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FIND JOKER IN JACKSON’S TAX SLASH Half of State Treasury Balance to Be Needed to Meet Deficit. RECEIPTS SHOW DROP Budget Board Discovers Boost of 7 Cents in Rate May Be Needed. A joker in Governor Ed Jackson's vaunted $4,000,000 balance in the state treasury when he left office Jan. 10 was pointed out today by the state budget committee. At lejist $2,300,000 of the balance will be eaten up this fiscal year to meet a taxation deficit caused by the state tax board during Jackson's own administration. The 1927 legislature fixed a tax rate of 25 cents, which the state tax board cut to 23 cents. The legislature had authorized expenditures of approximately $13,000,000 during 1929. The estimated receipts upon the cut tax rate and from fees will be about $2,300,000 less than the amount the legislature has provided state department heads may spend. The only place the $2,300,000 can come from is out of the Jackson reserve, Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, pointed out. The budget indicates the tax rate may have to be raised about seven cents for 1930 and 1931. To bring the state institutions and departments, including elementary schools and the higher educational institutions to a proper basis, it will be necessary to increase the tax levy at least 6 cents, and possibly 7 cents, Luther Draper, state senator, member of the budget committee, said. BUTLER TO PROVIDE SPEAKERS FOR CLUBS Bureau in Public Speaking Department of College Is Formed. An after-dinner speakers’ bureau has been formed by' the public speaking department at Butler uniit was announced today. The bureau will furnish play directors, speakers, interpretive readers, play casts and producers. Plans are being made to have the service cover the entire state. Only trained students will be sent out on request of clubs and other organizations. Professor Claude Sifritt. faculty director of the bureau, said. CAILLAUX UNDER KNIFE Operation Performed on His Nose, Broken in Auto Accident. Jjv United Press PARIS. Jan. 21.—An operation was performed Sunday on Senator Joseph Caillaux, whose nose was broken in an automobile accident last week. The fractured bone had failed to knit properly, the physicians explained in announcing the operation. Caillaux has been ordered to rest for a least a week. $200,000 NOT ENOUGH Aids Church: Gets “Blackhand" Note Asking SIO,OOO More. By United Press DETROIT. Jan. 21.—Charles Guass recently donated $200,000 to the Trinity Lutheran church in thanksgiving for the recovery from paralysis of his 14-year-old daughter. Now he has received a note signed •'blackhand” demanding $20,000, ‘ for the steeple of our church.” HOTEIT BURNS: TWO DIE * MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. 21. Two persons were killed and ten injured in a fire that destroyed the National hotel today. Scores of guests escaped by ladders from the blazing five-story building. Firemen found the body of an unidentified man and that of a man registered as John J. Jones. Will is ton. N. D. Among the more seriously' injured were Olaf N. Lundberg. 58. a Chicago salesman, and Fred Krow’l, address unknown. Owners of the building—one of the oldest landmarks of the city—made no estimate of the loss. Cause was undetermined. Coal Dust Blast Kills Engineer PEKIN, 111.. Jan. 21.—Explosion of coal dust in a mill room of the Insull Super-Power Plant of Illinois at South Pekin, Sunday, killed an engineer and injured two other employees.

Kind Bullets g United J'rtsa ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. 21. The kindness of an aged retired physician operated to the last when he ended the suffering of himself and Iris wife in a suicide pact. Dr. Walter Ruffin. 65. first chloroformed his wife, fired three pistol shots into her brain, and then turned the gun upon himself.

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Casts Doubt on Monkey Kinship

BY ALFRED P. RECK. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.—There is no connection between the origin of the man and monkey. Dr. Austin H. Clark. Smithsonian institution scientist, told the United Press today in explaining Ills new theory of life just announced in the Quarterly Review' of Biology. Dr. Clark, noted throughout the world for his biological research, upholds the biblical idea of creation of man and combines it with a radical theory of evolutior# Man is an accident, a freak of nature, appearing on earth before the dawn of history substantially the same as he is today, the biologist declared. Dr. Clark's theory—a startling one for a man of science—is expected to create a furore similar to that brought about when Darwin published his ideas on evolution.

He takes the carefully gathered Darwinian evidence on the descent of man from an ape-like creature and unceremoniously discards is as unscientific. •'There is no evidence which would show man developing step by step from low'er forms of life.’ he said. ‘There is nothing to show that man was in any way connected with monkeys. n m a MAN appeared in the Pliocene age, just preceeding the ice age. He appeared suddenly and in substantially the same form as he is in today. There is not the slightest evidence of his existence before that time. ‘‘He appeared able to walk, able to think and able to defend himself. ‘‘There are no such things as missing links. Missing links are misinterpretations. Fossil skulls, which have been dug up and advanced as missing links showing connection between man and monkey, all have been shown as misinterpretations.” “Just what life is we do not know,” Clark says. “All living substance is composed of elements found also in inorganic substances, though in the bodies of animals and of plants these elements are combined in forms peculiar to living substance. "So we may consider life as the ability, confined to groups of certain complex carbon compounds, to increase in bulk indefinitely in such a way and in such varied forms as shall enable the increase to take place to the best advantage.” All life tends to produce certain forms dissimilar to itself, the scientist said, and when these forms happen to be created under a favorable environment, they survive as anew type of plant or animal. V From some quadruped, or maybe biped, man actually sprung. Clark offers as a theory, not as an abnormality but in one broad leap to existence as man is known today. The environment was right and man lived. Clark believes that man may have been born and died many times until his creation happened under the righo environment. ROB STORE WINDOWS Vandals Toss Bricks Through Panes in 4 Places. An epidemic of vandalism over the week-end resulted in the breaking of four plate glass store windows and the theft of merchandise valued at $l5O. In each case the marauders used bricks to crash their way through the windows. From the Stewart Radio Sales and Service Company, 654 Fairfield avenue, prowlers took a radio set valued at $125. Dry goods valued at $25 was taken from the Alex Swartz Dry Goods Company, 1608 Boulevard place. Window's were broken in two stores in the 1300 block on North Senate avenue, but the vandals, frightened away by passersby, took no loot. The stores prowled were the Zimmerman dry good store. 1340 North Senate avenue, and the Morgan hardware store at 1359 North Senate avenue. BURNED BODY IN AUTO Authorities at Noblesville Lack Clews to Man's Identity. By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 21. The charred body of a man, found in a wrecked automobile near here, remained unidentified today as authorities continued their investigation. The machine has been identified as belonging to W. F. Hill. Arcadia, who said he loaned the automobile to Gary Moore. Hortonville. and Logan Stuart. The latter has been taken into custody. Officers said the body was burned beyond recognition. Hourly Tempera*nres , 6a. m 31 10 a. m 33 7a. m 32 11 a. m 34 Ba. m 32 12 (noon).. 35 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 33

BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD Initfd Pr SUff C*rre*#ent WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.—Bullish tendencies in the buckwheat cake and sausage market are noticeable in the White House these days. President Coolidge. continuing a policy begun shortly after he entered the White House again has been playing host wholesale to members of congress with his now famous breakfasts. Virtually the entire senate

LINK CITY MEN IN BANK CASE Two Check-Kiting Suspects Involved in Shelburn Closing. Two Indianapolis men who are accused of check kiting are involved in the investigation of the closing of the Shelburn State bank, Shelburn. Ind.. last week, it was disclosed today. Although various officials in the investigation have said that evidence clearly points to the men, no move to arrest them has been made. Their names are known to Police Chief Claude M. Vorley. He said he. is ready to 2*\est them with an hour's notice but has had no official word from Shelburn that they are wanted. Confesses Frauds The Shelburn bank was closed by directors Wednesday noon, after its president, Jessup Bolinger, w r as found suffering from monoxide poisoning in his automobile in a tightly closed garage that morning. Bolinger. revived, confessed he had forged about $85,000 worth of paper over a period of a year to cover up money he had lost in various speculations. One of the Indianapolis men mentioned in connection with the affair is a real estaate man and the other an insurance man. Bolinger s accident or suicide attempt, which definitely has not been determined, followed by a few’ hours the linking of the body of Edgar D. Maples, vice-president of the Peoples National Bank and Trust Company at Sullivan (six miles distant) in a rallw'ay of the bank with a bullet wound in his forehead. Votes in Sullivan Bank Investigators said that. Bolinger was mumbling Maples’ name when he came out of the stupor due to the monoxide poisoning. No attempt to connect Bolinger with Maples’ death, however, is being made. Bollinger confessed that a large part of the paper he forged had gone to Maples’ bank and he and Maples had conferred on how he (Bolinger) could replace it with good paper. Maples was taking steps to protect his own bank and was duped by Bolinger, in the opinion of Maples’ friends throughout Sullivan. x No new clews on Maples’ suicide or murder have been unearthed. The coroner officially has termed it a murder. Besides jfeiling of Bolinger on a forgery chaige no move toward prosecution fas been made. SEANCES. WRECK LOVE Forced to .Sleep in Hotel, Says Husband in Divorce Pet'tion. Bn United Press GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. Jan. 21. —Mrs. Bessie Hammers spiritualistic seances after midnight forced him to move to a hotel for sleep, her husband said in his divorce petition which also stated she “visited” with a dead husband. RATIFY KELLOGG PACT Turkish National Assembly Passes on Peace Treaty. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—A Turkish grand national assembly unanimously has ratified the Kellogg anti-war pact, Joseph C. Grew 7 , American ambassador to Constantinople advised the state department today. QUEEN VISITS TURKEY Marie of Rumania. Recovered Flu, Stays In Constantinople. B '/ I. tiited Press CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan. 21. Queen Marie of Rumania has arrived here to spend several days. She recently recovered from a mild attack of influenza.

BUCKWHEAT AND SAUSAGE BREAKFASTS TO GO ‘BYE-BYE’ WITH COOLIDGE

membership has had buckwheat cakes and sausage with Mr. Coolidge since his return from his yuletide vacation at Sapelo Island on the Georgia coast. These breakfasts, however, are likely to pass with the departure of Mr. Coolidge. If Mr. Hoover uses his breakfasts except for the purpose of taking nourishment, he will make them strictly business affairs and probably very' small, intimate ones, with only one or two guests.

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SLAYER OF SCORE PAYS UFEINCHAIR Paul Jawarski, Notorious Pennsylvania Criminal, Scoffs at God. MEETS DEATH CALMLY Boasted of Killing 24 Men in Lifetime of Shady Deeds. By ROSS DOWNING United Press Staff Correspondent ROCKVIEW PENITENTIARY, BELLEFONTE. Pa., Jan. 21.—The state of Pennsylvania electrocuted today its most notorious criminal— Paul Jawarski, slayer of a score of men. Aroused from sleep at 5:30 a. m. by prison officials and served with breakfast, Jawarski was taken into the death chamber at 7 a. m., and a fie w' minutes later his criminal career was ended in the electric chair. This-32-year-old leader of pay roll bandits and murderer, who boasted that he had killed at least tw r o dozen men, died as he had lived, with a sneer on his lips for the law's of both G'xi and man. He refused to give permission for a minister ti render religious consolation to him at life’s end. He refused to seem concerned over the fate the law's of the state had decreed for him. Indifferent at Death He walked twenty-five feet from his death cell to the electric chair between two prison guards and met with an air of indifference the death for which he said, “I am ready.” “It would be against my belief as I have preached atheism all my life,” Jawarski told prison authorities when they insisted that he have the attention of the prison chaplain. With his hair clipped and attired in a prison shirt and a pair of blue trousers with the left leg split to the knee, Jawarski was led Into the death chamber and strapped into the electric chair, over which hung a large electric lamp so shaded as to make dim shadows about the room. Seated on a bench near by w’ere less than a dozen newspaper men and spectators. Standing at the electrical appliances of death near at hand was the official electrocutioner of Pennsylvania. New York and Massachusetts. Robert Elliott, who executed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray and Sacco and Vsnzetti. Second Slayer Dies Receiving a signal from the prison warden the electrocutioner pushed the lever which sent one current of electricity through Jawarski’s body at 7:02 a. m.. he was pronounced dead by the prison physician at 7:06 a. m. Jaw'arski was executed for the slaying of I. L. Gump, pay roll guard, who was shot fatally during a $48,000 holdup of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company at Mollernauer. Pa., Dec. 23, 1925. This w’as only one of the bandit’s many murders and pay roll robberies in western Pennsylvania, Detroit and Cleveland. Another murderer. Calvin E. James. Bucks c<fmty, followed Jawarski to the electric chair by a few minutes. He was strapped into the chair at 7:08 a. m. and after, one current of electricity he was pronounced dead at 7:14 a. m. BOY HURT JN BLAST 6-Year-Old Lights Match to See in Gas Tank. An explosion which followed his attempt to investigate the interior of a gasoline tank with a lighted match this morning may cost the sight of Walter Burdine. 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Burdine. 711 Amolda avenue. ’The boy was playing with matches in the family automobile in front of his home when* the mishap occurred. The blast ignited the car and severely burned the boy. He was taken to city hospital, where his condition was reported serious. Physicians hope to save his eyes by an operation. PUBLISHER IS DEAD Philadelphia Political Leader Passes Away. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. Jan- 21.—CoL James Elverson. publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and political leader, died here at 7 a. m. today.

Tt/TR. HOOVER favors bacon and eggs tor breakfast. If he does institute small breakfast conferences, he is likely to make bacon and eggs as famous as the Coolidge cakes and sausage. The Coolidge menu never changed since the President started this feature of the White House program. According to “Ike" Hoover. White House major domo since President Harrison, ample care is taken to provide lor

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Speeding Plane Just Backyard Fence in Sky for Daring Puss

Cat Stowaway Rides With Mail From Cincinnati to St. Paul and Back. STRUT, holder of the cat’s record for air travel, is back by the fireside at his Cincinnati home, meditating on his thrilling experience in which he tried a little feline wing-walking over Indianapolis airport. Strut’s achievements will go down in the annals of catdom. A playful mechanic slipped him into the baggage compartment of an Embry-Riddle air mail plane at Cincinnati recently and Pilot Tom Hill, who discovered him attempting to break loose from his cardboard cage, left him with Donald A. McConnell at Indianapolis airport to interne until Hill returned from Chicago next day. But Srut had plans of his own, and when Charles Wehrung, who relieved Hill the next day, was soaring away from the Indianapolis airpart for Chicago, he discovered Strut climbing over the mail in the forward cockpit to visit a bit with the pilot. The blast from a 100-mile-an-hour speed doesn’t make the cowling of a Waco biplane a very safe catwalk, and Wehrung nearly wrecked his plane keeping it its course with one hand a.d rescuing Strut with the other. Thereafter, the grateful kitten snuggled into Wehrung’s lap and behaved until they landed at the Chicago municipal airport. “I’ll take him back in the morning,” Wehrung decided. Strut must have read his thoughts. That night he caught a fat mouse, gorged his tummy, and crawled into a tri-motored Ford monoplane for a little shuteye session.

STATE'S RIVERS IN FLOODSTAGE Little Danger of Serious Damage Is Seen. Although the lower White and Wabash rivers were reported at fleed stage and still rising today, there is no danger of serious flood damage in Indiana, according to J. H. Armington, United States Wehther Bureau head. White river reached a high point of 12.7 feet here Sunday and had receded 1.4 foot today. There is no severe cold weather in sight for Indianapolis within the next thirty-six hours, according to Armington. It probably will rain tonight and Tuesday, be slightly colder, he said. The state highway commission reported traffic still hindered today on some roads because of the swollen streams. There Is a three mile detour on State Road 39 one and a half miles north of Rossville because of the collapse of a bridge. Washing out of a bridge also necessitates a two and a half- mile detour four miles east of Columbus on State Road 46. A washed out bridge on the same road west of Columbus has been replaced, but water still is over the road and highway department trucks are pulling traffic through. The Wabash river has risen over United States Road 27 between Berne and Geneva making necessary a six mile detour. STAR SUES WHAIR Actress Wants $5,000 for Loss of Tresses After Crash. Bn United Press PARIS. Jan. 21.—Gilda D Arthy. noted French actress, was awarded $5,000 damages today because she was forced to cut her long golden hair as the result of an automobile accident. She charged that she had been deprived of the use of her hair in her role as “Roxane” In the play “Cyrano de Bergerac" and had been forced to use a wig for three months. POCKET VETO TO TEST 17! S. Supreme Court to Review Validity of Practice. Bji L nil eit Press WASHINGTON Jan. 21. —The United States supreme court today decided to review’ the validity of pocket vetoes, such as used by President Coolidge on the Muscle Shoals resolution last year in a case appealed by the Oklanogan and other Indian tribes of Washington state. The United States court of claims in this case held an act of congress killed by such a veto.

those to whom even presidential buckwheat cakes and sausage are forbidden by doctor's orders. The Coolidge menu, besides the cakes and sausage, always includes grape fruit, eggs and bacon, coffee and toast. Maple syrup from Mr. Coolidge s native Vermont, is served with the cakes. No set policy is arranged for the breakfast. Party affiliations are forgotten. Democrats and Republicans rubbing elbows, in the state dining room where Mr. i

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U. S. SIGNS TREATIES Arbitration Pacts With Bulgaria Jugo-Slaria Sealed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The treaties of arbitration and conciliation were signed with Jugo-Slavia and Bulgaria at the state department today.

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HAND BOY $60,000 Playing of Youthful Violinist Wins Him Costly Instrument. By United Press NEW YORK, Jen. 21.-Sixty thousand dollars’ worth of wood and catgut will be given to Yebudi Menuhin, 12-year-old violinist. The gift will be a Stradivarius violon, from Henry Goldman, banker, and Mrs. Goldman, kwho were greatly impressed with the boy’s playing. ANSWERSJRY RAPS Mellon Replies to Fling by Bishop. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Secretary Mellon made a vigorous reply today to attacks on him by dry organizations for his refusal to accept a proposed additional $25,000,000 appropriation for prohibition enforcement. In a letter to Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mellon defended Iris stand and said that success of prohibition enforcement rests equally upon a number of related government agencies. He pointed out that the $25,000,000 provided by the Harris amendment was allocated to the prohibition bureau alone. RECESS U. S. HIGH COURT Supreme Body Take Vacation Until Feb. 18. By United Pros WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The United States supreme court recessed today at 12:20 p. m. until Monday, Feb. 18, at noon.

Coolidge presides as host. Mrs. Coolidge never attends these early parties. She takes breakfast in her room. n n n THE breakfasts serve a twofold purpose. They discharge a social obligation, and. more important. they enable the President to acquaint himself with the national legislative problems as well as the local affairs throughout the country.

Strut Is Home, a-Snooze by Kitchen Stove After Adventures. Wehrung went back alone, but Eddie Middaugh. Northwest Airlines pilot, was buzzing along merrily toward St. Paul when he saw Strut calmly walk up front to meet his new pilot. They became pretty friendly by the time Middaugh was forced down by fog near Hastings, Minn., and he and Strut went to Middaugh’s favorite restaurant, where Middaugh introduced Strut to his friend, the counter girl. She fell for Strut immediately and the restaurant adopted him. In the meantime, the cat’s feminine owner at Cincinnati demanded his return, and once more Strut resumed his air adventures, this time riding as co-pilot with Charles W. Holman from St. Paul to Chicago. Tom Hill took over his charge next day and gave Strut the freedom of the Fairchild cabin plane on the home trip. Now Strut is at home in kitchen and Kitty is his name. What anguish must be Strut’s as he meditates on his life in a kitchen and answers to Kitty. While he recalls the attention he received from famous pilots, good looking girls, generous restaurant help and -vhat not! QUELLREVOLT ~ IN GUATEMALA Disorganized Rebels Are Pursued by Troops. By United Press GUATEMALA CITY. Guatemala. Jan. 21.—President Lazaro Chacon has put down the revolution on the west coast of Guatemala with a strong hand, and the disorganized rebels, fleeing through the mountains. were closely pursued by government troops today. The victory was pot accomplished without considerable bloodshed. The government, with artillery apd airplanes. bombed and shelled the rebels into submission. The three provinces which had been in the hands of the rebels were in complete control of the government today and the countryside was quiet. Reports to the capital said the disturbances were aboht ended.

President Garfield Crew, 154 Men, Remain Aboard, Vessel Not Leaking. By United Press NEW ORLEANS. La., Jan. 21. Eighty-three passengers, grounded from the steamer President Garfield. stranded off the Florida coast, were landed at Nassau at noon today, according t-o wireless reports reaching here. The pasasengers were landed from the Munson liner, Pan-Ameri-can. w’hich rescued them from the disabled Garfield, the message said. The President Garfield was so little damaged by going on the Nassau Shoals off Florida that she will be refloated Tuesday and continue her around the world cruise, officials of the steamship company announced today. The 154 members of the crew, mostly Chinese, waited aboard the President Garfield for the arrival of five naval vessels rushing to the assistance of the disabled steamer. The President Garfield is lying in the little Bahama shoals, seventyi five miles east of Ft. Pierce, on the Florida coast. The vessel was not taking water and it had been unnecessary to man the pumps, according to word last received by radio. The extent of damage done to the bottom of the liner is as yet undetermined, i Last Thursday the President Garj field put out from this port with a ; passenger list of eighty-three bound on a cruise around the norld. j Havana was to have been the first j port of call. At 7:25 a. m„ Thursday a distress message was sent out which attracted several vessels. The j Pan-America, being closest, was peri mitted to effect the rescue.

The President listens more than he talks. He wants to obtain the news of others rather than discuss his own. At times guests are composed of congressional members interested in a particular legislative matter; at other times a few outsiders are invited, though seldom. Guests always release new anecdotes at these breakfasts. Senator Tom Heflin’s Negro dialect stories are reputed to please the President most.

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STATE HALTS AUTO ‘GRAB’ BY HIGHWAY BOSS ! Williams Wants Licenses for 1.300 Cars: Has Nearly 100 Less. FIFIELD BLOCKS MOVE Road Director Has Ignored Budget, Report Rules, Inquiry Shows. When Director John D. Williams of the state highway department asked for 1.300 automobile license plates for 1929. which Is nearly 100 more plates than the department has trucks and cars, his carte blanche order failed to go through : the office of Secretary of State Otto i G. Fifield, as it has done in former : years, it was learned by The Indian- ! apolis Times today, j Attention of Fifield and James B. j Bradley, head of the licensing division. was called to the fact that in j 1928 Williams' department drew 11.250 plates for 1,166 machines. The 1 department this year is said to have | forty new machines, but asked for ninety-four extra plates. It was explained by department officials that the extra plates came in handy when one was lost and the like. Danger of using them on private machines was pointed out and Fifield says that he will ask Attorney-General James M. Ogden for an opinion regarding the legality of issuing plates en masse, without registration. Rules Are Ignored According to examiners checking the licensing bureau, the law requires registration of each state car in the regular manner, except that plates are issued freehis instance of the highway department ignoring the rules as applied to other departments is but another of the general trend followed under Williams’ directions, said legislators. The statutes of 1917 order “the chief of each state office, board, commission, department, bureau, and institution" to present annually, on or before Dec. I. an, annual report for publication in the Indiana Year Book. Year Book Held Up In 1927 the highway department entirely ignored this law and in 1928 brought in a combined report for two years, several weeks late. The year book is being held up for the highway report, it was stated in the legislative reference library today. All other departments arc in. It already is fifty-one days late illegally. The state budget law requires all department and institutional budj gets to be in the hands of the budj get clerk not later than Oct. 15. Williams presented his last week, with the legislature in session, there being some legislative demands for more money included in it. SAFETY TO BE TOPIC James W. Doeppers will Speak at Conference Tonight. James W. Doeppers, general manager of the Diamond Chain Companay and president of the Foremen’s Club, will be the principal speaker at the industrial safety conference at the Chamber of Commerce tonight. The conference, sponsored by the Indianapolis Safety Council, is the first in a series of monthly conferences in which plans for furthering industrial safety will be discussed. JAILED BY TOOTHACHE Pain Killing Drink Puts Violator of Parole in Prison. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—A toothache for which Frank Melito took a drink of liquor as a pain killer, put him back in Sing Sing prison from which he had broken parole two years ago. The developments which came in the wake of that drink of liquor landed Frank on Welfare Island where he was Identified as a parole breaker. SLICE AT JURY VERDICT Law Sought Whittles at Number Needed to Contact or Acquit. Verdict by five-sixths of the jury in criminal cases would be made valid by a bill to be introduced in the Indiana house of representatives today by Representative John W. Chamberlain of Terre Haute and Lloyd D. Claycombe of Indianapolis. A similar bill passed the house in 1927 but lacked one vote of receiveing a constitutional majority In the senate. 2 SECRETARIES URGED Coolidge Recommends SIO,OOO More for Hoover Expenses. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Presi- ! dent Coolidge sent to the senate today a recommendation that congress appropriate SIO,OOO more for i the White House next year, to en- ' able President-Elect Hoover to have two secretaries.