Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1931 — Page 2

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SIMPLICITY TO BE ORDER FOR HOOVERDINNER Committee Completes Its Plans; Tarlham Sends Invitation. Final arrangements will be made this week for the dinner to be given In honor of President Herbert Hoover by the Indiana Editorial Association at the state fairground on June 15. Problem* connected with the dinner and the midsummemr meeting of the asssociation were discussed at a luncheon Sunday at the Columbia Club. Dr. William C. Dennis, president of Earlham college, Richmond, has asked the President to stop at Richmond to receive an honorary degree. Simplicity will mark the Hoover dinner here. Formal dress will not be necessary. The invocation is to be delivered by the Rev. Charles Woodman, pas.tor of the West Richmond Friends church. President and Mrs. Hoover are expecting to arive here at about 4 p. m. June 15. A military escort wil take them up Meridian street to the Governor’s mansion, where they will be the guests of Governor and Mrs. Leslie overnight. They will be taken to the Manufacturers’ building at the fairground at 6 p. m. The editorial association meeting will begin at 2 p. m. Sunday, June 14, at the Columbia Club. A 6 o'clock dinner will be served and the principal speaker will be H. L. Wililamson of Springfield, 111., publisher of the National Printer-Jour-nalist and the United States Publisher. Business session of the association will be held Monday morning and noon.

Chief Justice to Be Speaker for Law Class Thirty-three students of the Indiana law school will receive their bachelor of law degrees at graduation exercises Wednesday night in the assembly room of the Claypool. Samuel D. Jackson, Ft. Wayne, former Allen county prosecutor, will be toastmaster at the law school’s alumni banquet preceding the graduation exercises. Judge Clarence R. Martin, chief justice of the Indiana supreme court, will be principal speaker at the banquet. ACTIVITIES TABOO FOR MARRIED STUDENTS Ruling Follows Disclosure of Three Husbands in High School. By Times SpecAal FRANKFORT, Ind.. June I. Among the 112 students graduated from Frankfort high school three were married men, it was announced by school officials. Two were members of last year’s basketball squad. Hereafter no married persons will participate in any extra school activities, it has been decreed by the city school board. According to the new ruling, any married person may attend high school, but can not be a member of any team or enter any competition. A state law which provides that j all married students must pay tui- j tion also will/ be enforced in the future, it was announced. TWO SUSPECTS HELD Indianapolis Men Had $275 in Banks’ Money Sacks. By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., June I.—Suspected of committing several crimes, William Covington and William Spoon, who told police their homes are in Indianapolis, are in custody here. They were arrested after an automobile they occupied struck a curb. The machine contained a card bearing the name of Karl Von Wilier, Chicago Heights, 111., and also bore an address on Tremont avenue, Indianapolis. The men were found in possession of $275 contained in money sacks bearing names of banks at Indianapolis and Joliet. 111. They explained carrying of firearms by saying they were booze runners operating out of Chicago. $1,215,000 Suit Shifted By Times Special CROWN POINT. Ind., June I. A change of venue from Lake circuit court here to the Newton circuit court at Kentland has been taken in the $1,215,000 suit of the Crown Bus line against the South Shore Motor Coach Corporation. The Crown line alleges that its once profitable business was cut by a restrictive ordinance passed by the Gary city council and that it was finally compelled to sell, the Shore line being the buyers. Mail Carriers to Meet By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., June I. Attendance of approximately 300 is expected here July 19 to 21 for the convention of the Indiana Rural Letter Carriers Association. Speakers will include Arch Coleman, first assistant postmaster-general. City Sued for $15,000 By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind, June I.—Alleging lands they own have been damaged through pollution of Young’s creek, Loring C. and Elrora Deer and Ed Hardin have filed suits against the city of Franklin for a total of $15,000 damages. Curfew May Be Enforced By Time* Special - PERU, Ind., June I—Mayor John E. Yarling says he is considering instructing police to enforce Peru’s curfew ordinance which was passed eight years ago. Dog Thwarts Attack By Time * Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., June I—A mar. clad only in underwear who attempted to drag Mrs. Ruby Allen into his automobile, was thwarted by a fox terrier which had ran to greet her as she approached her Rater’s home.

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VEHLING ‘ECONOMY’ ACT PROVES FALSE

‘Vacated* Constable Post Now Filled by Matron in ‘Part Time/ BY SHELDON KEY Loudly acclaimed move of Coroner Fred W. Vehling when he recently announced abolition of the illegal post of constable in his office, took on the appearance of a farce today.

2 ERROR WRITS FILEDJYSTEVE Intimidated From Testifying, Charge in Petitions. Two more petitions were filed today in the action of D. C. Stephenson, former Klan dragon serving a life term for the murder of Miss Madge C. Oberholtzer, seeking a writ of error coram nobis from the supreme court on the ground that he was intimidated from taking the stand in his own defense during the trial. Stephenson’s attorneys, Jenkins, Parker & Brown of Gary, asked that the supreme court permit them to be heard either by oral argument or through additional briefs on the petition; while Attorney-General James M. Ogden filed a motion with briefs to strike the petition for a writ of error coram nobis. The attorney - general’s briefs pointed out that the trial was held in the Hamilton circuit court and that an appeal from the court’s findings was taken to the supreme court, therefore a petition coram nobis can hot be filed in the high court which did not render the judgment. Hamilton circuit court has refused such a writ.

DEATH HALTS FIGHT TO REGAIN FORTUNE

Secret Marriage Inspiration of Auto Pioneer in Comeback Try. By United Press FLINT, Mich., June I.—A 31-year-old Virginia woman was revealed today as the inspiration for the last battle of Arthur C. Mason, 62, automobile pioneer, to retrieve the vast fortune he twice won and lost. Death cut short Mason’s last fight Wednesday, Sunday it was revealed that since May 9 he had been married to Miss Ella Baker, who came here from Virginia to work as a secretary in the Chevrolet motor plant, which Mason helped to found. Mason was to be buried today, his task of rebuilding his fortune uncompleted. So sudden was his death that not even the young widow knows whether the one-time multi-mil-lionaire succeded in regaining any of the millions he once possessed. Not even Mason’s closest friends knew of his marriage to Miss Baker until she produced the wedding certificate Sunday. The pair had lived apart, the wife continuing her secretarial work. Mason, an engineer, started his dramatic career with H. M. Leland, in the old Cadillac Motor Company at Detroit. W. C. Durant imported him here as a motor expert in the Buiek company, and he was successively superintendent of Buick motors and vice-president of Chevrolet He was one of the little group of financial giants who laid the plans for Durant’s historic “comeback’’ to control of the General Motors Corporation in 1915. He was known as one of the greatest gasoline motor experts in America. Twice during his brilliant career he amassed a great fortune, and twice his millions melted away with the changing currents of the industry. The last collapse left him, a year ago, virtually penniless, and in need of employment. Friends said he tried unsuccessfully to obtain work at the Chevrolet company, in which he was once a ruling power. Undaunted, he forged slowly ahead, gathering a small capital and joining fortunes with the Redmond Manufacturing Company here. Three months ago he met the attractive young woman from Virginia. The two became close friends. She encouraged him in his work. Acquaintances noticed his despondency was gone. He spoke confidently of what his new motor

The above photo shows Johnson’s car, wheels skyward, as it appeared shortly after the accident. It and Arnold’s car had hurtled through a mass of flames and over the outside retaining wall after a wheel had leaped from Arnold’s car when he was traveling more than 100 miles an hour.

County commissioners admitted that instead of the constable, Mrs Carrie M. McQuay, courthouse matron, now finds time to wedge in the duties of constable during her hours at the courthouse. Vehling said the constabulary had been tossed by the wayside, and he actually did discharge the man who was holding the place after The Times’ exposure of irregularities in his office. He declared he was cutting expenses by this and reduction of a clerk’s pay to $2 a day. When asked why Mrs. McQuay was no longer working’ in the commissioners’ office and attending to her regular duties, Commissioner George Snider admitted she was aiding the coroner. . “Vehling has not adopted the economy program; we adopted it for him. We gave him the matron to help him out,” Snider further admitted. The matron originally was appointed as nurse to have charge of the basement, care for minor accident cases of courthouse visitors, and answer phone calls for county commissioners when the bailiff was absent. This friendly attitude of Snider and Commissioner Dow Voohies, however, seems bound for a break unless Vehling stops his reckless spending of autopsy funds. Vehling already has spent $2,850 for autopsies thus far this year, while total expenditures for that purpose all of last, year only amounted to $3,500. Expenditures from Jan. 1 to May 31, 1931, totaled $2,850 as compared with $1,375 from Jan. 1 to May 31, 1930. the auditor’s records disclose. “We are through approving autopsy expenditures when we spend as much as we did last year,” Commissioner Snider has declared. Other commissioners and the county council take a similar attitude, it is said.

would do when it appeared on the market. Millions, he believed, were again within his grasp. “He was so near success,” she said last night, “that death seems doubly hard.”

Community Fund Relief Cost Far Over Last Year

Meeting heavy demands of relief agencies caused the Indianapolis Community Fund to disburse $90,340.13 more for the first six months of its fiscal year, ended April 30, 1931, than for the same period a year ago, according to an audited report announced today by Edward A. Kahn, fund president. Total expenditures for the six months this year were $564,339.22, the report stated. Receipts during the half year amounted to $583,839.32. More than 75 per cent of money allotted the fund’s thirty-five relief agencies during the period was spent for direct relief, Kahn declared. A total of 70.9 per cent went for relief of needy families, medical and nursing care, care of the aged, orphans and other dependents. Organizations classified as character-building made direct relief expenditures of more than 5 per cent of their appropriations. Kahn announced relief cases had shown a decline during April and May, but the number still is far above normal. The full report follows: BALANCE, NOV. 1. 1930 $ 97 998 60 RECEIPTS: Payments on 1931 subscriptions $441 200 88 Payments on 1930 subscriptions 21213 82 Payments on suspended subscriptions 3 025 74 Interest on bank deposits ’7OS 25 Miscellaneous refunds, etc ....;• 95.03 Proceeds of bank loan 20,000.00 485,240.72 TotsJl balance and receipts $533 839 32 DISBURSEMENTS: TO MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS—I93I ACCOUNTS: Alpha Home Association ... $ 2,300.00 American Settlement Association 4 012 00 Boys Club Association 6,500 01 Boy Scouts of America 10,263.50 Camp Fire Girls I 3,239.66 Catholic Community Center 16,219.50 Catholic Women’s Association 1.250.00 Christamore House 6,470.46 Family Welfare Society 152 183.75 * Flanner House 11, '219.32 Florence Crittcnton Home 3.999.99 Girl Scouts 3,783.00 Hawthorne Sociai Sesvice House 3,617.49 Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays 200.00 Indianapolis Day Nursery Association 4,090.74 Indianapolis Flower Mission 284.33 Indianapolis Home for Aged Women.. 2,000.00 Indianapolis Orphan Asylum 4.550.00 Indianapolis Travelers' Aid 4,009.99 Jewish Federation of Indianapolis 26.000.00 Old Folks Home—Althenheim 2.000.00 Public Health Nursing Association ....- 16,569.16 Red Cross—lndianapolis Chapter 30,000.00 St. Elizabeth’s Home 4,544.00 Salvation Army .• 17.183.55 Social Service Department—lnd'anapolis Church Federation 3.000.00 Society of Good Sheperd 1,500.00 Theodora Home 2,392.95 Volunteers of America 9,294.68 Wheeler City Rescue Mission 6,539.68 Woman's Improvement Club 2,100.00 V. M. C. A.—Central Branch 32 925.25 Y. M. C. A.—Colored Branch 5.199.16 Y. W. C. A.—Central Branch 17.850.00 Y. W. C. A.—Colored Branch 10,350.00 Y. W. C. A.—Alabama Street Branch. 1,800.00 Total Paid to member 0rganizati0n5......5429.532.17 EMERGENCY WORK COMMITTEE 36,500.00 466,032.17 EXPENSES OF 1931 CAMPAIGN $30,561.78 Deduct, amount advanced prior to Nov. 1. 1930 13,546.85- 18.814-93 ADMINISTRATION COLLECTING, 12.787.39 AND ACCOUNTING COUNCIL OF SOCIAL AGENCIES 4.165 83 CENTRALIZED 6ERVICE TO AGENCIES 382.34 PUBLICITY 2.022.08 38,173 57 Other. Disbursements: Repayment of 1983 bank loans with interest . 56,108.89 Equipment purchases 340.66 Annual meeting 279.51 Case Work survey % 1,559.74 Advanced 1932 campaign expenses 3,945.68 63,134.48 Total disbursements 564,833 22 BALANCE. APRIuAISI * ... 13.50000

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PRESBYTERIANS FLAY CAMPAIGN OF ANTI-DRYS Press, ‘Millionaire Group' Denounced in Report at Assembly. ay United Press PITTSBURGH, June 1. The “millionaire group and the metropolitan press” were denounced for alleged attempts to defeat, prohibition in a report presented at the one hundred forty-third general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States today as sessions were resumed. Attempts to commercialize Sunday, compulsory military training and all militarism were condemned in the report of the board of Christion education, presented by the chairman, the Rev. John E. Wishart, San Francisco. Other resolutions commended President Hoover for his stand on prohibition and approved the world court and disarmament treaties. A resolution approving birth control, similar to the one removed from the report in divorce and marriage, was deleted from the education report. The Pennsylvania general assembly especially was praised for its action in defeating the recent legislation to legalize Sunday baseball. All attempts of sports organizations or chain motion picture companies to liberalize the Sabbath day were scored. The resolutions were adopted by overwhelming vote and without protest except on the resolutions on military training and conscientious objectors. These were attacked by Dr. Clarence Scoville, Long Island. He declared he found evidence of “Communism doctrines” in official publications of the church. The resolutions relating to conscientious objectors asked that steps be taken to insure the same respect for the conscience of Presbyterians as is accorded to those of the Quaker faith.

ORDER KIRKLAND TERMJEOPENED Longer Penalty to Be Argued; Virgil to Be Present. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., June I.—Sentence of Virgil Kirkland on charges of assault and battery with intent to attack Arlene Draves was reopened by Judge Grant Crumpacker today when he ordered Kirkland returned to Valparaiso from the Indiana state reformatory at Pendleton. On motion of Robert G. Estil, prosecutor, Crumpacker will hear arguments tomorrow on a motion to change the sentence to imprisonment for five to twenty-one years and SI,OOO fine. Judge Crumpacker sentenced Kirkland to one to ten years when the jury convicted the youth of contributing to the death of his sweetheart at an all-night drinking revel in Gary last November. Estil challenged the sentence on the ground that it was not compatible with the 1921 statute. Crumpacker contended he was acting under a 1929 statute, giving judges certain discretionary powers in juvenile cases, applying to Kirkland because he is under 21. Minister Accepts Call By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., June I—The Rev. Morris B. Book, son of the Rev. and Mrs. William H. Book of Columbus, has accepted a call to the pulpit of the Central Christian church, Orlando, Fla. He was ordained a minister before he was 20 years old-

TAX COLLECTOR STARTS ON JOB, NOTHINGTO DO Johnson Waits on Final Court Decision on Chain Stores Levy. Holding a position that pays $3,600 a year, but with no work to do—as yet—Lewis C. Johnson of Hartford City, store license collection director, appeared at his new desk in the statehouse today. Henry H. Hornbrook, attorney, appeared before the United States sutain a stay of the ruling of the j preme court today in an effort to obI court in the "cnam store” tax case. : The supreme court’s recent ruling ; held constitutional the 1929 “chain ; store act” requiring annual license ! fees of from $3 to $25 from all stores in the state. The case was appealed to the high court by the late Lafayette A. Jackson, head of the Standard grocer, who was slain by bandits last week when he resisted their attempts to rob his headquarters store. Johnson, former deputy state auditor and examiner in the state accounts board, admitted he did not know when he will start to work. This will depend on the action of the supreme court on the petition to stay execution of the ruling. Tax collections are to be supervised by the state board of tax commissioners. STATE FIRM IN HUGEMERGER Mishawaka Plant Part of $10,000,000 Unit. By Times Special MISHAWAKA, Ind., June 1. Consolidation of the Dodge Manufacturing Company of Mishawaka with Foote Brothers Gear and Machine Company of Chicago, creating a $10,000,000 organization, to be known as the Dodge-Foote Corporation, the largest unit in the world engaged in the manufacture of machinery for transmission of power, was announced Sunday night. Machinery will be moved from the Chicago factory to the Mishawaka plant within a month. When the move has been completed, operations of the Dodge plant will be more than doubled. Consummation of the legal details prior to the moving of operations is anticipated within thirty days. George C. Miller, president of the Dodge company, will continue as president of the Dodge-Foote Corporation, and Temple Williams of Mishawaka will be secretary and treasurer.

The 500-Mile Race The Winner Louis Schneider. - Hi! Home Indianapolis. His Speed £6.170 miles per hour His Reward $30,000. . Accidents in Race Five. Fatalities One; nonspectator. Injuries Two serious; twelve minor. The Start Delayed two hours by rain. The Crowd About 140,0C0. Winner’s Stop Once, gas, oil, water. Nonstop I Cummins-Biesel, twelfth. New Records Speed, 25, 50, 75 miles. Record Maker Billy Arnold. Lap Prizes Arnold, $8,400; Schneider, $2,000; Cummings, $400; Bost, S2OO. Winner’s Edge 59.49 seconds. Second Place Fred Frame.

LAKE DRAGGED FOR EX-SENATOR’S BODY

Police Consider Possibility of Foul Play During Launch Trip. By United Press THE WEIRS, N. H., June I. Possibility of foul play was considered by investigators this afternoon as they searched th 6 waters of Lake Winnepesaukee for the body of former State Senator Chelso L. Arrigoni, 31, of Middletown, Conn., who disappeared from a motor launch Sunday. Sheriff Frederick Elliott of Belknap county, with Laconia policemen, went to the southern section of the big lake soon after noon to drag for the body after a checkup appeared to have eliminated the hope that Arrigoni had swam a quarter of a mile to Horse Island. The supposed accidental drowning occurred soon after Arrigoni, his fiance, Miss Catherine Hance of Red Bank, N. J., a former beauty prize winner; George Billings, New York boxer, and Mrs. Billings had set out from the Meredith neck camp of Jack Delaney, former world light heavyweight champion, where they had paid a visit. Billings, who reported the supposed accident to Officer George Lavertue at the Weirs, had blood stains on the front of his shirt and the officer also reported finding traces of blcod in the bow of thr motor launch. According to Officer Lavertue, Billings explained that just before the party set out from Delayeny’s camp the former champion acci-

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CITY FLIERS HURT IN PLANE LANDING

National Guardsmen Are Injured in Crash in Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Matt G. Carpenter and Sergeant Ira Lee, Indiana national guard fliers, injured when their plane was wrecked in a forced* landing Sunday in the mountains near Uniontown, Pa., were to be returned to Stout field here late today in a hospital plane. Carpenter was flying, and Lee was observer in a national guard observation type plane with a squadron of ships returning home from the army air maneuvers when bad weather forced a landing. The other planes landed safely, but the plane piloted by Carpenter came down in a tree on a golf course. Carpenter and Lee were bruised badly, and their plane was damaged severely, according to word received here. * - The forced landing was made necessary by thick clouds around mountain tops, making flying hazardous.

‘PAY PROMPTLY' ORIVEJPENED City Merchants Part of Nation-Wide Campaign. As an aid to business recovery, Indianapolis merchants today joined in the nation-wide campaign of tjie National Retail Credit Association to have customers “pay bills promptly.” W. H. Flanders, secretary of the Retail Credit Men’s Association of Indianapolis, said the organization will concentrate on collection of accounts that are overdue ninety days. According to a survey by the United Sttaes department of commerce, more than fifteen billions of dollars are tied up in delinquent retail credit accounts, running an average period of ninety days,” he said. “An educational publicity campaign is under way to show all customers how important it is to meet their obligations promptly and thus release' as much as possible of this tremendous amount of frozen capital that should be returned to normal business turnover. “It is emphatically not the purpose of this campaign to bring about any curtailment of (he extension of credit.” StaS representatives of the national association are in Indianapolis co-operating with the local bureau’s campaign.

dentally broke the motorboat’s windshield, cutting his hand. It was blood from this wound which spotted both the boat and his shirt, Billings said. Miss Hance told police she and Arrigoni were chatting in the stern of the launch when she stepped forward to speak to Billings, who was in the front cockpit. Returning to her seat a few moments later, she recounted, she noted that her companion had disappeared. They searched the surrounding waters for some time without result, she said. Bank Robber Convicted By Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., June I.—Alvin Elkins faces a prison term of ten years to life for the robbery of the People’s Loan and Trust Company bank here Jan 23. A jury in Pike circuit court convicted him after five hours’ deliberation. Crash Injuries Fatal Tty United Press ■ LA PORTE, Ind./ June I.—Leon J. Luey, 23, Flint, Mich., died in a hospital here of injuries suffered whex\ the automobile in which he was riding collided with another on

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ARRANGE FOR GASPIPE LINE Commissioners Refer Plea to County Attorney. Action toward granting permission to the Ohio Fuel and Gas Company of Columbus, 0., the right to cross the northwestern part of the county with a pipe line for interstate transportation of nctural gas, was taken today by county commissioners. Commissioners referred the matter to County Attorney Harvey Grabill who will draft individual roads to be crossed by the line. Sepal-ate permits for crossing these roads probably will be granted, commissioners stated, although petition of the company for a franchise through the county will be denied. The Ohio Company,- through its attorney, Joseph Daniels, Indianapolis, informed commissioners the line would not affect the present gas situation in Indianapolis. Cities in Ohio and several in Indiana, including Anderson, Muncie and Fairmount, are served by the interstate line. The line to be constructed through Marion county • will extend across the northern portion of Pike township and will connect lines from West Virginia and Texas oil fields, owned by the Ohio company, Daniels stated. Route of the line extends through Pike township, thence to Danville, Ind., and connects with the Texas line in Illinois. TAX VALUATIONS : ALL Worth of Chickens and Automobiles Declines Nearly Half. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., June I.—Andrew Garrison, Vanderburg county assessor, reports that values of chickens and automobiles for taxation purposes have declined nearly half since the personal property assessment last year. There are 833 fewer automobiles in the county and the valuation for taxes nearly $2,250,000 lower. There are more chickens this year than last, but they are valued at $12,000 less. t Driver’s License Revoked By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 1. An order in city court by Judge Ralph Daly deprives George A. Miller, Indianapolis, of his driver’s license for a year. The court also assessed fines and court costs totaling s7l for intoxication and drunken driving and suspended a sixty-day jail sentence on condition that the fines and costs be paid. An automobile driven by Miller struck a farm wagon and killed a horse on State Road 67. Miller paid for damage. Motorist Killed By United Press COLBURN, Ind., June I.—Dr. C. A. Hooker, 38, was killed near here when his automobile was struck by an interurban car. His wife and two children were injured, but are

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TURNING POINT , IN DEPRESSION PREDICTED HERE White House Survey Shows Production Uptrend for April. By United Press WASHINGTON, June I .—An administration prediction that the turning point in the business depression has been reached was coupled today with action by Andrew Mellon, treasury secretary, to set the government’s own fimneial house in order before the end of the fiscal year a month hence. W. L. Cooper, retiring director of the commerce department’s bu-eau cf foreign and domestic commerce, said “the first quarter of 1931 has marked the turning point in the prolonged decline in business which commenced nearly two years ago.” Mellon announced today a longbond issue of $800,000,000, one of the largest since the World war Liberty loans, which is to take up short-term debts due June 15, and leave the government in a better position to begin the new fiscal vear July 1. “Favorable Factors" Cited A deficit close to a billion dollars is expected at the end of the fiscal year. The $800,000,000 issue, which will be dated June 15 and mature eighteen years later. June 15. 1949. will bear the record low interest of 314 per cent, it will be applied partly to refunding $589,000 000 of treasury certificates due June 15 and $90,000,000 in interest payments on the public debt. Cooper's optimistic analysis detailed the “favorable factors” mentioned in the recent White House statement on business. Retail Buying “Encouraging” He explained that factory production showed its fourth consecutive gain during April, when it was 11 per cent aboce the midwinter level. Mill consumption of raw cotton in April was the largest in a year with stocks of cotton goods reduced 36 per cent from, levels of a year ago. More automobiles were produced in April than since last spring. “A most encouraging development is the recent improvement in retail buying reflected in the federal reserve board’s index of department stores sales,” he said.

Nurse Is Savior Feeds Whole Town, Acts as Doctor, in Alaskan Epidemic.

By United Press WASHINGTON, June Courageous work of an American woman, who, with only soup, castor oil and aspirin, nursed and -•fed an entire Alaskan village during an influenza epidemic this . spring is revealed in a letter received at the department of agriculture. The woman is the wife of E. C. Cushing, department employe assigned to the town of Golovin, Alaska, to investigate insects affecting reindeer. The couple were caught in the epidemic that broke out the first week of April ’along the Bering sea coast from Unalakleet to Nome. “By April 10, every one in Golovin, about 140 people, except my wife, the missionary, two native men and a woman, w’ere in bed,’’ Cushing reported - in a letter to his superior, F. C. Bishopp of the bureau of entomology. “Medical aid was not available and for four days Mrs. Cushing took charge of the entire village by herself, besides feeding and looking after the experimental animals.” LAPORTE MAN CHOSEN Indiana Walther League Elects and Picks Indianapolis for 1932 Session. By United Press LA PORTE, Ind., June I.—Walter T. Burger, La Porte, was chosen president of the Indiana district Walther leagues, and Indianapolis was selected as the 1932 convention city, at the 1931 convention here. A. L. Ulmer, Ft. Wayne, was elected vice-president; Miss Eleanor Hansen, Indianapolis, secretary, and Theodore Lentz, Ft. Wayne, treasurer. Chester G. Hitzman, Ft. Wayne, president for the past year, was chosen field secretary. A scholarship in Valparaiso university to be awarded annually, to an Indiana league member, was established, and the first grant will be made next fall. Veteran Librarian Dies By Times Special PLAINFIELD, Ind., June 1. Funeral services were held today for Miss Belle Hanna, 71, who died of apoplexy at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ernest Cooper. She was a member of the D. A. R., Department Club, Methodist church and Kappa Alpha Theta. For thirty years she was head of the Greencastle city library.