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JIM WATSON IS ‘NEUTRAL’ IN GOVERNOR FIGHT-AND INTENDS TO STAY‘NEUTRAL’ All Eight Candidates Are Friends of His and He Won’t Enter Battle, Senator Declares. WHAT? GET OFF THE FENCE? NO! Can’t Afford to Stir Up Hornet’s Nest, He Says; Denies He’s Opposed to Thurman. BV WALTER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 4.—Senator James E. Watson broke his silence on the Republican gubernatorial nomination free-for-all in Indiana today to declare himself a ‘‘genuine neutral.” The “Kingfish” of Hoosier Republicanism, in an interview here, said that he wanted the rank and file of his party in the state to know “what the leaders already know”—that he “neither is helping nor hindering any candidate” who as Dires to be the Republican nominee for Governor.

Informed by his interviewer that the ‘‘hands ofT” policy he has manifested is being con- j strued in Indiana as meaning that he is opposed secretly to the candidacy of his life-long friend, M. Bert Thurman, Watson said: "That interpretation is incorrect. My silence does not mean that 1 am opposed to Thurman. Nor does the statement I now am making mean that I am for Thurman. 1 am neither for nor against any candidate.’’ Served Watson for Years For a decade Thurman was Watson’s personal representative in Indiana. and for many years he served, a Watson appointee, as Republican national committeeman, for the state. The senior Indiana senator would not elaborate further on the antiThurman rumor. Anticipating that the Republican state convention in Indianapolis next week will renominate him for the senatorship by acclamation, Watson has taken the position that j he “can not afford - ’ to become in- ; volved in factional strife. “Whoever gets the nomination,’’ j he said, “will be my running mate, j I understand there arc something i like eight Republican candidates for | Governor. If I w’ere to pass out. the word that I wanted any one of them nominated, the other seven: and all their friends would be on j my neck. I can t afford to stir up; a hornet’s nest. Dodges the Fray "More than that, I don't want to ( butt into the fight. All these candidates are friends of mine. They have fought with me through thick and thin. They’re all Watson Republicans.” “Have you been asked to make a gesture of friendliness toward an\ of the candidates?’’ Watson was Asked. “Yes, I have been asked to help every darned one of them, he replied. “Friends of all of them have been to see me and have called me over long-distance. But I haven t budged off the fence. “The idea that I want to sit up here at the end of a telephone line, like a commanding general, and direct the troops in Indiana is all wet. I have more than I can do right here in the senate.” “Is there any possible contingency,” the senator was asked, "that might cause you to change your mind and attend the convention?” None that I can now' think of," he said. Poses as Indignant “Can’t you see I'm buried in work here?” he roared, with a great show of indignation, which quickly melted into a chuckle, as he added: “Os course if my own nomination were in doubt, I might play hookey a day or two. And if I were out there on the ground. I might take a hand in nominating a Governor. “I went to my first convention in ’B4, and have been to every one since. I presided over seven. But this is one I’m going to miss. If I should leave here one night, come back the next, be in Indiana only one day, do nothing while there except stand in a hotel lobby and shake hands, then no matter who would be nominated Governor the wise boys would say: ‘Jim Watson handpicked him.’ “Net me for a mess like that. I'll rtav here, and w’hen the delegates get through fighting I’ll cheer the winner.”

WALKER OUSTER MAY BE DEMANDED SOON Seabury Says Roosevelt Will Get Evidence Early Next Week. By United Pmt NEW YORK. June 4.—Evidence against Mayor James J. Walker will be placed before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt “as early next week as possible” in response to the Governor's angry comment that “it is not the time for political sniping pr buck passing.” Samuel Seabury. counsel for the Hofstadter committee which investigated the mayor’s administration, issued a statement late Friday, which avoided mention of “charges.'’ It said: “I will see to it that a transcript of the record and an analysis of the testimony concerning Mayor Walker reaches the Governor as early next week as possible." The Governor indicated he would act on presentation of uch evidence. WHEN BEES MOVED IN, FAMILY MOVED OUT 200 Pounds of Honey Found in Walls of Living Room. By Coiled Preti SIMI, Cal.. June 4 —When the bees moved In. the J. H. Harrington family moved out. For days. Harrington heard a buzzing In his living room. He investigated, found 200 pounds of honey in the walls, and thousands of bees. Disturbed In the wall hives, the bees moved to the living room, and Harringtons moved to the yard.

Contented Cows By United Prett CHICAGO, June 4..—Contented cows at $2lO per cow bring profits to the dairyman according to testimony of Chris Paschen, one-time Chicago building commissioner, in his trial on federal income tax evasion charges. Paschen, a crony of former Mayor Wililam Hale (Big Bill) Thompson, told the jury he spent $21,000 in two years for electrical equipment in his cow barn. The barn which housed 100 cows was heated electrically and contained an electric power plant. There were electric milking machines and each cow had an individual water trough and tap. This elaborate equipment enabled him to make $60,000 profit from the farm last year, he said.

SUITOR SHOOTS GIRL; ENDS LIFE 21-Year-Old Art Student Is Seriously Wounded. By United Prrts CHICAGO, June 4. —Dorothy B. Smith, 21. art student, was in serious condition in a hospital today after Gordon T. Caldwell, 26, a frantic and rejected suitor, shot her and then took his own life at an art exhibition in a loop skyscraper. The tragedy culminated what Miss Smith, daughter of a board of education official, described as “one of those crazy love affairs.” Caldwell appeared as Miss Smith was showing to friends a canvas which she had entered at the exhibition of the American Academy of Art. He called her to a corridor and a moment later the 100 persons thronging the exhibition hall heard shots ring out. They found Miss Smith seriously wounded in the neck and shoulder and Caldwell dead, a bullet in his temple. “I met Caldwell three months ago.” Miss Smith, a beautiful blond, told police. "He was just a friend—not a sweetheart. • Friday night he came to me at the exhibit and asked me to go away with him. I insisted I couldn’t. As I started to walk aw'ay, he fired.’’ MRS. PEABODY SPEAKER ‘Law Enforcement’ to Be Topic at Mass Meeting. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Beverly, Mass., general chairman of the Woman's national committee on Law Enforcement, will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting to be held at noon Monday in the Columbia Club under auspices of the local organization. Mrs. Peabody will speak on “LawEnforcement in America.” City and state law enforcement officials have been urged to attend. Chairman of the meeting will be Fred Hoke. Dr. Abraham S. Woodard. Mrs. O. W. Fifer. Mrs. C. W. Craig and Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter. NAB TWO IN EXTORTION Pinehurst Police Claim Confession in Plot Against Sportsman. By United Prett PINEHURST, N. C., June 4.—Two men confessed today, officers said, to a plot to extort $5,000 from Verner Z. Reid, millionaire sportsman of Newport. R. 1., and Pinehurst, o nthe threat he and his two children would be kidnaped and his home blown up. Two Roseland farmers. Joe Lucas and Howard Dean, are held in the county jail at Carthage.

Blame Reds By United Prvs* DETROIT. June 4. The Michigan ‘bonus marchers” now en route to Washington to demand payment of the bonus, are without the support of any recognized veterans organizations. Communistic leadership of the group is charged. The march was condemned at a meeting Friday afternoon of officers of the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Spanish-Amer-ican war veterans. * The object of the march is not so much to obtain payment of the so-called bonus as it is to proselyte veterans into membership in the Communist veterans group known as the Workers’ Ex-Service Men’s League," a statement issued by the organization leaders said.

RUSSIAN TRAIN SMOOTHEST IN WORLD

Czar Ordered Railroad Built in Straight Line, Without Curve

This is the fourth of a series of articles by Alice Hughes oa what she found in Russia after a year's absence. BY ALICE HUGHES Tines Staff Writer (Copyright. 1933, by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation.! I TAKE the smoothest train ride of my life on the Red Arrow, which goes from Moscow to Leningrad over night. But while the train rolls evenly and while a samovar bubbles cheerfully between cars for the tea-thirsty, I soon find cause for discomfiture. Four of us, all strangers, with me the only woman, are ticketed in one compartment. The two benches are converted into doubledecktd berths. They are not curtained. I can change to sleeping garments under covers or remain dressed. I remain dressed. There is no jolting or swerving of the train to break my slumbers and I awake refreshed. “This is the best train ride you ever had, nicht wahr?” the porter who pours my tea asks in German. “Jawohl,” I answer, “but how did you know?” “Ach, Fraulein, don’t you know the history of this train? One of the former czars of Russia, who was more than a little crazy, commanded his engineers to build a railroad from Moscow to Petrograd—now Leningrad. “ ‘Und how do you wish this railroad built?’ the engineers asked the czar. “ ‘Like this’—und the czar drew a straight line on the map from Moscow to Leningrad. You know, Fraulein, a czar had to be obeyed then. So the engineers, at great expense and trouble, built the road you have just ridden over, without a single turn or bend.”

IT runs to a beautiful, austere city comparable with our Washington. It grew, not haphazardly, but was designed to be the capital of a great empire. Its residents arc proud of their universities and scientific institutions. Leningraders have a certain cultivated accent in their speech which marks them from all other Russians. A polite city. Every one says pazalista, Russian for if you please, at every turn. But it is cold and raw here. I comment on this to the intourist guide, who meets my train. “Leningrad is lower than sea level,” she explains. “It is surrounded by bodies of w'ater that keep the climate damp. Tuberculosis affects many of the inhabitants.” Leningrad, too, is crowded, but its broad streets absorb the multitudes better than Moscow. It is more tranquil, less seething than the newer Red capital, where a dozen faces from as many points of the globe drift by in five minutes. Leningraders are more largely native. There is less gaiety here. People seem more restrained, but perhaps they are merely more hungry. But theirs is a fierce pride in their city. Even the intourist guide, whose work compels her to conduct tourists to the places of interest, stands speechless for a moment before the majestic bronze of Peter the Great overlooking the Neva river. I visit a ballet school, where youngsters are taught to point their toes and pirouette by the best masters of the art. I see many children on the street without shoes, but every child in the ballet school has hardtoed ballet slippers and a dance costume.

A TRIO of swarthy, ragged boys jumps at me with hands outstretched. They whine and beg: “Give me some little pennies, little Auntie.’’ “Not children of the revolution?” I ask. “No, Gypsies.” Another one flounced out at me, this time a little girl not more than 10 or 11. One arm reaches for coins. The other arm holds a puny, undersized child, not a year old. Even this baby’s hand is extended. But for the most part the Soviet government looks after its children. At one of .he Leningrad nurseries—creche, it is called—llo babies, aged 3 months to 3 years, arc cared for daily while their mothers work in factories. Mornings on their way to work they deposit the children; evenings they take them home to sleep. These babies eat, sleep, play and thrive under the expert care. Twenty-four boys in one room. 18 to 24 months old. place their right hands to their shaved young heads as the nurse conducts me into their playroom. “Young Pioneers,” they recited. “We are ready.” • I am invited to lunch in the kitchen, where food for these 110 youngsters is prepared. Rich milk, cereal, chicken broth and stewed fruit constitute the best meal, by far, that I am to have in Russia. On one side of Leningrad lies a lovely lake, where formerly the wealthy had summer villas. These now- are rest houses for run-down factory workers. Hollow-eyed and shabby, they shuffle over floors beautifully inlaid with mosaic. The wall-size paintings and rich furnishings throw the new incumbents into grotesque contrast.

RESTING factory workers are taught sanitation and habits of cleanliness. They are expected to spread these teachings when they leave. By small degrees Russia is sprucing up. A Communist in Leningrad permits me to ask her a number of naive questions. She answers only those she wishes. I want to know about Russia’s secret police, the GPU. called Phi Beta Kappas by unrespectful Americans. “Yes. they're around.” she replies, “where you least suspect. They are secretaries, waiters, chambermaids, telephone operators. They see everything, but they act only upon that which is of consequence.” “What is of consequence?” I insist. “Is ruble smuggling?** “Yes, if carried on on a large scale. Particularly If a Russian, or a member of some bordering country is involved, in amounts to treason. The GPU %re political police,

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watching for evidences of counterrevolution. Trifling matters are left to militiamen.” “Are you a GPU, or could you become one?” “I am not eligible. The government must feel very sure of a member's loyalty before he or she

ACQUIT GOLF IN LOVERUPTURE Grand Old Game Not Cause of Shattered Romance. Golf—the grand old game of the duffers—has been “vindicated.” For it wasn’t really golf that caused the marital difficulties of Raymond M. Schwartz, 5110 Crawfordsville road, and it wasn’t actually the fact that he gave up golf that caused his remarriage to Mrs. Schwartz Thursday. The Schwartzcs were divorced in March in circuit court, and it was charged that Schwartz had a bad case of “golfmania.” After the marriage Thursday, it was said that Raymond had promised never to swing another niblick. But now it turns out that Raymond never was much of a golfer, and that he can’t really “give up” golf because he never took it up that seriously. When the trial came up last March his mother-in-iaw, it is understood, testified that Raymond came home from his golfing in a bad tenpcr. What beginner wouldn't? Every one got the idea that Raymond's “golfmania" was the cause of everything. Raymond didn't care much about his golfing it seems, for he again went a-courting. And during the courting everything finally was patched up. And so Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz were married once again Thursday at St. Mary's church.

PAIR OF JACKS GO BEST AT MARBLES

Big Sectional Tourneys in Times City-Wide Play Are Decided. A pair of Jacks was good enough to wiu Friday. Young Jack Fehsenfeld, 14, of 303 Blue Ridge road, and Jack Tice, 12, of 336 South Grant avenue, were winners of sectional marble championsh ps held at Butler university and Christian park, respectively, in the city-wide Indianapolis Times marble champioship series. Both players demonstrated great form. Fehsenfeld in particular displayed bullet-like shots as he banged marbles from the ring at Butler tennis courts. Gets Eastern Trip By winning, the two Jacks become part of the field of two dozen sectional champions from all over the city who will gather at Willard park Friday afternoon, June 17. to fight it out for the title of Indianapolis marble champion. The city winner will receive as his or her reward a free trip to Ocean City, N. J., to compete in the national marble championship. The Indianapolis Times will pay all his expenses and provide a chaperon. After winning the Friday games Fehsenfeld decided he would put in much time practicing between now and June 17 because that trip east would be great stuff for him. Being an expert swimmer, Jack said plunges in the ocean would be sport of the finest order. Then, too. there will be numerous sightseeing trips to historical points of interest in the east. Other Sectionals Held Five big rings were held at Butler Friday and Edwin BorghoJ, 10, of 5145 North Capitol avenue, was winner at ring one; Fred Rleter, 9, of 4633 Hinsley avenue, at ring tyo; James Schoenlaub, 11, of 423 Blue Ridge road, at ring three; Fehsenfeld at ring four, and little James Jeffrey, 7, of 4720 Graceland avenue at ring five. All these ring winners then played in a big game to determine that

Leningrad—with its wide streets, nurseries, and royal parks, now the province of workers.

may become a GPU. My mail, my telephone calls and even my friends are observed, I know.” MUM EVERY spot formerly occupied by Lenin has been set aside and glorified in the city renamed for him.

EXPECT APPROVAL OF TRACTION PLEA

Petition to Acquire Line’s Property Is Made by New Firm. Petition to enable the Indianapolis Railways, Inc., to take possession of the property of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company probably will be granted by the public commission Monday. The petition was filed Friday, following election of officers and appointment of five trustees to hold all common stock in the new company, pending complete reorganization. Rates, same as those prevailing during the receivership, were asked for in the petition which also requested that the new company be declared a public utility, subject to state regulation. Charles W. Chase, who resigned presidency of the Gary railw’ays to head the new company, announced its officers and trustees. The officers are: Chase. Dissident: David E. Watson, attorney. vice-oresident: Ceoree C. Forrov Jr vice-president: L T. Hixson, secretary and treasurer: T. L. Fox. aslstant secretarv-treasurer. and L. Siegrtst, assistant secretary-treasurer. Five trustees who will hold common stock for five years are: Arthur L. Gilllom. former attornev-gen-rral of Indiana: Ross H. Wallace. Aetna Trust and Savinas Company president: Irving W. Lemaux. Security Trust Company president: Rov C Shanberger. SterUna Laundry Company president and Chase, all members of the board of diOther members of the board are. R. Malott Fletcher, vice-president of the Indiana National bank: John P. Frenr.el Jr.. Merchants National bank president, and Watson.

Jack Fehsenfeld was the Butler champion. At the sectional' championship held at Christian park, George Betts, 12, of 5451 Brookville road, was runnerup. Play was cn a specially constructed ring In the park and a big delegation from school No. 82 nearby turned out to root for the experts. Two big sectionals were held this morning one at Ellenbergcr and the other at Rhodius park, for boys and girls who attend schools in Irvington and West Indianapolis. Because several schools are not located near playgrounds or tennis courts, several champions will be crowned next week on individual school grounds. Games Set for Tuesday Games will be held Tuesday at 3 p. m. on the school playgrounds at Nos. 6. 13, 32, 69, 90 and 91 and at Cathedral grade school. It costs nothing to enter. The game played is ringer. The Times furnishes the marbles and shooters. Be on hand for the games Tuesday. If you have missed play in your section to date, prepare to enter the big windup sectional in Willard park Tuesday, June 14. This will be for schools that have playgrounds covered with soft rock unsuitable for marble play and also not located near playgrounds where rings can be laid out. The games on June 14 will be for any boy or girl in the city who has not had opportunity to play. OFFER LINDY REWARD $25,000 Will Be Paid by New Jersey for Arrest of Kidnapers. By United Preti TRENTON, N. J., June 4.—A reward of $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., was announced today by Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf. head of the state police, speaking for Geovernor A. Harry Moore. The circular announcing; the reward offer carried a description of the man known as “John” to whom Dr. John F. Condon reportedly paid $50,000 in ’’ransom money.

But in spite of his sparse little bedroom at the Smolny institute, where he lived and worked during the first year of the revolution, and the other nine houses from which he conducted the Communist cause, Leningrad still re-

Rare Diet By United Freti CHICAGO, June 4—Among the ranks of prominent Republicans, it must be assumed, are the nation’s most determined penguin egg eaters. Penguin eggs are hatched in the vicinity of Capetown, South .\frica. They are exported principally to London where epicures consider them a prized delicacy. Never have they been shipped to America. But a day or so before the opening of the Republican national convention, Ernest Byfield, local hotel owner, announced, the first shipment ever ever sent to the United States will arrive in Chicago. Tasting somewhat like plover’s eggs, the penguin rari•ties will be served up to Republican gourmets at $1 a portion.

SIX KILLED IN SUDDEN FLOOD Seven Others Are Missing in Oklahoma City Tragedy. By United Prr*a OKLAHOMA CITY, June 4.—At least six persons were dead today, drowned in the flood that swirled over central Oklahoma Friday and gave its victims no chance to escape. Seven others were reported missing, and rescue workers feared they had died. Three thousand were homeless. Property damage was expected to run to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ti e flood struck without warning, and caught its victims as they slept. Seven inches of rain fell within six hours. Mrs. James Webster, 38, and her daughter, Ellen, 11, were drowned at a tourist park, where they had stopped on a trip across the country from their home in Massachusetts. Ella Christina Morgan, 13, and Buster Morgan, 5, were swept from the porch of their home while their agonized father tried vainly to swim to them through the rushing waters. Their brother lay in a hospital today, injured. The mother was missing, and almost certainly had perished. The other known victim was Mrs. Nora Norris, 50. James Robinson, Negro mail carrier, was drowned at Seminole. The waters of the North Canadian river, which flooded a large portion of Oklahoma City, rapidly went down today.

Dictator Call By United Preti OKLAHOMA CITY, June 4. —What the country needs, believes Governor William H. ‘Alfalfa Bill; Murray, is a dictator “who will cut red tape, slash expense* and abolish this and that.” “The favoritism that controls our federal government never can be broken down unless a President has the guts to go before congress and lead the fight,” he declared. • But if he does, he’ll never be re-elected.’ Governor Murray declared the Democrats erred in refusing President Hoover’s request to reorganize government departments. If the President were given this power and and would “do what should be done bis name would go down in history,” he added.

tains the grandeur of an imperial city. The old Russian eagle, poised on spires and towers, seems more at home in this fantastic Asiatic city than does the boxy, modern architecture of workers' homes and clubs.

BOYS AWAITING PLANECONTEST Many Will Enter Indoor Event June 25. Many youthful Indianapolis boys will enter the third annual municipal indoor model airplane contest to be held at 1 Saturday, June 25, in the Butler university fieldhouse. The contest is being arranged by H. W. Middelsworth, municipal recreation director, and Herschel S. Knight, contest director. Youthful model builders have been busy improving their models in anticipation of the contest, and a decided improvement over time made in previous years is expected. Anticipating record flights, arrangements have been made to have members of the National Aeronautical Association act as timers and observers, in order that any records set may be recognized as official. Contest rules are: Commercial and R. O. O. models must be eouioped with landing gear and wheels. Planes will be hand launched within six feet of the floor. Each entrant allowed three flights In a class, best time to count. A balk shall be counted for every flight of fifteen seconds or less. Two balks to count as a trial. Members of each sauad to fir in rotation. failure to flv within thirty seconds of time after turn is called to count as a balk. No change of entries permitted after blank is turned in. Sauad timers will time all three classes of their sauad. All Dianes mast comoly with the following specifications Baby R O. O— Wing snan unlimited, fuselage ten Inches or under, measured from end hook to front of thrust bearing. Indoor Tractor—Wing span unlimited, motor fifteen inches or under. Indoor Commercial TVne- Wing span unlimited: fuselage not over fifteen Inches long and must have cross section, at least eaual to the souare of one-tenth of Its length: fuselaee to be covered to within two inches of rear end and one inch of the front: front of thrust bearing not to extend more than one inch from front of fuselage. Bovs under 31 are eligible Bovs must construct their own plane, metal parts exeeoted.

SEVEN ARE HURT IN SERIES OF ACCIDENTS None Injured Serviously, Reports to Police Indicate. Minor injuries were incurred by seven persons in traffic accidents Friday night, police said today. When Mrs. Hazel Kerr, 2402 Bluff road, dozed at the wheel, her auto went out of control and crashed into a bridge in the 4300 block, Three Notch road, injuring herself, her husband and two children. Miss Elizabeth Mathews, 15, of 2929 Ruckle street, was cut on the face when William T. Rassmussen, 18. of 2380 North New Jersey street, driver of the car in which she was riding, lost control, and the car crashed into a tree. James Salladay, 5059 Madison avenue, was cut on the legs when the car he was driving overturned in the 4000 block, Shelby street. Charles Harris, 10, of 1427 Marlowe avenue, incurred shock when h<> was struck by a car driven by Hirold Hayes, 40, of 1038 Shannon avenue, near the lad's home.

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NEAR VOTE ON FEDERAL WAGE SCALE SLASH Eight Alternative Proposals to Straight 10 Per Cent Cut Before Senate. BY RUTH FINNEY Timet Stiff Writer WASHINGTON. June 4-Over-night conferences among senators dissatisfied with the 10 per cent wage cut plan for federal workers proposed by the senate economy committee, may lead to an agreement, before the day i& over, on the most disputed item in the senate economy bill Eight alternative proposals, calling for low-salary exemptions and graduated rates of wage-cutting, now are before the senate. While members of the economy committee have resisted all efforts, so far, to have the bill sent back for them to draft a more liberal amendment, efforts to unite sentiment behind some alternative to their plan continued Friday evening and this morning. Exempts Lower Salaries A proposal originated by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.', which would yield economies of $124,000,000, while taking $24,000,000 of this amount from workers receiving less than $2,100, seems to be the most popular. Vandenberg’s plan exempts all salaries up to $1,200 from any cut. It cuts salaries from $1,200 to $1,300 2 per cent, and, for every additional SIOO of salary, it increases the rate of cut by 1 per cent. Thus saalries from $1,300 to $1,400 would be taxed 3 per cent, and so on up to $2,100 where the rate of pay cut becomes 10 per cent. From that point on, the rate of cut increases 1 per cent for even' additional $540 of salary, so that at $7,500 and up the rate is 20 per cent. Vote Hope More Dim Hope for a final vote on the economy bill today grew dimmer as Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.), continued the lengthy speech which consumed two hours Friday. It was assumed that Blaine spoke to gain time for other senators who are drafting substitute plans for the ! controversial 10 per cent federal salary cut. A monster petition. 252 feet long and bearing the signatures of 50.000 1 Cleveland citizens, was laid before* the senate by Senator Bulkley (Dem., O.) to support arguments against the 10 per cent salary reduction from federal employes. The senate upheld its economy committee in the first test vote on government pay cuts, a proposal of Senator Johnson (Rep., Cal.) to exempt all salaries of $2,500 or less from reduction was defeated, 51 to 25.

TROLLEY OPERATOR IS ROBBED OF S2O Ilis Money Changer Is Seized in Midnight Holdup. Loot of S2O, contained in a money changer, was taken by a robber shortly after midnight in a holdup of Harold Powell, 26, of 1814 Arrow avenue, operator of a Columbia avenue street car. All clothing in the Nifty Cleaners shop, 1114 Central avenue, was stolen, it was discovered early today after an investigation by Harry Miller, 46, of 1628 Vila avenue, a merchant policeman, who found a side window open. Robert Stark. 35, of 702 West Twelfth street, is charged with petit, larceny and Mathew Allen, 39, 1822 Boulevard place, with vagrancy as a result of their arrest today by police, who said they caught Stark syphoning gasoline from an automobile. Theft of 125 chickens was reported to police today by John Doane, R. R. 8. Box 123. WOMAN HURT IN CRASH Injured When Car Hits Gas Station; Condition Reported Fair. Condition of Mrs. Edwin C. Hurd. 344 Blue Ridge road, severely injured Friday when the automobile she was driving crashed into a filling station at Amity, is reported fair today at Methodist hospital. Both the car and the brick station were demolished. O. J. Shumway, operator of the station, escaped injury. Mrs. Hurd wax en route to Columbus where she intended to employ a women to care for her three children, while her husband was out of the city on a business trip. DRUIDS MEET SUNDAY i Session of Indiana Grove Will Be Held in Blanford. Seventy-second annual session of the Grand Grove of Indiana, United Ancient Order of Druids, will begin Sunday at Blanford. Approximately thirty members of local groves will attend. Delegates from Indianapolis are Dr. Oscar Lackey, W. Fred Young, Louis C. Schwartz, F. Earl Geider, Otto Swanson, W. Scott, Burk May Jr. and J. Henry Brinkmann. William F. Bonesteel of Indianapohs, noble grand arch, will preside. sl2 every single day during the Contest In daily cash prizes, plus big grand prizes. You have an equal chance to win. Complete details in The Times today.