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VATICAN ‘BARS’ MAY FALL TO RELEASE POPE Accord With Mussolini Is Reported Near; Church Keenly Interested. PROBLEM SINCE 1870 Pius IX Interned Himself After Italian Unity Was Established. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Foreign Editor, Scrlppi-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—While 300,000,000 Roman Catholics eagerly turn their eyes toward the Eternal City, anew chapter in their church history appears in the mak“A prisoner in his own palace” for nearly sixty years, the head of the Roman church soon may feel free to go and come as he pleases, able to travel abroad if he likes, without violating the fitness of things as he sees them. Although Rome dispatches remain somewhat contradictory up to the hour of writing, it seems clear that the Vatican authorities and the Italian government are nearing a solution of what is known as the Roman question, a thorn in the flesh of both church and state for decades. The Roman question dates back so the reign of Pius IX, who became pope in 1846. Hold Pope Must Be Free The church, Catholics hold, was founded by Jesus as an independent religious society responsible alone to the authority of God. To function properly, therefore, the head of the church, together with his cardinals and other officials, must be exempt from civil jurisdiction. Particularly, it is felt, the Pope must not be under the influence of any temporal state, for he exercises spiritual jurisdiction over hundreds of millions of people, of every nationally, and therefore must remain free. For fifteen centuries this complete independence was assured the pope because he himself was recognized as an independent sovereign, not only over things spiritual, but temporal as well, since with Rome as his capital he ruled over a number of papal states. From 1840 to 1860, however, great changes occurred throughout Italy. First, in 1848, northern Italy revolted against Austrian masters. When the revolt failed, as it did after initial successes, the pope, who had not favored the movement, lost some of his popularity which, at first, had been very great. In 1849 a Roman republic was set up and, menaced by a mob at his gate, Pius IX fled to Gaeta. Napoeon 111 Intervenes In 1850 Napoleon 111 sent troops to Italy and restored the situation in Rome. However, in 1870 Napoleon was defeated in Sedan, the French troops were withdrawn from Italy, and Italian unity was proclaimed under King Victor Emmanuel 11, who entered Rome saying. ‘‘we are at Rome and there we shall remain.” Pius IX was left only with the Vatican, the right of free diploma•ic intercourse, and the honors due a sovereign. An annuity of $600,000 from Italy was refused. Action of the Italian government universally has been regarded by Catholics as a “usurpation.” Pius IX declared he had been made a “prisoner in his own palace,” and refused to leave the Vatican gardens. His successors have followed his example. Today the differences between Roman church and Italian state appear to be nearing solution. We are told that a concordat bearing the signatures of Cardinal Gasparri, secretary of state for the Holy See. and Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy soon may be sent out to capitals of the world announcing an accord. Italy Makes Offer Italy, it is said, has offered additional land, an indemnity of more than $50,000,000, and other advantages which, it also is reported, th < * church is inclined to accept. If reports prove true, the pope would be sovereign over an area within Italy, but outside Italian jurisdiction, just as the District of Columbia is outside the jurisdiction of any state of the United States. None of the popes of Rome, from Pius IX down to the present, ever has asserted that the paral state must be restored exactly as it existed before, but as Piux X stated, in 1904, “any pope would rather take refuge in the Catacombs than renounce his sovereign freedom.”

KING GEORGE BETTER: RECOVERS APPETITE Monarch Not Yet Permitted to Read: Enjoys Lengthy Naps. Bu United Ptrts LONDON. -Jan. 18.—The "satisfactory progress” of King George toward recovery announced Thursday was maintained today, an official announcement at Buckingham palace said. The king'; appetite has improved remarkably during the past few days, the Daily Mail said it understood. and he is no longer being fed. He enjoys lengthy naps but is not permitted to read. Quoen Mary’s visits are more frequent, but she still is limited to ten minutes each the newspaper said.

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BATTLE FOR OIL KINGDOM

Son of Blacksmith Hurls Challenge at Rockefellers

BY JAMES K. MARTINDALE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—The son of a country blacksmith has challenged the financial dominance of the Rockefellers in their own kingdom of oil. Robert Wright Stewart, a physical giant of the western plains, left a law office in Pierre, 8. D., to rise to leadership among great businers executives. Behind his refusal to yield to John D. Rockefeller Jr’s, demand that he resign the chairmanship of the

$750,000,000 Standard Oil Company of Indiana for the sake of the company's reputation, is the grim determination of a self-made, dynamic man who finds the same exhiliration in combat today that he found as a rough rider with Roosevelt, thirty years ago. Stewart was born in 1866 in Cedar Rapids, la., attended Coe college there, studied law at Yale, read law in the offices of Simeon Baldwin in New Haven, Conn.,* and eventually hung out his shingle in Pierre, S. D.

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In two years the young lawyer attained a notable reputation as attorney and politician. He served successively as state’s attorney, state senator and supreme court reporter. When the Spanish-American war broke out he joined Colonel Roosevelt’s rough riders and was commissioned a

major. Returning to South Dakota, Major Stewart became a colonel In the National Guard and that title has remained with him ever since. In 1907, before the old Standard Oil Company had been dissolved as a trust, Stewart won a case for the company at Pierre and attracted the notice of President Cowan. The latter brought him on to Chicago and made him general attorney. Rules With Iron Hand His executive ability and forceful character led through a number of lesser positions until 1918, when he was elected chairman of the board. From then on Colonel Stewart ruled the company with an iron hand and Standard of Indiana prospered. In addition to making far reaching executive changes, Stewart bought the Midwest Refining Company, in 1920, and later the Dixie Oil Company. Those purchases made it unnecessary for Standard of Indiana to buy crude oil on a fluctuating market. Stewart’s six feet two inches height and his 250 pounds gave him the physical power to work longer hours than anyone on his staff. He came to work at 7:30 a. m„ read all his own mail, rarely took more than thirty minutes for lunch and seldom played. Prize Fights Chief Diversion Prize fights were his one diversion. He would travel across the country to see a good fight, although he wouldn’t leave his office for a game of golf. Later golf became his hobby. Standard of Indiana kept on growing and the genial Stewart’s circle of friends continued to expand. It is on the confidence of those friends and business associates and the general prosperity of the company that Stewart is depending to aid him in resisting Rockefeller’s assault. The company had only 4,600 stockholders when Stewart became chairman in 1918. Now it has more than 58,000. His capacity for work and his rare ability to organize the men working with him gained him great favor with John D. Jr., until the break growing out of the oil scandals last year. Wins Oil Millions Stewart married twice and has two grown sons, who hold executive positions in other oil companies. He is a fascinating host, belongs to numerous clubs and travels widely. Stewart came to work for the Standard Oil Company more than twenty years ago for $50,000 a year. He now has a private fortune of several million dollars and draws a salary of $125,000 a year. DEATH TRIAL NEAR END By United Pres* T DANVILLE, Ind., Jan. 18.—Fate of William Nichols, 59, charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, Ora Whitten, 67, was expected to be in the hands of a jury today. Ev idence has been concluded, Nicols was charged with slaying the elderly man during a family quarrel. He has admitted the slaying, but pleaded self-defense.

MURDER SUSPECT ARGUES OWN CASE

Bu United Press RIVERSIDE, Cal., Jan. 18 —Having sketched with a few bold strokes the outline of its case, the state today began a complete recital of the asserted killing of three small boys, for which Gordon Stewart Northcott is on trial. Immigration officers and Los Angeles detectives who first learned of the existence of the Wineville "murder farm” through the stof/ of Sanford Clark, Northcott’s 16-year-old nephew, was the first witness. Clark told of the alleged murders by his uncle when he was detained from entering the United States without a passport. Northcott continued today to act as his own attorney. “I knew I could do it better than those lawyers were doing,” Northcott said. "Honestly, weren’t they making an awful hash of it? Then,

GRANDPAS of Indianapolis are using the saxophone to cure rheumatism. Efficacy of the “jazz” instrument for unbending the rheumatic kinks of senility is testified to by a leading city teacher, who reports he has one student 70 years old who can play “Sweet

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BANKER DEATH HELD MURDER New Clews Uncovered in Sullivan Case, Coroner Declares. By Times Special SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 18.—Edgar D. Maples, vice-president of the Peoples National Bank and Trust Company, found dead in the bank here Wednesday morning, was murdered by persons unknown, Coroner W. H. McGrew officially reported today. Police, the sheriff, and investigators for the S f ate Bankers’ Association, had this new factor to consider in their investigation not only of the murder, but of the confession of Jessup Bollinger, 49, president of the Shelburn State bank, six miles from Sullivan, that he had forged a large amount in notes, about $40,000 worth of which had gone to the Sullivan institution. Many persons in Sullivan had reached the conclusion that Maples had committed suicide, though no question had been raised as to the stability of the Sullivan bank and there had been no whisper of any personal trouble. New Clews Found The coroner today stated, however, that he based his verdict of murder upon new clews, which deepen the mystery. Bollinger is under arrest on a forgery charge. He was found in his garage unconscious from monoxide gas poisoning, a few hours after Maple’s body was found six miles away. Bollinger nad started the motor of his car with the garage doors closed. Bollinger declared in a confession, according to officials, that Maples had nothing to do with the forgeries, that the notes had gotten into Maples’ bank in the regular course of business. Man Seen Leaving Bank A revolver belonging to the bank was fomnd near Maples’ body and a rear door was open. Maples’ body was in a hallway, a bullet through the forehead. Officials declare they have found a witness who will testify he saw a man leaving the Sullivan bank ’rear door a few minutes before the body was found. Maples had been seen on the street about an hour before. Maples received a telephone call the night before his death front someone to whom he promised to deliver $4,000, it has been learned. He said over the phone that he would leave the money in the outer vault, so the time lock would not prevent him getting to it early the next day. The outer vault was open and the $4,000 gone when Maples’ body was discovered.

again, “I’ve had a little training in legal procedure.” Northcott was well satisfied with the result of his six-hour grilling of his nephew. Loyal Kelley, special prosecutor, praised Northcott’s ability as an attorney. “He’s doing extremely well,” Kelley said. “His phraseology is excellent and his court presence irreproachable.” Northcott said today he intended to recall some state witnesses who already had testified and who were cross-examined by Norbert Savay, dismissed chief counsel. “I’m going to call about thirty defense witnesses in all,” the boyish defendant declared, “and Sanford Clark, Jesse Clark, and my dad will be among them.” . Asked his plan of defense, he replied: “I’m going to show that the state witnesses are lying. I think that’s the best defense.”

THE SAX IS USEFUL; NOW IT CURES GRAN’PAP’S RHEUMATIZ

Lou” with two sets of false teeth and wind up by doing a Highland fling after an hour’s practice. The “sax”—named after a man of the same cognomen—is the only musical instrument operated by mouth which can be played by a person with false teeth. This fact alone lends to the instrument’s use to suppplant pep

BY HARRY R. ZANDER United Press a'.aff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan, 18. —John D. Rockefeller Jr. has a fighting face and has been trained in Spartan ways, and Wall Street is learning now for the first time jU3t how much of a fighter he is as he attempts to oust Colonel Robert W. Stewart from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. It is the greatest struggle in the history of that corporation and one that has been accompanied by

a boom of Standard Oil stock to a high of 103.25 on the New York Curb Exchange. Stewart or Rockefeller or both generally are reported purchasing stock on the open market in their battle for control of the directors meeting at Whiting, Ind., March 7. Friends of Rockefeller report he already has obtained control of 51 per cent of the stock. Rockefeller, born to millions, was made to work hard so he might appreciate their true value. His father, who now watches his son’s first major financial battle from his

winter home in Florida, had a strict code for children. Honesty was one of the policies the elder Rockefeller taught to his son. The younger Rockefeller has been displeased with Stewart because of the latter’s original concealment from senate investigators of facts on his receipts of Continental Trading Company profits.

Rockefeller, 55, is brawny, 6 feet tall, with penetrating eyes and a square-cut jaw. When in New York he is at his office by 8:30 a. m. In his youth Rockefeller worked on the family estate at Cleveland, and swam daily with his father. He had a vigorous life, and received wages for such work as breaking stone and splitting wood. His pay was 15 cents an hour for labor and 5 cents an hour for practicing on his violin. Chose Business to Pleasure One biographer tells of his being permitted to control his own actions when he became old enough. His father never interfered. He chose Brown university because he wanted to attend a smaller school. This biographer says that when college ended he had three choices: 1. A world cruise. 2. Further study in law to enable him to enter any business. 3. Starting in with the Standard Oil Company. He chose the latter because his father was aging and he deemed it advisable to learn the business. One biographer says of him: “He firmly believes that he was brought into the world to perpetuate the mental, moral and spiritual qualities of his father and he is doing his level best to fulfill that destiny. “Twice daily he sinks to his knees and beseeches the heavenly father to bless the earthly father, John D. Sr. Since leaving Brown university in 1897, Rockefeller has devoted himself to removing the “octopus” stigma from the names of Rockefeller and Standard Oil. This attempt at ousting Stewart is part of that program, for Rockefeller has said he did not believe the public could have confidence in Stewart because of the Continental revelations and the fact that Stewart refused originally to testify before the senate committee. Big Test in Coal Strike Only once before has Rockefeller come into the open to show his fighting side on behalf of business. His first big test came in adjusting single-handed the violent labor troubles which involved bloodshed in Colorado in 1913-1914 on the Rockefeller-controlled properties of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. It was after he had made such a signal success of this task that the elder Rockefeller withdrew from the oil fields and the world of business in favor of his son. John D. Jr. is abroad as he fights this battle for control. He and his wife went to Egypt with a renowned Egyptologist from Chicago. He said before departing that he was starting a vacation. JURORS JAKE REST Adjourns Until Monday in Angola Crime Probe. By United Press Angola, Ind., Jan. 18.—The grand jury Investigating Steuben county’s alleged crime ring has adjourned until Monday. Several persons were placed on the witness stand Thursday. The jury is investigating the robbery of the National bank here, alleged rum-running activities, and the finding of a charred body of a man in a burned bam. The jury will continue to hear witnesses Monday, it was indicated at the conclusion of the hearing Thursday. PLOT LAID TO LAWYER Disbarment of Spencer Attorney Sought by Bar. By United Press ' SPENCER, Ind., Jan. 18.—Because he is alleged to have conspired to obtain the release of a state’s witness in a liquor case, disbarment of Edwin T. Brown, local attorney, is asked in a complaint presented the Owen circuit court by James R. Miller, president of the Owen County Bar Association, and other members of that organization.

pills of drugstores as an antitoxin against age’s creaky bones. u a HORNS can not be used by wearers of enamel plates, for the first “toot" of “Good-Night, Ladies,” would necessitate an ambulance and a stomach pump. The “sax” teacher, vouching for age's rejuvenation through the “tra-iddy-dum" of the silvered

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STATE PLANTS TOUCH PEAK IN EMPLOYMENT Anderson General Motors Factories Have Nearly 10,000 on Rolls. STUDEBAKER IS ON BOOM Other Indiana Industries Show Marked Boost in Last Week. BY CHARLES C. STONE Times State Editor Announcement that anew employment peak has been reached at the General Motors plants at Anderson and that the Studebaker Motor Car Corporation at South Bend will surpass all previous January production records this month featured business news from over Indiana this week. A total of 9,661 persons were employed at the two Anderson General Motor plants Jan. 1, it was announced. General Motors officials have predicted 10,000 will be at work in the plants by March 1. The Delco-Remy Corporation listed 8,979 employes and the Guide Lamp Corporation 682. Enthusiastic reception of the new Studebaker models at the New York auto show prompted the announcement of increased production at South Bend, by A. R. Erskine, Studebaker president. Many thousands of feet of additional floor space recently were added to the Studebaker plant and indications are that maximum production will be maintained during 1929, it was stated. The Studebaker Corporation sold 136,000 cars in 1926, compared to 116,000 in 1927. Announcement that the Anderson p'ant of the Certain-teed Products Corporation will be operating on full schedule by March 1 was another optimistic report from that city. The plant suspended operations for ten days to permit repairs. Since reopening Jan. 1, it has been operating on a two-thirds schedule. A survey of business conditions from other Indiana cities include: Evansville—The American Packing Corporation is to double its present capacity with erection of new buildings. One hundred fifty more persons will be given employment. Twenty-five thousand acres of tomatoes will be grown in Vanderburgh, Warrick, and Spencer counties for the factory’s use. Muncie—Purchase of the Pine Glass Company plant at Okmulgee, Okla., by the Ball Brothers Company was announced. The Ball company in addition to its plant at Muncie, also operates manufacturing units at Wichita Falls, Tex.; Sapulpa, Okla.; Hillsboro, 111., and Huntington, W. Va. Bluffton—The Morris company has awarded a contract for construction of its thirty-fourth 5-and--10 cent to $1 store at Winchester, to Jesse L. Reiff, Bluffton. Terre Haute—The Sullivan Brush Company, employing forty men, has leased quarters here and will move its plant next week. Brazil—The Pawley Lumber Comuany has purchased the building and plant of the N. T. Keasey Lumber Company and is enlarging it. A new lumber storage shed and a shed and a building to store cement, shingles, lime, and plaster are being erected. East Chicago—The Empire Companies of Bartlesville, Okla., have announced plans for the erection of an oil refinery in the East Chicago district. Marion—Value of the annual production of Marion manufactured products has increased from $25,000,000 in 1925 to $32,407,000, according to figures of the Association of Commerce. There are 109 concerns engaged in industrial activities compared to eighty-two in 1925. Number of employes has increased 32 per cent in that period. Hagerstown—Officials of the Perfect Circle Company, piston ring manufacturers, announce that its plants here and at Tipton and Newcastle are operating twenty-four hours a day. A record business for 1929 is predicted. . Alexandria—Sale of the two Alexandria plants of the Bannerrock Products Company to the JohnsManville Corporation of New York, for a reported consideration of $1,700,000. has been approved by stockholders of the Bannerrock company. BUS HEARING DELAYED Pony Express Company to Appear for State Quiz Tuesday, Continued hearing on the order of che public service commission for the Pony Express Company, Detroit, to show cause why their busses should not be barred from Indiana roads, scheduled for today, has been postponed until Tuesday at 10 a. m., Secretary Fred I. King of the commission announced. The company was cited to appear when it was learned that the driver of one of their Detroit to Chicago busses had been on the bus three days when it figured in a fatal crash at Elkhart Dec. 24.

horn, says two lessons made a “new man out of his 70-year-old patient.” “He can shake hips and shoulders that youths never could tremble, and when he plays “Let Me Call You Sweetheart’—say— I’m telling you—why, he’d — he’d—- ■ * k- * -

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FREED SUSPECT TOBEPASTOR Harvey Smith, Cleared of Killing, Will Preach. By United Press ELKHART, Ind., Jan. 18.—Harvey L. Smith, former private detective, evangelist and circus barker, acquitted here of the murder of Mrs. Genevieve Stults, beauty parlor operator, will enter the ministry, he said here today. Smith was charged with accepting SSO from Mrs. Janie Reyher to “do away with” Mrs. Stults, who had carried on a clandestine love affair with Mrs. Reyher’s husband, Charles Reyher, wealthy South Bend real estate dealer. Smith said he would remain a, detective “long enough to solve the mystery of Mrs. Stults’ death.” “Then I am going into the ministry of God,” he said. LOSE RESCUE HOPES Entombed Miner’s Life Is Feared For. By United Press STEUBENVILLE, 0., Jan. 18.— Rescue workers today abandoned hope of rescuing alive Pal Nick, 33, who was imprisoned in a mountain of earth and stone at the U. S. Coal Company’s mine at Bradley Thursday. Mine officials said it would take about five days to tunnel through the room in which the man is entombed. Digging was halted by darkness Thursday night, and it was agreed that the imprisoned man could not be reached before he died. Workmen had been warned to keep out of the room where the cave-in occurred, it was said. ACID BURNS WOMAN Thrown by Man, Victim Charges; Held by Police. Police today held Jess Sullivan, 60, of 643 U 2 Massachusetts avenue, on charge of Mrs. Lottie Vetas, 625 Woodrow street, that he threw acid on her at Washington and Missouri streets Thursday evening. Sullivan, Mrs. Vetas charged, met her on the street and sought to make an engagement with her. When she refused he threw the acid, she charged. The acid badly burned her coat and eating through her clothing slightly burned her legs.

W. C. T. U. TO SHUN SNIFFING CAMPAIGN

Indiana members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union will not follow the Tennessee practice of reporting persons they find with liquor on their breath. The custom of reporting all drinkers as liquor law violators was announced by Mrs. E. P. Blair, president of the Davidson County W. C. T. U. at clebration of the tenth an-

THE description was too much for the teacher, but he admitted that he feared to teach Grandma “—and the dance she did was the tum-di-dum-ti dum,” for fear he’d die of heart failure and a good saxophone teacher would be held by a coroner’s jury on a charge of musical manslaughter.

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\ MONG Scots of Indanapolis who gather at the annual concert of the Caledonian Club at Masonic temple Jan. 29, in native costume, none will be garbed more truly than Mrs. Jessie Johnstone Byram and her son Thomas, 4243 Broadway. The concert will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the club and citizens of Scottish descent no further removed than the second generation plan a gala occasion. Mrs. Byram is the daughter of Thomas R. Johnstone, 4243 Broadway, who came from Scotland in 1887. Parts of Mrs. Byram’s costume are old family heirlooms. The brooches on her hat and shoulder have been in the Johnstone family for more than 200 years. The brooch on her shoulder that holds the plaid is the sister brooch to Sir Harry Lauder’s. It has five cairngorum stones, in a dull gold engraved setting. The brooch was purchased by Mrs. Byram’s great-great-great-grandfather. The sporran made of goat hair is nearly 200 years old. The “sporran” is the article of dress in which the Scotchman carries his purse. Mrs. Byram is entitled to wear the royal Stewart Scottish kilt. Each family or clan wears a different design and color combination, so that in the old country a “man is known by the clothes he wears.” MISSION WILL BE HELD Evanston Minister Will Be Geust of Honor Here. Dr. Harris Franklin Rail, Evanston, 111., will be guest of honor of Indianapolis ministers Jan. 28 to Feb. 1 at a “teaching mission” in Central Christian church, held by the Church Federation of Indianapolis. Announcement was made today by the Rev. L. C.-Trent, pastor of Woodruff Place Baptist church and president of the church federation. At a dinner tonight at the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal church plans will be completed for the welcoming ceremony and the meeting. KEEPS TEETH 70 .YEARS By United Press SMITH CENTER, Kas.. Jan. 18.— James Eller at the age of 60 retains every one of his baby teeth. Never has he had a toothache or has he gone to a dentist to have a tooth pulled. Dentists who have examined his teeth claim his baby set of “grinders” is in perfect condition and his case is without parallel in their experience. Since he was a youth, Eller has chewed tobacco.

niversary of the prohibition amendment at Nashville, Tenn., recently. “This is purely a local custom. Indiana will adopt no such plan,” said Mrs. W. B. Davidson, 1911 Bowland avenue, president of the Marion county W. C. T. U., said. “We will go along in our regular channels. American needs to be educated to law observance and respect for the Constitution,” she said.

‘“And a sax is cheaper than patent medicines—in the long run—they cost only $160,” expalined the saxophone rheumatic expert. One hundred sixty bottles of “Run-Rheumatism-Run'’ or the wail of “Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder” any time you want it at 160 iron men—what’ll it be, Grandpa? What’ll it be?

SMASH CRIME, IS SLOGAN OF LEGISLATORS Several Bills Introduced to Curb Lawlessness Reign in State. PRIMARY FIGHT AVOIDED Teacher Tenure Law Sure to Precipitate Battle in Assembly. BY ROBERT BEARD Bills to curb crime by increasing the punishment were in predominance as the general assembly entered the second week of its sixty-one-day session today. Primary revision, pledged in the Republican state platform and seconded word by word by Governor Harry G. Leslie, remained too controversial a problem to find its way into the early fodder. But auto license fee revision, teacher tenure repeal, universal • drivers’ license, compulsory liability and property damage for drivers, and an old age pension bill, in new dress, put in their appearance. First-week bills marked out a rocky road for the bandit. In the senate, measures proposed mandatory death sentence for burglars or bandits convicted of committing murder in commission of a crime, increased the penalty for burglary or banditry to twenty-five years, and defined grand larceny as the theft of $25 or more, instead of the present SIOO minimum. Whipping Is Advocated Even the ancient cat-of-nine-tails was threatened by one measure providing 10 to 20 strokes for persons carrying deadly weapons in commission of a felony. The whipping post would be bestowed in addition to the penalty already prescribed by law. Republican members of both houses failed of anything approaching general agreement with their platform promise for primary modification. In fact, numbers of them doubt any change will be made. The same lack of unanimity was apparent in regard to Governor Leslie’s recommendation that the highway department be given $5,000,000 more annually for two years to speed the paving program. The inclination was to approach the proposal cautiously. Highway Director John H. Williams, in requesting a $10,000,000 increase in the highway department’s biennial appropriation, recommended a onecent boost in gasoline tax and a substantial increase in license fees. Opponents, both of the appropriation and the means, were forming their lines to fight. Tenure Fight Is On Renewal of the teacher tenure fight of two years ago was in prospect, with introduction of a bill in the house for outright repeal. Organized teachers will spur on defenders of the measure, while township trustees goad the repeal forces. Because of the number of bills designed to license and regulate the driving of automobiles, probability increased that recodification would not be attempted this year, but that an amendatory act would be prepared, incorporating the best features of several already framed by individual legislators and automobile associations. The house was first to apply the opener to the biennial utility regulation squabble, with a bill requiring that utility valuation for taxation shall not be under the valuation fixed by the public service commission for rate-making purposes. Backed by Farmers The bill has the backing of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation and is regarded as the forerunner of others striking at utilities and the regulatory body. Creation of anew commission and anew sub-department were proposed in the first week’s bills. A commission of three, to be appointed by the Governor, would be created to administer old age assistance—a pension of not more than $1 a day to the aged indigent. A forest fire prevention department would be established under the department of conservation, with an annual appropriation of $25,000, while the old age assistance commission would require $50,000 annually, the bill estimates. TWO BOYS DIE WHEN ‘CLUBHOUSE’ BURNS Bodies Are Found in Shack After Blaze. - Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18.—Two boys were burned beynd identification and two others died in a hospital from injuries received when a shack, which they had been using for a clubhouse, burned early today in a fire that destroyed the ScottPowell dairy in West Philadelphia. One of the dead boys was identied as Martin Lawless, 14, and the other was believed to be J. McCormack.* The rude shack, made of scantling and tar paper, was constructed in an alcove of the dairy. It is believed the boys had been playing in the structure last night and then had fallen asleep. Motorist Injured in Crash William B. Zimmerman, 39, of 35 South Brookvilie road, was reported not seriously injured today at city hospital where he was taken after his automobile 'crashed into the abutment of the crossing gate at Southeastern avenue and the Pennsylvania railroad at 12:30 a. m. The car was wrecked.