Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1933 — Page 1

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PAUL-BONCOUR GOVERNMENT IN FRANCE FALLS Cabinet Overthrown on Misconfidenee Vote on Plans for Budget After All-Night Session of Chamber of Deputies. AVAR DEBT ISSUE LEFT IN MID-AIR Herriot Remains Dominant Figure in Crisis, but Is Unlikely to Be Named Premier, Unless Others Fail. * BY RALPH HEINZEN Inited Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Jan. 28. —President Alfred Lebrun accepted the resignation of the cabinet of Premier Joseph Paul-Boncour early today, putting France under the necessity of forming anew administration, three days before treasury funds to pay routine expenses will be exhausted.

The government was overthrown on a misconfidencr vote on the budget plans of Finance Minister Henry Cheron. The vote. 390 to 193, was taken after an all-night session of the chamber of deputies during which the government won three votes of confidence, only to lose at the end. Debts Question in Air The qustion f war dbts als was als Ift in mid-air. The next premier must face a budget defiit of 10.000.000.000 francs, and the hostility of the powerful Socialist bloc ns well as war veterans, who protest against reduction of their benefits and businessmen opposing increased taxes. Fernand Bouisson. president of the chamber, convoked a meting for Tuesday, Jan. 31. to vote the provisional expenses for February, thus assuring revenue for current government operating costs until anew government is formed. The president began his consultations with political leaders for formation of anew government early today. He hoped to find a left wing coalition capable of rushing the budget, already long overdue, through parliament. Herriot Dominant Figure Recording to parliamentary tradition, the Socialists will be given the first opportunity to form a government, as they chiefly were responsible for the government's overthrow. The policy of the party has been not to accept the responsibility of assuming powei and there was no indication that the policy would be changed. The Socialists declined an invitation to form a cabinet after overthrowing Edouard Herriot on the war debts question in December. Herriot remained a dominant figure in the political crisis, but was not expected to be commissioned to form a government unless other candidates failed. Immediate possibilities as pre-mier-designate included Edouard Deladier and Carnilie Chautemps, both ministers under Herriot, and Paul-Bone our. the veteran, Paul Painleve, and Senator Theodore Stceg.

RALPH GREGG SLATED TO BE G. 0. P. BOSS Scheduled to Be Named City Chairman at Meeting: Today. Reorganization of the Republican city committee, with Ralph B. Gregg scheduled for election as city chairman, was to be effected at a meeting of precinct committeemen this afternoon at 1 in the Riley room of the Clavpool. In preparation for the 1933 municipal campaign, seven Republican groups in the city and county have been canvassed and all are reported agreeable to Gregg s selection. All other officials will be replaced this afternoon, bringing about, the retirement of Wayne Emmelman. who has served through several successive campaigns as city and count\ committee secretary. Edgar Hart, county chairman, against, whom Gregg was a candidate last year, will preside today.' Party leaders assert the reorganization will be the most harmonious in years. Gregg, an attorney, has been a precinct, committeeman in the Fourth ward for the last six year*. Gregg is married, resides at 3115 North Illinois street, is active in American Legion circles and is a member of the faculty of Benjamin Harrison law school. VICTORY MESSAGE IS ISSUED BY DE VALERA ‘National roliey Now Definitely Determined,’ He Asserts. Pii T nitrd Pres* DUBLIN. Jan. 28—Victory of the Irish republicans in the general election for a new' dail was assured on the basis of returns available today, President Eamon De Valera said in a victory message to the public. • The national policy now is definitely determined." the message said. "May we not appeal, then, t-o all citizens to co-operate in the task of restoring our country to its former greatness and making it a worthy home for all our people" In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West northwest wind, ten miles an hour; temperature. 27: barometric pressure. 30.15 at sea level; ceiling, overcast, light freezing mist and light fog. 700 feet; visibility, 14 miles; field, wet.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, becoming unsettled Sunday with probably rain by afternoon or night; lowest temperature tonight about 28; warmer Sunday.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 225

Brakeman Jumps In to Pa th of Train , Dies Instantly Fails to See Speeding Passenger Limited and Leaps Direictly Into Engine’s Drive Wheels. . Jumping from one train directly into the path of a passenger limited traveling at seventy miles an hour on the next tiJlciv .Harry R.. Burnett, 11. Washington, .street and Traub avenue. Big Four brakeman was killed instantly today.

The accident occurred near the 4400 block, Pendleton pike. Burnett's body, horribly mangled, was sent, to city morgue by Dr. John E. Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, who investigated. According to fellow trainmen, Burnett is believed to have crawled between cars of a train standing bn the tracks and leaped toward the ground without seeing the approaching limited. His body is believed to have struck directly in the driving wheels of the locomotive .and was thrown thirty feet against the side of the train from which he had jumped. Burnett was working on a Peoria & Eastern train of the Big Four system, which was backing from the east, according to trainmen. The train from which he jumped was at a standstill on a second track and the limited on the next track beyond the standing train. There were no witnesses who saw r Burnett crawl between the cars, although J. O. Brown, engineer of the limited, saw' him jump. The limited was stopped in about 500 feet. G. H. Hoppinger, 46 of 622 West Forty-third street, was conductor of the train on which Burnett had been working. 58-DAY REPRIEVE IS GIVEN RUTH JUDD Wins First Battle to Escape Gallows Feb. 17. ft 1/ United Pits* PHOENIX. Arlz., Jan. 28.—Winnie Ruth Judd, condemned slayer, won her first battle to escape the gallows Friday when the state pardons and paroles board recommended a fifty-eighi-day reprieve. The petition needed only Governor B. B. Moeur's formal approval to extend until April 14. the hanging originally set for Feb. 17. The ooard urged a temporary stay to allow time for a complete hearing and investigation of Mrs. Judd's plea for clemency. Her attorneys were hopeful the action was a step toward ultimate cancellation of the death sentence.

Six Are Hurt, Two Badly, in City Auto Accidents

One Driver Held by Police. Charged With Failure to Stop. Six persons were injured, tw’o seriously, in traffic accidents in the city Friday night and today. W. M. Gill. 56. of 853 Camp street. Negro, employe of Indianapolis Railways, Inc., was injured early today when he was struck by an automobile driven by Morau V. Schakelford. 44, of 2407 East Fortieth street. At city hospital it was said Gill’s leg was groken, and he had received head and chest injuries. His condition is critical. Schakelford was not held. Fracture of the skull and a compound fracture of the right let were suffered by Frank Krebs. 56, of 1136 Kentucky avenue, early Friday night when he was struck by an automobile in front of his home. The automobile was driven by Charles Cauldwell. 19. of R. R. 3. Box 901. Krebs was sent to city hospital. Cauldwell was not held. An 80-year-old man. William De Bruler. 407 East Ohio street, is in city hospital with a fractured right leg received when he stepped in front of a moving automobile at New Jersey and Ohio streets early Friday night. The Driver was not held. i Robert Dilley. 30. of 2175 North Riley avenue, was cut by flying glass when his automobile was struck byl

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Mrs. Mafalda Me.riote, sister of A1 Capone, escaped unhurt when several men opened fire from a passing automobile on a Chicago street. Police were unable to learn whether the bullets were intended for her or for another.

CONVICT mr ON GUN CHARGE Capone Successor Laughs: Prepares Appeal to High Court. By Vnited Press CHICAGO. Jan. 28. —Murray Humphi-ies, successor to Scarface A1 Capone as Chicago's “public enemy No. 1,” w’as found guilty late Friday on a charge of having carried a concealed weapon. “I expected that,” said the handsome Humphries, smiling, as he stalked from the courtroom while his attorneys arranged bond, and hearing on a motion for anew trial was set for Feb. 4. Humphries, who claims he is an honest business man w’ho has been thrown into the gangster classification by business enemies, w’as found guilty by a jury in Municipal Judge Harold O’Connell’s court. “That's what a man must expect w’hen he's caught carrying a gun,” he commented. “But I'm willing to rest my case W’ith the supreme court.” If the sentence stands, Humphries is liable to a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a S3OO fine.

CONGRESS TODAY

By Inited Press SENATE Continues debate on treasurypostoffice appropriation bill. Agricultuie committee continues hearings on domestic allotment bill. HOUSE Considers state, justice, labor and commerce departments appropriation bill. Ways and means committee continues hearings on depreciated currency legislation.

a truck in the 600 block North Davidson street. Driver of the truck. John Staley, of 2260 North Tacoma avenue, is alleged to have left the scene when Dilley called police. Staley is held on charges of vagrancy and failure to stop after an accident. When the automobile in which Carl Thomas, 19. of Anderson, was riding Friday night, overturned on state road 67, near Arlington avenue. he suffered back and internal injuries and several broken ribs. Carl Schwartz of Anderson, driver of the car was not injured. He told police he had been blinded by lights of approaching cars. Face and head cuts were received by Frank Baker, 9. of 2218 North Sherman drive, Frday night, when he was • struck by an automobile driven by Max Merrick, 17, of 51 North Arlington avenue. New York Stocks Opening (By Abbott. Hoppin & Cos.) —Jan. 28— Can ’ Monte Ward ... 14', ... 854 N Y Central.... 194 Atchison 44 So America 291 Anaconda 74 Natl Cash Reg . 71 , Am Tel & Tel. .1054 Penn R R jos! Cons Gas, 58% Packard .. ’ S'* Case J 1 45 4 Radio ” 41! Ches * Ohio.. 29', RK O ‘ 11 Cities Serv 24 Cons Oil 51* Dupont 404 Sfd Oil of Nj" 294 Fox Film l A>.. 14 Texas Corp . 13>* Gen Foods .... 24', U S Steel ” ->i Gillette 174 United Corp".'.*.* “*•*! General Motors. 134 Un Aircraft .... 26 5 , Gen Elec- 15% Un Carbide .... 26*-, Goodyear 15% Vanadium 124 Gen Am Tic Car IR4 Westinghou.se. . . 294 tnt Nickel 74 Woolworth .. 33', ’ Kroger 17'j Western Un 264 L 6: Myers tß| 59 4;

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933

CUT MILLION OFF U. S. DRY AGENT FUNDS House Votes to Ban Wire Tapping, Paid Spies and Buying Evidence. ASSAIL ‘STOOL PIGEONS’ Stories of Heavy Drinking by Officials Are Told in Debate. BY THOMAS L. STOKES t'nitrd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Prohibition enforcement funds were cut more than a million dollars, and wire tapping, paid informers and purchase of evidence were banned Friday by the house in the wets’ first successful attack on federal enforcement and its methods. In a veritable anti-prohibition field day, the house reduced appropriations for the federal prohibition bureau from $9,599,948, recommended by President Hoover, to $8,440,000, cut of $1,159,948. This represents a reduction of $680,000 from the $9,120,000 fund approved by the appropriations committee. The house also amended the pending justice, state, commerce and labor department bill to prohibit use of any money appropriated for wire tapping, purchase of liquor, paid informers or “stool pigeons” and purchase of evidence, methods ften criticised. Tell of Wholesale Drinking Echoing through the often acrimonious debate were prophecies that the law soon would be at an end. Enlivening the arguments also were tales of wholesale drinking among Washington officialdom, and of a “Texas barbecue” at a nearby Maryland resort where congressmen stood up at the bar, and partook of well-collared beer. Action was in committee of the whole without record votes. It is subject to record votes later which may upset the wet victories Friday. All were by narrow’ margins. Federal Prohibition Administrator Amos Woodcock appeared somewhat discomfitted by the day’s work, but said it would be “poor taste” for him to comment since the cuts become effective in the next administration. They apply for the fiscal year 1934, beginning next July 1. He referred questioners to his testimony before the appropriations committee in which he urged need of the amount recommended by the President, and defended practices barred today as essential to cope with the organied racketeers and gangsters. Tapping Upheld by Courts He said his bureau's effectiveness against organized criminals w’ould be reduced. Wire-tapping, which w’as upheld once by the supreme court with a famous dissent by former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, v T as used in only 101 of the thousands of prohition cases last year, Woodcock explained. Its use was restricted after an attack in the house last session. At-torney-General William D. Mitchell likewise has sanctioned its use in certain cases. The enforcement fund as it now stands in the house bill is the smallest ever provided by congress. For the current year it is $10,125,000. The ’tnove to reduce appropriations came from the Democratic side.

SWINE LITTLE CHANGED AT CLOSE OF WEEK Cattle Nominally Steady in Dull Range; Sheep Receipts Off. No changes of any consequences were recorded in hogs at the city yards this morning, prices holding firm with Friday's average. The bulk, 160 to 210 pounds, sold for $3.45 to $3.55; 210 to 250 pounds, $3.35 to $3.50; 250 to 300 pounds, $3.25 to $3.35. Heavier weights sold for $3.15 to $3.25. Light 140 to 160 pounders brought around 3.40. Slaughter pigs ranged from $3 to $3.25. Packing sows were priced at $2.35 to $2.65. Swine receipts were 2.000. Holdovers were 173. Trade in the cattle market was nominally steady. The close was draggy. Best heifers, weighty steers and heavy cows were weak to 25 cent slower. Other classes were about steady. Bulk of steers and yearlings sold for $4 to $5.50. top steers bringing 56.25. Top yearlings sold for $6.50. Butcher heifers made the market at $4 to $4,75. Feed heifers sold for $5 to $5.50. a few up to $6. Beef cows ranged from $ to $2.75, a few early sales up to $3 and $3.25. Low cutter and cutter cows brought $1.50 to $2. Rceipts were 50. Vealers were 50_ cents lower at 56.50 down. Calves receipts weret 50. •

9-Year-Old Boy Dashes Into Auto’s Path, Killed, While Running Errand for Mother

An 11-year-old boy wandered disconsolately through a hushed home at 1210 East St. Clair street today, waiting for news of his brother. John (Jackie) Parker. 9. who was injured fatally late Friday afternoon when struck by an automobile. Clay Parker did not know that Jackie died early today at city hospital of a fractured skull and other injuries. The accident occurred at Dorman and Michigan streets while Jackie

Von Schleicher Cabinet Out When Dictatorship for Germany Is Denied

Von Papen Is Called to Form Parliamentary Government. . Hu J titled Prrss BERLIN, Jan. 28. The cabinet of Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher resigned today. President Von Hindenburg commissioned former Chancellor Franz von Papen to negotiate with political leaders to form a parliamentary government. The chancellor's resignation followed an interview with the president at noon. Before the conference. Schleicher w’as understood to be ready to risk the life cf his cabinet before the reichstag, w’hich meets Tuesday. Schleicher asked the president for permission to dissolve the reichstag, presumably, planning to set up a virtual dictatorship. Hindenburg refused. The chancellor then offered the resignation of his entire cabinet, which was accepted. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis, w r as understood to have received the support of nationalistic organiza-

$1,000,000 Fraud Plot Is Laid to Insurance Head *“ * fr Chief of Leading Chicago Hotel Is Arrested on Eve of Sailing for Europe, Say Officers. By L tiifrd Press CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—Ernest J. Stevens, financial magnate who was a director of the recently collapsed Illinois Life Insurance Company and the Stevens hotel, was under arrest here today. He provided bond of SIO,OOO.

INTERVENTION LOOMS IN GRAN CHACO WAR League of Nations Decides to Step In, Is Report. By T titled Press GENEVA. Jan. 28.—Direct intervention by the League of Nations in the unofficial Chaco w’ar between Bolivia and Paraguay appeared probable today. The league's Chaco committee, in secret session, has decided to dispatch a commission of three to supervise cessation of hostilities providing Bolivia and Paraguay agree to such a procedure. The proposed commission would be composed of one Argentine, one North American, probably from the United States, and one European. The Chaco committee asked the Bolivian and Paraguayan delegates to ascertain whether their governments would accept such a proposal. The proposal was made as result of urgent pressure upon the league to halt the war, in which almost 4,000 were killed or wounded in the last week.

Bright Spots

By United Press American Banker reports bank closings this week numbered fortysix, against fifty-five last week. Seaboard Air Line reports December operating income of $126,028, against $60,257 in December, 1931. Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company declares extra dividend of 25 cents a share on common stock. Atlantic coast line reports December operating income of $546,032. against $521,746 in December, 1931. American Commercial Alcohol Company reports 1932 income of $586,365, against loss of $597,651 in 1931. Baltimore & Ohio railroad reports December operating income of $1,841,587. against $813,322 in December, 1931. AGED MAN SHOOTS KIN No Room at Table for Him, He Fires on Niece’s Son-in-Law. Bji United Pres* HIGHTSTOWN. N. J.. Jan. 28. There was no room at the breakfast table for James Fischer, 79, angered, he took his bowl of cereal to the kitchen. Soon he returned with a revolver and shot Kelton Pearce, 30, son-in-law of his niece. The bullet struck Pearce in the jaw. He will recover. Hourly Temperature 6 a. m 26 8 a. m 28 7 a. m 27 9 a. m 28 10 a. m 28

was on the way to the grocery, ‘ running an errand" for his mother. It was the eighth fatal accidfent in Marion county since Jan. 1. Jackie was struck by the right headlight of the automobile of Joe Volpert, 28. of Peru, who swerved his car in a vain effort to avoid striking Jackie. The car was stopped within twenty feet, police said, and Volpert carried the boy to a filling station. A charge of assault and battery with an automobile was placed

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tions, including the steel helmets, in a bid for the chancelloiship. Hitler left Berlin today for a week-end in the country saying his presence here w’as unnecessary, "because everything has been settled.” Hindenburg. however, remained unwilling to commission Hitler to form a government!

State’s Attorney Courtney obtained the warrant for Stevens’ arrest. Courtney said he acted after learning that Stevens and his family had obtained passports for European travel, and had planned to sail next Monday. Stevens was ordered to appear before Judge Philip L. Sullivan in criminal court Monday on a charge of conspiring to defraud the life insurance company of $1,000,000. Arrest in Lavish Home At the same time, according to Courtney, a grand jury investigation of collapse of the insurance company will begin. Stevens, as head of one of the midwest’s most prominent hosteleries and the largest life insurance company in the state, has been a prominent figure in financial circles. He also headed the Lasalle hotel here, which was linked with his other holdings. Two police squads arrested Stevens in his palatial home. He protested when they faile dto produce a warrant, but was held under guard until other officers brought the warrant. His wife stood by and his three sons chatted with friends upsairs while the warrant was read. Two Others Accused He was taken to detective headquarters, where he signed the arrest slip and bond, and was permitted to return to his home. Stevens’ 80-year-old father, James W. Stevens, and his brother, Raymond W. Stevens, were named in the charges as co-conspirators. It was alleged that more than $10,000,000 insurance assets were frozen in operation of the two hotels. The insurance company held $150,000,000 in policies. HUGE TRADE BOARD CUT STIRS LIBERALS’ WRATH Proposed 65 Per cent Slash to Bring Bitter Congress Fight. R’J Heripps-Hotr.nrd Xewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—A 65 per cent cut in appropriations for the federal trade commission, proposed by the house appropriations committee, will be fought by liberals ip both houses of congress. It may become an issue in the Speakership fight in the house since Representative Joseph Byrns <Dem.. Tenn.), one of the candidates for Speaker, is chairman of the committee rec inmending the cut. President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt's friends on Capitol Hill believe he favors a strong federal trade commission. The 65 per cent cut is the largest imposed on any agency of the government since the economy drive commenced two years ago. The commission is spending $1,466,500 this year. The budget bureau recommended $1,109,550 for 1934, and the commission appealed for an additional $105,000. The house committee recommended that a total of $510,000 be allowed. If the recommendation is followed no economic investigations of any kind can be carried on.

against Volpert, although witnesses held him blameless. "We are afraid to tell Clay that Jackie's dead,” sobbed Mrs. Bessie Parker, the mother. "Neighbors told me that Clay edged through the crowd around Jackie, took one look and turned away with tears running down his cheeks. “He hasn't said a word all morning, But I'll have to tell him.” Parents of the boys are separated and whereabouts of the father, Eugene Parker, i.v unknown.

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EFFICIENCY AIM OF M’NUTT IN REORGANIZATION No Undemocratic One-Man Rule Contemplated if Broad Powers Are Conferred on Him, Says Governor. ECONOMY GOAL WILL BE SOUGHT No Intention to Upset Present Plan of Boards for Institutions, States Executive; Bills Seem Assured Passage. No undemocratic, one-man government is contemplated by the administration should the broad powers provided in the state government reorganization measure be conferred upon the chief executive, it was promised today by Governor Paul V. McNutt. “All governmental functions will be retained and reorganization will be in the interest of economy and efficiency and not for political purposes,” he pledged. The Governor said he has no intention to upset the present plan of having boards of trustees for each of the twentytwo state penal and benevolent institutions.

These now are governed by bipartisan boards of four members. If the reorganization plan becomes law, the Governor can ignore the bipartisan feature, and make appointments either for fitHOME OF STEEL CHIEF BOMBED Four Escape Death: Police Blame Labor Radicals in Youngstown. j By I nited Press YOUNGSTOWN. 0.. Jan. 28.—A. ; W. Smith, general superintendent of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, and three members of his family escaped death early today i in a bomb explosion that wrecked the front of the Smith dwelling. A second and larger oomb failed to explode. Police attributed the bombing to ; labor radicals and guards were placed over homes of other sheet and tube officials. The homes of Frank Purnell, president; W. C. Riley, vice-president, and W. B. Gillies, general manager !of the Youngstown district, were | searched, but no bombs w’ere found.

REMODELING CAMPAIGN TALKED BY BUILDERS t Stress Plan as Means of Giving Additional Employment. Proposal for a campaign to stimu- : late remodeling and rehabilitation |of property to provide additional ■ employment was discussed at a s meeting Friday of the new building | trades division of the Chamber of ; Commerce. The group, which was organized at the meeting under chairmenship jof Milton K. Foxworthy, is comj posed of representative leaders in : the building industry. A committee to study methods used in other cities to stimulate employment of building trades craftsman was named. Members are Hugh J. Baker, president of Hugh J. Baker & Cos., chairman; Otto N. Mueller, archi- ) feet: Albert S. Pierson, PiersonLewis Hardware Company; Robert S. Foster. R. S. Foster Lumber Company. and Richard H. Shirley, W. H. Johnson & Son Company. FARMERS OPPOSE GLASS Bureau Sends Message to Roosevelt, Attacking Virginian. Opposition to rumored selection of Senator Carter Glass iDem., Va.) as treasury secretary by PresidentElect Franklin D. Roosevelt was voiced P’riday by the Indiana Farm Bureau in a telegram to the Presi-dent-elect. A resolution condemning Glass’ opposition to currency inflation, supported by the Inidana farm bureau, was sent. Chicago Stocks Opening ißv Abbott. Hoobin & Co.i —J&n, 23Bore Warner... 84 Middlewest ’■ Cities Serv 2' US GvDSum 224 Cord Coro 6 3 1 Walereen Stores 134 Cont Chi com.. 14

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ness or party political purposes, it was pointed out. Retention of the individual institution trustee system is in the interest of democracy by securing services of many citizens in governmental affairs, McNutt said. He also reiterated that qualifications, and not politics, will govern his selections. Other aspects of the proposed law w’hich will make for democracy, the Governor pointed out, is the provision for full-time functioning of the Lieutenant-Governor, and the fact that the majority of the eight departments will be governed by active boards, the whole forming a cabinet of department heads with the chief executive. Rein’s in Governor’s Hands However, the bill, as presented in both houses Friday afternoon, does place the reins of state government squarely in the hands of the Governor. It puts the entire personnel, with the exception of elective officers and one deputy each, into the hands of the chief executive. This gives him full authority to hire or fire any one of the thousands of state employes in any department of state or state institution, except the two universities. As Democratic measures, the bills seem assured of passage, the senate bill being already on second reading and the house bill ready for favorable committee report Monday. G Democratic caucus approval was given the measures before they were introduced. Appoint Attorney-General In addition to setting up eight divisions of the state government, the bill will remove the attorneygeneral from the ballot, giving his appointment to the Governor. Another bill will be introduced to combine the offices of clerk and reporter of the supreme and appellate courts and further shorten the ballot, it was said. The judiciary, being separate from the administrative branch of the government, remains intact. Aside from that the Governor is given complete power to do almost anything ne wants in the way of mergers and reorganization.

Reorganization as Planned Present possibilities reported are as follows: Executive division, composed of the Governor only, will take over the state police, health department, criminal bureau, all inspection, poor relief, pardons and paroles, live stock sanitary board, armory board, | state charities, legislative reference bureau, arson division of the fire marshal's office and all professional boards. Division of state, composed of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and secretary of state, with the secretary as chief administrator, will take over the elections and national guard. Audit and control, composed of the Governor, auditor of state and attorney general, with the auditor as chief administrator, will take over the board of accounts, budget control, other than legislative, inj surance, banking and secuirties departments. Treasury, composed of the Governor, treasurer and an apponitee of the Governor, with the treasurer as chief administrator, will take over the treasury department, all licensing, gasoline tax collection and the state tax board. Division of Work Law' division, consisting of the Governor, auditor and attorneygeneral, will take over all legal work. Education division, composed of the Governor, superintendent of public instruction, lieutenant-gov-ernor and from one to five appointees of the Governor, will take over the state department of education, literary and historical bureau. Public works, composed of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and three persons named by the Governor. will take over the state highway commission, conservation department, state fair and buildings and grounds. Commerce and industries, composed of the Governor. LieutenantGovernor and three to five appointees of the Governor, will take over the public service commission and i industrial boards.