Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1931 — Page 1

HOOVER SAYS BONUS PLAN IS ‘ALL WRONG’ Favorable Report, However, Is Made by Senate Committee, 13-3. VETO SEEMS CERTAIN Consideration ot Measure to Be in Order First Thing Thursday. By United Pres WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Senate finance committee today voted a favorable report on the house bill to increase the loan value of veterans adjusted compensation certificates. The bill was reported without amendment despite the unequivocal opposition of the administration. The vote was 13 to 3. Last minute efforts of Mr. Hoover and Treasurer Secretary Mellon to defeat or modify the hill were unavailing. At a brief committee hearing, a letter from Mr. Hoover to Chairman Smoot was read, decrying the bonus bill and asserting it would seriously jeopardize the equipoise of the treasury. The vote on the motion of Senator Harrison (Deni., Miss.) to report the bill favorably without changes was as follows: Yeas (13)—Republicans: Watson, Shortridge, Couzens, Keyes, La Follette, Thomas <ldaho); Democrats: Simmons, Harrison, George, Walsh (Mass.), Barkley, Thomas (Okla.), Connally. Nays (3)—Republicans: Reed, Bingham, Smoot; Democrats: None. Report Position Unchanged Persons close to President Hoover freely predicted that he will veto the bill. Strong pressure had been brought to bear on the President Tuesday night to change his position and sign it in view of the overwhelming sentiment in both houses of congress which practically insures passage over a veto. Nevertheless, his position was understood to be unchanged. Chairman Smoot of the committee formally reported the bill to the senate at 11:20 p. m„ and the senate agreed to begin consideration of the bill immediately upon meeting Thursday. Ogden Mills, undersecretary of the treasury, appeared . in person to oppose the bill. General Frank T. Hines, director of the veterans’ bureau, testified as to the probable cost of its administration. Hearings Are Cut Short Chairman Smoot cut short the hearings, explaining that unless the bill were reported promptly at noon senators would “raise the dickens.” Several senators urged representatives of veterans’ organizations be permitted to testify, but a majority of the committee sided with Smoot for immediate action. Mr. Hoover's letter said “there were a number of most serious objections”, to the bill which he thought would be a liability to the country. The measure as passed overwhelmingly by the house would increase the loan limit on adjusted service certificates to 50 per cent of their face value. "The one appealing argument for this legislation is for veterans in distress,” the President stated. 'The welfare of the veterans as a class is inseparable from that of the country.” “Will Injure Country “Placing a strain on the savings needed for rehabilitation of employment by a measure which calls on the government for a vast sum beyond the call of distress, and so adverse 1 affecting our general situation, in my view, not only will nullify the benefits to the veteran, but inflict injury to the country as a whole,” he continued. “I have supported, and the nation should maintain, the important principle that when men have been called into jeopardy of their lives in protection of the nation, then the nation as a whole incure a special obligation beyond that to any other group of its citizens. “These obligations can not be met. wholly with dollars and cents. But good taith and gratitude require that protection be given to them, when in ill health, distress and in need. “Over 700.000 World war veterans or their defendants today are receiving monthly allowances for these reasons." "Veterans Also to Suffer’* “The country should not be called upon, however, either directly or indirectly, to support or make loans to those who can by their own efforts support themselves,” he declared. •By far the largest part of the large sum proposed in this bill is to be available*to those who arc not in distress. “The acute depression and unemployment create a situation of unusualy economic sensitiveness which is more easily disturbed at this lime than in normal times by the consequences of this legislation, and such action might quite well result in a prolongation of this period of unemployment and suffering in which veterans themselves will suffer with others.” COMPROMISE ON SHOALS House and Senate Conferees Reach Agreement. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 18—House and senate conferees announced today they had reached a compromise agreement on Muscle Shoals legislation. This action is expected to enable an early vote to dispose of the issue which has been pending in its present form more than two years.

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VOLUME 42-NUMBER 243

Jury to Try Lila Jimerson Is Completed

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Lila Jimerson By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 18.—A jury to try Lila Jimerson, former Indian model for Henry I. Marchand, was completed in supreme court today. Justice Alonzo G. Hinkley immediately ordered the state to begin its case against the Indian woman, who is charged with fnstigatmg the killing of Marchand’s wife. It is the second time in a year Miss Jimerson has gone on trial charged with the “witch murder” of the wife of the scenic artist. Evidence in the first trial brought out details of intimate relations between the Seneca Indian woman .and Marchand and prosecutors charged the murder was one caused by jealousy.-. UNION LEADER SLAIN BY GANG Chicago Plumbing Inspector Machine Gun Victim. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 13. Albert Courchcne, 55, city plumbing inspector and leader of a "rebellion” in the plumbers’ union, was killed today at his work, a few hours before he was to have explained to an assistant state’s attorney a mysterious SIO,OOO transaction in which he was involved. His assailants fired twenty shots, from a machine gun, as he stood before a fiat building on South Langley avenue, in a Negro residential district. The slayers, two men in a small automobile, escaped. Fifteen of the bullets hit Courchene. Courchene was taken to a hospital by a mail carrier, but died before two aids sent by Charles Lonsberry, assistant state's attorney, were able to question him about a SIO,OOO check he had made out in favor of Nash fc Ahearn, attorneys. Courchene had promised to explain the check today. Asa motive for the murder, authorities considered lift leadership of an attempt to oust the present officials of the Plumbers’ union to be significant, and recalled that he was questioned a year ago in connection with the slayings of two union business agents. “Courchene always carried two pistols with him into every union meeting he attended—and one gun was found on his body,” Lonsberry said. *

DEATH ENDS RIDDLE Body of Judge Missing 12 Years Found. By United Press CHICAGO. Feb 18.—The disappearance twelve years ago of Robert Scott, former Albany (N. Y.) judge, was partly explained today by identification of his body in the Cook county morgue, but his motive for leaving home- to become a wanderer remained a mystery. Scott vanished after being defeated in an Albany election. He communicated nth a brother, James Scott of Albany, seven years ago and again five years ago. Since then nothing had been heard of him. ** A few days ago “John J. Williams,” 55, applied at the county hospital for surgical aid and was admitted as a charity patient. Pneumonia followed an operation and he died Sunday. Burial in a pauper's grave had been arranged when "Williams” was found to be Scott. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 37 10 a. m 40 7a. m 37 11 a. m 40 Ba. m 38 12 (noon).. 40 9a. m 38 Ip. m 41

FINAL PLEA FOR GUN GIRL’S LIFE IS MADE TO PARDON BOARD

By United Press HARRISBURG. Pa.. Feb. 18.—Life or death for Irene Schroeder and her paramour, W. Glenn Dague, 28, rested with the state board of pardons today. Percy A. Rose, Johnstown, Pa., counsel for Mrs. Schroeder, pleaded that the board recommend a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment. He made a passionate appeal for the woman, that she not be s(nt “through the little green

PRESS FIGHT TO DRIVE OUT LOANSHARKS House to Hold Hearing on Three Bills to Abolish High Rates Tonight. BATTLE IS NATION-WIDE Vast Sum Spent to Block Measures to Cut Interest Charges, Is Claim. Judiciary B committee of the Indiana house will hold a public hearing tonight on three bills to reduce extortionate interest rates on petty loans. The United States also has before it demands for a sweeping national investigation of alleged lavish expenditures in the fight by loan companies to retain the present 42 per cent interest rate on small loans. Appearing before a senate comj mittee in Washington to oppose a bill legalizing the 42 per cent rate in states it is not already in effect, Mercer G. Johnston, director of the Peoples’ Legislative Service, charged the Russell Sage Foundation is enacting the dual role of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He said it is pretending to work for the protection of small bor- ; rowers and, in reality, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars assisting a nationally-organized gang of lean sharks. Aid Loan Sharks’ Drive “I have indisputable authority for saying that the Russell Sage Foundation is spending huge sums and helping the loan sharks plot their campaign against repeal of the 43 per cent law in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and other midwestern states,” Johnston told the senate committee. “This organization bears the name of a man whose gigantic fortune was founded on usury and who was known as ‘the village skinflint.’ “Since this nationally-organized crew of loan sharks has the audacity to ask congress to legalize robbery of the poor, it is this committee’s duty to investigate,” Johnston asserted. Want Rate Reduced Meanwhile, Representative Chester K. Watson i Deni., Allen and Whitley), chairman of judiciary B, prepared for a large crowd at tonight’s hearing at 8 in the Indiana house of representatives. The three bills into which the committee intends to delve, with the aid of both proponents and opponents, have been introduced by Representative Clyde Karrer (Dem„ Marion) and William E. Wilson (Dem.. Hancock and Madison). All three reduce the present Indiana small loan rate of 42 per cent, legalized by the 1917 legislature, to as low as 8 per cent. Considerable conjecture has attended the measures since they were assigned to house judiciary A and later transferred on demand of •their authors to'judiciary B. Charge Report Was Delayed Both Karrer and Wilson charged on the floor of the house that judiciary A purposely was delaying a report, and asserted they wanted the measures brought out for action. One of the bill ivas introduced on the opening day of the present session. General bewilderment of the house at the jockeying was so obvious that Representative Miles J. Furnas, Republican caucus chairman, and other minority leaders contemplated a demand for an official investigation. POLICEMEN SHOOT MAD DOG, BUT LOSE FRIEND Pedigreed Animal Belongs to Brother Officer. When Motor Policemen Joe j Klaiber and George Bailey started out this catch and kill a “mad dog” they apparently didn't J anticipate the dilemma in which they were to find themselves two hours later. Officers Klaiber and Bailey found the dog. all right, and from all appearances the dog was mad, they decided. So they shot the dog. But when they shot the animal, they last a friend. The canine belonged to Motor Policeman William Puffcell, friend of Officers Klaiber and Bailey, who makes a specialty of raising pedi- ! greed dogs. Purcell lives at 1224 ! King avenue. ' BOOTLEGGER IS SLAIN Akron ’Small Fry’ Liquor Seller Shot to Death in Alley. By United Press AKRON, 0., Feb. 18.—Theodore Popa. 45, “small fry” bootlegger, was found shot to death in an alley on the south side today. The head was pierced with four bullet wounds.

door in the Western penitentiary to the electric chair next Monday.” Mrs. Schroeder was impelled by an Irresistible impulse to rob. steal and flee. Rose said. Her mentality is abnormal and she committed crime for a thrill, he stated. Rose contended that she did not kill Corporal Brady Paul es the state highway patrol on Dec. 27, 1929, the crime for which she was connoted. Paul was killed with a .33-calibcr revolver, while Mrs.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1931

Louis Wolheim Is Dead; Gained Fame in Movies ' for ‘Hard Boiled' Roles

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Succumbs Suddenly to Complications After Serious Operation. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 18.— Louis Wolheim, veteran screen actor, died at the Osteopathic hospital here today from complications after an abdominal operation performed last Monday. His “hard-boiled” features made him the star of such pictures as “The Hairy Ape” and “What Price Glory.” Wolheim’s death was unexpected. His condition after the operation was reported by his physicians as “satisfactory.” At the time he was taken to the hospital, it was said his condition was the result of having reduced his weight for a forthcoming film. The actor, who weighed nearly 200 pounds, had been withdrawn from his latest picture nearly three weeks ago at the suggestion of physicians. Adolphe Menjou was named to fill the role. Wolheim’s varied career began with a teaching position at Cornell university after he was graduated from that institution. He was a teacher of mathematics. He had been a member of the football team at Cornell and at one time was a professional wrestler. Lionel Barrymore persuaded him to play a part in “The Jest,” and his success turned him from an academic life to the field of drama. Last year he won high film honors in the role of the sergeant major in “all quiet on the western front.” Wolheim was born in New York in 1885. $2,000 60 N DFQRFE IT E D Portland Man Fails to Appear at Criminal Assault Trial. By United Press PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 18.—The $2,000 bond of Joseph A. Long, president of the J. A. Long Poultry Company, with headquarters here, was forfeited when he failed to appear in Jay circuit court to answer a charge of criminal assault. He is alleged to have assaulted Mae Denney, daughter of a former tenant on his farm. A similar charge was filed against Long last fall by Ruby Denney, sister of Mae, but it was dismissed on the eve of trial when the prosecuting witness disappeared.

ADMIRAL BECOMES PREMIER OF SPAIN

By United Press MADRID. Feb. 48 Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar Y Cabanas became Premier of Spain today, taking the oath of office at the* head of a monarchical concentration government. After more than four days of the most serious government crisis during the reign of King Alfonso, the 70-year-old captain general of the navy suddely was called to the premiership to safeguard the throne against threats of republican upheaval and demands for far-reach-ing restrictions on the monarch.

Schroeder had a .32-calber weapon, he said. “Mrs. Schroeder was the fifteenth child of her mother and unwanted. She was a curse to her mother, a menace to her own future and to society,” Rose continued. The attorney outlined in detail the crime careers of Irene and Dague and reviewed voluminous testimony taken in the trial of the two. He contended the* were not granted a lair and impartial trial

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HAMMER DEATH JURYSTILL OUT Slaying of Three Relatives Charged at Boonville. By United, Press BOONVILLE, .Ind., Feb. 18.—A Warrick circuit court jury today continued its deliberations in the case of Shirley McNeeley, 37, charged with first degree murder in connection with the hammer slayings of .three of his relatives. The case was handed to the jury Tuesday, and when no verdict had been reached this morning, Judge Union W. Youngblood called jurors before him a;\d re-read his instructions. The defense pleaded insanity in an attempt to avoid death of the defendant as asked by the prosecution. The jury, however, was faced with conflicting views of three alienists. McNeeley admitted killing his mother, Mrs. Mike Briedenbach; his step-father, Mike Briendenbach, and an uncle, Tom Watson, with a hammer at their home near Tenyson, Dec. 26. He said he intended to kill four other relatives, including his wife, Susie McNeeley. FIRST OFFENDER IS AIDED BY HOUSE BILL Judges Would Be Required to Suspend Sentences. Two state representatives today “went to bat” for the first offender. They joined in introduction of a house bill to require circuit, superior and municipal court judges to suspend sentences on persons pleading guilty to or convicted of misdemeanors who never have pleaded guilty to or been found guilty of a misdemeanor before. But the court might, at its discretion, impose a fine as at present. Suspension of sentence now is optional with judges in dealing with first offenders in misdemeanor cases. Representative John F. Cory (Dem., Lake) and Fred A. Egan (Dem., Lake) were co-authors of the measure.

Within less than three hours Admiral Aznar completed the task which the most influential libera* politicians in Spain had failed to accomplish. The monarchical concentration cabinet will work for parliamentary government as well as "a constitutional convention to revise the constitution of 1876, but without such stringent restrictions on the king's power as proposed by the constitutionalists and liberals who failed to form a government. General Demasco Berenguer, exdictator, will be minister of war.

because the public was clamoring for revenge for the killing of a state officer. Mrs. Schroeder's and Dague's cases were presented separately to the board. Rose concluded his appeal by contending that Mrs. Schroeder should be granted clemency because of her sex. He cited the record that no woman had been executed in Pennsylvania within the last, fifty years. “No woman ever should be exe-

SOLUTION OF POOR PROBLEM IS CONSIDERED Plan Involves Sale of Present Farm Location to State. $75,000 MAY BE SAVED Julietta Property Would House Dependents of County. Comprehensive plan to solve Mar- ! ion county's poor farm problem, in- : volving abandonment of the county insane hospital at Julietta for rehabilitation as an infirmary, was to be submitted to the county council this afternoon. Under plans to be presented by Commissioners Dow W. Vorhies and I George Snider, the state will asI sume charge of the county's indij gent insane, and the Julietta instii tution will become the county poor i farm. * Abolish Evils Under the same plan, the state would purchase the buildings and grounds of the present county poor farm on North Tibbs avenue, which would become an annex to Central State hospital, a state institution. State officials have approved the plan, Snider said, following a conference this week with Dr. Max D. Bahr, superintendent of Central State hospital, and John A. Brown, I of the state board of charities. The exchange, it was pointed out, ' will abolish evils existing at the poor farm as exposed several months ago by The Times, and will result in an annual savings to the county of more than $75,000, Snider said. Plan Rehabilitated Julietta Councilmen will be told, Snider I said, that the Central State hospital j budget may be increased about ! $230,000 to permit the state to pur- | chase the 230-acre infirmary propi erty. The increased budget would be | provided under a bill to be introI duced to the general assembly, Snider said. Rehabilitation of Julietta as an i infirmary will entail expenditure by j Marion county of approximately ; $150,000. including the cost of con- | struction of two additional wings, I and the institution then would | house, without crowding, all unforj tunate poor, he pointed out. Patients May “Farm” The present budget of Central State hospital includes an appropriation of $175,000 for new buildings at the West Washington street site. If the county-state exchange is carried out. this fund would be applied toward the purchase of the infirmary buildings and grounds, and the balance would be applied toward the state's rehabilitating of the infirmary site. At this week’s conference with Dr. Bahr and Dr. Brown, it was proposed that incurable patients, not considered dangerous, be transferred to the annex to “farm” the 230 acres of land. Final Action in Ten Days If the state tQok over the Julietta population, about 250 incurable insane would be transferred to the Central State hospital, Snider estimated. Total cost to the state for rehabilitating the poor farm site would involve the expenditure of about $400,000, Snider pointed out, including the $175,000 asked for new buildings at the West Washington street site. Councilmen. after the informal , meeting today, probably will be called into official session within ten days to act on the plan. TAX VOTE DELATED Senators Feel Need of More Consideration, Tagged with house approval, the personal and corporate income tax bills will undergo the scrutiny of the state senate when it resolves into a committee of the whole at 10:30 Friday morning. The senate was to have considered the bills this afternoon, but delay was taken on motion of Senator Lee J. Harzell (Rep., Allen and Noble), majority floor leader, who pointed out the senators should have more time for preliminary consideration of the bills. Asa committee of the whole, the upper house will not be in position to take action on the measures, but the doors will be thrown open to discusison which will resolve into amendments when the bills come from committee in the regular way. Republican house members gave grudging asistsance to passage of the bills in the lower house Tuesday. The personal income tax bill, levying a tax of from 1 to 6 per cent on net personal incomes, passed 92 to 2. The companion bill taxing net income of corporations 3 per cent passed, 70 to IT

cuted,;’ he said. “There should be a distinction between the sexes, for no woman will take a life unless mad or driven to madness.” Rose pointed out that women give life as mothers, and said that they did not wilfullly commit murder. Senator Jarrett, Farrel, Pa., also pleaded for the lives of Irene and Dague, contending that his clients had not been given a fair trial. Jarrett told the board that both Irene and had told him at the Lawrence ccKmty jail Tuesday

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Rector Is 'Fired' for Defense of Trial Marriage

By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 18.—The Rev. F. Eliot Whit?, who believes in companionate marriage, has been dismissed from the staff of the Grace Episcopal church. Dr. W. Russell Bowie, rector of the churdh announced Tuesday

night that Dr. White's resignation had been accepted because of his views on compan ionate marriage. The dismissal followed Dr. White's action in writing a letter to Bishop William T. Manning a few days ago, asking that he be given a formay trial on the bishop's “m os t

definite implication” that he had furthered immorality. As chairman of the speakers’ committee of the Churchmen’s Association, Dr. White had invited former Judge Ben B. Lindsey to speak before the association, thus leading indirectly to the controversy between Lindsey and Bishop Manning. The former Denver judge and exponent of companionate marriage was thrown bodily out of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on a following Sunday when he rose and attempted to reply to a scathing sermon which the bishop had just delivered. Dr. White had served twelve years at Grace church. The dismissal merely deprives him of a post, leaving him still a clergyman in good standing. Dr. White’s daughter was wedded recently, her marriage being of the so-called companionate type. FIGHT IN PLANE COSTS 9 LIVES Pilots’ Arguments Over Landing Causes Crash. By United Press PLYMOUTH, England, Feb. 18.— A struggle between two Royal Air i Force officers for the controls of i the giant flying boat which crashed ; in Plymouth sound Feb. 4, was dc- : scribed at the official inquest today j as the cause for the disaster which cost nine lives. The inquest reached a verdict that the disaster was caused by an error of judgment on the part of Wing Commander C. G. Tucker, who was killed, assuming control of the machine against the wishes of Flight Commander Lieutenant M. H. Ely. Flight Lieutenant Ely who was seriously injui’ed in the accident, was propped up in his hospital bed to tell the story of his clash with the late Wing Commander Tucker, for control of the machine as it swooped down to the water, crashed and sank. ‘Tucker knocked my hands off the control the second time I tried to take charge of the ship,” Ely said, in describing the action of Tucker who was said by fellow-of-ficers to lack skill in handling seaplanes)' TEN HURT IN CRASH Greyhound Bus Hits Culvert Near Lafayette. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 18.—Ten of the twelve passengers on a Greyhound bus bound from Lafayette to Indianapolis, were injured, and five of them confined to Lafayette hospitals, when the bus struck a concrete culvert near Klondike, nine miles northwest of Lafayette, today. * The driver, whose name was not learned, was said to have been unable to get back on the pavement after meeting a truck. The pavement was wet, and vision limited by fog. Carl O. Larson, 26, a soldier at Fort Harrison, Indianapolis, was among the injured. Miss Erma Fighte, Indianapolis, was one of the i two not injured. COMMITTEE REJECTS TREATY WITH CANADA Objects to Water Power Provision in Niagara Falls Pact. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Thei senate foreign relations committee j today unanimously refused to recom- ! mend ratification of the CanadianAmerican treaty to preserve the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls. Its objections were based on the provisions which would enable power companies to obtain water rights under the proposed program.

night that they did not fire the fatal shot. He did not say who firdd the shot which killed Paul, but intimated that “it may have been fired by Patrolman Moore, who was with the slain corporal.” “We' seek mercy—your mercy,” Jarrett replied. “Irene and Glenn have committed enough crimes to keep them in jail the remainder of their lives. We do not want them pardoifcd. but we do not want them executed.”

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CRY OF ‘LIAR’ STIRS SENATE IN ROAD ROW Strey and Sherwood Are Near Blows in Debate on ‘Ripper’ Bill. FIST BATTLE AVERTED Prompt Intervention of f Other Members Prevents Fight on Floor. Bitterness flared to point of blows | in the Indiana senate today, and did not subside until that body, by a vote of 27 to 10, directed its roads committee to report within twentyfour hours on the highway commission “ripper bill,” which would abolish the present state highway commission. A fist fight between Senator John C. Sherwood ‘Rep., Lawrence, Martin and Orange), chairman of the senate roads committee, and Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep., Kosciusko and Wabash), author of the bill, and avowed enemy of the present highway commission, narrowly was averted. Only the prompt Intervention of other senators halted the two as they came within arm’s length of one another, Sherwood incensed at the appellation “Liar,” which Strey hurled at him. Motion of Senator Anderson Ketchum (Dem., Bartholomew, De catur, Franklin and Warren) cftrect ing the roads committee to report the ripper bill to the senate within twenty-four hours, precipitated the argument. Debate Is Heated Ketchum is coauthor of the bill with Strey. Both are members, Strey chairman, of the senate committee investigating administration of the state highway commission under Director John J. Brown. Ketchum said road committee members had had the bill under consideration since Feb. 5 and should be ready to report. * Heated opposition came from Sen--ator Harry K. Cuthbertson (Dem., Howard and Miami), a committee member, “This ’ committee doesn’t intend • to have any paid lobbyist tell it i when to report out a bill or when j not to,” he shouted. “Sam Hadden. | a paid lobbyist, had the audacity : to ask this committee to hold up j this bill until the investigating ; committee has made its report.” Hadden is secretary of the Ini diana Sand and Gravel Association and enemy of the reigning highway commission. “Did I ask to withhold the report,” Strey asked, rising to his feet. ‘Liar,’ Strey Retort* Cuthbertson nodded to Sherwood, i who said “absolutely!” “You're a liar,” Strey retorted as he and Sherwood strode toward each other. After their colleagues had quelled them, Senator Earl Rowley (Rep., La Porte and Starke) asked Lieu-tenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush to admonish Strey for his remark, but Strey interrupted the rebuke with an apology. Ketchum explained the bill under debate would abolish the present highway commission and substitute anew board of four members to be ; appointed by the Governor,- the chairman to serve as the executive i officer. Each would receive $6,000 a year and expenses. “It is true,” he said, “there are lobbyists here representing the cement and gravel interests, but there also are lobbyists here for the highway commission. They would be at our desks in five minutes if we were to recess.” Reopen Debate Thursday Sherwood sought to amend Ketchum’s motion to direct the road committee to report “immediately after the investigating committee has reported its findings.” But after Senators C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Lake) and Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep., Fountain, Vermilion and Warren) said it was unfair to , authors of the bill to withhold it, longer, Sherwood's motion was voted down, 29 to 10, and the report ordered within twenty- four hours. In the course of debate, Senator Ketchum asserted three members of the roads committee would favor passage and three indefinite postponement. The promised divided report will open the whole matter to open debate Thursday. BAN O¥wEDDINgTOF FIRST COUSINS ASKED Marriages Already Contracted Not Affected by House Bill, Marriage of first cousins would be invalid under terms of a bill introduced in the Indiana house today by Representative Oliver W. McGaughey (Rep., Fountain), minister and lawyer of Veedersburg. The measure would declare valid all marriages of first cousins prior to the bill's passage, but thereafter would declare void marriages of persons nearer than second cousins. SILENT ON EMBARGO Mellon Refuses Comment on Wheat * Restriction Proposal, By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Treasury Secretary Mellon declined today to commit himself on the proposed one-year embargo on wheat and other agricultural products, but pointed out provisions of the existing tariff law, which he thoughwould cause difficulty in makiiK: •uch an embargo effective.

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