Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1929 — Page 9

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LAKE COUNTY PROBE MOTIVE HELD POLITICS Gary Newspaper’s Editorial Refers to ‘Sinister Intent’ in Case. TRIAL FAILURES CITED Cost of Proceedings in Which Only Four Were Sentenced Gets Attention. II u '/ unm Hoteial GARY, Ind., Dec. 16.—1n a lengthy Page 1 editorial, the Gary Post-Tribune discusses the Lake county liquor conspiracy cases in which 300 persons were indicted, but in trials of two of them only three persons were convicted and one entered a plea of guilty. In the second case seventeen defendants were dismissed, these being all that were before Judge Thomas W. Slick in federal court sitting at Hammond. Reviewing the history of the cases previous to the grand jury session at South Bend, wher the indictments were returned, the PostTribune says it has reached the following conclusions: “Either the government representatives were permitting themselves and their offices to be used by embittered politicians to further their own personal desires and ambitions. or a deep-rooted conspiracy was being woven around the federal building itself, without the government officials being aware of the sinister intent of those who went so far as to attempt to influence a federal grand jury in returning indictments against those who had been ‘marked for the pen.’ ” The editorial deplores what It terms the harmful publicity given Gary as a result of the indictments, and calls attention to the cost of the investigation, and in conclusion says: "Os course, the government Is not responsible for what might be termed the false arrest of the Gary persons. And the government could not be held accountable if it were responsible. But it certainly is a bad situation, to say the least, when all of those men, though free in law, must suffer the humiliation of arrest and arraignment because certain sinister influences sought personal revenge and political gain." Tire third and last of the conspiracy cases, including among defendants Mayor Raleigh P. Hale of East Chicago, is docketed for tria' in federal court at Hammond Jan. 7. P. T.A. OFFICER DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. Isabelle Treat, Civic Leader, Will Be Buried Tuesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Isabelle Treat. 61, who died at her home, 355 Whittier place, Sunday after an illness of a year, will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Memorial park cemetery. Mrs. Treat was active in civic affairs, having served as Irvington Parent-Teacher Association president two years and as president of the City Federation of ParentTeacher Clubs for two years. She was a member of Irvington Women’s Club. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Irvin B. Schutz, Washington high school teacher, and Mrs. Isabelle Stagg, Spokane, Wash.; the mother, Mrs. Marsh; a sister. Mrs. C. E. Ritchie, and a brother, Ernest Marsh, all of Talmadge, 0., and another brother, William Marsh, Westfield. N. Y. MRS.~MANN IS ELECTED fhosen Worthy Matron by Nettie Ransford Group of O. E. S. At the annual election of Nettle Ransford chapter, No. 464, O. E. S., Wednesday night, Mrs. Edna Mann was elected worthy matron. Officers assisting her for the coming pear are: Mrs. Helen Wise, associate matron: Troy Thurston, patron: Louis Malcolm, associate patron: Mrs. Myrtle Bradshaw, secretary: Mrs. Fern Thurston, treasurer; Mrs. Irene Davis, conductress; Mrs. Tine Dickinson, associate conductress. On Wednesday evening the chapter will hold a reception for the 1929 members at Prather Masonic temple. Forty-second street and College avenue. HELD FOR EXTRADITION Oklahoman Alleged to Have Fled Jail, Helped Steal Auto. John Kenneth Walker, alias O. C Moran, wanted in Oklahome City, on charges of escaping jail and violation of the Dyer act, was brought here from Attica, where he was arrested last Wednesday, and is held for extradition. Walker is alleged to have fled jail with five other men and to have stolen an automobile which was abandoned in Missouri. DISCUSS - SCHOOL LAWS Legislation Projects Occupy Board of State Teachers’ Meeting. Legislation for schools was the topic at the annual meeting of the executive board of the State Federation of Public School Teachers at the Claypool Saturday. O. W. Nicely, Richmond, president. received reports of executive committees at the meeting. Miss Clara Rathfon, Logansport, Is chairman of the legislative comjnlttee.

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Oakland City College Students Work in Factory to Pay Tuition

Boys and girls are shown at work here in the campus fountain pen factory at Oakland City college. At the right is Dr. William I’. Dearing, founder of the unique industry.

MURDERER OF TWO TO PLEAD INSANITY

NEW SCARF CLUB HEAD Miss Theresa Bagnoli Elected by Butler Freshman Group. Miss Theresa Bagnoli, 5928 Kenwood avenue, recently was elected president of Scarf Club, Butler

university, an honorary organization for freshmen women, Composed of one representative of each Greek letter sorority on the campus and ten non-sorority girls. The club was organized to promo t e friendship between freshmen and sophomore coeds, and carries on charity work at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Other

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officers are: Marjorie Lytle, vicepresident; Francile Crenshaw, secretary, and Thelma Flack, treasurer. CHOOSE JODT JURY Panel Expected Today in ‘Clean-Child’ Killing. Selection of a criminal court jury to try Andrew Judt, 66, 423 Virginia avenue, for the murder of his wife, Ann Judt, 35, in their home two months ago, was under way today before Judge James A. Collins. judt admitted he shot Mrs. Judt, but has said he killed her in selfdefense. He charged she beat him about the head with a length of rubber hose, screaming “I’ll kill you.” during an argument that began when he rebuked her for not keeping their son Charles Thomas, 2, clean. States Attorneys Paul Rhoadarmer and Harry Gause indicated the jury will be impaneled some time today. SCARES OFF INTRUDER Woman Screams, Flees When Man, Posing as Cop, Tries Entrance. Threatening to shoot if she made an outcry, a man attempted to enter the bedroom of Mrs. Clyde Thomas, of 1142 North Pennsylvania street, at 3:10 this morning, but was foiled when she ignored his threats and fled screaming from her room. Mrs. Thomas awakened to see a man attempting to climb in the window. He demanded she assist him and threatened to shoot if she cried out. He said he was a police officers. Police investigating, found two boxes piled outside the window. FAIL TO TRACE CHILD Boy Said to Have Been Taken by Father May Be in Lexington. Police efforts to trace Gerald Van Meter. 10, kidnaped Saturday from his home at 1134 Girnber avenue, have failed, but investigation at Lexington. Ky., indicated that the child’s father took him away, police say. The boy was given into custody of the mother, Mrs. Lena Van Meter, by court order. Authorities at Lexington reported the father had left his home there several days ago. Hurt in Fall From Train Asa Becker, 20, ,of 237 Beauty avenue, was taken, home today from city hospital, where he was treated for njuries suffered in a fall from a Pennsylvania passenger train near West street late Saturday night. He told police he was “bumming” a ride to St. Louis.

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Prisoner at Muncie Tells of ‘Spells’ Since Serving in War. Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 16.—Temporary insanity will be the plea by which James Woods, 30, confessed slayer of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Heath, aged farm couple of near Muncie, will attempt to win mercy from the court which tries him on a charge of first-degree murder, he has indicated. “I’ve been having spells of some kind ever since the war,” Wood told police. “When I’m in one of those spells I guess I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t why I killed them. They were the finest old folks I ever met.” Wood made a detailed statement of events preceding and following the crime. He related how he had planned to go to the Heath home for money to make good some bad checks, but said he had not premeditated the double murder. He got only sls, he said, which Mrs. Heath handed to him. after which he struck her down with a club. A special grand jury will qonvene tomorrow and is expected to return an indictment charging Wood with first-degree murder. He is expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, when arraigned. Prosecutor Joe H. Davis has said that he will ask the death penalty for Wood. The penalty has never been invoked in Delaware county.

Teacher Dies

Miss Kate Mason, Indianapolis school teacher for thirty-six years, who died Saturday at her home. 2710 North Talbott street, of sleeping sickness which followed penumonia. After funeral services this afternoon, the body was to be sent to De Graff, 0., for burial Tuesday. < DRY T To"PLEASE YANKS St. James Palace Not to Risk Offending U. S. Naval Delegates. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 16.—Not wishing to risk offending United Sates delegates to the five-power naval disarmament conference in January, the government has decided that historic St. James' palace, where the conference will be held, will be strictly “dry” during the parley. Six Hurt in Antos Bu United Pres* EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 16. Automobile accidents caused injuries to six persons in and near Evansville Saturday. Mrs. Katherine Williams. 48. suffered a broken neck and is not expected to live. Injuries to other persons in the accidents are not regarded as serious.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1929

BY MABEL M’KEE NEA Service Writer OAKLAND CITY, Ind., Dec. 16. Anew kind of memorial to Abraham Lincoln—a place where boys and girls from the rude homes in the barren hills of southwestern Indiana can get an education—is making a striking record here in this town that is just twenty-five miles from Lincoln's boyhood home. It is Oakland City college, with 250 students. It is like no other college in the country. On the campus there is a fountain pen factory, the stock in which is owned by alumni of the college. All the workers in this factory are students in the college. The money that their labor brings pays their tuition. The factory makes their education possible. 10,000 Pens Made Since June the factory has made 10,000 pens, and the student-workers get wages that vary from $1 to $2 a day. The story begins In the boyhood of William Prentice Dearing, now president of the college. Dearing was born in a log cabin in the Indiana hills, slept in the loft under a clapboard roof and as a boy drove oxen, helped in log rollings and otherwise got the rugged experience of a country lad in this region. His father and some neighbors wanted their children to have a chance to be educated. They made bricks, acted as their own carpenters and masons, and built a small building here as the first home of Oakland City College. William Dearing went to that college and was its first graduate. At 20 he became the dean of its small faculty, and at 28, he became its president. His first year’s salary was SIBO. There were eleven students. That was thirty-five years ago. Dr. Dearing was impressed by the poverty of the hills people and the I need of their children for education, | and he determined to find some 1 way whereby the youngsters qould work their way through college. ‘‘We had to have it,” he says. “The people around here can raise just enough to feed their children at home. I found students in our college living on one meal a day. They came here expecting help. We used to ‘carry’ one-third of our enrollment. Even then I had to send scores home. Two Factordies Failed "I tried a canning factory on the campus. I tried a student toy factory. Both failed. Then, a year ago, I decided on this pen factory. “We organized a stock company of eighty people—descendants of the men who built the first college building. They bought shares of stock, their subscriptions ranging in size from $25 to $2,500.” Then Dr. Dearing sent for John H. Kritikson, the inventor of the fountain pen the students were to make. With his help, he established the factory on the campus. Now the factory is a success. It is receiving orders from all parts of the United States, from Europe and from South America. It Iras more orders than it can fill. Students of Lincoln Stock The students who are attending this college come from the same sort of stock that produced Lincoln. Dr. Dearing calls the factory venture “The Lincoln Student SelfHelp Plan.” “Lincoln was a typical man of the hills of southern Indiana and Kentucky,” he says. “But he was not the only boy who was hungry for an eduaction. In our school we have 250 Lincolns in embryonic form.” Most of the students here were born in log cabins, and have been used to hard work and privation from the cradle. The same is true of many of the faculty members, too. Six of them are descendants of the men who baked the brick and built the first college building here. One of them, Dr. William Jordan, head of the mathematics department—and, incidentally, business head of the pen factory—even looks like Abraham Lincoln. Auto Kills Boy Bu United Pres* STILESVILLE, Ind., Dec. „ 16.—A vampire motorist inflicted fatal injuries upon James Milhon, 15, here Saturday night. Name of the driver was not learned. License plates on the automobile were issued to W. F. Miller, Brazil.

Liquor Raffle Latest Oasis

Bu Time Soeeial DUBLIN, Ind.. Dec. 16. There are all sorts of ways of evading this Volstead act, but the latest method of dispensing liquor is to raffle it. This method is said to insure less danger of being caught and larger profits than other selling schemes. According to a man who lives here and works in a factory in a neighboring town, the raffling of booze has been carried on successfully for some time in the factory. Recently, the man says, he was approached by a fellow employe. “Want to take a chance on a dog?” queried the bootlegger. At first he did not ’understand and turned the bootlegger down. Later he discovered that a good brand of liquor was being dispensed. Three chances on the “dog" are sold at 25 cents, which entitles the purchaser to a quart of liquor if he wins. When one drawng is made, the winner must drop out until a gallon has been disposed of. Then he mav buy more chances. The bootlegger makes from $lO to sls a gallon.

LESLIE WILL NAME STATE SCHOOLGROUP Commission of Thirteen to Study Uses of Money 1 Given as Aid. ASKS GENERAL HELP Shoals Parley Committee Will Be Asked to Co-Operate. The commission of thirteen authorized by the 1929 legislature to make an investigation of uses and abuses of state aid for schools and to make recommendations for the future will be appointed this week by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Upon his return to the statehouse today, the Governor begc n culling names to select those who will serve upon the commission, which is to include the state superintendent of public instruction, the chief examiner of the board of accounts, a state senator, a state representative and nine representative citizens. “I am extremely eager to begin this investigation of the impoverished condition of the township schools,” the Governor declared. “The committee of five appointed at the Shoals conference will be invited to sit at the hearings of the state commission. Leslie’s Mind Open “All departments will be requested to furnish all possible aid to the commission.” Leslie is maintaining an open mind on tne quest, on of a special conferenence Friday in a resolution adopted with litttle dissent. “I must have all facts before I can take any action.” the Governor said. The committee appointed to call on the Governor and ask for a special session will make this visit and plea in January, after the necessary data has been compiled. State Senator French Clements of Evansvillle today declared the creation of a state-wide taxing unit for education would be an excellent maner of guaranteeing equal education for all sections of the state. “It would eliminate discrepancies in education and give every county sufficient money to maintain a high grade school system,” he said. Detailed Report Prepared A detailed report on school units of the state which would set forth expenditures of schools not receiving state aid as well as those which do, is being prepared by the department of education under the direction of Roy P. Wisehart, state superintendent of education. Plans are being prepared for a meeting of the Indiana town and county school superintendents association to be held in Indianapolis Feb. 6 and 7, wnen refinancing of schools will be discussed and a plan decided upon. American Legion posts over the state are insisting that a special legislative session be called. MISSING MAN WANTED FOR HAPPY CHRISTMAS Wife and Six Children Make Appeal at Washington. By Time* Suecial WASHINGTON, Ind., Dec. 16. Mrs. Mathias J. Kilps has renewed a search for her husband, disabled by gas while serving in the World war, who has been missing from his home here six months. “Please come home and make it a happy Christmas” is the plea of Mrs. Kilps and her six children, whose ages range from 3 months to 9 years. The missing man was drawing compensation from the government because of the disalibilties incurred while a soldier, but this has stopped, as it can be paid only to him. Charitable organizations are providing for the family.

FACTIONS FIGHT ON DRY LEAGUE BERTH

Showdown Due When Chiefs Meet Tuesday to Name New Leader.

Various factions in the fight over appointment of a successor to the late Dr. E. S. Shumaker as Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, today were preparing for a showdown when trustees meet at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the Y. M. C. A. to name anew head. Nominations will be made by Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, national superintendent, who is reported to favor naming a man from another state. He is reported to be supporting Sam McNaught, Des Moines, now lowa superintendent, and long connected with the Indiana league. Dr. Mcßride is reported to have some support among trustees, but two other factions exist, backing the respective candidacies of Dr. C. H. Winders, acting superintendent, and Ethan A. Miles, league attorney. Mcßride has the support of Frank E. Wright, Indiana “bone dry” law author, who resigned as a league speaker over differences with Winders as a result of a political speech made by Wright during the recent city election campaign. If Mcßride's first nomination is rejected by trustees, he will continue suggesting nominees until

Leslie Receives No. 1

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Your guess is correct! Governor Harry G. Leslie received the coveted “No. 1” in 1930 auto license plates which went on sale today. Miss Rose Sapirie, the Governor’s stenographer, is receiving the plate from William C. Schmidt, assistant license commissioner for the secretary of state. The plate pictured will go on the Goveronr’s private car, while another No. 1, bearing a star, will grace his state-owned sedan. Numerals and lettering on the new plates are gold on a blue background. Some 462 tons of metal and sixty barrels of enamel went into the making of the 925,000 pairs expected to be distributed this year. To expedite distribution,' five branch stations will be opened in Indianapolis Jan. 1, Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield announced. They will be located at Fountain Square State bank, the Belmont State bank, the Forty-Second Street bank, Hoosier Motor Club and at an east side station yet to be selected.

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Worley Issues Holiday ‘Don’ts'

TO curb petty criminals who may use the Christmas rush as a boost for their trade. Police Chief Claude M. Worley today issued a list of “don’ts” for shoppers, augmenting pleas of merchants and postal authorities for early shopping and mailing to relieve the annual holiday

jam. His instructions are: Don’t leave Christmas packages, or clothing in your automobiles parked downtown. Thousands of dollars worth of property is taken from cars annually. Locking the machine doesn’t help; the thief can knock out the glass. Don’t carry pocketbooks on the arm, or lay purses on counters while making purchases. Don’t mingle in thick crowds, wear flashy jewelry, or display huge sums of money. If you are

jostled in a crowded store or street car, watch your money and valuables. ' Don’t leave the door key under the mat or in the mailbox, and don’t request delivery of packages when there will be no one at home to receive them. Don’t wait until the last two hours of the afternoon to go shopping. Crowds of office workers and others homeward bound late in the day provide a tremendous problem for traffic officers. Don’t guess at addresses. Know yours, and give it correctly. Don’t jay-walk, and don’t drive carelessly. There are greater

crowds than ever on downtown streets during the pre-holiday shopping season. Don’t fail to observe parking regulations. They will be enforced as strictly as ever.

Butcher Knife for Manicure Bu Time* Soeeial CRAWFORDSVILLE, In and„ Dec. 16.—Asked what he intended to do with a butcher knife that was found on his person, Joe Davis, 22, Lafayette, told police here that he was using it to “clean his fingernails.” ‘Police doubted the story and placed Davis in jail when it was found that a window of a store back of which Davis had been found was broken and that the youth was suffering from severe lacerations on an arm. He is charged with attempted burglary and carrying concealed weapons.

one Is accepted. The national superintendent is scheduled to make an address following a luncheon. Master Bakers Elect Bu United Press .. _ , MARION, Ind., Dec. 16.—Paul Brickley of Hartford City was elected president of the northeastern division. Indiana Master Bakers’ Association at a meeting here. Albert Dietzen. Anderson, wait chosen vicepresident, and Charles P. Ellers, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer.

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ALLEGED HID Os CHAPMAN HELD Joe White Jailed in Gas City Robbery Case. Bu United Press MARION, Ind., Dec. 16.—Joe White, 38, who has been definitely linked with a SIO,OOO pay roll robbery at Gas City, Ind.. last summer, by three witnesses, is in Grant county jail following extradition from Ohio. He likewise has been identified as an associate of the late Gerald Chapman. White has admitted to officers that he and William Devan, St. Boydsville, 0., disposed of SIOO,OOO in bonds stolen in a Toronto (Canada) mail robbery, and an Angola find.) bank robbery, Sheriff Jacob Campbell says. He has denied, however, that he participated in the Gas City robbery. White is held without bond on a technical charge of auto banditry. Officers said they have knowledge that White was at one time arrested on a minor charge at Muncie, in company with Chapman, and that both were released before their identity became known. Chapman was leader of this section’s most notorious gang during the last decade. He was hanged in Connecticut a few years ago for murder,

PAY STOPPED AGAIN Bailiffs’ November Checks Refused by Dunn. Bailiffs in nine Marion county j courts encountered new difficulties today over their monthly pay when County Auditor Harry Dunn declined to pay them their November salaries. To collect their October pay bailiffs were compelled to sue Dunn. Trial Judge Joseph Williams, Morgan county circuit court, acting as special judge in Marion circuit court, mandated Dunn to pay the October salaries. It probably will be necessary to file suits each succeeding month, it was indicated. Difficulty arose when the county council allowed each bailiff a $l5O---month salary, while judges in the court fixed their pay at S2OO. Dunn has no funds from which to draw the additional amount. Judge Williams in his ruling held that judges are empowered with authority to fix the per diem salary of court bailiffs. raiseTlooo>or~ organ Shortridge High School Revue Program Well Attended. More than SI,OOO was raised for the Shortridge high school organ fund by the all-school revue Saturday, directors said today. Attendance of 3,500 persons was registered at two performances, i Eleven acts of dancing, singing, musical and comedy numbers were on the program. Prize of $25 for the best act was presented for the act entitled “The Little Red Schoolhouse.” Lad Scolded, Ends Life Bu United Press WHITEWATER, Wis., Dec. 16. After being scolded by his mother for staying away.from home until 3 a. m„ Edward Schultz, 16, rushed into his room and shot himself to death.

STATE LAUDED FOR CARE OF ITS CHILDREN Labor Law Declared One of Best in Country at Conference. PROTECTION IS GIVEN Plea Is Voiced for Man or Woman of Middle Age in Industry. Bu Time* Boecial NEW YORK. Dec. 16.—Indiana's child labor law is one of the best in the country and has served as a model for other states, Mrs. Jessie Gremmelspacher, director of the department of women and children of the Indiana industrial board, declared in a paper presented here today before the National Child Labor committee. The event Is the twenty-fifth child lbaor conference. Reciting the history of the Hoosier child labor law. which was passed in 1921, Mrs. Gremelspacher set out that it provides a procedure whereby children subject to employment may be inducted into industry under such conditions thta btoh child and employer are protected. “The Indiaan law prohibits the employment of any minor under 14 In any gainful occupation other than farm labor, domestic service, or caddying,” she stated. Minors Are Safeguarded “It requires that employers must have certificates for all minors in their employ between 14 and 18. These are issued by local school authorities and duplicates filed with the state industrial board. “The law prohibits many dangerous occupations under 16 and other* more dangerous under 18. “Indiana is very strict in regard to children between 14 and 16 being released from school to work. The child must have finished the eighth grade, and economic necessity must be shown. Pointing out that there is a trend in industry to refuse to employ men past 45, Mrs. Gremelspacher urged that this be counteracted by using these older persons rather than children. “Wouldn’t it be much better from all viewpoints to give these jobs to the men who have families and who are denied jobs because of their age?” she asked. Gives Better Schooling “Wouldn’t it be better to keep these children in school a little longer, showing them that Increased training will mean increased earnings? “Wouldn’t it help solve unemployment if industrial plants would hire middle-aged men rather than the child, denying him the education which rightfully is his? “Would the wage paid the child be any different from the one the man would receive? We wonder. “That state is wise which best coserves its children. “I like to feel that the department I represent is helping in a small way to make the state of Indiana better for the child, a place where ultimately each child may have just as great an opportunity as is possible for an adequate education and training in citizenship, that we finally may produce a more enlightened, stronger, and finer citizenry.” FLOOD WATERS OF THAMES ARE HALTED London Barriers Get First Test as River Rises at High Tide. 81l United Been* LONDON. Dec. 16.—Crowds of anxious watchers along the banks of the Thames, from Hammersmith to the heart of the city, watched the river rise, at high tide early today, to within a few inches of the street level, and then recede. It was the first test of the barrier* and ramparts thrown up by worker* in preparation for what was expected to be a disastrous flood, resulting from recent rains and unusually high tides sweeping in from the North sea. Patrolmen from Scotland Yard, however, expect the great test to come in the early hours of Tuesday and Wednesday, when the tides reach their crest. HELL ‘N’ MARIA BACK WITH DAWES FAMILY Ambassador's Pet Chow Completes Six-Month Quarantine. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 16.—“ Hell *N’ Maria” has rejoined Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, after a six months quarantine. “Hell ’N’ Marie” is a Chow dog, the distinguished pet of a distinguished family. But, like all dogs, of high or low degree, he had to undergo an observation period, before he could be admitted to the English home of the ambassador. It is a question which was happier, the Dawes family or the dog, at his release. In addition to kissing moistly the hands of Mrs. Dawes, Hell ’N’ Maria licked the polish from her shoes, and then bestowed lavish affection on Harry Dawes and the chauffeur. Steel Worker to Retire Bu Tim** Bvecial CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Dec. 16.—Henry Meister, assistant superintendent of the Mid States Steeli and Wire Company, who has beenj engaged in the steel industry fi&pl years, will be retired on p aamm by the company effective Jan^|