Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1930 — Page 15

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BUILDINGS FOR BUSINESS USE COME TO FORE Warehouse at Anderson to Cost $125,000 Among State Projects. NEW HOTELS ON LIST Hoffman Being Built at South Bend; Another for Vincennes. | BY CHARLES C. STONE T State Editor. The Tinea Erection of structures to be used for business purposes is the outstanding development in Indiana industry and business for the week ended today. An Indianapolis company, the identity of which has not been made public, has practically completed plans for erection of a three-story warehouse at Anderson to cost about $125,000. The building will be of brick and concrete. Officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announce construction of its $250,000 building at Terre Haute, will be started in August. Vonnegut, Bohn <fc Miller, Indianapolis, are the architects. Erection of anew unit at the Quaker Maid plant will be started Monday. It will cost $35,000. New Hotel in South Bend Rapid progress is beiitg made In building Hotel Hoffman, a twelvestory structure at South Bend. It is announced the building will be ready for use in the fall, when thousands of visitors are expected in the city at football games. Increased attendance is expected due to complet.on of anew stadium for the University of Notre Dame. A modern eight-story hotel is to be erected at Vincennes, representing an investment of $400,000. A public subscription campaign for the project brought a total of $153,500. Construction is expected to be started by July 1. The generating station of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company at Michigan City will be dedicated Wednesday morning. All steel work has been completed and brick laying is progressing rapidly. More than five hundred men are employed in the project. Steel Plant Project Moves Definite steps have been taken toward erection of a gigs tic steel plant in Porter county, which will be in the center of a second Gary to be known as Port Williams. The National Steel Corporation, vhich will own the plant, announce forming of a subsidiary, the Midwest Steel Corporation, which will be he holding unit for the plant, cost of which will be $45,000,000 to $50,000,000. It has been announced previously that the plant will be built within the next three years. Conditions in various cities are shown in the following summary: Bloomington—Lease" are held by the Petroleum Expiration Company, Sisterville, W. Va. on about 13,000 acres of Monroe county land, on which test holes are being sunk for oil and gas. Some good gas showings are reported from holes in the Unionville section. Elwood—Holdings here, at Frankton and Kokomo of the Elwood Oil Company have been bought by the Cities Service Oil Company, a subsidiary of Cities Service Company, one of the nation's largest refiners and distributors. Marion—lmmediate increase of its working force from 600 to 1,500 is planned by the United States Radio and Television Corporation, which has started production of new model radio sets. Factory Force Reduced Greensburg— The force of the Reliance Manufacturing Company plant has been curtailed, and officials announced more workers will not be employed until business conditions improve. Anderson The Kruesch Ice Cream Company of Anderson and the Beatrice Creamery Company, $37,000,000 Chicago concern, have been merged. Expansion of the Anderson unit is being considered, officials announce. Columbus—The Hook Drug Company, chain store operator with headquarters at Indianapolis, has leased quarters here for a store. Remodeling will be completed in time for opening the store in September. Auburn— The Silver Moon Toy Company, now in a plant south of Waterloo, will be moved to Auburn. Washington—As a measure to avoid curtailing the working force of the local shops of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, a forty-hour week has been fixed for laborers. They have been working forty-four hours. Covington—A new building. 102 by 120 feet, has been completed for the Harrison Steel Castings Company here, and will be occupied by the machine shop, now located in the basement of the plant. LESLIE ZIEGLER DIES IN SLEEPER BERTH Consulting Engineer Found Victim of Heart Attack. A Pullman porter, trying to arouse Leslie I. Ziegler, Columbia Club, as a Big Four New York to St. Louis train left Anderson early today, found his passenger had died during the night. Coroner C. H. Keever, who examined the body when it was taken from the train here, said death was due to heart disease. Leslie, a consulting engineer, formerly connected with Marmon Motor Car Company boarded the train at Buffalo. Thursday night He talked with fellow passengers before retiring between £ ar*'* “*

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Miss Treva Christenberry, 505 South Warman avenue, is one of the seventy-two beautifui Indianapolis girls who have entered the Indiana roof ballroom's beauty and fashion revue. Finals of the beauty pageant will be staged in the roof ballroom Saturday night.

‘HIRED SLAYER' ADMITSCRIME President of Packing Firm Linked in Confession. Bn United Pi rns TOPEKA, Kan., June 6.—The President of a packing company and one of his employes were linked here today in an alleged insurance murder plot which caused the death of the vice-president of the concern. First degree murder charges have been filed against Louis H. Kimmel, president of the Kaw Packing Company, and Virgil Pointer, handy man in the company shops. Both were free under $25,000 bonds. Kimmel attempted to obtain ready cash for his company by collecting $:-C,OOO insurance on the life of Roy Kramer, the vice-president, Pointer told in a purported confession. Pointer said Kimmel had promised him an “easy job for life” if he would perpetrate the murder cf Kramer. He was arrested when discovered buying a high-priced automobile which he said was being paid for by Kimmel. Kramer’s body was found lying beside his automobile on a highway near here March 26. The wheel of his roadster had been jacked up to make it appear he had been working to repair a tire when hit by a passing automobile. ' Pointer confessed he killed Kramer with a length of timber in the official’s office jn the company plant, later taking his body to the spot where it was found. HARRY LEVINSONIF SOMEWHAT BETTER Veteran Baseball Fan Still Is in Danger From Stroke. Harry Levinson, operator of a chain of Indianapolis hat stores, showed slight improvement today at the Methodist hospital where he was taken Thursday after suffering a stroke of apoplexy at the Washington baseball park. Hospital attaches said his condition still is serious, but that a slight improvement was noticed early this morning. Levinson, an ardent baseball fan, was in an upper box at the ball park with friends when stricken. The attack occurred at the close of the game. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. M ’ H UGTTh OP~Th AIR MAN Heads Committee for St. Philip Club Dance Saturday. Joseph McHugh is chairman of the dance committee in charge of

the “sport hop” to be given by the St. Philip's Boys’ Club Saturday night at the St, Philip Neri hall, 535 Eastern avenue. He is assisted by William Sheehan, Thomas O'Conner, Henry McMahan and Robert Spaulding. The hall is to be decorated for the occasion.

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Music will be furnished by Bob McHugh and his syncopators. JOSEPH KIRCH, 81, DIES Former Resident of Ripley County Came Here Year Ago. Joseph Kirch, 81, died Thursday at the heme of his daughter, Mrs. Peter J. Staub, 1341 Tabor street. He came to Indianapolis a year ago from Ripley county, where he had resided all his life. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Barbara Kirch, to whom he was married sixty years ago; six sons, John C., Nicholas F., Joseph F., Edward J., Alphonse and Dr. L. P. Kirch, and three daughters, Mrs. Staub, Mrs. Albert Himmelgam, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. George Miesberger of St. Magdalene.

CHILD MOVIE ACTORS ARE FOUND NATURAL AND UNSPOILED BY ATTENTION

HOLLYWOOD. June 6.—Have you ever wondered about the children actors of the movies? Have you wondered how they happened to get their parts? If they weren't spoiled by attention? How they manage to get an education? What their futures would be? Well, here are a few interesting facts and answers, compiled and presented by a writer for the current issue of Photoplay Magazine:

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Costly ‘Shinny’ Bn United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., June 6. —Policeman Gordon Reynolds, recalled the recent robbery of the Klin-McGill golf club factory when he saw several small boys playing “shinny” with expensive golf clubs. After questioning, the youths led the officer to a barn where most of the SIOO loot was hidden. Howard Newsom, 16; Morris Krisman, 16, and Glen Krisman, 15, were convicted of the robbery iif' Porter circuit court and sentenced to the reform school, but released on probation.

ASK ACCOUNTING OF AUTO GROUP Subscribers Assert Asset Claims Denied. Suit for an accounting of the American Automobile Indemnity Association and for removal of the trustee firm, the American Insurance Underwriters, Inc., and appointment of a receiver for the association, was filed in superior court one today by George F. Goldman, subscriber in the insurance firm. The court alleges association officials conspired to obtain assets of the company when the firm’s name was changed to the American States Insurance Company in April. Fifteen men, including Fae W. Patrick, Todd Stoops, Arthur E. Bradshaw, John C. Ruckelshaus and H. T. Showalter, former corporation directors, are named defendants. The suit alleges subscribers have been denied claims to the assets of the company since the alleged reorganization of the firm. It is charged the company had more than $79,000 in liabilities, but the reserve fund, built up from percentages of subscriptions, contained more than this and it is alleged about SIOO,OOO should be accounted. Goldman seeks to. have the assets distributed to subscribers. RIDDLE JNS RACE OFial Count Reveals Far<ey Is Defeated. off- al count of the congressional primary vote for the Democratic nominee in the Twelfth district gives Thomas P. Riddle the nomination instead of James W. Farley, it was announced by Secertary of State Oito G. Fifield. Farley rad been proclaimed in the unofficial count as the Democratic nominee for congress in that district. Ridd e won the nomination by forty-sewn votes, according to official figures. “Farley had been declared winr ir by twenty-five votes in the unofficial count. Other candidates were Sig W. Kann and H. W. Morley. BLAMES PASTOR FOR LETHARGY IN CHURCH Bishop Welch Addresses Closing Session of Conference. Lethargy in churches w r as laid to lack of enthusiasms on the part of pastors in a speech by Bishop Herbert Welch. Pittsburgh, at the closing session of a district conference of Methodist pastors at the Roberts Park M. E. church Thursday right. Welch said that often the welltrained minister of today does not measure up the pioneer pastor of yesterday and declared that 50 per cent of the membership could be dropped from the average church without much difference in attendance.” Dr. O. W. Fitter. Indianapolis district superintendent, presided at the sessions.

than 2.230 children applied to the Los Angeles board of education for permits to work in the movies last year. The vast majority, of course, appeared only as extras and for a few days. But there are dozens who appear iff picture’s with regularity, and for there each of the big studies has estabr lished a school, paid for by the producers but supervised by the board of education. The child actor, above all, is not spoiled, ** at the first sign

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WILKINS WILL BRAVE ARCTIC IN SUBM ARINE Famous Explorer Prepares for Voyage to Pole in Interest of Science. SAWS WILL SLASH ICE Nets Attached to Mast Will Be Used to Collect Ocean Life. By Science Service WASHINGTON, June 6.—Assurance that the first submarine expedition to the north pole will become a reality, is seen in the action of the United States shipping board requesting the transfer of submarine 0-12 from the navy department to the shipping board, to be chartered for use by the expedition which will be headed by the famous explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins. The navy department previously had announced that should this request be made, it would recommend to President Hoover that the transfer be made. No objection is anticipated at the White House. The submarine to be used, the 0-12, has been on the de-commis-sion list of the navy for four years, and now is in the back channel of the Philadelphia navy yatd. It is to be chartered at $1 a year to Lake & Danahower, Inc., of Bridgeport, Conn., and will be remodeled to adapt it to Arctic exploration. Captain Sloan Danenhower, president of the Lake & Danenhower, Inc. and a former naval reserve officer, will captain the vessel. A trolley to indicate open water, powerful searchlights, forward and upward observation glasses, saws and drills for cutting through the ice, and an inverted mast to which nets will be attached for collecting specimens of ocean life are among the ingenious devices which Sir Hubert is planning to install in the submarine. The vessel should be able to run for 125 miles without having to come to the surface for charging its batteries. But Sir Hubert is certain that during the summer months of July and August he will find open places possibly as close together as every five or ten miles. He says that his experience of 15,000 miles of Arctic flying and 5,000 miles of walking over the ice has shown him that there were are many patches of water in the Arctic, even in winter. The trip will be made across the pole from Spi zbergen to Alaska and will cover an area about which there is least scientific knowledge. The submarine offers greater possibilities for scientific observation in this region than any other means of transportation, according to Dr. Harald U. Sverdrup, prominent Norwegian, polar authority, who has been asked to direct the scientific work of the expedition. This work will include analysis of ocean water at all depths, study of ocean currents, collection of plant and animal life, collection of bottom samples, measurement of gravity, magnetic observations and sonic depth sounding.

CHILDREN IN RECITAL Mrs. Antibus’ Music Pupils to Appear in Annual Entertainment. Pupils of Norma Justice Antibus

of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will be presented in her annual “Night in Kidland,” at the Metropolitan School at 8 p. m. tonight. The program includes “The Woman in the Shoe,” by Mrs. Antibus, and a three-act play, “An Invitation to Fairyland.” She will be as-

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sisted by a string trio. PARIS ARTIST IS SUICIDE Body Is Found Hanging From Rafter in Studio. Bn United Press PARIS, June 6.—Jules Pascin, 45, who was hailed in Paris as America’s best painter, was found dead Thursday night, his body hanging from a rafter in his studio. The artist, whose real name was Julius Pincas, was born in Bulgaria, but emigrated to the United States, where he was naturalized in 1915. He had lived in Paris twenty years. LOCK "SENATORS’ FILES Rule Chairman Moses Orders New Safeguards on Doors. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June 6.—There were 320 reasons today why ransackers of office files will find it more difficult to search through senatorial correspondence than did those who entered the offices of lour senators recently. Just before leaving for Europe, Chairman Moses of the senate rules committee ordered new locks put on all 320 of the doors in the senate office building. The work was completed today.

of conceit the director looks about for another child, and his waiting list always numbers a hundred or more. What he wants from the child is a natural, spontaneous reaction. Artificiality ruins child acting, and the movie-wise mothers whose children are in pictures spend most of their time keeping their offspring as normal as possible. “They are a trifle brighter, perhaps. than the average child, and usually a little ahea| of their

Six Manual Boys Will Take to Air in Gliders- Built in School Woodshop

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Above—Glider built by Manual high school boys. Below—Those who built two gliders with their instructor, J. C. Mather, left to right, Eugene Fulk, William Emmick, Harold Stofer, Instructor Mather, Herman Schnell and Fred Eggert. (Gene Baldock. the sixth helper, is net in the picture.)

Craft Declared Perfect by Representatives of * City Airports. Six Manual hign school boys are preparing to take to the air in two newly finished gliders made in the Manual woodshop. The motorless aircraft in size and workmanship rivals glide: s used by distinguished aviators. In fact several Indianapolis a'rport representatives who have seen them have pronounced them perfect. “We are giving them the finishing touches with paint brushes and expect to fly them within a week,” the young glider experts declared today. Plans are to try them out at the model airplane flying field located at Carson street and State avenue. With about three hours’ work each on the gliders daily since they were started in January, the boys figure they have spent about 250 hours in work and study. “We got interested in aviation by making small airplane models,” one of the six answered when asked how they became interested in gliders. AH axe members of the South Side Model Airplane Club. One of the gliders has a wingspread of thirty-two feet, weighs 175 pounds, and the other has a thirty-six-foot wingspread and is constructed similarly. 18 TO BE CONFIRMED AT JEWISH TEMPLE Course of Instruction in History, Customs Completed by Class. A class of eighteen will be confirmed Sunday morning at Temple Beth El Zedeck. The confirmants have been meeting three hours a week since October with Rabbi Milton Steinberg as the instructor. The course of instruction consisted in a careful study of Jewish history and a detailed course in Jewish customs and ceremonies. Two major final examinations were given at the end of the year. Only those who passed the final examinations are to be confirmed. An informal reception will be held in the vestry room of the temple Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The confirmants are: Esther Forman, Samuel Hollander, Morris Katz, Ruth Klor, Lillian Lovinger, Estelle Manus, Sara Maurer, Estelle Oppenheim, Ruth Rootstein, Henry Sakowitz, Jeanette Solotkin, Alice Solotkin, Helen Talesnick, Lester Tavel, Irma Valinetz, Zeena Valinetz. Frida Wexler and Florence Wolf. DEMOCRATS TO PICK NOMINEE FOR POST Death of Candidate Forces County Committee to Act. The Democratic county committee wifi be called into convention soon after the state convention Tuesday to select a nominee for state representative to replace Henry C. Cox, who died Thursday at his home in Bridgeport. Nathan Swaim, county chairman, today sai<4 that in all probability the names of the candidates for state representative who “also ran” in the primary will be presented, and one of these may be selected. “But the entire affair is up to the committee,” Swaim declared. P.-T. - RECITAL Shortridg- Group Presents Dance Pupils at Caleb Mills Hall. Pareht-Teacher Association members of Shortridge high school w.ll present Jac Broderick and his pupils in a dance recital in Caleb Mills hall at 8 Saturday night. Part of the proceeds will be used to aid the high school organ fund. Mrs. J. H. Compton is program chairman.

grades at school,” says the Photoplay writer. “Certainly they are hardy, for the Los Angeles law requires that children be examined every three months. “But their only real point of difference from the ordinary child is that their standard of interest has changed. It is more interesting, for instance, for them to watch a fire engine siren down the street than it is to see Mary Pickford. It is more fascinating to talk to a street motor man than

PROBE GROUP MAY DROP CANNON QUIZ

Oh, Horrors! Bit United Press CHICAGO, June 6.—Noises in the kitchen caused Maurice Debona to leap out of bed and grab a pistol. He went downstairs, but found nothing. When the commotion continued he took his family to a neighbor’s home. He notified police and they stealthily crept into the kitchen, where, to their horror, they discovered a robin had laid an egg in the gas oven.

MARMON LISTS BUSINESS CAIN Pickup Blocks Scheduled Shutdown of Plant. A pickup in business prevented a scheduled shutdown of the Marmon Motor Company's plant for three weeks beginning this week, officials of the company announced today. The plant, while working on a reduced schedule of hours to offer employment to additional workmen, has no shutdown in prospect, officials said. The plant was closed today due to curtailment of hours to provide more workers with employment, but will reopen Monday. The Hayes Body Corporation’s plant also is working on reduced hours to offer employment to additional men. A three-week shutdown had been planned at the Marmon plant, effective this week, but was canceled when business improved. JURY FAILS TO AGREE IN BANK BANDIT CASE Next Trial at Marion Will Probably Be in September Court Term. Bn United Press MARION. Irid., June 6.—The jury trying Joe White on a charge of robbing the Gas City (Ind.) state bank of $28,300 last July 12, was discharged in circuit court today after deliberating seventeen and one-half hours, without reaching a verdict. White is held in default of SBO,OOO bond, $40,000 on each of two counts, one charging him with robbery of the same bank on Oct. 1. 1923. He probably will not again be tried until the September term of court. Reports were that the jury voted seven to five for conviction on all ballots. White was arrested last fall in Ohio with Joe Saraceno and William King. Saraceno has since been convicted on a charge of robbing a Columbia City bank, and King was released on $2,000 bond provided by his attorney. It is considered likely his case will be dismissed due to iiisuffipient evidence. King was a witness in White’s trial. BOARD SEEKS DISCOUNT Park Officials Will Rush Pay for 2 Per Cent Reduction. Park department bills carrying a 2 per cent discount for cash will be rushed through the “red tape” to enable the city to profit from the discount. Jackiel W. Joseph, park board member, pointed out that bills for Thursday carried a $75 discount for cash, but that the city did not benefit because they came through sixty to ninety days late.

to Douglas Fairbanks. And it is mere exciting to attend public school with other children than to be tutored on the set.” The most positive point about their rearing is that they are not pampered. Most of them, although some earn salaries running into hundreds of dollars a week when they work, have daily chores to do at home, so that they won’t develop an inflated sense of their own importance and thereby ruin their usefulness, W

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Little Likelihood Senate Committee Will Press Fight on Bishop. BY PAUL It. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 6.—Chairman Caraway of the senate lobby committee was hastening back to Washington today to face the impasse his committee has reached in the case of Bishop James Cannon Jr. Meanwhile, committee members here were gathering a connected story of the Methodist prelate's dramatic fight against Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1928. The bold attitude which Cannon displayed Thursday when he walked out of th% committee room, refusing to testify about his campaign activities, will go unanswered by the committee uqtil Caraway, arrives to decide whether he wants to proceed against the bishop for contempt or take anew tack in the investigation. At present there seems little likelihood, that the committee, will seek to have Cannon cited for contempt or seek to trace any further his campaign expenditures reportable under the corrupt practices act. Whether notice will be taken of the bishop’s defiance of a senatorial committee probably will rest with Caraway, who has been at home in Arkansas. Caraway indicated before he left Arkansas Thursday that he thought his committee powerless to proceed to inquire into Cannon’s transactions if the bishop persists in his refusal to tell of them. When he arrives the committee will meet to determine its course of action, ic may decide to run down further the records of the Cannon anti-Smith transactions, or it may decide that now with congress about to close, the time has been reached to stop the matter. It could, if it thought wise, refer the evidence to prosecuting authorities. It could cite the bishop to the senate for contempt. If it undertook any of these various courses a long, drawn out conflict would be assured. NEW PRESIDENT NAMED Clausen RlcKim Honored in Election of Butler Ichthus Club. Clausen McKim, 2350 North Illinios street, has been elected presi-

dent of Butler university Ichthus Club, an ©rgenization of College of Religion students for promoting fellowship and good will upon the campus. Other officers are Herbert Wilson, Ft. Wayne, Ind., vice-president; G. P. Fowler, Marietta. 0., secretarytreasurer, and the

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advisory board, composed of Wales Smith, Martinsville: Hershell Reed, Eaton, Ind., and. Ronald Secrist, Bluffton, Ind. CAMPS WILL BE HELD 150 Eoys and Cirls A'e Expected to Attend Church Outings. More than 150 beys and girls are expected to attend the two encampments to be conducted by the Tabernacle Presbyterian church this summer as Kosciusko camp, Winona lake, James b. Martin organizer of the encampment, said today. The girls camp will be held from June 16 to 30 and the boys’ encampment frem June 30 to July 13.

Oddly enough, few of the children want to be adult movie stars. They aspire to be fliers, firemen, soldiers and all of the other things that figure in the dreams of the average child. But, growing up in the studios, tlje movies hold little glamour for them. Very few of the children, it is noted, come from acting families. The offspring of the most famous adult actors are generally kept out of the studio environment entirely. V

COFFIN FORCES HUMBLED AT G. 0. P. SESSION Remy Victory and Cavins’ Defeat Is Regarded as • Telling Blow. AGREE ON TAX REFORM Willoughby Setback Seen as Triumph for Dry Leaguers. BY BEN STERN Hoosier Republican delegates were returning home after nominating a ticket which they believe will be able to withstand the Democratic shock troops this fall. The major portion of the G. O. P. reliance will have to be placed on tho past performance record and not upon the promises made in the platform, they agree in saying. Campaigners will carry before the people one definite assurance: “A reform in the tax laws and the equitable distribution of the tax burden imposed thereby, as existing conditions were found to warrant.” ' Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush. Salem, today declared that he was satisfied with the Republican platform, and that his plank on tax reform has been accepted. He was quoted Thursday as saying that from all points on the floor delegates complained the platform is the most vague and weakest in two decades. Defeat of Judge Benjamin M. Willoughby. Vincennes, in his race for renomination, by Thomas B. Coulter, Knox county circuit judge, and the renomination of Judge Charles F. Remy, Indianapolis, for the appellate court were easily the outstanding events of the convention in Cadle tabernacle. Coffin Is Defeated An attempt was made by State Senator James J. Nejdl, Whiting to can y a fight to the convention floor to "have the party insert a plank in the platform calling upon the 1931 ’egislature to provide for a wet and dry referendum in the 1932 general election. Many today were saying that if nothing else was accomplished, the delegates completely and decisively broke the back of the George V. Coffin power in state conventions by renominating Judge Remy and defeating the Coffin candidate, Alex G. deputy United States district attorney. Coffin leaders strained every effort to obtain the defeat of the man, whose son was the prosecutor to obtain the indictments against Coffin, Ed Jackson and Robert I. Marsh on a charge of attempting to bribe former Governor Warren T. McCray. The three pleaded the statute of limitations to escape conviction. The “boss” was unable to give all of the Marion county 256 votes to Cavins, the insurgents casting 99 % votes for Remy, and the regulars, 154 V 2 votes for Cavins. Vanderburgh county tipped the scales when it gave its 68 votes to Remy and put him over. Battle “Neck-and-Neck” The Willoughby-Coulter race was close. For weeks, friends of Willoughby headed by Arthur L. Gillion, former attorney general, declared the fight on the aged jurist was being made by the Anti-Saloon League seeking revenge for the action of three superior court judges in declaring the late Dr. E. S. Shumaker in contempt and sentencing him to sixjy days on the state farm. The Anti-Saloor. League, forced to support Coulter who never has been entirely acceptable to it, went to the mat and when the vote was counted at the end of the roll call Thursday Coulter had 973 votes, five and one-half under the 979 necessary for nomination. Willoughby had 635 Vi votes, and T. Morton McDonald, Princeton, third man in the race, had 387 votes. Allen county, rising to the emergency, changed its former vote to a total of 81 for Coulter, which started a stampede to him. Allen county’s first vote had been Coulter, 30; McDonald, 21, and Willoughby, 30. Through adoption of a rule calling for the nomination by acclamation of all unopposed candidates seven incumbents were declared nominated before the balloting cn contested offices. Nichols in Walk-Away These were: Otto G. Fifield, C-own Point, secretary of state; Archie N. Bobbitt, English, auditor of state; Charles Biederwolf, Ft. Wayne. Clark of the supreme and Appellate court; Willard B. Gemmill, Marion, judge of the supreme court Fourth district; Judge Solon A. Enlce, judge of the appellate court First district, and Willis C. McMahan. Crown Point, and Alonzo | Nichols, Winchester, judges of the apoellate coiirt second district. The race for treasurer was a walk-away for Harry Nichols, Madi- ; son. Fourth district chairman who was the 1928 runner-up. Nichols got so far out in the lead that his opponents, Caleb Williams. Pendleton, and Sol Sudranski. Greencastle, withdrew before completion of the roll fall. Roy P. Wisehart, state superintendent of public instruction, also had no serious opposition. Morgan L. Sterrett, Renfeselaer, withdrew when the roll call of counties reached Tippecanoe, and the incumbent was declared renominated. The convention was called to order at 10:30 a. m. by State Chairman Elza O. Rogers, who in turn presented Richard N. Elliott, Sixth district congressional representative, as permanent chairman. Keynote addresses were made by Governor Harry G. Leslie, and Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of the department of agriculture. The former praised the state administration a latter the na