Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1933 — Page 11

Second Section

PECORA FOILS PLAN TO SPIKE BANK INQUIRY ‘Rush Act’ by Financial Interests Thwarted; Recess Ordered. RESUME IN OCTOBER Kuhn, Loeb Case Angles to Be Lined Up Before Adjournment. BV NED BROOKS Timm Hprrial Wrltfr WASHINGTON, June 29,—The strategy of influential banking interests against the senate's inquiry into financial practices was defeated today by a decision of the hanking and currency committee to complete major phases of the Kuhn, Loeb <fc Cos. case and then adjourn until Oct. 3. Under the guise of co-operating with the investigation, banking institutions whose acti\ities are yet to be examined had urged committee members to carry the hearings to their conclusion without the interruptions of recesses. They were anxious and v willing, they told members, to have the inquiry continue without delay. Such a program, however, was not in accord with the ideas of Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, and members interested in exploring thoroughly into the intricate byways of corporate financing. Investigation Is Needed Mr. Pecora’s strategy, explained to the committee in an executive session following Wednesdays hearing, is to allow hearings to proceed for no longer than two weeks at a time, with a recess of perhaps a month or longer, to permit him to prepare for the next phase. He said the investigating staff would be working at a distinct disadvantage if compelled to examine witnesses without advance preparation. Such a procedure, he explained, would be similar to that described by attorneys as a “fishing expedition.” Mr. Pecora wants to know in advance the facts of the case and what witnesses are going to say. Chairman Duncan Fletcher <Dem., Fla.) announced after the executive session 'that the Kuhn-Loeb inquiry would continue until Friday. If uncompleted, it will resume Wednesday for one or two days and then adjourn until October, he said. Time Is Needed At that time, the inquiry into J. P. Morgan & Cos. will b£ resumed, and affairs of the Chase Securities Corporation and Dillon Read Company investigated. The summer recess will give Pecora and his staff ample time to gather its evidence. Nobody knows better than the counsel the difficulty of unearthing evidence such as has been divulged in the Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb inquiries Weeks and sometimes months are required to piece together evidence gathered from a score or more sources. Often, as in the case of the Morgan company, hindrances are thrown into the path of the investigators. FARM BUREAU AGENTS ATTEND GRAIN PARLEY W. H. Settle Outlines Wheat Adjustment Plan. Approximately two hundred farm bureau managers and managers of farmer and co-operative elevators were expected to attend the meeting at the Severin today sponsored by the Central States Grain Association, which has offices with the Indiana Farm Bureau. Talks were scheduled by W. H. Settle, Indiana Farm Bureau president. who will explain the wheat adjustment plan as it applies to Indiana, and C. E. Huff. Chicago, president of the Farmers' National Grain Corporation. CITY BAND IS WINNER Sahara Grotto Takes First Place in Second Division Judging. By Time* Spreial CHICAGO. June 29,—The AlSirat lodge of Cleveland entered the prize-winning band in musical competition at the forty-fourth annual j session of the Grotto here. Second place in the band competition went to Alhambra of St. Louis and third to Aut Mori of Youngstown, O. In the second division first place was won by Sahara of Indianapolis. In drill competition. C division, Merou of Lafayette. Ind., was Jlrst. FIRE HAZARDS BANNED Sale of Fourth of July Explosives Prohibited in Danger Spots. Safety board and Fire Chief Harry Voshell announced today that a ban is in effect on additional places for sale of Fourth of July fireworks iff downtown buildings which are classed as hazardous from a fire standpoint. Four fireworks stands already have been established downtown in hazardous buildings, but in each case proprietors have registered with the board. SCOUT CHIEF IS FETED F. O. Reiser Is Honored at Farewell Luncheon party. A farewell luncheon, in honor of F. O. Belzer. Boy Scout executive, was given today at the Lincoln by members of the Indianapolis and Central Indiana Scout Council. Belaer and eight Indianapolis scouts will leave Tuesday for New York, where they will embark on the 8 S. General Von Steuben for Europe. They will attend the International Boy Scout jamboree to be held In August near Budapest. Hungary.

Full Leaded Wire ftprvt■• of the f’nlted Preta Aa'x*iHtloD

SNAPPY PLATE

I l £

Lona, Andre

HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 29 New license plates, now 7 being made ready for Indiana motorists of 1934, will have white letters upon a black background. This was revealed at the Paramount studios here on receipt of a sample plate from the Indiana bureau of motor vehicles, so that the studio w 7 ill be authentic in filming scenes in which 1934 Indiana cars are to be shown. The new plates were recorded for future screen use at Paramount when photographed with Lona Andre, Wampas baby star and now featured in “College Humor,” with Bing Crosby and Richard Arlen.

CITY MARBLES KING IS BEATEN Billy Dyer Goes Down to Defeat in Semi-Finals at Chicago. BY FLOYD BAKER Times School Pa*e Editor SOLDIER FIELD, CHICAGO, June 29.—8i11y Dyer, Indianapolis marble champion. w 7 as eliminated in semi-final play of the western division of the national marble tournament today, losing eleven of his twelve games. The loss came as a surprise, after his brilliant play Wednesday, when he came from behind to win the central league championship. The western divisional title remained with a Billy, however, when (Billy) Matthews of Chattanooga, winner of ring two, defeated Marvin Buell, of St. Louis, winner of ring one in the finals. Billy Dyer, in the drawings Wednesday night, was second player in ring one to play against Lawrence Ennis, of Evansville, and Buell. Playing Ennis, in the first three games. Billy lost by scores of 7 to 3. 7 to 3 and 7 to 6. Buell defeated Billy 7 to 3, 7 to 2 and 7 to 6. He lost all chance even for a tie, when he dropped his next game to Ennis, 7 to 2. He then won his only game of the day, defeating Ennis, 7 to 2, only to lose again. '"Buell, who previously had defeated Ennis in three games, become ring winner when he beat Billy three more games, 7 to 3, 7ffo 5 and 7 to 4. Matthews won his way into the final games by winning all tweTVe of his semi-final sets. Matthews won his first game against Buell. 7 to 4. Buell won the next two. 7 to 4 and 7 to 4. Matthews came eback to win the next three games, 7to 3, 7 to 6 and 7 to 5. After a rest period. Matthews gained the lag and stuck on his first shot, gaining seven marbles. the game, and the western championship. Faces Bank Holdup Charge By 1 titled Press WARSAW, June 29. Ohio authorities today took Merritt Longbrake, Claypool, Ind., to Bellefontaine, 0.. to face charges in connection with a $2,900 bank holdup.

Retailers Study Plan to Test Gross Income Tax meehnoTn Thf> ?H etmg °! the ******* Retailers of Indiana, meetmg in the Lincoln this morning, appointed a committee to investigate the advisability and program for testing the constitutionality of the gross income tax bill, as it effects retail sales in Indiana g

One member from each congressional district was appointed to this committee, whicn will make its report this afternoon. Victor C. Kendall, secretary-treasurer of L. S. Ayres <fc Cos., was named from the Twelfth district. The meeting was presided over bv Fred Wiedman of South Bend, chairman of the state committee on organization. Other matters to be considered by the retail merchants whi ll effect of the industrial recovery act on the retail business of Indiana, and the policy of the retailers in regard to state legislation. Final organization of the Marion county division of the association will be perfected Friday night at a meeting in the Washington, according to announcement by S. B. Walker, chairman of the county exeyjtive committee.

The Indianapolis Times

DIVIDEND HOPE OF CREDITORS IS SHATTERED Loss in Trustees System of Indiana Expected to Be Near 100 Per Cent. COMMITTEE IS NAMED Condition of Firm Is Made Clear at Meeting in Courthouse. Small hope of any dividend in settlement of more than $600,000 obligations of the Trustees System Corporation of Indiana was given to creditors Wednesday night by H. Nathan Swaim, receiver. Explanation of the situation was given creditors in a meeting at the courthouse, at which Swaim and Superior Judge Russell J. Ryan, in whose court the receivership is held, described condition of the firm. Terming it “a horrible picture,” Ryan suggested the appointment of a committee of eleven to represent the creditors, a plan which was approved. Notes Only Assets Swaim declared the only assets of the corporation, as disclosed during a recent trip of investigation to Chicago, are notes totaling more than $924,000 on the Trustees System Corporation of Chicago and the Trustees System Extension Corporation of Chicago. In the opinion of auditors and other authorities, the receivership action pending against the two Chicago corporations renders the notes practically worthless, Swaim declared. The local unit “merely w 7 as a stock-selling organization for the Chicago companies, sending proceeds of sales to those companies in return for their notes,” Swaim said. Committee Is Named The committee will consist of five local stockholders to be selected by Ryan: Ray McAdams of Ft. Wayne, William C. Steinmetz of West Lafayette, Dr. C. V. Rozelle of Anderson, Homer M. Carter of South Bend, and one each from Evansville and Gary, to be selected later. Swaim said the Trustees System Corporation of Indiana should not be confused w’ith the Trustees System Corporation of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis company, although both also are in receivership, but expect to make payments, at least in part, to stockholders.

You Tell ’Em Judge Censures Movie Star’s Failure to Be in Court.

By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 29. Constance Bennett must tell about her famous SIO,OOO a week salary in connection with a $15,agents’ suit, it was ordered in su-

perior court Wednesda y when the actress failed to appear to defend the case. Censuring the screen star’s attorney for failing to have her in court. Judge Emmet H. Wilson decreed Miss Bennett must give a deposition Saturday before attorneys

Miss Bennett

for her former business agents, Frank Joyce-Myron Selznick, Inc., the plaintiffs. The agency claimed $15,000 was due as a commission on obtaining for her a ten-weeks’ contract with Warner Brothers for $300,000. Miss Bennett had refused to make a deposition. FORD DEALERS CHEERED Sales Up. Representatives Are Optimistic at Meeting. Local Ford automobile dealers and salesmen attended meetings Wednesday at the Claypool at which company representatives expressed gratification for increased sales in Indianapolis in the last forty-five days and were optimistic for July and August. Speakers were W. C. Dowling, sales director for the Ford Motor Company, and his assistant, J. R. Davis. Presiding was R. A. Hayes, local branch manager for the Ford Company.

LAUNDRY TRUCKS LINE UP FOR PROGRESS COMPANY PROSPERITY PARADE

* i

Drivers and trucks of the Progress laundry. 428 East Market street, lined up Wednesday for a prosperity parade. Thirty-six trucks, with a police escoty traveled over twenty-four miles of streets, fanners stating

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933

Balloon Soars Thousands of Feet Into Air; Crash! Slam! Pilots Complete First Lesson

Future Sky Marine Officers Face Thrilling Days in Training. This Is the last of two stories on America's future Merchant Marine of the Air.” BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Writer LORAIN, 0., June 29. Five potential officers of America's future air merchant marine have gained some intimate knowledge of the caprices of the upper air. They gained it in their first flight in a free balloon, as part of a course aimed at qualifying them as officers aboard the great airships that the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation feels certain will span the oceans within a few years. The flight ended in a quick forced landing, slam against the side of a garage, the balloon envelope draped over an electric line. Glad of Spill And as Frank A. Trotter, former navy ensign and expert balloon and airship pilot, unscrambled himself from a tangle of student arms ar.d legs in the balloon basket, he said: “I’m kind of glad we fetched up this w 7 ay in a spill. These boys have learned some things about the trickiness of the air ocean that they couldn't learn in any other way. “Now they'll always have a great respect for what the air can do with you and to you. That's the first thing an airship pilot ought to have!” It w r as pitch dark when a truck rolled into the plant of the Na- ! tional Tube Company here, and the ; dozen student pilots spread the j great gas bag on the ground and I started filling it with coke gas. The balloon. Goodyear VIII, vetelan winner of the Gordon-Bennett trophy, slowly mushroomed up from the ground, the net covering the bag weighed down by thirty-five-pound sandbags hooked in its meshes. As the bag filled, daylight came, and a great globe, fifty-four feet across, rose from the ground, every step supervised by Trotter and Commander Lange, head of the school. Latest weather reports were received. Earth Falls Away The basket, a wucker affair like a large laundry hamper, was attached, and forty-nine sandbags shifted to the bottom and sides of the basket. Instruments, barograph, altimeter, compass, were lashed to the rigging, sandwiches stowed away, and careful instructions given the students, each of w'hom w 7 as told off to duty as aid. navigator, assistant navigator, recorder, and so on. Trotter, the pilot, perched on the load ring (a metal circle to which both envelope and basket are attached), cut a rope holding the ship fast, and called “Shove her up!” The earth suddenly was snatched from under U s, and fell away im- I mediately to a great distance. But | there was no sense of motion, no sound. The ticking of a clock in the instrument cabinet was insistently clear. Nothing at all between us and the earth far below but that frail little clothes-hamper. “Fifteen hundred feet!” sang out the aid. “Two thousand! Twentyfive hundred!” “Ought to be catching that breeze to the south,” mused Trotter, still perched above the basket on the load ring.

FAMED AIRMAN WILL ORGANIZE VETERANS Local Division Is Planned by Major Albert Wood. Major Albert Wood, soldier of fortune and internationally known aviator, arrived here today to organize a local division of the Right Wing of the Military Order of 76. As part of the organization work, Major Wood will address a meeting of Negro war veterans at 8 tonight at Nineteenth street and Columbia avenue. Until recently. Major Wood was in the Orient, where he shot down two Japanese planes after joining the Chinese forces near Harbin, Manchuria, in April, 1931. Serving the United States in the World war. he shot down twenty-seven enemy planes. Major Wood explained that organization of the local division of the veterans’ group is part of a nation-wide drive. The organization goal, he said, is a political group with no attempt being made to interrupt activities of other bona fide veterans’ associations. He will speak later to veterans at Tomlinson hall. COMPOSER TO FINLAND Relatives Here Learn of Departure of Werner Janssen. Relatives in Indianapolis have just learned that Werner Janssen, American composer, has gone to Helsingfors, Finland, to work with Sibelius. Finnish composer. Janssen, a former resident of Indianapolis, has been abroad for two years, where he conducted a series of orchestra concerts last winter. Mrs. Janssen is a sister of Mrs. Low 7 ell H. Patterson of Indianapolis.

JIBS ,*■. ?& ■■" '^^k

Pilot Frank Trotter, lower left, scrambles up the balloon net to cut loose a tie that has grown too tight . . . Paul Ruch, student pilot, lashes (he instruments to the rigging before the takeoff . . . then the Goodyear VIII soars away, upper left, into the air ocean. . . . But lands soon after, the basket smashing into the side of a garage, the bag draped disconsolately over an electric line . . . prospective Zeppelin pilots have had their first lesson.

“What’s the course, navigator?” “About 40 degrees northward,” responds the student navigator. “Throw out half a bag,” intones the pilot, and the sand drifts from the canvas sack. “Three thousand feet! Thirtyfive hundred!” sing-songs the aid, watching the instruments. Successive bags of sand sift over the side. “Seven thousand feet!” sings out the aid. The earth is a mere patchwork far below 7. Nothing is real but the great ocean of air in which we drift, the ticking of the clock, and the creak of the flimsy hamper beneath our feet. “The course, now 7, carefully,” says Trotter, in measured tones. “Quite definitely north,” responds the aid. his eye on the tiny shadow of the balloon skimming the roads and hedgerows. The shore of Lake Erie, to the north, is getting closer and closer. “Now men,” says Trotter, in the tone of a lecturer on mathematics, we could go higher, of course, moking for that southerly breeze. Butif it isn’t there, it might be too

Tobin Boomed for State Public Works Director

Federal Appointment May Go to President of Teamsters’ Union. By Scripps-Howard Xcwspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 29.—1 tis reported in circles close to the administration that Daniel F. Tobin of Indianapolis may be offered the

Now! Pay! Divorces Husband, Gets Salary as His Present Housekeeper.

By United Press WATSEKA. 111., June 29,—The day after Mrs. Iva Jones of Milford received a divorce from her husband, she accepted a position keeping house for him at a salary. 400 ATTENDING "PARLEY Annual Convention of BaracaPhilathea Group Is Held. More than 400 delegates are attending the thirty-fourth annual convention of the world-wide Baraca-Philathea Union, which opened Wednesday night in the First Baptist church. At 5:30 tonight a fellowship dinner will be held in the Lincoln. Tonight’s address wall be given by Professor J. Raymond Schutz of Manchester college.

“Business is definitely improving.” were displayed. The parade closed a prosperity celebration which started Sunday when drivers attended a picnic at Christian park, cl

late to come down before we’re over the lake. “We’re not equipped to land in the lake, and w 7 e can’t take chances of drowning. We’ll have to go down! ” He reaches up and pulls the rope which runs up through the bag to a large valve at the top. “Sixty-five hundred! Six thousand! Fifty-five hundred!” sings the aid at the altimeter. There is no sense of falling; you would not know it except for the instruments. At 300 feet, sand is throw 7 n out and the descent is arrested. But there is a lively ground wind toward the lake. A pretty suburban section, thickly built, offers few openings for a landing, but the lake is very close now 7. The balloon skims the housetops. “We’re going to drop into that road intersection,” says the pilot. “Stand by to drop sand when I give the w 7 ord!” He pulls the rope again; the earth swoops up. With a scrape and bounce the basket strikes right in the center of the road. For a second it pauses. One man, thinking the show over, leaps from

position of federal administrator of public works for Indiana. Tobin, president of the Teamsters and Chauffeurs’ union, was organ-

ized labor’s choice for secretary of labor, and since that position w 7 ent to Frances Perkins he consistently has refused to accept a lesser appointment. The office of Senator Van

Nuys refused to comment on the report of Tobin's appointment. The public works administration is considered non-political, and thereunder are not open for senatorial patronage. The publis works administrator for Indiana will pass upon all public works projects in the state and make recommendations to Washington. He w 7 ill be the Indiana representative of the federal public w r orks administrator, Donald F. Sawyer, and the federal public works board, headed by Secretary of Interior, Harold L. Ickes. Besides providing funds for roads and strictly federal projects, such as federal buildings, postoffices, and river improvements, the public works administration is authorized to lend money to states and municipalities for local projects, and to make direct grants up to 3 per cent of the cost of approved local projects. The state administrators probably will not be appointed until President Roosevelt returns from his vacation.

Entered • Second-Clae* Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

the basket. The balloon, suddenly relieved of 175 pounds of weight, leaps upward like a frightened horse, clears a house, swishes through the top of a tree. The lake is only 500 feet aw 7 ay. Sighting a large back yard ahead Trotter pulls the rope again. The balloon veers downward, straight for a small garage in the yard, rushing along at a smart pace on the ground w 7 ind. Everybody dives for Jie bottom of the basket. With a rasping slam the basket piles into ground and garage w 7 all at the same instant. One by one faces appear out of the scramble of arms and legs. Trotter climbs out of the basket. “Get the time of landing?” he asks the recorder. “Why, I—l think it w ? as about 10:05,” says the student, just a little shakily. “Ten-seven,” says Trotter crisply. “Always keep your log accurately.” And that is the very practical first lesson of five young airship students in air navigation, a lesson that may come m handy in some future day when 6ne of them is at the helm of a great liner of the future American merchant marine of the air. •

SEWER GAS LEAKS REPORTED IN CITY Plenty of Fresh Air Is Cure, City Officers Say. Escaping sewer gas, one of the evils that goes with the heat wave, was reported today in the 1600 block Spruce street and 900 block North Drexel avenue. Wilbur Winship, street commissioner, explains that the gas is formed in cisterns or sewers when water reaches a low level. Escaping into sewer lines, the gas finds an outlet into basements and through manholes. Drowsiness, slight headache and a rasping feeling in the throat result from inhaling the gas. Plenty of fresh air, ice on forehead and doses of soda w 7 ater are the remedies.

Tobin

Six-in-One ‘Siamese Sextet’ Is Born; All Members Are Living.

By Times Special Goldsmith, ind., June 29 A “Siamese sextet” was born at the home of William Vanderander here. Vanderander’s pet cat gave birth to a litter of six kittens, all joined together like the original ‘Siamese twins.” All the kittens are living. 200 HEAR ADDRESSES BY NOTED DOCTORS Research Work Is Detailed to Physicians’ Assembly. Two hundred members of the alumni assembly of Indiana physicians and surgeons attending Summer postgraduate courses at the Indiana university school of medicine heard papers Wednesday night on research w 7 ork on the liver, tuberculosis and psychiatry. Speakers were Dr. Frank Mann, director of the experimental laboratories of the Mayo clinic; Dr. Edward G. Billings, psychiatrist on the staff of Johns Hopkins university school of medicine, and Dr. Kenneth Smithburn. assistant in the department of biology and physiology of the Rockefeller institute All are graduates of the Indiana university school of meefibine.

Second Section

STERILIZATION OF ONFIT NEXT | HITLER MOVE Bill Is Being Drafted for Amazing Social Action in Germany. DETAILS KEPT SECRET Chancellor Continues His Smash at Opposition Parties. BY FREDERICK OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent (Coovrieht. 1933. bv United Pressi BERLIN, June 29.—The government of Chancellor Adolf Hitler is drafting a bill calling for the sterilization of the "hereditarily unfit.” the United Press learned on high official authority today. This unprecedented social experi- | ment was proclaimed by Chancellor : Hitler during the days of his phenomenal rise to power, but revelation that the plan actually had progressed to the law -drafting stage came as a shock, even in quarters close to Fascist leaders here. | Drafting of the bill is in the hands !of Minister of Interior Wilhelm | Frick, who. it was understood, ; practically has decided the form it jis to take. Under the dictatorial ! powers voted him by the reichstag. Chancellor Hitler, through his Nazicontrolled cabinet, can put the law into effect by decree. Details Kept Secret Details of the procedure of sterilization or who would judge the “hereditarily unfit” remained a closely guarded secret, pending formal announcement of the law r . Hitler’s program of smashing all political opposition meanwhile gained fresh impetus with the announcement that the constitutional party had dissolved itself. The move in itself had small significance, having been expected. The party's members in the reichstag and Prussian diet had been prohibited from taking their seats following the recent outlawing of the Socialist party, on account of the fact that Socialists and constitutionalists voted joint tickets in the March elections. Catholics Given Warning The Catholic parties were reported reliably to have been given an opportunity to follow' the example of the Constitutionalists and Nationalist party, dissolved on order of its leader, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, coincidentally with his resignation as minister of economics Wednesday. A puzzling situation developed during the day over Dr. Hugenberg's resignation and his future poistion in the government, if any. The government first announced officially that President Paul Von Hindenburg, at his summer villa at Neudeck, had accepted the resignation. Then, suddenly and without explanation, this announcement of acceptance was drawn and Hitler let it be known that he was proceeding to Neudeck to report fully on the political situation to Von Hindenburg. Some saw in this a crisis between Hitler and Von Hindenburg, and a show'down at Neudeck was predicted. Hindenburg Takes Action Dr. Hugenberg's influence with the president was reported recently to have been strengthened considerably, following a visit of nationalist emissaries at Neudeck, who emphasized again to Von Hindenburg Dr. Hugenber'g’s long service in the government and his “sacrifices for the nation.” It appeared that Von Hindenburg definitely declined to accept Dr. Hugenberg's resignation and called Hitler to Neudeck for an explanation of the entire political sitj uation, wdiich rapidly is eliminating I but the Nazi party, w'hich Hit- | ler controls. EIGHT INDIANA DRY AGENTS LOSE JOBS District Force Cut in Half by New United States Order. Indefinite furloughs will be given | eight federal dry agents attached Ito the Indianapolis office Friday, under orders received late Wednes- , day by Basil H. Minnich, deputy dry administrator for the southern Indiana district. The dismissal order, received by Michael L. Harney, Chicago, administrator for Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, will leave eight agents on duty in this district. Agents ordered furloughed are Charles Beavan. Maurice Bennett, Arch Farabee, Earl Hoppes, Alfred Knilans, Thomas Moses, Harry Katon and Ralph Winn. SESSION OF REVIEW BOARD IS EXTENDED Tax Assessment Appeals Mount, Delaying Hearing Close. Unusually large volume of appeals from tax assessments on file with the Marion county board of review has resulted in the term of the board’s meeting being extended until July 24. Order for the twenty-day extension from July 4 was given Wednesday by Circuit Judge Earl R Cox when it was revealed by Robert R. Sloan, county assessor, that insufficient time remains for consideration of appeals. ORDER SCHOOLS SURVEY Another Step in McNutt Revamping Plan Is Taken. Another step in Governor Paul V. McNutt s plan to revamp the state schools was taken by normal school trustees meeting at the Columbia Club Wednesday afternoon. They ordered a survey of the schools to be made by Harry Elder of the state department of education and President Lemuel A. Pittenger of Muncie Normal. No successor to President L. N. Hines of the Terre Haute Normal was selected. Hines’ resignation will be effective Sept, 30.