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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
FRAUD PROOF BILL
FOR ABSENT VOTE
HOUSES PROBLEM
Measure Adequate to Meet
All Demands Is Sought
by Election Body.

How to transfer ballots between
a proposed absent voters board and
the regular election board without
giving an opportunity for fraud is
the problem confronting the Indiana
House of Representatives committee
on elections.
The committee considered two alb
sent voter measures before the
House at its first meeting Wednes-
day afternoon. The first by Repre-
sentatives Edward B. Bender and
William Dentlinger would repeal the
present law in its entirety. The
other, proposed by Representative
Truman G.. Murden, would amend
the present law so as to permit
voters necessarily absent to appear
before a county bipartisan board of
two members not more than ten nor
less than two days previous to the
election and, after making an aft
davit, setting forth qualifications
and necessity of absence, cast their
ballots in sealed envelopes.
So far the amendment made Il
strong appeal to members of the
committee, but the measure failed
to make a fraud proof provision for
the transfer of the ballots to the
various precincts by the county alb
sent-voter board.
We've got to make this fraud
proof" declared Representative AL
bert Wedeking, cor We'll have the
same story of corruption again" The
committee is now studying the ques-
ton Of transporting the ballots with
out affording chances for tampering
We've had lots of corruption in
the operation of the absent voter
law. We Democrats discovered
crooked work on the part Of the Re-
publcans at q recent election and
were making plans to prosecute,
when. behold, it was found that
some Democrats were in the mud
just as deep as the Republicans
were in the mud. Prosecution plans
were stopped" said Representative
Bender.
A. E. Gordon, representing the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers, told the committee
that $4,000 railroad men were af-
fected by the absent voter bill. He
insisted on the amendment.
w. II. Miller of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen; +. l.. King,
representing the conductors; +. II.
Harrington of the engineers and
T. y. Taylor of the Federation of La
Dor were present and spoke for the
amendment.
The committee continued it's con-
sideration until today at 8 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
!ALK, SAVE WORK, SA VS. DlUSSOLLNY

had to be kept that the orators might
all speak in their turn. 1t Is this
new spirit of business-like service
which has penetrated our people and
1t is in no place more marked than
in the Chamber and Senate. The
Deputies and Senators have caught
the spirit and perform their functions
without the former volubility, that
the affairs of the government might
proceed with the least possible de-
lay.
This spirit has resulted in great
saving of time for me. 1t has not
been necessary for me to prepare a
speech for either the Chamber of
Deputies or the Senate for almost a
year now. The last two addresses
made were of an educational char
acter-one in Perugia on the open
ing of the University and the other
in Bologna. before the Italian Scienti-
fic Congress, just before an attempt
was made on my life. My addresses
before the two houses of parliament
can now he delivered in few words.
The last tiDle | spoke before the Sen
ate, asking for the passage Of some
drastic police measures. l did not say
more than ten words. The time,
therefor. which was ordinarily spent
on the preparation of long orations
for the pleasure of the parliamen-
tarians can now be devoted to the
administration of some practical
utility.
And speeches to the Fascist Grand
Council have been cut to q minimum.
Our work is all prepared and dis
cussed beforehand so that when those
who direct the affairs of the party
meet, little time is lost in useless rhet.
oric. Sometimes, it devolves upon
me to make a speech to various
gatherings of fascists, these speeches
are becoming shorter and shorter.
When enthusiastic groups of fascists
come to salute me in the Piazza
Colonna and beckon me to come on
to the balcony my words are few. 1t
is enough to utter a few phrases to
give the message and watch-word of
the hour. 1t has happened a hundred
times, when I have been called to
the balcony, that 1 have simply
shouted mo speech, Go awayr'
Italians have followed my leader
ship and have enlisted in a union
which 1 have called for some time
1.-The Corporations del silenziari. D."
BY that is intended tthe promotion of
acts and the subordination of words.
Too long had we discussed and
formulated and philosophical. Now
we have begun to perform, and
these performances are making
themselves every day more manifest
In our increasing production, our in.
tensive agriculture, our building of
transportation systems, our con.
struction of ships and our manifold
activities in this complex civilization.
Italy is working more and talking
less than ever.
Fasting two or three times a
month Is good for anyone, says
Premier MussOlini i'm his next article
to appear in The Times tomorrow,
explaining that to this custom he
ascribes much Of his physical and
mental welIbeing. MussOlini de-
clares that the "abhOrs fat people,"
and has even no sympathy for his
brother Arnauld, who is fat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
Chance for
Jingle
Writers

Jingle writer's, here's your
chance.
Besides making yourself
known as a limerick master,
you can get without any trouble
or coin a box Of delicious sweets
via the Times Nancy Hart Con
test Route. Just put on your
skid chains and settle down to
a little simple thinking and
write the last line to a four line
Jingle. Before you know IT
you'll be rounding the curve to
success and find a box OF Nancy
Hart chocolates awaiting you.
On the first page of the classi-
fled ad section you'll find every
day a jingle minus its last line.
All you have TO do is put the
finishing touches to it by add
ing the fifth line to rhyme with
the first two and of the same
meter. You can say anything
you want in anyway.
Twenty-Five boxes of Nancy
Hart will be given daily for the
twenty-five best missing lines.
You can't fail, for you can have
a fresh start every day with a
brand new limerick to try your
jingling ability on. Read the
rules and then try your hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13

been built and yet. not in a single
case was there a speech delivered,
whereas, formerly, such events were
accompanied by orations and the
flare of trumpets, the clapping of
hands and great shouts of joy. The
joy was there and the events popu-
lar, but no speeches overdid it with
useless words.
Recently, we set up seventeen new
provinces to facilitate the administra-
ton of these localities. Such events
were usually accompanied by great
outpouring, parades and speeches,
yet in not one Of these new prov
inces which were overjoyed and
rang all the bells of the ancient
cathedrals was there any sign of
oratorical display and all in com
pliance with the new spirit of silent
work. The administration of these
provinces was organized and set to
work without occasioning the
slightest furry on the part of the
population, which continued at their
tasks more actively than ever, as
Thanksgiving for their new dignity.
While this new feeling has taken
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
POWER REBA TIE PROBE WILL START SOON
Member of Public Service to
Commission to- Start
Move Next Week.

An immediate investigation of the
power cost rebate charges made by
Attorney General Arthur l.. Gilliom
before the public service commission
at the time of the merger hearing.
will be instituted by the public serv.
ice commission, it was learned today.
Gilliom stated that he had reliable
evidence that rebates amounting
to approximately one-half million
dollars annually were given two local
light utilities and to large power
users of Indianapolis. He recalled
that The Indianapolis News in 1920
was found by the courts to have re-
ceiyed rebates amounting to $112.50
in one month
Covered Up
Instead Of stopping this practice
as they promised when fines of
$4,000 were assessed" Gillian said,
they have only changed the method
of covering 1t up"
At the time Of the Gilliom expose,
Commissioner Frank Wampler, then
presiding, declared that the commits
sion would make Il complete investi-
cation after the merger hearing had
been completed.
A member Of the public service
commission proposes to submit a
resolution next week calling for an
immediate investigation Of these
charges. An open hearing will be
held at which time the entire mat
ter will be thoroughly probed.
100000 Year
This rebate system costs the
small Indianapolis consumers $780,
900 every year." said Gilliom. 81
cannot be deferred from my duty
by fear Of the indianapolis News
or any other paper, and am deter
mined to go to the bottom of this
matter. Those guilty shall be
brought before the bar Of Justice"
Gilliom's cooperation is expected
by the public service commission in
its investigation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
By Benito MussOlini, Premier OF Italy
as told to
Thomas Il. Morgan, Rome Manager or the
nitad praaa

Thomas Il. Morgan, Rome Manager or the
This is the eighth of q, series of
articles on his daily life and work by
Morgan, Rome manager Of the United
Press. Each article in this series has
been personally Tyre revised Is corrected and
One very useful assistance in
pushing forward the days work has
resulted from our efforts to reduce
the amount of talk to a minimum.
The government offices were former
ly the abode Of babbling tell-tales
who dwelled on political gossip or
hearsay from morning till night,
commenting and recommending.
forecasting and adjudicating, taking
mp the governments time and i'm
peding the business of state. From
my Office down, this prevalence of
wasted discourse is now at an end.
Government employees cannot en-
gage in protracted political chatter
on the governments time. / am,
severely and prominently, no ex-
ception to this rule.
Speeches occupied no little part Of
a premier's time under the old
regime Some of them made it their
principal activity. They devoted
days and days to a single speech,
copying and recopying, changing
and adjusting, so as to make a
great display before the people
Some even based their capacity to
hold the offices Of premier on their
ability to make a speech. Their ad-
miniStrative functions were subord-
mated to their oratorical regulations
aand the government thus suffered
for the lack of a thorough admin
instrative policy. There is none of
that today. Speech-making has
been relegated to the background.
There was a period in which fas-
cism was entrenching its position.
Then it. was necessary to carry the
people, the meaning of our govern
ment. At that time, first, for the
inspiration Of our own adherents,
and secondly, for the instruction of
the people, there was real need to
tell the people why we had assumed
power and what we intended to do
lOI luel bOOQ VI lldlS IOudys OuT
mission is well-known and accepted
by all classes of the people. There
is no need Of flowery orations and
eXhortations. We have translated
into acts what we promised in words.
This spirit of doing and not talk
ing has permeated not alone the
government organization but also
the ranks of the people, high and
low. 1t runs deep in the affairs of
the fascist party, from those who
direct it. to those who serve in the
ranks. l have given implicit orders
that all oratory and celebrations are
to be dispensed with and have estab-
lished that this Is the hour of work
! and that speeches and ceremony, can
be postponed until after the work
was done.
A recent example of how the spirit
of silent work has thoroughly satur-
ated our people, is shown in the
construction of the new railroad
along the Ionian Sea in Calabria.
The work of constructing this rail-
road has gone on silently and la
boriously for many months Thir-
teen new and extensive bridges have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
ANNUAL DINNER
TO BE REUNION
Community Fund Banquet
to Be Held Tuesday.

Plans to make a Hoosier reunion
of the seventh anniversary dinner
meeting of the Community Fund
have been announced following the
acceptance of John A. Lapp Of Chi
cago, formerly Indianapolis man,
who will speak at the meeting to be
held Tuesday evening, Feb. 8, in the
Riley room of the Claypool.
Lapp is president Of the National
Conference of Social Work.
In 1917 Lapp served in the library
department of the Indiana Legisla-
ture, compiling books on important
Federal laws, rules and regulations.
He is at present affiliated with the
National Catholic Welfare Council in
Chicago.
It is planned to close reservations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
MANLY ELECTED
indianapolis Life Insurance Names
Officers.

A. Leroy Portteus, city, and
George A. Raub of Logansport, Ind,
have been reelected directors of the
indianapolis Life Insurance Com
pany.
officers elected: Frank p. Manly,
president. Edward B. Raub, vice
president and general counsel; Jo-
seph r. Raub secretary; +. A. Por-
ter, actuary; DIR. J. b. Young and
'Dr. Frank A. Morrison, medical di-
E'ectors.
Portteus was advanced from cash
Ter to treasurer and J. c. Caperton
From agency manager to second vice
president. Other appointments. w.
Irving Palmer, agency seer etary; B.
+. Pfieffer, assistant secretary, and
Charles Rouse, cashier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
ACCUSED MAN CHERRY
Norris, Minister Charged With Muir
der, Appears i'm Good Spirits.
2u United Press

BIZ United Press
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 13.-Notice-
ably in high spirits, the Rev ].
Frank Norris came into the drab
Tevis County courtroom today to sit
through the tedious proceedings at
tendant on selecting four more jur-
ors to make up the twelve men to
determine his guilt or innocence of
the murder of ID. +. Chips, wealthy
Ft. Worth lumberman.
The Baptist minister. for the first
time since the trial started Monday.
chatted freely with newspaper men
and with court attaches.
Mrs. Chips, divorced widow of
the slain man. and her 16-year-old
son came up the worn old court
stairs shortly after Norris. This was
her first day in the courtroom since
Monday. when the trial opened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
SEEK ELIMINATION I
OF POLITICS FROM
RELIEF OF NEEDY
Bill to Be Presented for
Regulation of County
Poor Expenditures.

Taking the politics out of relief
for the poor Of Marion County by es
tablishing new body to be known
as Marion County board of public
welfare, is the chief aim Of the pro-
posed bill which may be presented
to the Indiana House Of Representa-
tives Friday morning, according to
w. A. Insley. president Of the Fam
lily Welfare Society.
High expenditures made by the
present and past nine township
trustees who are said to be unfa-
miliar with welfare work admins
tration, is another reason advanced
by Insley. "No political system is
competent to give poor relief" he
said.
Six members will comprise the
new board. not more than three of
which shall belong to the same pc.
liiical party. All poor relief money
spent in Marion County shall be
controlled by this committee. Oper-
alton costs Of the county poor farm,
Detention Home, Colored Orphans
Home and County Insane Asylum
will be regulated by the six mem
bers. This body will not receive
pay for their services, but shall hire
trained welfare workers, whose duty
will be to administer to the needy.
Inspiration for this proposed bill
came from moneys spent in the past
by various township trustees. In
Center Township $94,941 was spent
for poor relief in 1925, against $50.
23S in 1924; Wayne, 1925, $2,677,
against $1,470 for 1924 All Of the
townships in 1925 felt a substantial
increase over the previous year. The
total In 1925 was SOL, $3.50, compared
with $23,935 in 1924.
The proposed bill will in no man.
ner affect any welfare society now
existing. Insley said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
ROGERS TO PAY COUNT
Salm VIII Get More Than $500, 900 to
Square Marriage suit.
u United PrcSs

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. ia dividend
of less than one per cent on the
$40 100000 the Rogers family made
out Of Standard Oil will be paid to
the Impoverished Austrian nobleman,
who married the heiress to that
fortune, it was reported today.
Count Ludwig Salm, whose mar
riage to Millicent Rogers provided
an international sensation three
years ago, is, expected soon to with
draw his suit for separation. In re-
turn he will receive an amount in eX-
cess of $500, 900 and will be per-
mitted to see his son, Peter, at stated
intervals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
TRAIN KILLS RAILROADER

BIZ United Press
LA PORTE, Ind, Jan. f3.-Mattas
Johnson. 81. was struck and instant
ly killed when he stepped in front OF
a Baltimore & Ohio freight train.
Wednesday night. near Union Mills.
The body was dragged 300 feet and
badly mangled. He was an employee
Of the railroad and was going to
work when the accident occurred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
PUZZLED BY CONFESSION
Officials Doubtful About Mans Story
of MelIett Case.

BIZ CHitcd Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 49,
officials investigating the murder
Of Don r. Mellett, Canton (Ohio
editor. today were possession Of q
signed confession by Jack Lopez
awaiting deportation at Laredo
Texas. duplicating five persons.
Just how much of the confession
made to c. II. Sisson, special de
tective for Governor Donahey IL.
Laredo, can be believed Is puzzlin
officials who have been investigating
the mystery.
Lopez has a habit of makins
confessions, the Governors ofiic,
has learned, and it was thought his
story to Sisson was given in the
hope that he may be returned il
Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
SLAIN IN LIBERTY DASH

va Tnited Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 13.--One
Soldier was shot and killed during
khe night in an attempt of eleven
military prisoners to escape from the
guardhouse at TT. Hayes, it was
learned today. The leader of the plot,
Private John ID. Kearns of Braddock,
pa, was rhot through the head by
b guard after he had climbed
Through a window of the guardhouse
hnd ignored the commands of the
sentry, officers at the fort said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
FAIL IN TRAIN H0LD-UP
Conductor Makes One Arrest, Pas
senger Nabs Second Man.

By United Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 1.-TWO
alleged train bandits were in Gus
tody here today after an unsuccess-
full attempt to rob passengers in a
day coach of the keystone Express.
New York-St. Louis Flyer. between
Greensburg. Pa. and this city shortly
before midnight.
One bandit was overpowered as he
backed into the arms of Conductor
Charles Hollabaugh as he was
emerging from the baggage car,
after robbing J. W. Darcy. New
York, baggagaman. The other was
captured by J. J. Fulton, JOhnstown.
Pa, q passenger, in a struggle in
the aisle of the coach.
The pair. booked here. gave their
names as William Hebner, 21. Ty-
rome. Pa, and l.. 3. Rhodes, 80, Day
ton, Ohio
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
GreenSburg

DU IlM.S NDtCtIt
GREE NSBURG, Ind. Jan. 10
Forces of the home town folks to
prevent the octopus of outside CAPT
tai from gobbling up their indepen-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13

The age of a salmon can be learned
by examining it's scales through a
THE scales contain a
humber of tiny lines which multiply
bit the rate Of sixteen every year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13

for the dinner one week in advance
of the date set. Reservations are
limited to 500 and are being made
through Miss Winifred S. Brown at
Community Fund headquarters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
Danger Pointed Out

The officers warn the stockholders,
Under the law these new pur,
chasers, whoever they may be, may
petition the public service commits
sion to lease, sell or transfer the
stock of this company, or merge our
company with some other company,
In the event such step is taken you
will have to appear before the public
service commission within sixty days
thereafter and ask the commission to
determine the value of your stock
Otherwise you may be left entirely
out"
Meanwhile the small stockholders
have their eyes on two local men, one
an influential politician, who are
known to have been buying up the
stock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
HOME FOLKS FIGHT
FOR WNPHONE CO.
Utility Officers Warn Stockholders of
Scheme of Outside Capital.

dent non-profit telephone company
were being m&rshaled today for what,
promises to be a bitter struggle.
Like Paul Revere calling the pa
triots to arms, the spectre of a large
corporation swallowing the little one
with consequent higher rates and
squeezing out of small stockholders
dashes up and down the countryside.
Hold Stock, Plea
The gobbling up appeared so i'm.
minent that officers of the Decatur
County Independent Telephone Com.
pany issued warning to stockhold-
ers through Greensburg newspapers.
They urged the shareholders to re-
tain their stock and heed not the
siren song of those who are quietly
gathering 1t up at prices which have
ranged from Sc to SIS a share.
The officers say the stock is worth
$500 a share, although of only S25
par values. They base this on the
fact that appraisers put a $500, 1000
valuation upon the property. Only
$50, 600 worth Of stock is outstand-
ing.
Lawyers Retained
The company officers have re.
tanned Greensburg lawyers to repre-.
Sent them in the expected fight with
the hidden forces which are gather.
ing the stock and urge small stock.
holders to join.
Two theories as to the scheme be.
hind the quiet attempt to seize the
majority of stock are held:
One, that spectators went TO get
control at low prices, then go before
the public service commission, get
a higher valuation than 100000 and
unload the property upon some other
company for a fat profit.
Two, that an established companyA
is trying to get control so as to
merge the Independent phone lines
into its own without opposition.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-11-03

The Carbon County Extension COM
mittee held its annual fall meeting at
Fromberg last Friday and adopted its
1927-1928 constitution and bylaws
The name, Carbon County Home
Demonstration Council, was adopted
for the organization. County officers
for the ensuing year will be Mrs.
Jordon Bean of Bridger, chairman;
Mrs. Roy Duell, Roberts, vice-chair-
man; Mrs. James Burnett, Luther,
secretary and treasurer.
Following the adoption of bylaws
and the election of officers Miss
Jessie Mcqueen, state nutrition spec
ialist, gave interesting and instruc-
tive demonstrations on "The Winter
Cook Book" and Holiday Food Sug-
gestions." The use of fruits and vege-
tables was particularly stressed and
many new recipes were offered. The
tentative schedule for the home DEM
onstration meetings during the month
of November will be as follows: No
vember A, Belfry; November 5, Lu.
ther; November 7, Draper Commun