Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1933 — Page 11

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MUTT CRONY IS BACKED FOR REPEAL CHIEF Democrats ‘Jump’ Governor for Wanting to Name Henry Marshall. COMPROMISE IS LIKELY Thomas McCullough Is in Line for High Honor, Say Observers. BY JAMES DOSS Time* Staff Writer Thomas McCullough. Anderson newspaper executive, today was reported to hold the pole position in ihe race that has developed for the honor of being president of the eighteenth amendment repeal con- j vention next Monday when Indiana; formally ratifies its vote against prohibition. McCullough, close friend of Governor Paul V. McNutt, is gaining ground fast because of the opposition among "old guard" Democrats to McNutt's tentative choice of Henry W. Marshall, Republican j publisher of Lafayette. The Governor had decided that it | would be an astute political gesture j for Marshall to be offered the presi- j dency honor. The Lafayette pub-1 lisher, who was the Colonel House ! of the Leslie administration, did j most to give the repeal campaign a • bipartisan tinge. National Figure Politically While a great many Republicans contented themselves with merely voting wet, Marshall jumped into tiie fight whole-heartedly. He is one of the outstanding Republican leaders in the state and author of the repeal plank in the Republican state platform. Too, Marshall is a national figure politically. Governor McNutt is anxious to be as conciliatory as possible toward such Republicans, particularly because of the intense "heat,” caused by the administration handling of the beer bill. He may cling to his choice of Marshall, but rather than affront, Democrats who believe that repeal strictly is a Democratic offspring, he probably will pass the word along for McCullough. Former Judge Backed Another outstanding Democrat being given consideration is John W. Eggeman, former Allen county j judge. Eggeman. a six-foot, 200- j pounder, who was a Notre Dame j star years ago when football wasn't j as refined as it is now. would have the support of a big block of delegates from the northern part of the state. If Marshall is not chosen for president, he is sure to be honored with the offer of some convention office, probably that of secretary. He had made is plain that he is not seeking any office, but the i Democrats know they owe him! something and he should not be left out when the honors are distributed. Women repeal workers probably will come in for their share through t he selection of one as vice-president or secretary. Mrs. Sylvester Johnson Jr.. Indianapolis, is mentioned most prominently for one of these two posts. Weiss Will Get Post Senator Jacob Weiss, Indianapolis, has been chosen as parliamentarian and is working wijh Charles Kettleborough, legislative reference bureau director, in drawing up a set of rules. Weiss was an administration leader in the 1933 senate and drew up the bill for the special repeal election. Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who will preside until the convention officers are elected, will appoint a committee on permanent organization Friday. Asa gesture of politeness to the prohibitionists. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university, probably will be offered the committee chairmanship. Session to Open at 2 The ratification convention will open at 2 p. m. Judge David A. Myers, chief justice of the supreme court, will swear in the delegates in the house of representatives. Committees on rules, resolution and the journal will be chosen and the convention will get down to thcbusiness of dispensing the offices and going through the formality of ratifying the state's rejection of prohibition. Larger delegations, like the Marion and Vigo county blocks, will hold caucuses over the week-end to decide whom they will support for office and committee posts. GRASS FIRE WARNING ISSUED BY VOSHELL Cigars, Cigaret Stubs Chief Causes of 25 Recent Blazes. Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell today appealed for co-operation in curbing the epidemic of grass fires v hich already has cost the city approximately 51.500 for the twenty-five alarms the fire department has answered. Bernard Lynch, chief of the fire prevention bureau, said the fires have been caused by motorists carelessly tossing away cigaret and cigar stubs. Women are the worst offenders, according to Lynch. Majority of the grass fires have started where water mains have not been laid, so it was necessary to use chemicals to extinguish them, thus adding to the cost. Voshell and Lynch pointed out. Fined for Drunken Driving Fined $lO and sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment, suspended during good behavior, Ben G. Smith, 28, of 356 Parkway avenue, was convicted of drunken driving Wednesday in municipal court. His automobile passed a street car as passengers were alighting at East and McCarty streets June 11. tearing of! the doer of the street car.

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BIZARRE FIGURES STROLL ON OLD PENN ST.

Doctor Had Queer Liquor 'Pact;' First Gaslight Sign Drew Crowds

by arch steinei. Time* Staff Writer j Thi* i the fourth of five stories on historic ritv streets. PUNS! Where witticisms lived! Where men became horses! The street of James Whitcomb Riley—Lockerbie's shaded lane notwithstanding. That's Pennsylvania street from the days in 1821, when it was the eastern limits of the town, to its "avenued” days of apartment houses, hotels, banks and clanging street cars. In its 112 years of being a thoroughfare, it has seen the testing of a machine that, in the World war, spat death from planes and raked lines of men scurrying through No Man’s Land. And its early, as well as later, history always is good for a laugh deep in the mid-section, despite the fact it lent itself to slaying the very men who walked upon it in gentler days between wars. It lived in an age of strolling mesmerists who hired small boys to have pins stuck in hands while under spells and received their pay upon guarantee that they would not let out a yelp. It knew Dr. Jonathan Cool, one of the first physicians of the town, and how he liked the wine when it was red and the squirrel juice when It was beaded. tt tt a COOL was a talented young “medic” who came to the town in 1821 to set bones and doctor “aiger.” But he got indebted to Jerry Collins, a tavern keeper, for his liquor. As one of the first men-about-town type, he figured that the best way to pay that bill was to become Jerry’s physician extraordinary and to wait on him three times a day medically for the slugs purveyed across the bar. But one day the doctor, nervous and fidgety, walked into Jerry's. It was 11 a. m. A drink was not due until noon. "For the love of God, Jerry, loan me an hour,” he pleaded. He got the hour—three fingers of it. His most effective plea to Jerry, up to his death in 1840, was, “Jerry, you know that whisky costs you but 20 cents a gallon and there are fifty-six drinks in a gallon. Will you refuse to relieve the sufferings of a fellow human being when it can be done for less than two-fifths of a cent?” tt a tt AS lights blinked on the town J around 1852. The drugstore of W. H. Roberts, corner of Washington and Pennsylvania streets, took on airs by having a gaslight sign made. In the newspapers of the day, the druggist sent out a formal invitation to his customers to “Come and see the gaslight sign. Admittance free.” Then on Nov. 7, 1860, a group of men congregated at the corner of Pennsylvania and Georgia streets examining what appeared to be a revolver built on a large scale. One man in the crowd around the inventor, with the breath and brogue of the Carolinas on him, watched more intently than the rest as the man, Hatch of Springfield, 0., fired his breech-loading revolver-cannon twenty-five shots in one minute.

Bank Ouster as Building Receiver Sought in Suit Removal of the Union Trust Company as receiver of the Majestic Building Company is asked in a petition on file today in circuit court by Howard L. Kiser, local securities broker.

Hearing on the petition will be held Tuesday by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. Interests of officers of the trust company, the building company and the iCitizens Gas Company, principal tenant of the building, conflict, the suit charges. According to the petition by Kiser. who holds $3,100 of the building company's preferred stock, no dividends have been paid since December, 1930, when the stock was to have been retired. Charge also is made that the rent for the ground floor of the building occupied by the gas company has been reduced from SIB,OOO yearly to $9,000. despite losses by the management. The petition sets out that Alfred F. Gauding. Union Trust Company secretary, also is secretary-treasurer of the building company, and G. A. Efroymson and Edgar H. Evans, directors of the Union Trust Company. also are on the gas company board. In addition to holding 295 shares of the building company stock, the trust company has loaned $16,698.12 to the building company, the petition alleges.

Hungry and Grim, This Horde Forms Its Daily Picket Lines Before Dawn

By JAMES BELL Times Staff Writer SOMERVILLE. Ind.. June 22—It's i a little after 5 in the morn- J ing when the sun is just turning , on the heat and waking up this lit- j tie Gibson county town, when an j auto caravan pulls into the corporation limits. The ten or twelve passenger I cars and large trucks park in the center of town and the crowd piles' out. Generally, there are about 200 of j them, men dressed in overalls and work clothes and women in bright calico dresses. A few nearly grown children and. occasionally, a baby in arms are among them. They laugh and joke as they walk down the road and it looks like a picnic of some kind, except ther? are no lunch baskets. Strange, too, when they stop in a sunny spot ini

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The man was Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun. And, oddly, the man who invented the first automatic firing piece, a machine of wholesale destruction as improved upon by the Mauser and Browning rifles that came later, is known better for sowing death than for his various machines for sowing seeds in tilled land. tt tt tt '"|~'HE 70's for Pennsylvania street were rich in happenings as well as for the town. In the winter of 1872-1873 the equines of the town fell to coughing. They could not haul drays or carriages. But business must move, dry goods and groceries must be trundled, and so early settlers hitched cattle to shays and carts. The horse was stalled in his stall.

BURNED FIGHTING BLAZE Firemen Injured as Flames Destroy One Home, Damage Others. Firemen Edward Moore and Charles Scoggins, burned on the hands and arms in a fire at 1616 West Wilcox street Wednesday which destroyed one home and damaged two others to the extent of $5,000, left city hospital today. The fire destroyed the home of Carl Hendricks, 1616 West Wilcox street and spread to the roof of the home of Bartley Tanner. 1618 West Wilcox, and damaged the roof. Sparks from the blaze were carried to the home of Lawrence Linder, 1543 West Michigan street, causing minor damage. STATE BAR TO UEET Clarence Martin. Paul McNutt to Address State Lawyers. President Clarence E. Martin of the American Bar Association, Dr. Allen D. Albert. Chicago, and Governor Paul V. McNutt are among the speakers scheduled for the two-day summer meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association at Lake Wawasee, July 6 and 7. The Governor will speak at the closing banquet on the night of July 7.

the middle of a dusty road—no place for an outing. But it is an outing—a grim one that one must wait from an hour to an hour and a haif in. the crowd to hear about. Then another caravan of cars turns down that road. There are no women in this cortege, only about fifty or sixty men. looking serious and solemn. Some have guns, blackjacks ant* other weapons in view. tt o b THEY take no notice of the crowd at first—but their appearance is the signal for outbursts from the throng along the road, now swelled to over 300. "You take the bread out of our mouths. Because you work for nothing, we can't work," someone j shouts. Others join in.

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Upper left—Pennsylvania street ir, 1933, looking south from Ohio street. Upper right—Odd Fellow building, northeast corner of Pennsylvania and Washington streets, in 1905. Lower left—The so-called “epizootic” age of the city, when men became horses and hauled merchandise and sweethearts. The scene shows the intersection of Pennsylvania and Washington. Ceter right—The sport of the 80's, riding the high bikes and "boneshakers,” is shown in this group that congregated at Hearsey’s bike-shop on the present site of the postoffice on Pennsylvania street. Lower right—“ Giddap, Maud!” Sometimes she did and sometimes she didn’t when mule-cars were in flower on Pennsylvania and other streets of the city in the early days.

W. H. Bass of the Bass Photo Company, remembers how during what he calls the “epizootic age of the city,” he and companions got between the shafts to haul a barrel of flour north on Pennsylvania street. Youths calling on their best girls harnessed themselves to buggies and drew their sweetheats to dances of the day over the muddy, snow-rutted streets.

6 PERSONS VICTIMS OF FOOD POISONING Home-Made Ice Cream Brings Illness; All Recover. Six persons, five of them members of one family, were poisoned early today, apparently from eating home-made ice cream. Those treated at City hospital and later allowed to return home were: William J. Banta, 57, of 1719 Broadway; Mrs. Maude Banta, 53; Mrs. Clara Banta, 29; Raymond Banta, 14, and Harold Banta, 18. Glenn Crouch, Southport, who was a guest at the Banta home, became ill while attending a dance at Broad Ripple park, but recovered. The ice cream freezer and ingredients were brought to the Banta home by Martin Graham, Cicero, Ind., a friend of the family. Dr. John Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, who enlisted the aid of Dr. Rollo N. Harger, Indiana university toxicologist, said food poisoning apparently was responsible for the illness. Mrs. Banta, Who was affected most seriously, ate nothing at dinner but ice cream and cake, police were told. Child Seriously Hurt by Truck Walking in front of a truck in front of her home, Vivian Mae Reynolds, 3. of 1322 South Belmont avenue, suffered a possible fracture of the skull early Wednesday night while her parents were at dinner. George Lucas, 53, of 1556 South Belmont avenue, driver of the truck, was not held.

“Work for bread and water —we won't work and starve.” “You're keeping our children hungry—and yours are, too.” “Scabs ...” It is the peaceful picketing of the Somerville No. 2 mine—a scene that has been re-enacted daily for the last thirty days. The picket line usually numbers between 250 and 500 persons. It must be something vitally important to these union miners and their wives that they roll out of bed before daybreak, regardless of the weather, and drive as far as fifty miles to picket this mine—all on an empty stomach. tt tt a THEY do have something important at stake—whether a coal digger can make a living wage in the Gibson county mines.” says Lewis Austin, committee member

Vitriolic newspapers and militant editorial writers were in their glory In the 70’s, and George Harding, editcr of the Saturday Herald, was one of their corps. Thereby hangs the tale of the rock colored with red and black ink that was shown in Joe Perry's drug store, northwest corner of Pennsylvania and Washington street, around April 1, 1876.

Water Rate Court Battle to Continue Next Week Attorneys and witnesses in the Indianapolis Water Company’s federal court suit for higher rates rested today, following adjournment of the

hearing until Monday. | Witnesses for the city and public service commission agreed, before the adjournment, to furnish water company attorneys with copies of their exhibits in advance today, to permit study before their testimony, in order to shorten the hearing as much as possible. The entire day Wednesday was devoted to vigorous cross-examina-tion of John A. Deery, architect, engineering witness for the city, who testified as to value of the company’s physical property. Water company attorneys ob- j tained admission from Deery that in some instances he had taken ap- j praisal figures previously introduced | by Malcolm Pirnie, a water com- | pany witness,, and had arbitrarily j deducted 20 per cent to obtain his j figures. In most cases, however, he said.! independent figures were worked i out. Business Leader Dies By United Press GOSHEN, June 22.—Amasa G. Hoovens, 64, president of the West Dodd Lightning Conductor Company, largest lightning rod manufacturing company in the world, died here today. He was president of the City National bank arid several other industrial concerns in Goshen.

of local Union No. 5534, United Mine Workers of America. “The Somerville No. 2 mine does not pay a living wage. Men make $6 and $7 for two weeks’ work, if they’re lucky. “We're going to keep up our picketing in a peaceful manner until we force the closing of the mine. “The picketing already has the morale of the men working at the mine at a low ebb. The labor turnover is extremely large—as few men stick on the job long. “We union miners want no violence. If we start violence that will prejudice the public against us—and we need them with us if we’re going to win our fight to make enough to buy food and clothes for our families. “All violence at the mine, thus far. j has been started by 7 the operators.! who want state troops to be sent down here.”

T TARDING had a penchant for editorial hoaxes. He thought nothing of acclaiming to the town that Charlie Ross of the forever-kidnaped Rosses, was found in the Grand hotel. The town swarmed to the Grand hotel, on Illinois street, to see young Ross, and found it had been fooled by Harding. So an opposition paper, the Journal, published what purported to be the death of Leonidas Grover of Crawfordsville, killed while asleep in his bed by a meteor that went through the roof, passed through his body, and buried itself in the cellar of his home. Harding picked the story up and, in his best sob manner, feelingly told of the strange death while sleeping. The following day a state geologist discovered the tale a joke, but, to play up to it, colored a

NEELY WILL LOSE POST McNutt’s Kin to Be Released from Insurance Job July 1. Democratic party politics means more to Governor Paul V. McNutt than blood relationship, it was indicated today. For Pleas Greenlee, McNutt’s secretary in charge of Statehouse personnel, announced that Norman Neely will not be reappointed to the state insurance commissioner’s examiner staff. Neely is a first cousin of the Governor, but a Republican. He will be retired July 1. MATTERN HUNTJ3ELA YED Bad Weather Halts Search by Ships and Planes in Arctic. By United Press NOME, Alaska. June 22.—Air and ship pilots awaited clear weather today before renewing their search for James Mattern. round-the-world flier missing in the arctic. Low clouds, poor visibility and a falling barometer delayed the search which began when Mattern failed to arrive here on schedule from Kharbarovsk, Siberia, a week ago. Rain fell over the Aleutian islands, where the Texas aviator is believed to have landed.

THE Somerville No. 2 mine is operated on what they call a “co-operative” basis by the Burnwell Coal Company of Terre Haute. M. L. Mace, Terre Haute, is president. Mace also is the operator of the Dixie Bee mine near Terre Haute, which has been picketed for a number of months. State/ troops have been stationed there since a gun battle betweerf miners and picketers occurred last fall. The Somerville mine pays the men a percentage of the union scale. It ranges from 10 to 40 per cent, the men say, the miner never knowing what he is going to receive until pay day. Pay slips they exhibit show it is seldom a great amount. tt a a TAKE the case of Harvey Faris, Somerville. Faris is a young

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stone and it was placed on view in Perry's drug store as the “meteor” of death. The story was exposed. Harding's sob-yarn lampooned. tt tt a THEN Harding wrote, according to Dunn's history of Indianapolis: “We take it back in its totality. The aerolite did not come through space. It did not tear .... through Mr. Grover’s roof, nor through his breast, his bed, the floor, and into the earth. Mr. Grover's relatives were not away from home. He didn't die. He didn't get hurt. He wasn't there. He isn't anywhere now. Durn him. If Mr. Grover ever comes to life and gets killed, he'll have to get someone else to write his obituary.” The Denison hotel, later the New Denison the “New” part being in honor of John C. New, father of Harry New, former postmaster-general was one of the street's focal points for males of the town to "set ’em up” and talk politics, trotters, with an encore of “I'll betcha this!” and “1 11 take that.” The poet Riley made the Denison's lobby one of his main lounging posts. Generous, witty, with bon mots or quips in dialect, the man who had kinship with folk and children was as much the hotel’s chief asset as its then ornate fixtures. The street’s cabbies knew him for good tips, his cronies for a good story, his public for a homey poem. tt tt u PENNSYLVANIA'S buddying with Riley might have been said of other streets. Wherever night was always day. he might be found if it was night enough and good fellows still got together. At one time the Roberts chapel, later the Roberts park church, occupied the site of the Lemcke building on Pennsylvania. The northwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania housed the auctioneering firm of Gott and Featherstone in those years when auctioneers still were “Colonels” and had wares to cry. The present site of the Century building saw 7 the glow of the forge of Black's smithy. The street was even a lagoon on one occasion, when the state ditch at Fall Creek broke, flooding the street and other avenues in the vicinity in 1875. Three youths, George Curry, Charles Culley, and Louis Newburger, rowed in a boat from Eleventh street on Pennsylvania to beyond Eighteenth and Alabama streets during the flood. tt a tt FLANKING Meridian, the street, despite its narrowness, became rich in the homes of pioneer families of the city, triumphant in its musicales and teas, oft listed in the society notes. But a cosmopolite always, it took transients and apartment hotels to its bosom cordially, until now r the gin party of a group of traveling salesmen and their “wives” may be the next-door neighbor of a tatting-bee, where the street's soul in its youth is bared in the atmosphere of thick drapes and candlesticks. Last—lllinois street.

RAISED GENT CHECK TO SIOOJS CHARGE Ex-Convict Denies Boosting Prison Pay Slip. Arrested after a year’s search, Herschel P. Towler, St. Paul, Ind., today faces a charge of raising a 1cent federal check to SIOO upon his release trom Leavenworth penitentiary, where he had served five years. He was arraigned before Fae W. Patrick, federal commissioner, Woctnesday after federal officials returned him here from Danville, 111. Bound to the federal grand jury under $2,500 bond, Towler denies he raised the check, which represented money due him from his prison account. Arrested at Danville. 111., he declared he did not know secret service agents had been on his trail since April 16, 1932, date of his release. His story that the "mistake” occurred because other convicts handle prison accounts is being investigated by agents. Full penalty of five years for conviction on charges of transporting stolen automobiles was served by Towler. Boy, 14, Dies in Crash. By T’nited Press HUNTINGTON, Ind., June 22 —A double skull fracture proved fatal late Wednesday to Merle Yerger. 14, passenger in an automobile which collided with another.

man, blond, husky and well under 30. He worked two weeks and owed the company 14 cents when he got through, his pay slip shows. During these two weeks he loaded eighty-two tons of coal. Experienced miners say seventyfive tons is an average two-weeks’ work. His pay slip was figured on the union scale, showing he had 542.34 due. However, the mine only paid 10 per cent of the union scale that pay day, cutting his earnings down to 54.23. Under debits on his pay slip were listed: 25 cents, donation to a fund for a fellow worker who was hurt badly; mine supplies, 51.38; insurance, sl.lO, and a driller, mine tool, $1.64, totaling 54.37. At the bottom was wwitten, “due the company, 14 cents.” “And they deducted that from my next pay day,” Paris sa\^.

STATE CHANGE RUINS SCHOOL BOOKS’ VALUE Thousands of Pupils’ Texts Virtually Worthless After Action. INDIANA LABOR LOSER Board of Education Picks Volume Not Printed by Hoosiers. Thousands of high school textbooks in American and English literature have been made obsolete through the latest book adoption of the new state board of education, it was learned todav. In addition. Indiana labor will lose thousands of dollars in wages ; due to selection of a book that is not printed in the state. Governor Paul V McNutt defended the board's stand however, on the ; grounds that the best text was ! chosen. This, lie said, overshadows all ; other contentions. The adoption, in addition to | ruining any exchange value for the thousands of texts now in use, also means that parents of pupils will pay a higher prire for the new texts. Two Ballots Taken Two ballots were taken by the ; board before the adoption was given | to "American Writers” and "English Writers" published by Ginn & Cos., the records show. This meant that comparable texts published by Harcourt, Brace Company, Inc., and Scott Foresman were made obsolete. The former text is in general use in eighty-seven high schools in the larger cities and the latter in between 500 and 600 high schools in the smaller towns, it was learned. The Harcourt-Brace books are used in the famous Gary high schools and Shortridge. Arsenal Tech, Crispus Attucks, Washington, Ben Davis and Warren township high schools here. Not Published in Slate. These books have been published in the state, either by presses at Laporte or at Indianapolis, it was said. The Ginn books are not, although the Governor said he was told that ! somp arrangement was to be made to give the work to Indiana presses. Ginn's American literature book was adopted by the state board at a I wholesale price of $1.59 and the English book at $1.71, the board records show. The Harcourt-Brace book is priced at $1.59 for American and $1.65 for English literature. Scott Foresman prices are $1.56 and $1.65. McNutt Yotes for C hange Admitting that, the adoption makes thousands of present texts obsolete, George C. Cole, superintendent of public instruction, declared that it is not out of line with the announcement that current texts would be approved as a thrift move for parents. He said that official state recognition never was given any texts in this classification until the Ginn textbooks were approved. Both Cole and the Governor voted for the Ginn book on the first ballot. The second ballot was unanimous. Here is the way other members of the new board voted first: Harcourt, Brace—Joy M. Lacey, Henry B. Longden. j Scott-Foresman William Lowe I Bryan, M. Clifford Townsend, Floyd I I. McMurray. Ginn—Frank E. Allen. A. J. Stevj enson, McNutt, and Cole. COUNTY READY TO LET HIGHWAY CONTRACTS Inspection Tour Is .Made by Commissioners and Aids. Contracts for Marion county road j construction will be let Friday oy | the county commissioners, followj ing an inspection tour Wednesday at which Marion county commis- | sioners and representatives from j five nearby counties were guests of j the J. P. Johnson Company. Read superintendents, auditors | and surveyors from Henry, Rush, | Hancock, Hamilton and Hendricks counties attended a luncheon with the commissioners and made the tour. The Johnson company held all contracts for tar used in the 1932 road construction program of Marion county. Approximately $50,000 was spent in 1932, and it is said this year's program will cast less. FEDERAL JOBS OPEN Applications Are Received for Civil Service Positions. Applications for positions in the Department of Agriculture to fill vacancies in the bureau of public I roads are being received by the civil service board at the federal building, F. J. Boatman, secretary, anj nounced today. Positions open are senior highway j construction supervisor and senior highway design engineer with salary range from $4,600 to $5,400 These salaries are subject to reduction not to exceed 15 per cent and retirement reduction of 3 per cent. Information regarding examinations may be obtained from Boatman. SEVEN IN LEGION RACE Seek Post as State Commander at Annual Conclave. V. M. Armstrong, Indianapolis, candidate for the state commander post of the American Legion, will be opposed by six other candidates, j when the election is held at the annual convention at Evansville, Aug. 26 to 30. Other candidates include: Louis A. Roberts, Evansville; Albert J. Rumbach, Jasper; Leslie Hendrickson, Boonville; L. V. Hauk, Morristown; J. E. McCurdy, LaPorte. and A. R. Exton-Porter, Whiting. Armj strong is the present acting treasi urer of the Indiana department.