Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1930 — Page 13

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PRODUCTION IN STEEL MILLS ON INCREASE Survey of State Industries Lends Encouragement to Business. RECORD SET IN GARY Large Can-Building Orders Are Issued by Two Railroads. BY CHARLES C. STONE Granted that condition of the steel industry is a barometer of business, there is every reason for being encouraged in a belief that better times are near, a survey of Indiana business and industry for the week ended today reveals. The Gary works of the Illinois | Eteel Company, largest unit of its kind in the world, are operating at better than 90 per cent of capacity, a month ahead of the usual date when that output is attained. Nine blast furnaces are in operation at the works, four having been i started in as many weeks. Large Car Orders Railroads have placed large orders with car manufacturers in the Calumet district in the last few days. The Standard Steel Car Company, Hammond, will make 1,500 box cars lor the Chesapeake & Ohio and I, for the Pere Marquette and the Pullman Car Company, Michigan City, 1,500 automobile box cars lor the Pere Marquette. Two South Bend plants have received large orders from the Ford Motor Company. The Bantam Ball Bearing Company will make 30,000 bearings during February and the Bendix Brake Company has an order for 1,000.000 units. Largest Concern Formed The most important development of the week in Indianapolis was the merger of Furnas Furniture Company and the Radio Allied Industries, Inc., forming a $1,800,000 corporation. said to be the largest in the world devoted exclusively to the manufacture of radio cabinets. Conditions in various cities of the state are shown in the following summary: Anderson tered February with employment end production at highest points in several months. The Guide Lamp Corporation is near normal production. Some departments of the Delco-Remy plants are near full forces. January business of the maisonette division of the WardStilson Company exceeded the same month last year by 25 per cent. Production is increasing gradually at the Anderson Stove Foundry since resumption of operations Jan. 6, after two months idleness. Normal production is expected by March 15. Certainteed Products is operating on a twentyfour hour a day schedule. 450 Carloads of Stone Sold Bedford—The Indiana Limestone Company has obtained the contract for stone to be used in erecting the Empire State Life building, New York, requiring 450 carloads. Kokomo—Completion of a new' foundry’ addition to the KaynesStelhte plant' has been set. for Feb. 20. Hastelloy, anew product of the company, will be made In the foundry. The Superior Tool and Machine Company is operating to capacity, with 225 men employed. Martinsville—The Grassy Fork Fisheries has leased space In the Chicago mercantile mart, the world's largest building, for display of its products. Tipton—Erection of a new bul'ding for the Citizens National bank, replacing one destroyed by fire Jan. 6. is under way. Completion is set for June 1. Greencastle —The Lone Star Cement Company plant has suspended operations, making 200 men idle. Officials of the company hope to resume operations about March 15. All storage capacity is now filled with cement, for which the demand diminished, due to severe cold weather, which halted building operations. E. C. Thomas has purchased the Terre Haute Casket Company, wholesale concern. Reorganization Planned Roshville —Directors of the InnisPearce Company, one of the pioneer furniture manufacturers of this city, which is being operated by Malcolm Lucas, receiver, have decided on plans for reorganization. Portland —The Bimel Spoke and Wheel Company, one of the oldest manufacturing concerns here, is to suspend operations. An option for sale of its physical assets has been taken by the Cleveland Welding and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, 0., which plans to move the equipment from Portland. Newcastle —The local plant of the Chrysler Corporation is employing the largest force in several months, with 200 more men on the pay roll than were carried in January. Marion—Edwin Lee, manager of the Marion Malleable Iron Works, announces prospects for 19/0 are excellent. More than five hundred men have been employed in the plant the last few months, usually a quiet period for the industry. Wabash —Operation of the Reliance Manufacturing Company plant, anew industry here, has been started. Windfall —The American Wire Fence Protector Company, composed of local men. has started operations. J. 8. Mitchell and Carl Rudden of the Windfall Canning Company have leased canning plants at Summltville and Sweetser. The local company already has plants here, at Atlanta Sharp6ville and Greentown,

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Chicago Stans Pay Off, Using Paper for Money

Bv United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Scrip went out from the emptied city coffers today in lieu of real money to pay Chicago’s debts. Tax anticipation warrant No. 1 for $40,000 of the 1830 issue, bearing the signature of Mayor William Hale Thompson, was turned over to M. Huber, Inc., the firm which handles the city’s refuse. Deputy Controller Petterson said that any creditor of the city who wished would be paid in tax anticipation warrants and that any of the 25,000 city employes who have not been paid for more than a month also may

RELATIVES HELD CAUSE OF QUIZ Broker Blames Grudge for New Murder Probe. Ru T'nited Press CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Grudge-bear-ing relatives w r ere blamed today by James E. Dowd, Chicago broker, for the reopened investigation of the mysterious death last October of Mrs. Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus, following a fall from the balcony of the Potomac boat club at Washington during a party. The case was believed closed last fall when a coroner’s jury held the divorcee’s death accidental. The renewed inquiry was started by relatives who charged in affidavits that Mrs. Dreyfus was killed because she “knew too much’’ about the murder of Dot King in New York in 1923. Summoned to appear Monday, at Washington, as a witness before the grand jury, Dowd said he believed the new inquiry was prompted by a desire on the part of the woman’s relatives to “get” Edmund J. Mcßrian Jr., New York broker. “In my opinion, certain relatives indirectly are responsible for Mrs. Dreyfus’ death,” Dowd asserted. “They did not like her friend, McBrian, and constantly nagged her about him. “I was here in Chicago, the night of the accident, but I believe these relatives harrassed her so about Mcßrian that she drank too heavily and fell, or deliberately attempted suicide to escape their complaints.” FOUR FIRE DEAD BURIED Children Rest in Grave Given Parents at South Bend. 81l Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 7. Four children of Mr. and Mrs. William Hoover, victims of the fire which destroyed their home Monday afternoon, were buried Thursday. The bodies were lowered Into a grave given the family by a cemetery association. This gift is among hundreds of offers of help that have been proffered the destitute family. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover and their remaining four children will probably start anew in anew cottage and he will be given steady employment after being out of work all winter. FUND THEFT TRIAL SET Former Township Trustee Will Face Court March 10. pu Times Svccial WASHINGTON, Ind., Feb. 7. John H. Waggoner will go on trial in Daviess circuit court here March 10 before Judge M. S. Hastings, charged with embezzling SB,OOO from Washington township funds while serving as trustee. Bond was sent at $5,000. Books of the office during Waggoner’s term are still being audited by Carl Coble, state board of accounts examiner, who announces several more days work will be required to complete the task. ROWBOTTOM IS OPPOSED Mt. Vernon Man Also to Be Candidate for Representative. By United Press MT. VERNON, Ind.. Feb. 7. Bruce E. Cooper, Republican, state senator from Vanderburg, Posey and Warrick counties, will announce his candidacy for representative in congress from the First district, it was learned here. Cooper is the First district Republican chairman and •Rill oppose Representative Harry Rowbottom in the primary. Historical Society Elects By United Pres*! EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 7.—William M. Barker, Boonville, was reelected president of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society and chairman of its board of directors at its annual meeting here. Other officers are: Vice-president, Robert A. Woods, Princeton; secretary, Kenneth Weyerbacher. Boonville; treasurer, Mrs. John Sanders, Evansville, and curator, Miss Ann Page, Evansville.

RUTH DRAPER, THE ‘ONE-WOMAN SHOW,’ PUTS BIG PRODUCERS TO SHAME

BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Feb. 7.—While many managers and actors are complaining that this is the darkest hour for the American theater Miss Ruth Draper is busy proving that people still are willing to pay the price if they can see a good show. On Monday, Miss Draper begins the eighth week of her one-woman show at the Comedy theater, and the week has yet to come when less than SIO,OOO is taken in at the box office. A gross of SIO,OOO is respectable figure for any play to earn in a house so small as the Comedy, but for an actress to draw such crowds by herself is a theatrical phenomenon. _

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get .his salary in scrip by applying to the controller's office. The move to pay in scrip was taken as the start of a war on the Strawn “rescue” committee by the forces of Mayor William Thompson, who never have been more than lukewarm in accepting the aid of the committee. To those city employes who get the warrants, prospects of first real money in more than a month was held out. School teachers and other employes of the school board were not included .in the largesse. Their only hope lay in the success of efforts of H. Wallace Caldwell, school board president, to sell tax anticipation warrants in New York.

Co-operation in Child Welfare Work Pledged

Judge Frank J. Lahr Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the judgeship of the court in which he lias presided since 1914. Asa member of the Social Workers’ Club, Parent Teachers’ Association, Society for Mental Hygiene, State Teachers’ Association and the State Conference of Social Work, Lahr has spent the greater part of his life in study of child welfare problems. He has devoted many years to study of pedagogy, psychloogy, sociology and criminology. A graduate of the Indiana Teachers’ college, Terre Haute, Lahr for several years was principal of the Shelbyville high school, later entering law study. He graduated from the Indiana law school. He practiced law privately in Indianapolis until his election to the juvenile court judgeship in 1916. He is the father of six children and resides at 4910 Washington boulevard. Pledge is made by Lahr ‘to maintain the fullest and freeset co-op-eration with the school and church as well as to seek aid of parents in solving child delinquent problem.s” SAFE BLAST NETS $7 Office at Lebanon Damaged by Explosion Set Off by Robbers. By United Press _ , _ „ LEBANON, Ind., Feb. 7.—Burglars entered the office of the Indiana Condensed Milk Company at Lebanon early this morning and escaped with $7, obtained by blasting the safe. The blast slightly damaged the office interior, police said. $5,000 ALIMONY GIVEN Wife of Fugitive in Gambling Case Obtains Divorce. Pv Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Feb. 7. Mrs. Leila Heater, wife of Jack Heater, who is wanted on charges of operating a gambling establish-, ment, was granted a divorce and $5,000 alimony by Judge J. Fred Bingham in superior court. Mrs. Heater asked the alimony to support their two children, Carl 6, and Regina, 8. Heater was accused with Golden 'D. Mann, William Lowery and Paul Hulton in the gambling case. The other three were tried and convicted. He is supposed to be in Florida, out of reach of a warrant awaiting him here. WAR VETERAN DETAINED Passport Tangle Prevents Return to South Bend From Canada. pv Ti mes Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 7.—Arnold Stanton, assistant efficiency engineer for the Bendix Aviation Corporation here, “a man without a country,” held at Toronto, Canada, because of technical irregularities in his passport, is being aided by the local post of the American Legion. While serving as an aviator in the Canadian army during the World war he was shot down twice in planes.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930

MARKET GLUT BRINGS CRISIS FOR FARMERS Federal Board Prepares to Face Surplus Wheat Emergency. U. S. MAY BUY UP GRAIN Formation of Stabilization Company to Stimulate Price Expected. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb 7.—The federal farm board, facing its first emergency brought about by a wheat surplus and shortage of a market for it, will meet here Monday to decide whether it will set up the machinery provided by congress to cope with such situations. Formation of a grain stabilization corporation to buy up the surplus held by co-operative marketing agencies and thus steady the lagging price, as authorized by congress, has been recommended by the wheat advisory committtee of the Farmers’ National Grain Corporation, after canvassing the situation with Chairman Alexander Legge of the farm board at Chicago. Legge is expected back here today or Saturday and will be prepared to lay the whole situation befor the board Monday. Whether the board will take the emergency measures provided by congress, can not be forecast, but congressional farm leaders expect the formation of a $25,000,000 grain stabilization corporation within a few days. From Revolving Fund The $25,000,000 would come from the $150,000,000 revolving fund appropriated by congress. In taking this step, the government would embark on a business venture of greater magnitude than even attempted before in this country in peace time and one which will be closely watched. The board faces a very important decision, and the first real test of the Hoover administration’s farm relief board program. Congress provided that the various commodity groups, such as the grain corporation at Chicago, could form stabilization corporations in an em~' - gency to buy up crops and steady the market, with approval of the farm board. Such is the proposal in this case. How seriously the board considered the.present wheat situation is shown by Legge’s conference at Chicago and a trip through the wheat era now being taken by Samuel McKelvie, wheat member of the board. Steady Export Drop Storage facilities for wheat are “quite packed,” according to the department of agriculture. There has been a steady drop in the export demand. Crops abroad are good and the foreign market for American wheat is poor. Visible stocks of wheat In the United States on Feb. 1 were 168,351,000 bushels, nearly 40,000,000 bushels more than a year ago, and farmers are continuing to send their commodity to markets and elevators despite this surplus abroad. Wheat production in the United States is keeping ahead of demand and it is estimated the 1930 crop will be about 570,000,000 bushels, about the same as in 1928. Export wheat must compete with export from Canada, Australia, Argentina and possibly Russia. The farm board already has warned farmers to reduce spring wheat acreage this year. This condition and the lack of export demand, coupled with * statement from the federal farm board that it had not predicted wheat prices would be higher in the season, has resulted in a decline of 9 cents a bushel for No. 1 northern spring wheat in the last month. PRISONER DENIES GUILT Youth Identified as “Banana Kid” by Six Taxicab Drivers. Six taxicab drivers, several filling station attendants and a pedestrian

were robbery victims of “The Banana Kid,” whom police now say is Kennpth Hunt, 21, Os 1504 Blaine avenue, bound over to the grand jury Thursday from municipal court on charges of robbery and banditry. Hunt, denies the title, although he has been iden-

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„ .1. „ . tified by several Kenneth Hunt He was arrested at his home after police received an underworld tip that he was “The Banana Kid.”

Critics are almost unanimous in calling Miss Draper one of the authentic geniuses of the stage, a woman like a Duse or a Bernhardt, who comes along every third decade or so. So far as is known, Miss Draper is the only actress since the days of Maude Adams’ success, who has an honest aversion to publicity. She never has been interviewed, and information concerning her is wrenched from the press agent with difficulty, \ Technically, she presents a series of monologues. Where the Ziegfelds, the Dillinghams and the Whites spend hundreds of thousands o dollars on costumes, scenery and talent Miss Draper take*, a chair, a shawl and a vacant stage e- nf i peoples it with characters that range

Blind Parents Can Not See Face of Beautiful Daughter

Unable to Share in Her Pleasure at Election By High School. By "SEA Service MEMPHIS, Tenn., ’Feb. 7. Every one else in Memphis may admire the beauty of Ruth Furr, 18, chosen as Memphis’ most beautiful high school girl, but her parents can not see their daughter’s face—they never have and never will. For both Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Furr are blind, and have been for their lifetimes. When Ruth returned home from Humes high school the other day and told her mother she had just been elected the most beautiful high school girl, Mrs. Furr smiled and passed her sensitive fingers over her daughter’s face. “I know you are beautiful, honey, even though I can’t see you,” the mother said. Every Sunday since she was S years old Rath had led her mother by the hand to the Third Christian church, where Mrs. Furr, despite her blindness, is an organist. “I don’t judge by physical appearances alone,” Mrs. Furr said. “Real beauty is in the soul and in the personality. Ruth is a happy girl and she helps me around the house—makes me comfortable and happy all the time. So I know she is beautiful.” Blindness has not cast a shadow over the family. The home is happy and cheerful. Mr. Furr, Ruth’s father, is not entirely blind—that is, he can see very slightly with powerful glasses. Until a year ago he was in charge of a broom factory for the blind. Now he spends his days at home, living in his world of shadows and worshipping the beautiful daughter whose face he can not see. Tramp Gives Fire Alam VALPARAISO, Ind., Feb. 7.—A tramp trudging along a road gave the alarm when he saw a house in flames. His warning helped to save the ocupants and building.

DEVELOPMENT OF AIR FIELD STUDIED

Progress! Bv Times Special "LONDON, Feb. 7. While Paris is getting all hot about the latest feminine styles, here’s one for the men, designed by the big shots of Bond street —which is to London what the Rue De La Paix is to Paris. Attention, gents! Your next dress shirt should button down the side, with a sort of false dicky in front to cany your shirt studs. The collar opens at the side, too, with the stud holes in the usual position. It may be easier to get into. And again it may not.

BANKERS TO SHOOT Rifle Contest to Be Held by State Group. The annual rifle shoot of the Indiana State Bankers’ Association will be held at Ft. Benjamin Harrison June 9, the association’s statd protective committee announced Thursday. The shoot will be under the direction of Colonel H. P. Hobbs and Lieutenant A. D. Reid. Several women plan to enter the events, it was said. Members of the state protective committee are C. E. Lamb, Mt. Summit, chairman; L. O’Hara, Newcastle; H. H. Etzold, Ft. Wayne, and H. C. Almy, Muneie. ADMifs~BANK ROBBERY Former Indianapolis Man Held for SI,OOO Holdup in Illinois. By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Feb. 7.—T. J. Barnes, a resident of Indianapolis until a few days ago, is held here today for authorities of Lahouge, Illcharged with being one of three men who Thursday held up a bank and obtained SI,OOO. Barnes was arrested here by state police two hours after the robbery. Officials here announce Barnes has confessed and named his confederates, whose arrest is expected soon. He was found in the automobile of a Danville resident who had picked him up along the road. Contempt Penalty Asked By United Press FRANKFORT, Ind.. Feb. 7.—Attorneys for John B. Alford, Clinton county drainage commissioner, filed a petition in circuit court here against Clarence R. Norris, retiring commissioner, alleging contempt. The petition claims records held by Norris have not been turned over to Alford, and that numerous drains under construction are recorded in the books held by Norris, who has said he will continue to act as commissioner.

Above are Ruth Furr, 18, Memphis’ prettiest high school girl, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Fun-, both of whom are blind.

PETTY FINED ON ATTACKCHAR6E Former Deputy Sheriff Is Convicted by Collins. Elmer E. Petty, former deputy sheriff, was found guilty of assault and battery by Criminal Judge James A. Collins today and was fined $5 and costs. The fine and costs were suspended. He was admonished by the court that he did not use good judgment when he struck Walter Wolf, of Acton, patron at a dance hall on Pendleton pike. Petty was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days at the penal farm Oct. 12 on charges of being intoxicated while operating a sheriff’s automobile. He formerly was Fifteenth ward Republican chairman.

City Officials Pay Visit to Ohio Port to Obtain Suggestions. A co-ordinated plan for development of the city’s flying field south of Ben Davis is expected to be decided upon in the near future. The board of public works and a few councilmen visited the Columbus (O.) field this week to get ideas on the local project. The city officials have had no experience in building an airport and their ideas differ. Several civic committees have studied airport data but none have been able to agree on the proper steps. The use of the Banner avenue entrance from the National road as the main entrance is considered inadvisable because of the hazard of the seven railroad tracks west of the city which would have to be crossed. It is impossible for the railroads to change their elevation, and an elevated crossing at that point would cost in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO, it is said. It is likely the original plan of City Engineer A. H. Moore will be followed and the High School road used as a main entrance to the port. It is planned to develop an industrial area east of the Banner avenue entrance. SUIT FOLLOWS SEARCH Farmer Alleges Wife Suffered Due to Officer’s Visit. pu Times Special BOONVILLE, Ind., Feb. 7. Damages of $2,000 are sought by Clarence Blue, farmer, in a suit filed here against Clarence C. Ferguson as a result of embarrassment and nervous shock suffered by Mrs. Blue when her home was searched by Sheriff Ward for stolen corn. Ferguson signed a search warrant in the case. No com was found. Blue says that as a result of the officer’s visit, he was forced to expend money for doctor bills to restore his wife’s health. TAXI COMPANIES CLASH Brick Smashes Cab Window as Result of Strife at Muneie. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 7.—Police are investigating a taxicab war that showed signs of becoming serious. Bricks were thrown through the window of a cab as it was driven on a street. No one was injured. Many new cab companies have begun operations within the last two weeks and prices are being reduced greatly. One company is giving free service. False calls are being received by the companies, drivers being called by telephone to various addresses over the city and arriving, find the narty has not called.

from an absent-minded society matron to an aged begger woman in an latlian church. , , „„ _ There is no compromise with an American audience—if Miss Draper 's portraying a German tourist she renders the monologue in German. French, Italian, German and English sketches are included in her performance, and she closes the repertoire witfc an eloquent scene in which no word is spoken. Her audiences, unlike most playgoers here, are quiet and they arrive on time. Miss Draper appears in a simple brown evening gown. The secret of her genius, critics say, is that when she gives a monologue her work is so vivid that the audience not only sees the character the actress is portraying, but forms a perfect mental picture of the imaginary characters to whom she is talking.

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REPORT FLAYS INDIANJIADERS Reservation Heads Charged With ‘Laxity.’ Ru United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Removal of L. D. Arnold, superintendent, and R. W. Wheat, financial clerk of the Klamath Indian reservation in Oregon, was recommended to the senate today by the senate Indian investigating committee. The committee reported it had found “an extravagant administration both of agency activities and the timber supervision work” and “an extreme laxity” in the Handling of grazing permits. The committee said the reservation hospital had been boycotted during 1928 and that the experimental farm “is a complete failure, indeed a mere extravagant pretense.” Every man, woman and child on the reservation was taxed $213 during 1928, the committee reported. The Klamath tribe, “although paying a per capita tax at least twice or more as great as the per capita aggregate of taxes in white communities appeared from the testimony to be receiving actually less service than the surrounding rural communities of Oregon,” the report declared. WIRE CUTTING BELIEVED PART OF ROBBERY PLOT Newmarket Isolated From Communications by Phone and Telegraph. Pu Times Special NEWMARKET, Ind., Feb. 7. Telephone and telegraph service here has been restored after wires were cut in what authorities believe was a plot to prevent discovery by bandits planning a raid on the town. The only place entered was the office of the Vandalia raih’oad. Nothing was taken, but telegraph instruments were wrecked. Near a pole which had been climbed to reach wires, a cheap watch was found. Its number had been filed off. The watch had stopped at 1:30 a. m. Farm to Be Refuge VALPARAISO, Ind.. Feb. 7.—A seventy-acre farm near Valparaiso has been purchased to provide a summer refuge for children living in the Chicago stockyards section.

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Fannie Hurst Fannie Hurst, for years one of America’s foremost women writers, will make her radio debut tonight in a humorous narrative talk over the Columbia Broadcasting chain. WFBM, the Indianapolis Power and Light Company station, will carry the talk, which is included in the program, which starts at 7.

SCHOOL HEADS RAPPED FOR LAX METHODS Speaker Charges Indiana Is Blinded by Faulty Administration. SYSTEM IS ‘WORN OUT’ Asserts State Has Taken Indifferent Attitude on Education. “Indiana has been penny wise and pound foolish with respect to public education,” asserted Dr. Paul Mort, professor of education, Teachers’ college, Columbia university, today, addressing the Indiana Superintendents’ Association at the Lincoln on “Refinancing the Schools of Indiana.” Dr. Mort, a former Hoosier, and national authority on school finance, scored state officials for their lax methods in promoting education. State Blinded “An indifferent attitude in Indiana has countenanced practices on part of state authorities for years in establishing a picayunish type of supervision of education in local communities. “The state has allowed itself to be blinded by inadequate administration, by an outworn system of control, and inefficiencies in operation,” he declared. He urged application of scientific methods to the problem of education and appealed for state aid for communities that are taxed to the limit. “Eventually, If education is to be allotted with equal opportunity for all, practically all communities will Ire receiving state aid for schools,” he said. Finance Program In his opinion, the state must accept responsibility for equalizing educational opportunity and responsibility for encouraging educational progress, Mr. Mort asserted. "An educational financing program can be worked out so that the amount of money asked for in any community will be no more and no less than the community needs.. “By setting up a financing system with the burden of supporting schools upon the people in all localities according to their taxpaying ability, the question of financing schools of Indiana can be solved.” Educators Speak Other prominent educators spoke at the closing session of the association’s annual convention today, including Dr. R. W. Holmstedt, Indiana university; Dr. J. W. Jones, Indiana State Normal school, and Superintendent R. N. Tiery, Bloomington. Dr. Homer P. Rainey, Franklin college president, urged revision of the tax laws as an Important move in correcting the Indiana school situation, at the Thursday association's session. AID TO MURDERER OF POLICEMAN CONVICTED Frankfort Man Faces Prison Term of One to Ten Years. By United Press FRANKFORT, Ind., Feb. 7. Charles Cudahy, 43, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of Amos Hamilton, Frankfort policeman, last October, in Clinton circuit court here. He was accused as an accessory. The offense carries a penalty of one to ten years’ imprisonment. Sentence was to be pronounced today by Judge Brenton Devol. Cudahy kept Clyde Jones in his home the night the latter shot and killed Hamilton. Cudahy said he was intoxicated and did not know Jones was in trouble with police. It was necessary for officers to hurl a tear gas bomb into Cudahy’s home before the two surrendered. Jones was given a life sentence last week. FATHER SLAYER GUILTY Charles Hyers Fails in Insanity Plea and Faces Life Imprisonment. Pv Times Special KENTLAND, Ind., Feb. 7. Charles Hyers, 44, faces a life term in prison as a result of being convicted of second degree murder of his aged father. The son made a plea of insanity, but failed when Sheriff John Bartholomew declared the prisoner had remarked he had “fooled” doctors who gave him a sanity test. The slaying was due to a desire of the son to inherit a farm from his father. Meningitis Causes Ban By United Press KENTLAND, Ind., Feb. 7.—Threat of a spinal meningitis epidemic has resulted in closing of all schools and postponement of public meetings here. Jerome Brown, 17, meningitis sufferer, is in a Wautseka hospital. He is not expected to live. Co-Eds Play Leap Year Bv Times Special NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind., Feb. 7.—-Co-eds of Manchester college will observe “break night” Saturday, and pretending 1930 is a leap year, will arrange dates with male students and will pay for any entertainment. Injured Pilot Bests Pu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 7.—Ernest E. Basham, air mall pilot on the Buffs* 10-Cleveland line who was seriously injured in a crash at £JUver Creek, N. Y., Monday, is here to recover , from his injuries. His wife is with him.