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SENATE READY FOR STUDY OF AUTO FEE BILL Diverting More of Increased Charges to General Fund Proposed. Having amended the house personal income tax to produce approximately $2,500,000 more revenue than would have been raised by the bill as it came to the senate, the upper branch of the general assembly today turned its attention to bills to divert increased automobile license fees from road building to the general fund. The Soi<hworth bills, increasing the license fees 50 per cent and turning almost $10,000,000 annually to property tax reduction instead of the $600,000 now going to the highway commission, were to be considered at 10:30 this morning as a special order of business. The program threatened to forestall the desire of LieutenantGovernor Edgar D. Bush to take up consideration of the house bill taxing corporate net incomes at 3 per cent. Some proponents of the auto license bills cherish hopes they will supplant the income tax measures while others regard them as supplementary. Increasing opposition to the corporate income bill, spurred by a big lobby of business and manufacturing interests, caused widespread predictions the measure would be sidetracked. McNutt Amendments Out Senate Democrats Joined Republicans Friday in eliminating from the personal income bill the house amendments drafted by Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana university law school, and ‘'railroaded” into the bill under pressure of R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, and Representative Delph L. McKesson, majority floor leader in the house. The senate amendments substituted "deductions" for exemptions and followed the recommendations of the state tax survey committee as they were originally incorporated in the house bill. The new rates follow: One ner cent tax on the first SI,OOO of net income, 2 per cent on the second SI,OOO. 3 per cent on the third to the tenth SI,OOO or any part thereof. 4 per cent on all net income in excess of $lO,000. The tax would be first levied and collected in 1932 on the Income for the calendar year of 1931 or during any income year ending In 1931. Ta* Deductions Listed Tax deductions to be allowed, in substitution for the exemptions, are: For an unmarried person. $10: married persons. S2O. with an additional deduction of $2 for each dependent. The rates for payment of Income tax as provided in the bill as it left the house, were: One per cent on the first SI,OOO of net Income. 2 per cent on the second SI,OOO, 3 per cent on the third SI,OOO, 4 per cent on the fourth SI,OOO. 5 per cent on the fifth SI,OOO and 6 per cent on ail over $5,000. The exemptions voted hv the house were $1,500 for single persons. $3,500 for married persons and S4OO for each dependent. Under the house plan the head of a family with an Income of $3,500 would pay no income tax. Under the senate plan he would be taxed $lO on the first SI,OOO, S2O on the second SI,OOO and $45 on the remaining $1,500, or a total of $75, from which he would be entitled to a deduction of S2O, leaving the net taxes of $55. Charge by Weight Increased motor license fees as proposed in the Southworth bill under consideration today: Pleasure cars, 40,cents on each 180 pounds of weight of the vehicle, with a minimum fee of $6. Tractors, motor trucks and delivery cars weighing up to 2,500 pounds, $10; from 2.551 to 3.000 pounds. 60 cents per 100 pounds of weight; from 3,051 to 4,000 pounds, $t per 100 pounds; 4,051 to 6,000 pounds. $1.25 per 100 pounds; 3.051 to 10.000 pounds, $1.60 per 100 pounds; above 10,051 pounds, $2 per 100 pounds. Trailer fees would range from 60 cents per 100 pounds up to 1,000 pounds to $1.60 per 100 above 3,051 pounds, with semi-trailers being charged a flat fee of $25 up to 2,000 pounds, to $3 per 100 pounds above 4,051 pounds. Motorcycles would be charged a flat rate of $3, and $lO a year would be charged for each seat in auto busses operated over the public highways, and $4 a seat for busses operated wholly within a city or town. , Work Flan Voiced By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 21.—Employment of Muncie and other Delaware county men will be asked of manufacturers and other employers by newly formed laborers’ organization here, which has been granted an American Federation of Labor charter. Leaders point out that the organization Is not attempting to establish a wage scale or dictate in any way to employers, but will merely ask. that local men be given employment rather than those living outside of Delaware county. Window Smasher Gets Loot By United Press TERRE HfcUTE, Ind., Feb. 21. Four watches, total value of which was estimated at SSO, were taken by a man who threw a lump of coal through a downtown jewelry store display window and escaped on foot as a number of persons walked along the street en route to work. Witnesses started in pursuit but were unable to catch the man. Perry Tucker, proprietor of the store, said only the most inexpensive watches were taken.

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Death Sentence Second Given in Laporte County hy Times Special LAPORTE, Ind., Feb. 21.—Ynacio Sarragoza, 26, will be sentenced Monday to die in the electric chair by Judge Alfred J. Ling of Laporte circuit court, for the murder of Charles Glafcke, Michigan City policeman. He is the first man to be sent to the chair from Laporte county, and the second to receive the death penalty. The other was David Scott, hanged in June, 1838, for the murder of another man with a knife. Frank A. Rogers, appointed by the court to defend Sarragoza as a pauper, announces he will file a motion for anew trial at the time of sentencing. The attorney has notified Rafael Arelbura, Mexican consul at Chicago, of his fellow countryman’s plight. An opinion is held in official circles that the coasul will take no action because Sarragoza’s record shows he shot another Mexican during a quarrel over a watch at South Chicago. TWO CAPTURED IN LONG CHASE Robbery Charges Faced by South Bend Prisoners. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. . 21. Willard Edwards, 23, alias Russell Early, of Cambridge, 0., and James Pears, 23, Tarytown, N. Y„ are held in jail here today charged with robbery and robbery with firearms after a chase which covered South Bend and led into Michigan. According to the youths, they met on a freight train on which they were stealing rides. At South Bend they decided to get off and “pick up a little change.” The two entered the grocery of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nowakoski, and, with Pears holding a gun, took $13.60 from Mrs. Nowakoski. Attempts to tage the Nowakoski automobile in front of the store failed and the men fled. For an hour the two eluded police and citizens in a city-wide chase until Edwards was cornered. Pears escaped from South Bend on a freight train, but was captured at Cassopolis, Mich., and returned.

FEES AND SALARIES PLEDGE RECALLED

Democratic Leaders Warn House Platform Must Be Adhered To. Preparations were being made tqday by the Democratic members of the house to so amend the fees and salaries bill at a caucus Monday night that it would be equalized and meet with approval of all members. Attempts to bolt this platform measure were nipped in the bud at a caucus late Friday when party. leaders declared that no insurgency on the measure would be tolerated. In order to make the bill fair where it applies to counties not having Democratic representation, Earl Crawford (Union and Wayne), caucus chairman, was instructed to appoint a committee of three to confer with the Republican minority as to its views regarding the salaries. Democratic state headquarters was scored indirectly by Floor Leader Delph McKesson (Marshall) for delaying the introduction cf the measures until last Monday. Recalls Platform Pledge McKesson declared that county officials had no right to protest the passage of this measure because it was pledged in the platform and they knew full well that an attempt would be made to pass the bill. “In many counties officials are getting unnecessarily high fees. They are not getting rich on the salaries, but the fees,” he declared. “Under this bill the fees go into the treasury of the county. In some counties these figures range between SIO,OOO and $50,000 in one office. “We must carry out our pledge or we can not face the people in 1932 and the county officials should know this. “For some reason unknown, we did not get the bill as we should, early in the session. If we delay its passage there will be persons who said we never intended to enact such a measure. “This is a Democratic house and the bill must pass.” Similar Bill Died “If you didn’t want to pass this bill, it should not have been in the platform,” he declared as he described how two years ago the Republican majority introduced such a bill in the closing days of the session and then let it die in committee. Representatives John M. Cantley (Cass), William E. Wilson (Hancock and Madison) and several others told of the inequalities of the bill. But upon the decision to iron these out at the Monday night caucus, they acquiesced. Representative Virgil Simmons (Adams and Wells) and John F. White (Marion) pointed out the necessity of redeeming all pledges. Diphtheria Causes Death By Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., Feb. 21. Martha Ellen Grider, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grider was found dead in her bed at the family home, a victim of diphtheria, according to Omer Woolridge, city health commissioner, and Coroner C. M. Jackson. The chilu was taken ill in school ten days ago and liad been taking treatments for intestinal influenza from a chiropractor. Her condition became serious after a treatment and Dr. H. H. Kamman, who was called, found the girl dead. The home has been placed in quarantine but it is feared many children have been exposed. Spinal Malady Fatal ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 21. —Manley Mitchell, 19, son of Louis A. Mitchell, engineer of maintenance of way for the Indiana Railroad, died at the family residence here. He was stricken with spinal disease, early in January when he withdrew from Purdue university.

LYNCHING TRIAL MAY FIX FATE OF ALL CASES Evidence Held Strongest a Against Man to Face Court Monday. By Times Special MARION, Ind., Feb. 21.—Outcome of the trial of Charles Lennon, which will open in Grant circuit court here Monday will determine the fate of other persons accused in connection with the lynching here Aug. 7 of two Negroes, persons familiar with the case declare. It has been said repeatedly that of all those accused in the case, the state has no stronger evidence than will be presented against Lennon. Robert Beshire, first of the defendants tried, was acquitted. Others under indictment include Everett Clark, Arnold Waller, Phillip Boyd, Chester Pease and Jacob Campbell, Grant county sheriff at the time of the lynching, who is accused of neglect of mficial duty. During Be^hire’s trial, prosecution attorneys were able to obtain damaging evidence against Lennon, a former taxi driver, pointing to him as a member of a group which forced entrance to the county jail and removed the Negroes, accused of slaying a white man and attacking his girl companion. Lennon is in Jail, having failed to provide bond of $2,000 set by Judge O. D. Clawson. Although neither state nor defense requested it, Judge Clawson has ordered a special venire of fifty men to appear Monday for prospective jury service. CITY OFFICIAL GUILTY Kokomo Councilman Faces, Prison Term for Banking Law Violation. KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 21.—A prison term of from two to fourteen years is faced by Charles C. Price, 49, city councilman and former cashier of the defunct Farmers’ Trust and Savings bank here, who was convicted by a jury on a charge of unlawfully borrowing from the bank. A fine of $6,600, double the amount of the alleged misappropriation, also, may be levied against Price. Price faces charges on several other indictments. At a preyious trial, a jury disagreed.

Hard Times By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 21. Arraigned before City Judge George Shenk on a charge of violating the dry law, Nathan Miller, 64, was asked by the court: “Have you been selling any liquor?” “No, sir. Very little,” the accused man replied, adding that the business depression had made bootlegging very unprofitable.

COURT BILL SIGNED La Porte and Porter Counties Will Have Separate Tribunals. Separation of the La Porte and Porter county superior courts was provided for amohg the six bills signed Friday by Governor Harry G. Leslie, who immediately appointed Mark B. Rockwell, Valparaiso attorney, as judge of the newly created Porter court. Other bills signed by the Governor protected widows and other beneficiaries of life insurance from their own possible mismanagement; amended the livestock loan law to include swine in the act which makes removal of mortgaged stock from the county a felony; placed with the Indianapolis safety board the right to construct and repair buildings under its jurisdiction and now under control of the works board. MORE POWER DENIED House Defeats Bill Extending* Scope of State Tax Board. Taking the view that the state board of tax commissioners already is too powerful, the Indiana house of representatives defeated, 54 to 48, a bill designed to give the board tax leveling authority within several counties. Under the present law the board has jurisdiction over tax increases and decreases of the state and county, but none over the smaller governmental uftits such as the townships, cities and towns. Representative Delph L. McKesson, Democratic floor leader, charged the defeated measure w-ould have “removed the last vestige of local self-government as far as taxation is concerned.” Gary Attorney Dies , By United Press GARY, Ind., Feb. 21.—William H. Matthew 7 , 59, veteran Gary attorney and Democratic leader, is dead following a major operation. He formerly was a member of the Indiana historical research committee and for a number of years was an attorney for the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. His son, Robert Matthew, was football captain at Indiana university two years ago. Aged Woman Dies By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 21. —Mrs. Sarah Pence Booth. 77, wife of Fred Booth, died at her home in German township five miles north of here. She was a life-long resident of the Taylorsville neighborhood. She was a member of the Methodist church. She leaves her husband and a brother, James F. Pence. De Pausv Debaters Win By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 21. De Pauw university's negative debating team has returned to the campus after a trip into Ohio where it debated Miami university and the University of Layton. The De Pauw team is composed of Marion Yoder, Angola; Carl Hintz, South Bend, and John Miilett, Indianapolis,

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Statue proposed in honor of Bishop Asbury.

By Tin■ es Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 21. In Methodist churches throughout Indiana a free will offering will be taken Sunday to aid in defraying expenses of a statue as a memorial to Bishop Francis Asbury, America’s first Methodist bishop and a pioneer in education. The statue would be placed on the campus of De Pauw university here, De Pauw university was founded under auspices of the Methodist church in 1837 and at that time bore the name of Indiana Asbury college in honor of the bishop. The university’s newest recitation building was dedicated in June, 1830, with the name of Asbury hall. It is proposed to erect the statue on the site of old West college, the original university building, which has been abandoned and is to be razed soon to make way for anew quadrangle of which Asbury hall is the first building. The statue would be a replica of that great bronze of Bishop Asbury astride his horse, which is located at Wa; ington, D. C. Movement to Cost $20,000 The cost of obtaining a replica of the statue and placing it will be $20,000, it is estimated. All three of the Methodist conferences in Indiana are back of the movement. Bi?hop Asbury laid the cornerstone for the first Methodist school ever established in America, Cokesbury college in Abington, Md. The story of his life is replete with great episodes. He led the first committee of any church in America to congratulate and pledge support to George Washington when the latter was chosen as first President of the United States. He was the only Methodist minister who did not return to England when the Revolutionary war started, despite the fact that he was £6 years of age before he left England for America just four years before the fight for freedom began. It is estimated that Bishop Asbury rode more than 275,000 miles on horseback taking care of his charges, more than John Wesley himself. He crossed the Allegheny mountains some sixty times and suffered hardships in malaria ridden lowlands. Man on Horseback Living at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, Europe’s militant “Man on Horseback,” Bishop Asbury, riding to the service of his fellowmen, became in America, Methodism’s “Man on Horseback.” Where hundreds of portraits and thousands of statues honor Napoleon, few are to be found of Bishop Asbury, who gave new life where Napoleon gave death. Only three portraits of the bishop have been accepted as authentic and the only statue is the one in the national capital. The replica of the statue to be erected on the De Pauw campus to perpetuate the memory of this great leader, is symbolic of the character of the bishop and his deeds. It shows a weary man astride a weary horse. The legs of the horse are heavy with mud. and the boots of the rider are likewise bespattered. There is a portrayal of great exhaustion, even in the cold bronze, but from under the wide brim of the low hat, backed by the great collar of the man’s cape, two undaunted eyes are set, seeing little of the hardships of the wilderness trail, but looking into the future of a nation. Aged Mother Dies By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 21. Mrs. Henry Gearhart, 70, died of heart disease at her home in northern Hamilton county, leaving three children, Mrs. Mary Scott, El wood; John Pennock, New Lancaster, and Clifford Roderick, Hamilton county, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Ray, Kansas. Scratch Leads to Death By Times Special JOLIETVTLLE, Ind., Feb. 21. Claude Powers, 45, farmer, died at his home near here of blood poisoning which developed from a scratch on a finger a few days ago. The attending physician says it is the quickest death from that disease that ever came under his observation. He leaves his widow and four children. Alleged Theft Band Held By Times Special HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Feb. 21. —An automobile theft ring was believed broken with the capture here by a posse of state police and officers from, three adjoining towns, of three youths, said to have stolen machines in several Indiana towns. Those held are Robert Ream, 17, Eaton; Lercy Gilland, 18, Hartford City, and Charles Schaffer, 18, Shidler. * Sues for Auto Insurance By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 21.—La Monte E. Jones has filed suit in superior court against the Hoosier Casualty Company seeking to recover $225 judgment on an insur.ance policy. The complaint avers the company refuses to pay for a $225 loss caused by fire in the plaintiff’s automobile,

JURORS FAVOR DEATHjN CHAIR Jeffersonville Man Guilty of Slaying Officer. By United Press VERSAILLES, Ind., Feb. 21. Walter Carlin, 26, Jeffersonville, today faces death in the electric chair, recommended in the verdict of a Ripley circuit court jury which found him guilty of first degree murder. After two hours’ deliberation, the Jury convicted Carlin for the death of Frank Knoebel, 42, Madison policeman, shot to death at Madison, Dec. 20. Carlin had pleaded self-defense. Knoebel was shot when he went to the basement of the Odd Fellows’ lodge hall to question Carlin concerning a hardware store robbery the night before. Passing of sentence was deferred to give defense attorneys time to file motion for new trial. SMALL GROUP TERMED ENEMY OF BANK BILLS Legislators Received Warnings From Indiana Organization. Members of the Indiana general assembly today were being flooded with warnings by the legislative committee of the Indiana Bankers Association and the state department of banking that three important bank bills are the object of attack by a small, self-interested group. Bills referred to are the loan limit bill, ratio of capital to deposits bill and a bill clarifying former laws and recent court decisions in respect to the double liability of bank shareholders. All three measures, the legislative committe declares, were drawn after careful consideration to safeguard public interest and are regarded by the majority of the state’s bankers as consistent with sound banking principles. UTILITY BILLS ADVANCED Appliance and “Pole Tax” Measures Await Second Reading. Two bills designed to curb and tax utilities await second reading in the Indiana senate, the minority report for passage having prevailed. One of the measures would prohibit utility operating companies from entering the retail appliance field and the other is the Tormohlen “pole tax,” which would require a fee be paid on each utility pole along a public highway and on electrical contacts. Senator Ear! Rowley (Rep., La Porte and Starke), chairman of judiciary B committee, which presented a majority report to kill both bills, termed the Tormohlen tax bill “one of the most damnable bills that ever has been introduced.” Alcohol Drinker Dies By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 21, Acute alcoholism was given by Coroner John O. Garigus as the cause of the death of James Burkhart, 45, Zanesville, 0., found in a dying condition in a miners’ waiting station, west of here. Two other men, Earl Helms, 44, Clearing, 111., and John Hannar, 49, who gave no address, were arrested at another waiting station on the railroad and held as witnesses after telling Sheriff Joe Dreher they believed Burkhart had been drinking denatured alcohol. Gloves to Drought Needy By Times Special MARION, Ind., Feb. 21.—Drought sufferers in Arkansas will receive 100 dozen pairs of gloves as a gift from the Smaltz Glove Company here, shipped to the Poinsett county chapter, American Red Cross, Marked Tree, Ark. The gloves were carried without charge by the American Railway Express Company. Alleges Injury by Mate By Times Special ANDERS®N, Ind., Feb. 21.—Suing for divorce, Mrs. Alaine Yeagley says she was in a hospital for eleven weeks suffering bums resulting from a negligent act by her husband, Early Yeagley, and alleging he visited her only three times while she was in the hospital. The parties lived together one year following their marriage. Cheerful Over Life Term By United Press BOONVILLE, Ind., Feb, 21.—Shirley McNeeley, convicted of slaying his mother, stepfather and uncle, cheerfully accepted a sentence of life imprisonment imposed by Judge U. W. Youngblood. He had pleaded insanity as a defense. Before sentence was pronounced, McNeeley told the judge he would not blame film for doing bis duty.

PRIMARY FOES LOSE IN SENATE BY TWOVOTES Republican Floor Leader in Bitter Attack on Repeal Bill. “It would be our sovereign duty to put the Governor and United States senator back on the primary ballot instead of supporting any further effort at primary repeal. “Is Indiana afraid to give her people a chance to chose who they want to represent them in any public office? Why are we the only state to be taking steps backward in regard to the primary? “Our people are too good to be thus falsely dealt with.” In such ringing phrases did Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep., Allen and Noble), Republican floor leader, lead the attack on the Beckett primary repeal bill in the senate Friday afternoon. Others joined the fray and the bill failed of a constitutional majority by two votes, 24 ayes and 20 noes. Leslie’s Advice Unheeded Governor Harry G. Leslie had urged entire repeal of the primary in his address to the general assembly. The Friday fight brought forth the spectacle of Senator Harry K. Cuthbertson (Dem„ Howard and Miami) defending the chief executive’s position against attack from the elected leader in the senate of the Governor's own party. Cuthbertson blamed the primary for Klan control of the G. O. P. and the election of former Governor Ed Jackson undo the wing, of D. C. Stephenson, Klan chief, now serving a life term in prison for murder. “This bill is designed to get away from control by such organizations as the Klan and restore party responsibility,” Cuthbertson said. “It is nonpartisan and nonpolitical.” The bill, introduced by Senator Joe Rand Beckett (Rep., Marion), provides for election of precinct committeemen and convention delegates by the primary method, and choice of all candidates by county, district and state convention with secret ballots. In counties under 50,000, the present primary may be retained under an amendment to the measure. Beckett and his backers have been advertising the measure as proprimary, rather than anti. This viewpoint was advanced by Senator Chester A. Perkins (Dem., St. Joseph), who asserted that supporters of the bill are “friends of the primary.”

Charges Insincerity Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep., Lake) pointed out that such an idea was insincere and that while it was a move to repeal the primary it was a cowardly one. “I’m opposed to the primary law,” Nejdl declared. “But lets repeal it like men and go back to the convention system, cut out that secret voting idea and keep politics clean by keeping the convention open and clean. We all know that they never will be gospel meetings, but that is politics.” Senator Walter S. Chamberlin (Dem., Hancock, Henry and Madison) charged that the bill will make the county convention “a closed corporation.” “We know that friends of the primary system are not for this bill,” Senator Edgar A.-jerkins (Dem., Marion) declared. “The League of Women Voters and other friends of the primary have fought it consistently. It was the old convention system that produced genuine corruption. Under the primary we have come a whole lot nearer getting the wish of the people. Conditions are much better right here in Marion county due to the primary. If you want to establish the old boss rule again, just vote for this bill.” Sixteen Republicans and eight Democrats voted for the bill and ten Democrats and ten Republicans voted against it. Having not been decisively defeated, Beckett will bring the matter to another vote next week Drunken Driver Sentenced By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Feb. 21.—Fine of $lO and costs and sentence of sixty days on the state penal farm was imposed upon Ralph L. Sharp, Indianapolis, by Judge L. M. Hutchison here for driving while intoxicated. He was also deprived of his automobile driver’s license for one year. Sharp was arrested after he failed to observe a traffic signal and his car crashed into another. Oldest Citizen Dies By United Press LANESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 21.—Funeral services were held here for Thomas Lyskowinski, 99, Harrison county’s oldest citizen and a Civil war veteran. He was born in Poland and came to this country when 20 years old. He served with Company I, 13th Indiana infantry. He was a member of the Masonic lodge for more than sixty years. Three at Health Session By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 21. Three South Bend women are attending the medical section session of the National Child Welfare conference in Washington. They are Miss Margaret Parker, superintendent of the Epworth hospital; Miss Anna Scott, superintendent of Epworth hospital nurses, and Miss Mabel Munro, supervisor of the Visiting Nurse Association.

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Mystery Death .Victim’s Debts Declared Less By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 21.—Lee Skinner, Huntsville barbecue stand proprietor who was found shot to death under mysterious circumstances two weeks ago today, owed $3,000 instead of $9,300, as reported by police when they issued a statement declaring Skinner committed suicide. The revised figures on the indebtedness were compiled by his brother, Alvin Skinner, Anderson city fireman. The police theory of suicide is opposed by county authorities, who believe Skinner was murdered. E. L. Osborn, superintendent of the state bureau of criminal investigation, and Charles D. Bolte, an investigator, are working on the case.

TEACHER BILL LOSTIN HOUSE Measure to Reduce Period of Training Assailed. Described during debate as “a measure the house of representatives ought to be ashamed to pass,” the Benz bill, redlucir.g training for elementary teachers from seventytwo to thirty-six weeks, failed of a constitutional majority Friday afternoon. Final vote on the bill was 49-32, two votes short of the ballot necessary for passage. Debate preceding the vote was somewhat heated, Representatives Sam Benz (Dem., Crawford and Harrison) and Fabius Gwin (Dubois and Martin) being the only defenders. Representative Frank J. Smith (Rep., Tippecanoe) was the author of the ‘shame” comment. “High school pupils are getting out of school at too early an age nowadays,” said Smith, “and I think the house ought to be ashamed of itself if it passes the bill.” Representative Gerriit M. Bates (Dem., Marion) attacked the measure with the charge that “we’re going downhill if we pass such a measure. What we should be concerned with is not giving jobs to a few more teachers, but with what’s best for our school pupils.”

DRIVER HURT IN CRASH IS GIVEN 3 SENTENCES Knox Man Receives Suspended Terms in Court at Columbus. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 21.—Lewis S. Martin, 50, Knox, was shown leniency by Judge Charles S. Baker in Bartholomew circuit court here when he pleaded guilty to three charges after an automobile accident on U, S. Road 31 north of here a few weeks ago. On a charge of transporting liquor, Martin was fined $25 and costs and given a one-year suspended sentence to the state penal farm; for possession of liquor, he was fined SIOO and costs and given a thirtyday suspended sentence to the county jail and for reckless driving, a fine of $25 and costs. Mai tin was seriously hurt in the crash and has been in a hospital here. His car collided head-on with one driven by Paul Salsbury. He and Mrs. Salsbury were hurt as was Amos Newton, Taylorsville, a pedestrian, who was struck by the Martin car. Martin and-Newton were recently released from the hospital, but the Salsburys are still patients. MANY OFFERS TO WED La Porte Woman Made Rich by Oil Will Not Be in Any. By United Press LA PORTE, Ind., Feb. 21.—Miss Irene Phillips, who became rich from an oil well that she has never seen, is being swamped with offers of marriage from residents of all parts of the country. But Miss Phillips, a postoffice employe, is not interested. Her only interest, she said, is in the $70,000 which her 500-barrel oil well already has produced and promise of $200,000 more. Lebanon Woman Dies B.y Times Special LEBANON, ind., Feb. 21.—Funeral services were held Friday for Mrs. Edith Duff Lane, 31, wife of Earl Lane, who died at a hospital here eight days after the birth of a son. She leaves another child; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. Rhea Duff; a brother, Paul, Purdue university student, and a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Reynolds. Motorists Invited By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 21.—Visitors are offered unlimited parking space on Ft. Wayne streets on specific days, according to an announcement of the police department and safety board. Guest cards are given visitors by a local newspaper. Police said the courtesy was offered to encourage shopping here. Girl Speaker Wins By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 21. The Hamilton county high school oratorical contest on the Constitution of the United States, held in this cit 7 under the auspices of the Hamilton ,County Bar Association, resulted in Miss Helen Akard of Sheridan winning first prize. Harry Brown, Westfield, was second. Miss Akard will represent the county in the district meeting to be held at Frankfort next month.

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DAMAGE CAUSED BY ODD MISHAP COSTS 530,000 Broken Car Wheel Puts Nicks in Nine Miles of Steel Rails. By Times Special PERU, Ind., Feb. 21.—At a cost ol $30,000 the Chesapeake ds’Ohlo railroad is relaying 48,000 feet of rails on a nine-mile stretch of track west of here, damaged by a faulty wheel on a car of a freight train. G. J. Derbyshire, general superintendent of the railroad, says it is the first accident of the kind on the line’s local division. The damage resulted several weeks ago when twenty-one inches of the tread of the car wheel was broken off while the train was traveling at a high rate of speed. Each time the wheel turned after the break, nicks were made in the rails. The broken wheel rolled over twenty miles of track, but serious damage was caused only in the nine-mile stretch, over which a high speed was maintained. The undamaged rail on the opposite sjde of the track is being dismantled for a distance of four and one-half miles and that taken up is being re-laid the same distance, replacing damaged rails. For the remaining four.and one-half miles new rails are being laid on both sides. This is for the purpose of obtaining equal wear. It is expected the work will be completed this week. The $30,000 expense represents only the cost of the rails. Labor cost of relaying the track will be obtained from sale of the damaged steel. The track was laid with 100pound rails two years ago, and under ordinary conditions there would have been no need of replacement for twelve years. $182,000 FOR HIGHWAY Madison County Board Prepares to Receive Paving Bids March 16. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 21. Madison county board of commissioners will accept bids for paving the Dale J. Noland road March 16 under authority of the state board of tax commissioners granting preliminary approval of isuance of $182,000 of county bonds to finance the project. The state board will pass final approval after bids are received. The Noland road Is the south section of a proposed Anderson-Elwood paved highway. It is planned to pave the north section of the road later as a separate project. Issuance of bonds for the Noland road was once turned down by the state board on a remonstrance of taxpayers. A second remonstrance was filed after the project was revived, and James Showalter, chairman of the tax board, presided at a hearing here Feb. 10. Truck Kills Child By United Press GARY, Ind., Feb. 21.—Raphael Parisi, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Parisi, was killed instantly when he fell beneath a moving truck after running into the side of it while playing. Earl Westerforth. the driver, was released on $2,000 bond after being charged with manslaughter. Youth Sentenced By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 21. Dewey Birkhardt, 17, convicted of automobile theft Monday, was sentenced by Judge Homer W. Hennegar to one to ten years in the state reformatory. Police said when the youth was arrested he had the auto of a Lafayette man, stolen at Peru, Dec. 19.

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