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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 261

SULLIVAN ASKS CITIZENS AIDIN WATER STUDY

Reopens Quiz Into Possible

Acquisition of Company. By the City.

‘BUY. IF PRICE IS RIGHT’

‘ Purchase Question to Come Up Only After Full’ Investigation.

Mayor Sullivan today reopened investigation into the possible acquistion of the Indianapolis Water

Co. by the City, The Mayor invited citizens intergested in the plan, first suggested in the last City Administration, confer with him at his office. In taking this preliminary action, the Mayor did not indicate whether he would appoint a special commission to investigate the possibilities of purchase or leave that task to City Council, “I am in favor of purchasing the company, to be operated as a municipal utility,” he said, “if the price is low enough. However, the matter of purchase will be more fully considered only after a complete investigation is made.”

Survey Was Sought

The Council last fall adopted a resolution calling for a survey of the company’s assets and equipment, but the survey never went further than the proposal. In the original proposal, which was advanced by Dr. Theodore . Cable, Democratic. Councilman, it was suggested that the purchase could be made by issuing revenue bonds-at no cost to the taxpayers and at no increase in water rates. Several civic groups have urged acquisition of the utility by the City, pointing to tax reductions in other Indiana cities which operate their water companies. The McNear & Co., Chicago investment house, announced last ‘September that it was prepared to Degotiate the purchase with the ity The water company is among, the assets of the estate of the late C. H. Geist of Philadelphia, Pa. whose death several months ago passed control of the company to his heirs. It-was then that the company was reported to be on the market.

CHAPERAU ON TRIAL IN BURNS SMUGGLING

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. P).— Albert N.' Chaperau, already convicted of having smuggled $1833 -worth of Parisian clothes for the wife of Justice Edgar N. Lauer of the State Supreme Court, goes to

trial today ‘charged with having slipped $4885 worth of jewelry into the country for the comedian George

“Jack Benny, another comedian, who arrived by airplane last night from Hollywood, goes before the

any to be questioned about Core that Chaperav smuggled $1200 worth of jewelry for him.

D. C. STEPHENSON ~ CASE IS UP TODAY

NOBLESV'LLE, Jan. 10 (U. P.).— The case of D. C. Stephenson, former official of the Indiana Ku-Klux -Klan, who was convicted 13 years ago of murdering Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis, returns to court today. During the Circuit Court current term, a hearing will be held on a change of venue petition filed by the State. Stephenson seeks a new trial on a writ of error coram nobis. After the venue issue is decided by Circuit Judge C. M. Gentry, the retrial motion will be heard.

WARNS SMALLPOX CASES ON INCREASE

City health authorities “are alarmed over the increasing number of smallpox cases,” Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health commissioner, said today. Thirty-four new cases have been - reported since the first of the year ‘and 62 cases were in quarantine Dec. 31. These cases, Dr. Morgan said, are of the confluent type. He warned adults who have not been vaccinated within 10 years that they should see a doctor,

‘MRS. JOHN ROOSEVELT ILL BOSTON, Jan, 10 (U. P).—Mrs. John Roosevelt is suffering from a bronchial cold, her mother, Mrs. F. Haven Clark, said today. She has been at Peter Bent ‘Brigham Hos-

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Cook's Late, But There's N 0 Outbreak

The City Jail kitchen was opened for the first time today, with a good deal of confusion because the cook was late. It was reported at first that breakfast for about 60 was to be served at 6 a. m., but at 6 a. m, coffee and rolls were not prepared. . ‘In fact, the cook hadn’t arrived and didn't untii 6:55 a. m. She explained she had thought breakfast could be * served any time up to 7 a. m. and even so had overslept a mite. .. Then it was explained the ul time for breakiast has been set at 6:30 a. m. Breakfast was served at 7:20

FRANKFURTER FOES TESTIFY

NATIONAL AFFAIRS (Page 3)

RELIEF Subcommittee to cut Roosevelt request. HOPKINS to appear before Senate foes. AMBASSADORS describe “dis« mal” European outlook.

U. S. CHECKS aid 20 million in nation. :

ROOSEVELT considers ss in Caribbean.

(Frankfurter Protile, Page Nine)

WASHINGTON, Ja Jan. 10 (U, P.).— Collis O. Redd, national director of the Constitutional Crusaders of America, told a Senate ‘Judiciary Committee today that Felix Frankfurter was unfit to sit on the. Supreme Court because he violated the “liberalism of Thomas Paine, Washington, Jefferson and all the rest.” Mr. Redd testified at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the nomination of the Harvard Law professor. Two other witnesses appeared in opposition to the nomination, but there was every indication that the committee and the Senate soon would approve the appointment. Prof. Frankfurter declined an invitation to attend the hearing, but ‘was represented by one of his proteges; Dean Acheson, a Washington lawyer who formerly was Treasury Undersecretary, but split with the New Deal over monetary policy.

“Whole Works Myself”

Mr. Redd said he represented the interests of “the consumer, the unemployed and the old-age pensioners.” Senator Borah (R. Ida.) asked whether Mr. Redd had been authorized to represent the various groups he mentioned. “I have taken it upon myself,” the witness replied. Senator Connally (D. Tex.) asked how many members were in Mr, Redd’s organization. “I'm the whole works myself,” Redd replied.’

Professor Called Alien

Mr. Redd said he opposed Prof. Frankfurter as the author of the NRA. Senator Connally declared that Donald Richberg had been the author of the NRA. George E. Sullivan, Washington attorney and author, objected that the nominee was alien born—in Austria—and had “alien affiliations.” Mr. Sullivan said that in 1917 Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Prof. Frankfurter expressing the belief that Prof. Frankfurter’s ideas “are fundamentally” the same -as Trotsky’s.

VESSEL HITS BRIDGE, 1 DEAD, ANOTHER HURT

ST. GEORGES, Del, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—The 6209-ton freighter Waukegan, out of Kearny, N. J., and owned by the U. S. Maritime Commission, crashed into the St. Georges bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal today, drowning the bridge tender and seriously injuring the ‘bridge foreman. The victim was identified as Robert Quinn of St. Georges. He was thrown into the canal and drowned before help: reached him. William|S F. Oakes, 45, the bridge foreman. suffered a mangled leg.

CONNECTICUT AUTHOR DIES PARIS, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—William Aspenwall Bradley, 60, Connecticut author and literary adviser, died today.

Winning students in The Indianapolis Times-Scripps-Howard Scholarship competition will have an excellent chance of getting jobs in the aviation industry after ¥aey complete their courses.

This was assured in statements made Dysaders of the industry in commen the Scholarship plan announced yesterday. One airplane manufacturer of international min saw asked for “exclusive rights” to place the entire list of honor students when they have completed their courses. L. W. Greve, president of the National Air Races and head of a large Cleveland industry, expressed

the common viewpoint of the aviation industry:

“There is such sa’ shortage of trained men in aviation that it will be comparatively easy to place these We will want some

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: students,

ROME T0 BT CHAMBERLAIN

PEACE POLICY|

FOREIGN SITUATION

LONDON--Unemployed demon-= strate as Chamberlain leaves. PARIS—Chamberlain stops for tea with Daladier. ha ROME—Duce to stand firm, Fascists declare.

> 8a HENDAYi—Loyalists threaten ' to cut off mining area. BERLIN — Jewish negotiations with. Poland broken off.

P R A H A — Czech-Hungarian neutral zone set up. BUCHARLEST—Attempt to as-« sassinate Carol denied.

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CHUNGKING — 1938 Russian ° pact with China reported.

By WEBB MILLER (Copyright. 1939, by United Press)

LONDON, Jan. 10.—Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement of dictators in an effort to dissolve the dangers of war in Europe

entered its crucial phase today as he left for Rome to visit’ Premier Mussolini. Mr. Chamberlain's visit is the fourth he has made to the dictators in three months. Upon the results depends ‘the future orientation of Mr. Chamberlain’s appeasement ‘poiicy, If Mr. Chamberlain finds the Duce obdurate upon the question of continued Spanish civil war intervention and effectivation of the British-Italian friendship agreement, it is a foregone conclusion that Mr. Chamberlain’s policy toward the dictators will swing sharply toward a stiffer attitude as regards continued concessions. Since the Munich conference at which Czechoslovakia was dismembered, Mr. Chamberlain has gradually—rapidly in the last month— lost patience because of the dictator’s lack of response to his appeasement policy.

Waits for Dictators

In pubic speeches and private conversations, he has pretty clearly shown that he thinks it is now the dictators’ turn to make some con= tribution to lis appeasement policy. If this is not forthcoming from both Fuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini soon, Mr. Chamberlain may be impelled fo. give up: the policy. In ‘private conversation with friends recently, -Mr.- Chamberlain: jokingly indicated his present frame of mind by telling the story of an old lady with an umbrella who, pursued by a lion, suddenly turned, opened her umbrella and frightened the lion, which turned tail. Mr. Chamberlain = concluded his story ingly: “And I am faking my umbrella to Rome.” Thus the Chamberlain-Mussolini conversations may mark the turning point in ‘European diplomatic tension, which relaxed for a while after Munich, but has been rising again during the last few weeks. This tension is due to uncertainty and general fear that the dictators are plotting: another move in the spring - which will again shake Europe. ‘It is not based on anything specific and opinions differ widely as to what the move may be. Nevertheless the man in the street seems to have decided that March will be the critical month. Since Munich there has been a (Continued on Page Three)

‘MAGIC KEY’ BOOKS LOCAL ORCHESTRA

Symphony Shares Spotlight With Melchior Jan. 22.

The Indiarapolis Symphony Orchestra, continuing its march toward national recognition, will share the sootlight with Lauritz Melchior on the “Magic Key” broadcast of Jan. 22. The hour's program is carried by NBC-Blue (locally by WIRE) at ! p.m. and. is shortwaved throughout the world. The program will include tribute to the orchestra by Booth Tarkington, to be rezd either by Mr. Tarkington or the announcer. Mr. Melchior, soloist with the orchestra on|: its Jan. 20 and Jan. 21 concerts, will sing thre: arias. Fabien Sevitsky will conduct the orchestra in works by Wagner, Mendelssohn, Foote and Tschaikowsky. Indiana Re&dio Corp. of Amelie salesmen ‘and their families will be guests at the broadcast, which will

be in the Murat.

Job Prospects Fine for Winners of Times-Scripps-Howard Air Awards =

company closz by that also will be after some of them. “I would go so far as to say that future positions are assured them the minute they successfully complete their Beanie I, for one, will do everything within my power to see they are assured places long before they are ready for them.” For the benefit of those who did not see the original announcement, the following is a brief review of the Scripps-Howard Scholarship plan:

The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers are of-

fering tuition scholarships in aero-

nautical engineering to boys in Marion County high schools, both public and parochial, who will be uated in February or June school year.” A dozen four-year tuition scholars e beirg offered in the coun.

leries, Auctioneer Benjamin See-

ceived ousands.

‘pianos, ohaior rugs, oll paintings,

put it—other articles too numerous

18450. A painting valued by Mr, See-

TUESDAY, J ANUAR

COOGAN NOWIS TOUGH LUCK KID'

Loses Job, Fortune, Bride And Is Forced to Sell Furniture for Pittance.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10 (U. P).— Jackie Coogan, who lost his fortune,

original “tough ‘luck kid” today when sale of the furnishings from his love cottage brought perhaps a tenth of their value. The 22-year-old Mr. Coogan, suing his mother and step-father for an

accounting of the $4,000,000 he said he earned as “The Kid” of the silent movies and whose bride has left him because he couldn't support her, ordered all his magnificent furniture sold to the highest bidder. “A guy has got to eat, hasn’t he?” he said. When the first session of the sale had ended and perhaps 300 sugions people: had filed from the gar lighted Beverly : Wilshire art RE

wack, shook his head. He said Jackie might realize hundreds of dollars—when he should have re-

The rhe pidiers mu ch nterested anton “two A rand] ornately carved furniture, ivory miniatures and—as Mr. Seewack

to mention. ‘Betty Grable, Jackie's movie actress bride, was home with her mother. Jackie also was absent as’ Mr. Seewack sought for bids on some of the most luxurious movie money ever bought. He called for an initial bid of $2000 on the collection of 28 miniatures. by such ' artists as Cosway, Gainsborough and others—a group said to be one of the finest of its kimk in the West—and got an offer of $500. Mr. Seewack rejected that and tried to sell the pieces, one by one. He asked $100 for the first one and got a $10 offer, which went up dollar by dollar, to $15. Mr. Seewack disgustedly withdrew the rest of Jackie’s miniatures. One of the pianos went for $150; the other—a $3000 grand—brought

wack at $2500 sold for $225. °

FIND BODIES OF CCC BOYS IN ANGOLA LAKE

ANGOLA, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—The bodies of Rollan Bailey Jr, of Michigan City, and Michael S. Soltis of West Terre Haute, were recovered from Lake James today

by. CCC. enrollees who have : beén searching for them since Sunday. Both boys apparently bad broken through the ice while skating. The youths, who were living at the CCC camp in Pokagon State Park, near here, had been given a leave of absence to go to their homes over the New Year's holiday. When they failed to return, officers believed they had overstayed their leaves. Saturday night, Mr. Baileys father stopped at the camp to see his son. youth ‘had not come home. A search ‘was begun = early = next morning. Workers quickly located | the boys’ wearing apparel but it wasn’t until late this morning that their bodies were located and

brought to the surface.

Races, Boeing Aeronautical School and United Air Lines gre, co-operat- | ing in-offering both tuition and cash scholarships.

Seton aesiring to compete need|

only send their names, addresses,

age, name of school and special in- | =lterest to the Aviation ‘Scholarship Times

Editor of The Indianapolis 4 The awards will be made on. the sis of scholarship records, -character, required number of credits and ability to carry through in this highly technical field. The records

of all students will be judged and!

graded by a local Scholarship Board.

“ Guy Has 0 Eat, Hawn” t He?

Jackie Coogan and Beity Grable

his job and his bride, became the|.

He told authorities the|

The judgment: of this board will be|]

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Down Trend In Weather Has Begun

: TEMPERATURES 6% m.... 55 10a. m Ya. m..... 54 11a. m.... 4 8a. m.... 51 12 (noom).. 41 9a. m....4 lp m....3

Colder weather, with temperature 30 to 35 degrees tonight, was predicted for Ine dianapolis by the Weather Bureau. Skies will be fair, the Bureau predicted. The downward trend began this morning. If the tem- “ perature reaches 30 tonight, it will be only two degrees - above: normal, ‘a marked change from the last few days when’ 20 degrees above normal has been the rule.

66 NAVAL PLANES “BEGIN LONG FLIGHT

Leave San Diego for War Games in Caribbean.

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SAN DIEGO, Cal. Jan. 10 U. P.). Eighteen. -af ‘the. Navy’s. fighting planes departed at dawn today for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they will participate with the United States Fleet in fleet problem XX. : The first of the Sikorsky amphibian and Grumann planes arose from North Island at 6:11 a. m. and by 6:37 o’clock all were winging their way east over the Lagun Mountains toward Tucson, El Paso, San Antonio, New Orleans and to Miami. Conimander Allan Price was in charge of this wing. The Sikorskys will make no more than two refueling stops en route to Miami, but the Grumanns, cause of their shorter cruising radius, will refuel at Tucson, El Paso, Midland, Tex., San Antonio, New Orleans, and Pensacola, Fla. They carry in all 8¢ men. The bombers will be following a fleet of more than 100 warships southward. Like the surface maneuvers, the flight was part of the annual war games. :

SEEK SLAYERS OF SLOT MACHINE FOE

Illinois Attorney General Acts in Peoria Death.

PEORIA, IIL, Jan. 10 (U. Py. = Attorney General John E. Cassidy, a bitter foe of slot-machine racketeers, today ordered the State Bureau of Investigation into the hunt for three men who assassinated Anton Miller, 50, antigambling crusader. Mr. Miller, a locksmith and gunsmith, had an unusual method of fighting. the slot machines. He passed out to all who would. use them keys by which the machines could be unlocked and looted. Attorney General Cassidy asked T. P. Sullivan, head of the State Bureau, to put his men at the dis~ posal of Peoria police. } “I have a special interest in: this case,” Mr. Cassidy said, “to determine whether there is any relation with the slot-machine rackets which I requested the State’s Attorneys| fas Sheriffs to explode from this| § Mr. Miller died early today after| murmuring Fwell, -the ~ gamblers finally got me.” He was “shot after his auto in his garage in the Tear of his home. -

LAWYER SAYS HELL

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SALEM, Ore, Jan. 10 (0. Pim William D. D. Bennett, Portland attorney and former State Legislator, | today said he had been advised that he would be appointed U, S. High Commissioner Jo] the Philippines on a temporary b / In that capacity he would replace oo pl Vs Maui.

Entered as Second-Class at Postottise, Indian

Law Regula

Court 5.

The loan company had asked for a declaratory judgment on the validity of the law, charging that the act “delegated too much power to the State Department.” Asa Smith, Financial Aid Corp. attorney, recently argued in court that the act delegated power that “would permit the State Department to put out of business any loan company for personal or political reasons.” Judge Wilson’s ruling stated in part: “None of the sections of the Act here involved violates either the due process clause of the Federal Con-

* | stitution or the comparable pro-

visions of the Indiana Constitution. “The State possesses inherent power to promote the general welfare or public good and to that end it may reasonably regulate business. “In view of conditions to which the court canhot close its eyes, the regulation of the small 16an business by the Legislature is for the public good.

Importance Is Stressed

“This business touches the lives and affairs of a great body of our citizens, affecting their vital needs.

It cannot be doubted that the Legislature has the power to protect the welfare of persons in their dealings with such business. “The 1933 Act as a whole, and in particulars. which are under attack, is reasonably adapted to achieve this end. - “The provision for licensing is a proper means to insure that those

meet the standards which the public has a right to expect.” The loan company which brought the action was refused a license recently by the State Department on the ground that the company officials “failed to agree to comply with the regulations.”

«Gave Grounds of Refusal

“We wouldn't agree to comply with regulations that might be made after we obtained a license,” Mr. Smith, attorney for the company, argued. Judge Wilson’s ruling continued: “The provision for fixing interest rates is a proper means to insure that rates are high énough to induce capital to enter the business and supply the needs of those who must borrow through such channels, and that lenders do not take unconscionable advantage of the inferior bargaining position of those needy persons. “The evidence is clear that in the absence of legislation of this character, our people, who frequently require amounts of ready cash for the vital needs of life, will become the victims of unlicensed and illegal lenders whose extortions, measured in terms of interest, are seldom less than 10 per cent per month, “The evidence indicates clearly that the original 1917 Small Loan Law was a wise and necessary measure and that the 1933 amendments represent sound ' progression toward better social control for all the people. The provisions of the latter amendments are substantially identical with the provisions of the Uniform Small Loan Law prepared oy the Russell Sage Foundation. “No provision -of the Act which the plaintiff can attack makes an

{unlawful delegation of power. The

standards specified in the Act are sufficient and the delegation of power to the-Department is valid.”

apolis,

engaged in the small loan business

Matter Ind.

ting Small

Money Lending Agencies Upheld by Judge Wilson

Superior Court Jurist Rules Act Is Constitutional and for ‘Public Good’; Delegation of Power to Department Called Valid.

The Indiana Small Loan Act, which provides for the regulation by | State officials of the petty loan business, today was declared constitutional | and “for the public 8000” by Judge Herbert E. Wilson of ‘Superior

The ruling was made in the suit of the Financial Aid Corp., which named the State Department of Financial Institutions as defendant.

SHERIFF WARNS TAVERN OWNERS

Declares Operators Who Sell To High School Pupils Will Be Closed.

Tavern owners caught selling alcoholic beverages to boys and girls of high school age will be “put out of business,” Sheriff Feeney warned today. Meanwhile, Prosecutor David M. Lewis said he will take steps to stop several private clubs from selling alcoholic beverages on Sunday. He said he had received several com-

‘|plaints from public tavern owners.

Six tavern owners were called into the Sheriff’s office yesterday after three high school boys were found intoxicated during the week-end, Mr. Feeney said. “When these boys were brought in I questioned them about the places they had been drinking and where ‘they bought the liquor,” Mr. Feeney said. “Each of them named several places and 1 called in the The proprietors were told that one more complaint against their taverns would mean immediate suspension of their licenses along with probable arrest on liquor law viola~tion charges, the sheriff said. “I'll. say now that there are at least three or four places that will be closed up soon unless they are cleaned up,” he said. “We are not going to act too sev rely with’ the children ‘found drinking, especially on the first offense, but we're going to find out who’s selling them drinks and get to the source of this Jing immediately.” He ' said the three youths were turned over to their parents without holding them on charges because no complaining witnesses appeared against them. The Sheriff denied reports that he would have “ax squads” wreck disorderly houses. He said he was not certain how far his authority extends in this respect.

GET 1 TO 10 YEARS AFTER $1.50 HOLDUP

For a holdup that brought them only $1.50, William Shipley, 19, and William: Johnson, 17, today ‘were sentedced to from one to 10 years in the Indiana Reformatory by Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers. James Carmack, 22, was sentenced to from two to five years for a burglary of a filling station where he obtained property valued at $60. Clyde Morris, 41, was sentenced to from one to 10 years when he pleaded guilty to assault and battery and rape against his 12-year-old daughter.

STOCK PRICES DROP AFTER EARLY GAINS

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. P.). — Stock prices dipped from the highs in early afternoon Dading today after an advance ranging. to more

‘than two points.

State Prison

in| (U. P.) —Warden Alfred E. Dowd

of the State Prison ‘revealed today . [that ‘a plot of several convicts to "| tunnel their way to freedom had

~ TAKE MNUTT POST

- Five convicts were placed in soli- 2 tary sud ave sil there, Mr. Dowd said. All have refused to talk

id made ‘accidentally by

peFIre lo his waist.

fell into a hole up The The investigation fol- |

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Jan. 10]

Discovery of the attempted Jail- |’

tunnel was expertly | prison walls

Escape Plot

~ Foiled, Five in in Solitary

During the past several months work has been progressing on a new service building just south ‘and west of “D” cellhouse. Beneath this new building are heat tunnels housing steam pipes. One of these tunnels runs from the service building. fo a point “ap-

| proximately under the center of

“D” cellhouse, where it ends. At the end of this heat tunnel

and started a tunnel of their own, fashioning a clever false end for it

several yards away to conceal the|

escape ' detection ‘during “the frequent occasions on which’ the new heat tunnel was “The convicts had not succeeded in “completely -outeide

tunnel |

the

STATE WAGEHOUR BILL ODUCED IN HOUSE: "LOAN RATE CUT SOUGHT

Measures Ask Sk In Gross Income Tax Levy.

URGE SPEED LIM

Propose Top. of Miles an Hour for Night Driving.

(Editorial, Page 10)

A State Wage and Hour Bill, measure in labor’s legisiative pro gram, was introduced in the lature today along with m for wider regulation of traffic and more extensive control of the pelt loan business. | : The House and Senate, after re ceiving a total of 29° bilis, recessed = until 10 a. m. tomorrow. Meanwhile, legislators were study ing two measures, introduced terday by a Senate Democrat and. House Republican, aimed at “Two Per Cent” Club, Democrat campaign ‘collection agency. The Wage-Hour Bill, introg in the House by Rep. Arnold Nahand (D. Indianapolis), is terned after the Federal statute operative. The traffic measures, both sented in the Senate, would cities the right to regulate pede train traffic and set a 50-mile=a hour speed limit for night-ti driving. There is no State spee law. in effect now.

Cuts Loan Rate Limit

The Petty Loan Bill would a the present act and was introdu { in the House by Rep. Harry (R. Auburn). It would sat a mum interest rate of one and © half per cent per ! ing the annual i ) per cent. The present law per the interest rate to go ash 42 per cent annually, .. I T'wo measures were in{roduced the House to lower gross inco rates. One would set the rate at % of 1 per cent ins the present 1 per cent and the © would lower the rate for all p to % of 1 per cent. Another House bill would fix prison sentence of from wo to years for persons convicted of s or distributing marijuana, A third House measure limit the number of texth changes which can be made by State Board of "Textbook 1s

Board could not change more one text per grade in a year in mentary schools and not more ti 20 per cent of the books used in h schools in one year.

Offer Schools Biil

A resolution, drafted by the diana League of Women Voters, introduced in the Senate to take office of Superintendent of Pu Instruction off the ballot : Constitutional amendmenj. It introduced by ‘Senator Oscar Cravens (D. Bloomington), The resolution passed the 1 session, and if it is suceessful ¢ time, will be placed on the at the 1940 general election. If the Constitutional Amend in turn is successful, the proposes to substitute an am ment making the office uppointiy The proposed amendrient been indarsed by seven women’s of= ganizations. They are: - Indiana Farm Bureau, women’s division; the Indiana Parent-Teacher Congress, American Legion Auxiliary, can Legion Child Welfare Divisioz Indiana Federation of “Wom Clubs, Council of Federated Chu Women and the American . tion of University Women. [Meanwhile two Senate Judicie Committees decided to reco mme two bills for passage. One was: measure to permanently extend Jan. 1 deadline for purchase. auto license tags to March 1. other dealt with process se procedure in nonresident auto cident suits. : The Labor, Public Policy, the Military Affairs Committees the Senate scheduled mee : this afternoon and tonighs. There were 97 Oe tai present when the House vas to order at 10:05 a. m. - Other House bills introduced day would: 1.-Enable the State Health E to purchase and distribute tree indigent persons pneumococci se diphtheria toxoid, smallpox and typhoid bacterins. The bill vides a $75,000 annual appropri: 2. Appropriate $10,000 fo e (Continued. on Page 71'wo)

WILL OF MRS. BELLIS ‘DIVIDES HER ESTA

a share of the estate not 0

$10,000. A Wilbur