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WASHINGTON IS SWAMPED BY TECH NETMEN Brilliant Spurt in Final Quarter Carries Green to 31*17 Victory. EDWARDS IS BIG STAR Triumph Puts Arsenalites in Semi-Finals of Sectional. BY DICK MILLER A sensational last-quarter spurt carried Tim Campbell’s Technical team to a 37-17 victory over Washington this morning in the first quarter final tilt of the Indianapolis sectional basketball tournament at the giant Tech gym. Battled to a standstill almost all the way by the hard-fighting west alders and held even, 13-all, at the end of the third quarter, the Big Green tore loose in the last period and poured points through the meshes to swamp the Continentals. The victory put Tech in the semifinals where this afternoon the Green meets the victor of the West Newton-Southport fray. The bad weather had delayed the crowd and only about 1,000 fans, 700 of whom were aligned with Tech, were in the stands as Washington and Technical took the floor Tor the first second-round struggle. Technical Grabs Lead Two free tosses by Edwards and one by Jones promptly gave the Arsenalites a 3-0 lead, but Faudry tipped in a field goal for Washington in a spirited scrimmage. White sent a long shot through the nets, but Faudry’s free throw and Lewis’ long arching shot knotted the count at 5-all. Overman dribbled under for a Tech field goal and the count was evened up at 7-all as Pullen fired one in from past the center of the floor. Overman drove under fast for another field goal to give Tech a 9-7 edge as the quarter ended. Bright again evened matters a6 he dropped in a field goal from under the hoop. Edwards came out of a scrimmage under the nets with a field goal and Tech was ahead once more. Famlry Evens Count Sanders made one free throw and Gauker, subbing for Bunnell, gave Tech its two-point margin again with a similar toss. Faudry was open under the hoop and got a field goal to even the count at 12-all. Overman dropped in the free throw that gave Tech a 13-12 advantage as the half ended. Washington controlled the leather most of the time during the third quarter, and only one point was scored, that by Bright to knot the count at 13-all. Time and again during the period, the Continentals rained the basket with shots to no avail. Tech opened the last period by cutting losse with a barrage of Jong shots and Bunnell, following in fast, tipped in a shot to give Tech the lead. Edwards added a free throw to make the score 16-13, but Faudry leveled the margin down with a field goal from under the hoop. Technical Runs Wild Edwards matched it with a like 6hot and Washington called for time with Tech ahead, 18-15, and five minutes of play remaining. Overman fired one through the nets and then Pullen dropped in what proved to be Washington’s last points. The score was 20-17, and Tech cut loose with some rapid-fire point getting. Edwards and Bunnell arched goals tnrough the nets and White made it 25-17, with a free toss. Edwards looped in a field goal and fouled doing so added a free throw. Jones made a point and Overman ended the scoring with the field goal that made it 31-17. The summary: TECHNICAL WASHINGTON G P TP G F TP Overman, f.. 3 1 7 Faudrv, f.... 3 1 / Wan*, f 2 1 ■> Bright. 1 1 1 3 Edwards, c., * 4 12 Sanders, c... 0 1 l Bunnell, (t... 2 0 4 Lewis, k 1 o 2 Jones, g , 0 2 2! Pullen, g 2 0 4 Kauker. r..J C l 1 Howard, it... 0 0 0 Gladden, g.. 0 0 0 Blankeshln. it 0 0 0 Totals ...,11 9 31' Totals ~7 ~3 17 SPRINGSTEEN WILL EXECUTOR QUALIFIES Union Trust Company Will Handle Daughter’s Trust Fund. Union Trust Company Friday qualified before Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers as executor of the will of the late Robert E. Springsteen, former postmaster and city councilman, who died Monday at Miami. Fla. Creation of a trust fund, net income of which is to go to a daughter, Mrs. Helen S. Ott, of Coral Gables, Fla., is provided in the will. Value of the estate was not disclosed. At Mrs. Ott’s death, the income is to go to a grandson, .Robert Springsteen Stanton of Miami. Marion Woman Dies By Times Special MARION, ind., March 7.—Mrs. Rebecca J. Blinn, 87, a resident of this community almost her entire life, is dead. She leaves two sons and two daughters. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 31 8 a. m 32 7a. ffl..*., 31 9g. 32 j

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Lady Cynthia IVlosely By United Press STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, March 7.—Lady Cynthia Mosley, who withdrew from the Labor party to launch the “new party” formed by her husband, Sir Oswald Mosley, received the official censure of the Labor party today. The executive committee of the party, meeting here, demanded Lady Cynthia’s resignation from parliament owing to her withdrawal from the Laborite ranks.

Purdue Students Come From Wide Variety of Homes By Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind., March 7.That Purdue university is truly “the university of all the people,” is indicated by a survey of the occupations of parents of students. The survey, made under direction of President E. C. "’ott, shows children of farmers lead the list, with 985. However, the entire list is as broad as the field of business and employment, as the 4,300 students now in the university come from nearly every walk of life and almost every type of home. Business men are ser'-nd with 924 while professional men, including lawyers, druggists. s. teachers and dentists are parents of 421 students. The engineering profession claims 265 while mechanics and artisans who have children in the student body, number 333. There are 103 children of laborers enrolled, the ons or daughters of 198 railroad employes or officials, fiftyfive editors, printers or publishers; seventy-two manufacturers, fifteen miners, twenty-two county, city or state officials, 331 owners, proprietors or managers of various kinds of business concerns, and eighty-six federal government - employes. Twelve students’ fathers are policemen, eighteen, -abinet makers; fifty-one. carpenters; thirty-two, machinists; fourteen, painters; seventeen, plumbers; twelve, blacksmiths, with a like number of masons and toolmakers; eight, firemen; two, naval officers, fifty, ministers; 120, educators; forty-seven, realtors; 191, salesmen; twenty-rne, lumber dealers; 211, merchants, 141 contractors. One student lists his father’s occupation as politics. Another’s father is in the airmail service. Six students have fathers who are postmasters, thirty-three mail carriers, and nineteen postal clerks; seventy-three, insurance agents; fifty-one, bankers, nineteen, brokers; eight, oil producers; twelve, jewelers; eleven, bakers; twenty-one, barbers; eleven butchers, and eleven, undertakers. The list includes more than 300 fields of employment or business endeavor ranging from railroad trackmen to railway president, from bank clerk to bank president.

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11 DIE WHEN BLAZE RAZES PRISON CAMP Negro Convicts, Trapped in Stockade, Unable to Escape. 41 MEN ARE RESCUED Flavies Spread So Fast There Is No Chance to Cave Victims. By United Press KENANSVILLE, N. C„ March 7. Eleven Negro convicts were burned to death early today when fire destroyed the Duplin county prison camp o nthe Wilmington-Kenans-ville Highway, several miles south of here. There were fifty-two convicts on the stockade. Guards and citizens rescued forty-one prisoners. , Os the forty-one rescued eleven were white and thirty Negroes. The alarm was sounded about 2 a. m. by John Best, camp superintendent. Only one telephone was available to summon help from Kenansville. Most of the population turned out in the dark to aid guards in rescue work. Guards turned out all prisoners they could reach, but the flames spread so fast and the heat became so terrific they could not reach the eleven Negroes. Screams of the trapped men resounded through a wall of flames as the guards stood helplessly by. The eleve nmen burned to death were quartered in a cell near the kt ohen, where the fire originatd.

HUNDRED EXPECTED TO ENTER CONTEST Real Estate Board to Give Cash for Booth Designs. The miniature booth designing contest held by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board in connection with the tenth annual Realtors’ Home Show which will be held from April 11 to 18 in the manufacturers’ building at the state fairground will end Monday afternoon. It is estimated more than one hundred students of high and art schools will submit entries. The booths are to be delivered Monday afternoon to the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce building. 320 North Meridian street. Fay C. Cash, contest committee chairman, has made arrangements with Ed Hunter, chamber secretary, to display the booths ia the lounge next week. Seventy-five dollars in cash prizes will be awarded, as follows; First, S2O; second, sls; third, $lO, and ten awards of $3 each for honorable mention. Other realtors assisting in the contest are Forest B. Kellogg, Lawrence J. Sexton, William Pruitt, Robert M. Collier, R. E. Peckham and Robert Mason. 100 TO BE ARRAIGNED Judge Will Fix Trial Dates After Pleas Are Made. More than one hundred jail prisoners, charged with crimes in grand jury indictments and affidavits, were to be arraigned today before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Defendants will enter pleas to the charges and will hear their trial dates fixed. Stork Far Ahead By Times Special MARION, Ind., March 7.—There were twice as many births as deaths in Marion during February, according to the report of Dr. L. H. Eshleman, city health ''fficer. There were forty-eighth births reported, of which thirty-one were males and seventeen, females. Deaths included twelve males and twelve females.

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Ruth Nichols . By United Press NEW YORK, March 7.—The new altitude record believed established by Miss Ruth Nichols in a flight over Jersey City airport, today needed only the calibration by the bureau of standards of the sealed barograph installed in her small monoplane to make it official. Coasting to a dead stick landing after more than an hour and a half in the air, Miss Nichols learned Friday that she had not only exceeded the altitude record of 27,418 feet held by Miss Elinor Smith, but that she had come within a few hundred feet of the 30,457 feet record for commercial planes, held by George Haldeman. One altimeter registered 30,450 feet and another 30,500 feet,

DEATH CLAIMS LEW S. CORE Second Member of House to Die This Year. Funeral arrangements for Representative Lew S. Core, 62, Einora, second member of the house of the

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hospital Sunday. Chairman of the house congressional reapportionment committee, he wrote the Core bill which was passed by the house. He also was a member of the committees on agriculture, mileage and accounts, printing, public buildings, public expenditures and World war memorial. He is survived by the widow and two daughters, Mrs. R. M* Wright of Wayne, Mich., ar, Mrs. R. R. Myers of Hammond, Ail w’ere at his bedside when he died. The other member who died this session was the veteran Representative, George L. Saunders of Bluffton, who succumbed just as his name was to be presented to the Democratic caucus for nomination as floor leader. Party and house leaders joined in expressing their sense of loss through the death of Representative Core.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK, March 7.—Prices moved irregularly on the Stock Exchange today. Warner Brothers’ Pictures opened on a block of 15,000 shares at 12%, off %, but other initial transactions were of small amounts. United States Steel, still under the influence of expectation of a reduction in unfilled tonnage foi February, sagged %to 144%. Auburn Auto opened at 180%, off %, and then sagged to 180. Fractional declines were made by American Smelting, American Telephone, Radio Corporation, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Montgomery Ward, Westinghouse Electric, Transamerica Corporation, General Motor*. A. M. Byers and United Corporation, the latter opening 5,000 shares at 27, off %. Radio-Keith-Orpheum rose nearly a point to 21. Sears-Roebuck was higher and gains ranging to a point were made by Gold Dust, J. I. Case. Columbia Gas, Allied Chemical and American and Foreign Power. Oils were easier, while utilities continued to move ahead. Auburn continued to decline, touching 176, where it was off s^. During the early trading, moveI ments continued irregular. Steel I common touched 143% and then ral&4 fiiectfic /aiigsed Steel,

All Evidence in Kirkland Trial May Be Completed by Noon Today. E.y Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., March 7. Its string of rebuttal witnesses almost at an end, the state was prepared this morning to conclude all presentation of evidence in th~ murder trial of Virgil Kirkland before Porter circuit court was adjourned at noon. The defense rested its case late Friday after placing Kirkland on the stand to testify of his love for Arlene Draves, whom he is alleged to have attacked and murdered, and to describe the gin orgy in Gary Nov. 29 that preceded the tragedy. Posecutor John Underwood, with whom Barrett O'Hara, defense attorney, Friday pleaded “to be decent” in cross-examination of the young defendant, was to call additional expert witnesses *"day to tear down the boy’s re„.i ’ of a tender, romantic courtship n which his intentions were to marry Arlene. Physicians Testify Underwood put on the stand Friday afternoon Dr. George Bicknell, Hammond, who represented the state at an autopsy on the girl’s body Wednesday. Dr. Bicknell contradicted statements of Dr. Joseph Springer, Chicago criminologist, who represented the defense at the autopsy and later said he found no evidence that Arlene had been ravished. Lacerations, blood, and twenty-six bruises on her body that could not have been inflicted in a fall from a chair, demonstrated that Arlene had been assaulted and treated brutally, Dr. Bicknell told the jury. Dr. E. S. Jones, East Chicago, another physician who represented the state at the autopsy, was to testify this morning, corroboraing Dr. Bicknell’s ' jstimony. Court to Adjourn at Noon Court will be adjourned at noon for the week-end and the jury will be escorted to a house rented for them several blocks from the courthouse. When Judge Grant Crumpacker reconvenes the session Monday morning the state is expected to begin with its closing arguments, after which O’Hara will sum up the defense claims. Arguments are expected to consume two days, and the case probably will go to the jury Tuesday. Kirkland’s testimony, a lengthy recitation of youthful love affairs, of parties, dances and auto rides, of petting parties and finally the fatal gin party in the home of David Thompson, also accused of Arlene’s death, drew little credit from the rows of cynical spectators who crammed the courtroom. Crowd Unaffected by Sobs “Tooo smooth,” the murmur ran around the room. “He memorized it.” Not even when, at the more tender memories, Kirkland broke down in sobs, was the crowd affected. In their customary reserved seats the Draves family listened with bitter intensity to Kirkland’s story. “He lies,” they said. In the same row sat Virgil’s mother, who later was called to the stand only to verify facts concerning Virgil’s birth. She and the stepfather hung anxiously on the son’s words, and the mother constantly encouraged the boy with little smiles and nods of the head. On the stand Virgil told of his early life in Missouri, and then told the jury he first met Arlene in the Gay Mill dance hall, near Gary three years ago. “I went there, just like all young fellows do, to dance. I saw Babe and she attracted me, and I asked her for a dance.” Marriage Was Planned From that time the romance progressed. Kirkland said he planned to marry Arlene, and once they even went to Valparaiso from Gary to gat the license, but she became ill. O’Hara’s questioning jumped then to the night Arlene died. Kirkland retold how he had called for her and taken her to Thompson’s home, where they danced, drank and finally went to the porch to be by themselves. “Virgil, when you were there on the porch with Arlene were 'here any relations between you?” th<> attorney asked. Tells of Girl’s Death “Yes,” Kirkland replied. Then, he testified, Arlene wanted to go home, but a.s she arose she fell on her head. He took her to an auto, in which he, Harry Shirk, Leon Stanford, Paul Barton and Thompson, the others charged with the murder, went for sandwiches. Later in the msrning they became frightened because they could not arouse the girl, and took her to a physician who pronounced her dead, Kirkland said. Sheep Killing Costs S9OO By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., March 7. Green township collected $319 for dog tax and spent $989." recompensing fanners for losses caused by sheep-killing dogs. Cline Jester suffered the heavies* lor*, dogs killi&g lm sfcesfi valued £313.

s e v e nty-seventh Indiana general assembly to die during the session were awaiting completion today. Rep resentative Core, a Democrat from Daviess county, died of double pneumonia Friday night at the Indiana Christian hospital after illness of more than a week. He was taken to the

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STATE SENATE AT RIOT VERGE OVERTAX BILL Wild Scenes Enacted When Bush’s Gavel Bangs to Quell Ooposition. FATE STILL IS IN DOUBT Rate of Corporation Levy Is Bone of Contention in Bitter Conflict. Corporate income tax foes, rankling with the injustices inflicted on them Friday afternoon, returned to the Indiana senate battle field to-

day to make a last stand against the heavy gavel of Lieutenant - Governor Edgar D. Bush. With all the fervor with which he led the farmers - parade at the 1928 Kansas City Republican national convention, brandishing the British flag as he arraigned Herbert Hoover, Bush Friday wielded his gavel in a vain attempt to clear the

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path for enactment of the corporate income tax bill. Adjournment at 5 p. m. ended one of the most tumultuous sessions in Indiana legislative annals without a final roll call having been taken on the bill’s passage. Charges of railroading, extreme unfairness and discourtesy were shouted at the Lieutenant-Governor as, for more than an hour, his gavel pounded out rulings in obvious disregard of the will of the majority. Bush Voices Threat Flat defiance of the chair’s authority brought from Bush the threat: “If I adjourn this senate because the rules are being violated, I’ll adjourn this senate sine die!” Such a move would prevent enactment of the biennial budget and force an extra session. When the clamorous Friday session ended, a motion of Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Lake) was before the senate, proposing to restore the corporation income tax rate to 3 per cent. This was the figure at which the rate stood when the senate began its consideration, but an amendment, on third reading, offered by Senator Thurman A. Goottschalk (Dem., Adams, Blackford and Wells) reduced the rate to 1% per cent during the bedlam. Put Hope in High Rate Holmes’ motion remained to be disposed of when the senate reconvened today, although the senate had a special order of business to consider the appropriation bill at 10:15. The 3 per cent effort is favored ! by senators opposed to passage be- ! cause they feel such a high rate , will bring about the measure’s de- | feat. The ruling of Lieutenant-Gover-nor Bush which most astonished and angered his opponents was the one which permitted reduction of the rate from 3 to 1% per cent. A senate rule prohibits amending a bill on third except to correct typographical errors and matters not affecting import of the bill. Jeers Greet Ruling When Holmes and others pressed the point that changing the figure 3 to IMi struck at the heart of the bill a change meaning millions to industry and business—Bush ruled the change permissible, insisting he was “well fortified” with an opinion just obtained from Dr. Charles Kettleborough, director of the legislative bureau. Jeers, laughter, and angry shouts arose from the floor as Bush adhered to the interpretation that the rats change was only “a minor change, without altering the import of the bill.” Holmes appealed from decision of the chair, and Senator Earl Rowley (Rep., Laporte and Starke, took the chair long enough to rule that the voice vote which followed supported Bush’s ruling. Reduction Move Loses Motions and countermotions, shouted from the floor, taxed the wit and pencils of parliamentarians. Rowley’s effort to reduce the rate to 1 per cent was defeated, although he insisted Indiana industry, already crippled, could bear no heavier burden. Refused recognition repeatedly, Senator Chester A. Perkins (Dem., St. Joseph), foe of the measure, defied the chair by refusing to take his seac until threats of force were invoked and he was promised recognition. When this was given, Perkins joined with Senator Roy M. Friedley (Rep., Delaware) in a protest against Rowley’s ruling on the appeal from the chair. Repeatedly Bush loked squarely at senators whose shouts for recognition could be heard across the halls, and blandly announced he had not heard them. Just as blandly announced he had not heard them. Just as blandly he gaveled down thunderous voice votes when they obstructed the path ta sassage 9L mi m*

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Mrs. Helen Thoraewill and son Grant. By United Press SANTA CRUZ, Cal.. March 7. .Mrs. Helene Grant Thornewill, wealthy young Santa Cruz widow, was free today of charges she had killed her husband, Leslie A. Thornewill. A jury of twelve : m required only half an hour vO deliberate on the two weeks of testimony before finding her not guilty. Mrs. Thornewill cried and kissed her attorney several times when the verdict was given. Then she shook the hand of every juror, and accepted congratulations of scores of women friends who crowded about her. Later she returned to her Santa Cruz home, which she had not seen since early in January, when she was indicted. There she will take up direction of Thornwill’s trucking business as sole owner of his estate.

RENEW DUVALL FINE AID PLEAS Jail Term Is Faced Unless Friends Raise SI,OOO. Friends of John L. Duvall were making last-minute efforts this morning to raise the SLOOO fine and costs necessary to release the former mayor from the Marion county jail, where he is held in default of payment of the fine. Duvall, who Thursday completed a thirty-day sentence on his criminal court conviction under the corrupt practices act, faces nearly three years in jail if he is forced to serve out the fine and costs at the rate of $1 a day. Friends renewed their efforts to raise the money Thursday when Duvall charged George V. (Boss) Coffin was trying to keep him in jail to keep Duvall from “talking. ’ Youth Wins Trip By Times Special CRAWFORDS VILLE, Ind., March 7.—Donald Northcutt is the winner of a high school popularity contest conducted by a theater of this city, and as a prize, Donald will receive a free trip to Washington, D. C.

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Empress Xagako By United Press TOKIO, March 7.—A girl was born to the Empress Magako at the imperial maternity villa today, her fourth daughter, leaving the Japanese empire without a male heir apparent. The imperial child weighed seven and one-fourth pounds. Mother and daughter were reported doing well. The empress passed her twenty-eighth birthday Friday. For the fourth time the hope of all Japan for an heir to the throne was unfulfilled. The desire for a boy was shared by the imperial household, where a boy might be reared to eventiilly succeed his father, Emperor Hirohito, as 123 th emperor in the unbroken line descended from the §ua goddess. Amatera.su

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TOLL IS TAKEN BY WINTER'S WORST FLOOD Streets Are Seas of Slush: Phone Company Is Hard Hit. BUSES OFF SCHEDULE Weather Man Says Snow and Rain Will Continue Over Week-End. Transportation, communication, and thousands of unemployed persons suffered a severe blow today, when snow?, sleet and rain enveloped Indianapolis and the state in a sea of slush. Precipitation here was 3.6 inches since early Friday, with more snow and rain forecast by J. H. Armington. government meteorologist, for tonight and Sunday. Tlephone and interurban companies w r ere hit hardest by the heaviest deluge of the winter. Railroad trains were reported on time, but busses traveling north and south were behind schedules. Phone Damage Heavy Telephone poles downed by sleet four miles south of the city forced the state highway commission to establish one-way traffic on State road 29, while motorists on State road 31 were blocked bv telephone poles near Greenwood. The telephone company’s worst damage w r as suffered when eighty poles broke service connections from this city to Anderson and Muncie The poles fell on the circuit south of Fortville. Communication with the two cities was established from here by lines. Hie Interstate Traction Company and the Indianapolis Southeastern railroad were principal sufferers of interurban lines operating out of i Indianapolis. Service on the Interstate to was interrupted by falling trolley wires and busses were pressed into service. Service Suspended The Indianapolis Southeastern suspended service on its Connersville and Greensburg lines because of fallen wires and likewise resorted to buses. All interurbans north and ea s t were from fifteen minutes to an hour late. Armington’s forecast shows that southern Indiana, where the drought was the worst, was benefited the most by the snow and rain. He said the storm approached the state from the west and that bv nightfall there will be more rain and snow. Temperatures Sunday will be around 30 degrees. Wires Weighted Down The major portion of the telephone pole and trolley trouble was caused by snow and sleet weighting down the wires. Height of the trouble came at 6:30 this morning, as a drizzling rain drenched workers going to their places of employment. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company reported late schedules and trolley line troubles were responsible for delay of hundreds of workers in reaching offices and factories early this morning RED BEATEN Communist Workers Abducted and Whipped at Dallas. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., March 7.—Efforts to fixe the blame for the gang beating of two San Antonio Communists were made here today. C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, active in the dissemination of Communistic propaganda here recently, were abducted from the downtown section, taken to a lonely spot and beaten with ropes, police were advised. In the Air East wind, 12 miles an hour; barometric measure, 29.56 at sea level; temperature, 32; ceiling, 600 feet; visibility, one mile; field, snowcovered. Aged Couple Dies By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 7. Double funeral services will be held for Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Boyle, 75 and 50. respectively, who died within sixty hours o' other at a hospital. Mrs. Doyle died Monday night and her husband died last night. Both were I —onia victims. School Hearing March 11 By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 7.—The state board of tax commissioners will conduct a hearing here March 11, on the appeal of a group of Lafayette township taxpayers protesting Issuance of $60,000 of bonds by the township advisorv board to finance a consolidated school building. Butler to Speak By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 7. General Smedley D. Butler of the United States marine corps, will speak at the Evansville coliseum, m rch 3 L

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