Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 1

I GUIDE TO ASHIONS To be well dressed is one of chief desires Dally fashion features in this newspaper make the task easy I i NORTHWESTERN GREATEST NEWSPAPER INAL No 23 Vol 8 THE JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1829 LAAYETTE THURSDAY EVENING JANUARY 27 1927 THE COURIER ESTABLISHED 1881 16 TWO CENTS Monstrous Looking Auto Outruns Wind JUDICIAL BILL SEVEN PERSONS KILLED IN GAS LANDIS GIVES Another Chance BLAST AT BASKETBALL GAME DEATH BLOW CLEAN SLATE PURDUE MAKES 4 RECORD STRIDE ISTIC BATTLE Killer Admits IN ENGI NEEHING DISRUPTS CDAL EXIT be remaining fakes Recess MEET JESSIE CRDOM as Michigan 3 vL vi These charges an'l answer to wife's (Continued on Page ourteen) said pass guard CHILDREN WILL BDXBDARD PUNT Hap GIVE PROGRAM REOPENS RIDAY have by SECOND VICTIM (Continued on page fourteen) Of CRASH DEAD the in South Bend the all pub main Oxford were I 1Pre Monday hlnh of Detroit of The Weather (Continued on Page Ten) the use form the and The be the si on wall Al li ere fare motored regard reached who re C( also the In MAD RUSH the players for the Chinese Problem Presents 27 our hun Punjabt of the troops China Kong a the at the beginning at 1 is accurate rapid and She is pleasant and re She is the kind of a girl actory Closed Since Last Thanksgiving Extensive Improvements orce Ordered to Work open dem 16000 to which Britain arrived today aboard the Except for maintained at since were both men make their been influ She was in the front room of home when she slipped and fracturing her right hip She removed to St Elizabeth hos for treatment the Rogers and by a Nickel Plate freight John Johnson only the trio to escape a fatal is recovering The body latest victim was taken to Wednesday evening by Son of Prominent Indianap olis Manufacturer Causes Tumult at Mine Convention Leads All State Universitier and Crowds Boston Tech or irst Place in Remarkable Pace Henry Epstein her lawyer informed the court Peaches him that the copy The plant of the Lafayette Box Board and Paper company which has been closed since Thanksgiv ing will resume operations ri day morning Extensive repairs anil improvements have been made in the plant during the shut down and equipment and general ar rangements are now in better con dition than ever before The man agement has notified the entire force to report for work riday morning The plant employs about 180 people Swallows Tack MONTICELLO Ind Jan 27 Raymond Johnson swallowed a tack while at work in the chair factory here Wednesday Efforts made to remove it son of a prominent manufacturer and at arms disrupted meeting of Mine Workers of convention here be but whose claims I flashed radio John Dances Jig (By the Associated Press! ORMOND BEACH la Jan 27 John Rockefeller danced a jig and whistled merrily when he in his daily eight hole round at golf Playing in a threesome with ather Len non New York and White Cleveland he turned in a 47 have niain of govern world's liis Aged Woman alls and Breaks Her Right Hip Mrs Anna Hill aged mother of Mrs Edgar A Taylor 628 er ry street met with a serious ac cident shortly after noon Wednes day the fell was nital Smith ambulance being used friend res sup Two Plead Guilty to Rob bery Charges Court Suspends Sentence for Sake of amilies TO and spectators only of the building LIE SENTENCE OR SLAYER Baseball Deci sion Exonerates Play ers of Wrongdoing Restored to Reserve and after Browning Browning liannened Mrs Carolyn Heenan mother of Mrs Trowning and a Mrs Mayer a friend and house guest orecast today for Indiana: In creasing cloudiness tonight prob ably becoming somewhat unset tied riday rising temperature strong southerly winds Local temperature from 7 a in Wednesday to 7 a Thursday: High 14 low 1 mean 7 1 2 0 Sev i or will take the stand Browning lilUUlE and step son As the words ricu the rest of his walls his head but he As started exit at the front a portion of the ceiling fell hurl ing timbers crowd cleared The the af the new the firs) building recent dedication will be charged will be taken taken yesterday of an amends families sentence but had severely men He in to make fre amplify statement Liy the Associated i'rtss) WASHINGTON Jan Assur ances that the Washington govern ment is ready to enter into treaty revision negotiations with both the Cantonese and northern factions in the present civil war were given the state department today in amplifying the formal statement of the American attitude toward China published last night by Sec retary Kellogg Mrs John Hein Dies In South Bend After A Sudden Hemorrhage Mrs Louise Hein widow of John Hein died suddenly Thursday moraine at home of a daughter Mrs Harry A Morfoot news being a great shock to her relatives and friends in Lafayette The cause of death was a hem orrhage Mrs Hein was a native of La fayette and had a host of friends in the city having resided here practically all of the 70 years of her life Her husband was killed at a railroad crossing several years ago and since then she had been making her home with her chil dren She had been in South Bend for several months She was a member of St Boniface Catholic church and of the St La dies Sodality The surviving children are: Mrs A Morfoot South Bend rank Hein ort Wayne Edward Hein Mrs John Metzger Mrs Clif ford Hughes and Mrs Ed Miller all of Lafayette She also leaves a brother John Hauenstein and a sister Mrs Mike Miller of this city The body will be brought to Lafayette and will be taken to the Clifford Hughes home 1109 Main street The ftneral will be conducted from St? Boniface church Monday in Hoosier Lad inds Mother After Being Boys of St Jo orphanage will repeat the at tnc council and so well re The junior choir' church West sing pupils of will give a drill arc in store The program will be Anthony Johnson Sr Ex pires from Injury Re ceived in Boswell Accident Separated 7 YearsBy tha Associated Press! CLEVELAND Jan 27 len Markel 13 who came last summer on railroad earned' by mowing lawns at Dale ville Ind last night found his mother after a seven year separa tion Letters addressed to the lo cal general delivery window re sulted in the reuniting of the two The mother had remarried since being divorced some Jime ago ort pn a One of the most popular lyceura entertainments ever enjoyed in Lafayette was that given Wednes day evening by the Plantation Singers a colored quartet at the irst Christion church the sec ond number of its concert series The large Auditorium and balcony were filled and the entertainment struck such a popular chord that arrangements are already being made by Rev Robert Knight con ducting the course to bring the quartet back next year Numbers were enthusiastically applauded A program was presented such as only a capable group of negro singers and instrumentalists can master The first part was given over to plantation songs while spifituels and modern songs made up the second part The ensem ble singing was exceptionally fine and solo work especially that Of the bass who sang two Octaves below middle and also of the tenor was outstanding Trombone banjo and piano numbers were out of the ordinary Members of the troupe while here were en 14 Eighteenth fool Unruly characterized other will not be tolerated who caused this disturbance the early Cincinnati ers reside Lafayette after they received word of the death ana tnen back wirtpg instructions ing the body after they Cincinnati The widow sides in Washington came to Cincinnati It is thought that Dr body may be burled in Arlington cemetery A del ma 'oster who on De cember 27 1926 broke into the Gingrich and grocery in West Lafayette and stole $63 and Ray Tague who on Jan uary 4 1927 robbed the Shell Gas filling station near Sixth and Columbia street were ar raigned in the circuit court Thursday morning on charges of robbery Both pleaded guilty Because of the fact that oster has three small children ranging in age from 1 to 4 years and because Tague has one child Judge Homer Hennegar gave opportunity to and care for He suspended not before he lectured the i Rtruntftl thpm quent reports to William Welnhardt (By the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Ind Jan 27 A short lived fist fight between Powers Hapgood of Ceresson Pa Harvard gradu ate and I ndianapolis a sergeant temporarily the United America in Hapgood who claims to delegate credentials committee ignored at tempted to speak on a resolution assailing the United Mine Work ers Journal official publication of the union for not printing the views of the minority faction of the miners RESISTS EJECTION President John Lewis denied Hapgood floor and when a sci gettpt 7etryaj rti3 attempted to eject him Hapgood resisted and the melee followed It soon was quelled Hapgood claims he is denied a seat in the convention because of his opposition to Lewis The young man was recently expelled from a Pennsylvania district of the union because of his radical views and because it was as serted he is not a miner Hap good is a proponent of nationali zation of mines chair is prepared to pre serve President Lewis de clared after the disturbance caused i by Hapgood had been quieted "Any one who thinks he can chair scenes that conven The NEGRO SINGERS PHUVE DELIGHT Christian Church Concert Popular Plantation En Program a Treat Joy Over Seeing Son Believed Drowned in lood Kills Mother 1 nterua fuudi News Service! JEERSONVILLE I Jan 27 Mrs Olive Morrison 63 was dead at her home at Utica near here today as the result of a heart attack brought on by joy over seeing her son Leonard 22 return home safely after being re ported drowned in the flooded Ohio river Says Western Policy 1st i i i I acei marrow boviei Aaron in and engineers ninlnmatin Dnalinric establishments: ana water railway connection with Body of Navy Surgeon Sent to Cincinnati Moulton navy foot who died evening was ship Thursday morning to where two broth The brothers came to Purdue university's schools engineering with an enrollment 2136 not only are the largest any state supported Institution Ibut are showing the most gapic trio Postpone Measure Intended to Change Police Pension Act By the Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS Jan The Indiana senate today indefinitely postponed a bill intended to amend the police pension act of 1925 so as to include Evansville in the size of cities coming under its provi sions The action was taken when the bill was handed down for when Senator George Valparaiso Planning $500000 EndowmentfBy the Associated Press) VALPARAISO Ind Jan As a step toward becoming an ac credited institution in the north central association of colleges di rectors of Valparaiso university decided today to begin the imme diate collection of a $500000 en dowment fund phenomenally swift racing car which is shortly to be brought to Ameiica tor Already it has been driven at liJ miles an nour oy major vi learned in two testi by his wife her mother and doctors wnat uie allegations of cruelty At Your Service She neat who is an asset to any office or business She comes from one of the thousands of homes where the Journal and Courier goes daily You can employ her ae a clerk stenographer or bookkeeper through a Journal and Courier Classified Ad Phone your Ad to 41 42 or 43 Journal and Courier Sixth and erry streets Lafayette Ind morning at 9 burial St Boniface cemetery by American military forces though fifty two American war ships remain in territorial waters to carry off refugees IS REASONABLE President Coolidge hopes that the memorandum issued by Sec retary Kellogg refterating the pol icy of the United States will have a soothing' effect on the Chinese elements which have risen to drive foreigners out The United States has always pursued a liberal pol icy toward China and in the present emergency the American government's record stands out as unobjectionable to any of the Chinese groups Not only has the United States declared itself ready to agree to the imposition of the much mooted surtaxes on customs but is ready also to give up ex tra territorial rights as soon as LONDON Jan The propo sals which Charge D'affaires has been authorized to make to the Cantonese minister at Hankow are understood to em brace terms for the complete even tual surrender of the British con cessions throughout China includ ing extra territoriality and plans (O new LreaLieo present ones Uy DAVID lAIWENCE (Copyright 1J6 by Bafnyetto Journal and Courier) WASHINGTON Jan Just as the senate and the president have come to an agreement that moral suasion should be used in stead of force in handling the Mexican problem the possibility of using force to protect the lives and property of American citizens in another trouble area of the world has arisen to per plex the president and secretary of StHitherto the United States has stood with the foreign powers for concerted action The diver gence of the American and Brit ish policies however has been significantly explainer at the White House In the last 24 hours which means that the expedition ary force teb be used by Britain at Shanghai'S will not be joined and plaster in the Before the hall could bd the front wall collapsed body of James McCann ianitor was found in the basement 'where lie had apparent ly gone to inspect the lighting system The bodies of his two sons and his brother Brigham McCann were near the exit Mrs James (growth of those in any American McCann and another child were severely cut and bruised TWO PLAYERS KILLED Two more bodies were identi fied as those of Elmer Anderson and Iral Lowe both members of the Central team The death toll was increased to seven this morning when a third son of James McCann jan itor of the hall died from burns and shock Mrs Lowe and Mrs Anderson who had accompanied their hus to trie game were injurea MANY BROKEN LIMBS Although a complete list of the injured apparently was not kept all were thought to be residents' of Turner or nearby towns I oral sustained broken legs arms i mur been a guest at Liouor was served and Price engaged in an argument with Nelson Carter He' was ejected from the house but threat ened to return and the place He did return armed with a Springfield army rifle and shot Mrs Croom as she looked out through the glass in the front door The entire top of her head was literally blown off Price was arrested at bls home at the following morning abuse the privilege of the is a have tions man is not even a member of certainly shouted good vou sav another word be Lewis shot back John Brophy of Clearfield Ta took up the attack on the journal and several other delegates aided LEWIS DEENDS POLICY Lewis came to the defense of journal's policy dnd asserted that the publication had never been used to advance the administra "The only instructions to Lewis said "are to the journal to advance the inter ests of the CHARGE' RULE The resolution which 'the resolu tions committee recommended be shelved charged that the journal all communications an tagonistic to the Lewis regime John Hindmarsh of River ton 111 asserted that the journal was in refusing to print communications from any member Harry ishwick of Springfield Ill president of District No 12 said those who were loudest in their erics nf prac tice the greatest intolerance in the persistent condemnation of all those tn administrative offices William Green president of the American ederation of Labor and former secretary treasurer of the miner's union will address the convention at 3:30 tomorrow President Lewis announced rs 1 1 1 xJ ill Henry uni Al cl I til lili yersity board of trustees and Nel son A Kellogg Purdue athletic director went to Chicago Thurs day to attend the joint meeting of Western conference presidents trustees athletic directors and alumni to be held at the Hotel Sherman riday and Saturday The local delegation was to meet John Miller of Detroit Mich I Purdue alumni representa tive in Chicago Mr Miller Pur due 1903 was captain of the 1902 Purdue varsity football team The joint meeting was request ed by the conference gridiron coaches and athletic directors at the football schedule meeting last November' Its purpose is to es tablisfi closer harmony between the athletic and academic depart ments The big point to be thrashed out is the legitimate recruiting of athletes It remains for the gen eral body to determine just how far a school may go in inducing prep athletes to' enter 7 West Side ire roof fire at the homo Morehouse 117 Wiggins street i West Side' called out the fire de partment there at 9:30 Thursday morning A small hole was burned in the roof The de partment was called back to the' same address at II but no! fire was to be found this time I The house is owned by Charles' Mcarland Purdue Delegation to Important Conference Concerning Athletics 8 a BCrl Dmina iinlvnrsiitV Marshall president of the me irvupv wunv tertalncd in the home ot Tnknanri nr Nnrtn The third number of the series in ozl Ltabriiarv lb I Will pirauiuvu the Cassford Concert company PASSED did not Thurs day afternoon the court allow ipg 1 rl TV AA The cnnpH trlflln nt Davtona Beach Segrave who hopes to force its 1000 horsepower to 200 miles an hour along the lorida strand Dismembering Body Second Confes sion ollows inding of Burial Implements in His Home Robertson Sees Errors Made By Powers in China Christian Worker in Orient neither side establishing a precedent in a murder case In the local court SLEW MAN IN 1913 career has been check ered Thirteen years ago lie shot and killed Henry Butcher a negro at ifth and Main streets The de fense that Butcher was trying to invade bls home saved Price and he was acquitted Later he served a jail sentence for attempting to shoot an itinerant negro preacher Still later lie was arrested and served a jail sentence in I Wayne for using a knife fellow workman CROOM KILLING On the day of the Croom der Price had the house Council to Have Third Annual Exercises by Young People at the New Armory The third annual pro gram sponsored by the Laymen's Council will be given hunday ternoon January 30 in armory This will mass meeting in since its admission no offering general public is invited Children of the city and county all under 12 years old will present the program which will be both literary and musical Many In teresting features have been plan ned under the direction of Prof Hodge chairman in charge of the program seph flag song sung party ceived there of the irst Lafayette will Linwood school and other treats comnlete lished Saturday The doors will be thrown nt 2 and a musical onstration will be given at 2:15 by the oster shop with the 2:30 By tha Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS Jan The Indiana senate today killed the house bill which would have provided for a criminal court in Vander burgh county The senate unanimously adopted a report against the bill made by the committee on organization of courts which considered the bill at a public hearing yesterday ollowing that action Senator Alonzo Lindley republican Vermillion ountain and Warren counties presented a motion that the bill be reconsidered and then moved that his motion be tabled The motion was carried This parliamentary action killed the bill definitely and finally orles of Inheritance taxation Representative John bill to make the phraseology of the Wright dry" law conform with the constitution of Indiana with respect to search and seizure provisions was defeated 65 to 30 yesterday by those seeking strengthening of the Wright law Senators Kill House Measure Providing a Criminal Court in Vanderburgh County Counsel for Aged Realtor Attempts to Picture Bride Not as Innocent as Claimed I By the Associated Press) WHITE 1TA1NS Counsel for Edward West Brown ing studying the testimony given the last two days here in the sep aration suit brought by the realtor against his ytjjing wife the former Heenan will endeavor to offset this evidence beginning next Monday Browning who was denied a bill of particulars some weeks ago has niony friends specific against him are i 1 1 an lila 1 his suit accusing her of abandon ment The wife's case Is complete ex cept possibly for testimony by an alienist A recess was at the request pniinsoL counsel is preparing a brief citing authority for the ad miswforr df 'arimtry' Uy Brown ing" before her marriage and ruled out by Justice Seeger The lawyer John Mack first offered in evidence a diary that Peaches at first testified was an exact copy of an original kept by her later hnd told omitted the names of liny friends Mr Ehstein then produced the original and both diaries were of fered by Mr (Mack your honor reads the diary you will find she was a woman ofth' world and not the innocent I girl she said she was at the time of her Mack said Mrs Browning flushed at the statement and exclaimed heatedly was a good trirl" BROWNING'S INNING Monday will see the real begin ning of case when his witness in rebuttal of Mrs chartres of cruelty During yesterday a girl Marian Tushey formerly a tanrant cashier testified in port of Mrs Browning that last Saturday Mr Browning told her he would it for her if she could and testify to something adverse In the life of her friend tle then rances Heenan before the mar riage She said she could not remem ber any nets such as Mr Brown ing suggested she try to leaviug tne office she called noMrs and told her what had Numerous Annoying Phases United States Hopes to Avoid Being Drawn Into Conflict Is Ready to Concede Tariff Autonomy and Relinquish Extra Territoriality GIVEN SPEEDY Browning and Peaches Case Diplomatic Dealings China Sees was the subject of an interesting address by' Dr Robertson noted Purdue alumnus familiarly known as "Big Bobbie" at the regular dinner meeting of the Lions club Wednesday evening at the Lafay ette club Dr Robertson who lias spent many years in educational work In China pointed out that' the western civilization must re alize that a quarter of the world's population in China tamed a stable ment oldest in tory Manv factors entlal in bringing repeated troubles in China he said The present trouble in part is an outgrowth of the narrow foreign policy of western powers as contrasted with adroit and diplomatic treatment accorded the Chinese people by the present Soviet government of Rus sia In closing Dr Robertson started: the people of the world I want to continue to live in peace1 a spirit of tolerance and broader minded internationalism must (be George Washington Price ound Guilty of Murder in irst Degree Penalty Is ixed by Jury George Washington Price negro who on Sunday evening Novem ber 28 shot and killed Mrs Jessie Croom negress in the doorway of her home 911 North Seven teen th street was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in the Tippecanoe circuit court late Wednesday afternoon The jury fixed his punishment at life imprisonment in the In diana state prison at Michigan City The jury deliberated 25 minutes and three ballots were taken The first ballot was unanimous that he was guilty The second bal lot stood 11 for life imprisonment and 1 for death in ithe electric chair On the third ballot all 12 men voted for life imprisonment PRIGg UNMOVED It was 3T18 when the jury filed from the court room to deliberate and it was 5 minutes later when they returned and James 'Kirkpatrick foreman handed the verdict to Judge Ho mer Hennegar The court room was crowded to capacity when Clerk Raymond Schnaible started to read the verdict Price was seated at the defendant ta bie with his attorney rancis Murphy ms witeTorYtrA Ir were uttered indicating to he would spena life behind prison dropped forward nothing SENTENCE Judge Hennegar sentence until 1:50 the defendant time to ask a new trial or appeal if such a course would be taken However I rice did not ask either Vhen the court asked the convicted man if there was any reason sentence should not be pronounced Irice replied in the negative He thanked the court for a fair and Impartial trial and for consideration shown his conusel by court and attorneys for the state The 56 instructions read to the jury were prepared a a a Ht oy inc uuun asked for any amendments establishing By the Associated Breast MAUSTON Wis Jan Orchard district attorney of Grant county where Wm Cof fey confessed he killed Mrs Hat tie Hales his bigamous wife and burled her dismembered body was enroute to Mauston today with a warrant charging murder DAY TERROR The Madison bond salesman and lay preacher made a new confes sion declaring that instead of tossing the body of Mrs Hales In to the Mississippi river as he first had claimed he kept it in his au tomobile for a day and then terror stricken used a butcher knife to dismember It Coffey still maintained that he accidentally killed the woman with a baseball bat during an argu ment in their tent pitched on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi river DAMAGING CVIDENCE The second confession was ob tained by Juneau couflty officials after new evidence was disclosed by the Jiacovery of 'A jdek" shovel a grass mat bearing stains believed to be blood in the base ment of home at Madi son where his wife and three children lived irst Punjabi Troops Reach Shanghai Washington Government 'Is Willing to Negotiate Treat ies With Warring Chi nese actions International News Service) HHANGHAL Jan dred and thirty three troops the first contingent i ooi) nntiau is senaing to from Hong Glenoble the legation Peking and Tientsin the Boxer rebellion these the first British troops to in China since the Box er uprising A message from Calcutta an nounced that the second battalion of the Burham light infantry sailed from there today for Shang hai Anthony Johnson sr of owler Ind died at St Elizabeth hos pital Wednesday afternoon of in juries received in a crossing ac cident at Boswell Ind on Jan uary 19 His nephew Anthony i Johnson Jr died of ms injuries Tlic bojy of pr the day after the accident These jobrson former two victims of the crash with baj an(j surg On Tnhn ft Johnson or riding in a ord sedan which wasped strucK train one of Injury of the owler Harry Comley owler undertaker Johnson was 63 years old and was unmarried He was a farmer Lighting Plant Goes Dark and TrHfic Explo a inn ollows When Someone Lights Match Wall Collapses as Spectators Make ran tic Rush to Only Remaining Exit By the Associated Press) TURNER Idaho Jan 27 Seven persons are dead and nearly a score injured 12 seriously as a result of an ex plosion of acetylene gas which wrecked a Mormon chapel and recreation hall here last night while a basketball game was in progress Upwards of 200 persons had assembled in the one story frame building used as a church by the Latter Day Saints congregation for a game between the Turner and Cen tral Idaho teams Shortly after play started the lighting system failed and witnesses said someone lighted a match A terrific explo followea wrecking Tne rear Rescue Three Men Marooned or ive Days reighter Crushes Through to ishermen Held Cap tive in Ice Bound Lake Tug (By the Associated PresaJ MICHIGAN CITY Ind Jan 27 Three weather worn fishermen who for five days have been held captive by the ice that locked their tugboat in the middle of a big floe in Lower Lake Michigan were rescued early today when the ocean going freighter Sandmaster crushed through to their side The rescuers found that supplies of food dropped by airplane had staved off hunger but in their des perate fight against numbing lake winds the three men were wreck ing their boat for fuel when help arrived or twelve hours the Sandmaster charged the' ice field in the dark and at mtdnisnt word to her Chicago owners that she had won the fight and was alongside the tug A line was run to the tug then lying five or six miles off Michigan City The three men were transferred to the freighter and she started for Chicago with the tug In tow The three men rank Jentzer Harvey reyer and Joe Van Kirk apparently had suffered no serious effects from long exposure and a period of Ipinger which ended Tuesday when an airplane swept within a few feet of the tug and dropped food clothing and some fuel By the Associated Presa) CHICAGO Jan Tyrus Cobb and Tris Speaker today were cleared of all charges which might make them in eligible for participation in professional baseball in a decision by Kenesaw Mountain Landis andgiven permission to rescind their withdrawal from baseball and re turn to the reserve lists of Detroit Tigers and Cleveland dlans respectively Cobb 1 and Sneaker appeared fore Commissioner Landis Novem ber 27 1926 and were informed that Dutch Leonard retired pitcherformerly with Detroit who had turned over letters to the Ameri can league stating that the game of September 25 1919 between Detroit and Cleveland had been fixed Cobb Speaker and Wood branded the qharge as false after they learned that Leonard had included them parties to the arrangement RULING is the Cobb Speakcr said' the decision by Commissioner Landis players have not been nor are they now found guilty of fixing a bail game By no decent system of justice could such finding be made Therefore they were not placed on the in eligible list they desire to rescind their withdrawal from baseball the re leases which the Detroit and Cleveland clubs granted at their requests in the circumstances de tailed above are cancelled ana these players' names are restored to I the reserve lists of those university according to a graph sent to Dean A A Totter of due by Professor Sherman of Ohio State university who gathered information on the lead ing engineering schools of the country showing the trend of en rollment in engineering Purdue enrollment is now with in 15 of the largest engineering institution in America the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology which reported an attendance oi 2151 Illinois is third with 1655 Ohio State fourth and Universlt: of Michigan fifth Enrollment it engineering at Purdue was 1000 ii 1916 and it has gone from 174 in the fall of 1924 up to the pres ent high mark DEGREE TO 6248 Purdue had awarded up to las' September 5622 undergraduate and 626 graduate degrees in en gineering a total of 6248 this number five sixths are in engin training The training giv en In Purdue has fitted them es pecially for service to factories and public works of Indiana majority of the engineering graduates aro in responsible po sitions including presidents vico prestaents ana engineers or rail roads" said Dean Potter There arc also many presidents man agers and other major executives of manufacturing presidents other engineers of elec tric gas water telephone and electric railway utilities: engin eers in connection with public works of towns and cities coun ties state and government: presidents deans and professors of engineering at colleges and' consulting engineers in private practice 17 I'll SigM HT.