Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1932 — Page 9

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A man who is beloved by all readers is now celebrating his sixty-sixth birthday at his home in England. Rudyard Kipling is that author. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. MME. Pierre Ponafidine, American wife of a Russian diplomat, tells in her recent book, “Rus-sia--My Home,” of her experiences with the American Relief Administration, organized under the direction of President Hoover, immediately following the revolution, according to Bobbs-Merrill. “In July, 1921, we heard that an American relief expedition had been organized on a large scale under the direction of Mr. Hoover, and was even then in Moscow. Nothing so wildly exciting had come to us, cut off as we had been from all regular and reliable news from the outer world. My boys felt that our friends in the United States would surely take advantage of this opportunity for direct contact, and they advised me to go to Moscow to see the A. R. A. people. Again the red tape of getting permission to go for treatment for my eyes. At length, however, I arrived in Moscow, and was told by my friends that the letters A. R. A. and the American flag had been seen on cars and trucks, but no one could tell me how to locate the administration.” After great, difficulty, Mme. Ponafidine found the committee, surrounded by Bolshevik spies, of which they were unsuspecting. “The commission was very loyal in keeping to their agreement not to interfere with any internal politics, and I soon realized I could not advise with them as to all of us getting out of the country in an illegal way. “My experience in hunting up the A. R. A. made the Englishman laugh, but he did not realize the tragedy back of it--the deceit practiced on the people. When the commission arrived, every means was used to keep them from coming into contact with anti-Bolshevik. This was proved by the childish attempt of officials even to keep me from finding them. The rumor was spread everywhere that the provisions brought by the A. R. A. were also sent by the American proletariat in token of political sympathy. “That this was and still is one of the regularly practiced measures for leading the Russian public astray was astonishingly illustrated in the report of Mr. Hoover’s election. The Soviet press, in speaking of it, said: ‘The name of the newly-elected President is familiar to our peasants, as Mr. Hoover, one of the greatest capitalists of the great capitalistic country of the United States, was engaged at an unusual salary because of his great extensive ability to deliver and distribute food and medicine bought by the Soviet in America at a high price, during the Russian famine.” # # # Word has just come from England of the death of Eric Brett Young, author of “The Murder at Fleet” and “Dancing Beggars” (Lippincott). Young, brother of Francis Brett Young, died on Nov. 30 in England after a brief illness. # # # Charles Darwin set sail in the “Beagle” on Dec. 27, just 100 years ago. His letters and journals, written during the five years of that epoch-making trip around the world, have been edited by Amabel Willlams-Ellis in “The Voyage of the Beagle,” a book for children, published by J. B. Lippincott Company. # # # PIETJE NELL LENTZ, 300 Board of Trade building, is the winner of the book review this week, reviewing “I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan.” The winning review is as follows: Take Thee, Joan." With these words, muttered with a liquor-laden tongue, did Jerry Corbett, erstwhile newspaper columnist, take the glamourous daughter of a millionaire, Joan Prentice, for a short, momentous ride through matrimony. he met her; drunk, he wooed her; drun, he hurt her, and drunk, he awoke to find her dying, heart-broken. She loved him passionately--I can't see why, and he, when sober, was an ardent husband, striving to please. But always in the offing was the stiffling allure of liquor, and Joan continuously lost--even after death. Cleo Lucas wrote this tale of modern which, incidentally, won a recent Humor novel contest. Her style of writing is distinctly personal and captivating, carrying the reader into the very soul of the story and holder her there until the unusual ending releases her with a little whimsical smile at the bitter irony of it all. The winner will have choice of one of several good books. # # # In January of the new year, the J. B. Lippincott Company will publish three mystery and adventure stories, “Unsolved,” by Bruce Graeme, “The White Arrow” by Anthony Wynne and “Nothing Ventured” by Patricia Wentworth. Nonfiction titles will be “The Barber’s Clock” by E. V. Lucas and the newest addition to The Hour Library series, “An Hour of French History” by E. Saillens, M. A., Paris.

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FARM BUREAU DIRECTORS TO MAP COURSE Leaders of State Organization Will Formulate 1932 Program Next Week. TAX RELIEF DOMINANT Special Legislative Session Favored for Enactment of New Plan.

Adoption of a working program of activities in organized agriculture for Indiana will receive attenton of the board of directors of the Indiana Farm Bureau at its first quarterly meeting to be held Monday and Tuesday at the bureau offices. The board will also approve 1932 budgets of expenditure for various departments. The program to be outlined will center about tax and other legislative problems, co-operative marketing and purchasing, insurance and social activities for local farm communities. The main project of the year will be directed toward revision of the tax system wherein all citizens of the state would contribute to government expenses, according to the ability of each to pay. Sponsoring of a special session of the legislature is included in this program. In reviewing the work of the bureau during 1931, James R. Moore, editor of the Hoosier Farmer and director of information, said, “The Indiana Farm Bureau has made progress in all its departments during the past year, and has increased its membership 2,500 over 1930. The interest being manifested now in a campaign for 1932 members indicates a further increase during the coming year. “Co-operative marketing of livestock, grain, wool, poultry and dairy products is increasing steadily, farmers becoming more interested in farmer controlled institutions. It seems to require times like these for farmers to realize that they must be organized to protect both their social and financial interests.” Members of the board to attend the meeting are W. H. Settle, president, Indianapolis; Lewis Taylor, first vice-president, Newburg; Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, second vicepresident, Otterbein; L. L. Needler, secretary-treasurer, Indianapolis; C. R. Benjamin, Crown Point; W. H. Robbins, Columbia City; Arthur E. Arnott, Rensselaer; James B. Cummins, Portland; Oscar W. Larm, Oxford; Everett Hunt, Richmond; Addison Drake, Fairbanks; James K. Mason, Milton; J. H. Gwaitney, Poseyville. and Howard Atcheson, Scottsburg. Department executives are M. Cliff Townsend, organization; Lewis Taylor, tax and legislation; H. R. Nevins, insurance; B. B. Benner, secretary-treasurer of wheat pool; I. H. Hull, general manager of purchasing; T. I. Ferris, president, Indiana Wool Growers’ Association; Lee R. Highlen, livestock marketing; Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, social and educational, and C. S. Masterson, co-operative marketing.

Hatchery Work Deferred By Times Special ROCHESTER, Ind., Jan. 1.--Con-struction of a $100,000 federal fish hatchery on the shore of Lake Manitou, near here, will be started in the spring, according to advices received from Will R. Wood, representative in congress. Some material has already been shipped, but construction was delayed to give the department of justice time to complete examination of title to some of the land constituting the site. Marion Mayor Ousts Two By Times Special MARION, Ind., Jan. 1.--William Herkless and Roy White have been ousted as members of the police board of Marion by Mayor Jack Edwards, who charged they refused to co-operate with him. Both are Democrats. The dismssals came on the eve of a board meeting at which it was said a drastic shakeup of the police department was to have been made. The shakeup, it is said, intended reduction of Police Chief Lewis Lindemuth to traffic director. Former Resident Kills Self By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind,. Jan. 1.--Finan-cial trouble is believed to have caused the suicide of Robert C. Taylor, 67, who walked in front of a train at Albion, Mich. He was former superintendent of shops here for the Union Traction Company, now the Indiana railroad. Kokomo Woman Dies By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 1.--Miss Elma H. Snyder, 31, is dead after a long period of il health. She leaves her mother, Mrs. Rosella Snyder; a sister, Mrs. Arnold, Peru, and four brothers, Floyd and Emil, Kokomo; Lawrence, Grand Rapids. Mich., and Lowell, Ft. Wayne. Girl Mother Dies By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Jan. 1. --Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Long, 19, wife of Marshall Long. Washington township, is dead. She leaves a daughter, born Sunday. Aged Man Killed By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 1. The automobile of a hit-and-run driver inflicted fatal injuries on Millard Arnold. 71. He was found dying in a street. Abbot Appointed ST. MEINRAD, Ind., Jan.1.--The Rev. Columban Thuis, transferred from St. Meinrad's abbey here to become abbot of St. Joseph's abbey at St. Benedict, La., will receive the abbatial blessing Jan. 6 from Archbishop Shaw of New Orleans. The sermon connected with the ceremony will be delivered by Bishop Joseph Chartrand of Indianapolis.

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Ira Barton By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 1.--Bond of $50,000 has been set in Jay Circuit court here in the case of Ira Barton, Blackford county sheriff, accuser, of having been a conspirator in robbery of a bank at Dunkirk.

DOG PREVENTS LOSS OF MONEY Takes Care of Pocket Book Owner Misplaced. Bv Times Special PETERSBURG. Ind., Jan. 1.--A small terrier owned by Nile Weitzel, a fur buyer, is the watchdog of his master's treasury. While buying fur from a trapper, Weitzel took money from the pocket book and made payment, then absent mindedly laid the purse on the running board of his automobile and forgot it. Reaching in a pocket for the purse the next day, Weitzel found it was gone, but within a few minutes the dog came with it, having taken care of the purse and its contents from the time he saw it laid on the running board.

Endurance By United Press WARSAW, Ind., Jan. 1.--A sow, owned by Oscar Rebman, survived five months hibernation in a straw stack. Last summer while Rebman was threshing, the sow, weighing 500 pounds, was buried beneath the straw. Since it was believed the animal smothered, no effort was made to rescue it. While Rebman was loading straw, he heard a faint grunt. In the center of the stack was the sow. It could walk, Rebman said, but had lost 350 pounds.

FLAMES RAGE DURING DELAY Slow Train Halts Kokomo Firemen at Crossing. By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 1.--Due to delay caused when a slow moving freight train blocked a crossing, firemen were unable to reach the burning home of Omar DeWeese, until most of the roof had been destroyed. The train was not the only cause of delay, however. The person who turned in the alarm became confused and telephoned the police instead of the fire department, and it was necessary to relay the message. Driver of one truck which encountered the train tried to reach the home by a circuitous route. Drivers of two other trucks who took a different route also encountered the train. Police are seeking two volunteer firemen who took two purses containing a total of $9.08 from the home, having entered before the firemen arrived. Damage Case Shifted By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Jan. 1.--On a change of venue from Marion county, a suit has been filed in Johnson circuit court here in behalf of Lester V. Rogers, administrator of the estate of Marion O. Rogers, seeking $10,000 damages from the Indiana railroad. Marion O. Rogers was killed Dec. 29, 1928, when struck by an interurban car while walking on tracks near Stop 8 in Marion county. Young Woman Dies By Times Special NEW PALESTINE, Ind., Jan. 1.--Funeral sendees were held today for Miss Leota L. Lawrence, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lawrence, who died at the family home near here following an illness which started several years ago when she was kicked by a horse. Church to Celebrate By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1.--The Christian church will observe the forty-first anniversary of the Rev. Charles M. Fillmore's service as a minister Sunday. He is now a resident of Indianapolis. $75,000 Suit Settled By Tmes Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 1.--A compromise ended a suit in which George Gardner, 40, sought $75,000 damages from Nickel Plate railroad as a result of injuries. Terms of the compromise were not announced. Juvenile Charges Filed MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Jan. 1.--Three young men and a 14-year-old girl will be arraigned in juvenile court next week as the aftermath of alleged liquor parties in which they are said to have participated.

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BANK ROBBERY PROOF BEFORE GRAND JURORS Prosecutor at Hartford City Offers Evidence Against Former Sheriff. CASE DECLARED STRONG Alleged Bandits Aid State On Charge They Were ‘Double-Crossed.' By United Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 1. --Evidence offered by three bandits that Ira Barton, former sheriff of Blackford county, was implicated in four recent Indiana bank robberies has been submitted to a grand jury here. Prosecutor James Emshwiler, who placed the evidence before the jury, is confident a conviction can be obtained. The other alleged bandits, Lorenz Capelli, Albert Frabotta and Frank Valentino, were captured after robbery of a Dunkirk bank last week, and testified against Barton because, they said, they had been “double-crossed.” Barton, whose bond has been set at $20,000, expected to provide it and be released today. He is charged with conspiracy in Blackford county, for which bond was set at $5,000. In Jay county he is charged with bank robbery, where bond was set at $15,000. Emshwiler is quoted as saying that he had nearly completed presentation of evidence against Barton and Mrs. Hazel Green, Muncie divorcee, who, according to authorities, assisted in direction of the bandit gang’s operations. It is believed that the grand jury will act speedily on the charges against Barton, but it has not been decided whether he will be tried on an indictment, if one is returned, or on an affidavit filed by Emshwiler. Mrs. Green also will be brought here for trial. She has not yet provided bond.

PASTOR COLLECTS DATA Shelbyville Minister Will Discuss Greatest 1931 Event. By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1.--A unique method is being used by Dr. A. E. Cowley, pastor of the First Baptist church, to obtain data for a sermon he will deliver Sunday night on “The Greatest Event of 1931.” He is seeking views of. several widely known residents on happenings of 1931 which he declares is perhaps “the most tragic year in American history.” He has suggested the Manchurian situation, unemployment, college football and motion pictures as subjects for comment. Mule Balks Police By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Jan. 1.--Two policemen failed in their efforts to tow a mule behind their automobile in an effort to return it to its owner, George Andrews, after the animal had wandered over lawns of several homes. The mule refused to go near the car. Finally the animal, during a break in its stubborn attitude, w'as led awav by a bridle. Church Worker Dies By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 1.--Fu-neral services wall be held Saturday for Mrs. Harriett Badet, 78, wife of Frederick H. Badet, president of a manufacturing company, a leader in church and club work. She died after an illness of a few weeks. Prosecutor Arrests Two By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 1.--A. C. Ford, Jay county prosecutor, whose usual contacts with alleged law violators are in court rooms, assumed the role of a police officer and arrested Eli Foy and Gustav Spear. He said he found them engaged in a fierce fight. The men are said to have quarreled over board for a child of Spear's which is being cared for by Foy, who said he had not been paid.

THEY TELL ME

BY BEN STERN. The New Year finds the Republicans starting with a set of new generals and a faction of the Democratic party making a fervent resolution to displace theirs. The Democrats will have to wait until the reorganization next May and their prospects for success do not loom brightly at this early date. Essentially, 1931 has been a Democratic year, as was 1930. It was the ascendency of the star of Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana university law school and former national commander of the American Legion. It saw a stinging rebuke administered the insurgents who attempted to contest the election of Thomas D. Taggart as national committeeman to succeed the late Charles A. Greathouse and it also witnessed the strengthening of the hold of R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, upon his party. But most of all, 1931 has put new and younger faces in key positions in that party. Failure has attended the attempt of Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, and his adherents to use the appointive powers in the automobile license department and on the state police force, to build up a personal machine to make Mayr the nominee for Governor. The fight of the South Bend group, which includes Mayr, Chester Montgomery, Rudy Ackerman of that city and. James Carpenter of

PUP, DARES 1932 BELLES

‘Ugly Duckling ’ Tale Comes True Again

Charles S. Rauh and why he's lost to Leap Year misses.

NEPHEW QUIZZED IN AUNT’S SLAYING

Federal Control of Liquor Cases Placed in Issue By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 1.--Doubt whether a federal court has authority to assume jurisdiction in a liquor case after it has been set for trial, is expressed by Francis A. Shaw, Muncie attorney, sitting as special judge in Delaware circuit court in the case of Walter Edrington, accused of three dry law violations. Shaw refused to entertain motions by Paul E. Leffler, county prosecutor, seeking to dismiss the charges so that the case could be taken to federal court. However, a deputy United States marshal took Edrington to Indianapolis for arraignment before a United States commissioner.

THIEF LEAVES TWINE TRAIL Ninety-Day Farm Sentence imposed at Greencastle. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 1. Len Bartlett, 48, convicted of stealing a coal bucket and other articles of small value from the home of Mrs. Kittie Hooser, a neighbor, was trailed by twine, according to authorities. In collecting the loot, it is said Bartlett picked up a ball of twine. In some manner it fell from a pocket, but one end of the string clung to his clothing, and the twine was unwound as he fled to his home. On a plea of guilty, Bartlett was sentenced to ninety days at the state penal farm by Judge James P. Hughes of Putnam circuit court. Foxes Worth $3,000 Stolen ROME CITY, Ind., Jan. 1.--About twelve silver foxes, valued at $3,000, were stolen from the farm of P. J. Swartzentruber near here.

Connersville, license department head and Grover Garrott, state police chief, against the Peters-Mc-Nutt control was interesting to watch and was signalized by very poor generalship. End of the year finds Ackerman and Montgomery battling their erstwhile ally, Mayor W. R. Hinkle at South Bend, with charges of “graft” in the air and leaves them seriously crippled. G. O. P. activities were light during 1931 and the real show came Thursday when, at the orders of Senator James E. Watson, the state committee was called here to name Ivan Morgan, Austin canner, to succeed Elza O. Rogers of Lebanon as state chairman, and Mrs. Beryl Holland of Bloomington, as vicechairman succeeding Miss Mary Sleeth of Rushville, who has announced for state treasurer. The plan to make E. M, Morris, South Bend banker, state committee treasurer, fell through, when he learned of the committee’s more than $20,000 deficit. Attempts now are being made to find someone to carry the load. One outstanding failure of the year was the session of the general assembly which started out with a tax reform program and ended up in a stalemate, thus disgusting both parties and all factions. That about sums up the 1931 picture. What the cards seem to hold for 1932 will be discussed in Saturday’s column.

Jeffersonville Man Held After Brutal Crime in Kentucky. By Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Jan. 1. --Arthur Lyons, 33, is being questioned by authorities at Louisville in connection with the brutal slaying of his 67-year-old aunt, Mrs. Flora Sparks, who was found beaten to death in her squalid home near Fern Creek, Ky. She had been bound in a chair and her head covered with a sack. Some blunt instrument was used in beating her head to a pulp. Finding of a revolver in a room Lyons occupied at the home here of Mrs. Ozelle Mahony, resulted in his arrest. Authorities said it appeared an effort had been made to scrape some stains from the revolver. Lyons, denying any connection with the crime, asserts he was given the weapon by a Negro whose name has not been disclosed. When authorities pointed out to the prisoner that his automobile was spattered with yellow clay mud, the soil surrounding the home of the aged woman, he explained that he had been driving recently in the clay knobs section of southern Indiana. Varying stories have been told concerning a slight scalp wound noted when Lyons was arrested. He said he received it in a fall while carrying a bucket of coal. Mrs. Mahony said he fell while carrying groceries into her home. Her daughter, Miss Romilda Mahony, is Lyons’ fiancee. Another angle receiving attention involves brother police dogs owned by Lyons and the dead woman. He is said to have admitted he was able to pacify her dog, although to neighbors it was known as of vicious disposition. After the slaying, the animal stole away, and is completely cowed, authorities declare. Lyons is a beneficiary in Mrs. Sparks’ will.

Attorney Killed By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 1.--Death came almost instantly to Bernard A. Keltner, 31, South Bend attorney, when his automobile collided with one driven by Victor Heide, 18, Niles, Mich., on a road north of here. Mrs. Keltner was severely bruised and Orville Kelly, 19, Delphi, a hitch-hiker who was in Heide’s car, suffered loss of an eye. The dead man was a deputy of Arthur Gilliom when the latter was Indiana attorney-general. Money for Poor Stolen By Times Special MARION, Ind., Jan. 1.--A bandit who this week robbed a theater of $345 is the same man who a short time previously took $100 raised by the Salvation Army as a poor relief fund. This is the information James Steel, taxi driver, who was forced to aid the robber in escaping in both cases, has given authorities. Both times the bandit ordered Steel to take him to Peru. Chasey’s Son Wed By Times Special KENTLAND, Ind., Jan. 1.--Miss Marjorie Dittman, daughter of J. F. Dittman, Freeport (Ill.) theater owner, became the bride here of Hal Chasey, former Purdue university football player and son of L. O. Chasey, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie. Station Agent Dies By United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Jan. 1.--Claude C. Brandlett, 56. clerk at the Limedale station of the Pennsylvania railroad, fell dead of apoplexy at his work. The body was removed to his home in Brazil. Church Session Today By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 1 Twenty-eight Church of the Brethren churches in southern Indiana are represented at a conference here today. The principal speaker was the Rev. H. L. Hartsough, North Manchester.

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THE love of one city bachelor on this leap year Friday is locked tight against the wiles of maidens who take the new year too seriously, and the key has been thrown away. “She adores me. I can’t be out of her sight for a half hour without having her leap in my lap as if I’d been gone a year,” declares Charles S. Rauh, president of the Belt railroad and stock yards company, and one of the city's eligible leap year bachelors, as he closes the door to all chances of la femme for 1932. Rauh and his “sweetheart” were having a petting party on a divan in his office at the stock yards as he talked. For she’s always with him as he works and one side glance from a bit of femininity and Rauh’s “gal” rolls her eyes and tosses jealous daggers. # # # RAUH’S girl is Pee-Wee, alias Rowdy Gal, a six-and-one-half-pound toy Boston bulldog. She’s one of the smallest bulldogs registered with the American Kennel Club. Pee-Wee is an economical sweetheart, as sweethearts go. When Rauh’s “gal” dines, a dime will foot the bill. One-quarter of a pound of food suffices her a day. Three fingers of milk and a handful of corn flakes is her breakfast. Her evening meal consists of a dog food goulash. “You should hear her eat celery,” related Rauh as he told of the German band noises she makes in mastication. “And as for carrots and other vegetables, she loves them,” he added. # # # RAUH’S Rowdy Gal won him two years ago when she was given the haughty-haughty by her brothers and sisters of the litter. “She was so small they ignored her, imposed upon her, and treated her roughly. I’ve had kennels full of dogs in the past, but this little one is the first that ever won me like this,” explained Rauh as he snuggled her in his lap. “She’s won blue ribbons at various dog shows and some day I’m going to put her up against the best of them in Madison Square Garden and then watch her. Look at her perfect stockings, her collar, her coat!” And so, ladies of the Leap Year, you might as well cut another bachelor off of your list. You couldn't buy this “gal” off if you were the countess of Monte Cristo. Could they, Pee-Wee? “Woof! woof!”

ROY CONFESSES IN THEFT WAVE Prisoner, 16, Worked With Three Others. By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1. --Confession that he committed thefts in three counties has been made here to Montgomery county authorities by Charles Newby, 16, Ladoga, they announce. He is in custody with his brother Chester, 18; an uncle, Mitchell Newby, 48, and Chester Langford, 26. The boy says he and the other prisoners robbed stores in Ladoga, Wingate, Portland Mills, Raccoon, Brick Chapel and Parkersburg, and stole livestock from several farms. At one farm a calf was taken and butchered. $5,000 DAMAGES ASKED Woman Sues Fortville Man After Auto Collision. Mrs. Esther A. Darneal of Kansas City, Mo., has filed suit in federal court here, asking $5,000 damages for injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Fortville, Ind., early this year. She charges John P. Kelly, Fortville, with reckless driving and claims permanent injuries resulting from a collision in which her car and that of Kelly figured. Reed to Be Postmaster By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 1.--James E. Reed, Bartholomew county highway superintendent, is expected to resign his position within a few days, as he is expected to be appointed postmaster here. Reed is Republican county chairman. He has been agreed upon by Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson for the postal position. County commissioners are considering applicants for the highway office. Office Moving Opposed By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 1.--The Chamber of Commerce is seeking to prevent removal from Muncie to Tipton of offices of the SanduskyNewcastle division of the Nickel Plate railroad. About fifteen men are employed in the office. Officials of various business concerns here have sent telegrams of protest to M. L. Ross, Cleveland, O., president of the railroad. Suicide Attempt Fails By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 1.--Util-ity company employes revived Mrs. Agnes Watkins, 22, mother of two children, after she attempted suicide by inhaling gas. She had written a note indicating that a family quarrel caused her act. Aged Woman Dies By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1.--Miss Elizabeth Cunningham, 81, is dead at her home in northwestern Hamilton county. She leaves a brother, George Cunningham, Scircleville; seventeen nephews and seventeen nieces. She died in the residence in which she lived for sixty-five years.

MAIN OFFICE NOW LOCATED AT COLUMBUS Noblitt-Sparks Move From Indianapolis as Step in Efficiency. STORE CHAIN PLANNED New Concern Will Operate in Kokomo, Marion and Other State Cities. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Among developments in Indiana business and industry during the week ended today was completion of transferring the main office of Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc., from Indianapolis to Columbus. Sixty per cent of the company's products come from the plant in the latter city. Factories also are located at Seymour and Greenwood and the office change to Columbus will centralize operations. Under the name of the Kokomo Department Stores. Inc., James Costello, Anderson, and Alfred and Walter Mishkoff will operate stores in Kokomo, Anderson, Ft. Wayne, Marion and Elkhart. Articles of incorporation were filed this week. Paul Patterson of the firm of Reveal & Patterson, Lebanon, has sold his interest in a grain elevator to J. M. Beydler, Rossville, and the firm is now Reveal & Beydler. The South Bend Chamber of Commerce announces that during 1931 industries which it induced tp locate in the city have spent $2,150,000 in payment of wages. A 44 per cent gain in sales during 1931 was announced by the Studebaker-Pierce Arrow Truck Corporation. Coal Mine Opened A force of fifty men was given employment when the Vermillion coal mine at Clinton resumed operations. Officials of the Universal-Atlas Cement Company expect to increase employment in the Buffington plant after Feb. 1. A new unit has been added to the plant at a cost of $1,750,000. The Fry Equipment Corporation, subsidiary of the Wayne company, has been moved from Rochester (Pa.) to Ft. Wayne, and operations will be started Monday with a force of sixty men. Approval has been given by the city council for expenditures of $30,000 in improving the Michigan City water system. A factory for manufacture of twist and smoking tobacco has been established in Mt. Vernon by J. A. Berry.

WOOL BODY TO MEET

State Growers Will Discuss Marketing Saturday. Future of co-operative marketing of wool will be discussed by the Indiana Wool Growers’ Association Saturday at its board meeting in the offices of the Indiana Farm Bureau. C. B. Denman, livestock member of the Federal Farm Board in Washington, will meet with the group. The ascociation, which is affiliated with the National Wool Marketing Corporation of Boston, established by the federal board, marketed cooperatively during the past two years 1,200,000 pounds of wool. T. I. Ferris, Pleasant Lake, president, and L. L. Needler, secretarytreasurer, Indianapolis, will be in charge of the meeting. Bigamist Sentenced By United Press CONNERSVILLE, Ind. Jan. 1.--John Little, freed of bank robbery charges when victims of a Miamitown (O.) holdup failed to identify him, pleaded guilty to a bigamy charge here and was sentenced to a two to five-year term in the Indiana reformatory. Little, it was learned was married in May, 1930, without obtaining a divorce from Mrs. Betty Shouse Little, whom he married in Kentucky in 1928. Former Bankers Indicted By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1.--Bond of $5,000 each has been provided by Henry R. Walker, an attorney, who was president of the recently closed Lincoln bank, and by Edward Griener, who was vicepresident, pending trial on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy to commit a felony. It is charged the accused accepted deposits at a time when they knew the bank to be insolvent Muncie Native, 91, Dies By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Jan, l.--Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Sarah E. Maddy, 91, believed tha oldest native born resident of Munci. She had spent all her life here. She was a charter member of Grace Episcopal church and a member of its first confirmation class. Child’s Skull Fractured By Times Special WABASH, Ind., Jan. 1.--Harold Bolinger, 5, is in a hospital here with his skull fractured in two places as a result of falling ten feet to the concrete floor of a barn at his home near North Manchester, after sliding through a straw chute. He is expected to recover. Milk Quality Improved By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 1.--Im-provement in Kokomo's milk supply is reported by O. T. Law, inspects for the dairy division of the state board of health. He inspected twenty-five dairies, finding all in good condition. Bank Receiver Named By Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind., Jan. 1.--Frank Meyers, Bluffton, has been appointed receiver of the Farmers State bank of Poneto by Judge John F. Decker of Wells circuit court.