Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1936 — Page 3

JAN. 15, 1936

TREASURY HINT OF HU6E DEFICIT BAREDBY LEAK 51/2 Billions in Red by 1937 Is Forecast Laid to Morgenthau. (Continued From Page One) each other that Mr. Morgenthau was telling a bear story or playing Gloomy Gus. He said the Treasury would go in the red some $5,500,000,000 by June 30, 1937. That assumes enactment of the bonus pay bill ana estimates 1937 work-relief costs at $2,000,000,000. Couzens Reveals Data Senator James Couzens YR, Mich.), refused to be bound by the committee’s self-imposed secrecy with respect to Mr. Morgenthau's testimony. He revealed Mr. MorgenLhau's estimates. Whatever may have been the secretary’s purpose, his estimate of prospective Federal expenses is the only real obstacle raised so far to quick enactment of the bonus. But the odds still favor passage. In view of Mr. Morgenthau’s reported testimony President Roosevelt is expected to ask Congress this spring for $2,000,000,000 for work relief. Mr. Roosevelt already has said that sum would be borrowed. But how the bonus fund is to he raised has not been revealed. New Deal spokesmen insist there will be no new taxes. If so, the bonus will be paid with borrowed funds, too. Left out of account was the possibility—perhaps remote—that the New Deal may be compelled to refund some $1,000,000,000 of processing taxes. Billions Borrowing Need Mr. Morgenthau estimated overall New Deal borrowing between now and June 30, 1937, at $11,300,000,000, Senator Couzens reported. Approximately half of that sum would be for new financing. That is, the Treasury would borrow money to retire bonds or short term paper now outstanding. That procedure does not increase the national debt. But the remaining $5,500,000,000 of borrowed money would be a direct addition to the government's net obligations. If the government spends $5,500,000,000 more in the next 17 Vi months than it obtains in revenue the national debt will zoom in proportion. Mr. Roosevelt’s budget message was on a more modest scale. He forecast a $3,234,000,00 deficit during this fiscal year which ends June 30, 1936. That would bring the national debt to $30,933,000,000. For the next fiscal year he budgeted a minimum deficit of $1,098,000,000 and rr. increase of the national debt to $3x,351,000,000. Work Relief Estimate The Administration critics complained because it failed to state what Mr. Roosevelt intended to ask for work relief. Foul or fair, Mr. Roosevelt did not overlook that detail and stated plainly in his message that the estimate was being withheld. Lacking that figure the budget was not a complete exposition of New Deal spending plans. But Secretary Morgenthau supplied the missing data yesterday. With that figure to work with statisticians are estimating the minimum 1937 deficit at $3,098,000,000. They arrive at that figure by adding the deficit Mr. Roosevelt acknowledged last week to the $2,000,000,000 additional work relief money acknowledged by Mr. Morgenthau. COMMITTEES ON FARM DEBTS ARE ANNOUNCED R. E. Huffman, New Augusta, Heads Marion County Group. Timet Special LAFAYETTE. Jan 15—Membership of county farm debt adjustment committees was announced here today, following a meeting of the state committe in Indianapolis with Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, chairman of the Indiana State Farm Debt Adjustment Committee. In Marion County the committee is headed by R. E. Huffman, New Augusta. Members of his committee are Henry Folkening, Harry Mollenkopf. Laurene Henderson and Clarence A. Mills, all of Indianapolis. BANDIT LOSES NERVE IN STATION HOLDUP Leaves Stolen Truck and Flees as Attendant Runs to Cover. A bandit who had stolen a truck drove it into the drive of the filling station at 3512 Madison-av, dismounted. produced a gun and ordered James Cottey, attendant, to stick up his hands. Mr. Cottey instead ran into the station and locked the door. The bandit ran away leaving the truck. Deputy Sheriff Charles McCallister recovered the truck and took it to its owner, the Garfield Radio and Electric Cos., 1601 S. Meridian-st. La Porte Boy Killed by Auto Bp United Brest La PORTE, Jan. 15.—Henry Holloway, 5, was injured fatally last night when struck by an automobile driven by Theodore Marshall, Michigan City newspaper employe.

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Luxury Ship Plunges Into Swamp; 14 Passengers Are Victims. (Continued From Page One)

ample. Its pilot, Jerry Marshall, had had years of experience and was considered by his employers as one of the best in the business. At least four emergency landing fields were available in the vicinity. The plane left Memphis at 7:03! p. m. Fifteen minutes later her copilot, Glenn Freeland, reported by radio that all was well. Soon afterward, natives saw the machine flying low over the main line of the Rock Island Railroad. A few minutes later there was a terrific crash in the swamp. Hours later, a rescue party, after wading through mud and swamp ooze that at times was waist deep, came upon a scene of indescribable horror. Cuts OfT Fuel Lines Pilot Marshall apparently had warned his passengers. All had their safety belts adjusted. But so terrific was the crash, that in several cases the belts had cut bodies in half. For several hundred yards the tops of the swamp oaks were sheared off. Bits of fuselage and the comfortable interior fittings of the liner hung on twigs and branches. Parts of the plane were found over an area of four acres. The condition of bodies inside the smashed cabin sickened some of the rescue party. Over all permeated a nauseating odor of high test gasoline. Action Prevents Fire Pilot Marshall, apparently in a mad fight to save his passengers and plane until the last instant, had cut off his fuel lines, thus preventing a fire. Gasoline had been splashed for many yards around. At dawn, as news of the tragedy spread over the countryside, made up of a flat country with swamp and cultivated areas alternating, curiosity-driven hundreds began arriving. Soon afterward 1000 persons were standing on the highway and fighting their way through the swamp to the scene. C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines, ordered an immediate investigation from Forth Worth, where news of the tragedy reached him. Department of Commerce officials in Washington also ordered an investigation. But circumstances of the disaster indicated that a full explanation might never be known. Farmer Hears Crash As well as compa ati a times could be established, C on y Jones, a farmer living two miies north of Goodwin and a mile from the swamp where the wreckage was' found, heal'd an airplane over his home 45 minutes after the Southerner told Memphis that all was well. Suddenly, as Jones listened —he thought the plane flying unusually low —a motor sputtered and quit. An instant later he heard a neavy c: ash. Goodwin is 15 miles southwest of Forrest City and Forrest City is 40 miles on the same line from Memphis. Jones’ news, telephoned to the Memphis airport, mustered several score men from Forrest City, Goodwin and the countryside. Others arrived from Memphis and son the searching parties had scattered and were slush-slushing t hrough the dank and oozing swamp lands.

Buried in Mud, Water Soon after 1 a. m„ the searchlights of the searchers picked out the wreckage of the Southerner. The cabin had been smashed and partly buried in rancid sw’amp water and mud. One motor had been smashed back into the plane. Another was a hundred yards away, buried in ooze. The rescuers plodded back through the swamp, water and murk often knee deep, to the road where farmers were waiting with wagons and mules which were led back to the scene. These were used to carry the bodies to the road, where they were placed in ambulances and sent to Forrest City. Airline authorities and air transport experts were at a loss to explain the crash. If one motor had failed, they said. Pilot Marshall surely could have kept his ship in the air. If both had failed, emergency fields were available. No Witnesses to Crash It left Newark at 12:30 p. m. Tuesday. It made stops at Philadelphia, Washington. Nashville and Memphis. Its scheduled stops thereafter were Little Rock. Dallas, Fort Worth, and thence by several stops to Los Angeles. The crew aboard her had taken charge at Memphis and were to have relinquished command at Fort Worth. No one eaw the crash, though a number of nevsons heard the engines droning overhead. Goodwin, being on the main line of the Rock Island Railroad and hence on the main Southern airline, is accustomed to planes flying overhead and residents merely noted that the evening plane from Memphis was on time. But from torn tree tops, observers traced the fall of the plane. Apparently Pilot Marshall, one or both engines dead, was gliding his plane

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down to an emergency landing. Whether he knew he was about to land in a wooded swamp will never be known. Pilot Inspected Plane The plane was not subjected to a thorough inspection before it left Memphis because Memphis is not an inspection point, airline officials said. But Pilot Marshall, taking command, looked her over carefully. they said, and found her in satisfactory condition. She had 14 passenger places. Several passengers left her here, but their seats were taken by others and she left filled to capacity. The plane, a Douglas of latest design, was powered by two Cyclone motors. The highest plane toll previously was 16 killed when a transport plane crashed and burned near Oceanside, Cal., Jan. 19, 1930. The accident also broke the unusual record of American Airlines for safety. The line had flown 186,009,000 passenger miles with 240,000 passengers without an accident. Its last accident was June 9, 1934, when a plane crashed near Debruce, N. Y., killing seven persons. STATE TO GARRY SECURITY LOAD Proposed Bill Asks 40 Per Cent From Counties, 60 From Indiana. (Continued From Page One) eral governments without the counties being called upon for contributions. The fund estimate for the blind is $300,000, the same amount now being expended, to be divided' between the state and counties and the Federal government. The estimate for child aid calls for an expenditure of $2,400,000 by the state and counties and $’,200,000 by the Federal government, as against the $350,000 now being spent. The state is expected to save $150,000 in the blind pension administration through the benefit of Federal aid. $1,006,705 for Infirmaries Expenditures for county institutions need not necessarily be affected by the social security program, according to the Governor’s gommittee. County infirmaries cost $1,006,705 in the fiscal year 1935 and county orphans’ homes $359,399 in the same period. Aid for children, estimated at $2,400,000, is expected to absorb the $679,095 spent during the last fiscal year for mothers’ aid and institutional care for children. The latter sum, however, affects only approximately 5,300 children while the number included in the social security program estimate is approximately 20,000. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 of these children will be taken from relief rolls, thus bringing about a direct saving from that source. At present there are approximately 27,000 aged men and women receiving small old-age pensions under the state law. Except for a small minority made eligible under the resident clause change from a 15 to five-year provision, it is estimated that a majority of the additional 18,190 scheduled for pensions also will come off relief rolls.

BROWN COUNTY LAND BUYING IS DEFENDED Manion Says Owners Welcome Chance to Sell. The majority of land owners in Brown County welcome the chance to sell their poor acres to the Rural Resettlement Administration, declared Clarence E. Manion, Indiana director of the National Emergency Council, last night in an address over station WFBM. The talk was in answer to charges that acquisition costs of. the submarginal land have been too high, and that the program was a form of regimentation that disturbed the normal course of governmental function and human endeavor in the areas affected. In the last 15 years Brown County has received more than $700,000 in state aid tax money, while total assessed valuation of the county is only $1,500,000, Mr. Manion said. OSTEOPATH TO SPEAK City Man Invited to Address New York Convention. Dr. Paul Vanß. Allen, 516 Merchants Bank Building, is to be a speaker at the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association to be held in New York City next July, at the request of Dr. George W. Riley, general program chairman.

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TOWN TO SION F OP DOCTOR TO KEEPJT WELL Economy Citizens Launch Co-Operative Plan for Medical Care. (Continued From Page One) the nearby fanners. Dr. King's present practice includes 350. The nearest large city is Richmond, 15 miies away, but Richmond, Newcastle and Winchester offer hospital facilities if surgery or hospitalization is necessary. Dr. King to Remain Dr. King is a general practitioner and surgeon. He has practiced in Economy for years, but two years ago left for other Indiana towns, and only recently has returned to Economy. Whether or not the plan goes through, Dr. King expects to remain at his Economy practice. The contracts will call for quarterly payments to Dr. King from the common fund contributed to by those contracted with and administered by a general committee. He would he allowed such extra-con-tractual practice as* came his way. For the sls annually, the unit family, all dependent on the head and living under one roof, would receive medical attention, both curative and preventive, and surgery. Chronic illness also would be treated. Regular Examinations Required However, in the case of surgery, Dr. King would be paid by the patient $2 a trip to hospitals in Richmond, Winchester or Newcastle, although his surgeon’s work would not be extra. The patient would be required to pay for hospitalization. Each person under contract would be required to submit to a physical examination once yearly, and all children under 5 would be immunized for smallpox and diphtheria without .additional charge. Serum for immunization for anything else to children under 5, or for anything to those over five, would be provided at -cost. The contract requires that all children from senior high school age down be immunized against smallpox and diphtheria, and pay the cost of the serum. Prenatal Care Included Prenatal care is included in the annual fee, but there is an additional $lO delivery charge the patient must pay extra. In case of a bone fracture, if the physician decides an X-ray is necessary, the contract makes it obligatory on the part of the contracting patient to have and pay for the X-ray. Mr. Briggs said today that the committee composed of himself and other laymen soon will begin to canvass the families of the town for signers. He said the experiment is largely in preventive medicine on a co-oper-ative basis. He says he and others on the committee are optimistic about its success. CHURCH EDUCATION LEADERS Will MEET Disciples of Christ to Discuss Religious Work. Educational leaders of the Disciples of Christ Church are to meet Monday in the Third Christian Church under the auspices of the Marion County Sunday School Association. All phases of religious education, including child, youth and adult departments, are to be dismissed. Speakers are to be A. W. Mason, music director of the Third Church; Mrs. Ruth D. Estes of Union City, state minister of Christian education; Mrs. Hazel A. Lewis of St. Louis, Mo., national superintendent of children’s work of the brotherhood; Wilbur C. Parry of St. Louis, national director of adult work; Dr. John A. Harms, state director of religious education, and the Rev. Harry T. Bridwell, pastor of the Centenary Christian Church. P. A. Wood, president of the Sunday School Association is to preside. RAILROAD EMPLOYE’S INJURIES ARE FATAL James Arkell, Hurt by Wild Cars, Dies Here. Services are being arranged today for James W. Arkell, 706 N Tremont-st, who died yesterday at St. Vincent’s of injuries received Sunday when a cut of freight cars ran wild in the Moorefield Yard office of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Mr. Arkell, who was 50, was yard clerk and the cut of 31 cars backed off a track end into the office, causing the structure to fall. James Boetcher, 51, of 1414 S. Richland-st, and Harry W. Dick, 46, of 421 Moreland-av, also employes, were injured but are expected to recover.

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JACOBY TO FACE JURY TOMORROW Alleged Accomplices Also to Go on Trial; Defense Denied Delay. Selection of a jury to try Forrest Jacoby, A1 Head, John Head and Jerry Dukes, charged with robbing the William H. Roberts & Sons Dairy last August, starts tomorrow in Criminal Court. A venire of 50 was drawn yesterday. Several days were required to select a jury in December. Judge Frank P. Baker ordered this jury discharged when a woman juror was unable to attend due to sickness in her family. Monday Clyde C. Karrer, attorney for Jacoby, asked that the trial again be postponed as some of the defense witnesses had been in an automobile accident in Illinois and lack of time prevented taking of depositions. Judge Baker refused and ruled that the depositions could enter the records any time during the trial provided a deputy prosecutor was present when they were taken. In addition to charges he now faces, Jacoby has been indicted in the robbery of the Hamilton-Harris Cos. of SIO,OOO in cigarets; the International Grocery Cos. of $300; Dilling & Cos. of $1200; Kiefer-Stewart Cos. of $2045 and a Beech Grove bank messenger of SIO,OOO. EAGLE CREEK SCOUT TROOP TO BE STARTED Backed by Civic League, Group Will Be Installed Sunday. A Boy Scout troop, sponsored by the Eagle CreSk Civic League, is to be installed Sunday in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. The troop will be No. 89. Stanley L. Norton, assistant Scout executive, is to direct the installation, assisted by Troop No. 59. The Rev. F. A. Hartsock is to conduct the special services. COUNTY’S FARM DEBT GROUP IS APPOINTED Marion Adjustment Committee Is Named by State Body. Members of the Marion County farm debt adjustment committee have been appointed by the state committee under Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. Members are R. E. Huffman, New Augusta; Henry Folkening and Laurens Henderson. Indianapolis; Harry Mollenkopf, R. R. 12, Indianapolis, and Clarence A. Mills, R. R. 7, Indianapolis. Bargain Week - End Trips Each Week-End CHICAGO $5.50 Leave on any train 10:20 a. m. Friday to 1:55 a. m. Monday. Return limit Monday. Reduced round-trip Pullman lares. Next Saturday CLEVELAND $4.50 Leave 10:00 p. m. Return on any tra’-i until 2:50 a. in. Monday. Coach service. DETROIT $4.50 TOLEDO 4.00 SANDUSKY 4.00 Leave 10:00 p. m. Returning reach Indianapolis not later than Monday morning following. Coach service. Next Sunday CINCINNATI $2.50 Greensburg, $1.25. Shelbyville, 75c I_a - e 7:45 a. in. Return on any ♦rain same day. Coach service. ST. LOUit' $4.50 Leave 12:"0 a. m., 2:45 a. m. or 8:05 a. n>. Return on any train same day. Coach service. Bit FOUR ROUTE

CHAIR TESTED A&BRUNO AND WIFE CONFER Slayer Is Calm as Lawyers Prepare Final Plea for Highest Court. (Continued From Page One) h*m and “talk.” Previously Kimberling had visited Hauptmann almost daily. His staying away now apparently was calculated to “break" the German carpenter. Kimberling said that after the electrocution Hauptmann's body would be dressed for burial in a “parole suit.” The parole suits are made in the prison workshop and cost the state about $lO each. They customarily are issued to men released after serving their terms. Hauptmann will be prepared for the execution Friday afternoon. Two ministers will accompany him to the chair. They will be Gcorley, chaplain of the prison, and the Rev. John Matthiesen, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church of Trenton. Hauptmann’s attorneys virtually admitted that they believed further court action futile, but planned to fight until the last. The Supreme Court already has ruled, in effect, that Hauptmann’s constitutional rights were not violated in his Flemington trial last January and a lower Federal Court refused last night to rule on the same question again. Hoffman Lone Hope The lower court decision was in the form of a denial by Judge Warren Davis of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and an application for a stay of execution. The court said the requested action would be a reversal of the Supreme Court by a lower court. He said he believed Hauptmann had a fair trial. Gov. Hoffman thus became Hauptmann's one hope. His only other possible avenues of escape are an appeal to the New Jersey Supreme Court in Flemington for a new trial and an appeal to a judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for a “writ of probable cause.” Lawyers thought court appeals would be useless—that they could not win even a delay. The Governor, it was learned, has asked for legal advice on whether he may grant a reprieve and is continuing his independent study of the case. Two Letters Revealed He handed to reporters photostatic copies of two letters the Bronx school teacher wrote to unidentified persons. Both indicated Condon believed his correspondent knew something of the Lindbergh kidnaping. Hoffman did not reveal where he obtained the letters. The evidence of his continued interest in “Jafsie,” who sailed suddenly last Friday for Central and South America, and Wilentz’ statement caused new confidence in some quarters that he will order Hauptmann’s execution delayed until Condon can be questioned again. “The Governor expects that Dr. Condon will return voluntarily,” cryptically said William S. Conklin, Hoffman’s secretary.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER Cnltcd Statu Weather Bureau ___! Sunrise 7:95 ' Sunset 4:U TEMPERATURE —Jan. 15. 1933 la. ■ 2ft 1 p. m 37 —Todav— Da. m 34 10 a. m 34 7 a. m 34 11 a. m 33 * a. m 34 12 (Noon) 32 9 a. m 34 lp.m. 32 BAROMETER 7 a. m 29.82 1 p. m 29.90 Precipitation 34 Ers endinc 7 a. m. . .00 Total preQipitation since Jan. 1 52 Deficiency’ since Jan. 1 . 1.14 OTHER OTIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 29 92 40 Bismarck. N. D Clear 30.06 —l2 Boston Cloudv 30 06 32 Chicago Cloudv 29 90 28 Cincinnati Cloudv 29.76 42 Denver PtCldv 29 74 34 Dodge City. Kas ... Cloudv 29 90 32 Helena. Mont PtCldv 29 70 34 Jacksonville. Fla Rain 29.90 60 Kansas City. Mo. ... Snow 30.02 20 Little Rock. Ark Clear 29 83 40 Los Angeles Cloudv 30 12 48 Miami. Fla PtCldv 29 98 72 Minneapolis Clear 30 04 —2 Mobile. Ala Cloudv 29.84 58 New Orleans Clear 29 88 58 New York . Cloudy 30.02 40 Okla. City. Okla. ... Clear 29 94 32 Omaha. Neb Snow 30.14 4 Pittsburgh Cloudv 29.76 40 Portland. Ore. PtCldv 29 84 46 San Antonio. Tex Clear 29.94 58 San Francisco Cloudy 30 08 56 St. Louis Cloudv 29.94 26 Tampa. Fla. Cloudv 29.94 64 Washington. D C. .. Rain 29 94 34 TOWNSENDPLAN BACKERS MEET Fifth District Advocates Convene at Gymnasium in Kokomo. Timet Special KOKOMO. Ind.. Jan. 15.—Indiana’s political pendulum swung to Kokomo today as scores of Fifth District Townsend Plan delegates arrived here for the first official preelection organization convention. Gathering at Haworth Gymnasium at 10 this morning, delegates were to be addressed by Judge J. C. Routhe, Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. Routhe is author of the McGroarthy bill, official Townsend pension measure soon to be introduced in Congress. Selection of a congressional board and the election of a district representative for the new state area board constitute the chief business scheduled for this afternoon. An address also is to be given by Prof. l). H. Vass, Terre Haute, former economics instructor at Indiana State Teachers’ College. At a public meeting tohight H. E. Clements, co-founder of the movement, is to speak. Others on the program are to be Howard Swinniger, Chicago regional director, and W. S. McClintock, Indianapolis, state area manager. Counties represented at the convention include Cass, Tipton, Grant, Jay, Miami, Blackford, Wabash, Huntington and Howard. POST TO HEAR PERROTT Hayward-Barcus Legion Group to Be Addressed Friday by Expert. Lieut. Albert G. Perrott, head of the Criminal identification Bureau of the Police Department, is to address a meeting of the HaywardBarcus Post of the American Legion Friday in the 40 and 8 chateau, 136 N. Delaware-st.

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BEST FARMERS ARE CROWNED AT PURDUE U. Champions Are Selected at Annual Agricultural Conference There. Bp United Brest LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Jan. 15. Several new farm champion* reigned in Indiana today after coronation ceremonies at the annual Purdue University agricultural conference. Floyd Hiner, 35-year-old Rush County fanner, is the new corn king of Indiana. His 10-ear sample of Reid Yellow Dent corn was selected as best by a committee of five judges. Glenn Pass of Charleston, Clark County, won the reserve sweepstakes with a showing of Johnson County white corn. Other Winners Named Other sectional sweepstake winners who competed were Walter Gerrick, of Akron; Ralph Curry Jr., of Tipton, and James I. Spaugh of Hope, who captured the state championship last year. Russell Hardin. 17, of Knightstown, won the junior corn championship and Robert Lee, of Greentown, is the reserve sweepstakes winner. Both showed Reid Yellow Dent. Other leaders in various divisions of the sweepstakes include: Wheat, Ralph Stomm, Waterloo; oats. Roy E. snoeberger. Rockfield; soy beans, Jesse Shields. Sharpsville; red clover seed. L. R. Kendall, Kokomo; Korean lespedaza seed, Alva Holstine, Plainville; mid-season corn, George Kirkpatrick. Fountain County. Sharpsville Junior Wins Honors in the single ear show for junior producers went to Gerald Foster, Sharpsville. national junior corn king a year ago. Lee B. Florea of Milton, won a trophy given by W. A. Wilkey & Son, Sullivan, to the best all-round livestock producer in Indiana during the year. Mr. Florea won two gold medals in the tonlitter contest; one gold, two silver and one bronze medal in the 100-pound calf club; and a gold medal for efficient lamb production. E. T. Hunter of Haubstadt, was runner-up. Garth Nelson of Hartford City, will receive the Marion Williams trophy, for outstanding work in the Gold Medal Lamb Club. Wins Swine Trophy G. C. Arbogast, of Muncie, will receive the E. J. Barker trophy for efficient swine production. The trophy awarded by J. D. Connor Jr, of Wabash, secretary of the Belgian Horse Breeders’ Association, went to C. O. House, of Arcadia. Battle Ground High School, the Madison Township Home Economics Club of Clinton County, and 12-year-old Cellestine Keller, of Kingman, shared honors in the finals of the annual rural amusement contest. Battle Ground took first honors in the class for groups containing from 12 to 35. Madison Township, for the third consecutive year, won in class for groups of four to 12 performers. Miss Keller won top honors in the special curtain acts division with acrobatic tumbling.