Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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MARRIED MEN HELD IN DEATHS -OF FARM GIRLS Two Drowned After Beer Party in Isolated River Nook, Escorts Say. B'.l Untied prrnn ROCHESTER, Minn., July 23. Deaths of two young farm girls, whoso partially clad bodies were found in the Zumbro river, today brought arrest of two married men, said by police to admit escorting the young women on a beer drinking barty. Manslaughter charges were being prepared. bodies of the girls, Louise Prigge. 22, and Frances Polikowski, 21, both of Millville, Minn., were recovered from the river. Cause of death has not been determined. The men, whom officers said confessed accompanying the young women on a “pick up" date,, were Reuben Krueger, truck driver, and J. E. Sally, mechanic, both of Plainview, Minn. The story of the fatal evening was reconstructed by crime bureau operatives from statements of the mm. The men “picked up” the girls at Rochester Tuesday night, and invited them to go for a swim. The young women demurred at first, saying they had no swimming suits, but finally Consented to go to the Isolated spot on the Zumbro river on the assurance none could sec them there. The party went to the river bank and spent the evening. They drank beer "spiked” with alcohol for some hours. Finally the girls wandered away from their escorts. Miss Prigge, according to the story told the operatives, fell over a drop off. Miss Polikowski went to her rescue and both girls sank. . 'The men. after a vain attempt at rescue, fled panic stricken, taking the girl's, clothing with them Co-Ed's Death Is Suicide B’l I nilnl Pima LAKE CITY. Minn.. July 23. Death of Miss Agnes Stevens, 24, Boston, prominent University of Minnesota senior, was ascribed to suicide today by Coroner Russell Edstrom. The body of Miss Stevens, shot to death and a revolver in her hand, was found in.her automobile just twelve miles from the spot where the bodies of two Millville (Minn.) girls were. recovered. It was believrd that Miss Stevens became hysterical over university examinations and took her life, in fear she would fail in the test. JiLTED. - CRIPPLE SLAYS GIRL, ENDS OWN LIFE 17-Year-Old Maid Murdered by Rejected Suitor on Street*. Bii United I’rra * CHICAGO. July 23.—Humiliated because the high school girl he loved jilted him because he was a cripple, Horbm R Souther, 21, shot and killed Mildred Char, 17, and fired a fatal bullet into his brain as his successful rival looked on The girl was killed instantly. Souther died today. For several months the youth had eourteri Mildred, but her parents objected because he was crippled, and the girl repulsed his attentions. After watching her home several days, Souther came upon the girl as she strolled down the street with Harold Peterson, 19, “He’s just an old sweetheart of mine.” the girl told her escort. Souther drew a revolver and fired. LOUIS~KLUSMANN~ DIES Retired City Merchant Succumbs After Long Illness. Long illness resulted in the death Friday of Louis Klusmann, 75, retired merchant and lifelong resident, of Indianapolis, in the home of his son, Marion A. Klusmann, 5750 North Delaware street. Mr. Klusmann was engaged In the retail grocery business, and later became associated with C. A. Schrader & Son, wholesale grocers, as city salesman. He remained with the firm twenty-eight years. He left the Schrader company to operate a retail variety store at 618 Massachusetts avenue. He retired two years ago. The Rev. F. R. Daries, pastor of Zion Evangelical church, will conduct funeral services at 2 Monday In Johnson & Montgomery funeral home. Burial.will be in Crown Hill cemterv. WIPE STATION OFF MAP 550,000 Is Damage When 22 Freight Cars Are Derailed. By r titled Pres * MARLEY. HI.. July 23.—Tins tiny railroad bvstation was literally off the map today For some time officials of the Wabash railroad had been planning to close the little used station. Friday the problem was taken out of their hands when twenty-two cars of a freight train were derailed and one car ploughed through the station building, demolishing it. Considerable wreckage and $50,000 damage was created, officials said.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to L. F Bhuttleworth, 2251 North New Jersey street. Oldsmnbile coach, from Mirhican and TTelawiffr streets Charles Miller R R 11, Rox 342 P Chevrolet coach. *4-250, '■from Senate avenue and Ohio street. Freda Heider, 0131 Kenwood avenue. Chevrolet coach, 102-884, from Butlei university campus. North Side Chevrolet Company. *36 East Sixty-third street. Chevrolet roadster, M l-043 Jrom 836 East Sixty-third street. rred Burrall. Nnblesville. Ind., Marmon sedan. 887-181, from Ninth And Meridian streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: A W. Sutherlin. 110* North Oakland avenue. Auburn sedan, found at 'r'enth atreel and Drexel avenue. Norman Robertson. Clermont. Ind . Ford tudor found at Tenth street and Belmont avenue. Art Morrison, Thorntown, Ind.. Ford tudor sedan found at 1075 West Michigan street, automobile stripped of four tires and battery. State of Indiana. Chevrolet coupe, found at 200 North Alabama street. Charles Forey, *lB F.ugene street. Ford tudor found In rear of 030 South '.Vest street; automobile stripped of battery, generator, spark plugs and tires.

BROADWAY MOURNS; MASTER SHOWMAN IS GONE

Pall of Sorrow Shrouds Gotham, as Ziegfeld Passes to His Last Rest

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/•*v I nil rd Preen NEW YORK. July 23.—Broadway's brilliant lights that were made brighter by Florenz Ziegfeld blinked crazily in the after-mid-night blackness today, when New York's Main street received word that its master showman was dead. Sorrow blanketed the theatrical world —the gaudy, “heartless” world of tinsel, spangles, spectacles and makebelieve that heard of Ziegfeld first as manager of a strong man, knew him as the husband of Anna Held and the promoter of her now baths, and adored him for his “Follies.” Whispered words that passed over bars a few feet off Broadway, a word here, a word there, old troupers, stars, chorus girls, stage hands not yet in bed, retold the story of Ziegfeld's life—and most of the stories were of his follies, on the stage or off. They began with the world's fair, where Ziegfeld took Sandow the strong man and SSO in cash of his own to start a fortune. They included Anna Held’s milk bath in New York, a million won and lost at Monte Carlo, the Gibson girls, the Christie girls, Weber and Fields, the Grizzly Bear, the Turkey Trot, the Glide, the Dip and other such dances. They recalled his marriage to Billie Burke, his mania for publicity, Marilyn Miller, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Will Rogers, Leon Errol, Mae Murray, Peggy Joyce and a host of others who have been before the footlights on his payroll. nun BROADWAY had blazed with the success of “Sally,”* “Kid Boots,” “Louis the Fourteenth,” “Rio Rita,” “Rosalie” and “Showboat.” Several of these productions earned a million in profits. And the Ziegfeld fortune, slowly ebbing of late, was showing signs of revival with the new popularity and success of ‘'Showboat,” one of his finest successes, a hit that was revived as Ziegfeld went to his deathbed. Florenz Ziegfeld’s “first venture in showmanship,” according to the famous producer's own account, was with Sandow, the strong man, in 1893, and started with a shoestring of $5,000, only SSO of which was his own. The 25-year-old showman came to New York in that year, after an apprenticeship in the Chicago world fair, and found the muscleman exhibiting at the Casino. “Sandow was the most perfect human being I ever had seen,” Ziegfeld reminisced in latqr years. "I bad only $5,000 when I went to Abbey, who was managing him, and made a proposal to take over Sandow. “Abbey asked $1,500 a week. I countered by offering him 10 per cent of the gross receipts. We clinched the agreement. I took Sandow back with me and opened at the midwinter fair in .San Francisco. “We averaged $35,000 a week. Ab-

FIX MILITARY RITES R. F. Smith to Be Buried at Crown Hill. Robert F. Smith, general manager of the American Legion Publishing Company, who was killed Monday when a falling stone struck him as he was climbing Long's peak in Colorado, will be honored by national and state officials of the legion in military funeral services this afternoon. The rites will be hpld at 2 in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek parkway. Military burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. The Rev. T. R. White, chaplain of the One hundred thirteenth medical regiment, and assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will conduct the services. Paul V. McNutt of Bloomington, former national commander of the legion, and a close friend of Mr. Smith's, will present a special tribute. Paul Mathews, member of the legion national headquarters staff, will play a program of organ music. In charge of burial services will be the Rev. H. A. Darche of Bradley. 111., national chaplain of the legion. Harry Ray post. No. 65. of Richmond will provide military escort and firing squad. Mr. Smith came to Indianapolis to take over his duties in the publishing company in 1924. His home had been in California. PROBE MYSTERY SHOTS Bulled Crashes Into Room With Three. Imbeds in Walk Police are investigating two mysterious shots fired Friday night, one of which crashed into a room occupied by Harry Hoy, 29. of 239 East Eleventh street, his wife, and his mother. Mrs. Fred Hoy. Striking place of the second shot was not found. The shots were believed fired from the rear of Delaware court apartments, 1001 North Delaware street, where police found 'me empty shell. Neighbors told r j.;e .they heard a man cursing an the shots and thought they came .torn behind the apartment. The Hoys were in the dining room of their home when the bullet crashed through a kitchen window and imbedded in a wall.

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bey received $3,500 instead of the $1,500 he had asked. After the San Francisco fair was over, we traveled all over the country. With us were Evans and Hoey, playing Charlie Hoyt’s 'Parlor Match.’ Sandow appeared between acts.” nun According to ziegfeld's story, he introduced the first revue in America in 1907. an imported attraction from Europe. “I opened up with it on the New York theater roof with the idea of a summer show only. I stayed there foyr, years. Tfyen I went to the New Amsterdani theater.” Publicity made Ziegfeld. And he made publicity. Beauty was his business, and his business was showmanship. Back in 1889, Ziegfeld had heard Anna Held sing “Won’t You Come and Play Wiz Me?” So, after Sandow's popularity as a drawing card faded, Flo lured the singer to this country, established her in a New York hotel, ordered several great cans of milk sent daily to her room, and had the milkman sue her for the milk bill. “How come?” the newspapers wondered. And they wouldn’t believe what he told them. “All right. Come up and see.” He took the reporters into the apartment, walked to the bathroom door, shoved open the door, and there stood Anna, wreathed in smiles and gallon after gallon of opaque milk. ,

PAY CUT PROPOSAL STIRS SHERIFF’S IRE

Low Wages Never Brought Prosperity, Is Sumner’s Plea to Council. Opposition to wag; and salary reductions is expressed in a letter of Sheriff Charles <Butk) Sumner to Marion county councilmen with the assertion that "in this, or any other country, low wages never brought progress or prosperity." Sumner asks consideration of his view's by the councilmen when they meet in a few' weeks to fix the 1933 budget, w'hich, it is said, may include reduction in pay of county employes, which last year. w T as reduced 10 per cent. "In order that there may be no misunderstanding in reference to my position on the present salary and wage-cutting craze, I desire to make my position clear to the people of Marion county,” the sheriff said. "Our business leaders and politicians. who believe that normal times w'ill be restored our people by w'age cuts soon will learn that they have killed the goose that laid the golden egg,” he said. "It must be obvious to all well thinking people that there will be no enduring prosperity in this country until wages take an upward trend.” He described himself as “one person w'ho does not agree with that group w'hich for years has contended that $1 a day is enough for a working man.” BEGIN TESTS OF LINER U. S. Largest Vessel, Manhattan, , Leaves for Proving Grounds. By United Prett CAMDEN, N. J.. July 23.—The largest merchant marine vessel ever built in this country, the Manhattan, left the New York Shipbuilding Company's docks here this afternoon bound for the United States navy prqving ground off Rockland. Me. After the series of rigid testa the 30,000-ton liner, built at a cost of approximately $10,000,000, will be turned over to the United States Lines to enter trans-Atlantic passenger service 10 between New York and Europe.

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HIS own personal passion for publicity is seen in this story. Years ago he sailed for Europe. A big news story broke the same day. Flo's name was not on Page 1. He resented it. Two weeks later he cabled to his press agent: “Sorry you sneaked me out of New York.” The Ziegfeld Follies, best known of his productions, started in the theatrical season of 1907-1908. Starting the first one with production costs at $13,000, Ziegfeld ran twenty-four editions in twentyfour years and his last follies cost him $300,000 when it reached the stage on the opening night. “I started at $3,000 a week to run the shows,” Ziegfeld said in after years, “and by 1930, the follies were costing me $33,000 a week.” In the later follies, stars like Ed Wynn, Charles Winninger, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers and others of the glittering stage firmament brought Ziegfeld's weekly salary bill to a figure high'’" than his whole show cost originally. * , ,-*i “At first, I got $2.50 for seats,” the producer said. “At the latest follies I got $6.80. He has sold opening night seats for hundreds of dollars, and once sold closing night tickets for a thousand dollars each. palm for “queen of the old-time stage beauties w’as awarded by him to Frankie Bailey. “There w r asn‘t a woman w’ho even

RETIRED PASTOR DEAD The Rev. William L. Clarke Passes at His Home. The- Rev. William L. Clark, 69. j retired minister of the Presbyterian j church, died Friday in his home, 2604 North Illinois street. Mr. Clarke formerly was associate pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, and later was pastor and i director of Mayer chapel. 11l health caused him to retire four years i ago. He was born in Bement', 111. He attended Center college, Danville. Ky., and McCormick's Theological seminary, Chicago. He held pastorates in lowa and Kentucky, and in several Indiana towns. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 Monday in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek parkway. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. FIRE FIGHTER INJURED Cut on Hand During Battle on Spreading Flames; Damage, $450. A fireman was cut on a hand and damage of $450 resulted from a fire i na shed at 423 South Harding street, Friday afternoon w'hich spread to four other structures in the block. Michael Murphy, engine house 13. was the fireman hurt. The fire started in a shed back of the home of Fred Hawley and spread to a shed at the home of Ruth Anderson, at 427 South Harding street, and a shed at the residence of Rildy F. Miller at 419. Home of Robert Ford at 421 and the manufacturing plant of the Acme Works, Inc., at 429, also were set afire. More than an hour’s work was required to halt the flames. Apartment Looted of Clothing Returning to the city today after a four-day absence, W. R. Caskey, 4701 East Washington street, apartment 2. reported to police that clothing valued at $67 had been taken. Entrance was gained by a master key.

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could challenge her for beauty,” the Follies king once declared in an interview’. “More than that there hasn’t been a woman since. Frankie Bailey had the mast beautiful form ever seen on the stage.” How about May Yohe? “Not bad,” Ziegfeld acknowledged, “but she was far from perfect.” King Edward of England gave her his highest rating. “So? Oh, w'ell, King Edward w*as no judge.” In modern days there have been many girls with pretty forms. Florenz Ziegfeld believed. He named some of them; “Mary Michelini, one of the best. And Olive Thomas—she was a beauty. Jessie Reed, of course, and Madly n Morrissey. And many, many more. Justine Johnson and Marion Davies—all w’orld-famous all Follies girls.

HUNT BANK BANDITS and Metamora Gang Believed Same. Two bank robberies in southern Indiana Friday, in which the loot was $5,500, are believed by authorities to have been committed by one gang, which is being hunted today. Description of the automobile used in the robberies is the same. Loot of $4,397 was obtained Friday afternoon from the Scott County State bank at Scottsburg and the cashier, Robert Blunt, was shot in an arm and beaten severely when he fought three bandits. The cashier, W r . H. Montgomery, president, and two women enfployes, Misses Margaret Swan and Hazel Gillespie. were in the bank when the robbers entered. A bandit who was driven by a chauffeur livery obtained $1,200 Friday mornmg in a robbery of the Farmers bank at Metamora. George Lennard. cashier, was the only person in the bank when the robber entered. COXEY IS ‘GETTING MAD’ Threatens Mandamus to Get Name on Presidential Ballot. By United Prcst COLUMBUS. 0., July 23 —Mayor Jacob S. Coxey Sr., of Massillon, the ‘general" of the famous “Coxey’s army." today threatened Clarence Brown, secretary of state, with mandamus proceedings to have his name placed on the presidential ballot in Ohio. Coxey pointed out he received more votes in the Republican presidential preferential primary than President Hoover. Under Ohio law the preferential vote is not binding on delegates. Mr. Hoover was not a candidate. BOLT’S DAMAGE $6,000 Barns Holding Grain, Hay and Livestock Hit by Lightning. By United Pret* MT. VERNON, Ind., July 23. Damage totaling more than $6,000 was caused by lightning which destroyed two barns containing grain, hay and* livestock during an electrical storm near here Friday night. Rain accompanying the storm was of great benefit to corn crops.

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I TT7HO is the most beautiful of ; VV all stage girls, Ziegfeld w'as asked in 1922 of the current crop. “Marilyn Miller has the mast beautiful form in the world. Yvonne | Taylor W'ears the most beautiful I tights. “The chorus girl of, today isn’t' ! much like the girl of the Black Crook days. Our girls can sing: i they can dance; they’re pretty and they have charm and personality j and intelligence. “Charm is the important thing j today and we have no iron-clad | rules about size or form.” Among his best known follies: * He loved lavender colored shirts and dazzling suits. He liked terrapin and because a certain Baltimore chef's product ! suited him, h e hired the chef. He went hunting in Canada, always taking along no fewer than l five Indian guides.

Bathtub Blues By United Prrnn MEMPHIS, July 23.—Singing in the bathtub brought recognition to Paul Hilliard. When a city hostess who welcomes newcomers here, visited his wife, she heard Hilliard singing in the bathtub. Impressed by his tenor voice, the hostess, Mrs. Myrtle Wright has arranged to introduce him into musical circles.

BANK LOANS WILL BE PUBLIC, SAYS GARNER Speaker Contradicts Robinson on Corporation Issue. By Scrippt-Howurd Keictpaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 23.—The monthly reports of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will be made public monthly, Speaker John Garner decreed today. "Reports of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.” Garner wired here in reply to an inquiry, "must and will be made public every thirty days, because that is the law r , and was so understood at the time it passed the house.” This directly contradicted Democratic senate leader Joseph T. Robinson, who, in an attempt to quiet last-minute opposition to the relief bill, said the publicity clause did not mean immediate revelation of tnc amounts of loans made and securities accepted by the corporation. TEXAS BALLOTS TODAY Prohibition I* Issue; “M" Ferguson in Governor Race. By United Pre* DALLAS. Tex., July 23—The question of a prohibition referendum was submitted today to Texas Democrats. < In addition to selecting party nominees for state and congressional offices, primary election voters were given a special ballot on which to register either "yes” or “no” as to whether congress shall be asked to resubmit the eighteenth amendment to the states. Featuring the election is the three-cornered battle among Governor Ross Sterling, candidate for a second term; former Governor Miriam A. iMa) Ferguson, and Thomas F. Hunter.

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When traveling he shipped a hundred trunks, and any horses or dogs his beloved daughter, Patricia wished. It St St ONCE, when Patricia wept because she couldn’t catch a butterfly, he bought her a SSOO collection. He never wrote if he could help it; he sent a telegram. And they were long, costly telegrams on trivial subjects. When he didn’t telegraph, he telephoned, and he w-as most likely to catch his friends just before 7 a. m., - for he W’as a poor sleeper himself. He was extravagant and lavish in his gifts. He bought expensive clothing for relatives of cleaning women, and he sent chorus girls to hospitals for tuberculosis treatment. In the words of Broadway, “he w’as a sucker for a good sob story,” and Broadw’ay loved him for it. It St St Florenz ziegfeld was born in Chicago on March 21, 1868. His father. Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld, w’as the founder of the Chicago musical college. His mother, the former Rosalie de Hez, was a French girl. Ziegfeld kept close to the stage even in his domestic life. His first wife ♦as Anna Held. They were divorced shortly their marriage in 1899. Miss Held died of pneumonia in 1918, the illness that struck down her divorced husband fourteen years later. The producer’s second wife, Billie Burke, w’as star of a Daniel Frohman show. They were married in 1914. in Hoboken, N. J„ after a romantic meeting at a masquerade ball. They had one child. Patricia, w’ho now is 15. Patricia. Ziegfeld admitted, was his “weakness.”

COPS HELD SLAYERS Four Indicted for ThirdDegree Death. By United Prent MINEOLA. L. 1., July 23.—Four Nassau county policemen were under indictment today for murder in connection with the death of Hyman Stark, bandit suspect, victim of "third degree” torture. Ten true bills were handed up by the grand jury Friday night. The number of indictments they contained was not revealed. Nor would District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards name those indicted. The bills were impounded at his request. Edwards announced the indicted men will be arraigned Monday, with possibility that their trials will begin Aug. 8. Starks’ death was caused by a fractured windpipe. It was charged that a deputy police chief, standing with one foot on his neck, the other on his stomach, had '.rocked" back and forth. Sea Raider Runs for Congress By I nited Pret DETROIT, July 23.—Former Count Alfred von Niezychowski, a naval officer on the famous German sea raider, the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, announced today that he will be a candidate on the Democratic ticket for congress from the First Michigan district.

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DOMINIONS ASK ENGLAND FOR TRADEJ-AVORS Restriction on Imports Is Demanded: U. S. Seems Safe on Steel. BY CHARLES M. M’CANN Initrd Prfss Staff Corrupondfnt OTTAWA. Ontario. July 23Three principal dominions have demanded that Great Britain restrict imports chiefly from the United States, Argentina and Russia, and increase imports from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. These forcible demands that the mother country give them preference in importing meat, wheat, wool, dairy products, wines, base metal, sugar, fruit and lumber have been made with the British empire economic conference only two days old. Other demands are to follow. Their very nature is evidence of Great Britain’s foresight in sending | seven of her most capable cabinet i members and more than seventy assistants to Ottawa to deal with the trade problems arising here. Willing to Make Concessions Each dominion is willing, for a consideration, to make concessions that will favor British manufactures over those of the United States. Each demand, in turn, favors for its products that would strike at the empire trade of all the nations mentioned The first committee of the conference. that on promoting trade within the empire, will hold its next meeting Monday. The demands will be discussed then. The speeches of Primp Minister R. B. Bennett of Canada and J. G. Coates of New Zealand, and the statement handed the conference Friday night have given all delegates. particularly those of Britain, more than sufficient material fer study. Though in the multiple proposals by dominion delegates, the United States will be affected in some degree, there are formidable natural obstacles in the way. 11. S. Favored on Steel An instance is the effort to stimulate British steel exports to Canada. Distance and identity of specifications, types of material and wavs of doing business favor the United States. Os the articles mentioned by the dominion chiefs, meat is expected to be the most important. Australians say that Stanley Bruce, leader of their delegation, is willing to compromise on everything. but that he will insist that in some way concede effective special treatment for meat. Bruce Is said to favor arbitrary limitation of the Argentine export to England as the most practical, because he feels that England can ask Argentina, as a close friend of the family, to share in a market which is limited to Britain's consuming capacity. Investments Are Great Against this is the factor of Great Britain’s investments in Argentina, greater even than in Canada. Bruce's statement was a strong one, but there is talk that Coates will make stronger ones before the conference goes much further. American experts believe that the conference delegates as a whole are determined to work out a series of agreements that will stimulate, in some measure, empire trade—and that they will succeed. They agree, however, that, so far as things have gone, there is no reason for serious worry by American business.

F. M. M'NAIR, FORMER G. A. R. CHIEF, DEAD Auto Injuries Suffered Months Ag Fatal to Aged Veteran. By T'n i ted Prem MARTINSVILLE, Ind., July 23. Funeral arrangements were being made here today for Frank M. McNair, 87, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic last year, who died as the result of auto Injuries suffered at South Bend, a few months ago. McNair was confined at a hospital in South Bend for weeks after the accident. He was brought hero recently. McNair was unßble to attend the state G. A. R. encampment at Richmond in June, at which his term of office terminated. He was a native of Decatur county, but had resided J n Martinsvillo since 1874. He formerly was a member of the city council. Nephew's and nieces survive him, DR. MORGAN RENAMED Starts Twenty-First Year as City Health Board Head. Dr. Herman G. Morgan today started on his twenty-first year as city health officer and health board secretary, following his re-election at the annual meeting of the health board late Friday. Evans Woollen Jr. was re-elected board president and Dr. M. J. Barry was re-elected vice-president. The board reappointed Dr. Charles W. Myers, city hospital superintendent and Earl C. Wolf, hospital business manager, also reappointing Howard Caughran as board attorney.