Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 4, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 September 1921 — Page 2

MELLON’S TAX PLAN IS BEATEN Senate Finance Committee Votes Down All Secretary’s Suggestions Before It. NO RETROACTIVE TAX REPEAL Body Also Votss Unanimously for Increased Income Tax Exemptions for Heads of Families and for Dependents. Washington, Sept. 14. —The senate finance committee voted unanimously for Increased Income tax exemptions for heads of families and for dependents. The provisions of the house revenue revision bill increasing the personal exemptions from $2,000 to $2,500 for heads of families having incomes of $5,000 or less and the exemptions for children and dependents from S2OO to S4OO each were approved. All of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's Tax recommendations that came to a vote were rejected by the committee, and the committee expects to reject the remainder of the administration tax program when it votes on making the excess profits tax repeal retroactive. Consideration of ~ the* rate schedules will be completed by the finance committee on Friday, Chairman Penrose announced, so that' the bill can be drafted <hd reported to the senate on September 21. The bill, in its final form, will be virtually the same measure that passed the house. Senator Penrose predicted that the finance committee probably will refuse Mr. Mellon’s request to make the excess profits tax retroactive. If this is done. Senator Penrose said, Mr. Mellon's recommendation that $250,000,000 in additional taxes be levied, on small taxpayers to make up for the loss of the excess profits tax would not have to be carried out. "Personally,” said Senator Penrose, “I would be entirely willing to see the excess profits tax abolished as of January 1, 1021, but my suspicion is that the committee will defeat me.” The finance committee fixed 32 per cent as individual income surtax rate. This is the same figure as fixed by the house. Mr. Mellon had recommended that surtaxes be reduced to 25 per cent, but * the senate committee rejected his proposal without a record vote. _ The schedule of surtaxes will be rearranged by the senate committee. Senator Penrose said the committee was working on a plan to have the surtaxes start at 1 per cent on incomes of $6,000 instead of $5,000 and Increase the surtax 1 per, cent for each additional $2,000 of Income- Instead of 2 per cent as at present. The plan, if adopted, would meap a reduction of surtaxes on incomes from $5,000 to $72,000. The 32 per cent tax would be levied on Incomes of $72,000 and over. Ih deciding upon the house figure for the surtax maximum the senate committee drafted a • motion to reduce the normal income tax rate from 4 per cent on Incomes of less than $6,000 and >S per cent on Incomes above that figure to 3 per cent. Senator LaFollette made the motion to reduce the normal income tax. but it was rejected without a- record vote. The senator announced later that he would propose the reduction in the senate as an amendment when the tax bill is considered there. The finance committee also approved the provision of the house bill permitting taxpayers to deduct net losses against their income for the succeeding year. • In addition to the excess profits tax repeal the committee will vote on Secretary Mellon’s recommendation that one-half the present transportation- taxes be retained' for -another and that the existing tax on capital stock, be repealed. Senator Penrose said that the committee probably will refuse to retain the transportation taxes and he predicted also that the corporation tax of 12% per cent fixed by the house bill will be approved by the finance commfttee. There is no disposition on the part of the committee to increase the tax to 15, per cent as recommended by Mr. Mellon, Senator Penrose said.

YANKS HOM£ -FROM RHINE Pour Hundred |nd Soldier* Return tg U. S. Fro t Germany. New York,-Sept. 14.—Four hundred and twenty-seven soldiers formerly attached to various units of the American army of occupation in Germany arrived on the transport Cantigny. White Russia in Rebellion. London, Sept. 14.—White Russia Is the scene of an insurrection against the soviet authorities, says, a WarShw dispatch to the Daily Mail. The' trouble began, it is said, as a result, of forcible food levies by the boislievlki. $1,500,000 Liquor Seized. New York. Sept. 14.—Liquor valued j,t Rl.Spd.OdO. bootleg prices, has been seized in 'New YBrR ’ "3ffiTng’"a J fortnight’s intensive-drive by federal and state prohibition agents, aided by a special federal mobile force. G. E. Hyatt Heads Postal Clerks.- . Minneapolis, illnn., Sept. 12.—Gilt bert E. Hyatt of Minneapolis was reelected president of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks at the close of the federation's. twenty-sev-enth biennial convention. Sioux City Phone Chief Dead. Sipnx Ot.v. la.. Sept. 12.—Howard Spencer I-SkPr, president and general manager Os the Sioux City Telephone company and an active worker in the business life of Sioux City for the last 35 years, died Here.

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Loring Presel, American commissioner In Berlin. Is mentioned for the post of ambassador tcf Germany. N'o appointment will !>e made Until the peace treaty has been ratified. BUILDING COSTS CUT i Wages of Chicago Building Workers Reduced. Twenty Per Cent Saving in Construction Prices Under New Plan, Says Judge Landis. Chicago, Sept. 10. —Judge Landis cut the wages of building laborers right and left in his long-awaited decision In the dispute between the building contractors and their employees. It was expected his arbitration of the difficulty would result In the return to work <jf between 40,000 and 50,000 men and a boom in building throughout the city. The wage cuts, which vary, coupled with the abolition of all restrictions on the use of material, save prison made, and the doing nway of the old “makework" rules, the judge estimated will bring about a reduction In building costs of about 20 per cent. The new rates of pay are fixed In accordance with the amount of skill required by the work, coupled with the average Dumber of days worked per annum. The fireproof tilelayers top the new scale at $1.12% per hour, the bricklayers receive sl.lO and the structural iron workers $1.05. Cdmmon labor was slashed more deeply, coming down from the old scale of $1 to 72% cents per hour. Excavating laborers receive 47% cents per hour and a slightly .higher amount. The new wage scale, couplet! with, the abolition of restrictions qp the hiring of men and the use of labor-saving devices and material, was asserted by F. E. Davidson, president of the Illinois Society of Architects, to. constitute one of the most momentous decisions ever handed down In the history,of .the Cnjted States building Industry. , ACTOR IS HELD FOR MURDER “Fatty” Arbuckle Accused of Causing Death of Miss Virginia Rappe During Party in California. San Francisco. Sept. 14.—A formal complaint charging murder was sworn to before Police Judge Daniel O'Brien against Roscoe C.' (Fatty) Arbuckle, Virginia Rappe a- motion - picture actress: The complaint was signed by Mrs. Bamblna Maude . Delmont, a friend of the dead actress. It was the second murder complaint against Arbuckle, the first having lieeh made Saturday night by the investigating detective for the purpose of hahling him until the formal charge could be filed. Mrs. Delmont in signed and sworn statements, gave the police many details of the “gin” party in Arbiickle’s rooms in the St. Francis hotel here a week ago, at which time Miss Rappe was subjected to an alleged attack by Arbuckle. She died fourtiays later. Mrs. Delmont attended the party and assisted Miss -Rappe after the alleged attack. She appeared personally in court to swear ,to the complaint. Arbuckle was not in court when the complaint was. filed.

■ ,Chisago Woman Murdered. Chicago, Sept. 12. —Mrs. Eleanor Wheeler, thirty-five, whs fobnd murdered in her home. Her throat had been slashed and her body, clad in a nightgown, lay on the floor-ina bedroom. Police are "baffled In their search for a motive far the crime. Detectives started a search for the woman’s husband. Berlin Dark and Carless. Berlin", Sept. 14. —All electrical services in Berlin were tied up’djy a strike of the electricians. No street cars are running, the electric light service is suspended and the newspapers are unable to appear. y _ ; _ Formal Charge Against Arbuckle. San Francisco. Sept. 14.—A formal complaint charging murder Was sworn to before Police Judge Daniel O'Brien against Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle. in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe. U-Boat Blast Kills Three. Liverpool, Sept. 13.— A tremendous explosion occurred aboard the former German submarine Deutschland at Birkenhead,. across the Mersey from Liverpool. Three persons are known to have been killed. Belgium Recalls Forces.. Brussels. Belgium, Sept. 13,—The Belgian detachment, sent into occupied Germany some time ago, with a view to the occupation of the .Ruhr basin, has- been recalled with the consent of the allies. .

CHURCH HAD AID IN KILLING MEN Garage Manager and Another Man Helped Kill Auto Salesmen in Chicago. POLICE SEEK ACCOMPLICE Motive Wat “Split” of Proceed* From Packard Car—Victime Taken to Basement of Fulton Street Houee and Hacked and Beaten. Chicago, Sept. 13.—Harvey W. etiurcb was aided by two accomplices in the murder of Bernard J. Daugherty and Carl Ausmus, Packard salesmen who were lured to their death in the basement of Church's home at 2922 West Fultou street. The motive of the murders was revealed us a division of $5,40*1, the purchase price of the Packard automobile Church had professed Ills intention to buy. Church admitted that his original confession was false in many details. He then named two men as his accomplices. Within a few hours one of the aids named l y. Church, Leon Parks, twen-ty-four years old, 2528 West Jackson boulevard, had substantiated Church’* confession by one of his own, and jointly they named the thin! man in the plot as Warren G. Wilder, 120 West Locust street. • *' Purks Is night manager of the Benario garage, 2815 West— Lake street. Wilder, a former roommate of Church, was employed at the garage as an automobile accessory salesman. Together, according to the two confessions now in the hands of the police, they planned the robbery of Daughertjk and a split in the proceeds. In his second statement Church accuses Parks of plotting the murders. With reference to .this feature Church soys: “It was one of the nights shortly after the car was taken In there (Benarlo’s garage) for repairs, and he says to me, he says, ‘Wouldn’t you like to make some easy money?’ I says, ‘How?’ lie says, ‘By steainlg a car,’ he says, ‘and selling it.’ ” “I says, ‘Could you get nway with it?’ lie says.' ‘Don’t worry about that’ And I didn’t give him a definite answer as to whether I would dr I wouldn’t; and a night or so after that he asked me if I didn’t think I could get hold of a Packard, and I think I asked him, ‘Did you mean a single or twin.’ “I told him that I would he there some, time between'four o’clock and. or possibly It might be one or two. At this time I asked him what he was going to do. He said he was going to take and bind .the gentleman that brought the car, and also tie my hands, leaving my feet free so that after the car was gone I might get up and make an alarm after a short period of time; and I tbld him I would do that, and I wonld’ be there that afternoon not later than three, and possibly one or two.” It has been many a day since policemen and the state’s attorney’s office forces have listened to a dispassionate recital of such unparallelled brutality as has been revealed in the joint confessions.

Parks has been under arrest as a Suspect in. the murders since Sunday night, when police began to believe that Church had not committed the crimes unaided. Search is being made for Wilder, who is revealed us tilt most fiendish of the three slayers in the two in the hands of the police. Murder had' not originally been planned in connection with the robbery, It appears from the two confessions, now believed to be substantially i correct. Put Daugherty put up a fight, said Parks, after his hands had been cuffed behind him, and, frightened, they had resolved to finish the job-. Several times each of the men spoke of the “mess” they Were getting themselves into, but each was determined to cover their crime If When Ausinus, suspicious of the delay, entered the house. Church was waiting near the cellar steps with a gun, an* he was forced to march into the basement, where he Was subjected to the same clubbing with the baseball bat that had been administered to Daugherty. ' Church said Parks had made some protests at the projected plan of buryin either of the bodies op the premises. bat the two accomplices silenced him with the assertion that’it was not. going to he possible-to take them any further'Tbrim the*!foase without exciting the suspicions of the neighbors. It was not until hours later, when the time was growing short and Daugherty’s t lofty was still undisposed of, that they resolved to abandon the burial iilan’and dump him into the Des Plaines river. e 24 Die in Bridge Collapse. Chester, Pa., Sept. 13. —Twenty-four persons are known to he dead, nearly as many were injured, and a number of bodies are believed to be at the bottom of the r Chester.,river here as the result of the collapse of a bridge. Pershing Going to Prance. Washington, Sept, 13. John J. Pershing, general of the armies of the United States arid ewer of staff. Is going to France to confer the congressional medal of honor upon the French unknown soldier dead. „ Many "Little Fellows. 1 ' Washington, Sept. 12.—Republican menmers of the senate finance committee ask tbnt relief be given the small Taxpayer before big business is relieved of the excess profits tax arid the tax on large incomes is reduced. Jap Prince-Favor* Meet Tokyo, Sept 12. —Emphasizing the urgency of doing everything possible to contribute to the conference on limitation of* armmhents at Washington, November 11, Prince Hlrohito addressed a great procession here.

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Norman O. Walker was the only American member of the crew of the ZH-2 who escaped death in the disaster that befell the great airship. U. S. MARKET REPORT Marketgram of Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates. Washington, Sept. 12.—For week ending Sept. 9.—GRAlN—Following a weak opening, prices advanced steadily throughout the seven-day period, Chicago December wheat gaining lv>%c net and closing at $1.35%. Chicago December corn up 2%c, closing at E6c. News and sentiment gerreralfly bullish. Commission, houses, local buyers and houses with eastern connections were good buyers throughout Eight hundred thousand bushels of corn sold at seaboard September 9, for export. In Argentina heavy damage from drought expected. Closing prices in Chicago market. No. 2 red winter wh*at $1.34; No. 2 hard $1.34; No. 2 mixed corn 67c; No. 2 yellow corn 57c; No. -3 white oats 38c. For the week Minneapolis Decerpbsr wheat up 13%c. closing at Kansas City December wheat up 9%c at $1.26; Winnipeg December wheat lip JOc at $1.43%; Chicago September wheat closed at $1.33; September corn 55%e; Minneapolis September wheat $1.48- Kansas City September wheat $1.22 3 /4 ; Winnipeg October wheat $1.48%. HAY—Hay market weak, but prices fairly steady on light receipts. Quoted September 9: No. 1 timothy, New York, $28.50, Cincinnati $18.50, Chicago $24. Atlanta $26, Memphis $22; No, 1 alfalfa, Memphis $22, Minneapolis S2O; No. 1 prairie, Minneapolis sl4, Omaha $12.50. FEED—Quoted September 9: Bran sl3, middlings sl4, dour middlings S2O Minneapolis; 36 per cent cotton seed meal $36 Memphis, $37 Atlanta; Nt*. 1 alfalfa meal s2< St. Louis; gluten feed $30.35 Chicago; white hominy feed $23 SL Louis, 33 per cent linseed meal S£LSO Minneapolis, $41.60 Chicago. FRUITS AND -VEGETABLES- Haulings of potatoes light at shipping points. Demand active, markets steady to strong, prices higher. New Jersey Giants up 152Cc at $2.00-2.15 per 100 lbs. sacked; round whites up 30-3£c, closing $2.65-2.85. v Similar advances in city markets. Giants “ranging $2.15-2.35. Idaho Rurals strong, $1.50 wagonloads cash* to growers at shipping points; firm in middle western markets at $2.75-3.40. Maine Cobblers $2.50-3.00 In eastern cities. September forecast total potato production 323,000,000 bushels, compared with 428,000.000 last year. Cabbage markets strengthened under light supplies. Wisconsin and Colorado domestic strong in Chicago at SSO. Northern round type firm in St. Lou 49 at $55.00-65.00. September forecast commercial production late cabbage. 12 states,* 36.555 carloads, compared with F4,354 carloads last year. New York Vtealthy apples firm In NOW York at $7.50-8.00 per bbl; $2.50-3.00 per bu. in other markets. Total commercial apple crop forecast September 8 at 18.9 million barrels, compared’with 38.3 millions, according to the December, 1920, estimate. .Eastern y.ftllow onions firm in most eastern- markets at $3.50-3.76; in Pittsburgh $4.00 per 100 lbs. sacked. Massachusetts yellow globes off 25c at shipping points, at $3.25-3.50. Middle western yellow varieties firm in New York at $4.25; steady in most other cities at $3.25-3.60. DAIRY PRODUCTS—Following unsettled condition in the butter market last week the markets are now much firmer, with increased demand for all grades at higher prices. Closing prices. 92 score: Chicago 40 %c, Philadelphia 41%c, New York 41c. Boston 42%c. Last week's quietness in cheese market was followed by more active trading at slightly lower prices. There i<v good movement into storage and very active demand for smaller styles, especially Longhorns. Prices at Wisconsin primary markets average l~%e to luc. LIVE STOCK AND MEATS—Chicago sheep and lamb prices advanced sharply, Cattle and hoge declined during the past week. Fat lambs up $1.00; feeding lambs 25c to 50C; yearlings up 50c to 75p;,fat ewA 25c to 50c per 100 lbs. ' Hogs ranged from- 90c to #e net lower.. Good beef steers down 25c: medium grade steers steady; heifers also steady, but butcher cows lost 15c; feeder steers down 25c to 50c; veal calves 75c to SI.OO. September 9 Chicago prices: Hogs, top $9.25; bulk of sales $6.90-9.20; medium and good beef steers $6.25-9.50; butcher cows and heifers $3.50-8.75; feeder steers $5.00-7.25; light and medium weight veal calves SIO.OO-13.00; fat lambs $7.75-9.65: feeding lambs $6.76-7.50: yearlings $&,00-7.50; fat ewes $3.00-4.73. Stocker and feeder shipments from 11 Jm portant markets during the week ending September 9 were Cattle and calves 57,477, hogs 5,049, sheep 133;642.

ONE COURSE ONLY NAMED A. F. of L. Official Baya Chicago Men 'Must Abide by the Landis Award, Washington, Sept. 12.—The only course for the Chicago Building Trades to follow is to "abide by the arbiter’s decision,” John Donlln, chairman of the building trades department of the American. Federation- of Labor, stated in discussing the Landis wage award. Flood Loss Not Over Fifty. • San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 14. —The loss of life in the San Antonin flood will not exceed 50 and the loss and damage to property will not exceed $3,000,000, Mayor O. B. Black said In a statement. Mexican Revolt Is Blocked. Mexico City, Sept. 14. —Six arrests have been made In connection with a new revolutionary-pint by followers of Felix Diaz Jn,. southern Mexico, it was learned at the war department here. Dies at Birthplace, 104. St. Louis, Sept. 13. Stephen White, aged one hundred and four years, is dead on his farm near Greenville, 111., where he was born, according to word received here. White lived on the ftjrm all his life. Slayer of Deputy Marshal Kill ad. Fairbanks, Alaska, Sept. 13.—Deputy United States Marshal J. 1,. Anders was shot and killed by Sam Cote, a Hot Springs farmer, and Goto later In the day' was slain by s pop* of several Hot-Springs men.

I INDIANA | | STATE %Eff'S \ Two stute institutions and two state departments have run between SBO,OOO anil $40,000 short of the sum needed to ’get them through the state fiscal year, which will end September SO. Many other departments would have run short had not the Inst legislature made special appropriations. The state hoard of finance has helped the Institutions out by permitting them to draw on their next year’s appropriation to meet the shortage. Governor McCray has helped the departments by keeping them up nut of tlie SIO,OOO provided for him by the legislature for making salary adjustments tills fiscal year. The present fiscal .year covers parts of two administrations. The state board of tax commissioners, in a letter to the Indianapolis board of school ' commissioners in reply to the school board’s resolution demanding within seven days approval or denial of the school hoard’s bond issue proposal of $847.000 for four school buildings, sets out that if the school board will reduce the cost of these buildings to SOOO,OOO it will approve an appropriate bond issue. The total reduction advised by the state board, it was pointed out, would save almost enough money to build another school building ns good as the most expensive of the four planned, and' better than the other three. Plans of the War department for increasing the Indiana National Guard, sent to Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana, call for 4,714 men in the guard by June 30, 1922, and for the organization of a number of new units. The strength of the guard now is approximately 2,700 men. The expansion will bring the following new unit§ : Headquarters for an infantry brigade, a brigade headquarters- company, an infantry regiment, headquarters for field artillery regiment, headquarters for another battery of field artillery, a sendee battery for the field artillery, headquarters and service company pnd an engineer battalion. ** Highest honors in the boys’ live stock judging contest at the Indiana state fair went to the team of three boys from Warrick .county. This team won the S2OO trophy and the right to represent Indiana In the national junior judging contest at the international live stock exposition at Chicago in December, with SIOO toward expenses. Howard Bates of Newberg, Warrick county, made the highest individual, score of the 147 boys in. the contest, winning a SIOO scholarship at Purdue university. His successful teammates 'were Paul Rautii and Rufus Scales, who tied for eleventh in individual scoring. Robert Vetjl of Indianapolis and Ed Thompson of l St.- Joe, Mich., who attempted to-eseape from the Sullivan county jail, were sentenced by -Judge W. li. Bridwell of the Sulliyan court to a term of three years in the Indiana reformatory and fined SIOO. Andrew Turner of Palestine, 111., arrested on a charge of havipg passed , ten saws through the bars to the prisoners, is' in the county jail awaiting a hearing, as is also his brother, Paul Turner, who was arrested on a charge of robbing the Barker grocery store la Sullllvnn. Men convicted-In .the Federal court in this state and sentenced to prison, hereafter will ( be sent to the federal prison at Leavenworth instead of the federal prison at .Atlanta, under instructions received by Frederick VanN’uys, UniteVstates district attorney, at Indianapolis, from the attorney general of the United States. No reason was given for the change. fiVlth tlie death of Veronica Tuski, age three, four persons hjavg died at ‘ South Bend as. a result of fi collision between an automobile and an interurbnn car on the Chicago, South Betfd & Northern Indiana railway. The other victimsHtf the accident, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tuski and son. Louis,-were killed Outright. Two more murders have been added to Vigo county’s large list of killings in recent months by the deaths of John Le May, uge twenty-seven, and Alva Greek, twenty-five, both of whom lived near Coal Bluff, ten miles northeast of Terre Haute. They were shot by John Webster, proprietor of a soft drink place at Coal Bluff. <* The total attendance at the state fair was 142,347, 30,077 less than the record lust year. Only on one day did the attendance exceed tha: for. the corresponding day a year ago. The attendance on the,last day was 5,930, compared with 3,570 on the same day in 1920. Industries nt Terre Hme. mnnv of which have either hech idle or operating below 25 per cent capacity production; arc now operating at between 75 and 100 per cent ot-the norma! output, and report an extremely favorable outlook for the coming fall and winter.

The Van Buren unit of the Grant County Shipping association, which Is the first unit of farmers In the county to be organized for the shipment of live stock, shipped five carloads of stock from Van Buren recently. The plan, entirely new to this county, is already popular and units are to be formed In every township. Farmers say the plan eliminates much time afld confusion in stock shipment. A disease, the definite nature of which lias not been determined, has caused the denth of n number of sheep in Bartholomew county. The public service commission received a protest sept by thp Exchange club of Clinton against the valuations proposed fur the consolidation of seven Indiana public utilities into the Indiana Electric corporation. Attorneys representing a number of the defendants In the suit filed by U.~45. Lesh, attorney general, against 39 milk dealers and tee cream makers in Indiana, charging them with operating a "milk trust,’’’ filed plea? in abatement in Superior court, before Judge Solon J. Carter at Indianapolis. —■

Extension plans for experimental work In the - growing of . apples, peaches and small fruit* have been formed by Purdue university horticulturists with the recent purchase of 120 acres for: a fruit experimental farm two and a half miles west cf Lafnyette. Tlie actual experimental work at the universitywas limited because only 17 acres were given over to the department of horticulture. More elaborate experimental work In studying the’effect of different stock from which trees come will be undertaken, along with pruning experiments, sol) management of orchards and othe; problems. A peach, cherry and plum orchard also will be set out for experimental work with these crops. A study will be undertaken also as to the best methods of handling strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and other small fruits. Truck gardening also will be undertaken in a more extensive way. Complete unofficial returns on the vote cast for and against 13 amendments to the constitution of Indiana In a special state election, as reported and unofficially tabulated, shoW No. 1, which provides for the full naturalization of foreigners before they can vote, was the only one to receive an affirmative majority. The totals for the 8,384 precincts In the state 6how the following: Majority for —l, voters, 48,534 ; majority against—2, registration, 19,534 ; 3, appointment, 40,585 ; 4, vote, 17,262 ; 5, state terms, 37,789 ; 6, county terms, 32,445 ; 7, prosecutors’, terms, 42,344 ; 8, lawyers, 39,547; 0, state superintendent,* 101,428; 10, taxation, 134,484; 11, Income tax, 117,830; 12, negroes in militia, 87,177; 13, salaries, 37,436. , The county tax levy for next year was fixed at 27 cents on each SIOO of taxables, and an ordinance fixing the budget nt approximately $1,400,000 was passed by the Marion county council. The tax levy, providing for a reduction of 4% cents from the county levy in effect this year, will help to offset the increased levy ordered by the Indianapolis board of school commissioners and the expected increase in the state levy With the reduction In the city levy, the reduced county levy will. result in about the same tax rate in Indianapolis us ..the rate this year, a total of $2.42 on each SIOO of taxables. The first case ever tried by a woman as judge In Monroe county was heard by Mrs. Minnie Waldron, a member of the Bloomington bar. The case was that of Charles Blllmeyer, proprietor of a restaurant, who was charged with violating the liquor laws. Mrs. Waldron acted as special judge In the case after the defense had taken a change of venue from Mayor W. W. Weaver. She found the defendant guilty and sentenced him t six months at the Indiana, state farm and fined him S3OO. Then she suspended the fine and sentence on n promise of good behavior. Sheriffs and city chiefs of police jn muny places In Indiana have not been heeding the 1921 law which requires them to report to the auto-theft division-.of-the .office,of .pht. secretary of state the loss by theft w recovery of a stolen motor vehlclf in their - territories, said R- T. Humes chief of the Indiana state motor vehicle police, and he has prepared a lettei to send to each of the officials directing their attention to chapter 265, section 14 of the title registration act. The bddy ’of the man killed bj Joseph Cain, sheriff of Boone county, in a fight with five liquor runners on the Nohlesvllle road, eight miles .east of Lebanon, has been Identified as that of Paul Joseph .Erwin of Chicago. Friends took the body to Chicago. Erwin was twenty-two years old and e clerk in a cigar store in Chicago, lies Gentry, wounded by Sheriff Cain It the same fight, is In the Williams hospital at Lebanon. The Madison county council restored t\ie office of county ag-ricultural-agent after striking out an appropriation: of $2,500 for the agent’s salary, when reviewing the county budget. Tlie council approved a $lO,000 appropriation for county jail improvements one day but eliminated il the next. The tax rate for county purposes was Increased from 2t cents, and the good road levy was raised from 9 to 12 cents.

Tiie dap)age- to the com cror In the southern part of Vigo county and parts of Sullivan county wilt run high, county agricultural oh servers assert. Several thousand acres of corn in the bottom lands of the twe counties have Ueeh destroyed; etthei by ttle intense heat or by the breaking of the Honey creek levee and the wa ters spreading over the fields. Three armed bandits held up f the Beech Grove State bank, at Beech Grove, forced three employees and a customer of the bank into a back room and escaped in an automobile with approximately $25,000. A confederate -ff-rtlmti bandits remained; at the wheel of the automobile in front of the bank while the holdup was be Ing committed. ‘ More than 45,000 boys and gtrts -heard the call of the school bell at the opening of the fall semester of the Indianapolis pii&lc schools. Brooks Tormehlen of Portland wor first prize at the Indiana state fair al Indianapolis for being the hes(, boy baby in the state outside Indianapolis, ns for as entries at the fair showed, and then won the sweepstakes prize for the best boy baby in the state, is competition with all the ,%rst prize winners of various ages. Less thnn fifty Civil war veterans responded to the annual call of the Elkhart County Soldiers’ Reunion association. Death has reduced the membership of Howell post, No. 90, at Gpshen to about thirty persons. Sixty new ahd four reopened cases, besides a number of continued cases are on the September docket of the state board of pardons now in session. Two of the new cases are those of lifeterm prisoners. Ed Conrad,’ age thirty-five, a factory worker at Sheibyville, was placed In the Shelby county Jail, charged with shooting and killing Mrs. Cora Fuller, age nineteen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Beasley, who live north of Sheibyville. The murder occurred at the home of Gary Smith, where Mrs* Fuller roomed.

HUES SET BLOW FROMJHEVDTEfIS Assessment Proposition Hardest Hit in Election. CITIZENSHIP ACT WINS 0. K. Only One Amendment Put Up te People of Indiana la Given Approval, According to tha Complete Unofficial Return*. UNOFFICIAL STATE TOTALS. Complete unofficial returns on the oonstltutloual election from every precinct In Indiana, together with total# for and against each amendment, are listed In the following table; 1— Voters 130,439 31.478 •SS.SOI 2 90,944 110,202 t!3,25 3 Apportionment ... 78,590 118,883 449,293 t—Veto 53,912 102,398 ns,6S6 6 State terms 75,020 112,942 t 57,922 6 County terms ..... 83,194 115,721 t 31,527 7 Prosecutors’ 77,535 120,594 t43,itß 8— Lawyers 78,837 118,904 t 40,067 9 supt 47,329 143,401 U 02.073 10— ’Taxation 82,147 167,904 U 35.517 11— Income tax 39,299 159,071 4119,771 12— Militia 54,921 144,339 tSS,4IB 13— 81,025 118,970 t 37.345 •For. tAgainst. Indianapolis, Sept. 10.—According to tho complete but unofficial returns from tlie 3,384 precincts in this state, 211,917 votes were cast for amendment No. 1, which proved to be tlie most popular proposal in the special election on constitutional amendments. This number isylightly less than 17 per cent of the total vote for governor at the election lust fail. The unofficial figures show tjiat tlie electors ratified the citizenship amendment by a majority of 58,961, and rejected the other twelve proposed changes in the constitution by majorities ranging from 19,258 on tlie registration proposal to 135,817 on tho general tax amendment. The amendments which were most objectionable to the *oters were. No.-9, - No. 10, No. 11 and No. 12.'"Tlie first of these, intended to make the office of the stote superintendent of public instruction appointive, was rejected by a majority of i02,072; the general tax - amendment by a majority of 135,817; the income tax by 119,772, and the militia amendment by 59.418. Legal Opinion to Be Asked. The exact effect of the adoption of amendment No. 1 and the rejection of No. 2, on the registration law, probably will not be determined until some official legal opinion is demanded on the question. - George O. Hutsell, Indianapolis city clerk, announced that he would call Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel, for an (Spinion on the subject. Mr. Hutsell said he had consulted several attorneys and their opinions differed, but most of them believed the registration.: law would not be iqyuUi,Jute(l by tlie adoption of amenilineht' No. l‘.’ : •Mr. Hutsell proceeded with plans for the fffst registration day regardless of any possible effect the adoption ot amendment No. 1 might have ou the registration law. It has been pointed out by U. S, 1 Lesh, attorney general of Indiana’, , that another section of the coustitu- 1 tlon gives the general assembly authority to enact registration laws, and for that reason the elimination of ref-. erence to registration in article 2„ section 2 of the constitution, by tlie adoption of amendment No. 1, will in no way affect the registration laws. This view, however, is not an official opin- , -- ion. Section 14, article 2 of the constitution, referring to registration, says: “And shall also provide for the registration of all persons, entitled td vote.” This section was not altered by tho adoption of amendment No. 1. May Weaken Law. Article 2, section 2 of* tlie present constitution, which was amended by the adoption of amendment No. 1, establishes wild shall be permitted to vote and duds with the following words: “if he shall be duly registered according to law.” In tlie adoption of amendment No. 1, enfranchising women \and prohibiting aliens from ‘voting until naturalized, this condition, "if he shall be duly registered according to law,” is omitted. The question has been raised whether the elimination of this clause frp/n the constitution will operate to weaken or invalidate the registration law, notwithstanding the reference to registration made in another section, by ipuklng it, unlawful to deny a citizen the ballot even though he has not registered, if he has complied with tlie Other- qualifications necessary to exercise the right of franchise. In an address at Kokomo before the Lions club C. O.* Shirley, an attorney of that city and known us an authority on the state constitution, said that the .election wns only a skirmish in the real battle to come. Personal Element Lacldng. "If the election had been for tlie purpose of picking a county sheriff,’’ ho said, “or something of a more personal nature, ail the people of Indiana woulA have gone to tlie poil9. As it was, tho proposition of making, changes to Our instrument of government attracted comparatively little attention. The ballots of those’ who. djd go to the ' polls, however, shows that they were keenly aware of the dangerous amendments hidden among the thirteen -voted ou.” Mr. Shirley, who was opposed to the tax proposals, continued-. "The real battle over the taxation.system will come when the same interests that hoped for victory on the tax amendments and were defeated ask for similar measures when the next constitutional convention is held.” Discovery of Brazil. Padre/ Alvares Cali rat, 'a Portuguese navigator, Is credited with having digtcovered Brazil on April 22, 1500. With) the revision of the calendar tire date: ' became May 3.-1500, and this has been adopted hs official.