Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1926 — Page 3

OCT. 30, 1926

TRIP HELPED QUASH VOTE FRAUD INQUIRY

DEMOCRATS sll TIGHT AS RACE DRAWSTO CLOSE Say G. 0. P. Like Dempsey and other Champs, Is Riding to a Fall. Bv Vnited Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—With Democratic leaders sitting tight and Republicans optimistically claiming a last minute wave of strength, the 1926 congressional campaign today drew near its close. Tuesday, upward of 20,000,000 voters are expected to go to tiie polls In forty-seven States to select onethird of the next United States Senate and an entire House of Representatives. • Democrats need nine Republican seats and thrity-six in the House to win control. Republicans concede jprivatsly that the Democrats have a good chance to win four Senate seats and that nine are doubtful. Tonight Candidates and stump orators generally will make final appeals by radio and at mass meetings. Monday will be devoted chiefly to organization efforts to get out the vote. The campaign is closing without any display of national excitement or enthusiasm such as usually attends a closely contested race for control of Congress. The following statement alonp from Democratic senatorial headquarters: “By Representative James V. McClintock, chairman of the House Democratic speakers bureau—This lias been a bad year for title-hold-ers. Champions in tennis, golf, pugilism and baseball have all been dethroned. The Republican party, present title-holders in politics, is in for a licking. Democracy will be victorious next Tuesday.” Republicans, on the other hand, were on the offensive, witl/ circulation ot the Mellon tariff statement, attacks upon the Democratic tariff stancH and urgent appeals to “stand by the President.” Chairman Phipps of the Republican senatorial committee issued a statement saying: “Commerce, industry and business in general are flourishing, the country is in a state of widespread prosperity which, under continued Republican administration will spread to every individual section.” A White House statement has denied that Coolidge had expressed any choice in the Illinois senatorial race. Stories had' been circulated in Chicago that Coolidge was opposed to Prank D. Smith. Republican senatorial nominee, because he accepted contributions from public utilities magnates while he was chairman of the State public utilities commission.

SEIZE LIQUOR IN RAIDS Police Squads Also Make Several Arrests During Night. Police raiding squads made several arrests Friday and confiscated considerable liquor. Sergeant Eisenhut and squad arrested Stanhope Spencer, Apt. 10, of 418 E. Vermont St., seizing nine quarts of beer and \a quart of whisky. The same, officers saw a pian walk from 1246 Yandes St., carrying a package which he put in a parked auto. They gave chase and the driver threw several bottles to the street and escaped after his auto struck a" parked machine at 1435 Columbia Ave., owned by Thomas Rawls. Home of Max Tannebaum, 1017 Maple St., was raided and seven gallons of liquor found, officers said. RAZOR LATEST CLEW Weapon Turned Over to Hall-Mills Prosecutor. Bv Vnited Press SOMERVILLE. N. J., Oct. 30. A stained razor, bearing blurred outlines of finger prints, has been turned over to Special Prosecutor Alexander Simpson as latest exhibit in the Hall-Mills murder investigation. Meanwhile the body of the Rev. Hall was to be removed from the family vault in a Brooklyn cemetery today for another autopsy in the hope that New Jersey authorities will be able to strengthen their case against the rector’s widow and her brothers, who go on trial next week. BURGLAR LOOTS HOME House Ransacked During Absence of Owner —Ring, Money Taken. A burglar who specializes on homes where residents are away, visited 322 E. Twenty-Third St., while Mrs. Phillip Rappoport was kway, between 4 and 9 p. m. Friday. He used a master key to unlock a kitchen door and took a dinner ring set with three diamonds, valued at. $125, and sl6 in cash. Hollis Court, 1735 E. Thirtieth St., said someone stole $11.25 from a pocket of his overcoat while he was not wearing it. NEW STEP IN MERGER C. & O. Railroad Would Take Over Hocking Branch. Bv Vnited Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Another step In the Van Sweringen railway merger was taken today when the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to acquire control of the Chesapeake & Hocking Railway. The Hocking is a subsidiary of the Chesapeake & Ohio, organized to operate anew line which will extend frora-flregg to Valley Crossing, Ohio.

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Bishop Francis J. McConnell The Indianapolis De Pauw Alumni Associaition has invited Bishop McConnell of the Methodist Church to be its principal speaker at. a banquet to be given at the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday night, Nov. 11.

SAYS PROSPERITY ISNOJMIM Woollen Cites Natural Rei sources as Real Cause. Prosperity is not made by political parties in the United States, Evans Woollen, Democratic candidate for the Senate told a. group of Second ward voters at 2455 Central Ave., Friday night. “Tariff was not among the twelve reasons given recently by Secretary of Commerce Hoover for our prosperity,” Woollen declared. “Our general well-being is based on our unequalled natural resources. We rank first in producing eighteen of the twenty raw materials regarded as most important. To unequaled natural resources we apply an unequaled mechanical equipment unequaled labor. Thus is explained the prosperity which has been enjoyed In recent years by, many groups of our people.” Other speakers wex - e W. D. Headrick, candidate for Congress from the Seventh district; Mark V. Rinehart, candidate for county treasurer and Clarence E. Weir, candidate for Criminal Court judge. MURRAY ASSURES OF SQUARE DEAL Democratic Nominee for Prosecutor Speaks. "With the single ideal of making Marion County a better place in which to live, I shall gladly rest my cause with the voters when I close my campaign Monday evening, but until that hour 1 shall continue to assure every citizen that my election will mean a square deal to all,” declared Raymond F. Murray, Democratic nominee for prosecutor, addressing a meeting in the community house at Cumberland in Warren Township, Friday night. “I am mindful that political strategy never will replace the personal responsibility of a public official. My administration will try indictments in the order returned —and no persons because of political influence will be permitted to evade punishment for their criminal deeds.” “Not with political bosses, not with professional politicians, not with a prosecuting attorney who permits indictments to remain untried for a period of from one to three years, but with home-loving, citizens rests the final reesponsibility for the standard of local self-govern-ment in Marion County.”

Mrs. W heater aft’s Condition Is Worse “Not quite so good,” was the word today from Mrs. Vivian T. Wheatcraft, Republican State vice chairman, who is ill at the Methodist Hospital. Nurses said that X-ray photographs had been taken of Mrs. Wheatcraft, but that the result had not been determined. I’hey tyduld not predict when an operation for appendicitis would take place. Mrs. Wheatcraft sent word from a St. Louis hospital that she was unable to testify before Senator James A. Reed investigating commit tee there because of illness. Then she was brought here. Reed sought to question her regarding her political “poison squads” of women she told reporters she operated during Hoosier political campaigns. BOY, 16. LONG MISSING Police today were asked to search fer a youth missing since July 19. O. M. Becker, 1101 Eugene St., told police his son, Martin, 16, left home on that date to go to Ijogansport and Huntington, Ind., and visit relatives. It was thought he still was there, until recently an inquiry repealed he had left Huntington. HELD FOR DAYTON POLICE Elmer Elsswort Reynolds, 52, of 2202 N. Illinois St., is held in ,clt> prison today waiting the arrival of officers from Dayton, Ohio, where he will be taken to face a charge of nonsupport. Detectives Everson and Gaughan arrested him as a fugitive,.

Paper Finds Washington Jaunt Had Bearing on Evansville Situation. MAYOR, KLANSMAN WENT ' Also Helped Build Up Ma- • chine to Back Watson. Bn Time* Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 30—The trip to Washington which Joseph Hufflngton. Klan leader, and Mayor Herbert Males made to Washington about December, 1925, shortly after Males was elected, had a direct bearing on the fraudulent absent voter ballots cast in the 1925 primary, according to information in the hands of the Evansville Fress today. The trip figured in the testimony before Senator Reed at St. Louis Thursday. The trip had not a little to do with building up the Klan political machine in Indiana for support of Senator Watson in his race for reelection this year. The trip also had a great deal to do with squelching the investigation of the fraudulent absent votes cast in the 1925 i>rimary in Eyansville by' the United States postal authorities, after they had come here and obtained convinc ing evidence that hundreds of absent voter ballots went through the registry division of the local post office several days before election. The postal investigation of the absent vote fraud was initiated by the Citizens’ Clean Election Committee shortly after primary and member.? of the Citizens' Committee put the matter up to the post office at Washington as shown by letters in possession of the Evansville Press. Evidence Presented Attorney Albert J. Veneman, retained by the committee to get evidence, obtained a mass of convicting evidence and presented it to the authorities at Washington. Asa result of this preWminary presentation, Post Office Inspector Birdseye of the Cincinnati office came to Evansville to investigate. Birdseye left Evansville satisfied that Attorney Veneman had assembled facts for a strong case for the Federal Government. In the meantime, the office of the solicitor general of the post office department, notified the citizens committee that the evidence presented if proven, constituted a criminal conspiracy against the postal laws. The letter cited the Donn Roberts case at Terre Haute in this connection. Nothing further was done about the matter until Veneman, fearing the ballots would be destroyed under the statute of limitations applying to election evidence, again called attention of authorities to the matter, nspectors A. C. Garrigus, Kokomo, Ind., and Griswold of Cincinnati, then were detailed on the Evansville case and obtained an order from Circuit Judge Charles P. Bock, segregating the ballot evidence.

Check by Inspectors The inspectors checked 264 of the suspected fraudulent ballots with the stubs of the registry division of the local post office for several days before election. In every case the stubs and the ballots that could be proven fraudulent dovetailed. The inspectors declared the evidence astounding. They presented their report to District Attorney Albert Ward at Indianapolis. Neither Veneman nor the citizens Committee heard of the matter again until August. 1926, when Inspector Walter Lytel of the Evansville post office informed Veneman that District Attorney Ward had notified Chief Inspector Birdseye the case was a matter for the State Court. In all, 2,200 absent voter ballots believed to he fraudulent were cast for Herbert Males for m&yor In the 1925 primary. The evidence ip 264 of these cases was presented to the Vanderburg County grand jury through Prosecutor Henry Hardin but ro indictments of moment were returned. Hardin, elected as a Democrat, came out for Males for mayor just before the November election in 1925. Hardin was appointed city attorney by Males and now holds that office. News of the presence of the inspectors in Evansville leaked out during the fall and Males and -Hufffington made a trip to Washington, where it was reported they saw Senator Watson and were introduced by him to President Coolidge. On their return to Evansville, Males and Hufflngton Informed confidential friends that they had discussed the Evansville postal fraud investigation with him. According to remarks later attributed to Watson by Males and Hufflngton. the Senator asked concerning the likelihood of the local courts taking the matte# up. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS? HAYS' j ; i2s rr nr* srsvtct, me. i Faint lady ne’er won fair ibby. _

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Announcement, of the bringing of Fred Ardath and Ills Merry Wags to the Palace the week of Nov. 14 was made today by Manager Herb Jennings. Ardath and his company of fifteen entertainers will augment the usual vaudeville bill and feature pictures with his production, “Welcome Fred.” Fred Ardath created his first furor

FISH AND GAME , RECEIPTS GAIN Division Earns $9,274.52 More in Year. An increase of, $9,274.52 in receipts of the fish and game division of the State conservation department is shown today in the report of George N. Mannfeld, superintendent of the division, covering the fiscal year which ended Sept. 30, 1926. Receipts of the division for the last fiscal year totaled $212,990.17, as compared with $203,715.65 the preceding year. Added to the gain in receipts was a balance of $32,280.40, carried over from the preceding year, making a total of $245,270.65 in funds acquired. Disbursements for the last fiscal year totaled $225,165.98, leaving a balance of $20,104.67 for use in 1927. During 1926. total of 197,078 resident hunting and fishing licenses were issued. 14,637 nonresident fishing licenses and 355 nonresident hunting licenses. A total gain of 7,064 licenses was accomplished. Since the fish and game division was created in 1919 tne receipts have grown from $89,149.96 to $212,990.17, and license sales f> om 92,666 to 212.070. Approxim itely 17,000 free hunting and fishing permits were issubd to exsoldiers last year. BAND FORMED AT I. C. C. Twenty-Five-Piece Organization Plans Three Concerts. The Indiana Central College Band was recently reorganized with twen-ty-five members. Lon Perkins of Oolong, 111., was elected. director and Paul G. Snively manager. Rehearsals have been held regularly for the last four weeks. The band has planned to give three concerts, the first in December, the second in January, and the third in February. Season tickets will be sold to students for sl. The proceeds from tickets will be used in securing new uniforms and equipment for the band. The uniforms will be of cadet gray trimmed In cardinal. OFF TO FOOTBALL GAME Penn Alumni I/Cave for Illinois Clash After Meeting Here. University of Penn nsylvania alumni left here at 9:30 a. m. today in special oars for Urbitna, 111., to attend the Penn-Illinois football game. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interir, was elected" president of the Association of Pennsylvania Clubs at a meeting Friday at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The offer of Henry N. Woolman to give the university a 178-acre tract at Valley Forge, Pa., was indorsed. Project for moving a portion of the unversity there is now being studied by the board of trustees. A dinner was held at the club, while wives and families of the alumni were entertained at Woodstock Country Club. ( ACCUSED IN THEFT CASE Youth Arrested After Trombone and Coat Is Stolen. William C. Gibbons, 20. of 618 N. Meridian St., was arfested late Friday and charged with burglary and grand larceny. Detectives Radamacher and Peats, who made the arrest, say he entered the home of Mrs. Mary Fagan, 917 English Ave., and stole a trombone and coat valued at $95. MORE GASOLINE USED Bn Ignited Press CHICAGO. Oct. 30.—Users of gasoline consumed 2,370,317.000 gallons in thirty-two States of the Uniop during the first seven months 1926. an increase of more than 16J| per cent over the amount, used 1 the same States in the corresportlling period of 1925, according to final reports from tax collectors of States made public here. w

Fred Ardath

among pleasure seekers as the inimitable master of ceremonies at various New York supper clubs. From this he lilt Ziegfeld’s ’‘Follies” and remained as a bright light throughout t’nr>'e additions of the show. Ed Wynn chose Ardath as his right hand man in “The Perfect Fool,” and his sojourn at the Winter Garden in the "Passing Show” numbered fifty-nine weeks.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Autiimobiles reported stolen to po lice belong to: Thomas Shepp, 1742 Perkins St., Chevrolet, 508-897, from Ray and Illinois Sts. Drive Yourself System, 30 W. Vermont St., Ilartz. 522-896, from rear of Indianapolis Athletic Club. Ovel Tiliison, 306 E. Eleventh St.. Huptnobile. 520-088, from Tepth and Meridian Sts. Lorraine Martin, 409 Berkley Rd.,' Ford, 588-790, from Illinois and New York Sts. Charles E. Champlin, 1215 Comar Ave., Ford, 57C-272, from Pennsylvania and Washington Sts. W. E. Richards, 811 Buchanan St., Ford, 578-006, from 719 Prospect St. La Mayme Lambert, Bradley and Oxford Sts., Jordan, from State and Naomi Sts. x j Emma Suppar, 802 Troy Ave., Ford, from Merrill and Meridian Sts. G. D. Landers, 526 N. Concord St., Chevrolet, from Merrill and Meridian Sts. Eldon (Braken, 823 Woodlawn Ave., Ford, from McCarty St. and Madison Ave. James Messier. 3608 Ralston Ave., Ford, from 200 N. Pennsylvania St. S. Z. Smith, 2350 Shelby St., Ford, from 700 Shelby St. Paul Simmons. 3716 N. Capitol Ave., I%dge, from 800 N. Meridian St. $714,000 TOTAL *SPENT Republicans Report $539,306 and Democrats $174,594. Bv Vnited Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.—National organizations of the Republican and Democratic parties have spent nearly $714,000 on the campaign for control of Congress. Statements of money raised which will be used before the final hills are met, follow: Republican—National committee, $244,068; congressional committee, $200,150; senatorial committee, $95,088. Total, $539,306. Democrats—National committee, $35,138; congressional committee, $39,458; senatorial committee, $99,998. Total, $174,594. MOTORIST’S BAD~LUCK Car Strikes One in Which Policeman Was Passenger. John R. Jordan, 43, of 4802 Schofield Ave., was arrested Friday night on charges of driving while intoxicated, failure to stop after an accident and driving on the left side of the street. Patrolman Edward Rouls, who made the arrest, was off duty at the time aind riding with Frank Haugh, 3437 Kenwood Ave., at 3400 Sfierman Dr., he said when Jordan’s auto crashed' into the Haugh auto. He failed to stop and Rouls and Haugh gave chase, arresting him at 3200 E. Thirty-Eighth St. WINTER ASH COLLECTION New Schedule for Season to Be Effective on Monday. Winter schedule of garbage and ash collection will be effective Monday, Truly Nolpn, superintendent of the board of sanitary commissioners, announced. Afehes will be collected once a week instead of every other week, while garbage will be collected only once a week instead of twice a week. Because of the rapid growth in population of the north side, a /new classification, facilitating collections in this district, has been effected. LEXINGTON CASE ENDS Federal Court Indicates Ruling In December Is Likely. Presentation of evidence in tAe case of the Lexington Motor Company of Connersville, before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell was completed Friday. Baltzell ordered that briefs he filed, indicating the court will rule in December. The question involved is whether receivership certificate holders or receivership merchandise creditors shall receive about $125,000 proceeds from sale of assets. William P. lierod, receiver, operated the firm until May, 1926.

SPIRIT OF COTTON GROWERS BROKEN; FACEBANKRUPTCY Little Thought of Politics as Farmers Near Ruin. Editors Note—One of the mfiSt. dra matic chapters in piesent-day American life is being written today in the sunny South. The noltom lias dropped out of cotton—Pixie's living. And millions of planters, the people of this w-hole section, say they taw rum. The story below draws a vivid picture of conditions today in the land of cotton and gives at leaat one answer to the question, why? By Hilton Buller Special (-orr* SeripDS-Howanl New epap^rß. CLEVELAND. BOLIVAR UOUN TY, Miss., Oct. 30. —This is the heart of the cotton-growing section the heart of the Mississippi delta. But the heart, spirit, finances and morale of the cotton growers are broken. I walked down the streets of Cleveland, trying to talk politics. (A Governor's race is now on, with four men fighting, slinging mud, challenging and cussing; a senatorial race is in the offing.) But tjtere was no talk of politics. There irf no talk of anything except COTTON, HARD TIMES, STARVATION. BANKRUPTCY and RUIN. No Auto Sales An agent for a moderately priced automobile told me that he was going to the wall within thirty days. "I can’t sell a car, cash, credit or hope,” he said. “Last year I sold seventy-eight In the fall when the cotton began to come in. I have not sold a single car this year since the slump. I’m going bankrupt.” Cotton is going to ruin in the level fields of the delta. “Why pick it?” a grower snarled at me when 1 mildly suggested that he might at least get it into bale. "It has already cost me 14 cents a pound to grow. To pick it and mar. ket it will run the cost to 17 or 18 cents. What do I get it? Today the market Is 11 Vs cents. Do you think I'm a fool?” I replied that 1 did rot. “Well,” he answered, “1 am. So is every other cotton grower in the delta. We have been cutting each other’s throats. If we'd refuse to grow a Bingle bale next year—we'd get rich the following year. But try to make us quit!” I reminded another group that United Press dispatches from Washington said the cotton growers were assured financial assistance. N’o Use Borrowing "What the hell’s the use of borrowing any more?” demanded one of the county’s leading planters. “We borrowed a year ago on this year. To borrow again now will put us two borrowings behind. We'd never catch up.” Delta daughters, used to their own speedy roadsters, trips to Europe, clothes 'from Memphis, and St. Louis and week-end house parties remlnscerjt of the ante-bellum days in the 'South, are sitting at home in last year’s dresses, waiting for the price of cotton to rise. Delta cotton pickers, accustomed to buying a car each year after ,the cotton is in, are repairing the old ones and asking for jobs on the railroad. ‘ Delta newspaper editors (there are three dailies in the delta and nine ■weeklies) are “viewing with alarm. Curse Cotton Jewelers can’t sell jewels, merchants say they will suffer heavy losses for failure to turn over, the Automobile agents are for help and cursing cotton. Perhaps the following gives the best picture of the situation right here in the country where the world's finest long-staple cotton is grown and where the production Is greatest per acre: A man, known over the South as wealthy from his cotton interests, drove up to a gasoline station in Cleveland. “Fill it up, sir?” asked the attendant, accustomed to serving the planter. "Hell no, give me three gallons and charge it.”

HIT FEE PLAN IN SPEEDING CASES Motorists’ Bodies Take Appeal as Test. Continuing: their fight against' uniformed police officers on fee basis, the Hoosier Motor Club and Hoosler State Auto Association have taken an appeal on two speeding cases before .tustice Harry Haynes of Ravenswood. Cases of Eli Schloss, Indianapolis, and C. B Pearse, NoblesvlUe, found guilty by the justice have beerv appealed to the Marion County Criminal Court. Motor body officials are fighting the “wholesale arrest of persons under the fee system by uniformed peace officers.’’ Citizens of Noblesville and Kokomo are aroused over the situation, and have criticised Indianapolis for allowing such a condition to exist, motor body officials said. MORE TIME TO FILE Court Grants Extra Sixty Days to Ex-Associate of McCray. Attorneys for William Simons, former business associate of eM Governor Warren T. McCray, been granted by Appellate .Court, a sixty-day extension of time' in which to file briefs in the appeal of the First National Bank of Ft. based on a $5,000 note executed by McCray. The bank brought suit for $7,000 judgment, in the Jasper Circuit Court to enforce payment on the note. The verdict was in favor of Simons and costs were assessed the bank.

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Helen Traubel The Afatlnee Musicale will present Helen Traubel, soprano. In recital at the Masonic Temple on Friday night, Nov. 12.

TRAVIS UPHELD . BY FRATERNITY Anti-Saloon League Opposition Denounced. Denouncing opposition of the In diana Anti-Saloon League to the reelection of Supreme Court Justice Julius C. Travjs of La Porte, a local alumni committee of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, with wljlch Judge Travis is affiliated, today broadcast letters defending the jurist's record with respect to prohibition enforcement. The Kappa Sigma fraternity has chapters at Indiana and Purdue Universities and Wabash College. Judge Travis is an- alumnus of the Michigan University chapter. The letter points to the fact that Travis has been singled out for an attack by the dry organization be cause of a decision he wrote In conflict with league tenets. The decision. the alumni declare, was in thorough accord with decisions of the Uhited States Supreme Court. The committee whose names were signed to the letter is composed of David Jennings, Maurice' L. Mendenhall, Paul Summers, Marvin E. Curie, the Rev. Michael Soyle, Clarence Wilkinson, Coburn T. Scholl and James E. Bingham. Curie announced that the use of his name was unauthorized. He stated that while lie is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity lie has no interest in the candidacy of Travis. EMPLOYES’GROUP READY FOR DRIVE Community Fund Division Has Dinner, The 400 workers in the employes’ division of the Indianapolis Copimunity Fund today were ready for their part of this year’s campaign, following a dinner Friday night at the Claypool. This division, with a quota of $130,000fl or one-sixth of the fund, starts its work Friday. The figure is 5 per cent higher than the division’s quota last year. Fred Hok", fund president, read n telegram from President Coolidge to Herman P. Lieber, campaign chairman, indorsing the Community Fund and drive. Dieber outlined plans for the campaign and five division directors. Robert H. Bryson, Eli Schloss, Z. W . Leach, Frank A. Montrose and Fred D. Ensmlnger spoke. “The Community Fund is a fixed institution here and in every large city in the United States,” Hoke declare and. “None of us is independent of the reciprocal responsibility of citizenship,” said Homer W. Borst, executive secretary ofT-flb fund, in closing the meeting. "We are all dependent on one another for our advantages in life.”

TRACTION HITS AUTO Cincinnati Man and Wife Seriously Hurt. Hu t'nitrd Pn'** BRAZIL. Ind., Oct. 30.—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Doss of Cincinnati were sieriously injured today when a limited interurban car struck their auto at Cloverland, five miles east of here. They were brought to a hospitaj here. “FIRM SUNDAY” FOR CLASS The Christian Men Builders Inc. of the Third Christian Church Sunday school will observe “Firm Sunday” tomorrow. The object of the meeting In so far as “Firm Sunday’’ is concerned will be to determfine which of the various firms has theAargest representation. Jesse Hanft, sales manager for Oval & Koster, will speak on “Business and Religious Values.” RUSSIA BACK TO NORMALCY Bv Vnitrd Pres* r MOSCOW, Oct. 30.—Russian industry has been restored to a general pre-war level Premier Rikoff has reported to the conference of Communist party leaders. JAM KING DIES Bv* nitrd "rent SYDNEY, Austalla, Oct. 30.—Sir Henry Jones, the Australian jam and canned fruit king, died suddenly here Friday night.

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10PEP0 IS NEW VEGETABLE ITEM Pfpper-Tomato Cross Mak ts Debut on Market. An entirely new product, which has just recently been produoad as a result of experiments In California, appeared at city market today. The vegetable, known as “topepo,” U a cross i>etween the pepper and ft tomato, and sells for 10 cents each. Bose pears made their appearance at 15 cents a pound. Cauliflower was lower, selling now at 15 to 35 cents a bend, and peas, which had been 30 cents, were 25 cents. Other prices, which reinairtad unchanged, were Cuban pineapples, 2ft Jo 50 cents each; Thompson seed less grapes, 25 cents a pound; Span ish onions. 10 cents each; mushrooms. 75 rents a pound; wax beans, 15 cents a pound; Florida oranges. 60 cents a dozen; lima beans, 70. cents a pound; stringless beans, zi cents a pound; southern beans, 15 cents a pound; hothouse cucumbers. 20 cents each; cranberries, 16 cents a pint; Idaho russet potatoes, four pounds for 25 cents; Tokay grapes, 15 cents a-pound; Michigan Concord grapes. 35 cents a basket; spinach, 15 cents a pound; tomatoes, 15 cents a pound; oyster plant, two bunches for 15 cents, and Jersey sweet pota toes, three pounds for 25 cents. Prices were unchanged in the produce market, hens selling at 40 cents a. ponnd; springers, 40 and 45 cents a pound; ducks, 50 cents a pound; squabs, 75 cents each, and eggs, 40 cents a dozen.

FISH, GAME LAW' ARRESTSFEWER Fines, However, Exceed Last Preceding Total. During the fiscal year which ended Sept. 30 a total of 1,777 arrests were made by Indiana game wardens, it was reported today by George N. Mannfeld, head *>f the fish and game division of the Rtate conservation department. Os these arrests for fish and game law violations, a total of 1,641 convictions were obtained. Fines and costs totaled $35,234.79, most of which went into the public school fund. Compared with the preceding year, the arrests in 1926 were seventy-seven fewer, Indicating a wider regard for the sportsmen’s law. Notwithstanding, the fines and costs of last year were $1,526.29 larger, Mann fold’s report shows Fifty-five wardens were on duty last year as against forty-nine the preceding fiscal period. -BANDITS GET $12,000 Five Hold lip Pay Roll Car; Wound Guard. Bv Vnited Press NEW ORLEANS, La.. Oct. 30Five masked bandits today held up a. pay roll motor car of Mente A Cos., shot and wounded a guard anil escaped with $12,000. The bandits started firing at the pay roll car when Huey Schumacher, driver, was unable to bring it to a halt quickly enough. One of the bullets pierced James Nelson, guard, In the hip. Suhday School Head Gets 3-Year Term Bv Vnited Press DETROIT, Oct. 80.—Charles Kirkpatrick, married McOre'gor (Mich.) Sunday school superintendent, convicted of violating the Mann Act, sentenced in Federal Court here today to three years in Leavenworth. penitentiary and fined SI,OOO. He was found guilty of transporting Ruby Roprn, 17-year old domes tic in his home, to Chicago. FIND POWDER IN MINE First Attempt of Violence In British Strike. Bii Vnited Press LONDON, Oct. 30.— Discovery of three canisters of high explosives with fuses end detonators neat; the mouth of the middle pit of thA npine at Babstock, Friday night, morlnM the first attempt at violence to mine? property since the beginning of the British mine strike six months ago.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles report ell found by police belong to: Ford sedan, license 399-505, found at Pennsylvania and Vermont Sts. Howard Harding. 1246 Yandes St., Ford, found at 1436 Columbia Ave. Nina O’Neill. 634 N. Capitol Ave.. Nash, found fit Noble and Michigan Sts. Ford coupe. 645-509, found at Patterson St. and Indiana Ave. CAR INSPECTOR INJURED R, B. Benson. 35, of 418 E. St. (Tair St., is in St. Vincent Hospital in a serious condition suffering from injuries received early today when he fell from a freight car in the Hawthorne Yards. He is a car inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad. His right knee whs hurt and it 1s believed he suffered internal Injuries. w STORMS KILL SEVERAL Hu I nitnl I'rmn RANGOON, India. Oct. 30.—Several persons have been killed and survivors are suffering from lack of food as the result of storms which have swept the coast of Arakan, in lower Burma, according to belated report* received here.