Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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VETERANS PLAN BONUS PLEA AT PARTY PARLEYS Committee May Be Sent to Chicago Conventions by Washington ‘Army.’ BY JOHN REICHMANN Pro* Staff Corrraoondrnt WASHINGTON, June 11. The bonus army today turned its eyes toward Chicago and the national conventions. Leaders of the army were considering dispatching a committee to Chicago to demand that Republicans and Democrats adopt platform planks calling for payment of the $2,000,000,000 bonus to World war veterans. Commander-in-Chief Walter W. Waters and Harold B. Foulkrod, the bonus army’s legislative committee chief, tentatively approved the proposal. It was to be considered more fully by the executive committee today. The decision rnay depend somewhat on the outcome of Monday’s bonus vote in the house. The army as a whole apparently has no Intention of abandoning its siege of the capital city, even if the house defeats the bonus. On the contrary, the 10,000 already nere are settling down to stay and the leaders are calling up more and more reinforcements. Start Enlistment Drive An enlistment drive was begun which Commander Waters claimed soon would have 50,000 more veterans on the way to Washington. Special recruiting squads were started out to concentrate new marchers in St. Louis, Camden, Philadelphia and Southern points. The ragged and weather-beaten veterans gradually are bringing order out of chaos in the crude camp which sprawls over dusty acres of Anacostia Park, on the outskirts of the city. The men are shaping themselves into groups, improving their Shelters, fashioned from sticks, old tin, discarded canvas, packing boxes, and brushwood. They find time to pitch horseshoes and play ball and to clean the faces that accumulated a thick coating of grime on the trek across country. Company streets have been formed. Troops from the various states in some instances have formed a common mess. SB,OOO Added to Fund The army’s funds had been swelled to above SB,OOO with the receipt of $5,000 from the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit, head of the Little Flower Radio League. Trucks from Hoboken and Baltimore trundled up to the doors of the army’s commissary on Pennsylvania avenue and disgorged tons of food. Famine seems far away. Likewise, the problems presented by the recent “red” scare and the danger of an epidemic of disease were being ironed out. Commander Waters expressed the belief that no one should be barred from participating in the bonus demonstration because of political beliefs. Some of the incoming veterans, however, have indicated they would not abide by camp rules and discipline. They will be given a camp of their own, two miles away, at the old Bennington race track. Camp Set Aside Camp Simms, a little farther down the Potomac, has been set aside for men not in good physical condition. There they will find shower baths and a swimming pool. If disease breaks out, infected persons will be sent to Camp Foote, far down the Potomac, overlooking Mt. Vernon. Some wartime practices are being revived. A chain of downtown cigar stores has installed boxes accepting contributions for the purchase of tobacco for the veterans. A group of women is arranging a series of dances by which they hope to realize $1,500 for the marchers. District of Columbia authorities, unable to persuade the army to disband, clung to a slight hope that it would dissolve slowly. Three Governors replied to telegrams asking them to discourage the marchers. Each executive claimed to have tried 'to discourage the bonus march from its inception. Each reported failure.

EDWARD KAHN HEADS MERCHANTS’ GROUP Successor to Arthur G. Brown; Other Officers Named. Edward A. Kahn, president of the Peoples Outfitting Company and the Colonial Furniture Company, was elected president of the Merchants’ Association of Indianapolis, at the organization’s annual meeting Friday In the Illinois building. Kahn, succeeds Arthur G. Brown of the Marott shoe shop. Albert Zoller, vice-president of the Charles Mayer & Cos., was elected vice-presi-dent, succeeding Kahn. George Vonnegut, secretary of the Vonnegut Hardware Company, was re-elected secretary. Frank D. Stalnaker, president of the Indiana National bank, was reelected treasurer, and W. E. Balch was re-elected manager. The Merchants' Association celebrated Its thirty-fourth anniversary at the Marott, May 26. Baich is entering his twenty-fifth year with the association.

Such a Life! By United Prcai Chicago, June 11.— The 435 uniformed police who will guard the Republican convention got four pages of orders today from Commissioner James P. Allman. The orders include: No time off for lunch. No smokng or chewing tobacco or gum. Stand at attenton when talkng to any one. Don’t lay hands on any one unless absolutely necessary. Wear caps straight. No slouching; keep hands out of pockets. Polish shoes, star and capshield daily. Wear white shirt, black four-in-hand necktie, black shoes and hose, and white gloves. Salute all superior officers in military manner.

Scorned Vanities to Find Her Niche as Motor Fleet Skipper

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Bathing Beauty Now Stars in Role of Mechanic at Riverside. SHE was winner as “Miss Indianapolis, in the finals at Baltimore three summers ago, of a national bathing beauty contest. She returned with thanks a contract sent her by Earl Carroll to appear in the “Vanities.” She was graduated with honors from Roosevelt high school in Dayton. Such is the background of Gladys Coffelt, “skipper” of the fleet of motorboats out at Riverside amusement park. Said to be the youngest woman owning and actively operating a major amusement park concession in the whole United States, Miss Coffelt is on the job every morning by 8 o’clock, overhauling motors, greasing gears, doing odd paint jobs and, attired in grimy overalls, generally doing a manV job that would do credit to any mechanic in the land. By noon the big motorboats have been overhauled thoroughly and serviced with gas, ready for toe throngs of patrons in the afternoon and evening. After the noon hour, the butterfly emerges from the cocoon; the grimy young woman in greasy overalls disappears and “Miss Indianapolis” takes the center of the stage, the same dainty, demure miss who scorned Earl Carroll’s contract. Gladys Coffelt's parents have operated concessions in various amusement parks over the middlewest for years, and Gladys boasts she was raised in the big fun resorts, the most gorgeous playgrounds any kid could wish for. She recalled today that, at the age of 6, she sold hot dogs and ice cream cones at her father’s “eating joints” in a big amusement park In Dayton. Instead of playing with dolls, she had for pets the ponies at the park pony track and the monkeys in the park zoos- For twelve years she attended school in fall, winter, and spring, and spent her vacations with her parents in amusement parks. Her lifelong ambition has been to have a big park “ride” for her very own, and this spring her mother gratified her wish by equipping the motorboat rides at Riverside and presenting them to her. And how she tackled the job of making a success of the concession! Long hours and hard work? Yes, but, as Gladys remarked today: “This is life. I wouldn't give my boat ride concession here to be a star of the Earl Carroll Vanities. I’d just like to see one of those big beautiful but dumb chorus girls adjust one of these motors.” And we would, too.

TIN AND JUNK—BUT IT’S HOME

City’s Evicted Families Solve Their Rent Problem

Real estate note—two new homes are being constructed on White river bank along Squatter avenue. They are to be built of tin, junk-pile metal, and ‘bummed’ boards. The addition, known as Evicted Haven, has nine families on the west bank of the river and four on the east bank. The new dwellers expect to give a house-warming- Potatoes and beans will form the menue for guests." But of course this realty “item’’ isn’t. It isn’t even a city brief. But it is one way the unemployed of the city have found in which to obtain free rent. Drive across the Oliver avenue bridge and look northward along the river bank and you’ll see Squatter avenue, with new excavations of homes going up weekly. Paths worn through weeds serve as sidewalks for the Pueblos of Poverty. Each tin or cast-iron dwelling has its leaning, rusty, stovepipe. oat INSIDE the homes shiny brasspostered beds, beds of the plenty days, offset the drab gray

‘PARTY MURDER’ CHARBE FILED Baronet’s Daughter Facing Two Counts. By United Press LONDON June 11.—An additional charge was revealed today against Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, daughter of a knight and divorced wife of an American singer, when she was re arraigned on the charge of murdering Michael Scott Stephen, victim of London’s “cocktail murder.” The second charge was that of shooting at Stephen for the purpose of grievously wounding him, and concerned an alleged shooting at Mrs. Barney’s residence May 19, while the murder charge pertained to the fatal shooting of Stephen at toe same residence May 31. Mrs, Barney collapsed in the dock when she was arraigned a week ago and remanded to Holloway woman’s prison. Police cleared a large crowd away from Westminster police court today, but many women hid in doorways near by waiting for the court to open. Stephen was found dying at Mrs. Barney’s residence in fashionable Knightsbridge Mews, in toe west end. Neighbors told police of a cocktail party which began in the late afternoon and ended the next morning with sounds of a quarrel ond finally gunfire. Mrs. Barney was calm today, although very pale. She entered the dock unassisted. On her first appearance she seemed oblivious of her surroundings and had to be assisted in and out of court. SUMMER SCHOOL WILL OPEN MONDAY AT TECH Physical Education and Health Studies to Be Stressed. Summer school will open Monday at Arsenal Technical high school under direction of A. C. Hoffman, head of the agriculture, chemistry, and zoology departments. Physical education and health studies will be stressed. Schedules of courses will be arranged so each pupil may study physical education and group games. Besides the physical education courses, studies which will be offered are general drawing, botany and plant development, chemistry, general mathematics, typewriting and business practice, sewing, and vocations. The last will be a study of Industrial life and opportunities in Indianapolis.

tin walls and mouldy two-by-four stanchions. Breakfast in bed is easy for the kitchen table, stove, wash-bowl, are within arm’s length. The ventilating system of the tin house is ample- If windows do not suffice the holes in the roof permit the stars and the rain to come through. “And if it rains too hard we just go down underneath the railroad viaduct until it clears up," one dweller explained. “Crawdaddies,” delicacy of the days when foam was foam and lunches were really free, have come back into their own as additions to the food bags provided by the township trustees. In fact the “crawdaddies" established themselves on the menu without being asked. Cliff pioneers explain this invasion thus: “The crawdads ate the fish we fished for and so there was nothing to do but eat the crawdads. You get lots of them if you like them and they do vary the meals." BUM SQUATTER avenue is just like any other, avenue in the city. Soma dweller* 1 keep their front-

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HALT HEARINGS ON PAVING PROJECTS

Highway Commissioners Are Fearful of Fate in Special Session. Fearful of their fate at the hands of the legislators at the special session called for July 7, state highway commissioners have called a halt on the monthly hearings on new road projects. For some time it has been the commission policy to hold open house for state delegations the third Wednesday of each month. These will be abandoned until after the legislature meets, it was announced by Ralph Simpson, assistant state highway director. Decision to cancel further public hearings was made by commissioners at their meeting Friday afternoon. It is expected the legislature will take huge slices of state highway department funds and divert them for road usage in local communities. Recommendation that this be done has come from the citizens’ committee for special session legislation, the joint senate and house committees, and even has been written into the Republican state platform. William Cosgrove, assistant auditor of 'state and a Democrat, announced recently that he is preparing a bill which will take half of the 4-cent gasoline tax for local use. Only 1 cent now is diverted, the other 3 cents going for highway department use. The budget this year was estimated at approximately $24,000,000, which is the largest in the department’s history. Commissioners took no action Fri-

yards, patches slightly bigger than postage stamps and smaller than billboards, clean, while others persist in letting weeds have their own way. * Baths are no problem after night falls. The river’s a good tub if you get near the rock rapids. Each new resident of the addition receives a generous quota of advice from the “oldsters" on how to be happy though evicted, the number of iron and tin cans needed to wall and roof their domicile, and the best place to put the stovepipe in case of windstormsThe worst problem confronting the “cliff-dwellers" during the hot months is how to keep the heatdraWing metal roofs from baking them into Vienna loaves. M B B ONE resident solved Sol’s rays by using the weeds in his front yard as a roof cooling device. Dogs and children are popular in the addition. Mudpie making, tossing pebbles into the river, and hunting crawfish, form the playground sports.

BOOST TRAYLOR AS ROOSEVELT MATE Move to Draft Financier for Race Gains Momentum. BY LYLE C. WILSON I’nlled Pre Stiff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 11. A movement is under way today to select Melvin Alvah Traylor, Chicago banker and one-time city clerk of Hillsboro, Tex., as running mate for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, if the latter is nominated for President at the Democratic national convention. Word has reached Washington that Roosevelt would welcome Traylor's nomination. Considerable momentum is said to have developed behind the “draft Traylor” movement. There are circumstances suggesting that some of the impetus is coming from Albany, N. Y., where Roosevelt is devising convention strategy. Named as Dark Horse Traylor has a dark horse presidential status in his own right. Since 1925 he has been president of the First National bank in Chicago. He is well and favorably known in the east. During this winter of continued emergency financial legislation he has appeared frequently before senate committees. Governor Roosevelt is said to feel that Traylor’s nomination for vicepresident would considerably strengthen the Democratic ticket in the east. All concerned admit that Roosevelt is weak in the eastern part of the country. His campaign managers openly discuss the possibility of electing him without carrying his own state, New York. If Roosevelt and Traylor were nominated, there would be considerable emphasis, the United Press is informed, on the latter’s financial genius. Active in Power Firms Capital Democrats have been told Roosevelt if elected would invite Traylor to participate even more fully than his predecessors in cabinet meetings and there would be an implication that a Roosevelt-Tray-lor administration would be rather largely guided in fiscal affairs by the advice of the latter. Whether and how much Traylor’s nomination would relieve Roosevelt of opposition on the issue of electric power is not evident. In some quarters it is reported here that Traylor would embrace the power policies of Roosevelt. The power industry generally considers Roosevelt somewhat radical on this issue, in comparison with its own philosophy of the relationship between power and government. Traylor is a director of General Electric and the National Broadeating companies and through that latter directorship is in contact with the Radio Corporation of America group.

day on some $200,000 worth of rock asphalt, which they plan buying, Simpson reported. PICK MEDICAL SPEAKER Doctors’ Instructional Course to Be Addressed by Dean. Dr. W. McKim Marriott, professor of pediatrics and dean of the Washington university school of medicine, St. Louis, will be one of the principal speakers on the program for the instructional course to be given by the Indiana State Medical Association Thursday and Friday in the city hospital. Dr. Marriott will discuss “Infant Feeding” at the morning session the second day of the meeting. More than 200 Indiana physicians have registered for the course. EFROYMSON TAKES POST Assumes New Duties as President of Real Silk Hosiery Firm. G. A. Efroymson, Indianapolis business man and financier, today asumed his duties as president and general manageer of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc. Announcement of Efroymson’s election as president was made late Friday by J. A. Goodman, chairman of the board. Efroymson, formerly a member of Efr’oymson & Wolf, owners of the H. P. Wasson & Cos. and Star Store, succeeds Porter M. Farrell, who resigned Tuesday. Paul O. Farrell is vice-president of Real Silk; J. L. Mueller is secretary, and L. A. Goodman, treasurer.

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PARENTS STUNNED BY DEATH OF GIRD IN LINDBERGH CASE

Violet Sharpe Not Involved in Kidnap Plot, Says Her Mother. (Continued from Page 1) Road Taxicab Company, and that led to Brinkert, “We gnt other evidence. And then we sent word Friday morning to the Morrow home that we were ready to talk to her again at Alpine. “The next we heard she was dead. “And all we had to go on was that little taxicab business card. Maybe it will solve the mystery in the kidnaping and murder,” Walsh said. Parents Are Shocked By United Press READING, England, June 11. The parents of Violet Sharpe, who committed suicide in Englewood, N. J., yesterday, were shocked and mystified today when worcT of the tragedy reached them. The Sharpes live in a little cottage in a village near Reading and George Sharpe, Violet’s father, went about his business delivering coal as usual today. The dead girl’s mother was in a state bordering collapse. When a United Press correspondent called on her, she sobbed and wrung her hands. “I’m sure poor Violet knew nothing about the matter,” the mother said, referring to the fact that her daughter had been under suspicion in the Lindbergh kidnapping. “She never mentioned any boy friends in any of .her letters. She was one of the nicest girls you could meet anywhere and she would have given me her last shilling if I needed it.” Violet’s sister Emily, who went to America with her three years ago, and who returned in April for a visit with her parents, was at the home of a married sister in Sourbridge, Worcestershire, and refused to see callers. Her father sent word for her to Return to the family home at once. At Stroubridge, Emily secluded herself and a member of the household where she is visiting no one will be permitted to see her or talk to her, since she is deeply distressed at word of her sister's death. Emily planned to sail soon for America. Whether she will change those plans could not be learned today. Swore Her Innocence By United Press STOURBRIDGE, England, June 11. —Emily Sharpe, sister of Violet Sharpe, who committed suicide Friday in New Jersey,, said today that her sister “swore to me that she knew nothing about the disappearance of the Lindbergh child.” Miss Sharpe, visiting a married sister here, told reporters Violet admitted she was suspected of complicity in the kidnaping, because she informed them she had been out the night of the crime with two boys whosg names she didn’t know. Money Is Checked By United Press NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., June 11. —Director of public safety James A. Turley said today that certain money given by Ernest Brinkert, under arrest in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, to a New Rochelle garage keeper, is being checked with the list of serial numbers of the bills paid as ransom money. The money has been turned over to officials by the garage keeper voluntarily. Turley refused to disclose the serial numbers. Subsequently it was found the serial numbers of the bills did not correspond with serial numbers of the ransom money. Believes Girl Innocent By United Press TORONTO, June 11.—Belief that Violet Sharpe, maid in the Morrow household, who committed suicide Friday, had no connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnaping and murder, was expressed today by the dead girl’s former employer. “I don’t believe that Violet had anything to do with the Lindbergh case,” Mrs. John Jennings said. “She always was trustworthy and competent, and I believe her only the victim of circumstances. “Violet came to me direct from England, where she worked for nobility. She was the finest servant I ever had.” Kidnap Bill Passed By United Press TRENTON N. J. June 11.—The New Jersey state senate has passed a bill fixing death or life imprisonment as the penalty for kidnaping in cases where the kidnaped person is under 16 and ransom demanded. The bill as originally presented to the senate provided the death penalty without the alternative of life imprisonment but was changed to make it conform with a bill enacted in congress to deal with interstate kidnapings. It is not retroactive so will not apply to the Lindbergh kidnapers. Prepare for Curtis’ Trial By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., June 11.— While police continued their investigation of the new angle in the Lindbergh kidnaping and killing case, preparations for the trial of John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk boat builder, went og today. Betty Gow, baby Lindbergh’s

nursemaid, and Ollie Wheatley. Lindbergh butler, were subpoeaned oy Lloyd Fisher, attorney for Curtis. Fisher already has subpoeaned Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and is seeking one for Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent of New Jersey state police SPEED MEANS’ TRIAL Swindle Charge Case Due for Jury Monday. By United Press WASHINGTON, June il.—Gaston B. Means' trial on charges of swindling Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McClean out of $104,000, that she gave him to bring about the return of the Lindbergh baby, approached a swift end today as neither Means himself nor any other witnesses were offered by the defense. The government closed its case Friday. T. Morris Wampler, Means’ attorney, presented no witnesses or evidence, but asked a directed verdict on the four counts of the indictment, which accuses Means of larceny and embezzlement of SIOO,OOO and $4,000. Justice Proctor overruled the motion except for the count charging Means with embezlement of the $4,000 expense money. Attorneys were to argue this motion today, with expectations of the case going to the jury Monday. SAVED l TRAIN Youth Kidnaped, Bound to Railroad Tracks. By United Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., June 11.—A New York-bound Pennsylvania railroad train came to a sudden stop in Highland Park today, only a feew feet from the spot where Michael Haleluk, 17, was struggling to free himself from ropes that held him to the tracks. The youth had attempted to free himself since late Friday night, when three bandits robbed the J. J. Newberry store, where he was employed, kidnaped him and carried him to the tracks, bound hand and foot. “I tugged on the ropes until I got one hand free,” the youth said. “Any second I feared a train would come at me. Then when I was almost free. I saw the train approaching.” But from a distance Motorman Harry Bartlett discerned the figure of the youth. He jammed on the brakes in time. SKULL SHEARED OFF Carpenter Slain by Whirling Fan Blades. Instant death was the fate today of Vernie Harris, 24, of 815 West New York street, when a three-foot fan at the plant of the Indianapolis Bleaching Company, 900 West Wabash street, sliced off the top of his head. Harris, a carpenter, was attempting to nail a board across a skylight window while standing on a pipe thirty feet above the floor of the plant. Engrossed in the task, he moved his head within the whirling blades of the fan, a part of the plant ventilation system. His body fell to the loom of an idle weaving machine. The accident was witnessed by John H. Williams, foreman, 445 Berkley road, and another employe, Clayton Willingham, 205 Blake street. Dr. J. A. Salb, deputy coroner, made an investigation. Harris leaves his widow and a child 1 year old. LAUNCH CHICAGO RAIDS Agents Visit 15 Places in Drive for Dry Convention City. By United Press CHICAGO, June 11.—Apparent confirmation of the federal dry agents’ campaign to “dry up” Chi- j cago for the national political con- j ventions was seen today in a brisk series of fifteen raids Friday night on alleged saloons and speakeasies. Agents also confiscated two large stills. Seventeen persons were arrested in the raids which struck at widely scattered districts of the city and included one in the Loop. AMELIA GOES TO PARIS Due in Brussels Sunday to Meet King, Get Club’s Medal. By United Press MILAN, June 11—Amelia Ear- j hart Putnam and her husband, George Palmer Putnam, departed Friday night by train for Paris after a visit to Italy. They were scheduled to go Sunday to Brussels, where Miss Earhart will be received by King Albert and be awarded the Aero Club’s gold medal for her trans-Atlantic flight. She will sail for New York Tuesday on the He De France from Le Havre, j

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-TUNE 11, 1932

WOMEN DRYS : AFFIRM FAITH IN PROHBITION

Small but Undaunted Band Launch Campaign as Convention Nears. BY RAY BLACK t'nltcd Prfsi Staff Corrrsnondrnt CHICAGO, June 11.—A band of earnest women, undaunted by the ! tide of sentiment against prohibi- ! tion, launched a counter attack today in the name of “heme, church and our boys and girls." There was something Spartan in ; their bearing as they met in Third j Presbyterian church, only a few ! blocks from the Chicago stadium j where the Republican national convention opens Tuesday. They- , came to what had been advertised. as a “great loyalty convention.” I But where advance publicity pre* : dieted there would be hundreds j there were only scores. What they lacked in numbers, j they made up for in steadfastness i of their stand. Recite Statistics National leaders in the dry cause : sounded war cries against the wets, i recited statistics and urged a bone dry plank in the national party platforms. But it was the women in the rank and file, the mothers, wives and widows from the middle west who revealed just how millions of other women in the country feel about the i prohibition issue and why they feel | as they do. There was Mrs. W. W. Uiffe, Bev- ] erly Hills, 111., the mother of three sons and a daughter. She said: “Liquor hasn't ruined my chilj dren; they have so far escaped. I | think prohibition has protected them. That is why I lie awake nights in dread that the law will be repealed.” Only a Sober Nation Mrs. William Harrison Cade, chairman of the Illinois committee for law enforcement: “If there is anything worth believing in and fighting for, it is the American Consitution. The American flag can fly only over a sober nation.” Mrs. K. G. Norberg, Chicago: “I hope we never go back to the old saloon days.” Miss Elizabeth Smith, Oak Park: “If prohibition is repealed, it will be a terrible thing for youth—and for older folk, too. Things would be worse than they were before the law was enacted.” Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, in his keynote speech, “A call to arms,” declared a repeal plank in the Republican platform would be a “colossal blunder” and that “conditions in these times of depression would be much worse if drunkenness and rioting were added to unemployment and poverty through legal sale of liquor.” COUNTY AID IS SOUGHT Health Board Asks Funds for Operation of Hospital Ward. The health board will attempt to collect a proportionate share of funds from the county for operation of the city hospital psycopathic ward, board members announced today. Although the county agreed several years ago to pay expenses of patients brought to the ward from outside the city, no payment has been made for three years, board members asserted. The county's liability for maintenance ranges from $20,000 to $25,000 annually. ARMSTRONG INDORSED Legion Post Favors Him for Department Commander Job. Hilton U. Brown Jr. Past, 85. of the American Legion, in session Friday night at the Washington, indorsed the candidacy of V. M. YArmy) Armstrong of Indianapolis for Indiana department commander of the legion. A resolution was adopted, pledging the post's support to Armstrong and stressing his faithful sendee to the organization. LEGISLATORS WARNED They Must Lighten Tax Burden or Face Defeat, Says Tavne. Legisators will be given a chance to demonstrate their ability to deal wtih the tax problem at the special session of the legislature July 7, and, if they fail, the people will defeat them at the polls in the fall, Gavin L. Payne, broker, told Optimist Club members Friday. He declared that the tax burden must be lightened on real estate or the whole form of the American government will be changed to something like that of Russia. Ohio U. to Graduate 3 Haosiers Three Indianapolis residents are members of this year’s graduating class of Ohio State university at Columbus. Commencement will be held Monday. The local graduates are Arnold T. Nordsieck, 1028 North Temple avenue, master of arts; Eleanor R. Conn, 3929 Graceland avenue, bachelor of arts, and Mary E. Hughes, 4025 North Meridian street, applied optics.