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ALL SECTIONS OF NATION IN NEW CABINET Roosevelt’s Aids to Include Nearly Every Shade of Party Opinion. BREAKS WITH TRADITION Woman Gets Post: Other Places Are Given to G. 0. P. Insurgents. By t mid Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.—Presi-dent-Elect Franklin Roosevelt has completed his cabinet of nine men and one woman who will bring to the new administration the views of nearly every section and every shade of party opinion. The final set-up, as disclosed to the Democratic leaders here, includes men experienced in industry and finance, in the problems of the farmer and the laboring man, in legislation and politics. 7’he new cabinet breaks with tradition in giving representation to men who previously had been aligned with the Republican party.! For the first time, it gives a woman a place at the national council table., Here’s the Lineups Barring last-minute changes, the cabinet which will help Mr. Roosevelt shape his promised “new deal” j will be: Secretary of State Senator Cor-j dell Hull, Tennessee. Secretary of Treasury—William H. Woodin. New York industrialist. Secretary of War—George H. Dern. Governor of Utah from 1924 to 1932. Attorney - General Senator Thomas j. Walsh. Montaana. Secretary of Navy—Senator Claude A. Swanson. Virginia. Secretary of Agriculture—Henry A Wallace, lowa farm publisher. Postmaster-General James A. Farley, New- York, chairman of the Democratic national committee . Secretary of Commerce—Daniel C. Roper. South Carolina lawyer and veteran Democrat. Secretary of Interior Harold Jckes, Illinois lawyer and one-time ‘•'Bull Moose” Republican. Secretary of Labor—Miss Frances Perkins, New York state industrial commissioner and authority on -aoor problems. Insurgents Recognized Selection of Hull and Woodin already has been announced formally by Mr. Roosevelt. Announcement of the others is expected soon. Choice of Ickcs, Roper and Dern were the last to be decided. Ickes, a Chicago attorney, was a leader in the Bull Moose campaign of 1912 and his selection gives representation to the insurgent Republican elements which supported Mr. Roosevelt in the last election. The interior department post which he will fill had been offered to two Republican senators, Hiram Johnson of California and Bronson Cutting of New' Mexico, but they preferred to remain in the senate. Miss Perkins, in private life Mrs. Paul C. Wilson, also is knowm as a liberal. Woodin, millionaire head of the American Car Foundry Company, and big business’ representative in Ihe cabinet, listed himself as a Republican until .1928. He shifted allegiance when Alfred E. Smith headed the Democratic ticket. Dern Knows West’s Problems Wallace, lowa farm publisher, who will head the agriculture department. comes of a Republican family. His father. Henry C. Wallace, was Republican secretary of agriculture in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Roper, chosen to be secretary of commerce, is a veteran southern Democratic leader and is experienced in federal administrative work. During the Wilson administration he held the posts of assistant postmaster-general, vice-chairman of the tariff commission, and commissioner of the internal revenue bureau. In recent years he has practiced law here. Almost from the first, Dern’s name had figured in cabinet discussion. Mine-owner, banker and Governor of Utah for eight years, he thoroughly is experienced in the problems of the west. Because of this he was talked of at first for the interior department post, but was shifted to the war department. GRAIN RATE CUT ASKED Railway Tariff Comparable to Truck Charge Is Sought. By Utitled Pres* PEORIA. 111., Feb. 23.—Reduction of railroad grain rates to a basis comparable to motor truck rates was asked today by 450 stockholders of the Illinois Grain Corporation in a resolution authorizing officers to petition federal and state commerce commissions. The action was prompted by fear that direct hauling of grain from far mto terminal and use of waterways will eliminate small country elevators. APPROPRIATION SOUGHT Judge Cox Asks SI 12 Monthly Pay for Assistant Bailiff. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox today sought an appropriation of sll2 monthly to pay salary of an assistant bailiff for his court. The new past, created by Cox when he took office Jan. 1. was not provided for in the court’s 1933 budget.

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Riley’s Home to Be Dismantled, Funds for Upkeep Depleted

BY HELEN LINDSAY James Whitcomb Riley’s home is about to be dismantled. Furnishings of the house on Lockerbie street, where Riley lived and wrote many of his poems, will be moved the first of April, when Miss Katy Kendall, caretaker of the home, moves. Miss Kendall will take with her everything in the house except furnishings in the library. Riley’s bedroom. and the dining room. The furnishings of these rooms are the property of the Riley Memorial Association, she says. This will not be sold. Guests from all parts of the world have visited the Lockerbie street home, to be shown about by "Katy Kendall.” housekeeper and friend of the poet. Miss Kendall has lived in the home for the last forty-five years. The Lockerbie street home and its surroundings

Roosevelt Aiming at Huge Cut in Veterans’ Costs Plans Economies Totaling $400,000,000, Including $250,000,000 in Soldier Payments. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Economies totaling about $400,000,000 through a $250,000,000 cut in veterans’ costs and savings in the national defense service was reported today to be the keystone of President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program for reorganization and reduction of federal expenses.

These are in addition to economies which may result from government- j al changes now being studied for Mr. Roosevelt by Swagar Sherley of Kentucky. The latter was delegated to survey the whole field of governmental activity by the President-elect more than a month ago, and it is understood he will submit his report soon after Mr. Roosevelt takes office on March 4. Mr. Hoover has indicated that he hopes to be able to present his recommendations to congress on this score at the special session slated for about April 1. Faces Great Controversy The proposal to reduce veterans’ expenditures, which now total almost $1,000,000,000 a year, represents a move which no recent administration has dared to make, and it probably will plunge the new President into considerable controversy. Almast every witness at the senate ! finance committee's depression clinic j has urged it as part of a program j to cut federal costs. | Committee members concede that i $400,000,000 could be saved in serv- j ices and payments to veterans who j were not injured in the war, but ' they also admit the obstacles are many. Many of Mr. Roosevelt’s advisers have urged consolidation of the army and navy, with Bernard M. j Baruch the principal proponent of this scheme, but the President-elect has not committed himself. Seek Balanced Budget The next administration, accord- | ing to its spokesman, may not be able to balance the budget immediately, but it hopes to put in motion machinery that will move toward that end. In discussing this question, financiers have told the senate finance committee that definite evidence of a desire to balance the budget in the first year of the new administration would have almost the same psychological effect on business, industry and credit as an actual striking of a balance. In addition to these savings, it is believed that a long stride toward placing federal finances on a sounder basis can be taken through use of the “dictatorial power” lodged in the next President, a possible beer tax estimated to return $150,000,000 annually and continuation of the gasoline tax with an annual revenue of $130,000,000. BANKING CHANGE URGED Single Financial System for U. S. Needed, Says Expert. Dr. Garfield V. Cox. professor of finance in the University of Chicago, stressed the need for a single banking system in the United States in an address to more than 200 persons at the Y. W. C. A. Wedneseday night. Dr. Cox's address was the sixth of a series of eight lecturers given weekly under the sponsorship of the Indianapolis chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy. •PANTHER GIRL’ TO WED Winner of Film Contract Will Be Photographer's Bride. By 1 nited Press HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 23.—Kath - I leen Burke, who won a film contract j as a "panther woman,” and Glen Rardin, Chicago photographer, plan , to be married Saturday, it became I known today with filing of notice of intention to wed.

Called Him 1 ico-1 imer "DOLE CARLYLE was engaged to Janet Hill. When he started taking Betty Kendall to lunches and theaters, Janet’s friends told her not to waste thought on such a two-timer. Janet tried to take their advice, but couldn’t. She is the heroine of the new serial, ‘One I Love,”—a thrilling modern romance. It begins today on Page One, Section Two.

were dear to Riley, as evidenced by frequent mention of it in nis poetry. ‘ The furniture is too heavy and cumbersome for my little house,” Miss Kendall said today. ‘ I have offered it for sale to the memorial association, but they say they will be unable to buy it. I probably will sell all of it but one bedroom suite and the silver to antique dealers. ”It dates irom the period just past the Civil w’ar. There are many lovely sets of dishes, one bought preceding the Civil war. I plan to sel off these.” No definite plans for maintenance of the home have been announced by the association. Officials say that a decrease in receipts at the home have made it impossible to pay expenses of a caretaker. “We plan to keep the home open if we can.” James Carr, secretary, said today. "We may offer it to some family, rent free, in exchange for its care.”

SOUP KITCHEN SPEEDER FINED $45 and Costs Levy Put on Man Caught Driving to Poor Line. Convicted of speeding while driving his automobile to the city soup kitchen, Virgil Moore, 1257 Kentucky avenue, was haunted by a ghost fiom the past today which increased his fine to $45 and costs. After W. H. Harrison, pro tem. judge, in municipal court, had fined Moore $lO and costs on the speeding charge, a probation officer revealed that Moore still owes, the city $33 on a fine assessed in 1930. Only $2 had been paid into the probation department, it was reported, on a previous speeding conviction fine of $35. Moore was arrested Wednesday morning at Kentucky avenue and Missouri street when he was alleged to have been driving forty-five miles an hour. In court today Motorcycle Patrolman Dale Smith testified that Moore told him he “was going to the soup kitchen.” Moore told Harrison that he had “never been in the soup kitchen.” An employe of the kitchen was called into court and identified Moore as a regular visitor there. A bailiff then recalled that Moore had been convicted on a blind tiger charge three years ago. When confronted with the court records. Moore told Harrison that he "didn't remember being placed on probation.” “You're now fined $45 and costs—to help your memory.” Harrison ruled. COPS SEIZE RUM CAR: GANGSTER LOOKS ON Forces Cab Driver to Pass Spot Several Times, Then Flees. While police Wednesday night were inspecting a liquor-laden auto in the 200 block. West Georgia street, an armed gangster passed the spot several times in a taxi to “see who is getting my liquor.” Joe Johnson, 2423 East Tenth street, cab driver, reported he picked up the passenger at a downtown hotel, and was ordered at point of a gun to drive to Georgia street, where police were searching a sedan found to contain thirty-one pints of whiskey. At Illinois and New York streets, the gunman leaped from the cab, ordering Johnson not to stop. Johnson then drove to the police squad, and related the incident. The liquor car apparently was stolen in Chicago, police said. STATE CANNERS MEET Discuss Plans for Obtaining Better Quality of Tomatoes in State. Better quality and increased production of tomatoes in Indiana would result from higher prices, it was agreed at a meeting of the Indiana Canners' Association Wednesday at the Claypool. Purpose of the meeting was to discuss means of obtaining better tomatoes, the quality having dropped in recent years.

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ROUT FARMER PROTEST ARMY 1,000 Irate Men Forced to Retreat in Illinois Mortgage Uprising. Ru l nitrd Pres* KANKAKEE, 111., Feb. 23.—Nearly one thousand irate farmers demonstrating against a farm mortgage foreclosure sale today were forced to retreat by 100 officers armed with tear gas bombs, revolvers and clubs, and reinforcements by the fire department with hoses trained. The demonstration was in protest of scheduled sale of a farm owned by McKinley Hendricks. In the crow'd of protesting farmers were men from Kankakee county and adjoining counties in Illinois and Indiana. In the small army of officers were city police, state highway police, special deputies and American Legion vigilantes. Armed Guards at Banks As the crowd of farmers surged toward the courthouse, the defenders advanced. The two forces halted while a parley w'as called. The farmers dispersed after their spokesman, Fred Winterroth, told them that Sheriff Albert Goodknecht had agreed to accompany a committee to Springfield for a conference with the Governor on the farm mortgage situation. Armed guards were placed around both Kankakee banks and the chamber of commerce offices. The Kankakee company of the Illinois national guard was ordered to be ready in case of further trouble. New Crisis on Friday Another sale is scheduled for Friday and authorities said it w'ould be held under guard of the deputies and police. Farmers declared they W'ould gather in even greater numbers to prevent the sale. Ironically, the holder of the mortgage on the Hendricks farm had decided Frida> to call off today’s sale. Five other sales, scheduled for next Saturday, were called off. Today's followed threats by a crowd of farmers Wednesday against G. W. Boyd, president of the Chamber of Commerce. STATE IS MADE SAFE FOR POOR RACCOONS But Assembly Has Np Time to Aid Unemployed. Indiana’s legislature probably will adjourn without changing the laws which makes it possible to evict any poverty-stricken, unemployed family, but they make the state safe for raccoons. The bill providing penalties for eviction of a raccoon already has passed the house and is ready for senate action today It says: ‘‘lt shall be unlawful for any person to remove or dislodge or to attempt to remove or dislodge any undomesticated raccoon in any manner from any hole, den, pocket, cavity or hollow in any tree, or from any cavity, hole, pocket or den in the earth, or from any hole, cavity or den in or among any rocks wherein such raccoon has secreted itself for security or protection or in which it maintains its nest or den.” Fines from $5 to SSO are levied for violation. •WALL STREET SPIDER’ EXPOSED BY NORRIS Senator Shows How New l'ork Banks Control Business. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.—Pointer in hand. Senator George W. Norris (Rep.. Neb.) today described to the senate the intricate maze of interlocking directorates of large New York banks. From the back wall behind him leered a huge “spider of Wall Street” painted on canvas and surrounded by a web representing the control exercised by six financial concerns on 120 key corporations of the country. “This chart.” Norris lectured. ‘‘ls eight feet square. If I had a chart large enough to contain the names of all corpoartions directly or indirectly controlled by these eight banks, there isn’t a wall space in the senate chamber that would hold the map.” The chart, he said, “shows how the banks reach out over the country and handle utilities, control manufacturers and dominate railroads.”

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CHINESE REPEL BAYONET DRIVE OF JAPANESE Troops Hold Jehol Border at Nanling in Face of Bitter Attack. DEATH LOSSES HEAVY Nippon Infantry Charges After Fierce Air and Artillery Barrage. By United Press NANKING, China, Feb. 23.—A Japanese ultimatum ordering the Chinese to withdraw from the province of Jehol was received by the government at 5 p. m. today. BY RANDALL GOULD United Press Staff Correspondent PEIPING, Feb. 23.—A desperate battle with heavy losses on both sides was announced by the Chinese today in the vicinity of Nanling. The Japanese stormed the Chinese positions after a preliminary air bombing and heavy artillery barrage, the Chinese reported. Wave after wave of green-clad Nipponese broke against the Chinese trenches as eight bayonet charges were made. Machine guns and mortars poured death into the struggling troops, fighting hand-to-hand. The attack finally was repulsed, I and the Chinese held their positions, | they claimed. Nanling. on the Jehol border east of Chaoyang, is the most hotlycontested sector of the 250-mile battle line. The Chinese reported that Japanese planes bombed Chaoyang itself, destroying many houses. Final Plea to Be Made By 1 nited Press NANKING, Feb. 23. Declaring that the Chinese prefer death to slavery, and that although China may not passess shells “each Chinese can stop one,” Foreign Minister Lo Wen Kan announced today that a final appeal would be made to the League of Nations to prevent a cruel, bloody war. The request “in humanity’s name j to exert international force to prevent war” will be sent to Geneva Friday. Set to QuiF League By T nih and J'ress TOKIO, Feb. 23.—Japan will renounce her membership in the League of Nations on March 1 if the league adopts its committee’s report condemning Japan for her military policy in Manchuria, the Nippon Dempo News Agency said today, as the Japanese populace prepared for j war. The agency said the government ! is notifying the league of its intended action. The league votes on the committee report Friday. MRS. ANTONIO MORENO KILLED AT HOLLYWOD Wife of Former Screen Star Dies as Car Plunges Over Cliff. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 23.—Mrs. j Antonio Moreno, wife of the former ! screen actor, was killed today when i her automobile went over a cliff on Mulholland drive. Rene H. Dussag, 21, driver of the 1 car, was not injured. Mrs. Moreno j was thrown out as the car turned over. Her body landed at the bottom of a canyon. Mrs. Moreno, who was 45, was the daughter of the late Charles A. Canfield, oil millionaire. She and Moreno recently separated, but she declared their differences would not lead to a divorce. Hunt Hit-Run Killer Auto SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 23. South Bend police today sought the woman driver of an automobile bearing New York state license plates that struck and killed Mrs. ! Anna Stevens. 68, here Wednesday • night and injured probably fatally 1 her husband. Frank, 72, while they were walking.

Times Cooking School Is Magnet for Huge Crowd Dorothy Ayers Loudon, director of The Times annual cooking school and better housekeeping institute, played a capacity crowd in the English theater at Wedneesday afternoon's session. Housewives thronged the theater, crowding the first floor and balcony and then jamming into the gallery.

Last sessions of the school will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock and 3 o’clock tonight. Doors will be opened at 1 and 7. In the lecture opening the session today. Mrs. Louden will discuss child discipline. She will give mothers with ‘ problem’’ children some hints on disciplining without curbing the spirit. The demonstration will be featured by the preparation of a merry-go-round cake, and all sorts of suggestions for appointments and menus for children’s parties will be presented. Men will be welcomed tonight, for the program will be dedicated to their entertainment. Mrs. Loudon’s plans for stag parties will give any wife a reputation as a “regular” fellow. Exhibits in lobby and theater attracted many housewives and others interested in the culinary art. An added feature, a musical program by M Roland Rapiery, basso, well known for his radio and concert appearances, and Robert Hack-

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Miss Vivian Graham A regular visitor at the Miami hospital where Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago is confined with bullet wounds inflicted last week at the attempted assassination of President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, is his granddaughter, Miss Vivian Graham. Miss Graham, a student at Ladywood school here. left. Indianapolis for Miami shortly after the shooting.

MAYORCERMAK PASSES CRISIS Takes Definite Turn for * fetter. Say Doctors, After Vigil. j By United Press MIAMI. Fla., Feb. 23.—Mayor Anton Cermak was much improved today, his friend, Alderman James B. Bowler. Chicago, reported after visiting the executive. “The mayor is much better, ’ Bowler said. “There has oeen a j big improvement. We certainly i were worried last night, though”’ | Cermak passed the crisis at 7p. m, | Wednesday and this morning had ! shown a definite turn for the bette.'. ! Dr. J. W. Snyder, one of h;s phvI sicians, announced. During the night, for the first | time, two pf Mayor Cermak's physicians remained at the hospi al one, Dr. Frank J. Jirka, his son-in-law. sleeping in the mayor's room. Though official reports had said I that Cermak was recovering satisfactorily from effects of a bullet fired at President-Elect Roosevelt by Giuseppi Zangara, it has been understood unofficially for some days that physicians expected the mayor to reach the crisis Wednesday or Wednesday night. Mrs. Joseph Gill, also seriously wounded by a bullet fired by Zangara, was reported definitely out of danger. Mayor Cermak rallied sufficiently Wednesday night to approve the j sigping of tax warrants ; nearly $5,000,000 for Chicago schools. Os this sum, $4,114,000 was to pay I teachers.

ett, his accompanist, also pleased the large crowd. The first forty-five minutes of Mrs. Loudon’s talk is being broadcast today and tonight over Station WKBF.

Be Your Own Decorator Spring is approaching and spring is redecorating time. If you are planning some work in your home and don't want to spend much money, but are willing to do some work, here is your chance. On the woman’s page Friday. The Times will present the first of a series of authoritative articles on "Be Your Own Decorator.” One of these articles will appear every Friday, until completion. They are written by Dorothy Patz. one of New Yorks most prominent interior decorators. She has decorated the homes of Park avenue mihonaires, and. working for Henry street settlement, has. according to officials, revolutionized the homes of the east side. Practical experience in a Gotham department store has given her a keen insight into how the housewife can add touches here and there, use a little paint and shellac, buy a few Inexpensive materials almost at any store, stencil a few materials, and emerge with a redecorated home that is the envy of the neighborhood. She’ll pass on all these tricks of the decorating art to Times readers. Watch for the first one Friday.

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M’NUTT SALES AND INCOME TAX BILLS JAMMED THROUGH Debate Courtesy Granted in House, but Lieutenant - Governor Townsend Applies Strict Gag in Senate. HUGE STATE REVENUE PROMISED Minor Amendments to Be Ironed Out Before Measure Goes to Chief Executive for Signature. Governor Paul A’. McNutt was ready today to sign his controversial combination sales and income tax bill, which he predicts will net the state $14,000,000 annually. It will become effective May 1. Passed under suspension of rules in both house and senate Wednesday afternoon, the bill gave the administration its best opportunity to demonstrate again its control over Democratic legislators.

The Tax Setup Here is what the McNutt in-come-sales tax bill does to the taxpayer: Manufacturers, jobbers, wholesalers, farm and natural resource producers, pay onefourth of 1 per cent on gross income. Retail sales, 1 per cent. Wages and professional income, 1 per cent. Exemption, SI,OOO. Law effective May 1. First quarterly payment for those paying more than $lO each quarter is due July 1 to 15. Those paying $25 or less annually will pay once, Jan. 1 to 15. Penalties include fines and imprisonment.

COURT DECISION HITS LOAN FIRM Hearing Bares Collection on Usurious Basis and Retrial Is Ordered. Small loan companies which have j been collecting 42 per cent interest every 360 days were dealt a vigorous | blow by the appellate court today. The court held that such interest payments, not based on the calendar I month, are usurious and neither | principal nor interest can be collected. Appeal was brought against the Commonwealth Loan Company from a decision in the company’s favor in Marion county municipal court. The opinion was written by Judge Posey T. Kime and cites the testimony of the company that most small lenders (the 42 per .cent a year group) are using a thirty-day month to compute interest payments. It matters not whether the month be January, February, or April, with thirty-one, twenty-eight and thirty days, respectively. Judge Kime's opinion cites the law to show that “month” and “year” mean the calendar month and the calandar year and by collecting on a basis of a year every 360 days the company went over the 34 per cent monthly rate allowed under the law. The suit was appealed by Jeannette R. Cotton. Lawrence Webb, and Dennis C. Freeman, after Judge Dan V. White of the muniicpal court ruled in favor of the Commonwealth Loan Company in collection of a promissory note and foreclosure of a chattel mortgage. Retrial was ordered and the lower court instructed to bring in findings in ine with this decision. •SPRING IS HERE’ EARLY Spring appeared to be paying a premature visit today as mild weather prevailed in the city and state, i J. H. Armington, meteorologist, predicted continuation of fair weaI ther through Friday with temperai ture remaining in the high 50s. The city was treated to a topical spring thunderstorm Wednesday night as a rainy area moved across the state from the southwest. Indications point to no further rain, Armington said. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 41 10 a. m 50 7a. m 40 11 a. m 53 Ba. m 43 12 (noon).. 55 9 a. m 46 1 p. m 58

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I Courtesy of debate was extended to the bill’s opponents by Speaker Earl Crawford in the house, but even this was not granted by LieutenantGovernor M. Clifford Townsend in the senate. Under the McNutt reorganization bill, previously passed. Townsend becomes a full-time administration officer. He worked for ths administration with his gavel Wednesday, shot the tax bill through without third reading of the text, a s the Constitution provides, and ignored a plea of Senator Chester Perkins <Dem„ South Bend* to take the floor on the point of personal privilege. Leaders Arp Prpsent Administration hencnmen on hand for this performance included R. | Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman; Wray Fleming. Democratic state committee publicity man; Wayne Coy, secretary to McNutt; Virgil Simmons, Frank McHale and Bowman Elder, the McNutt triumJ virate of administration lobbyists. Vote in the house was 64 to 29 [ and in the senate. 35 to 13. J Amendments affecting no major point of the McNutt plan, were adopted in both houses and will be ironed out by a conference committee today, before the bill is sent to J the Governor. One made in the senate limits the measure to April 30. 1935. A similar j proposal had been turned down by the house, although McNutt has contended that a sales tax would be an emergency measure. See Perpetual Tax However, the administration is I taking over S6OO in annual salary payments by the state for each common and high school teacher I and, once saddled on the taxpayers, | the sales tax never may be lifted, opponents contend. One danger pointed out In the house debate was how easily the rates may be increased and thus make residents not owning property bear the entire burden of taxation. Referring to this point, Represenj tative H. H. Evans < Rep., Newcasi tie), charged the bill had been writi ten by “the farm bureau gang, which j already nearly has wTecked the state of Indiana." “Pass this bill and you’ll create more parasites, buzzards, and leeches on the state ap ryoll, "Evans shouted. “It is bare thievery. If I j voted for the measure. I w r ould expect to be tarred and feathered and transported out of Henry county. Everybody is against it.” Called Blow at Taxpayer Representative J. Clinn Ellyson <Dem., Hammond t signed a minority committee report against passage and led the floor fight against j the bill. He termed the bill “a doublebarreled machine-gun which will ; hit the taxpayer at both ends and in the middle.” “This bill, if enacted, will create a chance to build up a wonderful political machine,” he asserted. ; “The tax will mount as the gaso- ' line tax has mounted —God knows where it will end.” Although denied the privilege of speaking against the bill, Perkins later asserted he regarded the measure as “manifestly unjust to the poor man." Burden on Poor “A man with a SI,OOO income will spend all of it for living expenses, and pay a tax on everything he buys.” he said. “But the man with a SIO,OOO income may spend only half of it and thereby pay much t less than his proportionate share. “This bill is the rock on which the newly created autocracy will j wreck itself. The Governor, in his message to the legislature, said he was opposed unalterably to the principle of the sales tax. And now our new dictator has compromised with his principles. “The loyalty of the legislators to him has an element of fear.” But the McNutt steam roller had power to spare and the bill was through the house in an hour and a half and the senate in about thirty minutes. APPOINTS DICK HELLER Townsend Picks Secretary to Serve After Session Is Over. M. Clifford Townsend, LieutenantGovernor, today announced that Dick Heller, secretary of the senate, will be his secretary after the session. Heller's home is in Dei catur.