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TWO FIREMEN HURT IN CRASH WITH TRAILER Truck Driver Is Arrested for Failing to Give Right-' of-Way. ENGINE BADLY WRECKED Accident Occurs on Way to Answer Alarm; Three Escape Injury. Twi firemen were injured today hen a fire truck racing west on New York-st to answer an alarm ffrrick a truck trailer at the intersection of New York-it. Delaware-st •nd Massachusetts-av. The injured firemen. Verlin Parker. 1840 E. lOth-st. and Bert Caylor. 1910 Roosevelt-av, both of Engine House 7. were sent to City ftnspital, where it was said Mr. Parser had suffered a severe hip injury and that Mr. Caylor received cut* about the head and face. Paul Douglas. 27. Seymour, the truck driver, was arrested on a Miarge of failure to give right of ►ay to a fire engine. The front end 6f the fire truck was wrecked and ie trailer was crumpled from the trash. Three other firemen were tiot hurt. The truck trailer was the propertv bf the John C. Graub Cos., wholesale grocers. Seymour. The fire iruck was answering a call to the residence of N. M. Sullivan. 1820 N. Pennsylvania-st. where h small fire on the roof was extinxuLried before serious damage was done. It was the second blaze of the same type at the Sullivan home today. CITY~RAirE[EVA7ION FUNDS ARE DELAYED FWA Loan Not to Be Considered Until Relief Bill Is Passed. itV Tim !<•* .'/>• rial WASHINGTON. Feb 27. Any application for Public Works Administration funds for the Indianapolis South Side track elevation will not be received for filing until the $4,880,000,000 works relief measure is passed. Rep. William H. Larta bee was notified today. If and w’hcn that bill is passed. PWA will be ready to advance the lull amount of funds needed on the present 70-30 per cent basis. Mr. Larrabee was informed in a letter from Col. E. W. Clark, who handles such projects for PWA. FAMED DIRECTOR WEDS FILM MAGNATE’S NIECE Ruth Mannix. 26, Is Bride of W. S. Van Dyke. By Tnitr-t Pr NEW ORLEANS. La., Feb. 27 The mrrriage of W. S. Van Dyke, noted novie director, to the former Ruth Mannix of Los Angeles, two days ago at Gretra. La. was revealed here today. Mr. Van Dyke is attending a theater owners' convention. * The bride is 26. She is a niece of Edward Mannix. general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. 30-GALLON STILL IS SEiZEDJN POLICE RAID Officers Detect Odor of Mash While Passing; Owner Escapes. Police today sought the owner and operator of a 30-gallon still and 200 gallons of mash found yesterday at 934 E 19th-st. Radio Patrolmen William Martin and Charles Russell noticed the odor of mash while cruising and traced it to the house they raided. Although the still was going full blast, there was no one in the louse when police entered. Police said the house bad been rented Jan. 21 by {Thomas Black. Negro, but thev have Uot yet been able to locate him.

BAR CONDUCT BILL IS PASSED BY SENATORS Measure CivfK Suprtaif Court Sol* Right to Disbar Attorney*. The Senate today passed. 37-10. the Weiss bill which would Rive the Indiana Supreme Court exclusive jurisdiction in censuring or disbarring attorneys accused of unethical conduct. The Senate. 41-2. passed the Hemmer-Handy bill which would set up a five-man board which would regulate the milk industry in the state. MIDWEST RAILROADS TO BUY M. & ST. L. |T.200.000 Price Agreed on at Parley: Jones Present. r*n itfd PrfM WASHINGTON'. Feb 27—Agreement to purchase properties of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad which has been in receivership since 1923. for $7,200,000 was reached this afternoon at a conference between representatives of eight middle western railroads and tJesse H. Jones. RPC chairman. heiress to statler MILLIONS FOUND DEAD Body of Toung Matron Discovered Ip Pinehnrst Garage. Rf l *iU4 Pr'M PINKHURST N. C. Feb 27 Mrs. H- Bradley Davidson Jr.. 22. the former Elva Statler and heiress to th* Statler Hotel millions, was found dead in her garage at Edgewood, her resort home, here today.

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Chuck Is in ‘Bum’s Row’ After Party And Sheriff Ray Appoints Two New Deputies to His Force. Sheriff Otto Ray announced today the appointment of Virgil Dunn, 38 Rockville-rd, and Roscoe Bredell, 402 S. Adaison-st. as deputy sheriffs to replace two who were dismissed last Thursday. Howard Brennan turned in his badge yesterday after it became known to persons outside the sher- | iff’s staff that he had taken Charles (Chuck) Wiggins and two other prisoners for a joy ride and round of tavems Sunday night. Deputy Charles McCallister, who was erroneously reported by The Indianapolis Times to have participated in that joy ride, has been dismissed effective tomorrow. Sheriff Ray held a staff meeting la,sl night in which he warned deputies that he would tolerate no violation of the jail rules, and that any repetition of Sunday night’s escapade would be punishable by instant dismissal of the offending deputies. Chuck Wiggins was demoted, too. He is now in what's known as “Bum's Row.” where iast night he ruefully told The Times that he had been in jail under three sheriffs and that this was the first time he ever had been in trouble. “I didn't do no wrong," he insisted.

FIRE DESTROYS GROCER'S HOME Clermont Stores Periled by Blaze; Fami.y Escapes. While approximately 25 neighbors hastily formed in a bucket brigade toiled desperately to extinguish the flames, the home of Charles Marshall. a grocer, burned to the ground in Clermont, west of Indianapolis, today. The raging fire had gained such headway that fire apparatus from Indianapolis, when it arrived, was powerless to save the structure. The wind carried the flames to nearby telephone poles, destroying them and thus haUing telephone service for more than an hour. Mr. Marshall, shaving in an upstairs room of the one and one-half story frame house, noticed the smoke and called to his wife in the kitchen. A daughter. Miss Jane Marshall, a night worker in an Indianapolis silk mill, was sleeping and had to be aroused. A defective flue was blamed for the fire. Had the wind shifted, the barber shop, hardware store and drug store nearby would have come into the path of the flames. Neighbors said the fire began at near 9.

SCHOOL BOARD WILL SELL CAR BOUGHT IN ’27 BUT NEVER USED

Back in the palmy days of 1927 someone decided the Board of School Commissioners needed an automobile. No one knows exactly why but it was purchased. Almost continuously since that time the car has reposed in the school board garage, kept in excellent repair, but never used. Last night the board in regular session authorized A. B. Good, schools business director, to offer the somewhat ancient but nevertheless serviceable auto for sale. Official notices will be posted and advertisements inserted in local newspapers and it will be disposed of at a private sale. 29 KILLED BY I BLAST IN SOVIET LEAD PLANT Fire Rages for Hours in Chemical Factory After Explosion. By rwitrrf Preet MOSCOW. Fb 27—A compressor in the lead department of the Krassin Chemical factory burst today. killing 29 workmen. Machinery was blown through the roof and three floors were burned. The fire lasted three hours. Remaining workers were transferred to duty in other factories.-

Another Picture Scoop! —Roosevelt, This Time Thirteen striking ur.posed pictures of President Franklin D. Roosevelt snapped by Thomas D. McAvoy, staff photographer of the Washington Daily News, a Seripps-Howard newspaper, will be presented in The Indianapolis Times tomorrow. The pictures will be presented tomorrow in connection with the start of three frank, unbiased articles on “Two Years of Roosevelt,” which will begin tomorrow. Never before in the history of the country’ has any photographer or artist ever captured the fleeting, changing moods of a President of the United States in such an accurate, informal way as Mr. McAvoy. Using a camera with specially prepared films. Mr. McAvoy took the pictures as President Roosevelt puffed his cheeks, signed a treaty, shook hands with a foreign envoy, casually motioned to his secretary. The famed grace and charm of the President are shown in the pictures, as well as a moment when a frown passes over his forehead as he reads a paper before him. Although President Roosevelt's forceful personality is already etched on the minds of his countrymen by the hundreds of formal pictures taken of him, these pictures show him as he is not aware of the camera's eye. Since these pictures record a personal history of a great man. no one can afford to miss reading and seeing The Indianapolis Tkmes tomorrow.

COLD WAVE TO END, WEATHER MAN ASSERTS Temperatures to Rise Slowly, Is Word Given Out by Armington. FAIR, SAYS FORECAST Mercury Falls to 12 Above at 7:25; City Feels Blizzard’s Effect. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 15 10 a. m 16 7 a. m 15 11 a. m 19 Ba. m 13 12 (noon).. 20 9 a. m 14 1 p. m 22 Tomorrow’s sunrise, 6;20 a. m.; sunset, 5:33 p. m. Warm weather gradually pushing its way from the West and Northwest will slowly boost the temperatures in Indianapolis tonight and tomorrow, j. H. Armington, Federal Meteorologist, predicted today. The cold snap hit Indianapolis suddenly yesterday, dragging the mercury down to 12 at 7:25 this morning. Indianapolis saw the tail end of a blizzard which Is raging on the east coast as heavy snow flurries fell from 7 to 8:30 this morning. Fair weather was forecast by Mr. Armington for tonight and tomorrow'. 26 Feared Lost (Copyright. 1535, by United Press) ABOARD S. S. EUROPA, IN MID ATLANTIC, Feb. 27.—The luxury liner Europa and two other rescue ships abandoned the search for the British freighter Blairgowrie today and continued on their courses. Their masters had concluded that the Blairgowrie went down, carrying 26 men to death. Only one faint hope remained—that the crew of the Blairgowrie had taken to lifeboats and were afloat som?where on the Atlantic which was whipped by gales of hurricane force. The Cunard-White Star liner Olympic will pass through the stretch of waters where the stormbroken freighter presumably sank. The Olympic wirelessed that she was keeping a sharp lookout for boats or wreckage. But this hope was of the vaguest kind. Masters of the Europa, the United States liner American Banker, and the Dutch ship, Blommersdijk were convinced' the Blairgowrie was down with all hands before they ordered their vessels back to their courses. They had searched the vicinity to w'hich they were summoned by the Blairgowrie's frantic SOS calls, from 1 a. m. until well past dawn.

Race Bill Is Doomed for Session by House Defeat Clincher Balking Reconsideration Adopted After Vote; Tax Now Needed for State Fair Debt. All attempts to pass a pari-mutuel betting bill at this session of the General Assembly appeared today to have been abandoned following the House of Representatives defeat yesterday of the Black bill to permit machine betting on Indiana horse races. It now is impossible to introduce new measures in the House of Representatives, w'here the Black bill was beaten 46-50 following a stirring

floor battle. New measures may be offered if unanimous consent is obtained. There are members of the House who would object to introduction of any new betting bill; Pari-mutuel betting bills have been regarded as revenue measures and on that account must be first introduced in the House. This prevents consideration of anew bill in the Senate. Eighteen Democratic representative and 32 Republicans voted against legal betting when the final showndown rame. Track operators would have been permitted to take 10 per cent commission on all bets and the state would have received 2V> per cent of the aggregate bets. Rep. J. Napier Dyer (D., Vincennes), Rep. Black and Rep. Roberta West Nicholson (D., Indianapolis) led the debate in favor of the bill. Defeat of the measure makes necessary’ the adoption of a bill

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‘Buy Livestock Skinny; Sell Them Fat’—That’s the Hope of Eli Lilly

BY VINCENT LYONS Times Financial Editor ELI LILLY, head of the firm of Eli Lilly & Cos., hopes to “buy livestock skinny and sell them fat.” This was his confession today when questioned as to his recent acquisition of land. Mr. Lilly has virtually monoplized the farm real estate market in Hamilton County in the last few months, having bought about 800 acres during that period. These land deals, he said, are in no way connected with the activities of Eli Lilly & Cos., and are purely an individual enterprise. It had been surmised by some that the acquisition of the various parcels of land was preliminary to the inauguration of an expansion campaign by the Lilly company. This idea, however, is spiked by Mr. Lilly’s remarks. Yesterday the head of the Lilly enterprises purchased a 90-acre tract, just south of the John Owens’ field, bringing his total land holdings in this territory to approximately 800 acres. Mr. Lilly declared that the purchase of this area will punctuate his activities in the real estate market for the time being. He has no further transactions in mind. Questioned as to whether his activity jn buying this land for the purpose of raising livestock

FRANKIE GETS GRAND FUNERAL —EVEN IF HE DID DIE IN ODD WAY

By United Prc* CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Some pretty tough gents with powdered white fedoras and diamond stickpins as big as carbuncles held a reunion at Rago’s undertaking parlors today and shed a few tears for Frankie Rio. Frankie—a big shot to the end —lay in one of Mr. Rago’s best bronze caskets amid floral tributes sent by every one who amounts to anything in gangland. Os course Frankie had to die. But it was the manner of his demise that brought sadness to the mourners, some of whom came from Florida and New York. The bodyguard of Alphonse (Scarf ace Al) Capone and ranking No. 4 public enemy went out in a most unbecoming fashion. Frankie died a natural death. “His ticker jammed," said the round-shouldered guerilla standing guard at the Rago door. He tapped his heart with a wellmanicured finger and spoke with deep reverence. “But he’s getting a swell funeral, pal.”

appropriating SIOO,OOO a year for two years to pay maturing indebtedness of the state fair board. The measure provides that had parimutuel betting been allowed, revenues would be used to finance debt charges. The betting bill defeated, the measure now provides for a direct tax.

IDEAL BUSINESS GIRL MUST BE ‘SENSIBLE/ MERCHANTS DISCLOSE

By United Prr*t CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Five hundred Chicago business men described the ideal “business girl ’ today for the West Area Business and Professional Women’s Club. The men want ’em like this: 1. About 26 years old (34 per cent would permit 35 years). 2. Sensible (every man agreed on this). 3. Attractive (but they don’t have to be blond). 4. Friendly (with customers, of course). The questionnaire revealed that 44 per cent of employers think women are as good as men. while 33 per cent think they’re hopeless.

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"If I was Governor of Indiana there wouldn't be a Republican holding a state office today,” said Senator Claude B. Mcßride (D., Jeffersonville), in a meeting of the Senate Judiciasy B Committee yesterday. Senator Mcßride was expressing disapproval of a bill, backed by the Indiana League of Women Voters, that would establish a merit system for appointment of state employes. The measure, according to Mrs. Richard Edwards, Peru, chairman o i

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was not indicative of his confidence in a continued rise of livestock values, Mr. Lilly declared that he did not like the role of a prognosticator, but that he was hopeful—and for obvious reasons. “I hope to learn the business of livestock farming,” Mr. Lilly declared, adding with a chuckle, “and probably to my sorrow.”

KERN TO NAME MERITBOARDS Mayor Happy Over Passage of New Police and Fire Law. Moving swiftly to place into operation the merit system law signed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt yesterday, Mayor John W. Kern announced today that the merit commission and the two merit boards probably would be formed tomorrow. Elated over passage of the bill, Mayor Kern said that the city and fire and police departments were rid at last of political appointment of firemen and police. He added that it would take some time to work out all details of the plan. The personnel of the commission, composed of a physician, psychologist and citizen, will be chosen for ability and without regard to political affiliations, the mayor said. The commission will pass upon new members of the fire and police departments. The merit hoards, composed of ranking officers of both departments. will pass on promotions and demotions. The safety board and the mayor will select a panel of men to take entrance examinations and also will act as a court of appeal on merit board cases. The Indianapolis Times long has advocated the merit system in Indianapolis police and fire departments.

7-A HELD INVALID BY FEDERAL JUDGE t New-Dealers Lose Verdict in Weirton Case. By United Pres* WILMINGTON. Del.. Feb. 27. The New Deal today lost the first major test of its labor policies when Federal Judge John P. Nields dismissed charges against the Weirton Steel Cos., in a case which had aligned much of industry against the Administration. Judge Nields held that Wierton relations with its employes did not affect interstate commerce and were beyond the Dower of the Federal government to regulate. Section 7-A of the Recovepr Act, collective bargaining provision, is “unconstitutional and void - ’ as applied to the Wierton concern, he ruled. General application of this principle apparently would prevent the New Deal from interferring with employe-employer relationships of a vast majority of American business. Atty. Gen. Homer Cummings and his aids in Washington prepared immediately for an appeal. Bank Guard Found Slain. By United Prett LONDON. Feb. 27.—Private James Baker of the Welsh Guards was found fatally shot today in the Bank of England the world famous “Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.”

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the League Governmental Operations Committee is designed to save the state a great deal of money by increasing efficiency of employes through a merit system of hiring and promotion. The bill, Mrs. Edwards admitted, would tend to remove a lot of politics from hirings and promotions. Senator Mcßride protested. "I’m ‘agin’ it,” he said. “I’m an Andrew Jackson Democrat. To the victor belong the spoils. You cant

GOV. M’NUTT TO ADDRESS LEGISLATURE TO OUTLINE SPECIAL SESSION PLANS

AWAIT ACTION H SENATE ON POIUmOH 1111 Amendments to Measure Are Drafted by Enemies, Is Charge. Engaged in clearing its calendar of bills ready for final vote, the Indiana Senate today had not received proposed amendments to the antistream pollution Dill. Such amendments, said by advocates of the measure to be designed to defeat the purposes of the bill, were expected to be offered during the day. Meanwhile, the State-NRA bill was ready to be advanced to the order of second reading in the Senate. Strong opposition to the measure in its present form is anticipated, and if the bill is handed down the fight is expected to occupy most of the afternoon. Budget Bill Approved After forcing the Senate to withdraw appropriations added to the budget to provide relief to individuals, the House today approved the $50,000,000 appropriations measur and sent it to the Governor. When the measure was returned from the Senate, Rep. Frank G. Thompson (D., Bluffton), majority leader, objected to the additions made by the Senate. One of these would have provided SIOOO to pay a claim of Mrs. Mary J. Crowder, whose son, Freeman, was killed in August, 1933, by a state highway truck at Perrysville. Rep. Thompson said the addition of the items made the entire act illegal. Measures to restore revenue producing properties of churches, fraternal societies and similar organizations to tax duplicates today were introduced in the Senate by Senator Thomas R. Hendricks (D., Indianapolis). Backed by McNutt Four consumer-credit bills, measures to stimulate buying in Indiana and loosen credit, were passed by the House and sent to the Senate. The measures, backed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt, received House approval with oratorical criticism of the bills coming from the Republican minority. The measure placing industrial loan and investment companies under the department of financial institutions drew the most fire when Rep. James A. Moody (R.. Fremont) declared the bill gave the state the right to legalize annual 18 per cent interest rates.

Artist Should Be Editor, Not Reporter, Says Wood Regionalism Advocate Elaborates on His Criticism of Hoosier Painters; Finds Many Sympathetic. BY JOHN THOMPSON Times Staff Writer Editor or reporter? Grant Wood, lowa art insurgent, says that the average Indiana artist of years past has been a reporter, painting typical scenes—putting onto

canvas what meets the eye. That’s bad, he says—it’s not art. Grant Wood says a painter must be an editor. He must interpret what he sees in the light of what he knows and how he understands. That’s regionalism, he says. The new Indiana artist has a feeling for this type of art, Mr. Wood decided after he had judged offerings for this year's Indiana Artists’ Exhibition. Elmer Tafflinger, prominent Indianapolis artist, disagreed vehemently with Mr. Wood. However, other Indiana artists have admitted the charges as true. A faction has developed. Will Harvey Hunt. 24-year-old Indianapolis artist, whose “Tornado” captured the SSOO Hoosier Salon prize for the “outstanding” picture in the exhibit, lined up yesterday on the side of Mr. Wood and his “regionalist” allies. “Grant Wood is right about Indiana artists,” Mr. Hunt said. “For years they have been known for their ‘sunlit’ landscapes, which were nothing more or less than reportor-

keep political parties alive without patronage.” Undiscouraged, Mrs. Edwards continued with her arguments. Unimpressed, Senator Mcßride continued politely but firmly to oppose them. “This is like the city manager plan—all hooey,” he said. "Why. I get lots of votes by promising jobs. Lady, I’m afraid you haven’t had much experience with practical politics. Down where I come from we don’t play hat way.” Senator Mcßride rep) ,-sents four

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Tax Program Expected to Be Subject of Special Message Due Friday or Following Monday. FISCAL POSITION - TO~ BE CLARIFIED Indiana Proposals for Old-Age Pensions and Job Insurance to Be Dealt With Generally. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer Gov. Paul V. McNutt will address a joint session of the Indiana Genera Assembly, it was learned today, and explain to the legislators the administration plans for a special session later this year at which a complete tax program will be enacted. The Governor’s message will be delivered Friday or next Monday, it was reported, and formally will put an end to reports that an adjournment of the present session before March 11 is contemplated. His message is expected to outline clearly to the Assembly the situation in which the state finds itself in relation to the national Congress’ social relief program and will deal

M’NUTT GIVEN TEXTBOOK BILL House Concurs in Senate Amendments; Measure Sent to Governor. The House of Representatives today concurred in Senate amendments to the Black free textbook bill and sent it to Gov. Paul V. McNutt for signature. Rep. William J. Black (D., Anderson), author of the measure, defeated an attempt by Rep. J. Napier Dyer (D., Vincennes) to block House concurrence. Rep. Dyer charged the measure would cost Vincennes SIO,OOO. Rep. Black quoted figures to show the cost there would be $4,468. “The gentleman from Vincennes,” Rep. Black charged, “opposes bills when something is not given to Vincennes. He favored a bill giving Vincennes University power to levy taxes for the construction of buildings.” The accepted amendment provides that 51 per cent of the voters could petition for elementary school books through special taxes levied by school corporations. Electrification Bill Passed The House this morning unanimously passed the rural electrification bill, 87-0. The bill provides for the establishment of corporations to develop the use of electricity in rural areas at low cost.

ial pictures of trees and hills and light. “But we are slowly getting away from photographic reproduction and are returning to the basic fundamentals of art.” he added. The subject matter for Mr. Hunt’s “outstanding” picture, “Tornado,” was admittedly “sifted and analyzed” in true Grant Wood “editorial” fashion by Mr. Hunt, and it bears an admitted resemblance in thought to “Regionalist” John Steuart Curry's painting by the same name, and a relationship in construction to the ideals of “Regionalist” Thomas Benton. “Editorialization is one of the prime factors in the painting of any piece of art,” Mr. Hunt said. The invasion of “regionalism” has had the support of nearly all the midwestern states excepting Indiana. It evolved from a desire of a small group of artists who, unknown to each other until recent years, were working for the same thing—the setting up of a trend in American painting which would be entirely untainted by European fad and fancy.

counties, Clark, Jefferson, Ohio and Switzerland. Though not so outspoken in their expressions of political philosophy, Senators E. Curtis White CD., Indianapolis) and Edward C. Hays fD., Marion) agreed with Senator McBride in principle. Mrs. Edwards thanked the committee for the chance to explain the bill, which is now on second reading in the Senate. Keen political observers doubt if it will pass.

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generally, but not specifically, with Indiana’s plans for oldage pensions and unemployment insurance. The Governor will point out to the legislators that it would be futile to attempt to pass any new tax legislation in the comparatively short time remaining in the present session, especially in view of the fact that definite knowledge of how much additional revenue will be needed is not available. Republican charges that it may be necessary for the next regular Assembly to bring in a deficiency budget probably will be answered by Gov. McNutt, it is reported, with the assurance that the $50,000,000 budget is balanced and that the alleged deficit is a political myth. McNutt Keeps Silence It is not known whether the Governor will disclose in his message any of the administration plans for raising new revenue at the special session. Thus far, he has remained silent on what form the new taxes will take. There has been much speculation as to the probable enactment of a 2 per cent sales tax with a compensating cut in the gross income tax on retail sales from 1 to one-fourth of 1 per cent. Some administration advisers favor such a sales tax, but others regard it as politically inexpedient and offering political ammunition for the Republicans in the next campaign. Sales Tax Last Resort The suggestion has been advanced that a one-half of 1 per cent increase in all grades of the gross income tax may be the way out of the difficulty. Still another suggestion is that the SIOOO personal tax exemption be reduced. Gov. McNutt’s only public statements on the sales tax have been in opposition and he has said since the session started that he thought it should be only a last resort. The gross income tax. he believes, is the most equitable because it is paid only on what actually is earned. Too, the gross income tax is regarded as easier of administration because of the necessity of using a coupon system in consumer payment of the sales tax. Bill Curb Proposed While the special session can not be limited solely to tax legislation, it will be called for that purpose and the Democratic majorities in both houses are counted on to prevent the dragging if of “pet” bills which may me dear to the hearts of their sponsors, but extraneous in the light of the tax emergency. Meanwhile Rep. J. Ralph Thompson (D., Seymour) offered in the lower house a bill which, if adopted, would restrict the number of measures that might be introduced at future sessions. No member of either house would be permitted to offer more than five bills during a regular session. The limit would be three at special sessions. Exemptions from the rule would include bills to carry out party platform pledges or measures recommended in the Governor’s message. RICHARDSON BILL OUT Race Discriminatior Measure Beaten in House, 42-25. The bill of Rep. Henry J. Richardson Jr. (D., Indianapolis) to increase civil penalties recoverable for race discrimination, failed to pas3 the House of Representatives late yesterday. The final vote was 42-45. Times Index Bridge 7 Broun 11 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle .. 17 Curious World 17 Dionne Babies 8 Editorial 12 Financial .13 Hickman —Theaters 2 Junior Aviation 3 Napoleon's Letters 11 Pegler „ 11 Piano Lesson 6 Shooting School .....18 Sports 15 Womans Pages 7.