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Kenneth Burney Here R. O. Berg’s idea of the western hero In Peter B. Kyne's, “The Gringo Privateer.” Burney Is a fast thinker and a fast shooter. Berg is the staff artist of The Indianapolis Times. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN DO you want to solve a murder mystery? That is a murder Inr a novel. If you do you will have a grand time reading “The Wedding Chest Mystery,” by A. Fielding and published by H. C. Kinsey & Cos. It tells for $2. Here is excellent hot weather reading and it has more brains and logic than the average murder mystery. When the author finally solves the strange murder of Boyd Armstrong, Australian mining magnate, living in London, the solution is logical but I will be darned if I could guess * guilty individual. Here is the mystery—Mrs. Phyllis Armstrong is giving a grand afternoon tea in her priceless Chinese suite in her great nome. Major Hardy, a great friend of the Armstrongs, had presented Mrs. Armstrong with an exquisite Chinese wedding chest of marvelous design. The major purchased it at the Lees, Chinese merchants. The chest was to contain 300 dwarf birch trees which were to be distributed to the guests. They were packed in the chest at the Lees. But when the chest was opened with grand ceremony at the tea it contained the dead body of the head of the house, Boyd Armstrong. He had been fatally shot through the head with a revolver. The mystery centers around these questions How did Armstrong’s body get into the chest because it was filled with trees when it left the Chinese merchants. Who murdered Armstrong—His wife, his secretary, his brother-in-law, Lady Grail, Mrs. Armstrong’s social secretary, the murdered man’s cousin? * Why did a clock which was never meant to strike the hour struck the time every quarter hour in the library of the dead man on the morning of the murder? What became of the murdered man’s fountain pen, his hat and stick? And I say that is some mystery. It is corking good fun. Suggest that you get a copy and have lots of fun. a O 0 Vicki Baum’s “Secret Sentence” has just been published by Double - day-Doran. She is the author as you know of "Grand Hotel,” which has made her a fortune in book form, on the stage and on the screen. Her latest novel concerns the story of a man who killed the prime minister of his country after the World war. The author is chiefly concerned with the terrible haunting fear of the murderer that he is going to be captured. > Liveright, Inc., have*sent me their new Fall Book catalogue. Its cover is one of the most attractive I have received. The color is black and the printing is done in gold. One of the important announcements is that “More Merry-Go-Round,” by the author’s of “Washington Merry-Go-Round," will be published soon. * a a Another fall publication that is going to cause a sensation is "The Strangest Friendship in History,” which concerns Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House. It answers the questions—Who was the woman who was virtually President of the United States? Did Wilson pledge us to war before he was re-elected? What is the secret history of the covenant? Who was the real author of the Fourteen Points, the source of the Federal Reserve act? J. P. M'EVOY’S forthcoming novel, “Are You Listening?” (Houghton Mifflin Company), is written as though the reader had tuned in and heard the characters talking over the radio in his own home. They wake up to radio in the morning and go to bed to it at night. All day long they work and play, eat and drink, quarrel and make love with the radio pounding in their ears. * a a Houghton Mifflin Company have recently accepted for fall publication a book to be entitled “Flying Over South America.” by Annie S. Peck, well-known traveler and mountain climber. a a a The modern American, who is being warned daily about the devastating tempo of our age, might find vicarious consolation in a story told by Major C. S. Jarvis in his new book, "Yesterday and Today in Sinai.” For the Arab, he says, “time has no significance whatsoever. I came across a case once in which a camel had been stolen, and the owners, suspecting that it had been taken to the Nile valley, walked from Cairo to Kena, a matter of 350 miles, carefully inspecting everv camel on both sides of the river till, eighteen months later, they discovered it. The camel, incidentally, was worth about £6." a a a Thames Williamson’s new juvenile, “On the Reindeer Trail,” is the story of two boys who tend a reindeer herd at its inland pasture with the help of an Eskimo herder throughout the Alaskan winter. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, it is a July selection of the Junior Literary Guild.

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STORM-SWEPT VERNON UNDER TROOP GUARD Business Section Wrecked, Several Injured When Tornado Strikes. COURTHOUSE DAMAGED Terrific Wind Spreads Ruin Over Wide Area; Floods in North. By United Preta VERNON, Ind., July B.—Residents of this small southern Indiana town today began clearing away debris lett in the wake of a tornado which ravaged the town Thursday, demolished the business section and injuring several persons. Townspeople still were marveling today that no one was killed by the terrific storm which left scarcely a building undamaged. Armed legionnaires and state policemen-, guarding lives and property, were to be aided today by a detail of national guardsmen, ordered here to help remove debris by Governor Harry G. Leslie, who, with Adjutant-General Paul G. Tombaugh, inspected the ruins Thursday night. Without warning, the tornado struck at noon. Roofs were torn from buildings and carried long distances, walls were removed from houses and business buildings, entire houses were moved some distance, and century-old brick buildings were crushed by the terrific wind.

Roof Torn Off Courthouse The wind storm struck the edge of North Vernon, destroying the Arthur Hutton barn and outbuildings and damaging his home. From there it moved to Muscatatuck State park, leveling cottages and practically unroofing the park hotel. The lighting system was thrown out of service and many trees on high ground were leveled. Roaring on to Vernon, the storm cut a swath three blocks wide through the district surrounding the courthouse, completely demolishing some business buildings and leaving none unmarked. The courthouse, an Indiana landmark, sustained damage estimated at $3,000 when the roof was torn away and windows broken. Utility poles and wires were ripped away by the screaming wind, temporarily cutting off the town from outside communication and delaying calls for aid. A heavy rain storm following the tornado added to the general confusion and suffering. Police Rush to Town First shook of the storm over, uninjured townsmen, working under Sheriff Wilbur Bannister and Mayor Keil Wolfinger, feverishly dug into the ruins, expecting to find many dead. Several state policemen roared into the town on motorcycles with sirens shrieking almost before the townspeople realized the storm had passed. Red Cross officials from North Vernon also arrived quickly to aid. Town officials estimated fifty homes were damaged by the storm and about twenty-five families were homeless. Most seriously injured was Jack Vaughn, Louisville (Ky.) salesman, who was struck by bricks from a wall which'collapsed. He had raced ahead of the storm several miles and thought he had reached safety. He was taken to a Madison hospital. Factory Badly Damaged Heavy damage was sustained by the Vernon Furniture Manufacturing Cos., the town's largest industry, which manufactures swings and furniture. E. J. Welker, who ran four blocks during the rain to the home of his mother, Mrs. William Welker, 81, found Mrs. Walker, uninjured, standing in the kitchen, the only room in the home not unroofed and filled with debris. Mrs. Lucy Bolser, an elderly womaq, bedfast, had been removed from her bedroom a few minutes before the storm struck. The bedroom was demolished, but the kitchen, where she had been taken, was not damaged. State Crops Damaged Severe wind and rainstorms that broke over the northern section of the state Thursday afternoon caused damage to residences in cities and farm properties totaling several thousand dollars, it was estimated today as debris of the storm was removed. Farmers reported their fields flooded and crops damaged to a great extent. Wind struck southeast of Peru, causing damage to a dozen farms! One house was moved, roofs were blown from barns and crops and fences leveled. Majority of the damage was in Butler township, although entire Miami county was the target for heavy rains. At South Bend, streets were turned into rivers in a thirtyminute downpour. Trees, light poles and several buildings were struck by lightning. Thousands of basements in South Bend and Warsaw still are flooded today.

FROM AN EPICURE’S PARADISE TO A SOUP HOUSE —ALL IN A FEW CITY BLOCKS

CITY blocks make a lot of difference (squares to Hoosiers) in lives, loves and livers. On Washington street you can buy bird nest soup at $1.35 for one-half pint, while on Maryland, near Alabama, a soup kitchen will let you dunk your bread in bean soup if you’ll line up and wait long enough. The relativity of values between the bean and the bird nest soups is one of blocks. The epicure* form the soup

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John D. 93 Eats Hearty Breakfast, Plays Golf; Expects to Reach 100.

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BY BATES RANEY United Press Staff Correspondent Tarrytown, N. Y., July B. John D. Rockefeller Sr. got up at 7 this morning, ate a hearty breakfast, and hurried out for nine holes of golf, disregarding the fact that it was his ninetythird birthday. He said he expected to live to be 100 years old, anyway, and couldn't see any reason for making a fuss over his birthday. Rockefeller takes his game too seriously, and gets too much fun out of it to let anything upset his daily routine. He usually does the private course here on his Pocantico Hills estate in 49, sometimes a 48. And a lot of youngsters of 50 or so could pick up a few pointers from him. The aged billionaire exhibits on the golf course two of the traits which made him one of the wealthiest men in the world — persistence and frugality. His time is reputed to be worth SI,OOO a minute, but he doesn’t mind spending SIO,OOO or $15,000 worth of that time hunting for a 75-cent golf ball. He wears long trousers of slate gray instead of the customary plus fours, and a double-breasted coat of loosely woven brown material that does not hamper the swing of his clubs. His cap is made of the coat material. Ordinary russet shoes take the place of regulation golf shoes. Rockefeller is frugal even in his golf shots. He often combines different holes in play in such a way as to save sixty yards or so of walking, and a few minutes time. His driving is a study in slow motion. The caddy sets the ball on a little red tee. Rockefeller steps up briskly, takes his stance, then looks up at the point at which he is aiming. His friendly blue-gray eyes, set rather well apart, take in the scene from behind glasses. a a a HE grasps his driver with muscular. brown hands. His deeply-lined face, bronzed from every-day golfing, is as marble. Slowly, very slowly, he draws back the driver with the sole of the club just scraping the grass. The driver barely glides in a long-up-curve. When it reaches the top of the’arc there seems to be a momentary pause, then he drives off with a clean sweep that sends the ball sailing 150 yards down the fairway. Rockefeller plays each stroke as carefully as if it were the only stroke in the game. If he slices or hooks one, he almost is certain to observe that one of the beauties of golf is that one can recover from a bad shot in the strokes to come. Or else he criticises himself for raising his head too soon. At the end of nine holes he always is tempted to continue for a few more holes. But he always resists“By limiting my play, I always find it interesting, and it never becomes tiresome,” he explained- “ Golf is good for all men if they play it in moderation. Moderation pays—in golf and everything.” After lunch. Rockefeller was to take his usual nap until about 5 p. m. when he will go motoring. There will be a birthday at 7 p. m. at which John D. Rockefeller Jr. will preside. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and her children, and other members of the immediate family, will be at the table. Afterward there will be an organ recital and the 93-year-old Rockefeller will go to bed, as usual, at 9 p. m-

house line, as well as the customers at the bird-nest counter. “We got one guy that counts the beans in his soup as a test for taste,” says the soup-house manager. “We got one woman who just dotes on shark's fin soup,” retorts the clerk in the shop for epicures. a a a A ND that’s a hint to those seeking profitable side-lines during these, days of lassitude, for shark's fin soup brings $3 for ftbout one pint of the fluid.

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HAMILTON IS IDENTIFIED BY COP AS BANDIT Kansan Seen Fleeinq From Jackson Killing Scene, Says Deeter. ACCUSED BY OTHERS Store Employes Point to Defendant as Aid in Crime. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., July B.—Louis E. Hamilton was identified today by Edward Deeter, Indianapolis policeman, as one of two men he saw fleeing from the scene of the slaying of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain grocery operator. There is a possibility that the state may rest late today in the trial of Hamilton, which opened in Boone circuit court Tuesday. There will be no trial session Saturday. Another witness today was Charles Bauer, a policeman, who was struck in the head by a bullet during the attempt to rob Jackson in one of his stores on May 27, 1931. Saw Jackson Fall John Huffman, auditor of the grocery company, and Elmer E. Frankel, advertising solicitor, testified to seeing Jackson fall. Three of the first four state witnesses, late Thursday, identified Hamilton as the man who fired the shot that killed Jackson. Chief of these was Walter England, Negro, porter at the store, who ran to police headquarters to report the shooting. The trial is progressing faster than that of Charles Vernon Witt, Hamilton’s alleged accomplice, last January. Witt, convicted of murder in the Jackson slaying, is sentenced to die in the electric chair Aug. 1. Two other store employes, Ray Gipson and Ralph Ayres, thrust accusing fingers at Hamilton, pointing him out as the trigger-man in the slaying. Alibi to Be Revived Last words of Jackson at the St. Vincent’s hospital were repeated by Dr. Thomas B. Noble Sr., who attended him. “They shot me down like a dog, without giving me a chance,” the grocer -said as he died. An alibi that Hamilton was at his home in lola, Kan., used unsuccessfully in the Witt trial, is expected to be offered again by Hamilton’s attorney.

Prickly Heat It’s Popular City Pastime Just Now; Doctor Gives Remedy.

This is the first of a series of three stories on summer ailments. TTAVE you got IT? Do you feel like a thousand mosquitoes have been knifing you in the back? Is life just one scratch after another? Does your wrist watch play the very deuce with you and IT all Lhe worse? You have IT then—and IT is the city’s most popular summer pastime—prickly heat. Millionaire and mail-clerk are bothered by IT. It respects neither gender nor age. “Prickly heat is summer’s most popular malady. It usually is caused by a skin of fine texture, improper clothing, unbalanced diet, or some indiscretion like overeating,” says Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. a a a • " r PHE curative and preventive A measures are: Frequent tepid baths, followed by dusting with an alkaline powder and in persistent cases the use of zinc stearate powder.” Baking soda, the household panacea, may be used. “Light, porous clothing should be worn. Eat plain foods and fruits and vegetables. Don’t eat an excess of sugars or heavy meats and fats,” Dr. Morgan said. Asked if the use of liquor in hot weather was conducive to prickly heat he said: “People who want to drink liquor don’t pay much attention to prickly heat—they’re more interested in elephants and snakes.” Next—Heat prostration. BEATS') 4-year'olb WIFE: MATE, 19, HELD Youth Faces Assault and Battery Charge for Slagging Girl. Walter Brown, 19, faces an assault and battery charge today, result of a beating he is alleged to have given his 14-year-old wife, Margarette, Thursday night at their home, 1122 Standish avenue. Deputy sheriffs, who arrested Brown, were told that he became angry when his wife expressed a desire to accompany him as he planned to go out for the night. Mrs. Kate Hahn, mother of Mrs. Brown, said Brown also struck her when she attempted to protect her daughter.

If you have a little bird-nest in your backyard or a shark in an alley puddle there’s an opportunity for you, too, to join the class of caterers to odd appetites. You may even raise kangaroos and turn them into soup-bone and garner wealth at $2 a bottle. But don’t look for government bonds in the label “widow’s mite” on a bottle in the epicure shop. The “mite” in this case is but a new-fangled way of saying spiced vinegar.

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SEEK ECONOMY BY TOWNSHIP MERGER

Millions Can Be Saved by Consolidations, Authors of Bills Say. Way is paved for saving of millions in tax money through county and township consolidations should two bills introduced in state senate today become laws, according to backers of the measures. These bills provide “an easy method of bringing about consolidations by those who pay the cost of government,” Senator G. Oliver Holmes (Rep.), Gary, explained in presenting them. “Taxpayers and not merely politicians can make the consolidations a reality under their provisions,” he said. In consolidations of counties, either entire counties or parts of counties can merge into new and larger units the bill provides. An election to consider the consolidation must be called by the county officials upon signing of a petition by fifty freeholders. A majority vote in counties concerned will decide the question of to merge or not to merge. The township consolidation bill provides three methods by which

SEATED Costigan Loses Battle on Tariff Board Appointee. By Scripps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 8. With the aid of seven Democratic votes, the Republican conservatives Thursday night confirmed Edgar B. Brossard of Salt Lake City, for the third time, as a member of the tariff commission, over the strenuout protest of Senator Edward P. Costigan (Dem., Col.) Costigan rolled up twenty-five votes from the Democratic and Progressive groups in an attempt to have the nomination of Brossard recommitted to the finance committee. Os the thirty-one votes against this motion, however, seven were from the Democratic side: Bailey, North Carolina; Ashurst, Arizona; Copeland, New York; Hayden, Arizona; King, Utah; Stephens, Mississippi, and Broussard, Louisiana.

JOBLESS ARE SOLD ON AUCTION BLOCK

By United Press LOS ANGELES, July B.—One dozen willing “slaves” had jobs in Los Angeles today as the result of a human auction conducted in the Plaza, a downtown public park. The services of men and women were offered to the highest bidder by Colonel Louis Byrens. welfare worker, who was said to have conducted a similar auction for returned soldiers in Boston immediately after the war. Vivian Roberts, “strong, healthy, with plenty of character and brains,” was “knocked down” to Joseph Roller, candidate for the state assembly, who employed her as his secretary.

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SHOULD you be tired of all the political “bushwah” and buncombe you may vanquish disgust by chewing some “Mint Humbugs” at a neat price a carton. If you shudder at cheeses then try this Cheddar cheese in the white oval crock on your crackers. And then to top off a real epicurean day would be to invest in one of those “Lord Gosford” pipes. It's a pipe of blocks, too. You couldn’t smoke it down by the soup-house and live to light again. “Me Lud Gosford.” so the story

merging of townships can be effected. Election must be held upon petition of twenty-five freeholders; the county commissioners themselves can order the consolidation; or they must order it should twenty-five freeholders so demand. Township government was the target of another attack through a bill introduced by Senator Walter S. Chambers (Dem.) Newcastle, providing for all township roads to be placed under county supervision on Sept. 1. Senator J.Francis Lochard (Dem.), Milan, presented a bill calling for a three-year moratorium on the issuance of any county or township highw r ay bonds. The law would be effective from Sept. 1, 1932, until Sept. 1, 1935. The co-operative committee bill to suspend the mill and one-half George Rogers Clark memorial levy, for construction of the memorial at Vincennes, was introduced at the morning session by Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep.), Ft. Wayne, Republican floor leader and president pro tern. Heads of the Clark commission were busy opposing it the minute it was introduced. Other measures introduced provided for increasing the scope of gas funds to cities to include “resurfacing, widening and reconstruction” as maintenance, making optional employment of county agricultural agonts and city and county school attendance officers. Senator William B. Headley (Rep.), Bloomington, introduced what he calls two Indiana university measures. One would not permit the school to engage in any private business enterprise and the other would increase tuition for out-of-state students.

CHANGES SOUGHT IN POOR AID LAW

Resolutions calling for radical changes in state laws regulating township poor relief were to be laid before the legislature today by Charles R. Roy, South Bend, president of the County Commissioners’ Association of Indiana. Roy, Thomas Ellis, Marion county commissioner, and Bruce Short, Marion county surveyor, comprise

vised auction block, Colonel Byrens hammered his subjects into jobs, the pay of which ranged from 35 to 59 cents an hour. Miss Hazel Wall went to a Mrs. Arricot as a maid, while a Santa Monica manufacturer of insecticide bought the services of Henry Marrian. Despite refusal of the park commission to grant a permit for the \ auction, police made no attempt to ; interfere as the welfare worker j pounded his gavel and merchandised his human goods. The officers looked on sympathetically as man followed man and woman succeeded women to be “sold.” Some found bidders, others were led from the block with futility stamped upon their faces.

goes,” was bally well disgusted at the opera with being compelled to smoke cigarets. “Me Lud” liked his pipe. So he invented a pipe that would take but a thimbleful of ’baccy." n * n WOMEN are favoring the midget pipe, the saleslady of the shop says. It sells for $2 while the “Lud's” own special tobacco, under a coat-of-arms, retails at sl. Now should your Reginald or Theodosia just thumb noses at the spinach you trjt, to introduce into

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LEADING LIBERALS OF U.S. WILL INDORSE CANDIDACY OF THOMAS FOR PRESIDENT League for Independent Political Action Will Open Third Party Convention in Cleveland Saturday. PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM ADOPTED Government Operation of Muscle Shoals and Public Ownership of Utilities Advocated in Program. BY RALPH BURKHOLDER Times Staff Writer CLEVELAND, July B.—America's leading Liberals will indorse Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, for President Sunday, when the League for Independent Political Action holds its “third party” convention here. Emanuel M. Davidove, chairman of the league’s Cleveland chapter, today forecast the organization would take this action and renounce the two old-line parties.

JAIL FACED BY PRICEBOOSTERS Dealer Can’t Add Tax on His Goods If Not Paid. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July B.—Me:chants selling goods taxable under federal law may fix their own prices, but if they raise prices on the basis of federal taxes they actually have not paid, they are liable to punishment by fine or imprisonment, or both. The internal.revenue bureau made this clear in a formal warning today. It cited a provision in the next tax law. which reads that such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than SI,OOO or by imprisonment not exceeding one year.” The bureau also points out that “under Sec. 1123 it is a criminal offense for a dealer who increases the price of merchandise in his hands on June 21, 1932, in order to take advantage of the competitive situation arising out of the imposition of taxes under the revenue act of 1932, to represent falsely in any way that the increase is due to a tax paid on the merchandise.”

INDORSE REALTY GUT McCloskey Is Commended by Indianapolis Board. Resolution indorsing the 20 per cent horizontal real estate assessment cut in Center township was adopted by the Indianapolis Real Estate board at its weekly luncheon Thursday, at the Washington. The board commended John C. McCloskey, Center township assessor, for making the reduction. A move to influence all governmental budget-makers of the county and city to keep expenditures within revenues produced by assessments was started. The board will aid property owners in a concerted fight to keep budgets at a minimum.

the resolutions committee of the association. . Ellis is vice-president and Short was elected secretary-treasurer Thursday, succeeding John MacGregor, who died recently. He was elected at a special meeting of the association in the courthouse at which the commissioners decided to favoF law changes that would allow issuance of poor relief bonds for longer than one-year periods. Roy explained today a twentyyear period would be requested of the legislature, throwing the huge burden of poor relief on the future. The association will oppose a move to abolish county highway superintendents. Provision for a director of poor relief for counties of certain size and for establishment of poor relief supply commissaries also will be requested. PLAN REUNION PICNIC Former Putnam County Residents to Join in Fun at Park. Former residents of Putnam county now living in Indianapolis will hold their annual picnic July 17 at Riverside, according to J. G. Goslin, president. W. S. Blatchley, former state geologist and vicepresident of the county organization, will deliver an address in the afternoon.

their babyhood food there’s an out for you in the shop for epicures. S-sh. not too loud, it’s Zuccas. Now Zuccas are neither an Indian tribe nor a sausage. They are green noodles. Young things you know that have been placed on speaking acquaintance with spinach and thereby turned green in color and in readiness for cooking for your “finicky” fussers in rompers. The Zuccas are guaranteed to fool as well as satisfy and what more could a poor Zucca do with a bean soup-house but a few “squares” away?

The league's convention, begininng Saturday afternoon, is one of the most important gatherings of Liberals in the country this year. Davidove said there was no sentiment among delegates to support either President Hoover or Governor Roosevelt. On the contrary, he said, many felt the league should keep clear of all indorsements now. Program Is Drafted Although Thomas will be approved, the league probably will not commit itself to the Socialist party platform, although it conforms in some respects with the four-year presidential plan of the league. This plan, drawn by the league with the assistance of 100 leading economists and experts on government, embodies a progressive program on unemployment, taxation, tariff, public utilities, agriculture, international relations, banking, and social legislation. On power, a key plank, the league’s plan of action calls for government operation on Muscle Shoals, public ownership and operation of power and other public utilities, and control of coal, oil, and railroads in the public interest and looking forward to eventual public ownership. Dewey, Villard to Attend A definite plan of action for the building of a lasting “third party” movement will be the convention’s immediate concern. The league already has a membership of 10,000, scattered throughout the nation. It is planned to strengthen the organization through formation of state organizations. Dr. John Dewey of Columbia, chairman of the national committee and guiding spirit of the league, and Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation, are expected tonight or early Saturday. Dr. Dewey, Villard and Representative John Paul Kvale (F. L., Minn.) will speak at the Saturday night sesion. Edgar S. Byers. Cleveland attorney, will welcome the delegates. The league's business session, expected to indorse Thomas, will be Sunday afternoon. The convention will close with a forum on “organization for action.”

MYERS NAMES EIGHT TO COMMITTEE POSTS Ryan, Wet, Appointed Chairman of Public Morals Board. Eight house committee members appointed Thursday by Speaker Walter Myers to fill vacancies left by resignation of Representative Russell J. Dean of Indianapolis, and by the death of Representative Lew S. Core, assumed duties today. Representative John P. Ryan (Dem.), Terre Haute, a wet, was appointed chairman of the committee on public morals, succeeding Dean. Other appointments are: Herman W. Modisett (Dem.), Atherton, insurance; John F. White (Dem.), Indianapolis, judiciary B; Fred Dahling (Dem.), Reynolds, agriculture; Herbert P. Kenney (Dem.), New Albany, mileage and accounts and public expenditures; W. E. Stanton (Dem.), Gary, public buildings, and Rollin S. Place (Dem.), Denver, roads. MISSING MAN "SOUGHT Jeffersonville Store Keeper Left for Indianapolis May 4. Disappearance of Arnold McGrew Ogden, 21, of Jeffersonville, said to have been missing since May 4, was reported to police late Thursday afternoon by his father, William J. Ogden, 30 North Jefferson avenue. The youth had been operating a store in Jeffersonville, the father told police. On the day of his disappearance a pair of scales fell on his head. An employe was given charge of the store while Ogden left for Indianapolis to visit the family doctor. No report has been received from him since. The youth was described as 6 feet in height, weighing 162 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. He was wearing a brown suit with a brown hat or gray cap. HAPGOOD is SPEAKER Socialists Hear Address on Growth of Party by Candidate. Marion county Socialists were addressed by Powers Hapgood, candidate for Governor, in the Century building Thursday night. He discussed the growth and development of socialism. Other speakers were Edward Henry, state secretary of the party, and James Donovan of the Columbia Conserve Company. Milbum Forth will lead a discussion on “Socialist Distribution" Saturday night at 143 East Ohio street. ,