Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1929 — Page 13

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REAL ESTATE BODY BEGINS SESSION TODAY West Baden Is Host to Sixteenth Annual State Convention. CONTESTS ON PROGRAM Men and Women Will Make Home Town Speeches This Evening. By 1 imee Special WEST BADEN, Ind., Sept. 19. Two breakfast conferences this morning opened the annual convention here of the Indiana Real Estate Association. One of the conferences was addressed by Emerson W. Chaille, former president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. His subject was “Leasing.” The speaker at the other conference was G. D. Gebhardt of Richmond on “Subdividing.” The convention will be in session three days. Attendance is expected to reach 400. A session preliminary to the sixteenth yearly meeting was held on Wednesday. Fred W. Keller of South Bend, association president, presided. The delegates were welcomed here by Raymond F. Hall, assistant manager of the West Baden Springs hotel. President Gray of the Terre Haute Real Estate Board responded. He is mentioned as a. candidate for association president to be chosen at this convention. Reviewing developments of the year as they affected real estate men. Keller said: “On the whole, we have reason to be grateful for the present economic condition and prospects of our state.” Failure of the 1929 Indiana legislature to enact a licensing bill applying to real estate dealers was termed by Keller as "one of the disappointments of the year.” . Committees have been appointed by Keller as follows: Resolutions— D. C. Johnson. Terre Haute, chatrman: J. W. Fieldhouse. Elkhart; E. E. Luse. Anderson; John R. Mitchell, Evansville, and Harold Hobbs. Muncle. Auditing—William H. Surbaugh, Anderaon. chairman; Charles D. Shideler, Richmond, and W.liter L. Curdes. Ft. Wayne. Roard Publicity—Oscar Lewellen. Kokomo. chairman; Dick Waterman. Ft. Wayne; William Schleman. Valparaiso; Henley T. Hottrl. Indianapolis, and Henry Dlckman. Evansville. Atlendmnre—J. Will Ferguson. Richmond. chirman; Scot R. Brewer. Indianapolis; Earl M. Friend. New Albany: Milo W’. Stark. Mishawaka, and Walter MaehJlng, Terre Haute. Election Floor—James R. Day. Anderson. Chairman: G. D. Tatcher, Kokomo, and G. Jtoscoe Hemstick. Hammond. Nominating—Samuel E. Gray, Terre Haute, chairman; Mr. Surbaugh. Anderson: E. Kirk McKinney. Indianapolis; Carl Gets. Ft. Wayne, and Mr. Keller. Mrs. Thomas F. Carson of Indianapolis is chairman of a committee which has arranged for entertainment of women here for the meet. She is being assisted by Mrs. Joseph J. Argus, Mrs. Joseph J. Schmid, Mrs. Fay C. Cass and Mrs. E. Kirk McKinney, all of Indianapolis. Tonight there will be two contests on home town speeches. Men will be limited to four minutes and women to five. The winner of the men’s contest will be awarded a cup donated by the Terre Haute board. The woman winner will receive a cup offered by the Gary board.

THIEVES SUCCESSFUL IN TWO BURGLARIES R-ob Horae of Money, Jewelry and Store of Merchandise. Using a stepladder to gain entrance to the bedroom of Jasper Lawles. 2312 Kenwood avenue, a thief stole $24.75 in money, a watch and a small quantity of jewelry early today. Charles Pritchett. 1537 Ashland avenue, frustrated a robbery early this morning when he yelled at a burglar who attempted to raise a window’ at his home. The man fled. Fifty dollars in merchandise was reported stolen from the dry goods store of William Smith, 1709 Southeastern avenue. ACT ON POLICE RADIO Equipment of Cars and Use of Station Proposed. Technical committee of the citizen's police radip commission was to meet today at the Chamber of Commerce to recommend the commission be authorized to equip police cars with radios. Recommendations also were to be made that the present wave length of WFBM be changed so the police department will have its own wave length, and to employ an experienced police radio engineer to build the equipment. According to Andrew J. Allen, general chairman of the commission. Robert L. Batts, who designed and installed the police radio system in Detroit, has been proposed for this post. MINERS END SESSION Ten-Day Meeting Given Over to Hearing Grievances. After a ten-day session hearing grievances and mulling over affairs of the organization, the meeting of the international executive board of the United Mine Workers of America was scheduled to end this afternoon. Union officials at noon today averred that only routine business was taken up at the meetings held in the Merchants Rank build* *l* - „ ...

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A shJny, little padlock, brought to the National W. C. T. U. convention by Mrs. Nellie G. Burger, Springfield, Mo.. assistant recording secretary of the organization, is an interesting moment of a prohibition victory in her city. It was through Mrs. Berger’s testimony that Judge Albert L. Reeves of the western district of Illinois federal court, padlocked the New Central hotel ci Spr in gfield last June. "For years the hotel lived up to its bad reputation,” said Mrs. • Burger. “Townspeople were aware of the fact liquor flowed within its walls every day. “W hen federal officers finally brought action, I

was Importuned to give evidence highly damaging to those who bad defied the law.” “After the hotel was padlocked, the owners acceded to a suggestion, which haS resulted in a women’s hotel. The hotel is known as the Willard Inn and was opened last Saturday. It has room for seventyfive girls.”

JOHN AND FLO GET WEALTH OF GIFTS

Want My Buchu By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 19. “Wounded three times and learned to say ‘bookoo’ ” is the terse, unofficial draft of Mark Woolfe’s war record. “Don’t shoot! We drink buchu” is his peace record up to date and the slogan that appears on his automobile. Woolfe tried his war French in a drug store, and it brought forth a bottle of buchu, a wine tonic. He thrived on it until he now tips the scales at 210. Then he read that the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, was being criticised because of reports he drank buchu for’his health. “I want my buchu, but I don’t want to get shbt,” Woolfe explained the sign.

MAN, 87, IS SUICIDE Peter Pruitt Ends Life in Kitchen of Home. “Tired of living,” Peter Pruitt, 87, of 1082 Russell avenue. University Heights, is believed to have pricked an artery in his thumb and cut his uiroat with a kitchen knife early today. The body was found by Mrs. Lena Horton, his daughter, with whom he lived, and a neighbor, Vem Smock, 1084 Russell avenue, in the kitchen of the Horton home. The knife lay under him. Coroner C. H. Keever said Pruitt bled to death. Tile daughter was unable to ascribe any motive for suicide. JAPAN HOP ~ DELAYED Bromley’s New Plane Is Wrecked in Trial Flight. By United Press BURBANK, Cal., Sept. 19.—The proposed nonstop flight of Lieutenant Harold Bromley from Tacoma, Wash., to Tokio, Japan, was postponed until next spring today as a result of the plane crash in which Lieutenant Herbert Fahy was injured. Anew ship built for Lieutenant Bromley at the Lockheed plant here was WTecked late Wednesday when it lost its rudder on a trial flight made by Lieutenant Fahy, chief pilot for the company, who suffered fractured arm, severe cuts and bruises. JUDGE PLAYS SOLOMON Will Permit 5-Year-Old Girt to Choose Home. By United Press CHICAGO. Sept, 19.—Five-year-old Marilyn Reining is to play a dual role in a “Solomon case.” After living a week with her father and the next week with her grandmother, she is to be allowed to choose her home. Judge Emanuel Eller decided. The father and grandmother both sought custody of the child, following estrangement of her father and mother. COMPANY INCORPORATES Chicago Firm Heads New Securities Trading Concern. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state of the Indiana Corporation, a securities trading company, to be headed by Whiting & Cos. of Chicago. The papers were filed by Frederick E. Schortemeier. former secretary of state, on behalf of Lawrence Whiting and associates. Capitalization is expected to be 1.500,000 shares of no par value stock. Robbery Clews Lacking By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Sept. 19. Police have found no clews to persons who robbed Joe Natalie, fruit store owner here, of $750 Saturday night

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Wedding Presents Taxing Capacity of Governor Trumbull Mansion. By United Press PLAINVILLE, Conn., Sept. 19. Big as it is, the Governor’s mansion will be taxed to hold all the wedding presents arriving for Florence Trumbull and John Coolidge. Every day a mailman staggers up to the front door with twenty-five to thirty parcels. Several rooms in the big colonial house have been set aside for display of the gifts and the bales o£ excelsior and packing material are the dispair of servants. Gardeners, stonemasons and painters have been busy around the house during the week. Everything “Set” for Wedding Virtually everything is arranged for Monday’s wedding in the Congregational church at 4 p. m. Although Mrs. Trumbull regards the wedding as “just a simple little private affair,” public interest has necessitated unusual arrangements for giving the news to the public without making the wedding a spectacle. These are the press arrangements announced today: Four “still” photographers, two from New York, one from Boston and one from Connecticut, will be, allowed inside the police lines outside the church. Two silent movie cameramen and one sound man will be allowed inside the lines. Must Have Passes All newspaper men must have passes. No reporters will be allowed inside the lines. A friend of John and a girl friend of the bride will be interviewed by men and women reporters, respectively, after the ceremony. Restrictions applying at the church during the wedding ceremony will apply at the house during the reception.

START DRIVE ON FAGS Anti-Cigaret Alliance Heads Visit Schools Friday. At the final meeting of the AntiCigaret Alliance of America, today, at the Denison, Mrs. C. H. L. Flatter of Xenia. 0., executive secretary, announced that she and Dr. D. H. Kress of Washington, D. C., will visit Indianapolis schools Friday to open the campaign to “protect children from the cigaret habit.” ADMITS AUTO THEFT Cold Weather Causes Youth to Confess to Police. Police today were investigating the story of Daily White, 21. of Frankfort, who surrendered Wednesday night, admitting the theft of an auto in Frankfort. Hunger and a desire for shelter from the cold, caused White to give himself up, he said. WIFE SLIPS SLIPHORN Spouse’s Trombone Practice Cause of Suit for Divorce. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—August Walters took his tromboning so seriously he and his wife had to move five times in six years of married life. Then Mrs. Walters decided it was her move. “Cruelty with a trombone ” she charged in her suit for divorce. TRAIN KILLS TWO BOYS Lads in Stolen Car Die in Attempt to Escape. By United Press CHICAGO. Sept 19.—When the owner refused to sell them his dilapidated flivver for sl2 because they were too young, Steve Tlocek, 16. and his chum. Joseph Kr&marski. 14, sneaked it out and raced to beat a Pere Marquette train to a crossinf. The train won the race and noth boys died without regaining consciousness .

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$250,000,000 TOTAL ASSETS IN BIGMERGER Three Concerns Involved in Huge Business Consolidation. NO STOCK EXCHANGED Johns-Manville, Insulite and U. S. Gypsum in Transaction. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The New York Herald-Tribune said today a merger of three concerns had brought about the largest amalgamation of distribution facilities in the history of the building industry, with total assets of $250,000,000 involved. The companies in the merger, according to the Herald-Tribune, are the Johns-Manville corporation, the Insulite company and the United States Gypsum Company. * Confirmation of the transaction I was made Wednesday night by James Kamps, general sales manager of the Insulite company. No exchange of stock was involved, he said, but he revealed there was a definite pooling of distributing and manufacturing interests. Many concerns in the west and northwest will be affiliated with the three companies, including the Backus, Brooks Company, the Great Lakes Paper Company, Ltd., the International Lumber Company, the National Pole and Treating Company, the Minnesota, Dakota & Western railway, the Fort Frances Pulp and Paper Company, Ltd., the Ontario and Minnesota Power Company, Ltd., the Seine River Improvement Company, Ltd., the Kenora Paper Mills, Ltd., the Keewatin Lumber Company and the Kenora Development Company, Ltd. It was estimated those affiliations would bring the total assets to $1,000,000,000. All three of the chief concerns will continue to operate under their present managements, Kamps said. The three concerns have many foreign contacts, it was said, -and a virtual world-wide distribution system will be available for their products. BALLOONISTS SAVED Yacht Picks Up Detroit Qnrtet on Lake. By United Press TOLEDO, 0.. Sept. 19.—A huge balloon carrying four Detroit men and cruising away from that city, was saved from falling into Lake Erie Wednesday night by the crew ox the Helene, a yacht owned by C. O. Miniger, president of the Electric Auto-Lite Company. The occupants of the balloon were: Dr. George W. Lagalley, owner: H. A. Habermas, J. A. Smith and Roger K. Lee, all of Detroit. The big bag left Detroit at noon Wednesday. Captain L. N. Lockwood, of the yacht crew sighted the balloon hovering low over the lake. The men in the basket were emptying their sand bags to gain height. The yacht was steered off its course, signaled to the balloonists and a line was dropped. It was towed in safely.

FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR LONG-TIME RESIDENT Owen S. Wright, 63, Dies After Seven Weeks Illness. Funeral services for Owen S. Wright, 63, of 4509 West Morris street, who died at his home Wednesday after an illness of seven weeks, will be held at the home at 1:30 Friday. The Rev. C. H. Scheick, pastor of the Lynhurst Baptist church will officiate, and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Wright, a native of Indianapolis, had been an employe of the National Malleable and Steel Casting Company forty-two years. He is surwied by the widow, Mrs. Eva Wright; two daughters, Mrs. R. T. Nicholas, Indianapolis, and Mrs. E. T. Higginbotham, Jackson, Mich., and two sons, Fred H. Wright, Indianapolis, and Russell S. Wright, Buffalo.

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Farmers Keep Tab on Mail Pilots

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The mail has brought romance and excitement to the farm lands of the open spaces. Take, for instance, a community about thirty miles north of Terre Haute. Twice a day the mail planes go over, fixing between Chicago and Atlanta. Although few of the farmers have seen them in person, they know each of the three pilots on the line, and can tell which one is flying. The farmers watch for the planes at 11:30 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. If they are late, the farmers worry and speculate. The air mail bears its share of the conversation when residents of the country get together for a talk. One of the pilots has gotten almost on speaking acquaintance with a number of persons in the neighborhood, for he frequently dies quite low. One hazy day he

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It’s awfully thrilling, these trans-Atlantic telephone operators will tell you, to chatter with friends in London. Pretty Alice Frazer (left) and Margaret Lang (right) have talked with many world celebrities, too. Center is a view of the switchboard in New York, through which all calls are routed.

TIMES ‘KID MOVIE’ WILL BE THRILLER

City Boys and Girls Urged to Get Busy and<Win Parts in Film. The stands are filled with frenzied cheering boys and girls watching the closing minutes of the football game between the Bearcats and the Panthers. The Panthers are ahead, 6-0, and only groans arise from the Bearcat stands as defeat stares them in the face. Big Boy, their star half back and forward passer, is at home, unable to play because of an injury he received when he was knocked down by an automobile. Does it sound exciting? Will the Bearcats be able to overcome the Panthers’ lead? Well, that’s the story that will be told in The Times’ Golden Rule Safety Club movie being made in conjunction with the Lyric theater. It really is going to be exciting, and every boy and girl in Indianapolis who wants to become a member of The Indianapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club will take part in making the picture. It’ll Bea Thriller It is going to be a sure-enough two-reel thriller. Remember that all the parts in the picture are going to be taken by Inidanapolis boys and girls and you can be one of them. All you have to do to be in the movie is to fill out the membership application for the Golden Rule Safety Club which appears on Page 18, and send it in to the Safety Movie Editor, The Indianapolis Times, and then watch the announcements in The Times daily for further details. If you have a small photo or snapshot of yourself, inclose it with your application. Rush Your Application Os course there is much more to the picture than we can tell ycx. about here—how Big Boy was run down by a hit-skip driver, how the rest of the team caught him, what happened to him and finally how the big game turned out. So fill out your application and send it in right away, so you will be sure to be in the movie. We’re not going to tell you how it turns out. That would spoil it. Previous experience in acting is not necessary, so don’t hesitate on that account. All types of boys and girls will be needed. Send in your application now. ROAD CONTRACT IS LET Ft, Wayne Firm Gets Job* on Peru Highway Stretch. Contract for paving of 1.9 miles of United States Road 24. from Peru northeast, was let today by the state highway commission to J. C. O’Connor & ‘Son, Inc., of Ft. Wayne, for $65,671.76. Engineer’s estimate was $81,355.30.

flew so low over a garden that he blew the farmer’s hat off. This pilot likes to amuse the children along his route. Every day all summer he has flown over a certain farmhouse and waved at the five children in the family. A few weeks ago school started. The pilot missed the children when he flew over. So he dropped a note in the front yard, giving his name and address, and saying that if the children would write and tell him where their schoolhouse was, he would come over some day and do stunts for them. The children wrote, gleefully. Two days later the mail pilot came. It was just 11:30, and school was recessing for lunch. Everyone, including the teachers, ran out to watch. And for five minutes the pilot, at a safe altitude, of course, gave them the best show they had ever seen. They say he did everything in the book of stunts. , f

Dog Gone! By Times Special GARY, Ind.. Sept. 19.—Refund of $2 paid by J. R. McCullom for a dog license tag was ordered refunded by the city council when McCullom showed he had a tag but no dog. Visiting the city pound, McCullom saw a dog that struck his fancy, and he bought a tag. Returning with the tag to get the dog, McCullom found the owner had been a visitor in the meantime and taken the dog away.

DEATH TOLL MOUNTS 11 Lose Lives in Storms Which Sweep France. Bii United Press PARIS, Sept. 19.—Eleven persons lost their lives in the series of storms which swept France Tuesday, according to latest reports today. In additions to the seven victims who died during the storms, three more bodies were discovered floating in the swollen rivers in the vicinity of Dinan, and a man was killed by lightning during an electric stor mnear Nevers Wednesday.

UNVEIL REVOLUTIONARY WAR MARKER SUNDAY John Keesling’s Memory to Be Honored In Ceremony. Amid graves of early Henry county settlers, Sons of the American Ravolution Sunday will unveil a marker honoring John Keesling, Revolutionary war soldier. His grave recently was found in the cemetery on the Middlestown road by a descendant, Jasper Keesling. Cornelius F. Posson, 505 East drive, Woodruff Place, past president of the organization, will deliver the memorial address, and Keesiing will read “The Patriot.” John Keesling enlisted in the Pennsylvania militia when he was 18, and served through the Revolution. Later he came west and settled in Henry county. He died in 1839.

ADOLPH PETIT WILL BE BURIED SATURDAY Police Lieutenant’s Father Lived Here Forty-five Years. Funeral services for Adolph Petit, of 1156 West Thirty-first street, who died Wednesday, will be held at the home Saturday morning at 8:30 and at Holy Angels Catholic church at 9. Burial will be in the Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Petit was born in Nancy, France, but lived in Indianapolis for the last forty-one years. He is survived by four sons: Lieutenant Otto Petit of the Indianapolis police department and John Petit, Madison. Ind., and Martin and Joseph Petit, Indianapolis. SENSELESS 304 HOURS Doctors Fight to Save Life of Marion Boy Hurt by Auto. By United Press MARION, Ind., Sept. 19.—Seven-teen-year-old Nelsqn Nelson, unconscious 304 hours after being Injured in an automobile accident, lay on a -hospital cot today, unaware that physicians were making a frantic fight to save his life. He sustained a fractured skull in the accident. Attempts of physicians to bring the lad to his senses so far have proved futile. Ball College Opens MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 19.—Four hundred freshmen today were enrolled at Ball State Teachers college. More than 600 upper classmen are back in classes with the total enrollment estimated at almost 1,100. Class room work started today.

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Switchboard Girls Enjoy Chats Across Atlantic With British Sisters. B u NEA Service NEW YORK. Sept. 19.—“ Hello, London, how’s the fog today?” “Cheerio, New York. Fog nothing: it’s quite beastly hot here. What did you do last night, New York? Another party?” ‘ Had a swell time. We went to a brand new place and danced till all hours. And the most gorgeous man, my dear; he was absolutely—excuse it. London. Waiting on your serial 142 ca11....Mr. Smith Hello, Mr. Smith.... Ready on your call to Paris....Go ahead, please.” Voices across the sea. Thirty-two hundred miles of wire and highpowered and high-priced radio telephony carries the daily chatter of the new queens of the “hello girls.” All Tall Isn’t Cheap Statesmen may confer on world issues, financial princes may give verbal instructions to their brokers, lavish millionaires may call their wives in Paris to brag about their latest golf scores, at the rate of sls a minute and up. But between these pay calls, the trans-Atlantic operators gcsjip about boy friends, new styles, the best movies and the weather—all with the wholehearted approval of their supervisors. The reason lies in the fact that the line between New York and London always is “set up.” To establish communication, a New York operator need only say “Hello, London,” and the reply is “Hello, New York.” To be sure that the circuit is kept constantly in tune, it is necessary to test it with conversation. So while waiting to complete calls from anywhere between the Pacific coast of the United States to almost any city in Europe, the girls get in plenty of light gossip. Give Each Other a Line “The girls in New York and London get to know each other very well,” said Miss Ella Mae Higgins, superintendent in charge of the trans-Atlantic operators. “When the trunks are clear of business, we constantly must test the availability of the lines. That’s no task for a bunch of lively girls—they easily find something to talk about. Real friends have been made across those 3,000 miles of space. Many of the girls exchange letters and gifts with others whom they never have seen. The job is “awfully thrilling,” they’ll tell you. What girl would not be proud of having talked to John Gilbert, Gene Tunney, his wife Polly Lauder, Gloria Swanson, William Leeds, and Sir Thomas Lipton —all within a few months?

Meets Thomas Lipton Pretty Margaret Lang has those and many other celebrity on her list. “Every week or so, I have anew celebrity to tell the folks at home about,” she said. “Gene Tunney was calling from Paris recently and he was very nice. He joked with me while I was getting his party. “Just before Sir Thomas Lipton came over here, he was calling America. While waiting for the connection he asked, ‘With whom am I talking?’ “ ‘You are talking to the operator in New York,’ I told him. “ ‘Why, bless me,’ he said, ‘I thought you were in the next room!” When Sir Thomas arrived in the United States, he came up here to see the trans-Atlantic system and I met him in person. OPPOSE SPECIAL JUDGE Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Writ of Prohibition. Oral arguments in the writ of prohibition against appointment of Will M. Sparks of Rushville as special judge in the case of I rank Burke, Richmond, who was convicted on a drunken driving charge, were heard by the supreme court W’ednesday. Burke was fined $25 and costs and given sixty days in the state farm by Special Judge E. Ralph Himelick of Fayette county. Burke’s attorneys appealed the case and Sparks was named special judge to succeed Himelick, by Judge Gustave Holtaer of Rich* mend.

OPEN WAR IS DECLARED BY MINERS UNION Illinois Workers’ Leaders Are Attacked in Edict From Lewis. CHARGE FRAUD, GRAFT Frank Farrington Also ts Bitterly Assailed by Labor Chief. By United Press WEST FRANKFORT, 111.. Sept. 19.—The international administration of the United Mine Workers of America issued an open- declaration of war today against the state administration of the United Mine Workers of Illinois. The declaration was in the form of a statement by John T. Jones, provisional president of sub-district No. 9 here, and spokesman in Illinois for John L. Lewis, international president. Jones' statement declared “the Illinois miners can not go forward or make any progress whatsoever until A. C. Lewis and President Fishwick and Walter Nesbit. have severed their connection with the United Mine Workers of America.” A. C. Lewis is general counsl for the Illinois union, Fishwick is state president and Walter Nesbit state secretary-treasurer . Good Faith Doubted Although Jones once before attacked Fishwick, and threatened ouster proceedings, he did so on that occasion on specific groundsthe appointment of Harry Madden to the executive boar dos sub-district No. 1. This time Jones denounces Fishwick ad his associates on general principles, and inferentially attacks the good faith of both men as union officials. Jones attcaks Frank Farrington, former state president, a bitter foe of the Lewis administration, as a “ traitor,” and charged that he acted as president while employe dby the Peabody Coal Corporation. “Since we acquired the records and other documents in hte subdistrict,” Jones continued, “we find that the allegations we made in our election contest before the former sub-district No. 9 board were true.” The sub-district has been involved in a squabble over the leadership of its former officials, D. C. Cobb, president: Heza Hindeman, vicepresident, and E. P. Louden, secre-tary-treasurer. President Lewis revoked the subdistrict charter after those officials refused to account to him for certain real estate. Jones, John Belcher and John Brown were appointed provisional officers after a court battle. Charge Vote Fraud “The records of the former secre-tary-treasurer disclosed that they cast more votes in some local unions in Franklin county than they had members, and that the provisional officers were elected legally. “An election will be held in provisional sub-district No. 9 when the provisional officers have uncovered all the graft and corruption perpetrated by the former sub-district officers and he accounts have been audited properly.” Against A. C. Lewis, general state counsel of the union, Jones brought the cherge that $265 which was to have been distributed among miners for wage claims never was turned over to the men. Another paragraph contains the charge that A. C. Lewis once appeared in court representing a defendant, the Brewerton Coal Company, against a union member who had sued for money he claimed was due him. Another charge was that A. C. Lewis and Fishick were responsible for the injunction obtained against Jones, Belcher and Brown when President Lewis sent them to take charge of the sub-district.

CITY TWENTY-FOURTH IN BUILDING PERMITS State Holds Eleventh Place for Month of August. Indiana is eleventh and Indianapolis is twenty-fourth in the nation for the number of building permits issued in August. According to a report of S. W. Strauss & Cos., today. Permits totalling $5,957,460 were issued in the state during the month. Indianapolis showed an increase of approximately $500,000 for August over August, 1928, with $1,836,705 in new structures scheduled for the 1929 month against $1,374,525 in permits granted in the same month In 1928. Evansville ranks second to Indianapolis in Indiana building for August with $1,356,438 in new construction started. South Bend is third, Elkhart, four and Gary, fifth, statiaics showed. ‘MOOCH 1 COP; BOOKED Pair Picks Sergeant in Mufti to Beg "Chaser” Price. An alleged attempt to “bum" the price of a coffee “chaser” after “killing” a half pint of whisky, resulted in the police detention today of Claude Edwards, 32, 5020 East Tenth street, and Timothy King, 35, of Ben Davis. Edwards and King “bummed” the dime at Missouri and Vermont streets, but from Sergeant John Eisenhut, in plain clothes. Sergeant Eisenhut took them to jail, charging Edwards with blind tiger and King with vagrancy, after he found half a pint on Edwards.