Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1929 — Page 9

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ENGLAND PAYS HIGH HONOR TO MRS. SNOWDEN Chancellor’s Wife Is Given Credit for Victory at The Hague. CURB ON HER HUSBAND Cheers Him in His Moody Moments, Helps With His Burden of Work. BY HENRY T. RUSSELL, United Press StfT Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 3.—Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, end his wife, probably the mo6t popular couple in England, motored to their home. Eden Lodge. Tilford, Surrey, today for a rest, after Snowden’s strenuous work at The Hague. Snowden, who forced through Britain's reparations demands at The Hague conference, was lionized by the public, and his wife, to whom he gave credit for playing a most important part of the victory, shared fully in his popularity. Only Snowden knows the full extent of the influence of his wife on his own life, on English politics, and on the outcome of The Hague. It is certain, however, that her influence has been tremendous, and the golden-haired and charming Mrs. Snowden has to an extent been a "power behind the throne" in recent British politics. Was School Teacher

Mrs. Snowden, who before her marriage was Miss Ethel Annakin, a school teacher, once told a friend who asked her what she thought women brought, into politics, “womanliness.' She explained further that, "it is necessary that women should bring their essential charm into public life." The extent to which Mrs. Snowden has done so best can be understood by a brief review of her married life with the frail and crippled chancellor of the exchequer. England might never have had Snowden as a chancellor except for a terrible bicycle accident from which he emerged in permanently frail health. Also, his friends said, his disposition was soured and embittered, resulting in a caustic, petulant and Impatient manner when the routine of the career he had destined for himself was broken definitely. Restrains Petulant Mate Also, friends say, she restrained his occasional outbursts of cidity, bringing out his great charm and culture, and his instinctive humor and wit. Opinions differed in what Snowden meant by the statement that The Hague agreement "never could have been accomplished without the help of my wife." Some attributed it to her constant assistance and her labors as his secretary. In 1924, for instance, Mrs. Snowden became ill from overwork in assisting Snowden with the labor budget when he was chancellor in the first MacDonald cabinet. They also attributed it partly to her brilliance and diplomacy in society. bringing the bitterest political enemies together In the Snowden drawing room. Others attributed it more directly to the vast correspondence which Mrs. Snowden handled for her husband at the Hague and her tactful entertaining of his opponents.

SPEEDWAY CITY PLANT BUILDING DESTROYED Damage to AlHson Engineering Finn Structure §1.500. A frame outbuilding, part of the Allison Engineering Company plant, Speedway city, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin early today. Damage was estimated at $1,500. The home of Robert Nettle, 1829 Broadway, was damaged S4OO by a blaze on unknown origin Monday right. WIFE TRIES SUICIDE Happiness In Married Life Missing; Takes Poison. On the matrimonial trail she and her husband vowed to tread together. Mrs. Effie Small, 32, of 1330 West Troy street, expected happiness But her dream failed her, so Monday. three days after she married Hay Small, she swallowed poison. Small said they quarreled. Her condition is not serious, according to city hospital attendants. frat~To~dlne tonight Phi Gamma Delta Chapter Will Hold Rash. The Indianapolis Beta graduate chapter of the Phi Gamma fraternity will hold a rush dinner at the Columbia Club ft 7 tonight. Approximately twenty five young tnen who will enter college this fall will oe guests. Active members from Purcue, Wabash, De Pauw, Indiana and Hanover chapters will attend. William Bosson ajid Dick Miller will apeak. Alleged Slayer in Coma By United Press OSGOOD. Ind.. Sept. 3.—Charged With murdering Mabel Van Osdol, because she would not accompany him to a show, Horace Peters, who has been in jail since June awaiting trial, has lapsed into unconsciousness. Peters was found in his cell in a state of coma which physicians •aid border on convulsions.

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BV LAWRENCE SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.—Oldfashioned neighborly hospitality at the White House under President and Mrs. Hoover is making good profits for Washington tradespeople. The White House grocery bill, always large, has increased notably under the Hoover regime. In twenty-seven weeks, more than 1.400 guests h?,ve broken bread with the chief executive. Asa result. deliveries to the White House pantry every day are of almost wholesale proportions. In his first six months in the executive mansion. President Hoover has not been a single day without either luncheon or dinner guests. More than 200 friends have been house guests and 250 more have been included in week-end parties in the Rapidan camp. Baker Also Thrives The new era of prosperity reaches not only the grocer and butcher, but the cigar store man and the baker as well. White House attendants confirm that the pantry bill approaches that of many a small town hotel. One leading retailer recently suggested that wholesale buying of some of the staple commodities, such as eggs, butter and bread might bring about sizable reductions in the monthly bill. All of this increased operating expense comes from the President’s personal resources, as there is no provision in the White House appropriations for other than official entertainment. The Hoovers prefer to entertain their friends informally at the dinner table. Talk Business After Dinner After dinner, Mrs. Hoover usually gathers the ladies in one of the drawing rooms, while the President escorts the men to his private study upstairs for cigars and coffee. A great deal of presidential business has been conceived in these quiet friendly interchanges after dinner. Such gatherings, together with the President's luncheon talks and weekends in his Blue Ridge camp, constitute his principal contact with the world. Men from every calling gather at his table regularly to unburden their minds.

STATE FAIR LAUDED Newspaper Men Are Guests at Annual Dinner. In all departments the 1929 Indiana state fair surpases all its predecessors and can not be extended without new or enlarged buildings, fair officials told newspaper men at the annual dinner given in their honor in the administration building Monday night. Fair board members were hosts. Brief talks-were made by Edwin D. Logsdon, president; E. J. Barker, secretry, and Dan V. Goodman, assistant publicity director. Guests included representatives of Indianapolis newspapers and T. R. Johnson of Purdue university, and Frank R. Elliott of Indiana university. Drag Company Elects By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind.. Sept. 3.—The newly formed Anderson Drug Manufacturing Company has elected officers as follows: Fred Dice, president; John J. Ormond, vice-presi-dent and general manager; Robert W. Webb, second vice-president: Glen W. Gates, secretary, and Charles Strout, treasurer.

‘BOBBY JONES’ CRAWLS TO $6,500 TERRAPIN SWEEPSTAKES GLORY

PONCA CITY. Okla.. Sept. 3.—Not since his great-granddaddy was made into a high-back comb and adorned the tinty people of Aunt Lulu, has the great “Bobby Jones” terrapin family attained the glory that was his today. For “Jones," the ambulating shell-back turtle, crossed the finish line ahead of all others in the

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W, C. T. (I, HEAD NAMES AIDS Committees Are Appointed for Session Here, Committees in charge of arrangements for the annual convention of the National W. C. T. U. to be held in Indianapolis, Sept. 19 to 25, were announced today by Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley, of North Liberty, Ind., state president and convention chairman. Committee chairmen are: Courtesies. Mrs. Edward Franklin White; convention tea, Mrs. W. H. Lewis; convention dinner, Mrs. Madison Swadener; check room, Mrs. Estelle Ballenger; decorations, Mrs. Frank J. Lahr; demonstrations, Mrs. W. W. Reedy; exhibits, Mrs. Lillian T. Pierce; finance, Miss Clara M. Sears; hotel hostesses, Mrs. Ida M. Mix. Information, Mrs. Martha L. Gipe; lost and found, Mrs. C. W. Ackman; national directors aid, Mrs. S. C. Stinson; platform, Mrs. Grace Altvater; publicity, Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter; sight-seeing trips, Mrs. Robert McKay; ushers, Mrs. Brandt C. Downey and printing, Mrs. A. E. Kemp.

VETERANS TO MEET Persimmon Brigade Will ‘Gather Wednesday, Forty-fourth annual reunion of the Persimmon Brigade will be held at Ft. Friendly, G. A. R. headquarters, 512 North Illinois street. The brigade is composed of the One Hundred Fifteenth, One Hundred Sixteenth, One Hundred Seventeenth and One Hundred Eighteenth Indiana Volunteers, who served in eastern Tennessee in the Civil war. Captain J. Rutledge of Danville, Ind., is president of the brigade. Vice-presidents are: Caleb Marshall of Greenfield, W. R. Van Pelt of Monticello, James W. James, Jamestown, and H. C. Graham of Tipton. Mrs. C. W. Lindley of Bloomingdale is chaplain and Mrs. Grace E. Hoffmeyer of Indianapolis, secretarytreasurer. CHILD-EATER KU.LED Black Bear Returns to Scene of Crime and Is Shot. By United Press WINNIPEG. Man.. Sept. 3.—Disregarding its own animal instinct to obey a law of the human criminal, a huge black bear, which left its forest haunts last week to kidnap and devour a 3-year-old child, returned to the scene of its crime Monday and w'as killed by the machine gun fire of a provincial policeman. Neighbors and police were in waiting at the home of Fred Grorricicuk in a little forest clearing at Lowland. Manitoba. Two volleys from the machine gun were required to stop the charge of the bear toward the police. The bear measured nine feet and weighed 450 pounds.

annaul terrapin derby of the 101 ranch here Monday, and won fer his backers the grand sweepstakes of $6,500. As his namesake, the young Atlanta golfing attorney, swept through the qualifying rounds of the national amateur golf tourney at Pebble Beach Monday, so “Jones" the terrapin* negotiated

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STATE FAIR HORSE SHOW PACKSHOUSE Hotel Harrison SSOO Stake | Won by Cleveland • Man's Entry. LESLIE WILL GET CAKE Governor Will Eat Prize Winner; Style Pageant Attracts Many. Following a gigantic livestock parade in the coliseum of the state fair Monday night, a horse show was held before a crowd that filled every seat in the building and overflowed into the aisles. The Hotel Harrison SSOO open class stake was won by Princeps, owned by Hugh B. Wick of Cleveland. The class was open to mares and geldings of any age. Dimity Gay, owned by Alexander Robinson of Urichville, 0., was awarded- second place and Zimina Peavine, J. Robert Spalding’s entry, was third. Other winners in the class were: Peter, Pinder, Fredna and Man in the Moon. An almond cake, which won Mrs. Timothy Guard of Frankfort first place in the state fair culinary division. will be presented to Governor Harry G. Leslie. Mrs. T. C. Wilson, Indianapolis also was a winner in this department with a bridal cake, elaborately frosted. Mrs. Lin Wilson is in charge of the department. In the state fair administration building a door leading into one office bears a, sign, "Publicity and Amusement.” Monday a large woman with a, man following close at her heels was seen peering through the hall in a puzzled manner. Finally, the two wandered into the office. "Are you looking for anything in particular?" she was asked. “I certainly am," she snapped. "I’m looking for amusement. The door says it’s in here."

The very short skirt is doomed—“absolutely passe"—said Miss Grace Turner of L. S. Ayres & Cos. fashion bureau. “Three inches below the knees is the shortest possible length for the fashionable woman," she said. Living models, depicting the "last word” in women’s apparel, staged by Ayres’ parade every day at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. in the Woman’s building at the fairground. Calvin Rowe, 10, of Toledo, O* who claims the distinction of being the youngest exhibitor of horses in the United States, is at the fair with five ponies and two colts. Calvin, who made his first appearance when he was 5, has collected more than 500 ribbons, it is said, and owns his own stable. "State fair visitors are accepting parking restrictions and giving more co-operation than they ever did before," said Charles J. Murphy, in charge of the parking privileges at the fair. “Arguments are very few indeed. Maybe it’s because folks realize the immense task that parking so many cars involves.” The "sun tan" fad is likely to hit Indiana farm lots, now that the display of anemic pigs in the Purdue university building is attracting so much attention. Dr. F. L. Walker, in charge of the exhibit, says pigs suffer from lack of sunlight quite as much as do persons. Great strides made by the state fair are more appreciated by Charles N. Keyes, 76, of Frankfort, Ind., than by the average visitor. Keyes visited the fair in 1879 and that was the last visit he made until Monday. His wife, who accompanied him, had not been to the fair for fifty-six years. "Wonderful, wonderful,” they both said, over and over.

CONTEST IS STARTED Plants Open Six-Month Drive on Accidents. Forty Indianapolis industrial plants today began a six months’ contest as a part of the SafetyCouncil’s program to combat accidents in manufacturing plants. The contest closes Feb. 3, 1930. “Statistics on file in the state industrial board’s office indicate that Indianapolis ranks high among cities in the United States in industrial accidents. This condition should be remedied,” said Frederick E. Schortemeier, president of the council. In connection with the contest the council will sponsor noon safety rallies, formation of safety committees and inspections in the forty plants. The program embraces more than 20.000 employers and workers. Fall Fatal to Child Bu United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 3.—A fall from a porch swing proved fatal to Joan Hunter, 6. Extent of her injuries were not known until several hours after the accident.

the seventy-five foot derby course here well ahead of par. His backers, who plucked him off an Oklahoma landscape to enter him in derby fame and collected, were Banker R. S. Jarrell and Postmaster J. Ward McCague of Ralston, Okla. Jones, however, didn't slide to

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1929

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Boy and girl members of 4-H chibs from all parts of Indiana vied for honors at the state fair where their livestock entries taxed shelter facilities. Some of the winners are pictured here: Top left, Miss Rose Mary Hoefer of Lafayette with her first prize junior yearling Hereford Beef Calf Club steer; top right, Edward Ulshafer of Wabash, with his first prize Spotted Poland China Pig Club gilt; middle left, John McKee of Lafayette with his first prize Beef Calf Club junior yearling Hereford steer, which w’as champion and grand champion Hereford Beef Calf Club steer, and first prize and champion junior yearling pure bred Hereford steer: middle right, Meritt Thornburg of Greensburg with his first prize junior yearling Beef Calf Club Shorthorn steer; bottom, left, Robert Van Hoy of Loogootee and his first prize junior yearling Beef Calf Club Angus, and bottom, right, the junior yearling calf club showing Jn the Coliseum. •

HUNDREDS ATTEND CHURCH CEREMONY

St. Anthony’s Rededicated; Class of 270 Is Confirmed. St Anthony’s Catholic church. 379 North Warman avenue, was rededicated Monday, with solemn and colorful ceremonies. The newly decorated church was taxed to capacity by a throng that braved the sweltering temperature to witness the rites, which included the conferring of the sacrament of confirmation on a class of 270 children and adults. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Ohartrand, bishop of the diocese, was in charge, assisted by the Rev. Casmir Cverko, deacon, and the Rev. John Riedinger, subdeacon. Solemn high mass was read by the church pastor, the Rev. Albert Busald, as celebrant, with the Rev. Pierce Dixon, deacon, and the Rev. James Sees, subdeaccn. Sees went to school at St. Anthony’s parish. The Rev. Elmer Ritter, S. T. D., was master of ceremonies and the Rev. Peter Killian, arch priest. A choir of priests, directed by the Rev. Clement Boosler, and composed of the Rev. Bernard Sheridan, the Rev. Leo Creeden, the Rev. Henry Dugan, the Rev. James Jensen, the Rev. August Fussenegger, the Rev. Barrett Tieman and the Rev. Albert Schad, assistant pastor of the church, gave the musical program: “Ecce Sacredos,” by the Rev. Vincent Wagner, O. S. B. of Kyrie, Stein; "Gloria Credo,” plain chant; "Sanctus Benedictus,” by Singenberger; "Agnus Dei,” Perosi. and the motet at the offertory, by Wiltenberger. Assisting at the mass were Msgr. Dowd, the Revs. William Keefe, John O’Connell, .John Joseph, O. F. M.. Humilis O. F. M., Thomas Kilfoil, George Dun,, Cornelius Smith, Mathew Harold, John Doyle, George Sebastian, Spalding. Ambrose Sullivan. Fin tan Walker, John Rager. Shelbyville; Omer Eiseman, Terre Haute; Urban Sonderman, Walter Nugent and Thomas Finneran. Road Meeting Set State highway commissioners of Indiana and Michigan will meet in South Bend, Ind., Thursday to discuss problems of connecting highways at the state line, John J Brown, highway director said today.

victory without a break. For seventy-four feet of the seventy-five-foot course he was hard pressed by the fleet legs of one ■Sun God, who carried less baggage. But Sun God became either confused or overconfident and went down to defeat with such

DOMESTIC IS SOUGHT Employer Reports Servant Has Run Away. Search was begun by police today for Miss Lena Adams, 512 East Fifty-first street, reported by K. R. Dunkin of that address as having run away Sunday night. The girl was employed at the Dunkin home. Harry Starrett, 45, of 506 Chase street, disappeared from his home Monday, Mrs. Starrett told police. BURIAL WEDNESDAY Rites at Home, St. Patrick’s for James O’Connor. Funeral services for James O’Connor, 88, retired Big Four railroad employe, who died Monday at his home, 1111 Spann avenue, will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30 at the home and at St. Patrick’s church at 9.. In 1860 Mr. O’Connor came to Indianapolis from County Kerry, Ireland. He had not obtained citizenship papers at the time of the Civil war, but served as a horse breakefor the Federal army. After the war he was employed by the Big Four railroad and was retired from service thirty years ago. He was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic church. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. F. H. Mowwe of Redwood City, Cal., and Mrs. John A. George of Indianapolis, and a son, Thomas J. O’Connor of Indianapolis. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. PILOT’S BODY FOUND Lisbon Police Believe Corpse That of Swiss Flier. By United Press LISBON, Portugal, Sept. 3.—Police today began an Investigation of the report the body of an aviator found at the seashore may be one of the two young Swiss fliers who tried to fly to New York last month. The Swiss fliers, Oskar Kaeser and Kurt Luescher, after leaving Lisbon for America, were sighted once at the Azores and never again.

favorites as Am I Hot, Hardly Able, Mable and the like. Sun God, almost to the finish, and neck and neck, went into reverse and faded from glcry to also-ran. He pulled in his neck and went to sleep. * While Sun God slept at the controls, Firefly, big brute from Bluff City, Kan, cams out of a coma

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STATE BOARD PASSES BONOS Seven Issues for Paving Jobs Approved. . Seven Marion county proposed bond issues were reviewed by the state tax board today. Willis Nusbaum, attorney for the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, appeared in behalf of four highway issues : and presented objections to two. others. Those recommended by the association were: Charles ‘l Wright, county unit road, resurfacing Keystone avenue, $62,000; W. O. Kimberlin road, Thirty-eighth street, between Eastern and Emerson avenues; Earl Hughes road. Holt avenue, between the National highway and Morris street, and Frank Stuck county unit road, Troy avenue, resurfacing and widening. A delegation appeared favoring a petition for a $31,000 issue for anew eighteen-foot pavement on Hobart street, between Churchman avenue and Bethel avenue. Center township would pay for the road, according to Merrill Moores, who headed the petition. Moore said that through a mistake several years ago Perkins street, a block away, was paved instead of Hobart street. Hearing was to be held this afternoon on an issue of $40,000 for paving of the Thomas Wynn road, West Forty-second street, between Meyers road and Kessler boulevard. The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association objected to both proposals. The petition of the Indianapolis park district for a $40,000 issue for a community building in Christian park also was presented.

DRIVER IS SENTENCED Detroit Man Gets Terms for ‘lntoxicated Operations.” Robert Shaw of Detroit today began serving a thirty-day sentence on the Indiana state farm following conviction in Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter’s court Monday on a drunk-driving charge. Shaw was arrested Sunday after his car wobbled crazily in the 2800 block North Meridian street. Thomas Vail, 52, New York City, said to have confessed holding up a restaurant at 1549 North Ulino;* street Saturday, was bound over to the grand jury by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron Monday. NOT HOTEL RESIDENT Erroneous Address Given by Claude Vail, Taken in Raid. In Monday’s Times it was erroneously stated that the arrest of Claude Vail on charges of pool selling, keeping a gaming house and operating a blind tiger, followed confiscation of baseball pool tickets and liquor in a room in the Great Eastern hotel. Although Vail gave police his address as the Great Eastern hotel, he was not a guest there, the management declared today. The raid was not at the hotel, but in Vail’s quarters in rooms 7 and 8 at 1 North New Jersey street.

and galloped into second money, winning $1,250 for Cecil Henle as 10,000 derby fans rose and cheered. An unnamed creature ambled in third to win $750 for Charles Watson, Bartlesville, Okla. Others of unheard-of-fame garnered S3OO for H. H. Caney, Tonkawa, Okla, fourth place, and S2OO for Dick North. Matfleld Green, Kan., fifth.

CLEVELAND’S AERIAL SHOW ‘BEST EVER’ So Praised by Rickenbacker in Recounting Gains for Aviation. SAFETY MADE PLAIN Spectacle Was Unmarred by Serious Accidents at Airport. BY CAPT. E. V. RICKENBACKER Written for tbe United Press CLEVELAND, Sept. 3.—"A great air show,” remarked a friend of mine concerning the tremendous aeronautical spectacle just concluded in Cleveland—the greatest aviation show ever staged. ‘‘What has been gained from it?’’ A Jot has been gained. Thousands attended the ten-day program and saw for themselves tho strides that modern aviation is making. They saw ships, both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air, do things undreamed of a decade ago. Learn First Hand Many of these spectators at the air show and races came to Cleveland via the air. some of them making their first flights, and learning first hand that air travel is safe, clean and comfortable. Air lines serving Cleveland had to run two to three times their usual number of passenger planes to bring spectators to the show. The factor of safety and the improvement made in a year were made clear—l mean as regards planes, pilots and the regulation of flying. As many as 600 ships were flying from the Cleveland airport, yet not a serious accident occurred at the airport. Jack Reid was killed some distance from the field, after setting an endurance record for solo flying. He had piloted a ship for more than thirty-seven hours when he crashed. Lady Mary Heath was injured seriously in a test flight of a plane, but not at the airport and not as a part of the race program. Fears of Wings

Lieutenant Jimmy Doolittle tore the wings from an army plane he was testing preparatory to stunting at the field, made a safe descent in his parachute and immediately went up in another plane to show his acrobatics. The crash of his first ship in a field five miles away from the airport as the result of the severe test flight he gave it was but a demonstration of the wisdom of a veteran pilot in finding what his ship would do before performing before a crowd. His safe descent was a demonstration of the effectiveness of modern safety devices. With all the crowded program and the hundreds of ships constantly in the air, .the Cleveland air show was a “clean” show, offering more flying with a. record of no accidents than had been given at any previous air meet, A remarkable improvement in the design and speed of commercial ships, surpassing 300 miles an hour in races around a closed course, showed how the ship of the future will speed with safety at a faster rate than any now operating. This speed will be combined with stability and ease of control, as the air race program showed.

Miles Annihilated The lighter-than-air ships, the Graf Zeppelin, which winged over Cleveland on the last leg of its epochal round-the-world flight; the Los Angeles, in its visit from Lakehurst, and the fleet of dirigibles sent from Akron by the Goodyear company gave us "U idea of how the world may be compressed to a tenth its present size by the extension of lighter-than-air transpoitation, how miles may be annihilated by the business man of the future and how the nations of the world may be brought together, in spite of separation by oceans. The military demonstrations of the United States army, navy and marine corps convinced the huge crowds at the air races that our country has the nucleus of the finest fig „ung personnel in the world, in its air services. All that is needed is that these forces be augmented. That goes for commercial aviation as well. We need three to four times as many airplanes of every sort in the United States. The most significant end of the aeronautical expostion was in the Cleveland auditorium, where per-, haps the greatest collection of aircraft ever assembled was displayed.

GO TO AUTO MEETING State Officers Will Attend Toronto Convention. James L. Bradley, chief of the automobile license division of the secretary of state’s office, and J. D. Thacker, Indianapolis, traveling auditor of the state automobile registration office, left today for Toronto. They will represent Indiana at the annual conference of automobile commissioners. They were accompanied by their wives and Miss Beatrice Thacker. ASSUMES U. S. DUTIES F. T. Strayer Becomes Assistant District Attorney. Frank T. Strayer, former Veterans of Foreign Wars national commander, today assumed his position as United States assistant district attorney, succeeding William C. Mitchell, who resigned to enter private practice of Iml