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9 THE IXDIAXAPOLTS ST AH, WEDNESDAY, 11, 1020. BLHZIHB STUDIO TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES HEAR SCHOOL BANDS. SCENE OF FATAL FIRE. LauoTi PANIC KILLS TEN nil tmz'Mk (I'hota bj Star Staff 'aO ifVlT "Iff if j' Ij IJ jl 'fJ The olil Manhattan studio in New York, where ten (lied in a fire yesterday, was the locale of many motion picture SOU FILES SUIT TDCOHTESTWILL Action to Get Two-Fifteenths of Estate Begun by W. H.

Block Jr. Action to obtain a two-fifteenths share of tha estate of the late William H. Block, president of the William H. Block Company, for a son, William H. Block was started yesterday in Probate court.

The complaint to contest the will and codicil of Mr. Block, filed by the law firm of Thomas A. Daily and Charles T. Hanna, names as defendants the Union Trust Company, executor: the children and relatives of the decedent, and 300 employes of the Block company. The suit is the largest of its nature ever filed in Marion county.

Charges in Con-plaint. It charges that the founder of the Hock company was ill when he wrote his will in April, 1927, and "by reason of his long continued sickness and weakness he did not have sufficient mental capacity to make a will." Similar charges are mada in relation to the codicil Which was written Sept. 21, 1928, to correct an error in the will whereby a sister, Mrs. Rose Felberbaum, was bequeathed an annuity of The amount should have been $1,500, the codicil points out. Mr.

Block died in December of last Jear after a lingering illness. Life Annuity for Plaintiff. Under the will, William H. Elock gets a life annuity of $20,000. The complaint contends that the son, as an heir at law, is entitled to two-fifteenths of the estate.

The bulk of the estate, which consisted of valuable downtown real estate, was willed to the widow, Mrs. Amelia Block, and three sons, Meier S. Block, Rudolph C. Block and Kd-ward A. Block.

Block holdings included stock In the Mercantile Realty and Investment Company, owner of the Saks and the State Life buildings, and one-half of the L. Strauss Company building and all the common stock of the William H. Block Company. A trust to manage the affairs of the Block company for a twenty-year period was established by terms of the document with the widow, Meier, Rudolph and Edward Block, and Samuel B. Walker, an employe, as trustees.

The S00 Block employes were beneficiaries of a $100,000 bequest. Provisions of Will. Howell Ellis, presiding commissioner. Mr. Fesler inquired whether Harvey Harmon, while a commissioner i.i October, 192S, had not limited objections to the ten days following that hearing.

Mr. Pond replied that in his belief the amended petition filed by the companies just before the hearing abrogated any prior limitation on objections. Commissioner Ellis ruled later In he day that the commission would receive the supplemental objections. "We want to get all the facts and allow the greatest leeway in presentation," he declared. "Any arbitrary ruling by Mr.

Harmod a year ago would, If applied now, exclude his own objections." The Lawrence and Warren township hlgji school bands provided music at the opening session of the thirty-ninth annual convention of the Indiana State Association of Township Trustees in the Claypool hotel yesterday afternoon. IV.ul Hamilton Is director of the Lawrence township hand and Owen Berkley is director of the Warren band. 64 ARRESTS ORDERED IN MINE AREA RIOTS WIND FINDS BATHING SUIT, ENDS SEARCH CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE. BY GRACE MOORE, Prima Donna. Before my Metropolitan days, In order to get a starring part in an operetta, I told my manager that I had had experience in operatic singing throughout California.

I had to stick to this story, and I couldn't confess that I was ignorant of a e-u and other items of a beginner's first trvout. The play in which I was to be starred was called "Suite Grace Moore. Sixteen." I assembled, through the aid of some pictures, what I thought was an appropriate ingenue costume. Then I watched the chorus girls make up their eyes; and I went to my room to try to do likewise for my gala debut. Imagine my heart-breaking surprise when not a soul on the stage recognized me, and all stared at me as an interloping stranger.

I explained that I was the star, Grace Moore. Very quietly the manager ushered me off the stage to my dressing room. When he reached my room saw the pictures after which I had modeled my costume. They ere pictures of Kitty Gordon in er balmy days! I appeared buxom and ornamented. I can't help what your experience California has taught you," he thundered, "but the ingenue in my pla ay has to be modest and girlish." The public patiently waited one- alf hour until the make-up was scrubbed off my face, and until a mple costume was assembled for me, so that I could go on the rtage as an appropriate sweet sixteen.

(Copyright.) SIX HURT IN ANDERSON, Dec. 10. Six residents of Cicero were hurt pain fully in an automobile wreck nine miles west of here last night when a car driven by Dr. Charles H. Haben ran into a ditch and overturned.

Guy Gilke had one ear partly torn off. Dr. and Mrs. Haven and Dr. and Mrs.

O. B. Phillips were severely cut nd bruised. SCH0RTEMEIER HEARD. The building of character on tho basis of religion was stressed by Frederick E.

Schortemeier, former secretary of state, in an address to the men brotherhood of the Thirty-first Street Baotist Church last ight. Mr. Schortemeier spoke on 'The Changing Age in Which We Are Living." "KONJOLA IS A TONIC AS WELL AS A MEDICINE" ndianapolis Lady Freed of Dizzy Spells and Headaches All-Else Tried Failed Utterly a No matter how long you have suffered; no matter what medicines and treatments have failed, do not lose heart or hope, for Konjola Is at hand with a matchless record of success over those obstinate and chronic cases that have defied and resisted all else tried. Would it not be a glorious thing for all who suf fer if all the health and happiness MISS WILMA SEARS. irhnto hjr National Stodlo, Illinois bids.) that Konjola has brought Into this world could be measured? Get the facts about Konjola.

All who suf fer and who put their money, their faith and their hope for health in a medicine are entitled to the facts about that medicine. The Konjola Man, who is at the Hook Dependable Drug Store, Illinois and Washington streets, is daily explaining the merits of Konjola to all who come to learn what this medicine means to them in their search for health. II r'k HnV7 fi Smoke and Heat Take Toll With 20 Injured at Old Manhattan Building. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.

(T) Overcome by smoke and the terrific heat just before they could reach safety, ten persons perished in a fire which today destroyed the old Manhattan movie studio in Harlem. More than twenty others of the 100 persons in the building at the time were Injured, some seriously, in the panic attempting to escape. The dead were found by nremen inside the main studio entrance not more than thirty feet from the doorway through which most of the survivors poured in their frantic dash. Four of the dead were young women, chorus girls from Broadway musical shows who were "doubling" at the studio during the day to make extra money for Christmas. Was Roaring Furnace.

The building was a roaring fur--naee by the time firemen arrived. With streams of water playing on them, two firemen made their way through the entrance and carried out ten bodies heaped in the hallway, in the hope that not all were dead. Life still lingered in but one of them, a pretty blonde dancing girl, who was carripd to a waiting ambulance and hurried to the hospital. She was Edna Burford, 20-year-old show girl. She died from burns a few hours later.

The ill re broke without warning on a little cabaret scene which had been set on the studio's stage. Make-believe "butter-and-egg men" sat laughing at the tables, a few chorus girls danced in the background. Electricians were focusing the lights. The orchestra tuned up. Velvet Curtain Aflame.

Upstairs in the balcony that ran around the second story other actors were putting on finishing touches of their makeup. The call, "Five minutes," had been sent up. The filming of the big scene of the "Black and White Revue" was soon to start Suddenly there came a shout of "fire." A velvet curtain was smoldering. Some one pulled it down. Its descent revealed a wall of fire blazing in a pile of scenery in the rear of the studio, which had been con cealed by the drops.

Stage hands and prop boys grabbed fire extinguishers. Others attempted to unreel a fire hose. But they could not head off the flame that ate at flimsy curtains and papier-mache of furnishings. The heat soon became unbearable. Make Pathetic Appearance.

All seemed to realize their chance to save their lives remained in flight. As one they started for the main enhance. There were other exits, more handy, but, terror-stricken, they failed to realize this. In a mass they poured from the doorway. Those on tho balcony made for the front stairs and added to the rush.

Many were swept off their feet and trampled. Scantily clad chorus girls fifty of them stood shivering in the cold street, hysterical as they gazed at the flames leaping from every window. All the survivors were pathetic In their appearance. They clutched a few of their belongings which thev had picked up, odd shoes, garments, ties ana make-up boxes. Sun-Are Light Blamed.

Richard Stradline, an electrician, said he believed the fire started from a sun-arc light. Standing on the corner of One hundred and Thirty-fourth street and Park avenue, the Manhattan studio has been used by motion picture concerns fifteen years. lhe old Pearl White thrillers were made there. Marion Davies made some of her earlier pictures In the studio. Filming of the "Bluck and White Revue" had started only yesterday by the Pathe exchange.

List of Dead. The police and fire departments and the district attorney's office immediately started an Investigation of the disaster. A list of the dead follows: Cather ine Porter, 16 years old, dancer; Har old Bischoff, makeup man; Ernest Wilson, bookkeeper; Al Kramer, handyman; Jack Quinn, actor; Rob ert Mussman, handyman; Edna Bur- ford, 20 years old, showgirl (died in hospital); Jola Sparks, 18 years old, dancer; Betty Byrne, 18 years old, dancer, and Charles Koerble, 33, Leonia, N. J. REAL SILK OFFICIAL WILL TALK TO CLUB Industrial rela tions will be dls cussed by M.

F. Carpenter, execu tlve secretary of the E. M. B. Real Silk Hosiery mills, in an ad dress before the Industrial Econo mics Club, at a meeting In the Chamber of Commerce tonight.

The meeting will be at tended by indus trial executives of M. F. Carpenter, the city. BALTIMORE MAYOR HURT; TEN CAUGHT IN ELEVATOR FALL BALTIMORE, Dec. Mayor William F.

Broening and nine other persons, some of them city officials, were severely shaken but not seriously injured when an elevator In the city hall snapped a cable and fell three floors before being checked by safety appliances this afternoon. The mayor was the most serious ly injured of those in the car, but tonight disregarded orders of two physicians and attended a in honor of the Baltimore nrs department's football team. He suffered injuries to his head, ankles and stomach. Rebounds Between Floors. Charles F.

Good, "city engineer, also a passenger on the elevator, said the main cable snapped as the car started to leave the third floor when the officials were quitting their offices for the day. The car dropped to the first floor before being halted by its safety catch and then rebounded halfway to the second floor, being held there and jamming shut tne doors. i Firemen forced the doors and all of the passengers except the mayor were able to crawl out without assistance. He had to be carried out and to his office for medical treat ment. Walter G.

Hammond, city building engineer, expressed the belief that the elevator was overloaded He said an investigation would be conducted. by at I of ki RECESS IS ORDERED IN MERGER INQUIRY CONCLUDED FROM FAGE ONIC. output In the five cities would cost $110,491, and the saving capitalized at 7 per cent would be Wide Disparity in I'nlt fonts. Proof of the wide spread in unit production costs was contained in another Husselman exhibit. Total generating cost for each kilowatt hour the Dresser superpower plant near Terre Haute is 5.7 mills, and for each kilowatt hour 1.732 pounds of coal are consumed, according to his tabulation.

The Indianapolis plant of the T. K. shows a kilowatt hour cost 1.72 cents, while the Crawfords-villc stand-by plant's unit cost is 12.8 cents. Average kilowatt hour costs the Central Indiana group are 7.4 mills, and in the T. I.

E. 1.2 cents. These costs include all operating and other charges on each rnit of power as it is delivered to the switchboard in each power station. They take no account of transmission or distribution costs, accord ing to Mr. Husselman.

The Boggs exhibits contained an exhaustive analysis of gross revenues and net earnings of tho petitioning companies for four years. Gross revenues In 1928 were Electricity contributed 73.53 per cent, and railways 19.84 per cent. The remaining 6.63 per cent waa divided among water, gas, steam, ico and bus. In 1925 the T. I E.

had 48.87 per cent of the combined revenue and last year only 40.32 per cent. Railway Revenues Down. Electric revenues Increased from $6,528,858.99 In 1925 to $7,893,258.01 in 1928, while railway revenues decreased In three years from to $2,130,355.96. Passenger revenues dropped In three years from $2,134,866.29 to $1,032,110.47. Freight revenues were fairly constant, as were those from express, nut revenue for carrying milk declined from in 1925 to $13,266 last year.

Motor trucks account for this sharp drop, it Is understood. Gross Income for tne consociation was in 546.48 last year. Against the latter figure, under the merger, the fixed charges for Interest on bonds and preferred stock would be $3,573,839.50 next year, and this would Increase as the rate of payment on converted securities rises until the proposed fimrtnrt debt and preferred issues would require $4, 166,419.50 in 1938 "To fail to accrue mpreunuim adequately results in an overstatement of surplus," Mr. Boggs declared "and if dividends are paid out of such surplus it is tantamount to an impairment of capital. Com panies failing to maito proper preciation charges are skating on thin ice, I believe." Mr Rne-B-s admitted that both com panies made a small annual accrual to amortize tne vaiue oi rrm but he maintained this was not enough.

If insufficient depreciation is charged, he said, It places a burden on future rate payers because sooner or later the accumulated depletion of plant and property must be mci in some form. Calls Discount Prepaid Interest. Mr. Boggs explained bond discount as prepaid interest. He said it was a part of the cost of capital.

Amortization of the discount is made mandatory in the uniform accounting system, he added. It is charged below tne line, ana if it works hardship on any person, the sacrifice is made solely by the stockholder In the amount of return on his investment in the company," Mr. Boggs declared. Commissioner Calvin F. Mcintosh examined Mr.

Boggs on the possibility of a request for increased rates from a company charging amortization and not having sufficient Income to meet capital charges, 'lhe witness answered that in such a case a reaucst for an increased rate schedule would be necessary, in his judgment, because the inability of the company to meet fixed charges would be evidence of an inadequate rate structure. At the morning session a letter from Byford F. Inman, clerk of the town of Westfield, and a telegram from Fred Durham, president of the town board of Bloomingdale, were read, declaring that neither place had authorized the Utility Service Bureau, to act as objecting counsel. Objections Presented. Oscar F.

Smith and Oscar L. Pond, representing the bureau and the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, presented supplemental objections to the merger. "Weren't these objections printed In one of the newspapers yester day?" asked J. W. Fesler of the insult counsel.

"Yes, but we're not trying this case in the newspapers," responded Ask any druggist for the red box of plffj Mary Another Objector. Mr. Smith announced that the town of Macy, Miami county, was to be entered among clients of the Utility Service Bureau, Inc. "Are there any other changes to be made in your list?" came from the Insuil attorneys' table. "None," answered Mr.

Smilh. "I can't understand the letter from Westfield, in view of what has been said to me personally. "We came here in good faith," Mr. Smith continued. "If the commission doesn't want us we are willing to withdraw." Before any commissioner could reply, David E.

Watson of the Insull counsel was on his feet. 'We do not want to appear as discouraging Mr. Watson said, "but I happen to be a member of the advisory board of Decatur township, Marion county, and as such there came to my hands a letter with Mr. Smith's name attached soliciting employment from tUe town of Valley Mills in this case." He explained that Valley Mills was unincorporated, and the letter was delivered to the township board. "Your community is vilaliv at.

fected," Mr. Watson read from the letter. "We have the nucleus of a lifting force. We will represent you or work with vou. Your town board or city Council owes It to your peupie io mane a Bmall appropria lion for this purpose.

Let's hear from you and at once, for the time is snort. Smith Takes Exception. "So far as the petitioners are con cerned, we have invited every one to take a stand, but we think It nn. usual to make objections for revenue oniy, Mr. Watson went on.

"To which remark we take exceptions," Mr. Smith countered. Commissioner Ellis interrupted the uruMH-nre. "The commission assumes that all appearances here are in irnod faith he said. "It does not desire any further discussion of this subject." Mr.

Smith left the hearing soon after the incident, and did not re turn. At the outset the Utility Service Bureau, announced that it represented BloominEdale. Westfield and Rochester. Westfield and Blooming-dale have sent official notice that tney nave not employed counsel. Harvey Harmon, former commis sioner, who appeared last week among counsel for objecting organ izatlons.

(lid not return from hi home in Princeton until yesterday anej'iiuun. Engineers to Consult. At the conclusion of the hearing uienn van Auken, an Insull attor ney, a.iked whether engineers of the companies and the commission could consult In an effort to reconcile dis crepancies in unit costs. Tho differ ence amounts to about 6 per cent of the physical appraisal. The com mission gave Its consent.

When the inquiry is resumed It Is expected that cross-examination will be undertaken by the petitioners and tne objectors, and that, after fur ther recess, argument will be made Two distinct questions confront the commission. The first is the is sue of the objectors that the com mission is without Jurisdiction in the merger because of the widely sep crated property and the dissimilarity or utilities. If the objections are overruled then the commission faces the question of the merger Itself. The case In chief has brought out sharp divergences in appraisal. Funda mental questions on the evidence thus far submitted relate to the ratio between the value of the property and tne proposed securities struc ture, and also to the adequacy of present or prospective earnings to sustain the securities, while taking care of depreciation.

Mr. Husselman testified yesterday that in his Judgment the commission's engineering staff had conduct ed its appraisal thoroughly, and had omitted no essential element. The commission has spent nearly $70,000 in engineering and accounting serv ice. The appraisal under direction of Hirry Wenger, chief engineer. was pronounced by competent observers of such cases to be as thor ough as any ever presented.

In an Indiana Inquiry. The analytical audit of Herdrlch ft Boggs, consult ing accountants, consisted of sev eral exhaustive exhibits, one which had more than one hundred pages. The preparation of the com mission for the case covered about one year. Knock 3 ways today! When feverish, sniffling, sneezing or headachy get Hill's from any druggist-Stops cold gently, safely 3 ways at once hence in one-third the usual time 1: Checks fever 2: Opens bowels, no griping ,3: Tones system, restores pep. Those who can't afford to have colds keep Hill's on band.

remainder. A fifth son, Harry C. Block, is to receive a $12,000 annuity. William M. Block Jr.

was employed in New York as a buyer for the Block company prior to the death of his father. He relinquished his position after the will was made public. The son. will reside in Indianapolis until after settlement of his complaint. MILLER, CITY SCHOOL HEAD, IS DISCHARGED CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE.

night, it was reported, was the manner of making appointments in the educational department at the opening of the school year. It was said that Mrs. Sedwiek dictated all the most desirable appointments and that Kepner and Whiteman were given "what was left" by Miller and Mrs. Sedwiek. There was a question, however, as to whether political maneuvering more far-reaching than this did not figure in the removal.

The superintendent took part in activities centering around election of a president at the recent session of the Indiana State Teachers' Association. Miller was prominent in a faction which sought to defeat the candidate who was ultimately successful and was a candidate for the oflice himself. For Immediate Effect. The action of the board was unusual in that Miller's removal was regarded as practically certain any way when the three new members of the board take office Jan. 1.

Openly the majority faction has stood with the superintendent against repeated i attacks by Kern and vonnegut since last April, when Whiteman joined forces with Kepner and Mrs. Sedwiek. The resolution for removal and for appointment of DuShane was adopted to take effect immediately. The board expects DuShane to begin his duties this morning. Removal of two assistants appointed by Miller in June, 1928, is now anticipated.

The assistants are Byron Williams, director of research and publicity for the schools, and C. C. Underwood, director of elementary education. Fred T. Gladden, now county superintendent of schools, also was an appointee at that time.

Controversy Recalled. DuShane was mentioned for the position at the time Miller was appointed. Miller received the appointment after serving approximately two years as state superintendent of puoi instruction, ms appointment precipitated a long controversy when, after accepting, he refused to resign the state position and tried to hold both positions at once. His refusal to resign the state office was caused by a desire to have Gladden succeed him, but after several weeks of delay, Governor Ed Jackson appointed Roy P. Wlsehart to the position.

Mr. DuShane, who was apponted superintendent of Columbus schools eleven years ago, has two years to serve on his present contraot. He Is 44 years old. He was born in South Bend, the son of James DuShane, at one time superintendent of South Bend schools, He Is a grad uate of Hanover college and the uni versity of Wisconsin and earned degrees ot bachelor of science and bachelor of arts at Hanover and a master of science degree at Wisconsin. Attends Hanover, Wisconsin, After completing his courses at Hanover and Wisconsin, he taucht four years in the South Bend high schools, from which he had been graduated, and later went to the Sheibyvilie (ill.) nigh school, where he was principal one year.

He resigned that position to be come superintendent of schools at Madison. Five years later he resigned to accept a similar position at Clinton, where he was superintendent two years. Mr. DuShane was offered the su- perintendency at Columbus while serving in Clinton. Active In Association.

In 1902, he was married to Miss Harriett McCelland of Madison, whom he met while a student at Hanover. They have three sons, Donald DuShane, a student at Columbia university Graham DuShane, a student at Wabash college, and James DuShane Of DePauw university. For several years Mr. DuShane has been active in affairs of the Indiana State Teachers' Association, of which he was president in 1021. He Is edi tor of the Indiana Teacher, omciai publication of the association, and author of the teacher tenure bill passed by the 1927 Legislature.

He also is widely known in the National Education Association, bring Chairman of the nominating commit tee of that body, besides serving on its teacher tenure, retirement and resolutions committees. On Crime Commission. A former president of the Indiana Conference of Social Welfare and a member of the executive committee of the Indiana Society on Mental Hygiene, he was selected for his wide knowledge of social conditions by Governor Harry U. Leslie for mem bership on the Indiana crime com' mission recently appointed. He has been a member of the teachers re' tirement fund board several years.

He is a member of the Presbyterian church, Masonic order and former president of the Columbus Rotary Club and Phi Delta Theta. Mr. Miller is a graduate, ot De- CONCLUDED FROM FAGE ONE. call. He was In conference with county officials yesterday, and it was learned that he would recommend to Governor Harry G.

Leslie that troops be sent here at the first intimation of further outbreaks of trouble. Mllltla Units fnder Orders. While not confirmed definitely, it is understood that the units at Evans-ville, Princeton and New Albany have been issued warnings to move to Boonville on short notice. It Is understood also that one or more scout planes would be pressed into immediate service to assist in patrol of the mine area. Governor Leslie is out of Indianapolis and the emergency has been handled by L.

O. Chasey, the Governor's secretary, who has been in frequent communication with headquarters of the United Mine Workers Association at Terre Haute as well as promlnei. union leaders here in charge of the movement. Chasey has impressed upon the mine leaders that they would bo held personally accountable for any violence. Bloodshed Feared.

In spite of assurances given to the Governor's secretary, men who are In immediate touch with the situation consider it very grave and would not be surprised to see trouble resulting In Woodshed at anv time. Miners employed at the John Bull mine are well organized and are de termined to work. About ninety were working today and these men say they will not quit but are satisfied with their jobs and will protect themselves with arms. STATE AWAITS DEVELOPMENTS. Chasey Believes Local Authorities Have Situation WeU in Hand.

State officials yesterday were awaiting developments In the southern Indiana coal fields from vhich they have received reports of alleged intimidation and violence. L. O. Chasey, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, said that reports from the John Bull mine at Boonville, where tho trouble centered, indicated that workmen were not interrupted during the day.

The mine officials twice have asked state protection, charging that union miners of the community have picketed the mine and threatened and sometimes attacked the John Bull miners, who are working the mine on a co-operative basis. Troops Await Call. Mr. Chasey said he believed local authorities have the situation well in hand. Manford G.

Henley, adjutant gen eral, said yiat troops of the National Guard can be sent to the district on short notice should necessity de velop. TAtLORVILLE MINES CLOSE. Workers in Last of Four I'nlts Go Over to L'nlon. TAYLORVILLE, 111., Dec. The National- Miners' Union held control of the Taylorville district tonight and was threatening to extend it.i coal strike over the state and possibly the nation.

The last of four units in this field. Tovey mine No. 8, went over to the national union late today. Sheriff D. L.

Dunbar of Christian county said he understood the strikers were to make a bid for recruits in tho Springfield district. A six-hour day and a five-day week, minimum wage of $35 a week and abolition of the checlt-ofT system, by which operators pay the dues of miners direct to the union, compose the strikers' demands. BILLIARD t'l'ES WEAPONS. BENTON, 111., Dec. only with the butts of billiard cues, Sheriff James S.

Pritch-ard and a lone deputy dispersed a crowd ofaome fifty National Miners' Union strikers who had congregated at the Old Ben mine No. 14 at Buck-ner today to prevent loyal miners from going to work. MINE LEADERS ARRESTED. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. lO.tf")- Two national union mine workers' leaders were arrested and reinforce ments wet thrown about several mines in Springfield and vicinity tonight as the result of a clemonstra-' tion today, in which fifty striking miners and about the same number of women participated.

Ihose arrested were Roy Jones, secretary of the Springfield subdis-trict of the National Miners' Union, and Clarence Babb, Spring Valley. They were seized while trying to induce miners here to strike. KENTUCKY STRIKE EXPECTED. CENTRAL CITY, Dec. Results of the strike vote among coal miners in western Kentucky are expected to bo announced here tomorrow at the oflice of W.

D. Duncan, president of District 23, United Mine Workers. Mr. Duncan said tonight that indications still were that tne men naa voted in favor of a strike to enforce demands for union recognition, the collection by tho companies of union das and wage increases at some mine and Miss Jcanette Allman, Arsenal Technical high school students, could not be reached last night, but it is known that they had made a wide search for the girls. Oscar McSchulse, 1409 Marlowe avenue, stepfather of Miss Allman, was almost frantic when he reported the' disappearance of the girl to Indianapolis police Nov.

20. The girls had been missing for a week at that time. Miss Conant, daughter of Mrs. Elmer England, lived at 349 South Hamilton avenue. The Englands have moved from that address.

Miss Esther Henderson, 16 years old, 502 Drexel place, who left Indianapolis with the others, was found in Detroit several days ago and returned to her home. pauw university, where he received his A. B. degree and took post-graduate work at the University of Chicago, receiving an A. M.

degree. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity. He was a delegate last summer to the convention of the National Education Association and was one of the representatives of that organization at the world education conferenco in Cene-va, Switzerland, in July. Salary Was Increased. At the time of his election as state superintendent he was serving his second term as county superintend ent of 'Elkhart county.

He has served as high school principal and city superintendent in a number of Indiana cities, When the present majority faction of the board gained the ascendency la3t April, it increased Miller's salary from $9,000 to $10,000 a year. His administration of the public schools was one of the points of attack at which the citizens' school committee ticket aimed during its successful campaign this fall. Post of High Responsibility. "In these days of educational problems the superintendent of the public schools is held in the highest regard by all the be3t people in the city in which he serves," Mrs. Sedwiek said in her statement.

"He is recognized as a large factor not only in the successful management of the schools, but also in the civic affairs of the community. He is called upon to as-sume. great responsibilty in initiating and executing educational policies. Of no other public servant is more re quired in knowledge, tact, skill, judgment and courage. Thinking him tQ Btand for gomeB.

thing very definite in the community, both as a man and as a superintendent- "In the authority vested in the superintendent and properly exercised by him the individual teacher finds the best guarantee of that freedom which Is so essential to the highest success. Greatly Regrets Decision. "As a member of the board of school commissioners I was one of three who gladly named Charles F. Miller as superintendent of the Indianapolis public schools. Because I thought he could organize and classify the schools under his supervision as would serve the best interests of the pupils, because he was honest, frank and courageous, because I thought he would be fair, just and loyal and because of co-operative and unswerving loyalty there would be secured and maintained such relationship between the superintendent, the teachers and the board of school commissioners as would guarantee to the schools and the children for whom the schools exist the largest measure ef continuous success, I gladly cast my vote for Charles F.

Miller as superintendent of the public schools and I have had no reason to cfiange my mind. I very much regret the action that has just been taken." it Bad Boy" Mayor Leads Rival in Vote Recount NEWBURYPORT, Dec. 10. W-Andrew J. (Bossy) Gillls, "bad boy" mayor of this city, today was assured a victorv over his archrival, former Mayor Michael Cashman, at the end of a recount of ballots cast in the recent municipal election.

Mayor Gillis. who one time served a jail sentence for engaging in fisticuffs with Cashman, had a margin of forty votes. Ragcn Robbed Indiana Bank, Cashier Claims URBANA, 111., Dec. 10. (--Wil liam S.

Ragan, former superintendent of the Llnde Air Products Company Of Chicago, who is being held here charged with the robbery of the Fisher State bank a month ago, was identified today by O. A. Myers, cashier of the Perrysville, bank as the bandit who robbed that bank of $2,500 Jan. 9, 1929. Charges Against Pantages Trial Witness Dismissed LOS ANGELES, Dec.

Contempt of court proceedings against Nicholas Duneav. a principal witness in the recent trial of Alexander Pantages, theater magnate con victed of a statutory offense against 17-year-old Eunice Pringle, dancer, were dismissed today. Mrs. Block is to receive a yearly Income of $50,000 for the first six years, $37,500 for the next six year3. $25,000 the next four and $12,500 after termination of the trust.

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