Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1929 — Page 17

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ORDERS TAKEN FOR FURNITURE BREAK RECORD One Showers Plant at Bloominqton Put on 12'Hour Basis, GET NEW INDUSTRIES Factory Obtains Sites in CrawfordsviHe and Terre Haute, BY CHARLES C. STONE S..Jt* Editor. Tbr Time* Booking of a record number of order;- during the soring market end furniture style show at Chicago hy rh- Showers Brothers Company. „ ith Indiana plants at Bloomington j,nd Bloomfield, and .announcement that Plan* 4 of the company in Bloomington will operate on a twelve-hour schedule are outstandmp events in business and industry of the state, a survey for the week j ended today shows. President ,T. M. Nurre announces j that in the first three days of the j Chicago display, more business was , obtained than at. any previous May j showing. Conditions throughout, the state are shown in the following sura—The annual report i of the Chamber of Commerce shows j that’ four industries it has brought j here in the last five years now have a combined annual payroll in excess of $250 Odd. Fioomington Anew tone quarr1 5 to be established on the Neal farm south of her p bv Carl Burst who has bought the 200-acre tract, for a reported price of $50,000. CrawfordsviHe Gets Plant CrawfordsviHe—The Apex Stamping Company has contracted to; move here from Chicago. D will j employ seventy-five persons in the manufacture of toys. Alexandria—Construction of an | edition to the Wells Boiler Works is under way. The present plant i will be remodeled. Fair mount —Extensive repairs are . being made to machinery in the i local plant of the Snider Packing ’ Corporation. .Muncie—'The Muncie Gear Com- j pany has contracted with the Mont- j gomery Sales Company. New York. ; for distribution of its products in , the east. Marion—The Superior Body Cor- : poration announces enough orders j on hand to assure steady operation ; through the year, with a 25 per cent increase over 1928 business. A pat- j ent on an automatic dump for mo- ■ tor vehicles has been granted to | Fdward F. Walsh, president, and William F. “Foust, chief engineer of | the company, and production of the j device is under way. Addition to Cost $30,000 Wabash —A 530.000 addition is be- j ing built to the B. Walker A: Com- j pany plant, and completion is set i for sixty days. \ incennes—Th r Tip Top Cream- ; ery has been merged with the Bea- ; trice Creamery Company. Chicago.! a $20,000,000 concern, which owns i dairy products plants from coast to; coast. Clinton—Rumors that the Lewin ! Overall 1 Company factory was to be l moved from this city are. denied in j a statement by the owner. E. A.! Lewin. who announces that a branch plant is to be established at Herrin. 111. Torre Haute—A plant to be established here by the Quaker Maid | Company will employ between 400 j and 500 persons. A factory buildmg to cost $500,000 is planned. Hammond—Bruce Vernon, representative of Lever Brothers, who will establish a $5,000,000 soap plant here, announces that work on con- i struction of the factory will begin' in June. Clearing of the plant site j has been in progress several weeks. | Gary—Dr. Otto Fleener an-; nminces that $500,000 private hos- ! pital, ol 150*bed capacity, will be; erected here by a corporation . formed under the laws of New Jer- J sey. FOUR HOMES ROBBED: LOOT VALUED AT SBIO S3OO in Clothing. Jewelry, rum’ture and sllO in Cash Taken. Jewelry, clothing and furniture -valued at S7OO and sllO in cash was obtained by burglars in a series oi robberies Thursday night. Clothing and jewelry valued at $260 was taken from the home oi Mrs. Louise Mclntire. 4065 Boulevard place, while the family was absent. A trunk was broken into and a thief stole SIOO from Nick Angelo 602 East North street. Three dresses and a fraternity pin valued at S2OO were taken from the home of Kelsie R. Wame, 40 West Thirty-fifth street. A thief stole a revolver, bedding, sewing machine and a diamond ring from the home of Mrs. W. H. Dodd, R. R. B. Box 466. LOW POWER RATE ASKED Manufacturers Petition to Be Placed on Monthly Basis. Hearing on the petition of large Indianapolis power v.sers for decreased rates on huge consumption from the Indianapolis Power and Light Company will be held before tire public service commission at the statehouse Monday, it was announced today by Chairman John W. McCardle. The manufacturers signing the petition vant to abandon the annua demand rate base and put payments on a monthly rate basis on actual consumption only.

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SPECIAL AWARDS ARE MADE TO 47 BUTLER STUDENTS

Run and Ride B'i I inn Special ATTICA, Ind.. May 17. After a team of mules belonging to Clint Coffing ran away, demolishing a wagon to which they were hitched, they were captured, leaded into a truck and hauled back to Coffing's farm near here.

PLEA MADE TO PAROLE LIFER Bar Says Conviction Was Miscarriage of Justice. E;i lint-.:: ;.t 'Hal ANDERSON. Ind., May 17. Governor Harry G. Leslie has taken under advisement the plea of a committee of the Madison County Bar Association asking clemency for James L. Pattie, former Anderson attorney, who is serving a life term in the Indiana state prison at Michigan CHy for the slaying of John Wilkinson, a farm hand. Pattie is 65 years old. Pattie retired from law practice here fifteen years ago, going to Spencer county where he bought and operated a farm. The killing for which he is in prison occurred following a quarrel between Pattie and Wilkinson, his employe. Testimony disclosed that a gun was discharged while the two men were on the ground fighting. A jury in the first trial disagreed, 8 to 4. In the second trial Pattie was convicted of second degree murder. The bar association presented the matter to the Governor as “a miscarriage of justice.” The hearing was attended by the prisoner’s wife, who is matron of a Masonic home, and a daughter, who is a senior at Indiana university. Wilkinson was described as a ‘‘physical giant weighing 240 pounds,” while Pattie is a small man. COLO BRINGS FROST £ No Damage Caused; Warmer Weather. Rain Predicted, Avery light frost accompanied a 44-ricgree minimum temperature in Indianapolis this morning, causing no damage. Lower temperatures caused frost throughout the northern half of the state, becoming heavy at Farmland and Marion. "There was no frost here on foliage this morning.” said J. H. Armington. weather bureau chief, ‘‘but slight frost could be found on roots at the ground level. It was not sufficient to be damaging.” From a low mark of 40 at Farmland, temperatures ranged upward to 50 south of Indianapolis, Armington said, ar.d the outlook is for higher temperatures tonight, approximating 55 to 60 degrees, probably accompanied by showers. Rivers are receding at all points in central and northern Indiana and are at their crest in the southern part of the state. Armington reported.

Loser Wins! Stork Seats ‘Pop,’ in Plane, but Vanquished Has 8-Pound Son.

\ NOVEL race between the much-fabled stork and an airplane today was conceded to the stork, but a father in the airplane won the stakes. Earl Twining. Toledo, in charge of the Champion Spark Plug Company interests at the Speedway, received a telegram Thursday morning stating his wife was in a Toledo hospital. Commandeering an airplane piloted by Clarence Gunther. Twining took off from Capitol airport at 11:30 a. m.. arriving at the hospital in Toledo two hours later. “Is it a boy or a girl?" asked Twining as he entered the hospital. Informed it was an eightpound boy he turned to Gunther and declared. "This is the best race I ever lost." A return flight was made Thursday night. SCHOOLS GET $553,444 IN STATE AID CLAIMS Ninety Cents on Dollar Paid: Hope to Abolish Deficit Soon. Ninety cents on the dollar was paid on state aid claims by the office of Roy P. Wise hart, superintendent of public instruction. Thursday it was announced by Harry Kirk, state aid auditor. The checks sent out total $553.444.65. Next year the increase granted by the 1929 legislature will add another $600,000 a year to the fund. Kirk declares that he hopes to abolish the defiicit. now prevailing, and balance the books. Much criticism oi the handling of the funds n Wiseheart's office was made by he legislators, but the superintendents lobby succeeded in checkmating a move to put it under the state board of accounts

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Ninth Annual ’Honor Day’ Exercises Held; Chicago Educator Speaks, . Forty-seven Butler university students today received special awards in literature, dramatics and debaI ting at the ninth annual "honor day” exercises in the mens gym- : nasium. j The awards were announced by | J.' W. Putman, dean, following an address on ‘Our Bewildered Morality" by Dr. Shailer Mathews of the University of ChicagoMorals change as civilization changes," Dr Mathews said. ‘‘New situations always demand new ad- ! justments of life. Morality is a good | deal like the rules of football —they are made as the game proceeds. “An agricultural age has morality which needs to be developed in a commercial age: morals in a comjnercial age need to be developed in an industrial age. Two Genera ( ions Differ ‘ Again there is the different experience of two generations. The older generation is aware of the changes and does not quite know how to adjust itself to new condi- ! tions. The younger generation dis- | trusts inherited authority and con- ! ventions, but has not yet sufficient ' experience to face the new condiI tions wisely.” In literature, for the production ; of highest merit. Marguerite Young received first prize of SSO; George R. McCormack, second, $25, and Elizabeth Davis, honorable mention. Phyllis Nordstrom was honored in dramatics for receiving the E. H. Sothern medal for the best individual acting in the collegiate play contest at Northwestern university recently. ‘ The Marriage Gown.” in which she appeared, won Thespis Club second place in the contest. Robert Andry was cited for winning second place in the state oratorical contest on the Constitution, and third place in the state oratorical contest. The men's debating team was successful in half its debates this year and the members, Curtis Hunter. Charless Barry. Russell Townsend. Abraham LetifT, Kenneth Mount, Louis Moehlmann, Edward Fillenworth, Kenneth Rogi ers, George Gisler. Robert Andry, | Clyde Hoffman and Adoplh Emj hardt. received honorable mention. Women Debaters Win The women's debating team won ■ three out of four encounters. The members. Grace Crone. Helen Vennard. Helen South. Lena Cohen. Margaret Ice and Nan Frances Warren. were honored. An essay contest on “The 'Future 6f the Railroads.” conducted by the Illinois Central system, was won by H. T. Bridwell for the best- submitted from Butler. He received a prize of $25. Gladys Hawickhorst was mentioned " for having received the Woman’s League scholarship cup for the highest scholastic average in 1927-28. Thirteen students who received no grade lower than A minus during the school year were honored: Ebner Blatt. Karl G. Bottke. Lois Ann Hodgin. Helma E. Kahn. Hazel Geav Paul. Robert F. Pitts. Eula Rose Pyle, Del ma r W. Ray, Frieda Steinman Robinson. Wendell A. Shullenbereer. Rosalind M. Taylor, Margaret M. Way and Thomas W. Wilson. Scholarships Given Out Nine seniors received graduate 1 scholarships or fellowships for 1929- : 1930. They are: Alice Phillips, botany major, fellowship in botany at the University of Cincinnati of $750; Theodore Sperry, botany major, graduate assistantship in botary at i the University of Illinois of $750; | Karl Bottke, romance language | major, fellowship in romance lan- : guages at the University of Wisconsin of $700; Eugene Underwood, romance language and English major, graduate scholarship in romance languages at Duke university of $300; Lucille Turner, romance language and English major, graduate scholarship in English at the University of North Carolina; | Thornes Wilson, history major, graduate scholarship in history at | the University of Wisconsin; Robert j Franklin Pitts, chemistry and zooloj gy major, student assistantship in ! zoology at Johns Hopkins university *of $786; .Arthur Cope, chemistry | major, fellowship in chemistry at j the University of Wisconsin of S6OO, and Wilbur O. Teeters, chemistry j major, graduate fellowship at New York university of SBOO and tuition BRIDGES ARE APPROVED Illinois and Indiana Road Commissioners O. K. Plans, Plaits for the Vincennes bridge and the one proposed for the Waj bash at Mt. Carmel. 111., were apj proved at a joint meeting of the | state highway commissioners of Illinois and Indiana at Danville. 111., Wednesday, it was announced at commission offices here. Each structure will cost about $400,000 and the Indiana commission will have charge of constructing the Vincennes bridge and the Illinois officials the Mt. Carmel. TWO YOUTHS~ARRESTED .Allege Lads Tried to Break Into Hauger Clothing Store. Two youths were arrested and three fled down an alley when police said they discovered them trying to break into the Hauger clothing store. 117 North Illinois street. The two arrested were John Fenton. 17, of 1201 East New York street, and Raymond Pringle, 16. of 124 North Oriental street. The rear door of the store had been battered iA

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929

SMOKE SCREEN BOOTLEG AUTO IS CAPTURED First Car Using War-Time Device Here is Seized by Sheriff, TWO FACE 800ZE TRIAL Ingenious Equipment and 90 Gallons of Alcohol in Machine* The first rum-running car with smoke screen equipment to be captured in Marion county since bootleggers adopted war time devices was held today by Sheriff George Winkler. Deputies John Lindsay. Harry Shipp and Fred Tielking captured the car in West Morris street, rear National road early this morning. They forced Sam Curry, 838 Prospect street, former policeman, and 1 Dale Preston, 27, of 1114 Beecher, street, the occupants to the side 1 of the road. Curry, who recently was fined in federal court for a prohibition viola- i tion, insisted there was no liquor in ! the car. Deputies searched and i found ninety gallons of alcohol in the rear of the new Chevrolet coupe in a padded compartment. A large . revolver was found on the shelf behind the seat. The deputies found the- smoke, screen equipment when they raised the hood. A two gallon can was neatly fastened to the dash.. It. was filled with a special oil. which when heated expands into thick white ' smoke clouds. The oil is lead through 1 a small copper pipe into a special pump, powered by the auto motor, j and blown into the exhaust pipe.; The motor exhaust provides the head ! and forces the smoke out the exhaust pipe in the rear. The eon- | traption was so neatly installed that the deputies saw in it the work of j an expert. Curry and Preston were arraigned j before Federal Commissioner John ! W. Kern, ‘on charges of violating the | Jones law. Bond was set at $3,500 , for each and the men returned to county jail. Deputy sheriffs have been on the ! look-out for smoke screen cars ever ! since the murder of Da,go Frank j Whittington of Louisville near I Royalton. north of the city, last fall, j Urban Pope, pal of Whittington, brought the body into the city, and j told a story of having been attacked j by hi-jackers and having escaped j with his own life and the Whitting- | ton remains by laying down a smoke | screen with his car and dodging j into a side road. . The smoke attachment is placed | in operation by a simple valve oper- i ated from inside the car.

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Carp Copped But Not Before Captor’s Efforts in Mud Hole Stop Traffic,

Crowds lined the rail of the Washington street White river bridge and triple-parked autos paralyzed traffic early this morning. Impatient drivers, hurrying to work, honked their horns and then abandoned their/ mounts to elbow into a place es vantage at the rail. Twenty-five feet below a dusky disciple of Izaak Walton played a nautical version of the shell and pea game with a capricious carp, which was not a little disconcerted by the fact that it was left marooned in a fifty-foot pool when flood water receded, “Now' you see, now' you don’t,” grinned the Negro, trousers rolled to his knees, after a futile lunge at a dorsal Ann which zigzagged, periscope-like, through the muddy water, “Ride ’em. cowboy!” someone shouted when the tantalizing fin reappeared a few feet off. Another leap, a swirl in the water, a sopping-wet figure regaining its balance on the slippery mudbettom. And tw r o hundred people late to work. But perseverance won. Autos sped homeward over the Washington street bridge this afternoon uninterrupted. For “the carp that stopped the traffic” sizzled in a west side frying pan. ATTACK SUSPECT WILL NOT BE RETURNED HERE Abbott Freed in Connection With California Torso Murder. Leland W. Abbott, former Indianapolis man. who. according to dispatches, has been released in Los Angeles, in connection with the torso murder, will not be extradited to Indianapolis, it was announced today by P~ul Rhoadarmer, chief deputy prosecutor. Rhoadarmer has a statement from Miss Jessie Stevens. Muncie. telling of Abbott's alleged attack on her June 17. 1928. in this city. Prosecutors decided that the charge which could be filed against Abbott. would not be sufficient to warrant returning him. An affidavit may be filed and allowed to stand against him. in case he should return to the city, it was

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Smoke screen thrown out by bootleggers' car 'above), captured by Deputy Sheriffs John Lindsay '"below, left), and Harvey Shipp (below, right.) Sheriff George L. Winkler (center, below) who confiscated the car. is shown with a gun and one of the cans of alcohol found Ln the car. Inset above is a closeup of the can on the dash from which oil was pumped into the exhaust to make the smoke.

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SBO a Pair Bjj Times Special MUNCIE, Ind . May 17.—Ed McDorman appearing in city court to answ;er an old charge of being drunk, was drunk again. The court assessed a fine of S4O and costs in each case with a ten days' jail sentence.

Girl Forger Prisoner’s Case Presented at Bloomfield Today. Bj/ Times Special BLOOMFIELD, Ind.. May 17 The first move in the appeal of Daisy Sullivan. 18, to the Indiana supreme court was taken today before Judge Thomas R. Van Buskirk in Greene circuit court here. Russell B. Harrison and H. L. Ridenour, Indianapolis attorneys fothe girl now r held in Indiana Worn - an’s prison here, filed notice ts appeal and a motion that Greene county pay for a transcript of evidence upon which the appeal to supreme court will be based. The girl was sentenced to two to fourteen years for forgery by Van Buskirk. Her counsel contends she was not represented by friend or attorney in an informal session before the judge when she was sentenced. The motion for the‘transcript alj leges the girl and her father are j without funds. The transcript will | be expensive because the hearing in ! which Van Buskirk denied Daisy’s ; petition for a writ of error, coram ' nobis, lasted a week. The affidavit supporting the petition for the transcript alleges: | “This affiant further states that ; after her conviction and incarceraj tion in the Indiana Woman’s prison, Attorneys Russell B. Harrison and L. H. Ridenour appeared for her and ; filed a petition for a writ of error, 1 coram nobis. That the oral argu- : ment on said writ was set for Mon- ! day, April 22, and said attorneys appeared for the defendant to argue ; said writ, and to this defendant's surprise, anew hearing of the cause came on and much new testimony was introduced and taken down by i th reporter of Green circuit court,. “That said trial and hearing took place while this affiant was absent | and confined in the Indiana Woman’s prison in Indianapolis, in violation of her rights as set forth in Section 58 of the constitution of ■ the state of Indiana.” It is understood the attorneys have uncovered some startling new | evidence of methods used by the ' prosecutor's office in Greene county j in building the record against the j girl. New Head Chosen for College Bn l ait<-il Press \ DANVILLE. Ind.. May 17.—Professor Waldo Wood, head of the department of psychology at Central Normal college here, has been named acting president of the institution, succeeding Dr. Jonathan Rigdon, who resigned, effective at the end of the present term.

Fairbanks Is Likely to Be Quizzed on Power Company Offer for Paper, i By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 17.—Warren i Fairbanks, publisher of the Indian- | apolis News, may be called, as a witi ness in the federal trade commission i hearing now in progress, in. regard to the reported attempts of persons representing the International Paper and Power Company and other units of the so-called “power trust” to buy controlling interests in newspapers through the United States. Fairbanks would be called simply to find out from him who may have been trying to buy the News. Charles O’Malley, Boston advertising man, today related to Commissioner McCullough, directing the hearing, how two men named Campion and Colloran, representing themselves as a bond salesman and a New York broker, respectively, had called on him about Feb. 11 or 12 of this year to open negotiations with two large Boston papers in the interests of unnamed clients. “They told me," O’Malley testified, “that they were not ready to disclose their backers, but that the latter were interested in buying a chain of fifty to sixty papers through the United States. They said they now w T ere negotiating for a. large paper in Indianapolis—l think the News.” The name of the News first was brought into the hearings Thursday when a memorandum was introduced written by C. P. Carberry, managing editor of the Boston Post, relating to a conversation he had with O’Malley. The latter told him. the memorandum said, that he (O'Malley) was representing the Instills, who had authorized him to buy large newspapers and who already had bought the Indianapolis News. O’Malley, on the stand today, denied this conversation. He said that in casual talk with Carberry the latter had asked “who' I supDosed Campion and Colloran represented. and when I replied that they mentioned bankers in New York or Chicago, himself suggested it might be Insull.” ST. VINCENT SISTERS TO , FETE HOSPITAL STAFF Banquet Monday Will Honor Class of Graduates. A banquet in honor of the 1929 graduating class at St. Vincent’s hospital will be given to lecturers, teachers and hospital staff by sisters of the institution next Monday at Louise de Marillac hall, nurses’ home. This dinner is only one of many to be given in honor of the class. Second year nurses at the hospital will honor the class with a banquet at the Severin hotel. Tuesday. Another dinner will be given in honor of the Right Rev. Joseph Chartrand. bishop, who will preside at the commencement exercises, May 23. The class of 1928 will be hostesses to the graduating class of 1929 at a reception and banquet following the exercises to be held at Louise de Marillac hall. Accident Injuries Fatal B.” 7 ililr ■ Sorriat CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. May 17.—Funeral sendees were held today for Mrs. Elizabeth L. Wren, who died of injuries suffered in an auto W66d hifr

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LANDIS TO BET ’Distinguished Service' to Be Rewarded. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high | commissioner of baseball, former i federal judge and a native of Indiana. will receive the Distinguished Service award of the American Legion at the national convention in Louisville, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2 and 3. Landis will be the third American to receive the award and the tenth person thus to be honored by the legion. The other Americans are General John J. Pershing and Admiral R. E. Coontz. The award will be made to Landis, the national executive committee decided, because of the manner in which he has aided the legion in organizing the junior world series, in which baseball teams composed of boys and sponsored by legion posts stage a national tournament, j Others whom the legion thus has honored are the late Marshal Ferdi- ' nand Foch, Admiral Beatty, General Baron Jacques, Belgian war army head; Genera,l Diaz. Italian war leadej; Charles Bertrand of France. Fldac head; General Josef Haller, Polish commander, and Jan Igrace Paderewski. Polish pianiststatesman. The last award was made to Pederewski in 1926. I The executive committee also api proved a proposal to invite Fidac, the inter-allied war veterans' organization. to meet in this country in 1930 and for the French veterans to meet here in 1932.

Oh, So Tough! Boy Burglars Ask Cop for Money After Robbing Stores,

TWO youthful burglars broke all records for boldness, if not badness, today. Paul Shutt, 18. and a 15-year-old youth, both of Kokomo. Ind.. were found near the terminal station. Market and Illinois streets, at 5 this morning. They told Sergeant Frank Reilly they were stranded, had run away from home two weeks ago and asked him for money with which to return home. Riley took them to headquarters. Grilled, they admitted they had broken into several stores in the 4000 block of Madison avenue during the night. Officers found forty-seven nickels and 118 pennies in their pockets. They were held for juvenile authorities. WIN BEAUTY PRIZES Ten Girls Named in First Elimination Contest. Ten Indianapolis girls today were assured of consideration in the finals of the Indiana, roof ballroom beauty pageant Saturday night as , the result of Thursday night's elim- ! inations. ; From a field of twenty-seven, the survivors were: Irene Hughes, 529 South Illinois street; Mary Virginia Hamilton. 1638 Virginia avenue; Rosetto Talley, 2213 Lexington avenue: LaVerne McCord. 115 Good avenue; Mary Alice Mulry, 1144 Prospect street; Anna Mae Brady, 1146 Laurel street: Lorena Winniger. 521 North Lynn street; Betty Lindenberg, 2874 North Wheeler street: Truela Mae Seal, 624 North Dearborn street; and Mildred McNaught, 2354 Kenwood avenue. Judges were H. S. Krants. athletic director of the Indianapolis Athletic Club; Chic Jackson of the Indianapolis Star; Randolph L. Coates, artist; Mrs. H. S. King, physical culture authority; Miss Irene Bayord. photographer, and Hillary G. Bailey, photographer. Ten more girls will be selected tonight. Three in Auto Hurt B " I nii id Press BRAZIL. Ind.. May 17.—Three persons were injured near here when their automobile left a highway and crashed into a sewer bulkhead. The injuredd are Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gibson and the latter’s mother.

LATIN AMERICA DAY OBSERVED AT INSTITUTE Intervention in Nicaragua Is Upheld by Speaker at Morning Session. FASCISM IS PRAISED Mexico on Threshold of New Era of Peace. Doc* tor Declares. Intervention in Nicaragua, the status of Mexico anc economic conditions in Latin-America formed the keynote n f Latin-American day at the conference today of the MidH est Institute on International Re- : lotions in the Lincoln. At lunhceon, Miss Fredericka V. Blankner of Chicago acclaimed fascism's place in the political sun as a government "for the people, by the people and of the people.” Dr. J. Fred Rippy of Duke university, in an address on the ‘Chief Problems of Pan-America” opened the round table discussions. In consideration of United States* intervention in Latin-America, Rip.P v warned: “When a strong power j and a, weak power are in disagreej ment. the strong power has its way. 1 We measure things m dollars, and that is not the Latin-American way. America rarely is invited to Latin conferences because those conferences are directed against us.” For Nicaraguan Intervention In a round table discussion ora recent policies in the Carribbean. Dr. Isaac Cox of Northwestern uniI versitv made it plain that the Nica--1 raguan intervention was for the convenience of that nation and to | give its people a, fair election day. Appropriation of the government ;of Mexico as it stands was contained in an address by Dr. Alva ! W. Taylor of Vanderbilt university, j in a round table on that nation, j “Peasants In Mexico are not likej ly to be rushed into another revolution. for the present government gives them undreamed of privileges," he said. “Mexico is off on anew foot for a successful regime of education, prosperity and labor,” he concluded. Mussolini Is Praised Miss Blanker declared that laws instituted by Mussolini were a check i to dictatorship rather than an aid. She said leadership is a part of Fascism, but not dictatorship. Dean Shailer Mathews of Chicago university will oe the principal speaker at the banquet in the Travertine room of the Lincoln tonight. Paul V. McNutt. American Legion commander, and Mrs. McNutt have been-invited to attend the banquet. The press and its relationship to i world problems will be discussed j Saturday at a round table, with j recommendations of the organization made at dinner meeting of the ! advisory board. Saturday night. The conference ends with an Anglo-American night at. 7;30 Satj urday in the Lincoln. Evans Wool- ; len, president of Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, will preside. Dr. C. Delisle Burns, London, will !speak.

MASTER MASONS HOLD SILVER CELEBRATION Five Hundred Attend Banquet at Columbia Club. More than 500 Master Masons j and tneir wives were guests Thursday night at the Columbia Club | banquet climaxing the celebration of the silver anniversary of Monument lodge No. 657. F. & A. M. Dancing, motion pictures and bridge followed at the Masonic Temple. North and Illinois streets. Robert E. Kraft, master of Monument lodge, was toastmaster at the banquet. Eph Levin, lodge secretary; Mayor L Ert Slack, past master of Franklin lodge; Otto W. Cox, chairman of the anniversary committee. and George W. Dinkel Jr* past master, spoke briefly. Kraft was presented a gave', made from a piece of olive wood found ! near the site of Solomon's temple, j in Jerusalem DURANT TO TALK HERE Lecturer Will Be Feted by Business Leaders on May 27. More than one hundred business and civic leaders will be guests at a dinner at the Columbia Club May 27 sponsored by Arthur V. Brown, president of the Union Trust Company and Arthur R. Baxter, president of the Keyless Lock Company. Dr. Will Durant, author and philosopher will be the guest of honor. Dr. Durant is the author of “The Story of Philosophy." “The Story of Civilization," which was printed by Tne Indianapolis Times several months ago. and other widely known works. * LESLIE TO GIVE ADDRESS Governor to Outline Referendum Contention at Open Meeting. Governor Harry G. Leslie will talk on the constitutional convention referendum to be held in 1930 at a public meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Monday night. Arrangements for the meeting were made by Ross F. Lockridge. Senator Winfield T. Miller will preside. The referendum was authorized in a resolution adopted by the 1929 legislature. All organizations and individuals interested are asked to attend the meeting. This is the first to be held sines Uae resolution was