Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. MEMORIAL PLAN IS TOPIC Citizens' Committee Named by Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Evolves Program for Proposing Expenditure of Large Sum. Indianapolis, Jan. 16.—Plans for a state war memorial that will cost in the neighborhood of from $10,000,000 to $17.000,(MX) are being considered by the citizens’ committee named several months ago by the Chamber of Commerce to devise a program for memorializing the Indiana men who saw service in the world war. The committee, which is headed by Charles A. Book waiter, has held conferences with the state, county and city officials and has evolved a tentative program which has been sanctioned in principle by the various governmental authorities Many details yet remain to be worked out, but it is considered practically certain .that when the second special session us the legislature ir called this spring it will consider and act upon the memorial proposition. The program thus far accepted follows closely the one proposed by Mayor Jewett when he started an agitation last spring for the erection of a coliseum here. The committee favors locating the building on the block bounded by North, Michigan, Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, with a plaza on the south leading to the federal building and one on the north leading to the Indianapolis Public Library. The latter plaza would call for the removal of the state school for the blind, which the state has been considering for several years. The city and county would buy the site, according to the present plans, for approximately $4,750,000.. It is understood that the city obtained options on the tract in question at the time it was thought a coliseum would be erected and that these options are still aljve. It has been suggested that the city would pay 6C per cent of the money necessary for the site and the county 40 per cent, but the county commissioners favor an 80-20 per cent basis. They declare that 85 per cent of the population of Marion county resides in Indianapolis. The plans have been discussed with George Kessler, a landscape artist. - ' Word reached Aguaprieta, Sonora, Mexico, through military channels, that 13 members of a roaming Villa band were executed by Gen. Eduardo Gonzales south of Ures Sunday night. • * • A Korean national army has crossed the Siberian frontier into Korea and has captured En Chin from the Japanese provisional government forces, according to a cablegram from Shanghai to the Korean National association at Honolulu. , ♦ * * Raymond Poincare, president of the French republic, was elected senator for the department of Meuse on the second ballot by a vote of 742 out of 772 votes cast. President Poincare was not a candidate, says a Paris dispatch.