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PRISONER NOT MAN ARRESTED. OFFICER INSISTS Court Mystified as Cop Says Defendant Was ‘Bigger Fellow.’ Patrolman Emmet McCormick said the defendant wasn't the man he arrested. But the man said he was the man. And another man arrested at the same time said that the first man was the man. Two witnesses of the arrest said he wasn't the man arrested. Now it is the problem of Municipal Judge William H. Shraffer to decide whether ipcarceration in the city prison while awditing bond could change the appearance of a 1 defendant, James Freeman, Negro, l of 603 ! 2 South Capitol avenue, to a' degree that the arresting officer wouldn’t recognise him in court. The case was continued until Wednesday. According to McCormick he arrested Freeman and Wilbur Wilson. 27. of 8 Poplar street, June 15 at the office of Hannah Noone, township trustee, 122 North East street, and slated them for vagrancy, dis- ; orderly conduct, resisting arrest and resisting an officer. When the defendants appeared in court, McCormick Interrupted pro-' cecdings with the denial that the man appearing as Freeman was the Freeman he arrested. He was sup- I ported in his statement by Frank | Manning, deputy in the "trustee's office, and Cecil Gibson, an in-1 vest.igator for the trustee. The man insisted he was Freeman, and Wilson agreed. Freeman i reminded the officer that he was wearing a green suit at the time \ of the arrest, and exhibited a pen- j cil, asking if McCormick remembered it. McCormick insisted that the man he arrested was of larger build than the one before the bench* Ernest E. Owens, attorney for the defendants, could offer no help, j stating he had been retained in the j case without conferring with the | clients. Wilson is .said by police to have j been engaged at other times in ; making speeches and causing dis- | turbances. HUGE WAR PAINTING IS J ON VIEW TO PUBLIC Canvas Is 402 Feet I<ong, 45 Feel High; in Special’Building. By l nitcri Press WASHINGTON. Juyl 16.A substantial section of official Washington donned evening clothes recently to attend a preview of the worlds largest, though concededly not best, painting. It is the "Pantheon de la Guerre," now called “The Panorama of the Word War," depicting 6.000 figures who played a part in that, titanic struggle. The painting is the work of 128 artists and took five years to make. The canvas is 402 feet long and forty-five feet high. A local amusement man has the picture and expects to do a good business during the Washington bicentennial. Next year the painting will go to Chicago for the century of progress exhibition. A special building of gas-tank type of architecture was constructed to house the painting. The round interior is almost covered by it and lecturers point out the prominent figures to gaping visitors. Prior to the preview. President Hoover was given a private showing. He gazed on the figure of a round-faced gentleman with brown hair and a high, stiff collar. It was Herbert Hoover, food administrator and relief worker. • Three other American Presidents also are depicted. They are Woodrow Wilson, the war-time President; Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. SENATE PASSES BILL BANNING BOND ISSUES! Stirring Debate Is Brought On as Measure Comes l T p. There will be no public bond issues in Indiana, except in cases of i "indispensable necessity," to be de- ; elded by the tax board, during the next ten years if the Hartzell bill passed by the senate Friday receives approval from the house and Gov- j ernor. The measure brought forth one of the most stirring debates of the session. Opponents of the bill charged i it. Is designed to stop all public works, which is the one outlet by which government can help the un- j employed without giving a ' dole.'’ Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep.), Ft. j Wayne, defended his measure and it was passed, 29 to 17. Other senate bills passed provide for putting Barrett law delinquency j payments into the county treasury, j instead of the treasurer's pocket, and establishment of the Holmes plan for merging counties and townships. Under the bills introduced by Sen-' ator 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 entertain- j ment. 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 lights, open to the public, will be held on Monday. Wednesday and Thursday nights. Eleventh infantry officers and the Rolling Ridge polo team will meet at 3:30 Saturday and again at 3 Sunday. AIMEE GETTING BETTER Report Evangelist Slightly Improved; Back Home Again. By l nltcH Prri • LOS ANGELES. July 16.—Aimee 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 casiie, Lake Elsinore.

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Blue Ridge Awaits Annual Mysteiy Show by Attorney

Through (be age* the mystic art of legerdemain haa intrigued all men. Out of thu ancient interest has grown a unique fellowship, the Society of American Magicians. Included in Its membership are distinguished representative* of science, the profession*, business, and the world of affair generally. Some of them, in the pursuit of white magic as a hobbv. have acoulred a skill and lore beyond the ken of the ordinary professional performer. But o quietly and modestly do they demonstrate their attainments that the public hears nothing of this side of their live*. Earl Bparling haa written a aerie* of articles about these interesting men and their strange gift* the second of which follow*. BY EARL SPARLING Time* Staff Writer 'Coovright. 1932. bv the New YorfcaWorldTelegram Corporation! 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 postoffice at 7:30 p. m.; come one, come all, and bring the children. Everybody comes, all right. The town folks start gathering right Bfter supper. The farmers drive in for miles around. And you would never guess, you city slickers, who that rustic magician is. None other thfrti 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. The children clap sticky hands for more. All right, there, another 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 it?” n n SO the Blackstone 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 water. Who knows? Ernst is a pretty big magacian 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 problem that required some fast work, too. ’Marvelous!’’ beamed Houdini when the lawyer had straightened the tangle. “Here, I'll 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 number of cuts, but the queens refused to be parted from the kings.

WARNING TO BANDITS Bankers to Sharpen Shooting Eyes at Rifle Range. Annual sharpening of the shooting eyes of Indiana bankers 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 mem 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’ association. 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 of life, harm or loss of property through the depredation of bank robbers. - ’ RUMANIA AT POLLS TO NAME PARLIAMENT 387 Members of Lower House Are to Be Chosen. K;i l nitril Prr ** BUCHAREST. July 16.—Rumania went to the polls today to elect 387 members of the lower chamber of parliament. It will be in accordance wiyh King Carol's decree dissolving that body on the appointment early in June of Dr. Alexander Vajda-Voeved to form a national peasants’ govern r ment succeeding the government of Dr. N. Jorga, national Democrat. The total vote cast at the last election. June l v 1932, was 2.927.000 out of a registration of 4.000,000. Only men 21 years or over may vote. Women have no franchise nor does the army (200.000 men). Today’s voftng is important In that it will be a test of strength of Carol's which has been made increasingly difficult by the depression of the last tyo years.

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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. tt a 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 wants 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. As head of magician organizations, he has helped foster one of the most rigid ethical codes known 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 I'nited Pits* 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.

FAY SLICE IS ASKED Sunnyside Budget Reveals General Reduct'on. 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 councilman will fight to reduce expenses in all departments of county government, they announced. 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 heme superintendent, reduced salary of a matron from $960 to SB4O. slicing her budget from $14,541, the 1932 appropriation, to $10,925. • TIPPECANOE LAKE IS 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 pard 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 which 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. was visiting the United States for the first time in many, years. n a u "TITE w r ere at Houdini’s home,” VV 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 with 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 sawing 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-

‘BEER IS NOT RIVAL’ Coca-Cola Head Finds Dry Law No Aid to Trade, t Bii l nited 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 where 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. SUSPECT CHARGES HE WAS, BEATEN BY COP Officer Takes Stand to Deny He Treated Man Brutally. Charges of Frank Richter, 919 Broadway, that he was treated brutally by Detective Lawrence McCarty were denied by the officer Friday from the witness stand in criminal court, where Richter is on trial charged with second degree j burglary and gra-.1 larceny. Richter is accused of stealing SIBO j from an A. & P. grocery, where he was employed. Following *his arrest May 19. Richter says he was taken to po- ] lice headquarters, where he alleges an open hand blow by McCarty while being questioned in a small room caused him to fall from a chair, his head striking a radiator. He charges he was not given treatment for the resulting wound. According to the defendant, the blow was delivered after he told the officer that sll6 deposited in a bank three days after the store burglary was money Richter and his wife had saved. "Anything I hate is a damned liar,” Richter says McCarty yelled.

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

ticnal society, you know—the illusion went over with a bang. “It was so old that it was entirely new to most of the magicians who saw it. That was 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 were benig 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 w-as done. We filed suit for injunction.” The photoplay company contended the illusion was 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. # 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 w’eek 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 the degree of mystery. That was a great day for magicians. It is worth 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, which 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 way 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 had 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. ■nan “T BAILED him out. And what JL do you think he said? He said, ‘You better get some more bail ready, 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.

ASPHALT DUST USED TO CHECK OIL SPATTERING Powder Is Sprinkled Over State Roads; Detours Are Fixed. Use of powdered asphalt sprinkled on fresh oil has been followed by the state highway commission in eliminating objectionable splashing from newly treated roads, according to John J. Brown, department, director. Several hundred miles of roads have been made dustless in this manner during the last two weeks, it is said. Roads oiled and detours established are: Road 1— Hagerstown north, completed July 16: B*2 miles detour, good gravel. Road 3—From Junction with Road 16 to Zanesville. comDleted Julv 20: no detour, Milrov to Rushville. comoleied .Julv 16: 5mile detour at north edge of North Vernon. comnieted Julv 16: no detour. Markle to Zanesville, completed July 18; 9-mile detour. Road 7—Vernon to county line, completed July 15; no detour. Road 21—Jonesborro to Delaware county line, completed July 16: 15-mile detour. Road 33—St. Joseph to New Albany, completed July 23: no detour. Roed 35—Salem to Becks Mill road, completed July 16; 7-mile narrow detour. Road 44—Franklin to Shelbvville, completed July 20; 17'2-mile detour. Road 46—Sunman to Batesvllle, completed July 23; 12-mile detour. Road 55—Fowler to Road 24. completed July 18; 12-mile detour. Road 58—Elnora to White river bridge, completed July 18. Odon to five miles west, completed July 16; no detour. Road 107—From Road 7 at Clifty Falls park, completed July 16 Road 148—A'urora to Road 48. completed July 16; no detour. Road 161 —Huntingburg to five miles west, completed July 18; no detour. Length and surface condition of detours account paving and bridge construction; Road 7—Detour from seven and a half miles southeast of Columbus to six and a half miles southeast, for bridge construction and paving, is 7’2 miles, good gravel. Road 14—Detour Just west of Rochester for paving, is 2 mile, good gravel and brick. Road 15—Detour fretm one and a half miles south of Warsaw to North Manchester. is 16 miles. 2 miles concrete, remainder good gravel. Road 18—Detour from junction with Roads 3, 5 and 18 to one mile north of Marion, for paving, is 17 miles, good gravel and stone. Road 21—Detour Richmond to Muncie. account paving. Is 35 miles, good gravel. Road 28—Detour from Elwood to four miles west of Roads 29 and 9. for paving, and grading, is 6' 4 miles. 2 miles concrete, remainder good gravel. Road 32-—Detour at. two miles west of Anderson, account paving, is 13 miles, fair gravel. Road 43—Detour at Westville account construction, is 6' 2 miles: one mile stone surface, remainder dustless type. Road 44—Detour Glenwood to Connersville, account paving, is 16 miles, 2' 2 miles concrete, lS'/i miles good gravel. Road 47—Detour Crawfordsville to one mile west Montgomerv-Parke county line, is 24 miles, chiefly over State Roads 43 and 234. Road 50—Detour from two and a half miles west of Seymour to Brownstown. account paving, is 14 miles, good gravel and stone. From Bedford west, account grading and paving, is 14 H miles, fair stone and gravel but narrow. Mitchell to Shoals, account paving, is via Road 37 to Bedford and Road 450 to Shoals, or Road 37 south to Paoli. thence Road 150 to Shoals. Detour in Shoals, account grading, is fair.

BABY FOUND AFTER SIX-DAY SEARCH WAS SUFFOCATED

By United Press MINNEAPOLIS. July 16.—8a byLeslie Delano, was suffocated probably by a man’s hand across its mouth, Coroner E. X. Thorston of Anoka announced today. The child's body was found after a six days' search by police, citizens and national guardsmen. The baby was the 20-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Delano, Columbia Heights. "The child died within twentyfour hours of the time its body was found,” Dr. James G. McCartney,

HOOVER CUTS OWN PAY 20 PER CENT

By United Press i WASHINGTON. July 16.—Presi-! dent Hoover Friday cut his salary I 20 per cent, and ordered reductions j of 15 per cent in the pay of the ! Vice-President and the cabinet ! members. Instead of $75,000 yearly, Mr. | Hoover now will receive $60.000,; and the Vice-President and cabinet I members will get $12,750 instead of $15,000. In making the cabinet reductions, the White House issued the following statement: "The President has received the unanimous request from members of the cabinet that they should be subjected to the maximum reduc-

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 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 of Senate avenue to Capitol avenue, 20 per cent. Three Dead in Plane Crash By T nited Press DULUTH, Minn., July 15.—A seaplane about to land here after a trip from Minneapolis crashed on the lake front Thursday night killing 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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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, Alvin 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.

University of Minnesota, said. "It apparently had been held prisoner in a cage or box in which it struggled and scratched itself.” Other wounds on the child's body were ascribed to its slayer forcing it down a narrow cesspool opening. The child was not strangled. Anew hunt for the slayer of the child was started immediately after the announcement. The cesspool lies within 150 feet of the Delano home, and at first it was thought the child might have fallen into the hole and died.

tion on salaries possible under the economy bill. "The President, therefore, has issued the necessary orders by which they will be reduced 15 per cent, instead of the alternative which would amount to 815 per cent under the furlough provision. “The Constitution stipulates that the President's salary can not be changed by congress during his tenure of office. "The President, therefore, personally directed the treasury to make the 20 per cent reduction on his own initiative. "The President's salary was raised to $75,000 when William Howard Taft became President in 1908.”

FARM HANDS EARN LESS NOW THAN IN 1902 Wage Rate* Range From $18.54 a Month to $46.01. By United Press WASHINGTON. July 16.—Farm hands, always among the poorest paid laborers, now make less than they did thirty years ago, the department of agriculture reported today. Moreover there are two men anxious to take every farm job available. Wage rates without board range from $18.54 a month in the south central states to $46.01 in the far west, the average being $27,10. The average is 29 per cent less than a year ago.

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BILL TO SHIFT CAR TAX FUNDS REACHESHOUSE 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 redistribution bill, reducing the state's share in the annual $25,000,000 revenue. has been advanced to the house by representatives by the ways 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 be made on basis of road mileage and population. Brought on Breach Its introduction into the house on the second day of the special session last week was accompanied by r 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 receive 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 ♦ hat 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 between Sheaffer and a man believed to represent the department of justice preceded announcement from the bench that judgment was withheld. ARTHUR WOLF AGAIN IS BOYS’ CLUB HEAD Begins Tenth Term as President of Indianapolis Association. The tenth term in the presidency of the Boys Club Association of Indianapolis began today for Arthur Wolf, vice-president of the State Auto Insurance Association. Wolf was elected Jiead of the association at the annual meeting of the board of directors Thursday night at the Boys Club summer camp, northwest of Noblesville. Other officers are Miss Laura Lauter, first vice-president; Donald S. Morris, second vice-presi-dent; Herbert 8. King, third vicepresident; George L. Denny, fourth vice-president; Herman W. Kothp, secretary, and L. Ert Slack, Karl C. Wolfe, Dr. K. B. Mayhill and Henry E. Ostrom, directors.

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