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Mf-Urrady Huston Front South Bend. Tnri., conics nn author with a now book which will again make the world remember that city. McCready Huston has written a hilarious new hook. “The Family Ticket," which Robert M. Mcßride h- Cos. have just, published. The bonk is a series of letters of a very modern father. O. Roplou has illustrated this merry book. an a nt WALTER I). HIC KMAN ei-'HK most, discussed woman of sicJL lion of the year is "Ann Vickers" and Sinclair Lewis, the author of "Babbitt,” Main Street" and ‘ Elmer Gentry,” is the cause of Ann s prominence. Ann to me seems to be the woman who has experienced the most of her sex in the last, thirty years in this country. She suffered, triumphed and failed in her struggles from the time she was relieved by the Grace of God of her father's logic and philosophy of life as a superintendent of schools in a small Illinois town, called by Lewis, "Waubanakee" until she attached herself to a married judge in New' York. The striking and challenging thing about Ann Vickers is that she is an “ordinary woman” and not an exceptional one. And that is the reason she is going to be the most discussed woman in this year’s fiction.
When Ann was a. youngster her father and mother worked on the i theory that Ann "as brine respecta- ! bly educated by her father and | mother, by the Waubanakee public j schools, and the Sunday school of ! the First *and only) Waubanakee I Presbyterian church.” When Ann spoke out of turn in her Sunday school class and wanted to know why Lot's wife didn't have good reasons to look back at Sodom and found fault with God turning her into a pillar of salt. Ann was promptly marched right out of the I class in disgrace. And Ann promptly became "stunned, anarchistic ! with this early discovery if injustice ! too amazed to start a riot.” And as only Lewis can sum up character in a single sentence, you discover—" Now it is true,that Ann Vickers, at 15, was all that she would ever be at 40. except for the trimmings.” nun Lewis gets down under the surface of life and sex in a girl's school when Ann goes to Point Royal college and the author brands the school from pupils to faculty a ‘'nunnery” with the possible exception of the assistant professor of history, who tried to "elevate” Ann through the ancient method and her clumsily offered "purple Greece and golden Italy and misty England." And Ann won when she told the professor I don't see just what being seduced has to do with visiting purple Greece and misty England. New way of paying for Cook's Tours. 1 should think." Then marvel at Lewis’ description cf the college faculty—"Most of the male teachers at Point Royal were gray and worried and timid, and given to morality and peanut butter.” Enough for Ann's hectic days at college. Lewis hits his most, magnificent stride when Ann goes into the early movement for woman's suffrage.
Ann Vickers as a social expert becomes the storm center of a Southern prison. It must be remembered that Lewis warns the reader that "all characters are entirely fictitious" and "while it is believed that an entirely accurate account is given of prisons, settlement houses and suffrage organizations, none of the institutions described refer to actual institutions." And yet it is Ann's struggle to do something against the terrible system of punishment of the prisoners which results in one of her most crushing defeats. Here it is believed Is the biggest writing of the year. To my own little way of thinking it is the most tremendous theater of fiction we have had in many years. And I have only scratched the surface of this story. Published by Doubleday, Doran dr Cos., sells for 52.50. a a a Booksellers over the country report that Bobbs-Mernll of Indianapolis is the publisher of one oj the consistent best sellers in nonfiction. Os course, it is "Richard Halliburton's “The Flying Carpet." BUB Have just received a copy of "The Womans Doctor." The title assures you that its author is anonymous. Published by Macaulay. Wonder what th n doctors actually think of these "revelations?” a a a What is the name of Fannie Hurst's new novel? It is "Imitation of Life." And I believe that Bea Pullman, its chief character, will run Ann Vickers a close second as the most discussed lady of this year's fiction.
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‘F.R.’THOUGHT SHOTS WERE FIRECRACKERS President-Elect Gives His Impressions of Ordeal at Miami. FEARED FOR CERMAK Believed Mayor Was Dead as He Felt for Pulse and Found None. BY FREDERICK A. STORM I niterl F*re** Staff Correspondent ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO NEW I YORK. Feb. 17. President-Elect] Iranklin D. Roosevelt Thursday aft- I ernoon told newspaper men his experienees as a target for the bullets j of a frenzied "hater of presidents j and kings." Sitting comfortably in the drawing room of his private car, Mr. Roosevelt spoke calmly, and showed no trace of the ordeal in which he saw his friend, Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, shot down, and four others nearby wounded. In his own words, between puffs on a eigaret. he sketched the details of the frantic two minutes covering the event. I have heard so many accounts myself." hr said, "that I have been trying to think what really happened, as I saw it.” Refuses to Repeat Speech “After I had finished speaking," he continued, "someone from the talking picture people climbed on the back of the car and said, ‘You must repeat the speech for us.’ I said I would not. He said, ‘We have ecme 1.000 miles for this.’ I said. 1 am very sorry, but I can't do it. "Having said that, I slid off the back of my car into my seat, “Just then. Mayor Cermak rame forward and I talked with him a minute about Chicago in general. Then he moved of! behind the car. Bob Clark lone of the secret service men) was standing right by him. As he moved away, a man came forward with a long telegram and started telling me what it contained. While he was talking, I leaned forward.
Thought It Firecrackers ‘‘Just then I heard what I thought was a firecracker, then several more. The man talking with me pulled back and the chauffeur started ‘he car. "I looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up and Mrs. Gill collapsing. I told the chauffeur to stop. He did, about fifteen feet from where we started. The secret service men shouted. 'Get, out of the ! crowd.’ The chauffeur started again and I stopped him again, this time at the corner of the band stand. ‘‘Looking back, I saw Cermak being carried along and we put him in our ear. He was alive, but I was afraid he wouldn't last. I got my hand on his pulse and found none. "He slumped forward. Detective from Miami, standing on the running board on that side of the car was leaning over him. He said after we had gone a couple of blocks he was afraid Cermak would not last. "I too. was fearful. Just then Cermak straightened up and I got his pulse. That was surprising. For three blocks I actually believe his heart had stopped. “Tony, Don't Move” “I held him all the way to the hospital and his pulse constantly improved. It seemed like twentyfive miles to the hospital. I talked to him all the way. I remember I said ‘Tony, don't move—keep quiet —it won't hurt if you keep quiet and remain perfectly still.’ "I found that a bullet—the one probably that hit Cermak—graced the top of Clark's hand. His hand was all bloody and scratched. "You know I knew Bill Sinnott. I kidded him at the hospital Thursday morning and told him they couldn't hurt him with a bullet in the head, it would just bounce off. I left orders for them to starve him and take off at least ten pounds.”
BONFILS' WILL IS FILED Value of Publisher's Estate Is Set at $7,575,000. Kv 1 nitcrl Pres* DENVER. Colo.. Feb. 17.—The will of F. G. Bonffls, late publisher of the Denver Post, was filed for probate Thursday with a preliminary estimate setting value of the estate at approximately $7,575.00. Real estate valued at $75,000. and personal property to the extent of 57.500.000 were listed. Hearing on a petition to admit the will to probate was set for March 27. PAY RUMORS SPIKED City Financial Experts Deny Police. Firemen Face Danger Period. Reports that city police and firemen faced possible weeks without pay after June 1. were spiked today by city financial experts. They said that loans to be made in anticipation of the May tax installment will be sufficient to continue meeting of the city pay roll.
Robinson Rants on Horrors of Repeal
BY WALKER STONE, Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Senator Arthur Robinson of Indiana Thursday regaled the senate with an old-fashioned prohibition speech, such as it has not heard since the departure of Senator "Tomtom" Heflin of Alabama. The vinegary Hoosier senator pulled out of the bag all the old time-worn arguments and extravaganzas. The repeal of the eightenth amendment. Robinson said, with logic that amused his colleagues, r ;ould mean that a drive imme- *
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TINFOIL TRAPS $ 1,000,000 FIREBUG
Thrifty Habit Gives Clew to Federal Agent in Arson Hunt
Tht in <hf ninth of a *orios of to r jr* ha*od on information from thr Sir. of thr I nilrrt Mat** Bureau of In\r.tiration anrl other rnnrrr* trllinr for th firt timr the bureau* amenta’ part in famnu* bm Merie*. BY LOU WEDEMAR, Times Staff Writer IN the spring of 1927, New York police were searching the underworld for a group of men who, for a price, would set fire to any structure and guarantee its destruction. The arson ring had caused more than forty-five serious fires. Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy had sought them vainly. Night after night he sat in his office awaiting the bell that would tell of another incendiary fire. And every time he and his men reached the scene too late. The warehouse at 52 Greenwich street, two blocks above Battery Park in a district, of old buildings populated chiefly by Armenians, Syrians, and others from the Near East, was different from neighboring structures, in that it was bonded by the federal government. In this warehouse imported foods and furs, condemned as dangerous to health, were stored. Its proprietor was a wealthy Greek importer, Socrates Moscah'lades. One afternoon Socrates, a bachelor who devoted most of his time to thinking how to make more money, railed George Spirou in to s°e him. "Friend,” Socrates said. “I have become powerful in this city.” ‘ You certainly have, Mr. Mosrahlades.” Spirou agreed. "And yet I ■ need money. You need money, too; you owe me money. I have a plan to make us rich. “You have a lot, of worthless fur in this warehouse. The government will not let you sell it because it carries germs—they say it will give people anthrax. "I have thousands of dollars’ worth of imported olives and cheese. The department of agriculture will not let me sell them for similar reasons. That is not fair. We have investments at stake.” "More than that,” said Spirou cunningly, “we have insurance on them.” "Correct,” said Socrates. “Listen to me. I know a man who knows a man . .
lITTLE Charles Carmen was .4 an ex-convict. He had served time for arson. He had been trying to live straight for five years, but w'hen Socrates’ friend came to him w'ith SI,OOO in greenbacks he could not refuse. The plot worked smoothly. Moscahlades, his eyes on the doorway that led to the rear of thp warehouse, called all his employes together that afternoon and promised them W'age increases. He was safe in doing so; he knew he w'ouid not have to pay. In the last few' nights trucks had removed the bonded goods and they had been sold. And Charles Carmen. Simon Zwiebach and Joseph Kwit. three of the city's most dangerous firebugs. were waiting outside the door. Moscahlades had invested $4,000 in fees to the arson gang, but he
GIRL, 5, IS BURNED TO DEATH IN BED Child Dies While Parents Toil on Farm. F> u 7 n itrrf Ptcss SEYMOUR. Ind.. Feb. 17.—The 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Von Dielingen, west of Seymour, was found burned to death in her bed Thursday. The girl had been left alone in the house while the parents were doing chores. When the mother came into the house she found her daughter in bed underneath the covers, with her clothing almost completely burned away. EDITORS TOUR POINTS OF INTEREST IN CITY Publishers Problems Are Discussed in Conference at Claypool. Tour of the Indiana University Medical center, the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children and other points of interest was conducted today by members of the Indiana Journalism and Advertising conference. Today's sessions, which were held at the Claypool, included one on publishers’ problems, addressed by Roger Mayhill. publisher of the Delphi Citizens, and another on circulation problems, with ex-Senator Charles R. Morris, editor of the Salem Democrat and A. N. Crecraft, editor of the Franklin Democrat, presiding. Harry Rutledge, Chicago, speaker on economic measures in publishing a paper. The Indiana Weekly Press Association sponsored the luncheon today. which was held at the Claypool. Governor Paul V. McNutt will speak at the banquet tonight in the hotel.
diately would follow for repeal of the nineteenth amendment (woman suffrage! and the sevententh amendment (income tax>. "All this propaganda, which has poisoned the American mind,' said Robinson, "was started by a group of not more than seventyfive millionaires, who are anxious to unload their taxes upon the backs of the beer drinkers of the country.” "Any one who votes for this resolution." said Robinson, ‘votes to return the saloon, the same oldfashioned saloon that for 150 years besotted American manhood, destroyed homes, womanhood, and
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expected to collect twice—for the sale of the merchandise and on insurance on it. He would make about $200,000. When all the employes were listening intently, he saw the three firebugs slip in through the door. “Here is a good place,” whispered Carmen, pausing in a small room midway in the warehouse. Now that he was committed- to the act, he was the coolest of the three. Zwiebach and Kwit w'ere tyros compared to him. They helped spread gasoline over papers, cloth and straw. From this place the flames would spread quickly through the building. He lighted the time-candle and set it himself, beside a pile of excelsior. In half an hour the flames would touch the excelsior, and Bishop's warehouse would go up in smoke. 8 tt tt THE candle burned with a sputter. “Wait,” said Carmen. “I’ll fix it.” He bent over to clean the wick.
Mae West Meets a Real, Live Hermit; Vows SheTl Never, Never Don Trousers
Dames Who Wear Pants Have No Shame, She Tells World. BY JOSEPH MITCHELL Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—'Thp backstage elevator at the Paramount theater was crowded with chorus girls and Mae West. At the fifth floor the undulatory Miss West yawned heartily, covered her arrogant mouth with one hand, touched the elevator operator's elbow with the other, and said, "I'll get off here and give the rest of you some room.” The star of “She Done Him Wrong” walked down the hall and entered her dressing room—moving slowly like a sea wave on a sumber beae'i. She sat down and ceremoniously | crossed her legs. She pulled ninej heavy bracelets off her arms and piled them up on the table. Then she unhitched two incredible earrings. "Let me pull some of my harness off.” she said, adding the earrings to the mound of bracelets, "and I'll give you a few- words of wisdom. "Oh, yes. I feel good today. The snow and all. And getting back home and all. I've been in Hollywood. I guess you know. I had a lot of adventures out there. I net g, hermit. n n n “/''VH. yes. I met a hermit. He was V-/ the only man out there that interested me. His name was Peter the Hermit. I called him Pete. Everybody in Hollywood knows him.
childhood, controlled legislatures, and corrupted governments.” BBS Advocates of repeal wtu be disappointed in the "pitifully small revenue" derived from a liquor tax. Robinson said, because "people who can't buy bread haven't the money to buy booze.” In the next breath, he predicted that the minute the eighteenth amendment is repealed the entire nation "will go on a drunken spree, and it will not be safe to walk in the streets of our cities.” The senate was about
Firemen are fighting the blaze that destroyed the warehouse ?<t 52 Greenwich street, New York. Socrates Mosrahlades, shown at left, went to orison as chief plotter.
As he did so. a thought flashed through his mind. “I ought not to be doing this. I promised my wife I wouldn’t.’” His hand trembled and he knocked the candle over. Flash! The gasoline flared up, and the room was a mass of flames. Screaming. Carmen raced for the door, his confederates ahead of him. They walked calmly enough to the street and vanished. A few minutes later Moscahlades and his employes fled for their lives. Apparatus was on its way to fight one of the worst fires Manhattan had seen in years. Five alarms were turned in before it was under control. Damage was estimated at $1,125,000. Several families were made homeless. Fire Marshal Brophy, sniffing the air like a mastiff, smelled gasoline, but the proof, as usual, was gone. An investigation was begun before the embers had been extinguished.
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"He lives up in the mountains and trains donkeys and raises degs. He thinks Hollywood is the place the preachers talk about when they tell people where they're going when they die. Well, he told some friends of his that he wanted to meet me. I was excited on account of I never met a hermit and I wanted to see how one acted. "So one day I got in my automobile and went up in the mountains
one-third full when Robinson concluded. Those who stayed to listen remained to enjoy the now rare spectacle of a public official claiming that prohibition has reduced drunkenness. "Fed by propaganda, public opinion has veered away from prohibition." said Robinson. "But it will veer back, and in the meantime I shall not prostitute my conscience for political gain.” Senator Jim Watson, "little Arthur's lame duck colleague, sitting directly in front of the speaker. smiled broadly and winked in the other direction.
The insurance companies received an application from Moscahlades for more than SIBO,OOO and for $1,000,000 from the owners of the building. The police department, fire department. agricultural department and customs bureau sent investigators. On the suspicion that mail fraud had been committed in asking the insurance, postoffice inspectors also became interested. 8 8 8 BUT Moscahlades smiled at them. His books? Spirou kept them, but they had been destroyed in the fire. His merchandise? It was burned up. Some of it had been removed? Impossible —unless it was stolen by thieves. He talked with the investigators nonchalantly. “I am very powerful.” he said. "It will not do to suggest that I am a party to anything unlawful.” When the case was called to the attention of District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, he communicated with Director J. Edgar Hoover at the Bureau of Investigation, and asked for a special agent to help him. Agent J-49 was assigned. He was an expert in arson cases, and also was an accountant. But when he had surveyed the existing information he was baffled momentarily. There were no books to study, no evidence to put under the microscope. Then Fire *Marshal Brophy came out of the ruins, triumphant, carrying a bent and blackened can. “By some chance,” he explained,
to visit him. He was 70 years old and as strong as an ox. I guess it was a love affair that turned him into a hermit. Well, I thought, he was going to lecture me, like he does the other movie women, but no, he just said I should't wear high-heeled shoes. He said I should go barefooted and I should fill my lungs full of fresh air every morning. "He said I should come up in the mountains and stay for a month or
ana HE wasn't a backward hermit, was he?” "Oh. no. not at all. He seemed to get a kick out of me. He had me feel his muscle. Oh, he had a good muscle, and he got on one of his donkeys and jumped over some hurdles he had there in the front yard. H< said it took a lot of training to make a donkey jump a hurdle. And he gave me one of his photographs and wrote across it, 'From Peter to Mae.’ He had a beard a yard long and I told him the next time I went to see him I was going to bring him a present. 'He said. 'What kind of a present. Mae?' And I said, 'A nice safety razor, Pete.’ "And he said I shculd promise
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"the fire didn't get inside it, its a quarter full of gasoline!" That was something tangible It proved arson. But Moscahlades was too tough for them. Agent J-49 tried all his wiles on him. but the Greek smiled and shrugged him off. J-49 v.as almost convinced that if there had been a plot it had been without Moscahlades’ knowledge. But Spirou, the fur merchant, seemed as innocent, and referred every inquiry to Moscahlades. "He knows all about the business,” Spirou said, chewing a stick of gum, and saving the tinfoil. u b a IT was night. The office of the bureau of investigation apparently was closed. But behind drawn curtains Agent J-49 was continine his inquiry. Moscahlades still was the nonchalant and Spirou still the innocent associate. "I tell you. it must have been electric wires.” said Spirou for the fifth time. He unwrapped another stick of gum and put the tinfoil in his pocket. "Maybe." said Moscahlades again. Suddenly Special Agent J-49 straightened in his chair. He pressed a secret button under his desk. The switchboard operator saw a green light and knew what it meant. A moment later ,I-49's telephone rang, and he picked up the receiver. The line was dead, but the suspects didn't know it. "Yes,” he said. "Anything new? Who? Where'd you find them? Spirou, eh? Fine!” Spirou's face was white when J-49 turned to him. "Ready to talk now?” J-49 asked. • “T-talk?” "Yes. talk. We know about the bocks, Spirou. You’re constitutionally unable to destroy any papers, so you kept them and told Moscahlades they were gone. You might as well tell the truth.” nun SPIROU'S trembling increased. Moscahlades looked at him, reached for his hat and started for the door. "I have an important appointment with a politician,” he said. "Sit down, Socrates,” said Agent J-49. "You have an important appointment right here, where politics doesn't mean a thing. Mr. Spirou wants to tell us a little story.” And Spirou did. His story and that of others whose confessions tumbied after his. brought the entire arson gang into federal court before Judge Henry W. Goddard. Moscahlades got, eight years in Atlanta, Spirou six years and the firebugs, Kwit, Zwiebach and Carmen, almost equally long terms. To the end, however, Mascahlades refused to talk. “I'll take my medicine," he said. Months later the director asked Agent J-49 how he had known about Spirou's books. J-9 grinned. "He was always chewing gum, chief,” he explained. “And he never threw away the tinfoil. He had a habit of saving things. "It flashed on me suddenly that he'd have kept all the books, including records of the payments to the'firebugs. After that it was just a matter of accounting.” NEXT: The Silent Degree.
The Recluse Was Such a Fine, Strong Man, Clad Only in Trunks. him not to wear pants like the other movie women. And I said, ‘Don't you worry.’ I said, ‘Look here, Pete, not only would I look like a fool in pants, what with my figure and all, but it also wouldn't help my career.’ n n n “ A S a matter of fact Pete wore -t\. trunks. He was one of these health fiends. He said he was going to come over to Hollywood and visit me. "I said, 'lf you do. I want you to get yourself dressed up. Don’t wear those trunks. I don't want any naked men knocking on my front door. My reputation is bad enough as it is. Oh, yes. Pete was a knockout. You know how it is.” She said her bracelets were “not good stuff.” She said she was in a holdup on the west coast and a gangster rebbed her of her diamond pendant in the shape of a champagne bottle. She said that here lately she read m the newspaper that her father was a bouncer in a Brooklyn saloon in the old days—she often speaks of the old days, although the records on Welfare Island indicate that she was born in Brooklvn on Aug 17 1900. 8 ’
father was no bouncer," she -‘-’'A said. "He was a prize fighter and his name was Battling Jack West, lightweight champion at one time. He never had a knockout. It's from rum that I get my love for horse races and Drize fights, but he was no bouncer, see what I mean,” America's heartiest lady—the inventor of the shimmy and the lady who insists that “I ain't ice!"—drew a scarlet glove on her arm and asked her colored maid for a glass of water. She said that she never drinks whisky, beer or wine, and that, the reason she smokes cigarets on the hecause it makes me look hard. Her next photoplay, she said ill be called “Don't Call Me Mamavbe - “I'm No Angel." i what burns me up.” she said, "is •sce.ng them dumb dames on the west coast wearing pants. They don have any shame! t ♦ Y ,? U ’ I L neVer catch mp in Pants. take that fashion as a personal insult.” *
PENSION Bin PUSHED AHEAD BY SENATORS No Major Amendments Will Be Placed in Measure to Help Aged. FIGHT OVER RECEIVERS Effort to Limit .$ Balked: Truck !>:'• Grows Hotter. Advancement in the state of the old age pension bill is expected today by Senator Chester A. Watson iDem.. Ft. Wayne), chairman of the committee which has given the measure a favorable report . Watson said that he would watch for the earliest opportunity to get the bill sent to engrossment and that no material amendments to the measure, as it passed the house, are anticipated. Senatorial lawyers again had a field day Thursday, when they argued against the bill to limit fees for receivers and attorneys lor | receivers to nos more than $1 000 in any receivership rase. Receiver Bill Shelved "I know you people in Marion county have had plenty of trouble j with receivership suits, but in my | county we have courts that satisfy us. Senator Walter Vermillion | (Deni.. Anderson) told the senate. Despite efforts of Senator William V. Doogs (Dem., Cannelton) and other senators from the less populous districts, the measure to stamp out, excessive receivership fees was postponed indefinitely. Lively tilts between senators advocating and opposing the Wickard bill to limit trucks to a gross weight of 28.000 pounds occurred when this measure was up for second reading. Accusations that some senators were "speaking for trucking interests" brought sharp denials from the opposition. By a vote of 32 to 12 the bill was advanced to third 1 reading. Row Over Trucks Opinions are being expressed that this test vote show’s the sentiment in the senate toward stricter regulation and taxation of trucks, as proposed in a house bill now' pending in the upper house for final vote. A flood of petitions asking the assembly to enact laws which will prevent “unjust, unreasonable, and dis- | criminatory operation of buses and I trucks” to the detriment of “wellregulated railroads” were received | Thursday by the senate. By common consent they were rej ferred to the roads committee, one | sample petition being read in open j session. Among the new measures introj duced Thursday was one to amend | the state Constitution to provide four-year terms for county officers, t except commissioners, instead of electing the principal officials every two years. They would be ineligible to succeed themselves. Bridge Project Urged Indorsement of the assembly for a bridge to be built across the Ohio river, at Cannelton, with funds advanced by federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation was asked in a resolution. Senator Herbert V. Tormohlpn (Rep., Portland), introduced another taxation bill, this time singling out oleomargarine for a levy of 5 cents a pound. Tormohlen s plan is to collect the tax through revenue stamps to be affixed to packages. Described as a safety measure for railroad trains, a bill requiring minimum train crews of conductor, engincman, fireman, brakeman and flagman was introduced by Senator William P. Dennigan (Dem., Vincennes), and several others as co-authors. Attempt to tax cigarets and cig aret papers was advanced to third reading. Votp in the senate on this bill will be taken within a few' days.
ELECT NEW OFFICERS AT HOSPITAL PARLEY The Rev. Karl Meister of Elyria, 0., Is Named President. Officers were elected at the closing session of the convention of the National Methodist Association of Hospitals, Homes and Deaconess work at the Claypool Thursday. They are the Rev. Karl Meister of Elyria. 0., president; Paul H. Fesler and Rev. N. P. Glpmaker of Chicago, Miss Grace Steiner of Cincinnati and Miss Grace Steiner of Cincinnati, and Miss Frances Knight of Detroit, vice-presidents; the Rev. G. M. Hanner of Colorado Springs, Colo., secretary and, the Rev. O. J. Carder of St. Joseph, Mo., treasurer. The Indianapolis Methodist hospital tied with the Deaconess Babyfold at Normal. 111., for first place in judging of exhibits.
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