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Louise Platt Hauek Among the writers that the Bobbs-Merrill Company .has on its list of important writers is a woman by the name of Louise Platt Hauek, who is the author of “Prince of the Moon,” “At Midnight,” “Marise” and “Cherry Pit.” BY WALTER I). HICKMAN. HAVE before me anew edition of Gray's Elegy and it is important for two reasons. First, it is illustrated by John Vassos. In the second place and equally important, it is published by E. P. Dutton & Cos., Inc. This edition is dedicated to “Kostes Pr,lamas, the Modern Incarnation of the Hellenic Spirit.” Here is a book of rare beauty on the part of the man who first wrote “Elegy” and still more beauty because of the modern beauty placed in the drawings of Vassos. I am quite wild over the drawing which brings forth the beauty and the meaning of the lines—“Or craz’d with care, or cross’d in hopeless love.” And still more suggestive beauty In the drawing covering these lines —“Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne:—” Here is a rare art work with poetry that has a close touch or acquaintance with all people. tt tt tt What are they reading in New York? The list I have collected is as follows: “The Story of Julian,” by Susan Ertz, and '“Shadows On the Rock,” by Willa Gather —two books I have mentioned often in this department. “A White Bird Flying,” by Bess Streeter Aldrich and “The Good Earth,” by Pearl S. Buck. nun What is A. A. Milne's latest? The answer is “Two People,” published by Dutton. This is his first novel and it is a love story, concerning, you will never guess it, a happy marriage. Different? Yes. St St St If you want a comic section in your book case, then I recommend, “Still More Boners,” which is continuation of funny answers given by those who should know on examination papers. I know these “answers” have killed many an editorial room. Yes, you will laugh. st n tt Clara Clemens through Harper and Brothers has just given to the world a book. Its title explains everything. It is “My Father Mark Twain.” And she is on bended knee all the time in this picture. It, is one of devotion. They are going to talk for and against this one. That helps business. St St St Louise mayhew, 234 Circle Tower building, wins this •week’s book review contest with her ideas of "Helen of Troy,” by John Erskine. She will have the choice of one of several new books by letting me know when she can come to the editorial room of The Times. Her review is as follows: In this novel we are given a picture of a woman—Helen of Troy—who thought love without beauty and marriage without love are wrong. She had beauty, the world knows, and she inspired the love. Marriage did not always matter. Otherwise. Helen was a conventional woman, and she was, in the most up to date sense of the word. When she returned to Sparta with Menelaos, that delightful character of an outraged husband, she took becoming matronly control of her daughter, whom *he had not seen for twenty years; though Menelaojf objected fiercely when she wanted to invite Pyrrhus down, fearing the daughter stood small show with the mother around. There is much here of the younger generation. of its love and its attitude toward the conventions. Youth is ever youth. Erskine. in his “Helen of Troy," paints for us her immortal beauty and draws aside the curtain of the ages for us to aee her real self. In his prose he has adapted the story from the Greek legend and fact with brilliant wit and spirit, giving it the actual feeling of modern time and conditions. Sometimes it seems all satire: sometimes it seems all story, and sometimes it seems all beauty. It surely brings delight if the reader likes satirical writings. ts ss st George S. Heilman, author of “Peacock’s Feather," claims a family tradition of direct descent from King Solomon. His father, Francis Heilman, celebrated for his translations of Heine’s poetry, collected for many years documents which give evidence of direct descent from the wise king, through the paternal line. In his latest book, "Peacock’s Feather.” Heilman tells the story of another famous sage, Aesop. Rumor has it that the story is an allegory of some famous living genius. n tt a Want to read a sensation? Well, it is just that in England. The title is “Loveliest of Friends.” It is to be published Oct. 25, by Claude Kendall, New York. Concerns “a wife who was spoiled for marriage.”

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THIEVES BIND, ROB AGED MAN; $705 IS LOOT Carpenter, 67, Fights Off Chloroform Attack by Two Bandits. TIED UP FOR SIX HOURS Trio Who Saw Him Receive Cash at Station Are Under Suspicion. Binding Thomas F. Stout, 67i year-old carpenter, to a chair in hb? home on Independence road, two miles southeast of the city early today, two masked gunmen threatened his life and stole $705. Working free from his bonds after more than six hours, Stout went to a neighbor’s house a quarter mile away to report the holdup. The gunmen had concealed themselves in a room in his house before midnight while Stout was absent. After guests with whom he returned had departed and Stout had turned off the light in the dining room, they attacked him, attempting to chloroform him, he told deputies. He said that he struggled with the robbers, knocking the chlora*-form-soaked handkerchief from one of them. The bandits then drew guns, threatening Stout’s life if he did not reveal where the money was concealed in the house. Yields His Money After refusing several times to tell them. Stout yielded to the death threats, told them where to find the money and was bound to the chair. One of the gunmen ransacked the second floor of the house while his companion stood guard over the captive. * “The bandits • first told me if I would tell them where the money was they wouldn't hurt me, but if I didn’t they’d kill me,” Stout told deputies. “One of them kept a gun shoved against my ribs and the other put his gun behind my left ear.” He said they did not bind him until after he had told them the money, a mortgage payment he received Tuesday, was in a tin box in a trunk in an upstairs room. Weak from Struggle Weak from the long period of working with the ropes in an effort to free himself, Stout hardly was able, at first, to tell the story of the crime to neighbors. “I sat here all night after they left and tried to work loose,” he said. “I yelled at the top of my voice every time I heard an automobile go by, but it didn’t do any good. “About dawn I got one hand loose and then untied the rest of the rope.” Preparing for the robbery, the thieves entered through a kitchen window and obtained Stout’s shotgun and rifle from his bedroom. Unloading the weapons, the gunmen hid them in the front room, where they were concealed, until the attack. Using a long section of sash rope, the gunmen tied him to the chair, wrapping the cord around his chest and tying his wirsts together. Bid Him Good-Night “One of them stood over me while the other went upstairs and got the money,” Stout said. “He came down in a few minutes and said he had it. “When they went out the door, one of them turned to me and said, ‘Good night.’ ” Stout told deputies the money was given him Tuesday at the traction terminal station for a mortgage payment by Charles Wilhite, living near Clayton. He said three men watched the transaction in the station and Wilhite expressed concern over their interest in the proceedings. Stout said he boarded an interurban, but noticed none of the trio on the car. He told deputies Frank Lindsey and Charles McAllister he believed the taller of the two gunmen was one of the group in the terminal station. “I kept the money out here because I lost SI,OOO in one Indianapolis bank crash and SB4O in another not long ago,” Stout said.

Stage Star and British Lord to Wed Adele Astaire Confirms Report That She Will Be Bride. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Adele Astaire, Omaha brewer's little girl, whose dancing feet tripped their way into the affections of an English lord, will marry Lord Charles Cavendish, she has announced. The Broadway stage star received newspaper men in her dressing room of the New Amsterdam, where she is starred in

“Band Wagon,” with her brother Fred and confirmed recurrent reports of the engagement. Even as she confirmed the report which had been acknowledged bv the other principal in the engagement, the son of the ninth duke of Devonshire, his sister was quoted in cable dispatches as denying the engagement was “official.” “We had net intended to announce it so soon, but Charley called from London on thq telephone and said the story had broken over there, so there was nothing to do but admit it. “We’ll marry after “Band Wagon” closes, just when we’re not certain. Then I'll retire from the stage, and it'll be a real retirement, too. Fred can get along perfectly well without me,” she added. Adele was bom In Omaha in 1898 and with her brother has hadjuccess here and abroad in numerous singing and dancing hits.

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Thomas F. Stout. Attacked In his home by gunmen early today, Thomas FStout, 67, living on Independence road, two miles southeast of the city, was bound to a chair while the thugs stole $705 from him. He freed himself from his bonds six hours later.

DEPOSITORS OF BANKS TO MEET State Savings and Trust Session Called. First of a series of conferences of depositors and receivers of defunct Indianapolis banks will be held at 8 o’clock tonight in the circuit court room for creditors of the State Savings and Trust Company. Judge Harry O. Chamberlin of the circuit court will be present to aid in explaining to depositors the exact status of the institution’s finances. Progress made in liquidating frozen assets will be outlined by Eben H. Wolcott, receiver. Depositors of the Washington Bank and Trust Company will hold a similar conference next Wednesday and those of the City Trust Company next Friday. These conferences were planned by Judge Chamberlin in response to demands for information received daily from depositors in closed banks. To clear up the entire situation, the judge conceived the idea that depositors of each bank should confer with the receiver and then elect a committee of three or five to keep in close touch with the liquidation development so as to be able to inform their fellow depositors from time to time as to the exact condition of affairs. SEXTON JO HIRE 28 Names Democrats as Aids, Starting Jan. 1. Appointment of twenty-eight Democrats to succeed a like number of Republicans in clerical positions when he assumes the office of county treasurer, Jan. 1, was announced today by Timothy Sexton, treasurer-elect. Permission has been granted the new clerks to come to the treasurer’s office after Dec. 1 and learn the routine. Those named are: Theodore C. Hurst, Dorothy Brehob, Josephine Wade, Agnes Coleman, Bessie Murphy, Carl V. Dietz, Prank H. Slupsky. Estelle S. Russell (Negro). Katherine Hoges. Mary E. Yergin, Mrs. Vernon Weaver, Nicholas J. Coleman, E. J. McGovern. Arthur E. Brown. Morris Swhear. Walter Martin, George F. Kirkhoff, Edward Greene, John F. Sudres, John (Bish) Gavin, Mrs. Clara Hilkene, Le Roy E. Fleigle. James Neller, Walter Askran, Kather. "s Price and Marie C. Williams. Marie Westfall is to succeed Oscar Sherman as bank ledger clerk. APPEALS; TERM DOUBLE Judge Baker “Boosts Ante” for Negro Liquor Defendant. William Harris. Negro, of 623 West St. Clair street, convicted several days ago of liquor law violation, was sentenced to serve thirty days at the state farm and pay a SIOO fine in municipal court several days ago. So Harris appealed his case. Today Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker “doubled the ante,” and sentenced Harris to serve sixty days at the farm.

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LOGANSPORT WOMAN NEW TEACHER HEAD Miss Clara Rathfon Wins ! Presidential Election at General Session. ASSUMES POST JAN. 1 Paul Van Riper, Lebanon, Given High Post in State Organization. Miss Clara Rathfon of Logansport was elected president of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association at a general meeting held at Cadle tabernacle today. Miss Rathfon has been active In association work for many years. She has been interested particularly in advanced educational legislation. Other officers elected were Paul Van Riper of Lebanon, vice-presi-dent, and Miss Rose Boggs of Richmond and R. E. Eckert of Dubois county, members of the executive committee at large. Officers elected today will take up their duties Jan. 1, 1932. Adopted by Association Elections were made through a resolution introduced by the elections committee which was adopted unanimously by the association. Chairman of the committee is Elbert E. Day of Marion. The resolutions committee’s report was adopted unanimously. One of the resolutions favored the eighteenth amendment and all kindred laws. It also asked for rigid enforcement. Donald Dushane, chairman of the legislative committee, said that teachers should be particularly interested in the next session of, the state legislature. “It will be highly important to all of us,” he said. “The teachers’ tenure >aw has been abused in any number of counties. The legislature must put teeth into this measure.” Motion of C. E. Chapman, Frankfort, to gain the convention's sancI tion of action taken by the First, Third and Fourth districts in naming new executive committee members was voted down. Amendments Are Shelved The three districts acted Thursday night on the assumption that because of change in district lines, causing realignment of membership, they were left without committee representation. Four constitutional amendments introduced at last year’s convention were not voted on at the convention today because of technicalities in their introduction. They would have changed the term of Charles O. Williams, executive secretary, from a permanent basis to a four-year term, provided for absentee balloting, secret balloting, and for incorporating the Indiana Teacher magazine. New amendments proposed by Miss J. Harriett McClellan, Muncie, would provide for secret balloting, absentee balloting and would do away with the nominating committee, permitting any fifty association members to nominate candidates for executive office. Gandhi, Topic Tonight Two general sessions are sched-. uled for this afternoon, one at Cadle tabernacle and the other at the Murat theater. The Roxy male quartet, New York, will sing at both sessions. Judge Florence E. Allen, Ohio supreme court, and Cameron Beck, New York Stock Exchange personnel director, will speak at the tabernacle session, while speakers at the theater will be Gordon J. Laing and William E. Dodd, University of Chicago, and Dr. James E. Rogers, National Physical Education Service director. One of the feature addresses of the convention will be given at the final session tonight in Cadle tabernacle by Bishop Frederick B. Fisher, Ann Arbor, Mich., speaking on “Mahatma Gandhi.” The Indianapolis Symphony orchestra, directed by Ferdinand Schaefer, will play. Terms Mussolini ‘Actor’ Career of Mussolini well may serve as warning to the people of democracies, Tom Skeyhill, noted Australian poet and student of world affairs, declared in his address at the general session Thursday night. Although Mussolini saved Italy, and probably most of Europe, from Bolshevism, when he went into office as premier, democracy went out, he said. Milo H. Stuart, assistant Indianapolis school superintendent, asing and gave his inaugural address. He succeeded Miss Mattie B. Fry, Anderson. PLEDGES PEACE INTENT Paraguay Doesn’t Want to Fight Bolivia, U. S. Is Assured. By United Prt ss WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The Paraguayan government today replied to the collective appeal of nineteen other American republics that Paraguay reach a peaceful settlement of its territorial dispute with Bolivia over the Chaco region. Paraguay replied with assurances of its desire for peace. The reply was received in a cablegram received at the state department addressed to Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. It was from Geronimo Zubizarreta, foreign minister. MAKES OFF WITH RADIO S7O Machine Taken From Gas Station; Student's Camera Stolen. Theft of a radio valued at S7O from a gas station at 962 South Delaware street was reported today to police. William Hoffman, 5315 North Pennsylvania street, Butler student, reported a camera valued at $75 was stolen from a classroom desk at the university. T

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THE ELECTRIC LIGHT— This is the first of twelve exclusive . , .... stories on the intimate side of Thomas \ I, jf rfSHk TLJtr CTAfi DATTF DV-- - A. Edison, the famous inventor, as told T — r J? I “C. O IvJKFVOC. DM I I l_K T by his lifelong associate and friend J HIS EARLY ELECTRIC AUTO BY WILLIAM JOSEPH HAMMER \ Hammer, scientist, who in this tale Voted Scientist and Lifelong Associate of j Jfc- J I iffi* 1 permits, by his recollections, the Thomas a. Edison. As Told to wiiiis LJpf \ B* Ail clear reV elation of the story before J. Ballinger. t-' /W\ 1 M. w| the legend descends on it and con(Copyright. 1931. NEA Service. Inc) |E- MW W) forever MODERN civilization was born gr JgSpßk' jB iuses u iuitver. .. H ;-9*7tlsL' wESk&Mm Because of those recollections, on the second floor of at- i: there will be a procession of gloristory wooden building at Menlo gggdSft,;gjgli'fi mis anccdot aes. a revelation of the Park, N. J. I l is surprising to be mi ms _ , * L„ mn _ able to localize the place so exact- JJJJL mrih ly. Yet one may go a step far- stuff ’ and not ° f myth ‘ ther. It is possible to fix the time, . ° " * tOO T7' DISON speaks from the grave The year was 1879. 1 *l/ more mightily than any other Turn to the actual picture. -rue punNOfiRAPH ! man of any day - Someone has been bothering! FyuißmiqA THE CRIIDF MOGFI to your broker’s office and ninmoa ai,r Q vriionn modor EXHIBITING THc t-KUDe MODEL nr ra H the ticker feverishly — thats

Speaks From Grave More Mightily Than Any Other of Any Day. This is the first of twelve exclusive stories on the intimate side of Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor, as told by his lifelong associate and friend since boyhood. BY WILLIAM JOSEPH HAMMER Noted Scientist and Lifelong Associate of Thomas A. Edison. As Told to Willis J. Ballinger. (Copyright. 1931. NEA Service. Inc.) MODERN civilization was born on the second floor of a twostory wooden building at Menlo Park, N. J. It is surprising to be able to localize the place so exactly. Yet one may go a step farther. It is possible to fix the time, too. The year was 1879. Turn to the actual picture. Someone has been bothering Thomas Alva Edison, master of the world changers, child of his century, embodiment of human progress in its clearest form. This someone is a pompous man. He is Mr. Bailey of Puskas & Bailey, a New York financier, with a great deal of money. He has been hanging around the laboratory in Menlo Park, and annoying Edison and his handful of workers with proposals to get in with Edison and develop the European Edison Companies. tt tt tt IT is late at night, and Mr. Bailey has missed his last train back to New York. He wants to know where he can sleep. Edison shrugs his shoulders. “There is an old cot back of the organ,” he says, “where you can rest your Delmonico bones.” Bailey sniffs. But he is tired. He sees others of the Edison men sleeping on laboratory tables, and he decides that the cot will do. He stretches out. In a moment he is snoring. In another moment Edison and his aids surround the cot. Working with screwdrivers, they swiftly and expertly take every screw out of the frame of the pallet. One of them fastens a long copper wire to the spring, which is rolled out to the other end of the laboratory. tt tt u THE wire is yanked. The bed crashes to earth, carrying with it the highly alarmed and furious Bailey. His rage is frightful. “Sir,” he bellows, “I have never been so insulted in my life.” Edison shrugs his shoulders. “What did you come here for, anyway?” he asks. Bailey stalks out into the night and the boys at the laboratory tables send up a great whoop of delight. They were about to effect the greatest changes in humankind in recorded history. But they become hysterical at the sight of the debris of the bed, and slap each other on the back. A handful of laughing, yelling, dirty men in disreputable clothes, eyes dull from lack of sleep, led by a rather fat, smiling young man, who, despite the legend, loves to eat, loves to hear a rowdy story, loves practical jokes. The World Changers! tt tt tt THESE, then, were the men sanctified to changing the world, at work in^ their dingy building on a sunny eminence in a New Jersey townlet. Take a crossglimpse of the world upon which they were to operate so extensively. An unprecedented time of prosperity was at hand. It also was to be the longest stretch of good times in our history. The change had begun. It was however, waiting. It was waiting for two things—power and light. The crucible was sitting on the furnace, but the furnace was not hot. The work was ready to be done, but there was not the power big enough to move the wheels. The industrial setup that was to rule America had been foreshadowed, In its major outlines, but it needed the spark to make it go. To understand how great a change occurred after 1879, one must understand that a Yale professor just had issued the novel theory that oil oozing up out of the ground could be used for light. Locomotives were doing thirty miles the hour. Whale oil was being put into lamps, and the wicks trimmed. There was no time for Edison to lose. tt a a TO determine just how fast he 1 really did his work, look at the clock. Let its twelve hours repre- ; sent the rise of the human species . from the old femur of Pithecanthropus erectus to the grave of Edison. Eleven hours have gone by and still man has never known anything better than a horse for transportation. It is 11:30 and urgent calls for' the doctor are achieved by shanks’ mare. It is a quarter to 12 and father,

home from the day’s grind, has never seen a paper or a magazine. But at one and one-half minutes to midnight, the world begins to move and in the year 1879 in a small unpretentious little frame building located in Menlo Park, N. J., sits the man whose brain is to send progress off at such a break-neck speed. His job was to light a world! Edison was to help strong men carve out of the richest natural resources in civilization the most colossal individual fortunes on record. Millions were feeling the approach of that .goddess of fortune. There was a vibrant optimism in the conversation of men. tt tt tt IN the twilight of this memorable year the stage was being set for the stupendous drama that was to carry the American nation from a pastoral scene dotted with innumerable little hamlets, and with milk-from-the-cow notions of sanitation and convenience, into the high-powered life of our times, and our subways, airplanes, skyscrapers, whizzing automobiles ... our blaze of light and speed and restlessness. In this drama, of course, Thomas Alva Edison was to be chief actor. Yet he was to have-many helpers,

JOHN W. CLARK IS CLAIMED BY DEATH

City Realtor to Be Buried Saturday in Crown Hill Cemetery. Funeral services for John W. Clark, 69, prominent Indianapolis realtor, will be held in the Flanper & Buchanan mortuary at 2 Saturday afternoon, with the Rev. Abram S. Woodard, pastor of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal church, in charge. Burial rites in Crown Hill cemetery will be conducted by Mysic Tie lodge, F. & A. M., of which Mr. Clark was a member. Mr. Clark, a resident of Indianapolis since 1880, died Thursday at the home of his son, George L. Clark, 631 East Fifty-ninth street, following an illness of several months. He was a member of Scottish Rite, Murat Shrine and Phi. Gamma Delta fraternity. During the World war he was an auditor of the Red Cross in Indiana. Mrs. Ross Hanes Dead Surviving are the widow, two sons, George L. Clark and Wallace Clark; a brother, F. A. Clark; two sisters, Mrs. Ross Wallace and Mrs. E. L. Mick, and three grandchildren, all of Indianapolis. Another old resident of Indianapolis, Mrs. Ross Catherine Hanes, 53, died Thursday at her home, 728--Highland avenue, after an illness of one week. Mrs. Hanes has lived in Indianapolis for twenty years. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mrs. Clarence Johnston, 2015 North Dearborn street, at 3.30 Saturday afternoon. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Samuel Hudson Passes Survivors are her husband, Daniel L. Hanes; six daughters, Mrs. Daniel Moss, Mrs. Johnston. Mrs. Robert O'Brien and Mrs. Robert Riley, all of Indianapolis; Mrs. Alice Lupear of Mooresville, and Mrs. Roy Hamilton, Kokomo, and two sons, William and Forrest Hanes, both of Indianapolis. Samuel Hudson, 65, of Wilkinson, a relative of Sergeant Orville Hud- i son of the Indianapolis police de- I partment, died Thursday morning while being taken from St. Vin- j cent’s hospital to the home of Ser- I geant Hudson at 3510 East Tenth street. Death was due to heart disease. Funeral arrangements have not I been completed.

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among them Major William Joseph Hammer, scientist, who in this .tale permits, by his recollections, the clear revelation of the story before the legend descends on it and confuses it forever. Because of those recollections, there will be a procession of glorious anecdotaes, a revelation of the man Edison, in terms of human stuff, and not of myth. an a EDISON speaks from the grave more mightily than any other man of any day. to your broker’s office and grab the ticker feverishly—that’s Edison. File your telegraphic greetings to your mother on her birthday or speed a message to your sweetheart —that’s Edison. Stroll down Broadway after dark and there is the living spirit of Edison in the heart of a million sockets. Get that phonograph record—that, too, is Edison. Call the grocer on the phone—that's Edison. Step on the self-starter of your motor car; drive it over concrete roads—all Edison. Even the copper cents with which you bought this newspaper are not copper at all, but Edison’s alloy. Ride the subway—that’s Edison. That light over your head in bed as you become absorbed in some story is Edison. You will meet him hundreds of times every day. You may not know it, but he is so woven into the warp and woof of that tangled skein we call modern life that the fabric could not hold together without him. Next: The human side of the great inventor Mho often slept for two weeks at a time in his laboratory, though his home was only a stone’s throw away. . . . Intimate details about the greatest inventive genius of the age, a plain man nevertheless.

Needed Censor By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. The name of Hon. L. J. E. Twisleton -Wykeham - Feinr.es, air attache of the British embassy, has been censored substantially in the new diplomatic list for some reason or another, perhaps economy. The name now appears simply as “Hon. L. J. Feinnes.”

ARMS TALK SLATED Expert in Political Science to Speak at Church. “World Co-operation and Reduction of Armaments” .will be discussed by Professor J. W. Gamer, professor of political science at the University of Illinois, at a public mass meeting at Roberts Park M. E. church at 8 Tuesday night. The public meeting will be held under the dual sponsorship of the

Indiana coimcil o n international relations and the council of the Indianapolis area of the Methodist Episcopal church. Professor Garner is the author of many books on political science, international law, American foreign policy and American history. He has received honorary degrees from universities

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of Lyons. France, and Calcutta, India, as well as degrees from Oberlin and Columbia in the United States. Professor Garne~ is a chevalier in the French legion of honor. Bishop John L. Nuelson, director since 1912 of work of the Methodist Episcopal church in central Europe, will speak on current conditions in that region. Business Man Missing MONTICELLO, Ind., Oct. 23. Worry over financial matters is blamed for the disappearance of Lon E. Nelson, automobile dealer, who has been missing a week.

VEHLING ACTION IN CAR DEATHS STIRS WRATH Angry Friends of Couple Killed at Crossing Are Baffled by Motive. CALL MOVE ‘INHUMANE’ ‘l'm Still the Coroner,’ Says Official, Pressed for Statement. Criticism of Coroner Fred W. Vehling's actions in ordering postmortems of bodies of an elderly couple, killed Tuesday afternoon by a tram near their home at Lawrence, was hurled today by Lawrence and Oaklandon citizens. Charges were made that the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan, both 69, were ordered returned to the city morgue by Vehling Wednesday after general embalming had been completed. Vehling, it is alleged, claimed he would have to make a post mortem of the bodies. Friends of the family asserted such action is taken only when cause of death is not known. Following the accident, the bodies were taken to the city morgue, and later released to Erbin McCord, for twenty-one years an Oaklandon undertaker. The release was approved by Chris Jordan, brother of the dead man, McCord said. Error Made, Is Claim City hospital authorities today said an office aid made an error in releasing the bodies without obtaining Vehling’s approval of the act. They said under regulations Vehling must approve the release, but a clerk neglected to obtain the coroner's permission. Hospital authorities, however, could give no explanation for the necessity of the autopsies. McCord today declared Vehling called him, several hours after the accident and ordered the bodies returned from McCord’s establishment “to the same racks at the City hospital as soon as possible,” and that the county officer said he intended performing autopsies. Returned to Hospital McCord said he held the bodies until the following morning when he returned them to the city hosiptal. He was informed to get them late Wednesday afternoon and then proceeded with embalming at his own establishment. In a previous investigation, it was reyealed Vehling maintained a school of autopsy instruction and his students performed autopsies on bodies involved in cases of violent death. Vehling, in a statement today said the autopsies were performed because “they were coroner’s cases.” “Autopsies are performed whenever they are necessary,” he added. ’l’m Still the Coroner’ Informed that friends of the Jordans did not believe the post mortems were necessary, Vehling queried: “Are they the coroner of the county? I’m still filling the office.” “It is believed generally that the act was not human,” McCord said. “The action worried members of the Jordan family and delayed preparation of the bodies for the funeral.” Burial was held from the Lawrence home of the Jordans Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan were driving in their car Tuesday afternoon when they were struck by a fast passenger train on the Big Four lines, not far from their home. URGE BETTER HOMES Building Experts Say Working Man Neglecting Opportunity. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. A group of twenty-five leading architects concluded today after eight months of study, that the American working man can have a better home at the same or even a lower price than he pays now for inferior housing. The group, composing the committee on design of President Hoover’s conference on home-build-ing, believes that the design of the average small American dwelling is “seriously defective” and that a much higher standard is possible in the average residence. It is withholding the secret as to just how its reforms in homebuilding can be accomplished, however, until the conference meets here Dec. 2. GUNMAN BOUND OVER Faces Grand Jury Action for Shooting of Sweetheart. Wesley Reed of 136 North Alabama street, who shot and seriously wounded Miss Lola Wyatt, 52, of Bridgeport, in a lovers’ quarrel in the rear of the Claypool • several days ago, today faced action by the grand jury. He was bound over Thursday by Floyd Mannon, municipal judge pro tern, on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. Reed told Mannon that he “was disguested with the world,” when he shot the woman. Miss Wyatt is recovering at city hospital of wounds in an arm, a leg and the breast. FLEEING MAN ARRESTED Chased down by two policemen when he refused to halt, George Riley, 36, Negro, of 908 East Twentyfirst street, is held today on charges of carrying concealed weapons, drawing deadly weapons and resisting arrest. Riley was ordered to halt by patrolmen Michael McAllen and Calvin C. Simmons at Twentieth street and Cornell avenue late Thursday night. Riley fled and when caught drew an ice pick and attempted to sta’-d McAllen. Riiey said he was a “federal agent” and threatened to “get tha jobs” of his captors for being arrested.