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LARGEST GROUP OF QUAKERS TO GATHER MONDAY Indiana Yearly Meeting at Richmond Is 109 Years Old. r.n V .'/*• Svrrinl RICHMOND. Ind., Sept. 28. When, the Indiana Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends opens its 109th annual conference here Monray in Timothy Nicholson Memorial church, it will follow an order of business which differs little from the program set up by the founders of the body, organized in a log cabin here in 1820 by Friends who had come to Indiana from Georgia and *he Carohnas because they were disK-iUfcfied with the institution of slavery and wanted to live on free y>il. The ses?;on will end Oct. 7. The first Friends caihe to Wayne county in 1806 and the glowing reports about the fertility of the soil and the beauty of the country, especially those sent by David Hoover, who called it the “Promised Land,” brought many hundred from the south to this section of Indiana. Soon the number of Friends here attained such proportions that the local meeting asked a separate organization and by 1320 the denomination was strong enough to organize its own yearly meeting. Active in Missionary Work Indiana Yearly Meeting has air ways been a strong missionary body. A number of other yearly meetings, western in Indiana, and those beyond the Mississippi river, originally were constituent parts of Indiana meetings. At present the Indiana meeting is made up of the following quarterly meetings, one in Ohio, one in Washington and one in Michigan: Dublin, Eastern, Fairmount, Marion, Traverse City, New Garden, Penn, Portland, Puget Sound, Spiceland, Van Wert, Wabash, Walnut Ridge, West Branch, Whitewater and Winchester. Despite the formation of other meetings from the membership of the Indiana lodge, it still is the largest Quaker group body in this country, with approximately 17,000 members, who last year raised about $233,000 for various religious purposes. Earlham college here is jointly owned and managed by Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings, both in this state. Indiana meeting also is vitally interested in the Five Years’ Meeting, with which thirteen yearly meetings in various parts of the United States and Canada are affiliated. The headquarters of this body are located in its own building here. Earlham Instructor Aids One of the firs* items of business of the yearly meeting will be the selection of a presiding clerk. Professor Arthur M. Charles, head of the modern language department of 'Earlham college, has served in this capacity for the last year. The nominating committee will suggest the officers for the year, as no contests take place on the floor of the yearly meeting. Assisting Professor Charles will be Isadore W. Kirck of Richmond, recording clerk; Professor E. P. Trueblood of Richmond and Edith J. Hunt of Charlottesville, reading clerk, and W. P. Bond of Wabash, announcing clerk. The conference will be opened formally by Professor Charles. On the day preceding the convention a meeting on ministry and oversight is conducted. In this session the spiritual condition of various congregations and quarterly meetings are discussed, and a digest of reports and discussions Is presented to the yearly meeting. Herman O. Miles of Richmond and Edna R. Redick of Lynn are clerks for this session. Charles Carpentd* of Richmond has been treasurer of the yearly meeting more than forty years. All sessions will be helt In the Nicholson church. In more than a century’s history the yearly meeting has met elsewhere only twice; once in Marion in 1903, and in Muncie a few’ years ago, w r hile the present church was in process of construction. The yearly meeting lists 171 ministers. Letters From Abroad

One of the interesting features of the meetings is the epistles which are received from other yearly meetings and from those in England and Ireland, in which progress and present problems are reported and discussed. Mission work, temperance and international peace have been questions in which the yearly meeting has been interested for decades. The impetus for penal reform in Indiana was given through agitation in the yearly meeting for more humane treatment of prisoners, and work of the late Timothy Nicholson in this direction was a result of his association with the yearly meeting's committee. Nicholson was a presiding clerk of Indiana yearly meeting for a number of years and one of the first members of the state board of charities. Development of the international peace movement probably will be discussed at length this year, in view of the recent announcement of President Hoover of a desire for limitation of naval armaments.

DEATH PROBE PLANNED Wayne County Grand Jury Will Study Slaying of Officer. RICHMOND. Ind., Sept. 28.—Two major matters will come before the Wayne county grand jury which will convene Monday, according to Prosecutor Clifford Haworth. The death of John Ingerman. marshal of Cambridge City, allegedly from a revolver bullet fired by Russell Bell, automobile salesman, will be investigated. Discrepancy in the accounts of W. G. McVay. former city treasurer here, showing a shortage of nearly $5 000, will also get attention of the jury. Prosecutor Haworth has a certified copy of a report by the field agents of the state board of aceounts in the case. McVay has returned the money to the city. He altered figures in payments on public improvements under the Barrett law. \ tj-

Sixty Years — Together

Seated. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mitchell; standing, left to right, George Mitchell, Mrs. Cora Kepner, Charles E. Mitchell, fvirs. Bertha Anthony and T. S. Mitchell.

Bn Time* Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Sept. 28. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mitchell of this city celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary with a family dinner at the local park. Five of

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Prisoners Just Stroll Away pn Time s Special MUNCIE. Ind., Sept. 28 Muncie's workhouse at the county jail is not very confining. So far this year fifteen prisoners have escaped from the building. Three left this week after breaking a chain which secured a door. They were Alex Ward and Walter Boland, laying out fines for intoxication, and Jack Cointha, serving a sentence for train riding.

I, U. BAND TO BE IN PARADE ‘Famous Hundred’ Will March With Legion. Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 28. —Approximately two hundred members of the Bloomington post American Legion will attend the national convention to be held at Louisville, Ky„ Monday to Friday, according to Frank Hope, post commander. Beginning today small groups began leaving by automobiles and trains. A large number are expected to go on the Paul V. McNutt special train from Chicago which will arrive In Bloomington Sunday afternoon at 2:15 and leaves five minutes later. The train will carry National Commander McNutt and various delegates from along the route. Commander Hope announces that a check for $542 has been given Colonel O. P. Robinson, commander of the R. O. T. C. unit of Indiana university to defray expenses in sending the “Famous Hundred” band to Louisville, Tuesday morning to participate in a parade. McNutt, dean of I. U. law school here, will be In the reviewing stand during the parade. A special train taking th band. Captain James Pirtle and Colonel Robinson and a number of local Legion members will leave at 5 Tuesday morning. Several members of the auxiliary of the post here have been attending the national convention of the organization at Louisville this week, including Mrs. Van Huntington; Mrs. James Crum, president of the auxiliary; Mrs. R. A. Fletcher. Mrs. Harry Rogers, Mrs. A. P. Cassel, Mrs W. D. Burroughs, Mrs. Howard Crawford, Mrs. Ned Snoddy and Mrs. Kefiy.

CLASSES WILL ELECT Ball College Students to Vote Wednesday. , PM Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., Sept. 28.—Candidates for class office at Ball State Teachers college have been nominated and are making campaigns for election in voting to be held Wednesday. Candidates for president of the four classes follow: Seniors. Paul Headdy and Stanley Post, both of Muncie; juniors, Everett Renner, Portland, and Evan Roetken. Muncie; sophomores, Carl Humphries, Frankfort: John Kitchel. Lincoln, and Chester Johnson. South Bend: freshmen. John Pence, Muncie; Virginia Bronnenberg, Anderson. dhd Vincent Biesesi, Martinsville. “streets to Be Improved Pji Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Sept. 28.Several contracts for street improvements will be awarded at. a meeting of the city council Tuesday. Carl Carpenter, city engineer announces The largest project is for improvement of East Eighth street between Walnut and Indiana and on South Henderson between Second and First streets. Bids will also be acted upon for building a storm sewer on West Dodd street between Sprakers Branch and South Rogers > streets. Hybrid Corn Yield Best i Pji Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Sept. 28. Tests conducted near here by Dr. C. T. Gregory, of Purdue university, show hybrid corn had a 25 per cent greater yield than ordinary types raised in Madison county. Dr. Gregory urged farmers to select seed for next year's crop before Oct. 15. while the corn is yet on the stalk. Injured Child May Die Bp Times Special NOBLE3VILLE. Ind.. Sept. 28. Elizabeth. 10. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Swing, while playing with Ia May pole on school grounds, fell ! and fractured her skull, and is not expected to recover.

] their children were present. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have spent nearly I all of their married life in HamilI ton county. For a number' of years ihe was engaged in business in Noblesville.

Convicted Woman Tells of Scheme at Ft. Wayne. r - -• Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., Sept. 28.—Miss Irma Bitzinger is back at the Indiana Woman’s prison today to resume serving a two to seven-year term after relating here how she perpetrated a $500,000 swindle by starting with SIOO. She was brought back to Ft. Wayne, scene of her operations, to testify in bankruptcy proceedings brought by creditors. She was sentenced in June. Kept Interest Paid The prisoner described her system as follows: “I had a personal note of my own that was due and I didn’t have enough money to pay it off. So I went to my friend, Mrs. Lynn Stahl, and asked her for SIOO, saying that if she would only give it to me, I would give her $25 for the use of it when I returned the SIOO two weeks later. She consented and I planned to pay off part of my note with it and with my salary of $27.50 a week, but when the two weeks were up I could only pay her part, so she told me to keep the SIOO and I paid her SSO for the interest on the use of the money both times. “I kept using this same SIOO and finally when my interest kept coming due, I branched out to others of my friends, getting SIOO w’ith the same amount of interest, then SSOO and S6OO, leaving the principals unpaid, but paying S2OO as interest on the S6OO loans. It just started that way, and the scheme evolved from that. “I kept getting In deeper and deeper, taking all the principal I borrowed to pay off the commissions and interest. And March 1. when everything kept piling up, I saw that the whole thing would crash. I tried desperately to pay off all thq interest and part of the principals due, keeping nothing for myself then in all that I took for ‘investment.’ ”

Honesty Not Doubted ‘‘l told my clients that I could buy bonds at a premium at the Lincoln National bank where I formerly worked. No one seemed to disbelieve me. I was the only one to know that it was dishonest. “Every one believed and trusted in me. Sometimes when their payments became due and I had to go out and get other money to meet their payments, they would threaten me saying that they were going to investigate, but as soon as I paid them they would say nothing. “I never kept the money on my person for more than one hour. I merely received it and paid it out again as commissions or interest. I sometimes would have $15,000 wrapped in a piece of newspaper tied with a string in my brown purse. I never kept the money over night.”

CITY PROGRAM PLANNED Committees Appointed for Anderson Hallowe'en Event. pu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 28. Mayor F. M. Williams has appointed committees for a municipal Hallowe’en celebration here the night of Oct. 31. A masquerade parade on streets of the business section will be followed by a ball on the north side of the courthouse square. Committees are: general, Fred G. Webb. Jesse L. Watts, W. H. Richards, Harry Bartlow, and Lee Jones; parade. Dr. E. W. McMullen, Hobart Hinsha'w, Louis Vermillion and M. P. Trainer; prizes and finance, Louis Simon, Pau 1 Cuirie, Lew Fadley, and Robert Nichol. Damage Suit Lost r % Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Sept, 28. John Kiefer, proprietor of a flour and feed store at Elwood, lost his suit against Guy Anderson. Elwood, and the American Automobile Indemnity Asociation when a Madison superior jury here brought In a verdict following a three-day trial. The case grew out of the collision of one of Kiefer's trucks and an automobile driven by Anderson on a road nine miles north of Elwood. in August. 1928. Kiefer's truck was overturned and flour and feed were strewn on the pavement and ruined. Girls Win Trips Bn Times Special COLUMBUS Ind.. Sept. 28. Thirteen girls of Bartholomew county have been awarded trips to Purdue university by the county 4H Club Awards for boys by the club have not as yet been completed. Girls who were given trips are Dorothy Trembly. Mildred Simmons, Ethel Rush, Lela Cooper, Clara May Thompson. Betty Besher, Bertha Gressel, Martha Trembly, Mary Duncan. Virginia Talkington, Louise Graham, Hanna McEwen, and Henrietta Doup.

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600 USING MAIL PLAN OF GOING' TO HIGHSCHOOL One Student in New York Nears Finish of I. U. Course. jgv Timm Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 28. Approximately 600 students, most of whom are of mature age, are taking high school work by correspondence through the Indiana university extension division's correspondence study bureau. Offered primarily for adults who have been unable to complete high school courses, but now wish to do so, according to Miss Louise Rogers, secretary of the correspondence study bureau. Miss Rogers announces the entire four-year course has been practically completed by correspondence through the bureau by Howard H. Koenig. New York. Mr. Koenig enrolled in September. 1924, at the age of 24 and at the present time has completed 14’/4 units of the required 16, which is equivalent to a regular four-year course. He is working on the remaining unit and a half and expects to complete the entire course within a short time. “Koenig has done excellent work at all times,” Miss Rogers said. “His record card at the present time shows twelve As, which is the highest grade that can be made; seven Bs, and one C. His purpose in taking this high school course is to obtain a New York state professional qualifying certificate of chiropody.” The courses offered by correspondence are prepared almost entirely by successful high school teachers, and each represents a definite amount of work to be covered Just as in regular residence study. The courses have been arranged so as to co-ordinate with regular residence work. They are designated as unit and half-unit courses. A unit represents an amount of work equivalent to a regular high school course in which a class meets five times a week for a period of thirtysix weeks. The length of time required for completion of a unit depends upon ability and application of the student. An effort has been made to plan the work on the basis of twenty assignments for each unit of credit.

CONVICT IN ESCAPE Man Awaiting Prison Trip Flees at Lebanon. Bu United Press LEBANON, Ind., Sept. 28.—A posse searched this region today for Charles E. Ottinger, 34, who escaped from the Boone county jail Friday, a few hours after being locked up. Ottinger was sentenced to the state prison for a term of from ten to twenty-five years on conviction of auto banditry. He was being held here in custody of Sheriff L. M. Sandlin awaiting removal to the prison. It is believed that Ottinger was given a key to his cell, although it was also indicated he may have picked the lock on the door in making his escape. PATENT CASE ON FILE Hammond Company Defendant In Fingerprint Suit, Bu United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Sept. 28.—The Simmons Company, Delaware corporation, has sued the Enterprise Bed Company of Hammond, for alleged infringement of a patent, in United States district court here. The complaint also asks for an accounting of profits and damages. The patent involved was granted to Don Travis, Kenosha, Wis., in 1920. He later sold it to the Simmons company, it alleges.

WIDOW GETS ESTATE Joseph E. Hennings Left Securities Valued at $75,000, PM Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 28.—The estate of Joseph E. Hennings, Anderson banker and civic leader, who died in July, includes stocks and bonds of an appraised value of $75,207.09, was shown by a report filed in Madison circuit court by the widow, Mrs, Josephine Hennings, and the Madison County Trust Company, co-administrators. Accompanying the report was a petition for authority to transfer the stocks to the widow as the only surviving heir, which was granted by Judge Carl F. Morrow. Hennings' real estate holdings included valuable business blocks in the central section of the city. FACES SWINDLE CHARGEWoman Held in Crawfordsville l&ade Beauty Culture Offer. Bjl Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Sept. 28.—Mrs. Edith Bourge, 30, of Danville. 111., is in the county jail here charged with false pretense in connection with an alleged fake beauty culture school she and a partner, Mrs. Irene Motz. also of Danville, are purported to have started. Mrs. Bourge advertised that a complete course and equipment could be obtained for SSO. Leona Byrd of this city answered the advertisement and deposited money for the course. When she returned to the office a few days later she found it vacant. Accident Toll Shown pji Times Special , | ANDERSON. Ind.. Sept. 28. Seven hundred junior high school students were asked to hold up their hands if they had ever been involved in an automobile accident. More than one half of the pupils responded. Twelve raised their hands to signify that they had been in accidents in which either their fathers or mothers had been killed.

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B,’> Titer* S’ ■ 'cl KOKOMO, Ind.. Sept. 28.—At the Kokomo-Marion high school football game here today, J. A. Kautz, publisher of the Kokomo Tribune, formally presented the new Kautz athletic field to the Kokomo High School Athletic Association. Ground for the new gridiron, just east of the high school building, is a gift of Kautz to the school. The athletic association is spending $20,000 for a steel stadium, football and track field improvements. C. V. Haworth, superintendent of the city schools, accepted the gift on behalf of the schools. A. L. Trester, permanent secretary of the Indiana High School Athletitc Association, was the prinicpal speaker at the exercises. Bands of the Marion and Kokomo schools executed a number of drill formations. A flag raising ceremony was on the program.

SURGERY ASKED AS CRIME CURE Youth Held at Newcastle Suffered Head Injury. X’ fc Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 28. Oral McMillan, 20. is trying to find a physician to perform an operation on his head, in the hope surgery will cure him of criminal tendencies. With Joseph Bruner, 20, McMillan is held here on a second degree burglary charge as a result of a theft committed at a junk yard. Burner has entered a guilty plea, but Judge John H. Morris of Henry circuit court is withholding sentence pending disposition of McMillan’s case and probable arrest of one or two other youths alleged to have had a part in the theft. McMillan asserts he suffered a skull fracture in a collision of an automobile and motorcycle about four years ago and since has been subject to epileptic attacks and at times a distortion of memory.

AVIATORS WARNED TO OBSERVE LAW

Prosecutor of Madison County Demands Safety in Flying. Pji Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 23. Pilots of aircraft in Madison county were ordered to take immediate steps to conform with the Indiana ’~” r regulating safety or stay on the . .und, by Prosecuting Attorney Oswald Ryan, following an aviation inquiry held in his office. A score of pilots, student fliers and plane owners testified in what was said to have been the first inquiry of its kind eyer held in Indiana. Testimony showed several planes are being operated in the county that do not meet requirements and which are not licensed. When Captain Weir Cook of the Curtiss Flying Service, who was to have been present at the inquiry as technical adviser, was detained at South Bend, Charles Cox and Barrett Woodsmall of the same company, flew to Anderson to assist. A crash which cost the lives of Charles Folsom, 20, pilot, and Harold Baughan, 15, passengers, Sunday, and complaints by farmers against practice of pilots flying low over roads and fields, prompted the inquiry. DEMOCRATS IN SPLIT State Chairman Peters Fails in Peace Effort at Muncie. PM Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. Sept. 2fr—Even a visit by State Chairman R. Earl Peters of Ft. Wayne, has failed to aid Democratic troubles here. Peters spent an entire day talking with leaders of two factions in the mayoralty campaign. George R. Dale, Muncie editor and his party's candidate for mayor, refused to recognize J. Wilbur Sims as city chairman and has attempted to place Tod Whipple, lawyer, in the position. Both factions have opened headquarters. Dale accuses Simes of favoring the Republican nominee.

Towns Plan Election Bi! Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Sept, 28.—Five incorporated towns of Delaware county are planning to hold conventions Oct. 4 for nomination of candidates for town officers. The election will be held on Nov. 5. The towns are Albany, Gaston, Yorktown. Selma and Eaton. In each, trustees, a clerk and treasurer will be elected. Alcohol for Asthma By United Press HAMMOND, ind.. Sept 28.—Although 180 proof alcohol may be a good cure for asthma, Judge Joseph Todd doer n’t believe it. He fined Mrs. Mary Stefancek, Hammond, SIOO and sentenced her to six months in jail for possession of five gallons of the liquor, which she said was a remedy for her husband's asthma.

MEMORIAL WILL BE UNVEILED AS MAJOR TRIBUTE Shelbyville to Honor Late Author in Program Sunday. pji 7 imes Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind,, Sept. 28.—A drinking fountain at the Major school building here will be dedicated Sunday afternoon as a memorial to the late Charles Major, Indiana author, whose home was in this city. The fountain was paid for from a bequest of $2,000 in the will of the author’s widow to the city school board. Mary Elizabeth Stout Kart, former Indianapolis sculptor, now living in Paris, France, made the memorial. It is a statue of a smail boy holding tw r o cub bears, reminescent of Major’s “The Bears of Blue River.” The first part of the dedicatory program will be held J in the school building. The Rev. Paul Million will give the invocation. The fountain will be presented by W. F. Vogel, superintendent of schools, and accepted by O. L. Williams, representing patrons and pupils of the Major school. Harp selections will be given by Miss Victoria Montani of Indianapolis. Two of the smallest kindergarten pupils, Burkher Hamblen and Jay Krebs, will 'unveil the memorial. Ralph Cochran, former principal of the school, w r ill give a reading from “The Bears of Elue River.” The benediction will be given by Rev. Mr. Million. Mrs. Anna Flaitz is chairman of the progra mcommittee. Hostesses will be members of the Major school Parent-Teacher Association.

3 KILLED IN CRASH Victims’ Automobile Runs Into Heavy Truck. By United Press KENTLAND, Ind., Sept. 28.—A triple funeral was being arranged today for victims of an auto accident here. The dead are W. B. Thomas, his wife, and a brother Arthur, all of Wolcott, Ind. They were killed when their car crashed into a heavily loaded truck. Mrs. Mary Thomas and the brother. Arthur Thomas, were killed instantly. Thomas died in a hospital at Watseka, 111. Sleeps Into Death P,u Times Special LADOGA, Ind., . Sept. 28.—After sleeping for eighty-four hours, Doris Rail, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Rail, died of tubercular spinal meningitis.

Dry Informers Fail in Court WABASH, Ind., Sept. 28. Two paid dry law informers failed to identify Jake Tryfn, defendant, as the man who sold them liquor during his trial in Wabash circuit court here and as a result the charge was dismissed. Several ministers and members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union attended the trial. George Clark, one #f the informers, indicated a man on the other side of the room when asked to point out Tryon. The other informer, Harold. Chaplin, pointed out still another man, but he wasn’t Tryon.

BANDIT JURY DISAGREES Woman Accused in Plainfield Bank Robbery May Be Tried Again By United Press DANVILLE. Ind., Sept. 28.—Attorneys for Mrs. Rose Buckingham Burke, charged with aiding in robbery of the Citizens State bank of Plainfield, Jan. 17, 1927. ai’e making preparations for anew trial today. The jury in the first trial was discharged late Thursday by Judge Zimri Doughan in Hendricks circuit court, having deliberated twen-ty-three hours without being able to agree on a verdict. The bank was robbed of $3,417 by three persons, all wearing men’s clothing. The state charges one of the group was Mrs. Burke. Candidates’ Relative Dies PM Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Sept. 28. Funeral services were held at St. Mary's Catholic church today for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mulholland, 77. wife of Frank Mulholland, who died of paralysis. Besides the husband she leaves a son John F. Mulholland, Anderson; two daughters, Mrs. Emma Romine, Chicago, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hernon. Anderson. Francis Hernon, a grandson, is the Democratic candidate for clerk of the city of Anderson. Veteran Lawyer Buried Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept- 28Funeral services were held today for William S. Diven, 74. veteran member of the Madison county bar and first judge of Madison superior court, with the Rev. Frank K. Baker, pastor of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Burial was made in Maplewood cemetery. Worker Loses Foot Pji Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 28 Luther Morrison, 26, employe of the Lone Star Cement Company, suffered the loss of his right foot in an accident at the plant near here.

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Fu Thnen Special PENDLETON, Ind., Sept. 28. Paul G. Miller, Pendleton, is president of the Madison County Safety Council, which conducted a campaign this week for prevention of accidents. Parades, speakers, radio and posters carried the safety appeal.

KILLER-BANDIT GIVEN LIBERTY —i Leo W. Spears Released for State Testimony. Bu United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Sept. 28. Lee W. Spears, convicted of first degree murder as a result of the robbery of the Tolleston bank, was given his freedom Friday night by the parole board of the Indiana state prison. Spears was accused of complicity in the robbery and the murder of Cashier Herman Uecher, during the holdup. He turned state's evidence and helped convict four other members of the gang. It was proved that he did not Are the fatal shot and at the time it was understood that he would be granted clemency. The board consented to consider Spears’ petition after the Indiana Bankers’ Association passed a resolution declaring it would not oppose the action. The widow’ of the slain cashier, also concurred in the release. More than one hundred applications for pardons and paroles were considered by the board Friday night and this morning. The board refused to parole B. E. Shaw, Terre Haute banker serving a two to fourteen year sentence for embezzling $28,000. Governor Harry S. Leslie, attending the session, told the banker that “such a term is not near long enough for such fellows as you.” Shaw had been a banker for twenty-six years. Among the paroles granted were the following: Thomas Barry, Vigo county, senteneved to twelve years, auto banditry. William E. Cook, Weils county, life term: murder. David Grabes, Clark county, ten to twenty years; burglary. Luther Jackson, Marion county, two to fourteen years; burglary. Thurman Smith, How’ard county, two to fourteen years; assault and battery. Nathan Linkhart, Lake county, five to twenty-one years; rape. Louis Lewis. Vanderburgh county, five to twenty-one years; rape. William Marshall, Vanderburgh county, five to twenty-one years; rape.

MERGER PLAN FAVORED BY REFORMED CHURCH United Brethren # and Evangelical Groups Would Be Included. Pji Times Special HUNTINGTON. Ind.. Sept. 28. The synod of Reformed church is on record tot day as favorable to a merger of Reformed. United Brethren and Evangelical churches,. Action was taken at the ninth.annual meeting of the synod here Friday. The Rev. Henderson L. V. Shinn. Indianapolis, new moderator, presided. Members of various boards were elected as follows: The Rev. E. G. Homrtghausen IrvdlanaDolls. mission hmie: the Rev. William Aloauch. Bluffton. central publishing house: Elder Charles Hseke. Lone Tree. la.. and the Rev. C. W. H. Saurrweln. Plymouth. orphans’ home; Elder Edward H. Marcus. Louisville. Kv.. home mission, department of the northwest: the Rev. Arthur Achtenmeler. Lincoln Neb., and the Rev. L. S. Hecnauer. Chicago. Christian education: the Rev. William F. Naefe, Chicago, and the Rev. C. J. Snyder. Mulberry. Ind.. sustentation of synod: the Rev. Elmer Jaberg. Linton, and Elder Edward Dirks. Indianapolis, beneficiary education: the Rev. J. F. Hawks. Lafavette home for the aged: Elder O. A. Sanduskv, St. Joseph. Mo., and Elder Philip Gagel. Louisville. Kv.. trustees, and Elder A. W 4 Mason. Omaha. Neb., supply. Dentists to Hear Specialist ANDERSON. Ind., Sept. 28.—Dr. R. H. Taylor, Chicago specialist, will lecture at a district dentists meeting here next Wednesday.

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AIRPORT GRASS i SUGGESTED BY PURDUEEXPERT Mixture Including Clover Timothy and Red Top Favored. Bp Times Speeial LAFAYETTE. Ind., Sept. 28. With Increase in air travel and attendant development of airports in principal cities of the state, the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station has had numerous inquiries as to the best grass to be used, to withstand the hard usage administered by the wheels of alighting planes. The most recent inquiry was made by officials of the Indianapolis municipal airport, who consulted Professor A. T. Wiancko, head of the agronomy department. The recommendation made by the Purdue man for providing a resistant sod for the landing field is as follows: Bluegrass, 10 pounds: red top, six pounds, and timothy three pounds an acre to be sowed this fall, before 0ct.15. Next spring, two to three pounds of white clover to the acre should be sowed. According to Professor Wiancko, the timothy will establish itself and make a rapid growth next spring and summer, while the bluegrass and redtop, which grow more slowly but form a denser sod, will In time crowd out the timothy, leaving a tough, dense sod. The clover which wil be seeded in the spring will also make a rather rapid growth and will persist mere or less with the bluegrass and red top. The last named is included in the mixture principally because it thrives better than bluegrass on wet or acid soils. The recommendation made to the Indianapolis airport officials is practically the same as the pasture recommendation of the Purdue agronomy department, except for the fact that the seeding for pastures is not quite so heavy. Wiancko stated, also, that a similar mixture, without timothy, had been used very successfully in parks and on golf courses.

I. U. STUDENTS PLAN HOME-COMING PROGRAM Powwow Friday Nighi Will Precede Annua] Event. PH Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 28. Plans for horne-coming clay at Indiana university Oct. 5, were made at a meeting of the campus council. A powwow for both men and women will be held Friday afternoon at 5:30 at the men’s gymnasium. It is expected that 1.500 will attend the celebration. Governor Harry G. Leslie is expected to be the principal speaker. Members of the Sphinx and Pleiades organizations will usher. A forty-piece band composed of university musicians is on, the program. Z. G. Clevenger is general chairman. Alexander Campbell, Ft. Wayne, ticket chairman; Luc’lle Taylor, St. Augustine, Fla., chairman of the decoration committee and Franklin Mullin, Rushviile, publicity chairman. Immediately following the powwow the annual night football game between two picked freshmen teams will be played in the field house. LAUGH STICKERS OFF

Muncie Motorists Refuse to Obey Parking Ordinance. MUNCIE, Ind.. Sept. 28.—How to enforce Muncie's parking ordinance is worrying Chief of Police Arthur B. Jones and City Clerk Maynel Dalby. The police, aroused by newspaper criticism, inaugurated a campaign to enforce the law, placing stickers on all cars found in restricted zones. Forty such notices to appear before the city clerk were placed by the police in one morning. The motorists regard it all as a joke. Only ten answered the order to appear and five of these talked Clerk Dalby out of imposing the $2 fine. PLA Y CAST SELECTED Students at D Pauw Offer 'The Goose Hangs High.’ PJI Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept, 28. The leading parts in De Pauw university’s Old Gold day play, “The Goose Hangs High." will be taken by Miss Louise Freeland, Shelbyville, and Archibald Voorhis, Lawrence. Others in the cast will be Robert Kimberlin. and Robert Small, South Bend; Helen Foster, Fortville; Kathryn Tofaute. Bedford: Richard Crowder, Gladys Rohrig, Harmony: Dwight Neal, Whitestown: Margaret Frazier, Terre Haute; Helen St. John. Albany, and Robert Orr. Mt. Carmell, 111. Filting Station Robbed Bu Times I'Oeciol CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Sept, 26 —Two rifles, a pistol, several cartons of cigarets and more than $25 In money was included in the loot of burglars at the Jackman filling station here.