Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1929 — Page 1

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SENATE VOTES AGAINST DELAY ON WARSHIPS Coolidge Will Sign Cruiser Bill Despite Disregard of His Ideas. FINAL BALLOT IS NEAR House Leaders Refuse to Compromise on Dry Fund Measure. BV PAUL R. MALLON Inlt.d Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—President Coolidge will sign the $274,000.000 cruiser bill even though it fails to subscribe to his program for delay in construction, it was learned today on Indisputable authority. I The bill provides fifteen new cruisers in the next three years. Evidence of Coolidge's intentions was given privately in the senate by administration leaders while that body moved toward final enactment of the bill of its own choosing. Almost simultaneously word was given newspaper men at the White House confirming the "'private statements of Republican senators. With this assurance that the chief executive is not piqued because of the 54 to 28 refusal of the senate to eliminate the clause calling for building the new cruisers at the rate of five a year for three years, the senate made haste to adopt the measure this afternoon under a tenminute limitation of debate. Discuss Neutrals’ Right The Borah-Reed amendment proposing the state department negotiate treaties with foreign nations to protect the rights of neutrals at sea came up first when the senate met j at noon and arrangements were! made for its adoption. The amendment particularly is aimed at Great Britain, whose | statesmen for 150 years have contended vessels of neutrals can be | seized at sea for searches and | whose diplomats have interpreted l contraband as meaning every necessity of life. If such treaties can be carried out. the best international students in the senate think "the cause of the next war" may be eliminated from the realm of international dispute. While these cruiser negotiations were going on, the congressional conferees on tne first deficiency appropriation bill was made ready to kill the $24,000,000 prohibition increase which the senate tried to put in the bill. The fiist step was taken ; when the conferees held their sec- ■ ond meeting in the office of Chairmain Warren. * Refuse Dry Compromise Hbuse leaders were said to have refused to discuss any sort of compromise about the amendment, although one of the conferees is supposed to have had a compromise in his pocket. Senate conferees probably will go back to the senate, plead that the house would not negotiate, and ask, therefore, that the senate abandon its amendment, hoping to save the rest of the bill. Warren is expected to bring the matter up when the cruiser bill is out of the way. The house considered minor bills and the naval appropriation bill for next year. The roll call on the Harrison amendments to the navy bill which sought to delay construction of the fifteen proposed cruisers follows: For 28 Republicans (16)— Blaine. Borah, Brookhart. Burton. Capper. Curtis, Frazier, Greene. Jones. McMaster, Norbeck. Norris, Nye, Thomas (Idaho). Warren. Democrats (11) —Black, Dill, Harrison, King. Mayfield. Neeley. Shepherd. Smith, Thomas (Okla.) and Wheeler. Farmer-Labor (I)—Shipstead. Against 54 Republicans (26)—Bingham. Couzens, Dale. Deneen, Edge. Fess. Gillett, Gleun. Gos. Gould, Hale. Hastings. Johnson. Keyes. Moses. Oddie, Phipps. Reed <Pa.). Robinson (Ind.). Sackett. Schall. Shortridge. Steiwer, Vandenberg. Waterman.- Watson. Democrats (28)— Ashurst. Barkley, Bayard, Bratton,. Bruce, Copeland. George, Gerry. Harris. Hawes. Hayden, Heflin, Kendricks, McKellar, Overman. Pittman. Ransdell, Reed (Mo.), Robinson (Ark.). Simmons, Steck, Stephens. Swanson. Trammell. Tydings, Tyson. Wagner, ■Walsh (Mass.). Pairs (4> —Glass (Dem.. Va.>, Lafollette (Rep.. Wis.i, 'Walsh (Dem.. Mont.). Against—Edwards (Dem.. N. J.), Fletchers (Dem., Fla.), McClain <Rep.. Conn.), Larrazolo (Rep., N. M.), Brousard (Dem., La.), Metcalf <Rep., R. I.). FALIT in love on liner Two Couples Engaged on Arrival at Hoboken. tff/ Prc** NEW YORK. Feb. s.—Romance returned to Hoboken with the arrival of the liner George Washington. Lamar Armstrong. Youngstown. 0., and Josephine Widener. Kew Gardens, L. 1., who had met on shipboard, had become engaged. Esther Friend. Chicago, and Marcus JelHnek. Vienna, informally announced their engageim nt.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 223

Seeks Record

Captain Frank Hawks, Texas aviator, who is attempting to set a new non-stop flight record across the United States.

MOVE TO OUST OHIOjQFFICIAL Convicted State Treasurer Faces Impeachment B' l United Pr< ss COLUMBUS. 0., Feb. 5,-The Ohio legislature moved today to impeach State Treasurer Bert B. Buckley, who was convicted in federal court of conspiring to bribe a probition officer. A committee of seven to investigate the treasurer's case and report back to the house of representatives was appointed after Buckley refused to accede to Governor Myers Y. Cooper’s request that he resign for the good of the Republican party. WON'T APPEAL CASE Aviator Not to Try for New Trial. Information was given county prosecutors today that Rollin Stewart, 24, Cambridge apartments, probably will not appeal from the one to two-year sentence given him by Criminal Judge James A. Collins for transporting liquor. . Stewart, now’ in custory of the sheriff until Saturday when he will be sent to the state reformatory, was convicted last week. It was reported that he would serve the one-to-two-year suspended sentence that Collins revoked at the same time, but would appeal the second one. If he served the revoked sentence and the supreme court affirmed the one given last# week, it would be necessary for him to serve both, while if he does not appeal the sentences, can be served concurrently. Stewart is an aviator. SAVE SCHOONER CREW OF 8 IN HEAVY SEAS Coast Guards Make Three Trips to Rescue Men. Bu United Press ' ELIZA3ETH CITY. N. C.. Feb. 5. —The crew of the four-masted schooner Bainbridge was rescued today by coast guards, who braved high seas three times to bring ashore the eight men on the wrecked vesSel. The Bainbridge, bound for Fairhaven. Mass., from Jacksonville. Fla., with a load of lumber, broke up shortly after the crew was taken off. OPEN FRIENDSHIP WEEK Pastor to Speak Tonight at Dinner at Y. W. C. A. | The Rev. Stephen J. Corey will give the opening lecture. of a Friendship Week series being conducted under auspices of the Y. W. C. A.. W. fc. T. !>.. Church Federation of Indianapolis and the Women's Missionary Council at a dinner at the Y. V/. C. A. tonight. I His subject will be "Beginning ! Again at Jerusalem With a World | Program of Christ.” ASK BOOZE REFERENDUM Wisconsin "Senate Considers Resolution for Volstead Modification. i Bu United Press MADISON, Wis., Feb. s.— Two resolutions, asking for a nationwide referendum on the question of mod if ring the Volstead act and for a state referendum on repeal of the Wisconsin dry law were before the Wisconsin senate for consideration today.

FLIERS SPEED OVER U. S. IN NONSTOP HOP Hawks Fails to Reach Goal at Time Set, but Still May Break Record. LAST SEEN AT NIGHT Soaring at High Altitude; Likely Few Could Identify Hurrying Plane. By United. Press NEW YORK, Feb. s.—Captain Frank Hawks’ hopes of reaching Roosevelt field before 1 p. m. (Eastern standard time), in his attempted non-stop flight from Los Angeles failed to materialize today. To that hour, he had not landed his study lockheed single motored plane at either Curtiss or Roosevelt field on Long Island. But he still had more than two hours time in which to better the 18 hours and 58 minutes figure set by Art Goebel and the late Harry Tucker for the cross-continent flight. Hawks' "Air Express” was reported sighted Monday night spinning past Tucson, Ariz Close watch was kept at many points along the route for sight of the express today. Follows Goebel Route Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. s.—Captain Frank Hawks, unsighted for hours because of the altitude which he maintained to take advantage of strong tail winds, was believed well on his way to New York today in an attempt to low r er the record for a non-stop trahs- continental flight. Carrying a total load of 6,600 poiinds, including 450 gallons of gasoline. Hawks left Metropolitan airport here at 5:37 p. m. (Pacific coast time) Monday in his trim, single-motored LockheedVega monoplane, the Air Express. He was accompanied by Oscar Grubb, mechanic. Flying over virtually the same route taken by Art Goebel and the late Harry Tucker in establishing the present record of eighteen hours and fifty-eight minutes, Hawks hoped to land at Roosevelt field, New York, before 1 p. m. (eastern time) today. The "air express” first was sighted at Tucson, Ariz., approximately three and one-half hours after the takeoff. Hawks was flying at an altitude which made identification difficult. Airport officials here said the veteran pilot probably would maintain the high altitude and that he might not be sighted until daylight. Hawks’ announced route would carry him over the southwest into Kentucky near Louisville. He intended to pass over Portsmouth and Mlddleport, Ohio; Morgantown. W. Va.; Meyers, Harrisburg and Reading, Pa. "We’ll have lunch In New York tomorrow,” Hawks assured friends as he entered the plane for the takeoff. VENUE CHANGE GRANTED IN DUVALL SUIT TRIAL $6,000 Case Will Be Heard in Hendricks County. The $6,000 civil suit filed against John L. Duvall, former mayor, by the Century Building Company, operator of the Century building. Pennsylvania and Maryland streets, in which Duvall saw his daily newspaper, The Indianapolis Post, die after a short life, will be tried in the Hendricks county circuit court. Superior Judge Linn D. Hay today granted Duvall a change of venue based on allegations that the building company could wield undue prejudice against him ir Marlon county. The suit alleged that Duvall failed to pay rent of $5,175 on rooms in the building which were rented on a yearly contract. * THREE STORES ROBBED Standard Grocerys Entered; Loot Is $122. | Three Standard grocerys were entered Monday night by burglars, i who tbok at least $122 in loot. Sixtytwo dollars cash was taken from the store at 2705 College avenue, which thieves entered by breaking down a rear door. Amount of the loot taken from the store, at 2427 Rockville road is undetermined, although it is expected to be slight. From a store at 3630 East Twenty-fifth $35 cash and $25 worth of groceries were taken. WHALEN GOES SOUTH New York's Police Chief Starts for Florida Vacation. NEW YORK, Peb. s.—Police Commissioner Grover Whalen, whose every action for the last month has oeen recorded in newspapers, slipped out of town Monday for at Palm Beach. Whalen left an hour before schedule. in a private car, "to avoid pests.” His life has been threatened several times since he began his cam--jaign against speakeasies and criminals.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1929

Gets Jail Term

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Clinton S. Carnes today was sentenced to prison for five to seven years on charges of embezzling thousands of dollars while treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Missionary Society. . .

UNDY RESUMES MAIL FLIGHT Rests for Night at Belize; Today's Objective Is Managua. Bu United Press BELIZE, British Honduras, Feb. s.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has broken through the mists of the sea and piloted the first air mail plane from North to Central America. Resuming his flight after a trip Monday from Miami, Fla., to Belize, Lindbergh took off today with Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, as his second day’s objective in opening the new mail and passenger route of the Pan-American Airways Company. After a short stop at Tela, Honduras, this morning, Lindbergh continued to Managua. Lindbergh was celebrating his twenty-seventh birthday in the flight from Miami. He stopped first at Havana and then, in the bright quiet of a Central American midafternoon, his amphibian plane NC—BOOO drifted easily down to alight in the Belize harbor. The flight is to end at Cristobal Wednesday. The flight began ih Miami, Fla., which by ship is a four-day voyage from Belize. An hour’s pause was made in Havana and then the 600mile flight to Belize, across the Caribbean and along the east coast of southern Mexico, began. Lindbergh expects to return to the United States on Feb. 10 over the same route. ‘HOUDINI NOTE. FAKE’ Friend of Magician Brands Message Fraud. The alleged spirit message the late Harry Houdini, famous foe of spiritualism, sent his wife recently, was branded a fake, "purely and simply,” in Indianapolis today by J. Malcom Bird, associate and friend of Houdini and an authority on things psychic. “Houdini made arrangements to send spirit messages to several persons in his attempt to apply the maximum test to spiritualism,” he said, “but no messages have come. "His alleged message to Mrs. Houdini is a trumped up fakery.’” Bird, former associate editor of the Scientific American, and himself a "spook hunter” of note, addressed the Rotary Club at luncheon in the Claypool on “My Psychic Investigations.” After outlining many systems of spirit medium fakery, he told the Rotarians there is much psychic phenomena that indicates some form of spiritualism is genuine. “At the present stage of our investigations we are unable to explain this phenomena,” he said. ROME-TEXAS AIR RACE APPROVED IN ITALY Prize Donor to Confer Wednesday With Mussolini. By United Press ROME, Feb. s.—Colonel William Easterwood of Dallas, Tex., conferred today with Italo Balbo, un-der-secretary fer aviation, in plans for an air race from Rome to Dallas, via New York, for which Easterwood has offered a prize of $25,000. Easterwood told the United Press that Balbo had approved the idea. Easterwood said he was confident that the Italian government would provide a plane tor the Italian competitor. Easterwood will visit Premier Benito Mussolini Wednesday. Given Penny as Damages i By Times Special MARION. Ind.. Feb. s.—One cent ! damages were awarded George Dixon, administrator of the estate of Pearl Dixon. provided certain property is returned. Otherwise, Dixon is authorized to recover $275, according to a decree by Circuit Judge O. D. Clawson.

TREASURER OF CHURCH GROUP IS SENTENCED Carnes Admits Embezzling Half Million; Ordered to Prison. GIVEN 5 TO 7 YEARS Remarkable Career of Fraud and Adventure Climaxed by Term. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. s.—Clinton S. Carnes, forrv.er treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission board, unexpectedly appeared in superior court here today and pleaded guilty to embezzlement of more than $529,000 of the church’s funds. He was sentenced to from five to seven, years in prison. John Boykin, solicitor general, said the former treasurer had made a blanket conveyance of all his property to the Home Mission board and that the sentence was agreed to by him on recommendation of officers of the church board. The sentence was on but one of twenty indictments brought against the ex-treasurer, who disappeared last August, later to be found in Winnipeg, Canda, after great shortages in his accounts had been discovered. Judge Virlyn B. Moore remarked that the five-year sentence was short but because of the agreement and the fact restitution had been made, he would not interfere. Agrees to Short Sentence Boykin, who had been expected to prosecute Carnes rigidly, said the high cost of bringing witnesses was one reason for his decision to agree to the short sentence rather than press the rest of the indictments. Carnes, the tall, clerical looking embezzler, appeared in court with his youngest son, Samuel, Theproceedings were over in thirty minutes and the prisoner will now be assigned to either the state priso non some convict camp. Morethan $900,000 is th£ shortage of Mission Board funds blamed on Carnes. His manipulations extended over nine years, involved intricate transactions with scores of banks and complicated bookkeeping. He disappeared suddenly Aug. 15, after telling his friends and family he was going to Raleigh, N. C., on church business. Days stretched into weeks with no sign o fthe tall, bespectacled treasurer. Examine Board's Books Somebody thought to examine the books of the board. The shortage was found and Investigation then was begun into the private life of the prominent layman. He was found to have been an exconvict, to have sponsored financially the hopes of two Georgia girls for movie careers and to have used some of the missing mone yin a scheme for a bevy of European beauties to tour the United States. The career of Carnes, as revealed by the investigation was enough to stun every Baptise official who had known him—and did. When a youth he had been in difficulties, because of manipulation of funds in a railroad office. Later, he w’as arrested in Missouri in connection with organization of a company and went to prison again for using the mails to defraud. Treasure Became Rich During the war he brought his family to Atlanta to live. Asa public accountant, he became acquainted with Baptist board officials but his activities then were directed to promotion schemes in Alabama. Once they got him Into trouble and at the Carnes home here he was said to be in Washington “serving the flag.” After he disappeared last August, it was brought out that in 191.7, he was in the federal penitentiary. In 1919, the Baptist board needed a treasurer and Carnes was recommended and named. He became rich—bought a home in an exclusive section, belonged to the best club and saw to it that his sons moved in the best circles.

VUIGE DOCTOR SUES

Asks $50,000 for Restoring Mme. HempePs Charm.

By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. s.—Frieda Hempel, the concert and opera singer, has been sued for $50,000 by Johannes Adler, w’ho claims he restored charm to Mme. Hempel's voice w’hen her singing pow’ers were waning. Adler, a teacher of singing, wants ihe money because he feels Mme. Hempel has not proved sufficiently grateful vo him. She promised, according to his compaint, to supply him with recommendations and pupils if he would transfer his operations from Berlin to New York. The singer is on a concert tour. Her answer denied such promises or treatment for her voice.

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SELECTS GOVERNOR OF PHILIPPINES TO FILL KELLOGG JOB

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Governor and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson

Henry L. Stimson Slated to Be Secretary of State by Hoover. By United Press _ MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 5. President-elect Hoover has selected Henry L. Stimson, governor-general of the Philippines as secretary of state, it was learned here today in unimpeachable authority. Stimson’s name had been discussed in reports of the last few days upon which President-Elect Hoover had declined to comment, but it was learned today that he- has been offered the post and will accept it. Impressed by Reward Mr. Hoover, in making the choice of his secretary of state, was influenced considerably by the advice of former secretary of state, Elihu Root, a former war partner of Stimson, former secretary of state Charles Evans HBughes and Chief Justice Taft of the supreme court, in whose administration Stimson was secretary of war. Hoover discussed the appointment with the three before he left Washington, Mr. Hoover also was impressed by Stimson’s work In smoothing out difficulties in Nicaragua as. personal representative of President Coolidge which received a general favorable response in that Central America CQUntry long a storm center. College Head May Get Post Mr. Hoover is known to believe the appointment will not only assure continuation of more settled relations in that country bu will tend to emphasize his general aim to improve relations withal lof Central and South America, during his administration. When Mr. Hoover talked with Nicaraguan officials during his stop at Corinto on his LatinAmerican cruise ( he found general approval of Stimson’s work there. The governor-general of the Philippines is returning to the United States soin. Appointment of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford university, as secretary of the interior also was indicated here today as likely. Wilbur has secured £ leave of absence. RESCUE 9 FROM FLAMES Firemen Save Residents, Overcome by Smoke, in Bombed Building. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. s.—Nine persons, overcome by smoke, were rescued by firemen today from a burning building wrecked by an explosion in a soft-drink parlor. , The blast wrecked the main floor and fire which followed soon spread to apartments above. Police said the soft drink parlor probably had been bombed. bans” student wives W. and J. President Lays Down Edict as Semester Opens. By United Press WASHINGTON, Pa., Feb. 5. With the opening of the second school semester, President S. S. Baker of Washington and Jefferson college informed the student body that the ban on marriages of undergraduates would stand. "If you get married,” he said, “you’ll have to see me. That’s all I have to say.”

Wages of Lie

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. John Rutherford Chambers became a purse-snatcher because he told his mother a lie, he told police here Monday night. After being arrested on the charge, the boy said his mother believed he worked as a messenger boy and he took the purses to obtain his "wages.”

RYAN HEIR TO MARRY Society Girl to Wed Grandson of Late Capitalist. By United Press _ , _ _ m . WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Miss Janet Newbold. popular Washington society girl and Allan Ryan, grandson and heir of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York capitalist, are to be married here late today. Society leaders of New York, and Washington, are expected to attend the ceremony.

REMOVE TOOTH IN GIRL’S LUNG Operation Is Successful; Swallowed in December. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 5.—A tooth which had been in the left lung of Esther Elizabeth Groat, 11, of Wichita, Kan., for nearly two months, was removed today. After the operation at the Dr. Chevalier Jackson clinic of the graduate hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the little girl was resting comfortably. Doctors will keep her in the hospital for a few days, to watch her condition. Esther swallowed the tooth in December when her mother pulled it with a string. The operation on the girl, like all bronchoscopic operations at the Doctor Jackson clinic, was performed by inserting a tube into the lung. Equipped, with a small electric light and a pair of mechanical fingers on the end, the tube is manipulated by the doctor in conjunction with X-ray. Thus the operating doctor reaches in and draws out the object. DUNN QUASH Defense Moves Again in Perjury Case. A motion to quash the perjury indictment against County Councilman Paql S. Dunn was filed before Special Judge Fremont Alford in criminal court today. Clinton H. Givan, defense attorney, charged in the motion that the offense alleged is not a public of--sense and was not set forth with sufficient clearness. He also charged that Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott had no qualification to inquire into Dunn’s eligibility to serve as councilman. Dunn is charged with failing to own property in the county when he ran for office. Arguments on the motion to quash, the third dilatory defense move in the case, were set for Feb. 16. CHILD HIT BY AUTO Son of Maywood Resident Steps in Front of a Motor Car. Max Shanklin, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shanklin, received a broken collar bone and head cuts today when he was struck by an automobile driven by Frank Northern, 128 West Tenth street, on state road 67 near Maywood this morning. The boy was crossing the road with his brother Cecil. 7, and becoming confused stepped back in front of the car, deputy sheriffs were told. Northern swerved his car into a telephone pole, fiysbl ryP-aAh shrdlu cmfwyp cmc

POOR FARM PRUBED Report Soon to Be Made by Grand Jury. Investigation of conditions at the Marion county poor farm by the county grand jury is nearing completion and a report will be made to Criminal Judge James A. Collins, it w’as reported today. The jury has heard the testimony of many inmates of the institutions and also questioned several women members of a local patriotic organization. The women visited the infirmary several times before and after Christmas, supplying gifts to persons confined there. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. ra 25 10. a. m 27 7 a. m 26 11 a. m 29 8 a. m 26 12 (noon).. 30 9 a. m..... 27 1 p. m,.... 30

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BILL SMASHED IN HOUSE BY UTILITY VOTE Draft Giving Municipalities Right of Competition Defeated. ENDS BITTER FIGHT Quash Attempt to Exempt City Plants From Commission Check. First definite lineup of the proutility members of the house of representatives occurred today when they rallied to defeat by a margin of ten votes the McKesson-Murden bill providing that municipalities may establish utility plants in competition with corporation utilities and also removing the publicly operated utilities from" supervision of the public service commission. The fight was the high point of today’s session. The house atfourned at noon until 10 a. m. Wednesday. The death blow to the bill was started by Representative Oscar A. Ahlgren of Whiting, who made a motion upon presentation of the bill for second reading, that the house indefinitely pefetpone discussion. Representative Truman G. Murden of Twelve Mile, co-author of the bill moved that the Ahlgren motion be tabled. C. of C. Aids Utilities The motion was lost on the roll call and the vote on indefinite postponement showed 52 to 42 for postponement. This action automatically killed the bill. Utility lobbyists were strenuous in their efforts to kill the bill in committee and a divided report of 7 for Indefinite postponement and 3 against, was brought Into the house from the committee. James A. Cooj>er, attorney o! Terre Haute, led the utility fight, and he was seconded by William Mclnerny, veteran South Bend utility representative. The Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, through B. F- Geyer of Ft. Wayne, aided the utility lobby. "Control of municipally ownfffi utilities by the public service commission provided assurance to the consumer of adequate service, and non-discriminatory rates. "Sandbagging of utilities will result if the McKesson-Murden bill is parsed,” Cooper said. The vote was: For Fostponraent, 52 Ahlgren, Hopkins Ahrens Huber Babcock Hopkins (of Benton) Baker King Ballard Kistler Bateheler Knepper Batterman Knight Benedict Lalott Bennett Lovrenthal Bernhardt Malott Bloom Markun Boncbard Moll Brown Rice (of Huntington) Calvert Scott lot Lake) Christensen Scott <of Floyd) Claycombe Shaffer Cromer • Smith . Donnell Staples Farrell Stauffer Ferguson (of Alien) Stewart Fisher Street Gerding Thiel Gilbert Tudor Grant Wright Gray Zieg Guernsey Zimmerman Harris Against Fostponment, 13 Adams Guard Bosson Gwin Brewster Hawkins (of Shelby) Busenbark Hiatt Byers Holloway Cantwell Jones Carter Lee Chamberlain LoWry Curry McCallfe Dentlinger McKesson Denton Misener Edwards Murden Eshelman Rice (of Fountain) Evans Rose Ferguson (of Clark) Saonders Fitsglbbon Stoops Foster Taylor Freeman Thompson Garrard Trent Gilley Trowbrldgo Groves Worley Quiz Committee Provided Twenty more bills were introduced. Most important were those providing for examinations for admission to the bar and to restore the absent voters ballot with new safeguards against misuse. The absent voters bill bore the signatures of Representatives John W. Chamberlain, Mrs. Bertha Zimmerman, and William H. Lee. The absent voter ballots would be issued to persons unable to go to the polls because of absence or sickness. Gift or acceptance of liquor to influence votes in any election would be punishable by fine of from SSO to SIOO and a mandatory thirtyday jail sentence by provisions of the bill introduced by Representative Joseph R. Scott of New Albany, a minister. License Bills Introduced The use of a weapon or commission of an injury to an officer making an arrest would constitute a felony, carrying a mandatory oneyear sentence, by provision of ;be bill introduced by Representative I. Newton Brown. Representative Jaijies H. Low/y of Indianapolis introduced, by request, a bill fixing the license fees of all motor vehicles, excepting motorcycles, at $5 a year. Two licensing bills were introduced, one governing the raising of muskrats “and other wild animals,” and the other junk dealers. Other new’ bills would establish a closed season on quail in forty-three northern Indiana counties; provide for turning over to the auditor of state circuit court fee* which have gone uncollected ten years or more, and prohibit the return of unsold bakery products.