Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1930 — Page 2

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CITY VICTORIOUS IN FEDERAL GAS COMPANY CASE Judge Gives Stand on Law; Final Hearing Is Set for May 1. The city won a significant victory in the Citizens Gas Company case today when Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell overruled the motion of attorneys for Newton I. Todd, broker, to strike out substantially all the city and the company answers to the original complaint. Todd represents a group of certificate of stock holders who seek to block the city’s acquisition of the utility in accordance with the original franchise granted in 1905. Baltzell, in commenting on the decision, said the ruling on the motion practically decided the main issue of the suit. May 1 was set tentatively by Baltzell as the final hearing date. Appeal to Be Taken John W. Holtzman and Fred C. Gause represented the city and William H. Thompson, the utility. Frederick E. Matson, attorney for Todd, informed the court the plaintiff will file amendments to the complaint, but will raise no new questions which will delay the case. The steps are preliminary to an appeal to the circuit court of appeals at Chicago. The suit was based on the contention that the 1905 agreement was invalidated when the utility surrendered the franchise for an indeterminate permit under the public service commission. Contract Was Valid “If the motion is overruled in its entirety, it is, in effect, an adjudication of the validity of the contract and of the other three questions presented by the motion, provided, the allegations contained in the answers, relating thereto, can be proven by the evidence,” Baltzell said. ‘‘This is indicative of the importance of the questions presented by the motion.” “There can be no doubt that the contract in question was valid at the time of its execution,” Baltzel said, citing statutes to show that the voluntary surrender of the franchise at the time an indeterminate permit was taken out did not relieve the utility from the agreement with the city. The court declared there is no question as to the right of a city to accept a “public trust” and pointed out “it was the intention of all. including the plaintiff in this action, that the property of the gas company was to be operated for the ultimate benefit of the citizens of the city." PROBE DRY SHOOTING Agents May Face Murder Charge Following Raid Fatality. Bv United Preen TULSA. Okla., Feb. 26.—Assistant County Attorney W. T. Coffey today said he would file murder charges against, three federal prohibition agents as soon as he concluded his Investigation into the shooting Monday right of two alleged bootleggers. Tile federal agents who figured in the shooting are W. F. Wolverton, M. E. Craig and H. B. Jones. George Lewis Redding. 32, one of the men shot during the raid conducted by the three officers in Red ding's home, near Tulsa, died Tuesday. M. L. Storms. 35, Redding's companion, was in a critical condition, hospital attendants said. SMITH DECLARED OUT —. — ! National Democratic Head Thinks .41 Will Not Run Again. Ru United /’r> ** MEMPHIS. Tenn., Feb. 26,-Jou-ett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic national executive committee, was here today and gave as his “personal opinion” that Alfred E. Smith "never again will be a candidate for the presidency.” “Should the Democratic nomination again be offered Smith he. would decline it. in my opinion,” Shouse said. “He realizes he could not be elected.” DANCE CONTEST TO END Nick Lucas Will Judge Finals of Tango Waltz. Competition. Nick Lucas, “crooning troubadour.” appearing on the Indiana theater stage this week, will judge the finals of the city-wide tango waltz contest at the Indiana roof ballroom tonight. Three couples will be chosen in the last preliminary in advance’of the finals. The “Dancing D’Harts” will give an exhibition of Argentine tango. CONFER ON MEMORIAL Clark Commission Talks Contracts for Vincennes Structure, Executive committee of the George Rogers Clark memorial commission today conferred with Fred C. Hirons. New York architect, whose mentor al plans were selected lor design of the $1,500,000 memorial at Vincennes. The conference regarded the contract between Hirons and the com- | mission under which the architect will work out further details of construction. There also was discussion on the letting of contracts for the j memorial construction.

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Superior Court Bench Sought by Mitchell

William C. Mitchell

William C. Mitchell, former assistant United States district attorney, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for judge of Marion superior court one. The candidate, in making his announcement. declared he is a “regular Republican,” having no alliance with any faction. Since resigning from federal service in September, Mitchell has engaged in the general practice of law’ with offices in the Meyer-Kiser Bank building. Mitchell was born in Martinsville, went to schools there; and attended the University of Michigan and the Harvard law' school. He Is a member of the Sigma Chi, the Scottish Rite and the Indianapolis Bar Association. He was engaged in the practice of law in New Haven. Conn., prior to 1920 when he returned to Indiana. He is married, has four children and lives at 2029 North Alabama street.

REBEL FORCES TAKE CAPITAL Santo Domingo Falls With Casualties. By United Press SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Republic, Feb. 26.—Revolutionary’ forces entered Santo Domingo at dawn today and occupied the city. They made no effort to take the fort upon their entrance. Casualties aie believed to be few. The insurrectionist forces are estimated at about 2.000. They were armed with rifles, but were not uniformed. The revolutionists took over the public works department and the central police station and seized other strategic points. The regular army appeared to be submitting to the occupation without resistance in the capital. General Jose Estrella, commanding the revolutionary army, led his forces into the city. After the occupation of the capital, he visited United States Minister Curtiss ai the American legation and him that the lives and property of United States citizens will be protected. The whereabouts of President Horacio Vasquez was uncertain. The military’ phase of the revolution appeared to have been successfully accomplished at 9 a. m. The government troops did not resist the occupation of the capital and the public apparently accepted the change in government as a fact, considering the resignation of Vasquez was inevitable. The president was understood to be in the capital, but reports that he had resigned could not be confirmed. Vice-President Jose D. Alfonseca told the United Press he definitely had resigned his office.

Seymour Water Rates Revert to Old Scale

Franchise of 1890 Pervails Now, Attorney-General Aid Rules. Seymour Water Company. Seymour. must pay the penalty for not submitting to public service commission rate regulation by returning to the maximum rates allowed by their city franchise of 1890. This ruling was made by the at-torney-general's office in an opinion to Chairman John W. McCardle written by George W. Hufsmith, assistant attorney-general in charge of utility matters. The Seymour company refused to accept an indeterminate permit for their thirty-year franchise upon passage of the . Spencer-Shively utilities regulation law. The franchise, signed in 1890. really covers a sixty-year period, as it contains a thirty-year extension clause. Hufsmith found. In 1920, the Seymour city council granted a ten-year rate increase, which has expired. The ruling sets out that the original rates now prevail and the company can only seek commission relief by special act of the legislature. Refund suits for the ten-year period also might be instituted under the ruling. $4,000 Home Burned GREENSBURG, Ind., Feb. 26. The farm home of Mrs. Martha Reed, three miles southwest of this city, was destroyed by fire, with a loss approximating $4,000. She was not at home at the time, and neighbors who fought the flames were able to save only six chairs and a

CLOSING ORDER NOT WORRYING AGUA CALIENTE Patrons Refuse to Believe Resorts Are Target of President Rubio. BY RONALD W. WAGONER United Press Staff Correspondent AGUA CALIENTE, Baja, Cal., Feb. 26.—1 fa sword is hanging over the head of Agua Caliente, gayest of Mexico's pleasure resorts, its patrons Intend to dance while they, may. The ponies ran today as usual; the Casino vas open for business; the bars were well patronized, and Americano visitors basked in the Spanish atmosphere of the redroofed inn. Agua Caliente, its proprietors and clients, refused to believe “close down” instructions issued in Mexico City by President Ortiz Rubio ever will clamp the padlock on the whirling gambling wheels of this .esort or still the hoof beats of the running horses at the new race track. Resorts Not Target It Is the general opinion here that. President Rubio, in issuing his instructions through Secretary of Interior Portes Gil. did not mean that Agua Caliente. neighboring Tia Juana, or Ensenada, further down the coast, should be affected. These resorts, it was pointed out. are operated under contracts held by Americans through the courtesy of the government. All of the agreements, it was said, have several years to run. Francisco Javier Gaziola. secretary to Governor Jose Maria Tapia of Baja California, was on record as believing that the move is to curb unauthorized gaming throughout Mexico but is not designed to interfere with long established concessions. Actors Heavy Bettors Many of the heavy bettors at Agua Caliente are members of the Hollywood film colony. Huge losses or winnings experienced by various persons whose names are known through the screen are .reported Confirmation of these stories is difficult, however, as Agua. Caliente keeps its secrets. Liquor is served in the Agua Caliente casino, in cases and in the bungalows and hotel rooms, but sharp-eyed Mexican officers are at hand to discourage quietly any type of rowdyism.

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CLUB WILL PRESENT COMEDY AT SCHOOL Play Proceeds Will Be Turned Over to Parent-Teacher Group.

Lloyd Wright Mrs. Fretta Seitz

Lloyd Wright and Mrs. Fretta Seitz will have prominent roles in “Fun in a Theatrical Office,” comedy to be presented at School No. 62, Wallace and Tenth streets. Thursday and Friday nights by the Kendall Dramatic Club. Proceeds of the play will be devoted to work for the ParentTeacher Association of the school. Mrs. Wilma Davis Hine of the Jordan Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art is directing the play. Mrs. Anna Bell and Miss Wanda Jean Goodwin will give a specialty number and a minstrel show will conclude the performance.

FILE MILLIGAN WILL Religious Agencies Share in $400,000 Estate. Cash bequests to religious agencies in Indianapolis and Crawfordsville, totaling $14,000, are provided in the will of Mrs. Carrie Fishback Milligan, widow of Harry J. Milligan, 1441 North Delaware street, on file today in probate court. The estate was valued at $400,000. Recipients of bequests and amounts follow: The First Presbyterian church and the Rev. George A. Frantz, pastor. $10,000: Indianapolis Y. M. C. A.. $1,000; Indianapolis Y. W. C. A.. $1,000; Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society, $500; Memorial church of Crawfordsville, $1,000, and the Center Church of Crawfordsivlle, $500. Two grandchildren. William and Louise Herron, are to receive the estate upon the death of their mother, Mrs. Herron. CONSTABLE QUITS POST Resignation of William A. Rogers. Warren township constable, was submitted today to county commissioners. Rogers did not give reason for his act. but is understood to have accepted a deputy assessorship under Wayne township Assessor William E. Toms. As the constabulary post is elective. commissioners will name Rogers' successor to serve the remainder of the term. No candidates have been mentioned, commissioners said.

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Take Leads in Comedy

Leading roles in “Welcome to the Old Home Town,” a three-act comedy to be staged at 8 Thursday night by the Senior League of St. John’s Evangelical church in the church auditorium, Sanders and Leonard streets, will be taken by Elmer Pleger (left), Miss Thelma Pierson (center) and Wilbert Eggert Jr. (right).

CITY FOUNDATION AIDS IN EDUCATION

Bandit Suspect

James William Ryan, 30, of 20 South West street, who today continued to deny complicity in holdup of the Fishers State bank at Fishers Monday night despite finding of $5,600 in bonds he is alleged by police to have thrown aw T ay when arrested for intoxication.

Emphasis on Training for Leisure Recommended by Lies. Acquisition by the county of park areas, a, merit system for appointments to the city park and recreational staffs, establishment of new playgrounds and neighborhood parks, and emphasis on training for leisure in city schools were urged by Eugene T. Lies, recreational expert, in an address before the Council of Social Agencies “town meeting” at Caleb Mills hall, Shortridge high school, Tuesday night. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and park board and recreational officers of the city government were present. Lies, of the Playground and Recreation Association of American staff, recently completed a survey of recreational facilities and needs here for the council. He declared organizations should encourage enforcement of the new’ billiard room ordinance and other laws and ordinances governing commercial amusements. Furthering of home play throughout the city by parentteacher associations also was urged. “Indianapolis has spent $9,970,000 on its parks and playground system for lands, buildings and upkeep in the last nine years,” Lies said. “Its land holdings total between 2,700 and 2.800 acres, one acre for each 142.1 persons of the city’s population, w’hich places it in fifth rank as to total acreage and fourth as to population per acre among cities of its class. “On the other hand, the city has permitted the playgrounds to become a ‘lumping ground’ for a large number of purely political appointees unfitted for work of recreation leaders. A system of examinations for selecting such employes should be adopted.” Lies declared sixteen semi-public agencies, including the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and vafious social settlements here spent a! total of $628,000 in 1928, of which $236,000 w’as raised through the Community Fund. Salesman Falls to Death Bv United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 26.—Leo C. Scott, salesman. St. Louis, plunged to death from a fifth floor window* of a hotel here, apparently a suicide. The coroner's investigation revealed Scott had been seen intoxicated a few minutes before his body was found on pavement in a rear court below his room. Despondency over lack of money and illness of his son are believed motives for the plunge.

SULLIVAN TO VIEW CITY PRISON NEEDS

Investigation of the need for repairs at city prison in the police station was begun today by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Sullivan said he would confer with the board of works at an early date to push the program to repair the city prison. "It must be terrible down there, from what I hear,” Sullivan said. The board of works plans to inspect the city prison before deciding on the improvement program.

39 Pupils in High Schools, 33 College Students Being Maintained. Thirty-nine pupils in five highschools and thirty-three students in eight colleges are being aided by the Indianapolis Foundation, report of Eugene C. Foster, director, lor the year 1929 shows. Listing Foundation expenditures at $123,193.97 for the year, the report shows $15,000 contributed to the Indianapolis Teachers college, $6,000 to the Indianapolis free kindergarten, $12,527.38 to the School for Crippled Children, $16,000 to the Community Fund, $7,404.75 for the Indianapolis recreational survey, $12,000 for the child guidance clinic, $2,411.08 for census tracts for the 1930 census and $15,213.21 for demonstration of child welfare work at the Indian- ■ apolis orphan asylum. Other Fundation activities were ; conduct of occupational therapy work in the city with co-operation of St. Margaret’s Guild, at a cost of $2,850.01, maintenance of two fulltime nurses under direction of the ; Public Health Nursing Association i for care of crippled children in their j homes, support of a nurse for I chronic invalids and a nurse for the | adult handicapped. Students benefitting through scholarships of the foundation are in Butler, Purdue, Wabash, Earlham, Teachers’ college, the Chicago Art Institute and the Jordan Conservatory of Music. Two foundation workers have taken further train- | irg in the New York school of social | work on foundation scholarships, , ana one Is graining in the St. Louis j school of occupational therapy. Two ; teachers in the school for crippled children took special training at Chicago and Harvard universities last summer. RETU R N DEATH FIND IN G | Frober Says No Murder Evidence Uncovered in Fire Tragedy. No evidence of murder was found |in the circumstances surrounding the deaths Monday of Mrs. Sophronia Hobbs, 70, and her son, John Hobbs, 50, whose bodies were 1 found in the dying embers of their j home at Adyeville, according to the | report of Ingle Laird, investigator of the Indiana bureau of criminal Investigation. who returned from the scene of the fire today. Laird said the two persons had lost their lives when trapped in their burning home.

CITY TUBERCULOSIS DEATH RATE CUT

SEEK LOWER RATES 36 Water Company Patrons Ask Schedule Change. Petition for modification of rate schedules and rules applied under new 7 meterized service of the Indianapolis Water Company was filed with the public service commission today by thirty-six patrons of the utility, headed by Robert L. Moorhead, state senator, and Leo K. Fesler, former Marion county auditor. They complained that water rates were raised in carrying out the meterization program in hundreds of instances where meters were connected and the annual minimum rates were above minimum under former flat-rate schedules. The petition also requested the commission to change a rule requiring customers to maintain pipe lines from company mains to property lines. Drunken Driver Sentenced By Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., Feb. 26.— George Ellic, 53, was fined $100 and casts in city court here and sentenced to sixty days at the penal farm for driving while drunk. He was also fined $10 and costs for intoxication. and his driving license was revoked for a year. He pleaded not guilty, however, to a charge of possessing liquor.

The former city council authorized a $17,000 bond issue last December, J but the bonds have not been advertised. of works to discuss the advisability of endeavoring to continue the Sixteenth street widening project, pending for seven years. There are several appeals on assessments and benefits and a number of property owners are trying to block the improvement,

DEDICATION OF CHRIST CHURCH IS ON PROGRAM Scheduled on Program for Convention at Capital This Fall. Dedication of the national city Christian church, now being erected in Washington, will be an important event on the program for the International convention of Disciples of Christ to be held there Oct. 14 and 19, inclusive, it was disclosed at a meeting of the program committee at the Severin today. Church leaders from Washington, attending the three-day series of meetings of Disciples laymen and ministers here, announced work on the $1,750,000 edifice already has started and that it will be completed in time for the convention. Other important events on the program will be observance of the 1900th anniversary of Pentecost and the culmination of the pension fund movement. H. C. Armstrong, Indianapolis. general program chairman, presided at the meeting today. The ministerial pension project will be reviewed at a dinner and meeting tonight, to follow a meeting of commission on budgets and promotional relationships at 4 p. m. Dr. A. E. Corey, Indianapolis, will lead the pension discussion. The program committee of the world convention of the church, to be held in Washington immediately following the international convention in October, will meet at the Severin at 9 a. m. Thursday. Conclusions of the commission on budgets meeting will be presented to the pension fund trustees. Friday morning. Harry H. Rogers, Tulsa, Okla., board president, will preside.

‘RED DAY’ IS NOT EVEN A PALE PINK

In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9:30 a. m.: Northwest wind. 16 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.08 at sea level; temperature, 39; celling, 1,000 feet; visibility, 5 miles; field, soft. Arrivals and Departures Curtiss-Mars Hill Airport—Walker W. Winslow, to Richmond and return, Curtiss Robin; Captain Corcoran of United Airways, Cincinnati to Kansas City, Flamingo, overnight; Lieutenant Howard Maxwell of Indiana national guard, Indianapolis to Detroit, Douglas 02, one passenger. Hoosier Airport—H. C. Brooks, Hoosier airport president, returned from St. Louis air show’ with the Indianapolis-made Chevolair motor, W’hich he exhibited there. Capitol Airport—-J. H. McDuffee, returned from Miami, Fla., Prest-O-Lite plane. Handle Detroit Ships Appointment of the Capitol Airways, Inc., of this city, as Indiana distributors for the Detroit Aircraft division, airplane builders, is announced by E. H. Jose, Capitol airways president. Planes to be sold by the Capitol airways will include Ryan cabin monoplanes, Lockheed cabin planes, Parks biplanes and gliders, Eastman flying boats, Pratt & Whitney engines and Pioneer instruments. Capitol has distributed Eaglerock planes since its organization.

Ratio in 1929, Lowest in Local History, Only 6 Per 10,000. The death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis in Indianapolis for 1929 was six in every 10,000 population, the lowest in the city’s history, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. With 240 deaths from the disease here last year, a steady downward trend in fatalities has been recorded since 1920, when the death rate was sixteen in every 10,000. Indianapolis had a death rate of 21 in every 10,000 in 1900. “The steady downward trend is very encouraging to those fighting the disease,” Dr. Morgan said. Establishment of out-patient clinics at city hospital in 1915 and effective field work done by nurses from the clinics have aided materially in cutting the death toll, he added. Dr. Morgan commended the educational program of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association; the Indianapolis Free Tuberculosis Clinic, the Flower Mission Society and other organizations working to prevent the disease. Other factors held responsible for the reduction in number of deaths are: Teaching of preventive methods in homes and schools; pasteurization of milk; fresh air schools; nutrition camps and efforts to obtain early diagnosis of cases. The annual report of the Indianapolis Free Tuberculosis Clinic shows 1,205 new cases last year compared with 1,250 new cases treated in 1829. Persons treated the past year, including 4,743 recurrent cases, totaled 5,948. The clinic is operated under the board of health on the 1/2-cent mandatory levy. Dr. Alfred Henry is director and Miss Nell Dixon is supervisor of the nursing division. The report showed 117 on the Sunnyside waiting list; thirty-six sent during the past year, and thirty-three to Flower Mission hospital. Of those treated, fifty-five died from pulmonary tuberculosis and twenty-five from other causes.

Makes Gift

James B. Nelson, president of the Fame chain laundries in Indianapolis, whose gift of $200,000 to Indiana university to endow a chair of philosophy, was announced today.

RENEW CALVIN HUNT Missing Business Man Seen in City, Cops Told. Search for Otis F. Calvin, 65, of 4060 Graceland avenue, president of the Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Company, who disappeared from his home Dec. 13, 1929, was renewed here today by police. George Boss, 1010 Elm street, told police he saw a man this morning at Virginia avenue and Grove street who resembled Calvin’s description. Calvin’s rleatives believe he is suffering from amnesia.

‘Riot’ Observance Postponed on ‘Moscow Orders' Is Indication. Those who persists in "seeing Rea” should not be disappointed at the failure of bums to hurl bombs in a nation-wide Communist demonstration today, as predicted by bulletins from the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, sent out by Secretary Andrew’ J. Allen, 1406-07 Merchant Bank building. Allen has learned that the Red riot day has been postponed until March 6, on “orders from Moscow.” Adjutant-General Manford G. Henley, w’ho returned today from a fruitless “Red hunt” in Lake county, is Inclined to believe that the new date may mean “just another postponement.” “There has been a great deal of needless concern about the predicted Communistic activities in Lake county,” Henley said upon his return to the statehouse. “There is nothing very serious about the situation and I am sure that Lake county officials can handle any possible disorders. No necessity for state troops exists.” This w’as the opinion held by Governor Harry G. Leslie when he sent Henley to investigate, but he wanted to appease the Red baiters, he said. Nevertheless, there were some red evidences at the statehouse and elsewhere today. L. O. Chasey, secretary to the Governor, stil wore a bright red necktie. * In Auditor Archie Bobbitt’s office two red elephants were parked on the mantlepiece in defiance of the Constitution and the G. O. P. Two boys in an alley near the statehouse flew’ a red kite. But above all, supreme and appellate court decisions continue to be tied with red ribbon, despite efforts made by the D. A. R. on behalf of red, white and blue.

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SCORE RECEIVER IN LOCAL AUTO INSURANCE CASE Olds Has No Right to Levy | Assessments, Lawyer Declares. Garrett W. Olds, receiver for the defunct Federal Automobile Insurance Association, has no right, under the insurance contracts nor by statutes governing reciprocal insurance companies, to collect assessments. Hubert Hickam. attorney for policyholders contended today in rev buttal arguments in superior court ! four. Under the contract signed by 80.000 Indiana association members, only the attorney in fact for the association or an attorney in fact, appointed by him, may collect assessments, Hickam said. Olds was not appointed at the i request of the attorney in fact, the j Federal Underwriters, Inc., but Emsl ley W. Johnson was named as its receiver. To Johnson, Hickam asserted, were delegated the powers of attor- | ney in fact, yet Johnson never has i attempted to collect an assessment. Appointment Is Void Rebuttal arguments, which were to close late this afternoon after a discussion by Perry O’Neill, also ?t- ---| torney for intervening petitioners, are before Judge William S. McMaster. ! Arguments are being held as a re- : suit of the filing of an intervening ! petition by former policyholders and agents to have the receivership set aside. McMaster probably will take the matter under advisement. “Appointment of the receiver is I void, the court not having any jurisdiction in the appointment of the receiver for such a company,” Hickam said. Give Mayor Points The hearing began Tuesday, when Fae W. Patrick, attorney for Olds argued the entire day for a disi missal of the petition for the rei ceiver’s removal. ! The three major points were set forth by Patrick in support of his contention that the receivership is proper. They are: 1. That the law gave the court jurisdiction to appoint a. receiver and to administer funds. Got Cheap Insurance 2. That the court (ex-Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott) had the right to make assessments and to enforce collection of such. 3. That the petition of intervenors is a collateral attack and was not made within a thirty-day period provided by statute. “These people,” Patrick said, referring to policyholders, “went cut to get cheap Insurance, and they got it. But they agreed at the same time, that if what they paid for was not sufficient to pay off obligations of the association, that they would pay their proportional share.” LIBRARY GROUP MEETS Baxter Named Head of Commission to Select Building Site. The state library commission, appointed recenty by Governor Harry G. Leslie, as provided by the 1929 legislature, to make recomendations of plans and a site to the next legislature for a $1,000,000 state library, held its flwfc meeting today. Business was confined to organization of the commission and election of officers. Arthur C. Baxter, Indianapolis, was elected chairman. Other officers were Charles T. Sansberry, Anderson, vice-chairman and Lewis J. Bailey, state librarian, secretary.

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