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They bewidered. In their bewilderment they
have lost their morale, and at the wander
ing about in fog of gossip and innuendo
A IL of this is only too painfully evident But it is
very easy to exaggerate its Importance, and easier
still to be wholly misled by it. Thus little inqusitive-
ness will teach any observer here that divided
counsels and uncertainty of policy not confined to
the Americans
They are present among the British. If any one
Supposes that the British government has definite
convictions than to what it wants and where
is going, he is think, greatly deluded The British
are more discreet than we are They keep up APP
pearances successfully. They their hesitating
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BIZ United Press

ST. LOUIS. June 2s.-Cash grain: Wheat
IN good demand. 494 a 6a4c higher: No. 3
req. 87g89l2c; No. red 8674 a SIC; No. &
87c light; hard wheat. 5la 07c higher: No
| hard 881ac; No. hard, 9Oc nominal;
NO. mixed. 88c soft Corn-In good
oemand;- 212d3 &c higher: No l yellow
5l12c; No. 2 yellow. 5OG 5l6c: No. 3 vel
1 mT:tv oN ~ a SIC; No. 6, yellow. 4sd461gc
slow demand &c higher. NO No ay wbits
Al 12c: No. mixed 4Ol2c: No. 2 red dc
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BY UNITED PRESS
$4,000 TO BE PAID
One-Eighth of Indebtedness Will
Be Retired.

A total of S75O.00O. one-eighth of
the city's Barrett law Indebtedness
of 100000, will be paid within the
next three months, the first pay
merits to be made Saturday.
Martin H. Walpole, chief clerk in
the Barrett law department, in an
nouncing the payment. plan today,
said the S750,0OO will cover both
bonds and interest for various pro-
jects. including sewer construction
and street improvement.
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In the Cotton Markets
NEW ORLEANS
CHICAGO FRUIT MARKET

CHICAGO. June 27.-Apples-Illinois
TransparentS bushei. s0cQSl Strawberries
-Mlchlgan Premiers. DunlapS Gibsons
SiM IS: Wisconsin Beavers PremierS
Sl.50sIl.I5. CherrieS-Michigan Sour is
quarts 75c9Sl observation-disclosures Red
LathamS. 81. 1562 so: Indiana Reds 81 rs
a2.50: Indiana Blackcaps. sl25TI SO.
BlackberrleS Illinois. SIPS Onion
market-TeXaS. United States No
CRYSTALS White waxed and Yellow Ber-
mudas bushel. sl.40q l.50: California. vel
lows. sl.4Nal.6o.
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Chicago Primary Receipts
Chicago Futures Rance
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN

CHICAGO. June 2s.-Cash grain close.
Wheat-.-No: hard 86lac; No. 3 hard SSc
C Cor! 2 mixed, 4sq 481ac; No. 3 mixed ed
55Og5Ic; No: yellow, 5OG5ic: No. 3 Yellow iH;
48m 4912c: No. yellow, 48d 49i2c. No (
yellow 45@46c; No. 8 yellow, Ala 44c; No.
H. ! Wnlte SOC; No. 4994@ soc: No white
a2@ 44c; sample grade, 34642c Oats-No
white, 40G41c: No. 3 white. 3sla a 4oi2c:
NO. white. 3812Q39Ac. Rye-No sales
6ar!ey = 40q6lc Timothy = S325G 8 so.
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Wall Street
Employment Increase Reflects Improvement in Bust
neSS Further Betterment Is Looked For.
by RALPH HENDERSON,
Times Special Financial Writer

Employment
President
ton of Labor That
country which had reports during
the last three improved
that business
buying power which has been created begins
And the derations probably
further beterment
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a cumulative effect throughout the nation.
While it may be still too early to make positive
statements concerning trade prospects, it looks very
much now as if the worst of the depression is def
initey behind us. The ongawaited spur to industry
has been received and everything points to increasing
activity, even though some uncertainty still exists
as result of the methods employed to bring it about
One Economic Truth Holds
The reactionaries-those who were in favor Of
letting the depression work itself out if it took the
next hundred years to do so-nus be feeling little
low just They must be wondering how they
ever got away with their preachings long they
did Some, of course, still claim the New Deal" was
an economic mistake but the weight of their opinions
is not heavy any moreat least not in Washington
One important economic truth received confrma
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The Civ
i'm Brief
WEDNESDAY EVENTS

WEDNESDAY EVENTS
kiwanis Club. Luncheon, Columbia
Lions Club, luncheon. Washington.
= Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon.
American Legion. Twelfth district,
Board of Trade
Bsraca-PhiIathea Union. convention. 4
church
League for the Hard of Hearing, meet
ing, 1880 p. M, Stokes building.
Apartment Owners. luncheon. Wash
Home Builders Association, dinner,
$50 p M, Washington.
Mayor Reginald II. Sullivan Mon
day was presented with a large
American flag by committee of
the woman'S auxiliary of the Span
iSh- American War Veterans in con-
vention here.
Principal speaker at the luncheon
Wednesday of the Kiwanis club at
the Columbia Club will be Hilton r.
Jones, Chicago research chemist.
Speaker for the Lions Club lunch
SOA4 w COAACOOdy DIT bllt w dSlllIlE OO1l
will be the Rev. Guy o. Carpenter,
pastor of the Irvington Methodist
church.
Mrs. LOttie Cook. 1915 Polk street,
will be hostess Thursday at her
home for the George H. Chapman
drill team, No. 10. A covered dish
luncheon will be served. A business
session in the afternoon will be fol-
lowed by card party.
Picnic of the Fountain Square
Safety Club will be held Thursday
at Garfield park, sponsored by the
accident prevention bureau of the
police department.
A program of semi classics, folk
songs and spirituals will be given
at 7:45 Thursday night at Central
Avenue M. E. church by the Negro
male quartet of Clark college, At
lanta, Ga.
While his truck was parked in
front of South Eighth street
restaurant Monday, Lawrence Turn
er of Lebanon, reported to police
that cigarets valued at $50 were
stolen.
Last meeting before the vacation
period will be held tonight by the
Butler Fairview Civic Association in
the Fairview Presbyterian church.
Kenwood avenue and Forty sixth
street. Paul G. Wetter, president of
the Indianapolis Federation of Com
munity Civic clubs, will speak.
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Average Stock Prices

Average of thirty industrials for Mon
day. high 9910. low 95. 49, last 9849 Vp
2.82. Average of twenty rails 1881. "A "
1916. up SO. Average of twenty utilities
1888. 34.38. $500. up "a. Average of
forty bonds 85.51 up 23. Average of ten
first rails. 91:0l. up ,34. Average of ten
second rails 1909 up 30. Average of ten
utilities 92.76. off 90 Average of ten
industrialS 86.17 up 06
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Bright Spots
By United Press

Baltimore & Ohio railroad re-
ports May net operating income Of
S2,252,817, against s1,288,197 in May,
1882.
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, reports
business failures in week ended June
u numbered 373, smallest total since
October, 1929.
Missouri Pacific railroad reports
May net operating income of s676,-
GOT, against $291,973 in May last
year
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Produce Markets

Delivered in Indianapolis prices: Hens,
heavy breeds over 412 lbs. SC: Leghorns.
&c. Broilers: Colored springers. 1la lbs
up 13c; springers Heghorn1. IL lbs up
loo; bare backs. 7c: cocks and stays. &c;
Leghorn cocks and Leghorn stays, Sc
Ducks. large white. full feathered and fat
over lbs. &c: small and coIored, &C.
Geese. full feathered and fat. &c. Young
gulneas. zoe; old guineas. 15c. Eggs-No. ]
fresh country run eggs. &c. Each full egg
case must weigh SIS lbs. gross; deduction
OF 10c per Id. for each ID. under SIS lbs
gross will be made. Quoted by the Wadley
Company.
BY UNITED PRESS
CHICAGO. June Eges-Market.
firm: prices i2c higher receipts. 1276i
cases. extra firsts. 1898 a lac: firsts. 1871 n
l394c, current receipts. 12Ac: dirties.
l0iac. Butter-Market firm: price "a to
l2c higher: receipts. 1899 tubs; specials,
PAS q 25l4c; extras. 24Ac: extra f1rsts %
6t2394c: flrsts. gig a 22c: seconds. 18G zoe;
standards. 24i4c. Poultrv-Market. steady:
receipts, 50 trucks: fowls. 10G10iac: Leg
horns broilers: l2@lsc: Leghorns &c:
ROSTERS. &c; broilers. i4G lSc; stays. lie.
Cheese-Twins. l36l314c: Longhorns 1872
Gl3S.c, Potatoes-On track. 1888: arrivals.
81: shipments SGT: market. dull. about
TriupphS. s2G2.35: Missouri sacked Cob
Cobblers S4I425: Washington sacked Rus
sets 50 Michigan sacked Russet Rurals.
Sl.35Gi55.
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TOLEDO CASH GRAIN
By United Press

TOLEDO. June 26.-Cash grain close:
Grain in elevators. transit billing. wheat
permium. CornENo. . yellow. i sSa SEC
Oats-No. white, 45l2d 46Iac. RveENo
z 76@ TIC Wheat-No. red, asa soc: No.
req, ga 88c. Corn-No 2 white. 421a an
close; Clover-Cash, SITS: October So Dob
Alsike-Cash, s7.75; August. SO Dob. Toledo
produce close: Butter-Fancy creamery.
Timothy per cwt., roc
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The achievement of producing
welded steel pipe is one of the i'm
.portant developments in welding re-
search.
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y AUE q =
STOCKS

Belt Rail & stock Yards COM IS 2e
Belt Rail g. Stock Yds pfd Sc As 49
Citizens Gas com .... 13 II
Citizens Gas Co pfd 5ee So So
Home g. Wayne pfd 7es 36lz 4012
Ind & Mich Elec co pfd IT.. SIS u
Ind Gen Service Co pfd Sc 60lz 64Iz
Ind Hydro Elec Co TO 49,. Is 90
Indpls Gas Co com ........ 40 A
Indpls Pwr &, 1t 81 ...... SO 81
Indpls Pwr g. 1t Co pfd SAG 67l7 7112
Indpls Water Co pfd So st 81
No Ind Pub Serv Co pfd 5izee 81 81
No Ind Pub Serv Co 6Es 80 Al
No Ind Pub Ser Co 7Te.. 40 43
Public Serv Co of Ind pfd Sc Is 19
Public Serv Co of Ind pfd 10 SO 40
South Ind Gas & FL pfd Sc So SIS
Terre Haute Elec pfd 61e.. 40 AZ
citizens Gas Co s. sof is42. 49,. 1914 s21s
Home T g. w 5l2s 1855 ..... 93ia 97i2
Tome T & W IS 1913. 49, 941z 9Siz
Indpls Gas Co IS 1852 ....... 70 rs
Indpls Rys Inc IS 1867. ...... "a 29
Indpls Water Co 51zs 1882. IS SO
Indpls Water Co SIS 1860. - 90 SO
Indpls Water Co IS 1870. .... 971z 95i2
Indpls Water Co 51aeo 1888. 97l2 1919
Indpls Water Co 5l2s 1884 81 101
Kokomo Water Works 1883. 70 rs
Lafayette Tel Co IS 1857. .... 81 80
Muncie Water Works SIS 1890. 90lz 94l2
Richmond Water Works 1851. 81 85
Terre Haute Water Wk IS 1856 82l2 86i2
Terre Haute Wat Wk 6s 1949 81 95
Traction Terminal Co SIS 1857 AZ 46
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INDIANA STOCKS
AND BONDS

The following quotations do not rep
resent actual bids or offerings but merely
based on buvinR and selling INQUIRIES or
recent transactions.
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beec beset by conflicts
at this
candid
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Liberty Bonds
Daily Price Index
BIZ United Press
l193O-1Q32 Averape. lnI

By United Press
NEW YORK. June 26-Dun 81 Brad
streets daily weighted price index of 80
basic commodities, compiled for the United
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Net balance for June "a. $685., 1886. 948 ga
Expenditures .. 25 307 ga "a
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One Economic Truth Holds

than naionastic nternatonalic other words still
selfish We which will benefit
us personally think fellow
failed
success for the
We refused when
hold the boarded thought
would be advantage money
thought
thought they were going down. sold short because thought
could
conditions
calling
effect asking only police force industry Observation
emily had taught him that people the they
do their homes society," that need the the law
lection from their neghbo He undoubtedly felt had
industry.
semblance
Immediately that the conditions
better
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Bank CIearings
INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
TREASURY STATEMENT
luna 81

arings Observation-Disclosures. 81, 213 1000. 90
'lts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3,765. 1000 90
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INDIANAPOLIS WAGON WHEAT
CITY grain elevators are paving IL cent.
for NO. 2 soft red wheat. other grades on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-27

Principal speaker at the luncheon
Wednesday of the Kiwanis club at
the Columbia Club will be Hilton R.
Jones, Chicago research chemist.
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Speaker for the Lions Club lunch
con Wednesday at the Washington
will be the Rev. Guy o. Carpenter,
pastor of the Irvington Methodist
church.
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NEW YORK COFFEE FUTURES

June 26-
RIO
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While his truck was parked in
front of a South Eighth street
restaurant Monday, Lawrence Turn
er of Lebanon, reported to police
that cigarets valued at $50 were
stolen.
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Mayor Reginald II. Sullivan Mon
day was presented with large
American flag by a committee of
the woman's auxiliary of the Span
ish-American War Veterans in con-
vention here.
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NRA SLUR PLACARD
CARRIER GOES FREE
Pleads Guilty to Charge in
City Court.

Although Alfred Cooksey, So. of
ia East North street, still doesn't
think much of the MIRA, he was
freed in municipal court four today
after his arrest Wednesday for
carrying signs characterizing the re-
covery movement as "humbug."
Cooksey told Paul Rhoadarmer.
judge pro tenn that he believed his
theories on the NRA are part of his
Christian work. but that he did not
mean to violate the city advertising
ordinance.
Il didn't intend to violate anv
law" Cooksey told the court, after
pleading guilty.
Rhoadarmer said he believed
Cooksey has the right to express
himself on the subject and suggested
ne write his views TO local news
papers.
Rhoadarmer withheld judgment
He also recognized Cooksey as a for
mer elevator man at the Board of
Trade building.
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GULPS SAFETY PIN
IN RIDE ON THRILLER
City Girl, Is, Is Treated at
City Hospital.

The next time Ellen Ware. Is. of
$40 West Thirty first street. goes
on the thriller glide at Riverside
park, she'll make sure that she isn't
wearing billowing tie. and that. if
she is, it's to be pinned before she
starts.
Ellen went for ride Wednesday
night. She was pinning her flop
ping tie as the car mounted the
grade. 1t reach the top. and Ellen
hurriedly thrust the safety pin in
her mouth and held on.
AS the car zoomed down the in
cline, Ellen gulped. Down went
the open pin. To city hospital went
Ellen in speeding police car.
There doctors fed her absorbent
cotton and mashed potatoes TO
sheathe the pin point. gave her
some medicine. and sent her home
She'll be all right. the doctors said.
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CITYS 3 PAPERS
SIGN NRA CODE
Wage and Hour Regulations
Become Effective I'm
mediateIy.

The indianapolis Times. Indian
apolis News. and Indianapolis Star
Wednesday signed the NRA code for
newspapers, as submitted by the
American Newspap per Publishers As
ISOLATION and approved by General
Hugh S. Johnson. industrial recov-
cry act administrator.
Regulations as 10 wages and hours
became effective Immediately. The
Times. starting last Saturday, has
been operating under the forty
hour week plan in the editorial de-
partment. Other departments also
are adhering to provisions of the
code.
Robert P. Scripps. controlling
stakeholder in the Scripps- Howard
Newspapers. Wednesday telegraphed
to President Roosevelt. assuring
him the full cooperation of this
newspaper organization in his re-
covery plans.
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BY BASIL GALLAGHER
Times Stah Writer

COMETIMES in the hush of
~ these summer evenings
golden voice floats over the
White river near Crows Nest,
north of the city.
Liquid. haunting notes of
coloratura soprano are caught up
by the breeze. 10 be waited over
the cornfields surrounding a farm
on Kessler boulevard and lost in
the swaying poplars lining the
farm driveway.
The voice is singingl
"Ah. sweet mystery Of life at last I've
found thee
All. at last know the secret Of IL ALI
All the longing. seeking. striving, wait
ing. yearning.
The burning hopes. the joy and idle
tears that fan"
A hitchiker pauses along the
highway and stops to listen.
sometimes a neighboring farmer
rests on his pillow, puzzled by the
proximity Of the voice. which is
too clear to come from a radio or
photograph.
Sometimes the birds and the
cattle are she only audience TO
listen to melodies that won the
plaudits of Broadway for twenty
Two years; voice which gained
for Florence Weber stardom and
wealth on the Great White Way:
voice which first gave expression
to Victor Herbert's beautiful bal
lad. Sweet Mystery of Life" from
Naughty Marietta" when il
toured the country two decades
ago.
And if the chance listener fol-
lowed the golden notes TO their
source, he would find a Jolly.
rather stout little woman stand
ing among the giant trees in a
farmyard singing TO 5000 chickens
While she fed them corn.
For Florence Weber. who once
was the toast Of Broadway. has
gone native" She who knew the
Broadway OF Rectors. Murrays and
the Knickerbocker bar: of Frank
Ward O'Malley and Jack Francis:
Turn TO Page Four
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P. R. MALLORY
BOOSTS FORCE
so MEN A DAY
Wages Increased as Much
as 80 Per Cent in Some
Departments.
WAR ON NRA CHEATERS
Ultimatum to Restaurant
Owners Is Issued by
Recovery Office.

while local recovery ocers planned
for a widespread drive against vio-
lators of the NRA covenant. to start
Monday, the P. r. Mallory Co., cleo
trical equipment manufacturer. an
nounced that it is re-empioying
fifty men a day at its East Wash
ington street plant.
Raises of Is to 30 per cent in pay
for workers in the radio and toy de-
partment and return TO the 1929 paw
schedule for the punch press" de-
partment, with a thirty six-hour
week for radio workers and forty
hours week for artisans in the toy
department, also were announced at
the Mallory plant.
An ultimatum TO Indiana restau-
rant owners charged by the Indi-
ana State Restaurant Association
with alleged violations of their NRA
agreements was issued today by
Francis Wells, Indiana recovery di-
rector.
Eagle Removal Threatened
In a statement by Wells, follow
ing conference with w. S. Atkins,
secretary manager of the restaurant
association, and w. o. Wheeler. In
dianapolis retaurateur. the state re-
covery director declared that the
Blue Eagle insignia will be re-
moved from any restaurant in the
state failing TO comply with the
restaurant code.
ANY restaurant displaying the
NRA Insignia said Wells state
ment, is required to comply with
all provisions of the temporary res
taurant code which has ben ac-
cepted by the recovery administra-
ton as a substitute for the Presi-
dents unemployment agreement.
All establishments using the in
sigma must comply with this code
whether they are members of the
approved trade association of the
industry or not"
Approved Organization
The Indiana State Restaurant
Association, Inc. under the laws of
the state of Indiana and affiliated
with the National Restaurant Asso-
citation for the purpose of submit
ting the basic code of the industry,
is the approved association"
The plan of the NRA provides
for the assistance of such associa-
lions in making possible the adj
minitration Of the code of each in
Turn to Page Three
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Housewives!

Most vitality interested of all
in success of the NRA are
housewives of the city. Prob
lens galore as to workings of
the act will concern them.
To make certain that they
understand all provisions of
the recovery program as they
affect women of the city, The
Times is offering service that
should prove invaluable to
housewives.
II there is any question
which puzzles you. frame your
question clearly, then write, or
telephone. to The Times. Call
Riley 555l. ask for the ABC
department, and dictate your
query.
We Immediately will for yard
your question to our Washing
ton bureau. which will get the
correct answer. provided that
a ruling has been made, and
your question will be answered
in a special department-the
ABC of the NRA. First answer
will be printed in this depart
ment Friday. Watch for them.
They may solve your problem
without sending in a special
query.
Give this Office identifying
initials. so you can find your
question and answer as soon
as printed.
Simple? Just like ABC.
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GIRL, 8, IS INJURED
WHEN HIT BY AUTO
Bruises Are Suffered in
Dash Across Street.

Eleanor Scott. 9. of 1926 North
Gale street. suffered a severe bruise
over her left eye today when she
ran into the path of an automobile
driven by Mrs. Jane Ross, as, of 2438
North Gale street.
The child, running from one side
of the street to the other. stepped
from between two parked cars into
the path of Mrs. Ross car. The
girl was taken to city hospital by
Patrolman James Senteney.
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One of the pair amused himself
by hopping on the running board
of every car as it arrived, peer
ing mysteriously at the occupants.
and then hopping off without ever
word. Then back 10 the party
and then out for another hop
or shot of hop.
The other lowered on the edge
OF the party, observing every move
OF the guests and saying nothing.
II they contemplated robbery.
they thought better OF it. And il
any one had kidnapping in mind.
that also was put of to a later
and more favorable date.
But Morrissey this morning
scofted AZ any KIDNAPPING plot.
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The Congers and the Hender-
shots now are travelling toward
the northern Indiana lake region,
where the Congers will spend a
honeymoon ana the Memberships
will take a vacation.
The reason for the interest in
the trip is that Hendershot bears
quite a reputation as a practical
joker-and Conger usually is the
butt of his jests.
ONLY Wednesday. the day be-
~ fore Conger's marriage. Hem
dershot arranged a wedding gift
which exceeded his former pranks
at Conger's expense.
Both deputies were assigned to
a trip to Columbus, Ind. Hender-
shot arranged for warrant with
Bartholomew county authorities
and stood idly by while his COM
panion Conger was arrested and
spent several hours in the Bar
tnOiOmeW jail.
Congers pleas that he was
pending bridegroom fell on deaf
ears and his jailers showed lit
tie interest in his unhappy pre-
dicament.
Hendershot added to Conger's
discomfort by sly sympathy ex-
tended through the bars and
mournful remarks on the en-
barraSsing explanations viii c h
missing bridegrooms must make.
u n
~ONGER youthful appearance
~ and shy manner make his
misfortunes all the more funny to
his friends and tormentors. Only
recently has the gang ceased
Kidding about an occurrence
during practice for the last 500
mile race.
Henderson, and another deputy
were in the front seat of an au-
tomobile entering the gates, with
Conger in the back seat. The two
front seat occupants showed their
badges at the gate and were start
ing TO drive in when the guard
provoked uproarious laughter with
the remark:
Who's got the ticket for the
kid in the back seat?"
With great show of all the
dignity deputy sheriff can mus
ter. Conger produced his badge.
but was embarrassed further when
the guard demanded confirmation
from his companions as to Con-
gers right 10 ii.