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SECRET U. S. DRY SURVEY ISONjN CITY Hoover Enforcement Group Agent Checks Effect of Prohibition. REFUSES TO COMMENT 14 Questions Are Submitted in Effort to Learn Liquor Sentiment. DANIEL M. KIDNEY President Hoover’s law enforcement commission is conducting a nation-wide secret survey on the effect of prohibition on the laboring classes, and the inquisition is being conducted in Indianapolis this week, The Indianapolis Times learned today. James J. Forrester, consultant for the national commission on law observance and enforcement, is conducting the questioning here. He has invited various labor group representatives to appear at his room, 720, in the Claypool. Found there by The Times, Forrester declined to be interviewed. He admitted the survey is secret and said that he had conducted similar inquiries in the larger cities and towns throughout the east “without publicity.” They Kept Quiet The list includes New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. At Scranton. Pa., and Camden, N. J., he was discovered by newspaper men, but “they kept quiet about it," he said. His New Jersey survey, Forrester intimated, brought forth data upon which he could have predicted the nomination of Dwight Morrow on the Republican ticket as a “wet.” Forrester refused to disclose what he has learned in Indiana, but most union labor leaders here are known to favor repeal or modification of the dry laws. In some places aids are employed for a house-to-house canvass among wage earners. Forrester declared. What the workingman's wife thinks of prohibition thus is recorded. Forrester expects to leave Indianapolis Sunday for Lafayette, and also will conduct an inquiry at Terre Haute. Quit on Family Life His questions involve the effect on morale, economic, social and family life of the wage earners, The Times learned from other sources. The answers are to be compiled Into a report for the committee, which is headed by George W. Wickersham. Whether they will recommend changing the law; Forrester would not even guess. President Hoover at one time announced that the committee would not “major” in prohibition matters. In inviting labor leaders in for questioning, Forrester submits a list of questions so that they will know what the inquiry is to be about. Here are the questions: “What, if any, effect prohibition has had, and in what way—“l. On the morale of the workers; “2. On their economic condition— Increased prosperity or otherwise. “3. On their social life, and the social effect on their families, including the effect, if any, on morality. Effect in Health “4. On their home and family conditions and the family life. "5. On their health and the health conditions of the family. “6. On the social life of the younger people. “7. On sobriety—whether or not there is more or less drinking among the employes now than before prohibition, and the kind or kinds of liquor now being generally usedbeer, wine or hard liquor. “8. Where and how those now drinking obtain their supply—whether from outside sources or by making It themselves in their homes or elsewhere. If from outside sources, the character or kind of places. “9. If any home makers of liquors are commercializing their products, and if so, what proportion of them, to whom they sell and the kind most generally sold. Ratio of Drinkers “10. Whether or not the number of employes drinking is less or greater than prior to prohibition; also, whether on the increase or decrease. “11. Whether or not there is less or more liquor now being consumed by them than before prohibition; also, whether on the increase or decrease. “12. The predominant sentiment (both sexes) toward the prohibition amendment, and, or, the enforcement act—the Volstead law. “13. Whether or not there has been any noticeable change of sentiment recently—say from 1924 or any other intervening year to date. “14. Anything else, including the unemployment situation, -that you believe might hav* a bearing on the subject matter of the commission’s investigation.” BILLS CHARGED KNIFED Jobless Measures Weakened by Hoover Order, Says Wagner. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 19.—Senator Wagner (Dem., N. Y.), author of the unemployment relief measures now pending before congress, charged in a statement today that -the house judiciary committee had ptricken out the “vital provisions” of fthe bills at the instigation of President Hoover. , __

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‘IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK,’ BYRD TELLS U. S.

Antarctic Explorers Are Cheered by Thousands on Return to New York

BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Prets Stiff Corteipondent NEW YORK, June 19.—Rear Admival Richard Evelyn Byrd and his party of Antarctic explorers who for two years have been following the sea and ice lanes far from civilization, returned today to their homeland. , . T , A procession of seventy-seven ships escorted them up New York harbor. Thousands of people crowded the Battery, Broadway and City Hall park to acclaim them. . In high spirits the double handful of men whom history will record as the first to map the Antarctic ice cap and to explore the frozen regions of the south by air, came home. Bemt Balchen, who piloted Byrd’s plane in the major explorations; Paul Siple, the Boy Scout member of the expedition, and all the others were in full uniform as they climbed over sides of their two ships, the Eleanor Bolling and the City of New York into the midst of the mayor’s committee headed - by Grover Whalen. u n a mum THE two-starred flag of a rear admiral was run up from the Macon, the first time it had been flown in America for Admiral Byrd, who was but a commander when he left two years ago. and all the others. “It’s fine to be back.” Someone took him to the radio installed on the cutter and asked him to say something. “It’s good to be back,” he said Admiral Byrd’s mother, Mrs. Eleanor Bolling Byrd; his brothers, former Governor Harry Byrd of Virginia and Captain Thomas Byrd; his nephew, Harry Byrd Jr.; two nieces, Miss Westwood Byrd and Miss Margaret Byrd, and the wife of Governor Byrd, represented the Byrd family aboard the welcoming cutter. As the Macom steamed down the bay, followed by the long line of lesser ships, the explorer’s mother, dressed in black with a light white wrap about her shoulders, stood quietly at the rail with her little granddaughter, Margaret. Byrd's wife had gone down the bay ts -r reet him Wednesday in advance. 'yrd was nowhere in sight when the Macom came alongside the CL cf New York. Thomas Mulroy and a group of other members of the party stood upon the bride and were the first to wave greetings. Then as the welcoming committee scanned the decks for Byrd the admiral slowly came out of the commander’s cabin. He was dressed in the white uniform of an admiral in tropical service, black shoulder straps and gold buttons setting off the solid white of the uniform. mum m m m THEN he came forward, standing behind his men, who were at that time grouped about the rails. He raised his hands high above his head and shook them toward his mother. He smiled a little, and waved to others. His face was weather-

SCHROEDER IS PROVEDALIVE Wife Admits Getting Three Letters From Owner of Torch Car. Bt Times Special MOBILE, Ala., June 19.—“ He’s alive.” With these words Mrs. Leah Schroeder, wife of Harold Herbert Schroeder, 35, Mobile business man, admitted late Wednesday she knows her husband did not die, the victim of a murder and a fire, in his automobile on the High School road near Indianapolis early the morning of May 31. “I don’t know where he is now, but I have received three letters from him, one from Indianapolis and two from Nashville, Tenn.” Doubting her claim she does not know whereabouts of her husband, Sheriff George Winkler, Deputy Sheriff Fred Fox, Deputy Prosecutor George Eglestof and Detective John Stump of Indianapolis were to continue questioning Mrs. Schnx „ c today. One letter, written by Schroeder here, was turned over to the investigators by Mrs. Schroeder. It told of bets he had made on the races. But the important letters, mailed from Nashville, Tenn., and received by Mrs. Schroeder June 6, six days after Schroeder’s automobile was found burning on the High school road near Indianapolis with a cargo of a man’s charred body, she withheld. “I don’t know where they are; I’vr displaced them,” she said. Threatened with arrest on charges of compounding a felony, Mrs. Schroeder reiterated these words time after time. “He just said he was in Nashville and that he was all right and I would hear from him later.” Believing she has heard from her missing husband since receipt of the letters, investigators pressed the point without avail. Bullet Holes in Car Two bullet holes were through the right side of the windshield of Harold Herbert Schroeder’s car in Indianapolis two nights before it was found blazing on the High School road, bearing the charred body of an unidentified man. Corone- C. H. Keever was given the information today by Miss Gene Carson, waitress, and Miss Fae Bracken, cashier, in a restaurant at 5164 South Illinois street. Miss Carson took an automobile ride with Schroder two nights before the torch slaying. Miss Bracken talked to him in his car near the restaurant. Schroeder told Miss Carson boys throwing rocks had caused the holes in the windshield, but Miss Carson declared they were bullet holes.

‘I ASK YOU, JUDGE—WHO’D MARRY A MAN WHO THROWS ELEPHANTS?’

B T'nitrd Press CHICAGO, June 19.—Wayman King is a knife thrower, sword swallower and Australian bull-whip artist He is a tight rope walxer, tatooed man and trapeze performer. He also is a passionate lover. All that combined makes him a disturber of the peace, a menace to public safety and a problem for Chicago, ruled Judge Alfred O. Erickson. It wouldn’t hege been quite so bad if he hadn’t tossed an elephant at Miss Amy Kingswell, but when thq versatile and handsome Wayman did that Miss "Kingswell decided a judge should hear about it This is what the judge

ST. PETERSBURG TO BE SCENE OF 1931 GROTTO CONCLAVE Florida City Wins Honor of Entertaining Next Meeting; Speedway Races Attract Interest of Visitors.

Selecting St. Petersburg, Fla., for the 1931 convention, the forty-first annual supreme council session of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm came to a close at tlie Claypool today. After a hot contest, Selama Grotto of St. Petersburg won the privilege of entertaining the next meeting over Zuleika Grotto, Buffalo, N. Y., second highest contender for the honor. Delegates; drew the curtain on business and competitive events with the grand presentation of trophies and awards at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors’ monument this morning and were to gather at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to sie a sample of Hoosierdom’s greatest sporting classic this afternoon. Oolah Khan Grotto, Cincinnati, 0., won first honors in the drum and bugle corps contest and Kishmee Grotto, Covington, Ky., took second prize with Kallipolis Grotto, Washington, third. The international band contest trophy was awarded Hindo Koosh Grotto, Hamilton, Ontario, and Bendemeer Grotto, Little Rock, Ark., and Al-Time Grotto, Atlantic City, N. J., tied for second place.

James A. Reed to Tell the Story of Prohibition Prohibition no :s an open and shut question. The indication of the recent straw votes shows that “wet” and “dry” is no longer a fair classification of the American people. Without fear or favor, honest men are speaking out for temperance. None better to champion this cause than FORMER SENATOR JAMES A. REED who, beginning next Monday, will tell the whole story of prohibition as he has watched it grow, in a series entitled “THE CRIME AGAINST TEMPERANCE” in THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.

HAIL LEVELS GROWTHS All Vegetation Beaten Down on Strip of Posey County Land. Bu Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., June 19.—A strip of farm country three-fourths of a mile wide and two miles long in Smith township, Posey county, is barren of vegetation as the result of a hail storm. The ground was covered with ice. Farmers scooped tubfuls of hailstones from porches of their homes. Wheat, tomatoes and other growths were beaten into the earth. Absence of wind prevented damage to houses.

heard, from the lips of Miss Kingswell. “Wayman and I were partners in an act He tossed knives at me, you know. I stood up against a wall and he hemmed me in with the knives. “And he cracked bull whips at me, took handkerchiefs out of my pockets - hat way, whined his whips around my legs and used them to light matches I held in my lips. “I helped him swallow swords, that is, I mean, I handed the swords to him. And I let him swing me around on the trapezes. He even carried me, sometimes, when be walked the tight rojie.

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beaten. There was a bit more gray in his hair than there was two years ago. Suddenly there was a comomtion down the deck of the City of New York and up rolled Bernt Balchen, dressed in an unpressed suit of blue, a black string tie, a gray cap making a futile attempt to restrain his mat of blond hair, and a green handkerchief protruding from his coat pocket.

First place in the second section band contest was give* Nazir Grotto of Canton, 0., and second place went to Kerman Grotto, Terre Haute. Silver loving cups in the choral club contest were awarded Oola Khan Grotto, Cincinnati, first place, and Zuleika Grotto, Buffalo, N. Y., second place. World-famed race drivers were tuning their mounts for Sahara’s pageant of speed at which Pete De Paolo, winner of the 500-mile race in 1925, will be master of ceremonies. Drivers who will perform in the ten and twenty-five-mile race exhibitions for visiting prophets and their wives include Lou Moore, Louis Meyer, Shorty Cantlon and Herman Schurch. Following the speed pageant the convention scene was to shift across the city to Riverside amusement park where a mardi gras celebration at 4:30 will be the final event on the program. The annual Veiled Prophets’ pageant was viewed by more than 50,000 persons on downtown streets Wednesday night. For almost two hours the crowds milled streets along the line of march while Grotto units marched past.

GREAT CAR STRIDE SEEN Time of Indestructible Auto Declared on Way. By United Press LONDON, June 20.—About the time when airplanes will be landing on every apartment house roof or in the commuter’s back yard, science will have aided in perfecting an automobile that won’t wear out. One British firm has perfected a steel so hard it can not be scratched with the sharpest file. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 64 10 a. m 76 7 a. m 67 11 a. m..... 77 Ba. m 70 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 73 1 p. m 78

“I sort of liked him, in a friendly, business kind of way, judge, but I wouldn’t marry him. MUM “17 VERY day he would bring me a bouqueet, and I like bouquets just like any other girl. But tfc got to be a nuisance when he would climb up the drain pipe and things at my house to put those bouquets on my window sill. “The last time he did that, and' it was only yesterday, judge, he sat on the sill and begged me to marry him. I said ‘no,’ as usual. And then he threw an elephant at me.” i The startled judge interrupted.

Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, who was given a riotous welcome when he and his party of explorers returned to New York today.

RAPS CONDUCT OF VOTE QUIZ Special Prosecutor Is Not Needed in Probe by Jury, Says Stark. Assertion that the grand jury investigation into alleged election corruption could be carried on without a special prosecutor, was made before the Marion county council today by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. Stark was called into the session to explain why a request was placed before the council asking for $5,000 to continue the probe. Stark, denied he engineered drawing of the fund request which was submitteed to Criminal Judge James A. Collins by grand jurors. Fund Demand Made Charles G. Fitch, grand jury foreman, Wednesday told councilmen that the lack of funds hinders the probe, and for that reason; the investigation will be incomplete when the jury is discharged, June 30. Stark told councilmen his ouster as probe head four weeks ago was executed “without good reasons.” “I was absolutely sincere when I said I could have conducted the probe without aid or prejudice. I think, nevertheless, the council should appropriate money to make the investigation thorough,” he said. Strike Out Item With little comment, the council struck the $5,000 item from the ordinance. The council approved temporary loan of $350,000 to finance other phases of county government in anticipation of fall taxes. Bond issues totaling $286,000 to pay the county’s share of flood prevention and Belt elevation projects also were approved. County Clerk George O. Hutsell was refused $2,100 to hire special deputies to collect about $40,000 in delinquent court dues. G. A. R. HEAD GAINING Dr. Isaac Austin Rallies After Relapse in Illness of Pneumonia. By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 19. Condition of the newly elected state G. A. R. commander, Dr. Isaac Austin, Noblesville, is reported improved today. Physicians said the 86-year-old Civil war veteran suffered a relapse Wednesday, but rallied. Dr. Austin became ill with influenza shortly after the close of the G. A. R. encampment at Wabash last week. The illness developed into pneumonia, but he recovered sufficiently to be taken in an ambulance from Kokomo, the home of his sister, here.

“He what?” asked Judge Erickson. “Your story has sounded true up to this point, but this business of throwing elephants, I hardly—” “Oh yes,” explained Miss Kingswell. “It was just a little choina elephant. And anyway it missed me.” The judge settled back to hear the rest of the tribulations of Miss Kingswell. “But that is all the story there is,” she said, “I just don’t want to marry him. Women always are around watching him swallow swards and crack whips and throw knives and walk ropes. Who would want a husband like that? And anyway, look at his arms-

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He carried a pair of skis, which he thumped upon the deck. Balchen for the moment stole the show. Exeryone cheered for him. Someone called him across the deck. He shunned passageways and went scrambling over the gear. Grover Whalen climbed aboard the City of New York and the handshaking began. Byrd said little except to repeat over and over and over again his pleasure at being home. Then all were transferred to the Macom and the trip up the bay began, amid a bedlam or screaming whistles. All the while Byrd’s mother—his wife was not aboard the Macom—waited on the cutter’s stern. “Where’s my child?” she queried, like a mother who wants to keep track of what a small boy is doing. MUM m m m THE Macom was well on its way toward the aßttery when Mrs. Byrd, Governor Byrd and the family party gathered in the cabin below decks and the admiral turned from his welcomers for ten minutes of a family reunion. No others were present. As the Macom neared the Battery, Byrd came to the bridge with his mother on his arm and there they stood as the cutter was swung into the slip. It was the noon hour by the time the procession had penetrated the clouds of ticker tape and reached its haven at the city hall. There Mayor James J. Walker was waiting at a columned platform erected on the steps of the century-old structure. In the park, the grandstands gay with bunting and the two-starred admiral’s flag, were filled with people. Byrd and his men were escorted to the platform where the mayor was introduced. “In the next three months,” said Walker to Byrd, “I imagine every scientist in the country will tell you just what you did down there at the south pole. M M M MUM .“T DON'T want to tell you that. I want to tell you how glad we are JL that you are home. Twice before we have welcomed you here and we thought we had done it well. But today we are glad that we are outdoing all previous welcomes.” Medals of the city of New York were presented to each member of the expedition. The polar party was escorted to waiting automobiles, Byrd at the head of the group with Mayor, Walker and Grover Whalen. People in the crowd clawed at police in an effort to get to Byrd's car. A small, red-haired urchin wriggled between the policemen and climbed to the running board of the automobile. Byrd chatted with him and shook his hand. Mayor Walker patted his head. The party was taken to the New York Advertising Club for luncheon.

MANIAC MURDERER BOASTS OF ‘MERCY TO THIRD VICTIM’ Letter Repudiates First Note to Newspaper Telling of ‘Newest Killing’; 2,000 Armed Police Stand Guard.

By United Press NEW YORK, June 19.—'The shabbily clad, sharp-eyed, maniacal slayer, who unflinchingly killed two men as part of his announced plot to murder sixteen persons to retrieve some mysterious “papers,” wrote today that he had spared his third victim —“W. R. V.—B.” It was the second note the slayer had sent to the New York Journal today. In the first he boasted that he had killed this third victim—despite vigilant watch by hundreds of detectives in the College Point section—and that the body would be found on the “Boston Road.” The LIFE SENTENCE" FOR STRANGLER Pleads Guilty to Killing Young Stenographer. By United Press _ _ WASHINGTON, June 19.—Dexter Dayton, 26-year-old insurance salesman, was sentenced to life imprisonment today by Judge Peyton Gordon when he pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Marjorie O’Donnell, 19, stenographer, here last Oct. 7. Miss O’Donnell, who was strangled by Dayton in a hotel here, was from Oil City, Pa. STUDY U. S, TARIFF French Cabinet Meets to Discuss Rates. Bu United Press PARIS, June 19—The cabinet met today and studied the new American tariff schedules. Pierre Etienne Flandin, minister of commerce, ordered an immediate survey of the repercussion from the tariff in France and her colonies. DOHENY CASE DROPPED $10,000,000 Suit Settled Out of Court; Dismissed by Judge. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 19. The $10,000,000 suit brought against E. L. Doheny and the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company by Frank H. Kindel and other stockholders of the organization has been settled out of court. The case was dismissed today.

THE judge looked. He saw a gorgeous array of mermaids, flaps, broken hearts and flowers traced directly in blue and red on Wayman’s epidermis. “Would you want to marry a man like that, judge,” asked Miss Kingswell. “I mean would you, if you were me?” Judge Erickson said he wouldn’t even if he were she. Wayman must pay the price for being too versatile, the judge ruled. * He ordered the knife thrower, sword swallower, bull-whip artist, tight rope walker, tatooed man and trapeze performer never again to make love to Miss Kingswell. __ __

first letter said the dead man’s name was “Harold Bridenbach,” and added, “find the woman and you’ve got me.” . The second letter today did not mention the previous boast of death, but said “W. R. V.-8 had returned the papers and $37,000 blackmail money.” None by Name Listed A preliminary checkup on receipts of the first letter failed to reveal any “Harold Bridenbach” ia the metropolitan area. While there was inclination to believe the maniac was making an idle boast in his letter, his information regarding the location of his victims’ bodies has been so infallible in the past that 2,000 police were deployed throughout Queens Borough where the maniac boasted he would slay the third of the sixteen persons whom he intended to kill. Already the maniac has killed Noel Sowley and Joseph Moyznski. In both cases they were shot as they sat in parked automobiles with young women. The two girls, Catherine May and Betty Ring, are at liberty in $5,000 bail each as material witnesses. Supplies Description It was Miss Ring who supplied the description of the man who slipped up beside the automobile in which she and Sowley were sitting and shot the lattetr. “The first thing I noticed were his squint eyes,” she said. “They were small piercing eyes that did not wink, that was the horrible thing about them. “He had sunken cheeks. His face was seamed and wrinkled and he had the thin ascetic features of a religious maniac. “He looked as thought he had fasted until he was half starved. He spoke with a baffling accent and I couldn’t tell whether it was French or German or a mixture of both.”

2,000 Cops on Guard All night, 2,000 poLcemen kept vigil in Queens as terrified residents of that section barred their doors. Every ruse known to experienced detectives was utilized. Policemen, wearing women’s coats with high fur collars, sat with drawn pistols in automobiles expecting any moment to be confronted by the maniac. Police Commissioner Mulrooney believes the man worships at the shrine of some strange deity that has commanded him to kill whenever he encounters a man and girl sitting in a parked automobile. Miss Ring told how the maniac, before he escorted her to a bus station after killing Sowley, had displayed a medal on his coat lapel. It bore a likeness of Saint Christopher, the patron saint of motorists. He also had a button that proclaimed him to be an expert rifle marksman. PUBLISHER ENTERS RACE Gilbert M. Hitchcock Is Candidate for U. S. Senate Seat. By United Press OMAHA, Neb.,, June 19.—Former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, publisher cf the Omaha World Herald, today announced his c-mdidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States senator. Hitchcock will oppose Dr. Jennie Callfas of Omaha, who was ousted from the position of Democratic national committee woman in 1928, I because she refused to support Governor Smith for President.

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CHURCHES ON PLAZA VALUED AT $1285,190 Purchase Price of Sites oil War Memorial Fixed by Appraisal Board. ~ COMMISSION IS SILENT* Statement Is Issued, However, Urging Taxpayers to Express Views. Purchase price for acquisition by Marion county of the sites of two churches on the Indiana War Memorial Plaza was fixed today by an appraisal board at a total of sl,285,190. Submitted to county commissioners by the appraisal board after an extensive survey of the properties over a six weeks’ period, the report fixed the value of the First Baptist church, on the southwest comer of the plaza, at $689,815, and that of the Second Presbyterian church, on the southeast corner, at $595,375. Appraisers were J. K. Lilly, head of Eli Lilly & Cos.; John J. Reilly, realtor, and Elmer W. Stout, presiden of Fletcher American National bank. Purchase of the sites and removal of the two structures has been a bene of contention between state and Marion county officials since beginning of the War Memorial construction. Considered True Value American Legion posts and executives have urged removal of the two churches in time for the 1933 national convention of the Legion, scheduled to be held in the city. Appraisers, in the report, stated that the appraisal figure is the amount “we consider to be the true cash value as defined by laws relating to the acquisition thereof.” The report further stipulates that the figures were set with the understanding that owners be permitted to remove from their respective buildings within reasonable time all movable fixtures, including pipe organs, chimes, art glass and pulpits. Charged with definitely acting on the appraiser’s report, commissioners declined to comment whether the price exceeded their expectation. Commissioner George Snider, who favors the state's sharing part of the purchase burden, has previously fixed a fair estimate as $900,000. Statement was issued by commissioners, however, urging taxpayers to express an attitude on the price, by filing remonstrances against or resolutions for the purchase. Officials of the two churches have filed declarations with comjnissioners and County Auditor Harry Dunn, expressing their willingness to sell at a “reasonable figure.” Boards of the two churches are expected to meet at once to act on the price set by the appraisal board. Before actual purchase by the county of the edifices, the coumy council will be asked to authorize a bond issue for the total purchase price. Taxpayers may remonstrate against the Issue.

“Will Be No Pussyfooting” Asked hen the commissioners board expects to act definitely on the purchase, John E. Shearer, board president, said: “If we buy the churches it will be done before the fall election. There will be no pussyfooting about the deal. “This board is not going to jump at conclusions in spending thirteen millions of taxpayers’ money,” he said. The Baptist church site comprises 24,082 square feet of ground. The Presbyterian church site includes 18,664 square feet. Report, of the appraisers expressed appreciation to various realty and building agencies assisting in the investigation. SLACK KEEPS PROMISE TO ACT AS BEST MAM Former Mayor Serves at Wedding in His Private Office. Ex-Mayor L. Ert Slack kept an unusual promise today, made while he was mayor of Indianapolis, by serving as best man at wedding in his private office in the Chamber of Commerce. The groom, J. Ed. Burk, 2033 White avenue, chairman of the central committee of south side civic clubs, held Slack to his promise, and was married today to Miss Emma Rottler, 1206 South State street, in Slack’s office. The wedding ’was to have been performed at the city hall when the promise was made. The Rev. Frederick R. Daries, Zion Evangelical church pastor, performed the ceremony at which Miss ; Elsie Rottler, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid and Mrs. Slack and the brides’ father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Rottler, were witnesses. INSPECT CITY THEATERS State Fire Marshal Declares Survey Will Start at Once. | Inspection of local theaters by C. D. McDonald, deputy state fire marshal, and Harry E. Davis, of the local fire prevention bureau, will be started immediately, Alfred E. Hogston, state fire marshal, announced today. Three days a week will be devoted to the survey, Hogston said, which will be in line with the co-operative move of state and city authorities to further, fire prevention work.