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WALKER FATE NOW IN HANDS OF ROOSEVELT Governor Considers Probe Data Definite Charge Against Mayor. GETS TRIAL TRANSCRIPT 15 Specific Conclusions of Quiz Group Listed in Bulky Documents. By United Prctn ALBANY, N. Y., June 9—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt will consider the voluminous transcript and a shorteer analysis of Mayor James J. Walker's testimony before the Hofstadter committee as charges against the mayor, he said today. Shortly after the Governor arrived at his office, two secretaries carried in the testimony, still wrapped in Manila paper as delivered Thursday night, and clipped the stout cords while Roosevelt watched. The executive examined the eight documents. ‘No 1!m Quibbling’ Inquiries as to the procedure he will follow were met with the statement: “That there is one obvious step—that ii to read it.” The letter and documents termed “anaylsis constitute, of course, charges,” he said. “I see no reason for quibbling over terms.” The charge was made in a letter from the Hofstadter committee counsel which included fifteen specific complaints, or “conclusions,” as Seabury called them. The letter summarized the 600,000 words of testimony taken in public hearings of the committee. The fifteen charges include: That Mayor Walker was "interested,” cither financially or through his closest friends and advisers, in corporations which held contracts or sought contracts with the city.

Fails to Explain That Mayor Walker failed to explain “credibly” or “satisfactorily” income that Seabury claimed was included in the million-dollar accounts of the missing Rusell T. Sherwood. “From the record.” Seabury wrote Roosevelt, “you can determine whether the public interests and the maintenance of decent standards among public officials require that James J. Walker should be removed from the office of mayor." The “decent standards” reference doubtless was to a “standard of conduct” for public officials set up by Roosevelt himself in announcing removal of Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, another high Tammany Hall official, in similar proceedings, also the result of evidence presented before the Hofstadter committee. By United I’rrsx NEW YORK. June 9.—Formal charges against Mayor James J. Walker are h ein ß prepared and, will be sent soon to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt for action, the Nev? York committee of 1,000 announced today. Judge Samuel Seabury s analysis of evidence on Walker gathered by the city investigators, will be the foundation for the charges. RUTH B. OWEN TRAILING Mark Wilcox, Repeal Advocate, Leads in Florida Congress Race. B y United Press MIAMI, Fla., June 9.—Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, still trailed Mark J. Wilcox, repeal advocate, for the nomination for representative from the Fourth district, according to incomplete returns here today from Florida’s primary. Mrs. Owen, who advocated a prohibition referendum in her campaign. had 10,664 votes, while Wilcox, a proponent of outright repeal, had 12.988. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt held a commanding lead over two opponents in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination preference. Returns from 463 cf the state’s 1.2340 precincts gave Roosevelt 17,824 votes, to 1,896 for “Alfalfa Bill” Murray.

GASHES WRISTS, NECK Husband Tries Suicide After Alleged Attack on Wife. While Mrs. Rost Roberts. 37, of 1134 Udell street, was telling patrolmen Otto Burke and Harrj* Brooks of an attack by her husband Thursday morning with a chisel, the husband, John Walter Roberts, 65, was found on the bank of the canal at Udell street with both wrists cut and a deep gash in his neck. Forest Wilson, 48, of 1016 4 North Oakland avenue, found the man. A radio call was made to the automobile of Burke and Brooks who proceeded to the canal, several squares away. E-berfs clothing was wet, leading police to believe he also had jumped or fallen into the canal in his suicide attempt. BOY IS HURT AT - PLAY Clifford Kelly, 9. Injured When Struck With Bail Bat. Clifford Kelly, 9, of 842 Buchanan street, was taken to the city hospital Thursday for treatment of head injuries suffered in an alley baseball game when he was struck with a bat. The accident occurred in the rear of 949 Prospect street. After treatment at the hospital the boy was returned to his home. Amelia Makes Tour of Rome By United Prc*t ROME, June 9.—Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman to fly the Atlantic, visited historic buildings and monuments in Rome today and motored to the outskirts of the cityShe arrived by plane with her husband Wednesday.

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Platform Presented at G. O. P. State Convention

THE Republican party state platform presented delegates at the convention today included a plank for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and for repeal of the state ü bone dry” laws. We, the Republicans of Indiana, in state convention assembled, reaffirm our faith in and pledge our loyalty to the principles of the Republican party. We meet under conditions abnormal at home and abroad. Throughout the world, we recognize instability of governments, widely extended unemployment, and have witnessed changes and partial collapse of financial systems, all of which complicate and make more difficult our domestic problems. All sections of our country and all classes of our citizens are feeling the heavy hand of economic depression and are looking to governmental action to aid in the solution of their economic problems. Legislation is not a cure-all, but it- can go far to clear the channels of trade and provide opportunity for the development and exercise of the productive energies of the people and to promote the general welfare. Governmental policies should be adjusted to meet changed and changing conditions, but this is no time to experiment with radical doctrines of government. There are those who would seize upon the adversity of the present to institute and establish policies of government that would overthrow the cherished institutions of the nation. Against all such movements, by whatever name they may be known, the Republican party stands unalterably committed. The business of our country shall be restored. The enemies of our form of government shall not succeed.

National Administration

We commend and indorse the patriotic leadership of President Herbert Hoover during the world turmoil and business distress of the past three years. Amidst unfair and bitter criticism of political opponents and demagogues, he has not yielded to importunities for support of questionable measures to gain approval of their advocates, nor has he lost faith in the integrity and ability of our people to solve problems and overcome difficulties growing out of a world-wide business depression. President Hoover has distinguished himself as a man with a definite national program. He has been resourceful in suggesting means to strengthen and to extend agencies of government for the purpose of aiding in the solution of the manifold problems of the nation. And we pay him our tribute for his splendid leadership in these critical times.

No Class Appeal

The Republican party never has appealed to the prejudice of classes or sections, but has been truly national in its scope and program. It never has turned its back upon the challenges of life. It has met and solved economic and political problems that were threatening at the time, and under the inspiration of its splendid history, with faith in the steadfastness of the people to its policies and principles, our party faces the serious duties of the present with courage and confidence.

Protection

We reaffirm our allegiance to the policy of protection. Upon that

BONUS ARMY ‘DIGS IN’; SHUNS REMOVAL OFFER

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 9.—Jeering at attempts of the police to take them out of town, members of the bonus expeditionary force settled down today to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. The “zero hour” came and went with the lumbering gray trucks, which Police Chief Glassford provided in an attempt to start “the retreat from Washington,” standing unused at the camp on the Potomac. By 9 a. m. it was apparent that the carefully conceived strategy of Glassford had failed. Thinking the

SENATOR CONVICTED Rollo N. Walter Guilty of Bank Embezzlement. By United Press > LAGRANGE, Ind., June 9.—A Lagrange circuit court jury which deliberated five and one-half hours Wednesday night returned a verdict of guilty on a charge of banker’s embezzlement against State Senator Rollo N. Walter. Walter was secretary of the Lagrange County Bank and Trust Company when it was closed last Aug. 8. The indictment returned against him and other officials alleged that deposits were accepted when officials knew the bank was insolvent, that notes listed as assets were valueless and that officers had drawn large personal checks on the bank. The trial began eight weeks ago. B. S. Walter, father of Rollo Walter and vice-president of the bank and E. C. Grady, president, also were indicted. Walks Into Side of Car Isaac Harding. 65, R. R. 1. Bridgeport. was unconscious for a short time today after walking into the side of an automobile driven by James E. Tomlinson, 38, of 409 West Thirty-second street, near Belmont avenue and Washington street. He is believed to be not seriously hurt and was taken to his homti

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policy, the diversified industries of our nation have been builded and developed. To that policy, business of every character, salaries and wages have been adjusted. Change in that policy can result only in further disturbance of the general business of our country and seriously affect the welfare of all our people. We are pledged to the principle of protection for American agriculture, American labor and American industry, measured by the difference in cost of production at home and abroad. To quicken the business pace, we must preserve home markets for ourselves. We are opposed unalterably to international conferences determining the economic policy of our country. We reaffirm the Republican policy of strict control of immigration In the interest of both native and for-eign-born wage earners, this is necessary. We maintain the traditional American policy of non-interfer-ence in the political affairs of other nations. This government definitely has refused membership in the League of Nations and to assume any obligations under the covenant of the league. On this we stand. We oppose the cancellation of foreign debts as an unfair effort to shift the cost of the World war to the American taxpayer. In short, we declare in favor of a policy of preserving America for Americans in harmony with our national traditions, ideas and principles.

Delegation in Congress

We are proud to indorse the record of Senators James E. Watson and Arthur F. Robinson and the Indiana Republican members of the house of representatives. Their services to the nation have been faithful, untiring and outstanding, and bring great credit to the state of Indiana. During the recent crisis, remedial legislation has found expression in many measures to meet specific emergencies. In the enactment of those measures into law, our Republican senators and congressmen have been conspicuous in party counsel and party leadership. We feel a justifiable pride in sharing in the credit and honor of their achievement. Indiana has been specially honored in the recognition of leadership of Senator Watson. His faithful and efficient leadership has been a potent factor in the enactment of legislation of fundamental need and of national and international import.

State Administration

The administration of Harry G. Leslie has set a high mark for constructive achievement in Indiana history. Governor Leslie’s aggressiveness, initiative, intimate knowledge of and close contact with state affairs and state institutions, have made him available as a leader of his people. He has been conspicuously active on behalf of business methods, economy in management, the wellbeing of the state’s unfortunates, the distribution of unemployment relief, in support of our nonpartisan system of institutional control, and in the maintenance of the best Hoosier traditions and ideals. He has recognized representatives of labor by appointment to position of public honor and trust, and has been attentive to the welfare of workers in the fields of industry, agriculture and commerce.

’ men might be getting homesick and weary of sleeping in the open in the cool, damp air of night, he offered to transport the veterans fifty miles toward their homes and provide one day’s rations. Instead of a ragged, discouraged mob he found this morning a compact, well-organized army with its morale and its sense of humor intact, determined to remain here until congress acts on the $2,000,000,000 Patman bonus bill. Walter W. Waters, commander of the army, grinned as he watched his predictions come true. Yesterday he told Glassford none of the men would budge. The police board of strategy—committed to a policy of non-violence—went into conference immediately to devise new tactics. District health officers already have pronounced sanitary facilities at the camp inadequate, although they said there was no immediate danger. Today the veterans were digging in for a protracted siege. They claim they have plenty of food and know where more can be obtained.

GOOD WILL TOUR CAR EXPECTEDSATURDAY World’s Fair Courier to Be Met at City Limits by Committee. En route to Birmingham, Ala., one of the three cars of the ElksStudebaker good-will fleet will arrive here Saturday, bringing an invitation to local members of the order for attendance to the Chicago world's fair. Piloted by William Cunningham, the car left Seattle, Wash., April 25. Two others departed from Chicago and Boston, and are expected to reach Birmingham at the opening of the national convention, July 16. The world's fair invitations carried by the cars are signed by Rufus Dawes, brother of Charles G. Dawes, former ambassador to England. Joseph E. Barron, local exalted ruler, has appointed a committee of Thomas L. Hughes. E. C. Wolf and Wiliam J. Fahey to welcome Cunningham at the city limits. Local business men. including Emory R. Baxter. StudebaLer dealer; Frank W. Addison. Firestone dealer, r.nd R. P. Oblinger of the CapitoUfcJEiectric Company. wiU escort the car to the city.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 9,1932

Agriculture

It is fundamental that our basic industry, agriculture, shall be restored as the first and foremost move in the great reconstruction program which paves the way out of the world depression for America. Throughout its history, the Republican party has recognized the fundamental significance and justice of the demands of the farmer for fair treatment, a fair chance and a market. His problems are being worked out progressively, and the Repi ican party stands pledged to the practical application of broad fundamental principles to the speedy solution of those problems. No element in our business and industrial structure can stand alone. The forming industry depends upon the restored buying power of the urban and town population just as the remainder of the nation’s industries depend for survival upon the restored buying power of the farmer. The larm problem is as broad as the nation, and farm welfare comprehends the national wellbeing. This means that agriculture must receive equal treatment with all other industries under the protective tariff system. The Republican party is the one agency through which this essential equality is to be brought about.

Taxation

Just as farm relief and general economic restoration are bound together, sc is unjust taxation a tragic factor in the farmer’s distressing situation. The man on the land and the home owner alike are taxed beyond endurance, and pay more than their fair share of the costs of government. The tax load must be broadened and lightened in order that the farmer and home owner may survive. Equitable distribution of the tax burden over the various classes of tangibles and intangibles is one of ouv vital constitutional needs. At the same time, there is an urgent and immediate call for practical tax relief in every direction. The Indiana general assembly will meet July 7 in special session and we urge that their activities be confined to measures for reduction of expenditures and to questions of taxation. We favor repeal, where advisable, of mandatory salary and tax levy laws affecting the various taxing units. We favor elimination of local gravel road repair fund tax levies and the use of gasoline tax money, by the state returned to the localities, for maintenance of local roads-

Economy-Public Expense

Retrenchment in public expenditures is one open road to tax relief. This means drastic reductions in the cost of government in all taxing units. We are proud to point to the fact that the state of Indiana is one of the very few states free of debt. We call attention to the fact that Indiana’s state tax levy is among the lowest in the country. However, the weight of governmental expenses imposed by the local taxing units within the state must be reduced drastically, and there is a call for careful scrutiny of expenditures in all taxing units, including the state itself. Governmental costs have been mounting steadily for many years. Luxuries have been engrafted on the public service, extravagant functions have been added to government on the demand of groups and blocs of citizens, until, in a period of depression, these pyramided activities have brought about inordinately high taxes and confiscation of property. It is time for those who have de-

They have started a library consisting of fifty books and magazines, and reinforcements are on the way. Approximately 375 men arrived today from Pittsburgh and points west, bringing the army’s roster close to 7,000. Father James Cox of Pittsburgh, two-fisted priest who recently led the “hunger marchers” on Washington, arrived today, clad in a captain’s uniform, to aid the veterans in their fight. “There is a false impression out that I am going to advise you to go home,” he told the veterans. “I am, but only after you have got what you came here for. “The granaries of this country are loaded with food, but money is in the hands of the few. In the name of God, what kind of country is this? Does it belong to Herbert Hoover, Inc., or to the American people? In Shantytown and Coxtown, where I come from, w r e are using our own currency.” ALUMNI IN BANQUET Annual Butler Event to Be Held Tonight at University Park Church. Annual alumni banquet of Butler university will be held at 6:45 tonight in the University Park Christian church. Speakers will be Dr. D. S. Robinson, head of the philosophy department at Indiana university; President Walter S. Athearn and Dean Frederick D. Kershner. Alfred T. De Groot, instructor in the Old Testament at Butler, wall be toastmaster. Milburn Scamahom will play a violin solo. Vocal numbers will be presented by a quartet made up of Donald Hoffman, Charles Jones, Samuel McClain and George W. Ross, students in the university. Approximately 125 are expected i to attend. Shoes Pinch; Merchant Pays DETROIT, June 9.—Storekeepers should take heed. August Elwart bought a pair of shoes from S. A. Singer, Belleville merchant. They pinched his feet. He protested. Singer resented the complaint. They fought. A jury awarded Elwart $1,600. V

manded extravagance in government to insist just as strongly on drastic retrenchment and on a return to that cardinal simplicity in government which the fathers had in mind and which the economic emergency demands. We must get back to a government prepared to operate in all its parts, efficiently and without extravagance, usefully but not luxuriously. In considering ways and means to bring about economy and reasonable expenditures in government, it is well to give thought to consolidations or bureaus, departments, offices and jobs, and to the feasibility of permitting: the people to merge their own taxing units as a means of doing away with unnecessary governmental expenses. The people in the counties and townships should have the right and power to take action for the elimination of superfluous governmental organizations. Any revision of the structure of county and township government should be brought about with the idea of eliminating overlapping functions and obsolete units and to focus responsibility without harmfully curtailing essential governmental functions. There is no escape from the fact that impaired incomes and reduced valuations call for reduced expenditures in government. People in all walks of life have been adversely affected by the depression. Those in the public service will not ask for immunity or special favors in the presence of a general and necessary drive for retrenchment. Public pay rolls should be revised in accord with the economic conditions revealed by an all-embrac-ing emergency. All public fees should be turned in for government use and not go to enrich individuals. All public officials should be required to pay the same federal income tax exacted from other citizens.

Labor

American labor has the inalienable right to deal collectively and to work unitedly for the maintenance of American wage and living standards made possible under the American system of protection—a cardinal policy of the Republican party. The attitude and patriotism of wage earners in face of hardships due to world-wide depression have been beyond praise. Prison labor should be employed, but competition of the products of prison labor with the products of free labor should be avoided. In the state, as in the nation, we adhere to the principle of the prevailing wage plan in legislation affecting public contracts.

Banking

We recognize our banks as quasipublic institutions and recommend that their business should be limited to conservative banking practice which experience has approved. Such regulation should be enforced as will warrant geat stability of the institutions and guarantee the greatest possible protection to the public, and to accomplish this purpose, we recommend a revision, of the state banking laws.

Law Enforcement

Organized crime, heavily financed and equipped on strictly modern lines, has become a hideous national menace. Our law enforcement agencies must be organized to meet the defiant criminal element and deal effectively with gangsters, racketeers, rum-runners, bootleggers and those who kidnap for ransom. This is not a political matter. The demand is to take our

HIGH BATES ON WATERRAPPED Apartment House Owners Protest Increase. Opposition to high water rates and censure of the Indianapolis Water Company’s appeal for increases were expressed in a statement issued today by the Apartment House Owners’ Association. “There is no justification, whatsoever, in the petition for restoration of the former minimum rate of $1.50 instead of the SI.OB minimum rate,” the statement said’. The water company announced it would fight for a return to the $1.50 minimum rate, after eight apartment owners secured a court order preventing enforcement of the compromise rate schedule. This schedule increased rates of large water consumers. “Our organization believes the present rate schedules of the Indianapolis Water Company are entirely too hign and that there should be a material reduction, due to the capital structure, made several years ago, and on which present rates are based,” association officials stated. MAN IS KILLEO WHEN HIT BY ELECTRIC CAR Steps From Path of Locomotive Only to Meet Sudden Death. When he stepped cut of the path of a freight locomotive into the front of an approaching electric car late Wednesday at Southeastern avenue and the Pennsylvania tracks, E. P. Jackson, 65, of 250 South State avenue, a paper hanger, was killed. Witnesses told police Jackson started to cross the tracks, stepped back to let the locomotive pass and moved too close to the track on which the Pennsylvania electric car was running. Jackson was struck a glancing blow and knocked fifteen feet. He incurred a skull fracture and died when in the city hospital ambiance. Jackson is survived by the widow, of Chicago, from whom he was separated, and a sister living near Indianapolis.

public safety agencies out of politics and to put them in the public safety business. Just as motorized crime has revolutionized criminal methods, so organized society, employing its best intelligence, must wherever necessary, change its method of dealing with the problems having to do with the security of life and property. The enforcement of all laws is vital to our perpetuity as a nation and as a state. Law violation has reached a stage bordering on anarchy, and ■we are due for a courageous survey of a situation fraught with the gravest peril of our institutions.

Temperance

The Republican party is the party of the Constitution and we stand for its complete observance as well as for the faithful enforcement of all laws. However, we recognize an honest difference of opinion among our citizens regarding the eighteenth amendment. We acknowledge the right of the people who ordained the Constitution to pass upon that Instrument or any part of it, at any time; Therefore, We recommend that the congress of the United States immediately submit a proposal for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the federal Constitution. Said proposal to be submitted for ratification or rejection by nonpartisan conventions of the people of the several states called for that sole purpose in accordance with the provisions of article Five of the Constitution of the United States. Should the eighteenth amendment be repealed, we pledge our best efforts toward the enactment of such measures in the state of Indiana as actually will promote temperance, effectively abolish the saloon, whether open or concealed, and bring the liquor traffic itself under complete public supervision and control, with revenues properly drawn from legalized sources for relief of the burdened taxpayers. We also recommend the repeal of the so-called “bone dry” laws of Indiana and favor the enactment of such measures as will conform to the federal enforcement acts.

Highways

Indiana’s expanding system of good roads is a source of pride. Our highways, which have earned na-tion-wide praise, have been well built on a “pay-as-we-go” basis. This sound policy, applied aggressively and efficiently under Republican administrations, has been vindicated many times over. We have reached a stage in the development of our highways when we may reasonably anticipate and properly advocate a modification of the intensive activity of recent years. The road system should continue to expand, but on a basis adjusted to public needs and economic conditions as indicated by the revenues from a fair auto and gasoline tax allotment. County road building, save for emergency needs, should be temporarily held in abeyance.

Conservation

We recommend a comprehensive ten (10) year program in conservation and reforestation in Indiana-

Education

Indiana takes proper pride in her education system and in the high standards maintained in Indiana schools of all grades. While there should be no sacrifice of the fundamentals, and while all the children of all the people should be

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Guest speakers for the sixth annual Cannon Staff alumni dinner, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Saturday, June 11, will be Milo H. Stuart, De Witt Morgan and Claude Mahoney. The toastmaster for the affair will be Billy Froach. William Weiss is general chairman, and Virginia Casey and Aurelia Davis are members of the invitation - committee. PAVING JOB AWARDED William D. Vogel Wins Contract for $107,338 Road Task. William D. Vogel, Indianapolis, has been awarded a $107,338.15 contract for a seven-mile paving project on state Road 66, from Rockport to two miles northeast of Grandview, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown of the state highway department. A $9,749.78 contract for paving the junction of Roads 24 and 31, near Peru, went to C- J. Burke, Peru. CITES EDUCATION VALUE Dr. Clippinger Addresses 1,000 at Central Commencement. Need for all-round education was stressed by Dr. W. G. Clippinger, Otterbein college president, commencement speaker at Indiana Central college Wednesday. He spoke on “The By-Products of a Liberal Arts Education.” Approximately 1,000 persons attended the college’s twenty-seventh annual commencement exercises. “A person should continue his education after his graduation from college,” Dr. declared.

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treated on a basis of equality when it comes to providing the opportunity for schooling, it must be accepted as fundamental that drastic economy should prevail in the field of education as in all other activities. Our schools have an opportunity to set an example of thrift and sanity during the present economic emergency. We recognize that certain tax costs charged in the name of education are improper, and must be eliminated; and we propose that legislation and administration provide to that end. Further, we favor a policy of legislative action that w r ill make it possible for local communities to establish larger units of administration and for school purposes, and thereby reduce taxation; and we favor and urge every economy in school administration which can be made that will not be at the expense of the child.

Public Utilities

It is the belief of the Republican party that the state of Indiana, unhampered by federal agencies, should exercise its right to regulate public utilities operating within this state. The state has created an agency for the purpose of regulating utilities—the public service commission—which is required by law to safeguard the interest of the public in the establishment of reasonable rates for utility services and at the same time permit a reasonable earning by the utilities. Legislation is being proposed before congress which will serve to strengthen state control by limiting federal judicial interference with rates and regulation, leaving the widest right of judicial review to our state courts. Rates for utility service should be fixed with due regard for present changed economic conditions and considered in connection with lowered cost of production and the ability of the consumer to pay for utility service. The right of municipalities to acquire and operate public utility plants as provided by law should be protected.

Anti-Lynching Law

We renew our party’s recommendation that the congress enact at the earliest possible date a federal anti-lynching law so that the full influence of our national government may be wielded to exterminate this hideous crime.

Veterans

The Republican party reaffirms and reacknowledges its debt of gratitude to all veterans of all wars. These men both saved and perpetuated our nation. We believe that all facilities should be increased materially for the welfare of all disabled soldiers of all wars, and we pledge the enactment of legislation to that end. Asa matter of economy and also in the interest of the veterans we advocate that in all emergency cases, when immediate facilities are unavailable in government hospitals and institutions, disabled veterans shall be cared for in local hospitals at government expense. We are exceedingly proud of the record of our party in recognizing the real worth of our veterans in placing many of them in positions of honor and trust.

Party Emblem

Resolved, That the American eagle, with wings outspread in the attitude of flying, hereby is adopted as the emblem of the Republican party.

SIOO,OOO ISSUE FOR PAVING 0. K, Council Acts on Four Major Street Projects. City council passed an ordinance at a special session Wednesday providing for a SIOO,OOO bond issue to defray the city’s share of costs of four major street improvements. > The issue was sold tentatively last week to Campbell & Cos., of Indianapolis. The special meeting was necessary as a result of Councilman Charles C. Morgan’s negative vote on a motion to pass the ordinance under suspension of the rules Monday night. Morgan Wednesday repeated his charges that the works board had awarded the contract for widening Sixteenth street to an Illinois company which was paying only 17!£ cents an hour to labor. E. Kirk McKinney, president of the works board, told the council that the board gave the contract to the Illinois firm because it was $12,000 lower than its nearest competitor. “We prefer giving contracts to local firms wherever everything is equal, but certainly don’t feei the property owners should be penalized $12,000 just to maintain that policy,” McKinney declared.

ASK SULLIVAN TO TALK West Side Residents Plan to Celebrate Pavement Opening. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and city officials have been invited to speak at ceremonies in observance of the opening of new pavement on West Michigan street between Tibbs avenue and Luett street Friday night, June 17. The celebration is being sponsored by the residents of the vicinity and by the Fairfax Christian church under the direction of the Rev. Virgil P. Brock, pastor. Festivities will continue through Saturday, June 18. An elaborate musical and entertainment program will be presented Friday night, including a concert by the police and firemen's band.

STATE G. 0. P. WAGES BITTER DRY ACT FIGHT Anti-Saloon League Forces Carry Battle to Floor of Convention. START BALLOT TODAY Race for Governor Close, With Three Standing Out as Leaders. (Continued from Page 1) ordered tentative leasing of Cadle tabernacle for Friday and it has been agreed that in event no choice can be made today, the convention will be recessed at 8 or 9 tonight until Friday morning. Leaders Stay Ahead The three leaders in the pre-con-vention form sheet continued to hold their positions today, it was said. They are M. Bert Thurman, former national committeeman; Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush and Frederick Landis, Logansport, editor and radio columnist. The next three on the dope chart are said to be Raymond Springer of Connersville, first state commander of the American Legion and Tenth district chairman; Lawrence F. Orr, chief of the state board of accounts, and Attorney-General James M. Ogden. T?.en come James M. Knapp of Hagerstown, former Speaker of the house of representatives, and Arthur H. Sapp of Huntington, highway commission member and former president of Rotary International. The Knapp stock moved up considerably overnight, while adherents of Bush said an anonymous letter attacking him for being a farmer, which received wide circulation, was helping him among the rural delegates.

Knapp Shows Gain Three other vacancies to be filled on the ticket are those of Lieuten-ant-Governor, secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction. Lake county was pledged solidly behind its candidate for LieutenantGovernor, Joseph B. Kyle of Gary, former Lake county sheriff, at the First district caucus Wednesday night, while Marion county was boosting Frederick E. Schortemeier, former secretary of state. Theodore Vonnegut, local ex-school board member, was entered as the third man, but was stricken from the list when he failed to pay the convention fee. Four are vying for the secretary of state nomination. They are Bert Morgan of Indianapolis, former state prohibition administrator; Luther C. Draper of Spiceland, former state senator; Ora J. Davies of Kokomo, former state treasurer, and Homer Beals of Noblesville. Roy P. Wisehart of Pendleton, state superintendent of public instruction from 1927 to 1931, and his party’s nominee in 1930, failed to stage a comeback. Ben H. West, Noblesville, was assured of uncontested nomination.

Delegate List

The seven political leaders elected a s delegates at large to the Republican national convention at today’s session of the state G. O. P. convention are: Senator James E. Watson. Senator Arthur R. Robinson. Governor Harry G. Leslie. Will H. Hays of Sullivan. Charles B. Enlow of Evansville. William L. Hutcheson of Indianapolis. Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds of Cambridge City. The seven elected as alternate delegates at large are: A. M. Smith of Crawfordsville. Mrs. Nell M. Warren of Indianapolis. John C. Ruckelshaus of Indianapolis. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss of Indianapolis. C. Y. Foster of Carmel. Harry Johnson of Bloomington. William N. Cox of Terre Haute. SUICIDE RATE IS LOSING Lowest Since 1915 Noted Last Year In Insurance Survey. By United Press NEW YORK, June 9. —Fewer persons are taking “the easiest way out” of their difficulties, according to Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting statistician for the Spectator insurance paper, who announced the results of a survey of suicides in 1931 showing 20.5 persons took their own lives for every 100,000 population during the year. This is the lowest rate since 1915, when it was 20.8. In 1908 the rate was 21.5. Os the large cities, New York leads in the rate of suicides. Irs Manhattan and the Bronx the rate is 28.3 per 100,000 population. In Los Angeles It is 26.2. GARBO SIGNS CONTRACT Cancel’s Retirement After Bank Closes; Gets $15,000 a Week. By United Preaa HOLLYWOOD, June 9—The closing of a Beverly Hills bank in which she was a heavy depositor may have led Greta Garbo, Bwedish actress, to cancel plans for a temporary retirement and to continue her American motion picture career at a salary of $15,000 a week. It was reported that the glamorous actress had executed an agreement with Joseph Kennedy, banker and former screen executive, at that salary, after refusing to renew her contract with Metro - GoldwynMayer at $8,500 a week.