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Mi MERICIiN RUM-RUNNER FACES $2,000,000 PIRACY CHARGE

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York, the slender, raven-haired American girl who is his wife is trying to keep up her end of the family morale. But the bab/ cries in its crib and cables bring scant encouragement. Phaff is paying the penalty of his craft. His very defense is that other rum-runners turned against him. He claims to be able to incriminate the inevitable “men higher up." “We will have a really sensational story to tell when all

Follow the WORLD’S SERIES IN THE TIMES No expense or effort is being spared to give Times readers the very best service possible on America’s baseball classic starting in Washington Saturday. HENRY FARRELL and FRANK GETTY of the United Press will write running accounts of the games and will discuss them from the standpoint of expert sports writers. BILIA EVANS, American League umpire, America’s greatest baseball expert, will give you the inside on the games as they are played. JOE WILLIAMS, author of the popular “Nut Cracker" colum the sport page, will tell the humorous side of the series. HAL COCHRAN, Times poet will tell of the game in verse. Most Important of All the Times Pink will be out immediately after each game with a detailed account of the contest.

DRY AGENTS RAID NIALTCOMPANY Prisoners Deny Intent to Break Law, Hundreds of quart cans of “Bariev Malt Extract," syrup, com sugar, bottles, corks, caps, capping machines, flavoring and other paraphernalia and materials of the Maltade Company, 12 Pembroke Arcade, will be confiscated by the Government and stored in the Government warehouse, following the arrest Tuesday of Chester E. Pett.ioord, 152S Fletcher Ave., and Oliver Leonard, S. Eastern Ave. and Prospect St., proprietor and clerk of the store. Petticord said he wasn’t selling the apparatus and malt for the purpose of making alcoholic drinks, but Federal agents said he sold them a j quart of whisky. Federal Agent Bert Morgan, Winkler, King and Strausherger, and Policemen Houston Ruse, under Lieutenant Anderson made the raid. ENOCH ARDEN STUFF Man Returns to Find Another Shot and Seriously Wonuedd. Reported rivalry over the affections of Rosa Baker, colored, Sl7 : Locke St., caused Louise Porter, colored, to be taken to the city hospital Tuesday night suffering from three 1 ifiet wounds, and Frank Robinson, I ri omer at the Baker home, to be s, ted on charges of assault and batte y with intent to kill. Sergeant Tooley said the girl told tm that Porter formerly went with he' but left the. city. While he was way she went with Robinson. Porer came back, and when Robinson itne into the house and found him the % he pulled a gun and fired. I 'ter is in a serious condition. MAN TO TALK Advertising Hub to Hear Oswald Ryan, Author. Oswald Ryan of Anderson, Ind., former instructor in American history at Harvard University, will address Indianapolis Advertising Club Thursday luncheon at Chamber of Commerce. Ryan is the author of several books, and was a member of United States immigration commission to Europe. Subject, “The Challenge of War.” H. L. Masterson of National Builders’ Bureau Will furnish music. HEAR YE, THESPIANS! City Dramatic (lasses Open for Enrollment. G. Carlton Guy, city dramatic director, is ready to receive applications for municipal dramatic classes to open soon. Training is free. Several plays are in preparation. Applicants are urged to write to the recreation department, city hall, and blasts will be mailed to hem.

this is over,” Mrs. Phaff promised today. Her husband, a naturalized American citizen who came to this country twenty-seven years ago when a child, is accused of piracy in connection with boarding of the French steamer Mulhouse off the Canadian coast in July. On that occasion armed raiders removed 36,000 cases of whisky'—worth $2,000,000 at the market price in New York today. "He was right here with me when it happened—or about that

FALL FACES NEW CHARGE 111 OIL CASE Affidavit Says He Received $90,000 Worth of Liberty Bonds AVith Which Canadian Corporation Paid Dividends, By United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. I.—Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the inI terior, received $90,000 worth of Liberty bonds given out as dividends by the Continental Trading Company of Canada shortly after negotiations j for a contract with the Sinclair and ! other oil companies to resell 33,333,i 333 barrels of oil purchased from ! other operators, it is charged in an I affidavit filed by special Government j counsel prosecuting the oil suits in , Toronto and made public here today ; The document was filed with the j court at Toronto to show cause why Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, Federal oil attorneys, should be permitted to examine Henry S. Osier, president of the Continental Company concerning the transaction. The affidavit does not charge Fall received the bonds as dividends. It merely says $90,000 worth of certain bonds delivered to stockholders of the company were in the possession of Fall shortly after their distribution and that their connection with the total of $300,000 worth of dividend bonds was established by their serial numbers. MRS. FREELS INDICTED ! “Bobbed-Haired Bandit" Faces Conspicracy Charges With Man. j Mrs. Juanita Freels, 834 W. New j York St., and James Noonan, former j filling station attendant, were inJ dieted by the county grand jury toj day on charges o fconspiracy to com- | mit a felony. Mrs. Freels was the j "bobbed-haired bandit” alleged to I have planned with Noonon to rob ! the filling station at which he was |an attendant. When arrested she | implicated him. BAN PITS ROB GROCERY Two Colored Men Get SIOO in Daylight Hold-Ip. Two colored men today held up Harry Hume, grocer, 222 E. Six teenth St., at the point of a gun and obtained between $75 and SIOO. The men entered and asked for ; boiled ham and flashed the gun Iwhen Hume turned his back. They escaped in an automobile. leeUcted IN PEEK KILLING

Suspect Held in West to Be Brought Here, Ralph Lee, escaped convict of ; Pendleton Reformatory, held by j Seattle, Wash., authorities, was injditced today by the Marion County | grand jury o na charge of murdering of Abner Peek, groceryman, who was fatally shot July 5, 1924. Arrangements are being made to bring | him to Indianapolis to face trial. | Oliver Cobey, jail, 1110 S. Belmont ;St.. was charged with manslaughter, in connection with the fatal shooting of Bud Willoughby, July 4. Claude Saferight, 2183 Dexter Ave., was charged with forgery, false pretenses and grand larceny, and Roland Admire, Greenwood, Ind., was ; charged with failure to stop after an | accident April 27.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1, 1924

time,” Mrs. Phaff insisted. “If I knew the exact date of the raid, I could tell.” Cabled accounts of the preliminary hearing at Brest have quoted the accused man as saying he was at Halifax when the raid took place and again that he was in New York, so that, much as his anxious wife wants to establish an alibi, she is uncertain as to just what to say. The French, outraged by the raid on the Mulhouse—they had intended getting the liquor to the

Wed for Beauty or We'll Be Homely, Dull-Witted and Stout-Legged Race, Is Scientists’ Warning

HERE ARE FIVE OF THE BEAUTY’ TYPES NAMED RECENTLY BY THE EMINENT BIOLOGIST EDWARD ALBERT WIGGAM, AUTHOR AND LECTURER, WHO WARNS THAT BEAUTY IS ON THhN DECLINE. CENTER. KATHERINE MACDONALD: (ABOVE, QUEEN ALEXANDRA AND JERITZA. THE NOTED SINGER (BELOW*' .YJARY GARDEN AND GERALDINE FARRAR.

DELAVAN SUN WILL IS UPHELD Judge Rules Contestants' Evidence Insufficient, By United Press WAUKEGAN, 111., Oct. I.—The jury in the Delavan Smith $3,000,000 will case returned a verdict today up holding the will and declaring it valid. Judge Claire C. Edwards, presiding at the hearing, instructed the jury to bring in a verdict upholding the will on grounds insufficient evidence had been produced by attorneys for the wnany cousins who sought to break the late Indianapolis publisher’s will. The cousins sought to break the will on grounds the publisher was of unsound mind and he was unduly influenced at the time he made out the will. LA FOLLETTE LEADS Crowd in Movie Theaters for Wisconsin Senator. By Times Special CLEVELAND, Oct. I.—The Ohio Amusement Company, operating six picture theaters here, took a straw vote on printed ballots, with the fol lowing result: Theatre La Follette Coolirige Darts Knickerbocker .. 102 SS 15 Denison 352 1(56 22 Garden 362 106 14 Yale 176 5 0 Jewel! 206 128 24 Five Points .... 181 62 43 1.469 555 117 The ballots were handed to the patrons as they went into the theater and deposited in boxes at the door upon leaving. GASOLINE AT NEW~LOW Gulf Refining Cuts Price 3 Cents in East. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. I.—Motorists throughout the East today are able to obtain gasoline at lowest price since the war, as result of reductions by the Gulf Refining Company, owned by the Mellon interests; Standard Oil, Sinclair and other companies. The new price ranges from 15 to 18 cents a gallon. Gulf Refining made a 3-cent cut after the other companies had announced a reduction of one cent a gallon in their tank wagon price. This price—l3% cents in New Jersey, 14 in New Y’ork and 13 in New England—is expected to be met today. HOURLY TEMPERATURE . J

United States at a considerable profit—put detectives on the affair. Three detectives trailed Phaff, arrested him and swore to affidavits saying he confessed his part in the raid. Mrs. Phaff and her husband got their stories crossed. "Why, my husband never had anything to do with bootlegging or rum-running," the wife exclaimed. “He’s a lawyer and what’s more he never sailed a ship in his life.”

IK, \l i >, r> ire rryjEW york, Oct. l.—Bioiog 11\ or s >’ n fketic beauty—- * which will you have? Science, which has had the question well stirred in its test tubes, finds present-day society preferring the latter. In spite of all argument on the subject, beauty is rapidly on the decline, biologists find. There is too much cosmetics and not enough eugenics. Furthermore, they are finding that the combination of “beautiful but dumb" does not hold true in the majority of tests, and that beauty and intelligence are much more likely to he found traveling together. And. however they may differ on minor details, the biologists are unanimous on what to do about it. The handsome man must marry the ( beautiful woman. Prof. Knight Dunlap, doctor of philosophy and author of “Personal Beauty and Racial Betterment" and many other scientific works, finds that beauty is being wasted In scandalous fashion. “The more beautiful a woman, the greater her chance of a wealthy match,’’ he points out. The beautiful woman too frequently marries social position and wealth and not a mate.' And then there is Alfred Edward Wiggam, noted biologist author of “The the Family Tree," and “The New Decalogue of Science,” who declares: “Unless something is done about it ,in a few (fteneratibns the women of America will be a stout-legged, dull-witted, unbeautiful race.'-’ Explaining his statement he points out that the unbeautiful often have families of six to a dozen while marriages of handsome couples are few, and when it does happen there are but few children left to carry out the tradition of beauty. STATE SUED FOR TAXES Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Files $15,000 Action. Suit asking judgment, of $15,000 was filed in county courts today by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company against the State. Suit is to recover taxes which the company charges it was forced to pay or have its State charter revoked. Company alleges it was compelled to pay $7,598.55 in 1919 and 1920 in unfair taxes.

Whoa! Lewis Clpjslee, Monticello, Ind., parked his auto in front of 2909 N. Pennsylvania St., came out a few minutes later and found it was gone. He notified police. Mot&rcyclemen Heller and iiCiefert. found his car -a block 62^45’i iin r 1

But in his first official examination in France, which resulted in his being held without bail, according to United Press cables. Phaff said he had a rum ship of his own, the Lutzen, which had been attacked by pirates. He pleaded not guilty and said Canadian banks backed his bootlegging expeditions. A firm of New York law'yers has been commissioned to obtain affidavits in Halifax which may sustain Phaff’s alibi. Otherwise he may hang.

JUSTICE CAVERLY NEAR COLLAPSE ! Leopold-Loeb Judge 111 in Chicago Hospital, By f nited Press CHICAGO, Oct. 1. —Mysterious | disappearance of Justice John R. j (,'averly following his sentence of ! life imprisonment in the notorious i Leopold-Loeb murder case was solved today when intimates rej voaled the justice was ill at Mercy | Hospital here. Justice Caverly is suffering from a | near nervous breakdown due to the (tremendous strain imposed on him by the murder hearing and the vast number of letters bearing on the case showered on his office. None is permitted to see Justice Caverly or even communicate with him, # intimates in the Courts Bldg, stated. Mrs. Caverly is back at the Caverly suite in a North Side hotel here. She refused to confirm tho story of her husband’s presence in the hospital. BUS SERVICE WANTED Petition Park Board for Better Street Car Facilities. Representatives of Mapleton Civic Association will appear before the park board Thursday and ask that the Indianapolis Street Railway Company run a bus beyond ThirtyEighth St. "to feed" stredt cars, or permission be given A. Smith Bowman, People’s Motor Coach Company head, to operate on Capitol Ave. James P. Tretton of the Street Railway Company, was present at a meeting Tuesday night. Some citizens beyond the end of the car line do not favor busses. WIFE SUPPORTED SEVEN Partially Paralyzed Husband Asks $50,000 for Her Death. Alleging Mrs. Mafiy Dickerson, 45, of 938 S. Pennsylvania St., was the sole means of suppqrtt of himself and their six children,' Charles Dickerson, the husband, Aoday filed two suits for total $50,000 damages for his wife’s death. Mrs. Dickerson was , fatally Injured when struck by a auto of the Haley M. O. Company, 431 N. Capitol Ave., driven by Mrs. Ethel Haley, 2206 N. Capitol Ave., who drove through a safety zone while was waging for a

Entered aa Second-class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

HAWKINS’ 57.50 Q BOND MED ON FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR TRIAL ’ Jgg|j|p Judge Geiger Acts When Chief Defendant Is Not in Court Hour After Case Opens—Postponement Taken Until 2 P. M. ■ ■■ —” " ■?* • . >• | USE OF MAILS IN SCHEME IS , FEDERAL INDICTMENT CHARGE * ’ ■■ ‘ Co-Officials Say They Last Saw PortK P ' - ’ land Man at Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday Evening and They Expected Him Here Today. Failure of Morton S. Hawkins of Portland, lucL, president of the Hawkins Mortgage Company, under indictment in Federal Court with seventeen other defendants on charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, to appear when the case was called for trial today, resulted in postponement of case, forfiture of Hawkins' bond of $7,500 and orders for his immediate arrest. Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger of Milwaukee, "Wis., who is sitting in the case in place of Judge Albert B. Anderson, took the action about an hour after court opened, when the absence of Hawkins was called to his attention by Homer Elliott, United States district attorney.

Hawkins was seen last in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Hotel Gibson Tuesday night. Anthony Scheib of Portland, vice president of the Hawkins Mortgage Company and a defendant in the case. said. Seen at 8 p. m. Monday “I last saw Hawkins at about 8 o’clock Tuesday night. I thought he itended to come to Indianapolis last night. He was not on the train which left Cincinnati at 11:45 p. m." H. W. Blodgett, of St. Louis, Mo., attorney for Hawkins, was the first to call Elliott’s attention to his client's absence, piodgett explained to Judge Geiger that Hawkins had j spent Monday in St. Louis, and had I left for Cincinnati that night saying Ihe would be in Indianapolis today. Another attorney said Hawkins told 1 him he would be here by noon to’day. A dispatch from Portland, Ind., said Hawkins was near there Tues- : day afternoon. U It is not believed Elliott will consent to trial of the other defendants without Hawkins. Considered ‘’Master Mind” It is known that Elliott considers Hawkins the master mind of the scheme to use the mails fraudulently charged by the idictment, 'and he will oppose any move to try the case in the absence of the “headliner” defendant. Upon discovery of Hawkins’ absence .Judge Geiger ordered a roll call of defendants and after forfeiting Hawkins’ bond and ordering his re-arrest he adjourned court until 2 p. m. Oscar Johnson, deputy United States marshal, armed with a capias, met trains arriving from Cincinnati (Turn to Page ;; VOTING MACHINES ARE M TEST Device Perfected to Use Nine Tickets, The State board of eleciton commissioners was to meet, today with J. A. Davis, voting machine company representative, for a? demonstration of the operation of a seven-column machine adjusted so that nine tickets can be used. A factory export notified Davis an interlocking device had been perfected so that the seven-col-umn machine could be used. If the machine is approved, the Commonwealth-Land and the American parties probably will be the ones to go below the other seven tickets on the machine. Nine parties will be in the field. This is the order in which tickets will appear: Republican. Democrat, Prohibition, Socialist, Socialist-Labor, La Follette-Progres-sive, National Independent, Com-monwealth-Land and American party. Impeachment Case “Out” A petition to impeach City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth on nine counts of alleged misfeasance of office was ruled out of court today by Circuit Judge H. O. Chamberlin, who sustained a demurrer by attorney. T. Ernest Maholm, attorney who brought the suit, in the name of a taxpayer, was ordered to plead

IT- • A' ; Forecast i -.d'dt-W a r'W ' U ... V U FAIR, tonight and probably Thursday. Rising temperature is anticipated.

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FROST BLANKET COVERS INDIANA ■ <,.„ i : . . First General Covering of Season —Crops Hurt. Indianapolis, as well as practically the whoie State, was blanketed by a heavy frost Tuesday night, according to the weather bureau today. It was the first general frost of the Season. J. H. Armington meteorologist, said Indiana was in the heart of a frost wave, extending from the Great Lakes to southern Tennessee, and probably suffers.'j more than any other State. DamJ age was done to crops, althoug** the frost was not a killing one. IP Frost was heavy’ in Indianapoli/C Fall flowers and tomatoes were danS aged. Ten\perature went to the lowest mark of the season shortly before 6 a. m„ when 37.S was registered. The thermometer was rising steadily with predictions for rising temperature. PARADE " t<T OPEN : ETE ■— Business Men of Thirtieth anS Illinois Sts. Celebrate. A parade this afternoon opened a two-dav festival by Thirtieth and Illinois Streets Business Associations, on Thirtieth St. between Meridian St. and Kenwood Ave. Miss Frances Kelly, 332 N. Summit St., will be the queen of the carnival and ride on a huge float, surrounded by four girls. The maids, all pupils of School 36: Ruth Warrick, 2933 Paris Ave.; Marjorie Wise. 3026 Shriver Ave., and Marjorie Hanna and Helen Brewer, 2848 N. Capitol Ave. " .;

i* “The Best Feature \ Printed in Any Indianapolis Newspaper” That is what a business man said the other day about Gaylord Nelson’s column of comment on the editorial page of The Times. THE COLUMN IS CALLED Hoosierisms It Is Just what the name Implies. It Is brief, readable | comment about Indianapolifi and Indiana affair*. It ir about thing in which Hoosier folk are Interested, writ- s ten its a manner that will cause Vou to turn to the editorial page first When you pick up your Times. BECOME A ft k e • f* Hoosiensmsr id FAN—tHE COLUMN IS FOB READERS tfnO