Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1939 — Page 1
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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 292
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OF HOTEL IN MIAMI BEACH
Bandits Herd 10 Employees Into Washroom, Loot 16 Deposit Boxes.
LOSS MAY BE $150,000
Daring Raid on Busy Street “In Resort City Lasts 40 Minutes.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 15 (U. P.).—Police blockaded all streets and highways leaving Miami Beach today to trap bandits who held up employees of the Blackstone Hotel and fled with 16 deposit boxes containing valuables of hotel guests. Amount of the loot obtained by
the gang, reported to have num-
bered from four to six men, was uncertain but a Miami newspaper estimated it at between $150,000 and $200,000. The bandits entered the hotel, located near the beach on one of the
resort city’s busiest streets, just be-| -
fore 5 a. m.- (Indianapolis Time). Herding about 10 employees into a washroom, they systematically chose from the 100 deposit boxes in the hotel, Police Chief H. V. Yocum said. . Masked, Carry Guns
The deposit boxes had been as-
signed by the hotel to guests and
only the boxholders knew the contents. The loot, however, was expected to be large and was believed to have included jewelry. Estimates on the number in the
; gang varied from four to six. They
entered the hotel lobby through the garden, according to Alfred Stone, hotel manager. All carried guns and held handkerchiefs before their faces. =“They must have been in the hotel about 40 minutes and made a lot of racket, but no one upstairs heard them,” Mr. Stone said. The bandits taped the arms and legs of some of the employees, but did not harm anyone. Among those held up, Chief Stone said, were two women guests of the hotel who came in while the robbery was in
“ Biotk From Sea
The" ‘hotel is located a block from the ocean in the main business sec-
© tion. of Miami Beach. The more
exclusive portion of Miami Beach, location of millionaires’ homes and expensive hotels, js a few blocks north. It was the first major hotel robbery of the Florida winter season. Chief Stone said the hotel was insured against the loss. Police reported one of the 16 looted deposit boxes contained hotel funds. An hour after the bandits entered the Blackstone, two men walked into the lobby of the Cavalier Hotel, located a few blocks away, held up the night clerk. and escaped with the contents of the cash drawer. Police had not learned how much was taken in the Cavalier holdup but said there apparently was no connection between the two robberies. -
CHARGES HUSBAND HIDES TALLEY CHILD
NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (U. P).— George A. Ferris, counsel for Mar- |¢ ion Talley, charged today that the singer's husband, Adolph G. Eckstrom, had gone into hiding with their four-year-old daughter, Susan, to avoid legal procedure over custody of the child. Mr. Ferris said he would rest on the evidence of habeas corpus pro-
ceedings in White Plains last week |
in which Miss Talley, calling her husband a man of “itamoral character,” asked for custody of the child, whose birth had been kept secret by the couple for several years.
SEIZED FOR ‘SPIRIT’ LETTERS TO ACTRESS
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15 (U. P)). —Samuel Batchelor, 42-year-old postal clerk here for 15 years, was arrested today on a charge of sending “spirit” letters to Ann Sothern, movie actress now ill in a Montreal hospital. The warrant was issued by U. S. Commissioner James H. Molloy, and Batghelor was taken into custody at ‘his home by Deputy U. S. Marshals. Federal officials said Batchelor had signed his name and address to the letters.
SIX VALENTINE BABIES BORN
FT, WAYNE, Ind, Feb. 15 (U. P.). —Old Mr. - Stork, reluctant to have young Dan Cupid take any glory away from him, delivered six Valentine Day babies to Ft. Wayne hospitals. Five of the new arrivals were boys.
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FORECAST—Fair and considerably colder tonight with lowest temperat ures | 15 to 20; fair and rather cold tomorrow.
Cut Up Chanipagne Again Gets |
Fair Eleanor Holm Into Trouble.
EW YORK, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— It will be several days before Eleanor Holm and three other bathing beauties wear bathing suits in public. Their legs are liberally daubed with iodine because of Miss Holm’s ‘latest encounter with champagne. As she raised the bottle to dedicate the “Million-Dollar Aquacade” at the World's Fair yesterday, Grover A. Whalen, president of the fair corporation, said: “The last time ‘you broke a champagne bottle, Miss Holm, the noise was heard all over the world.” Miss Ho!m smiled at this reference to her dismissal from the Olympic swimming team for drinking, and said: “Yes, and I hope this blast is heard just as far.” She smashed the bottle against the piling with such force that the flying glass cut her legs and those of three other girls. The girls all wore bathing suits.. The cuts were slight.
FLU CASES ON INCREASE HERE
Midwestern and Southern States Hit; Believe Peak Is Near.
An increase in the prevalency of influenza in Indianapolis was reported today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary. Dr. Morgan said there are about 8500 cases of flu in Indianapolis. He predicted the number may rise to about: 25,000 before the peak is reached. He said an increase in the development of the disease may be expected until at least the end of February, on the basis of outbreaks in previous years. The influenzal type of infection can be recognized, Dr. Morgan said, by symptoms similar to those of a severe cold, ‘including soreness of the eyeballs ard ‘a general feeling of. weakness and depression. ‘
Flu Follows S’ % Path in Cold’s Wake
CHICAGO, Feb. 15 (U. P).— Health authorities today reported a secondary outbreak of mild influenza and severe colds which has forced the shutdown of schools in several midwestern communities. A nation-wide survey showed that the flu was most severe in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, Texas, South Carolina and Virginia. Reports from the New York metropolitan area, ' New England, the deep South and the West said the number of cases in those areas was not above normal. Significant was the fact that the majority of cases was in a huge “S” path extending ‘eastward across Texas, north through Kansas, Missouri and Illinois and eastward through Indiana and Michigan, tapering off over Ohio and Pennsylvania—the same route which the winter's most severe storm followed only two weeks ago. Health authorities emphasized that the outbreaks, particularly the one in Illinois where 3000 cases have been reported among students alone, have been mild. The cases, Shey said, are not of the virulent
a in 1918.
MERCURY MAY DROP 70.20, BUREAU SAYS
Considerably Colder Tonight's Forecast.
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TEMPERATURES
29 11am... 29 12 (noon). 29 1pm... 29 2p. m.... 29
. m.. 30 . M,. 30 m.. 27 . ML. 25 m.. Fair and considerably colder weather tonight was predicted today by the Weather Bureau. The lowest temperature tonight was expected to be between 15 and 20. It will be fair and rather cold tomorrow, the Bureau stated. No more snow was anticipated by the Bureau to. add to the light
pe which reached Tek ov an
GEM PURCHASE ALIBI CHECKED IN RONG QUE
Police Report All Jewels
Have Been Recovered |
And Identified.
QUESTIONING = RESUMED
Simon Says ‘Several Days’ Will Be Needed for Thorough Checkup.
Police sought this afternoon either to implicate through their own investigation or to free an Indianapolis restaurant and rooming house owner held in connection with the probe of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig’s murder. The man was detained for questioning when he was named by an ex-convict, also held, as the man
from whom he bought jewels alleg-|
edly stolen at the slaying scene. Police said that if . their check
failed to substantiate the allega-|.
tions of the ex-convict, they would release the other man, probably on his own recognizance. _ All jewels assertedly stolen after Mrs. Romig was killed here Jan. 17— nine pieces in all, seven of which were pawned for a total of $335 have been recovered and identified, police said. The seven pieces were found in Anderson, Muncie and Indianapolis pawnshops, police said. They charged that the ex-convict pawned some of the pieces in Anderson and Muncie shortly after the murder, when police were quoted in newspapers ,as saying they believed no robbery had occurred in connecfion with the slaying.
Tickets Reported Destroyed Police claimed he destroyed the pawn tickets. and then later, when police still were quoted as saying
they believed nothing: had been}
taken from the Romig apartment,|
swore to affidavits of ownership ‘tof the property and was reissued pawn}
tickets for them: Police said ‘he told . _pawnshep
owners when he cffered the jewelry | hat. Shey were the property of his}
esi Be edding ring ‘was toa | DOU the 57-year-old convict’s possession
when he was arrested in Anderson Thursday and pawn tickets for other jewelry: were: discovered in possession of his 21-year-old stepvere who also is‘held here, detectives said. A woman’s Scotfish Rite ring reportedly was recovered through writ of seizuré at Williamson, W. Va., as it was en route to Glen Alum, W. Va. the home town of the woman held. An Anderson jeweler. told police, they said, that a ‘man and woman resembling ' the : ex-convict and his stepdaughter commissioned him to alter the ring to fit the woman and ship it to the West Virginia address.
Find Ring Pawned for $250
A ring with a three and 17-100 carat diamond, pawned for $250, was recovered yesterday at Muncie, together with three sections of a diamond bracelet, all pawned for $15, police declared.
Two sections of the bracelet were recovered at Anderson, where they been pawned for $10, and a one 15-100 carat diamond ring was recovered from an Indianapolis shop,
\| Where it had been pawned for $60,
police said. Police claimed one ring was on the finger of the murdered woman when the body was found in the apartment at 120 W. 12th St. The other jewels were stolen from a dresser: Srawer in the apartment, they said
Further Checkup Planned
Detective Chief Fred Simon said that it may be several days before all details of the story of the exconvict ,are checked by police, and that in the meantime he and the stepdaughter will be held on vagrancy charges without bail. H. Daniel Romig, 28-year-old husband of the 55-year-old victim, identified the recovered jewels as those of his wife and told police there were no others missing, they reported. Police said they know that the ex« convict had talked with Mrs. Romig about the sale of her restaurant previous to the murder and that
they know he was in Indianapolis |dic
the day before the slaying. He had been sought since two days ‘after
snowfall last night. 1
Held Today
Funeral services for the Rt. Rev. Joseph Marshall Francis, Bishop of the Indianapolis Diocese of the Episcopal Church since 1899, were to be held in All Saints’ Cathedral Church at 2 p. m. today. Burial was to‘be in Crown Hill. Bishop Francis, who died Monday in his residence in the Cathedral apartments, 16th St. and Central Ave., was the oldest active bishop in the American branch of the Anglican communion. He was 176. The Rt. Rev. Richard Ainslie Kirchhoffer, who was consecrated last week as Bishop-Coadjutor and who is now the new Bishop of the Indianapolis Diocese, was to serve
1 {with .other church officials in con-
ducting the rites, The services were to be read fronyj the Book of Com-
the murder, they said.
Rites for Bishop Francis
at at Cathedral
Rev, John C. White, Bishop of the Diocese of Sprinzfield, Ill, and the Rt. Rev. Frank W. Creighton, Bishop-Coadjutor of Michigan. The Cathedral Choir was to chant two Psalms from the burial service. Those participating in the ‘burial services were to be the Rt. Rev. Charles Clingman, Bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky; the Rt. Rev. Charles E. Woodeock, retired Bishop of the Didcese of Kentucky, and Bishop Kirchoffer. Holy Communion was celebrated at All Saints’ Cathedral at 10° a. m A ‘Requiem Eucharist was. offered for the repose of the soul of Bishop Francis at 10 ‘a. m. in Christ Church. St. Matthew's Episcopal
Church’ in Irvington: wil ‘observe a requiem celebration
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939
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from left to right, as they attended the Republican Lincoln Day dinner at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria
GUAM DEFENSE | MILLIONS 0.K'D
NATIONAL AFFAIRS NAVAL base at Guam gets pre-
DEFENSE BILL is due for ap“proval.
policy of Fr from
FOREIGN D.R Senator Wain. Je , RADIO fight is expected soon in !Congress. (Page Two)s
WILSON to be called betore
(Page Three). TREND against New Deal Shown in Gallup poll. (Page U. S. military co-operation pledged Latin America. ELEVEN F. D. R. appointees are approved. N. Y. LIFE Insurance Co. linked 7 to 131: firms.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U.P) —
The House Naval Affairs Commit-
tee today overwhelmingly approved a five million dollar authorization for development of harbor and air facilities at Guam, while the House prepared for passage of a 376 mil-lion-dollar emergency Armaments Bill authorizing an Army Air Corps of 5500 fighting planes. The Naval Affairs Committee, by 14 to 5, rejected a motion to eliminate the Guam authorization from the bill which calls for development of a dozen naval bases at a cost of 65 million dollars. The motion was offered by Rep. William E. Hess (R. O.). After approving the authorization for harbor dredging and airport construction on -the Pacific. island. only 1400 miles from ‘Japan, the committee ‘tentatively approved the entire 65-milion-dollar bill with the exception of one item. Chairman |; Carl Vinson (P. Ga.) said that question—whether. to establish a proposed Florida: Naval e at Jack-. sonville. or Miami— be decided
The ‘total amount of authorizations in the bill was indefinite pending determination ‘of the southeastern air base, but there was a probakility that it would be increased 800000. original 65 million to $68-
Plane Secrecy DI Draws
Another Attack
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.) — Controversy over . President Roosevelt’s foreign policy exploded in the Senate ragain ‘today when Senator Johnson (R. Cal), veteran: isolationist, accused the A Administra-|. tion of pursuing “the method of tators’” in attempting to keep its affairs secret. That charge and repetition of a former one that present policy was - (Continued on e Three) :
TUG WITH 4 ABOARD DRIFTING IN IGE PACK
Craft Pushed Aw Away From Aid by Lake Michigan Wind.
, MANISTIQUE, Mich., Feb.
tomorrow.
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Nuge ice floe was driven far out in Lake Michigan by a high northwest wind today. The tug Bob 8, with four men aboard, was trapped in the middle
was cut loose from shore by the
m.|wind sweeping blinding snow
across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. ‘The floe had drifted nine miles inte the lake carrying. the boat father from ald every minute. William Sellman
Capt. , Mayor of|
ete. for med Bp. Court. |
(U. P.).—A fishing tug locked in 8,
of a two-mile square ice pack that|to
The men aboard the tug were
more than billion for defense.
Feplies to “frontier on Rhine.”
BUDAPEST—Imredy’s resignation laid to Nazi pressure. PERPIGNAN—One million Rebels to drive on Madrid soon. CHICAGO—Nazis privately arranging U.: S. barter pact. BERLIN—German Cardinals warned gaint anti-Naziism. Goebbels
Argente Bechange Control Office announced day
DEMANDS ITALIAN “BE NAMED AS POPE
Newspaper of Il Duce’s Kin Opposed to American. a
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 15 (U. P). —The newspaper Telegrapho of Leghorn, organ of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Fascist Foreign Minister and son-in-law of Premier Mussolini, called for an Italian, nonpolitical Pope today and recommended His Eminence Cardinal Dalla Costa, Archbishop of. Florence, as siiccessor to Pope Pius XI. As alternate, the newspaper suggested His Eminence Cardinal Massimi, president of the Commission For. ‘Oriental Codification. It was in an unsigned editorial that the newspaper, whose editor, Giovanni Ansaldo, usually expresses the Italian Foreign Office viewpoint, called for an “Evangelicai” * Pope rather than ‘a “diplomatic” one. “A non-Italian Cardinal?” ‘asked the: Telegrapho. “No! For evident reasons; North America? No! Because North ‘Americans are too much involved against the German struggle. South ‘America? N6! Because South America is too openly opposed to the Spanish Episcopate, which feels it has not sufficiently backed the three years’ civil war. As a matter of fact, we do not see a foreign man capable of being Pope.” The newspaper then ealled for an Italian who would “attend to the care of souls,” and rejected His Eminence Cardinal Pacelli, Secretary of State of the Vatican, whom it said was noted as a diplomat. ; Another mass was said for Pope Pius today.
WILSON’S CONDITION GRAVE
“PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. 15 (U.P). —Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Methodist leader and prohibition advocate, was in “very grave condition” today at Good Samaritan Hospital,
(Other Stories, Page Five)
The Safety Board probably will |find no WPA help in its search for school patrolmen to substitute for | police ~officers, Carl Kortepeter,
Marion County WPA administrator, predicted today. The Safety Board, upon recommendation of Chief Morrissey and
|Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson of the In-
ternational Association of Chiefs of Police, said yesterday it would seek release 63 officers from school patrol duty for other pelice work. Meanwhile, Parent-Teacher Association officers criticized the Board's action and reminded members that withdrawing pro protection from school corners would be “inconsistent ‘with the safety program.” Mrs, George
Argentina to Reduce 2urchases From U. S.
FOREIGN SITUATION BUENOS AIRES—Argentina reports unfavorable trade balance. LONDON—British to «recognize Rebels sondilsnally, Simon asks
$
The Control Office, a subsidiary of {he Ministry of Finance, made an
‘| almost. unprecedented reply to at-
tacks on Argentina’s attitude toward trade with the United States, in half-page advertisements in the most important morning newspapers. The Control Office cited the inability of Argentina to reduce her foreign debt and tabulated payments between the United States and Argentina for 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1938, giving Argentina a negative balance each year.
U.S. Studies Relations With Argentina
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.).— The United States: Government is studying intensively the trade and exchange situation which led the Argentine Ministry of Interior to
announce necessity for restricting
imports from the United States in order to correct Argentina's adverse balance of trade with this country.
Two “State Department economists, William A. Fowler and James C. Sappington, returned recently from a trip to Buenos Aires and Montevideo where they surveyed the situation. . ‘State Department officials feel their reports will afford a ‘substantial basis of information Jor. whatever steps may be necessary ere.
British Recognize Rebels,
London Reports Say
LONDON, Feb. 15 (U. P.). — The British Cabinet decided : today to
[FAILS TO BLOCK
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IQUOR
LEGISLATURE TODAY HOUSE
Receives a favorable committee report on iwo House . bills to prevent diversion of aviomobile license and gasoline tax receipts to the general fund.
Receives a committee report on two local option House liquor measures.
Awaits action of the Elections Committee which is under mandate to report out the House bill to extend the direct primary to the offices of Governor and U. S. Senator. Committee oo recommend passage of bills for recodification of traffic laws. (Page 4.;
‘Waits Textbook Bill that would alter adoption methods. (Page 6.)
Gets Townsend statement that special appropriation ' would. be necessary to list aJl state employees. (Page 6.'
SENATE
Discussesinformally the complaint of the Public Policy Committee chairman that he is unable to secure a quorum to. consider pending liquor bills.
Grants a pvblic hearing on the Senate bill to enable the State to write Workmen's Compensation Insurance policies. ;
U. §S. District Attorney Fleming is asked to attend hearing on Lake County relief saminisieation. (Page 2.}
PRIMARY BILL
Opposition in House Loses, . . Lines Fade.
Members of the House abandoned party lines today during a heated floor fight in which both the majority and minority floor leaders joined in an unsuccessful movement to block extension of the primary
eiection. ~The debate developed on the Elections Committee’s split report on a bill to take the nominations of the Governor and U. S. Senator oui of convention and place them under jurisdiction of the primary. The Committee was ordered to meke this report under terms of a House motion passed yesterday. The majority report s for indefinite povponemspi aed the minority for passage. e minority report was adopted 61 to 31 and the measure was advanced to second reading. Another debate developed in the lower chamber over the bill to prohibit advertising or sale of merchandise below cost of production for the purpose of destroying competition. : In the Senate, the Labor Committee called a public hearing for Monday night on the bill to place the State in the business of Workmen's Compensation Insurance policies, at the request of employer groups which charged the proposal would be a step toward “State socialism.” Meanwhile, with the State biennial. budget question still unsettled, the House Ways and Means Committee was scheduled to return favorable reports on two. bills to prevent the annual diversion: of
recognize the Spanish Rebel Gov-
ernment in principle, according to|
informed political quarters. . Great Britain expects to add 60 new warships to her fleet during the 1939 financial year.
Actual granting “of recognition, |
however, will be delayed pending further consultations with France. Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons that the Government would ask authorization to borrow another 400 million pounds ($1,876,000,000) to finance rearmament, bringing the total authorized borrowing to 800 million pounds ($3,(Continued on Page Three)
|\P.-T.A. Leaders Protest Plan to Shift Officers From School Safety Pa trols
school children 4s just as necessary as it is for adults at. downtown street crossings Where there are traffic lights “I also think the P.-T. A. should have been consulted before any. action was taken because it is a problem which the P.-T. A. certainly shares.” ‘ Mrs. Will w. Hadley, presic:nt of the Indianapolis Council of P.-T. A. declared she thought -the Safety Board's decision decidedly inconsistent with the safety program they are laying out. “I believe uniformed policemen are the solution to the problem but school authorities and police may have something else in mind,” she said. Sergt. Dickinson recommended
flat Sie Special police ssiuel cota ;
{Continued on Page Six)
\GRIPPE STILL KEEPS | F.D.R.FROM DESK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P). —President Roosevelt, convalescing from an attack of the grippe, today stayed away from his desk for the sixth consecutive day. Mr. Roosevelt, however, worked in his White House study and expect-
ed to leave tomorrow night for|s
Florida to board the I. S. S. Houston to view the maval maneuvers in
the Caribbean.
three: years to work out a satisfactory arrangement.” “We have no intention of im-| mediately withdrawing the patrol,” he said. “We will have to find out 'what substitutes are available. It might be we can get WPA help and it might be we can get the school janitors to do the work.” The School Board already has decided against using custodians to
have full-time duties to Terfonn. “Besides,” William. Evans, school safety: director, ai “it is not the responsibility of ‘the public] schools to direct traffic. That has
and will be our position. “I can think of no finer type of
of our 70,000 school
direct traffic, pointing out that they |
work than th I police protecting e lives
HARDY CHARGES PLOT T0 BLOCK
REFORM
‘Powerful Interests’ Oppose Measures, + Senator Says.
DEMANDS ACTION
Reports Committee Is Tied by Lack of Quorum.
(Editorial, Page 12)
While the House was voting 50 to 49 to advance one of its “local ope tion” measures, Senator William D, Hardy (D. Evansville) charged on the Senate floor today that “power= ful interests are making efforts to block liquor reform legislation.” Senator Hardy, who is chairman of the Senaie Public Policy Come mittee, told the upper chamber that the committee has been unable to take action on pending liquor bills for lack of a quorum. He made his statements after Senator Walter Vermillion (D. An< | derson), a committee member, branded as “false,” inferences in published reports that a “powerful liquor lobby had kept. the absent members from attending the Com ‘mittee meeting, Senator Vermillion declared that i he and other Senators were unable to attend because of other Senate committee business and added that “there will be reform liquor legis lation to break up this racket.”
_ Fails to Get Quorum
Senator Hardy said he had called four meetings of the committee to consider liquor bills and three times a quorum was not present. : “Something has to be done with only a little 1 than three weeks of the session’: maining,” Senator Hardy Sectared. - er absent members of of the ‘Committee, including Senators ( “Bice” Land (R. dge) and" Joseph Sexton (D, Indianapolis),
. |asked for privilege to explain that
other business kept them from the meeting. : Senator Jacob Weiss (D. Indians apolis) urged the Senators not be “thin-skinned over a newspaper story.” He declared the only solution to expedite Senate business would be an. extension of the 60« day session limitation. Most of the opposition was from the Democratic side when the House Public Morals Committee attempted to report out an amended | House bill to re-enact the Nichol son Local Option Act which was in effect before the advent of pro hibition.
Roll Call Granted
Rep. Edward H. Stein (D. Bloom field) moved for indefinite postpones ment of this bill and a roll call was granted. This move was a test of local option sentiment in the House, the first for this session. Several mémbers missed the roll call, cand : Speaker Knapp declared: | “I wonder if some of the membets don’t want to change that old song and make it read ‘When the roll is called 1 won’t be there.’” The motion to indefinitely poste
tion bill was lost, 40 to 50, with the Republican delegation and a few Democrats joining tc keep the meas= ure alive. The measure then was advanced to second reading on a& voice vote. Report Will Be Split
The other local option bill in the House, upon which there will be.a split committee report, would pro: vide local option elections at twoyear intervals upon petition of 10 per cent of the voters of a county, Rep. Glenn A. Markland (R. Zionsville), chairman, said a mae jority of the Committee would ree turn a favorable report on this secs ond measure while the minority ree port would be for indefinite poste ponement. House committee members said that delay of the Senate .in acting
and which calls for midnight and a bipartisan State Alcoholie Beverages Commission and State Excise Police force.
TRADING DULL WITH MINOR PRICE SHIF
been our position, is our position |f.).
Mr, Korero out hat 4 PA direct school traffic
pone consideration of the local ope |