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FARM BUREAU FACES BITTER ELECTION FIGHT •Socialistic Bloc’ Is Seeking Control, Is Charge of State Senators. BACK SETTLE FOR POST Observers See Battle as Menace to Organization’s Legislative Plank. Pondering chargoc that a socialistic group" is attempting to grab control of the Indiana Farm Biraau, delegates went to the organization* state convention togay at Tomlin on hall to eneaße in wha* promised to be a bitter battle over election of a president. The issues were brought into the open by a resolution drafted by Marion county's delegation in the state senate, which is backing William H Settle, incumbent president. A four-point educational program intended to provide rural students with a broader vocational and cultural training was adopted by the bureau today. The program was adopted unanimously after a brief skirmish on the convention floor over the seating of two Marion county delegates. Charles Littier and E Curtis White White Voted Out Again Both were denied seats at the first dav's session hut their eligibility w is brought up again this morning The convention finally voted to keep them out. Rt to 65. on grounds that a contest on the fioor would be undesirable. Mr. Littier claimed he called a meeting of the Marion county farm bureau and was elected a delegate. Mr. White rlaimed that he also railed • meeting which elected him a dele^ite. The election late this afternoon was to close the session. Leading opponents of Mr Settle are M. J Briggs, assistant manager of the Farm Bureau Co-Operative Association. Inc., and Lewis Taylor. Warrick county, first vice-president and legislative leader. Earl Crawford. Milton, former speaker of the house of representatives, is reported to be a dark horse aligned with neither faction. Faction Is I'nder Fire The Marion county senators leading the fight for Settle declared in their resolution that the antiSettle faction is composed of the leaders of the co-operative department of the farm bureau—a purchasing unit. *ln our opinion." the resolution said, "its 'the co-operative faction' policies and fundamental structure are based on socialistic principles and theories." The resolution proclaimed its signers in favor of any and all legislation and programs intended to reduce taxation on homes and farms and to bring the best prices lor the farmer as advocated under the Settle program, but opposed any program which tended to deprive established merchants, storekeepers and -hop owners of their investment and retard the ordinary flowtrade and create further unemployment. Legislative Program Terilrd Many observers saw in the farm bureau battle a menace to its legislative program at the coming ses-s-on of the legislature. The resolution drafted last mcht was signed bv Senators John Bright Webb. E. Curtis White. Jacob Weiss. Leßoy Portteus. Thomas A Hendricks and Leo X Smith, all of Marion county, and the meeting was attended by other senators. Senators White and Webb are farm operators. Mr. Settle's candidacy is in doubt. He was drafted in 1932 and said then he did not wish to be a candidate. The group with which the Marion county senate delegation is aligned will attempt to draft him again, if he declines to be a nominee and if no o r her candidate favorable to the present farm bureau program is put forward.

Points in Program Potnts in the education 1 program follow: 1. Continuance and strengthening of state financing of public education and equalization of education for all types of pupils (city and rural*. 2. Continuance and strengthening of state participation and supervision of all public schools. 3. Adequate provision to be made for rural adult education as long as it doesn t interfere with child education. 4 Establishment of rural teacher training laboratories, under supervision of state training schools. The report was submitted by Z N Smith, state director of vocational education and chairman of a special committee appointed by the farm bureau at its last convention. Skinner Gives Address The convention heard Dean J H. Skinner of Purdue university yesterday In one of the principal addresses that closed the speaking program of the sixteenth annual session. Dean Skinner urged the study ot foreign trade and distribution and v amed that the agriculture problem never can be solved until an answer to distribution Is obtained. The government’s AAA program rr.us' be supported by strong community organization and those who do not approve of the AAA must be educated, he said. Dean Skinner also pointed out the need for a state warehousuig act.

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Testifying secretly before the congressional committee on unAmerican activities in Ncw r York City. Major-General Smedley Butler. retired, charged that he had been approached by Gerold MacOuirc, salesman for a Wall Street house, with the proposal that he lead a putsch against Washington backed by stock brokers, to set up a Fascist dictatorship. MacGuire. making a flat denial, called the charges *'a publicity stunt."

ASK IDENTITY OF GAS CHIEFS City Demands Right to Know Men Behind Contract Plan. Identity of the interests back of the recently incorporated Users’ Ga§ Company must be revealed before representatives of the Indianapolis utility district will discuss any possibility of doing business with the company. This was learned today from Mayor Reginald H Sullivan after a carefully guarded exchange of letters between Clinton H. Givan. company attorney, and Will H. Thompson. of counsel for the utility district. The company was incorporated Oct. 6 by dummy incorporators. It applied for a franchise about midNovember and. Nov. 21. offered to sell natural gas to the city at 35 cents a thousand cubic feet and to loan the city enough money to obtain title to the Citizens’ Gas Company equipment. At that time, it was learned that Mr. Givan offered to supply the names of his clients to Mr. Thompson and Albert L. Rabb. also of counsel to the utility district, if the lawyers would keep them a professional secret and merely investigate the financial responsibility of the persons involved. Mr. Thompson's answer, which neither he nor Mr. Givan would disclose. was understood by Mayor Sullivan to be a statement that the city, through its utility district, was willing to confer with the men behind the Users' organization, but that, before any such conference with the Users' company officials, it must know their identities.

SEEK NEW JUDGE IN 'CAPTIVE' GIRI CASE Change of Venue Asked by Mrs. Mack. Acting as referee of the juvenile court. L Russell Newgent today took under advisement until Saturday a perition of Attorney Paul Scharffin for a change of venue from his court of the case of Mrs. Ora Mack, charged with child neglect in connection with the imprisonment of her stepdaughter Helen. 16. in their home for nearly a year. Helen was released from her home Tuesday by police and court officers who raided the home at 1302 West Market street. Attorney Scharffin said he asked for the change because of Judge Newgent's action last Wednesday when he raised the bond of Harry Mack, the father, from SI,OOO to $5,000. after he had heard stories of other relatives.

EXHIBITION PALACE FALLS; SIX KILLED Belgian Building Crashes. Injuring 20. Bn In itr A Prtx* BRUSSELS. Belgium. Nov. 23 The framework of a wing of the palace under construction for the exhibition of 1935 collapsed today, with estimated casualties of six dead and twenty injured. POLICE. U. S. AGENTS PROBE WEISS MYSTERY Officers Disagree on Theories; Victim Dead. Cops Claim. By C nit fit Prf** PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 23—Police and department of justice agents disagreed today on theories in the kidnaping of William (Big Bill* Weiss, missing since Oct 20. Police made a futile search of Montgomery county wirh the expectation of finding Weiss’ body. They believe he was slain by abductors, who demanded SIOO,OOO ransom. Justice agents, pursuing a different course, continued their drive to round up underworld figures. Weiss’ relatives believe him dead.

CUT IN TAXES URGEU TG HIKE EMPLOYMENT Program Handed to Treasury Heads Calls for Spur to Corporations. C. OF C. FORMED PLAN Internal Revenue Bureau, However, May Block Whole Idea. 'Copvrijfht, 1934. bv United Press' WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—A plan of tax exemption inducements to encourage corporations to spend immediately for plant improvement has been submitted to the treasury by interested New Dealers, it was learned today The proposal is a development of the recent United States Chamber of Commerce plan for business cooperation in recovery. But it was not presented as a chamber project. It is designed to foster corporate spending to provide quick re-em-ployment in the heavy manufacturing industries. As received by the treasury, the plan would exempt from the existing 13.75 per cent tax on corporate income some proportion of each corporation's net returns. The exemption would be allowed with the express agreement that the sum exempted from taxation would be spent at once in plant modernization or extension. For illustration, a corporation raining $10,000,000 a year might be given a $1,000,000 exemption. The tax on $1,000,000 at 13.75 per cent would be $137,500. The treasury would forego that revenue to obtain the immediate employment which would follow its investment in plant replacement. An obstacle developed immediately to this suggestion. The bureau of internal revenue is understood to believe it impracticable. There is treasury reluctance to sacrifice a single penny of revenue during a period of excess of expenditures over income. In behalf of the plan, it is argued that it probably would not cost the government any net revenue in the long run because orders for heavy industrial plant machinery and materials would increase the tax liabilities of corporations manufacturing such equipment and men employed on the new orders presumably would shift from federal relief rolls to private employment.

NEVER ‘SAY IT AIN’T SO.’ BOYS! STRANGE SEA MONSTER FOUND

/>>/ I Hitiil Prist PRINCE RUPERT. B. C-. Nov. 23.—Vindication seemed near today for those who have claimed two sea serpents inhabited the sound near here. The carcass of a strange creature, nearly thirty-five feet long, lay in the Dominion fisheries experiment station today. It had two flippers, about twentyfive feet behind a calf-like head, which were the only bony structures in addition to a spinal column. There was a fluff of % hook-ended hairs, stiff as quills, about the neck and the rest of the body was covered with skin rough as sandpaper. Nine to teninch hairs covered the lower side of the body. The carcass was washed ashore on uninhabited Henry island, twenty-five miles southwest of Prince Rupert.

PRICE STYMIE MAY LEAD TO MILK WAR Agreement Fails as ‘Holiday’ Is Threatened. Apparently stymied for the moment, the Indianapolis milk situation. in the opinion of representatives of producers, drifted today toward "milk holidays" similar to those staged recently in the northwest. A group of Indianapolis distributors announced they had agraed on a producers price of $1.65 a hundredweight of 4 per cent milk and that the Greenwood Dairies were the holdout unit of pioducers. Greenwood officials said today they were asking for a price of $1 65 a hundredweight. At the same time it was made known that the dairy’ has been turned over to producers of Johnson and Marion counties who were operating it by committees, taking what the dairy earned over operating expenses for their profit. During the current price war the price to producers has averaged about $1.35 or as low as $1.30 as a blended price. SCHOOL TEACHER FREED Absolved in Murder of Three Babies Found in Trunk. Bn t'nitrd Prrtg NEW YORK. Nov. 23—Ruby Clarke. 36-year-old school teacher of Nyack. N. Y., was freed today of ail charges in connection with the finding of the bodies of three infants in a trunk she had put into storage more than two years ago. Miss Clarke convinced Magistrate David Hirshfield that she knew nothing about the babies, and that her trunk had been filled with her own clothing when she placed it in a Brooklyn warehouse w July, 1932.

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Insull on Verge of Tears as His Attorney Makes Stirring Freedom Plea Pictured as ‘Great Benefactor’ Under Persecution: Fate of Financier and Companions May Reach Jury Tomorrow. /{;/ United Press CHICAGO. Nov. 23.—The defense case in the Insull mail fraud trial was concluded at noon today. Hi) I niti it Print CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—Samuel Insull. haggard and weary, slumped in his chair in federal court today while his attorney paced before the jury box and thundered denunciations of “the persecution of a great benefactor." The 75-year-old Insull. upon whom the strain of eight weeks appeared to be telling, sat in the midst of a group of seventeen defendants whose fate on charges of engineering a gigantic mail fraud probably will be in the hands of the jury before tomorrow' night. His hands twitched nervously and he pulled at the corners of his white mustache, once meticulously waxed, but now carelessly drooping at the corners of his mouth.

LEGION LEADERS CHOOSE DRAIN Spokane Man Is Given High Post: Succeeds Grider and Bingham. Upon the recommendation of Nai tional Commander Frank N. Beligrano Jr., the American Legion national executive committee today voted unanimously to elect to the offices of national judge advocate and national treasurer the same man, James A. Drain. Spokane, Wash. . Mr. Drain, past national commander of the legion, lawyer and banker, succeeds, in the post of judge advocate, Remster A. Bingham, prominent Indianapolis attorney. and in the post of treasurer, Neal Grider, vice-president of the Peoples’ State bank. Mr. Bingahm and Mr. Grider have done splendid work for the legion. Mr. Belgrano said in a statement of thanks for their service. The combining of the two important posts was done so that the man holding them may devote his full time to legion work. At the same time, legion officials combined the posts of national treasurer and of treasurer of the American Legion Monthly. This removes the last vestiges of the power which Bowman Elder, prominent McNutt man, once held in the legion. When Mr. Elder failed of re-elec-tion as national treasurer two years ago. he retained the magazine post. This left him in control of its $500,000 cash assets and its other properties. The new combined treasurer’s post will pay a salary of $6,000 a year.

TWO DOCTORS AND NURSE LOSE LIVES Killed in Auto Crash; Four Others Injured. Ky In it id Press ANN ARBOR, Mich.. Nov. 23. Two doctors and a nurse from the University of Michigan hospital were killed and an interne and three nurses were injured early today when their automobile left the road and crashed into a tree. The dead: Dr. Robert B. Meyer, assistant resident dermatologist. Dr. George R. King, assistant resident neurologist. Violet Swanson, nurse. The injured, reported to be in "fair” condition, are: Dr. Fred Delp. interne. Gertrude Shuller, nurse. Virginia Collins, nurse. Thelma Boltinghouse, nurse. The acident occurred about two and one-half miles north of Dexter. Mich. The car, sheriff's officers reported, left the road when the driver tsied to negotiate a curve at a high speed. It jumped over a ditch and crashed into a tree. The motor was smashed and thrust back into the front seat, where the three victims were riding. EVANSVILLE GETS NEW MILK LICENSE PRICES Class One Butterfat Up From 48 to 53 Cents. Ill) United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—M. L. Wilson, acting secretary of agriculture, today signed an amended milk license for Evansville, Ind.. effective Sunday, increasing prices to dairymen from 48 to 53 cents per pound of butterfat in class one milk. The new price is about $2.01 per 100 pounds of 3 8 per cent milk or approximately 4 3 cents a quart, delivered. compared to the existing price of $lB2. RUM RUNNER SEIZED: $40,000 RANSOM PAID Kidnapers Fail to Release Rhode Island Victim. By United Press PROVIDENCE. R. 1.. Nov. 23 Daniel L. Walsh, reputed Rhode Island rum runner, is in the hands or kidnapers and $40,000 has been paid in an unsuccessful effort to secure his release, it was disclosed today in state supreme court. 15 Drown in Athens Flood By United Pre** ATHENS. Nov. 23 —Terrific rainfall today caused fifteen deaths by drowning and severe property damage. Low parts city were inundated.

The attention of the crowd of ; spectators was snatched from Insull |by the shouted pleadings of Floyd E. Thompson, husky leader of the .defense lawyers. "Victim of Own Scheme" ‘‘Samuel Insull was a victim of his own scheme —if it be a scheme,” :he declared. His bushy black hair was in disarray. ‘ Hp sold himself on the future of the great business which he conceived and expanded, bringing vast wealth to thousands of people. Is there anything criminal in that?” "Is it reasonable to assume that a man with the record of honesty of Samuel Insull would throw away the accumulations of a lifetime and emerge before you now as a. pauper if he was out to swindle widows and orphans?” The attorney, whose dramatic plea brought his aged client to the verge of tears, described frenzied activity among Insull and his associates following the market crash of October, 1929. Called Victims of Crash ‘‘lnsull and the investors alike were victims of the crash of that crazy boom," Mr. Thompson said. "It was the result of a wild market in which the public is turned loose. What did Insull and his associates do? They went into the market and supported it in an effort to protect the money of the stockholders. Is that rigging?” "If they had called a mass meeting then of the 600.000 stock subscribers there W'ould have been an unanimous vote in favor of such support.” Hitting at the government’s charges ~of fraud, Mr. Thompson said that only one witness was produced in the seven weeks of testimony to testify to being victimized by fraud. "If there had been a swindle they would have brought in 10,000 witnesses to tell of it,” he declaxed.

NO JAIL WANTS HIM; MAN, 73, HAS SPENT HALF HIS LIFE THERE

‘I have spent more than hall my life in jail,” Henry Morrison, 73, of 1213* Bates street, testified before Floyd Mannon, judge pro tern, municipal court three, today when he was fined $5 and costs on a charge of drunkenness. Both Morrison and his attorney said that he had been arrested at least 300 times during his generous span of years and that neither the state prison nor the state farm wanted him back again. This was corroborated by the parole officer who has been in charge of Morrison since his release from the Indiana state prison a year ago. The officer said that Morrison had been arrested eight times and served 200 days in jail since his release and that no institution wants him. In asking for leniency, Morrison said he had ar. opportunity to u'ork for a Charles Abbott on a farm south of Martinsville. Judge Mannon offered to release him if he would bring Abbott to court to vouch for him. "I can't do that, judge,” said Morrison. ‘‘Abbott is in the prison at Michigan City.” "You had better go across the street to the jail and get cleaned up.” replied the judge.

SCIENTISTS SAIL TO END 'EDEN' MYSTERY Death of Island Castaways to Be Probed. By t nited Press LOS ANGELES. Nov. 23.—A party of ten scientists and their millionaire patron sailed today on an expedition designed to solve not only scientific problems but the mystery surrounding the death of two castaways on lonely Maichena island in the south Pacific. The expedition was under the command of Captain G. Allan Hancock, Los Angeles capitalist, who said he hoped to reach the island within ten days. There he will attempt to ascertain if the castaways were Alfred Lorenz, German adventurer, and a Norwegian yachting captain, named Nuggerud. Captain Hancock also will attempt to verify information that Baroness Eloisa Bosquet von Wagner Wehrborn, Australian noblewoman and “empress of the enchanted islands.” left for the south seas last summer with Robert Philippson after discarding Lorenz as her "court favorite.” Times Index Bridge . .. 25 Broun 21 Comics 37 Crossword Puzzle 20 Drawing Lesson 12 Editorial 22 Radio 41 Sports 30, 31

RUSSIAN ARMY WILL MARCH WITH FRANCE IN NEXT WAR, CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES TOLD

PERFECT GRID WEATHER DUE, IS FORECAST Clouds to Disappear and Mercury Will Drop Slightly Lower. Pessimistic amateur forecasts .to the contrary notwithstanding, tomorrow is going to be a perfect day to watch and play football. For this you have the expert word of J. H. Armington, Indianapolis’ official weather prophet. Mr. Armington was even more than cheery about tomorrow; he was enthusiastic. "You bet it's going to be a good day for football,” he said. “The clouds will disappear by tonight and it will become a little colder. Then tomorrow the sun will shine and the temperature will hover in between about 40 and 50. What could be better than that?” The drop of the mercury to 34 last night is about normal for this time of year, said Mr. Armington. and the unusual warm spell seems to have been sent on its way for good. The chill 34 which greeted Indianapolis this morning offered a very sudden and drastic change from the warm 56 which was on hand for early risers yesterday. Mr. Armington said that the drop was due to the passing of a low pressure area in the middle west which has held the normal cold in check in western Canada for the last four or five days.

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Hourly Temperatures 6a. m. ... 34 10 a. m 33 ! 7a. m. ... 35 11 a. m 33 i Ba. m 34 12 moon).. 33 j 9 a. m 33 1 p. m 32 Tomorrow's sunrise, 6:41 a. m.; | sunset, 4:23 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West wind, ten miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.06 at sea level; temperature, 34; general conditions, overcast; ceiling, estimated at 1,100 feet; visibility, seven miles. DENY SIEGE BIDDERS VICTIMS OF REPRISAL McAlpin Explains Proposal Antedated Incident. A report that office equipment | firms, whose representatives laid siege to the state purchasing de-; partment Wednesday, were not 1 asked to bid on SI,OOO of equipment for another department was denied today by C. M. McAlpin, assistant state purchasing agent. The report implied that the firms purposely were left out of the bidding because their representatives participated in the siege Wednesday. When questioned on the matter, j Mr. McAlpin showed The Times that the five requests for bids on the SI,OOO purchase were "marked up” Friday, Nov. 16, one day before the requests for the $4,000 rush order were prepared. He also claimed that three of the four firms whose representatives engaged in the Wednesday dispute were asked to submit quotations on the SI,OOO order. ARTHUR WING PINERO. FAMED AUTHOR, DIES Knighted British Dramatist Wrote "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.” By l niti and Press LONDON, Nov. 23.—Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, British dramatist, died at Marylebone nursing home today after an operation. Sir Arthur was 79. He was an actor in his early years and then achieved international fame as a playwright. Among his many plays, some of the best known were "Trelawney of the Wells.” "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,” “The Amazons.” "The Mind of the Paint Girl,” "The V/eaker Sex.” "His House in Order,” "The Gay Lord Quex” and "Mid-Chan-nel.” 5-HOUR PHONE PLEA SAVES YOUTH'S LIFE Student’s Friend Wins Parent’s Consent to Operation. By l nit'd Prrts SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Nov. 23 - Albert A. Miller. St. Louis, Amherst ' college freshman, was given a 50-50 chance for life at Springfeild hospital today after a five-hour race with death—by long-distance telephone. He underwent an emergency operation for a ruptured appendix on Wednesday night after his friend. Arthur S. Huey of Oklahoma. Amherst senior, pleaded for five hours by telephone to win consent of young Miller s parents in St. Louis. They objected to the operation on religious grounds.

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Outbreak Looked On as Inevitable, Paris* Troops Chief Demands $52,720,000 to Improve Fighting Force. NAZI GERMANY READY, IS CHARGE Hitler Soon to Have 1,200,000 Men in Barracks, Legislators Are Told; Aid of Soviet Government Already Pledged. P>l United Print PARIS, Nov. 23.—A promise that Russia's vast army would march with France if France is attacked in “the next war” echoed in the chamber of deputies today. The debate was all of war, which speakers seemed to regard as inevitable. After Colonel Jean Fabry, chairman of the army committee, had portrayed the swift horror of the next war in asking an additional war credit of $52,720,000, Leon Achimbaud, war budget reporter, spoke. He said: “It is not France’s fault if Europe has fallen again into the old error of combining for a balance of power. Rut

FIGHT DROPPED BY NAZI BISHOP Mueller Abandons Attempt for Centralization of German Structure. Bn Unit'd Press BERLIN, Nov. 23.—Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller today abandoned his efforts as Nazi head of the Evangelical church to enforce total centralization upon it. He issued two decrees which annulled earlier ones by which the autonomy of the Prussian church was canceled. The cancellation was criticised severely by opposition churchmen as unconstitutional. By restoring autonomy to the Prussian church the reichsbishop waided off further legal attacks, which he feared might bring an unfavorable court decision. The restoration of autonomy to the Prussian church means that the reichbishop recognizes the traditional state church structure and renounces, for the time at least, the idea of total centralization. He retains the leadership, however, of the Prussian as well as the Reich church.

‘ALFALFA BILL’ LOVES FELLOW-MAN: KILLER TO GO QUAIL HUNTING

By i niti and Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Nov. 23. Matt Kimes, notorious bank bandit and slayer, will leave the state penitentiary next Sunday or Monday for a six-day quail hunt, his attorney, Sid White, said today. White said he obtained from Governor W. H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray a letter authorizing Warden Sam Brown to release Kimes without a guard. The bandit, who was released recently by Murray for several days’ is serving a life sentence for slaying a Beggs (Okla.) officer in a robbery. Kimes’ first leave was to permit him to confer with those opposing his petition for a parole. "The Governor felt that Kimes was entitled to a leave because of his good conduct,” White explained. "We are going to hunt quail. I’m not a very good shot, but I believe Matt can get enough for both of us,” the lawyer said. HUNT MISSING OHIO GIRL, 4, IN WOODS Child Feared Lost; Scores Join in Search. By United Press CONNEAUT. 0.. Nov. 23 —Scores of men searched the woods in Richmond township near here today for 4-year-old Rita Lemp, who wandered away with her dog yesterday and failed to return. The dog returned late last night without his little mistress. Searching parties were formed nd the hunt continued through the night without success. Deputy sheriffs who led the searching parties believed the child wandered into the woods and became lost in the heavy underbrush. Fear also was expressed that the girl might have been accidentally shot by a hunter. 3 BOLIVIAN FORTS FALL Paraguayan Army Moves Up to Rich Oil Fields. By I niter,t Press BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 23.—The rich oil fields of the Bolivian Chaco stretched today before the Paraguayan army in the Gran Chaco war. General Jose Estigarribia. the French-trained Paraguayan generalissimo. telegraphed to the war | office at Asuncion within a span of twelve hours of the fall of the last three Bolivian strongholds in i the Ballivian sector along the Pilcomayo river, guarding the oil fields.

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thanks to such an alliance, France today is allied with Russia, the possessor of Europe's largest army. "Russia has pledged that her solid, well-equipped army will march with us in case France is attacked.” It was a reference to the new French-Russian treaty of mutual defense. In his speech. Colonel Fabry said Germany had twenty-one army divisions, comprising 600,000 men, ready in barracks, and soon would have forty-two divisions, or 1.200,000 men. Its air force, he said, soon would number 100 squadrons—although Germany is forbidden an air force by the Versailles treaty. "Anew force arises from German soil.” he said, "but Germany is not yet ready to use the most modern war material. France has made a considerable advance in the use of war machinery, and this advance must be maintained. "What wall the next war look like? It will be an inhuman, light-ning-like aerial atack and rapid movement of motorized armies and irreparable destruction of the invaded regions.” YOUNG WOMAN DENIES HURLING ASH TRAYS Had Only “Cocoa,” She Says Answering Drunkenness Charge. The case of Miss Dorothy Repp, 30, of 1041 North Warman street, charged with drunkenness, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer, was taken under advisement today by Floyd Mannon, municipal judge pro tern., after the young woman had testified she only "had a drink of cocoa.” Miss Repp was arrested last night by police who testified they found her hurling salt cellers and ash trays in a beer tavern at 969 North Hclmes avenue, owned by Frank Turk. The young lady Judge Mannon that she had gone to Turk’s place with two empty beer bottles for a refund. She said that he refused to pay her and she told him she would not leave until he did. When he attempted to throw her out Miss Repp testified she threw a salt celler at him

PWA LOANS, GRANTS TO LOUISIANA HELD UP Huey’s ‘Poor Man’s Laws’ Studied by lekes. Hi! t'niteft Prexx WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. - Senator Huey P. Long's "poor man’s” laws today proved likely to cost the Louisiana "poor man” as much in wages as he saves in taxes. All PWA grants and loans on which ’work has not actually started were held up today at the order of PWA administrator Harold L. Ickes. He took the action until a study could be made of the possible affect I on the PWA projects of the new legislation. It was estimated that about $14.000,000 in recovery projects are halted through the order. Mr. Ickes said he took the action beI cause of the debt moratorium provided by one of the new laws. 5-CENT FARE TESTED ON SHORTER ROUTES Smith Would Extend Lines if Experiment Is Success. Petition for right to operate several new bus lines will be filed with the public service commission by the L. J. Smith Transportation soon, if 5-cent fares, established on two of its lines this week, prove successful. The fare was reduced to 5 cents on two of the line's shorter route?, fare on the other longer routes remaining at 7 cents. The line is in active competition with Indianapolis Railways, which charges 10 cents on its busses. CONSERVATION CAMPS TO ACCEPT ARTISTS Painters May Apply at Herron Art Institute. Indiana artists who want to attend the winter Emergency Conj serration Works camps for a period ending March 31. 1935, may obtain enrollment blanks at the John Herron Art Institute, 110 East Sixteenth street.