Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1929 — Page 11

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RACE ADVANCE PORTRAYED BY NEGROJEADER Masterly Address Heard by Kirshbaum Center Audience. GAINS AGAINST ODDS Rise From Savagery and Slavery Vividly Painted by Dr. Johnson. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY The American Negro, with a background of African savagery and 250 yeare of slavery, is making a distinct contribution in ail fields of creative endeavor, with but sixty-four years of freedom. This conclusion was drawn by Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Negro president of Howard university, Washington, D. C., in addressing the open forum at Kirshbaum community center Sunday night. More than one-fourth of the largo audience on hand to hear were Negroes, who turned out to | greet one of the outstanding leaders ; of their race. The speaker began by tracing the \ Inauspicious start toward cultural i progress the Negro had. He pointed out that but sixty-four years ago there were 4,000,000 Negroes in America who just had been freed. They were 90 per cent illiterate and completely demoralized, he declared. Start From Savagery "This group of people started from slavery and savagery completely cut off from a cultural tradition traceable back to the days of ancient Rome,” Dr. Johnson declared. ‘‘They had been denied the three great culture bearers—the church, the school and the home. “When they were freed they were surrounded by people who refused to believe they were capable of any progress. Even today there are whole nations which justify exploitation on the grounds that the natives of the exploited areas are inferior people. “But the progress of the Negro in America has disproved this theory for all time. He has shown, against overwhelming odds, that the shape of a man’s head, the size of his lips, or the length of his heel has nothing to do with his intelligence.” Cites Negro Progress Dr. Johnson cited the examples of Negro leaders in all fields. The list included a scientist invited to do research at a leading German university; a Rhodes scholar, several actors and singers of international repute, artists and musicians. He credited the late Booker T. Washington with originating the modern practical application of education to life work. ‘‘The Negro.” he continued, ‘‘is a living refutation of the current philosophy that it is essential to be rich to be happy. “Treated with contempt and insult, he remains the American nature child—full of the milk of human kindness. “Underpaid and discriminated against, he is our only singing workman.” Loyal in Civil War Proof of the kindly nature of th r Negro was demonstrated during the Civil war, w r hen slaves remained faithfully in charge of the plantations while their masters went to war and even laid down their lives to protect the master’s family. “Watch the Negro en route to war,” Dr. Johnson cited. “He knows that all the fine phrases mouthed by the patriotic orators do not mean him. He knows that this talk of greater democracy and the like is not for him. “W r hen he gets home, he even may not be allowed to vote, if he lives in a southern state. But he goes to war with a strut that indicates that he was born just for this very business.” Negroes alone are capable of real jazz and spirituals, two of their original cultural contributions, he declared. Master of Jazz “White people, at the present time, are incapable of properly handling either jazz or spirituals,” Dr. Johnson asserted. “It requires that leisurely abandonment of the world of which the Negro alone in America is capable. The white man wants to hurry through to see how the stock market came out.” Rise of the Negro he interpreted as tribute to the ‘inherent dignity of human nature, as such.” Dr. Johnson was introduced by Dwight Ritter, leader in the interracial council here. Dr. Johnson answered questions following the address. The next open forum speaker is Professor Thomas Vernor Smith of the University of Chicago. He will speak on “The Trend of Modern Life” Dec. 22. HELD FOR LOG THEFT Two Face Grand Larceny Charges for Taking City Lumber. Charged with grand larceny for theft of two walnut logs, owned by the city. Walter Jackson, 38, of 817 West New York street, and Leo Pinion. 24, of 515 Oliver street, were arrested this morning. It Is charged the two hired Edward Sehluder, a teamster, to haul two logs away from the city reduction plant on North Harding street. The logs were felled by the city in making improvements at the plant and were valued at SIOO each,

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“This poor little girl never committed a crime in her life,” read the unusual verdict of the jury which acquitted New Jersey’s 16-year-old “honor slayer,” Alice Corbett, of killing Patrolman George McHale at Jersey City. An outburst of cheering greeted the verdict which freed the girl who had frankly confessed killing the patrolman after he had assaulted her. She is shown here with her attorney, Alexander Simpson.

DE PAUW BURIES OLDEST’ERAD Funeral Held at Greencastle for John G. Dunbar. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Dec. 9. De Pauw university’s oldest graduate, John Garrison Dunbar, rests today in Forest Hill cemetery. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon with the Rev. C. Howard Taylor and Dr. Salem B. Town in charge. Mr. Dunbar died Friday at the age of 90. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Alic T. Dunbar, and two sons, Walter and Park, both of Greencastle. The end came for Mr. Dunbar, a member of the graduating class of 1861, Friday, after a brief illness. He was born at Greenfield, May 8, 1639. He enlisted In the Seventy-ninth infantry, for service in the Civil war the year after being graduated. From a private he rose to the rank of major. He served until the end of the war in 1865. For three years he practiced medicine at Greenfield and served as assistant collector of internal revenue from 1866-1871. He moved to Greencastle township in 1871 and for many years was engaged in farming. He was postmaster here from 1902 to 1910.

Play to Be Given at Church

Presentation ofa three-act comedy, “Am I Intruding?” by the Dramatic Club of Tabernacle Presbyterian church will dedicate the stage of the church’s new recreation building Tuesday night at 8. Left to right in the photo are James B. Martin, exeutive secretary of the church, director of the club and members of the cast, Miss Jean McColgin, Miss Ruth Ketcham and George Lehman.

SUIT WILL INVOLVE GARY MAYOR’S JOB

Ry Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 9.—Declaring he was the only eligible candidate for mayor of Gary in the Nov. 5 city election, Emmet N. White, Democrat, has taken steps preliminary to filing a suit in an effort to oust Roswell P. Johnson, Republican, who is preparing to become mayor Jan. 6. Johnson has already taken the oath of office. White declares that despite the fact that Johnson received the most votes in the election, he can not serve because an Indiana statute bars from an office any person convicted of a felony who has served six months or moi-e in prison. Johnson served part of a term in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., following conviction of con-

, NEGROES REFUSED MEMBERSHIP IN FASHIONABLE CHURCH; MINISTER RESIGNS

By United Press DETROIT, Dec. 9.—Many members of fashionable churches consider their churches as highclass city clubs and act accordingly, in the opinion of the Rev. Adelbert J. Helm, who resigned Sunday as pastor of the Bethel Evangelical church, because the church council tabled applications of two Negroes seeking membership. ‘ Yet they imagine they are Christians,” Mr. Helm said. Mr. Helm c"mc here l"st January as pastor of Bethel church, located on West Grand boulevard,

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BABY INJURED SERIOUSLY BY HIT-RUN AUTO Knocked Out of Mother’s Arms at Intersection; Negress Is Victim. EXPECT ANOTHER DEATH Alleged Drunken Driving Crash May Be Fatal to Woman. A baby was in city hospital today in a serious condition from head injuries suffered when knocked from its mother's arms by a hit-and-run driver Sunday night. The mother, Mrs. Mary Sellers, 18, of 3219 West Tenth street, was crossing Washington street at Belmont street, carrying the baby in her arms. She was unconscious for several minutes, but was not injured seriously. No identification of the hit-and-run car was obtained, Gilbert Sellers, 25, the husband, who was walking behind his wife, told police. Negress Is Killed One woman was killed, and eleven others injured in other week-end accidents reported to police. Mis3 Anna Mae Woodall, 29, Negro, 2237 Hovey street, died •tly before midnight Sunday in hospital, from a crushed chest ined when a truck went out . control in the 200 block Martindale avenue a few hours earlier. Mrs. Lucille Brown, 29, of 1322 Lafayette street, suffered head injuries that city hospital physicians say may be fatal. The women were passengers in a truck driven by John Dooley, 47. of the Lafayette street address, when it careened into the curb, struck a trolley pole, and overturned. Dooley was held by police on charges of drunkenness, drunken driving and reckless driving. Pupils’ Injuries Slight Ruby Anderson. 11, and Irene Anderson, 6, of 342 Beauty street, stepped from behind a parked car at New York and Lansing streets on their way to school today, into the path of an auto driven by Miss Leota Spann, 528 North Riley street. They sustained only minor injuries. Others injured in accidents were: Bernie Walsh, 23, of 115 West Nineteenth street, possible skull fractures, cuts and bruises; John Stewart, 29, of 1416 Edgemont avenue, cut on head; Hoyt Campbell, 1918 Arrow avenue, cut on head; Ralph Bailey, 22, of 535 South Rybolt street, bruised on leg and head; Thomas Mulrine, 59. of 440 North Holmes avenue, fractured leg; Carl Lucas, 32, of 4245 Winthrop avenue, cut and bruised; Mrs. Bertha Reusch, 22, of 1605 Dawson street cut and bruised, and Mrs. L. L. Fleetwood, Greensburg, cut and bruised.

spiracy to violate the national prohibition law. Before the term expired, he was pardoned by Calvin Coolidge, then President. Johnson contends the pardon removed the felony stigma as contemplated by the Indiana law. Attorneys for White in the suit will be Frank C. Dailey, Indianapolis, former United States district attorney, and once a Democratic candidate for Governor; Harvey C. Curtis and William Matthew, both of Gary. White has demanded a certificate of election of John Dwyer, city clerk, which was refused. With the demand, he filed a copy of the oath of office bearing his signature. Dwyer has issued a certificate to Johnson.

which is regarded as valuable residential property. The 31-year-old minister succeeded the Rev. Reinj bold Neiburh, one of the city's | most liberal pastors, who now is I professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at Union Seminary, ; New York. “I doubt whether any church in the United States has a better background for the application of the practical significance of the religion of Jesus than has Bethel,” Mr. Helm said in his letter of res’"nrtion. “The first premise of i Christianity and its most perfect j synonym is brotherhood.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1929

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It’s in a fire-room apartment In the building pictured here, in New York, that the Lindberghs are going to housekeeping. The famed aviator and his bride will have a large living room with a log-burn-ing fireplace, a foyer, two bedrooms and a bath, and a small combination kitchenette-dinette. Their annual rental, it was reported, will be $3700,

SUMNER LESLIE JUDOEJHOICE Governor Flonts Solons by Appointment. Disregarding recommendations of Congressman Harry Rowbottom of Evansville and State Senator Bruce Cooper of Stewartsville, First district Republican chairman. Governor Harry G. Leslie today appointed John L. Sumner Os Petersburg as judge of the Pike-Dubois circuit court. With only three Republicans in the two counties eligible for appointment as successor to Judge Bomar Traylor, who died last Wednesday,' Leslie selected the third man. Five hours after Judge Traylor died, Rowbottom, from Washington, recommended Arthur Wolvin of Petersburg. Shortly thereafter. Cooper called at the Governor’s office and championed the cause of W. L. Hunter of Jasper. Cooper declared there only were three Republicans eligible for the judgeship; Hunter, Wolvin and Sumner. “All Republicans in the two counties favor Hunter,” Cooper declared. “Wolvin is looked upon with suspicion, because a Democratic county commission selected him as county attorney.” Cooper’s action in opposing Rowbottom was seen as a bid for patronage in order to test his strength with Rowbottom, whom he I will oppose in the May primary for I the congressional nomination. Leslie took the middle course, I favoring neither. GARRARD IS APPOINTED Successor to Colonel Perry Is Named by Monument Board. Charles A. Garrard of 401 East Nineteenth street, will assume duties at once as superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument, having been appointed Saturday by the monument board, with approval of Governor Harry G. Leslie. He succeeds Colonel Oran Perry, who died recently. Garrard is a Spanish-American war veteran and served as department commander of the Spanish-Ameri-can War Veterans’ organization ir 1907. He was state guard quar-termaster-general under the late Governor Thomas R. Marshall. The position at the Monument pays SI,BOO annually. PHONE SALE 0. K. ASKED Indiana Bell May Acquire Albany Co-operative Company. Petition for permission for change of ownership of the Co-operative Telephone Company of Albany to the Indana Bell Telephone Company was filed with the public service commission today. The petition stated agreements have been reached for payment of $43,933.86 for the company by the Indiana Bell Compnay, the difference between assets and liabilities. Committee Will Report A joint meeting will be held of civic bodies at the parish house of Christ Episcopal church on the Circle at noon Tuesday, when the special recreation survey committee will make a report on its findings. The meeting will be the last of a series to consider recreational needs of the city.

“To refuse brotherhood to any Christian is the oldest and most heretical blasphemy conceivable.” u a a “ / T'HE Christian church has A wasted precious time in mere oratory and a church unprepared to ignore the color line in its membership, after having accepted the brotherhood principle of 2,000 years, has questionable grounds for presuming itself to be founded on Christ as a corner stone. “American Christianity is so compromised and enmeshed with

SENATE READY FDR PROBABLE SEATBATTLES Contests Are Scheduled on Wyoming, Pennsylvania Appointments. TARIFF ACTION DELAYED Nye Serves Notice He Will Oppose Successor in Vare Rejection. BY PAUL R. MALLON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The senate whittled away at the tariff bill today, awaiting two prospective election contests. Senator-Designate Patrick Sullivan (Rep., Wyo.) was scheduled to present his credentials of appointment from the Governor of his state to fill the vacancy created by the death of Senator Warren. A cloakroom debate has been carried on during the last few days over the question of whether the Wyoming Governor had the power to select Warren’s successor. Constitutional authorities have differed over interpretation of the Wyoming law under which the appointment was made, and objection is expected from some quarters when Sullivan presents his certigcate. Expect Naming of Grundy Meanwhile, these constitutional authorities are awaiting appointment of a senator to succeed William S. Vare, the Philadelphia Republican leader who was denied a seat because he spent $785,000 in his primary election. The senate expects Joseph R. Grundy, Pennsylvania manufacturer, will be named in Vare’s place. Grundy aroused the displeasure of the senate when he testified before the lobby investigating committee that he would reduce western representation in the senate because western states contributed so little to the public welfare. Notice of a contest over whoever is appointed has been served by Senator Nye (Rep., N. D.). Nye announced when Vare was ousted he would object to any appointment made by Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania who was associated with the Pepper ticket in the $3,000,000 Pennsylvania primary. Debate on Wool While these quetsions were occupying the minds of senators, the wool schedule of the tariff bill was up for debate, and the house tax reduction resolution was awaiting consideration. Republican Floor Leader Watson expected to get the latter measure before the senate at the earliest possible moment and anticipated little objection its passage. The house was working on the interior department appropriation bill, the first of the government supply measures. It probably will be passed Tuesday.

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MERCURY RISES AGAIN Unsettled Weather Is Forecast for City Today and Tuesday. Unsettled weather, with rain and slightly higher temperatures were forecast for Indianapolis and Indiana for today and Tuesday by J. H. Armington, meteorologist, this morning. Thermometers, which Sunday sank to 29 degrees, today were mounting again. Tonight’s lowest temperature probably will be about 35 degrees, said Armington.

the crudest prejudices of the day that I Jong since have questioned the edacity of leadership of its institutions. “The unfavorable reaction of Bethel church in the simple issue of an inclusive membership is a lucid commentary on the inadequacy and futility of mere pulpit fulmination.” Orville Bruramer, church director of education, also resigned his office, stating that he believed Mr. Helm's judgment is “self-evidently Christian and inevitable in any honest program of Christian education.”

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While additional forces of marines were being rushed to Haiti, the situation, acknowledged as “serious,” rested in the hands of the officials pictured above; Brigadier-General John H. Russell, left, high commissioner, who established martial law after the recent riots, and Louis Borno, right, president of the West Indies republic. The United States state department's approval of Borno’s decision not to seek a third term as president helped to calm political unrest. Below is the presidential palace, about which previous rebellions have centered.

THREE GUILTY IN RUM PLOT Six Acquitted in Gary Case by U. S. Jury. By United. Press HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 9.—With the first of the Gary liquor conspiracy cases closed by conviction of three defendants, acquittal of six and jury disagreement as to eight, the trial of the second will be opened in federal court here on Wednesday before Judge Thomas W. Slick. Twenty persons are included in the second case. Those convicted in the first group, known as the Bock case, are Charles Wampler, suspended motorcycle officer of the Gary police force, and Alex Santi and Sandro Necco, bootleggers. The six acquitted are John Romano, Frank Kish, Frank Marshall, Albert Smelko and Frank White. The jury was unable to agree in the cases of Thomas Galasini, former Gary special city judge; 'Lieutenant Frank Galloway, Sergeants Oscar Salzman, Bud Ingersoll and John Papp, and Robert Bock, Roy Keel and Henry Phol, all members of the Gary detective force.

C. OF G. WILL VOTE Seven Full-Term Directors to Be Selected. Seven directors of the Chamber o's Commerce will be chosen for three-year terms at the annual election Tuesday. The directors will name executive officers of the chamber. Polls will be open at the chamber from 11 a. m. until 7 p. m. The election will be followed by the annual meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m., when President Paul Q. Richey will present recommendations and outline proposed activities. New by-laws will be presented for adoption and committee reports heard. Nominees for directors are; Charles F. Coffin, Dick Miller, C. H. Rottger, George S. Olive, Paul Q. Richey, Frank E. Gates, Howard T. Griffith, Scott R. Brewer, Herman C. Wolff, Edgar Hart, Louis H. Haerle, Howard M. Gay, John F. White and E. E. Heller.

CONVICT-AUTHOR IS ■ FREE FROM PRISON

By United Press SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Dec. 9. Robert Tasker, convict-author, was free to leave San Quentin prison today. The youthful robber, whose literary work has attracted wide attention of nationally known authors, was granted an immediate parole Sunday by the state prison board. Tasker was not told of his parole until today. He refused to comment on his plans, other than to say he would leave the prison as soon as possible. Since his Incarceration in 1924 for

AFTER graduation from Eden seminary, St. Louis, Mr. Helm went to Berlin university and Royal Cathedral seminary, Berlin, for post-graduate work. During a school vacation in 1913 while occupying the pastorage of the Congregationalist church at Royal ton, Wis., where his father, a retired minister, lives. Mr. Helm’s resignation was asked following a sermon in which he said he “debunked" the late President Harding. A Royalton banker threatened to foreclose on the church’s

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SECOND GRIME LAID TO GANG Ohio Prisoner Identified in Gas City Case. Bn United Press Two of three men identified in Ohio as participants in two Indiana bank robberies are back in the state today to face charges of murder and robbery. The third is still in Ohio. It is planned to extradite him. Joe Saracino, identified by some witnesses as operator of a machine gun which killed Mrs. J. Fred Binder and wounded Sheriff J. M. Haynes during robbery of the Columbia City State bank, is in jail at Auburn. Secrecy as to his whereabouts had been maintained because of threats of violence. William King was taken from St. Clairesville, 0., to Marion, after identification as a member of the trio who robbed J. W r . Ball, cashier of the Gas City State bank of SIO,OOO. Joe White, likewise identified by Gas City citizens as connected with that robbery, is fighting extradition. Two other members of the gang, each believed to be connected with one or both of the Indiana robberies, are being sought. The five were said to be one of the remnants of the Gerald Chapman gang. HUNT COUNTERFEITERS Merchants Are Placed on Guard Against 50-Cent Pieces. Passing of counterfeit 50-cent pieces in Indiana has caused a warning to business men by the Indiana district federal secret service. A dark skinned Negro, sometimes accompanied by a woman has passed the coin on 5 and 10-cent stores and small merchants, a bulletin declares. BONUSESTcTbE GIVEN Wall Street House to Present Employes With Year’s Salary. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Goldman Sachs Company, one of the largest houses in Wall street, will pay its 200 employes Christmas bonuses of a year’s salary each. The bonuses will amount to more than half a million dollars.

robbing an Oakland case, Tasker has written “Grimhaven,” a novel, and numerous magazine articles. He earned literary recognition when he wrote “My First Day in Prison.” H. L. Mencken, editor of the American. Mercury, published it. Last year prison authorities refused to let Tasker sell his manuscripts. Since that time the prisoner has held up his work until his release. It is understood he has completed a play depicting prison life from a convict’s viewpoint and that it will be produced shortly on the Pacific coast.

mortgage before his resignation was asked, according to Mr. Helm. Before coming here Mr. Helm was pastor of the City Terrace church, Los Angeles, and St. Mark’s Evangelical church, Oakland, Cal. “If this were a pagan country, I would enjoy preaching to try to convert, but I do not care to spout poetry and other pulpit fulminations to church members who say they know church dogma, but apparently refuse to accept it,” Mr. Helm said.

U. S. TO FACE NEW GRIEF IN ‘HELLOFHAITr Thankless Job Confronts Hoover in Bringing Isle Back to Peace. EUROPE’S FINGER IN PIE America Must Take Action to Prevent Tangle With Foreign Powers. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrlpps-Jloward Forricn Editor WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. —No government ever faced a nastier or a more thankless job than that which confronts the United States in the hell hole of Haiti, toward which marine reinforcements today are rushing to put down the latest revolutionary fracas. None too soon Iras President Hoover asked congress for authority to send a commission of inquiry to this Caribbean arena of misrule and it is the expressed hope of those familiar with conditions there that congress- and the President both will make it snappy. A sorer spot nor one more hurtful to Yankee prestige does not exist under the sheltering wing of the American eagle. American marines were sent to Haiti in 1915 at the direction of President Wilson. There seemed no alternative. It was either that or standing by and permitting France or some other European power to intervene. President Is Slain Seven presidents had come and gone in the five years following 1910, the last, President Sam literally being torn to pieces following th? massacre of some 200 political prisoners held in the bastile. He had taken refuge in the French legation and it was from there he was dragged and killed during the funeral of the victims. France, naturally, was indignant and threatened to intervene, but, following traditional American policy, corollary of the Monroe doctrine, which warns non-American powers to keep hands off the Western hemisphere, the United States acted instead. From that time on Haiti has been ruled by the marines. In 1916 the legislative body of the Haitian government was dissolved, its members being expelled forcibly. Anew election, under American supervision, then was held, and another congress installed; but again, in 1917, Its members were thrown out by marines and the legislative halls padlocked. Constitution Voted On In 1918 a constitution wr.tten at the direction of Washington was submitted to a “popular” vote, again under marine supervision. Blue ballots were for, red ballots against and, it is alleged, the voters having been instructed previously to vote blue, the constitution was carried by 99,000 votes, as against a scattering few hundred. This constitution calls for election of a president and members of ! I congress by the people. It also pro- j vides that pending such popular! election, legislation shall be In the hands of a council of state com-] posed of twenty-one members, all named by the president. Jr To date no election has been liekr. President Borno, elected a dozen years ago, has continued to assert that the situation is not conducive] to an orderly election, so he continues to have himself re-elected by the! very council of state which he him- j self appoints. Tremendous bitterness has re-; suited. The unrest has gone on, piling up, higher and higher, until last Wednesday rioting broke out. This grew in scope until the week-end found the entire island seething*”'" the grip of a general strike, bor*7 ing on revolution, in which studell in the schools participated. Bloodshed followed when a m tachment of marines were forc|| to use their machine guns to bfei up a mob which surrounded them, f Blame Can’t Be Placed Who is to blame for all this it is impossible to say. The Haitians! have been a turbulent lot since! their very beginning. Revolution; has followed revolution for mores than a century and president after president has been assassinated throughout all these years. Certainly they have not shown a capacity for self-government. Their island is the bear garden of the West Indies. But marine rule has not been • success either. Excess of zeal has been reported. President Borno is described as a “tool” of Uncle Sam, and so on. True or false, Latin America has been watching and criticizing, and President Hoover, no doubt, now Is determined to set things to rights as soon as ever he can. The population of Haiti is 2,300,000, almost 100 per cent Negro or mulatto. Illiteracy is about 85 pel cent. A French patois is spoken. SAFETY PRIZES READY Winners in Drivers’ Contest to Get Awards of Merit. Winners of a safety contest ir which 975 vehicle drivers of fifty' two firms participated will bi awarded prizes tonight in the Indianapolis Power & Light Company Morris street plant. A silver cup will be presented t< the grand winner, while certificate! will be awarded winners in eael group and to each firm with a no accident record for six months Cards of merit will be given ead driver without an accident durlnj the period.