer here showed a temperature of 7 degrees' below zero this morning.

during the ripe days of mid-Au-gust. this promise will not mean much. But to the scuthsiders who have listened to promises that the barn, 1134 Shelby street, would be moved by every candidate for mayor in the last thirty years it will mean revival of the hope that ever springefeh.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1929

WELD POLICE FORCES Sheriff’s Office to Be Allied With City’s Law Arm. In an effort to weld the police department and the sheriff’s staff more closely, the county commissioners will meet this afternoon with Police Chief Claude M. Worley and Sheriff George Winkler. Arrangements have been made to link the sheriff’s office with police headquarters by a direct telephone line. FIGHTS DISBARMENT Attorney for F. Lee Smith Moves to Have Proceedings Dismissed. A motion to dismiss the disbarment proceedings filed against W. Lee Smith, former Ku-Klux Klan grand dragon, who is serving a sentence in the federal penitentiary at Leaver worth for conspiracy in the interstate motor theft ring, was filed in supreme court today by M. L. Clawson, Smith’s attorney. CHARGE DRIVER DRUNK Abandoned Car After Crash, Say Police; Arrested. Alleged to have deserted the car he was driving after an accident at Fayette and North streets Tuesday afternoon, John Ellis, 33, of 234 North Senate avenue, was arrested today on charges of. driving while intoxicated, operating a blind tiger and transportation jf liquor. In the deserted car, which belongs to Ellis’ father-in-law, Jvbn Cash, 912 Edison street, police ound a gallon of alcohol.

GAS DIRECTORS TALKTRANSFER Trustees Meet on City Ownership. Mayor L. Ert Slack's suggestion of Tuesday that the Citizens Gas Company trustees make the first move to turn the utility property over to the city was expected to be discussed today by gas company trustees and directors. Directors held their monthly meeting at noon at the gas offices and it was understood the stand of directors and trustees would be discussed. Several trustees declined to state when the joint session would be held as a private conference with directors was desired. Trustees plan to obtain views of directors on the turning over of property to the city preliminary to the election of nine directors Jan. 14. It was stated that any directors whose ideas are not in accord with the trustees will not be renamed. The trustees have full power to name the directors. It was known that Slack's recommendation that the trustees take immediate steps to redeem the $2,000,000 common stock and turn the propetries over to the municipality as provided in the 1905 franchise drew considerable discussion from gas company officials. Slack’s statement was expected to be considered informally. AID BRITISH MINERS Friends of Prince of Wales Give After Radio Appeal. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 2.—A gift of SIOO,OOO for relief of British miners, arranged after a trans-Atlantic telephone call, has been made by wealthy friends of the prince of Wales. It was revealed that the donation was inspired by an appeal broadcast by the prince on Christmas, explaining the plight of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in the mining areas, due to unemployment. FINDS CAR Comes Home to Find Auto in Garage; Owner Sought. When he returned home today after a four-day trip, Robert W. Anderson, 6003 Park avenue, found an automobile parked in his g;rage. The car, the property of Ger - ald Swift,, 25 West Merrill stree l , had :not been reported stolen. Police are seeking Swift to give him his car. t ‘CHARMED LIFE’ FAILS Jumps Off Train Going at 60 Miles an Hour; Dies. LONDON, Jan. —The train he had boarded was taking him far past his station, and fearing that he would lose his job if he were not on time, William Woodcraft, 36, jumped from the a train going sixty miles an hour and was killed. At the inquest his landlady said Woodcraft believed he had a charmed life.

How fervent the hope, can be described only by those who have been driven from their front porches on hot nights when the wind blew. This time the promise takes a new form-—they’re not saying they will move the barn (.Lew Shank used ti threaten to tear it down

MERCURY TO 5 ABOVE IN FRIGID WAVE New Cold Mark Is Set for Season in City; Warmer Wednesday. SNOW OVER STATE Much of Middle West Is Covered With White Blanket. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 7 10 a. m 11 7a. m.i... 6 11 a. m 14 Ba. m 5 12 (noon).. 15 9 a. m 7 la. m 18 The mercury dropped to anew cold mark for the season today. The United States weather bureau thermometer registered 5 above zero at 8 a. m., three degrees below the winter’s previous low mark of 8 above, Dec. 21. Tonight will be another cold night, but not quite as cold as last night, J. H. Armington, weather bureau head, predicted. Thursday, however, the cold wave will break and temperatures will rise. The lowest temperature tonight will be about 10 above, and the mercury will rise into the thirties Thursday, he said. The 5 degret temperature here was a 28-degree drop in twenty-four hours. The drop over the state ranged from 24 degrees along the Ohio river to 30 degrees in the north. The lowest temperature in this state, 2 above, was reported at Ft. Wayne. The nearest point reporting a below zero temperature was Peoria, 111., 2 below. There was .2 inch of snowfall here in the last twenty-four hours, but only .1 inch lay on the ground in the downtown section, according to weather bureau records. South Bend, with eight inches unofficially reported, claimed the heaviest snowfall in the state. Ft. Wayne recorded a .3 inch precipitation. Middle West Freezes By United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 2.—The mercury hovered near the zero mark in most of the middle west today with from three to six inches of snow blanketing the territory and little relief in sight. Kansas City reported three inches of snow and six inches farther south, extending to the Oklahoma border. Sections of lowa and Nebraska reported from two to three inches of snow and temperatures in some cases below zero.

FLAPPER LEADS BANDITS IN HOLDUP; BOASTS PLANS FOR FUTURE ROBBERIES

Loots Bakery Truck at Gun Point; Aided by Two Companions. A flapper bandit made her debut in Indianapolis this morning and outlined her plans for making a series of appearances in the near future. The girl, young and pretty, aided two companions in holding up and robbing Mervin Fall mer, 1633 Ashland avenue, a driver for the Omar Baking Company, of $25. Fallmer was accosted by a bandit who boarded his truck near Washington street and Sherman drive and forced at the point of a pistol to drive out the Brookville road to a lonely spot. A large coupe, in which the girl and another man were riding, followed the truck to its destination. When the truck was halted the girl r.ook charge of operations. “Get out cf that truck,” she commanded. and Fallmer, still facing the pistol, obeyed. “It's Cigaret Money” While the bakery driver stood on the ground the girl searched him rapidly and expertly and unhooked his money belt containing $25. “Is that all you have?” she asked disdainfully, “why that’s hardly worth our time. But even so, it’s cigaret money.” She pocketed the loot. “And speaking of cigarets, Charlie. give me % fag.” Lighting up a cigaret, she talked boastfully of her plans to stage a series of similar holdups in the near future. “We’re going to pay a few calls on your buddies, but here’s hoping

In his campaign speeches)—they’re going to make a garage out of it. By way of giving the color of credulity to the promise this time Charles A. Grossart, street commissioner, announced the city is going to sell the last of thirty-four mules in the street cleaning department and complete motorization.

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30.000 LINE UP FOR JOBS Shiver in Cold Waiting to Be Hired. By United Press DETROIT, Jan. 2.—More than 25,000 shivering men stamping their feet and burning newspapers to keep warm, stormed the Fordson plant of the Ford Motor Company this morning as hiring of the 30,000 new employes to be added to the Ford payrolls began. A. E. Wilson, employment manager of the plant early this morning c nated the crowd to number 12,000, but as the additional men arrived he believed there was approximately 30,000 men waiting for work. Only 500 men will be hired daily. Several hundred of the men had been standing in line in the threeinch snow since midnight. After 500 men were interviewed and ordered to report for work, the other men were told to return Thursday. Practically all of the men will be hired at the minimum Ford scale of $5 a day.

they carry more money than you had on you,” she said. One of the bandits produced a bottle and proffered it to Fallmer. Girl Flashily Dressed “Here, what’s the idea! I’m freezing to death out here. Let me have that.” The girl took the liquor and drank deeply. After throwing the key of Fallmer’s truck away the trio got in their car and with a merrily shouted “Happy New Year,” drove away. The girl .Fallmer said, was nattily, almost flashily dressed. Her short bobbed hair was covered by a hat of the latest mode, and she wore a short leather jacket, short skirts, and a bright scarf. FLU AGAIN RAGES Reaches Epidemic Stage in State Once More. Influenza is again epidemic in Indiana and figures compiled by the state board of health show an increase over the last several weeks. Dr. William F. King, secretary of the board, is among those ill. He was reported in serious condition at his home today. Vevay reported 500 cases, Garrett 364, Dearborn county 300, Orleans 150, East Chicago 127 and Chalmers 100. State Orders Bids on Road The state tax board today ordered bids on the Paddock road in White River township, Johnson county. Hearing on the $13,200 bond issue for the road’s construction was helc Oct. 6.

The mules will be s M d about Feb. 1, and the motor equipment delivered about March 1. Meanwhile. no mules, no bam. It will be remodeled Into a garage. Economy is the real motive behind the change. Grossart said. .He figures the city can pay for the motor equipment in one year by the difference between the cost

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Bn United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Teacher, factory manager, editor, speaker, club woman—Mrs. Franklin Roosevel is ail that but refuses to be daunted by the many new obligations her position as “First Lady” of the Empire state must entail. “I am interested in everything,” says Mrs. Roosevelt. “I don’t know exactly what is before me at Albany, frankly, but I expect to solve problems as they come along.” So, she says, she will continue to teach two days a week in New York at Todhunter school, in which she has an interest; will retain her management of a furniture factory where students are learning to make copies of early American pieces; she will continue to edit a journal, will hold her membership in some half dezen civic organizations, and will keep up her establishment in New York as well as preside over the executive mansion. SOARING TO RECORD Endurance Plane Finds Refueling Success. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 2. The army airplaine Question Mark, engaged in an attempt to break all records for sustained flight, passed the twenty-four-hour mark today with its motors droning easily, its crew happy and its method of refueling in mid-air a proved success. The tri-motored craft, intent on plying a 128-mile course between here and San Diego until its men or its engines cruck, had been in the air for twenty-four hours at 7:26:45 a. m. (Pacifiic coast time). ‘HAPPY DAYS/ WISH OF EX-MRS. BARRYMORE Divorced Wife of Film Star Arrives From Europe. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 2—Michael Strange, divorced wife of John Eurymore, arrived today aboard the French liner France, which docked a day late, owing to a terrific storm it encountered two days ago. The famous authoress and lecturer, through her interviewers wished Barrymore, who recently married Dolores Costello, a “happy New Year,” adding, “I wish everybody a happy New Year.” “I expect to devote two months to a lecture tour and fly right back to Europe,” she said. The tour will begin in a few days in Philadelphia. Asked if she were “winging” back to Europe because of a romance, she replied: “I have a tremendous romance. I always have a romance.” QUITS SHERIFF’S OFFICE Samuel Campbell Resigns; Successor to Be Picked Soon. Samuel Campbell today resigned as an office deputy sheriff. Sheriff George L. Winkler said he will announce his successor in a few days. Herman Rickhoff, former chief of police, resigned Tuesday and was succeeded by Harry Alford, son of Fremont Alford, former criminal court judge.

of maintenance of a mule and a machine. The city got the barn from the the old Indianapolis Street Railway Company in 1899 as part of the consideration for a franchise and payment of sl. Southsiders have been complaining it was a dollar wasted ever since, r

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KERN HEADS SCHOOL BOARD; ROW FLARES Mrs. Sedwick, Removed as Instruction Chairman, Lashes Foes. HUGG IS RE-ELECTED New Vice-President Is Called ‘Biggest Liar’ by Woman Member. When Charles W. Kern, newly elected school board president, replaced her as chairman of th : . instruction committee today, Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, board member, demanded that she be removed entirely from the committee, and in a voice that quivered with emotion at times, engaged in a lively conversational tilt with members of the majority faction. President Kern removed her. The incident was the signal for the unleashing of feelings, carefully guarded for several months while two new factions of the school board were developing. All five members were backed in the election by the Ku-Klux Klan, but differences have developed. Mrs. Sedwick punctuated one of her stinging retorts with the declaration that Kern “could put that in his bonnet.” Near the close of the meeting Mrs. Sedwick became so angry that she shot at Lewis E. Whiteman, new vice-president: “You are the biggest liar I ever saw.” “You being a woman. I can’t call you that,” retorted Whiteman. Elected 4 to 1 As had been predicted Kern was elected president over Mrs. Sedwick by a vote of 4 to 1. Mrs. Sedwick turned to reporters and remarked: “I want to you to know I didn’t vote for myself.” Whiteman was elected vicepresident. Fredrick Kepner got one and Mrs, Sedwick one vote. Kepner and Mrs. Sedwick comprise the new minority faction. Martin M. Hugg was unanimously re-elected board attorney at $2,500 a year. After Theodore Vonnegut, outgoing president, and Kern had praised each other, Kern handed around the list of committee appointments. The secretary read them aloud. Vonnegut replaced Mrs. Sedwick as head of the instruction committee. This committee is almost all-powerful in the selection of the 1,800 public school teachers. Mrs. Sedwick had held the place for several years. “I would like to be removed from the instruction committee, if you please.” said Mrs. Sedwick. Called “Low Down” Trick Kepner put in his oar for his fellow faction member: “I think it is a very low down trick to take Mrs. Sedwick off as chairman.” Mrs. Sedwick remarked: “Since Mr. Vonnegut is so very capable, it is all right, but please take me off that committee.” “Membership on the committee, excluding the chairman, is not so important,” remarked President Kern, “because frequently no one attends the meeting but the chairman and he has to do all the work.” “But I never was called to a buildings and grounds committee meeting—you put that in your little bonnet,” countered Mrs. Sedwick. Kern has been chairman of the buildings and grounds committee. Discuss Coal Contracts “I called meetings time after time, but I never had the pleasure of the presence of more than one member at a time.” After further passages Kern put Whiteman on the committee. At the close of the meeting the board was discussing coal contracts. Mrs. Sedwick criticised the quality of coal that had been bought in past years. Kepner remarked that he had found the coa! at Arsenal Technical high school not long ago to be "nothing but dirt.” Accused of New Faction Kern replied that Kepner’s opinion on coal was of no value because he knew so little about it. Mrs. Sedwick called Kern and Whiteman to her after adjournment and accused them of having formed anew faction after having agreed a year ago to stand with her and Kepner. There followed a sharp exchange of accusations between Whiteman and Mrs. Sedwick about who had called a caucus of Whiteman, Kepner and Mrs. Sedwick to select a city librarian several months ago. Mrs. Sedwick said Whiteman called it. He said she called it. White with anger, Mrs. Sedwick ejaculated: “You are the biggest liar I ever saw.” “You being a woman I can’t call you that,” answered Whiteman. Mrs. Sedwick walked rapidly out of the room. Other committee heads appointed by Kern: Finance, military instruction and Gregg bequest, Whiteman. Public library and Seegmiller scholarship, Mrs. Sedwick. Thanks and memorial, Kepner. School decoration, Superintendent Charles F. Miller *