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Morning Star Today Hope Deferred. Men Fear Death. Jackson's "By the Eternal." The Price Hazard. Will Rogers This famous comedian and writer puts more in his short articles than just fun. They all have a very definite object if you will read them carefully, at the bottom of this page.

News, Circulation and Advertising VOL. 54 NO. 253. MUNCIE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1931. PRICE THREE CENTS.

MUNCIE First in By Arthur Brisbane Jtt Four Indiana Postmasters Are Dismiss Albany Bank Bandits us Serve Fifteen Years BANDITS ADMIT GUILT BEFORE JUDGE GUTHRIE Fifteen Year Sentences Meted Locke and Males-Search for Two Others. I r.T.'! ifmmmm V' TEXTBOOK BIDS CARRIED OVER Adoption of Books to Be! Decided January 19. Indianapolis, Jan. 5 (JP) After an i all day discussion on the question of i adopting new school textbooks, or i readopting the ones in present use, the state board of school book com- i missioners voted late today to defer; consideration of bids until January 19. Meanwhile Roy P.

Wisehart, state superintendent of public instruction I i i I and president of the board, will obtain i The centennial of the building and ing the year 1930, the report shows, information for the board as to the I loan association as an American insti- Of this number 1.859 were whites. 405 relative costs involved in the readop- tution was commemorated here last colored and four Mexicans. There tion of existing texts and in adopting evening by a banquet held at the were no murders committed in Mun-new books. Y. W.

C. under the auspices of the cie during the year. Several Motions IWeaid. Building and Loan Associations of 586 Autos Recovrred. Numerous motions were considered Muncie and attended by more than During the year were 638 automo-and rejected during the day.

One of two hundred persons. biles reported stolen and 586 cars them would have set March 6, an- i The principal speaker was Charles were recovered. Sixty-three cars val- Fred Males. Anderson, at left; Ed-1 ward Locke. Muncie.

at right, who pleaded guilty to charges of auto banditry and bank robbery, yester-j day were "snapped" at the Delaware County jail in custody of Sheriff Fred W. Puckett. center, yesterday. They were arrested early Sunday morning. They robbed the Albany State Bank Saturday morning.

BUILDING LOANS TURN CENTURY ASSOCiatlOnS Cp.lehratfi 1 00 p. a i cvpit. By June Mull. E. Watkins.

introduced to his audi ence by Charles O. Grafton, vice- president of the Associations, as "one; of our 20.000 members in Muncie and man who. I believe, has spoken to 1 more people in the United States durin? the pgst ypar than any othpr man a man of whom we are proud." George N. Hijman Preside. The program following the dinner was broadcast bv remote control over radio stafon WLBC.

George N. Hig- man, president of the Mutual Home and Savings Association, which with the Peoples Home and Savings Asso- elation and the Muncie Savings and Imn Cnmnanv fm-ms thp lfval nr. eanization of" building and loan houses, presided. A historical sketch of the building and loan movement in the United States was given by Walter J. Kirlc-patrick.

Mr. Kirkpatrick described the founding of the first association in the town of Frankford. south of I Philadelphia, on the Bristol Post road, on the evening of January 3. i 1931. when a few citizens met in the villae inn owned Thomas Side- ufH Th.i n.ln;Mtinn nonc stipulated that the association "shall continue till every member has op- portunity to build a home." Answer Laborinr Man's Need.

Building and loan associations had 1 ourisuea in r-ngiana ana iney were i 1 i i I 1 I I HOPE deferred maketh the heart sick." Thafs in the Bible, and it is also in a decision handed down by the United States Circuit Court of appeals telling Judge Clark of New Jersey that he was mistaken. The prohibition amendment was ndopted legally. It stands and is the law of the land. To which you may add that the amendment won't be repealed for many a day. "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." So Bacon said of our most widespread fear.

Marshal Joffre. who has the gratitude of his nation following him to" the grave, quoted often the saying: "No man can call himself happy until his last day." "Death hath ten thousand doors for men to take their exit." And they all lead to peace, rest, freedom from the world's -Worries, responsibilities and anxieties. It is fortunate for the race that divine wisdom makes us cling to life. If we were all as wise as Bacon and as philosophical as the old Greeks, many would be missing. Major General Brown, chief of army engineers, says the United States government, is virtually "at the mercy of the Alabama Power Company in disposing of Muscle Shoals power." That statement should interest somebody.

When they told Andrew Jackson something like that concerning a great bank, his reply was that if there existed any such power he would crush it, "by the eternal," and he did. Engineers report that the St. Lawrence River power project, as now planned, will eliminate "about 75 per cent of the hazards incident to such construction." The project, according to engineers, will develop 2,000,000 horse power. Nothing could be more interesting or important, since power is everything in man's industrial work, equalling in importance fresh air and water. The public would like to know about one hazard, however, namely, the hazard of having the power, after the people build it.

fall into private hands. Will there be a private company in the United States charging one price for the power, and a publicly-owned company in Canada charging for the same power exactly half the price charged in the United States? That is the situation at Niagara. An encyclical to be issued by Pope Pius this week will reaffirm emphatically the Catholic doctrine on marriage, and is expected to express forceful disapprobation of birth control. The pope will stipulate, in the case of marriages between CPtholics and those of other religions, that the non-Catholic party to the marriage must Guarantee that any children born will be brousht up as Catholics, and that the right of the Catholic party to worship will not be interfered with. Furthermore, it will bp the duty of the Catholic party to the marriage to pray unceasingly for the conversion of the non-Catholic party.

The Catholic Church has one peculiarity useful in maintaining your position. It does not change its mind. In Britain 20,000 weavers have started the kind of strike that, in the long run. can never succeed. They are not striking against lower wages; on the contrary, better wages are offered them.

They are striking against an arrangement that would enable each man. without overwork, to take care of eight looms instead of four, and earn more. They say that if one man takes care of eight looms that will put other men out of work. That's what stage coach drivers said when the locomotives came. Typesetters said, it.

when linotype machines were invented. There are more printers than ever, better paid, and railroads employ 1.000 times as many as stage coaches ever did. When the spinning jenny, and other machinery came, it was necessary to build forts around mills, to protect them from angry workmen, who said men would lose their jobs. Immediately ten times as many were employed, since England proceeded to clothe millions in foreign lands. But still workmen refuse to learn that greater production per man means greater wealth, wages, and comforts, in the long run, for everybody.

The Brooklyn. N. Young Women's Christian Association is engaged in proving that a young woman can buy enough food to keep herself for $1 a day. Let us hope that she can. I If it were impossible, what would become of the man that earns $4 a day or less, and must feed a wife and four or five' children and pay rent, doctor's bills, buy clothes and shoes.

The main question today is. unfortunately, how can a man feed himself and his wife and his children who hasn't got even $1 a day? Copyright, 1931. by King Features Syndicate. Inc. S.

APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS LIQUOR LAW New York, Jan. 5 (JP) The Eighteenth amendment was held to have been legally adopted in a decision today by the United States Court of Appeals, ruling on a in which the defense was the same as in the recent Sprague case in New Jersey, in which Federal Judge Clark held that the amendment had not been legally ratified. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Louis E. Thibault of Windsor, who was accused of possessing and selling two pints of whisky. In its decision today, it declared that the Supreme Court had already held the Eighteenth amendment to have been lawfully proposed and ratified.

The amendment, it ruled, "had become a part of the Constitution and must be respected and given effect the same as the other provisions of that Instrument." RURAL CARRIER ALSO ACCUSED OF BUYING JOB Congressman Rowbottom of Evansville Alleged to Have Been Paid by Appointees. By Everett C. Watkins. Washington, Jan. 5.

Congressman Harry E. Rowbottom, First Indiana district, whose home is at Evansville, was today charged by the Postoffice Department with receiving money in return for recommending certain persons for appointment as postmasters in his district. The Postmaster General regarded the evidence so complete that he ordered summarily removal of four postmasters and the suspension of a rural route carrier. Criminal Action Expected. The Postofnce Department also sent its evidence, said to include documentary evidence as well as a confession of some of the discharged postmasters, to the Department of Justice, which is expected to bring criminal action.

The postmasters dismissed were as follows. William Davisson, Petersburg, Pike County. Mrs. Helen Roetiel, Boonville, War- rick County. otto a.

ennrenner, Mourn vernoii, Posey County. McKinley Ayres, Chrisney, Spencer County. The rural carrier suspended during future investigation was Ross Wibbe-ler at Dale, Ind. Acting postmasters were named immediately to take over the offices that were vacated. While reports had reached here re cently of rumors relating to Rowbottom.

the revelation that the Postoffice Department had obtained evidence of such a nature that it discharged four postmasters and immediately notified the Department of Justice of the charges caused a sensation at the capitol. The evidence on which the Post-office Department acted with such promptness was obtained by five post-office inspectors who have been at work on the case for the past ten days. The inspectors visited southern Indiana during the 'recent holiday season and it is said one of two of the postmasters confessed they had been required to pay money in order to obtain their appointments. Watson and Robinson Report. It was Senators Watson and Rob- inson who first asked the Postoffice Department to make an investigation of reports of irregularities which had reached thpm.

The senators ma not know the truth of the rumors, but they regarded them of such a serious nature they considered it their duty to notify the Postmaster General. About three weeks ago Benjamin P. Huffman of Rockport. the Republican district chairman of Row-bottom's district, and Gene Schermer-horn. also of Rockport, came to Washington with reports that certain po.stmasterships had been sold and suggested to the senators that the Postoflice Department be requested to make 110 appointments on recommendation of Rowbottom.

while Row-bottom remained in office. The Huffman Schermerhorn charges were so specific that the senators immediately sought an audience with Postmaster General Brown and asked for an investigation. It is understood Huffman and Schermerhorn also personally related their charges to Postmaster General Brown and Continued on Fifth rjr. PHILIPPINE TYPHOON TOLL GROWING HOURLY Manila. Jan.

5 UP) With eighty-two dead and fifty missing, fears were frit tonight of even greater loss as a result of the typhoon which roared across the central Philippine Islands last week-end. A large number of native fishermen perished in the sinking of many small boats off the coasts of Leyte and Cebu islands. Property damage on those islands was reported more than $500,000 and $250,000, respectively. Here and There Kditor The Star: Beverly Hills, Jan. 5 After a football game in Lima, Teru, five were killed.

They only kill ten in revolution down there, so two games equals one revolution. Up here we don't kill our football players. We make coaches out of the smartest ones, and send the others to the legislature. See where Mr. Hoover's private secretary, George Akerson, is coming in the movies with us.

I bet Mr. Hoover told him "Go on in, George, and if you see a chance for another good man I will come in with you." Yours, WILL ROGKRS. COUNCIL BEGINS NEW YEAR WITH ROUGH SESSION Mayor and Members in Verbal Tilts Re-Elect Parkinson President. Verbal tilts between Mayor George R. Dale, President H.

L. Parkinson of the city council and other coun-cilmen, marked the first monthly meeting of the new year when the council met last night. Dale, despite protests against his occupying the time of the session, continued undaunted until he had completed his "say" and quit the floor amid the plaudits of friends in the audience, but anti-Dale folks helping to make up the assemblage, also lent their ap Bob Parkinson plause to the retorts of the council president. Parkinson was renamed president to serve during 1931. without opposition, as also was Robert Tumelson reelected president pro-tern.

The unexpected happened later in the meeting when, without opposition, E. G. Hayler, Republican, was renamed to membership on the city library board, an indication that there had been a "getting together" to evade a possible split with the four Republican members arrayed on one side against the two factions of Democrats including the remaining nine members of the council, usually split, three members for Mayor Dale and the balance opposing him. No Action in Bus Matters. At the outset of the meeting, following public hearings on pending ordinances at which no objections were heard, the first crowd in the council room, that apparently had gone there relative to the White City bus situation, cleared out, when the council announced that there was to 1 be nothing doing on the bus situa tion.

Charles T. Stake, spokesman for property owners of South Elm street and East Ninth street, opposed to the use of these streets as bus avenues, contending that property owners had been given no notice of a hearing on the route granted to Lon F. Payne at the December meeting. He insisted the council's action in granting the petition was wrong. "It may not have been the proper procedure but we did it anyway." remarked President Parkinson.

He referred also to the three suits pending in the Superior Court Felative to the Payne bus route and Stake came back with the retort, "Our only recourse then must be in the courts or on elec- tion day." Another opposing the Payne route said, "You surely railroaded it over our heads." With the rule not to delve into the bus matter again, "now that it's in the courts." the council paused to allow persons present only in the interests of the bus question to depart. 'The room was more thae half emptied, only to be refilled immediately bv an over-flow crowd that had been jammed into the corridors and the session proceeded. Controller Ignores Council. By a 12-to-l vote, the latter cast in opposition by Kleinfelder, the city clerk was instructed to correct the council minute record of September 1 to include the action of the council in voting against a budget appropriation of $1,200 for payment of a stenographer in the office of the citv a ttorney. The city controller's report for the year, showing balances in various Continued on Seventh Page.

HOOVER IS INVITED TO DEDICATE TOMB Coolidge Would Preside at Harding Program. Marion. Jan. 5 (JP) President Hoover and former President Coolidge today were extended official invitations to attend and participate in the dedication of the tomb of the late President and Mrs. Warren G.

Harding. Trustees of the Harding Memorial Association, in session here, formally extended the invitations and requested that the date for the ceremonies be set for some time between next May 15 and November 15 to suit the convenience of the nation's Chief Executive and the man he succeeded. In extending the invitations which asked President Hoover to deliver the dedicatory address and Mr. Coolidge to preside over the ceremonies the trustees of the association took recognition of a recent White House indication that President Hoover would participate in the dedication of the tomb if invited to do so. HOOVER WILL ACCEPT.

Washington, Jan. 5 President Hoover plans to accept the invitation to dedicate the Harding memorial at Marion, O. It was said at the White House today that while the invitation has not been received, the President would dedicate the memorial when the proper invitation had been ARKANSAS FOOD RIOT INSPIRES SENATE TO ADD TO RELIEF BILL Washington. Jan. 5 (JP) President Hoover's emergency relief program encountered new difficulties in the Senate today when $15,000,000 for food loans was added to the drought appropriations.

The measure carrying the emergency appropriation was returned to the House, where Representative Til-son, of Connecticut, the Republican floor leader, announced he would stand against the funds for loans for food which the administration contends is beyond the province of the federal government. The uprising of hungry Arkansas farmers who stormed the town of England demanding food last Saturday was called to the attention of the Senate by Senator Caraway Ark. in urging the additional 2,741 BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED HERE LAST YEAR Commissioner McKinley's Report Places Estimated Valuation at $781,606. A total of 2,741 building permits for an estimated valuation of $781,606.04 was issued through the building commissioner's office during the year 1930. according to the annual report of.

the building commissioner Carl McKinley, which was compiled and announced yesterday by Herbert Faris, assistant building commissioner. Of this number there were 743 residential permits, additions, altera-tions-. and repairs for a total of $85,210.17. The alterations, additions and repair permits reached 168 for the year for a of $40,521.95. 13,068 Inspections Made.

The total valuation from building permits alone reached $445,137.72 during the year, and the total number of inspections made through the office for the pa.t year was 13.068. These inspections included foundations, sewers, framework, chimneys, wiring, plumbing, electrical fixtures, furnaces, roofs and zonings. There were forty-one family dwelling permits issued for the sum of $120,670 during the year, the report shows. Other totals and sums for the year are: One family dwelling, with store, at an estimated value of $9,000: live amusement buildings, all of which were for miniature golf courses, at an estimated value of $235; two factory permits at an estimated value of 182 permits for private garages at an estimated valuation of eleven gas service station' permits at. an estimated value of $18,950: one public building, the Grace Mring Branch Library, at an estimated value of forty-one permits for sheds and poultry houses at an estimated value of three stable and barn permits at an estimated value of $14,415: eleven store permits at an estimated value c.f $68,130: and nine miscellaneous permits for an estimated value of $37,378.

1,514 Installation Permits. The report, shows that there were 1.524 installation permits issued during the past year for the estimated valuation of $336,468.32. The classes of installation permits and the estimated values are as follows: Removal and demolition permits, twenty-six for wiring permits, 738 for plumbing permits, 331 for sewer permits, 161 for heating system permits, 174 for awning, signs and billboard permits, 93 for $6,977.92. The installation permits valuations for the year as recorded each month are as follows: Januarv, $191,746.95: February, March. S7.984.85; April.

Mav. $10,505.92: June. July. August, $8,907.80: September, $8,914: October, November, and December, $9,218.95. Total estimated valuation, $336,468.32.

As Recorded by Months. The estimated valuations for the building permits as recorded monthly during the past year are as follows: January. February, March. April, May, $48,646: June. July, $33,593: August.

September, October, $52,949.75: November, and December, $7,197. Total estimated valuation, $781,606.04. The number of monthly inspections during the year were as follows: January, 399; Februarv, 1.055; March, 1,396: April, 1.040; Mav, 1,209: June. 1,307: July. 1.191; August.

1.122: September October, November, 817; and December, 516. Total number of inspections, 13,068. RICHMOND MERCHANT IS SERIOUSLY INJURED Richmond, Jan. 5 (Special) O. G.

Whelan, prominent seed feed merchant here for twenty-five years, was injured, fatally it is believed, when his auto skidded into a ditch near Elkhorn Creek, four miles south of here, today. Whelan for many years was interested in fine saddle horses. Imprisonment for fifteen years on each of two charges auto banditry and bank robbery was imposed by Judge L. A. Guthrie yesterday in the Circuit Court against Edward Locke.

31, Muncie, and Fred Males. 29. of Anderson, two of the quartet who participated last Saturday raornine in the robbery of the Albany State Bank at Albany, twelve miles northeast of Muncie They were arrested Saturday night. Males at his home in Anderson, and Locke at his residence, 1318 West Second street, this city. L.

R. (Tuffy) Ray and James Clev-enger, the latter branded by both Males and Locke as the "leader," are still at large. Sherman Delaney. counter clerk in a. Muncie restaurant, was arrested yesterday noon by Deputy Sheriffs Leech and Shanahan at the instigation of Sheriff Fred W.

Puckett. and is being held as a suspect, pending further investigation. It is claimed that information reaching the sheriff was in effect that Delaney had endeavored to "tip off" Clevenger Saturday night, by telephoning to the Clevenger home. When officers arrived at the home Clevenger had fled. Loot Was Divided Four Ways.

Both Locke and Males entered pleas of guilty before Judge Guthrie yes-i terday afternoon when separate charges of bank robbery and auto banditry, sworn to by Sheriff Puckett were read by Paul E. Leffler. prosecuting attorney. Later both were questioned in the court room and recounted the robbery of the bank. Each had received $155.

they said, as their part of the loot, which had been divided into four parts Locke's share of the loot, he claims, was hidden, with the revolver he flourished in the bank, and was stolen Saturday afternoon from the hiding place along thp railroad tracks near Yorktown. He intimated in court that Clevenger double-crossed" him. Locke made a written confession, which later was given the approval of Males, when read to the latter. Both contend that the Albany "job" was the first bank robbery they had participated in. Both in Trouble Before.

Locke has a former prison record havinz served one year for grand larceny. Males was sentenced once for life imprisonment in the Madison Circuit Court when convicted of murder. After about five years in. the state prison at Michigan City, his case was reversed by the Indiana Supreme Court. He later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to serve one to ten years.

He was liberated when the minimum of his sentence had been served and for nearly three years now has been at liberty under parole. He was sentenced yesterday to the reformatory at Pendleton, from where he will be transferred to the Michigan City prison w-hen he attains the see of 30 years. Locke was sentenced to serve his entire sen- 'nt innrri -n Srmn4 Pt. By Calvin Coolidge. Northampton, Jan.

5. Another proposal to be made in the name of relieving unemployment will undoubtedly be an ex tension of government n-ership. Healthy and normal employment consists of serving another for his personal satisfaction or profit. As the sovern- infill lis itKjit yi sonal. its proper business employment would be for those serving for its profit.

Calvin Coolidr Public works are on different footing and need not be considered. For the wage earners to benefit in time of general depression it would be necessary to assume that government ownership would prevent fluctuations in the business in which it engages. Our largest government business is the postoflice in which receipts rise and fall extensively. If it is assumed that payment of wages will go on without work, that is not employment but re lief. Then no one should work.

The government has never shown much aptitude for real business. The Congress will not permit it to be conducted by a competent executive but constantly intervenes. The most free, progressive and satisfactory method ever devised for the equitable distribution of property is to permit the people to care for themselves by conducting their own business. They have more wisdom than any government. Copyright.

McCIure Newspaper Syndic t. I I 1 Goolidge's Corner St- Yd Photo by Swift. 2,268 ARRESTS IN 1930 BY POLICE Annual Report Is Submitted by Chief Massey. That the Muncie police department was kept busy during the past year, the first year under Mayor Dale's ad ministration, is indicated by the an I nual report which was submitted to i the citv council last night bv Chief of Poice Frank Massev. The report was accepted by the council.

There were 2,268 arrests made dur- at $30,210 were in the possession of the police. 158 foreign cars reported stolen; 456 were local cars recovered and 130 foreign cars. There were 24 local cars and 28 foreign cars not recovered, or a tQtal of -2 cars reported stolen during the year that were not re covered. 1 ed to the to 1930 The rnonths If.K l.vi" 3,, mJ? nCmbr of accidents oVur! JVn" to anv one month during the "aCh haL 39 The lowest accidents occurred in Fe "uTv When but 1K were wnen Dut 1H4 ere repoitCQ. stil1 Hav Some Bicycles.

In the city detective department there were 1.964 complaints registered during the year. There were 3.316 finger print records classified and placed on the file for future reference. The total number of finger print records and photographs taken from subjects arrested by the local depart- ment, classified and placed on file, was 413; the total number of circulars miin, a sons wanted for some crime received by the detective department was 1.129; and the total number of rec- 01 persons warned, including persons missing, lost, suspects want-j ed for some crime and those having police recoras as 9,350. being valued at $180.50. There were seventy-four articles of merchandise reported stolen and recovered, representing $4,684.25.

There were eight poultry thefts during the year which were reported and recovered, the estimated value of the chickens reaching $93.75. There were fifteen watches and articles of jewelry reported stolen and recovered, amounting to $464.50. There were ninety-six different offenses committed during the year. Continued Srrond lge. M0RT HAWKINS L0SS PLEA IN HIGH COURT Indianapolis.

Jan. 5 iJP) Refusal of the United States Supreme Court, in Washington today to review the case of Morton S. Hawkins of Portland, now in Leavenworth penitentiary serving a fifteen year sentence, recalled his indictment by a federal grand jury here in 1924 on charges of using the mails to defraud while promoting the sale of securities Issued by the Hawkins Mortgage Company and several subsidiary organizations. Persons throughout the middle-West were said to have lost" money through Hawkins operations. The Weather Chic.

Jmn. S. Fortran! INDIANA Montly cloud, prrredrd by now flnrrira in northeast portion; eoldrr in eitrrme et portion Tuesday; Wednesday fair with rising temperature. TEMPERATURE IN MUNCIE Last 24 Hours Courtesy Indiana Oeneral Service Co. 1 a.

40i 9 a. 39; 5 p. 38 3 a. 4010 a. 3 p.

3T a. 39 11 a. nj 38: 7 p. 37 4 a. 38 Noon .381 8 p.

37 5 a. m. 38 1 p. 38 9 p. 3 a.

38 2 p. 40 10 p. 35 7 a. 38 3 p. 39 11 p.

34 8 a. 3 4 p. 38 Midmchi 34 Maximum, 52, Minimum, J.JA w.e answer 10 ine neea 01 ine During the year there were nine-ing man America, Mr. Kirk-. tv.five bicvcle reported stoien flnd patnek said.

recovered by the department, the 1856 there were one hundred Ki onc. cycles other March 27 and another March 11 a the dates for considering the bids that were opened by the board last week. The board rejected a mo- tion of Hines president of the T-ii- T- il- Indiana State Teachers College, that action oe oeierrea until aner May 1. Wisehart objected to a motion fix- ing March 6 as the date. He assert- ed that since his term expires March 15 that he wanted the matter settled now or not until after he leaves of- fiee.

At this the board voted to con sider the bids March 27. but later the date was fixed at January 19. On A motion of Miss Martha Wh t- acre. of Richmond. Wisehart was in- strutted to inform representatives of the various publishing companies of their action and to instruct the sales- men not to attempt to discuss any phase of the situation with the board members! Miss Whifacre said she had been greatly bothered by the salesmen.

Pitnrr on Committee. Sem HineT to' award contracts esiaeni Mines 10 awara wninns Pi only to firms who would have the printing done in Indiana, but a substitute motion introduced by William A. Wirt, of Gary, placed the board on record to the effect that this policy will be followed when practicable. The committee named to go into this phase of the problem was named by Wisehart and included L. A.

Pit-tenger. president of Ball State Teachers College at Muncie: Mr. Wirt and Dr. E. C.

Elliott, president of Purdue University. DELAWARE COUNTY ASSESSOR IS NAMED HEAD OF COMMITTEE Indianapolis, Jan. 5 (JP) Problems of taxation and inheritance tax administration were discussed today at the annual meeting of county and township assessors with the state board of tax commissioners. The meeting is provided by statute. James M.

Showalter, chairman of the board, welcomed the delegates today. Governor Leslie is scheduled to speak tomorrow. Among the committee assignments announced by Chairman Showalter were: Inheritance tax, Clyde Tim-mons. Grant: farm implements and machinery. Pearl C.

Hopkins. Delaware. William A. Clark. Clinton, and William C.

Cameron, Howard; gas and oil wells. George Helman, Vigo, and Ward Canaday. Madison: live stock. John D. Fissel.

Cass: legislation, Walter Rcxsser. Tippecanoe; merchandise, Walter Rosser, Tippecanoe: oil and gas companies, personal, bulk plant and filling stations. Clyde Tim-mons. Grant. MESSENGER IS ROBBED OF REGISTERED MAIL Boonville.

Jan. 5 (JP) Three masked bandits held up Sidney 1 Youngblood, postoffice messenger, as he was en route from the Boonville postoflice to the railroad station here tonight, forced him into an automobile, took a locked mail bag known to contain three registered packages and then threw Youngblood out of the machine three miles west of the city. The exact value of the mail bag contents could not be immediately ascertained. One of the registered parages was known to contain diamond rins valued at about $150. associations in New York.

The first one was organized in the West in 1R49 in Chicago. During the one hundred years passed since the founding of the Frankford association more than eight million homes have been financed by building and loan associations. Truly, this verifies the old statement that 'great oaks from little Ontinord Fifth Page. POISON LIQUOR KILLS ELEVEN AT OMAHA Omaha. Jan.

5 (T Chemists analyzed liquor blamed for eleven re-rent deaths today, while Dr. S. Mc-Cleneghan, coroner's physician, described it as "the worst poison liquor he had ever encountered." Six men died Friday, three Saturday, one last night and another- today. PROHIBITION DIRECTOR WANTS 130 NEW AGENTS Washington, Jan. 5 A move, to press 130 new federal dry agents into immediate service reached the floor of the House today.

Prohibition Director Woodcock's request for additional dry agents, to be put to work before July 1. was contained in the first deficiency bill reported to the House by its appropriations commit tee. The measure asked for $343.3.70 for prohibition and would put 257 additional prohibition workers in the field, approximately half of them agents. GALION BANKER DRAWS NINE-YEAR PRISON TERM Cleveland. Jan.

5 (JP) James E. Casey, former president of the First National Bank of Galion. was sentenced to nine years in Atlanta penitentiary today when he pleaded guilty to making false statements of his bank's condition. He also was under indictment charging misappropriation of $223,000 of the bank's funds..