Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1929 — Page 18

PAGE 18

C4ll Qui&t ° n th r Mstmi fm/it ”^Yr§m^£

CHAPTER VI WE have to go up on wiring fatigue. The motor lorries roll up after dark. We climb in. It Is a warm evening and the twilight seems hke a canopy under whose shelter we feel drawn together. Even the stingy Tjaden gives me a cigaret and then a light. We stand jammed in together, shoulder to shoulder; there is no room to sit. But we do not expect that. Muller is in a good mood lor once; he is wearing his new boots. The engines drone, the lorries bump and rattle. The roads are worn and full of holes. We dare not show a light, so we lurch along and are often almost pitched out. That does not worry us, however. It can happen if it likes; a broken arm is better than a hole in the guts, and many a man would be thankful enough for such a chance of finding his way home again. Beside us stream the munitioncolumns of long files. They are making the pace, they overtake us going forward. We joke with them and they answer back. A wail becomes visible, it belongs to a house which lies on the side of the road. I suddenly prick up my ears. Am I deceived? Again I hear distinctly the cackle of geese. A glance of Katczinsky—a glance from him to me; we understand one another. “Kat, I hear some aspirants for the frying pan over there.” He nods. "It will be attended to when we come back. I have their numb*?.” Os course Kat has their number. He knows all about every leg of goose within a radius of fifteen miles. The lorries arrive at the artillery lines. The gun-emplacements are eamoufiagd with bushes against arial observation and look like a kind of military feast of the tabernacles. These branches might seem gay and cheerful were not cannon embowered there. Th air becomes acrid with the smoke of the guns and the fog. The /times of powder taste bitter on the tongue. The roar of the guns makes our lorry stagger, the rever-

Central Authority Called Great Need in Prohibition Rule Too Much Chance for Buck-Passing Under System Now in Use, Declares Mabel Walker Willebrandt. In thl*. her concluding article. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. former assistant attorney general in charge of prohibition, enumerates the she believe; nrreojri to make prohibition successful. She states the points upon which She beli-ves the situation rests, as she leaves it to take up her private lan practiee once more. BV MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT. (Cdpvrlght. 1929. by Current News Features Inc. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) I HAVE bpen accused of resigning; my position in a pique because, so the report goes, the President refused to concentrate all prohibition enforcement activities in the department of justice and under my immediate supervision. Those who want to believe such a story can do so. I never have thought it worth while to deny all the baseless rumors about prohibition and prohibition enforcement that have # gained circulation during the eight years that I was connected with the work. I most emphatically do believe rcsppnsibility for prohibition policies should be centered in some one place in the government, and long have so stated, publicly and privately. /*- But there's nothing original with me about that idea. More than five years ago a committee of experts, appointed under congressional authority. made a report to congress on reorganization of government departments for efficiency. One of the six major recommendations of that committee was “the elimination of all non-fiscal functions from the treasury department.” And there was specific recommendation by the same experts that the prohibition work be taken away from supervision of the secretary of the treasury. But. regardless of what the experts say. the reader will want to know the “why” of the proposal to centralize prohibition enforcement authority somewhere else than in the treasury department.

The “why” as I see it is that with responsibility divided as it is at the present, there is no way for the President, congress or the people to put a finger on the weak spot in enforcement. The result is constant buck-pass-ing between them so fast that a person gets dizzy trying to secure improvements as though watching a toe dancer whirl. Man Power Wasted No great additional sum of money Is needed to improve prohibition enforcement. There is plenty of man power, though not all of the right kind. But the man power isn't made to work to the best advantage. With centralization, with proper exchange of information and personnel, there would be more of the Remus type of bootlegger caught and convicted, the men at the head of the big liquor rings. Right in the treasury department itself, there is a scattering of responsibility that encourages “buckpassing.” when anything goes wrong with prohibition enforcement. The secretary of the treasury necessarily must occupy most of his time with the financial affairs of the country. The real solution of the enforcement problem is to secure the close grouping and proper co-ordination of the evidence-collecting branches of the treasury department with the prosecuting agencies under the depa rtmnt of justice. There should be one head to determine policies. It doesn't ha\e to be the department of justice, but certainly control should be centralized somewhere. Plug Alcohol Leak It is essential that bootleggers be cut off from their supply of industrial or specially denatured alcohol. Previously, I have stated in detail what the alcohol leak amounts to. and how it can be plugged by rewriting regulations and tightening up on permits. When the alcohol leak is plugged, there will be vastly less bootlegging in the United States of America than at present. Another method of improving enforcement will be to cut off the flow of liquof from Canada and other points outside the United States. First, it will be necessary to convince the Canadian authorities of the honest intentions and integrity of our own officials, in order to get more effective aid from Canada. A good start has been made in recent changes in the customs service at Detroit. Second, it will be necessary to strengthen our border patroL

oeration rolls raging away to the rear, everything quakes. Our faces change imperceptibly. We are not, indeed, in the front-line, but only in the reserves, yet in every sac can be read: This is the front, now we are within its embrace. It is not fear. Men who have been up as often as we have become thick-skinned. Only the young recruits are agitated. Kat explains to them: "That was a twelve-inch. You hear the explosion first and afterwards comes the sound of the gun.” But the hollow sound of the firing does not reach us. It is swallowed up in the general murmur of the front. Kat listens: "There’ll be a bombardment tonight.” We all listen. The front is restless. "The Tommies are firing already,”, says Kropp. The shelling can be heard distinctly. It is the English batteries to the right of our section. They are beginning an hour too soon. According to us they start punctually at 10 o'clock. What's got them?” say 9 Muller, “their clocks must be fast.” "There'll be a bombardment, I tell you, I can feel it in my bones.” Kat shrugs his shoulders. Three shells land beside us. The burst of flames shoots across the fog, the fragments howl and drone. We shiver and are glad to think that we shall be back in the huts early in the morning. Cur faces are neither paler nor more flushed than usual; they are not more tense nor more flabby—and yet they are changed. We feel that in our blood a contact has shot home. That is no figure of speech; It is fact. It is the front, the consciousness of the front, that makes this contact. The moment that the first shells whistle over and the air rent with the explosions, there is suddenly in our veins, in our hands, in our eyes, a tense waiting, a watching. a profound growth, a strange sharpening of the senses. The body with one bound is in full readiness. It often seems to me as though it were the vibrating, shuddering air that with a noiseless leap springs

Another step toward making prohibition enforcement effective is complete elimination of political appointees from the enforcement organization. As long as one-third of the prohibition force is made up of people who have not qualified under proper civil service examinations, and political pull and influence are instrumental in keeping dishonest, untrained or stupid men in the service. there will be little possibility of the kind of enforcement that is required. Must Have Local Aid To local communities must be left responsibility for the kind of police work that will detect the half-pint and quart liquor peddlers. And, finally, when the United States district attorneys and their assistants are appointed principally on the basis of legal fitness, integrity, and willingness and determination to enforce all the laws, instead of on the basis of political influence, another 100 per cent will be added to the effectiveness of enforcement! Let me say again that prohibition never will be successfully enforced from Washington alone. It simply can not be done. It is local opinion and vigilance that will bring about effectiveness in the districts throughout the country. If one person is given centralized authority to co-ordinate forces and establish policies, if he be willing to face the difficulties and the infinite details of the task, and if he will stand up and take punishment and keep fighting, he can carry the work on to success. He will have the backing of a President who has spent his‘life doing what timid men said was impossible. She's Had Her Fun There are some who will count me just another “out” in the game; others will 'say. "She made a sacrifice hit." What is said matters little, because of my sure conviction that the man who follows me will advance the policies in which I believe. In one sense I'm sorry to leave, even on the wings of the challenge of aviation law. For in looking back over the last eight years <the full measure of public service for any lawyer who doesn't want to get “govemmentitis”). I realize that I have had a lot of fun in the struggle itself, because, as President Roosevelt said: "Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords." THE END.

I upon us; or as though the front itself emitted an electric current | which awakened unknown nerveI centres. Every time it is the same. We | start out for the front plain solj diers," either cheerful or gloomy; j then come the first gun-emplace- ! ments and every word of our speech : has anew ring. When Kat stands in front of the hut and says: “Thereil be a bombardment,” that'is merely his own opinion; but if he says it here, then the sentence has the sharpness of a bayonet in the moonlight, it cuts clean through the thought, it thrusts nearer and speaks to this unknown thing that is awakened in us. a dark meaning—‘There'll be a bombardment.” “Perhaps it is our inner and most secret life that shivers and falls on guard. To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its center, I feel the whirj of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly inescapably into itself. Prom the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us—mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to *he soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when lie buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shellfire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and gives him anew lease of ten seconds of life, receives him again and often for ever. Earth!—Earth!—Earth! Earth with thy folds, and hollows and holes, into which a man may fling himself and crouch down! Ifi the spasm of terror under the hailing of annihilation, in the bellowing death of the exposions, O Earth, thou grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life. Our being, almost utterly carried away by the fury of the storm, streams back through our hands from thee, and we, thy redeemed ones, bury ourselves in thee, and through the long minutes in a mute agony of hope hite into thee with our lips! At the sound of the first droning of the shells w T e rush back in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness. One can not explain it. A man is walking along without thought or heed; suddenly he throw’s himself down on the ground and a storm of fragments flies harmlessly over him; yet he can not remember either to have heard the shell coming oi to have thought of flinging himself down. But had he not abandoned himself to the impulse he now would be a heap of mangled flesh. It is this other, this second sight in us. that has thrown us to the ground and saved us, without our knowing how. If it were not so, there would not be one man aiive from Flanders to the Vosges. We march up, moody or good-tem-pered soldiers—we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals. An indigent-looking wood receives us. We pass by the soup-kitchens Under cover of the wood we climb out. The lorries turn back. They are to collect us again in the morning, before dawn.

Mist and smoke of guns lie breasthigh over the fields. The moon is shining. Along the road troops file Their helmets gleam softly in the moonlight. The heads of the rifles stand out above the white mist, nodding heads, rocking carriers of guns Farther on the mist ends. Here the heads become figures; coats, trousers, and boots appear out of the mist as from a milky pool. They become a column. The column marches on, straight ahead, the figures resolve themselves into a block, individuals are no longer recognizable, the dark wedge presses onw'ard, fantastically topped by the heads and weapons floating off in the milky pool. A column—not men at all. Guns and munition wagons are moving along a cross-road. The backs of the horses shine in the moonlight, their movements are beautiful, they toss their heads, and their eyes gleam. The guns and the wagons float before the dim background of the moonlit landscape, the riders in their steel helmets resemble knights of a forgotten time; it is strangely beautiful and arresting. We push on to the pioneer dump Some of us load our shoulders with pointed and twisted iron stakes; others thrust smooth iron rods through rolls of wire and go off with them. The burdens are awkward and heavy. The ground becomes more broken From ahead come warnings: “Look out. deep shell-holes on the left"— “Mind, trenches—” Our eyes peer out. our feet and our sticks feel in front of us before they take the weight of the body Suddenly the line halts: I bump my face against the roll of wire carried by the man in front and curse. There are some shell-mashed lorries in the road. Another order: “Cigarets and pipes out." We are getting near the line. In the meantime it has become pitch dark. We skirt a small wood and then have the front line immediately before us. An uncertain, red glow spreads along the sky line from one end to i the other. It is in perpetual movement. punctuated with the burst of ; flame from the muzzles of the bat- ; teries. Balls of light rise up high , above it. silver and red spheres which explode and rain down in ; showers of red. white and green ! stars. French rockets go up. which untold a silk parachute to the air and drift slowly down. They light up everything as bright as day, their light shines on us and we see our i shadows sharply outlined on the ground. They hover for the space of a minute before they burn out. Immediately fresh ones shoot up to

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

the sky, and again green, red and blue stars. “Bombardment.” says Kat. The thunder of the guns swells to a single heavy roar and then breaks up again into separate explosions. The dry bursts of the machine guns’ rattle. Above us the air teems with visible, swift movement, w'ith howls, pipings and hisses. They are the smaller shells; and amongst them, booming, through the night like an organ, go the great coal boxes and the heavies. They have a hoarse, distant bellow like a rutting stag and make their w’ay high above the howl and whistle of the small',* c. cells. It reminds me o 4 flocks of wild geese when I hea* them. Last autumn the wild geese flew day after day across the path of the shells. The searchlights begin to sweep the dark sky. They slide along it like gigantic tapering rulers. One of them pauses, and quivers a little. Immediately a second is beside him, a black insect is caught between them and tries to escape—the airman. He hesitates, is blinded and falls. CHAPTER VII AT regular intervals we ram in the iron stakes. Two men hold a roll and the others spool off the barbed wire. It is that aw’ful stuff, with close-set, long spikes. I am not used to unrolling It and tear my hand. After a few hours it is done. But there still is some time before the lorries come. Most of us lie down and sleep. I try also, but it has turned too chilly. Near to the sea one is constantly w r aked by the cold. Once I fali asleep. Then waking suddenly with a start I do not know where I am, I see the stars, I see the rockets, and for a moment have the impression that I have fallen asleep at a garden fete. I don’t know w'hether it is morning or. evening, I lie in the pale cradle of the twilight, and listen for soft words which will come, soft and •near —am I crying? I put my hand to my eyes, it is so fantastic; am Ia child? Smooth skin—it lasts only a second, then I recognize the silhouette qf Katczinsky. The old veteran, he sits quietly and smokes his pipe—a covered pipe, of course. When he sees I am awake, he says; “That gave you a fright. It was only a nose cap. it landed in the bushes over there.” I sit up. I feel myself strangely alone. It’s good Kat is there. He gazes thoughtfully at the front and says: "Mighty fine fireworks if they weren’t so dangerous.” One lands behind us. Two recruits jump up terrified. A couple of minutes later another comes over, nearer this time. Kat knocks out his pipe. “It makes a glow.” Then it begins in earnest. We crawl aw ay as well as w T e can in our haste. Then next lands fair among us. Two fellows cry out. Green rockets shoot up on the skyline. Barrage. The mud flies high, fragments whizz past. The crack of the guns is heard long after the roar of the explosions. Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helmet has fallen off. I fish hold of it and try to put it back on his head. He looks up, pushes the helmet off and like a child creeps under my arm. his head close to my breast. The little shoulders Reave. Shoulders just like Kemmerich’s. I left him be. So that the helmet should be of some use, I stick it on his buttocks—not for a jest, but out of consideration, since that is his highest part. And though there is plenty of meat there, a shot in it can be damned painful. Besides a jnan has to lie a whole month on his belly in the hospital.

COLLEGE PROFESSOR SOLVES MYSTERY “The Murder in the Laboratory” Is One of Those Poison Thrillers Which Is Nearly Impossible to Solve. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IN MY days when I was covering the courts, one of my most interesting assignments were poison mystery cases. They were few and far between but when they did come along I was right in my glory. And so when an intelligent poison mystery novel comes off the press, I am wild to get my hands on it. And so when E. P. Dutton & Cos, Inc, sent me a copy of “The Murder in the Laboratory.” by T. L. Davidson, I nosed, Graf Zeppelin speaking, into it with all engines working. There is a good deal that can be said in favor of “The Murder in

the Laboratory.” It is intelligently written and the poison concerned is as interesting as the victim. Instead of making a detective the dominant figure in the solution of the crime you have a college scientist taking the lead and unearthing by mental deduction every vital clew. The murdered man is a young scientist in a college. You find him murdered in the first chapter of the story in his own laboratory in the institution where he was employed. Apparently there ls no reason for any one wanting his death. So we are concerned first with the method and when the poison is determined we have a grand chase after suspicious characters but no possible motive is discovered. Then the author gives the story a merry twist and we see the science professor setting a trap for the guilty one. And the scientist wins. Then we discover the motive by patching together many facts. This mystery story does not follow the reguiation formula of modem mystery fiction by making either a hero or a dub out of a detective. We are confronted with the splendid brain of a college professor who sets to work to determine the method by which his teaching mate was murdered. And to make matters more confusinn but also plausible, the professor himself is under suspicion. I understand that the author in real life is a scientist and that he has gone in for writing just for fun. Here is one professor that I am glad turned author “just for fun.” Here we have a higher type mystery story than we have had for

and afterward he would be almost sure to have a limp. It’s got someone pretty badly. Cries are heard between the explosions. At last it grows quiet. The fire has lifted over us and is now dropping on the reserves. We risk a look. Red rockets shoot up to the sky. Apparently there’s an attack coming. Where w r e are it is still quiet. 1 sit up and shake the recruit by the shoulder. “All over, kid! It’s all right this time.” He looks round him dazedly. “You’ll get used to it soon,” I teil him. He goes off. Things become quieter, but the cries do not cease. "What’s up, Albert?” I ask. “A couple of columns over there have got it in the neck.” The cries continue. It is not men. They could not cry so terribly. “Wounded horses,” says Kat. It’s .unendurable. It is the moaning or the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning. We are pale. Detering stands up. "God! For God’s sake! Shoot them!” He is a fanner and very sons of horses. It gets under his skin. Then as if deliberately the fire dies down again. The screaming of the beasts becomes louder. One no longer can distinguish whence in this now quiet, silvery landscape it comes; ghostly, invisible, it is everywhere, between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably. Detering raves and yells out: “Shoot them! Shoot them, can’t you? Damn you again!” “They must look after the men first.” says Kat quietly. We stand up and try to see where it is. If we could only see the animale w’e should be able to endure it better. Muller has a pair of glasses. We see a dark group, bearers with stretchers, and larger black clumps moving about. Those are the w’ounded horses. But not all of them. Some gallop away in the distance, fall down and then run on farther. The belly of one is ripped open, the guts trail out. He becomes tangled in them and falls, then he stands up again. Detering raises his gun and aims. Kat hits it up in the air. “Are you mad—?” Detering trembles and throws his rifle on the ground. We sit down and hold our ears. But this appalling noise, these groans and screams penetrate, they penetrate everywhere. We can bear almost anything. But now the sweat breaks out on us. We must get up and run, no matter where, but where these cries can no longer be heard. And it is not men, only horses. From the dark group stretchers move off again. Then single shots crack out. The black heap is convulsed and becomes thinner. At last! But still it is not the end. The men can not overtake the wounded beasts, which fly in their pain, their w’ide open mouths full of anguish. One of the men goes dowm on his knee, a shot—one horse drops—another. The last one props himself on his forelegs and drags himself around in a circle like a merry-go-round; squatting, it drags round in circles on its stiffened forelegs. apparently its back is broken. The soldier runs up and shoots it. Slowly, humbly it sinks to the ground. We take our hands from our ears. The cries are silenced. Only a longdrawn. dying sigh still hangs on the air. (To Be Continued) Coc:,’right 1929, by Little, Brown & Cos, Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.

many a moon. It is the winner of the second prize in the DuttonMethuen Detective Mystery Story contest. It is well worth the two bucks that is charged for it. a b $t Indianapolis theaters today offer: Our Gang Kids at the Lyric. “Four Feathers” at the Circle. “Lucky Star” at the Apollo, “The Greene Murder Case” at the Indiana. “Our Modem Maidens” at the Palace, Eddie Leonard in “Melody Lane” at the Granada. “French Models” at the Mutual. “River of Romance” at the Ohio, and movies at the Colonial.

t \ Best Sellers The following Is s list of the six best sellers In fiction n Bretano's New York stores; Fiction “They Stooped to Folly.” Ellen Glasgow: Dotibleday liant and witty history of shifting fashions in morals. "Roper’s Row,” Warwick Deeping: Knopf. $2.50. Anew character novel by the author of ’ Sorrell and Son.” “Ex-Wife,” Anonymous: Cape and Smith, *2. The story of what happened to a young woman suddenly abandoned by her-husband. “The Galaxy,” Susan Ertz: Appleton. *2.50. A portrait of a lady by the author of “Madame Claire.” “All Quiet on the Western Front.’ Eric Remarque: Little Brown. $2.50. The great war novel. “Hide In the Dark.** Frances Noyes Hart: Doubleday Doran. *2. Anew mystery story by the author of “The Bellamy Trial.”

GRAIN LOANS PROMISED BY FEDERALjOARD Legge Tells Farmers Grain Corporation Funds May Be Obtained. CHICAGO. Aug. 29.—Representatives of co-operative marketing associations, who conferred for three days to organize the $20,000,000 National Farmers Grain Corporation, adjourned today with assurances that farmer members may obtain funds from the federal farm board without waiting for the central holding corporation to be set up. Alexander Legge, federal farm board chairman, at the closing session of the conference promised that farmer members of co-operative grain marketing associations whose loans are approved by the federal intermediate credit bank may obtain funds amounting to 10 cents a bushel on unhedged grain, in addition to loans made by the credit bank, while those who hedge their grain—that is, sell it for future delivery—are eligible for advances up to 50 per cent of its total value. Replying to Legge's telegram urging immediate action on all applications from wheat co-operatives, the federal farm loan board stated Wednesday that all such applications had been approved. Applications for additional aid offered by the farm board will begin coming in within a few days. Legge believes

Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION In the Matter of the Application of Southeastern Indiana Power Company for authority to issue and sell securities. No. 9870. Tn the Matter of the Joint Application of Everett M. Hurst Doing Business as Rural Light and Power Company and Southeastern Indiana Power Company, for consent and Authority to purchase and sell property. No. 9882. Notice is hereby given that the Public. Service Commission of Indiana will conduct public hearing in the above entitled causes in the Rooms of the Commission at Indianapolis. Indiana, at 10 o’clock a. m,~ on Monday, Sept. 16, 1929. Public participation in this hearing is renuested by the Commission. Public service commission of INDIANA. BY JERE WEST, Commissioner. Indianapolis. Indiana. August 28. 1929. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF THE PROPOSED ISSUE BY THE SCHOOL CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, OF SCHOOL CITY BONDS AS FOLLOWS: $800,000.00 for the Irvington high school. $415,000.00 for grade school additions and new buildings Nos. 15. 49. 81. 82. The undersigned, pursuant to the Indiana Tax Statute of 1922 'Session Laws 1923, page 2641, hereby gives notice to the taxpayers of said city that in pursuance of resolutions of the Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis adopted August 13th and 27th, 1929. the School City of Indianapolis, Indiana. has determined that it will on the 27th dav of December, 1929. take bids for and sell its negotiable bonds to be dated December 30, 1929. in the principal sums, viz: $415,000.00 for grade school new buildings and additions and SBOO.OOO 00 for the Irvington High School, each issue bearing interest at the rate of 4'a per cent per annum, interest payable semiannuallv and principal payable serially from 19'3l to 1958 and 1962 inclusive, respectively. , , , The proceeds of the bonds to be sold will be used to erect school buildings and additions—for new buildings for elementary schools Nos. 81 and 621 and the Irvington High School, and additions at Schools Nos. 15 and 49./' - • Dated this 29th day of August. 1929. BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS. By C. C. YORK. Business Director. Indianapolis. Indiana. NOTICE TO ROAD CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that, sealed bids, for the construction of certain highways described as follows, will be received by the Director of the State Highway Commission at his office in the Statehouse Annex, 102 North Senate avenue Indianapolis. Ind.. until 10 a. m. on the lith day of September. 1929, at which time they will be publicity opened and read. Project No. 113. Sec. B. Location: State Road No. 56, Salem-Scottsburg road, Salem to l mile northeast of Canton. Washington county. 4.68 miles Project No. 115. Sec. A. Location: State road No. 50. Washington - Shoals road. Washington to Loogootee, Davies and Martin counties. 1.913 miles. Project No. 118. Sec. C. Location: State road No. 24. Peru-Wabash road. Peru to 2 miles northeast, Miami county. I. miles. „ T Project No. 148. Sec. B. Location: State road No. 19. Neppanee-Elkhart road. 2 miles north of Wakarusa to Jamestown road. lVi miles south of Elkhart. Elkhart county, a.6)9 miles. Project F. A. 150. t Location: State road No. 50. Seymour-North Vernon road, junction of State roads Nos. 31 and 50. 2 3 i miles east of Seymour to North Vernon, Jackson and Jennings county. 11. miles. Project No. 159. Sec. A. Location: State road No. 6. Ligonier-Kendallville road, Ligonler to 1 mile west of Brimfield. Noble county. 8.850 miles. Project No. 159. Sec. B. Location: State road No, 6, Ligonier-Kendallville road, 1 mile west of Brimfleld to Kendallville. Noble county. 8.038 miles. Project No. 170. Location: State Toad No. 43, La Crosse-Wanatah road, 2 miles north of La Crosse to 2 miles north of Wanatah, La Porte county. 7.996 miles. Project No. 175. Sec. A. Location: State road No. 54, Dugger - Bloomfield road. Sullivan countv line to 2’4 miles east of Linton, Greene county. 7.996 miles. Project No. 175. Sec. B. Location: State road No. 54. Dugger-Bloomfield road, 2U miles east of Linton to l’A miles west of Bloomfield. Greene county. 7.711 miles. Project -177. Sec. A. Location: State road No. 27, Ft. Wayne-Garrett road. Ft. Wayne to De Kalb county line, Allen county. 11.071 miles. Project No. 194. Location: State road No. 16. Decatur-Van Wert road, V mile east of Decatur to Indiana-Ohlo state line, Adams county. 5.890 miles. Project 214. Location: State road Nos. 46 and 31, Columbus-Seymour road, relocation of intersection of State roads Nos. 46 and 31. southwest of Columbus. Bartholomew county. 0.457 mile. Bids will be received for three types of pavement on the above listed projects: CONCRETE. BITUMINOUS CONCRETE. BRICK, as shown on plans and described in the specifications. Combination bids will be received on the following project: Combination No. 1, Project 175. Sections A and B. Length. 15.707 miles. The state will furnish the cement for the above projects: Project No. 123. Location: State road No. 46. Bloomington-Spencer road. 2 3 4 miles northwest of Bloomington to 1 mile northwest, Monroe countv. 1.008 miles. Bids will be received for grading and structures of 20-toot clear span or under on the above project, as shown on the plans and described in the specifications. The contractor will furnish tne necessary cement for this project. Proposal blanks and specifications may be obtained free, and plans upon payment of $3.00 per set. upon application to the State Highway Commission There will be no refund for plans returned. Plans may also be seen without charge at the office of the State Highway Commission, fourth floor Statehouse Annex. 102 North Senate avenue. Indianapolis. Ind. ALL CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE Z?Azrri-?F iECTOR - INDIANA BTATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.” PjJICR 70 THE TIME OF FILING ANY PROPOSAL. FACH BIDDER SHALL mS&raarX?. THE STATE HIGHWAY COMM I SS I ON. AN EXPERIENCE RECgN'P AN DFINANCIAL STATEMENT PARED ON THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION STANDARD FORM. A. D. 117. PPESCIMSED BY THE STATE BOXRD OP ACCOUNTS OF INDIANA, WHICH PORMS WILL BE FURNISHED UPON financial STATEAND EXPERIENCE RECORDS ON F!LE WITH THE COMMIS®ION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE Ietting ROPOSALS filed for 111115 Contracts will be awarded to the lowest and best bidder, but the right to re_ uSj * ny blds ls reserved. Each bidder, with his proposal, shall file a corporate surety bond, payable to the State of Indiana, in the sum of one and one-half 11 >* > times the amount of his Faw^° fa ’ an< * tbe I° rm provided by INDIANA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. J. J BROWN. Director. ANNUAL REPORT OP SCHOOL CORPORATION TOWN OP SPEEDWAY. _ INDIANA. PERIOD JULY 1. 1928 TO JULY 31. 1929 Statement of Revenues ’ —Special School Pund— Local taxation ..$28,241.07 —Tuition Pund— State common school fund ....$ 936.20 Local taxation 19,492.94

Legal Notices Congressional township fund... 405 57 Depository Interest 183.32 County dog fund Cash tuition receipts 4- 00 Transfer tuition 2,021.60 Total tuition receipts *20.126J>0 $48,367.67 —Statement of Expenditures— Georg* strebe (labor) $ L. 50 National Surety Cos. -bond* 37 50 Speedway Lumber Cos. - (materials' 1 40 Citizens State Bank 'insurance' 120.00 Levy Printing Cos 'Books and stationery' "j; 3 L. H. Trotter 'insurance' *5 55 Smith. Remster. Hornbrook & Smith (legal' -.. 50.00 Mrs. H. J. Kreutzlnger (enumeration) 24.00 Inland Investment Cos. 'bonds and interest' 2.050 00 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials' 7.72 Elliott, Weyl A- Jewett 'legal'.. 75.00 Speedway Lumber Cos. (materials' 14.95 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials' ' 700 L. Denny Uabori 36.80 Wm. Bowman ipaintingi 686 00 Indianapolis Times (advertising' 30.63 Star Publishing Cos. 'advertising' 32.50 J A. Blackwell 'plastering' .... 132 65 Citizens State Bank (Insurance' 25.69 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials! 6.50 Speedway Coal Cos. (coali 224.73 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials' 12.80 U. S. Radiator Cos. (repairs! .. 111.68 Ben Hightshue (plumbing' 198.61 Quality Sheet Metal Cos. i repairs roof i 188 )0 Wm. Bowman (painting) 108.00 Speedway Lumber Cos. (materials' 2.25

Speedway Lumber Cos. (materials! 29.75 Van Camp Hardware & Iron Cos. (materials! 5.50 Indianapolis Paint & Color (materials) 5.89 U. S. Radiator Cos. (materials'. 9.57 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials' 7.35 Ellwanger Electric Cos. 'electric work l 17.00 Wm. Degener (total amt.i lianitor) 1.485.00 B. G. Keene (total for year) (principal! 1.755.00 Bess Chambes (total for year) (teaching' 1.350.00 Muriel Thompson i total for year teaching) 1,305.00 Irene Robey 'total for year teaching i ' 1,305.00 Rose Kreutzlnger (total for year teaching) 1.215.00 Jean O’Connor (total for year teaching) 1.170.00 Anna Trumper (substitute teacher) 24 00 J. Martin (substitute teacher).. 6.00 Thelma Armfield (substitute teacher) 12.00 Howard F. Wilson (total year board member) '.... 100.00 Thos. V. Keogh (total year board member) 100.00 Henry F. Dietz (total year board member) 100. on Ben Hightshue 'plumbing) .... 28.05 Allison Engineering Cos, (materials) 22.17 Speedway Lumber Cos, (materials) 63,55 Kiger & Cos. (supplies) 39.05 Klger Sr Cos. (supplies) 2.00 Kiger & Cos. (supplies) 11.25 Kiger Sr Cos. (supplies) 9.80 Citizens State Bank (interest).. 88.12 Homer Strebe 1 labor 1 . .. too Horace Hanna * Wilsie Sr Wilsie (legal) 750.00 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials) 31 58 D. L. Bilbee (labor) 4.00 Speedway Lumber Cos. (ma(terials) 4 Kiger Sr Cos. (supplies) ........ 9L25 Kiger & Cos. (supplies) 34 64 Citizens Gas Cos. (gas) . 4 23 Indianapolis Power Sr Light. (electric service) 23 07 Kiger A: Cos. (supplies' ” eioo Sz Cos. (supplies) 205 Kiger <fc Cos. 1 supplies) Kiger & Cos. (supplies ]£3s Horace L Hanna 'legal) ...... 125 00 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. <ma-

tertals) s 4?iml? ens w ta ? e Banlc (insurance) jivnn Vllking Music Cos. ipianoi .... 225 00 Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. 'telephone) p Star Publishing Cos. (advertising) 11 54 State Savings Sr. Trust Cos (bonds and interest i 153750 Indianapolis Times (advertising) 10 54 Camp Hardware * Iron ’Co. (materials' .... $4 60 Indianapolis Light, & Power (electric service' 750 Allison Engineering Cos (ma'terials) - Vonnegut Hardware '' Cos." '(materials) 12 55 Speedway Lumber Cos. (materials) 22 81 Indianapolis Paint and “color Cos. (materials! 333 Van Camp Hardware Cos. 'materials) 7 25 Citizens Gas Cos. iges) go Indianapolis Printing Cos. isiipo pli 5 sl V 12.00 Speedway Lumber Cos. 'materials) 6.15 * Cos. (supplies) 35.60 Indianapolis Power & Light (electric service) 3.23 Edwards Coal Cos. (coal) 139]50 Kiger & Cos. (supplies) ILB6 Kiger & Cos. (supplies' 94.79 Kiger <fc Cos. (supplies' goo Van Camp Hardware Cos. (materials) 57 National Surety Cos. (bond) .... 37.50 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials! 22.26 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials) 21 60 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials) 2 10 Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. (electric service' 3.09 Indianapolis Times (advertising) 4.09 Indianapolis News (advertising) 6.13 Wayne School Township (Acct. building) 4,000.00 Kiger Cos. (supplies) 11.90 Kiger Sf Cos. (supplies) 17.80 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials) 4.80 Citizens Gos Cos. (gas) 1.90 Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. , (telephone) 430 Speedway Lumber Cos. (materials) 4.60 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials) 9.26 Cox Printing Cos. (printing' .. . 4.00 Indianapolis Power & Light (electric service' 1.58 Hannah Webb (enumeration).... 24.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. (telephone) 4.50 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials) 85 Allison Engineer Cos. (materials) 10.46 Kiger & Cos. (materials) 4 10 McGuire and Shook (services', a.c. 400.00 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials' ... .20 Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. (telephone) 3.19 Wm. B. Burford Prtg. Cos. (materials) 25.50 Star Publishing Cos. (advertising) 8.01 Citizens Gas Cos. (gas) 1.20 Indianapolis Prtg. Cos. (supplies'. 22.20 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials' 20.91 L. H. Trotter (insurance) 78.00 Elliott-Myers Construction Cos. (construction) 2,055.47 Standard Oil Cos. (materials) . 14.96 Indianapolis Power & Light Cos. (electric service) 100 Prof. Paul Haworth (services).. 25.00 Remington-Rand Cos. (supplies). 19.90 Allison Engineering Cos. (materials) 13.27 Indianapolis Commercial (advertising 7.88 Vonnegut Hardware Cos. (materials) -70 Wayne school township (tuition) 85.84 Van Camp Hardware Cos. (materials) 8.25 Indianapolis News (advertising) 13.19 Indianapolis Commercial (advertising) 13.50 Indianapolis Paint and Color Cos. 'materials) 2.55 Allison Engineering Cos. 'supplies i 5.00 Indianapolis school city transfer (tuition) 3,914.16 Speedway Lumber Cos. (materials) ,2-25 Speedway Water Cos. (water).... IB.no

Total expenditures $28,967.55 Account payable - Owing es of 7-21-29. Balance Elliott Myers Construetlon Cos ,* 34 '- 73 Balance due Wayre School Township for building 37.840 00 Caslt on hands July 31. 1929. i19.400,12 Vouchers for above on file and may be seen at the office of the Speedway School Corporation. y KEOOH . Secretary.

Death Notices HEIL, SOPHIA J—Widow of William Heil and mother of ttilllam H. He, of Indianapolis. Otto Hell of Cincinnati and Mrs. Elsie De LaFranier of Flushing. Long Isiand. departed this life Wednesday. Aug. 28. 12 30 a. m„ age 72 years. Funeral Fridav Aug 30. at residence. 2815 N Denny" at 3 p. m. Burial Crown Hill. Friends invited. Funeral under direction of MOORE k KIRK. Funeral Directors W.~T. BI ASKNG Y M Main office 2220 Sheltr* 8t Drer.ei 2570 FINN BROS. FUNERAI HOME 1639 N MERIDIAN. Ta. 1835 George Grinsteiner Funeral director 523 E Market Riley 5374 UNDERTAKERS. HISEY * TITUS 931 N Delaware U 1831 “A REAL HOME FOR SERVICT RAGSDALE & PRICE LI. 3608 1319 N. Alabama WALD 1233 Onion St. 1619 N Illinois St J C. WlLSON—Funeral parlors: ambulanc* service and modern automotive equipment. Dr. 0821 and Dr. 9332.

AUG. 29, 1929

Business Announcements BATHROOM—Comp-et' S7G: plumbing and heatlna Installed Reas Ta 4097 CARPENTER—Repair work our specialty. WM. HARTMAN. Southport 266-J. 2. FURNACE installation: all makes of furn. repaired. Doyle Heating Cos, Li. 7370._ PAINTING—Paper hanging, plaster patch.. roof, windows, flues repaired. Ch. 6615. PAPER HANGlNG—Cleaning and painting; high-class work Ch 0512 RUGS CLEANED—9xI2. *1.50. Call for del: 10-da soec Keper Rug Cos Ch 9339. WHITE WASH—Sprayed, chemically treated to kill gertvs, destroys odors. Ch. 4373. Instructions THE UNIVERSITY BEAUTY COLLEGE—now offers a complete course in beauty culture for onlv $45 if you enrol! befora Sept. 1. Earn while you learn. 516 K. of P. Bldg, opposite postoffice. LI. 0527. Lost and Found BULLDOG—Lost or strayed: female, brown and white white face with brass harness Name Patsie.” Liberal reward. Ch. 1785. or 2021 Adams St. OAT—Yellow, male. Persian, short talk Reward Li._7935. CHARM -Scottish Rite and Knights Templar. with diamond: name inside; dear keepsake; lost_ Aug 19th; re. Ha. 2933. SPlTZ—Black curly male: white, tan markings: round tan spots over both eyes; name Ring; reward. 2131 Eastern. WATCH -Gold Waltham in black leather stran; ost T ’if afternoon; reward. Nettie Bay. Be. 1531.

Special Notices YOU ARE cordially Invited to visit our exhibition of refrigerating machinery and store equipment at the Kingan & Cos. booth in the Manufacturers' building at the Indiana State Fair. F. D. GARDNER & CO. - 221 E, Maryland St. LI. 7898. REDUCING rapidly safely, amaiutg results; relief for rheumatism: neuritis, diabetes, hay and rose fever, kidney trouble. high blood pressure, all blood troubles. Nature Aid Mineral Baths 230 E. Ohio St, Room 303 Castle Hal! LI 5092. LONESOME CETJB DANCE Tuesday night, Sept. 3. Crystal Dance palace. 729 N. Illinois St. Modern and old time dancing, middip aged and elderiv people specially invited, _____ ‘COLORED DANCE ORCHESTRA Music so: any occasion: young, peppy boys, ali singers and dancers. Reasonable rates. Li. 2085. ON and afte' Aug 29 T will not be responsible for dents contracted by any other than mvself. LEROY SIMPSON. 417 N. West St. SULPHUR. VAPOR BATHS—And if assaging: for men and women. Mildred Mewhinnev. 227 N. Delaware. Apt. 6. p.l. 6682. WONDERFUL BATHS. Osteo. massage. Ha. 1571. SCHOOL BOOKS—New. used; cash for used books. 813 N. D lavare. Li. 1800

T ransportation COSLaNIAI.iI STAGES - M Interstate Transit f5 Hide iu Comfort Great Lakes to Gulf Coast to Coast Chicago ... *4 OJ Pittsburgh ~.6 800 Dayton 3 00 Philadelphia 16 00 Detroit 600 New York 18 00 Cincinnati .... 300 St Louis 600 -.ouisville 3 OOiKansas City... 9 00 Nashville 7 00 Denver 22 50 Jacksonville 21 85 t.os Angelps ... 47.59 New Busses— Air Cushions— Reclining Chairs Gold Medal Drivers Three Convcntem Depots 104 Monument Circle LI. 4(Ko Denison Mote) Klley 4000 Inion Bus Terminal Riley 2258 CALL A BLACK RATI. " CAB—2S<T c£ 4038. HO TIMES W N’> "■*• KID BI'BTNS:* A, help Wanted Mate WANTED 'EXPERIENCED IN WORKING ON SOFT AND HARD METAL FOR COTTON RAG WORK. ADDRESS BOX D--163 TIMES, GIVING REFERENCE, ABILITY. EXPERIENCE, ALSO SALARY DESIRED. OUT OF TOWN POSITION. FURNITURE SALESMAN Permanent position to a, man who knows and can sell furniture. Must have considerable experience and willingness to work, a real opportunity. THE FAIR 311-325 West Washington St. ” MEN WANTED Experienced in assembling furniture frames. THOMAS MADDEN SONS & CO. Fletcher Ave. and Big Four. RADIO SERVICE MAN. SALES ABILITY. STEADY EMPLOYMENT. H. T. RADIO SERVICE 825 W. 30TH. WANTED SIX FIRST CLASS ALL ROUND MACHINISTS. DIAMOND CHAIN Sr MFG. CO. WANTED Three capable married men. who will take charge of established routes; must be satisfied with S3O weekly average to start; we train you. Writ* or call 723 Continental Bank Bldg, before 8:30 a. m. and after 4:30 p. m. USED CAR SALESMAN To an experienced man and one wh can produce, we have an excellent proposition. Walton G. Cash. Inc, 2333-36 Northwestern Ave, BOYS NOT RETURNING TO SCHOOL— Good pav steady wos*. Grade school education. Brini Mg* •ertificate. Be* MR. FREEMAN, g IrMertdlan 6*. WANTED 3 AUTOMOBILE SALESMEN. SEE MR. WESTFALI, BRIDGEPORT SALES AND SERVICE. BRIDGEPORT. IND.

WANTED EXPERIENCED BAUBAGB MAKER. APPLY STANDARD MEAT MARKET. W WAS'I. ST. MALE CF FEMALE—Cook.' for rasSirant cafeteria position* now open. PARAMOUNT EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. *3O When Bldg.. licensed. YOUNG MAN WANTED For bookkeeping end stenographic work; must be able to take dictation and have practical ex. perience. 820 Lord S'. SALESMEN Sell Ma'estic. Philco. Gravbar radl-l CRAIG RADIO SHOP. 2939 S'. Illinois. Help Wanted Female SALESWOMEN Must bp pxcerlenced In boys' clothing. Saturdays and salesdays. THE FAIR 311-325 W Washington St. WAITRESSES <S “neat: experienced .Open Counter girl $lO Cooks >2 > Open General housework 5); city reference SS-|U Intelligent white girl, second maid work; stav on place: reference ..sl# LA VERN EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. 129 E Ohio. Licensed. Li. 2603. WANTED BUSINESS COLLEGE or xjfch student as companion for 8-year-otd before and after school hours and very -light house work. Room. small salary. Go home Saturday* at noon if desire. Country girl preferred. Must furnish A-l character references. Address Box D 161 Times. HEALTH- HAPPINEBB—SUCCESS Class now forming In PSYCHOLOGY. Applications confidential. lnformatlo without obligation. Box A-26. Times. GIRL FOR LIGHT HOUSEWORK. S3 SUNDAYS. TA. OJOO.