Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1932 — Page 9

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JAPAN MARKS TIME FOR NEW DRIVEINCHINA Tokio Merely Waits Excuse to Continue Conquest of Foe. SOCIETY HEADS PLOT Black Dragon Organization Conspires to Overthrow Enemy Republic. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS #cripo-How*rd Forelrn Editor WASHINGTON, March 29. Anxiety here over the far eastern situation has not abated an iota, despite the lull in actual hostilities and shifting of the spotlight to other scenes. Signs are multiplying that China yet may be goaded into committing some act of folly, thus providing the Japanese with an excuse for completing the job they set out to do—whatever that job may be. Bankruptcy, civil war, secession, red uprisings, flood, famine and pestilence, any and all, threaten the Chinese republic this spring, in addition to whatever Nippon may do to her. The Chinese accuse the Japanese of helping promote all these, in so far as such ills are subject to human control, to further their conquest of the Asiatic mainland. Insidious Drive Conducted The Black Dragon society, a secret organization which acts as agent provocateur and otherwise promotes the policy of the war party in Tokio by undercover activities, is reported busy throughout China. If the former "boy emperor, Henry Pu Yi, can be made to stick as japan’s puppet "dictator” of Manchuria, the Chinese declare, an early effort to restore the monarchy may be expected to put Pu Yi back on the throne as "ruler” of all China. The Black Dragon Society, it is charged, has been working toward that end for years. Twice, say the Chinese, it has attempted overthrow of the republic with that aim in view—once, when it secretly supported President Yuan Shih-Kai’s coup to make himself emperor, and once in a plot to restore Pu Yi. The war party in Japan is known to be'opposed either to a strong republic or a strong monarchy in China. The danger to Japan of a united, wel-organized China with a population of 450,000,000, is obvious. A weak emperor, controlled by Tokio, would be ideal. Time Deemed Ripe It is now or never, the Black Dragon society has warned, for unless China is split or otherwise powerless soon, such a favorableopportunity might never come again. Japan, therefore, has been accused of helping both sides of civil wars to keep the country in chaos. China’s springtime looks ominous. South China is threatening to secede. North China is full of rumois of a possible coalition against the nationalist leader, Chiang KaiShek. Other disquieting reports are heard in Shantung and around Hankow, the Chinese Chicago, while rumblings of a Communist uprising persist in the valley of the Yangtze. Civil war generally is expected with the crocus in China, and this year her plight is so desperate that it seems too much to hope for an exception. In some mysterious manner, her selfish, trouble-making war lords always seem able to find the necessary money and munitions. Favors Japan's Tians In the light of the foregoing, several reasons are seen behind Japanese refusal to live up to her promise to evacuate the Shanghai area. One is the likelihood of further chaos in China soon, making the fishing in troubled waters unusually good. Two, the hold on Shanghai strengthens Japan’s bargaining power in dealing with Manchuria. Three, as long as the international spotlight beats down on Shanghai, the systematic swallowing of Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia can proceed with less publicity and fuss. Four, nationalistic feeling is running high in Japan. And there is considerable political unrest. China, therefore, serves Nippon's war party well. It makes the Japanese forget their plight at home, which is bad, and think of the Promised Land of Asia.

IRVING WEBSTER HIT BY CHILD NEGLECT CHARGE Son Alleges Publisher Has Failed to Support Twin Daughters. Irving Webster, publisher of the Indiana Journal, today was to be ordered into juvenile court to answer an affidavit charging child neglect. The affidavit was filed Monday by Judson H. West, representing Webster's divorced wife. The divorce followed Webster's conviction several months ago on a blackmail charge in criminal court, on which a supreme court appeal is pending. The juvenile court affidavit charges Webster with failure to support his two children, Helen and Clarice Webster, twins. Lewis Webster, 20, a son, filed the charge. Webster had been ordered to pay $8 weekly support, after his wife obtained a limited divorce. Mrs. Webster is ill at the city hospital. LINDLEYJO jTr~VIEWS State Senator Will Urge Economy on Tax Survey Commission. State Senator Alonzo H. Lindley fßep.), Kingman, will give his ideas of tax economy at the next meeting of the state tax survey commission to be held in the directors’ room at the L. S. Ayres & Cos. store Friday morning, it was announced today by Senator J, Clyde Hoffman, chairman.

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For the first time in the history of De Pauw university, the two highest student offices are filled by girls. Miss Carolyn Alvord of Sandusky, 0., top picture, is president of the student body. Miss Margaret Winship of Rushville, Ind., below, is president of the senior class. Both are Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority members. And the men at De Pauw outnumber the co-eds eight to five.

OYSTER CURE IS USED IN ANEMIA Sea Food Held Valuable in Malady Treatment. Bn Science Service NEW ORLEANS, March 29.—1f you are plagued with pernicious anemia, eat oysters instead of liver. They are as good as liver in curative properties, and much easier to take —if you like oysters. This dietary advice emanates from a report before the American Chemical Society, meeting here today, by Dr. Harold Levine and Dr. Roe E. Remington of the South Carolina food and research commission and E. J. Coulson of the United States bureau of fisheries. “A few natural foods, such as beans, chard, spinach, lean beef and liver, equal or excell the oyster in iron content,” the report stated, "but as a source of both iron and copper in natural form, the oyster can be compared only with liver,” Practically all oysters provide enough copper, it was found, but only oysters from southern waters contain a sufficient quantity of both copper and iron to be of value in combating anemia. A source of vitamin A, more than a hundred times as potent as cod liver oil, has been found in oil from the liver of the food fish halibut. Halibut liver oil contains an unusually large concentration of vitamin D, according to a report by Drs. A. D. Emmett and O. D. Bird, Detroit, and C. Nielson and H. J. Cannon, Chicago.

MANN FILES IN RACE FOR COMMISSIONER Highway Superintendent Opposes Vorhies For County Post. Pledging “economy and honesty,” Charles W. Mann, Marion county highway superintendent, today had announced his candidacy for Third district county commissioner, on the Republican ticket. Don W. Vorhies, Democrat, is commissioner from the Third district and is expected to be a candidate in May. Vorhies is leading a fight to oust Mann as highway superintendent, to replace him with a Democratic appointee. Mann lives at 4206 Otterbein avenue, operates a farm in Decatur township and formerly served as assistant highway superintendent and deputy sheriff. ARCHITECTS OPTIMISTIC Report Sales at Spring Exhibit Now Under Way. A number of sales have been made and orders taken at the spring opening of the architects’ exhibit, being held at the Architects’ and Builders’ building, Vermont and Pennsylvania streets, sponsors announced today. The Indianapolis Building Forum will hold its weekly luncheon meeting Wednesday at noon. William Herschell will be the principal speaker.

AGE-OLD MYSTERY OF MAYAN EMPIRE COLLAPSE SOLVED BY U. S. GEOLOGIST

ONE of the world’s strangest mysteries, which scientists have tried to penetrate for generations, finally has been solved. From the tropical jungles of Guatemala, an American geologist, Dr. C. Wythe Cooke, has wrested the secret of the tragic fall of the Mayas, who ruled a mighty empire in Central America centuries before the white man knew this continent existed. A people of superb attainments in astrdnomy, mathematics, architecture and the arts, this ancient Indian race flourished for twelve centuries. Then, suddenly, in the short space of fifty years, the empire collapsed. Millions of Mayas perished, and the survivors scattered. Until Dr. Cooke made his recent discoveries nobody knew what caused

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SENATE WAR DECLARED ON RELJEF_ BILLS Use of Reconstruction Fund to Pay Railway Debt to Morgan Assailed. FIGHT GLASS MEASURE Bank Regulation Proposal Is Attacked by Imposing Array of Witnesses. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 29.—The senate was moving today toward controversy over reconstruction finance corporation stewardship of federal emergency relief funds. An angry dispute also was developing over the Glass bill to regulate banking practices. Senators Borah, Idaho, and Couzens, Michigan, both Republicans, charge that the finance corporation exerted undue pressure in obtaining interstate commerce commission approval of a $5,850,000 loan to the Missouri Pacific railway. Senator Dill (Dem., Wash.) complained that the corporation, headed by Charles G. Dawes, was making loans to enable the roads to pay interest on their securities, Couzens implied that the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland, who own the Missouri Pacific, have been aided in getting the loan by James R. Nutt, also of Cleveland, treasurer of the Republican national committee. Morgan to Get Money Objection to the Missouri Pacific loan centers around the fact that it was made to enable the railway to retire half of a $11,700,000 indebtedness to J. P. Morgan & Cos., Loeb & Cos. and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. The interstate commerce commission approved the loan—the law requires its approval of all rail loans—but accompanied its sanction with a public disavowal of the Policy involved with respect to absorption by the federal government of loans held by banks. Examination of information placed before the banking and currency committee during consideration of the reconstruction act, however, discloses that bank loans were listed in an interstate commerce commission report among the maturing liabilities of the roads which it was assumed the corporation might assist in handling. Glass Bill Assailed The dissension developing over finance corporation policies recalls Dawes’ statement, when he assumed presidency of the organization. He said that he and his corporation were popular for the moment, but would be the most unpopular organization in the country in a year or two. The other financial dispute moving toward the senate floor involves the Glass bill. Bankers, big and little, have been appearing before the banking and currency committee for several days in opposition to the bill. A climax of attack was reached Monday, when Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Company told the committee that not even the provision of the bill providing relief for depositors of failed banks should be enacted at this time. Ayres, a nationally famous statistician and banker, expressed the opinion that the depression was getting worse and that there would be two and one-half years more of it, at the least. NAMED CIVIC CLUB HEAD George A. Bowen of Wanamaker County Group’s Choice. George A. Bowen of Wanamaker today assumed his duties as president of the Southeastern Marion County Civic Club, following election Monday night in St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran church at Five Points. Clarence Waterman of Five Points was chosen vice-president; Harold C. Springer of Wanamaker, secretary, and Edward C. Prange of Fenton, treasurer.

Indiana Parents , Son Die in Suicide Pact

By Times Special BLOOMINGDALE, Ind., March 29.—Horace Coleman, 64, native of Bloomingdale; his .vise, Elizabeth, 62, and their 21-year-old son Horace are dead today, the result of a triple suicide pact. With hands clasped and an open Bible in Mrs. Coleman's lap, the bodies were found Monday in the family automobile in Chicago, carbon monoxide gas from the engine having brought death. The car Tiad been placed in a garage rented for the purpose of carrying out the grim pact. Discovery of the bodies followed

the dissolution of this strong, enlightened nation, writes Robert E. Martin in the May Popular Science Monthly. Between 580 and 630 A. D., when the country’s prosperity was at its height, and its population numbered more than 14,000,000 souls, the Mayas left their wonderful cities like rats deserting a sinking ship. They abandoned their farms, their homes, their sumptuous palaces and temples to the mercies of the jungle. HOSTS of Mayas died in the fateful fifty years of the collapse. The survivors fled from their Gautemala homeland. Some settled in various parts of South America. Others migrated to western Yuqatan,

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932

HOLLYWOOD BAN HITS CRASHER

‘Chiselers’ Find Gates Barred at Lavish Movie Parties

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Hollywood, March 29. Party crashing around Hollywood is getting so tough that even “One-Eye” Connelly would have a tough time getting a peek inside. There used to be any number of boys and girls who could ferret out a cinema social gathering anywhere in Hollywood. Now they have a tough time finding one if it is more than a block away. In fact, the party crasher rapidly is getting in danger of becoming absolutely extinct. Two main reasons may be cited for the gradual elimination of party crashing. First, there aren’t as many big parties as there used to be; second, hosts are becoming wise. In days gone by an actor who entertained in Hollywood entertained Hollywood. Every one from executives on down to extras attended. That they hadn’t been invited meant less than nothing. Now invitations go to a select few and news of the party Is kept as secret as possible. n n u ANY number of means once were used by the party "chiselers.” And back in what some still term "the good old days” any one of them would work. One of the favorites was to call the hostess on the day of the party and invite her for dinner. Naturally, she couldn’t accept the invitation and 99 times out of 100 would invite the “chisler” to attend her party. Another stunt was for partybound persons to drop in on friends en route, have a few drinks and then insist that these friends accompany them to the party. Butlers who know their Hollywood are getting wise to this stunt, however, and it isn’t as successful any longer. Then, there is the out and out gate crasher, who lurks just outside the gates waiting for any kind of a break. Sometimes he persuades one of the musicians to let him carry an instrument case inside. n AT a party given by Richard Dix recently, he was surprised to find that although he had engaged only four musicians, eight occupied the stand. Some turned the music, others just sat. Os course they weren’t paid, but they were content to just watch. At another party given by Ros-

RODEO TO OPEN CIRCUS SEASON Sells-Floto and Hagenbeck to Perform April 10. By Times Special PERU, Ind., March 29.—The 1932 season of the Sells-Floto and Hagenbeck-Wallace circuses will open with the annual rodeo at winter quarters Sunday, April 10. Sells-Floto will open at the Coliseum. in Chicago, May 1, followed by an appearance at Lafayette, May 2. Hagenbeck-Wallace is dated tentatively to open at Louisville, May 7. With the circus will be the famous animal trainer, Clyde Beatty, who recently underwent hospital treatment following an attack by one of his lions. Tom Mix will not be with the Sells-Floto this year, but will remain in Hollywood playing in western films. The John Robinson circus will spend its second summer in winter quarters because of financial conditions. Town Will Omit Flowers By United Press SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., March 29. —Hereafter the town of Swampscott will send no flowers to funerals of former town officials. It’s part of a municipal economy program.

receipt of a special delivery letter by Dr. E. D. Walker, lifelong friend of the family, all of whom formerly were engaged in missionary work in Japan. They were Quakers. n n tt THE letter reads: “We don’t want to be dressed or combed or fussed over. Just a sheet around us and a plain, pine, unpainted box. Take us to the crematory as soon as possible. We want to be cremated together and the ashes sent to the National Sunday School Association in Tokio and scattered under the

Here they laboriously rebuilt what they had lost, but this socalled Second Empire never recaptured the glories of the first. Who or what destroyed the first Mayan empire? Investigators seeking to solve the mystery have advanced various theories. Some laid the collapse to, a long and suicidal civil war. Others believed a blight withered the Mayan crops and a great famine swept away vast portions of the population. Still others reasoned that an epidemic, a series of earthquakes, or a drastic change in climate were responsible for the tragedy. # * u COOKE found the secret in the swamps and marshes that constitute about 40 ; per cent of

w Y. cras * iers> w * i ° j mm Wim : hou, T n wearing a striking evening iw— I and Dolores Del Rio are shown as : ■ they arrived at an exclusive movie

coe Ates, the counting of noses revealed several uninvited advertising solicitors present. None was selling anything—just making “contacts.’ One night there was a party at the Embassy club and another at the Montmartre next door. Guests from one place would travel through the kitchen, which serves both places, to the other. After this had continued for some time, a few outsiders caught on to the idea and worked it successfully. The exclusive Mayfair club, which has very strict regulations regarding its guests, never fails to have its share of troubles with the gate crashers. College boys and girls are the chief offenders, but occasionally

WIGGLE ’N’ GIGGLE

And How the Parson Hated It!

By United Press C'IHICAGO, March 29.—The bill was “A Nfght in Turkey," with the A Rev. Harry J. Maas, correspondence school Bible student and self-styled Investigator, and fifty-six squiggling dime-a-dance girls in the cast. And the house—otherwise the Chicago avenue police court—was packed. As the scene opened, Captain Michael Grady addressed the court. The girls, he said, had been arrested at a "business school of dancing,” where the entertainment was billed as a "Night in Turkey.” He charged they were costumed in trifles that would have startled even a harem. Mr. Maas, one of 300 men found in the ballroom, Grady announced,

would testify. Rose the Rev. Mr. Maas, who said he did his preaching on street comers. Adjusting a flowing black tie and fondling a widebrimmed black hat, he testified. “I was trying to get out to get a policeman when the officers arrived,” said he. “I had bought ten tickets for a dollar and used three of them. I didn’t like the way the girls shook, but these are hard times and the more they shake, the more they make.” The girls giggled. “I had picked out some of the more upright looking of the girl*and sought to show them the error of their ways. I am,” he told the judge, “an investigator for the Lord.” The girls giggled some more. The hearing was continued until April 19 and the girjs filed out, still giggling.

trees on our place—our summer home in Karuziana. “We ask you to keep this as quiet as possible. You know that this way accords with our peculiar ideas in cases where conditions warrant it.” Friends of the family were unable to account for the suicides. tt n tt COLEMAN was in Japan more than twenty years, engaged in Sunday school work, and his wife was associated with him. The son. a senior at the University of Chicago, was born in Japan and lived there until two

the old Maya country, now again an almost inpenetrable and uninhabited wilderness. He made a close study of the soil and formation of these bogs, or bajos, and of the uplands surrounding them. His survey of the terrain and his tests of the composition of the soil led the geologist to these conclusions: The marshes, at the time of the Mayan empire, formed a system of deep, clear lakes. The Mayas built their great cities and tilled their farms on the surrounding hilly shores, where their junglecovered ruins are found to this day. The lakes they used for navigation, shipping their farm produce and articles of commerce by boat from settlement to settlement.

a haughty dowager insists upon entering. a an “'ITK7E can spot college people as VV far as we can see them,” declares Marion Wolcott, the pretty young girl who greets Mayfair guests. "Even though they are attired in evening clothes and look the part, they give themselves away by starting to argue before any one says anything to them. "One older man tried to bluster his way in at the last party. He insisted that his daughter was inside. We knew she wasn’t, but had her paged just to make sure. “Then he pulled out a deputy sheriff’s badge. We told him he would have to get a warrant, so after some more arguing he left.”

PROGRAM COMPLETED FOR SAFETY MEETINGS L. Ert Slack, James A. Collins and Michael E. Foley Will Speak. Program for the city-wide safety rally to be held in Tomlinson hall April 5, 6 and 7, when an effort will be made to impress upon adults the need for greater caution in walking and driving, was announced today by the citizens’ safety committee, sponsors. Entertainment will include an accordion band, tap dancing, a minstrel show by pupils of school No. 50, and a two-reel movie entitled “Why Hurry?” Speakers will be L. Ert Slack, former mayor; James A. Collins, former criminal court judge, and Michael E. Foley, attorney.

years ago, when the parents retired and returned to Bloomingdale. The father was a minister of the Quaker church. While in Japan he was in the service of the Sunday School Association. Mrs. Coleman, formerly Miss Floy Elizabeth Rhode, lived in northern Indiana prior to her marriage. She was graduated from Earlham college, Richmond, in 1895. Relief work she performed during the World war won her decoration by Queen Elizabeth of Belgium.

This, incidentally, explains how they solved their transportation problem, for so far as is known they had no beasts of burden and, with all their ingenuity, they never invented the wheel. tt tt AS the Mayan population increased, the farmers cleared more and more of the uplands to make fields for their maize and other crops, thus exposing the rich, black soil to the torrential tropical rains that drench the territory during six months of the year. The fine, fat lands gradually were eaten away and washed down into the lakes, which eventually became mere mud holes, unfit for navigation. Here, then, _were two factors

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Gate crashers, who used to thrive in Hollywood, aren’t doing so well these days. Movie parties ; are quieter and more exclusive, j and guest lists are strictly adhered to. Peggy Shannon, left above, is shown wearing a striking evening costume ■which dazzled moviedom’s elite at a recent party. In the upper picture John McCrea, Ina Claire, Cedric Gibbons and Dolores Del Rio are shown as they arrived at an exclusive movie gathering.

The movie folk fortunate enough to own yachts constantly are bothered' by people who swim out to the anchored craft and have to be pulled aboard, or left to drown. Richard Barthelmess, John Barrymore, Charley Farrell and Dick Arlen have been heard to voice some pretty definite opinions on this practice. Probably the easiest parties to crash these days are those given for the press. Apparently any one can look like a newspaper or magazine writer. “Chiselers” will get pretty hungry waiting for these parties, however. Or for others, if this salary slashing continues.

AIR MANEUVERS OFF THIS YEAR Criticism Halts Display on Vast 1931 Scale. By Scripps-lloicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 29.—Last year’s vast air corps maneuvers, in which nearly 700 fighting planes were concentrated and paraded over the eastern seaboard, will not be duplicated this year. In fact, it is likely there will be no maneuvers at all this spring. The re ason—cri ticism. Patriots last year 'shouted that it was a $4,000,000 aeronautical holiday. Pacifists protested against it as an arrogant display of military strength. Nervous nellies cringed at the thought of airplanes falling upon them. But too late, and the 700 planes flew 3,000,000 miles without a fatality. Asa matter of fact, it didn’t cost the taxpayers anything. Maneuvers were paid for out of the regular air corps appropriation, and the same amount of flying would have been done at home fields. But such an immense and spectacular gathering of airplanes is bound to attract undue attention and adverse criticism. The war department has about decided that it won’t run the risk of similar criticism this year, even though the fault finding is based on error. The maneuvers probably will be replaced with routine training flights at air corps stations.

STATE MAINTENANCE OF NEW ROADS BEGUN Four Highways, 70.44 Miles, Will Be Given Care. State maintenance of 70.44 miles of roads, recently taken into the state system, was started today, it was announced by John J. Brown, highway director. The roads are: f Road 47. from Road 52 to Sheridan. 16.75 miles in Boone and Hamilton countie?. Road 105. from Road 9 south of Banouo north to the Huntinaton-RiDlev countv line, twer.tv-four miles in Huntington countv. Road 218. from Warren on Road 5 to the iunction with Road 9. ten miles in Hmtinvton countv. Road 245. from Maxwell to Road 62. thence to Lincoln Citv. 19.69 miles in Spencer county.

that well might impoverish any country—soil erosion, destroying fertile farm lands; and cessation of transportation, killing commerce. But those conditions, though they might reduce a prosperous nation to poverty and even famine, could not wipe out millions of people in the space of half a century. Disease did the rest. The silting of the lakes changed them into pestilential breeding places for mosc/:itoes that spread malaria and yellow fever among the population. In the fifty years of the collapse, epidemics of these diseases must have swept over the Mayan land. Powerless to stem the tide of death, the terrified survivors fled from their plague-stricken country.

GOLF COURSES AWAIT SPRING DUFFER RUSH Park Board Makes Great Improvements on All Public Links. CHANGE SOUTH GROVE Director Orders Alterations That Will Assure Faster Play. BY DICK MILLER Warm sunshine, with intermittent showers, may be a sure sign of spring to come, bu ; to A. C. Sailer, superintendent of public parks, and Arthur G. Lockwood, municipal golf director, it is a warning to bear down and get city golf courses in shape for the march of the duffers. Although a recent cold snap chilled the playing ambitions of many who had found agreeable golf weather on tap most of the winter, the arrival of April is a signal, regardless of weather, that golf time is here.

The park department has not j been caught napping and performed i two civic duties during the winter. Men out of work were given jobs, | on a made work program, otherwise ! this labor on golf courses would have been financially impossible for the park board. Two Courses Kept Open South Grove and Pleasant Run courses have been kept open for play all winter, of course, on temporary greens and tees and this enable much work to be done the regular course. A beautiful new green will catch the lofts over the lagoon known as hole 8 at South Grove. Likewise a new putting surface has been constructed on hole 6, and will be in shape for early use in spite of vandalism during the winter. The dog leg on No. 4 has been changed to afford more fairway space and new grass tees have been constructed on holes 9 and 11. With a view to speeding up play and getting players on the course faster from the first tee, Lockwood is contemplating anew rotation of play. No. 1 still must be used, because of the ticket booth and other permanent features and this will continue to be a bugaboo to the starting players if they be of the long driving variety. They must wait until the players ahead have left the first green. Changed on No. 2 Instead of the same condition bobbing up on the next hole, however, even shorter in yardage length, Lockwood plans to shift the players over to old No. 18 with long yardage for No. 2 and then take the course in the following manner, 1, 18, 6,7, 8,9, 10, 4,5, the holes being listed as they were known in 1931. The second nine would be 3, 11, 12, 13, 14 15, 16, 17 and 2, which, to one familiar with the course, shows that the new arrangement brings the players back to the clubhouse at end of nine holes. Not much improvement has been made on the east side of the course, principally because of the car tracks, but if hopes run true and these are removed in the near futures, Lockwood plans on anew green on hole No. 1 and anew arrangement and green for No. 18. Riverside Is Improved Riverside has been transformed greatly and players who have not been near there all winter will be surprised agreeably. Anew toolhouse, completely surrounded by evergreens, makes a great improvement, Anew water line has been piped in from Thirtieth street, a six-inch main to the clubhouse and then slit to give more pressure to the water supply system on the south end of the course. New grass tees have been constructed on holes 1,2, 3,8, 9, 10, 14 and 18 and new tile drain will take care of the drainage from the hill that long has ruined the first green every year. A big bunker will catch pulled shots from the seventeenth tee that frequently endangered persons waiting at the first tee. Many of the chocolate drop bunkers have been removed and a total of 240 trees have been set out around the edge of the entire course, giving a distinctive border.

Cut Down Pleasant Run Hill Pleasant Run has come in for its share of improvements and much work on the creek banks has taken place. The big hill on No. 12 has been cut down and the creek course changed on No. 3, lessen the lostball problem. The Sarah Shank course likewise came in for much work on the creek banks, much of it cleaning out underbrush and filling in the low ground on fairways of Nos. 8 and 9. The greens have been enlarged at Douglas park, Negro course, and water piped to the golf course greens and tennis courts. Bunkers have been constructed and the course made much more sporty. It had been hoped the new Coffin course would be in playing shape by June 1 since the fall and winter w-eather worked in favor of the new grass on the fairways and greens. Lockwood says, however, that six bridges must be constructed, some of them difficult ones, and he will be happy if the course can be thrown open as a Fourth of July feature. MAP CONVENTION PLANS Veterans of Foreign Wars Not to Seek Hospital Personnel Change. Veterans of Foreign Wars at their Elkhart convention will not advocate change in personnel of the United States veterans' bureau, as announced previously, but will advocate changes in several laws governing disabled veterans, Arthur Gresham of Indianapolis said today.