Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1929 — Page 11

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TORCH SLAYER CONFESSES HE HAD 7 WIVES Long Criminal Record Is Revealed by Engineer; Pleads Insanity. SERVED TIME IN PRISON Fingerprints Show He Was ‘Doctor’ in New York Years Ago. ' '/ United Pres ELIZABETH. N. J., April 16. Henry Colin Campbell, confessed murderer of Mrs. Mildred Mowry, stood revealed today as a criminal v. ith an extensive record and one of the most expert jugglers of the feminine heart ever arrested in this state. Campbell is in the Union county jail here, charged with murder, because he shot Mrs. Mowry through the head, set fire to her clothing and threw her body into the road near Cranford. Previously he had married Mrs. Mowry and obtained SI,OOO from her. Confronted by the information that New York police had found his fingerprints talli with those of “Dr. H. C. Close, mtenced here m 1905. Campbell ac sd several details to his crime career. Has Had Seven Wives He revealed that he has had seven wives and that at one time he *as! living with three women at the une time. That his real name Is Her C. Close. That he was indicted for g. and larceny in connection with the wi drawai of money from a photog raphers’ supply house in New York, for which he worked. That he was arrested in Chihuahua, Mex., and brought back to New York in March. 1905, to stand trial on the grand larceny charge. He was convicted and sentenced to six years and six months in Sing Sing. That he was arrested in California in 1890, sentenced to five years for forgery and pardoned by the Governor. That he had been admitted to the practice of' medicine in Michigan ami Connecticut and ran a sanitarium at Montclair, N. J. Heretofore it was supposed that Campbell had only four wives, including the one he was living with here when he married and murdered Mrs. Mowry. The three additional wives are Mary Phelan, Marie Becker of Scranton, Pa., and Mrs. Mary Powers of Pawtucket, R. I. Sane, Say Alienists Alienists bolstered the state's case | against Campbell yesterday, when j Dr. Lawrence M. Collins and Dr Emil Stein examined him and pronounced him sane. Francis A. Gor- ! don, campbell's counsel, plans to j plead insanity as a defense for his client. The physicians also expressed the opinion that Campbell was not a confirmed narcotic addict, although Mrs. Campbell said her husband had been using drags heavily to obtain relief from an organic ailment. The attempt to connect Campbell with the murder of Miss Margaret Brown, whose death was similar to that of Mrs. Mowry. was postponed yesteitiay until today. Thomas Gellas, manager of a Newark hotel, will try to identify Campbell as the Dr. Rose” who checked ou* of the hotel on the afternoon Miss Brown was murdered. MILLIONS BEING SPENT FOR AID OF FARMERS 20.0°9 Persons \rr Employed by Agriculture Department. ttu UntUd Press WASHINGTON. April 16.—While administration leaders are seeking a satisfactory formula for farm relief, figures obtained from the agriculture department today showed the federal government is expending about $18,000,000 annually in behalf of the farm industry. In addition to this amount appropriated by congress for the varied activities of the agriculture department. the farm states annually appropirate about the same amount for research arid farm aid work within their own borders. More than 20.000 persons, including specialists in every phase of agriculture and hundreds of extension workers, are employed by the department. Activities of the department. officials emphasized, are qot alone of benefit to farmers, but interest the entire population. SCOFFS AT PEACE HOPE “Amiable Declarations” Won’t End War, Says H. G. Wells. Bn United Press BERLIN, April 16.—The belief that a few amiable declarations and pacts will suffice to lay the foundations for permanent peace is pure delusion, in the opinion of H. G. Wells. British author. “The world is shirking the cardinal difficulty, which is the sovereign independence of the states.” Wells said in an address Monday night before the Society of International Discussion. "It is not Utopianis l to foreshadow a federal world state to replace the independent states, or if it Is Utopian, then so are al peace aspirations.”

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‘John Doe' Left on Porch

Miss Gertrude Casto city hospital nurse, with the abandoned baby found by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Larsen. Nurses christened the child John Doe.

A THREE-WEEKS-OLD BABY 1 * is rocring and crying for his m'Yner today in city hospital. uiE his mother doesn't care for him. She left, him Monday night un the doorstep at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Larsen. 240 East Tenth street, and drove away in an Auburn sedan. Larsen told police he and his wife saw the Auburn sedan drive past the house and come baexand stop in front. Soon they heard the cry of an infant. Larsen found the baby boy wrapped in a white blanket nestled in a cardboard box. Clutched in his tiny fist was an empty mi'k bottle. The La’sons wrapped another blanket around the child and called police, who took him to city hospital. Her other certainly selected a home where babies are loved,” Larsen said. “We have a baby of our own. Norman Jean. 16 months old. but one baby is all we can take care of right now.” Librarians in Session B.'t T nit' '1 Press CPAWFORDSVILLE. Tnd.. April 16.—Seventy-five Indiana librarians are here today for conference. General library problems were discussed and a tour of all libraries in Crawfordsville made.

MURDER DEFENSE READY TO BEGIN

State Nears Close of Zimmerman Case Evidence. By t nited Press ANGOLA. Ind.. April 16.—The state was expected to rest its case today in the trial of Charles Zimmerman, lormer Steuben county sheriff, charged with the murder of Thomas Burke, alleged bandit. It was considered likely that the defense would utilize the remainder of the week and that the case would not reach the jury until next week. Seeks to Forge Crime Link Alleged connections of Zimmerman with liquor running, automobile stealing and other crimes was stressed by the state Monday Nine witnesses were called by the prosecution in an attempt to link the defendant with the slaying of Burke. The charred body of a man, believed Burke's, was found in a burned barn near here shortly after the robbery of the First National Bank of Angola. Convict on Stand James F. Walthan, brought here from the Ohio state prison, w'here he is serving a term for bank robbery, again was placed on the witness stand. He identified the former Steuben sheriff as the man whom he saw in conference with Kirby Davis, alleged bandit, and against whom several indictments for bank robbery and automobile theft are pending. Emory Powers. 63, fanner, testified that he saw r Zimmerman the afternoon prior to the murder riding with another man in an automobile, known to have been the property of Burke. Walthan further testified That he saw Zimmerman' in the company’ of Earl Redmond and Thomas Burke, when he (Walthan) and the latter two drove to Ft. Wayne from Toledo, O. RUMOR PRINCE TO WED Spanish Heir-Apparent Reported . Engaged to Princess Cecilia. HENDAYE. Franco - Spanish Frontier, April 16.—Rumors persist in certain aristrocratic Madrid circles that there is a possibility of marriage between the Prince of Asturias, heir-apparent to the Spanish throne, and Princess Cecilia, daughter of Princess Cecilia Slam-Slam, it was learned today. The young orincess' mother was a niece of the late queen mother oi Spam.

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SLAYER CLAIMS MIND IN BLANK Man on Trial as,Wife Murderer Testifies, By United Press GREENFIELD. Ind.. April 16. The case of Earl Russell, charged with murdering his wi f e at Indianapolis. probably will not reach the jury until Wednesday or Thursday, court attaches intimated at the opening of the trial today. Russell was convicted at a previous trial and sentenced to life imprisonment, but obtained a rehearing. The defense rested Monday, its last three witnesses being persons who testified that the accused man was of an unsound mind. Russell testified that he never had an argument with his wife and had never struck her. Asked to tell of the slaying. Russell said his mind was completely blank until he found himself in the kitchen of his home after the tragedy. ,

'Ray for Old Eli h;t United Press CHICAGO, April 16. The Elis have it. Mrs. Anna Eli of Dallas, Tex., complained to police she was robbed of ten SSO bills as she stepped from the grocery store of Eh Raith. The grocery store owner, called before police, identified the robber as Frank Eli, a gjpsv.

BAPTIST HEAD QUITS Federation Secretary Will Take Pastorate. Resignation of the Rev. F. A. Hayward, executive secretary of the Baptist church Federation of Indianapolis for eight years was accepted by the federation at the annual business meeting at the College Avenue Baptist church Mondaynight. Mr. Hayward has accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist church at Lafayette. Ind. More than 250 representatives of Baptists churches of the city were present at the meeting and praised the work of the Rev. Hayward. No successor has been selected. . Nominations for the year were reported by the Rev. G. C. Chandler and the following officers were elected: President, Harry S. Medlock; vice-president. Frank Sink; secretary. Mrs. J. J. Gilchrist and treasurer, Charles O. Lawler. Members of the executive committee include the officers and George Woody, Mrs. Robert F. Mathews, the Rev. Isom Ferris. Broadhurst Clsey. Berg King, the Rev. Oscar R. McKay, Mrs. C. S. Dearborn and the Rev. S. E. Hamilton. STORM STRIKES COAST l!y l nitrd. Press WASHINGTON. April 16.—Northeast storm warnings were ordered posted north of Boston to Eastpor; and from Nantucket to Delaware breakwater by the United States weather bureau today. A storm of great intensity off the Delaware coast is moving slowly northeastward and whole gales are reported, the bureau said.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929

YOUTH TO BE TRIED MAY 13 FOR MURDER Hearing for Herschell Curry Docketed After Not Guilty Plea. STATE PLAN UNDEFINED Prosecutors Have Not Decided If Death Will Be Asked. Bn Times Sixciul GREENSBURG. Ind.’. April 16. Herschel Curry. 18-year- old Bartholomew county farm boy, will go on trial in Decatur circuit court here Monday. May 13. charged with the murder oi Hubert S. Taylor. 54, on a farm near Columbus. March 5. The date was set following arraignment at which the youth entered a not guilty plea. The prosecution has not yet decided whether it will ask the death penalty. The state case will be handled by Herrod Carr. Decatur county prosecutor; William H. Dobbins, Bartholomew county prosecutor. and a Greensburg lawyer, not vet chosen, who w ill be employed by Taylor’s family. Youth to Be Stressed Staff & Staff, Franklin law firm, will defend Curry. It has not been announced whether or not the defense will be assisted by a Greensburg lawyer. Although defense plans have not been fully formulated, it is understood one point relied upon to obtain clemency for Curry is his youth. Bartholomew county officers obtained a confession from Curry and he was indicted on a first degree murder charge shortly afterward. Quarreled Over Work • According to the confession, Curry said he and Taylor had some argument over work in an orchard where Taylor was trimming trees. He is said to have told Curry to haul larger loads of brush, and when the youth objected, referred to him as “a dirty, no—’count Kentuckian.” Curry said he wounded Taylor with a shotgun, then beat him with its stock. . Since the youth's arrest his mother died. His father was held a few weeks as a material witness in the ease, but released after considerable wranging in Bartholomew circuit court. An uncle of the accused youth is said to be providing funds for counsel to defend him.

Three Sentenced on Charge of Shoplifting, Three women shoplifters were convicted of petit larceny in municipal court today and sentenced to the Indiana woman's prison. Mrs. Marie Parham, alias Marie Carmady, 20, of 831 South Senate avenue, and Mrs. Mabel Strube. 20, of 1408 Charles street, charged w ith stealing a dress from the Fair store April 10, received sixty days and thirty days respectively. Each was fined $25 and costs. Convicted on a charge of bigamy three weeks ago, Mrs. Parham was left off with $25 fine and costs, suspended. Today, this judgment was revoked and Mrs. Parham must serve out the bigamy penalty after her time is up on the shoplifting charge. Found guilty of the theft of S3O of merchandise from the Goldstein Brothers’ department store April 4, Mrs. Daisy Smith of Kokomo today was fined $25 and sentenced to the woman’s prison for thirty days. YOUTHFUr T HUACKERS’ DROWN IN LAKE ERIE Boy Campers. Missing Eleven Days, Lost in Gale. tin United Press DETROIT, April 16.—Missing since April 4. when they started from Sugar island, near the junction of the Detroit river and Lake Erie, presumably for the mainland, five boy campers today were given up for lost, following an exhaustive eleven-day search. The missing youths are David Yack. 17. and Robert Lothian, 18, of Wyandotte; Edward Truedell, 18, of Grosse lie and Howard Lester, 19, and Otto Baltzer, 16, of Amherstburg. Ontario. According to Isaac Peabody, chief of police of Grosse lie. the boys had stumbled across a rum-runner’s cache during one of their nomadic cruises and had loaded their rowboat with the contraband cargo. A gale which swept Lake Erie shortly after they left their rendezvous is believed to have swamped the overloaded craft. CLOTH WORKERS STRIKE Tennessee Textile Mills Idle After Walkout. Bji United Press ELIZABETHTON. Tenn., April 16. —The textile mills of the American Glanzstoff and American Bembei corporations were idle again today after the riotous walkout of approximately 5,000 employes. Union sympathizers ignored company guards, invaded the plants and persuaded the reluctant workers, mostly girls, to leave their jobs for the second time in a month. The former strike was settled when operators agreed to a slight wage increase, but refused to recognize the union.

Real Help to American Farmer Advocated by President Hoover in Special Congress Message

Action Recommended That Will Bring Agriculture Out of Rut. LAUDS MARKET GROUPS Readjustment of Tariff Also Urged as Factor of Great Import. E.u Un'tcd Press WASHINGTON, April 16. The text of President Hoover's message to the special session of congress today follows: I have called this special session of congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election—farm relief and limited changes in the tariff. The difficulties of the agricultural industry arise out of a multitude of causes. A heavy indebtedness was inherited by the industry from the deflation processes of 1920. Disorderly and wasteful methods of marketing have developed. The growdng specialization in the industry has for years been increasing the proportion of products that now leave the farm and in consequence prices have been depressed unduly by congested marketing at the harvest or by the occasional climatic surpluses. Raihvay rates necessarily have increased. There has been a growth of competition in the world markets from countries that enjoy cheaper labor or more nearly virgin soils. There was a great expansion of production from our marginal land during the war and these profitable enterprises under normal conditions can not be maintained. Meanwhile, their continued output tends to aggravate the situation. Local taxes have doubled and in some cases trebled. Work animals have been replaced steadily by mechanical appliances, thereby decreasing the consumption of farm products. There are many other contributing causes.

Behind Other Industries |

The general result has been that our agricultural industry has not kept pace in prosperity or standards of living with other lines of industry. There being no disagreement as to the need of farm relief, the problem before us becomes one of method by which relief may be brought about most successfully. Because of the multiude of causes and because agriculture is not one industry, but a score of industries, we are confronted not w T ith a single problem, but a great number of problems. Therefore, there is no single plan or principle that generally can be applied. Some of the forces working on the detriment of agriculture can be mitigated greatly by improving our waterway transportation: some by readjustment of the tariff; some by better understandings and adjustment of production needs; and some by improvement in methods of marketing. An effective tariff upon agricultural products that will compensate the farmer’s higher costs and higher standards of living has a dualpurpose. Such a tariff not only protects the farmer in our domestic market, but also stimulates him to diversify his crops and to grow products that he otherwise could not produce, and thus lessen his dependence upon exports to foreign markets. The great expansion of production abroad under the conditions I have mentioned renders foreign competition in our export markets increasingly serious. It seems but natural, therefore, that the American farmer, having been handicapped greatly in liis foreign market by such competition from the younger expanding countries, should ask that foreign access to our domestic markets should be regulated by taking into account the difference in our cost of production.

Country Gives Mandate

The government has a special mandate from the recent election not only to further develop our waterways and revise the agricultural tariff, but also to extend systematic relief in other directions. I long have held that the multiplicity of causes of agricultural depression could be met only by the creation of a great instrumentality clothed with sufficient authority and resources to assist our farmers to meet these problems, each upon its own merits. The creation of such agency at once would transfer the agricultural question from the field of politics into the realm of economics and would result in constructive action. The administration is pledged to create an instrumentality that will investigate the causes, find sound remedies, and have the authority and resources to apply those remedies. The pledged purpose of such federal farm board is reorganization of the marketing system on sounder and more stable and more economic lines. To do this, the board will require funds to assist in creating and sustaining farmer-owned and farm-er-controlled agencies for a variety of purposes, such as the acquisition of adequate warehousing and other facilities for .marketing; adequate working capital to be advanced against commodities lodged for storage; necessary and prudent ad-

Hoover’s Ideas on Farm Aid in a Nutshell

Improvements of waterways. Tariff readjustments. Adjustment of production needs through diversification. Improvement of marketing methods to eliminate waste. Tariff and waterways are matters for separate legislative measures. The remainder of the program would be carried out by a federal farm board. "The administration is pledged to create an instrumentality that wall investigate the causes, find sound remedies, and have the authority and resources to apply those remedies. “Every penny of waste between farmer and consumer that we can eliminate, whether it arises from methods of distribution or from hazard or speculation, will be a gain to both farmer and consumer.” “In addition to these special provisions in the direction of improved returns, the board should be organized to investigate every field of economic betterment for the farmer, so as to furnish guidance as to need in production, to devise methods for elimination of unprofitable marginal lands and their adaptation to other uses; to develop industrial byproducts, and to survey a score of other fields of helpfulness.” The President’s message mentioned no specific figure for the revolving fund to be placed at the disposal of the farm board. The house bill mentions $500,000,000. vances to corporations created and owned by farmers’ marketing organizations for the purchase and orderly marketing of surpluses occasioned by climatic variations or by harvest congestion; to authorize the creation and support of clearing houses, especially for perishable products, through which, under producers’ approval, co-operation can be established with distributors and processors to more orderly marketing of commodities and for the elimination of many wastes in distribution; and to provide for licensing of handlers of some perishable prodocts, to eliminate unfair practice. Every penny of waste between farmer and consumer that we can eliminate, wiiether it arises from methods of distribution or from hazard or speculation, wall be a gain to both farmer and consumer.

Other Needs Cited

In addition to these special provisions in the direction of improved returns, the board should be organized to investigate every field of economic betterment for the farmer so as to furnish guidance as to need in production, to devise methods for elimination of unprofitable marginal lands and their adaptation to other uses, to develop industrial by-products, and to survey a score of other fields of helpfulness. Certain safeguards naturally must surround these activities and the instrumentalities that are created. Certain vital principles must be adhered to, that we may not undermine the freedom of our farmers and of our people as a whole by bureaucratic and governmental domination and interference. We must not undermine initiative. There should be no fee or tax imposed upon the farmer. No governmental agency should engage in the buying and selling and price fixing of products, for such courses can lead only to bureaucracy and dominating. Government funds should not be loaned or facilities duplicated where other services of credit and facilities are available at reasonable rates. No activities should be set in motion that will result in increasing the surplus production, as such will defeat any plans of relief. The most progressive movement in all agriculture has been the upbuilding of the farmer’s own marketing organizations, which now embrace nearly two million farmers in membership and annually distribute nearly $2,500,000,000 worth of farm products. The organizations have acquired experience in virtually every branch of their industry, and furnish a substantial basis upon which to build further organization. Not all these marketing organizations are of the same type, but the test of them is whether they are farmer owned or farmer controlled. To strengthen and not to undermine them, all proposals for governmental assistance should originate with such organizations and be the result of their application. Moreover, by such bases of organization the government will be removed from engaging in the business of agriculture. The difficulties of agriculture can not be cured in a day; they can not all be cured by legislation; they can not be cured by the federal government alone. But farmers and their organization can be assisted to overcome these inequalities.

Must Make a Start

Every effort of this character is an experiment, and we shall find from our experience the way to further advance. We must make a start. With the creation of a great instrumentality of this character, of a strength and importance equal to that of those which we have created for transportation and banking, we give immediate assurance of the determined purpose of the government to meet the diffi-

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Entered A* Second • Class Matter at Postotfice Lnd!anat>oHs

Elimination of Waste Is Vital to Success of Any Plan. MUST KEEP WAGES UP Cheapening of Toiler Is Held Blow at Nation's Prosperity. culties of which we now are aware, and to create an agency through which constructive action for the; future will be assured. In this treatment of this problem we recognize the responsibility of the people as a whole, and w>e shall lay the foundations for anew day in agriculture, from which we shall preserve to the nation the great values of its individuality and strengthen our whole national fabric. In considering the tariff for other industries than agriculture, we find that there have been economic shifts necessitating a readjustment of some of the tariff schedules. Seven years of experience under the tariff bill enacted in 1922 have demonstrated the wisdom of congress in the enactment of that measure. On the whole, it has worked well. In the main, our wages have been maintained at high levels; our exports and imports have steadily increased; with some exceptions our manufacturing industries have been prosperous. Nevertheless, economic changes have taken place during that time, which have placed certain domestic products at a disadvantage and new industries have come into being, all of which creates the necessity of some changes in the schedules and in the administrative clause of the laws as written in 1922. It would seem to me that the test of necessity for revision is in the main whether there has been a substantial slackening of activity in an industry during the last few years, and a consequent decrease of that industry. It is not as if we were setting up anew basis of protective duties. We did that seven years ago. What we need to remedy now’ is u’hatever substantial loss of employment that may have resulted from shifts since that time.

Measure of Justice

No discrimination against any foreign industry is involved in equalizing the difference in cost of production at home and abroad and thus taking from foreign producers the advantages they derive from paying lower wages to labor. Indeed, such equalization is not only a measure of social justice at home, but by the lift it gives to our standards of living we increase the demand ior those goods from abroad that we do not ourselves produce. In a large sense, we have learned that the cheapening of the toiler decreases rather than promotes permanent prosperity, because it reduces the consuming power of the people. v In determining changes in our tariff, we must not fail to take into account the board interests ot the country as a whole, and such interests include our trade relations with other countries. It is obviously unwise protection which sacrifices a greater amount of employment in exports to gain a less amount of employment from imports. I am impressed with the fact, that we also need important revision in some administrative phases of the tariff. The tariff commission should be reorganized and placed upon a basis of higher salaries, that we may at all times command men of the broadest attainments. Seven years of experience have proved the principle of flexible tariff be practical, and in the long view a most important principle to maintain. However, the basis upon which the tariff commission makes its recommendations to the President for administrative changes in the rates of duty should be made more automatic and more comprehensive, to the end that the time required for determinations by the tariff commission shall be greatly shortened.

Delay Defeats Purpose

The formula upon which the commission now must act often requires that years be consumed in reaching conclusion, where it should require only months. Its very purpose is defeated by delays. I believe a formula can be found that will insure rapid and accurate determination of needed changes in rates. With such strengthening cf the tariff commission and of its basis for action, many secondary changes in tariff well can be left to action by the commission, which at the same time will give complete security to industry for the future. Furthermore, considerable weak-* nesses on the administrative side of the tariff have developed, esepcially in the valuations for assessments of duty. There are cases of undervaluations that are difficult to discover without access to the books of foreign manufacturers, which they are reluctant to offer. This has become also a great ■ source of friction abroad. There is ' increasing shipment of goods on : consignment, particularly by foreign shippers to concerns that they control in the United States, and this practice makes valuation difficult to determine. I believe it desirable to furnish to the treasury a sounder basis for j valuation in these and other cases, j It is my understanding that it is

COUNCIL AGAIN DELAYS WORK AT HOSPITAL New Snags Are Thrown in Way of Sorely Needed Improvements. WANT MORE ‘DETAILS’ Prospect Gloomy for Start of Construction Job Before Fall. The city hospital building program, which health board members have advocated as the outstanding civic need of Indianapolis for more than three years, today ran into a stone wall in city council. Council President Edward B. Raub announced that the council will delay action on the ordinance authorizing a $530,000 bond issue for the hospital power plant, first unit in the $1,900,000 progTam, for at least sixty days, with a view of having detailed plans and specifications for the. building laid before it. Council held a special meeting Friday night for introduction of the bond issue measure to "speed” the hospital power unit. After conference with C. R. Ammerman, consulting engineer, Monday night council decided detailed plans and specifications would be required before any funds would be authorized. Work Is Delayed Actual construction work probably will be delayed until late this fall. It will be about two months after the plans are completed before the money is available from the bond issue, if it is passed immediately after the sixty-day period. The board of health can not enter into a contract for the work until money is available, according to the statute. Raub asked Ammerman to complete detailed plans and specifications so several councilmen can “check” the cost estimates. “We want this pretty well crystallized before we approve the program. I think the council is willing to go along with the board of health and make the necessary improvements. I think the board of health feels that, we want to cheapen the program, but that is not, true. | Wants to Prepare 'Defense' “If we have to go before the state tax board, we want to be prepared to defend the program against all attacks. We want to co-operate with the health board in every way pos- ! sible, if it will let us,” Raub 4fcclared. | Councilman Herman P. Lieber I urged that the work be expediated as rapidly as possible. ; “I don't, want to be a party to any further delay,” Lieber said, suggesting that the time required for legal advertising on the bond ordinance run at the same time the architects work on plans. The sad part, of it is that after we appropriate the money, we have nothing further to say about the program,” said Councilman Edw’ard Harris, finance chairman. Dr. William A. Doeppers, hospital superintendent; Clarence Hess, business manager, and Robert Frost Daggett, board architect, explained the program to the council. YOUNG PEOPLE HEAR DE PAIJW PRESIDENT “Personal Religion Alust Be Tested,” Says Dr. Oxnam. “Not lip-service, not attendance, not mere conforming—but the willingness to live as Jesus is the active membership in the fraternity of Christianity,” Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. president of DePauw University, told persons attending an interdenominational young people’s service at the Indiana district of the Epworth League at the Irvington Methodist church. 'Personal religion has to be tested by shock,” Dr. Oxnam said. The Irvington league received the cup for the largest represetnation and the Edgewood league a cup for the largest group from out of town. The next meeting will be at the Central Methodist church April 24.

BELL OFFICERS ELECTED j Telephone Luncheon Club Names New Leaders. I B. G. Halstead, 28 East Fortieth i street, is president and F. L. Stan- : lev. 5609 Carrollton avenue, secrei tary of the Bel] Telephone Club for ! the year 1929. They were elected j Monday noon at the Spink-Arms. Halstead has been in telephone work since 1897. Since April, 1920, he has been appraisal engineer for the Indiana Bell. Stanley joined the Bell force in June, 1920, upon graduation Irom Purdue university. He has been general traffic engineer since July, 1928. the purpose of the leaders of congress to confine the deliberations of the session mainly to the questions of farm relief and tariff. In this policy I concur. There are, however, certain matters of emergency legislation partially completed in the last session, such as the decennial census, the reapportionment of congressional representations, and the suspension of the national origins clause of the immigration act of 1924, together with some minor administrative authorizations. I understand that these measures can be undertaken without unduly extending the session. I recommend their consummation as being in the public interest.