Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1933 — Page 9

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MANY INJURED IN WEEK-END AUTO CRASHES Wet Pavements and Heavy Traffic Given Blame for Accidents. 3 TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Man Struck by Hit-and-Run Driver Left Lying in Street. Wet pavements, combined with heavy week-end traffic, caused numerous accidents Saturday and yesterday, although few of the injuries are reported serious. Three persons were injured when the automobile in which they were riding skidded on slippery street car tracks and struck a tree in the 2000 block Shelby street. Taken to city hospital, suffering from shock, cuts and bruises, were Mrs. Agnes Randell, 32, of 717 Lexington avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mohr, 2469 South Pennsylvania street, passengers in the automobile driven by George Randell, 34. Struck by Taxicab As he started across River avenue near Ray street Saturday night after alighting from another automobile, Thomas J. Bohannon, 66, of 1044 River avenue, was struck by a taxi driven by Cecil Robinson, 50, of 205 South Keystone avenue. Both legs were fractured and his chest, head and back were injured. Robinson was arrested for failure to have driver’s and chauffeur’s licenses. John Hale, 55, of 619 Langsdale avenue, suffered head, face and leg injuries Saturday night when his truck collided with an automobile driven by William King, 40, of 563 North Oxford street, at Delaware and Michigan streets. Held for Intoxication George Urans, 34, of 704 Day street, was left lying in the street early yesterday morning by two men whose automobile struck him. He received injuries to the right hip and wrist. Mr. Urans told police he saw the men stop the car, look back at him and drive on. Charles Sherfick, 32, of 961 Dorman street, was arrested on charges of drunkenness and driving on the left side of the street Saturday night, after his car collided with the automobile of A. E. Harris, 37, of 3184 Kenwood avenue, at Tenth street and Parker avenue. Mrs. Anna Harris. 60, mother of Harris, was cut on the head. Church Front Damaged Frank Kokemiller, 62. of 4343 Madison avenue, tv as arrested on charges of drunken and reckless driving early yesterday after his automobile struck another car and then demolished part of a church front at 1502 North Senate avenue. Others in week-end accidents were Edward Henderson, 22, of 362 West Thirty-second street, head injuries; Miss Bertha Craig. 23, of 1006 West New York street, head injuries; Mrs. Marie Baker, 28, of 3702 East Twenty-second street, face cuts; John McCarty. 54. of 1611 West Market street, head cuts and leg injury; Herbert Meyers, 47, of 315 North Rural street, cheek lacerations; Miss Gladys Anthony, 21, of 3823 Central avenue; Miss Dorothy Brouhard, 24, of 3852 Winthrop avenue. and Miss Lucille Rector, 23. Graylynn apartments.

KIWANIANS TO HEAR EARLHAM PRESIDENT Dr. William C. Dennis to Discuss China at Luncheon. Wednesday. Kiwanians will hear an address by Dr. William C. Dennis, Earlham college president, at their luncheon Wednesday in the Columbia Club. His subject will be From Peking to Nanking and Tsingtau—A Diplomatic Journey in 1918.” From 1917 to 1919, Dr. Dennis was legal adviser to the Chinese government at Peking. BUTLER SPHINX CLUB INDUCTS 17 JUNIORS Initiation by Honorary Fraternity Is Announced by President. Howard Campbell, president of Sphinx Club. Butler university honorary fraternity for junior men. today announced initiation of seventeen new members. They are Fred Clifton. Dale Gilson. Morris King. William Davis. Wright Cotton, Thomas Johnson. Robert Johnson. Frank Bridges. Cecil Marion. Addison Coddington, Karl Stipher. James Robinson and Edgar Baum, all of Indianapolis, and Ora Hartman. Hobbs; Russell Erret, Terrace Park. O.; Newell Boles. Seymour, and Edwin Davis, Logans port. SOLDIERS CHOSEN FOR ARMISTICE CEREMONY World War Veterans Will Form Memorial Color Guard. Twelve soldiers from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, all of whom served overseas, have been named to form a color guard for the ceremony dedicating the World war memorial shrine to the flag Saturday, Armistice day. They are First Sergeants Valentine J. Earhart, Jose I. Medeiros Corbett Meeks. George Tellon, August Hamilton. Chester W. Phillips, Theron Bollinger. Staff sergeant Albert J. Stabb. Sergeants Adam Zlotowski. Harry H. Reynolds and Garland Jenkins, and private, first class, William M. Johnson. Signal Officer Transferred. Orders transferring First Lieutenant Frank H. Curtis, Ft. Benjamin Harrison signal officer, to the Hawaiian department, have been received here. Lieutenant Curtis will sail early in January.

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Prison Paroles Will Continue in Spite of Break, McNutt Says No Clemency for Bandits With Guns, Governor Orders; Adult Probation for First Offenders Also Extended. Despite disappointment in John Dillinger and his ilk, paroles will continue to be granted by the state clemency commission to prisoners in Indiana penal institutions who are considered worthy, Governor Paul V. McNutt declared today. Adult probation also will be extended to first offenders

under the guidance of the new’ state probation department, he said. The chief executive, however, laid down this rule: •‘There will no probation for the man with a gun.” “When the criminally-minded has reached the point where he uses a gun in a holdup, he is beyond salvage through the probation system,” Governor McNutt contended. “He has sinned against society and must pay the penalty.” Two views are current regarding treatment of criminals, the Governor pointed out. One is that it is much less expensive to the state, and more humane, to provide adequate supervision on parole and probation than to be adding costly cell blocks at the penal institutions. The other is the attitude that every offender should be confined to the full limit of the law. ‘‘Contrary to popular opinion, most law violators are neither successful nor dramatic,” Governor McNutt asserted. “One-fourth of of them are young men, between 16 and 20. Many are first offenders who have not yet become hardened beyond redemption and can be salvaged through probation. “Indiana’s Constitution provides for reformation and not vindictive justice. “Not all prisoners are criminallyminded. The parole system extends the boundary of their confinement to the borders of the state. It permits them to re-enter society under proper supervision. “It must be remembered, however, that parole is not a right, but a privilege.” Governor McNutt admitted that the clemency board made a grave error in freeing Dillinger at its first meeting in May. He pointed out that the trial judge and the man whom Dillinger had robbed, both recommended his release. Instead of remaining on his father's farm at Mooresville, Dillinger is alleged to have taken part in a series of bank robberies. Arrested in Ohio, he was delivered by murder of the sheriff from the Lima <O.l jail and joining his gang who made the jail delivery has since been at large. “Dillinger had no previous criminal history and had served nine years on the robbery charge,” the Governor said. “His actions subsequent to parole have proven, of course, that the judgment of the clemency board and those who recommended his parole was in error.” This error should not discourage judges from taking part in parole cases, the chief executive said, and condemned those who refuse to do so. In future clemency hearings, notice in each instance will be sent to judges, prosecutors and witnesses involved in the case and the prison conduct also will be made a factor in the final decision to grant a parole. Governor McNutt announced.

DARMODY STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION Spends Restful Night, Hospital Officials Report. Althoungh spending a restful night, Joseph M. Darmody. 60, local candy manufacturer, remained in critical condition today at St. Vincent's hospital. Mr. Darmody was taken to the hospital Monday suffering from a fractured skull, said to have been received in a scuffle with Mrs. Eleanor Harding. 28. of 1916 Park avenue. Mrs. Harding and a friend. Roland Shuey. 27. of 1912 Park avenue. are under arrest in Martinsville for the alleged attack. TOURIST CAMP RAIDED SECOND TIME BY GANG City Police Asked to Be on Lookout for Plainfield Bandits. Indianapolis police were asked early today by Plainfield authorities to be on the lookout for five men in a sedan who held up the Spring Hill tourist camp, three miles west of Plainfield. Loot included a quantity of cigars and cigarets. and a radio. The bandits fled toward Indianapolis. They are believed to be the same gang that held up the station four weeks ago.

Distinguished Nobel Prize Winner Banned From Teaching His Own Textbook in Hoosier High Schools by State Law Under Fire

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer TY OBERT ANDREWS MH.LIKAN. Nobel prizeman and one of the world's leading physicists, couldn't teach his own textbeok in an Indiana high high school because he hasn't had nineteen hours credit in pedagogy. Although he is the distinguished head of California Polytechnic institute, he couldn't be a Hoosier high school principal because of failure to have certain credits in school administration. These are some of the curious facijS regarding Indiana teaching

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EARLY TRIAL IS ASKEDJOR DEAN Alleged Slayer of Police Sergeant May Face Court Soon. If trials of five men charged with murder of police Sergeant Lester Jones are not held as scheduled next week in Noblesville, Edward (Foggy) Dean, also charged with the slaying, will be given an early trial here, Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker said today. Judge Bakers’ announcement was in >nswer to a plea by T. Ernest Maholm, Dean’s attorney, who had requested an early trial for his client. Mr. Maholm pointed out to the court today that the other trials might be delayed because of a ruling by Hamilton Circuit Judge Fred E. Hines that Marion county’s change of venue bill must be paid before the trial will be started. Judge Baker said he understood that arrangements had been made with Hamilton county authorities for settlement of the claim, and that the trials would begin as scheduled.

WEEK OF FELLOWSHIP IS BEGUN BY CHURCH Barnes Methodist Services Slated for Each Night. A week of fellowship is being held at the Barnes Methodist church, Twenty-sixth and Nice streets, under auspices of the Rev. Robert E. Skelton, church pastor. Mr. Skelton opened the week Sunday with two sermons, “Sons of God” and “Hiding in the Rocks.” Tonight has been delegated as “choir night,” Tuesday is “Brotherhood night”; Wednesday, “Sewing Circle night”; Thursday, “Progressive Aid night,” and Friday, “Steward night.” The week will close Sunday with addresses by Dr. B. F. Smith, district superintendent.

Charles Semones, 100, Dies Here After Illness

Centenarian Cast Vote for Lincoln; Rites to Be in Frankfort, Ky. Charles M. Semones, 100, believed to be the oldest living member of the Odd Fellows lodge in Indiana, died Saturday at his home, 548 Exeter avenue, after an illness of four months. Mr. Semones, who reached the century mark Feb. 17, was a farmer in Franklin county, Kentucky, where he was born, until he reached the age of 80, when he came to Indianapolis to live with two sons, Millard Semones and Charles Semones of the above address. Mr. Semones voted for Abraham Lincoln for President and was a member of the Kentucky home guard in the Civil war. He had voted the Republican ticket in each election since he was 21. Funeral services and burial will be at Frankfort, Ky., tomorrow afternoon. Surviving him are four sons. Millard and Charles Semones, Indianapolis, and J. C. Semones and R. C. Semones, Louisville. STREET PROJECTS TO BE OPPOSED BY CLUB Northeast Civic Group to Discuss Improvements Proposed. Opposition to proposed street improvements will be voiced at a meeting tomorrow' night of the Northeast Civic Club, in the Ebenezer Lutheran church, Sutherland and Eastern avenues. Members of the club are opposing opening of Temple avenue to Thirty-eighth street, resurfacing of Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets and additional lighting in a real estate development south of Thirtyeighth street, between Orchard and Eastern avenues. Ways and means of opposing the projects will be discussed. A. J. Wingenroth is president of the club.

requirements brought to light during the last week when the state board of education met again without considering a petition for change. The petition, signed by more than 300 members of the faculties of universities and colleges of the state, has been pending before the board since last June. It asks that the board reduce from nineteen hours to twelve hours the professional requirements for first grade license for teachers and that the laws governing administration courses for principals be changed. The chants is ashed on the basis

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SIX STATES TO JOIN IN VOTING OUTDRY ERA Tomorrow’s Balloting Will Sound Death Knell for Prohibition. 33 ALREADY IN LINE Roosevelt Repeal Promise Comes True in Nine Months. By Scripps-H award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—“ From this day forward the eighteenth amendment is doomed.” This was the bold prophecy of Democratic presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt as he stood before the Chicago convention on a hot day in July of last year. On the first Tuesday in November of last year, the American people overwhelmingly elected Mr. Roosevelt to the White House. And on the first Tuesday of November this year tomorrow — the last six battalions of American voters march again to the polls to fulfill their leader’s prophecy. Nine States Too Late Thirty-three battalions already have made that second march to the polls, and without exception their verdict has been repeal. And when the rear guard of the march has passed the ballot boxes in six more states Tuesday it is expected confidently the seal of thirty-nine states will have been placed on the coffin of the eighteenth amendment. The states that will pronounce the coroner’s decision Tuesday are Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky and Utah. Within the twelve months that follow it is probable that the remaining nine states will vote, but their vote will not count. The states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana waited too long to get in on the parade. Liquor After Dec. 5 The last rites over the corpse of national prohibition will not be performed until Dec. 5, the date when ratifying conventions are held in the state of Utah, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Not one person in a thousand who heard Mr. Roosevelt’s utterance on that sweltering July day in 1932 believed then that the entrenched prohibitionists could be routed in so short a time. But in less than nine months the people have made their cumbersome Democratic machinery complete the job. Toward the voting Tuesday there is little but apathy, for Americans lose interest in an issue as soon as the battle becomes one-sided.

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Hospitality! Horrors; Strange Snores Bring Police.

T'\ ISTURBED by snores of an uninvited guest asleep in a chair in his living room yesterday, Herman Rawls, 1802 Sugar Grove avenue, called police, w'ho awoke and arrested Alex Coleman, Negro, 714 North West street, on charges of drunkenness, vagrancy and trespassing. Thieves Break Into House Jesse Davis, 2277 Indianapolis avenue, reported to police today that thieves entered his home Sunday while he was at church, stealing apparel and household furniture valued at $6.50.

that time is wasted on the socalled courses in education which could be devoted with great benefit to teacher and pupil, were it given to the subject matter to be taught. Indiana’s nineteen-hour requirement is four hours more than that demanded by the North Central Association, which rates and qualifies the schools. A copy of the petition for change also has been sent to Governor Paul V. McNutt, former dean of the Indiana university law school, who is reported to look with some favor upon it. A requirement sos twelve

Tex Gone Plays Her Role Right Up to Very End of Career.

BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer ONLY three months have passed since Texas Guinan, in a record-breaking tour of the middle west, played at the Circle theater here for a week. In that brief time, thousands of Indianapolis theater-goers saw the woman, whose boundless energy and flambuoyant personality carried her from the obscurity of a Texas potato ranch to stardom in the movies and on Broadway. And now Texas has answered her last curtain call, with death in the prompter's seat, in a Vancouver hospital. In the best tradition of the theater, she played her role up to the very end. In press dispatches today from the west coast, it is related that she ’’wisecracked” to the last. A small group of tearful friends gathered round her bed at the hospital just before she lapsed into a coma. “Well, boys and girls,” she is reported to have said, “I’m headin’ for the last roundup. And whereever I’m going, I’ll take all the wisecracks with me. And with a Anal weak wave of her hand she said faintly! “Come on, give this little girl a great big hand.” a a TO people who did not know Texas, this might have seemed flippant, but to her intimates, it is interpreted as a typical “Guinan gesture.” To Florence Webber of Crows Nest, who starred in many musical shows with Texas; to the writer who was her press representative during the halcyon days of the El Fay Club in West Fortyfourth street, New York, and to hundreds of other Indianapolis friends, La Guinan was much more than the glamorous, wisecracking “night club queen.” Other traits surprising in a woman who was synonymous with Broadway night life, were known only to those who knew her well. Most surprising, perhaps, was her deep religious feeling. Beneath the hard veneer which Broadway paints on its habitues, Texas Guinan preserved a deep veneration for all that was sacred in all religions. Many times the writer has heard her cut-short disparaging remarks made against religion, which some guest at her club made, perhaps in his cups. Although she never drank herself, she was tolerant of others—that is all others except the girls who worked in her show. She watched over their morals and health with maternal care. Ruby Keeler, Alice Boulden, Peggy Shannon and Claire Luce, to mention only a few, started their paths to stardom on the small dance floor of the El Fay Club with Texas. 000 npODAY Miss Webber, who has A deserted the stage to raise chickens north of Indianapolis, recalled another outstanding Guinan characteristic. “I think Texas’ most outstanding virtue,” said Miss Webber, “was her unfailing generosity. No one will ever know all of the little private philanthropies she has done —hundreds of hungry show girls she has staked for a fresh start, the thousands of dollars she has given to all sorts of causes, and most of all, the sunshine she brought into the lives of so many people. She gave of herself generously.” Miss Webber recalled an incident typical of the generosity of Miss Guinan. a girl who had left her show for a vaudeville engagement in Philadelphia, broke her back on the stage. Without sufficient funds to pay for the operation, the girl lay in a hospital. When the news reached the El Fay Club, Texas called for donations from the floor. Brokers, gangsters, men about town, stage and screen stars responded with a fund that not only paid for the operation, but provided the show girl with funds to care for her during her recuperation. On that occasion. Larry Fay, slain night club proprietor, contributed SI,OOO. Among her intimates, Texas numbered the Prince of Wales, whom she called “Eddie,” and practically all the “big” men of New York and Chicago, who at one time or another visited her night clubs. 0 0 0 WHILE in Indianapolis, Texas revealed another side of her personality. A few days before coming here, she had met a wellknown Arctic explorer. They talked together for a long time. During her stay in Indianapolis Texas got hold of all the books on exploration she could find and read them assiduously. “That’s the way she is,” her manager Eddie Baker explained, “she’s interested in everything. She loves people. They’re like a stimulant to her. Just give her somebody to talk to—any one—and she’s happy.” “It’s too bad she died so far from Broadway,” said Miss Webber today, “buit I guess she didn’t mind. She was an old trouper, you know.”

semester hours in methods, practice teaching and psychology should be sufficient, we believe, to provide what is essential for the beginning teacher,” the petition sets out. “A reduction in the professional requirement would make possible further training in the subjects which the prospective teacher actually is to teach, as well as in related subjects. “That a greater knowledge of subject matter on the part of teachers is highly desirable, not only is Tur view, but also that of some of the leading teachers of

CITY SCHOOLS TO BE HOSTS FORPARENTS Open House Sessions Mark Start of Education Week Here. MANY TALKS ARRANGED Programs Fostered to Give ' Public Understanding of Problems. All Indianapolis public schools, beginning today, will engage in their first general celebration of American Education week in recent years. All grade schools in the city, at some time during the five days, will hold open house. Every effort will be made to have the greatest possible number of parents attend these affairs, since it will be their best opportunity to learn about the purposes and methods of the schools. In most cases, the schools will hold their open houses at 7:30 p. m. Teachers will be in their school rooms to receive the fathers and mothers and to discuss with them their children’s problems and training. Programs Arranged Following the inspection by the parents, each school will present a program. Qualified speakers will discuss the problems of the schools and in many cases, the children themselves will present short programs. Many projects and pageants are under way in schools throughout the city, celebrating American Education week. The six public high schools of the city will present elaborate programs. At Broad Ripple high school there will be daily talks in the auditorium. Today, four pupils will discuss contributions made to education by health, home, citizenship and morals. Tomorrow will be visitors’ day. Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend will speak on “Does Education Pay?” Supper to Be Held A program by the Parent-Teacher Association tomorrow night will be preceded by a covered dish supper at 6:30. “Education as an Investment” will be discussed by Karll V. Ammerman, principal, Wednesday. The Indiana Central college choir will sing Thursday. Albert Stump wil speak on “Loyalty” Friday. At Washington High school eightminute class periods duplicating, except in length, regular periods, will be held Thursday night, with parents at the pupils’ desks. This demonstration will be part of a Parent-Teacher program and will follow a chile supper. Dr. Stanley Coulter, dean emeritus of Purdue university, will address the pupils at assembly Tuesday on “The Increased Responsibility of the Schools.” Movie to Be Shown At Manual high school Wednesday, the Rev. Dobbs F. Ehlman, Second Reformed church pastor, will speak at assembly. The Chorale Club and the banquet orchestra will provide music. Emmett A. Rice, vice-principal, and two pupils, Evelyn DeWeese and Carter Tharp, will speak at Education Week exercises at Shortridge Wednesday. A motion picture, “Tech at Work,” depicting activities of the school during one day, will be shown at 7:30 and 9 Wednesday at Technical high school. All classrooms, laboratories and shops will be open until 10:30 at an open bouse the same night. Dr. Johnson to Speak Dr. Mordecai Johnson, Howard college president, was to address the assembly of Crispus Attucks high school today. Education week programs will be presented daily and the school will be open for inspection Friday night. Education week also will be recognized by many clubs and organizations throughout the city where talks on the subject will be heard. 627 CASES STUDIED BY CLINICS AT I. U. Report on Psychological Work Made by Dr. Louttit, Director. Dr. C. M. Louttit, director of Indiana university psychological clinics at Indianapolis and Bloomington, said today that 627 cases had been handled during the year ending Sept. 30. The Indianapolis clinic handled 341 cases and the Bloomington division 286. One of the expansion activities of the Bloomington clinic was cooperation with such agencies as the Indiana Woman’s prison. Shot During Argument Argument over a craps game yesterday in a pool room at 1502 Columbia avenue resulted in Melvin Thomas. Negro, 38, of 1134 East Twentieth street, being wounded seriously. He was shot, police said, in the back and the right elbow by Lawrence Davis, 35, Negro, 1431 Columbia avenue.

education, who assert that professional requirements have been over-emphasized at the expense of knowledge of subject matter.” It was pointed out by the petitioners that the twelve-hour requirement conforms with the recommendation of a committee of the American Association of University professors in a report which w’as approved, in principle, at the annual meeting at New Haven, Dec. 28, 1932. The twelve-hour requirement long has been established in Pennsylvania, where standards are high, it was poiated out.

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In a sweeping cabinet change, General Italo Balbo, hero of the first trans-Atlantic mass flight in history, was ousted today by Premier Benito Mussolini as air minister of Italy.

HOUSE HIT BY PLANE! 7 DIE Faulty Motor Blamed for Crash; Bodies Burned as Gas Explodes. By United Press RED BANK, N. J.. Nov. 6—A plane and fire that took seven lives near here last night was caused by a faulty motor, investigation indicated today. Two of the victims were fliers. The others died in the ruins of their home, which was wrecked and set afire by the falling plane. Lieutenant George R. Johnson, New Jersey national guard member, and South American explorer, and Sergeant Alfred Poole, were the fliers. They took off from the local field in a Douglass observation plane for Newark, N. J., a few minutes before the crash. The plane’s motor began missing at an altitude of 300 feet. Johnson, at the controls, tried to turn back. In the middle of a steep bank, the motor stalled and the plane side slipped into the two-story frame dwelling. It tore through the second-story wall, and the gasoline tank exploded. The wreckage was a roaring furnace instantly. None of the inhabitants of the house, who were Negroes, escaped. Police said the five were at the dinner table. Bodies of five of the victims were recovered within a few hours. They were Lieutenant Johnson, Poole, June King,; Patricia, her sister, 2, and Edward Wilson. Those still in the ruins were Mrs. Margaret King, mother of the two children, and Cora Raglen, their aunt, according to police. Johnson lived at Monmouth Beach.

BEECH GROVE GETS $2,500 1). S, LOAN Money to Be Used for New Sewage System. A loan and grant of $2,500 foi construction of a sewage system in Beech Grove is included in a list of public works program agreements announced today at Washington. Others in Indiana include $84,750 for a new' filtration plant at Huntinburg, $50,000 for a pumping station and filtration plant at Petersburg and $3,700 for a school addition at Albion. INJURED MAN FOUND HELPLESS ON HIGHWAY Taken to Hospital Unable to Explain Condition. Found lying with an injured foot on the Southport road, one mile east of Road 1, Abie Billings, 49, Columbus, Ind., was taken to city hospital early this morning by deputy sheriffs. Robert Reed, 127 North Highland avenue, reported seeing Billings lying in the road, but said he was afraid to stop. Deputy Sheriffs Waldo Carter, Howard Skaggs and Patrick Kinney investigated, and took Billings to the hospital. He was unable to tell how he had been injured. ROTARIANS TO HEAR LECTURE ON MEXICO Export Counselor Will Discuss Customs and Habits. Indianapolis Rotarians will hear an address on "Mexico” by Z. M. Allison, aviation expert, export counselor and lecturer, at their luncheon Tuesday. Mr. Allison will discuss the life and customs of the Mexican people.

BALBO OUSTED AS AIR CHIEF BY MUSSOLINI Italian Flying Hero Sent to African Colony by II Duce. LED FLIGHT TO U. $. Premier Takes Post as Head of All Defense Forces. By United Press ROME, Nov. 6—Air Minister Italo Balbo tooay was relegated to the governorship of Libia. His removal from the cabinet was part of a long planned shakeup which left Premier Benito Mussolini head of all defense forces in addition to his other cabinet posts. Balbo, a few weeks ago Italy’s greatest hero because he led the mass seaplane flight to the United States, had been leported as having incurred Mussolini's displeasure. But it was known Mussolini Jong had planned to combine the fighting forces, and that as a first step he would make himself navy and air ministers. He already held the war ministry, as well as the premiership and the ministries of foreign affairs, corporations or Fascist guilds and interior. Previous reports said Balbo would be made chief of staff of the combined services. Reports that was in disfavor always were denied. Libia is an African colony across the Mediterranean from Italy. Admiral Cavagnari, navy minister, was named president of the government subsidized Cogne Steel Corporation. There had been mystery almost ever since Balbo returned from his triumphant flight to the United States concerning his standing with Mussolini. He was received as a hero at Rome and promoted to air marshal. Then he dropped out of the news completely, and it was rumored he was in disfavor. But it had been known that Mussolini, regardless of personalities, intended to return to his early policy of a closely centralized cabinet, holding key positions himself.

BULLET-RIDDLED CAR MYSTERY IS PROBED Roadster Is Found in City ‘‘Dump” With 2 Holes in Body. Police today were investigating the mystery of a bullet-riddled Ford roadster, reported stolen Sunday night and found today in the city ‘‘dump” in the 3200 block Orchard avenue..,, , _. . , t . The roadster, the property of J. Lester Riggs, 1037 East Market street, w'as found with two bullet holes in the body, one in the windshield and another in the radiator. Robert McNeil, 3237 Schofield avenue, reported to police he heard a fusillade near his home about 3 a. m. today. TWO YOUTHS STRUCK BY AUTO, NEAR DEATH Bedford Young Men Lose Right Legs by Amputation. By United Prettg BEDFORD, Ind., Nov. 6. —James Goldsby, 21, and Ray Robinson, 17, both of Bedford, were brought to a hospital in a critical condition today after being struck by an automobile w'hile investigating a wrecked south of here. Physicians amputated right legs of both in an effort to save their lives. Goldsby and Robinson were standing on the road surveying a car in the ditch when they were struck by another automobile. CITY GAS ATTENDANT KIDNAPED BY BANDIT Hale McLaughlin Is Released After Being Robbed of $lO. Police today were investigating the kidnaping of Hale McLaughlin, 438 South Emerson avenue, attendant at the Standard Oil filling station at 5102 English avenue, last night by j a bandit who drew' a gun after ordering a quart of oil. Mr. McLaughlin was released at | Irvington avenue and Pleasant Run j boulevard after being robbed of $lO. w i l mTtTwilllTead FORGET-ME-NOT SALE Generous Public Response Saturday Asked by D. A. V. Official. Forget-me-not sale to be conducted here Saturday by the Dr. Worthington chapter, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, will be directed by Delbert O. Wilmeth, attorney, it was announced today. Generous public response is asked in a statement by Omer Stevens, national D. A. V. rehabilitation officer. ALBERT STUMP WILL ADDRESS LIONS CLUB Former U. S. Senate Candidate to Be on Luncheon Program. Albert Stump, attorney and former United States senatorial candidate, will address the Lion’s Club of Indianapolis, Wednesday, at a luncheon in the Washington. BROKEN BACK IS FATAL Greencastle Man Die* in Hospital Here After Auto Crash. Receiving a broken back in an automobile accident last Wednesday, William Schull, 49. R. R. 4, Greencastle, died early this morning at Robert Long hospital. Mr. Schull was injured when his heavy truck overturned on a road near Greencastle after being crowded into a ditch by a passing automobile. •