Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1931 — Page 15

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ASSEMBLY, IN FINAL STAGES, LACKS DEEDS Tax and Reapportionment Wait With Session to End a Week From Monday. IMPORTANT WORK LAGS Democratic Pledge Fees, Salaries Bill Burdened With Amendments. BY BEN STERN ii'om all indications the seventyseventh general assembly will come to % close a week from Monday without having accomplished any of its principal objects. Survey of the record to date reveals no important constructive measures enacted and the paramount income tax bills are still hanging in mid-air with . the prospect they will continue to swing thusly when the closing gavel is heard at midnight March 9. So far nothing has been accomplished anent congressional reapportionment. The senate, which has three proposals for changing the thirteen districts into twelve, is awaiting a report from its committee on the subject. This body must recommend some partition, then after it has passed the upper house it will be sent on to the house to be acted upon in the few remaining days. Fees Bill Still in House The Democratic platform pledge uniform fees and salaries bill is still m the house, with scores of amendments being prepared, the majority of which will raise the salaries. The house old age pension bill is still in senate committee. Hut the senate bill, amended to raise the minimum age for qualification for relief from 65 to 70 years and making the institution of the pension system optional with counties, was after a delay of almost a week, handed down to the house for second reading. Danger is even threatening the only remedial tax measure passed this session and signed by the Governor. This is the Weiss bill sus- , pending the penalties on property sold for delinquent taxes in 1931. ’ Backed by a strong lobby of county treasurers whom ’ the bill robs of fees, a measure repealing the Weiss law has been introduced and sent on to second reading in the house.

Robinson Fights Bill Leading in the move to repeal the Weiss bill is Clyde R. Robinson, Coffin county treasurer,, who stepped into the G. O. P. chairman's seat for the last election. What good was accomplished by the 1,000 farmers who came here to lobby the corporation income tax through the senate is problematical. The senate spent two days reading the bili and making speeches for home consumption and then adopted an amendment cutting rate on corporation net incomes to 14 per cent frorft the 3 per cent protided in the house bill. Lieutenant-Governor Ed Bush, whether sincere in his advocacy of the corporation tax or not, has made a play for its passage. He turned over the gavel to Senator Lee .T. Hartsell (Allen and Noble), Republican floor leader, and then made an excellent speech to win the farm vote for the G. O. P. nomination for Governor. It was learned during the week that Bush wired Senator James E. Watson for aid in exerting pressure on senators who have indicated opposition to passage of the measure. Senator Avoids Issue Watsons reply indicated the senior senator wanted to keep hands off the ticklish situation. Incidentally, Hartzell, who made an about face on the bill from his previous position of opposition, summed up the record of the as-' sembly in hi; speech on the bill late Thursday: “We have not done ~ust right by the people back home. - ’ he declared. Speaker Walter Myers is being severely, criticised for his failure to name a conference committee on the personal income tax measure and each day the Republican side calls upon him to tell when the committee will be named. It is also pointed out that Myers sweetens every important Democrat who visits the assembly. Political discussfbn was given anew purt of life when Myers was introduced as the next United States senator, and Paul V. McNutt as the next Governor, at the Democratic Editorial Association dinner last week. Myers Boom Opposed Opposition to nominating Myers began to crystallize at once and at a conference of several leaders held one night thin week the name of Arthur Greenwood. Second district representative in congress, was advanced for the nomination for senator. Names of L, Ert Slack, former mayor of Indianapolis; Evans Woollen, nominee in 1926, and Louis Ludlow, Seventh district representative, were also mentioned for the same position, while a determined effort is to be made to bring into the field against McNutt the 1928 nominee for Governor, Frank Dailey.

REAL ESTATE RISE IS PREDICTED BY RICHEY Indianapolis Owners Told of Sales Possibilities of Future. Prediction that the real estate market will rise soon led Paul Q. Richey, former president of the Chamber of Commerce, to warn Indianapolis owners not to “sell short,” in an address before the Real Estate Board Thursday. “Indianapolis is classified among tweaty-flve cities having sales possibilities in the coming months," Richey wid. “The unemployment situation is being handled better In Indianapolis than in anv other citv in the nation.”

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Two Great Journalistic Traditions of Pulitzer and Scripps Are United in Consolidation of New York World and Telegram

BY FORREST DAVIS Times Staff Cor re* do a dent NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—The New York World-Telegram, appeanng today for the first time in its consolidated form, unites two journalistic traditions—that of Pulitzer and that of Scripps—which for a half century have been sturdily free. Joseph Pulitzer, blazing foe to political corruption, one of the titans of personal journalism, made the world synonymous with militant independence. E. W. Scripps boldly flung a confederacy of free newspapers across the continent; newspapers that have fought for justice and exposed wrongs in over a score of cities. ‘ Alike committed to the cause of the inarticulate and the helpless, Pulitzer of the World and Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard press, differed widely In method. Pulitzer ruled his kingdom of ink and pulp as a brilliant, but autocratic, master. Scripps founded a democratic dynasty which flourishes after his death. The Telegram, which, after four years under the Scripps-Howard standard, acquires the World, is no less in the Scripps tradition than the Cleveland Press, founded by the late E. W. Scripps fifty-three years ago.

Pulitzer, lean, bearded, sardonic, lambasting presidents and police captains, directed the last comma on his editorial pages, and, u’hether in the World tower or on his yacht in a distant seaport, infused his newspapers with his personality. Pulitzer was the World; the World was Pulitzer. Like Bennett of the Herald and Telegram, Greeley of the Tribune and Dana of the Sun, Pu-

ff # # SIMILARLY devoted to a free press, there were other striking likenesses in their fortunes. Both were born poor and died possessed of great wealth. Both began their publishing ventures in the central west, Scripps Cleveland, Pulitzer in St. Louis. Each retired relatively early, taking refuge at sea from the shrill clamor of daily Journalism. Each died on his yacht, Pulitzer in 1911 in Charles (S. C.) harbor; Scripps in 1926 in Monrovia bay, off the coast of Africa. Tall, bearded, forceful men, each helped to make history. Each brought enormous changes to the journalism of his day. But, whereas, Pulitzer emerged from his frequent retirements to stir up a Hughes life insurance inquiry, or wage war on a Boss Croker; or denounce Roosevelt for the Panama canal grab, Scripps passed his retirement in establishing a self-perpetuating newspaper system.

Pulitzer, a youth in feudal Hungary, fleeing hotly to America in search of democracy and ending as the fierce lance of reform in New York, was of the gallant mold. He might be likened to a knight of the middle ages, recurrently riding off to a crusade or to punish an arrogant neighbor. Continuing the figure, Scripps, full-bodied, red-bearded, practical,

ff SCRIPPS, Starting in Cleveland at the time of the first mass migration of Americans westward, stayed in the west. He consolidated his position in Ohio, then continued on to the coast, taking in the south and the southwest on the way. The Scripps-Howard press now is published from coast to coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. Pulitizer, leaving his Post-Dispatch well established, but sorely worried over the shooting of a local politician by one of his editors, traveled to New York. The result of the journey was that he later bought the World from canny Jay Gould for $346,000 and inaugurated a glamorous era of competition with the intrenched and fabulous Bennett. That was in 1883. The Telegram, launched by Bennett in 1867 as an evening adjunct to the Herald, shared in the piquant editorial reception given the ironical and devastating newcomer from the west. That was a lusty period. Scripps, fathering his Penny Press in Cleveland, casting about for other newspapers to mold in a liberal form, swimming with his staff off the Cleveland breakwater, was remote from the conflict in New York.

It is unlikely that he surmised that his association of newspapers one day would absorb Pulitzer’s metropolitan press and cne of Bennett’s saucy journals. In 1887, Pulitzer established The Evening World. That was twenty four years after he had swum ashore from the immigrant ship that brought him to Boston during the Civil war, so he might collect his own “bounty” as a recruit. In 1890, feeling the first twinges of the infirmities that were to make

ts tt a tt tt tt P U mJ'k Z , E ? to ? k , up J he cudg ' 2ls against his favorite, Grover Cleveland. the President over the Venezuelan dispute with England aPPSaI t 0 the M ° nrOC doCtrine ' “ber-raSSj: t treas s y i an low in g° ld - Cleveland was persuaded by Wall Street • ‘ k _rs to sell gold bonds privately. Pulitzer roared and thundered forcng a public sale. Then he faced r somewhat embarrassing situation for onlv to P finri°hP onthusiasm. he bought $1,000,000 of the bonds at top prices’ only to find he had profited by $50,000. H H c ’ Poopie came rrom & * the Spanish - American

Half-blind, directing his press from a sound-proof room at Bar Harbor, Me., Pulitzer ordered the World's price reduced to I cent. Hearst plastered the billboards with news that the old lion had taken to flight. Ensued a brilliant competition Hearst, bulky with California gold, impressed Richard Harding Davis into his service and sent him to Russia to cover the coronation of a czar.

pULITZER “retired” and returned to ride down Croker over tax re- .. . , e . quit and came back, ngver entirely letting go, afflicted and theTand makmg The World rich and f eared by plunderers throughout th. ?" PPS dUdng the . Period that Pulitzer shifted back and forth across 35 P^ epa ,? ng to found Ins co-operative dynasty. He added bv th P p y and eacn case he financed partial ownership by the editor and other executives. the ideals and the board news pattern of his newspapers and left the execution to ’men inspired by the responsibility and by a sense of proprietorship. J

For the last twenty years of his life. Scripps devoted himself to perfecting an instrument that would continue his work. He set the system in operation and then retired for long periods, to see how it would work without him. “i like to ‘play dead’ and watch the property.” he said. Several years before his death. Scripps had passed actual control of the institutions he had founded over to his son, Robert P. Scripps, as president and editorial director.

VETERAN KILLS SELF Suicide of Daniel H. Rudolph Is Laid to Health. Unemployment. HI health and unemployment today were blamed by relatives for the suicide of Daniel H. Rudolph, 44. of 1212 North Senate avenue, a World war veteran, who drank poison in a second-hand store operated by his brother-in-law at 1641 Roosevelt avenue, Thursday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday, wit hburial in Crown Hill cemetery. A sister, Mrs. Edward Tomlinson, survives him. Bank Founder Buried By United Press RUSSELLVILLE, Ind., Feb. 27. Funeral services were Jjeld today for Jacob E. Durham, founder and cashier of the Russellville bank, who died Wednesday after being ui ill heall| for several months.

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litzer’s death robbed his newspaper property of saliency and flavor. Scripps and Pulitzer were contemporaries. The span of their journalistic careers, begun in the same year, 1878, traversed the astonishing period from Don Seitz’ ‘dreadful decade” through the continental expansion of the republic and well into this century.

may be compared to a baron of the period. The baron, extending his domain, putting down thievery, seeing to it that his people are fed more abundantly, that the lot of the common man successively is bettered, and always organizing for the future that his institution might be perpetuated.

him an invalid for twenty year?, he "retired.” Whereupon, * Bennett wrote a florid editorial praising his rival. It is not recorded that Pulitzer and Scripps ever met personally. Their common passion for the under-dog vented itself on a single crusade first in 1892 when-Pulitzer, from New York and Scripps from Ohio, hurled thunderbolts at the Carnegie steel Company over the Homestead strike.

Mark Twain described Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee for Journal readers, Murat Halstead exposed Spanish cruelty in Cuba. Arthur Brisbane was lured from Pulitzer to Hearst. The struggle ended with Hearst established, just as Bennett's war on Pulitzer had failed to shake the newcomer from St. Louis.

and to Roy W. Howard, as chairman of the board. Scripps turned the reins over to his son and Howard in 1920.

PETTY LOAN BILL, TO CUT RATE OF INTEREST, AGAIN IS DEFEATED

The Karrer petty loan bill, reduc|ing the interest rate from 34 per I cent a month to 2 4 per cent, today failed for the second time to gain a constitutional majority for' passage in the Indiana house. Thinly veiled insinuations that a $25,000 corruption fund has been industrially at work to kill the bill threw the house into a turmoil Thursday afternoon when the measure first failed of passage. 50-45, one vote short of a constitutional majority. The vote today was 48-30. The bill has been the stormy petrel of the house since its introduction on the opening day of session, and has bred rumor after rumor of ”pay-offs” and connivance between representatives and the small loan interests’ lobby. These rumors gained In volume and became so persistent when transfer of the bill from judiciary A committee to judiciary B was demanded. that several house leaders discussed the wisdom of an official investigation. f v

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931

INDUSTRIES IN VARIOUS CITIES PROTO WORK Steel Plant at Indiana Harbor to Call Back 1,000 Former Employes. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Some notable gains in employment and prospects for others in the near future, were the feature of a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. Former employes of the Inlet Steel Company at Indiana Harbor, to the number of 1,000, are expected to return to work as a result of putting a fourth blast furnace in operation. Os the twelve open hearths in the No. 1 plant of the company, eight are now in operation, as are ten of the fifteen in No. 2 plant. 171 Added to Force A total of 171 men have been added to the pay roll of Servel, Inc., Evansville, in the last two weeks and production schedules are 12 per cent above those in effect at this time last year. Production of anew type of commercial truck body with a refrigeration unit has been started. Many Evansville men are expected to be employed in construction of the $5,000,000 Louisville & Nashville railroad bridge crossing the Ohio river to Henderson. Ky. The Bloomington Limestone Company has received an order for 58,000 cubic feet of its product to be used in construction of the $650,000 Union building at Indiana university. Production in the Connersville factory of the Auburn Automobile Company reached anew high mark when 2,343 cars were shipped in the first forty-five days of 1931, compared to 2,212 for the *ame period j in 1929, the best previous output, j Company officials say 7,000 unfilled j orders are on file. Employment is j being given 2,349 persons.

New Production Record With more than 200 persons on the pay roll, officials of the MidStates Steel and Wire Company, Crawfordsville, announce a week this year was the best in the company’s history, and that the outlook for business during the spring and summer is excellent. Recent shipments of the La Fontaine Handle Company of Decatur include one of 9,000 hay-fork units to Eskelstuna, Sweden. After being idle several weeks, operations will be resumed Tuesday; by Francisco Mine No. 2, near! Princeton. The mine employs about 200 men with an average monthly pay roll of $40,000. The Turner Brothers Glass Company plant at Winchester, which had been in receivership, has been taken over by the Hocking Glass Company, Lancaster, 0.. officials of which announce the plant will be reopened within a few weeks, giving employment to 200 persons.

NOVELIST TO RETURN Tarkington Is Coming Home After Rest, By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.—800th Tarkington. noted novelist, will leave today for his Indianapolis home after several weeks rest following an operation to restore his sight. The author was threatened with blindness but his sight has been greatly improved through the treatments, it is said BRAKEMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN YARDS Dillard Colvin Suffers Possible Shull, Hip Fractures. Dillard Colvin, 48, of 1322 Lexington avenue, Pennsylvania railroad brakeman, was injured critically today at the Hawthorne yards when he was struck by a moving railroad motor car. Colvin< stepped from the side of a car being shunted, into the path of a motor car used to haul brakemen back and forth in the yards, railroad officials said. He was unconscious when taken to St. Vincent’s hospital. He is suffering possible skull fracture and hip fracture.

The climax was reached Thursday and came when it least was expected—during the roll call on the vote. Getting to his feet, Representative E. Curtis White (Dem., Marion), declared; “I was told I would hear a $25,000 speech here this afternoon and I yielded my time to hear it. I want to explain my vote. Any business that has to have 34 per cent a month interest ought to be put out of business.” A few moments earlier. White had interrupted a speech by Representative Fabius Gwin (Dem.. Dubois and Martin) against the bill, by asserting, “he’s exceeded his five minutes, but I’ll yield him my time." At conclusion of the voting, Gwin, apparently under the impression the bill had been defeated, invoked parliamentary procedure by moving its reconsideration, a “clincher” action frequently employed to prevent re-

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BILL PROVIDES NEW SCHOOL AID Use of Excess Revenue Is Object of Measure, If new sources of state revenue provided by legislation enacted this year exceed those which may be so displaced in the state tax levy, public schools would get the excess under an amendment the senate affixed to the Evans-Walsman house bill today. As passed by the house, the bill requires that revenues produced by 1931 acts shall be used for a proportionate reduction in the state tax levy, now 29 cents. Offering the amendment today, Senator Thurman A. Gottscha-lk (Dem., Adams, Blackford and Wells) explained that if income taxes are levied and auto license fees raised and made applicable to tax reduction, more money may be raised than is raised by that portion of the state tax rate which may be replaced. Os the 29-cent levy, fixed levies total 16 cents, leaving but 13 cents which may be displaced. Gottschalk’s amendment would havej the excess revenues turned into the general fund for distribution on the same basis as the state school fund and to be used for reduction of local school levies. ILLINOIS WANTS WEIL Extradition Proceedings for the “Yellow Kid” Are Begun, By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111, Feb. 27.—A warrant for the extradition of Joseph (Yellow Kid) Weil, held at Hammond on charges of swindling Walter C. Danzeisen, Decator, out of $2,500 was issued by Acting Governor Fred E. Sterling .here today. Aged Man’s Neck Broken By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb 27. William Tompkins, 75, Boswell, injured in a bus crash near Klondike a week ago, is suffering from a broken neck, it has been revealed. The injury probably will be fatal, according to physicians at a local hospital. Fred Gregory, 21, Hammond, another of the injured bus passengers, still is confined to the hospital, but is recovering. Eight other persons injured have been released.

I call of a measure for further voting either way. After Gwin had been informed by the chair his motion was out of i order because the bill neither was | passed nor voted down, Representative John D. T. Bold (Dem., Vanderburg) rose to inquire the fate of I the motion. “It was out of order,” replied Speaker Walter Myers. “Oh,” said Bold. “The trick didn’t i work then.” Representative Clyde Karrer (Dem., Marion) led the fight for passage of his bill, charging that “extortionate rate}) of petty loan sharks have contr.buted greatly to the present depression and it’s up to this legislature to put some sort of. a curb on them.” “It’s such a profitable business,” asserted Karrer, “that eastern capital has come into Indiana and established chain loan companies. It’s such a profitable business that there is a strong and well organized lobby out to defeat this bill.

“T>AD DOG” boulevard! That's -D Bethel avenue from Sherman drive to Beech Grove. Chicken marauders, tramps, and “bindle-stiffs” from nearby train yards forced Bethel to assume the new name without benefit of street guide by placing “bad dog” signs in yards and fulfilling the threats of the signs with kennels housing leaping hyenas of the canine family. Upper Left Photo—Miss Irene Theising, R. R. 8, Box 138-F, with fierce ‘(Ted.” Ted's okay, in the daytime, but at night he’s the ruler of . the roost if prowlers venture near. Upper Center—Miss Florence Willsey, Sherman drive and Bethel avenue, standing beside her “bad dog” sign, while in the upper right photo and jumping at her, is- Ring, German police dog, for whom the sign was made. Ring has a couple of trouser seats, two or three chased icemen and innumerable tramps to his credit in his short, dog life. Lower Left—You say these pups don’t live up to the sign under which they munch their food? Well, they don't, but look over at the lower right photo. Does he? He does, for he’s Dena. a 2-year-old Great Dane, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Wenke, R R 8, Box 138-N. “Th'g other four dogs are harmless, but Dena—well, we keep tier chained,” explained Mrs. Wenke.

WALES REPORTS TO LONDON BY TELEPHONE Prince, Brother “Modem Salesmen” In South American Tour. By United Press VALPARAISO, Chile, Feb. 27. The prince of Wales and Prince George qualified as two of the most modern “salesmen” to ever visit Chile when they telephoned headquarters in London* from Vina Dei Mar. summer resort near here. The princes have made two calls to London, some 7,000 miles away, to talk to friends and presumably to report on the progress of their salesmanship. The calls were made from the presidential palace at Vina Del Mar and several members of the princes’ party participated in the conversations. WAPI to Operate During Day WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The University of Alabama radio station WAPI, Birmingham, was granted authority today by the federal radio commission to operate simultaneously with KVOO during daylight hours.

“And why shouldn’t it be a good business?” he continued. “The loan company gets the best sort of security—a first mortgage on the last things a man will give up—his household goods.” Karrer pointed out that the Indianapolis Public Welfare Loan Association now, and for some time in the past, has been conducting Its business on a 2 per cent a month interest rate and ha* considered reducing that rate to 14 per cent. He was joined by Representative Charles Y. Foster (Rep., Hamilton), who asserted 24 per cent now on money is worth what 34 per cent was three years ago. Foster quoted one instance of a man whom he said paid interest on a petty loan for three years until he paid in interest more than the original loan. The bill probably will be called back today or early next week for a second vote. *

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TRIBUTE PAID TO MCCORMICK Honor Memory of Inventor of Reaper. More than 200 representatives of the International Harvester Company of America, agricultural and civic leaders attended the centennial anniversary of invention of the grain reaper Thursday night at the ClaypooL Emsley W. Johnson, attorney, paid tribute to the life and accomplish.ments of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. McCormick’s invention helped greatly to free the minds of men and start 100 years of the greatest prosperity human beings ever have known, said Johnson. “Wheat and civilization started together,” he said. “With the McCormick reaper, civilization was carried westward. McCormick did for the grain field what Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, did for the cotton fields.” Among guests at the banquet were Governor Harry G. Leslie and Walter Watson, secretary to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan.

AUTOIST JS JAILED Drunken Driver Loses His License for Year, Earl Beam, 3911 East Washington street, today was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Municipal Judge Paul’c. Wetter on a charge of driving a car while intoxicated. His driving license was suspended for one year. Beam was arrested Thursday after his car sideswiped an automobile driven by Albert Hendricks, 1650 North Talbot, street, at Capitol and Indiana avenues.

SLAMS TEACHERS FOR DODGING RUM ISSUE Bob Zuppke, Illinois Football Coach, Pokes at Educators. By United Press DETROIT. Feb. 27.—Leaving here today after attending the National Education Association convention, Robert C. Zuppke, football coach at Illinois university, questioned the efficacy of the eighteenth amendment and criticised educators who had refused to discuss the issue on the ground that it was political. “The problem today is how to cut down drinking,” Zuppke said. "I question the efficacy of prohibition and feel that a body of educators should recognize the import of the wet and dry issue. I anj opposed to alcohol as i. beverage and know it is harmful to health. Our problem is to find the best practical solution. “Teachers, by refusing reasonable discussion, have allowed a wall to be built up around them which prevents them from seeking accurately present day situations.” CREDIT UNION LEAGUE WILL HOLD MEETING Important Topics to Be Discussed at Annual State Dinner. What credit unions car. do to increase their usefulness and the Importance of uniting in a credit union league are subjects to be discussed at the annual meeting and dinner of the Indiana Credit Union League at the Antlers tonight. Speakers scheduled include Senator C. Oliver Holmes,. Gary; T. J. O’Shaughnessy, president of the Illinois Credit Union League, and Thomas W. Doig, representative'of the credit union national extension bureau. Arrangements for the meeting are in charge of President A. A. Zimmer of the Indiana league *

HUGE WASTE CHARGED TO ROAD BOARD | $400,000 in Funds Tossed Away,, Allegation of Attorney Kivett POLITICIANS ATTACKED Money Is Squandered in Relocating Highway 56, - Says Lawyer. Charge that politicians were successful in jockeying the present state highway commission into relocating State Road 56. between Madison and Scottsburg. at a "net waste of §400,000 in state highway funds.” was made before the senate highway investigation committee today. The charge came from Silas C. Kivett, Martinsville attorney, who minced no wdrds in making it. He did not spare senators’ feelings in regard to what he thinks of politicians of both the Republican and Democratic varieties. Both Republican United States senators, but particularly James A. Watson; two congressmen, and William Storen. Democratic state treasurer, had a hand in the matter, he charged. Storen comes from Scottsburg and the relocation will increase traffic there. KiveEt alleged Change Laid to School Chairman Albert J. Wedeking and other members of the state highway commission previously had testified before the senate committee that the relocation was brought about by trustees and friends oi Hanover college, who want the road to run by the school “Since the state took over Road 56 in 1923, the highway department, has spent $136,517.50 on maintenance, $141,012.04 on betterments and improvements and $48,408.39 on bridges on the route through the town of Kent, which now is to be abandoned,” Kivett testified, "Yet this highway could be hardsurfaced for another SIOO,OOO, while the p.ew location will cost $500,000. The new route is through an uninhabitated section, while the old one is a highway with 100 years of constant use. * Proposes to Halt Action “Bids already have been accepted by the state highway department for grading the new route and the lowest bid was $215,311.76 Contract has not been let and I propose to halt the project by injunction. “The state highway commission has exceeded its powers in thus case.” Kivett said he represented certain citizens in and near the towm of Kent. He testified that Hanover already has a north and south state road and is not ’n need of one running east and west. The principal point is that Scottsburg might suffer from Kent traffic being diverted to the town of Austin, he contended “Tlie present state highway law should be changed so that citizens are not at the mercy of the department in the matter of routing or abandoning roads,” he advised

Politicians Are Assailed In pointing out the political pressure in the matter. Kivett termed Democratic and Republican politicians “all alike.” This brought rebuke from the committee members, ! two Democrats and one Republican being present at the time. “Don't you think the politicians are in the forefront of most community enterprise?” Senator William P. Dennigan (Dem., Daviess and Knox), inquired. “Unfortunately that is true,” Kivett countered. “But I wouldn’t say that these enterprises of the politicians always are worthy.'’ A case in point later was citec Kivett testified that he had seen a letter from Senator Watson setting out that he favored the old route to save expense Slaps at Watson ‘Of course I do not know what he had written to persons on the other side,” he said. At the close of the hearing. Sen - ators Charles L. Strey <Rep., Kosciusko and Wabash), and Anderson Ketchum fDem., Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin and Union), announced that the findings of the committee will not be ready for another twenty-four hours They will be presented in the senate as an argument for passage of the Strey-Ketchum bill, providing for a full-time state highway commission. Strey is chairman and Ketchum chief inquisitor of the senate committee. ART EXHIBIT TO OPEN 1,200 Invitations Are Issued for Preview Saturday Night. Twenty-fourth annual exhibition of work of Indiana artists at the John Herron Art institute will be opened to the public Sunday. It will continue through March. Twelve hundred invitations have been issued for the exhibitors’ preview at 8 Saturday night, following a dinner at the Chamber of Commerce. PASS POOR RELIEF BILL Measure Permits Issuance of Bonds by Township Trustees. A bill permitting issuance of bonds by counties for poor reliei through township trustees wn passed by the senate Thursday, 35 t* 5. As passed by the house, the bill applied only to Marion county, but was amended in the senate making it state wide. War Hero Is Honored By United Press PARIS, Feb. 27.—The sixteenth anniversary of the death of Edward Mandell Stone of Chicago, first American killed in the World war, was observed today with a ceremony before the monument to Americans killed for France