Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1931 — Page 13

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BACK TO WORK MOVEMENT IN INDIANA NOTED Evansville Cigar Factories Will Soon Have 2,000 Persons on Pay Rolls. 150 RETURN TO JOBS Logansport Company Resumes Operations; R. R. Shops Add to Forces. BY CHARLES C. STONE Stale Editor, The Tlmei Improvement in employment cognitions in Indiana is the outstanding feature of a business and industrial survey completed today, overing the first full week in 1931. Evansville led in putting workers .back on the Job. During the week three cigar factories resumed operations. Others will do the same within ten days, bringing to 2,000 the total of persons given employment. With more than 500 persons guaranteed a minimum of forty hours employment weekly, the Evansville Packing Company reports some of ha departments on a twenty-four-hour a day schedule. The Logansport Radiator Equipment Manufacturing Company called back 150 former employes during the w’eck. Railroads Provide Work At Washington, sixty-six were called to the shops of the Baltimore <fe Ohio railroad. There are now 700 employed in the shops. Forty-eight men have been called back to their jobs in the New York Central railroad shops at Elkhart. The force now numbers about 300. Two plants 6f the Warner Gear Company at Muncie have reopened after being closed for inventory. Part time operations have been . resumed at the Greenwood plant of Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc. Only former employes were hired. The Monticello Manufacturing Company plant at Elwood is operating steadily with several large orders on hand, including one for 600 display racks from the G. I. Sellers & Sons Cos., and one for 5.000 baskets from Armour <fc Cos. Work of erecting a 140,000-gallon water tank for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Vincennes will be started soon. Stone Inquiries Numerous President A. E. Dickinson of the 1 Indiana Limestone Company, an- • nouncing the booking of several orders, says that in the last thirty days more calls for estimates have been received than during any similar period in the last two years. Orders on hand are for stone for the Kansas City Power arid Light Company building: Higbee department store, Cleveland. O.: City hall and offices, Kalamazoo, Mich., and the Mellon institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. Indiana furniture manufacturers are represented strongly at the annual January shows now in progress at Chicago and Grand Rapids, Keen interest is being displayed in ihe show's by manufacturers, as orders booked during the displays will be indicative of the trend of the business for the year. Work is to be started at once on erection of a $250,000 addition to the building of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company at Ft. Wayne. Indiana limestone will be used, and only Ft. Wayne labor employed. Anew mill of the Bedford Cut Stone Company Is in process of erection, with completion set for March 15. 55.000.000 to Be Spent In the Calumet district the most important event of the week was the announcement that Inland Steel Company at Indiana Harbor will carry out a $5,000,000 improvement program, with start of work set for mid-summer. Tire Lever Bros, soap plant at Robertsdale is on a full production basis. At Hammond it is announced the Union Metal Products Company has received an order for 1.500 steel ends for gondola cars from the Pennsylvania ' railroad. The Tegge-Jackman cigar factory has been moved from Brazil to Frankfort, causing 191 persons to lose employment. Ulen & Cos., Lebanon, international and financing firm, has entered the southern California field with formation of Ulen Securities Company Ltd., at Los Angeles. Fred • T. Holt, vice-president of the parent company, will head the new unit. Winchester Plant Closes Five hundred persons have been thrown out of employment at Winchester through closing of the Woodbury division of the Turner Glass Corporation. The division is in receivership. A record of being idle only two weeks during 1930 was established by the David R. Webb Company, veneer factory operator, at Edinburg. , The Miller Show Case Company plant is being moved from Ft. Wayne to Decatur. Before the end of the present month the Overhead Door Corporation at Hartford City will occupy, an addition to its plant, increasing floor space 25,000 square feet. The American Can Company, new Terre Haute industry, has made Its first shipment of 110,000 cans. bridge bill proposed •SUte Senator May Ask Repeal of Law Exempting Taxation. His constituent* at Jeffersonville urging such a measure, Senator ' Russell P. Kehoe <Dem., Jefferson, Clark, Ohio and Switzerland) may introduce a bill in the legislature providing for repeal of the law exempting the Louisville municipal bridge for taxation.

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Pampered Pelicans Lose Art of Fishing; Starving Hy Unite* Press SANTA MONICA, Cal., Jan. 9.—Like the famous frog of Salome which neve* learned to swim, there are pelicans in Santa Monica bay which never have learned to fish for their own food. This strange biological discovery was made today when it was found that scores of pelicans, pets of children and fishermen, literally are starving because they did not know how to use the basketlike beaks which nature gave them. Rough seas have driven the fish to quieter and deeper waters. With no fish, there are no fishermen. And where there are neither fish nor fishermen there are no fish to be cleaned. The pelicans, in the years they have dozed upon the wharf here have subsisted entirely upon what was left after the fish were cleaned, and so have forgotten how to rustle their own food.

DENTISTS PLAN STATE SESSION Indiana Association Officers to Prepare for Parley. Plans for the convention of the Indiana State Dental Association to be held in May will be discussed by officers of \the organization at a meeting Sunday in Hotel Lincoln, Indianapolis. A statement by Dr. Frederic R. Heinshaw, association president, will open the meeting. Dr. C. L. Byers, secretary, and Dr. W. C. Hessler, treasurer, Crawfordsville, will speak also. Dr. A. L. Harter, executive committeeman, will outline the convention program. Dr. E. E. Voyles, Indianapolis, clinic supervisor, will announce plans for exhibition of dental equipment. Reports will be submitted by Dr. R. N. Douglas, editor of the Bulletin, the association's official organ, and by Miss Mabel Jean Melton, Louisville, publicity director. The association’s legislative program will be the topic of Dr. R. R. Gillis, legislative committee chairman. A report on the relief fund maintained for unfortunate members, will be made by Dr. Hessler. A luncheon will be served at noon Sunday in the Lincoln room. The association has a membership of 2,000. HUNT FOR DETECTIVE’S KILLER REOPENED HERE Negro Murderer Believed to Be in City, Reports to Police Indicate. Hunt for Richard Perkins, alias Cobb, Negro, alleged slayer of Detective Sergeant Carl W. Heckman, was reported here today after police were told a man believed to be Perkins had been seen near the downtown district late Thursday. Acting on information supplied by a boy, police Thursday raided a residence at 524 West Chesapeake street. They w r ere told a tall Negro had been in the place, but had left when ordered out. Heckman was shot Saturday night when he and Detective Sergeant Philip Miller attempted to arrest two Negroes, suspected of laundry wagon banditry, in the 3500 block North Pennsylvania street. Floyd Board. Negro, companion of frhe alleged slayer, is held on a murder charge.

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Leadership of the Republican majority in the Indiana senate has been assumed by Lee J. Hartzell of Ft, Wayne, representing Allen and Nobles counties, by virtue of his victory over Senator James J. Nejdl, Gary, Lake county.

BUTLER MAN INITIATED

Robert Stearns Becomes Member of Sigma Delta Chi Fraternity. At special services in Arthur Jor-

dan Memorial hall Thursday, Robert Stearns. Coral Gables, Fla., Butler senior, was initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity. Steams is a major in the university's journalism department and city editor of the college daily, the Collegian. It was the first time in several years that the Butler chapter held initiation

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BOYLE RITES ARE SET

Funeral Service to Be Held Saturday for Retired Gas Expert. Last rites for William H. Boyle, 81, 2346 North Talbott; avenue, will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at the Ragsdale & Price funeral establishment. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. He died at his home Thursday. Mr. Boyle participated in bringing the first natural gas line to Indianapolis and later was connected with the Consumers Gas Trust Company and the City Ice and Coal Company. He retired fifteen years ago.*

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Mrs. Arthur Robinson Jr,, 24, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Zoercher, and daughter-in-law of Senator Arthur R. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson, died at 3 a..m. today at her parents’ home, 68 Whittier place. Mrs. Robinson had been ill about a year. Death was due to tubercular pneumonia. She was married four years ago to the son of the junior senator from Indiana. They have a daughter, Martha Jane, age years. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Jr. made their home with her parents for the last year. Zoercher, is Democratic member of the state tax board. Mrs. Robinson was born in Tell City, April 5, 1906. She came to Indianapolis with her parents in 1912 and attended school here. She was graduated from Butler university, where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Funeral services will be held at 2 Monday at the Irvington Presbyterian church. The body will lie in state there from 1 to 2 p. m. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery.

GEORGE POTTS DIES AT HOME Services for Foundry Head to Be Held Monday. George J. Potts, 40, of 5540 North Meridian street, president of C. &z G. Potts Company foundry, 816 Washington avenue, died today at his home after a brief illness. Mr. Potts, a resident of the city all his life, had been president of the company six years. The firm was founded several years ago by Iris father, Clayton Potts, 2715 North Meridian street. Mr. Potts was a member of the j Highland Golf and Country Club and SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church. Survivors, in addition to his father, are the widow, Mrs. Ruth F. Potts, and a daughter, Miss Joan Potts, Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at 9 a. m. Monday at SS. Peter and Paul cathedral, followed by burial in Holy Cross cemetery.

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By 7 (me* Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 9.—Four Indiana farm women, whose names were announced here today, will receive recognition as master arm homemakers Wednesday evening. l during a program which is a feature of the annual agricultural conference of Purdue university. The women are Mrs. C. J. Barten, Brook: Mrs. Warner M. Davidson, Crawfordsville; Mrs. Paul T. Caldwell, Connersville, and Mrs. Clarence J. Martin, Fountain City. Wrapped up in the title of master i farm homemaker there are other! titles—titles which are not conferred, but which might be conferred, for tjpsc women have shown

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931

SPEEDY USE OF HIGHWAY FUND PLANNED! $2,045,000 in Federal Aid to Be Put in Circulation as Soon as Possible. PUSH MOVE FOR PROBE j Strey Heads Campaign to Inquire Into Conduct of Commission. Plans were being laid today by j : Director John J. Brown of the state ; 1 highway department and commissioners to spend quickly the $2,045,- i 000 federal aid now available, without matching by state funds, under the emergency relief measure recently passed in congress. Plans were being drafted at a conference with J. T. Voshell, federal highway engineer for this district, whose job was said to have been jeopardized recently by Commissioner Jess Murden's political activities. Murden is credited with “running j the highway department" and is a ! close personal friend of Governor Harry G. Leslie. Among those present at highway headquarters today were State Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Gary) and former Representative J. Glenn Harris (Rep., Gary). They conferred with Arthur P. Melton (Dem„ Gary), highway commission member. Probe Is Continued Meanwliile, other senators and present members of the house of representatives ivere continuing plans to probe the department's financial affairs and conduct under the present administration. In the senate this move is being pressed with vigor by Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep., Wabash). His initial charge, disclosed in The Times Wednesday, is that the commission, although' having more state funds than at any other time in history, failed to match and obtain $3,500,000 in federal aid the last summer, thereby being unable to finance more jobs for the unemployed and aid in drought relief. The federal aid funds uncollected new total some $6,000,000, Stey contends, and in the interim the department went into debt $600,000. It is learned that the present commission plans to dodge paying the 2 per cent interest on the borrowed money, w r hich was taken from the cities, counties and towns’ share of the state gasoline tax revenue. Proposal Called Brazen Before leaving for Wabash for the week-end, Strey added new fuel to the fire by caustic criticism of the commission proposal to abolish all budget restrictions and leave the spending of its some $22,000,000 in annual revenues to whim as to where needed. This proposal, which Strey terms “brazen,” was made in the request to the state budget committee. The plan is not to divide funds into j construction, maintenance and adI ministrative as has been done | previously, but to give the departi ment all the money in a lump sum ; and let it spend it “under the budget committee supervision.” “What do they mean, budget committee supervision?” Strey asked. “The committee meets only four times a year after the legislature j closes. Claims Funds “Dissipated” “Chief highway trouble now is the manner in which funds have been dissipated. What is needed there j is better and more drastic budgeting, surely not less restrictions. “But needed most of all is an investigation, and we are going to make it, over in the senate. If they i i have nothing to fear and are proud l of their record, as the Governor contends, even friendly senators : should support it. “I admit that I’m not friendly j toward them and I expect to disclose by investigation the crying need for a change in personnel and plan of the commission set-up. “I will introduce a bill for a full-, | time commission, which will elimi- ! nate the present divided authority, j where every one and no one is | blamed when things go awry.”'

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that they are also community makers and character makers. This is the fourth time that the Farmer's Wife, national farm women’s magazine, St. Paul. Minn., and the home economics extension department of Purdue university, have recognized master farm homemakers in Indiana. Fourteen women have received recognition in previous years. When Mrs. Martin and her husband were newlyweds they began farming on a rented farm with a cash fund of $250, a hope chest, some furniture, a horse, a cow, two heifers and a calf. Since then they have succeeded in acquiring 230 acres of land and a beautiful farm home. Mr*. Martin has seen her two daughters graduated from col-

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—Photos Copy right by NEA. Termed by Pat Roche, veteran crime investigator, “the hardest man I have ever met,” Leo Brothers, St. Louis gangster, is under arrest in Chicago charged with the murder of “Jake” Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter who was shot to death last June. Declaring that Brothers has been identified positively as the reporter's murderer, Roche added that “if this man didn’t kill Jake Lingle, then Lingle is still alive.” The upper telephoto shows Brothers as he was being questioned. He is seated in the center, between State’s Attorney John A. Swanson (left) and Charles V. Rathbun, counsel for the Chicago Tribune, who is serving as an assistant district attorney. Roche, who ts Swanson’s chief investigator, is standing. Lower photo show’s a striking closeup of Leo Brothers.

MILL WORKER INJURED IN ELECTRICAL BLAST Urban D. Moore Near Death From Bums and Shock. Urban D. Moore, 30, of 2342 North Pennsylvania street, was near death

at city hospital; from in ju r ies re- I ceived Thurs day when an electrical control board of the Acme-Evans Company flour mills, Was hin gton and Blackford streets, exploded. He was burned badly about the face and head and two fingers of his right hand were torn off by the explosion. Moore, a roll tender at the plant, has roomed at the

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Pennsylvania street address three years. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moore, reside at Mt. Verncn, Ind. Greencastle Man Buried By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 9 Funeral services were held today for Artemus F. Williams, 58, carpenter, who was found dead in a bed, a victim of heart disease.

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lege, and her son expects to attend < Purdue. - She has taken part in the activities of ten commmunity or- j ganizations and has been an officer j in most of them. Mrs. Davidson also has found time to take part in community work, while rearing six children and doing a woman’s work on a farm of 530 acres. She sees in a home! “a place that is blessed, happy and cheerful.” Os the six Davidson children, two sons are farming, a daughter is a home economic teacher, another daughter is attending Purdue and two are in high school. Mrs. Barten, besides being a master farm homemaker, is also a master of the time which hasn’t!

BACK OF THE VEIL

Andrews Trailing ‘Earliest Man'

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—ln the desolate wastes of Mongolia, where only an occasional nomad wanders in hazardous search of a living for himself and a few’ scrawny animals. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews believes there may come, within a few years, the most significant discoveries af-

fecting the known history of the human, race ever made by scientists. Returning from what he called “the most successful expedition” ever sent out by the American Museum of Natural History, with ninety-one cases of important fossil remains. Dr. Andrew’s indicated today that he and his explorers may be on the verge of uncovering deposits as valuable as those w’hich captured the imagination of the world last year, when the so-called Peiping man came to light. When he is at home. Dr. Andrews sits high up in an office at the museum, over the great halls that house mammoth skeletons and gigantic skulls in what a small boy once described as a “dead circus.”

Under his enthusiastic and imaginative flow of conversation, however, -4hese fossils come to life, move, eat, fight and make grotesque love, as they did millions upon millions of years ago.

It was in the Pliocene age, that a herd of great mastodons moved down to a water hole at the edge of a prehistoric lake in the Mongolian region w’here Dr. Andrews and his expedition labored in the hot sun last summer. This thunderous herd of elephantine bodies looked, one might say, like the nightmare of a steamshovel engineer. Each was equipped with an enormous scoop-jaw, projecting several feet from the head, and tipped with flat tusks. With these scoop-shovels, they dredged the shallow waters, sifting oUt the lush tropical vegetation from the sea bed. The plants disappeared within a cavernous mouth and were ground to bits by heavy molars, ana TRAGEDY came to the herd, however, w’hen it wandered into quicksand and despite its struggles, sank into the mud which later turned to dried clay, solidified, and preserved the skeletons for today’s scientist. It is these fossils that Andrew’s brought back, and on which “Bill” Thompson, who has picked at similar Ipones for thirty-five years, now is using his delicate steel chisels and knives to separate them from their natural matrices. The extent of this discovery—l 7 perfect skulls and jaws—is enough to send any paleontologist into ecstacies. But there was more to this discovery. At the time of her death, one of the lady platybeledons (the scientific name given the animal) was in, what the mid-Victori-ans used to call “an interesting condition." Because of this, there was preserved for posterity the skeletal remains of a perfect embryo. And within a few months there will be set up, side by side in the African museum, a series of skulls of all ages, ranging from the unborn platybeledon child to the adult male and female of the species. a a a AS to the coming discoveries, Dr. Andrew’s bases his prediction and hope upon the sensational find-

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been taken in rearing a son and an adopted daughter, and in taking care of an eight-room house. With poultry and some hogs she has succeeded hi earning SSOO a year, and has given only an hour and a half a day to her outside work. During the last six years Mrs. Caldwell has planned the modernizing of her farm home, and has seen her plans carried into effect. Until six years ago the Caldwells were tenants on their 232-acre farm, and then they purchased it. Mrs. Caldwell is a leader in local clubs and takes part in church and lodge work. She is the mother of two children, one of whom is married and the other a student in high scbois.

BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent

ing of the Peiping man last year, a feat W’hich he repeated, he would have “given ten years of his life to have accomplished.” “The Peiping man,” he said today, “is more important, I believe, than either the Java or the. Piltdown man, because its age can be more accurately placed. The geologic age of the rocks in which it was found is definite, which can not be said for either of the other great discoveries. "My hope of discovering human fossils in Mongolia is based on the fact that we have mile after mile of fossil-bearing territory to explore and exacavate, which is bound to reveal some traces of early man if he existed there as a companion of the other life of that and later ages. “If w’e find such a ‘human,’ he should be older than any ‘man’ yet discovered, because whjile those men lived in caves, he would not have reached the cave stage. “Our own ‘man,’ if we find him. I believe, will be years, how many I daren’t say, older than Messrs. Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal and Peiping.”

Leads Minority

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Walter S. Chambers Post of minority leader in the Indiana senate is held this session by Senator Walter S. Chambers (Dem., Henry and * Madison), who is publisher of the Newcastle (Ind.) Courier-Times.

MILLER AIR BOARD CHIEF Named Chairman of C. of C. Aviation Coihmittee by Borhwtein. Dick Miller, president oi the City Securities Company, today was named chairman of the aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce, by Louis Borinstein, president. Joe Rand Beckett, attorney, was named vice-chairman of the committee. George S. Olive, certified public; accountant, is chairman and Curtis; H. Rottger, vice-chairman, of the j finance group. ROBBED FOR ONE PENNY Needed Cent for Cigarets, His Excuse, So He Got ssl in Holdup. By United Prctt BURLINGTON, Wis., Jan. 9. The excuse of Russell Darlington, 21, for robbing a grocery of ssl in a holdup, was that he had 14 cents and needed another penny to buy a package of cigarets. Business Man Dies By Timet Special GBEENCAST'LE, Ind., Jan. 9. Henry Franklin Shoptaugh, 62, coal dealer dropped dead at his home, a victim of heart disease. 4

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G. 0. P. SPLIT MAIN PRELUDE TO ASSEMBLY Lieutenant Governor Bush Gets Blame for Alienation of Senator Nejdl, INSURGENCY MAY GROW Even Possible Revolting Group May Out Number Party Regulars. BY BEN STERN Insurgency, which is expected to Injure any attempt to carry out a party program by the Republican senate majority has reared its head and is the outstanding development of the caucuses which marked the convening of the seventy-seventh general assembly Thursday Beyond a doubt this dissatisfaction is the most important happening on the political horizon and it can be safely said will cause much harm to the ambitions of Lieuten-ant-Governor Edgar D. Bush, who is held responsible. The cause of the insurgency is laid directly to the manner in which Bush used his patronage and appointive powers to obtain election of Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep., Allen and Noble) as president pro tern. In interfering in the race lor president pro tern. Bush has no doubt incurred the enmity of Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep., Lake*, who had been the outstanding contender, and, until Bush interfered, was scheduled to be elected Those who probably will join with Nejdl and his original seven supporters are Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Lake) and his three adherents, and Senator I. Floyd Garrott (Rep, Benton and Tippecanoe). Holmes May Join Nejdl Holmes, who has long been opposed to Nejdl, is expected to bury the hatchet and join forces. There is also a possibility that Senator John Sherwood (Martin and Orarge). who Joined the Harlzell group on a promise of certain patronage, may become insurgent, which would thus include fourteen of the twenty-nine Republicans. If well managed, the rebels will be able to win another vote which will give them a majority of the Republican senators. Sherwood, it is declared, has just cause for resentment. He was promised that if he joined the regulars Mrs. Pearl Gaither of Shoals would be elected postmistress. But when the caucus was held and uftc.' Sherwood had voted for Hartzell, • Mrs. Gaither w’as defeated and the same force elected Felix Brown of Richmond as postmaster. Election of Hartzell is also seen as a rebuff to the heads of the stale committee and Governor Leslie, who were said to have climbed on the Nejdl band wagon. For weeks Bush had been advocating the election of Senator French Clements (Rep., Vanderburg) as president pro tem. But upon his change of front before the caucus Clements pulled out of the race and, it is said, has received in recompense several ( juicy bits of j patronage and appointment to two ; important committees. Revenge Possible In 1952 can be no doubt-that Bush : will feel the results of this tarnI paigning for Hartzell when his name Is presented to the 1932 convention I for nomination as either Governor ior senator. It was generally understood that he was an aspirant for the former post, but within the last few days his friends are saying that he wants to be senator. The Indiana Anti-Saloon League hails Hartzell's election as a victory I for its cause, because Nejdl has ali ways been its bitter opponent. The Republican majority’s action inch- ' cates a dry policy will be adhered to. The sudden death of RepresentaI live George L. Saunders of Bluffton, | veteran Democratic leader, who was ! to have been elected house majority leader, left that post open. Now the three principal candidates for the speakership, which was won by Representative Walter Myers (Dem„ Marion), are tying for the floor leadership. They are Representatives Delph McKesson (Marshall), Earl Crawford (Union and Wayne), and Fabius Gwin (Dubois and Martin 1 . Three Selected for Posts They were won to the Myers : standard Wednesday afternoon when they perceived they had no ' chance of election. Asa result of their withdrawal, McKesson, who is an attorney and insurance agent, is expected to be named to head the committee,on insurance; Crawford, Ia banker, that on banking, and Gwin, ranking member of the judii ciary A, will be chairman of that ! committee. Gwin, who studied the tricks of the ablest parliamentarian in the house for many years, Representaj tive J. Glenn Harris of Lake county, defeated for re-election this year, put into practice the lessons he learned during the caucus Wednesday night and at the opening session. The report is current that Myers will forsake a time honored custom 1 and refuse to name the Democratic budget committee member as chairman of the important ways and means committee. This is said to result from a view held by certain Democrats that Bennett in accepting the budget committee post became too closely affiliated with the opposition. A speech that Hartzell made at the Republican conference Wednesday morning at the Sever n is causing a furore among many Democrats. Although newspaper men were barred, It is reported that the president pro tem. declared: “We don’t want to show the Democrats any quarter this session. I have no use for them and we should appoint a special committee . ‘ to stir them up and make trmiblsss*