Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1930 — Page 13

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CONGRESS TO REOPEN WET AND DRY WAR Several Measures, Likely to Renew Tempest, Up Next Week. BORAH STARTS ACTION Prison Bills Are Scheduled Early in House and Senate Program. BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD United Presi Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—The prohibition tempest stirred up by Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho) during the holiday recess is expected to sweep Into the house wing of the Capitol next week when congress reconvenes. Several measures, likely to provoke a renewal of debate between wets and drys, are scheduled for early consideration by the house and its committees. Chairman Snell of the rules committee plans to start early hearings on a senate bill to authorize appointment of a joint congressional committee to Investigate advisability of consolidating prohibition enforcement agencies in the department of justice. This measure passed the senate almost without debate, but is expected to encounter rougher going in the house. Some drys there doubt the wisdom of disturbing prohibition enforcement machinery at this time. Prison Reform Bills Up The five prison reform and extension bills reported favorably by the judiciary committee and scheduled for consideration in the house next Wednesday, also may be a fruitful source of prohibition debate although the measures themselves virtually are unopposed. Drafted by the department of justice and reported almost without amendment, the bills provide for construction of two new penal institutions at an estimated cost of $7,000,000; establishment of a hospital for criminal insane; changes In the parole system and liber- ' alization of regulations governing the administration of federal penitentiaries. Representative La Guardia, (Rep., N. Y.) in questioning Attorney-Gen-eral Mitchell at hearings on the prison measures, indicated the wet bloc, while not opposing the legislation, will undertake to use It as an anti-prohibition argument. Start of Tussle The real prohibition tussle will start when the house takes up the interior department appropriation bill, which provides funds for the gencies now intrusted with enforcement. This may be several weeks hence, as the appropriations' committee plans to bring out the war department supply bill next. Ordinarily, the interior bill is the first considered, but a fight within the appropriations’ committee over the size of the prohibition enforcement fund Is understood to be holding it up at this session. So far, Borah’s blasts against prohibition enforcement officials have created but slight stir among house members. Wets are not yet organized for their offensive and drys are silent, believing they can help their cause most by a hands-off policy. The wet bloc Is scheduled to meet Jan. 9 to formulate a program for the session. NAME MOSES SPEAKER FOR WATSON DINNER Banquet for State’s Senior Solon Precedes Editorial Session. Invitation has been extended Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire to be the principal speaker at tile banquet in honor of Senator James E. Watson at the Columbia Club, Feb. 6. The invitation was sent by M. Burt Thurman, Republican national committeeman from Indiana. The dinner will take place the night before the annual meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. Senator Watson and Mrs. Watson returned to Washington Thursday after spending the New Year's with friends here. CORONER HANDLES 835 CASES IN 1929 Eighty Suicides. 161 Traffic Fatalities Shown in Annual Report. Handling a total of 835 cases during the year. Coroner Charles H. Keever’s annual report shows eighty suicides, forty homicide deaths and a total of 161 traffic fatalities. Os the traffic deaths, fifty are credited as results of accidents to auto passengers; sixty-one as auto accidents to persons not in the cars; three as due to street cars; one to a street car-auto collision, three in interurban accidents, six in railway accidents and fifteen in railwayauto crashes. The coroner called 3.044 witnesses in his investigations and held 139 autopseys. RECORD FOR STATE SET l ocal Herd of Ayrshires Averages 651 Pounds for October. Nine Ayrshire cows owned by Valter J. Barnett of Indianapolis cored the highest production averse In Indiana during October, ac•ordlng to the Ayrshire Breeders’ .Association. Branton, Vt. ’Hie Barnett herd averaged 651 pounds of 3.99 per cent milk and 25.59 pounds of butterfat.

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The wedded life of recently married Gilbert Colgate Jr., heir to toothpaste and soap millions, shown above with his bride, isn’t apt to be disturbed by threats of Thais Le Pe, Russian dancer, to file a $1,000,000 breach of promise suit against him. For the erratic dancer now is serving a ninety-day jail sentence in Washington on charges of beating hotel bills, and New York police have announced they will rearrest her on a charge of violating parole on another conviction. All her accusations against young Colgate have been denied.

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Cop Kidded Bu Times Bvccial ANDERSON, Ind.. Jan. 3. The ghost of a Christmas goose that did not adorn the table of Policeman Madison C. Kershner still haunts his home. The goose was stolen Christmas eve while Policeman Kershner was out on a call. The bones have since been delivered at the home. They were found on the front porch, wrapped in a newspaper.

AUTOS STOLEN TO AVOID RAIN Cops Attribute Theft of 23 to Discomfort. “My umbrella is gone,” was a frequent complaint to police in year/ gone by when bad weather prevailed. “My car is gone,” is the presentday version of bad-weather complaints. Police, commenting today on the fact twenty-three automobiles were reported stolen Wednesday night and twenty-two more Thursday night, declared that the majority had been taken “to get home in the rain.” Os the twenty-three cars stolen Wednesday night, twelve have been recovered, police said. They expect to find the majority, if not all, of the remainder parked where they were abandoned after the thieves had “got in out of the wet.” At the same time police officials urged car owners to lock the doors of their machines and to take other precautions against thefts. OPEN EAST MICHIGAN CAR LINE EXTENSION Double Track Service to Be Given: Bus Operation to Continue. One track of the East Michigan ! street car line extension was opened Thursday from Sherman drive to I Colorado street. The extension, ■ when completed will provide double i track street car service to Emeri son avenue. | More of the single track will be placed in service as rapidly as posj sible to Sherman avenue, according j to James P. Tretton, general raan- \ ager of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. The extension does not supplant through bus service operated by the street car company over East Tenth street, he said. No feeder bus line has been operated for the East Michigan car line. FURNITURE SUIT FILED Alleged Bucket Shop Defendant to Action on Account. Suit for SI,OOO on account and re- | turn of office furniture was filed | against the Clinton L. Seeley Com- ! pany, alleged bucket shop, in circuit court today by the Business Furniture Company of Indianapolis. The suit names Edward Blessing of the J. F. Wild Realty Company and Otto Krenzberger. receiver for the Seeley company, as defendants. It alleges $1,500 worth of furniture was sold on account to the Seeley company and is unpaid for.

FLIER FINDS TIGHT BELT AND YELLING PREVENT BLINDNESS IN AIR ACROBATICS

H i ScriDiis-Hotcard Xeu-spntter Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—This story is three years old. but it has never been told publicly before. It came about through the announcement last week that two daring British fliers were to make tests of the “black moment”— the period when a flier is supposed to lose his eyesight in making a sharp turn at high speed. These exact tests were made in

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Steel Center Population Increase Makes City Third Largest in Indiana. Gary has made the greatest population gain of any of the five leading Indiana cities during the past ten years, according to estimates of the Newspaper Feature bureau, and is now the third largest in the state. In 1920, Gary's population was roundly, 55.000. At the beginning of 1930, the estimated total is 121,000. Indianapolis, largest Hoosier city, shows a population gain of 314,194 to 418,925. Ft. Wayne, at the beginning of the new year, is the second largest city, a position it also held in 1920. Its growth was from 86,549 to 129,275. Evansville is the fourth largest, growing from 85,264 to 110,843. South Bend is fifth. Its , population in 1920 was 70,983, and it is now 106,475. Ten years ago Gary was the i smallest of the five cities, Evans- j ville has dropped from second to fourth place. The bureau estimate covers fifty- 1 eight Indiana cities, those besides 1 the five largest being as follows: j 1920. 1930. ' Alexandria 4.172 5,563 Anderson 29.767 50,606 Attica 3,392 4.074 Bedford 9,076 18,152 Bloomington 11.595 22.030 Bluffton 5,391 6.200 Brazil 9,293 10,222 Clinton 10.962 9.000 Columbus 8,990 10,114 I Columbia City 3,499 4,665 ! Connersville 9,90! 14,851 , Crawfordsville 10,139 11,829 i Decatur 4.762 5,714 ' East Chicago 35,967 64,741 ; Elkhart 24,277 32,369 Elwood 10.790 13.164 Frankfort 11,585 13,516 Franklin 4,909 5,400 Goshen 9.525 12,383 Greensburg 5,345 6.013 Hammond 36,004 64,807 Hartford City 6.183 7,213 Huntington 14,000 17,080 Jeffersonville 10,098 14,541 Kendallville 5.273 6,157 Kokomo 30,067 40,089 Lafavette 22,486 26,982 La Forte 15.158 17,053 Lebanon 6,257 7,821 Linton 5,858 6,832 Logansport 21.626 25,428 Marion 23.747 31,663 Monticello 2,536 3,297 Michigan City 19.457 30.158 Mishawaka 15,195 30,390 Mount Vernon 5,284 5.724 Muncie 36,524 54,786 Newcastle 14,458 23,131 New Albany 22,902 33,108 Peru 12,410 12,540 Princeton 7,132 10,698 Richmond 26,765 35,687 Rushville 5,498 6,414 Seymour ..... 7,348 8,083 Shelbyvllle 9,701 *2,376 Sullivan 4,489 5,237 Terre Kaute 66,083 77,097 Union City-Ind-0 4,940 5,928 Valparaiso 6,518 8,473 Vincennes 17.160 21.450 Wabash 9,872 8,500 Washington 8,743 12,240 Winchester 4,021 5,629 JAPANESE GIFT DISPLAY Children’s Museum Secretary Will Discuss Exhibit Saturday. Gifts from Japanese school children to American school children will be discussed by Mrs. B. M. Golden, children’s museum executive secretary, at the museum. 1150 North Meridian street, at 10:30 a. m. Saturday. Museum pupils will be shown displays of Japanese dolls and other imported articles, which are kept in the Japanese room of the museum. artisTTo _ be speaker Guy C. Wiggins Slated for Address at John Herron Tonight. Guy C. Wiggins of New York, American artist, will speak at the John Herron Art Institute at 8 tonight. He is the son of Carleton Wiggins, leading animal painter. He will come here from Richmond, Ind.. where he has been honor guest during an exhibition of his work. He will serve with the Fine arts committee of the Art Association here in awarding prizes for paintings byAmerican artists now on exhibition at the institute.

America three years ago by Thomas Carroll, then chief test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Carroll’s report never was published. Caroll found that he couldn’t pull his plane up out of a dive sharply enough, or make a quick turn fast enough, to cause him to lose his eyesight. But he did find that by staying in a fast turn, and going around

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1930

SNOWDEN AND TARDIEU DEBT FIGHHOOMS French Uncompromising as Young Plan Session Is Opened at Hague. REOCCUPATION HINTED Germany’s Failure to Pay May Result in Troop Move to Rhineland. BY SAMUEL DASIIIELI, United Press Staff Correspondent THE HAGUE, Jan. 3—Representatives of every nation concerned in the payment or receiving of war reparations and in liquidation of the vast war debts that have upset the economic equilibrium of Europe for ten years were at The Hague today for the opening of the second Hague conference. The main purpose of the convention is to set up the financial machinery by which the Young plan definitely may become operative, after it has been approved by the delegates and accepted by their respective countries. With the arrival of Premier Andre Tardieu of France, at the head of the largest governmental delegation that ever left Paris, it was believed that France is determined to take a leading, if not dominant role. Furthermore, it is certain that France’s uncompromising attitude will be crystallized in Tardieu’s insistence upon the enactment of sanctions which may include reoccupation of German territory if Germany fails to live up to the terms of the reparations agreement. Remember Fireworks The French, recalling the acerbity of Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, at the first Hague conference, are prepared to enter any political or financial duel that may arise, particularly over the question of deliveries in kind and the problem of tho functions of the projected international bank. Tardieu is backed by repeated votes of confidence from his parliament, and has assumed a virtual dictatorship over the negotiations. Astride Briand, foreign minister, on the other hand, appears to have taken second place, which is in strange contrast to his previous dominance at international conferences. The United States is represented officially by Edwin Wilson, first secretary of the Paris embassy. While forecasts were made that the conference would be peaceful—perhaps uneventful —some observers were skeptical, and professed to expect fireworks from Snowden and Tardieu. Complete Liquidation If the conference is successful, it will create a general agreement on all questions affecting German and non-German reparations, and subsequent ratification of the Young plan may be anticipated. The conference thus provides the means for making effective the fifty-eight-year agreement of the Young plan, which completely should liquidate and terminate the central powers’ indebtedness to the allies. Many minor claims and the regulation of international financial problems, however, must be settled at this meeting. Five important committees, appointed by the first Hague conference, have completed their reports, and will present them to th - conference. Settle it Themselves The sixth committee, which had to do with non-German reparations and was charged with the settlement of Bulgaria’s and Hungary's annuities, failed to agree largely because of the intransigent attitude of both countries, and as a result the two nations will have to fight the matter out themselves. One of the most Important developments of the present conference will be the recommendatioh of the banking committee on the place and charter for the so-called Bank of International Settlements. The committee’s report, it is said, considerably reduces the power originally suggested for the bank, and that institution, which was to be established at Basle, will continue merely as a clearing house for reparations and for the crediting of deliveries in kind. The old reparations commission and the office of the agent-general for reparations will be abolished. U. S. PROBES ROBBERY Postal Inspectors Seek Thieves After Substation Is Looted. Federal officials will take charge of the investigation of the robbery of the Lon Clary drug store at 2136 West Morris street, Thursday night, because postal substation. No. 35, at the drug store v#s looted during the burglary. ' Twenty dollars in postage stamps and money was taken from the substation. W. C. Ela, postal inspector, announced.

and round, prolonging the sensation things gradually would become amber colored and indistinct before his eyes. But he couldn't get entirely blind. m * m THEN he tried another way. He would drive his plane at high speed, then pull up sharply and at the same time swing over into a turn, and keep turning. Things became amber-colored, and then or about the end of the

ONE DEAD, TWO NEAR DEATH IN AUTO SMASHES

He Didn’t Lie Bu Times Soecial MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 3. Money to take his girl to a dance and restaurant was the incentive that tinned a Muncie youth into a bandit. He robbed Clifford Norris, taxi driver, of $4.50, and then took his car. But the bandit was true to his promise. He said the auto would be abandoned near the city, and it was.

INSURANCE CASE APPEAL SLATED Issuance of Nonassessable Policies Held Legal. Appeal to the supreme court of a ruling of Superior Judge Linn D, Hay, in which the issuance of nonassessable reciprocal insurance policies was held legal, was being prepared today by attorneys for Clarence Wysong, state insurance commissioner. Hay’s ruling made permanent an injunction against Wysong prohibiting him from forbidding the sale of such policies. The decision was on a suit brought by the Automobile Underwriters, Inc., attorneys in fact for the State Auto Insurance Association, seeking a temporary restraining order against Wysong's order. The restraining order was granted by Superior Judge James M. Leathers, and the case later was venued to Hay’s court. In reading his opinion, requiring about one hour, Hay held that the whole question of the case is “has the state auditor the power to revoke or withhold license to do business under the law of reciprocal insurance as long as a reserve Is maintained and the laws of the state are followed?” “No provisions of the statute has been violated by the plaintiff, and it is assumed that the reserve provided must be maintained by unlimited assessment of the subscribers. “Those who join the association do so voluntarily and also voluntarily subscribe to all conditions and limitations,” Hay held. Suit of the Iroquois Underwriters, Inc., against Wysong, based on the same premises cited in the case decided by Judge Hay, was taken off the federal court calendar today at request of attorneys. BROKERAGE MANAGER HELD ON THEFT COUNT Roberts & Hall Firm Employe Embezzled $19,000, Charge. Arrest of an employe on emberzzlement charges and suspension of the Roberts & Hall Brokerage Company of Cincinnati from the New York curb exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade today were reported to local offices of the firm at 202 Board of Trade building. Henry Reif Jr„ 37, of Ft. Thomas, Ky., office manager of the firm at Cincinnati, has been arrested on charges of embezzling SIO,OOO. It is charged he indulged in "kiting” of stocks. He had been office manager for six years. An audit of the company’s books is under way and Graham P. Hunt, receiver for the firm which filed a voluntary petition for his appointment in common pleas court at Cincinnati, declared that the full extent of the defalcation could not be determined until the audit is completed. TRACTION ROADMASTER FOUND DEAD IN HOME Police Discover Body After Friends Notice Silence in Home. Cerebral hemorrhage caused the death of John CLaughlin, 70 roadmaster for the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company, whose body was found in his home at 605 Congress avenue, Thursday night by policemen. Neighbors reported they had been unable to find any one at the home and knew that O’Laughlin’s wife was ill at Huntington. Police found O’Laughlin’s body, fully clothed, on the floor. Coroner C. H. Keever held death due to cerebral hemorrhage. Funeral arrangements have not been made. GOOD ADVERTISING YEAR Public Quick to Sense Insincerity, Landis Tells Ad Club. The year 1930 will be a big one for advertising. Frederick Landis, Logansport editor, told the Advertising Club of Indianapolis at the Columbia Club, Thursday. Landis praised sincere advertising, saying the American public was quick to sense a lack of truth in advertising.

second turn he went completely blind. He wrote up his report, and turned it over the the N. A. C. A. It was in turn given to the navy, and navy surgeons conferred over it One navy doctor told Carroll to go back, do his tests over, and do two things. One was to yell as lcudly as he could as he went Into the turn. The other was to wear a tightly-laced polo player's belt. Carroll tried them both.

Man Steps From Sidewalk Into Path of Car and Hurts Prove Fatal. First traffic fatality of the new year in Indianapolis was being investigated today by Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier, following death of Orb R. Johnson, 717 King avenue, Thursday night from injuries sustained New Year's afternoon. Johnson stepped from the sidewalk into the path of an automobile driven by Arnold Theiss, 20, of 82 North Holmes avenue, in the 1000 block West Michigan street. Witnesses declared Theiss was blameless. He was sent to city hospital and then to his home Thursday. A fractured skull caused his death Thursday night. Theiss was not arrested. A man and a young girl were in Indianapolis hospitals today with injuries physicians fear may prove fatal to both, after automobile accidents Thursday night. Struck by Truck Helen Matthews, 14, of 4205 Rockville road, was struck by a truck, driven by Robert Luckett, R. R. 2, box 623, near her home. She suffered a broken jaw and nose, lost several teeth, and was cut and bruised severely. Indiana Christian hospital attaches say her condition is critical Ruth Dillahe 14, of 31 North Vine street, her companion, was not injured. Luckett was not held by police. Oliver Thayer, 34, of 118 North Noble street, sustained a skull fracture when struck by an auto driven by Robert Heiny, 908 East Michigan street, at Noble and Market streets Thursday night. Witnesses told police he was jay-walking at the intersection. Police took Thayer to city hospital, where physicians today reported his condition as critical. Delay Funeral Plans Funeral arrangements for Johnson are pending arrival of a sister from Portland, Ind. He also is survived by an aunt, Mrs. Melvina Mather, with whom he made his home. Two Negroes, who abandoned their automobile after it crashed with a car driven by Charles Burnett, 30, of 2912 Boulevard place, Thursday night, were sought today by police. Burnett said it was driven on the wrong side of the street when the accident occurred. Mrs. Emma Taliefer, 42, same address, riding with Burnett, suffered leg injuries. Others injured in accidents on Thursday night were: John Vanstone, 42, of 611 Langsdale avenue, injuries to right side, and William Tanner, 67, Negro, 1408 Yandes street. MAYOR-ELECT IS CLUB GUEST Renews Civic Co-Operation Pledge to Optimists. Mayor-Elect Reginald H. Sullivan pledged co-operation with civic organizations in “working for betterment of the city” at a luncheon of the Optimistis Club today at the Claypool. Sullivan, Jerry Kinney, police chief in the new administration, which takes office Jan. 6; Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell and City Controller Sterling R. Holt and members of the new council and board of safety were guests of the Optimists at a congratulatory luncheon. The pledge that the police and fire departments will be “kept out of politics” was reiterated by Sullivan. He said the safety board will expect the chiefs to run their respective departments. Thomas Neil Wynne, senior past president of the Optimist Club, presided, and Earl L. Carter, Ralph Elvin, A. E. Smith, Walter J. Pray, Lew W. Cooper, A. P. Stephenson, all past presidents of the club, assisted in welcoming the city officials. Sullivan was introduced by E. Kirk McKinney works board president and past president of the realtors, at a luncheon of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce. POOL BONDS APPROVED Issue for Garfield Park Swimming Tank to Cost $43,500. The state tax board today approved the Indianapolis park board bond issue of $43,500 for construction of a swimming pool in Garfield park. It is to be completed late in May. General contract was let to William C. Martin Company for $26,890; Hatfield Electric Company will install electric fixtures at a cost of $6,332, and plumbing work will be done by the R. M. Cotton Company for $11,092.

And they both worked, he didn’t go blind. tt m TTERE is the reason, in layman's language: There is a gadget In the back of the head that controls the senses, and this gadget gets its power from the oxygen in the blood. In a sharp turn at high speed, the blood is thrown down through the veins away from the head,

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PROSPEROUS YEAR FORECAST FOR INDIANA BY LEADERS IN VARIOUS LINES OF BUSINESS Material Gain Over 1929 Predicted With Several Industries Already Announcing Expansion Programs. §100,000,000 TO BE SPENT IN CALUMET Kokomo, Muncie, Bloomington and Terre Haute Among Cities Where Unanimity of Opinion Backs Optimistic Outlook. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor The Time. Facts and forecasts are in accord as a basis for a belief that 1930 will be a prosperous year in Indiana, it is disclosed in a business and industrial survey of the state for the week ended today. “It is a good business year that is coming,” according to John Fredrick, Kokomo, president of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. “The country has money and also has needs. The money will buy the needed articles and the articles will have to be produced. There is enough work in this country for every one who wants to work and it w ill not be long until this adjustment is over and these jobs will be crying for men to fill them.”

W. H. Arnett, managing director of the state chamber, expresses a belief that 1930 business will materially surpass that of 1929. “Notwithstanding the recent stock market crash, good stocks are in good demand and at honest values,” Arnett declares. A one hundred million dollar expansion program in the Calumet district, affecting the cities of Gary, Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago, is the forecast of the First Trust and Savings bank of Hammond, based on official announcements by the industries which have planned programs for growth. These industries include the Gary works of the United States Steel Corporation, which plans a $50,000,000 expenditure; Inland Steel Company, $10,000,000; track elevation at Hammond. $10,000,000; Insull utilities interests, $10,000,000 for anew substation; Gary Real Estate Board building, $500,000; river and harbor dredging, $1,000,000, and a proposed apartment, home and business buildings, $10,000,000. Bankers Optimistic Three Kokomo bankers expect business to make gains not later than the middle of 1930. Frank McCarty, president of the Citizens National bank, declares: “I expect to see things moving in January. I believe business will begin to pick up soon after the first of the year and that from then on a steady increase will soon bring local production to normal.” Ernest Saward of the First Trust and Savings bank says: “After Feb. 1 it is my guess that Kokomo will swing into a real year. It may be a banner year.” “It will be but a few weeks after the first of the year until most of our people will be at work,” according to George Davis, president of the Howard National bank, “and by the middle of the year there will be plenty of jobs for all able bodied persons.” Officials of the Showers Brothers Furniture Company, with Indiana plants at Bloomington and Bloomfield, hold an optimistic view for 1930. The factories are now on full time schedules with the prospect of continuing on that basis for at least the first half of the year. During the year it is planned to build anew school building at Bloomington to cost not less than SIOO,OOO. Muncie business men expect a marked improvement after a period of readjustment which they set as requiring three months. During 1929, Muncie factories gave employment to 14,000 persons and the total pay roll for the year was $14,000,000. 100 Given Work Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc., with plants at Seymour, Greenwood and Columbus, started the new year with an announcement that its force at Columbus would be increased 100 immediately. Former employes will ! be hired. Bluffton has demonstrated its ability to overcome severe handi- j caps, including bank failures and the closing of the H. C. Bay piano factory, by acquiring the Niemann ' Furniture Manufacturing Company j to occupy the plant. The first group j of employes Is being hired and more will be added as rapidly as machinery can be moved from Chi- j cago, former location of the com- j pany. The Wabash Canning Corporation ; is planning to make 1930 the ban- i

leaving the gadget without oxygen. In a short turn the blood isn’t away long enough to do any harm. But in a prolonged turn it is, so the gadget stops functioning and blindness and also a loss of the sense of touch ensues. When the pilots yells loudly, it contracts the muscles in the stomach and abdomen, makinw sort of a dam which holds the blood up in the head. Wearing a “corset” does the same thing. ,

ner year of its history. Contracting for this year's acreage includes an increase from 500 to 700 for peas and from 1,050 to 1,600 acres for com. Last year the company paid farmers $70,000 and its plant pay roll was $25,000. Conditions more prosperous than for the past several years is the prediction of Terre Haute business and civic leaders for 1930, based on the acquisition of new industries, road improvement and increased interest of citizens in industrial expansion of the city. Among developments expected during the new year, of interest not only to Terre Haute, but much of its trading territory, is the formation of Brazil Minerals, Inc., to use strip mining methods in two sections known to have rich deposits of block coal, terracotta and fire clays and shale. The corporation’s holdings in the two tracts have a value of $2,500,000. Gas Center Formed Terre Haute will become the gas center of the Wabash valley Feb. 1 when the Indiana Consumers and By-Products Company completes laying of pipelines connecting its Terre Haute plant with Paris, 111., and intervening towns on the west, and with Greensburg, Martinsville and smaller Indiana cities and towns on the east. Gas produced by the plant will be pumped through the pipelines. A tank of 500,000 cubic feet capacity and a compressor unit have already been erected. A crossing separation program to cast $1,000,000 will be carried out during 1930 at South Bend. Officials of the Oliver Farm Equipment Company forecast a rapid increase in production during January. Conditions in various Indiana cities are shown in the following summary: Kokomo Unfavorable weather has delayed construction of an addition to the Haynes-Stellite plant and completion is now set for Feb. 1, a month later than at first predicted. The unit will be used in manufacturing hastelloy, anew Haynes-Stellite product. Muncie The Muncie Finance Corporation and the Muncie Home Builders have been merged, the combined assets being $500,000. Anderson —Permits for buildings valued at $1,728,348 were issued here during 1929, including anew hotel, building for the Anderson Herald, two business blocks, additions to the plants of the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company and National Tile Company, and two theaters.

Factory Reopened Marion Operations have been resumed at the United States Glove Company plant following a holiday vacation. Excellent prospects for 1930 are announced by Mark Appleby, manager. Decatur The Ashbaucher tin shop, founded here in 1915, by A. R. Ashbaucher, has moved into new quarters, a two-story brick building with 7,000 square feet of floor space. East Chicago—The First National Bank and Trust Company has moved into its new $750,000 building. South Bend—The South Bend Building and Loan Association is occupying its new building, a twelve-story structure and tallest in the city. Assets increased from $200,000 in 1917, to nearly $11,000,000 in 1929. Brazil—After a week's idleness, while machinery was being repaired, operations have been resumed at the plant of the Brazil Brick and Hollow Tile Company. Shelbyville—Work will begin April 1 on erection of a $45,000 business building fronting on the public square. The building is already under lease to a chain store. Ft. Wayne Getz Motors announces an addition to its building adding 35.000 square feet to floor space, bringing the total to 95.000 square feet, will be erected this year. Hartford City—Blackford county will Issue $45,000 in bonds to cover cost of improving the Franklin road. Lifelong Resident, 85. Dies Bv Time* Special ANDERSONVILLE, Ind., J an. 3. —George Goble, 85, a lifelong resident of Posey township. Franklin county, is dead here. He leaves the widow, Mrs. Jennie Goble: f wo daughters, Mrs. Carrie V " and Mrs. Flora D. Richardson; two sis* ters, Mrs. Sarah Slut. , ....... and, and Mrs. Anna Simmonson, Andersonville.