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CENSUS TWISTS CAN’T PREVENT CONGRESS CUT State Must Reduce Quota to 11, Declares Chief of Legislative Bureau. No possible twist can be given the Indiana census figures or the federal reapportionment procedure to prevent the Hoosier congressional delegation from being cut from thirteen to eleven members. Consequently, the way is paved for 'lhe 1931 legislature to draft a reappcnlonment bill to accomplish the reduction. Then should the coming congress fail to pass on re-1 apportionment, the state legislators can enact their bill irito statute. Should the Indiana general assembly fail to be ready when congress adjourns March 4, 1931, a special session to enact reapportionment for congressional seats must be called before the regular session in 1933. This w'as the interpretation given the federal statute on reapportionment today by Dr. Charles Kettleborough, chief of the legislative reference bureau at the statehouse. Opposes Rogers’ View* It is opposed to the theories emanating from Republican state headquarters, where Chairman Elza. O. Rogers continues to hold aloof from co-operation with the Democrats in vamping a “fair" reapportionment plan by a joint committee of party leaders. This suggestion first was advanced by Chairman R. Earl Peters of the Democratic state committee and scorned by Rogers. But it received great impetus among many leading Republicans Thursday when Governor Harry G. Leslie called both party chairmen to his office and urged adoption of Peters’ plan. Not Likely to Agree Rogers has made no official statemen as yet, but it generally is reported he will not agree to the joint committee program, despite the Governor’s advocacy. Indication of this was contained in a statement issued by Harry C. Fenton, secretary of the Republican state committee, in which it is set out that congress must act, or refuse to act, first, before the legislature can deal with reapportionment for congressional seats. Fenton pointed out that since the 1931 legislature adjourns March 9, there scarcely would be time to act if congress had failed to do so by March 4. Governor Leslie had this very point in mind at the conference with the state chairman, and pointed out to them that if the legislature is ready, it can act, and there is plenty of time now to work out a fair bill by the joint committee method. Wo’n’t Call Session "I will not call a special session on this matter.” Leslie asserted. “If this legislature can not agree on a bill at a regular session, there is no reason for me to believe that members could get together at a special session composed of the same membership. “Electing the congressmen-at-large just isn't in the cards.” Should reapportionment not be accomplished either by the legislature or congress it is planned to elect the entire eleven from the state at large, which, it is believed by some, would be to Republicans’ advantage. At any rate, the Hoosier delegation must be down to eleven at the second session of congress, after the coming one, if the house seats still number 435. TWO MEN ARRESTED IN PROBE OF FIRES Blazes at Cemetery Garage Laid to Gasoline Thieves. Two fires Thursday night in the garage at the Holy Cross cemetery, on Bluff road, believed to have been caused by thieves who attempted to steal gasoline, resulted in the arrest of two men today who are held pending further investigation. The men are Guy Steele, 23, of 828 South Meridian street, and Paul Steele, 20, of 2024 North East street. The first fire was extinguished by Ed Ott. 2560 Bluff road, cemetery employe, with but small damage. The second, however, destroyed a truck in the garage. Ott said he had seen three men with flashlights prowling around the premises before the second blaze was discovered. NOBEL CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS AWARDS OUT Calcutta and German Professors Are Honored With Prizes. Jy United Press STOCKHOLM. Nov. 14. An -Mdian professor of physics at Cairytta university and a professor of ssedicine in Munich university have been awarded the 1930 Nobel prizes ih phys.cs and chemistry, respectively. Sir Chandrasekhara Raman received the prize in physics in recognition of his research work in diffusion of light. Professor” Hans Fischer won worldwide attention by his human blood research, especially his chemical studies of the blood and gallstones. In 1929 he produced artificial blood pigment called hematin. HOLIDAY RATES SLASHED Thanksgiving Excursion Tickets to Be Sold by Pennsy. Thanksgiving holiday excursion tickets at the rate of one far plus 25 cents were announced today by J. c. Millspaugh, division passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad. The rates will prevail between certain designated points on the Pennsylvania system.*under arrangement with other railroads in Central Passenger Association territory. \ The excursion tickets will be sold for trains leaving starting points at 6 a. m. or later on Wednesday, No*. 2*. and for trains leaving Nov. 27 that will permit arrival at destlnatiSfc not later than 1 p. m. ThanksSif£ag day. Returns must be started by midnight, Monday, Dec. 1.

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It's windup day today in The Times big Twin Contest. Here you see the last four pictures of the fifty which have been printed in this competition. All you have to do now is match 'em, paste them up neatly and bring them to The Times Twin Contest Editor. There are some tempting prizes in store. First is a fine StewartWarner radio set, donated by the Stewart-Warner Sales Company, 508 North Capitol avenue, and then there are cash prizes. But that isn’t all. Just as a grand climax to this contest all twins of the city are asked to be the guests of The Times and Manager Kalberer of the Lyric at the popular downtown playhouse next Monday night between 7 and 9 o’clock. All you have to do to get in on this is to register at The Times office at any time before 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. The attraction at the Lyric is especially appropriate. Bert Lytell, playing both twins, appears as the star in “Brothers,” and there’ll be a fine bill of RKO vaudeville along with Bert’s film presentation which is a Columbia all-talkie. Don’t faii to get in on this and don’t fail to get in, too, on the contest. If you’re shy some of the back numbers of The Times, all you have to do to get them is to call the circulation department, Riley 5551, and you’ll be taken care of.

POLITICAL PLUM IN DUNN FAMILY Courthouse Lunch Stand Is Given Mother-in-Law, Courthouse lupch stand, richest "handout" political plum, which periodically is the storm center of quarrels, today passed into ownership of the immediate family of County Auditor Harry Dunn. After forming what apparently is anew alliance, Auditor Dunn and County Commissioner John E. Shearer grasped hands by issuing an order for Mrs. Amma L. Garrett, present owner, to “vacate at once.” The order, received by Mrs. Garrett, a Republican, gave no reason for the change. Next owner is Mrs. Dell Smith, Dunn’s mother-in-law, a Republican. Mrs. Smith has had control over the lunch stand for a total of three years, since 1921. FRANK MAYR CONFERS WITH OTTO FIFIELD New Secretary of State Likely to Substitute Democratic Force. Frank Mayr Jr., secretary-of-state-elect, conferred with Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield Thursday afternoon regarding taking over the office, with its staff of some 300 employes, Dec. 1. Mayr refused to comment on his plans, but it appeared likely that a Democratic personnel will be substituted shortly after Dec. 1, for all major positions in the department and most minor ones. A few members of the present force may be returned to aid in distribution of automobile license plates, which will get under wav Dec. 15. Plan of distributing the plates through the Hoosier State Automobile Association may be abandoned, it was said. UNION OF CHURCHES IS SOUGHT IN BRITAIN Reconciliation of Christian Faiths Suggested by Archbishops. Bv United Press LONDON. Nov 14.—The reunion of all Christian faiths, possibly during the present generation, was envisioned Thursday in speeches by the archbishop of Canuterbury and the archbishop of New York. The speeches, delivered simultaneously at Canterbury and York, revealed the appointment of a commission by the archbishop of Canterbury to reconcile the Anglican and orthodox churches. They revealed also that definite negotiations had been undertaken with a view to church unity. Purdue Professor Resigns LAFAYETTE. Ind., Nov. 14—G. H. B. Hotchkiss, has resigned as professor of heating and ventilating at Purdue university, and Monday will leave &t New York to become editor of %ating and Ventilating, a trade journal.

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TRAFFIC DEATHS JUMPJN CITY Four Per Cent Increase in Past Year Shown. Fatal traffic accidents within Indianapolis city limits increased steeply in the fifty-two weeks ending Nov. 1,193 C, as compared with the previous year, a summary issued by the departmenet of commerce shows. The death rate per 100,000 population increased for that period this year to 25.3 from 21.1 a year ago. For the city and environs the rate this year was 30.8, as compared with 29.5 a year ago. Total traffic deaths in the city proper in the year ended Nov. 1, 1930, were 92, as compared with 76 the preceding year. In the city and its environs the increase was from 106 to 112. For the four weeks, which ended Nov. 1, 1930, traffic deaths within the city limits totaled eight, as compared with thirteen for the corresponding period in 1929, and in the city and its environs dropped from twenty-two to thirteen.

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HIT-RUN DRIVER KILLS JOBLESS FATHEROF TWO Search for Work to Feed Hungry Family Fatal to Melvin McKinney. Daily trek in search of work that Melvin McKinney, 23, of 1433 De Loss street, made for seven months is ended. For the first time in those months, Mrs. McKinney and two small children today have forgotten hunger—have put it aside for the more bitter pang of grief. Tramping the streets, seeking employment and livelihood for the family of three, which soon will be increased to four, McKinney was struck by—or walked into an auto driven by Orville Schoolcraft, 19, of 825 South Warman avenue, at Pine and Washington streets, Thursday afternoon. McKinney was killed. Schoolcraft and a girl companion, Miss Orpha Reed, 19, of 617 North Hamilton avenue, backed up to where McKinney lay on the pavement, and then sped away, according to witnesses. Traced by the license number cn Schoolcraft’s coupe, police were searching for the youth when the boy and girl drove up to a traffic policeman and surrendered several hours after the accident. • “I saw him step from the curb,” Schoolcraft declared in a statement to Detectives John Gaughan and Claude Johnson. “I sounded my horn. He hesitated, and then started forward again, so I honked a couple more times. He stopped again, and I thought he was one of those jokers who try to ''get a fellow rattled, so I went on by and he walked against the front fenders. His head hit the windshield.” Schoolcraft said he remained at the scene until the siren of an approaching police emergency car frightened him. Witnesses today were ready to contradict Schoolcraft’s version of the accident with the story that the youth was racing a taxi about forty miles an hour when McKinney was struck. One of McKinney’s shoes lay sixty feet away. The body was sent to city morgue. Schoolcraft was slated at city prison on charges of involuntary manslaughter, and failure to stop after an accident. AWARD CONTRACTS Proposed Bond Issue Is Reduced $12,000. Contracts for construction of School 69, Thirty-fourth street and Keystone avenue, were awarded to low bidders and the proposed bond issue for the work was reduced from $175,000 to $163,000 by the school board Thursday. Successful bidders were J. G. Karstedt Construction Company, general contract, $114,080; Hayes Brothers, heating and ventilating, $23,845; Strong Brothers, plumbing, $11,734; Robbins Electric Company, electrical work, $5,272. The twelve-story building is to be completed by Sept. 1, 1931.

In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9 a. m.: Southeast wind, 6 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.09 at sea level; temperature, 56; ceiling, 2,000 feet; visibility, 14 miles; field, good. FARRELL AGAIN APPOINTED TO BUDGETBOARD Leslie Fails Even to Ask Opinion From AttorneyGeneral on Legality. Although the legality of the status of Representative Sam J. Farrell (Rep., Hartford City), as a member of the state budget committee often has been questioned, Governor Harry G. Leslie reappointed Farrell to the budget committee today without even asking an opinion regarding the legality from the attorney-general’s office. Farrell himself knows what such an opinion would be. He asked such an opinion from both former At-torney-General Arthur L. Gilliom and present Attorney-General James M. Ogden. But these requests were “informal” and never incorporated in the at-torney-general’s records. Regarding budget committee qualifications, the law says; Truck Firm Salesman “No member of the general assembly shall be ligible to membership on such committee who has any contract pending with any departments of the state, either directly or indirectly, in any appropriation which the committee may be required to recommend.” Farrell Is a salesman for the Indiana Truck Company of Marion. The company annually sells numerous trucks to the state departments and Institutions, and its trucks have become standard equipment for the Indiana state highway department. This year the highway commission bought a fleet of them. Farrell, as a budget committee member, will pass on truck approprations for the various departments and institutions, including the highway. Gottschalk Is Holdover Homer K. York, vice-president of the truck company and member of the Indiana state reformatory board of trustees, is said to make the actual highway department sales, according to Farrell. He visited Gaylord Morton, the Governor’s secretary who handled the budget appointments, late Wednesday afternoon. Another holdover re-appointed by the Governor to the budget committee was Senator Thurman A. Gottschalk (Dem., Berne). Two new members are Senator Byron Huff (Rep., Martinsville), senate holdover and dry goods merchant, and H. Curtis Bennett (Deni., Dillsboro). The latter sells coffee to the state purchasing board, so the Governor may plan on letting the Democrats in on the business despite the law it was pointed out. St. Louis is an independent city not in any county, but St. Louis county includes the environs of the city of St. Louis.

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dressing the Mid-Continent Trust conference at the Claypool. “The growth of the trust activities of national banks in the last few years has been remarkable,’ Await told 250 delegates at the morning session. More than 91,000 trusts, with individual trust assets of $4,500,000,000 and trustees for corporate bond issues close to $12,000,000,000, are being administered by national banks today, Await declared. Edmund S. Wolfe. Bridgeport. Conn., presided at session. Harold Eckhart, secretary of the Corporate Fiduciaries Association of Chicago, and John N. Free, vice-president of the First National bajik, Wichita, Kan., were other speakers. The conference was to close this afternoon following addresses by Thomas H. Beacom, Wichita; W. W. O'Brien, assistant secretary of the First Union Trust and Savings bank, Chicago; Lawrence J. Toomey, vice-

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president of the Union Guardi&A Trust Company. Detroit, and J. Hugo Grimm, vice-president of the Boatmen’s National bank, Bt. Louis. Delegates will remain overnight for tours of the city and special entertainment by the Indianapolis Fiduciaries Association Saturday. TEST SITE FOR RADIO Municipal Gardens May Be Awarded Police Broadcasting Station. Municipal Gardens, on White river near Sixteenth street, may ba the site of the new police radio broadcasting station, following approval of the park board for a test there. , . The station now is in the Knights of Pythias building, but is to be moved to curtail operating expenses. Willard park first was considered and then abandoned in favor of Municipal Gardens, owned by the parL board. ,