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EFFORT TO GUT LOAN INTEREST FAILS IN HOUSE Measure Which Aroused Wide Interest Lost by 45-44 Vote. Petty loan companies of Indiana were Jubilant today with the prospect of continuing the collection of 3H per cent interest monthly on the loans they negotiate during the next two years. Cause for their rejoicing was the final defeat Tuesday of the Karrer bill, which would have reduced the maximum legal interest rate to 2 % per cent a month. The vote was 45 noes and 44 ayes. Intensive Lobbying So-called “loan sharks,’’ who, according to state banking department figures, collected their high interest rate on approximately $13,000,000 of petty loans In the last year, lobbied vigorously against the bill until the final moment of its defeat. Helping the defeat of the bill introduced by Representative Clyde Karrer (Dem., Marion) was the fact that twenty of the twenty-five Republican representatives voted against the measure. It was learned today that the subject of how the house minority group should vote on this bill was brought up at a G. O. P. caucus Tuesday noon and although none of the members was pledged to vote against the bill, it was the trend of discussion that the measure should be defeated. Twenty-five Democrats also voted against the measure. The history of the bill has been one to cause much curiosity among many members of the house. Introduced on Jan. 13 it was sent to the judiciary A committee of which Fatoius Gwin (Dem., Dubois and Martin), is chairman. It was held in that committee until Feb. 11, almost a month to the day without any action being taken. Upon the protests of its author and other members interested in cutting the interest rate the bill was recommitted to judiciary B committee which held a public hearing and on Feb. 19 handed out the measure with recommendation for passage. In the original bill Karrer had cut the interest rate to 1 per cent, but he later explained this was “for trading purposes’’ and accepted the amendment raising the rate to 2Vfe per cent. Two attempts at passage failed. Finally on Tuesday Karrer declared he had more than the fifty-one votes necessary for passage, and called the bill down, only to have it lost. Much comment was excited in the general assembly when in the first debate on passage, Representative E. Curtis White (Dem., Marion) declared that he had been told he would hear a $25,000 speech on this subject Just after yielding his time to another member of the house who was speaking against the measure. White voted for it. “Skinned the Poor People” The sentiment back of the bill was illustrated by Representative John Cantley (Dem., Case), who in explaining his vote for the measure declared: "The small loan operators have skinned the poor people of Indiana long enough." The roll called showed: For Passage (44) ■DEMOCRATS (39) Ale Krueger AUardt Kueauert Hates I,lnke Biddle McClain Bold McKesson Braurhton Nelson Byers Reislnger Cantley Salata Com tvs Smith of LaForte Sonner Stamp ory Stanton Curry Stoops Dahllnt Vanderveer Dean Veil am. Eran Webb Farr Weiss minor White. E. C. Frioa White. 3. F. Hoffman Wilson Karrer REPUBLICANS (5) Babcock Grimm Cromer Trent Evans Against (45) DEMOCRATS <2s> Benr. Lee Black Masselink Crawford Modlsett Dooglaas Monnlr Elkenbary Phelps Etlvson Place Fltsglbbons Priddy Galloway Ryan Gwin Schiegel Haines Simpson Hawkins Stein lournar Watson Kenney REPUBLICANS (*o> Adams Guernsey Bachtenklreher Ktstler Coleman Knapp Denny Knight Eshelman McGaUghey Ferrell Rentier Foster Smetlzley Furnas Smith. Tippecanoe Grigga Stauffer Guard Street Absentees DEMOCRATS <lo> Bennett Morgan Coro Sage Freillng Simmons McCammon Stolte Martin Walsman REPUBLICANS (None) WORK WILL BE RIJSHED Rotary Unit of Children’s Hospital to Supply Employment. W'ork on the new $250,000 Indiana Rotary convalescent unit of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, ground for which just has been broken, will be rushed in order to relieve the employment situation here. James W. Carr, hospital executive committee secretary, said today.

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The City in Brief

Indiana law school debating team will meet the University of Louisville team at 7:30 tonight in superior court one. Subject is “Resolved, That the eighteenth amendment should be repealed.” St. Francis Hospital Guild will be organized Thursday afternoon at the

MALT TAX ADOPTED House Adopts Levy Amid Quips About Dry State. Although it has turned a deaf ear to pleas that Indiana’s rigid liquor enforcement statute should be weakened, the house of representatives now tacitly admits that the state is wet. The lower house Tuesday afternoon passed, 52-37, the GallowayBlack bill placing a tax on all malt and wort sold in Indiana despite sarcastic and ironic statements by several representatives that “such taxation is useless when Indiana is such a dry state.” The measure, which failed to gain a constitution? 1 majority on its first vote last week, would tax malt at the rate of 2 cents a pound and wort, or unfermented beer, at a rate of 6 cents a gallon. The original provisions of the bill called for taxes of 5 cents a pound and 25 cents a gallon respectively.

GUY PIONEER DEAD G. M. Henderson Succumbs to Long Illness. George M. Henderson, 78, of 5009 Park avenue, pioneer resident of Indianapolis, died Tuesday night at St. Vincent’s hospital after a long illness. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Burial will be in Crawfordsville. Mr. Henderson was a painter until retirement some time ago. He was a member of the Third Christian church. Survivors are a son, E. F. Henderson, state editor for the Indiana bureau of the Associated Press, and a sister, Mrs. L. P. Gage, of Painesville, O. $3,500 RINGFOUNdT REWARDS POLICE FUND Colonel Gorrell Presents SIOO to Pension Fund for Recovery. Recovery of a $3,500 ring stolen from the home of Colonel E. S. Gorrell, 1639 North Delaware street, president of the Stutz Motor Car Company of America, Inc., Jan. 3, by William Wall, dapper midget bandit, arrested recently in Chicago, was announced today. When arrested in Chicago, Wall confessed to a number of robberies here, including that at the Gorrell home, and said he sold the ring for $l5O to a pawnbroker at Chester, Pa. Today Gorrell presented a SIOO check to the police pension fund in appreciation of efforts leading to recovery of the ring. ATTORNEY IS FREED ON ASSAULT CHARGE Judgment Withheld, However, on Accusation ot Intoxication. James E. Babcock. 5245 Broadway, attorney, today was discharged on assault and battery charges and judgment was withheld by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter on an intoxication charge, as result of an alleged brawl with a taxi driver on North Meridian street recently. The taxi driver, E. L. Burk’,older, 1405 East Washington street, test - fled Babcock and he merely pushed each other and Babcock fell, cutting a gash in his head. SCHOOL CONDEMNING BILL INCLUDES CITY Measure Is Amended in Conference; Goes to Governor. Indianapolis schools now are included in the measure taking jurisdiction over condemnation of school buildings out of the hands of all state boards and commissions, due to striking out of an amendment exempting Indianapolis by a conference committee of both houses. The bill now awaits signature by Governor Harry O. Leslie. The county Cfjkmcil and county commissioners will have authority in condemnation cases,

hospital, when plans will be made for the year’s work. Asa special meeting of tbe Indiana Canners’ Association at the Claypool Tuesday, it was voted to incorporate the organization. New bylaws were drafted. The Indianapolis Medical Society met Tuesday night in the Athenaeum. More than one hundred members were present. The staff of the city hospital will give a clinical program March 10 in the hospital auditorium. A meeting of local jewelers was held Tuesday night at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss organization of an association for the general improvement of the industry. Louis Strashun was named president. Zion Evangelical church will open a series of Wednesday night services at 7:25 tonight. They will continue through Lent. The Rev. Frederick R. Daries, pastor, will speak. Wayne Colvin, 329 East Fall Creek boulevard, young artist whose work has won prizes in the Hoosier salon, has been awarded the Harvard prize for meritorious painting. The award includes SSOO cash prize. Reward of $25 has been offered by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board for information leading to arrest and conviction of persons found destroying or defacing property. Owners of vacant homes and storerooms in Indianapolis lose between SIO,OOO and $12,000 every month from vandalism, the board contends. Professor Ernest J. Leveque of Indiana university spoke to the Alliance Francaise at the Spink-Arms, Tuesday night, on Paul Verlaine, French vagabond poet of the nineteenth century. Gift certificate, valued at SSO, will be given the member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board bringing in the greatest number of new members during the present year. L. Ert Slack, former Indianapolis mayor, will speak at a meeting of the Wayne Township Democratic Social Club tonight at King avenue and Walnut street. Second annual home grounds institute will meet Thursday and Friday in the Roberts Park M. E. church to discuss recent developments in landscaping. The institute is open to the public, and all questions concerning lawn maintenance and home landscaping will be answered. Four experts from Purdue university will speak. Several local florists will exhibit at the National Flower and Garden show in Cincinnati, March 7 to 15. Indianapolis florists who expect to attend are Bertermann Brothers Company, Baur & Steinkamp, Elder Brothers, and John Grande & Sons.

Insurance Bill Sent to Senate After Argument Increased protection for policy holders in reciprocal insurance companies today awaited senate consideration of the McKesson-Bates-De&n bil which passed the house Tuesday night, 62 to 16, after stormy debate. The measure would raise the reserve requirement of reciprocal companies to conform with that of stock insurance companies, by requiring firms doing business in a single county to deposit $25,000 with the insurance commissioner and those operating in more than one county, SIOO,OOO. Twenty-five thousand is the present requirement. Representative Jacob Weiss (Dem, Marlon) led a successful fight to defeat efforts of Representatives Gerritt M. Bates and Russell J. Dean (Dem., Marion), two of the bill’s authors, to amend it eliminating the necessity of the larger reciprocal companies posting an additional $75,000 and giving companies until 1934 instead of until 1932, to comply with the act. “Fifty thousand policyholders who thought they held insurance contracts were left holding the bag when some of these companies failed,” Weiss declared. “Reciprocal companies have no capital other than that deposited with the insur - ance commission. If they are unable to raise thPf amount to SIOO,OOO they have no business to be operating.” I,

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By United Prtn SINGAPORE, March 4.—Roberta Semple McPherson, 20, daughter of the American evangelist, Aimee Semple McPherson, was married at the Wesley church here today to William Bradley Smyth, 23, purser on the liner President Wilson, on which Mrs. McPherson and her daughter are making a world tour.

HEAD OF HOUSE COMMITTEE HIT FOR ‘LONE VETO’ i Chester K. Watson, Chairman of Judiciary B, Is Assailed Hotly. Spurred by Democratic insurgents, the hand of R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, was invoked in the Indiana house of rep-

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resentatives today to break the grip of a Democratic committee chairman on important bills received long ago from the senate. Peters came into the picture in a last-minute effort to save the committee chairman, Represent a tiv e Chester K. Watson of judiciary B, from the humiliation and rebuke of seeing the bills

forced out of his committee over his own opposition. With the gavel of Speaker Walter Myers as his ally, Peters in a measure achieved his object, but not before Watson’s critics in both parties had denounced Watson’s “one man veto.” Representative William F. Coleman (Rep., Henry and Rush), brought to a climax today the criticism that has been' growing against Watson’s failure to report out the senate bills. Watson’s motive has been to force the senate education committee to report out his own school text books bills, which already have passed the house. Advised by Peters Coleman moved Watson’s committee be ordered to report out, without recommendation, the senate bill placing the referendum on two pending constitutional amendments in the 1932 election. The bill passed the senate Feb. 11. Representative Russell J. Dean (Dem., Marlon), made a similar motion with respect to the senate bill simplifying supreme and appellate court appeals. This passed the senate Feb. 20. Anticipating the effort, Watson had left the chamber. He was outside looking for the state chairman. Peters advised him to allow the bills to be reported out. * When Watson had returned, Speaker Myers announced Watson’s willingness to report the bills this aftevi.oon without recommendation. But the resentment was not to be stifled. Representative Howard S. Grimm (Rep., DeKalb) had prepared a motion directing the doorkeeper to return Watson to the chamber so that they might act on the report demands. Kistler Introduces Motion As representatives clustered about the Speaker’s rostrum, Representative Cecil J. Kistler (Rep., Elkhart) jumped up with a motion that Watson’s committee be required to report out the Moorhead senate bill which has been in Watson’s hands five weeks. “This senate bill, No. 23, passed the senate Jan. 29 by a vote of 37 to 3,” Kistler said, “and no report has been made. It looks to me as if something is wrong. This bill simply gives the public sendee commission jurisdiction over utilities outside city limits. Mr. Watson was asked why he hadn’t reported this bill out and he answered that ’the utilities don’t want it reported out.’ ” “That’s absolutely false,” Watson retorted. “I defy any one to prove that it’s true.” Myers’ gavel almost drowned Kistler’s reply that “The author said so!” That’s a Poor Excuse , As Watson finished his. defense that a hearing was held, no one appearing for the bill and several against it, and that the measure had been referred to a member of judiciary B for further study, Representative Edward E. Eikenbary (Dem., Wabash) observed: “That’s a poor excuse.” Grimm then referred to a story in Tuesday’s Times disclosing the delay on important measures, including the Moorhead bill, caused by Watson’s retaliatory tactics. “I don’t believe the house ought to cast any reflection on the chairman of judiciary B,” said Representative Miles J. Furnas (Rep., Randolph), whose habit is to spread oil on troubled legislative waters. “We all know that newspapers, while they don’t want to be unfair, sometimes stretch things a little bit too much one way or the other.” Waving the alleged petition of other judiciary B committee members who, he said, wanted bills out of that committee, Representative William McClain (Dem., Posey, Vanderburg and Warrick) shouted: ‘‘l don’t think there’s a man in this house big enough to hold up bills!” Kistler’s Motion Defeated To Representative Delph L. McKesson, majority floor leader, who took the role of mediator, promising early reports on the bills, Kistler objected: “Mr. Watson has had plenty of time to bring out this bill and now that pressure is applied, we get it at 2 o’clock” Recognizing McKesson's ’ baton and the Speaker’s gavel, Democrats swung into line and defeated Kistler’s motion by a voice vote. Although Watson today told the house of having referred the utility bill to a member of his he had told The Times Tuesday he had (jforgotten” to which member it had gone. Idle Taxpayers Get Jobs By Timet Special EAST CHICAGO, Ind., March 4. -Seventy-five unemployed men, who are not taxpayers, are idle while the same number who are liable for taxes take their places in doing work for the city, in the hope they can earn enough to meet their tax obligations,,

Fear of World's Scorn Blamed in Suicide of Dancers Daughter

Stricken Child of Vivian Gordon, Butterfly of Broadway, Kills Self by Gas in Grief Over Death of Her Mother. ‘ BY PAUL COMLY FRENCH United Press SUIT Correspondent AUDUBON, N. J., March 4.—Mrs. Eunice Blschoff had no intimation that her stepdaughter, 16-year-old Benita Blschoff, contemplated suicide, she said today. “I had no inkling she was going to commit suicide,” sobbed Mrs. Bischoff, who has mothered the daughter of the slain Broadway dancer, Vivian Gordon, since she was 7. “She was so cheerful,” she continued, “and had only talked of the affair once since her mother was murdered. She said then that ‘the trouble her mother had gotten into was terrible.’ “Monday night she went to a skating rink where she was supposed to be playing with a school ice hockey team. I didn’t learn until later that she had skated by herself because she was afraid that the other boys and girls would scorn her.

“She treated me like a mother. She was a lovable, affectionate child, and it is so cruel that gossip should force her to kill herself.” Mrs. Bischoff is under the care of a physician and has asked the police to prevent newspaper men from annoying her. Benita, who was a freshman in the Audubon high school, made a final trip Tuesday to the school to return her books. When she returned she stuffed the windows and doors of the kitchen and turned on all the gas jets in the kitchen range.

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Leaves Tragic Diary

She was unconscious when her stepmother returned from Philadelphia, where she is employed as a hostess in a tearoom. She left a purple leather diary, given to her by her stepmother for a Christmas present. Excerpts from the diary read: Feb. 28. What an awful mess mother got herself into. She has been found dead in New York and they are saying terrible things. March 1. Every one is so nice to me especially mother (meaning her stepmother) I guess I’ll change my name from Bischoff to Frederica (the girl’s middle name). March 2. They are saying so many things it is awful. March 3. I just can’t live any longer. This has got to be too much for me. I am going to end it all. The final entry, made a few minutes before she ended her life, was in the form of a will: If any money is coming to me from mother I wish it to be divided between my grandmother (Mrs. Margaret Sanderson of Philadelphia), Herbert Trout, mother and Aunt Julie. I am in my right mind and am now going to turn on the jets.— Benita Bischoff.

Love Story Revealed

Herbert Tro&t, who is 23, is employed as a clerk in a commission house in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Audubon Ice hockey team, known as the Yellow Jackets, and it was while playing with the team in the Audubon rink last fall that he met Benita. “I didn’t realize that she regarded me in a serious way as described in the diary,” Trout said today. “I used to see her often at the rink while we were playing. “She seemed then to be in a morose mood. She talked hazily of her future, and said that she feared she would have to leave town. She said she might take a commercial course somewhere and try to earn her own living. “I saw her skating with other people that night, and also alone. Some of her friends came in, but all agreed not to talk to her about her mother and to try to make things as pleasant as possible for her. “I liked Benita, and I saw her on a number of occasions, but I was not in love with her, and I didn’t know she regarded me as other than an acquaintance.”

Feared World’s Scorn

Benita only last Saturday had read an interview which told of her father’s divorce action against Vivian Gordon. In this statement attributed to the master in the divorce case, It was said that Vivian was a common law wife, having married Bischoff in South Carolina in 1912, three years before Benita’s birth. Some of her playmates called her ugly names subsequently, it was said. This with the revelations coming from New York that her mother had turned adventuress apparently preyed on her mind until she felt she was no longer able to faci a scornful world. The New York reports, however, had made it clear that no matter what paths Vivian Gordon may have trod, she kept alive through it all a love for Benita. It was a consuming desire for “vindication, vindication, vindication”—as she wrote in a recent letter—that apparently led Vivian to her death. She had harbored the thought that if she oould wipe out a charge, allegedly framed against her, that she would thus stand rehabilitated in the eyes of her daughter and thus be able to get her guardianship again.

Talked of Suicide

One teacher in the high school, who had known Benlta since childhood, said that she was stubborn but very alert. Tuesday afternoon when she went to the school to return her books, she talked with Mrs. Grace M. Kramer, the principal. “She told me that her parents had agreed for her to leave school and go to a business school in Philadelphia. I spoke soothingly to her and tried Jo convince her that her sorrows would pass away. _“She seemed hagpier when I told

t^? uple met ®* n Franclsco * where Smyth was told to give Mrs. McPherson and her daughter special attention. They became engaged at Shanghai. The honeymoon will be spent aboard the President Wilson, which is proceeding to Capri. TT McPherson gave her daughter away. The Countess Thyra Holmbiad of Denmark was matren of honor and Ernest Olmsted best man.

her that we all loved her and wanted her to return to her classes,” Miss Kramer said. Three friends, Alice Heitman, Hortense Knudsen and Marjorie Dunseath, said Benita was active in the Art Club and frequently said she hoped to make art her career. Last Saturday night they persuaded her to attend a party with them. One guest, in an effort to cheer the despondent girl, told their fortunes. When he predicted a happy life for Benita she looked at him sadly and responded: “There is only one way for me to find that—suicide with a rope around my neck.”

Innocent Sacrifice

As soon as her father, John A C. Bischoff, divorced husband of the slain Broadway butterfly, learned of the death of his daughter, he hastened to his home from Washington. When he reached home his second wife, Mrs. Eunice Bischoff, was prostrated, under care of a physician. “Why do people have to harm an innocent child by their gossip?” he demanded. “We never had told her of her mother’s real life. She thought of her as a beautiful dancer whom she could not see for some reason. Then when this came up the shame and the shock were too much for her youthful mind.” QUIZ MAN, WIFE IN HIT-RUN CAR DEATH Suspect May Be Driver Who Ran Down, Killed Mother. Police today were questioning a man and his wife in connection with the killing of Mrs. Daisy McCord, 434 Kauffman place, mother of two children, Saturday night by a hit-and-run motorist. The man, arrested by Lieutenant John Sheehan, who overheard a suspicious conversation, admitted to Sheehan and Lieutenant Frank Owen that he was drunk all day Saturday. The officers were informed the suspect washed his car, a two-door sedan, Monday. The right door handle on the car, police said, was bent down and appeared to have been replaced improperly, and there were several dents In the right front fender. Right door Ifandle on the death car was tom off in . the accident. PAY TRIBUTE TO ILL STATE LAWMAKERS House Passes Resolution of Sympathy for Core and McCammon. Resolutions of sympathy for Representatives Lew S. Core (Dem., Daviess) and George B. McCammon (Dem., Madison), who are ill in hospitals here, were adopted today by the Indiana house. Members stood one minute this morning in tribute. Condition of Core, who was taken to Indiana Christian hospital Sunday suffering with pneumonia, today was reported slightly improved, but still serious. McCammon, at Methodist hospital, was reported improved. McCammon said he expected to leave the hospital within a few days. LOAN OFFICE AT PRISON Improvise War Veterans' Bureau for 600 Ex-Soldier Convicts. By United Press JACKSON, Mich., March 4.—An improvised war veteran’s bureau was set up here today in the office of the chaplain of Michigan state prison, through which those of the institution’s 600 war veterans who wished, could make application for bonus loans.

Here’s That Way to Lose Fat a Pound a Day on a Full Stomach

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SENATE AWAITS FINANCE BILL State Appropriations Reduced Only $421,000. With half of its journey completed and only pruned to the extent of $421,799, the biennial appropriation act now totaling $75,335,491, is expected to be considered by the senate Thursday. Republican senators may attempt to restore the annual $200,000 Governor’s emergency contingent fund which was slashed half in the house; and the annual SIO,OOO mansion maintenance fund which also was cut in half. The bill passed the house 89-0 Monday after almost two days had been spent in discussing and pruning the measure. But to the disappointment of Democratic leaders who had. been urging cuts totaling a million dollars, slashes were less than half that figure. Besides the priming of the Governor’s two funds, the house cut $16,000 from the $36,000 allotted the state industrial board for salaries, SIOO,OOO from the $150,000 conservation department's land appropriation and $28,000 from that department’s operating expenses. Appropriation for the state automobile lists was cut from $20,000 to SSOO, and the office of state attendance officer was wiped out by cuting the salary of Miss Blanche Merry from $3,900 to SIOO. Attempt to add $220,000 to the appropriation for the Central State hospital in order that additions may be constructed to house the inmates of the Julietta hospital, failed. Friends of the movement will renew their fight in the senate. Friends of the naval militia, led by Representative Russell W. Smith (Dem., La Porte), restored the $40,000 appropriation cut out Monday and the Indiana navy is saved, temporarily at least. TWO WOMEN INJURED IN MOTOR COLLISION Driver and Companion of One Car to Face Police Charges. Failure to give right-of-way resulted in injury to two women in a motorcar crash, and the arrest of a man and a woman, Tuesday night, at Liberty and Vermont streets. Mrs. May Campbell, 31, of 228 South Oakland avenue, was injured when the car which she was driving collided with an auto driven by Orville Yates, 23, of 926 Broadway. Miss Lucille Lawrence, 21, of the Oakland avenue address, occupant of Mrs. Campbell’s car, also suffered bruises. Mrs. Campbell and Yates were arrested for failing to give right-of-way at a street intersection. Pass Bill for Death Penalty LANSING, Mich., March 4—A bill to make the death penalty possible in first degree murder cases has passed both houses of the state legislature, and now goes to the Governor for approval. Under present laws the most stringent punishment is a life sentence.

etc., and lots of ruads. Eat a lot. Eat all you can nold. Don’t go hungry a minute. ( ut down on butter, sweets and desserts, bread. Eat any fruit except bananas, for dessert. That’s all you do. Fat seems to melt away. The coarse lines of overweight give way to the refined ones of slenderness. You lose as much as a pound a day. You feel better than for years. For in this treatment you achieve two important results. The Jad Salts clear your system of toxins. ‘The diet takes off fat with foods that turn to energy instead of weight It you’re tired of being embarrassed by fat try this way. You’ll be glad that you did. You can get Jad Salts at any drug store. •Note particularly—the safe* -are urged purely as a poison -banishing agent—not as a reducing. The change la feed does toe sofk.—AdTextiaeflieac.

:MARCH 4,1931

TRUCK OWNERS JOIN FOES OF HIGHWAY CHIEF Director Brown Blamed for Regulatory Bill Assembly Passed. Director John J. Brown of the state highway department, whose office would be abolished by a bill now pending in the senate, faced, anew enemy today in the Motor Truck Association of Indiana. Members of the association, which is composed of commercial and industrial truck fleet owners, laid passage of the bill limiting length, weight and loads of trucks directly at the door of Director Brown. “Brown's two-year oratorical attacks on motor trucks has resulted in the outlawing of millions of dollars worth of motor trucks and. serious crippling of industry through passage of the bill,” C. W. Abraham. Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer of the association, contends. Bill in Governor’s Hands '"he bill awaits the signature of the Governor, the senate having approved house amendments Tuesday, contrary to recommendations of a committee asking that the bill be put in conference for agreement. Senator Frank S. Southworth (Rep., Marshall and St. Joseph) fought senate approval on the grounds that the senate measure was too stringent originally and was made more so by the house amendments. “I wouldn’t object to limiting the length to fifty feet and making the regulations standard with surrounding states,” Southworth stated. "But this measure puts Indiana in a class by itself and will seriously hinder interstate truck traffic.” Senator John L. Niblack (Rep., Marion), proponent of the bill, fought to keep the house amendments, and the Southworth motion not to concur was defeated, *l3 to 16. If the Governor signs the bill it will impose an axle weight limit of 16,000 pounds, gross weight limit of 20,000 and maximum length of 40 feet. It provides for fines ranging from SIOO to SSOO for infractions of the law. House amendments provide for use of reflector lights on trucks and busses not having clearance lights after nightfall and makes the law effective Jan. 1, 1932. The fines were also increased to present levels. “Thanks to director Brown, Indiana will now become a trap and obstruction for interstate trucks instead of the gateway to the entire middle west, if the bill becomes a law,” Abrahr.m asserted. Scope of Business Cited Declaring that 87 per cent of alt Hoosier livestock, 82 per cent of the milk supply and 70 per cent of the retail merchandise is moved by motor truck, he expressed surprise that Brown, as director of the state highway commission, is not “more thoroughly conversant with the fact* of motor transportation.” ‘‘Under the inspiration of Brown, if not under his leadership, the railroads have come out into the open : for the first time with their fight for legislation to curtail truck operation,” Abrahams declared. “It Is a well-known fact that Brown once was a secretary to Governor Leslie and has written many of that executive’s papers. Undoubtedly he inspired the Governor to recommend to the legislature that truck regulation measures be enacted. Thus the motor truck interests have been overwhelmed by prejudice and selfish interests and stabbed in the . back by the highway department. “The bill not only regulates trucks, it crucifies them. In addition, it persecutes progress and industry.” Helpless, After 15 Years of Asthma Cough and Wheeze Stopped Two 1 Years Ago. Well Ever Since. Any one tortured by asthma or bronchial cough will be glad to know that Mrs. George Kiefer, 35 South Vine street, Indianapolis, found lasting relief. She says: “I suffered from asthma 35 years.' I was so bad I could hardly walk across the house, and used to sit up In a chair, four or fire nights at a tinie. The second night after taking Naeor I slept lu bed all night. I have not noticed hut asthma in over two years, breathing fine, no wheeling and I sleep fine." Hundreds of people who suffered for years from asthma and bronchial coughs, state that their trouble left and has not returned. letters and a booklet of vital information will be sent free by Nacor Medicine Cos., 408 State Life Bldg.. Indianapolis. Ifid. Call or write for this free information, and find out how thousands have found lasting relief.—Advertisement.

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