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TIRED CONGRESS WINDING UP ITS AFFAIRS TODAY Seven Major Accomplishments Affected ip Wearying Session. BY RUTH FINNEY Tlkih Stiff Writer WASHINGTON, July 16.—The most, criticised congress in recent years, and the most burdened, is winding up its afFairs today in a blur of weary irritation. This congress, instead of dealing with familiar matters, has had to shap** emergency legislation, without precedents. Much of the work done so laboriously was done to meet the problems of a year only, and must be reconsidered next winter. In spite of the sharp conflicts of the last few weeks over relief legislation, this congress has not quarreled with the President as much as is usual. It has enacted nearly all of the measures proposed by President Hoover to combat the depression, and has refrained from taking action on numerous matters distasteful to him. This is true although the house of representatives w’as controlled by Democrats throughout the session, and the Republican majority in the senate, was a slim one, In spite of this fact, congress has been repeatedly castigated by the President. Credit Bolstered Fiscal legislation has held the center of the stage from beginning to the end. This was divided into three main classes—legislation to balance the budget, legislation to bolster credit and strengthen banks and finally, legislation throwing federal funds into the battle against want and unemployment. Drastic attempts to economize held the business of the. session strictly within these lines. Tabulated briefly, these are the major accomplishments of this session : It passed the most drastic tax bill since the war, estimated to yield revenues totaling $1,118,500,00, after successfully resisting to impose, a general sales tax. It, reduced federal expenditures about $750,000,000 under those for 1032, by cutting regular appropriation bills and providing in a general economy bill for reorganization of government bureaus and furloughing federal employes without pay. Ratiflrri Moratorium It ratified the Hoover foreign debt moratorium for one year only, and went on record in opposition to cancellation or reduction of foreign debts. It created the •Reconstruction Finance Corporation with authority to loan government funds to banks and railroads, later extending these provisions irt the relief bill. It broadened federal reserve discount limitations and also the gold reserve provisions of the federal reserve act. It increased the capital of federal land banks by $125,000,000. It increased rediscounting privileges of the intermediate credit banks. The last two measures comprise the major part of legislation for relief of agriculture. In addition, a $10,000,000 revolving fund was established to set up agricultural credit corporations, $200,000,000 of Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds were set aside for crop production loans, and in the relief bill, authority W’as given for loans to finance the carrying and orderly marketing of staple commodities produced in this country. Payments due the government from settlers on reclamation projects were postponed for one year. Fix Congress Dates The relief bill which so long has delayed adjournment, calls for expenditures of $2,100,000,000 for self'iquidating construction projects, a small program of federal public works, and loans for relief of distress. Outside the realm of fisral legislation two important measures were enacted at this session. The lame duck amendment to the Constitution, already ratified by twelve of the necessary thirty-six states, fixes new- dates for assembling of congress and inauguration of Presidents, providing that newly elected national legislators ajjjd officials shall take office two months after election instead of eighteen months after. The anti-injunction law’ limits the power of federal courts to issue injunctions in labor * disputes, outlaws the “yellow dog" contract, and assures jury trial for those accused of contempt in violating injunctions. Veterans received no new benefits. The house voted for immediate payment in full of adjusted service “bonus'’ certificates, and for payment of pnsions to widows and children of World war veterans, but neither bill passed the senate. A measure to curtail the number of beneficiaries under the emergency officers’ retirement act also failed in the senate. Tass Kidnaping Bills Two kidnaping bills were passed, one making it a federal offense, punishable by imprisonment, the other prohibiting use of the mails for threatening letters or extortion —largely as a result of the Lindbergh case. At. the head of the list of unfinished business is prohibition. Though more wet strength was displayed in the session just ending than at any time during the prohibition area, early attempts to legalize beer and to propose repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the states were unsuccessful. As wet sentiment continued to manifest itself more and more strongly, party leaders preferred in the closing weeks to defer action until after the November elections. Three major farm rclier bills hold over for new consideration in December. The first would give the farm board authority to use the debenture, the equalization fee or the allotment plan to control crop mortgages. Tiie third would have placed a taxon • processors of wheat, cotton and hogs for the benefit of growers of these commodities. Unemployment insurance was considered this year, but no action waa taken beyond a committee report favoring federal tax rebates for firms establishing insurance systems under state laws.

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Blue Ridge Awaits Annual Mystery Show by Attorney

Through the age* the mvetta art of 1 <'(,■ rdeir.a In ha* intrigued ell men. Out of this anefent interest he* grown ft ur,!o<ie fellowship, the fiociety of Ameriren Magician*. Included In It* membership *re dlattngulahed representative* of the proferMon*. business, and the world of affair generally. Some of them, in the pursuit of whitt macic as a hobbr hate acquired a skill and lore beyond the ken of the ordinary professional performer, so quietly and modertly do they demonstrate their attainments thst the public hear* nothing of this side of their live*. Earl Snarling has written a series of article* about these Interesting men and the.r strange gifts the second of which follows. BY EARL SPARLING Time* Staff Writer 'Coovright 1P32. bv the Npw York WorldTelegram Cornoratiom NEW YORK, July 16.—About ' this time the folks up in Blue Ridge, Essex county, start getting ready for the big free, openair magical show. August would not be August without that show. It has been a regular event for years now, as seasonal as the bulging of the melons and the ripening of the corn. It is held In front of the village postofflee at 7:30 p. m.; come one, come all, and bring the children. Everybody comes, all right. The town folks start gathering right after supper. The farmers drive in for miles around. And you would never guess, you city slickers, who that rustic magician is. None other than Bernard M. L. Ernst, attorney, of 25 West Forty-third street. A packing box is his stage, a farmer boy his assistant. The eggs he pulls out of the farmer boy s mouth are fresh, laid, . that day. But what are eggs to a country audience? Lawyer Ernst is a better magician than that. He waves empty hands in the air and suddenly there is a box filled with store chocolates, and another one and another one. Real candy, too, as the mothers and the children can testify. Tha children clap sticky hands for more. All right, there, an- I other box, right out of thin air. Meanwhile, the men are getting anxious for the windup, the traditional windup. That there bottle trick,” murmured one of them. “How about i it?” n n SO the Blacks!one conjurer produces a bottle. Shucks: it’s empty. But the farmers just grin. It’s always been empty like that, year after year. The magician waves his hand and the bottle is filled. He starts pouring drinks and passing them out. The farmers raise their glasses. Shucks! it’s just water. And maybe the magician waves his hand and the water turns to wine, or maybe it stays plain wa- j ter. Who knows? Ernst is a pretty big magacian I up there in Blue Ridge, where he spends the August of every summer. He is a pretty big magician elsewhere, too. He is president of the New York council of the Society of American Magicians and vicepresident of the Magicians’ Club of London. It all started years ago. when Harry Houdini, the handcuff king, bobbed into his office with a legal j problem that required some fast work, too. “Marvelous!’’ beamed Houdini when the lawyer had straightened the tangle. “Here, 111 teach you one of my tricks.” It was a simple card trick. Ernst tried it that night at home, was surprised when it worked. You put all the face cards in the middle of the deck, made a Hum- j ber of cuts, but the queens re- j fused to be parted from the kings. FORD ‘DAMNED IF HE’LL STAND FOR SWEARING Ravenswood “Mayor” Charges Man With Abusive Language. Charles O. Ford, “mayor” of Ravenswood, and Clem Williams, deputy marshal, went into action Friday night and arrested George A. Steiner, 42, of 3221 North Capitoi avenue, on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Steiner will be tried Tuesday aft- i ernoon in the court of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. He obtained a continuance when arraigned today. After leaving the courtroom, Ford said to Steiner: “I am very much afraid you are making a mistake in getting that case continued. My three daughters told me you were using some pretty bad language. It’s bad enough to be drunk and disorderly, but I’ll be damned if I am going to have anybody swearing in front of my children.” Ford says from 10,000 to 15,000; persons have been at the Ravens- j wood beach nightly and announced j that strict order will be maintained! there. HE MUST HAVE PEEKED Merchant Knew There Was $2,500 in Mystery Package. By United Pirns NEW' YORK. July 16.—A stranger j left a package in Abraham Herman’s shop. In it was $2,500 in bills. “Bet you don’t know what's i there,’’ the strafiger offered when he returned. “Oh. yes, I do. $2,500.” And with that, the stranger picked up his package and left, giving Herman neither a thank you nor a wager. ' PLAN BUSINESS DRIVE Retail Grocers to Get Back of City- j Owned Enterprise. Announcement of a campaign to increase business of Indianapolis- j owned enterprises, including sev- j eral hundred retail grocers, was j made today by J. E. Hunsberger. secretary of the Indianapolis Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Association. following action by its board of directors. The movement, part of a national campaign, will be started here within two weeks, and will include various methods of attracting business. including prizes. Extensive advertising will be a part of the campaign.

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Houdini taught him other tricks after that. The friendship grew with the years. Houdini dedicated his biography to Ernst, made him intimate with every famous magician of the day. u n n NATURALLY. I got interested in their problems,” explains Ernst. “There were problems of especial interest to an attorney. A magician must keep his art secret. “The very pleasure of the public depends upon that. An audience ceases to be entertained once it learns how a trick is performed. “A magician may spend thousands of dollars and years of time perfecting an illusion. It, is necessary first, that the secret be kept from the public. * “It is necessary, second, that other magicians be restrained in the use ,of the illusion, which would damage its value to the man who created it-. “And, of course, It .is impossible for a magician to protect himself by patents. A patent is open to any one who w’ants to go to the trouble of getting the description of aparatus from the patent office.” In developing means of protecting magical property, this amateur legal conjurer has played an important part. head of magician organizations, he has helped foster one of the most rigid ethical codes knowm to any profession. The right of a magician to what he has created, or even merely revived and made famous, is recognized by the organized craft everywhere. Other magicians easily might duplicate the illusion, but they customarily do it only by

This Rings Bell By United Print HARRISON. N. Y., July 16. —Wild life in Weschester county must be preserved, authorities decided. So they decreed collars, bells and licenses for all Westchester county cats—a $1 fee for males and $2 for females. If the cat wanders into the pound it may be redeemed for $3. $5 FINE IS CHEAPER THAN ONE FOR $1 That Was All Traffic Yiolator Had; Costs Suspended. It is cheaper to be fined $5 than sl. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer demonstrated today. Wilson Robbins, 1046 Chadw’ick stiVet, was convicted of failure to stop at a preferential street, and a fine of $1 and costs, a total of sll was imposed. , “Can I have some time on it?” Robbins asked. “No,’’ the court said. * “But. I’ve got only $5,” Robbins explained. “That's all right." the court said. “I'll make the fine $5 and suspend the costs.” Robbins paid. Nine motorists were before the court today on preferential street charges. In addition to Robbins, four others were fined, the penalty being $1 each. Remaining four cases were dismissed. Seven speeding cases were called. Fine of $1 and costs was imposed on one defendant, penalties were suspended in three cases and three were continued. TIPPECANOE LAKETs WEEK-END SUGGESTION Best Route to Northern Resort Is Listed by Motor Club. Week-end trip suggested by the Hoosier Motor Club this week is Tippecanoe lake, a distance of 135 miles. Route is north on Michigan road. No. 29. to Logansport; Road 25 to Rochester; north on U. S. Road 31 for seven miles to Evergreen Corners; turn right on county gravel road to three miles west of Mentone, then on Road 25 through Mentone to Warsaw; north on Road 15 to Leesburg; east on county paved road to Oswego and Lake Tippecanoe. The route is hard surfaced with exception of road from Evergreen Corners to Mentone,

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permission, often by payment of a royalty. And especially does a member of the sociey never reveal a secret to an outsider. The amateurs keep as mum as the professionals, probably more so. In addition, Bernard Ernst has obtained a court decision w’hirh amounts to a legal Magna Charta for magicians. It is quite a story, involving the sawing of a woman in half. , Back about 1920. Horace Goldin, an American magician who gained great fame in England and Europe, w’as visiting the United States for the first time in many years. n n n WE w’ere at Houdini’s home,” Ernst remembers, "and Harry said. 'Horace, I'd like you to perform at the coming convention of the society. How about putting on something new’ for the crowd?” “Goldin insisted he did not have anything new. Houdini said, “All right, I'll find you something.’ He w’ent to his shelves filled w’ith books on magic and got out an old volume and turned to a description of an illusion made famous in the seventeenth century by Giuseppe Pinetti. “This is just the thing,’ he asserted. How about sawtng a woman in half? It hasn’t been done for a century.’ “Goldin agreed to do it, and Houdini had his own mechanics build the apparatus. Goldin got more and more interested, and improved on Pinetti's original method. “At the convention that year • —Houdini was head of the na-

TWO POLICEWOMEN ARE SUSPENDED BY CHIEF Disobeyed Orders, Says Morrissey, in Suspending Tair. Suspension of two policewomen charged with failure to obey oyders was announced today by Chief Mike ; Morrissey. Those suspended are Mrs. Elizabeth Denny, who was assigned to duty at Garfield park, and Mrs. Margaret Hildebrand, assigned to j Ellengerger park. ’ According to Morrissey, Mrs. Hil- \ debrand has admitted she was I absent from duty two hours. Mrs. Denny, it is charged, left the park j to which she was assigned to go downtown and pay some bills. Both, it is alleged, disobeyed an order by reporting to headquarters by public telephone instead of through police box. | Women police officers have fared : badlv during the present police administration. a heavy cut in pay being one of the difficulties they | have encountered. ALCOHOLIC DISHWATER GETS WOMAN 30 DAYS Sentenced to Prison by City Judge; SIOO Fine Is Suspended. Dishwater with a kick deprived a woman of thirty days of liberty today when she was sentenced to the Woman's prison by Municipal Judge William H. Shaffer. Charged with operating a blind tiger, Taby Duncan, 1852 Draper street, whose home was raided a few days ago by Sergeant Kent Yoh and squad, charged the police 1 brought alcohol into her home and j dumped it in dishwater. But the officers said as they entered the house she picked up a pan of alcohol and emptied it into the dishwater. Police obtained a quart bottle of the water. Analysis showed it to be 25.35 per cent alcohol. Fine of SIOO and costs was suspended. but the month In prison must served. AIMEE GETTING BETTER Report Evangelist - Slightly Improved; Back Home Again. By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 16.—Almee Semple McPherson Hutton, Evangelist, suffering from a complication of nervous disorders, tropical fever and concussion of the brain, was reported slightly improved today at her Moorish castle, Lake Elsinore.

Bernard M. L. Ernst, pupil of Hondini, U'ho finds magic a diversion from his workaday world, of law offices and, courtrooms. He prescribes it to friends as a nerve tonic. #

tional society, you know—the illusion went over with a bang. “It was so old that it was entirely new to most of the magicians w’ho saw’ it. That w’as the beginning of what became almost a national mania. “Goldin toured the country with the illusion. When he had to go back to Europe, he allowed other magicians to use it on royalty. For several years women w’ere being cut in half all over America, all over the world. “There was such a widespread interest that the Clarion Photoplays, Inc., attempted to bring out a film exposing how the thing was done. We filed suit for injunction.” The photoplay company contended the illusion w’as common property; that an Egyptian papyrus in the British Museum told of a head which had been cut off,” which he demonstrated to King Khufu in 3766 B. C.; that, moreover, the stunt had been done in the eighteenth century, not only by Pinetti, but by Torrini, Coutts, Robert-Houdini, etc. tt tt M MANY veteran American magicians testified they had never heard of the illusion being performed in their time, which went back half a century. There w’as testimony that Goldin was earning some $2,000 a week from royalties and personal performances. The lower court decided in favor of the movie company, July 14, 1922. The magicians carried the case to the New’ York supreme court. The higher court, in an opinion written by Justice Dowling, held that the photoplay exposure must be stopped, to wit: “The success of these illusions depends upon the inability of the average audience to grasp by observation the method employed by the' performer, and their value therefore depends upon thq degree of mystery. That was a great day for magicians. It is w’orth noting that one persuasion upon the higher court was the fact that other noted magicians, Howard Thurston, Carl Rosinni, Servais le Roy, etc., had paid Goldin for right to use his illusion? w’hich they did because of the code of ethics encouraged by their society. Thus, literally, a voluntary code helped create a legal precedent. “Asa matter of fact,” grinned Ernst today, “the magicians have always had a third w r ay of protecting themselves.” “One day I got a telephone call to come quick and get Harry Houdini out of jail. It developed that another magician nad been using a name almost similar to Houdini's for the performance of similar miracles. Houdini had not bothered with either law or code. He merely had gone to the fellow’s office, blackened his eyes and virtually wrecked the place. nun “T BAILED him out. And w’hat 1 do you think he said? He said, ‘You better get some more bail ready, because if that bird hasn't learned his lesson I'm going to wreck him again.’ ” Thus, the lawyer in magic. There are a dozen or more other New York lawyers who are amateur magicians, all close-mouthed members of the society, including Morris Ernst, Bernard's cousin. Bernard got Ernst to take up magic to counteract overwork. “It's the best nerve tonic in the world,” said Bernard to Morris. Thereafter for months Morris Ernst was pulling riffles of cards out of his friends’ elbows. To Bernard Ernst magic has become secondary only to law. To date he has collaborated on two books of magic: “Houdini's Escapes," with Walter Gibson; “Houdini and Conan Doyle,” with Hereward Carrington: and has written “Houdini's Magic” by himself. And four times a year, in addition to his appearance in Blue Ridge, he gives a command performance for the Nassau county Boy Scouts. Otherwise, he is a lawyer. Next—Eugene M. Homes, expert appraiser by day and by night Remah the Wizard, amateur magician whose tricks have delighted hundreds of thousands of children. -

lOWA FARMERS FIGHT TO KILL ‘ECONOMY FAD’ # Wave of Spending Will (tyen Trade Channels, Plea to Nation. BY GENE GILLETTE United Pres* Staff Correspondent DES MOINES, July 16—A movement has been started to combat what is termed the “economy fad. ’ It is styiish to be poor, but the style is costing the country dearly, in the opinion of a small group of farmers. They hope to open again the channels of trade, which they feel have been closed as much by mass psychology as by actual necessity. This new school of thought preaches that purchases of needed articles are not made by those with money, simply because they fear criticism of neighbors. The farmers pledged themselves to encourage citizens to spend all the money they would in normal times: to buy farm machinery, merchandise and lake vacation trips. The movrment quickly caught on. The first meeting was helld on a farm near Mitchellville, la. Soon business men of Mitchellville indorsed the plan. Monday a meeting is scheduled here. „ Business leaders saw sound logic in the present Campaign. They gave it hearty support. A resolution was adopted by the farmers saying: “We believe many people are not buying the things they want and can afford because they have the idea that they are doing the popular thing when they use worn-out articles instead of buying new ones.” The group seeks to banish this feeling. “We firmly believe,” the resolution said, “that immediate improvement in the price of crops can be brought about by simple and natural means (normal buying)”. The point was made that there now’ is more money in the country than there was during the peak of prosperity. If it onlv can be enticed out ’there will soon be work for many now’ idle. If the feeling can be made to permeate the general public, the country over, they believe it will hasten business recovery. FAY SLICE IS ASKED Sunnyside Budget Reveals General Reduction. Budget requests for 1933, filed by the superintendent of Sunnyside sanatorium and the county detention home head, asked decreases in appropriations for salaries and operating expenses. These contrasted with budgets, filed by majority of other county office holders, demanding increases for the coming year. Commissioners and county eouncilmen will fight to reduce expenses in all departments of county government, they ann<?hnced. The total request of Sunnyside for 1933 is $176,010. Salaries and wages of employes have been reduced from $78,000 to $72,500. The request for food expense also is $5,000 lower than this year. Mrs. Anna Pickard, detention home superintendent, reduced salary of a matron from $960 to SB4O. slicing her budget from $14,541, the 1932 appropriation, to $10,925.

WARNING TOBANDITS Bankers to Sharpen Shooting Eyes at Rifle Range. Annual sharpening of the shooting eyes of Indiana bankers w’ill be held at the rifle range, Ft. Harrison, Sept. 26, according to announcement by the Indiana Bankers’ Association, organizer of vigilantes, bank officials and clerks into a military body for defense against bandit raids. Thirteen pistol and rifle shooting events will be included in the program. Rapid fire at bulls-eye, bobbing and silhouette targets from standing and other positions Will be scored for award of gold, silver and bronze medals. County elimination events will not be held this year, it is said. Scores of three highest men from each county will be considered, a team score in the state contest. Yearly competition cups will be awarded to team winners in the rifle and pistol events. W. A. Collins of Crawfordsville, president of the bankers’ associatiofi, stated that participants in the shoot are "a part of a great organization of vigilantes that has been built up throughout Indiana, to make it safer for bankers and customers to carry on a legitimate business without fear of loss o? life, harm or loss of property through the depredation of bank robbers.” ASSESSMENTS SLICED Property Owners’ Costs Cut in Sixteenth St. Widening Job. Reductions in assessments of some property owners to pay for widening of Sixteenth streeet from Capitol to Northwestern avenues, have been made by the works board. Assessments of owners of property from Northwestern to Mills avenues were cut to 60 per cent; Mills avenue to Missouri street, 50 per cent; Missouri street to Big Four railroad, north side. 30 per cent; Methodist hospital, 20 per cent, and from alley west oj Senate avenue to Capitol avenue. 20 per ceht.

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Bv United rrcss HOLLYWOOD. July 16.—Friends of Natalie Talmadge, wife of Buster Keaton, film comedian, reported today that she had left their Beverley Hills home, and was considering a final separation from the a£tor.

Friends said that she expected to return next week and make known whether her second separation in recent months will be final. It was Said that the new rift began on a recent yachting trip on a newly purchased boat, the Natalie. The first separation occurred when Keaton and his two sons, Rob-

bert, and Joseph, left for Mexico in an airplane, only to be halted at San Diego on request of Mrs. Keaton.

8 SCOUTS WIN EAGLE HONORS 100 Are Enrolled for Third Camp Period. Eight Boy Scouts received Eagle ranks at the conclusion of the second camping period at the scout reservation, Friday night. The new’ Eagles are: Ernest Brockman, Enos Pray, Forrest Satterfield, Don Morrison, Fernandes, Robert Sorenson. Clarence Gault and Frank Blackburn, Jr. More than 100 scouts have enrolled for the third camping period which will open July 25. The fourth period begins Aug. 15. 'BEER IS NOT RIVAL' Coca-Cola Head Finds Dry Law No Aid to Trade. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., July 16.—Robert W. Woodruff, president of the CocaCola Company, wishes our “per capita sale of soft drinks was as great all over the United States as it is in some places w’here beer legally is being sold.” He thus replied to requests for explanation of the company's attitude toward the eighteenth amendment. The company manufactures syrup from which independent bottlers make the soft drink. Woodruff called attention to a letter, Sept. 29, 1931, to Major John S. Cohen, editor of the Atlanta Journal, asking Woodruff's opinion on repeal of the eighteenth amendment. “Contrary to the public impression,” Woodruff replied, “our experience indicates Coca-Cola sales throughout the seventy-six countries in which we operate, are unrelated to the sale of alcoholic beverages.” During the year that the province of Ontario repealed its prohibition law, “rales of Coca-Cola increased more than 25 per cent and have increased ever since,” Woodruff wrote. SENATE PASSES BILL BANNING BOND ISSUES Stirring Debate Is Brought On as Measure Comes Up. There will be no public bond issues in Indiana, except in cases of “indispensable necessity,” to be decided by the tax board, during the next ten years if the Hartzell bill passed by the senate Friday receives approval from the house and Governor. The measure brought forth one of the mast stirring debates of the session. Opponents of the bill charged it is designed to stop all public works, which is the one outlet by which government can help the unemployed without giving a “dole.” Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep.). Ft. Wayne, defended his measure and it j was passed, 29 to 17. Other senate bills passed provide for putting Barrett law delinquency payments into the county treasury, i instead of the treasurer's pocket, and | establishment of the Holmes plan i for merging counties and townships. Under the bills introduced by Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep.), Gary. ' counties would merge upon a referendum vote favoring merger brought upon petition of thirty-five taxpayers. Three methods for merging townships are set out, by petition, referendum and by action of the county commissioners. ARRANGE CAMP FIGHTS Athletic Program at Fort Is Prepared by Officers. Athletic program for entertainment. of C. M. T. C. candidates at Ft. Harrison will include two practice polo games this week-end and boxing matches three nights a week it has been announced. The fights, open to the public Wll ] held on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Eleventh in- j fantry officers and the Rolling Ridge polo team will meet at 3:30 Saturday and again at 3 Sunday.

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BILL TO SHIFT CAR TAX FUNDS REACHESJIOUSE State Share in Gas, License Money Cut More Than Half in Measure. After being buffeted between factional arguments for eight days,'the gas tax and auto license fund re- | distribution bill, reducing the state's share in the annual $25,000,000 revenue, has been advanced to the house by representatives by the wavs and means committee. The measure would reduce the state’s share of'the funds from 75 to 50 per cent. It increases shares of cities and towns and provides that distribution I niade on basis of road mileage ! and population. Brought on Breach I Introduction into the house on ; the second day of the special session last week was accompanied by a breach between the city and country, in which the country sought to prevent cities from obtaining a larger share. ! Mayors of larger Indiana cities ' including Reginald H. Sullivan of Indianapolis, / argued before the committee at a public hearing that cities are threatened with impending bankruptcy due to growing poor relief costs unless given relief in form of additional shares in the gas tax and license revenues. Take Place of Levies As passed to the house todav the measure stipulates that counties recei\e four-fifths of the remaining half, one-eighth to be divided on basis of population and seveneighths in proportion to road mileage. The remaining one-fifth of the four-fifths would go to cities. The shares, to be distributed quarterly, woud take the place of local levies for road construction and * provide to maintenance and repair of roads, in form of a special road fund. Minority report, recommending the gas tax of 4 cents a gallon be cut, was made by Representative William C. Babcock (Rep.), Rensselaer. FEDERAL CAR FIGURES IN TRAFFIC VIOLATION Judgment Withheld After Whisper Conference With Judge. Roadster carrying certificate of title issued to the federal department of justice, but bearing license plates for a sedan of Otis Hansen, 524 North Liberty street, figured prominently in a traffic ordinance violation case Friday in municipal court of Judge William H. Sheaffer. ’ Robert Logiston, 38. of 1340 Lee street, was arrested Thursday afternoon for failing to stop at the preferential crossing of Kentucky and Senate avenues. When stopped by motorcycle policeman Ernest Haught, Logiston is said to have told him “This is the Governor's car.” Logiston denied lhat he meant Governor Harry G. Leslie, but repeated his remark to the officer. He added that he was a “federal man.” but did not exhibit a badge, Haught said. A whispered conversation bet ween Sheaffer and a man believed to represent the department, of justice preceded announcement from the bench that judgment was' withheld. STATE SENATOR ~HURI Frank Holman of Hammond ant. Two Others Injured in Crash. By United Press HAMMOND. Ind., July 16.—State Senator Frank Holman, Hammond -J" Fred Lisius, Crown Point, and J. J. Brehm, Hammond, were injured seriously when the automobile iri which they were riding collidecß with an unlighted truck early to 4 day. f All were removed to their homes^ Three Dead in Plane Crash By i nited Press DULUTH, Minn., July 15.- A seaplane about to land here after a trip from Minneapolis crashed on the lake front Thursday night kilting three persons. The dead were Henry V. O'Hara, 23, pilot, Duluth; Robert Bean. 18, passenger, Duluth, and Lloyd Rice, Virginia, Minn.

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