Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1932 — Page 2

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250,000 FACE FAMINE IN PHILADELPHIA; FOOD RIOTS ARE FEARED BY OFFICIALS Relief Fund Nearly Exhausted; $4.50 Weekly Allowance to Families May Be Cut Off. SMEDLEY BUTLER DEMANDS ACTION Commandeer Supplies and Pay Later, General Urges; Catastrophe Is Foreseen by Committee. BY ROSS DOWNING Fnitfd Press Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, April 2.—Hunger faces 250,000 Philadelphians, with the city’s relief fund of $5,000,000 virtually exhausted and food riots imminent. And 59,629 families entirely dependent upon the Lloyd unemployment committee for an average of $4.50 a week, their bare existence, will be doomed to untold suffering unless the state or other sources lend a hand.

“The impending catastrophe is too shocking to contemplate,” the Lloyd committee reported, in a recent statement. City and state officials, realizing that 250,000 persons will not sit down quietly and starve to death, believe food riots are imminent. MRjor-Gcneral Smedley D. Butler, campaigning for the Republican nomination for United States senator with the support of Governor Pinchot, has called upon “courageous governors” to declare martial law to prevent such riots. Would Seize Supplies "Commandeer supplies necessary to save our people,” he said, “and let the debating societies decide later, or at their political leisure, how to pay for it.” If the supreme court, which meets April 12, passes favorably upon the Talbot bill, $2,500,000 will become available for continuance of the work in Philadelphia. That will last until July 1. Governor Pinchot believes the bill is unconstitutional. Men and women who have studied the situation believe the only possible source of relief funds is the state. To get funds from the state would require a special session of the legislature. $5,000,000 Is Allotted The amount subscribed in the united campaign was $10,000,000. , Os this amount $5,000,000 was allotted to establish charities. The unemployment committee received and expended from Dec. 22, 1931, to March 22, 1932, the sum of $3,530,818, or approximately sl,250.000 monthly. "At this rate of expenditure, the ■Lloyd committee said, "the continuance of our work is a matter of days. "The question therefore arises what is to be done?”

CORN BORER SPREAD REPORTED IN STATE Sixty Townships Not Infested Last year Have Been Invaded. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind.. April 2—The European corn borer spread strongly to the south and west in Indiana during 1931, it was revealed in a repprt announced today by G. A. Ficht of Purdue university. Likewise Ficht reported, the intensity of corn borers in infested areas increased. Sixty townships that previously had not been infested were invaded by borers last year. These townships were located in counties that previously were not known to contain the pests. The infested area now reaches westward across the state to Eagle Creek township in Lake county and southward to Posey township on the Kentucky line in Harrison county. Between a third and a half of Indiana now definitely is known to contain borers, Ficht said. The spread, however, was not as great as has occurred in some other seasons, he said, probably as the result of the setback of the borer, due to the 1930 drought. TAXI METER REGISTERS $433 AND STILL GOING Chicagoan “Blows” Life Savings to Ride to Oregon in Style. By United Press CHICAGO, April 20.—Roy Bigeck, 35. sat back today and watched a taxicab meter tick up as it never had ticked before. At last reports the meter registered $433.75 and had been going steadily since Tuesday. That was at Boise, Ida., where Bigeck stopped long enough to telephone a brother here that he is headed for Brogan, Ore., 150 miles farther on, to visit an uncle. Bigeck said he drew his life savings of $Bl2 from the bank, and had two chauffeurs driving in relays on the trip. CURB SCARLET FEVER New Injection Builds Up Resistance of Child to Disease. By Science Service WASHINGTON. April 2.—New weapons with which to conquer scarlet fever, one of childhoods most serious diseases, have been forged by the scientific research division of the United States health service here. Chief of the new weapons is a scarlet fever streptococcus toxoid, a product which may be injected into a child’s body to build up his resistance to the disease. This toxoid has been given to about one thousand children and has given them much greater protection against the disease than any method heretofore used. Toxoid is the poison of the scarlet fever germ to which has been added the chemical formalin, and which then has been incubated for several months, during which time it loses its poisonous property, but retains ability to give protection ■against the disease.

DEATH PENALTY PAID BY KILLER OF SWEETHEART Man Who Drove With Body Through Four States Dies in Electric Chair. 1 By 1 nited Prcst TRENTON, N. J„ April 2.—William M. Frazer, 32, of Rahway, N. J., was executed in the electric chair at the state prison here Friday night :for the murder of his sweetheart, Mrs. Phoebe L. Stader, 33, a Rahway hairdresser. i The current was turned on in the .electric chair at 8:07 o'clock. Dr. J. Wellington Crane, the prison

j physician, proj nounccd Frazer dead at 8:14. Frazer cn!tered the death chamber s u p - ported by the |Re v. John jGo o r ley, the 'Protestant ! chaplain at the I prison. Accomj panying them l was the Rev. | Finley Keech, pastor of the (First Baptist i church of Rahi way of which ! Frazer was a member. The doomed

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\ man’s last meal, prepared at his orj der, consisted of chicken, Irish stew, green peas, dill pickles, bananas and | fruit salad. Upon entering the death chamber, 1 Frazer sat down at once in the chair. He%id not speak. Frazer, his widow, was jto claim<thc body. Frazer left two j daughters, Irene, 10, and Evelyn, 8. Mrs. Frazer visited the death ! house Thursday. She spent thirty minutes in a farewell talk with her husband. Frazer then made his will. The mother of Frazer, Mrs. Edna S. Frazer, also of Rahway, visited i the prison Friday morning, but was I told it is against prison rules to al- | low visitors for prisoners on the day of their execution. She wrote a sixty-five-word note to her son, and | he wrote her a note in reply. Frazer was arrested in North Carolina, after he had abandoned ! the body of his victim in Virginia, after driving with it through four I states. Frazer admitted the killing, but maintained it was accidental.

BIBLE SESSIONS SET Annual Conference Will Be at Winona Lake in August. i By Times Special WINONA LAKE, Ind., April 2. The Winona Lake Bible Conference will open its thirty-eighth annual program at Winona Lake, Friday, Aug. 12, and continue through Sunday, Aug. 21. For ten hours a day. through the ten days, some of the most noted preachers and Bible teachers in the world affords will speak to the throngs that crowd into the spacious Billy Sunday tabernacle, with its seating capacity of nearly 7,000 people. Director of the conference is the Rev. William Edward Biederwolf, formerly a pastor, then for years an evangelist, and now minister of Royal Poinciana chapel of Palm Beach. Speakers definitely engaged thus far are: Dr. Robert F. Speer. New York. Aug. 1618. Dr. Robert G. Lee. Memphis, Aug. 19-21: Dr. C. J. Rolls. New Zealand, Aug. 12-16: Dr. J. C. Massee, Atlanta, Aug. 12-21: Dr. Chprles S. Medburv, Des Moines. Aug. 12-14: Bishop Leonard. Buffalo. Aug. 16-18; Dr. George McNeely. Newark. Aug. 15-17; Dr. Clinton N. Howard. Rochester, Aug. 13-14: Dr. Alva McClain. Columbus. Aug. 17-21: Melvin Trotter. Grand Rapids. Aug. 18-21: Miss Grace Saxe. Chicago. Aug. 15-21: Philip Sidersky. L-os Angeles. Aug. 13: William Danner. New York. Aug. 17: Dr. Jacob Peltz. Chicago. Aug. 12. A number of missionary speaki ers will be announced later. OSTRICH LAYS 2 EGGS WITHIN A HALF HOUR Frying Pan Is Cheated by Incubator at Detroit’s Belle Isle Zoo. | By United Press DETROIT, April 2. —Laying two eggs within a v fllf hour was the unj usual performance of Queenie, one of the Belle Isle Zoo’s two ostriches. The eggs, weighing about three pounds each, would provide an ! omelette for a score or so people, 1 but John Ireland, director of the zoo, has other ideas. He believes the eggs are fertile, and so has placed them in an incubator. Two eggs in one day from an j ostrich is almost unheard of. Ireland said. Usually they lay from one to a dozen gggs in a season, with sevI eral days interval between layings.

Russia's Five-Year Plan Is Stalin's Great Effort to Prove That Rule of Communism Is a Success

Thi* is the second of a series of two articles about the tenth anniversary of Joseph Stalin's election as rencral secretary of the Communist parts-. by MILTON BRONNER European Manaser, N'EA Service T ONDON, April 2.—While Russia is celebrating the tenth anniversary of Joseph Stalins election as general secretary of the Communist party, there is another matter vastly more interesting to people outside of the Soviet state. It can be expressed in the question, How is the five-year plan going? What has it accomplished? What does the tenth anniversary of Stalin’s accession „to power mean in the development of Russia's Communistic form of society? Where does Russia get her money? To begin, the date set for completion of the five-year plan has been moved forward to Dec. 31, 1932. That date will be only a little more than four years after the plan was begun. The shortening of the schedule is supposed to indicate that the plan has met with greater success than was expected. Asa matter of fact, however, the five-year plan never was a hard-and-fast affair. It is a misnomer and isn’t the first plan. It is and has been extremely flexible. It represented a mark to shoot at, a peg on which to hang propaganda—little more. tt tt tt THE five-year plan represented Stalin’s great attempt to make communism work. Private trading was abolished, except for a few relatively and unimportant exceptions. The peasants were to be collcctivated; that is, enormous state-operated farms, housing hundreds of workers and their families, were to take the place of the individually cultivated little farms that had existed previously. Russia was to develop her natural resources, her transportation and her manufactures so thoroughly that she could get along in complete independence of other nations of the world. That last sentence, incidentally, needs a bit of explanation. It comes from the fact that most Russians are quite convinced that the capitalistic powers, sooner or later, will band to destroy communism and restore a capitalistic government in Russia. Fully half of Russia’s farmland now is being worked by collectivized farms. The kulaks, or individual peasants who will not join the colectives, have fought a spirited but lasing battle.

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Dear Mr. Fixit—l am a merchant in the 3500 block on Prospect street, and am soliciting your co-operation in an attempt to get the city to repair a large hole in the brick pavement a short distance from our place of business. This hole has caused several wrecks and has done considerable damage to tires and rims of motorists for months. C. F. Francis. 3513 Prospect St. Wilbur H. Wtnslifn. rilv sired commissioner. reported todav that the pavement defect is being investigated. i Dear Mr. Fixit—l am a resident j of Hervey street, which runs west j from Shelby street to Garfield j drive. We would like to have a I street sign erected at the corner of j Hervey and Shelby streets. The j sign there is illegible and causes ! much delay and confusion in getting our deliveries. R. E. MORRIE. Hervey Street. John Noonan, of ihe eitv engineering ! department, todav said he will investi- ] gate the matter immediately. He will ! have a sign erected if there is a light post at the corner, but if there is no light post, he will turn the matter over : to the street commissioner's department. Dear Mr. Fixit—There is a large j stone on the lawn between the sidej walk and the street which belongs |to the city, I understand. A crowd of boys from 8 to 14 play on and i around the stone and on my lawn I and act like a pack of wild Indians. My mother, who is 99, and I have : been annoyed terribly, but the boys ! pay no attention and hang around | the stone continually. Can’t the city j remove this stone? MRS. R. J. NAGLE. J 826 North Tuxedo street. The street commissioner’s department will send a truck to the spot mentioned and if the stone can be lifted, the truck’s crew will remove it. Winship announced todav, KALAMAZOO STUDENTS GRADE LOW ON NEWS Questionnaire Brings Amusing Answers on Current Topics. ! By United rress KALAMAZOO. Mich., April 2. Students of Kalamazoo college api parently are intensely interested in ! their scholastic activities and divert little attention to news of the day, a questionnaire reveals. Among replies given a “Who’s Who” questionnaire were: : Jimmy Walker is Governor cf New ! York. Franklin D. Roosevelt is Governor ; of the Philippine Islands. Andrew Mellon is secretary of the I interior. Charles G. Dawes was described as being the present “foreign minister” of France and also the presi ent Vice-President of the United States. Hiram Johnson is the senator who | “gets on the front pages of newspapers.” Coffee contains more substances than any other beverages. It contains wates\ sugar, caseine, gum, fat, | oil, mineral water, wood and caffeine—a drug composed of nitro--1 gen, carbon, hydrogen and water.

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The immensity of the program to change agricultural Russia to industrial Soviet can be realized by a study of this map. At Gigant, vast state farms have been established with farmers working on a collective scale. Giant tractor factories are at Kharkov and Stalingrad. Dnieper Dam and the

MORE than 700 new factories, equipped to handle such basic industrial operations as steel, machinery and electric power, have been built and equipped since the plan was put into operation. Two of the greatest of these factories are tremendous tractor plants at Kharkov and Stalingrad. These last year produced 16,000 tractors. Russia today, incidentally, has some 300,000 tractors in operation. At Magnitogorsk, where’there is a stupendous iron deposit of more than 275,000,000 tons, the great $400,000,000 iron and steel plant is now about one-third completed. At Kuznetsk, in Siberia, where

Divorced Mother Resumes Maiden Name in Odd Marital Tangle. i ! By l nited rress CHICAGO, April 2.—Mrs. Clara Christine Mumm had lost her 7-year-old sister today in a complicated legal tangle which returned to her her daughter and her maiden name. As the result of adoption papers signed by County Judge Edmund Jarecki, Mrs. Mumm became the mother of her own daughter, Juanita Clara, previously adopted by Mrs. Christine Mumm, the | child’s grandmother. Last July 31, the mother, then Mrs. Paul Schauberger. divorced her j husband on charges of cruelty, reI ceiving custody of the child, a property settlement and alimony. The father reserved the right to | visit the child at regular intervals. The mother and grandmother, however, charged that the child had a strong aversion to her father, I and that the girl became ill after ; each visit from her estranged ! parent. It was agreed that the father : would end his visits provided the mother would relinquish all legal claim to her small daughter. This i was accomplished when the grandmother adopted her own granddaughter. and the child became her mother’s legal sister. Mrs. Schauberger then filed a bill in circuit court to resume her maiden name of Clara Christine Mumm, charging that she was prompted by her former daughter’s aversion to her father. This petition was granted last Thursday. Friday Mrs. Mumm appeared before Judge Jarecki. seeking to adopt her foster “sister.” The elder Mrs. Mumm was willing to release her “daughter” to regain her grandchild. Judge Jarecki signed the papers which made the younger woman the mother of her “sister,” who was really her daughter all the time. ALBERT F. MEURER IS CANDIDATE FOR SENATE Tax Revision, Utility Regulation, Liquor Referendum. Platform. A three-point platform was enunciated by Albert F. Meurer. 4426 East Tenth street, former city council member, who filed today Tor the Republican nomination for state senator. Meurer. who is past commander of the Irvington post of the American Legion, favors tax law revision :to relieve the farmer and home owner. ; “I will use every effort to help devise some more effective program of utility regulation as applied to monopolies.” he said, “and to simplify the procedure in such manner as may be required to make possible public ownership of utilities. Meurer also declared he will work for a referendum on prohibition. Widow’s Tax Money Stolen | By United Press CHICAGO, April 2.—Mrs. Emily Peterson. 66, a widow, took her last S3OO and started out to pay her taxes. She tied the money in a handkerchief with three heirloom, rings. When she reached the county offices, money, rings, handkerchief were gone.

huge hydro-electric power plant is completed, while , the steel mills located at the great ore deposits near Magnitogorsk are onc-third built. At the right is an interesting copyrighted camera I study by Margaret Bourke-White, showing the type of peasant the Soviets are trying to transform into ! mechanics. /

another vast coal and steel plant is being prepared, two blase furnaces have gone into operation. The great Dnieper dam, built under direction of American engineers, and designed to yield 300,000 kilowatts of power, is expected : to go into operation in May. tt tt tt THESE, of course, are the highlights. In general, the* indus- ; trial program is ahead of the schedule called for in the fiveyear plan. It was aimed to triple the production of tools, machinery and i other heavy products and to double the production of clothing, prepared foods, oil and coal. Production of food and clothing

GMC DISPLAYS FIRM PRODUCTS Parade Starts Exposition at Fairground. Described as one of the most extensive merchandising programs of modern times, a display of its products was opened today at the state fairground by General Motors Corporation, following a downtown parade led by the American Legion drum corps. : Governor Harry G. Leslie opened the program, counterparts of Which are being given in fifty-four other cities of the country. Firing of an aerial bomb at 10 this morning marked the opening and one will be fired at the same hour daily next week while the exhibit is in progress. The display slogan is “Work for Many Hands.” in line with the drive of automobile manufacturers for revival of industry. In a setting beautified with velvet hangings and cloth of gold $150,000 worth of automobiles and trucks produced by General Motors are being shown in the Livestock building at the fairground. | Cars shown are Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, LaSalle and Cad- ! iliac. In addition, there is a display of Frigidaire electric refrigerators, fans and vacuum cleaners and i various automotive accessories. Indiana companies represented in i the accessories show include units of the Delco-Remy corporation at Anderson and Muncie and the Guide Lamp Company, Anderson. Allison Engineering Company of Indianapolis, which is engaged in experimental aeronautical work for I the United States government and General Motors, also has a display. Boys’ work in the Fisher body contest conducted by General Motors, in which 145,000 boys participated | last year, is being shown. PROTESTS HIS ‘DEATH’ Concord Man, Like Twain, Brands Obituaries Exaggerated. ; By United Press CHICAGO, April 2. Roy La 1 Duke, Concord, N. H., rose from the dead today to join such notables as Mark Twain and announce his obituaries were greatly exaggerated. The body of a youth who died at Guthrie, la., had been identified by | his father, Leon, through papers, as his. La Duke explained the papers had been stolen. Break Window to Rob Store Men's clothing valued at SSO was stolen from the James Honeycutt store, 1431 Wade street, by a thief who broke a window, it was discovered when the store was opened ; today. ’ ’ ■ " - - • American Princess Dead ! By United Press PARIS, April 2.—Princess Helene Murat, the former Helene MacDonald Stallo of Cincinnati, died early today after a short illness, i Burial will be here Tuesday.

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and coal has lagged a bit behind schedule; the other items are ahead of schedule. It was planned, further, to double the number of engineers in Russia and triple the number of skilled mechanics. Both classes have been vastly increased, but the totals envisaged in the fiveyear plan have not yet been reached. It should be added, too, that the program also called for a 60 per cent increase in wages and a corresponding drop in the cost of living; neither of these goals has been met. In the main, then, the five-year plan is pretty much of a success; probably a great deal more of a success than the people who de-

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Lawrence Connaughton One of the featured attractions at the General Motors exhibit at the state fairgrounds starting today and continuing next week will be Connie and his WKBF orchestra. Connie, Lawrence Connaughton and his band are among fifty-four orchestras playing in as many cities throughout the country at the different motor exhibits being held during the week. The band leaders include Ben Bernie, Coon Sanders, Wayne King, Leo Reisman. Bernie Cummins and others of national popularity. In a recent Indianapolis Times’ contest to determine the favorite radio stars of Indianapolis listeners, Connie and his band placed third, outranked only by Ben Bernie and Guy Lombardo in the estimation of Indianapolis and Indiana listeners. PLAYS TO BE GIVEN ON SCOUT PROGRAM ‘Dracula’ and ‘Pageant of Progress’ Scheduled at Cathedral. “Dracula,” a mystery play, and “A Pageant of Progress,” written by John G. Watson, founder and first scoutmaster of troop 69, will be presented at 8 tonight in Cathedral high school as the final features of Boy Scout week. James E. Biddinger. scoutmaster of troop 69. will be in charge of a program of stunts. Charles Payne, trombonist, and Delbert Daringer. cornetist, will play solos in the concert of the Boy Scout band. The Y. M. C. A. branch quartet will sing. Iceland Tiring of Prohibition By United Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 2. Iceland’s 20-year-old prohibition law would be completely abolished by a bill introduced in j>arliament by five members, including three members of the government party.

vised it ever imagined it would be. It is inevitable that it will be followed by anew five-year plan. a a a THIS new five-year plan is to be completed by 1937. It calls for 250.000,000 tons of coal, 22.- , 000.000 tons of pig iron. 130.000.000 ■ ions of wheat and 100.000,000,000 i kilowatt hours of electricity. Other phases of the plan have ; been sketched only roughly by I Soviet leaders and will be made j known before the end of the year. The current five-year plan has resulted in the Soviet spending 532.000,000,000 on its industrial | program. The question arises if a poor nation like Russia can spend ! that much money on improveI ments, without going bankrupt, why can't a nation as rich as the United States spend a greater amount without seriously affecting its financial structure? Another question the five-year | plan has brought up is how the ! Russians financed the industrial j development? Among its methods of finance are the Russian internal bonds. They are sold in much the same way as the Liberty bonds were sold during the World war. Their purchase is almost obligatory. If the Russian prefers an inter-est-bearing bond, he usually is paid 7 per cent. But if he pre--1 fers, he can carry a lottery bond and gamble on the return. tt st a Theoretically, the Russian, with enough 7 per cent bonds, could live on the interest. But in so doing he might label ! himself a capitalist and exile or [ execution would follow. Credit to the country is placed | at $500,000,000, while $10,000,000 is ; represented as foreign capital now ! working Russian concessions. Inflation has not been primarily | the state's treasure box. To prove this, paper money was isi sued in denominations of one. I three, five and ten and occasion- ! ally twenty rubles, but not in denominations of a thousand or a million. Some have said the natural resources are her capital, but it i takes time to liquidate such. To liquidate them the soviet has established an iron belt around her consumers. Often she takes what she thinks she can sell, and pays a nominal price for it with her own currency, thus giving her gold. Cash must be gotten and the belt around internal Russia is tied tighter whenever the Soviet state needs cash. And it is this iron ring that is paying for the five-year plan, which is gradually nearing completion ahead of time. the end.

‘ORPHAN’ SEEKS TRUE IDENTITY Visits Mother of Lost War Veteran to Solve Mystery. , By United Press CHICAGO, April 2.—Joe Bond, oil station owner, journeyed to Philadelphia today to find out who he really is. David Burke of Philadelphia believes Bond is his brother Tobias, World war veteran who has been missing eleven years. Bond says as far as he can remember he is an orphan. Tobias Burke was injured in the war and disappeared from his home in 1921. At the time he vanished he was suffering severe headaches. Recently Frank Richardson, an actor and a freind of Burke, met Bond and greeted him as Burke. The brother came here and also \ was convinced Bond was Burke. The oil station man left for Philadelphia to see if a. visit to his supposed mother would throw any j light on the situation. JUDGES NAMED FOR HOUSE PLAN AWARD Prospective Home-Builders Have Chance to Win Free Counsel. Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter. Luther L. Dickerson and Dr. Jean S. Milner have been chosen to act as judges to select a local person to whom Indianapolis architects will give full architectural service in the j planning and building a home. While the architects’ exhibit in the Architects’ and Builders’ building will close tonight, entries for the award may be made at the building until 5 p. m. April 9. All entrants must intend to build a home this spring, and must be j prepared to start planning within thirty days after the award. Mrs. McWhirter is chairman of the state committee of Better Homes, in America. Dickerson is city librarian and Dr. Milner is pastor of the Second Presbyterian church. Royalty Visits Smallpox Hospital By United Press WINDSOR. England. April 2. Discovery of two cases of smallpox at Dulwich hospital where the king and queen visited last Saturday caused considerable concern among members of the Windsor castle royal household today.

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VESTAL RITES TO BE SUNDAY AT ANOERSON Delegation of 18 From House, 10 From Senate Will Attend Funeral. By Time* Special WASHINGTON. April 2. Eighteen representatives and ten senators were leave Washington tonight in a special railway coach to attend the funeral of Representative Albert H. Vestal at Anderson. Ind., Sunday afternoon. The special congressional funeral party was scheduled to arrive in Anderson at noon Sunday. The body of the congressman, accompanied by members of his family and Representative Fred Purneil left Washington Friday night, and was to arrive at Anderson at noon today. Ouf of respect to the memory of the Republican whip of the house, who died Friday of heart disease, congress recessed Friday night until noon Monday. Members of the house designated by Speaker Garner to attend the funeral were Representatives Wood. Purnell, Greenwood, Canfield. Hogg. • Ludlow. Bochnr. Crowe, Gillen, Larrabee. Griswold and Pettengill. all of Indiana; and Representatives | Woodruff of Michigan, of North Dakota, Englcbright of California, Sirovich of New York and Chindblom of Illinois. Members of the senate named by Vice-President Curtis were Robin- ; son of Indiana, Fess of Ohio, Patterson of Missouri. White of" Maine. Byrnes of South Carolina. Dill of Washington. Connolly and Sheppard of Texas, Dickinson of lowa and Barkley of Kentucky. WOMAN'S LIFE SAVINGS STOLEN BY 'REPAIR MEN' 5125 in Cash, $2,000 in Securities Loot of Two Imposters. Two thieves who posed as repairmen to force their way into the 1 home of Mrs. Minnie Merger, 76, of 1042 Church street, Friday aftj ernoon. escaping with a money box . containing $125 in cash and $2,000 i’ n United States securities, are j sought today by police. Mrs. Nerger told police the men S said they had been sent to repair j a stove. Despite her objections, the | men entered the home and began I inspecting a stove. One of them asked for a hatchet, j police were told, and Mrs. Nerger went to the basement for the tool | with one of the men. The second, I thief then looted the house and I found the money box which con- | tained Mrs. Nerger’s life savings. Mrs. Nerger is a cripple. LOUIS MARKUN ASKS SENATE NOMINATION State Representative Ambitious to Move Into Upper House. Readjustment of utility rates, and strengthening of banking laws, are advocated by Louis R. Markun, 3646 t East Fall Creek boulevard, who has announced for the Republican nomi- ! nation for state senator. Markun, while a member of the ; j 929 house of representatives, sponsored the bill making the penalty for kidnaping life imprisonment. It was enacted. He also was active in the movement to have the city take over the Citizens Gas Company. Markun was born and rearer in Indianapolis and has been engaged in the motion picture business here for the last fourteen years. He served with the air forces during the World war. PROBE CO-ED KIDNAPING Man Posing as Photographer Abducts Utah Engineer’s "Queen.” [ By T ii if rd Pre** SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, April I 2.—University authorities today in- | vestigated the “kidnaping” of Charlene Scowcroft, 19, University of Utah co-ed, and “queen” of the annual engineering students’ celebration. The girl told university authori- | ties she had been kidnaped by a man who posed sa a photographer, but finally released her when she became hysterical and demanded that he let her go. Sweet Fire Pleasure to Fight I By United !'re*x ; LOS ANGELES, April 2.—"lt war. I the sweetest smelling fire I ever had the pleasure of putting out,” said Battalion Chief A. C. Williams today, after fighting a fire for hours at the plant of the Oriental Incense and Sunset Perfume Company.

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