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(ifnrj* Slnrnmb* Future cenerations will look bark upon the dictator—such men as Mussolini or Stalin—as great. romantic figures of the post-war ape. George Slocombe s new novel. 'Romance of a Dictator,’’ i* a fast moving story filled w ith dynamic characters. It shows how the modem dictator builds and maintains his power. Published by Houghton-MifTlm Company. BV WALTER I>. HICKMAN HAVE had several requests frejm those who are planning to i visit Washington, D. C., for the, first time, asking me to recommend a good book to read or take with them concerning that city. I will recommend Washington j Sketch Book' 1 by J. Frederick and Helen Essary. recently published by Ransdell, Inc.. 810-816 Rhode Island avenue, Washington, D. C. I like this book because I was able to visualize the picture* of the j building to such an extent that I | feel I could go to Washington well 1 prepared to be my own guide. One of the good things of this book are the splendid pictures done in black and white. On the opposite page of the picture is a one page description and history of the building concerned. Not too many facts and dates are crowded into the printed story. When you read this book you will be well prepared to intelligently appreciate the beauties of Washington. The. book is divided as follows: public buildings, other buildings, galleries and museums, churches, monuments and memorials, parks and vistas and miscellaneous. The book is priced at 81. a a a MORE books are being announced concerning President Hoover. The Houghton-Miffiin Company informs me that they will publish on June 3 The Truth About Hoover," by Herbert Corey. Indications are that this book will be especially favorable to Hoover. mam The Book League of America announces that the July choice will be -We Begin.’’ by Helen Grace Carlisle. The trade edition will be published by Harrison Smith, Inc., on July 1. a a What are the best sellers in fiction in New York? Brentano announces the following: “A Modem Hero,” by Louis Bromfield; ’ Magnolia Street.” by Louis Golding; “Captain Archer's Daughter,” by Margaret Deland: "Bright Skin,” by Jtflia Peterkin: "The Greek Coffin Mystery.” by Ellery Queen, and "The Good Efcrth,” by Pearl S. Buck. mam That Francis I was tha Inspiration of thp Hcptameron of his sister. Marguerite of Navarre, is not generally known. Jehanne dOrliac In her "Francis I” (Lipptncott) states that the Heptameron retraces his "youthful and amorous exploits.” mam Lipptncott has put together in one volume four of Carolyn Wells’ best detective stories and will issue it under the title, "The Fleming Stone Omnibus.” in June. The four famous thrillers are: "Vicky Van.” "Spooky Hollow,” ‘The Mystery of the Sycamore" and "The Curved Blades." Material Rejected from the letters, diaries and other papers of Hessian soldier* who took part in the American revolution will ba published this autumn by Lippincott. The translation into English has been made by Maida C. Darnton. under the supervision of H. R. Knickerbocker. who will also writ* an introduction to the volume. mam "I have always had a gTeat Interest in Mussolini." says George Slocombe, whose "Romance of a Dictator" is to be published in May by Houghton Mifflin Company. "I knew him before the coup d'etat, when he was merely the generally despised leader of a noisy gang of young idlers, ex-students and unemployed war veterans. We met at the Cannes conference, and six months later he had marched on Rome and seized power—or rather he had threatened to march on Rome and at the mere threat the power was offered to him. We met on several later occasions, and I had opportunities of studying him at close hand. I have not seen him for some years. I am known in July as a hostile critic of Fascism, and would not. I think, be welcomed there. The curious thing about this novel is that it is in fact a justification of Mussolini, written by an anti-Fascist " a a a The world knows that Gene Tunney has turned author. Although he has written for magazines and newspapers, he is. up to this time, however, an author without a book to his credit. Before the end of 1932 Houghton Mifflin Company expect to publish the first book by the former heavyweight champion of the world. "A Man Must Fight" will be an autobiography without a line of ghost-writing in It. In Tunney's own words: "When my story is told. I will tell It myself. It mav not be great literature, but it will b the truth.”

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AVIATION CHIEF URGES PEACE WITH RUSSIA Recognition and Trade Pact Would Be of Great Benefit, He Says. WORK FOR THOUSANDS Huge Orders Await U. S. Firms in Soviet Land, Morgan Asserts. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Rerlppt-Howftrd Foreirn Editor WASHINGTON. May 27 Now would be a good time to settle our fourteen-year-old quarrel with Russia. exchange diplomatic representative, and fix up a trade agreement giving America a generous share of her 1500.000,000 market. This is the conviction of Thomas A. Morgan, president of CurtisaWrlght, North American, Sperry Gyroscope, and head of a score of kindred subsidiary industries, expressed in an interview here today with the writer. He came down from New York to attend an aviation conference with other leaders and interested government officials. Morgan has known Russia first hand since the days of the czars. He was born in North Carolina, He has served in the armed forces of Uncle Sam. He is a conservative business man. Huge Order* Await U. S. As such, he believes an American ambassador, commercial attaches, and consular officials should be sent to Russia as soon as practicable. He says tremendous orders, the filling of which would put tens of thousands of Americans back to work, are waiting for us there. All we have to do, he said, is to get rid of a lot of outworn notions, and cease worrying about what kind of regime the Russians have. The idea that Moscow aims to plant the red flag over our White House was exploded long ago, and every day the whole trend of world events shows how untenable it is. In support of the Morgan view, it is observed, instead of taking advantage of the universal economic and political upheaval to further her alleged conspiracy to overthrow capitalism. Russia today is seeking friends among the world powers and offering to go into partnership with big business. Helps Save Oil Business Instead of trying to undermine industry in capitalistic countries by the dumping process, Russia now is represented at the International Oil conference at New York, out of which, it is said, a world oil cartel may spring to boost prices, stimulate trade, and bolster tottering business. Russia, as fate would have it, appears to be the key country at the parley. Russian oil experts are gaining rapidly. Many believe the Soviet fields may prove to be the richest in the world Were she seeking to wreck the industry in other lands, therefore, by virtually giving away her products, obviously this would be an excellent time to try it. But, leading American oil men declare, she has no such scheme in mind. On the contrary, she is eager to co-operate with other big oil producers in any move calculated to yield higher prices for petroleum. Appear* in New Light Russia, the alleged world-wrecker and bugaboo of capitalistic nations, thus appears in what to many is a new light. While leaders in congress have expressed themselves in favor of immediate restoration of normal relations with Russia, President Hoover still is said to be opposed. Accordingly, the state department has made little effort to sound out Russia in recent yea.:-*. Recent events in the Far East, however, have shown that a better understanding among the United States. Russia and China would j have a stabilizing effect on world peace—a fact which uneasy Russia clearly appreciates.

SENATORS’ IRE IS ROUSED BY HOOVER

BY RAY TI CKER Time* SUg Writer WASHINGTON. May 27—President Hoovers failure to deal with old guard member* of the senate in planning for the presidential campaign has caused resentiment on Capitol Hill. It was learned today that majority leader James E. Watson and Senator George H. Moses, president pro tern of the senate, have complained bitterly to Postmaster General Walter Brown. Hoover's political spokesman, about White House neglect of veteran party warriors. Unless this condition is changed, members of house and senate plan to conduct a campaign entirely separate from Hoover s. They will raise their own funds, advance their own Issues, and recruit their own spellbinders—a program already adopted by progressive Republicans. Conferences between house and senate members already have been held, in an effort to establish closer co-operation among congressmen seeking re-election than exists between the legislators and the white house. The senatorial group think it

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AIRPLANE SPEED LIMIT IS SET Fliers Never Will Hit 600 M. P. H. Experts Say. By (Scrippt-Hoicard Xetcupapcr Alliance LANGLEY FIELD. Va., May 27. Airplanes never will be able to go faster than 600 miles an hour, despite the fanciful predictions of prophets, unless something radically new and different in wing designs comes along. This was revealed here this week at the annual conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the government’s air research group. Nearly 200 of the country's most prominent aeronautical engineers attended the conference. The limit on potential speed was discovered by tests in the N. A. C. A. high speed wind tunnel. At 600 miles an hour, it was computed, the drag or resistance of a wing to the air would be so great that it would be impossible to supply the horse power necessary to drive it through the air. Even at that, designers of racing planes still have about 200 miles an hour ahead of them. The world’s official speed record is slightly more than 400 miles an hour. In (he N. A. C. A. wind tunnel, it is possible to do research and make measurements under conditions simulating 900 miles an hour.

She Shows ’Em Sold Out at Auction on Rent Judgment: Buys All Back for $1.12.

By I nitfd Prrt Frederic, Md., May 27. Sold out at a sheriff's sale to satisfy a rent judgment, Mrs. Thomas Hargrave bought back all her household possessions and her automobile for *1.12. A crowd of neighbors was on hand as the auctioneer and a deputy sheriff began the sale. But as each lot of goods was put on the. block, no one except Mrs. Hargrave offered a bid. She bid a nickel for her automobile, and got It. Beds, chairs, stoves, tables and phonograph were knocked down to her at the same price. When the auctioneer came to the carpet on the floor, she bid only 2 cents —and got that back. too.

significant that, a* soon as it became likely that they might not be present at Chicago. Hoover began to frame plans in consultation with Brown. National Committeeman Charles D. Hilles of New York and James F. Burke, general counsel of the national committee. Even National Chairman Simon D. Fess of Ohio and Vice-President Charles E. Curtis of Kansas have been left in the dark. Hoover has not taken senators Into his confidence on his choice for national chairman to succeed Fess. or in selecting Senator Dickinson (Rep., la.) for keynoter and Representative Bertrand H.-Snell (Rep., N. Y.) for permanent chairman. Selection of a national chairman is of great importance to men up for re-election, as he determines the allocation of funds, speakers, offices and other important matters. The prevailing fear is that Hoover will disassociate his campaign from those which meihbers of congress must make. Under this arrangement he might be able to capitalize whatever dissatisfaction the public feels toward the legislators.

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WATER RATES 1 ‘CHECK GUIDED’ BY COMPANY Public Service Accountants Given ‘Handout’ Figures for Tabulations. QUIZZED UNDER OATH Howell Ellis Bares System on Which ‘lnvestigation’ Was Conducted. How tha Indianapolis Water Company checkmated original investigation of consumer data by public service commission accountants and substituted its own "handout figures" was exposed today by Commissioner Howell Ellis. Having received the new rate tabulation consumer data for April from Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson. Ellis cited commisson accountants, credited with making the tabulation, to appear before him. After administering an oath, he took their testimony as to how the investigation was conducted. This showed their data covering total number of consumers, unit of consumption, total consumption, revenue from old rates and revenue from new rates was supplied-ready-made, by the company. Barred From Data From the start, the commission accountants admittedly, with con- J sent of the commission (although I Ellis knew nothing of it), were banned from gathering original data from any basic book and were not given even a glimpse of the consumers’ bill, it was revealed. Their total contribution was some simple arithmetic, showing amounts of increase or decrease j and consumer data, all of which could have been done in the statehouse with the same water com- i pany figures, they admitted. Further, Webb Gilbert, chief accountant, upon cross-examination by Ellis, admitted that the whole data gathered for April is almost meaningless so far as supporting the company claim that it will lose 853,000 a year under the compromise rate is concerned. He also said that Frank Jordan, secretary-treasurer of the water company, declared April was an excessive consumption month, while he knows that “lawn sprinkling and other summer month activities make April a low, rather than high, consumption month, by comparison,” Tried l Halt Checking Jordan, accompanied Glenn Ray. one of the accountants, to his room in the Williams hotel to try to stop their method of "spot checking" of company figures after Howard S. Morse, general manager of the company, had checkmated the original research through the commission. Gilbert testified. Gilbert said he told Ray to go ahead and in the spot checking 364 errors were found, but the company figures were accepted anyway, he said. The data showed that bills for 65.248 domestic consumers were decreased $9,638.62 net under the compromise rates set by Cuthbertson, while increases of $4,073.08 were paid by commercial users, $1,636.40 by industrial users and $102.40 on city metered water. Municipal hydrant rental was re- | duced $5,492.45, making the total net ! decrease in company revenues $9,319.19. File* Increase Petition Asa result of the injunction suit restraining the company from collecting increased rates from the Moynahan apartments, the company has filed a rate increase petition and asks immediate restoration of old rates. Hearing by Cuthbertson is expected to be set today. Meanwhile. Ellis will study further the rate data, he said. Joined by Commissioner Frank Singleton. Ellifi refused to O. K. the compromise because of the Increases. Ellis attempted at once to investigate the new rates by applying them to the whole of 1931 consumption and askM that the work be in charge of L. O. Livinghouse, chief of the tariff divisions of the commission. • , Stopped by Commission Thus was thwarted by the commissioners, under leadership of Chairman John W. McCardie. he said. Whereupon. Singleton substituted a motion to investigate the April billings, putting Cuthbertson in charge. ” Commissioner Jere West amended the motion to show that Cuthbertson had agreed with the petitioners and company to do this. HEADS REPUBLICAN UNIT Edward Harris to Be Chief of NonFactional Move. Announcement that he has consented to head an organization pledged to support the Republican party in Marion county without regard to factional lines was made today by Edward W. Harris, a member of the firm of Hamilton, Harris & Cos. “A majority of the Republican nominees.” Harris asserted, “have taken a bold and courageous stand against government by factions and against factional domination of party organizations, and will go before the voters this fall on their records as public officials and as citizens.”

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APPOMATTOX GROWS OLD

But It Was a Great Day to Veterans

BY ARCH BTEINEL THE man who was at Appomattox dug deeper in his trench —a rocking chair—in the front oi Ft. Friendly, 512 North Illinois street. He is one of the sixty-odd G. A. R. members left in the count;, and he seemed tired of being that or even talking about the war oi ’6l. His wife was attending a relief corps meeting and the wait was long and the card tables vacated and so the Man Who Was at Appomattox—J. F. Bird, 86. of 1010 Harrison street—condescended to talk again of the war they'll honor with wTeaths for the dead Memorial day. It was like pulling teeth to corner Appomattox courthouse again and bring the cigar-chew-ing Grant and the debonair and gentlemanly Lee discussing the surrender from the lips of Bird. He's told of it so many times at the importuning* of youngsters that its flags wave no more for him and Grant's cigars are like dead stubs on the sidewalk. am a K "npHE Rebel officers came with JL their white flags right by our division —w f e were Burnside’s men—at Appomattox. They were beaten and the look was on their face. We sensed something big about to happen. "Grant rode by, chewing his big black cigar. It might have been the same cigar of yesterday for all any one could tell the difference,” He hesitated and dreamily eyed two comrades in the fort’s room. His rocking chair again took up its squeak with— “Then they came back from headquarters. Men running and riding. Smiles were on their faces. ‘Lee’s surrendered,’ they shouted. "We threw our hats in the air. We hugged one another. And then we rallied around the flag and hoisted it up in the air. You should have seen it. It was a sight, son, all those men around a flag,” he said. We could see it. Men. worn with battle and wanting home, rallying around a flag that had carried them away from that home and making a Maypole out of that which had cost them dearly and their enemies more, a a a '"IITE celebrated for two or W three days. Then came Lincoln's assassination and we all feeling low again.” Bird's a philosopher about bullets and marksmanship of the Civil war. despite participating in the war's most crimson battle—the Wilderness.

Keeps Tryst Wabash Man to Decorate Grave of Slain Family for 31st Year.

RICH VALLEY, Ind, May 27. A lonely, hillside grave here, containing the bodies of seven victims of a grewsome log cabin murder, will be decorated Sunday, as James B. Farr keeps faith with a vow he made thirty-one years ago. In the grave, once grown over with weeds and virtually obliterated by long neglect, are the bodies of the family of Aaron French. On a small tombstone, worn and crumbling, is the terse inscription: “Here lie Aaron French, his wife, and fitfe children, who were brutally murdered Oct. 9, 1855, by John Hubbard and his wife.” The story of the murder of the French family in their crude cabin is outstanding in Wabash county criminal annals. The bodies were hidden beneath the cabin floor ana lay there undiscovered until authorities, investigating the death of Henry Boils, whom Hubbard and his wife also killed, unearthed them. They were buried in the single, hastily dug grave. a a a THIRTY-ONE years ago Farr, whose home is in Wabash, found the grave. He cleared the small plot, replaced the fallen tombstone, and over the mound placed some flowers. Each Memorial day since then he has kept the rendezvous. Hubbard was convicted and hanged in Wabash. His wife, who confessed, was sentenced to life imprisonment. A few months after her conviction, she gave birth to a son. A secret she passed on to her son, the story goes, was kept until his manhood. Then he returned, dug up from beneath & walnut tree *1,500 his parents had taken from Boils, and vanished. SALES EXPERT SPEAKS Profit, Not Volume, Counts 600 Regal Grocers Are Told at Meeting. Addressing 600 members of the Regal Independent Retail Grocers' Association at their annual banquet in the Columbia Club Thursday night. C. F. Nickles, merchant sales manager for the National Cash Register Company, told the grocers that “Profit, not volume, is what counts.” He urged tieup6 with advertising and asserted that reduction of expenses and better selling methods would bring profits. Declaring the Regal organization one of the largest of its kind, Nickles congratulated its board of directors, composed of E. C. Buddienbaum, general manager; J. S. Mitchell, president: B. P. Mitchell, vice-pres-ident. and P. Miller, advertising manager.

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"We just shot at the enemy and at no one in particular. It's like that, in battle. You just bang away,” he declared. He’s a "McClellan man” and when you’re a “McClellan man” in the G. A. R. it means that you have had more than one skirmish with the “Grantites,” trying to prove to them that McClellan, with his strategy, was a greater Civil war general than Grant and his Big Push. “Grant rushed his men in regardless es the chances they had of coming back. McClellan used his men to save them,” Bird explained. a a a “T GUESS at North Anna Va., 1 was the one time I w-as scared in the war. They say the Wilderness was bad and bloody, but to me It wasn't any worse than Cold Harbor or other bat-

DEMOCRAT EDITORS SEEK PARTY PEACE

Efforts Made to End Fight Between 4 McNutt and Mayr at Parley. BY BEN STERN FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, HOTEL, May 27.—Indiana Democratic editors, meeting here today for the first session of their twoday summer meeting, were doing their best to stage a love feast and close the breach between the supporters of Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, and Paul V. McNutt, Governor candidate and his ally, R. Earl Peters, state chairman. Principal efforts were directed tow’ard quieting the talk concerning the defeat of Mayr for renomination. “Little Dick” 'Verneke, Terre Haute boss, was playing role of the peace dove. It is a continuation of the movement he started at the Sixth district meeting at Sheridan Tuesday, when he had introduced and passed a resolution asking that all incumbents of two-year state offices be nominated without opposition. Party veterans who feared the possible effect of a schism if Mayr is refused the renomination joined Wemeke in the peace move, but it was not evident that they were making great progress. It also was said today that Mayr conferred with State Chairman

3 HURT IN CRASH; ONE AUTO STOLEN

Three persons were injured at j midnight when two automobiles, one of them stolen, collided at Tenth street and Capitol avenue. Driver of the stolen car ignored a traffic signal in an effort to escape pursuing police. Miss Blanche Clayton, 24, of 628 East Vermont street, received head injuries. Two Negroes, William Nixon, 22. and John Bennett, 27. both of 962 Coe street, were injured slightly. Miss Clayton was riding in a cur driven by Charles Combs. 35. of 3625 West Michigan street. A third Negro in the other car. which was stolen from Charles Lauder, 1839 North Illinois street, escaped. His companions said they knew him only as Lawrence. Head injuries were suffered by Luther Burkett, 23, Brazil, when a truck he was driving collided in the 3900 block West Washington street with an automobile occupied by Ray Moody, 37, and his wife Pead, 36, of 3907 West Washington street. Moody, his wife and William Hardman. 19. Brazil, riding with Burkett, escaped injury. En route to a friend’s funeral at Brooklyn, Ernest E. Shelton, 2002

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ties. But going back to North Anna—” he stopped for woolgathering. “We were ordered to retreat. The Rebs were close to us and as I ran a stick from a limb caught my haversack and held me. Well, I just threw everything away, haversack and gun and went a-running,” he related with a smile. “Well, here comes my wife. I’ll have to be going. I’m not much of a hand at talking, but you’re welcome to what you got. See Cooper over there in the other rccker. We’re boosting him for department commander of Indiana. So long,” and Man Who Was at Appomattox tamped the tobacco in his aged briar and shuffled out of the room. Next: One Who Hikes the Last March for the G. A. R.

Peters a few days and. although the subject of the conference was not divulged, intimations were that Peters informed the state secretary he would make no move to oust him, but that the McNutt men are very bitter and may not be willing to let bygones be bygones. Peters also informed Mayr that he bore him and his aids no 111 will for their efforts to defeat him for re-election as state chairman. “Whatever difficulties you may have in the race will not come from this committee, but from the counties,” the state chairman is said to have declared. Routine meeting* of the editors were the feature today, although the sessions were deserted in favor of political confabs. High points on the program are the meeting of the state committee Saturday to arrange state convention details and the editorial banquet Saturday night, when Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky will be the principal speaker. Ship Sinks; Many Lost LONDON, May 27.—A Lloyd’s dispatch from Shanghai said today many lives were lost when the Chinese river steamer I. Ling, flying the United States flag, went down in the Yangtse, 235 miles above Ichang, en route down the river.

North Illinois street, real estate dealer, received crushed ribs when his automobile skidded on wet pave- ; ment and crashed into a telephone 1 pole near Mooresville on Road 67. Lloyd Calhoun, 38. Negro, 623 ! North Senate avenue, faces a charge of drunkenness as a result of walking into the side of an automobile j driven by Charles Worth, 47, of 1467 South Illinois street, at West and Michigan streets. Calhoun was ini jured slightly. Charges of drunkenness and drunken driving are faced by Guy I Brown, 42, of 2007 North De Quincy street, whose car is alleged to have sideswiped two parked autos in the 1100 block. Fairfield avenue. He suffered slight cuts and bruises. His wife and a daughter, 11, riding with him, were not hurl. Collision of two cars at Twentyninth street and Capitol avenue caused injurv of two children, Robert Bell, 7, of 3930 North Capitol avenue, and Ruth Sallee, 5, of 875 West Twenty-ninth street. The Bell boy, who incurred a cut on the face, was taken to the Methodist hospital. The little girl received a cut on the right leg.

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SINGLETON IS ASPIRANT FOR PRESENT POST Public Service Commission Berth, Open Soon, Draws Few Candidates. LEFT UP TO GOVERNOR Incumbent Willing to Serve Again, but Makes No Active Campaign. BY DANIEL H. KIDNEY Despite the depression, result!., in lawyers without clients and politicians without posts, a $6,000 state position is up for consideration by Governor Harry G. Leslie, with few applicants, it was learned today The post is that now held by Frank T. Singleton. Republican member of the public service commission, whose term expires July 1. Sn far. Singleton is the only applicant of prominence for the position. In a letter to Leslie asking reappointment, Singleton sets out that he desires to be retained; will make no campaign for the place; expresses willingness to answer any questions on his record, and will leave the entire matter to the Governor. Ls "Public's Man" Singleton, for the last several years, has advanced the "public's ; view” of utility control, as opposed to the utility viewpoint,” as expressed by Chairman John W. McCardie. Although known to oppose Singleton. McCardie said he will take no part in the reappointment matter by expressing his views to the Governor, "unless solicited.” I Meanwhile, the file of letters at i the Governor's office over the post remains meager. It contains an explosive letter from State Senator Earl Rowley (Rep.. Laportei, urging that Singleton not be reappointed. Rowley ! has been irate at Singleton since Ihe lost a telephone rate case con--1 ducted by the commissioner. Rowley failed of renomination for the senate at the spring primary. Indorsed by League Then there, is a letter from Ralph K. Lowder, Martinsville, which sets out that Singleton has been indorsed by the Municipal Rights League of Indiana. This organization is composed of city officials fighting utility rates and seeking i complete and local control of muI nicipal plants. Chief among those recommended j to succeed Singleton are Attorney j C. Lewis Green, formerly with John iS. Powell, utility attorney here, and L. E. Banta, traffic manager of the Indianapolis Board of Trade. Green is recommended by Congressman Fred Purnell and Banta by L. A. Downs of the Illinois Central railroad. Two others recommended themselves for the place, setting out in their letters that they had learned, through the press, that a vacancy would occur. Worked for Utilities W. L. Lowman, 30, Ft. Wayne, I would like to have it, as he has "worked for three or four powder and ' light companies,” he said. Clyde G. Stillhammer, Madison, will take either the public service commission position or an appointment on the state armory board, he declared. His letter said he is an : ex-service man. State Senator Byron Huff (Rep ), Martinsville, has been boosted for i the place by friends, but it is said j that he is for Singleton, who also hbils from that city. Fied and Dorothy Cunningham, close friends of the Governor and also from Martinsville, are among ! chief Singleton backers. Miss Cun* ningham ls national Republican t committeewoman for Indiana. So far Leslie has remained noncommittal. Opposed to Yergin This is said not to be so regarding reappointment of Horace G. Yergin (Dem.), Newcastle, member of the state industrial board, whose term expires June 1. The post must be filled by a Democrat, but Leslie is said to be opposed to retention of Yergin. It is reported that Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr., who has cooperated closely with Leslie’s administration, although a Democrat, may have considerable to say regarding the choice. Many applications are on file for i the position, which pays $4,000 i The list includes the following from Indianapolis: George H. Tomlinson, Fred F. Smith, William T. Young, and Miss Esther Schmitt. Clinton T. Brown, Kokomo, also j is being boosted. Senator James E. Watson sent a ! letter on behalf of Smith, a graduate of Indiana university lawschool. M A RKER’SjSAIN S MALL Three Votes Added to Hi* Total In Recount; Needs 57. Gaining three votes in recount of twelve precincts today, Ernest R. Marker, defeated Democratic candidate for Second district commis- | sioner, nomination had a net gain i of 131 votes in 217 precincts. The contest is against Walter C. Boetcher, who was declared official winner over Marker by a marj gin of 187 votes. Marker must gain | fifty-seven votes more to win, with 1 114 precincts still uncounted. BLON VANCE, 53, DIES He Had Been Chief Accountant of Highway Dept. Five Years. Blon Vance, 53, of Newcastle, chief accountant for five years for the state highway department, died at the Methodist hospital today. He leaves a sister. Miss Amy Vance, Newcastle, and a brother. Chase, Dayton. O. Arrangements for funeral services and burial at NewI castle have not been completed.