Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1933 — Page 19

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Martin Hare Following on the heels of the unexpected success of a first hovel, “The Enchanted Winter,’’ Martin Hare, an Irishwoman, has written another. Her latest is called “Describe a Circle.’’ It has just been published by Harper & Bros.

n n n BY WALTER D. HICKMAN NOTABLE visitors to Indianapolis this week have focused attention upon present day Russia and the demand for books on Soviet Russia are keeping the book shops and the library busy. In one day this week we had two interesting woman of international reputation as visitors and both have focused attention upon present day Russia. One did it by what she written and the other by including In her program announcements songs of the Soviet. The writer was Irina Skariatina, former Russian Countess and author of First to Go Back.'' published by the BobbsMerrill Company of this city. The singer is Lsa Kremer, who appeared in recital under the auspices of the Indianapolis ICOR branch of the national organization interested in the founding and maintainance of a Jewish Socialist Society republic in eastern Sibera. These two interesting personalities naturally arouse one's interest in Soviet Russia. Countess Skariatina approaches the problems and conditions in Soviet Russia in a direct way in “First to Go Back." In this book I particularly was interested in part three which recounted her journey last year through the Soviet Union. In the beginning of this section, the former countess accompanied by her American husband, takes you on a train journey out of Moscow' into the industrial center of the Soviets. She traveled over the same rails that took her as a child with her father, a general in the Russian Imperial army, and she writes that she felt like a -ghost'’ returning to old scenes. nun It is this minute and I think accurate detail in linking the personal past of the author with the changes under the Soviets which makes thus book an important pub- j lication upon a country regarding which there is such a vast difference of opinion. Personally, T believe that I have the right to read, digest and tell | you about everything I encounter on | the subject. She records while going through ! Ukrainian villages of today "The ! contract between the settlements of j Ukrainia and those of Great Russia , to the north has always been amaz- j ing. for the northern villages were j and still are dirty, dilapidated, and full of misery and squalor. But what | struck me this time particularly | was the very apparent industrializa- I tion of Ukrainia. New factories,! new workers' settlements, new grain j elevators, appear all along the way ! as the train cuts through the country and in all directions one sees intensive excavation work going on and many new’ buildings under construction.” Here is an example of an observation of travel that has weight and has a right to be considered. While in Russia this time, the author went through many places of the late czar and found many of them transformed in sanatoriums and rest homes. Again, the author is able to create Old Russia while giving an accurate picture of present-day Russia. That is the real value of this book —the comparisons of the old and new. And you will find that the author's husband tells his side of the story in the same book. That is different. This book deserves to be read. nan Have been asked—What one book do you find that most people are reading? I judge that this question applies to new fiction. Three times yesterday at a luncheon I attended at the Indianapolis Athletic Club I heard seven people out of twelve discuss "Anthony Adverse." by Hervey Allen. I think that will answer the question. n n n Also many letters have been reaching my desk for authentic new books on Germany. I am in the middle of a number of new ones and several more are in the mail. Will answer that question as soon as I digest a few more of them. a a a Burns Mantle in hir. “The Best Plays of 1932-1933" names the ten best as "Both Your Houses,” “Dinner at Eight,” “When Ladies Meet.” •Design for Living.” "Biography," “Alien Corn,” “We, the People,” “One Sunday Afternoon,” “Pigeons end People,” and “The Late Christopher Bean.”

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WOMEN HOLD KEY IN STATE POLITICAL WAR McNutt Backers Battle for Ballots to Defeat Peters’ ‘Army.’ SHOWDOWN DUE SOON Girls Ordered to Fight for Governor on Pay Levy. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer Twenty-five or thirty girls, who procured statehouse positions through Pleas Greeleee, patronage secretary for Governor Paul V. McNutt, were given orders today to fight, for the Governor and against R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman. Mr. Greenlee had the group assemble in the Governor's office, where he talked to them. All will go to the state Democratic women’s meeting at Clifty Falls state park Saturday to spread the statehouse gospel. It consists briefly of this—boost Paul and rap Peters. That Mr. Greenlee no longer is so sure of success in the state committee fight scheduled for Monday was indicated by his conduct since returning from the American Legion convention at Chicago Thursday. Held Peters’ Vote First act of Mr. Greenlee, long a foe of Mr. Peters, was to summon Mrs. Josephine Williams, Seventh district vice-chairman, to his office. Mrs. Williams has been listed as supporting Mr. Peters in his stand that the state committee, and not Bowman Elder, should handle the salary levy being collected from state employes by tne Hoosier Democratic Club. In the first check of votes made by the administration, she had been conceded to be on Mr. Peters’ side. The committee has been called to vote on the matter, with the Governor backing the club collection plan and the state chairman opposing it. When Mr. Greenlee, who predicted the administration forces had Mr. Peters whipped, called Mrs. Williams, who is an employe in the automobile license division, it was taken to indicate some uncertainty regarding the result. “Not Worried” Mrs. Williams refused to be quoted regarding the meeting and Mr. Greenlee said “we are not worried.” Nevertheless he kept on working to line up votes. Two other women, who are district vice-chairman and thus members of the state committee, are on the state pay roll. They are Mrs. Marcie Murphy in the license deLaporte, an oil inspector. Women may prove the greatest foe of the administration, it is prepartment, and Miss Florence Smith, dieted. Under the leadership of Mrs. A. P. Flynn, Logansport, state vice-chairman, they have protested that they were ignored by Governor McNutt in more important appointments at the statehouse. Women Claim Credit They contend that 55.7 per cent of the Democratic victory vote was polled by women and they have not been rewarded sufficiently. Mr. Peters, who has been in Washington, and is expected to return to headquarters here today, has been sympathetic toward the women's claims. He has rallied the county chairmen and vice-chairmen in his behalf and has had secret indorsement of his stand by a majority of elective officials at the statehouse. The two-week delay he procured by postponing the original meeting date has been to his benefit, his supporters assert. He will attend the state Democratic women's meeting at Madison, Saturday, while neither Governor McNutt nor his secretaries are planning on going. BURGLAR STEALS S3O WORTH OF CLOTHING Thief Outfits Himself From Tip to Toe at Residence. A burglar in the home of Owen A. Hiles, 1211 North Warman avenue, outfitted himself from head to foot early today. Missing articles include a cap, shoes, overcoat, topcoat and a suitcase with a total value of S3O. Mrs. Maude Owens, 1207 North Warman avenue, said that on her arrival at her home shortly after Hiles discovered his loss, she saw a man run from the backyard. SLIGHT FROST FELT IN CITY. IS REPORT Eary Risers Find Light Deposit: Ft. Wayne Hit, Too. A few early risers reported a slight frost ’n the city today, but ithe local United States weather bureau received a frost report only i from Ft. Wayne.

Merchandise of World’s Marts Pour Into ‘Port Indianapolis’

IT would be interesting how many residents of Indianapolis are aware that there is a federal customs office located in the city. Were one to stand on a street corner and ask each person passing where it is to be found, the answers denoting complete ignorance of the subject would be many indeed. Should one be curious enough, let him go to the third floor of the Federal building. There, in faded letters on a glass door, tire the words “Collector of Customs.” Inside in a small room, two men

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GOLD HUNT HOLDS MACHINE ERA FATE

Men Pitted Against Dredges as Battle for Metal Is Fought

The first world-wide told rush in history is on today in every land and clime. This is the fourth of a series of articles describing the rapid protress of events and their economic implications. a a a BY EARL SPARLING Times Sperial Writer THROUGHOUT the world men are hunting new gold with which to save machine civilization. And even this search has pitted men against machines. The issue—at least here in America, where mechanics first took charge of life—is this: Shall workless men dig the needed gold out of niggardly sands or shall machines do it? Up in Alaska and throughout the golden west huge dredges are clawing their way through gold-bearing placer deposits. The very fact that the machines are there proves that gold can be obtained in paying quantities. The issue is so simple it is terrifyingly profound. The great dredges can dig, wash and discharge up to 500 cubic yards of dirt an hour. A placer miner, with his pan—even an experienced man—can handle a little more than half a cubic yard in a long day. If a placer miner can earn 50 cents an eight-hour day, each dredge working the same gravels can earn up to $4,000 a day. In short, each dredge can do the work of 3,000 men. obtain the same amount of desperately needed gold the army of men might obtain—and keep the men out of work. Hydraulic machines, capable of washing down entire mountains, can obtain gold even more efficiently and, therefore, keep even a larger number of men per machine out of work. Hydraulic operations have been illegal in California since 1884. but with gold selling at around $32 an ounce they may come back. The California legislature in 1927, when gold was still fixed at $20.67, defeated by a single vote a bill to permit resumption of hydraulic, or gravel, mining

under certain strict conditions, chiefly the restraining of debris by high dams across the • water courses. There was still gold in the California hills when the 1884 decision was rendered. Says Robert Wells Ritchie of that decision, in his book. "The Hell-Roarin’ FortyNiners”: a a a “TT turned the calendar of the page of the Days of Gold. For it granted injunction against the North Bloomfield Mining Cos. and all other hydraulic operations in the gold fields except those—in one very small district in the Coast Range mountains who washed their debris directly into the ocean; enjoined them forever from rending gravel mountains with their steel-like jets of sompressed water and thereby filling the lowlands and navigable streams of the valleys with the shards of a whole mountain range. ‘‘That pen stroke came as a climax to years of bitter struggle between the imperious gold grubbers—men of the old school who thought California was good only for gold to be torn from her hills—and the desperate ranchers of the valleys who were being buried under millions of cubic yards of water-washed gravel from the higher diggin's. ... So, with the harsh word of the law saying them nay, one by one the big hydraulic companies throughout the northern mines began to close down. “The traveler over old gold trails sees these great white slashes through the mountains, all along a north-and-south-running line marking the tracing of prehistoric river channels; he sees these slashes like prints of a Cyclops snowshoeing over the green snow ot the mountains’ verdure, and wonders that puny man ever armed himself with such terrific eroding tools. And in the heels of these giant snowshoe tracks lie little ghost towns. Towns where lizards and coyotes are the only things stirring. Towns of three, of a dozen of twenty. Towns where there are no children For the oldsters, the old-timers who remember how it feels to have a throbbing steel hydraulic nozzel under their hands, there is undying hope that their country is going to ‘come back ; that they’ll live to go once more down into the hydraulic pits

Utility Magnate Dodges Quiz by Senate Probers

Hopson Avoids Summons Committee; Hurley to ‘Explain’ Acts.

By Scripps-Hoicard Xeicspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—A dramatic showdown was scheduled today before the senate banking committee over the refusal of a powerful public utilities magnate, Howard C. Hopson, directing genius of Associated Gas and Electric Company and allied corporations, to appear and open his books. Mr. Hopson will not be present. He has been dodging the committee for weeks on one pretext and another. The story of his attempts to evade a subpena rivals dimenovel fiction, with a comic touch. He is literally “missing” and has been for weeks. The committee today did not know where he was His strange story finally came to light. Appearing on his behalf today will be handsome, suave Patrick J Hurley, former secretary of war in the Hoover cabinet, who was called in as his counsel a few days ago after other lawyers had failed to mollify the committee. Mr. Hurley came rushing down to Washington last night from Chicago in response to a peremptory ultimatum from Ferdinand Peccra, committee counsel, that his client must come from hiding. Mr. Pecora,

are busy working on files and records. One of them is Wray Fleming, newly-appointed collector of customs; the other is Ralph Compton, assistant collector since 1904. Always willing to answer questions Mr. Compton explains the history and activities of his office. The Indianapolis custom house was established by an act of congress in 1881. * • THE first office was a small, illlighted room in the old postoffice building* which was located

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i* on today m every iana ana cmne. Nineteen of these dredges have escribing the rapid progre- of erent. worked over an area of 4.000 * acres these last twenty-five years, irt ivr moving enough rock to have cx- ' ’ cavated the Panama Cana'. BraaisSHßsslißßSißMl times Thrv have extracted $65.hunting new gold with which to I W&rmK. A 000 000 of gold m this May this search has pitted men a a a x // inary work, has been about SIOO.S.OOO^men.^obtain

and work with slashing water jets. . . a a a 'T'HAT was written in 1927-28, long before any one—any one but the very wise—could see what was going to happen to gold. Today those oldsters of the ghost towns are perhaps a bit chagrined at the way their country had come back—what with city-bred “snipers,” wives, children and all, flocking in to pick the old diggings. Some of those old ghost camps have not seen a child in forty years, and presumably the oldsters are all on the side of the machine. It is an issue upon which America apparently will be forced to take sides. No figures are immediately available, but those hydraulic operators who were forced to stop work in 1884—some of them, at any rate—must have been averaging 50 cents of gold per half a cubic yard of dirt; the average recovery for all hydraulic operations was about 45 cents per ton, with an estimated 20 per cent waste. So, the issue is whether the federal government should adopt Randolph Walker’s plan and grubstake a million men to pan-50

U. S. to Us Brooklyn Man Would Rename Johnson.

By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Timely if unusual suggestion from a Brooklynite to his newspaper. “Why not give Administrator Johnson the nickname he deserves by changing his name from Hugh S. Johnson to U. S. Johnson. It’s just a matter of spelling, and I don’t think the nation will mind.” ti was learned, is ready to take drastic measures. He has .lost patience after weeks of fruitless attempts to locate the missing magnate. Mr. Pecora declined to discuss the cac' which will be brought into the open today for the first time when the committee hears what Mr. Hurley may have to say for his client. This is just one of several similar incidents of balky witnesses, some of whom finally yielded and agreed to do what the committee wanted. It explain the heavy pressure which is being brought to bear to check an inquiry that has laid bare the ugly facts of financial racketeering from which the country has suffered.

on the present site of the American National Bank building, at Pennsylvania and Market streets. Today some of the largest business firms in the city and state are served from its present location in the postoffice building. By having imported goods sent in bond direct to the Indianapolis custom house upon arrival at the port of entry, the custom duties can be paid here in this city. This service saves business firms a considerable sum of money in brokerage fees, storage bills, freight charge and book-keeping expenses.

Prospectors today are dredging gold from the sands of the Pacific at Santa Cruz, Cal., and (above) James H. Breen, Smithsonian institution geologist, examines a seven-pound gold nugget from Greenville, Cal.

cents (75 cents at today’s free market price) of gold each a day or whether gold recovery, immensely spurred by the new prices, should be left to machines. “Put the men to work,” says Randolph Walker, backed by many prominent men. “Grubstake them and put them to work. What if it does take a million men to do the work of several powerful machines? The men are starving. And they can produce just as much gold as the machines.” a a a WHERE the hydraulic operators, and the gold they left behind them in 1884, fit into today’s picture is problematical. Leave them out. The dredges still remain. And in hundreds of places dredges and destitute panners are working side by side —the panners for a bare living, the dredges for a good profit to their owners. Try, by imagination, to see Park’s Bar, near San Francisco. Three-quarters of a century ago men panned SBO to SIOO a day

ORGANIZE LEADERS’ Y. M, C. A. CORPS Program Is Designed for Athletic Activities. Junior and senior leaders* corps will be organized in various neighborhoods of Indianapolis under the local Y. M. C. A., for the furtherance of the physical program planned by the organization this year. Announcement of these plans has been made by Fred W. Wickens, recently appointed director of physical education for the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Dickens anticipates strong teams representing Indianapolis against associations in other cities, under the university system of athletic activities. Competitive spofts will include basketball, swimming, wTestling, boxing, handball and fencing. More than one of these sports will be included in inter-association meets which will be planned as a part of the new physical program. JOIN ACTION ON BUSES Abandonment of Feeder Line Asked in Petition to State. Intervening petition, supporting that of the Indianapolis Railways, Inc., asking abandonment of the Prospect street feeder bus, has been filed •with the public service commission. The petition came from the South Side Motor Coach Company, independent operators.

A SURPRISINGLY long list of imports pour into the Indianapolis office to serve the everincreasing needs of the Hoosier metropolis and surrounding cities. Drugs from London, opium from the Orient, diamonds from Amsterdam, china from Dresden, marble work and glass work from Venice, lace from Ireland and Belgium are taken direct from the boat, sealed and shipped in bond to ‘Port Indianapolis.” Os all the offices in forty-nine customs collecting districts in the United States. Indianapolis has

from those gravels, and when the gold ran low moved on to a better place. Today a group of sixty men, defeated by machines, work the same sands for a dollar or less a day each. And whenever they look up from their sluice boxes they can see a dredge eating in upon them. Theodore R. Smith, reporter on the San Francisco News, visited them this summer and wrote; “They don’t worry about how puny their efforts appear alongside the million-dollar gold dredger that is slowly wallowing its way down-stream a few miles above them. This gargantuan monster pushes along leaving a trail of raw boulders and rocks on either bank. Five hundred and fifty cubic yards an hour go into its voracious maw, are noisily chewed and dropped on to an endless belt. “The silt and mud that is left behind is run through three sets of mechanical riffles. These are covered with two and a half tons of quicksilver, which speedily picks up any gold in the muddy waters.

Standard Company Opens New East Side Market

Drive-In Store Is Largest of Type in Midwest, Officials Say. The influence of new motifs in design and architecture at the Chicago World’s Fair is brought to Indianapolis by the Standard Grocery Company in its new drive-in food store at 3200 East Tenth stheet. It is the largest store of this type in the middle west. The store covers 4,000 square feet and has parking accommodations for 500 automobiles. The interior color design is a combination of deep cream and a mellow green in harmony with the utra modem fixtures and stainless steel shelves. The indirect lighting, which is a feature of the market gives the effect of daylight at all times. Conveniences for the customers and attractive displays are the keynote of the interior arrangement. Electric refrigeration is accomplished in the display of meat cases and the butchers work inside of a mammoth refrigerator. .The grand opening Friday and Saturday has been announced by Chester H. Jackson, president of the Standard Grocery Company. Both tonight and tomorrow night the new market will remain open until 11 p. m.

one of the busiest for cities not accessible by navigable waterways. A sub-port has been established at Evansville, where large shipments of tobacco from the Caribbean officially enter the country. Among the unusual articles that are imported into Indianapolis at present are fresh fish from Newfoundland. seasonal tomatoes from Cuba, firecrackers from China, fire apparatus, fish hooks, accordions, nuts, burlaps and art works for exhibition. In anticipation of the repeal of the eighteenUuaxaendment, many

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Nineteen of these dredges have worked over an area of 4.000 acres these last twenty-five years, moving enough rock to have excavated the Panama Canal three times. They have extracted $65.000,000 of gold in this way.” ana OR. to get another glimpse of how the machine is trying to save the machine, read his form the Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette of Sept. 20: “The washing plant of the Apex Mining Company, designed to save the placer gold in a long canyon on the eastern slope of the Singatse range, eight miles north of Yerington, has been installed. It has a capacity of about 70 to 100 yards an hour, and the cost, with preliminary work, has been about SIOO,000. “We will be pleased with it,” said E. R. Stanley, the mining engineer in charge, “if the recovery of gold is from 80 to 90 cents a yard, although in one test I washed SIOO out of 175 pounds of dirt, including a $2 nugget.”

One thing about machines, however, is that they do not find new gold. It takes the prospector and the humble placer miner to do that —men such as Bob Newmeyer, who was mentioned in an earlier article. Bob Newmeyer came upon an old hole about fifty feet deep on Jackson Hill in California. Many a prospector had pecked there and found nothing. Newmeyer had a hunch. He located the woman who owned it, offered her 20 per cent of anything he found, and started digging. He cut a log and made a crude windlass. He dug eight feet and found a huge nugget worth $1,700. By the end of 1932 he had taken some $20,000 out of the hole. This summer he took on three partners and they are still digging gold—out of a place thousands of prospectors had passed by for half a century. And what machine could have found gold as efficiently as Tom Rogers, a farmer, near Auburn, Nev.? Farming had ceased to pay. Tom started digging up his farm for gold. Three hundred yards from the state highway he took out SI,OOO in a week. He shifted thirty yards away and took out another $1,500 the next week. He and his son are still digging.

No Gambler! Not ‘Smart’ Enough, So Judge Frees Man.

HT'HE fact that John GUI, 34, of 1229 Oliver avenue, didn’t look smart enough to be a gambler in the opinion of Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, yesterday secured his release. Gill had been fined $25 and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer on a charge of keeping a gaming house, but appealed to the higher court. After hearing Gill’s story that he had been running a pooiroom for a blind man, Judge Baker commented: “Well, it looks to me that the blind man has as much chance of looking out for the house’s cut as you would. For your own protection, I am going to fine you $lO and costs, but will suspend it on the condition you never gamble.” Turning to Sergeant Kent Yoh, arresting officer, Judge Baker said: “Sergeant, if you every find this man in a gambling game, look out for him. He needs someone to take care of him.”

wholesale houses in Indiana have planned to bring foreign liquors into the state through the customs office. “Few people realize the nature of our work here,” Mr. Fleming said. “Though the title when applied to Indianapolis sounds as paradoxical as a Sahara snow storm, the collector of customs has his hands full in supervising the work. The biggest problem that we have facing us is to make more business firms in the state realize that we are here to serve them and to save them anoney."

PARK BOARD I EXPENSE CUT IS SUGGESTED Coffin Golf Course Removal May Be Included in Slash Plan. REPAIR COSTS ATTACKED Saving of Thousands Would Result From Mergers, Experts Claim. Every one agrees that Indianapolis taxpayers should get relief. Yet the city budget will Increase taxes by 5 cents on a SIOO worth of assessment. Nobody has suggested specific methods of saving. No criticism ol Mayor Reginald H. Sullivans administration Is intended, as marked savings have been effectea under his leadership, but The Times today presents the fifth of a series of articles containing suggestions for further budget slashes. BY AL LYNCH Times Staff Writer Removing the burden of the nonpaying Coffin golf course from the | city park department and consolidation of park department equipment repair costs are two methods suggested to The Times as avenues to municipal economy. The park board, it is reported, has considered the first-mentioned move favorably with a short-term lease to individuals or a club as a substitute for its continued operation at a deficit. Cost of maintaining the course this year has been $8,269.23 and receipts have been $4,122.70, leaving a $4,631.09 deficit. Course ‘‘Too Sporty” The charge has been brought against Coffin that it is too “sporty” for the average golfer who can find the time to play only occasionally and that its maintenance has been .for the benefit of a comparative few golfers who can play the course “without being made ridiculous” by its hazards. Park board officials admit that the course is unlikely to become a paying proposition for some time. Coffin adherents point out that high water the early part of this season is, in some measure, responsible for the decrease in receipts. In proposing leasing of the course, proponents of that suggestion point to the Woodstock club situation. Woodstock has paid a $6,000 a year rental and also takes care of its own upkeep. Seek Fees From Pros This rental, obtained under a lease that expires in 1940, pays all the interest and part of the principal of a $160,000 indebtedness incurred when the city purchased this property. Two other suggestions are advanced by persons seeking means of reducing the city’s park costs on golf. One is that golf professionals who dispense instructions pay the city a fee for the right to do so at the courses and sell clubs, balls, tees and other equipment. Still another proposal which has met some favor is that “professional rights” on all the municipal courses be lumped and the privilege leased to a person or corporation which would be responsible for maintenance. In suggesting consolidating equipment repair costs, budget experts point out that such work formerly was done at municipal garage, across from city hall. Thousands to Be Saved Now, however, several separate crews are maintained for buildings and machinery maintenance. The park board has two repair shops, one at Brookside and the other at Riverside. Several thousands of dollars a year could be saved, it is claimed, through avoiding duplication in superintendents, storekeepers and labor. All of the city’s golf courses are showing a profit with the exception of Coffin and Douglas. The latter is maintained for Negroes and shows the small deficit of only $457 up to Sept. 6. South Grove has come from $2,130.20 “in the red” in 1932 to $505.18 “in the black” this year. Job Consolidation Held Further park department savings can be effected, it is pointed out, by having the parks superintendent assume the duties of the recreation director. Salaries are higher in the park department, too, than in other departments. One auditor draws $2,052 a year. The position of park board attorney could be abolished, it is claimed, with the regular city legal staff taking over his duties. Other suggested abolitions in the park department personnel are the posts of engineer, junior assistant and senior field aid. No large i amount of construction work is conI templated in the board’s program | this year and the engineering de- | partment is costing the city SB,- | 552.13 a year to maintain. Consolidating proponents cite this situation as another argument that the city engineer's department should do more work, in this, a low construction, period. FATHER, 2 SONS ARE" SUSPECTS IN ROBBERY Trio Accused of Beating Elder!? State Pair in Home. By United Press PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 6.—Three Nora iO.i men, a father and his two sons, were held on burglary charges i here today in connection with beating and robbing two elderly Jay | county residents at their home near j here. The defendants, George Lipps and j his sons Chester, 21, and Lester, 19, denied knowledge of the robbery. They returned here without protest. The victims, Henry and Mary . Noble, brother and sister, were : beaten and robbed by three men who invaded their farm home last night. Mr. Noble is reported in a serious condition. Miss Noble, related to George Lapp by marriage, identified him as one of her assailants.