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SENATE IRE FLARES ANEW OVER RELIEF Refusal to Provide for Human Food Assailed by Caraway. NEW TACTICS ADOPTED Democrats Will Permit Drought Aid Bill to Pass, but Keep Fighting. By United Pr WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Democrats In the : (mate have decided to abandon their efforts to add a $15,000,000 icod loan provision to the administration drought relief bill, ►Senator Caraway of Arkansas told the United Press today. They later will try to add the disputed sl3 000,000 to the deficiency appropriation bill, Caraway said. Senator Jones <Rep.. Wash.) presented to the senate at noon the conference report on the drought appropriation and asked for its immediate consideration. Caraway made an impassioned plea for relief for hungry farm families. He read accounts of “ragged children in the lower grades of school lining up daily for soup," and said “these children in the soup lines arc just as human and just as good as the grandchildren of the President at the' White House who lately enjoyed a Christmas tree. * “Are we so hard hearted a nation,” he asked, “that to save a few dollars of taxes we are willing to deprive millions of Americans and send many of them to their graves?” Lashes at Hoover • “President Hoover poses as a defender of children, and yet he refuses to allow children in twentytwo states enough food to sustain thei: lives. “The administration has no reason to believe the picture of distress is overdrawn by the press and from others who have no direct interest in this relief. A family of five gets $6 a month. They can’t live on that.” Caraway described the meager allowances for food as “torture.” He attacked the project before the senate to spend $30,000,000 for battleship modernization, and income tax refunds and abatements totaling $126000.000, while people are in need of food and clothing. Red Cross Assailed President Hoover is on the side of the house in the relief controversy that has raged for six weeks. The Red Cross has been made a party In the impending battle. Two Democratic senators, Wheeler (Mont.) and Thomas (Okla.) have threatened in Interviews to demand an investigation of that organization. Some senators assert the Red Cross joined with Mr. Hoover to minimize the extent of rural distress. Wheeler and Thomas complain it is refusing to use vast available resources at Its command for relief purposes. The house says no funds shall be appropriated for human food. The senate wants a $15,000,000 food loan amendment added to the original •45,000,000 relief bill. Drive for Relief Funds The Red Cross Itself has just describew the drought problem as the "greatest peacetime emergency” the organization ever has been called upon to face, and President Hoover has called on the nation for $10,000,000 additional funds for use by the relief organization. The relief problem was 'returned to the senate Tuesday by a 215-134 vote of the house, which supported Mr. Hoover’s opposition to federal appropriations for human food. The latest senatorial storm over charges that Edgar B. Brossard of Utah Is unduly friendly to the socalled sugar Interests had subsided today with the senate’s confirmation of Brossard as a member of the reorganized tariff commission. Brossard, Dixon Confirmed Favorable action on Brossard and Lincoln Dixon of Indiana completed the senate's approval of the six tariff commissioners named by President Hoover. All have been serving for several months under recess appointments. Confirmation of Brossard, for several years a controversial figure In tariff matters, removed one more threat to the administration’s program of avoiding a special session of congress. Reiteration of his charge that John Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, has "clapped a first mortgage” on the Democratic party, was made today by Frank Kent, political writer for the Baltimore Sun. Previous similar statements by Kent had brought from Raskob a vigorous denial that he had “bought and paid for” the party and was attempting to pick Its presidential candidate next year. “You brought the party out of bankruptcy,” Kent wrote in reply, “stood It on its financial feet and then clapped a first mortgage on it. ! You are the first mortgage holder of the Democratic party today, ana in my Judgment that is not a good thing.” •

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 213

Tanar of Pellucidar

By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Author of “TARZAN OF THE APES ”

PROLOG JASON GRIDLEY is a radio bug. Had he not been, this story never would have been written. Jason is 28 and scandalously good looking But this it. not Jason’s story—he is only an incident—an important incident that made this story possible. Jason is an orphan with an income. After he was graduated from Stanford, he came down and bought a couple of acres at Tarzana, and that is how and when I met him. While he was building, he made my office his headquarters and often was in my study. Afterward, I returned the compliment by visiting him in his new “lab,” as he calls it. Jason is experimenting with some new principle of radio, concerning which the less I say the better it will be for my reputation, since I know’ nothing whatsoever about it. I do know this, however, because Jason has told me that the idea he is playing with suggests an entirely new and unsuspected —well, let us call it a wave. At his Tarzana home he has created a station and a few miles away, at the back of my ranch, another. Between these stations we talk to one another through some strange ethereal medium that seems to pass through all other waves and all other stations, unsuspected and entirely harmless—so harmless is it that it has not the slightest effect upon Jason’s regular set, standing in the same room and receiving over the same aerial. But this is alj by the way of getting to the beginning of the amazing narrative of the adventures of Tanar of Pellucidar. 1

Jason and I were sitting in his “lab” one evening, discussing, as we often did, innumerable subjects, and coming back, as Jason usually did, to the Gridley wave, which is what we have named it. Much of the time Jason kept on his earphones, than which there is no greater discourager of conversation. But this does not irk me. Presently, Jason removed the headpiece. “It is enough to drive a fellow to drink!” he exclaimed. “What?” I asked. “I am getting that same stuff again,” he said. “I can hear voices, very faintly, but unmistakably, human voices. They are speaking a language unknown to man. It is maddening.” “Mars, perhaps, I suggested, “or Venus.” He knitted his brows and suddenly smiled one of his quick smiles. “Or Pellucidar." I shrugged. “Do you know,” he said, “that when I was a kid I used to believe every ward of those crazy stories of yours about Mars and Pellucidar. The inner world at the earth’s core was as real to me as the high Sierras, the San Joaquin valley, or the Golden Gate. I saw nothing improbable at all in the trip of David Innes and old man Perry through the earth's crust to Pellucidar. Yes, sir, that w'as all gospel to me when I was a kid.” “And now you are 23 and know that it can’t be true,” I said with a smile. “You are not trying to tell me it is true, are you?” he demanded, laughing. “I never have told any one that it is true," I replied. “I let people think what they think, but I reserve the right to do likewise.” * tt “xx THY, y6u know perfectly well W that it would be impossible for that iron mole of Perry’s to have penetrated 500 miles of the earth’s crust, you know there is no inner world peopled by strange reptiles and men of the stone age, you know there is no emperor of Pellucidar.” “I like to believe that there is a Dian the Beautiful,” I said. “Yes,” he agreed. Jason replaced his headpiece and I returned to the perusal of a book. Thus we sat for some time. Presently Jason removed his ear phones and turned toward me. “I was getting music,” he said; “strange, wierd music, and then suddenly there came loud shouts and it seemed that I could hear blows struck and there were screams and the sound of shots. “Perry, you know, was experimenting with gunpowder down there in Pellucidar,” I rerr ’*ided Jason, with a grin; but t. was inclined to be serious and did not respond in kind. “You know, of course,’ ’he said, “that there really has been a theory of an inner world for many years. It supposes polar openings leading into the interior of the earth. I’d like to make a try for one of these polar openings, he mused, he replaced the ear phones. Again there was a long silence, broken at last by a sharp exclamation from Jason. He pushed an extra headpiece toward me. “Listen!” he exclaimed. As I adjusted the ear phones I heard that which we never had before received on the Gridley wavecode! No wonder that Jason was excited, since there was no station on earth, other than his own, attuned to the Gridley wave. Code! What could it mean? I am not what one might call an exiTura to Page 9

Springtime in Massachusetts By United Prest NANTUCKET. Mass., Jan. 14. Josiah F. Murphy, 88, reports signs of spring. On the lawn of his home here yesterday he picked dandelions, while .in a nearby tree a robin

AID RED CROSS, LESLIE’S PLEA Asks Public Generosity in Raising Drought Quota. In a proclamation issued following a conference today with William Fortune, Indiana Red Cross chairman, Governor Harry G. Leslie urged Hoosiers to give generously toward the $360,000 quota of the state in the new $10,000,000 Red Cross drought and unemployment relief campaign. Os the state quota Indianapolis must raise $72,000 in the drive announced by President Hoover Tuesday. The quotas for state and city were set by John Barton Payne, national chairman. “The relief problem looms as the greatest emergency in peace time that the Red Cross ever has been called to meet. The situation in our own state becomes more acute as the winter advances,” the Governor’s proclamation read. “In conformance with the President’s proclamation I am urging every citizen oi Indiana to give promptly and as generously as his means will permit.” DENY SHERIFF PLEA Prosecutor Asks Trial Date Be Set in Lynching Case. By United Press MARION, Ind., Jan. 14.—Judge O. D. Clawson, in Grant circuit court here, today overruled a motion to quash the affidavit charging Sheriff Jacob C. Campbell with neglect of duty in connection with lynching of two Negroes here last August. John R. Browne, prosecutor, asked that trial date be set for the next term of court which opens Feb. 2. MOVIES TO MAKE JIOBS Paramount to Spend Millions and Employ Several Hundred. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14. —Work for several hundred actors and studio workers was in prospect today with the announcement that Paramount pictures would spend several million dollars within the next four months on twenty-eight feature talking pictures. TERMS NOT~SUSPENDED Youths Charged With Burglary Must Serve Sentences. Three youths charged with the burglary of a drug store at 1502 South Belmont avepue were sentenced to serve one year farm sentences when found guilty Monday by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. The sentences w*ere not suspended as was incorrectly stated Tuesday in The Times. The youths were Roy Smith, 16; Raymond McKisslck, 17, and Arthur Collins, 17, all of Muncie.

DOCTORS LASH AT MILES ‘BOOTLEG’ HINT AS INSULT

Battle flared today between the Indianapolis Medical Society and the Indiana Anti-Saloon League over assertions of E. A. Miles, attorney for the league, that change of the Wright bone dry law would "introduce two new classes of bootleggers—doctors and druggist v' Members ami officials of the medical organization scored Miles for his statements, demanding no restrictions be imposed on "physicians’ efforts to heal the sick.” “The Indiana State Medical Association as an organization never has taken any official stand on the wet and dry question,” Thomas Hendricks, executive secretary, said today. "Individuals have expressed their views on the matter at various rtTOftia HQWftYffe any urotesskmal

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931

BILL ATTACKS INJUNCTIONS IN LABORJGHTS Law Proposed in House Would Curb Action of Courts Against Labor. WETS DELAY MOVES Measure for Repeal of Bone Dry Law Is Held Back. Legislative proposals to prohibit courts from issuing injunctions in labor disputes, providing for free school books to be paid for through taxes on malt and tobacco products, abolishing reciprocal insurance companies, raising mortgage exemptions and for redistribution of gasoline tax collections were among the twenty-four bills thrown into the Indiana house hopper today. Bills for repealing and amending the Wright bone dry law which were scheduled for introduction today were withheld pending several conferences. The measure prohibiting courts from issuing injunctions in labor disputes ’vas introduced by Representative Fred S. Galloway (Dem., Marion), and is the one framed by the State Federation of Labor, Defines Public Policy ♦ Not only does it prohibit the issues of injunction, but defines a public policy toward labor, upholding its right to organize and repudiating the so-called yellow-dog contract,” which prohibits employes from joining labor unions or organizing to strike. Provision for free textbooks is covered in three measures introduced by Galloway and Representative William J. Black (Dem., Madison). The Galloway-Black textbook bill provides for the creation of a free school book commission consisting of the state superintendent of public instruction, auditor and treasurer and would pay all expenses from a “free school book fund.” Provides No Penal Labor This fund, under terms of the bill, ’ would be obtained from taxes on “the sale, gift, exchange, barter or distribution of malt syrup, malt extract, wort, cigarets, tobacco and tobacco products.” The measure also provides no penal labor shall be used in printing textbooks. Black’s and Galloway’s two supplementary bills taxing malt and tobacco products impose levies of $1 to $lO a thousand on cigars, $1 a thousand on cigarets, 1 cent an ounce on smoking tobacco, 6 cents a pound on chewing tobacco, 1 cent on each fifty cigaret papers, 25 cents a gallon on wort and 5 cents a pound on malt syrup or malt extract sold. , Another measure specifically striking at the “yellow dog” contract was introduced by Representative John M. Masselink (Dem. Vigo), which voids all such contracts which have been entered into. Seeks Gas Tax Reduction Increase of mortgage exemptions from SI,OOO to $1,500 is sought in a bill presented by Representative Delph McKesson (Dem., Marshall;). Reduction of the amount of gasoline tax allotted to the state high- i way commission is sought by Representative Frank Finnery (Dem., j Morgan), who asks that the commission get but two of the four cents collected, instead of three cents as at present. Os the remaining two cents, three-fourths cent j would go to counties equally; three- ■ fourth cent among the counties on! a basis of free county and township mileage, and one-half cent to the j cities and incorporated towns on j the basis of population. Uniform Poll Tax Sought County commissioners are given j discretionary powers in the expenditure of the gas tax money. A uniform poll tax of $2.50 to be paid by every man and woman in the state, under the age of 50 and over 21 years, is sought in another bUI. Two bills providing that Marion county alone may have juvenile and probate courts was introduced by Representative Howard S. Grim (Rep., Dekalb). Under existing statutes counties having population of 100,000 or more may have juvenile and probate courts. Another bill would repeal the, 1919 law permitting organization of reciprocal insurance companies. Another would reduce the interest on petty loans from 336 per cent a month to 5-6 of 1 per cent a month or 10 per cent a year, with a penalty for any contractual relations between parties. m

man would feel grieved at being called a bootlegger.” In a resolution adopted Tuesday night, physicians declared the Miles statement a “gratuitous and uncalled for insult to the medical prpfession” and asked that “neither honest convictions nor fanaticism be permitted to restrict scientific judgment as to what physicians should prescribe for their patients.” Unemployed Parade Denied By United Preag PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14.—Several hundred police have been assigned to prevent a proposed march' today of 15,000 unemployed, sponsored by SM £racte SmL M

300 CHILDREN’S LIVES IN PERIL AT SCHOOL, BRANDED ‘FIRE TRAP’

Conditions at Building 56 Among Worst Ever Brought to Attention of Officials, Report Asserts. Endangered by what are termed “serious hazards to life,” 300 city ; pupils are attending school in a | decrepit former township school | building where some of the most perilous housing conditions ever | brought to attention of school officials exist. A group of one-story, frame, single-roofed buildings with very poor entrance facilities and known as School 56, at Martindale avenue and Sherman drive, w r ere exposed before the school board Tuesday night by Mrs. Lottie Freeman, president of the P. T. A., as a veritable death trap. While school officials have known for some time, it is said, that bad conditions existed at the school, nothing was done to correct them. And, although school officials stated today that “anew building must be erected,” no definite action yet has been taken. Funds Are Not Available It was pointed out by A. B. Good, business director of city schools, that funds for a building may not be available because the school city is nearing its bonding limit. That conditions at School 56 are among the worst ever exposed, is evidenced by a report of the Indiana inspection bureau submitted to the school board Tuesday night. It would be practically impossible for any of the 300 pupils to escape in case of fire, the report indicates. Besides the main building, closely grouped around it are three oneroom and one two-room portables, all of which have only one exit. “In the main building, the old township school, the single corridor is blocked with a coat rack, piano and phonograph,” the report states. New Structure Is Needed High window's in all of the portables would prevent a child from escaping except by the single door exit, investigators found. While citizens in the vicinity of the school are demanding that immediate action be taken to remedy hazardous conditions, the pupils must continue at school in the buildings until the school board takes action, school officials Intimated today. Tire building is heated by a hot air furnace in the basement and in the main corridor, the chimney from this furnace is used as a coat rack by the children. To reach an exit pupils must pass this point w'here the greatest fire hazard exists. “We must build anew structure,” Paul .C. Stetson, superintendent of schools, stated, “and I am sure that action will be taken to remedy the situation.” REDUCED TAX PROGRAM FAVORED BY SENATORS Republican, Democratic Leaders Pledge Co-Operation. Republican and Democratic senate leaders joined in an informal conference after the senate adjourned today and pledged themselves to a program of tax reduction to be W'orked out on a nonpartisan basis. Announcement of the co-operation pledge was made by Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep., Allen and Noble), and Walter S. Chambers (Dem., Hancock, Henry and Madison), floor leaders of their parties. “This meeting will result in relieving the burden of the taxpayers of the state and we expect to have a definite plan ready within a few days, which will receive support from senators on both sides of the house,” Hartzell declared. 1860 STYLES ARE BACK, SPRING SHOW REVEALS Flounces, Ruffles and Street-Sweep-ing Dresses Mode for 1931. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Return to the styles of 1860, with flounces, ruffles and street-sw’eeping dresses is in line for 1931, Garment Retailers of America dictated at their spring fashion promenade at the Hotel Astor Tuesday night. Most of the gowns for afternoon and evening wear were several inches longer. Dinner dresses touched the floor.

REALTORS FAVOR LAW TO LICENSE BROKERS Revision of City Planning Act Also to Be Given Support. Proposed legislation to regulate and license real estate brokers and salesmen has been indorsed unanimously by the board of governors of the Indiana Real Estate Association. The board also has- decided, on recommendation of the association’s legislative committee, to give its full support to proposed changes in the Barrett law, to a bill creating anew mortgage foreclosure law, revision of the city planning law and any new statutes equalizing taxes to relieve the burden on property owners. The proposed licensing law, however, is criticised bitterly by B. M. Ralston, Indianapolis realtor, who asserts it will “drive the little fellow out of busiiess” and that its bonding provision will be prohibitory. Aids Stork 3,000 Times By United Preea SHULBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 14,Dr. Charles A. Tindall claims a record more praiseworthy than that of producing the millionth automobile of any make. He attended his 3,000 th birth Monday, at the conclusion of forty-three years’ medical {?§£&£ & SM&Z SSWtiU

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PLAN TO BUY PLAZA CHURCHES DELAYED

County Will Abandon Its Program for Year, Vorhies Admits. Plans of the county to purchase the two churches on the Indiana War Memorial Plaza will be abandoned for at least a year, it became known today in an announcement by Dow W. Vorhies, county commissioner. With an appraisal price totaling $1,285,190 fixed on the edifices, the new county Democratic administration feels that the purchase would place too heavy a burden on taxpayers, Vorhies said. Vorhies and Commissioner George Snider, both indicating disfavor of the purchase plan, constitute a majority of the commission, and their stand is regarded as final, they indicated. Churches on the plaza are the First Baptist church and the Second Presbyterian church, appraised at $689,815 and $595,375. The figures were fixed by an appraisal committee last spring, composed of J. K. Lilly, head of the Eli Lilly & Cos.; John J. Reilly, realtor, and Elmer W. Stout, president of the Fletcher American National bank. A bone of contention between state and county officials for years, the purchase has been urged by officials of the American Legion, who sought to complete the removal in time for its 1933 national legion convention. Executive boards of both churches have expressed their willingness to sell at the figure, fixed by the appraisal board. SUE GRAVEL COMPANIES Works Board Charges Firms Permit Sand Seepage in White River. Legal action against two companies alleged to be permitting seepage of sand into White river, south of Washington street, was requested today of James E. Deery, city attorney by the works board. The board cited the Brown Huffstetter Sand Company and the Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Company as alleged offenders. The seepage, the board declares, causes formation of sandbars and hinders flood prevention. Farmers Support Legge WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The controversy between Chairman Legge of the federal farm board and John Simpson, president of the National Farmers’ union, had resulted today in pledges of support for Legge from a special committee of the farmers’ union, which investigated the dispute.

'Wine, Women and Song Lobby Hit by Governor By Znited Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 14.—Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray said today that state legislators should be given free living quarters to remove them from the “vicious lobby of wine, women and song.” A recommendation for establishment of a dormitory on the capitol grounds for the lawmakers has been presented to the legislature by Murray. “The capitol is so located that a member must go long distances to expensive rooming houses and hotels filled with lobbyists who use poker games, liquor, women and even money for bribery to put through legislation against the public good,” Murray said.

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The florists met Tuesday at the hotel and discussed among other things this latest specie of the "freesia” the Giant Whites grown for the first time in this country by Elder Brothers, Inc., 3800 Madison avenue. Mrs. Ruth Opal McElwee of the Hotel Antlers is shown with the exhibit in the photo.

Husky Girl By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—Charles Prochaska, who didn’t trust banks, built a “bank” of his own so strong no one could open it and so heavy no one could carry it away. Years ago, Prochaska built his strong box of oak, lined it with lead to make it heavy and clamped strong iron bands about it. Last week, Prochaska hired a cook. Her name was Anna Matich. He liked her cooking much better than that of his daughter, Mary, who is 19. Tuesday, he showed his “bank” to Anna and boasted of its strength and weight. Tuesday night, Anna disappeared. So did the “bank” that couldn’t be opened or lifted. It contained Prochaska’s life savings, about S6OO in small change.

MERCURY Will FALL

10 Above Zero is Forecast by Weather Man. Dropping to 14 at 4:30 a. m. today, the mercury was scheduled to rise today to the high twenties and then fall to 10 degrees tonight. J. H. Armingtcn of the weather bureau, said a gradual increase in temperature Thursday will follow the drop tonight. The cold snap is general throughout the state. FIRE LOSS OVER $1,500 Rcof Blaze Damages House, Furniture, Spreads Next Door. Sparks on the roof today caused a fire that damaged the home of V. Smith, 2356 Station street, SI,OOO, destroyed furniture valued at SSOO, and spread next door with $25 damage before it was extinguished. The second house, occupied by William Urlaub, is at 2358 Station street. Woman Hurt in Auto Crash Mrs. Theodosia Henry, 45, of 4929 Guilford avenue, was reported not injured seriously today in Methodist hospital, where she was taken following an automobile crash at Forty-second street and Graceland avenue Tuesday night. She was bruised and lacerated on the face and head.

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COMMISSIONS PERIL STATE, SENATORSSAY Resolution Is Introduced to Appoint Board for Government Study. SEEN AS DANGER SIGNAL Duplication and Wasted Energy, Expense Are Among Charges. Charging tnat ne administrative branch of the Indiana state government Is replete with boards and commissions, usurping legislative functions and duplicating efforts, five senators today introduced a bipartisan resolution in the senate providing for investigation and recommendations—by a commission—to “restore the government to its original purposes and sphere of activity.” Two Republican senators, including Lee J. Hartzell, president pro tern, of the senate, joined in the measure, which is to be passed concurrently by both the upper and low r er houses. Members of the commission will be appointed three each by the presiding officers of the legislature and three by the Governor. They will serve without salary, but will have expenses paid. Seen as Danger Signal Reasons for the resolution are set forth in the following preamble: “The year 1931 is the 115th anniversary of our admission to statehood and the seventy-ninth anniversary of the state's existence under the present Constitution. “During these seventy-nine years there lias been a substantial and dangerous change in government in the direction of ever increasing centralization of power in departments boards, bureaus and commissions, all exercising authority that is granted by our Constitution solely to the legislative branch of our state. “Many thoughtful persons of all political parties sincerely believe that in this trend away from local self government and the centralizing of authority, by the chief executive of our state in such departments, boards, bureaus and commissions, there is a danger signal that no longer should be disregarded.” Doties Arc Defined “There is reason to believe that in the administration of our state government as it exists today,” the preamble continues, “there are many unscientific developments and maladjustments, resulting in duplication and overlapping of service, wasted energy and unjustifiable expense." In closing the resolution defines the duties of the commissioners as follows: “The duty of said commission shall be to make a study of the government in all its aspects and to report to the Speaker of the house and president of the senate not later than Feb. 1, 1931, such recommendations as may seem to it advisable in regard to a reorganization of the administrative branch of the government to eliminate duplications and to secure greater efficiency, economy and dispatch in transacting the public business; whether in its opinion the government has departed from the concept of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution of the state of Indiana, and, if so. in what direction or directions; what steps, if any, should be taken to counteract centralization, to restore the government to its original purpose and sphere of activity as contemplated by the founders of our Constitution and to make secure to all coming generations the inestimable benefits and blessing l of local self-government.” Another Commission Asked Other senators joining in the introduction were Joe Rand Beckett (Rep., Johnson and Marion), J. Francis Lochard ( Dein., Dearborn Jennings and Ripley), Charles R. Morris (Dem., Jackson, Scott and Washington). Chester A. Perkuv iDem., St. Joseph). Another commission to c tudy possibilities of consolidating counties and reducing the number of judicial circuits is provided in a senate resolution introduced by Senator Robert L. Moorhead (Rep., Marlon). This commission would be composed of seven members, appointed by the Governor, and will repor findings to the 1933 legislative session. JUDGE’S WIFE ON TRIAL Denies Ex-Magistrate Bought Post SIO,OOO Mere Loan, She Says. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Charge that former Magistrate George F. Ewald purchased his appointment were denied in supreme court today by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Ew’ald. who reiterated that SIO,OOO given Martin J. Healy, Tammany district leader, through a political aid, merely was a loan, is on trial in connection with the transaction. PROFITS near record A. T. & T. Earnings for 1930 to Be Close to 1929 High Figure. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Indications that 1930 earnings of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company will be close to the record profits of 1929, were indicated in a letter to stockholders of the company today by Walter S. Gifford, president. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 16 10 a. m 21 7a. m.— 17 11 a. m..... 32 8a- m 18 12 fnooo).. 22 9a. m 21 Ip. m..... 33 „

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