Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1931 — Page 9

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EXILE OF BOY BRINGS STATE SCHOOL TERM Circuit Judge at Princeton Ordered Motherless Lad to Leave County. DELAY CAUSES ANGER Desire to Get His Clothes Caused John Tooley, 13, to Defer Start. By Times Special PRINCETON. Ind., July 16.—John Tooiey, 13, motherless Princeton boy exiled from Gibson county by Circuit Judge Claude A. Smith, placed under arrest because he delayed his departure long enough to get the few clothes he possessed, will spend the next eight years of a troubled young life in the Indiana Eoys pchool. Brought before Judge Smith on a charging of stealing a practically ■worthless meat cleaver and tongs }rom a blacksmith shop, the court prder the ragged, hatless and barefoot boy to leave Gibson county immediately. Spent Night in Jail John left the courtroom for the home of his father, Alfred Tooley, and his stepmother. They were absent. The house was locked. He ■waited until their return. A meager eupper was given him and he made ready for his departure. In the meantime, his father went to Judge Smith to discuss the matter. Angered because the boy had not left, the judge ordered him arrested and he Was held overnight in the county jail. Before the court the following day John heard the order which will J?eep him in the state institution Until he reaches manhood’s estate. Offers to Leave The boy had previously been an inmate of the school. He did not y/ant to go back. “Get my clothes and I will leave town now,’ he sobbed repeatedly. The law, as interpreted by Judge J3mith, was deaf. John will enter the institution. At least he will not be an exile. John’s mother died when he was very small. The father married again. The second wife having lost her life in the 1925 tornado he married a third time. Officials say conditions in the home are bad and that, the father expressed a belief his son would fare better in the school than if turned out in the world.

INDIANA SWELTERS IN CONTINUED HEAT WAVE One Death Reported as Temperature Nears New High Mark. Fair and warmer is the forecast for Indiana by the United States weather bureau at Indianapolis today as the state continued under the rays of a blistering sun and high humidity. One death was reported as the result of the heat. Clinton Overman, 60, died suddenly at his home in Fairmount from an attack of heart disease brought on by the heat. The temperature in central Indiana Wednesday climbed to 95.3 degrees. less than one degree under the all-time record for July 15. The hottest July 15 was in 1887, when the temperature touched 96. A year ago on the corresponding date the temperature was 78 degrees. At 6 this morning the mercury read 77 degrees. In one hour it mounted to 81. four degrees higher than at the same time Wednesday.

MAN BELIEVED SHOT IN ROBBERY ATTEMPT Resident on Indianapolis Rural Route Wanted in Roachdalc Case. fiy Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., July 16. Charges are on file here accusing Leroy Baker. Route 18, Indianapolis, ■with being implicated in attempted robbery of the Ott Fuller clothing store at Roachdale and automobile theft. A band of men, believed to have been four in number, tried to force an entrance to the store, but fled when Fuller shot at them. Several shots were fired by the men as they fled. It is said a man resembling Baker iwas seen on a road near Roachdale after the affray and apparently was wounded. Indianapolis police have advised Putnam county authorities here that Baker has a criminal record, having been convicted of automobile theft. DIES AT MATE'S BIER Veteran Newspaper Man’s Wife Follows Him in Death. gy United Press LANSING. Mich., July 16. Double funeral services will be held in Lansing Friday morning for Fred A. Grimes, veteran capitol newspaper correspondent, and his wife, Suzanne E. Grimes. 38, it was announced today. Mrs. Grimes died Wednesday afternoon of a heart attack twelve hours after her husband had been stricken similarly. She collapsed as she escorted her mother-in-law, Mrs. John H. Grimes of South Eend, Ind., to her husband's casket. Death was instantaneous and the efforth of a physician to revive her were futile. Former Cashier Accused fiy Timet Special GOSHEN, Ind., July 16.—Four puits filed in Elkhart circuit court (seeking to establish preferred Claims, alleged irregularities in operation of the Goshen State bank, now defunct. It is alleged that Frank Voder, who was cashier of the bank, took funds belonging to plaintiffs and substituted for them worthless or depreciated securities,.

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Its Time to Get in the Swim

You may be “in the swim” in society, bridge, on the golf links, but to be really “in the swim” these days you've got to have on a couple of straps and a sunburn and be on one of the city’s beaches. So The Times photographer

‘MA’ KENNEDY EXPECTS OTHER WOMEN TO CHASE HUSBAND

By. United frets LOS ANGELES, July 16.—Mrs. Minnie A. (Ma) Kennedy, mother of the Four-Square evangelist, Aimee Semple McPherson, today came to the defense of her new husband, the Rev. G. Edyard Hudson, who is viewed suspiciously by three other women as the man they believe they either married or were to have married. “I don’t care how many women there are after him. * I wouldn’t have anything to do with him if thei-e weren’t,” Mrs. Kennedy said. The honeymooning couple returned to Los Angeles today. Mrs. Kennedy Hudson referred to her husband as “what-a-man.” “What, only three women after him? Why, there should be 3,000,” declared the mother of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson.

ROB DEPICT MASTER S6O Is Booty of Crooks; Victim Bound, Gagged. Binding and gagging Onnie Hambler, 27, traction station master at Lawrence, two gunmen late on Wednesday night looted the till of S6O. Hambler told deputy sheriffs that he had gone to his home nearby for a drink. Returning through the bus division of the station, he was accosted by the armed and masked men, he said. Forcing him to turn out the lights, they bound him hand and foot, gagging him with oily rags they found in the building. His head was placed on the floor and his feet tied to the counter several feet high. Hambler was released by Harley Snider, 22, of Lawrence, who, sitting outside the station, heard Hambler’s head rapping against the floor in the stationmaster’s efforts to loose himself. SALES DRIVE DRAWN BY NORGE DEALERS Plans for a summer sales drive, the Norge Rollator “marathon con-

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test” were made today when an advertising agency representative, an official of the Norge corporation, and J. M. Bloch, Indianapolis distributor of the Norge electric refrigerators, t(Way. Conferring with Bloch were A. W. Seiber, vice-pres-ident of the C r amer-Krasselt advertising agency, in Milwaukee, and

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GOODRICH’S HOUSE RAIDED FOR BEER

By 7 imrs Special RUSHVILLE, Ind.. July 16.—A large stone house in the center of Rushville’s finest residential district, and owned by former Governor James P. Goodrich, was the object of a liquor raid here early today. In the basement officers say they found sixty-five gallons of home brew. They lay in wait for the swner of the liquor and arrested

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combing the beaches picked up i the pictured worshipers of Aqua Pura. < Top Lest —This beach-comber who never saw Waikiki is Marie Stewart, 1001 College avenut, Vipt. 301. Top Right—Some aquatic mar-

Hudson was determined to face the three women who claimed he was the man who courted them, Mrs. Kennedy said. Their asserted identification of him as their husband and husband-to-be, was based upon photographs shown them. Mrs. Margaret Newton Hudson of Los Angeles was the first to claim a resemblance between Hudson and the Rev. Guy E. Hudson, whom she married in Las Vegas. Mrs. Guy E. Hudson of Denver was announced by Mrs. Margaret Newton Hudson as another claimant to the affections of Mrs. Kennedy’s new spouse. Third was Mrs. Ethel Harbart, Los Angeles, who said she was about to marry one Guy K Hudson when

FISH DISTRIBUTED 500,000 Fingcrlings Placed in State Lakes and Streams. Nearly 500,000 fingerling fish have been distributed to lakes and streams throughout the state from the five state fish hatcheries during June, according to the report of Walter Shirts, fish and game division chieftain in the state conservation department. Sixty thousand advanced fry and 165,500 fingerlings came from Riverside hatchery here. Species included large and small mouth bass, black bass, yellow perch and bluegills. YARDLEY TO MAKE TALK Well-Known Head of ‘Black Chamber’ to Address Service Club. Herbert O. Yardley, head of the so-called American “black chamber” in which foreign military and diplomatic correspondence was decoded during the war and afterward, will speak before the Indianapolis Service Club Monday. Yardley, whose home is in W’orthington, Ind., recently wrote a book dealing with cryptography and its part in recent American diplomatic and military history. Evans Woollen Jr., president of the Service Club, will preside at the luncheon meeting, which will be held on the top floor of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. BOUND TO GRAND JURY Harry McCormack Alleged to Have Transported Alcohol. Harry McCormack, alias Harry Pitts, 47, will have an opportunity to explain to-the federal grand jury how fourteen gallons of alcohol happened to be in his car when it was searched by Sergeant John Eisenhut. McCormack was bound over to the grand jury Wednesday under a $1,500 bond by United States Commissioner Howard S Young.

John Carr of the English hotel, Indianapolis, ors a possession charge. Carr is the son of the late Owen Carr, vho formerly owned the house, which became part of the ex-Governor's property in March in settlement of Mr. Carr's estate. Recently neighbors complained of trucks driving to and from the house au night,-

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vels do the Australian crawl, but for just the plain unadorned “crawl” you can learn a few strokes from Nancy Tully, 1, of 4239 Graceland avenue. Bottom—A bit of curb service as purveyed by Jack-the-Life-Guard at the Broad Ripple park beach.

he disappeared. Eut she cherished a photograph, taken with him at Venice on Christmas day, 1928, and claimed a resemblance between her Mr. Hudson and Mrs. Kennedy’s husband. “We were almost to San Diego when I read about this mess,” Mrs. Kennedy said. “ ‘What about this, G?’” I asked him. “ ‘Let’s turn around and find out,’ ” he said. “So here we are.” “I don’t care how many women are after him. He’s mine and he’ll stay mine.' I’ll hire an attorney today, and I announce right now I’ll pay tribute to no one. “ ‘G’ married me with a clear conscience. He told me that if there was any doubt in my mind about our marriage, we’d apart until it was cleared up.’

DEBTS EXPERT DEAD 5 U. S. Treasury Official Ends Own Life. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 16.—The man who for many days sat at a desk in the treasury department, bent over columns of figures, out of which grew the Hoover debt holiday, commited suicide Wednesday. He was Robert Godfrey Ha. 1, who entered the treasury department thirty years ago as a clerk and for eleven years had been commis- ! sioner of accounts and deposits, i “His untimely death” said c- ' n Mills, acting secretary of the treasury, “was due to a nervous breakdown which unquestionably resulted from overwork. In his death the treasury has suffered an irreparable loss.” U. S. IS AFTER SPEED Award Contract for Motors for Schneider Cup Races. By United rress WASHINGTON, July 16.—The navy has contracted for construction of anew type of engine which it is hoped will put the United States back in the race for speed supremacy in the air. The new engine is said to have met all preliminary tests. If it comes up to the navy’s hopes in actual use, the United States may be able to compete in the 1933 Schneider cup races for seaplanes. Identity of the designer and specifications of the engine are guarded by officials. OFFICIAL ON PROGRAM lowa's I eutenant-Governor Will Spe? k at U. C. T. Meeting. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 16. —Arch W. McFarlane, Lieutenant-Governor of lowa, will deliver the principal address at a state-wide picnic of United Commercial Travelers at Mounds state park Sunday", Aug. 2. McFarlane is supreme past counsellor of the U. C. T. Other talks will be made by Representative Albert H. Vestal and J. H. Mellett, mayor of Anderson. Invitations have been sent to all councils in state. Councils at Kokomo, Logansport, Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Muncie and Richmond have promised to send delegations. Bedford Man Dies By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., July I.—Newton R. Thbmas, 69, salesman for a wholesale grocery company for twenty years, is,siead at Lis home here of-heart-di^pise,

DISASTER IS FACING U. S. WHEAT FARMS Great Grain Flood Pours on Market at New Low Prices. SOUTHWEST ‘DISGUSTED’ Hoover May Be Forced to Turn His Attention From Europe. BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON JR. United Press Staff Corresnondent KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 16. Farmers of the southwest faced financial disaster today as they poured upon an already glutted market the greatest flood of the golden grain in history, and were forced to sell it at a price far below the cost of production. From a dozen markets came word of new lows reached as the huge wheat crop poured in and further depressed prices. In Chicago on Wednesday, July futures sold at 5014 events a bushel, anew low in the history of the market. At Kansas City the same month sold at 41%, while at Minneapolis the price was 55%. In country markets of the southwest 25 to 30 cents was the usual price for wagon wheat. At Dighton, Kan., 24 cents.was accepted. Farmers Are Bitter To some men such prices, said to be the lowest price since Kansas became a state, brought discouragement so bitter that, faced with clogged terminals and the prospects of an even lower market, they drove their plows into the fields to turn under their greatest crop. They were convinced, they said, that harvesting costs would be too great to justify the reaping. Tenant farmers sought deals with the men who run combines for hire by which the landlord would get his share and the thresher the rest, leaving nothing for themselves. In half a hundred Kansas counties, great mounds of the grain—as much as 10,000 bushels in one pile—lay exposed to the elements, while farmers looked in vain for storage facilities in an effort to hold their crop for higher prices. Near Hutchinson such piles dotted the landscape in every direction. Discuss Moratorium Discussion of proposals for a debt moratorium, advaced by numerous leaders as the panacea for farm ills, was widespread. Since June 25, when ReprSentative Edgar C. Howard of Nebraska sent a telegram to President Hoover, in which he suggested a five-year moratorium on payment of farm mortgages, with only interest to be paid promptly, similar proposals have been advanced frequently. Criticism of the farm board was general, with many leaders blaming this government organization for the low prices. They believed, they said, that if the board would alter its stand and agree positively to hold its surplus until the new crop is sold, prices would rise at once. Senator George McGill, Kansas Democrat, said: “If the farm board does act, it will do so after it is too late, just as it did a year ago, when it pegged the price after three-fourths of the wheat was in the hands of traders.” Quick Action Needed All agree that if action is taken to relieve the situation, it must come at once. With prices as they stand now, it is feared hundreds may see their farms taken from them by the mortgage-holder even as they reap their greatest crop. One man at an elevator, disgusted, rejected the price quoted him, turned his truck away from the elevator, loosened the tailboard and drove down the streets of a Kansas town, scattering his grain upon the pavement.

Hoover Action Possible By United Press WASHINGTON, July 16.—The domestic wheat crisis was drawing President Hoover’s attention back from the European situation today. Wheat has sunk to the lowest prices ever recorded, just at a time farmers in middle western states are hauling th&r golden harvest to market. Agitation for private “moratoriums” is spreading among western farmers who are using the President’s war debt moratorium plan and the arguments for it as a precedent. While such arrangements would be matters of private agreement between farmers and their creditors, some officials here would regard it as unfortunate if any such practice should lead to the general idea that debts can be escaped. The wheat situation is expected to lead to numerous developments next winter, if not before. Vice-President Charles Curtis and Senator Arthur Capper (Rep., Kan.) are in communication by telegraph over anew relief proposition which they hope to put up to the administration. ASSAILS ARMS COSTS Limit Military Spending, Urges Legion's Past Comandlr. By United Press TORONTO. Ontario, July 16. Limitation of military expenditures to a minimum during the year of the proposed war debts moratorium is the only way real benefits can result from the moratorium. Colonel Alvin Owsley, past national commander of the American Legion, told the Lions international convention here today. Owsley praised the idea of a moratorium in principle. “Obligations for future wars,’ Colonel Owsley said, “are not in order, until the cost of the past war has- been- discharged."

‘MIRACLE’ IS GONE

Source of Mystery Image Is Found

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Corresnondent CHICAGO, July 16.—Chicago’s now famous "miracle,’’ the image of a mother and child on a bare wooden wall, wasn't a miracle at all. It merely was the reflection from a lace curtain, located, of all places, in the flat of Sam Genna, notorious gangster. The discovery, in the gray hours before today’s dawn, brought back to the workaday world the minds of some 25.000 persons who had milled most of the night in the streets surrounding the image. “It’s all a mistake,” shouted an officer, pulling down a shade in the Genna flat and satisfying himself that the image had disappeared. “It ain't no miracle.” His announcement sent the crowds wandering homeward, gave half a dozen riot squads a chance at last to go to bed and caused Dr. J. J. Stoll, principal sufferer from the "miracle,” to sigh in relief. Dr. Stoll was unfortunate enough to occupy the flat on South Ashland boulevard, directly in front of the wall where the image had appeared nightly for the last several nights. Superstitious citizens learned of it, swarmed into Dr. Stoll's yard, ruined his flower bed, tore down his fence and climbed up on his garage in such numbers that the roof caved in. nun a a e A DOZEN small boys, perched on a high fence, pelted the crowds with pebbles. That didn't help any. Neither did a hawker who set up a stand under Dr. Stoll’s parlor window and howled: “Get your near-beer folks. Get your near-beer before you see the miracle. It’s hot back in that there alley.” So it was. Half a dozn women fainted in the stifling air under the flickerig shadow on the fence before the night was over. To this correspondent it looked like a blur of dim gray light. But to a middle-aged woman of the Mexican quarter who crossed herself devoutly while so saying it was: “The Holy Virgin Mary, Mjfdre De Dios, senors, the Holy Virgin Mary.” Then, while every one was standing prayerful, boisterous, in awe. or derisive, as the case may have been. Police Liutenant Joseph Pieroth stalked into the Genna flat, brushed Sam aside and pulled down a shade, thereby causing a curtain to fall on the miracle. “The street light shined on the curtain,” explained Pieroth, “and the curtain reflected the light on the fence across the stret. And now all you people go home to bed or I’ll run you in.”

Pastors ’ Pensions to Go Into Effect on Aug. 1

Obtain $3,125,000 Toward Disciples of Christ Drive Total. Age retirement pensions for Disciples of Christ ministers and missionaries will go into effect Aug. 1, it was announced today. Resources in pledges and funds, as reported July 10 by the officails of the pension fund, total of $3,125,612, to count on an $8,000,000 prior service fund that is to be raised. On this basis fund trustees declared effective 42 per cent of the age retirement pensions, as contemplated in the Disciples’ plan. It was stated that the pensions will be extended as rapidly as new resources justify. Since April 1, protection benefits have been paid by the fund, covering disability of ministers, death benefits and pensions for widows and minor children of deceased ministers. These benefits, it was explained by the Rev F. E. Smith, secretary of the fund, depend on regular payment of dues by ministers and churches. The age retirement penisons for ministers, together with the support of a ministerial relief roll of 426 persons, require a total fund of SB,0000,000, the completion of which will remain a major objective of the church.

LIGHTNING BOLT HITSCftPITOL Washington Cleaning Up After Storm. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 16.—Washington today cleaned up the debris left by a severe thunderstorm during which lightning bolts struck the Capitol building and destroyed a tree on the White House grounds. Near Kernstown, Va„ a farmer was killed by lightning. Cr. 2 death here was attributed to the heat that preceded the storm. The bolt that hit the Capitol set fire to an awning outside the office of Representative McFadden of Pennsylvania. Branches and cement were strewn over the White House lawn by the bolt that destroyed a hickory tree there. The cement had been used to fill a cavity in the tree, which stood within 150 yards of the mansion. Another flash started a slight fire in a temporary wooden structure occupied by the census bureau. Six thousand workers there had been dismissed just before the storm because of the 94-degree heat. Two churches, the naval hospital and many trees in the city also were struck. In nearby Virginia, firemen worked five hours to extinguish a blaze in an historic poplar that was used as a sentry post during the Civil war.

C. M. T. C. HONOR LIST TO BE DRAWL;

Outstanding basic candidates at the citizens’ military camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison from Indiana and Marion county were to be selected late today by the board of awards, and those picked will be presented with medals awarded by the'Reserve Officers’ Association of Indiana. The board has recommended Carrington Hall, Akron, 0., as the principal and Dale Harphan, Pleasant Lake, as alternate for the Culver military academy scholarship. Nine competed for this honor. Winners of the Military Training Camp Association medals, which will be presented at the final ceremony Friday morning have been designated by camp officials. Candidates chosen in the blue or fourth year course are Thomas D. Bertrand. 2044 North Meridian street; John O. A. Bradshaw. 1309 University court; Don C. Faneher. Shelbsvllle; Robert Frye, South Rend," Vemcdrf Ptolll s PC' Fredertcicstownr'CF:

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ASK HOOVER TO PARDON FALL New Mexico Governor and Senators in Appeal. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 16.—President Hoover today referred to the justice department an appeal from New Mexico officials asking executive pardon for Albert B. Fall. The telegraphic appeal was received at the White House soon after the President reached his office and was immediately transmitted to the office of the attorneygeneral. Mr. Hoover will take no action in the matter until the department investigates and makes a recommendation, it was said. Mr. Hoover’s speech at the Harding memorial dedication, stating no punishment is too great for officials guilty of malfeasance in office, generally has been Interpreted as representing Mr. Hoover’s opposition to clemency. The telegram was signed by Governor Arthur Seligman, Senators Cutting and Bratton and all members of the 1931 New Mexico legislature.

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First attorney to be admitted to the supreme court bar under new rules the court adopted recently was one of Portia’s sisterhood. Miss Esther Schmitt, 515 Fletcher Savings and Trust building. A graduate of Benjamin Harrison law school, Miss Schmitt is a practicing attorney here. She appeared in the high court Wednesday and was admitted. Veteran Gets $3,200 MARION, Ind., July 16.—William F. Lund. Marion World war veterans has received $3,213 in back pension from the government, according to Mark Hinkle, secretai-y to Congressman Glenn Griswold.

Lowell PuSenberger, Fostoria. O.; Cornelius Deeds, Navarre. O : Charles Athey, Coshocton, O.; John Lewis, Burton. O. Outstanding candidates in the white or third year course are Harold R. White, 311 Villa avenue; Leo A. Louderbach, Brazil: Glenn A. Farster, Indiana Harbor; Paul Schauer, Ft. Wayne: Edgar K. Peters. Jackson. O.; William C. Wine. Toledo. O.; Roy Smith Jr.. Kent. O.; John H. Dwyer. Louisville, 0.. and Marlon F. Oberwegner. Toledo. O. The judges named the following candidates in the basic or first-year course: Leo M. Jones. Hartford City; Paul Walburn. Huntington: Kalman T. Pell. South Bend: Clayton Frogge. Shelbyville; William W. Wallace. Kendallville; George J. Blimm. Crown Point; William Zugelder. Greentown: David. Muhlenberg. Ft. Hayes. O.: Donald E. Chandler, Bucyrus. O. Leading second-year men in the red course ere William Smiley, Loogootee; Charles Brown. Greencastle; Arza Dalrvmple. Elkhart: Harry Knepp. Ligonler; Pied Miller. Hammond; Carrington Hall. Akron: George Rayburn. Minerva. O.; Lee Britton, Warren. O.: Edward Szabo. Cleveland, 0.. and Airidge Doatai. Cleveland;* Os * --

COMMISSION ‘GOES TO BAT’ FOR BLACKTOP Federal Patronage Sought in Conference With U. S. Road Chief. DISAPPOINTMENT IS DUE Voshell Standing Firm on $460,000 Road Aid Refusal. Once more the state highway commission has gone to bat for their blacktop paving specifications, upon which they have been unable to collect federal aid. Director John J. Brown, commissioner. and state highway engineers were in conference this morning with J. T. Voshell, chief of the federal roads bureau in the Chicago district. It was explained that the conference was to try and get Voshell to support the state blacktop construction by approving the program for federal aid. This has been refused many times previously and by noon today it appeared that there will be no reversal of the federal roads bureau stand. At the beginning of this construction period, A. H. Hinkle, maintenance engineer who has charge of blacktop construction, had agreed to collect $460,000 on the federal aid piled up to Indiana's credit at Washington. So far only one blacktop project has been approved for federal aid and the whole matter of such construction is to be heard in Marion circuit court. Other specifications submitted to the federal roads bureau have been turned down including the road involved in the court suit. Meanwhile concrete construction has been reduced in price to such an extent that several hundred thousands of dollars figured for federal aid on concrete has also pildd up and is yet to be collected by the state department. The matter of uncollected federal aid was the subject of a senate investigation at the 1931 legislative session.

ACQUISITION OF LEASED GAS PIPE LINE ASKED ■ Two Midland United Companies Would Be Affected. A petition has been filed with the state public service commisison by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company seeking authority to acquix-e from the Public Service Pipe Line Company a lease it holds on a gas transmission pipe extending from Indiana-Illinois state line in Lake county southeastward approximately 120 miles to a point near Kokomo in Howard county. The lease was obtained by the pipe line company May 31, 1923 from the owner, the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company, and runs until April 30, 1936. The property consists principally of a ten-incil gas line extending from a distribution center at East Chicago through Lake, Porter, Starke, Pulaski, Cass and Miami counties into Howard county. The Public Service Pipe Line Company, the petition states, transmits gas through its system of leased line. Considerable territory through which the line passes is supplied with gas service by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, which is the principal customer of the Public Pipe Line Company. A number of communities including Logansport, Peru, Wabash, Winamac Hobart, Valparaiso and Crown Point, are interconnected with the leased line by transmission lines owned and operated by the Northern Indiana company. Both the Northern Indiana and the pipe line company are controlled by the Midland United Company. BOMBING GUILT DENIED Bedford Man Arrested After Blast Wrecks Barber Shop. By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., July 16—A plea of not guilty was entered by Roger Cannedy, 22, when arraigned on a charge in connection with the bombing of a barber shop here. Police learned that Cannedy, son of a barber, had recently purchased lead pipe similar to that which wa* used to manufacture the bomb that wrecked the Marley brothers shop. James, Jesse and William Marley. owners of the shop, laid the bombing to a cut itl price of shaves from 25 cents to 15 cents. LOWER SALARIES URGED Lake County Judges May Be Paid $7,590 Instead of SIO,OOO. By Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., July 16. Salaries of seven Lake county judges will be reduced from SIO,OOO a year each to $7,500, according to William Linton and Black, Republican county commissioners, as a part of a program designed to lower taxes. The commissioners said official action reducing the salaries will be taken at the September meeting of the county council when the 1932 budget will be formulated. Flagr„:ones Stolen By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 16. Police have received complaints tha| flagstones are being stolen by persons who are using them in beautifying lawns. Officials of the South Bend Cut Stone Company reported the thefts. Store Stock Aids Yeggs MUNCIE, Ind., July 16.—Using equipment found on the counters of the F. <fc W. Grand store here,' yeggs blew open the safe but obtained no loot. Hardware from the store's counters was used in preparation for Wasting- the safe dpor.*