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HEALTH BOARD FIGHTS DELAY BN HOSPITAL City Council's Indication of Piece-Meal Plan Draws Fire. APPEALS TO PUBLIC Asks Citizens to Visit Institution to View Conditions. Indication by the city council that it favors piecemeal enlargement of city hospital with completion of only the power plant unit at once drew .from the city health board today a declaration: "It is beyond human understanding how anyone with eyes for seeing and vision for guidance can. after visiting the hospital and dispensary, conceive any valid reason for delaying the plan of construction as outlined by the board of health.” The board did not deliberately take the council to task for the at- | titude indicated in a recent conference and the announcement last week that the council would receive a bond issue for $530,000 for the power plant unit. The board did, however, issue a strong statement in an effort to arouse the public to the need for adequate provisions for the hospital at once. Must Extend Work The board contends that $1,921,000 must be expended at once and directed its attorney formally to request the city controller to present a request for a bond issue for this amount to the council at a special meeting Friday night. This issue would provide for the j power plant, the $516,000 out-patient j and laboratory building and the two j ward units costing $875,000. The j council is expected to authorize at I least part of the program at the j regular meeting. Monday night. Dr. Frederick E. Jackson, health j board president, supplemented the J board's statement with the asser- j tion: “It is a pitiable condition of af- j fairs when a department of govern- i mental administration is compelled to organize an irresistible moving force before it can arouse public interest sufficient to protect the public welfare,” pointing to the threeyear effort of the board to get action on the hospital program. Statement Is Issued The board invites the public to in- j spect the hospital this week in its statement: "The city hospital and dispensary are the two chief units of the health department of Indianapolis for the sick poor and will continue for all tune to come as such. Every person, rich and poor, should be vitally interested in his municipal hospital. We wonder how many citizens, rich or poor, know' that in case of accident outside of their own home the chances are nine out of ten that a city hospital ambulance will carry them first to city hospital. “In most respects health is a purchasable quantity, yet there are rumblings that Indianapolis cannot afford to pay for her sick poor. The ical reputation of a city and of its individual outstanding cititzens is not measured finally by the number ot smoke stacks, by the number of banks, by the parks, the large stores, the churches, lodges, clubs, number of millionaires or geniuses, but by the attitude of that city toward the common people. ricture of Conditions "A child with scarlet fever separated by a sheet of muslin from a child with measles, whooping cough, diptheria, erysipelas; a ward built for twenty-eight sick people crowded with forty-three to fortynine patients; sick Negroes crowded si: to eight in a room meant for two with a little basement window for refreshing air; psychopathic patients who need quiet and no confusion, much light, air, pleasant conditions for restoration to mental health, housed in a basement ward originally meant for repair shops, are pictures for the comtemplation of those citizens interested either for or against the poor, who are co-'oelled to use the city institution. "Along with those pictures also may be viewed a bam-like fire trap with creaky floors, plaster-less ceilings. dingy rooms called the city dispensary' where the medical profession yearly donates to the tax pavers in free service to the poor a sum of money equal to hundreds of dollars. "Another picture might be that oi the tax receipt were the medical profession to become suddenly classconscious. Still another picture might be one comparing the outpatient department and the city hospital of Indianapolis to that of other cities of similar size and wealth. “For nearly three years the board of health has appealed to the public and to city governments to give the poor Negro, the poor child sick with contagion, the poor man and woman with incurable tuberculosis slowing but surely coughing his way to the grave, a wholesome place commensurable with the Christian religion in which to pass from this life into the eternal unknown.

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Soak Soars From Manila to White House to Be Fate of Once Humble Parakeet.

RY RANDALL GOULD, Ini ted Pres* Staff Correspondent T\ yCANILA, P. 1., April 9.—This IVA is the history of The Old Soak, soon to become the “first parrot in the land.” The Old Soak, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson’s pet parakeet, was disconsolate when his owner left the GovernorGeneral's mansion to go to Washington, but more recently found solace in the company of a Manila policeman. Now word has been received that he is ordered to Washington, where, it is reported, he will grace the White House menagerie. The skeleton in The Old Soak’s closet is that he can screech like a Chinese pirate and, sad to relate, is an addict to furniture chewing. e a a MRS. STIMSON was responsible for the rise of the Old Soak to his exalted position, and it is feared that she now has regrets. She sought a present for her husband, who is fond of pets, and decided on a parakeet. She hunted a long time for a bird which w r ould suit. As she explained shortly before sailing, “it had to be a bird which wouldn't bite ears, because a husband insists on petting his animals.” Finally, a bird was found whose owner solemnly vowed it never chewed ears. He said nothing about furniture. Even then, the parakeet’s fate was in doubt, because he was moulting and looked like something fragile caught in the rain. His ow'ner promised, however, that in a few w'eeks he would be a handsome bird, and he was, with glistening white feathers. However, his disreputable appearance, in the meantime, earned him the name that stuck. coo STIMSON grew' devoted to the bird. The Old Soak would hop on his shoulder, march all over his person, and make ineffectual efforts to eat the pearl buttons from his tropical suits. Not once did he try to bite his pleased ow'ner. Other dwellers in Malacanan palace were less charmed with The Old Soak. Captain Regnier, aid to the Governor-General, had a room across the hall from The Old Soak's sleeping place, and he insisted that the screeches sounded like a trolley car going around a curve and could be heard for several city blocks. Caretakers of the veranda furniture were scandalized by the bird's devastation of wicker and bamboo pieces. Every chair and divan bore the marks of a parakeet beak. e n tt WHEN the Stimsons were called to Washington, the Governor wanted to keep the bird. “No," said Mrs. Stimson. “I will not enter the capital with a suitcase in one hand and a bird in the ether.” So that was that. After a few days of moping, the Old Soak was taken over by Patrolman Frank Waite, who guards the Malacanan Palace, and soon was reconciled. 'S'Now it appears the Old Soak has been called to a higher destiny.

WHIPPED! m DAD Missouri Girl Asks SIO,OOO for Shock of Beating. Bu United Press BUTLER, Mo.. April 9.—Charging she suffered humiliation and nervous shock from a whipping with a cattle whip administered by her father, a prominent farmer, Miss Chloe Ehart, 22. filed a SIO,OOO damage suit against her parent here today. As another result of the whipping. the girl’s mother, Mrs. Nellie Ehart, seeks a divorce from the father, Sylvester V. Ehart. The Eharts have been married thirty years. The whipping came after she attended a weiner roast, the girl asserted. Her father appeared at the party, she complained, and forced her to walk home while he rode in the family buggy. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 49 10 a. m 53 7a. m 52 11 a. m 50 8 a. m 53 12 (noon).. 48 9 a. m 54

CRITICS OF ‘ONE WOMAN-THING’ OF SEA WARNED OF PUNCH IN NOSE

BY GEORGE H. BEALE Initfd Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, April 10.— Critics of Joan Lowell and her much discussed best seller "had better watch out or they're going to get a good punch in the nose.” Captain Nicholas Wagner, a seafaring man for fifty of his 68 years and the father of the 24-year-old authoress of "The Cradle of the Deep,” intends to do the punching. And the captain's condition is much better than his years might indicate.

SOCIAL RATING OF MRS. GANN STIRS HEFLIN Proposes to Take Fight Over Curtis’ Sister to Congress. ENVOYS TAKE ACTION Clearing Up of Tangle on Vice-President’s Hostess j Demanded.

BY r PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 9. The controversy over the social status of Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, halfsister of Vice-President Charles Cur- j tis was thrust forw'ard as a national issue today w'hen Senator T. J. j Heflin of Alabama, a Democrat, an- j nounced seriously his intention of j proposing a law at the coming session of congress establishing Mrs. Gann as the “second lady of the land.” Heflin’s move was assured of serious and expeditious attention when he called on Chairman William Borah of the senate foreign relations committee and received Borah’s promise that the resolution would not be permitted to languish long in : committee. Stimson May Rule ! Borah, like Heflin and Senator j George W. Norris of Nebraska, who recently asked the state department to send the matter to the World court, has long been displeased with the activities of the so-called social lobby and they are rallying sentiment for a strong fight on the side of the Vice-President. While these formidable forces w'ere massing at the capitol there developed a possibility that Henry L. Stimson, secretary' of state, might settle the dispute before the senators could swing intc action. Mrs. Gann is invited to a dinner at the Chilean embassy Thursday night. The embassy will follow in its seating arrangements whatever may be the official rule of the state department. The ruling of Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary of state, still stands, placing Mrs. Gann behind the wives of heads of foreign missions here. If Secretary Stimson should change the Kellogg ruling before Thursday night, Mrs. Gann might be elevated to the dinner chair of a hostess of the Vice-President to which Curtis contends she is entitled. Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, was expected to call at the j state department late today and request clarification of the social status of Mrs. Gann. He will be accompanied by Viscount D Alte,' Portuguese minister, dean of minis- j ters. A meeting of the members of the j diplomatic corps was held Monday i night at the British embassy and Mrs. Gann’s social rank and problems precipitated by the Vice-Presi-dent's protest discussed lengthily. “I’m for Charley" The formal request for clarification will take the form of a note, drafted and approved at the meeting last night. The note, it was said, affirmed the desire of the diplomats to abide by the state department’s decision, but points out that confusion has arisen since the earlier ruling made during Secretary of State Kellogg’s administration. “I want to settle this thing in the American way.” Heflin said. “I do' not want to leave this issue to a bunch of diplomats chattering like blackbirds, nor will I leave it to a ruling of Nervous Nellie who sat down at the state department with his sunbonnet on, twiddling his apron strings. “It’s a serious issue, boys, and if it ain’t settled soon the country is gone. I’m for Charley.” He predicted his resolution would be adopted in the senate in thirty minutes. AIR FIRM TO USE RADIO Curtiss Buys Broadcasting Station; Will Talk to Planes. Bu Cuffed Press NEW YORK. April 9.—Radio communication ’With Trans-Continental passenger airplanes and radio in-ter-communication between the twenty-five airports of the Curtiss flying service will be inaugurated immediately, C. M. Keys, head of : the corporation, announced today. The company has purchased the I radio stations WRNY and W2XAL.

Captain Wagner, now retired and living here, offered any number of opinions today on the controversy raging around his daughter’s written experiences as the “One Woman-Thing” aboard a windjammer in the Pacific trade. “One of them said my daughter never was on the sea, did he?" and the captain's eyes blazed. tt tt B WELL, tell him to come around here and I’ll change his mind. “Oh, and he said he didn’t think I was a sailor, either, did

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929

SCIENCE SAYS EVELYN IS RIGHT

Sulphur and Molasses No Longer Prescribed as Spring Cure-All

TEX CHINAN GOES ON TRIAL J None of Elderly Jurors Ever Heard Her Famous 'Hello, Sucker.’ Bu United Press NEW YORK, April 9.—Texas Guinan. famous Broadway night club hostess, went to trial today in federal court before a jury of twelve elderly men, none of whom has ever heard her famous shout of “hello, sucker.” The twelve men who are to deter- j mine whether Mabel Walker Willebrandt’s raiders last June were I right when they declared that Tex was conducting a public nuisance in the Salon Royale, are not night club habitues, nor have they ever been to Tex’s club "just to see what it’s like.” Neither are they prejudiced against night clubs, those who keep them, work in them as entertainers, or frequent them, and in particular they are not prejudiced against Tex. Judge “Kind Looking” Although ten others were arrested with Tex in the Salon Royale by Mabel Walker Willebrandt's raiders last June, Tex is to have the jury all to herself. The ten others entered pleas of guilty today to the ; accompariment of a disdainful j sniff from Tex. “I feel sorry for the poor Greeks,” ! she said. “They don't know what; guilty means.” Tex looked over the dignified Judge Edwin L. Thomas of Connecticut, who sentenced her brother, Tommy Guinan, to four months in jail on a charge similar to the one that faces her and observed; “He’s a kind looking fellow, even ; if he did give Tommy four months.”

Special Agent Testifies Tex was a study in black and tan beneath her flashing array of jewels, pearls, near pearls and diamonds. She wore a tan satin dress, a black transparent velvet coat ancl a becoming black hat. She carried a brilliant orchid handkerchief whlcn she waved violently as an accompaniment to her spirited conversation with those near her, as she awaited the beginning of the selection of the jurors. James L. White, one of Mrs. Willebrandt's special agents, was the first witness against Texas. He described in considerable detail a series of visits to the Salon Royale from February to June of last year, partly in company with his wife and another agent, David Beazell, whom he introduced to Tex after he had made her acquaintance and formed her friendship. Recites Tex’s Song White convulsed the courtroom and even amused Tex by reciting at Morrison's request (the attorney asked him not to sing) a chorus which he said was a favorite of Tex's. It ran: “It’s tough to be a hostess in a Broadway cabaret ; It’s tough to holler ’Hello, sucker,’ when you want to hit the hay; It's tough to fall in love until you're almost sick— You use your art and wiles and every woman's trick— And then you find your lover is a central office dick.” White testified that he had made many purchases of liquor at the Salon Royale, paying $lO a pint.

he? Well, tell him he'll get a good punch on the nose. “Feel that,” Captain Wagner demanded. “That” was a bicep that a professional pugilist would envyMrs. Wagner's “they'll think you’re boasting, captain,” ended his belligerent mood. “The trouble with all those critics,” he said, “is that they don’t realize she wrote the book to sell and not to be used as a sailor's manual. They ought to know that a book writer is allowed a little latitude.”

“Do we have to take that,” mutters Warren Little, 8, of 4525 Guilford avenue, and Evelyn La von Shuey, 8. of 969 Dorman avenue, in the photo at the extreme left as they eye a sulphur and molasses bottle end a big spoon.

tt tt a "lVf AW, I don’ wanna take that—l ain't go no spring fever.” This plaint IVA of the Sallys and Sams of Indianapolis, as mothers dump spoonsful of the old-time tonic of “sulphur and molasses” in mouths screwed up in distaste, is borne out by science. For Dr. R. A. Dutcher, professor of biological chemistry at Pennsylvania State college, rn a press dispatch says there's not the slightest excuse for the so-called spring fever, nor its accompanying remedy. “Modern dietary habits prevent the rundown conditions common twenty-five years ago and make spring tonics unnecessary,” Dr. Dutcher says.

Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health, added to Dr. Dutcher’s plea for a non-medicinal spring for Indianapolis children with: “The discovery of vitamines and an increased balanced rations for children has cut down the need for spring tonics.” a a a DR. MORGAN allows the cobwebs to grow on the “sul-phur-lasses” bottle without condemning it to absolute discard with the statement: “We can't say that the home remedy of sulphur and molasses is completely without its benefits,

BAD WOLF IS DEAD

Ripple Safe for Red Riding Hood

lITTLE Red Riding Hood new can go through the woods to see her j grandmother in Broad Ripple without fear of meeting the bad old wolf. The wolf is dead. Not' Little Red Riding Hood's wolf, of course, but possibly it was a near relative. Anyway the wolf was a resident of the Broad Ripple park zoo until today when it decided to move into “one of those cute little green kitchenette apartments with running water.”

The wolf, a great gray lobo, pushed through the iron bars of its cage and started for the woods a half mile east of the park. Mary Jane Maxwell, 4, and her sister, Emily, 2. daughters cf Mr. and Mrs. Stewart W. Maxwell, 1826 East Sixty-second street, were playing in their front yard when the wolf appeared. Jack Ebert of Broad Ripple, saw the wolf, grabbed the child! en, and rushed into the house.

POLICE RAID ‘DOLL HOUSE’ TO GET 136 GALLONS

Rude Indianapolis policemen broke up a game ot “playing at dollhouse” today, and got for their rudeness 136 gallons of wine. Three squads of patrolmen headed by Lieutenant Victor Huston, Sergeants Walter White and Frank Riley, armed with a search warrant went to the door of a residence at 751 North Warman avenue. They knocked. “Who's there?” piped a childish voice. “Policemen!” The door opened on an 'll-year-old girl hugging a doll. “My mama isn't at home,” she said. AFIRE, SAVED BY RIVER 'Clothes in Flames, Sailor Lives by Plunge Into Water. Bn United Press y WASHINGTON, April 9.—His clothing saturated with gasoline and in flames, Robert Knott, 21, sailor from the schooner Sawyer, leaped into the Potomac river at a wharf Jhere to save his life. He was forced to swim about under water until the I flames were extinguished, because of j oil left atop the water after his I plunge.

His daughter sailed with him first in 1903 when she was only 11 months old, the captain said. She continued to go with him on trips until 1918, he said. During that time, he estimated, she traveled some 100,000 miles on sea and on a dozen separate crafts. Four round trips between Puget Sound and Australia, considering the tacking a sailing ship must do, accounted for 86,000 miles of that total. a a o THESE facts differ from the book accounts in some instances, he admitted, but he cov-

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“Ugh,” says Evelyn in the center photo as she fills the spoon with what’s good for spring fever. “Hurray! into the trash can this goes,” is Evelyn's jubilant cry, in the photo on the right, as she hears that science has declared spring fever's home remedy passe.

although its use has depreciated. Science has never justified the use of it, but neither did science justify the use of cod liver oil, and yet today it does justify its use as a maker of internal sunshine and builder of growing bodies. “Who knows what the future in turn will hold for the good old-time home remedy of sulphur and molasses?” “We don't use it—and the spring fever doesn't seem to bother us much,” acclaimed Mrs. M. L. Bowen, principal of the Theodore Potter fresh air school.

Then the four men started in pursuit. An hour after the escape the wolf was cornered in the woods and shot in the leg with a shot gun by Thomas O'Brien. 1903 East Sixtythird street. Then Ebert finished the job with a revolver. Gordon Stanbro and his father, Fred Stanbro, also of Broad Ripple, watched.

“Well, we have a search warrant. We just want to look through your house,” said Lieutenant Huston. “All-rightie.” retorted “the mama" of a floor of dolls as she returned to her play. The search resulted in the uncovering of 136 gallons of wine in bottles, barrels and kegs in the attic. It was destroyed and a watch kept for the return of the mama and papa of the “mama” of the doll house.

AIIVSEE MAY GO ON STAND TODAY IN JUDGE’S TRIAL

B,n Unite' Fress SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 9. Aimee Semple McPherson may be called today to justify from the witness stand her $2,500 “love gift” to Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy. The assembly board of managers, prosecuting Judge Hardy for alleged misconduct in office, indicated the Angelus Temple evangelist would be called as a prosecution witness today. From the first witnesses, the prosecution sought details of the legal advice assertedly given by

i ered them in the “latitude” class, j Even if his daughter didn't I swim three miles to shore when the Minnie Caine burned, as she said in “The Cradle of the Deep” she could have managed that distance providing the boat had gone down that far out mstedti of at thd wharf at Port Adelaide, Australia, he said. The captain admitted he was doing a little literary work, himself. “I’ve finished 150 pages,” he said. “I’m writing the story of the wreck cf the Ino, that went dowh in the Artie seas in 1889.”

Pastors Will Debate Christianity of Capital Punishment. | Capital, punishment for premedlitated murder, in the light of Christian principles, will be debated by ! two Christian ministers at the i i University Place Christian church, ! 167 West Fartieth street, Friday at j 3 p. m. The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, pastor of the University Place church, will take the negative and j the Rev. L. Peres Buroker, pastor ;of the First Christian Church at Wabash, Ind., the affirmative on the I question: 1 Resolved: That capital punishjment in cases of premeditated murder is a Biblical doctrine compatible with reason and justified by human experience. Leslie to Talk Governor Harry G. Leslie, advocate of stringent punishment for i criminals, will make the opening ! remarks. The Governor's views on ; capital punishment were carried | into practice when he approved a : bill passed by the recent legislature ! making the death penalty mani datory for felons who take a life in ■ commission of a holdup or robbery. J Students and professors of Butler | university are showing keen interest j in the coming debate. It resulted from a criticism the ! Indianapolis pastor made to statei meflts of Mr. Buroker in a daily i column he writes for the Wabash ; Plain Dealer. “Weak Sentimentalism” ■ “It is such weak sentimentalism |as yours that accounts for the ; escape from death of such criminals | as Loeb, Leopold and Remus,” the I Wabash minister wrote the Mr. ! Smith, challenging him to debate. “I can’t understand how a minj ister of Christ can desire to kill a | human being and be true to his or- ! dination and vow,” the Mr. Smith ' replied in accepting. EXAMINE TEETH FREE Dentists Participate in Health Week Observance. As part of a health week observance of the Indianapolis Dental Research Society are riving free teeth examinations at their offices all this week until & Saturday night. The dentists in the society are: Lucien Merriweather. Sebastian Merriweather, Vernerd Pritchard, Preston Dickson, Otto Page, E. I. Brown, Fred Smith, Fernri M. King, Earl M. Roberts arid Dr. Bates.

Judge Hardy to Mrs. McPherson and her mother, Minnie (Ma) Kennedy, after the evangelist’s reappearance on the Mexican desert with her story of her “kidnaping.” For this advice, the prosecution charges, Aimee paid Judge Hardy $2,500. The evangelist contends the check was only a “love gift” from Angelus temple.

Mother Sued for ’Balm’ Bu United Press SEATTLE, April 9.—Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy, who recently gave her deposition for use in the impeachment trial of Judge Carlos Hardy, was named defendant today in a $50,000 breach of promise suit filed by the Rev. H. H. Clark, elderly Seattle widower. The mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist, “made love to the plaintiff and promised to install him in a tabernacle in Seattle,” according to the complaint. While the plaintiff was “heart broken, humiliated and dishonored,” Mrs. Kerpiedy, who was in Portland, insisted that the Rev. was ‘a degree lower than the man who was kissed and told about it.” “Only he was not kissed,” “Ma” added.

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LOST PACIFIC FLIERS SAFE Crew of Plane Reported Found Near Mission in Interior. GONE SINCE MARCH 31 Wild Tribes and Dangerous Jungle Land Made Fate Uncertain. Bu rutted Press SYDNEY, N. S. W April 10.— ( Wednesday).—Th e monoplane Southern Cross, missing since March 31, has been found near Drysdale, according to reports reaching here today. Other than that, the fliers, including Captain Charles KingsfordSmith and Charles T. P. Ulm, who flew the Southern Cross from San Francisco to Australia, were safe, no details of the location of the lost plane were received. The Southern Cross, with its crew of four, started March 30, from Sydney. N. S. W.. to Wyndham, as the first stage of a flight to London. Lost in Rainstorm Intermittend radio reports from Captain Ulm during the earlier stage of the flight ended dramaticaly the next afternoon with the message that for ten hours the Southern Cross had been cruising about in a tropical fog and rainstorm, and that its fuel was exhausted. “We are landing in a rotten country,” were the last words from uim. An almost hopeless search began. The fliers had been unable to give more than a guess as to their probable location. The country over which they were believed to be was a wild jungle penetrable only by the native black bushmen of western Australia. Drysdale was the objective for the search. Conflicting Reports Confusing reports brought from Drysdale mission station by rescue planes which flew over it, added to the uncertainty. One aviator, communicating by signs, because of lack of a landing place, brought that a plane believed to be the Southern Cross had flown over the station several hours before the last radio message from Captain Ulm. A second rescue plane brought word that the plane had passed over the station less than an hour from the time Ulm's last message flashed forth. Among Wild Tribes Particular fear was felt for safety of the aviators because cannibals of the fire tribe inhabit the jungles. Poisonous reptiles and insects infest the terrain. The aviators were ill supplied with food, having carried but a few sandwiches. They were unarmed. EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES Heart Attack Fatal to Charles in House 20 Years. Bu i.'nitcd Press ARDMORE, Okla., April 9. Charles Carter, 61, former congressman. died at his home today after a heart atack. He was a member of congress from 1906 to 1926. 5 YEARS FOR 26 CENTS Small Loot Holdup Brings St. Louis Man Long Term. £?.v United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 9.—Stealing 26 cents in a holdup and then pleading guilty, Ed Boland, 32, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary here by Circuit Judge Rutledge. LEBANON SCHOOL WINS Debaters Hold State Honors After South Bend Loses. Bji United Press NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind., April 9.—The Lebanon high school today boasted the state debating championship after defeating South Bend here. The question was “Resolved, That the United States should adopt a hands-off policy in Nicaragua.” The Lebanon school took the affirmative.

Dead , Sued Miss Elzora F. Hatfield, 2108 North Meridian street, today turned to the courts for fulfilment of a promise she declares the death of Joseph H. Mock, Dec. 7, 1928, thwarted. Miss Hatfield filed a suit for $20,000 against Mock’s estate in probate court, alleging: That Mock promised to marry her and she gave up her restaurant business and moved into the apartment where they intended to live. The marriage was delayed and Mock told her he had made a bequest of SIO,OOO in his will to provide for her in case he died before the wedding. He died. The will did not mention the SIO,OOO.

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