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erasing that scar to give way for
Identification.
Several high grade and highly
beneficial organizations have sprung
into being in Indianapolis in the
last year because the convention
bureau wished to bring the national
conventions here and needed local
organization as nucleus.
When handsome coliseum's
gables loom in the sky in the near
future, the convention bureau will
revisualize the aid it gave serious
minded business men of Indianap-
oils in paving the way for that val
liable civic structure. Several years
Of effort lead up to this achievement,
but it was in the last twelve months
that the campaign was solidifed,
made a force which was irresistible
Conventions as an advertising
medium are specifically demonstrat-
ed by the International Topographic
cal Union which printed stories of
its convention here in its trade
journal going to 10000 members.
City Gets Favorable Publicity
The Disciples of Christ had 40, 1000
persons on its mailing list to re-
ceive reports of the convention
here. The National Federation of
Postoffice Clerks sent huge post
cards which we're reproduced with
feature stories in more than fifty
Metropolitan dailies.
More front page stuff" of favor
able nature comes out Of conventions
than any other source.
AS a host the bureau has per-
formed thousands of unseen tasks
It's hostess has made the visits of
women delegates a constant round
Of pleasure.
Throughout the nation the
bureaus representatives have trav-
eled, giving addresses. lobbying, dis
tributing circulars and buttons, all
shouting the name Of Indianapolis
and its virtues.
"a look is worth a thousand
words" an old Japanese proverb
said, and 1000 visitors have come
and seen. They have carried their
messages back home.
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YEAR SUCCESS
AT POSTOFFICE
Service Extended, Receipts
Increased in 1927.
NO. 3 Head-see Puzzle

The Indianapolis postof1ce has
kept pace with the growth Of the
city in 1927.
The outstanding feature was the
establishment, Dec. II, of direct air
mail service which means great saw
ing of time for indianapolis business
men mailing to distant points.
During the year delivery service
was extended to 1,441 new families
on outskirts of the city and city
delivery service was extended to
Speedway City.
= new classifi-I station was es-
tablished at 2943 Clifton St., in
North Indianapolis, with two clerks,
nine city carriers and one rural
carrier. Seven additional carriers
were assigned to the territory from
E. Michigan st. station. and con-
tracts have been let for several hun
dred additional square feet of space
at this station.
Negotiations are pending for addi-
tional space at Haughville Station,
534 N Belle Wen Pl. Five addi-
tional carriers were allowed to han
die the heavy growth in the north
and northeastern part of the city.
Gross postal receipts for the
year reached S4,730,O00 A total OF
3,039,934 money orders were issued
for S21, $50 1923.
A Christmas business in excess of
that Of last year was handled with
minimum of confusion and delay
Postmaster Robert H. Bryson was
reappointed for four more years a
few days ago, more than two years
after expiration of his previous ap-
pointment.
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PH Unitcd Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 31,-One
news event-the successful
nonstop fight of Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh from
New York to Paris-So far
eclipsed all others in the inter
est of American newspaper
readers that the year 1927 held
no other item comparable to it
in this respect.
The record of news from last
New Years day until this New
Years eve shows May 20 and
81, the dates of Lindbergh's
takeoff and his arrival in Paris
as the high points in American
interest in a news event.
This conclusion is based on
newspaper space allotted to the
Lindbergh story. telephone calls
to newspapers throughout the
country while the flight was in
progress and the size of crowds
in leading cities following bull
letinS on the event.
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BY HENRY 7. DAVIS
Convention Bureau Manager
Chamber of Commerce

A $5,4OO,0OO invisible industry"
operated with an overhead of less
than $4,000 in 1927, and every cent
of its income was disseminated
through the channels of trade in
indianapolis, is the record of the
Chamber of Commerce Convention
Bureau.
There are many little stories be-
hind that accomplishment Two
hundred fifty-seven conventions did
not come to the city by mere chance,
nor were they left to shift for them
selves when they arrived.
14O Signed for Next Year
Always working in the future, the
bureau intensified its political man
euverings-in a conventional sense"
its craftsmanship, its service, and
its work as a host in building for
The next four year. One hundred
and forty conventions already are
slated for 1928.
The exact attendance at 1927 con-
Yentions was 9S,291, exclusive of
wives and friends. One hundred
ninety-two were State conventions
with an attendance of II ,425, forty
three were national and interna-
tional with 22,415 delegates, and
twenty-five we're regional with ALSO
Conventions are slated for 1923, 90,
80 and 80. Among those for 1928
are conventions which will bring
from 1000 to 10000 delegates.
As business in all lines was
"whooped it up" and is demanding
tactics of a higher pressure, so has
the convention bureau attacked an
increasingly complex problem to
keep pace with cities which are just
as ambitious as Indianapolis to get
"a convention a day"
Throughout the United States
large commercial centerS and many
of the smaller ones are becoming
highly appreciative of the business
value, the advertising. the good will
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NezU Industries Brought
Here by G.. of G. Group

to secure branch Office here, and
making a comprehensive survey OF
local industry. the commission has
been directly responsible for bring
ing several factories to Indianapolis
and has been instrumental in To-
cation and financing of others.
Among the most important OF
thirteen factory propositions salts
factorily closed are the Baker Ice
Cream Machine Company, Omaha,
Neb.; Deubener Shopping Bag Com
pany, st. Paul, MINI; Hoover Manu-
featuring Company, st. Paul, Mimi;
Ward -Stilson Company, Anderson,
Ind; Beach & Arthur, Inc, Marion,
Ind.
Several hundred persons will be
employed by these plants within a
short time.
The commission has been instru-
mental in assisting in securing Of
finances for four additional new in
dustries, chief among which is the
Alloys Refining Company, 518
Guaranty Bldg.
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TAXES CUT, FREE OF DEBT,
State in BEST CONDITION
FOR 1928, Governor Says
Jackson Answers Critics of Administration Without
Specific Mention of Charges; Claims All Cam
pagn Promises Are Fulfilled.

Governor Ed jackson today used a New Year
Indiana citizens vehicle the first reply
critics of his administrations
He avoided specific reference any of the spe
charges which have against him Criminal
Court Indictment, otherwise. The statement:
Citizens of Indiana may well pause at the close of the year
1927 and contemplation of the benefits that have
crued to them from proper administration of State affairs
many of which have been overlooked in the first reaction
studied misrepresentation designing individuals selfish
newspapers.
Indiana entering 1928 free of all Indebtedness, with the
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and the culture to be obtained by
entertaining visitors from all Sec
tons of the continent.
Much Preliminary Work
1t was not always so. Where a
letter from the mayor and a per-
sonal invitation from the local Or
ganization represented all the work
involved in getting a convention,
there is now a long series Of steps
to be taken skilfully and at the
psychological moment if results are
to be entertained.
The bureau takes pride in its
achievement in offsetting derogatory
advertising by bringing 100000 dele
gates to indianapolis, together with
their wives and friends. to learn
that the Hoosier capitol is symbolic
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of this States hospitality, culture
and friendliness.
The bureau likes to reflect that it
has helped erase provincialism.
It holds proudly in retrospect
various victories that came only
after the staging of campaigns
which would give our most astute
politicians some pointers.
Many Benefits Accrue
Permanent benefits have been
given the city in the course Of
bringing conventions to Indianap-
oils. There was the case of the
dumping grounds where a beautiful
section should have existed. 1t took
a convention of $50 high-grade pro-
fessional men to select indianapolis
before the city officials civic pride
could be stimulated into action,
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tration the States Indebtedness was
$3,240,000 and the balance IN the
general fund was only $685., $685.
On July /, 1926, there was no State
Indebtedness and six months later
the balance in the general fund was
$7,O33, 53478.
The tax levy fixed in 1924, which
provided revenue for 1925, was %
cents. The levy for 1925 was the
same, but the next year this admin
istration reduced the levy to %
cents, and that levy has again been
adopted.
In the four years previous to this
administration the average tax levy
was 27l4 cents and for the three
years Of this administration it is
"a % cents.
Progress Not Curtailed
In the fulfllment OF the pledges
to pay the State debt and reduce
taxes, this Administrations did not
resort to Subterfuges such as cur
tailment of all improvements and
rehabilitation of the States finances
at the expense of progress.
During the three years of the adj
miniStration there has been added
to the permanent property valu-
ationS of the State lands and
structures for the twenty State in
situations. the department of con-
servation and the Statehouse annex
a capital investment of S5,52I DOL IL.
To the highway system Of the
State there has been added property
of the value of 35,0S5, 6I227.
Low Administrative Costs
In diana, free of all Indebtedness,
owns property reasonably appraised
at 1892 100000 and has in its various
funds balances totaling approx
mately S16,5o0,000.
Its per capita cost Of adminiStra-
ton. maintenance and interest is at
least $1,000 less than the average OF
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/ 1t was pointed out that MOI
houses were erected outside 8
the city limits this year than
inside.
This, realtors said was because Of
the built-up condition and because
some people object to paying high
taxes and will not build.
/ In the county, outside Of the city
limits, 2,183 houses were erected. Nd
! figures of those built last year and
] the valuation of the residences are
( avanaoie.
New Business PT0per1eS
Increase in improvements and new
/ business properties and apartments
was noted. TWenty-six storerooms
were erected until Dec. l this year
at cost of 81 ,405 400; eighteen
apartment buildings to house 405
/ families we're erected or started at a
cost of 1915 900; twenty different
4 business firms in the city erected
either additions to their present
plants or new buildings at cost OF
S531 900 and permits were obtained
from four new churches to cost
$171,4OO.
Erection Of stOrerooms and apart
ments is an accurate gauge to the
city's steady growth, it was ex-
/ planned.
In addition to this there is the
classification of special construc-
ton" which will be an asset to the
citys future. Among these is the
Scottish Rite Cathedral, the War
/ Memorial Plaza; the contemplated
cost Of the Memorial, the otheE
buildings nave a valuation Of $2,80O,As
600. Washington and Attacks schools
were completed this year ard Short
ridge was started as was the Me-
mortal and the Scottish Rite Cathe-
oral.
City Always Prosperous
The War Memorial, when finished,
viii be valued at more than
100000.
Donald Rider, elected executive
secretary Of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board. who collected the
business and real estate osVd, dIOlis
with other realtors, joined in the
good business" prediction for 1923.
THAT the city tax rate was not
1 increased for 1928 will be one Of the
/ causes for increased local business
and expansion next year" he said.
, Indianapolis business and real
estate men, however, are OF the
opinion that 1927 was successful.
; Indianapolis citizens and tazpay-
ers must remember that the city,
| has never showed a decline in busiA
Il ness and prosperity from one yeas
to the next-it has always enjoys
improvement.
There win be more employm
/ and more homes built. This VI
the cost OF building a house
creased about $500 over 1926. tn
is expected to be a demand for b
, ter homes.
"A recent survey Of special Co
nittee Of realtors showed farm la
prices have reached their low ma
/ and that there viii be better
mand in 1929
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lowest tax levy it has enjoyed
for many years, with healthy
general fund amply protected
by a strong budget, with ade
quate annual investments bringing
its several institutions to the front
rank of those in any State.
Our per capita cost of govern
ment is considerably below the av
erage of all the States; our annual
Institutional bettermentS have
value of at least 100000 and it
can not be denied that Indiana is
today enjoying an administration in
complete accord with the wishes of
a great majority of its citizens as
expressed in the last State cleo
ton.
Hits at Accusers
With these irrefutable markers of
good government standing forth on
the public records like beacon lights
in the night, it is almost incon-
ceivable that those without loyalty
to the State should find an audi
ence for their misrepresenta lions or
a field in which to SOW their rank
seeds of discomfort and suspicion
Yet it must be admitted that
throughout the year 1927 con-
Scienceless efforts to detract from
the glories of Indiana have been
successful enough temporarily to
defect the attention of many citi-
zens from the good that has been
accomplished to tales of evil that
have been irresponsibly told and
never proved.
Popular government has never
been more thorough of accomplish
ment in Indiana than it has in the
last three years, during which the
State administration has driven
steadily to the fulhllment of its
mandate from the people without
regard to the thoughtless and per-
haps intentional Misrepresentation
of misled men of prominence, voiced
through newspapers Of dubious re-
sponsibilities.
Endorsed at Elections
Popular government is that gov
eminent which demonstrates its
proximity to the people by accom-
plishing those things which the peo-
pie have commanded its admins
tration to accomplish.
In the campaign of 1924 the people
of Indiana Endorsed the present ad-
ministration pledges.
To pay the public debt;
To reduce State taxes;
To strengthen the budget law;
To adopt and abide by the pay
as-you-go method of Improvement:
To revise the financial policies of
the State.
In the campaign of 1926 the ad-
ministration further pledged relief
to the farmers of the State by reas-
sessment of all real estate.
The coming of the year 1928 finds
All these pledges redeemed, a fact
tmat should prove to the people of
Indiana that popular government is
not only possible but existent.
At the beginning Of this admins
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AID LABOR WITH LAWS
Important Legislation for Workers
Passed in Last Year.

II - Ism Tq NfaDrfnI
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-New laws
to protect the safety, health and ef-
ficiency Of labor, which were enacted
in 1927 by the forty-four States that
held legislative sessions and by
Congress, include an important ex-
tension Of workmen's accident COM
pensation to workers in all States in
employments hitherto unprotected,
and notably increased benefits I'M
der existing acts. together with adj
vances in old age pensions, coal mine
safety maternity protection and vo-
cational rehabilitation Of crippled
workers, acc@S % an annual sur
vey just con by the American
Association Dor Legislation.
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BY CLIFFORD L. HARROD
General Manager of the Chamber of Com
merce Industrial Commission

General Manager of the Chamber of Com
merce Industrial Commission
Remarkable results have been
achieved by the indianapolis Cham
Der of Commerce industrial COM
mission, headed by A. Kiefer Mayer,
chairman, during the eight months
of its existence.
Among the most important ac-
tivities of the commission has been
its efforts in obtaining for Indian
apolis a branch Office of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Congress now has before it recon-
mendations for establishment of
several new branches, Indianapolis
heading the list.
This new branch, to be opened
probably July l, is expected to
bring thousands of dollars in addi-
tional business each year for In
dianapolis manufacturers.
In addition to assisting the United
States shipping board in attempting
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levee, Louisiana, dynamited to save
New Orleans; 5000 now homeless, $50 dead
in Mississippi flood.
MAY
5-Nicaraguan liberals accept terms of Henry
L. Stinson, President Coolidges special
representative, and lay down their arms.
Poplar Bluff, Mo-, and several Texas towns
hit by tornado; 200 dead
sugar bowl" district flooded; Sec
rotary Hoover announces flood refugees now
total 100000.
bombs school at Bath Mich; forty
four children killed.
bureau shakeup sees Seymour
Lowman and DR.. James Doran succeed
Gen. Lincoln c. Andrews and Maj. Roy
Haynes.
1-Governor Alvan r. Fuller of Massachusetts,
names special committee to review Sacco-
Vanzetti case.
1-Ontarios dry law comes to an end after
eleven years.
1LSoviet Russia executes 100 after scare over
foreign spies
Coolidges naval disarmament
conference opens in Geneva.
JULY
Henry Ford retracts hi santi-Jewish cam
paign statements.
11-One thousand people killed by earthquakes
in Palestine.
16-socialist mob seizes Vienna; seventy killed,
1900 hurt in street rioting.
2O-T<ing Ferdinand of Rumonia dies.
2S-Earthquakes in Kansu province, China,
cause huge loss Of life
Sd. c. Stephenson begins his expose of po-
litical corruption before an Indianapolis
grand. jury.
AUGUST
2-President Coolidge announces he does not =,
choose to run for President in 1929
+Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, declines
to intervene in Sacco-V anzetti case.
4Geneva naval conference ends in a dead
lock.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general
of the Philippines, dies
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JANUARY

JANUARY
Sire in Laurier Palace Theater Montreal,
kills seventy-siX children
11-Anti-foreign trouble begins in China with
riots in Foochow.
twenty-one ball players accused of throw
mig games.
Supreme Court upholds famous
monkey law
16-George Young wins Catalina Island chan
mel marathon swim.
FEBRUARY
limited States marine battalion ordered to
China to protect American lives.
3-ReVolution breaks out in Lisbon Portugal,
but is soon put down.
16-Chinese Nationalist capture Hangchow.
28-United States Supreme Court cancels Do
heny's Elk Hills lease as fraudulent.
MARCH
4-Col Thomas w. Miller, former alien prop
erty custodian, convicted of conspiracy to
defraud the Government; Harry Daugherty
is acquitted
Earthquakes kill $4,000 near Osaka and
Kobe, Japan.
16-Harry F. Sinclair found guilty of contempt
of the Senate for refusing to answer ques-
lions about Teapot Dome.
21-Chinese Nationalist capture Shanghai.
24-United States and English warships rescue
foreigners from attack of Chinese at Nam
king, Smelling the native quarter.
29-New auto speed record of 2O3 miles per hour
set by Maj. H. o. D. Seagrave at Daytona
Beach, Fla.
APRIL
5-William Hale Thompson elected mayor of
Chicago.
9-Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti sem
fenced to death for alleged murder of pay
master and guard six years before.
12-Tornado at Rock Springs, Texas, destroys
town and takes hfty-six lives.
14-NIissssippi river reaches flood stage from
st. Louis to Cairo, Ill.
17-Levees break in Arkansas and $4,000 are
made homeless.
kill forty five in Illinois, Missouri,
Nebraska and Oklahoma.
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the United States Steel Corporation, dies
H. Gary, chairman of the board Of
22-Sacco and Vanzetti executed at Charles
town prison, Massachusetts.
SEPTEMBER
5-Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the
Anti-Saloon League, dies.
9-Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana and
Mayor John DuvaH Of indianapolis indicted
on charges of attempted bribery.
Legion convention opens in Paris
22-Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey at Chi
cago and retains his title.
29-Ninety die in st. Louis tornado; $50 homes
destroyed.
OCTOBER
S-Gens. Arnulfo Gomez an6 Francisco Ser
rano, presidential candidates in Mexico;
revolt.
4-Mexican revolt crushed; General Serrano
executed.
8-New York Yankees win fourth straight
game from Pittsburgh Pirates and take
world baseball championship
1O--United States Supreme Court cancels Harry
F. Sinclair's lease Of Teapot Dome oil re-
serve.
26-Italian liner Principessa Mafalda sinks off
Brazilian coast; more than 300 drown.
NOVEMBER
Trial of Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B.
Fall halted by charges of jury tampering
2-More than 100 lives lost in New England
floods.
5-Last flame of Mexican revolt put out by
execution of General Gomez.
1LBig gas tank in Pittsburgh explodes; TWEEN
ty-six lose lives
DECEMBER
wrecks several Great Lakes steamers
Legislature evades militia, votes
to impeach Governor Johnston.
completes nonstop flight from
Washington to Mexico City.
15-Senate investigates Hearst documents al
leging Mexican attempts to bride United
States Senators.
17-Submarine S-4 goes down at Provincetown,
Mass, with forty men, after being rammed
by coast guard destroyer.
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By NEA Service
PASO ROBLES, Cal, March 3D.
Pennant hopes are high among the
Pittsburgh Pirates this spring.
With peace and harmony restored
by ownie Bush, the lads from the
smoky city hope to romp home with
the bunting that might have been
theirs last year had it not been for
internal dissension.
In these spring days when every
baseball writer turns prophet-most
of them bad-the Pirates aren't talk
ing for publication. But they display
E. world Of stuff in daily workouts at
The local ball park. Although great
" pleased with the way his gang is
rounding into shape, the former De-
troit shortstop, who led indianapolis
last year, is particularly silent on
the future.
Pittsburgh's success depends al
most entirely upon the moundsmen.
The rest Of the squad looks great.
If the pitchers deliver, Ownie Bush
should make some big league owners
wish they had hung on to him.
The infield will line UP practically
the same as in 1926 with George
Grantham on first, Hal Rhyme on
second, Glenn Wright at short and
"Pie" Traynor holding down third.
Waner, Cuyler and Barnhart will
start the season as the regular fly
chasers. Waiting on the bench to
replace the first one who shows any
signs Of slackening his pace will be
Adam Comorosky, young Pole who
was picked up around the Pennsyl-
vania coal mines.
Johnny Gooch and Smith are my
backstops, but I also have an ace