Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1932 — Page 9

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HOUSE STARTS SLASHING ACT ON BUDGET 20 Per Cent Pay Reductions Are Advocated in Economy Bill. BAR CALL TO LESLIE Bennett Measure Asks for Increase in Chain Store Tax. Partial solution of the state-wide demand for governmental economy appeared to have been found by the house of representatives today as attention was turned to the amended biennial appropriation bill of 1931, calling for reduction of $2,219,508 in state expenditures for the next fiscal year. Backed by Democratic members of the lower house, the measure would reduce all state salaries 20 per cent and would make a like reduction in operating expenses of nearly every branch of state government. Its introduction late Monday afternoon followed passage by the house of several bills estimated to *ave nearly half a million annually for taxpayers. Suspends Educational Levy Ona of the bills now awaiting action by the senate suspends, during 1932 and 1933, the 2-cent educational improvement levy, and the second measure w'ould abolish the mandatory levy for maintenance of county fair associations, leaving the appropriations to discretion of county councils. After introduction of the biennial appropriations bill, the house unanimously defeated a resolution w'hich would have called on Governor Harry G. Leslie to appear again before the legislature to point the way toward a definite program for tax reduction and retrenchment. The resolution, introduced by Representative Fred A. Egan <Dem.) of Gary, met with a deluge of criticism and was defeated on the apparent theory that the legislature can find its own way.

Appropriation?! Are Cut The appropriation reduction bill departs from the 20 per cent general cut in the auto license department, where items of personal service are sliced from $95,000 to $25,000 and operating expense pared from $32,000 to SIO,OOO. It would slash expenses of the fish and game division from $246,000 to $200,000 and capital outlays from $94,000 to SBO,OOO, The state fire marshal’s personal service is cut from $63,000 to $50,000 and operating expenses pared from $28,000 to $22,000. Personal service and operating expenses of benevolent and penal instiutions would be reduced only 10 per cent. Among new revenue-raising bills placed before the house Monday is a measure by Representative H, Curtis Bennett (Dem.), Dillsboro, increasing fees charged under the 1929 chain store tax law. As compared to the present $300,000 revenue from the tax it was estimated the new measure will draw about $2,000,000 into the state treasury. Would Boost Tax Other new bills would place a tax of 1 cent on each 5 cents for soft drinks and would tax net personal incomes from 1 to 15 per cent and corporation incomes from l to 5 per cent. Still another bill would levy a 4-cent tax on oil used in Diesel engines, the same as the gas tax. The house elections committee reported for passage today the Evans bill, providing for a uniform poll tax of $1 for all persons, male and female, between 21 and 50. Divided report on the Kenney and Allardt bills, legalizing pari-mutuel betting and betting on race horses, was submitted to the house by the committee on public morals. Senator Walter S. Chambers • Dem.\ Newcastle, claims a $25,000,000 tax saving could be made by favorable action on a levy limitation bill which he has presented m the senate. Saving la Seen Under the bill's provisions, the 1931 levy would be the maximum for all governmental units in the state for 1932, 1933. and 1934. This levy, based on tremendously reduced valuations, would effect the saving, he said. A senate resolution was presented Monday afternoon calling for a survey of the costs of the four state schools, Indiana and Purdue universities and the normal schools at Muncie and Terre Haute. Abolition of the present state health board setup is asked in a senate bill presented by Senator Rollo N. Walter (Rep.), Lagrange. Another measure asks abolition of the state teacher tenure law. FINE 3 IN RUM CASES Law Has Perfect Batting Average in Judge Sheaffer’s Court. The law had a perfect batting average in the court of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer todav. I sentences being imposed in all cases tried. John Starkey, 423 Virginia avenue, was fined SIOO and costs with a thirty-day penal farm term in a blind tiger case. The fine was suspended. Mickey Lynch, city, was fined $lO and costs and given a sixty-day penal farm term for drunkenness. On the same charge Boyd Corum, 2919 North Capitol avenue, was fined $lO and given a thiry-day term. Air Liner Still Missing Ry I mini PrrtM SANTIAGO, Chile. July 19.—Five military airplanes and a tri-motored machine of the National Airways had found no trace today of the< missing Panagra air liner San Jose, | lost with nine persons aboard on a flight over the Andes.

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Half-dead from starvation and thirst. Clarence L. McElroy 'above), a native of Medaryville, Ind., was found by an Indian in the jungles of Oaxaca, Mexico, seventeeen days after the plane which he and Roy Gordon, another American, were delivering to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was wrecked in a tropical storm. Gordon was killed in the crash and his body was fuond today.

BUSH BREATHES FIRE AT CRITICS Challenges Politicians to Solve Tax Riddles. Something besides his ‘‘coat tails” will have to be shown by Senator James E. Watson in solving the taxation and economic dilemma in Indiana, if Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush carries out a plan announced by him in the senate Monday afternoon. Smarting under what he termed “unjust criticism” of alleged legislative inaction, Bush accepted the challenge that Governor Harry G. Leslie might come to the legislators and stir them to activity by wielding the "big stick.” Bush said that such action from Leslie would be welcome, if the Governor has a plan that will move faster than present senate progress. Then he continued on what might be constructed as the Watson angle, in light of Watson saying he would show nothing but his coat tails to Hoosier governmental problems now'. “Before long I believe that I will ask in writing every candidate on both state tickets to come here and give us the benefit of his governmental w'isdom and leadership,” Bush declared. “I announced publicly some time before that I favored such a move and now' I will invite them personally. They are the ones who must carry on the government during the next four years and we should have the advantage of their wisdom now.”

VIRGIL BOSS IN HIS HOME: PROVES IT Orders Wife to Deliver Booze and She Does. Virgil Clarkson, 1530 East Comer street, is the boss at his home, and, unlike most husbands, he can prove it. Clarkson appeared before Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner. on liquor transportation and sale charges Monday. Federal dry agents testified they arranged with Clarkson for delivery of a gallon of alcohol. The delivery was made by Mrs. Maud Clarkson, his wife, Clarkson letting her out of his car and driving away, agents said. Both were arrested. "Judge, the liquor was mine and my wife was doing what I told her to do,” Clarkson said. “Does your wife always do exactly as you tell her?” questioned. Alex G. Cavins, assistant district attorney. “Yes, sir, she does,” Clarkson replied. His answer brought dismissal of charges against the model wife while Clarkson was held to the grand jury under $1,500 bond

Funnel Meter That's What Taxi Drivers Will Need, If This Keeps Up.

| TPAXIS of the city will need A new meters, if the tribe of customers served by Bob Kelso of the Brevort hotel, increase in Abou Ben Adhem manner. The new meters will have a funnel attached. Passengers will please pour ‘ one drink of gin down the funnel’’ for each onehalf mile of the ride. Four swallows of bathtub liquid should take one two miles. Kelso related of this new type of payment of taxi bills in the municipal court of Judge Clifton R. Cameron, Monday, when he was arrested on a charge of intoxication. “My fare owed me 35 cents and he gave me three drinks, your honor!" Kelso pleaded. The judge was skeptical. The life of taxi drivers might be "that of Riley,” but it couldn’t be all foam, corks, and bottles. "People are not giving liquor away like that,” the judge exclaimed. “Fifteen dollars and costs and thirty days in the state farm. Judgment suspended, but no more taxicab 'chasers' for you.” Drop Move to Fire Chief By United Press MITCHELL, Ind., July 19.—A demand of the city council for the resignation of Police Chief Clyde Smith was withdrawn by the council Monday night after a demonstration of more than 300 protesting citizens. Councilmen had charged Smith permitted lawlessness.

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DRY FIGHT TO BE FIRST ON SENATE SLATE - Glass Resolution Left as Unfinished Business on Adjournment. PASSAGE CHANCE GOOD Swing Toward Wet Side Is Shown in Roll Call as Session Ends. BY LEO R. SACK Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. July 19.—The fight to repeal the eighteenth amendment will be resumed at j once w'hen congress reconvenes in December, and if the November : elections show' that the nation is j tired of the dry law', senators bei lieve a repeal resolution will be passed immediately without awaiting affirmative votes of new congressmen. The Glass repeal resolution, spon- | sored by the Virginia senator, per--1 sonally and politically dry, was the unfinished business of the senate ; until almost the hour of adjournament. It w r as laid aside to enable ! the senate to vote on an appropriation bill to finance the new home loan law-. The measure now is on the senate calendar, placed there by a vote of 37 to 21, with thirty-eight senators paired and not voting. There also is pending the motion of Senator George Norris (Rep., Neb.) to refer the resolution to the judiciary committee. Roll Call on Norris Resolution There will be a roll call on the Norris resolution and if it is defeated the senate will proceed then with the business of approving a resolution which submits the question of repeal to conventions of the forty-eight states. To pass this resolution two-thirds of those voting will be required. If a full attendance is present, sixty-four votes will be necessary. Senators think the Glass resolu- j tion has a better chance of passage ; than either the Wagner or Bingham repeal resolutions, because the Glass plan not only seeks to protect the rights of states, but also specifically prohibits the return of the so-called saloon. Here is the text of the Glass resolution: "Resolved, etc., That the following is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, j which shall be valid to all intents i and purposes as part of the Consti- \ tution when ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the several states;

Saloon Is Barred ‘•Section 1, Article 18, of the amendments to this Constitution hereby is repealed. The sale of intoxicating liquors within the United States or any territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for consumption at the place of sale (commonly known as a saloon), and the transportation of intoxicating liquors into any state, territory, district or possession of the United States in which the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors is prohibited by law are hereby prohibited. The congress and the several states, territories and possessions shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. “Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the congress.” Many Drys Switch The roll call for the consideration of Glass' resolution showed the first anti-prohibition majority in the senate since the law was enacted. Among the 37 voting to take it up w'ere such heretofore bone drys as Ashurst <Ari3.), Barkley • Ky.), Cohen <Ga.), Robinson iArk.*, Glass <Va.). Black (Ala.), McKellar iTenn.), Democrats, and Jones (Wash., author of the 5 and 10 law'); Vandenberg (Mich.) and Watson (Ind.), Republicans. Among the 38 who did not vote, 19 are said to favor the Glass plan. This makes a total of 56 for submission. leaving only eight votes to be influenced by the November election. The Glass plan is described as embracing the high points of both Republican and Democratic platforms. Glass insists that these who want unqualified repeal (such as is proposed in the Wagner resolution) and those w'ho w'ant submission with constitutional reservations must compromise their views.

CADETS TO GET TESTS Physical Examination of Officer Aspirants Slated at Fort. Physical examinations to determine fitness to hold commissions in the organized reserves will be given ! fourth year cadets at the Fort Ben- : jamin Harrison C. M. T. C. Wednesday and Thursday. Examinations will be given by; regular army physicians under di- ; rection of lieutenant-Colonel C. M. ; Walseh, post surgeon. Fourth-year men passing the tests will be recommended as second lieutenants in ■ the reserve infantry, a class of the i C. M. T. C., Aug. 3. RAILROAD CHIEF QUITS Canadian National President, Board Chairman Resigns. By United Press MONTREAL, July 19.—The resignation of Sir Henry Thornton, president and chairman of the board of directors of the Canadian National Railways, was placed before the board here today and formally accepted. The resignation is as of Aug. 1.” S. J. Hungerford, vice-president, is to be acting president.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1932

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New York Millionaire Brings Magic to Thousands

Throueh the sees the mvstic art of leeerdemain has intrieued all men Out of this ancient interest has grown a uniaue fellowshiD. the Socielv of American Maeicians. Included in its membership are distinguished reoresentativos of science, the professions, business and the world of affairs generally. Some of them, in the pursuit of white magic as a hobby, have acauired a skill ana lore bevond the ken of the ordinary professional performer. But so Quietly and modestly do ihev demonstrate their attainments that the public hears nothing of this side of tneir lives. Earl Sparling has written a series of articles about these interesting men and their strange gifts, the third of which follows. BY EARL SPARLING Times Staff Writer (Copyright. 1932. bv New York WorldTelegram Corporation.) THE great millionaires of the country know Eugene M. Homer of 1440 Broadw’ay, as an expert appraiser—a man who can estimate the value of a vault full of bonds and a house full of paintings and jewels to the last penny. The children of the poor, hundreds of thousands of them in orphan homes, squalid settlement house neighborhoods and the hospitals, know him as Remoh the Wizard, a man w'ho can pick pennies out of the air, who can take a little white rabbit and change it into a little gray squirrel and then give the squirel to the littlecrippled boy in the first row for a pet. Appraiser Homer, president of the Actual Appraisal Company, is a busy man. Magician Remoh (which is Hoiher backwards) is even a busier one. There is hardly a night of the year he is not wanted somewhere to make unhappy children happy for the hour.- He answers an incredible number of those pleas. He gave something like 200 performances last year—free, of course. For some of them he traveled long distances and paid his own expenses. Calls come to him from as far away as Milwaukee, St. Louis and Omaha. Last Easter week he performed twenty-two times in and around New York. During the last Christmas holidays he gave two to four shows every day. Last week he entertained eight different groups of children. a a a NOW there is more magic in all that than a layman might realize. Professional magicians will tell you that doing tricks for children is a nervewracking business. In his book “Quicker Than the Eye,” John Mulholland asserts, for example: “The most difficult audience to play to is one composed entirely of children, and the younger they are the more difficult is the magician’s task. “Children are hard to perform for, because it is almost impossible to fool them. They have so little knowledge of cause and effect that they are apt to fail to know that, the orange is in the hat because the magician put it in.” So, how does Homer do it? He laughs and gives a very modest explanation. “I’m the clumsiest magician you ever saw. I can do almost any of the tricks the professionals can do, but you ought to see me do them. “The others make a few graceful gestures and the trick is done. I have to fumble around. I realized a long time ago I never could be as fast with my hands as the others. “So I capitalized my clumsiness. By being more awkward than I have to be, I misdirect attention and get the trick done. “I guess that’s how I get by with the youngsters. I entertained 50,000 to 75,000 of them last year, and I fooled them all right. “You can’t take yourself seriously in front of kids. You’ve got to be one of them, and the clumsier the better. The more you clown the better they like it. That’s an old principle, too. In ancient days may of the magicions carried clowns with them. The j clowns attracted attention from i the magicians at the right moment. a a a \ IDO my own clowning and get an immense kick out of it. i Sometimes I wear funny celluloid teeth. Sometimes I wear eyeglasses that- have mechanical eyes behind them. When I blow, the eyes swirl around. “And you ought to hear the kids laugh! Why, say, it’s worth

P 0R WILL E BE C EREGTFn County Highway Tax Levy WILLJE ERECTED Eliminated in Estimate

Action Taken on Arlington and Shelley Site. City school officials today were preparing to erect a portable school at Arlington avenue and Shelley streets, as result of zoning appeals board action Monday, in granting a zoning ordinance variance for the school. Only objectors were Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Springer, residing opposite the site, purchased by the board for $15,000 to Relieve small children from the necessity of crossin f Washington street to attend distanc schools. Objections of neighboring property owners resulted in withdrawal of petition of Natalie L. Smith for permission to ouild a filling station at the southeast corner. Pennsylvania and Forty-sixth streets.

Wrong Tack Hy United Presa FT. WORTH, Tex.. July 19. C. J. Porter. 20, was nailing up a sign in a grocery store, and smoking at the same time. He Coughed, swallowed a tack, and landed in the hospital. An X-ray failed to disclose the tack, so Porter went back to work.

p’vjjjlr & j ' v ' ' Remoh the Wizard, expert magii ian. and inset right (op, Eugone M Homer, expert appraiser. ioing anything to make one of frnnr *** hose kids laugh. You make your eyes go whirlng around and let one little enplied boy put a rabbit in a baa: lien you let anothm sick liMc SsLl. THj $1 el low put a squirrel in a box; fmt hen while thev're holding the bag wBBw nd the box you change the rabbit raff nfn q -'.ninrrrl onrt tl-in cnnirroT

- ■■ 4 Remoh the Wizard, expert ma gician. and inset right top, Eu gene M. Homer, expert appraise; doing anything to make one of those kids laugh. "You make your eyes go whirling around and let one little crippled boy put a rabbit in a bag; then you let another sick little fellow put a squirrel in a box; then while they’re holding the bag and the box you change the rabbit into a squirrel and the squirrel into a box. “I’ve never found a greater pleasure in this world. Then you produce half a dozen squirrels from nowhere and give them away as pets.” It is always squirrels, Remoh the Wizard gives away, or perhaps guinea pigs; never rabbits. He will tell you at first that squirrels cost only 60 or 70 cents each and a rabbit costs $1.50. But push him and he gives the real reason: “Well, you see, a rabbit is different. You get attached to the little devils and can’t bear to part with them.” Making a pretense of clumsiness, Homer can cause animals, cards, coins to disappear with the best of them. Which is a droll ability in a man who has been intrusted to appraise some of the finest jewel collections in America. He goes into a private vault and evaluates a millionaire’s jewels, bonds and loose gold; then when finished he shows his client how money can be picked out of the air, dropped into a hat, where it vanishes into nothingness again. His ability as a magician is attested to by the laughter of thousands of children. His ability as an appraiser is indicated by the fact that he has appraised such estates as those of Andrew Carnegie, Henry c. Frick, Colonel Oliver H. Payne, etc. a a a A T 57, as a matter of fact, he *- is quite a millionaire himself; owner, among other things, of some forty-seven parcels of New York City real estate. He has plenty of money to spend on his hobby, and spends it. He maintains a magic workshop, a sort of laboratory, where he and his mechanics can work out magic ideas that come to him spasmodically. There his apparatus is kept, and his menagerie of rabbits, squirrels, guinea pigs and pigeons. Nor is his magic confined to children. He worked for nearly

Mann Cuts Operating Costs $63,829 and Slashes Own Salary. Slashing operating costs $63,829, Charles W. Mann, county highway superintendent, today submitted a budget request providing elimination of the 1933 tax levy for the highway department. His action will cut at least 1 cent from the county tax rate, now 29 cents. Expense of his department in 1933 will be met by money collected from the state gasoline tax fund and by using a $75,000 balance from the 1932 budget, he said. This balance plus $60.0#0 gasoline tax money will make the $125,000, estimated cost of operating the department, Mann estimates. Mann's budget was pruned approximately 35 per cent, while many other county officials' budgets call for increased appropriations. County commissioners, who raised Mann's estimate of ’—cent highway levy to 1’ 2 cents last year, must approve the highway budget. Since they are bound to an economy program. it is considered unlikely j they will attempt any increases. Mann cut his own salary anqther! 10 per cent. He was the first and 1

four years on a truth machine with which to bewilder adults. He demonstrated it for the first time March 10, 1931, before the Society of American magicians. The machine consists of numerous dials, indicators, meters. Metal braceelts are attached to a person’s wrists. The current is turned on. Questions are asked. If the person being tested answers untruthfully, the machine buzzes and electric currents shoot through it like lightening. Also, the machine will read a person’s mind quite as expertly as any stage mind-reader. It spells the name of a person brought before it by flashing when the proper letter is called. “Now,” speaks the magician, “tell us the first letter of the name. Is it A, B, C, D, E?” When the right letter is reached the machine buzzes and flashes lightning. In similar fashion it tells a person’s age, name, playing cards chosen mentally, etc. a a a ALL of it is illusion, of course; straight magic, of no more scientific importance than the transformation of a pair of white gloves into a pair of white pigeons. But consider the public’s reaction. “After that demonstration in 1931,” laughs Homer, “I got letters and telegrams from all over the country. There was even a cable or two from Europe. Heads of police departments wanted to know if the machine would work on criminals. Professors of psychology asked for permission to study the apparatus. In one case I was asked to make a demonstration before a medical college. “I got a big kick out of that. It proves that magic, if kept new enough, still has the power to interest thousands of people. . “And it is the amateur magician, probably more than the professional, who constantly is adding new illusion. That is because

only county official to reduce his salary voluntarily last year. He recommended the wage scale, now in effect, for employes of the department, advising commissioners | the cut made last year would be sufficient. Wages range from 30 cents an hour for laborers to $l5O a month for foremen. EXPERTS IN JAILCRAFT Boy Scouts Show Sergeant Way Out of Locked Cell. By United Press CHICAGO, July 19. —Three Boy Scouts trained in woodcraft and thoroughly able to find their way out of the woods, if they became lost, have taught Sergeant Thomas Walsh a thing or two about the detective bureau jail. Walsh was showing the scouts through the jail. He led them into a cell and locked the door behind him. After a few minutes he turned his key in the lock to leave and found the lock jammed. He shouted for help, but jailers paid no at- j tenticn. Then a scout noticed a window, behind which was a locked grating. He took the sergeant’s keys, unlocked the grating, and the four j escaped through the window. i

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the amateur brings to his hobby the background of his profession and the ideas of a workaday world. He sees magic through the eyes of an engineer or a sales manager or an apartment house owner who constantly is trying to keep his tenants pleased and happy.” a a a A 6 soon as the Truth Machine had been demonstrated. Remoh turned his attention to something else. The machine was too cumbersome to cart around the country. To set it up anew for each entertanment cost too much. Something along the same line was needed. So, several weeks ago at a private session of the society, the appraiser demonstrated his newest invention, the Intelligent Hand. The Hand, a woman’s hand made of papier-mache, rests on a sheet of ordinary glass. Remoh (Rajah Remoh for this act, all dressed up in a Hindoo costume) holds the sheet of glass at arm’s length. The Hand starts rapping on the glass. It raps twice for y-'s, thrice for no. Numbers can be written on a blackboard and concealed while Rajah Remoh is absent from the room. He returns with the Hand and the Hand raps out the right numbers. ‘‘That Hand cost me a lot of money to make,” he explains, “but it is worth it. Magic is a fine hobby. You get ?. real kick doing something that hasn’t been done before. It’s a good business asset, too. I can arrive in a strange town where I don’t know a soul. If Ido a few tricks at the hotel, I” have two or three invitations to dinner by night. Last year I toured the entire country. I made thousands of friends I never would have made without magic.” Next: Dr, Hooker, mister magician.

GYPSY KING WILL MODERNIZE TRIBES New Ruler Orders Halt on Sale of Brides. By United Press DETROIT, July 19.—A new king of the Gypsies, Steve Stanley, dapper young graduate of a New York college, set about today modernizing the habits of his people. His first ukase was for his subjects to cease forever the old Romany custom of selling daughters in marriage to the highest bidder. The colorful tribal costumes of the men and women, too, must go, said King Steve—his official title—to be replaced by American clothing. “The Stars and Stries are our flag,’ "he said. “And I hope to see that all our young people get good educations and grow up good Americans. with trades and professions replacing their fortune telling, copper smithing and horse trading.” The new king is the first “commoner’’ to be elected to the high executive place in many years. He replaces the late King Steve John, i as the result of an election in which j he received votes of 4,000 Gypsies; of the middle and far west and of j the 4,000 in the east.

BRITAIN SENDS ‘BEST BRAINS’ TC CONCLAVE Stanley Baldwin Is Head of Imposing Delegation to Ottawa Conference. FREE TRADE WILL LOSE Dominions Are Certain to Reject Plan That Would Spell Ruin. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripps-Howard Forelrn Editor OTTAWA, July 19.—The stage is i set and the actors are all here for the full dress opening Thursday of j the imperial conference—the most momentous, perhaps, ever held by the British commonwealth of nations. The stupendous importance Great Britain attaches to the gathering is shown by the character of her delegation which set foot on Canadian soil Monday night. It is headed by Stanley Baldwin, twice prime minister and now lord president of the council. Others are Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer; J. H. Thomas, secretary of state for the dominions, Lord Hailsham, secretary of war; Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, and Sir Cunliffe Lister, secretary of state of colonies, all leading members of the British cabinet. Not since Versailles has Britain sent abroad such an imposing array of statesmen. All Send Notables Sean T. O’Kelly, Ireland's vicepresident, heads the Free State delegation, while either premiers or ranking cabinet members are here to speak for other parts of the empire. India’s picturesque delegation is | led by Sir Atul Chatterjee, former high commissioner for India in London and well known in the United States. The Indian, northern Irish, South African and southern Rhodesia delegates also arrived Monday night on the same ship with the British. The Irish Free State delegation significantly did not come with the British, but arrived in advance and set up headquarters. Friction is expected between the O'Kelly delegation and the others early in the proceedings, for if Premier Bennett of Canada proposes a motion of loyalty to the king, as it is said he will, the Free State group will abstain from voting. The incident may not go any farther, but it can not fail to have some effect upon the ultimate decisions of the conference. MacNider on Scene Such a stand on the part of the Irish would be in keeping with President de Valera’s determination to abolish the oath of allegiance to the crown. As this is strictly a family affair, foreign countries will take no official part. But unofficially the United States will be very much present, on the sidelines of course, in the person of Minister Hanford MacNider and other observers. In fact, the United States has more at stake than almost any of the individual dominions. The chief purpose of the parley is to build a tariff wall around the empire, shut out foreign goods insofar as possible, and give preference to empire members. But the British empire does more than three billion dollars’ worth of trade annually with the United States and if anything should happen to this it would prove a serious blow to our producers. Baldwin and the British delega- : tion are quite frahkly out for empire free trade. Should they win almost a third of our foreign commerce would be knocked in the jhead. Currency Is Problem But they can not win. Dominion delegates say such a policy would spell utter ruin of many of their I established industries, so there must be some compromise between this Baldwin ideal and the standpat protectionism of the dominions. An attempt will also be made j here to create an empire currency as a medium of exchange, but there even greater difficulty will be encountered. Britain is off gold, Canada and South Africa are on, and in Asia there is the silver problem.

Thus the various parts of the em- | Pire are pulling in every direction. | Some compromise, perhaps a stabil- ; ized exchange, is expected. wins pushmobiliFrace Pushmobile Event Is Feature of Busienss Men’s Celebration. Brightwood Special, piloted by Ralph Coverstone and pushed by A1 Huestand and Bob Brown, won first place in a pushmobile race held Monday night in the 2700 block: North La Salle street, under aus* pices of business men of the com* ; munity. Committee in charge of arrange- ; ments w-*.s Mrs. Omer Wisehart and Mrs. Margaret Kimmel. Harry Bur- ; nett was starter and Wayne Murphy, timer. Prizes were awarded all contestants. FETE VETERAN U. S. AID Federal Employes Honor Join* Cronk, Who Ends 35 Years’ Service. Federal employes honored John W. Cronk. retired after thirty-five years in government service, at a dinner Monday night at the Kopper Kettle, Morristown. Cronk had been in the internal revenue department since 1901, previously having served four years as postmaster at Veedersburg. He reached the retirement age, 70, thres years ago, but was given an extension which was withdrawn because of the federal economy measure passed by congress recently. Cronk plans to return to his home in Veedersburg.