Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1929 — Page 19

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GOOD BUSINESS FORECAST FOR STATEINI93O Leaders in Various Cities of Indiana Optimistic for Coming Year. BUILDING BOOM LIKELY Total for 1929 Expected to Be Surpassed. BY CHARLES C. STONE, State Editor, The Time* With bat three weeks of 1929 remaining, a business and industrial survey of Indiana for a seven-day period ended today reveals an optimistic outlook for prosperous conditions during 1930. An instance of the opinion that business will be active next year is afforded by Harry Bockhoff, an official of the National Automatic Tool Company of Richmond. He says: “i tight now we have more men on the pay roll than ever before, than we had even during the great war boom. We have enough work to keep u busy until March 1, 1930 and the way the new business is coming in, it appears that we will have a normal volume throughout the coming year.” At Evansville, officials of the Hoffman Construction Company predict a large volume of building In 1930, surpassing the $5,000,000 total for the city this year. An instance of industrial activity is afforded by the Igleheart Flour Mills, which are being operated day and night. Stock Shares Doubled Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Tnc., with plants at Columbus. Seymour and Greenwood, has doubled its capital stock to 150,000 shares. Dr. A. F. Haake, Chicago, addle sing twenty-seven Indiana and Miclii, an furniture manufacturers at Goshen, predicted that 1930 would be a more profitable year than 1929. E. S. Chapman, factory manager of the Chrysler automobile plant at Newcastle, announces that men are gradually being re-employed, and that 1,200 are now on the payroll. The largest force at the plant has been 2,141, and the smallest 960. He said an effort was being made to increase parts production at the plant which would tend to Insure . more steady operation. L Conditions in various Indian'’, itles are covered in the following , I irmnary: i Bloomington—The Saddle Creek §AI Company announces five test /sells are to be put down in Polk. Walt Creek and Benton townships. iMonroe county. Crawfordsvllle The Johnsr Manufacturing Company has acidi a domestic water softener to i.line. Elwood —Installation of machinery is expected to be started within ten days in the old Ames Shovel and Tool Works plant, bought recently by the Western Indiana Gravel Company for manufacture and repair of machines. , x Trafalgar—Contracting for tomatoes to be used by a new' canning plant to be established here next season has been started. Plant Sold by Receiver

Spencer—The Farm Life publishing plant here ha? been bought at a receiver’s sale by Samuel Guard, wh > announces that it will probably be in operation again by Dec. 15. About thirty-five persons will be employed. Terre Haute—A labor dispute at the Talleydale coal mine has been settled and 150 men, some of them idle for four months, have returned to work. Ft. Wayne—The General Electric Company has awarded contracts for building additions to its two plants here at a total cost of $267,000. The Capehart Corporation is to double the size of its present plant, providing facilities for a $12,000,000 annual business. Gary—The Gary Real Estate Exchange, capitalized at $750,000 is planning erection of a $400,000 building. The Gary Heat, Light and Water Company is contemplating changing its 25-cycle distribution to more modem 60-cycle, at a cost of $2,500,000. i Jeffersonville—'The city of Jeffersonville has leased a corner of Rf der park to the Standard Oil Company for twenty-five years at a total rental of $18,500. The company has agreed to spend at least $12,000 for building on the leased site. Auburn—The Auburn Automobile Company announces expansion programs by two of its subsidiaries, the Limousine Body Corporation, Kalamazoo, Mich., and Lycoming Manufacturing Company, Williamsport. Pa. Hagerstown—The Perfect Circle Company announces net income for the first ten months of this year was $839,259. against $772,195 for all Os 1928. CHAIRMEN SCRAMBLED William Hamilton, S. G. Campbell Not Fourth Ward Heads. William Hamilton and Samr'l G. Campbell erroneously were reported gfe: The Times Wednesday as being plepublic&n chairmen of the Fourth r .v&rd. Harmon A. Campbell, 1167 West Thirty-sixth street, is official Fourth ward chairman. Hamilton, however, is Third ward chairman, and Samuel Campbell is Warren township chairman, according to Harry Dunn, advisory board member of the Marion County G O. P. organization. Harmon A. Campbell, although active in party organization. neither has held nor jtsought public office.

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NATIONAL HEAD OF Y. W. C. A. IN CITY

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Mrs. John M. Hanna of Dallas, Tex. (left), national president of the Yeung Women’s Christian Association, being greeted on her visit to the Indianapolis Y. W. C. A. today by Mrs. Carrie Ada Campbell, Indianapolis secretary. Inset, Mrs. Hanna.

BY JOSEPHINE DORAN The national president of the largest womens organization In the world, the Y. W. C. A., Mrs. John Hanna, Dallas, Tex., was posing for a picture for Miss Virginia Edwards, Times staff photographer. Her gray head was tipped just so. Her chin was at the proper angle as far as shadows were concerned. Her hands were folded gracefully. And then, she sat up straight. She had a stox-y to tell that simply couldn’t wait. “When I was in Chicago for the dedication of the Y. w. C. A. recently, a tabloid photographer asked me to pose. He wanted me to stand facing the camera, with an admonishing finger raised.” Mrs. Hanna tried very hard to look cross.

PLAY LEADING ROLES Willard Mack Melodrama to Be Presented by Butler.

Miss Margaret Brariburn and Paul Duncan have the leading rolls in "Kick-In,” a four-act melodrama by Willard Mack, to be presented by Thespis, Butler dramaic organization, at the Indianapolis Civic Theater, Dec. 9 and 10.

HEADS SEAL MOVEMENT Mrs. Duesenberg Will Be in Charge of Booth in Public Buildings.

Mrs. Fred Duesenberg, president of Sunnyside Guild, has been named

general chairman of booths for the Christmas Seal sale campaign. Mrs. Duesenberg will organize for sales in theaters, hotels, clubs and office buildings during the week of Dec. 14-21. A luncheon will be held at the Propylaeum at noon Dec. 11. when Mrs. Duesenberg will meet with club women named to

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HOLD TWO FOR CRUELTY Charged with malicious trespass and with cruelty to animals. Frank Ayres, 17, box No. 82. R. R. No. 8, and a 16-year-old companion, were arrested by deputy sheriffs today. The x two are charged with shooting and killing a heifer belonging to James Wolf, box No. 221, R. R. No. 8. while hunting.

SUCH A FINE WIFE! BUXOM, CHEERY, A SWELL COOK! AND NOW SHE’S IN JAIL

BY DUANE HENKESY, 1 • led Press staff Correspondent T OS ANGELES, Dec. 6.—She was fat and forty and had a husband, but if you believe the government's postal inspectors, she had a sweetheart in every port. The lady in question is Mrs. Elise Weisert, who supported friend husband and their two children

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“I told him I didn’t want to, but I did. Then he asked me to stand and glare into the camera. I never do that, either, but lid. Tabloid photographers have a way of making you look tlie way they want you to, whether you want it or not. When I told him how unattractive I thought the picture would be, he said: ‘Well, Mrs. Hanna, lots of unattractive people get by. Look at Abraham Lincoln.’ ” Mrs. Hanna, a charming and gracious woman, who looks for all the w T orld like a Wateau portrait grown elderly, is traveling over the United States for the purpose of stimulating interest in the national convention, to be held in Detroit, April 25 to May 4, and also to realize unity in the organization by visiting the local organizations. She has been president of the United States Y. W. C. A. for four years and has been interested in “Y” work for fifteen years. As in all other fields and walks of life, she believes the Y. W. C. A. has been affected by the we*. It has grown tremendously, for one thing. It has branched into fields unexplored previous to 1914, she said Work among the foreign born, ’teen age girls and small communities have become outstanding in the program. She has a clarity of thought and an understanding of people that distinguishes her easily as a leader. And yet she firmly believes the idea of individual leadership is as out of style as a silent movie. "The greatest barrier is not sect or race, as most people believe,” Mrs. Hanna stated, “but age. Women say, ‘I have nothing in common with her. She is too young!’ Girls say ’There is nothing she can offer me She is too old.’ ” Mrs. Hanna believes that the element of age is eliminated in an organization such as the Y. W. C. A. And if you could see her eyes light up and the animation of her face when she talks about the ideals of the organization, you would believe it to be true. HELD FOR NUISANCE Charged with dumping trash op a public highway. Patrick Glover. 31, of Box 595, R. R. 5, was arrested by deputy sheriffs Thursday night. Farmers have been complaining for some time about dumping of trash on Brill road near Sumner avenue.

by selling her charms for cash by mail. Wouldn't someone like a nice German wife? A buxom girl of 30, who was a swell cook? Didn't some lad want to marry her? The romantic suckers replied that they did. The practical Mrs. Weisert and the chuckling husband wrote to the new boy friend asking for railroad fare with which to hasten to waiting arms.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929

JEERS STOCKS CRASH EFFECT ON PROSPERITY Most of Losses by Small Fry Sporting Flyers, Asserts Green. DRAMATIZED SITUATION Fletcher Executive Says Coal and Textile Only Industries Hurt. High living America will continue to enjoy its luxuries despite the stock market crash, Myron R. Green, assistant vice-president of the Fletcher American National bank, declared in an address at the Optimist Club luncheon at the Claypool today. “Silk-stockinged, fur-coated, radioed, player-pianoed, diamondbedecked, eight-cylinder motored, electric-refrigerated and automati-cally-oil-heated America may cease having its coffee served in bed before the morning meal as a result of the stock market cataclysm.” he said. “But*we will continue patronage of the citrus fruit tree, even continuing to be pampered with the customary tons of head lettuce, celery and grapes out of season from far-away California, boat loads of pineapples from Hawaii, bananas from South America and strawberries out of season at Christmas.” “The truth of the matter is that several milliou people, men, women and even girls and boys, took small and relatively insignificant fliers in the stock market as a sporting proposition,” Green declared.

Did More Talking "The person who found himself the owner of five shares of General Conversation. Inc., did more talking individually about his five shares of stock in a day than the House of Morgan did in a week about its holdings. "Literally thousands of these adventurers in high finance dramatized their situation as soon as the market crashed and I strongly suspect some of the five, and ten share felt they were veritable Wolves . Vail Street—so dramatic did they feel at being a part of the world’s greatest financial show for the first time in their lives. "Relatively insignificant paper losses have been dramatized as personal and almost national calamities. As the smoke has cleared away, we are surprised to learn the Battle of Wall Street does not resemble a Verdun. Auto Industry Good "After two phenomenal years of production and sales, the automobile industry as a whole never expected to sell as many cars in 1930 as were sold in 1928 or 1928. The industry now has more than $750,000,000 in cash or securities in the till and it owes less than $75,000,000. This reserve is not included in factories and machinery or good will, or brains of executives. "Steel, the barometer of all business activity, has had its best year since the war. Activity may be a little slack for a few months, but we must remember that additions to plans prevent the steel mills from working to theoretical capacity indefinitely. "Business is not bad today. If you think it is, try to wade through the crowds of humanity jamming our stores. We should stop trying to make business ill by saying it looks sick. Not Real Yard Stick "We should remember that the lowness or highness of stock prices do not constitute the real yard stick to measure prosperity. We should not permit any doubts to cause us to cease our advertising, merchandising and planning for future business developments. "Business in 1930 will be what business men make it. We are not due, by rules of the busine; s game, for a peak year in 1930, but the facts justify the prediction that business will be so satisfactory as to make the pessimistic talk we now hear appeal absolutely ridiculous.”

CAST FOR LEADING ROLE Three One-Act Play, Scheduled on Indiana Central Program. Miss Gertrude McConnell, Paris, 111., will play a leading role in a program to be presented by the Cardinal Masque

Club of Indiana Central college at 8 tonight in K'phart Memorial audi tori um, University Heights. Three one- ac t plays are included: “The Stolen Prince,” a Chinese play; “Spreading the News,” an Irish comedy, and “Dust of the Road.” an American play. Miss Leora Weimar.

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But in stalked tragedy. The I>oor little German girl’s mother had died in Europe. She had to go home. So another romance was knocked on the head. That’s the postoffice inspectors’ story and they are sticking to it. Mrs. Weisert and her husband. John Weisert, have confessed that the charges are true. “Yes, that’s the way we worked it,” Weisert said in the county jail.

Brains? Yes , Chorus Girls Have Oodles; Books? They Have One

Bn United Pre* NEW YORK. Dec. 6.—Miss Ann Scarborough, who manages to tear herself away from her books long enough to appear in the chorus of “A Wonderful Night” 6ix nights a week, matinees Wednesday and Saturday, has gone to considerable trouble to prove that chorus girls have brains. So immersed did Miss Scarborough become in the idea that she went to the length of making a speech before the exclusive Book and Play Club, which has more social registerites than Shubert has chorus girls. The message that Miss Scarborough brought to the members of the four hundred Thursday was that chorus girls neither are hermits nor puritans; that they do not live in “gilded peaces” (the phrase is Miss Scarborough’s); and that finally nothing so warms their esthetic little hearts as to eurl up with a good book just before prancing on the stage for the second-act curtain. However, Miss Scarborough brought out the disheartening news that of late she had been forced to neglect her reading. She had, it seems, been making a survey of dressing room literature and one evening worked herself up to a terrific pitch by dashing around behind stage, snatching books out of chorus girls’ hands and jotting down the titles. “In one room,” she said, “I found four girls reading. One of them had ‘Lord Jim,’ another a book of Shaw’s plays, the third ‘The Story of Philosophy’ and the fourth, I am sorry td say, was reading ‘Snappy Stories.’ "The average chorus girl knows how to conduct herself as a lady. There are eighty girls in the chorus of the show in which I sing. We in the chorus merely

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Higgins, Resident for 51 Years, Dies in City.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday for James B. Higgins, 82, Civil war veteran and resident of the city since 1878, who died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William J. Campbell, 324 West Maple Road boulevard. Services will be conducted at the Campbell home with the Rev. Joseph G. Moore, pastor of the Capitol Avenue M. E. church, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Higgins was born May 11, 1847, in Boone county, and was married May 14, 1879, to Miss Margaret Stultz, who died three years ago. At the age of 17, he enlisted in Company B, One hundred thirtyfifth Indiana infantry, and fought through the Civil war. Later he was a member of the G. A. R., and was one of the oldest members of Marion lodge, No. 1, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Higgins was one of the pioneer settlers of North Indianapolis. Surviving are a son, Claude Higgins: two daughters, Mrs. John H. Shoaf and Mrs. Campbell; five grandchildren, and three great grandchildren, all of Indianapolis; a brother, William A. Higgins, Phoenix, Ariz., and two sister, Mrs. W. B. Hammond. Berkley, Cal., and Mrs, W. H. Craft. Indianapolis. INJURY MAY BE FATAL Darlington Man Suffers Probable Skull Fracture in Crash. Milan Zenor, 24. of Darlington, Ind., suffered a probable fracture of the skull when his automobile struck a telephone pole after colliding at Sanders and Wright streets this morning with a car driven by Robert McCall, 23, of 924 Prospect street. Zenor was taken to city hospital unconscious.

where he is held in lieu of $2,000 bond. “We had to live and that was a darned easy way to get money. “It’s all my fault, though. I wrote most of the letters. Say, I wrote so many letters that I was almost ready to marry someone myself.” The “bride-to-be” was released on her own recognizance to care lor their two young children. Date

consider our work as a stepping stone to stardom.” The society matrons, who had been politely placid through the day’s earlier lectures by Louis Bromfeld, Lyle Saxon, Thomas Wolfe, Oliver la Farge and even Chief Longlance, were agog with interest. Seizing her opportunity, Miss

Sets Christmas Style

“When stockings are in bloom!” is the city’s newest lilting tune, despite long dresses. For every Mary and Ann is testing out the elasticity of her hosiery to determine how many Christmas packages they’ll hold. But Mrs. Betty Pope of 1404 Central avenue, bookkeeper in the Charles store's millinery department, 4 West Washington street, provides anew wrinkle by selecting her tree to fit her stocking. The selection was made from thousands trees unloaded in the Pennsylvania and Big Four yards at Virginia avenue.

BROKER TOOK LIFE, CORONER INDICATES

Fingerprints on Ledge, Size of Window Support Suicide Theory. Although unprepared to render a formal verdict today, Coroner Charles H. Keever said evidence indicated that the plunge of Gilbert B. Clippinger, 40, investment broker, seven stories to his death Thursday noon was not accidental. Mr. Clippinger’s body, hurtling from a window in his office on the eleventh floor of the Fletcher Trust and Savings Company, Market and Pennsylvania streets, struck a window ledge at the ninth floor, and crashed face downward on a subroof above the fourth story. He was killed instantly. Friends and relatives told the coroner that Mr. Clippinger was subject to occasional attacks of dizziness and fainting, and believed he was overcome with one of them while trying to open the office window. Size of the window, scarcely large enough to admit passage of a man’s body, and discovery of fingerprints on the sill outside the window, led Coroner Keever to believe Mr. Clippinger committed suicide, he said. There was no evidence to indicate that the broker had been a victim of recent stock market crashes, according to friends and his secretary. Mr. Clippinger was Indiana and Kentucky representative of Dillon. Reed & Cos., having become affiliated with that concern in 1927 after several years’ connection with the bond department of the Fletcher American Company. He was born Oct. 3, 1888, in Evansville, and was graduated from De Pauw university. For a year he was a newspaper man in this city, and then joined the Fletcher American Company. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Anna Clippinger, a daughter of Judge Joseph G. Ibach, Hammond: two daughters, Mary Jane, 14, and Joanna, 8; the parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Henry C. Clippinger, Greenwood; a brother, H. Foster Clippinger, this city, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Scott, New Albany.

ROBBED OF RENT MONEY Out of Work, Man Loses Roll in Daylight Downtown Holdup. An unemployed man lost his month’s rent money in a daylight holdup in the downtown section this morning. Thomas Green, 33, of 1727 Milburn avenue, reported to police that he was held up behind the Big Four terminal at Maryland and Meridian streets, by a gunman who first asked for a match, and then took $25 from him. Green was on his way to pay Iris month’s rent.

of trial in federal court has not been set. According to postal inspectors a Denver matrimonial magazine was used in the alleged scheme. The husband would w r rite to the paper, each time listing his wife under a different name. And such nice German names —Anna Wolf, Elsie Schlitt, Elsie Hammer, Martha Schmidt, Martha Bowman.

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Scarborough shot the word "erroneous” at the audience and settled back on her heels in triumph as a rustle of approval crept through the room. “It is erroneous,” she said, “to think that all chorus girls spend all their time drinking champagne.”

Dies in Plunge

Gilbert B. Clippinger, investment broker, who lunged to his death from the eleventh floor to a sub-roof above the fourth story of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company building, Thursday noon. Coroner C. H. Keever said be believed Mr. Clippinger committed suicide.

REPRESENTS BUTLER Hoffman to Go to National Meet of Tau Kappa Alpha.

Clyde Hoffman, ndlanapolis, will •epresent the Buffer university chapter of Tau iappa Alpha, colegiate debating fraternity, at the national convenion this week in Oxford, O. Hoffman is the ;on of J. Clyde f-loffman of this :ity, attorney and state senator.

PLACED ON HONOR ROLL Thirteen Indianapolis Journalism Students on Butler List. Twenty-seven journalism students at Butler universty have been chosen from 300 in the department for the honor roll for high scholarship ranking during the week. Indianapolis students chosen are: Martha Vollmer. Dorothy Melchoirs, Lillyan Eraflord, Georgia Giddings, Theresa Bagnoli, R. D. Manye, Lois Rude, Max Schneider, Valencia Meng, Robert Whitcraft, Thomas Hubbard, Joseph Thomas and Evelyn Mendenhall.

Then the magazine would send the name of the “loney girl” to an inquiring “lonely man.” But when the suckers started to protest about the railroad fares, the magazine turned the matter over to the postal inspectors and the Weiserts were traced through some of the addresses listed as the home of the latest buxom German girl.

UA TO SPEND HUGE AMOUNT ON PROHIBITION Enforcement in First Fiscal Year of Hoover to Cost $43,250,000. 800 PER CENT INCREASE Most of Fund Boost Will Go to Coast Guard Liquor War. Bv Scrippg-Hotcard Xeictpavcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.—Prohibition enforcement during President Hoover’s first full fiscal year will cost approximately $43,250,000, it was learned today, or about $4.000,000 more than the last year for which expenditures were handled by the Coolidge administration. The grand total may approach $50,000,000. The highest since prohibition, if pending measures are enacted by congress. That figure is almost 800 per cent larger than the appropriation for prohibition in the first complete fiscal year after enactment of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. The appropriation carried in the 1921 budget was $5,500,000, and about $500,000 was estimated to have been spent by the department of justice, though no specific appropriation for that department was included. In eleven years the increase has been $42,650,000. Most for Coast Guard The treasury figures show that the most of the 1931 increases is for restoring and building destroyers, patrol boats and seaplanes for the coast guard, this amount totaling $2,450,000. The totals and allocations for the last three fiscal years follow: Treasury $13,400,000 $13.400,000 Customs 2.000.000 2,000.000 Coast Guard 17.200.000 14 700,000 Dept, of Tustice... 10.500.000 9,300,000 Crime commission .. 150,000 Totals $43,250,000 $39,550,000 The money to be spent for reconditioning destroyers for the coast guard is not an increase, except for the $1,140,000 to build seaplanes, patrol and picket boats. The $1,330,000 balance will be used to fix up World war destroyers needed to replace those no longer fit for service. In fact, Admiral Billard, coast guard commandant, plainly says In his annual report that he must have more ships and facilities if he is to cope with rum runners on the lakes and off the coasts.

Needs Mere Ships “It is perfectly evident,” he said, “that the smuggler has no intention of voluntarily abandoning his unlawful pursuit. In plain words, there is nothing to do but put him out of business. This can be done, and the coast guard will do it if the necessary means to accop plish that end are placed at its disposal.” In another paragraph he says: "The service is doing all, in every quarter, that can be done with its present resources. If the sea and lake coasts are to be guarded adequately against this unlawful traffic, to meet all the needs of the situation, the forces of the coast guard must be augmented both in personnel and vessels.” Smuggling operations on the lakes, Billard said, are "very active,” and "some liquor smuggling is going on along the seaboard.” DOG SHOW DISCUSSED Hoosier Kennel Club Names Heads of Trophy Committees. The annual spring dog show was discussed by the Hoosier Kennel Club, in a dinner meeting at the Spink-Arms hotel Thursday night. Committee chairmen for trophies and prizes will be: T. K. Bennett, wire-haired fox terriers; R. E. Stine, beagles; Mrs. Joseph Buning, bulldogs; Mrs. C. L. Smith, bull terriers; Mrs. C. A. Shumard, Boston terriers; B. F. Buskirk and Dr. J. R. Deßoahn, cocker spaniels; C. W, Breunger, collies; Mrs. H. L. Langin, pomeranlans; Mrs. Jesse Hodges, Russian wolf hounds; Dr. C. C. Sanders, bird dogs, and Albert Meyer, shepherd dogs.

SCHOOL CLUB TO DINE Notre Dame Club Will Give Dance; Committee Appointed. The Indianapolis Club of Notre Dame university will hold its annual dinner dance at the Severin roof garden, Dec. 30, it was announced today after a meeting of the club on the campus, South Bend. Charlie Davis’ orchestra will play for the dance. Robert Marshall and Wilfred Habing are chairmen of the committee in charge. CAR INJURIES SERIOUS Negro, Hit by Auto, Suffers Broken Leg and Internal Hurts. James Mayfield, Negro, 1307 North ! Capitol avenue, suffered a broken leg and internal injuries when he was struck at Indiana avenue and Paca street by a car driven by Charles Moore, Negro, 423 North Delaware street, Thursday night. He also suffered internal injuries and is in serious condition at city hospital. Negro Bound to U. S. Jury Carlton Petty, Negro, Muncie, wa* held to a federal grand jury on liquor charges today by Fay W. Patrick, United States commissioner. Bond was $4,000.