Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1931 — Page 2

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DEVISED VOTING DISTRICTS BILL IS INTRODUCED Measure r Gives Republicans a Good Majority. v Congressional reapportionment Jiving Democrats three districts, Republicans eight and leaving another in the doubtful column was Contained in a bill introduced in •he Indiana house today by Representative Lew s. Core (Dem., paviess.) 1 On the face of it the proposed would consolidate frost of the Third with the Fourth district and put Congressmen Eugene B. Crowe, Third district, and Barry C. Canfield, Fourth district, together. This would mean that one incumbent would have to withdraw from the field. 2 The plan has been submitted to yie Democratic state committee Meads, who refused to comment. The proposed districts would average 265,000 in population. Marion County Split ■ Marion county would be divided j|long Washington and St. Clair streets and Massachusetts avenue ■ffith Pine street as the jog. All south of this line would be in a new Fourth district which also would include Hancock, Shelby, Bartholomew Jlnd Decatur counties. This would Mssurc an approximate Democratic tpajoritv of 5,000 votes. *j All the county north of the proposed dividing line with Hamilton Rnd Tipton counties would constitute |he Seventh district, which would ordinarily be Republican by 5,000 Votes. f The home of Representative Louis Ludlow would remain in the Seventh district. * Republican majorities in many of the proposed districts are so small ■that the Democratic drafters of the plan feel they can be overcome eas#y. One District Doubtful 4 Line-up of the remaining districts Is as follows: f- First—Posey, Gibson. Vanderburgh, Pike, 3Varrlck, Dubois, Bpencer, Crawford, HarIson and Perry. Population, 276,271. Reubllcan by 400. Second—Knox, Daviess, Martin, Sullivan. Oreene. Clay. Owen. Monroe. Brown. Morgan and Johnson. Population, 259,264. Democratic by 3*t)oo. :* Third—Lawrence. Orange, Jackson, Washington, Jennings, Rlpfev, Dearborn, ©hio, Switzerland, Jefferson. Scott, Clark, Floyd and Franklin. Population, 261,534. Democratic bv 2,200. Fifth—Vigo, Parke. Putnam. Hendricks. Boone. Clinton. Montgomery, Fountain and Vermilion. Population, 273,271. Republican by 600 2 Sixth—Rush, Fayette, Union, Wayne. Henry, Delaware. Randolph, Blackford and ,Jay. Population, 261,174. Republican by 7.500. >~ Eighth—Madison, Grant, Howard. Miami, Wabash and Huntington. Population, 263,825. Republican by 4.500. Ninth—Warren, Benton, Newton, Jasper, Btarke, Pulaski, Marshall, Fulton, Kosciujko, Cass. Carroll, Tippecanoe and White, population, 266,333. Republican by 18.000. ~ Tenth—Lake and Porter. Population, £64.131. Republican by 12,000. Eleventh—LaPorte, St. Joseph and Elkhart. Population, 289,398. Doubtful with Slight Democratic leanings. , Twelfth—Lagrange, Steuben, Noble, Dekalb. Whltelv. Allen, Wells and Adams, population, 275,523.. Republican by 400. PASTORTAKES ROLE 3 OF BIBLICAL PROPHET Pseudo-Jeremiah Denies He Wrote Book of Lamentations. *!/ United Press • NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Attired in flowing oriental robes and disguised by a gray wig, mustache and beard, the Rev. Dr. Christian Reisner appeared before his congregation in the Broadway Temple Methodist Episcopal church in the role of the prophet Jeremiah and disclaimed authorship of the famed Book of (Lamentations. “While I spoke many warning messages I did not write the book,” declared the pseudo-Jeremiah. - “If I were alive today I would Ridicule the Baumes law. I would SBxpect every criminal some day to J?e cured.’’ TWO FALL TO DEATH ■ — Man Peers Over Banister After First Tragedy; Repeats It. * United Press LOS ANGELES. Feb. 2.—Police were called after Mrs. Julia Vegas, #O, fell over a banister and dropped four stories to her death in a rooming house. While officers were examining the body, Juan Valenzuela, 30, stepped from his fourth floor room, peered over the banister to see YVhat the commotion was about, and toppled to death from almost the exact spot Mrs. Vegas had fallen from. ■DROUGHTS) BOOSTED Week-End Donations Bring Total of Red Cross to $24,761. Officials of American Red Cross of Indianapolis today reported that 4ith $1,536.75 collected in the drought relief fund over the weekend, the total obtained in the drive is $24,761.91. . Two contributions, each SIOO, were deceived from Mr. and Mrs. H. R. fanner and Mrs. P. W. Craig.

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Churchman’s Son Goes on Trial for Murder

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By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—James Matthew Maxon Jr., 22, son of the Episcopal bishop coadputor of Tennesse, went on trial in general sessions today, charged with killing a 73-year-old man in a drunken, boarding house brawl last April. He is a former Columbia university journalism student. Seated just behind the railing on the front row of the court, attentively watching the opening of the proceedings, was the youth’s father, who almost constantly has been at his side since young Maxon was arrested for the killing.

MEDICINAL WHISKY REVENUE PROPOSED

$5,000,000 Estimated as Yearly Income From Bill Drafted. * A bill legalizing medicinal whisky and having a potential revenue raising power of $5,000,000 annually was scheduled for introduction in the house Tuesday by Representative Herbert P. Kenney (Dem., Floyd). Kenney’s measure, based on the federal law governing medicinal whisky sales and without any amendatory mention of the Wright bone dry act of 1925, will bring to five the number of wet bills before the house public morals committee. Calculations as to the revenue raising power of h > ' 11 are determined by Kenney through a study of conditions in states having a medicinal whisky sale law. Experience in these states, Kenney asserts, has revealed that two-thirds of the physicians eligible to issue prescriptions do so. Since there are approximately

SCHOOL CHIEFS INSPECTRIPPLE Investigate Charges of Fire Danger to Children. Housing conditions at Broad Ripple high school, declared to be the worst in the city school system and hazardous to lives of pupils, were investigated today by Superintendent Paul C. Stetson and a special committee. Stetson and the committee, composed of members of the school’s permanent building committee, visited East hall at Broad Ripple, which has been reported unsafe for school purposes. The committee also investigated needed facilities in laboratories and class rooms at the school and will make a comprehensive report on the situation to the school board Feb. 10. Other members of the committee besides Stetson are A. B. Good, business director; Julian Wetzel, board member, and W. A. Hacker and Milo H. Stuart, assistant superintendents. Stetson refused to comment upon the findings of the group today", but said he would report to the school board. Robber Suspects Are Nabbed Two youths were held on vagrancy charges today by police for questioning in connection with recent robberies. Farrell A. Ross, 21, and Earl Ross, 16, of 525 Chadwick street, are those held.

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Maxon faces a second-degree murder charge growing out of the death of David Paynter. Paynter, a lodger in the boarding house of Mrs. Rose Hickey, lost his life in a fight in the early morning of April 18. Maxon, police said, came home intoxicated and became embroiled in an encounter with the aged man and two othe/ lodgers, in the course of which Paynter was knocked down and suffered fatal injuries. Martin Littleton, in his opening statement for the defendant, claimed the death entirely was accidental, and that the youth had no knowledge that he even was fighting Paynter.

40,000 qualified physicians in Indiana, two-thirds of them issuing a maximum of 100 prescriptions every three months at a license tax of 50 cents a prescription would raise more than $5,000,000. Kenny’s measure would require every pharmacist applying for permission to sell prescription whisky to have had at least three years’ experience in the drug business prior to the application. Four other wet measures before the house public morals committee would repeal the Wright act, legalize medicinal whisky, reduce prosecutor fees in liquor convictions to $lO, and reduce the same fees to $5,

GASOLINE TAX FUND EXCEEDS $4,000,000

State Auditor Reports on: Money New Bill Would Make Available. Indianapolis will receive $173,997.50 and Marion county $50,774.50 as their share of the cities, counties and towns gasoline tax distribution if the bill making the distribution available on Feb. 15, instead of March 1, becomes a law. According to Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, the total to be distributed is $4,011,123.84. The earlier distribution ds.te bill was drawn to make funds available for road work to aid in solving unemployment. As drafted in the senate the bill called for distribution on Feb. 1. Os the total amount, counties will; receive $3,008,342.88 and cities and 1 towns $1,002,780.96. County distribution will be as fellows: Allen. . ... 44.172.68;Madi50n.... 45.518.41 BartnT.r.ew 31,126.53 Marlon 50.7V4.50 Benton .... 34,337.51 Marshall... 34.823.36 B'acirL rd . 26.145.46;Martin .... 21,042.25 Boone 38 557.28! Miami 35.498 V? Brov-’. .... I.26;Monroe 29.911 29 Car? 11 ... C9.0C2.61 sMontgomery 44.509.12 Car i6,683.69 Morgan .... 28.637.09 CL 26.523.42! Newton 30.025.36 ".m - 31,354.59 Noble 30.79f .81 0)1’ ion ... 44.761.11 Ohio 18.990.69 Cv-vford .. 21,190.54 Orange .... 29.793.25 Ta/iess ... 31.515.07 Owen 26.361.26 LV irbom.. 28.854.91 Parke 39.704.52 D catur ... 34.944.33 Perry 21.273.04 Cei-alb 32.026.62 Pike 20,790.61 EeUware.. 42.952.44 Porter 32.8^8.31 Dubtis .... 22.532.99 Posey 31,241.22 Elkhart ... 29.932.83 Pulaski 31.266.45 Payette ... 21,867.19 Putnam .... 39.952.81 Flovd 21.400.55 RandolDh .. 40.171.47 Fountain .. 32.767.61 Ripley 29,470.57 Franklin .. 26.492.47 Rush 31.686.99 Fulton 32,384.03 Scott 21.884.35 Gibson ... 31.825.61 Shelby 35.051.65 Grant 46.241.74 Spencer ... 23.980.66 Greene 35.831.84 Starke 31.391.26 Hamilton.. 45.425.89 Steuben ... 26.585.66 Hancock... 37.596.43 St. Joseph.. 31.281.25 Harrison... 25.476.43 Sullivan ... 36.130.93 Hendircks.. 33.209.68 Switzerland. 21.762.89 Henrv 42.449.47! Tippecanoe. 38.369.21 Howard 38.097.72 Tipton 35.783.73 Huntington 34,481.39?TJni0n 20.956.80 Jackson ... 35.876.25 Vanderb’rgh 29.447.02 jasper 33.936.71 l Vermillion.. 29.285.53 Jay 35.114.23: Vigo 37.288.25 Jefferson .. 27,581.51 Wabash ... 37.544.96 Jennings .. 27,030.66!Warren .... 32.674.08 Johnson... 30.959.28 Warrick ... 22.068.37 Knox 42,203.54 Washington. 30.334.53 Kosciusko.. 28.864.99!Wavne 44.509.12 Laerange . 24.281.09i Wells 43.116.28 Lake 42,884.82 White 36.013.51 Lacorte ... 33.753.35!Whit1ev ... 31.057.46 In addition to Indianapolis, cities among the 133 the distribution would effect, include the following: Ft. Wayne, $54,921; Evansville, $48,854; Muncie, $22,240; Terre Haute, $30,010; South Bend, $49,783; Richmond, $15,525; New Albany, $12,336; Mishawaka, $13,679; Michigan City, $12,774; Marion, $11,704; Lafayette, $12,537; Kokomo, $15,692; Hammond, $30,847; Gary, $47,983; Elkhart, $15,743; East Chicago, $26,176, and Anderson, $19,018. SMILES AND SCOWLS FOR FRANCE VISITORS Foreigners Who Want Work Will Be “Systematically Discouraged.*’ By United Press PARIS, Feb. 2.—ln the future France will smile graciously at foreign visitors from one corner of her mouth and scowl at other visitors from the ? f her corner of her mouth. The smile, ordered by the government, will bfc directed upon foreign visitors who can be classed as spending tourists or residents. It is supposed to warm and encourage tourists, especially Americans, to spend their money liberally in France instead of in Germany and Italy. The scowl will be directed toward those foreigners who are suspected of wishing to work In France. They will be discouraged systematically, and those already working in France may be returned, to their native countries if unemployment contines to grow In France.

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TAX REFORM BY ASSEMBLY STILL DISTANT Action on Most Important Problem of Session Confined to Talk. With the Indiana legislature entering the fourth week of its seven-ty-seventh session, taxation, admitted at the start to be the outstanding problem for solution, has reached the status of Mark Twain's comment regarding the weather. "The trouble with the weather,” the great American humorist commented,” is that every one talks about it, but nothing is ever done about it.” So far, taxation problems in both houses have netted nothing but talk, so far as any basic change in the present system is concerned. The few’ measures that have been passed in either house are of a purely palliative nature, such as cutting penalties or stalling off payments of present taxes. Income, sales, luxury or other tax forms have not been touched. The burden now remains on property and from the sentiment of the senate is apt to stay there. Action Is Expected The senate reconvenes at 2 p. m., while the house went into session at 11 this morning. "We expect to accomplish something concrete in tax relief legislation this very week,” LieutenantGovernor Edgar D. Bush commented upon return to his office this morning. "As for new bills, there is no way that I know of to curb their introduction.” Speaker Walter Myers of the house planned another lecture oh cutting down the number of new bills so that consideration can be given to important measures already pending. This will be the third of such talks, all oi which thus far have proved ineffectual. Budget Cut $700,000 The biennial appropriation measure is expected to come from the budget committee Tuesday or Wednesday and will be introduced in the house by Representative H. Curtis Bennett (Dem., Dearborn and Ohio)) budget committeeman. It is understood the committee succeeded in trimming the budget some $700,000 below the 1929 budget of $55,000,000, but a $1,000,000 cut was estimated to be necessary to keep the state tax rate at 29 cents, due to special levy increases. Tonight the ways and means committee of the house is to have a public hearing on the Democratic platform income tax measure. This will be the first progress in change of tax forms.

Men Return to Work in Death Mine By United Press LINTON, Indi, Feb. 2.—Operations were resumed in the tunnels of the Little Betty coal mnie today while friends and relatives buried the last of the twenty-eight miners who lost their lives Wednesday in an explosion of gas in the mine. Thirteen of the victims were buried Saturday and others were buried Sunday and today. Both federal and state mine inspectors have completed their investigations of the disaster and a report was expected to be made at the office of Albert C. Dally, chief state mine inspector, in Indianapolis. It generally was believed that the explosion was caused by sudden release of large clouds of gas from old workings in the mine, which were ignited by sparks or flames from the miners’ lamps. On each of the three days when funerals were held an old fire bell in city hall, silent since the signing of the World war armistice, Nov. 11, 1918, was tolled twentyeight times. During the tolling, all activities in Linton ceased. Brothers Buried Funeral services for victims drew large crowds. More than one thousand persons attended the last rites for James and Lotus Mitchell, brothers. Another service which was largely attended was that for Jesse Templeton, who had an outstanding World war record, having been wounded in action. He received a medal for bravery. Military rites were accorded. Another military funeral was that for John and Julian Letot, brothers', also World war veterans. Lodge Donates SI,OOO Among the organizations who lost members in the disaster were the American Legion, the Order of Elks, Red Men, Masons, Odd Fellows, and Fraternal Order of Eagles. Five of the dead were Eagles. Three other members of the order were injured. On request of Otto P. Deluse, Indianapolis, former national president of the order, Conrad H. Mann, national organizer, Kansas City, has sent SI,OOO to Linton, to be distributed by Herbert Priest, city clerk, secretary of the city’s Eagle aerie. STREET CAR CO. LOSING December Report Shows $86,963 Loss in Comparison With 1929. December, 1930, report of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, filed with the public service commission today, shows a net loss of $86,963.55 in comparison with the same month in 1929. Revenues were reported as $364,809.83, a decrease of $65,095.70, while operating expense increased for the month $21,867.85. Seriously Hurt by Anto George Stewart, Negro, 68, of 534 Douglas street, John Herron Art Institute employe, was injured seriously today when struck by an auto driven by Charles E. Swope, 2817 Rader street, on Sixteenth street near Pennsylvania. Swope was arrested.

Oh, So Mean By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2. Mrs. Clara M. Scarsdale charged in a divorce suit today that she has been married to Herbert Scarsdale three times and each time he treated her “meaner than the last ” The limit was peached, she charged, when he made her live in an unheated garage so he could rent their house.

NAB ALLEGED ‘MIDGET BANDIT' Chicago Arrest Said to Solve City Robberies. Attempts will be made today, said Detective Chief Fred Simon, to return William Walls, 20, Crumpton, Md., alleged “midget-bandit,” from Chicago, where he was arrested Saturday night after a filling station robbery. Walls is said to have confessed to two filling station holdups here, together with fifty house robberies on the north side, including theft of a $3,500 ring from the home of Edgar Gorrell, 1639 North Delaware street, president of the Stutz Motor Car Company, Simon said he was informed by Chicago police. judgThits delays Baker Will Attempt to Halt Appeals. Prevailing custom of appealing municipal court convictions to criminal court is the target of a course of “treatments” announced today by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. For “treatment No. 1” Baker announces that appealed cases will be set for trial at once. That will do away with the custom of delaying appeal trial from one to five years, Baker declared. “Treatment No. 2,” chiefly aimed at attorneys, will eliminate unwarranted delay, because cases will be disposed of immediately after they are received in criminal court, Baker declared. Baker pointed out that more than 300 appeals lay untouched on the docket when he took the bench Jan. 1.

AID DEMANDED OF HOUSE BY JOBLESS

Ask $50,000,000 Relief Fund as 500 Hold Meeting at Statehouse. While 500 unemployed listened to speeches from the east steps of the statehouse today, a committee of fourteen of their number presented an unemployment relief petition to the Indiana house. In the petition the unemployed asked abolition of state militia, armories, and all forms of military training in order to appropriate funds used for such purposes to their cause. They advocated tax exemption for unemployed persons ov/ning property of less than $7,000 value; asked sls weekly dole for each unemployed man, and $3 for each of his dependents, and sought a bill to prevent unemployed persons being evicted from their homes. Also demanded were abolition of sheriff’s sales for delinquent taxes, and free electricity, gas, water and car fare for unemployed. Farm Relief Sought / The petition asked a $50,000,000 unemployment fund, to be raised by a graduated income tax on all incomes above $5,000, and by annihilation of the state’s military defenses. It also requested a special farm relief, loan and insurance fund to be raised by taxes on nontaxable bonds, on stock exchange and “other gambling on agricultural ‘exchanges’,’’ farm loans and investments, trusts, to be tume dover, together with all farm board funds to a farmers’ relief committee elected by “poor farmers.” Cancellation of debts on live stocks, implements and moratorium of five years on all farm mortgages against one-family farms was included. Lower Prices Asked In addition it sought lower prices on farm implements and fertilizer, abolition of the farm bureau and subsidiary organizations, and the marketing act, and a minimum $35-a-week, five-day week and sevenhour day for workingmen, plus abolition of vagrancy laws and the garnishee law. The committee was headed by Dan Winninger, Bicknell miner, who told the representatives that with “conditions such as they are, something serious is likely to grow out of them.” On motion of Representative Miles Furnas (Rep., Randolph) the petition was submitted to the house ways and mean committee. 27 ROBBED ~OF~~PANTS Members of Society Being Called to Order When Six Bandits Enter. By United Press NEW YORK, N. Y.. Feb. 2.—Members of the Savoy Society, Brooklyn, were being called to order by their president, Angelo Amone, when they heard the order, “hands up” from six armed nonmembers, who lined up the twenty-seven present. The intruders took $960, watches, other personal property, and left after they’d compelled the society members to remove their trousers. ONE CENT A DAY PAYS UP TO $1,000.00 The Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Cos., 1717 Moriarty Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., is offering anew accident policy that pays up to SIOO a month for disability and $1,000.00 for deaths—costs less than lc a day —53.50 a year. Over 65,000 already have this protection. Men, women and children, ages 10 to 70, eligible. Send no money. Simply send name, address, age, beneficiary’s name and relationship and they will send this policy on 10 days’ FREE inspection. No examination is required. This offer is limited, so write them today. —Advertisement.

STATE SENATE ROAD PROBERS SUMMONTITUS Chief Engineer Ordered to Explain Failure to Get Federal Aid. William G. Titus, chief engineer of the state highway department, was summoned to appear before the senate highway investigating committee at 5 p. m., today and explain failure of the department to collect some $3,500,000 in federal aid while borrowing $1,600,000 to operate last year. “He also will be asked other things, particularly regarding a certain meeting in the woods at the cottage of Highway Commissioner Jess Murden when the Governor was present and fund transfers were made,” Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep. Kosciusko and Wabash),committee chairman, declared. Meanwhile, Governor Harry G. Leslie is reported to have been advised by certain friends to drop his ardent defense of the present com-, missioners. It has been pointed out to him that all but one of the present personnel he inherited from the regime of former Governor Ed Jackson. Leslie has been particularly staunch in his defense of Director John J. Brown. Brown will appear before the senate committee later and explain the financial structure during his administration. Commissioner Robert Boren (Dem., Fountain City) appeared before the committee Friday and testimony was built up to indicate that purchasing was on a percentage basis regarding snow plows. Boren admitted that he had been approached on the matter by a “material man,” but refused to name any commissioner to whom the cut was said to have been made. He also admitted the commission failed to collect all the federal aid “that they could or should have done.” Strey and Senator Anderson Ketchum (Dem., Bartholomew, Dekatur, Franklin and Union) are ready today to introduce, the bill calling for reorganization of the commission on a bi-partisan fulltime four-commissioner basis with appointments by the Governor, with senate approval.

ENGINE DELAYS STARTOF DOX Big Air Liner Nearly Ready to Resume Ocean Hop. By United Press LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, Feb. 2.—The Dornier flying boat DOX awaited a final tuning of her twelve motors in the harbor here today before beginning a 900-mile flight south to St. Vincent, in the Cape Verde Islands. Trouble in one of the giant sky ship’s motors prevented departure early today. One engine had to be dismantled before mechanics could pronounce the ship in perfect running trim. Captain Friedrich Christiansen indicated the trouble might have been repaired en route to Vincent, but he wanted the engines in perfect condition before continuing the leisurely journey to Rio De Janeiro, and later to New York.

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Golden Smiles By United Press CHICAGO. Feb. 2.—Dr. Ernest E. Dalton told the international convention of the Chicago Dental Society Sunday night that there is $480,000.000 worth of gold in the teeth of American citizens.

DISCRETION IS PERMITTED IN TAX MEASURE Measure Allows Asessment Up to 50 Per Cent of Intangibles. Discretionary powers for taxation of intangible property are vested in the state tax board in a bill introduced in the house today by Representatives H. H. Evans (Rep., Henry) and Eugene Martin (Dem., Allen). Under terms of the measure, the state tax board is allowed to tax up to 50 per cent of the face value of all intangibles and based on calculations made in connection with two other intangible tax bills pending would raise revenue of approximately $25,000,000 annually. Approximately $14,000,000 of revenue would be raised annually, it is estimated, by enactment of the other two intangible tax measures now pending in the house and senate. Identical bills have been introduced by Representative William McClain, Evansville, and Senator John C. Gorman, Princeton, Democrats, and differ in only two vital respects from bills defeated at the last assembly session. As drawn, they provide for the listing of all intangibles at face value with a 75 per cent credit. Thus taxes would be paid on only 25 per cent. Constitutionality of the bills could be tested by means of a friendly suit against the state tax board to prevent expenditure of money for printing copies of the act., Such a suit would bring the whole matter before the courts. Provision for the friendly suit was included to encourage holders of intangibles to bring their property before constitutionality was proven, their wealth would be exposed and they would be forced to pay taxes on the intangibles’ face value. The other difference from the old bills is the exemption of lease contracts with an option to purchase where the rental is applied to the purchase price. $72,800 Postofflce Bid By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 2.—Dan Bright, Clinton, contractor, was low bidder on alterations and an addition to the local postoffice, according to reports from Washington. Bright’s bid was $72,800.

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ROWBOTTOM CASE BEFORE GRAND JURY U. S. Indictment May Be Returned on BribeTaking Charge. An indictment against Harry E. Rowbottom, Evansville, congressman, arrested last week on charge of accepting $750 for recommending the appointment of a rural mail carrier, may be returned by the federal grand jury which convened here today. Charges that Rowbottom took bribes in payment for positions in the postal department will be included in evidence to be laid before the grand jury by George R. Jeffrey, United States district attorney. Jeffrey has been in communication with postal authorities at Washington regarding the case. Attaches of the department of justice made investigations that Jed to Rowbottom’s arrest last Tuesday on a warrant’from Howard S. Young, United States commissioner, here. Rowbottom was bound to the grand jury on SIO,OOO bond. A long list of other cases, most dealing with violations of the national prohibition laws, will be considered by the grand jury this week. If indicted, Rowbottom will face a hearing before Judge Robert C. Baltzell here and will be triad in the Evansville federal court. Members of the jury are: Clarence Abel, Richmond: Otway A. Baker. Shoals; Omer Beaver. Fishers; Charles Boldrey. Royerton: James G. 8.-oshears. Tennyson: E. J. Bryant, Benham: Ezra K. Cofleld. Rising: Sun: Grover DeMoss. Greensbure: William Fallon. Connersvllle: Joseph Heavilon Jr.. Frankfort; Charles J. Heltz, Winchester: William R. Knowles. Princeton: William Leavitt. Brazil: Walter Miller. Hope: William J. Norton. Kokomo: F. E. Pickering. Spiceland: Walter R. Robinson. Petersburg; Henry C. Rodney. Danville: Leo Smyser. Nineveh: Morris D. Stoker. Martinsville: foreman: Frank E. Watson. Tipton: Ernest P. Welborn. Cvnthlana. and Garfield Wells. Commiskey. Dog Poisoners Warned WARSAW, Ind., Feb. 2.—Following death of two dogs by poisoning. Police Chief Frank Lucas announces that any dog poisoners identified will be arrested. Way to Get At Cold 1$ Through Elimination As soon as you catch cold, the pores close; perspiration is checked. Gases and waste can’t escape through the skin. That’s why your doctor’s fust advice in case of colds is a mild laxative like cascara. Medical authorities agree it actually strengthens bowel muscles. You get cascara in its most pleasant form in candy Cascarets. Remember this when you catch cold; whenever breath is bad; tongue coated; or you’re headachy, bilious, constipated. Why resort to harsher things when Cascarets activate the bowels so quickly, so harmlessly and pleasantly—and cost only a dime? Advertisement.