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Here is a drawing of Neil Bell, brilliant young English novelist who has just written “Life and Andrew Otway,” which will be published by G. P. Putnam's Sons on Feb. 3. This book is the February choice of the Book League of America. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN BEEN asked to name a novel in the crime line that is different from the regulation mine run of this type of story. I have found such a story in “ r J " " carred Hand,” by Eliot H. Robinson, author of ‘Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands,” which is now in its fifty-fifth thousand. Not only is the construction of this book so different from the average crime story, but the plot itself has a ring of newness and novelty. Richard Kirby, facing a disgrace of which he was not really guilty (the money intrusted to him was stolen from his safe) wanted to die, but he didn't have the nerve to pull the trigger of his service revolver. When a burglar entered his room one night with a pocketknife wrapped in a handkerchief to look like a revolver, Kirby decided this was the man to do the job and the deed would not look like suicide. But —the burglar wouldn’t do the job. Then while Richard covers the burglar with a revolver, Richard tells the story of his life and the rotten deal Fate gave him in an effort to convince the burglar should kill him. The deal is finally made butr—maybe Richard changes his mind and wants to live. That would be tough after hiring a guy to bump you off. Read “Scarred Hands” and have several nights of bully fine reading if you can lay the book down that long. It is published by L. C. Page & Company and sells for $2. tt tt Have before me the “Hound and Horn” for January and March, 1932, and it is a masterpiece. This magazine with each new issue is meaning more and more to me. In “The Theatre Chronicle” in this issue, Lincoln Kirstein, an authority on the stage, writes of O’Neill's “Mourning Becomes Electra,” "For not by the widestretch of a considered imagination can 'Mourning Becomes Electra’ be described a great play.” There is a great difference of opinion on that.

Kathryn l. mason. 52 North Fifteenth avenue, Beech Grove, is the winner of the book review this week and she will have choice of one of several good books when ahe gets in touch with this department. Her review of "Sackcloth and Ashes,” by E. W. Savi is as follows: "Sackcloth and Ashes" Is a beautiful Daenn Reid-Morgan, a cultured daughter of artistocratic birth. Although it mav be said that the plot Is common one it is not to be treated lightly. Dacna’s trouble starts with °ne of t hose mad war-time marrlaaes. bhe immediate”v g r *ts her folly, but later learns her insband was killed in the war. Free to start life anew she takes new hope. Here Fate nlavs a cruel hand and the dead husband returns to the scene. Poor naena suffer* and suffers lor her folly To complicate matters she is desperately 7° lovTwltha man of her own society; one who* ia willing to risk his life for'her. on n .>raved bv her former husband, she 4c ß denounced bv her proud and societyman parent* 1 As an outcast of her people Aments bitterly In sackcloth and ashes P To increase her torture, tne man A living with: whom she thinks is Kr husband telLs her that he is not her husband, but her dead husbands twin her prode bent she soe* back to her parents. V A serious illness follows and she regains the respect- of her parents and her former society. Os course she marries her louk and faithful lover. .. This review may lead on . to ' that the book Is Just cheap fiction, but 1? is far from it, as the author tries to else the readers the impression that when on repents for a folly it is already in "sackcloth and ashes" or not all “I believe that in the future, Mexico will fill an important role—her only important role—as an esthetic producer,” declares Diego Riverra, Mexican artist whose murals in New York City are attracting much attention. J. B. Lippincott Company published recently "Mexican Maze,” by Carleton Beals, a book which contains seventy-five intimate drawings of Mexican life by Diego Rivera. a a a JEFFERY FARNOL has returned to the Merrie England he has made so indisputably his own, in “A Jade of Destiny” (Little, Brown & Cos.) He has written a glowing romance of the days of Queen Bess —a romance dealing to some extent with one of many plots directed against the life of Elizabeth. Two contrasting love stqries are -oven throughout a swift moving and. Tia in which Farnol again is at his „ "H, in the use of English idiom which nos baffled his many imitators. Recommended strongly to those who reveled in his “The Broad Highway” and “The Amateur Gentleman.’'

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HOOVER CREDIT BILL TO PASS HOUSETONIGHT Measure Is Expected to Be j Given President for Signature Next Week. FARMERS TO GET LOANS Cities Lose in Fight to Receive Portion of Relief Funds. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Passage of the $2,000,000,000 reconstruction corporation bill, which President Hoover is sponsoring to restore prosperity, is scheduled in the house by tonight. The measure, wihch the senate has passed, should reach the White House for the chief executive’s signature early next week. Republican Floor Leader Snell of the house reported the rapid progress of the bill to President Hoover today and predicted it would be approved In final form by congress within a few days. Other callers at the White House Included Senator Reed (Rep., Va.) and Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills. The house bill as it stands contains a provision that President Hoover does not like—authorization for diversion of $200,000,000 of the $2,000,000,000 to intermediate credit banks and agricultural and livestock associations for loans to farmers. An administration attempt was expected today before a final vote to strike out this amendment, which slipped over quite by surprise.

Ban Loans to Cities New York and Chicago, the latter pictured as in a piteous financial plight, sought in vain to get a provision which would permit the corporation to extend loans to city governments. This was the fate of many amendments which were offered, one after another, Thursday, in the effort of various interests to broaden the provisions of the measure. Farmers alone were successful in changing the bill in a radical way. The objection raised to the Jones amendment is that both houses already have passed a bill which increases the capitalization of federal land banks, the house by SIOO,000,000; the senate by $125,000,000. This bill was ready today to go through the final conference stage to be made ready for dispatch to the White House. It is designed solely to aid farmers. Fight Meyer Appointment The house got into one of the frequent squabbles that occur in both branches whenever the name of Eugene Meyer Jr., governor of the federal reserve board, is brought up. Representative La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.) attempted to exclude Meyer from being a director of the corporation, and lost by only a narrow margin, 123 to 131. He accused Meyer of being too friendly with big New York bankers and also repeated charges made against Meyer previously regarding his conduct of the war finance corporation. The reconstructoin bill may be delayed longer than originally expected, because the house insisted on considering its own bill instead of that passed by the senate. This will require the bill to go back to the senate instead of straight to conference: Personnel Is Reported As the bill progressed, reports strengthened that Henry M. Robinson (Rep.) Lo 6 Angeles, Bernard Baruch (Dem.) N. Y., Edward N. Hurley (Dem.) Chicago, and Angus McLean (Dem.) N. C., would be directors of the corporation. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Governor Meyer of the federal reserve board and Paul Bestor, chairman of the farm loan board, will be ex-officio members. Once the directorate is established, amounts of loans and interest rates will be decided. It is understood interest rates will be low and that loans to responsible institutions may be of considerable size. Loans for railroads will form an important part of the corporation’s business, since millions of dollars of insurance company funds, trusts, and estates are tied up in rail shares. Youth Accused By Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., Jan. 15,—A check for S4O. alleged worthless, which Morris Peavier, 19, Greenwood, gave William Kelley, in payment for an automobile, caused Peavier’s arrest here on a forgery charge.

Speedy Electric Clock Had 72-Minute Hours

TIME and tide may not wait for any man, but in Indianapolis today there are 1.000 timepieces that are not reliable recorders of whether time does or does not tarry for us. A newspaperman, whose name is not printed although he is credited with a discovery that baffled the greatest of the local police 'force, had an electric clock given him for Christmas. Believing advertising about the accuracy of the electric device, nightly he set his wrist watch by the clock. And each morlng his witch was slower than the clock.

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JOB INSURANCE ALMOST LAW La Follette Expected to Sign Wisconsin Bill. By United Press MADISON, Wis., Jan. 15.—The signature of Governor Philip La Follette only was needed today to initiate unemployment insurance in Wisconsin—the first state to take such action. He was expected to sign the measure, tyhich was passed by both houses of the legislature. The bill makes the plan compulsory, unless employers adopt a similar system voluntarily embracing 175,000 employes by July 1, 1933. The employers are required by the act to contribute an amount equal to 2 per cent of their weekly payroll to establish a fund totaling $75 for each employe eligible for the benefit. The maximum benefit would be SIOO a year, paid at a rate of $lO a week and not more than 50 per cent of the average weekly wage for not more than ten weeks a year. Those exempt from the insurance plan include farm labor, teachers, domestics and workers guaranteed a fixed salary eleven months a year or an annual income of $13500. CHURCH HEADS NAMED Hollett Senior Warden; Mayor Is Chosen Vestryman. John E. Hollett has been elected senior warden of St. Paul’s Episcopal church. J. E. Meckling is the new junior warden. Vestrymen are: Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, John W. Holtzman, Albert Maguire, Ralph M. Drybrough, former Judge James A. Collins and Albert Rabb. Scott Clifford, grandson of Scott Butler, former Butler college president, will fill the vacancy in the office of clerk held by the late Charles A. Greathouse.

PRIVATE DETECTIVE FACES NEW COUNTS

Additional charges of operating a detective agency without a license and impersonating an officer today were placed against Thomas J. Reilly, 35, of 3128 Central avenue, former detective, arrested Thursday on a charge of obtaining money

Daily he opened his watch, and, peering into its innermost mechanism, advanced the minute hand control a few notches. And daily his watch continued to be slower than the clock. After weeks of study, he made a discovery and rushed to the phone. “Hey, what kind of electric clocks are you selling, anyway?” he asked the electric clock company saleswoman. "The one you sold me has seventy-two minute spaces on it instead of sixty.” "Heavens, we’ve sold 1,000 of those, too,# she answered.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15,1932

LUDLOW FACES SHOWDOWN ON DRY LAW VOTE Anti-Prohibition Association to Quiz All Aspirants for Congress. OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED Opponents of Referendum . Will Be Fought in Next Election. Congressman Louis Ludlow must take a definite stand on the prohibition question and proposals for a national referendum on the subject before the May primaries. This is the dictum which went out today from the offices of the Indiana division of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. For that matter, not only Ludlow, but all congressional aspirants, will have to make clear thenstands, declared William Stokes, secretary.

First step in the offensive came today with the announcement by Chairman Nelson A. Gladdin that Frank L. Littleton had been appointed to head the special committee to investigate the prohibition attitude of candidates for congress from the Twelfth district. Ludlow Is First Ludlow, of course, will be the first to be interrogated, because he was listed in the Indiana Anti-Saloon League in 1928 and in 1930 as being a “dry.” He also is shown as a contributor to the league in the 1930 report, Stokes declared. Ludlow also was a sponsor of the recent dry meetings in Cadle tabernacle. “For years the Anti-Saloon League has been sending interrogations to all candidates, and then listing them either for approval or opposition. By swinging this club the league has effectively controlled the congressmen,” Gladdings asserter, “and has maintained a two-thrids majority in congress, this blocking any move to pass a resolution repealing the eighteenth amendment. Will Demand Stand “The association in all Indiana districts will demand knowledge of the attitude of candidates in the primaries, as well as in the fall elections. “Every member of the association is pledged to vote for and support only those men who favor permitting the people to decide upon the question of the retention of prohibition. “The people of this country never have voted on national prohibition. “If incumbent congressmen are against permitting the voters to exercise their constitutional right, steps will be taken to elect only such men as will be in favor of a referendum.”

SHOT DURING HOLDUP Negroes Surprised by Two Cops in Hiding. Shot twice by a policeman Thursday night in the alleged act of robbing a pedestrian near Vermont street and the canal, Homer Ward, Negro, 1058 Holbum street, was held today at the city hospital detention ward on a charge of vagrancy. Ward’s companion escaped, and the wounded man refused to disclose his identity. The two Negroes were surprised by patrolmen Clifford Brown and Harry Hayes, who were hiding in a vacant house near the robbery scene. The officers ran to the aid of Jack Kiser, 31, of the Colonial hotel, whom the bandits had slugged and robbed. Ward was shot in the foot and leg as he fled. Officers Brown and Hayes had been stationed in the vacant house to observe another house where a law violation was suspected.

under false pretense in a robbery investigation. Reilly was arrested again today as he left the court of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer following a hearing on charges filed against him Thursday by John Hook, head of the Hook Drug Company. Hook charged that Reilly, posing as a private detective, obtained nearly SI,OOO to conduct a search for John Velonis and John Patrick, who held up and beat J. H. Free, Hook Drug Company collector, stealing $3,000 from him, more than a year ago. Sheaffer continued the trial on charges of false pretense, carrying concealed weapons and vagrancy until Jan. 26. Both arrests of Reilly were made by Detectives Morris Corbin and Cortland Coleman. It was said that Reilly’s detective license was canceled in 1928 by the secretary of state. Reilly recently figured in the investigation and solution of two murder cases. William George, 2907 Washington boulevard, Reilly’s associate, also was arrested today. He was charged with vagrancy and was held under high bond. Detectives said George assisted Reilly in the Hook company investigation. Arson Charged By Timet Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Jan. 15. Charged with setting fire to a truck owned by Clarence Palmerlee, William L. Wood, Indianapolis, is a prisoner here awaitUg trial.

DRINK WHILE YE MAY!

Only 13 Horse Troughs Remain in City

OLD DOBBIN is reaching the point where his neighs begin to resemble the tune of “How Dry I Am.” In fact Dobbin looks upon Indianapolis as a Sahara desert despite New Year’s celebrations and “Gomorrah” slams against the city by ardent drys. And why shouldn’t he? For in this city of 432,000 residents with its hundreds of refueling depots for cars there’re but thirteen ordained spots where Dobbin can quench his thirst. Filling stations for ai\tos topple over each other but the equine's glory of glories, the watering trough, slowly is becoming as extinct as saloon signs. /T * a HOPE that the thirteen troughs left in the city will remain forever is stilled by city officials as they say, “As the troughs wear out they’ll be taken out.” The troughs are situated as follows: Indiana avenue, just north of New York street; Walnut street, Park and Massachusetts avenues; Edgemont and Northwestern avenues; Northwestern and Sixteenth place; Tenth and Locke streets; Maryland and Alabama streets;

OLD DOBBIN is reaching the to resemble the tune of “How Dry \ | In fact Dobbin looks upon In- f y dianapolis as a Sahara desert de- y' X spite New Year’s celebrations and rr'"'* w - m 'i*M X “Gomorrah” slams against the “S’jF And why shouldn’t he? For in this city of 432.000 residents with jfi Us hundreds of refueling depots ~ M cars there r" but thirteen crci:r.ed spots where Dobbin can quench his thirst. rh'.inc stations for autos fopnlr JPP* Ji dory of dories, the watering trough, slowly is becoming as ex- t tinct as saloon signs. e" tt a h; left in tlie city -,vi!l remain |S ■il'l |w9hk| out they’ll be taken out.” J rPt The troughs are situated as follows: Indiana avenue, just north H| 11111 ' luyiP Park and Massachusetts avenues; V, c f ) t ; • • vf| 'wlifif Edgemont and Northwestern ave- - mil-.! J _ .1 . -

Hillside and Bloyd avenues; Twert-ty-fifth and Oxford streets; Nineteenth street and Columbia avenue; Virginia avenue and Shelby street; South Meridian and McCarty streets; Blake and Michigan streets, and Harrison and Pine streets. tt n u ONE of the popular troughs for ice and coal wagons is located at Walnut street, Park and Massachusetts avenue. A fountain once graced its base but time took its toll and the fountain, was taken away leaving the two drinking troughs. Within the last two years, thirty troughs have been removed. At one time the city had approximately 100 watering meccas for horses.

COMMITTEE IS NAMED TO DRAFT TAX PLAN Varied Interests Represented on Group to Shape Relief Bills. Nine representatives of various Indiana businesses were being notified today that they had been selected to serve on a committee to draft a tax equalization program for a special session of the general assembly in event one is called. This committee was named by John R. Kinghan, Indianapolis meat packer, and William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, who composed the selection committee appointed by Lieu-tenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush and House Speaker Walter Myers. • Members of the tax committee and the interests they represent are: Olbert E. # Uhl, president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board; Frank C. Evans, Crawfordsville, loan representative for insurance companies; Rome C. Stephenson, South Bend, former president American Bankers’ Association; Thomas N. Taylor, Terre Haute, president of State Federation of Labor; Victor C. Kendall, treasurer of L. S. Ayres & Cos.; Lewis Taylor, Boonville, vice-president of the Indiana Farm Bureau; George A. Ball, Muncie manufacturer; H. R. Kurrie, president of the Monon railroad, and James R. Riggs, Sullivan, president of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. Kinghan and Settle will be exofficio members.

CORONER VEHLING IS ARRESTED THIRD TIME Previous Affidavit, Indictment Replaced by Prosecutor. Coroner Fred W. Vehling was arrested by deputy sheriffs today for the third time, after another affidavit was filed in criminal court, charging him with soliciting a bribe. The writ is a depulicate of a previous affidavit which was nolled, along with the original indictment, by prosecutors Thursday. No charges were pending against the coroner from Thursday noon until this morning. Vehling repeated a SIO,OOO bond and his attorneys will file a motion for a change of venue from Judge Frank P. Baker. LUMBER - FIRM REOPENS Johnson-Maas Cos. Inc. Files New Incorporation Papers. Filing incorporation papers with the secretary of state, the new Johnson-Maas Company, Inc., announced Thursday it had taken over assets of John Rabb Emison, receiver for the old Johnson-Maas Company, lumber dealers, at 1012 East Twenty-first street. The new company will occupy the same premises. Fred W. Bakemeyer is president of the new firm; Walter H. Geisel, **ce-president, and John F. Kinnaman, secretary and treasurer, "*•"

Upper—T. E. Mockford, 3037 North Illinois street, watering his 22-year-old horse, Dandy, at one of the thirteen equine troughs left in the city. Lower It s drinking time at Walnut street and Park avenue.

LESLIE’S TAX COUP AMAZES AUDITOR

Smoking Hot Women Blame Each Other for Courthouse Cigaret Ban.

WOMEN employes of county offices, who daily slip from their work for a bit of a smoke, today were rebuffed by county commissioners and their ranks raged with hostility. After a commissioners’ investigation revealed the spot behind the third floor stairway, from which smoke rolled Thursday afternoon, was a smoking rendezvous, each of the maidens blamed the other for the fire. County officials said a cigaret, carelessly tossed into waste paper by one of the women, had caused the fire. Throughout the corridors, dark looks passed between feminine workers, and once or twice hot

words flared as smoking companions accused each other “of spoiling our fun.” Today, glaring “No Smoking” signs warn the damsels to smoke elsewhere or not at all. The fire was extinguished by attaches of superior court five before any damage was done. CHANGE RAIL SCHEDULE Pennsy Officials Announce Two Vincennes Time* Changes. Changes in the passenger train schedules of two lines of the Pennsylvania railroad, effective Sunday, were announced today by J. L. Gressitt, general superintendent. Train 334 on the Vincennes branch will leave there at 1:20 p. m. and will arrive here at 5:20, one hour earlier than the present schedule. Train 333 to Vincennes will leave Indianapolis on its present schedule, but will arrive there ten minutes later than previously.

Banishment to Pasture Facing Police Mounts

TEMPORARY banishment to a life of ease, on pasture, today loomed for the city’s ten police horses, which the safety board, as an economy measure, vainly has sought to sell. Several months ago the city decided it no Longer could afford the $3,600 annual cost of maintaining the police mounts, had the horses appraised and offered them for sale. Twice bids were sought, but none was as high as the appraised price. Consequently, they were rejected. One enterprising automobile dealer proposed to trade the horses for offering SIOO in

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Governor Has Nothing to Do With Fund Distribution, Williamson Says. Governor Harry G. Leslie stole State Auditor Floyd E. Williamson’s j thunder today, boldly announcing I that he had approved distribution of $4,063,138 of state gasoline tax funds to the Indiana counties, to be made now instead of March 1. Williamson had been working on the idea for some time and was ready to send a questionnaire to county officials asking them if they wanted the money. When he saw that Leslie had taken the limelight today, he was astounded. He pointed out that distribution of gasoline tax money rests entirely with the state auditor under the law in Indiana, and neither the Governor nor the state treasurer has anything to do with it. Announces His Own Plan So, after delaying until the Governor got the glory, Williamson announced his own plan of distribution today. In the first place, there will be no general distribution of the funds until the regular date, March 1, l;e declared. But counties needing the money now can make application to the state auditor’s office and can get about $15,000 apiece to spend on road work for unemployment relief or to put on deposit in their local banks, where such funds would be useful. The original Williamson idea was to distribute the money to aid the local community banking situation, rather than to have it spent at once for road work.

WiH Aid Banks The law provides that 1 cent out of each 4 cents a gallon gas tax collected must be given to cities, counties and towns for road and street repair. Williamson said that $15,000 cash would be a big aid to many small town banks. In announcing the fund distribution, Governor Leslie took the credit to himself as being part of his unemployment relief program. This program recently had been termed a “do-nothing” one by President John L. Levis of the United Mine Workers. But the whole idea of distributing the gas tax before March 1, is not a new one. It was distributed a month earlier last year.

trade for each horse, but this price was far below the appraisal figure. *lt’s a horse on me, or rather ten of them,” commented Charles R. Myers, safety board member, as he sought solution of the problem today. "I’m getting tired of all this ‘horsing around.’” We are going to have to do something pretty quick, as the lease on the police stables expires about Feb. 15.” Myers said he planned to confer with Ft. Benjamin Harrison officials in an effort to sell all or part of the horses to the government, and if this fails, to place the horses on pasture until a buyer can be found. r 1

SUMMER REIGN TO END; COLD WAVEJ WAY Blizzard Sweeps Through West; Tornado Takes Lives in South. MERCURY SOARS TO 104 Pennsylvania Reports Record Temperature; California Gets Snow. Bv United Press The weather experts who have been marking up cold records in warm regions with one hand and heat records in frigrid areas with the other, awaited a return to normalcy. The winter strawberry growing in the north and snowbail hurling at Pacific winter resorts is about at an end, they say. But the toll of the weird dislocation of weather that brought terrific blizzards to the west and summer heat to the east mounted with another of the succession of tornadoes that have swept the south. Nine were dead and several expected to die after a savage twister wrecked a farm home near Trenton, Tenn. End of ‘Summer’ Forecast Today, hailstorms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, presaged the end of the balmy era in the midwest, the weather bureau predicted. The January lightning diss play in Chicago was almost unprecedented, meteorologists reported. A sub-zero wave from the northwest drove into the central states, accompanied by rain that turned! to sleet. Temperatures from Montana to Minnesota ranged below zero. The weather bureau, which has been predicting an end to the heat for days, once again announced that frost threatened blooming winter flower beds. In the east, where the sensational mark of 104 degrees in the sun was reported at Altoona, Pa.; 72 at Philadelphia; 76 at Washington, D. C., and 68 at Boston and New York, the forecasters were uncertain what would come next. But they were convinced that the “summer” could not last long. Cold in Rockies In the west skies were clearing with bitter cold reported in the Rocky mountain area. Lander, Wyo., had 26 below zero. On the Pacific coast, snow was falling at Portland. From San Francisco, where snow fel\ for the first time since 1922, to Los Angeles, where ice filmed occasional puddles, and the sky was overcast with smoke from citrus smudging, a cold snap gripped California today. Southern Californians bundled up in overcoats and mufflers. Newsboys and workmen lit bonfires on street corners to warm their hands. Smudge pots poured forth billows of smoke which mingled with clouds and overcast the sky. Snow piled to depths as great as sixteen feet in the mountains, and many roads were closed at high altitudes.

South Hit Hard Floods and tornadoes in the soutli have spread misery, made thou* sands homeless and taken a toll o| thirteen lives in Alabama and Mis* sissippi. The storm deaths were near Tus* caloosa, Ala., and at New Miss. The heavy flood damage ex* tended over nine counties in th# Tallahatchie-Coldwater flood basin of northern Mississippi. In tha* area thousands were homeless to* day, many being destitute and hungry. Rain continued to fall as riveri over-run their levees. Dynamit* was used in some sections to rip away the embankments to relievo pressure farther downstream. Boats supplied the only means of transportation for the nine flooded counties. All roads were blocked or under water. Railroad service wax badly impaired. Mercury Falls Here After detouring three days, cold weather stood at Indianapolis* threshold today, bringing with it a 19-degree temperature drop in six hours. The edge of the cold wave, moving from northwest to east, struck Indianapolis shortly after 6 a. m, forcing the mercury from 56 to 37 at noon. The temperature is to continue its slide until it rests near 25 tonight. The change i n weather conditions, following heavy rains during the night, removed Indianapolis from the “heat wave” area. Heavy rains during the night totaled .9 inch, but additional precipation was not expected today. Saturday is scheduled to be fair and cold. Duration of the cold snap is not predicted by the weather bureau.

JAIL CLEANUP BEGUN BY NEW GRAND JURY Hope to Clear Docket of All Cases Awaiting Action. Move to clear the Marion county jail of all prisoners whose cases aw’ait investigation was made today by the new county grand jury, which started work Wednesday. Following instructions from Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker tha grand jury also will inquire carefully into any charges of misconduct by public officials which may appear during its terms, ending next July. Allen Parker, retired army colonel, was named foreman. Other members of the new jury are William H. Kilman, 1616 North New Jersey street; Thomas J. Gray, former policeman, 927 West Thirty-fourth street; Lester McClain, Acton; Charles E. Knapp, R. R. 7, Box 296, and Clarence P. Latinger, R. R* 3, Box 905. 7