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BOY SCOUTS TO RULE IN STATE ON WEDNESDAY Pick Officers to Take Over Control of Government for an Hour. Boys Scouts wearing the medal ior proficiency in various phases of coutcraft were being selected by P. O. Belzer. Scout executive, today to fill the posts of Governor, mayor, secretary of >tate and other public positions when the Boy Scouts take over the government of city and state for an hour Wednesday. The assumption of power by the Scouts is a feature of Boy Scout week that is beiir observed in Indianapolis this k. Programs of interest to the boys have been arranged. Father-Son Banquet Tonight Scouts and their lather are invited to attend the father and son banquet at tlit Central Christian church ton win when Gunnar Berg, national director of volunteer Scout training, will be :'ie principal speaker, and i. pn -i ’in of entertainment lor b< *h me boys and their parents will be matured. The finals oi the -rout aquatic meet will be held at the Hoover Athletic Club, Wednei da ' afternoon. Winner; in tiie preliminaries held Tuesday atternoon are: Junior 20vard free style, Harvey Trimble, Troop 21; Ralph Baur. 62: Edward Dunning ton. 78. and Donald Dobbin, 42. Senior 40-yard free style: Dudley Jordan 26: Jack Sweeny. 46: Nicholas Wade. 23. and Robcit Kelleher, 4. Announce Winners Junior 40-yard back stroke Jack FesenfieJd 61; Merrill Hussey, 82: Robert Jonc, 43. and Edward Springer, 80. Senior 80-yard back stroke: Dudley Jordan 2G: Charles Fell, 61; Ralph Hook, 80. and Robert Jennings, 23. Junior 60-yard free style: Harvey Trimble, 21; Ted Sweeny, 46: Ralph Baur, 62. and William Rogers, 80. Senior 100-yard free styie: Nicholas Wade, 23: John Elam. 18; Ralph Hook, 80 and Robert. Kelleher, 4. THROW c *' : ITnICE 7 on STOVE. WOMAN BURNED Liquor Raid Squad Put Out Fire, Arrest Man. Perry Stinglev, 1421 West Ray street, is facing a blind tiger charge and his wife is suffering from slight burns today as the result of a f>oiice raid Monday. Police went to 405 West Kay street where they found Stingley and a half gallon of alcohol. He was arrested. Police then went to his home. As they entered, his wife threw some alcohol on a kitchen stove in an effort to destroy the “evidence.” She succeeded and also burned herself and the kitchen curtains. Sergeant Le Roy Bartlett and his raiding squad extinguished the flames. MAN, 75. HURT IN CRASH Condition Critical; Thrown From Auto In Collision. Thrown from an overturned automobile at Forty-sixth street and Guilford avenue today. Oscar Lobdell, 75. living with his son-in-law, C. A Rhinehart, 2020 North Talbot avenue, suffered a fractured right hip and other injuries. He is in a critical condition at City hospital. Rhinehart was driving a car which collided with one driven by Lawrence Simon, of 5102 Winthrop avenue. 'Simons escaped unhurt, Rinehart was bruised slightly. Each exonerated the other of any law violation and no arersts yvere made. PRINCIPAL IS SPEAKER Wayne Lincoln Club Hears Walter Gingery of Washington High. Walter G. Gingery', principal of Washington high school, discussed the finiteness of man contrasted with the infiniteness of the universe Monday night before the Wayne Lincoln Club at 523 North Bellview place. Gingery showed steroptican slides of the heavens taken with a fortyinch telescope at Yerkes observatory SOME WOMEN ALWAYS ATTRACT You want to be beautiful. You want the tireless energy, fresh complexion and pep of youth. Then let Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets keep your system free from the poisons caused by clogged bowels and torpid liver. For 20 years, men and women suffering from stomach troubles, pimples. listlessness and headaches have taken Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets -a successful substitute for calomel, a compound of vegetable ingredients, mixed with olive oil, known by their olive color. They act easily upon the bowels without griping. They cleanse the system and tone up the liver. Keep youth and its many gifts. Take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets nightly. How much better you will feel—and look. 15c. 30c. 60c. All Druggists.—Advertisement.

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SEEK BOY, 15, WHO DISAPPEARED FEB. 8 Harold Knight Missing; Search for Man Companion. Police are assisting in the search for Harold Knight, 15, who has been

missing from his home, 1720 Milburn street, since Feb. 8. The boy was described as five feet one inch tall, with blue eyes and light brown hair, weighing 125 pounds, and wearing dark brown trousers, a brown overcoat aid a blue and yellow shirt. Police have been unable to locate a man wittr whom

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the boy may have gone away. The man’s identity and former places of employment were given police by the boy’s mother, Mrs. Ada Knight. BANK MANAGER TAKES $300,000 i Confesses Account Juggling to Cover Speculations. Bji I nltal Prtas NEW YORK. April 2.—Louis Dietz, 32, who worked his way up from office boy to assistant bank manager, was under arrest today, charged with the embezzlement of : 5300.000 from the Brooklyn Trust | Company. He surrendered Monday and. ac- ' cording to officials, confessed taking the money. Officials said Dietz has told how he opened a fictitious account to cover a $4 000 shrinkage in a customer’s collateral and drew a check for the amount. Dietz said he attempted to recover Ihe >4.000 by speculation, but last and opened another fictitious account. Losing each time, he said, he then i began forging notes on extra r-ollat- ! era! put up by customers until his defections totaled $300,000. Dietz kept his books in such good order that it was only recently that the shortage was noticed. PREPARES MESSAGE Hoover Congress Address Will Be Short. IS." 7 nited Pri ss WASHINGTON. April 2.—President Herbert Hoover has completed the first draft oi the message he will transmit to the special session of congress a week from next Monday. It will be Hoover’s first state paper, other than a proclamation. The message will be short and will deal only with farm relief and tariff revision, the two subjects mentioned in the presidential proclamation of March 7, calling the extra session of congress. DELINQUENT DOG TAX LIST INCLUDES 600 Six hundred dogs of all sizes and varieties are running around in Indianapolis without any legal right, Frank Brattain, Center towndrip assessor declared today. This is because their masters or mistresses have not paid the tax on the pups and Brattain urges that this be done forthwith. Last opportunity for paying is May 15, and then Prosecutor Judson L. Stark will file suits against the alleged offenders. In 1928 taxes were paid more promptly, Brattain declared.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Summary of annual report for 102s The 82nd annual report of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, covering operations for the year 1928, will be formally presented to the stockholders at the annual meeting on April 9, 1929. The report shows that although the Company's total operating revenues in 1928 were over $14,000,000 less than in 1927, its net income was over $14,000,000 greater than in 1927. Last year was the fourth successive year in which the net income exceeded that of any previous year. Net income for the year, amounting to $82,507,613. was equivalent to 14.69% upon the present capital stock outstanding, as compared with 13.65% upon the amount outstanding at the dose of 1927. OPERATING RESULTS Comparison vita 1927 1928 bcrcaie or Deere*** Total Operating Revenues were $650,567,316 D 5i4.283,707 Total Operating Expenses were 480,171.634 D 30.497.027 Leaving Net Revenue of SI "0.394.682 I 516.213.3 20 Taxes amounted to 37,846,357 I 2,136,608 Equipment, Joint Faciuty Rents, etc. amounted to 15,251,639 I "56,329 Leaving Net Railway Operating Income of SI 17,297.686 I 513.320.383 Income from Investments and Other -Sources amounted to 44,535,648 li. 298.662 Making Gross Income of 5161.833 344 I 514.619.045 Rental Paid Leased Lines, Interest on Funded Debt and Other Charges amounted to 79,325,731 I 271,728 Leaving Net Income (Equal to 14.697? on Capita) Stock) of S 82,507.613 T 514.347.317 After prodding for the payment of 7% dividends to the stockholders and sinking and other reserve funds, $38,950,928 was credited to Profit and Loss Account. * * * The factors chiefly responsible for the Company's progress during the vear and for its increasing financial success are: Large capital expenditures to improve and expand the railroad's plant and fadlmes: progressive improvement in operating efficiency and economy; cordial cooperative relations between the management and employes, and the continued patronage of the public whom it has been a pleasure to serve w. W. ATTERBURY, Philadelphia. Pa April 1. 1929 Preside* The Pennsylvania Railroad Carnes More Passengers, Hauls More Freight Than Any Otner Railroad in America SHIP AND TRAVEL VIA PENNSYLVANIA St>**kUari mmy cStqtn Hi A mud Refer! /rgm Levs Seitsen, Secretary. Broad Street SttHem, PkiimieiHU. Pa

$25,000 AWARD FOR CITY LIFE NOVEL PLANNED Bobbs-Merrill and Magazine Company Will Give Prize. America’s largest literary prize of the year was announced today by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, in company with Crowell Publishing Company. The prize is $25,000 for the best manuscript depicting the life of a modern American city. In making the announcement officials of the Bobbs-Merrill Company explained that $20,000 of the cash award will be paid by the Crowell company for the serial rights to publish the winning novel in the Woman’s Home Companion and $5,000 by their company as down payment on the novelization of the work. The author of the winning book will be entitled to additional royalties from the book publishers and the motion picture, second serial and dramatic rights. The contest begins immediately and closes March 31. 1930. All manuscripts should be sent to the Bobbs-Merrill Company, 724 North Meridian street. The judges are Will Irwin, president of the P. E. N. Club; Arthur Train, president of the Authors’

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