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DR. OXNAM IS GIVEN BACKING OF MINISTERS Indianapolis Methodists Laud De Pauw Chief as ‘Worthy Man.’ CONDEMN EVANS’ TALK American Legion Decides to Probe School’s Patriotism. Faith in Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam as a “man and minister,” who as president of De Pauw university is “worthy of confidence and co-opera-tion,” was expressed in resolutions adopted by Indianapolis Methodist ministers at their weekly meeting at Roberts Park M. t. church today. De Pauw is a Methodist school and Dr. Ornam long has been a minister of that faith. But his patriotic purity is to be probed by a committee from the Seventh District American Legion. Spurred into action by Representative Hamilton Fish’s charge that the Legion is being outdone in ‘‘Red hunting” by Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Legion committee of thirteen to investigate De Pauw v. T as announced today by Dr. Frank E. Long, district Legion commander. Conduct Own Investigation The ministers conducted an investigation of their own the past week, a special committee having been appointed for that purpose. This was done because William P. Evans, Insull attorney, had charged in a speech that De Pauw is preaching subversive doctrines of “Sex, Sovietism and Socialism.” Evans made these charges in an address to De Pauw alumni at a meeting at which Dr. Oxnam was not present. An alumnus himself, Evans’ own patriotism and loyalty to the school was attacked by the ministers today. They pointed out that although Evans’ speech was made at a Founder’s day dinner no word of loyalty was dispatched to the alma mater nor was a single De Pauw song sung. Five Against Resolutions Only five of the forty-eight ministers present voted against the resolutions supporting Oxnam and condemning Evans. The resolutions said: 1. We condemn severely all unfair methods of attack. Criticism of an institution should be brought before properly constituted authorities and not thrown before the public without an opportunity for explanation or refutation. 2. We stand decisively opposed to the use of partial truth or the distorting of facts in dealing with men in public life whether they be in church, college or state. 3. Asa ministerial association, we are heartily in favor of the freedom of thought and expression. We are opposed to all forms of bigotry and autocracy. We are opposed to all attempts to close the door to the realms of knowledge or investigation. We feel that the truth is always able to stand in its own right and needs only to be discovered and not defended. Express Hearty Commendation 4. After a careful examination of the names of all those invited to speak before De Pauw university students during the lar three years and a review of sub jects upon which they spoke we express our hearty commendation. We believe that the program has been well balanced. Business men, scientists, historians, economists, military leaders, workers for international peace, world travelers and Christian statesmen, all have been heard by the students. 5. We congratulate Dr. Oxnam and De Pauw on securing Dr. Ralph Sockman. president of the Greater New York Federation of Churches and pastor of Madison Avenue M. E. church for the 1931 commencement speaker. 6. Asa ministerial association, we wish to express our faith in Dr. Oxnam as a man and minister. We deem him one of the constructive leaders of education and religion. He is a man who speaks openly and fearlessly, but who tolerates differences of opinion without personal malice. De Pauw university has in him a man worthy of confidence and co-operation. The Legion investigation also is based on the Evans charges. Mark E. Hamer, advertising man who was made chairman of the Legion probe committee, referred to comment today on the question of Legion jurisdiction in the matter. “I want to find out what and who we are to investigate and also why,” he declared. Other committeemen and the posts they represent are: Verne Shoite. Mcllvatne-Kothe post: Joe Rend Beckett. McXlvalne-Kothe post: George T Whslden. John H. Holliday post: Judge H&rrv O. Chsmberlin. Indianapolis post: Dr. Lnßue D. Carter. Paul Coble Post: V. M. Armstrong, Memorial post: Sidney S. Miller. Mcllvalne-Kothe post; Wlltred Bradshaw. Madden-Nottlng-ham post: Merrill Woods, Irvington post: Cecil Stalnaker. Bruce P. Robison post: Kleber W. Hadiev. Havward-Barcus pos;, and Stephen Noland, Hilton t 7. Brown Jr. post. STOCK FIRM SUSPENDED Commission House Is Under Ban of New York Exchange. By United Press NEW YORK, April 27.—West & Cos., stock commission house, was suspended fro mthe New York Stock Exchange today for insolvency.

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The Indianapolis Times Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, continued cool with light to heavy frost; slightly warmer Tuesday.

VOLUME 42—NUMBER 301

What’s Hell?

Profane, View of Radio Censor; Not So, Is Butler’s View.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 27. —“Hell” became a word of discussion today as the result of its use Saturday night over a radio station by General Smedley D. Butler. Is it profane, obscene, indecent

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of the world was in violation of rulings of the federal radio commission. Dr. Percy Van Dyke Shelly, professor of England at the University of Pennsylvania, said Gen. Butler’s use of the word was quite in character and appropriate to the occasion. The Rev. B. C. Mackie, Presbyterian minister, said: “There are Times when in my opinion the use of the word is quite appropriate. I do not think the word is profane per se.” RILL PLAN TO WIDENjITREET 46th Street Action Balked by Remonstrators. Plans for construction of a wide north side crosstown traffic artery were balked today when the works board acceded to remonstrators and killed a resolution for widening and improving Forty-sixth street from Meridian street to Boulevard place. A remonstrance with nearly 170 signatures was presented at the assessment roll hearing today by William Bosson, representing the But-ler-Fairview Civic Association. The Fairview Presbyterian church also remonstrated. The board confirmed resolution for widening and resurfacing Fortysixth street from the alley west of the Monon railroad to Keystone avenue. Resolution for paving of College avenue from the alley north of Arch street to Eleventh street was adopted. HOOVER TO SEE KING Siamase Ruler Will Visit at White House. By United Press PURCHASE, N. Y., April 27. Preparations were being made today for the departure Tuesday for Washington of King Prajadhipok of Siam and his party. The king, staying at Mrs. Whitelaw Reid’s estate here, will visit President Hoover Thursday and then motor to Baltimore for an examination at Johns Hopkins hospital. The king was relieved by information from Paris that his half-broth-er, Prince Chanbaburi, ill in the French capital, is improved.

KEY TO SAFETY BOX MAY SOLVE SUICIDE

First Clew to Identity of Woman Is Discovered by Coroner, Whatever a key in possession of Coroner Fred Vehling may| have been intended to open, it may un- j lock the mystery of the suicide of a blonde, middle-aged woman in her apartment at 2010 North Meridian street, Saturday. The coroner said it was the first clew to identity of the woman. Apparently a safety-box key, it bore a number and was made by a Chicago firm. The coroner found it in the woman’s purse. He telegraphed the Chicago company, giving the number on the key, hoping a record of its manufacture might be kept there. He expected a reply today. A cryptic message l,eft by the woman still puzzled authorities today, they admitted. The' message, deciphered from a strange code, revealed nothing, according to Coroner Fred Vehling. The woman has been identified tentatively under two names. Identification marks were removed from her clothing before she turned on gas jets and was asphyxiated. According to the coroner the decoded message read: “MCKENZIE 1158 DEARBORN ALBERTSON ISABEL MCKE 511 CAPITOC.” Friday she had opened a S4OO account in the Mever-Kiser bank under the name Elizabeth McKenzie. She had rented the apartment as Lililan Wilmer, the name found on several calling cards among her meager possesions. Tied in a handkerchief, and pinned to undergarments the coroner found $225. The body was sent to Vehling’s undertaking establishment. Thursday she had donated $lO to

‘FRAMEUP/ CRY OF LESLIE TO GRAND JURORS Denials, Charges Hurled in Probe of Passage of Bus Bill. REP. DEAN TESTIFIES Muddled Stories Confront Board, According to Outside Versions. Denials and charges were hurled in the county grand jury rooms today as Governor Harry G. Leslie and Russell J. Dean of Indianapolis, Democratic representative in the 1931 legislature, testified in the jury’s probe into circumstances surrounding passage of House Bill 6 If Leslie and Dean told jurors the same stories they told reporters outside the secret jury chamber, the probe body already is confronted with muddled evidence. Before appearing before the investigating body, Leslie said: “It’s all a frameup.” “I never have refused to return that bill or any other bill,” Leslie charged. “Representative Dean came to my office and asked to see the bill. I told him to havp Dick Heller, clerk of the house, see Edgar D. Bush, Lieutenant Governor and presiding officer in the senate. Heller came down and said ‘they had decided not to recall it.’ ” Leslie inferred that the investigation of alleged conspiracy in passage of the measure resulted from overzealous activities of “certain city attorneys.” Dean Precedes Governor In circuit court suits, on which the probe is based, it is alleged the motor bus and truck regulatory bill was passed after it had been mutilated so that municipalities were shorn of their authority over bus and truck traffic. The bill now vests this authority with the public service commission. Originally, however, the bill contained the municipality clause, which, it is charged, was stricken out by conspirators in the last hours of the 1931 session. Dean preceded Leslie before the grand jury this morning and denied that he had gone to the Governor’s office to confer with him about the alleged mistake in House Bill 6 and to have it recalled for further consideration and correction. “The Governor doesn’t even know me,” Dean said. “I did not go to the Governor’s office that night on House Bill 6. I was in the Governor’s office on the boxing bill that night. Injunction Is Sought “I introduced a motion requesting the bill be returned at the request of Edward H. Knight. Indianapolis corporation counsel. Knight told me it affected the city of Indianapolis and that there was something wrong with the bill.” The circuit court suits have been filed by the cities of Indianapolis and Muncie. They were rewritten recently, with the addition of the paragraph charging the alleged conspiracy. Answers to the charges are expected to be filed by representatives of the attorney-general's office 'today or Tuesday. The suits seek an injunction to prevent Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, from publishing the bill as a statute.

or is it appropriate upon occasion? Howard R. Miller, owner of station WELK, stuck fast to his contention that the word is “profane, obscene and indecent. Miller “took Butler off the air’’ when he said “hell” in explaining his capture of Ft. Riviere in Haiti; he said the use

the Community Fund, S2OO to the Indianapolis Foundation and S2OO to the Family Welfare Society. Friday she took back all but the Community Fund contribution, and wished to add the S4OO to the latter fund. She was advised to place the money in a bank. The fund still has the $l2O. Social workers, believing her a mental case, shadowed her after she left the fund offices, watched her purchase a bag at a downtown store, visit other shops, and then go to Union station, where she asked the fare to Bloomington and Springfield, HI. Henry Spearing, manager of the apartment building, said tenants smelled gas fumes early Saturday. All day he searched for the leak, and finally traced it to Apartment 109. where he found the body.

Sisters Are Love Rivals BERYL BORDENt clerk in her stepfather’s Long Island store, knew that Tommy Wilson and her half-sister, Irene, planned to elope. Beryl also loved Wilson. She tried to prevent the elope-

ment —and succeeded. Tommy and Irene made plans a second time for their marriage. The death of a relative delayed the wedding.

Then a chance visit to a New York broadcasting studio won Beryl a voice test and contract to sing cn the air. Soon she was promoted to stardom. Beryl sang tender love songs, trying to conceal the ache in her own heart. To forget Tommy she accepted attentions from Prentiss Gaylord, son of her employer. She could not forget. The dramatic adventures of these thoroughly modern young people are told in Ruth Dewey Groves’ absorbing new

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serial, “The Melody Girl.” You’ll want to read it beginning Wednesday in The Times.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1931

See It Foam!

Siamese Boy Aviator Is * Proud of Home Brew Recipes.

YOU’VE heard the one about the Trojan shepherd who went to Greece to judge a beauty contest and returned with the ti-tian-tressed Helen, the whole Greek navy on his trail. Now listen to the tale of Luan Phonse Sobhan, dispatched to America nine months ago by the king of Siam to learn aviation and establish the first commercial aviation system in his native land. Luan foresaw that the intricacies of the man-made birds here would be difficult to Understand, so he found a short cut into ethereal realms. It bubbled from the 'neck of a large bottle, and lay in a tall glass, a delicious amber fluid beneath a white, foamy collar. a a a AS they will, one thing led to another, and now Luan prizes five recipes for home brew almost as highly as his flying ability, he told Edward M. Johonson, assistant superintendent at Municipal airport, where the Siamese boy stopped Sunday en route to Washington, D. C. There he is to visit with the Siamese royal family, which arrived in the United States last week, and is to be received by tne President at the Capitol. With 150 solo hours’ flying time, Luan is almost ready for his transport license and the return to Siam. With five home brew formulas he is far beyond his American flying pals, and mere than qualified to teach all of Siam the combination of salt, hops and yeast, Johnson said. “I got him to give me some of those recipes,” Johnson admitted. SLAIN GUNMAN IS JDENTIFIEO Killer of Police Chief Pays With Own Life. The gunman who fatally wounded Police Chief Troy Clevenger at Winchester Saturday night and died from bullet wounds inflicted by Clevenger, today was identified as Lawrence Sehank, 32, of Muncie, state reformatory parole violator. The identification was announced by E. L. Osborne, of the state bureau of criminal identification. Osborne said Sehank had escaped from the reformatory while serving a vehicle-taking sentence imposed in 1928 at Muncie. He later was arrested in Richmond for robbery in 1929 and had been paroled. Throughout Indiana today a search was being conducted for the other bandit who fled, after throwing Schank’s body from the car. It was learned that the fugitive returned to within a half mile of the slaying scene after he wrecked the car. A farmer offered him a ride, he said, and let the man out when they arrived at Winchester. From here it is believed he went to Bluffton, stole another car and continued his flight. BURKE PLEADS GUILTY LiJe Imprisonment Faces “Killer” for Murder of Policeman. By United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 27. Fred Burke, alleged professional killer, whose long reign as a hired gunman and bank robber ended when he was captured a few weeks ago in a farmhouse in northyestern Missouri, this afternoon pleaded guilty to murding Charles Skelley, St. Joseph policeman. Burke will be sentenced later in the afternoon, it was said, and probably will be rushed to the Marquette prison at once. Life imprisonment is the maximum sentence he can receive. NAME MINE INSPECTORS Reappointment of Four Is Announced by State Bureau Chief. Reappointment of four mine inspectors and appointment of .anew one were announced today by Albert C. Daily, chief of the inspection bureau. John Mosby, Bruceville, was appointed to succeed Thomas Gillispie, Bicknsll. Those reappointed are John Stevely, Clinton; S. J. Wilton, Terre Haute; John Bishop, Princeton, and John A. Russell, Sullivan.

‘LEGS’ DIAMOND AGAIN IS SHOT BY FOE; LIVES Four Slugs Tear Into Body of Gang Chief, but He May Recover. UNSEEN ENEMY FLEES Volley Fired at Midnight From Ambush in Catskills. By United Press CAIRO, N. Y., April 27.—The amazing luck which has saved Jack (Legs) Diamond from assassination twice before in his unsteady gangland career came to his aid again today, when he emerged alive, though dangerously injured, from a terrific volley of enemy gunfire. A midnight ambuscade in a Catskill mountain roadhouse near here was the latest trap set for the New York underworld leader by the foes who long since had marked him for death. Ten charges of buckshot blazed from a sawed-off shotgun as the young Broadway beer runner walked out on the porch of the Caratoga inn shortly before 12 o’clock Sunday night. Four of them tore into his body as he reeled backward. The others, which would have finished him, splintered the door through which he passed. Assailant Makes Getaway The assailant, unknown, escaped into the darkness. Scarcely six months ago Diamond was shot four times and left for dead in the Monticello hotel in New York by two men whom he unwittingly admitted to his room. Surgeons said he had a chance in a hundred to survive. Thin, emaciated, and tubercular, he was in no condition to resist death. But he fought it with a determination so strong that he recovered and several weeks later was released. Since that time he has remained almost in seclusion in the strongly guarded house at Acra, six miles from here, referred to as his “fortress’ in the mountains. The underworld has expected another attempt on h:s life. Target of Volley He was sitting with a party of three in the roadhouse, located a mile and a half from town. As the midnight hour drew near, he rose from a table, crossed the threshold of the room, passed through an adjoining room, and started to go out the door that led on‘to a porch closed in by glass. Just behind him walked his bodyguard, John Scaccio. As the gang chieftain appeared in the doorway, there was a blinding, deafening roar from the darkness. Diamond was hurled to the floor, screaming as he lay there. “My God, I’m shot again! I’m shot again!” The firing continued. Scaccio ducked and the passageway and nearby walls were riddled by the shotgun charges. Rushed to Hospital When the gunfire stopped, the tody guard rushed to the side of his fallen chief and lifted him up. “I guess they got me that time,” Diamond moaned. “They must have used a machine gun.” But the gangster was less seriously wounded than he thought. A hurried call brought a private ambulance and a dash was begun to the Albany hospital, about thirty miles away. Diamond was carried into the hospital at 2 a. m., with one arm broken and painful wounds on both sides and in his back.

WOMAN DIES; PUSH HUNT FOR CLUBBER

Acquaintance Suspected in Brutal Attack on Mrs. Earll. Confronted by a murder mystery and with only meager clews, detectives this afternoon were to question Hugh Earll, 1401 Bellefontaine street, whose wife, Mrs. MTollie Earll, 26, was wounded fatally when attacked by an unknown assailant. Police said they expected to arrest a suspect within a few hours and desired to obtain a formal statement from Earll, w T ho found his wife lying in the living room of the apartment, suffering from head wounds inflicted by a heavy, blunt instrument. Mrs. Earll died Sunday afternoon at the Methodist hospital. Earll discovered the crime when he returned from work early last TueSday morning. Throughout the days before her death. Mrs. Earll did not regain consciousness. She muttered the words “Negro” and “John” and “hospital” shortly after she was taken to the hospital. Police said they believed the crime might have been committed by an acquaintance of the woman and her husband, who had entered the home either to rob or criminally assault Mrs. Earll. Two blood-stained pillows, one of which was under Mrs. Earll’s head, led police to this theory, pointing out the unusual act of an attacker in placing a pillow under a victim’s head. Another pillow, from the seat of a davenport, which also had been blood soaked, was found on the

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IT’S A NICE WORLD

Health Corner Stone to Be Laid

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Two little convalescent misses at Riley hospital beam a welcome to Rotarians who, Tuesday, will lay the corner stone for Rotary’s gift to Indiana children—the $250,000 convalescent home.

T> OTARY’S wheel will bcome an important cog in the restoration of health to Hoosier children when Indiana Rotarians Tuesday afternoon lay the corner stone for the new convalescent home at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children here. Attended by Rotary's founder, international officers and Rotarians from all parts of the state, the ceremony will culminate Rotary’s nine-year campaign for $250,000 to finance the convalescent unit. Paul P. Harris, Chicago, founder of Rotary; Chesley R. Perry, Chicago, international secretary, and Dr, M. Ashby Jones, St. Louis, Mo., speaker at several international conventions, will speak at the luncheon at the Claypool Tuesday, preceding the ceremony. William F. Hodges, Gary, Indiana Rotary district governor, -will preside. a a a TRUSSES will take Rotarians and their wives to the hospital for the corner stone laying at 3. Robert E. Heun, Richmond, chairman of the Riley hospital advisory committee, will introduce Samuel D. Miller, representing the Riley Memorial Association. Miller and Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university will express the gratitude of the university. Harris will lay the corner stone and Perry will deliver the address. Contribution of the $250,000 convalescent building to serve under-privileged sick and crippled children cf Indiana has caught the popular approval of Rotary clubs throughout the world and has been accepted as a worthy example for charitable public welfare endeavor in other countries.

Rabbit Punch By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 27 C. C. Landis teed up his golf ball on El Caballero course, took a preliminary swing and drove it far down the fairway. At the same time a jack rabbit decided to cross the fairway. He and the ball arrived at the same spot simultaneously. The jack rabbit was killed. Landis said he didn't shout “fore.”

davenport. The blood-soaked side had been turned downward. The death instrument has not been found. Clad in a kimono and house slippers, Mrs. Earll apparently had been waiting for her husband to return from work when her assailant clubbed her. Covers on the bed were turned down, but it had not been slept in, and the house had not been ransacked. Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Tuesday at the Moore & Kirk undertaking establishment and the body will be taken to Columbus, Ga„ for burial. Mrs. Earll was treasurer of the Woman’s Auxiliary, local 130, to the national Federation of Postoffice Clerks. In addition to the husband she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Margaret Fuller and two brothers, John and Henry Fuller, and a sister, Mrs. Ruby Downs, all of Columbus, Ga.

KILLING FROST FORECAST THROUGH STATE TONIGHT

Farmers and fruit growers were warned today of a dangerous frost that will blanket Indiana tonight. Weather bureau officials said tonight’s frost will be “critical” and warned that vegetation be protected against it. Only two cities in the state reported frost Sunday night. The remainder of the state having been protected by cloudy skies. These were Evansville and Farmland, but damage was not great. Lowest temperature over the week-end was 38, but the gale-like

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CITY BLACKMAIL PLOT IS FOILED Police Say Jobless Man Admits Guilt. Desperation induced by unemployment drove George R. Taylor, 56, of 619 Russell avenue, to attempt blackmail of three prominent men, he admitted to police today. He confessed he wrote threatening notes to Albert M. Rosenthal, 2850 North Meridian street; George J. Marott, 3258 Washington bou’evard and Ralph Spann, 2829 North iv.’ridian street, asking S2OO from Marott, and SIOO from each of the others, declaring he would bomb their homes if they refused payment. Detectives told Rosenthal to plant a decoy can of money cemetery on West Tenth street, threequarters of a mile west of Tibbs avenue. They hid in a vacant house, and, hearing a noise there, searched and found Taylor. Today they sought to link him with other threatening letters to prominent persons in the city more than a month ago. He denied implication in those notes. ATTACKS,SLAYS GIRL Assailant Shoots, Crushes Victim With Rock. By United Press HAMDEN, Conn., April 27.—Pretty Emily Kirk, 21-year-old daughter of Charles Kirk, prosperous country gentleman and member of a family which colonized Hamden nearly three hundred years ago, was beaten with a ginger ale bottle, criminally attacked and shot four times before a fifty-pound boulder crushed out her life, Coroner James J. Corrigan announced today. County, state and Hamden police united in a search. A drenching rain which fell on the wooded scene of the slaying Sunday destroyed all helpful trace of the assailant or assailants. The autopsy performed by medical examiners revealed the girl was shot twice in the head, once in the upper right arm and once in the palm of the left hand. ITALY TO TURN DOWN FRENCH NAVAL PACT Government Reported to Have Found Proposals Inacceptable. By United Press ROME, April 27. —The government semi-officially was reported today to have found inacceptable the new proposals advanced by France in connection with the naval limitations deadlock. The Italian reply to the French memorandum will be delivered in Paris the middle of this week. It will contend that the proposals “radically change” the Franco-Ital-ian accord, in which Great Britain was a party, reached March 1. The Italian reply will concur with the reply of the British government rejecting the proposals. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 38 10 a. m 41 7 a. m 39 11 a. m 42 Ba. m 40 12 1 (noon).. 42 9 a. m 41 1 p. m 42

wind was cutting. No damage was reported to field crops and fruit from unseasonable cold. Rain that fell Saturday and until Sunday morning in most sections of the state brought an aggregate precipitation of .62 inch in Indianapolis. Snow flurries wer: reported in Indianapolis and in the north-cen-tral part of the state, snow mingled with tree blossoms that were driven on the high northwest wind. Many unimproved roads in the state were impassable Sunday, but were reported dried today.

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CHURCH URGED TO ADVOCATE BIRTH CONTROL Commission Report Asks Presbyterians to Favor Curb. INJUSTICE TO CHILDREN Many Brought Into World When Support Means Are Lacking. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-Im-mediate approval of birth control by the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States is recommended by a special commission appointed to study marriage, divorce and remarriage. The assembly will be asked to go on record as favoring the use of contraceptives, but only “in fidelity to the highest spiritual ideals of the Christian home.” The commission’s favorable report comes after the Federal Council of Churches in America, as well as the New York Academy of Medicine, has approved birth control. Guidance Is Needed “Earnest Christian people,” the report states, “are asking for the church’s guidance on the subject of* birth control. This subject demands attention today as never before. “Economic conditions and a worthy standard of living clearly make it wrong to bring children into the world without adequate provision for their future and proper consideration for the health of the mother. “The Christian conception of sex clothes the relationship between husband and wife with spiritual significance, sanctifying marriage as a divine institution. Moral control is the basic essential to a worthy experience of a marriage relation. Would Change Chapter “In expressing its judgment on this subject, the church in no sense modifies its condemnation of sex relations outside of marriage.” The commission recommends further that a committee be appointed to consider changing Chapter XXIV of the confession of faith, now entitled "of marriage and divorce,” to anew charter consisting of six sections, to be entitled “of marriage, divorce and remarriage.” The suggested new chapter would require that each party to a marriage obtain a health certificate before entering into wedlock, and discusses other problems of marriage and the home. The church would continue to frown upon divorce under the new chapter. While divorce is allowed on two grounds—adultery and wilful desertion—“it is the duty of the church to deplore most earnestly the prevalence of divorce, and especially to condemn the deliberate steps taken by married people to secure divorce in order to remarry.” STRUCK BY FOUL TIP: ASKS $15,000 IN CITY City Railway Employe Sues Perry and Ball Club for Injury. Fifteen thousand dollars for a foul ball is the price sought in a damage suit filed in superior court three today by Guy L. Berry, Indianapolis Union Railways employ, against the Indianapolis Baseball Club, Inc., and Norman Perry, owner. The costly foul strike is alleged to have been made by a member of the club last Aug. 10, in a game at Washington park. The ball hit Berry, who was sitting west of homeplate, in the temple, knocking him unconscious, the suit alleges. Berry was confined in the city hospital one month, and since has not been able to return to his work, it is charged HOOVER NAMES BOARD TO RULE PERSONNEL Council to Co-Ordinate in Management of Government Workers. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—President Hoover issued an executive order today creating a council of personnel administration to coordinate in management of government employes. The order directed that the new commission should develop in the government “a more effective and economical system of employment and personnel management and promote the general welfare of government employes.” The commission will be composed of heads of the various government departments, the civil service commission director, budget director, chief of the efficiency bureau, chairman of the interstate commerce commission and veterans’ affair a administrator. CURB ON RAUIO ASKED Publishers Seek to Have Lottery Ban Effective on Air. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—Elisha Hanson, acting as attorney for the American Newspaper Publishers Association, today asked the federal radio commission to extend to tha radio laws against carrying news or advertising of lotteries through the mail. Hanson’s request was in the form of a letter, which he was authorized to write by last week’s meeting of the publishers’ organization. He offered to produce evidence, should the commission desire, j

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