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STATE ROAD FUNDS GONE, DEBTS MOUNT Huge Increase in Overhead Is Revealed by Check of Report. GOOD WEATHER BLAMED Department Hard Hit When Receipts From Gasoline Tax Decrease. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Increase of $1,226,239.12 in overhead expenses, due in part to an orgy of salary boosts which almost doubled the pay roll is one of the items causing the state highway department to be "broke” ~nd in debt in the first full fiscal year of Director John J. Brown’s operation. . This overhead increase was disclosed today by a check of the annual financial report lor the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, on file with State Auditor Archie Bobbitt. The fiscal year of 1929-30 is the first full year during which Brown has been in charge. The report shows that construction department costs increased from $16,438,992.45 for the fiscal year 1928-29. to $17,155,602.27 for the fiscal year just closed, an incerase of $716,609.82. Maintenance Costs Soar Maintenance department costs, including motor transport, soared for the same period from $4,818,060 90 to $5,327,932.89. an increase of 5509.871.99. This makes the total increase for the two departments $1,226,481.81. But Director Brown did decrease the total for the administration department. He decreased it $242.69, or from $73,154.51 in 1928-29 to 72.911.82 in 1929-30. The $242.69 decrease deducted from the $1,226,481.81 increase, leaves a total increase in overhead ex-pense-for 1929-30 of $1,226,639.12. The favorable weather permitted the paving program to be advanced and the highway commission borrowed $1,600,000 from the cities, counties and towns gasoline tax fund at 2 per cent interest to meet obligations. This amount would care for the increased overhead and leave $373,760.88 to pay contractors who completed their paving early. ‘Going Around With Almanac’ Upon the unusually favorable weather the last summer, which expedited paving projects, the highway department has been relying for explanation of its deficit. ‘ They have been going around with an almanac making explanations." was the comment of one state senator. , Another loan was asked, but denied by the state auditor and treasurer, although favored by Governor Harry G. Leslie. The trio compose the state finance board which must approve a loan. Auditor Bobbitt and Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds, state treasurer, pointed out that a decrease in gasoline tax receipts would make the loan impossible of repayment when due. So the highway department resorted to certificates of indebtedness to pay contractors. Wisdom of denying further loans was shown when gasoline tax receipts did decrease during September, for the first time since the tax law w T as passed in 1925. CAROL SEEKING NEW RUMANIAN CABINET King Strives to Line Up New Chief to Replace Resigned Group. Bu United Press BUCHAREST. Rumania, Oct. 7. King Carol began negotiations W'ith party leaders today with a view to formation of anew cabinet to replace the resigned government of Premier Julius Maniu of the peasant party Differences between the king and the premier regarding the extent of the king's power were said to have been the cause of the resignation of the cabinet, which had been in power since 1928. JAMES GEIER PLACED ON TRIAL FOR ARSON Charged With Attempting to Burn Central Avenue House. James Geier, 36. of 1514 Central avenue, went on trial today before a criminal court jury charged with first degree arsdn in connection with the attempting burning July 16 of his rented home at the Central avenue address. With Floyd Mattice on the bench. Deputy Prosecutor Paul Rhoadarmer and Harry Gause, in opening statements to the jury, said the state will show Geier fired the house to collect $4,000 insurance on furnishings. The house was the property of Mrs. Arv Ula D. Ault, Indianipolis. BOARD TO ACT ON SITE Resolution to Sell Tract for D. S. Hospital Is Prepared. Resolution for the sale of thirty acres of the Coflan golf course to be turned over to the government for erection of a $500,000 United States veterans hospital is expected to be presented to the park board Thursday. Members of a local hospital committee will co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce in raising funds to buy the tract and give it to the government.

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Hazard Turns Chilly Shoulder to ‘Fame’ by Snubbing, Vallee, Rogers

Bu Unite,d Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 7.—Hollywood as w-ell as Broadway has sought and been refused permission to inject a dash of Harvard atmosphere into its product. Rudy Vallee was denied the privilege of crooning the "Crimson” and the "Fair Harvard” over the radio. The Harvard university publicity bureau also has vetoed the request that Charles (Buddy) Rogers, film star, be allowed to lead the Harvard university band in a talking picture sequence at

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heart’ cavorting at the head of the Harvard band in every movie theater, and ‘Fair Harvard’ crooned and moaned to the accompaniment of the saxophone's bleat in every radio is overpowering. One can not help but feel the giddiness at such a prospect, and perhaps under the circumstances the less said about the inefficiency of the publicity department, the better. ’

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Pythians in Grand Lodge Parley Here Indiana Knights of Pythias assembled 1,500 delegates here today for opening of the sixty-second annual grand lodge session. Charles S. Loy, Swayzee, retiring grand chancellor, presided at the meeting in the grand lodge auditorium of the K. of P. building. Shortly after noon, delegates were paraded to World war memorial, where Loy placed a wreath in honor of deceased soldiers. Following ceremonies, delegates marched to the Union Station and boarded special cars for Lafayette to inspect the Knights of Pythias orphans’ home. Memorial services will be held there and delegates will return to Indianapolis tonight for meetings of lodge committees. The grand lodge will continue in session throughout Wednesday and will adjourn for the annual meeting of Pythian Sisters Thursday and Friday. Dr. Charles A. Tindall, Shelbyville, was re-elected president of the Past Grand Chancellors’ Association at annual banquet of the association in the Claypool Monday night. L. A. Tuggle, Danville, 111., national head of uniform rank, was the speaker. HEADS FORD BRANCH Harold Wilcox Named New Manager in City. Managership of the Indianapolis assembly branch of the Ford Motor Car Company, 1315 East Washington street, has been taken over Harold H. Wilcox, it was announced today. Wilcox, connected with the Ford company nine years, was assistant manager of the Kansas City branch before coming here. He succeeds George P. Steinmetz. FIRE L(JSS IS REDUCED Decrease of $7,416 for September Reported by Voshell. Decrease of $7,416 in the city fire loss last month, as compared with September, 1929, was announced today by Fire Chief Harry Voshell at the board of safety session. Voshell reported that fire loss totaled $20,000 last month as compared with $27,416 the same month last year. The number of fires dropped from 280 in September, 1929, to 230 last month, he said. TWO HELD TO U. S. JURY Joe Cohen, Ernest Williams Charged With Liquor Violation. Joe Cohen, proprietor of a delicatessen store in the 890 block on South Meridian street, and Ernest Williams, 39, Apt. 42. Lexington apartments, were held to the federal grand jury on liquor charges by a United States commissioner Monday. Coheh, a previous offender was released under $3,500 bond and Williams was held under $2,500 bond.

OOMEWHERE in the city—maybe in one of the homes, in a shop, in a schoolroom, or department store is Indianapolis’ Sweetest Girl and a prize of S2OO is waiting for her. The Times and the city's candy dealers and manufacturers want to find her by midnight. Saturday, Oct. 11, and they are asking you to help, and you’ll win a $25 reward. The sweetest girl in town may not be your gir! sweetheart. She mayJ)e your mother, your wife,

Sanders theater, where Harvard graduates receive their diplomas. The Harvard Crimson, university daily, in an editorial entitled “Lilies of the Vallee,” said the college publicity bureau had "passed up two golden opportunities to put the university absolutely in a class by itself for unparalleled asininity.” It referred to Rudy Vallee’s proposition as an offer "to raise ‘Harvard’ to the basis of the ‘Stein Song.’” Concerning the Rogers incident, it said that “from purely altruistic motives, a young man came out of the west and offered to brandish the baton for the university band.” In conclusion the editorial said: “The spectacle of ‘America’s sweet-

Infirmary Conditions Have Been Bad 16 Years, Says Collins. BY EDW ARD C. FL'LKE Charge that no effort has been made by Marion county officials for sixteen years to care properly for inmates at the poor farm was made today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. In a statement made as result of exposures by Tire Times on the plight of male inmates, Judge Collins urged total evacuation of the present infirmary site, recommending rehabilitation of Marion county’s hospital for the insane at Julietta as a home for aged dependents. Collins said he is opposed to issuing bonds for constructing new buildings on the present infirmary site. Urges Insane’s Transfer The indigent insane now quartered at Julietta should be transferred to the Central Hospital for the Insane, a state institution, to make way for rehabilitation of Julietta as an infirmary, he said. Bolstering facts uncovered Monday that twenty-eight grand juries over a period of fourteen yeai’s have failed to move county commisisoners to action on poor farm improvements, Collins said almost every grand jury during sixteen years, in its report, “has severely criticised the management of the county infirmary.” Collins harked back to 1923 wlien the poor farm muddle ran amuck with the law, resulting in the indictment of two Indianapolis contractors. Recalls Former Effort “I recall when Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing, a member of the board of county charities, used all her influence to obtain improvements of conditions there. Following her campaign, county commissioners contracted with Weaver <fe Sons, contractors, who made certain improvements, but of such poor workmanship that a grand jury investigation and indictments followed,” Collins said. Two officials of the Weaver company, charged with presenting a false claim and with making false affidavits, were found not guilty by a criminal court jury four years later. Study of grand jury reports disclosed that emergency relief at the institution has been demanded since 1921: Since that time only minor improvements have been made. FLEES 400-POUND BRIDE Heiress Says She Bought Mate a Plane and 1 Left Her. Bii United Press LOS ANGELES. Oct. 7.—Mrs. Naomi Specht Scoff, 400-pound heiress, bought her husband an airplane and he flew away in it, she told Judge J. W. Hanby in winning a divorce from James T. Scoff, aviator. Her husband failed to contribute to her upkeep, Mrs. Scoff declared. OFFIcTr IS SUSPENDED Safety Board Finds Cop Played Pool While on Duty. Patrolman Eldo Landis today was suspended by the safety board for sixty days after he was found guilty of neglect of duty. He was alleged to have played pool in a poolroom aJ. 465 North Belmont avenue, while oh duty.

S2OO Prize Is Posted for ‘Sweetest Girl in Indianapolis'

one of your friends. She may work at any occupation, including that of housewife. There is one big requirement, and that’s all, though it’s a large order. She must possess an outstanding sweetness of character which is reflected in her environment, whatever it may be. and in her association with other people in her daily life. She may be beautiful or not. Character is what counts. This is not a beauty contest in the ordinary sense. winner may be the “perfect’?” mother, a beloved

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BRAZIL CALLS HUGE ARMY TO CRUSH REVOLT 420,000 Are Mobilized in Supreme Effort to Fight Insurgents. AIRPLANES BOMB TOWNS Aerial Forces Massed for Blow in Interior, Seat of Revolution. BY C. A. POWELL United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1930, by United Press) RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 7. Mobilization of army and navy reserves totaling 420.000 men was announced officially today by the government in its drive against revolutionary forces in Rio Grande Do Sul and other states. One hundred thousand men will be put in the field immediately and the remainder will be held in reserve, the announcement said. The government announcement said ten military classes of reserves would be mobilized. Each class will j be called from men between 21 and : 31 years old and it was estimated j each class would number 42,000 ! men. A presidential decree calling out reserves in two categories previously had been published. Officials said that reserve corps already had mobilized voluntarily in interior provinces before the actual orders were dispatched. Order Partly Restored Semi-official advices said order had been restored in the states of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil where the powerful radio stations are located; Rio Grande Do Norte, north of Pernambuco; Para, on the north coast at the mouth of the Amazon river, and Parana. The state of Parana, south of Sao Paulo, has been a center of rebel concentration in frontier advices. Federal' troops were said to be in control of the situation in the above named states. Meanwhile, the government continued its intensive campaign against the insurgent forces. Avial tors led the attack, bombing rebel ; towns in the interior states. The air | forces were prepared for a great bombing raid through the revolu- ! tionary towns to the northward of the capital. Rebels Are Repulsed Federal forces were reported vicj torious in fighting in Minas Geraes I Monday, driving the rebels from j several small towns near the im- ! portant city of Bello Horizonte, I which is in rebel hands. Minas | Geraes is a large state just north j and west of Rio de Janeiro. A detachment of Rio de Janeiro state police captured sixty state poI lice of Minas Geraes after a counter 1 attack of Rio Preto. The town was [ taken by the federal police, who i captured rebel machine guns. Asserts Revolt Success A cattle buyer, fully acquainted with the state of Rio Grande Do Sul, ; arrived here today from the interior | of the Brazilian state and said the | revolution was a success in that | region. He said 75,000 troops were reported converging on the city of Sao Paulo, intending to make a great military demonstration on the border as | a manifestation of success of the ! revolution. The buyer said the real object of the revolutionaries is separation from Brazil and formation of an independent state. ROB MAYOR’S WIFE Chicago Bandits Get $lB,000 in Gems, Slug Driver. m ' nited Press CHICAGO, Oct. 7.—Mrs. William Hale Thompson, wife of Chicago’s mayor, was in a hysterical condij tion today after three bandits held her up, slugged her policeman chauffeur and escaped with valuable jewelry. Mrs. Thompson, forced from her car in front of her home upon arrival there after attending a theater, fainted as the bandits, who had threatened to kill Peter J. O’Malley, her chauffeur, drove away with O’Malley in Dursuit. The bandits took from Mrs. j Thompson a six-carat diamond ring, I said to be worth $8,000; a bracelet i set with diamonds \ alued at $4,000, and a brooch containing 140 small stones, which had an approximate value of $6,000. They also took O'Malley’s star and his gun. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 62 10 a. m 66 7a. m 62 11 a. m 67 Ba. m 63 12- (noon).. 68 9 a. m 63 1 p. m 68

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teacher, a courteous, kindly store, office, or factory worker. ana Ik MODESTY will be one of the -*■' great attributes of the sweetest girl. So it will be necessary for someone else to nominate her for the S2OO award. So a special prize of $25 is offered the person who writes a letter of not more than three hundred words to The Times Sweetest Girl Contest Editor and gives reasons why his or he*., candidate should be considered for the hon-

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Joy Lanning, 911 East Washington street, today hears from her primary teacher. Miss Iva Pearcy, at the fresh air school, the warning of "Orphan Annie” on the eighty-first anniversary of the birth of JamejS Whitcomb Riley, beloved Hoosier poet, who died in 1916. School pupils made their annual

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St. Louis Fate Rests in ‘Wild Bill’s’ Left

BY FRANK GETTY, United Press Sports Editor. WORLD SERIES SPECIAL, EN ROUTE TO PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 7.—ln the days of our youth, when ball players had just discarded their mutton chop whiskers, but still spat on their rands and v'ore red flannel underwear, there was a popular song to the effect that: “H-A----double-R I-G-A-N spells Harrigan.” It hat quite a catchy tune, and went on to state that this Harrigan lad was: “Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me. “Dlvil a man can say a word a*in me.” Now it may be that before .the current world series, which is about to enter its sixth phase, passes on to take its proper place in baseball lore, the song birds of St. Louis will be paraphrasing that ancient paen in honor of a snub-nosed, freckledfaced youth and humming:-

FIVE ACCUSED IN MARRIAGE FRAUDS Several Thousand Dollars Taken From Lonely Bachelors Throughout U. $., Officers Charge.

(Picture and other details Pare 2) Federal postal authorities this afternoon were to bring to Indianapolis five persons rounded up in an alleged mail matrimonial swindle, operated for more than a year. It is charged the quintet took several thousand dollars from lonely bachelors throughout the country. Timothy O’Leary, alias Robert White, Philadelphia; Ora Thomas, alias Ray Gibbs. Los Angeles, and Mrs. Roxie Chaney, alias Gibbs, alias Sanders, were arrested in Crawfordsville Friday, and Monday night O’Leary confessed, police say, Implicating the others. Miss Oda Lippens was arrested in Marion, and early today arrest of Mrs. Etba Rose Brewer-Williams, in Muncie, completed the roundup. Federal authorities, who will charge the quintet with using mails to defraud, say that their investigation continued over nine months, has placed in their hands mimeographed letters, photographs and other data to provide sufficient evidence to convict all members of the gang. In a confession allegedly made to Crawfordsville police and A. S. Kelly and B. F. Simcoke, postal inspectors, O’Leary implicated each of the others under arrest, although in Muncie Mrs. Brewer-Williams claimed she was a victim rather than a member of the conspiracy. O’Leary said that a year ago in Dayton, he and Miss Lippens first began operations, inveigling $2,500 from Nick Bouylas, Chicago, and Joe Gerl, Detroit. Then they moved to Muncie, he said, and collected SI,OOO from victims in three or four months. Two months ago O’Leary said he split with the Lippens woman and joined Mrs. Brewer-Williams, Thomas and Mrs. Chaney. O’Leary said he wrote comeon letters to victims whose names were gleaned from matrimonial bureau magazines, and Mrs. Chaney and Mrs. Brewer Williams followed them up with correspondence that concluded with requests for money for themselves, railroad fare and to aid sick relatives. In his confession O'Leary said he discovered the rest of the gang

or. The consent of the candidate should be obtained, also. Letters must be mailed to The Times in time so that they are postmarked before midnight, Saturday, Oct. 11. So get into action now. The time is short. Judges will be appointed by The Times and the candy dealers and manufacturers of Indianapolis. They will choose the winner at a meeting on Oct. 16, and announcement of the winner will be made on Oct. 17. just before “Sweetest Day.” which will be celebrated nationally on Saturday. Oct. 18. The candy industry digs deep

pilgrimage today to Riley’s old home on Lockerbie street, where Hugh McK. Landon, president of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association, presided at memorial ceremonies. Later, association officials placed -a wreath on the poet's tomb in Crown Hill cemetery.

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\ “H-a-double-l-a-h-a-n sp e 1 1 s Hallalian.” | For as matters stand today, with the contending clubs traveling eastward to resume the series at Shibe park, about all that stands between the St. Louis Cardinals and defeat is sturdy young Wild Bill Hallahan. With the Philadelphia Athletics leading, three games to two, Wild Bill from Binghamton holds the late of the National League champions in his capable left hand. If he can hold the Mackmen therein Wednesday, as he did before a delighted St. Louis throng on Saturday he will be worth all the songs in St. Louisans’ repertoire. It will be Hallahan for the Cards Wednesday, agai n s t whichever pitcher Connie Mack elects to start. Once more the Irish boy from upstate New York is called upon to play David to the A's Goliath, i In the third game of , the series,

double-crossed him on a split in receipts, so he changed the postal address to Covington, Ky., then to Lebanon and finally went to Crawfordsville, Sept. 26. While located in Crawfordsville their victims were Fred Hobbs, Long Beach, Cal.; Herman Kuesdel, Brenham, Tex., and Jacob Ellis, De Funiak Springs, Fla., O’Leary’s confession said. In all. postal officers allege the gang collected about $6,000. Sheriff Fred Puckett, in Muncie, today said Mrs. Brewer-Williams had resided in Muncie, where she worked in a restaurant, for several years. He said he believed she had been a cat’s paw of O'Leary and the others. DOCTOR RILLS SELF Grief Over Wife’s Illness Is Blamed for Suicide. Dr. John P. Nicodemus, 52, physician, shot and killed himself shortly after noon today at his home, 1117 North Keystone avenue. Apparently brooding over the long illness of his wife, Catherine, Dr. Nicodemus had returned from his office at 2205 East Tenth street only a short time before he retired to his bedroom and fired a .45 caliber bullet into his head. Dale Brown, deputy sheriff, a neighbor, entered the room a short time after the shot was heard. Dr. Nicodemus was dead. HIGH COURT In session Reconvenes for First Time Since Early in Summer. With no indication of decisions being handed down on several important pending cases, the Indiana supreme court reconvened today for the first time since summer vacation. During the morning deliberation, several petitions to file transfers were granted.

into its pockets every year at this time to bring joy and pleasure to old folks, orphans, the blind, the cripple 2nd others who know good cheer only too seldom. a a a LOOK about your neighborhood or your place of employment, or among your employes, sit down and write to the Sweetest Girl Contest Editor of The Times, and tell in 300 words or less what you know about your candidate. She likely is some cne whose character has b&yi molded by adversity, who has Been self-sacrific*

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when it seemed that nothing could avert another rout such as National League champions have undergone for the past three years, Wild Bill, belying his nickname with the coolness of a veteran, shut out the Mackmen with seven scattered hits, beat them 5 to 0 and so disconcerted them that they would up by scoring only one run in thirty consecutive innings. When the Athletics resumed scoring Monday, however, they did so with a crash and a bang. Crash! That’s Two Runs The crash was the impact of Jimmy Foxx’ big black bat against the ball and the bang was the collision between the ball and a hastily vacated left field bleacher seat., That home run of Jimmy’s, scoring Mickey Cochrane ahead of him, punctuated as pretty a pitching duel as a world series has looked upon for many an October day. Until Foxx Intruded the lethal wallop, Burleigh Grimes had been splashing his spitball past the A’s until he had them yelling for life preservers. For the opposing camp, George Earnshaw and Lefty Grove had been standing the Cardinals on their crests. The left field score board showed more zeros than a schoolboys’ report card until the A’s went to bat in the ninth inning. Just a Slight Error Mickey Cochrane, who had been engaging Burleigh Grimes in a verbal duel throughout the series, led off for the Athletics in that session. “Hello, big ears,” Grimes greeted the Philadelphia catcher. “Better fasten back those shutters or I’ll dust ’em for you.” Well, what with one witty saying and another, Grimes neglected to get enough balls over the plate, and Cochrane walked, emitting loud and raucous razzberries in the direction of the pitcher’s box. This brought up Al Simmons, who, as it happened, was shy a safety pin for his flannel knickers, and Grimes had a merry time of it kidding Al, the latter being handicapped by having to bat with practically one hand. Smack! Over and Away! This time the laugh was. with Burleigh, for Simmons popped weakly to Gelbert. Then Jimmy Foxx advanced to the plate. Grimes sent the ball over about knee high, while thinking up an appropriate witticism with which to disconcert the A’s first baseman. That gag, whatever it was to have been, is one that never will be sprung, for Jimmy took hold of the ball with all the muscular force of his brawny shoulders, arms and torso and the crash of ash on horsehide was heard as far away as Philadelphia. The ball, in fact, started in the general direction of the latter city, soaring through the mist, over the fence and far away. With it went the ball game. URGE~USE oFSTATIONS Resolution Approves Fire Houses as Voting Places in November, Resolution approving use of fire engine houses in the city as voting places in November elections was adopted by the works board today, thus enabling county election officials to choose their sites in fire stations as they wish.

ing has known hardship and deep sorrow and through it all has faced the world with a smile. If you pick the winner she'll receive a check for S2OO from candy men of the city. And you’ll get $25 as a reward for your kindly deed. And. to top it all off, the Indianapolis winner will have her chance, in competition with winners in other cities all over the nation, to win the grand jirize. That grand prize will be a trip to Havana for the midwinter carnival season, about which more will Be said later, after find the city’s Sweetest GirL :

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BITTER FIGHT REVIVED OVER HARDINGTOMB Hopes of Early Dedication Blasted by Political Charge in Ohio. MEMORIAL LONG ISSUE Efforts to Set Ceremony for This Fall Dropped by Association. Bu United Press MARION, 0., Oct. 7.—Hopes for immediate dedication of the SBOO.000 memorial erected here two years in commemoration of President and Mis. Warren G. Harding, were blasted today with announcement of the Harding Memorial Association that all efforts to arrange a dedication had been suspended. Plans for the dedication have been at a standstill for more than a year and the association had hope that the ceremonies could be conducted this fall. Two reasons for the association’s latest action were given. The first was that the Republican state central committee, in recently naming a committee to participate in the dedication, brought the memorial within the scope of politics. The second was advanced in a motion made by Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general in President Harding’s cabinet, who is a member of the association. Half Million Contributed “A belated dedication,” he said," is not necessarily a reflection upon the dead but a dedication grudgingly extended is a compliment neither to the dead nor those who participated in the ceremonies. “But the monument stands there and will stand there these many years to come as' a distinctive marie of respect to a great man and a great President, “Now the American people, as a people, have never been swayed by the lip ot libel or the tongue of slander, and their devotion to his memory and their judgment of his virtue and merit is the final answer and appropriate reward to his labors. “When more than half a nxfiion people made their contributlHpH this beautiful monument to hSP“felB during n emory, none of ’■“Lorn gavj grudgingly and none of whom would accept return of a single penny, and when more than 75,000 persons each month stop at this monument to partake of the story of the lives of those who rest there, the foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious and all will be well hi the future. Inject Political Angle “It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice. “This being my sentiment and with due respect to all those involved in the recent discussion, which we can not help but take cognizance of. and with no criticism of anybody, I move you that all action pertaining to the dedication of the monument to the late President Harding be postponed for the present.” Daugherty in discussing his motion said the dedication will be held “in the course of time.” The political angle was injected into the proposed dedication in an exchange of letters between Hoke Donithen, Marion, secretary of the Memorial association, and Miss Gertrude Jones of Findley, vice-chair-man of the Republican state central committee. Miss Jones, citing the appointment of a dedication committee by the Republican organization, urged the memorial be dedicated without further delay, and asked whether President Herbert Hoover had been invited to deliver the dedicatory address. Action Is Demanded Donithen, in replly indirectly inferred the Republican committee desired early dedication for "politi-cal-purposes,” and concluded with the declaration that the association “felt it was qualified to handle the dedication without making it a political meeting.” In answer to this Miss Jones wrote denying politics was involved and asserting that she, as the Republican committeewoman from President Harding’s home district, “wants to see some action taken at once.” Some newspapers have stated editorially that precent Republican leaders and former associates of the late President have no desire to participate in the dedication in the fear that the attendant circumstances would revive scandals incident to President Harding's administration. Stands in Memorial Park The memorial stands in the center of Memorial park here. It consists of forty-eight marble columns, each representing a state. The tomb of President and Mrs. Harding is in the center of a grass plot within the structure. A slab of marble covers it. Subscriptions to the memorial fund, donated by persons throughout the country, have totaled $1,016,383.13. Os this amount $194,713.20 remains as an endowment. Dedication of the memorial has Deen at issue since the beautiful marble edifice was completed in 1929 Survivors of the Harding circle here said today they understood prominent Ohio Republicans had on two or possibly three occasions sought to persuade Mr. Hoover to set a date at which he would officiate at dedication services. Mr. Hoover and officials at the White House consistently have declined to discuss the matter pub-r holy in the past. , -