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AM NEW BILL TO BLOCK CITY MANAGER PUN Draft Revamping Present System Introduced in Senate. PROVIDES PAY RAISES Fight Expected in House Today Over Noll Measure. Another bold stroke to thwart the will of the people of Indianapolis in their demand for city manager government was made today with introduction of a bill revamping the mayor and aldermen system by Senator Sumner Clancy, George V. Coffin henchman, in the senate. The bill applies only to this city. Should the city manager government, voted for overwhelmingly by the electorate, become effective as planned, the measure would be entirely unnecessary. But Clancy is among the staunch supporters of the bill introduced by Senator George W. Sims, Terre Haute, to repeal the city manager law and not permit citizens to have city manager government if they want it. The bill is expected out of committee shortly on a majority report for passage. Salaries Raised Senator J. Clyde Hoffman, Indianapolis, will sign a minority committee report against the measure. The Clancy bill makes municipal government more interesting worthwhile for the office-seek-ing politicians. It provides salary raises. Under its provisions the mayor of Indianapolis will get $lO,000. each of nine aldermen $2,400, corporation counsel $7,000, city attorney and superintendent of police $5,000 each. The mayor now gets $7,500, corporation counsel $5,000, city attorney and police chief $4,000. Councilmen get only S6OO a year. It provides for election of the nine aldermen from the city at large. Tire measure gives the mayor complete control, by appointment, of all boards and commissions, but provides for hearing in circuit court on dismissals. Linked With Ivlan Clancy, Sims and Senator John C. Sherwood, Mitchell, chairman of the committee of which is to approve the Sims bill were all pointed to as Ku-Klux Klan mouthpieces during the 1927 session. The start of the final battle on the Noll bill which clarifies the city manager law' w'as expected in the house of representatives this afternoon. The Noll bill, which already has been the cause of several bitter battles between the city manager plan proponents and opponents, was scheduled to come before the house for third reading and final passage. After determined efforts of Representative Lloyd Claycombe, Indianapolis, to amend the measure so its original provisions wnuld be nullified, tlie measure now is regarded as generally satisfactory to city manager backers although some compromises have been made.

ABSENT VOTERS’ BILL IS FAVORED BY HOUSE Objection Tat Act May Lead to Abuses, Unheeded. Fear that passage of the proposed absent voters ballot bill would result in the same frauds and evils perpetrated under the absent voters bill repealed by the 1927 legislature was expressed by those in favor of the minority report for indefinite postponement in the house of representatives today. os The tide seemd in favor of the pponents of the bill when Representative J. Glenn Harris of Gary, declared: “The people should have suffrage and if this bill can be whipped into a suitable shape, it Should be passed. The division was overwhelmingly in favor of the amended majority report for passage to second reading. SIGNS THREE BILLS Change of Venue, Hospital and Lien Acts Become Laws. Three house bills were signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie today. One permits the defendant attorney in a civil action to file change of venue without his client in court; another permits county commissioners to establish a county hospital upon petition of 30 per cent of the taxpayers, and the third increases the time for filing liens for warehouse and storage companies from ten to sixty days. The Claycombe bill permitting zoning appeal cases to go from circuit and superior to the appellate court for final decision was passed on third reading by 'the senate. Four Die After "Reprieve” by Snow Bu 'Kit fit Pre*n . . * ■ VIENNA, Feb. 20.—Four highwaymen. whose lives were spared temporarily when the executioner was snowbound several days ago, while en route to the hanging, were put to death today in Zagreb, Jugo-Slavia. *

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 236

$15,000 BLAST IN STORE PERILS LIVES OF THREE

Front of Furniture House on < Oliver Avenue Is Wrecked. Lives of two young women and a radio service man were periled late this morning, when an oil burning furnace exoloded in the basement of the Freeman Brothers Furniture Company store, 1250 Oliver avenue. The plate glass front was blown out and building and stock of the large neighborhood store damaged approximately $15,000 by smoke and flames, George Freeman, 646 Division street, one of the proprietors, said. The furnace oil tank went dry unexpectedly this morning. An emergency call brought a thirtygallon supply. This was poured into the furnace tank and the furnace turned on full blast, because the store had gotten cold, Freeman said. Furnace Causes Blast Miss Georgiana Baker, 26, of 1140 St. Paul street, and Miss Ellen Trout, 21 of 2332 West Michigan street, bookkeepers and Lon Kitchen, radio service man, 1250 Lee street, had gone to the basement to get warm. The furnace had no sooner gotten hot than the explosion occurred. Kitchen was hurled across the basement against a brick wall and the two young women stunned. Covered with flaming oil, the basement soon was a seething cauldron. The trio recovered their senses in time to dash up a stairway. “Our coats, our coats!” shouted the young women as they reached the top of the stairs and started to go back down after them. Flames Sweep First Floor “To hell with your cotas,” yelled Morris Freeman, another proprietor. “I’ll get you new ones; get out of here,” and the young women and other employes filed out of the building just ahead of the rapidly spreading flames. Firemen said they could not understand how the trio in the basement escaped alive. Flames swept into the first floor and firemen fought them for half an hour. George Freeman estimated damage to stock alone at SIO,OOO. BEAT GUARD, ESCAPE Six Convicts Saw Way Out; Stage Robbery. Bn United Press CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 20. Six prisoners sawed their way from the Kanawha county jail here today after beating a guard into unconsciousness. From the jail the fugitives went to the west end of the city, where they robbed a grocery of SSO. They then fled into the hills. Three of the prisoners were being held on charges of holding up and robbing the passengers aboard a Cabin Creek interurban here a few days ago.

WORLD IS FORD’S WORKSHOP

Master Builder of Steel Age Still Dreams Dreams

FT. MYERS, Fla., Feb. 20. Heary Ford, practical dreamer and outstanding figure in the modern age of steel, revealed himself as an out and out internationalist in an interview with the United Press today. "I am frank to admit I am an internationalist,” Ford said as he visioned completion soon of his projected great tractor and motor car plant in Russia. Then he added—“So why not a big factory in Russia as well as in South America, Ireland and other countries?” Ford discussed eagerly his plans for factories about the world, his experiments with Thomas A. Edison and the way he keeps young at 65. The interview took place on the spacious porch of the Ford winter home here, which adjoins that of Edison. n According to the motor magnate, his revised plans for a gigantic plant in Russia almost are certain to meet the approval of the Russian government. The first draft of his project was rejected. "It was all a misunderstanding on the part of the Russian government officials, w'ho did not quite get the right idea from the men we sent over to negotiate,” Ford explained. “It probably was the fault of our representatives because it seems the Russian government gained the impression that w*e wanted a slice of Russia or something like that. Asa matter of fact, we want to help Russia. We want to help all foreign countries.” Ford w’as asked what would be the extent of the Russian operations. The projected plant, he said, will not be devoted exclusively to the manufacture of trac-

VOLCANO IN ERUPTION Hawaiian Crater Belches Forth Fire Today. B" TANARUS" " ■ HILO, T. H„ Feb. 20.—Hale Maumau pit on Kilauea volcano began belching fire today. At dawn the lava flow* was increasing steadily and had. covered an area in the pit of approximately thirty-five acres. MERCURY HITS 3 ABOVE MARK Firemen Battle 14 Blaze in Near-Zero Weather. A low temperature of 3 degrees above zero and fourteen fires, in one of which firemen staged a thrilling rescue, were the results today of the cold‘wave which struck the city from the northwest late Tuesday. Relief from the cold wave is due tonight however, J. H.. Armington, United States weather bureau head predicted. Tonight’s lowest temperature will be from 15 to 20 degrees above zero and the mercupr will continue rising slowly Thursday, he said. The low temperature of 3 above was reached at 6 a. m. today. Most of the fires Tuesday night and early today, which caused a total of $2,000 damage, resulted from the frantic efforts of householders to fire up to combat the cold, firemen said. A mother and her three children were carried down ladders from the second story of their blazing home by firemen at 10 p. m. Tuesday. The mother, Mrs. Anna Jacobs, 2959 Ruckle street, discovered the fire, which had started in a basement rubbish pile,, and ran to wake her sleeping children, one of them a 6-months-old baby. Their escape down the stairway was cut off by flames, and Mrs. Jacobs shouted for aid from a second floor window. The family, carried from the house in night clothing, was taken into a neighbor’s home. Firemen found an English bulldog in the basement overcome by smoke. Assistant Chief Harry Fulner revived the dog by artificial r°spiration. CONGRESSMAN SWORN David Hopkins Takes Place of Deceased Missourian. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.—David Hopkins of St. Joseph, Mo., was sworn in as a member of the house today by Speaker Longworth. He succeeds the late Charles L. Faust, of the Fourth district. Nine Below in Indiana Bu United Press ROYAL CENTER, Ind., Feb. 20. The United States weather bureau here recorded a temperature of 9 degrees below zero early today.

“Edison and I are trying to make a straightline out of a circle. It will save us 140,000 auto parts a day.” a a "I run around a lot in the morning before breakfast for e my health; e r it is more heart , men than |L A fflM an y t hing ■i ■— else I know Henry Ford o f. n n n "The perfect aircraft of the future will be a sort of amphibian dirigible, a combination of dirigible, land and sea plane.

tors, but will assemble automobiles as well. It probably would result in the opening of mines, highways and quick developments of other untouched resources. u n n FORD smiles when asked the nature of his experiments here this winter with Edison. "We are working hard on an extremely difficult problem. We are trying to make a straight line out of a circle. No, it is no joke, for we a'e working many hours on it. “The Ford factories employ 800 men to make bushings and 140,000 bushings are used each day.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929

MINERS’ TRAIN IN WRECK; 5 DIE; 70 HURT SUFFER FROM COLD Temperature of 6 Below Zero.

OTHERS MAY BE DEAD Injured Men Lie Exposed in Temperature of 6 Degrees Below Zero. By Jjnited Press PEORIA, 111., Feb. 20.—Five men were killed and upward of seventy injured today when five passenger coaches of the Peoria Railway Terminal Company’s “miners’ special” jumped the track and plunged over an embankment near here. Three of the wooden coaches caught fire as they rolled down the twenty-five-foot embankment, but the flames were quickly extinguished. Peoria hospitals were crowded with injured, brought here in ambulances and automobiles. At boon the number still remaining in hospitals was reduced to thirty. Eight hundred workers in coal mines south of herq had left Peoria on the train at 6:22 a. m. The wreck occurred about 7 a. m., but because there were no telephones in that locality, it was more than an hour later before the first ambulance reached the scene. Meantime, injured and dying miners lay exposed to a temperature of 6 degrees below zero. The identified dead were; WILLIAM BROWN. LESTER JONES. CECIL WALKER. GEORGE WILKINSON. CHARLES LUTHY. Miners who were riding in the three cars which remained on the tracks hastened to the aid of their stricken brothers, extricating many just in time to escape the fire. Railroad officials they be'lieved spreading rails resulting from the abnormally low temperature had caused the wreck.

SHOO, BAD BANDITS Running Around in Armored Cars Banned in Bill. Bad Chicago-trained bandits can not frequent the Hoosier roadside with armored automobiles under provisions of a bill introduced in the senate today by Senator Carl M. Gray, Petersburg. The bill makes running around in armored cars on state highways a felony punishable by from five to twenty-one years in prison. It exempts peace officers, bank messengers and common carriers charged with protection of valuables. The bill was referred to the committee on public morals.

We are working out a problem of saving a great deal by doing away with this particular part.” Referring to the extensive rubber experiments, from which a plant to produce hybrid rubber on American soil is sought. Ford said he had utmost confidence in the result of Edison’s stuc’y. "Mr. Edison knows exactly what he is doing,” Ford salt!. “He not only is seeking to develop a rubber bearing plant, but is also finding valuable uses for the byproducts.” Rubber experiments will be started on the 20,000-acre tract along the Ogeechee river in Georgia that Ford has turned over to Edison, early in the summer, he indicated. an n THE secret of his youthful appearance, his alert step and keen eye he attributed to his daily before-breakfast exercise. “I never measured my runs,” he replied when asked if it were true he ran three miles before breakfast, “but I do race around in the morning and do a lot of walking. too. “It is fine for the health. On other forms of recreation, however, I am not sold. “I personally believe golf is causing more heart trouble among men than anything that I know of. Men drag over a golf course and don’t get a bit of benefit from it.” His view of aviation is that the airplane has a place of its own in ihe transportation field. “It will not affect the railroads or automobile travel to any marked extent,” he said, “because it has new and important place for itself.” The perfect aircraft of the future will be a sort of “amphibian dirigible,” he believes—“a combination of dirigible, land and sea plane.”

B-R-R, HERE WE GO—SPLASH!

Butler Co-eds Frolic and Shiver in New Pool

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RADIO STATION WAR IS OPENED ‘Doggone Man’ Charged With Profanity at Hearing. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. A strong Oklahoma delegation appeared before the federal radio commission today asking protection against “profance and bfasphemous” language they claim is emanating over the ether from station KWKH, Kennonwood, La. Headed by W. B. Estes, secretary of the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce, the delegation urged KWKH wave length be given to Station KVOO, owned by the Skelly Oil Company, at Tulsa. W. K. Henderson, the “doggone man of radio,” owner of station KWKH, whose radio talks rightly have made him nationally Known, was in the hearing room, apparently unworried. W. G. Skelly, of the Skelley Oil Company, told the commission since he had applied for the wavelengths used by Henderson’s station, he, his oil company and numbers of his family had been “attacked, maligned and misrepresented” by the Louisiana station almost nightly.

WIFE TRADE AIRED / Charged With Neglecting Family in South Bend. The story of a “change of wives” was told before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter at the trial of David E. Lindsey, 38, of 3812 Salem on a fugitive charge today. Lindsey was fighting removal to South Bend to face a neglect charge which his wife has brought against him there. The wife, Mrs. Irene Lindsey, 38, testified that Lindsey has paid nothing for the support of herself and their son Harry, 7, since February, 1928. Lindsey sued her for divorce, but lost and later was ordered to support here in South Bend city court, she said. Lindsey testified that he left his wife in 1925 because of his wife’s acquiescence in a plan “to trade wives for a night,” suggested by a man who was visiting at their home with his wife one evening. _

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Top (left to right)—Miss Dorothy Grimes, Miss Carol Mayhom, Miss Aline Driscol, and Miss Betty Jane Emmitt. Below—Group of co-eds in the 75 by 35 foot tank. Left Oval—Miss Virginia Rhodes. Right Oval—Miss Thelma Williams (left), and Miss Constance Glover. Below—Miss Louise M. Schulmeyer, Butler women’s physical director. # * BUTLER university’s new swimming pool i& open to co-eds. And they love it! The picture proves it. Four of the girls started a race. They are Miss Dorothy Grimes, 4619 East New York street; Miss Carol Mayborn of Toledo, who lives at the Alpha Chi Omega house; Miss Aline Driscol, 3129 North Illinois street, and Miss Betty Jane Emmitt of Logansport, Ind., who lives at the Pi Beta Phi house. The only trouble with the swimming was the cold air which stood at about 60 degrees. The water was about 68 degrees. Miss Virginia Rhodes, 144 West Fortyfourth street, borrowed a bearskin coat while waiting to take a dip. “Bearskin coat,” said Miss Rhodes. “Oh, hum. Make your own pun.” Miss Thelma Williams, 3837 Central avenue, and Miss Constance Glover of Veedersburg, Ind., who lives at 45 Spink-Arms Annex, were just a bit afraid of the water and took a life preserver along with them. The swimming is under the direction of Miss Louise Scbulmeyer, Butler women’s physical director.

FIGHTS CRUISER BILL Blaine Warns Naval Program May Be Blocked. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Warning that the naval cruiser building program yet may be blocked was given in the senate today when Senator John J. Blaine (Wis.) thwarted consideration of the naval appropriations bill containing funds for beginning construction. Blaine contended the appropriation bill violated provisions of the cruiser bill passed several weeks ago by congress and served notice he, as well as other midwesterners, would fight the measure.

MISSES OEATH AT CROSSING Horses Killed, Milk Cart Demolished by Engine. Although the two horses he was driving were killed, and his milk delivery truck splintered when hit by two locomotives at Belmont avenue and the Big Four Railroad tracks early this morning, George Busier,- 1815 Hoyt avenue, escaped uninjured. Unable to see the approaching trains because of a frosted windshield, Busier drove on the tracks in the path of a switching engine. The wagon was hurled against an in-bound passenger train. Busier, hurled free of the wreckage that was scattered for more than fifty yards along the right-of-way, saw his horses killed instantly and covered his face in time to avoid bemg cut by showers of broken milk bottles. He suffered only minor bruises.

FLAYS WALSH REPORT Senator Robinson Attacks Findings on Oil Leases. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana today unleasheed in the senate a bitter attack on Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, in connectoin with the Salt Creek oil leases in Wyoming. Robinson appealed for a thorough investigation of the leases. They are filled with rottenness, he said, which has caused the government a billion dollars, and much of this money can be recovered. Robinson characterized Walsh’s present attempt to the senate adopt a report severely criticized former Interior Secretary Work and Attor-ney-General Sargent in connection with a lease to the Sinclair Interests, as a “smoke screen.” He appealed to the senate to reject the Walsh report and instruct its committee on public lands to continue with the main Salt Creek investigation. The Salt Creek field, characterized by Robinson as the richest oil field in the world, was leased by the government to various oil companies in 1920 and 1921, at the end of the Wilson administration. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 3 10 a. m 12 7 a. m 4 11 a. m 14 8 a. m...., 6 12 Oioon)., 14 8 a. in.**** U

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FIGHT TO KEEP COFFIN RULE OF POORFUNDS Bill Putting Institutions Under Special Board Attacked by Givan. CHARGES ENDS SELFISH Measure Is Defended as Scientific by City Fund Secretary. Charges that the Moorhead bill, p: widlng for a Marion county welfare board, is “full of jokers which leave the door of the treasury wide open for the benefit of a practically self-appointed group” were repeated today by Clinton H. Givan, county attorney. Givan lately has been an Important cog in the George V. Coffin county Republican machine. The Coffin forces are opposed to the bill, because it would remove from the Coffin-controlled county commissioners the administration of many thousands of dollars ~-d the naming of a number of Important officials. Holds System Out of Date Givan appeared Tuesday night before the senate committee on affairs of Indianapolis and strenuously denounced the measure. Homer W. Borst, executive secretary of the Community Fund, appeared as one of the chief proponents of the bill. Borst declared that the present system of poor administration in Marion county is 100 years behind the times. The bill. If passed, will provide for appointment by the circuit court of a nonpartisan board of six members to administer all poor relief in the county and take charge of all county institutions but Sunnyside sanatorium, the board of children’s guardians home and the county jail. “This bill is being misrepresented to the public by a group of socalled so.-ward-looking citizens,” Givan declared. “I believe like the late Thomas R. Marshall that usually these forward-looking citizens are looking forward to a job. Scores Charity Workers “The whole trouble with professional charity workers is that their charity usually ends with the worker. "If this bill becomes a law it will give a small group of practically self-appointed saviors unlimited powers with the tax money of the people. I believe that it is unconstitutional. “In the first place the courts should be judicial and not administrative bodies. At present the poor fund Is administered by township trustees and county commissioners. They were chosen by the electorate as administrative officers. Under the welfare board measure the people will have nothing to say but plenty to pay. Defended as Scientific Borst defends the measure as being modem and scientific. Others who appeared urging its passage were Councilman John F. White, Sol Schloss, Mansur B. Oakes, Marshall Brown, Arthur V. Brown and Miss Edna Hamilton. Mrs. Amelia Harding, Center township trustee, and Charles M. Dawson, Washington township trustee, joined Givan in protesting Its passage.

AD AGENCY TO COME HERE WITH NEW FIRM P. R. Mallory Company to Bring Branch to City. The P. R. Mallory Company of Indiana, soon to begin production in the National Lamp Company building at Gray and Washington streets, brings another business firm with it to Indianapolis, it was learned today by the Chamber of Commerce. The Dauehy Company Advertising Agency of New York, which handles the Mallory concern’s national advertising, will establish a branch office here about May 1, according to a telegram received by the chamber. George V. Rockey, president of the agency, and L-. Wood Howell will be in charge here. BALL TO END SESSION OF INDIANA SHOE MEN Buyers View Style Shoe of Latest Footwear. The last official session of the annual Indiana Shoe Buyer's convention was held at noon today at the Claypool at a luncheon in the assembly hall. George L. Tovey, president of the association, led a round table discussion and all members closed the meeting singing. A grand ball will be held tonight in the assembly room with Connie and his band furnishing the music. Waltz prizes will be given. Admission to the ball will be by card only. The two hour shoe style show was held Tuesday night in the assembly room with models promenading down an illuminated runway showing the latest coverings for feminine feet.