Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1938 — Page 11

\, Mellett Denies George Backer Lost Job (BRITISH UNIONS | Inspec mre mar ~ For Supporting Anti-New Deal Senator; WOULD OPPOSE | | Texas Governor Candidate Can’t Vote| NLRB, IS BELIEF a) 5) wary | Englishman “Explains LaBUTLER'S COEDS wes pA TR Boy's Dominant Ames AGAIN LEAD MEN | soem gion smmo prose) == v fe Er i : ls i ot ne | pis ia tHe EH ener ot oe | ; lp Although Marion: County IN GRADE RATING

EE te EN a ens ores He aid $5,385,175.80 to the State gross Kappa Beta, Religious So-

TWO-FIFTHS OF GROSS TAX GIVEN “BACK TOCOUNTY

| share Reduced Because of | ; Source of Receipts, Jackson Says.

NATIONAL POLITICS

SENATOR charges backer lost Fedexal job. TEXAS Bemocrats hold primary today. \_COLORADO convention backs Senator Adams. MRS. CHANDLER campaigns for ill husband. PENNSYLVANIA Legislature plans counterprobe.

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Mellett Denies Political Charge

United Press on employée-employer re- : : a 4 Land its, snare ? . ivi. in Stem Stam Tetons this year will be is $2,410,995, according to figures re leased today by the Gross Income Tax Division. | Clarence A. Jackson, Division di= ‘rector, said that because Marion

The buildings are the Statehouse, Statehouse annex, Governor's Mansion and the State Library. Only women will be eniployed on the project which is to get under way " soon, officials said.

By WEBB MILLER (Copyright. 1938. by United Press)

LONDON, July 23.—The dominant

Flour Dealer Favored In Texas Primary

WASHINGTON, July 23 v2. —Lowell Mellett, NEC director; denied today the intimation of ‘Senator George (D. Ga.) that a Georgia Council employee had been dis- . missed because he favored the Senator’s renomination. Mr. Cocke resigned, Mr. Mellett said, to become vie president of an Atlanta bank. ]

Supporter Lost U. S. Job, George Charges

ATLANTA, Ga. July 23 (U.P) .— . Senator George, one of three conservative Southern Senators whom the Democratic Administration has marked for a purge this year, protested today that Erle Cocke, former

| state director of the National Emergency Council, had been dismissed “probably” because he was friendly to my candidacy.” Senator George first made the complaint yesterday -in answering a questionnaire for the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee. | He mentioned no name then, merely : saying that a Fedetral official ' who had been-friendly io him, had been discharged. T he named the official as Mr. Gocke, and said | he had telegraphed a protest to i Lowell Mellett, formerly of Indianapolis, executive director of the National Emergency Council in Washington. ; Senator George is a candidate for renomination in the Democratic primary Sept. 14. In the last Congress, he joined with Senator Smith of South Carolina and Senator Tydings of Maryland, to oppose many phases of President Roosevelt's program. New Dealers have marked all three for retribution in this year’s primaries. President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to speak at Barnesville, Ga., when he returns from his present cruise. It has been expected that he would endorse U. S. District Attorney Lawrence Camp, one of Senator George's three opposing candidates.

‘Intend to Vote for ’ Gegrge,” Cocke Says ALBANY, Ga., July 23 (U. P.)— Erle Cocke, who, according to Senator George (D. Ga.), was replaced . as stat€ National Emergency Council‘ Director because he supported George for re-election, said today “It’s true I intend voting for Senator George.” Mr. Cocke said went to Washington May ‘30 16 submit his resignation, “but I was urged by Meilett (Lowell Mellett, NEC director), to carry on.” Mr. Cocke said he agreed to con‘tinue as state director temporarily and on July 1 received notice of his reappointment. Then, on July 15, Mr. Cocke said, he was notified Dr. C. H. Foreman of Washington would take over his duties.

. Sheppard Promises To Ihvestigate Charge

WASHINGTON, Jiily 23 (U, P). —Senator Sheppard (D. Tex.) telegraphed members of his Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee today, proposing a meeting Wednesday or Thursday to consider charges of Administration interference in the Georgia primary.

Senator Sheppard said the Committee will consider the charge of Senator George (D. Ga.) that Erle Cocke, Georgia director of National Emergency Council, was dismissed “probably” because he intended to vote for him. He said the Committee also will study a statement of Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator, that 90 per cent of the three million persons on relief rolls would vote for President Roosevelt.

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Judge Hilliard Fails To Win Support

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July 23 (U. P.).—Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard of the Colorado Supreme Court indicated today that he might seek a place on the Democratic primary election ballot by petition after . he failed to receive the necessary number of state convention votes. : Judge Hilliard received 218 votes. Democratic rules specify that to get on the ballot a candidate must receive 320 votes. He had planned to oppose Senator Adams, the only candidate approved by the Democratic State Convention for the primary in + September. Senator Adams received 1286 votes. Judge Hilliard nad) planned to campaign as a. supporter of the President and the New Deal. Senator Adams opposed the Administration on the Supreme Court and Governmental reorganization pro--grams, but he guided the Administration’s lending-spending program through the Senate.

Wife Campaigns For Chandler

LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 23 (U. P.).—The wife of Governor Chandler was “pinch-hitting” for her bedridden husband today in his campaign for the Democratic Senatorial nomination against Senator Barkley. While Governor Chandler was confined to his hotel with a stomach ailment, his wife fulfilled one of * his speaking engagements at . Middleton last night and will deliver another speech here today.

PRINCE BERTIL DEPARTS

NEW YORK, July 23 (U. P).— Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of _Sweden, his son, Prince Bertil, and the Crown Princess Louise sailed for home on the Swedish-American liner Gripsholm shortly after midnight today after a 26-day visit,

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DALLAS, July 23 (U. P.) —Texas Democrats passed today, in their party primary, on 12 men who want the gubernatorial nomination and several score who want to be nominated to one of the state’s 23 seats in the House of Representatives. Favorite in the gubernatorial race was W. Lee, O’Daniel, a flour salesman, who bewildered his rivals with peculiar evangelical-musical campaign. Most prominent of the Congressional candidates was Rep. Maury Maverick, leader of the House. liberal bloc, who was called “my very good friend” by President Roosevelt, but who nevertheless may be de-

feated by Paul Kilday. of San An-

tonio, who, supported by the San Antonio Democratic machine, did not criticize the New Deal during his campaign, but promised that he would not be a “rubber stamp Congressman.” If no candidate gets a majority of the votes cast the two high ones will go into the run-off primary Aug. 27. It was unlikely that any candidate would get a majority in the gubernatorial race. The New Deal was not an issue in the campaign. Texas is traditionally Democratic and. national

rority Leads With 2.3565 Average for 1937-38.

Statistics compiled by the Butler University registrar's «office today showed that women students again led the men in scholastic average during the second semester of the 1937-38 school year Average for women students was 1.8022 and the average for men 1.4718. The university average for all students was 1.6378. Among the/women’s organizations Kappa Beta, religious sorority, led with an average of 2.3565. Leader among the men’s organizations was the men’s division of the Butler Independent Association. which had an

tralizing the heating system, establishing a parking lot at Ross-Ade Stadium and building pavements and walks on | the leading authorities on the Britampus also was approved.

STUDENT BAND

average of 1.8189.

MEN .

Delta Tau Lambda Chi Alpha Phi Delta Theta Sigma Chi Sigma Nu

Alpha Omicron Pi Delta Delta Delta Alpha Chi Omega Delta Gamma Kanpa Alpha

politics played but a small part. In- | K

cumbent Congressmen have pointed |b

to their records in the House as evidence of their abilities, but they have not based their campaigns on New Deal policies. It ‘was the Governor's race that the lone million Democratic voters were most interested in. Favorites to run second to Mr. O'Daniel were Willlam McGraw, Attorney - General; Ernest O. Thompson, railroad commissioner, and Tom Hunter,” Wichita Falls oil man. »

Mr. O’Daniel can’t vote for him-

self. He hasn't paid his poll tax. His platform was an amplification of the Ten Comandments. The Commandments mean, he said, that old persons should be given pensions, new industries should be. secured, to provide new jobs, and the budget should be balanced.

Pennsylvania Legislature May ‘Whitewash’ Earle

By ROBERT TAYLOR Times Speciai Writer HARRISBURG, Pa., July 23—The Pennsylvania legislature meets here Monday for a special session, expected to cost $300,000 or more, to help Governor Earle in his battle against a grand jury investigation involving his ‘little New Deal” Administration. * The political future of the Governor, now democratic nominee for the U. S. Senate, and the political control of the state are at stake. The Dauphin County (Harrisburg) Grand Jury is scheduled to begin its inquiry into charges of state graft and corruption on Aug. 8, with District Attorney Carl’ B. Shelley, a Republican, presenting the evidence ; Governor Earle has been fighting for weeks to prevent or control the

| Grand jury investigation, which he

calls “a brazen political conspiracy.” New Laws Expected

These efforts failing, he called the Legislature, dominated by Democratic majorities ' of two-thirds in each branch, to make a public investigation of his Administration. His opponents contend this will be a $300,00 whitewash. _. i Democratic leaders plan to have the legislature do more than investigate. If they have their way, it will pass new laws to compel the Dauphin County Grand Jury to abandon the traditional secrecy of the jury room and hold its investigation in the open. It may clip the wings of District Attorney Shelley by a measure that would permit State Attorney General Guy K. Bard, Democrat and an Earle appointee, to supersede him and take charge of the Grand Jury. : : It may go further than that and undertake to establish by written law the contention upon which Governor Earle has been basing his fight, namely, that the State Government is immune to investigation by courts and their grand juries.

MARION CAN'T FIND ITS CHARTER OR KEY

MARION, July 23 (U. P.).— Mayor Carl F. Barney's city is. without both key and charter. The mayor started a search for the- document when the Federal Law Library at Washington requested a copy. He said it had not been seen for 25 years. The official “key” has disappeared also. It was presented to a Horse Thieves Detective Association convention many years ago and never was returned.

SPEAKS ON SCOTTISH . - FAIR'AT LUNCHEON

Miss Marie Kane, representative of the Scottish Empire Exhibition at Glasgow, ‘Scotland,’ was to be honored at a luncheon at the Columbia Club today at noon. Miss Kane was brought to Indianapolis under the auspices of the Association of Indianapolis Bank and Travel Bureaus. She was to speak on the Scottish Exhibition. The luncheon was to be open to the pubiic.

3 INDIANA PROJECTS . GET PWA APPROVAL

WASHINGTON, July 23.—Senator VanNuys’ office today announced approval of a $474,545 PWA project for an addition to the Purdue University Memorial Building. It also announced approval of two other projects—$225,000 for sanitary sewers at Anderson and $0720 for an addition to the Daviess

County Hospital, Washingion.

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Women.

Congressman’s

Butler Independent Association Delta

n Caer ae ea eee norganized students ....

Daughter ~ Dies; Abortion Hinied,

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WASHINGTON NURSE T0 FACE CORONER

WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P.).

were:

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Are From |. U.

$ Times Special ;

State Fair. Carolyn Schmidt,

festival.

band. .

conductor.

4-H Club boys and girls.

BLOOMINGTON, July 23. —Six-ty-seven musicians, most ‘of them |g that a trade union pact with an high school students, are to com-|employer is something that in the Prige the band in fhe Hoosier Music | 1554 resort is enforceable by a court

val, annual feature of the In-|,¢ jaw, That makes a British trade

A feature of the festival this year will be daily programs by a selected symphony orchestra of high school students, with Robert J. White, East ' Chicago public schools director, as

The band is to present three programs daily in connection with the stage show in the I. U. auditorium, beginning Saturday, Sept. 3, and continuing throughout Fair week. Beginning Monday, Sept. 5, the band is to play at the harness races each afternoon, each night in the Coliseum and will lead the parade of

—Mrs. Ethel Mae Conner, 42, a nurse, was free on $1000 bond today after police said that she had admitted performing an abortion which allegedly resulted in the death of Mrs. Charles Sweeney, 29-year-old daughter of Rep. Robert Crosser (D. O.) Mrs. Sweeney was found dead in Mrs. Conner’s apartment Thuyiay afternoon. She was® the wife‘of a Federal Trade Commission attorney and the mother of two children. At first Mrs. Conner insisted that Mrs. Sweeney had called at her

tion.

tioned then.

apartment, complained of feeling ill and then suddenly died. After she had been questioned all day yesterday, Lieut. George Darnell of the homicide squad announced that she had admitted committing the abor-

A coroner’s. inquest will be held

REA OUTLINES TOUR T0 FOSTER LENDING

for its finale tonight.

hundreds of orphans’ will be fri guests of the league. Featuring

by Mayor Boetcher.

Mass ‘Sales’ Meeting to Be Held Here Aug. 3.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P.). —The Rural Electrification Administration planned a “barnstorming” tour of 13 Midwest and Southern states today to assure the lending of its 140 million dollar fund for distribution line construction by next ‘July. Administrator John M. Carmody was confident—and has advised President Roosevelt accordingly— that he can approve enough worthy projects of farmers’ electrification co-operatives use all of its 1939 funds. For the fiscal year which ended June 30, it appropriated only 30 million dollars. ° Second meeting of the “sales campaign” is to be a statewide mass meeting in Indianapolis on Aug. 3, it was announced.

FOURTH FREE BAND CONCERT TOMORROW

The Indianapolis Concert Band's fourth free program of the summer season, postponed last Sunday because of bad weather, is to be given at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the open air theater at Garfield Park with William Schumacher conducting. The program follows: March from ‘“Tannhaeuser” .... Wagner . “The Prince of Pilsen’ Luders 2 Gounod

e .. “The Old Gray Mar arr. Lake

e’’ . “Old MacDonald Had a Farm’..arr. Lake “Evolution of Dixie” .... ..... arr. Lake Intermission ‘Oberon’ Overture e “March of sthe Toys” Herbe ‘By the Waters of Minnetonka’ Lieurance Sel . ‘‘The Firefly” Friml “Sunday Swine Session’ .... arr. Harper “The Beautiful Blue Danube”....Strauss

FENCE PUT AROUND HARLAN CASE JURORS

LONDON, Ky., July 23 (U P.).— A rope barricade, cutting off the sidewalk and part of the street, today was erected around the house where jurors’ in the Harlan conspiracy case are quartered. This drastic step was taken after deputy marshals reported that one of the defendants, Merle Middleton, Had “paraded” in front of the jury’s quarters with a juror’s son.

40-HOUR WEEK VOTED

MEMPHIS, Tenn. July 28 (U. P.) .—Establishment of & mandatory five-day 40-hour week! for sterotypers was voted last t by delegates at the union’s 3 annual

members

convention. . Action of the convention is Dest to approval of ai

SEEKS IMPROVEMENT OF 4 CITY STREETS | three railway unions would be

The Works Board today held un-

der advisement a request for the lain about it, but improvement of four East Side They did not combiain a

streets where new houses are being | ,joiq If one of the three unions

It was made by Howard Kemper of Kemper & Co, who asked for| gould take an act of Parliament to completion of Tacoma Ave. from 35th to 36th Sts.,, and of 36th St. to Keystone Ave., and for the grading of 35th St. from Keystone to LaSalle St. and of Temple Ave. from He said there was uy one house on Tacoma between | WY. 5th and 36th Sts. ear ; that now 10 hig 20a legal compulsion of British employconstruction or are finished.

REYNOLDS ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF THIRD SON hard-pressed industries encourages

34th to 36th Sts.

grand-

Winston-Salem, January, 1933.

[COUNTESS IS FOUND DEAD IN SHIP CABIN | WARNS OF FORGERIES

SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 23 (U. P.).—On arrival of the S. S.

“| Windsor Castle from South Africa

URGES . EDITORS’

GAS CITY, July 23.—Co-operation between publishers and business and leaders was urged to promote better public relations by E.|day in the Nazarene Church, 327 Ross Bartley, Indiana University| W. Main St. Beech Grove. There publicity director, in a speech yes-| will be services each evening at 7:30

terday. before Weekly | o’tlock, The

A project to cost $201,321 cen- |pginciple that guides British labor Purdue University | in its relations with management is

“keep away from the courts.” That is what I was told by one of

ish Trade Union Law when I asked ences between labor legislation Jn Great . Britain and the United ‘States. For professional reasons he

The commission which President study

T0 PL AY AT L AIR! sevelt has appointed to J dustrial relations in Great Britain

and Sweden will find wide divergence between the British and

Carolyn Schmidt, Indianap- American systems, this expert said. olis Among Members; 8

“Broadly speaking,” he added, “trade union officials in Great Britain would not accept the American National Labor Relations Act as a gift, for it violates one of the deepest instincts of British labor, which is, “Keep away from the courts.”

“The essence of the American law

He wants trade pacts to be kept flexible and

Indianapolis, | enforceable only by the willing conwas among the members named by | sent of both parties to the agree-

rector.. who is in charge of the h Eight of the musicians violated, but if they are broken then

are regular members of the I. U.

the answer is a strike on one side or a lockout on the other side while negotiations are started or conciliation machinery is brought in.

Appeal Is Costly

“But an appeal to the law courts exposes trade union funds to a costly drain and brings up the possibility of punitive damages. It exacerbates tempers and makes it difficult to resume cordial relations. “We have, I think, only one ex‘ample in this -contry of an agreement enforceable in the courts. Parliament in 1934 passed a novel act applying only to the weaving section of the cotton trade. The act

The sym- - phony orchestra will play each day stipulated that employees and em

on the I. U. auditorium stage and in the Coliseum.

ployers were empowered to agree on a wage scale which, when approved by the Minister of Labor, becomes enforceable in courts of law.

“There is only one union in all y : of Great Britain which toys with

the idea of making trade pacts en-

forceable in the courts. That is the National Union of General and

Municipal Workers which is influenced by the fact that it is often

Midway Widened or Last dealing with small firms in trades Performance Tonight.

where employers are unorganized (in employer federations) and where there is considerable breaking of agreements. But practically all

. The East Side Mardi Gras commit- other trade unions dislike the idea. tee today enlarged its grounds at : 4400 E. Tenth St. by 200 feet in ex- | Britain compelling an employer to pectation of a record throng of 60,- | Fecognize a union. So far as the 000 as the colorful show prepared |}2W is concerned he can maintain

“There is no general law in Great

an open shop, a closed shop or any

Officers of the Sherman-Emerson | Kind of a shop. The nearest thing Civic League said one side of the ' exposition would be moved back to|emplover is the Railways Act of Monday at the District of Columbia | enlarge the midway. This afternoo. morgue. Mrs. Conner will be ques-

to direct legal compulsion on an

1921. That act combined all rail-

i. | ways into four great systems and _ | established thé machinery for set-. night's program wil exe | t1ing labor disputes in the form of a g Progra 1 be 8) i board composed of representatives speakers included Paul C. Wetter, of the railroads and representatives president of the Indianapolis Fed-|of the three great railway unions eration of Community Civic Clubs, | the National Union of Railway

Inc., and Sergt. Albert Magenheimer, Men, ; of the Indianapolis Police Depart- | Locomotive Engineers and Firemen

ment’s Accident Prevention Bureau, | 20d the Railway Clerks’ Association.

the Associated Society of

_ Unions Not Flattered

“Now, here is something interesting. You might imagine that those

highly flattered at being given statutory recognition in the law of the land. But they are not really.

they did not relish it for it was too

should split into two’ unions because of internal strain, then it

clean up the mess. : : “The British union member, in the back of his head, is always con-

“Now, while there is no direct

ers to deal with unions, there is a good deal of oblique pressure on them to recognize unions. The Trades Board Act of 1919, establishing minimum wages in various

common organization of employees

WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., July|and employers. : 23 (U. P).—Mrs. and Mrs. Rich- ! ard J. Reynolds today announced |the sugar beet trade receives a subthe birth of their third son, Zachary Taylor Reynolds, at the Reyn- | ment commonly lays down condiolds estate near here. The baby was born last Tuesday. | conditions which results in both It has been named for the fathers of the two parents, the] administering the act.’ announcement said. rited thirty milrom the Reynolds tobacco fortune in April, 1934, on his

28th birthday. He and Mrs. Reyncould appeal to the Minister of olds, formerly Elizabeth Di a of Labor for assistance The .Labor

“Similarly, when an industry like sidy or special regulation, Parliations regarding wages and. working sides organizing for convenience in “In regard to jurisdictional disputes between rival unions, the ‘British employer has no protection, legal or otherwise, although he Minister has no powers whatsoever

a fair amout of influence.”

IN BENEFIT CHECKS

Clarence A. Jackson, State Un-

yesterday it was revealed that Marv | oy ployment Compensation Division

Countess Hardwicke, 35, was found bankers dead in her cabin of a broken neck director, today warned i

last Saturday. -The ship was off Teneriffe, Canary Islands, at the time and the Countess was buried at sea the same |:

day. It was believed she slipped y and struck her chin on the edge of sult of several cases of unauthorized

Jbusinessmen not to cash compensation benefit warrants unless they know the holder or receive adequate identification. ' The warning was issued as a re-

persons endorsing and cashing checks not issued to them, Mr.

Jackson said. Under the Indiana AID

criminal code, he said, forgeries are punishable by two to 14 years in the penitentiary and a $1000 fine.

REVIVAL IS TO BEGIN A 10-day revival is to begin Mon-

Roy Beticher IS L106

scious of the fact that what Par-. liament gives, Parliament can take

in a case like that, but he does have

| nim to_explain the essential differ-|

requested that his name not be used. | : Miss Mary Jo Maher, an employee of the State Board of Agricul-

Times Photo.

County derives a large portion of its taxable gross receipts from sur= rounding counties, it is getting back: only two-fifths of what it paid in. “The gross income tax collections are based on the volume of gross receipts and the distributions are based ‘on the volume of service pere formed,” he said. ol : : He pointed out that the concen= tration of taxable receipts in Mare

ture inspects and makes ready for distribution some of the 175,000

State Fair admission tickets which

are on sale at half-price, 25 cents.

Last year 150,000 25-cent tickets were sold, but Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, who is also Commissioner of Agriculture, has decided to hoost the low-priced admissions this.year by 25,000. The tickets are on sale in Hooks and Haag drug stores and at the Administration Building at

the Fair Grounds.

4 Farm Owners

Officials o

Sue County n Flood Charges

County Commissioners and County Surveyor Herbert , EB, Bloemker today faced four suits in which farm owners seek flood damages totaling

$13,000.

The suits, filed yesterday in Superior Court by Attorney Clinton H. Givan, charge the plaintiffs’ farms were damaged seriously by flood water during heavy rains several weeks ago, as a result of Mr. Bloemker’s

C.P. HOWARD'S RITES TUESDAY

I. T. U. Leader to Be Buried At Colorado Springs.

Funeral services will be held next Tuesday for Charles P. Howard, président of the International Typographical Union, at Colorado Springs, Colo., where he died suddenly - last Thursday night after suffering a heart attack. Several officials ‘at Union headquarters here left late yesterday to attend the services. Mr Howard, who had been president of the powerful organization since 1926, long had been a prominent figure in’ labor otxanization Claude M. Baker, first vice-presi-dent and president-elect of the I. T. U., will take over leadership of the union on Sept. 1. He defeated Mr Howard for the presidency in an election last May. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery at Colorado Springs which is maintained in connection with the Union Prniters’ Home there.

WOULD PUSH BAN ON MAGAZINE SALESMEN

The Safety Board at its meeting Tuesday is expected to take steps to enforce regulations that may drive

magazine salesmen from downtown |

streets, it was learned today. Newspaper vendors would not be af--fected. /

Theo Dammeyer, Board president, |.

said he would ask Chief Morrissey to enforce the ordinances prohibiting the ‘peddlers from working on downtown streets. - Penalty for violation of the ordinance is a fine not to exceed $100.

dfailure to make allotments for cleaning of Buck Creek. . The plaintiffs and the amounts they. ask for are Hubert Jordan, $5000; Lewis E. Sutton, $3500; Charles O. Sutton, $3000, and Charles W. Mann, $1500. A similar suit asking $6500 damages was filed several days ago by George H. Blankenship. cl County Attorney John F. Linder today declared there is “no foundation for a suit of that kind.” “The County is not liable for failure to perform governmental functions,” he said. Commissioner John 8. Newhouse commented that the creek would have overflowed during the recent heavy rains “even if we had cleaned it out 20 feet deep.” .

LARGEST CONVENTION OF LIONS GLUB ENDS

Dallas Man Wins Office by Close Vote. :

P.)—Ten thousand -delegates concluded the largest convention in the ‘history of Lions International by electing new officers. Walter F. Dexter of Sacramento moved up from vice president to president, in accordance with custom. ? ! The second and third vice presidents, Alexander T. Wells, New York, and Karl M. Sorrick, Springport, Mich, also automatically moved forward. In a close race yesterday for the third vice presidency, George R. Jordan, Dallas, Texas, nosed out D. A. Skeen, Salt Lake City. Vacancies on the board of directors were filled by the election of W. H. Baxter, Seattle; Millard: B. Conklin, Daytona Beach, Fla.; Bert \W. Kelley, Denver; Dale Carroll, Keokuk, Iowa, and Henry T. Bowers, Toledo, Ohio. :

Children Fashion Trinkets At City Playgrounds Daily

Nearly 1500 Indianapolis children participate daily in a new handi-

craft program at City playgrounds.

The program, carried on in all the public playgrounds and the 10 schoolgrounds loaned as auxiliary play areas, is made possible by

the Indianapolis Foundation, a charitable institution which is donating

ON

MEMORIAL PLANNED TO KETTLEBOROUGH

Plans for a permanent collection of books at the Indiana State Library as a memorial to Dr. Charles Kettleborcugh, former Indiana Legislative Reference Bureau director, were announced today by friends of | the former director. Dr. Kettleborough was injured fatally < several weeks ago when struck by an auto. The committee in charge of the memorial will make no funds solicitation but those who desire to contribute voluntarily may send donations to Dr. C. B. Coleman, Indi: Historical Bureau director, State Library Building. State Senator omas. A. Hendricks; Joe Rand Beckett, former Senator: Leo M. Rappaport, Albert Stump, Mr. James L. Murray, Edward D. Farmer, Walter S. Greenough, Dr. Coleman, DeWitt 8S. Morgan, Herbert P. Kenney, all of Indianapolis; Earl Crawford, Connersville; Rep. Frank G. Thompson, Bluffton, and Rep. Joseph A. Andrew, Lafayette. fy

HORLICK WITNESSES TO TESTIFY JULY 26

TORONTO, Ontario, July 23 (U. P.).—One or two witnesses will be called at the opening of the inquest into the death of Mrs. Maybelle Horlick Sidley, Racine, Wis., malted ‘milk heiress on July 26, then the will be postponed until Aug.

"| 2, it was learned today.

Chief Coroner Dr. Smilre Lawson will make the adjournment due to, the inability of some major Government officials ‘to attend. T. H. Bull, son of W. Perkins Bull, Toronto lawyer, in whose home Mrs. Sidley;

money to buy materials. From 10 to 60 children participate in classes, which meet every afternoon at most parks. Heaviest attended are classes at Christian,

Brookside, 49th St. and Arsenal Ave, Camp SuHivan, Oak Hill, Highland, Cornelius, Belmont, Northwestern and Douglass ‘Park. : Directed by WPA workers at the schoolgrounds and by Park’ Board matrons at regular playgrounds, children already have .made many “things. . . Their products include bracelets made of cardboard, wire and twisted paper; paper pottery, woven baskets, boxes and handbags, twisted or braided paper on cups, bowls, plates and hot dish mats; scissor paintings for all paper articles; pot holders and pot holder containers; door stops, bean bags, crayon pictures, costumes and woodworking cutouts. : Among the most popular items have been models of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs cut out of cardboard and wood by the boys. ~ More than 300 pounds of beans have been used to fill bean bags. Mrs. Louis R. Markun, Park Board member, has been instrumental in furthering the program and in obtaining co-operation of the School Board. She commented toy; “The handicraft work is one of the most popular ‘things in the whole recreational program and I. hope it becomes an annual thing.” Children are permitted to keep the things they make. The Park Department has been collecting some of the outstanding items for entrance in a contest. It will award prizes and ribbons for the best things ‘late in August.

HORSE TROPHY OFFERED Times Special ; LOGANSPORT, July 23.—The Indiana’ Saddle Horse Association will present a trophy to the best of the Cass County Fair horse show to be ‘held Monday night. is

OAKLAND, Cal, .July 23 — (u. | dianapolis Water

fon County is fed by the low ine come counties, whi¢h this county’s tax paynients help support. ;

, Cites ‘Protective’ Effect

Describing Marion County's ase sistance to other counties as “pro= tection” money to prevent’ a rise of welfare costs here, Mr. Jackson said: : | : “The comparatively small amount of gross income tax which Marion County pays to enable weaker coun= ties to maintain schools at State standards and provide an adequate welfare program can be conside ered cheap protection against the

vantages if the rural programs bogged down.” * Since: its enactment in 1933, the director pointed out, the gross ine come tax has benefited Marion County on a “grand scale.” He cited a 13 per cent reduction in property and poll taxes sincq 1932, amounting to $2,642,960, which the gross income tax law and the = tax limitation law! had effected. While the total property and poll taxes levied in 1932 amounted to $20,888,753, the levy for 1938 was $18,245,793. This year, schools in the County received $1,537,550 and the County welfare program, $873,445, gross income tax funds, he said

WATER COMPANY DATA ORDERED

Commission Delays Action On Utility’s Million-Dollar Expansion Proposal.

Declaring it did not have sufficient information to act on the Ine Company’s Tres quest to launch a | $1,270,000 expansion program, the Indiana Pub= lic Service Commission today ore dered the utility to prepare further plans. : ; The company filed its request with the Commission May 18 and a pub lic hearing was held later. Coms= pany officials said the program would include construction of an elevated storage tank to provide more adequate water pressure {fi the area north of 42d St. and Wi of Illinois St., and expansion of the cothpany's Fall Creek pumping station. Company engineers said the project is needed to provide more adequate service to patrons. : A rate case between the Publis Servife Commission and the Water Co. still is pending in Federal Dis= trict Court here. Further litigation .was delayed in the case under terms of an agreement. by which the com=_ pany would begin an expansion proe ° gram.

LAWYER SUES STATE FOR FEES PAYMENT,

Clinton H. Givan, attorney, today had filed in Superior Court a suit. asking $1638.63 judgment against the State of Indiana. Se The suit contends that in 1936, Philip Lutz Jr., then Indiana Aftor= ney General, entered into a contract with Mr. Givan to collect certain State claims from the T. H, I. X E, Traction Co. and the Indiana Rail= road, his pay to be 10 per cent of the sum collected. Mr. Givan charges that he collect= ed the full amount of the claims and that his claim for payment was approved by Mr. Lutz but never has been paid by the State. : A. J. Stevenson, assistant A ney General, said that he had n comment to make on the complai

METRAZOL USED FOR ~ INSANITY TREATMENT;

HTTP a Metrazol, a camphor derivative, is the new method of treating demens tia praecox. at the Richmond State | Hospital, according to a report made: today by Dr. George C. Stevens to the. State Department of Publis Welfare. : es The drug, injected into the veins, produces convulsions in 10 seconds, profoundly effecting body metabols ism, the report said. os Dr. Richard Schillinger, State Hospital superintendent, has ine jected metrazol into 20 patients with promising results, the feport sa Hospital attaches said they expects to begin insulin .shock treats ents soon. 3 ”

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