Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1931 — Page 9

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9, BURIED BY ITCH,’ MAY BEjXHUMED Police Delve Deeper Into Amazing Boarding House Death Mystery. NEIGHBORS IN TERROR Attribute Weird Acts and Powers to Wizened, Silent Woman. By United Press DETROIT, Aur. 27.—Exhumation of the bodies of nine men, believed buried with the aid of cash from their own insurance policies, may be resorted to by police in their efforts to determine whether Mrs. Rose Veres, 48, “witch” landlady, speeded their deaths. The woman, a tight-lipped, shrunken figure, who is blamed by her neighbors in Detroit's Hungarian colony for all manner of evil and witchery, was held today on a technical charge of murdering Steve Mak, 68. Mrs. Veres’ eldest son, William, 18, also is held. Their arrests came quickly following Mak’s death Wednesday after a plunge or fall from a ladder propped against an attic window at the woman’s rooming house.' Made $68,000 in Deposits Four witnesses to the fall said Mak appeared to have been pushed off the ladder or thrown from the attic window. Mrs. Veres, in her few volube moments, insists he fell. At any rate, Mrs. Veres was beneficiary in his insurance policies, police point out. The circumstances of Mak’s death, however, have become incidental to police, who are concerned chiefly with the manner in which nine other men, either husbands or roomers of Mrs. Veres, met their deaths in her home. In the maze of significant evidence uncovered by George N. Stut.z, assistant prosecutor, it was said to have been learned that Mrs. Veres made bank deposits of $68,000 over the twelve-year period during which the ten died. Seize Fifty Policies In the woman’s untidy dwelling, investigators reported seizing more than fifty insurance polices. Mrs. Veres, referred to by terrified neighbor women as the “witch of Delray,” was beneficiary in most of the policies, which generally were for comparatively small amounts. Seven of the suspected victims, three of whom are said to be former husbands, were given elaborate funerals for which Mrs. Veres paid for in whole or in part, records of Frank Bicszo, east side undertaker, disclosed. In six of the seven cases, she had commercial photographers take funeral pictures of the men at church. The pictures showed open coffins banked with and mourners grouped about. Mrs. Veres refused to explain this strange practice to inquisitors. Scoffs at Investigation Bicszo, who admits he got Mrs. Veres’ exclusive trade except in two deaths in 1923 and 1924, has supplied police with death warrants showing that Dr. J. S. Leszynski signed six of the nine warrants. Leszynski was to make a statement to prosecutors today. While the arrest of the “witch” woman caused a flurry of excitement for residents of her neighborhood, undertaker Bicszo and Deputy Coroner George S. Berg refused to get excited over the strange and mysterious gossip and reports about the woman. Berg, a veteran, said it is not unusual for ten men to die in a transient rooming house during a decade or more. Furthermore, he asserted, it is a common practice for foreigners, living in almost native surroundings, to have their landladies insure them for burial expenses in the event they die while on her bounty. Stutz and homicide detectives refuse to share the views of the undertaker and coroner’s deputy, however. They want a satisfactory accounting for each of the ten deaths. HOOSIER FATHER TO SEE GIRL, 17, FOR FIRST TIME State Police Complete Arrangements for Meeting in Indianapolis. State policemen today are completing arrangements for a meeting here next week of Fred Turner, Tell City, and his 17-year-old daughter Violet, whom he never has seen. Patrolman William J. Wiltmer located Turner at Tell City when request for his whereabouts was received from Floyd Collins, uncle of the girl. He told police that the girl has been living with relatives here, but was born at Battle Creek, Mich., when her father was elsewhere in a hospital, and that the family never reunited. The only clew given the police was that Turner had lived in Tell City many years ago. He had returned in the interim and was found easily, police reported. FIGHT FARM BOARD ACT Chicago Business Leaders Oppose llse of Taxpayers’ Money. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 27.—Charles A. Wilson, president of the Chicago Livestock Exchange, and sixty-nine other business leaders organized today to fight the federal farm board and other government agencies which they said used taxpayers’ money to compete with taxpayers’ business. Wilson said his organization, known as the Federation of American Business Men, would make application at Springfield today for a charter, and that similar action would be taken soon in at least eleven other states.

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Miss Josephine Roche, president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, to which union miners have pledged aid in a battle to maintain wages.

BANKS BOOST SCHOOLS RATE Arbitrary Hike Arouses Much Discussion. Arbitrary increase of the interest rate on temporary loans for the Indianapolis school board from 2% per cent to 5 per cent by Indianapolis banks caused much discussion today among members of the school board. In answer to its advertisement for a ninety-day loan of $150,000 to meet current expenses, six Indianapolis banks offered a joint bid to the board at an interest rate of 5 per cent with a premium of sl2. A. B. Good, school business manager, declared today that because the money was needed to meet the pay roll the bid was accepted. Banks joining in the offer are the Merchants National bank, Fletcher American National bank, Indiana National bank, Fletcher Trust Company, Indiana Trust Company and Union Trust Company. School board financial records reveal that on April 29, $200,000 was borrowed from the Fletcher American bank for sixty days at 2 7 / s per cent and the bank paid a premium of $16.75; and on March 24, SIOO,OOO was borrowed from the Merchants National bank and the Indiana Trust Company at 3 per cent. BROOMS ‘GOINS BIG' Pettis Unable to Keep Pace With Sales. That the broom industry of the nation has been given a decided impetus is evidenced by a carload sale of broom this week at the Pettis Dry Goods Company store which featured them in a unique “clean sweep sale.’’ Nearly 8,000 brooms were offered earlier in the week and so great was the demand for them when the news spread about to Indiana housewives it became necessary for the store executives to arrange another sale of them. Friday a similar event will take place and it is expected that 4,000 more brooms will go out to local homes to aid housewives in maintaining clean homes. A large display window will feature these brooms today. The large orders recently placed for the brooms kept a factory busy for some time the incidental work of conveying to the store and placing them in every department occupied an extra staff of workers several days. GOLF PRO’S WIFE TO BE BURIED IN CITY Last Rites to Be Held Friday for . Mrs. Gertrude Stark. Last rites for Mrs. Gertrude Parrish Stark, 26, former Indianapolis resident, will be held at 2 Friday afternoon at the McNeely mortuary, 1828 North Meridian street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Stark was the wife of George J. Stark, former golf professional at Riverside and now professional at the Summit Hills Country Club, Covington, Ky. Mrs. Stark died at her home in Covington. Mrs. Stark was a native of Logansport and while in Indianapolis was supervisor in the Washington exchange of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Surviving her are the husband, and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Parrish, of Star City; two sisters, Mrs. Blanche Collins of Indianapolis and Mrs. Gladys Miller of Star City, and two brothers, George Parrish of Elkhart and Richard Parrish of Star City. GIRL GRIEVES FOR DOG Police Are Asked to Join in Hunt for Missing Terrier. Unable to endure her small daughter’s grieving' for a pet dog that is lost or stolen, Mrs. Esther Lappin, 1037 Goodlet avenue, today appealed to Police Chief Michael Morrissey for aid* in recovering the animal. She is a toy Boston bull terrier, with her name, Betty, engraved on the collar. Mrs. Lappin said *.er daughter was ill and her condition was aggravated by loss of the pet. COTTON BAN IS PASSED Louisiana House Sends Bill to Senate for Its O. K. By United Press BATON ROUGE. La., Aug. 27. The house of the Louisiana legislature today approved the W ilk insDouglas "cotton holiday” bill for which it was called in extraordinary session by Governor Huey P. Long. The bill was sent to the senate. The measure, not effective unless three-fourths of the cotton producing states take similar action, would provide a heavy fine and possible jail sentence for anyone attempting to grow cotton in 1932.

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WAR ON HUGE SCALE LOOMS IN COALFIELD Unions Back Rocky Mountain Fuel Cos. in Colorado, to Uphold Pay Rate. PRICES, WAGES SLICED Labor and Employer Join in Unusual Pact to Battle ‘Octopus.' BY WILLIAM H. BAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent DENVER, Colo., Aug. 27.—A price war unequaled even in the turbulent history of the Colorado coal fields appeared imminent today. With coal prices in Colorado already at a point said to be the lowest in twenty years, non-union operators were reported preparing to meet the challenge of the United Mine Workers of America and the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company. The latter have declared a unique co-operative agreement to maintain wages at 1929 levels, and to mine and market coal to meet any prices set by non-union operators of the state. Competitive non-union companies in the northern field, where the Rocky Mountain Fuel operates its mines, already have instituted one reduction of from 50 to 75 cents a ton, wholesale price. This reduction came just prior to the announcement of 25 per cent mine wage cuts by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, controlled by the Rockefeller interests, and five others of the state’s largest operators. Cuts Held Necesary Ostensibly, there have been no price cuts since that time. Operators contend that the wage cuts were made necessary by the low price of coal, extreme competition, and general business conditions. Their price lists, they declare, are the lowest in two decades. It Is common practice throughout the coal industry in Colorado, however, to make “special reductions” and “discounts” from published prices. Labor organizations throughout the state charge the large r 'erators with having cut coal prices voluntarily as an excuse for subsequent wage slashes. Miss Josephine Roche, president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, in a statement to the United Press, declared her company would meet any price se* by the non-’ 1 union operators. Sue said this was to “meet the price war by which the non-union operators are attempting to break down the union wage scale.” The statement indicated her acceptance of the labor viewpoint. Lines Sharply Drawn Union operators contend the price cuts were forced upon them. Unbiased neutrals see the price war as a battle between two sides of industrial thought—with the highly unionized and employe-Co-operative Rocky Mountain Fuel Company on one side and the nonunion capitalistic system operators on the other. The Rocky Mountain Fuel Company’s organization, Instituted by Miss Roche when she gained control of the company in 1928, has been epitomized as “radical,” by some business leaders of the state. It, has been predicted that such organization, where the employes have a very real and vital voice in the operation of the company, could not long exist under twentieth century competitive business conditions. Battle to Finish That section of Colorado society which has named itself “progressive” hailed the organization as an outstanding example of the trend in industrial relationships. The organization, they declared, would stand after the capitalistic form had fallen. Today it appeared the two forms were aligned definitely in‘a battle to the finish. Economists and industrial leaders of the state watched from the sidelines, interested spectators in the first out and out contest between the old and the new. Auto Crushes Worker’s Arm When the automobile under which he was working slipped off a jack, James E. Wheeler, R. R. 1, Box 62, sustained a fractured wrist. was taken to city hospital.

HUGE BUSINESS LOSSES ARE LAID TO CIRCLE PARKING BAN

Loss of from 15 to 55 per cent in daily sales because of the new traffic ordinance ban on Monument Circle parking is charged by business firms. Today Circle merchants launched a campaign asking the public to support their drive for repeal of the Circle anti-parking law. Charging that restriction of parking in front of their stores merely puts dollars, at their expense, in pockets of others, twenty-seven concerns have joined the movement. * First step in the test is publication of a full page advertisement in today* T'mes asking the public to sign coupons, expressing dissatisfaction with the parking ban. The coupons, to be mailed to Circle merchants for use in their drive, asks the public to declare against the present traffic ordinance for Monument Circle and the reinstatement of former angle parking. “I’m sick of it!” said Mrs. H. Norton of the Norton Corset shop, 11 North Mercian street, today. “The parking ton has lowered the value

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1931

IT’S SPEED THAT RULES WORLD

And National Airßaces Will Be Full Proof

Participants in the major racing events at the national air races and two of the fast planes entered: Top Right—Ben Howard’s ninetyhorse power Pete. Lower Left—Jimmy Doolittle’s Solution.

STATE COP IS HELDJSKILLER Manslaughter Charges Are Filed at Connersville. By Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 27. Manslaughter charges were filed here today against state policeman Carl Springmire as the first step in prosecution against him for the slaying of Stanley Coomes, at the Fayette county fairground Friday night. The allegations were brought in circuit court by Chester Shank, living near Connersville, who said he was a former employe of the slain man. State Police Chief Grover Garrott today suspended Springmire during investigation of the charges. Shortly after the charges were filed, Springmire appeared before Sheriff Towell Woodward and gave $2,000 bond pending trial. Grand jury investigation of the shooting will be opened about Sept. 10, Prosecutor Leroy C. Hanley announced today. He said no date will be set for the manslaughter hearing until Sept. 7. On recommendation of the coroner, H. W. Smesler, who conducted an inquest, the grand jury will hear ten witnesses. Springmire is said to have found Coomes tampering with an auto at the fairground and fired three times, the last bullet striking Coomes in the head. Witnesses said Springmire looked at the body and walked away. BANKERS IN PARLEY Hoover Confers With High U. S. Finance Men. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—A conference among four New York bankers and President Hoover was held in the seclusion of the White House Wednesday night. It was described by the President’s associates today as having dealt with “general business conditions.” Close observers attached considerable importance to the meeting. Those who met with Mr. Hoover were William C. Potter, president of the Guaranty Trust of New York; Charles S. McCain, president of the Chase National; George W. Davison, president of the Central Hanover, and James T. Lee, vicepresident of the Chase National. Eugene Meyer, chairman of the federal reserve board, also was present. Government Costs Increase By Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—A report issued today by the bureau of the census shows cost of city government in Kokomo, Ind., increased to $23.11 per capita in 1930, as compared to $21.47 the previous year.

of this location, and it has caused my business to decrease from 25 to 50 per cent daily.” ) Statements of other merchants are: A. G. Vivion, the Carter Company, 58 Monument circle —The circle is the natural downtown parking place. Indianapolis draws shoppers from a radius of fifty miles. These out-of-town people are afraid to come here now. They’re afraid of being towed in. I think parking on the circle would increase all downtown business. Carl Lyman, Lyman Brothers, 31 Monument Circle —It itsn’t a matter of business alone. Part of the beauty of our downtown section depends on the business and commerce that are carried on there. It is medieval to think that the circle looks more beautiful when there are no cars parked on its streets. W. C. Williamson, The Carter Company, 58 Monument Circle— The parking ordinance is a rank injustice to circle merchants. Walter H. Judd, Judd Typewriter Exchange, 142 NortTfMeridian Street —Strict enforcement of a fifteen-

BY ISRAEL KLEIN NEA Service Writer CLEVELAND, Aug. 27—Several speed records will be made and broken, and breath-taking stunts will thrill the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected at the national air races to be held here from Aug. 29 to Sept. 7. Speeding and stunting in safety will be the unusual combination of aerial fare to be offered the guests. Speeding across continent and over a set closed course around the airport here. Stunting by crack pilots, among the leaders being a shy, blue-eyed girl of 19. Even before the air races have started, a group of some fifty men and women pilots have taken off from Santa Monica, Cal., in a transcontinental derby to Cleveland. They are to make fourteen stops on their way to Cleveland, where they will come in almost in one spectacular bunch to collect prizes totaling $25,000. Most thrilling of all events, however, will be the $15,000 Bendii trophy race and the Thompson trophy race, in both of which sortie of the best fliers in America will try to break existing speed records across country and over a 100-mile course. u u u IN the Bendix Trophy race fliers like the famous Jimmie Doolittle, Walter J. Hunter, Lou Reichers and James Hall, will try to beat Frank Hawks’ transcontinental flight record of 12 hours 25 minutes from Los Angeles to New York, if they find their time from the west coast city to Cleveland warrants their continuing eastward in this effort. If the Hawks’ record is broken, there’s an additional $5,000 award posted by Vincent Bendix, noted automotive and aeronautic manufacturer and backer of this event. Just as exciting will be the 100mile race of fast planes around a 100-mile course, for a $15,000 prize and trophy which have been put up by Edwin G. Thompson, Cleveland aeronautic leader. Besides these major speed events, pilots will have a chance to set up for the first time speed records in straightaway air dashes, for future, fliers to shoot at. In these dashes the pilots will have to fly specified distances in a level line, both with and against the wind, in order to average their speeds. These speeds will be set up along lines similar to the short dashes in running races. PRESS LUESSE DEFENSE 25,000 Names to Be Sought for Freedom Petition. Signatures of 25,000 persons asking release of Thebdore Luesse, Indianapolis unemployed leader, from the Indiana state farm, will be sought by the International Labor Defense, it was announced today. At a meeting to be held tonight, plans for the petition campaign will be outlined. The meeting will be held at 932 Vs South Meridian street at 8. The organization plans to submit the petitions to Governor Harry G. Leslie after signatures are obtained.

minute parking law would be the ideal arrangements, we think. C. DeCroes, English Hotel Dining Room —Our business has dropped about 55 per cent just since the ordinance went into effect. H. C. Hersey. City Shoe Repair Company, 110 Monument Circle— The parking ban has caused about a 15 per cent drop in my trade. C. J. Monahkn, American Writing Machine Company, 137 North Meridian Street—The parking law just has about cost us the amount of our rent each month. Rentals of typewriters have fallen off 50 per cent. People have the idea that they aren’t allowed to stop, even for a minute. Henry G. Ching, Bamboo Inn, 39 Monument Circle—The low has hurt our business terribly. There has been a drop of at least 35 per cent. George J. Weiss, Weiss Delicatessen. 21 East Market Street—The ordinance has hurt our business. T. P. Brodeur, Brodeur Doll Shop, 111 Monument Circle—This law makes Indianapolis look dead. My own personal gain or loss aside. I think it hurts the city as a whole. L. P. McKelvey, Camera Store, 5

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Use of National Guard’s Field Kitchens Asked by State. Permission to use national guard field kitchens in emergency poor relief in Vermilion county was sought today by Mayor Harry Owens of Clinton and G. E. Bingham, president of the Clinton Red Cross chapter, who called at the Governor’s office. “Not less than 2,000. persons In Clinton township alone are completely destitute and dependent upon relief,” they set out in a petition to Govenior Harry G. Leslie. Prolonged unemployment has rendered the situation there desperate ,the Clinton authorities said. Facilities provided by law have been overburdened and are broken down, and now only inadequate charitable relief is available to the sufferers. Vermillion county was cited in the 1931 general assembly as the state’s worst section from the standpoint of suffering because of unemployment. L. O. Chasey,. secretary to the Governor, wrote Major-General Dennis E. Nolan, Fifth corps area commander, asking permission to lend the kitchens to the Clinton officials. The equipment used by the national guard is owned by the war department, and can not be transferred to civilians, Chasey explained, by state officials alone. tlhasey asked General Nolan to wire his permission at once* to Adjutant-General Paul Tombaugh, head of the Indiana national guard. Mayor Owens and Bingham as!" I for use of four kitchens. ARSON CONFESSION BY YOUTHS IS CLAIMED Fire Near Goshen Believed to Have Started in Blast. Burning the schoolhouse down to get through school was not the reason given by two boys said to have confessed burning a township school they formerly attended near Goshen. According to reports to Albert Fowler, state arson chief, Trevalyn Conrad, 19, and Oscar Tyson, 19, are said to have confessed to burning the school. They explained that they entered the building to get gasoline for their car, from a fifteen-gallon can they knew was kept there. One of them lit a match, and the gasoline exploded, setting fire to the building. Both are held at Goshen and face arson and burglary charges Fowler said. Tax Rate Higher By Times Special 27.—Despite a reduction of the city budget for 1932, the tax rate for that year has been increased, due to a shrinkage of $909,000 in assessed valuation.

West Market Street—Our business has fallen off, and I can see no reason for such a law. R. W. Coverdale, Baldwin Piano Company, 35 Monument Circle— The law ruins our business. Sam E. Hedrick, Hedrick Pants store, 104 Monument Circfle —Our business has suffered. Where would business go in the smaller towns if regulation prevented people from parking within, say, a quarter of a mile from town? L. C. Smith,, Robinson Optical Company, 32 Monument Circle —We continually are embarrassed by persons whose cars are parked outside who want immediate service at the expense of others who are ahead of them. Miss Gladys Alwes, Alwes Music Shoppe, 33 Monument Circle—Customers have complained to me of the inconvenience of this location since the ordinance went into effect. R. E. Trumbull, vice-president of the Orange Jack Company, 924 Circle Tower—Many persons who would otherwise stop at our place on the Circle are kept away by the ordinance. I think that is self evident. “

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Now, Herb — By Scripps-Hoicard Xcicspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. President Hoover probably heard Wednesday night that the nation’s capital has the worst airport in the United States. At any rate Captain Frank Hawks, famous flier, sent that word to him. Hawks was escorting his mother on her transcontinental air journey from Los Angeles to New York. Wednesday she flew up the coast from Atlanta an Eastern Air Transport passenger plane. Hawks escorted her in his own racing plane, making each stop along the 3' ie. In the plane with Mrs. Hawks was Larry Richey, secretary to President Hoove’*. Hawks landed here in a shower of mud and water, and his first words were “What a lousy airport.

PLEDGES FUNDS FOR JOBRELIEF Art Rose First Voluntary Contributor to Cause. Pledging 1 per cent of cash receipts for a period of-six months to the national unemployment relief commission, Arthur E. Rose, chairman of the Rose Tire Company, Inc., 365 South Meridian street, today became the first Indianapolis business man to offer funds for this cause without solicitation. Maintenance of his present wage scale and number of employes also is pledged by Rose in a letter to Walter S. Gifford, chairman of the national unemployment relief commission. Declaring that in the selection of Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, President Hoover has made a happy choice, Rose declared: “We believe that the business men of this country can do much to forestall misery and suffering this winter by starting now to contribute to a fund for that purpose.” KIWmsITPABK Visit to Be Feature of Annual Convention. Indiana Kiwanians will visit Spring Mills state park as one of the recreational features of the annual convention at West Baden, Sept. 15-17,. it was announced today by James E. Fischer, district governor. The trip will be made on Thursday, Sept. 17 under auspices of the state conservation department. The park is the site of a rebuilt Hoosier pioneer settlement of more than 100 years ago. Refreshments will be served on the return trip at the R. A. Troth orchards, said to be the largest in Indiana. First showing of the conservation department films made by Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist, also is on the program. The pictures show the state parks and conservation work. POLICEMAN 7S DEAD Eugene Bruce, on Force Since 1910, Is Heart-Disease Victim. Patrolman Eugene Bruce, 56, a policeman since 1910, died early today at his home, 2850 East Washington street, of heart disease. Mr. Bruce served virtually all his time on the police force as a patrolman. He is survived by the widow and one daughter, who lives in Irvington. Funeral arrangements have not been made. BOND ISSUES~APPROVED Two Small Amounts Given O. K. of State Tax Board. Two small township bond issues for Marion county roads were approved today by the state tax board. A SI,OOO issue in Wayne township for the Allan P. Risley road and $1,175 issue in Perry township for the J. B. Huntington road, were the ones approved. Each bgar interest at 4*A per cent

CONGRESS TO REJECT ‘DOLE,’ SAYSJATSON Predicts Domestic Relief Funds Will Care for Needy. OPPOSES TAX INCREASE Drastic Federal Economy Solution to Deficit, Says Senator. By Scripps-Hoicard Xctcspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader, has begun discussion of the congressional program with President Herbert Hoover and senate leaders. “It is my opinion,” Watson said, “that congress will definitely reject all proposals for a dole for the unemployed, but I believe that if when congress convenes it is clearly shown that people in the United States are in actual distress that sufficient funds to prevent hunger will be voted for distribution through Red Cross and other recognized agencies.” Watson shares with President Hoover the hope that the relief drive beginning Oct. 19 will produce sufficient private funds to eliminate the need for federal appropriations. Tariff Law Dormant “There are three things which I believe the next congress will not do,” he continued. "First; It will not attempt to revise the tariff law. “Second: It will not enact a dole law. “Third: It will not increase taxation.” A plan to boost income taxes in the higher brackets is being sponsored by Senators Couzens of Michigan and La Follette of Wisconsin, Republicans, while Secretary Andrew Mellon is understood to favor certain upward changes. “I believe,” Watson said, “that taxes can not be increased sufficiently to balance the budget. It is my opinion that the deficit will have to be reduced through drastic federal economies.” The next congress will, Watson believes, enact legislation to: “Further regulate railroads and authorize their consolidation. “Increase the powers of the interstate commerce commission to supervise all forms of transportation, including busses and airplanes. “Revise the banking laws to permit stricter supervision over banks to reduce bank failures.” Congressional committees have been studying railroad and banking legislation, and Watson predicted their reports will be acted upon when congress reassembles. Opposes Debt Cancellation Watson and other senators have been informed that Senator Vendenberg (Rep., Mich.) will introduce a bill providing unemployment insurance through use of the federal taxing power and that Senator Steiwer (Rep., Ore.) will champion a bill declaring a moratorium on all debts owed by farmers to the farm loan banks and other federal agencies. “I will oppose both measures,” Watson said, “as each will start endless chains of federal financing and lead to complications. I feel that both will fail of passage.” Watson announced that he will sponsor a bill authorizing the fiveday week on all federal construction work. RACINE OFFICIALS TO STUDY CITY’S RELIEF Arrange Conference With Local Heads on Unemployment. Racine (Wis.) city officials will confer with a committee named by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan here tomorrow, seeking information on the mode of handling the unemployment situation here. The mayor received a telephone call today from Racine, requesting the conference on the grounds that Indianapolis was reputed to have had one of the best known methods of coping with unemployment relief last winter. The local committee will be: William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce official; representatives of the emergency work commission; Walter Clark, attorney, representing the Center township trustee, and Francis M. Coleman, deputy controller, representing the city employes relief association. DOG SHOW AT FAIrTo ATTRACT 300 ENTRIES Hoosier Kennel Club to Stage Event as Featured Exhibit More than three hundred dogs will be entered in a dog show licensed by the American Kennel Club and staged by the Hoosier Kennel Club at the state fair Sept. 7, 8 and 9, it was announced today. The dogs will coiinpete for championship points, blue ribbons, cash and special prizes. The show is one of the featured exhibits of the fair. H. S. Newsom, Chicago, will judge Doberman Pinschers, and Otto H, Gross, Pittsburgh, will name winners in all other breeds, including variety groups and award for best dog of the show. To stimulate entries a special prize of $25 will be offered to the owner entering the most dogs in excess of twenty-five. Entry lists close Saturday. Mother of Seven Dies By Times Special SHELBYVILLE. Ind., Aug. 27Funeral services were held here today for Mrs. Sadie Miley. 56, wife of Robert S. Miley Sr., who died of apoplexy. She leaves her husband and seven children.