Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1931 — Page 17

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Most of us are not so well informed on Wellington and we generally label him as the man who whipped Napoleon at Waterloo. Philip Guedalla in his book, “Wellington,” shows that Wellington was quite a fighting man. This book is the December choice of the Literary Guild. Published by Harpers. u u tt BY WALTER TANARUS). HICKMAN THIS department is always ready to receive suggestions and this time a splendid Christmas time suggestion comes from the Indianapolis Public Library. Last week, I stated that many people have asked this department for a list of books suitable for children. In my mail this week, I received a letter from the public library listing some excellent new books for children. The following lists are recommended by the children’s librarians at the Indianapolis Public Library: For very little children—- “ Johnny Penguin” by Dorothy Byron. A riotous picture book recounting the exciting adventures of a penguin in the Arctic. “Angus and the Cats” bv Marjorie Flack. Angus is a black Scottie—one of the most popular dogs of the season. “The Christ Child” by Maude and Miska Petersham. Beautiful illustrations of the life of the Christ child with a few biblical texts by way of explanation. For children from 6 to 10— “The Blue Teapot” by Dalgliesh. Satisfactory and matter-of-fact stories about Miss Letty and the twins, Miranda and her white cats, who all lived on Sandy Cove on the Bay of Fundy. “Little Pear” by Lattimore. Little Pear was a jolly 5-ycar-old lad whose natural curiosity and amiability led him into many adventures. “Ekorn” by Lie. This story of a squirrel and his companions in the forest will probably be most enjoyed if read aloud to children from 6 to 10. “The Picture Book of Animals” by Lor.d This book is for all ages; in it are reproductions of excellent photographs of animals, birds and fish with interesting, informational captions. “The Willow Whistle” by Meigs. This is a story of pioneer days in the Middle West and particularly of little Mary Ann Seabold who longed for a playmate. tt tt tt Margaret Ayer Barnes, author of the Pulitzer prize novel, “Years of Grace,” has written anew one. It la “Westward Passage,” a story of a twice married lady. The action happens on a westward liner. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. a tt tt Good news for the children. Mickey Mouse has gone from the screen into book form under the title of “Mickey Mouse Movie Stories” by Wally Disney. Published by David McKay Company and sells for $1.50. tt tt a THE winner of this week’s book review is John E. Kleinhenz, P. O. Box No. 1241, Indianapolis, who writes of P’rau Vicki Baum’s new novel, “And Life Goes On.” His winning review is as follows: “And Life Goes On." the second novel by Frau Vicki Baum to be translated and republished In America, is a simply-told, tensely dramatic, episode of Lohwinkel, a complacent village in the Rhineland. Dominating the story is Elisabeth Persenthein, wife of a doctor so absorbed by his meager practice and stringent ambition that he does not realize his wife's yearning for attention and surcease from her humdrum routine. An auto accident precipitates into Elisabeth's household Peter Karbon, wealthy hedonist, and during his convalescence they become mutually enmoured. Elisabeth’s decision concerning their relations is reached coincidental with her husband’s realization of a minor portion of his aspirations. The same accident involves other personages whose presence vitally though transitorily influences industrial and domestic affairs of the community. However, when all have departed. Lohwinkel resumes its tranquil course' as if nothing had occurred. “And Life Goes On” is forcefully written and logically developed. Vicki Baum preferring to analyze the emotions and reactions of her characters rather than elaborate on description, although she capably infuses realistic atmosphere. As soon as Kleinhenz gets in touch with this department, he may have the choice of several interesting books. a m Bernard Sobel is now resting after having gotten his book. “Burleycue,” off to a good start and having launched The Follies in Washington. Many Broadway celebrities have had a night club named after them, but so far as we know, no celebrity has had a night club named after his book. The club in question is to be called "Burleycue,” after Mr. Sobel’a famous book. * * # After looking through “The Stag At Eve," it should not be difficult to understand why Farrar and Rinehart chose the picture they did for the 1932 “Stag At Eve” calendar.

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PREPARE FOR DEDICATION OF U. S. HOSPITAL Genera! Frank T. Hines to Be Principal Speaker at Rites Sunday. SIOO,OOO WING SOUGHT $650,000 Institution Offers Accommodations for 152 Disabled Veterans. A living monument to the nation’s wartime defenders, the new 152-bed United States veterans’ hospital on West Riverside drive will be dedicated formally at 2 Sunday. Dedication of the $650,000 hospital for treatment of ill and disabled ex-soldiers comes at a time when strong pressure is being brought to bear in Washington for allocation of funds to build a 100-bed addition to the present unit. That the new hospital will fill an urgent need is shown by the fact that more than 400 applications for bed space already are on file, although the hospital will not be ready to admit patients before January. Principal speaker at the dedica- \ tion ceremony Sunday will be Gen- I eral Frank T. Hines, veterans’ bu- [ reau administrator. Fort Band to Play The program will open with selec- ; tions by the Eleventh infantry i band, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, followed by invocation given by the Rev. Raymond Noll, St. Philip Neri church pastor and former army chaplain. General Hines’ address will be preceded by introduction of Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivanf who will make brief responses on behalf of the state and city. After introduction.of official representatives of war veterans’ organizations, William Fortune, Indianapolis civic leader who purchased the 39-acre hospital site and gave it on behalf of the city, will be introduced from the platform. Ale to Direct Ceremonies The ceremony will be concluded with benediction by Bishop Joseph M. Francis, wartime chaplain at t>’e Lilly base hospital No. 32, a formal flag-raising and inspection of the hospital by the public. The dedication will be directed by John H. Ale, who, as veterans’ bureau regional manager in Indianapolis, will serve as superintendent of the hospital. The new hospital will contain all of the most modern equipment and facilities. It will be manned by a large corps of skilled physicians, surgeons and nurses. Four Buildings in Group Chief medical officer will be Dr. C. F. Bayer, veterans’ bureau regional medical officer for several years. Dr. H. F. Machlan, transferred here from a federal hospital in Florida, win be clinic director. Miss Mary Culberson of Milwaukee has been assigned as head nurse. Four buildings are located on the high bluff, overlooking White river and the city, the hospital building, three-story nurses’ home, service ufiit and a storage building. Parts of the first and second floors of the hospital house regional offices of the veterans’ bureau. Examining rooms, laboratories, dispensary and a small operating room also are on these two floors. The institution’s 152 beds are on the third and fourth floors, while the fifth floor houses two large wellequipped operating rooms, nurses’ work rooms and a recovery room. Addition Is Sought Dining rooms, kitchens and heating plant are in the service building. Representative Louis Ludlow and Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce officials, who arc working to obtain more funds for a wing to increase capacity of the hospital by 100 beds, expect to be granted a hearing be- | fore the federal hospitalization board probably in January. They point out that the last congress appropriated sufficient money for veterans’ hospitals to permit allocation of the funds needed for an additional unit here. GRADUATE - NURSES MEET Dinner Held by Fletcher Sanitarium Association at Hotel. Alumni association of the Dr. W. B. Fletcher Sanitarium training ! school for nurses held its annual 1 dinner Thursday night at Spinkj Arms hotel. Speakers were Dr. Urbana Spink, superintendent of the school: Miss Mary T. Walsh, deircctor of the Indiana state board of examination j and registration of nurses, and Mrs. Othniel Hitch, a graduate. I Twenty-four persons were present, representing classes back to 1905.

Huge Utility Accused of Raising Check Six Cents Bu United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 11.—The New York Edison Company, which sells millions of dollars worth of electricity monthly, today stood accused of raising a $1 check to $1.06. The public service commission nas promised to investigate Miss Edna Lonigan's complaint that someone added .06 to a check she made out for sl. Miss Lonigan said the bill she received for service from Aug. 26 to Sept. 27 was for $1.06, but that since she had been out of the city for two weeks during that period, she was convinced it was wrong. She wrote the company, asking it to see if she had been overcharged and inclosed a check for sl, the minimum charge. When the canceled check showed $1.06, Miss Lonigan took it to her bank. She was told she “couldn’t do anything about it because the Edison company is too big.” That was too much for Miss Lonigan, a research worker for President Hoover’s commission on social trends. She immediately filed a complaint.

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‘BIG BUSINESS’ CAUSED CRASH, SAYS TRAYLOR Shut Eyes to Inevitable, Banker Tells Senate Planning Group. B;t United Pre.su WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Responsibility for depression in the United States was assigned today by Melvin C. Traylor, Chicago banker, partly to conditions arising from the World war, and partly to the policies of American industrialists, government officials and the federal reserve board. He said industrialists had before them in boom years facts which indicated the trend toward depressed conditions. “The danger signals were obvious by 1928,” he said. “The degree of intelligence exercised by us,” Traylor told the senate economic planning committee, “does not entitle us to very much credit as wise men.” He said few government or industrial leaders made obvious the concern which they felt. “It is perfectly obvious now,” he continued, “and some felt so at Che time, that the federal reserve policy of 1927 was, to say the least, unfortunate. Interest rates should have been raised stiffly. They were reduced. Lost Through Lending “Commercial banks in the main were conducted soundly with regard to market speculation. The effect of this soundness was lost by lending money by large corporations in the call money market. No other market ever had been financed as much by industrial credit.” He said call money conditions in the United States and other factors attracted about $3,000,000,000 from abroad. This, combined with the lending policy of corporations with large cash assets, combined to “take from the management of American banks the ability to regulate the supply of credit.” Traylor said he believed investment Houses “more than any others of the banking fraternity disregarded the signs of danger.” “Many of their promotions were ill-advised,” he continued, “and they were due largely to the appetite of the American investor.” Traylor is Doubtful Chairman Robert M. La Follette a'ked Traylor whether a national economic planning council could remedy conditions. Traylor was doubtful. He thought individual industries could do much within themselves toward “stabilizing output and labor.” “In retrospect, the foreign financing policies of the pre-depression period were not well advised in many instances,” Traylor said. “Our foreign credit policy was perhaps too liberal from 1925 to 1927.” “But in fairness to our lenders abroad, it must be said that following approval of the so-called Dawes plan, and the funding of war debts owed the United States, most of the world felt that a beginning of permanent settlement was on the way. American investors felt there was no better way to serve American industry and agriculture than to follow the course they did.” “The real cause of world economic disorder,” Traylor said, “was destruction of $200,000,000,00-3 of capital during the war.” New Haven Bank Closes New Haven State bank, an institution with assets of $352,000. closed its doors today, according to officials of the state banking department. H. H. Grubb is president, and C. J. ■ Linden is cashier.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931

City Dealers Will Sell Ton of Mistletoe How many kisses in a ton of mistletoe? That’s a problem for some unemployed mathematician. Indianapolis dealers estimate from previous sales that probably a ton of this holiday trimming will be utilized during the Christmas season.

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r Mistletoe serves many decorative purposes, but its most popular position in the holiday scheme is suspension from some strategic doorway or chandelier where pretty maidens may be caught unaware. Mistletoe is sold by the pound. It takes just a sprig overhead to invite a stolen kiss. A thousand pounds of mistletoe hanging over thousands of doorways mean how many thousand kisses?

STORM WRECKS HOMES;2 DEAD I Twisting Winds Spread Ruin for Three Miles in Texas. Bj/ United Press TEXARKANA, Tex., Dec. 11.— Two persons were killed today when a windstorm descenfled one and one-half miles south of Texarkana and shattered houses into kindling wood. Ed Hardin and Mrs. Harvey L. Perry were killed. Six other persons were injured. After the wind had subsided, a torrential rain flooded the section. The twisting winds dipped in the vicinity of the Richardson dairy, northwest of the city, and swept a path three miles long. The Hardin house, J. Ed Campbell’s house, directly across the road and the Perry residence, a short distance north, were scattered over several acres. Nothing remained of the Hardin home but the 'trick piers of the foundation. Hardin’s body was found 200 feet away. Mrs. Perry was picked up by J. B. Richardson fifty feet north of her huose. She died in a hospital. COMEDY TO BE GIVEN Roland Smith to Have Leading Part in Epworth League Affair Roland Smith will have the leading part in “Marrying Off Father," a two-act comedy to be given Tuesday by the Merritt Place Epworth League in the auditorium of the Methodist nurses’ home, Eighteenth street and Capitol avenue. Others in the cast are: Marie Harris, Irma Long, Mabelle Haller, Fred Harris and Glenn Reynolds. Ruth Thompson is directing the play and Gertrude Reynolds is in charge of ticket sale. WOMAN~~ON RAMPAGE Charged With Drunkenness, Vagrancy and Carrying Weapons. Staging a battle in a chili parlor at 555 Massachusetts avenue, Thursday night, an unidentified woman had customers and taxi drivers fleeing for safety when police arrived. She refused to tell police her name and when placed in the squad car a butcher knife dropped from under her coat. Slated as “Mary Doe,” she is charged with drunkenness, carrying concealed weapons and vagrancy. GAST MEN Warsaw Man Is Re-elected to Presidency of State Group. Continued public construction work as a means of relieving unemployment was indorsed in a resolution adopted Thursday at the closing session of the Indiana highway constructors’ convention at the Claypool. Officers re-elected were; E. A Gast, Warsaw, president; Edgar Trayloi, Evansville, vice-president; Fred Cunningham, Indianapolis, secretary, and W. M. Holland, Indianapolis, executive secretary. Bus Line Permit Sought Permission to operate a bus line on State Road 34 between Danville, 111., and Indianapolis, via Crawfordsville, was sought today by the Swallow Coach Lines, Inc., in a petition filed with the public service commission.

LARGE ORDER ON BOOKS t)F MUNCIE PLANT Warner Gear Company Will Have Unit Operating Before Dec. 31. by CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. Tbe Times Booking or orders by several In- j diana concerns was noted in a busi- i ness and industrial survey of the : state for the week ended today. Plant No. 3 of the Warner Gear Company, Muncie, will be placed in operation before the end of this! month, due to receipt of a* large order said to have been placed by j the Ford Motor Company. Employment in other units of the company totals 1,500, as large as the force at this time last year. “As we enter the winter months,” John M. Simpson, manager of the company states, “it is particularly gratifying to be able to present a more cheerful employment situation to the community than is usually possible in the automobile industry at this season.” The Indiana Steel and Wire Company, Muncie, announces start of construction of a warehouse at a cost of $13,000. Government Wheat Stored Bloomington benefited through a contract obtained by the Bloomington Milling Company for storage of 30,000 bushels of government wheat. It is said 20,000 bushels more will be stored. For the first time in three months, the plant of the Boss Manufacturing Company of Lebanon is again in operation with a force of ninety. The Oriental Show-U Company has purchased the Erdman building at Columbia City as its new quarters. Removal of the Stormes Novelty Company from Winchester to Newcastle was announced during the week. Stockholders of the Continental Car-Na-Vor Corporation, in annual session at Brazil, were advised that business during the past year shows a material increase over the 1930 volume. A considerable increase in the working force is expected during 1932, when the manufacture of a new product will be started. 300 to Be Employed The Simplex plant of the American Steel Foundries, Hammond, has received an order for brakes to equip 500 train cars to be used in New York subways, and as a result 300 men will be given employment. It is estimated ten months’ work will be required to fill the order. Operations of the W. B. Conkey Company printing plant are announced as 75 per cent of normal. The United Boiler, Heating and Foundry Company, Hammond, is working on a $25,000 order for castings from the Inland Steel Company, Indiana Harbor. A force of 250 is being employed steadily by the General Hosiery Company at Ft. Wayne. Jeff Norman, Indianapolis, has purchased a controlling interest in the Patoka Coal Company, has acquired his holdings again from R. H. Sherwood, Indianapolis, and assumed active management. The company’s mine is operating three to five days a week. The Keystone Holding Company of Hammond, one of the largest insurance concerns in the middle west, has acquired control of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company of St. Louis. An expansion program which will result in tripling the working force within the next year is announced by the John Baumbarth Company, South Bend lithographing concern. SHOT - WHILE HUNTING Wilbert White Wounded In Foot as Friend’s Gun Is Discharged. Shot in the foot when a gun in the hands of a companion was discharged accidentally. Wilbert White, 22, of 3252 North La Salle street, was recovering at his home today. White was shot by Elsworth Garrett, 17, of 2126 North Oxford street, while the two were hunting near Laurel. Ind. Garrett said he was ; attempting to unload a rifle when | it was discharged. TWO ATTEMPT "SUICIDE Man Stabs Himself in Lung; Another Swallows Poison Draught. Despondent over domestic affairs, Ora Johnson, 43, of 902 Broadway. Thursday attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himsel:? in the right lung with a knife. His condition is serious, city hospital attaches said. Because he was “tired of everything,” Walter Jackson, 27, of 2051 Park avenue, taxi driver, swallowed a quantity of poison today. His condition is critical.

HERE, ladies and gentlemen, The Times presents for your approval one of the world’s greatest and finest galaxies of young Americans the twins of the Free Kindergartens. They’re all 5, a few soon will be 6. There are twenty-four of them—twelve pairs. Their homes are in nearly every section of the city.

PICTURED, left to right, in the upper row, they are: Marvin and Marion Hamilton of the Oak Hill kindergarten, 1963 Caroline avenue. Marion, posing, couldn’t resist taking one little peek at the camera, and that’s when the photographer “shot.” Martha and Louise Kelley, Ketcham kindergarten, 903 Ketcham street. What a gift they were when they arrived, and what a happy Yuletide they’ll have when they celebrate their sixth birthday on Christmas day. Marion and Mary La Follette, Brookside kindergarten, 3509 East Sixteenth street. They’re like the traditional two peas in a pod. Jack and Billie Southard, Oak HM kindergarten. Likely these likely young men will get along all right, all right. Verda Lou Verna Sou Young, Brookside kindergarten. That’s Verda displaying most of her bangs. It’s lucky they wear their hats differently so peoplecan tell who is who. Reta and Rethel Meredith, Oak Hill kindergarten. Their hands clasped, they smile their prettiest, though Rethel appears a wee bit bashful.

KEITH’S LEASED BY BERKELL PLAYERS

‘Buck Ager’ Mortal Combat of Forest Ends as Law Parts Locked Antlers.

Bu United Press GTEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 11.—Two great buck deer met and gave battle near here. Their giant antlers became locked. Neither could break away. Woodsmen often find the bleached of deer, horns entwined, to testify to such a struggle. The animals, unable to separate, work themselves into a frenzy, finally fall exhausted £snd die of starvation. In this case, however, a train crew saw the pair. The station agent was notified. A posse went to the scene, an area of blood flecked, hoof-churned snow. While the bucks were tied, their antlers were sawed to release them. Then the ropes were taken away and the two animals bounded away, toward the woods, side by side. NAME CONCERT CAST Singers Chosen for Annual Old Melodies Event. Singers from Indianapolis churches and artists from city musical organizations will form the cast to present the ninth annual Old Melodies concert Sunday night at 8:20 in the Knights of Columbus auditorium, Thirteenth and Delaware streets. An intimate backstage picture of a broadcasting station will form the setting for a “television broadcast” of selections both old and new. James Carpenter of WKBF will be the announcer. Artists to take part in the program include: t Dllls ' „ boy so Prano of Christ of£? h ’, Ire !? e H PP n or. soprano; Henry Pfohl, director of music at First Presbvterian church; the Ruick quartet, who will bas P s ear fh? & me , s ’ f ßa >’™nd ’ Jackson. e Ru i ck instrumental trio, the rhnr°Ji nc Mo °rman, Bernice Paul *ne Tolin, Margaret GallagPer'rv C Rn e < ; h Ce n nH e t? ey -’ Mary Jane Calland, i Sh ?n a nd. Marian K. Thomas. Funds will be used in relief work. Harry Caland is director of the Old Melodies concert.

Church Used as Cloak by Woman in Swindle

Bu Times Special T>LUFFTON, Ind., Dec. 11.— Mrs. M. Brown has come and gone and several residents of Bluffton are poorer as a result of her visit. Stating she was soliciting advertisements for a paper to be published for the Methodist Ladies Aid society, the woman obtained $3 from Henry Gehrett, a coal dealer; Art Costello con-

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IN the lower row of pictures are (left to right): Kenneth Earl and James Lewis Reddrick, Woodside kindergarten, 2530 Southeastern avenue. Life's a big grin for them, as the picture tells the story. Mildred and Margaret Bayless, Irvington kindergarten, 10 Johnson avenue. They’re the way-out-east representatives of this group. Creighton and William Kimler, Fairview kindergarten, 4153 Boulevard place. This is just an informal at-home pose. Bobby and Billie McNaughton, Broad Ripple kindergarten, 6255 College avenue. They’re sitting quietly here, but on Christmas morning do you think they’ll be placid? Jack and James Durham, Holliday kindergarten, 1716 Union street. You get three guesses as to what causes their pensive mood during this holiday season. Mary Jean and Myra Jane Briggs, Fall Creek kindergarten, 903 West Thirtieth street. Don’t you like those hair ribbons?

Stock Productions Will Be Presented in Former Vaudeville House. Leasing of the B. F. Keith theater for presentation of a season of dramatic stock productions by the Berkell Players was announced today by Charles Berxell. The stock season is scheduled to start Dec. 28, with rehearsals and ticket sales, starting Dec. 21. Personnel of the stock company has not been announced by Berkell, but he said it would include several players who appeared with the Berkell group in its seven summer seasons at English’s theater. Berkell said he would leave at once for New York to arrange for plays. Keith’s theater, for many years the home of big time vaudeville in Indianapolis, has been dark, so far as any regular theatrical policy is concerned, since the Keith circuit retired from the local field several years ago. Under direction of Henry K. Burton, local representative of the theater owners, United Theater Company, Keith’s recently has been renovated, refurnished and new equipment installed. With the increased seating capacity of Keith's, the latest metropolitan stage hits can be presented at reduced prices, Berkell said. OWEN IS TAKEN HOME Police Lieutenant Is Recovering From Auto Crash Injuries. Recovering from injuries received in an automobile crash Sunday night, Lieutenant Frank Owen, head of the police accident prevention department, was taken to his home from the city hospital late Thursday. Owen sustained three broken ribs, leg cuts and bruises. The accident occurred at Sixteenth street and Broadway. ARRANGE BENEFIT"PARTY Proceeds to Be Used for Relief of Unemployed City Pressmen. Benefit card party will be given Tuesday night, Dec. 22 at Tomlinson hall by members of Indianapolis Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 17. Proceeds will be used for the relief of unemployed pressmen. Admission tickets may be obtained by calling Dr. 3409 or Ch. 6348.

tributed $6; Clem Byrd and Frank Hoffacker, $3 each. Hoff acker, a restaurant proprietor, said he wasn't much impressed with the idea but when the woman asked: “You certainly appreciate the trade given you by the Methodist people, don’t you?” he weakened. Markley, a grocer, fell when the woman said: “I haven’t seen you in church lately.”

DEMOCRATS IN WRANGLE OVER TAX PROGRAM House Leader Rainey Seeks to Confine Hike to Rich; Robinson Opposed. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A lib-eral-conservative split has developed in the Democratic ranks over tax legislation. The question in brief is: Shall the rich be spared or shall the poor man “get a break?” This difference will be the subject of debate when house and senate party leaders get together in their “policy committee” meeting Tuesday to draft a tax program. Because of the controversy, agreement on a subtsitute for the $2,000,000,000 Mel-lon-Hoover proposals will be delayed. It appeared certain today that the house, where such measures must originate, will not take up tax legislation before the first of the year. Democratic Leader Rainey said the customary committee hearings probably would last several days because of the numerous interests affected. The controversy is epitomized in the conflicting views of Rainey and Senate Leader Robinson. Rainey, one of the most liberal Democrats in the house, favors confining the increases entirely to large incomes. He is dead set against anything that savors of a sales tax, and many of his party in both houses agree with him. Robinson, on the other hand, is averse to high taxes on the rich. As vice-presidential candidate in 1928, he learned something about campaign finances; i. e., if the party frightens the rich, it stands less chance of filling its war chest. At the same time, party leaders, realize that in order to win a national election they must after all have votes as well as campaign funas. Secretary Mellon's plan imposes increased burdens on the small citizen, the man who contributes a vote, but no campaign funds. Democrats appear likely to adopt a compromise, with higher rates for the wealthy that Mellon desires, with some “luxury” taxes, but with no increase in normal rates and no decrease in exemptions. Added to these provisions would be a gift tax and higher inheritance levies. DAIRYMEN NAME HEAD George Palmer, South Bend, Slated to Assume Presidency. George Palmer, South Bend dairyman, was named to succeed George Fosdick of Crawfordsville, as president of the Indiana Manufacturers of Dairy Products at the final session of the convention at the Lincoln, Thursday. L. D. Trent of Huntingburg was named treasurer, and Ralph W. Bales of Indianapolis was re-elected executive secretary. Directors named are Mr. Fosdick, M. B. Morgan of Lafayette, O. F. Slagle of Indianapolis, J. C. Scharf of New Albany, Don Spugnardi of Indianapolis, E. T. Moore of Muncie, and Ed Nance of Brazil. DR. KING TO~BE SPEAKER State Health Head to Address Session in Minnesota. Address on results of the White House child welfare conference and the Indiana health plan will be made Monday by Dr. William F. King, director of the state health board, at St. Paul, Minn., at a convention of public health officers. Plans for the coming convention of the Indiana branch of the American Waterworks Association were to be outlined today at the Chamber of Commerce at a meeting attended by King and Lewis Finch, president of the Indiana group, and chief engineer of the state health board. HOLD HEARING ON GEMS Trustees Seek to Recover Jeweler’s Alleged Hidden Assets. Hearing on petition of trustees in bankruptcy to recover jewels valued at $2,500, for secretion of which Leo Roos, former Anderson jeweler, is serving a five-year term in Leavenworth federal prison, was resumed by Carl Wilde, federal bankruptcy referee today. Attorneys for the trustees, in their attempt to recover the gems, hav§ questioned Emil Roos, son of th man convicted here recently. Th* son, a jeweler in Muncie, was on the witness stand today.