Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1932 — Page 13

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MELLON GIVEN WELCOME BY ALL BRITAIN Royalty and Nobility Unite to Greet Ambassador With Open Arms. PRESS LAUDS SPEECH Prince of Wales Attends Dinner in Honor of New Envoy. BY HERBERT MOORE United Press Staff Oorre*t>ondetit LONDON, April 15.—British royalty and nobility, hundreds of distinguished Britons, and the nation's press joined today in the enthusiastic reception given Andrew W. Mellon's call for closer Anglo-Amer-ican co-operation in "a world that tends to fly apart,” Mellon told 500 guests at. the dinner given in his honor by the Pilgrims' society as new United States ambassador to the court of St. .James to have faith that capitalism, despite its defects, would lead the world to great prosperity. The United States an Britain, he said, were equipped to play a role together "of inestimable value.’ The ambassador did not mention war debts, but said he was opposed to ‘ quick and spectacular remedies." Britain, he said, had turned the most difficult corner, "and the situation is in hand." Prince of Wales Present The prince of Wales attended the dinner in Mellon's honor. The king sent a message of welcome. Lord Derby presided. Mellon’s "debut" was highly successful. "We are glad to say that relations between our two countries never were better than they are today,” the prince said. The comment of London morning newspapers today was entirely favorable. "Both diagnosis and prescription were perfectly sound,” the liberal News-Chronicle said. "The generous appeal will receive a generous response here.” "The speech was one of many signs that those whose words carry weight in the United States are concerned to lead their countrymen to a broader and deeper understanding of the world situation,” the conservative Daily Telegraph commented. Drinks Vin Rouge Mellon sat on the right hand of the chairman. Lord Derby. The prince of Wales was at Lord Derby's left. As soon as the customary toasts had been completed with the toasts to "the king and the president,” and smoking was in order, Mellon pulled a cheroot from his pocket and lighted it. He sipped vin rouge. A statue of libery cut from ice, three feet tall, was placed at the head of the table. It melted so rapidly it had to be removed before the dinner was half over. "That was due to the warmth of the welcome," Lord Derby remarked to the ambassador. The prince of Wales drew the best laugh of the evening when he proposed the toast to the chairman. "No doubt Mr. Mellon’s presence is due to l!ord Derby's ‘come to Britain’ campaign,” the prince said. "May I congratulate him upon landing a very fine prize." Mellon Soon at Ease Turning to Mellon, the prince said: "What is needed now is not only faith in ourselves, but faith in each other. The appointment of Mr. Mellon as ambassador is a ;?reat gesture on the part of the American people. Mellon began his speech nervously, but was soon at ease. Although he did not mention war debts, he made it plain that he did not believe in "quick and spectacular remedies.” "Britain has turned the most difficult corner and the situation is in hand." Mellon said. "The United States frankly is facing difficulties which are serious, but neither so critical or unprecedented as to justify lack of faith in our capacity to deal with them in our accustomed way. "By rigid economy and increased taxes, the federal government intends to set its own house in order as you, with so much courage, already have done here.” Mellon said. PROHIBITION LAW IS FLAYED BY CANDIDATE Anti-Saloon League Gets Little Encouragement From Smith. The Indiana Anti-Saloon League "attitude" questionnaire of candidates toward the prohibition law today brought forth another voice against enforcement in the reply of Robert S. Smith, 25 West Sixteenth street, attorney, and candidate for the Republican nomination for state representative. "In event of your nomination and election to the Indiana legislature, what will be your attitude and vote on all efforts to weaken the Indiana prohibition laws?" was the league’s question. Smith's reply is: "Repeal the present fanatical prohibition law and replace it with a liquor control act which would obtain revenue for the state and erase the criminal stigma from our, otherwise, law-abiding citizens." AGAINSTPAYiNGBONUS Seth S. Ward Backs Legion’s Stand in Race for Congress. Support of the American Legion stand against payment of the bonus was placed by Seth S. Ward, attorney, and Republican candidate for the nomination for congressman from the Twelfth district, at an organization meeting Thursday. Ward also said he will stand for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, "turning liquor revenue to the government instead of the underworld.”

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America Spends Billion Dollar Annually for Relief of Ex-Soldiers

U. S. LEADS WORLD IN AID TO ITS WAR VETERANS

Foreign Nations Pay Far Less, Have Tighter Restrictions on Compensation

BY TALCOTT POWELL npHE United States holds the world's record for generosity to World w*ar veterans. This country's total mobilized forces were less than those of Russia, Britain, France or Italy. It’s total casualties were 350,000, as compared with Russian's nine million, Britain’s three million, France’s six million and Italy's two million. The allies and the central powers were plunged in the great conflict for four years. This country came into it to give the Anal push that brought victory—but one year of fighting was all it had. Yet figured on any basis, the United States’ mobilized troops have cost taxpayers far more than ex-soldiers of either the allies or the late enemies. Soldier relief now is costing billions of dollars a year in America. It is the most expensive function of the federal government. Nor does the expense cease with the funds put out by the federal government. Taxpayers in numerous cases have been doubly and triply assessed for veterans’ relief, since many states and municipalities have added bounties of their own, u u n UP to 1931, official documents indicate that forty-three states spent at least $375,495,182 in various forms of gratuities for World war veterans. Twentytwo states reported expenditures of $94,296,082 for veterans of all other wars, probably including soldiers of the confederacy, and 25 states said they had put out an additional $50,005,326 for all veterans, but were unable to break this item down as between the World war and other wars. The states have loaned $56,890.196 to veterans which still is to be repaid. They have maintained state soldiers’ homes and hospitals at a cost of $73,181,199. These figures represent what has been spent since April 1, 1917, for relief only. They aggregate $649,862,585. the amount probably is under the actual sum the states have contributed. No reliable estimates could be found of this cost to the cities.

DRY LAW REPEAL URGED BY WAGNER

13-Word Amendment Could Strike Out Present One, Says Senator. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 15.—Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem., N. J.), today urged a senate judiciary subcommittee to report favorably a thirteen-word amendment to the Constitution, which would say: "The eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.” Wagner, long an advocate of repeal, said he favored this unadorned amendment because the states automatically would repossess the power to regulate liquor the moment the eighteenth amendment was stricken from the Constitution. He believed other lengthy repeal amendments specifically guaranteeing the rights of states to ban liquor were unnecessary and only complicated the situation. Giles Reconstruction Plan Wagner said "reconstruction” after repeal of the eighteenth amendment should follow these lines: 1. The policy of state responsibility. This would be established automatically by repeal, he said. 2. Protection of prohibition states against violation of their policy by non-prohibition states. He said congress could do this by law. 3. Provision against restoration of the saloon. Miss M. Louise Gross, Harrison, N. Y., chairman of the National Moderation Union, urged the committee that "If we are going to repeal the eighteenth amendment, let’s cut it out like a cancer and not merely amend It.” Women Oppose Dry Law Miss Gross presented petitions from nine states, "signed by women in the home,” and added she had "stacks” more. Anti -prohibitionists in the house so far have obtained 108 signatures to their petition which would force the house to vote on a bill to legalize 2.75 per cent beer. One hundred forty-five signatures are necessary. Wets have no expectations of passing the beer bill, but want to put every member of the house on record. President Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth college today wrote Senator Binghatn (Rep.. Conn.), flatly opposing the eighteenth amendment and urging its repeal. Bingham, leading wet in the senate, wrote Hopkins, requesting a statement of his views. He inserted the reply in the Congressional Record. ASKS $50,000 DAMAGES B. A O. Defendant in Suit by Rail Victim’s Widow. Suit for $50,000 damages was filed in Marion superior court one today by Mrs. Laura D. Carnell. 519 North Gray street, widow of Thomas M. Carnell, killed in a railroad accident April 17. Defendant is the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, for which her husband was working at the time of his death. She charges Mr. Carnell was thrown from the top of a train by a sudden and violent jerk. She has two children, one a daughter, 18.

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But benefits do not end here. Scores of private agencies have put out milions of additional dollars for veterans, most of whom fought in the World war. Here are a few, as reported to the house committee on pensions: American Red Cross, 1923-1929, $19,073,351; American Legion, 1921-1929, $1,142,004 for rehabilitation and child welfare; disabled American Veterans of the World war, 1920-1929, $605,031; Jewish Welfare board, 1917-1928, $4,729,751; Knights of Columbus, 19171928, $44,662,618; Y. M. C. A., $8,143,611. u * * "YTTHILE these statistics sure ’ ’ somewhat fragmentary, they are quoted here simply as a rough indication of the enormous sums that veterans’ relief cost privately operated institutions. A conservative estimate would place the total spent by states, cities, and private agencies since the World war on veterans at r billion dollars. Great Britain frankly ascepts the fact that others besides the central government aid the veterans and cuts its relief pattern accordingly. A summary of the relief theories of other countries shows why the United States is running such a high financial temperature on veterans’ relief. In Britain the veteran must prove service-connected disability to receive money. Unless he is 20 per cent disabled, he gets nothing. He must have established his case within seven years of the war and the burden of proof is on him. Canadian pensions are based on rank and physical disability, which must be service connected. The burden of proof is on the claimant. n * * IN France pensions also are based on rank and physical disability, which must be service-connected. The state accepts the burden of proof for six months after discharge. Free hospitalization is given. Germany has abolished all considerations of rank and places chief emphasis on the need of a disabled veteran. His disability need not be service connected,

NATURE LECTURE SET "The Lure of the Great Northwest” to Be Riley’s Subject. Illustrated lecture on "The Lure of the Great Northwest” will be given Saturday night by Frank

Branch Riley in the auditorium of the Methodist hospital nurses’ home, under auspices of the Nature Study Club of Indiana. He will broadcast from 4:15 to 4.30 Saturday afternoon over station WKBF. Riley, a lawyer, declaring his object is "presenting America to Americans,* has a collection of art

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studies of nature’s beauties in natural colors which are projected on a screen to illustrate his lecture. HONOR PAID LILLY Service Star Awarded for Civic Work. The 1932 "star of service” will be presented Josiah K. Lilly on May 4 as the citizen who has contributed the “most unselfish, outstanding and heretofore unrecognized service to the community,” it has been announced by James W. Ingles, chairman of the service star committee. Lilly, president of Eli Lilly & Cos., will be awarded the, star at an open meeting of the Kiwanis Club at the Claypool. Lilly has been active in philanthropy, science and social service for many years. He is the son of Colonel Eli Lilly, and aided his father until the latter’s death in 1898. The 1931 star was awarded William Fortune, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross.

Stimson and Litvinoff May Confer on . Understanding Between U. S. and Soviet

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, April 15.—Possibility of a meeting between Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, due in Geneva Saturday, and the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, who already is there attending the arms conference, is being discussed here. Officially, the two foreign ministers can not see each other. Despite its sway over 160.000,000 people and one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, the Soviet Union does not exist, so far as the United States is concerned. Therefore its foreign minister does not exist, as far as our secretary of state is concerned. But Stimson and Litvinoff exist and there is no reason why these two persons, as such, can not get together and discuss anything in which they may happen mutually to be interested. That the United States and

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but he receives more lenient treatment if it is. Italy brses its tensions on rank and physical disaoility. It gives certain privileged pensions to those disabled in the combat zone. It is difficult to reduce to a lowest common denominator the natchwork of legislation passed jy congress for the relief of United States veterans. For comparative purposes it can be pointout out that American veterans are paid for disability as Ic* a$ 10 per cent, whether sendee-con-nected or not; that service, connection brings more money, but in the case of special diseases it is presumptive; that rank is a decided factor if the veteran held a certain kind of commission during the war; that the law entourages veterans to get free hospitalization whether for service-con-nected difficulties or not, and that, in general, need of the veteran does not influence amount of payment. nun 'C'XTRAVAGANCE of this country in granting pensions may be calculated roughly. The Copenhagen War Study Society and the Carnegie foundation have estimated that United States World war wounded, with reduced ability, totaled 105,917 men. War department figures show that 178,899 men were discharged from the army for accidents or disease in the United States. This makes a total of 284,616 potential applicants for disability compensation at the close of the war. On Dec. 31, last, 320,206 veterans were receiving regular monthly payments from the government for service-connected disabilities. Compare with this the record of Britain, with 1,855,129 eligible for pension, 79 per cent of them receiving allowances, and France, with 2,647,992 eligibles, 59 per cent of whom were on the government pay roll, according to last available figures. The United States pays a totally disabled veteran $1,200 a year; Great Britain, $520; Canada, $900; France, $286; Italy, $215, and Germany, $126 a year. Costs and standards of living would account for some, but not all of these differences. (To Be Continued)

Flees Noose; Free for 18 Years; Given Life

By United rress /CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 15.—The law caught up with Frank . Panletta today, eighteen years after he had escaped from jail just as he was to have been hanged for murder. He was sentenced today to prison "for the rest of his natural life.” Two conflicting characterizations of Pauletta were presented to Governor William G. Conley today before he made his decision on the life term for Pauletta. One was given by Judge M. A. Musmanno of Pittsburgh, defense counsel, portraying the prisoner as a respected citizen of Coverdale, Pa., who lived eighteen years of fugitive torture.

STICKLE FUNERAL SET Services to Be Held Monday for Violinist - Pi anist. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Stickle, wife of John B.’ Stickle, 2035 North ftieridian street, who died Thursday at the Methodist hospital, will be held at 2 Monday afternoon at the Flanner & Buchanan chapel. Burial will be made in Crown Hill cemetery. Besides her husband, she leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Winkenhofer. Asa violinist and pianist, she had filled engagements in the United States and Canada. She had been a member of the Broadway M. E. church since childhood. JUDGE KERN SPEAKER Tells Ad Club of Part in Politics of Ward Workers. The part played by precinct and ward committeemen in the county political picture was described by Superior Judge John W. Kern Thursday noon at the luncheon of the Indianapolis Advertising Club. Arthur J. Beriault, expression teacher, gave a reading. The program was arranged by Miss Lucille Forier. Parley on Silver Opposed By United Press WASHINGTON, April 15.—Grafton Rogers, assistant secretary of stdte, today advised the house coinage committee that it was deemed inadvisable for the United States to sponsor an international sliver conference.

Russia are both concerned vitally over what is now taking place in the Far East, is admitted. In fact, their interests very nearly coincide—much more so that the interests of either coincide with those of any other world power. Both object to the dismemberment of China and both oppose Japan’s apparent scheme of conquest in Asia. Senator Wililam E. Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee. and a growing list of members of congress in both houses, express the opinion that restoration of normal relations between the United States and Russia would be the biggest single card the administration could now play for world peace. Japan continues to pour troops into Manchuria. Pretense has been cast aside. She admits the entire region, not merely South Manchuria,

Veterans’ Aid Now Costs $2,000 a Minute ffllfr paid for disabil- ;£§3l *3 $583,000,000 paid to families ff".. , ........ hospital care—s3% of present PC OF Dai eases not due to military service rbutkAL ... . . • EXPENDITURES'FOB. 2Li S„g° r INSURANCE WORLD WAR VETS N *SS SINCE 1917. AD ST N MISCELLANEOUS $170,000,000 TOTAL FACE VALUE OF BONUS CERTIFICATES— $3,638,620,00 ft (In addition to above expenditures)

ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES FOR VETERANS’ RELIEF THIS YEAR p or Veterans Would support U. S. departments for $1,072,064 527 A f A many yeara ’ as All other expenditures, \ Veterans’ relief £ $3,040,935,473 V //. now costing £ <- , 2 HMBT (T3 yji u. S. S2OOO * | s 2 S g a P er minute > * 2 * * * sI -e I,§ o|g| 3| * |■* g £ |

The other was from the Governor’s investigators who reported that Pauletta lived only five months at Coverdale, had been arrested on liquor charges, and had threatened witnesses who were to appear against him. FRANK GILBERTI was killed during a quarrel at a dance hall at Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1914. Pauletta was convicted. The gallows were ready. A jailer went to the condemned man’s cell. He was gone. Records of the case faded in the pages of the Harrison county courts. A man who called himself Louis Ross moved from place to place in mining fields. He was married and became the father of four children. Mussmanno told the Governor there was a worse punishment than prison. Louis Ross, said the attorney, paid a thousand penalties for Frank Pauletta and shuddered at shadows in which he saw the fantastic shapes of policemen come to take Ross to pay Pauletta’s penalty. “Pauletta’s crime was one of passion, not more than second degree murder,” said Mussmanno. "Ross, the other Pauletta, was a good citizen. Each knock on the door struck terror into his heart.” CHICAGO PREXY COMING Dr. R. M. Hutchins Will Address Ahimni at Banquet May 4. Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago and one of the youngest university heads in the country, will address Indianapolis alumni at their annual banquet May 4 in the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

is vital to her empire. East and west of Harbin, Russia’s sphere of influence, her legions are in control, and with the approach of “good fighting weather,” the danger of a clash with Soviet forces increases. Japan is known to covet the Amur and maritime provinces of Siberia, richest of Russia’s Asiatic territory, and Russia has prepared for action. In all this, the most dangerous factor is Russia’s supposed "isolation.” Her defeat, it is remarked commonly throughout world capital, would be popular not only in Europe, but in America. Should Japan attack her in Asia, it is said, it almost surely would be the signal for European neighbors to attack her in the west. rr his would be the zero hour for another world war from which, even more than the last, the United States would find it difficult to steer clear. Any kind of a raproachement between the United States and Rus-

LINDBERGHS VOICE PRAISE FOR PRESS

PUPILS TO STAGE PLAY Tech Seniors Will Enact Comedy at Murat Tonight. "Skidding,” a three-act comedy, will be presented at 8 tonight by the L-Z section of the Technical high school senior class in the Mu-

rat theater. Dave Ziffrin and Dorothy Sanders will take lead ing roles. Others in the cast are K a t h leen Sims, John Miller, Emily V o y les, Henry Reedmaker, Rosalind Romel, Ray mond Rogers, Mae Spence and Henry Moffert. The Tech concert orchestra will furnish the music. Thirty-one post-

graduate boys will act as ushers. The A-K section of the class presented "A Kiss for Cinderella” in December. BREAD AWARDS MADE 56 Persons Given Prizes at General Baking Company Party. Announcement of the award to fifty-six persons of prizes for testimonals about Bond bread was made today by officials of the General Baking Company, folowing a party for winners Thursday night in the local plant. Prizes consisted of a fifteen to thirty-day supply of bread. Winners are eligible for prizes ranging upward to SIO,OOO, to be awarded by national judges in final 'judging May 9 in New York. Winners announced Thursday night included five children and fifty-one adults. They were selected for best answers to eight questions pertaining to merits of Bond bread "sunshine vitamin B.”

sia, therefore, however non-com-mittal it might be, would lessen the danger of such war, it is felt here. It would serve notice on the war party in Tokio that the conquest of Siberia, no less than the conquest of China, would meet with disapproval of the United States. Accordingly, Soviet officials would welcome the opportunity to sit down with American representatives and thrash out mutual differences which have kept the two nations apart for fourteen years. That a move in this direction would be widely approved by Ameriacn business men is evident. For the last two weeks ScrippsHoward newspapers have been in touch with such leaders from Montana wheat growers and middle western industrialists to eastern bankers, and all expressed the conviction that the time has come to quit shying at Bugaboos and face the facta.

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Appreciation of Aid Is Made Public; Editors Polled on Handling Story. (CoDvrieht. 1932. bv United Press) NEW YORK, April 15.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife were on record today as expressing “our great appreciation to those members of the press, who in many instances have given us their cooperation, often to their disadvantage.” This constituted their answer to a growing flood of private criticism concerning lengthy publication of stories on the kidnaping and its attendant search. The Lindberghs, tom by weeks of uncertainty and anxiety, have let it be known that they felt publicity, particularly in the early stages of the case, had been helpful, and in only a few instances have they asked th.e press to withhold details. Close friends of the couple have said that Colonel Lindbergh now felt that probably publication of the serial numbers of his ransom bills had been helpful. And this was in the face of his original temporary request—honored by the press—that news of the serial numbers be suppressed. Poll Is Taken These developments today coincided with a national poll among many prominent editors, taken by the United Press, to show how the press felt toward suggestions that the story should be suppressed or curtailed. Replies, pouring into headquarters of the United Press in New York showed editors keenly interested in the question, fully aware of their responsibilities in the situation, and extremely sympathetic toward the major aim of the present investigations—early safe restoration of the kidnaped child to its parents. Some contended that publicity is essential, since secrecy and suppression only would place a premium on further kidnapers, encouraging gangsters to feel that they could operate unhampered by the pitiless glare of publicity. Others held that it was time to eliminate from the stories all speculation, and to follow Lindbergh’s requests at any time as to specific co-operation. Charges Are Refuted The Editor and Publisher today, both editorially and in its news columns, refutes recent charges that the press of the nation has frustrated Lindbergh’s attempt to recover his son. "Editor and Publisher has made a careful canvass of the facts,” the editorial said, "in the case, as they relate to the metropolitan district of New York, and to the entire country, and we challenge the charge as a baseless and damnable slander.” The news story in. the magazine said that press co-operation in the Lindbergh case had been unparalleled in peace and war.” 3-10 Years for Washbowl Theft By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 15. Though he denied the charge, George Wilkins was sentenced to a term of three to ten years in the penitentiary on a charge of stealing a washbowl.

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INTENTIONS OF AL SMITH BIG PARTYPUZZLE Democrat Leaders Wonder If 'Happy Warrior’ Will Aid Roosevelt. NEED HELP IN EAST Ex-Governor’s Opposition or Indifference Would Harm Former Protege. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 15—The question worrying Democrats is whether Alfred E. Smith will come to the aid of the party in event his rival Franklin D. Roosevelt, is nominated. Roosevelt leaders are unshaken in their tconfidence of winning the nomination, even over the active opposition of Smith. But some question as to how much the nomination would be worth has been raised by the onslaught at the Jefferson day dinner. A few hours before. Smith delivered his ringing challenge to fight to the "bitter end” against any candidate who persisted in making “Demagogic” appeals setting "rich against poor,” Smith was asked by newspaper correspondents whether he would take the stump in the campaign proper. He refused to say. What every Democratic politician wants to know now is whether the "bitter end” which Smith has in mind would come in June or possibly in November. Still Holds Power His own chances of being nominated are regarded as no better than before he electrified the Jefferson day dinner crowd. Politicians generally recognize his great following of 1928 has shrunk in step with the deflation of everything else. Yet he has the power to do Roosevelt serious damage in the eastern states—some of which the Democrats must have to win the election. These states are normally Republican. Smith has a personal following not only among the Democrats in these states, but among a large number of Republicans. The question is whether Roosevelt, who thus far has directed his main appeal to the south and west, could carry them, with Smith throughout the campaign sitting indifferently up in his suite in the Empire state tower. Whatever the outcome, there is in Washington today the tingle of excitement as a political drama unfolds. Its irony is sharpened by the fact that the target of Smith’s onslaught is the man who four years ago went to the Demc-atic national convention to nominate the man he fervently praised as the “Happy Warrior." Now Roosevelt has drawn Smith’s wrath by a speech in which he said the administration apparently was able to think in terms only of the top of the social and economic structure. Possibly—nobody knows—Roosevelt had been reading over the speech of his old master, the speech of acceptance in which Smith, four years ago, said: “A sharp line separates those who believe that an elect class should be the special object of the govemmnt’a concern and those who believe that the government is the agent and servant of the people who create it. “Dominant in the Republican party today is the element which proclaims and executes the political theories against which the party liberals like Roosevelt and La Toilette and their party insurgents have rebelled. “This reactionary element seems to vindicate the theory of benevolent oligarchy.” Al Smith Is Delegate By United Press ALBANY, N. Y.. April 15Former Governor Alfred E. Smith and John W. Davis today accepted designation to the New York delegation at large to the national convention. Governor Roosevelt had refused membership on the delegation, explaining that, in view of his candidacy, he believed it would be political indelicacy. Smith, an avowed candidate, was regarded as having won an important point in being seconded by Davis’ action in accepting membership on the group. Davis, the standard bearer in 1924, is regarded as a possible dark horse candidate. Roosevelt’s supporters questioned the designation of both Smith and Davis, but the slate agreed upon finally received approval of State Chairman James A. Farley, Roosevelt’s campaign manager. SEEKS TIED-UP FUNDS County to Warn Bonding Firms of Impending Suita. The county board of finance decided today to take definite steps for the recovery of money tied up in defunct Indianapolis banks. The board decided to issue final warnings to bonding companies which had bonded county funds, and should no settlements be made, suits will be filed. Approximately $502,500 of county money is tied up in banks now in receivership and $325,000 of the money is bonded. TWO HURT IN CAR CRASH Truck Oerturns in Collision With Auto; Driver’s Head Cut. Overturning of a truck after it collided with an automobile today in the 1900 block North Delaware street, resulted in injury to two persons. William Clark, 19, of 2453 North Delaware street, driver of truck, incurred a head cut. Mrs. S. V. Romer, 35, of 5230 Washington boulevard, suffered an injured ankle.