Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1929 — Page 9

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LAW CLAMPS ON LAIR OF CAPONE AIDS Army of Agents Sweeps Down on Notorious Chicago Heights. POLICE FORCE SEIZED Smashing Blow Struck at Rule of Beer Czar in Spectacular Raid. Bp United press CHICA'JO, Jan. 7. Chicago Heights, built by steel and demoralized by alcohol, awoke t Jay to find Its leading gangsters in jail, its police department under fire and its entire local government temporarily dispossessed by a combination of federal and county authorities. In the most spectacular 'Vaid in the history of Illinois, the town of 25.000 inhabitants, birthplace of gangland and scene of scores of gang murders, virtually was sacked by twelve squads of Chicago police and 100 federal agents who swept through its business and residential districts, seeking the fountain heads of vice and crime which have made the suburb more notorious than Cicero. Twenty-five men seized in the raid, including Oliver J. Ellis, alleged pay-off man for a liquor and slot machine syndicate which controlled millions of dollars in gambling concessions in Chicago’s steel town neighbor. Among those held were racketeers and beer chieftains said to be underlings of Scarface A1 Capone, lord of Chicago’s gangland, whose virtual rule of Chicago Heights has existed since the abdication of the notorious a >hnny Torrio. Seize Alcohol Depot John Stege. deputy commissioner of police, said the raiders had seized men who would aid in the solution of several of the sixty-two murders which have occurred ir Chicago Heights since it became the hub of the alcohol war. Stege said he believed murderers of Leroy Gilbert, Chicago Height’s chief of police, w’ho was slain a few weeks ago, now were in custody. The distributing depot of one of the district’s largest alcohol rings also was seized. Terrified citizens, surprised by the raid, saw armed squads patrolling every street. They saw their own police officers taken into custody on their beats. They saw private homes entered and occupants removed under arrest. Twenty homes were entered by force and the equipment of guns, ammunition and gangster paraphernalia seized. Chases Through Streets Street pursuits after those who sought to escape served to throw' the quick city into even greater confusion. The raiding squads struck simultaneously. as had been planned by George E. G. Johnson. United States district attorney, and William E. Russell. Chicago, commissioner of police. The raiders gathered at dawn in the south side of Chicago. Warrants based on evidence secured over a month's investigating by federal agents, were distributed and the procession started for its first objective—the Chicago Height's police station. There. Deputy - Commissioner Stege demanded the keys for the city hall and the jail. He ordered out of the jail three women and two men, remarking: “we’ll need all the room we have in a few minutes.” "Who are you and what do you think you're doing,” demanded a desk sergeant. Police Chief in Cell "We’re running the place for a while.” Stege answered. Chicago Height’s new police chief, John Costabele, objected and with his desk sergeant he was shoved into a cell. One by one as they reported on their beats or at the station, the entire city police force was seized. By that time the raids were progressing throughout the city. Far from the stench of the steel mills the raiders came to the Ellis home, a large country estate surrounded by a high iron fence. Within a building in the rear were 423 slot machines, nine telephones, and a list of names and addresses which were expected to prove important evidence against Ellis and his aids. Whisky, alcohol and beer also were confiscated. Arsenals Are Taken Ellis confessed that $400,000 in cancelled checks which were placed before him represented slot machine profits for fourteen months. He implicated several others, some of whom, agents said, might lead the investigation into Chicago's municipal buildings. In the homes of the men arrested officers found ten loaded double-bar-reled shotguns, sixteen revolvers, 500 rounds ->f shotgun ammunition, and several jundred cartridges. The luxurious home of the Piazzas, reputed gang leaders, was surrounded; Nick and John Piazza and four of their henchmen were arrested. These men and Sam and Tony Costello, agents said, may lead to the solution of the city's latest gang killing, that ol Joseph Martino. The Martino and the Gilbert slayings were the latest of more than sixty killings which have occurred since Chicago Heights became the enter of th' war over rich beer and alcohol privileges in 1920, a few months after prohibition went into affect.

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jf| - i Distinction of being the nation’s youngest whistler is the unusual claim of Cyril Porter Dickson Jr., 10 months old, of Denver. Cyril starts high and shrill early in the morning and spends much of his time whistling away, his parents say.

PASTOR WARNS OF ‘GIRLPERILS’ Irreligious One Is Called Most Dangerous Type. Young men, beware of the irreligious girl, for she is the most dangerous type! That is what Dr. Frank Lee Roberts, pastor of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, said Sunday night when he preached on j “Dangerous Girls.” In addition to the “irreligious girl.” who, Roberts said, “turns her back on God and because of this is not qualified to build a home or be a mother,” there are four other “dangerous types.” These are; The “clinging vine,” the “jealous,” the “gimme” and the I “smart girl.” i “Run from the clinging vine type of girl.” Roberts said. “She will flatter her suitor and tell him what a strong protecting man he is. But after the marriage she will prove to be utterly helpless, a drag upon her husband's energies and nerves. “The jealous woman is pleasing to the man with ego,” but she makes a terrible wife and becomes worse with the years.” The “gimme” type puts her husband through the traces to keep her supplied with everything she wants, Roberts said. The “smart” girl is not the intelligent one, but the type that “likes to do shady things that deaden her moral sense and smirch her character.” This is the first of Dr. Roberts’ six services to be devoted to discussions of the American home. VOLCANOTAKES TOLL Many Dead in Chile, Reports Indicate. Bp United Press SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 7.—An unreported number of deaths and injuries were indicated today in dispatches from Puerto Varas, telling of the eruption of the volcano Calbuco. The eruption, accompanied by strong earthquakes, awoke natives at 3 a. m. They fled from their homes to find three craters emitting smoke and flames.

FOUR DENY GUILT IN PETTIS ROBBERY

Four Indianapolis men captured in the round-up of those alleged to have conspired in the $6,000 robbery of the Pettis dry goods company store. Dec. 27, pleaded not guilty in criminal court today. They w ere Dodder Delatore. Martin <Dick> Prather. Thomas Hindman. Negro, and Dewey Bryant. Bond of each of the four was set at $25,000 Federal authorities were aiding police in the effort to bring here from Chicago James Martin, alias

EAT GOOBERS, POPCORN, GET TO BE PRESIDENT, IS STEVE’S ADVICE

BY ALLENE SUMNER NEA Sfrvlr/ Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—Peanut purveyor” to five Presidents and a sixth one on the way is the proud record of Steve Vasilakos. whose neat but not gaudy peanut cart has hugged the White House fence for nearlf twenty years. Rosy days lie in wait for Steve right now, for Herbert Hoover, sixth presidential customer whom he will know, already has signified his interest in the goober, and during his Washington life has

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LIGHTER TAX LOAD SOUGHT FORSCHOOIi Business Director to Ask Different System on Bond Issues. CITIZEN NOW HIT HARD Whole Burden May Fall in Single Year on Taxpayers. Indiaftapolis citizens will be relieved of the burden of excessive school taxes in any one year, caused by bonded indebtedness retirement, if the legislature looks with favor on a bill being prepared by Albert F. Walsman. school business director. This bill would prevent issuance by the school city of other than serial bonds. It was drafted as a means of preventing recurrence of a situation such as the Indianapolis schools will face in 1939-1940, when $4,520,000 In bonds will mature. Walsman said members of the general assembly, with whom he has conferred in regard to the bill, have not decided whether to confine its provisions to the Indianapolis school city, or make it apply to all school corporations of the state. Blow Falls Heavily Serial bonds are those maturing over a definite period of time, with regular, equal annual payments. In the past, Walsman said, many issues have been floated by school boards with the principal maturing all in one year, that year conveniently set for a time when anew school board would be faced with responsibility of raising funds for their retirement. The bill would prevent this embarrassment of future administrations. This would be accomplished by providing that all bonds issued must be serial bonds, extending over a definite period of not less than three years nor more than twenty-five years. * Asa further precautionary measure, provision is made that no serial payment of any issue for any one year may be more than SIOO,OOO. Would Lessen Burden Thus a $1,000,000 issue could not be extended for only three years, with annual $330,000 payments, the minimum time permitted for such an issue under the bill being ten years, with SIOO,OOO retired each year. The bill would become effective July 1, 1929. No sinking fund would be provided for bonds issued after that date, the bonds being retired only by serial payments as they become due. Under Walsman’s administration, the school city is entering into a program of retrenchment, with the intent that ultimately bond issues will be necessary only for extraordinary programs, such as new high schools. All elementary buildings would be financed directly through tax levies. Under the old system of issuing large bond issues, the entire principal becoming due in one year twenty or thirty years later, the city is forced to pay 90 cents interest on every $1 of bonds. Cuts Interest Cost By providing shorter maturity dates, extended serially over several years, the interest cost js reduced materially. This method has been adopted by Walsman. “After careful study of sinking funds in Indiana and other states,” Walsman said, “I am of the opinion that the sinking fund idea is impractical. It sets up a large sum of money against which a dishonest official could make drafts for some time without detection, and also hoards the taxpayers’ money, obtaining small interest, when the taxpayer could be using the money until the actual maturity date. “Issuance of bonds for elementary buildings should be no more necessary in Indianapolis than would be issuing bonds by villages and small towns to equip one room of a school.”

Wilson, and Benjamin Salkin, to face trial for their alleged part in the robbery. James E. Burke, the other robbery suspect arrested in Chicago, did not fight extradition and was returned here Sunday by Detective Claude Johnson. He was grilled by detectives today. Martin and Salkin. according to word received by Police Chief Claude M. Worley from Chicago are planning habeas corpus action to prevent their return.

often stopped at gteve's stand for his bag of fresh roasted peanuts. But if you think Steve’s going to upset the destiny of nations by telling you whether the President-To-be likes his goobers hot or cold, well, medium or rare roasted, you have another think coming. it n a BEST not to talk too much in this business," says Steve, a speculative eye upon the big house beyond the iron picket fence. ’’Big men don’t talk much. St*ve don't talk much.’’

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JAN. 7, 1029

King of Promoters Dead

Here’s one of the best pictures ever r.aken of Tex Rickard, noted promoter ox big sporty events and ”America’s ni 'dern P. T. Bavnum” who died Sunday at Miami Beach, Fla. STORY ON PAGE ONE.

BUSINESS LEADERS MAY RULE CHICAGO

By I nitcil Press CHICAGO. Jan. 7.—Proposals for an interesting experiment in municipal government engaged the at-

‘Bull Pen ’ Plea Murder Accused Prays for Acquittal in Goshen Jail.

BY ARCH STEINEL, Times Staff Correspondent GOSHEN, Ind., Jan. 7.—-" Just as I am without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me and that Thou bidst me come to Thee. Oh, Lamb of God I come to Thee. I come. I -.' "The voice” warned the “bullpen” bars of the Elkhart county jail—the voice of Harvey L. Smith, detective-evangelist, charged with the murder of Mrs. Genevieve Stults, beauty parlor operator, leading his prisoner octet in a Sabbath morning service. “Just as I am without—” the barytone blare of a horn and the throb of banjo strings of Salvation Army lads and lassies carried or the hymn’s air. Smith—known to those with the red hat bands as the “deason"—stood erect awaiting the second stanza of the song. A bootlegger tenor and thief bass stood near him. “Just as I am and waiting not. to rid my soul of one dark blot—” hummed the jail choir and its leader —a singer of Psalms, who faces the electric chair if found guilty. A child's voice outside the “bullpen”—in the sheriff’s office—cleaved the song’s stanza; “Look! I built a bridge.” It was Smith’s playmate, Glen Banks, Jr., son of the Elkhart county sheriff. Sprawled on the tiled floor the lad laid block upon block and then: “Now, man, I knock down.” A toe shot forward and into the wooden blocks, blocks toppled over each other, rolled under .chairs and tables. BUB “T ET us pray,” comes the pious JL j words of Captain Glen Hills of the Salvation Army, from the “bull-pen” church. Heads of the jail choir bow. Smith's chin is deep on his breast. He prays—prays for acquittal at the trial which was resumed today in Elkhart. A few blocks away from the jail his father, Thomas T. Smith. Hagerstown, Md., offers up a similar plea in a Goshen church. In Hagerstown, a third praypr is sent to him by his mother. “Behold the Tabernacle of God is with me,” is the sermon text announced in the “bull-pen” parish by Captain Hills. “Look, build a bridge,” cries the sheriff's son in the anteroom, “And knock down”—years from now and he’ll be building homes—even tabernacles—maybe. From the “bull-Pen” House of God comes Smith’s low plea between the bars, “Pray for me. Captain. Pray I be acquitted.” From the sheriff's office—“ Look! I build a bridge. Now, man, I knock it down.”

Steve's peanut, popcorn and candy stand has done its stuff through the rain and shine of five presidents. He remembers the day “Big Taft he come to White House. I just new then. Sure, he like peanuts. He like candy, too. That's why he so beega man. “Pretty soon he have only one beefsteak for breakfast instead of two and then he pass by star*! when he go for walk and only laugh at me when I shake peanut bags at him.”

tention of business leaders in the country's second largest city today. The proposition was that Chicago turn its affairs over to a board of executives wh* would administer its finances the same as finance committees administer the affairs of United States Steel or the General Motor's Corporation. Chicago, as a corporation, is larger than either or both of those two companies, and a-group of businesss men. bankers, attorneys, manufacturers and financiers, believe that the city's only salvation lies in adopting big business methods. Silas H. Strawn, prominent attorney, started the movement and enlisted the support of numerous other men of high standing in the business and professional world, including Julius Rosenwald. and Marshall Field. Mayor William Hale Thompson was among the first to manifest open opposition to the plan. Its other opponents include Aiderman John Couchlin and Albert R. Brunker, chairman of a business men's organization which already had set out to clean up the city through co-operation with the new law enforcement officials elected in November. Under the Strawn plan engineers would be placed in charge of public works, bankers at the head of taxspending bodies, and prominent lawyers /over legal departments. Overfall the experts, whose salaries would be paid by the corporaftens “loaning” them to the city, would be a general executive. Strawn believes that the big corporations would be glad to pay the salaries of $20,000 or $30,000 a year men, in the hope that they would save money in the long run through reduced taxes under a strictly business administration. WILLIAMS.FUNERAL TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY Deceased Was Head of Peerless Foundry Cos. of Indianapolis. Funeral services for William G. Williams, 74, will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday from the home, 25 North Dearborn street. Mr. Williams, who was the president of the Peerless Foundry Company of Indianapolis, died at 5 a. m. Sunday at St. Vincent’s hospital of bronchial pneumonia after an illness of three days. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Williams was born at Springfield, Mass., in 1854. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and was interested in several other Indianapolis projects in addition to the foundry company. Surviving are five nieces. Mrs. Catherine J. Wilding. Miss Edna Wilding, Mrs. Elizabeth N. Watts, Mrs. Ruth M. Spencer and Mrs. Marie Ellis; and one nephew. William H. Fisher, all of Indianapolis. CLARK ON AIfTtONIGHT Butler Director to Talk on Athletics From W'FBM. Enthusiastic support of organized athletics results in development of pep and spontaneous personality on the part of the supporter, George L. Clark, athletic director of Butler university will argue over the radio tonight. Clark will speak over WFBM at 9:30.

His favorite President? Again Steve proves that his twenty years as peanut purveyor to Presidents have taught him much. “All nice fellas—very nice fellas —all in different way,” he said. "Wilson he very nice fella; Harding he swell guy. Taft, great old boy; Roosevelt, one mighty nice guy. Coolidge. all right, and this Hoover, say he's gland. He ear three or four bags peanuts to once.” B B B STEVE has seen all the First Ladies, too. He “can t remem-

CITY TO OPEN CRUSADE ON SMOKE EVIL Drive Against Nuisance to Be Launched About January 15. NEW ENGINEER ON JOB Combination Expert to Be Chosen Soon: Barton in Line for Post. An intensive drive against the . long prevalent smoke nuisance will be begun about Jan. 15 by the city building department. Building Commissioner Wiljiam Hurd plans a city-wide smoke abatement campaign through the new combusion engineer, who will be I chosen by the safety board within a week or two. The $3,000 a year position created in the 1929 appropriation ordinance probably will be filled by Frank Barton. 6125 Buckingham drive, the only person who took the recei.t engineering examination to qualify for the post. Barton conferred with Hurd and Mayor L. Ert Slack today relative to the abatement program, preliminary to his appointment. He made a grade of 93. on the test, which requires a passing mark of 70 per cent. Barton to Get Berth Being the only applicant for the position, it is likely that he will receive the appointment. He has taken some Purdue university extension courses, which are said to qualify him for the post. “Now that we have the position of combustion engineer under the new budget, we expect to start smoke abatement in earnest. Ail [ specifications for new heating and power equipment must pass through the hqnds of the combustion engineer and conform to requirements of the city building code,” Hurd said. “We shall make every effort to abate smoke in Indianapolis. Tnls is a problem of long concern to the public. It can not be accomplished in a day, however.” Club to Co-operate As present heating and power equipment become obsolete, it will be replaced with modern type plants. Hurd said he planned to co-oper-ate with the Woman’s Department Club smoke abatement committee civic organizations and industries in abating the smoke nuisance. “If it becomes necessary, we will order arrests of violators of the code,” Hurd warned. JOB OUTLOOK GOOD Conditions Better Than Last Year, Says Davis. 4 Bp United Press i WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—Secretary of Labor Davis believes the man or woman now out of work has a much better chance of employment than he or she would have had at this time last year. “Although there is the slight decline in employment which usually follows the holidays,” Davis said today, “employment conditions are generally good and I look for them to be increasingly better throughout the year. “Opportunities for work are much more numerous now than at this time last year.” Jumps 135 Feet; Lives Bp United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Alexander Christ, 45, jumped 135 feet into the East river from the Manhattan bridge Sunday and was still alive early today. Christ said he had intended to commit suicide. He is not expected to recover.

DOOMED PAIR GETS NEW HOPE OF LIFE

Bp United Press FRANKLIN, La., Jan. 7.—A new trial for Mrs. Ada Bonner Le Boeuf and Dr. Thomas Dreher, condemned murderers of Mrs. Le Boeuf’s husband, James, was the goal of defense attorneys today. Taking advantage of the week’s stay of execution granted by the state supreme court Saturday, defense counsel announced they had : uncovered new evidence indicating i that the illicit lovers were convicted by a jury intimidated by threats cf mob violence. Ten jurors were said to have made affidavits to the effect that they would not have recommended the death penalty for the defendants if

ber” whether they all bought peanuts and popcorn and crackerjack of him or not. But many a passerby has seen Mrs. Coolidge stop for a bag of peanuts for the White House squirrels when returning from a walk. , “Queen Marie? Sure, I saw the queen. I've seen ’em all,” says Steve, pouring some popcorn into the hopper. “Give me American ladies every time.” One knows that locked within

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Edward B. Raub (above) was re-elected president of city council unanimously at a special meeting at noon today. Raub is a Democrat and one of the two councilman not involved In the 1927 council scandals, which resulted in election of seven new members. Robert E. Springsteert, Democrat, the other councilman who went through the 1927 furore unscathed, was re-elected president pro tern, today.

NO FRILLS FOR INAUGURATION Simple Rites When Leslie Takes Office. Simple ceremonies will mark the inauguration of Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie at the statehouse next Monday, it is announced by Charles L. Biederwolf, supreme court clerk and chairman of the committee in charge. No $4,000 appropriation for gold badges and the like has been made this year by the Republican state committee. That was the amount said to have been expended when Governor Ed Jackson took office four years ago. This time there is to be no inaugural ball, either. Governor Leslie will be introduced by Dean Stanley Coulter of Purdue university and will deliver his inaugural address after the oath of office is administered by Chief Justice Clerence R. Martin of the supreme court’. A platform will be erected in the rotunda of the statehouse and seats provided for members of the legislature, the Republican organization, and’others. The public is invited, Biederwolf said. Mrs. Leslie and the children will be seated on the platform with the Governor, and Miss Genevieve Brown and Edgar D. Bush also will be there. Miss Brown will take the oath as supreme court reporter and Bush as Lieutenant Governor. FOX SALE UPHELD High Court Denies Plea to Halt Liquidation in Bankruptcy. . Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—James L. Boyle, trustee in bankruptcy for Frank H. Gordon. Bangor, Me., dentist who promoted a $3,000,000 silver fox farming scheme in which more than 3,000 persons invested, was denied by the United States supreme court today a review of his suit to cancel the action of Maine state courts in disposing of Gordon’s foxes under corporation insolvency proceedings. ~Girl Motorist Killed Bp Times Special LA PORTE. Ind.. Jan. 7.—Miss Helen Bloomberg, 19. a local stenographer, w T as killed instantly when the automobile she was driving, after skidding on wet pavement, crashed into a car driven by Berlyn Casbon of Boone Grove. He was not Injured.

they had not been afraid of a mob which gathered at the time of the trial. Evidence of this alleged intimidation will be presented to the federal court at New Orleans in an application for a writ of habeas corpus, pending arguments for anew trial. If the move is successful the hanging date, originally set for last Saturday, may be advanced several months or canceled altogether. Mrs. Le Boeuf was prostrated on her cot in the county jail. Dr. Dreher appeared heartened and spent a part of Sunday visiting with the wife, whom he is alleged to have deserted for Mrs. Le Boeuf, and his two daughters, Polly and Dorothy.

Steve’s breast is many a tale of the great who have entered the nation’s most famous gate for the past twenty years. But try’n’ get ’em out! “Beeg men don't like to have all the things they say told!” says Steve, offering a bag of peanuts to one who is neither a President nor a First Lady. And that seemed to be that. “You can say this,”’says Steve. “Eat lots of peanuts and popcorn and get to be President. Makes you smart!”

LEGISLATORS TUNE UP FOR 8-WEEKGRIND Gavels Will Bang in House and Senate Thursday Morning at 10. CAUCUSES WEDNESDAY Speaker Job Is in Doubt; Many Plums Will Be Handed Out. BY ROBERT BEARD Fifty senators and 100 representai tives were preparing today to move j on the legislative halls of the statehouse. where, for sixty-one days, beginning next Thursday, they will weigh, reject and enact new laws for the government of more than 3.000.000 Hoosiers. Gavels will bang in the senate and house of representatives at 10 a. m. Thursday. The grist will be represented next spring in an unimposing cloth bound volume, labeled “Acts of 1929, passed at the seventy-sixth regular session of the general assembly.” But formalities of organization must precede the feeding of fodder into the legislative hopper. Introduction of bills will not begin until next week. Caucuses on Wednesday Overshadowing the importance of Thursday’s formalities are the party i caucuses scheduled for Wednesday ! night. Republican and Democratic | senators and representatives will meet in four separate caucuses. Republicans, holding an 80 to 20 majority in the house, and a 38 to 12 advantage in the senate, will choose their leaders, the Speaker of the ! house and the president pro tem. of the senate. For the former honor, seven Republican representatives are contesting: James M. Knapp, Hagers- ! town: j. Glenn Harris, Gary; Frank ! E. Wright, Indianapolis; George W. | Freeman. Kokomo; John W. Cham- ! berlain, Terre Haute, and Truman G. Murden, Cass county. For president pro tern, of the senate, James J. Nejdl, Whiting, and Denver C. Harlan, Richmond, are in a close race. Nejdl won the post two years ago by one vote in caucus. Democrats Make Gestures Democrats meanwhile, will be going through the motions of nominating candidates for the two posts, the senator aixd representative receiving the respective nominations automatically becoming minority leader in the two houses, Joseph M. Cravens, Madison, senate leader in 1927, probably will be named again unless last-minute favor swings to Andrew E. Durham, Greencastle, or possibly Thurman A. Gottschalk, Berne. At the party caucuses, likewise, will be selected principal secretary, assistant secretary and principal doorkeeper of the senate, and principal clerk, assistant clerk and chief doorkeeper of the house. About twenty-five subordinate positions in both houses will be chosen by “plunder committees” to be named by the retiring Lieuten-ant-Governor, F. Harold Van Orman, in the senate, and by the Speaker in the house. Fifield Temporary Boss Van Orman will call the senate to order, or in event of his absence relinquish the honor to Nejdl, president pro tem. in 1927, Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield will rule the house untli the Speaker is formally elected. Caucus selections of Wednesday night are not valid until voted on perfunctorily Thursday morning. New lawmakers must be sworn in, rules of the preceding session adopted for 1929 and the vote in the last election given perfunctory canvassing. Then both houses will go into joint session to hear Governor Ed Jackson’s farewell address. Following precedent, adjournment will be taken until Monday, Jan. 14, when Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie will be inaugurated, and, after a brief inaugural address, deliver his formal message. Bush to Take Office Inaugurated at the same time, Lieutenant-Governor Ed Bush will take over the senate gavel, while w'heels of the legislative machinery gather momentum. Tuesday the Lieutenant-Governor will announce the makeup of the forty-nine senate committees and three joint committees. If precedent is followed, the Speaker will announce house committees Monday. With the rapid passage under suspension of the rules of a bill appropriating probably SIOO,OOO to defray expenses of the assembly, grease will be provided for the gears and the law-making machinery will start on its eight-weeks run. BLAST WRECKS HOME Sheriff-Elect and Family Escape. Windows Shattered. By United Press MARLO, Okla., Jan. 7.—A dynamite explosion wTecked the home of A. W. Williams, sheriff-elect of Stephens county. Williams and his family escaped injury. The windows of the Cumberland Presbyterian church adjoining the Williams home were shattered by the explosion. Gary Memorial Church Bums B WHEATON. IU , Jan. 7.—Fire today destroyed the Gary Memorial Methodist Episcopal church, a $250,000 structure which the late Elbert H. Gary, former chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation, erected in memory of his father and mother.