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G. 0. P. MONEY PAID HIS NOTE, LUCAS ADMITS Cash Borrowed From Nutt, Director Asserts at Primary Quiz. ACCOUNTS FOR $50,000 Foe of Norris Reveals His Financial Dealings to Committee. , By United Prri i* WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee, testifying before the Nyc primary investigating committee today, revealed he had paid off his now famous $4,000 note with funds loaned him by Joseph R. Nutt, treasurer of the Republican national committee. • At the same time, he made an accounting for the $50,000 special fund of the Republican national committee which had been security for his note. Payment of the note was revealed to the Nye senate campaign investigating committee by Wade H. Cooper, president of the Commercial National bank. The committee called Cooper and Republican committee heads in an effort to secure a complete accounting of a special $50,000 campaign fund, part of which was pledged as security for Lucas’ loan. Money Loaned by Nutt Lucas testified he obtained the $4,000 loan after saying he wanted the money for thirty days to pay , a personal debt. He said he used it to pay a $4,237 bill from the Independent Publishing Company here, which printed anti-Norris literature and other campaign material for Lucas. He paid the note, he said, with personal money loaned to him by Joseph R. Nutt, treasurer of the national committee. He explained that Nutt said he desired to clean tip the special account by Jan. 1 and offered to lend him the money. Lucas said he demurred, saying “that will get big headlines in the inquiry.” Nutt, however, insisted he would do it in a business like way,” and Lucas consented. He said he now owed Nutt personally $3,500. Cooper, in response to a question by Senator Warner (Dem., N. Y.), said he now questioned the “validity” of the Lucas loan. He said it was an unusual transaction whereby Lucas borrowed the money personally and then secured it by a lette* from the committee signed by Lucas himself. Lucas gas a detailed accounting showing various amounts disbursed to national committeemen in various states. He said the money was spent soley to aid congressional candidates. Lucas insisted the loan “is now and was a personal matter.” He repeated some of the details of sponsoring the circulars against Norris, including a cartoon depicting Norris as a Democrat and a W'et. and “wet and dry” propaganda” that he said he personally sent into , other states. Lucas said “all this was a personal matter and had no connection with the committee.” FUNERAL OF JOFFRE TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY Thousands Mourn at Bier of Marne Hero in Paris. Py United Press PARIS, Jan. 6.—Foreign troops and distinguished visitors arrived today in Paris to participate in the state funeral services Wednesday for Marshal Joseph Joffre. A long line of JofTre’s countrymen, meanwhile formed outside the chapel of Saint Louis, several hours before the doors opened, and 20,000 walked past the camp cot where he lay during the morning. The number who paid homage to the old soldier yesterday was estimated at 50,000. Notre Dame Cathedral, where Joffre’s body will be taken tonight, was draped in black today. FUNSTERS VISIT LESLIE Oiscn and Johnson, Appearing in City, See Governor at Office. i The “key of prosperity, laughter and good will” was given to Governor Harry G. Leslie today in his office at the statehouse by Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, nationally known vaudeville funsters, who are appearing in person at the Lyric theater this week. The duo offered Leslie their best wishes for future good times in Indiana and told him they believed much of the unrest and depression would be erased if people would laugh more. Olsen and Johnson have paid visits to several state executives throughout the country. CITY WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Pauline Stone Succumbs to Complications From Pneumonia. Mrs. Pauline Stone, 44. died today at her home. 6010 Norwaldo avenue, t from complications that followed pneumonia. She was the wife of George L. Stone, former city detective and police captain. Mrs. Stone lived in Indianapolis all her life. Her husband is the ' only survivor. Stone now’ is an in vestigator for a local financial institution. BANDIT TAKES $25,000 •Jewelry and Cash in Loot of Single Gunman. Bn United /’ res A CLEVELAND. 0., Jan. 6.—A solidary gunman escaped with $25,500 lin jewels and cash today after ■ holding up the Green-Wood Jewelry ■ store and binding the proprietor Land clerk in a back room.

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It’ll Bea Real Joy to Get Bumped Off by a Snappy 1931 Auto

BY HARRY FERGUSON United Pre* Staff Correspondent YORK, Jan. 6.—A day of detailed research in the labyrinths of the thirty-first annual automobile show at Grand Central Palace has convinced a person who has been an expert traffic dodger for years that 1931 will be a golden year for the pedestrian. Most of the cars are larjci'— eight and twelve-cylincnr mode's are especially popular with the window shoppers—and veer n pedestrians Will tell you it is soothing to the morale to be struck by a larger car. whereas nothing is quite so humiliating as being bounced against the cur by something that bears a stir-

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When Frank Carideo, Notre Dame’s All-America quarterback, was told that his engagement to marry Miss Nona Quartcro • above), Hollywood movie actress, had been announced in the film capital, he branded the report as “a cheap attempt to get some cheap advertising,” adding, “I tried to be courteous, and this is what I get.” Miss Quartero. in Hollywood, then said that the whole ing was “just a practical joke.”

ROTTGER GIVEN CHAIRMAN POST Leaders Are Selected for Industrial Commission. C. H. Rottger, chairman of (he board of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, today was appointed general chairman of the Indianapolis Industrial Commission by Louis J. Borinstein, Chamber of Commerce president. Chairmen named by Borinstein for the four divisions of the commission are: Charles Brossman, engineers; George S. Olive, finance; C. L. Harrod, location, and George Vonnegut, distribution. George T. Whelden, realtor, was named chairman, and Frank B. Planner, vice-chairman of the house committee and Clifford G. Dunphy was reappointed acting industrial commissioner. Remainder of the personnel of the Industrial Commission : Engineers, Horace A. Shonle. O. E. McMeans. Joseph W. Stickney, Lloyd Wayne. D. J. Angus and A. Schlesinger; finance, Bowman Elder. Henry Holt, Norman Perry, Harold E. Sutherlin, and Charles S. Rauli; location, W. A. Brennan, Emerson W. Chaille, W. L. Elder, Thomas E. Grinslade, Paul L. McCord. Carl G. Saytteri and John C. McClcskey; distribution. Arthur Baxter, Jack Harding. William J. Hogan and C. M. Williams. HUGE TOLL IN TYPHOON Fear 109 May Have Died When Storm H.'t Part of Philippines. By United Press MANILA, P. 1., Jan. 6.—Restoration of communication lines today brought fear that a typhoon which swept Leyte. Smar, Cebu and Negros had caused more casualties and damage than was at first estimated. With several bodies recovered and many persons known to be missing, it was believed nearly one hundred persons had perished.

NEW ORLEANS ‘4oo’ TO SELECT QUEEN

By l nilcd Prt** NEW ORELANS. Jan. 6—Ruler of New Orleans society beauties for a few' mystic hours, the queen of Twelfth Night, will be selected tonight from a group of at the Twelfth Night revrf Annual pageant and masked ba. 4rufiner of the Mardi Gras carnival season. The lucky debutante will be chosen through the divination of a little golden bean, which was drawn for the first time in 1870 for the same purpose, and has been used at every Twelfth Night ball since then. The bean ritual is as old as the old English Twelfth Night observance, jfßself an outgrowth of the re-

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tling resemblance to Johnny's tricycle. # And bumpers! Absolutely formfitting this season. You are struck, say, on the leg, and the bumper recoils on oiled springs, taking much of the shock out of the collision. But the manufacturers have gone even further, especially in the matter of mirrors for the driver. On this year’s cars he can see in all directions at once by virtue of the periscope arrangement and should some inexperienced driver miss a pedestrian on the straightaway, he promptly can throw his car in reverse and spike you from behind. Motor horns are lovely this season; most of them have a lyric,

LAKE COUNTY ACTS TO END FEE SYSTEM Northern Legislators Will ‘Clean Own Nest,’ Say Their Leaders. / Lake county’s legislators are determined to end the notorious fee system that has enriched Lake county officials, without waiting for the county officials’ salary bill being drafted by the Democratic state committee. Under the fee system, Lake county officials have amassed from $30,000 to SIOO,OOO a year for themselves, it has been charged for years. But the Lake county delegation has drafted a measure to place them on straight salaries of from $6,500 to SIO,OOO a year. When the unexpected occurred in November and Democratic county officials were elected, it was thought that no effort would be made to take the gravy away from that party. Prosecutor Gets “Top” The high figure will be for the prosecutor, who has been collecting almost SIOO,OOO a year under the fee system, according to Representative J. Clinn Ellyson (Dem., Lake). The state committee is drafting a salary bill for the entire state to eliminate the fee system. Dan Simms of Lafayette, veteran Democratic leader, is in charge of writing this measure. As county delegations arrived today they held district caucuses and from all reports Walter Myers of Indianapolis is the favorite for Speaker of the house. It was predicted he will be elected on the first ballot. McKesson in Race Delpha McKesson of Plymouth, veteran representative, arrived today and continued his campaign for the speakership. Opposition of the Indiana AntiSaloon League to Myers for speaker was revealed today by Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the league. Although various wet measures are being advocated. Miles declared they would fail to pass because of the heavy dry sentiment in the senate. There was evidence today of a growing “wetness,” and a dispatch from Evansville declared that the Vanderburg county delegation, in caucus, had decided to work for the repeal of the Wright bone dry law. The Lake county delegation is expected to concur in this sentiment at a caucus tonight, it was declared. Nejdl Sees Victory Senator James J. Ncdjl (Rep., Lake) announced today that his pledges of support are more than sufficient to give him the necessary fifteen votes for election as president pro tern of the senate. Senator French Clements (Rep., Vanderburgh) said to be Nedjl’s chief opponent, arrived today to consolidate his supporters. R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, who will preside at the caucus of the Democratic representatives Wednesday night, conferred today with John S. McFaddin of Rockville, Democratic leader who wrote the party’s registration bill. A delegation from the League of Women’s Voters, headed by Miss Florence Kerlin, also conferred with Peters regarding the league’s registration bill. LU D LOW GETS OF FIC E Brother of Congressman Elected President of Butler Group. Ross S. Ludlow, brother of Representative Louis Ludlow, Monday night was elected president of the Butler-Fairview Civio Association. Other officers elected were: Paul Rhoadarmer. attorney, vice-presi-dent: Miss Lucy Campbell, secretary, and F. M. Lytle, treasurer. The publicity committee is composed o l Charles W. H. Otto, chairmain: Mrs. B. B. McDonald. Mrs. Ross Ludlow and Miss Campbell.

ligius symbolism of the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem. But *' ' —*> chance is said to ruJ- the queen alwv >n. The name of Jikhncke, debutante daughter of assistant secretary of the Ernest Lee Jahncke, has been most mentioned as tonight’s queen. The queen’s identtiy and that of her court will be publicly revealed after society has witnessed the glittering pageant. The king and his courtiers and the grotesque maskers among the revelers are drawn from the business and professional leaders of the city, whose names are in the New Orleans Blue Book. Their names never are public.

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l.lting tone that takes all the pain out of being clipped two feet from the curb* m * * BEING a person whose motoring is confined to semi-annual rides in a taxicab, this correspondent was lured to the cab section, and what a reward awaited him there! “Gone, all gone, are the stripped, somber cabs of yesterday. In their place we are to have ornate town cars with so much brass and silver glittering at odd places that one’s eyes arc dazz’ed and one forgets to watch the meter. Streamline cabs are popular, the motors purr like contented

EINSTEIN? FULL OF BUNK

Thats the Verdict of Captain T. J. See

BY SHERMAN MONTROSE. NBA Service Writer t-. AN FRANCISCO, Jail. 6—Pro- Rmrr 1 fessor Albert Einstein has won Q 9 yy/L. irld-wide fame as originator of O Q> J|iU3|v *'/ 4 e theory of relativity and is v 9 O v w paying California a visit 9 tich many scientists insist is a <9| p\T y|T jat honor to the state. But /'TSk 9 (*\ Wp i m 'zmmif lifornia has at least one dis- mm (fW/ X. tguished star gazer who has '■w-* Q |H :ked the moment of Einstein’s r\ Q Af i Q ;it to repeat what he has often C? 9 *= id before—namely, that Einstein SB rtl jo I completely and everlastingly 9 m !o° rft staken in practically all his . pg ill 111 laH U tomas Jefferson Jackson Sec— Sa ™ ” : feet four inches tall and 64 ! . JBBffigßjjp ars old —former director of the - * _

BY SHERMAN MONTROSE, NEA Service Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6—Professor Albert Einstein has won world-wide fame as originator of the theory of relativity and is now paying California a visit which many scientists insist is a great honor to the state. But California has at least one distinguished star gazer who has picked the moment of Einstein’s visit to repeat what he has often said before—namely, that Einstein is completely and everlastingly mistaken in practically all his theories and beliefs. This dissenter is Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See — six feet four inches tall and 64 years old —former director of the United States naval observatory at Mare Island, senior mathematician for the United States navy, and soon to take charge of a government observatory at Acapulco, Peru. “Einstein,” says Captain See, “is neither astronomer, mathematician nor physicist. He is a confusionisi. “The Einstein theory is a fallacy. It is based on a glaring error of which Einstein is aware but which he refuses to recognize. “I know of not one truth in the whole mass of relativity literature, and thus, for the good of science, not a line of it should have been published. n tt tt “TT has simply added to the . J- darkness and confusion of a superficial and unthinking age, in which quantity production of inferior literature is injuring the public mind. “Einstein is shown to have tinkered with Newton’s law without understanding it, which thus increased the darkness of this diffi- ' cult subject, without adding a ray of light.” Having delivered this broadside, Captain See goes on to add a final salvo: “The Einstein theory that the ether does not exist and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy vagary, a disgrace to our age.” As it happens, Captain See does not stand alone in his views. Other American and European scientists have agreed with him. But thus far Einstein himself has never taken the trouble to answer him. Einstein’s supporters have, but Einstein has simply ignored the naval officer. \ tt tt tt CAPTAIN SEE insists that Einstein is perfectly aware of the fallacy in his theory of relativity, but won’t admit it. He declares that there is a glaring error in Einstein’s formulas for the bending of a ray of light as it passes by the sun. Einstein, says Captain Sac, carelessly failed to multiply his result by two, and therefore got only half the value he should have got. And furthermore, that halfvalue itself was not new; Captain See declares that it was obtained by a Dr. Soldner, another German physicist, nearly 130 years ago.

SWINE BREEDERS ARE IN MEETINGS HERE Annual Sessions of Eight Divisions Held at City Hotels. Annual meetings of eight divisions of the Indiana Swine Breeders’ Association were held today in the Claypool. English and Severin. Election of officers of the state association was held Monday night at the Claypool, E. B. Moore of Sheridan being named president to succeed O. L. Reddish of Waveland. Kenneth Schenck of Waynetown was elected vice-president, and Levi P. Moore was re-elected secretary and treasurer. The legislative committee of the organization will consist of the presidents of the eight divisions, with secretaries as alternates. They will work to defeat attempts to pass a law fixing qualifications for persons who vaccinate swine. Aged Man Buried WINCHESTER. Ind.. Jan. 6. Funeral services were held today for A. R. Abshire. 80, who died after an illness of several montl^,

cats, and one sinks into ts j _ushions and is lulled into forgetting how much the ride is going to cost him. There was a time, it was learned, when cab manufacturers considered having divided seats in the rear to curb a practice that has come to be called “necking for want of a better term. Today, it is the happy privilege of this correspondent to report that romanace has triumphed and softenend the hearts of the cab-makers to the extent that embracing can be accomplished gracefully and wholeheartedly.

Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, veteran United States navy astronomer, turns his telescope on Professor Einstein’s theory of relativity—and what does Captain See see? “It’s the bunk!” says Captain See, who has made an intensive study of more than 200,000 stars, not including those in Hollywood.

UNIVERSITIES ‘POOL’ TO HELP JOBLESS

State Leaders Confer Here on Plans to Lessen Unemployment. Purdue and Indiana universities today “pooled their powers of Hoosier helpfulness” in the matter of unemployment and emergency relief, in a conference in the senate chamber of the statehouse. The meeting was attended by representatives of every county in the state and the keynote of “pooling of powers” was sounded by President Edward C. Elliott of Purdue. “This crisis will become more critical,” Elliott predicted. “We can not consign people to the ranks of the involuntary indigent. I would not say that we are afflicted with poverty, but with negative prosperity.” Directed by Mrs. Edna Hatfield Edmondson, assistant professor in the extension division of Indiana university, the conference devoted the morning to learning what is being done to make work in the several communities. “Made Work” Plan Explained Indianapolis and Bloomington were used as outstanding examples of this “made work” program. The Indianapolis plan was outlined by David C. Liggette, executive secretary of ihe Indianapolis community fund, and the Bloomington program by Professor Thomas Rogers of the I. U. school of commerce. Funds raised through charity amusements and voluntary contributions are used to create jobs through public work not in the municipal budgets. Secretary John A. Brown of the state charities board pointed out that the basis of relief must be through township trustees and county institutions, aided by voluntary agencies. Co-operation of schools in investigations and proper fund distribution was stressed by State Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Gary) and Miss Blanche Merry, state attendance officer. Mayor Is Speaker Mayor W. McCarthy of Washington and former Mayor Marcus Sulzer of Madison explained what is being done in their communities. C. A. Tevebaugh, state Y. M. C. A. secretary, told of free Y memberships for the unemployed. George W. Dyke reported relief work well under way at Muncie and Lew OBannon, Corydon, pointed out that drought is the main southern Indiana problem. Governor Harry G. Leslie and President William Lowe Bryan of I. U. were reported ill and unable to attend. LEGION CABLES SORROW Expressions of sympathy over the death of Marshall Joffre have been cabled by Ralph T. O’Neil, national commander of the American Legion, to Mme. Joffre and through the organization of Fidac to all French war veterans.

THE lure of the fire engine department was strong, but the quiet voice of a speaker at the De Soto booth demanded attention. It proved to be Mr. Peter De Paolo, the noted race driver. He was giving facts on race driving and some of them hereby are transmitted to you. Mr. De Paolo weighs 135 pounds . . . he never eats before a race . . . He considers the late Frank Lockhart the most daring driver of them all . . . Barney Oldfield was the first man to make sixty miles an hour in an automobile, and he always chewed a cigar. . . . Tommy Milton is the shrewdest of them all; they call him the “old fox.”^ Ralph De Palma (In's De

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Harry E. Rowbottom, above, who faces federal prosecution for the alleged sale of postmaster appointments in southern Indiana. GIRL GETS DEATH NOTE Probe of Slaying Complicated by Threat to Victim’s Friend. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.—lnvestigation of the slaying of Beulah Limerick, 19-year-cld theater usher, was complicated further today by reports that an acquaintance of the girl had received a threatening note. Mary Ale, recipient of the alleged threat, had met Miss Limerick at several dances. Late Monday, she told police, she found a note threatening her with death. It was, wrapped in a man’s handkerchief and stuffed in the family mall box.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE ABOLITION URGED

Abolition cf township trustee offices in counties v/ith 400,000 or more population, substituting a purchasing agent as director of poor relief, would be provided under a plan to be submitted this afternoon to a special council meeting at the courthouse to consider Marion county’s depleted poor relief fund. Meeting in the offices of county commissioners at 2 p. m., more than three-score government officials, tax interest representatives and legislators will be asked to solve the county's poor relief situation, overspent almost $133.00. County Auditor Harry Dunn, advising immediate action by the general assembly convening this week, announced that fe&vy drainage of *

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Paolo’s uncle) is the best showman of the lot . . . Mrs. De Paolo doesn't object to her husband driving in races, but she used to . . . he carries two of his baby’s shoes in every race ... He never grips the wheel hard unless he's going around a curve. . . Race drivers really are gentle fellows and never try to kill one another. At first the impression got abroad that Mr. De Paolo was making this speech purely for the love of the game and because he was a born elocutionist. But wait! At the end he told the kind of car he drove when not on the race track. What kind do you thing it was? Sure enough, a D-S-T!

WARNING NOTE IS SOUNDED BY STATE AUDITOR Financial Condition Is Not Encouraging, Reports Williamson. Financial condition of the state, as revealed by the fund balances Jan. 1, 1931, is not encouraging, Lloyd E. Williamson, auditor, said today, as he published the balances. Williamson, a Democrat, assumed office Dec. 1, 1930. “The total in the general fund is $1,111,104.24 less than the amount of the same fund Jan. 1, 1930,” he said. “The total in the general fund proper, after eliminating the pledged accounts of the highway commission and gasoline hioney for distribution to counties, cities, and towns, leaves a balance of $3,227,776.44 available for general state purposes. “Further property tax money will not be available until the latter part of June,” he said. Wants No Appropriations Williamson estimated that general fund disbursements for the first five months of the year will be $6,500,000, and receipts for that period, other than property taxes, $4,100,000, leaving a balance June 1 of $827,776.44. Any appropriation by the legislature will reduce that amount. “The legislature should make no appropriations available in this fiscal year if they can be avoided,” Williamson warned. Fund balances at the beginning of the year were given. Balances Are Shown General fund: Proper, $3,227,776.44; highway commission, $1,046,640.11; gas, cities and towns, $2,613,342.02; and auto license, $210,619.96. Total, $7,098,377.53. Other fund balances were: School revenue, $2,430,677.60; agricultural board, $17,515.10; permanent endowment interest, $23,136.61; rotary fund, $508,619.35; teachers’ retirement, $532,802.01; Dunes park, $48,971.39; forestry, $51,730.04; library building, $248,604.03; unclaimed estates, $119,238.77; architects board, $2,130.93; swamp land, $22,092.18; common school fund, $1,692.76; Purdue trust, $340,000; World v/ar memorial, $289,925.89; George Rogers Clark memorial, $85,454.16; fire marshal, $75,472.38; educational improvement, $489,365.15; totaling $12,385,805.88. CITY DOCTOR DEAD Walsh Rites Will Be Held Wednesday Morning. Last rites for Dr. William F. Walsh, 49, who died Monday at St. Vincent’s hospital, will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30 at the home, 624 East Vermont street, and at 9 in the St. Joseph’s Catholic church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Dr. Walsh was born in Connersville. He was a graduate of the Indiana university’s medical school and served an interneship in St. Vincent’s hospital. He had offices in the Bankers’ Trust building. Surviving him besides the widow, Mrs. Helen M. Walsh, are: a son, Robert William; three brothers, Thomas H. Walsh and Dr. J. M. Walsh, both of Indianapolis, and Joseph Walsh, Axtell, Kan., and three sisters, Miss Beatrice Walsh, Mrs. Catherine McShay and Mrs. M. M Shaughnessy, all of this city. 30 KILLED IN RIOTS Serious Fighting Between Chinese and Burmese in Rangoon. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 6—Serious riots between Chinese and Burmese in Rangoon were reported to the Daily Herald in a dispatch from Rangoon today. Thirty persons were killed and about 200 injured.

poor funds has resulted in immediate need of money if relief work is to be continued at the present scale. Following conference Monday with county commissioners, Dunn was to submit a plan for a special tax levy of not more than 10 cents on each SIOO of taxable property in 1931, by I which relief work could be continued. Such special levy, Dunn will tell the council, will permit floating a temporary loan next spring, allowing about $600,000 for 1931 relief work. Dunn's plan will recommend a special act of the general assembly permitting the special levy, authorizing the temporary’ loan and abolishing trustee offices. v

GATHER FOR OPENING OF LEGISLATURE 150 Members Are Awaiting Session's Opening Gavel on Thursday. 61 .DAYS OF DEBATE Many Issues Must Be Disposed of Before Gathering Is Finally Dismissed. Their pockets bulging with prescriptions for the cure of Indiana's governmental, economic and social ills, 150 legislators started gathering here today for the opening of the legislature Thursday. Thursday morning's gavel will bring forward no corrective proposals. but next week will unloose a flood of bills into the channel that leads to the gray-bound volume of the “Acts of 1931.” Some of the measures on which a Democratic house and a Republican senate must come to some sort of agreement before they arc sent to Governor Harry G. Leslie's desK are: Bills to eliminate or reduce the state levy on property, either by substitution of an income tax, retail sales tax; tobacco, amusement, malt and luxury tax; a doubled auto license fee; a tax on 75 per cent of the face value of intangibles—any of these, or a combination o£ them. Bone Dry Law Is Target Measures for the repeal or modification of the Wright bone dry law; for a referendum on the prohibition question. Bills, recommended by the state crime commission, which would create a state department of public safety embracing the state police and the criminal bureau; provide for the election of judges on a separate non-partisan ballot; give the supreme court right to prescribe qualifications for admission to the bar; place prosecutors on a salary basis and eliminate the fee system; create a judicial council to study the practice of Indiana courts with a view to improvements; permit courts to refuse separate trials to gangsters indicted together and others. Proposals to remedy the bankrupt conditions of southern Indiana schools without, the Governor insists, raising the general property tax. Reapportionment of the state into twelve instead of the present thirteen districts—the bugaboo of the coming legislature, on which Democratic leaders and the Republican Governor would attempt agreement, but for an obdurate Republican state chairman. Discuss Receivers’ Fees Resolutions for investigations including, probably, the highway commission, the conservation department and the fire marshal's office. Proposals for election of public service commissioners instead of their appointment by the Governor; utility regulatory bills, several intended to facilitate the purchase and operation of public utilities by municipalities without public s’rvice commisson control. Measures which would give the state banking department broad powers in the handling of bank receiverships in the hope of saving for creditors the heavy fees which now go to the receivers. While bus operators arc whispering into the legislator’s right ezr their protests against higher Lcense fees, his wife’s hair dresser will be at his left, imploring passage cf the cosmetologists licensing measure that has been buffeted through recent sessions. Just as persistent’ - -, barbers want to be licensed. So do real estate dealers. Budget Must Be Passed Dyed-in-the-wool politicians will strain their voices, pro and con, when the Indiana League of Women Voters registration bill comes up again, consigned to the desk of the same chief executive who pocketvetoed it two years ago. Political dangers of the primary repeal bill that would substitute a delegate convention will be weighed cautiously. Once again the galleries will watch Senator James J. Nejdl stride down the aisle to champion the Eagle’s old age pension measure, this time, its proponents believe, with good hope of success. And then, to provide the oil for the state’s governmental machinery mqst come the biennial budget bill. For this purpose, the 1929 session voted $55,508,822 for the twoyear period. Budget requests and bills contemplating the expenditure of added millions will force the new total far above this unless priming knives are wielded ruthlessly. LARGE BUILDING BURNS Hall's Community Structure and 3 Business Places Destroyed. By l nited Press HALL, ind., Jan. 6.—Fire Monday night destroyed a large brick building housing several shops and a Community hall, including the B. C. Whittaker general store, and grocery and barber shop of Clyde Wilhite. Nothing was saved from the building. Insurance covered part of the loss, which was not estimated. Origin of the fire has nto been determined. The town is without fire protection. CRIMINAL PLEAS HEARD Duckworth Pleads Not Guilty to Vote Repeating Charge. Sixty-nine defendants charged with criminal offenses were arraigned Monday before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Trial date of each defendant was set after entering of a plea to charges included in indictments or affidavits. Clarence Duckworth, who allegedly voted more than once in the November election, pleaded not guilty to the charge. , !